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7 million old white people gather across America to protest President Trump.

President Trump sends a kind of shocking gif in response.

Plus, we get into the latest in the Middle East and Ukraine and actual serious news.

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Now, you may have noticed we don't actually have kings here in the United States.

We have a constitutional republic.

And no matter what you think of Donald Trump, Donald Trump has actually been subject to the dictates of Congress.

He has been subject to the dictates of courts.

There are actual laws and regulations on the books that prevent the president of the United States from simply instituting tyrannical power over the rest of the country.

And one of the most amusing things about these quote-unquote no-kings rallies is the supposition by the left that somehow they are opposed to grand expansions of executive power.

That is absolute horsebucky.

It is nonsense.

I'm old enough to remember Barack Obama.

I'm old enough to remember Joe Biden, who literally tried to use the Occupational Safety and Health Organization, that agency, in order to cram down vaccine mandates on 80 million Americans.

And we had to sue to stop him.

I'm old enough to remember the Biden administration because I'm more than two years old.

And I remember President Biden literally telling the Supreme Court that while they were attempting to stop him from simply getting rid of student loans, he would just go around them and find another way to do it.

The idea that somehow people who are opposed to Donald Trump are not opposed to him because of specific policies, but based on a sort of broader rubric of anti-executive power is just ridiculous.

It is the Democratic Party in the United States, which writ large has expanded.

the power of the executive branch wholesale over the course of the last century since the progressive era.

Going all the way back to Woodrow Wilson, the expansion of the executive branch of government has been nonstop.

It has sort of paused sometimes under some Republicans.

It has rarely reversed.

And when it comes to the modern Democratic Party, the idea that they want to delegate power back to the states, that they want to delegate power back to Congress, it's a lie.

As soon as a Democrat is in power, they simply want to run roughshod over the Constitution of the United States.

The very premise of these no-kings rallies, just silly, just silly.

And it is worth noting that again, disproportionately old white people, very, very old, very, very white people.

According to Axios, according to a statement from the No Kings protest organizers, Saturday's turnout was one of the largest single-day demonstrations in American history, with over 2 million more people taking part than participated in similar protests in June of this year.

And you remember how much of a difference it made when they protested in June.

Oh, wait, you don't.

You forgot already.

You forgot already because it didn't matter at all.

Yeah, well, this one, it's Monday, and I think everybody already forgot.

More than 2,700 events were planned as part of the protests across 50 states as of Saturday, as well as several internationally, including in London, Paris, Rome, and Lisbon, and Portugal.

I do get a kick, I will admit, out of places that actually have kings

saying that they're going to have no kings rallies.

Like they had a no-kings rally in London.

There is...

like right this very instant a king of the UK.

Like that that is a thing that exists.

Organizing groups included the ACLU, American Federation of Teachers, which, of course, relies heavily on the expansion of federal power, human rights campaign, individual, and MoveOn.

Move On's executive director said in a Saturday statement: quote: Across cities and towns, large and small, rural and suburban, in red areas and in blue areas, millions of us are peacefully coming together for the no-kings to send a clear and unmistakable message that power belongs to the people.

So,

does this make any sort of real difference?

I mean, not really, because frankly, these rallies are kind of faintly ridiculous.

I mean, if you look at the pictures of people who are dressed up as lobsters in Massachusetts, or dressed up as Superman in New York City, or dressed up as inflatable chickens in New York as well, you think to yourself, I don't think these are the folks who are going to change America in any real way.

And that's putting aside the people who arrived at these rallies in order to promote violence against the president of the United States or against people on the right wing,

those people were in a plentiful supply.

Politicians showed up.

They spoke alongside radical agitators and organizers.

And we're all supposed to pretend, of course, that that never happened.

That speaking alongside terror supporters, for example, people who despise the country, if you're a politician, like say Bernie Sanders, or if you're a politician, like say Chris Murphy from Connecticut, and you speak alongside Qatari mouthpiece, Mehdi Hassan, or you speak alongside people who have openly promoted terrorism, that's not a big deal.

It is kind of a big deal.

I mean, to be fair.

But again, I think the note that is sounded here is not one of alarm.

It is simply a note of

weirdly aged hysteria.

Perhaps my favorite moment of media coverage came when MSNBC interviewed a person dressed up as a unicorn, because you know a rally is truly serious when people dress up as inflatable unicorns.

Here's some of the footage from MSNBC.

And again, I always make the note that when we show footage from MSNBC, they should be thanking us because we are tripling their audience.

Here is, at a minimum, here is one of the reporters with a very politically active unicorn.

Angel, I've never interviewed a unicorn live on MSNBC.

It's always the first time for everything.

Angel, talk as loud as you can because you got kind of a big snout here.

I say that again, sorry.

I said it's hard to hear you, but tell me what brings you out and to be inside this hot unicorn costume today.

Well, we're here to represent the loving, hardworking community of Los Angeles.

We're here peacefully protesting, looking as ridiculous as we can, just so maybe we appeal to the president because he is a ridiculous leader that is normalizing abuse of power and we cannot stand and act like nothing is happening.

I've never heard a more serious message come out of a pink unicorn.

Well, I mean, first of all, I don't think that's true because I I think that half of the MSNBC staff are pink unicorns, to be fair.

But it is really an impressive showing, it was an impressive showing, a truly impressive showing, with great intellect arriving.

People like, for example, John Cuzak, who took some time off from his wild anti-Semitism to rip into President Trump.

I need to hear from the guy who was last relevant when he was standing outside an apartment complex holding a boombox in a movie from the 1990s.

Here we go.

You're a storyteller.

What is the story of Chicago?

Go to hell.

Isn't that the message from Chicago?

Yes.

What's interesting is that he doesn't understand that all the labor rights around the world came from this town, this place.

So if he thinks this place is going to be a fascist hub, no chance.

No, I definitely need advice from...

That guy, who again was last relevant in Say Anything.

And I'm wrong.

It wasn't the 1990s.

I'm getting old.

It was 1989.

But if you thought that that was the only old actor who showed up to pay tribute to the No Kings rally, I present to you Robert De Niro,

who seems to have chosen poorly when he drank from his choice of holy grails.

He is now aging extraordinarily rapidly and also apparently turning into a hobbit.

So, Robert De Niro, Robert De Niro appeared also on MSNBC.

Again, MSNBC's wall-to-wall coverage, this blanket coverage of this, earned them, I assume, zero viewers, which would probably be a slight improvement from their normal viewership.

And he praised Letitia James, the Attorney General of New York, for saying F you to Trump, which she may be saying from jail soon, depending on how her mortgage falsification case goes.

Here is Robert De Niro.

Again, I have no idea why people keep trotting out Robert De Niro as a political voice worth listening to.

It's bizarre to me.

But here we are.

This is the path they have.

This is the business they have chosen.

I like what Letitia James is doing.

She's fighting back.

She's saying,

you.

I'm scared.

Sorry.

This is where we are.

She's saying,

this is it.

I will not be taken down by this person.

I am not afraid of him.

And God bless her for that.

Well, I mean,

are you inspired?

Are you really, really, really inspired?

I do have to just say, as a matter of Hollywood career choices, Robert De Niro went from the star of Godfather 2 to a person who was most recently starring in, and I need to actually get his IMDB to look up his latest films, Robert De Niro, because he has had a massive falling off, shall we say.

He's going to be starring, I believe, in his last movie that he was in.

It was apparently a movie called Tin Soldier.

It has a 3.3

star rating on IMDb, which I did not even know was possible.

A 3.3.

Things are going well in Robert De Niro.

But he also had comments about Stephen Miller, because there's nothing quite like Robert De Niro calling Stephen Miller, who happens to be Jewish, a Nazi.

Tell me about it, Robert.

We see it.

We see it.

We see it all the time.

He will not want to leave.

He set it up with his,

I guess he's the Gebels of the cabinet,

Stephen Miller.

He's a Nazi.

Yes, he is.

And he's Jewish.

He should be ashamed of himself.

Well, folks, I did want to look up Robert De Niro's recent work because, again, early on in his career, pretty solid stuff.

He's had a pretty dramatic drop-off.

So I decided to check it out with my sponsors over at Comet, a new web browser by Perplexity.

Well, his last 10 movies, okay, they're giving zero day.

Okay, fine.

7.0.

Alto Knights, Rotten Tomatoes, 38%.

About my father, apparently, 36% on Rotten Tomatoes, 5.8% on IMDb.

Not great.

Killers of the Flower Moon, he was in.

He's way too old in that movie, by the way, like way too old.

But that one does have a 93% Rotten Tomatoes rating.

And then there is the war with Grandpa, 2020.

5.7 on IMDb.

Like the Syrian gymnastics team at the Olympics, 4.4 on Rotten Tomatoes, 44% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The comeback trail, 30% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Yeah, it hasn't been a great run for Robert De Niro.

You got to go back to 2019, 2017 for anything good.

And yeah, I mean,

is that the person you really want to listen to for your political discourse?

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Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, who may remain so, by the way.

The math seems to be moving pretty quickly against the Democrats, even in the House, which is quite astonishing.

Here he was explaining on MSNBC, again, blanket coverage on MSNBC, no coverage on MSNBC of the president giving the Medal of Freedom posthumously to Charlie Kirk.

Tons of coverage of the no Kings rallies.

Here he was with Ali Velshi explaining that these rallies are going to be so American.

They're going to be so American.

You're going to love it.

You're going to love it.

It's going to be so, it'll be like apple pie and transgenderism because that's what Americanism is, according to top-level Democrats.

Here we go.

Well, the so-called White House press secretary is an unhinged disgrace.

If she's opening her mouth, it means that she's lying.

And clearly, we've seen that in this context.

The protests that are going to take place today, the peaceful expression of dissent, is entirely consistent with the American way.

In fact, it's as American as motherhood, baseball, and apple pie.

It's what the framers of this Constitution envision.

I mean, first of all, I think that he's going to need a waiver from his own party to talk about motherhood.

Because because motherhood is not exactly in fine fetal with the Democratic Party, the party of abortion, and also sometimes there are pregnant men.

But in any case, the top-level Democrats showed up to really enjoy themselves.

Elizabeth Warren, yeah, she's still kicking around.

And so she apparently left her teepee for a brief moment in time to talk about persisting.

She says that she is persisting, which technically she is.

I mean, she's on TV and everything.

The American people do not bow down to kings.

Nope.

We do not bow down.

We organize, we march, we stand up, and we do not back down.

So I just want to say to every single person who showed up today,

you give me hope.

Don't lose that fire.

because we need it now more than ever.

This fight will be long, but this fight is important.

Today and every day,

we persist.

I can't believe she's still trying to make fetch happen.

Remember the still she persisted thing?

Yeah, that's back when she was running for president.

Yeah, she tried that still we persisted routine in 2020, and it failed so badly that she was defeated by a dead man, Joe Biden, in the Democratic primaries and had to drop out early on in the race.

But wait, I have more old white people talking to you about resisting kings.

I have for you, for example, a man who has never met a tyrant he does not love, Bernie Sanders, saying that he's at these rallies because he loves America.

Now, when I hear people like Bernie Sanders say they love America, what about America is it that Bernie Sanders would say that he loves precisely?

He doesn't like the rule of law.

He doesn't like the property rights.

He doesn't like the balance of powers.

He doesn't like the federalism.

What exactly is the thing that he does?

I mean, I guess that he likes being able to take advantage of the free speech, but only so long as his opponents are silenced.

So

what is it that Bernie Sanders, what is it about the country that he would say that he truly loves?

What is the thing he doesn't want to change?

Again, this is nothing new in the Democratic Party.

Barack Obama, back in 2008, said he wanted to fundamentally transform the country, which those of us who kind of liked the country the way that it is, we're like, well,

why?

What if we don't fundamentally transform the greatest country in the history of mankind?

But Democrats, now they have to pretend to be true patriots.

Bernie Sanders says that they're there because they love America.

I mean, they'd like it more if it were Norway,

but still, they got sure, maybe, okay.

The Republican Speaker of the House

called these rallies

hate America events.

Boy, does he have it wrong?

Millions of Americans are coming out today

not because they hate America, we're here because we love America.

We're here because we're going to do

everything

we can to honor the sacrifices of millions of men and women

who, over the last 250 years, fought

and sometimes died?

I'm sorry.

I can't take him seriously.

And nothing you do can make me take him seriously because he's not a serious person.

And the fact that the Democratic Party has elevated him as an ideological thought leader after spending his entire life being a useless pusjewel on the ass of American society, it's absolutely beyond me.

But don't worry.

Don't worry.

You wanted more old white people, and so I will give you more old white people.

I present to you, Senator Tina Smith.

She's, you know, 67.

She's from Minnesota.

And here she was talking about resolute joy on wave on MSNBC.

Yes.

Yes.

The only network that seemed to care about this.

Downtown Minneapolis was filled with people, all different kinds of people from all different,

all different ages and backgrounds.

And I would say that there was a feeling of like resoluteness and also real joy and real sense of solidarity as we came together.

And I honestly think the way that President Trump and some of his friends were basically trash talking the folks that were going to show up at

these rallies really encouraged more people to show up.

There was nothing,

it was a very patriotic feeling, lots of flags, and it gave me a real boost.

Just incredible levels of joy.

Just tremendous, tremendous joy, I think.

Like really, really lots of joy.

Sure, I mean, it was a bunch of people who kept clapping on one and three instead of two and four because it's really, really white.

But lots of joy happening out there.

By the way, you heard Bernie Sanders there talk about how much these people loved America.

Well, there were a lot of flags, actually, at these No Kings rallies.

I would say there were a shocking number of non-American flags.

Over the Washington, D.C.

rally, there was a giant Palestinian flag in solidarity with Hamas, of course.

And then, of course, over in Los Angeles, there were tons of Mexican flags.

There were some American flags, but lots and lots of Mexican flags in L.A.

So many, actually, that the CNN reporter noted it.

A lot of what I'm seeing that I find interesting, aside from the funny costumes, from the blow up costumes, a law we've seen around in Portland over the past few weeks.

So we're seeing a lot of Mexican and Mexican-American flags, like this one right here.

I'm sorry, I'm just going to show your flag for a second.

Like right there, that is what we're seeing time and again.

Thank you so much.

Ecuadorian flags, half Ecuadorian, half-American flags.

A lot of people here are saying that they are so proud of their heritage, whatever it is, from whatever country, from Latin America they are, but that they are also very much proud Americans, and that this is an exercise in patriotism.

And there, see, right behind her is the giant Palestinian flag in LA.

So, lots of flags that are not particularly American at these Love America rallies.

Senator Ed Markey from Massachusetts, who, again, old white people, man, he decided that he was going to give a speech while donning a trans flag.

The abolitionists movement right here.

The suffragette movement right here.

The same-sex marriage movement right here.

The universal health care movement right here.

We are the revolutionaries.

We

are Massachusetts because we have always stood on the front lines of democracy.

And we demand free metamusal for all.

Ah, good times.

Good times.

Well, J.B.

in Chicago joined the protesters as well.

This is the would-be presidential candidate from Illinois who typically has to be lowered into these things by Crane.

He is trying to lose a little bit of weight.

This is what people do when they want to run for president of the United States.

So he showed up to stand in front of a bunch of signs, including an F-Ice sign, which is really, really nice, right behind him, like literally right behind him, which is really nice.

Here was J.B.

Pritzker marching.

Donald Trump has got to go.

Hey, hey, oh ho!

Donald Trump has got to go!

Hey, hey, oh,

Donald Trump has got to go!

Hey, hey, oh,

Donald Trump has got to go.

Well, listen, I hope for the sake of his bodily health that it was a very short march.

Wouldn't want to put too much strain on the governor of Illinois.

Meanwhile, some media figures showed up as well.

I mentioned Mehdi Hassan, the Qatari mouthpiece.

He showed up to talk.

And there he decided that it was a great time to launch into Israel because, of course, it's a protest about Donald Trump and tyranny in America, supposedly.

And he was going to talk about Israel and then make some jokes about how Donald Trump's wives are immigrants or something.

What a glorious example of Americanism he is.

I'm so glad that we allowed him to become an American citizen.

We need more of this.

I'm being unbelievably sarcastic if that's not coming across.

Here he was.

Donald Trump, the man who uses Palestinian as a pejorative, as a slur, has no plan for Palestinian freedom, no plan for Palestinian statehood, no plan for justice for the Palestinians who have been massacred, starved, and genocided, and ethnically trenched for the past two years, including the past nine months of his presidency.

Meanwhile, Israel for the past week has violated the ceasefire again and again, killing Palestinians with impunity.

Yesterday they killed seven Palestinian children during the ceasefire.

There is no peace in the Middle East because as Dr.

King said, peace is not just the absence of violence, it is the presence of justice.

I need to hear about this from a British-born citizen who was on the Qatari payroll as a member of the Al Jazeera staff for legitimately about a decade.

Don't worry, he also appeared at Medi Hassan alongside people like Bernie Sanders, alongside Chris Murphy, and alongside a person named Afeni Evans, a Washington-based D.C.

activist who embraces causes, including, for example, support for Hamas and Marxism.

According to the Washington Free Beacon, Evans, who No King's organizers listed as an impacted activist over her arrest in August for evading subway fare, has condoned or downplayed various acts of political violence.

She mocked calls for sympathy for Charlie Kirk.

She said at the time, if you want me to feel bad for that bleep, I can't, I won't, I can't.

She said, we live in the most fascistic country in the effing world.

She probably loves America also, if any evidence.

She also refers to Israel as the imaginary state.

And on the one-year anniversary of October 7th, she said, quote, occupied people have a right to self-defense.

and mocks President Trump's injury when he was shot in the ear in an assassination attempt as a quote little ear-piercing.

So

just wonderful.

I mean, I'm glad that we had all of these mainstream Democrats appearing alongside all of these crazy people and radical people.

And that was fitting because some of the elected Democrats are, in fact, crazy and radical people, including Mayor Brandon Johnson, one of the only non-white people to speak at one of these rallies.

Already coming up, we have words from maybe one of the only white people at the No Kings rally.

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Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago, who has an approval rating lower than cancer, he says that that President Trump is somehow a king, shifting money to the wealthy, as opposed to the mayor of Chicago, making sure that as many people can be shot in the streets as humanly possible.

Donald Trump just shifted the largest concentration of upward wealth into the hands of the ultra-rich and large corporations in the history of this country.

This This is a fight for working people across this country and across this globe to stand up to billionaires in the interests of corporations.

And he has a sign next to him that has ICE crossed out because nothing says I love America like going after the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency that ensures that people can't willy-nilly simply cross our borders.

Solid stuff.

Now,

were these protests just a bunch of moderates who are upset at the excesses of the Trump administration, or were a lot of people who showed up kind of nutty?

Well,

we do have some nuts in the crowd at the very least.

Here, for example, is one no-kings protester saying, sure, I'd kill Stephen Miller.

Who are you going to kill?

This president's caring is science.

Would you like to kill Nazis?

What do you mean?

It's pretty.

In this context, who's a Nazi?

Stephen Miller's a Nazi.

So you're going to kill Stephen Miller?

I don't know if that's something I'd say on camera, bro.

Well, the good news is that somebody then stepped in, a white girl wearing a Palestinian terrorist Kafia and a COVID mask.

All the causes at once.

Solid people.

Over in Portland, things got rather feisty as well.

Here is what it looked like over in Portland.

See, there are people on the roof apparently having to fire rubber bullets or paintballs at people to get them to back off from the police.

Just delight Portland filled with delightful people.

Don't worry, the president has no reason, possibly, to send in federal forces to ensure the enforcement of the law.

Meanwhile, one No Kings protester, who it turns out is actually a teacher, because this is the kind of person you want teaching your kids at a public school, apparently.

Here she is making a motion that is a direct reference to the murder of Charlie Kirk being shot in the neck.

She's also carrying the Mexican flag, by the way.

Seems like a nice person as well.

And a No Kings organizer named Bethany said, Yeah, don't worry.

You know, it's all good people.

Here are people like Antifa.

crowd as being Antifa.

Oh,

I think that's silly.

I mean, obviously, if you look at the definition of it, Antifa, anti-fascist.

I've spoken to a couple of veterans who said that's literally what they fought against.

They are anti-fascist.

So I think I should be proud to say that the people out here are Antifa.

We don't agree with a fascist government.

So, in the end, is any of this going to make a large-scale difference in the body politic?

Probably not.

Let's people blow off their steam a little bit.

Really let some people go out there and enjoy some Michael McDonald's era Dubie Brothers or something, some Kenny G.

Again, very, very, very old and very, very, very white things happening over at this president.

President Trump did have a response to it.

He was on Air Force One.

He said, they keep calling me a king, and I am not, in fact, a king.

That is silly.

Here's the president.

I think it's a joke.

I looked at the people.

They're not representative of this country.

And I looked at all the brand new signs paid for, I guess it was paid for by Soros and other radical left lunatics.

It looks like it was.

We're checking it out.

The demonstrations were very small, very ineffective.

And the people were whacked out.

When you look at those people, those are not representative of the people of our country.

Mr.

President, besides San Francisco.

I'm not a king.

I'm not a king.

I work my ass off to make our country great.

That's all it is.

I'm not a king at all.

I mean, again, President Trump would be the first person to declare himself a king if he were one.

The whole thing is unbelievably silly.

And I think the president did have a well-thought-out,

fully considered, and rhetorically accurate response to these protests.

Here is what he posted on Truth Social, just as Abraham Lincoln would have done.

For those who can't see, this is an AI video of of the president in a jet, like an F-22, that says King Trump on it as he drops

literal excrement on Harry

and other members of the protests.

Wow.

That is an awful lot of poop.

I guess the protests got their demand, and the free meta-musile happened.

Well done, everyone.

Don't worry, the resistance didn't end there.

There was one last bit of resistance that happened thanks to Jimmy Kimmel.

So, Jimmy Kimmel has decided the best way to resist President Trump is to have drag queens read

Eric Trump's book to small children.

Yeah, this is going to get Democrats back into power sometime soon, is hiring a bunch of kids to sit there and read lines as a perverse man in a dress

reads to them from Eric Trump's book.

The brilliance of the resistance cannot be overstated.

I mean, truly, it is astonishing.

I'm Trixie Mattel.

Do I have to

do that?

Oh, no.

Really?

You just look amazing.

Why would that be scary?

That is so affirming.

Thank you so much.

You guys look amazing, too.

Thank you.

Well, I have a whole pile of books here.

What if we chose one together?

Because this is, after all, a democracy.

As of this morning, it's still a democracy.

I'm not sure.

Why?

That's some comedying right there.

Also, if that man in that makeup and that dress asked a kid who had not been hired to be on Jimmy Kimmel, are you scared right now?

I mean, the first thing you say to a scary person is, I'm not scared.

So there is that as well.

Just well done to Jimmy Kimmel, as always.

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Meanwhile, the New York election is just around the corner.

Zorin Mamdani continues to be the frontrunner in that election.

The polling shows that he actually

has

a bit of trouble with Andrew Cuomo in a one-on-one race.

According to the New York Post, he is in a virtual dead heat with Andrew Cuomo.

If Republican Curtis Lewis drops out, It's time to drop out.

I like Curtis.

Curtis is wonderful.

Curtis, drop out.

Enough.

You're not winning.

There's no reason for you to be labeled the spoiler in this race.

Get out.

If Sliwa stays in the race, Mom Dani takes 43.2% of the vote.

Cuomo takes 28.9% and 19.4% for Sliwa.

If he drops out,

then apparently Mom Dani is at 44.6%

and 41% are with Cuomo, which is within the margin of error.

Apparently, the findings show 78% of undecided city voters are 50 or older because older New Yorkers back Cuomo.

That actually cuts in favor of Andrew Cuomo.

So Curtis should get out as the spoiler.

I appreciate him trying to do the best he can.

He's not going to be the mayor.

So now it's time to get out because Zara Mandani is a full-scale disaster area.

And while I, as a Floridian, I won't say I'm rooting for disaster in New York, but let's just say that I've purchased a little more real estate down here in the expectation of the prices rising as we get people fleeing who still pay taxes.

But I still actually like the country and would like to see New York not governed by a terror-supporting Marxist.

That would be a good thing.

When I say he's a terror-supporting Marxist, I mean that absolutely literally.

According to the New York Post editorial board, Zahar Mamdani visited on Friday Masjid at Taqwa, the Bedvoy Stoivesent Mosque of Imam Siraj Wahaj.

Prosecutors list Wahaj as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Many members of the plot were members of his mosque.

He even publicly defended the conspirators and insisted the FBI and CIA were somehow the real terrorists.

He testified in open support of Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman, that is the blind sheikh, who was linked to multiple terror attacks and convicted in the 1993 plot to bomb multiple New York City landmarks.

Apparently, Mamdani showed up to deliver a smiling selfie.

And that's after, I guess, what, if Andrew Cuomo had gone there and delivered a smiling selfie with a terror supporter, that somehow that'd been better.

Because Mamdani, you remember, chided Cuomo on stage for not being able to name the mosques he had visited, which I didn't actually realize was a prereq to becoming mayor of New York, was naming the mosques you have visited.

By the way, I don't think that you should have to name the synagogues you visited either as a prereq to becoming the mayor of New York.

It seems like not being pro-terrorism or pro-communism would be good starters, not being pro-crime and pro-prostitution, that might be a good starter.

Daniella Greenbaum-Davis, who's written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, among others, she points out: everyone knows Mamdani as a DSA socialist from Queens.

What's less well known is that his entire political network traces back to Lynda Sarsour, who, of course, is a longtime terror supporter, and her mentor, Imam Saraj Wahaj.

In 2018, Sarsour placed Mamdani on the board of the Muslim Democratic Club of New York, her own vehicle to elect ideologically aligned Muslim candidates.

That board also included a bunch of people who had passed rules in CARE or ICNA,

both groups that have been linked by various sources to support for Hamas.

Sarsur called Wahaj, her mentor, and Mamdani, her Habibti, beloved in Arabic.

And we just mentioned Wahaj a moment ago.

So, yes, it turns out that all the accusations about Mamdani being warm toward the jihadis, well, I mean, we could tell that from the things he was saying about globalizing the Intifada and his unwillingness to say that Hamas should disarm.

Turns out all of that is true.

And the Democratic Party has no systemic immunity to this sort of stuff.

Now, again, we have had a bunch of conversations over the course of the past few days about people who you should and should not associate with in politics.

You're a free human being.

You get to make those choices.

The fact that the Democratic Party continues to massage Zoran Mamdani as the future mayor of New York demonstrates a full-scale lack of capacity to think morally in any way.

Hakeem Jeffries has not endorsed Mamdani, but he says, listen, I look forward to continuing the conversations.

My goodness.

You still haven't endorsed Zoran Mamdani, have you?

I have not.

And why is that?

Well, as I've indicated, I expect to have a conversation with him at some point this week in advance of early voting, which begins next weekend in New York City.

And we'll certainly have more to say about the mayor's race and about our Democratic nominee prior to early voting beginning.

Just sad.

Honestly, quite, quite sad.

Okay, meanwhile, speaking of Hamas and its supporters, Hamas has been violating the ceasefire that the presidents of the United States negotiated with a bunch of Arab countries, European countries, and Israel.

20 live hostages came home.

There are some 15, 16 hostages, dead bodies of hostages that are still being held by Hamas as bargaining chips at this point.

And Hamas has been summarily slaughtering people in the portion of the Gaza Strip that Israel has pulled back back to.

People should remember this.

All the calls for Israel to stop the carnage in Gaza and all the rest of this.

The only force that was attempting to extirpate Hamas with any sort of efficacy in the Gaza Strip was the IDF.

When Israel pulls back to borders that are not inside some places like Gaza City, what happens?

Hamas immediately starts to flex its muscle and literally pull people out into the streets and then shoot them to death.

Hundreds of people over the course of the last week or so

to complete deafening silence from all the same people who are complaining about the human rights of Palestinians five seconds ago.

When Hamas is putting bullets through skulls deliberately of its political opponents, everyone just goes quiet.

Weird how that works.

Weird how that works.

Strange, strange, you might say.

By the way, the European Union is still apparently talking about sanctions on Israel after the deal.

Here, by the way, is what the borders currently look like.

So the borders of the Gaza Strip.

So Israel has pulled back back to the yellow area.

So if you think of the Gaza Strip, for those who are not watching but listening, if you think of the Gaza Strip as sort of an off-kilter long rectangle, then there's a smaller long rectangle that is inside that rectangle.

That is the area that Israel is no longer operating within.

And then there is sort of an edge border that ranges anywhere from a couple of miles to

0.9 miles wide, a sort of a sort of buffer zone all around that narrower area.

Most of the population is in, of course, that narrower area.

And Israel has pulled back.

That, by the way, is not good for law-abiding Palestinians who actually wish to live in peace because Hamas is simply pulling people, again, out of houses and then murdering them.

But they're not just doing that.

Hamas also attacked Israeli soldiers.

They've been sending their Hamas terrorists to the border areas, what's now called the yellow line.

They're sending...

their soldiers there and they killed two Israeli soldiers the other day.

And Israel immediately responded because the only way that you ensure that a ceasefire holds up is if somebody violates the ceasefire, they have to be punished for it.

That's the way that it works.

And of course, this had all been presaged by the State Department, which on Saturday announced, according to the Daily Wire, that Hamas could soon violate the ceasefire agreement by attacking Gazans, not just Israelis.

The State Department said in a statement, quote, The United States has informed the guarantor nations of the Gaza peace agreement of credible reports indicating an imminent ceasefire violation by Hamas against the people of Gaza.

This planned attack against Palestinian civilians would constitute a direct and grave violation of of the ceasefire agreement and undermine the significant progress achieved through the mediation efforts.

The guarantors demand Hamas uphold its obligations under the ceasefire terms.

And the message says that if the attack does occur, measures will be taken to protect the people of Gaza and preserve the integrity of the ceasefire.

So it's not just a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel.

The ceasefire is meant to guarantee the safety of Palestinians in the areas that Hamas is still active.

One widely publicized video shows Hamas members dragging eight men into a public space and then just shooting them to death in front of everybody.

Well, the president of the United States, he says, listen, if the place continues to be violent, we need to let people out.

Here was the president of the United States the other day.

And you said you wanted to develop it.

Well, you have to demand for that.

Not me as an individual.

The U.S.

I liked it as like Freedom Place.

You call it Freedom Place.

And

we would get all of the people that live there into decent homes throughout the the region.

If you look, Egypt has a lot of land.

Jordan has a lot of land, you know, right next door.

A lot of countries have a lot of land.

So I had an initial vision that we would

get them.

Look at Gaza.

You know, there's nothing standard.

The whole thing is all rubble.

So it's not too hard to top that.

Well, again, the President of the United States is not wrong about that.

Meanwhile, the vice president of the United States was asked about all of this, and he said, listen,

there's no security infrastructure in that interior envelope.

This is the big problem, by the way.

Again, the president brokered this deal in order to provide for the possibility of safety, not just in that border zone, but in the entirety of the Gaza Strip.

That border zone will remain safe.

Israel will end up being the boots on the ground in that border zone.

They still retain control of some 58% of the Gaza Strip.

That area will be made safe.

And Palestinians who are living there will be safe because the Israelis are there.

And presumably, you will end up with other forces from UAE, from Indonesia, from Egypt, from Saudi coming in and also helping to create a coalitional force in that area that prevents Hamas from taking over.

The question is: what happens in that internal envelope?

And as the vice president says, that's going to take some time.

And if there are violations of the ceasefire, somebody's going to have to do something about it because otherwise, Hamas is just going to reconstitute.

Apparently, there are reports that Hamas has been trying to find unexploded ordnance in the areas where it is still active and then unload those explosives into new forms in order to reuse them against Israelis and anyone else who is in that border area.

Here is the vice president.

Well, the president is actually making a very important point here, which is that we don't actually know even what the reality on the ground is there.

I mean, when we talk about Hamas, you're talking about 40 different cells.

It's disjointed.

Some of those cells will probably honor the ceasefire.

Many of those cells, as we saw some evidence of today, will not.

Before we actually can ensure that Hamas is properly disarmed, that's going to require, as we know, some of these Gulf Arab states to get forces in there to actually apply some law and order and some security keeping on the ground.

So I think it would be kind of absurd for the president to say, well, Hamas is going to be disarmed three or four days from now.

We don't even have the security infrastructure in place, meaning the Gulf Arab states, our allies, don't have the security infrastructure in place yet to confirm that Hamas is disarmed until you actually go a little bit down the furth the path of this peace mission of this 20-point peace plan, we're not going to be able to say with confidence that everybody is doing everything that we want them to do.

And again, that is the big thing, that what J.D.

Vience is saying right there, the vice president, what he's saying there is totally correct.

In order for the interior envelope to be made safe, other countries are going to have to step up.

If you don't want the Israelis in there doing the policing, then you need the Indonesians or the Saudis or the UAE or Qatar.

Qatar, who's spoken such big things about their impact on peace.

Qatar could any time help effectuate a peace by sending forces into the area it doesn't want the Israelis to operate in.

Qatar will not be doing that.

In any case, what happened is that Hamas attacked Israeli soldiers.

They killed two of them with an RPG, apparently.

And Israel immediately responded by bombing Hamas terror tunnels that it still knows are in those particular areas.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Israel conducted dozens of airstrikes across Gaza on Sunday and halted humanitarian aid into that enclave after it accused Hamas of killing troops inside the Israeli-controlled areas and what is shaping up to be the biggest test yet of the fragile ceasefire.

And well, again, the question about the ceasefire is going to be who disarms Hamas.

That was always going to be the question.

But there is, in fact, a ceasefire that has been effectuated in that 58% that Israel controls.

Not just that.

That area, aid is being shipped into that area.

Palestinians who wish to actually live in peace and security are being able to move into that area so long as they're not associated with Hamas.

But Israel said, we're not shipping in humanitarian aid to those other areas that Hamas is shooting people in.

Now, Israel immediately stopped.

As soon as they retaliated, then they stopped.

Israel's military said Sunday evening it had begun reinforcing the ceasefire after the airstrikes.

Hamas is trying to pretend that they're not violating the ceasefire, but it is Hamas violating the ceasefire because, again, the onus is on Hamas to disarm, and Hamas has no intention of disarming at this point.

Somebody's going to have to make them do it.

And the question is whether anyone will.

As we say, the vice president is expected to visit Israel this week as part of a push by the Trump administration for the implementation of that agreement.

Also, Steve Witkoff, the White House envoy, is expected to travel to the Middle East on Sunday to follow up on the implementation for the deal to end the war.

Vance is apparently leading the U.S.

delegation.

He will be arriving on Tuesday and staying until Thursday.

He'll be meeting with the Prime Minister of Israel.

He'll also be meeting with the President of Israel, Isaac Herzog, who doesn't have a lot of technical power inside the Israeli government.

It's sort of a more ceremonial post, but he, of course, is an important figure in Israel.

And then Witkoff and Kushner are expected to travel to Israel as well.

Now, again, a lot of this is predicated on the idea that there will be a rebuilding in the Gaza Strip.

The reason why I remain optimistic about the ceasefire here is because the administration, the Trump administration, is very invested

on like a monetary level in ensuring that the lives of Gazans get better

and that people be able to invest in this area.

The reason that Trump has broken so many of the gridlocks in the Middle East is because he thinks in terms of real estate.

He thinks in terms of economics.

And what he thinks is: okay,

that yellow area of the Gaza Strip, the so-called green zone now, that Israel controls and that will eventually become part of the Insurum security force.

That area, if it's safe, can be a good place for people to work and for people to build and for people to live and for people to be educated, not in Hamas textbooks or run by the UNRWA, which is a Hamas front group, but instead can actually become the seed bed for something significantly better.

And if there is some sort of security force that is non-Israeli that can go into the Hamas-occupied areas of the Gaza Strip, given the fact that Hamas will not disarm, and that was one of the main points of the peace plan, then that will have to happen.

And President Trump is saying to these Arab countries and to the Europeans as well: listen, you don't want the Israelis in there.

You need to do something about this because otherwise, ain't no investment going to get done.

You cannot invest in building a hotel in the Gaza Strip, even in that yellow area controlled by by Israel right now, but hopefully in the future by interim security forces.

You can't build a hotel there with any sense of real complacency or security unless you know that 500 feet away, Hamas isn't rebuilding to attack you.

So that is the current state of play in the Gaza Strip.

People, I think, are significantly too pessimistic about what's happening over there.

Of course, Hamas was going to violate the ceasefire.

Of course, Hamas is going to try to hang on to power.

The president has made clear that he and America's allies, including Saudi Arabia and UAE, and yes, if Qatar wishes to be useful, Qatar

are going to have to actually get active because either them or it's the Israelis.

Those are the choices.

There's no third choice where Hamas simply continues to rule in that area of the Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, in less salutary news, the president of the United States is apparently attempting to browbeat Vladimir Zelensky into taking some sort of deal in the Ukraine war.

According to the Financial Times, President Trump apparently urged urged Vladimir Zelensky to accept Vladimir Putin's terms or be destroyed by Russia.

Apparently,

the meeting between the U.S.

and Ukrainian presidents descended many times into a shouting match, according to people familiar with the matter.

We'll have to see if the Trump administration denies this or Zelensky denies this.

They added the U.S.

president tossed aside maps of the front line in Ukraine and insisted Zelensky surrender the entire Donbass region to Putin and repeatedly echoed talking points the Russian leader had made in their call a day earlier.

Now, again, is that useful?

If Trump did that, not useful.

However, Trump apparently later endorsed a freeze of the current front lines, which is the same position that the United States has been taking for nearly the entirety of the war.

Zelensky and his team went to the White House, hoping to persuade Trump to supply them long-range Tomhawk cruise missiles.

Apparently, the president ultimately declined to do so.

During Friday's meeting, according to European officials briefed on the meeting, Trump appeared to have adopted many of Putin's talking points verbatim, even when they contradicted his own recent statements about Russia's weakness.

The official said Trump told Zelensky he was losing the war warning, quote, if Putin wants it, he will destroy you.

He also said that Russia's economy is doing great.

Now, again, we don't know here what is true or who is leaking.

Trump told Fox News on Sunday he was confident about securing an end to the conflict.

He added that Putin was, quote, going to take something.

He's won certain property.

Putin made a new offer to Trump on Thursday under which Ukraine would surrender the parts of eastern Donbass region under its control in exchange for some small areas of two southern frontline regions of Kherson and Zaporizhia.

Zelensky said he wasn't even understanding what the Russians were willing to give up in those regions.

Now, again, overeagerness for a deal is a sin in diplomacy.

Obviously, Vladimir Putin has been upping the ante consistently since President Trump met with him in Alaska.

As we know from the Middle East, and is just true generally in foreign policy, there is no substitute for strength.

So I hope the president

readdresses these rumors.

And frankly, I hope he gives the Ukrainians Tom Hawk Cruise missiles because there needs to be an elevated level of pressure on the Russians if they are going to come to the table.

Meanwhile, the president is taking a very strong position against the drug cartels.

On Sunday morning, he lambasted Colombia president Gustavo Petro as a fresh-mouthed, unpopular politician who's an illegal drug leader.

He said the U.S.

would be ending all subsidies to Colombia, effective immediately.

And he threatened Petro: he better close up these killing fields immediately or the United States will close them up for him and it won't be done nicely.

And here he was talking about gigantic fields that grow the precursors to heroin or cocaine.

He said, as of today, these payments or any other form of payment or subsidies will no longer be made to Colombia.

Petro then said his country has never been rude to the United States, but Trump was being rude and ignorant toward Colombia.

Now, the reality is that Colombia was, until recently, a country that was significantly more conservative.

It was significantly more right.

Petro took over

since 2022.

And if you go all the way back, he was actually a member of a Marxist guerrilla movement.

So not a particular shock that he is coming up against the president.

Latin America is, in fact, a rich field for the United States to ensure its influence.

There's a reason the Monroe Doctrine suggests that that the United States has to have essentially plenary power over the Western Hemisphere.

We've felt the after-effects of Venezuelan out-migration, drugs being shipped into the United States, economic migrants leaving from Venezuela to the United States because of the rule of Nicolas Maduro.

We've seen problems, obviously, in the Northern Triangle countries.

And so addressing those problems at the root would definitely be good.

Another reason why I think that the United States is working closely with Javier Millé in Argentina in order to reshape the map of Latin America.

Now, there are a lot of rumors right now there might be an attempt to even oust Nicolas Maduro.

Apparently, according to the Wall Street Journal, however, the strongman remains virtually coup-proof.

That's because he's purged officers accused of conspiring against him.

He's jailed and sent them into exile.

The vaunted intelligence service of close ally Cuba has worked to identify plots and renegades with intelligence officers placed in every single unit.

Any attempts from inside the military, in other words, to come against Maduro is likely to be unsuccessful.

So the question is, how this gets done?

Yeah, it's a similar question to Cuba or Iran or North Korea or any other place where the strongman leader has taken total control over the military.

It'll be interesting to see what measures the CIA takes in Venezuela.

The president has already said that that is something that is going to happen.

Okay, meanwhile, in the odd news of the day, apparently thieves.

Robbed the Louvre yesterday.

So this is now the plot of the Italian job or something.

According to the New York Times, the doors of the world's grandest museum had been open to the public for just 30 minutes when two burglars were lifted up onto a second-floor balcony on the building's south side.

Their faces concealed, they rode a monta mubles, a truck-mounted electric ladder that is a common sight on the streets of Paris, where it's used to ferry bulky furniture through the windows of apartments.

Once they were there, they used grinders to break a window, setting off security alarms, and they burst inside the galerie d'Apoyon of the Louvre Museum.

Forgive the French accent.

I will maintain as an American that there are far more printed consonants in French than there are pronounced consonants.

In any case, they smashed two cases, sounding more alarms, and snatched eight precious objects, including a royal sapphire necklace, a royal emerald necklace, and its matching earrings, and a diadem worn by Empress Eugenie, that is the wife of Napoleon III, France's 19th century ruler.

And then they went back down the ladder to a rolled shouldering design and made their getaway with two waiting members of their team on motor scooters.

So, this is the most brazen theft ever staged at the Louvre.

It took place in broad daylight.

These are some of the most valuable jewels in France.

Unclear exactly how you even traffic those?

I mean, really,

who's like the fencer who moves those?

Pretty amazing.

Apparently, in their haste, the robbers did drop a crown made.

for the Empress Eugenie to wear during the Universal Exposition in Paris, featuring eight gold eagles, 1,354 diamonds, 1,136 rose cut diamonds, and 56 emeralds.

I assume they're going to melt this stuff down and then sell these pieces individually, but

only one person can solve this crime.

Inspector Clusaux needs to be back on the job.

And at least we know that there are a bunch of novelists and movie makers who will have fun with this.

Alrighty, coming up, we're going to get into the first days of our friend Barry Weiss over at CBS News.

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