CNN Reporter Humiliated as Question About Fallen Soldiers Blows Up in Her Face

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Rubin Report with Dave Rubin Episode: CNN Reporter Humiliated as Question About Fallen Soldiers Blows Up in Her Face
Date: March 5, 2026

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Overview

In this episode, Dave Rubin examines ongoing narratives around the U.S. war in Iran, the political response from both mainstream and alternative media, and the broader consequences for foreign policy and domestic politics. The discussion is sharply critical of CNN and other mainstream outlets, highlighting an altercation involving a CNN reporter and Trump administration figure Caroline Levitt regarding media coverage of fallen U.S. soldiers. The show then pivots to Congress's reaction to presidential war powers, critiques of libertarian and Democratic stances, the strategic importance of Iranian oil, and a range of domestic political issues including immigration, fraud in Minnesota, and ideological shifts in both parties.

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War in Iran: Victory, Loss, and the Media Narrative

Rubin Sets the Scene

• The war against Iran is described as “going extremely, extremely well,” with the Iranian Navy decimated, missile capability degraded, and top leadership taken out ([01:50]).
• Despite battlefield success, “some bad things do happen,” including loss of U.S. servicemen. An incident with Kuwait (a U.S. ally) shooting down U.S. planes is acknowledged as "fog of war" ([04:12]).
• Rubin notes, "Our media can't frame it that way, right? The mainstream media, they just can't. Because Donald Trump bad. That's how this thing has worked for the last 10 years" ([01:41]).

CNN Reporter Challenged in Press Briefing

• Caroline Levitt aggressively defends the administration against CNN's Kaitlan Collins, accusing the press of focusing unduly on U.S. casualties to make the president look bad ([03:01]).
  • Levitt: “The press only wants to make the president look bad. … Especially you. And especially CNN." ([03:54])

Jake Tapper’s Media Retort

• Jake Tapper is featured pushing back against claims that media coverage of casualties is anti-Trump:
  • Tapper: "It really is the height of solipsism and narcissism to think that our coverage of fallen warriors has anything to do with how we cover a president. … It's so offensive…” ([05:34])
• Rubin acknowledges, "In some sense, you are right. We should be covering...the names of these people that give it all so that we can be free… But...you never cover those women’s names" (referring to victims of immigrant violence) ([06:15]).

Media Skepticism Rooted in Past Bias

• Rubin highlights Tapper’s long record of alleged anti-Trump coverage and misleading narratives, particularly about Charlottesville and Biden’s fitness:
  • "It's not just that it was a lie. … No matter how many times it was debunked...you guys kept running with it" ([08:59]).

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The Institutional Debate: Congressional Approval and War Powers

Tensions Over Presidential Power

• Senate votes not to restrict Trump’s use of force in Iran (with only Rand Paul – Republican, and John Fetterman – Democrat, crossing party lines) ([14:50]).
  • Rubin: "If Trump had to go to Congress and talk about what they were gonna do, 100%, I would bet my life on it. That would be leaked and it would completely ruin the mission." ([15:57])
• Libertarian critics (Thomas Massie) question the justification for preemptive war ([16:47]).
  • Massie: "This administration can't even give a straight answer as to why we launched this preemptive war."
  • Rubin: “That part at the end there is complete nonsense... The idea that the administration hasn’t explained what’s going on here is crazy” ([17:24]).

The “Cut Off the Head” Argument

• Democrats and libertarians argue that removing leaders only allows more radicals to rise ([11:01]).
• Gutfeld (via Fox clip): "You have always a problem about the process. That's all you have. … The results speak for themselves." ([10:45])

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Geopolitics: Iran, Venezuela, China – The Bigger Picture

Strategic Choke Points

• Peter Schweitzer (Breitbart) joins to highlight how operations in Iran and Venezuela constrain China’s energy access ([22:48]).
  • “Iran exports 87% of its oil to China, Venezuela 55%. … We control Venezuela’s oil and basically Iran's oil. So this is about China.”
  • "China provided their most advanced air defense capabilities to Iran. We completely destroyed them. … Now China has the problem that their military technology is not recognized as being up to par to the United States." ([22:48])

Economic and Security Impact

• Citing Chamath Palapitiya: "[China has] the lowest growth...in 30 years. With Venezuela and Iran off the chessboard with energy supply, they are increasingly challenged...to sustain themselves." ([24:00])
• Rubin: “Everyone has been saying...China’s going into Taiwan. … Suddenly because of the moves that we are making right now, we’re choking off China.” ([25:00])

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The 2015 Prophecy: Rubio and Trump’s Consistency

• Rubin plays archival clips from Marco Rubio’s 2015 Senate speech warning about the danger of an Iranian nuclear weapon and the lack of deterrence ([27:46], [30:06]):

  • Rubio: “At some point in the near future...they will build a nuclear weapon. … This is not just imagination, it exists in the world today. … It’s called North Korea.”
  • “Iran may have a supreme leader, but America does not. … I pray that on their first day in office, they will reverse this deal…” ([30:06])

• Donald Trump in 2015: “We can't let Iran get a nuclear weapon. Can't do it… [Addressing] jobs, defeating ISIS, stopping Islamic terrorists… Securing our southern border...stopping nuclear weapons in Iran and elsewhere.” ([31:44])

• Rubin notes: “He’s been so consistent for so long, it’s almost impossible… Like how could he have been right about all of these things?” ([32:59])

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Domestic Politics: Immigration, Fraud, Identity

Minnesota Fraud and Policy

• Hearings reveal Minnesota governor Tim Walz unable to answer basic questions about expenditures on autism or identify victims of violence by illegal immigrants ([35:34]).

• Lauren Boebert forcefully calls out Democratic politicians for not knowing victims’ names ([36:34]):

  • “No, just the hard hitting CNN ones.”

• Nancy Mace stumps Walz on state spending, highlighting dramatic increases in autism funding with little apparent result ([38:09]).

• Ro Khanna and Keith Ellison dismiss data on Somali Medicaid fraud, which Rubin rebuts with AP statistics ([41:02]):

  • “87% of Minnesota Medicaid fraud was through the Somali community ... Roe, you’re just a liar.”

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Shifts in the Democratic Party

• Texas: Far-left Jasmine Crockett is unseated in a primary by James Talarico, whose statements are described as “extraordinarily brain damaging drivel,” referencing his views on gender, race, and abortion ([43:00]).
  • Talarico: “Modern science… recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six.”
  • Talarico: “White skin gives me and every white American immunity from the virus. But we spread it everywhere we go through our words, our actions, and our systems.”

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The 2026 Elections

• Trump weighs in on the Texas Republican Senate primary:

  • “We have an easy to beat radical left opponent and we… have to totally focus on putting him away quickly and decisively… I’ll be making my endorsement soon and I’ll be asking the candidate that I don’t endorse to immediately drop out of the race.” ([48:45])

• Rubin encourages Republican unity and suggests that all Trump-endorsed candidates have advanced or won their contests ([50:00]).

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Audience Q&A Highlights

On Islam and Constitutional Law ([52:40])

• Listener asks if Islam should be banned in the U.S. because it is both a religion and a political system.
• Rubin: “Islam operates not only as a religion but as a political system. … The Bible is not antithetical to our constitutional values – the Quran is. That’s just true. So I don’t know what we do about that exactly... but we’re going to have to start having some more, more serious conversations.”

On Pop Culture Favorites ([53:30])

• Rubin expresses nostalgia for classic sitcoms (Cosby Show, Golden Girls), 1980s cartoons (Transformers, GI Joe), reflecting on their cultural impact and how "Transformers: The Movie" affected his generation.

On Democratic Sanity and John Fetterman ([54:57])

• Rubin compliments Senator Fetterman for putting country over party, calling him the “one sane Democrat” and expressing interest in having him as a podcast guest.

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Notable Quotes

• Caroline Levitt ([03:54]): “The press only wants to make the president look bad. … Especially you. And especially CNN.”
• Jake Tapper ([05:34]): “It really is the height of solipsism and narcissism to think that our coverage of fallen warriors has anything to do with how we cover a president.”
• Dave Rubin ([08:59]): “It’s not just that it was a lie. … No matter how many times it was debunked… you guys kept running with it.”
• Gutfeld ([10:45]): “The results speak for themselves.”
• Marco Rubio (2015) ([27:54]): “At some point in the near future … they will build a nuclear weapon. … This is not just a work of imagination. … It exists in the world today. It’s called North Korea.”
• Donald Trump (2015) ([31:44]): “We can't let Iran get a nuclear weapon. Can't do it. Can't do it. We cannot let that happen.”
• Lauren Boebert ([36:34]): "No, just the hard hitting CNN ones."
• John Fetterman ([18:28]): "I'm always going to pick my country over my party."
• James Talarico ([43:10]): "Modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six."

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Key Segment Timestamps

• 01:41 – Rubin’s opening on war and media framing
• 03:01 – Caroline Levitt pushback at CNN
• 05:34 – Jake Tapper's reaction and Rubin’s critique of media
• 14:50 – Senate vote, war powers debate, Rand Paul/Fetterman
• 16:47 – Thomas Massie critique of war; Rubin’s rebuttal
• 22:48 – Peter Schweitzer on Iran, Venezuela, and China
• 27:46 – Marco Rubio 2015 warnings on Iran
• 31:44 – Donald Trump archival clip on Iranian nukes
• 35:34 – Minnesota fraud hearing, Governor Walz grilled
• 38:09 – Nancy Mace cornering Walz on autism funding
• 41:02 – Ro Khanna & Keith Ellison addressing Somali fraud
• 43:00 – Texas Democratic primary: Talarico statements
• 48:45 – Trump on Texas Senate primary, party strategy
• 52:40 – Audience Q&A (Islam, constitutional issues)
• 54:57 – Fetterman: Putting country over party

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Tone & Takeaways

Rubin’s tone is provocative, sardonic, and highly critical of mainstream media and Democratic figures, while unabashedly supportive of Trump’s foreign policy moves. He frequently uses humor and pop culture references, underscores media hypocrisy, and stresses the importance of narrative in politics. The show not only critiques events, but connects them to long-term ideological battles, generational consistency among some politicians, and broader struggles over national identity and governance.

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For listeners looking for a critical right-of-center perspective on U.S. foreign and domestic politics, this episode offers a comprehensive and pointed take on current events, media, and the ideological evolution of both major parties.

Transcript

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[Dave Rubin]

previously on the Ruben. You don't wait for the bad guys to have more weapons.

[Marco Rubio]

We're going to unleash Chang on these people.

[Dave Rubin]

What is Chang? Sounds like a bad guy from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. God is non binary sexist.

[Various Political Figures (e.g., Tim Walz, Lauren Boebert, Ro Khanna)]

Good luck is a brutal government.

[Dave Rubin]

This guy is number five waiting in line to be the next Ayatollah. Foreign. Everybody, how you doing? I'm Dave Rubin. This is the Rubin report. It is March 5, 2026. Share subscribe Tap that notification bell. We got a jam packed program full of all sorts of stuff. Stuff. War, media, crazy Democrats, little bit of everything. And I sense some good vibes in the studio this morning. So we're diving right in. Let's start with some more stuff. Good vibes. Let's start with the war. Actually, you should have some good vibes around the war because the war is going extremely, extremely well. But in war, some bad things do happen and we have lost a few of our servicemen, which absolutely is terrible. On yesterday's video, did we end up putting up the givesend go or the go send me to donate some money to these guys. We're gonna put that up in the description of the video below. I will donate during one of the commercial breaks. And so bad things do happen. But the overall arc of the war is going incredibly well. We've taken out Iran's Navy. They basically are losing all their ballistic missiles. The nuclear program is going to be completely gone. Their military leadership is out. We've taken out Ayatollah 7, 9, 12, 14, 16, et cetera. It sounds like the Kurds are starting to enter the country with arms to help the people take out the last vestiges of the irgc. There's a lot of good things happening. Of course our media can't frame it that way, right? The mainstream media, they just can't. Because Donald Trump bad. That's how this thing has worked for the last 10 years. So here's Karen Levitt pushing back on Kaitlan Collins assertion that Pete Hegseth was complaining about mainstream media coverage as it relates to our Fallen Tree recruit.

[Advertiser/Announcer]

Is it the position of this administration that the press should not prominently cover the deaths of US Service members. No, it's the position of this administration that the press in this room and the press across the country should accurately report on the success of Operation Epic Fury and the damage it is doing to the rogue Iranian regime that has threatened the lives of every single American in this room. If the Iranian regime had their choice, they would kill every single person in this room. Hexap was complaining that it was front page news about these six service members who were killed. That's not what the secretary said, Caitlin, and that's not what the secretary meant, and you know it. You know, you are being disingenuous. There is not. We've never had a secretary of defense who cares. More tragic things happen. It's front page news. I get it. The press only wants to make the president look bad. You know, we can't. Of US Service members under every president. The press does only want to make the president look bad. That's a. That's a fact. Especially you. Listen to me. Especially you. And especially cnn. And the Secretary of Defense cares deeply about our war fighters and our men and women in uniform. He travels all across this country to meet with them, to connect with them, and your network has hardly ever probably reported on that.

[Dave Rubin]

Okay? So the reason I wanted to show you that clip, it's obviously not the most important thing as it relates to where the war is at at the moment, but, you know, everything is about narrative. So it is horrific and deeply sad and painful and everything else that we have lost some servicemen here. Right. And several of them. It's because Kuwait actually shot down some of our planes. Right. Our ally, Kuwait, using our weapons, did that accidentally. Fog of war. Right. But CNN obviously wants to focus on anything that will be negative related to the war, as opposed to everything that we laid out yesterday in that absolutely stellar press conference that Pete Hegseth gave about the war, about the progress of the war, the coordination with Israel, the fact that Muslim Arab nations in the area are now working with us. Saudi Arabia may start attacking Iran. Like, there's a lot of good things happening here. It's going probably better than anyone anticipated. But of course, CNN wants to focus on everything bad. And really, you'd only have to think for one second, okay, if this was Biden doing this, what? They would be cheering it on. Right? And they would be basically hiding the fact if any soldiers died. I want to go just one step further with this, because then Jake Tapper went off on Levitt regarding the same thing. Take a look.

[Jake Tapper]

It really is the height of solipsism and narcissism to think that our coverage of fallen warriors has anything to do

[Dave Rubin]

with

[Jake Tapper]

how we cover a president. I'm just utterly shocked that Hegseth and now Caroline Levitt are saying it. I don't even really know what to say. It's so offensive. And I don't care what they think about us. It's so offensive to the families who deserve coverage. There's one thing that you can say about the news media, like, or just this country, we don't pay enough attention as a nation to fallen veterans. Like, there should be more coverage. Whoever's in the building behind.

[Dave Rubin]

Okay, so first, let me be clear. We just added the GoFundMe for the soldiers into our description below. So you can take a look at that now. If you'd like to donate, I will donate in just a second. It just got lost in the shuffle yesterday. So I'll take care of that during a commercial. But, Jake, you know, look, try to give the devil's due here. In some sense, you are right. We should be covering. We should know the names of these people that give it all so that we can be free. Right? We should know all of their names. We should care usually more than we do. We just move on. But I would say at the same token, it's like we should care more about the victims of all the illegal immigrants who are murderers and rapists and everything else. And you never cover those women's names. You always cover the names of the poor guys who did the raping and the murdering and everything else. But more broadly, I would say, Jake, the problem that you guys are running up against, the reason Caroline Levitt is going off on Kaitlan Collins like that and attacking CNN like that is because you guys have such a track record of lying about Trump that in this case, I think the administration, in the midst of a war that's going extremely well, is allowed to at least be a little skeptical, if not outright annoyed at your behavior. Let's not forget Jake Tapper. This is Jake Tapper. This only took us two seconds to find you. Tell me, is this guy, Is this guy an authentic good actor when it comes to covering Donald Trump?

[Jake Tapper]

But here's the thing. Today, President Trump and his administration are going after shooting the messengers in an increasingly ugly way. They're calling journalists fake news for true stories. They're calling for an excellent CNN reporter, Natasha Bertrand, to be fired, which is preposterous. And to which a CNN statement today reads, we stand 100% behind Natasha Bertrand's journalism as they should. The Trump administration is also accusing any news media who reports on this intel assessment as not being patriotic. Do you have it?

[Dave Rubin]

Okay.

[Jake Tapper]

I'm being told we have it. Thank you. Run it, please.

[Various Political Figures (e.g., Tim Walz, Lauren Boebert, Ro Khanna)]

Excuse me. To protest. And you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people on both sides.

[Jake Tapper]

That was President Trump saying that very fine people were marching alongside neo Nazis and skinheads and white supremacists.

[Various Political Figures (e.g., Tim Walz, Lauren Boebert, Ro Khanna)]

I've condemned neo Nazis.

[Jake Tapper]

The president who said there were, quote, very fine people on both sides in a Charlottesville neo Nazi Klan march in Charlottesville. And his infamous reference to very fine people. There were, quote, very fine people on both sides of that Charlottesville, Virginia march. And candidate Trump, I tried to get him three times to condemn David Duke. He wouldn't do it.

[Dave Rubin]

Okay, So I know you guys get the point. It's like, Jake, we're going to have to take a little bit of what you say and you're, you're emoting about this with a grain of salt because you have a track record of lying, like the very fine people thing. It's not just that it was a lie. You guys all know this. It's not just that it was a lie. It was a lie that you guys, no matter how many times it was debunked literally for years by those of us online, you guys kept running with it to the point that Barack Obama was still spreading the lie the day before the election. Also, Jake, you did write a book about a cover up that you were involved in, right? You literally wrote a book about Joe Biden's mental decline and the COVID up around it, despite you being basically the lead anchor at cnn, the network that covered it up. So we're just gonna have a big, I would say a fair bit of skepticism when it comes to how you cover this war. I thought this was a really, really interesting moment on Fox News. So on the Five. The Five is basically Fox News version of the view they have. She's sort of the one kind of lefty on the show. Her name's Jessica Tarlov. And you watch her get into it with Jesse Waters here. But then it's really. The reason I'm showing this clip is Gutfeld at the end. Take a look.

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If you think that going after a theocracy like this made up of religious lunatics who you cut off the head and a hundred more sprout out is

[Dave Rubin]

the same, it just makes you look stupid.

[Various Political Figures (e.g., Tim Walz, Lauren Boebert, Ro Khanna)]

It's not the same.

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We stop. Jesse, get your hand down.

[Dave Rubin]

It's down. It's more challenging.

[Advertiser/Announcer]

Fully down, mouth down.

[Various Political Figures (e.g., Tim Walz, Lauren Boebert, Ro Khanna)]

They are crazy. This is like the state of the union. They are crazy.

[Dave Rubin]

No one who's watching this, by the

[Advertiser/Announcer]

way, thinks I'm the crazy one.

[Dave Rubin]

I mean, no, you, you don't have

[Various Political Figures (e.g., Tim Walz, Lauren Boebert, Ro Khanna)]

a problem with the results. You have always a problem about the process. That's all you have.

[Dave Rubin]

Because the results speak for themselves.

[Advertiser/Announcer]

No, they don't.

[Various Political Figures (e.g., Tim Walz, Lauren Boebert, Ro Khanna)]

You also cut the head off.

[Dave Rubin]

We left the body. That's like Venezuela.

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I just said you left 100 new

[Dave Rubin]

bodies in place and they pop up

[Various Political Figures (e.g., Tim Walz, Lauren Boebert, Ro Khanna)]

and they blow up. They better have health in dental because no one's taking that job.

[Dave Rubin]

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There'll be another Nazi after him. Why would you take out this bad guy now they're trying to give the devil his due here. There is an interesting element when it comes to like maybe a pure sectarian secular army versus a religious army where the religious people tend to be a little more devoted to the cause, let's say, so that they might sprout up again. But that's not why you don't go after people. When people are chanting death to America, when their terrorist proxies are quite literally all over the world creating mayhem when they're telling you we're trying to get a nuclear bomb when they're not negotiating in good faith, all of those things might be reasons that you decapitate them. And particularly in a case with Iran where it's the radical Islamic mullahs and the once ayatollah who are not representative of the people. The people want an uprising against him, which is why they just against the people, want an uprising against them, which is why the mullahs and the ayatollah just killed about 40,000 of their own people. So Gutfeld's broader point is you guys will complain no matter what. And what's interesting here is they really, because this is going so well and because we have such a highly competent Trump, Hegsett, Marco, et cetera, we have such a competent, they are going to have to find the littlest things to constantly complain and worry about. Now, interestingly, one of the things that they are suddenly complaining about the Democrats is the rule of law. These are people who flood the country with immigrants, who don't arrest people for crimes, who have sanctuary cities, who openly, admittedly want to pack the court who don't, seemingly don't like our founding. They don't like our founding documents. They are not for free speech. They, the Biden administration quite literally worked with Big Tech to silence us all during COVID et cetera, et cetera. They don't like the rules, except right now, they don't like what Trump's doing. So suddenly they're all about that old piece of paper, the Constitution. Listen to this from Fox. Senate Republicans closed ranks Wednesday, handing President Donald Trump a win on his use of force in Iran. The Senate shot down a resolution from Senator Tim Kaine aimed at limiting Trump's military actions in Iran on Wednesday, following days of speculation whether Republicans would cross the aisle, as they have done before, to reprimand the president. Only Senator Rand Paul, Kentucky, voted in favor of the resolution, while Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Democrat, obviously was the lone Democrat to cross the aisle and support. So there's something sort of fascinating here. You have Rand Paul. Now, Rand Paul I've had on the show a million times. I like Rand Paul a lot. One of the reasons that, what was it eight years ago or so that I started coming around on Donald Trump after not voting for him the first time was because Rand Paul, who I largely consider be principled, and I get his libertarian view of the world, I don't agree with every part of it. Right. But I get it. And I think he's a decent man. What he's saying here is you've got to come to the Senate and then to Congress to get this authorization. So you have a libertarian that's joining the Democrats on this, not because he likes the Democrats, but he has a fundamental belief in a certain version of the process. Let's Say, like, I'm not impugning his motives. Then you have John Fetterman, who is saying, this is a cause worthy of going for, and we can't get caught up in the Senate vote and the Congress vote and everything else. And I think what Fetterman's really saying is, man, if the Senate throws this thing to the Congress, Congress literally has supporters of Hamas in Congress. In the Democrat side, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, I absolutely include AOC in that. And more like, you have people who are sympathetic to authoritarian regimes and terrorists who don't like America very much. Think how impossible it would be for America to do anything, anything at this point. Like, think of the level of coordination and planning that this thing took. Months and months. I mean, obviously years and years of intelligence, coordination, planning, joint military operations between Americans and Israelis and other nations in the area and everything else to pull this off. So that when it got pulled off like that, what was it? Saturday night when it all went down? They basically took out Ayatollah immediately. They take out all of this military infrastructure, destroy the Navy. Like, imagine if you. If Trump had to go to Congress and talk about what they were gonna do, 100%, I would bet my life on it. That would be leaked and it would completely ruin the mission. Now, you may say, well, we still. We have a Constitution. Things are supposed to be done a certain way. But the president does have 90 days leeway to do military actions. Anyway. I do wanna give the devil his due here. So Thomas Massie, Congressman, also Libertarian. I've had him on the show many times. Like him personally, I have some disagreements with him. That's just fine. Here he is downplaying the threat of Iran because he obviously is not in favor of the war. Now, remember, he's in Congress, not in Senate, which is what just voted on

[Various Political Figures (e.g., Tim Walz, Lauren Boebert, Ro Khanna)]

this Senate will send more swarms of refugees into Europe and the United States. Iran is not Venezuela. The Ayatollah was not a president. He was a religious leader from a region notorious for radical Islamists. And the United States and Israel turned him into a martyr. And in the process of doing so, we've already expended billions of dollars and more solemnly. Six American families must now lay to rest their sons and daughters. And for what? This administration can't even give us a straight answer as to why we launched this preemptive war.

[Dave Rubin]

All right, I'm sorry, Massey, but that part at the end there is complete nonsense. I mean, we've played you several videos of Rubio and Trump, and hegseth expl. Exactly why we did this. We played the video the other day of Witkoff saying we were in negotiations with them. They basically admitted that they were enriching uranium at higher levels. They weren't going to back out of it. Rubio has pointed out they're at their weakest point now. So you don't wait till they have more ballistic missiles, which they are trying to build right now. On top of the fact that Donald Trump a month ago, you can agree or disagree, but a month ago told the people of Iran help is coming. And Donald Trump does hold his word. Right? You may not like that, you may not want him to do that, but the idea that the administration hasn't explained what's going on here is crazy. Like, that's just not true. I would also say I'm extremely sympathetic to his first statement there, which is that he doesn't want America and Europe to be flooded with Iranian refugees. I'll say this. I am completely 100% against any refugee coming here, at least for now. Now, if you tell me we're gonna get a bunch of Persians, a certain not a bunch, if you were telling me with a high vetting process that we could trust through the, not the way Biden did it, that a certain amount of Persians might come to America, Persians, not radical Islamists who would end up loving America, the Persians, I could maybe get on board that. But that's not what we're trying to do here. The whole idea of all of this is to give the Persian people their country back. No. 1 the idea isn't we're going to give the Persian people their country back, and then we're going to have all the mullahs come over. Now, maybe the Democrats would want that, but that's not really what's going on here. But I would also say he's Massey's doing the same thing that Jessica Tarlov did in the previous segment, which is that if we do anything, we just make these people hate us more. But they don't need much to hate us more. They hate us. Here's video of the Iranian consultive assembly a month ago. And I'm pretty sure this is a fire hazard. We have 30 more seconds of that, but I felt we could pull the plug on it earlier anyway. The one sane Democrat in the Senate, John Fetterman, here he is explaining how out of control his party is. Guarantee you every single member of the Congress that you just had there said we could never allow Iran to acquire a nuclear bomb. And now that that's happened now. And that's made that impossible right now. And then we all agree, they all now say, well, we won't, we won't grieve, you know, that the Ayatollah is gone. So, you know, when someone did that and made sure that possible, why can't we as a Democrat just say, hey, I think that's a good thing, you know, because they're, as a Democrat, they're afraid to just agree with Trump on anything, anything at this point. And now, hey, I'm going to agree with it. I'm always going to pick my country over my party. I love that line. I'm always going to pick my country over my party. Like that. You know what's so interesting? You could hear JFK saying that, couldn't you? Like that's what JFK would have said, who was a true liberal and an actual Democrat before the Democrats went crazy. And again, it'll just never cease to amaze me that this is the one sane Democrat. He's completely right. The Democrat Party. If Biden was in office, and we know that Biden wasn't in charge or anything else, but if Biden was in power or Kamala was in power and they did anything, literally any strike anywhere in the world for any reason, all of the Democrats would be behind it. They wouldn't be asking for congressional authorization or anything else. And don't take my word for it. We have evidence of it, which we showed you yesterday when Barack Obama basically out of nowhere decided that we were just going to get rid of Gaddafi, who was not a good dude, Gaddafi, not a great guy. We had a picture of Gaddafi, also a very interesting looking fella, but we took him out. Libya is now a failed state. His last moments, which you may remember, I don't think we can show on YouTube, were him running in a street and somebody took a giant machete and stuck it up his ass. That's a hell of a way to go. It sounds like something that would have happened in Naked Gun, but we did that. Barack Obama caused Libya to become a full on failed state and the Democrats voted for it. And when Timu Obama, Hakeem Jeffries was asked about it yesterday, he's like, well, that's a totally different thing and I don't want to talk about it. Do we have an image of Gaddafi? Like, interesting looking guy? You want to know who his hairstylist is? There's a lot there. But Barack Obama decided that he should die with a machete up his ass. These are just facts. I report you decide, you know, let's jump over. I thought this was interesting. This is the senior editor at Breitbart. His name is Peter Schweitzer. Here he is talking about something that I brought up a few days ago that a lot of people are starting to talk about right now. Now, which is that what's happening in Iran right now is connected to what happened in Venezuela, but it's really connected to China that Donald Trump has decided, we are not going to let China. China. As he would say, we are not going to let China take over the world. So we went to Venezuela, we got some oil, now we're taking out Iran. And here's the piece that can connect it to China. Take a look.

[Various Political Figures (e.g., Tim Walz, Lauren Boebert, Ro Khanna)]

Look, assume that China wanted to move on Taiwan, right? There's a military response, but now we have a massive energy response, which is we simply don't allow any tankers to ship oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz. We can do it. It might have been a little bit dicey had we not taken out the Iranians. That's roughly half of their oil. 40 to 50% of their oil is now suddenly not available to them. So those are enormous methodologies. And look at what happens in terms of military technology, Jesse. China provided their most advanced air defense capabilities to Iran. We completely destroyed them. They didn't shoot down one American or Israeli plane. This is reminiscent of 1982 when the Israelis flying F15s went up against the Syrians flying Migs, and the Israelis beat them 81 aircraft to zero. What happened after that that they couldn't give the Migs away. So China now has the problem that their military technology is not recognized as being up to par to the United States. That's going to have huge implications with a whole host of other countries.

[Dave Rubin]

Okay, so this is super interesting stuff. Much of this has to do with China. Right? So, okay, so what would, what would make sense here? Just if you follow the sequence. Well, so what was it a month and a half ago? We get Maduro out, we're now controlling much of the Venezuelan oil. Well, if you've noticed over the last couple days, there's a massive war in the Middle East. And you know what's not happening? Oil prices are not going bananas right now because not only are we drilling again here in America, but we also have access to Venezuelan oil. So that can calm the markets down. Then, as Schweitzer points out, Iran exports a huge amount. We'll show you numbers in just a second. A huge amount of oil to China. China desperately needs that oil and most of it goes through the Straits of Hormuz. Well, we've destroyed their nav, basically destroyed their military leadership and now in effect, we and the Israelis control the Straits of Hormuz. Right. So China's going, well, shit, damn, did it again. They're going, darn. We want our oil from Iran, but Iran will basically be a non functioning state soon enough until maybe Pavlovi comes back and they fix it. But take a look at this chart and this will explain and really what's so interesting here. So this is Iran and Venezuela export most of their crude oil to China. 87% of the oil that Iran exports goes to China, 55% that Venezuela exports. So right now we control Venezuela's oil and basically we are going to control Iran's oil. So this is about China. You can have all these people screaming, we're doing this for Israel. And it's like, no. Donald Trump has decided, which is completely consistent with everything that he has said for years, that we are going to lead the world again. He had to do some things in our hemisphere, which he did earlier this year with the new updated Monroe slash Trump Doctrine, and now he's exporting that. Let me read you this tweet that I thought was also connected to this. Very interesting by Chamath Palapitiya from the all in podcast. He wrote, Chinese growth is falling off a cliff. The CCP just announced its official growth target of between 4.5 and 5%. That's the lowest growth growth in China in 30 years. At the same time, with Venezuela and Iran off the chessboard with energy supply, they are increasingly challenged in getting the atoms they need to to sustain themselves. It makes for a very constrained set of decisions over the next few years, especially regarding Taiwan. So you get it. Everyone has been saying for the last decade. Plus one of these days, China's going into Taiwan. They're going to take Taiwan and Taiwan, which is a tiny, to do a Kamala version of this. China big, Taiwan small. They would not be able to stop them. Taiwan creates and manufactures tons of super important chips that are now going to AI. It would be a massive security threat in the technological horizon. We're on for China to take Taiwan. So suddenly because of the moves that we are making right now, we're choking off China. Do you think that some of this stuff is connected? So next time you're talking to a friend who's screaming about all of this and we just want war for war's sake and everything Else you might want to mention some of this. Now, I want to show you a couple videos from 10 years ago, 11 years ago, actually, because I think they perfectly illustrate when someone says, oh, we're just doing this out of nowhere, there's no reason to do it. No, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's like our leaders have been talking about this for a long time. This video is going super viral. This is probably the most viral video on the Internet yesterday. This is Marco Rubio in 2015 talking about Iran.

[Marco Rubio]

Of this deal have already been said. I do want to be recorded for history's purposes before I know what was going to happen in regards to this.

[Dave Rubin]

If it goes through.

[Marco Rubio]

And then at some point in the near future, when the time is right, they will build a nuclear weapon. And they will do so because at that point they will know that they have become immune, that we will no longer be able to strike their nuclear program because the price of doing so will be too high. This is not just a work of imagination. It exists in the world today. It's called North Korea, where a lunatic possesses dozens of nuclear weapons and a long range rocket that can already reach the United States and we cannot do anything about it. An attack on North Korea today would result in an attack on Tokyo or Seoul or Guam or Hawaii or California. And so the world must now live with a lunatic in possession of a nuclear weapon of nuclear weapons. And this is the goal Iran has as well. To reach a point where they become immune to any sort of credible military threat. Because the price of a military strike would be too high.

[Dave Rubin]

At Charmin, we heard you shouldn't talk about going to the bathroom in public. So we decided to sing about it.

[Various Political Figures (e.g., Tim Walz, Lauren Boebert, Ro Khanna)]

Light a candle, pour some wine, grab a roll the soft kind for a little me time Charmin ultra soft smooth hair wavy edges for my rear so

[Dave Rubin]

let the softness caress your soul Just relax, you're on a roll Let her rip.

[Various Political Figures (e.g., Tim Walz, Lauren Boebert, Ro Khanna)]

Charmin ultra soft smooth tear Charmin ultra

[Dave Rubin]

soft smooth hair has the same softness you love now with wavy edges that tear better than the leading one Ply brand Enjoy the go with Charmin. Isn't that wild? Because we could have shown you that video and said that. That is what Rubio said yesterday in explaining why we did it. But 11 years ago, he was explaining that there is a threshold you get to you attack countries when they're weaker. Had we waited until they had a nuke, the price becomes way too high. We don't know what they're going to do with that nuke. We don't know if they're going to put it on a missile. We don't know if they're going to allow it to create a dirty bomb that can get into our country and everything else. That was 11 years ago. I also love the fact, I mean, he's just so damn good that he said, I want this recorded for history's purposes. He wanted people to know that way back then, and he was a senator from Florida. This is way before he ran for president or anything else. He wanted people to know that he was going to be on the right side of this. Here's a little bit more from that speech.

[Marco Rubio]

Iran is led by a supreme leader who is a radical Shia cleric with an apocalyptic vision of the future. He is not a traditional geopolitical activity who makes decisions on the basis of borders or simply history or because of ambitions. He has a religious apocalyptic vision of the future, one that calls for triggering a conflict between the non Muslim world and the Muslim world, one that he feels especially obligated to trigger. And he's going to possess nuclear weapons. This is the world that we are on the verge of leaving our children to inherit. Iran may have a supreme leader, but America does not. In this nation, we have a republic. And soon we will have new leaders, perhaps in this chamber, but also in the executive branch. And I pray that on their first day in office, they will reverse this deal and reimpose the sanctions and back them up with a credible threat of military force or history will condemn us for not doing what needed to be done at this critical moment in the world's history.

[Dave Rubin]

You know, it's so interesting, every day on the show we show you, like politicians flip flopping on things, or that's what they said then and this is what they're saying now. It's usually, you know, you know, usually I do it with Democrats. The Democrats of 20 years ago were just saying the same things that Donald Trump is saying now or just constantly. We can show you the hypocrisies and everything else. Isn't it pretty damn refreshing to hear a politician who 11 years ago was saying literally the exact same thing? So it is not a coincidence that that guy Marco Rubio, who's saying the exact same thing 11 years ago that he's saying now, is working for Donald Trump, who we've shown you many videos of the course of the last 40 years, has been saying the exact same thing as it comes to Iran and many other issues. As a matter of fact, here's Donald Trump in 2015.

[Various Political Figures (e.g., Tim Walz, Lauren Boebert, Ro Khanna)]

We can't let Iran get a nuclear weapon. Can't do it. Can't do it. We cannot let that happen. You know, in the old days I would have said 100 years ago, 50 years ago, 30 years ago, pull out, let them fight each other. The one game changer that we have to be careful with, that we never really had to think about too much before other than a certain number of years ago, is the nuclear. Nuclear today. It's not like soldiers in uniform shooting rifles. You can take out the east coast of this country. So if I run for president and if I win, I would totally succeed in creating jobs, defeating ISIS and stopping the Islamic terrorists. And you have to do that. Reducing the budget deficit. So important. Have to do it. Securing our southern border. And I mean seriously, securing. Stopping nuclear weapons in Iran and elsewhere.

[Dave Rubin]

I mean, guys, like, how much more do you need? This guy has been so consistent for so long, it's almost impossible. It almost feels like AI like how could he have been right about all of these things? Things? He's going to stop the nukes, he's going to secure the southern border, he's going to work on balancing the budget, like stop the Islamic terrorist networks. And he was right about all those things. And now he's doing it right now with another guy who was talking about it 11 years ago and a ridiculously hyper competent commander of our, of our department of war, Pete Hegseth. They're doing all of the things they said they were going to do and people are very upset about it. People. Is there anything worse than people? Am I right? Let's talk about Shopify for a second and then we'll shift to some domestic stuff. But we'll get back to some of the worst stuff too. Starting something new isn't just hard, it's terrifying. You've probably had that moment before launching something, asking yourself, what if this fails? What if no one buys? The doubt is real, guys. But taking the leap can be one of the best decisions you ever make. Especially when you have the right tools behind you. Shopify is the commerce platform behind millions of businesses around the world and 10% of all e commerce the US from brands just getting started to major household names, Shopify powers it all. If you're building something new, Shopify makes it simple. You can create a beautiful online store with ready to use templates that match your brand. Their built in AI tools help you write product descriptions, create headlines, and even enhance your product photos. And you can manage everything in one place. Worried no one will hear about your brand? Shopify helps you reach customers with easy to run email and social media campaigns. Plus, that iconic purple shop pay button gives you one of the best converting checkouts available, meaning fewer abandoned carts and more sales for you. It's time to turn those what ifs into cha chings with Shopify. Today, sign up for your $1 per month [e-mail] Rubin that's shopify.com Reuben. All right, so let's focus on some domestic stuff for just a little bit. There was a hearing yesterday. It was called the oversight of of fraud and misuse of federal funds in Minnesota Part two. And, well, Tim Walls, a man who almost was vice president, who is now not even running for reelection as governor in Minnesota because he is so caught up in this fraud scam, he was brought in under oath to testify about the fraud. Here is Representative Scott Perry grilling Walls regarding illegals getting driver's licenses. And then a bit from Ms. Boebert. Well, just watch and what.

[Various Political Figures (e.g., Tim Walz, Lauren Boebert, Ro Khanna)]

But he was licensed in your state under your law that you signed about a year and a half ago. Every day we give licenses and people

[Dave Rubin]

speed, so we ticket them and try and stop that.

[Various Political Figures (e.g., Tim Walz, Lauren Boebert, Ro Khanna)]

What I'm telling you is I don't understand the connection between. He's here illegally, he can't read, and he got a license under your provisions, and he's driving all across the country, imperiling everybody else.

[Advertiser/Announcer]

Governor Waltz, do you know who Victoria Eileen Harwell is?

[Dave Rubin]

I do not believe I do.

[Advertiser/Announcer]

What about American Mafalda Tire?

[Dave Rubin]

I don't believe I do.

[Advertiser/Announcer]

There. These are Minnesota women who were brutally killed by illegal aliens in your state. You don't know who they are. So I would also assume that you did not attend their vigils or speak out to their families when they were brutally killed by illegal aliens.

[Dave Rubin]

I'm not familiar with both of these. No, Congresswoman?

[Advertiser/Announcer]

No, just. Just the hard hitting CNN ones.

[Dave Rubin]

Damn, Boebert. Damn, she's sharp. It's not just about that spray tan. Okay, first off, so look, you're never going to get an answer from these people. It doesn't mean anything that they're under oath or anything else. And he probably won't pay the price. Okay, but you know, for him to be in charge of a state that is giving illegal immigrants who cannot read commercial driver's license. Hello, you're here. Oh, you can't read. Would you like a license to drive a truck? And you're gonna have to look at signs in a language that you can't read. But we'll go ahead and do that. And of course, he doesn't know. And I can't check everything. And that's why the buck stops with nobody. With these people. It's just incompetent everywhere. Right. So that was great. And then it was, of course, great what. What Lauren Boebert just did, which is exactly. We played you a clip yesterday where Kirste Noem called out Connecticut Senator Richard. Richard Blumenthal. Do you know the name of this person? And then Boebert did it right there. Why is it that the Democrats never know the name of the women who have been raped and. Or murdered, beaten with a boot or whatever else in their states? They always know the name. And they'll get out on the streets and they'll get a bullhorn and as walls did, and they'll get out there and say, stay on the streets in honor of defending the illegals who commit these horrific acts. But they know none of the names of the women who are the actual victims. Nancy Mace decided to pull an oldie but a goodie right here on Tim Walls.

[Advertiser/Announcer]

What is a woman? Have you learned that lesson? Do you know what a woman is?

[Dave Rubin]

I'm the governor of Minnesota Congress. I'm not here to be your prop for your obsession.

[Advertiser/Announcer]

What a woman is. You certainly can't define what fraud is. If you can't even define what a woman is, you can't define fraud. How much money was spent on autism in Minnesota in 2017?

[Dave Rubin]

Governor, I don't have those numbers in front of me, Congresswoman.

[Advertiser/Announcer]

How much money was spent on 2017 for autism in Minnesota? How much?

[Dave Rubin]

I don't know. I wasn't the governor.

[Advertiser/Announcer]

$1 million. Okay, a quick Google search or using your AI could tell you $1 million was spent. How much money was spent on autism in Minnesota in 2024?

[Dave Rubin]

I don't have the number in front of me. As governor.

[Advertiser/Announcer]

As governor in 2024, I was.

[Dave Rubin]

But I'm not the head of governor.

[Advertiser/Announcer]

Okay, so your excuse before that, you didn't know what 2017 autism numbers were because you were not governor. And today you can't answer the numbers about 2024 as governor. And you still said you prepared for this hearing today. It's unbelievable. $343 million.

[Dave Rubin]

Ouch. Ouch. And this is good. This is good. Republicans are getting better. They're learning to bring receipts. They're learning to use little visual cues and notes and things like that, because that's powerful. So basically, in eight years, they went from a million for autism to $342 million. Do you. And, and how many people got, how much less autism is there in Minnesota? I'm gonna guess none. I'm actually gonna guess that the rates of autism actually went up. Up. Now, that is not to say that the state can't do anything to help with certain schools or whatever. Separate argument, they went from 1 million to 343 million. You would think there would be a radically, a huge difference decline in either the rates of autism or how they're dealing with it or whatever. But of course the answer is no. Then this, this guy Ro Khanna, the one Democrat who will talk to me, but probably not for much longer. And he just, just keeps getting worse and worse and worse. Here he is absolutely lying about the Somali fraud situation. Watch this.

[Various Political Figures (e.g., Tim Walz, Lauren Boebert, Ro Khanna)]

Untrue. That Somali Minnesotans or Somali Americans commit more fraud than white Americans or Indian Americans or other Americans. And could you just speak to this because it is so dangerous. And I don't even think on the other side people are doing that on purpose. But if you aren't an immigrant, if you haven't lived in that, or a child of immigrants, you don't know what that makes you feel. And can you talk about the Somali experience in Minnesota? The reality is the Somali community in Minnesota has brought great things to our state. They have opened businesses. They've gotten professional degrees. They are great neighbors who volunteer and help their neighbors. They have been a benefit to our state.

[Dave Rubin]

That's Keith Ellison, who of course is the Attorney General of Minnesota who's caught up in the entire scam himself. It took us two seconds, two seconds, according to the ap. So you can either trust Ro Khanna just saying it has nothing to do with the Somalis, or you can trust the AP. 87% of Minnesota Medicaid fraud was through the Somali community. So did the AP just make that up? So, Roe, you're just, just a liar. Like you should be the one under oath answering those questions. You're just an absolute liar. And by the way, you might want to rec. You might want to check out my interview about a month and a half ago with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who is Somali herself, but she is like the anti Ilhan Omar and she talks about how it is part of the Somali culture that if you see an opportunity of fraud or take advantage of the system, that it's actually kind of built into the culture to do that. That's what she's saying as a Somali. Okay, so you're just outright lying there. And what they're Trying to do is suicidal empathy. Roe is going. It's just not true that the Somalis first off in and of like, base level thinking, would let you think that certain groups act a little bit differently. Right? Groups act a little bit differently. They have different foods, they have different behaviors, they have different customs and everything else. So it is not a coincidence that the Somali community. That doesn't mean all Somalis do it. But is there an issue with. With the place that they came from and the culture that they've imported that they are doing 87% of the Medicaid fraud? The Medicaid fraud. Right. That's not even the leering center fraud. That's a different fraud altogether. But okay, you get it. Democrats, liars, frauds and nut bags. Well, it got even wackier, as we pointed out yesterday in Texas, because Lady Eyelash's Jasmine Crockett, who is a far left nutbag beyond imagination, she got beat in a Democrat primary by somebody who is even nuttier than her. You almost can't make it up. You're like, you thought, man, they went so far that way that they're over here now Roadrunner style or something. But no, they're just. They just keep going. So the guy who beat Jasmine Crockett is this guy by the name. By the name of James Talarico. And here's just some of his greatest hits. Poverty is violence. Pollution is violence, and yes, prison is violence. Every one of our neighbors with a uterus became the property of the state. Before we go further, I want to acknowledge that our trans community needs abortion care, too. Defending trans Texans is something we have to do every day at the state capitol. I want us all to be aware of is that modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six. The second way we can tell that Jesus was a feminist was. Through his teachings. All right, there's a lot there. There are six biological sexes. I got two. I can really just think of two. And then isn't it true that Jamie Lee Curtis was born with a penis and a vagina? Somebody said that ones. Yeah, I got a thumbs up on that. So I'll throw in. There's male, female, and Jamie Lee Curtis. Okay, I don't know what the other three are. Trans. The trans community needs abortion, health care. Now, a trans person is someone who's born in a body. Let's say I'm male right? Now, if I believed I was female, that wouldn't change my biology. I wouldn't magically have a Uterus. Christie's busy. Otherwise I would grab some of her lipstick. But if I put lipstick on right now, would I have a uterus? No. No, I would not. And that man just beat Jasmine Crockett. But there's more from this man. Listen to this. In May 2020, white skin gives me and every white American immunity from the virus. But we spread it everywhere we go through our words, our actions and our systems. We don't have to be showing symptoms like a white hood or a Confederate flag to be contagious. I mean, it's extraordinarily brain damaging drivel. You're not guilty for anything because you're white, just like you're not guilty for anything just because you're black or anything else. This man should be under serious psychiatric care and instead he's going to churches and telling people that they should have trans abortion. Here's Donald Trump on the Texas political situation. This is the repo. So that was the Democrat primary and there was a Republican primary as well. But, so this is what Trump's addressing here. The Republican primary race for the United States Senate in the great state of Texas, a state I love and won three times in record numbers. The highest vote ever recorded by far, cannot, for the good of our party and our country itself be allowed to go on any longer. It must stop now. We have an easy to beat radical left opponent and we, we have to totally focus on putting him away quickly and decisively. Both John and Ken ran great races, but not good enough. Now this one must be perfect. My endorsements within the Republican Party have been virtually insurmountable. It is an honor to realize and say that almost everyone I endorse wins and wins by a lot, especially in Texas. I'll be making my endorsement soon and I'll be asking the candidate that I don't endorse to immediately drop out of the race. Is it fair? We must win in November. Thank your attention in this matter. Okay, so he's going to pick one of these guys, right? So it's going to be Ken Paxton or John Cornyn. Either one by any account, should beat this leftist wackadoodle. But I would say to Ken Paxton and John Cornyn, make a deal like this is what politics is about. Make a deal so that one of you becomes governor. And if the other one wants to be, I don't know what it is, Attorney General of the state or you want to be deputy governor or something, just make a deal. Like the Republicans need to coalesce right now. And by the way, Someone can fact check me on this. I think that every single person that Donald Trump endorsed, endorsed in these elections the last couple days that nobody lost. Some of them went to runoffs, but I don't think anyone actually lost. And just quickly, on Polymarket, where they, you know, do the. The betting odds on this stuff, 86% are saying that it'll be John Cornyn, 15% to be Ken Paxton. So, you know, if that basically is true, then it's like Trump should back Cornyn, Paxton should just get out. There's too much at risk here. And unless you want. If you're just the average guy, you know, with a cowboy hat on a ranch, you know, riding your horse around, and you want to pay for trans abortions, you better vote for one of them. All right, let's do a locals community Q and A. Joseph is at the computer right there. So if you're on locals right [e-mail] you can get a question in on the fly. He's doing some sort of happy dance right now. A different view says, hey, different because of you and your show, I was inspired to run for public office. I'm a candidate for city trustee in the city of Milliken in Colorado. Do you think Islam should be banned in the United States through a constitutional amendment because it functions as a political system rather than solely a religion and therefore conflicts with Western democratic values and the separation of church and state? Well, first off, let me just address the first part of that. If I had anything to do, like 1/2 of 1% to do with you getting involved and getting. And, you know, I'm honored and I'm thrilled to hear that you use an alias here. So I don't actually know your name, but if you want me to help promote you and talk about you, I would be more than happy to do that. I'd like to know a little bit more about your platform, but I would assume that, you know, I would largely be on board. Look, as to the question of Islam, it's something that we are going to have to increasingly deal with and discuss, and it's not something that anyone wants to talk about because. Because the truth is, nobody wants to get beheaded and called an Islamophobe and all of the rest of it. But Islam operates not only as a religion but as a political system. It means to submit. They want you to submit to everything. And everywhere that political Islam has grown becomes more authoritarian and worse for the dhimmis. The dhimmis are the non Muslims. And unless you want to pay your jizya. This is what the non Muslims pay. It's a tax that non Muslims pay to live in Muslim societies. Unless you want to be in a place like Saudi Arabia where they quite literally have roads for Muslims and then roads for non Muslims. There's no churches, no state sanctioned churches in Saudi Arabia. You know, let's not forget Tucker Carlson went to Saudi Arabia, said he feels safer as a Christian in the seat of Islam in Saudi Arabia where there are no churches. Apparently buying a house in Qatar even though now the Qatar has come out against him and said he was lying about that story about the Mossad Egypt. So what do we do? Do we outlaw it because of the church and state issue? I don't know exactly. There, there probably is an argument for it. There probably is. Look, is it a problem that Zorhan Mamdhami and I'm sure he's not the only one. I'm gonna guess Rashid Al Tlaib did and several others took their oath of office on the Quran. They are saying the thing that I believe in is above the constitution of the United States. You know, virtually every other politician does it on the bias Bible. And you could say, well wait a minute, we live by secular values, not biblical values. Even though the founders framed their secular values through biblical stories and through Bible itself. You can make that argument, except the Bible is not antithetical to our constitutional values. The Quran is. That's just true. So I don't know what we do about that exactly, but we're going to have to start having some more, more serious conversations. Look, when, when radical Islam went crazy in Europe, it was because at the mosques they were preaching all sorts of things. We have shown you plenty of videos from America right now. It's not just Europe where at the mosques they are talking about killing the non believers and hunting down the Jew and blah blah, blah, blah blah. Can that work in America? I don't think so. Glenn says, what were your favorite TV shows when you were a kid? We pulled up some images here. None of this is gonna surprise you. So first off, I love the Cosby show. I remember 1983. I saw Bill Cosby himself on HBO. I was 7 years old. I remember sitting in my parents den. You know when you're a kid and you sit right in front of the TV and your parents are yelling at you, you're gonna go blind cause you're sitting in front of the tv. I remember having my legs up like right on the TV was on, you know like a console or Something and watching that thing and I remember being buckled over in laughter. I could not believe anything could be that funny. The dentist and chocolate dad is great. Bakes us chocolate cake. Like, I just thought it was the funniest thing ever. And then you know what? Two years later, the Cosby show came out. And the first couple years of the Cosby show were absolutely hysterical. They were brilliant. By the way, you could make an argument that Bill Cosby did more for race relations in America than anybody because he so normalized the show until the last few years where it became a little bit more about race, unfortunately. And that's where the show so sort of went off the rails. You know, he was a. What was he? He was an obstetrician, an obgyn, and his wife, Phylicia Rashad, she was a. She was a lawyer. They lived in a nice part of Brooklyn. Like it had nothing to do really with race. They were just like another American family. I think it was a wonderful, wonderful show. Turns out he drugged a lot of women and raped them. Nobody's perfect, but I just loved it. Then of course, Golden Girls, which I've talked to you guys about a million times, like just, just funny, funny, funny. Four brilliant actresses, absolutely hilarious. And anyway, if you're asking me really what I was watching in the 80s as a kid, it's the middle too. It's. It's the original Transformers series and the original GI Joe. The Transformers series was just so damn good. And I've watched some of it, even doing cardio, I'll occasionally watch them. And. And there was the 1986 Transformers movie which came out and in. And I saw it in the movie theater in 1986. I was 10 years old, my brother was 7. And as many of you know watching this right now, about 15 minutes into the movie, spoiler alert. They kill Optimus Prime. And as I remember crying in the movie theater as a 10 year old and everyone was crying in the movie theater and there was a huge outcry against it because parents thought they were taking their kids to just, you know, there's a cartoon movie, robots more than meets the eye, blah, blah, blah. And next thing you know, the hero dies right at the beginning. Starscream also died, which I was upset about. But lot people didn't care about that. And then, and then eventually they. The GI Joe movie didn't make it to theaters because the. The Transformers movie was so controversial. But it's. That Transformers movie is better than the Michael Bay trash. And Orson Welles plays Unicron, which is amazing. Leonard Nimoy is one of the voices. Oh, it's just. It's just spectacular. Samantha says, Dear Dave, I just saw that Ben Shapiro had Senator Fetterman on his show yesterday. I didn't know that. When will you make that happen? I feel like he would be a much better Democrat guest than Ro Khanna. We've been trying. We absolutely will make that happen. I'll text Ben after this and see if he can hook it up. But yes, I would love to talk to Fetterman because I think what would be interesting is. So is it your goal now? What makes you a Democrat still? And he would probably lay out some of the types of things when I say I'm still a liberal, but it just doesn't make sense to say, say liberal and people don't understand classical liberalism and all that. I think he would lay a little bit of that out. But. But is it true that he's just there to kind of hold the door now? Right? Is he just there to stop the crazy? Is he there to just be the damn. Be a pain in the ass as they go completely nuts because if they had literally nobody on their side that was even remotely saying just how much crazier they would go, look what we just showed you out of Texas. I mean, that's Texas. That means Texas Democrats. Texas Democrats thought that Jasmine Crockett wasn't crazy enough. Think about that. Janine says. So our trip to Israel was canceled for obvious reasons. My family. My family and I have decided instead to spend a few days in Miami before hopping on a cruise. Nice. Is there a list somewhere of all the restaurants that serve Copal? What are some restaurants you recommend? Well, hopefully, you know, I don't know what the tourism situation is in Israel, obviously for the next week or two. Probably not. Not great. We actually have a trip upcoming. We're supposed to be going to Hungary and Israel. The hungry portion will definitely happen. I'm not sure what will happen on the Israel side if you want Copal in Miami.

[Marco Rubio]

So we're.

[Dave Rubin]

We're in the midst of getting into a couple restaurants, but for sure we're at a great steak joint in the heart of Coconut Grove, which is one of the best areas in all of Miami. Chop Steakhouse over there. And my man George is. Is the one of the bartenders over there who's fantastic. So you can get Copal over there. There's a couple other restaurants. I think we're going to be at Old Cutler Inn, which is a little off the beaten path, but a Great restaurant owned by a friend of mine down here, and there are a few others. But I would say go to Coconut Grove and Chop is just fantastic. The steak is fantastic. And it takes a lot for me to say that about somebody else's steak and just enjoy our great city. Miami is just so great. Go to the design district, obviously, go to the beach and spend a little time on South Beach Beach. Just you're going to see a safe, wonderful, functioning place filled with people who are fit and happy, and you're going to see a lot of infrastructure being built. But Coconut Grove is just a great area to walk around and enjoy yourself. And it's right on the water over there. And there's some other places, but Chop is the place right now to get Copal. And if you want to just order Copal yourself, you can go to drinkcopal.com and we're working on a whole series of. We're in a couple of stores in Tampa now. We're working on Florida for first and then. And then the idea is to go nationwide in stores. Joe says, have you ever served on a jury before? If so, what was it like for you? You've probably jinxed me in the most horrible way, Joe. But I have never done it. You know, a couple times when I lived in New York, I was called in for jury duty. And, you know, there was there. The way at least they did it in New York at the time was if you said you were willing to do it and they didn't choose you, you would get like a six year, you know, a six year stay in essence, that they wouldn't call you for another six years. And I'm pretty sure that happened to me twice where I was like, all right, I'll just get out, get it out of the way. And I didn't get chosen twice, which is, you know, pretty lucky, I suppose. And then I don't think I've been called for it in LA or here in Florida. But you've probably jinxed me horribly and I'm gonna have to take a month off from the show. Well, that's just. Thanks, Joe. All right, on. Is this a YouTube comment? We're jumping to a YouTube comment for just a sec. You know, I've been trying to pay attention a little more to the comments in general because they've been so good. And I'm really. I'm just so proud of what we've built all on rumble and YouTube, the locals especially. But just seeing the reaction, especially as things get crazier. This I Just thought was interesting. 1579. Thank you, Dave for your continuing excellent coverage of our life in the United States. States doesn't matter what's going on. You keep things straight. As an almost retiree, I have time to listen better to what's happening. And you are an important part of a mere handful of journalists I trust. Thank you. Thank you again. I always say I don't consider myself a journalist. I'm just telling you what I think and I'm trying to be honest about it. And you can agree with me or not agree with me. And I hope you're laughing along the way. I've just watched so many people in this space just go completely insane. But it was not easy to get here. You know, I had to leave several jobs like when I was, I think when I started doing the show in 2013, I was making $50,000 a year at the Young Turks and I left that show and I took it was I made a little bit more at Aura TV for a little bit while. A little while. That's where the show started blowing up. And the better we did there, they kept demanding more out of us. And that's when I was like, this doesn't make sense. I'm gonna try to go independent. And I remember the night before we launched our original Patreon, which is what the. That was the crowdsourcing thing we were on before I created Locals. I remember thinking it was only me and David and our one producer, Amira, director Amira actually. And I said to the two of them, I was like, I might have just ruined all of our lives. I have no idea. When we launched this crowdfunding thing in the morning if we're going to be okay. And within, within minutes of launching the next morning at 9:00am we had about 30 grand a month, which is, you know, that's about $700,000 a year in operating budget to do the show. And that was the beginning. And now I work with tons of great people, we get to travel all over the world and I can show up in Australia and do shows and all this cool stuff. So it's a two way street is the point. I'm telling you what I think and trust me, you guys are giving it way back to me in a much bigger way, such as a post game show, which I will offer a bit more insight on if you want to join us right now. 30 seconds. Rubinreport locals.com we got a great paddle show tomorrow. I'm not even going to tease the guests, but we have two new guests who I've wanted on for a long time, and I'm telling you, it's going to be a banger. Cold close, and then we'll see you on locals. Mr. President, have you ever tried putting ice cubes in your shoes?

[Various Political Figures (e.g., Tim Walz, Lauren Boebert, Ro Khanna)]

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