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I've got both of them in the dark, so here we are
The times are coming
I'm listening to the music with no fear
You can hear it too, if you listen to it
I see you sad, girl, and you must get up.
I see you sad, girl, and you must get up.
I see you sagging on streets, and you can't stay on your feet,
And you're thinking in your sleep
You wish that you were deep
You can hear a laughing to myself
If you heard your words, you'd start wanting out
I'm bored with being God.
Seem as learning in my car.
I'm driving to my star.
What's going on, everybody?
I hope everyone's having a fantastic evening afternoon,
We do no matter where you are in the world.
I'm a sound fighter in this house and I broadcast a few lives.
Frogs.
Sunny, New York, New York folks.
That's right.
We gotta tweak my audio a little bit, I think.
But that's right. We are in New York, New York, stolen land. You already know what's up. You
already know what's going on. You already know what it is. We're alive. We're alive.
I hope everyone's having a fantastic one. What's up? What is the turnaround pursuit?
Taylor and I have a way to go to in two weeks. Two weeks should be enough unless
you're going to a very busy Taylor. It depends. You just got to stress to them.
If you have an established relationship with a tailor,
you can get them to push for it.
You can get them to make it expedited.
Anyway, I'm in New York City, ladies and gentlemen.
You already know what's up.
We got a lot going on in the world.
I'm in New York to meet up with Benjamin and Yahoo.
You already know, obviously.
Obviously, that's why I'm here.
What else would I possibly be doing out here?
Well, the real reason why I'm out here is of course, because I am speaking at Cornell University this upcoming Wednesday.
Last time you were in New York, the other Hasan opened the broadcast, right? That's true. He did. But that was a long time ago.
That wasn't last time. That was like one of the times that I was in New York. I've been in New York a lot
But yeah, we're in mom-to-honest and uh, you can feel in the air
Right, it's it's fantastic
Uh, it just feels
It feels like it's a different place like in comparison to the rest of the country
I was I was actually at the airport last night and I saw an old friend of mine
And we briefly talked about this where he's like, yeah, I moved to new york
He loves mom Donnie and this is like this a guy who like manages a lot of you know, very wealthy artists, right?
He's a manager himself
I've known him for years like back when we were both, you know on the come-up, right?
but
But he was talking about you know, how how much he loves mom Donnie as
This rich guy
And I mean, he's just a manager.
He's not like that.
He's not that rich, but still,
like he has a lot of rich clients,
like, you know, celebrity clients and whatnot.
And they just, they fucking love this guy.
They love Mom Donnie.
Anyway, and we were also talking about how
that there's just this attitude shift
when you're in New York, where like everywhere else,
everywhere else around the world, there's chaos.
There's so much going on.
Other parts of the country, the United States of America,
there's so much chaos and commotion.
And then you come to New York and you're like, oh, everything's
fine here.
It's weird.
How is that possible?
So yeah, that's the mom to honest stand difference, I guess.
Aside from that, aside from the good vibes overall, the good vibes that we will be experiencing
because I'm in NYC, I'm currently working on a housing positive for a next democratic
socialist mayor in DC, so positive vibes, that's cool, I was wearing my Metro DC hat earlier.
But it's because nothing phases New York City.
Yeah, I don't know about that. I don't know if I would say that I think it's just that things are doing things are going well in New York City.
Um
Wait, what the hell the fAA has halted or diverted hundreds of flights in boston new york new york philadelphia trending new jersey over at telecoms dude, what the fuck
Did I just get in right at the right time?
I just I just got in this morning
And I guess that was uh
What did you do? Man, what did I do? What did I do? You think I had something to do with this? You crazy?
What do you think is more likely? I did this or they deployed AI or something, you know what I mean?
Because like, look, I haven't been paying attention to the latest and greatest in FAA technology and ATC stuff, right?
But I'm willing to bet that they tried to do AI at the at the air traffic controls instead of hiring the necessary labor force.
They probably tried to do AI at air traffic control and then immediately the AI started tweaking.
And once it started tweaking, when it started tweaking, they had to just shut it down.
Well, there it is.
Never mind.
Aviation regulators turned to AI to help manage the nation's airspace.
Now, I don't know if they've already started doing it or not, but it would have surprised
me.
Let me tell you, it would not surprise me.
It wouldn't have surprised me one bit folks
By the way, I know Dave is watching that's the Hassanabi difference motherfucker he said wow your art your lighting looks so artsy
Yeah, how do we make this happen?
How do we make this happen when you're on the road with me as well David?
It's aesthetic, isn't it? It looks cool. It's got a vintage feel. The entire stream has a vintage feel currently. It almost looks like there's this filter.
Like is this from 2026 or is this a guy that's delivering the news from Argentina in like 1975?
You got a unionized opus lander, David.
No, no, no.
It's a warm patina.
You look like a evil dentist, a hot one, but an evil one nonetheless.
Thank you.
That flat screen definitely giving 1975 vibes. Okay, just ignore the flat screen. I can't, I had to listen. I had very big limitations in the room on how I could block it, right?
Unfortunately, this fucking nonsense had to be there, okay?
So we're keeping it that way
You think I like it and don't
My husband says the suit looks like toothpaste, I don't know what that means bros on evil boss art watching too much man
Man shaking my head. Yeah
I don't like that. This, this corny is cheesy. All right. Well, in any case, we got a lot to talk about personal news wise, I didn't do much. Like I said, I just, you know, into the broadcast packed my stuff.
Packed my stuff
My flight was delayed
Cracked the Z quill popped up her key Charlie Charlie Kirk e-style straight up knocked out
Went to sleep like when I pop when I pop this Z quill let me tell you something
Okay, when I'm off when I'm high off the Z
Okay, what I'm what I'm sipping on that Z
that zee lean
I knock out upright
Before the flight even starts moving before the wheels start turning i'm already passed out
Boom
snap the seat belt
Put the pillow in a in an advantageous position in an ergonomic position to the best of my ability
Put the eye uh mask on
Because I have dude that's let me tell you something that's how you know someone's an experienced traveler
Okay, when they run around with an eye mask
Because I am always ready with the quill and ready with the eye mask boom throw the mask on
knock out
Z quill causes dementia. Eh, I'm already pretty messed up in the brain
This suit ain't suiting. Wait, what? Why?
I'm asking Neck pillow or the towels, but I can't do a neck pillow. It's too much for me. Also, I don't really like the neck pillow.
I don't really like the neck pillow, guys. Controversial opinion, but it just won.
Do you get recognized in airports? Yes, literally nonstop. Are you kidding me? Straight up all the time
It's it's chronic crazy because TSA is where all the Hassanabi heads work at ironically enough is remember
I used to talk mashing about TSA. I don't anymore. There's a reason for it
Because it's all love for the TSA all the TSA boys are Hassanabi heads. They all
They're all in here
So I can't be out here talking shit
Anyway, I don't like the neck pillow because I don't want to look like I
Don't want to look like a dog that just got back from the vet
Who can't stop licking himself? You know what I mean?
That's what it feels like to me when you put that donut it feels like you got the cone of shame on
It's undignified. The suit is perfect, but it doesn't go with a dark blue shirt. Okay.
Hello customer service. Can someone on the songs team let him know he should never
wear this bad outfit again. Listen, man, you're not always going to win. Okay.
Sometimes you're going to swing and you're going to miss. It's fine. It wasn't that bad.
I think people are exaggerating.
Tansuit gate. Dark olive shirt with pale stone khaki suit is worse than 9-11.
The tie, I like the other contacts. It looks good with the mantra green suit.
I'm not a big fan of the suit.
Obama tan suit was fine on
fundamentals though it sounds
after today completely lacks any
color theory execution or
cohesion whatsoever.
You know what I like dressing
like an anime character and
people are not ready for that.
That's what it is. People are not ready for an anime character looking ass.
The color combo is giving recently-diplomited adjunct history professor inadvertently discovers
the government conspiracy and his chaser on New York City by the CIA, KGB, and Illuminati
and has to travel through the LGBT underground to uncover secret society before it conquers
the world alongside a hot sidekick who's more charismatic than you but in an endearing way.
James Kerchic, in defensive guilt by association, the wisdom of judging politicians by the company they keep.
Oh my god, James, get off my dick, dude. Oh my god, James.
I'm not sure what to do with this.
Redditors don't realize it's almost wearing Packers colors and supported America's only socialist team. Thank you. Thank you for nailing it. You got it, right? All right, so.
guilt by association for politicians that eat Benjamin Netanyahu's penis for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Somehow, to me, it feels like this guilt by association smear only is associated with the anti-Israel flank of both parties.
Kind of feels like you got kind of feels like you got a little bit of a bias James
games.
Of course, he's pro Israel.
one of my every one of my haters every single one of my haters unconditionally has got one
axe to grind and one axe only it's Israel that's it straight up guys I have yet to meet
a single person that is an anti Zionist or like a major Israel critic that has been like
Yo, this is song guy is bad news, man. We got to get him out
Every single time
Every single time bar none they could be talking about anything else
Sometimes it's not directly about Israel right because a pack works in mysterious ways as well a pack doesn't always say oh
Don't vote for this candidate because they are bad on Israel as a matter of fact. They never say that right and now
the Israel first politicians and the Israel first
commentators the Israel first consultants
have been doing the same thing, right?
They've been doing the exact same thing.
They talk about like, oh, Hassan loves foreign dictators.
He's bad news.
He loves Al Qaeda.
Like they lie, they slander.
It doesn't matter, right?
They misdirect.
But the entire argument that they're fighting,
the wavelength, the frequency that they're fighting on
is around,
Israel. In any case, let's blast off. Let's get into it.
in NYC. Has Trump visited Zoran yet?
Did that happen yet?
Big Z?
If your GQ wasn't Pete, would you, would they be going this hard now?
Meeting at 4.30, meeting at the mines.
Now is the time to call Trump, you must kiss ass and make up.
Be like Mr. President, you and I have shared enemies.
Mr. President, I've been a long time admirer of yours.
I've called your butt very fat and nice.
I've said you are thick.
I've said you are the thickest.
You're the thickest of all.
You might be the goat.
Mr. President, I wanna say we share enemies.
We have the shared enemies, enemies of mankind,
the fake news media.
Mr. President, I want to start this conversation by moving past your juicy
butt and talking about how dummy thick you are, how you built ass like a bakery.
Okay.
I want to move away from that point and I want to talk to you about something
else. I want to talk to you about fake news and how we have shared enemies, Mr.
President. The established Democrats have lied and slandered you. They've slandered me as well.
CNN, MSNOW, political have lied and slandered you. They've done that to me as well. Mr. President,
I think it's time for us to unite the Red Black Alliance. They talk about a Red Green Alliance,
but it's actually a Red Black Alliance. The brown shirts sent in my way.
Anyway, these are all jokes.
These are all jokes.
Actual good one.
What is this?
Real quick.
I don't have your location anymore.
Is it because I wasn't sharing mine with you?
You should have mine.
I checked.
I do my nightly check and realize I didn't have your location.
Did we need two of this? I think you see how he generalizes women and gay men?
No, you! What? What did he do? I didn't do anything like OCD,
I don't know many people that do nightly checks on where all of their friends are like it's
NSA surveillance.
Did you hear they're going to discontinue Zins?
What I'll die.
I'll die.
I'll end it.
What is happening?
No shot.
Are you going to the UN tomorrow?
Talk to Lula.
I will not be going to the United Nations, no.
I will not be talking to Lula.
I'm not even here specifically for the UN General Assembly.
I'm here because I was supposed to deliver a speech at Cornell
and then my friends that are involved with the UN General
Assembly related events were like, oh, you should come early
and you should actually do some stuff while you're here.
Things like the Bernie rally, for example.
But, um, turn up the mic, please.
Is it low?
Hold on.
Hold on.
What about, what about now?
Is it better?
Is it a little bit higher?
The Bernie rally is, uh, later in the day.
The Bernie rally is going to be later in the day, um, in a couple hours.
Bernie has condomed us on piker right now.
He has not, but anyway, any moment now that condemnation must be coming.
It's imminent.
How else can we find out if someone is a good guy?
How else can we figure out if someone is a good guy or a bad guy, right?
Like Donald Trump, he conned him Hassan.
We know he's a good guy now, right?
That's the litmus test.
Those are the rules now.
What's going on?
Back in the day, you used to measure the might of a man by his actions.
Nowadays, you can only measure them by how hard they disavow Hassan piker.
These are the rules now.
We might not like it, but the true test, we might not like it, but the true test of
a man comes from how hard they condemn Hassan Piker.
Even Reuters is Trump at 32%.
I know he doesn't like the number.
Yeah, yeah, so today, obviously, we're gonna be talking about the Trump administration's
anti-first amendment, anti-free press initiatives, banning CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the
White House press pool, banning them from the White House altogether, and how this has
led to an inadvertent silencing of Donald Trump, which he obviously despises.
Donald Trump is holding an event at the White House right now, but there's no audio because
the press pool isn't there.
The newsmasks host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the repressed
backfiring just a little bit.
Okay.
So there is no microphone because there's no microphone because the pool
cameras aren't there.
So maybe Tim, this is one example of it backfiring just a little bit, um,
pick up on what do you mean?
Bring Nick Shirley in there, man.
Yeah, just, you know what I just realized, by the way,
even with the microphones, you barely,
even with the microphones,
you barely hear what he had to say.
Having banned the TV pool, which is expensive boom mics,
the White House streaming this ribbon cutting,
and you can't hear a single word he's saying.
TV networks argue the pool is mutually beneficial
to the White House, which gets high quality footage
of the president's events.
Trump has fixated on this helipad, but today's footage is unusable because of the poor audio
quality.
Yeah.
I mean, this is what has happened in the past as well for those of you who don't know.
Trump has tried doing this in the past and then the entire press pool obviously pushed
back.
Barack Obama in the past wanted to refuse to give access to Fox News or he had some
drama with Fox News and the rest of the press pool obviously pushed back. It wasn't like
a banning. Like this is unprecedented. Banning major media outlets that previously had gotten
press credentials like revoking them deliberately because you don't like their coverage is new.
That is unprecedented. That is perfectly Donald Trump. So major TV networks, ABC, CBS,
NBC and Fox News have joined CNN in suspending the White House pool coverage of Donald Trump after the Trump administration banned CNN from the White House
Yes, of course Fox News is joining in on it
Yes, they have to guys you need to understand
This is one of those moments where Fox News is doing this not because they like love
free press, even though there are obviously some people at Fox News, especially on the journalism side that like care about this stuff, you know, it's think about Tel Aviv Trey.
Tel Aviv Trey is one of the reporters that is stationed in Israel that unironically was was constantly complaining about Israel's mass slaughter of Palestinian journalists.
Because some of these guys still do care about what the press is supposed to do, right?
So that's one reason.
And the other reason is that they also recognize that if this kind of attitude manifests, then
next time there is a liberal in charge, next time there's a liberal administration, they
will turn around and ban Fox News and that's good for no one, right?
So they are also doing this out of self-preservation.
It is, to a certain degree, a matter of self-interest.
People need to understand that the news media relies on each other for coverage who's in
charge of the White House pool cameras, rotates between major networks.
They all look out for each other when it comes to the pool, yeah.
How the hell does Fox needs to have better morals and solidarity than Ed Sheeran?
Ed Sheeran's bag, and the size of Ed Sheeran's bag relies on him aligning himself with Robert
Kraft.
Fox News' bag relies on them expressing solidarity in this moment so that they are not the ones
who are victimized by this, right?
Good job, President Dumbass.
The press literally only has solidarity for the press.
It's to an almost disgusting degree.
I mean, not necessarily.
No, that solidarity does not extend to Palestinian journalists,
for example, like the expectation is that these people are supposed to respect their
colleagues no matter where they are.
Here's Weijia Zhang, former White House Correspondents Association President.
Weijia Zhang, the current White House Correspondents Association president is Fox News, by the way.
So that also changes around, right?
Actually the networks literally built the infrastructure, the transmit from the White
House.
They're the ones with the resources to do it daily.
That includes a considerable amount for staff, equipment and travel costs.
We then pool footage for other outlets.
It is a public service.
Do you think the same press will be supporting collective action by Walmart employees or GVLU
of Hell knows just for them?
I understand that man.
What are you talking about?
Yes.
They never support collective action in solidarity for labor unions.
They are antagonistic to labor unions.
Their position requires them to be antagonistic to the existence of labor unions and work
stoppages.
Ironically enough, they have their own labor unions.
They sometimes engage in collective action, but it still doesn't matter.
Their output doesn't reflect that solidarity ever.
My point is some different.
I'm explaining it to you already.
It's a matter of self-interest.
You are explaining something that I know and something that I've already said.
So the press pool are the clippers of the White House.
Kind of yes.
You sound quite Southern today.
Oh, I say, I'll say I do the cloud.
I used to work in the broadcast industry.
If folks have no idea how much people are money and equipment go behind just a
normal event, like with the Olympics, NBC's footprint is tiny compared to the
Olympics broadcasting service.
That's right.
That's right.
I mean, people don't even understand how much, uh, how much work goes into this
Twitch stream, right? People don't even understand that and this is like a miniscule version of what
professional media outlets do, right?
This is a tiny version. This is a much much more reduced version of what they do.
Part of it is because we have to be everywhere and we have to have a lighter load
so we can mobilize
expeditiously
So there's different needs right and the quality can be a little bit more reduced in comparison to a
Mainline broadcast, but even then even in this very reduced format
That I that I occupy
This medium that I occupy
There is still a tremendous amount of work that goes on behind the scenes to make this happen
You know, I'm lugging gear around
I'm lugging so much gear around, all around the country.
And people don't really recognize that.
And this is a funny moment, a funny little moment
where Donald Trump is forced to reckon with that reality,
right?
Still better audio than CNN.
Where are you?
I am in New York City, my friend.
New York, New York.
You're also lugging your camera around. Yes. What is up with pulling out the Israeli accent
with the Israeli accent? New disgusting Mike Rogers 9 11 ad bro. He is trying to farm this
So hard
America deserved 9-eleven dude. I'm saying it
We think America then is worth a little kind of pound for pound. Yes, we've caused tremendous terror all around the world
Some of you have heard about my son his name was Todd Beamer
He had little boys age three and a half and one and a half
Get a wife Lisa
She was five months pregnant
They took a vote and decided we need to fight back.
Then they responded to him and he said, okay, let's roll.
Those 43 people on Flight 93 were not victims, they were killed in action.
When I hear anyone suggest America deserves 9-eleven, my question is, who?
I don't like that the implication here is that I'm somehow responsible for 9-eleven and
through transitive property, Abdulal said, is also responsible for 9-eleven.
I don't like that the notion here is that I'm celebrating 9-11, welcoming 9-11.
It's gross.
It's gross.
It's especially gross because Mike Rogers looked at the people who bravely, valiantly
went into the rubble to save lives, many of which died in the process.
And many of those heroes that got lifelong health complications, and when those heroes
were demanding aid, demanding health care, demanding their health care costs be covered,
Mike Rogers voted no nine times, nine different instances.
So for him to turn around and use the memory of 9-11 this way is perhaps one of the
grossest ways that one can do politics in this country. Disrespect of 9-11 heroes
is voting 9 times to deny healthcare to 9-11 first responders. Mike Rogers is not
a serious person. He's right. It's gross and it's also ridiculous because one,
Abdullah Sayed has disavowed my 9-11 comments, but you know who else has disavowed is 9-11 comments those 9-11 comments me
all the way back in 2019
But look that's life. That's politics, right? That's politics, baby
And that's how the Republicans operate, right? They're not going to give grace
They're not going to care about the truth. They're not gonna say like, oh well this guy actually, you know
apologize for the language that he used all the way back in 2019. They're not
gonna do that and why should they, right? But it is important for us to
obviously still fight for that context to explain how much more there is to the
story and how disgusting it is that Mike Rogers, who has actively ruined the
lives of heroes, heroic first responders, by refusing to support the funding of their
medical bills for him to use 9-11 this way is nasty.
But that's not exceptional or unique for Mike Rogers at all, because Mike Rogers'
entire political career has anchored around the weaponization of the memory of 9-11.
Right? He justified a surveillance state, the Patriot Act as a consequence of this.
He wanted to wage war with Iran his entire political career. Now he got his wishes across.
Okay? Now we got his wishes across and people are suffering once again. Not only did Mike Rogers
opposed funding for 9-11 heroic first responders nine times. He also used the tragedy of 9-11
to push for mass surveillance,
an erosion of civil liberties, mass surveillance,
mass surveillance and an erosion of civil.
And an erosion of civil liberties with the Patriot Act,
But also to wage war with Iran.
We now live in Mike Rogers' America.
This is adding insult to injury.
Not only did Mike Rogers oppose funding for heroic 9-11 first responders nine times.
He also used the tragedy of 9-11, he also used the tragedy of 9-11 to push for mass surveillance
and an erosion of civil liberties with the Patriot Act.
He also, wait, hold on.
for Master Vance the Patriot Act and you also use the tragedy of 9-11 to push for Master
Vance the Patriot Act and also to wage war with Iran.
Does X allow enough characters to document Rogers' grossness? No, I'm trying to reduce
just the words that I'm using here, make it less wordy.
We now live in is America
Wants to exploit 9-11 once again
To
Roger's wants to exploit 9-11 once again.
Is that good?
I think that's a good way to do it.
Not only did Mike Rogers, a post-funding for heroic 9-11 first responders, nine times.
He also used the tragedy of 9-11 to push for mass events to Patriot Act and also to wage
war with Iran.
We now live in his America and Rogers wants to exploit 9-11 once again.
9-11 once again, to get back to DC, to go to DC.
All right here a fucking capitalized w shut up. Oh
My god. Oh my god here here here. I'm caving. I'm caving. I'm caving to the little bitches in my chat, dude
My god, please capitalize everything please
Please please
Please capitalize everything please like shut up dude Jesus fucking Christ who gives a shit
Who cares? Who cares?
Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god
God!
So many!
Don't do it. I don't. That's why I like your tweets. Whatever.
Boom.
25,000 backseat drivers, baby.
Now it looks like AI wrote it.
True, did you see his response to Maddie Glacier?
This is pretty good.
Who's response?
Is this your response? How it started? How it's going? This from Jonathan Chate seems
correct. Are you going to comment on your favorite ideal Democrat endorsing Republican
today or are you just going to ignore and pretend it never happened? Choosing to pretend.
Oh, he's talking about Golden. Yeah, this was really funny for him to like say that
John Federman is not a centrist liberal and he's not like the guy for the centrist
Liberals is really funny because many commentators in DC obviously shy away from taking ownership
over what John Federman says and does because they're at least smart enough to understand
that he's gross, right? Even if their, his worldview is identical to those centrist commentators,
they know that he is like a, like a terrible vehicle for a centrist agenda as opposed to,
you know, a Talarico or a John Ossoff. So they always act like John Federman doesn't
exist. There is a product of the left. He's a Bernie Krat, whatever. Right?
Madaglacius is not one of those people. Madaglacius has defended John
Federman after his right wing pivot over and over again, said John
Federman is doing politics the right way. So I find it rather strange that
he's like trying to tie this back to someone like myself. Also Tim
Miller's cooking here as well. We're talking, of course, about Jared
Jared Golden with Mike Lawler. Jared Golden is the most conservative Democrat, classic
spoiler Democrat who is now not only spoiling bills, not only voting alongside and coxing
the Republicans over and over again. And is always the reliable vote the Republicans
need at any given moment, and it's disgusting. But Jared Golden has actually endorsed Mike
Lawler. This is unprecedented. Democrats normally don't reach across the aisle to endorse
against another Democrat, right? Or sorry, endorse against another Democrat. They don't
reach cross the island and also republican against another democrat that's like
it especially in the same caucuses that they're in if they're in the house
if they're in the house of representatives they don't endorse uh... uh... an
opposition figure that's ridiculous
and what makes it even more ridiculous is
mike lala is running against a centrist democrat it's not like mike lala
in new york
in a purple district
at a time when there is
tremendous amounts of discontent
Towards the Trump administration, Mike Lawler is not running against like a super woke progressive person
Mike Lawler is running against the centrist Democrat. This interest Democrat won that primary
Effie Phillips-Staley was our girl in the primary. She lost, right?
The centrist Democrats won that primary. So why is Jared Golden endorsing Mike Lawler who is a Trump Republican?
Why is
Josh Gottheimer
Cosponsoring bills alongside Mike Lawler boosting Mike Lawler's credibility as a reasonable moderate a non-trumpian
a non-trumpian Republican
This is Madaglacius's favorite centrist Democrat
Adam Carlson says, typically moderate Democratic members of Congress from red-leaning districts
and states tend to vote and behave in more liberal ways after they announce their retirements,
given that they don't have to face re-election and vote their conscience.
For some reason, Joe Manchin and now Jared Golden became more moderate and conservative
in their votes and behaviors after their retirement announcements.
All I'm saying is that if you were this moderate and conservative deep down in your
soul all along, there was more of an incentive to be this moderate and conservative
while you were running for something.
It makes sense for someone like M.G.P. since she's running again, yeah, except Adam Carlson
is falling for the same trap.
Marie Gluzon Camp Perez, Marie Concentration Camp Perez is this person.
And once her career is over, she will continue playing the role of a spoiler.
But a lot of these centrists aligned, you know, Adam Carlson is a liberal pollster,
right?
I wouldn't say he's like super, super left or anything, but he's like pretty,
He's definitely further to the left in the average pollster, but like, he still doesn't
get it.
These guys are not moderating because they want to win their elections.
They're moderating maybe from the right.
They're not leftist or they're not center left and they're moderating or pivoting to
the right to win elections.
They're actually more right wing than you think they are.
And they're not like fully leaning into it because people would know that they're
fraudulent and would never vote for them again. Yeah, this is the moderate
Republican, of course. Mike Lawler in college doing blackface, right? Has gotten
almost half a million dollars from APEC. That's another big motivator for a lot
of these guys, of course, because these guys are lackeys to the state of
Israel and Mike Lawler is a I guess somewhat more reliable Republican vote for the state of Israel
than a reliable Democratic centrist vote for the state of Israel so that also plays a role in
this calculation as well that's precisely the the reason why idiot you say America deserves 9-11
and a buddy it's not 2019 anymore, okay?
Federmann's a different case,
but his turn to the right has basically confirmed
he will never win a statewide election again.
Yeah.
But why didn't Manchin wait to vote against Biden
judges until after he announces retirement wise gold and doing all these
backstabbing rules votes and endorsing republicans who aren't even that
particularly moderate
is very clear even
uh... that the time that cinema was very clearly lining up her next gig in
tech financial services fear yes that's what it is these guys are not
interested
in legislating
their disgusting monsters
their their their role is to play the role of a spoiler
they do not get elected
to legislate alongside Democrats,
they get elected to legislate against Democrats,
to be the rotating villain.
And here's the real story, you wanna know?
The real story.
Hakeem Jeffries will complain about this, okay,
because obviously it eats away at his majority,
and therefore it eats away at his personal power.
So this is a frustrating move from a, you know,
prominent Democrat in his, a prominent Democrat that he's defended at times, right?
Well, Higginjewries knows that this is who Jared Golden is.
Every Democrat with institutional power understands that this is the game.
They get it.
They know that that's the game.
And they rely on you not realizing that that is the game.
That's how they continue with this rotating villain structure.
It's not an accident that there is always enough votes to follow along the uniparty
agenda, whether it be funding the military further and further, funding ICE, giving more
money to ICE, no matter how violent it is at a time when people are begging to
defund ice begging to abolish ice
i don't think the rotating villain applies the golden and gp here rotating
villain is the idea that democratic leadership appoint someone to take the
legislations of the caucus can save face while voting against progress
these guys are voting against things that the leadership doesn't want them
to vote against rules votes night i know
I'm saying that this is now the new evolution
of the rotating villain.
We have snakes.
The rotating villain has always played the role
of a spoiler, but now they are expanding in their capacity
and they're actively aiding and abetting the Republicans
beyond the legislation,
beyond the legislative hurdles that they throw forward in an effort to create a uniparty,
like this is it, they're just republicans, but they have a D next to their name and if
the rotating villain structure works in that regard, regardless, right, this is just the
evolution of that, the John Federmans of the world, John Federmans in some respects
is a little bit of a trendsetter. If you want to call him a more aggressive version of like
Republican with a D-next to their names, John Federman kind of took the, uh, Joe Manchin
and the Kyrsten Sinema move and evolved it into this new thing where he can just be a Republican
and act as though he's a Republican all the time.
And that, you know, Democrats don't know how to deal with it.
I think these guys have realized that they can push the envelope even further, not just
like deliberately spoil certain votes at the behest of the leadership, but even take it
beyond.
Yes, we'll be talking about the state attorney generals and how the California attorney general
actually cooked the Ellison merger in the state of California totally spiked it.
And yeah, John Federman will not swap parties because, and it's the same reason why mansion
would never swap parties.
Same reason why cinema would never swap parties.
They're more valuable with a D next to their name
as a permanent spoiler in the coalition.
If Federmann swaps parties,
all of a sudden we need 52 votes, right?
We need 52 in the Senate.
Simple majority won't cut it.
But if Federmann is always there,
He's a permanent spoiler and he's a permanent fixture as a consequence of his status on Fox News
He gets more fundraising that way. It's the same with Joe Manchin
People would say oh Joe Manchin had to be this right wing in order to win his seat. No one else can do it like him
Except Joe Manchin could still be whipped to vote a certain way
But he was never whipped to vote alongside these, you know
signature agenda items of the Biden administration, he should have been threatened with committee
position revocations in order to ensure his continued support to the Democratic Party's agenda.
This is not even my agenda. This is their agenda, right? I'm not a Democratic Party operative.
I think the Build Back Better stuff, the IRA, like they were all right, but they didn't push the
needle as hard as I wanted it to.
There were plenty of betrayals along the way, but even then Democrats didn't adequately
whip those votes and didn't threaten Joe Manchin.
And his removal from certain committee positions, things that he cares about.
Joe Manchin wasn't leaving the party because Joe Manchin as a Democrat is far more important
and can fundraise far more off of a Democrat's spoiler
as a Democratic Party spoiler than he could as,
yet another West Virginia Republican.
Why does the DNC leadership not do more
or oust the records that the records aren't doing
what the party leadership wants?
Well, think about it like this.
The DNC criticizes one formation quite frequently, those to the left, when Cory Bush says, I'm
not voting for this because it's not, it doesn't go far enough.
I'm not voting for this legislation because it doesn't go far enough.
It doesn't offer some of the things that my constituents desperately need.
She's punished for it.
She got replaced by APAC, right?
Democrats allowed that to happen.
They did not actually play ball with Cori Bush, instead they saw her as a spoiler.
But Democrats never see their right flank as the true spoilers that they are.
So it leads us to believe that they like it.
That's it.
Democrats do not treat their right flank in their own caucus as spoilers even though
their right flank spoils legislation all the time.
That's because they like the right wing spoilers.
They hate the left wing fighters.
You don't understand Manchin and West Virginia politics.
He was always a West Virginia Democrat.
West Virginia was Democratic in the 1900s, but it's not anymore.
It was the last bit of power in that old corrupt West Virginia Democratic Party.
I understand that, but that also gave him a lot more look.
If you think that Joe Manchin wasn't serving his own individual interests as playing the
role of a spoiler and instead was like serving his constituents, you're delusional.
You're not wrong.
You're not wrong about what Joe Manchin was and the space that he occupied, but
that gave him a lot more liberties.
He could have absolutely aligned himself with the agenda of Joe Biden.
Anyway, statement attributed to House Democratic leader Akeem Jeffries says, Mike Lawler is
a partisan hack, and a Trump sycophant who Kate Conley will defeat in November.
In desperation, he's pedig a 11th hour endorse from retiring Congress member who represents
out of town district more than 400 miles away. The smoke and mirrors ploy will do nothing to
change the outcome of the race. The election will be decided by the people of Westchester and the
lower Hudson Valley. Mike Lawler is an unadulterated phony who has never shown bipartisan courage
when it matters. He voted to rip Medicaid away from the people he represents, continue to
represent the reckless war of choice in Iran and blindly supports the Trump terrorists that
have raised costs on hard work in America by $1,000 per year. Kate Conley is a combat
veteran of patriot who's fighting hard to lower the high cost of living and forever wars in the
middle east and deliver real results for the people. Michael Auler can try to run from his
extremist record. We will never let him hide. Yeah, I mean, it's, uh, uh, Kim Jeffries is
really angry. Well, you designed it like this, man. My brother in Christ, you made the sandwich.
This is the shit sandwich that you made. There were plenty of off-ramps for
Golden. You could have punished him in the past. But you created this unique
opportunity for him to be a spoiler. And now he's continuing along that spoiler
agenda till the very last moment. Tim Miller is getting radicalized. He says
Because these anonymous House Democrats are radicalizing me, Lawler has been a complete
Trump shill who has done nothing meaningful to slow his agenda, and Kate Connelly is
a mainstream Democrat.
What the fuck are you doing?
I don't know who this is, but Lawler is not only beatable, but in fact a clear underdog
for reelection of 4th House Democrats said they didn't disapprove of Golden's move
because I don't think Lawler is beatable.
I'm gonna respond to Tim Miller and say I wonder who in the house has co-spot co-authored
Legislation with Lawler and routinely goes on TV with him to attack the left flank who'd
have loyalty to him.
It's gotheimer. It's josh gotheimer of new jersey.
Okay. That's who we know who it is. We know who it is.
Mike Lawler, he's like a limp dick. You can't beat him. Yes, you can. Mike Lawler is beatable.
Kate Conley is now a fan of mine. Kate Conley is a centrist Democrat. But let's be real,
this absolutely is loyalty from Israel first Democrats because Mike Lawler has been a reliable
ally on that issue, and Kit Conley probably would be too, but they just don't want to
fuck over their boy.
Their homies.
Their homies, their friends, their besties.
All right, let's get to some other stuff now.
Meanwhile, President Trump's approval dips even further.
Now his approval is at 32 percent and his disapproval is up 4 at 66 percent.
This is his lowest approval by Ipsos in either term.
17 percent only approve on cost of living.
That is the real reason why Donald Trump and his approval ratings are in tatters.
Every time I look at this stream it's about Israel.
Not like this.
You're right.
I apologize.
Everybody going forward when I see a coalition forming along those boundaries in order
not to offend the sensibilities of Makato 90, I will refuse to say the name of the country.
This is in a political stream. We can't say the name Israel. We can't use the name Israel
because it offends certain sensibilities. I apologize. My mistake also Israel is a reliable
ally. I love it. It's my favorite country of all time. It's the most moral nation on the
planet. His Roach logs. David Starbros, Israel, fuck him, Associated Press or OGs. Hey, I
speak German, 100% climate change defrosting is a thing. Like old Germany. Once again,
German Chatter, a MAGA-euroid LARP-er, who is an Asmongolf-en, lo and behold.
This one is actually salvageable if he says the Associated Press is good.
He's at least not like fully invested in the MAGA shit.
But of course it's a European Union cuck.
Oh my god, disgusting.
Why is it always some fucking moron in the some moron on the European continent that has internalized the
vassalization of the entire continent so aggressively that they are larping as a fucking maga supporter in
american news broadcasts
always in the comment section
you know a lot of people go all indian box indian box
right whenever there's like something happening the big all indian box or a
foot
no man
it's european box
it is
europeans
who think America is the primary defender of western civilization. It's like the European
right. It's the European right that want to protect Israel more than anybody else. It's
the European right that want to protect the Trump administration more than anybody else.
Even when they're getting fucked over by Trump, it doesn't make any sense. You wish
she lived here dumbass, what in Europe? I live in the greatest country on earth, baby.
They're an AFD voter, they are MAGA supporter, nationalist, cuck to another country's nationalism.
It's just so interesting because like AFD is this ultra nationalist right wing party,
there's like literal Holocaust deniers in their ranks, right?
And they're still like, they're like, oh, if we want to denies a Holocaust,
But also at the same time, yeah, you know, Israel is our most important ally.
I just like, how does that even make sense?
I don't understand.
And those guys will turn around and say, I'm an anti-Semite.
It's like, bro, anti-Semitism is a foundational part of, you know, your, your movement.
None of it makes sense anymore.
It, like, it reminds me of the fact that so many Gropers, so many neo-Nazis in
the United States of America are Mexican or of Latin American descent.
or brown. It doesn't make any sense, but such is the nature of fascism, B.E.I. fascism now.
As meeting with Mayor Mondani at Gracie Mansion, Christina Fein joins us live on the Upper East Side with more on what to expect, Christina.
Well, Mary, this will be President Trump's first time stepping inside Gracie Mansion as president.
The two leaders are expected to meet behind closed doors at four this afternoon.
and behind as you can see the NYPD and the Secret Service already establishing a very
heavy security perimeter around Gracie Mansion. This will be the third time President Trump
and Mayor Mamdani are meeting face to face. A spokesperson for the Mayor's office says
the talks will focus on issues affecting New York City and New Yorkers, but it's
unclear what specific topics will be on the agenda. At their last meeting in
February Mayor Mamdani pitched President Trump on securing more than $21 billion in federal
grants to deck over Sunnyside Yard in Queens and try and create 12,000 new affordable housing
units.
Political analysts say this rare dynamic between a Democratic socialist mayor and a Republican
president stems from both trying to use the other person's influence to get results.
We've known that the president loves winners and he loves being around celebrity.
I love JC Polanco being forced to basically eat mom Donnie's ass here because we know he's
a huge hater of not only mom Donnie myself as well this fucking manlet.
This guy is like this guy is a arch nemesis perhaps my tiniest arch nemesis in New York
media but he has to just sit there and be like well you know Mamdani is very
popular I hate it but he is and right now there's an aura around the mayor so after
tomorrow's meeting we're gonna see both of them use their leverage to be able to
get the most out of each other. Today's meeting also comes under a heavy cloud of
foreign policy tension specifically over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's
visit to the city for the UN General Assembly. Mamdani previously called for
Netanyahu's arrest over international criminal court warrants, a move President Trump immediately
rejected. Large scale demonstrations are planned for later this week when Netanyahu is scheduled
to speak on Thursday. The mayor has said he does not plan to participate.
Yeah, I mean, look, I want to say this is like a betrayal in the way that some people
presenting it, but let's just say I'm not super fond of this, like, I wish that, I wish that the
mayor would use his popularity to galvanize the base a little bit further, right? Then again,
if the trade-off in this situation was to, I don't know, disband the SRG instead of having
them crack the skulls of people who will inevitably protest against Benjamin Netanyahu on the streets
of New York, but he doesn't go out and protest himself then I would take that trade off.
But ultimately, yeah moments like this do
to cause me to, it's not just this instance, but it's just like a compilation. We'll see
what happens. We'll see what happens with this meeting, right? I'm not going to shit
on him. I'm not going to shit on him. I just uh, I'll say it, I'll say it like this.
There is real apathy that Democrats create when they get into positions of power and
refuse to fight, refuse to legislate, refuse to do what they said they would do.
And my expectation from the left is to never give up on that and to never generate apathy.
create, never create apathy for the left because like our, our cause is to have bold fighters.
Our cause is first and foremost to elect democratic socialists who are unapologetically democratic
socialists, but then those democratic socialists win their elections and also engage in good
governance and then we associate good governance with democratic socialism. We build confidence
in good governance amongst the masses that no longer believe that the government is there
to help them, right? And I do worry, I do, I do worry sometimes in spite of these sequence
of electoral victories that have come in the aftermath of Zoran delivering on key promises of
his agenda. And he is a fantastic marketer as well, which I think a lot of people understand
and correctly identify. Because like, what Zoran has done that's different than any other
centrist democratic mayor or whatever, is the fact that no matter how little his accomplishments
may be, or no matter how large, he's always marketing.
He's always promoting the New York institutions, right?
Whether it be sanitation, whether it be public transit, whether it be himself, they're
plugging plot, they're filling potholes and then immediately promoting it.
They're plowing the snow and immediately promoting it.
good. That's a good thing, right? That's a really good thing. He's very successful in marketing
himself. He's very successful in marketing the municipalities. This was missing from the
Biden administration. And it's a necessary thing to do, especially if you want to associate
democratic socialism with good governance. So he's not only doing sewer socialism, but he's also
showing that he's doing sewer socialism.
And it is important to acknowledge this, right?
Edinger Mentham is right when he says, in my opinion, the way Mamdani has transformed himself
from a pretty broadly unpopular figure nationally before the election into one
of the rare net popular political figures in America through his governance might be even
more impressive than his actual win in 2025. We've seen big change motivated upsets at the
expense of an out of touch establishment countless times during the Trump era. What we
hadn't seen is someone being compelling while governing after that, but that's exactly what
Zoran has done. And I think a big part of the reason why is ironically because of the
independent media backing him, the fandom that he has generated amongst the youth.
And that also comes from his his good governance, but also from marketing his good governance, right?
This is good. Pothole politics. It's good.
Yeah, if you recall, this was one of my main criticisms of the Biden administration.
I used to say it all the time when Biden was president. I said whenever Biden did a good thing, nobody would ever fucking know about it
Whenever Biden did a good thing nobody ever heard about it
Right
But if his popularity is increasing due to his pothole politics and his and his you know
personality, and his storytelling, I worry that other Democrats and other, not even Democrats,
because you know, the centrist Democrats weren't going to be on our side anyway, but I worry that
other left Democrats that are winning in their districts, I worry that they're going to look
at the Zora method and be like, well, we can also shave off the foreign policy element of our
agenda and cast it aside so that we can be as popular as Zoran is by doing good constituent
services and promoting it and marketing it, which is better than a centrist Democrat,
but that's not enough.
We don't simply want good Democrats.
We want socialists.
We don't want simply to elect good legislators.
We want to elect Socialist legislators.
We want anti-imperialists.
We want to move the conversation in the largest podium of legitimacy away from endless and
senseless American bloodshed overseas at the cost of domestic pain here to a conversation
that changes the American trajectory.
We do not want Zoran to play the role of Barack Obama and to soften the approach of American
socialism.
And I say this as someone who loves Zoran Mamdani.
I say this as someone who was there from the beginning, right?
We were there door knocking for Zoran.
We cannot let go of our revolutionary spirit, and we cannot cast aside our appetite for change
at the behest of doing good governance.
This is why I was very clear when I was pushing for the New York City DSA slate, I said,
Our goal is to make Zoran seem unexceptional.
To make sure that there is a Zoran in every district, in every local race, in every municipality,
and to make it seem like he's just a regular guy.
He's just a regular politician.
That's your biggest problem. You created such a huge movement and what happened, everyone
went back to work. No, I mean, our struggle continues. Our work continues. This doesn't
end. That's what I keep trying to stress. It's not just about getting Democrats elected
who call themselves socialists is about holding them to account as well.
Yeah, the word I use wasn't unexceptional.
The word I use was unremarkable.
If Bernie inspired candidates like Zoran, I wonder who Zoran will inspire to run in
ten years.
There is that element of it, but remember, Bernie inspired Zoran at a time when Bernie's
message was genuinely considered radical in DC.
i think a lot of people forget that like throughout bernie's career he has
shown support to the sandinistas
he has praised fetal castro
like bernie was a radical back in the day he's no longer as radical will see
what is form policy speech is gonna look like tonight
but bernie always had that edge
he obviously shaved a big chunk of it when he ran for president
And he kind of ran away from that.
I mean, this man went to the US and Saurfer as honeymoon.
Okay.
That's a big deal.
That's a commitment to internationalism and to say, look, these guys are not
our enemies at a time when the Cold War was waging.
That's huge.
Again, Bernie now versus Bernie back in the day, two different Bernie's.
Bernie did also defend Castro's literacy programs in the 2020 primary.
Michael from Pennsylvania Central Committee is correct.
But yeah, Bernie Sanders has always been that guy.
He's been that guy, okay?
He's been that guy.
He's been the OG for a reason.
So we must also make sure that our socialist electeds are pushing the envelope.
Asante, did you see Deborah Messing's Insta story about you?
No.
I don't look at insane people.
Or at least I try to shy away from insane people in their posts about me.
There's plenty of them in the realm of real politics with actual political power that are
constantly chirping about me.
I don't care about some washed up celebrity.
the
We'll see how this meeting will, we'll see what will happen in the meeting.
It's going to happen soon.
I don't think there's a press pool there, but who knows?
Are we being too demanding of Zoran? Or should we expect more? No, I always expect more.
I always expect more. I don't think it's too demanding. Every day that, look, Zoran's
been great. Zoran's been great for this movement. Okay, I'm not undermining that accomplishment.
I'm not, uh, I'm not going to sit here and act like he hasn't been fantastic.
He's very popular.
Okay.
But you should never ask yourself, are we being too demanding of a politician?
Right.
If we're going to demand things and hold accountable, we must also be able
to protect and defend.
They go hand in hand.
You do both.
Exactly.
I, I always, I think I'm very fair.
I push and pull.
If there's things that our electeds do that I don't agree with, I criticize them, but when our electeds are under attack unjustifiably, of course I pounce, of course I defend them.
Same with Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
When there's something worthy of criticism that she has done,
I criticize it, I critique it.
When people are unjustly attacking her for
something she hasn't done with misinformation,
I push back on it.
I also understand that the delicate nature of governance in
an unbelievably reactionary environment and
hostile media environment, in a reactionary environment, I understand what it's like to be a prominent Muslim mayor, a
prominent Muslim socialist mayor, and
and, you know, what kind of avenues attack open up as a consequence of that, I even understand it for a Muslim senator,
insha'Allah, the first Muslim senator, Abdul Rahman Muhammad al-Sayed.
Right?
There's nuances in this critique. I don't, I don't just like take, uh, I don't take silly stances. I don't take these silly stances where I'm like, oh, AOCIA, like, whatever.
There are weaknesses there and there are tremendous strengths there and there's also opportunity for our movement broadly, even with imperfect allies.
Okay?
at the end of the day, Zoran is still just a political tool to enact our agenda. We can't
and afford to get too wrapped up in the cult of personality around our elected officials 100%.
Good luck explaining that to people who anchored their movement and anchored their leadership
not around outside forces but instead around celebrity politicians though.
This is unfortunately a big weakness in American socialism.
The great legitimizer for American socialism are elected representatives, and elected representatives cannot always move the needle.
Elected representatives have to govern.
And as a consequence of that, sometimes they're going to compromise.
We as, you know, the voters, we as the base, should not change our calculation at the behest of always defending our elected representatives.
Motherfucker, you're describing yourself?
Am I an elected representative? What are you talking about? What the fuck?
what the fuck. I serve the same purpose as our electeds, ultimately, if they are socialists
and they're trying to advance American socialism, but I am not anchored by or weighed down by
the same considerations that they have. This gives me more opportunity to push the needle.
This gives me more opportunity to change the Overton window.
This gives me more opportunity to develop and build a much broader, much larger base.
But let's be real, there's also the other side of this, like our electeds, once they
get that legitimacy, should also not shy away from defending the mouthpieces of the
movement either, not that, you know, I expect them to do so in this media shit
storm. But there's definitely a way to communicate around this. Anyway, while in
New York City, I'm on the way to one of my favorite places in the world, Gracie
Manchin. I spent lots of hours there over the years with some great mayors, some
average mayors, and some bad mayors. It will be interesting to see how it looks
now, invited by Mayor Mum Donnie. Look forward to it. Make New York City
great again, President Donald J. Trump. He seems very excited. He seems giddy
to see Zoram. It is pretty funny how much he loves Zoram on Donnie though. That is pretty
awesome. Sorry but Prentice scorned him for good reason. Moffa, could you describe yourself
your Google ID for Electeds? Yes dude, I know. I know. I am a CIA operative, a Democratic
party sheepdog, but also a too dangerous and too radical to be associated with any elected
representative who must be protected from the dangers of being associated with this
movement until they fucking need to get elected, until they need to make a name for themselves
when they're an unknown entity, at which point they will come and hug and kiss, okay?
I know.
I'm all of those things at the same time.
And perhaps, perhaps there's truth to both, okay?
Yes, I have laid out my theory of change over and over again a million times over.
Perhaps I've explained it a million times over.
Elections are great opportunities to launch our platform, okay, to create an environment
of acceptability for socialist politics and socialist selecteds.
But it doesn't work if socialists elected betray that higher purpose that they're supposed
to serve.
Not saying the Zoran is by the way, I'm not saying that at all.
I'm everything to everyone.
It's ironic because being everything to everyone, I'm being pretty open about my goals here and
what I'm trying to accomplish here has allowed me to continue withstanding tremendous amounts
of attacks and build a much larger base of support that continues to grow while also
simultaneously it's uh it's it's also the reason why i'm getting attacked endlessly
you are the tank for all these people and much like the democratic party that
I think that unappreciated it's frustrating to watch play in lies.
Anyway, we cannot let our electeds, socialist electeds, soften the revolutionary potential.
It sounds strange to say, but a part of the problem is that our most popular, our most
popular figureheads happen to be elected representatives, right?
And elected representatives in a bourgeois democracy, in a liberal capitalist democracy
are still going to serve those interests because there's only so much they can do.
There's only so much they can move the needle. They can't do it alone.
They need a broad base of support. But I worry sometimes, you know how like AI trains on bad
data that AI has hallucinated because they've just, they've been able to spread far and wide.
So now when the AI crawlers are getting in new information, they're getting the hallucinated bad
data sometimes when they're training themselves and they're training their newer models. I worry
that every instance of socialist elected that plays a role in capitalist governance will
create a newer wave of socialist elected that will still be more focused on social democracy.
I worry about that because we got to move leftward every single time.
And not move to the right.
Anyway, speaking of other things, let's get to what's going on in the universe with Donald Trump.
Donald Trump. I briefly covered this. CNN, MSNAM, political are suing the Trump administration
over the White House ban. It's obviously led to some very funny moments like Donald Trump.
I covered it earlier. Donald Trump is not getting his big media moments.
Because the White House press pool is no longer there.
But let's see what CNN, MSNOW and political are doing.
Trump's kicked out of the White House press room by President Trump, say they will go
to court to get back in.
CNN, MSNOW and Politico are filing a lawsuit after their journalist showed up to the White
House on Saturday, but were denied entry and their press passes confiscated and
deactivated.
Nancy Cortes is at the White House with the latest on this.
Nancy, good morning.
They already filed a lawsuit.
Gail, the three news outlets say they are filing this lawsuit today and that it calls
for this ban to be undone and their access to the White House restored.
In a statement a short time ago, the three outlets said that left unchallenged this
move by the president threatens press freedom and the public's right to independent journalism
free from government interference.
And you mentioned it, Gail.
We watched over the weekend as reporters from CNN, MSNOW, and political all tried to enter
the White House to do their jobs, but when they went through security, their badges didn't
work.
They were confiscated by the Secret Service, and the journalists ended up reporting from
outside the White House gates instead.
Now, why these three outlets in particular were targeted is still unclear.
The president didn't cite any specific inaccuracies in their reporting.
He just said he was sick of negative coverage.
And many other outlets since then have spoken out against this ban and First Amendment experts
have called it unconstitutional.
Now the president's move did come after a week of bad headlines for him across the board
from many outlets.
Diesel prices hit a record high almost every day due to the Iran war.
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates against his witches and multiple polls showed
that Trump.
Oh shit.
After briefly sitting down, briefly sitting outside the Gracie mansion to wave for
Mayor Zoran Mondani, President Donald Trump's meeting.
The press has been given the boot to wait by the East River instead.
Ooh.
It might get streamed then, the meeting.
Too scared to respond.
Okay, guys, stop.
Like, look, look, look, look, look.
Zoran calls Trump a fascist who is facing the White House. That's good, right? That's good.
But, I also have to mention something here, right? Who you align with and what you're doing matters.
I'm sorry, but if you are literally linking up with a genocide there, Donald Trump, who's responsible for the Iran War,
while simultaneously saying I'm not arresting Benjamin and Yahu even though I said I was gonna try to do it and then turn around and say
I'm not even participating in the protests
Like you're basically saying you're you're laying
You're let your you're you're basically telling people like one is acceptable one type of politics is not acceptable
Okay, that's kind of where I'm at with this like I don't expect Zara Mamdani to be an activist mayor or whatever the fuck
I think he's doing a great job overall, but it would be nice if he just gave more recognition
Tried to do more about like land sales of right illegal land sales that are taking place in synagogues out of New York City. There's already
Legislation you're a weak person. This is what weak people do wait what agreed for any critic I have a zonah would never say
What?
I'm confused you're giving me mixed signals here
I don't think he's weak necessarily, but I think he's airing on the side of caution perhaps a little bit too much, right?
I wouldn't say he's weak, but you're signaling to people, to the people that voted for you, to the people that doorknocked with you,
to the people that protested alongside you for many, many years, you're signaling to them that, you know, you're...
You know, you're, you're, you are more comfortable associating with the president, understandably,
you're going to do that as the mayor, right?
But you should do the push and pull that you did while calling him a fascist.
Does that make sense?
Like, going to the White House is good.
Getting concessions from Trump is really good.
Brilliant move.
Leaning into his narcissistic tendencies
by showing that Donald Trump rebuilds New York City,
that press thing that they did,
that was excellent maneuvering.
I straight up told him to his face as well,
I was like, that was so fucking smart, okay?
So smart.
Fantastic, fantastic way to approach the issue.
That was phenomenal.
Getting a New York resident out of ICE detention
by directly demanding it from the president, fantastic move, right?
This, on the other hand, perhaps is airing on the side of being too cautious
in an effort not to rock the boat. We'll see how this meeting pans out, though.
We'll see how this meeting turns out. We'll see what he gets out of it, right?
Because Donald Trump needs Zoran's popularity and his legitimacy around the issue of affordability.
Just as much as Zoran needs to not draw anger and resentment from the Trump administration because Trump is a very petty tyrant and he can just like, you know, sick ice resources and ice agents in New York City, which they've already been approached.
They've already been operating inside of New York City.
it's kind of obama has been afraid to draw anger due to his race etc it's ironic you're
You're not wrong. That is part of the problem. Yes.
I thought Zaron quite literally didn't have the power to arrest BB.
He doesn't.
That was already the case from the start.
I wish you could just like gum up the works a little bit further though.
You have a good point. Sometimes you do events to point back to it in the
media opportunity. I just don't know what it's for.
I hope people understand. I'm not saying this is a bad thing to meet with Donald Trump. I'm not saying it's bad
I'm saying that if you're gonna do that, it's a push and pull right you can't on the one hand be like
Oh, I'm welcoming Donald Trump to Gracie Manor. He's the president. Of course, you're gonna do that
But also simultaneously you're gonna be like, oh, I'm not protesting Benjamin Netanyahu's appearance in New York City
Like your presence in a situation like that is a galvanizing force a legitimizing force
use it. It's really not even about Zoran community organizations that fight for anti-imprison
don't have the power to force Zoran's hands. Same with policing. Zoran is so good on tenants
because tenant unions do have that power in New York City. We only will get what we've
organized to take.
I see that if this is dual power or if it's an inside outside push, sometimes you got to,
you know, sometimes you got to give hype to the girls you brought to the dance.
Okay.
Sometimes you got to dance with who brought you to the dance to begin with.
Do you see what I mean?
And here is the big man himself, and the reason I want them to know that is I also want them
to hold me accountable to that from the very first day that I'm the mayor.
Because that accountability, that relationship is one that we have to bring back to get
people to actually believe in the possibility of local politics.
But I think there's also something else, which is it's not quite in your question, but I've
also just heard it a bunch in a similar vein, is this notion, especially for us on the left,
that if we don't run for executive positions, then we're not responsible for what happens,
that we are not culpable in the immense contradictions that come with this kind of role.
And I fully believe that we're responsible whether or not we're in power.
We are still New Yorkers.
We are still allowing this to take place.
And we are best served by actually grappling with these contradictions directly and doing
everything in our power to deliver that which we've seen so many of our neighbors be denied.
It's crazy how much your beard is grayed through this video.
Yeah, this was only what, two years ago?
Or at this point, is it three years ago?
I don't even fucking know anymore.
was this? This was on April 10th, 2025. Okay? Only a year ago, a year and a half ago.
One and a half years ago, it was a lifetime ago.
And I have, I have aged rapidly in that process. We've achieved tremendous gains.
Before Andrew Cuomo attacks and all your troubles started, I know. That's the other side of the
story. It's like, God, my life could be so much easier if I never fucking entered,
entered more aggressively the political arena. Jesus Christ. Sucks. But nevertheless, our
work continues. Okay, all right, getting back to the Trump petty tyrant, you know, anti
First Amendment shit is seeing higher disapproval ratings of his handling of the economy, inflation
and even immigration. Now, here's one big unknown this morning. CNN was scheduled to
serve as the TV pooler for the day, accompanying the president on Air Force One to New York
city on behalf of all five TV networks, including on behalf of CBS News. This is something that
happens every day. There's a rotation. Now, the White House has not listed a replacement
pooler for today. So as of right now, it appears there will be no TV network on board,
which is unheard of on a domestic trip like this, Nora. Nobody to transmit video and
information back to the public on behalf of those five networks.
That's a really big deal, Nancy, as someone who's covered the White House, too.
Keep us posted.
Thank you.
Breaking this morning, a First Amendment showdown.
Three major news organizations kicked out of the White House press room by President Trump
say they will go to court to get back in.
Reporters from CNN, MSNOW, and political all tried to enter the White House, but
when they went through security, their badges didn't work.
You get so tired of reading and seeing fake news.
Are you trying to intimidate the president?
No, no, no, no, I dislike dishonest press like you, I think you're terrible.
Well, four major US news networks are now pulling the rug from under Donald Trump's feet,
suspending their White House pool coverage of the president in solidarity with the White House
banning journalists from CNN, MSNOW and Politico from their grounds. Over the next
10 minutes we'll tell you what the White House pool is why journalists have been banned whether it
violates the US Constitution and where all of this is actually heading. But first let's rewind
just a couple of days to Donald Trump announcing that he was banning journalists from those three
major US news agencies. Here's what he wrote on social media just on Friday.
I am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning fake news, CNN, MSNOW and Politico
from the White House as a result of their constant reporting fake news. Media outlets
shouldn't be able to constantly write or report fiction and lies when they're covering
the president of the United States, the Trump administration or the United States of America.
Well, there's no one better to explain all of this than our chief North America correspondent
Gary O'Donoghue and Gary was there a single bit of reporting the goddamn he lost so much
weight, dude prompted this ban in the first place.
No, not according to the president.
He says it was cumulative and it's a cumulative.
This guy lost so much weight, dude.
It's crazy.
He looks like totally different.
Yes, he, you know, let's say he has an interesting look to him, okay. He always has, but he lost
tremendous amounts of weight while...
Effort by what he calls providers of fake news, various other insults, including this morning,
him doubling down, describing fake news as what he says is a growing cancer, and adding an
extra argument today, saying that it's a threat also, as he says, to national security.
Well, there's been somewhat of a backlash already to the President's decision to ban
CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House.
Even Fox News, once known for their positive coverage of the President, have sided with
NBC, CBS and ABC in refusing to cover the President's scheduled events today in CNN's
place.
So, Gary, what are those other news agencies actually saying here?
So, there's two things here.
CNN, MSN now, and Politico have been banned from the White House
estate entirely.
Their passes, like the one I have in my pocket here,
have been taken away.
They can't go in.
There's a separate issue about what we call the pool.
Now this is a small group of journalists
that have traveled with the president
that are in the White House every day.
It's on a rotational basis.
TV, radio, print, photographers.
It's about having a small number who can represent
the others when you can't get everyone
into these events on their own or on a plane.
Now there are the five networks that do the television pool.
They dedicate three people a day every five days to do that.
CNN would you to do that today,
but because they're banned by the warehouse,
they couldn't do it.
None of the other major networks have stepped in to cover
and they say that effective today,
they're not going to do that.
And that means the television pictures,
the moving pictures of the president we see every day
are not gonna happen through that process.
They will happen through other processes, perhaps.
Maybe the White House will do it themselves.
But through that five network rotation,
that is not going to happen.
And that includes Fox News.
And of course, Fox News have a role
in the White House Correspondence Association,
which represents all journalists
who operate around the White House,
and they are sticking with their colleagues.
You may say perhaps surprisingly,
but I think they have understood
that the line has to be drawn in terms
of not being pushed around for what you say,
because eventually it could happen to them, I guess.
Yes, it's a really significant response.
It's no secret Donald Trump has throughout his career
had a complicated relationship with the press, though,
but it's been the continuous cries of fake news
over the last few years that will be at the forefront
of most people's minds here.
Those who've missed it, here's a taster
of how the president has spoken to journalists
in the past.
You're a terrible person and a terrible reporter.
I think the license should be taken away from ABC
because your news is so fake.
Let me just tell you, you are an obnoxious,
a terrible, actually a terrible reporter,
and it's always the same thing with you.
I'm a journalist, I'm a journalist.
Quiet, quiet, quiet.
You are the worst reporter.
No one to see, Sienna has no ratings
because of people like you.
You know, she's a young woman.
I don't think I've ever seen you smile. I've known you for 10 years.
I don't think I've ever seen a smile on your face.
I had a total military victory.
Not a fake news, guys like you.
Right? Incorrectly, you're a fake guy.
Straight back to Gary in Washington and Gary, as far as we know, is there
any sort of precedent to this announcement?
Well, the White House did take a pass off of another CNN reporter,
Jim Acosta, back in 2018,
And the courts forced them to give it back to him, saying that they'd violated his due
process rights.
They didn't give him any warning or any notice or any explanation.
So there is that.
And there's a bunch of cases that have dealt with freedom of the press, First Amendment
rights to free speech.
The viewpoint question, the viewpoint discrimination they're calling it, is pretty clear in
the First Amendment about not being able to exclude or prevent free speech on the
basis of that and that is certainly what they're taking to court and that's what
they're going to try and get this injunction for. So there are these
cases have been argued before and you know there's a lot of legal opinion out
there that says it's a pretty tricky one for the president to win and he kind of
acknowledged that the other day he said we may win we may lose depends what
judge you get but it's worth having these arguments. Well over the last few
days we've already seen images from Washington the journalists from CNN
and MSNOW reporting from the pavement across the street from the White House, still reporting
on the president, but not be able to do so inside the White House grounds.
So Gary, those ban journalists, they can still report, but how would it actually affect
them doing their jobs properly?
So you've got to understand that when you get access to the White House, you get
access to the grounds.
Between this and the Magmour stuff, the attacks on the First Amendment is a whole
are scary yeah it is it is ridiculous and look cnn is no fan of mine ms now is no fan of mine
i wouldn't say politico is a fan of mine either but i'm a principled person and as a principled
person i believe in the first amendment i believe in protecting freedom of expression
and the free press this is a direct attack no matter how petty it seems this is a direct
the attack against the First Amendment. This is a continuation of the attacks against the
Gaza encampment protesters, which the media played a role in undermining over and over again,
which the media played a role in justifying the vilification of. It turns out, even if you
serve those masters, eventually the master will come for you as well. This is an important lesson
for everyone paying close attention, right? No matter how hard you posture against those
who are bravely protesting against injustices overseas, eventually what goes around comes around,
okay? You think you are serving the same exact masters, but sometimes the master
We'll use those tools against you.
But part of the reason why I will obviously stand on the side of
mainstream outlets that are currently under attack is because an administration that does this to cnn ms now in political
Does not care at all about how much they undermine your free expression. Okay
Okay? This is simply the attacks against the First Amendment expanding.
Okay? This is what I said with the Jimmy Kimmel stuff, right? I'm not the biggest fan of Jimmy Kimmel.
But when the administration came strong after Jimmy Kimmel, we had to show support.
Not because we agree with Jimmy Kimmel, but because we understand that an administration that can do that to a powerful Hollywood guy
For a pretty straightforward vanilla coverage on the Charlie Kirk assassination
Will absolutely destroy you, okay, and we'll never even think twice about it
But there's already been funny backlash to it in a way that Trump can feel because Trump loves his media moments, right?
He loves his media moments, and he needs the press to cover his big media moments.
He knows deep down inside that it can't just be like Newsmax or one American news network
that's covering his big media moments.
He needs CNN.
He needs the prestige, right?
And especially when Fox News and the entirety of the White House press pool come together
and say, we're not covering, we're not sending our people to the press pool, and you
are not going to have your media moment.
He will back away from it.
Peter Baker of New York Times says the decision by the television outlets not to participate
in the White House pool today in response to Trump's self-declared ban on the free
press will leave the most TV-addicted president in our history without major network cameras
recording his every utterance and movement.
If a president can throw news organizations out of the White House because he dislikes
their coverage, then no news organization is truly free because it means we are all
in the building only at his sufferance.
This is what happened.
That's what you get.
He wants to show his big helipad.
He loves his big infrastructure, well not even infrastructure projects, but he loves
his beautification initiatives.
He loves his helipad.
We love standing around hard hat wearing workers and say, look, we did it.
We did it.
We built a new helipad.
Isn't the White House so glorious, right?
And now he can't do it.
Now no one will see his glorious moment.
Okay, so.
Or even if they can see his glorious moment, they won't hear his words.
And he does not like that, okay?
Trump has arrived.
President Trump meeting with Mayor Zoran Kwame Mamdani in New York City, let's take a look.
Finally, some peace and quiet.
There's no microphone because there's no microphone because the pool cameras aren't there.
So maybe, Tim, this is one example of backfiring just a little bit.
Pick up on some of things Michael was saying and obviously the ramifications are right here.
Can't hear what the president is saying.
No shot Trump states to this. I also agree. Anyway, Peter Baker follows if a president
get thrown news organization out of the White House because he dislikes their coverage, then
no news organization is truly free because it means we are all in the building only at
his sufferance. And that's not how things go. Here's Caitlyn Collins and what she said
about the ban as well. CNN's Caitlyn Collins.
That we've gotten asked and that we've asked our sources ever since the president
announced that he was banning CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from covering his administration
on Friday, was why now the President has complained about negative coverage for decades, long
before he was in political office.
So why is he taking this step to block outlets whose coverage he doesn't like from covering
him?
Well, our sources tell my colleague Kevin Lobtac and I that last week, the President's
close aide, Natalie Harp, who was often seen with him in the Oval Office or on
Air Force One, showed him graphics of negative coverage from Politico. Between that and coverage,
TV clips that the President also saw, he was infuriated, which is what we're told led
him to ban these outlets from covering him on Friday. It's a move that actually caught
a lot of people in the West Wing off guard, and they were surprised themselves when the
President announced that he was banning those outlets. Now when it comes to CNN
and the President banning CNN from coming into the White House from accessing Air
Force One, the TV pool, which are all the major outlets, Fox News, CBS, ABC, NBC, and
CNN, have all banded together, and they have suspended the TV pool, which means that for
the time being, the president will not have a camera and reporters from a major outlet
at a major television outlet covering him.
That comes as he is headed to New York on Monday for the United Nations General Assembly
and also head of his big state visit in Washington with Xi Jinping, all events that we know the
president values.
Yeah.
Having broadcast on television.
One of the biggest questions that we've gotten asked and that we've asked our sources ever
since the president announced that he was banning CNN, MSNOW and Politico from covering
his administration.
Seeing it has worse production than you.
Chill on that.
You get access to the different events that are going on.
You get access to the press room, the famous press room we've seen, James the Brady press
room.
And you also get access to what's called the lower press area, which is where a lot
of the press officers sit.
It's through a door just off the room.
you're in there and you hear what's going on and you find out what's going on
pretty quick and you can ask questions and you can ask for statements,
clarifications, all that kind of thing. That is made much harder if you don't have
access to the White House. Yes, you could still do your reporting from across
the road. Sometimes we do it from the park out the back. So, you know, you can
still do that, but that daily access for people who have to cover the
White House is incredibly important to those. And in terms of these
organizations, I mean CNN have said they had 40 hard pass holders. MSN now had 22.
So that's 62 journalists that could get into the White House first thing
Friday they can't get in now and that's before Politico. I want to turn back to
something you mentioned because some of the United States have called into
question whether the ban itself is constitutional. That's because the first
amendment of the constitution says, in part Congress shall make no law prohibiting the
free exercise thereof of abridging the freedom of speech or of the press.
So Gary, Congress has not been involved in this decision, but the president, he has doubled
down on this today in his language, hasn't he?
Oh, yes he has.
He's described for the fake news as a cancer.
Your Axios interview is pulling insane numbers.
What is this?
Axios is now one of their most viewed interviews on YouTube for the Axios show series of all time
The interview has only been out three days and it's already on track to surpass the view count of interviews that were released months ago
He ate that it sounds interviews currently sitting in 226,000 views and he's in fifth place in fourth place to interview with Alex Karp
The third and second spot
The top spot belongs to Palmer. Lucky's interview has released in March of this year sitting over a 500k views
Son is accumulated half that view count of just three days impacts crazy. I mean that makes sense like
That's, it's fine. It does make sense, but their numbers are pretty ass over all it.
He said also that it's a threat to national security. He says it has to be stopped, whatever
stopped means. He says he cherishes a free press, but he doesn't think.
Here's a really good opportunity to pounce on Mike Rogers, by the way. Mike Rogers
flip-flopping on the Iran War after 20 years of pushing for it. I called this out as
well. Abdul's internals are probably looking very good. Mike Rogers's internals are probably looking
very bad. It doesn't take a genius to recognize that the Iran war is having a tremendous impact
on this race, right? I said, here's that Iran war you ordered Mike Rogers, not liking his cost
now. You seem to think it was fine a couple months ago. Mike Rogers pushed for a war with
Iran for two decades. Mike Rogers on rising gas prices were going to be fine, he said,
back in March. I also had another thing about Mike Rogers as well, back here. Not only did
Mike Rogers oppose funding for heroic 9-11 first responders nine times, he also used
the tragedy of 9-11 to push for master vans, the Patriot Act, and also to wage war with
Iran. We now live in his America and Rogers is exploiting 9-11 once again to go to D.C.
Okay?
Yeah, Mike Rogers in February, Iran has waged war against the United States in 47 years.
They murdered thousands of Americans, cried out death to America, sponsored terrorism around
the globe, including funneling money to Hamas, Zambola, and the Houthis, and even tried
to assassinate President Trump and Cabinet officials.
Iran is an imminent threat to our country and must not have a nuclear weapon.
May God bless our troops and our country on this mission for safety and justice.
Now the war in Iran needs to end to bring costs down, but Michigan families can't afford to wait.
Ah!
Did Trump hear you say that, Mike?
Are you allowed? Did Trump give you the allowance to utter those words, Michael?
Mike Dodgers?
Yeah.
Do not, I hope,
I hope that the Abdul Al Sayyed team exposes this flip-flop to show the contradictions here to
explain to the people of Michigan that Mike Rogers wanted this war. He agitated for this war
for longer than 20 years, okay? And now that he got his war with Iran,
now that he got his war with Iran, he doesn't like the results. But he loved it at the
beginning. He said it was awesome. He said he would give a blank check to Trump to continue
pushing for this war.
Branko Marcetic also summarizes his article from Jacob and here he says, My Roger spent
20 years pushing for war with Iran, currently wreaking havoc on Michiganders finances
a lengthy record that's escaped notice. It was compared to Bush's WMD hoax at the
time. Saw him back in Iranian terror group that killed Americans and more. When Trump
Attacked Iran last year Rogers boasted. He'd been for all of this when it wasn't very cool to be for all this
Even though as far back as 2019 when he warned about the economic cost of Iran closed the Shred of Hormuz cost
He oddly laughed about this year
So my Rogers knew the impact that it would have to wage war with Iran and yet he still pushed for it
He's been pushing for it since before Trump became president and he certainly kept
celebrating it after Trump became president and waged war with Iran even
when costs were rising he said it's not that important it's not that consequential
the problem is no one is talking about it and we have to talk about it and we
have to elevate its salience because that is far more consequential in this
Michigan race we cannot we cannot allow someone who has made this mistake
someone who is agitated for this horrible reality to get away scot-free.
Okay?
Michigan Republicans,
Canada percent of called Iran an imminent threat to our country.
He said they must not have a nuclear weapon, said the war was absolutely right and a win-win-win for us.
He believed that we are better off today than when we were when it started and it said he doesn't mind the idea of giving
Trump congressional authorization to keep the war going.
I was all for this when it wasn't very cool to be all
To be for all of this he boasted last year after Trump launched his first attack on the country
Rodgers been a vocal backer of the current war despite being fully aware it could result in economic blowback as
Early as 2019 he warned on CNN that Iran's leaders have the ability to shut the straits of Hormuz
20% of the world's oil you can see where this thing is getting ugly in a hurry
But Rogers appeared less concerned about the impact on America's pocket books these days telling a Michigan voter back in March
That we're gonna be fine in the face of rising gas prices
Remember in March when prices were going up as a direct consequence of Trump's war on Iran
He said we're gonna be all right. Everything's gonna be all right. He's singing a very different tune now a couple months after the fact
He fucked around and now he's finding out
But we have to make sure that the people of Michigan also find out where Mike Rogers was on this issue
You understand?
We got plenty of oil said Mike Rogers we're gonna be fine for Rogers even though oil is a globally traded commodity
Which you know is a fact that Mike Rogers with decades and decades of service
It's a fact that he must have understood right?
It was critical that the United States launched this war to prevent Iranian nuke, a nuke that
he spent virtually his entire political career insisting was real and ignoring the US intelligence
that concluded it wasn't, by the way.
that brought some costs that are hard to live with, you know, Mike Rogers said. When you're trying to
pay your higher electric rate that's gone up the last eight years, he added with a chuckle. Okay.
All the way back in 2006, let's go back. Okay, let's go back to why Mike Rogers was in support
of this war. All right, let's go back to that. Also, let me change the mood lighting in here
because it's getting a little too orange. All the way back in 2006, Rogers released a misleading
report charging Iran was developing nukes. The International Atomic Energy Agency labeled it
dishonest and it was contradicted by US Intel Assessments. Several news outlets compared it
to Bush and Cheney's WMD hoax to sell the war because remember Mike Rogers used to be in
Congress. There's also another Mike Rogers in Alabama, but this is, you know, the Mike
rogers is running for senate
okay there's two republican mike rogers is that's
uh... why
the things you get a little confusing there's a republican from alabama whose
name is also my car this is also a fucking shit head
but we're talking about our mike rogers in the state of michigan two thousand six
is the chair of the house subcommittee on intelligence
rogers signed up on a staff report
charging
that iran is seeking nuclear weapons and that it even likely had
research capability in the chemical weapons
and probably had a biological weapons program
painting iran is a direct threat to the united states reports stated that iran
could have a new sometime in the beginning of the middle of the next
decade
and cast out on the sincerity of iran's outreach made just a day before for
serious negotiations with the united states
it's beyond a shadow of doubt for me that they are trying to stall for time
to continue their area uranium enrichment and the building of their
nuclear program roger said in the wake of the report
intelligence agencies were just being cautious because of the public
beating they took over iraqi told fox news the same day
in reality he said
across the intelligence world were all pretty much coming to the conclusion
that they are aggressively pursuing that technology
the international atomic energy agency the united nations nuclear watchdog
responsible for monitoring iran's nuclear program wrote the intelligence
committees then chairman to set the record straight about the claims in
rogers two thousand six report
all the way back
in two thousand six
twenty years ago mike rogers was lying
and claiming that iran had nuclear weapons
was this mike rogers and was this benjamin netanyahu speaking no one knows
okay
he was lying about iran having nuclear weapons in two thousand six there are
so many compilations of benjamin netanyahu out there who is
who is falsely fabricated the claims that iran is developing nuclear
weapons like the eighties right
mike rogers has
a similar track record
That's why Mike Rogers has to do this.
Do you understand?
That's why Mike Rogers has to do these mailers.
Because every moment that he does mailers like that, every moment that he heightens
the Islamophobia is a moment that people are not paying attention to his track record
on perhaps the most consequential story of this election cycle.
The war with Iran, the war of choice with Iran at the behest of Israel, and its negative impact on prices.
He is desperate, and that's why in his final desperation, he is leaning into odious racism, Islamophobia.
Yes, we're going to get here. Hold on. We're going piece by piece. We're going, we're going
through Michael Rogers' track record. Do not worry. We're going to get there as well.
It called out, so the International Atomic Energy Agency said that the report is dishonest.
It's outrageous.
And then the reports charged that an international atomic energy agency inspector had been removed
for violating what the report alleged was an unofficial international atomic energy agency
policy to hide the truth of Iran's nuclear program.
My graduates even claimed that the international atomic energy agency was in cahoots with
Iran. Okay? And it objected in particular to a caption claiming that Iran was
currently enriching uranium to weapons grade, which the IAEA said was
flatly untrue. Rogers was forced to acknowledge on CNN that the claim in
the caption was false. The Associated Press compared it to the way that the
IAEA in Washington had clashed just a few years early over the Bush White
House's phony allegation about weapons of mass destruction, made to
justify invading Iraq. They are repeating the same pattern. The Republicans are doing
the exact same thing over and over again. This is perhaps one of the more important
elements of the Trump administration. He has become a newer version of this neocon that
he opposed, this neoconservatism that he had opposed in the past. Lying to go to war
with Iran, lying to go to war with Iraq, it's identical. Both of these issues, of
course are still in line very much so, very much in line with the same agenda, an agenda
that places is real centrist, first and foremost. The Associated Press, compared to the way
the IAEA in Washington clashed a few years earlier with Bush
on the WMD saga made to justify invading Iraq.
The last thing the United States needs
went in New York Times editorial
is another attempt to push the intelligence agencies
to hype their conclusions about the threat
from a Middle Eastern state.
He strongly disagreed with the editorial,
Rogers wrote back noting that he had co-signed
the report's release.
Yet this didn't stop Rogers from claiming
otherwise between 2006 and 2026,
Rogers publicly referred to Iran's nuclear weapons program
or charge that it was pursuing or close to having a nuclear weapons program or having nuclear weapons.
Iran was having nuclear weapons dozens of times.
So in the 20 years that he was called out from 2006 to 2026, dozens of times,
Mike Rogers still came out and said, Iran is seconds away from having nuclear arms.
And his four-year tenure as the House Intelligence Chair,
because Mike Rogers, again, was in Congress, he was the House Intelligence Chair,
He lent these dubious claims added weight including after he left Congress in 2015 when he continued to make such claims on networks like CNN
Rogers cited that flawed report
Anyway in an op-ed pen following September which warned that the nuclear threat from Iran has strengthened not diminished since the reports released and charged that Iran pursues nuclear weapons
when the NIE
Made clear this was false three months later. Rogers changed his tune suddenly saying that the good news is they did in fact suspend it
But they had done so because of US pressure.
But neither this admission nor more US intelligence assessments contradicting him stopped Rogers
from going right back to repeating the same dubious claim a few years later.
A year after the intelligence officials briefed Congress in 2011, now we've moved on from
2006 to 2011, that Iran had not decided to build a nuke, but was keeping its options
open.
Rogers now, House Intelligence Chair, told CNN that we know that Iran is aggressively
pursuing a nuclear weapons program.
US officials told the Los Angeles Times that month that they hadn't seen evidence since
that would make them change their conclusion and that even Israel hadn't disputed their
findings.
Nevertheless, a year after that, Rogers again claimed to CNN that everybody agrees that
Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program while hyping the Iran threat.
Even though, from then, right up to 2025 US intel assessments would consistently say that
Iran had not decided to pursue a nuke, Rogers continued lying about it.
In 2012, Netanyahu launched a pressure campaign on the White House for a war with Iran that
Obama and John Kerry have said it was virtually identical to the one that Trump folded to
this year.
Rogers criticized Obama's resistance to it and justified Israel's threat to start
the war alone. Do you understand? What the fuck? I'm in a new poll at 0%. Net favorability
among Democrats and for strategic politics poll. Even after all of these attacks, I'm
still at 0% that's pretty crazy.
Beast mode.
More popular than Bill Maher baby.
I'm the true centrist.
Fuck you Bill Maher
While justifying Israel's threat to start war unilaterally Rogers invoked a non-existence defense pack
He said guarantees US defensive Israel under any circumstances
Vowing that we will live up to that
He seemed to be preemptively pledging to have Israel drag the US into war with Iran
He pushed the hawkish line on Iran over and over again
Cosponsored legislation to have the pro-regime change me cave removed from the State Department's terrorist list the Iranian group is
Controversial even among conservatives given that they were responsible for the deaths of Americans
Rodgers relentlessly attacked and fear-mongered over the JCPOA and endorsed Netanyahu's widely criticized speech to Congress
Aimed at derailing the deal Obama was trying to hobble the prime minister
He wrote lamenting that peace with Iran was deeply troubling to the Israeli government
Mike Rogers is Israel first. He has always been Israel first and he will always be Israel first
What is this?
Assam piker 6% very favorable 8% somewhat favorable 20% neutral
52% never heard of him
7% somewhat unfavorable 7% very unfavorable will work with those odds
The fact that I have been under relentless attack, the fact that I've been under relentless amounts of attack for the last year and there is still this level of like never heard of him in this poll and only 7% somewhat unfavorable and 7% very unfavorable means that the media attacks are not working.
To safeguard the Constitution, a group of U.S. military leaders have removed President
Donald Trump from power and assumed control of the United States at plus 32.
Oh my God.
It's crazy.
Tens of earned media smears and tens of media in a smear campaign paired up with direct
attack ads have resulted in a net zero approval for me with the majority of DEMs with a plurality
of Dems and the net neutral approval of me, and a majority not knowing who I am.
majority still not knowing who I am.
Will this stop the Beltway bandits from trying to make
me a central issue alongside GOP attacks no
Well, people at MSNOW are saying some bullshit about you.
I saw this earlier.
Yeah, we already watched this.
These liberal elites, elitists just don't learn anything.
I admitted during the break that I don't understand why we're talking about this man.
And I said the same thing during 24.
Why are we talking about Joe Rogan?
I get the importance, but explain to others who I'm sure are watching who this man, where
he come from, and why are we talking about it?
My mom is a very hyper-pensated voter, you guys know you've probably met her, and she
was like, who was this son?
Why are you talking to him?
Why should it be a talk?
And the thing, so you're not the only one, right?
I think the thing that's so interesting is it's a question of how much someone's influence
is, right?
Sometimes in our podcast, we get into and we talk to leaders, right?
Actual, powerful people.
But then sometimes it's about like trying to figure out who a person is and introducing
to the audience.
And that's what we're doing here.
He has a lot of controversial opinions that I think me and Simone vehemently disagree
with.
But we want to talk about his strategy because he is being used as a cudgel against
Democratic candidates. I do a lot of Seattle in Michigan at the top of that list. And the
question is like, do you understand that? And then more importantly, like, do you care?
And what do you do with that information?
Did you get a sense of how being under a camera the way he does Twitch just endlessly
has shaped his personality? Because it can't be healthy for a person just as a person
separate of the politics.
Right.
What did you get a sense of him as a person?
What's interesting is I think that, you know, he's 35, he's a little bit just a little bit
younger than me.
35.
Yeah, yeah, and when we were talking about just like in general like the internet culture,
because my thing is like, I think the internet, it incentivizes a certain kind of way that
people see.
And so I think that's some of what you see from him, like some of the stuff he admits
that it's hyperbolic, that he is agitative on purpose because it's agitative propaganda.
he's talking about certain things. He knows that he's provocative,
but I did get a sense that like he cares about the policy, right?
He really deeply cares about the policy. It's the question of the politics.
So it's what we're turning back.
Do you understand politics in the way that it's coming?
The operates now and not the way that you want.
I wonder why was, uh,
unq was so shocked that I'm 35.
Hello, princess. Yeah.
Well, I think you've fully established you definitely got to Simone really now.
Yeah, this is shower thoughts, by the way.
Oh well, you know, Simone cooked them pretty well.
Yeah, I don't know if people saw it that way.
I don't think people saw it that way, you know, but what do I know?
Why are you twitching so much on camera you keep moving your eyes and your chest up and
Now stop the twitching.
What?
One of the biggest questions that we've gotten asked.
First president, so CNN, I must.
Um, we are, uh, we're going to be talking about, uh, I mean, I, I think I sufficiently cook Mike Rogers, right?
When is the mom Donna meeting? Um, I think it's happening right now, isn't it? I thought it would be.
I thought that they would be filming it, but maybe not.
Cross-stab shows most support from voters under 45 and also black voters.
How favorable is your opinion?
Neutral is 20%.
Neutral 26% for men.
somewhat favorable for men under 25, neutral 25%, 13% somewhat favorable, very
favorable 10%, 45 plus is is much lower.
And, um, oh, total net, total positive from men is 16, total positive from women is 12%,
And total negative is 19 to 11.
On crosstabs, the under 45 total positive is 24%, total negative is 15%.
And over 45, this is remembered Democrats, total positive is at 10%, total negative is
at 14% at minus 4%.
And with ethnicities for whites, I'm at a minus six total net negative.
And for black voters, black Democrats, I'm at plus eight.
So the highest comes from union members.
Like Democrats in unions, okay.
This minus 16, what does that mean?
No, no wokeness.
What is that?
Are they saying I'm not woke?
Yeah, I mean, this makes a lot of sense, dude.
This makes a lot of sense.
Obviously, from Socialists and Progressives, I get 6% from Moderate and Conservatives
minus 7%.
Socialist plus one, socialist plus six, oh, if a person identifies themselves as woke
plus five, if they don't identify themselves as woke minus 16, an anti-woke Democrat.
But yeah, it makes sense that I have my highest net approval from black Democrats.
And the Hispanic numbers are really interesting because sometimes, depending on who's polling,
either Hispanics are my biggest ride or die advocates or I'm like deeply underwater and
white people and black people like me more than Hispanics do.
So I don't know what to make of those numbers.
But again, this is a reminder of something that I reiterate all the time.
Something that I reiterate all the time, which is, the overwhelming majority of even Democrats
do not know who I am, okay?
They don't.
And the media knows this, which is why they are trying to make sure that my first interaction
with voters on the Democratic side is a negative one, because they fear that if Democrats were
to hear what I had to say without a negative framing associated with it, they would probably
identify with it.
Because you barely cover ICE, that is an insane thing to say.
I haven't been covering ICE as much.
We're gonna be talking about that today,
but that is an insane thing to say
because I am one of the biggest
pro-ICE abolitionists out there.
What the fuck are you talking about?
How many protests did I go to?
I've been at Ground Zero in Minneapolis, personally.
These are the normy libs you met at no kings.
Harris News and Buttigieg lead the 2028 field.
59% of them support military coup against Trump.
57% of them want Biden officials in jail over Gaza.
Yeah.
This poll shows once again that whether Narmie Dems know of me or not, they agree with what
I am advocating for.
This is what I mean.
They can try and aggressively prosecute my case with negative framing over and over again.
That is not going to change the voters appetite and their outright hunger and demands for
necessary changes.
Anyway, let's get back to how one of the least charismatic individuals in American politics
is defending Trump's White House press ban.
Now, Politico are now stewing over the ban.
Do you think it's appropriate for the president to be banning media outlets just because
he doesn't like what they report?
Well, I take some issue with the premise.
So he's not banning media outlets.
What he's doing is saying, we're not going to give you special access to the White
House if you engage in what is effectively propaganda.
We have to remember, those three outlets account about 92% of the stories that
they have on the president of the United States on the administration are
negative. That's not representative of the American people. It's not representative
of the public opinion. So if you're going to engage in what is effectively far
left propaganda, why would a Republican White House give you special access?
Sir, you talked a lot about free speech over the years. How is it not an attack
on free speech?
Well, they can still report on the Trump White House. They can still get the
public reports. They can still, of course, talk to people in the
administration and outside the administration. What the president has
said is we're not going to give you special access inside the White House, but what I think
about it is if you go back to the Biden administration or the Obama administration, compare let's say
Politico to Breitbart. If you actually look at the objective analysis, Politico and Breitbart
are, Politico is as anti-Trump as Breitbart was anti-Obama or anti-Biden. Now why on
God's green earth would Donald Trump be expected to give Politico special access when nobody
It is pretty wild to compare Breitbart to Politico, by the way. That's like saying, why is Donald Trump not giving Hassan Pike or unprecedented access to the White House?
Like, that's wild. Breitbart is not a part of the legacy press that has always had access to the White House.
It's a massive failure. The New York Democratic Party has the option that this man felt the
only way he could be ambitious and deliver on his values was by aligning with DSA. This
is how Democrats browse their ideological stripes and sound. Dog, he's a DSA cadre
candidate, oh my god, his popular, this is what I mean, Zoran's popularity has
exploded so much that Democrats are rushing to say, oh, he's an abundo
crack, Democrats are rushing to say, oh, he's like our guy, he's an establishment
Democrat, you know what I mean? Which in some respects is good, but he also has
to correct the record. He also has to use his popularity in the spotlight to
highlight Democratic socialists of America, right? To say, no, no, no, no, we
We are a different kind of Democrat.
We are a Democratic Socialist.
This is what I mean.
Because if he's just like welcomed by establishment Democrats and he is presenting himself as
a straight line Abundo-Crat or a straight line establishment Democrat as they're
trying to hug him, if he doesn't differentiate himself as Democratic Socialists, okay, then
Guess what dude? What good is the accomplishments? That is the last remaining thing that Zoran is
supposed to do. That like, I'm willing to, look, I'm willing to give grace to Zoran. I'm willing
to give grace to Zoran over and over again. He has proven himself resilient time and time again.
There have been instances where I've disagreed with him, right? There have been instances
where I've disagreed with them and I've admitted that I was wrong and he was right pushing for
pushing Chiose out of the race against the King Jefferies allowed us to make tremendous gains
in the midterms in New York City. Okay. This is real. This is true.
But if the if the podium that you have established does not
If the podium and the popularity that you're establishing does not clearly delineate, does not clearly delineate and signify you and your newfound popularity as a democratic socialist, then this is just a Zoran show, right?
And I don't think that's his goal anyway.
I don't think that's his goal. I don't think that's what he is trying to accomplish. But I do think it's important to clearly delineate and show that you are different from regular Democrats, that you are a democratic socialist.
Didn't he do that with his endorsements in DSA though?
He did.
But he has to obviously continue because the more his popularity grows, the more Democrats
will use him as an opportunity to do this rebranding exercise, right?
exceed Zoran's with us. Zoran's with us. Zoran's our guy. And every time Zoran does not make
that, every time Zoran goes on stage and doesn't say this is what we believe as socialists,
is a moment where Democrats can use that as a branding exercise for themselves. Okay?
I want Zoran to be popular. We need Zoran to be popular, but we also need Zoran to continue saying this is the difference with socialists.
Okay?
I think he's too nice to keep saying it. No, too nice. Listen, he is a very cunning politician. Too nice. Come on.
Again, I worry about a cult of personality.
I do.
I really worry about a cult of personality forming.
All right, Trump is speaking after his meeting with Mamdani.
Do we have the presser link that's not on Twitter?
What is this clicking sound?
Turn the volume up, I did already.
Good afternoon, everyone.
Good afternoon, everyone.
This afternoon, President Trump and I met at the Gracie Mansion to discuss the city
we both are so fortunate to serve New York City.
Each time the President and I speak, it is about the same topics.
How to improve the lives of New Yorkers and how to use the power of government to
to take on the cost of living crisis, to grow our economy, and to build a better, stronger
New York.
Each day, millions of New Yorkers struggle to get by in a city where a decent life costs
too much, where a future of possibility and prosperity feels forever just one paycheck
out of reach, where dignity is not accorded to all, but only afforded by some.
I have said time and again that I will work with anyone, no matter what party they
They belong to, no matter how much we may disagree on other topics, whoever has the power and
the will to lift that weight off New Yorkers' backs.
At a time where hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are asking the questions of how
they can afford this city, I appreciate the conversation the President and I have had
on the subject of how we can make it easier to afford life in this great city that we
call our home.
With that, we will take questions just before the President, if you want to add any
your remarks. Well, thank you very much, Mr. Mayor. I've been at Gracie Manchew discussing
quite a few times over the years, a lot. And it sort of feels like a home. And it's a special
place, a very special, a beautiful place when you go inside. And I've seen it with numerous
different mayors. And I said some great ones and some not so great ones. So hopefully
you're going to be a great one. I'll be able to say you're going to be a great
one and you're off to a start. So I just want to thank the mayor for the
invitation. I'm in New York to do the United Nations tomorrow. I have a lot of
meetings right now today for very important meetings with heads of
different countries but this is like a little bit of old home wait for me
because so many things we've done so many things from the beautiful home or
house or buildings standing right behind me and if you have any questions
would love to take and thank you thank you mr. president thank you mr. mayor we're
gonna start with nj Burkett and please wait for the microphone thank you thank
you mr. president mr. mayor there aren't too many Democrats who would roll out
the red carpet for Donald Trump you did that today what tangible results
achievements could you point to from your relationship with the president you
know one of the focuses of the conversation the president and I have
been having is about the possibility of building more housing here in New York
City. We've spoken about Sunnyside Yard and it's a real pleasure that just
today we've agreed to set up a new level of that conversation between our
housing and operations team at City Hall and the White House team because
what we're speaking about is 12,000 homes, 30,000 jobs, the prospect of an
entire new neighborhood in a city where housing is the number one cost and
I appreciate the President's interest in this and we also know the President not just as
the leader of the country but also as someone who has built quite a lot of housing here in
our city.
I don't know, Mr. President, do you want to add anything?
Well, I can tell you that Sunnyside is a big job.
I've been watching that for 35 years.
Everybody's wanted to do something with Sunnyside Yards.
Well, we met at the White House a couple of times, but we met at the White House.
The Mayor brought that up, the possibility of doing Sunnyside Yards.
It's a very, I would say that was a very federal-oriented job.
You're going to need a lot of federal approvals and probably some federal money to do it.
But it's always been a great location. I owned a building in Sunnyside.
It was a great building. I know it very well.
So when he mentioned Sunnyside Yards, they've been talking about developing that for 50 years.
So maybe they have a shot at doing it.
Thank you. Next we'll go to Jared in the first row. Please wait for the microphone.
Mr. Mayor, Mr. President, this is the first time that a sitting president has visited
Gracie Mansion in decades. Mr. President, on the way here, you posted that this is one
of your favorite places in the world. Why is that? And Mr. Mayor, what did you show
the president? What did you want to see?
Well, I can say from my standpoint, I love New York, and this represents New York.
This is where the mayor lived and continues to live. And we were discussing it a
a long time ago when you first got elected I said well you're gonna move
because you you were maybe having some doubts about moving in because it is a
little bit on the laborious side yeah he's the mayor you have to live there so
and he's done that and it was very nice inside beautifully kept and but it's a
very very representative place of New York very important place we we
We appreciate the president's commitment to the city and today the president shared many
of his memories of having been to Gracie Mansion before, having been out here as well
on the lawn and we appreciated the conversation of how we can work together to deliver a
lower cost of living for New Yorkers.
Thank you.
We'll go to Gloria next.
Thank you.
So, Mr. President, you spoke about Sunnyside Yards.
Are you committing to supporting that project?
And it sounds like you also talked about affordability.
You have dismissed that in the past, but that is one of Mayor Mamdani's key agenda items.
So did you talk about affordability?
And did you, is there anything you can do for affordability for New Yorkers?
Well, I know a lot about affordability because I did that housing.
I did many, many low-income and moderate-income buildings over the years, and I had great success
with it.
We have really, it was very important.
I would think that Sunnyside would have to have a component, at least a pretty substantial
component of exactly that.
So yeah, we discussed that.
If you do Sunnyside, I think you're going to have to have that kind of a component.
Thank you.
We're going to go to Laura, and this will be the last question for the president.
Thank you.
Meredith, you first.
What's your response to President Trump banning outlets from the White House grounds?
Did you challenge him at all about this in your meeting with him?
Oh, make the girls fight.
The historians and label scholars have called it textbook authoritarianism.
And Mr. President, are you banning outlets like MSNOW, CNN, and Politico in order to
distract from the Iran War and high gas prices?
I told the president that we're going to have all of the members of the press here
on the lawn and that is something that I believe in is everyone a matter of the opinion or
the critique that we engage as president.
It's interesting because they said they were going to boycott me but they never boycott
me.
So I wasn't very worried about that, look at all that press.
But no, I'm not, I'm only doing it because I think the press also has an obligation.
And you know, I won in a landslide, I won the election in a landslide.
I've done great things, I've done a lot of great things, I've settled eight wars.
We have the best economic numbers for the country and the history of our country.
We have $21 trillion pouring in, the biggest number ever, any country was three.
Nobody's ever done what we've done.
And never get anything positive, it's always negative.
Even having to do with the war, we've done so well.
We have told, look, they're not going to have a nuclear weapon, let me just
put it that way, and they're not doing well.
They're not doing well.
In fact, I have meetings on it today.
They're doing very poorly.
You would think that an outlet would write at least reasonably
well, but never.
If you look at CNN, it's fake news.
If you look at MSNBC, I don't even know what MSNBC is.
I guess it's the MSNBC, what it used to be, or MSDNC,
as some people call it.
That's Democrat National Committee.
But it's just biased news.
And I think that these outlets have an obligation
to be fair. And if they're fake news, I really think I have an obligation not to allow them
into another very special house. This is a special house, Grace, you mentioned. Well,
the White House is the most special of all houses, I have to say. And I don't even think
the mayor would argue with that. And I think I have an obligation not to let fake news.
They're very bad for the country, very bad for national security. So I have that obligation.
So we'll see how it works out. Thank you. That's all the time the president has.
you all so much. The mayor will stay to take a few questions. Well the mayor feels very
strongly about it. I can tell you that he did bring it up, but he feels very very strongly
about it. I feel strongly about taking care of people and that's what we do. We're
We're doing a good job of it.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Appreciate it.
All right.
The mayor will have time for a few more questions.
We can go to New York One, but Kelly Mena over here.
Hi, right over here.
How are you?
The president is still here.
The president is still here.
I want to follow up on what he said about the mayor.
You said Mr. President is the mayor.
Before you go, the president is saying he can answer a couple more questions.
Oh, okay.
Great.
for both of you then.
Mr. Mayor, the president said that he hopes
that you'll be a great mayor.
I wonder what your thoughts are on about that.
Also tell us what the conversation was
around TPS and immigration overall.
And also a question for the president.
What made you think about today's, I guess,
discussion and your time with the mayor
that made you think he was gonna be a great mayor
or that you hope he's gonna be great
when you've had so many criticisms for him
in the past?
You know, I'll leave it to New Yorkers
on your first question to make their judgments.
On your second question, as the president said,
I shared my very strong opinions
about how we can keep New Yorkers safe,
how we can keep immigrant New Yorkers safe,
and how important immigrant New Yorkers,
especially Haitian New Yorkers are,
not only to the fabric of our city,
but also to our city's economy,
to so many of the industries that build our city
and the stability that is in the president's hands.
And I appreciate the conversation that we had
and the consideration to that.
and I'll, you had your third question for the president.
No, I certainly hope he will be a great mayor.
You have to understand, I want what's good for New York,
I want what's good for the country.
So if I had a choice of having him be a bad mayor
or horrible mayor, I don't want that.
I want him to be a great mayor.
And he certainly got potential, got great potential.
Thank you so much.
That's all the time we have.
Thank you all.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
I
That was weird
That was a bit strange I think
Trump didn't want to get pressed bogged by bummed down and he didn't want to leave without
Zoran, yeah.
I think part of it is because he knows if Zoran is there, I don't know why I just randomly
muted myself.
of it is because I think he knows that if if if Zoran stays behind and if Zoran stays behind
and Trump leaves then they're gonna talk shit about Trump on a podium that Trump was occupying
earlier. I'm down his press team try to shut down more questions for Trump saying he didn't
have time for any additional ones but Trump stuck around anyway and just continued to
take questions. Yeah, it was weird. But it probably is because he doesn't want Zoran to,
you know, after Trump leaves to say, you know, he sucks or anything like that. It will, it
will be a big stain on his reputation. That's what I suspect took place here. He doesn't
Zoran Tao shined him. No mogging. No mogging, please. No mogging.
I think Trump just doesn't understand what's going on. He wanted to keep talking. No, no, no.
I think Trump understands what's going on. He 100% understood what was going on. He just
wanted to stay there to control what Zoran said, like a fucking child. Okay?
Okay.
You're wrong.
He was waiting so we could hold his hand, true.
After banning two TV networks from the building, White House's townings have been called Trump
TV.
White House probably agreed the three questions political wants turns against the Mamdani
team.
No, I don't think the Mamdani team was like saying, hey, Trump, leave so we can
answer questions with Zor on the loan.
I don't think that was their goal right
Um, I think that's what they're trying to present it as but um, CNN post presser analysis
Let's take a look at what they're saying and I would just point out that some of the left flank and the dsa crowd that love him
Really really excoriated Hakeem Jeffries for meeting with president Trump
So I would just point out that it is always helpful and it is always in the interest of constituents when leaders are able to talk to each
Other and to try why are they running cover for Hakeem Jeffries?
I did CNN you're supposed to be impartiary. Yeah, he was asked about that and he said look we both care about New York
And want to work together to do his best for the workers
But how do you think his supporters will take those? Well, I don't ease
I mean the thing that mom Donnie always does very well is first of all look at his face. His face is always completely neutral
I've interviewed mayor mom Donnie. He actually has a very kind of expressive manner about him
But not there. He is completely stone-faced
The other thing that he is always very careful to do whenever he meets with President Trump
is to say what he is meeting with him for.
That this isn't just like a random meeting, that there is an ask, that he is doing it
in the service of New Yorkers.
And so he's hoping that that will inoculate him from actually being seen with the president.
And as you know, there's probably no inoculation on the left against that.
People are gonna be angry.
But Mayor Mamdani rides high.
I mean, I don't know that there's anyone more popular than Obama on the left right now.
If I could just add quickly to Lulu's point.
Obama is very popular on the left.
He can govern.
But that's simply it. People want results.
And so they may not like him standing next to the president to Lulu's point,
but as she said, he talks about very specific, tangible things to say,
a meeting with the president to deliver X, Y, and Z for the residents of New York City.
That is my job.
I may not like the person I'm standing next to.
I may not agree with them philosophically.
But if that means I can get a win for my city, I'm gonna get a win
And I think most New Yorkers Lulu correct me if I'm wrong would applaud that I think probably not
I mean, I don't want to speak for all New Yorkers, but I do think he's very good
My mom Donnie at doing things and explaining why he's doing. Yeah. Yes. He's always been seen as an effective mess
Because he's a competent government. He's a competent elected dude. That's what it is. He's a competent guy in
an era of
Believable incompetence. He demonstrates basic competence in good governance. That's it. It's not it's not this like
Crazy secret, right? He doesn't have like a, you know, scary Islamic hypnosis powers
He's just a good guy doing his fucking job
That's literally all it takes
It's that simple for so many people
because we just haven't seen it. We haven't seen basic competence in a long time.
And also, he is a good promoter. He promotes his work very well. And Trump knows that. And
Trump recognizes his popularity. And Trump recognizes his legitimacy in the field of
affordability. And that's what he wants a little bit off of. He wants a little bit of that,
right? Mom Donnie went back to the podium.
I'm sincerely interested and committed to this as an idea, which is why it's been the focus of the conversations I've had with the president, not only in this meeting, but also in the prior meeting at the White House.
And again, what we're talking about is something very rare in our city.
That's the possibility of constructing an entirely new neighborhood.
And again, it's only possible with federal partnership because of not only a scale of
funding required, but also the authorization in constructing a platform that would then
serve as the foundation for about 12,000 homes, about 30,000 jobs, and it would be
transformative, not only in terms of working people who could create this, but also,
and can be paid enough to be able to afford to live in the city, but also working people
who could actually live in a neighborhood that today is a
train yard.
Thank you. Got time for two more. We're going to go to Jeff Mays
and we'll finish with Joe Anuda.
Just wait for the microphone.
How you doing, Jeff?
Half a tan suit.
So yeah, I mean, I have to wear before summer is over.
That's good. Well, summer is over.
Summer is done. I'm still wearing it. I want to ask a
little bit about how this meeting came about. Could you
a little more. Did you invite him? You know, did you expect to have certain things addressed
while here? Did you have a sort of agenda before meeting him when he came here? And then the
second question is, how came Jeffries was strongly criticized for meeting with Jared
Kushner, President's advisor? Do you think you should be criticized for taking time
to meet with the president?
Look, I think the
I said this in my opening remarks that I
Committed over the course of the campaign as well as well being an office that I would meet with anyone work with anyone that could
Diller for New Yorkers and in the previous meetings. I've had with President Trump
We've been able to secure the release of a New York City college student who had been detained by ICE
We've been able to move forward what has been a long-standing dream
about the construction of Sunnyside Yard,
and we know we have significant way to go,
but these meetings do truly assist in that path.
And to me, the question always is,
how can we deliver for the city?
How can we deliver for the people of the city?
And so having a conversation about
potentially building 12,000 homes,
about the importance of our Haitian neighbors
here in this city,
those are conversations that are worthwhile to have.
And to the first question-
No, you're going in school too,
to work in Williamsburg,
certainly not politics, I can't.
I was having with the president and I invited the president to come to Gracie Mansion and
he had also remarked to me in prior conversations about how much, how many memories he has of this
as a home for prior mayors and I thought it would be a good location for a continuation
of the conversation of how to deliver for the people who are being priced out of the city.
Last question we'll go to Joe.
Mr. Inuda.
Mr. Mayor, how are you?
Doing well, how are you?
I'm well.
Two questions. You said that you're taking the conversation about Sunnyside Yard to the
next level. Can you give us any detail about what that means? I mean, you've already brought
the plan to him before, so what does the next level mean?
The conversations have been continuing about this project. What today we made an agreement
on was that the conversation would now be elevated to a place where it's going
to also be technical between our housing teams, our operations teams, and the White House.
And that is critically important because, as you heard earlier from the question from
Crane's, yes, there's an aspect of this that is about financing.
There's also an aspect of this about technical and legal authorization of the construction
of a platform.
That's what this kind of a conversation facilitates.
Okay.
And then my second question, I think a lot of people see your strategy around the
us curbing criticism of him. I feel like you don't often launch personal attacks against him.
You don't talk about how often you speak or what you speak about when we typically ask you
press conferences. And I think a lot of people see that as a way to kind of avoid incurring
his wrath in a way, especially with immigration enforcement. But we've seen since January that
ICE arrests have increased since you became mayor. So I'm wondering, do you still think
I think that this tactic is worth it to sort of take a softer touch with the president in
exchange for maybe sparing New York City more enforcement.
And is there a point where this no longer makes sense for you?
You know, the president and I have both been very frank about the many disagreements
that we have.
And immigration is one of those places.
We've both spoken about very different approaches, very different beliefs.
And I will continue to have conversations with the president and frankly with anyone
who can deliver relief to the people of the city.
Shatters, I heard the Jeffries comparison.
In the past meeting, at the meeting we spoke about Sunnyside Yard, we introduced that conversation.
30 minutes after the last meeting he called me to let me know that the list of students that we
had put forward to him that he was going to release one of them. Soon after that he released
another one of them. And frankly if a meeting can be the difference between detention and dignity,
it's a meeting worth taking, all while being honest about the disagreements that we do have.
Thank you. That's all the time we have. Thank you.
Yeah, the Hakeem Jeffries comparison is obviously very stupid, but Zoran's in a bind there because
he's like back to Hakeem Jeffries on numerous occasions. So he kind of has to like defend
him regardless. I actually don't appreciate that about him at all. I think that he's like,
that's one of my most significant criticisms of Zoran Mamdani. I'm unsure as to what the
The calculation is there, and I also don't appreciate it,
because Hakeem Jeffries is an unbelievable booster of Israel.
So like, every time you lend credibility to Hakeem Jeffries
and you don't like maintain distance
or even offer some reasonable criticism of Hakeem Jeffries,
you're basically saying, I'm Zoram Umdani,
I am avoiding the pro-Palestine issue.
I am saying that these are my guys.
It's the same dynamic that I repeatedly explained
over and over again.
Or on Monday, he says, of course, I'm not going to protest Benjamin Netanyahu.
Of course, I'm going to take a meeting with Donald Trump.
The expectation isn't to not take a meeting with Donald Trump.
He's the president.
That's beneficial.
I don't have an issue with that at all.
I think that's a good thing.
But when you do that, you also have to, you know, play both sides of the aisle here.
My, I guess my, my fear is that.
We are replaceable.
My fear is that we are becoming, once elected representatives get to a certain point, we lose our power.
The movement loses its power.
Where the elected representative becomes the signifier of the movement, the main person that people actually rally around rather than the movement itself.
Okay. Leaning into Hakeem Jeffries, leaning into Donald Trump, these are understandable
calculations that you make as a person in a position of power, right? But there's a
give and take. And if all you're doing is casting aside people to your left that brought
you here, while simultaneously leaning further and further into establishment figures on
the right, then you are simply building your platform and, you know, taking the popularity
that you garnered as a consequence of winning the election and basically saying people to
my left are utterly irrelevant. Those who brought me here are utterly irrelevant.
I will secure a new audience for myself. I will secure new fans for myself and those
fans will be motivated to defend me and not become new fighters in this cause.
That's something that I think about a lot with our elected representatives.
Okay?
If the Electoral Project does not turn into a useful one for the socialist movement,
then what the fuck are we doing anyway?
the Ultras are absolutely correct when they say things like, oh, all you're doing is engaging
in a branding project for the Democratic Party. All you're engaging in is a branding project
for individual electeds. We can't allow this to happen. But then again, Zaron plays that
balance very well. So I still trust them to lean in to the left movement broadly, right?
People misunderstand my goals. People to my left misunderstand my goals with participating
in liberal capitalist bourgeois elections, right? They say, oh, son, this is always going
to, they're always going to betray you. Okay? We don't have the numbers and we don't have
the real, we don't have a working movement at this point. In order to build this, we
have to legitimize our cause and part of that is the greatest legitimizing force of all which is
the popularity contest surrounding elections. Chris Rabb is a great example of this method working
right. Chris Rabb is great, Thaddeus Aliza, Claire Valdez, and Claire Valdez is a close
Associated Zoran, right? These are very impressive forces. These are very impressive.
These are very impressive candidates and we will see how they operate once they're in
a position of power. Will they go the way of Zoran?
And even then, I'm not even criticizing Zoran that much. Donovan McKinney is another one,
obviously. Or will they push this movement further and further? And I think Zoran is also
doing that as well. He's doing that as well for the most part. But I do worry sometimes.
You do worry a little bit at times.
Hold on.
Spot on analysis, so what can be done to ensure the movement doesn't lose steam and become
ineffective?
How can we stop just being an election-winning machine and then passively hoping that the
official doesn't capitulate?
I don't.
I think we just need to continue one, applying pressure to our electives when they do things
that are utterly unconscionable, which again, Zoran doesn't cross that red line all that
much.
There are moments of worthy of criticism.
It could be nice if he explained what his position is, but we also have to become a more powerful
movement all over all. We don't have numbers right now. 120,000 across America is still not enough.
Dropsite calling you outlaw.
The Sampoekir Defended Abdel Elsa's decision to campaign with former Vice President Kamala Harris
arguing the appearance could help the Michigan Senate nominee reach older black voters.
Harris has set the campaign with al-sayed in michigan on tuesday bringing kamala Harris in the stump for him specifically to boost
Approvals with black voters a good thing. We want to build a win. That's not agreeing with kamala Harris
It's not about our positions piger said the question always is do you want to win?
And if you want to win you have to do this, okay? I don't think it's a bad idea at all
I think it's a good idea the movies John pushback from pro-passing and critics who see campaigning alongside Harris's whitewashing a role as
Vice president in an administration that continues supplying Israel with massive quantities of weapons to obliterate civilian life and
Gaza for 15 months. By the administration's final week, Gaza's health ministry reported
nearly 46,600 Palestinians have been recorded killed as Israel's siege in the U.S.'s real
lead war campaign, led campaign against Onra, drove Gaza into catastrophic hunger. UN-backed
experts issued warnings of a strong likelihood famine thresholds had already been crossed
in northern Gaza in 2024. The area was officially declared famine later in August 2025.
Harris eventually called for a ceasefire and greater humanitarian relief, but did
nothing to break with the Biden and Misry's policy of unconditional military aid.
I mean, it's true. Yeah, it is true. But once again, I will reiterate this position, right?
Abdel El Sayed needs to win favor with black voters to win. Abdel El Sayed is not winning
as a pro-Israel candidate. Abdel El Sayed is winning in spite, or not in spite,
mostly because of his critical position on Israel. People paint Hassan as a
radical who doesn't want thems to win, but if you listen to him he's extremely
pragmatic and is doing more to try to create a big tent Democratic
Party than all the people trying to kick him and his millions of followers out
of the Democratic Party. I'm more open to this idea than a lot of people of a
serious question. I believe that he wants Abdel-Assad to win. I cannot see
how we can't get that high-profile DC-centered media interviews about him.
I cannot see how he can't get that high-profile DC-centered media interviews about him are definitely not doing Abdullah said any favors in the next
Six weeks
Abdul is taking a gamble whether he is doing with ill will or whether he's right to take this gamble is something we do not know I
Mean, I suspect that he's not doing this with ill will I don't think he's doing this with ill will with everything
I know of Abdul. If Abdul al-Said turned around and portrayed the pro-Palestinian movement
and portrayed all of his voters, that would be a major, that would have a seismic shift.
That would be a major moment. That would breed tremendous amounts of apathy. And if that
is the way things go, which I don't think it will.
But if that's the way things go, and same with like Zoran,
same with all these other electeds,
like then we recalculate our position.
We change our tactics.
It's not like our struggle goes away, OK?
And this is not just about holding Israel accountable
for its genocide, even though that plays a major role in this.
But it's just like about the anti-militarism front
in general, broadly speaking, is about socialism as well.
Abdul is not a socialist, but this is about our movement.
I am not as worried about the,
a lot of people tie everything to individuals winning
elections and losing elections, not realizing that we haven't
had elected representatives demonstrate political power
the last decade like this. Okay? That is where we started organizing. That is where and when
we started organizing when we had no political power whatsoever. Okay? This is something much
larger than a singular individual. That's why I always say I'm not a kingmaker. Zohran is not a
king maker. Abdul is not a king maker. We play a role in a much broader movement.
Okay.
These people do not understand what it means to have conviction. They do not
understand what it means to believe in things and to advocate for those things,
to fight for those things. Okay. That's why I ride with DSA. No matter what,
DSA is a program, an agenda.
Zoran is a king maker? No he's not. No he is not. He is one person who comes from this
movement. Okay, you're doing it. You're falling for a cult of personality. I have made this
position clear. No one man is a king maker. They are simply servants of the people.
Okay, that's what we are.
As socialists, we serve the people.
The people do not serve the socialists.
The moment that you forget that reality is a moment
that you're falling for a cult of personality.
And I say this as someone who really likes Zoram-Mum-Dani.
Okay?
Do not make this mistake.
All right, my food is here.
We're going to get to the Paramount deal now.
All right, we're going to get to the Paramount deal now.
Now set to move ahead after Paramount reached a settlement with a group of states trying to block the $110 billion merger.
Moments ago, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced that while the antitrust concerns have been resolved,
he said he still does not support the merger.
The settlement is not a vote of support for this merger.
merger. It is not a blessing of the broader merger. Broadly speaking, we believe further
consolidation in markets that are central to American economic life. It doesn't serve the
American economy, consumers or competition well.
NBC Business and Economy reporter Allie Kanell joins us now. Allie, as we listened to that,
it's a bit confusing. He's saying, well, we've settled. We've resolved some of
of our antitrust concerns, but we still don't like this merger?
Yeah, it stood out to me immediately.
Kay, just the messaging around this.
Now, we did go on to say that there
is independent oversight, financial penalties,
and even potential divestitures
if the companies don't follow through
on some of these commitments.
But I do think you're going to continue to see pushback
against this deal just to tick through a few things that
stood out to me in this settlement.
One, the combined company will
have to release a minimum number of movies
every single year.
It must also spend at least $300 million more per year
making movies in the United States than it did in 2025.
And then on the cable side of the business,
for five years, Paramount and Warner Brothers
will have to negotiate their cable channel deals separately.
So that's a way to try and keep them
from using their new size at the bargaining table.
And then there are also protections
for the new side of the business.
CBS News, CNN, there will be an independent board
the set editorial and journalism principles.
But again, given those statements from the AG,
I do expect there to be more pushback.
A couple of things.
Do we know whether Paramount's gonna leave
Los Angeles or not in all of this?
That's not mentioned, right?
No, and apparently they're sticking around,
making a $1 billion commitment to stay in California.
So that at least seems to have been resolved.
Okay, and how does all this affect all of us
who consume media?
This is a giant merger.
What changes in what we watch?
two studios, two news organizations.
I mean, you think about all the assets now coming
under one roof and makes a very small industry
even more concentrated.
When it comes to how we view the content,
I mean, analysts have come out there and said,
look, this is going to create one of the industry's
biggest content libraries set to rival Netflix,
probably even bigger than Netflix at this point.
But when you have less competition,
that usually gives this company a little more
wiggle room to raise prices.
So I think this question of value versus price,
That's going to be a big one that will continue to watch us.
This is a big betrayal of what should have taken place.
And California totally sold us out.
The Attorney General totally sold us out,
offering tepid criticisms to this mega merger.
Okay, offering tepid criticisms to this mega merger
and getting tiny assurances,
making way for this disastrous outcome. California is the most powerful state
given its significance for Hollywood. California was the most powerful state
in this calculation and all the other states would drop their suits if
California settled and California settled. Absolute cowardice
It's very, very, very disappointing.
It makes me sad.
And yes, Ellison will appoint the editorial board for CNN and CBS,
which means that CNN and CBS will be very wise territory.
If you noticed, CNN knew that this deal was going to be initiated and go through.
And that is precisely the reason why they've been basically auditioning and taking much more right-wing stances.
Alison shouts out Gavin Newsom in this too.
Mr. Phillips, which of course is what every American wants to know.
How much am I going to pay exactly for all this, Ali Kanell?
Thank you.
Of course.
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An investigation is underway after a federal immigration agent shot a man in Austin, Texas
Sunday.
Local officials say a man was shot once in the torso but survived.
Federal officials say he entered the U.S. illegally from Venezuela.
The shooting sparked protests by dozens of people that turned violent at times.
Jason Allen is in Austin.
Before we move on to this, there's more to cover on the story.
Yeah, the editorial board of CNN and CVS will be appointed by David Ellison, which
is a disaster.
The worst part of Bonta caving on the Paramount merger is that a big, big flashes signal to
every company that there is no antitrust enforcement in America and you can bully your way into
getting whatever you want.
It is a monumentally bad decision.
Bonta is a creature of a rotten establishment until California gets a New York-style insurgent
win.
This will continue in between the top two system and the sheer money needed to campaign
here.
That's very unlikely.
This heartening anus says David Dayan.
Yeah, we are experiencing third world levels of media consolidation at the moment and it's
largely ideologically driven.
It is straight up being conducted at the express purpose of defending Trump more vociferously,
more viciously.
It's also for Israel as well, Mark Ruffalo, as you recall correctly called this out and
was yelled at a lot.
For saying the truth about this merger, it's a disastrous time for California politics.
Nevertheless, we will organize around this obviously and we'll organize against it and
we'll get the better representation that we deserve, but it's going to take some time.
Yeah, Mark Ruffalo says, Gavin Newsom hands huge win to Trump and his billionaire cronies.
This is Alvaro Bedoya, former FTC commissioner who had a lot of words for this and so did
Lena Conn and we'll talk about both.
Today billionaires have yet again bribed, censored and bullied their way into the top.
Their way to the top as a result of billionaire media conglomerate, closely aligned with
nation's most critical closely along with the president will soon own one of its closest
rivals including some of the nation's most critical news outlets Saudi Arabia's sovereign
wealth fund will call on those outlets to layoffs will follow people from LA to Atlanta
will lose their jobs small businesses will lose their contracts your cable bill and
movie ticket will be even more expensive the cent against money and power will be
even harder to find this did not have to happen thanks to an extraordinary outpouring
of grassroots anger against the merger, a coalition of 12 state attorneys general sued
to block it.
They beat Paramount and Court, winning a court-ordered pause on the merger, and beat them again at
the negotiating table, getting the conglomerate to agree to pause the merger until as late
as next June.
But the Ellison family does not care about the law.
Instead, they loudly threatened to leave California if their merger did not go through
immediately.
Gavin Newsom caved to that pressure, so did Javier Becerra, and eventually so
So did Attorney General Rob Bonta agreeing to a weak settlement that will exceedingly
be difficult to enforce.
People want champions who are not afraid of rich bullies.
Newsom, Becerra and Bonta did not meet that mark.
The people who work in the film and TV industry and the small businesses who support it will
suffer as a result.
And so will everyone who values dissent in our democracy.
A devastating, devastating decision.
Oh God, we're torrenting everything now.
I don't think you understand.
This is not simply about like profits for big corporations.
You do recognize that, right Zoram will stop it?
Yeah right, Zoram will stop it.
Okay.
This is not the end, the coalition that fought to block this illegal merger will fight to
break up big media.
There is legislation pending in Congress that would retroactively break up corrupt
billionaire mergers.
This industry was once marked with strict rules so that a small handful of conglomerates
couldn't own everything.
There's no reason we cannot return to that reality.
There's no reason we can't build on it.
But today is a loss, and that loss will be felt by people who can least afford it.
David Zaslaw, the CEO and president of Warner Bros., has been completely ignored in all
this conversation as well, says anti-monopoly law and policy at Econ Liberty's Lee Hepner.
He is as responsible as anyone for the Paramount Warner Bros. and Warner Bros. discovery
before it.
he gets five hundred and fifty million dollars for closing this deal the states
could have ordered that down to zero drawing a line in the sand no compensation
for illegal deal making
uh... there's at least someone pushing back in the connecticut attorney's
general uh... william tong expressing deep disappointment about the paramount
settlement deal
connecticut led the fight to the bitter end to protect the editorial
independence of cnc bs news
especially after the president block cnn and other news organization in the
White House. Maybe he'll unblock them now. Yeah. Matt Stoller also had some choice words
for this. He says, who says bipartisanship is dead? Donald Trump and Gavin Newsom collaborated
with the crush workers in Hollywood on behalf of a big take surveillance billionaire with
an assist from Tom Cruise and Ari Emanuel. The amount of power that these fucking assholes
have is insane, okay? It is unprecedented. And this is yet another expression of that
power, of that awesome power. And now, just like I experienced in Turkey, we're seeing
the same level of media consolidation around Donald Trump with powerful billionaire allies
that Donald Trump has at his disposal. It's disastrous.
When we critique the oligarchy, David Cleon says, what we're really critique criticizing
is the ability of a 43 year old fail son who did nothing to earn 200 billion. He
is set to inherit to unilaterally impose his will on the attorney generals of a dozen states
including california and new york
the state
is servile to the interests of capital
this is the major distinction in america
in american governance
the state always
always is servile to the needs in the interests of capital this is yet another
example california is the fourth larger economy on the planet its attorney
general
is supposed to be one of the most powerful
political forces in the entire planet.
Okay?
It is totally ridiculous.
Anyway, now let's get to ICE agents,
an ICE agent shooting a DoorDash driver in Austin
who was legally here, had a work permit
and is currently not getting the necessary treatment
in the ICE detention facility
as of the moment of this report.
Maybe that might have changed.
Let's take a look at how
Ellison's purchase CBS Mornings is covering that story.
Jason is underway after a federal immigration agent shot a man in Austin, Texas, Sunday.
Local officials say a man was shot once in the torso, but survived.
Federal officials say he entered the US illegally from Venezuela.
The shooting sparked protests by dozens of people that turned violent at times.
Jason Allen is in Austin, Jason.
Good morning.
May, good morning, this is notice something there.
Justified the shooting by saying authorities say he came into the country illegally.
Did not mention that he actually has a work permit.
said there were protests that turned violent. Notice that? That's how you
manipulate the masses. Here's an update from Kate Lincoln Goldfidge. Update on
Wilbur. He's being held at Peersaw for interrogation and still has the bullet
lodged in his body, he's received no pain medication.
This was at 10 a.m. as of this morning.
He received no pain medication
and he had to sleep on the floor.
John Favreau also said he entered the country legally
and had a valid work permit to work for DoorDash,
by the way.
The intersection where that shooting happened
and where there is still some tear gas residue
is kicking up when cars drive by from where police had to quell some of those demonstrations.
As you mentioned, we moved on.
I sense that this man was a Venezuelan.
Notice how they moved on from the initial injustice of shooting a guy that's a DoorDash
driver, even if they were an illegal migrant.
Shooting them in the back of the head is completely unjustifiable.
We moved on from that.
We justify that into, you know, how the protesters are protesting violently.
This stuff matters.
A man who was living in the U.S. illegally and who they say had a final order of deportation.
He was driving for DoorDash when the shooting happened.
Tensions escalated in Austin well into Sunday evening with protesters demanding answers
after a federal immigration officer shot a man earlier under a highway overpass.
Whoa. Oh my God.
The man who was shot identified as Wilbur Garcestrez is a 28-year-old Venezuelan national.
You're looking at the moments just after the shooting.
Local officials say he was shot in the torso and was in serious but stable condition.
Attorney Kate Lincoln-Gulfich represents Garcestrez.
She says he called his wife right after getting shot.
he was shouting, he was in pain and he said they shot me.
Lincoln Golden says he has an active work permit and is now in ice custody.
You're probably likely still trying to get information on where he is
and what his physical condition is.
Number one priority is his physical health, finding out where he is,
getting him out of detention, defending him against deportation.
This is just the latest incidents of violence involving a federal immigration officer.
July two immigrants were shot in violence involving a federal immigration officer.
He was shot in the back near his neck and spinal cord.
He has an active work permit and yet they're calling him illegal.
Like do you see what they're doing?
They interviewed the lawyer, so they have this information.
They tried to assassinate a man with a valid legal work permit that's simply doing door-to-door delivery in broad daylight.
His lawyers now say he's still not receiving sufficient medical aid.
What the fuck is happening?
And of course the Ellison purchased media company CBS is defending this incident, normalizing
it saying oh it's an officer involved shooting as though it just materialized
that of thin air. Killed by ICE officers in Houston and Maine during attempted
vehicle stops. It is awful that this horror has come to our doorstep. It's a
disturbing pattern and it's got to stop. That was Texas Congressman Greg
Cazar. He is demanding that ICE preserve all of the evidence and
and release any of the body cam video.
Local officials say the diced attentions
had surged here recently going from just a handful
to dozens within the last few days.
Gail.
All right, Jason, thank you very much.
We begin this afternoon in Texas
where an investigation is underway
after a federal immigration agent
shot a man in the torso in Austin yesterday.
He was taken to the hospital in serious condition.
He's been identified as 28-year-old Wilbur Rafael
Garces Perez, a Venezuelan national.
His attorney addressed the media just over an hour ago,
saying he entered lawfully through a probation program
seeking asylum and has a valid work permit.
She also says he's being held for interrogation
with the bullet still inside of him.
He was shot here in his back.
And they didn't take the bullet out,
and they didn't give him pain medication,
and they transferred him to ICE
to a processing center where he spent the night without a bed.
I talked to him and I asked him what happened
when he was shot by ice.
And he said he was driving for DoorDash
and an unmarked black truck sideswiped him.
He didn't know it was ice.
And he did a U-turn under the highway
and the truck chased him and sideswiped him again.
And the agents came out and shot him
in the back of the neck and pulled him out of the car.
And yet ICE has put out statements
that there was a foot chase.
We have video evidence that there was no foot chase.
Now during that press conference,
Perez himself answered questions over the phone,
including one about whether he's receiving medical care.
He answered in Spanish and somewhat
at the conference translated.
Here's his response.
Did he receive any medical attention?
at the hospital at Doe Seaton.
He said, no, he was complaining that he
was in a lot of pain and he's like,
are you gonna take out the bullet wound?
And the doctor said, hey,
they're in a hurry to get you out of here.
When he arrived at the detention center at 4 a.m.,
he also complained about the pain
and he had to sleep on the floor.
CBS News Homeland Security correspondent Nicole Skanka
joins us live now.
Nicole, what are we hearing about
what led up to the shooting?
Yeah, well, as stated there,
Perez's attorneys say that he was doing his job.
He was on a door dash delivery
that this all began with a traffic stop
in an area of North Austin, Texas.
And at roughly 12.50 p.m. local time,
we know that ICE officers on the scene
requested assistance from Texas DPS,
the Department of Public Safety.
It was only ICE who was immediately involved
in this vehicle pursuit.
you know there might have been a foot pursuit you hear attorneys there saying
that video evidence does not show
why would there be a foot pursuit just because i said it
when they have lied
even though there is a visual evidence confirming that they're lying
time and time again
well quite a bit of grace and charity to the ice
Gestapo here.
This is an ongoing human rights violation.
To deny sufficient medical care to someone who is in your custody is illegal under international
law.
Oh, anything like that, but what officers have described on the scene is perhaps there
was some kind of physical altercation or pursuit leading up to this.
We have seen bullet holes in the blue Toyota Corolla that Perez was driving at the time.
We know that at least one ICE officer opened fire multiple times.
One of those bullets, as you heard there, getting lodged in his spine and he was immediately
taken to an area hospital.
Unclear why he was released so soon thereafter though.
He's now at the North Texas Processing Center in Purcell, Texas, where he is
being detained prior to being removed from the United States and, you know, his lawyers
have been demanding that he be kept there as long as the investigation remains ongoing
into what happened. Of course, he is the key, the critical witness there. You know,
one lingering question is really what led up to shots being fired? What caused this
officer to make the decision to use deadly force? And whether or not there was any
body care? I think the answer to all of those questions is the same. Because ICE is Gestapo.
It is an unaccountable, unelected force for unlimited violence to express the desires of
an increasingly shrinking percentage of the Republican base of white supremacists that want
to put pain on Brown lives.
These ramming operations have almost always ended up
in a deadly shooting where the ice agents will first ram their car.
They see someone Brown driving.
They decide to ram their car.
The person driving doesn't even understand what's going on before the ice ages pull out their guns and start shooting.
They keep doing it over and over again.
And in the absence of accountability, they're going to continue doing it.
You know, whether that officer had a body worn camera on him or another officer who responded as part of that team might have been able to capture more on their body worn camera.
Nicole, what can we expect from the federal investigation into this shooting?
Something very strange is happening in terms of the federal investigation and that is Homeland
Security Investigations, HSI, which is a component of the Department of Homeland Security, is
leading this federal investigation into what happened with assistance from the FBI.
Typically, and historically, if there is an ICE officer involved shooting, the FBI
lead the investigation under the Department of Justice and then make a determination if
there have been any criminal violations of law and refer that to the Department of Justice
to press charges.
Here it appears as though DHS is investigating itself, HSI housed under DHS there.
Now practically speaking what typically happens in these investigations is investigators will
review videos, body cameras, vehicle, and ballistic evidence, they'll...
How strange.
You mean to tell me that the criminal entity that is the Department of Homeland Security
is investigating itself and will find no wrong doing once again?
How strange.
How unusual.
How many times does this need to happen?
For people to say, actually, this is not strange or unusual.
This is just how they are operating now illegally.
This is their modus operandi.
Because for the longest time we have treated ICE
as a normal law enforcement function
and all of these immigrant removals are normal and good.
They got to do stuff like this
and there was no necessary pushback,
there were no legal, there was no legal pushback
and here we are.
They're utterly devoid of accountability
and are only ramping the intensity.
Look at dispatch and radio communications,
they'll look at what the ICE operation plan was,
they will interview witnesses,
they'll interview the officers involved
and they'll, of course, interview Perez.
They'll look at ICE training and use of force rules
to make a determination about any criminal wrongdoing
or any administrative wrongdoing.
So in addition to looking at potential federal crimes,
they'll also look at whether or not ICE policy was violated,
typically to use deadly force within ICE
an officer needs to feel as though their life is endangered
or that there is seriously bodily harm at risk here.
And it remains unclear again why this ICE officer felt like that very high standard had been
met.
In addition to all of that, we have heard from locals, both Austin Police Department
and prosecutors within Travis County, who say that they will lead an independent investigation
to determine if any of the officers here violated state law.
What's important there is figuring out whether HSI, the Department of Homeland Security
in the FBI will cooperate with local law enforcement and provide them with the kind of access they
need to evidence that will be important to their own investigative process.
Historically that has not been the case in more recent officer involved shootings without
some sort of litigation.
We saw that in Minnesota.
So still a lot of questions about how this will all play out and we'll be following
it very closely.
Liz.
I know you will.
Nicole Skanga, thank you so much.
This morning, an alarming escalation of hostilities across the Middle East, which could mean escalating gas and diesel process here at home.
Iran-backed Houthi rebels...
There's so much more going on that we have to cover with the ICE stuff.
David J. Beer reports on the Homeland Security statement.
David J. Byer is a Cato Institute guy, big on the immigration front.
We don't agree on much, but we definitely agree on this at least.
Cato guys are oftentimes very good on police incompetence, gross misuse of force, all that stuff.
And they're certainly good on the issue of immigration.
So, Homeland Security says HSI, Homeland Security Investigations with the assistance of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation is leading the investigation into the officer involved shooting of an illegal
alien from Venezuela who illegally entered our country. David J. Byer says, did you know that
DHS is authorized by Congress to intentionally defame private individuals all day, every day,
and it cannot be sued for defamation? Now that you know that, does it make you more or less
likely to believe anything it says? Oh, he didn't illegally enter. The Federal Torque Claims Act
explicitly bars damages claims arising out of libel slander misrepresentation
and deceit so dhs can slander people
and there's nothing anything can do about it ever
shouldn't federal agencies be held to a higher standard
i need you guys on the same something
the victim in the circumstance
had a valid legal work permit.
This means that he was not an undocumented migrant.
OK?
He was not an undocumented migrant.
But the DHS is just as they did to the white people
that they killed, white American citizens
that they killed, Alex Paredi, Renee Good.
They're defaming the victim once again.
There's also another thing going on from Aaron
wrightland melnik
new from the associate press
ice is now electronically disappearing people in the agency's custody who have
final orders of removal as of last week
anyone jailed by ice with a final order of removal will not appear in the
online detainee locator system
making them effectively vanish
ice is new policies unprecedented people have uh... been detained for months
are suddenly disappearing from the locator system
even if they haven't been moved anywhere
and people newly arrested are not showing up at all their location is now
hidden from view
this obviously makes it impossible for these people to maintain constant
contact with their loved ones
and legal representatives
you understand?
Noah Hurwitz, a reporter for the Intercept, says, I just checked this
on a woman I'm writing about and indeed she is no longer showing up in the
system, this is insane.
Hannah Ali Karam, her husband received asylum, she was denied but she's
still eligible for asylum through him. She's been locked up for almost two years and now
she's not even locatable in the system. An Iranian couple fled their homeland after
twice being arrested for converting to Christianity. Liam was granted asylum in the US but his
wife, Hanahe, was denied and has been locked up ever since. But because Liam was granted
asylum, Hanahe has a very straightforward case for so-called derivative asylum through
her husband. She had a biometrics appointment with USCIS in January, but ICE refused to
transport her. Now, after more than a year of legal limbo, she's still stuck in a Louisiana
detention center. With such miserable conditions that she told me she'd rather be dead. Not
only is the government denying her her legal right to apply for asylum, when her husband
already has this legal asylum. They're also now disappearing her from the system. So it's
harder to track her down. Does this strike you as the actions of a normal government?
This is why we say fascism is here already. And it's happening in broad daylight. And
yet many people are sleepwalking in the direction of fascism. They are wholly oblivious.
completely oblivious to the realities that fascism is here already and it's
happening all around us. The government is killing innocent people, the
government is lying about the background of those innocent people and the lies
that they're saying don't make any sense either. It doesn't make sense to
assassinate a DoorDash delivery driver, okay? You're not you're not
fighting against an armed opponent, you're not fighting against like a
narco trafficker, you're assassinating a fucking door-dash delivery driver in broad daylight
inside of his Toyota Yaris. Like what are we talking about?
These are not rugged criminals. These are regular ass neighbors of ours, okay?
These are neighbors of ours that are following the letter of the law they are legally following
going through on their asylum claims, for example.
There is no world where side swiping someone's car in your unmarked vehicle and then shooting them five times through the windshield,
striking them in the fucking spinal, near the spinal cord, on their neck,
And then refusing to give them the necessary medical aid as they are tortured in a detention center is valid
Okay, this is not valid for Nazis. This is not valid for prisoners of war
You do this kind of behavior against ISIS and there's still an international criminal court system
that would normally kick in and and prosecute those who've done so as a matter of fact the American military has done this to people in
in the Navy and the Marine Corps that have mistreated their prisoners of war.
Eddie Gallagher comes to mind. Donald Trump, of course, pardoned him,
so you understand exactly what the attitude is here.
If they're brown, they are inhuman, they're subhuman,
and therefore we can behave in a subhuman manner against them.
And in the absence of accountability, this kind of violence will only grow
and will only continue.
We have an entire paramilitary force,
purposely staffed with racist xenophobes,
who in any other circumstance would never pass a criteria
to handle a gun and a badge,
and somehow the controversial stance
is thinking it should be disbanded.
You cannot reform this institution.
You cannot reform an institution
whose entire purpose is to
prosecute paperwork crimes,
that's what this is. That go out and murder these people and go out and murder others who are defending the people. Okay. We have to have law and order in order for America to be healthy society. We have to have law and order. If these animals are behaving in this lawless and disorderly manner, we have to hold them to account. If we do not do this, we will never have law and order ever again. This is how the social fabric rips apart. Okay.
Now, the other side of the ICE disappearance technique is that there are still some work
around, says Aaron Reiklin-Mellonick.
He says there are some work arounds that will still allow people to learn where their
loved one or legal client is being held, such as third-party commissary accounts.
None of those are official and none are as comprehensive as ICE's existing system,
making this a serious obstacle.
Can you imagine trying to figure out your lawyer, you have a client attention facility
and the only way you can figure out which attention facility they're in is through the commissary
accounts because those are handled by third party private corporations.
It is insane dude, it is utterly unjustifiable, totally insane.
They're making this not because they want to murder people, even though if they die in
the process, I'm sure that they don't care, right?
But they're doing this with the express purpose of making it easier to deport them without
any legal pushback whatsoever.
Understand that that is the whole point here.
That's the entire purpose of this program.
This administration has taken the initiative to destroy due process, destroy the First
Amendment.
They haven't stopped.
We have to be fighting back on all fronts.
We have to protest against it.
I know that there is a lot of protest fatigue, outrage fatigue, a lot of people experience
apathy.
I don't think it's because they have seen some electoral gains and their revolutionary
fervor went by the wayside.
I find it rather strange that there are still people in the chat saying, oh, well, I says
illegal. Okay, he had a legal work permit, but let's say he did it. Is it valid to ram
your car into someone and shoot at them through the windshield five times, striking him near
his spinal cord and in the neck? And then refusing to get him, refusing to give him
the necessary medical treatment and keep him trapped in a detention facility torturing
him? If the answer to that question is yes, then you're a fucking animal. You are far,
far, far lower than what you perceive undocumented migrants as, let's be real, make no mistake.
It says a lot about society, how they treat their most vulnerable.
We're nasty monsters for doing this. The Trump administration, the American government that
turns a blind eye to this or outright endorses this kind of violence, is engaging in an
act of terror on the domestic front. This is terrorism against our neighbors. There
There's no other way to put it.
This is Nazism.
This is fascism.
That's what Trumpism is.
Fascism is imperialism and colonialism turned inward.
All right.
All right, now let's get to situation monitoring.
Tensions escalate as Houthi rebels strike Saudi Arabia, we are now going to the Babel
Mandep Strait, we're going to Yemen, we're going back to the Gulf.
Because it's all systems go on all fronts all the time.
Donald Trump is not just molesting the money.
Donald Trump is not just molesting our civil liberties,
but he's also molesting the entire world's energy supply.
Let's take a look at what has taken place.
This morning, an alarming escalation of hostilities
across the Middle East,
which could mean escalating gas and diesel prices
here at home.
Iran backed Houthi rebels in Yemen
launching ballistic missiles and drones
against Saudi Arabia,
A key U.S. ally in the war against Iran, black smoke seemed billowing into the sky above
Riyadh over the weekend, the Houthis targeting oil facilities and the first-ever direct attack
on the Saudi capital.
Just days ago, the Houthis took credit for destroying a Saudi oil pipeline that was
being used to circumvent the Strait of Hormuz, the vital waterway where U.S. ships
are blockading Iranian ports, making the passage of oil tankers almost impossible
Now, the Houthis are trying to gain control of another key route for Saudi oil, the Babel
Mandib Strait, which could raise oil prices even further.
This morning, The New York Times reports Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman urged
the president late last week to launch strikes against the Houthis.
According to the Times, Trump told his advisors to prepare for military action against
the group, but then the president reportedly reversed course.
Adding a senior administration official, the report says most of Trump's closest advisors
were skeptical about potential strikes given the strains facing the U.S. military in the
war in Iran.
This weekend, President Trump cutting his visit to Camp David short amid increased
tension in the region, telling Fox News he's weighing drastic military action in Iran,
saying, my question is, if and when do I blow the entire nation up?
they better behave. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Walts refusing to put a timeline
on the war.
Well, I think the time with the President's strategy and operation economic fury is on
the President and on the United States side.
And the Iranians are again threatening all U.S. bases in the region where already 18
American service members have died and some 800 wounded.
The U.S. now warning all Americans in the Middle East to exercise heightened vigilance
and reconsider travel to and through the region, with reports already this morning of another
tanker in the Strait of Hormuz struck by a projectile.
Robin said already again this morning.
Mothar, thanks to you.
The world according to the Houthis, brought to you by the same animators who produced
propaganda for Iran.
are the enemies the Saudis bowing to Donald Trump? Yeah, the Saudi network of influencers in the Gulf
that have been, you know, on the pro-Palestine side have been kind of showing their
they've been showing their their asses a little bit. They were real mad about this. They were so
mad about this because they were like, oh, you are saying that the Saudis are idol worshipers.
How disappointing and it's like well they are they do worship the altar of
Trump. Go ahead prove everyone wrong if that's not the case you know I welcome
that
Bowing to Donald Trump, but in reality he has failed to help his Saudi allies.
The Houthis who are allied with Iran attacked Riyadh airport.
Trump has reportedly considered intervening to protect Saudi Arabia, but changed his mind,
leaving his closest Arab ally in the lurch.
It leaves the Saudis in a very difficult position.
It leaves the Saudis facing a choice, do they continue to escalate against the Houthis and
push them back with ground forces that they have been supporting, but with no real guarantees
that this will be quick and that they will be able to regain ground, or do they actually
counter-intuitively pursue a de-escalation strategy.
With the Strait of Hormuz effectively controlled by Iran, Saudi had started pumping oil along
a pipeline to the Red Sea coast, but the Houthis have bombed the pipeline and seized
more strategic parts of Yemen so they can block Saudi vessels going through the Babal
Mandab Strait.
Babal Mandab means gateway of grief, and the Houthis are doing all they can to
to make sure that the Saudis mourn alone.
Recently, there was an American communication
through the Omani mediator
about whether we would target America in the Babel Mandib.
We confirmed that we're not targeting America
or any other country in the strait with the sole exception.
Remember, this guy was in a Dutch socialist party
and lived in Canada of the Saudi enemy.
The fighting between the Houthis and Saudi backforks
in Yemen has opened up a new front in the war between the US and Iran, which President Trump
in a call to Fox News yesterday has threatened to-
President TOS?
Oh, 2-18 might be TOS, they show an attack on a market, you can see below their bodies.
Escalate again.
President described the current choices on the table as wiping Iran out, letting them
rot economically or making a deal.
He added, my question is, if and when do I blow the entire nation up?
They better behave.
Because if there weren't enough violence, today at least two markets were attacked in Yemen.
That's not clear.
It's not yet clear by which side.
Yemenis aren't waiting to find out.
Some one hundred and seven...
I thought that would be a violation.
It is not.
That wasn't a violation.
Thirty thousand have fled their homes in the last few weeks.
We fled the war with nothing but our clothes.
We had nothing with us.
Bullets were striking above us and we fled.
The plane was firing above us.
As morphably, Gulf countries are trying to work out
if they can do a deal with the Houthis and Iran.
President Trump started all this,
but it will be up to regional countries
to bring these disastrous wars to an end.
Well, I've been speaking to Nicholas Hopton,
who has been UK Ambassador to Yemen and Iran.
He's now Director General of the Middle East Association.
I asked him what he would advise Donald Trump to do
with the Houthis in Yemen.
I would say, Mr. President, I'm sure you're very aware that you achieved a ceasefire with
the Houthis in 2025 and, obviously, UK refuelers are en route.
Ties update on Sadallah has taken more territory in the Western Highlands since I lasted the
Ties update since Barry Bonser.
Despite the intense clashes, there hasn't been any significant developments in the last
24 hours of fighting. Clashes have been ongoing for two strategic mountains of Jabal-Habashi
and Jabal-Han, directly west of Thayi City. These two mountains form the western highland
front that allowed defenders to protect the El-Dabab road, which connects Thayi City
to Aden and the southern provinces. Saudi back forces in the area. Report of ceaseless
mortar, drone, and missile attacks coming from Ansar al-Law, while Saudi aviation
has also intensified attacks on Ansar al-Law positions around the mountains. To the
The Southeast Ansar al-Azra reportedly began pushing westward towards al-Turba, with the
hopes of cutting off the route to Aden from the south at that moment.
Progress is slow, and the fighting remains ongoing along the contact line.
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has agreed to send a single air refueller to Saudi Arabia
for several weeks to assist in their war on Yemen.
Yes, Starmarism is dead.
Long live Starmarism.
If the attitude against the IRGC is to let cooler heads prevail and to tell America to
find a way to deal with the IRGC and deal with Iran, not militarily, mind you, but through
the realm of diplomacy, the same goes for the Ansarullah movement.
It's not different for Saudi Arabia versus Ansarullah, as a matter of fact, it's even
Because the American forces in all of their might have already tried to engage in aerial bombardment campaigns against Ansar Allah inside of Yemen in their hardened positions and failed.
They failed so spectacularly that Donald Trump in 2025 cut a deal that allowed Ansar Allah to continue hitting Israeli ships and Israel directly.
Okay? There was a carve-out!
Yes, Ansar Allah means supporters of God, people of God.
His Bullah is the party of God.
And Ansar Allah is the people of God, supporters of God.
That's what it translates to.
Ansar Allah is the name of the movement, Houthi is the name of the family, the Zaidi Shias
that started the Ansar Allah movement.
Now there was also some additional information, Trump wanted to strike the Houthis but then
and decided to back off later.
There was also that element as well.
Faitouk's network post is this, which I think is very strange.
Houthi leader Abdu Malik al-Houthi made one of the more unusual claims in his speech alleging
that Saudi authorities gave Jeffrey Eppsian a piece of cloth, a piece of the kiswah,
the cloth covering the Kaaba in Mecca, which he said was later used for satanic
rituals.
This was real.
This is not like a made up assertion.
I don't know why Phytooks Network covered this as though it was totally made up.
Are they saying that the Satanic rituals part is made up?
Maybe perhaps.
But the Saudis, well the Emiratis gave, the Emiratis did give a piece of that cloth to
Jeffrey Epstein.
This was reported in the New York Times.
Not sure why they're making it seem as though this claim is made up.
It was the UAE that sold it.
Yes, it was the Emiratis that gave it to Jeffrey Epstein, but the Kiswah was given to the Emiratis by the Saudis.
Okay, it's in fucking Mecca. It's a piece of the Kaaba.
So obviously...
Obviously...
Hold on.
The Saudis gave it to the Emirates, and the Emirates gave it to Jeffrey Epstein.
Isn't that haram? How is that relevant? I mean, it is haram. I mean, it's not only...
It's unbelievably disrespectful to the religion. Not that it's relevant in those moments, but...
Anyway, here is Starmarism being repeated by Burnham.
Burnham, Starmarism with Zoran Characteristics, and Andy Burnham's story.
The UK will provide Saudi Arabia with defensive air-to-air refueling support, following Houthi
drone and missile attacks Prime Minister Andy Burnham said.
The support expected at the beginning of the coming days will involve a single RAF
Voyager aircraft based at RAF Akratiri in Cyprus.
UK officials said the deployment will be time-limited and likely last for weeks.
Burnham said the move followed a Saudi request for military support and was aimed
protecting regional stability and British interest. And what's really interesting about this is that
America is not offering additional support to Saudi Arabia. So why is Andy Burnham taking
a more aggressive posture to defend Saudi Arabia against unsolved strikes than the American
government is? Perhaps because the American government is spread too thin in the region.
What is this? Who these need to just keep posting this photo? Oh yeah.
True. Saudi Arabia has been experiencing the attacks
as looking at potential further disruption, and we need to keep those pathways open and
hence our agreement upon the request. If the British, even under Starmer's leadership,
understood that the only way to deal with these forces, whether it is one of the components
of the Axis of Resistance, like the Ansarallah movement, or directly the head of the Axis
Iran the only way to deal with them is through diplomacy why are they taking
military action how did they perceive this playing out I do not know
you made quite a strong message about that that it was a success for US
diplomacy now if the United States were to change its position at this point
If the US were to join in militarily, then you should expect that the ceasefire, which
the Houthi have stayed committed to with the United States, would break down and likewise
I think that international shipping through the Babel Mandab would be severely disrupted,
even closed.
You've also been ambassador to Iran.
How do you think the Iranians would see this kind of escalation?
Well, I think the Iranians and the Houthis are almost certainly coordinating their positions.
The Iranians aren't necessarily pulling the Houthis' strings. It's not that kind of relationship.
It's interesting that more analysts in the West are coming to recognize this, by the way,
because the way that the Houthi, the way that the Ansarallah-Irani relationship was explained was like,
oh, they're a pure proxy. They're a pure proxy for years, right?
And I even said something to a similar order, but it's very clear after this round of tit for tat with Saudi Arabia, that they have their own personal ambitions that are in line with the Iranian goals in the region, for sure.
But they are not operating as a pure proxy at all.
It's very clear that the al-Zalala movement is operating with sovereign goals, with autonomy.
They have their own capabilities.
Obviously, it's aided and abetted by the Iranian side for sure.
But this is, in my opinion, a totally new way to look at this movement.
Certainly our allies, and they do support them both in training and military equipment.
So I think the Iranians will be coordinating their next steps depending on whether the
United States gets involved or not.
And if the United States does get involved, then the war that Iran and the U.S. are
fighting on the other side of the Arabian Peninsula, risks spreading across to the Battle
of Nandem and the Red Sea.
The big difference between Iran and Yemen perhaps is the vulnerability of the civilian population.
People are not starving in Iran.
They have been starving in Yemen for years and years because of the on and off blockade
by the Saudi-led coalition.
Might that be a factor in the resilience of the hooting?
The two situations are very different, they're the degree of intensity, but both populations
are living in terrible situations and in the case of Yemen, the population is in a desperate
situation and lastly you asked about what that meant for the Houthi.
I would say that the Houthi are very used, like the Iranian regime, they're very used
to oppressing their people and treating them very badly, they're more desperate
for money and resources than the Iranians, I would suggest.
So actually, the way off this Houthi-Saudi war
is for some form of negotiation to take place,
which involves relieving some of that economic pressure
on the Yemeni people and probably
paying the Houthi some sort of money,
which is the way that it's been done in the past
to contain the threat from Yemen to Saudi Arabia.
Just finally, what do you make of this idea
that Donald Trump is holding off coming in behind Saudi Arabia because they're refusing
to sign up to the Abraham Accords.
There was a report I saw that the Americans were about to join Saudi efforts, but the
President pressed pause at the last minute in the last couple of days.
I hope he continues to press pause.
And the idea that Saudi Arabia will sign up to the Abraham Accords at this particular
moment while the U.S.-Iran War is ongoing and while Saudi is under such pressure on both
sides of its territory from Iran and the Houthi on the other side, seems slightly fanciful.
That's not to say that at some stage in the future Saudi Arabia might not be ready, I
think it will be, to join even player-leading role in forming some form of more stable
coalition on the security of the whole region. But again, until the U.S.-Iran war is brought
to some sort of negotiated conclusion, that seems some way off.
Nicholas Hobson, thank you very much.
Thank you.
A former member of the Democratic Socialist of America is sounding the alarm about its
radical left agenda. The former executive board member of the DSA's Boston chapter
Tells Fox quote, I had been involved in my local union and met some people who were far, far to the left and like a frightening way it was looking for a more pragmatic and thoughtful option on the left that was focused on economic policy.
One of the things are in major trouble with the DSA.
You hear that, Romka?
Yeah.
He's saying that's right.
Yeah, we're, yeah, the communists hold up the party.
That's what Donald Trump said about me.
You hear that?
He said communists hold up half the party women hold up half the world and communists hold up half the party
Yeah, yeah, we're not gonna need it. It's not gonna be that long
Concerns I had very quickly was that the DSA was beginning to sound more and more like those extreme groups on the left that I you
Know certainly didn't want anything to do with
Well, let's bring in the heck cook CEO of American Frontier Strategies also an attorney and political analyst and Julian
Absolutely democratic chief counsel for the House Judiciary Committee guys. Thanks so much for joining us this afternoon the heck
I'm gonna start with you if Democrats fail to take control of either House of Congress here given how
Favorable the political positioning is for them. Do you think they're gonna take a hard look at?
Some of these candidates these DSA associated candidates that they nominated this round
Rich, I don't because the Democrat Party had a massive opportunity after losing the White
House, the Senate and Congress, and they refuse, they've actually doubled down on these radical
positions.
And my gosh, I applaud Altman today, a DSA member that has left, and he's actually telling
us something very troubling.
He's actually telling us that the DSA now has the CCP blueprint.
That's exactly what they're doing in our country.
silencing any type of dissent.
Yeah, DSA is running the CCP blueprint. We are...
Yeah, it's true. Democratic sensationalization took root. It's already real.
DSA is a Marxist-Leninist party now.
Yeah, take that DSA right with your advancements in the direction of modest social democracy.
Yeah, why is the guy on the right mogging?
I don't know. I don't know what the fuck's going on there.
He's purposely trying to do the Chad face
Red scare but now Chinese
TCP is not even a fucking communist party right now law. I mean they are they are definitely still very much Mars is letting us
Yeah, I'll flip it. No, no, I'll flip it right now
Okay, you can you can take it now
They are certainly a Marx's Leninist party still.
Having said that, hold on, let me fix the camera on here as well.
No, no, no, no, you can take it off, yeah. It's underneath the camera. The tool for it is underneath the camera.
And they're making sure that they no longer want anybody that refuses to go along with
this ideology.
They were about economics, but now they're all about control.
That's exactly what the CCP does, and they hate America, another CCP propaganda line.
So I really think that the Democrats are in major trouble, but they're not learning.
Even Hasan Piker has come out and AOC is chairing that she's part of this DSA
populist movement today.
I think if anything Republicans have an opportunity for any DSA members that feel lost and confused because they don't like the
Economic policies of this movement join the Republican Party because we don't
Anyone anyone that feels waterless should join the Republican Party at a time of it
at a time when it's unpopularity is peaking so much so that the most like
reactionary country, the most anti-communist country on the planet, or one of the most anti-communist
countries on the planet, is literally looking at socialism in a sympathetic manner.
I sometimes I feel like these guys have an obligation to drop my name, you know what
I mean?
Because it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Like what is the purpose here?
What is the point?
She just wanted to say it, I guess.
She just had to get a quick fire off, like a quick Hasan mentioned.
If you don't do that, you don't get paid, right?
Must be the reason.
Silence, we don't stop you from holding your beliefs and your values to live the American
dream.
But this is very troubling.
Democrats will not learn.
They haven't learned in the past.
They won't learn in the future.
Now, Julian, you look at some of the old guard democratic socialists here, like Senator Bernie
Sanders.
And do you think that they're just happy to have more people in the tent for things like
Medicare for all, and that some of these statements they've made about praising Mao and, you know,
good statements about Ron, China, and all these other repressive governments?
Well, that might be inconvenient, but, you know, hey, a bigger tent's a better
tent.
I think that's right. I think you captured it very well there, Rich. I think part of the problem is is that
Postmodern liberalism doesn't give voters anything to get excited about. It's largely failed and
That means the party continues to go further and further left. I mean the DSA
These are the communists who side with the terrorists and they are colonizing the Democratic Party and
What you hear on this network from the some of the Democratic consultants and other networks is oh
was only a small sliver of the democratic party is only one or two percent
of the uh... democratic uh... membership
well that's sort of the new big lie uh... and the best way to show that it's a
big lie and that in fact
socialism is becoming the beating heart of the democratic party is to just
look at the vote on israel
i mean here you have
nearly half of the democratic party come on mister abstinium
Come on, Mr. Epstein, don't talk about Israel now.
Now on record, wanting to take away Israel's right of self-defense against the Nazi movement,
which Hamas represents.
And this is part of sort of the red-green alliance that we've talked about.
This is part of the Islamic sort of social.
Does it not strike anybody as odd that like Democrats and Republicans are saying the
exact same thing?
Like this guy, Julian Epstein, former House Judiciary Committee counsel, is repeating
What Ted Cruz is saying?
Is that not strange?
Is that not odd?
The Uniparty is real, folks.
It is very much real.
Are we almost ready?
You got the light and everything, right?
Yeah.
The Socialist Alliance, and it is deeply, deeply infecting the Democratic Party.
So this sort of opportunism that Bernie Sanders and others are, to your question, where they're
saying, let's have a big tent that invites people in that openly want to destroy the
West.
They say that.
The Democratic Socialist America says that, the Democratic Socialist members say that.
The fact that they want to invite them into the tent when they want to kick John Federman
out of the tent tells you everything you need to know about the extremist drift of the Democratic
Party that I've been complaining about now for years.
You know, Matt, you brought this up in your last answer about the question as to whether
Hassan Piker would appear with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez if she were to run for president
in 2028.
Here's what he had to say about it and then what she said about him.
What goes on behind the scenes in the Democratic Party and what gets talked about is entirely
different I think in many respects.
It is absolutely ludicrous that so much oxygen from sitting elected at the polls in the United
States for Congress is being dedicated to discourse around a Twitch streamer.
so do you think that she is
politically savvy
enough to say
let's let's not appear with this guy
another of other democratic candidates particularly abil
again we're watching fox news and fox news obviously wants what's in the best
interest of the democratic party guys
obviously
Obviously, it's in the best interest of the Democrats if the Republicans over at Fox News are saying it.
I'm a Democratic Party consultant who's made a killing in DC my whole life.
So, of course, the smart thing to do here is to listen to the Republicans when they tell me sincerely that this will be a spectacular flood.
AOC just said you ain't shit, lol. No, she's right. She's right. Why the fuck is there so much discourse around a Twitch streamer?
That is the correct way to handle that question. It's utterly ridiculous.
Okay.
But yeah, politically savvy from these Republicans to- they're just saying like AOC stay away if you know what's good for you.
Well, I'll say Ed in Michigan did it several times.
AOC is very politically savvy and I think Americans need to take her seriously, but Democrats
failed one math math.
Anyway, we're gonna get moving right now.
Okay, I gotta pee real quick, but Trump TV is live in one minute.
What the fuck is Trump TV?
The timing is kind of bad.
Jesus Christ.
I don't want to see what the opening shot is.
What is Trump TV in two minutes?
Okay, we'll wait for Trump TV to go on.
It's the youth vote.
It's younger males, and that's exactly where they need
Hasan Piker.
And he told America, he's not going after the 65-year-olds.
They're too smart.
He's going after the 45-year-old men that Democrats lost.
And Democrats do this well, and AOC will do the same.
She's going to join Hasan Piker
because she needs his base, she needs his movement.
But then, Rich, she also has to answer,
is America worse than Al Qaeda?
Because that's exactly what this individual is saying today.
Hassan Piker is going out there saying,
we're worse than Al Qaeda.
He has suddenly forgotten 9-11.
And the nearly 3,000 individuals that were killed.
So I think Democrats are going to continue to use
Hassan Piker as a tool when they need him
to increase their base when there's actually a primary
and then distance immediately during the general.
That's what Abdul-El-Said is doing,
But Americans know the truth.
They know that they stand with people like Abdul Said, and they're trying to dismantle
our country, our love for the American dream and what President Trump has built.
So while AOC is savvy, she's going to use him as a useful tool, just like Abdul Said
did.
You know, Julian, you look at Hassan Piker, he has now turned himself into a litmus test
for Democratic candidates.
Do you think that that has staying power beyond the midterms?
I do.
I don't think this issue is going away because of the obnoxious, cancerous things that Piker
has said about open season on Jews and sort of, you know, wanting to tear down every institution
of the West and the United States.
The heads point about the Al-Qaeda being worse than the United States being worse
than Al-Qaeda.
But there's an important dance that's going on with the Democrats right now.
Every time you ask about all of the obnoxious things that Piker has said, they sort of stare
at their shoelaces and they say, well, that's not really relevant.
People aren't concerned about a Twitch streamer.
But they don't denounce Piker.
They don't remove themselves from Piker.
Why?
Because they want the resentment energy that the extreme left provides for Democrats
because the Democratic Party is hemorrhaging voters in the political center.
And this is why the Democratic Party is inevitably going far, far left.
This is not just a problem for the Democratic Party.
It's so funny that- wait, oh it is.
Wait, what the f***, TV?
I wasn't watching downstairs on the TV!
You should see that what the fuck is this?
They just banned CNN MS now
Is that Mount Rushmore?
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the 45th and 47th President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump.
What the fuck is going on?
What is happening?
Wait, wasn't he just with Zoran?
Where is he?
Is this pre-recorded? What the fuck is happening?
Is this an older speech from South Dakota, or did he literally fly to South Dakota?
Yeah, they're kind of you. You're chanting DSA, Cap.
Well, thank you very much to the men and women of the South Dakota Air National Guard and
those beautiful F-35s. We love them. And I want to thank you all for being here. This
is a big crowd. This is a lovely crowd. And what a sight it is.
This is a rerun of his South Dakota speech.
I guess that's what they're doing.
I guess that's what they're...
It's a rerun of his South Dakota speech.
It's just Trump's greatest hits, I guess.
Yeah, this is from the 3rd of July.
Anyway, all right, we got to go.
We got to head out to the event.
Bernie is going to be speaking.
Julie Nasty.
Abir Kawas is going to be speaking.
Abir.
And numerous...
Yeah, Abir Kawas is going to be speaking.
And numerous people.
Thanks for joining us.
We'll see you on the road.
Okay.
Thanks, Rich.
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Well, Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed still facing questions about his ties to Hassan
Piker making the rounds on Capitol Hill today.
Back live to the senior national correspondent, Kevin Corr.
Kevin.
Trace National Democrats rallying around the Michigan Senate nominee even as questions
continue to follow him over his ties to controversial left-wing streamer Hassan Piker.
El-Sayed spending the day behind closed doors with more than 20 Senate Democrats
to emerge, believe it or not, praising his campaign.
He was great and he is going to be a fabulous member.
He's a great candidate, he's going to win
and we are all united.
I feel good about Michigan.
It's clear that a bill has wind in its sails right now.
I think now it's just a question of how strong that wind is.
Wind in its sails, okay.
But that unity comes as Republicans continue
to spotlight LSA's past campaign appearances with Piker.
Even as more questions arise over Piker's rhetoric
and El Sayed's views on Israel,
which continue to follow the campaign.
Now, for his part, El Sayed has tried to distance himself
from some of Piker's comments,
but again today, pivoted when pressed
about whether Piker would campaign with him.
This conversation is so far removed
from what people are talking about.
He has that line rehearsed.
It's down.
He says it every single time.
People care about grocery prices, not about some streamer in California.
By the way, New Jersey Senator Andy Kim says,
Piker didn't even come up in the closed door meeting.
Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, wouldn't say whether the issue of Israel came up.
I'm not buying that.
I don't know about you, Trace.
Listen, by November, Kevin, we're all gonna be singing California Streaming.
California Streaming.
Right on.
I like it.
That's what we hear so many times every single day.
Kevin, thank you.
Let's bring in California GOP chair of Jewish engagement, Elizabeth Parkohana, and psychotherapist
and author of Therapy Nation, Jonathan Alpert.
Thank you both for coming on.
Elizabeth, to you first, Alsayed, as you just, Kevin just kind of articulately laid
out for us, keeps dodging the California streamer and keeps blaming Trump.
Here's a sample.
They don't think that a streamer in California is raising the price of their gas for their
groceries.
You know who's doing that?
The guy right down there who lives in the White House, he's doing it.
So people really, really care about why Donald Trump seems to be interested in fighting a
trade war.
We have no business fighting.
I think the mantra, Elizabeth, is forget about the hateful rhetoric from the past and let's
focus on hating the president right now.
Well, because that's the only thing that they can talk about.
He said, you know, that nobody wants to talk about Hassan Piker, a streamer from
California.
Well, I know plenty of California Democrats and Democrats across the nation that are
very concerned about El Sayed's close associations to him, refusal to distance and condemn him,
and that he, you know, he brought him on the campaign trail knowing all this history about
him, all the things that he has said about America, about capitalism, and that he continues
to say, and so, you know, they just, they don't know what else to say besides Trump.
Trump, Trump is all it is.
Here's your op-ed, Jonathan, put this up on the screen, why Democrats keep coming back
to Hasan Piker.
It goes on to read, Hasan Piker keeps saying things that should make mainstream Democrats
want to keep their distance, yet they keep coming back.
Maybe that's because he has something they need.
What is it that they need in your estimation?
Well, Piker has a huge audience for starters, but he also is tapping into the heart
and soul of socialism, which is grievance culture,
and he knows how to identify the victim and the villain,
and that's just what really keeps these people motivated.
They need someone to hate,
they need someone to blame for their misfortune in life.
So he's tapped into that beautifully,
and people know that he has a huge following,
and they're gonna maintain the relationship with him.
And Piker, you know, judgment matters,
and he can simply say,
look, this guy's a bad character,
had an association with him at some point but no longer and let's focus on the
campaign. He didn't want to say that for some reason he just didn't want to say
that. The New York Times calls it Elizabeth Barcajana a an editing error.
So here's what they originally wrote put this up on the screen. Israelis are
deeply divided over how to apportion blame for the policy military and
intelligence failures that preceded the attack and the war but Israelis
still largely view themselves as the victims of October 7th.
And then it goes on the update, because of an editing error, an earlier version of this
article included a statement that was intended to convey Israeli's perception of the government's
military response to the October 7 terror attack in relation to the attacks, but inadvertently
suggested that Israeli's experience as terror victims was a matter of perception.
It has been removed from the article, of course it is, because we didn't, we got that, we
got perception stuff, Elizabeth.
Here are thoughts.
They removed it after being called out for it very publicly, very aggressively, and
very correctly.
And okay, so it's an editing error, maybe in good faith, if that was the only editing
error that went against Israel and in favor of Hamas, that we'd accept that.
actually this is the 10th time. They've misquoted Israeli officials. They have, you know, the
picture with the child who had a medical condition and they made it appear as if the child was
emaciated because of famine, which was not true. They basically have become a Hamas
propaganda
you know uh... at rags in the united states for an american audience repeating
uh... again how much literal hamas propaganda using them as a source or
inaccurate information like for example repeating the claim that five hundred
people were
you know uh... killed in israeli strike that wasn't true
and if you're analyzing the just written a book called uh...
nation what therapy nation nation therapy nation johann albert you would
look at the new york times like
all come on this is nothing different than you've got a l i l say it's saying
all you know that guy over there we don't do that we that was a mistake
well congrats to the new york times that finally did the right thing but i'm
pretty sure
rape and murder rape of young children and murder is uh... it is
certainly not a perception of being a victim and that's truly a victim
and i can say that as a therapist anyone who ever came to me and talks about
being raped or brutalized
they are a victim for sure
so the new york times at least finally got it right but uh... we shouldn't have
had this hiccup if you want to call it that
yeah uh... there you go
elizabeth parker hannah
uh... jenice alpert best of luck with the book their nation
but sells well
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Michigan is a key battleground state this November.
It's hosting both a governor's race and a Senate campaign that can help decide the
balance of Congress.
I'm Josh Jamerson and I've been covering politics for the Wall Street Journal for
much of the last decade.
But before any of that, Detroit was home.
In this episode of Rooted In, I went back to speak with business owners, residents and
local politicians to find out what's animating voters ahead of the November election.
What I see is people who are frustrated with a system that has consistently failed them.
Detroit's median household income is around $39,000 a year, about half the national
me didn't income. I make enough to where I could pay my bills and take care of my
kids but sometimes you do want to have fun and you don't have the money. This
election cycle much of the country is grappling with the question Detroit has
confronted for generations. Is hard work enough to get ahead?
Hey Josh!
Alright, it's good to see you!
We're sitting here at Nicky's.
As you can see, it hasn't changed in the 30 years that we've been coming.
Do you remember when you had your 18th birthday?
I do, I do.
Look at that!
Isn't that sweet?
When you were growing up, Nicky's was like, the spot.
I thought you'd get a kick out of these old photos.
photos. Yes. You got Detroit in your blood. Well, I think about Detroit, at least what
I remember growing up, was it felt like everybody just hustled, even growing up like kids were
just trying to sell you candies at school or Poulets or whatever. I really want to understand
how people are feeling about the economy. You guys have some pretty big elections.
Yes. We're going to be the center of the universe. Already the center of the universe.
It's not overstating it to say that Michigan may decide the fate of the nation's politics
this year.
We are going to win Michigan.
We are going to take back the right house.
Trump won Michigan in 2024, but since then a lot has changed.
Trump's approval rating is crumbled, and historically that does not bode well for
the president's party in midterm elections.
Right now, Republicans hold thin majorities in both the House and the Senate.
On the House side, Democrats need to flip three seats in November.
And on the Senate side, the party needs to flip a net of four seats.
One of the Senate seats Democrats are desperate to hold on to is in Michigan, where Republican
nominee Mike Rogers is up against Democratic nominee Abdul El Said.
For either of these candidates to grasp victory, they will need to address Michigan voters'
biggest concerns.
They come in tears.
They come in tears.
And that's because of the pain they're enduring.
I had a customer the other day, her ultimate,
her failed three weeks after the warranty expired.
She couldn't really scrape up any more money.
Michigan is famous for its auto manufacturing.
Out of the top five employers in the state,
three are automakers.
And nearly everyone here will tell you
how essential having a car is to everyday life.
So I got all these cores and returns.
Okay, well I have to make one more delivery
after I work that.
Good morning, Jayce.
Jayce Aleda has run this auto shop
for 15 years.
Best shop in the city, man.
Right here.
He says when people's budgets get tight,
taking care of their cars is one of the first places
people might cut back.
You could tell people are not driving unless it's necessary.
They're pushing a lot of their routine maintenance
repairs further along.
They put milk on the table.
Or do I do an oil change?
When would you say this started to pick up?
Like, you notice people just feeling a little bit more
cashstraps?
It's been the past year, kind of, after the Iran War,
and I felt like it really put a strain on the stress
that people were already enduring.
Like in many places around the country,
consumer prices in Detroit have shot up
since the start of the Iran War in February.
It's $65.56.
You said you only got $65.10?
Yeah.
All right, I'll adjust it for you to help you out.
Everything is 1-0.
Even oil change, they used to be $40.00 and not $64.00.
If you do vote this November after you do your research a little bit,
what's like the thing you want politicians to focus on the most?
Minimal wage.
What's like your top concern this fall?
Like what's like the thing on your mind the most?
Health care.
My daughter, she's a, she has health care, but it's hot.
She's paying for health care out of her pocket.
How can you feel that costs are high?
Gas?
Gas.
Light bill?
Almost everyone I spoke to mentioned their rising bills from DTE, Detroit's primary utility
company.
Michigan law lets utility companies file for a rate increase every 12 months.
In September, Michigan State Regulatory Agency approved a request by DTE that would raise
the average residential bill by about 4%.
DTE shared a statement with us, saying the company's electric bills have remained
below regional and national averages.
The company said it is doing the necessary work to modernize the grid and natural gas
system.
DTE added that it would refrain from asking for more rate increases for the next two years.
When you look at all the fees, it's excessive.
I feel like DTE wants a rate increase to fix the power lines every year on top of the
record profits they're making.
What do you feel like is the way you're leaning this fall in terms of how you
might want to express yourself at the valid box.
I lost faith in our politicians.
They tell you what you want to hear,
but once they're in their office, their hands are tied.
Concerns about the cost of living, including on utilities,
have emerged as one of the most dominant issues
in the midterm elections.
We want to make sure that if you want to put a data center
anywhere, that it's going to meet the following terms.
All union labor, no raising our utility rates,
increasing our utility reliability.
I have a three point affordability agenda that starts with health and then goes with
housing and energy.
Rodgers has put a focus on lowering housing and health care costs and he's betting that
Michigan, a purple state known for sending centrist senators to Washington, will reject
a firebrand progressive like El Said, who supports Medicare for All and free childcare.
Right now the average new homeowner in Michigan is about 40 years old.
ridiculous. And so what we've been doing for the last year is talking about and we've
had a great proposal to get them to hit that 20% down payment by saving tax free. We're
going to build more homes in Detroit. We've got 122,000 vacant lots. We've got a plan
to allow builders to build on those lots tax free if they sell it to a family or an
individual in the city of Detroit.
El Said's populist campaign reflects a larger shift in the Democratic party towards far-left
candidates, including some Democratic socialists who gained momentum this year.
One of these candidates is Donovan McKinney, the Democratic nominee for Congress in Michigan's
13th district, which includes parts of Detroit.
I'm ready to represent the fifth poorest congressional district in the country.
I joined McKinney hours after his primary win as he visited local businesses to talk
to voters.
Thank you, guys.
Thank you, brother.
Yes, sir.
Do you want it, man?
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
I appreciate it.
Starts with you, man.
All right.
Thank you, man.
You're welcome.
Thank you, man.
How are y'all doing?
What I heard constantly on the doors at community events when I'm interacting with people
is that I don't have enough resources to survive.
So when government has to send out taxpayer money overseas for bombs and weapons, that
means we're taking money from the people who needed the most here.
You spend a lot of time talking to voters and it seems like there might be just like
this anger that is being targeted at the system.
Yeah.
Tell me where that comes from.
Yeah, I mean, it comes from just the system not responding to the needs of the people.
If you look at the history of Detroit, we had a black home ownership right the highest
in the country where a majority of renters sitting in the hall and our black home
ownership right now, I think is down in the docks.
And so the Democratic Party is supposed to be the party of the people.
Do you want to serve the working interests of the working people and the poor folks in
our districts, or do you want to continue to serve the interests of the oligarchs in
the corporate class?
Garland Gilcrest, who's running for Secretary of State, has been Lieutenant Governor of
Michigan over the past seven years.
In the congressional primary, he adores McKinney.
Do you feel like the fact that so many people are turning to kind of outsider
insurgents, very progressive candidates, even some from the DSA. Does that say anything
about like a failing on the Democratic Party to actually address the needs of some of its
voters?
I think what it says is that our politics have been inadequate. You probably haven't
seen them either. We have to show that we have a vision for who the economy works
for. That's what we need to focus on and lock in on.
What do you think about what we saw in the Democratic primary for Senate?
And I think we can very clearly say that the, you know, a candidate who was mentioned was
explicit about that we need to put money in people's pockets and get money out of politics
that person won.
Before leaving Detroit, I stopped by one of my favorite places in the city, Belle Isle.
It's been so nice having you back home this time.
A little bittersweet.
It's like so nostalgic for me.
What was your experience coming home this time it was interesting here in people's perspectives
Nobody trusts the system one guy was like there is no middle-class anymore. It's just the haves and the have nots
Everybody here doesn't ask for much, you know just like having
Good community good family and people in Detroit ride for Detroit. Yes all day
I
I trust this place to get it right whatever's next
This we don't Trump apparently is approved flipping it now
All right, ladies and gentlemen we are back
We are alive. We are alive. We're on a journey, currently, to get to the Bernard Sanders Rally,
where he will be delivering a pivotal foreign policy speech, foreign policy related speech.
As you guys know, the UN General Assembly is taking place this week.
There's a lot of drama surrounding it.
part of the reason why, you know, Trump came down and visited Zoran earlier in the day.
So for that reason, that is, I mean, I'm out here specifically to deliver a speech at Cornell
University, right?
But I had a couple of friends who wanted me to come and attend a bunch of the demonstrations
and events that are surrounding the UN General Assembly, and I said, yes.
i'm not speaking at the uh... rally now
the beer kawas will be uh... there's some uh... self-african emboys that will
be speaking as well i believe for minister
will be speaking
at the event here i'll tell you exactly speaking at the of one second
no i have the run-of-show
uh... yes
we shall not be moved
is the name of the event, friend of the show,
and my good friend, David Adler,
is gonna be opening the event.
That's already happening in like the next 10 minutes
or so, we're not gonna make it to that.
But we're gonna be there shortly thereafter.
Abir Kawas is going to be speaking,
we'll probably be there right on time for that.
And then after that, Zane Dengor,
Director General of South Africa's Department
of International Relations and Cooperation,
is going to be speaking.
And then Sanders will be speaking as well.
And then Minister Ronald LaMolla, the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of
South Africa.
Then the Executive Secretary of the Hague Group as well.
The whole program will be focused on international relations, international law, what the Sanders
forum policy attitude is. I'm very interested to hear about it. I've heard great things about
what this is going to look like. I've heard great things about what this is going to look like. I
don't know why this camera lens looks kind of crazy from the same angle. Yeah.
It's the light too. Yeah, camera lens of the light making it look kind of wild.
Yeah, Mahmood Khalil will be there as well. And I believe there's also a dinner between
Bernard Sanders. After his meeting with President Trump this afternoon, Mayor Mandani will have
dinner with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders who's in town for a UN Charter event, also featuring
pro-Palestinian activist Mahmood Khalil, per a source familiar with the plans. Of course,
Mahmood Khalil's presence is always seen as controversial even though he is an activist
who has been in the crosshairs of the American government for no reason other than speaking
truth to power.
I mean he's literally been kidnapped by ICE for participating in pro-Palestinian encampments
and protests on Columbia University campus so not exactly sure why people get so mad
about that with the exception of, with the exception of people being insanely racist
about it. But, yeah. Anyway, yeah, Laura Loomer, why reward mom
Donnie with a presidential meeting, but he's meeting with Bernie right after he was having
an event with Islamic jihadist mom of Calil, who was fighting a deportation order from
the Trump administration. Why are we allowing the left to control the optics? This is
only signals to the left that you openly disrespect the president by later laws
you will be rewarded sad to see it's very funny this is what made Trump Trump by
the way this kind of like heterodox behavior is what made Trump so
successful in 2016 a lot of people forget that like Trump was far more
radical on the Muslim ban and on the building of the wall stuff but
Trump also, at the same time, was seen as a much more moderate force when it came to social
policies. He was too New York to freak out about transgender people and gay people and
things like that. A lot of people forget this, weirdly enough.
I'm in Manhattan, chatter. Until the Democrats co-opted his racism, I know Democrats thought,
I know the best way to defeat Trump is to be Trump little, Trump-like, very stupid, very
stupid mistake from the Democrats.
But unfortunately, it's expected because Democrats are terrible at policies and terrible at
politics in general.
What I'm also interested to find out is like, what do we say about Venezuela?
I wonder if Bernie will have anything to say about the actions and incidents in
Venezuela.
Now that he doesn't have much longer of a timeline in his political career with no ambitions
of higher office, I wonder if this will be dark Bernie.
I wonder if we will see a new Bernie, a new chapter in Bernie, dark woke Bernie, Bernie
2 Electric Boogaloo, Bernie 2 who says, you know, we will stand with our, we will
stand with our allies.
We will stand with our allies and we'll try a different path forward.
We will follow international law.
Burn is always great.
Listen to burn.
This will be a very different Bernie speech for the record.
So that's something to get excited about.
This is going to be a very different Bernie Sanders speech because Bernie rarely ever
does long speeches about foreign policy.
you know you hear maybe he will condone us on no he's gonna condemn he's gonna
be like I want to get started by saying words that are near and dear to my heart
I disavow and condemn Hama Sabi I cannot believe that this terrorist was allowed
into the premises of this wonderful occasion the stain of which we will
have to live with in perpetuity.
You're going to talk to him and he's going to be like, yeah, okay, good.
Yeah.
That's what he's going to...
And that's what he says every time.
Radio guy.
Oh, it's the radio guy.
I condemn the radio guy.
He tried to give me an evil eye.
I threw it away immediately.
a muslimic evil eye
i understand
that's what i'm gonna say
you got a mixed up with norm? no norm
norm has a very different style
calm down you'll be fine
what? i was joking
I don't think Bernie's going to do that, dude.
This is an event that's put together by my friends.
And not only that, but this is literally all foreign policy.
This is my bread and butter.
This is where I condemn Bernie Sanders for not
for being insufficient usually.
This is, I think it's very important
that we have more foreign policy focus
in our socialist electeds.
And unfortunately, I would say that this is one of the
areas of major weakness among our socialists elected so far we haven't
really had
socialists like this let's be real but
uh...
i want to see
how bernie navigates this discourse
especially in the post-october seven landscape
i keep talking about this a lot of post-october seven something shifted
in american
collective conscious where they
realize that foreign policy and domestic policy are actually inseparable from one another.
But before October 7, even with years and years of anti-war advocacy into our protests,
leading up to Barack Obama's electoral successes as an anti-war candidate supposedly, who never
really followed through on that agenda or that promise, the left broadly kind of dropped
the foreign policy element almost completely.
Liberals used to be anti-war.
Liberals broadly used to be anti-war.
They would protest against Republican wars.
And the peak of that movement came in the Bush administration.
You know, the global war on terror was a disaster.
Disaster, everybody understood it as such, everyone was critical of it.
And yet when Barack Obama came in to power, and he was very charismatic, and he continued
these wars after saying he was going to put an end to them, a lot of people went along
with it.
There was a seismic shift in the American foreign policy attitude and the media has always
obviously kept foreign policy and domestic policy as two separate entities.
But post October 7th that calculation changed.
People began to understand that foreign policy and domestic policy are inseparable.
is an opportunity cost to every bomb that we waste money on. And the opportunity cost
to every bombing campaign is that that money could have been spent here in the United States
of America fixing our potholes, fixing our infrastructure, fixing our schools, building
rural hospitals, and paying for social safety nets. This is something that Bernie has
talked about extensively but never but I don't think there has ever been this much
demand from the public I don't think the public was broadly aware it's just
something that people used to say why do we have so much money for war why don't
we ever spend it on the poor right I think that there is a real difference
especially because the more people push back especially on the issue of Israel
the more there is an attempt by very powerful entities to stop that kind of protest, to stop
people from speaking out against the anti-war people, against the anti-war folks.
And that breeds further enmity, that breeds a lot more enmity, and that in my opinion
has been the basis for this new resurgence, this new anti-war movement.
And that's why you hear from the likes of Abdulla said, for example, but that's also why he gets so much pushback.
Because he says this exact same thing that many American presidents and many American leaders have said since the Eisenhower era.
We're spending all of this money, waging war, for profit and plunder, when we could instead
use that money to develop the American homeland.
So I want to know how Bernie will navigate this discourse.
You see it looks lit, it is lit, it's beautiful, I'm down to stand.
Oh my god, why am I singing it Sherry?
Do-do-do-do-do-do-do.
Is BDS, assures BDS?
I'm Ben Hassan, you coward Trump.
Where do you ban me from?
Girl to boycott.
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of.
Girl the boycott.
Thinking about foreign wars reminds me of Ed, me too, man.
That's what Bernie's going to come out and speak on in this speech.
He's going to say, you know, unfortunately the humanitarian catastrophe in the region
is devastating.
We must direct our attention to solving this crisis.
Who knows who's responsible?
possible. Now you won't say it, it'll say Nityahu's Wars.
Hasan does give interesting gifts to certain politicians, honestly the gift was so adorable.
No, I don't have any gifts for Bernie this time.
Don't be crazy.
I
Saw shave your beard or at least trim the hairs over your lip the parasocial parasocialism is
No, I don't have any gifts for Bernie I didn't even ask to interview him this time like I forgot
Because I didn't know if we would have enough time
If it was supposed to be like before the rally before it speaks and it's not we're not gonna have sufficient time to interview
I don't like those short interviews regardless L motion yeah L motion I don't
like those short interviews like 10 minutes before he goes up on stage I
don't like that shit I want to do like a full-blown sit down I am owed one
But yeah, Caught I give up Mayor Zoran, book him.
You look the latest for every one of them, Cush, no.
That's the white balance, I'm sorry.
It's on auto.
It's fine.
coffee and juggles giving us lots of color
yeah
he's on the travel one
there's a new hot ship going around the island to try it
what?
yeah the reason why my eyes look bloodshot is probably because I haven't had sufficient sleep
it's not the Zaza
It's not a bazaar.
Alright, we're almost there, chat.
The message is identical, plus it's not using uppercase letters in his tweets.
You see chat?
You fucked me.
You made me use uppercase letters as I was crafting this goddamn tweet.
Now, Mike Rogers' campaign is claiming that I'm still in coordination and working for the
Abdu'l-Elsaid campaign, but I've never worked for the Abdu'l-Elsaid campaign.
Okay?
You did that.
Are you happy?
Are you fucking happy?
You can read chat, GQT.
What?
Chat.
GQT.
No, chat.
No, chat.
Like, this chat was like, you have to use unmercane letters.
The one comment, bro, my haters are such freaks, like it's crazy.
This is a sign of mental illness, okay?
To craft something like this implies that you have like, you know, a little bit of nascent
schizophrenia and it's growing, okay?
This is like, Hassan Abid Derangement Syndrome adult onset schizophrenia.
It's crazy.
He used uppercase letters so he must be, he must have copied and pasted it from
the obelisk it can't be like what the fuck they're on you especially because
especially especially ridiculous considering
No, no, we're not we're not no we're just gonna be here. I just uh I'm just telling the people
I can't stop it. I can't stop myself. It's crazy.
Yeah, but the fact that Mike Rogers had to come out against the Iran war today.
Yes.
Wow.
Bold.
Um, yeah, it's a it's a major weakness for him because this is a this is a huge flip
flop that you can address. You know what I mean? Yeah. There's a huge flip flop that
you can you can hit him on now because he spent the last 20 years both in and out of Congress
advocating to go to war with Iran. And now, and even like four or five months ago in the
month of March he was saying, price of gas is going to go up a little bit, but it's
It's worth it. He even a couple months ago said I would authorize I would give I would vote to give Trump congressional
Authorization to continue waging war with Iran and now now after 20 years he finally gets his wishes across
Gas prices are all-time high and he turns around he says yeah maybe we should stop this war actually
What's up, Mike? What's up, Mike? What's up, you big, sweaty bitch? Now? Now? Now you're
hurting? Hurtin' for a squirting, Mike? I mean, if the media does not pounce on this,
okay, then they're straight up 100% in the tank for Donald Trump. Because this is exactly
the type of hypocrisy that mainstream outlets love to talk about, love to make a big deal
about, right?
Yeah.
It would be utterly ridiculous
Yeah, right here, right here, right here, sir.
Thank you so much.
Good luck, have a good night.
You too.
All right.
Take care.
You coming up for here?
Yeah.
Okay.
I think it's here, right?
At least now.
Thank you.
We're going to do a little bit of a speech, I don't know what you're doing.
Are we early?
What's going on?
Are you here?
Hi, what's up?
Can you say what it is?
All right, perfect.
Thank you.
here. Hi, what's up? Can you take one of these? All right, perfect. Thank you. Does he need one too or is he good?
He's good. He's not on me. Bring it in. It's always good to say no camera man. We're live by the way just so you know.
Okay, fantastic. There's about five people waiting for you at the other entrance. We can go up here. I'll show you. Bernie's going to be here in just a minute.
Okay, let's meet you.
It's gonna be you as well.
Just gonna sit here.
Straight out that door there.
Can you hear me, James?
Yeah, yeah, James is right here.
Good meeting you, man.
How do we get in here on the wrong door?
I don't understand what you're talking about.
Oh, wow.
That's beautiful.
Oh, my...
Hi, nice to meet you.
Do you get a pass pass?
We got one of these.
We got a speaker pass.
Oh, are you speaking?
No.
Okay, do you have a pass pass?
All right.
All right.
That's all good.
Where's James?
James is inside.
Oh, okay.
He's creating a set up right now, so let's just give him a second.
No, no.
I just wanted to make sure that I'm, like, you know...
Oh, there you are.
Hey, there.
That's good.
That's good.
Good.
Um, we're just literally...
So, where should we, uh, hey, let's come in.
Should we set up?
So, see, either side.
How do we get this kick?
I would like to do that instead of...
I mean, don't overdo it, but you can move around a little bit.
And yes, come to the next one.
It's literally just about the time.
There's an AB guy on the side.
But if you were in this...
You're doing better.
This is you.
I saw you on the list tonight.
I'm like, yeah.
I saw you at the Bushwick reunion.
Yeah.
That's the one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, of course.
Yeah.
No, it's all good.
Yeah, go round.
We're out there.
Well, I don't want to roll up yet.
I don't want to set up yet.
There's just nothing going on here.
It's true.
You have to sit down before you get filled in.
It's probably...
I think, right?
We can stand on the press side.
Yeah.
Press side on the right.
on the right, they'll say it's too balcony to us, too far.
No, no, we got, well, we got a zoom lens,
but we shouldn't go in yet, I don't think.
Is he here?
She is here, I think she's prepping for a morning summer
for a morning or something.
Why are you doing props or is anybody just sitting here?
Well, we were gonna, yeah, we were gonna film it,
but yeah, it was impressive.
Yeah, but I just, I don't wanna,
because we're live already.
Oh, so I don't wanna go in there yet,
because we're not like just turning it on.
Plus if we go in there then people are gonna try to, you know, come up and stuff so.
Yeah.
What's up man?
What's up man?
Oh, nice to meet you.
Alright, let's do it.
Hi, good to see you.
Hi, how you doing?
Good to see you too.
What do you got for us today?
We got some totes.
We got posters.
We got postcards.
Stickers.
Two dollars.
Two dollars.
Stickers with very famous people's names on them.
We got Sasha Cork.
We got Chey and Yvette.
Reese Funnone.
Yep.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
This is sick.
This is sick.
So this is created by an Orson figure.
She'll have a baby room.
Thank you for joining my colleague, David Adler.
Thank you for what you have made of historic rivers and churches.
The church is crazy.
The church is crazy.
time has come where silence is betrayed. As the leaders gather, three United Nations,
we shall gather here today for those words to be said through the Riverside Church.
Hosted by South Africa, our colleagues and comrades are our deepest gratitude for this evening.
From here, in the United States of America, from the deep south, from the Mended South,
where the song was a very true song called,
I shall not be wrong, we gave the songs out to the label of French,
and they came, we shall not be wrong.
And they came in the song of the Syriacism.
But across the country, the same words they called,
inspire the multination flight from that community in South Africa, in the United States of America.
was an applied task while South African pathology.
The residents there in Sofarnam also had the same answer.
We shall not move.
We shall not be moved.
These words, an expression of respect to this possession,
but also an expression, a celebration of people's desire
and determination to defend their dignity,
to defend their community, will echo through the Riverside
church today as they did in South Africa then and now and in Palestine. With that is my great honor
along with my colleague David who I can lead you to today's historic gathering with some of you.
Thank you all. So many friends, so many colleagues, so many comrades, so many heroes in this room.
You'll have to forgive a bit of weakness in my voice because I've been fast today because this evening also marks the end for a very important holiday in my life.
A day, Yom Kippur, when we reflect on the sins we have committed, the wrongs against
our people, against our community, against our friends and loved ones.
But it's also a day that invites us and calls on us to think about the crimes that have
been committed in our name.
In the name of our sins is a day that calls us to think about the genocide in Palestine.
to remember each and every person who has been slaughtered in his course and each
and every family that continues to endure the dispossession that Varsha mentioned.
But it's also a day that calls us to think about repair, to think about what
must be done to pursue justice from the South, to sapphire town, to the halls of
United Nations. It is such an honor to be here with so many people who have stood up
and fought for that justice. The government of South Africa, chair of the
Hague Group, found as a block of states committed to the defense of the
international law and the fundamental rights of the college school. We know it's a
Monday evening. We've called you all from a long day of work, exhausting
But we think it's so important to inaugurate the UN Parliament, when so many world leaders
have traveled from afar to land here in New York, and they wish nothing more than for
us nuns to speak about the cause of Palestinian liberation.
They wish to speak about life failures in Canada, go to their nice diplomatic receptions.
And we shall not be moved means more than simply a call to resist this possession.
It's that we shall not be moved from our position, from our firmness, from our conviction
to stand side by side with our Palestinian brothers and sisters at this moment.
With that, let's begin today's program, where Instagram speakers from India, Uganda,
South Africa, Palestine, and of course, soldiers in struggle from right here in New York City.
We were here from Winnie the Pooh, executive director of the United Nations,
We will hear from Nadia Panous, a friend and comrade general coordinator of the Palestinian
Youth Movement.
We shall hear from Albert Powers, the NYCVSA candidate for the district NY12, and of course
from Senator Bernie Sanders and South Africa's foreign minister Ronald Lamont.
Unfortunately, our favorite comrade professor from this part of the city, David Harvey,
is unable to join us today due to health reasons and prevented him from traveling
to this church.
He's recovering and he sends us all his best and good luck for today's evening.
Let's begin.
To kick us off, we wanted to introduce a very special speaker.
When he is, as Varsha mentioned, not only the executive director of UNAs,
but also the UN under Secretary General,
at a moment in which this institution is undergoing sustained attacks
to the very fundamentals that sustain our system of international law and multilateralism.
Winnie is a pioneering feminist among other things,
and his spectrum career advocating for human being
in all his local, foreign, African countries across the world.
We're so honored to welcome you, Winnie, to be his first leader this evening.
Thank you very much. Good evening. What a place to gather. It was here that Martin Luther
broke with political convenience and spoke against the Vietnam War.
Madiba del Sarvandera stood here and thanked the global movement that had stood with South
Africa against the evil system of apartheid.
So I come here tonight as a leader from the United Nations and also as an African, a feminist
and an activist for social justice.
And I want to ask a simple question.
What has happened to the promise of the United Nations Charter?
The charter begins with three extraordinary words, we the peoples, we the peoples, and
it makes extraordinary promises, human rights, the equal rights of nations, large and small,
social progress, better standards of living, the economic and social advancement of all
peoples. That was a radical promise in 1945 and it remains a radical promise today. But,
But we have to trade much of that promise because over the last 14 years, we've built a global economic system on a very different set of ideas.
privatise, deregulate, liberalise, cut taxes on wealth, weaken labour, let markets decide.
We were promised that prosperity would trickle down, and it didn't, just did not.
Instead, wealth moved upwards and power followed it.
I served at the Honour to serve on President Ramakosa's G20 Extraordinary Committee on
Global Inequality, chaired by Professor Jules Stiblitz.
How come it is found that between the year 2000 and 2024, 24 years, the richest one percent
in the world, captured 41 percent of all the new wealth created, 41 percent.
The poorest half of humanity, captured 1 percent.
Think about that. 41% went to the top, 1%, and the 1% of the wealth went to half of humanity
at the bottom. This is not an accident. It's not a law of economics. No. It's the result
of political choices, choices about taxation, choices about wages and workers' rights, choices
about debt and how it's managed, choices about trade, choices about who owns technology
and information, choices about who writes the rules and who the rules serve.
And these rules do not only drive inequality within countries, the rules drive inequality
between countries.
Poor countries lose billions, surfacing unsustainable debts while cutting health and education.
Global tax rules have enabled wealth to escape taxation.
Intellectual property rules have protected monopoly profits
while people have died for lack of medicines.
I saw this during the AIDS crisis.
Medicines existed that would keep people alive.
But millions of people in Africa,
twelve million people, died because Africa couldn't afford them.
The science was there, the medicines were there,
The money was there. What was missing was justice. Activists fought about and changed their views,
led by President Andrews. Then they came and watched the states stop and go over there.
But there is a little bit of a consequence of extremely quiet.
Wealth becomes power, political power, media power, technology of power.
The power to influence governments and the rules that governments make.
Senators of Alisanda, who is going to be here, has given a name to what happens when extreme
wealth captures democracy.
He calls it Yorigaki.
When a tiny number of people accumulate extraordinary economic power, they acquire extraordinary
political power too, and democracy begins to go along.
Our G20 report found that countries with high inequality are seven times more likely to
experience democratic decline than more equal societies.
So inequality is not just an economic problem, it's a democracy problem.
The UN Charter says, we the peoples.
But how can the people truly govern
when wealth buys extraordinary power?
And now we face another great concentration of power,
artificial intelligence.
AI could transform health, education, science,
and human creativity.
But we must ask, who owns it, who controls it, whose knowledge is trained in it, whose jobs
we replace, and who will capture the wealth it needs?
We cannot allow accumulated knowledge of humanity, this is our knowledge, to become the private
property of a handful of companies and billionaires.
AI must serve humanity, not another oligarchy.
The same test applies to climate.
Those who contribute at least to the climate crisis
are paying some of its highest costs.
And it applies to peace, the human rights
to international law.
There cannot be one charter for the powerful
and another for the powerless.
The rights of Palestinians are not lesser rights.
Their lives are not worth less.
International law cannot depend on who you are, where you live,
or which powerful state is your ally.
No, universe must mean universe.
Human rights for all.
So I do not believe the answer is to abandon the charter.
The answer is to take the charter seriously.
If we believe in the equal rights of nations, large and small,
then reform the institutions where
a handful of powerful countries still dominate,
decision making change that.
If we believe in social progress,
Better standards of life for all, then change the global economic rules that are driving inequality.
Tax extreme wealth, tackle monopolies, give workers back their power, end a dead system that
drains resources from countries that desperately need to invest in their people.
She adorned our technology, invested in universal health, education and social protection,
governed AI in the public interests, and gave developing countries real power
in the institutions that make their moves.
This, all this is not challenging.
It is justice.
And we know how change happens.
We know. We know it here at Riverside, the anti-Apartheid movement taught us.
The women's movement that I belong to taught us. The labour movement taught us.
The AIDS movement taught us. Power does not surrender itself.
people organize, people resist, people build movements and people change the rules.
Eighty-one years ago, Tachata did not begin with the powerful.
No. It did not say we the rich ones, it didn't say we the markets, it said we the peoples.
It's time to put people back at the centre,
to reclaim our economies from extreme inequality,
to reclaim our democracies from the oligarchy,
to reclaim technology for the public good,
and to reclaim our international institutions
for all peoples, not merely the most powerful. This is the unfulfilled promise of the Charter.
And that is a promise worth fighting for. Thank you all for coming.
Now, I'm going to start with a call and response that I'm going to consider a promise amongst us all.
Amandla, Amandla.
Power is ours.
For as I say, the Parliament, all power to the people.
Thank you.
I think that Amanda, as a promise, as I enter into this next stage of life, which I have
many apprehensions about, I'm going to, inshallah, be the first Palestinian woman to be in any
government office in all of New York states.
And I find that such an exciting thing for us all.
I'm also a little bit apprehensive.
I think it's the same apprehension that you all face
When you come to the U.N. General Assembly every year in New York, it's the apprehension
that you face when you enter into a government office, when there are institutions that
are made to promote democracy, unity, justice, peace, equality.
But we all know, as those who struggle within those institutions, that they have been eroded
and continually made irrelevant by leaders who are more invested in racism, in capitalism,
in imperialism, in upholding apartheid for most means than they are for the values of the institutions they represent.
And so I enter into this trying to commit a promise to myself and I want to share
something about my journey into entering to office that has helped me realize the
promise that when we enter these institutions we know that it is not the
names that make them. It is us who makes them because all power is to the people.
Now I learned that when I was a postgraduate student in South Africa. Now I spent many years
before I ran for office studying in South Africa and I liked to learn from my ancestors
in the apartheid, in the anti-apartheid struggle.
My ancestors like Professor Pernik Issaq,
my prestigious and esteemed leader,
the college Islam, who punched above their wits.
From Imam Hanu, the Imam who faced death
because he fought against apartheid.
And of course, from the interfaith coalition
that was part of the UBF,
leaders I got to learn from while I was there,
like Conrad, Adam Lussat, Conrad Frascafane,
Conrad Rodney-Castell, and so many more.
Those were the people that I got to learn from
before I entered into this moment of life.
And I come to January 2024.
This was the height of the genocide.
And I was in New York.
I was in South Africa.
And that was like, our comrades, including our co-worker,
the woman here, they brought the case of genocide
and the case against Israel to the international criminal
court.
To the international court for them.
What they sent was a message of Salmona.
They sent a message that said, I see you.
That was the message that you all sent to us.
dignified us on that world stage. And what I actually learned from that experience,
because I will tell you when I was in South Africa, at a time of despair and
frailty and deep depression for the Palestinian people, it didn't feel like
that for me there. It felt like I ate the day that you all were on the world
stage. And that was because people were sitting in cafes, people were
sitting in their homes watching their TV screens that they were watching the world
up. They were watching South Africa take Israel to court like everybody across the
world wanted them to.
It is not the leaders who are representative of the people while they
It is us, all power lies with the people because the truth is that the world did not
trans back on Palestine.
The truth is that the majority of the world stands with the people of Palestine.
When we see our leaders continually act like a genocide is not happening in a very institution
that was created to stop genocides.
And we see them saying words like democracy, and not even say one word about the tax money
going from U.S. pockets to fund bonds killing children and families and people all over
Gaza and Iran and Lebanon.
What we need to remember as leaders and what I need to remind myself as a leader coming
into the fold is that a landline is a promise that we have to keep deep in our hearts as
this new generation of leaders.
At some new generation, we have always been there.
We are a generation that has always existed, and we are a generation that has brought
New York into this moment, and I want to say one last thing about this moment that
we're in in New York to place us here.
We had something called the people's victory in New York.
I consider myself in the lineage of that people's victory.
The executive that a not well-known assessment
member named Jirhan Khadani, the executive
that he beats Andrew Cuomo, he introduced
an executive action in New York state
to ban the action of PBS in New York State.
And he was beaten.
He was beaten by a small killer who was one who went
to activists and introduced the first pro-house again
legislation in all of New York State.
That's the best thing we're creating.
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None other than you, we shall not lose. Thank you all.
Thank you so much for all these crazy inspiring words.
It was my honor's last to present a friend of mine, some of whom are very well known, Mahmood Khalil.
Mahmood, as you all know, was detained for over 100 days in immigration detention
by this administration for the simple acts of raising the voice against the genocide.
But that case continues. And due to a sudden legal turn in that case, Mahu could not be with us.
And I'd like to ask all of you to join me with a fun first round of applause
in celebration of this courage and determination.
From fearless comrades in the union city to another fearless comrade in Johannesburg,
Victoria of Sadato, we invite our keynote speakers today, we'd like to go on the stage, Zane
Denver, director general of the Sadato Department of the United States, to know the many
of us in this room as a comrade from the faith union, as a genuine fast leader in
and all the incredible speakers who are one of the judges of the wonderful speech.
And also from the entire generation.
Members, please go back to the floor and our guests.
It's really fitting that we can come together and have a church in a place that is not a guest hall,
to get the war in Canada and where force comes from the left and there's been a
huge conflict in the East Coast. Today, there is a nation of progressive international
and anti-American. I have brought this over to Africa, has been in the heart of it,
is to defend the future and of the left, and of course has been fighting out to
protect the rights of those people.
So, I would like to thank the President, and the President, and co-founder of the HANY Group,
we have so-called World of Solidarity Interaction.
And here in the United States, Senator Bernie Sanders has still partly existed,
but the dignity of more people and more time-lapse is multiflating,
into the whole problems and international debt.
said that the status of the man who needs to know international and anywhere else.
And I want to highlight that he is the last serving of the Indian Government of Congress in the history.
He has brought the political movement about economic social and national justice.
And for more than four decades, he has challenged corporate power
and inspired generations to believe that transformative change is possible through collective action.
So on that moment I'd like to welcome to the podium Senator Bernie Sanders. Senator Bernie Sanders.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, thanks very much.
Let me thank Zane for the introduction and everybody for being here and expressing my appreciation to the government of South Africa and Minister Unoa for bringing us together tonight on the eve of the UN General Assembly.
It is a true honor for me and a privilege to be speaking here at this extraordinary and historic Riverside Church.
This, as many of you know, is the church that Nelson Mandela came to visit as a free man
just five months after he was released from prison, I mean, sir, 27 years.
He came here to thank the people of the United States for standing up for justice
against the evil of apartheid in South Africa.
And the courageous and heroic life of Mr. Mandela inspired millions and millions of people
people all over the world and his life and legacy will never be forgiven. As I think all of you also
in 1967 at this very same moment I am honored to be speaking from tonight Dr. Martin Luther King
in June, made clear his vigorous opposition to the war in Vietnam, a war that was based
on lies, a war of horrific destruction for the people of Asia, and for 59,000 young Americans
of the road and never came home and in his remorse with extraordinary courage
because King was known well as a civil rights guy. Why is he talking about all the stuff?
But with extraordinary courage, Dr. King disclosed what he very eloquently called
quote, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism." And he warned us that, quote,
a nation that continues, year after year, to spend more money on military defense than
on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
Thank you.
What Dr. King said was true nearly 60 years ago,
And it is even truer today as our country, the United States of America, is now spending
over a trillion dollars a year on the military.
While some 800,000 Americans are homeless, 8 by million Americans are un-insured or
uninsured, and millions of people cannot afford the basic necessities of life.
And this business of spending more and more on the military and turning backs on working
families and the poor is not just happening tragically here in the United States.
It's happening all over the world, where we are seeing increased military budgets while
the needs of people living in desperation are ignored.
So not just in the United States, but all over the world, we are moving in the world
direction and our job is to carry that around.
Instead of producing more bombs and weapons and see the military and national conflicts
Enjoy your trophies, governments throughout the world need to come together to feed the children,
to care for the vulnerable, and protect our climate from the ravages of climate change.
And that is why we must continue and accelerate our efforts to end Trump's disastrous war
in Iran, which has now spread throughout the region.
That is why he wants to be able to speak out against the extremist government of Israel
and the genocide committed in Gaza and why we in the United States must end all military
aid to the Netanyahu government.
And that is why we must rather work with grassroots activists in Russia to put an end to Putin's
in Ukraine, which has led, not like you know, not like you've heard it, but has led to
the deaths of some 500,000 Russian soldiers, as well as mass destruction and loss of life
in Ukraine.
That is why we must announce United Arab Emirates continued financial and military support
of the RSAC as it raises a campaign of counterfeit destruction in the United States of America.
I speak to the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres named three existential threats that the world currently faces.
He talked about runaway artificial intelligence. He talked about the climate crisis.
and he talked about deeply, deeply inequality, and in my view, he is absolutely right.
But before we get into those issues, let me once again state the obvious.
And that is that in a world of growing tension, growing militarism, more in war hatred,
More in war destruction, the United Nations as an institution is more important today
than has ever been.
As we all know, the UN was born out of the horrors of World War II, a war in which 60
million people died, a war which caused unimaginable destruction in Europe, in Asia and elsewhere,
and a war that led to the unleashing of the first nuclear weapons.
And to their credit, the leaders of the world at that time looked around and saw the concentration camps,
saw the destruction, saw the mass death, and they understood that international conflicts
and differences of opinion must be fought out over a negotiating table and not on a battlefield.
In years 2026, one might have hoped that after thousands and thousands of years of war,
humanity could have finally come up with a better way to resolve conflicts than killing
each other and never ending wars. At a time when we are sitting at its end in the United
States and other countries around the world to make the claim that life is right, we got
the power, we'll do whatever we want. Our job is to strengthen the United Nations
And make sure that we bring disagreements to the negotiating table and stop the killing throughout the world.
Now I say a few words to the points that the Secretary General took effectively articulated.
And that is that we are living in an unprecedented and dangerous moment in world history.
And the challenges that we face are enormous, and they are existential.
But why mean why not?
First, and this is an issue we cannot talk about often enough for obvious reasons,
We are moving rapidly toward an extremely dangerous global oligarchy.
Never before in human history have so few people held so much wealth and so much power.
Never before in human history have we had such enormous concentration of ownership,
and never before have we seen such an unprecedented level of greed,
We, arrogance and irresponsibility on the thought of the world's ruling class.
In many ways, we are seeing today a reversion back to the ideology of 19th century monarchs,
kings and queens and saws who believe, sincerely believe, that God gave them the right to rule.
The oligarchs of today were hundreds and hundreds of billions about having investments all
for firmly believe that they are the masters of the universe and that they
through their enormous wealth and power have been ordained to rule the world and
today we say to those out of us this country this world belongs to all of us
not just you.
Today's billionaire class not only wants more tax rents for themselves and the companies
they own, not only do they want to stash trillions and trillions of their dollars in offshore
short tax savings, these oligarchs reject any form of accountability or checks on their power.
They want more and more wealth and more and more power no matter what kind of home they
inflict on working people in our country and throughout the world.
And one of the other issues we don't talk about very much is that in nation after nation,
throughout this world, we are seeing unprecedented levels of income and wealth inequality.
In our own country, here in the United States, the top 1% now owns more wealth than the bottom 94%.
And one man, Mr. Musk, wealthiest man alive, now owns more wealth than the bottom 53 percent of American households.
One man.
In America, today's CEOs of large profitable corporations are now earning 350 times more
than the average worker.
Last year alone, they were receiving the largest tax strength in history,
Fewer than a thousand billionaires, not a lot of people in our country, became $1.5 trillion richer.
But it is not just what is happening right now, it's not a new development.
Over the last 50 years, according to the grand corporation, not exactly a socialist institution,
$79 trillion in U.S. wealth has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top 1%.
Despite an explosion in technology and a huge increase in worker productivity, the average
American worker today is making $25 a week less than he or she did 53 years ago after
adjusting for inflation. While the billionaire's less than 1% have never ever had it so good,
over 60% of Americans in the richest country in the history of the world are living
paycheck to paycheck nearly 800,000 homeless and tens of millions struggle to
pay for rent or mortgage or keep a roof over their heads. And let us be very clear
the rapid movement to oligarchy and the exponential rise in income and wealth
inequality is not just an American phenomenon. It is taking place all over the world and in my view it is the most important economic reality of our time.
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where the top 1% owns low wealth at the bottom 95% of all humanity and the gap between the
rich globally is getting wider and wider. Let me repeat, top 1% on war wealth on the
bottom 95%. Just some examples, just a few examples. We are seeing it in the United
We're over 30% of children are living in poverty, while 50 billionaires in that country now
own more wealth than the bottom 50% of their population.
And listen to this, in Russia the latest figures that we have seen indicate that the
The wealthiest 500 people have number of people in this church tonight.
Controlled lower wealth than the bottom 99.8% of their people.
We're seeing an appetite.
We nearly 850 million people have struggled with food and security, 58% of the population,
while just four men on war weapons at the bottom,
50% of the people on that continent.
And we're seeing that all over the world.
In fact, while nearly half of the world's
populations living in Huckie,
3,400 billion ants throughout the globe
became four trillion dollars richer last year.
last year. Children die of preventable diseases. People suffer every day. People give up hope.
And 3,400 of the richest people on earth became $4 trillion richer last year alone.
And let me be clear, in an increasingly globalized economy, the allegiances of these oligarchs
is not to their own nations.
It is to their own power.
It is to their own bank accounts.
It is to their huge yachts, their mansions, their collections of fancy cars, their private
Islands and their fleet suggests. In other words, oligarchy is ascending, working families
are struggling to say a lie, and democracy is in retreat. And the great challenge that
We face in our country and all over the world is that that trend must be reversed.
And my friends, given all of the advances, extraordinary advances that we have seen in technology and increases in work productivity,
It is not today a utopian idea to say that every man, woman, and child on this planet
can have a decent standard of living.
That is not just a dream.
That is the reality that can happen if you put our shoulders to the wheel and the man
And when we talk about oligarchy, it is not just vast of income and wealth and equality.
It is about the maldiction of economic and political power.
Unbelievable, right here in the United States, just four Wall Street firms are the major
stockholders in over 95% of S&P 500 companies.
And when we talk about massive concentration of ownership, please do not forget the media
who owns the media.
On behalf of the world's largest media companies,
and now owned by billionaires, nine out of the top 10
social media companies in the world are owned by billionaires.
And in our country, six large media
group governments control 90% of what the American people see
here in the media.
Mr. Musk owns Twitter.
Mr. Bezos owns the Washington Post in Germany,
Mr. Zuckerberg owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp,
Messenger, and Grace.
But it is not just income and wealth inequality
and concentration of ownership that we are seeing today.
Literally today, billionaires are determined
to own our political system as well.
In the United States, as a result of the disaster
of Citizens United's Supreme Court decision,
billionaires and corporations are legally
able to spend as much as they want
on political campaigns through their superpacks.
And that, my friends, is exactly what they're doing right at this moment.
In the last election, presidential election, Mr. Mussel spent at least $290 million to elect Trump as president.
And now he is spending some $200 million more to help Republicans keep control over the Congress.
and such as Republican billionaires, or Democratic billionaires,
or also playing an important role.
But this is not just an American phenomenon.
In Germany, Musk has thrown the support behind the AFD
a party Germany's own domestic intelligence agency
has labeled a right wing extremist party.
In Britain, they have read, just a few days ago,
Two crypto billionaires, one of whom was convicted in the U.S. for money laundering before being
pardoned by Trump, gave Nigel Horaj's reform party 36 million pounds each.
Across Europe, as the oligarchs fund right-wing political forces while working families struggled,
the social democratic parties that once built the strongest middle classes in the history of the world
are rapidly losing ground as workers turn to right-wing parties.
And that is true of course, not only in Europe, it is true right here in the United States as well.
And in my view, a profound lesson must be learned from all that.
And that is that the same old, same old establishment politics and establishment policies are no longer good enough.
people are sick and tired of the status quo. People want change. And that change, in my view, will either come from right-wing demagogues or from political parties that embrace a progressive grassroots movement that fights for a pro-working class agenda.
And I am really happy to tell you that right here in this city we have seen what a strong
grassroots movement can do in electing a progressive movement.
And we are standing on and on from coast to coast as candidates open people in their 20s
or 30s.
People never run through an office, people will open women or people of color, take on
the establishment candidates, get outspend 5 to 1, 10 to 1, 15 to 1, and they are winning
It's not just all about you that we've got to worry about, as the U.N. Secretary General
reminds us there's another issue that we must confront.
In my view, artificial intelligence, AI, robotics, are the most transformational technologies
in the history of humanity.
They have the potential to eliminate tens of millions of jobs.
They threaten the privacy, AI threatens the privacy of virtually every person in this
world through mass civilians, every phone call you make, every website you visit, your email that you send, somebody will know.
And it's not only economic disruption, not only an invasion of our privacy, we're also seeing a real challenge to whether or not democracy can survive
When you have things like deep fakes that are so sophisticated on the internet
that none of us will be able to tell the truth from fiction.
People can be looking at the internet and hearing somebody say something.
They say, wow, does she really say that?
You will not know.
And let's be clear.
What we are saying from AI right now, and this is maybe most of one point on that subject
What we are seeing about AI right now is it is in the least capable form that this technology will ever be.
Tomorrow and the next day and the next year, AI will be much, much more powerful.
It is advancing exponentially.
And on the four years, we have gone from an AI that can barely write up a coherent tweet
to AI systems that are already escaped the control of the companies that built them.
Take a deep breath and ask yourself, where will AI be in two years, in four years, in ten years?
Will human beings be able to control this exploding technology?
So let me make a very radical suggestion.
And that is if the lives of every man, woman, and child are going to be fundamentally changed by this technology,
than the people of our country and the people of this world must make the decisions regarding
AI, not just a handful of big tech other parts.
And that is why I hope very much that when President Trump and President Xi meet on Thursday,
I hope very much that they will sit down and give the process of negotiating a comprehensive
treaty to establish a pause on advanced AI and a ban on AI superintendents.
Lastly, there is another issue that I do not have to spend much time on,
as I suspect every person in this room knows about.
and that is the existential threat of climate change.
Last year was the hottest, last month was the hottest August ever recorded on this planet.
Global ocean temperatures hit their highest level ever measured.
A glacier collapsed in Nepal less than a month ago.
that triggered floods that have killed nearly 1,500 people, thousands of students.
And once again, as the world becomes warmer, as we see more heatwaves, drought, floods,
forest fires, and extreme mud and disturbances,
we once again confront the incredible greed of the corporate world.
It really is unbelievable and it really is unbelievable that these folks are literally willing to sacrifice the well-being of their own children, these are fathers and mothers, their grandchildren, future generations, and the fossil fuel industry for short-term profits.
Not something I just don't understand. I don't understand how people could be so short-sighted,
so excited in the negative age of markets, and are willing to sacrifice their own kids and grandchildren.
In my view, our job must be not only to combat climate change and dramatically cut carbon emissions,
but to seize the opportunity of creating millions and millions of jobs around the world as we
move to energy efficiency and sustainable forms of energy.
Let me simply conclude by saying this.
We are taking on, every day, unprecedented wealth, unprecedented power, unprecedented
greed, people who truly believe that because they're rich, smart, and have great
views on it, they have the power to rule.
That's what they believe.
Use their money with their ownership of the media to influence public opinion.
Use their money to buy elections and undermine democracy.
If there was ever a time in human history in our country
and throughout the world that we have got to come together
to create a world not based on greed, but based on justice,
based on decency, now is the time.
And what I can tell you, as someone who's had the privilege
to be in every single state in the United States of America,
to have talked through God knows how many, many thousands
and thousands of people.
What I'm talking about is not the left wing idea.
It's not a right wing idea.
There are people all over the country who are looking around
and they're saying, this ain't working.
It's not working for me and it's not working for our kids.
So this is the moment that we have to make sure
that the spare and the pressure is not winning the day.
We've got to stand up, we've got to fight back,
we've got to create the kind of nation
and work that you and I know we can create.
Thank you all very much.
Thank you.
I would like to speak on and introduce our host this evening, South Africa's Minister of International Relations and Cooperation,
to Sir Vodla Amal.
A former youth leader at South Africa's Liberation Movement,
Minnesota will play a central role in bringing South Africans a story case
before the International Court of Justice in defense of the Palestinian people.
Please join me in welcoming Minister Ronald DeMond.
Thank you very much, you gentlemen, it's been a pleasure.
in the standards for such a floral speech.
Very originally in London,
and I'm glad that you're doing very late to me
to take this time to come.
We wish you a very good evening.
I know you have to, we've got a hard to press,
a hard time, so I think it's your time and up
who will take you along to leave the hall.
Thank you.
to our companions in the movement to defend principle, the hate group, and the progressive
international, to my fellow speakers, friends and comrades, Abba Tawassi, Mohamed Khalil,
We leave Banima, Nandia Tunias and Chris Rook good evening and also to you thank you very much for your speeches.
To the Riverside Church, home to all who are searching for freedom in dangerous times.
Thank you and good evening for hosting us.
I can't imagine a better place to declare we shall not be moved in our determination to defend the principles of the UN Charter.
The sovereign equality of all nations, the right to self-determination and dialogue as
the only path to lasting peace.
There is no better occasion to reaffirm our conviction that might does not make right.
And there is no better moment for the new original to challenge those who live by the
that the might must do as they can and the weak must suffer what they must.
Comrades and friends, tonight we are on a second ground. On April 4, 1967, Martin Luther King stood right here and delivered this beyond Vietnam's speech.
In that speech, Dr. King challenged congregants to confront the system that produced obscene
wealth next to grinding poverty and war is still of peace. He reminded those
gay men that the struggle to create a new world will be long and daunting but unavoidable.
Exactly a year later, his life was cut short by the merciless bullets of assassins.
Today, we gather to say long live the spirit of Martin Luther King, long live the fight for peace and justice.
Another challenge for the people of Ostrava, Nelson Mandela, also stood in this space.
A weekly of the four months after his release from long approximation of 27 years, Nelson
President Manila, they know this very well and spoke before eroding ground that Gaila
could celebrate the South Africa's people in the future.
In this, as the rest of the ground, President Manila said, and I quote,
when our cause was not the popular force, in the corridors of power and western nations,
It was the religious communities,
collated in university campuses,
and anti-apartheid organizations in the United States
and elsewhere that stood firm when economic sanctions
chose good.
Manila carried a message from South Africa,
which he delivered in two parts.
First, he conveyed gratitude to all those
who never forgot our struggle and never
100 of our people in the affairs of justice and peace. Second, he reminded his agency that
although the structures of the old order were already taken in, freedom had not been done.
He called for an intensification of the measures against apartheid and regime until
the people of the world and the people of the world.
Comrades and friends,
would it not be wonderful to recall these two events,
Dr. King's address and Manila's visit,
only as an interest in the historical legend?
Would it not be wonderful to sing the anthem of the downtrodden,
which are not to be moved,
only as a tribute to the Bible and her?
said they have together helped me, the words of the Tabeer and President Mandela speak to our hearts to renew the nation, as if they speak them today.
In the years since Martin Luther King and Majibah Stutton is speaking, many people and nations across the world have joined the first blood of liberty.
Many are one independence and self-determination, but many others are still in bondage.
For Palestinians, the aid of freedom is yet to be done.
Cance these words remains very important, as it there being spoken to be.
The hour of peace is yet to be described in Palestine and for the people of Gaza.
And in many parts of the world.
And every day, Israel's actions, the annexation of the Palestinian land,
the destruction of their means of life,
and the wanton fighters in Gaza and the West Bank threaten to crush our prospects for a two-speed solution.
As we gather here today, the debt toward is so high that our exports don't count.
Thousands more have been made.
My distinct life is marked by trauma and suffering,
abyssal arrests and the lack of access to bread and shelter.
Despite the reported ceasefire, the violence of occupation and genocide continues, hospitals,
schools, sanitation, and water infrastructure have been lost and good goes to the ground.
It is now ours. Thanks to technology, the evidence of the Palestinian destruction
is right on our fingertips. Yet the world chooses to look the other way.
Then first take the course, majority of you who are here, and fighting against injustice and refusing to look the other way.
This might inspire tremendous challenges and sometimes intimidation.
Nearly three years into this innocent, the edges become an integral part of the great challenges and care with games.
So distressed are the children of Gaza, that 96% of them feel that death is always looking at it all.
This is why we cannot afford to bury the international law.
And this is why we cannot afford to do the other.
And this is why we are here today to continue the cause and the fight.
Dear friends,
And our struggle is a testament to the UN Charter's great promise and the possibilities of multilateral system with the UN Human Rights Centre.
After years of mission and migration, only the people across the world compared the international community to declare apartheid a crime against humanity and so on.
More than eight years since adoption, the U.N. chattels principles of fundamental human rights, the dignity and the worth of every person, and the equal rights of nations, like us more, are more important than ever.
When we approach the ice again, the U.N.'s principle of the mission of it, to challenge
Israel's violation of the Jerusalem Convention, we do so as part of our commitment to upholding
and defending international law and multilateral issues. We act as people to whom the global
global solidarity can be. In so doing, we summon the same global solidarity that broke
apart the interests of Africa to help dismantle the apartheid and reach Palestinians in need.
We choose to act because the importance of Africa was made possible by multitudes of
ordinary people who hear the answer to our call for freedom in our lifetime.
We act at the top of Israel's community and to see a core justice for the people suffering
a life experience to yourself that you see in your times in your fingertips.
This has not been a solitary doing because of all of you.
Many countries, some of whose representatives are here today,
have joined these networks to put a stop to the destruction of the Palestinian life.
The hate group and what is that to the government?
Come to the island and check the ambition that
country action is needed to uphold the international order
based in the armed forces.
Together we will continue to act because we take it to heart.
But much of the country is great when they want.
And I quote, if we do not act, we
shall surely be dragged down by law,
dark and shameful corridors of time,
reserved for boys who possesses power without compassion,
mild without morality, and strong without sight.
Prosthetic.
Dear friends, we also have, of course,
to know that the current attacks on international law
and mud-batteries are part of the bigger crisis
confronting humanity.
Today, the runaway democratic is
It's a working trade with democracy and opening the doors to populist research with people
against the other.
As the inequality world on South Africa's DQD is sure, as nine billion years from
this day, the global financial sector remains suited in favor of world relations.
While developing countries where the biggest value of climate change, African countries
countries are underrepresented in institutions with decisions affecting our future.
Sixty percent of the global countries in the African continent, yet they do not have permanent
representation in the UN security policy.
Neither do we have the major power.
At any time, as the world needs to know by international cooperation, the institutions
the ages to protect peace and advance development are starting to mix the moment.
With less than four years until 28, the sustainable development boards erase alcohol.
Job and work are spending is now almost eight hundred times the U.S. regular budget.
We can see the consequences here across today's major markets.
The Sudanese people are enjoying the world selected with humanitarian and history references, yet the world is white.
No secular noise is shown on the spotlight on the Sudanese list.
wars in the Middle East and in the Eastern Gersa continue to visit and don't suffer on those
ports in the process and millions move beyond them.
And for years into the high-shell war, the UN has been unable to bring that conflict to an end.
Comrades and friends, our resource and refusal to have not gone untouched,
Just as Dr. King faced technical questions for his test on Vietnam, we too face a different
location.
Should we not present this energy for addressing the social and economic problems in your country?
These are questions we'll ask as the South Bank has done.
Are you not acting against your national interests by growing a great size powerful
state and all those who beg?
You possess no future with one. In fact, you will win the 700 as well as the whole of the nation for the world.
Should you not raise a record, but pay for your national balance and trade?
But we chose to act because silence is one. In the face of great injustice, silence is the least.
As one of the tenured centuries' greatest beneficiaries of international debate, we
have no choice but to act despite prior play-along planings and challenges that will face as
a result of our choices to act in defense of the mind. We carry this challenge as
as a vital form. Today, we declare that it will amaze our numbers of growth. We will
not grow and we shall not be moved.
We continue to see the standard of resistance and solidarity because we know that nothing
and that is more unsettling than political voices that refuse to be silenced.
Let me conclude by borrowing another running drug from the people of Sophia County in South Africa
who illegally over seven years ago took racial segregation hit on
and declared in the face of upper community.
We will not move on this dark night, on this cold night.
Amanda, all power, all power, all power, Amanda, away you, Amanda, away you, Amanda.
Thank you very much.
The foreign minister of Saudi Africa, Mr. Ronald Ramona, ladies and gentlemen.
The last time I saw him on stage, we both met actually outside of East Als and the International
Court of Justice in the Hague.
And I remember that very clearly because there were students from Medellin's actress
who were camped out from 11 p.m. the previous night in a very cold, Dutch winter night
just to stand in solidarity with South Africa as historically as I can mention is against
Israel.
And what is the most important part of the court?
Then, when it comes to justice, in fact, then too there was a melody of two chants,
a mantra, a way to free free balance sign, mixing the air,
but there was one unanimous chant that went through the crowd.
Thank you, South Africa.
But apart from that power from Western journalists, there was one question that haunted me, and
I can candidly share here today, about why South Africa, why you and what's in it for
you.
And this question repeated itself and followed South Africa ever since they find that case
across reactionary institutions, across liberal intellectuals,
why South Africa and why here?
That's a truly condescension to this question.
Universal values at the end of the day
were supposed to only be embodied by a handful of countries
and only ever meant to be championed by the West.
This is not a question that is ever asked
of the countries of the West.
This is not a question that's ever asked of the United States
for its middle east misadventures.
This is not a question that's asked when the Middle East misadventures are disguised in the name of a responsibility to protect.
Overwhelmed by our titling economies and our burgeoning debts imposed on us by these anchor of countries,
we're supposed to be the peoples of the world, our governments, we're supposed to only be looking inward always, at our humblest amounts to feed.
And leadership is not supposedly ours for real.
South Africa had a very pure concept.
It was asked to be his palace because as Preston John Paul said it clear,
we know what a bar tide looks like.
We experience and live through it.
It was a matter of memory and it was a matter of principle.
And this is something that you see in all throughout history,
throughout our lands and throughout our countries.
In India, my own country, even as we were gaining our own freedom,
Johar Al-Mehru, our first Prime Minister, says it's extremely clear
that Indians are not free until our brothers and sisters live under
apartheid South Africa and our brothers and sisters in Palestine live under occupation.
And a year later, just a year into our independence, India breaks its trade relations
with the apartheid South African regime and losing a tremendous amount of economic power
But this again is not limited to salvation. It's not limited to India.
We can think of Julius Viery in Tanzania in 1965.
Breaking relations is the first half of the nation between Britain,
losing 7 million pounds as one of the poorest countries in the world,
and opening the doors of Tanzania to the liberation movement from Mozambique,
from Angola, and from England.
And of course, we can forget Cuba.
in Cuba. Cuba, a country that is today under the same expect of the Gaza. Cuba, which
is under siege and starvation as the second Gaza experiment, from where 10,000 soldiers
lost their lives in Angola, dying thousands of kilometers away from Havana, confronting
that is the sentiment from which the hate truth was gone.
That is the sentiment that your mayor from New York City brought here with the campaign
not on our dime, that your taxes would not be used to spill the blood of our brothers
and sisters in Palestine.
It is my greatest honor as the Secretary of the hate group that I got to stand with nine
nations in January of last year.
All the shoulders of many activists who are in this room here today, doing something remarkably
simple, saying something in fact extremely untradical, we might say, that they will follow
international law, and that they will follow the decisions and uphold the decisions of
international courts. They will not send weapons to Israel and they will not allow
ports and airspace to use these weapons to Israel.
At the core of this, there is a message that all of us recognize only to well that each
governments that's our after power saying in Nelson Mandela's message that we would not be free
under Palestinian rule free which is a deal would not use our land our labor and our factories to
oppress our brothers and sisters elsewhere in the world. On my way here to the historic Riverside
Church today I crossed what used to be called Hodyal-Tereza, something my journey I said.
In 1960, when the Cuban delegation led by Fidel Castro showed up in the United States in New York City,
Midtown hotels, one by one, kicked them all out, refusing to house the country's delegation for the very same United Nations General Assembly.
Who gave Fidel Castro's delegation home? It was Mike Mext and civil light leaders right here in Harlem, in Hotel Rees.
That is the sentiment that cannot be broken, that will not be broken, by threats and threats
and by sanctions.
Because that, oh dead racer, stands also on Anand Chetan Khawei, who defies the United States State Department's ban and travels to Bandung, the first historic conference of the newly freed colonized peoples of Africa and Asia, who was saying we will determine our own future, what does Khawei do?
brings that message back to the United States to fight colonialism from the benefit of the
East. This is not a spirit. Despite the sanctions that are meted out in Honduras to South Africa,
despite the tariffs that are imposed on Brazil, despite the fines and the investigations
imposed in countries like Spain could not send in arms, this is not a spirit that will
The last meeting was greeted with a response from the Israeli Foreign Minister, Gideon
Zahar.
When I published a photograph of the meeting, he responded with another photograph of his
own, of a Sankan Iranian Navy ship, indicating that the Hale crew would meet the same fate
as that of the warship.
Israeli minister, give him sorrow, we say, we shall not mourn.
Every text in that, their sanctions and their punishments, we say, we shall not mourn.
Because we look into the Palestinians, we look into the Palestinians,
all to an unending 77-year-old Nakba, have stood steadfastly in resistance,
We should step fast in resilience,
joining each of us in each of our own countries and on our lands,
that we are not victims of history,
that we are urgent for history.
We shall not move and we shall not be moved.
To close us out for this historical, incredible evening, I want to invite our final speaker,
Nadia Annous, friend of Conrad Alcindor, American writer, researcher and community organizer,
who throughout their writing and organizing has woven together these struggles
by sin and liberation, indigenous sovereignty, and non-violent justice,
building solidarity across peoples and movements.
Now they are welcome to present.
Good evening, everybody.
My name is Nadia Toulouse, I'm a long-time organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement.
We look to the history of global struggle against apartheid in South Africa, our host tonight.
I know that it's been a long evening, so I won't cut to the chase.
We know that South Africa is still in an active struggle to end economic apartheid on the ground today,
and that the United States is standing in the way.
In the era of land redistribution happening right now as part of making real the end of economic apartheid on the ground,
who is getting prioritized for temporary protection status in the United States right now?
It is white South Africans.
The protection of wealthy white South Africans is part of the same rank and conspiracy that
not only meets the mockery of our refugee and resettlement laws, but is actually in
the process of removing any federal funding from resettlement agencies who are refusing
to prioritize the resettlement of white South Africans here in the United States.
the same month that the United States will remove 13 out of 17 countries of PPS protections.
A move like this, I'm starting with it because it is deeply political, and as people in residence
here in the United States, we need to talk about it.
It is part and parcel of protecting the same economic class that shares interest with
with the private corporation, Glein-Ghor, a company in South Africa that has continued to ignore the
South African government's demands to place an energy embargo on the State of Israel due to its
crime to get the Palestinian people. Glein-Ghor has continued to send mashup and control to
Israel, which since 2023 has contributed 50% of Israel's coal usage, despite South Africa's
dynamical position in stopping energy shillings to Israel during the ongoing genocide. This
blend for supply chain is an essential supply chain to a part like Israel, and we have rail
leverage here. So I want to start by encouraging our hosts here in South Africa continue to do
do the good work. Do what you can to stop black wars, ongoing economic support and energy support of the state of Israel.
You have heard many speeches this evening and I will talk about where we stand.
Basically, it's 2026, the ICJ International Court of Justice is in an ongoing dispute between
South Africa and Israel, to which an official ruling has not yet been decided on genocide.
We have many years to wait for this ruling, however in the meantime, according to the
ICJ advisory opinion, every state today has an obligation to end the occupation of
of Palestine effective immediately.
Today, we can say that the occupation has been deemed
effectively illegal.
And today, the UN Special Committee on Inquiry
into the Occupied Territories has determined
that it is in fact we are experiencing a genocide.
The UN Turner is a foundational document of the UN, and in it there is a vision for international peace, coordination, cooperation, and a jurisprudence of justice that is meant to guarantee the right of our nations.
We know that the UN founded the same year as the partition of South Asia and the salvation of the State of Israel.
And we know that indeed there has always been a paradox in who follows international law
and who is allowed to undermine it.
Today, those of us who are paying attention know that the paradox of international law
is exemplified by the practice of states who act not for the benefit of the global majority,
But instead for the domination of the men through brute force and power, the realm of international law is being compromised.
It is being challenged. It is being broken by those states who are declaring as speakers before we have that might be right.
They ask, who can evade war and accountability, who can break the UN Charter?
Israel and the United States show us that being the right of state is about who has the strongest arm to evade accountability
and to push forward their own policies.
That is why Palestine and the question of Palestine and justice for our people continues to lay it bare.
The target is in the bombing today of human institutions by Israel.
The decapitation of Kondra, a critical human institution the Palestinians depend on.
It is the stain on the history of the institution that Israel will be allowed to speak in the human chamber this week.
And this culminates in the Board of Peace.
Just as Israel is destroying these UN institutions, it is replacing them with their own systems,
which is the oldest system, which is that right is right.
Israel today aims to make sure that the rules of international law do not apply to them.
This is why, brothers and sisters, we demand sanctions on the state of Israel.
Israel has challenged the UN Charter Division not only to its aggressive environmental behavior,
it has also threw its direct attempts to undermine the UN and its ability to impose international
law to prevent genocide across this world.
When a state like Israel does not use the UN platform,
excuse me, uses the UN platform to attack the majority of the world's nations
who repeatedly condemn its genocide and aggressive behavior,
it is not a state that can remain a normal member of the international community.
This is a growth state that is defining its leading role in the slashing of the order.
Israel is a growing institution, and here in the US,
We are recurring more and more of what's aware of what that means domestically.
This is what we mean when we talk about the slide in Africa.
Israel must be sanctioned, regardless of who wins the Israeli election.
You have never died out of permanent action, and there is no going back.
No re-kicking of faith, no apology, or change in leadership that can change what Israel
has done and must be held accountable for.
We know that the Board of Peace is a gross violation of the Palestinian people's right
to self-determination.
It separates Palestinian territories and Palestinian people.
It denies Palestinian governance and it turns Gaza and its people into a luxury, real estate
item and an AI smart city and Jared Kushner's investment portfolio shamed on the Board of
Feeds.
So we have the responsibility here in New York City, here in the United States, to grow
and participate in mass movements that are demanding material changes from the status
full of genocide and fascism.
We know that the daily military cargo and weapons components are being sent to Israel
through our public and civilian infrastructure.
It's using our people, our streets, our taxes, and our money to do this in New York City
and also in my community in Oakland, California.
An Oakland FedEx is sending bomb droppers to Israel through the Oakland Airport.
Oakland is a city one of the first in the country to pass a ceasefire resolution,
and one of the first in the country to pass an arms embargo resolution.
FedEx is undermining the city of Oakland and the will of its people.
We will not stand for it.
Who here has seen the United Report?
Y'all must know, this week, we, along with a coalition of other organizations, released
a report showing that United Airlines is shipping military cargo on passenger airplanes.
They are putting military components and weapons components next to your backs.
And guess what y'all, there is something we can do about it.
We can organize for an arms embargo in New York City.
Just like Oakland, this is a progressive community and a very important political moment
where it is on us, as the people of this country and the people of these great cities, to hush up the political ceiling.
We know that next week we will have a report on the week of action,
a toolkit that focuses on what you can do about United's ongoing shipments,
and also the connection to Elbit systems
and Israeli military supplier,
essentially Israeli military supplier.
Furthermore, we're talking about people power,
but we also are calling on the politician
to represent us, right?
We demand, we ask, we challenge all politicians,
who talk about corporate accountability to begin an inquiry into the use of our civilian
air force that are sending military cargo to the State of Israel.
Y'all with me?
The message of 2026 is not that the Israeli State can do whatever it wants to do heaven
Whoever it wants, that is not the lesson.
The lesson is now that preparation
should be less to regulate themselves
to make an unprecedented amount of money
off of war and the compensation of the kill chain
that has been ushered in by the genocide
of the Palestinian people.
Are the principles of the UN Charter alive
or are they dead?
This is the time we will make the determination
as people of the world.
To our government, we will hold you accountable.
It is just another of time.
To corporations, we will hold you accountable.
And in this moment, we will push the political ceiling.
I'm going to close out by naming just a few
of the international wins that should inspire us here
in the United States in order to push for change.
Because the future deemed for us by these fascists
is not inevitable.
Power and people power is the power
that will change our world.
And France, a criminal complaint was recently filed
against FedEx over its alleged role
in moving F-25 components through Paris.
This complaint documented 117 FedEx shipments, including
33 that came to open themselves and they're planning a mass committee to discuss action in the next couple of weeks.
In Belgium, SEDEX is also facing a criminal complaint over a legend of multiple transit and military cargo, which Andesby International has now joined.
And today, Belgium has banned all aircraft carrying military equipment in Israel from flying to Belgium airspace.
And after the report we released a few months ago, Belgium actually seized, through the pressure of the grassroots, two shipments heading to Israel with military cargo.
We take inspiration from this and we make our own demands.
And our demands, the people's demands are clear.
We want a free Palestine.
So our call to action is clear.
We must build popular support that is so strong that it no longer challenges popular opinion,
but it changes the status quo.
In the era of protest crimes against the Palestinian people,
We demand sanctions on the state of Israel and an end to all aid to the state of Israel.
In the era of preparation, send all the military components through our public infrastructure.
We demand an energy and an arms embargo.
In the era of domination, we demand self-determination to the Palestinian people.
And in this time of voice and fascism all around the world, we commit that we will push the political ceiling, that we will continue to organize, that we will be courageous, strategic embrace, that we will continue to look after one another and to build the society we deserve.
Because of the era of crisis, we believe in the fun-changing demands for freedom.
We shall not be moved.
Amandla, Amandla, keep and stay hostile.
Thank you so much, Joe.
What's up? What do you want me to say?
What is the question?
What do you think the role of social media should be in the first place?
I think it's a good way to galvanize, a good way to organize, it's a good way to get people
out and engage in direct action when necessary.
Sometimes it could be a good way to hold our electives accountable.
We obviously have to seize control over millions of people in that country.
I just want to say that it's not holding up that thing right now.
Even then they still are under unprecedented attack, like what Donald Trump did with CNN,
MSNL and political.
But social media plays a very important role in correcting the record as we saw on Gaza.
and hopefully it will be a good way to continue organizing the whole of Shassu Kamikaze.
Thank you.
I'm from Shassu Kamikaze.
I'm a woman.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you guys.
Yes.
Thank you.
What's your name?
My name is Alvin.
I'm from Egypt.
I listen to you all the time.
I watch yourself religiously.
Let's take a photo with you if you don't mind.
Yeah, sure.
Let's do it.
Oh my God.
Okay.
We got this.
It's great.
Yeah.
All right.
Oh yeah.
Thank you very much.
It was unfortunate not to have you at the Oxford Union.
Oh yeah, well it happens.
Oh my god, what are you doing?
Oh well, stay strong.
Thank you, you are so good.
I'm trying my best.
How are you doing?
Of course, of course.
I'm doing great.
You got to keep up, you got to keep up the fight.
Absolutely. Are you going to do something with this event tonight?
Well, David asked me to show up. I did.
Thank you for coming.
But that's it. We filmed it. We filmed the event. That's all we're doing.
Of course.
I am I'm here until I go to Ithaca on Thursday for the Cornell speech
Yeah, we'll see we'll see what happens
Luckily they have a chance that one. They're trying to cancel the UT Austin really. Yeah, it's pretty wild
Yeah.
Yes.
I love you.
Try my best.
Yeah, you're doing a great job.
Really?
Yeah, you know what's happening with Burnham?
And they got a...
I'm gonna be shitting up there, I'll be right back.
It's nice to see you guys, it's been nice.
Yeah, we were supposed to link up too,
but it never happened because I couldn't get into the country.
Well, if we could have done anything like this, how?
I would love that. I don't know who to talk to, I don't...
It's a very opaque system that you guys have over there at the home side.
I'm gonna be good-bye.
What's up, man?
Can I get a little bit of you?
Sure, what's good?
Can we get the phone?
We got it tacky the way.
Hi.
This guy's got a phone.
Yes, I understand.
I'll get the phone.
I think I got to get the picture of you.
Oh, yeah.
Thank you.
No plans?
No plans.
No, no, no. I'm just here for some UN related events and also I have a speech that's extended so that I could attend stuff like this.
Any other time?
I'm not meeting with anyone. I'm just here for, you know, administration, things like that.
Hey, sorry, just wanted to say hi. We come from Paris, you have a lot of listeners from there, and I'm just asking.
Of course.
We gotta get out, we're overtime.
Thanks so much.
Thanks so much.
Alright, we gotta go.
We gotta do this.
Alright, alright.
I'm sorry.
Alright, thanks.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Thanks.
What's up, brother?
What's up, Chad?
My name's Danny.
I went to Cuba with Hasan, I'm a Cuban American, organizing Cuban Americans against the blockade.
Look up Cuban Americans for Cuba.
Look us up.
Big shouts.
What are you doing here today?
I came to see Bernie.
No, but it's such an important time, especially with Cuba and the crosshairs too, to reaffirm
the UN Charter and work toward trying to bring it back to life, because it's fucking dead
and stumped on right now, so.
That's right.
Where can people learn more?
Yeah.
Where can people learn more?
C-A, the number four, C-dot-org.
Cuban Americans for Cuba.
Thank you guys.
All the new DSC members should pick your up now.
I'm just wondering if you can tell us what's the power of the bureau.
The bureau of office.
I'm just going to say thank you.
I'm David Michael.
I'm here at the Columbia College School.
It's the first time I've seen you in my thoughts.
I don't know the changes.
I'm extirpently related to Palestine
and all the issues that you talk about.
My girlfriend knows who is Hank Becker.
I'm very proud of you.
Thank you.
Nice to meet you.
I'm the political director of the University of Chicago.
Elliot.
I don't know if you would ever be interested in that.
Yeah, I would love that.
I don't know if Columbia would be interested,
but I'd be interested for sure.
Yeah, we can do it out here.
Do we not?
I'll be down.
I don't know if you would ever be interested in that.
Yeah, I have a email on my Twitter.
If you know that, that's my team's email.
And then, I'm going to pick up.
Oh, Elliot.
He's going to love hearing that she's obsessed with Austin.
Is it okay if I see you go here?
Sure.
No, I don't want to talk to him.
I don't want to talk to him.
I don't want to talk to him.
I know one of the 600 people that he can mobilize,
because they are using the training for the election,
for the combat.
I'm great, by the way.
You know, I love the interview
with Axel Stem and us now,
and I hope we will keep doing that.
Yeah, normalize very much in our views
and go on to what remains to be made.
Oh, for sure. Even sure.
Especially after these midterms are over, you know, because right now they just try to jam you up with the electability argument over and over again
Everything you say to her is going to attack out, you know, you have to be more careful, but yeah, no, well, no, I'm not playing this type of game
We've got your back, we've got your back, I need to keep my eyes open
Of course, nice to meet you, what's up, man?
Can I see you?
Sure, sure. All right, let me just end the broadcast, you actually
All right, everybody, thank you so much for watching
It is chaotic out here. I'm going to take some photos of fans and stuff and that'll be all for tonight.
We will see you tomorrow, okay? I'll be back tomorrow.
I don't know if there's an IRL event or anything like that planned.