t rates of gun violence would be powerful. We need a map to go along with it. Zip codes with highest rates of gun violence and National Guard deployments. Okay. Do you feel that? You feel that, right? There's some suggestions that you feel. I feel that. Meaning that how in the world did we miss the point that each time they do one of these surges, one of the data points that they always report is the number of guns confiscated, right? If you're trying to satisfy the pro-gun crowd, MAGA, and you're also trying to do as best you can to satisfy the Democrats because they're citizens, right? They get service too. If you're trying to satisfy everyone, how did we miss the fact that we're doing it and it's not being highlighted?

Now it could be remember Trump reads the room better than anybody. So it could be that he doesn't want to open that anti-gun box. You know, maybe just give the data, but don't frame it as anti-gun because then it maybe it just starts a whole anti-gun thing. So maybe he just wants to avoid the topic. But when I saw this, I thought to myself, okay, I don't know about Portland. I don't know if there's a lot of gun violence in Portland, so it might not work for every city who wants to surge. And I honestly I think Portland's a little overdone. I just don't know there's that big a problem in Portland, but you know, politically it works. But if they pivoted, they wouldn't have to make every deployment about guns. But if they said the one thing that MAGA and Democrats will agree on is that the criminals should not have guns. So we're going to at least do the thing we all agree on. And you just make it a gun reduction thing instead of a crime reduction thing instead of just a violence reduction thing, which it also is. But I think the illegal gun reduction is just sort of irresistible for Democrats, is it not? So here's my suggestion from Misty Sunrise. Maybe the administration should think about highlighting what they're doing to reduce gun violence because they're doing it the way Republicans like to reduce gun violence. Take them away from criminals. Put the criminals who do gun violence in jail. You know, that doesn't solve everybody's problem. But how do we disagree on that? There's no disagreement on that. You know, even if you said, "Oh, I don't like the federal, you know, the feds coming in and scaring everybody with masks and all that." Well, if what they're doing is removing illegal guns, you're going to put up with the masks a lot more easily. By the way, is it illegal for the bad people on the streets to wear a mask or is it only illegal for the people trying to stop them? I wasn't clear on that.

Well, you've seen some online influencers, podcasters say things like the US is on the brink of civil war. You've heard Tucker talk about it. Tim Pool's talked about it. I don't think he's predicting it per se, but sort of warning about it. I'm going to be I've seen enough of this and I don't want this to turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy which I worry about. In my opinion, there's no chance of a civil war. Do you know why? Who would you shoot? Who the hell are you going to shoot? If it started tomorrow, what would you do? It's not like we have some big issue, you know, like slavery or some nations are trying to withdraw from the union or who would you shoot? Your neighbors. You just go out in the lawn and start blazing away at your neighbor's house. There's something missing with the whole civil war thing. There's nobody forming a militia, right? There's no militia being formed. At least there might be somebody in some forest somewhere, but no, nobody's going to be a risk to the system. You're going to have to connect a lot more dots before you can get me to worry about a civil war. Right now, civil war is my smallest concern. I think everything is a bigger risk than that. Everything.

Now I will make you this promise. If there became a bigger risk, you know, whether it's Antifa gets bigger or whatever, if it becomes a bigger risk, I will spend more time persuading it out of business. And I think that one of the things that we have today not everybody fully recognizes is that the influencers can stop a civil war. I believe the influencers are getting a little bit reckless in warning us that one might happen because you know the self-fulfilling prophecy thing once you get it in your head things become possible just because they're in your head. So there is a little extra danger in talking it up. But what we have now is people like me. There's no way to tell this story without making it about me. So I apologize in advance. You don't think I could stop a civil war? I probably could. I could do it the Misty Sunrise way. It's not that I have influence. It's that if I say something that makes common sense to you, you're going to like it. You're going to talk to your friends. So as long as there are enough people like me who I guarantee you I'm going to be looking to stop a civil war if it got anywhere near, there'll be others like me and we would be powerful enough to stop a civil war. Collectively, not me by myself. But collectively, yeah, we could stop a civil war now. I'm sure of it. I don't even think the government could pull it off or a militia could pull it off unless there was some kind of public support and we just make sure there isn't there just won't be.

Anyway, Cash Patel said there's 110,000 gang members in Chicago streets. Gateway Pundit reporting that. Do you think that's true? 110,000 gang members. I think what might be true is that if you live in a lot of places in Chicago, you have to at least identify with a gang to be safe. So I don't know that that's like 110,000 gang bangers with guns in their pants working the streets and selling drugs. It might be more grandmas in the gang and little Billys in the gang because everybody has to be in the gang just to stay safe. So I don't know what that number means, but it's a shocking number.

According to the Rasmussen Group, domestic violence in California impacts 2/3 of Californians. 31% identify as survivors. The rest that would have some family connection to it. Does that sound right? Do you believe that number that in California two-thirds of Californians have a domestic violence problem? Well, I don't know how they collect that data, but if they get it from divorcees and pretty much every divorcee claims that they were domestically abused, either verbally or otherwise. Sometimes it's both of them. You know, both the husband and the wife will claim that they were domestic violence victims. Now I do think domestic violence is way bigger problem than maybe we all realize. So I'm not doubting the seriousness of it. Just to be clear, I'm not minimizing domestic violence. I think it's a huge huge problem and it does affect huge numbers of people. I just wonder how they got the data because if the way they got the data is from people who are in divorces, there's a little bit of overclaiming of domestic abuse in divorce. In the real world, it's underclaimed. But as soon as you get that divorce, oh, everybody's an abuser.

Well, if you don't know that a war with Venezuela is coming, it looks like it is. So the Senate rejected a measure that would have required Trump to seek congressional approval before authorizing further US military action in the Caribbean. So the Senate doesn't want Trump to have to get permission to go to war with Venezuela. What's that tell you about the odds of war with Venezuela? Oh, we're definitely going to have boots on the ground in Venezuela. Now I hope that when that happens, and it's definitely going to happen, that it's a decapitation strike and nothing else. What I don't want to see is anything that looks like a ground war. Not even a little bit. But if we have an opening and we can take out the top guy and maybe several of the top lieutenants, probably worth doing under the theory that he's really a drug dealer and not a head of state. They would have to stay in that frame. We're taking on a drug dealer. So I think that's coming.

There's a story in New York Times about how Ukraine is still the most corrupt place in the world. Now that you know that Ukraine is still one of the most corrupt places in the world and all the government money is being stolen in different ways, don't you appreciate Trump more that he's the one