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04-25-2026 · 9h 47m
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last new Golden Boy Twitch streamer doesn't even try to hide.
34-year-old Hassan Piker not only hates America, he's hinting at a civil war.
A noted far-left influencer is declaring the Republican Party the biggest terrorist on earth.
Brechted evening, Hassan Piker is unapologetic for his controversial comments on a range of issues.
An anti-American far-left commentator who is named Hassan Piker.
Now that he's being highlighted, Democrats are flocking to him.
He's not out there on Hassan Piker's show, right? For example, right?
The man to his left is a very controversial guy, Hassan Piker, and sells just about everyone.
If you go back and listen to some of the things that he says, Carl, this guy's not going to wear well.
Their so-called Joe Logan of the left, Hassan Piker, is back in the headlines this time for calling Republicans terrorists.
Piker has a controversial history, and we've been showing this all week.
You don't give somebody like Hassan, Piker this kind of attention, this kind of platform.
It only rewards the kind of rhetoric that I just described.
Hundreds of students lined up and packed into these rallies and they ate up the anti-war anti-capitalist
and anti-establishment messages.
That's him, Hassan Piker.
They should stay away from him.
What's going on everybody?
I hope everyone's having a fantastic evening, afternoon, pre-noon, no matter where you
You are in the world in the Sampai, Grenada, and I'm broadcast coming to you live from
not so sunny, but as a matter of fact, mostly cloudy California Los Angeles 61 degrees and
mostly cloudy here in California, folks, we're live, we're live.
And I hope all the boys, girls and MBS are having a fantastic one because today's a
beautiful day.
Today's a wonderful day today is Saturday, folks.
That's right.
It's, it's Saturday.
It's April 25th.
I cannot believe that we are already, we are already going through the motions and the
month of April is already over.
It's this year has been slamming by this Saturday fun day today, but we got some serious news
to cover as well as some fun stuff coming to you live from stolen Tongma land.
I'm a son piker and this is the part of the broadcast where I tell you about my
personal news about what's going on in the world of Islam and Piker in between the time period where
I press the start streaming button and press the stop streaming button so help me God that is what
I'm gonna do. There's a clivicular update okay we'll take a look at the clivicular update as
well just want to see you know what he's up to I always want to know but in any case
Druku, thank you for the, thank you for the last off memes as always. Fantastic stuff.
But yeah, the biggest train station in the world is now open. Let me guess this in China.
Let me guess this in China. Okay, of course it is. Anyway, folks, folks, folks, what to say about
Let go. I mean, look, look, makes it a lot harder for me to criticize the goat when he's
doing go things, when goat is doing go talk, when goat is doing go things, it makes it
fairly difficult to call him hub Ron James, you know,
Bronny got five points, bro. Yeah, dude
Exactly with one assist from his dad
That is first of all, Bronny getting five, Bronny getting five points is
Is already it's it's a you got to give credit to LeBron for that
Okay, Bronny getting five points means like LeNut
But LeBron worked really hard to make sure Lynette Lacummies got those five points, okay?
In the playoffs, how many points have you got in the playoffs?
Anyway.
Anyway, well, yeah, there's a lot going on that we got to talk about today, but personal
news wise, I'm a shut ass losers always literally nothing happening.
happening in the universe. I went to bed last night. I went to bed last night and I woke
up early and I worked out. That's it. And I feel pretty decent, pretty good. Can be
be neutron piker. Yeah. Yeah, definitely not. Definitely not. It's not. I don't feel like
I'm him at all lately. Or I did feel like I was him, but no longer do I feel like I'm
him if that makes sense. But I'm a little sleepy. I'm a little EP. I'm an EP boy. Perhaps
it's because my day doesn't start at 2pm because I'm not mob-maxing. It could be one of those things
if we're being real. I'm not, I'm not, you know, operating on the same wavelength as some of these
fools, right? So that's probably what it is. I should be crime-maxing. Perhaps that is the
way to do it here, but I haven't done so. I haven't climaxed, for example. I've only
climaxed, if you know what I mean. Speaking of which, speaking of climaxing, Trump cancels
US Islamabad trip. It's Saturday, fun day. White House Correspondents' dinner weekend
is upon us, so there's a lot of drama there. A rock sheet to Islamabad, and also Trita
The Parsi will be on later to talk next steps with Iran, fun reacts, gaming, get in now.
You like that segue?
That's the, you like that segue, dude?
That's what you get.
That's what you get here on the Hassanab broadcast.
Okay.
Why is that Chinese flag flowing behind you?
You're not Chinese, that flag should be stationary?
What?
Why are you complaining?
First of all, I am Chinese.
I'm white Chinese.
Okay, I'm white Chinese.
Secondly, I am getting more.
I'm getting we're doing Billy Billy reacts. Chinese netizens are my only defenders on the internet.
So you're a sand person.
Okay. I mean, there's sand in China.
Um, I can't tell if that guy was being racist or not, but, uh, whatever, uh, people, please
speak like Patrick, but David, bro, and that guy, yeah, also that mouth quote in Chinese
he cooked you law, bro, bro came back from eight weeks ago at this point.
you
you
you
you
you
you.
guy who came in here. Hard as hell. Yeah, maybe he meant like Dan Clash should be hung
as in like, like I hope I, Dan Clash should have a very large penis. That's what he meant.
That's that's how I'm choosing to, to assume what his intentions were.
Okay, good. I was thinking you should have more suits made by them. Thanks. Thank you,
Annie. Any code, Musabla, um, as long as you're on board. Thank you. Oh my God. Oh my God,
the glaze. Oh my God.
You will enjoy this. Me giving a pep talk to Nenyeo's cancer cells.
This is just a short time ago.
Dude, so I've been googling, okay. I haven't chat GPTD yet, but like, what does it mean
if you get a prostate, like, if you get your prostate cancer checked out and like,
Can it come back?
What's the deal there?
I'm just asking for a friend.
I'm asking for a friend.
I've not, for no reason, I've been Googling a lot
about like how fast can a prostate cancer kill you?
What does it mean if you have recovered from the,
was it benign?
Because, like, once someone is diagnosed and treated, what does that mean?
Does that mean there's a relapse opportunity, for example?
Once again, just for personal interest, prostate cancer is a very low concern, especially for
rich people.
God damn it.
Okay.
I guess that's a good thing for all the older men, myself included, but for one particular
guy, that's kind of lame.
That's not great, you know.
Wait, what is this?
You made a website for tracking articles.
I made a track in an archiving website for articles made about you.
New York Post has written about a song by your 20 times.
Oh my God.
Fox News has written about a song by your 11 times.
Washington's Xamarin are 12 times.
New York Times written three times.
That's not true.
Chatter.
The New York Times has written about me over what time period?
Like a lot more than this.
Is this since the since the fuck Hassan stuff started? This is an incredibly cool website by the way. Wow
You know what we need to do
We low-key low-crucantually we need to make a website like this for like all the comment all of the
This is just from when the site was made. Oh
We need to do like a Hassan derangement syndrome website for like all the most common
insanity and then like and and aggregate all of the the retaliations of the
smears. What's your plans for St. Louis, I'm gonna
left us from a from the Nazi part of Southeast Missouri. I'm gonna be hanging
out Corbush in Missouri. Top tier moment, gaming moment from yesterday.
so like when when dudes see this they're like oh my god this is gonna make women
want to have children with me is that what is going on here because I've seen
this so many times bro this is AI art I don't fuck with this I'm sorry okay I'm
sorry for having principles that's AI art okay many of you love talking shit
Hassan why do you use AI art well oh you like it when the fucking AI makes
the art itself really cooked cooked actually cooked I'm based I'm based like
that I'm principled I'm based I don't fuck with AI art you jinxed yourself from
when you were going to fear and pod regarding mainstream media coverage
wait is that good or bad what's the bad one again Fox News I got on Fox News as
Well, that's I think he likes all attention as long as they don't like misconstrued my points. I don't really care
Okay, like or misattribute codes or anything like that and I'm happy. I think my commentary stands on his own
Yeah, no, you're right my W over the week is weak. I'm sorry. I got on CNN and you know this guy
We wanted him to be the Joe Rogan on the left, but he says he doesn't want that, you know, they did like a piece on that
You're the
Playlist for later. If I don't mention you have 415 buttfell. So he wants to come to
your house to see if it has locks. I will, I will have, okay. I like that.
I, I, uh, yeah, buttfell, get over here, little man. Come check me out.
The fuck's he gonna do? He's like 411. In any case, in any case, yeah, I, my wishes,
my biggest fears have become reality. Not only, not only am I getting a lot of mainstream
media press, a lot of press in the legacy papers, legacy publishers. But on top of that, it's
all fucking quotes out of context. Oh my lord, it sucks. But yeah, in any case, folks, we're
live, we're alive. We'll do the Chinese net as an update. I already told you guys, I got,
I got multiple Zhongshan suits that I'm getting.
But here it is.
We'll do we'll do Saturday, Monday as well.
There was someone in the chat that was saying, who's got a tummy ache?
I got a tummy ache.
I'm a tummy ache girlie myself today.
I don't know what that's about, but I'm a tummy ache girlie, too.
My stomach hurt.
Yeah, my tummy hurts a little bit.
Video for later boss man been whore man
The rise of online cruelty. Oh, I love this guy's great. Yeah. Yeah, we'll watch it. We'll check the shit out
Dude, I swear to God if you are even remotely to the left YouTube will bury you
Okay, YouTube will be like YouTube basically is like, oh, oh you made a thoughtful long
YouTube video essay about like how right-wing cruelty is on the rise. Well, guess what? You should kill yourself
That's basically what the YouTube echo thinks of anything that is
ostensibly leftist on the other hand on the other hand if
You were to do like the 17 millionth, you know a political drama slop
YouTube will be like here is seven million views for you
Please. Give me the dumbest commentary that has ever existed. Please do so.
Okay, anyway, yeah, this guy's living my dream.
This has been wacky. What happened at the end of regulation and what we're seeing now here in
OT, LeBron James? The only thing you can hope if you're the rock that's coming out of this
I mean, that's like, that's crazy. The goat throwing it back like that. The goat bouncing
on it. I mean, that's crazy. Yeah, he's grabbing the jersey too. Like, it's disrespectful.
Well, you still love him after he does a concert of Israel. No, no, no, no, he would never do that. Come on, stop. That was a, that was a momentary lapse of judgment. Okay. Y'all are too harsh. Y'all are too harsh.
harsh yet you made it up he's not he's not like that he he actually told me he's
he don't fuck with Israel like that he told me in private in a dream what that
I was dreaming where we were hanging out and playing baseball yeah he was
throwing a baseball bag of fourth cuz he's like yo has us on your I mean you
have a father figure in your life and you love your father but like honestly
he's Turkish so he probably never played baseball with you and I was like
Yeah, that's right. I've never actually tossed the baseball around with the father figure because like we're Turkish
So he's like I can be that guy for you and he's like hey also guess what I don't actually fuck with Israel
I just kind of said that
Anyway, uh reina jen thank you for the five gifted and bull
Bulu Bula junior thing with 25 gifted
Cool and time for some news
Yeah, yeah, he's like yeah, I talked to Kyrie I talked to Kyrie and he was like don't do that and I was like, you know what Kyrie I respect you that's what happened.
Iran is, oh dude, the F5, the F5 fighter jet? I know. It's pretty crazy. What city is your
Taylor in? In China? In Shanghai. I went to his place, if you remember. That's the one
who made my Zhongshan suit. But yeah, we'll talk about the damage to the American bases.
talk about like the the the work the belt to ass initiative as they're calling it you know how
there's the one belt one road Chinese style then there's also the belt to ass initiative
which is what the IRGC implemented against American bases in the region we'll get to that in a second
yeah um video from wired harbour professor answers iranian government questions okay
Okay. Oh my God, holy moly. All right. Hasan, let's look at Chinese innocence. When talking
about China's poverty alleviation, you always say it's a creditor capitalism. Then why don't
you learn from Chinese style capitalism? The biggest problem with capitalism is indeed
its inability to be logically consistent, just like resources only gather upwards, eventually
making survival impossible for the lower levels. How to stop this? Rely on the
morality of capital. The West often becomes overly anti-communist, leading to situations
where solutions are available but cannot be implemented because it's too
communist. Such self-defeating videos always bring a smile to one's face. The
difference between means and ends must be clarified. When the US talks about
poverty, do they automatically ignore the homeless? Do they not consider the
homeless as human beings? Poverty in China and the US are completely
different. In the US, poverty means homelessness, silently dying years later.
China has no homeless people, even the lowest shot are covered by household
enjoying five guarantees policy, ensuring safe housing, free healthcare,
for education, food and clothing, and funeral services. Orphans receive education support.
Additionally, there are state subsidies by 2025. Basic living allowances in some areas
will be around 500 to 1,000 yuan a month, not lower than the local villagers average
standard. Yeah, this was me reading the Vox.com article about the welfare structure that
doesn't exist in China. And this guy was saying like, I don't understand. Why are
you not pointing to like the Nordic countries as far as like the the best
standards and practice that we can apply here first of all I have no issue with
that right I have no issue with the Nordic countries let's move in that
direction because they're demonstrably further along if you're looking at if
you're looking at socialism or or any kind of alleviation of poverty or any
any kind of improvement in the material conditions of the working class in this country if it's
a spectrum, right? Which I think it is, right? Yes, social democracies like Scandinavian
social democracies are absolutely further along on that trajectory. Some might say
that the welfare structure is actually a lifeline for capitalism to continue. And
I understand that concept.
I however, don't think that it's bad to help people.
I think it's good.
In any case,
yeah, there's a reason why the Chinese trajectory
positive and the American trajectory is not. So just remember that this website is beautifully
made by the way chatter. So thank you for making it. I don't know. I hope you're not
mad at me for saying, oh, you didn't put all the articles in here. This is incredible
work. Thank you so much.
Uh-oh, I can't click out of this.
Organizaciones y miembros de M4 ya pueden hacer uso de nuestras fotos en.
I don't know what's going on there.
Oh, shit.
It took me to a different, okay.
One more dad moment.
Chatter gave you a virus? No, the X wasn't working.
Okay, he's bouncing on it. Oh yeah, we got clavicular updates as well.
Um, he's giving Charlie Kirk who is, oh, that's crazy.
We'll fight for the gospel of Islam.
Great, great.
All right, clavicular updates.
Ladies and gentlemen, I know you come in here for the straight of hormones or what's going
on in the world of politics, international relations.
Are we offensive?
Are we doing offensive realism?
Are we, instead, believers in the immortal science of Marxist Leninism?
What are we?
What are we doing?
What kind of international relations school of thought are we on board with?
Well, the only thing we actually cover here is the Clevicular Updates.
This is the Clevicular Updates page.
Clavicular broke down in tears after finding out his girlfriend he met 10 days ago is Pregante, leaving him overwhelmed and in shock after becoming a father at just 20 years old.
The updates on this guy read like those weird cartoon iPhone games where terrible things are happening to a woman and you have to give her a makeover.
True.
I hope that God this changes him you're out of your fucking mind and I also don't believe
this because he's famously infertile so that is not his child okay he is like he's very
famously infertile. And the reason for why is because he's been abusing steroids like a lot.
Also, the timeline on this doesn't add up. They met 10 days ago and she's already pregnant.
That's not how this works.
So I don't believe in anything. On principle, I don't believe anything that these accounts
actually post for the record. But I do think clavicular becoming a dad redemption arc is
a very funny thing to think. This community can be very funny at times. This is one of
those moments. She can tell off vibes clav is promoted and
created by Peter Thiel and this is his perma bottom 10 10 music
The baby's also mature maxing because she's been pergante for almost 10 days and they know
already.
Yeah.
Mr. Beast is what Mark's warned us about.
It's the year 1867.
What the fuck this is?
Four million views?
Geo graphane?
Who the fuck is this?
Fetishism, Human Alienation, Exchange Value, Capital Accumulation to Reserve Army? Wait,
what? What? How is there a video like this on the YouTube timelines for what? A month now,
and I have not even encountered it. Everything that my YouTube timeline is like, oh, you want
to hear what Michael Hudson's take is on the Strait of Hormuz? Do you want to hear
the 700th video on Mersheimer. I mean, I guess YouTube knows me very well, but that's my algorithm.
My algorithm is Mersheimer, the goat, Michael Hudson, also a goat, and Jeffrey Sachs. That's all,
my algorithm is just that, okay? They're, and they're all talking about American hegemony.
Jeffrey Sachs is talking about how American hegemony was a lie. There was no unipolarity
And and that unipolarity was just a lie. We told ourselves and in the process of of this belief that we have you
I do think Jeffrey sags a little bit of a rustle file
By the way, I just I do get that vibe. I know I'm not awesome like pronato shit when I say this
But like the way he sometimes talks about the way he sometimes talks about Russia
makes me feel like he's he's a little bit of a Russo file because he's like he's talking about how
like emerging powers and emerging em employers like Russia and then Michael Hudson is a cutie
patootie our m HUD or the economist m HUD you'll react to these kinds of videos you
to get 1 to 2 million views by the way I know. YouTube personally hides content like this
getting more obvious by the day some freaky shit buddy this has 4 million views I don't
think YouTube did a good job hiding this content maybe it maybe it hid the content for me.
I'm a turka file I get really excited to celebrate Thanksgiving. Maybe it's remorse
Thanks for having participated in the dire state of the Russian Federation now.
It would have 4 billion views if it wasn't hidden, I agree.
Sax is trying to atone for his sins in Russia and Eastern Europe.
All those views are bought by China.
Xi Jinping is using soft power to manipulate America.
He used.
Bro, I wish that was the case. Give me a boost, Mr. Shee. Give me a boost, please. Give me
a leg up. I've been fighting reactionary forces, damn near on my own, non-fuckin' stop. And
now I have to do it for the mainstream media too.
Like, at least with mainstream media, the adults were a little bit more intelligent than
the average drama slop tuber. And since they got the billionaire Boskal and the
Israel Bosco, Fox News, and some even on CNN and whatnot have been behaving in an identical manner
to like the drama slop tubers being like Hasan is a bad bad guy.
It's all fucking believable. Anyway, things are devastatingly bad in the United States of America,
regardless of what people choose to focus on. Here's one update. U.S. consumer sentiment at
lowest level ever recorded worse than 2008 and worse than 2020 according to
University of Michigan. Now hold on, hold on, hold on guys.
Once you hit rock bottom, there's only one way. Okay. And that's up. Do you understand?
So, it's gonna be, it's gonna be good. Okay? I'm so, I'm personally fucking tired of winning. I'm tired in general, but I'm certainly tired of winning.
Okay.
It was bad in 08. This was way worse. I had to get a second job to pay bills and eat.
Trump can pass out whatever he is suited on to help us out when it's Marandi coming
on. Okay, probably not anytime soon. You are a victim of your own success like Conquest
What?
Hasan Minhaj, the better Hasan Meir is you're taking this recent interview?
They is a dead empire.
And the United States is a, I mean, it's an Instagram country.
I told you this, that you live in an Instagram country.
So there's like Instagram countries where you bring your girlfriend, you take photos,
you whisper in castles and you keep on moving.
It's an Instagram country.
France is an Instagram country, Hungary is an Instagram country.
Do you think of why is it an American Instagram country?
I mean, that's interesting with the yellow taxis and they're like, I'm walking around
today going like, when is like, Rachel and Ross gonna like pop out of the name?
Okay, first of all, first of all, America doesn't really have a lot of Instagrammable locations.
Like, his, his assessment is just New York City, which is the only city in America.
If we're being real, like, I know there's other cities in this country.
I certainly don't live in one.
I live in Los Angeles, not a real city.
Um, you know, Philadelphia is kind of a city, you know, like the, the, the, the, uh, north
eastern territories where people initially settled have city like qualities.
And then the further out you go, Chicago is like the last point.
And then past the point of Chicago, it's like not real cities.
San Francisco tries to be one, right?
And it has city-like qualities, but it almost feels alien.
There's no other way to explain it to you guys.
I know you're going to get mad.
This is a take that people will get upset at.
San Francisco is like desperately trying to hold on to the notion of being a city.
But as far as like cosmopolitan, like global cities, New York City is probably the only
one that meets that standard.
San Francisco is drawing a city from memory, yes.
It's beautiful, by the way.
A lot of these places are beautiful.
You don't have to be a city.
I'm just saying that like, I've been all around the world, okay?
I've been all around the world. And, and the reality of the matter is like the United States
of America has cities, but they're not like, it's not, I don't know how to explain it. Like
it's just not a real, not a fully fleshed out city. It's very American. There's an American,
um, there's an American vibe associated with it that turns it into not a city kind
You're sleeping on Dallas. Brother, if you are a holding ground for like 11 ex-herbs,
you are not a city. You're a parking lot. Okay? This is what I'm talking about. Like, that's
unbelievable. That's an unbelievable statement to make. At least with like San Francisco,
you can make the argument because there's like workable public transit. It's walkable.
There's a there's a sense of community associated with it, whereas most other cities in the United
States of America is like Dallas. I was joking, don't worry. Oh, okay. None of this is bad,
by the way. It's just, it's beautiful in different ways, right? To each their own. I mean,
I live in a dog shit city myself. I live in Los Angeles and I fucking love this place.
In any case, my point was he's in New York and he's like, well, that's Instagramable. Well,
It doesn't you know, that doesn't translate to other places. No, there's too many
Potholes is too shitty here. Yeah, it's not aesthetically pleasing, but we are so you come from a dead empire
This is a dying empire. Yeah, the United States. We're here. We're on our deathbed. We're coding
We're about to dive cardiac arrest as someone who is living in the future and has lived through the future
What do we have to look forward to as we see the light?
Well, you have to look forward to is a lot of people you never think about nature
It's infuriating. Oh my god. Here we go. Communist Wyoming guy
Yeah, I wonder why I
Wonder why I'm all the fucker from Wyoming will be like you never think about nature
Yeah, I don't think about the cows either which happened to be your only neighbors
Okay
It's crazy
We're talking about cities right now. This is city slicker shit. Okay. This is city slicker shit
We'll claim in that they can bring me and pie back to life by doing increasingly stupid stuff like Brexit
So like, you know the fantasy I said, I'll be you talk big shit with the only real city in Turkey was just stolen from the Greeks
true
But this is the Turks now and belongs to the Turks now bitch, so
Your empire doesn't leave just because the reality of it has left
You know, it's uh that that mythology is so intoxicating and powerful
You know, and let's see the idea of like we once were great and we're gonna you're sleeping on Salt Lake City
Okay, now people are trying to get me to shit on their hometowns. Okay?
Salt Lake City is unbelievable
because I don't think it should legally be called a city. Here's why. Salt Lake City is
the modern version of what you see in westerns when you roll up with your horse and there's
like one strip where the saloon and the barbershop is like across from one another. That's literally
Salt Lake City. It is literally what Salt Lake City is. It's one strip. It's like three blocks long.
I'm not even joking, bro. It's unbelievable when people were like, oh, you got to come to Salt Lake
City. And by people, I mean, Cutie Cinderella. I could not believe it. It is literally a red
dead redemption to town that was modernized. They basically went, all right, let's modernize
this this one strip is actually unbelievable I've never seen anything like it I've never
seen anything like it I mean it's nice the nature is nice but if you don't fuck with
nature like I don't really fuck with nature it's just not like that's that it doesn't
make any sense you go there and you're like what would they call this a city where's
the city. It looks like they forgot to load the rest of the city, bro. It's literally three
blocks. I'm not even, you think I'm joking. I'm not joking. Okay. It is straight up three
blocks long. Okay. You walk from one end of the city to the other end. You're like, where's
the rest of the city? Why hasn't, why haven't the rest of the buildings loaded?
Anyway, literally the streets were engineered to be able to turn around a team of oxen.
It feels strange.
Get back there again.
It's kind of something that has haunted so many civilizations again and again, you
know, like the periods of the Roman Empire about trying to get back to where we were
before or you know this kind of like revivalism. I love the shaggies though. I think it's like
a big is a big part of the politics of denial you know so I kind of think that the reality
of empire arguably is dying arguably may already be dead the more forceful you have
to be to control your empire the more shaky your control is over it probably right so
Kind of thing that actually that the narrative of empire will remain and may actually become even more strident
And so the actions to try and shore that empire up. It's like, you know smallest kid in the club like it's the small guy
Outside the club at 3am at 3am. You've got to be worried about right? It's like that kind of overcompensate everything
So I think we're gonna see more bombing of more countries and I think we're gonna see more of this kind of like
Being of the war drum more posturing brown men have legit swag
Yes, they've been having legitimate swag.
More grandiose narratives.
The more the reality is this interview sucks.
Riz doesn't say Pakistan Zindabad even wants.
That's crazy.
Pakistan Zindabad has become basically my Am Israel high chant in the morning.
I wake up in my mind.
I'm thinking Islamabad is the table.
Pakistan is at the table, and I say to myself, Pakistan's in the box and then I move on with
my day.
It gives me the energy necessary.
My life for Pakistan, okay, okay, communist Wyomingite, remember when you apologized
for being crazy, literally two days ago.
That was, that was, or maybe it might have even been
last night actually.
Look, nope, it was four days ago.
Last time you were gaming, I was being insufferable
in a psychotic channel and I wanted to say I'm sorry
and I'm grown.
I wanna see that growth, okay?
I wanna experience the growth.
I wanna see the growth.
I want you to hold yourself to account, I believe in you, okay?
It seems like some tensions are bubbling up inside of you once again, because you feel
like maybe it's your favorite state that you're from is under attack.
It's not under attack, okay?
You got me again.
I'm sorry I'm being insane again.
It's fine.
It's a beautiful state.
One day I will visit and I will see it with my own two eyes, okay?
I understand being sensitive and being a little crazy.
If you are literally the only communist in Wyoming, yeah, it probably feels lonely at
times. Okay. Turkey is not and will never again be the table. Get used to it, buddy.
Don't even bring this up, bro. Turkey. Turkey is not only no longer the table. Turkey is
about to get fucking invaded by Israel. Okay. It's the opposite of being the table or at
the table. Turkey is close to being Israel's next target or rather Turkey is close to being
three minutes away from developing nuclear arms, if you will.
Yeah. Turkey's no longer at the table. Turkey's being served as a whole ass meal. Okay. Come
the little Majedistan Cleveland, Ohio.
All right. Anyway, we'll do all of this. We'll do all of this. We'll get to it.
Rooted out. Federmas says key issues should be 100% bipartisan.
For Medicare and Medicaid services, Dr. Oz is putting governors on the clock to clean up the fraud in their states.
Governors, I'm calling on you to act now.
Frosters and other bad actors are draining Medicaid funds.
within 10 years. He means Armanians. He means Armanians. I'm not even kidding. He literally is like,
yeah, they're doing Armanian style schemes. Okay. I went, I went to Glendale. I saw my
own two eyes. They're doing Medicare fraud, Armanian style. We must put an end to it.
Okay. If you've got Armanian in your neighborhood, ask them about what kind of medical fraud they're
engaging in. The American people need to know, will you move forward with making sure the
the providers are re validated and can be trusted with the care of our most
vulnerable citizens. And in 30 days, they need to know what's your timeline
and what's your scope.
So we'll governor step up and protect Medicaid in their states. Let's bring
in Senator John Federman. Why are you asking John Federman that?
What the fuck does John Federman know about anything? He doesn't have the
talking points downloaded for this. Oh my God. He's finally they let him
out of his cave. Dude, they let the, they let the ogre out. He's no longer in the prison
that he was in. This is his, I assume his, his Senate office. Wow. Big boy. Big boy's
in DC. He's no longer in the bunker and Senator Fetterman. Always great to see you. I know
Dr Oz was your former opponent. You beat him. You're the senator from Pennsylvania,
But I'm wondering what you think of his effort and the government's effort to clean up fraud
in these states.
Yeah, no, I mean, I think I think it's a good thing overall, absolutely.
I mean, rooting out all the fraud, that should be absolutely bipartisan.
I don't care if it's in a red state, blue state, you know, whatever that is, root
it out.
I mean, that's all American taxpayer money.
And the more money that you can root out in fraud, that means you can provide
more resources for the vulnerable Americans that really actually use that service right
now. Absolutely. That should be a hundred percent kind of support thing, regardless of the party.
Absolutely. Another thing that is befuddling me really is I was reading this punchable
article and it's about Democrats, some congressional, many of whom probably would love to be a
senator rather than a congressman, coming around and not saying whether they will
support you in your bid for reelection potential.
Why is, first of all, number one, why is Fox News talking about the re-election of a Democratic
senator?
Hmm, interesting.
Number two, I will give him credit.
He actually said full sentences there, okay?
That was a big day for him.
This is a big day for him.
He's doing great.
He's doing great.
He's able to let out, he's able to belt out full sentences.
So congratulations. There was at least one full sentence in there. Yeah, they put them
on the Biden drugs. That's what happened. They put them on the baby spinal fluid. Get
yourself out of office then ogre stenchy farting fraudster. Yeah, there is 0% chance.
Chuck Schumer. But aside from that, I don't see many Democrats rushing to endorse John
Federman's reelection. He is genuinely brain dead. I mean, he's actually, he got, he is
the clearest example of conservatism born out of mental, your mental faculties diminishing.
Like, he got hit with a stroke, he stroked out, and he became conservative.
It is, and it happened in real time and happened in front of people's, in front of people's
eyes, like people saw it.
We observed it, like he is the first case of political CTE, conservative trauma.
As soon as his mental faculties diminished, he became conservative.
He became more reactionary.
What more do you want to see?
It's all in 2028, but I saw this pupil and it was in a great article written about you
by Celine Zito in the Washington Post.
And this pupil said that 67% of Republicans, 72% of Democrats said that their parties should
be accepting of members who agree with the other side on some issues.
So I'm wondering if you see a disconnect between maybe Democrat elected officials and what
Democrat voters are actually saying.
You as a maverick who really just calls the shots as you see them.
Well, I mean, like, for example, I'm going to follow what I think is the moral clarity
or that's the right side of history.
Upcoming week, you know, there's going to be about 60 days for Epic Fury.
I'll remain to be the only Democrat to formally support this.
Now, I know that it's very, very toxic as a Democrat
to support that, because that's also married to Trump.
That's a double stack of a very difficult
as a Democrat to support it.
I've seen the polls, it's about 4% of Democrats support that,
but I'm proud to support what's the right thing,
and that's where I'm going to remain.
I'm going to tell my constituents in Pennsylvania
that, hey, I am a Democrat,
but I think that doesn't mean
that the other side is always wrong
or that they're terrible people
or they're trying to destroy our democracy
because you know they're your neighbors,
they're your friends, they're your family members as well too.
So that's where I'm at.
And I would rather be truthful and be on the right side,
especially it's something like Iran and Israel,
that's much, much more important than my career
and my standing with my colleagues in the house,
definitely.
Senator, when I look at your voting record, you and I are very much opposites. I mean,
I'm pro. Are you guys, why would you be opposites? What is the last progressive legislation John
Federman has voted on? And I mean that seriously, maybe there's some stuff that is just like,
some stuff that he's doing that I'm not seeing. But like, what, what, what are you talking
about. He has been unbelievably conservative. He's been so conservative that he's more conservative
than the average Republican senator, especially in the way that he communicates on the issue
of Israel and Iran.
I'm not even joking when I say this. Republican senators are at times more restrained than
John fucking Thetterman is. He is literally out meeting Lindsey Graham, okay? There are
very few Republicans that speak this much about being openly and flagrantly Israel first.
The last progressive legislation was allowing to buy hot rotisserie chicken with flu stamps.
Yeah, I mean, there's not a lot of progressive legislation anyway, but like I'm just saying,
there's, you know, there's like messaging bills and stuff. He votes against them. So,
he's switching parties after the midterms, 100% dim senate math is cooked. No, he's gonna get,
he needs to get primaried out.
He is unironically 44 to 47 when it comes to the most conservative senate members.
Oh my god, wait, shut the fuck up. Oh my god. I guess he was a sponsor of Raise the
Wage Act, so that's cool. Is that it? Is that the only thing he's not sponsoring Medicare
for all no college for all no block block the bombs destroy the war powers
resolution VHS I VHS including ice appropriations yes oh my god he's
literally wait what the fuck by the way wonderful that Maggie Hassan is here as
as well. Bro misclicked. Maggie Hassan is number 46 on this list, which also is very
cool. Bro, isn't it progressive? He's just P. I mean, he's not, he's not a progressive.
The world's is oyster. What's next for Federman? Is he going to flee to Israel and live
a forest cave and terrorized the smurfs. Senator John Federer receives no support for re-election
for Pennsylvania House Democrats. Yeah, that's, I mean, yeah, he's probably going to move to
Israel, I guess. What else can he do? He doesn't love this country. He genuinely, I mean,
I don't think he even loves Israel. I think he's just, he's just being kept alive by the
The latest Israeli tech to be a reliable vote in support of Israel and or maybe even being
kept alive by the latest Republican tech in general.
But it's over.
Well, life conservative, you vote like a Democrat.
I mean, I mean, all the way down.
I was looking this way.
Okay.
People are saying he's giving me a podcast or he's going to be on Fox news, buddy.
If you think anyone will give a single solitary shit about what this fucking ogre has to
to say, after he's out of Senate, after he's no longer a Democrat, you're out of your mind.
Okay, this is the Joe Manchin conundrum. I kept repeatedly explaining to people over
and over again back in the day, Joe Manchin was only relevant and only was able to get
tremendous amounts of fundraising dollars because he was a Democratic spoiler. If he was the
regular Republican vote from the state of West Virginia.
No one would give a shit about him, okay?
No one would care about Joe Manchin, and no one would care about John Fetterman if he
was a unremarkable, if he was just a regular unremarkable Republican senator from the
state of Pennsylvania.
So it's the same principle.
He's only relevant because he is a Democratic spoiler, okay?
It's really funny when people talk about how, you know, maybe one day he could become a
podcaster or a Fox news host or whatever, he can't cause he can't talk.
He can't fucking talk.
So how is he supposed to do this for a living?
He can't, he can't lobby.
Everybody hates him.
Again, he can barely communicate.
The only reason why they keep putting this ogre man baby on television is because he's
a Democrat who keeps talking like Lindsey Graham.
That's it.
And then I look at people like Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who he used to support closing
the border.
He used to support Republican nominees on the other side of the aisle.
I know it's changed.
Partisan politics has changed that on both sides.
But it seems to me that you-
Do you see Ed Hanomar shut down her whiner because she's guilty of fraud?
What?
Ilhan Omar does not have a winery. I assume that's Ilhan Omar's husband. She's being
investigated, I mean. Also, let Ilhan Omar do fraud. Okay. That's my take. Put that shit
on Fox news. If you want, she's allowed as a treat. Ilhan Omar is allowed to do fraud
now. Okay. That's it. That's the, that's the socialist FATWA that I have delivered as the,
as the woke a tola, the woke I a tola, the woke Marxism, I a tola I'm saying let Ilhan
Omar do fraud. Okay. Give her a Gundam. Let her do some fraud. She should at least be
allowed to beat the shit out of someone who is not even allowed to fight back once a year.
Okay. Those are, those are my allowances for you, Han Omar.
The most galling thing is that Connor Lam, Ram, Joe Manchin and Federmann spent the primary
pretending he'd be the bane of the right wing, I know. But like this is, this is, this is a unique case.
Like everybody knows this is a unique case. This is like not even a replicable thing unless
there is literally a CIA stroke gun that makes you more conservative, right?
You are the same kind of Democrat that existed 10 years ago, but the party has taken
a different direction. Maybe you could say the same of the Republican party. I don't know.
But do you feel you have remained in this line and maybe Schumer and others have gone in a different direction?
Well, what I am what I'm saying is that the democratic party is definitely changing
Well, when I was I was asked what's the leader in the party. I said, yeah, that's easy. That's the tbs
You know, absolutely
You know, our our our beliefs are going the exact opposite of what trump really supports for this things
And now, for example, like the Democrats love the New York Times, and now the New York Times
love Hassan Piker, and Hassan Piker loves Hamas.
I mean, you know, they just platform him all the time.
And now they're celebrating, you know, shoplifting, and even here saying, well, maybe they have
a point to gun innocent COOs down in cold blood.
So that's kind of the part of bizarre mutation and beliefs within my party.
You know, Israel.
Now that's very, very punishing as a Democrat to stand with Israel. Now I'm never going
to betray Israel. Damn dude. It's still on his mind. Yeah. It's, I mean, it's not nothing
is on his mind. His mind is nothing. There's nothing in there. These are just talking
points. 80% of Democrats view these are just talking points that they give him every
day when they're like, all right, John, time to go on Fox news again. Time to
go on Fox News. It's your daily Fox News time. He has to be getting mind tortured. No, I think,
I think in many respects, I think in many respects he might be at peace a little bit because
I feel like he was way more depressed back in the day, probably like he wanted to kill
himself. But maybe as his mental faculties have deteriorated, I assume that he no longer
has even like this self-awareness. So he doesn't want to kill himself any longer because he has
no thoughts, right? Because in some respects, like, like I'm saying, like he might be too stupid.
Genuinely. Ignorance is bliss. And I think that's where he's at at this point.
He went from a Sampakir to Israel. He's getting talking points. He's a one-issue politician. Yeah.
hell no, hell no, once he had the stroke, A-PAC stuck his brain with a USB stick.
No, he still wants to kill himself according to his staff. I don't know about that, man.
I can't believe the New York Crimes platforms you. I know. I know. I can't believe the
New York times is pro homos now. It's crazy. The New York times. Okay. Uh, uh, uh, uh, Maggie
Hababa, uh, wrote a report that said, uh, Benjamin Netanyahu is controlling Trump. And that's
a good thing. Why is the New York time saying that bad? Benjamin Netanyahu control me and
I love it. He is such a good lover. He is selfless. He even gave me extra dog treat after
this communication on Fox. He gave me extra dog treat today and he gave me my favorite
chew toy that I can play with afterwards because he said I keep ripping apart the
plushy ones
so i want the con one
and he gave me the con chuteau
today
thank you fox news
and thank you benjamin neton yahoo
that you know for me that the problem isn't with me i think the problem is with
me that
that part of the parties
just turning their back on the moral clarrities
you know when i look back in in your big twenty twenty two victory i was
looking at some of the numbers
i mean you absolutely smoked through the primary i believe you want by thirty
percent. It was an enormous victory. Didn't you move forward to the...
Yeah, I don't think that's happening again, big dog.
Summerly for Senate.
Abdul's been saying it. I'm saying it too. Summerly for Senate.
General, you win that. Democrats have this big pickup in Pennsylvania.
They haven't had much success in the Senate after your election from 2022 on.
But as we approach the midterm, does anyone come to you, the DNC,
anyone saying like, how do we fix this?
How do we recreate what you've done?
Or is TDS just that controlling of an idea?
TDS.
All I do is I-
Okay, first of all, can we, can I just say something?
Like I know I've been talking about Hassan derangement
syndrome a lot lately and people will be like,
wow, that's just like Trump.
It's like a derangement has to imply
that you are insanely hyper fixated
in a way that is inconsistent with the severity of the situation. You can't say TDS when the
motherfucker is the president, okay? Like being deranged about the president or hyper fixating
on the things that the president does is not a derangement, it's just politics, okay?
It's so insane, wow.
What are we doing again?
I guess the Democrats are criticizing the Republican president again, that's not a derangement.
That's just normal politics.
What is a derangement on the other hand, is doing eight new stories a day about a fucking
Twitch streamer as Donald Trump is waging war against Iran at the behest of Israel and nuking
the global energy markets.
That's a derangement.
It's happening right now.
You got a fucking ogre that only cares about Israel who can't even fucking talk on your
news broadcast talking about a motherfucking Twitch streamer.
That is the real derangement.
You can't just say, wow, the Democrats are obsessed with my president, first of all, John
Federman being the Democrat himself here.
Yeah, this is at the arrangement, okay?
This is at the arrangement.
This, this is the actual derangement.
What is this true and real today's top story?
Son piker. Son piker is the worst kind of racist anti-white. Son piker makes me uncomfortable about my sexuality. Son piker is... Chinese?
Mao Zedong
Armenian Genocide. He's anti-some-some-
The man by back. He's sexist, which is like I
Think which is bad now
He paints his nails.
What's that like fucking gay?
It's me, Fox News, and I really sincerely care about the direction of- I'm so sincere
in my care for- I would never call Democrats bad, if not for Hassan.
I mean I wish this was I wish this was a joke is not I wish this was a fucking joke I never thought that like whole-ass adults
cells, would behave in the same way as like internet drama slop tubers who are right-wing
in their politics, but at least have the decency not to reveal that.
So they'll just do like drama slop and it's a, you know, algorithm back. It's crazy. Jake
has been Kansas, if an alien came down to earth and you explained football and politics
to them and then showed them the site, they would assume Diana Rossini was a quarterback
the Dallas Cowboys and a Sompiger was the president of the United States. At some point,
the media has to get a little bit of, get a little bit less self-obsessed.
Everything can't be a media narrative when media is dying, you know? There's a world out there. I know.
They banned pauses on LSF, so they had to outsource the mainstream news. It's just,
it doesn't even work. So I don't even know why they're fucking doing it. Like,
there is no real goal here unless you're trying to get me killed, you know, at which
point, I guess that's it. I guess that's the only goal that I can identify here with what all of these
articles are supposed to do. Because this kind of drama isn't necessarily a bad thing.
There's a lot of negative polarization that has already taken place with major mallets in general.
So, it's not gonna work as far as like, you know, getting people to be like, wow, I really
fucking hate this guy who says billionaires are responsible for the issues that we're experiencing
instead of what?
Oh, wow, I really hate this guy who said Israel is evil.
I certainly didn't think that way.
Or better yet, I did think that way.
I did.
I used to think that way.
But now that you said this guy is bad for thinking that way, I no longer think that way.
I think Israel is good now.
It should get all of our tax dollars as a matter of fact.
You're being Corbett.
I know, but it doesn't work because Corbettism, like the Corbettization only works if
The environment has like positive opinions about Israel in general, associates any kind
of criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism.
Corbinism only works in 2016, 2017, 2018, maybe even in 2022.
Corbinism doesn't, you can't carbonify someone.
You can't carbonize someone in 2026, it doesn't fucking work that way.
It literally only ends up boosting their fucking profile.
Also, here's the other part of the story.
I'm not running for office. I'm not running for office. I'm a fucking twitch streamer. Oh my god
It's unbelievable
These motherfuckers are making it seem like I'm not only running for office
I'm already the president of the democratic party. Okay
There's a shadow presidency here and it's me. I'm running the I'm running the show. I'm running the democratic party
I'm the real president of the country. The shadow president. You were my right in? Okay,
I got one vote, dude. I got one right in vote. One, one. That's it. 80 million more to go.
I can be just one voice and have the voice of reason and standing with the things that
all Democrats should, like secure a border, deport all the criminals, stand with Israel
critical allies.
And now remind everybody, every single Democrat has said, you know, Iran can never have a
nuclear bomb.
Here we are now.
We're at the cusp.
Why are we able to just walk away from that?
A lot of Democrats, you know, like,
well, that could be a win for Netanyahu or Trump.
So like, that's, I'm proud.
I'm proud to be on the right side.
And now I know that's very, very, very toxic as a Democrat
to do that.
That shouldn't have been toxic for a Democrat.
In fact, that used to be a lot of things
that our Democrats happened to believe.
Yeah, I think you have a key attribute in politics
that is hard to find its authenticity.
I encourage everyone to read that piece by Selena Zito.
I enjoyed reading about how you enjoy a hot dog,
your big glass of water, your cucumbers,
and I even saw in Braddock,
someone has a flag that says,
Federman for president.
So I look forward to following your career,
Senator Federman.
Be sure to like it.
Oh my God.
Um.
Oh, here we fucking go.
All right.
The world's, I mean the greatest name
in late night comedy, okay?
The best name in late night comedy, Greg Buttfell.
Okay, apparently in this one, the Butster,
the Buttmeister himself actually talks about
potentially coming to my house
and testing out my locks, he says, which is incredible.
(*applause*)
Stupid pampered douchebags defend looting.
Would you scale some whole foods?
You want to go first?
Yes, and I have under very specific circumstances. I think that I feel so bad for Gia, bro. Cause
like she just got caught on the fucking crossfire. No one and I mean no one experiences this level
of scrutiny, this level of heightened scrutiny. When I say that, I mean it sincerely, like
I know in this community, we catch this stuff all the time, so you're aware of how insane
people get.
But the average person, even if they have a profile, even if they have like, because
Gia is a writer, right?
So she has somewhat of a profile in mainstream media.
She's gotten mainstream attention before.
She has never received this level of hatred.
She has never received this level of hatred before.
Just by virtue of sitting across from me on a New York Times podcast, I feel so fucking
bad.
I'm feeling from a big box store.
I'll just state my platform.
It's neither very significant as a moral wrong, nor is it significant in any way as protest
or direct action.
But I did steal from Whole Foods on several occasions.
I'm pro stealing from big corporations, just, you know, they steal quite a bit more
from workers.
workers. But what about the argument that if everyone just starts stealing
wantonly from these self checkout machines, whole foods will eventually raise
the prices? Yeah, they, chaos, full chaos. Let's go. Yeah, that's a great
answer. Great answer. Corporations don't have locks on their doors. I bet
those people do. And I would like to check on that and see if they do
What do you make of this micro-looting from these flippant, like, trust-fund babies?
I think all of them there are well-off.
I want to talk about the Twit chick.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yo, that shit is fire, bro.
Yo!
I love laughter.
I love comedy.
Showing up at her Brooklyn townhouse with my sawzall and I'm cutting a portal right in the front door
It is true that I challenged this on to a debate years ago. I did a public on my pockets is verifiable
Yeah, I didn't see it Dave the fuck I don't remember this at all
It is also true that I saw much more recently send me a message giving me props and I didn't respond
There's zero contradiction here now stop stealing
I'm so confused these motherfuckers like
Doing drama with me and I don't even have any beef with him
It's so strange Dave Smith lying on Hassan
Comic day Smith says he challenged Hassan the hunt to a debate a few times and Hassan just ended up running
Hassan claims that not to be true studying at DM. He said Dave Smith given him props and Dave never responded to it
He's like it's it's weird because like I guess he's shadow boxing me
But also
It's not even a fight
Like I want to have a tickle party and this motherfucker shadow boxing me instead and I didn't even know he was shadow boxing me
So why is he coming out like this?
Very strange
Very strange behavior, bro has been talking to someone completely random pretending to be you
Yeah, maybe he's talking to one of those like bots. It was like Dave Smith. Do you want to see my titties?
Dave Smith, I'm Hassan piker.
Please click on crypto wallet and I will do the bet with you.
I'm Hassan piker. Do you want to see my titties? Please click on crypto wallet link.
Oh, I'm horny for debate Dave Smith.
He saw your actual DM, those who had a chance to challenge you by responding to your DM and
he did it.
Yeah, I'm so confused by all of this.
You know, you can respond to me via DM, right?
I don't know what this one sided shadow boxing thing you're doing is.
We can talk about whatever you want to talk about, man.
Good faith question. I'm not in the podcast here, but I'm a fan of yours. Is it fair to
say you challenged me to do it publicly on your podcast, but he wasn't interested?
Is it possible he wasn't aware of the challenge? Great shows this week. See you in Louisville
Yes, that's all possible and thank you. So you said on your pockets and debate you he responds in your own am I getting this wrong?
You sure are
No, I
He I didn't know that he was challenging me to a debate. What the fuck is going on here?
What why are his fans like twisting themselves into a goddamn pretzel to be like Dave?
We really like you but this sounds kind of strange
Why are you openly admitting that he DM'd you and you never respond if you wanted to debate and why don't you fucking debate him then?
Yeah, I'm sorry. I didn't I wasn't watching the latest fucking Dave Smith podcast, you know
I I don't watch the Dave Smith podcast. I have seen I
Have seen Dave Smith appearances
And mostly around the issue of Israel which I gave him props for ironically enough
He's trying to get up off a crumbly or clout in the current media scrum.
I know, but it's so dumb to do that in this way.
I know he has to like position himself as this like independent thinker on the right.
And obviously if you're anywhere ostensibly on the right, you have to say, you have to
say Hassan sucks.
I get that.
But you could just as easily be like, I'm a free thinker, okay?
I'm a free thinker and as a free thinker, I will have a normal conversation with Hassan
or something.
No. Bro, respond to why you haven't replied to the challenge to you. I did outside my house
in the rainstorm last night. Bro, respond to why you haven't replied to challenge, replied
to my challenge to you. I did outside of my own house in the rainstorm last night. I know
I yelled loud enough for you to hear me over the way and why are you so scared?
Yeah. Respond to me. I issued a challenge to you in my living room yesterday. I know
you might not have heard it. I am 4,000 miles away from you right now, and I was speaking
to a group of friends, and I said I would destroy this guy in the marketplace of ideas.
didn't fucking reply you must be a pussy I don't know why he's still going on with
this like I don't know what the fuck this is about like I don't remember I
don't remember this at all
yes you do okay I don't recall like I do not recall this at all but also why
Why would he just not respond to my DM then to be like, Hey, um, let's have a fucking
debate about some of our disagreements or something.
You know what I mean?
It's just like, doesn't make any sense.
I, I, the problem with a lot of these people is they know a lot of the, the manufactured
outrage around me when I don't know anything about their worldview at all.
So they could just like totally get away in a conversation that we have, they could
just totally get away by lying, right?
could just make it seem like they don't believe certain things or they can make it seem like
they've never actually took on certain positions. So they already have that tremendous advantage.
Anyone I talk to, they have a laundry list of things that they can pull,
that they can lean into to not have a productive conversation, but instead one that is like
shit smearing, right? They just be like, you did this, you did this, you did this. And then
it's all, it's just me turning around and being like, that's not true. This is what happened
instead, right? So they already have this, this massive advantage. Why not accept this
debate challenge now? What do you mean? I'm saying, we can do it. What? Hello?
Balls in his court, buddy. What the fuck are you talking about? I just said, you know,
know we can talk about whatever you want to talk about.
Check.
Hoss Gord comrad board stat.
What happened?
What is going on?
Oh, here we go.
What is it?
Where the fuck is comrade boy? I don't even know where it is. Oh
You're fucking such a liar dude get the fuck out of here
Did he did he DM Hassan Abbey Productions is that what it is?
No, he's lying right he's lying there's no shot because Hassan ever productions would have fucking informed us
He is 100% he's 100% trying to fucking farm. He is trying to farm comrad board points
He's trying to farm smugs. I don't even know if people do smugs anymore. It doesn't seem like yeah
He's trying to farm KWs and Sobs on the Comrade Board.
And you guys are giving it to him.
You guys are giving it to him.
Don't give him what he wants.
And I'm going in.
I'm going in.
Because I did look up who she's married to.
And I'm going in.
And I'm just going to take some of her children's juice
boxes every now and then.
I will shoot. What's wrong with these people, bro?
Republicans are so strange like you'll be like, hey, the real problem is is the
Systematic looting that takes place against the working class in this country
So I don't give a shit if like a poor person is stealing a loaf of bread from Whole Foods
Who gives the fuck right and they go, oh, yeah, well, I'm gonna rape and kill you
I'm gonna come to your house with a gun and I'm going to murder you. I'm gonna steal your shit
I'm gonna fucking kill you dead with a gun. I'm gonna shoot you in front of your family. I'm going to horrify everybody
It's like what are you saying? What are you saying?
This is not how normal conversations take place. It's not like owning someone in the fucking marketplace of ideas
Why are you so fucking deranged?
Why why are you so deranged dude?
Dude, she literally said, I might steal your children's juice boxes, bro.
Are you fucking alright?
Is your brain okay?
What the fuck's going on?
Yeah, moral panic about people with zero societal power shoplifting at Whole Foods
while billionaires at corporations raise human civilization in the ground and make
U.S. funded genocide.
Like, are you not embarrassed?
No.
I don't give a fuck about shoplifting because it doesn't harm anyone, wealth hoarding and
the commodification of basic human needs harms unsaid numbers of people and is actively violent,
but is seen as acceptable behavior because punching down is the system at work while
punching up as a crime, which is ironically the point I was making as well.
a fucking crazy world we live in. What's worse is that there are a lot of people, I think,
that have that conservative demon in their minds, right? There's a lot of wonderful people
in general, all around the world, people that you know, people that you might even love,
who hear this and go, you know what, that's a fine point.
There is this attitude that some Americans have, I call it peasant mentality, right?
Or they're like, oh no, I will defend the systems unconditionally.
I'm its most loyal servant.
I'm its most loyal vanguard.
I am the vanguard that will defend the billionaires and the millionaires and the big corporations,
even when they steal from me, even when they fuck me over, even when they poison my water
supply.
I don't give a shit.
I'll defend it.
And it doesn't make sense.
I don't understand it, dude.
Just, like, think.
When someone tries to explain to you that, like, the reason why you feel the economic
struggle on a day-to-day basis is because the system is designed this way.
The system is designed in a way where it fucks you over.
And it's also designed in a way where you never think about it.
The moment of thinking about it shouldn't be met with immediate
resistance to be like, no, how dare you say the system is designed
in a way that fucks me over.
I think it's the immigrants excuse me I think it is the immigrants actually it's
not the billionaires in the megacorporations they would never harm me
they're good
show back up with my reciprocating saw just after you've had your door fixed
because that's what they're talking about.
And every, see, people who work in retail
or who have to work jobs when they're teenagers
actually understand the downside of theft
because if you work in a store
that has too much shrink, your store gets closed.
If it's a chain and people lose their job.
And then, and they're always in like neighborhoods
that actually needed the drugstores.
Those are the ones that close.
Those don't know that.
Excuse my language.
I want to I want to point to another elitist lefty do she's
the lead singer of the strokes Julian Casablanca's
remember his dad was like oh oh oh King of late night comedy
baby he's real man Julian Casablanca's I hate that guy
Why? Because he said Americans, Zionists are constantly portraying themselves as fucking victims
while they're actively trying to defend the genocide when the real victims are the Palestinians.
Okay? Americans, Zionists present themselves as victims and not only just victims, but also
they present themselves as victims akin to black people living under slavery.
while their ultimate goal is to defend the state of israel when the real
victims are the palestinians that's what he said
is incredible
eight john cast a blanket yes was was any charts with like rape and stuff
he's a really bad perv anyway we won't talk about
your great but felt what are you talking about you've dedicated
First of all, I have no idea what the fuck happened with John, uh, Julie Casablanca's, whatever.
You're Greg Butfel! You're Mr. Me Too Is Fake!
What are you talking about? The president that you defend is a rapist!
The guy who threatened you got banned?
Now he's definitely gonna try and kill me.
I mean even even the fact that he goes rape and stuff
The fact that he says rape and stuff undermines the argument that he's trying to even fucking present that they were all social
They were all social lights now. They're socialists and anti-semites
King of late night Greg Butthold Omega woke when did this happen dude
Oh, Julian's dad is French Epstein. Yeah, I don't fucking, I don't, I'm not doing sins
of the father here. Trump was friends with John Casablanca and they ran modeling agencies
together. Casablanca was friends with Donald Trump and elite model management representative's
daughter Ivanka when she became a fashion model to Asia.
Oh my God. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, are you telling me that they're
They're shitting on another Epstein affiliate who happens to be his father.
They're shitting on, they're shitting on an Epstein affiliate while defending the Epstein
affiliate.
That's the president.
Are you fucking kidding me?
Are you fucking kidding me?
They're doing the San Francisco Chronicle article.
They're literally doing the thing that the San Francisco Chronicle did, where they were
like, oh, you speak out about Israel.
Well guess what? You might have been a victim of Jeffrey Epstein at a certain point.
Haha!
How dare you? Here's some accountability.
Here's some accountability, Julian.
What the fuck?
None of this makes sense.
Julian is estranged from his father since he was eight.
Okay, but like...
Okay, but here's the thing.
That still doesn't make sense.
Because if in your moral system,
You're saying Epstein is bad and all of his affiliates are are demonic, which I agree with that's what I believe, okay?
You can't defend the fucking president who is the main Epstein affiliate
Okay, I
Believe that Greg you don't what are you talking about and it?
Obviously doesn't make sense when you're talking about a dude who was like fucking eight years old
Tautic! 87 months! Holy moly! Eyvallah, Tautic!
What is another check? Give me another one. These are really good.
You want the most controversial one. American Zionists are...
get the benefits of, you know, white privileged people that talk like they are black people
during slavery.
100% agree.
I've never seen something so shocking where they're like, I'm so oppressed.
I'm oppressed for something like, you are going to a wedding in Tel Aviv right now when
And there are 80,000 dead people and more,
80,000 plus dead people,
including women and children, half a mile away.
Kennedy, so like the Jews aren't really targeted
by like Hamas or anything.
Because you know, they're just like-
The far right, the far left,
oh pretty much everyone who's not a rational person kind of-
What? Okay, let me ask you.
And so you see that other dude, a camera, a Hassan, whatever his face is.
And then you got this guy.
It's like, what is behind, like they live a lot.
They live completely differently than the way they speak.
They don't want chaos.
No, absolutely not.
And no, we don't, we don't want chaos.
No, I don't want chaos.
I'm saying chaos is already here.
Okay.
Chaos is not happening in your neighborhood, Greg Butfeld.
Okay.
But chaos is happening to many Americans.
Many Americans, many ordinary Americans of their lives is filled with chaos, chaos born
out of living under the system that is deliberately designed to fuck them over.
Chaos exists for them in a permanent basis, and that's precisely the reason why sometimes
people flip in that chaos and do decentralized acts of violence, which I don't think is
productive or good.
That's it.
the argument that I'm making. I'm saying chaos is already happening. It's just not happening
to you. So you literally don't see it or you're tasked with refusing to see it. You're tasked.
You get paid to make it seem like all this chaos that's happened to the poor people is
happening on their own volition because of their own moral failing to blank as he's
the lead singer of the strokes. His band has sucked for a long time. They had a pretty
record in 2020, but you know everything like the 10 years before and I'm sure the 10 years after
will be pretty much garbage because he is a nettle baby who has lost the muse. And now he's
trying to find relevance by going to the most extreme progressive talking points that he
probably cribs from Hassan Piker who was the guy in the first video that you showed. And the
The people they're trying to appeal to, like the radicals,
they're already there and they are one hot takeaway
from completely turning their backs on these people.
Because the audience that they're going for
is incredibly fickle.
But also, back to the point about shoplifting,
so they interviewed a bunch of people
who were on food stamps, who do occasionally go
to Whole Foods and take advantage of the sales
and trying to find healthy food.
And they're like, if we tried to do that,
one woman's like, I'm a black single mom.
I would get arrested. Yeah. Yeah. No shit. And my point was that shouldn't happen. Okay.
My point is, and I mentioned this, but I don't think it made it into the final cut. One of
the more egregious aspects of this also is the fact, and I don't know, maybe it was in
the video. It's obviously not clipped though. Um, was one of the more egregious parts
about this process is that in the United States of America, you literally have to
throw the food out at the end of the day, like bakeries, pastries, baked goods, things
that are perishable, they get thrown out instead of being delivered to the people that desperately
need it. In other countries, like France, for example, this is illegal, okay? It's illegal
not to utilize the food at the end of the day. And the only reason for why that exists
is because we have to keep food prices stable. It's for profit, okay? It's yet another
glaringly obvious example of American corporations running the system and putting profits over
the interests of people.
No, it's not fucking liability reasons.
That's bullshit.
That is a bullshit.
That is a bullshit-ass reason that corporations have designed the system claim as the reason
why they can't give the food out.
No, it's to keep prices stable.
If people know that you can just get free food at the end of the if you get free food at the end of the day
It's definitely liability reasons. I was on a suit for that a few years ago. Not the only reason brother
brother
One you can literally make it
Illegal or you can volunteer you can revoke your liability
Okay, you can volunteer away your liability if you want to get this fucking food, but once again
Again, is there no liability in France?
Why the fuck do they already have?
Why the fuck do they already have this in the law in a place like France, for example,
where at the end of the day, your perishable goods are distributed?
I'm telling you right now, the whole liability law is designed.
The whole liability law is designed so they have a good reason to throw the food out
instead of giving it away.
Not exactly right about France, someone recently got a sense to pay a fee because they pick
up food from dumpsters and distribute it back to the poor.
It's an ongoing evolution, but sure, better than the U.S. absolutely.
That law, that liability law exists so you can point to it to have plausible deniability
as a corporation, okay?
Yeah, Bill Emerson gets married in act of 1996.
We have protections as well, but companies still throw away the food.
You're telling me to go into Whole Foods and steal and you know, to Deggan's point
the fancy pants moves into $2.5 million brownstone in Brooklyn.
Like they are rich people who are completely out of touch.
And what this guy is saying is also so out of touch because you're talking about
a group of people who are subjected to a genocide who in this day and age
in the city are subjected to talk of genocide constantly.
Like they're worried about genocide.
They don't have to compare themselves to anyone.
Yeah, they have their own unique problems that these guys very convict. Are you saying that
Those who are pro-Israel in the United States of America, I think she's trying to say like
Jews right she's doing a substitute for American Zionists is like American Jews, right?
She just like jumped over that point immediately
But the initial claim being made is those living in the United States of America
That are pro-Israel that are Zionists in the United States of America
It doesn't matter if they're Jews or Christian or even Muslim, right?
Like, it doesn't matter what their background is.
Are presenting themselves as though they are the main victims here.
Because people dunk on them and yell at them for being pro-Israel,
as Israel's continuing to do a genocide.
Or she's saying the real problem here is that, you know, I'll entertain her
argument. I think she's trying to say American Jews are constantly a threat
of genocide. Okay.
That's an insane argument to make. I'm sorry
That's an insane argument to make
Okay, even if that is the argument that you're trying to present here. That's a psychotic argument to make
It's fucking delusional. Why are we taking this seriously? Okay? That is just leaning into the hysteria of folks and guess what?
There is real systemic racism that black people face in the current criminal justice system in the current American
design. And if a black person were to come out and say, oh, there's a real genocide happening
towards black people, you guys would talk about it endlessly. You would make fun of
them. You'd make fun of them endlessly. As a matter of fact, it's probably not that
difficult to find Greg Gutfeld doing just that. If I were to search Greg Gutfeld, uh,
you know, black victim hood or something like that, I'd probably find a million different
clips of Greg talking about like black people. They have the greatest, they're in a profoundly
privileged position by simply being here. They should be thankful that like white people
brought them over here so they can live in the, in the lap of luxury in the, in modernity
and Western civilization. All this fucking gross white supremacist bullshit. Meanwhile,
you have the audacity to be like, if your argument is American Jews, okay, if that's
the argument you're making, you're saying American Jews living in New York, okay,
American Jews living in the United States of America are at any moment could and at any moment
Be victim to a genocide an anti-Jewish genocide. Are you out of your fucking mind? What are we doing?
This is literally
DEI except the anti-dei except for Jewish people like from their
Perspective from their framework. They're saying like DEI is all fake gay wrong bullshit
except you unironically have to do this comical version of DEI that republicans present as
as you know that the republican framing of DEI but like sincerely for american jews it's unbelievable
immediately just turn their back on and will never acknowledge what hamas has done to palestine
Yeah. You know, uh, Tyrus, you, when you walk into a Walgreens or CVS, everything is locked up.
You know, that, that's not chaos. That's, that, that's just more, that's the hyper security you get.
Oh, I'm relieved. I thought that was just a Tyrus thing.
Oh my God. This guy's off the juice. Holy shit. He looks,
he looks like he dropped a hundred pounds, bro.
What the hell, Tyra's used to be brawling, what the fuck happened?
Here he comes, quick!
I just have one question, who watches this shit?
The G, my, my girl, like, the uh, three, whatever, the first thing was?
Was the host the big one?
I couldn't tell because you can't host if you are out of breath when you talk. Yeah
She didn't get through the sentence. Did y'all not see that she she acted like she was on a stairmaster that somebody
Accidentally put on ten because she was like you guys ever
And then in writing this
It's awesome. Yeah Kratos. How dare you that's not Kratos
Don't don't ever compare Kratos the dad of war to fucking this guy who very famously was like, oh, can I squeeze your titties?
Can I can I squeeze your titties please?
To his co-host our bucks voice, you know, and we still
Oh, you know
He's the child of war watching this, but there it's an echo chamber. I don't think anyone no one's like
Yo, let's watch the pudgy girl around a breath while she talks about the
The dude who thinks he's Matt Walsh and the other chick who can't make up or whatever she did to her face
She a clown what the dude who thinks he's Matt Walsh fucking grows dude. Oh my god, you
You you have to be living on a totally separate planet if you think that being compared to Matt Walsh is anything positive
She looks like an angry squirrel.
Yeah, she's...
No, she's Canadian.
Oh, Charlie, uh...
Taris makes a good point that, like,
probably we amplify this more than...
Oh. We probably get more viewers for them.
Oh, but, I mean, how do you resist?
It's so fun.
She was so ridiculous.
I mean, she was so funny.
I mean, she was so funny.
I mean, she was so funny.
fun. These people are so ridiculous and it's so fun to make fun of them. I don't think any
serious person is listening to any of this crap. And these guys.
Yeah. If you're talking about the Greg Buttfeld show, then yes, no serious person is listening
to that except for us. Now we're listening to it.
On the subway, they're just like mugging for TikTok. They've heard something and
they want to sound smart. They want to sound dangerous. So they say stupid stuff.
You can have all kinds of reasonable conversations
about Israel and the war and all that kind of stuff.
But the idea of thinking somehow that all Israelis
are slavers is ridiculous.
I also love, if that lady, what did you call her?
The TikTok lady?
The twit gal?
The twit chick.
The twit chick.
If she heard Dagan threatening to come to us,
the only thing she would say is, what's a sauzol?
I would say that
Alright, thanks down dude. That was I mean, that's Pete comedy, baby. You already know that's Pete comedy. All right
Let's get to some serious news. I know I know we're we do mostly
Focus on coverage around these parts. Obviously, it's the most important most consequential news story of all time
We're gonna get to we're gonna get the situation monitoring. We're gonna get to Iran
And honestly, also, Gede here had this final take.
Honestly, if you want to marginalize Piker,
the smart play would be to ignore him.
We're in such a fractured media environment
that he'd remain prominent in his niche,
but not have wider visibility.
But the reactionary centers of right wing liberals
can't help themselves.
They have an itch, and that they
need to keep scratching that itch.
So they're elevating Piker by denunciation.
It's a strange dynamic.
Yeah.
I have consistently said over and over again
I don't have this level of motion that you guys are issuing to me. I don't know why you perceive me
as such a major threat, but, you know, I'll take it. But they're, they're stricening me into oblivion
currently. Are you seeing your numbers up since these attacks? Not necessarily. I think I mean,
to a certain degree, it has gone up for sure. But I don't really care about my numbers going
up regardless. What I do care about is the direction that American politics is heading,
right? And there is definitely a little bit of room for excitement there. We have, for
the first time ever, a positive trajectory, a positive outlook. You have guys like Abdul
Al Sayed, Chris Robb, Corey Bush, people that I'm going to be leaning into that
have more representative politics that have a real likelihood of winning their elections,
changing the American Democratic Party for the first time into a party that is more responsive
to clustered politics, more responsive to the politics that revolves around the majority,
real majority the American working class so that is oh no Clay Thompson oh
no Megan the stallion said cheating have me around your whole family playing
house got coffee holding you down through all your horrible moveswings and
treatment towards me during your basketball season now you don't know if
you can be monogamous bitch I need a real break after this one by y'all oh my
god that is a generational fumble are you fucking serious are you fucking serious
Clay Thompson this was the best thing that has ever happened to you in your
damn life dude how how is that possible that's Megan the stallion are you
fucking serious how the fuck bro this is more important this is more important
than then this is the one ring you should be paying attention to not the
motherfucking NBA rings okay that was the ring how the fuck do you fumble
Megan Thee Stallion, bro. That is crazy. That is crazy.
That I don't even know what to say. Words escape me, okay? If this is real,
this is one of the worst things I've ever seen anybody do, okay? That's like fumbling Dua Lipa,
okay? That's like fumbling Dua Lipa. It's like, Megan Thee Stallion is in the anime,
has like all of the uh all of the unique interests she's dope she's super successful it just doesn't
make any sense trevor no one nachos oh my god i forgot bro had her cooking for his family yeah
that's crazy
She twerked on the She-Hulk show on Disney. Okay, that's not that relevant.
Ben Sport, he named his boat after her. He named his boat after her. That is the fumble
of the century straight up. That's how you know he doesn't have ultra instinct. He can't
lock in. Okay. I'm sorry. Most of gotten carried the entire way. Okay.
his rings away. Those are Mickey Mouse rings. He was carried. I'll say it. He was carried.
Okay. He was. That's the real Mickey Mouse rings. Yeah. Without Steph Curry, he's washed
true because you had the opportunity to focus on the one ring, the one true ring Lord of
the rings style okay the real ring and you fucked it up
imagine telling someone in a vacuum which one of these two cheated on the
other
true literally
I will see Clay Thompson in the hell.
Meg is so bad, I must respect it.
Don't you dare, Hazzani,
is there some clutch threes in the playoffs?
Yeah, buddy.
Sometimes it's the one three that you do miss
that matters the most.
Have you thought about that?
Have you thought about that?
Because obviously, if he was a fucking real W man,
If he was a real clutch shooter, he wouldn't have fucking missed on this.
This is the real buzzer beater.
This is the buzzer beater of life, dude.
What the fuck are you talking about?
This is the one that he had.
Like the craziest thing is this was already a lock.
Okay.
This was already a lock for him and he fumbled it.
That's crazy
Where's your ring oh man, I don't even get me started
Too much of a shooter he was shooting somewhere else. Yeah, but it's like bro. You know what this is like
This is like playing ones in your fucking local outdoors court if you're like a professional NBA player
Okay, there is no reason to do that
Okay, that's what he was doing
That's what he was doing
It's like being in the fucking playoffs and being like oh, I gotta go I gotta go play some one-on-ones on on concrete
Out outdoors against dudes we're gonna throw elbows in my face and put their fucking feet under me as I'm taking three-poise shots, okay?
That doesn't make any sense. This is the type of greed they wrote about in the Bible
What are you doing?
What are you doing all right? We're moving on I'm getting I'm getting pissed off
They also recently bought a house together
He had a 10 but he wanted 10 plus plus there's no such thing there's no such thing
You just that's that's in your own imagination. It doesn't exist. It's not a real design
huh
Clay has a history of cheating and honestly sometimes get bored of the same person's life sex. I
Get where clay is coming from
What the fucking hell are you talking about
about. What is this fucking mentality? What are you? Well, be adult, be adult, be adult,
be a normal person, please. Be a normal person. I get where Clay Thompson's coming from.
Chatter is sitting in his crusty fucking boxers that he hasn't changed out of. I'm joking.
I'm kidding, Lamar. Yeah, dude, if I, if I was dating Megan, the stallion,
I'd probably fuck around too, bro. That's so funny.
Yeah. Sorry. Sorry.
This is more serious than anything that we've talked about.
So no, no jokes allowed here.
Legalize comedy.
No jokes allowed.
No jokes allowed on this one.
Okay.
Dude, that is everyone's going to make fun of them, right?
Like that's one of those things where everyone's going to be like,
what the fuck were you thinking, dumbass?
Like what a, what an insane thing to do.
What an unbelievable spectacular flub, greatest flub of all time.
Megan, the stallion was sitting courtside with Clay's mother. Oh, oh my God. Oh, no,
no, no, no. That's crazy. He went from oh, you're that basketball player to oh, you're
the guy who cheated on Megan the stallion. You know Clay's mother is on her side too.
Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. Clay Thompson's Clay Thompson's mom is like, I should have
whooped your ass. I should have whooped your fucking ass when you were growing up. That
is crazy what are you doing five fast salute for Megan bro bro here's a
solution for you okay just Kirk it like what are you doing just hit the fucking
just just Kirk your shit once a night what are you doing I know you're like
80 games you're fucking flying around all the time okay just fucking Kirk your
Shit twice for good measure.
What the fuck is wrong with you, man?
If you're not going to DM her, I will.
Good. OK, good luck, Comrade Ray.
I believe in you.
All light skins cheat.
That's crazy.
Oh, man.
All right.
That's colorism.
We don't do that around these parts.
Oh man, all right. That's that's colorism. We don't do that around these parts. Okay.
That's colorism. Not even once. Okay. Not even once. No, take me off. Nope. Too late, baby.
Jenna, you already said what you said. Stop talking about Clay Thompson, bro. For real.
do you mean this is beyond this is beyond sports okay this is yeah that was
reverse colorism
oh my god oh that's how you know it's over I knew clay had that dog in him says
DJ academics ain't no rapper finna turn my boy into a cook ain't nobody bigger
than the program, he started cheating day one, real crap. That is how you know you failed.
Okay. That, that this is, this is confirmation. I mean, we already knew, right? We already
knew that this was a generational fumble, but I think that confirms it, right? When
And you have DJ academics on your side.
That's how you know you made the worst decision of all time.
He's gonna have all those losers on Twitter riding his meat, bro.
Oh, God, again, worse.
It just gets worse.
It just gets worse and worse.
got cheated on megan yeah that's how you know you fucked up you got the
with Ock cosine. Anyway, you see the guy that Thompson sent a cease and desist to for making
Clay Thompson gay edits. What? That's crazy. Maybe that's what, that's what did it. He was like,
I'm not gay. I'm not gay. I want to have even more sex. I'm having extra sex. I'm not gay. Fuck you.
All right. All right. Let's get to it. Speaking of,
Speaking of generational fumbles, Donald Trump and the United States of America who has participated
in the generational fumble. So,
So, Donald Trump did the classic thing that you do when you have all the leverage, okay?
you have all the leverage in the world, and you decide to be like, haha, I didn't even want to do
that. I didn't even want to do this deal. I didn't even want to negotiate. Shut up.
The foreign minister of Iran was on a trip to Islamabad. Okay. And a lot of people were
speculating, oh, does this mean that the talks are back on? But the Iranian government very
It clearly stated, no, this trip is just for bilateral talks between Iran and Pakistan.
Right?
And Donald Trump has already done this.
Donald Trump has already done this.
You can't fire me.
I quit bullshit like 15 times so far.
And he chose to do it again.
Since Iraq, she was going to Islamabad.
Donald Trump said, all right, fuck it.
We're sending Jared Kushner, Steve Wittkopf to Islamabad as well, because Pakistan is
at the table. Pakistan is the table, right? Amidst claiming that we have won and we've
destroyed their Navy, we've destroyed their air force, we've destroyed Iran and we're
going to destroy it even harder over and over again for like the past 50 plus days at
this point. Donald Trump was like, all right, I guess we'll send, I guess we'll send
our envoys will send our envoys to Iran. And then he straight up turned around and said,
here's Trump an hour ago, literally saying what he tweeted law. Yeah, Trump now says he's
not sending Wiccav and Kushner Pakistan after foreign minister Iraq. She leaves. This is
happened repeatedly. Trump claims the Iranians are begging for talks. Iran says it is false.
The US says Iran is lying and then it becomes clear Iran meant what it said.
And this has happened over and over again and the media also plays a role in this for sure.
The media also absolutely reports on whatever the fuck Trump is saying as though it's real.
No, Trump is right. The US is refusing talks with Iran like I'm refusing to be best friends with LeBron. Yeah, he keeps hitting me up
He's like Hassan. Let's be besties. I'm like, no, I don't want I don't want to do that
I don't have time for you right now LeBron. You should focus on, you know playing games, right? Winning
You should focus on winning. You got the playoffs like don't worry about it, you know, I
Just I can't I can't deal with it. I have too much of my I have too much on my timeline right now
I have too much
Work that I have to focus on
It's fine like it's just it's similar, you know like he's always hitting me up
I'm like, I know it's fine, dude. Uh, Shangoon on the other hand. I bet I hit me up
We can be homies kind of feels like you got more time now. So
Shangoon
LeBron up 3-0 by the way. I'm just saying it's a
Shingon is a disgusting player, bro. Yeah, I I think chill out. Okay, cool on that shit chill out
Well, you and LeBron do like to wear to wear similar alphas
Probably like to go to the same parties too
Okay
shingun finnabee and cancun soon okay calm down
bro this is shingun runs like he's got titties yo everybody cool cool okay
chill okay the Turks have already taken too much damage Pakistan is now the
table it's no longer turkey that's already a big hit and now you're gonna
to come after Alpera Shangoon.
Even me, I'm getting fucking,
I'm getting my ass eat on camera every day
by fucking Fox News and shit.
Not a good time for Turks internationally.
We are not doing all right, okay?
Israel's talking about how
Adawan is developing nukes, you know?
It's not a good time.
2026 has not been a good year for the Turks.
Eric Adams ever since ever since Eric Adams was was kicked out for being too cool and
just wanting to do trips to Turkey. Everything's gone downhill.
We probably heard that we can't go the trip. We have all the cards. We're not going to
spend 15 hours in airplanes all the time going back and forth to be giving a document
that he was not good enough. And, uh, so we'll deal by telephone and they can call us anytime
they want. Oh my God, he's doing the same thing. He did with Xi Jinping. Oh my God.
Chat. Remember when, uh, when he was like, I'm doing, she, he wants to call me so bad.
He just lost my number. He just lost my number. He wasn't calling me so bad because
I'm doing tariffs. I'm doing tariffs. He's doing the same shit. Remember he
would go on television and be like, call me she, call me by your name. I will be your
twink. I will be your young twink friend. She called me. Call me she. Why won't he call
me? He's gonna call me. He just doesn't have my number. He's lost it. Again, we have all
the cars. They have no military left practically. They have no leaders left. We don't know
who the leaders are. Nobody knows who the leaders are. I don't think they know who
He never said that, by the way. Yes, he did. He said all those things spiritually. It is very funny.
This has happened now three times and probably will continue happening. This is spiritually in line
with the why won't she call me? I bet he'll call me anytime now. And also, and also it reminds me of him
going Vladimir no remember when when the Ukraine talks were supposed to happen
and he's like they want I'll fix it and then he started talking to Vladimir
Putin and he's like Vladimir Putin kept you know entertaining the prospect of a
ceasefire while using that as an opportunity to pummeling fucking Ukraine
he was like Vladimir Vladiput why are you doing this come on you know we you
know this isn't you Putin this isn't you we're such good friends so you saw that I cannot
believe how fucking motionless we are it is unbelievable Trump needs to fix this shit before
the Xi Jinping summit okay it's supposed to happen in May all right it's supposed it's
coming it's coming up in like a couple weeks like three weeks from now and he needs
the fucking nip the shit in the bud before he goes to Beijing. If he still has this problem
when he's going to Beijing is fucking over, right?
It's done. It's cooked.
I don't know. I don't know what to say about this. I mean, it's a hilarious situation.
But, yeah, here is his truth video.
It's okay, some analysis.
I've got to be awkward.
I've got to be awkward.
President Donald Trump has just posted on social media on his truth social account saying,
I just canceled the trip of my representatives going, is this Islamabad?
I think it means to Islamabad, Pakistan, to meet with the Iranians.
Too much time wasted on traveling, too much work, besides which there is tremendous
in fighting and confusion within their leadership. Nobody knows who is in charge, including them.
Also we have all the cards. They have none. If they want to talk, all they have to do
is call.
Let's go to Osama bin Javedi's live for us from the Pakistani capitalist slavads
are looking at that latest truth social awareness that leaves the mediation effort by Pakistan
that one assumes they were trying to arrange some kind of meeting between the two sides.
Yes, Amir, we've just read it together. As you mentioned it on the air that President
Donald Trump has essentially cancelled the trip that the White House had just advertised
about 24 hours ago, in reaction to which the Iranians had said there is no request
that they have made, they're not going to talk to the Americans, and they will only speak
to them once the blockade is lifted, as per the conditions which were set in the first
round.
Remember how the first round ended?
Well, JD Vance, who was supposed to carry on with the negotiations in the middle of
them after 21 hours, got up and left and said, this is our best and final offer
and the Iranians take it or leave it.
And then you saw all that happened in the background.
Now this statement, coming from the U.S. president, essentially again just pours cold water on
all of the hope that there is a diplomatic way out of this.
As we've been reporting in the last week, there's been a multitude of efforts that
have been made by various parties spearheaded by Pakistan, where these talks were supposed
to happen.
Again, we heard from the Iranian visiting delegation that the Iranians are ready to
to stand by the rules that they have set for these negotiations, the 10 points that were
agreed upon between them and the United States, and they were willing to come back to the
table if the United States abides by them.
And then there's a sticking point.
Why did we get here?
Well, in the last week, when the ceasefire was extended by the U.S. government, the
Iranians opened the Strait of Hormuz, but the Americans insisted they do not want
to lift the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz that they have implemented.
the U.S. president said again that they have all the cards. So it appears the diplomacy
which had so much hope is again taking a back seat. What does this actually mean? Well, we'll
have to wait and see because this has just come now. I was speaking to some of the reporters
who have been texting and calling President Donald Trump and some of them who the president
had said should stay in Islamabad. They have been told to come home.
What are you hearing, Osama, from Pakistani mediators?
What's the bottom line here?
Does this mean that the, at least the current round of efforts trying to arrange another
face-to-face meeting are now, for now, at a dead end?
Well, it is still very early, because this has all happened in the last few minutes.
So we'll have to wait and see.
But officials, including diplomats, security officials, politicians and bureaucrats
that I've been speaking to, I don't think that they will see this as the end of the tunnel
because you see if you've been dealing with the presidency of U.S. President Donald J.
Trump, you expect there are going to be some grenades waiting for you in the diplomatic
track.
So I imagine, and I will have to wait and see what they say, that they will try to
reestablish some contact.
As we've been told, the diplomacy is best done behind closed doors.
One of the details that have been discussed between them, the Pakistanis, the Americans
and the Iranians have not been made public.
We also know that the Pakistanis are not alone in this.
They've got the backing of Saudi Arabia, the Egyptians, the Turks.
This quad has been spearheading efforts.
We also know that in the last 24 hours, the emir of Qatar has made calls to the
U.S. president urging him to stick to whatever the deal is about a ceasefire and not going
towards open conflict. But on the same coin, you've been hearing from the Iranians very
and warning about the U.S.'s track his track record, because the last two times, whether
it was in Geneva or Oman, when they were in negotiations, the U.S. and Israel have
attacked them. And it was through various Iranian officials that you were here.
What will you do about the 1973 War Powers Act? Ignore it. Brother, when's the last
I'm an American president cared about that shit. Come on, dude. Of course, he's gonna ignore it. I mean, he ignores things. He ignores the Constitution in ways that previous presidents haven't. So of course, he's gonna continue ignoring this in in ways that previous presidents have also ignored.
Rules, regulations, legislation, the Constitution, these are all concepts that we now know only
matter if there is an institution that is willing to hold the president to account, okay?
If there's no accountability, then these things are just niceties that you can choose not
to abide by.
And Donald Trump has openly shown that there's not really any mechanism in place that will
hold them to account.
I guess there's one aspect of this, winning the House of Representatives, winning the
Senate, so you can at least have a little bit more leverage over the administration.
But at the end of the day, even then you'll have a slim majority at best and plenty of
corporate Democrats who will always find enough votes to fuck over the goal of creating an
environment of accountability against his president.
So she's not, you know, social contract is violated
over and over again.
The notion of a competent government is gone.
Everything is fucked.
That they do not trust the United States.
The trust deficit is huge.
And this is something that the negotiators
and the mediators were trying to pull them through.
That this sea of trust that exists between them
builds some bridges.
And I've been told that they were able to build some bridges.
That is why you were seeing all of those movements.
Again, the US president has just said that he's calling it off.
Does that mean diplomacy is dead?
Does that mean that the Americans are pulling out?
Well, we'll have to wait and see because the US president makes a lot of statements
that have a lot of clarifications coming after it from the White House.
Okay.
So Sam, I've been very, very updating us from Islamabad in Pakistan.
breaking right now. President Trump just moments ago, exclusively telling me over the phone that
he has unilaterally canceled Steve Wittkopf and Jared Kushner's trip to Pakistan to meet with
the Iranians. The president says it's not worth his people making the 18 hour flight
when he says we have all the cards. He also told me the Iranians can call by phone anytime
they want. Our Matt Finn is live in Dubai right now with much more on this breaking new information
that sort of changes everything that we thought was going to happen. Matt?
Yeah, here we are again. Our team just returned from Pakistan where we were waiting for the second
round of peace talks that never manifested. Our understanding was earlier in the week the
vice president was ready and willing to fly to Pakistan. And then we hear from Fox News,
like this is an endless cycle, right? Donald Trump lies, even normal media outlets, like
they're supposed to be unbiased, like liberal media outlets will cover that lie as though
it's serious as though it's real. And then you'll go to Fox News and Fox News would be like,
this is incredible. It's brave, really. It shows how mighty America is. Like there's just
Just a range of different news covers that we see every day.
Donald Trump lies about something, CNN covers it with a little bit of skepticism, they'll
have a panel that's like filled to the brim with the Scott Jennings of the world who will
still offer defenses for Donald Trump.
And then we'll turn to Fox News and Fox News will be like, Donald Trump showed exceptional
bravery and strength by claiming that peace talks were on the table and there was no indication
that they were from the Iranian side.
And now that he realizes that Iraq she has already left Pakistan, then it would look
embarrassing for Trump to send his envoys to Islamabad after
after Iraq she left the foreign minister. So he chose to pull back as though there was any
sort of ceasefire talks on the table. It's very obvious that Iran is not going to play ball
until America, until America abides by some of the initial demands that Iran had made and
the American blockade on top of the Iranian blockade.
If they don't do that, then there's no good faith negotiations that can take place.
It's understandable that Iran is skeptical, considering that America under Trump's
leadership has engaged in perfect twice and started bombing around twice
negotiations
negotiations where the iranians i was willing to concede to american
maximalist demands
so why should they
doesn't make any sense and but the iranian delegation was not ready to go
at that point
now today we were waiting for this second round of peace talks to maybe
develop because it was yesterday that
White House Press Secretary Caroline Lovett on your show as you were anchoring told Fox
that Iran had asked to meet in person and that the White House was sending a delegation
to Pakistan today, but it looks like that is not happening.
Now, one thing the Pakistani Prime Minister's office is confirming.
It says that the foreign minister, Orochi, did meet with the Iranian delegation today.
They did talk about the, quote, current regional situation.
So you have to imagine that would likely include the ongoing war.
So it's possible there's a scenario where Iran relayed information to Pakistan that Pakistan
will now give to the United States.
Our understanding was earlier this week the U.S. delegation was ready and willing to
go to Pakistan.
They were again today.
Now one of the sticking points here seems to be, of course, enrichment.
Whether Iran is willing to give up its nuclear program as the United States is demanding
a secretary of war, Pete Hexeth, and the president insists that Iran will not have a nuclear
weapon.
Another layer there is whether Iran will allow the United States to remove uranium, a rich
uranium from their country.
Now the Iran ambassador to India posted earlier today on the matter, negotiations can only
lead to a proper outcome when our adversaries recognize our nation's right to the peaceful
use of nuclear energy, kind of signaling there that Iran is going to fight for its nuclear
program.
Obviously, this is the developing situation, Aisha.
You had an excellent chat with the president confirming that the trip to the Middle East
has been canceled and we'll be tracking it throughout the night.
We'll keep you updated, Aisha.
We will.
Okay, Matt Finn, live for us from Dubai.
Matt, thank you very much for that live report.
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Can you explain why he said he needs to wrap this up before Beijing?
Because right now he's in an unbelievably weak position.
When he goes to Beijing, he's going to go with no leverage whatsoever.
What do you mean?
Going to your main foreign adversary's capital while you're stuck waging war against a much
poorer country and failing to actually finish the war.
to accomplish your goals in this region is unbelievably bad.
You might as well be begging Xi Jinping to actually create stability in the world at
that point.
How do you think that's going to look?
What do you think that's going to look like for all of America's allies, especially
in that region?
Morteza Hussein says, Trump has a high profile summit scheduled in Beijing, which Xi Jinping
set for May 14th.
That was the new date chosen after the previous one was postponed.
Why was it postponed?
Because the war was going on.
That is just over two weeks, which offers a highly compressed window to re-initiate,
open into military confrontation with Iran that may wind up escalating out of control
and derailing the intended agenda for that meeting.
Every day that passes in fact further compresses his timeframe to do anything concrete.
There's an open front in a region that is unbelievably important for energy for the Asia Pacific
Theater.
All of the countries that are aligned with the United States of America that is supposed
to encircle China in this war that we're, in this cold war that we're waging against
China, our number one foreign adversary, are looking to Trump to be like, dude, fix
the situation please. You're destroying our country. You're destroying our countries.
We will use Iran as a negotiating tactic with China. They need Iran's oil. That is an unbelievably
stupid argument to make, in my opinion. Okay?
I'll tell you this much. If America did not go to war with Iran and came into the summit in Beijing
having freshly taken over Venezuela, this would be a different conversation. Obviously,
China still has tremendous power over America being, China has tremendous power over the
United States of America being the manufacturing hub of the entire planet. But now they're
They're going to China with no force projection capabilities whatsoever.
Many US military bases, there are nearly 800 around the world that we know of, are sitting
ducks.
That's one lesson to draw from this current war, a lesson that won't be lost on other
USA adversaries, right?
So, this analysis is something that we knew about already.
NBC is now confirming for the first time what many of us already suspected or knew.
the iranian air force bombed u.s bases in the opening phase of the war
washington america military base another equipment in the persian gulf region
suffered extensive damage from iranian strikes that is far worse than publicly
acknowledged
and is expected to cost billions of dollars to repair corn to three u.s
officials to congressional aids and another person familiar with the
damage it was so extensive
okay
it was so extensive the damage
we went to planet labs
the american government went to american commercial satellite companies
made them
uh... uh... uh... made them stop publishing imagery from the region
and at first it was supposed to be for like seven days and now it's permanent
we knew that was confirmation even back then
we already had confirmation if you were following uh... open source
intelligence on twitter
You already saw many of those strikes.
Miser vision did extensive work on this too.
The Chinese satellite,
the Chinese commercial satellite company.
We knew about this already.
Now it's confirmed in mainstream news, right?
That's why I say Piker broadcasting service
for tomorrow's news today, right?
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know about tomorrow's news today we've known about this for like the past fucking 50 days at this point
i told you iran was cratering american bases to the tune of billions of dollars of damage
over and over again many people were completely oblivious to this reality and many people
still are completely oblivious to this reality and on top of that they have no understanding
of what this represents for america's force projection capabilities they are also completely
oblivious to what that even means, what is America's force projection capabilities, that's why you
come here to the Piker broadcast and service to understand all of these concepts and hopefully
I do a decent job of explaining all this stuff and it's no longer seen as so complex.
The Iranian regime swiftly retaliated after the Trump administration attacked on February 28th,
hitting dozens of targets across U.S. military bases in seven Middle East countries.
Those attacks struck warehouses, command headquarters, aircraft hangars,
satellite communications infrastructure, runways, high-end radar systems, and dozens of aircraft
according to the U.S. officials, and an assessment by the American Enterprise Institute of
Conservative Think Tank in Washington, D.C. In the initial days of the war, an Iranian F5
fighter jet bombed the U.S. base in Camp Bearing in Kuwait,
An F5. Not only worth, I don't know what's more disrespectful. $7,000 lawnmowers with propellers
flying over the Strait of Hormuz and hitting these fucking golf bases and taking out billions
the dollars worth of equipment, or a fucking F5 fighter jet, an F5 fighter jet that hasn't
been modernized at all because of the sanctions, okay?
The F5 made its first flight in 1959. That's fine. We still use a lot of ancient tech.
We still use a lot of ancient tech. The difference, of course, is when Iran is using
that ancient tech, they haven't been able to modernize it because they have no components.
They're not allowed to get the parts. They're not allowed to get the fucking proprietary technology.
So they're using the 1950s version of the F5.
Despite the base having air defenses, a rare breach that marked the first time an
enemy fixed-wing aircraft has struck an American military base in years, according to two of
the US officials. The three US officials familiar with the damage to the US base in the Middle
East described it as extensive.
The headquarters building for the US Navy in Bahrain, the nerve center of the Navy's
operations in the region sustained serious damage, the official said. I mean, remember
the quadrant in the Iranian mosaic, the IRGC mosaic that was pummeling Bahrain was
holy fuck they were going crazy in the first couple of weeks if you remember
they just never stopped hitting barring
the dubai quadrant and the barring quadrant that were just
pummeling
and if you recall i don't know what the fuck is going on here maybe the
maybe the dude got caught by some uh... dude in Bahrain or something but they
were they were hitting that shit
they had
uh... revenge fantasies in mind okay
multiple hangers. Oh yeah, they said other parts of the basin bar and also suffered significant
damage that is likely repairable. Multiple hangers and warehouses in the Ali al-Salem
air base in Kuwait also were struck according to the American Enterprise Institute's unofficial
assessment that was reviewed by NBC News. The assessment also shows a munitions storage
facility at a military base in Aideed in northern Iraq that was damaged in a runway
the sprawling al-ud-dait airbase in Qatar was destroyed. Al-ud-dait airbase is the airbase for
sent com, central command, okay? That is the heart of the American military operations
in the fucking region. And Iran destroyed one of its fucking runways. That is unbelievable,
U.S. bases have been cleared of U.S. troops and other personnel.
So many of the bases were left essentially empty and vulnerable to attack by Iranian
missiles and drones.
Many of the troops who were temporarily relocated are expected to return to the bases once the
tensions in the region subside.
According to American Enterprise Institute's assessment, Iran hit more than 100 targets
across 11 bases in seven Gulf countries.
texts fell on US and host nation bases in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Jordan,
Kuwait, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. The reason why this is, I guess, unique for some, maybe
not interesting or unique for you, is because there was no information. There was an informational
blackout in the GCC. People were literally being thrown in prison. There are still
people in prison, including a friend of mine that I talked about as well, who just got released
as a matter of fact as Al Jazeera reporter. But it was insane. There was tremendous information
blackout. The planet lab satellite imagery was frozen from the region, so we couldn't
see the extensive damage. And yet we still knew, but most Americans were completely
fucking oblivious, right? As a part of Epic Fury, the potential future costs to rebuild
American military infrastructure overseas may include repair, reconstruction, outright
replacement, or even abandonment and decommissioning of locales. Mackenzie Eaglin, a senior fellow
at American Enterprise Institute, said in a statement about the group's assessment
war damage also includes estimated costs for infrastructure that is unsalvageable.
cost estimate for repairing the infrastructure is more than $5 billion. Oh my Lord, but that
amount does not account for some of the radar systems, weapons systems and aircraft another
equipment destroyed in the Iranian strike, she said.
Eaglin has worked on defense and budgetary and military readiness issues for years
and is a former Pentagon official. The Iranian damaged at least two air defenses
in the region, according to the U.S. officials. It's worse than that, by the way.
In Bahrain, the base of the Fifth Fleet headquarters, seven reports of damage to satellite communications
right up protection structures and large warehouses.
Just know that those are gone, okay?
If they're reporting that there was extensive damage, that means it's over.
It's done.
Remember the AWACS plane that they were claiming was dinged, right?
There were two, or no, there were two strato-tankers and they were like, well, one was, or
no, there were two AWACS planes.
And one was reported as being like somewhat damaged, it was obliterated, right?
It was just fucking obliterated.
So whenever these guys talk about like lightly damaged dinged, it just means it's over, okay?
It's been boomed out of existence.
There's a video of the fifth fleet headquarters getting bombed in the first few days, yeah.
That's gonna leave a mark, you know, that's that's that's nothing that's nothing you can't
There's not some you could put like a little bit of a flight tape on and and and bluff out
In Iraq in the adab in military base
One report of damage to general administrative building in Jordan the Mufawak salty air base damage to general administrative building
Ten reports of damage to warehouse in a runway in Kuwait in the Ali else Salem air base
It's just it's it's a fuck ton of damage. Okay
Americana subscribed to NBC news for a month to bring these screenshots for people with poor reading comprehension
What's new here is that the Iranian jets flew straight through US air defenses in the Kuwait and possibly Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates
To drop gravity bombs on American assets
The last time something like this happened was during the Korean War the close official confirmation
we've had of this was a cent-compress release on March 2 acknowledging Iranian Air Force activity.
This also makes a little bit, this also clears something up, specifically in Kuwait, where
The Kuwaiti Air Force, the Kuwaiti Air Force pilot
shooting down American fighter jets
makes a little bit more sense now,
because it was just like, what the fuck?
Did this guy just go rogue or something?
Well, it turns out he might have accidentally thought
that it was Iranian fighter jets or something.
And then the ghost of Kuwait took out three
American fighter jets thinking it was
an Iranian fighter jet, potentially.
Yeah, anyone who gets their news about the Iran war
from source outside of the Fox neo-con sewer
of Sean Hannity and Ben Shepard already knows that Iran absolutely pummeled U.S. base in
multiple countries. This new report shows billions of dollars worth of damage and even
sites to study from the Neocon American Enterprise Institute for support. If you talk to any
trustworthy U.S. officials, they'll give you the real story about the war, not just
that Iran inflicted far more damage than known and that the U.S. government hid, including
the number and severity of U.S. casualties, but also that, as happened in the last
war with Iran in 2025, both the U.S. and Israel and now the Persian Gulf decadent
ships are very low on munitions and especially anti missile defense systems.
Guy on Reddit in the nose says they were jumping because of the F5 leading the three jets getting
shot down. They shot down the F15s the day after the F5 because they were jumping from
f5 getting through from the from the mouth of someone in the know. Okay, that's that's
just speculation. That's no different than me fucking speculating. You went to Reddit for that. Come on.
What is this? Breaking the rules with a Sompiker? Very important.
It starts with the implicit bias, it's...
Bro, you good?
Brian goes hard with the fit.
Um, alright, alright, alright, let's uh, let's continue.
And we'll watch, we'll look at memes later, okay?
Where is it?
Where is it?
Where is it?
The Aronias, oh, Ryan Grimm also has some words on the reporting from mainstream news, mainstream
outlets about Trump potentially going into talks with Iran when no such talks were taking
place.
The Aronias news reports indicating that the U.S. and Iran would be resetting talks
were produced because Pakistan's ISPR sent the following incorrect update to many journalists.
They didn't send it directly to me, but I was forwarded it. This was the message breaking
attributable to government sources.
Iranian Foreign Minister al-Busraqshi is expected to arrive in Islamabad tonight with a small
delegation according to government sources.
Okay, I'm not going to lie.
I'm not saying, I'm not saying, not saying this because I'm Turkish, but it does kind
of feel like Pakistan is not as well equipped to be the table here, okay?
They have their own ambitions here, it seems.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Arakshi is expected to arrive in Islamabad tonight with a small
delegation according to government sources, following important discussions of the Pakistani
mediation team, a second round of Islamabad peace talks between the United States and
Iran is expected, government sources say.
The US logistics and security team is already president in Islamabad to facilitate the
negotiations process.
It was never true that Arakshi had any plans to reenter negotiations last week.
Why would the Pakistanis say otherwise?
Anyway, odd stuff.
Are you being paid by India?
No, but this is like,
I guess this is growing pains, growing pains.
Growing pains for Pakistan a little bit.
But you're not supposed to do stuff like this. You know what I mean? This is I mean it could
be because they want to they want to be in good favor with the United States. So they're
trying to play ball. But it seems to me like bad diplomacy. And this is something that
a lot of analysts have been saying about Pakistan's involvement. Given this report from Ryan
It's very hard to imagine Iran trusting Pakistan the media talks again.
This is exactly the type of continuous media hype leaks and rumors from the Pakistani side
that should make Iran refuse to conduct any further diplomacy in Islamabad, says Erich
Spurling.
Yeah.
Ali Hashem says, �My understanding is that the continuous media hype and leaks and rumors
from the Pakistani side is complicated in this situation could lead to changing the
venue of the talks.
Could it be China?
Pakistan is in a unique situation because it is at the epicenter of the Cold War between
China and the United States of America.
It is China's very own Israel in many respects, but it also is still very much controlled by
the CIA.
So and it has good relations with Iran, like really, really positive relations with Iran.
So it is, I understand why they would hold these talks in a country like Pakistan.
But yeah, Pakistan is moving a little bit like Clay Thompson.
You know what I mean?
Perhaps a little too greedy with its new found importance in international diplomacy.
These are not mistakes that Oman would make.
These are not mistakes that Turkey would make.
These are not mistakes that countries that have had to deal with stuff like this would
make.
wise, because if you bust your nut too hard in order to boost your importance, you might
actually lose being, you might lose the opportunity, the generational fumble.
It looks really good when you are, when you've got the Islamabad Accords, right?
Like that will end this war between Iran and America.
That's a really good thing.
Right?
But you're maybe a little too excited.
If your goals end up getting in the way of the ultimate goal of conducting this ceasefire negotiation, then you might be cooked.
I've been in studio right we just spoke right before the show with this breaking news the president saying
Over the phone to me that he's making this decision because he feels like an 18-hour flight
You know sending his people there when he doesn't feel like they're going to accomplish much with the Iranians when they can
The Iranians can just call the turkey table is too wobbly untrustworthy. It's misleading. No, it's because
Turkey's a NATO country
that probably plays a big role in why Iran wouldn't want to do it in Turkey.
Pakistan is a nuclear armed sovereign nation. A nuclear armed sovereign nation that it has
very close relationships with China, extensive and very close relations with China, but it's also
also from the American perspective is has like an established American presence in it
as well.
All us here.
What do you make of that?
Well, I think it's the right move.
It's again, this is a negotiation that we're still kind of going back and forth on.
The Iranians I think are trying to recover some form of leverage.
I mean this note that they brought with them to Pakistan was more like a list of complaints
than a serious, like opening our next phase
and a serious ceasefire negotiations and solutions.
So clearly the diplomacy, I think,
has run its course again, and it's going to probably require,
and I think the time is ripe for another round of more
strong or forceful diplomacy using the military hammer,
the military tools.
And I think on the straits, that's
their strongest leverage still, unfortunately.
There's going to be a need for demonstration
of American might and to demonstrate who really controls
access through the straits, and that's the US.
Well, let's talk about who really we're negotiating with.
I mean, it's hard to tell who's in charge of Iran right now,
the IRGC.
There was some reporting that the IRGC
sort of pushed out the parliament.
I'm not saying this because I'm Turkish cap.
No, I think Oman would probably be a better place
to hold these negotiations than Turkey.
Speaker from negotiations, and the president has said over and over again that Iran's leadership
is divided, that there's a lot of infighting, and we really don't know who's in charge,
Ghalibov, the parliament speaker, pushed back on that on Twitter.
He wrote, in Iran, there are no radicals or moderates.
We are all Iranian and revolutionary, and with the iron unity of the nation and government
with complete obedience to the supreme leader of the revolution, we will make the aggressor
criminal regret his actions.
Who do you think?
Like what do you think is going on inside Iran?
Who is in charge?
Well, that's a good question.
I don't think it really should change or temper the approach the U.S. military is being
put to use in the region.
This is part of the design.
When you want to try to provide an opportunity for the Iranian people to take back their
country, there is going to be this fracture of the regime.
And that regime, by the way, is probably less than 20 percent of the population.
So when they talk about everyone's united, it's a fraction of the overall population.
This is all pure cope.
Fox is actually coping.
If the Strait were open tomorrow, it would take three months for everything to
get online, six months to clear completely.
a year at least to get back to normal we've been shot the bullet just hasn't
hit us yet by the time we notice we've been hit we're already bleeding out
i mean i don't know if you ask
professor jeffrey sacks he doesn't seem to think so he seems to think that it's
uh... baked in
this fed up with this
theocratic dictatorship and terror network that they've been living under
for far too long
so removing these naval assets we have now into uh... the persian golf in
in the area and now the navy can go after these fast boats that come
a real big problem of course the Iranian Navy is pretty much at the bottom of the
sea but got these fast boats that you know perhaps we could see them laying
down more mines there is the threat of that this is the Secretary of War Pete
Hexett announcing it. Why do you watch the Fox News reporting on these
negotiations? Is it just get to know the Republican spin they want people to
believe or do you think they get certain information other news channels
don't know just spin because we we are we know what's going on on the
ground. In order to find out the truth, you look to the straight, okay? You look to the
battle lines, you look to who has the leverage by looking at each country that is involved,
the belligerents that are involved, and their military goals and whether they've achieved
it or not. If tankers are not crossing through the Shredda Hormuz, America has not been
able to establish any leverage whatsoever. America's ultimate goal is to open the
to Hormuz, okay? If you want to understand the spin from the State Department aligned media,
you go to like CBS, CNN, NBC News, ABC. If you want to understand the pro-Trump spin on top of it,
the maximalist spin, then you go to Fox News. It's important to understand what Fox News is
saying, so you understand how to talk to your grandparents, how to talk to your parents.
there's still plenty of Trump hogs out there in Hogland.
You gotta know what information they're receiving
so you can be better at addressing the misinformation.
This week.
Part of what the president is threatening is ensuring if there's
attempts to lay recklessly and irresponsibly lay more minds we're
going to deal with that. It's a violation of the ceasefire. So
transit is occurring much more limited than anybody would like to see
and with more risk than people would like to see, but that's because Iran is doing irresponsible
things with small fast boats.
So you're the expert at this, Brent.
How is this going to work?
Are we going to be able to patrol this very large Iranian coast?
The short answer is yes, and we've had the capacities from day one to actually identify
and go after those small boats.
And for the viewers, look at the video that we've been putting out going after
the Narco Terrorist boats in the Caribbean.
of those those are the type of threats they're not going to sink a tanker they're not going to
sink a container ship they are a harassment they can be identified and seen fairly early now we
have more forces there notably the marines because now that you can put marines on us flag ships like
can like there are four right now that could get underway with us merchant marines you could put
the marines on board so that if for example these small boats or drones get close enough
will the marines have crude-served weapons to deal with that we need to show a demonstration
of American strength, and that the shipping is not at risk, and you'll see the insurance rates drop.
You saw that when you had two destroyers early on when the blockade was first put in and the
first round of negotiations. Very clearly evaporating the Iranians leverage there.
It's neat. It's time for that being done again. So we've got the military might and we've shown
them what we can do and what we're capable of doing, but we're also showing them we can
squeeze them economically. And some experts believe that this is actually
perhaps the way that we're going to get them to cave is and and
State just put out that they are now targeting some Iran's oil network in China
Are we gonna get them to cave by by taking some of these measures hitting them with more sanctions going after their oil?
I think so
I mean this is the the genius of the blockade and that is if it works
It applies economic pressure on the Iranian regime and it forces more trade to the United States as long overdue that our allies and partners
coming by American energy instead of from very risky or hostile countries like Russia.
So it works either way.
Now the Chinese are the ones with the biggest and the disadvantage.
And the Iranians are being pressured, I suspect, by Beijing.
Because Beijing is getting a large amount of its oil on unsanctioned vessels of the
dark fleet.
And those ships going to fuel China's economy is a real, very large motivator for them
to get the Iranians to capitulate.
And so the blockade fuels that on top of the economic pressure directly to the Iranian
regime.
Okay, we'll keep watching.
It doesn't sound like we're going to see talks anytime soon.
The president telling me over the phone, he told his people, you're not going to make
that 18-hour flight to go there.
We have all the cars.
They can call us anytime they want, but you're not going to be making any more
18-hour flights to sit around talking about nothing.
That's how he feels about it at this hour of the day.
Brent Sadler, great to have you.
Thank you.
Have a great weekend.
Be sure to like and subscribe for all the Fox News latest on YouTube and catch full
show streaming now on Fox one. This week, President Trump said the ceasefire between Lebanon and
Israel would be extended. But here on their border, the question is ceasefire. What ceasefire?
Today, Israeli strikes hit Lebanon with four declared dead so far. The death toll of this
conflict is estimated to be two and a half thousand as the IDF and Hezbollah exchange fire
at escalating cost, both sides accusing the other of breaking the ceasefire.
We have to be honest.
Dude, what the fuck is this Dave Smith guy on, dude? Is he all right?
I just saw another tweet by this guy, and he's still chirping at me. He's like,
I don't know why he, I don't know why he's doing this. Look, look.
It is true that I challenged on to a debate years ago. I did it publicly. My podcast is verifiable. It's also true that a song much more recently sent me a message giving me props and I didn't respond. There's your contradiction here.
And now stop stealing. I said, you know, you can respond to me via DM, right? I don't know what this one side of shadow boxing thing you're doing is we can talk about whatever you want to talk about, man.
To which you core retweeted said, did you think I was trying to message you and accidentally
just did a podcast and said, what does this mean?
You've done several segments on me in the past.
Was that one side of shadow boxing?
Do you want to debate?
Do you want to debate?
If advocating stealing is good, I'm down.
I said, I can set up a debate whenever you want.
I'm saying you covered that you wanted to debate me on your podcast.
I don't recall.
However, I'm asking why you haven't communicated this directly to me and we're claiming
I'm ducking you what I'm clearly not
Why not have a conversation where you agree on some things to discuss other issues you disagree with that would probably be more interesting than a debate on one topic
Okay, sure
Yeah, even his own fans are like you're handling this so weirdly you do a segment on him like your Dana bash
Essentially saying he's too scared to obey you and are just tweeting about him instead of messaging him privately
The M. M invite him on the show don't do this performative debate me shit
I'm realizing how much of a bad faith cloud chaser Dave Smith is based on that core retweet. It feels weird. I
Think he's trying to get media pick up so we can weasel a debate with you on Fox News specifically is Weasley. I just don't I
Don't understand why he's doing it like this
He will permanently pretend to not understand because he's view farming
Yeah, but I don't think he gets this this makes him look bad
to his own audience as well, because his own audience would love for us to have a conversation.
So this kind of makes him, I mean, this is strange, you know what I mean?
You're going to debate a guy with zero emotion, by the way, he's so relevant.
I don't care.
And I don't even think it will be as much as a debate as you think it is.
I think that's the problem though. These guys understand that their audience is like
non-partisan on the issue of Israel, right? So he's already cultivated an anti-Israel audience
and he's too scared to lose his like right-wing credibility by coming across as though he's
in total agreement with someone like myself. I think that's what the problem is. So he's
just trying to max out on the cloud farming by presenting himself as like, Oh, I'm not
like this guy at all. I don't agree with this guy. I want to make sure that I don't
agree with this guy at all.
It's very strange. I have no issues having a conversation with people that I disagree
with on issues that I agree with them on. It would be akin to me being like, oh, I would
never talk to Tucker Carlson because we agree on Israel. No, I don't mind that conversation.
But it does remind me of how Tucker Carlson is the one who's avoiding that conversation.
You're responding to him publicly fucked up a strategy. Yeah. In a way, like they're
trying to continue positioning themselves as like anti me to make sure that their audience
make sure that their audience knows they're the good kind of commentary people. There's this real fear.
There is this real fear amongst right-wing content creators that they're going to come across as
agreeing with someone like myself. I'm the boogeyman of the right
for many, many years at this point, and I think that's the real problem.
That's what it is is the same reason why Tucker Carlson won't have a conversation with me either
I don't think Dave Smith is interested in a good faith debate
It doesn't fucking matter dude most people who wanted to bet us on aren't interested in a good faith debate
They want the attention of cloud is on question them in general and then they start screaming about all the fake out ratio because they're losing
Yeah, it's it's I
i i hope it doesn't happen but it is what it is it might happen
is a lot higher it's it is a high likelihood that it does happen
is all explained here by vanguard what the fuck this is
twenty four minutes of this person says i'd love to see you go on breaking
points again and maybe bury the hatchet with Kyle Kalinsky and go on Crystal
Kyle and friends. You know, that's an interesting suggestion given the fact
that Dave Smith and Kyle have beefed and Kyle's called him out a number of
times. Dave Smith respond and says, I'll go on breaking points anytime they
want me on. I love all of those guys. I don't really have any beef with Kyle.
He started talking shit about me for some reason and I responded in kind.
I think the way he's going at people for voting for.
I just don't get it.
I'm like legitimately confused.
I can assume, I can speculate as to what
is the reason why he's maneuvering like this.
I mentioned already like he can't come across like he is in agreement with the things that I'm saying
but um he has to find like areas of disagreement right
St. Peter will condemn you to hell for your cowardice stop ducking Dave Smith
admit you steal cars yeah that's how I that's how I made my money
pikerbock casting service all of your donations go to me
um and my car theft endeavors
anyway
I'm sorry, I'm joining the Kea boys. I am the Kea boy. All right. Trump pulls us negotiating
team from around peace talks. Here is Danny Denon, you know, the Lebanese government have
no control of his ballah. And his ballah is sending rockets trying to sabotage the
ceasefire. And it's where we have to retaliate. Every time we we see a threat, we take action.
And I think the main question is whether the Lebanese government is capable of enforcing
a cease-fire.
But Israel too has a record of breaching agreements, as another attempt by Pakistan to broker a
meeting between the US and Iran collapsed.
Israel has a record in breaching agreements.
Lapsed.
Today, delegations were set for Islamabad.
But as the US claimed a deal was possible, Iran said there would be no direct talks.
The conduit would be Pakistan's Prime Minister, Shabas Sharif.
Here the Prime Minister greeted Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Arachi like an old friend.
But as the Iranians left, the Americans cancelled their flights.
And breaking right now, President Trump just moments ago exclusively telling me over
the phone that he has unilaterally cancelled Steve Whitcoff and Jared Kushner's trip
to Pakistan to meet with the Iranians.
The president says it's not worth his people making the 18-hour-
Breaking news, me.
Light.
When he says we have all the-
It's not that special, lady.
He picks up the phone for everybody, it seems.
Cards.
Just weeks ago, Iran and the U.S. appeared closer to a deal with Pakistan again, the middleman.
But today they cannot even sit in the same room.
Iranian officials have been Israeli assassination targets.
and trust is a commodity in short supply.
Military bravado is an abundance.
On the strait of Homoos, Iran released videos claiming control, as America said the same.
Conflict over this crucial route is just one of the barriers to a deal
in a process defined by talks that were not talks
and ceasefires that have not stopped strikes
in a pattern across the region.
This is Gaza today. Among those to be buried is a baby, a young mother and her unborn twins.
Their lives were ended by Israeli strikes, despite the October ceasefire. For every delay and diplomatic failure, this is a reminder of what's at stake.
Well, I'm joined by Elliot Abrams, who was the US special representative for Iran and
Venezuela during President Trump's first term.
He served in senior foreign policy roles for President George W. Bush and President Reagan
too.
Thanks so much for joining us and hopefully we'll get to President Trump's relationships
with his NATO allies in a bit.
But first to the Middle East, we've just heard that Donald Trump has pulled his
team literally as they were about to get on the plane by the sounds of it.
What do you make of that?
Well, I think on that you cannot blame.
When I claim you're a duck, I may I respond to segments you did about me years ago and challenge you to debate if you're unaware that I take you at your word. I'm down. What do you want to debate?
debate. No, this is new. He's still, he's doing it now. He's doing it new, new style.
You can have a dope Gen X debate. Debate the morality of his pastoral support. Debate
Israel. What are we going to debate on? We agree on Israel. Brother, he prompted you
for this. What the fuck is he doing to ask you for a debate? Yeah, I don't even understand
what the hell's going on here. I am a little bit confused, but I'm sure it'll be fine.
He can't even hide his debate lord behavior. Now it's just down to topics and logistics.
Have you noticed they haven't been interviewing Orochi lately?
Yes, I have noticed that.
The thing is, I don't know this guy's positions at all.
You're making his day, a debate is to a libertarian, what a democratic revolution is to a Marxist.
What is this? You're literally a Candace Owens fan. You should sit this one out. A Candace
Owens fan? Wait, what? What the fuck? Where, where did she, did she think I was being
serious when I said I'm a clandestine operator?
Dude, I don't know how to have a conversation with half of these guys anymore because I genuinely,
I mean this sincerely, I think they're too stupid.
Like it sometimes feels like I have to just slam my head into a wall multiple times before I can
like have a normal conversation in the same frequency that these guys are operating on.
What are you fucking saying? What do you mean? I'm a Candace Owens fan. I've been dunking on Candace Owens for the past decade, man
What the fuck what the fuck is
Trump it seems as if the real change is a Tehran with the IRGC refusing to allow an actual negotiation
And if that's the case, why would you send your people over there just to talk to the Pakistanis?
It doesn't make sense. We can do that by Zoom. I think the problem really is we don't know who is
fully in charge in Tehran. There does seem to be a bit of jockeying there as to whether they want
a face-to-face negotiation. And yet we hear Donald Trump also say today we hold all the cards.
I mean how true do you think that is? Well it isn't true, obviously. The Iranians have
some control of the straight-off removes that's the kind of talk that Trump often engages in.
But exactly on that point about who does and doesn't hold the cards. I mean,
quite critical here if they ever get to talks again.
It's funny because it's like channel four,
channel four is not putting up with this shit.
Like, even other Western news that normally we up America's asshole and taking everything
they say verbatim and repeating it are like, well, it kind of feels like situation isn't
in your favor, right?
Like, isn't in America's favor.
And is, for example, the nuclear question.
And yet it's been reported that the Iranians are saying the nuclear question for them
isn't even on the table.
Well, what has motivated the president for about 20 years is something that his predecessors
also said they cannot get a nuclear weapon.
And if that's their position, that is, they will continue to seek one, continue to enrich
uranium, try to rebuild the program.
It's a formula for more fighting, I'm afraid.
But I mean, there is a very strong argument being made by Donald Trump's critics
that actually Iran has much more uranium now at various enrichment levels accumulated after in fact
because President Trump pulled out of the deal struck by Obama. Is his best hope getting back
to that position with the Iranians? No, that's getting back to the Obama nuclear deal of 2015
which gave them the right to enrich and simply delayed their nuclear weapons program
by about 10 or 15 years, which is where we are. Oh,
um, Iran was a bull. Shit, dude. Oh my God. Shut the fuck up. Anyone who says this is straight
up a propagandist for the state of Israel. Okay. It is a denial of observable reality.
If the goal was to ensure that Iran was not enriching uranium beyond the civilian usage,
then JCPOA accomplished it.
There was only one party that did not like that.
It was Israel.
These people straight up are doing propaganda, not even for America at this point.
This isn't even Trump.
This isn't even pro-Trump propaganda, okay?
They are denying observable reality at the behest of Israel's goals, reaching to 60%.
No country has ever done that without going on to build a nuclear weapon, and it shouldn't
be permitted.
So I do hope some kind of agreement is reached.
But if it isn't, then whatever is left of their nuclear program will continue to be
destroyed.
I think most of it is pretty well destroyed.
So briefly, if you would, where do you think this goes next?
Well, I'm hopeful that through the Pakistanis or someone else, there can at least be some
messages going back and forth.
If that doesn't work, if there really is no agreement at all, we've got some time now,
then I'm hopeful that the American closure of the straight-up form moves to Iranian
ships will squeeze their economy so much that even if they're not willing to
talk today they will in two weeks or four weeks. Because one of the arguments that is consistently
made about Iran. Moberg's actually US military's intact, yeah. Yeah, no, it's going great.
It's we didn't even want the Bahrain base. We like that it's a crater now we're going
to make it a pool. We're going to put some water in the crater that is now the Bahrain
base and we're gonna turn it into a pool is gonna be sick. It's that victory for
them is just about survival and they can hang on much longer than clearly
President Trump had imagined initially. Yes but the stream right now when there's
no fighting is not all that great. It is a question of who's going to blink
first and what Trump is arguing is that their economy if they cannot
import or export by sea is going to collapse. I mean just moving on to
President Trump's current relationships with his NATO allies. Yesterday's leak
from the Pentagon saying the US might review its neutral position on Britain's
claim to the Falklands has caused some alarm. I mean is it a clever tactic by
the president? I don't know if that ever got to the president that you know
was on a list of things, nasty things that could be done to data allies who he felt were
not sufficiently supportive. But I do think the King's visit is an opportunity to discuss
this. My advice to the King would be, remember the Chagos Islands and the Diego Garcia base.
What he should be saying to the President is, if you want us to get out of that
particular location, the Falklands, because you think it's an imperial possession.
Well, there are other imperial possessions too, like Diego Garcia, that you don't want us to get
out of. So I think he can make a pretty strong argument that these so-called imperial possessions
are actually very important and useful for the West, not just for the UK.
Okay, the interesting to see what argument the King does make, Elie Avery,
Thanks very much for talking to us. We are coming to you tonight from my own hometown the borough of the Bronx, New York
House and I've been hit Chris Hayes doing a
Mamdana standpiece stadium and for the next hour
I some other folks who live here are going to talk to the man who just a little over a hundred days ago
Stepped into what some have called the second toughest job in America the mayor of New York City
Okay, just leave the straight close to suicidal position.
I think we're in our suicidal arc.
I think the United States of America is on its suicidal arc.
So is Israel.
And we're basically, we're basically fucking attached to the hip to the suicidal country.
So it makes sense.
New York City is so much bigger than you think.
Eight and a half million people, a hundred different ethnicities, speaking 200 different
languages.
The largest Jewish population outside of Israel, the largest Muslim population in the hemisphere,
the largest Chinese population of any city outside of Asia, more black residents than
any city in the U.S., the most billionaires on planet Earth with millions of others
living below the poverty line.
And believe it or not, more Trump voters
than in any one of a dozen red states that elected him.
As past November, this city, for its 112th mayor,
chose this guy.
How's it going, guys?
You have 60 seconds to talk just about the election.
Zoram Mamdani came from mere obscurity
to change the way winning campaigns are run.
Neyarni, will you accept this rose?
With a populist message to do something
about the cost of living.
How about the cost of living?
Sucks.
We're going to make buses fast, then.
His rise made him a rock star on the left
and a boogeyman on the right.
We put in a cabinet.
No one is safe.
I have friends of mine in New York.
They are officially depressed and scared.
And even if he's managed to tame the man in the White
House, we agree on a lot more than I would have thought.
In the end, he's still got to run this city.
I've been watching you for a while tonight.
All in comes to the Bronx for a special town hall
with the mayor and the people.
This is All in America with Mayor Zoran Mamdani.
Oh!
Good evening from the amazing Bronx Children's Museum,
I'm Chris Hayes.
This was the front page of the New York Post.
Today, Zoran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City.
The Red Apple, forget it, that.
The culmination of one of the most improbable
political stories of the Trump age.
Grassroots, progressive campaign,
like no one had ever seen before,
with more opposition from Republicans,
from a Democratic political dynasty,
from the president, from the media, that we'd ever seen.
And he won, with a laser focus on a core message
of making it more affordable for the people who live here.
It's been a little over 100 days,
the city has not fallen into communism just yet.
But he doesn't have a job to do.
We've invited an audience of New Yorkers to join us here,
someone who voted for this mayor,
some of who didn't.
Some are supportive of his policies and others are not.
This is New York, so no one is ever gonna be shy
about sharing an opinion.
And the mayor isn't shy about hearing that.
Let's welcome now Mayor Zora Mondani.
Good to see you, Mr. Mayor.
No, it's not live.
I wore a suit so I can match your energy.
Thank you.
You know, you were an assembly member.
Just like the last time, maybe the last time I saw you, actually,
just a few months ago. It's a very different job than this.
Can you get captions, please? No.
What's the biggest thing you've learned?
the biggest
in that position
you know i think
the biggest thing first and foremost is that
new yorkers trust for all of the big ideas that we have about delivering
universal child care about
making the most expensive city in america
by the way in half an hour i will be talking to
trita parsey
trita parsey
uh... will be on the broadcast again will be talking about where the
ceasefire is going
who's winning who's losing all that stuff and yes i turned the volume up a
little bit affordable for working-class people who helped keep it running
that trust starts when you fill in those potholes
because you can't tell someone
to trust
say government in its ability to deliver free childcare for two-year-olds for
the first time and i thought you were gonna say dave smith
what time is the day what time is the big greek comment that i would say
david's no buddy
that's not
That's not how this works.
We can't just like, I mean, I would debate him right now if he wanted to, but no, I have
like actual serious analysts that are coming on the broadcast to deliver a commentary on
where we're at on the news of the day.
History.
If they can look out the window and see the same pothole unfilled as it was the
the day before, the week before, the month before, the year before.
And so at the same time that we've been pursuing this agenda that would transform the lives
of New Yorkers, delivering a pathway of universal childcare on day eight, we've also filled
in 102,000 potholes in that same 100-day period.
We've tried to repay more than 1,000 miles of roadway.
And all of this comes back from a belief that there's no problem too big, no task
too small, and we call this pothole politics.
Well, you know, there's this phrase called sewer socialism.
It comes out of the Milwaukee particularly, right?
There's a number of socialist mayors in Milwaukee and the idea that the only way you deliver
on your ideology, whatever it is, and particularly if it's a radical one, is that you have to
give people clean water and things like that.
Are you informed by that tradition?
Is that something you're thinking about?
Very much so.
I think oftentimes people think of politics as an intellectual debate, working people
want to know if you can actually deliver for them.
And one of those mayors in Milwaukee, their phrase was go after it and get it.
We've talked about this for long enough.
New Yorkers wanna see, can you actually deliver
on these things?
And they wanna measure it in the way
that they experience government on a day-to-day basis.
That's why we're focusing on the little things,
while also pursuing the big ones.
Do you think that you have, I mean, you are,
Mayor New Yorkers always somewhat of a national figure,
kind of, they also never have a national career
in politics, those two things I think are related.
It's a tough job to come out of everyone being like,
that guy's awesome.
Do you feel like you're carrying an ideological burden
for the flag of democratic socialism, which you proudly are, right? And you're the most
I don't give a shit how he answers this question. The answer is yes. Okay. I don't care if he
says it, if he says the truth, or if he lies, I will not be, I'm telling you right now,
the answer is 100%. Yes, he knows it. That's his job. That's why he was elected. And
he fucking absolutely knows that that is the position that he currently occupies
powerful democrats or for some country
and people can point to whether things go well here or poorly here
as evidence of whether that's an ideology that is worth it
well i think it goes back to what you're saying earlier to the work of an
ideology is judgements delivery
and to me this is an incredible opportunity
we've been told for so long even over the course of the campaign
things like universal child care
could never be done
On day eight, I stood next to Governor Hoco.
Oh my God, people got tears in their fucking eyes, bro.
That's crazy. That's crazy.
That's crazy.
Now it's $1.2 billion in funding
that will now, for the first time in New York City history.
I feel like people are watching and they're tearful.
Deliver free childcare for two year olds.
And that is something that you don't have to explain
to a parent.
But you got to, just to be clear, you got 2000.
Chris Hayes is a, he's not a bad dude for the record.
Once again, Hassan Abihed.
He's asking that question.
And it's a very good question to ask because it is the goal here.
Two seats.
It's a big city.
Two thousand seats this year, right?
12,000 seats next year, and then every single two year old by the end of year four.
And the importance of that.
By year four.
If it happens, right?
It will happen.
This is not an inshallah promise.
Okay.
This is definitely happening.
And I say that to you because, you know, Senator Warren talks about childcare
as infrastructure.
The way that you deliver this, it's not just a question of securing the funding.
It's also working with the childcare providers who have been at the heart of what's made
it possible for so many families to be here and building out their capacity to deliver
for more children than we've ever seen engaging in this kind of service in New York City.
You know, affordability which we're going to talk through throughout the hour was the
sort of central.
I was thinking about it.
No, yes.
Well, you're very un-messaged, which, you know, to your credit, you know, in
the mayoral election before you were elected, particularly coming out of 2020-2021, there's
huge amount of attention on policing and crime, right? And we saw a big uptick in crime in
New York City and nationally. We're seeing something pretty remarkable happening, which
is basically the inverse. Breaking Muslim, mayor speak Arabic, terrorist language, terrorist
language. How dare he? I don't like it. Scary. And you know, you came out and celebrated
the lowest homicide rate I think the city's recorded in many, many decades, but it's
It's not just New York City.
Mayor Lurie in San Francisco is going to take credit for it there.
And Brandon Scott in Baltimore,
Cache Patel, the FBI, and Donald Trump in the White House
are going around saying, hey, we've got the lowest crime rate ever
because of what I did.
What is your understanding or thought?
Someone said Asian.
Chadder, inshallah, is Arabic.
I mean, it's Turkish, too.
We say inshallah as well.
But you say inshallah, it's, you know,
The origination is Arabic.
Kerry, for what is happening with crime in your city?
Well, I think there's a few things.
We're seeing that our approach to public safety
is working, and not just in a sense of a general decline.
But to actually correct you a little,
it's not just the lowest number of murders
in the last few decades.
It's the lowest number of murders ever
having recorded history, the joint lowest number
of shootings.
It's a decline of crime across major categories
by more than 9%.
It's also not enough.
New Yorkers do not measure their lives by statistics.
they want to know that you are doing everything in your power
to deliver public safety and the importance of public safety
it's not actually divorced from the conversation around affordability
it's the cornerstone it's the platform that allows you to do that work of
affordability because if someone is not safe in their city
inshallah is an hathaway reference
that is the first concern they have
even before the other ones that we speak about i mean let me let me give an
interpretation of what i've seen and you could respond to it which is that
progressive governance is impossible
if people are scared
and and progressive politics essentially become choked off and and what i've
seen is
you're someone who has had these commitments to fast and free buses in
universal childcare when you look at policing there's things you said you
want to do you want to get rid of this gang database which uh... you've been
very critical of
uh... there's a special unit that sort of police's protests you said you
want to disband
the gang database is still there
the special unit the police's protest just
cookham
cook
his ass
Cook this fraud, bro.
Cook this handsome smiling fraud. Hell yeah, Chris.
The rest of the bunch of people are protest.
By the way, that's how you do a non-contentious reporting
that is still productive. Yeah, I saw this. I was just texting Tim Dillon.
It looks like you basically said, look, I'm not going to touch the policing stuff.
it's too dangerous either substantively or politically i'm gonna focus on this
other stuff
look at his face
you don't like it
no that's a good question it's a good question that must be raised
there's a way to do it
uh... uh... and this is the way to do it as opposed to the way that like meet
the press was doing it right
i'm gonna let
the commissioner and sort of status quo policing continues at a fair
characterization both house on abe as by the way i remember zoran liking your
instagram post in twenty twenty one
when you wore the pink dress
way really
really
i mean it's not surprising use of dsa new york guy
uh... that's a
that's has honest and let's be real
uh... but
uh...
i am
do you believe everything
that's not surprising he's is on this
again like i said the s a new york
i wouldn't be surprised that was the case
chris haze is a lot of it though i do talk to a lot
i wouldn't say so
uh... i'll push you on a little bit for a few reasons one of the reasons
But he was not familiar with the shame when he talked to him last year.
Maybe he was keeping it cool.
I didn't think so either, but I made a decision to retain our police commissioner
was not just because of what she was delivering in terms of public safety,
but also how she'd been able to uproot corruption from the upper
echelons of the NYPD.
We need a government that is not just efficient, but also excellent,
one that can be trusted in the work that it does.
Now, my belief in the importance of disbanding the strategic
response group, it continues just as strongly as it was during the campaign.
The reason for that is I don't think how come you haven't gone on all in. I don't think MSNBC producers fuck with me
Let's just put it let's just keep it at that
We need to couple our response to protests with our response to counterterrorism threats
This is a modern conflation that has happened and it's one that I'm committed to disbanding
The disbanding of it is one that we're going to do thoughtfully to ensure that we are also
also respecting the right to protest and keeping New Yorkers safe, but again it's not an if
for me. It's a when.
You've gotten a lot of attention from the relationship that you have cultivated with
the president. You've been asked about this a lot. It is, I mean, I gotta say, I get from
the outside. It's an amusing thing to watch, particularly when you said to the reporter
in front of him, like, no, he is a fascist. He said, no, it's okay, go ahead and answer.
What's going on? Like, what is it? Explain it. Why? Why? How did this happen?
When you were introducing this and we were stepping out, you were saying, these are New
Yorkers.
Is the USC phone drive?
I just mailed you.
Send it to the mods.
And in many ways, one of the few things the President and I have in common is that we
are both New Yorkers.
For all of our political disagreements, we have one agreement of chief importance,
which is that we love this city.
And with the President, I'm honest, I'm direct, and I try and always bring it back
to what would actually benefit this city.
So when I'm sitting there with the President, I'm talking about the opportunity to work
together to deliver housing.
We've seen in a single housing development since the early 1970s.
I'm also speaking about the fact that I think that ICE raids are cruel and inhumane and
that the fact that that morning they detained a Columbia student is part and parcel of why
this is not something that is actually serving the interests of public safety.
So I gave the president a list of five names of people who were detained in or around
Columbia.
He called me 30 minutes after the meeting and said I've made the decision to release
the student that you brought up.
He is not happy with the new tax plan, basically second homes for very, very wealthy people.
He said, you're destroying New York.
It has no chance.
The United States of America should not contribute to its failure.
They'll only get worth.
The tax-tax policy is so wrong.
People are fleeing.
This must change our ways and fast.
History has proven this stuff just doesn't work.
Thank you for attention this matter.
It did seem a little more in sorrow than in anger.
You felt a little betrayed.
I think the president knows exactly where I stand on these issues, and I know
where the president stands on these issues.
I ran a campaign speaking very plainly about the fact that in the wealthiest city, in the
wealthiest country in the world, it's unacceptable that one in four New Yorkers are living in
poverty.
And as we're facing a generational fiscal deficit, I believe it's only right to ask those
who don't live in New York City, but who own a second home in New York City, and that
second home is worth more than $5 million in New York City, to pay a little bit
more so that everyone can afford to live here.
It did occur to me he might actually have to pay the tax.
We don't have exceptions in our taxes that we propose.
You mentioned ICE and you mentioned immigration.
I mean, it has been notable that we've had this, you know, trail of, I, you're just jealous
that he's shared something with Trump.
He will never share with you precious.
What is that?
I'm jealous that he has a relationship with Trump and I'll never have that.
Is that what you're trying to say?
It's true.
I am a little jealous that Trump doesn't call me or do you mean a love for
New York?
You'll never be in New York or you'll never be chopped cheese.
I'm chopped dunk.
Of course, CBP enforcement that we saw in Los Angeles, we saw in Chicago, we of course
very famously saw it in Minneapolis and the Twin Cities.
There have been elevated ice enforcement here in New York City, they've been at
the courts and things like that, but we have not seen something like the operation in Minneapolis.
Does that hang over you as a kind of sort of Damocles?
Does it feel like it's something the president could threaten in every moment?
Do you feel like part of your relationship with him is staving that off, to be honest?
I mean, my relationship with the president is important to deliver from New Yorkers.
And I've made it very clear to the president that increased ICE presence, it would
just be an increase on what we've seen with ICE rates, which is just cruel and
humane.
about the fact that I think ICE is an agency that should be abolished. It's a
modern creation. Our country has had answers to immigration long before we
had ICE. And we also see that these kinds of raids just a few nights ago, ICE
detained a delivery worker. This is a man who came to this city with the
dreams of building up a life for himself and his family. No active
investigation. No warrant. He finished a grub hub delivery and then was taken
by armed mass federal agents. That's what we're talking about here in
New York City. It's the public school student Dylan Contreras whose family we
worked with to ensure that he would come home. That's the kind of person that's
getting detained in the city and that's why New Yorkers are sick of this
approach. One frankly of in a complete absence of humanity.
Dave's been responding to you. I know brother. I know.
Zoran and Trump have a relationship based around love, yours is transaction.
Zoran and Trump's White House.
True.
Yeah, we got the White House Correspondents' dinner that's taken place.
Let's see what Tim Dillon had to say.
You're attacking as Sam Piker.
You're fighting.
It doesn't make any sense.
Do you want to win?
You will never win unless you let go of the anger.
You have to let go of the anger.
Stop being mad that Meghan Trainor lost weight.
Stop being mad that Tucker Carlson criticized Trump.
Stop being mad that a Sompiker said things you don't like about Hamas.
Whatever, who cares?
I don't agree with a Sompiker on a lot of stuff, but it doesn't matter.
You have to lead by not being insufferable cunts.
I'll say it again.
You have to lead by not being insufferable cunts.
Can you do it for five minutes?
You'll never have a better opportunity.
This motherfucker in a year and a half has lit the goddamn world on fire.
If you lose the next election, pack the fuck up.
If the Democrats don't sweep the midterms pack real Patriot facts or I'm I'm dying like
the Hassan Piker. I'm a whore. I don't think he did. That would be crazy. I don't, I don't
think that's the case. I don't know how to open the the likes up. There it is. Hold on.
Let me turn this on.
The somebody pillow
Dog was vaporized. Yeah, you can't see it on browser phone is easier
Where did you guys get this from where did you guys get this information from?
This is new information. I'm saying it wouldn't shock me.
Well, that's not true. It would shock me. Yeah, it's not showing up.
There is a hundred and twenty five thousand likes.
Chastop, Stunlock and his dumb ass.
This was a necessary Stunlock. It is a necessary Stunlock.
This will be new information.
I saw it on r slash is on piger in the past don't be defensive when we joke back most
of us are real ones here's the screen shot
this could be fake
This could be fake news Stop policing likes Ramadwajee fuck you
was on I feel like I feel like if he if he actually liked this
our future mayor might be a house on out ahead I feel like if he actually liked this
he would have liked other shit too. Bro, I just checked that. Fuck you mean not true.
Oscord providing double proof. This is from my phone law. Control F dumbass. Wait, what
the fuck? Where is that post? I don't even know where the, how am I going to find this
post to check on my own.
That is crazy.
I feel like you guys are gaslighting me, cause not showing up on my end.
I didn't believe you, Hassanavi is real.
Okay, this is definitely fake.
That's not.
You're faking it.
Follow him back and first check again.
This is funny because this means this motherfucker was a Hassanabi head and he's been keep playing
it hella cool this entire time. You understand? You understand what you're telling me right
now? What you're telling me currently is that I've now known this dude for more than
a year. And he not once has brought this fact up until this very moment. If that's the case.
If this is true, he's possibly the best chatter because he actually listened to you and acted
Like he's fucking normal.
Posse that post seemed like a breach containment. I think lots of people saw it.
Just checked and he didn't like it.
Yeah, I think you guys are, I think everyone is lying.
Check again. I don't think I can see it.
I don't think I can see it on here
It's also too old of a pose
Also what are we fucking doing who gives a shit
That's messed up you said chatters aren't friends
Oh yeah
See it doesn't show up
Oh shit. Okay. Never mind. You were not wrong. It did show up. Okay. I guess you weren't lying.
Bro, that's a post from 2021.
I apologize to me in the other chatter right now, I apologize.
was an actual Hassanabi head. I thought that was...
That shadow played the long game he played you.
a cocky kid doesn't IG feed show you random shit like any other social media feed. I don't
know when Zoran started following me. I have no idea.
I remember you waited a whole day to confirm Hunter Shiver was a Palestine protest. You
your facts, right? Yes. We don't. Given a whole new meeting to 1000 mom donnies. Yeah.
I hope you guys understand, not to get all, you know, brown parent with all of you, but
you do understand that you just put this on all of yourselves.
My expectation is that all of you will now join your local DSAs and become the next
Zara and Kwame Mamdani, no matter where you live, right?
You understand that, right?
This means that you have a lot more work to do in order to be chatter of the year.
I'm just saying.
My fuckers be like, oh, I live in Canada.
Who gives a shit?
Okay, then join the, okay, but they don't have, they don't have political parties in
Canada? They don't have, you can't join your party, your local, you can't run for local
office in Canada, they don't got that? I'm chatter of the year, my own universe, I
I don't need your validation. Okay, respect.
Chatter of the year does not mean shit. 2025 winner is mega penis.
Self-imposed title by himself.
Megaphonics does not call himself mega penis.
I smoke too much crack to be mayor. Uh,
I don't know. It kind of feels like in,
In Canada, especially that's a that's a benefit not a burden
He does on he does on discord
Bro saw Zoran like their pose in 2021 and immediately became a brown parent saying why are we like Zor yet?
No, this actually kind of fucked me up. I'm not gonna lie. Maybe it's just like
Like, because I did not think this, I did not think that he was in this community at
all from our interactions, from the stream that we did together all the way to the last,
you know, year.
So I still think it's probably like, it's like me watching him on the Gravel Institute,
you know, it's probably like that.
I will be asking him though, for sure, to be like, you were fucking watching the streams.
You didn't fucking tell me.
I wonder if there's any other, I wonder what else he's like potentially.
Anyway.
Not all the people who like your posts are necessarily chattas this may have left the
house true up.
You have to win by not being insufferable cunts I know it is hard I know it is difficult
for you to for five minutes.
it in, but it's necessary, rain it in and maybe look at some of the people that are agreeing
with you or helping you. I'm not saying you have to praise them. I'm not saying you have
to praise Joe Rogan or Trevor Carlson or me or the Ovan or whatever. Whoever you're
angry at today, who's ever ruined your life this afternoon. I'm just saying you keep
making enemies all the time. You're addicted to making enemies. And if you don't want a
Christian nationalist, you know, the handmade-style country, which I certainly don't want, and
no one, most people I know, don't want, some people I know do. If you don't want that,
then you need to take power, and you need to take power by not being insufferable
and angry nobody wants to follow that
All right, let's look at why else correspond as dinner.
Oh, just kidding.
I have a call with Trita Parsey now, where we'll be talking about what is shaping up
in the region start virtual camera. Okay. Hello. Hey, how's it going? What's going on
Trita? Great to have you back on the great to have you back on the broadcast. My pleasure.
My pleasure.
All right.
Let's get right into it.
There's a lot to talk about since the last time we had a conversation, things have not
really changed necessarily, but there's been more of the same.
And what I mean by that, of course, is the fact that Trump is still claiming victory
after victory every single day, and then claiming that Iran is humiliated, destroyed,
he holds all the leverage, he holds all the cards.
And yet, seemingly, there was supposed to be a ceasefire negotiation that was supposed
to take place in Islamabad this week, potentially, but the Iranian side said that that was not
the case.
And Abbas Al-Rakshi, the foreign minister, went to Islamabad for bilateral talks between
Iran and Pakistan, which the Trump administration seemingly wanted to take advantage of to
make it seem like there was a real ceasefire that was going to be implemented.
And now we know Abbas Arash is left, Islamabad and Trump this morning said that he is not
sending Steve Whitcoff and Jared Kushner.
We have, I wanted to hear from your side of things, your much more knowledge-belonged
issue than myself.
So where do you think we're at now?
Is there going to be a ceasefire?
Look, the ceasefire is still in place.
It's just that within that ceasefire, the Trump administration is continuing to commit
an act of war, which is the blockade of the Persian Gulf.
And the question is, will the Iranians essentially calculate that they can withstand that pressure
longer than Trump can, because all prices are still not coming down in the manner
that Trump needs them to, or will this be painful enough for the Iranians that
they will start escalating on other fronts, mindful of the fact that Trump essentially
is still conducting something that, according to international law, is still an act of war
while there's supposed to be a ceasefire.
I think what we've seen in the last couple of days is quite embarrassing at times.
I mean, as soon as Trump seems to think that the Iranians are going to go somewhere, he
announces that talks are going to take place, that Wittkopf and them are ready to go,
and then kind of in a very embarrassing way have to issue a tweet saying that he decided
not to send them.
reality is that it's very clear. The Iranians have made it utterly clear they're not going to come
back to the table unless Trump lifts the blockade. And I think it's important to go over what happened
prior to this because it's a perfect example of how Trump is undermining, self-sabotaging his own
diplomacy because of this inability to resist the urge to declare victory to humiliate the
the other side on Twitter. So there had been some engagement through the Pakistanis, a
face-saving exit for both sides had been essentially agreed upon in which Iranians said that they're
lifting their siege or their blocking of the Strait of Hormuz, allowing the ships
to go through according to their own rules. Still, nevertheless, it was a bit unclear,
But this was supposed to last as long as the ceasefire lasted, and the US was supposed to
reciprocate by declaring that they are at the same time lifting the blockade.
Instead, Trump issues a tweet saying that he's won, that he's not going to lift the blockade,
and essentially insults and humiliates, tries to humiliate the Iranians.
And the Iranians immediately declared them that, okay, well, then the blockade is back
in place.
So they're closing the Strait of Hormuz once again.
And then, since then, it's been really difficult to get to the table.
And part of the reason why this is self-sabotage is because Trump actually had a bit of an
edge because he still managed to get what he wants, which is to get out of this
war through this ceasefire.
Because the Iranians are not the key thing they want, which is to get sanctions lifted.
They can only get that if diplomacy takes place.
But then he is eliminating that edge that he has by proving himself to be so untrustworthy.
If you're in a scenario in which the other side is actually in a slightly greater need
than you are to come to the table, then you should do everything you can to make
Make sure that that happens because you do have a bit of an edge.
But if you at the same time act in such a way that makes you utterly untrustworthy, that
it doesn't matter if the other side needs to come to the table more than you do, because
the table is not there because you're not trustworthy.
You cannot deliver on any of your promises.
You don't hold your words.
So what's the point of diplomacy even if you are in greater need to go to the
diplomatic table if the other side is incapable or unwilling to follow simple exit ramp mechanisms.
And we're talking about two countries that have very little trust. How do you build trust in these
kind of scenarios? You say, well, if you do this, I'll do this. And if both sides comply,
they take another further step. That's how you bring things together in a scenario in which
is almost entirely void of trust. And he failed that step one. He was supposed to do something
very simple, refused to do it an incidentally. Don't take it from me. He said it himself.
He said it in an interview two or three days ago that everyone was happy. His advisors advised
them to do it, to just follow suit. But he said, no, they're going to get half a billion
dollars in tolls. I'm not going to do it. And I essentially called for it to collapse.
And here we are. Now he's pretending as if the other side is begging for talks where
it's very clear that the other side is actually avoiding the talk. So this blockade
of the blockade did not become leverage for Trump. It became something that blocked diplomacy.
Yeah, so speaking of the table, the table is now Islamabad. And what I was wondering is what your
assessment is on on some of the reporting that has taken shape now about the way that the
Pakistani mediators have been dealing with both sides here. It's a it's in a unique predicament.
And it's new for Pakistan as well to center itself in these negotiations.
And they clearly want to get the prestige of having the Islamabad Accords be the place
where this situation comes to a close.
However, there's now reporting that the Pakistani side has often played a role in overemphasizing
the Iranian interest in having ceasefire negotiations take place at direct odds with what the Iranian
side has communicated over and over again. Do you feel like this is Pakistan trying to engineer a
situation in the way that they're used to in the way that they've dealt with with respect
to the United States or is there something else going on here? Well if we take a step back
and then we see that there are three key actors in this dance.
The US, Pakistan, and Iran.
And we just ask ourselves a very simple question.
Whose conduct right now seems to be the most erratic,
the most unpredictable, the most untrustworthy,
the most undisciplined, the most unhinged,
the most incapable of treating social media in a responsible way.
It's definitely not Pakistan.
It's not Pakistan.
That doesn't mean that the Pakistanis may not have overstepped their mandates.
They may not have, that they may not have oversold something at times.
That's quite possible. Even the most experienced mediators at times may commit that mistake.
And the Pakistanis, at least in the US-Iran context, are not experienced.
I think there's a bit of frustration on the Iranian side in which they believe
that the Pakistanis actually oversold to them the American agreement to that step-by-step de-escalation
that had been designed. And I'm not so sure that even that is the case. To me it sounds much more
likely that the American negotiators once again agree to something and then last minute Trump
pulls the rug under his own negotiators. This is not in that reading it would not be the
fault of the Pakistanis, because the American negotiators are there as well. They are negotiating
what they think is what Trump wants. And then last minute Trump changes his mind. He's done
this numerous times now, just in the US-Iran context, in which Kushner and Wittkoff said
that they thought that the Geneva proposal would really please Trump. And they left
with that message to the Iranians. And two days later or three days later, Trump
more with Iran. So I think the most likely scenario is that you have Trump changing his
mind, changing the goalposts, not caring about how he cuts the credibility of his own negotiators
at the recount. It's part of the reason I was wondering whether this was, from a political
standpoint, the smartest thing for JD to do to actually take on this issue, given
how difficult it is to negotiate on behalf of Trump when he keeps on changing his minds,
when he also keeps on listening to Mark Levine and the Israelis and Netanyahu who then come in
and, you know, influence him last minute in the negotiations and everything that has been
agreed upon before ends up collapsing. So could there be some error by the
the Kupakistanis certainly. Is that the most likely scenario? Just given what we can openly
see with our own eyes, this is not where I would be looking first. Nor would I be looking
at this other narrative that the White House is pushing out that the whole problem is
because the Iranian leadership can't get their act together and that they're in disarray
etc. Again, not implausible that there's a lot of disagreements within their leadership.
They always are. Disagreements tend to come to the fore in the midst of negotiations
when tough decisions need to be made.
But is that really what we think is happening,
Kim, and what we are seeing happening on social media?
It's funny to me how the Western media
is always looking for the least likely explanation.
Well, the reason why I wanted to start off there
is because by process of elimination,
I want to go through the different parties
that we aren't currently discussing.
Because obviously, Pakistan is where these talks
are being held, and it's between the United States
and and iran however
there are uh...
other parties not involved in the direct conversations that are very clearly
involved as far as the influence they hold over the american side
even influence they hold over the iran inside
i'm of course referencing
israel
uh... how much of these negotiations by your estimation is hard to speculate
is hard to know
but how much of
uh... these negotiations you think are being sullied by uh... israel's
influence because it's very obvious that they have said over and over again that they were
not party to the fact that even negotiations or a ceasefire were supposed to take place.
They were very frustrated when they found out about it as well, both the Israeli public
and certainly the Israeli government, and even struck Lebanon in a way that they had
not done so in quite a while.
the 300 civilians that they slaughtered in a matter of 10 minutes in the immediate aftermath
of the ceasefire conversations taking place.
So how much do you think Israel is involved in managing the relationship with Trump directly?
Well, we do know a couple of things.
We know that these Israelis have direct access to Trump and have sidelined and sidestepped
American policy process, which already has been quite chaotic in Trump too, not as chaotic
as it was in Trump 1, but nevertheless.
So they have that access and they have that ability to play Trump psychology.
Trump tends to be influenced by the last person he speaks.
And if that ends up becoming Netanyahu, that definitely has a significant amount
of influence given how Trump is operating would not necessarily be the case with other
the presidents who would follow a completely different process and structure for their decision-making.
So far I have to say I've not seen clear evidence that the Israelis themselves are the reason
why this has not gone forward.
Now indirectly I do believe that the Israelis share a tremendous amount of responsibility
for this outcome because we're seeing how Trump keeps on pushing for maximalist positions,
it is zero enrichment or 20 year enrichment, things of that nature that ultimately were put
forward at least zero enrichment was put forward by the Israelis as a way of sabotaging the talks.
But even if we don't see that evidence right now, I would say though that I think it is very
clear that if the talks end up taking place, and if they end up becoming serious, if Trump
managers to keep a degree of discipline to get across the finishing line or getting very close to
the finishing line. At that moment, history teaches us that the Israelis will do absolutely
everything to scuttle any deal between the United States and Iran that entails sanctions
lifting. Keeping the sanctions in place is essential to the Israelis. The broader game
of the Israelis took is to establish a balance of power in the region that essentially eliminates Iran
as a geopolitical player that can challenge Israel. This means degrading their industrial base,
destroying their universities, destroying their steel plants, pharmaceutical plants,
just set them back decades. When they're saying bombing them back to the Stone Age,
they're not kidding. It's not an exaggeration. It is not just a kind of a saying,
this is their strategy. This is what they've done in Syria. This is what they have done
or doing right now in Lebanon.
It's about keeping everyone else weak
so that they can have security through dominance.
But there's two ways to do this.
One is to go to war,
which they fought very hard for the last 25 years to get,
but it's difficult to get there.
And even when you do it,
it may not result the way you want.
But if you succeed,
it will actually set the country back very fast
in a relatively short time
because you're blowing things up.
The alternative ways is to have longstanding sanctions
that for decades grinds down the industrial base
of the country slowly but surely destroys its fabric
of society, its ability to be able
to have a proper functioning economy.
This is what was done to Iraq under Saddam Hussein.
It's not entirely Israel's fault in that context,
but nevertheless, this is a different methodology
of just defeating your enemies.
With Iran, they've had those sanctions on for more
in two to three decades now. And the Israelis are upset enough that Trump has ended the war.
It would be much, much worse unacceptable from their standpoint if sanctions are lifted.
And at that point, I think we will see significant pressure on Trump and it will probably lead
to Trump's biggest fallout in confrontation, not just with Netanyahu, but with Maryam Aileson,
is other big for Israeli donors, etc. And given how Trump has kind of lost the Tucker
Carlson win of MAGA, it's not clear to me whether he feels ready and comfortable to
take on the remaining supporter that he had at least on the financial side, which are
the donors that are in line with Maria Males on these issues.
So I also want to ask the last party involved here, which is of course China. It's not
a secret that China gets an overwhelming amount, if not the overwhelming majority of its energy
needs from the Shroud of Hormuz and not just from Iran. As a matter of fact, Iran, I believe,
made up pre-operation epic fury approximately 10% of or even smaller than that of China's
as oil and energy needs in particular,
most of it still comes from the other Gulf States.
And now, with the Shrida Hormuz being effectively shut off,
it's getting a lot of the additional Iranian oil tankers.
Having said that, however, China wants stability.
It's good for trade.
All they care about is trade for the most part
and continue to develop these other countries
the One Belt, One Road initiative. How much do you believe is China pursuing stability and
maybe even urging Iran to engage in a ceasefire conversation? And how much is Iran even invested
in listening to China? And how much aid do you think China is offering to Iran beyond
are urging them to engage in a ceasefire.
And if their interest is actually leading Iran
towards a ceasefire rather than continuing
to pursue some kind of military campaign
to secure its maximalist goals.
So you're, first of all, absolutely right,
Aston, that the Chinese are primarily
focused on stability and their economic development.
They're very strongly disciplined
and avoiding getting entangled in other countries' conflicts.
They're not going out this ideologically,
immediately taking sides in conflicts,
believing that those conflicts have anything
to do with their credibility and things of that nature.
They're the total opposite of the United States.
There's not a conflict around the world
that the United States doesn't feel
it needs to get itself entangled with and interfere with.
Fully not understanding at all what the conflict necessarily
is, but nevertheless, this sense that because it is a superpower, because apparently global
stability depends on the United States, in this mindset, everything touches US interests.
And it's been disastrous for the United States to pursue this path in my view, and part
of the reason why multi-polarity is arriving earlier than it otherwise would have.
The Chinese are the opposite.
They don't have any particular attachment to Iran.
They have strategic arrangements economically with almost every country in the region.
And Iran is certainly not more important to them than the GCCR, but they have managed
to make sure that they don't get entangled in Iran's conflicts with the GCCR vice versa.
Now would they intervene in such a scenario in order to get the Iranians to agree to ceasefire?
I believe that in the earlier case, the Chinese may have, at the last moment, conveyed
their desire for the Iranians to go along with this.
But I don't see the Chinese pressuring Iran unless they believe that the proposal on the
table is a relatively reasonable one.
Because otherwise, if there's an unreasonable proposal on the table and they end up pressuring
Iran, they have made themselves an instrument in America's or in Trump's losing negotiation.
And that's not their interest.
They don't want to own this at all.
Even if they intervene, they will do so quietly behind the scenes without saying
anything to anyone.
No press release, no press conference because they don't want to have responsibility for
the outcome.
But if they intervene too early, if they do it publicly, and if they do it in a manner
that actually is pushing Iran towards something that clearly is not going to work because
it's unreasonable, it's imbalanced, then they have made themselves an instrument in
Trump's game.
And that would be the worst outcome for them.
So I don't think they're right now putting much pressure on the Iranians.
Are they unhappy with the situation?
Absolutely.
Who do they blame for that situation?
I don't think they're blaming the Iranians.
Now, if there was a very reasonable proposal on the table, and Trump had proven himself
also to be willing and capable and disciplined enough to deliver on it, then I can definitely
see that the Foreign Minister of China would place a phone call to the Iranians, gently
urging them to move in that direction, etc.
But the idea that they would end up becoming some sort of a tool in America's pressure
tactic on Iran, I think the Chinese are too smart to get entangled in that manner.
I have talked to some China skeptics who are analysts and political figures in the region
that believe that there is a potential trade-off.
They're speculating.
There's a potential trade-off with China possibly urging Iran to take a maybe even worse deal
in exchange for easing the military allegiance that America has with Taiwan, using Taiwan
as a permanent base, as a thorn on the side of China in its own regional interest. Do you find
that to be a likely scenario knowing what you know about China's unbelievably pragmatic approach
and its ultimate interest in making sure that there is some sort of reunification, most likely
a peaceful reunification with Taiwan? Given that being the highest priority for China,
Could they potentially use Iran as a trade-off given the relationship that they have and their lack of interest and lack of ideological commitment to
waging some sort of anti-imperialist war, for example?
So I personally, and I want to make it clear, I'm not a China expert, so I'm not going to try to pretend to know exactly what the Chinese
calculations are. But from where I stand, I find it somewhat unlikely, at least at this moment for the Chinese to
make calculations of this kind because it would be entanglement at the end of the day
into this issue in which is contrary to China's first principles, don't get involved.
And if you suddenly have made that type of a deal, that triangular deal in which is reduced
support for Iran in return for this from the American side, you're already starting
to entangle yourself a little bit in a way that I don't think the Chinese would do unless
the situation is much greater and they're much more likely to succeed. They want to
have a much higher likelihood of success for anything. Secondly, this presumes a degree
of trust and confidence on the Chinese side that Trump will deliver on his promises
to China. I don't see them having that. So that would make it very risky for them
to damage potentially their relationship with Yvonne, which at the end of the day is not
unimportant to them, for a very flimsy likelihood that Trump will deliver on his end of the bargain.
So on the normal circumstances, could it perhaps have been more likely, perhaps, but
you add the Trump factor into it, and you add the very clear track record that we see that the
Chinese see of how Trump is conducting himself. And I just don't find it likely that the
the Chinese who are so cautious. And many would legitimately, in my view, just to five
a day at times, criticize them of being too cautious. I mean, there's been much easier.
I'm the I'm not. Yeah. I mean, there's been plenty of situations in the region in which
much, much more, much higher likelihood of success for the Chinese to step in and do
something diplomatically. And they just decided to stay out. Yeah, they decided to stay
out because, again, they're very risk averse. They stepped in when it came to Iran and Saudi
Arabia because of the specific request from MBS himself. And it was also a scenario in which
the Iraqis and others had already mediated extensively between the Iranians and the Saudis.
The deal was 90% ready. And the MBS himself directly pleaded with she. And they did this.
And immediately afterwards, you could see how the Chinese started to become uncomfortable.
On the one hand, they were glad to get the credibility and the credit for all of this.
On the other hand, they were very unhappy to see that demands and expectations that the
Chinese would step in more often were rising as a result of this. And they really clearly
wanted to push down those expectations. Even Western analysts at the time said,
oh, it's your problem now, some at least on foreign policy magazine said, okay, well,
Good luck to China for doing this. And I read it as jealousy at the time, but I guess they weren't so wrong now
There's one factor here at play that once again, we have to go back to which is Israel
China does have a lot of power to apply pressure to every country really but from what I have seen what I've read
It kind of feels as though China is just treating Israel as America's problem and a reliable trade partner at times as well
But they're not using any leverage that they have to try to talk to Israel at all
I don't know if that's because they see that as overstepping
Because they talked to America directly or if there's any way to to
To bring about some sort of regional stability
All of that still goes through Israel
realistically. Is there any reason as to why they have, in your opinion, refused to try
and deal with Israel at all, even if it's anything beyond simply offering condemnations
at the UN?
I need an excellent question. I want to again emphasize.
You're not a Chinese expert.
I'm not a Chinese expert, yes. But I have been able to observe closely and have had
extensive conversations with Chinese officials about their approach to the Middle East.
And I think there is a fundamental error here amongst many people who are looking forward
to the days of multi-polarity. They're hoping that some of America's problematic, to say
the least, approaches in certain regions will be balanced out because another superpower
or a constellation of other powers will be able to push it back. Middle East is obviously
the obvious one. But I think the error here is to believe that China would more or less behave
like previous superpowers we have seen, either from the western block or from the eastern
Russian block. That is not how they are considering themselves as a major power. They've
made it very clear they're not following the blueprint of previous superpowers or western
superpowers when it comes to this. They're not going to automatically take the side
against the United States in a lot of conflicts. More than anything else, they want to manage
the world together with the United States, not in an antagonistic manner, but in a manner that
maximizes stability and further enhances China's ability to grow economically. This is their main
objective. You know, they can look at a lot of these different injustices, they may feel bad
about it, but they don't have that same type of messianic urge that you see in a lot of
of western states in which they think God wants them to get involved in this or that
God has decided that they are the ones who solve this issue. That's just not how they're
approaching these things. And so even in some cases in which they could easily have come
in to really embarrass the United States by solving some issues or pushing for some
sort of a movement towards a solution and show how much more of a responsible act
that they may be, they've refrained from doing so because their game is not about
embarrassing the United States.
Their game is about making sure that the world moves
towards some sort of a new constellation.
It will probably be some sort of a bipolar
plus multipolar context.
And in that, they want the United States and China
not to have the relationship that the US and the Soviet
Union did, but have a very collaborative approach
in which they together take responsibility for security
and manage the world's problem and maximizes security.
And that partly means that they will not pick fights
with the United States on issues
that the United States seems to have
an irrational degree of attachment and commitment to.
And that brings us back to Israel and the Middle East.
So I think we should have,
I mean, they will make their statements at the UN.
They will take nominally the position
that is way more in accordance with international law,
but to expect them to really put political capital
to push something that would be seen as antagonistic
by the United States, at least for now,
and probably for the next 10 years,
I don't see the Chinese going in that direction.
You know what the first thing they did after they negotiated
the Saudi Iran deal and it was a success?
After they clinched it, the first thing they did,
the next day they went in and they fully briefed
the White House on all of the details of it, et cetera,
with full transparency.
The United States never does that with the Chinese whenever the US does something, even
if it happens in China's own neighborhood.
But this was part of their way of saying, we're not doing this to screw you over.
We're not doing this to embarrass you.
This is just something that we could do.
We hope that you will find use for it.
And here's how we did it.
Given that the United States' approach is almost single-handedly in the hands of
Donald Trump at this point, regardless of what more calmer minds or whatever kind of
sober analysis and assessment they're offering to Donald Trump, he ends up making these erratic
decisions.
And given that Trump's tendency, as he has demonstrated over and over again, is to perceive
concessions or reasonable moves that his opposition are making to be a sign of weakness, as he's
done so with Iran over and over again. Do you feel like Trump is going to miscalculate
even China's restraint in this process as potential weakness and then do something erratic
there as well. The reason why I keep asking about this, the reason why I keep asking about China,
even though you're not a China expert, is because there is now going to be a talk that takes place
in Beijing. It was supposed to have taken place already last month or this month,
and now it's been pushed to May 14th. And I wanted to ask you, this deal that is in
place right now in Iran that's supposed to be implemented that is currently in a legal limbo,
if it's not completed by the time Donald Trump travels to Beijing, do you feel like America
will have a significant weakness in these talks
with Xi Jinping.
And do you feel as though that is going to force Donald Trump
to try to manage this negotiation the closer he gets
to the Beijing summit?
And he might even cancel it all together.
What do you think the likelihood of that is?
I think, first of all, you're quite right.
It will be problematic from transposition
if he travels to Beijing, has this very crucial summit
with Xi, and he is still suffering
from the repercussions of the problem
that he caused himself by starting this idiotic war.
He has once again proven himself
incapable of establishing stability.
No one remembers the success he had in Venezuela.
Everyone talks about the lack of success
and the idiocy of going into Iran,
the foolishness of thinking this could be done in four days,
all of these different days.
So this will put him in a much, much worse position.
He's suffering from higher oil prices.
He is at his lowest level with Republicans,
his lowest level with independence.
He looks as if he's gonna be a lame duck president
in just a couple of months
because the Republicans are likely to lose the House,
the Senate, this is not the position he wanted to be in when he went to Xi.
And the thing you mentioned about miscalculation with the Chinese, I think he is more careful
with the Chinese because I think he has a better assessment of what China's actual
power and role is.
And he understands it and doesn't, and manages to discipline himself.
With Iranians, he's still suffering from the false belief that Iran would collapse within
four days.
And he really hasn't managed to grapple that he really is going to have to give a real concession
and compromise in order to get a deal.
He's still coming at us thinking that there's some sort of a silver bull that he can use
to win this negotiation through humiliation, humiliating the other side and getting
a total victory and a total surrender from the other side.
was never in the cards. It is not going to be in the cards. There is no silver bullet.
The only silver bullet he can really put together is a smart diplomatic strategy, which would
entail absolutely zero truth social post for at least a week or so until this is done.
But you know, everything that he's doing, whether it is the blockade of the blockade,
et cetera, it's all the same game plan as in the past. This belief that if you
just do this one small thing, the whole house of card in Iran is going to collapse.
Israelis are very active in kind of pushing these type of things. Yeah. So I don't think
that he treats the Chinese in the same way as a better assessment and fortunately listens
to more people than he does on Iran. Will he cancel again? I don't know. There's a
lot of different factors coming in, but I do believe that he canceled the first one
precisely because of this. He thought he was going to go in there with Venezuela
and Iran in his pocket in a very strong position. It is simply not the case. It
It will not be the case most likely by May 14th either.
So it remains to be seen whether it takes place or not.
I had conversations with the Chinese,
we're very frustrated, very angry
that he had canceled it the first time.
So I don't know what the repercussions
from the Chinese will be
if he postpones it once more.
And remember, the Chinese agenda has very little
to do with what's going on
in the Persian Gulf and Iran.
They have their own issues
that they wanna talk to the United States about.
Yeah, I think what you said about assuming tremendous leverage leading up to these talks
in Beijing with Venezuela and potentially with Iran is exactly what America thought
was going to happen.
But it's very clear by now to everyone with three working brain cells that the false
information that was fed to Donald Trump about how easy and how similar to Venezuela this operation
in Iran would look like was fed to him by Israel. Is there any point do you think where Trump will
say, okay, enough is enough. You guys have lied to me over and over again about your capabilities,
the capabilities of Iran, it's very clear that Iran is not destroyed and you're feeding me this
false information in an effort to push me further and further up the escalation ladder because it
suits your purpose and there is now no longer a convergence but a divergence in interest.
We can see that but do you feel like Donald Trump will actually see that at any point?
I think to a certain extent it has already happened because he did agree or he pushed
for that ceasefire and he got it.
The Israelis didn't want it.
So I think to a certain extent it has happened.
Will he do that type of a complete break with them and said, you know, everything you guys
have told me to do has been complete nonsense, I'm not going to listen to you guys at
all any longer.
No, he will not do that because that means that he will lose his biggest financial supporter
right now, which is Maria Males.
And to do that before crucial midterm elections, in which a lot of other people already have
lost faith in him because he was supposed to push out the new cons, not put them at the
center of his foreign policy, but yet there he is, retweeting Mark Levine and repeating
a lot of the stuff that FTD and others are saying.
So I'm not saying that he's completely lost that other wing, but, you know, confidence
have really been shaken.
And that confidence is not going to come back easily, even if he does that break, particularly
mindful of the fact that that break is not going to be complete.
Now will a lot of people from what I would call the Tucker Coulson wing of the party
be extremely happy if he strikes a deal and gets out of this mess and even pushes back
hard against the Israelis?
Absolutely.
But Trump will be in a situation in which he will have picked off both of the main wings
of his party.
And without knowing for certain exactly where the end balance is going to be for him just
months, weeks before the midterm elections.
And I think that's going to weigh heavily on his mind.
And again, this is not the same as some of the YouTube influencers or very critical
people within the MAGA movement from Megyn Kelly to Tucker to others, Steve Bannon criticizing
the policies, etc. online. This is about the Israelis pulling out all of the stops and
trying to undermine and sabotage Trump, not just his diplomacy, but everything else they
can do, just like they tried to do and did with Obama in 2015, between 2013 and 2015,
as we all saw that they even Netanyahu even went to Congress to give that speech against
Obama, which of course can only have happened because the Republicans invited him. This would
not happen now. But nevertheless, it's just a sign of how far.
Well, there were also Democrats too. There were plenty of Democrats that also were in
support, Chuck Schumer being one of the key allies there.
Absolutely. Absolutely. But the point being, it's just a sign of how far they were willing
to go to undermine him again mindful of the fact that this would be not only an end to the war
it would be sanctions relief and what I think will happen if there is a deal there will be a deal
that is far bigger and deeper than the JCPOA in the sense that the sanctions relief will be far
more massive sanctions relief in the JCPOA was only UN sanctions and then secondary American
sanctions meaning the sanctions the US imposes on Chinese Indian and European companies
if they trade or invest in EVAR.
What's at the center of this negotiation
is primary sanctions, meaning the sanctions
that the US imposes on American companies.
That would be devastating for the Israelis.
They will do everything they can to prevent that.
And again, if you're sitting in Trump's shoes right now
trying to figure out which political path to take,
it has to be intimidating knowing what hell will break loose
if he actually agrees to a deal.
That doesn't mean, by the way,
that I'm not arguing that he shouldn't do it.
absolutely, he should strike that deal. We should just be very clear about the intense
fight that will follow if he goes down that path.
So let's talk about the actual deal in place. There's a 10-point plan that Iran has basically
had publicly revealed since I believe the second week of the war. There's been some
changes on it. I have a degree of emphasis on, from my own estimation, what I think Iran
cares about a lot, and what I think is likely, and what I think Iran doesn't care about as
much, and I wanted to run that by you and see if you have any disagreements there.
I think one of the most consequential elements of this deal is the Lebanese ceasefire.
And the reason why I say that, consequentialism, it's the most, I think it's the hardest one
to accomplish.
Why is it the hardest one to accomplish?
Because it goes directly against the interests of Israel.
And it's a demand not made specifically to protect Hezbollah in the way that it's being
presented.
But I think it's a demand being made to the United States of America to enforce
maximum leverage that Iran has to force America to restrain Israel.
that has not happened in the last two and a half years, almost three years at this point.
I think that's probably the most significant ask that Iran is making, even beyond the sanctions
relief, although obviously the sanctions relief would be the most consequential one
and the most beneficial one.
I think from the perspective of the Iranian side, driving any sort of wedge between
the relationship between the United States of America and Israel, or at least forcing
America's hand into taking action against Israel is the maximum leverage position.
So that's my first statement, and I want to hear if you agree with that or not, or where
you're at on that side of the bargain.
And I think the least consequential one is one that they've already conceded to,
which is, of course, the enriched uranium.
The American demands for it from what I understand are something that Trump wants to present
as an aesthetic victory.
It's 20 years as opposed to Iran agreeing to five years of control over their enriched
uranium stockpile.
Even though the Iranian side is still maintaining this posture that they don't want anything
uh... to happen to their uh... in rich uranium stockpile was so ever in that
that actually violates their sovereignty
do you
feel like iran
is simply saying that
uh... in order to posture
uh... do you disagree that this is probably the the
easiest uh...
the easiest condition that america has uh... demanded from iran
that would uh... that iran would be on board with that iran would concede to
Um, and, and, uh, yeah, outside of that, you obviously, I think, uh, you and I agree on the sanctions relief side.
Um, so what do you think about those two major points?
So a couple of things.
Let me also say one thing on sanctions relief before that, because, uh, I don't want to leave the impression that the sanctions relief is the hardest because Trump is opposed to it.
I think actually Trump is the president that would be most in favor of offering sanctions relief.
He's not a fan of sanctions.
He's a fan of tariffs.
But sanctions actually punish American companies.
So the idea of lifting primary sanctions and getting American companies into Iran would
be a huge sell to its own base.
I mean, you have $300 billion of damages minimum in Iran right now.
There's going to be massive reconstruction efforts.
I'm not saying that the Iranians will welcome all American companies right away or in a
large manner, but nevertheless, this would be the largest economy that would open up
since the fall of the Soviet Union.
And he said numerous times on the campaign trail back in 2015 that his opposition to the
JCPOA Obama's deal was because it was unfair to American companies, because it only lifted
sanctions on European companies and Chinese and Indians, but not on American companies.
No Trump towers in Tehran.
So I think actually he's ideologically inclined to agree to that and be quite open to
lifting a lot of it.
that the political fight he will have with the Israelis afterwards or during that process
is going to be absolutely beyond anything he's had so far.
Lebanon, I think you're right.
I think Lebanon is going to be a very, very tricky thing.
And as you mentioned, part of it is because Iran is one to see that Trump is serious
about really reining in the Israelis.
Part of it is, of course, also that the United States wants to talk about what the
the U.S. calls Iran's proxies.
Well, the Iranians view them as allies,
and the United States views Israel as an ally.
Is this going to be a ceasefire between Iran and the U.S.,
or is it a ceasefire that entails Israel?
If it entails Israel, and Iran cannot attack Israel,
Israel cannot attack Iran.
So an American ally has been included in the ceasefire,
and the Iranians are gonna say,
well, then Iranian allies should be included as well.
Because otherwise you have a scenario
in which Iran cannot strike at Israel.
Israel cannot strike at Iran,
but Israel can strike at these different groups
that are associated with Iran
without Iran being able to do anything about that.
So I think the Iranians in that case are gonna say,
in that case, let's just have a ceasefire
between the U.S. and Iran.
And then everything is permitted
between Israel and Iran, and between Iran and Israel and many of these different groups.
And that also then means there is no agreement that other groups in Iraq and elsewhere in
the region will cease fire on the U.S. Either you include them or you don't include them.
So it's beyond Lebanon and his below is what you're saying, because that was my initial
assessment as well.
I was, I mean, obviously, Morandi is not in any way, shape or form affiliated with
the administration, but he is one of the only people that I've heard maintain the position
that this also includes even Hamas, like the entirety of the Axis of Resistance, whereas
official communiques make it seem as though this is just, well, on the Iranian side,
some of their reporting says it is the Axis of Resistance, not sure if that includes
Hamas or not, but certainly Iraq and other regional actors as well.
Do you, is that your understanding of the deal as well?
I can certainly see that from the Iranian side.
They would view that as the most attractive solution or agreement because it would mean
that Israel cannot attack any of their allies.
And vice versa.
And the United States is very adamant that they want to put pressure on Iran, for Iran
to put pressure on some of these different groups, Houthis, Iraqi militias, etc., not
to attack U.S. So the question, what kind of balance you can find there? I can see from
a U.S. standpoint also saying, you know what, let's actually end all of it, right? No attacks
from the Houthis, no attacks from the Iraqi militias, none of these things. And then
the question is, we asked, but you have one ally that wants to bomb everyone all the
time. What are you going to do about that? So I think it's going to be a tough negotiation
on that issue, the maximalist position from the Iranian side, which could be accepted
by the U.S. I don't think necessarily it's going to end up. But if it is very, very weak,
it also means that ultimately the ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. will also be weak.
Not because the U.S. and Iran would want to go back into the war, but if fighting in Lebanon
can continue, in West Bank and Gaza can continue, when Israel can strike the Houthis, it means
that we will have the same scenario that we did after October 7. And remember, back
then a lot of the concerns were this conflict, if it's not stopped, will spin over into the rest of the region.
More than twice now it has done exactly that and the second time it led to this disastrous regional war.
So if you really want to avoid recurring scenario of this kind, you do need to pacify all of these other theaters,
not just the ones between the US and Iran directly. So I think there's a strong argument regardless
whether you're coming at it from the U.S. side or from the Rodney side, that it would actually
better to get a complete ceasefire throughout the entire region. Now, what was the third factor,
and I forgot right now? The third factor is... Don, distract me, it's a beauty. Yeah, she's a
big guard dog. The third factor was the enriched uranium, and how much of that is actually,
I guess not negligible necessarily, but like what are the what are the red lines there and and because my
estimation is considering that they had already conceded to according to the oh my negotiators in the
beginning phase before America engaged in perfidy again alongside Israel was the was the idea that
Iran was totally willing to lean into American demands on that front obviously the red lines
are, you know, the ridiculous asks were on, you know, limiting, restricting the missile,
the strike capabilities. Like, that's, you know, totally ridiculous. But the nuclear side has always
been Iranian leverage. They have, in a way that I might even say is naive, have refused to
engage in enriching uranium beyond, or the only time they've engaged in enriching uranium
beyond civilian grade is specifically to gain leverage to bring America back to the negotiation
table in exchange for sanctions relief, trying to force America to abide by something similar
to the JCPOA. Do you feel like that's still the case, or do you think that now they have more
leverage over the United States of America, and therefore they really want to force it?
So I think your original premise is correct. This is probably not easy, but one of the
easier challenges within the negotiations, because they already traveled a significant
distance through the mediation of the Omanis. And mechanism was invented, put together, that
was designed to make Trump feel that he has achieved his red line. His red line adopted
later on in the game, which is essentially the Israeli red line zero enrichment.
So that is part of the reason why the Iranians say five years in the US is 20 now.
First of all, just saying any number from the US is a deviation from the Israeli line,
right?
Suddenly you're talking numbers instead of indefinitely.
So that in itself is interesting, even though 20 years is very, very significant amount
of time.
Now, the justification for five in the previous negotiations was essentially that the Iranians
said, okay, we would only enrich uranium for two identified needs, two reactors they have.
One is a reactor that is not even online for another seven years, and one is a reactor
that was given to the Iranians in the late 1960s by the U.S. and that is currently used for
research and medical isotopes for cancer patients. That reactor already has fuel
that will last it another five to seven years.
So the number five, I don't think is just thrown out
as any bargaining thing.
It is designed to function within this larger mechanism
saying, well, they're only needing to enrich uranium
for these two reactors and currently they don't need it
because they have it for another five years.
Could there be a scenario in which a third country,
France, provides fuel pads for the Terran-Beaster
research reactor for an additional five years, and for that other new reactor, so that Iranians
actually don't have a need for 10 years? I can see the Iranians being flexible on this.
20 may be too far, but this would require that the fuel platter delivered right away,
I would suspect, not that they're hoping that it will be delivered down the road.
I can see something like that potentially working out, and they could extend that
number. And I think part of the reason why the Iranians are not walking back,
the Geneva proposal, but seem to still be negotiating from it, should be really seen as very positive
on the American side, because you could easily have a scenario in which they're like, you
know what? No, you didn't win this war. In fact, you lost it strategically. Our position
has strengthened, and our position on these different nuclear issues have been hardened,
and you're going to get less. I suspect, and particularly mindfully the fact that
The debate inside of Iran has also shifted it in the sense that there is far more support
for weaponization now than there ever was before.
One can see that scenario.
But I suspect the reason why they have stuck to the Geneva proposal is because they have
instead just increased the sanctions lifting demand, saying, yes, we can still do this,
but the price is now higher.
And the price is that all of the UN sanctions, all of the primary sanctions need to be
lifted.
Because if T-vonies give up this leverage, this is the last time they can actually ask
for sanctions relief.
Having gotten it, what leverage do they have to even get the US to the table down the road?
Yeah.
So this is essentially the last moment, so I think they're gonna offer almost everything
and demand almost everything in return.
But unfortunately, Donald Trump sees any kind of concession or even a willingness to
cooperate with coming to the table as a sign of weakness, unfortunately.
And you have malignant actors that are doing their very best, that have profound amounts
of influence, if not the last remaining line of defense amongst Trump's domestic allies
and foreign allies that are going to do their very best to sell you the deal.
Trita Parsey, thank you so much for coming on.
Thank you so much for having me.
This was wonderful.
I have to go pee.
But thank you. Thank you. It's always a pleasure to have you on. And hopefully we'll talk to
you again soon under better conditions. Awesome. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it.
Talk to you soon. Bye. Thank you.
That was Tritoparsi, Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute. A fantastic analyst
on issues, everything related to Iran. I did a fantastic job of asking questions.
By the way, I know some of you can't keep up with like more than two or three questions.
Shut the fuck up, Chatters.
Okay.
Yes, I always appreciate his insight.
And I'm going to go pee real quick as we go back to the White House Correspondents'
Dinner.
First time since 2011 rose.
Trump is returning.
House Correspondents' Dinner is already attracting some of the biggest names in politics, media,
and entertainment.
And no one will have more eyes on them, though, or camera eyes than President
Trump himself, who is actually going to be making his very first appearance ever as president.
And yes, as for tomorrow night, I hope that we will see all of you there.
I know the president is very much looking forward to it.
I think it's quite fitting that in our nation's 250th year, the most transparent and accessible
president will be attending the White House Correspondent's Center for the first time.
And his speech will be very entertaining.
That is what I'll tell you.
Now we don't know what will happen when the president takes the stage tomorrow night.
We do know, though, what it was like the last time he appeared at the White House Correspondents'
Dinner.
And then, of course, there's Donald Trump.
Donald Trump has been saying that he will run for president as a Republican, which
is surprising, since I just assumed he was running as a joke.
But the jokes directed at Donald Trump during the 2011 White House Correspondents'
Dinner didn't stop there.
Donald Trump is here tonight.
Now I know that he's taken some flack lately, but no one is happier.
No one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the Donald.
And that's because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter.
did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Big Ian
Tupac? Say what you will about Mr. Trump. He certainly would bring some change to
the White House. Let's see what we've got up there.
Now he hasn't gone quite that far, but the president, who spent decades as a
as a developer before taking office,
has certainly been putting his own touch
on the White House this time around, inside and out.
There's construction here at the White House
as the President's ballroom is being built right now,
which has prompted multiple lawsuits,
and also the colonnade leading to the West Wing
and the Oval Office itself have been transformed,
basically in the President's style,
which means gold and more gold.
Now after that speech that President Obama gave,
President Trump responded to the scathing jabs
from the president at the time and down if we think that that was the inception like that
was the reason why Donald Trump chose the run for president.
Do we hold the podjons accountable as they were responsible for Obama's speech at the
time?
I
Saw your cooked bro. Wait. Why am I cooked?
Do you guys think there'll be there'll be what do you guys say you think there'll be a clubicular mention on
One of the speeches
You think they'll mention me in one of the speeches
I feel like clavicular is probably a higher likelihood, right?
Like mogging or maxing or something like that.
I think there's no comedian.
Oh, played it.
I've been there before.
So I knew what I was getting into.
So did the lions then I looked at my wife, I said, is this a good thing or a bad thing?
Am I supposed to be honored or am I supposed to hide under the table?
I wasn't exact, so I sort of just sat there and listened and took it in.
But it was actually a little bit amazing.
I will faithfully execute.
But when you walk the White House five years later, the president did not return to the
White House Correspondents' Dinner.
We all fucking lost.
Let's be real.
President Trump is snubbing next Saturday's White House Correspondents' Dinner, but we've
done that yesterday.
He will be counter-programming it.
He's got a primetime rally planned in Pennsylvania.
Caitlin, what are you going to do with it?
I'll be at the dinner.
Throughout his entire first term, President Trump never attended.
So why do you think the president is not here tonight?
If that's what this dinner is and embodies, essentially a toast to a press, why was the president not attended?
Look, the president has enormous demands on a schedule.
The corresponding dinner is too negative. I like positive things.
But after returning to office for his second term, the president announced he would indeed attend the dinner that's a toast to the First Amendment, explaining it this way.
every joke was about me and I sort of liked it. I can handle that stuff.
Am I political?
Famously.
I think there was a point in time where he could possibly handle it.
This is perhaps the weakest and the most insecure he's ever felt in his administration
is the lowest approval ratings he's ever had in both terms.
I wouldn't be shocked if he just ends up arresting everyone that made jokes or just all the journalists
in the room after he's done.
Horses are back with me, Scott and Paul.
I mean, it really did become this urban legend that Trump ran for president because Obama
made fun of him at that dinner in 2011.
Is it an urban legend?
I don't know.
He talked about it before that.
I rather enjoyed watching Barack Obama choose to seal the fate of the Democratic Party
there with those ill advised jokes at the, uh, expense of Donald Trump.
Okay, look, look, look, everything these guys say and do should be read as like a fucking
dude who got bullied his whole life.
Exercising a power fantasy through another bully.
Oh, they better not think about cracking jokes ever again.
It's like, dude, shut up, shut up.
Okay.
How about you better not think about, you know, what you did in the bathrooms of gay
bars in Tennessee or wherever the fuck he was doing trade.
Just a few years later, Trump broke every Democrat's heart in the country when he defeated Hillary
Clinton.
I'm glad he's going, by the way.
Donald Trump is the funniest working comedian in the United States today.
He has a chance to do something amazing tomorrow night.
We'll see what he does.
Well, I will say he has been as transparent, more transparent than any president I've ever seen.
In terms of talking to you all, talking to reporters, taking their calls, right?
And that's a good thing. It's the thin read I can grab, because other than that,
he's been the biggest enemy of the First Amendment since President John Adams
locked up Congressman Matthew Lyon of Vermont for criticizing him,
violating the Sedition Act in 1798. You got our way to 1798.
man has been a full-on assault on the free press since day one. Literally on day one began
cutting funding for press freedom overseas. His Pentagon has gone after journalists, he's
gone, he's sued innumerable media organizations. His FCC chairman went after Jimmy Kimmel, now
he says he wants to investigate the view. It's been a full-on war on the free press.
And I hope that in a room full of journalists, maybe one or two of them can get his ear
and say, hey, this is our country, not yours.
yeah i i do think
you're right there
they're too they're gonna be too busy polishing his fucking shoes with their
tongues
and there has been criticism scott of the fact that he's attending the dinner at
all from people who say that he's not an advocate of the first amendment
i mean they're looking for putting reports just this week from
the fb i tried to investigate a reporter who was reporting on on cash
retell's travel it is is girlfriend
uh... what do you want to say to those people
and i think the first five seconds of what paul said was true
he has absolutely been the most transparent president we've ever had
and you're there every day
meets with the press
on a regular basis answers questions for hours at a time
mean it takes
calls from individual reporters on a daily basis he's calling into shows all
the time
the president united states and i'm sure that uses the power of government to
censor them
you think the media is being censored in this country i think the fcc tried to
get Jimmy Kimmel fired, and he was fired for a brief moment, and then the American people
brought him back.
I mean, I should note, the Wall Street Journal is getting an award tomorrow night for its
reporting on Jeffrey Epstein and the birthday card that Trump had signed, a large birthday
book.
Yeah, but my point of that is...
What do you mean groundbreaking?
Trump literally tried to sue the fucking newspaper for that reporting.
he thought it was fucking groundbreaking enough. You can't just say, oh groundbreaking. Yeah,
if it was irrelevant, Trump would not have tried to unsuccessfully sue Wall Street fucking
Journal for that exact news report. Well, I don't think that's a nice comment. But my
point of that was that Trump is doing the Wall Street Journal over that and trying
to get this huge legal fight with them, which, you know, was thrown out, but he
did take legal action against them.
Yeah, he has stood up for himself,
what he thinks he's been treated unfairly
and sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn't.
But I'll tell you one thing,
he doesn't take things lying down.
That's one of the things Republicans love about him,
but regarding the press and their access.
What a way to reframe that.
Remember, the entire conversation is supposed to be,
the entire conversation right now
is supposed to revolve around whether Donald Trump,
whether Donald Trump is respectful enough to the First Amendment or not.
Now we obviously know the answer to that question, but it is really funny that Scott Jennings is
like on the one hand be like, ah, who cares?
He's just defending himself.
Is that really?
Is he just defending himself?
How about defend the fucking Constitution?
You're the goddamn president.
That's the whole point.
To the president and the Oval Office and what's going on with decision making.
him to Biden, compare him to Obama, compare him to Bush, any president.
It's not even close.
The amount of questions he takes and answers, the transparency is off the charts and it's
undeniable.
I don't deny that.
But it's not his job to stand up for himself.
It's his job to stand up for the Constitution he swore an oath for God that he would preserve,
protect, and defend the Constitution he attacks at First Amendment every day.
You know, one thing you mentioned in terms of Democrats, there are some 2028 hopefuls
who are in town. California Governor Gavin News. The idea that no, he's right. The fucking
random. The Paul Bogala is right. I mean, do we care about these things? Do we not? Obviously,
I don't think anybody gives a shit if we're being real. But like, it's still technically
the truth. The fact that he says, Oh, Trump is the most transparent. I don't like because
Because that's not true.
Leave it to a media guy to equate transparency with accessibility.
Trump is never transparent.
He's just accessible.
a difference. And a media apparatus that can't comprehend that that difference exists is not
going to be able to do adequate reporting. That's the problem. Transparency requires Donald
Trump to also be a decent person. Transparency requires Donald Trump to say the truth. He's
He's accessible, but I wouldn't say he's transparent.
He's accessible, but he's also belligerent.
He's accessible, but he also lies all the time.
He is honestly dishonest.
And this apparently here he was spotted tonight on the party circuit.
I mean, he might be there tomorrow night.
It is interesting to think of who will be in that room and what this could potentially
look like when the president is there tomorrow night.
Every dinner needs a clown.
We'll welcome Gavin to town.
i mean i i think the president is going to be the center of attention
what he says tomorrow night
to and about
uh... the media will be obviously well covered i expect him to be funny and he
should be funny in
uh... and as a chance to do you think you should attack the media like he does
normally but do i think you should or do i think you will be well
but i think you should
i have i have no doubt at all uh... the jousting that we're used to
between the president
Oh my God.
Scott Jennings just say what you actually think dumbass.
Scott Jennings doesn't want Trump to attack the media.
He's already deeply fucking unpopular, but he can't say that because he also
his primary purpose here is to suck Trump's cock.
And he knows Trump is definitely going to do it.
So he can't be at odds with what he perceives Trump is going to do eventually.
So he has to sit there and be like, well, I don't know.
I think he will. I think he will. Okay. Do you think he should? Oh, you know, it's just
jousting. It happens.
He has heard of our night. It's censorship. Every president is frustrated with the
who is all the way back to talk, literally nobody that is said he shut down the
voice of America. He defunded NPR. He is so
safe.
This goes back to the point that
if both sides of liberals, both sides
Our liberal Atlantis is when it comes to their foreign policy foreign policy. They're on board, right?
Scott Jennings turn around be like, why are we spending so much money on propaganda when Donald Trump is actually destroying
The global south with hard military power hard dick military power
We're done with this lip-tarded bullshit, right?
But he can't say that because he also is in the same system
And he also recognizes the importance of you know, voice of america to to implement
to conduct espionage and do soft power to try to, you know, foment instability in countries
that we want to create instability in.
They have more money now than they've ever had.
Expressing the truth or their opinions.
You can't name a single journalist who right now is incapable of speaking negatively about
Donald Trump.
In fact, it's more than ever.
Are you?
Okay.
He has gone after the free press.
He sued the Des Moines Register and their pollster for accurately reporting a poll that
actually actually the poll itself was flawed.
They didn't know it at the time.
So for a flawed poll, you sue a newspaper and their pollster.
It's all he does.
It's all about hand in hand.
Will either of you be attending tonight?
No.
I'll be right here.
Watching?
Yes.
Covering the dinner.
Paul will be on the farm hauling the dinner.
I will.
But he's obviously a good add.
Paul will go all out.
Scott Jennings.
So I think we're getting.
Eridifices were activated in Iran an hour ago according to Al Jazeera.
That could be a test. Cash is potentially getting fired by the way.
Cash Patel is next to go.
Maga made the greatest fan art of you.
Here is Mr. Turkish common is Islamist Islamic jihadist NEPO millionaire Hassan Piker on
rich daddy's horse.
Yeah, I like it.
Um, uh, uh, to cash Patel, I say see you in Valhalla, sir.
I think they're gonna get the thing that saves America my decade of Trump is institutional
Rod was Trump's incredible incompetence. Yeah.
Uh, Dasha, Dasha Burns over at political reports. A top White House official tells me cash details
likely next cabinet level official to go. It's only a matter of time. The official who
was granted anonymity discusses sensitive matter told me, um, speculation wrapped up
this week over which ranking administration chief will go next after Pentagon head Pete
Hegseth, Alcindor's Navy Secretary, President Trump's blessing.
Now a top White House official tells Dasha that Patel is likely the next cabinet level
official to go.
Do we know when the White House correspondent's dinner speech is going to happen?
Is it going to take place?
Look at what time.
It's only a matter of time.
The official was granted.
And nobody discussed sensitive matter, told of the FBI director.
There are several other reasons for the differential side, but the top among them is a number of
negative stories Senator on FBI Director is not a good look for a cabinet secretary.
Oh, in an hour.
All right, let's go.
I will be watching that shit.
Let's be real.
But before we get to that, let's look at some other stuff.
Let's do some, uh, some, some different reacts.
Well, first Dave Smith, uh, with his drama with Kyle Kalinsky so I can get a better
understanding of what this guy's about.
Trump is dumb, but I'd still do his show.
And for one, it's like, we do live in a democracy, it is low key the fault of the people that
voted for Trump, that Trump is in power, like that is how a democracy works, right?
There is some level of accountability that we can hold the people to and they reelect
a fucking treasonous traitor, a fascist, you know what I'm saying, like a Nazi,
Yeah, sorry, but if you were part of the group of people that elected that guy with your vote,
which is again how a democracy works, it's not just some mysterious supernatural force
outside of your fucking understanding, like no, you directly participated in that.
And as a commentator, a member of the media, what you say and what you do is far more
important than any just random Joe, like your grandpa or something devoted for Trump
who doesn't have a platform, who doesn't reach millions of people online and who is incredibly
influential, like, yeah, sorry, bro, you fucked up. You're going to have to be reminded about
it. You're going to have to face some level of accountability for that, as you've even
admitted. You admitted you fucked up. You admitted that you were wrong about that.
So, sorry, dude, but other people are also going to point that out. It's not, it's
not Kyle like, you know, enforcing something that's unfair or just like going up to
random voters on the street and scolding them. You're not just a random voter.
of highly influential member of the media. Yeah. And for being a guy that talks shit
for a living, he's so soft. He named searches on Twitter, and that's how he blocked us.
We had a totally innocuous tweet where he was tweeting about how, oh, wife was simpler
when the government was saying boys could be girls and we all had to stay inside a
lockdown. And I was like, Donald Trump was president during all of the supposed lockdowns.
You fucking idiot. He got triggered about it and blocked us. But he can't take
Any ounce of what he dishes out constantly, right?
And that's why he's all fucking butthurt
about the fact that Kyle made content talking
about how he was broad admirable that he still wants
to try and be able to wiggle his way in front
of Kyle's audience, I guess.
But yeah, this was pretty interesting.
He follows up and and expands upon it on the after party.
And imagine Gavin only one of these people voted
for Donald Trump in 2024 on this podcast
for about this right wing podcast
that we're about to react to. Pretty crazy.
Yeah. 100%. We've talked a lot about days, so I'm excited to watch this.
Before we take a look at those act, do you think there's any chance he would get
invited on Crystal Kyle and friends? Like he's obviously had friendly
conversations with Crystal, but do you think Kyle will make any attempts to
bury the hatchet or squash the be-faction? That's my dark wolf commander.
I'd give it a 50-50. I'd give it a 50-50. I'd say that there's a chance that
you catch Kyle on a day where he's like, yeah, I'll fucking talk to this
guy. I'd like to get to the bottom of this. I'd like to fucking talk to
whatever he's he's a guy with a lot of media presence I'm gonna have a lot of
media presence let's fucking just talk about it right he's anti-trump now we
need all the people anti-trump that we can get I also can see Kyle being like
not fuck that guy I don't care about it you know what I mean I feel like you
could really break either way what do you think I totally agree yeah I think
it's like a 50-50 shot I kind of hope it happens though just because I really
do like when Kyle debates people and disagrees with people and I do think
that Crystal, Kyle and friends would be even better if they had more contentious sort of
debate style conversations. Like, not that I don't really enjoy that show, but I do think
that both Crystal and Kyle really excel, you know, when they're in, you know, those sort
of contentious debate settings. And I would like to see more of that. So like, yeah,
might as well hash it out. Might as well have him on. But I could also see why
Kyle would say, eh, not worth it. I don't want to get this guy any more attention.
Um, this is the vanguard. They're like, uh, they're like, uh, like a left, they're like
the Brian Stelter. Is that his name? Uh, the, the media, the, the media commentary channel
of left media. TMZ are the online left kind of, yeah. Yeah.
The angry teenager that I always am, I hang him out. But I, you know, there's this thing
where people would say forever that, that the MAGA is a cult or Trump supporters are
like a cult like following. And I also see right now a lot of people, you know, who who
are have been like really calling people out who voted for Donald Trump or something like
that. And, you know, so I say this again from the position, which I understand is a weak
position to argue from, where I'm already admitting that like, yes, probably it was
wrong to vote for Donald Trump. But probably.
I'll just say some names here, but I've gotten into some public arguments with Kyle Kulinski
and Mehdi Hassan and others like that who, by the way, I'm not trying to fight with either
of those guys.
I, you know, like, I don't know, you'd get squashed into an oblivion, you know, you
have no argument for them, you know, you were like, Hey, guys, I know I voted for
Donald Trump when it was the most obvious what he was going to do and there was the least
amount of evidence to support any of the claims I've been making up until the election.
Let's forget all of that.
And actually I would like to snack the deck in my favor again, like it's totally nuts.
Yeah, it's a and also again, just trying to be like, Oh, what, me, I'm just a voter.
Why are you vote shaming?
It's like, bitch, you're not just a fucking voter.
You're not just some like 80 year old lead poison Fox News grandpa who voted for Trump
or whatever.
Like you're a member of the media, you're an influencer.
It matters more what you say and who you promote than just your average voter that you're trying
to lump yourself in with and act like, you know, Kyle's just going after the voters.
Can you believe it?
He's just going after the voters.
It's like you're more than just a fucking voter.
And as I said, we live in a democracy and that's how fucking Donald Trump got
elected because the voters voted him into office.
So therefore, yeah, we do have to, you know, offer up some accountability totally agree
with them on everything, but we sure do agree on some really important stuff and I'm not,
but they're going, it's funny that he doesn't talk about me like this.
Like with me, it's way more interesting that it's like far more contentious when he talks
about me. Because like, what do you think you agree with, with Mehdi Hassan and also
with Kyle Kalinsky, but have some disagreements over when I'm pretty close to their worldview?
going around like constantly going like, hey, you voted for Donald Trump.
Well, look at you, Joe Rogan.
You're criticizing him now, but what do you think you voted for?
And just like everyone who's, and this is just infuriating me.
And I publicly went back and forth with Medi a little bit and then we messaged privately
a little bit.
cool and everything. But I just, there's something about this where like, I said, I said this publicly,
and I just, I'll say this again, that, you know, when I remember, I was so anti-war, so hardcore
anti-war, and I'll tell you why in a second. And I never voted for anyone. The only presidential
candidate I ever voted for was Ron Paul. Like I have complete clean hands in terms of voting
before 2024, but then I realized that's a bigger L, bro.
So you didn't vote for Trump the first time and you voted
from the second time. That's unbelievable.
That's worse.
No, you could not get that shit out of me through CIA enhanced interrogation is that there was a shit ton of money to be made on, you know, jumping on the Trump train and and you know getting a bunch of money and ad revenue.
That is unbelievable, bro. He said Trump won not interested
Trump to not interested Trump three on the other hand
I was like well third times the charm motherfucker. You got me. I didn't even know people like this existed, bro
Like I thought the only people that did that were like
People who had just turned 18 or you know were just too young to remember
Trump won, you know, the low, the low propensity, low info voters that were just like, I'll try it,
you know, this common stuff seems shitty and continuation of Biden, who I hate, you know.
Yeah, this guy was like, you know what I really liked about Trump? January 6th.
But he literally was like, I only started liking him after he did January 6. It was very impressive.
Okay, Chatter, you keep saying this person is hosting the dinner. He's a mentalist on
a basement yard. I'm sorry. I don't believe that anyone that's affiliated with basement
yard is actually hosting the White House Correspondent's Center. Is that for real?
It's something that doesn't really exist. That's just in your brain. Close your eyes. Close your eyes.
Someone who knows the basement yard is doing the White House Correspondent's Center.
That's insane.
Be nice to base me on.
No, I love base me art.
It is precisely because of that love that I have for the base me
art that I'm, I find this to be unbelievable.
Joe, you look, you look, come over.
Can you see this?
Don't see.
Yeah.
I don't know about this.
This is crazy.
And you go, this would make for a great episode.
Open your eyes.
It's spontaneous off the cuff pops.
And you go, I didn't even know I would think about this.
It would make an insane episode. What happened in that dream? What were you doing? Say it?
We were like hanging out in a bath. What was it? Just what's in the bath like clay or mud or something like that?
Get the fuck out of here. No, no, no, no
No, I'm not yo, I'm fucking serious. I'm serious
Yo, I'm literally I can't I
I'm I yeah, I'm not I'm not having fun time out
What the fuck is that?
I'm just trying to think of like something out there that'd be crazy and if we were in just like mud baths not together
You have your bath. Okay. We have our bath. It's a little weird, but yeah
Imagine this is something that doesn't really exist that's just in your brain close your eyes close your eyes
Oz is allegedly Mossad by the way. Wait, what? Like the mentalist guy? Yes, Trump
is such a thin skinned baby. They couldn't have a comedian host because he cannot take
the roasting a mentalist is the host. All men wait someone said all mentalists are Mossad
okay. I can't tell if you guys are fucking memeing or if you're being serious. Well not
on the mentalist thing on this one in particular. Is this mentalist Musad or not? Not all mentalists,
I know that that's not the case. I'm sorry, is this white culture? I have no clue who
basement yard yard porch is. Basement yard is a very funny podcast that I really like.
They're very funny, but I guess they have an affiliation with a Mossad mentalist,
a Mossad mentalist that is doing the White House Correspondents Dinner hosting.
No, they were before the yard Ludwig totally ripped their shit from all this idiot dole
bullfucking stupid supporters more money to be made doing that and supporting the actual
nominee of the party that I claimed to be associated with the libertarians because they nominated
a gay guy and Dave Smith is apparently a fucking homophobic piece of shit and couldn't
understand the fact that Chase Oliver supported wait really no there's no way
Dave's is Dave should homophobic trans people and took a photo in front of a
pride flag so because of that he completely threw his own dude what the
fuck is up with libertarians bro I thought libertarians were like
libertarian yeah he's awesome I'll be head he liked the same post Zoran did
Who is
Who who are you talking about check my log
Why are you guys looking at all my fucking posts and who's liking it the mentalist
The mentalist bro trust
So is he so he's not Mossad
It's fucking annoying that in America libertarians are not even libertarian
Like they just they if you are
against
Unrestricted travel you're not a libertarian
You're just a Republican. If you're pro-police, you're not a libertarian. You're just a Republican
Not even joking he is Mossad
He was born in Israel. Oh look him up. Wait, what?
Bro, him being born in Israel is different than him being Mossad. Okay. There's those are
What are you talking about?
He is Masat and I imagine Israel will imply a warning at Trump to Trump at dinner
Libertarian only likes freedoms like having sex with kids crypto and freedom of cost was
doing a speech basically repugnance with another pain no man like like there's a bunch of people
that are at Cato that I actually have respect for. What's his name? David Beer? I think he's one of
them. Like he does the congressional hearings all the time. Like there's a bunch of people at Cato
that are anti-cop that are, that are some of the best advocates for immigrants in the country.
I don't agree with them on other stuff.
Obviously they're fucking libertarians. They want to like undermine every federal agency.
I obviously disagree with that shit, but Oz Perlman, can a mentalist trick Trump?
Oz Perlman would try in a room full of journalists.
Why are we?
Why did you guys say this guy's Mossad?
Is it because he's Israeli?
Is that what it is?
Is he even Israeli? I feel like you guys are doing the thing that people say like all liberals
will be like, oh, these guys are Jew haters. You know, it's cringe. Don't do that.
Israelis have been through enough. Okay, calm down
Is really American mind reader Oz promo tab is entertainment
Promas a Emmy award-winner near times best-selling author. Yeah, I don't think I don't think this guy is massage
I don't know where you got that from
You know
Not all Israelis are Jews, bro. Okay, dude, there's very no, there's very few
Also, that's not the point anyway
Your anti-Semitism is rubbing off on us
Sure
He moved to America at three years old chest being fucking weird. Oh, you guys are being
Annoying dude, why are you like this?
It's annoying for two reasons one. It's annoying because it is kind of anti-semitic. I'll be honest
but also it's doubly annoying because so many of you fucking immediately lean into it and
And and it's just not true like I hate when you motherfuckers sell me awesome
Bullshit. Yeah, why do you read the dipshits? I don't know because it's anonymous. How am
I supposed to know who's a dipshit and who's not a dipshit? Oh, he went on Rogan and guessed
banking pin so people started a rumor he's Massad then that's so stupid yeah he's a mentalist man
what the fuck i was born in israel and i lived there until seven am i massad
yeah exactly it's this fucking it's stupid
also the other side of this is like if someone is massad or if someone is like
like worked in Israeli intelligence. Okay, Chad, stop saying yes. You guys are being fucking
assholes. Um, they would say it because up until recently, that was a positive. Okay.
Up until recently, ain't nobody was like, Oh, your massage, that's fucking, that's crazy.
I am going to look at you differently. Now, up until like two years ago, when someone
was like, Oh, I'm a former massage agent. Everybody like, Oh, that's so based. That's
So Pogger, that's what they would say.
It was straight up on their LinkedIn.
Everything you do is heavily moderated by Nazis.
Establish your denser hoes in the government.
You're trapped playing into this shit.
It's so stupid.
Yeah, you guys come on.
You have to come now.
Yeah, people, I think again, you guys forget, like, motherfuckers would say their massage
back in the day.
Whoever's responding with the yes, congratulations, you're now a target.
Anyway, I don't know why.
I'm just still shocked that someone that has been on the basement yard is now hosting
the White House Correspondents dinner. I suspect that the reason why it's happening with this
mentalist guy is because Trump could not get a comedian. Like there is no way he was getting
a comedian on there because they would have cooked his ass.
Party, the libertarians, the third party under the bus to support the biggest warmonger
of all time, a fucking lunatic Nazi fascist authoritarian who stands for everything that
libertarians claim to be against. It's true. I remember just mourning the death of the anti-war
left forever. It was like, yeah, I'll be honest. Trump won was what cooked libertarians completely.
I saw so many motherfucking libertarians vote for Donald Trump on Trump won. I was like,
What are you talking about? Like this guy wants a police day. He's running on building a wall
Isn't that your whole thing that distinguishes you from
Republicans is that you're for freedom of travel freedom of movement free trade
Fucking anti-cop
Otherwise you just a goddamn conservative boomer who likes to smoke pot
George W. Bush left, and Obama came in, and the global war on terrorism just escalated
and spread to multiple other theaters.
Escalated in the theaters they were already in, he surged like tens of thousands of troops
to Afghanistan, took out Libya, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, like all of this.
And they were just gone.
And then when the destruction of Gaza started, they kind of all came back.
And I was like, great, you know, Kyle, the guy you're supposedly criticizing right now
went hard as a motherfucker in the paint every single fucking day against the US aggression
under Barack Obama.
That's what's so crazy about this.
As far as I know, Kyle didn't even vote for Joe Biden in 2020.
He was making a bunch of content saying, not fucking good enough, fuck you the
the way you treated Bernie Sanders.
You're not coming around on any of our position.
He never publicly supported Joe Biden.
It was only after Joe Biden had gotten into office.
He started giving him a lot more credit.
Okay.
He may have personally voted for Joe Biden, but yeah, I was going to say,
he, he was making a lot of content saying, fuck that.
I'm not going to.
And so this made up argument that you're trying to use to attach.
Okay.
All right.
I'm bored of the day.
So I'll go, I'm just going to, I'll figure it out when I talk to him.
Looks like the land invasion is 100% confirmed. Right now, flight radar for weeks was showing
us assets heading to Middle East and now Qatar and Oman made it clear they will not support
the USA plus no negotiations in Pakistan. But America does not have enough troops amassed
in the region to do a full-blown ground invasion of Iran. Okay? It does not. It has enough
troop presence for potentially like uh occupying one of the islands or something
so i don't know if it's 100 confirmed or not
well now that i said it it'll probably happen because i am i've been wrong because i always
predict that trump will behave in a logical manner and he never does
Alright, let's get to MrBeast's what Marx warned us about.
This guy made this video, got 4 million views 2 months ago, or a month ago, and I hadn't seen it until this very moment.
We're gonna take a look at this video now.
7. A bearded philosopher named Karl Marx sits in the dim light of the British Museum, scribbling the foundational texts of dusk capital.
He is writing about a terrifying future where every human interaction is reduced to a cold transaction.
A world where even kindness is a commodity bought and sold for a profit.
He had no idea that over 150 years later, he would describe the career of Jimmy Donaldson, Mr. Beast, with...
The libertarian flag is named after Christopher Gadsden, who built the largest slave port in the U.S.
Yeah, the libertarians don't mind slavery.
That's... that there are plenty of libertarians who have, unironically, argued in favor of
of slavery, argued in favor of the marketplace of babies.
I think it was Rothbard, right?
That's not a problem for them.
Yeah.
Yeah, libertarians believe that it doesn't violate
the non-aggression principle if you volunteer yourself
to slavery.
Now, of course, obviously, chattel slavery,
there was no volunteering taking place.
But...
It's Rothbard.
Yeah, look up Rothbard marketplace of babies.
Frightening accuracy. We view Mr. Beast as the internet's greatest philanthropist, a modern-day saint who builds wells and pays for surgeries.
But through a moxist lens, Mr. Beast isn't the solution to capitalism's failures.
He is its final most dystopian evolution. He has perfected an economy where human desperation is gamified and charity is no longer an act of
Mercy but a high-yield digital asset. Marx warned us that under late-stage capitalism
Everything even our empathy would have a price tag. Mr. Beast didn't just find that price tag
He built a billion dollar empire on it. This is how the world's most popular creator
perfected the exact dystopian economy Marx predicted over a century ago.
Commodity fetishism. In the first volume of Das Kapital, Marx introduces a
concept that explains why Mr. Beast's videos feel so mesmerizing yet so
hollow. He wrote,
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious trivial thing, but its
analysis shows that it is a very queer thing abounding in metaphysical
subtleties and theological niceties. When you watch a Mr. Beast video, what
What are you actually looking at?
You see a suitcase filled with $100,000.
You see a brand new Lamborghini.
You see a house being given to a homeless family.
To the average viewer, these are just good deeds.
But to Marx, these are commodities in their most fetishized form.
In a Mr. Beast production, money is never just a medium of exchange.
It is a prop.
It is a visual effect designed to trigger a biological response.
Marx argued that commodity fetishism occurs when the social relationships between people
are masked by the exchange of objects.
Think about it, when Jimmy Hahn's a random person $50,000 for staying in a circle, we
aren't seeing a social connection.
We are seeing a person's value reduced entirely to the cash in their hand.
We don't see the systemic poverty that makes that $50,000 a life-altering miracle.
We only see the magic of the money itself.
The money becomes a god-like entity that solves all problems, hiding the ugly reality
of the labor and desperation that created the need for the money in the first place.
Mr Beast is not giving away money in the traditional sense.
He is converting human struggle into a high yield digital asset.
Marks one that in a capitalist society, all that is holy is profaned.
The sacred act of charity has been stripped of its human soul and redesigned to sad-
Yeah bro, people would be like, Karl Marx had no answer for this.
Karl Marx could have never predicted, you know, let me stop you right there, okay?
Because it was the fundamentals that he wrote about describing the current existence of capitalist
society, the economic organization of society at the time, it's not a prediction necessarily.
It's a tool that you can use in your life.
So technically he's not predicting shit.
He's just observing reality and writing it down.
And therefore, it always comes across as though he predicted everything, including Mr. Beast.
That's why a recommendation algorithm, it is the ultimate commodification.
Kindness itself has become a product you can subscribe to.
Human alienation.
Marx's theory of alienation is perhaps his most haunting critique of how capitalism
breaks the human spirit.
In his economic and philosophic manuscripts of 1844, he wrote,
He would have killed it on Cal-Street now, because he did, I'm pretty sure he played
the stock market at the time, and he was obviously broke his foot, so clearly he wasn't making
the best predictions. Let's be real. So I did he he on stocks. Karl Marx wasn't a real communist.
on stocks he a long-term guy not short term yeah I'm just saying he wasn't the
best at you know making he wasn't the best at figuring out where stocks were
going at least becomes all the poor the more wealth he produces the more his
production increases in power and range the worker becomes an ever-cheaper
commodity the more commodities he creates now look at a mr. beast
challenge. A participant is p-
Mark's colleague angles on Discord while he streams slots. I need you, bro. Y'all angles. Come on.
Let me get another ten bands. Angles.
Let me get another ten bands. Please. Please. Let me touch it. Let me touch it. Angles.
It's in a white room for 100 days. Another is buried alive for 50 hours. Another survives in a wilderness for a week.
On the surface, it's a game. But in Mark's terms, it is pure alienation. The participant is the worker and their production is their own
suffering. They are separated from their family, their environment, and their basic human needs.
All to produce a spectacle for a global audience. Marx argued that under capitalism,
the worker is alienated from their species essence, their true human nature. By placing people in
sensory deprivation or extreme physical conditions just to pay off student debt or buy a house,
Mr. Beast literally strips them of their humanity to see how much value can be squeezed
out of their endurance. They aren't there because they want to play a game. They are there
Because they are economically coerced in one video a man stays in a circle for months to win money for his family
We watch his mental health decline. We watch him weep
This is exactly what mox meant when he said the workers labor becomes an object an external existence that exists outside him
Independently as something alien to him the contestants pain is no longer their own it belongs to the beast brand
It is a raw material like coal or iron mined from the human psyche and sold to us as
entertainment the more the contestants suffer guys it is
Karl Marx wasn't talking about fucking reality TV. This guy's just making an example about how dehumanizing wage slavery actually is
by using one of the most extreme edge cases that even the average fucking wage slave can comprehend.
technically it's in some ways if you want to look at it not to get all like vegan with this but
you know how vegans would be like why wouldn't you eat a dog or a horse if you eat a chicken right
technically what we're looking at here is is not even an excess it's just like
the the regular workplace the dehumanizing nature of
of having a clear lack of autonomy in the workplace.
And this in and of itself might even be more fortunate
of a condition, because it's like, sure,
you get a little bit of embarrassment in the short term,
but your payout is far higher.
Like the amount that you're paid for this labor
is far, far higher than what you would get
if you were to go to work every day.
Because the more wealth the video generates, they are a cog in a machine that requires
their total alienation to function.
They sell their life activity to obtain the means of subsistence, turning their very existence
into a game of survival.
Exchange value.
To understand the genius and the horror of the MrBeast model, we have to look at how
he treats human life as a balance sheet.
Marx famously distinguished between use value and exchange value.
In value price and profit, he noted, as exchange values, all commodities are
merely definite quantities of congealed labor time.
the video where MrBeast pays for 1,000 people to have cataract surgery.
The used value of that act is immense, 1,000 people can now see, it is a genuine good.
But in the logic of the channel, the exchange value is what matters.
The cost of the surgeries is a variable capital investment.
The congealed labor time is the months of planning and editing.
The goal to produce a thumbnail and a title that generates a surplus value of 150 million
views.
If curing 1,000 people only generated 100 views, the beast empire would collapse.
The mercy is only viable if it is marketable.
This creates a terrifying feedback loop.
Marks warn that capital must always seek to expand because the cost of curing blindness
or building 100 houses is so high the next video must be bigger, louder and more viral.
Another moment of possibility of indication was when I said, this is great and all, but
it shouldn't be left up to the beast.
Remember it when everybody yelled at me for that take?
And then the beast himself came out and beasted on him and was like, no, that's my take too.
Pay for the last one.
This is the commodified charity loop.
It is a self-sustaining microeconomy where the viewer's attention directly funds the
next spectacle of wealth distribution.
You, the viewer, are the consumer of this charity.
Your attention labor is what gives the video value, which the brand then harvests to
buy more good deeds.
It turns the audience into passive participants in a digital coliseum.
We aren't being inspired to help.
We are being conditioned to watch.
Marx believed that the market eventually turns everything into a quantity.
In the Mr Beast universe, there is no quality of mercy.
There's only the quantity of people helped, versus the cost per click.
It is a cold calculated breakdown of the human heart into a spreadsheet.
Capital accumulation.
Marx's most famous command for the capitalist was, accumulate, accumulate.
That is Moses and the prophets.
He understood that capital is not a thing, but a process.
It has to move.
It has to grow.
If it stops, it dies.
Jimmy Donaldson often says in interviews that he has $0 in his bank account because
he reinvests every penny back into his videos.
Many see this as the ultimate proof of his selflessness, but to a Marxist, this is the
most aggressive form of capital accumulation imaginable.
Jimmy is not a person.
He is the personification of capital by refusing to consume his wealth and instead dumping it
back into production.
He is accelerating the growth of his beast empire at a rate that traditional charities
could never dream of.
Marx described the MCM cycle.
Money is converted into a commodity which is then sold for more money.
Mr Beast has perfected the MSM cycle.
Money is converted into a spectacle.
Yeah, I mean he has turned himself into a corporation, a brand, right?
Like, it's funny when people look at that and go, oh wow, how selfless, but like
That's literally uber. It's the uber strategy. No, it's not even a CEO saying they have a $1
salary. It is unironically the same strategy for market consolidation, companies that want to be
first to market with a new designer, a new disruptive technology that actively try to grow
as fast as possible and do away with any sort of immediate profit with the hopes that they
can monopolize an entire sector ahead of everybody else. That is, you know, that is the uber mentality.
Which is then sold for more money because he reinvests 100%. He is able to build a monopoly
of attention. He creates a barrier to entry so high that no other creator can compete.
This is the micro-economic engine your client asked about.
By operating at a break-even point on individual videos,
he is actually building a massive, high-yield digital asset, the brand itself.
This brand can then launch Feastables, Mr. Beast Burger, and massive merchandising lines.
The charity is the marketing department for a global conglomerate.
Marks warned that as capital accumulates, it centralizes.
We see this today.
One man now controls the charity narrative for the entire internet.
He has become a private state, providing the services like water, housing, and healthcare
that the actual state has failed to provide.
He is the benevolent dictator of the digital age.
Exactly the kind of prince of industry Marx feared would replace traditional society.
The Reserve Army
Finally, we have to look at the people who aren't in the videos.
Marx spoke of the Industrial Reserve Army, a massive desperate unemployed people who
exist on the fringes of society.
He wrote, The Industrial Reserve Army, during the periods of stagnation, weighs down
the active labor army.
During the periods of overproduction and paroxysm, it holds its pretensions in
check.
challenge. There are 101,000 or even 10,000 people. But for every person in that video,
there are millions more in the comments begging for a chance. Jimmy, please help me pay my mom's
medical bills. My Jimmy, I'm about to lose my house. This is the reserve army of the beast economy.
They are the millions of desperate souls who make the contestants replaceable. Marxism teaches us
that the system needs this desperation to function. If everyone had a house, if everyone
had healthcare, if everyone had their debt paid off, Mr Beast's content would be boring.
There would be no stakes. The spectacle relies on the existence of a massive suffering underclass.
The reserve army is what gives the video its tension. Mr Beast is not a bad person. In fact,
by all accounts, he's a very nice one, but that's the point. Marx wasn't interested in whether the
capitalist was nice. He was interested in what the system forced them to do. We aren't watching
a man fix the world. We are watching a man prove that the world is broken beyond repair.
In the scariest part, we can't stop watching. We are the ones providing the living labor
of our attention, keeping the vampire alive.
Pretty solid.
The title generally lure me like a child singing candy from a van.
the fact that this is an unscrollable title is actually a good thing we need to hear this
oh that means that video made me sad man can we do chatbys again no cuz in six minutes the
The motherfucking White House Correspondents Dinner is gonna begin.
You think Trump is gonna pull a Saddam Hussein to the dinner party?
No, I don't.
I don't actually think that.
I was just making a joke.
Well, I should have thought twice before making jokes.
Bro thought jokes would fly, half the time shit that I joke about turns into reality.
Bravely, I would have never cheated on Megan Thee Stallion, I mean, same.
protesters crash the White House Correspondent's dinner.
I
Dude I watched this already I watched this I don't know why you keep wanting me to watch it
I watched it when it first came out chatter. I don't know what it is. Why have you been spamming this non-stop?
For my birthday today, we watch this Francesca short
You've been at it since 418
I don't know why you keep spamming it.
I watched it, I promise you.
And you know what's funny?
I know other chatters told you I watched it.
They told you I watched it and they said, oh, you can probably find
his reaction on YouTube. I even saw that back and forth
correspondence in the chat.
Happy birthday, by the way
Clay literally just made a video stating that Megan cheated on him with a teammate low fucking me wait what?
What that would never happen, but tell me give me the tea right now where the fuck is it or did you just make that up?
Are you talking big shit? Are you just being is this misogynistic? Are you being a misogynist?
Tread carefully. We're hot girls here. Okay. Tread motherfucking carefully. Tread motherfucking
carefully chatter. Link it right now.
The pro bros at all don't actually want to find a mainly man who likes to shoot arrows
or speedboats and also loves Democrats because that would mean a threat to their business
model endless complaining about how terrible Dems are. What is this? What is happening?
This is all about the pro bros. I'll know full commitment to the far left entails full commitment
to full time wanting about the Democrats not being good enough, which is at its core commitment
to making money over telling the truth. There's no money to be made in liking the Dems.
Wait, first of all, God, this lady is so crazy. This is the ex-husband lady.
Go choppy out here, but life is good.
Hey, look at him!
Let me go back, man.
LB, we gotta get back there, bro.
Come on.
You need LB.
You tear an angel out of the trail.
It's nice with the bike.
on the trail. It's nice with the bike. Oh man, great day at work today.
Chatter. What the fuck is wrong with you?
This is nothing. Nothing in this buddy. Nothing in this video says, nothing in
This video says anything in the description. Oh my god. I want to fucking die dude. I'm Brian kill me
I'm fucking I'm Brian kill me. I'm Brian kill me. I'm Brian fucking kill me
I'm Brian I'm Brian I'm Brian kill me. Oh my fucking god chatter. Oh my god
29,000 likes we're so fucked. We're so fucked America is so fucked
We're done. We're done. We're done. Hit the reset. Hit the reset.
Hit the fucking reset, bro. Pull the plug on America. Let's restart.
Let's start over again. It's fucking over. You see Rubett.
You see an account that has Rubett in the description and you send it over
here. And, and here's what you're doing to me. Okay.
Here's what you're doing to me.
You want me to grab a gun and fucking put it in my mouth and shoot.
Okay, because I can't deal with this. I can't deal with the stupidity. It's not even your fault. Okay, you got duped
That's fine. But when I see this shit when I see how fucking
Unbelievably stupid people are when I see how unbelievably selfish
People are to just like take a video. It has nothing to do with clay Thompson anymore. It has nothing to do with Megan the
Stalin this is
Some that I have to deal with on a daily fucking basis
okay, where there are assholes on the motherfucking internet who know that
something is going to get a lot of attention. So what do they do? They take a
random fucking video and they post it and they write some nonsense in the
fucking description and then people just read the description, they don't watch
the video, they don't watch the video at all and they go, yep this corresponds
was my priors. I just, I hate, I hate how stupid Twitter has made Americans. I hate
how stupid Americans have become.
29,000 likes.
21,000, 29,000 motherfucking likes.
Meanwhile, here's another example of American stupidity.
Eve Fat Law!
Eve F***ing Fat Law was on Fox News as a F***ing Expert on Iran!
What's it going to take for Iran to put down its ballistic missiles?
What's it going to take?
Are they going to negotiate that away, or are we going to have to put more pressure on them
with military strikes?
And if we do strike them militarily, what are those military strikes going to be now?
As mentioned previously, we have these three carrier ships there.
That's more than we have had since Iraq.
So we're prepared to take that action.
And I don't, it's a guessing game as to how long Iran
can survive with this amount of squeeze on them.
But America is ready to go if needed.
And just to kind of go back to both of you,
back at me talking about the squeeze,
you had Pete Henson saying that the United States
quite frankly controls the street
of getting back to our theme of the squeeze.
A lot of people watch this on Puykers,
the October 7th massacre to a Cambridge student.
Hassan, these terrorists, these impreds, these terrorists aren't barbaric monsters, not coming from a place of anti-Semitism,
or wanting to do mass rapes and slogan to the Houthis that you so admire is death to the Jews,
and I've been very critical of that, not critical enough, not the platform, one of them, and call him a sexy pirate.
Pyger should never, ever be taken seriously by a political thinker.
It's canary mission.
Canary mission.
mission the student this is such an old video that the head of the fucking
debate club is now in agreement with me you know what I mean that's how fucking
old it is the defense may happen about debating again what debate Ron Weasley
Ron Weasley is on my side now motherfucker what are you talking about
of
some video so all the some of them are balled now
when she
Canary mission social team got outed and they're lashing out. Yeah, I know they got fucking
By the way, you one shot Charles Disciples. Oh
Yeah, the head of 34 USA's UGH after which just hosted a notably small rally last week is resigning st. TPS is practicing blatant honesty
Yeah, yeah, I told you I
Fucking told you did not I said they weren't carrying the flame
And guess what? One of Charlie's disciples heard me say that and went,
Bet, you're right, we aren't carrying the motherfucking flame.
Turns out, I'm tossing this fucking torch if we're not carrying the goddamn flame.
Anyway.
Speak on Megan again and I will rally the Amish.
Anyway, where's the where's the White House Correspondence dinner?
Look all the stars are here man
There she is
I
Bro it's kind of crazy she still has that same intense look
You know she's still got that intense ass look
Even when she's
Even when she's hanging out with homies look
Why does she look mad? She just looks so mad all the time.
Someone said, why is she not sitting with JD? Have you ever met Erica in person? No.
I knew Charlie for longer than Charlie knew Erica. Okay. I knew Charlie Kirk. Think about
How fucking insane that is actually I knew Charlie Kirk for a longer period of time
That Erica Kurt knew Charlie Kirk
Think about that
Yeah, you should have married me you know never mind
You missed Fetty. Fetty Wopman is there. Is that the ogre stumbling around is that him
or is that Maddie Glacey is just getting Maddie Glacey is way shorter. Still just as fat
and just as bald. That's a free press guy. A lot of free press guys I suspect here in
this room. Is that Usher? Pregante? My Usher. Or is that Katie Miller? Wait, Katie Miller
is Pregante? I thought Usher was Pregante. Olivia Reingold is there. Oh, look at the
dude this is a room full of my ops unironically this is this is the ops
ball now that I think about it everyone in here is an op of mine for like the
past two months now
Olivia Rhinagold your girlfriend is there yeah she wishes she she might
think that you're getting mentioned now your queen was dragged out oh my god
Madea get your hands off of her of course Madea was there
It's so awesome that she still wears like pink stuff everywhere she goes to she's like not even trying to be undercover
Like she dressed up she dressed up like she was going right oh
My god they carried her
The 11 East Journalists just murdered the Israelis and we were there with a picture of Amal Khalil showing Wolf Blitzer the picture.
He said, I don't know who that is. We said you should know who it is because she was just assassinated by the Israelis.
What a queen yeah wolf blizzard former apex spokesperson just you know I know I I don't bring this up
Uh-oh will this umpire remission at 2036 correspondents dinner 80% yes 36 million
dollar volume that's a lie you just made that shit up
She was under the rubble for hours while they wouldn't let the rescuers come in.
They were targeting her and then targeting the people who were going to rescue her.
By the time the rescuers got there, she was dead.
And these are the colleagues of the people celebrating the war criminal.
Both Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are going to be in there tonight.
And these journalists in quotes are celebrating while people are being killed in the West Bank, in Gaza, in Lebanon, in Iran.
Every single day their colleagues, their journalists are being, are being murdered.
Claude Jen Psaki in there, she turned her back. We saw Sheryl Sandberg in there turned her back.
Turned her back.
Turned her back. They are, these are not journalists.
On another note is Wolfebister a stud like when old Wolfe walks in does he light up the room like he lights up my life
I've never been in the same room as him, but I mean he is a fucking sexual dynamo. I'll tell you that much
I mean he makes he makes me quiver. Okay, my wheezer. Neek. My wheezer. Neek
My knees are weak. What the fuck is wrong with me? See he fucked me up just thinking about Wolfe
Just thinking about the wolf man
Okay, just thinking about the wolf man fuck me up
People on the ground and thoughts are risking their lives daily having to report on their own people their own family's deaths
We just saw Amal Khalil in Lebanon and these journalists are sitting here
partying with Donald Trump and Pete Heads up in Stephen Miller and this is how
they treat us when we try to tell them all we want is for you to report the
truth. Talk about the genocide of Bazaar. Talk about the genocide in Lebanon.
Talk about the illegal war on Iran. Talk about these things instead of just
same silent and then coming and partying with the war criminals that are in charge of this
moment will go down in history and these people are on the wrong side.
How dare you all just stand here and party with the war criminals.
I fucking hate nerd prom trust me I went to one White House Correspondents' Dinner weekend I was supposed to go this weekend while I didn't go
But, um, not to the actual, uh, dinner itself, I have never, I've never been invited, but,
um, it was, it was horrible.
God, I fucking hate DC so much.
No, I got invited to the Vanity Fair party.
I didn't even get invited to the Grinder party.
Which is crazy
Roomful of contradictions. I don't think it's a contradictory at all. I think this is a room full of sick fans loyalists
Maybe a couple good journalists in there, maybe
We are all domestic terrorists
Attorney Simon Lackovich
Sarah Cook of CBS News.
Andy Hardik from Getty Images.
Mark Lima of CBS News Jackie Heinrich of Fox News
That's Sean Spicer, no, right?
Chad, shut the fuck up about the host being from Israel, okay?
He was just born in Israel.
Jesus Christ, y'all are fucking unbearable, dude.
Oh my god.
The White House press.
I think dude, if you keep this shit up, I'm going to do anti-semitism seminars on a daily fucking basis because you need it.
Okay. Oh my god.
Oh my fucking god.
From ABC News.
Oh my god.
Y'all are unbelievably fucking annoying.
Jesus Christ, dude.
Honecut from Writers.
Courtney Supermanin from Bloomberg News.
Y'all need anti-sems obsessivity training.
From Time Magazine, Brian Bennett.
And join us in welcoming the president of the White House Correspondence Association from
CBS News, Weijia Zhang.
The headliner for this evening, Mentalist O's Perlman.
Now please welcome the Vice President of the United States, J.D. Danz.
Ladies and gentlemen, the 45th and 47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump and
First Lady Melania Trump.
I hate seeing this piece of shit enjoy himself, dude.
I can't be alone in this, right?
Do you think there'll be comedy? No.
No comedy allowed.
Let's go!
Come!
Ready!
Let's go!
Oh
He looks like shit
He looks he looks so shitty
He looks so bad, bro. He looks like a bag of ass melted wax candle looking ass.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er from land of the free and the home of the brave?
Thank you very much.
Oh, y'all are talking about this motherfuckers gonna go to sleep.
I'm about to go to sleep motherfucker.
Come on fast forward fast forward.
Okay, hold on here.
Watch this.
Watch this.
Watch this.
Watch this.
Okay.
There it is.
I fast forward it.
I got bored.
I was like, come on, pick up the pace.
You know what I'm saying?
Okay, there it is. I fast forward it.
I got bored. I was like, come on, pick up the pace. You know what I'm saying?
Welcome. Welcome to the try 26 White House Correspondents Center.
Thank you to the president's on the rain core band led by drum major master
gallery sergeant Stephen Williams and vocalist.
I do have a time machine. Yes.
Good evening to everyone.
President Trump, Madam First Lady,
on behalf of the White House Correspondents Association,
thank you for being here.
It is meaningful that you are with us tonight.
And White House Press Secretary Caroline Lovett,
thank you for everything you and your team does
to work with us every day, whether you like it or not.
I'm biased.
Covering the White House is the best assignment in all of journalism.
We have the privilege of covering the biggest story in the world every single day.
The speed is exhilarating, demanding, and it offers a critical public service.
Strong journalism benefits the entire country.
Tonight we will celebrate the exceptional work you have done and host a group of promising
students who want to follow your lead. Of course, at the heart of both of those things
is the importance of the First Amendment. I want to take a moment to recognize some important
people who helped me tackle this job and who helped make this night possible. First, to the members
of the White House Correspondents Association. Can you turn up the fascist audio? Sure. Thank you
for this opportunity to lead. It is an honor and a privilege. Thank you to my advisor
in this role, Kelly O'Donnell of NBC News, and to the other past W.H.C. president who
have helped me navigate challenges. To my CBS News bosses, Tom Sobrowski, Barry Weiss,
Mark Lima, thank you. Thank you for your leadership and support. To the relentless
CBS News team, especially the White House unit, I am grateful to call you, not just
colleagues, but friends, and thanks to the mentors and other friends who have kept me balanced
this year and always, and of course to my family, in a world full of chaos, you are my
calm and I love you.
We have a big night ahead and we're going to get started now, so enjoy your dinner
and we'll be back.
Thank you.
Tony doubles, double serve.
Double serve, Tony.
The commencement speech was better than that.
It sucked ass.
My commencement speech.
Why are you watching? Oh! The fuckin' Bald Nazi! Oh! Oh! Gross!
That wasn't Fetterman Chat. That was the other Bald Nazi. That was Stephen Fetter Miller.
I
Stop letting your nails. No, I will never
Are we watching the burning of the free press? Yes, um, when are they gonna start talking? I
Don't care about this fucking band, bro
Do you think they have McDonald's for Trump?
I hope not.
I hope he doesn't enjoy a single moment of this event.
Are we just watching these bozos eat?
Great question.
I thought that there would be more action here.
When the fuck did, when did, when did they start talking?
When did they start yapping?
That's what I want.
I want, I want more yapping.
Okay.
The fuck is this shit?
yo how the tables turn okay shut up is there a polymarker bet on whether he's
gonna sleep or not no because that would be 100% guarantee of course he's gonna
sleep why would you bet on a 100% guarantee
Mark Levin running an interview about you at the moment.
Wait, Mark Levin is not at the White House Correspondents' Dinner and he's instead on
Fox News, chairman.
We're proud of the Americans.
We're not a perfect country, but we're getting better all the time.
America, you have opportunity. And these other countries, you think you have an
opportunity in Iran? I knew you had an opportunity. No way it has an opportunity in
Iran or in Cuba or any of these. Two of my boldest ops are arguing with one
another over who wants to kill me first. Florida taxpayers, taxpayers in this
country give money to Yale. They have that 40 billion, I think a 44 billion
dollar endowment. And they take our tax dollars and they don't pay taxes.
Yeah, no. I'll tell you what, these colleges and universities are doing more damage than good these days, particularly in the soft sciences, behavioral science, political science, social science.
It's one thing if they're working in labs to try and grind inventions and cures for cancer and so forth. It's quite another one. These are hotbeds, birthing revolutions and anti-Americanism throughout the country.
We'll be right back.
Can I have your email I'm
sorry so.
This man is anti black by the
way Oh my god what do you do
there's a video of him bling
with saying he does not care
I swear to God, it's just like it's over. We're so fucking we're in a crisis of stupid.
Okay, there's nothing we can do about it. Oh shit, this one popped off. Okay. Oh my
God need that greatest hits of debunking website immediately. Yeah.
Well, you got so lucky that night. Mark Levin talks about you. Trump can't see it.
Oh my God, you're right. Oh my God. Remember when I said Mark Levin is
definitely going to fucking talk about me on a show. Oh my God.
The one time he's talking about me on a show, Trump is not watching the
Mark Levin broadcast. Oh, that's, that's unironically
Oh my god, that is, that's incredible. We would have eaten a fucking true social tweet tonight.
You think they're gonna move on from HDS? No, I don't think so.
There's, there's absolutely nothing good going on in America. They can't talk about anything good
going on in America because there's nothing good going on. And the Democrats can't talk about
how much Trump sucks Israel's dick because they also want to suck the same dick, which
is like the greatest avenue for the Democrats to just consistently be like, Hey man, remember
when you started waging war on a totally foreign country at the behest of Israel, fuck
is wrong with you. They'd be saying that every day. They could be saying that every
day, but most of them are too busy not saying that because they don't want to say that.
So they've decided the best possible thing to do right now is just keep the cycle
going oh man this is song guy fuck it sucks really unbelievable
uh did JD make his wife put on white face
so is this it what the fuck's going on here
also where's oh sure
That's not usher. That's not my usher. Where's my usher?
Where is usher?
Brother, you take two hours to eat. It's been like five minutes. Why do they, why?
Telling Trump to watch a rerun. See you soon at 8pm Eastern on life, liberty and live in on Fox.
You can't watch live. If you can't watch live,
can DVR the show brother I keep two and a half men 24 and life liberty and live
in on my DVR because I'm a real patriot now this guy has blocked me so I can't
tell if he's a fucking guy who's making a joke oh never mind he's being sincere
he's being fucking sincere oh my god oh my god I thought that was a joke I
I thought people didn't actually say stuff like that. Oh my god. Oh my god. He said that seriously. That's so funny.
Like 99.9% of people on the planet. I plan on missing it. Bald Warhawk.
All the 90 plus year olds and mental patients at the wards at hospitals set your DVR
We still use VCR in this household, thank you very much. I try to never miss your show
It's not wonder LeVane is still in the DVR age complies with Israel's what I
Don't know what that word means. I'm not gonna read it. It kind of feels like racist
I'm watching mark you're talking with rick scott now another great opening with a brilliant historical perspective
Who are your guests mark says judei in general?
No because my dad's profile name is boat patriot
I was like, I thought it's like, it's such an old person saying that I thought, you know,
50-50 chances races this fuck that I haven't heard before
You know
My dad's is millions must go referring to restore Britain says British bloke
Dude, what the fuck? I'm so happy that my parents are not on social media. That's crazy
What's the point of your Ph.D.C.? My Ph.D. is still solid because it wasn't a slur.
If it was a slur, I would have known.
It means acting up.
Playful trick.
Disturbing history.
Daddy Rice, a popular white... Oh no.
Oh
Go back to the stream now wait what the fuck
What the fuck is happening wait
Wait, they started running.
Shots fired?
Shots fired at the White House Goers Bonnet's dinner?
Oh my God.
Oh my god.
Oh my god, look, look, look, what the fuck?
What happened?
okay I'm gonna skip ahead maybe is that
cash Patel holy Toledo what happened do
we know well I mean people are chilling
Bro, they are gonna fire the fuck out of Cash Patel, dude.
Oh my god.
Watch it be a negligent discharge by one of the Secret Service guys, no shot.
Alright, so this is live.
We're now live at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
Chaotic scenes taking place at the White House Correspondents' Dinner as the President
and everyone in the White House Correspondents Press Pool,
members of the press, were having dinner.
And all of a sudden, all of a sudden,
we don't know exactly what happened.
We have no idea what took place,
but there was like people panicked moving around.
President Duck under the table,
Secret Service was present on site.
Loud sounds heard inside.
Trump was taken.
you
you
you
you
you
Yeah, very quickly, right, prepared them and they got them out.
So John, the folks who were in the front did not know what was going on either.
Here is now the front.
You can see some of the damage, some of the lighting and things not to work at the
front of the room.
Okay.
No, no, this is good for us because Trump actually, Trump actually ended up not
watching the Mark Levin show tonight.
So that's still good for us.
Unless he deviated, in which case we're fucked.
and through the people you were speaking with,
the only information that we're getting from inside there,
so please keep looking and keep on talking to people
and we will try to get a sense of what happened.
But right now, just to reiterate,
and I think we did just lose Brian there, unfortunately,
the cell service in there is terrible.
All we know is there was a sound,
the people we spoke to, Brian and Major Guard of CBS,
and it sounded like plates,
and that every Trump official
was then immediately escorted out.
We're seeing David Irvin and Tony, Tony Jeffle,
of CBS.
Brian, go ahead.
Tony Double Sir, Tony Double Sir, Mrs. Pina's OK.
I don't have anybody in this room who knows what happened.
Hopefully, this was a sudden reaction to some drop-off.
Hold on, Brian, we have Caitlyn Collins.
We have Caitlyn Collins on the line for some more insight.
Caitlyn Collins, we're listening.
What's happening?
I'm David.
Hey guys, um, obviously, I mean, this is a total state of chaos right now in the ballroom
and we're seated maybe 50 feet from the stage where the president was up there, the first
lady, Melania Trump. Security is telling us that everything's okay. There was a shooter.
One second guys, I'm literally, what happened? Where was the shooter? In the lobby?
in the lobby. All right, central. All right, guys. I just wanted to know if this is not
verified or just listening to what they got you in for case saying you wish he wasn't
having a good time. Okay, bro. Like, Oh no,
the secretary of education is seated right next to me. That's a little bit, that's
a little bit of a liberal interpretation of what I was saying there. You know what
I mean? Just cause the wish was granted doesn't mean that I was calling for it.
He is confirmed dead.
We don't know anything more than that.
But I can tell you, we had just had down to dinner.
The president, the first thing we needed to do
was let it roll on stage, including the vice president,
JD Van.
So obviously a lot of security here.
And at the beginning of the dinner,
everyone's just kind of seated having their meal.
And with a moment, armed secret services running in
with a massive gun.
I mean, maybe it doesn't.
And a silence just went over the room as they ran in.
Everyone got on the floor.
People were underneath the tables.
No one knew what was going on and for a second the president actually was not evacuated offstage. I looked you were sitting
So you just asked if they shot a waiter for dropping the blades
We didn't know at first but then we heard from our own security that they heard shots fired and now we do have Secret Service telling us
Obviously, I want to know that there's only one Secret Service member
But a member of security is here telling us that there is a shooter who is confirmed dead
And now we are kind of basically locked inside the ballroom, but basically they were saying everyone's okay
They have not identified the shooter yet, but obviously it shows you this is not some kind of
false threat that obviously something had happened and they were actually the entire administration
off stage. A few members are still in the audience, because then you guys know someone from the
administration is kind of seated at each table inside, inside. I'm actually sitting next to
Secretary McMahon, the Secretary of Education. And so that was, that was what happened. I mean
I've never seen anything like this in my life and I want you guys to know the security
security is very tight getting
in. It's secret service who
want you to come in through
magnetometers into this. And
so obviously there's a ton of
security here given how many
top officials here, the house
speaker, Mike Johnson, top
lawmakers who all their own
security details are also in
the room. Um, it just speaks
to that. But if we were
sitting here and then
moments later, obviously the
president was rough shop
stage. The vice president was
rough shop stage. I saw
Secretary Kennedy being rough
his life if they were moving quickly.
But it's difficult for them to identify where everyone is
in the very cramped ballroom as we're all kind of seated
right next to each other.
Kay, are you hearing anything more in terms of?
What do you see now?
Shooters or any shots fired or anything in information
about where they were firing.
There would be shots fired.
Was it confined to the lobby or inside of the actual
ballroom?
So it's not clear because obviously it looks like that's what I was coming here to stage
and that's where people thought that they heard gunshots.
What does she know?
That people were seated kind of at the back of the room for them.
You know, it's hard to judge.
I personally did not hear the gunshots.
I was seated maybe 50 feet from the main stage here, the president and the first
lady and the vice president.
And you kind of walked upstairs.
It's in the basement of the hillside, the security who just confirmed to me
that the shooter that was here inside the hilltower, the president was, it's been buried
dead, seemed to indicate that he was the person was in the lobby. But I mean, I want you guys to
know this is all just coming in as we're literally standing here in the room reporting on this as
it's happening. Just to give you insight into this room, obviously it's always a huge gathering
of media, but when the president comes, it generates a lot of interest. So there are
some of those powerful figures in media, entertainment, news, Washington that are
inside this room right now just to give you a sense of what the security nightmare is like.
Yeah, again, just let's reiterate what Caitlin has just told us and bring people up to speed
as to what we know. This is the White House Correspondent's dinner, what was the White House
Correspondent's dinner at the Washington Hilton Hotel. About eight minutes ago, 10 minutes ago,
there people heard things and the room was cleared out very quickly. The President,
the entire day as most of the cabinet is there as well.
Taken out of the room.
Caitlin, who is in there,
Caitlin Collins is reporting.
She is hearing from a security official
that there were shots fired,
perhaps in the lobby by someone who is now dead.
Now we don't have any information this person got
in the room or near the president or any official,
but there do appear to be,
does appear to have been shots fired outside.
You can see officials now right now sweeping
the area going through, and we have no information
about who the individual might be, or anything like that.
I will say, as Caitlin was saying,
this is one of the most secure rooms on Earth tonight.
You have the president, the vice president, did.
The entire, much of the entire cabinet there,
prominent media figures as well.
It takes a long time to get in,
and everyone is thoroughly screened.
So questions will be asked about how someone even got to the lobby.
Let's go to Brian Seltzer and Manu Raju now, who are there for
the latest on what you are here in general.
And this information, John, that you've been reporting is new
as to most of the people in the ballroom.
Most folks in the ballroom do not yet know anything about shots being fired.
Manu, what have you seen?
I only saw when I was sitting at the table, I saw President Trump getting
and pushed down by a security detail and then being rushed out.
Then they're seeing both vice president, the cabinet, also members of Congress also being rushed out by the security detail.
Looking around wondering what happened because people inside do not know.
I apologize. I'm literally holding up a cell phone camera in order to show you this, but it's better than nothing in a moment like this.
And I do think that I don't want to overstate this, but there are some folks pretty shook up. Yeah in the room here
Yeah, folks who looked like they got hurt when they were falling to the ground
You know, I don't want to overstate that what this was a pretty sudden shocking
Interruption in this room. Yeah, no question because it's un-mistakeable. It sounded like gunshots that we've heard from
Not inside the room, but nearby. Okay, that was enough to cause so many people to immediately
They know what they heard, jump to the ground,
try to protect themselves.
But we saw what they had to see.
The security reacted very, very seriously,
immediately in this situation.
That's right.
John, please.
It is stunning to think about where we are right now
this evening that began as a question of why now,
why is the President of the United States speaking
and attending what is his first White House
Correspondents dinner as the president of the United States. He is attending many of his cabinet members there his
Obviously next in line the vice president United States the first lady is there the defense secretary
Also, you have DNI you have so many people in the administration also many of whom were on that stage
We are now we watched the video footage as it was coming in live to bit of chaos after we were told that loud sounds
Had been heard inside of the actual venue
you. Caitlin Collin. Where's
usher for firing in the lobby
and a shooter confirmed that
we've got Jake Tapper who was
standing next to Brian Seltzer as
well, who is our eyes and ears
inside of the space right now.
Jake, what did you what did you
hear? Can you tell us what you
saw?
So I'm looking there. Sorry.
Jake is already burning. Yes, I
can hear you. What's going on?
So this is what's happening. We're just all at this dinner. And then all of a sudden,
uh, I didn't hear the banks, but I guess there was a bank. And, uh, the, uh, then there
were secret service running.
Jake, everybody be like, uh, I have it on good authority that it's a son, Piker,
who's responsible for this. And apparently he said this once for Israel, right before
he shot the right, right before he fired the warning shot. And someone should go arrest
them right now. Actually, people were very upset and worried. And I have some videos.
So somebody needs to, oh my God. I sound, I'm about to sound like it's fucking chatter,
but his mic, his, he sounds so different on this phone camera. But in any case, he
He sounds so nasally on this phone camera mic.
Somebody with a secret service pin said,
Real voice, real voice.
To the tapper, real voice.
He's trying to get through the building.
Real voice, real voice, real voice, I'm wrong.
And that shinger was stopped.
So that's all I know is that shinger was stopped.
But again, that's from one person
but the Secret Service has been, you know,
not a thorough vetting in a journalistic sense,
but since I'm being interviewed more
as a bystander in an event, that's-
That's what I can tell, but-
That's what I can tell, but-
That's what I can tell, but-
I'm speaking like every year.
The Securities Bureau opens fire
at the annual Warrows Correspondence Center
from Reuters.
All the, I will say this,
so after that happened, I'm sorry if I'm,
it's tough to hear you.
After that happened,
the secret service team and started collecting other members of the administration like Secretary
Kennedy of the Health and Human Services Department was right there. He was taken in out of the
Secretary Bassett was taken in out of the Department of Health and Human Services.
What possibly per news nation? Yeah. Bro, that's news news. Wait, RFK Jr. and Cheryl
RFK was limping. No word on POTUS dog. RFK, we just limps. Like, I wouldn't be surprised
if he was just limping because he just is fucked up in general. And, and not because
he got shot. Like, I mean, maybe, but RFK's got some RFK's got so many different issues,
like like even if RFK got shot I would assume that he died the other causes you
know what I mean because that's what's going his body is a wonderland okay it's
just so many different things going on in his body
she's on the line first of all Greta what we're seeing on the scene right
They're evacuating all the attendees are filing out. Is that correct?
Yes. And I just let myself actually, so I was able to talk to you.
Yes. See, this motherfucker is just limp in the ballroom area. So I left the building. I'm standing
outside. There is a large police presence outside. The attendees are filing out. And
And, you know, it's unclear what's going to happen next.
The lobby of the Hilton is where the action happened before the ballroom.
I'm not sure if it was, it was unclear what was happening in the ballroom itself.
You know, it started out as a call.
We might hear something funny from these reporters, by the way, because as a chatter
pointed out they're a little buzzed okay like Jake Tappy was sounding a little
little buzzed there oh my god Olivia Ryan-gold terrifying a few ground shaking
knocks by my seat at White House Correspondents in an unclear shooting
I'm OK. We're trying to exit now.
We were just seated over.
I'm seated here, one of the doors and there.
Say. Oh, my God.
They try to do the.
They tried to recreate the USA chant after the shooting.
Oh, my God.
People are so fucking cringe.
Oh, my God.
Can we just skip her?
No, that's my favorite journalist in America.
How dare you?
public, a sense of the scale and what it takes to navigate this room, right?
We are seeing but a sliver of the inside of this room.
Someone's talking right now.
Let's listen in.
We didn't hear what they just said just now.
It probably was not well received, but they're getting more information.
We are learning things about Brian.
What did they say just now, Brian Seltzer?
Just a very brief announcement saying the program will resume shortly.
What not sure what what they're like lightning can't strike twice. You know what I'm saying? Oh
My god now Trump has to sit through this shit
Pissed off and possibly scared because he's a pussy if he doesn't come back, right? Oh
My god, oh my god now. We have to now he has to fucking sit through the white as course
He's probably not gonna he's probably not gonna come back
Oh my lordy I'm glad that the president is safe, and I'm glad that the cabinet is safe
And I'm glad that they were able to keep worst things from happening what I would say is that
There is some strength that's trying to be shown here
That you don't stop this country, and you don't
Oh god, bad Jones.
So people will see it differently, but I can understand why people would not want to let
the terrorists win today, why they would not want to let terrorism win today.
But you're going to have a lot of people who are just upset and shaken because the president of this country could have been killed tonight.
And this is the sort of stuff that has to stop.
that the level of violence and crazy stuff on all sides of this country
people to think that this is the right thing to do somehow and I can
understand why they don't want to to yield to this but I think people across
around the world right why are they talking like a foreign enemy it's
America bro of course get into an event it's American news markets of course
gonna make it seem like it was al-qaeda or some shit I mean we don't have any
details whatsoever but judging by past performance the likelihood of this
guy being a Trump supporter is still fairly high, uh, because considering, considering
that wherever Trump goes, there are fallen, uh, fallen fans of Donald Trump. They just
seemingly always want to kill them. I mean, this has happened a bunch of times at this
point, like in fucking Mar-a-Lago and shit. You know what I mean? So
by showing up and doing something like this, I was here on the Saturday night in 2024.
of Butler, Pennsylvania. And I gotta tell you, I wake up every day worried to death about the safety of this president
and everything that he has been through. I'm glad he's safe. Let's listen. Wager-Jang is up there.
How fast before people say this is fake, by the way?
It's very personal. We haven't announced anything.
I know everyone's going to want as many details as possible and right now we don't have that,
but I can tell you that our program is going to resume momentarily.
So much so!
Sources say the data is stable.
We will have more details to share also momentarily.
But for now, please just be patient as we figure out just how much time it will be,
but it shouldn't be that much longer.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
We're going to hear from Wolf Blitzer right now, who is standing by.
He's obviously at this dinner as well, Wolf.
Are you able to hear us?
I'd love to hear what your perspective is and what you can tell us.
Oh, baby, I can hear you fine.
It's very...
These are weak.
...worse than what happened.
It just coincidentally...
I already did twice check logs.
i walked out to simply go to the men's room but you have to walk up the stairs
and walk out and which i was doing
and as i was walking back at towards the door
to get back into the uh...
the big area where the event was taking place
all of a sudden
i start hearing gunshots
in the hall of the army will put the drug again blindsided by breaking news
has to show me that it was really
and i was listening and watching
what was uh... going on
And apparently they got the gunman who had a major weapon there, but it was so worrisome.
The noise was so loud in a small area.
And all of a sudden I'm seeing gunshots.
And then they grabbed me, the police officers.
And they take me back into the men's room where it was safe, and there are about 15
other men who are stuck in there and they won't let them out.
And that's what happened.
And then after a while, they let me out and I'm out now.
i'm not back in the ballroom
but uh...
uh... everything is apparently closing down
uh... very scary infant at all the time the guy
uh... with a weapon and it was a very very serious with
if that shooting
uh... and i have to do the benefit to wait for them
as he was shooting
of course personally went through my mind if you try to shoot me
and i don't think he was trying to shoot me but i was very close to him
as the gunshots were fired
and it was very very scary but i'm okay now
wolf it's uh... it's john berman uh... thank god you're okay
and thank you for calling to tell us you're okay and sharing this information
this is the first we're hearing of any of this so i'm gonna ask you to go over
it
again in great detail because you are the first witness
that we have who has seen anything quite like this so please
was this is the
on a different floor
than the dinner itself
and you did see a person you walk out
when you walk out of the dinner
And to go up, you have to climb a few stairs,
not an escalator or an elevator,
just climb a few stairs to go out into the lobby area
outside of the ballroom where the dining area was going on.
We had just finished appetizers, sitting down,
and I walked away to go out to the men's room
because you have to go up one flight of stairs,
so I was up one flight of stairs above the area
where the dining was going on.
and as i was coming out of the men's room to walk back in all of a sudden i hear
these loud very loud
very scary gunshots
right near me
uh... and the next thing i knew
a police officer
but i thought that the three of the ground
uh... and uh... i was waiting
and the next thing about a bunch of other police officers came and told
everybody
who was near me
you guys are all going into the men's room in the middle of this is just
that good
The official gunshots that could be fired from other people.
And so the next thing I knew I'm in the men's room with about 15 other men was just waiting
to leave.
And eventually they let us walk out and out now, but they're not letting me go back into
the dining area where the other people are taking place.
And I just assumed-
Let Wolfie back in!
... for now.
Just scary with a gunshot incident like this.
And I had no idea as I was hearing the gunshots who this shooter was aiming at or if he was
just trying to scare everybody, I didn't know what he was doing, but it was within a few
feet away from where I was and it was pretty frightening.
And when the police officers took me away, one of my shoes fell off and now I have that
shoe back, but it was just a terrible, scary, frightening moment for me.
and I'm glad it looks like it's over right now,
but I think that out of the presumption of the caution,
they're just telling everybody to leave right now.
Well, hang on.
Just, well, first of all,
they just said the event will continue.
I don't know if we'll stick to that
with the announcement inside the room.
I know you're not there with the event will continue,
but let me just ask you, and if you can wait,
just listen, did you see a gunman?
Can you describe the person and the weapon
and what that person would do?
My man is shueless, bro.
Let him live.
see all the details but I did see the gunman on the ground after he started shooting. Police
officers were through him to the ground but he was still shooting and I could hear the
shots going off. It was very frightening. I was on the ground too because the police
officer was on top of me trying to protect me in case one of the bullets could get near
me which it didn't. But I can't describe the gunman. I have no idea what if any
voted this individual may have had. But the sense I got is that the police who were there
and there were a lot of police there took care of him relatively quickly. And the incident
looks like it's over, but it was a very frightening incident. And out of an abundance of caution,
I'm sure they're taking other precautions right now. I see not only a lot of people
who are here right now, but a lot of military for a while, and they're all armed and
and ready to go if anything else happens right now.
But it looks like that one incident is over,
at least for now.
Well, thank goodness, this is Laura.
You're safe.
We'll make sure that your family also knows
that you are safe given what has taken place tonight.
I want to go, please stand by.
We want to hear more from you.
We have Breonna Keeler, who also is on the phone.
She also has new information.
Breonna, we've just heard that the president is safe,
a shooter in custody.
at the correspondence center our own wolf blitzer
in the lobby when the shots were fired and he was
tackled to the ground by the officers yes i have a number i have the president's
phone number shut the fuck up
i just spoke with uh... someone i know who had been heading out of the ballroom
to walk up
there's
to go to
that sort of lobby concourse area where the restrooms are
on the wall by those stairs is glass and as he just started to ascend the stairs all of the
glass started to shatter and rain down sort of from above as he was walking up from the bullet.
So he heard multiple gunshots as he was about to ascend into the area where this was all happening
and he couldn't see because he was actually below, but obviously he could see all of the glass coming down
and that person came back inside to the ballroom. But when we were inside of the ballroom,
we couldn't necessarily hear that. The reaction of the Secret Service was really what startled
everyone and they just ducked for cover. But he had seen this a lot of glass shattering and
And that's actually an exit of the ballroom
that we are not being permitted to go out right now
and get some air from.
There's other exits where they're permitting people
to get a little bit of air from.
And that's the door that is no longer open.
Brianna, we had been giving people
as much of play by play as we could.
We knew there was an announcement from inside of the dinner
that they were intending possibly to continue the program.
We also saw a mass exodus of people leaving that ballroom and secret service also coming.
Is Olivia Riegold going to be able to watch the White House correspondent's dinner,
or is she not allowed back in? This is what I need to know. CNN, get to it.
In terms of where they are now after having left the ballroom.
We don't at this point, but we did just get an announcement from the White House
Correspondent's Association President Weezer Jang who said that the program
Oh shit
Bro, that was crazy
The president's uh plaque off the podium and uh, there's been some movement on stage
There's a no movement. I'll say uh at the dinner tables
There have been some of the wait staff that has come out and removed the uh
I don't know if that means they're going to continue serving with the course.
But if they do, maybe it's time that they plan to continue.
No.
No.
What happened here?
Not the salad.
Karen Bohan, listening to all of this, I mean, what would you be doing as a journalist
right now?
If you were caught right in there, would you have gone to the bureau, gone out of
the room?
So I would have stayed in the room because, you know, in the room is where you're
going to get probably more facts and find out what happened.
God, I fucking, this is good.
One of the facts that a lot of journalists are doing is I'm sure talking to people who
can talk to any other part of the media, okay?
Because every single person is in the media, and every single person is going to constantly
talk about this.
This is going to be the thing that, in normal circumstances, the Mar-a-Lago shooter,
right?
wanted to kill Trump and Mar-a-Lago. He got killed immediately. It was barely a fucking day of news.
This will be covered up and down extensively. Finally, get you off of Fox News. Oh, sure. Hold
on. Hold on. I'm sure that Fox News will be able to figure out a way to pin this on radical
antifa terrorism and therefore your boy somehow.
And that's what happened about 45 minutes ago.
Now back to the live ballroom.
Let's see what's happening up there.
Nope, people are still talking on the phone.
Nothing is moved yet.
John McCartle, any update for us?
After a horrible tragic event like this happened, does it make you want to read
consider supporting terrorism. Obviously don't want to leave this question. The nature of
reporters who want to see what happens. Um, and, uh, it's a lot of checking phones, checking
in with family members, people asking if they're okay.
You asked that question so weirdly. Um, but, uh, like I said, uh, there's also people
popping some of the wine that hadn't been opened yet.
Why would they invite you wrong to the press dinner?
Oh man.
Alright, we need more.
We need more.
We need more information.
I mean, technically nothing happened.
From what we understand so far. It's one guy. I think judging by the shots
There were five shots. There was one shot and then there were four shots immediately after so I think one guy
fired the first shot and
Then boom boom boom boom boom
It's over
What I don't understand is how the fuck some random could have gotten anywhere near the event space
with a weapon
They already blame me you know, they're not bro calm down
How the fuck
How the fuck would anybody with a weapon get anywhere near tweeted it
Wait, what?
Is this a good time to mention that Democrats knew the Arling of Sompire City wanted the
blood of his political opponents and run in the streets and recently just by the murder
of an innocent father because he ran it?
Bro, that is crazy.
That is crazy.
No, you weren't wrong.
His motherfucker literally heard the president.
He's a motherfucker who heard in the news that there was a shooting that took place at an
event that the president was at.
And he did not wait immediately, he was like, time to make this about Hassan.
All Dems are Pol Pot.
Maybe wait until we confirm this isn't just another cracker.
This one's worse.
Reminder, a Sampire publicly advocated for President Trump's assassination, perhaps one
of his lunatic followers decided to give it a shot.
Bro, what the fuck, bro?
Brother, are you fucking serious?
What the hell dude?
Ain't no way!
This is HDS full force.
Not a chance bro, we're all here watching.
from Janine Perot who happens to be currently the fucking US attorney for the
issued Columbia. To be fair you are kind of Muslim.
I can't believe Osama was almost there.
I was not invited to the White House Correspondent's Dinner.
I was just invited to another party during the weekend.
Who's the babe on screen that's US and you
You actually wrote about this.
This is the outside.
Why is young India arc?
What, retweeting Jackson Henkel?
What the fuck is happening in this video?
Who filmed this video?
Was it Jackson Henkel?
Is he there?
Kirk, live stream had more viewers.
President fell off.
Yeah, well, he didn't,
the only person that died here is the shooter.
That's why, obviously.
They found the suspect. Stop. Also, most people don't even know this just happened.
You have to remember, most people have no fucking clue.
You'll see more and more and more people trickling in.
That's why it's like unbelievable.
That's why it's unbelievable that there's motherfuckers in here
who are already posting their dunks on how I'm responsible for this.
You know what I mean?
This that's crazy.
He pin that we already.
All right, let's see what CNN is saying.
I could get to the Washington hotel.
There was a few blocks away and I was walking towards the hotel.
And you could see an enormous amount of security around the hotel.
So they were clearly very, very worried.
I was very, very worried, obviously.
And then it was everything seemed to be going well until I walked out of the ballroom and I was walking back in.
The next thing I know I'm carrying gunshots. I'm pushed to the ground by law enforcement and take it away.
It was just a very, very frightening moment for me personally.
And I'm sure for so many others who happen to be in that corridor outside the ballroom.
room. We're going to hold behind the stage right now. Staff are going to reset the table.
What is left is down the hall for me. You want the show to go on. We're told by detail.
So I'm trying to get through the mags with a gun is in a safe location.
The Congress also took their job and clear what that means. Oh, to return. He does want. Okay.
So someone actually just fucking tried to walk through the metal detectors with a gun,
I guess. Is that what happened? Or if just did it just beep on someone and the secret
services popped off on him like the fuck. Did Trump post? Trump posted? Trump already
posted for the backstage? Quite an evening in DC. Secret Service and law enforcement did
a fantastic job. They acted quickly and bravely. The shooter has been apprehended. Apprehended.
And I've recommended that we let the show go on, but will entirely be guided by law
enforcement. They will make a decision shortly. Regardless of that decision, the evening
will be much different than planned and we'll just plain have to do it again.
Donald J Trump. More tweets blaming you. Shots fired. Extreme influence like Hassan Piker
and Candice Owens in both of our names. Preaching as Piker did the other day in the near time
social marriage, trying to pick the most freedom-loving country on earth, enough is enough.
I guess this is it, right? That's it. It's just like no matter what happens going forward,
they're going to be like, remember Hassan Piker? Remember when I remember chatters when you were
like, oh, I guess they'll stop talking about you now? And I was like, no, they'll probably
keep talking for some strange reason. They'll find a way. They're reporting now that no shots
were actually fired at all. Randy Fine aka Horny Sexy was on his third round of appetizers in Lou
the Salad and Buttons on his suit shot off and shattered the glass above the stairs. The scene is secure.
I hope everyone is safe.
Oh, man, that's crazy.
Yeah, this guy, I guess, is, oh, this is a Clinton.
That's why his his responses are like what the fuck are you talking about the president is literally the most violent person on the planet like
It's crazy that these guys are like Hasan Piker exhibits violent rhetoric
He has talked about how violent the systems that we exist under are
Which is just as violent as the president who constantly talks about murdering people
I
Caroline leave it called it bro. I know I already dude. I'm on it already. I'm fucking on it already
I posted I said what does she know was he not
You
It'll be funny, it'll be entertaining, there will be some shots fired tonight, I don't know.
So everyone should tune in, it's going to be really great. I'm looking forward to hearing it.
I love it all, and you wrote most of it, you said.
I can't take credit. In true Donald Trump fashion, the man puts his pen to the paper himself.
So it's a lot of his own.
What is one
First time she hasn't lied. Oh damn true
Yo, yo arrest her. Oh my gosh. She wrote the script. It's a script
She wrote it photo white house correspondents dinner suspect really
Bro, we can't even make jokes like this because I feel like we now live in too schizophrenic
of a media environment where people are unironically going to take that and post it and then it's
going to get like 700,000 likes.
And then there's going to be like 10 million Americans who legitimately think I was the
guy who tried to shoot the president, okay?
Like we have to be a little bit more careful about the jokes that we make nowadays
because honestly, you know, we can't, there's people are pretty fucking nuts.
They will blame Israel or you.
Yeah.
Well, ironically enough, the situation currently is basically 90% of the country will
blame Israel than the 10% that our pro Israel will blame me.
Um, there's a photo of suspect on the ground. Was he apprehended or shot and
killed? I'm confused. I can't tell. You can't really see. Hold on. Let me,
let me get a closer look at this. Let me zoom in.
is that the suspect I guess it is you can't really tell though I mean they're
trying to do there they're that's um it's like medical bags right so there I
think they might have been trying to save them
Fox reported detained, CNN reported shot and killed.
We know where the CNN reporters coming from is Caitlyn Collins, we saw.
Caitlyn Collins was the one who said, they're pinning it on Erica Kerr already.
I mean, I'm also, I'm also in favor of, you know, blame anybody but me category.
So out of pure, out of pure, you know, selfish reasons, you know, if they blame anybody but
me, I'm there.
Okay.
Like Erica Karrg, Israel, you know, get after it, everybody.
You know what I mean?
Erica Karrg loses something on his phone and her reaction is unmistakable.
What did he show her?
Like what do you think you think he showed her the plans of how there's going to
be a assassination later.
It is Benjamin and the I was going to come out and be like, we did not do it.
Someone on the ground.
with US Secret Service?
Bro, they're already cracking jokes, they're having a good time, like...
He just watched.
Oh, shit!
It's so upsetting.
I'm in studio and I'm shaking watching this, and I can't imagine what Erica Gark is going through.
What?
Again.
And I think it's important to remember that the people in that room, we know so many of them.
They're all so human.
also human. I'm texting then and I imagine that while they want to show up for
press freedom and we don't know what the motive of this shooter was. I imagine
some of them are also really scared and traumatized and I think viewers who are
watching some of this footage will be scared and traumatized by it. It's
really upsetting and I feel so exhausted by how much violence we have to cover
Violence against journalists, violence against politicians.
I just can't imagine continuing on with this night.
I understand the importance of standing up there and standing against these threats of violence,
but this is very real, and we are human.
Journalists are human too, and I would really understand if, for security reasons,
just compassion, human reasons, this night didn't continue as planned.
I don't know man, everybody in there looks a little shaking.
Wait, what the fuck? He just texted me back. How is that possible?
A lot of people that are just watching this have loved ones inside of that building.
You guys have loved ones inside of that building.
When you've seen your kids to school, when people go to church,
when people go to the movies, when they go to grocery stores.
uh... so many places they go
in america is not safe from gun violence
and word
we have conversations about it but now it's
i want to hear what you all have said is so important
i want to hear from andrew mccabe
i i really want to understand based on your experience of law enforcement with
the fb i we have seen
many an agent in that room we know secret service is there we know the
sheer
volume of
security that would be present
with the president of the United States of America.
It's not for your garden.
He's not right now.
He's texting me.
Andy McCabe, describe for us,
not only your reactions tonight,
but the security president
that would have been in this room,
and what do you think is happening right now
to try to assess whether there's an ongoing danger
and what has happened?
Yeah, sure, Laura.
So before anything happened out of the ordinary,
I'm not going to tell you what I told him to say on camera, but he said tell the chat
you're trying to get me cooked.
I tried to dare him to say something on camera.
Yeah, not Van Jones, Chatter's Van Lathen,
he's on the screen.
Representatives on site tonight.
That said, after a gunman shows up
and according to Wolfe's comments earlier
and other reporting, it sounds like that person
might have actually gotten through security perimeter.
We don't know that for a fact yet,
but that's what some folks have said.
That is just, that takes your entire plan,
all that coordination and throws it kind of out the window.
Surprise is the enemy to law enforcement planning.
The people behind the security of this event,
they want to know everything.
They want to know who's there, who's in the room,
who's outside the room, what time they come in,
what time they go out.
And they've just been surprised
in the absolutely worst possible way.
So it is inconceivable to me
that any law enforcement person would advise them
to continue with the program this evening.
I'm sure that's a disappointment
to a lot of people who are there,
But yeah, there is no way you could possibly
recommend anything other than say, thank you very much
and sorry for your trouble and send all these people home.
Andy, stand by for one second.
We want to go to Zach Cohen, who is inside the room right now
with some new information.
CNN, Zach Cohen, what are you learning?
I'm learning a lot.
Exactly.
Well, it's a scary scene out here, honestly.
But I will say that we subscribe to independent media,
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Tell them to say you were not the shooter live on air.
do it pussy no no no that's not that's not what i was telling him to say was
telling him to say something crazier anyway um new york times says one
person in custody i guess so i guess the shooter is not dead i guess that was
wrong
Um
Fucking brace I'm at the White House Correspondents dinner first. I'd like to thank law enforcement with their swift response
I'm preventing a tragedy second almost everything you're reading about this incident on X's Falls
There are multiple shooters and possible casualties a ton of people are also really sick several members of the press corps
We're taking away an ambulance is prior to the disturbance
Yeah, oh no, he's doing it. He's gonna do it again. He did this last time with
Remember when he when he fucking made up stuff about it was another like big media moment with Burning Man a
Couple years ago when Brace decided to start tweeting about Burning Man as though he was there
And he made it seem like there was a zombie outbreak and then people literally fucking believed him or it wasn't Ebola
Ebola at Burning Man a classic
Classic braze moment. Okay. Uh, United States secret service, shooting incident. Um, thank
you with sounds new pharmacists for the five gift to subs. Thank you, Andrew Filer for
the 20 gift to subs. Like I said, biker broadcasting service shall stop. You can rewind the broadcast
if you, uh, subscribe to the park of broadcasting service. You can also, uh, send me links.
The United States Secret Service says the US Secret Service in coordination with the Metropolitan
Police Department is investigating a shooting incident near the main magneto meter, magnetometer.
Magneto meter, screening area, the White House Correspondents Center. President and the first
lady are safe all along all protectees. One individual is in custody, the condition
of those involved is not yet known and law enforcement is actively assessing the situation.
Wait, is it duo?
You think it was a duo?
They caught one, they apprehended one,
and then shot the other.
Why are they talking about it like this?
Jennifer Jacobs says the suspect is in custody
from the White House Correspondents Association
dinner shooting at least one shot fired, one
U.S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. Officer taking the hospital to be checked out, but it's okay. Dinner
about the resume.
Magnet Omniter.
Fun fact about the location, bro.
This is the same hotel outside of which John Hinckley Jr. tried to assassinate President
Ronald Reagan in 1981.
yo what brother this guy isn't even a fucking fan of mine he's literally just
a hater I thought that was a fan post in that like as a mean
I
Bro these motherfuckers are not gonna rest until I'm arrested I think for some shit. I did not do
Thank God
Thank God. I'm always on camera. Thank God. I'm always fucking live because honestly if I wasn't live
24-7 people would just start making shit up like oh he was there he did it you
Should you know you should kill him just to be saved that type of shit
Bro, I told you to get your name cleared for shooting in the air. Yeah
Yeah, I already covered this this motherfucker immediately was like yo, it's you
I am living inside of these people's brains.
Using this.
Try and blame me.
The president.
Uses the most.
Violent.
Rhetoric.
Ever known to man perhaps that's why it's usually his own supporters trying to
shoot at him. I'm saying we don't even have details of what happened yet these
motherfuckers already using this opportunity to try and blame me the
president used the most violent rhetoric ever known to man press that's
why it's usually his own supporters trying to shoot at him.
Don't draw attention to them dog. This is fucking 22 minutes in and it already has 3,000
It's 22 minutes in ours is 3,000 likes it's over
Yeah, this has 13,000 likes
Like it's this is already it's already set
New Trump post. Pete Hexit looking stricken was cutting a path through the mobbed hallways
of the Hilton just now descending deeper into the bowels of the hotel, even as the White
I was pressed pooled.
Oh my God.
People are replying to Hannity blaming you.
You need to immediately refute any accession before they even make the threat like Nanny
Aho did two minutes after Charlie got Kurt.
Yeah, that worked really well for Nanny Aho.
Law enforcement has requested that we leave the premises.
Consistence of protocol, which we will do immediately, I will be given a press conference
in 30 minutes in the White House press briefing room.
First lady plus the vice president and all cabinet members are in perfect condition.
We will be speaking to you in half an hour.
I have spoken with all the representatives in charge of the event and we will be rescheduling
within 30 days President Donald J. Trump.
You didn't post the tweet, Ankh?
True, I did not post the tweet.
The other one is even more viral.
I'm posting it. I did. Don't pose why? Why?
ignore bro it has 13,000 likes already what are you talking about better to
ignore
find me several tables over I will hide you
Update, New York Times Shawn McCree's reports Cash's girlfriend was hiding in a bathroom
with another man holding her hand.
Shut the fuck up.
Are you serious?
We are relieved that the president of those attended White House Correspondents Dinner
Safe and deeply grateful to Secret Service.
Wait a minute.
Why is APAC tweeting this?
Wait, is cash getting fired or cucked?
Sean McCreeges might go, by the way.
That's the one who asked that banger question to Donald Trump, if you remember, I met him
at the Vanity Fair Party.
I'm one of the small number journalists traveling at the White House press pool tonight.
We were in a hall just outside the ballroom when the commotion first rang out.
Several things happened in quick succession.
Tuxedoed agents pulled out guns and began running towards the ballroom.
White jacketed caterers screamed and bolted for stairwells.
Pandemonium rain as top cabinet officials were evacuated.
Robert Kennedy Jr. and his wife, Cheryl Hines came out and were ushered into an
elevator. Then Janine Perot emerged.
The FBI director, Cash Patel came to Taren, crossed the hallway with two
man in tow his girlfriend was hiding in a room with another man who was holding
our hand
guess what those both fired and cut at the same night bro
oh sure ain't no way ain't no fucking way reporters are about to be taken back
to the ballroom the show will go on apparently where's usher oh no that's
fucked up bro that is fucked up he's fired and cucked at the same time dude
Yeah McCreech that is nasty dude. God damn that is nastiness. That is some
nasty business. Hey, that's good. What's the term? A good gum shoe reporting?
God damn.
Picking video of suspect on the ground.
So he's not dead.
solved it. Whoa, what the fuck? Oh yeah, he's not. They just stripped them.
Change your title.
So no dinner.
That means gaming is back on the docket, right?
Man, what the fuck are you talking about, dude?
The event that the president went to was just shot at potentially.
Obviously, I have to cover that.
Shooter apprehended.
I'm just gonna say shooter stopped is that's correct
Trump's we's were unique. Okay, dude
Don't let my tweet change who you are
Prezzo um maybe don't do that man I got enough shit on me right now, dude.
I can't believe cash for tell got cucked. That's crazy. That's the craziest event of the night.
Van is talking. Oh, uh-oh. What's he saying?
Everything, but like people are in trouble and the despair is running over. And who's
going to talk about that? What's who's going to address that?
One thing I'll be curious, especially you're talking about this happening even at a, at
this event. I'll be curious to understand not only the target, but I want to know the
state of the suspect. Because that is going to be one of the most important sources of
information of what has happened tonight. And especially we read from the Secret Service
talking about, as you noted, they're investigating a shooting incident near the main magnetometer
screening area. Was it effective? Was this person intercepted in this way? Which
which of course would be a very important detail to understand.
And let's not forget as well that, as you mentioned, Scott, and we've talked about some
of the people who came to the center who were present in the room, Erika Kirk, the
widow of Charlie Kirk.
You have people who are civilians who may or may not have had their own experiences
with gun violence in this country, and as we know, gun violence is also there, a
victim of gun violence as well.
And there are others who we are not naming in the moment as well.
just to think about the prevalence of gun violence
more broadly.
I will note, the president on his way to the White House
now for a press conference shortly,
the entire press corps is in this room right now.
They're not going to make it there.
I imagine that the people asking the questions
to the extent that there will be questions
will be the White House pool, which
is a limited, very small group of reporters
who will be able to travel with the president
and ask him questions there.
But this is so surreal.
It is so surreal that the president,
Everyone who covers him all there for this,
they're all leaving now.
The members of the press leaving.
But what we do know for sure at this point
is that there is a suspect in custody.
Our boy, Sean, is in the press pool.
So he will ask some interesting questions, I assume.
And those involved, the commission not known.
Those involved, their condition not yet known.
But the president's okay.
The cabinet's okay.
We have not seen or heard any ambulances
taking anyone from inside that event.
So we think everyone in the event is okay
and they certainly look okay.
And the pictures that we are seeing now,
I have to say, I'm sure they're all just relieved, frankly,
that it's gone on the way it has.
We have Wolf Blitzer with us
and Wolf has been crucial in understanding
the course of this event
because Wolf, you were really the first witness
to tell us, what happened?
Fuck.
And that there did appear to be a shooter.
Daggettometers, as if the-
Fucking Wolf Blitzer, man.
Another drunk Wolf Blitzer certified classic.
I don't know if he was just in there waiting or whatever, but, uh, uh, it was clearly in
a secure area where we assumed everybody had gone through battle detectors and was cleared
to go in to the ballroom.
Uh, and all of a sudden I'm walking, uh, right near the shooter.
Uh, and all of a sudden I start hearing gunshots and the next thing I knew, I
I will say one thing. I will say one thing. Like, hey, this is a, another, another instance
where everyone is going to be like polite and it's going to take like a week of yelling
at people to be like, oh, the president could have almost been shot and killed. How dare
you? Some people are going to crack jokes. Not me. I would never do that. I would never
do that. Okay. And then eventually it's going to turn into another curcification
moment for like average people won't give a fuck about it. Most people are just
watching the game they don't give a shit and be personally for everyone who was
nearby and to see this unfold as quickly as it did and I must say I give a lot
of force but a lot of credit because they move very quickly just be their own
lives in the process there's a shooter with gunshots and they took this guy
down and you know the process they took me down to they took me down to
save me which is good because I didn't know where this guy was aiming at
The gunshots were so loud, so frightening, that it scared all of us and we had no idea
what was going on.
He fell getting herself stayed?
My gut was that out of an abundance of caution because the shooter was inside the secure area.
They should definitely have canceled the event tonight and told everyone to go home
as quickly as possible.
I'm now in the lobby of the Washington Open Hotel and you see hundreds of people
coming up the escalator, going to the lobby, getting ready to go home.
If there are cars waiting or if they're walking or whatever they're doing,
taking an Uber, uh, but they're, they're all leaving. Uh,
and it was just a very, very frightening, scary moment indeed.
And thank God, you know, everybody inside was okay. Uh,
and I don't know if anyone was injured at all, but
you just say you're not going to make light of this situation. Come on, man.
an old man falling like that. And it's funny. I'm sorry. He's the president.
He fell like, do you really think I can't laugh at that? I'm a human being.
And thrown to the ground. And presumably his weapon, take it away,
but it was just a very,
I'm sorry. Did you say, did you see the type of weapon or
load if there were others there? So they just took everybody and they tried
to save us and make sure that we were secure,
which I was grateful for at the time.
We know that the motorcade is leaving as well.
As you see hundreds of big guests of the people who were at the ballroom
just coming up the escalator and trying to leave as quickly as they can.
Imagine if Germany
wasn't such a fucking asshole about it, these guys would be
currently ripping P90s instead.
That's right. They used the MP7s
Which you know a lot of people think is the best possible weapon due to Call of Duty
popularizing it but
Initially was supposed to be the P90 that was supposed to be like the NATO weapon, but
Germany was like nope apps of fucking Lutli not
HK made the MP7 and instead
And the P90 was cooked
Yes MP7 was in fear and every test ever conducted compared to the P90
true
That guy's a badge. Yeah, no shit dude. This is not the shooter. This is the secret service
I might add, for people who recall in 1981, an assassination attempt of President Ronald
Reagan.
Sarah, can you tell us what you're seeing out there and what you know, given the number
of people in that room?
Yeah.
I mean, if you think about the number of people in the room, the number of cabinet
members alone in that room.
There are going to be some big questions about security and how this happened because I will
tell you that those magnoms that you all are talking about are very far into the venue.
When you first come in, mostly what they asked was they wanted to see your ticket.
They allowed you to sort of get to the door where you did the sort of red carpet, if
you will.
And every single cabinet member almost went to the red carpet.
And when we walked in that door, there were no checks on our bodies.
They did not do any checks of what we had with us at that point.
And so that may have been where the shooter entered, or how the shooter entered, although
we don't yet know that.
But it takes a while, and you know this well, John, it takes a while before you get to
those magnometers before they start checking your person, before they start checking your
purses, for example.
So there will be a lot of questions about security here.
What we did see is some real deep, disturbed emotions in that room.
of whom was Erica Kirk as I was walking out of the venue trying to figure out what happened
and what we could find out as a reporter as we're walking out.
Well, Erica Kirk wasn't there when Charlie Kirk got shot.
They're making it seem like she has like post-traumatic stress sort of from being shot in the direction
of Charlie Kirk or something.
Jen, her distress as she's sitting there hearing the same thing that we all heard,
which was gunshots and knowing what happened to her husband.
And being in that scenario,
he looked visibly terrified as she was being exported out.
And then we saw her again,
once she was outside of the building kind of being surrounded
even to be able to leave the area completely.
We also saw Senator Setterman and his wife
who were also trying to figure out where to go,
how to leave, how to move out of the way.
There was chaos, there were moments
where people weren't sure what they were supposed to do,
stay inside the ballroom or leave.
But we are seeing quite an apparatus out here.
We did see ambulances, but they were not
in the kind of scenario that you have all seen
when there is someone who needs to be taken to the hospital.
They were sort of sitting and waiting
with their lights going.
And then we saw quite a few police vehicles
coming and going throughout this particular area.
And then a while ago, we saw them put up the crimson tape here,
which has moved out further than it was initially.
Just down here, I'm on Columbus in California.
Just down here where you see all of those lights,
that is where the Hilton is,
that is where this occurred.
But I think someone mentioned it,
and I don't know if it was Van Jones or who mentioned it.
I'm still alive.
And you saw the result of the sickness with gun violence.
You saw the result of that in this room.
While people say-
Oh, you left here.
Do you wanna give a comment to the stream?
We were watching you.
We were watching you.
They can't hear you though.
If you want, I can put the microphone on the phone
if you want.
I know. Wait, you want me to, wait, I'm gonna put you up to the mic now. You're on mic.
Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure. Yeah, I asked if they could let me leave.
Wait, really?
Because, yeah, I did. Yeah, I asked if they could if I could lead the show.
Damn, you should have stayed on. Now they're gonna put Van Jones back in and he's gonna
do the state of the conversation instead.
Yeah, but but to be honest with you, like that's there's no
What's on it's like what are we going like like what is the like what's the discussion
I know this happens so frequently. That's what's so crazy about it. Like there was a there was a guy
I don't know if you remember this there was a guy who went to Mar-a-Lago with a gun
It was a former chop fan. He went to Mar-a-Lago with a gun and he got shot and killed
because he wanted to do, you know, he wanted to assassinate the president.
It happens so frequently at this point, and it's so crazy that like, you know, this is
like every time it happens, we just set the clock back.
We reset it.
Like that is not that is not the forum to have this discussion, because the forum
to have not not to me, it means all it all is all I'm going to do is look like
like a raging lunatic up there, because this conversation, yeah, I care about the fact that
people are felt unsafe in that, in that place the back there trying to celebrate the industry,
but you know, people feel unsafe in churches, they feel unsafe in schools, they feel unsafe
protesting in Minnesota, like it's just, I don't feel like coming off all saint harmonious
and all of that.
Yeah.
Also, if you say that, if you say that, they're going to say, oh, you're undermining
this like actually severe situation as opposed to all those other instances where like real
people are also feeling threatened and sometimes getting shot because those are little people.
Those are ordinary people.
This is an extraordinary situation.
I mean, maybe they actually might like it, but honestly, it's probably, um, and you
know, I've felt that everybody else has seen it to me, but honestly, it's probably,
I don't know, man. It's just like, this is the reality of the space that we're in right
now. So overtly protest that I kind of don't wanna do it on TV, honestly, bro.
I feel you. There's people on the timeline, like they got a boss call blaming me for it
right now. There's like mad people being like, they're saying that I'm the Democrats
new darling and I want death and destruction and I'm like the one who is inciting all
this violence. And it's like, bro, I'm a Twitch streamer.
You're talking about this in general. Yeah, they're like, oh, Hasan is the reason for
this, which is crazy because it's like, if I'm capable of deciding violence with my
language, what the fuck is the president inciting the same president that they're
defending?
The symptom of a really sophisticated virus is that everyone thinks it's coming from
some place that it's not coming from. Like this, the symptom of a really sophisticated
a really truly entrenched disease or pathogen is that it tricks you and it makes you desperate
to blame other parts of the body.
Like, oh, we think it's here, we think it's there, we think it's here, we think it's there.
We don't have any intellectual cohesion on what the source of it is.
So we go through all of this stuff until we're not back on our ass and we hope that
we muck up on a solution.
The real solution to this is that our political and social fabric has just been decimated under
the influence of this fucking God.
And we think it's not like America was ever, I'm a black man from the South.
I'm a stop like being hopper for most of this.
It's not like America was ever a super safe place for me.
But the reality of what this country is now, is this, that's not the right to fall
for me to give my shit off. Yeah, I feel happy in a couple of weeks. Yeah, that's just not
the rightful. That's for them. Are you are you coming back that layer? Are you going to
be in New York? I'm gonna be in New York next week. I'll be in New York next week. I'm
gonna do Abby next week. I don't care that I left the show like I have. Everybody up
there. Yeah, I'll be I'll be in New York next week to do that. Yeah, I'll see you there.
I
Bye
Here X video the shooter
Yeah, we this is an image unconfirmed. Yeah, yeah, we saw this already I think they stripped them too. There's a photo of
him totally stripped
with like the wrap around him.
That was Van Lathen.
He was just on CNN.
Security update, cash is so fired.
Bro, cash is so cooked and so cooked.
Something I noticed even before coming into the White House Correspondence Association dinner was that the security was only outside the door.
was only outside the ballroom inside,
not outside the building.
So the entrance of the building
did not have security machine only guards.
You only went through the screening before the ballroom.
Oh my God.
I mean, I guess that might be normal.
I'm kind of shocked.
I'm actually kind of shocked
at how anyone could get that close.
Can you please call Brace building?
He's not there, Chad.
Block's correspondent claims to have attempted shooter the White House
Correspondent is a 31 year old Cole Thomas Allen from Taurus, California, and
he's in custody.
Oh, shit.
Brace is currently being strip searched.
Not normal, I worked at a venue during an event that Trump attended.
Why did the New York Times reporter randomly drop the tea on Cash's girlfriend?
That's so fucking funny.
Excuse me.
That's real reporting.
Okay.
It happened.
He saw it.
He had to write it down.
Sometimes you see things and you don't even think.
Good reporters, they sometimes observe and they write it down immediately.
They type it out and they don't even know what that would lead to.
Okay.
It's a butterfly effect.
You know, if cash Patel is getting cooked amidst this attempted shooting, then we have
to know about it.
That's called accuracy in reporting.
That's called good journalism.
Yeah, shooter apparently identified as Cole Thomas Allen from Forest, California, 31
years old.
looking good. Because as you know, most people will just immediately do profiles. And even
though 90% of the time is a Trump supporter, all that matters is the one time where it's
not, you know, for them to immediately clamp on anyone and everyone.
But then again, we don't know yet. We don't know. We'll wait.
What I will say though, 100% confirmed, Cash Patel's girlfriend was holding the hand of
another man while this incident was taking place. We do know that. That's a real thing
that happened. That is confirmed. It's in the paper of record, the gray lady. I just
want you to know that's out there, okay? We haven't confirmed the actual shooter's
identity yet, alleged shooter's identity yet, but in the way of essentially taking that bullet
for the president if that's what's necessary. So yeah, this is it. This is like the secret
service doing their thing right in front of the entire world.
Andy, stand by. I just want to reread. It's just past the top of the hour at 10
PM Eastern Time just to bring people up to speed at what's happened. This was the night where the White House Correspondent's
Dinner was supposed to take place. But let me read you a statement from the Secret Service that describes in the best detail
We have of what happened. It said the US Secret Service in coordination with the Metropolitan Police Department is investigating a shooting incident
near the main
magnetometer screening area at the White House Correspondent's Dinner. The President and First Lady are safe along with all
protectees. One individual is in custody. The condition of those involved is not yet
known and law enforcement is actively assessing the situation. The president delivering a statement
very shortly at the White House. We will of course bring that to you live the minute
it happens. The vice president have activated. We learned the speaker of the house also
evacuated. Literally the constitutional line of succession was all there and they
are all okay. We are here watching this.
I guess going forward whenever like any violent incident takes place or attempted
violence and takes place every republican is going to be like we should kill
Hassan piker
you know
i guess that's what it is right like every single one of them
and this happened it was
steve's gleece the house republican majority leader
who grabbed him and threw him into a
secure location of course steve's gleece himself was shot uh... years ago
in a congressional baseball game one of the thing
but i think should be noted the secret services an agency that it that exists
in the department of homeland security
which has been shut down
and not funded for seventy-plus days so uh... when i think about watching the
secret service agents and their heroism and what they have to do
the currently working in an agency that uh...
you know for many many many weeks now
is not been taken care of so i i suspect that i'm really going to
confront that
uh... and it started this past week but that's gotta get fixed but i i i i
i think that they are a student extraordinary job and uh...
uh... people on people i'm hearing from art are shaken up look
people respond differently you know i've i'm i've been shot at
you know it's a very weird experience because you know bullets are there
they are when you're playing you know cops and robberies go bang bang people
fall down
bullets are physical things
and they move past you faster than you can react
nobody knows how their bodies going to respond in a situation like that so
So some people get very stoic, some people get very emotional, some people are fine for
two days and then afterwards they completely crash.
So you're going to have unfortunately a huge psychological impact for people with lots
of responsibility in this country.
People who are running agencies, bureaus, people who are running news organizations.
So we have to be aware of that.
I do think that the people who wanted the show to go on were people who were trying
to figure out some way for this not to be a complete disaster.
I have to say, my door dedication is sticking to facts, even at moments of heat, no matter
how heated it gets, uh, with cash, hotels, girlfriend and another man.
Yes.
Um, this is the Piker broadcasting service, also known as the people's broadcasting service,
uh, sponsored by you, the people for you, the people only the most trusted, most accurate
name in news.
Uh, I'm going to give you only the truth and nothing but the truth.
So helping God in times of misinformation, especially on the internet when people are
trying to figure out was Kashpatel's girlfriend actually holding the hand of
another man or not. I'm gonna tell you what the truth is, right? Like unless it
is a confirmed report from verified reliable resources, reliable sources on
the ground, I'm not gonna fucking tell you Kashpatel's getting cooked unless I
have the evidence, right? Which is precisely the reason why I haven't yet
Uh, confirmed the other stuff except for the fact that
Cash Fattel's girlfriend was holding the hand of another man during the shooting that took place.
So, crazy way to find out.
I was hiding in a room with another man who was holding her hand.
crazy way to find out on the night on the night that he is potentially about to be fired, which makes it even crazier, you know?
Damn, Trump got a mentalist with this shit and he couldn't even predict the shooting.
That's what you think, the mentalist, I didn't see him, did you?
Maybe he knew.
Maybe he could predict it and he tried to warn people and they were like, shut up.
Magic is fake.
Home and, again, another attempt, possibly on Trump or another violent attack on somebody,
I think it's overwhelming to people and they want someone to get up and make some
sense of something this senseless. We also, I think, want to learn as much as
they possibly can and the details are scant right now. One piece of new
information. This is coming from our reporting team. A U.S. Secret Service
agent was shot at the White House Correspondent Center Saturday night.
The bullets struck the agent's protective gear, okay? And the agent
was taken to a local hospital. The agent's condition not immediately
clear, but the fact that the protective gear is part of that
statement. Let's hope that means this officer is in good condition. We
now have with us in a truck chief law enforcement analyst john miller uh... john
you have so many great sources
what are you learning now at the stage of the evening
what the
that was the best way to do a lot of work is what we want to do is uh... suspect
uh... what was the motive
uh... they are obviously doing background into that what we know from
law enforcement sources who've been briefed on the matter is
according to identification found on the suspect after he was taken down
He is a 30-year-old man from the Los Angeles area of California.
They are working on his background, any potential criminal record, social media, and all of
the rest of the things you think they would be doing.
As you've been reporting, the details are still relatively sketchy, but what we are
told is that there was the set of magnetometers, and as he approached the magnetometers,
was this confrontation and shots fired, the secret service agent was hit, we are told
in the vest, but as you know, this is all preliminary.
Dar, I was here, okay, like, shut up, 30-year-old from California, not Los Angeles, I don't
at least that's what they said.
He's a LA area, but it's, I guess,
Torrance is LA area, right?
Who are at those magnetometers,
the people whose job it is to be that
front line of making sure that
anybody who gets through those magnetometers
eating as Trump was being escorted is now part of the sterile crowd meaning they
can't be armed they can't have anything on them that could be dangerous those
are the Secret Service uniform division they wear white shirts and black pants
and badges look like normal police and they are that front line beyond that of
course is the Secret Service plain clothes agents who guard the president
and are spread throughout that building. So we don't know who was involved in the initial
confrontation, but there's some likelihood that that encounter would have started with the uniform
division at those magnetometers. So we don't know how far they get to this press conference at the
White House, how far they will go into the details of whether they've identified the gunman
or his background
uh... but they're working on those details
thirty year-old male
in the other
from california that is all new information a thirty-year-old
believe that all
any sense of the condition that the suspect is in john
well that's been a point of confusion we were told initially and this was
literally within the first minute so
the earlier or should be the case of the phase of the
he was taken down the suspect was down the suspect was dead.
The terms they're using now were apprehended and in custody
which are suggestive that he is not succumbed to those injuries.
So we'll have to sort through that as well as we go.
Thank you very much for making that clear because again the initial report
different than what we think we are hearing now we're just hearing
in custody at this point a thirty year old male
uh... from california another point i just want to reiterate that you said
is as you're getting more information the fact that this happened
near the metal detectors
it's possible that the security here did what it was supposed to do i mean
they're gonna be questions obviously need to review every aspect of this
it is possible one possibility is is that the
precautions they had in place or what
kept this from being a true disaster
tonight. And of course we heard from Wolf Blitzer about the location where he
witnessed at least the gunman being brought down. You are seeing right now
on your screen the White House press briefing room because we were told by
the president of the United States that he intends to speak within the 30
minutes. We were actually around that time right now. It's when you expect him
to speak. He would have come back from the Washington D.C. Hilton where
this shooting took place. We still have a lot of questions. Number one,
More information about who the shooter is the motivation here
Who was the intended target the condition of the Secret Service officer who was struck in the vest?
The condition of that suspect and you can believe
Judges who talked about
Conner the man's about to lose his job
Hey, man, I just read in the New York Times that your girlfriend is cheating on you
He's about to lose his job and his girlfriend at the same night.
Oh, by the way, um, was C-span Roberts, uh, Scarlett's, his watching C-span right now,
the college and the assassination attempt was staged law.
I'm a Midwestern normal mother and they had a mentalist there for the first time
because the president doesn't take jokes.
I don't want to be a conspiracy theorist, but it doesn't feel right. This is also part of the reason why
Um, you know, I like these guys who are Hasan is doing the violent rhetoric
I'm like, bro. You really need to see what the average person thinks like I told you like it's gonna be
Instant like instantly people are just me like yeah. No, that's not real. That's fake. It's a good number of people
I think at this point sincerely believed that this this shooting this one was staged
Okay, the fight fight fight one like a solid number of people
Also
An even larger number of people fucking hate the president
So, you know, I'm not a fan of violence as you guys know famously
People lie and say I am but I'm not I don't like chaos. I don't like instability. I'm a homebody, right?
But look out a lot of these people don't understand how normal people feel about shit, you know
Like things are fucked up
Insane am radio host lady
What did you know?
What?
Dana Loge?
and
the two slurs are now they're saying to out the wolves nuggies game on
because no one cares about this bullshit amount
yeah always the ones with the fucking bible verse
their bio that say unhinged shit like this.
Megan McCain being normal.
I don't want to hear one more fucking criticism of Trump's new ballroom at the White House.
What?
What the fuck does that even mean?
Just say everything. No chatters. Again, jokes do not fly any longer. Okay. They used
do, but they do not anymore.
What?
Unfortunately, the first lady and I had to be evacuated from the White House, correspond
his dinner, along with the president and the entire cabinet.
This event is yet another reason the President Donald Trump's ballroom should be built.
that
Braces on the ground important chatter. Are you fucking serious?
He's fucking joking he's he's literally spreading misinformation, please. We already joked about it
Okay, all of these people talking about the ballroom, are you ready for this?
Watch this.
All of these like people all of a sudden talking about the ballroom moments after the shooting,
this alleged attempted shooting took place.
Is going to make every liberal go, oh, he didn't even stage the fake assassination
attempt to make himself look good.
He staged it so he could justify the ballroom.
except it will 100% be tomorrow's news today. That's the PBS guarantee. I'm telling you right
now, tomorrow's news today. If Donald Trump says, this is why we need a ballroom, every
fucking blew it on and not even just blew it on. Fuck it. It'll be like Normie Libs,
PhD having Normie Libs are going to turn around and be like, Oh, you see this shit?
He staged it himself to attempt to get the ballroom going so that no one can criticize
Donald Trump's fucking ballroom. Cuz I don't give a fuck about the ballroom, right? I don't
give a fuck about it all. But for some reason, for some reason, it's the one thing that got
every liberal the most pissed, okay? Like I care about the other shit that Trump does,
you know, like double tapping a fucking little girl school in Iran. Like those are the
things I care about. But a lot of liberals, I remember. I remember a lot of liberals and
independents as well, a lot of liberals and independents actually turned away from Trump
because the ballroom stuff was happening at the same time that the furlough stuff was happening
because they had, they had, they were like weeks into the government shutdown, right?
And that was when a lot of independence pulled out. They were like, no, I'm done. I can't deal with it.
They hated it at the time. I'm telling you suspect who is at the hilted. I see it unreported
just a few moments ago. We're waiting to see what it is that the White House has learned.
And I just wanted no job that in the room, the cabinet secretaries and top administration
officials are kind of seated sporadically at random tables. So you can see there was
difficulty and security going and making sure they could get to every cabinet
member. I was seated next to the Secretary of Education Linda McMahon in that
moment and we were both crouched on the floor sitting next to each other
waiting to see what was going on and learn more from the service and the
security that was inside the room. So obviously we're waiting to see what the
president himself has learned and what he'll say when he comes out here to the
briefing room in just a few moments but it's a heroic effort even just to
get these reporters inside here, many of them running, some physically running from the
Hilton to get here as we raced over to make it to this press briefing. Obviously, 10,
17 p.m. on a Saturday night in itself, an incredibly rare occurrence, John.
Kailin, I don't want to make light of the situation, but we can all use a smile right
now. This will be the best, best dressed press briefing, I think, in the history
of the White House with all the reporters dressed for a black tie event. It just
gets to the absolute surreal nature of what Caitlin and all of our friends have been through
tonight.
And what we've watched play out before our eyes, I mean we saw it happening in this
camera that was focused in the room as the president was being...
He didn't mean it misogynistically.
It was a weird segue.
I thought as much as well, but that's not...
He was just trying to make a joke about how everyone's dressed so well.
is a suspect in custody. Right now, shots were fired at or near the security area of
the Washington Hilton Hotel outside the White House Correspondent Center, but that everyone
is okay. A Secret Service member was shot in the protective vest. It appears we're learning
about, we're waiting to see the condition of that Secret Service member. But just
so we can help the audience understand, I mean, we're talking about literally minutes
into the start of the White House Correspondent Center.
You had the White House Correspondent Association president speaking,
thanking the White House Press Secretary,
thanking the President of the United States for having been at this event
and the First Lady. We saw the announcement of people
being in the room as well.
You heard the anthem and other things starting to play
and within moments of being told to enjoy their dinner,
suddenly we were brought back into the room by chaos that was unfolding and
Secret service members bum rushing the stage and weapons being drawn as people were crouching
under their tables and we had just talked about some of the people who were crouching at those
tables.
We're talking about the line of succession who was there as well.
It is unfathomable to think about that and of course members of the press, civilians,
human beings and only in the room, in the lobby, this is not a hotel that shuts
down just because the White House correspondent is being held there. You have a huge tourism
boom in Washington D.C., people who are outside as well. And of course, Andrew McCabe, I want
to bring you in here because it is so important to hear about, you talked about soft versus
hard targets. We have no idea who the target was here. There are a lot of assumptions
being made as reporting is coming in fast and furiously. But talk to me about the
that you're talking about a crime scene that is the length of a city block
practically in Washington DC. Wait, Caitlin, we hear more from you.
Caitlin. Yeah, just want to let you guys know we just got a two-minute warning.
That means the president is imminently coming out here to to address the press
score. So we will hear from the president himself who was offering a
lot of the updates. I mean we were hearing that the government was dead.
We were hearing multiple reports but obviously understandably it was
breaking new situation. A lot of reporters in one ballroom asking
people for information and the president himself was the one who said and
confirmed that the suspect had been apprehended by law enforcement. So he'll
be out here momentarily and we'll obviously see who joins him if anyone
from the cabinet joins him and what he has to say about this experience as
he was sitting there on stage obviously as all this was going on. So
important John Miller. I was just reporting to us as well. Andrew
McCabe about some identifying details of this suspect give us some
context of what you were hearing.
And Andy 30 year old white 30 year old male, we should say from
California. Those are the only details we have right now suspect
in custody. Sorry to interrupt you, Andy.
Yeah, that's okay, John. So obviously, we're gonna learn a
lot more about this person as the hours and days go on. But
really, the question for me is, are we talking about someone
So the guy that they're pointing to might not be the guy who was black and actually engaged
the firearm in the...
We don't know who's why they're not engaged.
How that question is answered is going to really, I think, set the tone of the conversation
around this attempted attack, if that's in fact what it was, for the next several
days.
There will be a lot of questions to answer at the Secret Service if that person got through the security perimeter with a firearm.
And that is one of the key questions here. The absolute layout of the room, how far the person got, the disposition of that person as he was going through security.
I don't know if we'll hear that from the president. The president does have a tendency to be the first provider of information that sometimes you would normally hear from law enforcement officials.
officials have obviously we
are all on the edge of our
seats waiting to learn more here.
Caitlin was describing the
situation as all the reporters
who cover all the major events
in Washington were in the
Washington Hilton and now many
of them have tried to get to that
room you're looking at right now
where this briefing is about to take place.
We were given a two minute warning
about two minutes ago that
could be a little bit squishy.
Some even running from the
location of that Hilton down
to the White House,
which of course you're talking
about over about two miles
down Connecticut Avenue.
and so it's a long way, but just the ferocity of which they're trying to get to the location because obviously the President of the United States was not going to speak from that location and you also down there, you see Cash Patel, the FBI director who was at this dinner as well, you see Secretary Kennedy who was there as well,
You've been watching very closely by the people who are in this room and the impact of what this could mean.
Well, I was watching tonight to see if Cash Patel was going to come for other reasons because he's suing a journalism outfit right now.
But we just saw him, you know, tucks out as a guest.
The nation's top law enforcement officer was in this room tonight, which is remarkable and has so many implications.
What did he see? What will he mobilize?
I mean, was he a target?
We have no idea.
You have to get your in general.
The US Attorney for Washington.
These are very important people for getting
the politics of these people.
These are very important people in the country,
and they were all in this room.
Yo, he couldn't even monitor the situation
with his girlfriend.
You know what I'm saying?
Really fascinating.
Secretary Hexeth there as well.
I mean, is the number of people,
which is part of why this was such an important topic.
Many of these people had.
Is there more information about what
cockpital i mean caspital's girlfriend was doing
very important
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even respond to them that's like
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like every single one of them
chirps at me from behind the block
the left loves violence it's their brand remember in november blah blah blah
all this shit
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His first his first week was crazy. His first week literally had the Israeli flag on it. I don't know why
Do you see the Erica curvy I want to go home
I'm having a hard time showing that because I don't want to show that because I feel like if I show that
I'm gonna say some shit and then
On behalf of the trans community we'd like to thank you for taking the heat on this one big dog. Oh
My god. Oh my god, you're right low-key
Low low-curcantually, yeah, they went instead of blaming Antifa and trans they blame me instead this time
So there you go. Hey, listen
Listen there there there it is there it is, you know
Your fave is Rayleigh Larpert, we need to buy you two.
What is happening bro?
It's a network, it's a network, they all got activated at the same time, I feel like we're
watching it happen in real time.
Isn't that crazy?
Am I
Like what is how is this the new talking point for the entire right?
Bots for sure it's not there they whether are they all in like the same group chat or some shit
And Brian just so you know and I don't even know that you know this
We saw what was happening on the screen
Oh my god, he posted help and then we didn't know anything and the very first bit of information
we got was from you in your first in-stake was to basically
FaceTime and start reporting.
So thank you for being such a great reporter.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thank you for doing what you did.
The only other time that's ever happened to me at CNN
was a little bit like this night.
It was a night, there was a bomb threat at CNN in New York.
And my old colleague, Don Lemon, was anchoring.
We had to evacuate out of that building
and happened to live nearby.
So I walked over, I think I used Skype
because it was pre-COVID, and so we ended up
going live on the street.
And that night reminds me a little bit of this, because no matter what,
people need to know what happened, people need to know what's going on.
So we kept the show going, kept the broadcast going.
But I went streaming to talk to you live on air and it didn't say.
Nicole Allen guy.
Who was teacher of the month.
That's crazy.
That's him.
All right, get to work.
I
Life skins on high alert, okay guys no jokes. I mean I
Trump posted the surveillance video. What the fuck is this guy doing, bro?
I mean, I don't know if I can show this. Oh, well, I guess no one died, but let me just watch anyway
Let me watch it real quick
oh my god
oh my god he was fucking zooming bro
okay here here it is uh...
trump is already he's talking i i i i i i i i i i i where is where's the app and
where's the app and what's here with freedom of speech
that was supposed to bring
together members of both parties with members of the press
and in a certain way it did
i gotta pee because the
I bet you he will talk with the ballroom.
I think he'll talk with the ballroom.
The room that was just totally unified,
it was in one way a very beautiful thing to see a man.
George, a security checkpoint armed with multiple weapons.
And he was taken down by some very brave members
of Secret Service, and they acted very quickly,
and have just released for purposes of transparency,
clarity.
I've ordered it to be put out.
We probably have it by now, put out on truth and put out on many of the platforms, a tape
showing the violence of this thug that attacked our Constitution, and also showing how quickly
Secret Service and law enforcement acted on our country's behalf.
Really did a great job.
One officer was shot, but saved by the fact that he was wearing, obviously, a very
good bulletproof vest.
He was shot from very close distance with a very powerful gun, and the vest did the job.
I just spoke to the officer and he's doing great.
He's a great shot.
He has very high spirits, and we told him we love him and respect him.
And he's a very proud guy.
He's very proud of what he does, a secret service agent.
And we looked at all of the conditions that took place tonight, and I will say, you know,
it's not a particularly secure building.
And I didn't want to say this, but this is why we have to have all of the attributes
of what we're planning at the White House.
It's actually a larger room, and it's much more secure.
It's got drone proof.
It's full of proof.
They wanted the ballroom for 150 years for lots of different reasons, but today is a little
bit different because today we need levels of security that probably nobody has ever
seen before.
But everyone owes tremendous debt of gratitude to the courage of law enforcement, the law
law enforcement and working with the DC police and just spoke with the mayor and when we're
finished the police chief is going to take over and discuss it also from for tomorrow's
news today.
But they also performed exactly as they were supposed to when you see the attack, different
positions but you also see the attack are totally subdued and under control.
So as you know, this is not the first time in the past couple of years that our republic
has been attacked by a would be assassin who sought to kill in butler pennsylvania less
than two years ago.
You know, all know that story and in Palm Beach, Florida a few months after that we
came close.
We really had again, we had some great work done by law and why is cash Patel right
there looking like he did it bro.
Patel standing right next to the president looking like he was the motherfucker who was trying to do the shooting
We have to resolve our differences. I will say he's always
Democrats independence
Conservatives liberals and progressives
Those words are interchangeable perhaps, but maybe they're not but yet everybody in that room big crowd. Oh, here we go
there was a record
setting
people and
And there was a tremendous amount of love and coming together.
I watched and I was very, very impressed by that.
But we were, first lady and I, were taking very well care,
very quickly, very quickly rushed off the stage.
Vice President J.D. Vance was here.
It was likewise beautifully done.
He was just saying how quickly everybody
acted law enforcement, secret service,
in particular in this case, but law enforcement,
Marko had the same thing.
Pete was there, Pete didn't want any help,
he didn't want anybody to help.
He doesn't want anybody to help him,
but he did get something new.
And I think you also said that it was very impressive.
So with that, I'd like to ask Todd Blanche to come up,
say a few words, and tell you it's already underway.
The man has been captured.
They're going to his apartment.
I guess he lives in California, and he's a sick person, a very sick person, and we don't
want things like this to happen.
I think it's very important that I say, though, and I told the representatives of the evening
that they did such a beautiful job, it was such a beautiful evening.
And again, they're talking about free speech in our Constitution.
That's what it's all about.
Not just White House correspondents.
It was really based on free speech in our Constitution.
But I said very importantly that we'll do it again within the next 30 days, it will make
it bigger and better and even nicer.
So I just want to-
I mean is this going to boost his approval ratings?
I don't think so.
I think people just fucking hate him.
It don't matter.
Yeah, he's been very responsible in the company.
Maybe he'll be able to get some pickups on independents that were like on the margins,
but I just don't think like-
So I'd like to say a few words.
I know we're going to have cash, and then you're going to go on.
We can ask- I guess we can take a couple of questions.
Go ahead, Josh.
I was going to fire you, but I heard your girlfriend was holding another man's hand earlier, so.
Experience here.
I'm not fired yet.
There's a lot of back pain.
You're fired.
You're fired up there very quickly.
But again, the response time was really incredible.
And we're going to reschedule.
We're going to do it again.
We're not going to let anybody take over our society.
We're not going to cancel things out because we can't do that.
We wanted to say tonight, I will tell you, I fought like hell this day.
day, but there was protocol that said, please sir.
Yeah, the ballroom thing was a huge, huge reason, weirdly enough, for why they hate him, like
why independence and boomers like checked out.
That was a big turning point in his approval ratings.
So I think people who hate him now are just going to say like, no, the ballroom thing,
like this assassination attempt was like staged so that he could justify the ballroom.
You ain't slick.
I think that's what people are going to say.
very worse than the very best of this country. You saw the very worst by the
actions of that coward that the president just talked about.
By the way, that dude was booking it. I saw him on CCTV footage, he was fast as.
Fuck! And you'll see the videos come out, I expect very shortly, and you'll see
law enforcement do exactly what we want them to do. And so I echo what
Mr. President Trump just said, that we are extraordinarily grateful and
appreciative of the men and women of law enforcement that did their jobs
It's not including one who was injured.
This investigation is ongoing.
I expect you will see charges filed shortly.
The charges should be self-evident, given the conduct.
But as you'll hear, there will be multiple charges
around the shooting, around the possession of firearms,
and anything else that we can get on this guy.
The investigation is obviously ongoing and just started.
There is federal law enforcement already
working on search warrants and doing their job. And I don't want to get ahead
of them and don't want to get ahead of the work that they're doing. Even as we
speak, direct Patel and I were just on the crime scene a short while ago. And
everybody in this room should rest assured that the Metropolitan Police
Department, the FBI, Secret Service, everybody's on the scene doing their
job. I know that the police chief is going to give an update from the
scene as soon as we're finished here. And I obviously will lead the
lead the details of what they have learned to him.
But in the meantime, I just want to thank everybody
in this room for the courage.
And I want to thank President Trump for his words.
And I promise you, justice will be served.
Thank you.
Dr. Fidel.
Thank you, General.
Thank you, Mr. President.
The President is absolutely right.
You saw the best resolve of American law enforcement
because you missed a president's fire them twenty four seven three sixty five
given the resources that they need and you know please know that you have their
back
and that is a changing dynamic in this country and that's why you saw bracy
could service agents
respond immediately swiftly subdued and take down the suspect and safeguarded
lives of thousands of individuals at that hotel
thanks to our interagency partnership with the department of homeland security
for our kids and the metropolitan police department the fb i was rapidly
deployed on to the scene took over the evidence response unit
is examining all the ballistics that were found on scene to include the long gun and
the shell casings. We are conducting witness interviews as we speak. You will hear from
our team on the scene there with the mayor and the head of the FBI field division there.
But please know what the Attorney General has just said. Rains no truer. You saw the
very best of America tonight. The very best unite us at a time of uncertainty because
we have leadership here with the president, the vice president, that backs law enforcement
and the men and women that I shook their hands on the scene today could not have
been prouder to show up on scene. And as the Attorney General said, make no mistake,
we are conducting witness interviews. If you have any information, any information whatsoever
related to this event, 1-800-CALL-FBI. 1-800-CALL-FBI. No piece of information is too small. No
piece of information is inadequate. We will evaluate it all. We will also be conducting
interviews of those that were there. And if any of those individuals have information,
please come forward to the law enforcement of the FBI, the Metropolitan Police Department.
We will be examining this individual's background thoroughly.
That process has already started and we are going to ensure that he was either a long
roll factor or anyone else that was responsible.
We will analyze all evidence immediately to make sure that we safeguard this country.
Mr. President, Mr. Vice President, thank you for your leadership, Attorney General and
Homeland Secretary Mullen.
Thank you for your partnership in Mullen for him.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Okay, we'll do a couple of them.
No, that's not for your talking.
Madam Chairman, I just want to say you did a fantastic job.
a beautiful evening and we're going to reschedule.
And after that, it's very tough for her to ask a killer question, right?
Could you have done a fantastic job, please?
Mr. President, I appreciate it.
As you mentioned, it all happened so quickly.
And I wonder, especially because, unfortunately, you have experience with these sorts of crimes.
in that moment when you realize there was a problem.
Oh God, they're already glazing him.
Oh, it's so fucking cooked.
Can you describe what was going through your mind?
How you were feeling?
Oh my God, oh my God.
The fucking White House press pool is gonna be like,
oh, we all got through this together.
Aren't you such a hero, Mr. President?
How heroic were your thoughts?
Fact, we're sitting right next to each other.
First lady on my right.
And I heard a noise, and sort of thought it was a tray.
I thought it was a tray going down.
I've heard that many times, and it was pretty loud noise.
And it was from quite far away.
He hadn't breached the area at all.
They really got him.
But so it was quite far away, but it was a gun.
And some people really understood that
but some other people didn't.
I was watching to see what was happening.
probably should have gone down even faster.
Melania was very cognizant, I think, of what happened.
I think she knew immediately what happened.
She was saying, that's a bad noise.
And we were whisked away along with other people,
but we were really whisked away.
And again, the performance of the Secret Service
and the police, all of the law enforcement
I thought was really good.
So it was very quick.
There wasn't a lot of time to be thinking,
because it was a matter of seconds before we were out the door and gone into an area.
We very much and you wanted to, we very much wanted to continue it because I don't like
to let these sick people, these slugs, these horrible, horrible people change the fabric
of our life, change the course of what we do.
So we held out, we held out right till the end but they didn't want to take a chance
and I understand it was protocol.
But we're going to be doing one, hopefully, within the next 30 days or sooner, and I am
ready, willing, and able.
And I was all set to really rip it.
And I said to my people, this would be the most inappropriate speech ever made if I said
one.
So I'll have to save it.
I don't know if I could ever be as rough as I was going to be tonight.
I think I'm going to be probably very nice.
I'll be very boring the next time, but we're going to have a great event.
And you did a fantastic job.
Thank you very much, Peter.
How much do you want to bid? He's a vampire fan. He's a brown, lice, black, Democrat,
from California, who's also a teacher.
I've assembled his weapon somewhere on site at the hotel. What do you think about that?
And I ask, respectfully, why do you think this keeps happening to you?
Well, you know, I've studied assassinations, and I must tell you the most impactful people,
the people that do the most you take a look at the people Abraham Lincoln I mean you go through
the people that have gone through this where they got them but I've studied the most the
people I'm just like JFK and Abraham Lincoln the biggest impact they're the ones that they go after
they don't go after the ones that don't do much because they like it that way
and when you look at the people that have either whether it was an attempt or a successful
attempt and they're very impactful people. Just take a look at the names there, the big
names and I hate to say I'm honored by that but I've done a lot, we've done a lot, we've
taken this country and we were laughing stock for years and now we're the hottest country
anywhere in the world. We've changed this country and there are a lot of people
that are not happy about that. So I think that's the answer, Peter.
And Rebeth Butler, your team for a while,
rethought outdoor events.
Yeah.
Do you think that you now need to rethink indoor events?
Well, then you just don't do events.
Now I can't do that.
I have to.
What it is, what it is, we have to do it.
The room was very, very secure.
You know, he charged from 50 yards away.
So he was very far away from the room.
And what did you think when he saw the video of how
fast he was moving?
He was moving.
He was really moving.
And the reaction time was great.
Boy, those guys, they had their guns drawn
Literally by the time he was there they were shooting. They were I thought they were very impressive
I thought they were very impressive and if I didn't I'd let you know, you know, I'm not gonna be I
Would not stand for that. No, I thought they were very impressive
Were you aware of any threats
And do you believe you were the target of this tonight, I guess I mean these people they're crazy
They're crazy and you know, you never know he was very far away from worried that like some fucking newsmax reporter or some psycho is gonna be like
Have you heard about this guy?
Who's been inciting a lot of violence this guy's sitting maybe at your table who knows, but we had we had people
I think hospital is trying to get you killed guys. Please stop joking around. Please and they got him
I'm fucking begging you dude. You're playing with fucking fire. We've had no
There was no notification.
We had no idea.
Go ahead, go ahead.
Do you have any political motivations from this?
Well, you never know.
Now, we'll be able to tell you that maybe by tomorrow
or the next day.
He's in custody, and they're asking him a lot of questions.
I guess they're going over to Todd,
and they're already at his apartment.
He lives in California.
And they'll be over there.
So they'll be able to tell you.
Thank you, Kate.
Mr. Trump, did the suspect say anything,
or was he wearing anything that would
elect some type of motive here?
No, I mean he was a guy who looked pretty evil
when he was down, you know, they had him down.
He was fighting hard.
He was, in my opinion, a sick person.
Who would do that but a sick person?
But I think you're gonna find everything about him.
No reason to talk about it now,
but tomorrow at this time, long before this time,
you're gonna know a lot of things about him.
He was a, they seemed to think he was a lone wolf
And I feel that too.
Are you concerned about US Secret Service protection ability?
We saw several of the details.
We saw several of the details.
Take minutes to be escorted on.
No, they acted very quickly.
And I was very impressed by Secret Service.
I mean, I'm the one, and Mark, when
you would agree with that, I think,
I'm the one that would complain.
You don't have to complain for me.
I would be complaining.
I'd be up here right now saying they didn't do their job.
Oh, believe me, because it's my life.
And I want to live because I want to make this country great.
That's why I want to live.
But when you're impactful, they go after you.
When you're not impactful, they leave you alone.
OK, a couple of more?
Couple of more?
Go ahead, please.
Is there any indication that this shooting could have been
linked to the war in Iran?
Don't think so.
But you never know.
We're going to know a lot.
We have the best people in the world working on it.
And we're going to know a lot, please.
President, there's a lot there's you, as well as some of us who have covered Butler experience.
Two years ago.
Yeah.
What's, what felt similar? You know, you had the first lady with you today, what felt different?
And you have another two plus years in office. Are you concerned about something like this
happening today?
Well, I can't be concerned. I can only get great people who did the job, a much,
in my opinion, a much better job than Butler. I had one weak spot that we all
know about. Somebody should have been up there. But even Butler, we had a hour
sniper. Sniper and I said within 4.2 seconds, from a distance of about 400
yards, one shot, and he was gone. And if he didn't do it now, you know, he's
David. The name was David. I say, hello, David. Every time I see him, David, I
I like you very much, David.
But think of that.
Now, if he doesn't hit him, and he hit him right between the
eyes from 400 yards without any notice, nobody knew.
He heard a sound.
He looked over, and there was actually a tree that was
somewhat in his way.
You know the story very well.
And he aimed, he fired.
And if he didn't do that, beyond me, he would have
had a lot more people killed who lost one great person
and two people very badly hurt.
They're OK now.
But no, that was so in a sense, you know,
they was pretty amazing the job they did,
but they did have that one week spot,
as you know, they should have had that covered.
Tonight, they had everything covered very quickly.
And he was fast.
He was running full blast.
And they got him before they got any further.
I was very far away.
You know, he was, he hadn't anywhere close
to breach the doors of the ballroom.
The ballroom was sealed and everybody in there.
And that's why once those doors opened,
they didn't want to do tonight.
If the doors weren't opened, we could have probably done it
tonight, but I think we're much better off rescheduling.
Yeah, please.
Mr. President, for you and perhaps law enforcement as well,
what is the level of confidence that this was a lone actor?
And has the suspect made any statements to police
while in custody?
I think it's just my look at my profession.
We have great professionals up here and outside
that have been working with us.
My impression is he was a lone wolf, a whack-job.
These are crazy people.
These are crazy people.
And they have to be dealt with.
We had that in the second attempt, as you know.
And he's spending life in prison.
Because if you let him out, they'll probably, you know,
if he serves 10 years or 15 years,
you let him out, he'll probably try it again
with somebody else.
They're sick people.
We have a lot of sick people.
But you're going to know, I think very shortly,
you're going to know Todd a lot about him.
You're going to know a lot about him.
You got a couple of more.
Yeah, please go ahead.
Are you concerned about political violence?
This could be politically motivated.
Oh, violence.
I'm concerned about everything.
Look, I can't be so concerned that you can't function.
No, I'm here.
It's a dangerous profession.
You know, I tell the story, race car drivers.
I think it's very dangerous.
So you take 1% and then take about 10% of 1%.
Just to break it down very easily, they die.
So much less than 1%.
10% of 1%.
I think bull riding is very dangerous.
If you take about the same 10% of 1%, much less than 1%.
But if you take presidents, it's 5.8%.
And about 8% are shot at.
So nobody told me this was such a dangerous profession.
If Marco would have told me, maybe I wouldn't have run.
Maybe I would have said, I'll take a pass.
Now it's a dangerous profession.
But I don't view it that way.
Look, I'm here to do a job as part of the job.
It is a dangerous, I can't imagine
that there's any profession that's more dangerous.
But I love the country, and I'm very proud.
I'm very proud of the job we've done.
You see what's happened.
We have a great country.
I think the most successful, the hottest country anywhere in the world.
This happened over a period of just a year, and we're going to do great things.
But with that come risks.
There's no question about it.
Yeah.
I mean, there's been so much political violence, not just aimed at yourself,
but at other members of Congress, state house speakers, you name it.
Is that just the cost of doing business?
Yeah.
Do politics in America anymore?
Yeah.
What else?
What else?
What else, Richard?
We're not the only country.
look at this great violence with all countries it's not because it happens
everywhere fucking today and they have numerous assassinations of political
figures all over the world you look at South America and South America's like
some of the numbers are just horrific it's dangerous dangerous stuff whether
it's here or someplace else no country is immune no country good question it's
actually kind of remarkable he's not blaming the left which is good if I
decided to just not do much. There's something very strange about us this
country in particular saying oh we just violence everywhere yeah man we do it we
do the violence everywhere. The greatest military in the world I rebuilt it in my
first term. Oh here we go. We have no choice. We can't let as an example Iran
we can't let them get a nuclear weapon that'll everything will be peanuts
compared to that if they ever were given a nuclear weapon and they'd use
it too. Marco and I were talking about it today. They would use it without even hesitation.
We can't do that. It was a shame. I said, oh boy, look at the numbers. We just broke 50,000
in the Dow. We just broke 7,000 in the S&P. They said we couldn't do it in five years, four years.
Maybe in five or six years. And we did it in one year. And I called everybody together. I
I called all of these people and others, and I said,
we have to take a little journey.
I seek to do this.
We just had the great number.
We just broke 50,000.
Wasn't supposed to happen during my term.
Wasn't reachable.
Did it in one year, and I said, we're
going to have to make a journey to Iran.
They're going to have a nuclear weapon if we don't do it.
We had the B-2 bombers take them out.
I terminated in the first term the Obama agreement,
the Iran nuclear agreement, which was a disaster.
there was a road to a nuclear weapon that would have used it.
They would have used it 100%.
So when you do things like that, you become a target.
If I wasn't doing that, I guess I'd
be a lot less of a target.
But I'm honored to be.
OK, one more question.
Thank you, President Trump.
Thank you, President Trump.
Do you know how the gun was brought into the hotel?
And also, how does this event impact you
as the leader of our country?
I like not to think about it.
I lead a pretty normal life considering, you know, it's a dangerous life.
I think I handle it as well as it can be handled.
I think a lot of other people, you know, you read stories where they become basket cases,
to be honest with you.
I'm not a basket case.
I take it as it is.
I do it for the country.
I'm not doing it for any other reason.
I have a first lady who's doing a terrific job.
She loves the country.
And she recognizes it better than anybody.
She's told me numerous times.
She said, you are in a dangerous job.
But that goes along with her, too.
I mean, it's dangerous for her, too.
We sat there tonight.
We heard that noise.
And it was either a tray or a bullet.
I thought, I was hoping it was a tray, but it wasn't.
And again, we had some very brave people doing the great jobs.
They were very proud of them and happy with them.
I just want to thank everybody.
They will be able to give you all that information as to the names and everything else.
I think we released the names already.
Most of you would have it, but his name.
We appreciate it.
I see so many tuxedos and beautiful dresses.
It was a little different evening than we thought, but we're going to do it again.
We have a great chairman who we're so proud of, and we have to make it better.
make it safer I guess right but we're gonna make it even better okay thank you very much
thank you
do you want to say something
I'm watching you, are you driven, Mr. President?
Courageous leadership, thank God you're alive, all of us are alive.
Oh my God.
What are the messages that you want to give to the world that this should change?
What corrective measures can we take from here on?
Well, all you can do, look, I don't care how many people you have, how good they are,
they can be the greatest people, you have the greatest security in history.
If you have a whack job that's got a brain but it's a little bit distorted or
a lot distorted they can make trouble I would say Pete right you know they can
make trouble some of these people are of genius level IQ and they're nuts what so
it can be trouble so you do absolutely the best you get the best we have the
best people would look they it it was proven tonight he he started running
from 50 yards, and he was fast.
He was fast as fuck.
Tape.
He was moving.
I watched the tape.
He was fast as fuck.
It was crazy.
There's a lot of people, if you look in and say,
it's like a weird feeling.
And they would let him get through.
But they didn't let him get through.
They drew those guns so fast.
I'll show you guys in a second.
You look like Matt Dillon.
They look like somebody that knew what they were doing.
What do they do?
But it comes with the territory and if you want to do a great job
I really believe that and I mean you take a look at what's happened to
Wait what is he talking about the shooter now? Like you want to do a great job
It doesn't happen to people that don't do anything and it's not going to deter me from
Winning the war in Iran. I don't know if that had anything to do with it
I don't know what Matt Dillon is based on what we know, but I don't know what that reference is
We're gonna continue to do a great job. That's all I can do
see you tomorrow. That was it. That was President Trump live at the White House. It is 11 PM
Eastern time on the East Coast at about 8 20 PM. That's it. That's that was the White
press conference here is the motherfucking shooter fast as fuck you'll see pops up
right here in a second look look look look look look look look look look look look
just whizzes by dude that was wild I've never seen nothing like it anyway
Okay, shooter is a Caltech and CSU along with several years
of experience as a mechanical engineer.
He is now a teacher.
And his LinkedIn is Caltech Bachelor of Science.
This is all verified by the way.
And, uh, yeah, now he's a part-time teacher.
And they found that he registered as a no-party preference voter in LA County.
Paul Gragas return a Caltech email address for the Cole, Thomas, Allen, and Torrance
FEC Ruggers show a single $25 contribution via Act Blue.
Um, he made a video game wait really?
Wait, y'all are so fucking fast that's crazy y'all found this shit.
Actually?
Actually?
actually
Bro said this is a technically skill-based nonviolent asymmetrical fighting game loosely derived from chemistry model that itself is loosely based on reality
Well, this dude was a whole ass nerd. What was he doing?
Are you sure yes, it's listed on his LinkedIn
Bro
I'm going to be honest with you, this is a unique profile for a shooter, okay.
This is in many ways a recession indicator, okay.
You got a guy who's a part-time teacher with degrees who has a unique set of interests.
I mean, this is not a normal, this is not your regular butler Pennsylvania freak with no social
media footprint, you know?
Very strange, very strange situation.
Very strange situation.
Now, before you say false flag, I'm not, you know, I'm not going there, but I will,
I will say that it's the instability is brewing in this country.
It's a sign of the times when you got a dude who's a mechanical engineer.
Here's Jacqueline Sweet, reliable reporter here.
Cole Allen, the legislator of the White House Correspondents that are seen here in the
image for Caltex Mechanical Engineering major page.
He's right there in the background.
from CSU Dominguez in CompSci last year. Here's another photo of Alan from Caltech.
Apparently, several reporters including a CNN and other outlets follow a close relative of the
shooter here on X, likely a sister and likely from her doing an engineering fellowship at a news
outlet as well.
I'm STEM and all we talk about is how we're all going to be unemployed after we graduate.
Maybe he's a radical centrist, a naffo guy, I don't know.
There's a Twitter account that posted the name 2 plus years ago, non-Slov can't share a link.
I mean, it could be anybody's name, I mean, that's fine, that's not...
Is that not unique?
Seems like it's not that unique.
Seems like you graduated Catholic in 2017, has been massively under-employed slash unemployed
2018.
No, usually it's like fucking losers.
A Legi Shooter speaks from 057 from 2017, aging into the future college brings you to help the seniors.
...as to what their imagination was doing.
Dave Burns, college student, Cole Allen developed a prototype for a wheelchair emergency brake.
The wheelchair brakes tend to walk the wheels, but don't actually rock the chair to the ground.
The idea with this...
Okay, never mind. He might be actually one of the one of the centrist, extreme centrist guys.
I'm not gonna lie. Could be the case. He sounds like it a little bit.
was to prevent it from moving at all.
But yeah, normally guys that do this stuff
are demonstrating peak antisocial personality disorder.
Don't have a lot of friends.
Like Luigi Mangione was unique in that sense as well.
Like he did not fit the average profile
of someone who would go out and like shoot someone
in fucking broad daylight.
Okay?
Once again, it's usually people who have nothing to lose
that do stuff like this.
Like Ryan Ruth was a fucking kook, right?
Ryan Ruth was crazy.
What the fuck? We love the generational athlete to the STEM space? True. Right? Whereas this
guy doesn't fit that profile at all. Allegedly stop saying stupid shit. Okay. Okay. First
of all, I think pretty sure Ryan Ruth is about to, I mean, he's in jail right now.
luigi allegedly yes allegedly
bro we got a grad degree in computer science right is a i layoff said he was
about to be perma unemployed yet but then he did comp sigh
the cctv shows agent getting hit by friendly fire
It's leading the White House Correspondents' Dinner Now, one of the most surreal experiences
of my life.
Here's what we know in terms of what we think happened.
Will Glitzer was going to the men's room on a bathroom break and saw all of this.
A gunman was trying to get in near the lobby, which is upstairs from the main ballroom.
And he apparently shot at one of the agents.
There was a bullet hole in the vest, bulletproof vest of one of the agents.
And that shooter has now been apprehended as in police custody.
Inside the room, it was like a movie.
Trump. The Secret Service climbed on top of him. The vice president, the members of the
cabinet that were in there were all the squirted out. Everybody in the room ducked onto the
ground, kind of not knowing what happened. We didn't know that there were gunshots at
first. You know, it was a protester. It was very unclear what happened. But it was
certainly bizarre and scary. And there was seemed like for a while that they were
going to continue the dinner that now decided not to continue the dinner saying
that they will bring it back at some point but just a surreal experience the
good news the president is safe vice president safe everybody in the it looks
like the government didn't even fire shot wouldn't have all the details the
guy was rushing be do we even know if he has a gun at this point
The room is safe, but there's a lot of questions now about how did this happen, what will happen
with security, and where we go from here.
Live coverage now on CNN.
They're doing a press conference on CNN.
You just watched the the White House press conference. Oh here
Oh with our criminal division our crisis response team. Oh fuck that audio is ass cheeks, bro.
Come on now. Come on now, um, yeah, I'm the new transgender by the way.
Just so you understand, you know how like back in the day they used to say everybody
transgender whenever a shooting took place. Shooter transgender is me now. I'm the new
transpanic.
We should also rest assured that there will be no stone unturned during this investigation.
The FBI currently has our joint terrorism task force here on scene along with our criminal
division, our crisis response team, and agents from across the country.
No, it wasn't his that white Republican. We don't know his sexuality, but he's
a blighting black man from California who may or may not have been a liberal.
One eight hundred call FBI. Thank you. Director. Director Kern. Thank you. My name is Sean
Kern, Director of Secret Service. Tonight we saw exactly what our brave men and women
do each and every day to protect our protectees. It's not easy and I will tell you that
they performed averagely. We got to see what they do. And that individual when he
charged a checkpoint was apprehended. It shows that our multi layered protection
works and I'm grateful to our partners that help assist us with building these
sites and protecting these sites.
Very fortunate that this officer is alive.
Is being observed
and grateful that the president reached out to this officer and spoke with
him earlier.
Ask everybody to pray for him and all of our officers and agents that were involved.
And I will tell you we will continue with the mission. Thank you. Thank you.
Judge Fero.
I'm Jeanine Pirram, the United States attorney. Right now the defendant is being charged with
two counts, nine 24 C using a firearm during a crime of violence and a second crime under
111, which is assault on a federal officer using a dangerous weapon. Now, as you all know,
there was an individual, a uniformed secret service officer who was shot. Unfortunately,
he is doing all right and he will be fine.
Well, was it friendly fire? Or did this dude shoot the officer? Does he even have a
firearm?
This individual was in charge of doing as much harm and as much damage as he could. And
Thankfully because of the checkpoint right outside the ballroom where thousands of people were situated to hear the president of the United States
Because that checkpoint worked. There was no one who was injured when it was clear
Where this defendant was going?
But we have the opposite with the fuck you're saying as a chatter
I don't know if you saw the someone who was in the ballroom. You didn't see the you didn't see the
CCTV footage lovely event that he fucking he booked it. I mean I he booked it and then they started opening on him
But he didn't actually shots fired shots heard and a whole room one silence
They keep saying he had a firearm, but there was no firearm in the CCTV then again the footage was so blurry
I don't know. I'm sure we'll find out soon enough
all heads down. Shooter had a shotgun handgun and a knife. Shooter was not shot. USS Secret
Service was shot in the chest, but it hit his vest. And they do it with courage and with dignity.
Thank God for our partners. The FBI, the Secret Service, the Metropolitan Police, all of them
tonight acted so quickly that they prevented what could have been a horrific event where we were
all sitting there in one room. The defendant will be arraigned on Monday in federal district
court. But make no mistake, there will be many more charges based upon the information
that we are learning in this very fluid situation.
I don't understand why they didn't, they didn't put an attempt to murder, like assault
with a deadly weapon charge on it, but I don't know if it's like a DC thing. Like
Some of these jurisdictions have like different designations for the same kind of crime, so I don't understand it, but
We know he was running in the direction of the ballroom that the president was in, as well as other cabinet members.
So what his specific motivation was, we can't say at this point.
However, as we continue to investigate that, we'll continue to work towards that.
Chief, do you have a question here?
There seems to have been a lot of authorization from the development.
Was this a failure on the secret service?
I mean, I can, no. I mean, what we have here is a multilayer approach.
the director spoke about it. We have officers on the outside of the Metropolitan Police Department
law at the escort. The inside portion of any presidential site is handled by the Secret
Service and law enforcement partners. This is a multi-layered approach. The point of this
checkpoint is to intercept individuals that were there. And what we see in this case is
when he reached that checkpoint, Secret Service agents and law enforcement agencies
and agency charges, they were to prevent bombs. Yeah. They were to prevent anyone from being
harmed. All right. So we had New York Times also confirming it's the N. It's
confirming a shotgun handgun and knives that's crazy by the way again CCTV footage
he was booking it I don't know how the fuck he was able to run with that much
gear on him sure Mark so as you can imagine this is very early in the
investigation I'm really into it's his background vehicles those are all things
that the FBI the Metropolitan Police Department and the Secret Service are
working to get a joint to determine is there anything else that's available
so I would imagine as we continue to go through this investigation there
will be additional search warrants and things that nature as the
investigation progresses. At this point, he was not known to the Metropolitan
Police Department. I can tell you that right here.
All the parties and events have an associated with this weekend tonight.
Is there any reason to believe that the police security concerns at those
events for the preparations being made locally to protect those? Yeah,
absolutely not. So we have no indication this is an isolated incident
with one individual is the information that we do have. However, we do
have additional officers across the city that are giving special
attention. Uh, we do know there were some after parties and events that are
planned that we would be providing coverage for those events. Yep,
right. President said that this is not particularly secure.
Um, I'm not exactly 100% familiar with this building. I do know in this in
this incident tonight, I know there was a security plan that was developed by
the Secret Service at the Metropolitan Police Department assisted with, and
I know that security plan did work this evening right here.
And can you speak to a journalist reporting about the fact that the suspect, the somebody
did wrong, but then it will get into the ballroom.
Yes, as we said before, we do know the president was inside the ballroom.
We know there was cabinet owners and many of us in there.
Who gives a fuck what Laura Loomer said?
He said that he's targeting at this point.
That's probably part of the investigation.
We do know that he was armed with a shotgun when he ran through that checkpoint.
So that would look like a long weapon in video.
All right.
Right here.
Earlier you said there was an exchange of fire, did the suspect fire any shots, and did the uniformed officer use a gun?
Which weapon did he use?
Yeah, obviously we're only a couple hours into this incident, so we don't have that level of information.
The FBI's evidence response team is here, they're processing the scene, so as the investigation develops, all that information will be figured out with the ballistics.
The ATF is also on scene here with us.
The suspect did not fire a shot?
sure so again very preliminary information we do believe he did however
well as the investigation determines we'll pull the shell casings will be
able to get more information as we do more evidence for very early in the
investigation right we can take a couple more right here and right here and we're
more over here
and said that he wants there to be an urban in 30 days.
Given what happened tonight,
in any sense of what additional security measures
might be put in place to ensure that some
like similar does not happen again.
Sure, I'll also do the Secret Service.
Yep, this is what we plan for every day.
So we take each and every case and we evaluate it
and we do site assessments.
And that's why we go out and build these sites
per what the event is.
And that's how we go about our business.
We're going to have to evaluate this evening.
Look, there it is.
So preliminary information, we do believe he was a guest here at the hotel.
We have secure room here in the hotel.
And again, we'll go through the appropriate procedures to determine what was
inside there.
But that is secure.
at this point, I can say we believe he is the only suspect in this case.
Okay, to jump off that question, I understand that all of our approach to
security, but you all came up with the fact that Calgary gets all the way to the
ball, but what our level seems to be quite important to you, because how does that
happen? Sure. So again, I mean, we're very early in the investigation. So
what I'm determining, we'll go through video across the hotel to figure
how the gun got in, how it got down here. Those things will come through
the investigation at this point. We don't have that level of detail.
Okay. Last one. Yes. They're here to show if you appear to show
if you're calling now.
No, we don't have any information that he was injured.
President was falling down.
Sure. So law enforcement law enforcement in the in right here
in this very area, they actually capital them to the ground
in the handcuff time.
Oh, it's Dan Scavino who did the fucking U.S.A.
We have all the information again.
We're still running a lot of things down.
One note from the ballroom tonight.
Dan Scavino tried to start a U.S.A.
U.S.A.
after the third.
No one wanted to be here.
Even Trump folks, terrible.
He's been in that way at the hospital.
He took a round to the vest.
And the suspect is being evaluated.
He was not struck by gunfire.
Just right here, are you looking at any terrorist attacks?
Well, as the chief just indicated,
we're very early in this investigation,
but make no mistake.
If there is anything like that, we will find it, and we will file it.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Really compelling today. We are hearing a lot of information.
We heard from the chief acting chief of police in Washington, D.C.,
the U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C., the mayor, as well as secret services
director hearing a lot of information.
We know that the suspect was not shot,
but is in the hospital being evaluated.
We also know the president of the United States
contacted Secret Service agent who was in fact struck
and asked for the nation to pray.
The person is in good spirits.
We also learned a little bit more about
whether they believed this person acted alone,
saying there was no reason to believe
that anyone else was involved.
As the president articulated earlier,
a lone wolf is what they believe happened here.
a number of counts has been already identified
by the U.S. Attorney.
That will change, that will evolve
as more information becomes known.
She has initially raised two,
both including acts of violence,
both felony offenses.
And they both have said that the checkpoint seemed
to have worked.
This person from the video that we saw
and saw it a little bit more,
the video of the person sprinting through the area,
they believe that that area acted
as an effective checkpoint and actually was able
to be a deterrent from more happening,
but we do want to go to John.
Well, hang on one second, let me just
give you a couple of really important details here.
He was armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives.
And as he ran through the checkpoint,
engaged members of law enforcement,
intercepted the individual, and exchanged gunfire,
which indicates that both law enforcement and the individual
did fire.
And then one last piece of information
that we learned right at the very end,
They think the individual is registered as a guest
at the Washington Hilton Hotel where this event
was taking place.
I didn't mean to interrupt.
So John Miller, John Miller is with us now.
I mean, everything you articulated, John, is important.
John Miller, let's talk more about this
because this part of the investigation,
particularly intriguing that this person
is a guest of the hotel.
Remember, this Hilton is not shut down
during the course of this event.
It is an annual event.
It is important to note this is, one could say,
the event attended by the most VIPs in the world tonight.
I mean, almost the entire, at least initial numbers
of the line of succession would be, I mean,
John, I literally, it's vice president, speaker of the house.
We don't know if Chuck Grassley,
the president pro tem of the Senate was there,
but the secretary of state, the secretary of treasury,
the secretary of defense, literally,
Attorney General, you know, almost five of the five
in the constitutional line of succession
was in that room at the same time.
And we know just by the weapons that were being used.
When I hear shotgun, handgun, and multiple knives, John Miller,
I anticipate this person was intending
to exact maximum damage, but also in close proximity
with knives alone.
Talk to me about what you heard.
Well, I'm hearing what you're hearing,
but what I'm seeing here is indicators of a lot of planning.
And when I say a lot of planning,
a lot of advance planning.
First of all, the Washington Hilton is a massive hotel.
And the reason they have that event there
is because it has the biggest ballroom in Washington
that can accommodate the most people.
That said, getting a room at the Washington hotel
on the night of the White House Correspondence Dinner
is nearly impossible unless you book that far in advance,
despite the fact that it's a large hotel.
So we could deduce from that that it is likely
that he thought of this for some time
in order to line up a hotel room in a hotel
that is always fully booked for this evening.
You can also deduce from that the fact
that he had a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives
that beyond-
This is before people figured out the reviews.
Let's take a look at what it looks like now.
It means that he has the privileges of a guest.
And in most of those cases,
the names of the guests are run through
a certain kind of-
You're like bringing a rival to the hotel.
Are known threats to the president.
game is anti-American. But as far as we know from our own research tonight, he
doesn't seem to have a criminal background that would have set off any of
those alarms. Cost twice, cost twice, cost what is newest trust and taxes worth online and local
monthly achievements. I'm staying here and so on, which gives him some access by
getting there and we don't know how far ahead of time he registered. It might
give him a chance to get those weapons into the building and up to the room.
but that many weapons on one person seems to indicate possibly that he would
use the shotgun until it was exhausted of ammunition, toss that aside, transition
through the handgun, when that was exhausted, toss that aside. The idea of
carrying a layered set of weapons, large, smaller, and then smaller, seems to
indicate he was in it for some kind of protected fight as long as he could
go. Now, we're adding a lot of rational thinking to what may be an irrational act, but it
answers the questions or attempts to answer the questions, why all of these weapons, why
be a guest in the hotel. And when you see him do that charge, this is like a football
play. He is trying to run as fast as he can by those layers of security, likely to
get to those doors of that ballroom now that didn't work for him within a split
couple of seconds he was tackled the chief did say exchanged gunfire but it's
still so early whether he got let's get to the fucking conspiracy theories okay
hold on there's more let me close these off I can't believe we're looking at
fucking monkey shine as a statement right before this happened feels like a
lifetime ago yeah so Republicans are you know doing their very best to try to
find trying to find a person to blame instead of transgender and Tifa I'm the
new transgender Antifa. So, yeah, you're welcome trans people. I'll take this one. I'll take
the blame on this one instead. But this part of the story is actually interesting because
not only did I also make a reference about Caroline leave it using maybe some unfortunate
words okay I said what did she know I will tell you this week what did you
know says will shimmer Lane it'll be funny it'll be entertaining there will
be some shots fired tonight. That's weird. That's weird. Okay, she says there'll be some shots
fired tonight. By the way, official narrative is set in 69,000 likes anyway. But it doesn't
end there. Fox is Asia has me has some words about Caroline leave it as well. Let's take
look. Caroline Levin, the press secretary's husband. He was one of our guests. He was
seated right next to me and, you know, right as the dinner was starting, you know, the National
Anthem happened and then he kind of leaned over and said, you know, watch your own TV. You're a
great job. You need to be very safe. And he was very serious when he said that to me.
And he kind of looked around the room and he said, you know, there are some...
What? Sounds like we lost Aisha's phone there and that this happens by what?
That's crazy. Fox is Aisha Hasney. Caroline leaves husband leaned over to me and told me
right as the White House corresponds to dinner is starting. You need to be very safe. He was
very serious when he said that to me. He kind of looked around the room and said there are some
and then the call dropped and then she's still, it's happened an hour and a half ago.
They're saying she still has yet to be back on the broadcast.
By the way, especially when you have so many people attempting to utilize the same cell
service at the same time. I did want to add this while we had a moment. I was just reading.
I want to quickly.
Very interesting, very interesting, very, very, very interesting stuff.
I'm just saying, very strange.
Um, like I said, these two things together, kind of a strange situation.
Tie that up to ballroom false flag, maybe, I don't know, Trump, this is why we need
the ballroom.
We have to have all of the attributes of what we're planning at the White House.
It's actually a larger room and it's much more secure.
It's got it's drone proof.
It's bulletproof glass.
We need the ballroom.
That's why secret service.
That's why the military are demanding it.
They've wanted the ballroom for 150 years.
Also, shooting at the White House,
correspondents dinner and all these cultures instantly start talking about Trump's ballroom.
Here's Governor Jeff Landry, unfortunately the first lady and I had to be evacuated from
the White House Correspondent alongside the President and the entire cabinet.
This event is yet another reason the President Donald Trump's ballroom should be built.
Lives of TikTok.
This is why we need Trump's ballroom.
Megan McCain.
I don't want to hear one more fucking criticism of Trump's new ballroom at the White House.
What is going on, man?
It's very odd how fast these people all just snapped into action.
Half of the talking points were talking about the ballroom.
The other half of the talking points were trying to blame this on Hassan Piker.
strange behavior, very strange stuff. I'm just saying question everything, you know.
Everything
Can we call this the the incident the ballroom blitz yeah the ballroom blitz, baby
Elon's ex already explained there's a voice chat out there. I mean, yeah, I know there's like a group message out there
Where they do get their talking boys. I know that what's also funny about this
This here's another one of these moments, Aaron Rupar has covered Donald Trump every
single day, literally every single day, seven days a week, 24-7, except for when he was in
Butler, Pennsylvania, when he wasn't in Butler, Pennsylvania, when Donald Trump was in Butler,
Pennsylvania.
I was hoping to catch some of the Trump rally, but he's half an hour late and counting,
And I'm going to earthwind in fire in Chicago with my mom. So I think I'm going to have
a front on live coverage. Have a lovely Saturday.
The second time Aaron Rupar has decided not to cover a Trump incident was when he was
at an NBA playoff game tonight and will not be covering Trump's post-government press
conference, which I'm sure will be deeply unsettling and weird. Congrats, America.
What does he know? What does liberal Aaron Rupar know?
I'm just saying this dude is always there he's always covering what is this
Cole Allen bro that doesn't mean anything you guys are so stupid this is a common-ass name dude
Dude, what the fuck?
Come on, come on, come on, at least make this shit stick, you know.
Yeah, Trump posted this, I know I saw.
But yeah, this is the game that he made.
And of course very quickly the community discussion is turned into insane shit
As on the shooters my old neighbor some police and reporters were just at my house
Wait, what the fuck really dude
What does that mean I don't even know what that means anymore the shooter had a father
Other?
Spilled a tea, Shatter, did you meet him?
Shatter, what do you know?
This is insane to post.
fight fight fight I mean yeah they're trying to bro I'm telling you blew it
on is not fucking with this shit look this is the vibes I swear to god this
is the vibes I already called it I'm already front running with this one okay
I'm not
The question I have is where's Usher?
Okay, that's what I want to know.
That's what I want to know.
I fucking, it's nine hours and 30 minutes, folks, okay?
I've had a long ass day.
My brain is kind of doo-doo at this point.
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This is usually when I when my brain starts being do do um what is this this is not me
Me?
LeMont?
E-Rog?
It's crazy.
In this video, you can see the Miller's Fetterman's Hexagon.
Hexagon.
Hexagon.
Hexagon.
Hexagon.
Hexagon.
Hexagon.
in this video you can see the Miller's Fetterman's Hexas and RFK reacting to it but what no you
You can't this is just a CCTV.
Cashing the chair before everything went down with his girlfriend and the shooting.
Oh, oh, you mean like before everything went down with the shooting and also the things
that went down with his girlfriend.
Those are two separate incidents.
That's right.
I forgot.
How could I forget?
That was probably one of the worst instances for Cash.
I mean, he's on the, he's on the verge of getting, uh, uh, insane pool,
cut command center in the hotel.
He's my, my sources on the ground are reporting to me that crash Patel crash
Patel is monitoring the situation from Cuck command center in the hotel. His girlfriend
is still holding the hand of another suspect, a male suspect, the male-styled individual.
Mighty suspicious, Trump has skipped. Every correspondent across the presidency has except
this one all of a sudden there's a shooter in the lobby okay yeah yeah blue one
on is not taking this I'm so I'm telling you cash tonight we getting fired
anywhere any fuck it
Anyway, all right, I think that might be it for me folks. I'm fucking tired
I'm tired as hell
Gaming no gaming brother it has been 10 hours
hours. Almost 10 hours was wrong with you. Almost 10 hours chatter. What the hell is
wrong with you?
All right, I'll see you tomorrow, obviously, hopefully, you know, we'll have more information
And then I'll be live, I'll be in New York starting Monday, got a bunch of stuff going
on.
You already know, Half Day Hossie, Half Day Hossie as always, I love you guys, see you
tomorrow.
Peace.
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