>> my name is zach, nice to meet you. as we stand here and talk today, they are holding a vigil to commemorate people who died on october 7. this event is counter programming that vigil. most organizations wrote letters asking to hold this event at a different time. -- tells us that you can serve god or yourself. you are being paid thousands of dollars to counter program a vigil for the victims of october 7. so my question for you is how are you not serving yourself with this event? >> since there are hundreds of people who showed up to hear me talk about what is going on, i don't think it is serving myself per se. i also don't think i need the money. my suggestion would be that there are many ways to commemorate what happened.

i don't think the folks who wish to hold different events have a veto on my event. i don't have one on theirs. one even contacted me that was programmed the same time and i attempted to actually move our event so it did not conflict with that event prayed they ended up moving there even earlier and i went at 5:00. so this notion i'm somehow ignoring the wishes of the entire jewish community, by coming and speaking about the most vital issues on the most vital day of last year is insipid, and your insulting attempts to -- are frankly uninspired. [applause] it is fine. >> just provide some additional context. hill on campus and you a later, i believe -- sent you a letter --

>> there are many organizations on campus. i don't agree with all of them politically, they don't agree with me literally. i don't give anyone veto power on my ability to speak read >> scheduling event for different hour -- >> i can easily fill a 3000 seat one. >> you are saying right now you never considered moving an event just one hour to allow the vigil -- >> i don't book the halls here. -- the administration if you are so perturbed. >> i have legitimate concern -- >> i have answered your question, i appreciate the time. >> i'm glad i got to follow that guy. i'm from here in connecticut. i want to thank you and the daily wire for everything you do. i'm a subscriber and longtime listener. what i appreciate most is how

you fight for our freedom. whether it is mandates, freedom of speech. something happened to me that was disturbing today, writing mighty knee there is another front where we have to fight for our conservative voice. chatgpt, try to do a simple graphic. i wanted to put a star of david, i asked for a jewish name and asked chatgpt for an israeli theme. it rejected me at every corner. it reminded me it is another way were we have to fight for our voices. i want to know if you have plans to help fight on the ai front? >> the good news is -- exist. you can do whatever you want there. it is great. everyone knows from elon, i think it will generate whatever image and do so quickly and they are quite amazing. i'm a big believer in ai, i think it has tremendous potential to change the world. and there are competitors who are capable of out competing chatgpt if they decide to place

limits on the images that can be created. thank you so much. >> thanks for being here. i would like to ask -- you mentioned employers and donors can do a lot to affect change on a college campus. looking at students, i'm sure there's interesting ways think students can affect change on a college campus. i want to hear what you think those are and how they can be practically implemented via student body that wants to know people is evil. >> the first thing you guys can do what is going on campus. when i was in college, i think most kids not want to be involved in politics at all. you want to go on with the rest of your life. every so often you remember where you went and that is it. maybe you could a check. the reality is most americans don't actually know what is going on on campus. just why it was shocking when there was these giant protests

that erupted on campus. getting in touch with outlets like ours, we report this regularly. there are other outlets as well. my mentor andrew breitbart said if you've got a phone, a camera, you are now a journalist. so you should be out there making stories. the second thing you can do is organizing. that is uncomfortable. it means you will have to not be friends with everybody. i can safely say as you might have guessed, not a friend's person. when i was on college campus, that was not my top priority. nor is it today. thank god i have my own cadre of friends. i call them my children and my wife. the thing you can do is organize, you can do events, and expose what is going on in the classroom. professors, administrators. there is a special window you have in campuses that no one else does because you are on one. at ucla, i got started in this

job, working in politics. i was at usa at the time. my first book was about bias on college campuses and it came out in 2004. it has been in tears. i recorded what was going on inside the classrooms. so you can do that. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you for being here. i'm actually a fan of your show. as a pro-lifer myself, i have an abortion quest just -- question some leftists bring up. if you were in a burning hospital and on one side there were 100 in vitro fertilized exit, and there were five babies who you had to say one side, which would you save and why? x ok, the traditional answer anyone would give, the five born babies prayed the reason you say five born babies is because the embryos have a chance at life -- they are already at life -- but they have a chance of living a full life outside of the womb already.

we were arguing a life outside the womb is more valuable because of viability -- but these embryos are not in a womb right now. the question was you can save a baby or i can punch this nine month pregnant in the stomach, it would be different russian. this is not on the value of life. our good reaction to what life is valuable does not define the value of life. another example, a similar example. burning building, 80-year-old person, five-year-old child, who do you save? the answer most people will give is the child. doesn't mean that 80-year-old person is not alive? i can also give an example, a hypothetical in which he would save the embryos. let's say you are on a spaceship. hypotheticals are fun. on this spaceship, you have a five year old child or 1000 embryos. the last pay ship in existence. and you have to say one. 15-year-old child or the 1000 embryos. you save the 1000 meals because

the entire future of the human species is at stake. want to say 1000 as opposed to one. the gut level reaction to what life we would save is not this positive answer to whether there is value to the life. also it is a weird false hypothetical because that is never the choice. no one is like i'm six-month pregnant, so here's my question, do i save this child or murder this five year old -- that has never been a thing that has ever arisen. >> my other question is if you support the death penalty, how should abortion be criminalized in terms of who and what the adequate punishment is? i heard you say in the case of a woman getting the abortion that they have a lack of criminal intent, they don't meet the standards for that. if you hire a hitman, would you not be punished for hiring that hitman to commit -- >> it is a question will question in the premise where if

you hired a hitman to kill what you thought was a vegetable, which is most people think when you get an abortion. they think what they are killing doesn't have any human valley. -- they are willing to admit it is human life they are killing anyway pray that is horrifying. but people approaching abortion that we are not thinking about it that way. a hitman to kill a cow, or in the viewpoint of the person who is in your analogy. so let's say you are an abortion doctor and you partially abort fetuses and they are born alive sometimes and you kill them -- should receive the death penalty. it depends on the level of egregious us of the murder. but i'm certainly in favor of the death penalty in certain cases. it is not an across the board yes or no thing. [applause]

>> hello. you quoted a book earlier, i did not quite catch it. we were talking about how peace could only be achieved through victory. >> long lasting peace. >> i'm also hoping you can give a relevant example of such a victory and defeat and talk about what victory and defeat really looks like in this case with israel. >> i believe the author is jeffrey blaine. i -- the perfect example is world war ii. world war i, it is negotiated. the versailles treaty, look how it incentivized germany to pray -- pay reparations, that led to world war ii -- if everyone had been nicer to germany, world war ii would have never happened -- the convincing one is we were a lot meaner in world war ii. when the west and the soviets completely invaded and carved out the entirety of germany. there has been no war in germany since.

-- examples from the middle east, the egyptians decide in 1973 they don't have the ability to beat the israelis and they sign a peace agreement with them. so jordan, same sort of thing in 1967. israel defeats them, jordanians never go to war with israel again. they are not just relevant examples but from the region. if you are talking about how to achieve long-lasting peace in this region, first of all, you have a long-lasting cold peace with egypt and jordan. and if you are talking about how to issue long-lasting peace to lebanon, the answer will have to be such devastatingly effective military victory that there is likely a regime change that ends with some form of actual military governance in lebanon's

ability to withhold power from hezbollah. which was the case after 2005 or 2006 when israel withdrew from lebanon. the u.n. resolution, 1701, and said that lebanon was supposed to be completely demilitarized, and that never happened. the only way to actually achieve long-lasting peace is by crushing the hopes and dreams of people who wish to attack our neighbors. such devastation that they had no choice but to negotiate peace. when it comes to gaza, israel has done that with hamas. they are trying to essentially find someone to run the gaza strip and egypt was offered it, they said no way. they offered it to saudi, jordan, nobody wants a piece of it. israel never one of the gaza strip. in 1967, there was an open debate on whether they had to go into the gaza strip with most arguing that if they could get away with leaving it in egyptian

hands, they would do it. it has always been a trouble area, so israel will probably have to militarily occupy the area and have insurgency operations for the perceivable future until someone accepts responsibility there. [applause] >> thank you. >> thank you for coming to speak with us and engaging with us. my question is about free speech. i'm a leftist. >> thank you for coming, seriously. i appreciate that. [applause] >> i agree that there is a long way to go in terms of addressing free speech and the response factors, but one of the things i struggle with is sort of like this double standard of leftists being held to, where the right claims the left is the only side

infringing on free speech. i think justice is bad for the left with strongman, a few conservatives and label them all as white supremacists. it seems like they label all leftists as nazis. the same way as banning employment opportunities for leftists who express their views, and saying that the same should happen for conservatives. do you think that the right has a long way to go in terms of free speech, as well, or this is a leftist issue? >> i think everybody can do better on free speech. i think it is disproportionate the attacks on free speech in modern day and age. in 1965, they were probably more attacks on free speech from the right than the left, and today, the left and the right. some of the examples you are using, the example that everybody on the left, i think

there are certain systems, but i think it is overstated. >> for example, let's give an example of high schools censoring types of speech, or the boycott of bud light. in many ways, that is similar to how the left cancels the right. >> this is a really good question. the reason why is because i think there is a category error that gets made with regard to these questions. what i mean by that is that it is an element to free speech and leftists, too, and if people would like to boycott the speech and not, that is their prerogative. if i choose not to buy bud light, that is how i choose to use my money. when it comes to cancel culture, a category error. there are two questions, whether it deserves to be boycotted and

the answer is that it is yes. and then there's is the question of who? this is where you see the imbalance. the left in the u.s., the overton window in which you have to operate to not earn a boycott is extremely narrow. for the right it is much wider but i would not say it is completely gone. i believe in the overton window. if i'm an employer, i cannot have a moral obligation to hire people who believe that hitler's was a gre guy -- hitler was a great guy. that is not me boycotting them in a way that is a violation of free speech principles. they have a right to go and work in the u.s., they don't have a right to earn a job from me. i'm not calling them to be jailed. we have to separate public and private action in this area we are talking about. the big imbalance on the right, the overton window of the left is narrow. you can save mild things and get "canceled" on the right but if

you are on the left, it is difficult to say something so transgressive that the entire world turns on you and you lose your job. you have to go a long way to get there. [applause] >> hi, i'm a huge fan. i'm asian, thank you for the callout. [laughter] >> dude, congrats on getting in. do they know your asian? [laughter] >> yeah, i hit the box. so, i will get to serious business. three very short questions. the first one, do you think william shakespeare was an anti-semite? >> by the evidence in "merchants of venice," sure. it is in fact an anti-semitic work.

doesn't mean it is a great work? no. i have a habit of trying to read great works and then understand there are terrible things and great works, nothing new. by the way, that is an enormous number of people historically. a lot of great literature and thinkers who were not fond. >> the second, do you think the tale of robin hood promotes socialism? >> [laughter] no. i think it is a fight over over taxation. the sheriff of nottingham -- [applause] [laughter] >> one last one. i don't want to take up too much time. i don't know if you have heard of an anime character called sailor moon. do you thinks it -- do you think it promotes homosexuality and transgenderism? caller: >> i have heard of sailor moon. i do not know what it is. -- >> i have heard of sailor moon.

i do not know what it is part are you asking about anime? is that happening in real life right now? >> i used to watch it. [laughter] i was just starting to realize that they seem to promote lesbianism and transgenderism in certain seasons. >> i have no specific views on whether sailor moon promotes transgenderism. [applause] >> thank you. >> thank you for coming. i'm caroline. my question is do you think israel is in a race against time ? do you have a strategic vision before the u.s. becomes beholden to the left and its anti-israel bias? >> yes. the question is whether israel has got a short timeframe in order to ensure his own security for the future as the left gains power? the answer is yes.

you have seen this slow walking from the biden administration despite congressional approval, and you have seen something similar from the harris administration, god forbid, and i think you are seeing a growing sentiment, not only on the left, but there is a growing concern on the right that is doing a routine that is counterproductive. by the way, the israelis know that, and that is why i think that they are restoring a lot of defense production and will be doing more in the near future. that is a problem for the u.s. the u.s. ought to have strong connections. by the way, and leverage. and you would like there to be strong military connection with a wide variety of allies of the u.s. because it turns out that israel does not get arms from america, and america would like to hold a leash on israel, but what leash? i do something that offends establishment has always believed. they are in favor, at least in the modern era, of posting

certain amounts of aid to israel because it gets spent in the united states, and additional military spending in israel has to be spent in the u.s. and gives the u.s. leverage over israel's foreign policy decisions. yes, israel is going to have to go and get more independent. and they know it. [applause] >> thanks for coming out today. i'm someone who used to be a democrat and became a republican after being exposed to viewpoints such as yours. thank you what you do. [applause] i'm running for state representative here in connecticut as a republican. >> nice. >> thank you so much. my question is how do we appeal to younger people on the fence that could be swayed by republican values and they are not totally convinced by democrats but they may not think it is cool to be republican? what values or issues should be focused on?

>> listen, it is not cool to be republican. it isn't. i think the values tend to be uncool. i never thought being cool was particularly important in life. as you might be able to tell. [laughter] with that said, i think the left has moved so far left that there is a rebellion. it turns out most people would like to succeed in life and thrive. most people in the u.s. wished to be lions. there is a matrix in my own head about everybody has their version of two kinds of people. here is one of those two over some publications, there are lions and scavengers. there are people who would like to go out, achieve, community, family, innovate, the entrepreneurs, work a job, and make the best of the lack provided to their family. i think that america was built on that, and then there are scavengers, people who believe everything is owed to them, and

the system in which they live needs to be torn away at, and it is a bad system that needs to be dissolved or needs to be wounded. i think the left praise on that -- preys on this anger against the system but the reality is there is no hope or building in that. once you tear away the only this time has provided prosperity, what do you do then? the property rights and the judeo-christian history of the west, once you tear that away, there's something left to build on. when you say to people i'm not here to give you a handout or to structure your life are you or to make decisions on every little area of how you ought to live, but i'm here to tell you to get on your ass, work and you will succeed in america. if you work in america, you will succeed in america. very simple three rule that offends a lot of people, gradually before high school, don't have a baby before you get married, get a job.

if you do these things, you will not be poor in the u.s. any obstacle i would like to help clear away. whether you are talking about big business pollution, the government, which i think is most of the problem, if we can tear that away and move that away so you can succeed, that i think is an inspiring message to people and give them hope for their own future. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you so much for being here tonight. you mentioned ukraine briefly earlier. i wanted to get your take on what the perspective from a foreign policy standpoint should be on the continuation of the war. i know you have been attacked by certain factions in the republican party, most notably tucker carlson, for your support for continued funding of ukraine. i sort of would like your take on what you think the endgame is in ukraine and what should be the approach from the u.s.

foreign-policy perspective achieve that. >> my approach to ukraine contra what tucker perceives my approach to be is that the u.s. should continue to fund ukraine sufficient to maintain his current orders -- borders and pressure russia. ukraine is not going to take crimea, realistically speaking. the chance they will do that hezbollah since 2014. that's nothing new. i have said since august of 2022 that the best thing the u.s. could do would be to quickly ramp up military aid provided to ukraine to pressure russia foreign offramp. and then, zelenskyy is in a bad position. you feel for him as a leader. his people have been absolutely -- zelenskyy is not in a position

where he can say i will find a deal to giveaway crimea to sign it away. those two parts of ukraine tend to be pro-russian compared to other parts of the country. what the u.s. might have to do is basically cut a deal in lieu of zelenskyy. that might be something that has to happen where the u.s. coast or russia, if russia was willing to negotiate, and says, here's the deal. we will have a mutual aid guaranteed with ukraine, guarantee their security, you will not invade their borders anymore, but those lines get frozen where they are essentially, and then you might have to console her. and if that sounds like a hawkish perspective, it is weird because that is the issue --

position donald trump has taken on the issue. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you for being here. i would like to continue with the question about ukraine. we generally don't know the answer to the question i'm about to ask you, so i'm interested to hear what you think about it. several reasons were given by the pro-hamas activists on why they support hamas. hamas hates the west, but so does russia. israeli operations have killed many civilians, but russia use this conscript and abductees from poor countries that go and sign, with the russian military on the front lines, and ukraine is funded by u.s. taxes, much of israel's military and israel's military gets a lot of aid, and ukraine has been a state for less time, less than half the time that israel has been a

state. about seven times as many people have died in ukraine as in the entire israel-hamas or gaza war. my question is, seriously, i do not know the answer to this, but what is stopping someone who is pro-hamas and pro-palestinian from realizing this and supporting russia? >> looking for logic in these places is difficult. what is the position that is most cooler surely convenient? i don't think most of the pro-hamas people on campus care deeply and pro-hamas is not care about ukraine and they tend to be more pro-russian than the opposite because russia is supportive of hamas, hezbollah and iran. the left-wing, this odd dichotomy between the pro-hamas position and the pro-russian and

pro-zelenskyy and ukraine position, that dichotomy comes down basically, it is weird, but it comes down basically to a lot of people on the left really hate russia, not because they hate russia but they hate russia because they think they stole the election from donald trump in 2016. i'm serious. 2012, barack obama was on a stage with medvedev, telling him on a height microphone that he would make -- hot microphone that he would make concessions to putin if russia would leave off. i know you guys are young, but back in the olden days in 2012, it was mitt romney on a stage arguing against russia, and the only thing that switched was the bizarre left-wing perception that russia had somehow made donald trump president which is not true. >> thank you. >> this will be the final question. >> thank you for speaking with

us today. right is often used -- just this morning, i saw a post saying that about how today is not about october 7, 2023, and not about what happened in 1940 seven third i'm thinking, i was thinking when it was conquered by the west. when discussing ownership or