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Oh my gosh.
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Because it turns out Iran borders the Strait of Hormuz, which apparently is where the world gets 20% of its oil. And it is a very easy thing for them to do to inhibit shipping from there. We'll, we'll eventually get an expert on to explain how that's possible in the U.S. of course, we didn't know that. I knew that. Meanwhile, no definitive motive yet determined for the Michigan Temple attack, but the killed driver had several family members, some of whom included children killed in Lebanon by Israel in the last couple of days. US fourth quarter GDP revised down and January core inflation up to 3.4. Supreme Court to hear Trump's petition to strip 350,000 Haitians of temporary protected status as reports from Reuters are that over 1500 Haitians have been killed by drones from private police. Senate passes a bipartisan housing bill. Unclear if Trump will sign it because he just wants the SAVE Act. DHS shutdown hits one month doesn't prevent ICE from buying a massive Salt Liddy Salt Lake City warehouse. And lastly, Washington state passes a 9.9% tax for every dollar over $1 million that you earn. So squarely targeted at the middle class, according to multimillionaires on the West Coast. All this and more on today's Majority Report. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Thanks so much for joining us.
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It is Casual Friday.
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Casual Friday. We have some guests in studio. Happy to have them. Charlie, Sydney, Gino, guys. All right, we got a lot to get to. I mean, I think you headlined the story yesterday about like, how surprised apparently the White House was about Iran's ability to inhibit oil coming out of the straits or moves the. I know for a fact the Iranians have, I mean, mined the Straits of Hormuz. I guess maybe it was during the Iraq war on multiple occasions. It is almost inconceivable that they could be this dumb. But a lot of times that's like what the trick is is to be able to conceive of people being that dumb.
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Yeah. And here, here it is actually.
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Here, show the show the image of this.
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No one's ever seen this map before, by the way.
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Oh, yeah.
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This is a secret map that only Matt was Able to get this out of the military. Yeah, Brian. This is why. This is why Brian was out of the military, because he smuggled this map out, eyes only. And Matt was able to. When it first came out, all it said on there was straight of Hormuz. None of the other stuff was there. But Matt took. Decoded it. Well, he took his Microsoft Aviation. What is it? Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. 2024. He flew over the area and filled in the rest.
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Some surveillance from the Mr. Team. There we go.
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Yep. That's where. That's. We're doing deep reporting. And it turns out like that is.
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It's.
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I think it's from what I've read, it's literally, and I should say I'm not a military expert, but from what I've read, and it took me almost probably a full half hour to read all of this. Maybe that when they talk about choking off, like, the world oil supplies, this is what they study. It's one of the more obvious choke points on this planet. If you were like an alien looking down on it. Exactly.
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But I mean, Trump's like, reading. You lost me at the word read.
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Yeah.
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I don't know.
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Well, what it shows is, A, how stupid these people are, B, how much Trump just. There was three or four people who came in, all of whom had seemed to have aligned interests. Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and Bibi Netanyahu. And said, you got to do this. And he's like, okay. And Hegseth, of course, was an opportunity for him to play war. Here is an interview with Richard Engel speaking to the top Netanyahu advisor, Ophir Falk. And they have, and he will tell you, this is about 47 years. They have wanted to attack Iran for 47 years, but they still don't seem to have an answer to the question as to why. Like a, like a legitimate answer to the question. And this is fascinating. You know, Richard Engel is not. He's a good reporter. He's not, you know, he is not some type of raging peacenik. And in his basic questioning, he trips this guy up. And by the end of the interview, it's just. You can't believe this is real world. What information did you have that Iran was about to carry out an imminent attack? One good indication was that for 47 years, they've been saying, death to America, death to Israel.
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Believe it.
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And they were ramping up their capabilities with the ballistic missiles. They're stringing along the negotiations. They always lie. Listen to your negotiators. They'll tell you the truth. They're stringing them along. They always lie. And it was an imminent threat and we removed that imminent threat. I still don't understand what the imminent threat was. That, that they were going to attack Israel, attack American bases, attack the US and imminent threat of what? All of the above. All of the above. They were threatening their neighbors. Look at what they're doing now. They're shooting at all their, their immediate neighbors. All the, you know, the mask is revealed. These guys. It's a death culture that not only called and killed Americans for 47 years and Israelis for 47 years, now they're killing their neighbors. Of course they're attacking. They're firing now because they're under attack. There's a hot war going on. I'm trying to understand what started this war. They slaughtered thousands, tens of thousands of Iranians. They slaughtered them on the streets. 30,000 innocent people were slaughtered on the streets in a matter of days. It's a death cult. It's a death cult and we're removing that threat. President Trump said that Iran was weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon and potentially using one. Is that Prime Minister Netanyahu's assessment as well? Well, we know that they wanted it. We know that they were planning it. We know that was the imminent threat. You see today what they're doing with the oil. They're blackmailing the world with the oil. They would blackmail the world with the nukes. President Trump is saving the free world right now. But were they just weeks away from having a nuclear weapon? Well, that was their intention.
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I don't know if it was weeks
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or months or whatever it was, but it was an imminent threat forever. Ballistic missiles. It could have been weeks, it could have been months, it could have been, you know, infinity. Listen, that's not the point. They have been an imminent threat for 47 years.
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I mean, what's notable about 47 years is there's speaking about the Iranian revolution and the overthrowing of the US Backed brutal Shah and monarchy there, which was put in place after the United States and the British overthrew the democratically elected leader of Iran, when they dare to say, hey, maybe can we audit BP to see whether or not they're stealing all of our natural resources and taking it for themselves. And what did the US and the British do in response? No democracy for you. We've got to protect our interests. So do you think that's maybe why they're chanting Death to America?
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Well, but also, like, at what point, I wonder, like, as the 47 years go on, right? And you hear them, they're an imminent threat. And you get to around like 10 years to start to go like, hey, maybe it's not like, maybe, maybe they're not an imminent threat. Let's wait another 10 years and see if they, they actually do something. Well, actually let's wait 30 years. No, 40 years, actually. Let's, let's just not get, we can get to 46, but if we get to 48 years, that is gonna be, that's when it could, they could just. This is a long wind up for this imminent threat that they represent. This is so embarrassing.
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Also when they call you 47 years
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to come up with a reason and
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you can't do it, they call the death cult. It's, it's just amazing how much of like kind of Israeli spokespeople are, are just projecting but that they're attacking their neighbors. What are we talking about here? Israel's bombing seven different countries. Like they're the ones, I mean, in Lebanon right now, in just a week, they've killed almost 700 people, nearly 100 children. And if, if we were speaking about it in a non kind of Western focused context, we would be talking about it as another worldwide war. Because if this was Europe and there was a country that was bombing seven different other European countries, do you think that we would be responding this way as if Iran's the aggressor here?
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And then he goes into, after having to shift to like, well, I can't answer really why we attacked. Now I can only speak to the 47 years we've been keyed up to attack. He goes, they killed 30,000 their own people. Now, we don't know the exact numbers. That seems somewhat inflated, but certainly the Iranian regime did kill thousands of people who have been protesting. I'm trying to think of another country that just recently killed tens of thousands of civilians that are either either in their country or not out of their country. Is it in there? You know, like, if it's not in their country, then they invaded and they've been blockading illegally this other country. If it's in their country, they've done the same thing. And that would be Israel, of course. But it's not just the Israelis who are struggling over. And the guy finished it up in the proper way. Of course, just in case Donald Trump actually saw it is like to remind everybody Donald Trump saved the entire Western world and they're really enjoying how much he's saving them in terms of their worries about oil coming out of the Strait of Hormuz. Here is Stephen Miller also sort of desperate to come up with a reason as to why we participated in this invasion, or I should say not quite yet invasion, but attack on Iran. And of course, you know, sometimes it's not enough to be afraid for 47 years. Sometimes you have to literally manufacture a scenario where it would make sense.
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Oh, the 24 mode of thinking is exactly it.
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It's like, listen, let's not constrain ourselves with facts. Let's do a little thought experiment. So when he sees this straight, close and oil prices go to 100, what does the president feel about that? Like what's, what is his posture there?
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Well, it underscores above all else, Jesse, how this was the last chance that
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the United States had to take action
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against a regime that was planning and plotting to kill Americans and that had
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the ability to strangle, if it wished,
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global commerce in the future, backed by long range missiles, backed by nuclear weapons. So just again, as a thought expert, imagine if this regime that right now weaker than ever before, imagine if that regime instead had nuclear weapons, instead had long range missiles that could reach an American city instead was rich with cash. Remember Obama put them on a path
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to enrich them with tens of billions
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of dollars and have a nuclear weapon right now. A rich regime that controls commerce through
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the Strait of Hormuz and has nuclear
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weapons, has long range weapons.
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Think about what a terror that would
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be to global commerce and to the world.
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So we know we can't sell the war on its merits to the American public, but if we tell them about a nightmare that they could possibly have, maybe they'll be afraid enough to get on board now.
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Well, the amazing thing about this is that which clearly the administration doesn't understand. They are a rich country that has control of the Strait to her moves. We don't have to imagine that that's who they are.
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But what if they did it with nukes with a little hat on top?
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I can't even for life of me. First off, Obama did not give them money. He unfroze some accounts of their own money. A and B, under the Obama nuke deal, they would have gone back in and re upped it by now. But Trump got rid of it.
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And they were not just unfreezing their assets for the fun of it. It was what they got, what the Iranians got in exchange for agreeing to have a third party monitor come in and make sure that they weren't building a nuke and keeping their enrichment at levels that is like comically low compared to what you would actually need to build a bomb. So everything that comes out of that moderating force and totally stable individual, Stephen Miller, is a lie, we should say.
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There is a report that there has been a expeditionary force of 2,500 Marines sent into the region. Nobody knows if that is a prelude to some type of invasion. Invasion of somewhere. Obviously you need a lot more troops. But there's talk of like, I think it's Karagi island, which also seems like they haven't thought this through. I mean, here's the bottom line. We're just going to keep hearing more and more fictions by the administration to try and justify this complete disaster they have on their hands. And the only thing that makes it even worse for them is is the fact that their MAGA people seem to be fully on board. They've lost little people around the edges with the Republicans. But we'll talk more about that with Maddy Hasan, who is going to be joining us in just a moment. Journalist, Founder, Editor in Chief of Zatteo First, a word from our sponsor. Did you ever sign up for something and forget that you did? Well, you probably don't even remember. That's the whole nature of forgetting that you did. I certainly have. Many, many times. My sister told me that she had gotten something called Rocket Money. And Rocket Money finds subscriptions that you have that you didn't realize you had that are pulling money from you every week. Not week, every month. And frankly, this is like a. I had this conversation with Kyle set up our system. This is like a business plan for people for different companies. They get you to sign up for something, you forget that you have it years later. But Rocket Money is a personal finance app that helps you find and cancel your unwanted subscriptions. It monitors your spending, helps lower your bills so you can grow your savings. Want to thank Rocket Money for sponsoring today's episode Finding subscriptions that you had signed up for years ago. And I can't even quite figure out like half of the ones that I, I did. I don't even know what they exactly were. I did have like a couple of those, what do you call it, Finder people. Smart one that I had never used it. We used to who wanted to interview somebody or something like that or find out who is sending us mean emails but hadn't used it in years. Saved ourselves a couple of bucks a month. It has automatic transaction categorization across your accounts to help you track your money and your spending and build a budget, customizable categories and tags to reveal spending patterns and add context. So you realize like, oh my gosh, I'm spending all this money on, let's say gaming stuff. Matt, let rocket money help you reach your financial goals faster. Go to rocketmoney.com Majority to join. That's rocketmoney.com Majority rocketmoney.com Majority quick break. When we come back, Mehdi Hasan, journalist, founder, editor in chief of Zetteo will be right back after this. Foreign. We are back. Sam Cedar, Emma Vigland on the Majority Report. Pleasure to welcome back to the program. Mehdi Asan, journalist, founder, editor and chief of Zateo. Maddie, thanks so much for joining us.
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Thanks so much. Too many titles, apologies.
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No worries.
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Too many accomplishments.
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Oh, you're so
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smooth and charming.
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So it's now, I guess we're heading into our is are we heading into the third week of this war or the second week of this war?
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Heading into the third week. Right.
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It has been like we're starting to see the articles now where the administration didn't know about the Strait of Hormuz. I just, this is, I don't know how much you were, you know, like, I just remember the Iraq war. The feeling was very different. You know, 60% of the US was supportive of it. We had there was a so called coalition of the willing. It was really, you know, they were really more sort of like not too willing, but they were, they were there. This is the complete opposite. This is this war is already as unpopular as the Iraq war I think ever was.
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Yes.
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And they don't the administration doesn't seem to have had any idea of what they were doing.
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Yeah. I think it took about till 2010, 11, 12 to get these levels of unpopularity for the Iraq war, like several years into the occupation, the surge, the civil war. We had these before the war and certainly in the two weeks since the war began. Tomorrow is two weeks. I think it's a complete opposite in some ways, but similar in others. It's opposite in the way you suggested, which is unpopular before and after. In every war of my lifetime, every American war of my lifetime, no matter what the public opposition is, once troops get committed to action, the American public gets behind the war. Not this time. War fatigue is real. People are not getting behind this war. They're not buying the justifications for it. We at Zatteo did a joint poll with Dropsight earlier this week, found that 52% of Americans think that Epstein was one of the reasons Trump went to war. They're not buying the distraction and the American public was split on whether Donald Trump went to war for American interests or Israeli interests. So I think that's an interesting polling here, just so soon into this war. So it's different to Iraq in that sense. It's also different in the sense that at least. At least. I'm gonna have to go take a shower after this. George Bush and Dick Cheney went to the un, Went to Congress. Like, as much as I think they are war criminals. Well, Cheney's dead, but George Bush should be at the Hague, not painting paintings. I have to recognize that they did send Colin Powell with his little vial to try and get a UN Security Council resolution. They did go to Congress in October of 2002 and get Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton and other senators to vote for authorization force. That is not what this administration has pulled it out of their backside like the night before and just bombed on Saturday morning with no warning, no heads up, no debate, no discussion, no media rollout, no nothing. So it's very different in that way. But just one quick thing. The similarity. You mentioned the Straits of Hormuz. The similarity is the ignorance. Right. Both administration are led by people who have no clue what they're doing in the Middle East. On the eve of the invasion of Iraq, a group of Kurdish leaders went to see George Bush in the Oval Office. They came out and they told Peter Galbraith, a US Diplomat at the time, they were stunned that weeks away from the invasion, George Bush did not know that Iraq was composed of Shia, Sunnis and Kurds. Right. That was on the eve of the invasion. The ignorance at the highest level of government, of. Of Iraq's history and culture and demographic divides. This time round, you have people not knowing the difference between Khomeini and Khamenei. You have people being shocked that they attacked the Gulf countries, even though Iran has said for a decade, if you attack us, we're going to attack Gulf countries. And now this reporting that they had no idea that Iran would close the Strait of Hormuz, their only piece of leverage. So the ignorance is the same 23 years apart.
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And I will say that when Bush and Cheney went to the UN or went on tv, they at least made the effort to lie.
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Yes.
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Like, honestly, like we just put it,
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they respected us enough to lie to manufacture consent.
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Yeah. I mean, we just watched a clip of Netanyahu's top aide and then Stephen Miller both talking about, why, why attack Iran. Now, the best the aide could come up with was they've been an imminent threat for 47 years. Like May we all live with, with imminent threats that last that long.
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Well, one defining feature of this administration, not just on Iran, but across the board, is their torturing of the English language, their complete emptying of terms and words that we all commonly understood until Donald Trump came back to office in January 2025. You know, we used to laugh at Bill Clinton saying, depends what the meaning of is, is. This administration's approach to every issue is just to redefine simple words.
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Well, I mean, it's the. They are waging a war on reality and it's quite out of the fascist playbook because if nothing means anything, then they can get away with everything. And what strikes me about our conversation comparing this to Iraq is how since that period, even then, you know, of course the war machine is going, brr. But how disconnected right now our foreign policy is from public opinion at all. Like when we're talking about democracy. And you have this with the Democratic Party too, with Chuck Schumer being in bed with the Israel lobby and the military industrial complex. There is, I think that one of the lessons from the Iraq war was one, Trump says, I can get away with anything, even though this is clearly criminal because there was no prosecution of those war criminals. But two, this is our playground and it doesn't really matter if we need to bring the American public in because we're more responsive to the lobbies here. This is also a story of increased political corruption from 20 years ago, 100%.
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And Donald Trump has learned those lessons. Obviously, he ran on a platform of pretending to be anti war. We should never forget that. These people who are claiming betrayal are right. He completely lied to his base about being the anti war guy. He lied in 2016 when he claimed he had been opposed to the Iraq war. Emma, do you remember he opposed Iraq. And then Andrew Kaczynski at K file at CNN found the tape of Trump saying he supported the war before and after. So he obviously lied about his own anti war credentials, which are non existent. And yes, today everything is on steroids. You mentioned corruption. Like we don't even know the extent of the corruption involved in this decision to go to war. Trump is now loudly telling everyone, jared Kushner told me to invade Iran. It's made out very clear. The question then becomes, why is that not a bigger story? The President's unelected son in law, who at least in the first term had a job in government. He has no job in government other than to fly around the world with Witkoff negotiating deals. He has no business Negotiating. Jared Kushner, who takes money from the Saudis, who invests in Israeli enterprises, who is close to multiple foreign oligarchs and dictators. He told you to invade Iran based on his failed negotiations with the Iranians. What's behind all that? We know with this administration, it's always follow the money.
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Yeah. And it's also been clear, I think, when we talk about those negotiations, that whether it was the foreign minister of Oman, who I think now it was two weeks ago, essentially was on television saying they didn't understand what the Iranians had offered, they had offered to not stockpile enriched uranium. In other words, the Iranians wanted control of their own power for commercial uses. But you cannot build a weapon without stockpiling them.
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Sam, are you trying to suggest that real estate developers from the US don't understand the details of nuclear enrichment programs and negotiations? That's an outrageous slur.
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I almost think that, like, it was willful, even. But, yeah, I mean, like, look, well, the funny thing about willful not send Witkoff to. To do that, but it's. There's also. I can imagine a world where there is people of competence who do not have also just huge incentive to not listen to, like, you know, Witkoff might have been the perfect guy to send if you were like, I don't want to make a deal, so go negotiate with Trump.
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You never know, though, right? Because it could be evil genius. Send Wyckoff and Kushner to be the people who wreck the deal and then go to war. Or it's Trump's the gullible vessel for the neoconservatives who says, okay, I'm going to send my best friend and my son in law to go do this deal. And they don't know what the hell they're doing. That's always with this administration. I'm never quite sure. It depends what side of the bed I roll out of, whether I want to ascribe evil genius or dumb incompetence to the Trump administration. Clearly, these two people are not qualified to do anything. Witkoff shouldn't have been meeting with Putin. Putin ran circles around him. The other day. He went on TV and said, if Putin says he's not helping the Iranians, I take Putin's word for it, which is the dumbest thing you could ever say as a U.S. official. And of course, Jared Kushner, he said on the record, Sam, during the Biden administration, when he was asked, if your father in law becomes president again, will you return to government? He said two reporters on the record, No, I will not be involved in the next administration. Not involved. You've only been responsible for the biggest single crisis of this administration. And by the way, people keep saying, I just saw Jonathan Greenblatt on CNN saying it's anti Semitic to suggest Jewish people did this. Well, no one's suggesting Jewish people did this except Donald Trump. Right. The only person I've seen blame the Jews for this war is Donald Trump. He said it's Witkoff and Kushner's fault. I've not blamed the Jews. You've not blamed the Jews? I blamed Israel. Israel is not the Jews. I'm definitely blaming the Israeli government for this war.
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Let's play this clip because I found it offensive in about three or four different ways. And it's impressive. He's able to sort of, within the
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first seconds of this clip, he does that conflation. He catches himself and conflates Jews with Israel immediately.
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And Greenblatt, you know, within the context of America, it would. You'd be hard pressed to find an American in this country who has done more to conflate Judaism with Zionism. And this is, I believe this segment was in response to a guy who drove his car into a temple in Michigan, was shot dead by the security guy. The only thing we know about this guy is that he had family, including children. I don't know if they were his or young cousins or what killed by the Israelis in Lebanon in the past couple of days by bombing. Presumably these children were not Hezbollah and were not, you know, firing Katushes at. At Israel, but here he is. I honestly don't know if there is an individual who's more responsible for the conflation of Judaism and Zionism than Jonathan Greenblatt. We are seeing Jewish people. The Jewish state blamed war in the Middle East. That is wrong. Now posit for a second Israel. Both Marco Rubio and Mike Johnson on day one of this war said they went. We went in. They said this like they were in perfect sync, that we attacked Iran because Israel was going to attack Iran and we knew that Iran would strike back at us. So we decided Israel attacked. So we preemptively attacked before Israel could and then attack us.
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They preemptively attacked, but they didn't preempt Iran, they preempted Israel.
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Yeah, exactly. And here's the thing. He says the Jewish state, presumably he means Israel. The conflation of the Zionists and Jews, again, is why we don't know for sure what motivated this guy. And I am in, obviously, no way forgiving this. I am. I have my son's bar mitzvah tomorrow. I certainly, you know, hope that we are safe there. But it's this type of conflation that creates this. And if he says Jews, as Netanyahu does, you know, makes no distinction between Jews around the world and Zionists, then
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what?
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What answer are we giving to someone like that? Who. Who?
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It's been frustrating, Sam. It's frustrated me for years because I've spent years telling people in the two communities, faith and political, that I'm part of. I'm on the left and I'm in the Muslim community. Those are two communities that are very critical of Israel, very critical of Zionism. As you know, I've spent years. I'm on the record. You can go look up my pieces writing about anti Semitism, writing about the evils of anti Semitism, warning people on the pro palest camp not to fall into the trap of anti Semitism. Right. But I've spent years telling people, make sure you do not mix up Jewish people with Israel. You do not mix up synagogues with Israel. You do not mix up Judaism with Zion. I spent years. And people say to me in response, they're the ones doing it right. And this is a problem. So you could hold two thoughts at the same time. I know it's very hard in the Twitter hot take days. These two thoughts are not mutually exclusive. Number one, there is absolutely no justification for attacking a synagogue in the US or anywhere else. All houses of worship should be protected from terrorist attacks. And no synagogue, no Jewish person in the United States should be blamed for what the Israeli military is doing in Lebanon or Iran. Let's just be very clear about that. That's one clear thought. The other clear thought is it is not helpful at a time like this for when people like me and others are saying, let's separate out Israel from the Jewish people. For Jonathan Greenblatt and other leaders of Jewish communal organizations saying, no, no, no, no, we're all the same. We're all Zionists. We back Israel. We put Israeli flags outside our buildings. We hold Israeli settlement drives inside our institutions. That is not helpful. Of course, that doesn't justify violence. But it's ridiculous muddying of the water. It's a ridiculous muddying of the water.
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It is helpful for Zionists, though, if you.
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C
It gives them cover, right?
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B
It gives them cover. I mean, but they have made like a deal with the devil to a degree here by continuously conflating Judaism with Zionism as a way to protect the national project of Israel and the expansion of it. And so they have put Jewish people on the front lines to protect that. And then you have, you know, television stations like this continuously amplifying it. He's making a choice to call it the Jewish state there and not the state of Israel. And so, as I say, I've not
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seen anyone on the left or in the pro Palestine moment blame Jews for what happened last week. I've seen them blame Israel. I've seen Chris Murphy, Brian Schott, Jewish senator from Hawaii. I've seen them blame Israel. Reuben Gallego, very centrist Democrat, blame Israel. I've not seen anyone blame the Jews. As I said, the only person who has blamed Jews for this war is Donald Trump. He blamed Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
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Let's just listen to the rest of this. Greenblatt. He's honestly the worst. The Jewish state blamed for the war in the Middle East. That is wrong. It is wrong to scapegoat. It is wrong to hold Jewish people accountable for something you don't like on the other side of the planet. And we really need leaders on all sides in politics, running for office, podcasters to stop with the conspiracies, to stop
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with the accusations, and then tell us,
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but we oppose antisemitism. You don't get to say you're opposed to hate if you're trafficking in hateful conspiracy theories. Everyone needs to dial down the rhetoric, to take a step back and to start doing something to stop this epidemic. Is going to lose it.
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I'm going to lose it. I've heard the full clip, but I only had some of it.
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You know, I don't know how many seconds one would have to search to find him conflating Jews in this country with what happens on the other side of the planet.
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So let me have a go. This is a man who says we should not talk, we shouldn't be obsessed, or what's happening on the other side of the world. Why then when Donald Trump moved the embassy illegally from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, why was Greenblatt there doing selfies? Why did he travel to the other side of the world to take part in that event? That was a defiance of international law. Why did he do that if it was on the other side of the world and nothing to do with American Jews? Why is it that if you look at the ADL Twitter account and Jonathan Greenblatt's Twitter account, there are very few tweets about the Miami text group from the Republican Party talking about the Holocaust and making Jewish Anti Jewish remarks. But there are lots of tweets about Iran and Palestine. And Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. Why is the focus of Greenblatt ADL social media activities always about Israel and Iran? And so little about the anti Semitic attacks from the right here in the US and anti Semitic statements from Republican politicians. And by the way, the IHS definition of antisemitism, which a lot of people on the left don't like, a lot of people in the Palestinian movement don't like because it makes some of the criticisms of Israel anti Zionist criticisms, anti Semitic. But even that definition, which Greenblatt likes, says you cannot conflate Jews with Israel. So he's defying his own definition of anti Semitism live on CNN by conflating Jewish people with the Jewish state. And when he says conspiracy theory. I interviewed Ben Rhodes. We just put it out this morning. The former deputy national security adviser under Obama, he made the point. He made the point. Are we supposed to ignore our own eyes and ears? Benjamin NETanyahu is on TV saying, I yearned. I dreamed for this war for 40 years. And Donald Trump's the first president who let me do it. He's the first president who listened to me. So I'm supposed to ignore the prime minister of the Jewish state who is telling me 40 years I wanted this war and I finally got it. And if I say that, that makes me a conspiracy theorist. These people have again lost all meaning for all words.
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And in addition to the conflation, that kind of impulse to tell people to not believe their lying eyes and ears is also going to increase antisemitism because it underscores the trope or, you know, the belief that, you know, you could say Zionists have control of many parts of our media, but we know that Zionism, you can be a Christian Zionist, you can be a Jewish Zionist. That, you know, when you have, like CBS being taken over by the Ellisons and they're in Barry Weiss and this heavy hand in their coverage, and you see that coming out of CNN like, it creates this lack of fundamental lack of trust between the people that are consuming this kind of content and the people that are putting it out there.
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People are not dumb. Yeah, people are not dumb. And by the way, we have an administration, an Israeli American government. The only good things about Trump and Netanyahu versus Bush and Cheney's lies is they do say the quiet part out loud. So Peter Hexer said this morning, David Ellison cannot take over CNN fast enough. Those are the words of the United States Defense Secretary at a press conference this morning calling for a pro administration billionaire to hurry up and take over a media channel so it can become state tv. Right. So when you tell me later. Oh, don't traffic in tropes about billionaire owners. Well, they're the ones saying it. Hexus is the one saying it. That I'm having my pro Israeli billionaire friend buy a media network so that they can dictate the agenda that is going to increase anti Semitism, I'm sorry to say.
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Let's see if he really said that or more fake news from CNN reports that the Trump administration underestimated the Iran war's impact on the Strait of Hormuz. Patently ridiculous, of course. For decades, Iran has threatened shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. This is always what they do, hold the strait hostage. CNN doesn't think we thought of that. It's a fundamentally unserious report that the sooner that is David Ellison takes over that network, the better.
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Okay, there we go. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to talk over that part, but that's amazing. But it's what we were talking about, that report before the show, because clearly it's Scott Besant and the Energy secretary who were leaking, and they were pissed that they were shut out of these negotiations. It was the only national security team, so he's mad about that. But I am. I want to take us back for a second to Monday when you were supposed to go on CNN and there was going to be this segment about Zoran Mamdani's wife's Instagram biggest story in the world. The big. I mean, there's. It's a slow Newsweek. I know. And that segment got bumped because Trump went over on his. On his speech. Okay. Makes total sense. But he brought it back. Jake Tapper did on Tuesday, but didn't invite Sam back this time. Instead, he had. What was Jonah Goldberg and Neera Tanden on?
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No, Karen Finney. It was Karen Finney. It was Karen Phinney.
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Oh, no, no. There's the separate segment that I'm talking. That was a different one, I think, but maybe the Mumdani segment was Jonah
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Goldberg and Karen Phinney.
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Oh, Karen Finney. It wasn't your attendance. Sorry. But anyway, it could have been. But either way, two people that were really critical of Zoran Mamdani. And I just wonder when you think that this Ellison takeover is potentially, you know, pending or it's coming around the corner if there are certain anchors that are auditioning for top slots because Tapper's been at from 5. You know, he's on 5pm to 7pm Eastern. I wonder if he wants to be on in prime time. Just curious.
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They did try him out in primetime for a while, and then he went back to his show when they. When they lost one of their anchors. Look, Jake's had his agenda for a long time. I've known Jake for a long time. He's not hidden his views. But yes. Why is there not a balanced panel? Of course not. That was an insane panel. Jonah Goldberg was allowed to say insane shit without any pushback. He was able to say that Zoran Mandani is an outright apologist. Sorry, Mahmoud Khalil is an outright apologist for terrorism. That's not true. You know how we know that's not true? Because the Trump administration never accused him of that either. The Trump administration couldn't find anything he said violent. They used this ridiculous 1952 law that Rubio used, which said that he's undermining our foreign policy by being anti Semitic. They never actually charged him with any kind of terrorism links or terrorism offenses, which is very easy to do in the US I should point out, for foreigners. So it's bullshit. The only person on that panel who supported terrorism is Jonah Goldberg, who supported the Iraq war and stuck by defending the Iraq war for many years afterwards. The only person who supported violence against civilians on that panel was Jonah Goldberg. So the irony of. And then, by the way, the day before, Tapper had on Emily Schrader, who's like a former Israeli intelligence asset, and he said to her, what do the Iranian people think? What are they telling you? Which was an absurd segment there, even by US Cable staff.
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Oh, yeah, she got a lot. She has a plethora of. She is the voice of Iran that they really want.
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She is the voice of Iran. Of course she's the voice of Iran. No, the whole thing is absurd. To do a panel on the mayor's wife's Instagram likes or the mayor's iftar guests and ignore, you know, Tommy Tuberville saying that The Iftar is 9 11, or Andy Ogle saying Muslims shouldn't belong in America. Or how about the group chat from Miami with the Republicans talking about black people and Jews in the most vile way. How about the fact that the entire youth wing of one of our two major political parties is basically Nazi now, and that gets no coverage from Jonathan Greenblatt or Jake Tapper and the rest.
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We should add that if you wanted to go down the. What are wives doing On Instagram beat, they could have also covered Representative Dan Goldman's wife, who actually, while, while she was working on the campaign, incidentally, was retweeting hateful Matt Walsh's stuff as to how black people are getting all sorts of benefits with a new Amber Alert in California. I mean, that's. That stuff is.
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And just on Ramaduaji, just very quickly, for people watching who are not following this, the mayor's wife, you'll notice that the coverage is very vague. She tweeted hateful stuff. Anti Israel stuff. Well, what did she actually tweet? If you go and actually look. Oh, she tweeted stuff about Israel.
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We should say liked and Instagram.
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But like, sorry, liked Instagram posts. Even when you look at the ridiculous Free Press reporter Olivia, whatever her name is going through her likes like, it's insane. Even Olivia admits much of them are to do with Israel. They have nothing to do with anti Semitism or Judaism. And even the October 7 stop is liking posts saying on the day of, when, by the way, on the day of, no one knew the extent of the violence and killing. On the day of, a lot of people were happy to see people, quote, unquote, break out of a prison camp. That doesn't mean that they supported killing or rape or murder. In fact, they can't find a single post endorsing killing or rape or murder from Ramaduagi. So that even the attack on her is such bullshit compared to, as you say, Dan Goldman's wife, who we can actually identify hateful posts that she liked 100%.
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Let's talk a little bit about. You said you spoke with Ben Rhodes recently and he's been. Been pretty vocal about the Democratic response to this. I mean, from the very beginning, it's clear that this was going to be a, at the, at the least, a very unpopular war, even if it had lasted like a number of days. Yeah, we have seen from Chuck Schumer in particular, but also Hakeem Jeffries. They have been, to the extent that they have any, like, decent positions on this, they've had to have been dragged. Like, you can literally see the finger line marks in the ground that they've been dragged. They, they reportedly were attempting to undermine the War Powers Resolution by Massie and Ro K so that it wouldn't get a vote before the attack. They, they succeeded at that. They were very reluctant to vote for it. They, Hakeem Jeffries does not seem to have whipped that vote because four Democrats defected and voted with Republicans to defeat that War Powers Resolution. Schumer has been hinting for a while that he's open to funding the war, which now we realize is spending literally billions upon billions a week right now. And there seems to be at the very least a massive missed opportunity for Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries and the rest of the Democratic Party to get out in front and say this is a huge mistake, be unequivocal about it, because as a political matter, never mind all the reasons why you wouldn't want to start a war there, but it simply is a political matter. It seems like the most obvious thing to do, which to be fair, and
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the conversation I had with Ben Rose and I had with others this week, and I just want to be clear, the Democratic Party leadership is what screwed up here. A lot of Democrats do get it right. You notice that the presidential candidates quickly switched on this. Gavin Newsom, who is a, you know, a mainstream pro Israel Democrat, came out very strongly against the war and came out very strongly calling out Israel's role and Netanyahu's role because he knows, he's seen the numbers, he understands what's going on here. Just to be clear to your viewers, the poll we did on Wednesday that I mentioned earlier this week, with data for progress and drop side, the approval rating for this war with Democrats is 6%. 6% of Democrats approve of this war, an insanely small number compared to any previous conflict. Even compared to Gaza, I think it's even smaller than the number of people who approve of what Israel is doing in Gaza. So 6%. They're seeing those numbers. You're seeing Ruben Gallego very strongly come out against this war and against Israel. Brian Schottz, I mentioned Chris Murphy's been very critical. A lot of senators are coming up and just taking shots. Mark Warner, centrist, hawkish senator from Virginia, very critical of this war. It's Schumer and Jeffries as ever, letting the side down. Just even when they do criticize it. It's so half hearted. It's so not real. It's so process driven. Why have you not explained to us or taken a vote? Ben made a good point. Ben Rhodes made a good point that when they did the nuclear deal, when Obama did the nuclear deal, he used to have to try and lobby Democrats in Congress to get behind it. And they would send statements to him saying we're going to put out a statement in favor of the deal. And he would read the statement and the first three to four paragraphs would just be condemnation of Iran and how much they hate Iran and He would get to the bottom and he'd be like, is this in favor of the deal or what? This constant, like, throat clearing from Democrats that you can't say anything unless you first say, Iran's evil, of course we want to get rid of the Ayatollah. Of course we want to. And then, oh, but, you know, they didn't get a vote in Congress. Well, that dilutes your message. You just need to have a clearer message, which is this war is wrong. It's illegal. It's a distraction from Epstein, It's a disaster for US national security. We shouldn't be giving Benjamin Netanyahu a blank check. That's all you have to say.
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But they can't do it. Just the politics. That is exactly the right thing to do. But here's where I think we're at a critical point because we're. Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are both from New York City. Why is that the case? As they were talking about how Zoram Dani's victory should not be seen as a broader, a momentum shift in politics. Why are they the leaders of the Democrats in the House and the Senate? Because they're close to fundraising. So if we're talking about this as a strictly political matter, we're all right here. It would be obvious what the position would be. It would have been obvious for Kamala Harris to distance herself from Biden and the genocide and all of that. This is a major problem where we're at a point in this country where the special interests and dark money since Citizens United have exploded. And it's at a critical mass where they have so effectively neutered the opposition and made these politicians who don't really have political talents outside of fundraising, their careers are chained to the idea that they need to be big money fundraisers. And they don't have the ability to have. They don't have the dexterity because of the incentive structure that created them in the first place.
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And if anyone listens to you and Jonathan Greenmark jumps in and says Emma Vigelund's being anti Semitic by saying it's special. Interesting. I would point them to the New York Times, which reported on how Schumer was not endorsing Mamdani because he was worried about pro Israel donors. That was reporting from the Times, that famous anti Semitic rag sheet that reported on Schumer's motivations. Although I would add, maybe with Jefferies. Obviously, Jeffries very much a creature of special interest. You know, we saw him run to Silicon Valley after The election when Democrats were calling out the tech bosses. But Schumer really is a true believer. Let's not forget. I mean, Schumer opposed. Schumer was a rare Democrat who opposed the jcpoa. Right.
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And then wanted. No. No side deals, no Taco Trump.
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Yeah, he did the Taco Trump video. He was pushing Trump from the right on Iran negotiations. If you go back further, he spoke, I think, at aipac. It was one of these conferences where he said, hey, you can't blame Palestinians because, you know, the Bible gave the land to us. Like, he's on record talking in messianic, scriptural, theological terms about this conflict. He has a long record as a hawk on Iraq and Iran. So he's a true believer. I think deep down he's happy that this war is happening.
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He's happy that's going 100.
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And he has to go through notions of saying, well, I oppose Trump.
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I think this is a really important point. I think Hakeem Jeffries is clearly, it's a. It's a question of donors. But Chuck Schumer has made it absolutely explicitly clear where he stands on this. He. I think he. Given. But for the constraints of his entire party being against this, he would be Trump doing it.
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And it being Trump doing it, he
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would be out there right now. He would be out there right now criticizing Trump from the right were it not. If the polling wasn't what it was, he would be out there criticizing Trump from the right, saying, you botched this.
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Where are the ground troops?
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Harder. Where the ground troops.
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Ground troops in the region. Very worrying today. We see.
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We mentioned that in absolutely the case. And frankly, you know, I think Chuck Schumer, by all accounts, the rumors are that he is planning not to run for reelection in 2028. And if that's the case, you know, he is. This is his. I think to a certain extent, what Netanyahu is doing is like this one. He wants this to be his legacy.
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Quickly, I know it's not relevant, but I need to get your takes because I'm not a New Yorker, but I got shouted at by Ross Barkan on Twitter the other day when I said this. But if he's not running, shouldn't Zoran run for the Senate in 28?
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B
I think Zoran is too much of a good guy believer where he wants to truly see it, see his entire first term through. I just think he's not going to. I think Gillibrand's seat in 2030 is something that could be discussed, but I also think Pat Ryan is angling for it.
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Okay. I think we really want to. I mean, I think the importance of this project in New York City to the broader movement can't be overstated.
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C
That's a good point.
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I mean, this is, you know, to have an being an executive and turning, you know, fundamentally reorienting New York City, I think is like the implications of doing that well are huge. Me too. But yeah, that's. It would be helpful to have senators from a blue state who actually a very safe blue state, actually represent.
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And you've got, and by the way, you've got Jon.
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It's too Republicans on this, but you've
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got Jon Ossoff in a swing state being attacked by Jewish groups. He's Jewish himself. Taking much stronger stances, not as strong as I would like on Gaza or Iran than Schumer did. You've got Ruben Gallego who kind of spent the last two years making himself very centrist, very border hawkish. It's come out very strongly in recent months against ICE and against Israel. Again, smart guy. He looks at the polling. He's got smart people around him like Rebecca Katz. He's seen the polling.
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Yep, I agree. Well, Matty, what else do we have to say about this week? I'm not sure what there is.
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C
I mean, I think it's only going to get worse. I'm sorry to be the bear of bad tidings, but judging from Hegseth press conference today, it's only going to get worse. We're led by people who are super thin skinned, who treat everything like a video game, who aren't going to be able to stand. I don't know if you saw that clip where Hegseth says they're rats hiding underground. And then you've got Peseschki and the president of Iran wandering around the streets of Tehran with no security, Zelensky style in Ukraine. That's going to bother the hell out of Trump. And he the danger is, and I kept telling this to people, I would have people tell me in 2024 and I'm sure they told you, look, Trump's anti war and Bush and Cheney. Look at Liz Cheney, these warmongers. And I would often point out, I don't want to defend Bush and Cheney, I don't want to defend the administration of Rumsfeld. But whatever you think about Ron Fulville Cheney, they were grown ups. They were grown up warmongers. We have childish warmongers, the kind of people who will nuke the place if they think they've been disrespected enough or they think they've been embarrassed enough. That is the worry. I have people like Peter Hexif, Donald Trump, unstable people running this war, without a doubt.
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And the only thing that, the only saving grace I think is, is that Trump reacts to the stock market and to the economy. I mean, to a certain extent. And if he knows about it, he's
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being told by his people that it's great. He's in a bubble.
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Yeah, I agree, I agree. I think it's just a question of like, if somebody from his New York swinging days gets through on the phone and says, you know, this is really bad and I could see him trying to reverse. But the problem is, and I know, you know, this is Iran is going to dictate the pace of this and they are going to require the world economy to experience a significant amount of pain so that it could reestablish deterrence. Yeah, that's it.
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And, and, and one more point on this. I just think it's like it's when you bring up Hegseth and him calling them rats, I still think that it's not discussed enough how Pete Hegseth's career was centered around defending war criminals and saying that they shouldn't be charged for killing people in Iraq. And he has a crusades tattoo. And I think like, you know, there's been some reporting about the bombing of that girls school and how if you had just used Google Maps, you would have known there was a girls school. But they use 10 year old bright
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C
paint on the walls.
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Intel. But I would not put it past a guy like Hegseth to get off on it.
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C
He said today, Emma. He said today. No quarter, no mercy. Which of course is a war crime. It's a violation of international law to use that language. Same language that Tom Cotton famously used in his New York Times op ed. Yep.
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B
Yeah, yeah. On that note,
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on the war crimes note, let's wrap up.
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Exactly. We will of course link to Zateo. Thank you so much again. I've told you this before, but doing great work over there. It is amazing what you've been able to build now in what, like two or three years has it been?
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C
No. Second birthday is in April. We'll be inviting you guys. Look out for an invite to our second birthday party.
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A
That's honestly nuts because you've managed to create an institution that is so important at this time. Really appreciate it. I can't believe it's only been two years. That's amazing.
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C
Appreciate you.
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A
Thanks for being the way.
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B
Yeah.
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All right, folks.
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B
Way too wholesome for Sam.
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A
What? Yeah, I don't feel comfortable with that. Are we going to go into the fun half? I'm going to step out, folks, because I am in pre bar mitzvah family mode. Family mode. Thank you for the well wishes. We saw. I saw some out of the corner of my eye on the ims. You know, we'll wait and see how Saul does before, you know, take any congratulations. He's becoming a man. He's becoming a man on Saturday and then back to seventh grade on Monday. There you go. That's what happens. All right, what do you want to do? Do you want to go into the.
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B
Let's. Matt, what's. What's happening?
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Oh, I'll just sign off.
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C
Yeah.
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A
And then we'll go into the. I wasn't sure if you want to do a freebie Friday. I mean, no giving those away too.
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B
Yeah, you're. You're going willy nilly with it.
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C
Join the Majority Report.com, folks. Yeah, cough it up.
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A
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C
So in two hours, New Jackman show.
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A
I got Kurt and Jose Luis talking
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C
about Claudia Shein in Mexico doing a bunch of loan forgiveness.
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A
And I mean really taking action in
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a way that's very impressive.
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Also, Ido Olam, the refusenik, our Israeli comrade calls in from Tel Aviv to
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talk about being anti war, refusing to
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serve in the idf, and what he his perception of Israeli politics as the opposition is supporting Netanyahu's war and how
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he thinks that's going to age over
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the course of this year. So, yeah, I'm really happy about the interview.
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C
Ito is great.
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And check that out at 3 o'
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clock Eastern Time, folks.
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A
See you in the fun half. Okay, Emma, please.
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B
Well, I just, I feel that my voice is sorely lacking on the Majority report.
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A
Wait, look, Sam is unpopular. I do deserve a vacation at Disney World.
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C
So.
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Ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to welcome Emma to the show.
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B
It is Thursday.
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C
Thank you.
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A
No, no, no. I'm Gonna. I'm gonna pause you right there. Wait. What? You can't encourage Emma to live like this. And I'll tell you why. Who was offered a tour? Sushi and poker with the boys. Tour, sushi and poker with the boys. Who was offered a tour? Sushi and poker with the boys. What? Twerk, sushi and poker.
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B
Tim's upset.
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A
Twerk, sushi and poker with two boys. He was on. Forget twerk. Sushi and that's what we call biz. Twerk, sushi and bulker. Or boys.
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B
Right.
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A
Twerk sushi and.
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B
We're gonna get demonetized.
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A
I just think that what you did to Tim Pool was mean.
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B
Free speech.
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A
That's not what we're about here. Look at how sad he's become now. You shouldn't even talk about it. I think you're responsible.
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B
I probably am in a certain way. But let's get to the meltdown here.
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A
Sushi and poker, Boys.
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C
Oh, my God. Wow.
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A
Sushi. Sorry, I'm losing my mind. Someone's offered a tour.
- [64:11]
B
Yeah.
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A
Sushi and poker with the boys. Logic. Sushi and poker with the boys. I think I'm like a little kid.
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C
Think I'm like a little kid.
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A
Think I'm like a kid.
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C
I think I'm like a little kid. Think I'm like a little kid.
- [64:23]
A
Had this debate 7,000 times. A little kid. Think I'm like a little kid. A little kid. Think I'm like a dick. I'm losing my mind. Some people just don't understand. I'm not trying to be a dick right now, but, like, I absolutely think the US should be providing me with a wife and kids.
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B
That's not what we're talking about here, all right?
- [64:43]
A
It's not a fun job. That's a real thing. Real thing.
- [64:47]
C
Willy wonk.
- [64:48]
A
That's a real thing. That's a real thing. Real thing. That's a real thing that's offered. Ladies and gentlemen, Joe Rogan has done it again. That's a real thing. That's. I think he might be blowing it out of proportion. Real thing. That's boy twerk. That's a real thing. That's poker. Let's go, Joey. Twerk, sushi and poker.
- [65:15]
C
Take it easy.
- [65:15]
A
Then twerk, sushi and poker. Things have really gotten out of hand. Sushi and poker. Boys. Sushi. You don't have a clue as to what's going on. Live YouTube.
- [65:27]
B
Sam has the weight of the world on his shoulders. Sam doesn't want to do this show anymore.
- [65:32]
A
Anymore.
- [65:33]
B
It was so much easier when the majority report was just you.
- [65:38]
A
Let's change the subject. Rangers and Knicks are doing great now. Shut up.
- [65:42]
B
Don't want people saying reckless things on your program.
- [65:44]
A
That's one of the most difficult parts about this show.
- [65:47]
B
This is the pro killing podcast.
- [65:49]
A
I'm thinking maybe it's time to embarrass
- [65:51]
B
the hatchet left his best Trump pilot twerk.
- [65:54]
C
Don't be foolish and don't tweet at
- [65:56]
A
me and don't the way Emma just All of these people love it.
- [66:00]
B
That's where my heart is. So I wrote my honors thesis about it.
- [66:05]
A
She wrote an honest thesis. I guess I should hand the main mic to you now. You are to the right of the UNT1 policy.
- [66:13]
B
We already found Israel.
- [66:14]
A
Dude.
- [66:14]
B
Are you against us?
- [66:15]
A
That's a tougher question. I answer. Incredible theme song.
- [66:23]
B
Hi bumbler.
- [66:24]
A
Emma Viglin. Absolutely one of my favorite people actually. Not just in the game like period.