Dave Rubin and Jillian Michaels dissect Kamala Harris's withdrawal from the race, Tulsi Gabbard's "Russia Gate" grand jury probe, and Trump's federalization of the National Guard, which correlates with a 40% drop in D.C. robberies. They analyze Hunter Biden's immigration work, the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting manifesto, and Nancy Pelosi's push for gender-affirming care, while debating media bias regarding Sidney Sweeney and CNN's Abby Phillip. Ultimately, the episode argues that national success requires ending political bickering and addressing systemic failures in crime, immigration, and cultural polarization. [Automatically generated summary]
I know nothing that has happened since the day I went off the grid last day of July.
I avoided television.
I avoided the internet.
I avoided social media.
All of the stuff.
Unfortunately, this year, because of the way the phones have just infiltrated our lives in every which way, I had my phone a little bit for controlling lights in my house and alarms and turning on things and like moving blinds.
And like, so like getting off the grid in like Little House on the Prairie Way is getting increasingly harder and harder and harder to do.
But in terms of getting out of the system and the machine and the rat race and the hamster wheel, I completely did it.
I do have to say, so I want to, I scribble down a few things real quick before we get to the news.
I will say one thing about the news before I get to just like some random stuff that happened over the month.
I don't get the sense that anything major happened.
So my sense is that nothing like absolutely crazy happened, like some kind of big war or like an assassination or a death.
Like I don't get a sense of that because when I was out and about, either at the airport or at the supermarket or whatever, when people were coming up to me, everybody, like nobody was like jumping at the gun like, oh my God, the thing.
So my general sense is that it was a relatively quiet month.
Probably going to eat those words in just moments, but I scribble down a few things because you know, getting away with well, I don't know.
You have a lot of paper there, and you were laughing hysterically right before we started.
So, um, but but I thought I would just mention a few things having nothing to do with the news before we get back on.
Because when I this point, get it out of your system.
This is my ninth year of doing this, and I'm like you, like, I'm a creature of all of this.
I love the news, I love the cycle, I love the culture stuff, and all of that stuff.
But also, the escape is to, for me, it's to like reconnect with something else, something that we all were part of way before the internet began, where we were just here and present all the time.
And I have spent a month being really, really present.
The last, the last interview that I did, I think it was on July 31st, and then we put it up on August 1st, was with Eckhart Tolle.
And we talked about present and taking a break.
And I really like took that in this month.
So, just like a couple things that I scribbled down, I won't spend too much time on it because I know every show.
Well, I know everybody wants to get to the news that I miss more important.
Well, first off, the only thing that I watched today, so finally, today, for a split second, I opened up YouTube.
I didn't look at anything.
But one thought that was popping in my head for the entire month, almost every day, is that I'm the luckiest guy in the world.
I kept thinking that over and over.
Like, I spent so much time with my kids who are doing, you just saw them, they came in here, like, who are doing so great and learning how to swim now and taking them to the beach and going in the ocean and like just watching them develop a sense of humor and all of this stuff.
And then it probably gets worse and crazy and awesome.
And like all of that stuff.
But like, I had so much time with that.
David and I got to escape for a while.
We had 10 days, just the two of us, to kind of reconnect.
It was our 10th anniversary last week.
We've been together 15 years, but married 10 years.
We got to escape and like have some solo time, which is also important and all that.
But the one thing that I did watch, it's only two minutes long, but I watched the Lou Gehrig speech from, God, I don't even know what year it is, the black and white speech that he gave at Yankee Stadium, his last public appearance, you know, when he had what came to be known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
But he talks about, you know, he now knows that he has this affliction.
I don't have any affliction.
But how he's the luckiest man alive.
And I just kept thinking that throughout the month.
Like, I get to escape.
I do what I want 11 months of the year.
I have an incredible team.
I have great colleagues and co-workers and employees and friends and family and all these things.
And then I get to escape and have nothing to do with any of it.
And that's great too.
So I just more than anything else, whatever you're going to tell me, I'm just like unbelievably appreciative of everybody that I'm around.
You, these guys, like so appreciative of everything.
And it really just hit me over and over and over and over.
So that's one nice thing.
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Now I'll just tell you like a couple of random quick is I listen and it's hard.
So I just want to be really clear that this isn't luck in the traditional sense of the word.
You've worked real hard to have this team and to cultivate this crew and to build this channel and to work on your relationships and to have this great dynamic with David and the kids.
Yeah, I guess, well, I guess that was partly what I was appreciative of.
Like part of the appreciation is that I worked really hard and do work hard to create those things.
And then to have this month where I was able to like step back for a second.
Like one thing that was really good this month, it was really nice to not have everything be about me all the time.
You know what I mean?
Like that's like a weird thing.
Like when you're a public person, like people know you, they expect things from you.
They want things from you.
You want to give them things.
Like there's, but there's this weird public thing that like a lot of it's about you all the time.
And then the social media part makes it like, you know, ramped up on steroids.
So to escape a little bit of that and to just like be more present, literally, whether it was with a cashier or a waitress or whatever, I think was like, was unbelievable.
Let me just tell you a couple of funny things though.
So I am sure that I am in the Guinness Book of World Records now for something that happened this month.
I listened, and maybe David's with me on this, but I think I might have even beat him.
We listened to the theme song of Ghostbusters more times than anyone in the history of the world in any 30-day period.
On around August 1st, somehow the kids heard Ghostbusters.
It just popped up on something.
I don't know.
They are obsessed.
And we listened to that song.
It could be 10 to 20 times a day, including when we drove across Alligator Alley, about a three and a half hour ride, basically non-stop Ghostbusters.
You saw them this morning, they're in Ghostbusters.
It's like Ghostbusters, and it was really weird because it's a great song.
Actually, it so captures the 80s and blah, blah, blah.
But then, but there's a weird thing that happens when you hear something over and over.
Like, you're like, I like it, I like it, I like it.
Then you like go to like some crescendo, then you start hating it.
Then, because the kids are loving it, you start loving it again, and then it almost becomes like it's almost like religious in nature after you've heard it so many times.
And then by the end, by yesterday, I was like, I wouldn't mind hearing Ghostbusters right now.
Like, so I am in some sort of that was one thing.
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The other thing, I hold that record for Frozen by the way.
I took a nap every day, every single day, without fail.
So for 30 straight days, I took a nap at some point.
Sometimes it was only like a 15-minute nap.
Sometimes it was an hour nap on the beach.
Sometimes it was when the kids went down for a nap and I passed down on the couch.
But like, take like the privilege to take a nap, to have the space in your life to take a nap.
I know that sounds ridiculous, probably, but something about it, like I am going to try to incorporate naps into my life more like a little siesta.
I know, I know.
Another thing, and this maybe I'm going to have to spin off a show, but one thing I really got into with the kids at night, so I had more time to like put them down at night and read stories and stuff, which I love doing.
We got a couple puppets, and I've been putting on puppet shows for them at night and doing all these different characters, the wizard and the robot and the old lady.
And I do all the voices and everything for like an hour.
I'm putting on like an hour show a night and I like kind of incorporate we could get those rules.
Probably not for no, okay, sorry.
But I may be doing a puppet show soon.
What else?
I trained for the first time in my life.
I've never had a trainer ever, but I was training three days a week, mostly working on legs and getting some stability and core and stuff.
But I feel really good.
I ate right.
I didn't have one bad meal.
Like now, I just ate right the entire time, which was good.
And then I'll just say, well, let's see.
Oh, and the kids swimming, like to watch them learn how to swim now is just so cool.
And taking them out into the ocean.
So it's great.
And then when we did go to Mexico for 10 days, just the two of us.
And, you know, I started my tequila a couple months ago, Copal.
Our distillery actually wasn't far from where we stayed.
So they brought it over to us.
And we had some of the best tequila somalias in all of Mexico come and taste our tequila.
And they loved it, loved it, loved it.
So that was so affirming because this is something I've been working on for years.
So that was lovely.
And then let me just share one broad thought about politics and culture and life.
And then you can take over.
Okay.
I really was thinking a lot.
Like, I try to, I think one of the things I try to do when I escape is like, well, how do I come back better than when I left?
You know, not just do the rat race and be in this, just do it over and over and wake up and be like, oh my God, Whoopi Goldberg said this.
And like, how do I be better at this thing?
And I think one of the things that was driving me crazy for the last maybe like four months before going off is there's been so much fighting on the right, like for people that Thought we're like just everyone, we thought we were all kind of roughly on the same side.
Maybe we think different things about this or that or whatever, but so much fighting on the right.
And it all, when you get off the freaking, I don't even have my phone on me, but when you get off the phone and you get off the machine and you're just with real people, you realize how little of it actually matters.
I don't mean the news doesn't matter, of course it matters.
I don't mean culture doesn't matter or current events don't matter, but like the bickering of who's going to destroy who.
And I got this guy and this one went after, it just is so silly and ridiculous, and it has so little translation into reality.
Like, I talked to so many different people this month who, and very little about nothing about politics came up, but just talked to people from every walk of life.
Wherever I went, I was really aware to just like if I could just say hi to somebody on the beach or just like just chat with people.
And like, there's so much goodness.
And so, one of the things that I'm really going to try to do for this season of the show, which will roll into 2026, which is America's 250th birthday, is I'm going to double down on finding all of the good people that want to do great things with this country and fight for all of the freedom and beauty and goodness that there is.
Like the bitterness and the fighting and all of this stuff, it's just utterly nonsensical.
And I'm going to do my best not to take part.
I could rattle off a million more things, but I think that I had to get a few things just out of my system.
Well, just one last thing to that and then take it away, which is that a few times, you know, David doesn't really care about politics the way I do.
And we both, he basically disconnects too so that he doesn't have to know things that I don't know.
And then that becomes like really strange or whatever.
But he did keep saying, which I thought was interesting and also will help me frame how I want to do the show for the next year, is that, you know, that everything has felt so crazy for so long.
If you think of everything related to Trump and everything related to COVID and the way social media has shredded us and all these things, that things can only burn like that for so long.
And then it becomes like a need for something else.
And that's what I'm trying to figure out here.
Like something about that.
The only, oh, wait, I do want to mention one more thing.
Sorry.
The only two movies that I watched during the entire month was about halfway through.
I watched Weekend at Bernie's because I was just like, I want something completely idiotic that only has good feelings to me and is just like joyful.
And it was like, man, the 80s, our thing, the thing that like was our formative thing was so freaking great.
And I've said it before, but I think America has to get back to that somehow, like the feeling of the 80s.
If we can capture that again, I think that's the off-road of the craziness.
And then the other thing that I watch, and it's connected to this, and I promise you can take over, is I watched the new Jurassic Park a few days ago.
You know, gone are the days when they could let cheers roll season after season as a failure with the knowledge that it's inherently good and will become one of the top shows of all time.
Lady, the system literally rejiggered itself in front of our eyes to make you the candidate.
And now you don't like the system.
Well, it's kind of like Colbert.
He doesn't like the system very much anymore because when they pull your 20 million bucks a year to have a $50 million deficit on your show, you're suddenly not.
So did people care?
Like, she's nothing.
She's nobody.
She's going to be a footnote.
That's it.
If I never have to say your name again, that would be a pleasure.
But being a native daughter of the state, having grown up there, thinking it's so beautiful, it has so much potential, and watching it be systematically destroyed by Gavin Newsome, and then knowing she was next in line, there is some relief for me there.
I'm not going to lie.
And the best part is like, oh, no, I'm just such a good person.
Well, you know, I said that watching Kamala and Colbert is like watching a movie.
Like watching him, it's just like watching a movie.
Oh, you're an old man that they put up there to poorly read a script.
What actually, my first reaction to seeing him again was, man, can you believe that it was just over a year ago where they were still telling us he was supposed to be president, right?
He didn't step down until I think it was July, or when they forced him out, actually, which we'll find out more about years from now.
It was July of last year.
So it's just over a year ago.
They were going to pretend that that man was supposed to be president right now, and that so many people participated in that.
Jake Tapper participated in it and then wrote a book about it.
Like, what an utter, utter farce.
But you're so right about the legacy.
Like, sorry, dude, what is your legacy?
Well, you were in government for 50 plus years.
You broke the border.
You, you know, had draconian lockdowns during COVID.
You forced vaccines.
You weakened us across the world.
Like, what is like, and then what at the end of all of that is like, what are you even going out there for at this point?
Dr. Jill, it's because Dr. Jill won't let the guy just take him.
I genuinely do not understand the mindset of someone who now, at this point, in 2025, would be like, oh, our main thing is that we should be keeping illegals here.
Like, it's so, it's so profoundly insane.
Like, if I illegally got, name a country, literally any country.
If I literally showed up in Nigeria one day as a visitor and then six years later, I had just never left, would I, and then the Nigerians came to my door and were like, Dave, what are you doing here still that you were supposed to be here on vacation?
I wouldn't expect the Nigerians to keep me there.
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When I was in Mwwana, I had to show proof that I was leaving.
It is partly when I mentioned that really the only sort of political thing I was thinking about was this inviting on the right thing.
Like so much of it is just based in how social media is exacerbating and amplifying lies, like just lies and nonsense and reconstructionist history and just like all of this craziness.
But what do we do about that, right?
Like I don't know that there really is no like truly clean answer if you're for free speech.
And then in this, we have this weird thing where at some level, if you don't have moments like this where someone who has the means will use the machine to push back on a lie, then there will be no way to decipher truth at all.
So it's like you don't want the wife of the president to have to feel like she has to sue a freaking stupid drag, you know.
But on the other hand, otherwise it just goes and goes and goes and goes.
And what is that?
Like we need something, like the truth is like the anchor basically.
Jillian, my friend, it's right out of camera over there, but that is a front page New York Times Sunday piece from about six years ago with me on the front page calling me basically the head of the alt-right.
I mean, what do you do?
What do you do?
I talked to lawyers about suing them and they were basically like, yeah, if you want to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to be in an endless lawsuit that you probably won't win because you're a public person, they'll drain you forever and they have endless resources.
So what do you do?
Again, like that's something that we all are just going to have to figure out more and more, especially as AI continues and fakes and blah, blah, blah.
The long and the short of this, and then I'll break it down bit by bit here, is she's basically saying that Obama and Hillary Clinton and now George Soros's Open Society Foundation concocted this entire Russia Gate thing.
Now, there were some emails that were purportedly found from this guy, Leonard Bernardo.
Okay, so this guy was the regional director for Eurasia at the Open Society Foundations.
Okay, now this guy claims he's never seen these emails before.
But I copied one for you because I wanted to read it verbatim, this little section from it.
So one of these emails stated that Hillary Clinton had approved a campaign advisor's idea, quote, about Trump and Russia hackers tampering with U.S. elections.
That should distract people from her own missing email, especially if the affair goes to the Olympic level.
The point is making the Russian play a U.S. domestic issue say something like a critical infrastructure threat for the election to feel menace since both POTUS and V.POTIS have acknowledged the fact I see would speed up searching for evidence that is regrettably still unavailable.
Fox News can confirm that Attorney General Pam Bondi today signed an order directing an unnamed U.S. federal prosecutor to take evidence to a grand jury relating to an alleged conspiracy to tie then 2016 candidate Donald Trump to the country of Russia.
Now, Fox News reviewed the one-page order just hours ago signed by the Attorney General.
source familiar with the probe confirms this as well.
While a DOJ spokesperson declined to comment on this report of an investigation, Fox is told Attorney General Bondi is taking the referrals from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, quote, very seriously.
The spokesperson says that Bondi believes there is quote clear cause for deep concern, end quote, and a need for the next step.
I was very skeptical on that question even a couple of weeks ago, but I have heard repeatedly from these folks that they understand that this is not a hearts and minds contest and that they are not doing this for a show and that if they don't end up in a courtroom, that they will, this will be a massive political failure for them.
So I do think that there will be significant indictments.
Tulsi declassifies files that show former director of national intelligence James Clapper in December complied with Obama's orders to fabricate the Russia hoax before Trump took office.
DNI Gabbard reveals Clapper sought to compromise normal procedures to rush the Russia Gate hoax intelligence report.
It kind of goes on and on like this.
Then the administration revoked security clearances for 37 officials alleging that they weaponized intelligence.
So that's it.
But here's what's scary about this is sort of no one cares.
Right, because the top of that you mentioned was right at the beginning of the month, and now we're already into September and these things, they burn hot for a second and then everyone just moves on.
It's like anything as it relates to COVID.
No matter how many people you killed or you threw people back in old age homes or you injected children with things, nobody pays the price.
And when anyone pays the price, it's always the wrong person or a Patsy or something.
So the only difference I would say, and this is what I've, you know, Tulsi a little bit, right?
What I can tell you about Tulsi, I know her fairly well.
I would say she is a good, decent human being who loves this country and really wants to do the right thing.
I don't know exactly everything in her brain and heart, but like to the extent that I know her on camera and off, that is, I can absolutely say that with confidence about her.
I don't, she does not strike me as the type of person that would just come in and just kind of make up stuff or placate to the system or whatever.
It's a little bit like Dan Bongino.
You could say whatever you want about Dan.
And I know a lot of people kind of turned on him a few months ago around some Epstein stuff.
And I was like, this guy has fought for every good thing forever.
Like, maybe he's not giving you exactly what you want right now, but you got to give him a little bit of grace.
So look, if indictments start coming, that's different than just, okay, we found some emails and this or that or the other thing.
So we have to be careful what we ask for with that stuff.
And I think, again, the only thing that solves this, and this is why I'm so bullish on this 2250th anniversary of America thing coming up next year, is that the only thing that solves it is success.
Success of the country solves it.
Success is the thing that makes racists be a little less racist.
You know, like when things are going well, success is the thing that makes you be a little less jealous, that makes you be a little more humble, that makes more people want to cooperate with each other and everything else.
When things aren't going well, that's when everybody's turned and tried to get everybody and destroy everything.
And unfortunately, the left has been really good at decimating so many of the good things that I think a lot of people...
I actually couldn't quite hear what he said, but, like, we really don't deserve the guy.
We really don't.
Like, it is never going to get more real and ridiculous in the good sense and functional in the best sense.
And it's just never going to get better.
And it's like, if we can't do what needs to be done sort of politically to turn around some of the stuff that we're always talking about, if this isn't it, if this isn't enough, how does it?
The President of the United States, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia will now sign the Joint Declaration on the Outcomes of the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity Summit.
So you know this, but just for anybody watching, I mean, he negotiated peace, even though there's still some little bit of fighting on the borders of Congo and Rwanda.
I mean, the guy de-escalated the situation in India and Pakistan.
Cambodia and Thailand border dispute, put it to bed.
Egypt and Ethiopia, negotiations he hosted in August 2025, put that to bed.
The Iran and Israel situation seems to be under a ceasefire still.
It's almost like America is supposed to lead the world, that it's a heavy burden and somebody's got to do it.
And if it's not us, it's going to be much worse.
And when we abdicated the duties, as we did for four years under a president whose brain wasn't in his head, that that was a problem, and now we're trying to fix it.
If he could bring about the end to this terrible war where Putin is the aggressor invading a neighbor country, trying to change the borders, if President Trump were the architect of that, I'd nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize.
She kind of sets him up to fail, though, because she basically is like, if we don't have to give up any territory, like, what do you mean you don't have to give up any territory?
Putin's already winning.
He's already got it.
So she's basically, in my opinion, what she does there is essentially say, no matter what happens, even if he brokers peace, he lost.
Frickin' Maloney, the whole NATO-Europe situation.
They're all there.
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we got a 40-second video of that one I think in the past two weeks we've probably had more progress in ending this war than we have in the past three and a half years
People could go back to my, when did this all start?
Three plus years ago at this point.
I've said the exact same thing from day one on this thing, which is at the end of the day, Putin has nukes.
So yes, did he invade a sovereign country?
Yes.
Is that a little more complex than usual borders because of the breakup of the Soviet Union and all that?
Yes, yes, yes, fine.
But at the end of the day, the guy that invaded has nukes.
So the idea that, okay, we can give him 20 more tanks or 40 more planes, the Ukrainians, obviously, or this much more money, or pay their pensions or whatever, that as if that's going to end the war at some point.
It's like, no, that doesn't.
Because if Putin ever was really losing the war, he has the ultimate weapon.
Exactly.
So what really are we doing here?
I don't know.
This is a point where I just, to me, you have to just grant Trump a long leash on this.
I mean, at the end of the day, whether there were off-ramps, whether we wanted this war or not, I don't think anyone can deny that Putin is, he's bananas.
So one of the things that is in a really bad place are race relations.
We have some stuff on it involving me.
But with that said, there was an issue.
This is not in here.
But there was a teacher.
I think he was a Harvard professor who got the crap kicked out of him by a couple of teens in a movie theater and then turned around and was like, I can't describe them.
And then, of course, everybody online was like, okay.
And it begot all of this crazy racist remarks on both sides.
In addition, I'm deploying the National Guard to help reestablish law, order, and public safety in Washington, D.C., and they're going to be allowed to do their job properly.
And you people are victims of it too.
You know, you're reporters, and I understand a lot of you tend to be on the liberal side, but you don't want to get mugged and raped and shot and killed.
And you all know people and friends of yours that happened.
Homeless individuals will be given the option to leave their encampment, to be taken to a homeless shelter, to be offered addiction or mental health services.
He goes, A lot of you are on the more liberal side, but you don't want to be mugged and shot and raped and murdered.
And you know the saying, of course, which is a conservative is just a liberal who's been mugged by reality.
And that's what you, right?
Like, literally, you, so many of us, so many of the old school liberals all woke up partially because of COVID or because of crime in the cities or whatever it might have been, because suddenly you're like, oh, I would prefer not to be stabbed with a hypodermic needle when I'm going to take my kids to the library.
So, okay, sometimes it takes a scary conservative to clean things up.
So, that all seems good.
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I do want to know more about the guy who was just, was that a guy or what the hell was it?
Remember when Xi Jinping came to San Francisco and they suddenly managed to get all the homeless people all gone and then they all appeared like three days later.
Right, I guess it's the Insurrection Act, right, for crime, because that's different than when you deploy to find illegals, which is the job of the federal government.
One of the things that I thought of a lot during the month is because I was just doing things around the house and I'm like here and just doing errands and just stuff here in Miami.
It's so clean.
It's so pleasant.
It's so safe.
You go out at night.
There's no, you know, it's not that nothing happens here, right?
There's no perfect system, but it's just, it functions the way it should.
So that's another reason why my general sense I thought might be a little bit off because I was like, oh, I'm just around, I'm in my bubble here that is a goodness bubble because of, it's not a miracle, though.
It's not, it's just not, it didn't just like come out of nothing, right?
It didn't just like peer out of osmosis.
It came out of proper governance and really good people that realized that they should have some skin in the game and get involved and then it turns into proper policing and all those things.
So yeah, if he suddenly was like, I have to send the troops to Miami, I'd be like, all right, now we got a problem here.
So is it not obvious to you as a, let's say, more recent convert or whatever you want to call it?
Isn't it not obvious to you that the last liberals, so the Bobby Kennedys and the Tulsi's and the you and me and Rogan, whoever that thing was, Elon, all these people, we were the last bulwark on the left before the crazy was there and it was growing and growing and growing and we all saw it and identity politics and pronouns and blah blah blah and everything's racist and there was this there was like a group of us right like originally it was jordan peterson and sam harris and this there was like this group of us that were trying to do it then it kind of expanded and then at some point enough of us were like all right we're
jumping ship and we're gonna hang with the conservatives for whatever differences we have and we're good but we all love the country we love freedom and we love goodness and law and order and blah blah and now there's just nobody left so what happens you end up basically in like a bane batman situation where the scarecrow is doing fake trials and then they're sending people out onto the ice that's not that far from it no like you're gonna end up in just places where there will be sheer insanity 100 and then there will be people who remove themselves from the insanity that's partly what red
blue the red blue separation is but it's i think i want to jump ahead and tell you so many things oh god it's so annoying go oh okay okay yes okay i don't okay i can't jump ahead i can't jump ahead i have to scarecrow doing trials if i nailed that one people are trying to prevent and i'll give you an example coming up um now red states are trying to prevent people from blue states moving in and making zero connection to the way they voted with regard to the policy that they
fled i'm very interested in where you're going with this okay so we'll get there we'll get there um but the long and the short of it is this is working and it's kind of awesome now and i will say that i watched a video uh of a black conservative on youtube and he was saying that black on black crime is is down in dc and he was giving trump props about that because of course you know they're like oh he's he's everybody's so racist the entire right is racist and i i thought that was really
interesting because you know it's like oh any policing now of black communities is considered racist usually by white liberals and it was very interesting to see a black man saying like huh black on black crime is down huh from the racist president as trump said even you more liberal people you don't want to be raped it's like unless you kind of do and i think in some sense they kind of do actually like in in some weird but all right all right let's go let's go
i i yeah i don't disagree with you okay immigration okay so now this gets a little this one is highly controversial and i'll get to that in a minute but let me give you the facts so the state department announces on august 28th that nationals of malawi and zambia applying for a b1 b2 business and tourist visa will be required to post up to 15 000 bond deterring visa overstays okay so yeah okay a little all right so now just just throw on downs august 8th the united states court
of appeals for the district of columbia just vacated judge buzzberg so i'm probably mispronouncing that order holding the trump administration in criminal contempt for deporting illegals under the illegal alien enemies act so that's good yeah that's great going we're going okay superman actor dean king is going to join ice what i i know dean we saw dean at the airport not too long ago yeah all right that's fun okay i wonder if you'll have to i mean he's super mag i don't
know if you have to wear a mask okay august 9th trump announces the judges can no longer block his policies nationwide um however wait trump announces no the supreme court ruled on the whole like okay one federal judge right can't use nationwide okay however you know there's workarounds obviously by filing a class action lawsuit and you're seeing that with the dreamers the left is already on to that and into it and
there you have it i you know there's always a loophole that's it both parties look for and this is theirs but he felt very excited about the victory at the time all right marco rubio has halted all visitor visas from gaza california now this is a yeah this looks perfect and sucks such a great This is sad.
California granted an illegal named Hargender Singh a commercial driver's license, and he killed three people in Florida by performing an illegal U-turn on a Florida turnpike.
Now, this guy doesn't speak English.
He failed all English proficiency tests and road sign tests.
The White House's rapid response social media account reposted a video of the accident with a statement criticizing the state of California for granting Singh a commercial driver's license.
Nevertheless, he comes here illegally in 2018, does the I Need Asylum game.
Of course, the case is yet to be adjudicated.
And given Biden's policies, he was allowed to apply for a work permit.
So while you wait, which can take like seven to ten years.
Exactly.
So the whole asylum system has been backed up because of this, and true refugees are being denied relocation and so on and so forth.
So nevertheless, this guy knows the game, plays it, he gets the work permit, and then he essentially games the system with translators and somehow pretends he can speak English because you do have to speak English to get the license in California.
Look, you should not have illegals driving trucks cross country.
We have to deal with this.
Either we deal with this now, this is the one opportunity we will have as a nation to deal with this stuff.
Europe, it's too late for most of Europe, certainly Western Europe, not Eastern Europe.
So we either deal with this stuff right now or we don't.
So good for Rubio.
And by the way, like truckers, truckers who are usually amazed, do you know any truckers?
Truckers are incredible people, actually.
When I had a show on SiriusXM like 15 years ago or something, most of the Collins, the people that would call onto the show, were truckers.
They're just listening to stuff all day.
I found them to be the most thoughtful, smart, interesting because they just have time to think about the world and drive across the country.
It's a really interesting psychological makeup of someone that's a trucker that spends their life basically, you know, like going like this all the time.
They're going to be replaced by robots anyway, like so many other things.
So the idea that you'd be, you know, it's sort of like when they say, okay, bring in the illegals, they have someone else to pick our tomatoes.
It's like, okay, well, the robots are going to pick our tomatoes soon, and then what are you going to do with those people?
I actually hate that example because, of course, it's like a way to maintain like a serfdom of this class that just stays your housekeeper forever because she's not here legally and has no upward mobility because of that.
And there was a lady that ran a restaurant and she was here for 30 years.
And he basically was saying, if we don't find a way for good people who want to do the right thing to get a path to citizenship, the other side's going to do it and they're going to win those voters over.
There's got to be a way to allow and facilitate good, hardworking people to contribute, to pay taxes, to take, you know, to give more than they take, which traditionally, when immigrants are allowed to come in legally, their kids do better in school.
They start more small businesses.
They have huge upward mobility.
They pay more into the system than they take.
But the way the laws have been set up, especially because of the Biden administration, you're seeing this people killed on a turnpike in Florida.
I'm guessing nobody really knows their names, right?
We never know the names of the people that get killed.
We only know the name of the bad people, which is also a cultural problem.
As for that specific thing, I mean, look, we all have that.
Hopefully everyone has a little of that humanity in them, right?
So this woman that's been here 30 years that raised a family and that basically did everything right.
Like, is the goal of all of this to eliminate all of those people and upend so much?
Most people, I don't think, really think that.
The problem is, I mean, we've come back to this 10 times already, but the problem is the left has gone so crazy with everything.
And they never give credit nor an inch to the right on anything that there's no, the amount of people on the right that would naturally have sympathy to a lot of that are basically like, F it, F it, we're just going to do what we got to do.
And at the end of the day, you either have laws or you don't.
So I don't know what the answer to that is.
Most people in their hearts of hearts, are you trying to rip away the 36-year-old woman with one kid who's here working, that is legal, that loves America and everything else?
Most people, the answer is no.
But either a law exists or no.
So I don't know exactly.
And again, what was the country you mentioned before?
If I went to Zimbabwe, like if I went to Zimbabwe and I was there 10 extra years and they found me, they would kick me out and it would be within their rights.
So that's why this is so complex.
And again, it's why everything that the right, let's say, overreacts to is because the left is so insane.
All they have to do is not be so insane all the time, but now there's nobody left.
But long story short, Christy Noam, listen to this.
As we were talking about the media earlier, omitting facts and lying and manipulating narratives, she gives a whole speech about Kilmar and bye-bye Kilmar and this is what we know about Kilmar.
And it's like soliciting nudes from minors and beating the crap out of his wife.
So, for anybody who's got teachers in their family in Oklahoma, this is a story you'll probably want to listen to because there are teachers that are relocating there from progressive states who will now be evaluated on the America First agenda.
Oklahoma, as a state now, is going to require new teachers pass an America First test to keep their license.
They're going to have to have knowledge of the U.S. Constitution, an understanding of American exceptionalism, a grasp of fundamental biological differences between boys and girls.
You know what's interesting about that one, actually, is I had this fight on CNN, which I am getting to, of how immoral and evil Alligator Alcatraz was.
But I had a friend.
I didn't know this at the time when I got into this whole argument because I argued that the cages would be far more offensive, built by Obama.
My friend's like, you know, that's where the National Guard used to stay, right?
You think they just pop that up?
He's like, it was good enough for our military, but we're really upset about people who are here illegally staying there, but we weren't worried when the guard was staying there.
It's like, do you know literally what makes a boy, what makes him a girl?
You know, the chromosome goes.
It's anyway.
Speaking of chromosomes, Nancy Pelosi is working hard to legalize sex changes for kids at the national level after Trump signed an order to protect children from chemical and surgical mutilation.
I'm sure you're not surprised, but take a look.
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How's your office responding to the pauses in gender affirming care here in California?
You know, let me try to do this in the most like I said to you at the top, like, I'm trying, I don't want to add, especially on the day I'm back, I don't want to add to like all the hate and everything else.
Obviously, Big Pharma is one of the biggest lobbies in Washington.
It is a multi-billion dollar business with a compound annual growth rate of roughly 9%.
So it's a huge industry.
One drug alone, like Lupron off-label, which is an off-label cancer drug, right?
That they're giving to kids is a multi-billion dollar business.
I think that's what this is about, if I had to guess, because the data is there.
We had the cast review by Dr. Hillary Cass, one of the top pediatricians out of the United Kingdom, who spent four years doing a systematic review of every single study involving gender-affirming care.
You've got Schellenberger releasing the WPATH files showing all of the corruption involved in this industry.
Europe pulls back after the cast review and is like, okay, hold on.
We got to rethink this whole gender-affirming situation on kids.
We know it sterilizes them.
We know it causes sexual dysfunction for the rest of their life.
It affects their bone development, their brain development.
Their teeth literally crack in their skull.
It's like, we know all of this.
There's no way.
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This isn't like a, oh, I'm worried they're going to kill themselves.
Like if we were sitting here truly with Nancy Pelosi and the camera wasn't going, is she really like, I really believe that these children, or is it really the numbers?
And if it's the numbers, like it's literally like the cash.
If you're going to make a decision with consequences that severe and you're in a position that holds that kind of power, would you not be responsible enough to do the research?
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So she's either a complete moron or she's on the take.
I mean, I think that's why I quote them all the time, but about 10 years ago, when I heard my friend Pete Pogozian, who you probably know, say that, you know, when woke enters something, it destroys the entire institution.
And that's what it's done to these people's brains.
It's what Gad Sad called the woke mind virus, that it actually then supersedes all the other logic and reason and everything else.
And then so you end up like the, because the best version of what we'd be saying about Pelosi is she's just misguided, but that just doesn't, like, there's just no way that computes.
So you're right.
It's either, it's either you're like corrupt, evil, insane, something, something, or just, you're just a sellout.
And that's, and I guess the easier answer is probably.
It's also what's so dangerous about what they've done because they've all, it's like when you call someone racist, if it's not racist, you do it for so long that when you wake up and then you're like, oh, maybe that person isn't racist.
Well, you know now you're going to be called a racist.
Well, I would say it's definitely possible the New York Times gave you a fair shake in an op-ed because they occasionally do that.
What the New York Times always does is they lead with insanity and then they suddenly throw something in that's sane so that the few people that have neurons firing stay subscribed, something like that.
So that strikes me as very much what the New York Times might do.
Interesting.
And the other one was, did CNN launch a campaign to destroy you?
Okay, so this is important because it ties back to this whole thing with Trump wanting to pull federal funding from the Smithsonian museums because of certain exhibits that we're going to get into in just a moment.
But he wants to revisit some of these installations, some of these exhibits within the Smithsonian museums.
And of course, the left has gone bananas on this, right?
So it's stuff like a white culture poster that has subsequently been removed where it talks about how we're inherently.
It's stuff comparing George Floyd and Che Guevara to Jesus.
It's stuff where they talk about Cuban immigration to the United States and they completely neglect to mention Castro and just make it about how the United States government backed Batista for their own financial gain and because of this white government did this and that's why Cubans left and that's what brought on the Cuban Revolution.
So now this comes up and I know in my mind that they're going to try to pretend like it is about erasing slavery.
And I know that there is not one installation that the administration has taken umbrage with that is about slavery.
Now Trump has subsequently gone on to say, look, it's all about like bad guys, white, bad guys, and slavery, but why don't we have some good stuff in there too?
He's effectively now has some random person deciding what is appropriate for the Smithsonian to teach in terms of American history, things that don't offend parts of the MAGA base, right?
So we're now literally reviewing parts of American history and parts of American culture to make sure it comports with Dear Leader and what the MAGA is.
So we're supposed to be in the middle of a conversation about the Smithsonian.
So Julie Roginski is so smug.
And I'm about to nail her because I know she's making the whole thing up about slavery because she has no idea what's even in there, right?
So I'm like, no, he's not, with extreme confidence.
And I'm like, by the way, sidebar, this has been going on for thousands of years.
Like, stop demonizing just one race because nothing good is going to come out of that, right?
So I'm about to list all the things you and I just talked about.
And all of a sudden, Abby Phillip and Richie Torres go, I can't believe you're trying to relitigate slavery in America.
I go, I'm not.
I just told you slavery's been around for thousands of years.
And we continued, they're like, oh, this is a system of oppression.
And now we're having two separate conversations, right?
And I'm like, okay, am I talking about the Smithsonian stuff?
And like, there's nothing about slavery in the Smithsonian.
Or I'm sorry, the installations that he's taking umbrage with.
And by the way, let's talk about slavery.
So then I'm like, all right, you know what?
I'm ready to take this on because I come back from Africa and there's nothing but really negative racial stories in the news.
And it's bad.
It's like a white woman who had a five-year-old black kid go through her back and she calls them the N-word and then raises like almost a million dollars online like in defense of herself and to try to relocate.
And then simultaneously, you've got the thing in the movie theater where arguably children of an unknown race beat up the professor.
Then you've got like two white people who get the crap beat out of them by a black mob.
I don't know if you've heard me talk about her before, but I genuinely – I don't know, I must have said this to you because I was warning you about going on her show.
Do you know that prior to this, on the episode of her show that I did about the kids at the marijuana farm, do you know she flat out lied on her show and said that it was legal for minors to work at a marijuana farm?
Can I for one second try the meta version of what's happening here, which is that you represent – you're like sort of in this case, you're like the avatar for the new media.
And because we're still in this fight between old and new media – and it doesn't mean that all the new media is good either.
But because these things are now so disconnected, what they try to do is they try to then bring on new media people into old media formats.
And it doesn't work, right?
Because you have very scripted people with things in their ears, being told what to say, reading things.
And then you have people like you who are thoughtful and interesting and show nuance, who know what they're doing.
So it's as if the ingredient doesn't work with the overall what you're trying to bake, basically.
A 13-year-old kid who's grown up in a culture that said you're bad because of your skin color, you're bad because of your sexuality, your gender, all these things.
These boys are leaning, Dave, not again, like Phoenix has, my son Phoenix, you're Phoenix, has like a sense of the center, and he leans into the Sean Ryans and the Joe Rogans of the world, which is great.
But the friends, some of them, are leaning very far right.
And it's very concerning.
And you're seeing high schools in the middle of the country take back the name of Robert E. Lee and bring back the Confederate flag.
And I don't think it's because these kids are like Klan members.
I think it's just a giant F you to this whole kind of demonization of these young white boys.
And simultaneously, you know, I have a black daughter being raised by all white people.
It wasn't on purpose.
Haiti was a country that was open while I was adopting internationally.
Long story short, like, why do I want my daughter to think all white people are bad?
I absolutely do not want her to think that.
In fact, I bought her on this one trip, and then we'll get back to the news.
We were in New Orleans one summer when she was probably eight.
And I bought her the diary of a union soldier from one of those antique stores from 1861.
Trump economy, the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, announces that Canada will be dropping their retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. and removing tariffs on U.S. goods covered by existing trade deals.
Canada currently has the best trade deal with the United States.
And while it's different from what we had before, it is still better than that of any other country.
So as we work to address outstanding trade issues with the United States, it's important.
It's vital.
We do everything we can to preserve this unique advantage for Canadian workers, Canadian businesses in this context and consistent with Canada's commitment to CUSMA.
I'm announcing today that the Canadian government will now match, we will now match the United States by removing all of Canada's tariffs on U.S. goods specifically covered under CUSMA.
Yes, so the Democrats left and Beto Warke tried to fund their ability to leave.
And now Ken Paxton is investigating that as though it's like bribery and they're trying to shut down the organization that they've used to fund these Democrats ability.
Then JD Vance says if we did the census anew right now, we'd have 10 additional Republican seats and nine fewer Democratic seats.
There's a video, but that's basically the gist of it.
Okay, now here's where it gets crazy.
Our favorite person, Gavin Newsom, steps up to the plate.
And long story short, he puts forward this thing called Prop 50 because California has this whole independent commission against gerrymandering, particularly, right?
So he says, I want to put forward this Proposition 50 to take them out of the equation.
And I'm going to respond to what Texas is doing.
And I want 7% representation for Republicans.
Now we have 17, I think, percent.
And I think 38% of Californians are Republicans.
So this is gone bananas.
California already has 43 Democratic seats, only nine Republican seats.
He's on fire with this, and he's like daring Trump to come after him.
It doesn't look like the Republicans are going to be able to block this Proposition 50 vote in November.
So now they're in a war over who's gerrymandering worse.
And if it was Rubio and JD or JD and Rubio, no it would be JD and Rubio because I don't think they would switch it the other way, but it would be great.
Today in the state of Florida, I've declared to be Hulk Hogan Appreciation Day.
In recognition of somebody who was obviously a major figure for many, many decades, particularly for kids.
People in my generation was a big, big guy and was right there in the Tampa Bay area for many, many decades.
So all I'll tell you is make sure on this day that you're training, saying your prayers, and eating your vitamins, brother, because he would have wanted you to do that.
Meanwhile, we have the number one record tourism for the last five years or something every year in Florida.
So if you need the revenue, which it's not even clear that we need the revenue because we're such a well-run state, but if you need the revenue, you could charge a little more in taxes for all the tourism stuff, offsetting the property tax.
Because if you allow people to, you buy your home, you don't have to pay taxes on the value of that land forever, then they can reinvest more in their home.
August 11th, it was revealed that a former Democrat Intelligence Committee staffer turned whistleblower told the FBI in 2017 that Adam Schiff personally approved leaking classified information on Russia to smear President Trump.
It probably should have had this earlier, but there you go.
So the Dems actually pulled out of their support for this guy because they think that the race was rigged, citing missing balance and insecure election machines.
The thing that I'm afraid of is they're going to fake.
He's going to win and they're going to fake it for a year.
Socialism can be faked for a year, meaning because the Democrats turn on the violence when they want and they shut it off.
So they'll stop at the craziness.
The government-run grocery stores, they'll work for about a year until the workers start realizing they have no skin in the game, and then the system fails.
But the question is, does it scale at that year?
Meaning, people are looking at it like in that year and then being like, okay, bring it to Minneapolis, bring it to San Francisco, Los Angeles, and everything.
We did it in the 70s, and it was an abject failure.
So, yeah, and I'm sure you caught the video of him saying, like, he wants to seize production, and he doesn't believe in prisons, and there's no need for personal property.
It is intriguing here because these are long-standing allegations that the book indicated or referenced classified material that he may have acquired when he was in the administration.
We're not clear as to what that is, but it would suggest that it could be national defense information.
All right, so the concern is obviously like Trump's vindictive, he's going after old enemies, he's weaponizing the FBI and the DOJ, the usual game, right?
It is weird, you know.
I don't know yet.
I guess we're gonna find out if something happened, but that's that's the concern.
So, an individual who I guess is allegedly transgender named Robin Westman shot and killed two kids and injured 17 others at a Catholic school during a mass in Minneapolis.
Okay, now new evidence is emerging that this suspected shooter appeared to be psychotic.
Manic, 22-year-old young man, possibly trans, who left an 11-minute manifesto video on YouTube just hours before the shooting.
The suspect wrote notes on the weapons he used, including Kill Trump Now, McVeigh, Where is Your God?
Burn Israel, $6 million was not enough.
He had a human-shaped target with Jesus's face attached to it.
Now, this, of course, has begotten crazy culture wars over the transgender people.
Right, so that whole thing has begun.
And then simultaneously, you've got Frey who take a look at this and then make your own opinion, okay?
We'll discuss it.
I don't even want to set it up yet.
Can you guys toss up that video of Frey for me, please?
So, okay, so there's some element of that, but if you, but that's secondary to what likely was massive psychological distress or whatever you want to call it, that this boy, I guess, thought he was a girl.
How about we talk about psychological health and drugs and all of the others?
Right, which, you know, look, that's a slippery slope, too, because then we just are, well, it's a slippery slope in that we then are like sort of training our children to just be around.
Like there is something about children having to then be around armed five-year-olds walking into schools and seeing, you know, in effect soldiers at the doors.
There's some conversation around that.
But all of these things always boil down to mental health and everything else.
The video that probably got me the craziest in like the last five years, do you remember that Texas Uvalde shooting where they, I mean, it's hard to remember any of these at this point, but somebody went in and shot like 17 year olds, 17 kindergartners, basically all elementary school kids.
And then Joy Reed went on TV that night and said, this is not a mental health issue.
It's a gun issue.
And it's like, it's so crazy.
That's a mental health issue to say that.
Because if you go in and kill innocent children, you obviously have a mental health issue.
You don't need a doctor to diagnose you with that.
So all of these things are much more about mental health and likely prescription drugs.
And, you know, the other problem is that with the manifesto stuff and putting all that stuff out, it incentivizes people to put out crazy things, right?
It doesn't mean that he believed any of that stuff.
It just, you know, they put out, there's a game.
There's like a butterfly effect and a game that's being played.
I'm going to put up a YouTube video.
I'm going to write these crazy things.
All of that fits into the psychological screwiness of everything.
So but I can see this probably has all of the cultural markings.
That's interesting that he went after Bud Light still because, you know, they've really put a lot of money into UFC and other stuff to try to make up for what they've done.
The one thing I can say is around 1996, I was driving up to, I went to SUNY Binghamton and I stopped somewhere near Poughkeepsie, if I'm not mistaken, at a cracker barrel, and I had the most delicious, fully loaded baked potato I'd ever had in my life.
They put salt and pepper on the outside of the potato, which I now do, and it's delicious.
Well, putting aside whether you like him or not, even putting, like, whether that doesn't even, in some sense, it's like the bigger story is that this guy who's been an icon.
There was kind of a sweet moment in there where I guess Gutfeld says he goes to light a smoke and Fallon's like wasted and crumbles up his cigarette, which is something I would do.
And he's like, these will kill you.
And Gutfeld's like, I'm poor and you just crushed my cigarette.
And I guess Fallon bought him a pack of cigarettes.
Yeah, I mean, I thought you said something about Disney and something I thought you were going to say something about like they sold Star Wars, which would be amazing, but okay, fine, move on.
If I could just throw out, like, maybe just don't bring up the Holocaust.
That would be a mistake.
Okay, August 12th, the UFC signs a $7.7 billion deal with Paramount to add UFC events to Paramount Plus streaming services in 2026, eliminating the pay-per-view model.
and i loved this take a look in politics you you inherit enemies and when you jump on in in on you know the the bandwagon with who is you know the most divisive president ever it makes sense that You're going to be made to look terrible.
And so I don't know what to believe.
Because it's not like I sit with Bobby and I go, so hey, let's talk about this.
It's like we're just playing cards or playing mafia or having fun or having dinner.
I'm not going to pick his brain to find out exactly which of those things are true.
I just kind of assume that none of them are.
And for the most part, I wish him well, man.
I hope there's certain things that he oversees that seem to be supported in a bipartisan way, like getting terrible, toxic stuff out of our kids' food.
I think that's a great thing.
And so, just if you just do that, that's amazing.
I'd hate to be so mired in hatred for the president that any success from his administration is something I'd have an allergic reaction to.
To be like, oh, well, if they do it, I don't want it to happen.
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I'll feed my, I'll put Clorox in my children's cereal myself.
There's some major stuff happening with the tequila, which will be for sale again next week, finally.
And we've dealt with some of the logistical issues around that.
So, Copala, we're going to be really big on that for next year.
We have a couple ideas that we're going to change.
We changed a few things with the set.
We have new chairs here, which are quite comfortable, by the way.
And a nice new table and a lot of paper on the floor.
We're expanding a couple of things.
We're working on a network situation that I've been talking about for quite some time and some other things.
There's a lot of good things happening, and I'm glad to.
I didn't know how, you know, the last thing that happened in this room at the end of July was I taped one last thing, and I was sitting here with Connor and Joseph, and we finished, and then we all just sat here quietly for like 30 seconds.
And I said, I said, I don't know how I feel right now.
And Joseph goes, it feels weird.
And that kind of caught it for me because it wasn't like I was like relieved, like, I hate my job and now I'm so happy to escape.
It wasn't that.
It was like I was saying goodbye to my friends for a month and like I was going to enjoy myself, but I enjoy myself when I'm here.
And so this morning when I was coming back, I was like, how do I feel?
And I was like, it feels weird.
Because it's not that I wasn't happy to come back, but I also really enjoyed being off.
Anyway, I'm going to take all of that and all of the lessons I learned for a month and all the stuff that you gave me right here.
I'll try to be better at what I do and see if the country.