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Folks, a ton to get to on today's show.
All the information now suggests that the Iranian nuclear facilities were virtually destroyed, but the media continue to maintain not, and Pete Hegseff is smacking them around.
Plus, Zoran Mamdani, the radical of the moment, what does that mean for the Democratic Party more broadly?
And more victories for President Trump ranging from NATO to the executive branch.
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Alrighty, so the media have been having a very, very difficult time just letting President Trump have the W. And yes, what President Trump did in Iran is one of the most historic W's of my lifetime.
Again, just to recap, Israel launched an overwhelming aerial assault on the Iranian facilities, nuclear and missile-based.
They were going after the ballistic missile development factories in Iran, their ballistic missile stockpiles, their missile launchers, as well as their nuclear facilities.
And for nearly two weeks, Israel hammered the Iranians, but there was one facility in particular, Fordo, which was some 250, 300 meters underground.
And Israel did not have the ordinance capable of actually penetrating that facility, Fordo.
And so President Trump authorized a B-2 strike using 30,000-pound bombs on Fordo and in his words, obliterated the site.
Now, the media won't let that be the case because if it happens that President Trump used force to end the Iranian nuclear program and then declared the war over, then it is in fact a historic win, a win that we haven't seen in American foreign policy, really in my lifetime.
One strike, end of Iranian nuclear facilities, complete reshuffling of the deck in the Middle East with Israel as a regional powerhouse and Iran a supplicant, and no continuous war between Israel and Iran, no hot war continuing, with no American casualties, by the way.
Like an amazing, amazing accomplishment.
And the media just won't let President Trump have it.
They won't.
They just keep claiming over and over and over that actually, actually, maybe Fordo wasn't destroyed.
Maybe, in fact, Fordo is fine.
Maybe the Israeli-American effort was completely for naught.
Now, they really have no basis upon which to say this other than the word of Ayatollah Khamenei, who has been tweeting that everything is hunky-dory from his bunker, presumably in Tehran.
Quote, with all that commotion and all those claims, the Zionist regime was practically knocked out and crushed under the blows of the Islamic Republic.
Okay, you have to be high in order to believe this.
He was literally hiding in a bunker for the entirety of the war.
His regime was so weak that the Israeli Air Force was flying continuous sorties unhindered over Iranian airspace with zero casualties on the IAF side, zero, for two weeks.
And yet he says that actually the Zionist regime, Israel, was practically knocked out and crushed.
Also, quote, my congratulations on our dear Iran's victory over the U.S. regime.
The U.S. regime entered the war directly because it felt that if it didn't, the Zionist regime would be completely destroyed.
It entered the war in an effort to save that regime, but achieved nothing.
Um, that's not...
They did hold a victory parade in Tehran.
Again, the Baghdad Bob aspect of the Middle East is always absurd to Westerners, but again, this is a, it's an honor culture and loss of face is a massive problem in the Arab world and in the Muslim world more generally, because obviously Iran is not Arab, it's Shia Muslim.
Ayatollah Khomeini trying to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, at least in terms of public perception, does not mean that he was not in fact hammered, that the nuclear program is in fact intact.
But Khomeini tweeted out, quote, the Islamic Republic delivered a heavy slap to the U.S.'s face.
It attacked and inflicted damage on an al-Udaid airbase, which is one of the key U.S. bases in the region.
No, actually, you called and you whined and you begged the Qataris and the Americans to allow you to send a few missiles at al-Udaid, none of which actually hit al-Udaid.
And President Trump has publicly said as much.
Why am I telling you what Khomeini is saying?
Because you're hearing it echoed by the media.
You're hearing it echoed by the media.
So this started a couple of days ago when the New York Times reported and CNN reported that there was a Defense Intelligence Agency estimate that Fordo had not been knocked out, not been obliterated, not even been severely damaged.
Now, it turned out that that was a low confidence assessment by one of 18 intelligence agencies under the DIA.
Doesn't matter.
The media ran with it anyway.
This became the top story in the media.
And President Trump, rightly, was kind of ticked at all of this.
President Trump was a little upset.
Well, he should be upset because, of course, it's stupid.
How do we know that it's stupid?
According to the UN Nuclear Watchdog head, the Director General of the IAEA, there was, quote, no escaping significant physical damage after a U.S. strike on the Iranian facility.
According to the IAEA, centrifuges at the Fordo Uranium Enrichment Plant in Iran are no longer operational after the United States attacked the site with bunker-busting bombs, said Rafael Grossi, head of the UN Nuclear Watchdog.
Grossi said that while evaluating the damage from the strikes using satellite images alone was difficult, given the power of the bombs dropped on Fordo and the technical characteristics of the plant, we already know these centrifuges are no longer operational.
Centrifuges require a high degree of precision.
They're vulnerable to intensive vibration.
He said, we can come to a fairly accurate technical conclusion.
So does that mean That the program has been entirely obliterated?
Maybe not necessarily.
It's certainly been delayed for many, many years.
According again to the head of the IAEA, quote, the nuclear program has definitely suffered enormous damage.
How much?
Perhaps decades, depending on the type of activity or objective.
It's true that with these reduced capacities, he added, it will be much more difficult for Iran to continue at the same pace as before.
Now, again, it is not just the head of the IAEA who is saying that.
Barack Ravid, who of course is no right-winger by any stretch of the imagination, reporter for Axios, and very often the sort of frontman for left-wing and isolationist agitprop coming out from various leak-driven parts of various administrations.
He tweeted earlier today, quote, I told Jake Tapper, a senior Israeli intelligence official told me that other than the word obliterated, the reality regarding the results of the attack on Iran is much closer to where Trump says it is than to where the initial DI8 report said it was.
We'll get to more on the media, completely screwing up this Iran story and pretty much everything else.
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So again, the media overcovered this in a massive way.
And of course it did, because have you ever seen a bunker buster in action?
So the Pentagon released footage on Thursday showcasing how 30,000 pound heavy-duty bunker buster bombs work, like the one that was used against Iran's nuclear sites.
The video shows a GBU-57 series MOP, which is exactly the kind of bomb that was dropped on Iran, crashing into a target and kicking up a massive plume of dust moments before a blinding inferno appears in a shaft during a test detonation.
Here's what that video looks like.
I'll describe it if you can't see it.
You can see the B2 dropped the bomb, massive plume of dust, and then underneath hundreds of feet, gigantic fireball, massive, enormous fireball emerging.
Again, you can see here how the bomb actually works.
It drops straight down, and then it digs.
It digs its way into the soil for hundreds of feet before detonation.
That's the massive dust cloud that you're seeing.
And then here is the gigantic explosion you see on the other end.
It penetrates all the way down into the tunnel, massive explosion.
How would that not have done serious damage to Florida?
How?
They didn't drop one of them.
We dropped 12 of them on Fordo.
So I'm going to go no on that.
So all of this came to a head yesterday when Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth did a press conference talking about all of this.
And he just went off on the fake news that's been targeting President Trump.
Because you cheer against Trump so hard, it's like in your DNA and in your blood to cheer against Trump because you want him not to be successful so bad, you have to cheer against the efficacy of these strikes.
You have to hope maybe they weren't effective.
Maybe the way the Trump administration has represented them isn't true.
So let's take half-truths, spun information, leaked information, and then spin it.
Spin it in every way we can to try to cause doubt and manipulate the public mind over whether or not our brave pilots were successful.
This was an historically successful attack and we should celebrate it as Americans.
And it gives us a chance to have peace, chance to have a deal, and an opportunity to prevent a nuclear Iran, which is something President Trump talked about for 20 years.
Hey, he is right about every aspect of that.
Hexas wasn't done.
He called on Jennifer Griffin of Fox News, who'd been one of the people who reported this particular DIA assessment.
Here he was.
Do you have certainty that all the highly enrich uranium was inside the Ford Mountain or some of it?
Because there were satellite photos that showed more than a dozen trucks there two days in advance.
Are you certain none of that highly enrich uranium was moved?
Of course we're watching every single aspect.
But Jennifer, you've been about the worst.
The one who misrepresents the most intentionally reported About the ventilation shafts on Saturday night.
And in fact, I was the first to describe the B-2 bombers, the refueling, the entire mission with great accuracy.
So I take issue with that.
I appreciate you acknowledging that this is the first operate, the most successful mission based on operational security that this department has done since you've been here.
And I appreciate that.
So we're looking at all aspects of intelligence and making sure we have a sense of what was waiting.
So again, Hegseth was very feisty with the media.
And frankly, a lot of it is deserved.
Some of the questions he was asked are absolutely ridiculous.
He was asked by a reporter about the fact that he had suggested that it was brave boys who flew the plane when one of the people in the plane was a woman.
And he's like, are you kidding me now?
This is what we're talking about.
We're talking about like the DEI aspect of piloting.
And here, I don't mean that the woman who was on the plane was somehow a DEI appointee.
She wasn't.
But like the main concern here is the diversity quotient of the pilots.
And if he uses the word boys, that's the way that I use the word guys.
When I say guys, I don't just mean males.
I mean humans, human beings.
Here we go.
Why don't acknowledge the female pilots that also participated in this mission?
The early messages that you sent out only congratulated the boys.
So when I say something like our boys and bombers, see, this is the kind of thing the press does, right?
Of course, the chairman mentioned a female bomber pilot.
That's fantastic.
She's fantastic.
She's a hero.
I want more female bomber pilots.
I hope the men and women of our country sign up to do such brave and audacious things.
But when you spin it as, because I say our boys and bombers as a common phrase, I'll keep saying things like that, whether they're men or women.
Very proud of that female pilot, just like I'm very proud of those male pilots.
And I don't care if it's a male or a female in that cockpit, and the American people don't care.
But it's the obsession with race and gender in this department that's changed priorities.
We don't do that anymore.
We don't play your little games.
You can see how deeply, deeply annoyed Hegsef is and the entire administration for having to somehow explain that when you drop 12 bunker busters on an Iranian nuclear site and destroy their nuclear facilities, or at least render them completely inoperable, and then the media lie about it and seek any speck of information to discredit that, that that is deeply annoying.
And it should be deeply annoying because our media are just trash.
I'm sorry.
They really are.
Let me give you an example.
So CNN's Clarissa Ward, she was appearing with Stephen Colbert.
And she says that the Iranians view nuclear weaponry as essential for their self-defense.
Okay.
To believe this, you have to be a total idiot.
They believe it's necessary for their self-defense, the nuclear weapon.
In what way?
As a deterrent to what?
As a deterrent to what?
They've been in power since 1979, the Ayatollahs.
They view it as necessary to their self-defense from whom precisely.
Saudi Arabia is going to invade them.
Israel is going to give a crap about Iran as long as they're not threatened by Iran and its proxies.
What absolute hogwash.
There are a lot of Iranians who support the current regime, who feel outraged by what Israel has done, and who view their nuclear program as being absolutely, existentially essential for their self-defense.
And so it's important to try to like sit with the complexity of many differing viewpoints.
What in the world?
Like this sort of propagandistic nonsense?
You know, the Iranians, they just see it as a self-it's all self-defense, don't you?
So probably you should just let them go nuclear.
Since after all, the Iranian people, many of them, backed the regime and they just want to protect themselves with a nuclear weapon attached to a ballistic missile aimed at Israel.
I mean, that's how you would defend yourself, would you not?
As if that weren't enough, Jon Stewart jumped on the bandwagon as well, of course.
He says it's just it's just terrible that so many members of the Trump administration are annoyed at people in the media who downplayed the scale of the success and upplayed an incredibly dicey Defense Intelligence Agency report.
Everything that is so difficult about this administration just on display in the moment, just the even actions that it might take that can be successful are fraught with his fragility at all times.
We obliterated their nuclear program.
Well, the early intelligence says, oh, that's, but that's scumbags reported that and people that hate the pilots.
And you just think, hey, man, if it's real and all the things that you said you had accomplished had been accomplished, then it shouldn't be that hard to not be so defensive and angry.
Now, this is really a ridiculous line of attack, and it is launched by the media all the time.
They say something that is false or they upplay a really, really dicey report.
And then when somebody acts annoyed, they say, well, you're only annoyed.
You're only annoyed because you know it's true.
No, maybe President Trump is annoyed because he knows it's not true and you won't just give him the W. And let's be real about this.
President Trump deserves the W here.
It is, again, one of the great historic American foreign policy victories of my lifetime, without a doubt.
And by the way, there may be more to come.
There may be more to come.
There is a report out of Israel Hayom today that President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu are looking forward to on the back of this successful destruction of the Iranian nuclear program.
They are looking forward to a wide variety of diplomatic feats, which, if they happen, would certainly be incredible for the world.
According to Israel Hayom, a four-way telephone conversation between United States President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Zermer occurred directly after the American assault on Iran's nuclear installations.
According to a source familiar with the discussion's substance, Israel Hayom learned that all participants expressed extreme enthusiasm regarding the B-2 bomber mission results and were experiencing what the source characterized as euphoria.
Yet the tremendous satisfaction among the four leaders drived not merely from operational achievements, but also from their future strategic planning.
President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu aim to swiftly pursue fresh peace agreements with Arab states as part of the Abraham Accord's expansion.
They reached consensus on fundamental principles in general terms.
They plan rapid implementation beginning with the termination of the Gaza War.
One, Gaza hostilities will conclude within two weeks.
Ending conditions will encompass four Arab nations, Including Egypt and the UAE, to administer the Gaza Strip, replacing the murderous Hamas terrorist organization.
The remaining Hamas leadership will face exile to other countries while the hostages gain freedom.
By the way, if they're able to broker this massive diplomatic win, multiple nations globally will accept numerous Gaza inhabitants seeking immigration.
Abraham Accord's expansion will bring Syria, Saudi, and additional Arab and Muslim countries to recognize Israel and establish official relationships.
Israel will declare its willingness for future Palestinian conflict resolution under the two states concept contingent upon the Palestinian authority reforms, basically saying maybe someday the PA were to moderate and start acting not like a terrorist organization.
Maybe then there might be a conflict resolution that might end with something like two states.
Okay, we'll see.
And finally, the United States will acknowledge limited Israeli sovereignty implementation in Judea and Samaria, which simply means that the Jewish areas of Judea and Samaria will be acknowledged by the United States as part of Israel, which always is going to be a part of any sort of final conversation.
Concurrently, two diplomatic sources informed Israel Hayyom about substantial American presidential pressure on Prime Minister Netanyahu to conclude the Gaza Strip operations.
Israel Hayyam further discovered that fears regarding the ambitious plan's potential failure contributed to President Trump's significant anger concerning those Israeli strikes after his Iran ceasefire announcement.
President Trump expressed confusion about how Bibi would disrupt their agreed strategic peace framework over a minor Iranian missile.
So again, this is a very ambitious plan.
We'll have to see how exactly it materializes.
But President Trump has been given no credit for what he has done in the Middle East over the course of his first term and his second term.
And he has done more for peace in the Middle East than any president in probably American history.
When I say probably, I mean definitely in American history.
And meanwhile, the president continues to win victory after victory.
So he went to that NATO Senate.
He got every nation, except for Spain, of course, to agree to spend 5% of GDP on defense, which is a wonderful, wonderful thing, forcing other nations in Europe to pick up their own defense tab so as to militarize them against the possibility of future encroachment from non-NATO actors like Russia, for example.
That is a good thing.
Hexeth during his press conference pointed that out as well.
What President Trump accomplished in NATO yesterday was game-changing and historic.
A shift in burden sharing to European responsibility in NATO that most would have said was impossible at the beginning of his term.
But he said NATO needs to pay up.
They started in the first term, and here in his second term, we've accelerated that.
32 NATO countries committed to spending 5% of their GDP on defense on actually investing in the NATO alliance.
So I hope with all the ink spilled, all of your outlets find the time to properly recognize this historic change in continental security.
Yeah, Hexeth is totally right about this.
All right, coming up, Zoran Mamdani is making all the rounds.
The radical left is so excited.
Democrats are freaking out.
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By the way, again, at NATO, President Trump, as I have said, he lives in the world of reality.
President Trump acknowledged at NATO that he met with Zelensky and that actually Putin might be the problem.
Here's President Trump just a couple of days ago.
What I took from the meeting couldn't have been nicer, actually, but I took from the meeting that he'd like to see it end.
I think it's a great time to end it.
I'm going to speak to Vladimir Putin, see if we can get it ended.
I consider him a person that's, I think, been misguided.
I'm very surprised, actually.
I thought we would have had that settled easy.
I've settled four of them in the meantime.
But he did call up and he said, you know, he's close to Iran.
He'd like to help us get a settlement.
I said, no, no.
You help me get a settlement with you, with Russia.
So, again, that is President Trump living in reality, saying that Putin might not actually be who he thought he was.
All right.
This is all good.
And by the way, it's all popular.
President Trump's new approval poll on the Israel-Iran issue from Insider Advantage out yesterday.
Approve 60%.
Disapprove 36%.
Those are numbers you do not see with regard to President Trump's policy, except on maybe closing the border.
That's it.
And yet somehow the media can't buy in.
And of course they can't buy in.
Because if they ever bought in, they would have to acknowledge that they have been lying about the President of the United States for a full decade at this point.
By the way, worth noting here, going back to the Middle East for a moment, President Trump, who obviously is working hand in glove with the Israeli prime minister right now, and presumably with Mohammed bin Salman over in Saudi Arabia, as well as the leadership of UAE and Bahrain and the other Abraham Accord countries.
He put out a statement in support of Prime Minister Netanyahu, who has, in fact, been targeted by the legal establishment in Israel for a bunch of absolute sheer nonsense, some of the most spurious crap, the kind of law affair that you saw against President Trump in the United States, except it's also happening in Israel.
Trump put out a statement, quote, breaking news.
I was shocked to hear that the state of Israel, which has just had one of its greatest moments in history and is strongly led by Bibi Netanyahu, is continuing its ridiculous witch hunt against their great wartime prime minister.
Bibi and I just went through hell together fighting a very tough and brilliant longtime enemy of Israel, Iran, and Bibi could not have been better, sharper, or stronger in his love for the incredible Holy Land.
Anybody else would have suffered losses, embarrassment, and chaos.
Bibi Netanyahu was a warrior, like perhaps no other warrior in the history of Israel.
And the result was something that nobody thought was possible, a complete elimination of potentially one of the biggest and most powerful nuclear weapons anywhere in the world.
And it was going to happen soon.
We were fighting literally for the survival of Israel.
And there's nobody in Israel's history that fought harder or more competently than Bibi Netanyahu.
Despite all of this, I just learned that Bibi has been summoned to court on Monday for the continuation of this long-running.
He has been going through this horror show since May 2020, unheard of.
This is the first time a sitting Israeli prime minister has ever been on trial, politically motivated case concerning cigars, a bug's bunning doll, and numerous other unfair charges in order to do him great harm.
Such a witch hunt for a man who has given so much is unthinkable to me.
He deserves much better than this, and so does the state of Israel.
Biben Netanyahu's trial should be canceled immediately or a pardon given to a great hero who has done so much for the state.
Perhaps there is no one I know who could have worked in better harmony with the president of the United States, me, than Bibi Netanyahu.
It was the United States that saved Israel, and now it is going to be the United States of America that saves Bibi Netanyahu.
This travesty of justice cannot be allowed.
Good for the president, because that is obviously true.
I mean, for people who watch Israeli politics closely, what's happening to Netanyahu is a witch hunt that has been promoted by his political opponents in order to get him off the political stage, thanks to his high levels of success.
Okay, meanwhile, as President Trump moves from victory to victory, and again, the victories are stacking up.
We'll get to more of his victories a little bit later on in the show, including a big one at the Supreme Court.
First, what's going on in New York is quite telling.
The Democratic Party at a loss, at a complete loss for what to do next, thanks to President Trump's victory in 2024 and his string of successes since.
They are now relegated to hoping that the revolutionaries have a plan.
The socialist revolution will be led by, of course, the absolutely brilliant Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, former bartender and empty-headed loon, and now Zoran Mamdani, the victor of the New York Democratic mayoral primary.
So Mamdani, as I've described before, is actually a communist.
He actually believes in nationalization of resources, meaning that the government ought to actually run the businesses.
The government ought to be involved in every aspect of life.
He is Bernie Sanders on steroids with the additional pleasure of also being pro-jihadi as well as pro-transing the kids.
So pretty much every left-wing piece of the Omnicause that you could brag about is something that Mamdani supports.
So Mamdani was recently on ABC 7 in New York, where he explained that actually the best plan would be to take all the money and then just like give it equally to everybody because there's a lot of money for everybody, you know.
I think of the words of Dr. King, who decades ago said, call it democracy or call it democratic socialism.
There must be a better distribution of wealth for all of God's children in this country.
And it gets to the heart of the matter, which is inequality.
And my belief that every New Yorker should have what they need to live a dignified life.
It shouldn't be something that they can be priced out of.
There is enough money for a life of dignity for all people.
It's just a question of whether we have the political will to ensure that that money is being spent on delivering that dignity.
It's just amazing.
It's all about the political will.
See, for the left, it's never about a practical plan that actually succeeds.
It's all about if you only had the will, then reality itself would reshape to meet your demands of it.
All the poor would disappear.
All of the lazy would disappear.
And everybody would simply live in a Garden of Eden.
Apparently, that is how Mamdani does policy.
So Mamdani also recently suggested that his tax plan will involve making everyone who does business in New York pay the New York City income tax rates.
So you wouldn't even be able to move your business out of New York City.
Even if you relocated to Florida, if you were still doing business in New York City, you'd pay New York's tax rate, which all that happens is that people stop doing business in New York City.
That's actually what happens.
And what I've proposed is that we raise $10 billion to pay for our entire economic agenda and start to Trump-proof our city because we know he'll use federal funding as leverage over this city.
And we will do so in two key ways.
The first is to match the state's top corporate tax rate to that of New Jersey.
We are at 7.25%.
They're at 11.5%.
Corporations can pay it over there.
They can pay it over here.
And the beauty of it is that it doesn't just apply to corporations headquartered in New York City.
Because when you say this, people will say, well, they're going to go to Florida.
Wherever you are headquartered, as long as you do business in the state of New York, you are taxable for that corporate tax.
We're talking about corporations that are making millions of dollars, not in revenue, but in profit.
And the second is taxing the top 1% of New Yorkers.
We're talking about people who make a million dollars a year or more, taxing them just by a flat 2% tax increase.
And I know if 50 Cent is listening, he's not going to be happy about this.
He tends to not like this tax policy, but I want to be very clear.
This is about $20,000 a year.
It's a rounding error.
And all of these things together, they make every New Yorker's life better, including those who are actually getting taxed.
Really?
Is that why all those people are going to leave?
Because they will.
They will.
And they'll stop doing business there.
I know this because when we moved our business from California, one of the key reasons we did this was because of the regulation and the tax structure in California.
And Gavin Newsom at the time was threatening something very similar.
He was actually threatening something even crazier.
He was suggesting that if you moved out of California, they would still try to retroactively grab your taxes after you left.
If you left and you'd been a resident of California sometime in the past 10 years, they would still try to tax you as though you were living in California.
It was totally psychotic.
And you know what?
I left and I took my money and I took my company and we took our profit and we went away.
And when you're talking about sophisticated financial players like the ones in New York, if you think those people can't relocate, You're out of your mind.
They obviously can, especially because financial transactions now exist in the cloud.
They exist in the ether.
Those financial transactions can take place cross-nationally with the push of a button.
The idea that Zora Mamdani is going to pin down some of the most sophisticated and rich financial players in New York City and tax them to death, and they won't try to escape in any way is totally insane.
But, you know, again, this is who New York Democrats have decided ought to be, their mayor.
Also, he's very concerned.
He's very concerned about discrimination in the city of New York against Muslims.
Here he was with Jen Saki over on MSNBC.
You know, it's sad in that in one sense, it's unsurprising.
In another, it is still deeply disappointing to see what politics has become in this moment, to have to deal with regular death threats where I'm told that someone is going to blow up my car and is going to kill me and my family and the people that I love.
And I've spoken to many Muslims across this city who have shared that their fear of having to be essentially branded a terrorist just by living in public life is one that keeps them preferring life in the shadows, life outside of that specter.
And this is not the way that we can have our city be.
It's not the way that we can have our country be.
This has to be a place where we understand the mutual belonging of each and every person here, except for the Jews.
He says, by the way, that he will arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he's elected mayor.
And Netanyahu comes to the city of New York.
Jews are going to flee New York City like nobody's business, which may be his plan, actually.
But socialism is so hot right now.
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It is, in fact, as we've been talking about, the triumph of Bernie Sandersism in the Democratic Party.
And Sanders is high on his own supply.
He is just over the moon about all this.
Finally, at long last, at the end of his long chain of uselessness, Bernie Sanders reigns triumphant over the Democratic Party.
Here he was, praising Zoran Mamdani.
Now, I, Chris, would not compare it to Obama or to Clinton.
What Zoran understood is that in order to win, you got to be more than charismatic, and he is.
You got to be more than smart, which he is.
You got to build a strong grassroots movement around a progressive agenda.
He had thousands and thousands of people knocking on doors because they were excited about his message.
Okay, so again, what did he have?
Well, he was very progressive, says Bernie Sanders.
In fact, Bernie is running against the Democratic Party.
Here he was telling Chris Hayes that this is an insurgency against the top levels of the Democratic Party.
Look, what is the Democratic Party today, Chris?
It is, I don't think people can argue with us.
It is funded by very wealthy people.
It is run by inside-the-beltway consultants who really have very little clue about what's going on in the real world.
And that is why I think, sadly, Kamala Harris lost an election that she should have won.
Okay, so again, his claim is that if the Democratic Party goes further and further to the left, they will be more and more successful.
That is his claim.
And that is the claim of many inside the top levels of the radical wing of the Democratic Party.
Mara Gay.
She was out there explaining that actually Zarin Mamdani is unbelievable.
She's a member of the New York Times editorial board saying he did.
He had an unbelievably appealing message to voters.
Sure, that message was, I will just give you free ice cream, like every other person who's ever run for third grade class president, but it was so appealing.
First of all, Assemblyman Momdani did something that Democrats in Washington and across the country have struggled to do of late, which is he simply was clear about where he stands, what he believes, and what he's willing to fight for.
And it was also a really positive vision.
So rather than just bashing Donald Trump or In this case, his mayoral opponent, Andrew Cuomo, he actually talked about the kind of city and the kind of community that he wanted to see.
And that was appealing.
It was attractive to voters.
So, yes, so, so appealing, so attractive.
Tim Walls' daughter is also one of the people who's out there paying homage.
The younger generation, the younger generation, these are the people we need to listen to.
What happened yesterday in New York City happened because progressive policies are popular.
I know it might surprise some people, but feeding kids lunch, providing child care, having accessible and functional public transportation, among many other things, are popular policies everywhere.
They're popular everywhere.
And they're common sense, right?
Like when you think about this country, you think about it's a great place to grow up and raise a family and like build your life, or at least that's how it should be.
And with that comes feeding kids lunch, allowing people to get to and from work in like a timely, efficient, affordable manner, providing people child care while they go to work, right?
All of that is common sense and it's popular.
And I've said this since the beginning, it's all messaging.
It's all messaging, guys.
If you just message socialism in the right way, it'll be great.
We have trained an entire generation of idiots not to understand how markets work, how profit works, how capitalism works, how cost and benefit work, how government programs work.
And because they've been removed from all of it, they now get to sit around and theorize that their magical solutions that they just came up with one second ago, don't you know, that those will all work.
Sure, they've never worked well in the past, but now they will work.
Now they will.
And it's adults like Stephen Colbert leading the way, these past middle-age gray hairs who are still pretending they're cool with the younger set.
And yesterday, in a stunning upset, Democratic socialist Zoran Mamdani won the Democratic mayoral team.
Huge applause.
That's extraordinary.
That's extraordinary.
Mamdani, Mamdani, is now on track to become the city's first South Asian mayor, first Muslim mayor, and the youngest mayor in over a century.
Wow.
Wow.
Well, that's really what matters is his ethnic identity.
And for these people, it actually does.
The fact that he is a radical leftist who believes everything it is possible for radical leftists to believe is the feature, not the bug.
The younger generation of Democrats, again, pushed forward by very rich white far leftists in the media, that younger generation is eating the Democratic Party from the inside out.
It's why there are still some in the Democratic Party who believe that people like Jamal Bowman are the way of the future.
Jamal Bowman was an ally of AOC.
He was ousted, of course, in a Democratic primary, largely because Jews showed up to vote against him because he's a rabid anti-Semite.
But here he is on CNN.
And this person, I promise you, he'll run for Congress again, Jamal Bowman.
And given the trajectory in New York, he could win again, given the trajectory of the left.
He could be back in Congress.
Why not?
Here he was on CNN saying that the reason black people have higher rates of obesity is because of the N-word.
Your colleagues in the Republican Party do not hold each other accountable when it comes to the racism that comes from the party on a consistent basis.
Congressman, I mean, where are you on?
You can't be calm about this.
I'm a black man in America.
The reason why heart disease I'm white, I can't comment.
The reason why heart disease and cancer and obesity and diabetes are bigger in the black community is because of the stress we carry from having to deal with being called the N-word directly or indirectly every day.
If your colleagues would listen and try to learn and engage and grow and stop being so hateful, we could have a better country.
So again, obesity, cancer, heart disease, all because of the N-word.
I'm going to need some stats to back that up, like some causative stats to back that up, that it's racism, people calling people the N-word, which is happening less now than it did in, say, the 1960s.
But the rates of obesity were lower in the 1960s than they are now.
I'm going to need like a connect there from Jamal.
But you know who wouldn't?
Zorin Mamtani.
He would understand that right away.
He would understand the suffering.
He'd do this faux sincerity routine.
He's so sincere.
He's so enthusiastic.
Zorin Mamtani.
We're supposed to believe that he, look at the enthusiasm from this 33-year-old whippersnapper who's, and he's speaking like this because he just, he's so, he knows.
He knows how you feel on the inside.
If this is the thing the Democrats are looking for, man, good luck to them.
Good luck to them.
And again, it's not just, I don't want to pick on Mountani alone.
I'd like to pick on this entire wing of the Democratic Party.
Jasmine Crockett, who's now the hot new thing, right?
Even fresher and even facer than AOC.
Here she was saying she's going to take pride in calling people xenophobic because hell yes.
Hell yes.
This is what the times require.
Yes, we will say people are xenophobic because when you start to decide that just because somebody came from another country, they are automatically some kind of criminal, that does sound kind of xenophobic to me because you are using a paintbrush to paint an entire group of people where the vast majority of them are coming here because they are actually seeking a better life.
Okay.
So if you're in favor of borders now, then you hate everyone who's from a foreign country or something.
This is what the Radical Democrats are standing for.
It's Bernie Sanders with a smattering of ethnic diversity.
And they hope this will be enough to get them over the finish line.
Now, Norman Democrats are looking at this and going, oh no, because they're looking at this and saying, you are fringing yourself out to the kinds of people who are capable of winning a New York mayoral Democratic primary, but who will get clobbered in a national election.
The Washington Post editorial board put out a full editorial titled, Zoran Mamdani's Victory is Bad for New York and the Democratic Party.
Quote, adept at social media and voter mobilization, Mamdani claimed the most first pick votes in the New York Democratic mayoral primary as a leading alternative to Andrew Cuomo.
And by the way, we should point out here that Andrew Cuomo is a terrible candidate.
The original strategy for Andrew Cuomo running for mayor of New York is that Eric Adams would also be in the Democratic primary.
Cuomo would run against Adams.
Everyone would run against Adams, and then Cuomo would win as a sort of default.
And then Adams was smart enough to avoid the Democratic primary, and then all the fire turned on Andrew Cuomo, including from Mom Donny.
It also happens to be the case that Andrew Cuomo is a disgraced former governor of the state, and that Mom Donnie basically just ran directly at him.
Now, that's not to alleviate the radicalism of the Democratic Party base in New York, which has been growing more and more radical every single moment.
But as the Washington Post says, a man who believes that capitalism is theft is in line to lead the country's biggest city and the world financial capital.
His signature ideas are city-owned grocery stores, no bus fares, freezing rent on 1 million regulated apartments, and increasing the minimum wage to $30.
The trade-offs will hurt the people they are supposed to help.
Momdani previously called for defunding and dismantling the police.
And even though he's toned that down, he still opposes hiring more officers.
The candidate acknowledges at least one trade-off, even higher taxes, in a city where they are already hefty.
He wants to impose a 2% annual wealth tax on the richest 1% of New Yorkers.
Again, that is the proposal we're talking about before.
Not 2% of additional income tax.
2% wealth tax, which as we've discussed on the program, is crazy down.
Wealth tax taxes people for unrealized capital gains, among other things, which is just wild.
He also wants to increase the state's corporate tax rate from 7.25% to 11.5%.
So the Washington Post says, should Mom Donnie become mayor, Democrats such as New York governor Kathy Hogle can lead the way in containing him, not Lisa, who does not define their party.
Gubernatorial nominees in Virginia and New Jersey, Abigail Spanberger and Mickey Sherrill, respectively, would be much better representatives of a Democratic brand that still needs to buff out the rough edges of its left wing.
But, you know, it's that last phrase there, buff out the rough edges of the left wing.
That's the problem.
It's not about buffing out the rough edges.
These are revolutionaries who want to eat you.
It is not about how they have rough edges and you can somehow make Mom Danny presentable to the public.
Mom Dani is presentable to the radical wing of your party.
All the stuff that you guys are a little uncomfortable about, all that stuff is a feature of his candidacy, not a bug.
He had every opportunity to walk back his perspective that globalizing the intifada was a worthy goal.
And yet he continues to talk about globalizing the intifada.
It's a feature, not a bug.
So again, this battle is breaking out into the open now.
Abigail Spanberger, who is the gubernatorial nominee for the Democrats in Virginia, which is a purple state at this point, she was asked about Mom Dani and she dodged.
So Congressman, you mentioned affordability as being top of the list there of concerns your constituents have.
The same can be said for New York City and the mayor's race we just saw there with a real progressive, a socialist, capturing the party's nomination.
Republicans have sort of rejoiced at that.
He is obviously far to your left on a number of issues.
Are there things, are you concerned that you'll be painted with that same brush, the sort of liberal socialist out of touch brush?
Or do you think there's room for all these views in the party?
So I do not pretend to know anything about New York City politics or the outcomes of that election.
What I know is my state, the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Okay, so again, she's dodging.
She's not the only one who's dodging.
Representatives Pat Ryan, Josh Riley, Richie Torres, all Democrats from New York, all dodged reporters.
Representative Dan Goldman asked if he had any thoughts on the result.
Told Dax, yes, not right now.
Major Democratic donors are in a state of panic.
They don't know where to put their money.
And all I can say is you lay down with Mom Dani.
You're the one who gets up with whatever you got from him.
Okay, that is your problem.
That is your issue.
You have been flirting with this for a long time.
Chris Cuomo, the brother of Andrew Cuomo, and of course, no great conservative, he came out and declared the Democratic Party dead after Mom Dani's victory.
The Democratic Party is now officially in MAGA mode.
We are now on both sides in a period of extremism.
The same way MAGA played with the prejudices of white nationalism, you're seeing an identical dynamic on the left with prejudices like tacitly supporting extreme Islamism or targeting Jews.
For the right, it's migrants.
For the left, it's Jews.
It's fundamentalist Christians dominating the right.
It's fundamentalist Islamists making headway on the left.
I know that doesn't sound like Democrats, but that party is dead.
What it will be reborn as, we'll see.
Okay, so he's not wrong.
The Democratic Party is absolutely falling apart.
And this is an opening for Republicans.
No question.
Tom Homan, the borders are, he is ready to go up against Mamdani.
Mamdani has vowed that he's going to eject ICE from the city.
He says, fine, you actually try to interfere with law enforcement in your city.
We'll arrest you.
Zorain Mamdani.
So he's saying, I mean, this is incredible.
He's vowed to kick the, quote, fascist ICE out of New York City.
Okay.
So how do you intend to deal with that?
Because I would guess there are going to be a lot of criminals and Iranian cells and whatnot in New York City.
The job's not done there.
What do you say to this guy?
Good luck with that.
No, Trump's him every day, every hour, every minute.
We're going to be in New York City.
Matter of fact, because it's a sanctuary city, President Trump made it clear a week and a half ago.
We're going to double down and triple down sanctuary cities.
If we can't arrest the bad guy in the county jail, one agent arresting one bad guy, they release him in the streets like New York does every day, we've got to send a whole team to look for this guy.
And not only that, we're going to send additional teams to look for all the people they arrest.
We're going to concentrate on sanctuary cities because we know they're releasing public safety threats and national security threats back to the street.
So we know we got a problem there.
So we don't have that problem in Florida with most sheriff's workforce.
So we're going to just double up and triple up on New York.
And not only are we going to send more agents to the neighborhood, we're going to increase work site enforcement tenfold.
If we can't arrest them in the jail, you're going to force them to neighborhood, then we'll find them in the neighborhood.
If we can't find him in the neighborhood, we'll find them at the work site.
So game on.
We're coming.
Okay, so again, the Democrats losing their minds, going far left is a potential massive win for Republicans.
And new analysis of the 2024 election shows this.
It shows that actually President Trump, if the electorate had been even larger, if more people had voted, would still have won and maybe buy more, according to the New York Times.
The new data, including a new study from Pew Research released Thursday, offers a more dispiriting explanation for Democrats.
Young, non-white, and irregular voters defected by the millions to Mr. Trump, costing Ms. Harris both the electoral college and the popular vote.
The findings suggest that Trump's brand of conservative populism once again turned politics as usual upside down, as his gains among disengaged voters deprive Democrats of their traditional advantage with this group, who are disproportionately young and non-white.
For a generation, the assumption that Democrats benefit from high turnout has underpinned the hopes and machinations of both parties, from Republican support for restrictive voting laws to Democratic hopes of mobilizing a new progressive coalition of young, non-white voters.
It's not clear whether Democrats will struggle with the regular voters in the future, but the data nonetheless essentially ends the debate about whether Harris lost because she alienated swing voters or because she failed to energize her base.
In the end, Democrats alienated voters who long-time support they might have taken for granted.
So again, this is a major problem for the Democrats.
If the Democrats continue to move to the left, then they will continue to run away from victory.
People in the middle, disaffected voters are going to leave in droves.
There are now six separate analyses from six different groups about whom 2024 non-voters preferred.
The people who didn't vote.
And the answer ranges from Trump plus 20, that'd be American National Election Study, to Trump plus six, that'd be the New York Times.
So again, non-voters, the people who are less likely to vote actually support.
They are a silent majority, as President Trump has said.
And that silent majority is going to be not so silent, and it's going to get larger and larger the more that Democrats go nuts.
Now, is that something Republicans should root for?
So obviously, you can make the argument that if you're a Republican, you want Democrats to continue following the Bernie Sanders Zorin Mamdani path.
I'm going to make the case that this is a mistake.
The reason I think this is a mistake is that the country is better off when you have two parties that are at least living in the suburbs of reality.
As I've said before, I think President Trump lives full-time in reality.
I think he is a very realistic person who responds to incentive structures.
The problem with the Democratic Party that swings out to the radical left the way that we are watching right now, they could have a George McGovern moment where they just get blown out in 2028, the same way that they got blown out in 1972 when they decided to run on acid and piecenic nonsense from George McGovern.
It's also possible that things could go wrong.
It's a very dangerous game to pick your opponents and hope that those opponents are then going to lose to you.
Sometimes it works, but sometimes it doesn't.
And I would much rather have a Democratic Party living somewhere within the realm of reason where discussions are possible than living in the realm of Columbia University tentifata students running as mayor of New York or president of the United States.
Because my great fear is that in a two-party country, one of those parties has to win.
And if the Republicans fall down in any way, shape or form, this very high-stakes poker right here, if the Republicans fall down in any way, shape or form, you could see a deeply radical, anti-American person become president of the United States.
You could.
It is always a possibility.
Enough dissatisfaction creates backlash, and that backlash can come in some pretty hideous forms, which is why it is so important that Republicans continue to pass the Big Beautiful Bill.
Now, there's a major holdup with regard to the Big Beautiful Bill.
Apparently, the Senate parliamentarian has now decided that there are serious problems with the Big Beautiful Bill.
So there were decisions publicized Thursday from the Senate parliamentarian that affects several major pieces of the Big Beautiful Bill.
The one giant piece of legislation that includes the Trump tax cuts, funding for immigration, funding for a wide variety of priorities.
So again, according to the Senate parliamentarian, the Senate parliamentarian advised that actually several provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill would be subject to a 60-vote threshold if they remain in the bill.
Remember, this is supposed to be passed under reconciliation.
What that means is that because the budget is really, really important, essentially there is a rule in the Senate and the House that you can pass by 51 votes in the Senate, not having to overcome a filibuster, a budget bill.
If there's a bunch of extraneous stuff in the budget bill, then theoretically that could be struck down by the parliamentarian as not really inside the budget and therefore subject to a 60-vote filibuster.
Alrighty, so you're asking, what does the Senate parliamentarian do?
Well, don't ask me, ask my sponsors over it.
Perplexity.
So here's what Perplexity says.
The Senate parliamentarian is the official nonpartisan advisor to the United States Senate on the interpretation and application of Senate rules, precedents, and parliamentary procedure.
The parliamentarian and their staff provide guidance to the presiding officer, Senate leaders, individual senators, and committees on how to conduct Senate business in accordance with established rules and precedents.
Key responsibilities include advising the presiding officer on procedural questions, motions, the appropriateness of amendments or measures.
Now, the parliamentarian's authority is advisory, not binding.
The presiding officer of the Senate, usually a senator or the vice president, formally makes procedural rulings, and the Senate can, in fact, overrule the parliamentarian's advice.
So how does that work?
Well, the presiding officer, in this case, the vice president or the senate majority leader, can choose to ignore the rule by the Senate parliamentarian.
If that happens, then any Democrat can get up and challenge the ruling by raising a point of order.
And then the full Senate votes on the point of order, a 51-vote majority can uphold or overturn the presiding officer's ruling, effectively overturning the parliamentarian's recommendation.
Now, this has only happened quite rarely.
It happened in 1975.
It happened again in 2013 and 2017 when the Senate changed filibuster rules for nominations.
That, of course, is when Democrats did this for judicial nominees to their great detriment, as it turned out.
So the question is, what is the parliamentarian doing?
According to the New York Times, Elizabeth McDonough, the parliamentarian who enforces the chamber's rules, said several of the measures in the Big Beautiful bill that would provide hundreds of billions of dollars in savings could not be included in the legislation in their current form.
So, remember, reconciliation bills also have to be budget neutral.
They're not supposed to be adding to the deficit.
One of the ways that Republicans were going to get around this is through a series of procedural loopholes that allow them to sunset certain provisions and not sunset other provisions, and also some cuts to Medicaid, for example, future spending of Medicaid.
And those cuts would come in the form of work requirements.
And she says, well, that actually is not going to count as a cut, meaning that the Big Beautiful bill will then no longer be budget neutral, which would actually basically kill the bill.
According to McDonough, those measures include one that would crack down on strategies many states have developed to obtain more federal Medicaid funds and another that would limit repayment options for student loan borrowers.
The decisions dealt a blow to Senate Republicans as they attempt to pass the behemoth legislation by President Trump's deadline, which is July 4th is when he wants to get this done by the end of next week.
Party leaders had hoped to begin voting on the bill this weekend in order to allow time for the House to pass it early next week, clearing it for the president's signature.
So she's rejected a bunch of provisions, has McDonough.
Now, again, Republicans don't necessarily have to listen to her.
They could theoretically use what's called the nuclear option here.
It appears that that is not what Jon Thuon, the Senate majority leader, wants to do.
So he put out a statement suggesting that it would not be a good option for getting a bill done to overrule her.
President Trump, of course, is upset.
Senator Tommy Tubberville of Alabama said, the woke Senate parliamentarian who was appointed by Harry Reid and advised Al Gore to struck down a provision banning illegals from stealing Medicaid from American citizens.
This is a perfect example of why Americans hate the swamp.
Now, again, McDonough was, in fact, appointed originally by Harry Reid.
There's no reason she should have continued to serve under Republican administrations or with a Republican majority.
This throws a wrench into the goals here for Senate Republicans.
However, is this going to be the final holdup?
Absolutely not.
Republicans understand this thing has to get passed.
They're going to have to work around this.
Senator Thune is a professional at this.
I would assume he's going to have to come up with some new proposals, new cuts, new changes to the bill that will allow it to pass the muster of the parliamentarian.
So again, the idea that it's going to die, I find that hard to believe considering what a major issue it is for President Trump and also how important it is for the Senate of the United States.
That's particularly true because, again, the biggest thing for President Trump is keeping the economy booming.
It needs to continue booming.
And there are a lot of headwinds.
I mean, the tariff war is a headwind.
President Trump fighting with Jerome Powell is a headwind.
According to the Wall Street Journal, in recent weeks, the president has toyed with the idea of selecting and announcing Powell's replacement by September or October, maybe even by this summer.
Apparently, he's considering former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh and also National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett.
Some people are saying Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant might be up for the job.
Because the new chair wouldn't take office until next May, according to the Wall Street Journal, announcing the pick this summer or fall would be far earlier than the traditional three to four month transition period would basically be Trump saying he has no confidence in Powell, which of course we already know.
However, this sort of fighting is probably not good for the price of the dollar.
The dollar has been weakening steadily.
That is not something that the president needs in the wake of the tariff war itself.
Now, meanwhile, the Republicans do continue to win victories at the executive level.
So you'll see whether they get that victory at the legislative level, at the executive level.
President Trump's cabinet secretaries continue to do an excellent job.
Secretary of Education, Lyndon McMahon, came out this week and said that the Department of Education has found California in violation of Title IX for saying that boys can play sports against girls.
Well, I can announce, you know, today, Ainsley, that the Department of Education has found that the state of California, the Department of Education and their Interscholastic Sports Federation is in violation of Title IX.
We are giving them 10 days to remedy that situation.
We have remedy for them.
But if they do not comply within 10 days, then we will refer this to the Department of Justice.
So, again, that is the right move.
The executive branch continues to try to clean itself out.
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright is doing the same.
He's trying to make it easier to drill.
He's trying to make it easier to solidify the power grid, bring down the price of electricity, which is really important if we're going to win the AI war against China.
Here he was talking about Joe Biden's terrible energy policy.
During the Biden administration, for four years, we were on a course, almost no growth in electricity production, 25% price rises, which made Americans angry, helped elect President Trump.
But we were on a course that was a train wreck.
We would continue to see rapid rises in electricity in the next few years, and we would lose the AI race because you wouldn't be able to bring the extra juice you need to build all those data centers here in the country.
Thank God President Trump was elected.
So we're doing everything possible now to sweep out the nonsense, but a lot of nonsense was in there.
For example, in my department, we've issued four emergency orders just in the last few weeks to stop the closure of reliable plants so we can keep the lights on and stop pushing up electricity prices.
So, again, I think that the executive branch is doing a good job of cleaning itself out.
That's also true with regards to USAID.
Shocking report out of the Daily Wire from Luke Roziak.
Apparently, President Biden's USAID awarded an $800 million contract to a business operating at a Virginia home, even after it formally ruled that its key manager lacked honesty or integrity.
A reference to the fact that according to a May 12th guilty plea, he had secured USAID contracts through bribery for a decade.
That contract was for addressing issues affecting the root causes of irregular migration from Central America to the United States.
That was the work that Biden assigned to VP Harris, but which she never did anything about, according to the Daily Wire.
The Department of Justice announced on Friday that Walter Barnes III, the founder of government contractor Vistund, previously known as PM Consulting Group, or PMCG, and Roderick Watson, a USAID contracting official, pled guilty to a bribery scheme in which Barnes and two others conspired to pay Watson a million dollars in exchange for $544 million in contracts.
What has not yet been reported is that the Biden administration continued to steer contracts to this company even after it knew of the massive corruption.
The migration contract, even larger than the $544 million in the indictment, and others that are still active.
This is insane, obviously.
This is the kind of thing that President Trump is seeking to kill.
All that's going to be popular.
Shutting the border is going to be popular.
His Middle East work is going to be popular and the left continues to pursue radical leftist causes.
The economy must hold up.
It must.
If the economy collapses, it is a disaster area opening the door to a far worse disaster in the form of radical Democrats taking power.
That is why the Senate needs to pass that big, beautiful bill as soon as humanly possible.
We need to come to a conclusion in this trade war, particularly with our allies while still attempting to box in China.
There's a lot to do and not a lot of time to do it.
Alrighty, coming up, we'll talk about a big win for the right at the Supreme Court again.
Remember all the people who are saying Amy Coney Barrett is bad and all that?
No, that's not how that works.
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