omebody who gets paid the same no matter whether it works or not, and they say it works, well, I would listen to that. But don't listen to somebody who's made a career out of it. That just isn't credible by its nature.

All right. Let me tell you what will happen as soon as I get back on X. There will be somebody who said, Scott, you idiot. I know of the one guy who cured. No. Listen to me. If all you know is the name of one guy, you don't have anything. But Scott, I know this doctor who says he or she is cured. No, doesn't count. Just the doctor doesn't count. Worth nothing. But Scott, I saw the medical record. No, you didn't. No, you didn't. You need the patient. You need the doctor who treated him, the oncologist, not some random doctor. And you need the medical records before and after. Anything short of that is nothing. All right, that's my final word on that.

Trump is talking about Kamala Harris and has referred to her as, quote, dumb as a rock, and he's complaining because Kamala keeps saying on her book tour that she lost the election but it was the closest presidential election in a lifetime or something. This is not even close to true. It's just totally made up out of nothing. And does she really think that we didn't pay attention to the presidential election? Is there anything that got more publicity than the presidential election? Who in the world thinks it was close, as in closer than anything's ever been? Well, it was not. But it does make you wonder if she believes it.

So Trump said it wasn't close. She's dumb as a rock, and California's election was rigged. So there's that.

Now I would compare the rhetoric from the right to the rhetoric from the left. So here's some hard rhetoric from the right. If you heard that Trump called Kamala dumb as a rock, would you buy a gun and climb on a roof and try to hurt her? Because after all, she's dumb as a rock. No. No, you would not, because you don't shoot people because somebody said their brain isn't good. That doesn't happen.

But what would happen if you said, oh, it's a dictator trying to steal your democracy. He's a Nazi and he's trying to be another Hitler. Well, you might. If you believe that were literally true, there's nothing you wouldn't do. But no, dumb as a rock, that does not motivate people to violence. So Trump is calling for an immediate investigation about the UN events.

So there were three systems that failed that all impacted Trump directly. So the escalator failed the moment that he and Melania got on it so that they had to walk up the steps, kind of inelegant and certainly bothered him. But the UN said, oh, we looked into it and it was just a weird coincidental mistake maybe. But then the teleprompter didn't work for the first 15 minutes. And does that, I mean that happens sometimes, right? But luckily Trump is one of the most, maybe the most gifted public speaker we've ever seen in America. And so he didn't need the teleprompter. He could just do his thing until it worked, and then he got back on it.

Then also I didn't realize this, that the sound system in the room didn't work. So the only way you could have heard him is if you had the interpreter headphones in. I think it wasn't projecting just to the room in general. So those are three things which, if you told me that all three of them happened by coincidence and to the same leader, I would say to you no. One of those things maybe. But the three things that are most directly related to him being able to do his thing? No, that's, I could be wrong. Right? We live in a world where strange things do happen. But if you're going to ask me to believe that was completely a coincidence, no.

I've seen at least one person say, was it somebody, right, that it was a message being sent to Trump. A message. I don't even know. I wouldn't even go that far. More likely just somebody who thought they could mess with him. I doubt it was a message from anybody important.

Well, Gavin Newsom continues his dangerous rhetoric. He ordered what he called a code red and ordered his base to quote push back against the quote Gestapo. So if you tell your base that you have a code red, does that sound like an exaggeration? It doesn't. It sounds like you're really warning them of an actual physical immediate danger. That's how I hear it. Do you hear that differently? Why would a leader say there's a code red about something that important? I mean, if it were something unimportant like, oh, there are too many traffic tickets, it's a code red. Well, you wouldn't take that seriously. But if you're talking about the government of the country and you say it's a code red because the Gestapo is taking over, that sounds like you mean it.

Now, most people are going to know it's not exactly literal. But if you've got tens of millions of people hearing the same message, some, unfortunately too many, will think that that is literally what's happening because that's what they heard. I heard that's happening.

So in the backdrop of Newsom with this super dangerous rhetoric, an ICE facility got shot up just hours after he said that. Jesse Watters talking about it on Fox News. And also Tom Homan, apparently, I didn't know this but Jesse Watters said it, he's been forced out of his home because the threats are too high. And Newsom wants the ICE agents to be unmasked.

So some young man, 29-year-old Joshua John, he shot several bullets into a Dallas ICE facility, which had the unfortunate effect of killing one detainee, one non-citizen, and critically wounding two others that were in a transport van. And then I guess John killed himself. And the shell casings apparently are engraved with the message anti-ICE.

Now, Geraldo Rivera, I think fairly, I think it's fair that he said that he's entirely unconvinced that it was somebody who was against ICE because who they killed were only the people ICE picked up. And maybe there was some way for the shooter to know that he was shooting the people he presumably would have wanted to protect. So there's something about the story that doesn't make sense unless the shooter was shooting randomly or didn't know exactly where he was shooting or was literally insane in more than just a shooter way to be insane. So there is a little bit of fog of war here.

But the conservatives who say anti-ICE on the bullet, we're kind of done here. There's no additional investigation needed. He wrote it on the bullets. Now that's a pretty good argument, but it also doesn't explain why he shot who he shot. Even from a distance, from a roof, wouldn't you know that the van would be full of the people you're trying to protect instead of the people you're trying to kill? Wouldn't anybody know that? That the van is not going to be full of employees at an ICE facility. So I do think that there's cause for a little bit of wait and see, but just a little bit. So I'm going to give Geraldo a little bit of grace on that point. I don't think it's going to come down that way. I think it'll be exactly what it looks like. And the guy wasn't just shot in the wrong place. That seems to be believable. But I'll wait. I do assume that it's exactly what it looks like, but it might not be. Could be fooled.

Well, JD Vance had some strong words to say about Gavin Newsom and other people with this strong rhetoric. And he said, you can go straight to hell and you have no place in the political conversation in the United States. So he said more. He said, because here's what happens when Democrats like Gavin Newsom say these people are part of an authoritarian government. When they lie about who they're arresting, what they're doing is encouraging crazy people to go and commit violence. You don't have to agree with our policies, but if your political rhetoric encourages violence against our law enforcement, you can go straight to hell.

Now, it seems like everybody is doing this. I have to use some curse words to look like a strong leader. I feel like it's already overdone. Are you having that feeling that it's overdone? I mean, I think JD used it in an appropriate way, and go straight to hell is not the worst thing that anybody said. It's not things that Newsom is saying at the moment. So I mean it's a little bit controlled and it is on point and it does show the depth of his feeling about it. So I would say it's well chosen. But I'm just seeing so much of it now that it feels like the leaders are running out of ideas. It's like you don't really need to do that, do you? Now, I don't mind it. I mean I'm not against cursing. It's just if you do too much of it and it becomes gratuitous, it loses its power. However, I don't think JD lost power on this one. So this is more reminding me that there's too much of it. I don't think he overused it in this particular case.

But JD also said, and I think this is important, I think in particular my Democratic colleagues need to ask some very hard questions about why it is that folks from their side of the political aisle seem to be engaged in these politically motivated attacks. And I think it's important for them to look in the mirror and say, can we actually take some steps to police some of the violent rhetoric on our own side?

Now that's what I want to see. That's exactly what I want to see. I want to see some acknowledgement that it's not a perfectly clean situation on either side, but maybe one is a little worse than the other. But if you say it's only happening on one side, it only takes one example to prove you wrong. And surely there will be one example. So I like JD saying we have to police ourselves. The right has to police itself. Don't use this violent rhetoric if you want a chance of getting the left to do the same. And I think that's true.

See, this is not one of those cases where you want to go, oh, they went hard and they used rhetoric to kill some of our people, so we should go hard and use rhetoric that might cause somebody to kill some of their people. No. No. That's too far. And in the long run it's not going to help you. It's going to be worse for the country in a big way. Like in a really big way. So JD I think hit all of the notes kind of perfectly. Kind of perfectly. I'm impressed.

All right, I'm going to get back to that in a minute. But this story is really interesting because I'm going to tie together a few things here. So it'll look like this has changed the topic, but watch how I cleverly tie it all together.

So ABC News has a new documentary, and the important part of this story is that it's ABC News. Now you know ABC News, we believe, is sort of a left-leaning news entity, and you would not expect them to do anything that was clearly and unambiguously bad for a leading Democrat, right? You wouldn't expect that. But the ABC News documentary is about a Pennsylvania woman, Ellen Greenberg, who was stabbed 20 times. This was some years ago in 2011, and it was ruled a suicide by the then attorney general Josh Shapiro. So Josh Shapiro is of