ne asking the question, he goes, "This is the Democrats' fault." Now, what have I taught you about the primary tool of persuasion? The primary tool of persuasion is repetition. Whoever repeats the most wins. So he makes sure that he said it before she even finished the question. Now that's good technique because that gets in your head first. He needed to get that in the head first so that she would respond to him instead of he was responding to her. Do you see how clever that was? That was super clever that he talked over her and gave her the answer before she asked the question. If she had been able to ask the question, it would have been framed as why won't you Republicans open up the government, but because he front-ran her while she was still talking all the way to it's the Democrats' fault, he framed it before she got to it. Now, you don't sometimes you don't notice the little things that he does. They're just perfect that you would have to be so experienced in public life to know that getting there before she finished the sentence was going to give you an advantage. I mean, it's just brilliant persuasion wise. This is what I noticed in him on day one of his running in 2015. I was like, wow, he's different. He seems to understand things like other people don't understand them. This would be one.

Now, apparently the Texas Governor Abbott said that he's going to, this can't possibly be true, but he says that if any New Yorkers try to flee New York after Mamdani's win, they'll be slapped with 100% tariff. That couldn't be true, could it? How would you even do that? You're going to slap a million people a tariff on a million people who came from New York. Okay. The Daily Mail is reporting that. All right. I'm going to put that in the category of I doubt it.

Let's see what else we got going on here. There's a claim from a whistleblower. I saw this on Breaking 911, which is on X, that the BBC completely doctored some Trump quotes to make it look like he had organized the January 6 quote insurrection, as they would call it. But so I saw a video on it and so I'll wait for more credibility on this story, but what it looked like is the worst edit I've ever seen. Meaning totally illegal. You know, I'm not talking about, remember when CBS did their little edit of Kamala Harris. I believe she was vice president. So when 60 Minutes did their edit of her, I actually semi-defended her and them by saying that it's not unusual for a big media thing to edit for clarity. And it wasn't too far off from clarity, but it was enough that they settled in a court and they didn't admit any wrongdoing, but they needed to settle. So I don't mind editing for clarity, but whatever the BBC is accused of, according to at least one video I saw, was not clarity. It was literally just changing what he said to what they wanted him to say because they could piece two unrelated sentences together that were 54 minutes apart or seconds or something, but they were pretty far apart. So if this is true, the BBC is going to owe Trump a lot of money. So wait for if you're looking for whether this is credible. I'd look for the lawsuit if the lawsuit drops today. Yes, the BBC edited him.

Rasmussen poll according to Newsmax says that the majority of voters, 52%, they want anybody who used the autopen under Biden and they did it without proper authorization wants them prosecuted. So only if they used it without authorization which seems reasonable but wouldn't everybody agree with that? It's hard to imagine there's anybody who disagrees with the question, if they use the autopen inappropriately, should they be punished? Yes. Yeah. If they use it inappropriately, of course.

Anyway, there's always a new Bill Maher quote. He was in his club random talking to somebody I didn't care about. And what he said was this is just a pure compliment to Trump. It's one of the best compliments I've ever seen Trump get and it's coming from Bill Maher. Now to his credit once Bill met Trump in person. He did drop all of his criticisms about his crazy personality because that wasn't demonstrated at all in person. But he still maintained a strong preference for the other side. Still thinks that Trump tried to do an insurrection on January 6, which is Bill's personal tentpole hoax. He can't get past that hoax. But so he has complimented Trump just for being willing to talk to the other side and getting some stuff done like the border, but never this much. This is a new level of compliment and I don't know if it means anything. I don't expect Bill Maher to become a Republican too far. But look at the evolution of his thinking from these little compliments to now this one.

So he said a club random quote about Trump. He didn't play the silly game that the other presidents do like well we have to be even Steven. He's talking about the Middle East now. He says who knows who is right. The people who treasure life are the people who treasure death, Bill says rhetorically. And then he goes, he said, "No, I'm with Israel. Let's see how this works out. I'm with Western values. I think democracy is better than theocracy." And so then Bill closes with the keeper. He goes, "The Jews love him more than any president ever, and the Arabs do, too. That's quite a hat trick. You got to give it up for that one. Yeah, I got to give it up for that one." Who else could make the Jews and the Arabs in the Middle East both think he was the best president? I mean, maybe Hamas has a problem, but not Saudi Arabia. Is that one of the best compliments you've ever heard of any politician of any time? That's got to be right at the top of the best thing you could ever say about a president that he made the Jews and the Arabs in the Middle East think he was the best president. And I think he did that. That's actually real. I think he actually did that. I'd never thought of it that way.

So here's what I mean by the evolution of Bill's thinking. He's clearly now embraced that Trump is not crazy. And by this I would say he's clearly embraced that Trump brings tools to the game that other people just didn't have. They just didn't have those tools. Now, he still prefers other policies. Perfectly reasonable thing. But this is one hell of an evolution into the light because he's 100% right about this. Right? This lefty's 100% right. And if I can get him to break the tentpole hoax about somehow all those Republicans thought they could take over the country by wandering around in one building without weapons, which is what he believes. If we can make that tentpole hoax go away, it's going to look really different. His world will look really different.

Anyway, so remember I told you that if your worldview does not predict, you should look at it again, right? So Bill Maher is now squarely moved into a worldview that will predict because now that he understands that Trump just has powers that other politicians just don't have, they just can't do some things like maybe get the hostages back, maybe only him, like solve eight military conflicts in eight months or whatever it was. Maybe that's only him. I mean, close the border. Maybe he's the only one who could be enough of a bastard and take enough of the heat that he could actually close the borde