The Exact Moment 'The View' Realizes Controversial Democrat Is Doomed

2 Jun 2026 · 49 min · 17 chapters

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In short

The host argues that far-left Maine Senate candidate Graham Plattner is politically “doomed” as multiple controversies surface, and uses clips from The View to claim mainstream Democrats are reluctantly turning on him. He also discusses media credibility, including CBS/60 Minutes shakeups under Barry Weiss, and adds commentary on Iran ceasefire/negotiations and other political “slop” online.

Guests (on-air)

No podcast guests are interviewed in this transcript. The host mentions future guest Sher Michael Singleton (CNN) and references people in clips (e.g., Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, Sarah Haynes, Cory Booker), but they are not guests of the episode.

Guest backgrounds (mentioned, not interviewed): Sher Michael Singleton is described as a “sane” CNN voice. Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin are The View co-hosts. Cory Booker is a U.S. senator.

Key claims

Plattner has a Nazi SS-style tattoo he allegedly knew about; deleted/controversial Reddit posts; a political director resigned over the Reddit controversy; sexting allegations while married; homophobic/racist remarks; and disputed origin-story/financial disclosures (VA loan vs father loan; income via disability; oyster farm supplying his mother’s restaurant).

Notable examples

The View clip where Sunny Hostin is said to confirm the tattoo and cheating allegations; MS/NBC-style timeline of Reddit deletions and tattoo reporting; CBS/60 Minutes staff firings tied to Barry Weiss; Iran ending negotiations and threats to block Strait of Hormuz.

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Chapters

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Controversial Figure: Graham Plattner

0:00 to 1:04

Discussion on Graham Plattner and his controversial campaign.

“I've tried a lot of seafood over the years, guys, and truly it's been hit or miss.”

Controversial Figure: Graham Plattner

2:35 to 4:21

Discussion on Graham Plattner and his controversial campaign.

“We got a, this is just a big old show for you.”

Plattner's Controversies Unveiled

4:21 to 8:30

A timeline of controversies surrounding Graham Plattner's campaign.

“That's the sort of bumper sticker version of it.”

The View's Response to Plattner

8:30 to 10:00

Analysis of The View's conflicting reactions to Plattner's controversies.

“Here's my friend, and he'll be on the show Friday, Sher Michael Singleton, one of the few sane people over on CNN, explaining that people can accept a mistake.”

Conflicted Reactions from The View

10:00 to 14:00

Discussion on The View's hosts and their conflicted views on Plattner.

“So we are now going to show you a clip of the view.”

Examining Controversial Remarks

14:00 to 15:19

Discussion on the implications of a politician's past remarks and actions.

“So the fact now that he's saying that that part is not true...”

Democratic Party Dynamics

15:20 to 17:07

Analysis of the current state of the Democratic Party and its leadership struggles.

“Anyway, they don't know what to do because it's late to to get rid of the guy.”

Debate on Abolishing ICE

17:08 to 20:01

Critique of a debate between Democratic candidates regarding immigration policies.

“but look at the way these people will excuse literally anything.”

Jill Biden's Book Tour Insights

21:11 to 24:16

Discussion on Jill Biden's statements during her book tour regarding Joe Biden's health.

“Whoopi wanted her to be, what was it, Surgeon General, and then realized she wasn't that kind of doctor.”

Media's Role in Political Narratives

24:17 to 28:00

Exploration of how media narratives shape public perception of political figures.

“Here's where I can try to do the human part, even though it's hard to do around him because the whole thing was such a farce.”
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Trump's Speaking Style vs. Biden's Clarity

28:00 to 29:35

Explore the differences between Trump's salesmanship and Biden's communication struggles.

“Does Donald Trump speak in sometimes like some circulary kind of ways?”

Barry Weiss's Impact on CBS News

29:41 to 38:08

Discuss Barry Weiss's efforts to reform CBS News and the surrounding controversies.

“All right, so as you guys may remember, about a year ago or so, Barry Weiss, formerly of the New York Times, she's just a moderate liberal.”

Current Tensions in the Iran-Israel Situation

38:08 to 42:03

Analyze the latest developments in the geopolitical tensions involving Iran and Israel.

“and there's just nothing sort of trusted.”

Internet Slop and Political Narratives

42:03 to 43:15

Discusses how misinformation affects public perception of political figures.

“connected to just like internet slop stuff.”

Critique of Media and Political Discourse

43:16 to 45:05

Analyzes media narratives and critiques political discourse surrounding recent events.

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The Dangers of Conspiratorial Thinking

45:06 to 47:27

Explores how conspiratorial thinking can distort reality and fuel misinformation.

“We need to quite literally build better things, like build infrastructure that's better, but we also need to build more alliances and things of that matter.”

Jerry Seinfeld's Commencement Wisdom

47:28 to 49:52

Reflects on Jerry Seinfeld's insights about work and love from a commencement speech.

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Transcript

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2:47We're not even really diving in on that today. If anything breaks, any weird stuff breaks in the next hour, we'll cover it of course. But there's just a lot happening in the country right now. So I wanna start with this main race, this main Senate race, and this guy that we actually have not talked about a ton on the show, this guy, Graham Plattner, who is, he is a far left, Like, he is as far left crazy as you can get. And of course, the left never knows when the left goes too far. So he is the perfect sort of new school progressive Democrat, Nazi tattoo on the chest, the whole thing. Well, now it turns out as the election is getting closer that some, how do you even say it?

3:34Are there any sane voices left in the party? Some people in the Democrat Party are realizing that having this wackadoodle as far left as you can get nutbag with a Nazi tattoo who has every crazy position that you can imagine under his hat, that maybe this isn't the best choice possible. So now even on MS Now, the televised mental institution known as MS Now, they are starting to turn on the guy and we'll show you how the lefties don't know how to deal with this because they know if they turn on him too far, then the progressive base will burn them down too. So that's why leftism has basically become an endless hostage situation where everyone tries to destroy everybody because they know if they don't, that they will be destroyed next.

4:21That's the sort of bumper sticker version of it. So look at this, here's a little timeline here that MSNOW put up yesterday about Graham Plattner controversies. And I'm gonna read them and I'll give you a little context to each one since we haven't covered this too much, but this is a joy ride. So in August 19th of 2025, he officially launched his campaign. On October 16th, 2025, he deleted Reddit posts. Give you a little context there. Journalists uncovered years of deleted Reddit comments made under a pseudo-anonymous account. Posts included remarks critics described as sexist, racist, inflammatory, and sometimes supportive of political violence.

5:00Most attention focused on comments about rape prevention that could be viewed as victim blaming. October 17th, 2025, political director resigns. Little context. Campaign political director Genevieve McDonald leaves the campaign after that Reddit controversy we just told you about. October 21st, 2025, chest tattoo with Nazi origins reported. And there it is. He's got the SS tattoo. Context, reports reveal Plattner had a skull and crossbones tattoo resembling the Nazi SS Totenkopf symbol. Not resembling it, it was it. October 21st, 2025, former aide disputes Plattner's explanation. Little context on that.

5:43Former associates challenged Plattner's claim that he didn't know the tattoo's meaning, right, because they were all saying he had it for years and he did know about it. May 13th, 2026, full archive of deleted Reddit posts published. Context, the archive reveals a broad pattern of controversial remarks on race, sex, policing, guns, and politics. Oh my God, is this guy a scary right winger? He's doing all the things. May 30th, 2026, now we're almost there. Sexually explicit texts with other women reported. Context, reports allege Plattner exchanged sexually explicit messages with multiple women while married.

6:19This is just a few days ago, guys. May 30th, 2026, Kik account allegation reports, and context, reports connect Plattner to an active Kik messaging account used for sexting, and the user age range on this Kik platform is 13 to 24. Okay, so, and there's his picture. You even lift, bro. Okay, so there's a lot around this guy, the Nazi thing, all of the, like, pick a far left crazy policy he's in on it, right? Like he is, he's basically just a younger, sort of angrier Bernie, something like that. And they just love this guy because he's just, he's just awful. So they love him. That really is what's going on here.

7:06Anyway, now all this stuff is breaking about the guy and MS now, as we just pointed out, reported on it. And here's CNN with a bit more. He obviously has presented himself as an oyster farmer, but then the financial disclosures come out And it shows that, you know, his income comes from disability and that the oyster farm that he works on doesn't really make much money and often is supplying his mom's restaurant. You also have that, you know, he introduced himself as a working class Mainer. He, you know, at one point went to Hotchess Prep School. You know, he said that he got a$200 ,000 loan from the VA for his first house.

7:43Then it comes out that actually, you know, his dad loaned him the money. Okay, so surprise, surprise, they're suddenly catching him in lies. It's sort of like AOC, she's Jenny down the block, like she came from nothing in Harlem. Turns out that that's actually not the case or wherever it was. It's the same kind of thing. They need their origin story to be awful, and they need to be awful, and they're oppressed and all of those things, even when they're privileged and they get these VA loans, or when the dad pays instead of the VA loan. And when, like, just, it's endless. It's endless and obvious with these people.

8:20The question is, will the Democrat base in Maine, do they wanna vote this guy in, and will they accept that he's basically fabricated his history and everything else? Here's my friend, and he'll be on the show Friday, Sher Michael Singleton, one of the few sane people over on CNN, explaining that people can accept a mistake. We all can accept a mistake. It's when you lie over and over and over again that maybe voters are going to turn on you. What do you think? Voters can forgive a mistake. This is a pattern. This is a pattern of a guy who continues to lie over and over and over again. Well, what is he lying about?

8:54The Nazi tattoo. First, he said, oh, I didn't know what it actually was. It turns out he knew what it was several years ago. No, I don't think that's true. I don't think that's necessarily the case. Then when Manu and even the New York Times, our Lulu Garcia, asked, is there anything else? Absolutely not. My record's squeaky clean. I want to focus on the issues that matter to the people of Maine. And what happens a week later, we find out that this guy is sexting 12 women. And you have to presume that none of these ladies will come out and give an interview. Is there more to come? I think Democrats are looking at this and thinking this is a massive mistake.

9:27Yeah, that's right. Well, you can see they're thinking it's a massive mistake. When MSN now is suddenly covering a progressive in not a good light, they're realizing, oh, man, we must have stepped in it. I don't know who that witch sitting next to Schermichael was, but the fact that she's still running cover for his Nazi tattoo is just completely ridiculous. I'm pretty sure in the history of the world, everyone who's ever gotten a Nazi tattoo knew it had something to do with Nazism. I don't think that's a great leap. Now, what's funny about this, we're gonna jump by warning. Wait, do we have the warning and the bleeping sound?

9:59Do we do have something? We do. I haven't even seen this yet, right? Is it video or just audio? Just audio. It's just audio. So we are now going to show you a clip of the view.

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10:47These are character flaws that I'm tired of hearing about. Yeah, me too. I'm tired of it. I'm just like, just keep it in your pants. Just stop, stop, stop being stupid. This is a character flaw. This isn't, Plattner has said, you know, he did it in form. I'm sorry, I didn't mean it. I've changed. This is a problem. The Purple Heart recipient, by the way, the video he insulted was a man who took fire to save his team. And he said, this stupid guy should have died. It's only because they didn't have good aim that he's here. If you were capable of saying that at any time in your life, you've shown me who you are and I heard you.

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12:45And they've been all in on every, if there is a bad lefty candidate, they love them, right? If there's a decent Republican candidate, they hate them. That's how it is, that's obvious. And then, you know, Alyssa Farah gets her cookie and they pat her on the head. But the fact that finally now enough stuff has come out where they're turning on this guy is super interesting. But now watch, so that's, what's her name again? Sarah Haynes, that's the one that my mom always wants me to say is not, mom, this is for you, Sarah Haynes, not completely insane. And there's even Whoopi doing what I think is right there.

13:18They're like, yeah, dude, like you were, if you were sexting with kids on a underage platform, like, okay, so there's Whoopi, I'm really trying today, and Sarah Haynes, that one's for you, mom, being decent, but here's now Sunny Hostin, and look how conflicted she is because she wants progressive power more than anything, and it might be a little too late to ditch this guy, so she doesn't know what to do with herself. I am conflicted. Thank you. I am conflicted. They asked Cory Booker how he felt about this because I think all the allegations are true. The sexting with other women while married is definitely true because his wife is the person that gave the messages to his campaign to give them a heads up.

14:02So the fact now that he's saying that that part is not true... I think she said that he had... She told campaign... But we haven't seen messages. But she disclosed it. So why would she lie about that? So that part is true. He's also made racist remarks against African Americans. So he's a cheater. He's an anti-Semite because the fact that he had that tattoo for 20 years and didn't know what it was is a lie. So he's a liar, a racist, an anti-Semite. Homophobe. He's a homophobe. I can't believe this. even though she's having her own little struggle session there, because she doesn't, she still doesn't know whether she'll, whether she really wants to support him or not, because it's too late to get rid of the guy.

14:45But Sonny Hostin just said several true things at once. Of course he knew what the tattoo was. The cheating thing, his own wife told the campaign, that's true, that's how people know about this. And then someone on the campaign staff then leaked it to the media, but meaning the wife, in essence, she knew he was cheating, sending these messages. And when they were vetting him, she warned the campaign staff, this is the type of thing that come out. Then somebody on the campaign over the last week or so actually broke it to the media, has said homophobic remarks, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I can't, I can't.

15:17Is this the first time ever? Have we ever played a clip of Sonny Austin on this program where I have said, my God, that was like ballpark same? Is this it? Is this my retirement show? Goodbye, everybody. Anyway, they don't know what to do because it's late to to get rid of the guy. He is a wackadoodle leftist. Now there, I mean, the idea that they have called all of us Nazis and Trump Nazi and MAGA Nazis and Hitler and all this stuff for 10 years and now they're running cover for a guy that had an SS tattoo for 20 years pretending he didn't know what it was. That in and of itself should be enough to show you what a sham this whole thing is.

15:54But now I'll show you how they just don't know what to do, right? Because there is no leader of the party. There's no moral order of the party. The only thing that's holding the Democrat Party together is the quest for power right now. And when that's your quest, you're going to be in bed with a lot of bad people. So here's a compilation of several senators and congressmen basically running cover for Plattner because in their mind, they need that seat no matter what. I mean, do you think he's fit? Do you worry about Graham Plattner? Are you OK with him because he's a Democrat? Well, I'm going to wait to learn more about these recent allegations involving his texting other women.

16:34Ultimately, though, it's going to be up to Maine voters what they decide. What's your view? I'm busy running for governor of Colorado because I think we're living at a moment where the families in this state are getting crushed by the cost. He was really honest about the place that he was in his life when those things happened. What a bunch of scumbags. Like, may this be a note to Republicans, never ever apologize or turn on each other. And I hate to say something like that, I really do, but look at the way these people will excuse literally anything. Adam Schiff, who's just one of the, Shifty Schiff, perhaps Trump's greatest name, like one of the worst people who basically created, and not quite literally, but was the prime driver in the House on the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax and Trump impeachment and all that stuff.

17:32He'll wait to find out if the texts are real. The texts are real, 100%. Plattner's wife gave them to the campaign. It's only that the campaign leaked it. So that's one thing. And do you just not care about the Nazi thing anymore? You guys have been screaming about Nazis are here, Nazis are here. But the point is they don't know what to do. So now I wanna connect this to one other thing because there's another race happening in New York right now for Congress. And there are two, these are, I've played clips of these guys before. These are generic lefty losers. The first one is Brad Lander. This is the guy who a couple of weeks ago, we showed you a clip of him where he speaks at a mosque.

18:12He's a Jew and he goes to the mosque and he tells them how bad Israel is and how much he loves Palestine. And then Mamdami spoke. And then quite literally after that, that the Imam got up there in Arabic and talked about death to the infidels. So this guy is just a dimmy, ridiculous lunatic. And he's up there with Dan Goldman, who is also absolutely horrible lefty, but he's not quite that horrible, right? So he's like the Jasmine Crockett to the James Tallarico of what's going on in New York, like bad on everything, but that guy's even worse. Anyway, they had a debate last night and they're a little racing.

18:49Just to point out that everything with these guys is a race to the bottom. Here they are debating who called to abolish ICE faster. So I first called for abolishing ICE in 2018. Representative Goldman first called for it a month or two ago. He's a Danny come lately to the movement to abolish ICE. What they have been doing this last year is indeed especially egregious. Can we get that guy Mars, man? I can't deal with these low testosterone guys anymore. That guy does not have testicles. I can't, what is it? Why is it there are so many people that talk like this? I'm just nothing. And you're just, you mean nothing.

19:29I go to a mosque and tell them, like they're going to behead you, you pathetic asexual loser. That's what's going to happen. And in this case, I probably wouldn't object because you know what? You kind of brought it upon yourself. So there he is. I was always for abolishing ICE, right? Like I want all the illegals here and I want the super meth on the street and the mayhem and the crime. He just did it last week. And then Goldman was like, well, I was thinking about it beforehand. Like, good luck, Democrats. Good luck with all of that. Send that guy. I want, get Marsmen on the phone for me after the show.

20:04And I'm going to send Brad Lander a lifetime supply of Marsmen. I'll pay for it myself. I'm not kidding. Let's talk about superpower for a minute, which he could use a little of this too. And then we'll talk about Jill Biden, who's on her book tour. Remember, she's making Jake Tapper's book tour look good. Go. Healthcare has always been reactive, waiting for problems to show up before doing something about them. Superpower is changing that. With over 100 biomarkers from a simple lab test, Superpower gives members a detailed look at their health, including heart health hormones, metabolism, vitamin levels, and more.

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21:21Dr. Jill Biden, who for some reason with her doctorate never was able to examine Joe. She's on this book tour and we showed you this clip, but I want to recap a little bit and then we'll get to where she's at now. But here she is telling CBS that she thought Joe had a stroke during that horrible debate performance. She just forgot to tell everybody.

21:41Jill Biden:Were you horrified as you saw it unfold? I wasn't horrified. I was frightened because I had never, ever seen Joe like that before or since. Never. Or since? Yes. You've never seen him like that? Never. No. What happened? I don't know what happened. I mean, as I watched it, I thought, oh, my God, he's having a stroke. And it scared me to death. Did you ever see signs that he was falling into cognitive decline? No. Yeah, he was slowing down. He was getting older. I mean, we all observe that. You know, it's a very intense job. I think it ages you quick. God, this is so crazy. We are watching the exact same type of reclamation project and lie through the media, the lies that get laundered through the media, exactly what they did when Jake Tapper wrote that book.

22:45You were part of it, Jake Tapper, you were the media part of covering for Joe Biden. Why is it that literally me, before Joe Biden was president, I was talking about his cognitive issues? I'm not a wizard, I don't have a magic eight ball or anything else, and you too. Why is it that all of us online were talking about that for years, Even when he was vice president, there were some grumblings about some of that stuff. But then it was pretty damn clear that by the time he was running, something was not right. And what she's telling you is she thought he had a stroke, even though if you, try to remember where you were the night of the debate.

23:23I'm sure most of you watch the debate. Remember it happened right at the beginning. And everybody, I think we can maybe even find a tweet if we can look for it. I'm pretty sure I tweeted out right before the debate, something like, the whole night is just based upon on how long it will take Joe to break down. Like everyone kind of knew that was the thing and it happened basically immediately. And then the moderators basically helped him get through it, but it was a disaster. And then as you know, then the air lock broke. Then suddenly that night, CNN, MSNBC at the time, et cetera, then they were all allowed to talk about what was wrong with Biden, even though all of us had been talking about it for four plus years.

24:00Of course, right after that debate, even though she apparently thought he had a stroke, Here she is telling him he did a great job.

24:07Jill Biden:Joe, you did such a great job. You answered every question. You knew all the best.

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24:15Jill Biden:And let me ask the crowd, what did Trump do? Why? Yes. God, you look at him standing there. Here's where I can try to do the human part, even though it's hard to do around him because the whole thing was such a farce. but with his hands clasped and he kind of looks like he doesn't know where he is. And you did a great job. That's what you would say to a third grader who got their first gold star on a test or something. Just completely ridiculous. So anyway, you've seen all of that already, but now she's on this tour, basically pretending that what we all saw in real time didn't happen. Here she is being asked about, well, that moment right there.

24:58Jill Biden:I'm his wife. I've got to lift him up. So we go to the next event and I'm thinking, what do I say that will lift him up? That is true. I want to say the things that are true. And so I said, you know, you answered every question. My mind's racing. You know, it's a pretty low bar. Yeah, that's a pretty low bar. Not only is it a pretty low bar, the fact that she says, I want to say something that's true. he answered every question. How about the question that he completely fumbled and he started talking about Medicare and like, it was, it was an utter embarrassment and he was not fit to be president and certainly not fit to be president again.

25:37Here, here's a bit more from that interview. You continue to insist that the president was fine. How, how do you square thinking that he may have had a stroke with what you were saying in the days and weeks after? How

25:49Jill Biden:Well, look, Craig, look at it from my point of view. So I'm watching just like everybody else was scared to death. Like what is going on? He gets off the stage. I see he appears to be okay. He says to me, Jill, I really, in other words, messed up, didn't I? And I said, yes, you did. You said, yes, you did. You didn't say, honey, I think you might've had a stroke. We should to probably go see a doctor. It's just absolutely absurd. But the reason I'm showing you this is you really have to understand, they're still able to get away with this stuff. There are people who are watching those mainstream media programs with Jill Biden going, oh, she does seem like a good woman.

26:30And she just wanted to tell the truth. And she had no idea that anything was wrong with Joe. It's completely absurd. And then we're finding out more even subsequently from her. Look at this from Tom Elliott, a journalist on X. Jill Biden in early 2024. Maybe it's a bad sign Joe wakes up seven times a night to pee. Now we do know he subsequently was diagnosed with late stage prostate cancer. Jill Biden, after Joe's humiliating debate performance later that year, had he grown too old for the job? And I hadn't noticed, obviously that's an excerpt from the book. And it's just, again, it's just completely absurd.

27:08But now I want to flashback six years because six years ago, and I can't believe now I'll give Jake Tapper a little bit of credit. He tried to acknowledge that there was something wrong with Joe Biden right to Jill's, Dr. Jill's face. Your husband has been known to make the occasional gaffe.

27:30Jill Biden:Oh, you can't even go there. You can, after Donald Trump, you cannot even say the word gaffe. I can't even say the word gaffe. Nope. Nope. Done. It's gone. The gaffe issue is over. Over. So over. All right, I don't have to give Jake that much credit, but he did try a little bit. But guys, there is no comparison. Even now, even Donald Trump now, years later, that was six years ago, Donald Trump doesn't make gaffes where he doesn't know where he is or what he's saying or can't finish a sentence. Does Donald Trump speak in sometimes like some circulary kind of ways? And has he always done that? And he speaks in a lot of bumper sticker stuff all the time, right?

28:11Sometimes he repeats himself right after, but it's not a repetition out of, I don't know what I just said. It's just sort of the way he is as a salesman. It's the same thing he's been doing for all these years. Joe Biden literally could not get to the end of a sentence. We have no idea still truly who was the president and who was in charge of that auto pen and everything else. And while we've already put all that behind us in a lot of respects, and there will likely never be anyone to pay the price for that, and no one will ever admit what they actually did and everything else. The reason I'm showing you this is because you still have to acknowledge the media can still, they can still smooth out the lies, and it's just incredible that people still fall for it.

28:55However, a little something is changing in mainstream media, mostly thanks to Barry Weiss over on CBS. We'll get to that in just a second, but first, Balance of Nature. You've probably heard people talking about getting more nutrients in your diet, but actually doing it consistently, that's the hard part. That's where balance of nature makes things simple. You're getting real phytonutrients, the natural compounds found in fruit and vegetables that give them their color, taste, and nutritional value without having to overhaul your entire routine. Their whole health system combines fruits, veggies, fiber, and spices into one easy daily habit made with real ingredients and no fillers or artificial junk.

29:31If you're looking for a simple way to support your nutrition without overthinking it, this is a great place to start. All right, go to balanceofnature.com today and get 10 % off when you use code Rubin. All right, so as you guys may remember, about a year ago or so, Barry Weiss, formerly of the New York Times, she's just a moderate liberal. I would say she's just like a Bill Maher-style, old-school liberal. I know a little something about that. As you may remember, she very publicly, what, five years or so ago, quit the New York Times, saying that the entire thing had been taken over by the woke progressive parasite and that there was no journalistic standards anymore, and she just wanted no part of it.

30:08She then went independent. She created the Free Press, which was a subscription journalism outfit. It became very, very successful. And then CBS brought her on board to take over the news division just in the last year or so. Well, she's going in and cleaning up CBS News. And I think when we first covered the story, my position on it was, you know, if there's any chance for mainstream media ever again, then what could happen, the hope would be that she would clean up CBS a little bit and then people would start paying attention to it again. They'd say, oh, you know, this does feel a little more honest, this feels like journalism.

30:42And then that in and of itself, because it would garner people by being decent, it would garner people and it would garner respect, could then force NBC to say, maybe we shouldn't be so partisan. And then maybe CNN, New York Times, et cetera, et cetera. Now, I don't know that all of that will happen, but CBS does seem to be riding the ship, but it's not coming without some controversy. Listen to this from Fox. CBS News fired several 60 Minutes employees, including correspondents Sharon Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega and executive producer Tanya Simon this week in a sweeping move as Barry Weiss shakes up the storied magazine.

31:18So they brought in a guy by the name of Nick Bilton. He used to be a special correspondent for Vanity Fair and he's taking over 60 Minutes. And 60 Minutes really is the flagship news program on CBS that you guys know, and we'll show you some evidence of, has been one of the main anti-Trump lie laundering machines in mainstream media. But here's Nick Bilton talking about his new gig. He says, it's the honor of my career to become the executive producer of 60 Minutes. I just shared the note below with incredible staff and I can't wait to get started in there. He expands a little bit more on some of his journalistic philosophy.

31:52Barry Weiss then said this, Nick Bilton is one of the most entrepreneurial and ambitious journalists working today. I am thrilled that he is the next executive producer of 60 Minutes." And then there's his note. Now here's where it gets interesting because as Barry goes in and tries to take 60 Minutes, which has gone the New York Times route, which caused her to leave the New York Times, she's getting major pushback because the people that like propagandizing everything, they're not happy when someone comes in and says, oh, we're gonna do actual journalism here. So this is from Dylan Byers, the founder of POC News.

32:26Sharon Alfonsi, this is one of the people just fired, goes scorched earth on Barry Weiss. Over the weekend, my contract with CBS News expired, drawing to a close nearly 20 years with the network, including more than a decade at 60 Minutes. Following an intense editorial dispute over our Seacott story, you guys know that's the jail in El Salvador, repeated attempts by my representation to establish a path forward were met with absolute silence from network executives. The message could not be clearer. My time at 60 Minutes is apparently over. In the coming days, network leadership may attempt to hide behind corporate euphemisms like modernization and restructuring to explain away my departure.

33:03Don't be misled. This was not routine corporate transition. It was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting, and it sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom. Fearless independent reporting has always been the defining standard at 60 minutes. Today, I had to laugh through that one. And today CBS management is abandoning that mission, choosing access journalism over accountability and protecting power rather than scrutinizing it. The wall between editorial independence and corporate interest at CBS is being methodically torn down. Journalists willing to challenge authority are being pushed aside in favor of those who will not.

33:39If this continues, the result will be a broadcast that looks like 60 minutes, but lacks the courage and character to produce journalism that matters. To my colleagues who became family, working beside you has been the privilege of a lifetime. You are second to none. I've learned exactly what it costs to hold the line right now. Hold it anyway. Viewers and the people who trust us with their stories deserve nothing less. Okay, now, obviously I laughed through a little bit of that because as you know, and again, we'll show you a clip in just a second, 60 Minutes has been terrible for the last decade.

34:10Really, I don't know when it really started, but I think in the world since Trump, 60 Minutes has been horrendous. And there you have someone who's getting fired. I'm not totally familiar with entirely her reporting on the Seacott story or anything else, but if you're such a great journalist, you'll find another place. They have someone else in charge right now, and she's deciding to run the place a little bit differently. Here's a bit more about the tension over there. This from Business Insider. 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley, you all know Scott Pelley, exposed a key point of the tension in the Barry Weiss era during a fiery exchange on Monday.

34:44At a staff meeting, Pelley repeatedly, sorry, reportedly accused Weiss of murdering the iconic weekly news program. She does not love this place, Pelley said, according to an audio recording obtained by Status in the New York Times. She was brought in to kill it and she's doing exactly that. Pelley made the reported remarks during an exchange with the show's new top producer, Nick Bilton. Pelley has spent more than three decades at CBS News. Now this is interesting because Scott Pelley is thought of, I suppose, as somewhat respected in mainstream media and he's upset that she's murdering it and killing it.

35:1660 Minutes in his view. But again, 60 Minutes has been terrible as a place of journalism. As a matter of fact, I'm gonna skip this next clip. Let's get right to it. You may remember this, Donald Trump on 60 Minutes talking about Russia. Jim, walk out of a store and he's walking with ice cream. And the question the media asked him, what kind of ice cream, what flavor ice cream do you have? And he's in the midst of a scandal. He's not. And he's taking, of course, Of course he is, Leslie. No, come on. Of course he is. It's the biggest, second biggest scandal. The biggest scandal was when they spied on my campaign.

35:54They spied on my campaign, Leslie.

35:56Jill Biden:Well, there's no real evidence of that. Of course there is. No. It's all over the place. Leslie, they spied on my campaign and they got caught. Can I say something? You know, this is 60 Minutes and we can't put on things we can't verify. You won't put it on because it's bad for Biden. We can't put on things we can't verify. Leslie, they spied on my campaign. Well, we can't verify that. It's been totally verified. No. It's been, just go down and get the papers. They spied on my campaign. They got caught. No. And then they went much further than that, and they got caught. And you will see that, Leslie.

36:28And you know that, but you just don't want to put it on the air.

36:30Jill Biden:As a matter of fact, I don't know. Well, I don't know if you didn't know it, Leslie Stahl, but it all was true. Yes, we now know they spied on Donald Trump's campaign. He's also pointing out what he's referencing there is the Hunter Biden laptop as the biggest scandal beyond just the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, which was connected to spying on his campaign. He's also pointing out the absurdity of how they treated Trump when he was president versus Joe Biden, who everyone knew had massive cognitive problems and they were only asking about his favorite ice cream. So Barry Weiss is looking at that thing as she takes over CBS and going, well, was this something worth keeping?

37:08It's sort of what I always say about The Tonight It's like the Tonight Show of Johnny Carson was a certain thing and it was beautiful and elegant and funny and interesting and elevated. And what the Tonight Show has subsequently become or what all the late night shows have become is something very different. Just because it's still called the Tonight Show doesn't mean it's the same thing. And that's what 60 Minutes is. 60 Minutes of 1984 is very different than 60 Minutes of 2026. So anyway, all of that, you might say some of this is kind of insider baseball and why should you care? but there's always going to be, I should change that, to whatever extent there is always going to be a mainstream media, then you want it to be at least within the realm of possibility of decent and truthful.

37:5560 Minutes has not been that. And if we don't have something that is mainstream, that is kind of decent, it's hard for us all to bounce off of things, right? Because if there's nothing mainstream anymore, and maybe this is where we'll be in five years, where there's no mainstream left and there's just nothing sort of trusted. And maybe we're past that point already. But then, okay, then you guys will tune into my show and someone else will tune into somebody else's show. And quite literally, we will report on the same things and we will all believe different things. And I don't know how a functioning society will deal with that.

38:28So anyway, we'll see where that story lands. A lot of people are calling on Barry to just get rid of Scott Pelley now. I don't know that she'll go that far, but I think it's just an interesting note of narrative stuff around the media. Let's get caught up on where we're at with this Iran war, not war, kind of war, maybe ceasefire, not really ceasefire. This from the Kobisi report breaking. Iran announces it is ending all negotiations with the US and vows to completely block the Strait of Hormuz per CNBC. Iran says it's ending negotiations due to repeated ceasefire violations, including Israeli strikes in Lebanon.

38:59Iran also threatens to block Bab al-Mandeep Strait. Here is a CNN reporter saying Trump will keep the blockade and do whatever he wants. I'm lying on any of this. And he actually said that he hadn't heard from Iran over these reports that they're going to stop negotiating, but said that maybe it wouldn't be a bad thing. And he did add this. He says it doesn't mean that we're going to start bombing or dropping bombs all over there. We'll just go silent. We'll keep the blockade. The blockade is a piece of steel and then goes on to say, I think I can wait as long as they want this idea that they are losing money every day.

39:41Okay, so not an idea that they're losing money. We know that they're losing about 500 million in oil exports a day, right? If they can't get that oil out, then they have a major problem on their hands. And also China has a problem. We've talked about this a million times, about 13 % of China's energy comes through that Strait of Hormuz from Iran. But a lot of this seems to be hung up on whether the ceasefire deal at the beginning included Lebanon or not, because Hezbollah, which is a Iranian-backed terrorist organization that basically runs Lebanon, the government of Lebanon barely runs its own country, an Iranian terrorist organization runs it.

40:18They've been lobbing rockets into Israel since October 8th. Quite literally, we had October 7th and October 8th, there was not one Israeli or Jew or anything else in Lebanon, and then they got in on the war and they haven't stopped since. So Israel has been responding. Here's Trump on what's going on over there. I had a conversation with Bibi today, asking him not to go into a major raid of Beirut, Lebanon. He turned his troops around. Thank you, Bibi. I also had a conversation with representatives of the leaders of Hezbollah, and they agreed to stop shooting at Israel and its soldiers. Likewise, Israel agreed to stop shooting at them.

40:52Let's see how long that lasts. Hopefully it will for eternity. I mean, in this case, I would say respectfully, Mr. President, it's not going to end in eternity because they're a terrorist organization committed to the destruction of Israel and who have already taken over Lebanon for all intents and purposes. So you kind of want to take them out. But I get it. It's messy right now. Like people are tired and they want this thing to be wrapped up nicely. And speaking of wrapped up nicely. So anyway, it's somewhat paused at the moment, although it sounds like it's gonna be a small short pause, let's say.

41:28Here's Trump on truth. Talks are continuing at a rapid pace with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump. So again, the major, it seems like the major military part, that 40 day situation is over, and now it's just this tit for tat thing and negotiations and everything else. And so we will see where all that lands. but to tie the whole show together, let's go back to this Graham Plattner fella, because as I said at the top, he is as far left wackadoodle as you can get on everything, on economics and on every policy, which has now also, I would say, connected to just like internet slop stuff.

42:09So one of the things that you're seeing on the internet slop side of things that comes from both sides, it comes from the Tucker kind of woke right side and it comes from this Plattner, ridiculous progressive stuff, is that somehow Trump got us into this war with Iran because of Epstein, even though Joe Biden had, and the Democrats could have released all of the Epstein files for all of those four years when they controlled everything and didn't do anything. Yes, they were really sitting on documents that indicted Donald Trump and they didn't do anything. But unfortunately, the Democrat base has been so, they're so dumb, they are so not thoughtful.

42:41They have been so broken that they buy some of this slop. So here is Platner with, this is just pure internet slop.

43:16Jill Biden:of culture you have inside on every wall of your home. Available at Lowe's. Everybody I talk to understands that this is a war that has been started because Donald Trump is in the Epstein files and he doesn't want us reading them.

43:32Everyone I talk to understands that this war has been started because Benjamin Netanyahu has been begging for it for 30 years and finally found a president who was stupid enough to do it. God, so do you understand what I mean by internet slop? What he says, everybody I talk to says Donald Trump is in the Epstein files. And that's why we're at war right now. Everybody I talk to. Joe Biden and the Democrats controlled the government for years. Barack Obama was president, anyone remember him? So you're telling me all of these years went by when they controlled all the intelligence apparatus and everything else, and for all the things they've thrown at Donald Trump and tried to make sure he can't do business in New York and can't get on ballots when he's running and all of the things he did.

44:19And what they never got around to was revealing that he also was a pedophile. Somehow that makes sense. And that Donald Trump is, that Bibi found the stupid president. Like, it's so extraordinarily thin and ridiculous and dumb, but their base loves it. Because they're all brain broken. They just love it. And to show you more just slop kind of stuff, This is where these guys are at. You know, as I pointed out yesterday, it was an offshoot of what, something that Gutfeld said on The Five. It's like, they're just, at this point, I think we all have to come around to a position where the lefties, they're in the constant race to get worse, and it's just slop and nonsense, and we should mock it and everything else, but we should stop trying to outright debate it or debunk it, because there's no win in that.

45:05We need to keep building better things. We need to quite literally build better things, like build infrastructure that's better, but we also need to build more alliances and things of that matter. Here is more slop on CNN. This is former MS, at the time MSNBC host Torre. I guess he's a guy, girl or whatever. And he's very upset that Stephen Miller made a joke about Tallarico who said that Jesus was non-binary. I mean, what kind of sentence does that go? Trans is the acceptable racism that we can say whatever, We can call cis people trans. And that's okay. And neither of you are upset about that.

45:44That is completely ridiculous. What? That's what Stephen Miller said. And neither of you can. Neither one of us are defending Stephen. Like, we're not embracing that. Yeah, because you zoomed past into a whole other issue. Because we're talking about the candidates. That was the most offensive thing that Stephen Miller said. But no, we were talking about Stephen Miller. And the most offensive thing that was said was that. Calling a cis person trans so that is a horrible thing to be, that is disgusting. That is completely unacceptable in 2026. And why he would say that on television and it's OK is mind boggling.

46:18All right. We will leave it there. Next for us, the president. You know, you know, you really like slop. You're a slop king. Is that a word? A slop maxer? How about that? Is that a thing? Like that guy's a slop maxer. When you say something so stupid, when you say that trans is acceptable racism, is trans a race now? Did something happen in the last hour or so? No, it is not. When you say something so stupid that the other people on CNN actually sit there silently, you should never even be allowed on CNN again, right? Like at that point, what are you talking about? But do you see it's the same thing as the clip before?

46:53It's this broken brain stuff. Yes, Trump's a pedophile. That's why we're at war with Iran, even though the Democrats must've known it because they were in charge but never did anything about it. And also, trans is a race. It's bleh. Can you get me in? We're gonna do this one time on this program. This will be the only time we do it. Find me a Italian brain rot video. For those of you that don't, there is just a portion of the internet that is just slop and brain rot, and these people are pushing it in. We'll cold close with an Italian brain rot video. These are things that are breaking young people's brains.

47:27But now to end, so we'll cold close with that. I don't want to end with brain slop, but I want to end with, I thought this was a nice video. We played a portion of this on Actual Friends last week. This is about a year ago, Jerry Seinfeld giving a commencement speech at Duke. And it's like, guys, maybe instead of brain rot and slop maxing and conspiratorial thinking and trying to destroy everything, maybe I can't believe we're gonna kind of quote Jerry Seinfeld on what, figuring out what life's really all about. What I like is we're smart enough to invent AI, dumb enough to need it, and still so stupid we can't figure out if we did the right thing.

48:07Making work easier, this is the problem. So obsessed with getting to the answer, completing the project, producing a result, which are all valid things, but not where the richness of the human experience lies. The only two things you ever need to pay attention to in life are work and love. Things that are self-justified in the experience and who cares about the result. Stop rushing to what you perceive as some valuable end point. Learn to enjoy the expenditure of energy that may or may not be on the correct path. Guys, he just explained. I was a little, um, we had a little debate right before we started the show today whether we were going to end with that or not because I wasn't sure if it really drove home the point, but now watching it for the third time today, it really does.

49:01What does he talk about? We have to figure out things that are based in the richness of the human experience. And he's talking about work and love because they're self-justified. What he's saying is at the end there, all these other people, they're on these crazy pursuits that basically make them crazy. That's what the slop maxing is. That's what the conspiratorial thinking is. That's what's trying to own everybody on Twitter and ratio these people. That's what all of that is. But what are the things that actually matter, that are self-justified? I love that. Work and love. Imagine if you spent most of your days trying to do good work, whatever it is that you do.

49:39Somebody has to be the best ditch digger out there. Doing the best work you do and pursuing love. And if you did that, maybe you wouldn't be so hysterical. Maybe you wouldn't be so prone to conspiracy theories and brain broken slot maxing and thinking that trans is a race. Thank you for watching the program. We've got a post game show in 30 seconds at rubenreport.locals.com. Oh, and we're re-ending with a little Italian brain rot. I apologize in advance, but this is what Italian brain rot is. And this is no, this drivel that we are about to, how long is it, Connor? How long are we gonna bludgeon these people?

50:1160 seconds. It's 60 seconds. This is no different than watching these buffoons on CNN or MSNBC or listening to a Graham Plattner stump speech go. Do ya love this bee? בעöräge.andoon

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50:51Thank you.

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Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks about "The View" hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, and Sara Haines all piling on and turning on Democrat Graham Platner after his most recent in a long line of controversies; Democrat Michael Bennet fumbling live on-air as CNN's Kaitlan Collins didn't back off her question about his hypocrisy over his support of Graham Platner; the "Today Show's" Craig Melvin pushing Jill Biden to explain her recent remarks where she admitted to "CBS Sunday Morning's" Rita Braver that she thought Joe Biden was having a stroke during his debate with Donald Trump; major fallout at CBS News after audio leaked of "60 Minutes" host Scott Pelley accusing Bari Weiss of "murdering" the show; Lydia Moynihan and CNN's Abby Phillip having a rare moment of agreement as leftist guest Touré went on a nonsensical rant about Stephen Miller calling cisgender people trans that left the whole panel questioning his sanity; the crowd loving Jerry Seinfeld's brilliant commencement speech at Duke University where he had some words for the 'woke' who condemn privilege; and much more.

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