Cuba Collapses, Iran War Drags on, Pokemon Go Data Used to Build a Digital World

The Cameron Journal

Tonight on The Cameron Journal Newshour, we're doing a mega show where Cameron talks through a bunch of stories. We start with Joe Rogan's regrets about the instability of the world (which he helped create). We're talking about Israel and its crimes again gaza and how more and more people are calling out their apartheid state (I've been saying that since 2007). We also get into AI with Pokemon Go and the modern surveillance state that is being built before our very eyes. We also do updates on the Supreme Court and new cases. We also find out that right-wing people need certainty and can't handle ambiguity. We also go through China's threats to Taiwan in the midst of the crisis in Iran, and then we end on Iran with war updates and what comes next.

Transcript

00:01:06Hello, everyone.

00:01:07My name is Cameron Cowan.

00:01:08Welcome to the Cameron Jewel News Hour.

00:01:10This is my second live today.

00:01:13I, earlier today, was speaking with Zolal Habibi about the situation in Iran and the Iranian

00:01:19diaspora resistance movement and what things are like on the ground and what they're doing

00:01:24to try to overthrow the regime.

00:01:26If you missed that live, if you're on YouTube, Twitch, places like that, it's posted as the

00:01:32most recent video.

00:01:33I highly, highly encourage you to go take a look.

00:01:37It's very exciting.

00:01:41And so that was earlier.

00:01:43And then I had another recording with the delightful John Graham.

00:01:46We talked about business.

00:01:47We talked about negotiation, his books, his fiction, war, politics.

00:01:50We ended on a very intense conversation about globalization.

00:01:57So, yeah.

00:01:58Yeah.

00:01:59Um, just a lot of, um, a lot of stuff today.

00:02:04So I'm a little tired, a little wired.

00:02:06And there's so much.

00:02:08Like, there's just so much.

00:02:10We're not even starting with Iran.

00:02:12That's the end.

00:02:13We're starting with a bunch of other things, including the situation in Cuba, everything

00:02:17else.

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00:02:54my

00:02:54deeper dives.

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00:03:13and things like that, and all the videos get posted and all that sort of thing.

00:03:16So, it's a good place to be aware of.

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00:03:34out with, I'm posting articles from friends, things that I like, so if you want that end

00:03:39of things, social media is your best bet.

00:03:42So, with all that having been said, let's dive into the headlines, and we're gonna start

00:03:49right off the bat, um, boop, oh, we don't need that.

00:03:54That's from the end of The Living Joke last week.

00:03:56We're gonna start right off the bat.

00:03:58What are we even starting with?

00:03:59We are starting, oh, hmm, yeah.

00:04:02Um, we're gonna start with, uh, we're gonna start with, uh, the Supreme, we're gonna start,

00:04:08we're watching a video with Joe Rogan first.

00:04:11Um, and we're gonna call this segment Joe Rogan Regrets.

00:04:15Um, but we're also gonna get into the SCOTUS situation here quite shortly, so, um, because

00:04:21the Supreme Court has done some interesting things as of late, so let's, um, let's get

00:04:29into, let's get into it, because like I said, there's just so much going on.

00:04:33Um, so, um, there's a new clip out from Joe Rogan, who's saying, nothing seems stable,

00:04:41everywhere in the world seems fucked right now, in all my years, this seems the most unstable

00:04:46globally.

00:04:47And, um, yeah, and this person's kind of like, oh, how that could that have happened?

00:04:52Well, we all know.

00:04:54So, let's just, let's just listen to Rogan Regret for a moment.

00:04:59Yeah.

00:04:59Yeah, well, a lot of things, you know, it's just, nothing seems stable, everywhere, everywhere

00:05:07in the world seems fucked right now.

00:05:09Like, this is the, like, in all of my years, this seems the most unstable globally.

00:05:16Yeah.

00:05:17Well, a lot of things.

00:05:19I mean, it's, you know, a lot of, uh, a lot of, a lot of things.

00:05:29Things have happened.

00:05:31Um, I think, I, I think guys like Joe Rogan, I mean, I don't even necessarily fault him

00:05:40for this dance.

00:05:41I think, like many Americans, he's deeply pragmatic.

00:05:45Eh, this isn't working time per change.

00:05:47Oh, that doesn't seem so good.

00:05:49Best pull back, you know, sort of thing.

00:05:51Not understanding.

00:05:57There are some lines you cross you can't come back from.

00:06:00Um, and he, like me, has had a parade of people on the show, you know, saying different things,

00:06:07asking open questions, all this type of thing.

00:06:10He obviously has a much larger platform than I do.

00:06:13Um, my, my, you know, my, my weekly downloads, um, you know, are his minute download.

00:06:22You know, what I do, what I do in a week, he does in 10 minutes.

00:06:24But, um, I just, you know, um, it's, it's kind of, like, the last, like, six months or

00:06:33so, he's, like, a lot of these guys have been a little, oh, I guess this wasn't such a good

00:06:38idea.

00:06:38And it's like, yeah, people said that.

00:06:40But you wanted to try it anyway.

00:06:42You wanted to go down this road anyway.

00:06:45You wanted to see what this could be anyway.

00:06:47And now you're kind of like, oh, everything seems unstable.

00:06:52Like, it seems like every, it's like, yeah.

00:06:54And some of this stuff would have happened regardless of who you voted for in 2024.

00:06:58But especially with someone of his size, you can't not deny his influence on all of this

00:07:06because of the platforms that, the platform that he has.

00:07:08But honestly, but the other half of that coin is, congratulations, the median American voter.

00:07:15I mean, seriously, congratulations, the median American voter.

00:07:18Because that's, I think, where a lot of people are at to be kind of like, oh, things seem

00:07:21to get a little out of hand.

00:07:22And I think this is why, like, the standard, like, the clarion call, even as early as the

00:07:31midterms, and certainly by 2028, will be for, you know, people be kind of like, oh, well,

00:07:37I hope the Democrats can come in and, you know, and fix this stuff and all this, you know,

00:07:42all this type of thing.

00:07:44Um, you know, and it was funny because someone said the other day, it's like, I really feel,

00:07:48you know, I'm a social liberal and a fiscal conservative.

00:07:51And I said, yeah, congratulations, you're the American voter.

00:07:53Those things don't go together, by the way.

00:07:55You can't be fiscally conservative and socially liberal.

00:07:58It's not possible.

00:08:00Um, if you want to be socially liberal, you have to be socially, you have to be fiscally

00:08:05so, you have to be fiscally liberal too.

00:08:07Um, but, and that's, and that's why I think people struggle with getting what they want

00:08:12out of politics because they want things that don't go together.

00:08:17Like, they're looking for a, okay, everyone does what they want and there's these social

00:08:23issues, but those social people never ask for any rights or any programs or flex their political

00:08:28power in any way.

00:08:29Um, they certainly don't cost us any money.

00:08:31I don't want to, you know, it's like trans people can exist, but I don't want to, I don't

00:08:34want to give them money.

00:08:35You know, so they're like, people want things that don't go together and the socially liberal

00:08:43fiscal conservative one, which is literally the median American voter.

00:08:48It's not possible.

00:08:50Um, and it's not practical in any sort of representative democracy.

00:08:54When you let people at the table, those people are going to ask for things that they're going

00:08:59to be kind of like, okay, we're here now.

00:09:02We've come a long way.

00:09:03Hey, there's inequalities, there's injustice.

00:09:05We want to do something about that.

00:09:06People are kind of like, yeah, but only as it doesn't cause anything or cause us to actually

00:09:11do any change.

00:09:13And people who've been working in the civil rights movement and in racial inequality and

00:09:16things that have known this for decades, Malcolm X once famously, I'm sorry, it was an okay

00:09:21that said the most dangerous thing was well, meeting liberal, white liberal people.

00:09:25Um, this is the same thing.

00:09:27And so when someone like Rogan comes along and is like, oh, nothing seems stable.

00:09:32Everything seems weird.

00:09:33This is the most unstable.

00:09:34All of a sudden it's like, yeah.

00:09:35And people told you what would happen.

00:09:41I don't, it's hard to feel good about the Rogan regret when it's like, it's not like you

00:09:48weren't told.

00:09:50It's not like people didn't say things, you know, and I get where he's coming from.

00:09:55I listen, I'm not the biggest fan of the democratic party or who they've been running for the last

00:09:59several cycles.

00:10:00When Biden was announced, I'm like, oh God, they're going to be Joe Biden.

00:10:03Ugh.

00:10:04You know, I did, I only voted for, I only voted for Obama once.

00:10:07Like, you know, sort of thing.

00:10:08I was like, it's, I get where he's coming from, but he also has, you know, his daily listener

00:10:16count is a hundred times my weekly listener count.

00:10:20And I feel like I would say, you know, yeah, I'm sorry you feel that way, Joe, but, uh,

00:10:27you know, you've helped make this possible.

00:10:30You've helped make this happen.

00:10:31You got behind someone who made no secrets of bones about what he was going to do.

00:10:35And he has implemented almost all of it.

00:10:38Project 2025, 52% complete.

00:10:40You know, all this, it's like, it's like, that's, you know, it's all out there.

00:10:44You had all the information and knowledge, but you caught a vibe.

00:10:48And I appreciate a good vibe, but you caught a vibe.

00:10:51And now we've led us into the, you know, into the shit.

00:10:55And the person who posted this had a, I love their comment.

00:10:59White Americans have been worshiping Reagan and small government for the past 45 years,

00:11:02kissing the feet of sociopathic tech folks for the past 25, praying to the military for

00:11:06the past 250, and hating public services since black folks got access to them in 65.

00:11:11Miss me with the how act.

00:11:13Like, yeah, I mean, it's, you know, it is a, uh, it is all part of the, uh, the, the

00:11:21regret

00:11:21syndrome that is so here and so present.

00:11:25So I'm not going to spend much more time on that because we have a ton to get to.

00:11:30Um, so let's, let's move on quickly to the next segment, which is SCOTUS update.

00:11:38SCOTUS update.

00:11:40Here we go.

00:11:41Um, so I've been having this, I've had this story for a little bit.

00:11:44This is from what, March 30th?

00:11:47Yeah.

00:11:47Cause even so busy.

00:11:48I just even haven't had, I haven't had time.

00:11:51Oh, this is Vox.

00:11:52I got to go do the other, the other thing.

00:11:55Um, I need to go get this in Apple, Apple News.

00:11:59Hang on.

00:12:00Uh, we'll copy that.

00:12:03We'll go down here to Apple News where I have a membership for exactly this moment.

00:12:09And we will paste that in here.

00:12:12Um, there's, I actually have a couple articles in here about, uh, the Republican Party's issues

00:12:17with Hitler and all this type of thing, which we're not going to read tonight.

00:12:20But one of these days we'll go through my book remarks and we'll go through the book.

00:12:23Anyway.

00:12:25So, uh, the Supreme Court Republicans just seized the most dangerous power in constitutional

00:12:29law.

00:12:29The court's latest ruling invokes a power that corrupts every court but wields it.

00:12:33The Supreme Court's Republican majority just did the legal equivalent of grabbing J.R.

00:12:37Tolkien's one ring, placing it on their collective fingers, and dancing around singing, I just

00:12:41can't wait to become a Nazgul.

00:12:43On Monday evening, the court handed down Mirabelli v. Bonta, with all six of the court's Republicans

00:12:49in the majority and all three Democrats in dissent.

00:12:51Republican Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Lito also signaled they thought it was too

00:12:55moderate.

00:12:56Mirabelli is one of the most consequential constitutional decisions the Roberts Court has ever handed

00:13:00down.

00:13:01The immediate impact of Mirabelli is that California public school teachers must out transgender

00:13:06students to their parents, even if the students wish to keep their gender identity secret

00:13:11from their family.

00:13:11While the court's decision in Mirabelli is short and does not fully explain itself, the

00:13:16Republican majority appears to object to a California state law which provides that

00:13:20public school employees, quote, shall not be required to disclose any information related

00:13:24to a pupil's sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to any other person without

00:13:30the pupil's consent on what's otherwise required by state or federal law, unquote.

00:13:34To reach this outcome, the Republican Justices cite two provisions of the Constitution.

00:13:38The first is the First Amendment's language protecting the free exercise of religion.

00:13:42The Republican Justices claim that teachers who respect their trans students' privacy interfere

00:13:46with the right of parents to guide the religious development of their children.

00:13:49The first part of the court's decision is likely to impose impossible obligations on

00:13:53public schools and their employees.

00:13:55Our teachers are now required to tell parents any time a student does something their parents

00:13:58might object to on religious grounds, such as eating non-kosher food, removing a hijab,

00:14:02or dating a classmate.

00:14:03But this first aspect of the court's decision in Mirabelli is the least consistent with the

00:14:07Republican Justice's prior cases interpreting the free exercise clause.

00:14:10Last June, in Mahmood v. Taylor, the Republican Justice ruled that public schools must inform

00:14:15parents in advance if they plan to teach books with LGBTQ characters or themes and allow those

00:14:20parents to remove their child from those lessons.

00:14:23Since Justice Amy Coney Bear's 2020 confirmation gave Republicans a supermajority, the court has

00:14:27been extraordinarily sympathetic to claims brought by the religious right.

00:14:30The second part of the court's Mirabelli decision is where the Republican Justice grasped

00:14:34the one ring, a legal doctrine called substantive due process, which judges can use to create

00:14:39constitutional rights not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution.

00:14:42In the early 20th century, when economic conservatives were ascended on the federal bench, the Supreme

00:14:46Court used substantive due process to invent a right to contract that the justices used to

00:14:52strike down workplace legislation, such as minimum wage laws and laws protecting the right to

00:14:56unionize.

00:14:56In the 60s and 70s, when cultural liberalism was ascended among legal elites, the justices

00:15:01invented a right to privacy that encompassed various sexual freedoms, including the right

00:15:04to an abortion.

00:15:06Modern-day Republican justices, largely due to their revulsion against Roe v. Wade, were

00:15:10previously vocal critics of substantive due process.

00:15:13Indeed, in her Mirabelli dissent, Justice Elena Kagan quotes several of her own Republican

00:15:18colleagues railing against this legal doctrine.

00:15:20Thomas, for example, wrote in 2015 that substantive due process is a, quote, dangerous fiction, unquote,

00:15:25that allows judges to roam at large in the constitutional field, guided only by their personal views.

00:15:32Similarly, Justice Neil Gorsuch warned in a 2018 opinion that judicial misuse of the so-called

00:15:37substantive component of due process enables judges to dictate policy on matters that belong

00:15:41to the people to decide.

00:15:43For what it's worth, I agree with Thomas and Gorsuch in the 2020 essay entitled The Uncomfortable

00:15:47Problem with Roe v. Wade, although I also argued in that piece that rights such as the right

00:15:52to an abortion and to marrying a person of the same sex, which the court previously grounded

00:15:55in substantive due process, could instead be found within the Constitution's guarantee

00:15:59that no one be denied equal protection of the law.

00:16:02But the widespread anti-trans panic among Republicans appears to have inspired all six of the GOP-appointed

00:16:06justices to abandon their past critiques of substantive due process and proudly wear the one ring.

00:16:11The practical upshot is that the court's Republicans may now use this most dangerous of legal doctrines

00:16:16to strike down literally any law or to otherwise impose their personal preferences on the nation.

00:16:23And then it goes into some other history and whatnot that we will not read right now because we're busy.

00:16:27Things are happening.

00:16:29And I also, besides that, oh, that's, there's another, I had another Supreme Court.

00:16:37Ah, here it is.

00:16:38It was just one tab over.

00:16:41So that's Mirabelli and schools will not be required to tell parents if they are going,

00:16:47if their child is changing gender identity or anything like that,

00:16:51um, or even are gay or dating a class or whatever have you, um,

00:16:57it, it, you know, removes that California law and now makes a new, a new legal rule.

00:17:02I imagine there will be further lawsuits at the lower level, um, of parents suing school districts

00:17:07when, if they don't report, you know, all this sort of thing.

00:17:10Um, speaking of SCOTUS news though, um,

00:17:14the Supreme Court declined to hear a dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material.

00:17:19It says here,

00:17:20The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up the issue of whether art generated by artificial intelligence

00:17:25can be copyrighted under U.S. law,

00:17:27turning away a case involving a computer scientist from Missouri

00:17:30who was denied a copyright for a piece of visual art made by his AI system.

00:17:34Plaintiff Stephen Fowler had appeared to the justice after lower courts upheld a U.S. Copyright Office decision

00:17:39that the AI-crafted visual art issue was in the case was ineligible for copyright protection

00:17:44because it did not have a human creator.

00:17:48Thawler, of course, of St. Charles, Missouri,

00:17:51applied for a federal copyright registration in 2018 covering, quote,

00:17:54a recent entrance to paradise of visual art he said his AI technology, DABUS, created.

00:17:59The image shows train tracks entering a portal surrounded by what appears to be a green and purple plant imagery.

00:18:03The Copyright Office rejected his application in 2022,

00:18:06finding that creative works must have human authors to be eligible to receive a copyright.

00:18:10U.S. President Donald Trump's administration had urged the Supreme Court not to hear Thawler's appeal.

00:18:14The Copyright Office has separately rejected bids by artists for copyrights on images generated by the AI system mid-journey.

00:18:19Those artists argue that they were entitled to copyrights for images they created with AI assistants,

00:18:24unlike Thawler, who said his system created a recent entrance to paradise independently.

00:18:29A federal judge in Washington upheld the office's decision in the Thawler case in 2023,

00:18:33writing that human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright.

00:18:36The U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed the ruling in 2025.

00:18:40Thawler's lawyers told the Supreme Court in a filing that this case was of paramount importance,

00:18:44considering the rapid rise of generative AI.

00:18:46With a refusal by the court to hear the appeal, Thawler's lawyers said,

00:18:49even if it later overturns the Copyright Office test in another case, it will be too late.

00:18:54The Copyright Office will have irreversibly and negatively impacted AI development

00:18:57and use in the creative industry during critically important years.

00:19:01Although the Copyright Act does not define the term author,

00:19:04multiple provisions of the Act make clear that the terms refer to human rather than a machine the administration said.

00:19:09The Supreme Court previously rejected the appeal is requested to hear his argument

00:19:12in a separate case involving prototypes for a beverage holder and a light beacon

00:19:15concerning whether AI-generated inventions could be eligible for U.S. patent protection.

00:19:20His patent applications were rejected by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on similar grounds.

00:19:25So it appears that if you are making images using AI, you can't copyright them.

00:19:34Now, I wonder, you know, as someone who also works in book publishing,

00:19:40where AI for covers and images and things like that is becoming industry standard,

00:19:49I wonder if that also applies.

00:19:54I think it does.

00:19:55I mean, I think it really says, you know, if you are using AI to make stuff that can't be

00:20:02copyrighted,

00:20:02it can be, you know, used by someone else, you know, in the same way.

00:20:07Which, you know, if you're in a business where you're creating, you know,

00:20:10exclusive content for products using AI and you're concerned about the copyright protection,

00:20:16you're out of luck.

00:20:17So, before we move on, we're going to stop by, have a psychology minute,

00:20:25and we're going to talk about the psychology of the far right.

00:20:34And I thought this was interesting from SciPost, where they say, quite fascinatingly,

00:20:41that a new study published in the Journal of Personality and Individual Differences

00:20:45suggests that a person's ability to handle uncertain situations plays a role in their political choices.

00:20:51The research provides evidence that people who struggle with the ambiguity tend to favor rigid ideologies,

00:20:56which, in turn, increases their likelihood of supporting radical right political parties.

00:21:01These findings highlight how basic psychological responses to an increasingly complex world

00:21:06can shape broader political movements.

00:21:08Past research hints that broad personality traits influence voting behavior,

00:21:12but the exact pathway has remained somewhat unclear.

00:21:14To explore this dynamic, the researchers focus on a psychological concept called tolerance for ambiguity.

00:21:20Tolerance for ambiguity refers to how well a person can process complex,

00:21:23contradicting or unfamiliar information, without feeling threatened.

00:21:27People with a high tolerance for ambiguity generally accept that the world is messy and complicated.

00:21:32Those with a low tolerance for ambiguity tend to prefer black and white thinking,

00:21:35seeking out clear rules and simple answers.

00:21:37The scientists proposed that this specific psychological trait acts as a bridge

00:21:41between foundational personality traits and political ideology.

00:21:44This study was inspired by both the theoretical gap and real-world developments.

00:21:48While previous research suggests that personality traits are indirectly related to support for radical right parties,

00:21:53the psychological mechanism behind this link remained unclear, said study sent authors.

00:21:58Almuth Lietz, a research associate at the German Center for Integration and Migration Research,

00:22:01and a doctoral candidate at Goethe University in Frankfurt.

00:22:04And Sabrina Jasmin Mayer, a political sociology professor at the University of Bamberg.

00:22:08Quote,

00:22:08We aim to address this by proposing tolerance for ambiguity as a mediating factor.

00:22:12At the same time, the rise of the radical right parties, such as the Alternative for Germany, AFD,

00:22:17highlights the societal importance of understanding how people cope with uncertainty in complex social and political contexts.

00:22:23They based their work on the psychological entropy theory.

00:22:26This scientific theory suggests that human personality is deeply shaped by how individuals manage uncertainty and the anxiety it brings.

00:22:32According to this framework, an unpredictable world creates a sense of psychological disorder.

00:22:37People are motivated to reduce this disorder to feel secure.

00:22:40The researchers hypothesize that individuals who are less tolerant of ambiguity develop a strong need for certainty.

00:22:47This desire for clarity might make right-wing authoritarianism, anti-immigrant sentiments, and populist attitudes highly appealing to them.

00:22:54Right-wing authoritarianism is an ideological stance characterized by strict obedience to traditional authorities,

00:22:59aggressive feelings towards those who break social norms, and a strong preference for conventional morals.

00:23:03Populist attitudes involve a specific worldview that favors popular sovereignty and sees society as divided into two warring groups.

00:23:10I didn't need a study to tell you this.

00:23:13This, I mean, I'm so glad we have it.

00:23:16But I didn't need a study to say this.

00:23:19Yes, the reason why, and this is the same thing that happens, you know, in college a lot.

00:23:26People are like, colleges are indoctrinating our kids.

00:23:28No, your kids finally met someone that was outside of the bubble of the people that you had them around,

00:23:34or your neighborhood, or your school.

00:23:35They're meeting people from different backgrounds, and their minds are young and flexible,

00:23:39and they're realizing the world is bigger and more complicated than what you set them up for,

00:23:45and they're now adding that into their thinking and their perspective.

00:23:49And the military oftentimes has a similar effect, because it's people from diverse locations,

00:23:56diverse backgrounds, with diverse opinions.

00:23:59A lot of people, and this gets even into, like, the big sort, which is an interview I did 10

00:24:04years ago now,

00:24:05where this guy said, no, like, we're literally physically, Democrats and Republicans,

00:24:09and this is before Trump, Democrats and Republicans are physically moving away from each other.

00:24:13Like, actually, we do not live in the same locations.

00:24:17And he said, you know, yeah, and he's like, it can be a little of those people driving around a

00:24:21neighborhood,

00:24:21and it's not even an overt thing.

00:24:23It can just be the vibes don't feel right, and they go to the next house where things feel right.

00:24:28And so people tend to live and create situations in which they're the most comfortable,

00:24:36people are the most similar, whatever have you, and they raise their kids in that environment.

00:24:39Then when the kids go out and discover a whole world outside of that bubble,

00:24:44which definitely was me because I grew up very sheltered, outside of that bubble,

00:24:48then all of a sudden their opinions and views change, and people are kind of like,

00:24:53oh, my God, what's happened to my kids?

00:24:55Nothing.

00:24:55They saw the world.

00:24:57You know, they learned about the world.

00:24:59They expanded their minds.

00:25:01And that's why, you know, and again, you know, if the non-college educated, you know,

00:25:06are tending to vote more Republican now because it offers easy solutions to a complicated world.

00:25:11It really is that simple.

00:25:14It's easy solutions to a complicated world, and someone like Trump, I mean, it's in the language of Trump.

00:25:21Only I can fix it.

00:25:22Remember that?

00:25:27Psychological need for certainty.

00:25:30It's, it, they say it out loud.

00:25:34We didn't need a study to know this, but I thought I would read it and mention it

00:25:37because it explains a great deal of why we get to where we get.

00:25:41But I also agree, you know, I saw a clip from Marc Maron last night.

00:25:46He said, progressives have got to do something.

00:25:48We have got to be, like, friendly, cool people again.

00:25:52We have spent the last decade becoming the biggest, loudest kill choice

00:25:56and just annoying everybody.

00:25:57There's no one they don't want to vote for us.

00:25:59That's a whole separate problem.

00:26:01But that psychological need for certainty is a big factor in this whole conversation.

00:26:06All right.

00:26:08Let's move on.

00:26:10Oh, yes.

00:26:11The doge situation.

00:26:14Okay.

00:26:15I actually want to read this one.

00:26:17Yes.

00:26:17I want to read this one first.

00:26:18So, let me change my graphic.

00:26:23So, there's a legal case against the doge people right now,

00:26:27and there was a deposition.

00:26:32And the videos of the depositions have come out,

00:26:36and it's quite sad.

00:26:40So, let me go through this first.

00:26:45So, this person said,

00:26:48Doge collapsed because it was built on the false assumption

00:26:51that waste is a bug in the political system,

00:26:53which is meant to govern the country efficiently.

00:26:56Waste is actually the purpose of the political system,

00:26:58and governing the country efficiently is an unintentional bug

00:27:01that the system is busy fixing.

00:27:04Political systems just collect more and more and more parasites over time.

00:27:07Eventually, almost everyone has a parasite in some way,

00:27:10and the only people trying to use the system honestly

00:27:12are getting crushed under the weight of a billion parasites.

00:27:15Elon looked inside all the databases and systems

00:27:17and realized how bad things already were

00:27:19and gave up on fixing politics and is now fully focused on AI,

00:27:22which I think is the correct move.

00:27:27Um, I am, uh, yeah.

00:27:33This is all wrong, but this is the attitude.

00:27:35If you want to understand why people cared about Doge,

00:27:39this is the attitude.

00:27:41It's all waste.

00:27:42And I hear this now.

00:27:43It's all, it's waste.

00:27:44It's corrupt.

00:27:45We have so much, all this type of thing.

00:27:47Social programs, because there's so much oversight,

00:27:50tend to be some of the most efficient programs.

00:27:54I said at the time, if Doge wants to find waste,

00:27:56they need to go to two locations,

00:27:58Medicare and defense.

00:28:00Pentagon can't pass an audit.

00:28:02Haven't in a decade.

00:28:03There's a hundred billion dollars of Medicare fraud

00:28:06that we know of.

00:28:08Doesn't even get what we don't know.

00:28:09That we know of.

00:28:11If you want to go find waste and inefficiencies,

00:28:14those are the places to go.

00:28:15Doge never went there,

00:28:16because that wasn't Doge's point.

00:28:19Now, this comment here is very interesting,

00:28:21because it says,

00:28:21That contradicts Elon's own statements

00:28:23and that have the Doge team.

00:28:26Elon said he had identified and cut billions

00:28:28in wasted spending,

00:28:29like national park surveys.

00:28:30Turns out he was just lying.

00:28:32There were no $150 million fake people

00:28:34getting assets in our $100 billion parks and surveys.

00:28:36Same pattern he's used in business.

00:28:37Some businesses' leaders like Elon

00:28:38are parallels to politicians

00:28:40seeking inefficiency and corruption for extraction.

00:28:43Waste could be cut by someone

00:28:44who actually wanted to care about cutting it.

00:28:45That was never Elon's real goal.

00:28:47And it never was.

00:28:48Because the whole point of Doge

00:28:50was to get rid of the programs

00:28:52the Republican Party

00:28:54has been trying to kill in Congress for decades.

00:28:58That's why none of us were surprised

00:28:59when we went after the NEA or PBS or anything like that,

00:29:03because some of us are alive in the 90s

00:29:05from when Newt Gingrich was trying to get rid of that stuff.

00:29:07Some of us are alive for the Bush administration

00:29:08when they were trying to get rid of that stuff.

00:29:09They finally got their wish.

00:29:13That's kind of the thing with Project 2025

00:29:16and Doge and all this type of thing,

00:29:18is in Trump,

00:29:20the Republican Party

00:29:22is getting a wish list

00:29:24they've had since at least 1994

00:29:26and probably before that.

00:29:29And they are finally getting it all.

00:29:33They have stripped government out

00:29:36the way they've always wanted to.

00:29:37They have ended the silly programs

00:29:39the way they've always wanted to.

00:29:40Not a single thing they're doing is new.

00:29:43Not one.

00:29:47I'm surprised with the lack of legality

00:29:49and constitutionality of it,

00:29:50but I think that was the point.

00:29:51They could never find a constitutional

00:29:53or political way to get it done,

00:29:55so they found a way to do it illegally.

00:29:57And that was the actual point of Doge.

00:30:01Now, with all of that in mind,

00:30:03let's watch this clip.

00:30:07Just watch.

00:30:08You don't regret that people

00:30:10might have lost important income

00:30:12to support their lives?

00:30:16No.

00:30:17I think it was more important

00:30:18to reduce the federal deficit

00:30:19from $2 trillion to close to zero.

00:30:22Did you reduce the federal deficit?

00:30:24No, we didn't.

00:30:25This is a history of the HIV-AIDS prison movement

00:30:28and its legacies in the United States.

00:30:30My book, Project, narrates how activists

00:30:32fought the convergence of HIV-AIDS

00:30:34and incarceration from inside and outside prisons

00:30:36across the Reagan through Clinton years

00:30:38and argues that this organizing

00:30:41holds legacies in the prison abolition movement

00:30:44of the 1990s to today.

00:30:46This is one of the grants that you or Mr. Fox

00:30:49identified as craziest in any age.

00:30:51Is that right?

00:30:52That's right.

00:30:52Why did you identify this

00:30:54as one of the craziest grants?

00:30:56Because it references feminist and queer insights

00:31:01into prison abolition and LGBTQ studies.

00:31:07Any other reasons?

00:31:10No.

00:31:11Examining military service from the margins,

00:31:13the complicated service discussion series

00:31:15will bring together veterans and community members

00:31:17to examine the experiences of service members

00:31:19who identify themselves as female, black,

00:31:22Native American, LGBTQ, or an immigrant

00:31:26and the dynamics, reasoning, and strength

00:31:28behind serving a country

00:31:30that does not always serve you in return.

00:31:33Did I read that correctly?

00:31:36Yes.

00:31:37You and Mr. Fox identified this

00:31:39as one of the craziest grants at any age?

00:31:41Yes, it appears so.

00:31:43Why did you do that?

00:31:45Because it explicitly says LGBTQ.

00:31:49Do you have any history in, like, let's say,

00:31:52scholarly peer review?

00:31:55No.

00:31:55Okay.

00:31:56So, but this judgment call was made by you

00:31:59and your personal judgment,

00:32:00combined with Justin's personal judgment,

00:32:02to cancel grants based on DEI?

00:32:06Yes.

00:32:06Okay.

00:32:08Do you think it's inappropriate in any way

00:32:11that someone in their 20s

00:32:13with no experience with grants

00:32:16for federal government

00:32:17was making personal judgment calls

00:32:19about what grants to cancel?

00:32:20Jackson?

00:32:21Um, no, I don't think it's inappropriate.

00:32:24Okay.

00:32:25Why not?

00:32:27Jackson?

00:32:29Jackson?

00:32:32Um, I think

00:32:35a person can have enough judgment

00:32:37from reading books

00:32:39and being well-informed

00:32:40outside of traditional experience

00:32:41to make judgment calls

00:32:43about obvious things

00:32:44like a grant that literally lists

00:32:47DEI in its description

00:32:48to know whether it violates

00:32:49an executive order.

00:32:50You just, I'm sorry,

00:32:52I'm saying books

00:32:52because you said books.

00:32:53What books would you have read

00:32:54that would have informed your opinion

00:32:55on what grants to cancel

00:32:56based on DEI?

00:32:58There were no books.

00:33:05For your consideration,

00:33:09like, just literally,

00:33:11for your consideration,

00:33:13um,

00:33:19this team of people

00:33:22gutted

00:33:26programs

00:33:26throughout the federal government,

00:33:28grants throughout

00:33:28the federal government,

00:33:30they have wrecked lives,

00:33:31they have wrecked careers,

00:33:33they have wrecked agencies,

00:33:34they have set

00:33:35research back,

00:33:37and that's just

00:33:37the low-hanging humanity stuff.

00:33:39We'll not get into NIH

00:33:41and the setbacks

00:33:41in Alzheimer's research,

00:33:43cancer research,

00:33:44all this type of,

00:33:44I mean,

00:33:45it's,

00:33:46this was the attitude.

00:33:49And with AI,

00:33:50they were just looking

00:33:51through the titles.

00:33:51They didn't even read

00:33:52the grant,

00:33:53look at any of the metrics

00:33:54for why the grant was given out,

00:33:55what the grant procedures were,

00:33:56no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:33:58They didn't do any of that.

00:34:00Nothing.

00:34:01They looked at the title,

00:34:02they saw ideological

00:34:03that they didn't like,

00:34:04and it was cut.

00:34:09Now, you,

00:34:10I'm sure my audience

00:34:11will have multiple thoughts

00:34:13about that,

00:34:13and many of you will say,

00:34:14thank God they did it,

00:34:15that was a good thing.

00:34:17To which I would say,

00:34:19okay, fair enough,

00:34:21I don't agree,

00:34:23but I'll tell you why.

00:34:27There are lots of things

00:34:30in a society

00:34:31as large and diverse as ours

00:34:33that are worth funding

00:34:35and worth doing

00:34:35that may not necessarily

00:34:37apply to you,

00:34:38but that doesn't mean

00:34:39it's not worth doing

00:34:40or isn't important

00:34:41to the communities involved.

00:34:42Remember earlier

00:34:43how I said

00:34:44you can't be socially liberal

00:34:45and fiscally conservative,

00:34:46those two things

00:34:47don't actually go together,

00:34:48which is part of the reason

00:34:49why our politics are broken.

00:34:50People want a society

00:34:52that literally isn't possible.

00:34:57And this is an example of,

00:34:59you know,

00:35:00if you put a lot of the stuff

00:35:01to the American people,

00:35:02a lot of people would say,

00:35:02oh, that's pointless,

00:35:03that's stupid,

00:35:04why on earth are we paying for this?

00:35:05Oh, my tax dollars at work,

00:35:07all this type of thing.

00:35:08And I would say,

00:35:09okay, yeah,

00:35:10for you,

00:35:11this doesn't matter,

00:35:12but for the communities

00:35:14who took the time

00:35:15to apply to the grant,

00:35:17meet the requirements

00:35:17and put that together,

00:35:18it was everything.

00:35:21It's how culture gets preserved.

00:35:24It's how our society

00:35:26continues to continue.

00:35:29Believe it or not,

00:35:30unfortunately,

00:35:30this stuff matters.

00:35:34And you cannot replace

00:35:35all of this

00:35:36with private donation

00:35:37and charity.

00:35:38There's not enough of it.

00:35:40And you know how I know?

00:35:41Because we used to have that

00:35:42before World War II.

00:35:44Of all the things

00:35:46they did during the New Deal,

00:35:48which is not just the TVA

00:35:49and not just the Hoover Dam

00:35:52or the WPA projects

00:35:54or anything else,

00:35:55it was the art.

00:35:58The murals that got painted.

00:36:01Dorothea Lange got paid

00:36:02to go take photographs.

00:36:05All,

00:36:05there was wonderful art

00:36:08created,

00:36:09paid for by the federal government

00:36:12as a way to employ

00:36:14photographers,

00:36:15artists,

00:36:16mural painters,

00:36:17all this type of thing

00:36:17so that not only

00:36:18were we developing our country,

00:36:20but we also made it beautiful.

00:36:23And so when we fund these things,

00:36:25our society becomes richer,

00:36:27deeper,

00:36:28and better over time.

00:36:30And the wonderful thing is

00:36:32we've gotten to live

00:36:33in the legacy of people

00:36:35who did great

00:36:35and wonderful

00:36:36and amazing things

00:36:37until people decided,

00:36:40eh,

00:36:41eh,

00:36:42and it became

00:36:43a polarized issue.

00:36:46Now,

00:36:47I laugh that,

00:36:49you know,

00:36:49I was doing some

00:36:51pretty extraordinary things

00:36:53when I was 24 years old.

00:36:54By the time I was 24 years old,

00:36:57I already had a master's degree

00:36:58in international relations.

00:37:01I had already

00:37:01completed an undergrad degree.

00:37:02I had already worked

00:37:03in state government.

00:37:03I had already ran

00:37:05and left a magazine

00:37:06by that time.

00:37:08By the time I was 24,

00:37:09I was in the middle

00:37:10of running another magazine,

00:37:11and I had already produced

00:37:12a major theater show

00:37:14on top of a career in music,

00:37:16a career in stand-up comedy,

00:37:17being a working gig musician,

00:37:19having been a freelancer,

00:37:20having worked in marketing.

00:37:21I had done a lot

00:37:22by the time I was 24 years old,

00:37:23but I guarantee you

00:37:27no one

00:37:28should have put me

00:37:29in charge

00:37:30of making decisions

00:37:31about grants

00:37:32based upon words

00:37:33and titles

00:37:33and keywords.

00:37:35And I don't care

00:37:36where you are

00:37:37politically aligned

00:37:37on all of that.

00:37:38That was just simply

00:37:39a very dangerous idea,

00:37:40but that loops back

00:37:41to my original point.

00:37:43The point of Doge

00:37:45was never to save money.

00:37:48It was never

00:37:50to try to reduce

00:37:51the deficit

00:37:52because they failed

00:37:53at it miserably.

00:37:54The point

00:37:55was to get rid

00:37:56of all the programs

00:37:57the Republican Party

00:37:58has been trying

00:37:58to get rid of

00:37:59for 30 years.

00:38:00And,

00:38:01in the blatant words

00:38:03of some people,

00:38:04it had a lot to do

00:38:05with reducing

00:38:06the power base

00:38:07of the Democratic Party.

00:38:10Cut off the money,

00:38:11cut off the funding,

00:38:12cut off the people,

00:38:12all this type of thing,

00:38:13and you degrade

00:38:14the power

00:38:15of the Democratic Party.

00:38:17It's infinite game.

00:38:19infinite game.

00:38:20You keep doing,

00:38:21you keep probing,

00:38:22and now they're getting

00:38:23everything they ever wanted.

00:38:25Everything they ever wanted.

00:38:28Everything.

00:38:29Which gets us

00:38:30into Iran,

00:38:30which we're not

00:38:31going to talk about yet,

00:38:31but hang on with that.

00:38:32So,

00:38:33that's the downfall

00:38:34of Doge

00:38:34and all this other thing.

00:38:35These videos are around

00:38:39all this sort of thing.

00:38:40Um,

00:38:41it's,

00:38:43and,

00:38:43uh,

00:38:44and that,

00:38:44you know,

00:38:45it's a,

00:38:46it's a,

00:38:47the videos are around

00:38:48if you want to go

00:38:49watch more of them.

00:38:51It's pretty galling

00:38:52to see,

00:38:53honestly.

00:38:54Like,

00:38:55you know,

00:38:55your grant was eliminated

00:38:56by someone

00:38:57born in 2001.

00:38:59That's just depressing.

00:39:01Anyway.

00:39:02Um,

00:39:03we'll let this one go.

00:39:04Ah,

00:39:04yes,

00:39:05GitHub

00:39:05and AI.

00:39:08This is good.

00:39:09I can tell we're not

00:39:09going to get to all

00:39:10these stories tonight.

00:39:12Although,

00:39:13I might have to get

00:39:14into Iran

00:39:15because,

00:39:16how could we not?

00:39:17Anyway.

00:39:18Um,

00:39:21uh,

00:39:21so,

00:39:21apparently we have

00:39:22a little bit of a problem

00:39:23with an artist technical article.

00:39:25We'll bounce into that quickly.

00:39:27Um,

00:39:28a supply,

00:39:28a supply chain attack

00:39:29using invisible code

00:39:31hits GitHub.

00:39:33Oh,

00:39:33excuse me.

00:39:35and other repositories.

00:39:38Researchers say

00:39:39they've discovered

00:39:40a supply chain

00:39:41attack

00:39:43flooding repositories

00:39:44with malicious packages

00:39:45that contain

00:39:46invisible code,

00:39:47a technique

00:39:48that's flummoxing

00:39:49traditional defenses

00:39:50designed to detect

00:39:50such threats.

00:39:51The researchers

00:39:52from firm

00:39:53Akito Security

00:39:54said Friday

00:39:55they found

00:39:55151 malicious packages

00:39:58that were uploaded

00:39:59to GitHub

00:39:59from March 3rd

00:40:00to March 9th.

00:40:01Such supply chain attacks

00:40:02have been common

00:40:03for nearly a decade.

00:40:04They usually work

00:40:05by uploading malicious packages

00:40:06with code

00:40:07and names

00:40:07that closely resemble

00:40:08those of widely used

00:40:09code libraries

00:40:10with the objective

00:40:11of tricking developers

00:40:12into mistakenly incorporating

00:40:13the former

00:40:13into their software.

00:40:14In some cases,

00:40:16these malicious packages

00:40:17are downloaded

00:40:17thousands of times.

00:40:19The packages

00:40:20Akito found this month

00:40:21have adopted

00:40:22a newer technique,

00:40:23selective use of code

00:40:24that isn't visible

00:40:25when loaded into

00:40:26virtually all editors,

00:40:27terminals,

00:40:28and code review interfaces.

00:40:29While most of the code

00:40:30appears in normal

00:40:31readable form,

00:40:32malicious functions

00:40:33and payloads,

00:40:33the usual telltale

00:40:34signs of malice,

00:40:35are rendered

00:40:36in Unicode characters

00:40:37that are invisible

00:40:38to the human eye.

00:40:39The tactic,

00:40:40which Akito said

00:40:41it first spotted

00:40:42last year,

00:40:43makes manual code reviews

00:40:44and other traditional

00:40:44defenses nearly useless.

00:40:46Other repositories

00:40:47hit these attacks

00:40:48include NPM

00:40:49and OpenVSX.

00:40:50The malicious packages

00:40:51are even harder

00:40:52to detect

00:40:52because of the high quality

00:40:53of their visible portions.

00:40:55The malicious injections

00:40:56don't arrive

00:40:56in obviously suspicious commits,

00:40:58Akito's researchers wrote.

00:40:59The surrounding changes

00:41:00are realistic,

00:41:01documentation tweaks,

00:41:02version bumps,

00:41:03small reflectors,

00:41:04and bug fixes

00:41:05that are stylistically

00:41:06consistent with each

00:41:07target project.

00:41:08The researchers suspect

00:41:09that Glassworm,

00:41:10the name they assigned

00:41:10to the attack group,

00:41:11is using LLMs

00:41:13to generate these

00:41:13convincingly legitimate

00:41:14appearing packages.

00:41:15At the scale,

00:41:16we're now seeing

00:41:17manual crafting

00:41:18of 151 plus bespoke

00:41:19code changes

00:41:20across different code bases

00:41:21simply isn't feasible,

00:41:22they explained.

00:41:23Fellow security firm

00:41:26KOI,

00:41:26which has also been

00:41:27tracking the same group,

00:41:28said it too suspects

00:41:29the group is using AI.

00:41:31The invisible code

00:41:33is rented with

00:41:33private use areas,

00:41:34sometimes called

00:41:35private use access,

00:41:36which arranges in

00:41:36the Unicode specification

00:41:37for special characters

00:41:38preserved for private use

00:41:40and defining emojis

00:41:40flagged other symbols.

00:41:41Oh, good lord,

00:41:42that's too technical.

00:41:43Let's move on quickly.

00:41:44So, oh,

00:41:45and here's a demonstration

00:41:46of it.

00:41:47So, um,

00:41:49yeah,

00:41:50that you can't,

00:41:51uh,

00:41:52see what is happening.

00:41:54It says the back tick

00:41:55string passed to SF

00:41:56looks empty

00:41:56in every viewer,

00:41:57but it's packed

00:41:58with invisible characters

00:41:58that once decoded

00:41:59produce a full

00:42:01malicious payload.

00:42:02In past incidents,

00:42:03the decoded payload

00:42:05fetched and executed

00:42:05a second stage script

00:42:06using Solana

00:42:07as a delivery channel

00:42:08people of stealing

00:42:09tokens,

00:42:10credentials,

00:42:10and secrets.

00:42:13So, I thought that was

00:42:15an interesting,

00:42:17speaking of wars

00:42:20and lines of attack,

00:42:21um,

00:42:22I thought it was

00:42:23an interesting

00:42:23thing to be

00:42:26going on

00:42:27in light of

00:42:28everything else

00:42:29that is happening.

00:42:31There's also not

00:42:32a really good way

00:42:33to defend against that,

00:42:35which I think is probably

00:42:36the worst part of all,

00:42:38and considering how,

00:42:39and this is the

00:42:40derivative secret

00:42:40of tech,

00:42:41everyone uses all

00:42:42these GitHub repositories

00:42:44and libraries

00:42:44all the time,

00:42:46and the reality is

00:42:49once that will

00:42:50gets poisoned,

00:42:51a lot of stuff,

00:42:52I'm not even joking,

00:42:54a lot of stuff

00:42:54will stop working.

00:42:55Like,

00:42:56this stuff is more

00:42:58delicate and fragile

00:42:59than we think,

00:43:00and people forget that.

00:43:02Um,

00:43:03oh, yes.

00:43:04We'll,

00:43:05ha, ha, ha, ha.

00:43:06Oh, Trump and his

00:43:07friends in the media.

00:43:09So,

00:43:10Trump is unhappy

00:43:13about

00:43:13the war coverage

00:43:15around Iran,

00:43:17and this weekend,

00:43:19uh,

00:43:20he said in a

00:43:21Truth Social post

00:43:22that, uh,

00:43:23anyone who does not

00:43:24cover the war

00:43:24positively should face

00:43:25charges of treason.

00:43:26It says here,

00:43:28uh,

00:43:28the 79-year-old president

00:43:29posted nearly 400

00:43:30word Truth Social rant

00:43:31on Sunday

00:43:32claiming,

00:43:33slamming Iran

00:43:33for feeding,

00:43:35quote,

00:43:35the very appreciative

00:43:36fake news media

00:43:37in the U.S.,

00:43:38and even resorting

00:43:38to AI to spread

00:43:39false information.

00:43:40The president claimed

00:43:41Iran had circulated

00:43:42images of phony

00:43:43kamikaze boats

00:43:45shooting at various

00:43:46ships at sea

00:43:46and that while they

00:43:47looked wonderful,

00:43:47powerful,

00:43:48and vicious,

00:43:48he added that

00:43:49these boats don't

00:43:50exist.

00:43:51Repeating his claim

00:43:52that the U.S.

00:43:52had defeated Iran's

00:43:53military in slamming

00:43:54the Wall Street Journal

00:43:54for false reporting,

00:43:56Trump took his anger

00:43:56to new heights.

00:43:57The journal on Sunday

00:43:58recovered an Iranian

00:43:59attack on Saudi

00:44:00on a Saudi air base

00:44:02in which it said

00:44:02five U.S. military

00:44:03refueling planes

00:44:04were hit and damaged.

00:44:05Trump suggested

00:44:06that the journal's

00:44:07story was false

00:44:08when Iran was

00:44:08spreading fake news

00:44:09to AI.

00:44:10He said four of the

00:44:11aircraft were still

00:44:11in service with the

00:44:12exception of one

00:44:13which will soon be

00:44:14flying the skies.

00:44:16The Daily Beast

00:44:17contacted the Wall Street

00:44:18Journal for comment.

00:44:19He then blasted Iran

00:44:20which,

00:44:20quote,

00:44:21working in close

00:44:21coordination with

00:44:22the fake news media,

00:44:23spread a fake image

00:44:24of USS Abraham Lincoln

00:44:25aircraft carrier,

00:44:26quote,

00:44:26burning uncontrollably

00:44:27in the ocean.

00:44:28Trump said that it

00:44:28was not burning

00:44:29and also had not

00:44:30been shot at.

00:44:31The video was

00:44:31fact-checked last week

00:44:32by AFP,

00:44:35which concluded

00:44:35it was made using AI.

00:44:37Trump went on,

00:44:38the story was

00:44:38knowingly fake

00:44:39and in a certain way

00:44:39you can say that

00:44:40those media outlets

00:44:41that generated it

00:44:41should be brought up

00:44:42on charge of treason

00:44:43for dissemination

00:44:44of false information.

00:44:46Treason is considered

00:44:46one of the most

00:44:47severe crimes

00:44:48in U.S. federal law.

00:44:48anyone owing allegiance

00:44:50to America

00:44:50who goes to war

00:44:51against them

00:44:52or aids or comforts

00:44:52their enemies

00:44:53can be subject

00:44:54to the death penalty

00:44:54or imprisoned

00:44:55for a minimum

00:44:56of five years.

00:44:57In a gaggle

00:44:58on Air Force One

00:44:58on Sunday,

00:44:59Trump lashed reporters

00:44:59over coverage of his war

00:45:00while also saying

00:45:01he was not ready

00:45:02to clear an end

00:45:03to the conflict.

00:45:07And then he went

00:45:08and it goes on

00:45:09to the coverage

00:45:09and all this sort of thing.

00:45:10So, the president

00:45:12also took swings

00:45:13at a reporter from ABC

00:45:14calling them

00:45:15one of the most

00:45:15corrupt news organizations

00:45:16on the planet

00:45:17before refusing

00:45:18to take any more

00:45:18questions from the outlet.

00:45:19When a female reporter

00:45:20asked Trump

00:45:21why the U.S.

00:45:21is sending 5,000

00:45:22Marines and sailors,

00:45:23the president shot back,

00:45:24you're a very obnoxious person,

00:45:25he said,

00:45:26and took a different question

00:45:27from a male reporter.

00:45:28Trump has formed

00:45:31for being rude

00:45:31to female journalists

00:45:32last year

00:45:33snapping quiet

00:45:33picky at one journalist.

00:45:35As part of his

00:45:35rambling true social rant

00:45:37about the media,

00:45:37Trump also praised

00:45:38his FCC henchman

00:45:39Brendan Carr,

00:45:40who has already

00:45:41been threatening

00:45:41to revoke

00:45:42broadcasting licenses

00:45:43of networks

00:45:43he feels are not

00:45:44covering the Iran war

00:45:45in a way that

00:45:45quote,

00:45:46meets public interest

00:45:47unquote.

00:45:48Which if you were

00:45:48subscribed to my newsletter

00:45:49you would have read

00:45:50about on Saturday.

00:45:52And so it goes

00:45:53into the Brendan Carr tweet

00:45:57and the president

00:45:58also replied and said

00:45:59they get billions

00:46:00of dollars

00:46:00of free American airwaves

00:46:01and use it

00:46:02to perpetuate lies

00:46:03both in news

00:46:04and almost all

00:46:04other shows

00:46:05including the

00:46:05late night morons

00:46:06who get gigantic

00:46:07salaries for horrible

00:46:08ratings and never get

00:46:09as I used to say

00:46:09in The Apprentice

00:46:10fired,

00:46:11the president wrote.

00:46:14Trump,

00:46:15I always laugh

00:46:17because Trump

00:46:18loves the media

00:46:19so much

00:46:21and they have

00:46:22enabled him

00:46:23on every level

00:46:24and it's never

00:46:25enough.

00:46:26The coverage

00:46:27is never nice enough,

00:46:28it's never fawning

00:46:29enough,

00:46:30they never talk

00:46:30about him

00:46:31enough.

00:46:31His desire

00:46:32for attention

00:46:33knows no end

00:46:35and it's funny

00:46:36when he goes

00:46:36and openly

00:46:37attacks them.

00:46:38But the thing

00:46:38to remember

00:46:39about Trump

00:46:39is he enjoys

00:46:41conflict,

00:46:42back and forth,

00:46:43someone pressing

00:46:44up against someone

00:46:44else.

00:46:45He does not want

00:46:46people working

00:46:47in the same direction

00:46:48with the same goal.

00:46:48He wants that push

00:46:50and he does the same

00:46:51thing.

00:46:51So when the media

00:46:52is like,

00:46:53oh,

00:46:53they're saying this,

00:46:54oh,

00:46:55I'll push back.

00:46:55It has nothing

00:46:57to do with the truth

00:46:58or what's right

00:46:59or whatever have you.

00:47:00It has entirely

00:47:01to do with the conflict.

00:47:03That's what Trump

00:47:04values.

00:47:05And it's a matter

00:47:06of who's going

00:47:07to push back

00:47:07the most,

00:47:08who can do the most,

00:47:09all this type of thing.

00:47:09That's what Trump

00:47:10wants because Trump

00:47:11ultimately only

00:47:12respects the strong.

00:47:14This does not

00:47:15include him.

00:47:18Ah,

00:47:18yes,

00:47:19let's talk Israel.

00:47:21So,

00:47:23this whole

00:47:24whole situation

00:47:25in Israel

00:47:25is getting

00:47:26very interesting

00:47:27and I will tell

00:47:29you why.

00:47:29So,

00:47:31um,

00:47:32this,

00:47:34yeah,

00:47:34let's start here

00:47:35actually before

00:47:36we talk about

00:47:36collapsing public

00:47:37opinion.

00:47:38Um,

00:47:40so,

00:47:42this,

00:47:42I loved this piece

00:47:44because one,

00:47:44it includes a great

00:47:45piece from the Newsweek

00:47:46which we're not

00:47:46going to read

00:47:47but it,

00:47:48the links are here.

00:47:49Um,

00:47:50but the thing I love

00:47:51is that it actually

00:47:51is a post that

00:47:52actually has some

00:47:53sources.

00:47:53It's like what I do.

00:47:54So,

00:47:55um,

00:47:56it says here,

00:47:56I've seen several

00:47:57claims over the past

00:47:57two weeks that the

00:47:58United States needs

00:47:59Israel because it

00:48:00provides the U.S.

00:48:01with critically needed

00:48:02intelligence.

00:48:02That is incorrect.

00:48:03It also ignores

00:48:04Israeli espionage

00:48:05inside the United States.

00:48:06A brief overview of

00:48:07both.

00:48:08First,

00:48:08the intelligence

00:48:09Israel provides

00:48:10Washington pertains

00:48:10to actors in

00:48:11conflicts only

00:48:12relevant to the

00:48:13United States

00:48:13because of the

00:48:13special relationship.

00:48:15The intelligence

00:48:15provided is on

00:48:16Israel's adversaries.

00:48:17If Israel perceives

00:48:18them as threatening,

00:48:19it behooves Israel

00:48:20to provide the United States

00:48:21with this intelligence.

00:48:21They do not need

00:48:22American political,

00:48:24economic,

00:48:24or security incentives

00:48:25to do so.

00:48:26Moreover,

00:48:28this intelligence is

00:48:29often alarmist and

00:48:30politically motivated

00:48:31to push the United States

00:48:32towards confronting

00:48:33Israel's enemies.

00:48:34Washington maintains a

00:48:35global intelligence

00:48:36apparatus more than

00:48:37people surveilling

00:48:38America's adversaries

00:48:39about Israel.

00:48:39Israel.

00:48:39Second,

00:48:40and this is the

00:48:41important part,

00:48:42there is a long

00:48:43history of Israeli

00:48:45espionage both

00:48:46inside the United States

00:48:47and targeting

00:48:47Americans abroad.

00:48:49The U.S.

00:48:50intelligence community

00:48:50has highlighted this

00:48:51threat for decades.

00:48:52A leaked CIA document

00:48:53from 1979 discussing

00:48:55Israel's foreign

00:48:55intelligence operations

00:48:56noted the United States

00:48:58is at the top of the

00:48:59Israeli intelligence

00:48:59priorities,

00:49:00while U.S.

00:49:01intel officials

00:49:01testifying to

00:49:02Congress in 2014

00:49:03described Israel's

00:49:04espionage activities

00:49:05in the U.S.

00:49:05as unrivaled.

00:49:06Israel and the lobby

00:49:07also go to great lengths

00:49:09to work around the

00:49:09Foreign Agents

00:49:10Registration Act

00:49:11in their attempt

00:49:12to influence Washington.

00:49:13So long as Israel

00:49:14feels like it can

00:49:15continue such behavior

00:49:18without repercussions,

00:49:19why would it ever stop?

00:49:21And then it gets into

00:49:23some really great issues

00:49:24including an article

00:49:26by Charles Babcock

00:49:27from 1986 about

00:49:28Israeli intelligence,

00:49:29one from 2014,

00:49:31two articles from

00:49:32Jeff Stein from 2014,

00:49:34an article from

00:49:35actually with Glenn Grinwald,

00:49:36of all people,

00:49:37from 2015,

00:49:39Glenn Kessler from 2020,

00:49:42and a really great article

00:49:43from The Guardian

00:49:43from 2024.

00:49:45Now, bearing in mind

00:49:47that we are very

00:49:50hopeful to Israel,

00:49:51Israel much less so to us,

00:49:52and they love to spy on us,

00:49:54let's then talk about

00:49:56public opinion.

00:49:59There's been a new shift

00:50:01according to a new poll

00:50:02from NBC News,

00:50:04and it says here,

00:50:05in the Middle East situation,

00:50:06are your sympathies

00:50:07more with the Israelis

00:50:08or with the Palestinians?

00:50:10Palestinians in 2013,

00:50:11it was 45%,

00:50:13in 2026,

00:50:14it's 40%.

00:50:15Palestinians are up

00:50:16from 13% to 39%.

00:50:18Democrats,

00:50:19Palestinians,

00:50:19it's 67% to 8%,

00:50:21up from 18%.

00:50:22Independence is up

00:50:2337% from 10%

00:50:25just 13 years ago.

00:50:26And Republicans,

00:50:28it has gone up

00:50:30less crazy,

00:50:31but for Republicans,

00:50:32it's gone from

00:50:338% in 2013

00:50:34to 13%.

00:50:36In terms of

00:50:38public opinion,

00:50:41Israel is,

00:50:42there's no better way

00:50:43to put it,

00:50:44bleeding Democrats'

00:50:46independence.

00:50:47And overall,

00:50:48they're now,

00:50:49they're barely

00:50:51hanging on

00:50:52to a majority

00:50:53they once commanded,

00:50:56which is their overall number.

00:50:58Obviously,

00:50:59Democrat positions

00:51:00have shifted,

00:51:01independents have shifted

00:51:02away and it's not even close.

00:51:05And then overall,

00:51:07they are clinging

00:51:09to the pool

00:51:10on a lead.

00:51:12Over here,

00:51:13we have

00:51:14views of Israel

00:51:15shifted,

00:51:16negative,

00:51:16especially when Democrats

00:51:17and independents.

00:51:18So positive views

00:51:19overall

00:51:20are somewhat split.

00:51:22Positive 32,

00:51:23neutral,

00:51:24don't know,

00:51:24not sure,

00:51:2430,

00:51:25negative 39.

00:51:26So your negative is up.

00:51:28Sure.

00:51:29Back in 2023,

00:51:30that was much less

00:51:32stark,

00:51:32negative with only 24,

00:51:33neutral 30,

00:51:34positive 47.

00:51:36That's a pretty nasty

00:51:38fall in three years.

00:51:39For people who identify

00:51:41as Democrats,

00:51:42it's a complete collapse

00:51:44of,

00:51:45you know,

00:51:46views on Israel.

00:51:47You're up to 57%

00:51:48negative,

00:51:4930% neutral,

00:51:5013% positive.

00:51:52Independents,

00:51:53a similar collapse.

00:51:5422% negative

00:51:55back in 2023,

00:51:5646% here.

00:51:57Republicans are the only

00:51:58place you're still

00:51:59doing well.

00:52:01Now bear that in mind

00:52:03in what influence

00:52:05Israel may or may not

00:52:06have in elections.

00:52:08If Israel knows,

00:52:12if a Democrat

00:52:13gets back in,

00:52:14they're screwed.

00:52:16What lengths

00:52:17do you think

00:52:18they will go to

00:52:19to make sure

00:52:21Republicans

00:52:21stay in power?

00:52:24I'm not saying

00:52:25anything.

00:52:25It's all conjecture,

00:52:27just food for thought.

00:52:29However,

00:52:31I also wanted

00:52:32to highlight

00:52:33things are not

00:52:34going so well

00:52:35even inside Israel.

00:52:37And I've,

00:52:38there's been some

00:52:39videos of protests

00:52:40that was an attack

00:52:41at a government building.

00:52:42Netanyahu has not

00:52:43been seen for weeks.

00:52:44That's been on

00:52:44social media today.

00:52:45I'm sure you've

00:52:46heard about it.

00:52:46And also the crazy

00:52:47AI video that

00:52:48Israel released

00:52:49that Iran responded to.

00:52:52This message

00:52:52from Rabbi David

00:52:55Mithiser

00:52:57is

00:53:01interesting.

00:53:02And it's,

00:53:03this is translated

00:53:04from Hebrew.

00:53:05And I,

00:53:06I've been wanting

00:53:07to read it

00:53:07for a couple weeks.

00:53:08And so we're coming

00:53:10up to the top

00:53:10of the hour.

00:53:11We haven't even

00:53:11got to Iran yet,

00:53:12but we'll read,

00:53:13we'll read some of it.

00:53:15Let me clear

00:53:15some tabs here.

00:53:17It hurts me so much

00:53:18to admit this

00:53:19as an Israeli,

00:53:20a Jew,

00:53:20and a Zionist.

00:53:21But recent times

00:53:22have made me

00:53:22understand more

00:53:23and more how

00:53:23the Holocaust

00:53:24happened.

00:53:25There is racism

00:53:26in the state of Israel,

00:53:27and a lot of it.

00:53:28It has been radicalized

00:53:29in recent times,

00:53:30both in light of

00:53:31brutal Muslim terrorism

00:53:32and in light of

00:53:33a racist and fascist

00:53:34government and a media

00:53:34that normalizes it.

00:53:36But there is racism

00:53:37and there is racism,

00:53:38and there is one part

00:53:39of society,

00:53:40call them

00:53:41the Messianics,

00:53:42the extremist settlers,

00:53:43the Hill Boys,

00:53:44who are not fundamentally

00:53:45different from the Nazis.

00:53:46They are joined

00:53:47by a small part

00:53:48of the racists

00:53:49who do not necessarily

00:53:49belong to this group,

00:53:50but who are violent,

00:53:51cruel,

00:53:52and find their place

00:53:52among the Messianics.

00:53:56The state of Israel

00:53:56does not have a directive

00:53:58to murder Arabs,

00:53:59but there are elements

00:53:59in the government

00:54:00who, at the very least,

00:54:01wink at indiscriminate murder,

00:54:03violent expulsion,

00:54:03and extermination.

00:54:04The truth is,

00:54:05it's not just a wink.

00:54:06It's in the budgets

00:54:07and infrastructure

00:54:07for farms

00:54:09in Judea and Samaria.

00:54:10It's in the threat

00:54:11to law enforcement agencies

00:54:12who dare to investigate

00:54:13war criminals.

00:54:14It's in a member

00:54:15of the Knesset

00:54:16who visits the prison

00:54:17of a terrorist

00:54:17who murdered a baby

00:54:18and calls him

00:54:19a righteous man.

00:54:20It's in the head

00:54:21of her party

00:54:21who admires

00:54:22a mass murderer,

00:54:23and it's two entire parties

00:54:24in the coalition

00:54:26that represent

00:54:26this moral abomination,

00:54:28along with a not small part

00:54:29of the ruling party.

00:54:30So even without

00:54:31an official policy

00:54:32and order,

00:54:33it's clear today

00:54:33that there are large parts

00:54:35of the government

00:54:35that support atrocities.

00:54:36And when the murderers,

00:54:39pogromists,

00:54:40and rapists

00:54:41go unpunished

00:54:42and even receive

00:54:42public support

00:54:43from elected officials,

00:54:44that is indeed

00:54:44a de facto policy.

00:54:46And most of the people

00:54:47are silent.

00:54:48The news hardly talks about it.

00:54:49If it does,

00:54:49the report is distorted.

00:54:51Two Palestinians killed

00:54:52in clashes with settlers.

00:54:53Confrontation.

00:54:54Two meters outside

00:54:54the house of Palestinians

00:54:55who went out

00:54:56into the yard

00:54:56and got shot in the head

00:54:58by Judeo-Nazis.

00:55:00And if you talk about it

00:55:01with liberal friends,

00:55:02they don't believe it

00:55:03or they continue

00:55:03with this lie of weeds

00:55:05that you don't know

00:55:06what really happened there.

00:55:07And when would they

00:55:08pay attention?

00:55:09There was a real war

00:55:09in Gaza,

00:55:10so it's easy for people

00:55:11to tell themselves

00:55:11that there were no war crimes

00:55:13and that everything

00:55:13was in the framework

00:55:14of the fighting.

00:55:15In fact,

00:55:15there were crimes

00:55:16committed by a minority

00:55:17of soldiers,

00:55:17but the perpetrators,

00:55:18including murderers,

00:55:19were not punished.

00:55:20And in Judea and Samaria,

00:55:21what's the excuse?

00:55:22Settlers come to villages

00:55:23and shoot people in the head

00:55:24and no one cares.

00:55:25And if there were

00:55:26100 murderers a week,

00:55:27would anyone care?

00:55:281,000?

00:55:2810,000?

00:55:29Would the majority

00:55:30ever put an end to it?

00:55:31I'm pretty sure

00:55:31the answer is no.

00:55:33It simply doesn't interest

00:55:35the majority of the public here

00:55:36and it makes me think

00:55:36there was no scope

00:55:37of atrocities

00:55:38that would interest

00:55:39the majority.

00:55:39The average Nazi

00:55:40was a person

00:55:41who ignored atrocities,

00:55:42not who committed them.

00:55:43The execution

00:55:43was the preserver

00:55:45of a few.

00:55:46And we are not there

00:55:47but we are on

00:55:48a steep and dangerous slope.

00:55:50In the end,

00:55:51a child who takes

00:55:51a bullet to the head

00:55:52in Gaza

00:55:53or an old man

00:55:53whose legs are broken

00:55:54by violent settlers

00:55:55in the southern Hebron hills

00:55:56doesn't care that it is

00:55:57on a much smaller scale

00:55:58than the Holocaust

00:55:59and we shouldn't care either.

00:56:00We should oppose

00:56:01such behavior

00:56:02with all our might

00:56:03and denounce

00:56:03the Geo-Nazis within us

00:56:05and we simply

00:56:05don't do that.

00:56:06And a final comment

00:56:07in conclusion

00:56:08about the contempt

00:56:09for the Holocaust.

00:56:10Comparisons are forbidden.

00:56:12The ma...

00:56:13I don't even know

00:56:15what that word is.

00:56:15That's probably

00:56:16a very kind of

00:56:17local word.

00:56:20Magalettis?

00:56:20We'll cry out

00:56:21and the truth

00:56:22is the opposite.

00:56:23Comparisons are necessary

00:56:24and the lessons

00:56:24of the past are necessary

00:56:25and processes

00:56:26must be identified

00:56:27at stages

00:56:28when disasters

00:56:28can still be prevented.

00:56:29Nothing devalues

00:56:30the memory

00:56:31of the Holocaust

00:56:31more than indifference

00:56:32to the murder of innocents.

00:56:33Nothing humiliates

00:56:34the victims

00:56:35of the Holocaust

00:56:35more than their descendants

00:56:36who are not interested

00:56:37in their own people

00:56:38murdering others

00:56:39on the basis

00:56:40of racial ideology.

00:56:41The state of Israel

00:56:42must be reformed

00:56:43and reform must begin

00:56:44with a modern reality.

00:56:46Reality,

00:56:46unfortunately,

00:56:47is harsh.

00:56:50I've been saying

00:56:51this since college.

00:56:52I've been calling

00:56:53Israel and apartheid

00:56:54state for years

00:56:54and I'm glad

00:56:55other people,

00:56:57even Zionist Jews,

00:57:00are, you know,

00:57:02saying it,

00:57:02reposting it.

00:57:04This was originally

00:57:05written by Michael Mayer.

00:57:06It was reposted

00:57:07by Rabbi David Moussiver,

00:57:10Mishpah Seir.

00:57:12And I'm glad

00:57:13people are finally

00:57:14saying it.

00:57:15I'm glad

00:57:16it's finally coming out

00:57:17and people are finally

00:57:18realizing what

00:57:19the problem is.

00:57:21And now that apartheid

00:57:23state has caused

00:57:24a war that may

00:57:26cause global

00:57:28starvation

00:57:29because we can't

00:57:30get fertilizer

00:57:30through the Strait of Hormuz

00:57:31and the ingredients

00:57:33for it,

00:57:33who may have caused

00:57:34us the worst crisis

00:57:35since the oil embargo.

00:57:39And they're not done.

00:57:42They're not done.

00:57:44Haunting times.

00:57:49It's 8.02.

00:57:51There is

00:57:53some movement

00:57:54around China

00:57:55and Taiwan.

00:57:57There's 26 warplanes

00:57:58and seven warships

00:57:59positioned around

00:58:00the island.

00:58:03And people,

00:58:05a lot of people

00:58:06on Twitter

00:58:08have their hair

00:58:09on fire

00:58:10and thinking that

00:58:11China's going to

00:58:12take Taiwan

00:58:12and that

00:58:13will then

00:58:15end

00:58:16modern technology

00:58:17because

00:58:19most of the

00:58:20world's chips

00:58:20are made

00:58:21in Taiwan

00:58:21at TSMC.

00:58:25And that

00:58:25if there's

00:58:26a blockade,

00:58:26Taiwan has

00:58:27limited energy supplies

00:58:28because guess

00:58:29who they

00:58:29employ oil from.

00:58:31So there's

00:58:32a lot of

00:58:32hair on fire

00:58:33today

00:58:34about all

00:58:35of this.

00:58:36But as this

00:58:36person accurately

00:58:37points out,

00:58:3826 planes

00:58:39and seven ships

00:58:39is the usual

00:58:40China pressure

00:58:41campaign.

00:58:41Not some

00:58:42surprise apocalypse.

00:58:43And your

00:58:4311 days line

00:58:44is bullshit too

00:58:45because Taiwan

00:58:45says it has

00:58:46over 100 days

00:58:47of oil

00:58:47and 11 days

00:58:48of gas.

00:58:49Not 11 days

00:58:50left to live.

00:58:51So you're

00:58:51going to see

00:58:52a lot of

00:58:52hair on fire

00:58:53about China

00:58:54and Taiwan.

00:58:54It's the

00:58:55ordinary type

00:58:56of thing.

00:58:57You know,

00:58:58be careful

00:58:58with social media.

00:59:02We don't hear

00:59:03much about

00:59:04the Epstein

00:59:04files lately

00:59:05now,

00:59:05do we?

00:59:06Well,

00:59:06there's a reason

00:59:07for that.

00:59:08Massive

00:59:08Jeffrey Epstein

00:59:09bombshell drops

00:59:10as the

00:59:11pedophile's

00:59:11personal

00:59:11accountant

00:59:12reveals that

00:59:12Epstein's

00:59:13estate paid

00:59:14off one of

00:59:14Donald Trump's

00:59:15accusers.

00:59:16Says here,

00:59:16Richard Kahn,

00:59:17who served

00:59:17as Epstein's

00:59:18accountant,

00:59:18testified before

00:59:19the House

00:59:19Oversight Committee

00:59:20earlier today.

00:59:21And by today,

00:59:22we mean,

00:59:23when was this

00:59:23dated?

00:59:24Last week.

00:59:26He worked

00:59:27with the

00:59:27billionaire

00:59:27predator for

00:59:28over a decade,

00:59:29offering him

00:59:29unique insight

00:59:30into his

00:59:30shady operations

00:59:31and business

00:59:31practices.

00:59:32While more

00:59:33details will be

00:59:34released at a

00:59:34later date,

00:59:34Congressman

00:59:35Suha

00:59:36took to X

00:59:37to share his

00:59:38notes from

00:59:38the deposition.

00:59:39He revealed that

00:59:39Kahn mentioned

00:59:40five,

00:59:41quote,

00:59:41rich and

00:59:41powerful

00:59:41parties who

00:59:42bankrolled

00:59:43Epstein's

00:59:43operations.

00:59:44Les Wexner,

00:59:45Glenn Dubin,

00:59:45Steven Snoski,

00:59:46and the

00:59:46Rothschilds,

00:59:47and Leon

00:59:47Black.

00:59:48And we

00:59:49actually know

00:59:49that because

00:59:49that guy did

00:59:50that financial

00:59:51analysis and

00:59:52tracked some

00:59:52of that.

00:59:53Kahn also

00:59:53mentioned former

00:59:54Israeli Prime

01:00:09Minister

01:00:09he added.

01:00:10If Trump

01:00:11is innocent

01:00:11like he

01:00:11insists,

01:00:12why would

01:00:12his best

01:00:12friend

01:00:12Epstein

01:00:13be paying

01:00:13out money

01:00:14to his

01:00:14accuser?

01:00:14The answer

01:00:15is obvious.

01:00:16Trump is a

01:00:16real sexual

01:00:17predator and

01:00:17a pedophile.

01:00:18We still

01:00:19don't necessarily

01:00:20know that.

01:00:21It could not

01:00:22necessarily have

01:00:23been for

01:00:23Trump,

01:00:24not that I'm

01:00:25defending him,

01:00:26but that's

01:00:28not proof.

01:00:29The congressman

01:00:30goes on,

01:00:30quote,

01:00:31another person

01:00:32who was an

01:00:32accuser of

01:00:33Donald Trump

01:00:33who was given

01:00:34an assolment

01:00:34by Jeffrey

01:00:34Epstein's

01:00:35estate.

01:00:35We did

01:00:36confirm that,

01:00:37he said.

01:00:37When asked

01:00:38for more details,

01:00:38he demurred

01:00:39and said

01:00:39that it

01:00:39would be

01:00:39best to

01:00:40wait for

01:00:40the release

01:00:40of the

01:00:40transcript.

01:00:41Quote,

01:00:42we wanted

01:00:42to confirm

01:00:43that certain

01:00:44accusers had

01:00:44received settlements

01:00:45and he

01:00:45confirmed that,

01:00:46he explained.

01:00:46We already

01:00:47know that

01:00:47Trump's name

01:00:48was all

01:00:48over the

01:00:48Epstein files

01:00:49and he

01:00:49has been

01:00:50accused of

01:00:50pain of

01:00:51sexual abuse

01:00:51and rape.

01:00:52In one

01:00:52particular case,

01:00:53he was

01:00:53accused by

01:00:54a woman

01:00:54of sexually

01:00:54abusing

01:00:55her when

01:00:55she was

01:00:55only 13

01:00:56years old.

01:00:56Her

01:00:57allegation

01:00:57was so

01:00:57credible

01:00:58that the

01:00:58FBI

01:00:58interviewed

01:00:59her four

01:00:59times.

01:01:00Pam

01:01:00Bondi's

01:01:00Justice

01:01:01Department

01:01:01tried to

01:01:01bury the

01:01:02interviews

01:01:02but they

01:01:03were

01:01:03eventually

01:01:03uncovered.

01:01:04Enough is

01:01:04enough.

01:01:05An

01:01:05exhausted

01:01:06investigation

01:01:06must be

01:01:07launched

01:01:08immediately

01:01:08and this

01:01:09accountant

01:01:09must be

01:01:09forced to

01:01:10reveal

01:01:10everything

01:01:11that he

01:01:12knows.

01:01:13That would

01:01:14be him

01:01:14in the

01:01:15middle.

01:01:16As the

01:01:17old adage

01:01:18goes,

01:01:18if you

01:01:18want to

01:01:19know the

01:01:19story,

01:01:20follow

01:01:20the

01:01:21money.

01:01:22That's an

01:01:23interesting

01:01:23indication of

01:01:24what could

01:01:24be but it

01:01:25doesn't prove

01:01:25anything yet

01:01:26and people

01:01:26forget that.

01:01:31The

01:01:32situation

01:01:33in Cuba

01:01:34has become

01:01:37untenable

01:01:40for all

01:01:41parties

01:01:42involved,

01:01:44especially in

01:01:44Cuba.

01:01:45Ever since

01:01:46we took

01:01:46over

01:01:46Venezuela,

01:01:47we have

01:01:47banned

01:01:50Cuba.

01:01:51We've

01:01:51embargoed

01:01:52Cuba from

01:01:52importing

01:01:53oil.

01:01:53They were

01:01:54getting all

01:01:54their oil

01:01:54from Venezuela.

01:01:55We have

01:01:55stopped

01:01:55those

01:01:56shipments.

01:01:56And now

01:01:57after weeks

01:01:58of rationing

01:01:59and trying

01:02:00to survive

01:02:00it, the

01:02:01national power

01:02:02grid has

01:02:03collapsed.

01:02:04And breaking

01:02:05news into

01:02:06CNN, Cuba's

01:02:07electrical grid

01:02:08has suffered a

01:02:09complete and

01:02:10total collapse.

01:02:11This is

01:02:11according to

01:02:11the country's

01:02:12power operator.

01:02:13It's the

01:02:14first nationwide

01:02:15blackout since

01:02:16the U.S.

01:02:16effectively shut

01:02:17off the

01:02:18flow of

01:02:18oil to

01:02:19Cuba.

01:02:23So that

01:02:25if the

01:02:26Trump

01:02:26administration

01:02:27was trying

01:02:27to use

01:02:28the oil

01:02:28embargo to

01:02:29get the

01:02:29Cuban

01:02:30regime to

01:02:30fall

01:02:30apart,

01:02:33I don't

01:02:34know that

01:02:35they're going

01:02:35to be

01:02:35successful

01:02:36about that.

01:02:38But this

01:02:39is certainly

01:02:40part of it.

01:02:40I did see

01:02:40footage over

01:02:41the weekend.

01:02:41There were

01:02:42people who

01:02:42were protesting

01:02:43and attacking

01:02:43Sovereignist

01:02:44Party offices.

01:02:45It, you

01:02:46know, it

01:02:47appears that

01:02:48Trump is

01:02:48trying to

01:02:49go for

01:02:49regime change

01:02:50in multiple

01:02:51places.

01:02:51With Cuba,

01:02:52it's oil,

01:02:52with Iran,

01:02:52it's bombs.

01:02:54I guarantee

01:02:55the first

01:02:56person who

01:02:57will take

01:02:57advantage of

01:02:58regime change

01:02:59in Cuba is

01:02:59Marco Rubio.

01:03:01He's Cuban.

01:03:04And it

01:03:06will be

01:03:07interesting

01:03:09how that

01:03:10develops,

01:03:11how many

01:03:11people in

01:03:13hospitals may

01:03:15die,

01:03:17how many

01:03:17people will

01:03:18go without

01:03:18food in a

01:03:19society that

01:03:19already has

01:03:20a lot of

01:03:20shortages.

01:03:22I know that

01:03:23for weeks now

01:03:24hostels have

01:03:25been using

01:03:25emergency

01:03:25generators,

01:03:26there have

01:03:27been rolling

01:03:27brownouts,

01:03:28blackouts,

01:03:29it appears

01:03:30they've finally

01:03:31run out of

01:03:32everything.

01:03:34And it's

01:03:36over.

01:03:39And I

01:03:41wonder what

01:03:42Cuba will

01:03:42do in

01:03:43response.

01:03:45My guess

01:03:45is there's

01:03:45a lot of

01:03:46negotiations

01:03:46happening

01:03:47behind the

01:03:48scenes,

01:03:48and this

01:03:50is leverage.

01:03:52I regret

01:03:53that so many

01:03:53people have

01:03:54become involved.

01:03:55The regular

01:03:55Cuban person

01:03:56has become

01:03:57involved in

01:04:00a greater

01:04:01gambit and

01:04:02the U.S.

01:04:02trying to

01:04:03tie up

01:04:03old loose

01:04:03ends.

01:04:07It's hard,

01:04:08I think,

01:04:10tying back

01:04:11to the

01:04:11start of the

01:04:12show,

01:04:12I think it's

01:04:14hard to

01:04:14deal with

01:04:15the emotional

01:04:15gravity of

01:04:16everything

01:04:16happening right

01:04:17now.

01:04:18Even just

01:04:18what we've

01:04:19talked about

01:04:19in the

01:04:19course of

01:04:20this news

01:04:20hour.

01:04:21And I

01:04:21haven't even

01:04:22gotten to

01:04:22Iran yet.

01:04:23That's next.

01:04:24It's a lot

01:04:25to take on

01:04:26emotionally.

01:04:29The last

01:04:30non-Iran

01:04:31story I have

01:04:32going is

01:04:33about Pokemon

01:04:34Go to

01:04:36the polls.

01:04:37Pokemon

01:04:43Go is

01:04:46yeah.

01:04:47So, you

01:04:48know all the

01:04:48privacy people

01:04:49that said,

01:04:50oh, this

01:04:50isn't good

01:04:50for privacy.

01:04:51They're tracking

01:04:52all your

01:04:52location data.

01:04:53Well, yep.

01:04:55As we now

01:04:56know, Pokemon

01:05:00Go data was

01:05:01used to build

01:05:02a 3D map

01:05:04of the world

01:05:04by contributing

01:05:0530 billion

01:05:08crowdsourced

01:05:09images.

01:05:11And Bilal

01:05:11Siddhu

01:05:12interviewed

01:05:14Niantic,

01:05:14who was the

01:05:14creator of

01:05:15Pokemon Go,

01:05:15their CTO,

01:05:16Brian McClendon,

01:05:17last year.

01:05:20And he

01:05:21said that

01:05:22Pokestop data

01:05:23isn't what you

01:05:23think it is.

01:05:24It's not a

01:05:25surveillance

01:05:25panopticon of

01:05:26your neighborhood.

01:05:27These are

01:05:28static pictures

01:05:29of parks,

01:05:29statues,

01:05:30murals,

01:05:30landmarks,

01:05:31the places

01:05:31people congregate.

01:05:32Brian described

01:05:33it as building

01:05:34the map from

01:05:35the bottom

01:05:35up from the

01:05:36locations where

01:05:36people spend

01:05:37time.

01:05:37Think of these

01:05:3820 million way

01:05:39points as

01:05:40basically the

01:05:40inverse of what

01:05:41Google mapped

01:05:42with Street View.

01:05:42Google mapped

01:05:43the drivable

01:05:44streets.

01:05:44Niantic mapped

01:05:45where people

01:05:45actually hang

01:05:46out.

01:05:46Cool data,

01:05:47generally useful

01:05:48for visual

01:05:48positioning,

01:05:49but very

01:05:49different from

01:05:50what the

01:05:50headlines imply.

01:05:52It says that

01:05:53at the person

01:05:53level,

01:05:55they're capturing

01:05:56different data

01:05:57at different levels.

01:05:57At the person

01:05:58level,

01:05:59Axon body

01:05:59cams on

01:06:00hundreds of

01:06:00thousands of

01:06:00officers.

01:06:01Meta Ray-Ban

01:06:02glasses capturing

01:06:02first-person POV

01:06:03at scale.

01:06:04Overseas operators

01:06:05reviewing images

01:06:06every time someone

01:06:06says,

01:06:07hey Meta.

01:06:08At the vehicle

01:06:08level,

01:06:09Tesla dash cams

01:06:09on every car

01:06:10in the fleet,

01:06:10massive onboard

01:06:11compute extracting

01:06:12and distilling

01:06:12data in the

01:06:12cloud.

01:06:14flock safety

01:06:14deploying CCTV

01:06:15across neighborhoods

01:06:16and cities,

01:06:17Amazon with

01:06:17ring cameras

01:06:18on every

01:06:18doorstep,

01:06:19and mailroom

01:06:19recently got

01:06:20dragged over

01:06:21that at the

01:06:21Super Bowl

01:06:21commercial about

01:06:22using all these

01:06:23cams together

01:06:23to find your

01:06:24dog,

01:06:24plus dash cams

01:06:25on every

01:06:25Prime delivery

01:06:26van.

01:06:27At the

01:06:27headset level,

01:06:28Apple Vision

01:06:28Pro and

01:06:28Meta Quest

01:06:29build a 3D

01:06:29model of

01:06:30whatever room

01:06:30you're in

01:06:30every time you

01:06:31put them on.

01:06:32At the

01:06:32platform level,

01:06:33Google and

01:06:33street view

01:06:34cars,

01:06:34aerial plane,

01:06:35satellite imagery

01:06:35and live

01:06:35location of

01:06:36every Android

01:06:36phone in your

01:06:37pocket.

01:06:38Apple doing

01:06:38the same

01:06:38with having

01:06:38cars in

01:06:39every LiDAR

01:06:43despite the

01:06:43Apple's too

01:06:44privacy-conscious

01:06:44narrative,

01:06:45they're collecting

01:06:45location data

01:06:46too.

01:06:48Fused together,

01:06:49we have

01:06:50everything from

01:06:50body cam to

01:06:51dash cam to

01:06:52doorbell to

01:06:52phone to

01:06:52satellite.

01:06:53Every layer

01:06:53of physical

01:06:54reality is

01:06:55being mapped

01:06:56by somebody

01:06:57right now.

01:06:58Different

01:06:58sensors,

01:06:59different angles,

01:07:00different purposes,

01:07:01same pattern.

01:07:02The interesting

01:07:03part is how

01:07:04they incentivize

01:07:04it.

01:07:04Google spends

01:07:05billions,

01:07:05map a

01:07:06Larry tried

01:07:06altruism,

01:07:07Hive mapper

01:07:08grinds with

01:07:08crypto,

01:07:09Pokemon Go

01:07:10cracked something

01:07:10none of them

01:07:11could,

01:07:11a game

01:07:12mechanic that

01:07:12subsidizes

01:07:13the scanning

01:07:14behavior.

01:07:14You're not

01:07:15building a

01:07:15map,

01:07:16you're catching

01:07:16Pokemon.

01:07:17The map

01:07:17is just a

01:07:18side effect.

01:07:193D scanning

01:07:19is still a niche

01:07:20hobby for

01:07:20reality capture

01:07:21nerds like

01:07:22the person

01:07:22writing this.

01:07:23The moment

01:07:24somebody gamifies

01:07:25dense 3D

01:07:25capture at

01:07:26scale,

01:07:26not post photos

01:07:27but actual

01:07:27geometry,

01:07:28that's when

01:07:29this blows

01:07:29wide open.

01:07:30Niantic sold

01:07:31the games for

01:07:313.5 billion

01:07:32but kept the

01:07:33spatial platform

01:07:33with a data

01:07:34sharing agreement

01:07:34in place.

01:07:35One team makes

01:07:36the game great,

01:07:36the other builds

01:07:37a spatial

01:07:37infrastructure

01:07:38underneath.

01:07:39Incentives

01:07:39finally aligned.

01:07:47It was

01:07:48reminding me

01:07:48of back

01:07:51in the

01:07:51early 2010s,

01:07:55there were

01:07:56these apps

01:07:56like Foursquare,

01:07:58Facebook had a

01:07:59version of it

01:07:59where every time

01:08:00you go out to

01:08:01see your friends

01:08:01or someone else

01:08:02would ever have

01:08:02you, you drop

01:08:03a check in,

01:08:04oh hey I'm here,

01:08:05oh hey I'm there.

01:08:05As it turns out,

01:08:07I never actually

01:08:08wrote about this

01:08:08but I was

01:08:09playing an article

01:08:09about,

01:08:10like everyone's

01:08:11kind of forgotten

01:08:11about Foursquare,

01:08:12I was doing

01:08:13local business

01:08:13marketing at the

01:08:14time,

01:08:14it was absolutely

01:08:15essential for

01:08:16social sharing

01:08:16and growing

01:08:17your business.

01:08:18So doing it

01:08:18whenever I did

01:08:19the magazine

01:08:19or nightlife

01:08:20everywhere we

01:08:20went,

01:08:21we'd drop

01:08:21on Foursquare,

01:08:22drop our

01:08:23location,

01:08:23all this type

01:08:24of thing to

01:08:24get people to

01:08:25show up and

01:08:25be aware of

01:08:25what we were

01:08:26doing.

01:08:27And as it

01:08:28turns out,

01:08:28all of that

01:08:29data is being

01:08:30used to basically

01:08:31construct these

01:08:323D AI powered

01:08:33models of the

01:08:34world of

01:08:35businesses,

01:08:36buildings,

01:08:36their layouts,

01:08:37all this type

01:08:37of thing.

01:08:38That's also

01:08:39part of this.

01:08:41All of this

01:08:42data that's

01:08:43been collected

01:08:44over the

01:08:45past 15

01:08:47years is

01:08:49now being

01:08:50aggregated

01:08:51into one

01:08:52giant digital

01:08:55construct of

01:08:57the world.

01:09:01Who controls

01:09:03that is

01:09:05is going to

01:09:05be the most

01:09:06powerful person

01:09:07or organization

01:09:07in the world?

01:09:09Mark it.

01:09:11March 16,

01:09:122026.

01:09:13Whoever controls

01:09:15this massive

01:09:16amount of

01:09:17digital data

01:09:18is going to

01:09:19be the most

01:09:20powerful person

01:09:22or organization

01:09:23in the world.

01:09:30the slope

01:09:31has slipped.

01:09:32We don't

01:09:32have privacy

01:09:33anymore.

01:09:36There is

01:09:37not anywhere

01:09:37you can go

01:09:38on this

01:09:38planet

01:09:40that has

01:09:41not been

01:09:41mapped,

01:09:42cataloged,

01:09:43marked,

01:09:44and so on

01:09:45by something

01:09:47somewhere.

01:09:51it's the

01:09:52Hollywood

01:09:52dystopia

01:09:53that we've

01:09:54been told

01:09:55about for

01:09:56years and

01:09:56years is

01:09:57about to be

01:09:57here.

01:10:01and there's

01:10:02no resistance

01:10:04and almost

01:10:04no one

01:10:05knows.

01:10:07And now

01:10:08we finally

01:10:09get to

01:10:10Iran.

01:10:11We're at a

01:10:11very long

01:10:12show tonight,

01:10:14which is good

01:10:15because my

01:10:16back is

01:10:16starting to

01:10:16kill me.

01:10:17I've been

01:10:17recording all

01:10:18this is like

01:10:19my third

01:10:19show today.

01:10:22loving this

01:10:23video from

01:10:23Bill Kristol.

01:10:24I might cut

01:10:24down some of

01:10:25our round

01:10:25coverage because

01:10:26my back is

01:10:26about done.

01:10:27But this

01:10:28video from

01:10:29Bill Kristol

01:10:29is,

01:10:31well,

01:10:32I must say

01:10:33I find it a

01:10:34little bit,

01:10:34it's kind of a

01:10:35syllogism when

01:10:36people talk about

01:10:36what a great

01:10:37ally Israel is.

01:10:39It is a great

01:10:40ally in defense

01:10:41of Israel.

01:10:44Which is fine.

01:10:45I mean,

01:10:45they're entitled

01:10:46to put that

01:10:47first.

01:10:48No,

01:10:48no,

01:10:48right.

01:10:49That's their

01:10:49great concern.

01:10:50Look,

01:10:50I mean,

01:10:50let's face

01:10:51it,

01:10:51at the end

01:10:51of the day,

01:10:52Iran is a

01:10:52much greater

01:10:53threat to

01:10:53Israel than

01:10:54it is to

01:10:54the United

01:10:55States.

01:10:55So when

01:10:56people say

01:10:58that Israel

01:10:58is a great

01:10:58ally in the

01:10:59fight against

01:11:00Iran,

01:11:02it's kind of

01:11:02like saying

01:11:03that South

01:11:03Vietnam was

01:11:04a great ally

01:11:04in the fight

01:11:05against North

01:11:05Vietnam.

01:11:07I mean,

01:11:07it was,

01:11:08but weren't

01:11:09we there to

01:11:10defend South

01:11:10Vietnam?

01:11:13So I must

01:11:13say I find

01:11:14it a little

01:11:14bit.

01:11:15Yeah,

01:11:15the campaign

01:11:16in the Iran

01:11:17war is so

01:11:17bad that PNAC

01:11:18co-founder

01:11:19Robert Kagan

01:11:20describes Israel

01:11:20as a strategic

01:11:21liability leading

01:11:22the U.S.

01:11:22into a quagmire.

01:11:24It's going to

01:11:25sing South

01:11:25Vietnam as a

01:11:26ally in the

01:11:26fight against

01:11:27North Vietnam.

01:11:29Yeah,

01:11:30that was,

01:11:30this was one

01:11:31of the first

01:11:31things I saw

01:11:32this morning,

01:11:32and I was

01:11:33kind of like,

01:11:34wow,

01:11:35the tide is

01:11:36already,

01:11:36is already

01:11:37turning.

01:11:40This video I

01:11:41thought also

01:11:42was interesting.

01:11:44The Iranian

01:11:45foreign minister

01:11:45is on Ari

01:11:47Velshi on

01:11:47MSNOW

01:11:49talking about

01:11:51the bombs,

01:11:52the nuclear

01:11:53weapons,

01:11:53and how

01:11:53this war

01:11:54could end,

01:11:56and that

01:11:57Iran is

01:11:58ready to

01:11:58give up

01:11:58their nuclear

01:11:59material,

01:12:00dilute it,

01:12:01downblend it,

01:12:02and that this

01:12:03is a big

01:12:03concession.

01:12:04Now,

01:12:04I love

01:12:05open source

01:12:05intel,

01:12:06and I read

01:12:06a lot of

01:12:07open source

01:12:07intel,

01:12:08and I do

01:12:08love this

01:12:08account,

01:12:09and they

01:12:09seem to

01:12:10think that

01:12:11it's,

01:12:12you know,

01:12:13that this

01:12:14is a big

01:12:15concession.

01:12:16I don't

01:12:17necessarily

01:12:17know that

01:12:19it is,

01:12:20but we'll

01:12:20hear what

01:12:21he has to

01:12:21I never

01:12:22said that

01:12:22we are

01:12:23going to

01:12:23make

01:12:23bombs.

01:12:24I said

01:12:25that we

01:12:26have 440

01:12:28kilos of

01:12:2860%

01:12:29enriched

01:12:30material,

01:12:30and that

01:12:31was not

01:12:31a secret.

01:12:32That is

01:12:33what is

01:12:33mentioned

01:12:34in the

01:12:34reports

01:12:35of the

01:12:37IAEA.

01:12:38So I

01:12:38said that

01:12:39look,

01:12:40this is

01:12:40mentioned

01:12:41in the

01:12:41report,

01:12:42this

01:12:43if

01:12:43enriched

01:12:44more

01:12:44can

01:12:46be good

01:12:47enough

01:12:48for

01:12:4810

01:12:49bombs

01:12:49as

01:12:50your

01:12:51own

01:12:51experts

01:12:51claims.

01:12:52So we

01:12:53are ready

01:12:53to give

01:12:54them up

01:12:54and to

01:12:54give

01:12:55them

01:12:55away.

01:12:55We

01:12:55are ready

01:12:56to

01:12:56dilute

01:12:56them,

01:12:57to

01:12:57downblend

01:12:57them

01:12:58into

01:12:58lower

01:12:59degrees.

01:13:00And by

01:13:00saying

01:13:01that,

01:13:01I

01:13:01wanted

01:13:01to

01:13:01say

01:13:02that

01:13:03the

01:13:03concession

01:13:03that

01:13:04we

01:13:04are

01:13:04making

01:13:05is

01:13:06really

01:13:07big.

01:13:08But

01:13:08how

01:13:09they

01:13:09have

01:13:10interpreted

01:13:10that,

01:13:11I

01:13:11don't

01:13:11know,

01:13:11maybe

01:13:11because

01:13:12the

01:13:13lack

01:13:13of

01:13:13enough

01:13:14knowledge,

01:13:14maybe

01:13:14because

01:13:15of

01:13:15their

01:13:16intentions

01:13:17to justify

01:13:17the act

01:13:19of

01:13:19agitation.

01:13:21suddenly

01:13:22they were

01:13:22having

01:13:22some

01:13:23connection

01:13:23issues,

01:13:24probably

01:13:24due to

01:13:24the

01:13:24bombing.

01:13:25Anyway,

01:13:26I thought

01:13:27that was

01:13:27an interesting

01:13:28aspect of

01:13:29the Iran

01:13:30situation.

01:13:30He's on

01:13:31American

01:13:32television

01:13:33saying,

01:13:34oh,

01:13:34we're

01:13:34willing to

01:13:35give up

01:13:35our

01:13:35nuclear

01:13:35material.

01:13:37I mean,

01:13:38for those

01:13:39that think

01:13:39Iran is

01:13:40losing,

01:13:40this isn't

01:13:41a great

01:13:41sign.

01:13:42like,

01:13:43you know,

01:13:44this isn't

01:13:48the talk

01:13:49of a

01:13:50nation

01:13:50who's

01:13:50ready to

01:13:51hunker

01:13:52down and

01:13:52beat the

01:13:53great imperialist

01:13:54power.

01:13:54It seems

01:13:55like Iran

01:13:56might be

01:13:57looking for

01:13:57an exit

01:13:57ramp.

01:13:58But

01:13:59that's

01:13:59based on

01:14:00this source

01:14:00of data.

01:14:01We've got

01:14:02a few more

01:14:02tabs.

01:14:03Let's

01:14:03keep

01:14:03going.

01:14:06According to

01:14:07Axios,

01:14:07Iranians

01:14:08will keep

01:14:08the

01:14:08trade

01:14:08of

01:14:08Hormos

01:14:09closed

01:14:09until

01:14:10they

01:14:10get

01:14:10a

01:14:10permanent

01:14:11peace

01:14:11deal

01:14:12even

01:14:12if

01:14:13Trump

01:14:13tacos

01:14:14gives

01:14:14up.

01:14:15Privately,

01:14:16U.S.

01:14:16and Middle

01:14:16Eastern

01:14:16officials

01:14:17believe

01:14:17the

01:14:17crisis

01:14:18could

01:14:18continue

01:14:18for

01:14:19the

01:14:19next

01:14:20six

01:14:20months.

01:14:23And

01:14:24it says

01:14:24that

01:14:24the

01:14:24administration

01:14:25in

01:14:25the

01:14:25United

01:14:25countries

01:14:26believe

01:14:26the

01:14:26instability

01:14:27in

01:14:27the

01:14:27Middle

01:14:27East

01:14:27and

01:14:27U.S.

01:14:28involvement

01:14:28could

01:14:28continue

01:14:29until

01:14:29September

01:14:30even

01:14:30if the

01:14:31war

01:14:31shifts

01:14:31to a

01:14:31low

01:14:32intensity

01:14:34journalist

01:14:34it

01:14:34plans

01:14:35at

01:14:35least

01:14:35three

01:14:35more

01:14:35weeks

01:14:36of

01:14:36attacks

01:14:36on

01:14:36thousands

01:14:37of

01:14:37additional

01:14:38targets

01:14:38in

01:14:39Iran.

01:14:41So that

01:14:42was in

01:14:42Axios

01:14:42this

01:14:43morning.

01:14:44Right

01:14:45now

01:14:46the

01:14:46Strait of

01:14:47Hormos

01:14:47does appear

01:14:48to be

01:14:48open

01:14:48to any

01:14:49ship

01:14:49that is

01:14:50not

01:14:51for

01:14:52Israel

01:14:52or its

01:14:53allies.

01:14:53A

01:14:54Chinese

01:14:54ship

01:14:55is

01:14:56supposed

01:14:56to have

01:14:56passed

01:14:57through

01:14:57the

01:14:57Strait of

01:14:57Hormos

01:14:57today.

01:14:58I

01:14:58think

01:14:58I

01:14:59have

01:14:59that.

01:14:59Did

01:15:00I?

01:15:00No.

01:15:01I

01:15:01didn't

01:15:02save that

01:15:02one.

01:15:06It's

01:15:06yeah

01:15:07but there

01:15:08was already

01:15:09like a

01:15:09Chinese

01:15:09ship

01:15:10that

01:15:10passed

01:15:10the

01:15:10Strait of

01:15:10Hormos.

01:15:11So the

01:15:11Iranians

01:15:12are basically

01:15:12letting in

01:15:13letting through

01:15:14ships of

01:15:15other

01:15:15countries

01:15:16that are

01:15:17not

01:15:17U.S.

01:15:18or its

01:15:18allies.

01:15:19How long

01:15:20before a

01:15:21Gulf

01:15:21state

01:15:23dumps

01:15:23the U.S.

01:15:24to get

01:15:24their product

01:15:24out?

01:15:26You know

01:15:27how long

01:15:28are these

01:15:28Gulf states

01:15:29going to

01:15:29hang on?

01:15:29My guess

01:15:30is not

01:15:30long.

01:15:33This

01:15:33video was

01:15:35this

01:15:36U.S.

01:15:36senator

01:15:36saying that

01:15:37Netanyahu

01:15:38waited 40

01:15:38years to

01:15:39find an

01:15:40American

01:15:40president

01:15:40quote

01:15:41stupid

01:15:41enough

01:15:41and

01:15:41reckless

01:15:42enough

01:15:42to start

01:15:42a war

01:15:42with

01:15:42Iran

01:15:43and

01:15:44exposed

01:15:44to the

01:15:44shifting

01:15:44lies

01:15:45and

01:15:45tragic

01:15:45murder

01:15:45of Iranian

01:15:45schoolgirls

01:15:47which was

01:15:48the response

01:15:48of the

01:15:48United

01:15:48States

01:15:49and we're

01:15:50not going

01:15:50to watch

01:15:50that whole

01:15:50thing.

01:15:53This

01:15:53is the

01:15:55analysis

01:15:55around the

01:15:56fertilizer

01:15:57situation.

01:15:59And so

01:16:00the

01:16:05short

01:16:05version

01:16:06of this

01:16:06is that

01:16:07and this

01:16:08is the

01:16:08important

01:16:08part

01:16:08the

01:16:09number

01:16:09that

01:16:09should

01:16:09haunt

01:16:09every

01:16:10policy

01:16:10maker

01:16:10on

01:16:10earth

01:16:11the

01:16:11yield

01:16:11response

01:16:12to

01:16:12nitrogen

01:16:12is not

01:16:13linear

01:16:13it's

01:16:13quadratic

01:16:14in

01:16:14wealthy

01:16:14countries

01:16:15that

01:16:15over apply

01:16:16fertilizer

01:16:16a 15%

01:16:18reduction

01:16:18costs

01:16:19maybe 3%

01:16:20of yield

01:16:20in the

01:16:21global

01:16:21south

01:16:22where

01:16:22farmers

01:16:22are

01:16:22already

01:16:22applied

01:16:23one

01:16:23seventh

01:16:23the

01:16:23global

01:16:23average

01:16:24the

01:16:24same

01:16:24reduction

01:16:25pushes

01:16:25crops

01:16:26off a

01:16:26biophysical

01:16:26cliff

01:16:27where

01:16:27production

01:16:28does not

01:16:28decline

01:16:28it

01:16:28collapses

01:16:29Sri Lanka

01:16:30proved

01:16:30this

01:16:30in

01:16:302021

01:16:31one

01:16:31season

01:16:32without

01:16:32synthetic

01:16:32fertilizer

01:16:33rice

01:16:33apple

01:16:34collapsed

01:16:3440%

01:16:34government

01:16:35fell

01:16:36now multiply

01:16:36Sri Lanka

01:16:37across 30

01:16:37countries

01:16:38simultaneously

01:16:40there's

01:16:41already

01:16:43plant

01:16:44slowdowns

01:16:45and shutdowns

01:16:45due to lack

01:16:46of fuel

01:16:46lack of

01:16:46oil

01:16:48there's

01:16:48the

01:16:49amount

01:16:49of

01:16:50ingredients

01:16:50and

01:16:51fertilizers

01:16:52coming out

01:16:52of the

01:16:53Gulf

01:16:53into the

01:16:54Strait of

01:16:54Hormos

01:16:54has already

01:16:55got

01:16:55most of

01:16:56Asia

01:16:56in a

01:16:57panic

01:16:57and this

01:16:57is happening

01:16:58right as

01:16:59crops are

01:16:59going in

01:17:00the ground

01:17:01even in

01:17:01the U.S.

01:17:02prices

01:17:02could spike

01:17:03costing

01:17:03farmers

01:17:04again

01:17:05millions

01:17:06of dollars

01:17:07in fact

01:17:08there's

01:17:08actually a bit

01:17:08in here

01:17:09about the

01:17:09corn belt

01:17:10where does

01:17:11it say

01:17:15might have

01:17:16not been

01:17:16in here

01:17:16I've read

01:17:17so much

01:17:18stuff today

01:17:19that sometimes

01:17:19they're like

01:17:19oh

01:17:19some stuff

01:17:20I did

01:17:21save

01:17:21some stuff

01:17:21I didn't

01:17:22save

01:17:22to just

01:17:23try to

01:17:23make this

01:17:24an efficient

01:17:24process

01:17:24but

01:17:24the corn

01:17:26farmers

01:17:26are already

01:17:27potentially

01:17:27not

01:17:28planting

01:17:28oh here

01:17:29it is

01:17:29while corn

01:17:30farmers

01:17:30are abandoning

01:17:31nitrogen

01:17:31intensive

01:17:32planting

01:17:32because they

01:17:33cannot afford

01:17:33$900 per ton

01:17:34ammonia

01:17:35against $4.50

01:17:36corn

01:17:37while the Fed

01:17:38is trapped

01:17:38at 3% core

01:17:40PCE interest rates

01:17:42with no room

01:17:43to cut

01:17:43and food inflation

01:17:44about to surge

01:17:44through every

01:17:45grocery aisle

01:17:45in America

01:17:46six months

01:17:47from now

01:17:48nobody's talking

01:17:49about this

01:17:49which if you

01:17:50go with the

01:17:51thing from

01:17:51before

01:17:52that says

01:17:52this is going

01:17:53to go on

01:17:53until September

01:17:54we could have

01:17:55expensive food

01:17:56well into the

01:17:57next couple

01:17:57years

01:17:58and shortages

01:17:59it will be

01:18:00the pandemic

01:18:00but worse

01:18:02and it will

01:18:02be global

01:18:06that's not all

01:18:07it gets worse

01:18:09according to

01:18:10I heard this

01:18:10over the weekend

01:18:12New York Times

01:18:13on Sunday

01:18:13said Mohammed

01:18:14bin Salman

01:18:14the crown prince

01:18:15of Saudi Arabia

01:18:17is urging Trump

01:18:18to keep striking Iran

01:18:19they are moving

01:18:20their oil production

01:18:21by a pipeline

01:18:22to the Red Sea

01:18:24and the New York Times

01:18:26also knows

01:18:26that Trump

01:18:27has been speaking

01:18:27with Prime Minister

01:18:29Benjamin Netanyahu

01:18:30every day

01:18:31and has been on

01:18:32the phone

01:18:33with MBS

01:18:33as much

01:18:36oh this was

01:18:38the economist

01:18:40confirming

01:18:40that Iran strikes

01:18:42were incredibly

01:18:43accurate

01:18:45before the satellite

01:18:47images were taken

01:18:48down

01:18:48and kept secret

01:18:49that Iran

01:18:54knew exactly

01:18:54what they were

01:18:56doing

01:18:58and how much

01:19:00damage they caused

01:19:00including damage

01:19:02with THAAD radar

01:19:03facilities in Jordan

01:19:04in Qatar

01:19:08in the UAE

01:19:10and that there was

01:19:11you know

01:19:12Iran strikes

01:19:13have been affected

01:19:14Iran didn't fire

01:19:15randomly

01:19:15Iran filed

01:19:16surgically

01:19:16targeting the eyes

01:19:17ears and arteries

01:19:18of the entire

01:19:19American military

01:19:20architecture in the region

01:19:21and the moment

01:19:22that became

01:19:22uneniable from space

01:19:23the satellites went dark

01:19:24Trump said Iran

01:19:25is 100% destroyed

01:19:26the 14 day blackout

01:19:28says they're not done yet

01:19:29the images that

01:19:29embarrass an empire

01:19:30disappear

01:19:31the missiles keep flying

01:19:34and that was

01:19:35started in the

01:19:35economists over the

01:19:36weekend

01:19:36last story

01:19:38last last story

01:19:39and this is how

01:19:41the

01:19:43the

01:19:43the war is

01:19:45is spreading

01:19:45Iran

01:19:46mass texting

01:19:47phones in Israel

01:19:49the British Royal Navy

01:19:51is sending a ship

01:19:52there are 40 million

01:19:54barrels of sanctioned

01:19:55crude sitting on the

01:19:55tankers off China's

01:19:56coast

01:19:58and China's stockpiling

01:19:59while the world

01:20:00burns

01:20:02and

01:20:04Putin

01:20:05is calling for

01:20:06de-escalization

01:20:07but will continue

01:20:08to help Iran

01:20:10Tucker Carlson said

01:20:12if you wake up

01:20:12and you're living

01:20:12in a country

01:20:13that thinks it's

01:20:13okay to kill

01:20:14children and their

01:20:14mothers

01:20:15something has

01:20:15gone terribly

01:20:15wrong

01:20:17Ted Cruz

01:20:17responded by

01:20:18calling Tucker

01:20:18the most dangerous

01:20:19anti-Semite in

01:20:20America

01:20:22and

01:20:23there now appears

01:20:24to be regime

01:20:25changes apparently

01:20:26kind of sort of

01:20:27off the table

01:20:28and this was from

01:20:29this morning about

01:20:29the Iran war has

01:20:30reached a new

01:20:31level

01:20:31some of these

01:20:31things are

01:20:32helpful

01:20:33some of them

01:20:34things are a

01:20:34little bit

01:20:36sensational

01:20:39so

01:20:41there's a

01:20:42a lot

01:20:45a lot

01:20:46happening

01:20:48and

01:20:49and that

01:20:51there's

01:20:52obviously

01:20:52things are not

01:20:53done yet

01:20:54obviously this

01:20:55conflict is not

01:20:55done yet

01:20:56and we know

01:20:57that

01:20:57and that's

01:20:58okay

01:20:59but

01:21:00the

01:21:01unfortunate

01:21:01reality is that

01:21:02there's

01:21:03a lot going

01:21:04on

01:21:04in all of

01:21:05this

01:21:05and there

01:21:06shows no

01:21:06end in

01:21:07sight

01:21:07and there

01:21:08seems to

01:21:08be increasing

01:21:09resolve in

01:21:09both

01:21:09Toronto

01:21:10Washington

01:21:10D.C.

01:21:11which ironically

01:21:11is what I

01:21:12also said

01:21:12last week

01:21:13so

01:21:14alright

01:21:15everyone

01:21:15my back

01:21:16is killing

01:21:16me

01:21:16I've been

01:21:17recording

01:21:17all day

01:21:17I'm super

01:21:18hungry

01:21:18time to

01:21:19go

01:21:19I'm having

01:21:20some lovely

01:21:20potato soup

01:21:21this evening

01:21:21I love a

01:21:22cozy potato

01:21:23soup

01:21:23it's pouring

01:21:23rain here

01:21:24we have a

01:21:25terrible storm

01:21:25on the east

01:21:25coast

01:21:26today

01:21:26it's pouring

01:21:26rain here

01:21:27so I'm

01:21:27going to go

01:21:28have a

01:21:28cozy soup

01:21:28with a

01:21:29little bit

01:21:29of ham

01:21:30some cheese

01:21:30on top

01:21:31will be

01:21:31delicious

01:21:32thank you

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01:21:33for watching

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01:22:00much for

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01:22:01I will see

01:22:01you next

01:22:02week

01:22:02have a

01:22:03great night

01:22:04oh I'll

01:22:04be here

01:22:04Wednesday

01:22:05with the

01:22:05living joke

01:22:05and the

01:22:05guys

01:22:07um

01:22:07so we'll

01:22:08be here

01:22:09Wednesday

01:22:09for that

01:22:09and the

01:22:09news

01:22:11interviews

01:22:11this week

01:22:12is Juliet

01:22:13Rose

01:22:13we talked

01:22:14about

01:22:14um

01:22:14writing

01:22:15and her

01:22:16fiction

01:22:16writing

01:22:17and everything

01:22:17and then

01:22:18uh

01:22:19tomorrow

01:22:20actually

01:22:20we will be

01:22:21having an

01:22:22interview

01:22:22with Steve

01:22:23Keen

01:22:24the economist

01:22:25about how

01:22:25economics is

01:22:26broken

01:22:26so make

01:22:27sure to

01:22:27tune in

01:22:28for that

01:22:29this week

01:22:29alright

01:22:30everybody

01:22:30have a

01:22:30great

01:22:31night

01:22:31bye

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