3658 - Primaries Roundup; Republican Plan to Backdoor Israel Aid w/ Ben Freeman

You are listening to a free version of the Majority Report. Support this show at join the Majority Report.com and get an extra hour of content daily. The Majority Report with Sam Cedar. It is Wednesday, June 3rd, 2006. My name is Sam Cedar. This is the five-time award-winning majority report. We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA. On the program today, Ben Freeman, author and director of the democratizing foreign policy program at the Quincy Institute,

on the congressional attempt to hide aid to Israel in the future to try and take it off of the political. stage. But first, muted primary day for progressives. Elections across the country. To the extent that we know

the results, California is going to take a while. Also on the program today, Iran fires missiles at Kuwait and Bahrain in retaliation to U.S. bombing. Meanwhile, Iran is letting friendly ships

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DOJ is investigating George Santos for insider trading on Kalshi. He seemed like such a nice boy. New report, National Guard. did not reduce violent crime in D.C. Did have an impact on some opportunistic crime. So wouldn't, I guess, cameras on every block. Doctors across U.S. reporting an increase in childhood disease as vaccinations decline. Scott Pelley fired from 60 minutes subsequently come out and told us what we all knew.

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All this, more, although what could there be on today's majority report? Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. It is Humph Day.

Emma Viglin out today. Nevertheless, we've licensed the phrase Humpty from her. You weren't here when she coined that phrase. No, but it's nice that she's getting paid on her day off. Exactly. That's the whole key, folks.

Passive income. Henry wants to nominate yesterday's fun half for the best of. We went pretty deep into the Dave Rubin stuff.

forgot about that. I put that out of my head. We will probably, you know, revisit Dave Rubin. Maybe not today, but I think in the coming days, I feel like we owe it to ourselves. I should say, the Daily Beast has an article. I haven't read it yet, but it says like something to the effect of perhaps the dumbest man on the internet talking about Dave Rubin. People are making a big deal. of the fact that when he was asked by name a single metric by which Donald Trump is the economy is doing better

than it did under Joe Biden. Dave Rubin, I think they're starting to, they're investigating this, I believe, had a stroke. Well, you're clearly a foreign asset because we don't use the metric system in America. Exactly. Exactly.

Here it is Maga host mocked after failing to name any of Trump's achievement. Ruined Rubin Now that Rubin gets wrecked on Trump economy Is that actually from the Dave Rubin show? Did he actually title it by himself or no? I think that's from Daily Beast editorializing. All right, let's get into what happened.

across the country last night. Again, California, we only have some results in, and to the extent that we do, not necessarily stuff that we're going to be super psyched about. Again, at the end of the day, the most important thing in my estimation is that the Democrats take the House and the Senate.

And progressives did fair last night, I would say. Fair to not so fair. But there wasn't necessarily huge races. Like we're not talking the difference between a platinum in a Mills. We're not talking the difference between a Haley Stevens and an Abdul El-Sayed. That's not what we're talking about. Congressional races come and go, although this one is pretty exciting. uh...

dr adam uh... amahua who was on the way homoey uh... who was on the program last week uh... am i interviewed him uh... pulled out a uh... an impressive win in uh... new jersey uh...

and uh... here is his acceptance speech and you understand this is a very blue uh... district so he's gonna win uh... this district As a doctor, I see my patients struggling in the richest country in the history of the world just to be able to afford their health care. I met people every day drowning in medical debt because the billionaires and the insurance companies decided that we need to make profits over taking care of the sick. I became a doctor to take care of the sick. care of people and to save lives, but I end up spending half my time just fighting the insurance companies to be able to provide care.

I knew that the system was broken, rigged, and that it was serving only a few and not the many. And when I came back from Gaza, I went to the halls of Congress to share what I saw, but what I found is many doors that were closed in my face. people didn't even want to listen.

And I realized that these doors weren't just close to me. They were close to everyone for everything. Unless you were one of the oligarch lobbyists with a check in your hand. So six months ago, we launched this campaign. Almost no one thought that we were viable. No one thought we had a shock. even those who called themselves progressives laughed us out of the room and they said that we didn't ask permission to run

so there it is so there it is Maui in the New Jersey's 12th district wins that's going to be a that's a 60 essentially a 60 to 35, 37 district Harris over Trump. So very likely, barring some bizarre catastrophe, he will be a sitting congressman increasing, I don't know if we still say the word squad anymore, but will certainly be of that ilk in the House, to the left, of even the progressive caucus. And that's good. And that's a district, again, is locked in blue district.

And so this is not a seat that will flip to Republicans anytime soon. And also in New Jersey, the other race, I think that folks were, keeping an eye on from a progressive standpoint, I don't know how close it was ever, but in New Jersey 7th, Rebecca Bennett won. She is a more the establishment candidate, I would say there. This is an important district. It was a 50-48 Trump district, so essentially even, and in this environment, very likely,

to flip to Democrats. And if you add to that context, the Congressman Tom Keene, Kane, who has been representing this district, a son of the former governor there, has been AWOL for three months. The only contact anybody's had with him was he got on a phone call with a reporter and said, pray for me. I don't know what to say

he's apparently though he was trading he was doing some day trading is that what we're praying for he may have been like I should have never gone short on Navidia or something for China to land that Boeing deal exactly

so that that's a potential pickup in New Jersey I mean, there's a couple of districts in New Jersey. New Jersey's nine was a one-point victory for Trump. So there's a very good shot there that the Democrat will win. It is, I guess, yeah, this is, I guess it was a, I guess it was a, former representative from New Jersey's ninth district, I believe. And that district just swung to Trump last election and is very likely going to go back

to the Democrats. Moving from New Jersey, West, I guess it would be Iowa, is next. I'm just trying to organize. There's a lot of stuff here. Turek, Josh Turek, who was the establishment pick. As we talked to Daniel Nicanian yesterday, the difference in Turek, Josh Turek and Zach Wall's politics, not dramatically different. They're both pretty progressive. I think Walls, the difference would be Israel.

frankly. I think Walls is more willing to call out Israel. Chuck Schumer never got explicitly involved in this, though it was clear that this is, that Turrick was his choice. Turc got $10 million from vote vets, which is, I don't want to say, a cutout for the establishment Democrats, but certainly is aligned with them. This is an open seat. And there's some thinking that there's a chance in Iowa that we may see in Iowa, like the Democrat may win for governor there.

And There's this chance that perhaps the Senate is in play. Joni Ernst has left the Senate. And you should all remember, she was someone who got into the Senate by shooting a pig, or wrestling a pig in her ads and then firing off an AR-15 maybe. I can't remember exactly. Sounds about right. Yeah.

So that's what's happening in Iowa. Zach Walsallis will have a future. I don't know what to tell you.

Things got too weird for the senator who literally talked about wrestling a pig to get into the Senate. With the Republican Party just sort of, she didn't leave the Republican Party. The Republican Party left her. If you keep going west from there, I don't know, Montana, New Mexico, the establishment, there was an attempt by some conservative Democrats in New Mexico to return. You'll recall that David, that Nicanian had told us about. And they lost. so there's no resurgence of conservatism. There was, you know, a success by establishment candidates, but again, they have a lot more money.

In Montana, we had talked about this weird dynamic where John Tester was promoting an independent and was supporting quietly a Democrat in the race. who is expected to maybe drop out to clear the field for this independent, very similar to what we see in Nebraska. And that Democrat won. So that's encouraging. Really, I mean, I don't know if a Democrat's going to win in Montana, or I should say an independent who would caucus with a Democrat in Montana,

with the Democrats in Montana. However, if there's a better chance than that, not, which in this instance it is because that Democrat registered may drop out or at least be low key enough that it'll help boost the independent. That means that the Republicans need to deploy money and resources there. So even in these states, I mean, this is the whole point of the 50 state strategy. Even in these states where Democrats can't win or we think Democrats can't win and And we really have no sense of what the sort of like trend is going to be six months from now based upon what could be oil shocks and inflation and et cetera.

The more the chances increase, even if it goes from 20% chance to a 40% chance, that means that Republicans have to deploy their resources there. And that helps in other areas where there is maybe a 45% chance or a 42% chance. So that's all good news. South Dakota, I didn't even look.

Toby Dodin, I believe, beat Dusty Johnson for the Republican. You're not making that up. No, I'm not.

In California, just wrapping up here. You had Nancy Pelosi's seat and and Seikot Chakrabati Barti was on this program months and months ago.

He's coming in third as far as I can tell. Now, again, you know, California results aren't in, but this is the California 11th. It looks like it's going to be Scott Weiner and the giraffe. The giraffe. I'm not familiar with that, but. And Connie Chan, who, I think Chan actually got Nancy Pelosi's endorsement. So, a progressive shut out there. But again, you know, part of this is about Israel and frankly, like, the public opinion about Israel is going in one direction. And I don't think it's going to change.

In California's 22nd, where Democrats have a very good shot of picking up flipping a Trump seat. It looks like Randy Vegas is ahead. Randy was also on this program. So it would be he against the Republican David Valladado. or Dow, I can't pronounce his name. He has 45% the sitting Republican congressman. Remember, this is an open primary. Vegas has a 30 to 26 edge against Jasmith Baines.

That may have changed. I haven't seen the most recent numbers. That's with only 56% of the vote in. So, again, that can change. But the point being that you really get a sense, there's 56% for the Democrat and 45% for the Republican. As right now,

Vegas is 29.8% to 25.7 for Jasmine. Okay. So, I mean, that's, yeah, more or less there. Jimmy Gomez in California's 34th. Breezed into the general election.

Everything else is sort of up in the air in the governor's race it is not settled but it looks most likely that it's going to be Xavier Becerra versus the formerly British I mean the immigrant I guess Steve Hilton the Fox News or one American I don't know where he comes from in the mayor's race, it looks like it's going to be Karen Bass against Spencer Pratt, who is

the former reality TV star. I don't, I'm not familiar with him either. Come on, California. Well, this is no different. Schwarzenegger was the governor. And Reagan. And Reagan. Right. So that's basically where we are

at this point. That's You know, those are the big takeaways from this race. So progressives got a couple, it looks like. Vigas in California. Hamoui in New Jersey. Mieha won her primary as well. I think that was sort of a foregone conclusion.

And now on to next week is what's that state? Maine. We will get to that in a moment. Is he in? No? Oh, coming at 9.30. 12.30.

Sorry. Well, we should Let's see. Do we have time for one?

Let's let's just watch this with, I mean, we're starting to see this. There's a new poll that came out yesterday. The showing Abdul El-Sayed is pulling away. McMorrow is dropping like a lead balloon. And Haley Stevens is sort of hanging in there. And it's becoming clear and clear that Saeed has the inside track in this Michigan Democratic primary.

and um you also i think i feel like there's over the past couple of weeks there has been he has become more general election ready um not necessarily by attacking to the middle but there's just a a level of polish on his uh campaigning that seems to have um He's up this game a little bit. He's confident. Here he is on MS now. Or is this MS now or is this? Yeah.

Katie Turr. I didn't know if she was still on MS now. On MS. Now, Katie Turr. Obviously, it's hard to look, people aren't responsible for their spouse's work. But also, it's not like. you're not influenced by your spouse. And Katie Terry's

husband is Tony Duke Ducapolis. I can't remember. I don't know how pros. Doca Paul. Doca Paul. And now, Joe Coppaw's

former wife moved to Israel with the kids. It's true. And he, you know, his conversion to Judaism and his circumcision or his second circumcision. Tony two cuts. He wrote out.

But, and there is no zeal like that of the convert. But here's Katie Turr asking a question of Abdul El-Sayed. And I first heard him say this, and he may have been saying it on the trail. I think during the, maybe a debate. but this is a great answer. Jewish population in Michigan, and a lot of them, you know, feel uncomfortable in this moment about anti-Semitism,

about the way that campaigns sometimes speak about what is anti-Semitism and what is not. What do you say to the Jewish community who you're going to want to vote for you about your positions on Israel, on APAC funding, et cetera, and how they shouldn't feel alienated by a candidate like a positive.

I just, I just, I want to hear him answer this. But I mean, just if you think, like, if you spend some time, you know, and maybe it's the third, fourth time, I've heard this question. Now, it really occurs to me. Jewish, Jewish, Jewish, what do you think about Israel and APEC? I would love to see the polling of Jews and their relationship to APEC.

I did not grow up with some affinity. my parents at Passover would talk about APAC. As if like this is in any way, this is a Jewish thing. It's just absurd. Go ahead. By a candidate like you. Okay, I'd say this. Nobody understands what it's like to be discriminated against for how you pray,

like someone who gets discriminated against for how we pray. And most of the time, we don't ask how we pray. Most people are asking what do you pray for? And I pray for peace and dignity and basic goodness. for all of our kids, whether they're Jewish kids who are neighboring a couple of houses down from me or my kids who are Muslim. And I'll tell you that it's really important for us to be able to differentiate between Judaism, the Jewish people, Jewish culture, Jewish contributions to this country, which are vast, and APAC and Israel. Those are two different things.

I, when I'm elected, will be the chief opposition to what the Egyptian government does. Now, my family immigrated from Egypt. That doesn't make me anti-Egyptian. That just means that I want my tax dollars to be spent here rather than sent over there to cement the chokehold of a military dictatorship on its own people. And I apply the same exact principles to Israel. I don't want my tax dollars being spent to backstop apartheid and genocide when they could be used to provide things like glasses or health care or schools for our own kids. And I worry that a lot of times people want to use the word anti-Semitism to spread to defend

a foreign government. And I think it's just really important for us to differentiate between those two because I don't want to be held accountable to what another government does simply because I share ethnicity with the people who live there, and I know the same for my Jewish sisters and brothers. You've got support of Bernie Sanders and a lot of other progressives in the caucus. My favorite Jewish uncle. There are more moderates in the Democratic Party who are worried that if primary voters elect

you in Michigan, they're going to lose that seat. I guess how will you feel if you are elected? The general election happens, and it goes to Mike Rogers. Well, we're going to do everything we can. I mean, I can't even dignity. dignify that with a response um first off his answer there by um talking about critiquing egypt i think is brilliant i think it's just brilliant that is a 10 of 10 answer um how are you going to feel if you lose knowing that there are some people who think that you're

going to lose. You imagine that question having been asked of like Barack Obama when he was running for president? Isn't that what a race is? I don't understand. It is just, also moderates don't have exactly a stellar record

on a particular state level politics over the past 15 years. Exactly. My God.

you just never hear that. in any other context asking wemby if you guys lose the final no but i'm saying in politics no i know but just it's just absurd it's a stupid question it is it's like a pushpole um all right uh in a moment we're going to be talking to ben freeman author and director of the democratizing foreign policy program at the quincy institute about um new uh provision snuck into usually must pass legislation to change the dynamic of aid to Israel. First, a couple of words from our sponsors. This episode of the Majority Report brought to you by Wild grain.

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Thank you. We are back, Sam Cedar, on the majority report. Emma Viglin out today. I want to welcome back to the program, Ben Freeman, author and director of the democratizing foreign policy program at the Quincy Institute. And Ben, you have a piece up as of just a couple of days ago about Congress's attempt to integrate the U.S. and Israeli militaries as a way of essentially sidestepping aid. This is based upon a report that I know that you help work on by a colleague of yours at the Quincy Institute, Steve Simon, that he wrote a couple of days earlier entitled The Disappearing Aid Check.

let's start with like what what is the nature of the aid that we give Israel today yeah yeah thanks Sam and thanks for having me back always great to talk with you the nature of the Israel aid package today it falls under what's called a memorandum understanding where we basically agree to send Israel almost four billion dollars of military assistance every year now a big chunk of that comes right back to the U.S. You know, they're required to buy stuff from U.S. defense contractors. But besides, which is hundreds of millions of dollars stays in Israel and helps to, it is effectively a subsidy for their defense industry there.

Now, the key to the aid model is there's congressional oversight of it. Every year, you know, there's a vote on this aid package. Members of Congress upset with Israel can potentially hold it up and can potentially attempt to block all of it. And we should just add to that. Like, I mean, so necessarily it's also, there's not a direct public control over it, but it is transparent enough so that we have a say, at least in that public opinions against Israel, that's going to impact the behavior of our Congress people. That's exactly right. And critically, the public can get involved.

They can yell at their member of Congress to block the aid package to hold it up because they're upset. And they can do it before the aid goes out. this new model that we just learned a couple hours ago, breaking news on this, is that Benjamin Netanyahu himself came up with this initiative. There's a resolution that was just introduced in the house. That says it gives Benjamin Netanyahu himself credit for initiating this. What this does is it takes all of that, the openness of it, and it puts it into this defense integration model, which would effectively try and merge to a very significant, extent, the Israeli military industrial complex within the U.S. military industrial complex.

And what that means for transparency is, you know, all that stuff about calling your member of Congress, that won't work anymore. You know, Congress is not going to have a say in this. This is going to be within the Department of Defense, the Pentagon bureaucracy, is going to handle all of this merger with the Israeli military. Okay. So walk us through how this happens because Congress doesn't have a, a line item veto of the the Pentagon's budget, right? Like they get the way that they vote on national defense is through one big NDAA, essentially, which is like authorizes, it's a budget for the military, but it's so vast that you can stick a bunch of stuff in there.

and it's tough if you vote against it. I mean, it's not that tough, but it's tough for, it's designed in a way to essentially almost like blackmail, maybe a strong word, but congressional leaders, because inevitably there's something coming to their district from that bill, or they're going to be attacked as being, you know, you want our troops to have no guns or something like that. So how do they integrate it?

And it does it across several domains, basically every battlefield of the future you can think of, AI, cyber, energy weapons, you know, you name it, drones, missile defense, and on and on, it proposes that across all these different fields that we start working with Israel directly, U.S. defense firms, start working with Israeli firms directly. And it also has two key phrases that I think are particularly troubling. There's our network integration and data fusion. And now talking to cybersecurity experts about this, they have told me, that that effectively means we are going to embed our military's data with Israel's data.

And that's just a process you can't unwind. You can't just say it's like, oh, okay, you know, our data's are connected now. And, you know, if Israel does something bad, we're going to turn the switch off and do it. You know, according to cybersecurity experts, you know, that's just impossible in some cases or it could take years in other cases. And so how do they get the money? So these things are integrated. If we, is the idea if like we give money for Boeing to develop a fighter jet or something,

Israel's defense industry is also has part of that contract? I mean, how would it work in practice? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You've kind of laid out at least one of the cases there where we would see. you'd see, you know, we have a historic level of defense department funding already. You know, my colleague Bill Hartzog and I just wrote the trillion-dollar war machine, and now Trump's asking for a $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget. You know, so there's an enormous piggy bank there.

What this would do is allow Israel to get direct access to all of those Pentagon contracting dollars. And so they would work with the Bowings of the world. They'd work with the Raytheons, the RtXs, a lot of defense tech startups. And so really, it's another big distinction with the aid model. The aid model was capped at that, you know, 3.8, 3.9 billion figure. This model would be limits. You know, in the past few years, we've had a majority of the Pentagon budget,

hundreds of billions of dollars going to defense contractors. This would allow Israel to get a huge chunk of that pie. So it's not clear exactly how much we're talking here, but I think it's fair to say would be significantly more U.S. taxpayer dollars. going to Israel and Israeli firms under this new model, then under the military assistance model. So would it be something like, okay, Boeing's getting this $10 billion, I don't know, it's probably more,

a $10 billion contract to build this helicopter, attack helicopter, or drone or so. But they're subcontracting out the radar act. aspect of it or the weapon aspect of it. And they'll go to an Israeli company. They'll develop it. And it'll be sort of like jointly owned, I guess the technology. And then it's just a question of Israel. We'll take five of those that. And we've got the money has come through this company that is partly Israeli owned by the government even conceivably. I mean, is that essentially it? Like, we're just going to be, it's, it's crazy.

It's crazy. And it's really at every level of the system, too. You know, the bill specifies, you know, all the way down to, you know, the research and design phase of process. R&D, they want our defense industrial complex collaborating with theirs, all the way up to kind of the end case you're talking about where we've worked together to create some new fantastic weapon together and we're jointly co-producing that it's called so the bill doesn't pull any punches it says at every point in this process this bill wants us working directly with

Israel's military industrial complex is there anything any relationship that we have that's even analogous to this because i mean just it's hard for me to imagine wanting to do this with such without any type of limiting principle, which there doesn't seem to be one in this, from a national security standpoint, I wouldn't want to necessarily do this with anybody. I mean, aside from like the issues of the genocide, the apartheid, the problematic nature of Israel, I don't know if I'd want to even do this necessarily with Canada because it's just a national security question. You can't control the back door of this. You have no, you don't have any way of policing, even where that technology goes after it gets shared. Right, right. I mean,

if you take the word Israel out of this conversation and you just say, would you want to merge the U.S. military with any foreign military, would you want to give them the keys to the Pentagon? I think everybody says no. You know, you know, that's not something we want to. to do. And to your question, Sam, of what's analogous to this, you know, there are some parts of our cooperation with other countries, you know, NATO, our Ocas relationship with the UK and Australia, that contain parts of this. But I think arguably there's nothing that would rise to the level of the integration that we're proposing with Israel, because it includes everything, intelligence, again, data fusion. You're talking about integrating networks together. We just don't do that,

anybody else, even our most trusted partners. And so why would we do that with Israel right now? When we just learned that the president of the United States called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Yahoo, effing crazy on a call this week. And yet we're going to get more entwined with Israel than we ever have. I'm a little skeptical. I should just say, I'm a little skeptical of stories like that after hearing them from the Biden administration. Because all we know, it could have been like, you're effing crazy in the way that somebody, we'd talk about last night. I can't believe this guy was dancing on the bar.

And it's fantastic. That's why I love you, brother. But so, okay, do we know how these four pages got in? This is the 2027 NDAA. A, when does that come up for a vote? Do we know how those four pages got in there? And do we know how those four pages can get out? Yeah.

I mean, a couple ways they got in, you know, this is from the chairman's mark, not to get too nerdy, but this is the chairman's mark of the NDA. So this is basically the chairman of that committee, Rogers. He puts this out. And then tomorrow, you know, our timing is impeccable with this conversation. On Thursday, there's a markup of this bill. So we're going to get to vote. Members of the House Orn Services Committee are going to get to vote on amendments to this. And we've already heard directly from Roe Connie's publicly announced this on social media that he's going to introduce.

an amendment to strip this out of the NDAA. And now if that gets knocked out, if that doesn't succeed, Thomas Massie has already publicly said. He's going to introduce an amendment in the full house when it comes there to strip it out of there. And we're going to have folks on the Senate side. This is going to come up in the Senate too. So we're going to have one battle after another here. But the big, big fight, first fight at least, is going to be in the House Armed Services Committee tomorrow.

So, you know, call your members of Congress. If they're unhast, please tell them, you know, to support Conniz Amendment. Let's get this stripped out of there before it starts. And this feels like a provision that is just going to keep coming back and coming back each year until they can figure out a way of getting it through. But I would imagine today in this version, and this is something they're planning for what, like September vote?

And is that where they're aiming for in terms of like when this would actually get to the floor? likely September. They have more ambitious plans than that to get it done this summer. But realistically, Congress makes plans and then goes on vacation.

So September is probably a more realistic timeline for finalization of all this. I got to imagine that right now is the best shot they have to pass something like this because it definitely feels like in both parties.

the trend is away from this type of cooperation and support of Israel. I mean, it's indicative of that fact, though, isn't it? Like, the reason why you bury it in this way, as opposed to due aid, is so that you don't have to actually make it a political question anymore. Right. I think that's exactly right. This is a strategic move from Benjamin Netanyahu in the Israel lobby. You know, they know, they're reading the tea leaves.

They're reading the polls and seeing this unprecedented. level of public distrust in Benjamin Netanyahu's government. And so they know that this aid is going to be under more pressure than it ever has been before. So they're doing what a lot of folks do in Washington. If you can't win the public fight, take it privately. You know, use your lobbyists, use your special interest to try to sneak this through. And I think that's why it's important right now for the public to really jump up and tell them how concern they are about U.S. Israel and military cooperation and tell your member of Congress not to vote for this. All right.

Well, Brian, we'll put a list of Congresspeople, Republican and Democrat, because I think even in the Republican Party, they're starting to get some pressure, at least from younger voters, about this. And we'll put it in the podcast and YouTube description, a list of those people and maybe the general hotline to Congress. so that people can just voices. Because they don't, I would imagine, they don't get a lot of feedback at this point

when things are going into markup in the Armed Services Committee. And so every little bit helps. The Israel lobby is really upset that we've made us think of this. So let's irritate them a little more. Yeah, I was going to say, I don't think you guys are probably on their list of favorite people. Ben Freeman

The book is The Trillion Dollar War Machine How Runaway Military Spending Drives America Into Foreign Wars and bankrupts us at home And the Peace is the U.S. and Israeli militaries

Congress quietly moves to integrate U.S. and Israeli militaries. We'll put a link to that And to the Steve Simon brief as well And again, we'll put a list of the members of the Armed Service Committee call your congresspeople there and then just call your congresspeople and tell them to support an amendment

to strip this out if it actually makes it out of committee. Ben Freeman, again, thanks so much for your time today. I really appreciate it. Always a pleasure, Sam. Thank you. All right, folks. That does it for us today, at least in the free part of the program. We've got a lot of stuff to get to in the have fun half today um can you ask ben where he got his bookshelf great interview by the way says pope acts yeah galactic nurse boogers you're effing crazy i can't believe you killed hundreds of thousands of people including medical professionals press women and children and targeted strikes that's why i love you brother trump to Benjamin Netanyahu uh this is an update on the Montana Senate bankhead saying she has no intention of dropping out.

You may want to give it a day or two. Let's see. She might not. And also it could be a negotiation ploy. But that is she is the one that tester supported. So presumably he knows something. Maybe he thinks that she wouldn't siphon votes off of the independent. Maybe she runs on the Republican platform. Who knows?

Reese from Tacoma says, if you could confirm there was more Dave Rubin clowning in the fun half, I bet you'd get 300 new subscribers. Maybe what we'll do is we will have a subscriber drive. Like if we get, I don't know. Every new 100 Twitch subs, we do five minutes of Dave Rubin. Oh, my God. I would do five minutes of Dave Rubin for 50 new Twitch subs.

Where are we at? We're at 127198, 127,198. Well, that's followers. That's followers. I wish we had that many paid subs. Like a son or something. Oh, yeah. Where do you see that?

Flying jet packs around. I don't know. We'll keep an eye on it, though. but uh... Mr. Mr. Fun Today is my grandmother's 90th birthday. Can she get a,

um, Master Yoda orgasm? Coming right up. So, uh, the show has gone so downhill. Oh!

Happy birthday. Happy birthday, grandma. You'll just like Al Roker. It's your,

I actually got my uncle, Saul, who Saul was named after, on his 104th birthday, or 100th birthday on Al Roker. Are you serious? Yep. You're going to live forever, aren't you? Me? I don't know if I will. Got some good genes. We're going to do a couple of guests on this, but before I go, like,

In the past like two weeks, there has been incredible medical breakthroughs on cancer, largely MRNA. I'm assuming in other countries this research? No, no. I mean, oddly enough. Anthony Fauci trying to save me from cancer. Oddly enough. I'm not exactly sure, but like major, major cancer breakthroughs, breakthroughs in arterial disease. is that what you call it?

Like to lower your GLP, I don't. Not your, to lower your end, there's new GLP ones that are coming out that are supposedly also like very helpful in terms of longevity

and whatnot. Just in the past week. Now, of course, all of those people are probably like leaving the United States. Or it'll be a really expensive subscription service. by private company that

Yeah, one of them is for type 1 diabetes. We got to get somebody on to talk about this because we're literally living in an era where we have to argue about medicine being good. Well, you know my conspiracy theory about the anti-vaxxers was like they were

some of them maybe even would have secretly knowing that they were helping protect that as a private asset for companies even though it was publicly developed, things like MRNA, even though we should keep those types of things in a more public sphere, when you create this sort of like insanity that says, actually, they want to kill us

and make us die earlier and suddenly by... It's that much harder for the government to... I mean... To argue that we should be taking a stewardship role in this and be spreading it and making it available to people. I will say that the argument was like the real question when that when the vaccine was rolled out was like hey wait a second

why isn't this free yep or why why didn't we retain the patent like why don't we have a why couldn't we go in and say to a company like um you know the one that paired with the Pfizer from Germany on the on their COVID vaccine I can't remember the name they're a smaller company they they they no I can't remember but they um they partner with uh Pfizer because Pfizer has all the cash but you know who else has the cash we have the cash and so why can't we go out and contract a pharmaceutical company to develop stuff for us. Yeah, it was bio-intech.

And they're a German company, but I'm saying I'm sure we have analogous ones in this country. Why get the U.S. government going and go like, oh, you need $3 billion to develop this very quickly? Here's $3 billion. In fact, here's $3.2. You keep the two. Use the $3 billion.

The two is your profit. it, use the $3 billion to develop it, and then guess what? We own it. And then the cost of it is zero or two bucks a person because we got to pay for the refrigeration or whatever it is. That conversation went away very quickly when it was like, it's dangerous. It's not effective. It's not doing anything.

And then, of course, it just creates like the entire, frankly, conservative movement, right? 25 years ago, they're like, oh, we're going to use the racism. We're going to use the conspiracy. But that's for the rubs. That just gives us control. And then 20 years later, it's like, oh, you guys, you guys are gone now. You guys are dinosaurs. The whole party's become what you created.

because you created Frankenstein, and now Frankenstein is chasing the doctor around, you know. Frankenstein has the pitchfork. I mean, it's just interesting how a guy like Jay Beticharya, who is the anti-Vaxor's favorite at the Brownstone Institute, goes on all these podcasts, to talk about how bad lockdowns were, and now is CDC and NIH director.

I mean, what do we think he's doing there? he's making America healthy again CDC had to ask for volunteers to go do the Ebola screening at the start of COVID J. Betichari he wrote about it he wrote a thing you probably only two or three days training to make sure that you don't spread Ebola

yeah I wouldn't worry about it but the case against Medicare for all is what he wrote in the 2020 so But it was nice to see a bunch of leftists, anti-VACC idiots, platform him, and now he's running the CDC and NIH. Great job, guys. Oh, yeah, we've got a good clip of Dr. Oz, figuring out what insurance is.

It's like crudite. Folks, it's your support that makes this show possible. You can become a member at join the Majority Report.com. When you do, you only get the free show free of commercially. You also get the fun half. And just coffee. co-op fair trade coffee hot chocolate use the coupon code majority get 10% off matt what's happening in the matt leckian media uh yeah had a freddie g comedian and leftist on who uh does uh work with

like track a pack there's a bunch of really good vertical video stuff on uh instagram and ticot had him on left reckoning talk about new york politics uh david griscom and i also talked about uh norm finkelstein upside in a lot of the uh red uh brown type Tucker Carlson uh fluffer that... Oh, yeah, we should play that clip. Yeah. It's been requested by Emma for me to save it for tomorrow.

Are you serious? Maybe we save it for Friday. You guys can both get... She did that surreptitiously. That's why I wasn't on the list yesterday. No, that was just my fault. That was purely just skipped over it on accident. I like how she asked you...

Sounds like Brian's fun on a story. She asked you... She asked you when I wasn't around. I truly did skip it yesterday on accident. Um, Patreon.com says left record. The eternal politics of majority report. Soundshakes.

Quick break. Fun half. Three months from now, six months from now, nine months from now. And I don't think it's going to be the same as it looks like in six months from now. don't know if it's necessarily going to be better six months from now than it is three months from now. But I think around 18 months out, we're going to look back and go like, wow. What? What is that going on?

It's nuts. Wait a second. Hold on for, hold on for a second. The majority report. Emma, welcome to the program. Matt Drew. Fun. What is up, everyone?

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I don't know. But you should know. People just don't. I don't like to entertain ideas anymore. I have a question. Who cares? Our chat is enabled folks. I love it.

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