President Biden called for more foreign aid in a primetime address to the American people. But this time, he tried to tie Israel aid to Ukraine aid ... AND Gaza aid. This both-sides-ism, Glenn warns, likely won't work out the way Biden promised. Why is Biden sending aid into the territory controlled by terrorists who want to wipe Israel off the face of the earth? What message did he send to Jewish Americans when he brushed over antisemitism to rant about "Islamophobia?" When will we learn the truth about the number of American hostages taken by Hamas? Glenn also discusses the news that the U.S. Navy shot down rockets allegedly fired by Houthi rebels in Yemen at Israel. Is another adversary joining the war ... and how far will the U.S. go?
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GLENN: The president spoke yesterday, and oh, he is electric. He is electric. I swear to you, you know, there are online people saying, it's not him, man. This is an imposter wearing a rubber mask.
No, it's not. It is clearly Jeff Dunham's puppet, the angry guy. He's got the same look as that puppet has, with his mean, angry eyes. And he's like, okay.
Anyway, it was electrifying. He wanted to get on the program and say, hey, Israel, Israel, Israel. We really need to send more money to Ukraine. And what he's doing is he's tying the two of them together.
So, you know, if you want to help Israel, well, you have to help Ukraine. And you have to help Ukraine in an even bigger way. Because what Hamas did. I mean, it might have been Vladimir Putin. You don't know.
It was horrible.
Then he gave a little tip of the hat to anti-Semitism.
He's like, you know, there are people who are afraid to wear their Jewish stars around their neck.
And then he went into stories about, you know, Islamophobia.
Here he is last night from the Oval.
BIDEN: In recent years, too much hate has given too much oxygen, fueling racism, and the rise of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia right here in America.
It's also intensified in the wake of recent events that led to the horrific threats and attacks, that both shock us and break our hearts.
On October 7th, terror attacks have triggered deep scars and terrible memories in the Jewish community. Today, Jewish families worry about being targeted in a school.
Wearing symbols of their faith, walking down the street. Or going out about their daily lives.
Now, I know many of you in the Muslim American community.
Arab American community.
The Palestinian American community. So many others are outraged, saying to yourselves, here we go again with Islamophobia and distrust we saw after 9/11.
GLENN: Okay. What? He's not going to harp on it. Uh-oh.
BIDEN: Little boy. Little boy here in the United States. A little boy who just turned six years old. Was murdered in their home outside of Chicago.
His name.
GLENN: Wait. Was that because of the gun violence in?
BIDEN: An American. A proud Palestinian American family.
GLENN: Proud Palestinian.
Can you stop for a second?
STU: Who suggested that we would stand quiet while a 6-year-old would get killed?
Is there anyone?
GLENN: No. No one is suggesting that. And that's because you're standing there silently.
STU: What! No. I'm not standing there silently.
GLENN: If you're speaking. Oh, yeah.
STU: I oppose the murder of all 6-year-olds.
I don't know if I needed to be clear about that. I don't want them dead.
I want them to be alive.
You know what else I want to be alive? 1-year-olds. And also people in the womb, who haven't been born yet. I want them to be alive.
GLENN: It's amazing. Amazing how many people we want to be alive.
Isn't it?
I mean, there's a lot.
I don't want to just mass murder anybody.
It's crazy.
You know, there's also in his speech last night. He warned Israel.
Not to let the fires of hatred and vengeance, you know, boil over.
You have seen that, Stu. Because I haven't seen that.
STU: No. I think what they have done is get rid of Hamas. They want to set up a demilitarized zone between Gaza and the rest of Israel. Of course, Israel. Gaza is part of Israel.
But that's a whole different story. And I don't know if that will actually solve this problem at all. That's a whole 'nother thing. He said in there, Glenn.
You know, these attacks, unearthed memories.
Had nothing to do with unearthing memories.
It had to do with a bunch of people being murdered and raped and decapitated.
They were all new memories. All these were memories for the rest of the country, that they need to try to solve. So there aren't more memories created in the future.
It's not about unearthing memories. It's about brand spanking new ones.
GLENN: I agree with that.
But I tend to agree with the president on the memories.
Jewish people, imagine being a Jew today. Anywhere in the world.
And you grew up hearing stories about your grandparents. And how there was a program. And people in Europe. People anywhere were -- you know, saying, death to the Jew. And they didn't care. And they were gassing them. And nobody paid attention.
You know, you grew up hearing those stories. And now you find yourself and the memory of what you learned from your grandparents. That's what he's talking about.
Unearthed all of these old memories of these horrors.
We thought we were beyond this now.
We're not. And in America, you know, Islamophobia. I -- I am not afraid of anyone, who is in Islam. I'm not.
I disagree with their choice of religion.
But if it's a reformed. Which you would be beheaded if you were a reformed part of Islam.
But if it's a reformed. And you're like, hey. I'm not asking the rocks to point out Jews.
Then, you know, fine. Cool.
We can live side by side.
But that's not who we're talking about.
There's a difference between followers of Islam. And Islamists.
We are talking about Islamists.
And they should be wiped off the face of the earth. If you believe that Allah's laws, where we do ask the rocks to point out the Jews. And we throw homosexuals off of buildings, like they do in Iran.
And they force women to cover themselves, except for the eyes.
But I'm a little. Quite honestly, I think the eyes reveal an awful lot.
I mean, they're always women in their eyes.
You know, if that's the kind of stuff that you want, you have no place in modern society.
Go live in a cave. You have no place.
STU: Essentially, if you're in agreement with the Hamas charter.
GLENN: Yes.
STU: Then, you know, yeah. This is what Israel will try to solve here.
And they need to. They need to do something about it. You know, if it was a terrible. And I agree you with. Obviously.
There is such a long history here.
That there's more to it, than just this attack.
But if what we were talking about were memories, they would be doing, they would be thinking -- contemplating the ground invasion right now.
Right? It's not just memories. It's all of the stuff together, including 1300 other people, slaughtered. And hundreds. By the way. Including a bunch of Americans who are currently being held hostage.
That doesn't seem to be the highest priority.
GLENN: And, you know, I have never. I have never seen a time, ever in our history.
Where Americans can be slaughtered. And then Americans can be taken hostage. And that's not like the number one conversation, in America.
You have? I mean, look, Ron DeSantis sent out another plane. We've had planes sent out and coming back. I think more planes are being sent out to help bring home Americans, that want to be here.
Don't want to be trapped in Israel.
Our government just can't seem to -- they don't care.
No matter what he says, well, I see you.
Do you?
Do you see us? Because a lot of us are flipping us off right now.
What do you mean you see me?
Then why don't you come over and get me?
Why don't you go over and rescue Americans, who should be rescued?
What do we pay taxes for?
How many Americans are kidnapped, do we think 24?
STU: I don't know the number off the top of my head. It's a significant amount. Of course, that includes. That doesn't count the people who have been murdered. Also America.
This wasn't just Israeli citizens.
GLENN: Right. Right.
And that is -- that's amazing, that neither you, nor I, know that number.
That's remarkable.
We've been talking about this for ten days.
And neither one of us are sure on the number.
Why?
What -- what is our president, what is our military doing?
What is a higher priority, than that?
And, by the way, you know, for those of you who had, you know, the Houthis getting involved in the office pool, you're a winner today.
In case you didn't hear, the -- a US Naval ship, shot down Houthi rockets.
Now, some might be saying, who are the Houthis?
I'm not going to talk down you to, because like you, I know exactly the history of the Houthis.
But I'm going to -- I'm just going to have to explain it to the dummies. Like it was explained to me yesterday.
The Houthis are an Iranian-backed militant in Yemen.
Yeah. Yemen. So these are the people that the United States under Donald Trump were trying to stop.
Because they're Iranian. These are the people that the Saudis also had been trying to stop.
Because the Saudis and Iran, don't get along.
And the Houthis have been trying to destabilize Saudi Arabia, at behest of the Iranians. So the Houthis sent some rockets. Who knew they even had matches.
But they sent some rockets up. They were headed towards Israel, or so we say. And the Navy, shot them down.
So hmm, we're kind of involved now.
Kind of involved. I'm glad we shot them down.
But kind of involved. For those of you --
STU: I'm glad I shot them down for sure.
But we were already involved, and we will be even more involved as this goes on.
GLENN: Oh, yeah.
For those of you who had -- yeah. I think we can be in World War III by the end of the year. I mean, you might be right. You might be right.
We'll wait until the end of the year, but you might be right.
Because the way this was tied directly to Ukraine. How Russia is backing Iran. How we're backing Israel and Ukraine.
The whole axis ally powers thing, is starting -- starting to really take shape. In a -- well, in a fireworks sort of presentation for us now.
STU: By the way, they want -- Biden asked for $105 billion. Now, 14 billion of it, I believe. Is going to Israel.
And four times that amount, going to Ukraine.
That's the current split. That they are talking about.
And one more note here, Glenn. On the hostage number, one of the reasons we don't know the number is because we're still finding bodies. We don't know how many hostages are there.
We know that about somewhere over 20 are missing.
However, the number of hostages is believed to be lower than that. Something like ten.
Which means, there may be, you know, another dozen or more Americans, that we don't even know. Where their bodies are yet.
Maybe they're missing. Maybe they got out somehow. We don't know.
But we think about ten at least. This is according to Republican senator Jim Risch. About ten of them are actually being held, actively captive in Gaza.
GLENN: Okay.
I'm going to take you back to the 100 billion-dollar number.
Because I have an important question that I think should be asked. And I'll do that here in just a minute.
GLENN: Hey. So, Stu.
STU: Yes.
GLENN: President Biden asked for -- what was it? $105 billion last night, right?
And Israel is getting a little bit of that. Most of it is going to Ukraine.
But also, he pointed out last night, that it is important, that we feed the Gazans, and we help the people, the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
And that's why he's sending over, I don't know, another pallet full of cash over to Gaza. And he says, he's watching it carefully.
And if Hamas uses any of that cash, well, then he will have to reconsider sending over more cash.
But he wants to make sure we take care of the other side.
Can I ask you, you have to the $500 billion, how much of that is going over to help the displaced Russians, that are on the other side of the border.
That might have suffered, you know, at all.
You know, because we love the Russians too.
STU: Hold on. I have a calculation on that.
Are you serious? No one will notice.
GLENN: Yeah. No notice.
Because we love -- we love the people, Palestinians.
And we're sending them, hundreds of millions of dollars right to Hamas.
With a promissory, pinkie promise.
How much is going to Russia?
STU: Zero dollars.
GLENN: Zero dollars.
Wow. Do we hate Russian citizens. Is that what we're saying with that?
Because it seems like we're sending a lot of money over to the military to kill Russians. And, boy, I think if we're not sending money to both sides, I think it's a clear sign, we hate the other side.
And all the people in it. This isn't about Putin. When did this administration send any dollars over?
And I hate to give them any ideas. Because they would. But when would they send any dollars to those displaced Russians?
Or is it just that he hates Russians?
