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| In spite of the anger that I am I am feeling and hearing from so many of you about this, you know, absolute Adam Schiff show that Republicans are involved in to pick a speaker. | |
| I'm I am not as panicked as so many others are. | |
| I'll explain why later. | |
| However, it is time for them to get their act together. | |
| They were given a position to lead. | |
| They should start leading. | |
| And by leading, that doesn't mean you put a band-aid over a solution and well, empower the speaker pro tem uh for sixty or ninety days, and and and then still have to deal with the problem. | |
| No, your job is to lead, and that means take the key, lock yourself in a room, check your ego, check your phone at the door, and none of them should leave the room but to go to the bathroom, uh, maybe a shower every 24 hours until they pick a new speaker. | |
| It really is that simple. | |
| Not that anybody in Washington ever dares listen to me. | |
| Uh you know, I'm looking at this, you know, all these media outlets that took Hamas propaganda and ran with this story about the hospital that Israel bombed this hospital, killing 500 doctors and children and sick people. | |
| You know, it was every media, major media outlet in this country that did this. | |
| Israel's the only way to to f resolve this is they had to reveal the the level of sophistication of their intelligence gathering operation, and and that tipped off their enemies is to how capable their intelligence gathering is. | |
| That was not helpful to Israel. | |
| But don't worry, the New York Times, they took the rare step of publishing a standalone editor's note. | |
| Gee, that's really, really big of them. | |
| Addressing its coverage of the attack in the hospital in Gaza, believed to have killed hundreds of people. | |
| It didn't kill hundreds of people. | |
| It was a parking lot. | |
| The hospital standing today. | |
| The hospital never got hit. | |
| The parking lot got hit. | |
| Couple of cars got destroyed. | |
| Did anyone die? | |
| I don't know if it of if people died, the number would be quite low. | |
| Because right around the cars that were destroyed were other cars that remained untouched. | |
| So just to be clear. | |
| But Israel then had to release the tapes, uh, the recordings of Hamas. | |
| Uh oh, it looks like we did this. | |
| Whoopsie Daisy. | |
| Well, guess what? | |
| Now all of Israel's enemies know that they're probably being listened to. | |
| Anyway, the Times reported that the news of the explosion at Gaza City at this hospital at the time, the and the the they and other major outlets, the AP, Reuters, basically all of them, ABC, MBC, CBS, MSDNC, fake news CNN, Washington Post, the usual characters, the people that have never apologized or returned their pull it surprises that were phony based on reporting on the Russia hoax. | |
| They just peddle lies and conspiracy theories for years and were proven wrong, and they have yet to retract, apologize, uh, tell people what they're going to do better in the future. | |
| None of that ever happened. | |
| Uh, but anyway, Israel's strike kills hundreds in hospitals, Palestinians say, read the initial Times headline. | |
| Story had prominent placement. | |
| Times pointed out in the editor's note the report included a large headline at the top of the Times website. | |
| Within hours, Israel was saying, No, we did not do this. | |
| That was not us. | |
| They denied launching that strike. | |
| They said the explosion was the consequence of an errant rocket fired by the Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian group. | |
| In the days since the United States and France have said that early intelligence completely supports Israel's version of events. | |
| Israel has released what is irrefutable, incontrovertible evidence that it was not them. | |
| But, you know, with all that said, now the Times says this this is their excuse. | |
| They relied too heavily on claims by Hamas in their initial reporting on the strike. | |
| Is that what it is? | |
| Why would you ever rely on any claim by any terrorist organization? | |
| Can we start with that question? | |
| You know, the New York Times has lied repeatedly about me over the years and continues to do so, as has the Washington Post. | |
| You know, uh once I was very close to filing a lawsuit. | |
| I just here's the problem. | |
| There's a landmark case. | |
| It's called Times v. | |
| Sullivan. | |
| And in that case, if you're a public figure, of which I happen to be a public figure, they have a very high standard to prove libel. | |
| And that standard is you you have to prove that they acted with malice. | |
| That's a high bar, because how do you ascertain what's actually in people's hearts? | |
| You know, one of the reasons, and I would contend, I may be wrong, but you know, I've been showing the cartoons and the indoctrination of young children in Gaza. | |
| And these young children are taught at the at the youngest ages to hate the Jews and be at war with the Jews, and it's righteous to kill them even. | |
| And that if you if you want to know why is there a hesitancy to even take in women and children by Egypt and Saudi Arabia and Jordan and all these other countries, why? | |
| Why won't they why won't they ease the suffering of people in Gaza? | |
| Because I would argue, because you can't read people's hearts, but I would argue that probably some of the consideration is they know damn well the level of indoctrination and hate that is instilled in in the population in Gaza and the Palestinian people is deep. | |
| It runs deep. | |
| Now you may get to the border and you may question them, and they're gonna say all the right things. | |
| That doesn't mean that they don't believe in that ideology. | |
| In other words, you can't read somebody's heart, you can't read their mind. | |
| You certainly don't know what's in their soul. | |
| So now you're risking taking in people that may have already been radicalized. | |
| And that then therefore brings trouble into your own country. | |
| Anyway, so they're saying their initial accounts they rely too heavily on Hamas, information and claims provided by Hamas. | |
| And the Times initial accounts attributed the claim of Israeli responsibility to Palestinian officials and noted that the Israeli military said it was investigating the blast. | |
| However, the early versions of the coverage and the prominence it received in a headline, news alert, and social media channels relied too heavily on the claims by Hamas and did not make clear that those claims could not immediately be verified. | |
| Well, does that mean they're they're finally admitting it? | |
| Now, I don't even know who this guy is. | |
| Do you know what this guy? | |
| I don't even know how to say this. | |
| Is it Media San? | |
| How do you say this guy's name? | |
| I have no idea. | |
| I can't watch these hosts, they're intolerable. | |
| They're insufferable. | |
| And frankly, they're all full of Adam Schiff. | |
| So, and and they're just obsessed hating Trump 24-7. | |
| Anyway, it's a big deal made over the fact that I guess three Muslim American hosts that were working for NBC News, which just happened to be taken off the air during this period. | |
| Now, Mediaite has an article out that this particular host is back on the air, and here's the rest of the headline. | |
| And as anti-Israel as ever. | |
| That's the headline. | |
| And his I'll read it directly from the piece that this guy in his disproportionate disdain for the world's only Jewish majority state are once again front and center on MSDNC. | |
| After a brief hiatus, you know, this guy who previously worked at Al Jazeera is a great background, and the de facto mouthpiece of the Qatari government has returned with his typically misleading rants, buoyed only by his British accent in tow. | |
| Reacting to the President Biden's Oval Office address, I guess he was on with the this is like petulant little gnat. | |
| Most people probably haven't heard of this guy. | |
| I'd barely heard of him. | |
| Chrissy, Chris Hayes, Chrissy Hayes, something like that. | |
| I don't know, showed up uh late last week, and anyway, this guy Hassan rejected Biden's comparison between Hamas and Russia, and instead submitting that the real similarities lie between Israel and Russia. | |
| Oh. | |
| So the 1,400 Israelis killed and the hundreds taken hostage. | |
| Let's blame Israel. | |
| Well, that's a perfect host for NBC News, isn't it? | |
| Um, another good article that was in MediAd2, but very thoughtful, because they're usually not very conservative. | |
| The Israeli Hamas work is causing a reckoning on the left about what liberalism really means. | |
| The most shocking thing about all of this to me has been worldwide anti-Semitism on display. | |
| When I saw Times Square looking as crowded as New Year's Eve, so it seemed on television. | |
| When I see these college campuses, our elite universities, and the things that are being said and the statements and the proclamations that are being made, and I'm thinking, how did this happen? | |
| How are all do these people not understand what terrorism is? | |
| Do they not understand that they are supporting terrorism? | |
| Just like Joe Biden, I can't believe he's that stupid, but he is. | |
| He wants to give a hundred million dollars to the Palestinians. | |
| Now we still have up on my website, you can go look at it yourself. | |
| I was there during a flare-up and conflict, and I was in the tunnels that were built as a whole network of underground tunnels. | |
| It's almost a hundred feet down below the ground. | |
| And so instead of building hospitals and schools and infrastructure, which is the money that the United States and Israel had given the Palestinians to better their lives, they're building elaborate network for the terror tunnels to kill Israelis and kidnap Israelis. | |
| You have to see it to believe it. | |
| When I go to a border town with Gaza and I talk to the people there, and their kids play in underground playgrounds, bunker playgrounds, because they can't get once once a missile's fired from Gaza because of the close proximity, it's a border town. | |
| That rocket's landing in 13 seconds. | |
| That's not even enough time usually for the Iron Dome to take it out. | |
| But then I stop and then I realize 10,000 rockets alone sent into one city. | |
| That's why one of the objectives of Israel here has got to be to forever prevent Hamas or any terrorist organization from ever being able to use Gaza as a staging area to launch their missiles against Israel ever again. | |
| I know there's talk about restraint. | |
| The Biden administration, I saw this again today. | |
| It was in the New York Times again. | |
| Don't ask me why I read the Times this weekend. | |
| I did I did it on purpose, not because I like it. | |
| But they they actually admit and are reporting that Joe Biden is pressuring Israel not to invade Gaza until he can get more so-called humanitarian aid to the Palestinians. | |
| Joe, here's the problem. | |
| None of that money, none of the hundred million dollars is going to humanitarian aid. | |
| Because it's the Palestinians that voted Hamas into power. | |
| And that money is going to the terrorist group Hamas that still has as their charter the destruction of Israel. | |
| Even the Daily Mail pointed out last week, Biden has already given the Palestinians a billion dollars of our tax money. | |
| And Hamas has managed to siphon off 40% of that money that they can account for. | |
| I'm I'm shocked. | |
| I'd be shocked if it's not 99%. | |
| So when Joe Biden announces he wants another 100 million to be given in humanitarian aid to the Palestinians, they're not getting it. | |
| And if you go by that math, which I'm telling you is on the low end, that would mean 40 million of the hundred million are going to Hamas. | |
| And Hamas is a terrorist organization. | |
| And Israel should not be doing anything on Joe Biden's timeline. | |
| Their country was attacked. | |
| Based on population comparisons, that would be the equivalent of 38,000 dead Americans in one single day. | |
| They have the right to destroy their enemy. | |
| They have a right to remove the threat that has existed for years. | |
| That is their mission. | |
| And if they decide that this is going to continue for long periods of time to come because the real the brains, the culprit, the people really responsible are Iran, and they think it's in their national security interest to engage them, then that's up to them. | |
| And if they do go that far, frankly, the world would be better off if the mullers were kicked out. | |
| And there are there is a growing young population in Iran that wants nothing to do with these mullahs. | |
| Death to America, death to Israel. | |
| Got a lot more to get to today. | |
| We got a lot of lot of ground to cover. | |
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| So why is the New York Times pressuring Israel not to invade Gaza? | |
| You know, wh why is the uh Biden pressuring Israel not to invade Gaza before you can get more aid to the Palestinians, which means Hamas. | |
| The Times reporting that the Biden administration is keeps advising Israel to delay a ground invasion of Gaza because they want more time to get the aid to the Palestinians. | |
| Well, I mean, all this is doing is allowing time for the enemy to prepare for what we all know is coming. | |
| A ground war and an incursion. | |
| And they're going to probably have to be dealing with Hezbollah from the north, which is going to make it even that much more difficult. | |
| The element of surprise is usually meaningful at a time of war. | |
| You know, Biden and Netanyahu agreed that after the entry of the first two convoys of humanitarian aid into Gaza, that there will be a continued flow of critical assistance. | |
| That money's that's Hamas's money. | |
| How stupid are they? | |
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| I mean, the ground invasion has been delayed because of pressure from Joe Biden. | |
| This is insanity. | |
| Why would you do that? | |
| Why would America how would we react if 38,000 Americans are killed in a day? | |
| How would you react if other countries were telling us, oh no, we want to send more aid to the people that attacked you? | |
| So can you give us some time before you you defend yourself? | |
| Senate Republicans, they're moving to block Biden from sending any more tax dollars to Moss. | |
| Now, Marsha Blackburn, remember that we I thought this deal with Iran, the six billion that Joe offered in ransom payments for five Americans was dead. | |
| And I read story after story about how, oh, they made a secret agreement deal that the money that had been transferred from a bank in South Korea to Qatar was in fact, you know, that there was an agreement that none of that money would make it to the Iranian mullahs. | |
| Then the Iranian mullahs and their president spoke out and said, that's not true. | |
| And then they said, and by the way, we're not going to spend it on humanitarian purposes if we don't want, we'll spend it any damn way we we choose. | |
| Well, nobody has any evidence that in fact that deal happened. | |
| And Marsha Blackburn and other Republicans are trying to get that in ink in writing. | |
| Guarantee that we don't give the terrorist regime in Iran money. | |
| Now, Marsha Blackburn is saying every every even last week we saw aid going to Gaza. | |
| Who ends up with the aid, she says? | |
| It's Hamas. | |
| So Republicans have introduced a bill, and we'll talk to Marco Rubio about this at the top of the hour to block funds from the United Nations relief and works agency. | |
| Since the U.S. can't legally fund the Palestinian Authority or Hamas, the Biden administration has given the lion's share of the funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, and they're the ones that are handing that money over to the Palestinians, and any money that makes it to the Palestinians, I promise you is going to end up in the hands of Hamas. | |
| And Biden is frantically trying to stall Israel's invasion of Gaza by doing this. | |
| Why would you try to stall this? | |
| And how would America react if if we were the victims of terror and some Outside country was telling us to delay our invasion. | |
| It's none of your business. | |
| Israel now has the right to self-defense. | |
| They have the right to protect their tiny country. | |
| They are surrounded by enemies. | |
| They have the right to live in peace. | |
| They did nothing. | |
| They didn't want this war. | |
| They still don't want this war. | |
| But this war was brought to them. | |
| Now they're going to just end up doing what they need to do to win the war. | |
| And I believe they will. | |
| Ted Cruz is warning that Joe Biden has appointed Iranian spies now to senior posts in his administration. | |
| Anyway, Cruz has pulled back the curtain on three Iranian spies that allegedly worked at senior levels within the Biden administration on Fox News.com. | |
| Apparently he said that one of the Iran sympathizers is regularly accessing classified materials while working as a chief sta chief of staff in the Department of Defense. | |
| Then he pointed out Robert Malley was Joe Biden's chief negotiator for Iran. | |
| This is the first Iranian deal. | |
| His incredible Iran sympathizer. | |
| He's an advocate, a passionate advocate for the Obama-Iran nuclear deal. | |
| And we know that also, among other things, that three of his top advisors, his inner circle that he relied on were Iranian operatives. | |
| What the hell is going on? | |
| How did the 19 Iranians and 17 Syrians make it to our border? | |
| Am I the only one asking that question? | |
| How did they get there? | |
| Why did they get there? | |
| Who paid for them to get there? | |
| What are their intentions? | |
| We don't ask people what their intentions are. | |
| just let them in and we're going to be shocked and surprised uh when the next 9-11 happens well well Are we going to eventually one day trace it back to Joe's open borders? | |
| Because I think that's going to be a likely, you know, possibility. | |
| I pray that I'm wrong, but I don't think I'm wrong. | |
| Wish sometimes I was wrong. | |
| Top Israeli officials now are threatening to go right after Iran. | |
| New York Post is pointing out Israel vowed Friday to launch a full-scale military attack against Iran. | |
| If its terror group Hezbollah joins the ongoing war. | |
| The Israeli minister of the economy warned that it would eliminate Hezbollah, their proxy terror group in Lebanon, if it follows through on threats to throw its military support behind Hamas. | |
| And the plan of Iran is to attack Israel on all fronts. | |
| If we find they intend to target Israel, we will not just retaliate on these fronts. | |
| We will go to the head of the snake, which is Iran. | |
| Let me tell you something. | |
| This is way more real than people are imagining right now. | |
| Because not only is Iran fighting three proxy war. | |
| The John Bachelor showed the war against the Saudis. | |
| They've been fighting, they're supplying the weaponry and the strategies, military strategies behind this attack to Hamas and Gaza, and they've been doing the same thing with Hezbollah in the north and Lebanon. | |
| And if Iran is now on the table and Iran and if if Israel is fighting a two-front war and Iran involves itself, I promise you, Israel will do whatever it takes. | |
| Every option, pay close attention to what I'm saying here. | |
| Every option will be on the table. | |
| Because at that moment, their very existence is hanging in the balance. | |
| And I think, having known Prime Minister Netanyahu for close to 30 years, not quite 30, but I think I know his mind pretty well. | |
| Probably he's been for the longest world leader that has had the most, you know, reality-based moral clarity as it relates to the enemy and evil in our time. | |
| He is not going to let his country be wiped off the earth by these countries that have been threatening to do so for decades. | |
| That's not going to happen. | |
| And by whatever means become necessary, he will protect his country. | |
| I could probably I promise you, and he they won't give a damn about what the world thinks. | |
| Nor should they when their very existence is threatened. | |
| You know, oh, by the way, Mitch McConnell is caught up to the show. | |
| I got to give him credit. | |
| He's talked About China, Russia, Iran as the new axis of evil. | |
| How long have I been saying this, Linda? | |
| Forever. | |
| What else do we have? | |
| Biden and Netanyahu had a phone call yesterday as the U.S. now is advising Israel to delay the invasion. | |
| Israel does not have that luxury. | |
| Nor should he be spending any time on the phone with Joe Biden talking about any plans he has to defend his country. | |
| Biden fears the wider war in the Middle East. | |
| Yeah, if Iran is involved, there will be a wider war in the Middle East. | |
| Just over the weekend, Israeli defense forces struck 320 Hamas military targets. | |
| They did it over a 24 hour period. | |
| Israel is showing an unedited body cam footage of the October 7th Hamas attack. | |
| I I wish I could show you on TV. | |
| And I don't blame Fox for not airing some of this. | |
| It is brutality at a level. | |
| How can I best say this? | |
| When you see people beheaded, as I have seen, I promise you this. | |
| You will those images will never leave your mind. | |
| You can't undo those images in your head. | |
| Now I I personally want to know and understand the level of evil that we're dealing with here. | |
| So I I look at them. | |
| Like I looked at ISIS beheadings. | |
| I watched them. | |
| By the way, do you have any idea how hard it is to sever the head off of somebody? | |
| It's hard. | |
| I didn't realize how hard it would be. | |
| It's not like you just take a sharp knife and boom, boom, boom, you're done. | |
| No. | |
| It is like you're, you know, taking a saw with all your might and all your strength and just cutting through without any recognition of any humanity. | |
| It's it's evil that is almost indescribable. | |
| Incomprehensible even. | |
| But yet we have Palestinian protesters screaming at reporters. | |
| Hamas now are using civilians as children as human shields, as we told you they would, placing rocket launch sites beside a kindergartner school and other schools behind mosques, hospitals. | |
| They're now sending out terror videos of even little babies that they've taken hostage and other hostage videos. | |
| Why do they do that? | |
| Just to torture their families. | |
| No good that they're doing. | |
| Do you take any comfort as a family member for a moment seeing that your little baby's alive or that your son or daughter is alive? | |
| I don't know. | |
| But I've watched those two, and those are images you can't erase from your mind either. | |
| You just don't forget that. | |
| Israel warns that Hamas has chemical weapons. | |
| They're thinking that the absolute strategy, Israel's had in place for a long time now. | |
| A plan to cut off the head of the snake, which is Iran. | |
| They have war plans against Iran. | |
| They know where their nuclear facilities are. | |
| They probably do need U.S. assistance. | |
| And don't think it's a good thing that China now is involving itself by sending warships to the Middle East. | |
| That's not good. | |
| That I can promise you. | |
| The Pentagon, more deployment orders. | |
| There's one article, I saw this on Judge Six Steps from World War III. | |
| you That would not be good, would it? | |
| I don't think so. | |
| But that's where we now find ourselves. | |
| These are scary times. | |
| No other way to put it. | |
| Very, very scary time. | |
| Samas begs for fuel. | |
| Two more hostages released. | |
| And BB said, do or die. | |
| I'd like to get all the hostages out too. | |
| You want your want the lights turned on, you want water turned on, release all the hostages. | |
| We'll give you some. | |
| You don't, we won't give you anything. | |
| China deploying six warships to the Middle East. | |
| Whose side do you think they're on? | |
| Israel foul says that it found Hamas files with instructions for making cyanide a cyanide-based weapon. | |
| And six this was interesting. | |
| It was in the UK Sun, the six terrifying steps that could see the Gaza crisis spiral into World War III. | |
| Let me tell you something. | |
| If Iran is involved in this with Israel, It will engulf the entire Middle East. | |
| And then it will probably engulf the world. | |
| That's how serious this is. | |
| It's how real this is. | |
| And I'm not sure if everybody fully understands the breadth of this. | |
| And for the idiots that are out there protesting ignorantly about matters that they know nothing of. | |
| We even have, because of the escalating Iranian threats, the Pentagon has sent a second carrier, Patriot missiles and other missiles to the Middle East. | |
| So already you have the world's biggest superpowers getting prepared to engage in this fight. | |
| Israel says that if Hezbollah in the North out of Lebanon launches a war against Israel and they're fighting a two-front war, it will make the mistake of their life. | |
| Because there's only one point there's only one option at that point. | |
| That will be to obliterate Lebanon. | |
| Obliterate Hezbollah. | |
| And simultaneously obliterate Gaza. | |
| One of the things that has to come out of this for Israel's long-term security has to be that they can no longer use these geographic areas as their launching pad for their terror attacks. | |
| But it could all happen. | |
| You know, will Israel choose this moment to attack Iran's nuclear facilities? | |
| Take out their leadership. | |
| What would you want America to do? | |
| Let's say America lost 38,000 Americans in a day, and the people that are responsible for providing the weaponry and the strata and military strategies. | |
| Would you go after them? | |
| Would you go after the people that followed their orders? | |
| I think I'd be inclined to go after the head of the snake. | |
| It's off the top. | |
| Hannity's telling Israel to go after Iran. | |
| No, I wish Iran didn't exist. | |
| Death to Israel, death to America. | |
| What do you think that means? | |
| You know, when people say things, words like that, they kind of mean it. | |
| When the supplying terrorists in the world, the weaponry to attack you, I think that's evidence that they want you dead. | |
| Anyway, Democratic senators in battleground states now are distancing themselves from Biden over the border security in Iran. | |
| Never mind, we'll get into this with John Solomon later. | |
| Bank records show Joe Biden collecting 200 grand linked to his brother's influence peddling scheme. | |
| Said it was a loan repayment. | |
| Well, if it's a loan repayment, then we should we should have no problem at all finding when the loan was given and the paperwork associated with that. | |
| It's a lot of money for a senator's salary to be lending $200,000 buying beachfront property, other homes, and a stingray corvette. | |
| So Congressman Omar break down in a fit of rage aimed at Biden. | |
| Wow. | |
| See, uh, what was it? | |
| Um Sheila Jackson Lee screaming at her staff. | |
| We'll show you this video tonight. | |
| You're gonna love this. | |
| Senate uh Armed Services Committee member, our friend Marco Rubio will be with us. | |
| He's got two messages. | |
| One a resolution calling on Biden to enforce the law, initiate deportation proceedings for any foreign national. | |
| Uh also uh his positions on what it is, how should we deal with Hamas Hezbollah and Iran, uh, then John Solomon on the Biden family syndicate and Joe Biden's bribery and money laundering scandal allegations. | |
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