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We are about 10 days into this war. It's going extremely well by all accounts, unless you're listening to a certain set of nutbag podcast influencers. Trump explained a whole bunch more yesterday. Hegseth's still out there, Rubio's still out there. So we're gonna mostly focus on that. We'll do a little bit of the domestic stuff, particularly as it pertains to tsa, because there are sort of rumblings right now that if Iran was to get us back, so to speak, they can't really do it militarily. Right. Like their military and their leadership has been basically decimated. So there's not much they can do. We have lost a couple soldiers and we will talk about that and we'll show some of Trump and Rubio talking about those soldiers who we should be extremely thankful for, obviously, but they can't do too much damage to us militarily. What they could do, perhaps, is some sleeper cell stuff. And the reason I'm mentioning that up top is we're going to show you in the second half of the show a whole bunch around what the Democrats are now doing as it relates to cutting funding for for the tsa. That might be something we would wanna fund during a war. But that doesn't seem to be what the Democrats wanna do because obviously they, rather than inflicting maximum damage on Iran, would rather inflict maximum damage on the United States of America. And really, of course, Donald Trump. So let's just dive right in get an update on where we are at, and just remember, we're 10 days into this thing. The other war took 12 days and got a positive result. So I just think also everyone should just sort of breathe a little bit and trust the process here. But here is Donald Trump on truth yesterday. If Iran does anything that stops the flow of oil within the Strait of Hormuz, they will be hit by the United States of America 20 times harder than they have been hit thus far. Additionally, we will take out easily destroyable targets that will make it virtually impossible for Iran to ever be built back as a nation again. Death, fire and fury will rain upon them. But I hope and pray that it does not happen. This is a gift from the United States of America to China and all of those nations that heavily use the Hormuz Strait. Hopefully, it is a gesture that will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. Trump. So obviously we went through this, I think, yesterday, the Straits of Hormuz. Maybe we could pull up a map at some point. The Straits of Hormuz are incredibly important as it pertains to Iran and some of the other countries in the area getting their oil across the world. Now, it's particularly vital to China because they get so much of their oil from Iran. Joseph's given me some numbers here. 20% of the world's energy basically passes through the Straits of Hormuz. So one thing, okay, so there you go. So one thing that Iran could do, you can see how it would leave Iran, go through the Strait, which is fairly narrow. So this is a leverage point that you could see that Iran could use. It's like they can't defeat all they're firing rockets at. Literally. I don't think they fired anything into Afghanistan and Pakistan, but they're firing everything the other way. They've hit Saudi Arabia, they've hit Kuwait. I'm sure some things have certainly at least flown over Iraq. They've hit the uae. So you could see that they don't have much military leverage. But if you do have a sort of bottleneck right there that you control and you could stop the export of oil, that would be a problem. But Trump is basically coming in and saying, hey, look what we've done in 10 days. Do not do it. Do not close those Straits of Hormuz. Here's a bit more on Trump talking about gas prices, because obviously oil went up a tiny bit and already, basically, within 24 hours, it's on its way down. But here's Trump Operation Epic fury. We're also focused on keeping energy and oil flowing to the world. And I will not allow a terrorist regime to hold the world hostage and attempt to stop the globe's oil supply. And if Iran does anything to do that, they'll get hit at a much, much harder level. I will take out those targets that were easy and that I mentioned just before. We'll take them out. In recent years, the regime and its terror proxies have launched attacks on hundreds of commercial vessels. We're putting an end to all of this threat once and for all. And the result will be lower oil prices, oil and gas prices for American families. We've done that. We've done it. We've brought it very low. This was just an excursion into something that had to be done. Okay, so, you know, I mentioned a couple days ago that oil prices were basically staying stable. Then about two days ago, oil went up about $50 a barrel. Well, within 24 hours, it has now come down $40. So it is now up a tiny bit. But here's CNN admitting that there's been a little bit of positive movement in the markets after the president told CBS that the war is pretty much complete. What's the latest? Yeah, oil prices hitting their lowest level of the day after crashing through that $100 a barrel benchmark overnight, even reaching up to 115, 120 a barrel. Those are numbers that we haven't seen for nearly four years since the war between Russia and Ukraine broke out. But even though these levels have come down to about $85, $90 a barrel, still 30% higher than they were just a month ago. Okay, so it is wartime and some things are going to happen. As I've been saying, this might be why you should be happy as an American that we now have access to that Venezuelan oil that Trump just put out. A seriously strong statement like, hey, Iran, whoever's left over there, if anyone's picking up the phone over at Iran HQ over there, you guys better not mess with the Strait of Hormuz and make sure that the oil keeps flowing. Or ultimately what he's really saying is we're gonna take it. We're going to take it. But we'll leave that for. For a moment. Here is Martha MacCallum talking about how Trump has now told the CBS reporter that the war is almost complete. I'll be watching. The president's going to hold a news conference just a short time from now. It's going to get started at 5:30 from Doral, Florida this evening in the meantime, he has done some phone interviews with several outlets, most recently talking to CBS News, Washington, White House reporter, I should say. And in that interview with Weijiajiang, he said, I think the war is very complete, pretty much. They have no navy, no communications, they've got no air force. He added that the U.S. is, quote, very far ahead of the initial four to five. Okay, so this is, this is super interesting to me because Again, we are 10 days into this thing. The last thing was incredibly quick 12 day war. It would be nice if wars, if war, to whatever extent you have to have wars, if they can be wrapped up as quickly as possible. So what, what is leading Trump to be saying that? Well, we basically, we have total air superiority over Iran right now. They are firing a few rockets all over the place, but last I saw, we can check the numbers on this, it was down about 80%. Right. So the rockets from the peak of the war, which was just a few days ago, the rockets being shot out of Iran, are now down 86%. They've run out of rocket launchers because those are being blown out of the, out of the water, basically, the metaphorical water. Although we were blowing up Navy ships as well in the literal water. We've taken out most of the leadership. There's no chain of command anymore. So random, yes, random things are getting out here and there. The other Arab and Gulf states are joining us in Israel in doing this, at least in sort of an ideological perspective. Right. Not all of them are jumping in on the military perspective, but they are not thrilled that Iran was firing rockets at them. And it seems to me, if Trump is saying this war is almost over, I think what he means by that, and I think what we will see over the next couple of days is that the initial military strike, the blitzkrieg, as it were, will basically be over in a couple days that we will have done enough damage to their ballistic missile program, to their nuclear program, to the military leadership, to all of their critical infrastructure that was allowing the regime to have power over the people, that the military, the massive military might of the United States and Israel. That portion will be over. And then, of course, that will lead us to part two. Right? That would be part one of the movie. Part two of the movie is can then the people take over the country for themselves? I suppose part three is can they hang on to it? And then we get a trilogy after that and after that and after that. The story goes on and on and on and on. As the song from Journey says. Here is Trump on whether he will have to take out the new Supreme Leader. Snoke of the Galactic Empire. Do you have to take him out? Does he have a target on his back? You mean the new Supreme Leader? You mean the sun? How can there be an Iran? Well, I don't want to, I don't want to say that, but, you know, I was disappointed because we think it's going to lead to just more of the same problem for the country. So I was disappointed to see their choice. Right, so Khamenei's son, his name is Majtaba Khomeini. He is the new Supreme Leader of Iran right now. He was voted by the assembly of Experts. It all sounds fake, but apparently it's real. And the question is, will we be able to negotiate with him? I think we're kind of past that point. It is fairly obvious that the mullahs and the radical jihadists are on their way out one way or another. So Trump again, this is where he's just so good because he's being honest. He's basically like, look, is this gonna work with this guy? We're probably, wink, wink, gonna have to take him out, cuz that's not gonna work. Right. When they bring the Shah's son back, likely he will be the leader of the country. Phoenix, roll with me. Where are we here? Here's a little bit more from Trump and the White House talking about, at the White House talking about what he has been up to. I got every country to agree and now you've done something that no other president could have done. No, I don't want to brag, but, you know, they've said this about a lot of things no other president could do. Something the I'm doing, no other president. The things I'm doing, nobody else was gonna do it. Yeah, we bleeped that for you. The Rubin Report is a clean, family friendly show these days to the best of our ability. But look again, this is where Trump, it's like he's doing extraordinary things. He's showing America's competent again, we can win again, look, we'll see where it all lands, but it's going well so far. And then he's also enjoying himself and able to go off the prompter. And like, I'm, in essence, I'm doing a lot of stuff, guys. I am actually trying to right the world. I'm trying to defend our borders. I'm trying to get the bad people out of our country. I'm trying to get the bad terrorist regimes who have wrecked havoc all over the world out of the way. I'm trying to do an awful lot midterms coming in November, and I think it's important. I actually really do think it's important that people see that he's having fun along the way because when good things are happening for America and he's having fun and like we're happier, you know, there's a certain, there's a. Bongino's been talking about this a bit. There's a certain like black pilled mentality right now on a portion of the right that I think is so dangerous. It's dangerous because it's not real. Like there really are so many good things happening right now. And just think how much worse it could be if the Democrats were in charge or if they got in charge again. So this is our guy. This is our moment. It's our 250th anniversary and if we can just freaking wrap ourselves around that and keep exposing how crazy they are, then the midterms won't go poorly. We'll have two more years of this and it'll set us up for whatever happens after Trump, whether it's J.D. ruby or anyone else. We'll have more on that in just a second. But let's talk about Rumble Wallet and then we'll get to it. You've probably seen what's happening online. Censorship is back and it's everywhere. Big tech controls what we see and big banks can shut people off at any time. That's why Rumble is fighting back. 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There's a reason we have Memorial Day, and these guys lay their life on the line. And no one wants it to end this way, but sometimes it does. So we've lost six service members. Here's a little video. There's no audio over it. At Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, you can throw to that. And you'll see there is the president and JD and the first lady. There's Witkoff behind them. The second lady is there as the coffins go in front of them. And I think it's just worth noting that can get lost in the fog of all of this, that these are real people with real families. And it's. It's important to acknowledge that. Of course, the ladies on the View saw that video, and, well, here is Whoopi criticizing Trump for wearing a USA hat during that ceremony. And I will say this, it really bugged me, and maybe I'm just being picky when those caskets came off that plane. Take your damn hat off. That's right. That's right. Take your damn hat off. That's right. That's right. I didn't understand why nobody pulled his coattail and said, sir, just out of respect. Out of respect. Whoopi, Whoopi, you know, not only do you lie about everything and lie about Trump's intentions constantly, and you guys lie about half the country, and you've lied about this war and just everything you do on that show every single day, Trump's hat said usa. You maybe, maybe could make an argument, if it had just been a MAGA hat, which is more of a political message, maybe you could make that argument. But it was a hat that said United States of America, usa. And Donald Trump is fighting this war for the future of the United States of America. He is trying to reorder the world in a better way so that China does not become the global superpower. And he's trying to exert American influence. And again, it is deeply, deeply sad that six American servicemen died. I think it was an Iranian drone that killed them on our military base in Kuwait. That is. That is. It is a function of war. But the idea that he was being disrespectful there he was showing up and the Vice President showing up. They didn't have to, right? This wasn't 40 guys that were killed. This was six guys. I'm not diminishing those six lives, but come on. Anyway, it continued on the View. They had this other lady. I think she. Is she a comedian? She. She's a comedian. I guess we'll call her a comedian. We'll find out a bit more about her temporary host, Cheryl Underwood. She's no Elizabeth Hasselbeck, I'll put it that way. And here she is saying that the military doesn't want to follow Donald Trump. We want to know why, and we want to hear it from someone who we feel we can follow into battle. We don't want to hear it from somebody that's a TV personality who may have limited experience. I think this country is going to have to go back to the issues that we have. Maybe the commander in chief would have to have some military experience and understand that your order leads us into something that could reverberate around the world, getting our allies together. All right. You know, I'm going to try to give the devil his due on the View. I'm going to try to do it. There is something to say about whether we should have more politicians who have served in the military. We have a decent amount in the Congress and the Senate, but we haven't had an executive, a chief executive, a president of the United States who served in the military in a long time. And you know, it's like, lady, you'd never be saying this if this was a Democrat, right? Barack Obama was a community organizer in Chicago. He never served in the military. Bill Clinton had a cigar and a girl on in a blue dress on his lap, did not serve in the military. Joe Biden didn't know where he was or what year it was, did not serve in the military. I think you can make an argument that it's not just the optics of it, that it sort of feels right or sounds good that this guy was in the military. I think there are things that people that come out of the military believe in fundamentally about the country and about discipline and chain of command and things of that nature and respect that probably could be good for a commander in chief. But you're only saying it in this case, obviously. Obviously, because of Donald Trump and by all accounts, all of our military men right now, men and women, are doing an unbelievable job. And as Hegseth has repeatedly pointed out, what we are winning this thing at an almost incalculable level. Like we are taking out the number one state sponsor of terror in the world. And we are doing it in the most precision, precise possible way. Here's another video. This is JD Vice President JD Vance and Hegseth attending the dignified transfer of 26 year old Sergeant Benjamin N. Pennington of Kentucky, who is actually the seventh member who was killed. Just start on a slightly somber note here, because On a personal level, I was honored to be able to participate in the dignified transfer of six American soldiers who were killed overseas in this conflict with Iran. And I had never done that before. And a lot of you served our nation in uniform. I know a number of our firefighters have, all across our country. And I just want to say that if you are the praying type, and I certainly am, I hope you'll spare a prayer for the six souls that we lost, for the seventh soul who will be coming home tonight, and for all of their families. You all know better than almost any category of Americans what it means to put on a uniform and to sacrifice for our country. Hegseth also spoke there. We're going to skip that, actually. But I think there was just something very human and nice about that. Right. And by the way, J.D. vance did serve in the military. But what you're seeing here is a mature administration that is being real and being honest. Like when JD Kind of everyone fake emotes all the time, but it's like when he kind of touched his heart and talks about losing these people like it is meaningful. And he did want to be there and he's acknowledging it's a function of war. So we have the people who are explaining why we are at war right now, now and what we are doing. And that's primarily the president and Hegseth and Rubio. And there you have JD With a little more of the human version of it. And I think that, that it's just another perfect example of what an absolute all star team we have right now. Of course, one of the things that the Democrats and the media are doing are trying to make it seem like we are attacking random people in Iran. And that is, it is a complete 100% lie. But it's an extension of what they tried to do as Israel was trying to get their people out of Gaza, even though they were dropping leaflets and sending text messages, we're coming to this building. You better leave. Like no other army in the history of the world has done anything like that. But it worked. The propaganda against Israel kind of worked. And you could see the mainstream media trying to do it now that we're trying to attack hospitals and schools and all the rest of it. It is a complete and utter lie. Here is Scott Jennings on CNN making the distinction between how we, the United States of America behaves versus how in this case Iran or our enemies are behaving. I think the most important thing Hegseth said and all Americans need to know and understand this, the difference between us and the enemy. We do not target civilians when it happens, and it will happen in war. It is tragic and it is not meant to be. The enemy targets civilians. They hide behind civilians. They fund people who set up bases and hospitals so that civilians are in the way. That's not what we do. An investigation needs to occur. All the truth needs to be told. And we will give transparency to the American people. But there's two parts of this war, our part and the enemy. The enemy target civilians. Look what they're doing all over the region, firing. This story doesn't end there. God, that's dimwit Abby Phillips. Like, just so dim. Dim. Just dim. But of course, what he is saying is right. We don't. Do you think that the United States randomly is looking around? We have, we have unbelievable precision guided bombs and everything else, or even what Israel was doing in Gaza. They have incredible intelligence. We try to take out military leaders. Every rocket, by the way, that military leaders and infrastructure, et cetera, every rocket that Iran has shot, they've shot rockets at about 13 countries. But. And some of them are at military bases. So you could say, okay, that's a fair target, let's say. And although in the game of war, like, people are going to do all sorts of things, every single rocket that they have shot at Israel, some of them are these cluster bombs that explode and then they explode into a gajillion other pieces, right? So they're not just a conventional bomb. It's coming and going to hit and blow up something, but they're exploding and then you have all this crazy shrapnel and you can, you know, kill and maim, etc. Etc. All of it's designed to hit anything. Anything. So whether one of the rockets that Iran shot hit a hospital in East Jerusalem, which is an Arab hospital. So there is a fundamental distinction between how we in the west behave when it comes to war and how these guys behave. They're trying to maim and kill as many people as possible. We are trying to take out infrastructure so the Iranian people will have their country back. But let's, let's jump to sort of what the future of all of this could be. Because Trump is doing, I think, obviously an incredible job, messaging all of this stuff and explaining what's going on here. But Trump will not always be here. And in some sense, it's very hard to imagine a world without Trump. Right? Everything he has been the son, everything has revolved around this man for the last 10 years, right? Try to think for just a moment. There will be a day after Trump, meaning there will be a day after his presidency. One day he will pass away. It will be very hard to imagine what that world will look like. But the Republicans are going to have to figure it out one way or another. And I thought this was quite interesting. From the Clash Report at a recent Mar A Lago gathering. This is just literally from yesterday. Trump informally asked about 25 Republican donors and allies whether they would prefer Marco Rubio or J.D. vance as the GOP presidential candidate in 2028. According to attendees, the room overwhelmingly responded in favor of Rubio with loud cheering when his name was mentioned. And that's from NBC News. And let me just give you a bit more from NBC here, as long as we're talking about NBC. In the early hours of February 28th, President Donald Trump and his administration joined Israel in launching a wave of strikes in Iran that would reverberate across the Middle East. That night, he was schmoozing at Mar A Lago with some of his top administration officials and political donors. With the press in question, Marco or JD with a group of 25 GOP donors, including New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and billionaire Georgia gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson, Trump asked the room who they would prefer to support as president in 28. Attendees overwhelmingly indicated Secretary Strike Marco Rubio through cheering, according to two people who were at the event. It was almost unanimous for Marco, said a person in attendance who, like others in this article, was granted anonymity to speak candidly. Yes, that's right, said the second attendee about the informal Trump poll. It was clear, at least that night, another person in the room characterized the response as more evenly split between Rubio and Vance. The small gathering in Florida, Rubio's home state, doesn't necessarily mean that Rubio is the new favorite over JD Vance for 28. The Mar a Lago donor crew are not JD people. A former Trump administration official said he did not get picked to be vice president because of the Mar A Lago crowd. If you remember, that crowd was lobbying the president to pick Marco. So I'd like to say stuff like so I'd like to say stuff like that is a bit gamed, the former official added. If it was a poll taken Tomorrow, I bet JD is still up by 40 points or whatever it is. It's not the first time Trump has quizzed those in his orbit about how he should engage in the forthcoming political fight to replace him as the Republican standard bearer. But it's another instance of a dynamic and of the Dynamic and indication that the President's plans. The President plans to play a big role and is taking early interest in the future of the party. Trump appears to be relishing his potential to be a kingmaker, as he is in so many other Republican primaries in a race that could potentially pit the top members of his own administration against each other. And all of this is a reminder of how fluid things are in Trump's orbit and how quickly the President's thinking can shift. Okay, that was a lot of reading and I don't want to get too ahead of all of this, but I think it is worth noting because we have a good cast of characters, right? We have J.D. we have Marco. We don't have to go through the rest of the cabinet, but there is going to be, this is my guess, mark my words, someone do we have some sort of bookmark that we are able to do on the Internet. My guess is that there are going to be several well qualified people that will run as Republicans in 28. Obviously, JD is gonna run. I think it's less obvious that Marco is gonna run. But let's say potentially Marco's gonna run and I think Donald Trump will sit it out for a little bit. I think he's gonna wanna see take the temperature. I think it's gonna depend where the country's at. A huge amount of it depends on what happens with the midterms. Right. Because whether the Trump, if the Trump administration is caught up in impeachments and, you know, just all of the legal nonsense they'll try to catch Trump in. And if it's really hampered and weak, that could affect who he wants. Does that, does some of that stick with the Vice President more than it would stick maybe with the Secretary of State? Some of this depends on how this war turns out. Like, there's so many X factors here. But the bookmark is that I will say that I think Trump will largely sit it out for a while and he's gonna kind of apprentice this thing, meaning the show the Apprentice, he's going to want to see these guys kind of fight for it. And by the way, I would say that regardless of where he ended up on that or who's running or anything else, I would say that's a hell of a lot more healthy than anything you're going to get on the Democrat side, which is going to be an insane race to the bottom, meaning it's going to be. It's going to be Newsom and the jihadists racing to basically say who hates America? The Most. So whatever happens with the Republicans, whether it's a huge JD Marco fight or anything else, it's going to be a hell of a lot healthier and pro America. Right? Like, the differences between JD And Marco are, like, they both fundamentally love America. They maybe have a little difference on some foreign policy stuff. If the war goes really well, that probably looks really great for Marco. If it doesn't, maybe you could argue that looks a little better for J.D. but it's his. Trump is his guy, so then it still sticks on him anyway. We don't have to waste too much time on all of that, but it's just very clear at this point that Trump really does like Marco. I think we showed you this a day or two ago. Marco Rubio is doing a great job. I think he's going to go down as the greatest Secretary of state in history. Look at what we've done as a. As a presidency. Look at what we've done as an administration. They trust Marco, and so do the American people. Trust he's been successful no matter where he's been. He also speaks the language, which is always nice and always helpful, but he's dealing. And it may be a friendly takeover, it may not be a friendly takeover. It wouldn't matter, because they're really in. They're down to, as they say, fumes. They have no energy, they have no money. They're in deep trouble. All right, so we can sort of ignore the latter part of that, but on the. On the first part, he's basically saying, look, Marco's been great. We all know he's been great. And think about it this way. You know who our last Secretary of state is? We haven't talked about him in about a year and a half. It was Anthony Blinken. Remember that guy? And he was nothing. Remember? He was nothing in a suit. Do you remember that video? Maybe we could grab it. We'll do it for the post game show on locals. That video of when Biden was on the plane and he's up there and Biden doesn't know what he's saying, and he's stammering and flummoxed and the whole thing. And you see Blinken kind of come out of the corner behind him like deer in head, like. Like, oh, oh, no, don't do it, Joe. Don't do it. Like, do you think anyone on the world stage respected Blinken? Feared Blinken was like, oh, this is a guy who's really gonna do something? No. But Marco, not only do they know they have the backing of Trump. But they know that Marco believes in certain things. We showed you the video of, quite literally 11 years ago of Rubio saying the exact same thing about Iran and saying. He says, what was the line? He goes, I want to say this for the historical record. And it's what he was saying 11 years ago. And he was completely right. But now let's take the other version of that for a second, because here's Trump on jd. And I think this also right here shows the strength of Donald Trump. Watch between yourself and your vice president when it comes to US action in Iran. I don't think so. No, no, we get along very well on this. He was, I would say, philosophically a little bit different than me. I think he was maybe less enthusiastic about going, but he was quite enthusiastic. But I felt it was something we had to do. Helen, you guys were never going to have a president like this again. We just never will. He's being honest there. He's saying we get along. He's saying we had a little bit of a philosophical difference. And I think that's obvious, right? Like, JD's been very quiet about this, but he's backing the president, obviously. We've shown you videos of him talking about it. This is his administration. So unless he's gonna run all the way from Trump and maga, this is. This is on him. Right. So the success or failure of this is attached to, to JD one way or another. But that's honest of Trump to say, you know, me and my vice president, we do have some philosophical differences when it comes to, say, foreign policy or how we were going to run this war or whatever. But he was with me on this, which is the job of the vice president. So that is just strong and good and it's transparent in a way that is so foreign after the last four years of absurdity. Let me show you one more thing on the sort of future of the Republican side, and then we'll move on. But my buddy Stephen A. Smith was on Sean Hannity's podcast and they got into it about this. And the reason I think this is interesting. You may go. Stephen A. Smith is just a sports guy and he's just yammering about politics and whatever. I like the guy a lot, and I think he's got some interesting takes, obviously. But here he is as someone who is saying he would run as a Democrat if he's gonna run for president. Here he is saying that he would vote for a guy like Marco Rubio. I'd vote for Marco Rubio. Okay, talk about. What is it about Marco? He's an adult in the room. There is no questioning his qualifications. If it's Marco and anyone other than Wes and Josh, you vote for Marco over the Democrat? Yes. Over Newsom? Yes. Over Kamala? Yes. I'd vote for Marco Rubio over anybody that's out there right now other than Wes Moore or Josh Shapiro. Okay, so. Well, that's interesting. So he would still vote for Josh Shapiro more. And Josh Shapiro is just like a not completely insane Democrat. But I do think, you know, it's why I show you the mar videos all the time. Whether you agree with these guys or not, or whether you think they don't get it yet or they never get to the end of the road or any of those things. That sort of like not insane liberal take, which I know a little something about, it's still a hugely important swath of voters. I think it's what most Americans are. Most Americans are kind of in that spot. They're not hardcore traditional Republicans. They are a little more liberal on certain things. And there you have somebody who has a huge amount of influence, particularly in the sports world, but increasingly in the political world, saying that Rubio could be his guy. Well, just let the Shapiro. Who did he say Shapiro? And who was the other one? It doesn't even matter. But anyway, let's put a pin in that and let's get to some of the things that are happening right now on the domestic side because right now while we are at war and while they're obviously, obviously is some sort of a risk around terrorism that is increased during wartime, the TSA is having major, major issues and huge lines at airports all over the country because TSA agents are going without pay right now. Take a look tonight. Miss flights and ruined vacations as TSA staffing shortages throw spring break travel into chaos. Airports packed from miles, Miami to Phoenix to Houston's Hobby Airport, where even seasoned travelers like Claire Lee were shocked by the crowds this morning. First time ever and I travel the world. I've never seen anything like this. Officials telling passengers to arrive five hours early. Usually I witness this on tv watching it now I'm a part of it. At Lewis Armstrong Airport in New Orleans, passengers started lining up right by their cars in the parking garage. The TSA short staffed amid a partial government shutdown affecting the Department of Homeland Security. And because of that shutdown, the roughly 60,000 TSA officers who get you through security haven't gotten a full paycheck in almost a month. And many of them aren't showing up to work. Okay? So as we've addressed many times, this partial shutdown of DHS not being funded and DHS runs the tsa, those. That's a lot of letters is because the Democrats don't like ICE and they don't want to fund ICE. However, as we've pointed out, ICE is funded through 2029. So this partial shutdown that right now, while we are in a war, is causing long lines at the airports and is hampering TSA from doing their job. When you might think that Department of homeland security and TSA's job is more important now because things are heightened. We just had a jihadi terror attack at Gracie Mansion, which we covered yesterday. There was some guy. We didn't even cover it, but was on a Southwest flight to, I think Nashville two days ago, who started yelling Allahu Akbar on a plane and talking about the bombing of the plane like that happened. And did you even see that on mainstream media? We didn't even get to it yesterday. So the point is, there's some weird stuff in the ether right now. And the Democrats to defund ice, which is already funded, are defunding dhs. That's a problem. Here is Illinois Representative Robin Kelly saying she feels guilty that the Democrats have shut. That the. That the Democrat shutdown is harming DHS and tsa. But of course she's for it. I'm hoping one of my colleagues, Rosa DeLauro, had, you know, the idea of separating out TSA and the others from what we're demanding as far as ice, but we haven't moved on that yet. I think that Democrats would look at that. Believe me, we don't like that people aren't getting paid. And, you know, we fly. I fly every week. And to look at people working and showing up and not getting paid, that does not make me feel good. You know, now that it's called Ms. Now instead of msnbc, to call it the televised mental institution is sort of. It's just for dumb people. This is a show for sane people, for normal people. MSNBC is a network for. Yeah, see, right there. A show for normal people. Congratulations, by the way. But if you're watching Ms. Now, you're dumb. You're dumb now. We give you little bites of it because it's important to know what dumb people are doing, because there's a lot of them and they're multiplying, and it's a problem. But why didn't the host, the guy up there in the upper corner, why didn't he say, lady, lady, I understand you fly a lot. I like your glasses. But do you understand that defunding DHS has nothing to do with ice? She said it's because of what we want to do with ice. So a normal host who has any semblance of understanding what the issues are might have said, okay, thank you for speaking. Everything you said there was absolute pure nonsense. But of course they didn't because it is a network or dumb people. Here is Scott Jennings, the guy who is on a, I would say slightly less dumb network, although not a real, it's not a banger of a network either. But here he is explaining that there could be problems amidst a war when you are defunding and shutting down dhs. But does anyone here believe that we should keep the Department of Homeland Security, that's the name of it, indefinitely shut down to try to force ICE policy changes on an agency that's already funded until 2029, when you acknowledge their sleeper cells, when we all see radical Islamic terrorists throwing IEDs in New York City, when we saw a radical Muslim terrorist shoot up a bar in Austin, when we had tornadoes in Oklahoma and Michigan this weekend, when we have TSA lines of five hours, all these things going on, is it, is it, is it even remotely reasonable? Yeah, it does. It's not even worth showing their responses. Right. Because of course, what he is saying is right. We had the Austin shooting two weeks ago. Right. We just move on from that. The ied, we just move on from that. The plane threat that I just mentioned, we just move on from that. Then there could be other things, as he points out, there could be tornadoes, there could be a hurricane, like all sorts of other things that the Department of Homeland Security does. So ironically, you have the people who love big government, they love big government programs and they love throwing money at everything, but they don't want to right now, while we are at war, throw money to the dhs, even though it has nothing to do with ice. Like it's so extraordinarily dumb, only Democrats could possibly do it. Here is video of Senator Eric Schmidt from Missouri laying out how ridiculous it is that the Dems are doing this with dhs. Because this is just the height of stupidity by the Democrats. It's essentially a temper tantrum because they don't like President Trump, they want to ultimately defund ice. But as your audience knows, in the one big beautiful bill, the working families tax cut, we front loaded the money for ice. So those detentions are, those deportations are going to continue. What the Democrats are doing here will do nothing to affect that. And so really, who are paying the price? The traveling public employees? The Coast Guard, Secret Service? I mean, think about law enforcement that's been involved. Dana, we heard stories of the last government shutdown caused by the Democrats where TSA agents were sleeping in their cars to save money on gas. They're now going without paychecks. Okay? So, I mean, he perfectly illustrates everything that I have said here. ICE is funded. ICE is funded. All they're doing is having a temper tantrum and putting you and your family, not only you and your family at risk because of terrorism, but also it's spring break, right? They are delaying. They are hampering your ability to live a life where you can freely travel in this country. And maybe the pain is the point with these guys. Maybe that actually is what the point is. We want Americans to feel a certain amount of pain at the airline because they'll somehow turn that on Trump. Or maybe they don't mind a little terrorism here and there. I actually think that that's true. That might sound deeply, deeply cynical. But I think in some sense they're like, ah, you know, if a few things blow up, people will eventually, even if it's because we didn't fund dhs. So they were hampered people. Trump's the president, so they'll attach it to Trump. I mean, that might sound cynical, but I actually don't think that that's very far from the truth. And now, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to read something to you. I'm going to read it word for word. It is a tweet from CNN this morning. And I say this every now and again, but this might be the most insane thing that I have ever read on this show. This really might top it, right? Maybe five times over the years I've said this might be the craziest thing. This one might do it. Taking a cake. Here we go. This is a tweet this morning from cnn. Two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York City Saturday morning for what could have been a normal day, enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather. But in less than an hour, their lives would drastically change as the pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs during an anti Muslim protest outside of Mayor Zorhan Mamdami's home. Here's what we know so far. That is so bananas that I have to say it's a damn shame I'm not allowed to curse anymore because I got a whole bunch of them. I got a whole. Who wrote that? That person needs to be fired immediately. That person's boss needs to be fired. Whoever's running the Twitter account. They tried to paint the guys who came into the city with an IED to kill people. They were just. It was a beautiful spring day, I can tell you guys. I grew up in Long island, as many of you know, and often I would get on the Long Island Railroad, couple stops into New York City, and I would go in with my friends in the spring, and we would often bring bombs and IEDs and Molotov cocktails, and we were just having fun, you know what I mean? We were just there to enjoy the weather. We'd sometimes see a show. I'd throw a Molotov cocktail into the window of a diner, and then we'd head out, and it was quite lovely. That is so profoundly psychotic. So profound. And they also make it seem like they were throwing it, like the anti Muslim part. It's so backwards. It's so backwards. Okay, so CNN got a little pushback. They got a little pushback on that tweet. Then they wrote this. A post regarding the two individuals arrested for throwing homemade bombs outside of New York City Mayor Zorhan Mandami's home failed to reflect the gravity of the incident, thereby breaching the editorial standards we require for all our reporting. It has therefore been deleted. Wolf Blitzer, are you watching the show today? I don't know if you're watching today, but what I think you should do today, because you've worked at CNN for a long time, a lot of people associate you and your Wolf like nature with that place. Find who wrote it, walk into their office, and pee on their desk. That's what you should do. Wolf Blitzer, mark your territory. This is mine. I'm Wolf. I mean, that is the most psychotic possible thing, but let's continue with the psychosis. So remember, it was just two young guys coming in from the suburbs enjoying a beautiful spring day. Here's a bit more on these fellas. I also want to read more from the criminal complaint, which paints an eerie picture describing how these men were inspired by isis. The complaint reads. More specifically, Balat wrote on a piece of paper that he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. And Kayoumi stated in substance and in part that he was affiliated with isis, watched ISIS propaganda on his phone, and was part of, partly inspired to carry out his actions that day by isis. Balat additionally stated that they wanted to carry out an attack bigger than the Boston Marathon bombing, which Balat noted caused only three deaths. Well, I sure am glad that the Democrats are defunding DHS right now in the midst of all of this. And you know, it was a beautiful day, but he just wanted to do a little ISIS stuff. Greg Price on Twitter, I thought nailed this perfectly. This kid's parents legally immigrated from Turkey. He grew up in a nearly one million dollar house in a nice area of Pennsylvania and instead of assimilating into America, tried to commit a terrorist attack and then saluted ISIS while being perp walked. So that, that one finger up, that's like the ISIS signal. Here's a little bit more from Western Lensman. I mean it's just extraordinary. And this is about the other guy. So there were two of these guys that did it. Parents of ISIS, New York City bomb thrower, own a $2.5 million Pennsylvania home, are naturalized citizens from Afghanistan. So come to the US from a hostile foreign nation, live abundant lifestyle, gain citizenship. Kid radicalized to commit violence on behalf of hostile foreign ideology. New York City mayor repeatedly condemns white supremacy. Hard to count how many wrong things there are with this picture. This is, this is radically disturbing. Guys. How many more of these people are there of these kids who are being radicalized? We showed you a video, was it yesterday or the day before, of that Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, literally, who has, who has an audience of teenagers mostly? You know, These are gamers, 15 to 20 year olds literally telling them, don't bother with suicide bombs anymore. You can just buy suicide drones on Chinese websites. Like there is a radicalization that is taking place on the left right now that is absolutely extraordinary. And they're, they're so. Okay, so you've got these two clowns, these ISIS clowns who threw a bomb and somehow Zamdami Doordam, Daboni, whatever the is. Sorry, sorry. Damn. That's it. I lose 0.5 points. The highest the show can be today is a nine point. I don't do a 10, so we're. The best I can do today is a 9.4. Sorry, we should just end the broadcast. But you've got these guys, you've got the plain guy, like the Austin thing. Sixteen people shot at a nightclub in the name of Allah. When are we going to take care of this stuff? And the problem is that as many illegals as Donald Trump deports, which by the way, seems like it has slowed down over the last couple of weeks, as many as he deports. These are homegrown, these are second generation. Think about how crazy that is. These kids, one of them, their family came from Turkey. One of Them, their family came from Afghanistan. One lives in a million dollar home. One lives in a $2.5 million home. And they've become radicalized in America. How might you become radicalized in America? Well, if education keeps teaching you that America is evil, we're the evil empire. Our founding was based in slavery. Capitalism is evil. You're then watching streamers who are telling you how to build homemade suicide devices and bombs and drones and everything else. Like, we might have a much bigger problem on our hands. So what is the least we could do amidst all of this? Well, the least we could do is protect our borders and make sure that our elections are only for Americans. That would be pretty good. Check this out. This is a poll graphic which is showing that 71% of Americans support the Save America Act. And Republican majority prioritizes stopping voter fraud over ensuring no eligible voters are denied ballots. So the point here is most of us want secure elections. Most of us who voted for Donald Trump want secure borders. The Democrats not only flooded the country with illegals, but are now radicalizing homegrown terrorists while at the same time defunding dhs. Do you think this is. Do you think this is a bad combo? You're in science class in seventh grade. Remember in your. Your chemistry teachers, like, you know, you got a beaker and you got the green goo and you got the red stuff. And don't mix those two things, because something horrible might happen. That's basically what the Democrats are doing right now. And when a real massive terrorist attack hits, it will be very obvious who is to blame. And although they will blame Donald Trump in this administration, it will not be them. It will be on the Democrats who have radicalized people, who have flooded our cities, and who have broken so many brains so that people who come from privilege, the privilege that this kid living in a $2.5 million house decided to go to New York City and just kill some people for the hell of it. Absolutely insane. And speaking of insane, there's a late night quote, unquote comedian. His name is Jimmy Kimmel. He's often in blackface. He lies about COVID he lies about Donald Trump. He lies about half of America. And here he is lying about what the SAVE act is. Trump wants to make it as difficult for Democrats to vote as he possibly can under the guise of stopping voter fraud. Even though there is no meaningful voter fraud, there is no evidence that anyone can. More Americans were eaten by wolves last year than voted fraudulently. This is about fixing the election. He made a big mess in Iran, it looks like we bombed school and he's lying about it. There are three hour lines at the airport because Democrats want ICE agents to follow the same rules every other law enforcement officer has to follow. His poll numbers are abysmal. The price of gas is going through the roof. And of course there's that little manner of those allegations in the Trump Epstein files. And so to protect himself from losing the Senate and the House and probably getting impeached, he wants to change the rules of voting to make it more difficult for everyone, especially women, to vote. Man, there was a lot with that one. I mean that's that little, you know, I don't like to hold hatred in my heart. It's not good for you, it's not good for your arteries, it's not good for you spiritually and everything. But I do have just a little lockbox. Al Gore used to talk about a lockbox. I have a little lockbox, maybe a half a percent of my heart and I just hold hatred for that man. So many lies there. We did check zero Americans were eaten by wolves, so that's important to know. But of course it's not making it harder for Democrats or anyone else to vote. It would be that everyone would have the same exact rules, which would basically be IDs. Jimmy, do you want, when you get well, you fly private, so I don't know that you have to show an id, but regular people fly commercial and they have to show an ID when they get on the plane and for some reason you think that's okay, but voting, voting. And again, he's in Los Angeles where quite literally when I voted the last time I voted there before leaving, I didn't show an id. All I had to do was say my name and my address. So anyone who knew my name and my address could have voted. Right. I could have gone to the same exact polling station the day after during early voting. And I knew my neighbor's address and I knew my neighbor's name and I could have pretended to be him. So there's no voter fraud on top of mail in ballots and everything else. Completely, completely absurd. Let's end with comedian, an actual comedian, Rob Schneider, who was on Bill O'Reilly's show talking about why Jimmy Kimmel is just so terrible. Why do you think that the Trump administration is so vilified by the Kimmels, the Colbert's, the network news? Why do they hate him so much? I think it's liberal. Liberal women that have lost their minds are controlling these men and these guys have no more balls. Oh, I thought you said they changed. Kimmel has no balls. Kimmel is ballist. He's been d. Balled by his wife. His wife. His wife is the head writer of the show. She used to be an assistant writer. Now she's the writer. And I think that's completely ruined him. I do. I mean, I'm sorry, Jimmy, maybe I'm wrong, but I think. I think I'm. No, actually, Rob, what you're describing there. This is not a curse, but I am going to. This is a choice phrase that I'm going to say. This is a theory that I came up with a couple of years ago, which is the blowjob theory of politics, right? That a certain amount of men are basically ballpark sane or apolitical or maybe lean, a little conservative, or maybe voted for Donald Trump. But they'd like a blowjob perhaps once a month. And the only way they're gonna get that blowjob is if they act like a cuck. If they pretend that they have no beliefs so that their wife, who is more like a crazed Karen, is willing to do it. And that might sound over the top or something, but I think that actually explains a lot what's going on here. I don't know what Jimmy Kimmel believes. In the end doesn't matter. He's just a Hollywood construct who's paid an awful lot of money to insult half the country. But we're getting over it. We're getting over guys like him. And soon enough, we won't have to talk about guys like him because he won't have a job much longer either. Colbert's on his way out, and Kimmel obviously will be next. And if the project. You know, I mentioned beakers and chemistry before. I've been working. I was able. Don't ask how I did it. I probably shouldn't even say this right now because I'm not even sure it's legal. I was able to obtain one piece of Johnny Carson's hair. And using a scientific box that I received many years ago, I am now trying to regenerate Johnny Carson to bring him back to host a new. Well, we'll just leave that there. Thanks for watching. Postgame show 30 seconds. Rubinreport.locals.com. Foreign. Safeway and Albertsons have made saving easier than ever, with great savings on family favorites this week. 16 ounces sweet strawberries are two for $5 member price. And don't miss the incredible deal on Signature select boneless skinless chicken breast value packs for two 97 per pound limit. One plus medium avocados or mangoes are five for $5. Member Price Fresh and delicious savings for every meal. Hurry in. These deals won't last. 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