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00:00Mr. Miller, thank you.
00:02What are we to make of this and the fact that maybe the response won't be centralized just
00:07out of Iran, but its various proxies kind of all over the region?
00:12So one of the things that we have seen really since October 7th is Iran and its proxies
00:17continuing to take various terrorist actions against the state of Israel and against the
00:21people of Israel.
00:22And it's something that we have defended, helped defend Israel against.
00:27And at times, we of course have taken our own actions against proxy groups who have
00:31targeted American forces.
00:33And so really since October 7th, we have made it one of our prime diplomatic purposes to
00:41really try to prevent this conflict from escalating.
00:44On every one of Secretary Blinken's eight trips to the region, he has focused on pushing
00:49for de-escalation, pushing for steps to calm tensions.
00:52And obviously that has been what he has been working on with the president and what other
00:55members of the administration have been working on for the past few days, trying to send
00:59very strong messages to Iran that they should not escalate this conflict, that their proxies
01:04should not escalate this conflict.
01:06And of course, as we have always made clear, we will defend Israel against terrorism.
01:10We will defend Israel against attacks.
01:13And we are urging all parties in the region to take any steps that they can to de-escalate
01:18so this conflict doesn't spin out of control.
01:22Is it escalation to you, though, sir, when we see U.S. troops who are shot at in an Iraq
01:29attack as Israel braces for this retaliation, that that might be the extent of it there?
01:36That Hezbollah and Israeli forces were recently exchanging gunfire in the New Galilee region,
01:41the Northwest Galilee region, I should say, of Israel, and Hezbollah firing a series of
01:45drones itself, you know, back and forth between Israel and Lebanon.
01:52I'm just wondering, is it your sense that everyone waiting for a big central attack
01:58out of Iran, this is what it's going to be?
02:03So let me say, first of all, when it comes to attacks on U.S. forces, U.S. interests,
02:07U.S. personnel, we have always made clear we will defend our troops in the region, we
02:11will defend our interests in the region, and we will hold parties accountable who threaten
02:15our personnel.
02:16And that continues to be the case.
02:18When it comes to some of these other attacks from proxy groups-
02:20Well, did you do that in the case?
02:22I'm sorry, sir.
02:23Just to be clear, did you do that in the case of these U.S. troops who were shot in Iraq?
02:26What was the response to that?
02:29So if you're talking about something that happened 24 hours ago, it's something that
02:32just happened, and we will- we're never going to announce any actions that we take in advance.
02:36But I think if you look at our track record over the past nine months, as well as our
02:40track record throughout the three and a half years of this administration, we have made
02:43clear that we will defend our personnel and we will hold people accountable.
02:46And of course, we look to the government of Iraq to hold people accountable as well for
02:50actions that are taken on Iraqi soil.
02:53With respect to the attacks from Hezbollah, so obviously there have been attacks from
02:57Hezbollah against Israel since October 8th.
03:00Obviously there have been attacks before that, but with respect to this conflict, since the
03:03day after October 7th, Hezbollah started launching attacks at Israel, and we've seen Israel taking
03:08attacks against Hezbollah.
03:11We want to see those ultimately come to an end, because there are tens of thousands of
03:14Israelis who can't return to their homes in northern Israel.
03:17There are tens of thousands of Lebanese who can't return to their homes in southern Lebanon.
03:22And so we have been pursuing diplomacy to try to end those attacks, but of course it's
03:27been very difficult to do that while the conflict in Gaza continues to rage on.
03:34So that's been part of our strategy all along in pursuing the ceasefires, not just to get
03:37a ceasefire in Gaza, but also to stop those attacks across the blue line between Israel
03:42and Lebanon.
03:43That said, the attacks that we've seen in the last few days have really been consistent
03:47with the attacks that we've seen since October 7th.
03:50They go up at times, they come down at times, but not at the level that, you know, like
03:56I think you were asking about, like some have said we could expect to see from Iran or Iran's
04:01proxy groups, all of which, as I said in response, I think, to your opening question, we are
04:06trying to prevent from happening, and that's been the purpose and the goal of our diplomacy
04:10over the past few days.
04:13So I take it from what you said, I don't want to put words in your mouth, but attack
04:15on U.S. soldiers in Iraq over the past 24 hours, and if it did indeed come from Iran,
04:21you would respond directly to Iran?
04:23Look, I'm just never going to preview actions that the United States is going to take.
04:28As I said, when actions happen on Iraqi soil, we look first to the government of Iraq to
04:33take action and hold people accountable.
04:35Our troops are there at the invitation of the government of Iraq, but as we have shown
04:39in previous cases, we won't hesitate to defend our troops and take our own accountability
04:44measures, our own steps to hold terrorist groups accountable if we don't see appropriate
04:48actions from the government of Iraq.
04:50I understand what you can't share, Matthew, but one of the other reports we hear is that
04:54the U.S. was not given much of a heads up, if at all, in the case of some of these efforts
04:59on the part of Israel to take out a key Hezbollah leader and then a key Hamas leader, that there
05:05was concern in Israel that that word would get out, that the trust or the relationship
05:10with the United States and Israel is such that you're on a need-to-know basis, and Israel
05:17sometimes seems to be saying you don't need to know, at least not that early.
05:20Is that true?
05:21Well, it certainly is true that we weren't aware of these attacks.
05:26We weren't involved in these attacks.
05:28I will say, when it comes to our relationship with the government of Israel, obviously it's
05:32a very close working relationship.
05:34We share information with them.
05:36They share information with us, which is not to say that they agree with everything that
05:41we say and everything that we do, or that we agree with everything that they say and
05:46everything that they do.
05:47I don't think there's a country in the world where we have perfect, 100 percent alignment
05:50on every issue.
05:52But when it comes to the working relationship with the government of Israel, I think what
05:55you've seen over the past nine months, more than nine months now since the October 7th
06:00attacks, is we strongly support Israel's right to defend itself.
06:03We strongly support Israel's right to ensure that October 7th never happens again.
06:08But we have been pushing all the parties in the region to take key steps to de-escalate
06:12the conflict, and really not to keep it from spinning out of control.
06:16It is, in our judgment, not in anybody's interest to see this conflict continue to escalate.
06:21It's not in Israel's interest.
06:23It's not in the interest of the Palestinian people.
06:25It's not in the interest of anyone in the region that we see this conflict expand, that
06:29we see it widen.
06:30And so what we are trying to do is break this cycle of violence, break this cycle of
06:34conflict that continues to threaten the peace and the stability of everyone throughout the
06:39Middle East.
06:40Of course, Israel wasn't the one who spread this conflict out with these terrorist attacks,
06:47right?
06:48Absolutely.
06:49Absolutely.
06:50Which is why we have continued to support their right to hold Hamas accountable, and
06:53to take the fight to Hamas, and to bring Hamas fighters to justice.
06:57All right.
06:58I was talking about Hezbollah as well.
07:00But thank you very much, Matthew Miller, State Department spokesperson.
07:04We look forward to having you back on the show.
07:06In the meantime, you know, a lot of these companies that are now coming back, and the
07:10stocks are coming back, earnings from them have actually been pretty strong.
07:14So that's been one good foundation.
07:17But again, it's this woke requirement that a lot of them are forced to address that has
07:23cut those earnings and how much money they could be making.
07:27Charlie Gasparino literally wrote the book on it.
07:30He's next.
07:34Making about 10, 11 percent more than they were last year at this time.
07:37That's not too shabby.
07:38But it could be a lot more, if my friend Charlie Gasparino is right, if they didn't have to
07:43go broke going woke.
07:44Or specifically, to his point, and his bestseller now, Go Woke, Go Broke, the inside story of
07:49the radicalization of corporate America.
07:51That author, that guy, my friend, Charlie Gasparino, on what to make of that.
07:56I wasn't aware until I had the opportunity to read your book just how pervasive this
08:01is and how expensive this is.
08:03Explain.
08:04Yeah.
08:05At every company, you know, there are huge departments established to make sure the right
08:11number of people of all sexes, genders, races are hired.
08:16There's a, you know, skills often play, particularly after 2020, the George Floyd riots.
08:21And that's a key sort of inflection point in the book.
08:24And, you know, I suggest you read it and I sort of unpack it.
08:27You know, there was a great story in Bloomberg that I came across that said in the next year
08:32and a half, two years of all the Fortune 500 companies, you know, 99 percent of the or
08:3790 percent of the hiring was done minus white males.
08:41I mean, it was like, do not apply.
08:44And, you know, wokeness does that.
08:46It basically puts a premium on on these sort of secondary factors.
08:49Listen, we're all for diversity, Neil.
08:51I am.
08:52You are.
08:54The heavy hand of D.I. is what is driving people nuts.
08:57And it's it's and it's it's it's also illegal, to be honest with you, even to their ad campaigns.
09:02Oh, yeah.
09:03Lose sight of their base and they lose sight of their audience and they lose sight of what
09:07used to be public companies.
09:09Number one and only premier goal, looking out for shareholders.
09:13Well, you're showing it on you're showing it on the on the screen right now.
09:17The reason why Dylan Mulvaney, a very, you know, if you follow trans influencers, she
09:21was one of the top ones appeared in a Budweiser commercial is because of D.I.
09:26You know, a lot of people try to pin it on some wayward marketing person.
09:29I did a deep dive into this.
09:31It was more about how D.I. is pervasive at Anheuser-Busch and its parent company, AB
09:37Embed.
09:38I mean, they are Davos men through and through.
09:41And I talk about how that that was primarily responsible for Dylan Mulvaney.
09:46And by the way, very costly to the company.
09:49We should point out that beer Bud Light sales and even Bud sales have not recovered since
09:54then.
09:55They're, you know, the Bud Light.
09:56Why did they do it, Charlie?
09:57Why did these companies and there's so many great example of a rifle through some interesting
10:01video examples.
10:02But why did they do it?
10:04I mean, when the bottom line should probably matter more than anything else and keeping
10:09shareholders happy and those who invest in you want to return on that investment.
10:13And this is impacting some of those.
10:15Well, you know, I interview Mark Cuban at length in the in the book, and there is a
10:20theory in there, you know, the billionaire tech entrepreneur and former owner of the
10:25Dallas Mavericks.
10:26I like Mark.
10:27Great guy.
10:28But he has a different point of view.
10:29He thinks woke cells.
10:30And he gave me all these examples.
10:32And the problem is, you know, woke.
10:35He basically said woke cells because, you know, people are, you know, use iPhones from
10:40a company named Apple, which is very woke.
10:43And you know, I told him, I said, Mark, it's a little different.
10:46It's like, you know, I use I when I download something on my iPhone and listen to Joe Rogan,
10:49that's I'm not going woke by listening to Joe Rogan and using the iPhone.
10:54I'm just I'm listening to guys.
10:55As a matter of fact, they didn't make great products.
10:57They didn't make great products.
10:58I mean, I think that's going to save the day for you.
11:01But but, you know, so but there is a theory out there that Mark espouses and others that,
11:06you know, wokeness does sell.
11:08And I think that they were trying Budweiser in particular, and I think Disney, to a certain
11:12extent, when they went hog wild on on wokeness and in particularly in children's programming
11:18and in their in their cultural statements, you know, opposing Ron DeSantis.
11:22There was a theory for a while that wokeness does sell and it was called stakeholder capitalism.
11:27And there were imperatives known as ESG that the environment of social government that
11:31forced almost forced this on companies.
11:34So it was a perfect storm, a bad storm.
11:38And, you know, companies that fell in it in a really dramatic way, you know, blew themselves
11:43up.
11:44That's what the book's about.
11:45And the book is also about how there's a cultural counterrevolution going on, led by consumers
11:50who don't want any part of this stuff.
11:53And those that go there spent, you know, lost a lot of money.
11:56I mean, Larry Fink is an interesting character in this book and figure, I should say, in
12:00this book.
12:01He's the head of BlackRock, the largest money management firm in the world, built this thing
12:05from scratch.
12:06It's ten trillion dollars.
12:08And he became sort of a focal point of the anti-woke movement.
12:12And BlackRock started losing money.
12:13They started bleeding assets where he had to do a 180.
12:16And he speaks very, I think, eloquently about what he went through.
12:20Like I said, I interviewed him at length.
12:22I have great admiration for him because he actually got up there and tried to explain
12:27himself.
12:28Then there's Jamie Dimon.
12:30This is just, we'll just show you how the 180 occurred on wokeness.
12:34Jamie Dimon, in the summer of 2020, during the protest movements, took a knee when he
12:39visited a bank branch, was photographed taking a knee.
12:43When we all asked him, why is he taking a knee in solidarity of Black Lives Matter and
12:49the social justice movement, his people were saying, yeah, believe what you want.
12:54They didn't deny it.
12:55So we all thought that's what it was.
12:56When I started to check the facts of the book, and I mentioned this at the end, how woke
13:01is being unraveled, they were like, oh, no, no, he's not in favor of Black Lives Matter.
13:06He was taking a knee to fit in the picture, just to fit in the picture.
13:09And if you saw the picture, I don't know if we have it up, he could, did he really need
13:14to take a knee to fit?
13:15It's wild stuff.
13:16It's wild.
13:17It's a phenomenal book.
13:18I don't know how you got these people to talk to you, but it is, I've read all your books.
13:21They're never going to, Neil, they're never going to talk to me again after this.
13:29That's all that matters.
13:30That's all that matters.
13:31That's the best.
13:32Charlie Gasparini, I urge you to read this book.
13:34It is a page turner, especially when you find out what has happened to capitals, whether
13:38you're woke or not.
13:39I mean, just how did that get sort of intertwined in what companies do?
13:44Having said that, all eyes in Philadelphia right now are Jeff Locke is there as well,
13:49but not necessarily for the introduction of the new Democratic Party ticket, but have
13:55a lot of folks feel about the state of the economy they'll likely be talking about.
13:59Jeff.
14:00Now, we don't want to talk to the big shots.
14:02We wanted to talk to the real people and what do they think about the economy?
14:06The people that actually in an area that voted heavily for the current president and vice
14:11president back in a moment with their words.
14:19Can Sugar Ray Leonard do everyday tasks wearing boxing gloves that we have seen that our broader
14:25economy remains resilient.
14:28Well, she might want to talk to Jeff Locke, who's talked to a lot of common folk in Philadelphia
14:32and discovered they don't all agree with that, right, Jeff?
14:37You know, this place, that's Philadelphia City Hall behind me, by the way, Neal, Philadelphia
14:42County voted eighty five percent for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris four years ago.
14:49But even in a place that's a Democratic stronghold, difficult to find anybody Republican or Democrat
14:56that thinks the economy is going well right now.
15:01Kind of unstable.
15:02So we don't know what direction we're going in.
15:04A little bit uneasy, to be honest with you.
15:06Things could be better, but not a recession.
15:08There's no denying that it was it took a lot of your paycheck just to pay for groceries
15:15and things like that.
15:16Mostly sort of off brand items, you know, rather than brand items that try to find things
15:27that are a little bit cheaper.
15:28Instead of going out with a grill or something, so it's just like small stuff, but for the
15:33most part, it just it's hindering our quality of life, food, groceries.
15:45The rent is going up.
15:46You know, a lot of people I know is like moving in like roommates, like friends.
15:49So you live a couple of people in the house to pay the bills.
15:51Most of my income goes to my landlord, I'd say, you know, if you just look around in
15:58Philly, a lot of people are really going through it.
15:59It's a tough time.
16:10I will say this, though, Neal, even though just about everybody had negative words to
16:14say about the economy, many of them also said they intend to vote for Vice President Harris
16:20this fall.
16:21They say they just can't see themselves voting for the alternative despite the economy.
16:29Very interesting.
16:30See how that plays out, my friend.
16:31Jeff Flock, one of the best of the best in Philadelphia.
16:33In the meantime, it might not be about the running mate, right?
16:36It might be about an economy that could be running out of steam.
16:40That decides how presidential elections go, no matter who is second on the ticket after
16:45this.
16:46All right.
16:47It will be the debut in a few minutes of the Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz 1-2 ticket
16:56for 2024.
16:57Dr. Lauren Wright, a Princeton University political science professor.
17:03On the importance of a number two, I guess, you know, doctor, the one thing I discovered
17:07is that most often VP candidates, you know, don't necessarily help you, but sometimes
17:13they can hurt you.
17:14How do you think this will go down?
17:16I think you're exactly right.
17:18You know, it doesn't mean they don't matter.
17:20A VP candidate can make campaigning a nightmare or they can make it a lot, you know, a lot
17:25easier.
17:26If it's someone that reinforces your message and brings moderates into the fold, that's
17:30the person you want that can be in more than one place at the same time with the same message.
17:35If it's someone that raises more questions about how progressive or conservative they
17:40are, that's someone that might make things a little tougher.
17:43And both candidates this year are fighting for the exact same group.
17:46It's the people that voted for Trump in 2016 and voted for Biden in 2020.
17:52That's who both candidates needs to win over.
17:56Very good.
17:57You know, another thing, too, is sometimes it used to be, can my running mate deliver
18:02his or her state?
18:04And John F. Kennedy found in selecting Lyndon B. Johnson, that was an important thing.
18:08He delivered Texas.
18:09The rest is history.
18:11That would have been very hard to do otherwise.
18:12But you flip it around, doctor, I'm thinking of how it didn't work that way with John McCain
18:18in choosing Sarah Palin.
18:20No offense to her, but she she actually dragged the ticket down all the more.
18:24I'll be in the middle of a meltdown.
18:26But what do you make of that?
18:29Well that's true.
18:30Sarah Palin was supposed to be this injection of energy into the campaign, a historic choice,
18:36a woman with executive experience from Alaska.
18:39But what she ended up doing is she had these great speeches and interviews that didn't
18:44go so well, that brought up questions about her preparedness for the job.
18:48So it needs to be someone, yes, a cherry on top as if they can deliver a state.
18:53But you're right, Neil, it's probably the candidate themselves at the end of the day.
18:57You know, doctor, I'm thinking of Minnesota.
18:59I believe it's only gone Republican once since 1960.
19:02So it's not as if it will.
19:04Right.
19:05So there's obviously other factors at play.
19:07Real quickly, what do you think they are?
19:10It's a strange choice, and that's not a partisan comment on my part.
19:14You know, Minnesota is not a swing state.
19:17And Waltz already has raised questions about whether he's even more progressive than Harris.
19:23He's arguably the most progressive governor in the country.
19:27Everything from COVID lockdown policy to saying socialism is neighborly, if you look at it
19:32in a certain way.
19:33That's not what Harris needs.
19:35Interesting.
19:36We'll see how it all sorts out.
19:38Doctor, I apologize for the truncated time.
19:40Always good seeing you.
19:41Let's get you back.
19:42In the meantime, Eric, come back Tuesday.
19:45Let's see what happens.