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Last night, the Israeli war cabinet approved a

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hostage deal with the terrorist group Hamas. According

0:19

to the Israeli government, the deal will see 50 Israeli

0:21

citizens released, mostly women and children,

0:23

in batches of 12 or 13 per day. The

0:26

prime minister's office has released a full list and

0:29

that list shows many, many young people, but

0:31

their parents still in captivity or

0:33

dad still in captivity and mom released families,

0:36

destroyed families, split and all

0:38

the rest. For each day of such releases, Israel

0:41

will pause its current offensive against Hamas in

0:43

the Gaza Strip.

0:44

Israel said it would pause its air operations for six

0:46

hours daily in the northern part of the

0:48

Gaza Strip.

0:49

That provision was apparently sought directly by Yahya

0:51

Sinwar, the head of Hamas, who wants Israeli

0:54

UAVs down for that time period to

0:56

limit Israeli surveillance, presumably to save his

0:58

own skin as he tries to escape whatever rat hole

1:00

he is currently trapped in. For its part,

1:02

Israel insists it will still have surveillance capacity without

1:05

the UAVs. Hamas will also

1:07

supposedly allow the international Red Cross

1:09

access to the hostages, despite the IRC's

1:11

publicly obvious disinterest in such a mission. Israel

1:14

will also release some 150 Palestinian

1:16

terrorists or women and minors. In other

1:18

words, a democratic government is trading terrorists for

1:20

innocent women and children being held by a terrorist

1:23

group.

1:24

Israel will also allow additional fuel into Gaza,

1:26

presumably to be stolen by Hamas.

1:29

The deal is supported by the Israeli Defense Forces,

1:31

the Shin Bet, and Mossad. That

1:33

support led many of the members of the War Cabinet to

1:35

flip

1:36

from opposing the deal to supporting it.

1:38

According to the Times of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin

1:40

Netanyahu further insisted on the potential release

1:43

of more hostages, a refusal to release

1:45

terrorists convicted of murder, and a commitment

1:47

by Hamas to locate the other hostages

1:49

held by other terror groups in the Gaza Strip. That

1:51

last point is really important. There are multiple

1:54

distinct groups in the Gaza Strip, reportedly

1:56

holding Israelis hostage. And some of those groups

1:58

are actually Gazan civilians.

1:59

who participated in the massacre of October

2:02

7th. According to the Times of Israel, quoting

2:04

an unnamed government official, Israel

2:06

believes Hamas could potentially locate some 30 more

2:09

Israeli mothers and children beyond the initial 50, and

2:12

that the Haltin fighting could be extended by a day for

2:14

each group of 10 more Israeli hostages who are

2:16

located and freed. The Israeli

2:18

government released a statement adding, quote, the Israeli

2:20

government, the IDF and security forces will

2:23

continue the war to return all the abductees,

2:25

complete the elimination of Hamas, and ensure that

2:27

Gaza does not renew any threats to the state

2:29

of Israel. Here is Prime Minister Netanyahu explaining

2:32

that after this pause, the war to eviscerate

2:34

Hamas will continue. He

2:37

says outside

2:40

there's a lot of nonsense talk, as if after we

2:42

ceasefire for the release of the hostages, we'll stop the

2:44

war.

2:46

So

2:49

I

2:51

would like to clarify, we are at war, and

2:55

we'll continue to fight until

2:57

we reach all our goals. He says in more than

3:01

our stages, and also in the

3:03

returning of hostages there are stages. But

3:08

we will not

3:10

let go until we reach the absolute victory and until we

3:12

bring them all back.

3:17

The deal is, in fact, highly controversial

3:19

inside of Israel. There are two separate strains

3:21

of logic being applied. On the one side,

3:23

there are those who believe that as the court in titans

3:25

around Hamas, they'll start killing hostages, that

3:28

Israel must do what it can right now to free as

3:30

many hostages as possible before that happens. They

3:33

believe that Israel will be able to continue to successfully

3:35

pursue its long-term goal of eradicating

3:37

Hamas, even if that goal is made more difficult

3:40

by Hamas's activities during the pause in fighting. There

3:43

is some evidence to support this idea. Yesterday, for example,

3:45

Palestinian Islamic Jihad released news of

3:48

the death of one of the hostages, which they then promptly

3:50

blamed on Israel procrastinating. Which

3:52

is weird, because the hostages wouldn't even be in

3:54

Gaza if terrorist groups had not taken them there. Bring

3:58

the hostages home as fast as possible at the lowest possible. possible

4:00

costs and then destroy Hamas. That is the logic

4:02

of those who support the deal. On

4:04

the other side, there are those who worry that hostage

4:07

deals have always been terrible policy.

4:10

And remember the 2011 Gilad

4:12

Shalit deal, in which Israel obtained the release

4:14

of one kidnapped Israeli soldier from Hamas in return

4:16

for, and I'm not reading the statistic

4:18

wrong, 1,027 prisoners,

4:21

including 280 serving life sentences

4:24

for planning and perpetrating terrorism. Those

4:26

prisoners were at the time responsible for nearly 600

4:28

Israeli deaths. In

4:31

fact, one of the prisoners who was in fact

4:33

released in that deal was Yahya Sinwar,

4:36

the current leader of Hamas, who planned October 7. Opponents

4:39

of the deal remember when the authorities told them security

4:42

in Gaza was good enough to withstand the risk. Those

4:44

authorities were obviously wrong. Opponents

4:47

of the deal worry most of all that the current pause will

4:49

be used as an excuse by the global community

4:51

to pressure Israel for further quote-unquote de-escalation

4:54

with a terrorist group that just slaughtered 1,200

4:56

Israelis and kidnapped another 240 and pledges

4:59

to do the same and pledges Israel's destruction.

5:02

They worry that as the focus shifts from Hamas's

5:04

evil to hostage deals, there will be a broader

5:07

effort to leave Hamas in place. Such

5:09

worries are well-founded. For its part, Hamas

5:11

is already claiming to have achieved such an end.

5:14

Last night, Ismail Haniah, a political head of Hamas

5:16

living at Five Star Hotels in Qatar, released a statement

5:19

saying a truce was going to happen. The

5:21

term for truce that Haniah used is

5:23

the same as the term for ceasefire. Haniah

5:25

hopes this will serve as a propaganda victory, telling

5:28

the radical Muslim world that Hamas has somehow

5:30

fought Israel to a standstill. Many in the media

5:32

are doing the same. Already,

5:35

the media are using the pause set to go

5:37

into effect on Thursday as an excuse to talk about

5:39

leaving Hamas in place. Politico

5:41

Today has an article from one Colin

5:43

Clark of the Sufan Group and Michael Kenny

5:46

of the University of Pittsburgh stating

5:48

that Hamas is actually a kind of nice terrorist group. That

5:51

they're not ISIS. They have merely territorial

5:53

goals they can be negotiated with. According to

5:55

Clark and Kenny, quote, unlike ISIS, some

5:57

of Hamas's goals are actually political. And so there

5:59

will be a no effective solution to the crisis unless

6:02

it also includes a political resolution. That

6:05

is an absurd contention given the events of October

6:07

7th and Hamas's stated goal of repeating as many

6:10

October 7th as possible and their stated goal of

6:12

completely destroying the state of Israel. But

6:15

Hamas is playing the game. Hamas released a statement

6:18

that at the very end suggested that what they're really

6:20

looking for is an independent Palestinian

6:22

state with Jerusalem as its capital. Never

6:24

mind that. What they mean by that is the complete destruction

6:27

of the state of Israel. They are not looking

6:29

for a two-state solution. But

6:31

that contention, that Hamas can be left in place, is being

6:34

issued by a wide variety of sources as the pause begins. David

6:36

Ignatius of The Washington Post hopes that the hostage

6:38

deal will provide a, quote, surprisingly pragmatic

6:41

formula for easing the conflict, expanding

6:43

into a de-escalation of the nightmare.

6:46

Presumably some of the Biden administration hope the same, that

6:48

the Israelis will simply forget about what Hamas

6:50

wants, what Hamas has done, what Hamas

6:52

pledges to do, even before the bodies

6:54

of October 7th have all been buried. The

6:57

White House is obviously conflicted. Certain members are standing

6:59

stalwartly by Israel. Others are fretting over the

7:01

possibility of Iranian aggression. In reality,

7:05

if Israel leaves Hamas in place, the possibility

7:08

of regional conflicts grows exponentially. It

7:10

is only the impression of Israeli strength

7:13

that has prevented a wider regional

7:15

conflict thus far. Hamas would

7:17

rearm and declare victory. Hezbollah would be

7:19

emboldened in Israel's north. Terrorist

7:21

groups in the West Bank would grow more violent. The

7:23

Houthis in Yemen would up the ante. The Sunni

7:26

countries would shy away from Israel and seek

7:28

their own methods of defense against the Shia

7:30

incursion, creating more opportunities for nuclear

7:32

proliferation. Iran would grow more aggressive

7:35

until they have fully developed a nuclear weapon, at which point

7:38

pretty much all hell would break loose. Israel

7:41

must reestablish deterrence and security.

7:43

That is, in fact, the primary goal. Hostages

7:47

are a coincident goal, but they

7:49

are not, in fact, the chief goal. If Israel does not reestablish

7:52

deterrence and security, Israel will find itself

7:54

under violent attack from its enemies every single

7:56

day. The simple fact of the matter

7:59

is, there is a No ceasefire on

8:01

the table with people who participated

8:03

in October 7th and celebrated it here

8:05

For example is some tape from a Gazan civilian who

8:07

participated in the October 7th attacks

8:10

bragging about it publicly What

8:15

he is saying here by the way he's describing

8:18

members of family He's slaughtered to his family

8:20

He's saying that one of them begged for his life and was slaughtered

8:23

one was slaughtered in the bedroom the

8:25

third in the bathroom The

8:29

excitement Unfortunately a

8:31

huge overwhelming percentage of Palestinian

8:33

Arabs are in favor of this sort of

8:36

activity by polling data 75% of

8:39

Palestinian Arabs supported October

8:41

7th 98% by the way in

8:43

America This means that Israel simply

8:45

cannot allow pseudo governmental bodies with control

8:48

over money and weaponry staffed and governed by

8:50

such people Israel must secure

8:52

its own security They don't have a choice everyone

8:55

in Israel on all sides of the hostage issue agrees

8:58

on that much So don't believe

9:00

the media when they suggest that this hostage

9:02

deal is suddenly the prelude to a broader

9:05

sort of ceasefire It is not Israel

9:07

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truly is astonishing how the world

10:16

community is so eager to save Hamas.

10:19

There are so many members of the world community who are eager

10:21

to save Hamas believing that when you appease

10:23

terrorist groups, somehow, magically,

10:25

this makes the world safer. When precisely

10:28

the opposite is true, Israel knows, Israel tried

10:30

to de-escalate with Hamas for 20 years. For 20

10:34

years, and the result was October

10:36

7th. Hamas has not changed. Hamas

10:39

is lying to the world when they suggest that there

10:41

is anything on the table other than

10:43

Hamas continuing its mission of destroying Israel. This

10:46

is made clear every single day that Israel releases new

10:48

footage from the Gaza Strip. So, for example,

10:51

yesterday, the IDF released footage showing

10:53

how Hamas uses mosques to protect weapons. And

10:56

this is the thing. When you're talking about negotiations

10:58

and diplomacy, negotiations and diplomacy

11:01

obviously have to occur in a situation

11:03

in which you can trust and also verify.

11:06

That was the old Reagan saw, is that in any

11:08

negotiation, especially with somebody who really

11:11

opposes you, you have to trust, but you have to verify. Well,

11:14

trust is not possible with people whose entire

11:17

mode of existence on this earth,

11:19

namely Hamas terrorists and their ilk, is

11:22

lying, is untrue. These

11:24

are people who deliberately hide weapons

11:26

beneath mosques in order so that when Israel

11:28

has to hit the mosque, they can then claim that Israel is

11:30

attacking holy sites. These are people who deliberately

11:33

hide weapons in hospitals, so that when Israel

11:35

has to attack a hospital,

11:38

they can hide inside and pretend that Israel is attacking

11:40

a civilian site. This is – lying

11:43

is part of the game. And

11:45

this is the thing that Westerners need to understand. Hamas,

11:48

Hezbollah, Iranian regime, Houthis

11:51

and Yemen, radical Islamic opponents

11:53

of the West, dishonesty is

11:55

an entire tactic. It is

11:57

not as though honesty is a

12:00

It's just a fact on both sides, it's a disagreement

12:02

over politics or anything remotely like that. It is not. One

12:04

side is perfectly willing to lie as much as humanly

12:06

possible in order to achieve its ends, and the other

12:09

side keeps screaming into the void. Negotiations

12:12

cannot be pursued successfully

12:15

under such conditions. This,

12:18

by the way, is what Israel found out under the Oslo Accords when

12:20

they trusted the Palestinian Authority, and the Palestinian

12:22

Authority promptly started multiple

12:25

rounds of violence. When the Palestinian Authority

12:28

used every dollar that came into the

12:30

Palestinian Authority not to build up civil society

12:32

but to siphon it off into the pockets of

12:35

the Palestinian leadership to

12:37

build up weaponry, to pay terrorists. This

12:40

honesty is the name of the game in this particular

12:42

region. The only thing that both

12:45

sides understand, because Israel understands honesty

12:48

and its opponents do not, they don't

12:50

even play in that kiddie pool. The

12:53

only thing, the only currency in the Middle East,

12:55

unfortunately, I wish it were not so. The only

12:57

currency is actual deterrence power.

12:59

That is the only currency that actually exists. I'll

13:02

show you some of this footage in just a second, because again, it continues

13:04

to be stunning and astonishing to me that people

13:06

in the West seem to believe that Hamas

13:08

is just – they're just another political group, the

13:11

David Ignatius of the world. Pure

13:13

idiocy. Diplomacy is

13:15

a tactic. Diplomacy is not a policy.

13:17

This is something that the West also

13:20

seems to have forgotten. The

13:22

West seems to have forgotten that when you make policy, you have a policy

13:24

goal, and then you have certain tactics in order to achieve the

13:26

policy goal. If you wish, for

13:28

example, for a two-state solution, that

13:31

is a policy goal. Now, the

13:33

only way to achieve that policy goal may

13:35

be to replace a regime like Hamas in the

13:38

Gaza Strip and hope that at some point in the future,

13:40

another regime arises that is not a genocidal

13:42

terrorist group. But there are

13:44

so many people in the West who believe that diplomacy is

13:46

like an actual policy. And so when asked

13:49

in presidential debate, you will see candidates say things like, well,

13:51

I would pursue diplomacy. Diplomacy

13:53

is the answer. Well, that's

13:55

not the question. The question is, what is the policy that

13:57

you are seeking to pursue, and is diplomacy the best –

14:00

available opportunity to achieve that policy.

14:03

This by the way is one of the arguments that's happening over this hostage

14:05

deal. There are a lot of people who believe

14:07

that Israel should not have been negotiating with Hamas at all.

14:11

That essentially Israel should have said from the very outset you

14:13

have two choices and two choices only. One,

14:15

you return the hostages, you

14:18

surrender, you give up your weapons and you go into

14:20

exile somewhere. And two, you

14:22

die. Those are the only two options. But

14:26

the reality is that when you're in the Prime Minister's seat

14:28

in Israel or by the way when you're in the President of the United States'

14:30

seat in the United States, all the talk about

14:32

not negotiating with terror seems to go by the wayside because

14:35

immediate interest in obtaining

14:37

the release of innocent people tends

14:40

to trump all of the tough talk. I

14:42

think that's unfortunate by the way. Again

14:45

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for up to 50% off. Okay so again

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just a reminder that there will be no

15:50

ceasefire in the long term or even

15:52

in the medium term with Hamas because

15:54

Israel has to finish the job over there. Why?

15:56

Well because these are the kinds of people as we say who hide

15:58

weapons in mosques. Here is some of that footage. Here's

16:04

an idea of a spokesperson saying we're currently going into the mosque.

16:06

You can see it here.

16:10

We'll now go down to the basement.

16:15

The Hamas Rocket Manufacturing

16:17

Lab.

16:20

Captain of the basement of the mosque.

16:24

I don't know what you do at your church group. I

16:27

doubt it's manufacturing rockets.

16:30

Notice how Hamas built the entire wall to hide

16:33

the lab.

16:36

We had to destroy them in order to expose

16:38

the lab.

16:43

There's a tunnel entrance here.

16:50

You can see the entrance to the operational

16:52

tunnel. That goes down so the terrorists can

16:54

hide in it. Don't

16:56

worry, the morons on Twitter will say it's an elevator

16:58

shaft. We'll head to the lab. Says

17:02

the IDF.

17:10

You can see sketches of the rockets on the whiteboard. So

17:16

don't worry, these are just good people you can do diplomacy with.

17:19

Or even terrible people you can do diplomacy with. They

17:21

are not deceitful. They

17:23

would never lie. It's

17:25

not as though that is a core part of their policy. Meanwhile,

17:28

Israel has released yet more tape of Hamas using Al-Shifa to

17:30

build a tunnel network. Again,

17:33

it is amazing how many credulous members of

17:35

the press were willing to humor

17:37

the lie that everyone knew was a lie. That

17:40

Al-Shifa was a civilian site predominantly as opposed

17:42

to Hamas headquarters. Even after Israel

17:44

released horrifying footage

17:46

of Hamas literally dragging hostages into

17:49

the hospital as doctors sat around and watched. Everyone

17:52

knew. To understand how disgusting the international

17:55

community is, what you really have to understand is how many international

17:57

organizations knew exactly what Al-Shifa

17:59

was. and continued to propagandize

18:02

on behalf of Hamas. It is astonishing.

18:05

We're talking the international Red Cross. They knew. We're talking

18:07

about doctors without borders. They knew. Human Rights Watch. They knew.

18:10

And all of them were propagandizing on behalf of

18:12

Hamas during this particular conflict.

18:15

And Israel breached a wall, and what they found

18:17

behind it? Shocker. A giant well-stocked

18:20

terror tunnel under al-Shifa hospital. It

18:22

goes even further. When Hamas is looking

18:25

for a great place to hide its weaponry, it does so

18:27

in things like baby cribs. Here's a picture from yesterday.

18:29

Hamas hid an anti-tank

18:32

weapon underneath a baby crib. Now

18:34

I have a baby. I'll tell you what I don't keep under his crib.

18:38

A missile.

18:40

I don't know about you, but maybe that's because

18:42

I'm not a piece of human debris like the members

18:44

of Hamas. Nonetheless,

18:47

the typical sort of good-hearted

18:50

American notion that everyone thinks

18:52

the same way and everyone has the same general

18:54

mode of thought. We're all seeking the same thing.

18:56

I don't know if we're all brotherhood. All this

18:58

stuff, it's crap. It is not true.

19:01

The world is filled with real politic, a

19:03

struggle between people who very

19:05

often believe horrible things and people who do not believe

19:08

horrible things. This is why, for

19:10

example, South Africa has now

19:12

shifted dramatically on Israel. They're

19:14

now accusing South Africa is. Israel

19:16

of a quote-unquote genocide. That, of course, is

19:18

not a shock. South Africa has been rife with

19:21

anti-white hatred for years and years

19:23

since the end of apartheid, certainly justifiably

19:27

in some measure during apartheid in the post-apartheid

19:29

era. The promise of Mandela has

19:32

been almost completely forgotten in South

19:34

Africa as there has been a move to tremendously

19:36

racialize the politics again in South

19:39

Africa, and Israel has been seen as an extension

19:41

of that. According to the Times of Israel,

19:43

one of Israel's most significant partners on the continent, one

19:46

time, South Africa has gradually come out as

19:48

one of its most vituperative critics, accusing

19:50

Israel of ethnic cleansing and now of genocide.

19:53

The genocide allegation has traveled up the ranks of the government

19:56

beginning on November 2nd with Qumbudzo

19:58

Yishab Henni. a relatively junior

20:00

cabinet minister, and then was expressed by the

20:03

president, Cyril Ramaphosa, who

20:06

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20:08

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20:15

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20:17

concentration camps where genocide was taking place, which is

20:19

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20:22

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20:24

its Jewish population. That's just a prediction right now. And

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20:31

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20:33

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so Turkey is also seeking to up

21:51

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21:54

is an Islamist dictator. According

21:57

to the Times of Israel, approximately 1,000 boats

21:59

will gather. on Wednesday before heading toward Gaza

22:01

in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade and disrupt maritime

22:04

trade coming into Israel during the war with Hamas.

22:07

Now a decade ago they tried the same thing. They tried to ship in

22:09

a bunch of weaponry. Israel had to board

22:11

one of those ships. And there were

22:13

terrorists on board that Israel had to kill, and that

22:16

ended up being an international incident because

22:18

this is the way that it works. Among

22:20

the 1,000 vessels would be 313 boats filled with Russian activists

22:22

and 104 with Spanish activists. Only 12

22:26

Turkish vessels would join the flotilla. Apparently,

22:30

later they expected the number of Turkish vessels to

22:32

increase to 1,000. They then

22:34

suggested that the initiative was not associated

22:36

with the Turkish government, which of course is a lie. The

22:40

operation would be designed to cause disruption

22:42

in international waters off the Israeli coast to

22:44

the maritime trade heading for the port of Ashdod in

22:46

order to interrupt the supply of goods to Israel for a week or

22:48

even up to 10 days. So it wouldn't even be to try

22:51

to ship stuff into the Gaza Strip, which is not going to work. Instead

22:53

it would be to obstruct other boats from

22:55

getting into Israel to bring goods into Israel.

23:00

The world is filled with delightful people and delightful countries,

23:02

and it is worthy remembering that the United States

23:04

does not exist in a vacuum. We are very lucky.

23:07

As I've said before, the United States is blessed by God

23:09

in so many unique and incredible ways. Number one,

23:11

our geography. We are a contiguous continental

23:14

power. To our north are a bunch of Canadians,

23:16

and to our south are a bunch of Mexicans. On the other two

23:18

sides is a bunch of water. That is really,

23:21

really lucky. But that does not mean that

23:23

the world is not a fairly small place, and

23:26

that the more horrifying countries gain

23:28

more power, the more horrifying countries

23:30

feel emboldened, the more that affects your

23:32

life here at home. I'm not just talking

23:34

about in terms of security. Sure, it means that there will be an uptick

23:37

in terror attacks because, again, when terror

23:39

groups feel that they have a weak horse, they

23:41

attack. I mean, Osama bin Laden said that much.

23:44

I'm talking about in terms of your economic livelihood.

23:47

There are choke points all over the globe. Most

23:50

of trade does not happen via airplane. Most of trade

23:52

happens via oceans. Most of it happens

23:54

via waterways. There are

23:57

dozens of choke points all over the world.

23:59

And as the United States' power wanes

24:01

in those particular areas, that's

24:03

going to get a lot worse. If the United States

24:05

and its allies, for example, cannot guarantee the freedom

24:07

of the waterways, which has been sort of the guarantee

24:09

the United States has assumed since the

24:12

end of World War II, I promise you the price

24:14

of goods, services, everything is going to increase

24:16

dramatically. If you're worried about inflation

24:18

now, get ready. If you're worried about price spikes, now

24:21

get ready. What happens when, for example,

24:24

China decides that it's going to take more control

24:26

over the South China Sea and then impose tariffs

24:28

on anybody moving through? What happens when

24:30

the Straits of Hormuz are shot off by Iran? This

24:32

is the sort of thing that happens in a multi-polar world.

24:35

We have all been living in the aftermath and

24:37

in the current of a dominant American hegemony,

24:40

and that is a very, very good thing. America

24:43

and its allies rule the globe. That

24:45

is good because

24:46

in that absence,

24:48

the opposite is really bad. We

24:50

can pretend that none of this matters, but it matters

24:52

an awful lot. If, for example,

24:54

the Strait of Malacca, which is the primary choke

24:57

point for traded goods

25:00

in Asia, if that,

25:02

for example, is grabbed by China or controlled by

25:04

China, that is a serious problem, not

25:06

only because it gives China an enormous amount

25:08

of leverage over the United States, but also because

25:10

it means the prices are going to go up. If

25:13

the Straits of Hormuz are closed – I mentioned that earlier –

25:15

that's 30% of all oil traded

25:18

on the world's oceans, which is the majority of oil traded, 30%

25:21

of it can get choked off. You think that has no

25:23

impact on you? And isolationism is first-order

25:26

thinking. It's first-order thinking just on a real, politic

25:28

level. Forget all of the moral

25:31

suasion arguments. Forget about democracy versus

25:33

dictatorship for a second. Forget about human rights versus

25:35

some of the most evil groups on the planet. Forget about all that stuff.

25:38

I understand that it's the stuff that emotionally moves people, but there's a whole

25:40

group of people out there who are isolationists because

25:42

they are, quote-unquote, real, politic, who

25:44

are thinking about the hard

25:46

power aspects of what it means to exist in the

25:48

world. And they are forgetting that

25:51

those hard power aspects don't just exist

25:53

inside the United States of America. America,

25:56

again, is uniquely blessed by geography. That

25:58

does not mean that America is autarkic. It is not.

26:01

We get a vast number of resources from

26:03

abroad. And by the way, those markets

26:05

purchase a vast number of American resources.

26:08

It will have an impact on our life if we go isolationist.

26:11

It will have an impact on our life if the bad guys

26:13

win in many of these places. If Russia

26:15

gains power, that army will be

26:18

used to mobilize toward choke points. If

26:21

China stretches its power across

26:23

the straits of Taiwan and grabs Taiwan that has massive

26:26

ramifications for American technology, virtually

26:29

all these sophisticated microchips on

26:31

Earth are produced in Taiwan. This is why we care about

26:33

Taiwan. Again, forget about the fact that Taiwan

26:35

is a democratic state that shares many of our

26:37

values. And China is a communist hellhole that

26:40

shares virtually none of them. The real

26:42

question for the real politicians crowd, because that

26:44

is what they say they are. They say they are hard-headed. We're so

26:46

hard-headed. I mean I noticed that the hard-headed

26:50

isolationism doesn't extend to when people are traveling

26:52

to Spain or when they are traveling to

26:55

Hungary to talk with various foreign leaders. Then

26:57

the hard-headed real politics seems to go away and it's

26:59

more persuasion again. But even assuming

27:02

hard-headed real politicians can't be an escalationism,

27:05

all right, well, let's pretend for a second that

27:07

you got your way. There will be real massive

27:09

costs associated with that to the American taxpayer,

27:11

to the American consumer, to American families. And

27:14

lest we forget, the American economy matters

27:17

an awful lot to the American family

27:19

and to American consumers. That is your way of life.

27:21

That is how you live day to day. Everything

27:24

seems very distant until the impacts are felt very,

27:26

very immediately. And that's the problem with foreign policy.

27:28

It's hard to explain foreign policy, generally speaking,

27:31

in real policy terms because it requires a certain baseline

27:33

level of understanding and knowledge, which is

27:35

why typically there has been a semi-bipartisan

27:38

consensus on foreign policy. Why? Because once

27:40

you get in the seat and you see how

27:42

certain decisions that are made in places

27:44

very far away from the United States manifest as

27:47

real impacts inside the United States, it

27:49

seems that that clarifies the mind a lot. And

27:52

that's true for members of both parties,

27:54

largely. I mean Donald Trump came

27:57

into office pledging a certain level of isolationism.

28:00

And he was able to carry that out to the extent that we didn't involve

28:02

ourselves heavily in foreign conflicts. But to

28:04

pretend that Donald Trump was an isolationist on foreign policies

28:07

absurd, he personally helped broker the Abraham

28:09

Accords in the Middle East. That wasn't

28:11

just a good thing to do. That also

28:13

was very helpful for the American economic interest

28:16

in the Middle East. President

28:18

Trump engaged in diplomacy in Southeast

28:20

Asia. It was a thing that he did. It is a thing the United

28:22

States will have to do. And again,

28:24

second order thinking requires that you not

28:26

just look at the problem that is immediately in front of you and

28:28

say that's very far away, it's happening in a different place. Foreign

28:31

policy requires you think two steps down the road because America's

28:34

enemies are. And that's particularly true for dictatorships.

28:37

When it comes to foreign policy, dictatorships have

28:39

a first mover advantage. They do. Democracies

28:42

are generally very slow to mobilize, and

28:44

they tend to get bored very easily. Dicatorships

28:46

don't have to worry about that. It has always

28:48

been the case that China has made with regard to foreign policy, for

28:50

example. China has always said, well, just I'll

28:53

ask you. We'll out-wait you. We'll out-last you. We'll

28:55

still be here. You'll just elect another president four years

28:57

from now, and then that guy will do some stuff. And if we don't

28:59

like that, we'll wait another four years, and that guy will go

29:01

away. Having a long-lasting

29:04

hard-headed foreign policy is a very difficult

29:06

thing to do in a democracy, and dictatorships know that.

29:09

That is why the American people and

29:12

people of the West generally speaking have

29:14

to be a little bit more long-sighted

29:17

in the way that they view foreign policy. Because

29:19

again, dictatorships have the ability to simply hold the

29:21

line for literally ever, and if their people don't like it, they just kill them.

29:25

That's not the case in the West, which requires more of the

29:27

people of the West. It requires people in the West to actually

29:29

think about the impact of the things that they are saying and

29:32

doing, because those things actually have an impact on how

29:34

their leaders act. Which

29:36

brings us to the latest in Ukraine. Now,

29:39

the issue in Ukraine is

29:41

really not whether Russia is going to win there now.

29:44

Russia is not going to defeat Ukraine. The

29:46

issue is, what does an off-ramp look like? The

29:48

issue is, can Ukraine maintain its

29:50

own security inside the borders that

29:53

it currently has? Because

29:55

it was in America's interest to continue to bleed

29:57

the Russian army. There's no question about this. This

30:00

notion that it's in America's interest not to believe

30:02

the Russian army is bizarre to me. Russia's

30:04

military has been quite aggressive, from

30:07

Georgia to Crimea to

30:09

the Donbass to Kazakhstan. The

30:11

Russian military, used as an arm

30:13

of imperialism by the Russian state, has

30:16

been adverse to American interests across the

30:18

world, including in the Middle East, where they've been very active

30:20

in places like Syria because Barack Obama basically surrendered

30:22

Syria to Russia, which was a bad move and

30:25

has heightened the possibility of conflict in the Middle East. And

30:27

second order of thinking, when you hand over Syria to the Russians, it

30:29

turns out that the Russians are coordinating with

30:31

the Iranians. That has impact on Ukraine

30:34

because Iran is using – because

30:36

Iran is working with the Russians to

30:38

ship technology over. It has impact on the

30:40

Middle East because Russia is helping Iran with its resource

30:42

problems so it can distribute terror all over the Middle East.

30:45

And that has impact on the world economy, as we've seen from

30:47

the shocking extent of the economic

30:49

impact on the world economy of the war in Ukraine. There

30:52

are a lot of interconnections in foreign policy. So

30:54

what was America's interest in Ukraine? America's interest

30:56

in Ukraine was, number one, preserving the independence of Ukraine

30:59

against Russia, number two, degrading the Russian

31:01

military. And America has largely achieved

31:03

both of those goals. And then it was in America's

31:05

interest to continue to support Ukrainian

31:08

action in the field until the point

31:11

at which it was clear that a stalemate had been obtained. That

31:13

is basically what has happened here. I'd be perfectly

31:16

happy to continue funding the Ukrainians if

31:18

they were actually capable of pushing the Russians

31:20

out of Donbass or Crimea. They've shown no ability

31:22

to do that. Then the question becomes, are we just

31:24

throwing bad money after good beyond

31:26

a certain point? That's the real question

31:28

we should be asking in Ukraine. That, by the way, is

31:31

a very different story from, for example, foreign aid

31:33

to Israel in defeating Hamas, which

31:35

is a very, very achievable goal. Hamas

31:37

is a fairly small, moderately-sized

31:40

terrorist group compared to the Israeli military.

31:44

The Israeli military certainly has the capacity to regain

31:46

control of the security situation in the Gaza

31:48

Strip, which is why I'll talk of ceasefire

31:50

now from a military real-politik perspective is

31:53

the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Talk

31:55

of some sort of solution in Ukraine right now. Make sense,

31:57

since we've been doing this for a year and a half. on

32:00

the battlefield had basically been stagnant for

32:02

at least six months, and we all knew where they were

32:04

going to end up anyway. With

32:06

that said, the Pentagon chief, Secretary

32:09

of Defense Lloyd Austin, has now made a surprise

32:11

trip to the Ukrainian capital, trying to rally support for

32:13

Ukraine, even suggesting Ukrainian forces would

32:15

be even more aggressive in their fight against invading Russian

32:17

forces throughout the winter. Austin's

32:20

buoyant prediction about the next phase of fighting comes

32:22

after Ukrainian forces failed to achieve any decisive breakthrough

32:25

during a six-month counter-offensive which came at a heavy cost

32:27

for Ukrainian troops. In the average age

32:29

of members of the Ukrainian military, it's now 43. There's

32:33

also serious concern in Ukraine about the longer-term

32:35

future of U.S. military aid, with some Republicans wanting

32:37

to halt support. Ukraine's

32:40

ability to quote-unquote take the fight to the enemy, as Austin

32:42

put it, will depend in large part on the continuation of U.S.

32:44

military aid, including ammunition. But it is

32:46

unclear whether the Ukrainians actually have

32:48

the capacity to push the Russians back at

32:51

this point, and they've shown no real ability to

32:53

do so beyond the first few

32:55

months of the war when they had widespread

32:57

success. They keep promising

32:59

there will be a breakthrough, but there hasn't

33:01

really been a breakthrough along those

33:03

lines. As former diplomat

33:06

Richard Haas suggested, he said, maybe the solution in Ukraine

33:08

is security guarantees to Ukraine. We

33:10

make sure that such an invasion never happens again.

33:13

Ukraine has the ability to withstand such an

33:15

invasion. But let's be realistic. The

33:17

battle lines ain't moving. Here's Richard Haas explaining. They're

33:21

going to increasingly say, and we're hearing it in the House,

33:24

we're hearing it in parts of Europe, why should we keep

33:26

doing this? We're already stretched. We're trying to support

33:28

Israel. We're worried about Taiwan. And

33:31

even if we give everything we need to give

33:34

or want to give to Ukraine, it still won't lead to

33:36

success. What I argue, therefore,

33:38

is the United States needs to have some very

33:41

direct conversations with Ukraine, with President

33:44

Zelensky, talk about reducing

33:46

their emphasis on liberating land, increasingly

33:49

put all their emphasis on holding on to

33:51

what they've got in the long run diplomatically

33:54

through sanctions. Yes, we can try to see

33:56

the rest of their territory return. But for right now,

33:58

let's have 80 percent of this. safe, 80%

34:01

of this country rebuilt.

34:04

Okay, that happens to be a good real politic

34:06

perspective. Again, American interests should

34:08

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President Biden should continue

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the polls. And the reason they're

38:55

making these jokes is because Joe Biden cannot get through a single

38:57

appearance at this point without crashing and burning. Here he was

38:59

yesterday attempting to tell a story about fentanyl and

39:02

it does not go well.

39:04

As families all across the country gather this

39:06

week for their love and thanksgiving,

39:09

too many go to Facebook and the empty chair

39:11

for the first time in the next year. So

39:13

many people have died. It's

39:16

heartbreaking. It

39:18

really is an American tragedy. It's just

39:20

a neighbor. I'm an ex-boy and a neighbor

39:23

and he just touched stuff. People

39:25

would die. And

39:27

I'm committed to doing everything my power as

39:30

president to get this person under control.

39:34

Yeah, I mean, he's just not with it. He starts stories.

39:37

He rambles off. I mean, again, everyone can see

39:39

this. What's kind of funny is to watch all the members

39:41

of his administration, who desperately want to run for president

39:43

to replace him, but are stuck in place because he won't

39:45

go anywhere. Watching them defend

39:47

him is really, is really quite humorous. Here's

39:50

Pete Buttigieg, who desperately wants to run for

39:52

president despite the fact that he's a terrible secretary

39:54

of transportation and a running joke, whose

39:57

only actual accomplishment was apparently being

39:59

mayor of a small town. town in Indiana

40:01

and also being gay. Here is a mayor Pete Buttigieg.

40:04

I would add to that airfare is becoming

40:07

much more reasonable lately and

40:09

unemployment that I don't think has stayed this

40:12

low for this long in my lifetime.

40:14

But that doesn't mean you can go around saying, you

40:16

know, everything's perfect. And we recognize

40:18

that. Americans have had a

40:20

rough few years, especially when you think

40:23

about COVID and what that did to our society

40:25

and effects that we are still working

40:27

through. Think about some of the political polarization

40:30

that's going on. We're not out there saying

40:32

that all of the work is done. We're

40:34

out there pointing

40:34

to the good work that we're doing.

40:37

They're doing so much good work, so much good work

40:39

says people to judge. They're not. And they've got a lot of problems,

40:42

which means wait for it. They got to redirect toward Trump.

40:44

And this is their entire strategy. Now, again, I'm

40:46

wondering increasingly these days, whether that strategy is

40:49

going to be successful or not, because it may all

40:51

be baked into the cake. I think that their strategy as of next

40:53

year is trials, trials, trials, Trump

40:55

in front of courts and all the rest. But

40:58

the problem is that because they launched all the indictments so

41:00

early, it's possible that they already got their bang for

41:02

their buck on that one. It's possible that as Trump

41:04

appears in court,

41:05

it doesn't have all that much impact because we're like, oh, look,

41:08

he's in court

41:09

again in

41:10

the same way that they kept trying to impeach him. And we're like, well,

41:13

is it a day ending and why? I guess they're trying to impeach him. They're

41:15

going to do the same thing with these court cases. So they're

41:17

going back to the playbook. The playbook is, as

41:20

we said yesterday, he's Hitler. The New York Times

41:22

now admitting the quiet part out loud, quote, ignored Trump. Democrats

41:24

now want him plastered all over the news. Democrats

41:27

are hoping that more attention on him and help turn

41:29

around President Biden's fortunes. Reed

41:31

Epstein reporting when Donald Trump left the White House, Democrats

41:34

didn't want to hear another word from him. President Biden dismissed

41:36

him as the former guy. A party wide consensus

41:38

held that he was best left ignored. Three years later,

41:41

Mr. Biden's reelection campaign and Democratic

41:43

officials across the party spectrum have landed on

41:45

a new solution to his political slump. More

41:47

Trump. Criticizing the news media for giving

41:49

Trump a platform is out. Finally, pining for

41:51

major networks to again broadcast live coverage of Trump

41:54

campaign rallies is in behind

41:56

the improbable longing for the former president to gobble

41:58

up political oxygen is Democrats. years-long

42:00

dependence on the Trump outrage machine. Since

42:02

his ascent, Trump has been a one-man Democratic turn-out

42:05

operation, uniting an otherwise fractured opposition

42:07

and fueling victories in three-straight election cycles.

42:09

Now, Democrats worry the fever of Trump fatigue

42:12

has passed, and some voters are softening toward a man they

42:14

once loathed. Many others may simply be paying

42:16

little attention, as Trump's share of the daily national

42:18

conversation has diminished. As I said before, Trump's

42:20

best strategy in this is to basically go to the basement

42:22

and then just point at Joe Biden. If he does that, he

42:25

could very easily be president again, and they keep upping

42:27

the ante. So Joe Scarborough—I mean,

42:29

my goodness, this is unhinged. So here is Joe

42:31

Scarborough making a doomsday prediction

42:33

for Donald Trump's second term, trying to scare you into voting

42:35

for the old man. Here we go. Just

42:38

because he hasn't done it yet doesn't

42:41

mean he won't do it when

42:44

he gets a chance to do it. And

42:46

if he is voted into office, then

42:49

a lot of these people that are talking about literal

42:51

or figurative or whatever the hell they're saying,

42:54

you're going to look like idiots because

42:57

he will do, he

42:59

will get away with, he will

43:02

imprison, he will execute

43:05

whoever he's allowed

43:07

to imprison, execute,

43:09

drive

43:12

from the country. Just look

43:14

at his past. It's not really

43:17

hard to read. Again, the only thing that

43:19

stood between him and the

43:21

destruction of American democracy

43:24

was the federal judiciary. Well,

43:28

that's not true. I mean, Mike

43:31

Pence didn't allow him to do what he was doing. Mitch

43:33

McConnell didn't allow him to do what he was doing. And

43:35

also, like, my favorite part is, like, look at his

43:37

past. He'll execute whoever he wants. Did I miss the part

43:39

where Donald Trump actually fulfilled his

43:42

joke about shooting somebody on Fifth Avenue? Wasn't

43:44

he president for four years? Were there lots

43:46

of political executions that were happening at that

43:48

time? Did I miss it? Or wasn't Donald Trump

43:51

actually so weak-kneed with regard to the DOJ that

43:53

he let Hillary Clinton off the hook? Isn't he mistaken?

43:55

But I think sort of justifiable belief that

43:57

it would be better for the country if we didn't prosecute our political opponents.

44:00

opponents, a rule that was then broken,

44:03

eviscerated actually, by the Biden administration. All

44:06

this talk about how scary Trump is, it's Joe Biden

44:08

who's activated the DOJ against his political opponents.

44:11

It's Joe Biden who has called his political opponents traitors.

44:15

And none of this washes. And again, I don't think

44:17

it even washes for Joe Scarborough. I mean, if he

44:19

really believes that this is Donald Trump's past, I'm

44:21

just wondering why five years ago, seven

44:24

years ago, when Donald Trump

44:26

was campaigning, why precisely

44:28

is it that Joe Scarborough was like sitting right next

44:30

to him, joking with him? When's the last time you joked

44:32

with Hitler? Is that something you've routinely done? I

44:35

don't think so. Weird. In

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House is focusing on the things that truly, truly

46:51

matter, like of course, Transgender Victims

46:53

of Violence Day or Transgender Day of Remembrance

46:56

or whatever the going day for

46:58

trans people is this week because there's

47:00

like an entire calendar for the LGBTQ

47:04

community. It is amazing how many days there

47:06

are. I mean, like just an insane number of days. Let

47:08

me give you a little taste of the calendar. February, 2023

47:11

in the United States. Well,

47:15

let's see, there's Aromatic Spectrum Awareness Week, 2023. That

47:17

was February. In March, there was Zero

47:19

Discrimination Day, Omnisexual Awareness Day, International

47:22

Transgender Day of Visibility. In April,

47:24

there was International Asexuality Day, a Day

47:27

of Silence, International Lesbian Visibility

47:29

Day and Lesbian Visibility Week. In

47:32

May, there was International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia,

47:34

Biphobia, Agender Pride

47:36

Day and Pansexual Visibility Day. In

47:39

June, there was Pride Month, of course. July

47:41

was Omnisexual Visibility Day, Non-Binary Awareness

47:43

Week, Non-Binary People's Day and International Drag Day.

47:46

In August, there was Wear It Purple Day. That's from

47:48

Australia. In September, 2023, there

47:50

was Bisexual Awareness Week and Bisexual

47:52

Visibility Day.

47:54

October,

47:56

last month, LGBT History Month,

47:58

which included International. Lesbians Day, National Coming

48:01

Out Day, International Pronouns Day, Asexual Awareness

48:03

Week, and Intersex Awareness Day. Are

48:05

you aware yet? It's a lot of awareness. Are you aware?

48:08

You should be aware. More aware. How aware are

48:10

you? You need to be more aware. Well, have

48:12

another day, and you'll be more aware. Are

48:14

they visible? They need to be more visible. Have you seen them?

48:16

They're visible. Or are they invisible?

48:18

Probably we need more visibility days. November. All

48:21

month is Transgender Awareness Month. Congratulations

48:24

to us. That's exciting. They also had Transgender

48:26

Parent Day 2023, which begs the question as

48:28

to which parent actually birthed the child, Intersex

48:31

Day of Remembrance, and Transgender Awareness

48:33

Week, which of course featured Transgender

48:36

Day of Remembrance, as though there

48:38

is a giant genocide going on of transgender people in

48:40

the United States. And

48:43

just to make sure you remember, in December coming up,

48:45

just to mark your calendar, World AIDS Day is December 1st,

48:48

Pansexual Pride Day is December 8th, and

48:50

Human Rights Day is 2023 December 10th. So

48:54

that is very exciting. That is the full – in case

48:56

you missed it on your calendar – that is the full calendar

48:59

of LGBTQ plus events. So

49:01

yesterday, the White House touted transgender

49:04

victims of violence. Here is Corrine

49:06

Jean-Pierre, the world's most diverse and

49:08

least talented press secretary, talking about

49:11

all of this.

49:12

Well, today on Transgender

49:15

Day of Remembrance, we grieve the 26 transgender

49:18

Americans who were killed this

49:20

year. Year after year,

49:22

we see that these victims are disproportionately

49:25

black women and women of color.

49:29

No one should face violence, live in

49:31

fear, or be discriminated

49:33

against simply for being themselves.

49:39

So just statistically, she is

49:41

wrong. Statistically,

49:43

she's wrong. Last year, there were apparently 26, quote

49:46

unquote, trans women who were murdered as

49:48

opposed to like 5,000 dead

49:51

women in the United States murdered every year, like

49:54

actual biological women and

49:57

way more biological men. Like

50:00

the murder rate among trans people is extremely low

50:02

compared to the general population, and in fact,

50:05

there's a list from Human Rights Council of

50:08

the 26 trans people killed in 2023. And

50:11

in the vast majority of cases, like nearly all of them,

50:14

no motive is listed. For

50:16

example, Jasmine Star-Mac, aka

50:18

Joshua Parker, stabbed in the leg, no suspects or motives,

50:21

listed. Casey Lee Johnson,

50:23

murdered and robbed.

50:25

Unique Banks, home invasion,

50:27

mother also killed three more injured. Zaki

50:30

Imanitwitaho, shot by co-worker.

50:34

Maria Jose Rivera, murder-suicide

50:36

with boyfriend. Kashi

50:38

Henderson, shot by habitual criminality repeater.

50:42

Tortuguita, non-binary

50:44

male, shot by police during environmental protests. Tassia

50:49

Woodland, person shot outside a bar, gender

50:51

identity according to police, not a factor. Again, the list goes

50:53

on and on and on and on. And

50:56

yet we are told again that trans people in the United

50:58

States are under tremendous threat. It is amazing. Why

51:00

don't they just list Islamophobia there too? The

51:03

number of phantom social ills that

51:05

apparently is rife in the United States

51:08

according to this White House, while

51:10

they ignore actual social ills, is truly an

51:12

astonishing thing. There's

51:15

still a White House that is pretending that the Nashville trans

51:18

shooter who murdered a bunch of kids, that

51:20

that had nothing to do with transness or

51:22

politics at all. They're still pretending that

51:24

one away, but they're having transgender

51:26

days of remembrance at the White House, and we all have to pretend that

51:28

transgender people in the United – or

51:30

people who identify as members of the opposite sex, that

51:32

they're routinely being beaten in the streets.

51:35

It's just absolute silliness. It's

51:37

not true at all, but none of that matters because the

51:39

truth doesn't matter. Meanwhile,

51:41

the White House is very excited because

51:44

they have now achieved

51:45

some

51:46

guilty pleas against the founder

51:48

of Binance. Binance is

51:51

the largest global crypto exchange. Now,

51:53

it happens to be the case that we've seen a bunch of scandals

51:55

in the crypto space. Obviously, Sam Bankman-Fried

51:58

was involved in the crypto space, the Silicon Valley bank. Meltdown.

52:00

That was a bank that was involved largely in the crypto space. Binance.

52:05

Same sort of thing. Apparently, according to the Wall

52:07

Street Journal, the chief executive of Binance, the largest global

52:09

cryptocurrency exchange, stepped down and pled guilty

52:11

to violating U.S. anti-money laundering requirements

52:13

in a deal that might preserve the company's ability to continue

52:16

operating according to court documents. Changpeng

52:18

Zhao appeared in Seattle federal court on Tuesday and entered

52:20

his plea according to court records. Prosecutors accused

52:23

of Binance, which Zhao owns, of

52:26

facilitating transactions with sanctioned

52:28

groups. This seems

52:30

like a perfectly valid prosecution,

52:33

by the way. I'm just wondering why it is that the American

52:35

federal government also facilitates

52:37

transactions with sanctioned groups, namely the government of

52:39

Iran. But here was Secretary Yellen very

52:41

excited about this.

52:43

Binance processed these

52:45

transactions, but it never

52:47

filed a single suspicious

52:50

activity report. And it also

52:52

allowed over 1.5 million

52:55

virtual currency trades that

52:57

violated U.S. sanctions.

53:00

So

53:01

we have taken the largest

53:03

enforcement action in Treasury's

53:05

history. Fincen's

53:07

settlement agreement assesses

53:09

a penalty of $3.4 billion.

53:14

OFAC's settlement agreement assesses

53:17

a penalty

53:17

of nearly a billion

53:19

dollars. Okay,

53:22

again, all this is worthwhile. I just want

53:24

to ask the question, why is it the United States

53:26

government is directly facilitating the movement of

53:29

money to the Iranian regime? One

53:31

of the things they're going after Binance for is the facilitation

53:34

of $899 million in processed

53:36

trades between Americans and users believed to

53:38

be in Iran. The United States just

53:40

freed up billions, tens of billions

53:43

of dollars in oil revenues to the Iranian

53:45

government, which is spreading terror around the region and ending with

53:47

the attacks on American troops. So

53:50

maybe they should take a look at that as well so long as they're looking

53:52

at violations of law. Alrighty, guys.

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