On scoring leaves Australia. This is the Wider Panalty Show.
Good evening and welcome to the Reader Patney Show coming up tonight. An election date is imminent as the Reserve Bank drops interest rates by twenty five points. The exodus from public schools as parents increasingly opt for private or a Catholic education despite cost of living pressures. A wa man fined and convicted for repairing a breach on his own land after being accused of disturbing an imaginary rainbow serpent.
Later in the hour, we'll look at the disturbing crackdown on free expression in Europe with Josh Hammer and Left Is Losing It features Tom Hanks destroying his brand with these cringe antiques on Saturday Night Live.
We wouldn't be in this mess wherein now? You know what I agree with?
What you doing.
I'd like to shake your hand, sir.
Here we go. No, no, I did the hitting, but first. The speculation surrounding the federal election date may be coming to an end after the RBA lowered the cash rate from four point three five percent to four point one percent, a move that political strategists believe will help the government call back support it's now increasingly likely that Anthony Albanese will call the federal election off the back of the
state election in Wa. Labor MPs have reportedly been told that the election will be called any time between March three and March eleven, with the election date most likely to be April twelve. Joining me now for more on this is News Corps senior writer Patrick Carlin, and Patrick, let's start with the interest rate cut. First rate cut since November twenty twenty. It's good news. I know the labor backbenches were pushing for a fifty point cut, but we'll take what we can get.
Oh.
Look, absolutely, it's the first one, you know, since twenty twenty. It's such a long time. People have suffered all the way through all the way through COVID and all the rest. So it's very welcome. What struck me about this process, though, and you alluded to it, was the label backbenches in this collective political campaign on the RBA to actually drop
the rates. And it was very intense. And if you look at that election timeline that you just spoke of, perhaps April five or April twelve, there's another RBA meeting I think on April one, what's going to happen there? Are they going to be out and out shouting and demanding another rate cut because it helps their electoral chances. It really was very very disappointing to.
And it was intense. And then these calls for the RBA board to go out and actually see what's happening and get away from their computer screens and just looking at a single figure the inflation rate. I do understand it, because I think you do have to look beyond that's so much of the inflation we're seeing, Patrick is because of the mad government spending, so they're causing the inflation. And then they're telling the RBA, don't you know, don't let that influence your decision about rates, And.
I look, it's an economic decision and it's done by very bright people who yes, And that was That was a terrible sort of put down, wasn't it. You should be out on the streets talking and working class people. Well, they are experts who know what they're doing economically, and to sort of make it a political to try and shape it as a political decision really is no good on so many levels. At a simple democratic level. Why politicians getting involved. It's dreadful.
Well, I'm not convinced that the RBA is all knowing either, but we'll debate that at another time. Let's talk about landowner WA landowner Tony Maddox. We've spoken to him on outside as a couple of times. He's now been found guilty of breaching WA's Aboriginal heritage laws after he built a bridge over an offshoot of the Avon River on his own property. On his own land. We're replacing an
old bridge that had fallen apart. Maddox was charged last year because the creek beneath his bridge is associated with the rainbow serpent. That's a part of the dream time. We're not talking about an actual animal here. He has now been fined two thousand dollars, given a conviction, and has to also pay five thousand dollars in cost. Patrick to me, this is you've got to be careful what you say, because you can't even give an honest opinion
here without people losing their minds. But it seems astonishing to me people who are happy to mock Christianity, are happy to mock every major religion. They treat this as if it's almost beyond any criticism.
Well, It's sacred, isn't it. I mean, no one's ever heard of it before. And this poor bloke, Tony Maddox, I mean, he's doing work on his own property to make it easier for him. You're talking about these imaginary sort of stories that have nothing to do with the ebb and flow of the creek itself. Now that he is out seven grand and the stress.
Having this on your over you having these sort of We spoke to him last year and I really do feel for people who get caught up in these sort of cases because having the cost, that the stress of illegal case like this and is now lost. So he's now got to consider do I spend more money, do I appeal it? And what are the risks of that?
He said he had never heard of it when he did make the changes, and you believe him. He's working on his own property and you were just assumed, and.
He had indigenous people backing him, people from the local community. Let's look at some alarming stats from the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority showing that students knowledge of how Australian democracy works has plummeted to a new lower just twenty eight percent of year ten students met the standard for civics and citizenship. That's disturbed low Patrick. One in four isn't really good enough given the amount of money
we're spending in this sector. We seem to increase the spending in education and the standards go the other way.
Look, we have one of the best democracies in the world. It's better than America, I would argue, it's better than Europe and certainly better than any country in the Middle East apart from Israel. These kids should learn how it works and why it is so good and why it is so important. And the fact that they're not sort of learning at it, I think actually goes to the loss of the Australian identity that we've seen in so many ways in the last couple of years.
Australia.
It's not a patriotic thing, but we need to understand why we are lucky and why we do it so well compared to the rest of the world.
I can understand why they're not being taught that because it could actually instill some pride in the country, and God, we can't have that as part of the curriculum.
Can we now?
Even more alarming than that, News is the latest school attendancey from the Northern Territory. Indigenous children in the NT are attending school so infrequently that nearly seventeen hundred of them aren't even in official attendance figures. Let's hear from Sky News Northern Territory correspondent Matt Cunningham.
In twenty twenty four. According to this latest data, it's fifty five point seven percent. Now, if you compare that to non Indigenous students here in the NT, there has been a drop off in that area as well, but it's only dropped from an eighty nine point three percent attendance in twenty sixteen to eighty five percent in twenty twenty four. And as we were talking about last week,
the real numbers are actually significantly worse. There are more than seventeen hundred students in the Northern Territory, more than sixteen hundred of those are Indigenous who were taken off the official role because they attend school so infrequently.
Patrick, there's so much focus on closing the gap, so much spending on closing the gap, but those figures tell a story, and worrying story. We're not going to be closing the gap if attendance numbers are falling like that.
And it's a Northern territory story too. If you have to look at the indigenous attendance rates for every other state and territory, they're thirty percent higher than the Northern territory. Look, these are complicated issues. All the closing the gap issues are very complicated. I've been to these remote communities. I mean, you can pick out one symptom as this is and say, hang on, this is bad. There's a much wider sort of set of problems that go to it. But this
is out of kilto with the rest of Australia. It's a Northern territory problem, it is.
And they've got a relatively new government. Let's see what they can do there. Meanwhile, in New South Wales, a mass exodus from state schools is underway as more parents opt to send their children to Catholic and private schools. Patrick, We're in a cost of living crisis, so this is significant news. People are going without making huge sacrifices because obviously they see a problem with the state school system.
Yeah.
Look, people are choosing to pay according to these figures, you know, five grand a year that they wouldn't otherwise or or forty grand a year to make sure that kids have a decent education. It shows a lack of faith in the education system, and perhaps it actually shows a pushback against some of the values that we see in public education, some of the wakeness that's sort of crept in and really taken over in so many ways. A lot of people are saying no.
That's it.
And at state schools, you really don't have the option to say no, at least at a private school even if this wokeness is being shoved down your throat and you can take a stand because you're paying for it now. Tourism and cruise ship bosses have worn the just into Allen government in Victoria that it's fifteen percent increase to poured fees and the lack of upgrades. So the hopelessly old and tied station peer is going to cause a max exodus from Melbourne by cruise ship operators. This is
huge money. Herald Sun reports that the state is expected to lose million and revenue as it braces for eight seventy percent plunge in the number of ships that will use the city as a homeport next season. This is just again more Victorian government shortsighted taxes to try to raise some money because the state's in debt. It's broke. But in the long run it's going to cost us money because people come on those cruise ships, they spend a day in the city and they spend up well.
Melbourney doesn't have all the natural advantages of some of the other places that cruise ships stop. It has to have great infrastructure and they haven't spent the money on Station Pier. They've jacked up the tax as they've done so many things in so many tricksy sort of ways in the last couple of years. It's just another symbol, and it's an important symbol. As you say, it's a
lot of money. The Victorians are missing out on this money because of mismanagement or something that's pretty basic to begin with.
We've got port Philip Bay. We do have the natural assets, but we're not utilizing it. Patrick, Carli and thank you so much for your time Evening. Thanks joining me now is pro life activist and professor of law at the University of Adelaide, doctor Joanna Howe. Joanna, you've been advocating for legislation to protect babies born alive. We've talked about
that previously on this program. Babies Born Alive. Legislation would essentially protect babies that are still alived after a botched abortion. And you also want to ban late term abortion, and we're here talking about post twenty seven weeks, so well into the third trimester. Now here from pro choice activists, they say these sorts of abortions are exceedingly rare and done to protect the mother's health or when the baby has profound disabilities. Is that accurate? It's not.
Reader eighty percent of late term abortions in South Australia kill healthy babies and non life threatening scenarios. So abortion is never medically necessary late in pregnancy to save the mother's life. A mother's life was truly in danger after twenty three weeks and up until birth, the doctors would go in and do an emergency C section. They wouldn't waste time doing a late term abortion, which takes hours
instead of minutes. And the fact that pro abortion activists say that late term abortions are excessively rare, well, really that really what that's referring to is the fact that there are eighty eight thousand abortions every year in Australia, it's the leading cause of death. And so when they say it's less than one to two percent, it's still eight hundred and eighty babies every year who are being needlessly killed instead of being delivered alive.
Do we have sound data on how many late term abortions so perhaps we're talking here about twenty weeks onwards. Do we have that sort of data that we can rely on.
Not every state releases the data, but I'll tell you about the three states that do so. In Victoria and Queensland, between twenty ten and twenty twenty, there were over five thousand babies killed after twenty weeks and up until birth. And this isn't a nice process reader.
It's through the.
Injection of poison but tassim chloride into the baby's heart while in utero. Then the mother takes labour inducing drugs and is actually forced to give birth to a stillborn baby, to a dead baby. In South Australia, which introduced abortion up to birth eighteen months ago, there's actually been forty five healthy babies, so nothing wrong with them. They weren't killed in emergency situations to save the mother's life. Forty five healthy babies were injected with poison and delivered dead.
There were an additional twelve babies that had some form of disability, and there's no criteria that it has to be life threatening or that the baby's going to die. There are cases of babies being aborted late in pregnancy because of down syndrome or because of cleft lip or club hand, so these are not life limiting conditions. And you know the bill that I introduced that I worked
with other people to introduce. It simply said that after twenty seven weeks, instead of injecting the baby with poison and delivering them dead, we would allow a mother to terminate her pregnancy up until birth, but that after twenty seven weeks the baby would be delivered alive and could be placed for adoption.
Well, that bill was voted down by just one vote last year. Has there been any progress since then? Are there any plans to reintroduce that bill?
It was devastating to lose by one vote, but what it showed us was how close we were and what we are now focusing on is activating the South Australian community and raising awareness of the fact that abortion is legal up to birth for any reason. In South Australia and that it kills healthy babies up until birth for any reason. Most ordinary South Australians are shocked when they
find this out. And you can see some of this footage on my socials Dr Joanna Howe on Instagram or my Daily Show on YouTube and Spotify, the Doctor Joe Show. I am showing interviews that I'm doing with South Australians as they become aware of this fact. And you know, there were five thousand Australians that turned up to the rally in support of our bill, three hundred masked pro abortion protesters who were opposed to it.
Let's just have a look at some of that footage that you uploaded on your social media account on Instagram. You had pro abortion protesters who had turned up to that protest, who cared enough to be there. But when you ask them to articulate their position, well you got this.
Well.
I just wanted to ask you why you're here today? Is what it is your protest against? What is it about the livest bill? Pack you as you can lease ask you why you're here against the livest Well, what is it that you're opposed to?
Now?
I asked you turned off the phone's I'm lucky.
Maybe sadly it wasn't a third time lucky. You didn't manage to get anybody to respond to you in that video. We've run out of time, doctor, how thank you so much for your time. Appreciated. Still to come, Lefties losing it plus US borders are Tom Homan has his sight set on Democrat Alexandria Kazia Cortez. Kosha Gator joins me. Next, you're watching the Reader Panny Show, and it's time for
lefties losing it. And I regret to inform you that Hollywood celebrities, even ones who were once widely admired, have decided to trash their own brand in an effort to get Trump. Just watch this pathetic performance from Tom Hanks. Oh thank you, heck, I'm speaking to church. Can I say something?
If more folks weren't to church, we wouldn't be in this mess we're in now.
And it didn't end there. Watch what happens when a black man tries to shake the hands of Tom Hank's idea of a Trump supporter. This is what these out of touch dim wits from Hollywood think of the average American. They don't just hate the president, they hate the majority of their countrymen.
You know what I agree with?
You do.
I'd like to shake your hand, sir.
Here we go.
No, no, oh no, no, just a handshake. You welcome? All right, Well, thank you my mind.
But brother, maybe I'll start a show for you to come on and we'll call it what jeopardy?
We don't need it, We don't need it.
Remember when Saturday Night Live was actually funny? Me? Neither, that's just weapon, a grade cringe, bereft of any wit, insight or anything approaching humor. And Tom Hanks and the SNL writers must think that's the average Trump voter, including the vast coalition of migrants who voted for Trump that considered them more all what dumb and racist? I call
that projection. And before we look at more celebrities embarrassing themselves, let's see how average Americans reacted to President Trump this time at Daytona. Listen for the crowd reaction when Donald Trump was on the big screen during the anthem, exactly like what happened at the super Bowl.
Or the live.
Back to the celebrity class, and let's have a look at this brave and stunning bit of activism from singer Sheryl Crowe, who has sold her Tesla as a protest against Donald Trump. At Elon Musk, she posted that herself. Yes, and there's more, she had to virtue signal about donating the proceeds to leftist media outlet NPR. Just so brave and stunning. Now, let's go to Rachel Maddow at the lunatic asylum that identifies as MSNBC. Listen here as she beclowns herself with this bit of fake news.
Elon Musk has apparently somehow convinced the United States government, specifically the United States Department of State, that the taxpayers of the United States of America should spend four hundred million dollars buying quote armored Tesla production units. Isn't it great? And definitely not at all illegal or profoundly corrupt. Definitely not ripping us all off to pay themselves.
Right to hear that profoundly corrupt, illegal, outrageous, Except there's one little problem, Rachel. Let Fox News's Jesse Waters fill you on a pertinent fact.
Donald Trump didn't give that contract to Elon Musk.
Joe Biden gave it to him.
It was Joe Biden, Rachel, it was Joe Biden. Just more misinformation from the chief Russian collusion hoaxer, Rachel Matter. Now let's check in with a transactivist with this important message.
The pronouns aren't preferred, they are mandatory. Do not purpose fullamus gender trans people.
You do not get to decide how someone identifies.
My pronouns aren't preferred, they are mandatory.
No, no, they're not talking about transactivists. Here is one with Michael Knowles, and she first claims that men identifying as women are not stealing women's trophies and medals, and then within seconds there's a flip. Apparently it's a good thing that that's happening.
Nine hundred sports trophies from women in recent years, and they they took nine hundred This is report just came out from the United Nations. Actually eight hundred and ninety trophies and medals across six hundred women who were competing competitors across twenty nine different sports and four hundred competitions that came out.
Like yesterday, and they deserve them.
It didn't happen, and they deserve them. Okay, that is the logic I hear from the pro transcrat think you they do deserve that.
It didn't happen, and they deserve them. Michael Knowles as the patients of the Saint joining me now is Sky News contributor Kosher Gaeta Kosher. Let's start with Bordizar Tom Hoeman. He's got his sites set on Democrat Alexandria Akazia Cortes. No, he doesn't want to deport her. She's a US citizen after all, but her attempts to help illegal immigrants evade authorities may see her charged by the Department of Justice. AOC has been pushing a webinar claiming that ice raids
are political tactics that are intended to create fear. And this webinar also encourages migrants not to open their door if federal agents and knocking. That seems unwise, Kosher unwise.
It does.
And Tom Horman does not come across as the kind of guy you want to mess with. And she has barred with him before. And there's this viral congressional hearing from last year or four years ago maybe where she was doing a different version of.
The same thing.
But whether it's her doing this, we saw Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey a few weeks ago blatantly saying that he's housing an illegal on top of his garage and I dare the FEDS to come in, and others like that. It's really interesting. It shows that they're so comfortable with flouting immigration law, which has gone on forever in a day in America, and they obviously believe that
they're beyond approach. So he is suggesting that the DOJ go after people like this elected representatives that are suggesting the flouting of the law. I don't know if they will do that, but you never know. You make an example of one person in some way and it might deter others from taking a similar tactic.
Well, it seems unwise politically as well. We know Ioassay in the squad there to the very far left of the Democrats. But really they've sit their gender, it seems for some time. But the Democrats can read the polls. They know these programs to control illegal immigration, to deportations,
controlling the crisis of the border, they're popular. So why would they want to highlight not just their failures in opening the floodgates, but also just signal to the rest of the country that we're okay with this, We're in fact facilitating this.
It's a good point.
They seem to be behind the curve now, the theyrout in the wilderness, and have been defeated after really holding on to every institution and being on the winning side for so long. It sounds like they don't know how to actually be on the losing side and read the room. And you're right that the public support for this has shifted so dramatically. Just even ten years a would looked nothing like this. Now it's something like fifty nine to sixty percent of people support all illegals, not just the
violent criminal offenders, but all illegals being deported. That is new that the American electorate has consolidated around this issue, and they seem to be stuck in a different decade and they haven't caught up to this reality.
The Trump administration keeps saying, if you enter the country illegally, by definition, you're a criminal. You've broken our immigration laws, so you have to go. Now, let's talk a little bit about NATO. It's looking like a major political realignment is underway, and it's a win for the Trump administration. European countries in the NATO alliance. I've agreed to step up their defense spending after President Trump's request that they
increase the number to five percent of GDP. Here is NATO Secretary General Mark Rutter.
Really europe is now stepping up. Last week I was a bit disappointed at Europeans for saying, hey, we also have to be at a table, and why are we not there? And they're now really starting to dialogue to strategize how they can support the peace effort, and that is important. By now, we are spending seven hundred billion more on the European side of NATO than before President Trump came into office. Is absolutely still not enough. We have to do much much more.
It's not enough. We have to do much more. This is after they've boosted spending significantly, and it's precisely what the US was pushing for. Again, a lot of people seem to deliberately misunderstand Donald Trump's strategy, what his goals are here. He doesn't want to weaken NATO. He wants NATO members to actually spend their money and not have just America carrying the load.
It's a continuation of what he campaigned on even the first time, and even before he entered politics, and the secretary over there actually has credited Trump in the past where he said, you know, nobody ever asked us to pay up to our obligations before Trump he did. So we're doing it, and some like eight nations were delinquent and we're not even meeting their obligations, which at the time was two to three percent.
Now they're raising the obligation.
This is what Trump advanced and Pete hagg Sith have been pushing over that conference and in other venues as well, to five percent. And in the sixties that's where it was. It was round four a little over four percent that you was paying in the wake of the Cold War and that era, and now it's down to one to
two percent. So that is kind of the point eighty years post World War two, how long should America be the guaranteur of security subsidizing all sorts of other programs As a result of that, in Europe as well as what are we defending? That was a gedvance speech that went viral when they're not even acting like democracies in some ways with censorship and counseling elections and all of that. So this is a watershed moment and it's a big shift from post World War Two.
I'll be talking with Josh Hammer later in the program about that JD Vance speech. I've listened to it a couple of times now. Also listened to his full speech in Paris a day or so earlier. His clarity is astonishing. The way he covered these major points in eighteen nineteen minutes. It didn't seem to be looking at any notes, it didn't seem to be reading from an auto Q, and it was just Chris, it's all clear where the US stands, where its values are, and what it expects from Europe.
He wasn't necessarily making demands though kosher. He was just telling them this is happening under your watch, and it's it's disturbing, especially when he was talking about the suppression of free speech and the way the concerns of everyday citizens have been disregarded.
And that's the other piece of it.
So part of it is the first layer is a spending and having some sort of level playing field in terms of spending obligations.
As we discussed.
But the second thing is much deeper, which is that that the shared alliance between European societies and American societies post World War two, was that some of these tenets of free societies, freedom of speech and other issues that he raised, and if they're no longer abiding by that, then his point is that's almost like a double whammy, that we're overpaying for your security and we're paying to defend a society that's kind of lost its way in terms of censoring its own citizens.
And you're right, he did not mince words.
He was about a blunt He was blunt, but it was a message that they need to hear. And it's a message that we've spoken about on this program. I have Douglas Murray on every week. He wrote it not about a decade ago, about the strange death of Europe. This is a phenomenon that has been commented on by intellectuals brave enough to state the obvious, and yet the Europeans were just appalled or shocked that anybody would dare speak these home truths to them.
It's a new d And that's also the difference between Trump forty seven versus forty five. Everybody around him really is singing from the same song sheet, and they genuinely believe in that vision. The populist America first worldview and that's why they can speak with such clarity, whereas last time he was sort of battling people internally and then the message that would be communicated externally wasn't always ALIGNE.
The weird is.
Now and he's getting his people thus far through so he's had Toulsi now RFK Junior Cash Patel is one of the big ones that were waiting for a vote there. But how do you see that administration coming together? Because it is very different from that first Trump term where he almost was prioritizing DC experience over loyalty over competence. They weren't necessarily his people and it showed because there was a lot of hunity and disloyalty there. How do
you see this going? I know it's only been four weeks, but it seems to be a very systematic methodonical approach. He's had to getting his people into key positions one.
Hundred percent like Trump two point zero seems like night and day compared to one DOTO where there you know he.
Was experienced in other realms. What's so new to DC?
And that was so evident where he was relying on recommendations for other people and didn't really know what he was doing in terms of personnel. He's mentioned that himself versus now, I feel like that whole four year term and the amount of heat he took officially and unofficially, and then what happened in twenty twenty and the intervening four years has been a huge litmus test for who is truly MAGA populist, pro Trump, pro that America First agenda,
and who isn't. And it's been very clarifying eight years, which has allowed him to really identify the right people this time, and he just didn't have that benefit last time.
And we're seeing that with the pigs.
And House almost got rid of the rhinos, if you want to call them Republican name only. The GOP is now Trump's party. There's a few still hanging on you, Mitch McConnell's and a few others. Moving along, let's look at how a CNN host not only refuses to fact check obvious, verifiable lies from Democrat Amy KLOVICHA, but she reinforces those lies.
Two trillion dollars in tax cuts to the wealthiest and paying for it by cuts to cancer research at NIH, something that has bipartisan support for years and years, or stopping headstart.
But people they our protect our nuclear stockpile.
I know they are, But what I'm saying is, at some point the pressure is on them.
That type of hyperbole and scare mongering is just not working. And the Poles are telling us that.
Indeed, it's kind of like ac and immigration, like we talked about that, the public sentiment has shifted all the way over and these folks don't seem to have caught up where these tactics used to work. Where you anytime anybody wants to talk about cutting spending thirty two plus trillion dollars in debt, we have to do it. You leap immediately to receiving children from malaria in Africa. We're doing cancer research, We're helping underprivileged kids get a head
start in education. Like it's easy to point to those things and make the other side like the big bad bogeyman that's taking money away.
It doesn't work anymore. And the way they're doing.
It with doge and just putting out the receipts as they say, of how much waste, fraud and abuse is happening. Everybody's seeing it. It's disseminated all over social media. And then these tactics I think are going to fall flat. But that's the only playbook they know, so they're going to keep doing it.
Absolutely, and the worthwhile programs, the ones that do enjoy public support, while they're going to be absorbed into other parts, you don't need to have us AID in existence to devote funds to those worthy projects. Kosha Kata, thank you so much for your time. Tonight, still to come, we'll look at the disturbing crackdown on free expression in Europe and the latest from the US, including Jerry Seinfeld's message
to pro Palestinian supporters. Josh Hammer is up next. Welcome back. Now, let's have a little trip down memory lane to Donald Trump's first term when he warned the Germans about becoming too reliant on Russian energy.
Germany will become totally dependent on Russian energy if it does not immediately change course. Here in the Western hemisphere. We are committed to maintaining our independence from the encroachment of expandist foreign powers.
The German contingent thought that was hilarious. And the man you can see sitting at the front there laughing his silly little head off, is Christophe Husen laughing and thinking it was all one big, fat joke. Now remember him, because I'm going to come back to him. And as you know, Trump was right. Germany's dependence on Russian energy has been disastrous for the nation in recent years. But do you think that Germans have learned to listen to
good advice? No. When jd Vance gave a groundbreaking speech in Munich last week about the biggest threats to Europe coming from within. When he warned them about the sinister suppression of free speech in European countries, the growing anti democracies sent among the elite, and the manner in which they have allowed millions of unvetted migrants to flooding, well, the Germans were again aghast. You can almost hear the gasps as Jedi Van speaks.
No voter on this continent went to the ballot box to open the floodgates to millions of unvetted immigrants.
But you know what they did vote for. In England they.
Voted for Brexit, and agree or disagree, they voted for it, and more and more all over Europe they're voting for political leaders who promised to put an end to out of control migration.
And you guess that among the most appalled by jdie Vanson's speech was this guy who had a little cry about it.
So let us stick to these values, let us not reinvent them, but focus on strengthening their consistent application.
Let me conclude, and this becomes difficult.
Yes, that's Christophe Hugeson again. And I think think those tiers are for his nation or for Europe, which he helped damage alongside miss mercle Well, you'd be wrong. The tears were for himself because the German diplomat is stepping down from his illustrious position as chairman of the Munich Security Conference. Joining me now is Newsweek's senior editor at large and article three projects in your council, Josh Hammad, Josh, the Germans just refused to listen to good advice.
Read.
It would not be the first and it's not gonna be the last time that the Germans had failed to listen to some advice of varying degrees of strength from the Americans. I suppose three cheers for JD. Evans, My goodness, I mean, that was a barn burner of a speech that, frankly is why we wanted Jdvans to be the vice President United States, or at least why I wanted him.
I mean read.
I wrote an obed column last March titled Vice President JD. Van making the case for Jdvans to be Donald Trump's running mate. And this is exactly what I thought we were going to get. And I am just grinning ear to ear, delighted that this is indeed what we are getting. Germany is the heart of the European liberal imperium. Brussels, Belgium is literally where the European Union is based. I know because I've been there, to the building. But Germany
is the most economically powerful country in the world. So to go into the lions, to the most economic powerful country in Europe, So to go into the lions down there, and to say what he said about free speech, about energy independence, about migration from third world Islam as hellholes there.
Man, that guy has a spine.
And I just cannot wait to see what Jadavans does for the rest of his vice president of tenure, because if that is any indication of what is to come, we are in for a historic vice presidency.
Absolutely, and I think after that vice presidency he has to be hot favorite to be the forty eighth president of the United States, and it would be quite Can you just imagine him continuing that Trump agenda got No, I'm getting ahead of myself, but I'm thinking about two terms for JD Vance and what could be achieved if you've got those solid twelve years of meaningful change in America. It's it's exciting to think about. But let's stay in
a Germany for a minute. Let's look at the manner in which they are cracking down on free expression, or what they call online hate speech.
Inside six armed officers searched to suspects home, then seized his laptop and cell phone. Prosecutors say those electronics may have been used to commit a crime, the crime posting a racist cartoon online. At the exact same time. Across Germany, it's all your mind of a bard. More than fifty similar raids played out part of what prosecutors say is a coordinated effort to curb online hate speech in Germany.
Josh, I'd be willing to bet money that many of these online posts aren't even races. Given stating facts about crime rates and immigration levels is considered hate speech in some quarters. But when you watch that, that's precisely what jd Vance was talking about, this cracked out on free speech, this suppression of citizens. So are concerned about what's happening to their country?
Yeah, I read the country of Germany suppressing free speech. What could possibly go wrong? Oh wait, yes, tragically we have been down before. But by the way, Margaret Brennan, the anchor on CBS is Faced the Nation earlier in the same day yesterday while she was talking about how there was apparently too much free speech and that caused the Holocaust there. So, whether it's Face the Nation or whether it's sixty minutes, CBS apparently is all in on
an anti free speech, censorious agenda. Makes you wonder why CBS is actually a distant third in the meanstream media ratings, behind NBC and ABC. Frankly, all of their ratings are falling, but CBS is dwindling more than more than the others there. But the state of free speech all across Europe and both the continent and the UK is genuinely appalling right now. And you know, the UK in particular really makes me want to cry because I'm something of an Anglophile. Actually,
I love the Anglo American inheritance. I mean Frankly, Britain gave the world free speech in many ways there but readog. I'll share with you this brief anecdote. So Kiers Starmer is the very left wing prime minister right now in Westminster in London. It has become pretty common to refer to him as two tier here because of his two tier system of justice. I actually put that on my show and on social media. I had a friend who's a lawyer in London read to get a load of this.
He messaged me and said, Josh, you should take that down. I said, what are you talking about? He said, you won't believe it. But because of the long arm jurisdiction statue that Britain has these days, you could be prosecuted for that. For me tweeting here from the United States that here Starmer is two tier cure. That's the state of so called free speech in the UK. Tragically, in Germany, based on what we just saw, I think it's actually even worse.
Now let's go to the US, where the Department of Government Efficiency has had a big win in the courts against the law fare that the Democrats are launching. I know you wrote about this in Newsweek. You wrote about this so called judicial resistance movement that are sprung up, and you say that these people involved in this may think they're acting nobly, but they're in fact acting on unconstitutionally, and in the end they're going to be humiliated.
They're going to be humiliated because they are way out of wine and they're way out of line. Because the federal government cannot be shut down by the ruling of a lone lower court federal judge deep in the battels of his chambers in Hawaii or Alaska, or Florida or main That is simply not the system of governance that our founding fathers here in America set up for us. In fact, in an eighteen or four letter that are third President Thomas Jefferson wrote to Abigail Adams, the wife
of John Adams. He famously said in this letter that at the time that the judiciary here in America starts to decide cases not merely for the litigants before it, but purporting to buying the entirety the federal government, that would be a despotic branch. Abraham Lincoln took the exact same approach. It's simply not the system we have here so these so called nation one injunctions have to end. That is not part of the judicial power of which
our Constitution speaks. The United Supreme Court is going to have to weigh in here sooner rather than later, thankfully read. I actually a pretty optimistic that they will do so. Visit a Supreme Court that is well constituted to rule correctly when it comes to bread and butter structural separation of powers issues. But it's incumbent upon the Trump Department
of Justice to directly tee up that appeal. Once they do so, I think that the Supreme Court will grant it, and I think that they will rule correctly.
Now I covered Tom Hanks's pathetic antiques on Saturday Night Live. I don't know how else to describe them. It was exceptionally on funny, lacking in any sort of wheat or intelligence or humor. And I've got to ask you, Josh, why would such a mainstream actor trash his own brand in this way. If you're going to tresh your own brand and infuriate the majority of the country, then at least, I don't know, be interesting, be funny, be clever. In some way, this was just lame.
It really does seem beneath the dignity of Tom Hanks, doesn't. I mean, Tom Hanks, once upon a time was a brilliant actor.
I mean you had.
Maybe not at this point later in his career, but you know, look earlier, early in his career. I mean Forrest Gum, Philadelphia. I mean, catch me if you can, even the Steven Spielberg movie from.
The early arts.
I mean, Tom Hanks has been in a lot of classics going back twenty five thirty years. You know, once upon a time, it's probably hard for this audience to leave. Once upon a time, Saturday night life here in America was actually pretty funny. I mean, once upon a time we had people like Chris Farley, we had actually genuinely talented comedians. I mean, to this day, a lot of the great stand up comments here in America really kind of came up through the ranks of Saturday Night Live.
But it has been a very, very long time since they have attracted anything remotely resembling high caliber comic talents. I couldn't even tell you the last time that I tuned in frankly on a Saturday evening, and I'm particularly very pleased that I happened to miss this dreadful Tom Hanks's performance.
I was just embarrassing. I was embarrassed for him watching it. That's how bad it was. Now, I love you your take on Jerry Seinfeld not giving us stuff about offending the pro Palestinian anti Israeli movement. I have a look at this, Jerry, Can I get a selfie?
Sure?
Three Palestine?
I don't care about.
That's right now. That's how you do it, Tom Hanks. If you're going to be controversial, at least, I don't know, be interesting and a little bit funny. I'd imagine Josh is copying all sorts of flak for that. But Daddy cares.
He doesn't care.
And kudos to Jerry Seinfeld for taking a righteous and correct stand on this particular issue. I mean, you know, he was trending this direction for years. Jerry Seinfeld, many years ago. I first remember him speaking out against wol can't cancel culture on American college campuses. This is clearly an issue that he cares about. He visited Israel after October seventh. There was actually he's a diehard New York
Mets baseball fan. There was actually a clip of Jerry Seinfeld that a Mets game back and during baseball season a few months ago here in the US, and they kind of zoomed in on him and he was wearing his Mets uniform and he said, let's go Mets, and let's go IDF. So he's been very public about this for a while now, but you know, this son of a you know what here on camera. That guy had that coming, frankly, and good for Jerry Seinfeld for not backing away in the heat of the moment there.
I hope that he only doubles down from here. I think he will.
Actually, I don't know if you're away, but he did a tour of Australia last year and there were these hecklers in the crowd, always these pro Palestinian plants who halfway through the show would start shouting Free Palestine and river to this or whatever else they were shouting. And he handled it again beautifully. He just mocked them. He went at them. He did not back away, didn't try to appease, he didn't try to ignore them. He made them part of the show. And I thought it was
really quite effective. He did that in our multiple cities in Australia. Before you go, we've seen polling showing how popular Donald Trump's key policies are. We've been discussing that earlier this week, but it's not just the policies that are popular. Despite the overwhelming negative publicity the president receives, his own popularity is on the rise. This latest poll shows fifty five percent approve of him. Now that's a
decent approval rating. Forty three percent disapprove. Josh, that's a net gain of twelve percent for the president.
It's actually even more than that. You go back to his first term.
Donald Trump spent the majority of his first term with an underwater approval reading by the way, so Debraco. So it's not like Donald Trump had anything unique. Joe Biden
definitely had an underwater approval right in there. So, I mean, frankly, you know, Americans have been so fed up with the government for so long that to have any president, frankly with an above water approval right in there, you probably have to go back to the very early days of the Barack Obama administration before he went totally off the rails if I had a guess, but it's been it's been a hot minute, so to speak, there and the reason for that is because Donald Trump leads what I
like to refer to as a Coalition of the common sense. It is really not a particularly partisan movement here. You you have ex Democrats like RFK Junior, like Tulci gabber.
It frankly is a coalition of people who are just sick of stupid crap.
I'm sorry to not phrase it more artfully, but that really basically is what it is. It is a coalition of people that are sick of gender ideology. They are sick of this idea of universal values and mass migration policy there. They just want normalcy, They want basic common sense stuff. Thankfully, Donald Trump came in with a mighty vengeance in this magna two point zero second term, and he's delivering oodles and oodles of good old fashioned common sense.
Josh, thank you so much for your time tonight. And that's it for me. I'll see you tomorrow night at eleven. Don't go anywhere. Newsnight is up next.