CNN Reporter Humiliated as Question About Fallen Soldiers Blows Up in Her Face
Dave Rubin details Operation Epic Fury's success against Iran, claiming the destruction of its navy and leadership while deflecting criticism over six U.S. deaths as media bias. He argues this strategy chokes China's energy supply via the Strait of Hormuz, contrasting current actions with Marco Rubio's 2015 warnings. The episode shifts to Minnesota hearings where Scott Perry questions Tim Walz on immigrant crimes and autism funding spikes, alongside Keith Ellison's denial of Somali Medicaid fraud statistics. Finally, Rubin discusses banning Islam as a political system due to its authoritarian nature and jizya tax. [Automatically generated summary]
We got a jam-packed program full of all sorts of stuff.
War, media, crazy Democrats, little bit of everything.
And I sent some good vibes in the studio this morning.
So we're diving right in.
Let's start with some war stuff.
Good vibes.
Let's start with the war.
Actually, you should have some good vibes around the war because the war is going extremely, extremely well.
But in war, some bad things do happen.
And we have lost a few of our servicemen, which absolutely is terrible.
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We're going to put that up in the description of the video below.
I will donate during one of the commercial breaks.
And so bad things do happen, but the overall arc of the war is going incredibly well.
We've taken out Iran's Navy.
They basically are losing all their ballistic missiles.
The nuclear program is going to be completely gone.
Their military leadership is out.
We've taken out Itola 7, 9, 12, 14, 16, 18, etc.
It sounds like the Kurds are starting to enter the country with arms to help the people take out the last vestiges of the IRGC.
There's a lot of good things happening.
Of course, our media can't frame it that way, right?
The mainstream media, they just can't because Donald Trump, bad.
That's how this thing has worked for the last 10 years.
So here's Karen Levitt pushing back on Caitlin Collins' assertion that Pete Hegset was complaining about mainstream media coverage as it relates to our fallen troops.
No, it's the position of this administration that the press in this room and the press across the country should accurately report on the success of Operation Epic Fury and the damage it is doing to the rogue Iranian regime that has threatened the lives of every single American in this room.
If the Iranian regime had their choice, they would kill every single person in this room.
Okay, so the reason I wanted to show you that clip, it's obviously not the most important thing as it relates to where the war is at at the moment, but you know, everything is about narrative.
So it is horrific and deeply sad and painful and everything else that we have lost some servicemen here, right?
And several of them, it's because Kuwait actually shot down some of our planes, right?
Our ally, Kuwait, using our weapons, did that accidentally, fog of war, right?
But CNN obviously wants to focus on anything that will be negative related to the war, as opposed to everything that we laid out yesterday in that absolutely stellar press conference that Pete Hegset gave about the war, about the progress of the war, the coordination with Israel, the fact that the other Muslim Arab nations in the area are now working with us.
Saudi Arabia may start attacking Iran.
Like there's a lot of good things happening here.
It's going probably better than anyone anticipated.
But of course, CNN wants to focus on everything bad.
And really, you'd only have to think for one second: okay, if this was Biden doing this, they would be cheering it on, right?
And they would be basically hiding the fact, if any soldiers add.
I want to go just one step further with this, because then Jake Tapper went off on Levitt regarding the same thing.
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But Jake, you know, you know, look, try to give the devil his due here.
In some sense, you are right.
We should be covering.
We should know the names of these people that give it all so that we can be free, right?
We should know all of their names.
We should care.
Usually more than we do, we just move on.
But I would say at the same token, it's like we should care more about the victims of all the illegal immigrants who are murderers and rapists and everything else.
And you never cover those women's names.
You always cover the names of the poor guys who did the raping and the murdering and everything else.
But more broadly, I would say, Jake, the problem that you guys are running up against, the reason Caroline Levitt is going off on Caitlin Collins like that and attacking CNN like that, is because you guys have such a track record of lying about Trump that in this case, I think the administration, in the midst of a war that's going extremely well, is allowed to at least be a little skeptical, if not outright annoyed, at your behavior.
Let's not forget Jake Tapper.
This is Jake Tapper.
This only took us two seconds to find.
You tell me, is this guy an authentic, good actor when it comes to covering Donald Trump?
The president who said there were, quote, very fine people on both sides in a Charlottesville neo-Nazi Klan march in Charlottesville and his infamous reference to very fine people.
There were quote very fine people on both sides of that Charlottesville, Virginia march.
And candidate Trump, I tried to get him three times to condemn David Duke.
It's like, Jake, we're going to have to take a little bit of what you say and you're emoting about this with a grain of salt because you have a track record of lying.
Like the very fine people thing, it's not just that it was a lie.
You guys all know this.
It's not just that it was a lie.
It was a lie that you guys, no matter how many times it was debunked, literally for years by those of us online, you guys kept running with it to the point that Barack Obama was still spreading the lie the day before the election.
Also, Jake, you did write a book about a cover-up that you were involved in, right?
You literally wrote a book about Joe Biden's mental decline and the cover-up around it, despite you being basically the lead anchor at CNN, the network that covered it up.
So we're just going to have a, I would say, a fair bit of skepticism when it comes to how you cover this war.
I thought this was a really, really interesting moment on Fox News.
So on the five, the five is basically Fox News' version of the view.
They have, she's sort of the one kind of lefty on the show.
Her name's Jessica Tarilov.
And you watch her get into it with Jesse Waters here.
But then it's really, the reason I'm showing you this clip is Gutfeld at the end.
If you think that going after a theocracy like this made up of religious lunatics who you cut off the head and 100 more sprout out is the same, it just makes you look stupid.
This is sort of where the Democrats are at at the moment, which is a really strange position.
First off, you know, there is always an argument.
People always make the argument, oh, you cut the head off and then many others sprout up.
Like it's an endless snake and you cut one head off and another appendage grows and another appendage grows.
That argument, like the philosophy behind that argument is really thin because you would never do anything about any bad guy.
Why would you take out Hitler?
There'll be another Nazi after him.
Why would you take out this bad guy?
Now, they're trying to give the devil his due here.
There is an interesting element when it comes to like maybe a pure sectarian, secular army versus a religious army, where the religious people tend to be a little more devoted to the cause, let's say, so that they might sprout up again.
But that's not why you don't go after people.
When people are chanting death to America, when their terrorist proxies are quite literally all over the world creating mayhem, when they're telling you we're trying to get a nuclear bomb and they're not negotiating in good faith, all of those things might be reasons that you decapitate them.
particularly in a case with Iran where it's the radical Islamic mullahs and the once Ayatollah who are not representative of the people.
The people want an uprising against him, which is why they just against the people want an uprising against them, which is why the mullahs and the Ayatollah just killed about 40,000 of their own people.
So Gutfeld's broader point is you guys will complain no matter what.
And what's interesting here is they really, because this is going so well and because we have such a highly competent Trump, Hegset, Marco, et cetera, we have such a competent team doing this.
They are going to have to find the littlest things to constantly complain and worry about.
Now, interestingly, one of the things that they are suddenly complaining about, the Democrats, is the rule of law.
These are people who flood the country with immigrants, who don't arrest people for crimes, who have sanctuary cities, who openly, admittedly want to pack the court.
Who seemingly don't like our founding.
They don't like our founding documents.
They are not for free speech.
The Biden administration quite literally worked with big tech to silence us all during COVID, et cetera, et cetera.
They don't like the rules, except right now, they don't like what Trump's doing.
So suddenly they're all about that old piece of paper, the Constitution.
Listen to this from Fox.
Senate Republicans closed ranks Wednesday, handing President Donald Trump a win on his use of force in Iran.
The Senate shot down a resolution from Senator Tim Kaine aimed at limiting Trump's military actions in Iran on Wednesday, following days of speculation whether Republicans would cross the aisle as they have done before to reprimand the president.
Only Senator Rand Paul, Kentucky, voted in favor of the resolution, while Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Democrat, obviously was the lone Democrat to cross the aisle in support.
So there's something sort of fascinating here.
You have Rand Paul.
Now, Rand Paul, I've had on the show a million times.
I like Rand Paul a lot.
One of the reasons that, what was it, eight years ago or so, that I started coming around on Donald Trump after not voting for him the first time was because Rand Paul, who I largely consider to be principled and I get his libertarian view of the world.
I don't agree with every part of it, right?
But I get it and I think he's a decent man.
What he's saying here is you've got to come to the Senate and then to Congress to get this authorization.
So you have a libertarian that's joining the Democrats on this, not because he likes the Democrats, but he has a fundamental belief in a certain version of the process, let's say.
Like I'm not impugning his motives.
Then you have John Fetterman, who is saying this is a cause worthy of going for, and we can't get caught up in the Senate vote and the Congress vote and everything else.
And I think what Fetterman's really saying is, man, if the Senate throws this thing to the Congress, Congress literally has supporters of Hamas in Congress, in the Democrat side, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar.
I absolutely include AOC in that and more.
Like you have people who are sympathetic to authoritarian regimes and terrorists who don't like America very much.
Think how impossible it would be for America to do anything, anything at this point.
Like think of the level of coordination and planning that this thing took, months and years.
I mean, obviously years and years of intelligence, coordination, planning, joint military operations between Americans and Israelis and other nations in the area and everything else to pull this off so that when it got pulled off like that, what was it, Saturday night when it all went down, they basically took out Ayatollah immediately.
They take out all of this military infrastructure, destroy the Navy.
Like imagine if Trump had to go to Congress and talk about what they were going to do.
I'm sorry, Massey, but that part at the end there is complete nonsense.
I mean, we've played you several videos of Rubio and Trump and Hegseth explaining exactly why we did this.
We played the video the other day of Witkoff saying we were in negotiations with them.
They basically admitted that they were enriching uranium at higher levels.
They weren't going to back out of it.
Rubio has pointed out they're at their weakest point now.
So you don't wait till they have more ballistic missiles, which they are trying to build right now.
On top of the fact that Donald Trump a month ago, you could agree or disagree, but a month ago told the people of Iran help is coming.
And Donald Trump does hold his word, right?
You may not like that.
You may not want him to do that, but the idea that the administration hasn't explained what's going on here is crazy.
Like, that's just not true.
I would also say I'm extremely sympathetic to his first statement there, which is that he doesn't want America and Europe to be flooded with Iranian refugees.
I'll say this.
I am completely 100% against any refugee coming here, at least for now.
Now, if you tell me we're going to get a bunch of Persians, a certain, not a bunch, if you were telling me with a high vetting process that we could trust through the administration, not the way Biden did it, that a certain amount of Persians might come to America, Persians, not radical Islamists, who would end up loving America, the Persians, I could maybe get on board that, but that's not what we're trying to do here.
The whole idea of all of this is to give the Persian people their country back.
No one, the idea isn't we're going to give the Persian people their country back and then we're going to have all the mullahs come over.
Now, maybe the Democrats would want that, but that's not really what's going on here.
But I would also say Massey's doing the same thing that Jessica Tarlov did in the previous segment, which is that if we do anything, we just make these people hate us more.
But they don't need much to hate us more.
They hate us.
Here's video of the Iranian consultative assembly a month ago, and I'm pretty sure this is a fire hazard.
We have 30 more seconds of that, but I felt we could pull the plug on it earlier.
Anyway, the one sane Democrat in the Senate, John Fetterman, here he is explaining how out of control his party is.
I'm always going to pick my country over my party.
Like that, you know what's so interesting?
You could hear JFK saying that, couldn't you?
Like, that's what JFK would have said, who was a true liberal and an actual Democrat before the Democrats went crazy.
And again, it'll just never cease to amaze me that this is the one sane Democrat.
He's completely right.
The Democrat Party, if Biden was in office and did, we know that Biden wasn't in charge or anything else, but if Biden was in power or Kamala was in power and they did anything, literally any strike anywhere in the world for any reason, all of the Democrats would be behind it.
They wouldn't be asking for congressional authorization or anything else.
And don't take my word for it.
We have evidence of it, which we showed you yesterday when Barack Obama, basically out of nowhere, decided that we were just going to get rid of Gaddafi, who was not a good dude.
Gaddafi, not a great guy.
We had a picture of Gaddafi, also a very interesting-looking fella.
But we took him out.
Libya is now a failed state.
His last moments, which you may remember, I don't think we can show on YouTube, were him running in a street and somebody took a giant machete and stuck it up his ass.
That's a hell of a way to go.
It sounds like something that would have happened in Naked Gun.
But we did that.
Barack Obama caused Libya to become a full-on failed state, and the Democrats voted for it.
And when Timu Obama, Hakeem Jeffries, was asked about it yesterday, he's like, well, that's a totally different thing.
And I don't want to talk about it.
Do we have an image of Gaddafi?
Like, interesting-looking guy.
You want to know who his hairstylist is?
There's a lot there.
But Barack Obama decided that he should die with a machete up his ass.
That's just, these are just facts.
I report, you decide, you know?
Let's jump over.
I thought this was interesting.
This is the senior editor at Breitbart.
His name is Peter Schweitzer.
Here he is talking about something that I brought up a few days ago that a lot of people are starting to talk about right now, which is that what's happening in Iran right now is connected to what happened in Venezuela, but it's really connected to China, that Donald Trump has decided we are not going to let China, China, as he would say, we are not going to let China take over the world.
So we went to Venezuela, we got some oil.
Now we're taking out Iran, and here's the peace that can connect it to China.
Look, assume that China wanted to move on Taiwan, right?
There's a military response, but now we have a massive energy response, which is we simply don't allow any tankers to ship oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz.
We can do it.
It might have been a little bit dicey had we not taken out the Iranians.
That's roughly half of their oil, 40 to 50% of their oil, is now suddenly not available to them.
So those are enormous methodologies.
And look at what happens in terms of military technology, Jesse.
China provided their most advanced air defense capabilities to Iran.
We completely destroyed them.
They didn't shoot down one American or Israeli plane.
This is reminiscent of 1982 when the Israelis flying F-15s went up against the Syrians flying MiGs and the Israelis beat them 81 aircraft to zero.
What happened after that?
They couldn't give the MiGs away.
So China now has the problem that their military technology is not recognized as being up to part of the United States.
That's going to have huge implications with a whole host of other countries.
So, okay, so what would make sense here, just if you follow the sequence?
Well, so what was it, a month and a half ago, we get Maduro out.
We're now controlling much of the Venezuelan oil.
Well, if you've noticed over the last couple of days, there's a massive war in the Middle East.
And you know what's not happening?
Oil prices are not going bananas right now because not only are we drilling again here in America, but we also have access to Venezuelan oil.
So that can calm the markets down.
Then, as Schweitzer points out, Iran exports a huge amount.
We'll show you numbers in just a second.
A huge amount of oil to China.
China desperately needs that oil, and most of it goes through the Straits of Hormuz.
Well, we've destroyed their navy, basically destroyed their military leadership.
And now, in effect, we and the Israelis control the Straits of Hormuz, right?
So Iran is China's going, well, shit, damn, again.
They're going, darn, we want our oil from Iran, but Iran will basically be a non-functioning state soon enough until maybe Pablo Bi comes back and they fix it.
But take a look at this chart, and this will explain really what's so interesting here.
So this is Iran and Venezuela export most of their crude oil to China.
87% of the oil that Iran exports goes to China.
55% that Venezuela exports.
So right now we control Venezuela's oil and basically we are going to control Iran's oil.
So this is about China.
You can have all these people screaming, we're doing this for Israel.
And it's like, no, Donald Trump has decided, which is completely consistent with everything that he has said for years, that we are going to lead the world again.
He had to do some things in our hemisphere, which he did earlier this year with the new updated Monroe/slash Trump doctrine.
And now he's exporting that.
Let me read you this tweet that I thought was also connected to this very interesting by Tramath Palapatiya from the All-In Podcast.
He wrote, Chinese growth is falling off a cliff.
The CCP just announced its official growth target of between 4.5 and 5%.
That's the lowest growth in China in 30 years.
At the same time, with Venezuela and Iran off the chessboard with energy supply, they are increasingly challenged in getting the atoms they need to sustain themselves.
It makes for a very constrained set of decisions over the next few years, especially regarding Taiwan.
So you get it?
Everyone has been saying for the last decade plus, one of these days, China's going into Taiwan.
They're going to take Taiwan.
And Taiwan, which is a tiny, to do a Kamala version of this, China big, Taiwan small.
They would not be able to stop them.
Taiwan creates and manufactures tons of super important chips that are now going to AI.
Like it would be a massive security threat in the technological horizon we're on for China to take Taiwan.
So suddenly, because of the moves that we are making right now, we're choking off China.
Do you think that some of this stuff is connected?
So next time you're talking to a friend who's screaming about all of this, and we just want war for war's sake and everything else, you might want to mention some of this.
Now I want to show you a couple of videos from 10 years ago, 11 years ago, actually, because I think they perfectly illustrate when someone says, oh, we're just doing this out of nowhere.
There's no reason to do it.
You know, blah, blah, blah.
It's like, our leaders have been talking about this for a long time.
This video is going super viral.
This is probably the most viral video on the internet yesterday.
I do want to be recorded for history's purposes before I know what was going to happen in regards to this if it goes through.
And then at some point in the near future, when the time is right, they will build a nuclear weapon.
And they will do so because at that point they will know that they have become immune, that we will no longer be able to strike their nuclear program because the price of doing so will be too high.
This is not just a work of imagination.
It exists in the world today.
It's called North Korea, where a lunatic possesses dozens of nuclear weapons and a long-range rocket that can already reach the United States.
And we cannot do anything about it.
An attack on North Korea today would result in an attack on Tokyo or Seoul or Guam or Hawaii or California.
And so the world must now live with a lunatic in possession of nuclear weapons.
And this is the goal Iran has as well, to reach a point where they become immune to any sort of credible military threat because the price of a military strike would be too high.
Because we could have shown you that video and said that that is what Rubio said yesterday in explaining why we did it.
But 11 years ago, he was explaining that there is a threshold you get to.
You attack countries when they're weaker.
Had we waited until they had a nuke, the price becomes way too high.
We don't know what they're going to do with that nuke.
We don't know if they're going to put it on a missile.
We don't know if they're going to allow it to create a dirty bomb that can get into our country and everything else.
That was 11 years ago.
I also love the fact.
I mean, he's just so damn good that he said, I want this recorded for history's purposes.
He wanted people to know that way back then, and he was a senator from Florida, this is way before he ran for president or anything else, he wanted people to know that he was going to be on the right side of this.
Iran is led by a supreme leader who is a radical Shia cleric with an apocalyptic vision of the future.
He is not a traditional geopolitical actor who makes decisions on the basis of borders or simply history or because of ambitions.
He has an religious apocalyptic vision of the future, one that calls for triggering a conflict between the non-Muslim world and the Muslim world, one that he feels especially obligated to trigger.
And he's going to possess nuclear weapons.
This is the world that we are on the verge of leaving our children to inherit.
Iran may have a supreme leader, but America does not.
In this nation, we have a republic.
And soon we will have new leaders, perhaps in this chamber, but also in the executive branch.
And I pray that on their first day in office, they will reverse this deal and reimpose the sanctions and back them up with a credible threat of military force.
Or history will condemn us for not doing what needed to be done at this critical moment in the world's history.
Every day on the show, we show you politicians flip-flopping on things, or that's what they said then, and this is what they're saying now.
It's usually, you know, usually I do it with Democrats.
The Democrats of 20 years ago are just saying the same things that Donald Trump is saying now, or just constantly we can show you the hypocrisies and everything else.
Isn't it pretty damn refreshing to hear a politician who 11 years ago was saying literally the exact same thing?
So it is not a coincidence that that guy, Marco Rubio, who's saying the exact same thing 11 years ago that he's saying now, is working for Donald Trump, who we've shown you many videos of the course of the last 40 years, has been saying the exact same thing as it comes to Iran and many other issues.
You know, in the old days, I would have said 100 years ago, 50 years ago, 30 years ago, pull out, let them fight each other.
The one game changer that we have to be careful with that we never really had to think about too much before other than a certain number of years ago is the nuclear.
Nuclear today, it's not like soldiers in uniform shooting rifles.
You can take out the east coast of this country.
So if I run for president and if I win, I would totally succeed in creating jobs, defeating ISIS, and stopping the Islamic terrorists.
And you have to do that.
Reducing the budget deficit is so important.
Have to do it.
Securing our southern border, and I mean seriously securing stopping nuclear weapons in Iran and elsewhere.
This guy has been so consistent for so long, it's almost impossible.
It almost feels like ai, like how could he have been right about all of these things?
He's going to stop the nukes, he's going to secure the southern border, he's going to work on balancing the budget, like stop the Islamic terrorist networks, and he was right about all those things.
And now he's doing it right now with another guy who was talking about it 11 years ago and a ridiculously hyper competent, uh commander of our, of our Department OF WAR, Pete Hegs, that they're doing all of the things they said they were going to do and people are very upset about it people.
Is there anything worse than people?
Am I right?
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It was called the oversight of fraud and misuse of federal funds in Minnesota, part two.
And uh well, Tim Walz, a man who almost was vice president, who is now not even running for reelection as governor in Minnesota because he is so caught up in this fraud scam uh, he was brought in under oath to testify about the fraud.
Here is representative Scott Period, Uh grilling Walls regarding illegals getting driver's licenses, and then a bit from Ms. Bobert.
But he was licensed in your state under your law that you signed about a year and a half ago.
Every day we give licenses and people speed.
So we ticket them and try and stop that.
What I'm telling you is, I don't understand the connection between he's here illegally, he can't read, and he got a license under your provisions and he's driving all across the country, imperiling everybody else.
These are Minnesota women who were brutally killed by illegal aliens in your state.
You don't know who they are, so I would also assume that you did not attend their vigils or speak out to their families when they were brutally killed by illegal aliens.
Okay, first off, so look, you're never going to get an answer from these people.
It doesn't mean anything that they're under oath or anything else, and he probably won't pay the price.
Okay.
But, you know, for him to be in charge of a state that is giving illegal immigrants who cannot read commercial driver's license.
Hello, you're here.
Oh, you can't read.
Would you like a license to drive a truck?
And you're going to have to look at signs in a language that you can't read.
But we'll go ahead and do that.
And of course, he doesn't know, and I can't check everything.
And that's why the buck stops with nobody with these people.
It's just incompetence everywhere, right?
So that was great.
And then it was, of course, great what Lauren Bobert just did, which is exactly we played you a clip yesterday where Christy Noam called out Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal.
Do you know the name of this person?
And then Bobert did it right there.
Why is it that the Democrats never know the name of the women who have been raped and/or murdered, beaten with a boot or whatever else in their states?
They always know the name and they'll get out on the streets and they'll get a bullhorn as Walls did and they'll get out there and say, stay on the streets in honor of defending the illegals who commit these horrific acts.
But they know none of the names of the women who are the actual victims.
Nancy Mace decided to pull an oldie but a goodie right here on Tim Walz.
Okay, so your excuse before that you didn't know what 2017 autism numbers were because you were not governor, and today you can't answer the numbers about 2024 as governor.
And you still said you prepared for this hearing today.
They're learning to use little visual cues and notes and things like that because that's powerful.
So basically in eight years, they went from a million for autism to $342 million.
And how many people got, how much less autism is there in Minnesota?
I'm going to guess none.
I'm actually going to guess that the rates of autism actually went up.
Now, that is not to say that the state can't do anything to help with certain schools or whatever.
Separate argument.
They went from 1 million to 343 million.
You would think there would be a radically a huge difference, decline in either the rates of autism or how they're dealing with it or whatever.
But of course, the answer is no.
Then this guy, Roe Khanna, the one Democrat who will talk to me, but probably not for much longer, and he just keeps getting worse and worse and worse.
Here he is absolutely lying about the Somali fraud situation.
That's Keith Ellison, who, of course, is the Attorney General of Minnesota, who's caught up in the entire scam himself.
It took us two seconds, two seconds, according to the AP.
So you can either trust Roe Conna, just saying it has nothing to do with the Somalis, or you can trust the AP.
87% of Minnesota Medicaid fraud was through the Somali community.
So did the AP just make that up?
So Roe, you're just a liar.
Like you should be the one under oath answering those questions.
You're just an absolute liar.
And by the way, you might want to check out my interview about a month and a half ago with Ayan Hersiali, who is Somali herself, but she is like the anti-Ilhan Omar.
And she talks about how it is part of the Somali culture that if you see an opportunity of fraud or take advantage of the system, that it's actually kind of built into the culture to do that.
That's what she's saying as a Somali.
Okay, so you're just outright lying there.
And what they're trying to do is suicidal empathy.
Roe is going, it's just not true that the Somalis, like, first off, in and of it, like, base-level thinking would let you think that certain groups act a little bit differently, right?
Groups act a little bit differently.
They have different foods, they have different behaviors, they have different customs and everything else.
So it is not a coincidence that the Somali community, that doesn't mean all Somalis do it, but is there an issue with the place that they came from and the culture that they've imported that they are doing 87% of the Medicaid fraud, the Medicaid fraud, right?
But okay, you get it, Democrats, liars, frauds, and nutbags.
Well, it got even wackier, as we pointed out yesterday in Texas, because Lady Eyelash is Jasmine Crockett, who is a far left nutbag beyond imagination.
She got beat in a Democrat primary by somebody who is even nuttier than her.
You almost can't make it up.
Like, you thought, man, they went so far that way that they're over here now, roadrunner style or something.
But no, they're just, they just keep going.
So the guy who beat Jasmine Crockett is this guy by the name of James Tallarico.
And then isn't it true that Jamie Lee Curtis was born with a penis and a vagina?
Somebody said that once.
Yeah, I got a thumbs up on that.
So I'll throw in there's male, female, and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Okay.
I don't know what the other three are.
Trans, the trans community needs abortion healthcare.
Now, a trans person is someone who's born in a body.
Let's say I'm male, right?
Now, if I believed I was female, that wouldn't change my biology.
I wouldn't magically have a uterus.
Christy's busy.
Otherwise, I would grab some of her lipstick.
But if I put lipstick on right now, would I have a uterus?
No.
No, I would not.
And that man just beat Jasmine Crockett.
But there's more from this man.
Listen to this in May 2020.
White skin gives me and every white American immunity from the virus, but we spread it everywhere we go through our words, our actions, and our systems.
We don't have to be showing symptoms like a white hood or a Confederate flag to be contagious.
I mean, it's extraordinarily brain-damaging drivel.
You're not guilty for anything because you're white, just like you're not guilty for anything just because you're black or anything else.
This man should be under serious psychiatric care.
And instead, he's going to churches and telling people that they should have trans abortions.
Here's Donald Trump on the Texas political situation.
So that was the Democrat primary, and there was a Republican primary as well.
But so this is what Trump's addressing here.
The Republican primary race for the United States Senate in the great state of Texas, a state I love and won three times in record numbers, the highest vote ever recorded by far, cannot, for the good of our party and our country itself, be allowed to go on any longer.
It must stop now.
We have an easy to beat radical left opponent and we have to totally focus on putting him away quickly and decisively.
Both John and Ken ran great races, but not good enough.
Now, this one must be perfect.
My endorsements within the Republican Party have been virtually insurmountable.
It is an honor to realize and say that almost everyone I endorse wins and wins by a lot, especially in Texas.
I'll be making my endorsement soon and I'll be asking the candidate that I don't endorse to immediately drop out of the race.
Either one, by any account, should beat this leftist wackadoodle.
But I would say to Ken Paxon and John Cornyn, make a deal.
Like this is what politics is about.
Make a deal so that one of you becomes governor.
And if the other one wants to be, I don't know what it is, attorney general of the state or you want to be deputy governor or something, just make a deal.
Like the Republicans need to coalesce right now.
And by the way, someone can fact check me on this.
I think that every single person that Donald Trump endorsed in these elections the last couple of days, that nobody lost.
Some of them went to runoffs, but I don't think anyone actually lost.
And just quickly on Polymarket, where they do the betting odds on this stuff, 86% are saying that it'll be John Cornyn.
15% to be Ken Paxon.
So, you know, if that basically is true, then it's like Trump should back Cornyn.
Paxson should just get out.
There's too much at risk here.
And unless you want, if you're just the average guy, you know, with the cowboy hat on a ranch, you know, riding your horse around and you want to pay for trans abortions, you better vote for one of them.
All right, let's do a locals community QA.
Joseph is at the computer right there.
So if you're on locals right now at rubinreport.locals.com, you can get a question in on the fly.
He's doing some sort of happy dance right now.
A different view says, hey, Dave, because of you and your show, I was inspired to run for public office.
I'm a candidate for city trustee in the city of Milliken in Colorado.
Do you think Islam should be banned in the United States through a constitutional amendment because it functions as a political system rather than solely a religion and therefore conflicts with Western Democratic values and the separation of church and state?
Well, first off, let me just address the first part of that.
If I had anything to do, like one half of 1% to do with you getting involved and getting in, and you know, I'm honored and I'm thrilled to hear that.
You use an alias here, so I don't actually know your name, but if you want me to help promote you and talk about you, I would be more than happy to do that.
I'd like to know a little bit more about your platform, but I would assume that, you know, I would largely be on board.
Look, as to the question of Islam, it's something that we are going to have to increasingly deal with and discuss.
And it's not something that anyone wants to talk about because the truth is nobody wants to get beheaded and called an Islamophobe and all of the rest of it.
But Islam operates not only as a religion, but as a political system.
It means to submit.
They want you to submit to everything.
And everywhere that political Islam has grown becomes more authoritarian and worse for the dhimmis.
The dhimmis are the non-Muslims.
And unless you want to pay your jizya, this is what the non-Muslims pay.
It's a tax that non-Muslims pay to live in Muslim societies.
Unless you want to be in a place like Saudi Arabia, where they quite literally have roads for Muslims and then roads for non-Muslims.
There's no churches, no state sanctioned churches in Saudi Arabia.
You know, let's not forget Tucker Carlson went to Saudi Arabia, said he feels safer as a Christian in the seat of Islam in Saudi Arabia where there are no churches.
He's buying a currently buying a house in Qatar, even though now the Qatar has come out against him and said he was lying about that story about the Mossad agents.
So what do we do?
Do we outlaw it because of the church and state issue?
I don't know exactly.
There probably is an argument for it.
There probably is.
Look, is it a problem that Zorhan Mamdami, and I'm sure he's not the only one, I'm going to guess Rashid Al-Talib did and several others, took their oath of office on the Quran.
They are saying the thing that I believe in is above the Constitution of the United States.
You know, virtually every other politician does it on the Bible.
And you could say, well, wait a minute, we live by secular values, not biblical values, even though the founders framed their secular values through biblical stories and through Bible itself.
You can make that argument, except the Bible is not antithetical to our constitutional values.
The Quran is.
That's just true.
So I don't know what we do about that exactly, but we're going to have to start having some more serious conversations.
Look, when radical Islam went crazy in Europe, it was because at the mosques they were preaching all sorts of things.
We have shown you plenty of videos from America right now.
It's not just Europe where at the mosques they are talking about killing the non-believers and hunting down the Jew and blah, Can that work in America?
I don't think so.
Glenn says, what were your favorite TV shows when you were a kid?
We pulled up some images here.
None of this is going to surprise you.
So first off, I love the Cosby show.
I remember 1983, I saw Bill Cosby himself on HBO.
I was seven years old.
I remember sitting in my parents' den.
You know, when you're a kid and you sit right in front of the TV and your parents are yelling at you, you're going to go blind because you're sitting in front of the TV.
I remember having my legs up, like right on the TV was on, you know, like a console or something and watching that thing.
And I remember being buckled over in last year's, I could not believe anything could be that funny.
The dentist routine and chocolate dad is great.
Bakes us chocolate cake.
Like I just thought it was the funniest thing ever.
And then, you know, what, two years later, Cosby, The Cosby Show came out.
And the first couple of years of the Cosby show were absolutely hysterical.
They were brilliant.
By the way, you could make an argument that Bill Cosby did more for race relations in America than anybody because he so normalized the show until the last few years where it became a little bit more about race, unfortunately.
And that's where the show sort of went off the rails.
You know, he was a, what was he?
He was an obstetrician in OBGYN.
And his wife, Felicia Rashad, she was a, she was a lawyer.
They lived in a nice part of Brooklyn.
Like it had nothing to do really with race.
They were just like another American family.
I think it was a wonderful, wonderful show.
Turns out he drugged a lot of women and raped them.
Nobody's perfect, but I just loved it.
Then, of course, Golden Girls, which I've talked to you guys about a million times, like just funny, funny, funny.
Four brilliant actresses.
Absolutely hilarious.
And anyway, if you're asking me really what I was watching in the 80s as a kid, it's the middle too.
It's the original Transformers series and the original G.I. Joe.
The Transformers series was just so damn good.
And I've watched some of it, even doing cardio.
I'll occasionally watch them.
And there was the 1986 Transformers movie, which came out.
And I saw it in the movie theater in 1986.
I was 10 years old.
My brother was seven.
And as many of you know watching this right now, about 15 minutes into the movie, spoiler alert, they kill Optimus Prime.
And as I remember crying in the movie theater as a 10-year-old, and everyone was crying in the movie theater.
And there was a huge outcry against it because parents thought they were taking their kids to just, you know, there's a cartoon movie, Robots, More Than Meets the Eye, blah, blah, blah.
And next thing you know, the hero dies right at the beginning.
Starscream also died, which I was upset about, but a lot of people didn't care about that.
And then eventually the G.I. Joe movie didn't make it to theaters because the Transformers movie was so controversial.
But that Transformers movie is better than the Michael Bay trash.
Samantha says, Dear Dave, I just saw that Ben Shapiro had Senator Fetterman on his show yesterday.
I didn't know that.
When will you make that happen?
I feel like he would be a much better Democrat guest than Rokana.
We've been trying.
We absolutely will make that happen.
I'll text Ben after this and see if he can hook it up.
But yes, I would love to talk to Fetterman.
Because I think what would be interesting is, so is it your goal now?
Like what makes you a Democrat still?
And he would probably lay out some of the types of things when I say I'm still a liberal, but it just doesn't make sense to say liberal and people don't understand classical liberalism and all that.
I think he would lay a little bit of that out.
But is it true that he's just there to kind of hold the door now, right?
Is he just there to stop the crazy?
Is he there to just be the damn, be a pain in the ass as they go completely nuts?
Because if they had literally nobody on their side that was even remotely saying, just how much crazier they would go.
Look what we just showed you out of Texas.
I mean, that's Texas.
That means Texas Democrats thought that Jasmine Crockett wasn't crazy enough.
Think about that.
Janine says, so our trip to Israel was canceled for obvious reasons.
My family and I have decided instead to spend a few days in Miami before hopping on a cruise.
Is there a list somewhere of all the restaurants that serve Copal?
What are some restaurants you recommend?
Well, hopefully, I don't know what the tourism situation is in Israel, obviously, for the next week or two.
Probably not great.
We actually have a trip upcoming.
We're supposed to be going to Hungry and Israel.
The Hungry portion will definitely happen.
I'm not sure what will happen on the Israel side.
If you want Copal in Miami, so we're in the midst of getting into a couple of restaurants, but for sure, we're at a great steak joint in the heart of Coconut Grove, which is one of the best areas in all of Miami.
Chop Steakhouse over there.
And my man George is one of the bartenders over there who's fantastic.
So you can get Copal over there.
There's a couple other restaurants.
I think we're going to be at Old Cutler Inn, which is a little off the beaten path, but a great restaurant owned by a friend of mine down here.
And there are a few others, but I would say go to Coconut Grove.
And CHOP is just fantastic.
The steak is fantastic.
And it takes a lot for me to say that about somebody else's steak.
And just enjoy our great city.
Miami is just so great.
Go to the design district.
You know, obviously go to the beach and spend a little time on South Beach.
Just you're going to see a safe, wonderful, functioning place filled with people who are fit and happy.
And you're going to see a lot of infrastructure being built.
But Coconut Grove is just a great area to walk around and enjoy yourself.
And it's right on the water over there.
And there's some other places.
But CHOP is the place right now to get Copala.
And if you want to just order Copala yourself, you can go to drinkcopal.com.
And we're working on a whole series of, we're in a couple of stores in Tampa now.
We're working on Florida first.
And then the idea is to go nationwide in stores.
Joe says, have you ever served on a jury before?
If so, what was it like for you?
You've probably jinxed me in the most horrible way, Joe, but I have never done it.
You know, a couple times when I lived in New York, I was called in for jury duty.
And, you know, there was there, the way, at least they did it in New York at the time, was if you said you were willing to do it and they didn't choose you, you would get like a six-year, you know, a six-year stay in essence, that they wouldn't call you for another six years.
And I'm pretty sure that happened to me twice, where I was like, all right, I'll just get it out of the way.
And I didn't get chosen twice, which is, you know, pretty lucky, I suppose.
And then I don't think I've been called for it in LA or here in Florida, but you've probably jinxed me horribly.
And I'm going to have to take a month off from the show.
Well, that's just, thanks, Joe.
All right.
Is this a YouTube comment?
We're going to jump into a YouTube comment for just a sec.
You know, I've been trying to pay attention a little more to the comments in general because they've been so good.
And I'm really, I'm just so proud of what we've built on Rumble and YouTube, the locals especially.
But just seeing the reaction, especially as things get crazier, this I just thought was interesting.
1579.
Thank you, Dave, for your continuing excellent coverage of our life in the United States.
Doesn't matter what's going on.
You keep things straight.
As an almost retiree, I have time to listen better to what's happening.
And you are an important part of a mere handful of journalists I trust.
You know, again, I always say I don't consider myself a journalist.
I am just telling you what I think and I'm trying to be honest about it.
And you can agree with me or not agree with me.
And I hope you're laughing along the way.
And I've just watched so many people in this space just go completely insane.
But it was not easy to get here.
You know, I had to leave several jobs.
Like when I was, I think when I started doing the show in 2013, I was making $50,000 a year at the Young Turks.
And I left that show and I took, it was, I made a little bit more at Aura TV for a little bit while a little while, that's where the show started blowing up.
And the better we did there, they kept demanding more out of us.
And that's when I was like, this doesn't make sense.
I'm going to try to go independent.
And I remember the night before we launched our original Patreon, which is what that was the crowdsourcing thing we were on before I created Locals.
I remember thinking it was only me and David and our one producer, Amira, director Amira, actually.
And I said to the two of them, I was like, I might have just ruined all of our lives.
I have no idea when we launch this crowdfunding thing in the morning, if we're going to be okay.
And within minutes of launching the next morning at 9 a.m., we had about 30 grand a month, which is, you know, that's about $700,000 a year in operating budget to do the show.
And that was the beginning.
And now I work with tons of great people.
We get to travel all over the world and I can show up in Australia and do shows and all this cool stuff.
So it's a two-way street is the point.
Like, I'm telling you what I think.
And trust me, you guys are giving it way back to me in a much bigger way.
Such is a post-game show, which I will offer a bit more insight on.
If you want to join us right now, 30 seconds, rubenreport.locals.com.
We've got a great panel show tomorrow.
I'm not even going to tease the guests, but we have two new guests who I've wanted on for a long time.