Dave Rubin analyzes John Fetterman's June 16, 2025, confrontation on Bill Maher's show, where the Pennsylvania senator criticized Democrats over Israel and border security despite his stroke recovery. The discussion contrasts Fetterman's conservative shift with left-wing accusations against Donald Trump, refutes Tucker Carlson's claims about Netanyahu ordering U.S. military action, and examines the "No Kings" protests fueled by figures like Jamie Raskin. Rubin further addresses the Minnesota shootings of Melissa Hortman and John Hoffman, arguing against narratives of DOJ bias while condemning Antifa violence and AI-generated protest imagery, ultimately suggesting these events highlight a deepening ideological fracture within American politics. [Automatically generated summary]
It's obviously what's going on in the Middle East and obviously the fires that are burning here quite literally in the United States of America.
We're going to backdrop that with some usual stuff on the left.
And then I'm gonna do something a little bit different today and it's been, I would say, And I have tried my best to stay out of some of the fights on the right because I always, you know my feelings.
Wide tent.
Let's find friends.
Let's find common cause.
But sometimes, you know, unfortunately over the years, we saw that the left never knew when to sort of stop its worst elements.
I think we have a version of that brewing on the right right now, so we're gonna get into that.
But we will start, because it is Monday, we're doing a little Mondays with Mar, and John Fetterman, the last quarter, A man who pretty much had brain damage two years ago.
As the brain has healed, he has become more conservative.
I would say he's just kind of an old-school liberal.
He's still off on a bunch of stuff.
But he's trying, at least, to not be a completely insane Democrat.
Now, again, I want to preface this by saying this is the sanest man in the Democrat Party, and it's really not even close.
And you can see he still has some issues with speaking.
I don't know what his full political identity actually is, but I will give credit where it is due, which is when you have a group of crazy people and you're trying to say to them, guys, let's be a little less crazy.
Even if I disagree with you on a bunch of other stuff, I'll give you some credit for that.
Now, look.
As it pertains to whether Iran should have a bomb or anything else or what Israel should do or what America could do, there's many different arguments that we all can make.
Israel, like any other country, if they feel they have an existential threat on their border, if one nuke gets dropped on Israel, it's the size of Jersey, it's all over.
They have a regime there and ayatollahs who not only are always chanting death to Israel, but also death to America and death to Britain, etc., etc.
But Israel is the closest to them, and they've made it their way.
The reason for existence, the regime and the Mullah's reason for existence, has been to blow apart Israel.
I've checked videos of the 70s, of what it was like to be in Iran before the Ayatollah came in.
But I would say that And that goes for Israel, that goes for America in terms of whether it wants to help or not.
It goes for all of the Gulf states that are in the midst of all of this and everything else.
So Fetterman's taking the position that is no longer the position of the Democrat Party, which is basically, we gotta help Israel.
That's like kind of the bumper sticker version of it.
What that has done as Fetterman He was also very and has been very outspoken when it comes to getting the hostages back, particularly the Americans.
He started getting his own insurrection literally in his office.
He had staff members, including I think it was his chief of staff, turning on him because not only it was about Israel, but it was also because he wanted to defend the American border.
Again, this is basic stuff that most Democrats would have been for 20 years ago.
Now he's the outlier and he had his own insurrection.
And I have certainly seen people who refuse to go all the way with the purity lovers on the left suddenly castigated and cast out and attacked like this.
Parts of my party just wants to turn me into a Colonel Kurtz, you know, and just claim that it's like, oh, I'm just like a...
So, really, that would happen after Israel and after the border, and some of the times I might have to disagree with my party, and that's really brought us to that place where, you know, just that kind of a canceling was a little bit a different thing, but now we've all moved on from that, but absolutely, that's the truth.
Okay, so the interesting part of that, as Bill points out, do you remember when Fetterman was running?
I'm a Floridian, but, you know, we get involved in all of these things.
And I've subsequently become quite good friends with Dr. Oz.
I think he's an amazing human being.
And I think he would be largely the same.
On all the issues that Fetterman is good about, say, border Israel, etc., Oz would be there, obviously.
But it was up for the people of Pennsylvania to decide.
But do you remember, during that election two-plus years ago, how everybody on the left, when guys on our side were saying there's something wrong with this guy, obviously the stroke, his inability to speak, etc., When we were going after him for that, they were all saying, no, no, no, it's all not true.
And here he is talking about how the Democrat values have changed and Marr giving him some credit for sitting down and trying to talk to an orange man every now and again, which is something that I think Bill knows a little something about.
Yeah, and you also, I think, I don't know if you had dinner with Steve Bannon, but he was at your table or something at a restaurant that the MAGA people go to.
You can't sit at the same lunch table with these people?
Well, I mean, it's like when I first got into my career, people assumed I was a socialist or a Marxist, and now people think that I'm going to turn into MAGA and I'm going to go this other way.
And I'm like, no, my values haven't changed.
But I think in some cases, I think our party's values have changed.
The values that you actually hold dear, it is very clear to me, have way more in common with MAGA.
Also, there's no need to mince words around.
So whether you met Manon or not, it was a friend that was sitting there or whatever, and I was glad that Bill was like, but you could have dinner with him, right?
Because that's the exact same thing I did with Bill Maher almost three years ago now during Club Random.
When I said to him, what would happen if you showed up at a Trump rally versus an AOC rally?
And he knew it.
I'm telling you, you know when you're with someone and you make a point and you see the light go off in their head.
Saw his eyes go like this because it was like he suddenly realized it was a perfect example.
Wow, I would be more welcomed at a Trump rally than an AOC rally, and now look where Bill Maher is.
So, okay, so what we've done here is something that we consistently do on this program, which is acknowledging when the left goes too far, even if they can't do it themselves.
After the break, we will talk a bit about when the right goes too far, and let's see what the reaction will be to that.
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I've known we've had some differences here and there.
It never really mattered, particularly when I first went on his show.
Many years ago now, we had a lot of differences, because I was still a lefty, and I was speaking about free speech, and that's why he was interested in having me on.
I'll never forget the first time I got the call to be on his show, the number one show in late night, and it was still kind of relatively early on in my career.
Tucker blurbed my book, Don't Burn This Book.
Can someone grab the copy?
Someone grab me a copy of it?
I think it's the top one on there, if I'm not mistaken.
He blurbed my book when he came into my studio the first time.
When he came into my studio in LA the first time, he opened up the door.
I think I wrote about this in the second book.
He opened up the door to my garage and he walked in and I think his exact words were, holy fucking shit, you did it.
Meaning I was independent and I had built a TV quality studio and he really admired that.
Yeah, it's not the top one here, but he wrote, Dave Rubin is one of the bravest, smartest people I know, as well as a tremendous television presence.
Okay, so what I'm about to do, in some sense, brings me no pleasure, but at some point, we have to call balls and strikes on our side, too.
And for the last year, and maybe a little bit more than a year, since Tucker's gone independent, there's been a lot of goodness there.
He broke out of that TV box, right?
The TV box keeps the lanes like this, and it was kind of very, very narrow like this, and everyone kind of knew what they were getting from Tucker.
And then he went into the online world, and I think those lanes disappearing, Has caused his aim to go all over the place.
So I am not going to sit here.
I'm really going to try to sit here.
I'm really going to not try to sit here and attack him personally.
I'm going to try to attack the ideas.
I know the internet is not that friendly to those sort of things.
But here we go, because as it's pertained now to what's happened with Israel and Iran, he So I want to read this tweet from Tucker Carlson from over the weekend.
He wrote, On that list, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Rupert Murdoch, Ike Perlmutter, and Miriam Adelson.
At some point, they will all have to answer for this, but you should know their names now.
Okay, so look, there's a couple things here.
First off, how does Tucker Carlson know who Donald Trump is taking phone calls with?
I'll get to the specifics of the issue he's bringing up in a second.
But that means that somebody in the White House is leaking Donald Trump's calls to Tucker Carlson.
And Tucker Carlson has no problem then exposing that information.
He's not just hiding it for himself with a source in the White House.
He's then putting it out there.
So Trump, number one, needs to figure out who's leaking his phone calls.
The President of the United States is allowed to take phone calls with whoever he wants.
But someone in his office is leaking that information to Tucker, and then Tucker is putting that out there.
Is that what a friendly does?
So that's one issue, and Trump better be aware of that.
You don't want, whether leaks are going to the New York Times or to Tucker Carlson, you don't want leaks.
And 45 version of Trump had a lot of problems with that.
47 hasn't, but that seems like a huge, huge problem.
How does Tucker know who's telling him?
Oh, by the way, Tucker, you're not going to believe who Trump talked to today.
Well, I didn't have that information.
Did you have that information?
Did the New York Times have that information?
How do you know the contents of the call?
Did they all ask for the exact same thing?
Now, as it pertains to sort of the broad idea here, the idea, can you put the tweet up for just a second?
Because the idea here that you're either for war, you're either a warmonger and you casually encourage violence, or you're a peacemaker is kind of crazy.
You know, Libertarian 101, something that most people sort of grow out of.
If you just say you want peace, that doesn't bring you peace.
There are bad guys in the world.
Do you believe that there is good and bad?
I have no doubt that Tucker does believe there is good and bad.
If you believe there is good and bad and there is a nation that has made its reason for existence to destroy you and says that loudly and says we're trying to get the weapons to do so.
Oh, and our proxy armies like Hezbollah and Hamas and the Houthis, they've been bombing you.
You might take it seriously.
You might take it doubly seriously if you're a nation that was born out of the ashes of the Holocaust, right?
So it's a very, it's like a mnemonic trick that he's doing that I think a lot of people unfortunately fall for, which is that you're either a war maker or a peacemaker.
Actually, it's the people who believe in peace through strength.
Winston Churchill, Ronald Reagan.
Like, if you act strongly, then people are afraid to get you.
And it's really unfortunate that Tucker is trying to dumb things down for his audience in that sense.
But I want to read you one that I think is even more nefarious in some sense.
This is from Tucker's newsletter over the weekend.
This could be the final newsletter before all-out war.
I'm going to skip the first two paragraphs.
You can read them if you want, but I want to get into the...
He wrote, earlier this week, unnamed Washington sources expressed concerns over Israel's ability to fend off retaliation, which would inevitably lead to Benjamin Netanyahu ordering the American military to step in and fight on his country's behalf.
Connor, leave that up for a second.
What Tucker is saying right there.
Is that Donald Trump is not in charge of the American military.
What he is saying is which would inevitably lead, those are his editorial words there, to Benjamin Netanyahu ordering the American military to step in and fight.
Benjamin Netanyahu, whether you like Benjamin Netanyahu or whether you hate Benjamin Netanyahu or anything else, he's the Prime Minister of Israel.
He is not in charge of America.
And if you think that he's in charge of Donald Trump somehow, Then, Tucker, you have a much bigger issue with Donald Trump right now.
And that's obviously not true.
This idea that Israel and the Jews run the world, it's so fucking boring.
It's actually boring and dumb.
Yes, the country and the people who rule the world are the one country.
That have had their borders ransacked and 2,000 of their people killed less than two years ago and rockets constantly falling into their territory and hostages who are held under Gaza even right now.
we're gonna get to what they're doing on the streets and all those things, but we know their numbers are dumping out.
But the number one threat, it seems to me, Doesn't mean you have to be for war.
Have you ever once on this show ever heard me call for a war with Iran?
Now, would I, I don't have a problem, as I said, with Israel doing what it thinks it has to do existentially, which is the same thing I would say about every other nation.
If Turkey every day was threatening Greece with nukes and throwing rockets in and had I would say to Greece, you've got to do what you've got to do.
And that would go for any other country.
Whether America should help in a defensive posture or just sort of a moral posture at the UN, those are secondary issues.
And I do think you should help your allies when it comes to those types of things.
But anyway, check this out from The Atlantic.
This is Trump's response.
Trump told me he had not heard Carlson's comments and then dismissed them.
He argued that the U.S. has a vital national security interest in preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons.
For months before Israel's attacks this week, Trump had privately and publicly urged Israel to give time for negotiations with Iran and not launch any attacks.
Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb, very simple.
Regardless, Israel or not Israel, Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb, Trump told me.
When I caught Donald Trump by phone this morning, the president wanted to make one thing clear.
America first means whatever he says it does.
Well, considering that I'm the one that developed America first and considering that the term wasn't used until I came along, I think I'm the one that decides that, Trump told me.
For those people who want to say Peace.
Who say they want peace?
You can't have peace if Iran has a nuclear weapon.
So for all of those wonderful people who don't want anything, want to do anything about Iran having a nuclear weapon, that's not peace.
His remarks were a response to my question about critics, such as Tucker Carlson, who have loudly argued against U.S. support of Israel during its attacks on Iran as an anathema to the America First way of doing things.
Over the course of the conversation, the president defended his efforts to bring an end to multiple conflicts, despite growing Trump is the leader of America First.
Trump is the leader of MAGA.
And Trump also understands peace through strength.
If the Mullahs got a nuke, and now there was just an endless nuclear standoff over there, what do you think the other Gulf countries would think?
What would it signal?
it would signal, well, we played video last week of a Saudi Arabian leader talking about how they would then have to get nukes, right?
So in some sense, Israel is doing the dirty work.
And for Tucker to be trying to, What would you say?
He's trying to wedge...
And Trump will have to confront that at some point.
I think his messaging there was quite good.
But speaking of quite good, Scott Jennings, you know, the one sane guy over on CNN, is actually in Israel right now.
Like everyone else, he's trapped there.
There are no flights going in or out of Israel right now.
He tweeted this, and you'll see it's related to some of this.
My thoughts from Jerusalem.
Israel is on the brink of remaking the Middle East and ending the biggest sponsor of radical Islamic terrorism in the world.
Trump's strategic part in this move was brilliant.
Trump has stated correctly that there can be no peace if Iran obtains a nuclear weapon.
This is a tenet of America First foreign policy.
The Iranian terror regime has never been weaker, thank you Israel.
The chance to end them as a destabilizing force cannot be missed.
In my opinion, Trump would be justified in taking out the Fordo nuclear enrichment facility.
It would be a righteous decision.
And if he does it, no question in my mind that he would deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.
This is a once-in-a-generation chance to make the world safer and defend Western civilization.
Bomb Fordo.
Destroy the Iranians.
Okay, so look, I'm ambivalent as whether it comes we should be bombing Forda or not.
I think Israel can do it alone.
And again, if we can just offer them military support, if they need some defensive posturing, fine.
I don't know that we have to go on the offensive, but that's Scott Jennings' position on that.
But what is America first?
What did Trump say when he went to Saudi Arabia, you know, a month and a half ago?
He didn't say you all have to bow to us.
He didn't say you all have to live like us.
He said we are going to represent Western values and success and capitalism.
And if you want to join us, that will be great.
But you can't be constantly fighting everybody while you're doing that and causing terrorism and everything else.
So the Saudis, the UAE, even Qatar, everyone is coming in that direction.
And then there's Iran, which refuses to.
So you don't have to like what's happening now or anything else.
To play the duplicitous game, unfortunately, that I think Tucker is playing is really dangerous.
I would also just say quickly, since we're going with this, that I did a few weeks ago reach out to Tucker.
He had constantly been attacking Ben Shapiro, repeatedly, and since I am friends with both of them and both of their names are on the back of this book, I reached out to Tucker personally.
I said, hey, I would love to moderate a debate with you guys.
Tucker said to me, He said, well, are you neutral on the topic?
I said, look, I'm not neutral on anything.
I have opinions on everything, just like you do.
But I know I can be fair.
I don't think anyone's ever accused Dave Rubin of not being a fair moderator or arbiter in these things.
Ben immediately said yes, and Tucker said no.
So I'm just putting that out there.
I also then invited Tucker to come on the show, and I said I'd go on his show to talk about any of these things.
Now let's get to a little bit more of what Trump is actually doing, because I do think it is America first to care about American interests, which are Western interests, and peace in the world.
You cannot have peace in the world if you have a group of people who are, in essence, a religious death cult wishing death on America, right?
America, big Satan.
Here's Trump on CNN saying that some of the Iranians who he was talking to, well, he's not going to have to talk to them anymore.
They didn't get vaccine injured, the Iranian nuclear scientists and people who were trying to figure out how they were going to get their nukes onto the ballistic missiles and everything else.
And again, this is Trump at his best, and this is him defining what America First is.
Let's also not forget that last week we read you the Truth Social post where Trump said, look, these guys have 60 days, and this all went down on day 61. So whether him and Bibi were playing some game like we're going to let the 60 days go out and we're going to do this either way because they didn't feel they were...
There obviously is a layer of coordination.
And again, that's the layer of coordination that me, as someone that is America first and that isn't American first, I'm okay with.
They could use a little defensive support with these rockets that are blowing up Tel Aviv right now.
That would be nice if America could maybe help.
Just blow up some rockets.
That's purely defensive posturing.
And then you offer support at the UN and these other corrupt organizations, the ICC, and these ridiculous globalist organizations.
That is very different.
And that orders the world properly.
That's the leadership that all of the other world, having just been to Europe and been to Peterson's art conference in February and meeting all these people over the world, everyone just wants America to lead properly.
If it's not us, it's going to be somebody else.
And even as all this is happening right now, here's Trump doing what Trump does, which is hoping that there will be a deal.
Not only with all of the border stuff and the deportations, but what is he even saying there?
Like, he'd like a deal.
Sometimes you have to fight it out, right?
Sometimes you can't quite get there, and then that's the purpose of a military.
Again, that's the purpose of peace through strength.
If you're just the peacemaker.
You're going to end up beheaded.
That's just reality, right?
We would all like everybody to wander around having their perfect, and this is what I think Tucker is sort of lost in right now, like the perfect libertarian principles.
Like, oh, these people, they're committed to destroying us.
They want to build the weapons to destroy us.
They've been shooting rockets at us.
Iran also tried to assassinate Donald Trump.
They've had terrorism throughout South America and Europe and all of these things.
You know, the Hezbollah killed, what, 200, what was it, 220?
Many Americans in the Lebanon barracks, you know, 1983 or so.
Well, okay, you could keep saying you're for peace, but you know who is for peace?
It's the person that will stand up for himself and basically say, don't F with me.
So here's some evidence, though, because for the person that might be a little caught in the thing that Tucker is selling, this idea that somehow Israel is in charge, that Bibi is in charge, and that it's just a joy for them every day to wake up to the rockets and not be able to get their hostages out and all of those things.
A little bit of evidence that Trump is actually in charge and it's not Israel.
That President Trump did, in fact, in the last couple of days, nix a plan that the Israelis were putting together to assassinate the supreme leader of Iran.
So we can put a bow on that as President Trump prepares to come and join us here in Canada.
And he is telegraphing the way that he will frame this fight between Israel and Iran once he meets with the other G7 leaders.
Part of a long-truth socialization.
We will have peace soon between Israel and Iran.
Many calls and meetings now taking place.
I do a lot and never get credit for anything, but that's okay.
Donnie, I'm trying to give you a little credit here.
Could somebody get this over to the White House?
Tucker, if you've got your insider at the White House who's leaking things, could you actually send them this video?
Because I'm trying to give Don a little credit here.
And he does deserve credit.
So apparently, we've told them, don't take out the Ayatollah right now.
But the point is, the point of the statement is, if you actually take out the military weaponry that has been the threat, and again, it's a threat for all of the Gulf states.
That's why Jordan and Saudi Arabia and Egypt and everybody.
That's why they're not jumping in on this.
In the old days, they might have, and this has happened many times, 1967, 1973.
In the old days, they might have all been like, ah, see, Israel's on the ropes, let's all get in on it.
But nobody thinks Israel's the enemy anymore.
They're a tiny little country that just wants to be left alone.
And now, I thought this was great, and this really gets to the heart of what proper America first, or you could say any country first policy should be.
Every leader that is elected in a democratic nation has the Duty and responsibility to defend their country.
And sometimes when you have countries that are friends, whether it's America and Canada having a little squabble or America and Israel having a little squabble or anything else, you're going to have to battle it out and you'll see some of those battles.
So Netanyahu went on Bret Baier's show on Fox yesterday and here he is fully talking about how Trump's going to make the best decisions for America and he's going to make the best decisions for Israel.
You hope that those things are in line, but sometimes they won't be.
I mean, there were reports that President Trump kind of helped you achieve your strategic surprise by publicly urging you not to attack when he already knew you had decided to do it.
So you were closely coordinating with the U.S. throughout this process.
Look, we're fully coordinated, but understand that America, under President Trump, will make the decisions that are best for America.
And that's the way it is.
he understands that I, as the Prime Minister of Israel, the one and only Jewish state, must make the decisions that are important for the survival of my country, and he will do what is best for America.
That is a relationship of mutual respect and mutual confidence.
And the hope, if you're a Western-loving person, is that largely the Western democracies, and that's why Western democracies don't go to war with each other, that their basic values are lined up properly.
Now, that doesn't mean you agree on absolutely everything.
So if the previous report from Peter Doocy is true, that the Americans are basically like, don't take out the Ayatollah, Israel may want to, then okay, there can be a little tension there.
But you don't just, it's like a relationship with anyone, it's a friendship.
So there's Netanyahu saying, yeah, I'm the prime minister of my country.
Trump is the president of his country.
we both have to do what the right thing is.
Hopefully those things are in some sort of congruence with each other.
Here he is, Netanyahu, also talking about what could happen after this.
'Cause if you take out the big Nobody wants regime change in the old sense.
Oh, we're going to send in all of these people, and we're going to force these people to live our way.
But what has happened in Iran is extraordinary, and we don't talk about it enough, and we should get somebody on, maybe later this week, an Iranian expert, to talk about the Iranian people don't want to be living under the mullahs.
The Iranians used to be a liberal, in some sense, Western country where women were on the beaches in bikinis and then they all got stuffed in burqas.
That's not what they want.
So the people have an opportunity to step up, step up right now.
Here is Netanyahu on what could happen if the regime falls.
Well, the out would be, now that the nuclear stuff is basically taken care of, there's still some issues with Fordo and some of the other places, but the scientists are, for the most part, dead.
The military infrastructure is somewhat dead.
If Iran, if the mullahs cared, if Khomeini wanted to survive right now, what would you do?
Well, you might go into exile in Russia and just say, I got to get out of here.
But instead, what they've chosen to do Interestingly, Israel is attacking military infrastructure.
Every missile that Iran is shooting is designed to kill as many civilians as it can.
And I think they killed nine people in Tel Aviv yesterday, literally like a quarter of a mile away from the hotel that we were staying at just last week.
And suddenly the people who were very upset about civilians being killed don't have a word to say.
I think you can figure out the hypocrisy there.
I wanna jump to my friend, Charlie Kirk, because I think he's been, well, I think he explains what America First is quite well.
And here he is talking about the complex nature of what's happening right now, because we want to defend American interests.
We know Iran is not good, but what do we want to do with some involvement?
So without lying about what's going on, as some people might be doing, here's a more, I would say, nuanced approach to how America First should look at all of this.
When we deal with these situations, I can tell you how a lot of people in my generation view this especially, especially first-time Trump voters and MAGA voters on these college campuses.
They don't want a weak America.
They don't want an isolationist America.
They want America first, not America only.
But there is this hesitation.
That sometimes there is an oversimplification of how these things will turn out.
That we'll be greeted as liberators or that the country is always primed for Western values.
And I think the last 20 years in the Middle East should just have us take a breath and say, maybe it's not that simple.
We should defend our interests.
We should defend our allies, but being offensive could come with a great deal cost and consequences.
And I could tell you one of the driving forces of the MAGA movement the last decade since President Trump went down that escalator is a asymmetrical and heterodox critique of foreign policy.
And one that I think President Trump's going to continue throughout this entire conflict.
But it shouldn't be somebody who's leaking your secret phone calls.
What he says there is As it pertains to the young people, these first-time Trump voters.
And we know there's a generational shift happening right now.
They don't want a weak America.
They don't want an isolationist America.
They do want America to lead.
But yes, we shouldn't just go into places and just blow things up hoping that we'll be greeted as liberators.
That's not how it works.
Libya is basically a failed state.
Iraq is kind of a failed state.
Syria is largely a failed state.
Syria, which actually is now letting Israel use its airspace, which is quite interesting also.
That would have never happened.
Afghanistan, basically a failed state.
So Charlie is absolutely right.
We want American leadership.
He talked about defensive posture and you can help your allies, but we should be wary of what happens on the other side.
And that is completely right.
And by the way, this is what will be left in the hands of the Iranian people.
If the regime falls, and if Netanyahu's right, about 80%, and I've heard this from many sources, about 80% of the Iranians are not for the mullahs.
They are not for living like this.
They have a leader living in exile right now.
If they can take their country back, They'll have it back.
And then, can you imagine then the amount of money that will pour in to help rebuild it because they have westernized and modernized and decided to join the rest of the Middle East that is going in that direction?
That is the unique opportunity right now.
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All right, so from I would say a story that I had to really slog through there that in some sense brings me no pleasure, the Tucker portion of it.
Let's talk to something like this is just...
These people are so stupid.
I've been trying to explain to them how stupid they are for quite some time, but they just keep getting stupider.
Check this out from Amuse on X. Gaza, a cabal of pro-Palestinian NGOs bankrolled by a network of radical far-left NGOs, all ultimately tracing their funding to George Soros' Open Society's foundations, orchestrated a reckless stunt sending 100 helpless activists from the US, Canada, and Europe to Egypt to stage a provocative march on Gaza.
Spearheaded by the extremist groups Code Pink and Palestinian Youth Movement, these agitators naively believed they could waltz into a volatile region with their performative activism.
Instead, they were met with the harsh reality they refused to anticipate.
Egyptian authorities and local Islamists who view their Palestinian causes synonymous with terrorism didn't roll out the welcome mat.
The activists were brutally attacked, beaten, whipped, stripped of their passports, and forcibly deported in a humiliating rout.
This fiasco exposed Okay, so we're going to get more into this.
But I think we've done this enough that you guys get what the map looks like.
Can we maybe pull a quick map of the Middle East?
I'm gonna pull an audible on you guys.
But basically, everyone says that Israel is in blockade of Gaza, except Gaza not only was part of Egypt before 1967, but Gaza has a massive border with Egypt.
The Egyptians built the giant wall.
We've shown you the giant wall.
They had a wall that was dozens of feet high, that was concrete and barbed wire and all this crazy stuff.
I went to the border with Israel and they had basically a chain link fence They have locked their border down.
And these Western dingbats, like these queers for Palestine and all of these Marxist morons from all of these countries, they went to Egypt.
Thinking that Egypt was just going to let them wander.
They were going to land in Cairo, wander casually through Sinai, and show up in Egypt, and they were going to let them do it.
So Israel is so big that you can't even fit one letter of it on the map there, right?
So Israel is the tiny little thing there.
You can see how—okay, so now you're zooming in a little bit.
Gaza is the tiny, tiny little white strip that you see there.
So that's how small we're talking about.
Look how huge Iran is.
Egypt, Libya, etc.
So they thought they were going to land in Egypt, wander through Sinai.
Sinai is that big shape thing that's right between Egypt and Israel there.
They were going to wander through there and then look at the border between Egypt and Israel, which in essence, there's the Gazan border is right there.
Well, the Egyptians were not having it, and Connor, I wish we had thought of this earlier.
I would have liked to have put sort of clown or Benny Hill type music to this, but here are a bunch of Egyptians smacking the shit out of these Western dingbats.
Like, it's just the perfect everything as it relates to the stupidity of the left, the suicidal empathy of these Western morons, the reality of how it works in the Middle East.
From Western morons trying to save the Palestinians to Western morons trying to burn down America, we will have a bit on the No Kings protests that took place across the country, but first, Morgan& Morgan.
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All right, so let's talk about the No Kings protest.
This was a giant, what appears to be NGO, left-wing funded No Kings protest that magically appeared out of nowhere, right?
We didn't have a king before these protests.
We still don't have a king, so I'm not sure it really worked out.
But a bit on this No Kings protest, quote from Fox News.
Thousands of people are expected to rally in hundreds of cities across America on Saturday to protest the Trump administration and counter the president's military parade in Washington, D.C. to mark the army's 250th birthday.
Today is also Flag Day, which commemorates the adoption of the U.S. flag on June 14, 1777.
The counter-protesters are framing their demonstrations under the slogan, No Kings, describing it as a day of defiance against Trump and his allies, while other have been calling for the president to be dethroned.
Those of us who aspire and attain the public office are nothing but the servants of the people.
And the moment that somebody in public office begins to act like the master of the people, that is the moment to evict, eject, reject, impeach, try, convict, and start all over again.
Well, thankfully, Jamie Raskin, all of those things are just happening in your imagination.
Those are not real things.
Donald Trump was elected by most of us.
Connor just checked it in case I just was having a fever dream.
He was elected.
He's not doing any of those things.
And when you talk about no kings, no slaves, no masters, no serfs, I'm fairly certain it's you guys who keep saying you want the illegals here to pick our crops.
That would kind of be like a slave-surf situation.
That's on you guys.
But okay, that's one version of sort of the crazy with these people.
Another version is this woman.
Randy Weingarten.
She is the head of the teachers union.
She has been in charge of destroying the minds of more young people than probably anyone in the country.
She is a hysterical, psychotic woman who we all decided before the show looks like a chipmunk.
If you put a chipmunk on meth, this is what you get.
Is there just a number you call in the government?
Is there just a basic government phone number where you could call?
Do you know that the congressman from California slept with a Chinese spy?
Could somebody, I don't know, just...
You see, I was a little 50-50 on showing you this clip, because what the left has done, between people like Randy Weingarten, who take generations of children and break their brains and make them thinking that they're living in this horrible place, and then people like Raskin and Swalwell, who tell you that Hitler's in charge, They have broken brains.
We have a mass mental health crisis in this country, Women are a little more sensitive to feelings, right?
Facts don't care about your feelings.
Women generally care about people.
Men care about things.
That's a broad way of talking about it.
And they have broken the brains of so many people.
So we're just going to show you this one video.
And there were so many of these.
There were so many of these.
But I think it perfectly encapsulates what they have done to so many Americans and how dangerous it is.
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Well, just look.
I just, I just, I'm just so scared.
I'm 74 years old.
I worry about everything.
And I just, I just, I just am so scared and upset.
And I don't, and I don't understand why people didn't vote in for this.
Okay, so I don't want to make fun of the woman specifically.
Did that while the clip was playing with the guys in studio.
I feel for these people because she's 74 years old.
America is getting stronger.
law and order is getting stronger.
Ma'am, I would imagine that you don't want, I don't think you want your grandchildren to be hooked on fentanyl.
You probably care about law and order.
But what they have done through, again, Randy Weingarten, through lying about everything, through breaking brains through COVID, and all of these things, they've left it so that what I suspect is probably a perfectly fine woman is now crying at a rally to stop a king who was just elected.
Okay, so that account that put the text up there is obviously an Antifa account.
They don't like that.
ISIS out there or whoever's out there with guns.
Except you're taking over the streets.
You're throwing firecrackers into buildings.
You're burning things down.
You're taking over federal courthouses.
We showed you last week in Seattle.
You guys literally took the American flag down from a federal building in Seattle and put up the Palestinian flag.
You're doing things that are illegal.
And eventually, enough sane people are like, could you stop doing that?
We might have to shoot you.
But Eric Swalwell, who you showed a minute ago, we showed you a minute ago, who said that Trump is Hitler, like he's trying.
Once again, to get Donald Trump killed.
They've tried it for a long time.
There's nothing that would make Eric Swalwell happier.
Here he is.
This is another strange thing the Democrats have been doing.
We've shown you a couple of videos in the last few weeks of Teemu Obama doing this, where they're very upset that the ICE guys come in masked.
And the reason the ICE guys come in masks is because there is such a situation as it relates to swatting and exposing these people that if they were to come in without masks on, now ironically, they're all wearing the masks of terrorists.
They don't mind hiding their identity.
But if the ICE guys were to do that, it's not because they're protecting themselves.
They're protecting their families from these Antifa terrorist wackos.
But here's Swalwell, and he's not happy about that.
And I think as Democrats, I've heard from enough colleagues that when we're in the majority, when it comes to ICE enforcements, we are going to require them to show their faces for the safety of every American.
But also, if you're not doing anything wrong and you're standing on the law, you shouldn't have anything to hide.
That literally might be the most perfect example of when I'm saying get the mirror, man, and just everything you are saying is what you need to accuse yourself of.
Officials say more than 20,000 demonstrators took to the streets in L.A. yesterday as part of the nationwide No Kings protests, which were largely peaceful.
There was a pocket of unrest outside the federal building.
How violent did things get in reality last night in your town?
Ah, and that's the part I want to focus on because Jamie Raskin just a moment ago told us that we don't want slaves and we don't want serfs.
But what you just said there, lady, was that if we get rid of the illegals, we're going to have real problems because we keep them in the fields.
That's what they're saying.
They want their people in the fields.
Now, not only is that sort of criminal ideologically, Robots are on the way.
So when the robots, and we've shown you videos of this, it's already happening.
Like, it's happening in fields and in farming already, where robots and machines are going in and picking the oranges and all of those things.
So once that takes over, what are you going to do with all of the people that you brought here who are not illegal, who are then not making money, who are then going to be pissed?
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Right, I figured it out, figured it out right there.
One of the things you don't want to do is stand right behind a horse because one of two things will happen.
A horse will either take a shit on your shoe or it'll kick you in the face.
And these people are learning that the hard way.
Get off the streets.
Stop doing illegal things.
Also, stop maybe running around with flags from countries that you're fleeing because you think those countries are horrible while you're burning the country, the flag of the country that you apparently want to be in.
Here they are in New York.
So that, of course, was LA.
Here they are in New York City flying the Palestinian flag with, I believe, a deceased Palestinian Hamas leader on it.
Tim Walls, who has not got there, he was selected as the vice president for the lady who couped the dementia-ridden president of the United States, who was not really president of the United States, but it was a secret cadre of people using an auto pen.
And actually, something quite horrible happened in Minnesota over the weekend, and it's deeply connected to Tim Walz.
So listen to this from the Daily Wire.
Governor Tim Walz confirmed on Saturday morning that State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband were both killed.
He called the attack, Walls also said that State Senator John Hoffman and his wife were both shot numerous times but are expected to survive.
State Senator John Hoffman and State Representative Melissa Hortman and their spouses were shot by a suspect allegedly impersonating a police officer in Champlin and Brooklyn Park, according to Fox 9 Minneapolis.
So look, we're finding out a little bit.
More information as this all unfolds, but, you know, it's one of those things where everybody, they want it to fit their political narrative perfectly.
This one, some of the evidence is pretty airtight on this.
Listen to this from Breaking 911.
Former appointee of Tim Walz, Vance Luther Bolter, sought in deadly shootings of Minnesota lawmaker and her husband, had no King's Flyers in car.
So this guy was a former appointee.
Of Tim Walls, I think we have the document when he appointed him.
But again, the man being sought is a Tim Walls appointee.
So by every bit of evidence that we can ascertain from that, he was a progressive far lefty, no kings in the car, appointed by Walls.
But of course, over on MSDNC 13, what are they doing?
They're blaming it on Trump.
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It's always been held that the Department of Justice is an apolitical body.
Do you see it as such now?
And if you don't, the fact that these are two Democratic lawmakers that have been attacked, one killed, and one right now fighting for his life in a hospital after being shot multiple times, do you have any doubt, any concern, that because of political differences, biases, this will not be addressed the way it should be?
It should be apolitical, right?
That's what we have seen from Republican and Democratic administrations up until this one.
We have too many people and too many elected officials, including the current occupant of the White House, who escalates rhetoric and violent rhetoric against political opponents.
It's only now that they're interested in politics.
It's completely absurd.
The idea that Trump has ramped up the rhetoric.
You guys are the ones that call his supporters white supremacists and Nazis and neo-Nazis and blah, blah, blah.
And let's move away from rhetoric for a moment.
Who is doing the actions?
Here's an ex-account, Insatiable Levine.
I thought they quite nailed it.
It's an offshoot of something I said last week.
The left kills the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, kills two Israeli ambassador staffers, attempts twice to assassinate the president, doxes and attempts to murder federal ICE agents and police all week, and now kills a Minnesota state representative and her husband and injures a senator and his wife.
The left has become a full-blown domestic terrorist organization, to which Elon Musk replied, the left is mercilessly violent.
You may remember a tweet that I put up.
A week ago, and it was just obvious these things were going to continue.
It was literally a week ago today.
A few months ago, the lunatic left executed a healthcare CO in cold-blooded New York City.
Just weeks ago, they murdered two people in D.C. Ten days ago, a psycho jihadist threw Molotov cocktails at people in Colorado.
The other guy forgot that one.
They will undoubtedly kill a cop or ICE agent soon and then.
And that really is the question, guys.
Where is all of this going?
Why do I always focus on pro-America and wide tent?
Because that's how you get everybody in on the action.
That's how you get away from identity politics.
If you love America and you love liberty and freedom, it doesn't matter if you're black or white or gay or straight or whether you're one of those, well, we don't want those MSNBC people, but you get the point.
Like, most of us fit into that bucket.
And that's the thing that will defeat the evil.
So let us all...
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From Fort Bragg, North Carolina, this is the 82nd Airborne Ceremonial Band.
The 82nd received the nickname All-Americans after a contest as it represented the diverse origins of its members from every state.
This name remains today symbolized by history And the rocket's red glare Of our first-team air Gave proof through the night That our flag was still there
If you have not seen it over the weekend, we put a bunch of the content that we shot in Israel just a few days before this whole Iran thing happened.
So I think it's particularly interesting in light of that, including an interview with former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, which we shot in his home office, which is his bomb shelter.
10 by 15 feet, barely, for his entire family, former Prime Minister.
That's the shelter that they've been in, largely.
For the past five or six nights, my interview with former Arkansas governor and current ambassador, American ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, that we shot at the embassy.