Sean covers his upcoming debate with California governor Gavin Newsom and Florida governor Ron Desantis. The one thing he doesn't plan on doing is "being a hall monitor!" See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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| President Biden, what is his job approval rating? | |
| We measure it now at 40% with 57% disapproving the significance. | |
| That is the lowest President Biden has ever measured in our poll. | |
| I want to talk about Governor Newsom. | |
| I want to thank him. | |
| He's been one hell of a governor, man. | |
| Matter of fact, he could do anything you want. | |
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| Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, Linda, I don't think I've gotten as much press as, by the way, it's not terrible yet. | |
| I'm sure I'll get the crap beat out of me by Friday. | |
| You know how the media loves me so much. | |
| They do. | |
| But there's a lot of interest in this, Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis, red versus blue, state versus state debate. | |
| What's so fascinating to me is the variety of opinions people have out there. | |
| Let me just say something up front here. | |
| Republicans and conservatives, you better wrap your mind around this because it could be a reality. | |
| And I warned everybody in 2020 when the campaign was ongoing and Joe was hiding in his basement and coming out with his aviator glasses and messing up every time he was out there on the campaign trail that he is weak, that he is frail, that he is a cognitive mess. | |
| And we had Dr. Ronnie Jackson on TV last night. | |
| It is obvious to me his cognitive decline is far worse now than it's ever been. | |
| I can't think of a time recently where he's actually gone out and had a good experience publicly speaking, knowing where to go, what to do, and I'm sure, and he's having his hand held every step of the way. | |
| I mean, to be honest, as an American, I find the whole thing embarrassing, humiliating. | |
| And I think as a result, the world is in its current condition because this is what the world looks like when America abdicates its role on the world stage as being the leader of the free world. | |
| And this is a natural consequence of that. | |
| And, you know, so I think people are interested. | |
| And you better pay attention. | |
| And I've said this, for those of you that want to be critical of me, be critical of me. | |
| Fine. | |
| But I'm telling you, put your head in the sand at your own peril. | |
| You better know what the possibilities are out there in terms of who may potentially be on that ticket a year from now, November a year from now. | |
| I would say the odds are probably very strong that it's going to be Joe Biden. | |
| However, there is a chance that if this cognitive decline gets significantly worse, and I've said before, he may even be just one major fall away or trip away from being abandoned by the Democratic Party. | |
| It's when you have prominent Democratic voices at the New York Times, you know, like Maureen Dowd and people like David Axelrod and Van Jones openly critical of Joe Biden the way they have been and sounding more and more like me in terms of what a cognitive mess he is, you know something's up. | |
| You're nodding your head. | |
| So I think you agree with me. | |
| I do. | |
| I mean, I think we're in, honestly, to go back to what you said a couple minutes ago, it's embarrassing. | |
| I mean, it's embarrassing to see what we're going through on the world stage, and this is the person leading us. | |
| I mean, I think people are looking for who the next choice is going to be. | |
| And, you know, I'm sure we'll talk about it, you know, today, tomorrow, and all the things. | |
| But there's a lot of people who have a lot of questions, you know, coming this Thursday for sure. | |
| Look, I've had two opportunities now to sit down with Governor Newsom. | |
| And I will tell you, I mean, he's right out of central casting. | |
| If you meet him in person, you're going to like the guy. | |
| It was a recent poll out of California that gave him a 45% approval rating on his policies, but a 55% approval rating in terms of the people of California like him. | |
| Those are not numbers that you see very often. | |
| So he's very personable. | |
| He's central casting politician. | |
| And I just think that, you know, to me, what are people going to be paying attention to? | |
| And to just dismiss the idea that he's a possible candidate, I think is, and although he's been very clear, I'm not questioning his word to me because I've grilled him on this issue about whether or not he would ever consider running in 2024. | |
| And he's been adamantly stating no, no, no, and even going as far as to say that in his view, you know, if something should happen to Joe Biden and he's not at the top of the ticket, that the next likely person or the next person up would be Kamala Harris. | |
| It was a big headline on the Drudge Report the other day, you know, the coming civil war between Gavin and Kamala Harris. | |
| Well, I think we might be at that point. | |
| Anyway, so we'll wait, we'll watch, we'll see. | |
| But you're really dealing, you know, I don't know why the back and forth, the sniping kind of started between Governor DeSantis and Governor Newsome. | |
| I don't know the real origins of it. | |
| I have the quotes that they've both used against each other, including one in which Gavin talked about after the Martha's Vineyard incident and Governor DeSantis flying out illegal immigrants to the sanctuary state of California. | |
| You know, he actually tweeted out something to the extent that, you know, he could be guilty of kidnapping. | |
| It's just going to get very interesting. | |
| How real that is, I don't know. | |
| I've been working very hard on preparing for this debate and just laying out the topics and then letting them go at it. | |
| I'm not going to be debating. | |
| I know Gavin has been saying two-on-one, two-on-one, two-on-one. | |
| Nope, I'm just bringing up the topics and the questions. | |
| So you're not going to talk. | |
| Well, it's not that I'm not going to talk. | |
| I'm not going to be debating. | |
| Okay. | |
| It would be impossible to be a moderator of a debate. | |
| You know what I mean? | |
| You know what I mean. | |
| You mean, am I going to engage? | |
| Well, the only situation that I could imagine being involved in is if Gavin wants to drag me in personally, then, of course I have to. | |
| Or if you do like follow-ups. | |
| Well, follow-ups or follow-ups. | |
| I mean, both sides. | |
| Okay. | |
| But I will bring up the topic and, you know, try and make the question short and get right into it. | |
| Let them get into it. | |
| And if it warrants another follow-up, then it warrants another follow-up. | |
| I mean, that's something that they're both aware of and have made aware of. | |
| And the format, I think, is fair. | |
| But also, you know, I've told both sides that I'm going to allow some breathing room as long as it doesn't get to a point where they're like over talking to each other too much. | |
| I don't want to be a hall monitor. | |
| I said that in a number of interviews in the lead up to this whole thing. | |
| I really don't. | |
| I don't feel like being Chris Wallace here or, you know, yelling at. | |
| Bite your tenant. | |
| Don't say things like that. | |
| Come on now. | |
| What does that mean? | |
| No, meaning like you could never be that terrible. | |
| Well, I don't, let's say I can't be Humpty Dumpty. | |
| I mean, I can't imagine writing a book and only selling under 4,000 copies in one week. | |
| I think I'd be on the top of a bridge somewhere ready to say, why did I do this? | |
| But, you know, that's now happening to everybody that writes a hate fox book or is a fox talker like Humpty Dumpty. | |
| Anyway, listen, we got a lot to get to today. | |
| A lot out of Israel will hit. | |
| One thing that just caught my attention that I'm going to lead with today is you've got a lead UN agency that overseas food and agriculture policy. | |
| They're now expected to issue a roadmap in coming weeks. | |
| Why? | |
| Because they're going to call on Joe Biden's government and America to dramatically reduce their meat consumption. | |
| How long have I been saying America needs to get out of these globalist organizations? | |
| Look at the comments of the UN Secretary General after October the 7th and basically blaming Israel for being a victim of a terror attack. | |
| Anyway, it's the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization. | |
| They're going to publish their so-called global food systems roadmap during the upcoming climate summit in Dubai. | |
| That's going to kick off, I guess, this Thursday and extend nearly two weeks until mid-December. | |
| But it's a first-of-its-kind document that's going to recommend that nations that overconsume meat to limit their consumption as part of a broader effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. | |
| Let me just tell everybody, that is my diet. | |
| I am a high-protein, keto-friendly eater. | |
| If I don't have eggs and I don't have meat, I'm not going to eat. | |
| I don't particularly love a lot of fish. | |
| I like some fish, but not a lot of fish. | |
| Linda likes fish more than me. | |
| I don't love fish. | |
| But the UN is set to lecture Americans on how to reduce their meat consumption. | |
| What do you want to add? | |
| No, I just think you make a really good point. | |
| I think the question we have is, now what happens when they take it away? | |
| Do we all have to go to Bill Gates' fake meat? | |
| Is that what's next? | |
| No, I've never tried fake meat, and I have no interest in the future. | |
| Oh, I'm not encouraging it. | |
| I'm just trying to figure out what the end game. | |
| I'm not against grass-fed beef. | |
| I don't particularly like wagyu beef, whatever it's called. | |
| I'm kind of like a simple guy. | |
| I like, you know, I call it chop meat. | |
| People say, well, it's choppy meat. | |
| Well, you know, ground beef. | |
| Yeah, ground meat. | |
| How do you make meatballs and meatloaf? | |
| Meatballs. | |
| Say that again. | |
| Meatballs. | |
| Meatballs. | |
| You're the one who raves about your meatloaf recipe every day of the week. | |
| You love that. | |
| I tell you something. | |
| My recipe is the best it's ever been. | |
| Anyway, Biden is shifting all this blame on the economy to Trump. | |
| The White House did unveil their Christmas decorations this year without stockings. | |
| Remember the big issue came up last year because they wouldn't acknowledge Hunter's four-year-old daughter. | |
| I guess maybe she's five by now. | |
| Navy that he had with this woman in Arkansas that he denied was his until a paternity test proved that indeed he was the father. | |
| Kind of interesting timing that they wouldn't put it up. | |
| He finally acknowledges the girl. | |
| Basically, he was shamed into it. | |
| Maureen Dowd, I think, played a big part in that also, although we were saying it way before anybody else. | |
| It's just so typical. | |
| They're very tense in this White House right now. | |
| The answers that they were giving yesterday, blaming Trump for the economy. | |
| Joe's saying the economy's never been better. | |
| I'll play it later. | |
| We'll have Steve Moore and E.J. Antoni back on the program. | |
| But, you know, when questioned now about these issues, they're getting angry at that podium. | |
| Corrine Jean-Pierre is showing these flashes of anger. | |
| And anyway, she gave a very terse response when questioned Monday over Biden's sagging poll numbers and whether the administration considered any staffing shake-ups or strategy changes to combat them. | |
| On Sunday on Meet the Press, you even had a Washington Post reporter, you know, saying that Bidenomics is basically political suicide and it's not going to work for them. | |
| GOP attorneys generals are blasting the Biden administration for their foster care plan that they said would effectively ban Christians. | |
| You have a group of Republican attorneys generals that are pushing the Biden administration to back down from a new rule that they say would actually do that and exclude Christian families from fostering kids and jeopardizing the foster care system. | |
| For example, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, with 18 of his GOP colleagues, sent a letter Monday to the Department of Health and Human Services alerting them that a new proposed rule that alters requirements for foster care families violates the Constitution, discriminates against people that practice their Christian faith. | |
| And in addition to discriminating against religion, they argue that the proposed rule will harm children by limiting the number of available foster homes, harm families by rising kinship placements, harm states by increasing costs and decreasing care options. | |
| And the rule would mandate that foster parents and families utilize a foster child's identified pronouns, chosen name, and allow the child to dress in an age-appropriate manner that the child believes reflects their self-identified gender identity and expression. | |
| I mean, you've got to be kidding me. | |
| This is what this country, we have Europe in a state of war. | |
| We've got a possibility of Taiwan being invaded at any moment. | |
| We've got war in the Middle East and our ally Israel fighting for their very survival. | |
| And Chuck Schumer would not vote, allow Democrats to vote for financial support for Israel because he wants a big, huge package that will include Ukraine money yet again. | |
| They've already gotten over $80 billion and Taiwan and Israel. | |
| And the Israel bill, I think, is only, what, $14 billion compared to the $80 billion they've given Ukraine. | |
| And, of course, he says, well, it may also be about border security. | |
| This is where we get into this big omnibus spending stupidity that always is, you know, that led to $2 trillion in debt last year. | |
| That is a burden our children and grandchildren will be paying off for the rest of their lives. | |
| You know, occasionally something great comes along that's a game changer. | |
| Like, what would life be like without a jet engine? | |
| Can you imagine? | |
| Although I guess liberals would like us to fly like birds. | |
| I don't know. | |
| Maybe they want us to hang glide from New York to California. | |
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| Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies. | |
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| What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi. | |
| Nine times out of 10, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why? | |
| Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies. | |
| It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory. | |
| Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre? | |
| Bad faith, political warfare, and, frankly, bullshit. | |
| We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. | |
| You put two and two together. | |
| Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy? | |
| Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years. | |
| I'm Leon Nayfock from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. | |
| This is Fiasco, Benghazi. | |
| What difference at this point does it make? | |
| Yes, that's right. | |
| Lock her up. | |
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| Here we go with the Biden Family Syndicate again. | |
| How many lawyers with ties to Hunter Biden is old Joe going to appoint to top Justice Department post? | |
| We got a release from Senator Grassley's office, and it said, this is back in February 2021. | |
| Biden's named a close colleague of his son's defense lawyer to lead the Justice Department's criminal division. | |
| Now, the Inauguration Day move was one of Biden's first actions as president. | |
| It came as the DOJ continued to investigate his son, Hunter, for possible tax and money laundering activities. | |
| Of course, Joe Biden knew about it. | |
| To convince me otherwise, I'm not going to buy it. | |
| Now, that was two and a half years ago. | |
| And then we got this news. | |
| A group of Senate Republicans have now called on Biden to withdraw his pick to helm the U.S. Office of Special Counsel due to the nominee's connection to, again, his son, Hunter Biden. | |
| Lawmakers led by Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, they're seeking the elimination of Hampton Dellinger's nomination to lead the agency, which is tasked with handling whistleblowers. | |
| Quote, it's critical for the American people to know that the special counsel is fair and impartial, the senators wrote in their letter to Biden. | |
| And Dellinger's connection to Hunter Biden and Burisma gives us serious pause. | |
| Dellinger nominated by Biden last month to secure the position. | |
| Dellinger will need to get confirmed by the U.S. Senate. | |
| The people that can stop that are Republican senators. | |
| He worked on crisis management and government response for the team of a prominent law firm the same year that Hunter. | |
| But anyway, Hunter also has now agreed to testify before the House Oversight Committee. | |
| That's getting interesting. | |
| And they're now fighting back. | |
| And apparently the White House is angry that Hunter's lawyers are not coordinating with the White House. | |
| Or so they're saying. | |
| What's really happening? | |
| I have no idea. | |
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| Linda, talking to me in the break, has, I think, a good idea. | |
| If you want to call in with your questions, that maybe, and I've been prepping now for a long time, I spent basically two complete days just devoted to reading and preparing for Thursday's debate. | |
| It's a voluminous amount of reading. | |
| I know more about the Governor DeSantis, more about Governor Newsom than I ever thought I'd know in a lifetime. | |
| And then just trying to get the questions right that I think, and what I really based it on, Linda, I think you like my thinking on this. | |
| You know, what are the issues that most impact people's lives? | |
| It really is because state policy, state regulations, state laws often could have such a dramatic impact, even a more powerful impact on people's everyday lives than what the federal government is doing. | |
| And certainly we've got to pay attention to it. | |
| Most people don't know. | |
| If you ask most people who is their state senator, they won't be able to answer. | |
| If you ask people who their state representative is, they won't be able to answer. | |
| And California would be assemblymen. | |
| And so that's a little scary. | |
| So that's why I think this debate is so important. | |
| So I'm thinking about, and by the way, anybody from any state that can relate to this because you know your state's, you know, their policy is on taxation, their policies on energy. | |
| You know, all these states, you know, putting in, there's a whole bunch of articles out today about, you know, what states are doing in terms of, you know, the, like, for example, New Jersey is just adopting, joining Rhode Island, Maryland, Connecticut, New Mexico, announcing plans to adopt the tough rules based on California's strict emission standards. | |
| New Jersey now is going to join a handful of states banning the sale of new fossil fuel powered vehicles over the next 12 years. | |
| Now, that's going to have a dramatic impact in your life. | |
| And I'll go to the state of Maryland. | |
| State police there say the state's handgun licensing requirement is going to remain law until the federal court issues its mandate. | |
| In other words, they are continuing to enforce the draconian handgun law ruled unconstitutional by the court. | |
| And they're not going to abide by the court until it's finally all said and done. | |
| So, you know, then the issues of taxation, the issues of, you know, immigration, sanctuary city, sanctuary state, whatever, all that impacts people's lives. | |
| But anyway, you had a great idea if you want to share it. | |
| Yeah, I mean, I think, to be fair, it's Katie is the impetus for this. | |
| You know, she's getting a lot of feedback from a lot of the callers that are calling in, and people have very, very strong opinions, as I would expect nothing less from this audience. | |
| And they have a lot of things that they want to say about, you know, the debate beyond just, I want you to have it. | |
| I don't. | |
| You know, some people want to know what else has Gavin Newsom done besides being the governor of California? | |
| What business experience does he have? | |
| What has Governor DeSantis done? | |
| Some people are not familiar with his military experience, so on and so forth. | |
| So I think there's a little bit of, there's a little bit of nuance to what questions you'll be able to even get in, but it'll be interesting to hear from our audience. | |
| They're very smart. | |
| And maybe tomorrow we'll make some time and get their thoughts and opinions, you know, in for a caller segment. | |
| I think it's a good idea, 800-941, Sean. | |
| And, you know what, in the next two days, and even today, we'll take some calls on it from people that want to call in about it. | |
| I'm getting very, very, very concerned about what's going on in Israel. | |
| I just actually sent out an article to my team, and I couldn't believe it. | |
| This is from, you know, of course, the New York Times, not exactly your bastion of fairness. | |
| New York Times saying the U.S. has now warning Israel to fight more surgically in Gaza. | |
| I've been telling you my sources in Israel, they've been very, very open and honest with me, is that what you're hearing from Joe Biden publicly is very different than what they are doing privately. | |
| And privately, what they have been pushing for is this ceasefire and not just the ceasefire for the release of hostages. | |
| They want a permanent ceasefire. | |
| In other words, if the U.S. is warning Israel to fight more surgically and Joe Biden is meeting with Muslim American groups and apologizing for not being, quote, more sympathetic to the deaths of innocent people in Gaza and saying that he was wrong and apologizing because he's getting such a political backlash over this. | |
| What you've got to understand here is this is a war. | |
| Hamas is committed to Israel's destruction. | |
| Hamas for decades now have been firing rockets into Israel, just like Hezbollah has been doing it as well. | |
| Now we have Iranian involvement. | |
| They're not only involved in providing the weaponry and the money as the biggest state sponsor of terror, and they've gotten richer thanks to Joe Biden. | |
| But now, of course, they were involved in the planning of what happened on October 7th. | |
| That has been confirmed. | |
| I mean, the QUD forces, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, were up to their eyeballs in training for this attack. | |
| And I am just shocked. | |
| I mean, what would America do if we extrapolate out for population? | |
| It's the equivalent of losing close to 40,000 Americans in a single day. | |
| 2,977 Americans were lost on 9-11. | |
| And then we're going to hear an outside country, an ally no less, warning that we have to fight, what, al-Qaeda, more surgically. | |
| And by the way, Israel has been doing this. | |
| The people that are responsible for the deaths of innocent people in this whole conflict would be Hamas, the terror organization. | |
| Biden's top general is blasting Israel's plan to wipe out Hamas. | |
| General Charles Q. Brown, according to the New York Post today, recently installed, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said this month that knocking out the terror organization would be a pretty large order and that he was very much concerned that Israel's war in Gaza would only generate new terrorists among the civilian population. | |
| So at the end of this, was supposed to allow Gaza to remain a launching pad for the rockets that they fire into Israel on a regular basis. | |
| When I was there during a flare-up a few years back, Yolinda, you were on that trip when Sweet Baby James was on that trip when we went there and we were in Steirot, the neighboring town, that one town had gotten hit with 10,000 rockets in 10 years. | |
| And they wore them as a badge of honor, which was, you know, to me, you know, that's where they had the JDRF underground playground. | |
| And they had all of the rockets lined up because the Iron Dome had successfully protected them from so much. | |
| But what made through, they showed it. | |
| They're like, you know, people say it doesn't exist. | |
| Like, here it is. | |
| We have it in the real. | |
| It's tangible. | |
| It's unreal. | |
| Washington Free Beacon has a story out that Educational Secretary Miguel Cordona hosted a meeting this month with an anti-Israeli activist who praised Hamas and Hezbollah and called for violence against Israel. | |
| Is it just me or does the Biden administration seem to attract an inordinate number of Israel bashing, you know, what seems like radical anti-Semites? | |
| Because anyway, Cardona met with 13 activists, including a Palestinian legal advocacy manager, Lena Asse. | |
| I don't know how to say it, to address the extremely disturbing pattern of hate and threats and violence in schools and college campuses. | |
| And apparently, this Lena Asse person has called Iran and its terror proxy, Hezbollah, crucial and important in resisting imperialism in the Middle East. | |
| As a student activist, she led a crowd to chant Viva Antifada, a call for violent uprising against the Jewish state. | |
| Great. | |
| These are the people that this is your modern Democratic Party. | |
| Anyway, we do have, we actually have a tape of it, right? | |
| Yeah, we have that one, yes. | |
| Let me also bring to your attention, AOC is lauding the pro-Palestinian activism, accusing the U.S. of aiding gross human rights abuses in Gaza. | |
| I mean, just ask yourself, if America was attacked, a terror attack on our soil, and 40,000 Americans were killed in a single day, what would you want your government to do? | |
| And would you care one bit about what any other country had to say? | |
| And why is there any moral ambiguity here? | |
| There should be complete moral clarity on these issues. | |
| Anyway, Biden's staying mum as Hamas has violated the ceasefire. | |
| A dozen reports this morning that Hamas did violate it, carrying out several separate attacks on Israeli forces on multiple locations. | |
| After more than 75 attacks by Iranian-backed terrorists on U.S. troops in the region, just Biden does the same thing. | |
| He just continues to look the other way. | |
| China, you know, another hostile action against our Navy in the South China Sea, and he does nothing. | |
| Intellectual property theft, unfair trade practices, spy balloons, military aggression towards our ally Taiwan. | |
| I mean, he does nothing. | |
| Confronting our fighter jets in international airspace, confronting our Navy in international waters, he does nothing. | |
| You know, all of these examples, 75 separate attacks by Iranian-backed terrorists on the U.S., our U.S. troops in the region, and he does nothing except hit an empty warehouse. | |
| Gee, that's really helpful. | |
| Unbelievable. | |
| Anyway, we'll see what happens. | |
| But we also have a former AP reporter accusing the news outlet, the AP, of collaborating with Hamas. | |
| Did you see that, Linda? | |
| Former AP reporter. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Well, anyway, Maddie Friedman, frequent critic of the media's coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, accused his own employer of collaborating with Hamas during an interview during some podcast. | |
| And anyway, he said the inappropriate relationship stretches back to the first conflict between Hamas and Israel a decade and a half ago. | |
| By the way, Fox's Trey Yink says Hamas officials have been lying to him, and it's very challenging to ever get them to the truth. | |
| Yeah, it's a great question. | |
| And when we talk with Hamas officials, they've become increasingly frustrated throughout the war as I continue to question them over the phone and over text message about what they did on October 7th. | |
| They have gone as far to blatantly lie when presented with evidence because they simply don't want to tell the truth about what took place here. | |
| And so we're able to make contact and get comment from them about this ongoing conflict. | |
| But in terms of the information they're providing, we often will not actually bring to air what they are telling us because I can't confirm it. | |
| And a lot of times they're lying. | |
| And so we do reach out. | |
| We try to do our due diligence on these stories and get as many perspectives and angles as possible. | |
| But when you're dealing with a terror organization, it's very challenging to get them to tell the truth and to provide accurate information. | |
| Well, they had no problem getting out the lie that Israel blew up a hospital, killing 500 doctors and nurses and innocent sick people, including children. | |
| That hospital was never struck. | |
| But the largest hospital in Gaza, that was where they had buried under the hospital more of their terror tunnel network and one of their command centers with weaponry underneath the hospital, which has always been the MO of Hamas. | |
| Learning more about the treatment of these prisoners, not only were they denied food and water and access to bathrooms, but apparently women abducted on the 7th, held hostage by Hamas, were also kept in cages, according to some of the hostages that have been released. | |
| And then they're releasing three Palestinian prisoners in exchange for one innocent Israeli. | |
| On paper, I say it's a horrible deal, but if it was my family member, I'd make that deal. | |
| I don't think Israel really had a choice here. | |
| They love their citizens and they're saving these citizens. | |
| Then they're going to get on about the business of winning the war. | |
| One Palestinian woman who stabbed her Israeli neighbor in front of her kids was among those freed in a hostage trade. | |
| Palestinian teens stabbed an Israeli mother in front of her kids, all smiles on Monday, yesterday, as she was released from prison to potentially move back home across the street from the victim and her family. | |
| Pretty unbelievable. | |
| You know, this is what, the state of America today? | |
| We don't have moral clarity on this issue. | |
| Pro-Palestinian protesters planning to disrupt the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting. | |
| Warning to New Yorkers, you might want to stay away. | |
| Biden now staying quiet as Hamas violates the ceasefire. | |
| That's just typical, predictable Joe Biden and his horrible foreign policy. | |
| And in the meantime, I know what Hamas is doing. | |
| They're rearming. | |
| They're recalibrating their strategies. | |
| They're getting fuel so they can engage in more war, more death, and more destruction in Israel and fight back. | |
| And it makes Israel's job even that much harder. | |
| Pretty unbelievable. | |
| You'd think this is something everybody agrees on. | |
| Thought America wanted the war. | |
| We rallied the world after 9-11. | |
| Well, this would be the equivalent of losing 40,000 people in a day. | |
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