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Good evening, ann Welcome to the Rita Panini Show.

Coming up tonight, a group of masked news filmed terrorizing multiple businesses in Melbourne.

Nikata will cover that and the day's other top headlines.

The Great Douglas Murray joins the program and I'll get his reaction to the sentencing of two Afghan nationals in the UK for the rape of a fifteen year old girl.

M Horowitz will have the latest from.

The US, including Erica Kirk condemning conspiracy theories about her husband's murder, and Kinziscofield will explain why Megan Markle is making a show of contacting her stranged father.

Left is Losing It features a pronoun induced meltdown.

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Spam call the mon County Improviation Office in Monengelia County, West Virginia for being transfer but first.

Victoria's property industry has delivered its final report card for twenty twenty five to the Allen government, and it's bad news.

The property sector has given the state its worst rating, with data showing housing confidence remains at extremely low levels.

Victoria has again recorded Australia's lowest industry sentiment, with confidence in the state government's planning and growth management also the lowest in the country.

Joining me now for more on this is Menzies the Research Center senior fellow Nick Cata.

Nick, we've got over sixty five percent of Victorian respondents saying that the States tax regime was the number one issue halting further development.

Yeah, guess what tax does that doesn't it?

Tax stops things.

It stops people investing, it stops people buying.

Putting a syntax on housing is not a good idea.

You know, you you really need to encourage housing.

Of course, you've got all sorts of taxes down there.

It's bad enough in New South Wales, by the way, if you want to build a property, you're paying an enormous amount on tax and regulation to build a place and that is deterring development much worse in Victoria.

And this is at the very time when we desperately need housing.

What is it They don't get about the fact that the real problem why young people are struggling to buy houses, why people are paying a fortune in rent, it's because there is a shortage of housing.

The government should be doing everything they can.

I mean, look, they give subsidies to windmills, right, so what about at the very least reducing the taxation on housing and particularly developers, so that they can build the enormous demand there is for housing.

Now Staying in Melbourne, a group of masked youths have been filmed terrorizing multiple businesses in Bentley Eases As, a quite suburb around thirteen fourteen kilometers southeast of the city.

The incident unfolded around eight thirty am on Chesterville Road.

A current affair reporter Marty Keing captured the footage while running errands.

Have a look.

And this mob, many wearing masks, are running riot.

Mike claims these young people stole alcohol from his shop.

He also claims it's not the first time he makes the citizens arrest.

Until police arrived, he's punched, slapped and punched again.

Officers have arrested several teens at the scene.

Two male staff members were treated for minor injuries.

Victoria Police also confirmed they were already investigating similar behavior by the same group at a nearby amphole service station.

Where an incident unfolded.

Seems like the Jacinta Haalan governments suppose a tough on youth crime approach isn't having much of an impact at the coal face.

No, I think under these new laws they'll be able to impose life sentences on sixteen year olds.

Look good luck with that.

You know, there's the whole, the whole, the whole system is rotten from the government and it's imposed, you know, imposing these lax bail laws, which is now trying to tighten up, going soft on youth crime.

Then you've got the police who fill their hands are tied so often because they're not getting the back up.

You've got shopkeepers there who don't dare sort of do anything firm to stop these people because they might be the ones in trouble.

And then of course you've got the courts.

It really is a diabolical mess.

Resa.

I'm sorry to criticize your state on crime yet again.

But what is it?

What is it?

Is there a correlation here?

What does Portland, Oregon, Minneapolis, San Francisco and soon New York got in common with Melbourne.

Well, if you have a woke government, you get crime now.

Nick Tania plipper Sex decision to block the billion dollar Blaney gold mine is under renewed scrutiny.

Mining Giant Regious Resources told the Federal Court Judicial Review that acceptance of a blue Banded B dreaming story as a central piece of evidence for blocking the mind without independent scrutiny lacked any rational basis.

Now Nick Regis is seeking to have this decision repealed, And last week we had Judge James Stelios grant a non publication order to protect cultural sensitivities and uphold Indigenous traditional law.

Now that doesn't sound great for transparency, does it.

No.

I mean there's two very disturbing things about this.

First is Tanya pliver sx action in banning it on the basis of this claim about what is it the blue banded B.

Look, you know, please please, I mean, this is nonsense.

We've been through us.

We went through all this thirty years ago in South Australia with this so called secret women's business that a young Chris Kenny wrote a very good book exposing.

I thought we dealt with this sort of nonsense.

But because the other thing you point to there is the issue of justice.

You cannot have justice being done in secret and then justice being seemed to be fair.

The two don't go hand in hand and the fact that this decision was made to keep it secret because aboriginal law or something says, you know, something general will happen if it comes out in public.

Look, that's not good enough.

That's not good enough.

We have a legal system that functions.

People have confidence in the legal system only in so far as they can see justice being done.

And if there's a being cast over it, so you can't see why this decision is being made.

You can't see the basis of the evidence.

This is really really bad for people's consequence confidence in our justice system.

You need to have that transparency.

You need to have consistency as well.

You can't have selective application of the law in certain circumstances, often or sometimes based on race issues.

Nick Kta, thank you so much for your time tonight.

Joining me now is the author of international best sellers, including his latest work on Democracies and death.

Cult Douglas Murray.

Let's start in the US, and we have a war of words between Donald Trump and elin Omer and that's intensified further with President Trump suggesting she is in the country illegally and she may have even married her own brother.

Yes, this story has been around for a while.

Quite a lot of journalists have investigated this story in the past and have come to that conclusion rather staggering though it might seem to many of us.

The allegation is that yes, Congresswoman Ilanomar married her own brother in order to get him citizenship in the United States.

She has always skirted around answering the questions about this, and now President Trump has raised it.

I suspect she's not going to be able to skird around that for much longer.

There's a lot she has to answer about this, and so far she's been able to stonewall it by just sort of neglecting to answer the investative journalists or giving them information that seems not to be accurate.

I don't know if she's going to be able to keep getting away with this now the spotlight is so bright on her and her family relations Douglas.

There's also talk about her eli Omar accumulated such wealth in a short period of time.

She's accumulated millions in wealth when she went into the job to be a politician with nothing, but she's hardly alone there.

That seems to be a problem in the US.

Let's go to the UK now where too Afghan national seeking asylum have each been sentenced for the rape of a fifteen year old girl.

Footage of the assault is so harrowing that it was feared it could trigger a riot.

The crime was committed just months after these.

Two individuals came to the UK as unaccompanied child asylum seekers.

One defense lawyer argued that cultural differences played a part.

He said that the defendant is not used to a society where women are free and deemed equal to men.

He is morally at sea.

There are massive cultural barriers that have become massive moral barriers, and that again seems to be at the heart of this debate.

Douglas, should the UK have migration, have these asylum programs with cultures that are not really compatible with Western values?

Well, I like the way in which the defendant's lawyer phrased that it almost sounds like there's sort of equal moral culpability in that he happened to come from a different society and we don't have the same norms as that society.

So it's a kind of six of one, half a dozen of the other.

Problem.

The British public didn't ask for people like this to be in their country.

We didn't ask to have sometimes more than a thousand people coming illegally by boat each day.

We didn't ask for that, and we didn't ask for the importing of people from cultures where women are regarded as chattel and for this to be the defense, you know.

I mean, I have seen this before, and have seen cases like this before.

There was a case I wrote about in my book The Strange Death of Europe almost ten years years ago, where a man from Eritrea gave an interview in which he said, well, where I'm from, you can just grab a woman off the street and a raper.

And I think the British public, like a lot of our publics, are getting kind of sick of this sort of allegation that it were there's our culture is somehow sort of a blame for this.

Well, I'm sorry.

If this isn't a line in the sand, if this isn't a norm we can keep established, then actually, if you are going to come to Britain or any other Western country legally or illegally, and preferably nobody doing it illegally, then they should at least realize that the norms of their society do not apply in our countries and that our countries do not regard women in this seventh century light, and it's really appalling.

And you mentioned Rita that a crucial fact thereout the footage, there is a strange thing which we've talked about before, that that is going on in every Western country when it comes to this, which is that the authorities are worried about the public finding out about what's happening in their own country, and so the authorities, including the police, effectively behave as a mediating body.

You know, we can't release this footage, or we can't release it in full, otherwise people will become angry.

Well, you know, first of all, we have the right to know what's happening in our countries.

We have the right to know if people are assaulting women on our streets or dragging them off and raping them like that.

And we'll come to our own conclusions about that.

You know, we're adults, and we have the right to respond to that, including with absolute disgust and opprobrium.

But this endless idea, I think the authorities think something like they sort of keep a lid on it.

If the problem is going on, you put a lid on it.

And you try to make sure that the public knows little about the problem as possible, otherwise the public will be unpredictable.

I think this is way past time as a tactic from the authorities, Way past time.

The public want to know what's happening.

And you know, you just think back to the extraordinary wordplay we've had in the last twenty five years in Britain.

Remember that it's taken all these decades to talk about the Pakistani mainly grooming gangs in the North of England.

But just consider years.

Not only was that information covered over much like in these recent cases, but we get these euphemisms grooming, grooming, which is a nasty term.

It's definitely a termin it's not nice if somebody's being groomed.

But that term is completely inadequate for industrial scale raping of young women in your society, the torturing of young women in some of these cases, the physical sexual not to mention psychological torturing of these young women.

And again, in every way, whether it's literally trying to suppress footage or trying to minimize the acts by playing around with the English language, all of this is way past time.

The public deserve to know what's happening in their country, and they do not deserve to have authorities acting as some kind of mediating body between the public and the facts.

Douglas, You're right that preoccupation with social cohesion is a problem right here in this country.

I think authorities think it's preferable to keep people in the dark as long as social cohesion is not threatened.

These are cases so severe and appalling that in any normal season there would be a hunt for the people who held secondary responsibility for the crime.

That is, the people who allowed these people into the country.

If you have a rapist coming into your country, there should be heads rolling metaphorically in departments in Whitehall.

There should be immigration officers, Border Force officers and others, government ministers, people in the Home Office and elsewhere held responsible for this.

We have inquiries into everything in the UK.

When the Home Office a few years ago, when Teresa May was in power, there was this huge scandal because some people who had come on the famous wind rush generation ago had an accident in their immigration status that suggested that some of the many decades after having got into the UK should should actually leave and didn't have permanent means to remain.

Now that was a huge scandal and the Labor Party wanted to bring down the Conservative government over it.

The Labor activists and someone still go on about it.

Why on Earth when people are coming into the country and committing violent rapes and violent crimes, is no one ever held responsible?

No border official, no local council official, no immigration official, no Home Office official, no Home Office minister.

In what other situation if this happened once in a normal political season, a minister would have to resign because they've let a rapist into the country.

But we're in this situation where nobody ever has to take any responsibility and the public need to just keep suffering through the results of inept border policies, inept immigration policies, and a completely lacks a system of legal and illegal immigration.

I think it's absolutely astonishing and I'm amazed that the British public are not calling and the British media aren't calling more for us to actually identify the people in government who are responsible for these lapses, because they're not one offs.

They are constant, and there should be constant pressure to find out who the people are who have been allowing this to happen and to make sure that they do not go off into some happy, pensioned retirement.

Now let's talk about something a little bit more frivolous.

We've had a few days now to digest the latest episode of Prince Harry embarrassing his family, possible embarrassing the entire country with his thirsty attention seeking.

This time was an ill advised appearance on Stephen Colbert's program where he tried to be a comedian.

I don't know exactly know what was going on.

We had an incident.

Have a look at this sketch.

Try to understand this.

So if you was treated like a king for the day, what would you want me.

To do for you?

Beck?

For me?

Probably you'd want me to do what beg?

Beg Beck, beg the okay?

Beck?

Bake, oh, Baker.

Douglas.

I don't know what to say.

Do you feel any secondhand embarrassment as a brit Just what is Prince Harry playing out?

Why would he go on Colbert and do whatever that was?

First of all, yes, I feel a deep cringing embarrassment.

I wanted to cover my eyes as you were showing me that reta.

I never want to see it again.

Ah, there's more of it now on the screen.

The whole thing is excruciating, of course, But you know, normally in a situation like this, when somebody tries their hand, for instance, a comedy, the normal thing to say is, you know, don't give up the day job.

Except you can't really say that in this case.

It's not clear what Harry's date job is.

It sort of don't give up not doing anything in the day.

It's just excruciating.

He is seems to me to be intent on destroying the mystique and some of the power really of the monarchy as an institution.

The monarchy as an institution is incredibly important in a constitutional democracy, and Prince Harry has been trying to sort of spend down the endowment of public sympathy and even I think interest in him, and this is just the latest example of him going about this.

I always have the same thing, Rita when I see this, which is I think, what a terrible way to spend your life.

You know, he's clearly looking for a purpose.

It's a bit odd to try to find it on the Stephen Colbert Show, but put that aside for a moment.

He's clearly trying to find some kind of purpose.

But just imagine if he had done what duty actually demanded of him, he would be in the UK at the moment with his wife, and they'd be performing royal duties.

They'd be raising funds for deserving charities.

They'd be opening sports facilities and school halls and things to you know, sort of enamored crowds of people who just wished them well and they could actually be doing good with their lives, and instead there's just this sort of peripatetic wandering around TV studios and elsewhere, and it's just such a it's such a bad way for him to spend his life, and to spend down, if you remember back, you know, thirty years or so, to spend down the considerable public sympathy and indeed even admiration and love that existed for him.

It's such a curious career.

I hope at some point that he realizes what a mess he's made of all this, how incredibly actually unrewarding it is in every sense other than the financial sense, to spend your time doing this, that nobody wants it, nobody likes it, and that the other life he could have had, the one that he was actually born to have is the life he should be leading, and it would be one in which he could find meaning and purpose.

He could be raising funds for charities to do with the armed forces in which he served.

He could be addressing questions of you know, how better we look after soldiers after they returned from conflict, for instance.

There's all sorts of really useful things he could be doing, but just think about it.

There.

Instead he is making some lame jokes, trying to be a lame comedian in a manner which, as I say, I just want to cover my eyes and ears when I see that footage.

Oh same here, samey.

I'm not a brit And even I was cringing internally and externally.

I think if hit the nail on the head, he's lacking purpose and I think it shows he seems lost, he seems unhappy, and it is such a full from grace.

He was the most popular royal after the Queen for the longest time before Meghan came along.

Douglas Murray, thank you so much for your time tonight.

Great pleasure as always, thank you.

Coming up Lefties Losing It and Erica Kirk addresses conspiracy theories about her husband Charlie's murderm Horowitz is up next.

Welcome back.

It's time for lefties losing it.

You know, I suspect the White House, or at least it's social media team.

Maybe watching the Rita Paney Show, we did.

A little segment featuring Christmas decorations under the Biden White House compared to Milania's work this year.

And what do you know, the White House has just released this very droll before and after video Christmas.

Yeah, that ain't gonna work.

I mean, when should I really eve a start.

It's becoming increasingly difficult to separate reality from parody when it comes to left is losing it.

If you told me there was a production about a transgender woman with a passion for coal mining who has to fight the patriarchy and entrenched gender norms to succeed, I would have thought, well, you were talking about some sort of Saturday Night Live skit.

But it's real and it's on Netflix.

This is the Queen of Coal.

Really, it's always spent my dream.

To work in the mind Marie's burns on the ground.

It's do you.

Feel safe in that work environment?

I need a job, not friends to them, I'm just another guy.

You're not a guy and you're.

Not like that.

If you say you're a woman now, then you'll have to do women's work.

And you know this company assigns different jobs to win them.

It's not there what they're doing to you.

No one can take away what you've earned.

Crimey you earned it, it's yours.

I'm a minor, Violet, a minor.

Look, I'm just thrilled that we have Netflix celebrating fossil fuels, the mining industry that keeps the lights on Bravo, though I do suspect there'll be some global warming narratives pushed in that production time to check in on the awful phenomenon that's affluent white female lefties or at the forefront of just about every terrible idea in America and throughout the West of the moment.

And not only are they as a group comically clueless, but their race obsessions make them utterly insufferable as well.

I'm going to be honest, I don't feel good about being white every day for a lot of reasons.

Because it's a point of privilege that I get to move through the world in a way that so many of my other colleagues and friends and family members of the community don't get the privilege to do I'm and I'm just a female, but just a woman, just a white woman.

If I was a white man, I would be functioning from a point of even greater privilege.

That's Democrat Sarah Stolka from the great State of Kentucky, and she's not satisfied with feeling bad about being watched herself.

She wants your kids to feel the same way.

This is just gross.

When kids have a moment to reflect about how the color of their skin does and does not allow them to move through the world, it's running running to them and trying to stifle that and trying to say you shouldn't feel bad.

So we don't want to.

We don't want to ever expose you to something that is going to make you have to pause and have maybe some internal feelings.

It's a missed opportunity for some really good dialogue.

I'm gonna play you a video now that could double as an ad for homeschooling.

This is what six great students in Maryland were exposed to.

It's all about how to be non binary height.

We were actually talking about tips for being non binary.

If you feel like a label would be helpful for you, then go ahead and attach yourself to that label, but don't feel like you have to stick to it, and you're able to change.

You can evolve.

I have had that experience myself in my own journey.

You know, I did identify as straight, even though I never really was identified as by for a minute, even though I actually was never by.

And then I identified as a lesbian, which is probably the closest terminology for my sexuality because I like girls, and the non binary thing also came around in an odd way.

And why stop there with a great advice, Why not tell confused girls how to bind their breast to hate their own bodies so much that they resort to painful binding.

General advice about binding is make sure you're being safe about it.

Don't be wearing a binder more than eight hours in a day, definitely not exercising.

The reason why I personally don't really wear binders that much is because of breathing.

It restricts your breathing.

Restricts your breathing.

But by all means still advise confused girls to do it.

Just be safe about it.

Restrict your breathing in a safe manner.

And sticking with the excesses of the trans movement.

Here is California Governor Gavin Newsom.

We didn't get into transports.

That's an issue no one wants to hear about because eighty percent of people listening disagree with my position on this.

But it comes from my heart, not just my head.

It wasn't a political evolution.

It was position being that I don't think it's fair.

I want to see trans kids.

I have a trans godsign.

There's no governor's sign more pro trans legislation than I have.

And no one has been a stronger abvocate for the LGBK in you mintic.

At least he knows that eighty percent of people disagree with him, one hundred percent of sane people.

That's the current king clown ruling over California.

And if you thought Gavin news was bad, just look at the Democrats looking to replace him, including this next woman, Betty Ye, who also can't see any issue with male bodies in female sport.

They are now part of.

I mean, they have been through a transition, the physical transition, and they do believe that they should be able to participate.

I think there's a lot of information we need to learn about what's really happening with the ability of trans athletes to compete.

But my statement is about being able to be sure that they can compete.

And right now there's.

More questions whether you think they should compete in women's sport and the Olympics because it's coming to LAS, it's relevant.

I think transgender female athletes are women athletes and they should be able to.

Really, there you go.

Mediocre male athletes everywhere can look forward to gold medals in LA.

Now this next clip is incredible, just the hysteria, the divorce from reality, the sense of entitlement.

Watch this woman have a food blowing meltdown on behalf of a trans client who was misgendered by a law enforcement officer.

Hey, TikTok, can you guys help me spam call the Man County Probation Office in Montingalia County, West Virginia for being transphobic as I took one of my clients today to the probation office and he is a trans mask individual and he went back to do a drug test and when he was back there, the front desk lady came out and said she'll be right out, and I politely said you know, he goes by heating pronouns and she looks at me and she says she has a vagina, so she's a girl.

I was just like stunned, like I cannot believe that people are still saying this like on the job.

And then they wonder why queer people and trans people are not showing up for promission, not showing up for day report, not showing up for drug court because they're misgendered and met with violent transphobia every stuff of the.

Way, violence misgendering is now violence.

And by misgendering, I mean stating biological realities.

Imagine how privilege you must be to feel entitled to harass folks just doing their jobs because they didn't play along with your delusions.

Joining me now is documentary filmmaker and commentator Army Horoiz.

Army.

There's plenty of drama around the sale of Warner Brothers.

Discovery Paramount has made a hostile bit or ki Warner Brothers, and that's set up a furious bidding wall with Netflix for the media giant.

And now Donald Trump has had his say.

He's very interested in what happens to CNN.

I just think that the people that have run CNN into the ground.

By the way, nobody watches, very few people watch.

I don't think they should be entrusted with running CNN any longer.

So I think any deal should it should be guaranteed and certain that CNN is part of it or sold separately.

Amy, what's your take on that.

Yeah, there's a lot.

Look, Hollywood and the news media is changing, obviously, you know this.

I know this dramatically.

This is a massive deal, both in terms of the direction of Hollywood going forward and direction and the control of the media, particularly.

News as well.

Right, Warner Brothers owns CNN, It owns a tremendous amount of cable channels, one of the largest, if not the largest studio in Hollywood, and there's a lot of consolidation going on.

Netflix came out of nowhere to make this bit.

It was crazy.

People were shocked by it.

And then of course you had David Ellison and sky Dan's who just consumed Paramount, coming in and going for a bit of Warner Brothers.

So look, first of all, let's let's let's start with winners and losers.

So for losers, Yeah, one of the major losers on this thing is gonna be Hollywood executives and the and the Hollywood elitist left who will lose a lot of jobs.

Right, they're talking about six billion dollars of synergy.

What does synergy mean?

It means people are going to be out of work.

I don't think that's such a bad thing, considering they are so aligned against the Republicans and Trump winner.

Man, it looks like Barry Weiss might be cleaning up again.

Barry Weiss, of course the Center, very center, a free press founder, former New York Times.

Ed writer.

She was brought in to be the CEO of CBS News, which was a massive win.

And not for conservatives, but for for truth in the news, right, simply not something that's non biased is good for us.

And that's what she is.

She's not a conservative, she's not a liberal.

She calls it, she sees it.

Well, she may be knocking the door being in charge of CNN as well.

I think that'd be great for freedom in media, right.

And I think that also we have to take a look at the money that's being involved in this thing.

Right, you have Netflix between net think look the major By the way, it's also great for consumers because Netflix and Amazon control twenty percent of all streaming views.

And as we know, streaming is where everything is moved to, if not has already moved to.

So moving all of it to and now I think between the combined Paramount and Warner Brothers, you're gonna see more streaming competition happen.

So and and look the money being spent between those that those be Hamdmoff's Prime Video, Slash, Amazon and and Serrandos and Netflix.

They gave over over ten million dollars to Kamala Harris.

So again, I think anything that stems that power, that Hollywood liberal power, I think is.

A good thing in terms of what we should be worrying about.

Look, I don't like that Trump is, you know, putting his finger on the scale.

I don't think that's helpful to a deal like this.

I don't think he needs to talk about CNN.

We all know the issues there.

And the other worrying thing slightly is there's a lot of golf money involved with David Ellison and sky Dance particularly there's there's six billion dollars coming for the Qataris.

I never love that.

So look that that's where I stand this thing overall, as far as I go, Yeah, I'm on team Dan Ellison, I'm on team Paramount, team Skydance.

I definitely am not rooting for Netflix.

On this thing now.

Ami, the widow of Charlie Kirk Erica, has spoken out about the many conspiracy theoriesing his murder.

She had this to say on Fox News.

Come after me, call me names, I don't care, call me what you want, go down that rabbit hole whatever.

But when you go after my family, my turning point, USA family, my Charlie Kirkshaw family, When you go after the people that I love, and you're making hundreds and thousands of dollars every single episode going after the people that I love because somehow they're in on this.

This is not okay.

It's not healthy.

This is a mind virus, Amie.

You've got the people who have no trust in the FBI, even though it's Cash Bettel's FBI these days, who are looking at all sorts of different theories about what happened there.

But Erica Kirk is also receiving vicious attacks from the left.

She has been the target of.

Vicious abuse as soon as she made the first statement after Hersman's assassination, and among those leading the charge is Jennifer Welch.

Here is her latest commentary on Erica Kirk.

This woman should be kicked to the curb.

She is an absolute grifter, just like Donald Trump and just like her unrepentant, racist, homophobic husband was Ami.

What's your response.

To all that?

Yeah, it never ends again.

Look, this is gonna be this segment's can be on the convergence of left and right.

Because you see his vicious attacks with both the hard left and the hard right.

The despicable Candace Owens of course leading the charge like she has on so many different bizarre anti Semitic conspiracy theories, anti anti US conspiracy theories.

Yeah.

Look, she blames Charlie kirk'sassination on prominent Jews, on pro Israel movement, on the military, on Macarone.

He's got this weird fascination with Macron and his wife.

I really don't fully understand it, to be honest with you.

And this is really becoming a litmus test on the right, Okay, the people who are who are fueling these conspiracy theories on the hard right.

You know, Look, Tucker Carlson, he gave what I thought was a horrific speech at Charlie Kirk's memorial.

You were there.

I was there talking about Jesus and really kind of referencing the Jews killing Jesus and they're involvement possibly in this killing as well.

Yeah, it's really problematic, and it's from the right and the left.

And the other thing the right and the left for sharing is a distrust and institutions, and particularly the FBI.

And you said, look, Cash Bartel is a good dude.

Cash Hotael's a trust with a dur a transparent dude.

A lot of people in the FBI have been moved there who I know personally, who I think are wonderful people.

I think they're trying to be as open transparent as they possibly can.

Right.

Obviously, there's there's an ongoing UH investigation and there's gonna be ongoing core case on this, and they can't be fully open everything.

But I think they're trying to be as as much they can.

But again, it's this lea fascinating convergence between the conspiracy theories the left and the right, and they center around distrust institutions.

There's an iota of truth there.

Right, because there's been decades of mismanagement and failures among our institutions, the FBI, the IRS, the State Department, and I see where they're coming from, this whole deep state thing, and there's some.

Truth to that.

But when you control Look, but when you control the levers of government, and when the right, when the right was complaining about the institutions on the left, I get it.

But when the right controls these levers and.

You're still pushing these conspiracy theories, it really is an underlying issue of something far more problematic than just that and the politics of it.

So I think this is very worrying.

You know.

Look, republics fall when you don't trust the institutions holding them up right, when you hollow those out, that's when countries fail.

So I am very very worried about it.

And this Charlie kirk Thing Erica kirk Thing is a litmus test, I think for a larger problem.

Amy Harwitz, thank you so much of her time tonight.

Where's your pleasure still to come?

Why Meghan markl is making such a show of contacting her estranged father.

Kinsey Schofield has a theory.

Welcome back joining me now.

Celebrity and royal commentator Kinsey Schofield Kinsey, We're going to get the Meghan Markles story out of the way first, because we've got some political commentary from Hollywood to dive into, and some of it is surprising.

But Meghan Markle has finally sent a letter to her father, Thomas, who is recovering in a hospital in the Philippines.

Meghan sent the letter through reliable and trusted contacts and it is said to now be safely in her father's hands.

But Kinsey, why send something through the mail.

It's been clear for some time that Thomas wants to reestablish contact with his daughter, he wants to meet his grandchildren.

I mean, it's one step up from an email.

I guess if my father was having multiple emergency surgeries and losing limbs, I wouldn't be sending a homing pigeon instead of picking up the phone or FaceTime and calling him.

Just just make a phone call Megan.

And how are we supposed to take Kerry and Meghan seriously going forward when they're at Invictus cheesing it up and smiling and posing up a storm with these wounded veterans for photographers, when they can't even pick up the phone to call Megan Markle's father.

You know, it tells us that this is all for PR.

I think you are one hundred percent right there.

This is a PR exercise.

Now, Amanda Saferee, she's an actress.

I don't know if many of our audience would be familiar with her work, but she's refused to apologize for calling Charlie Kirk hateful.

In fact, the actress has doubled down, telling Who What Where that I said something that was based on actual reality and actual footage and actual quotes.

What i said was pretty damn factual, and I'm free to have an opinion, of course, except Kinsey.

She seems to think that Charlie's opinions were hateful, and I can almost guarantee that there is a large gap between what this woman thinks she knows and what the reality is.

Yea, And in her initial Instagram post, she alluded to the fact that Charlie brought this on himself, his murder on himself.

No one deserves to die for their opinions.

We can all look like monsters when we're taken out of context.

And She's been in the media long enough to know that Amanda does have a right to her own opinion.

But she risks alienating half the country when she doubles down like this.

Charlie's children are without a father today, how would that make her feel?

She has children?

There is no excuse for that, and her comments aren't helpful.

And she justified what she said by saying it's my opinion.

She's entitled to that opinion.

But then she seems to think other people have brought on an assassination by stating their opinion.

And if you think Charlie Kirk is hateful, the joyful warrior that he was, who was so polite and so kind even in the most robust debates he had, I mean, really, you are existing in a parallel universe.

Now, this wouldn't have happened a few years ago, Kinsey.

We've got more actors coming out and endorsing Donald Trump.

Have a listened to Kelsey Grammer, the man behind Frasier.

He had a little jab at the Democrats expense and then praise Donald Trump.

I always love us.

When the Democrats start talking about affordability, you always know they're going to charge you twice as much, three times as much, Kinsey.

He went on to say some very complimentary things about the President and We had Sylvester Stallone earlier in the World Week also making some very positive comments.

You know what, the UK is rapidly growing global production wise.

It's stolen so much business from Hollywood and it's taken a significant amount of work away from La Home alone twos.

Donald Trump does love and appreciate Hollywood and wants them to get back to work.

You know, it's our politics that have really put a lot of these actors and actresses out of work, Thank you, Governor Gavin Newsom.

Trump's even reportedly pushed Paramount to green light Rush Hour four.

Maybe we'll hear more stars that miss when America dominated the TV and movie industry speak out in support of the president.

I don't know.

Yeah, it's fascinating because there definitely is a bit of a cultural shift.

These are just comments that wouldn't have been made four years ago, or even during that first term.

Now to Gwen Stefani, the singer songwriter, she's been under attack for partnering with a prayer app that is not pro abortion.

Who could have thought that a prayer app would not be pro abortion?

Kinzie, She's a Christian woman.

Is she expected to endorse pro abortion apps?

What's the issue here exactly.

Gwen Stefani doesn't even endorse anything but prayer and meditation throughout these social media posts.

Jack Nicholson is pro life, Kelsey Grammer, who we just spoke about, Justin Bieber, and none of those people have ever shoved that opinion down our throats like the other side.

At Christmas, we celebrate a baby sent to save us.

That's the reason for the season.

So why should personal faith be treated like a controversy.

Now, let's talk about the MET Gala.

Beyonce, Nicole Kidman, and Venus Williams have been unveiled as the co chairs for the twenty twenty six Met Gala.

The three stars have been tapped to work with industry icon app A Winter on next year's event, and Kinsey.

The theme is going to be costume art and a celebration between the intersection of the human body and art.

It sounds terribly pretentious, already.

Sounds a little slutty, you know.

Nicole Kidman, I'm going to say a standout star here.

We love Nicole Kidman, but I feel like the MET has taken such a deep decline.

And let me just predict right here on your show, this is the first time I'm saying this.

Megan Markle has been trying to make nice with Vogue for favorable coverage and to secure a ticket to the Met Gala with Beyonce on board.

That's a realistic option for her.

Once the Met Gala goes rent a Prince and Jam influencer, it becomes completely irrelevant.

The Met dumpster fire more like it.

Surely she can get a ticket to that.

I mean, everyone seems to be getting a ticket these days.

I don't think that's going to be much of a coup for her.

Laura Sanchez Bezos is going to be the lead sponsor of the twenty twenty six Medgala.

I guess you can do that after you marry one of the richest men in the world.

But has the whole thing kind of lost its luster already?

It has, I mean, the ultimate objective originally was to secure some America's fiercest art dealers and art connoisseurs, and it's now just full of influencers, tik talkers, and Kardashians, So it has It's not what it once was, but it does seem to be taking an even steeper decline lately.

You know, you don't see even Katoure.

It just feels like a costume silly costume contest.

I think it jumped the shark when AOC attended.

Remember, I think she had tax the Reach or something like that on her dress.

So I think, right then and there the met Gala completely lost its luster, dropped the shark, and we really couldn't care less.

Though every now and then there's an outfit that is stunning.

Kinsisco Field, we always appreciate you.

Thank you so much for your time tonight, and that's all the time we have.

I'll see you tomorrow night.

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