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Elon Musk is being defending online by some pretty notable figures, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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00:00Elon Musk and the fervent defense of that gesture that he made on inauguration, on the

00:08night of the inauguration.

00:10Not self-defense on his part, the defense of a lot of people in his orbit.

00:14A lot of people in his orbit and just people in general who feel like that was not a Nazi

00:20salute.

00:21You know, look, maybe you could say he got the biggest defense he could from the Prime

00:29Minister of Israel.

00:32Benjamin Netanyahu said Elon Musk is being falsely smeared.

00:36He's a great friend of Israel.

00:38He visited Israel after the October 7th massacre in which Hamas terrorists committed the worst

00:42atrocity against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.

00:44He has since repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel's right to defend ... I'm sorry.

00:49This isn't the issue.

00:51You can see the rest of it.

00:52I'm not going to read the rest of it.

00:53I agree with you.

00:54I just don't feel it's the issue.

00:55Well, we should also tell you this is what Elon Musk said about this, and I think both

01:00of these quotes show what's really happening here.

01:02The radical leftists are really upset that they had to take time out of their busy day

01:05praising Hamas to call me a Nazi.

01:08Look, here's the thing.

01:10What's happened in this country is if you support one side, you support everything they

01:17do.

01:18If you oppose one side, it doesn't matter what they say.

01:21Even if it's something that's reasonable that you would otherwise agree with, you disagree

01:24with them.

01:26That's what happens.

01:27I mean, it's happening on cable news, by the way, and it happens in society.

01:30We've had this argument for more than a year now about the fact that you can defend Israel,

01:37or you can be against Israel as a state, and it doesn't make you anti-Semitic.

01:42You can also defend Israel as a state, but still do something that is very clearly a

01:48Nazi salute, and that's not okay.

01:50I got to say, at the very least, Elon Musk, rather than saying, oh, it's the left that's

01:57doing this, it's like, no, look at the imagery and just say, look, I didn't mean it, I know

02:04what it looks like, I'm sorry.

02:05It looked like it, but it wasn't a Nazi salute.

02:11Because he said it, Harvey, and you've got ... I know what a lot of people want it to

02:15be.

02:16I didn't want, no.

02:17I did not want it to be that.

02:18Mike, this is not about what I want it to be.

02:19I don't care.

02:20The next line is, my heart goes out to you.

02:22We did not even write that in our post.

02:24He says, my heart goes out to you.

02:25The next line, we didn't include it.

02:28The Donald Trump's Nazi stuff didn't stick.

02:30Are you saying that Elon Musk is not an intelligent enough man to know that you can say, my heart

02:36goes out to you, and not do what he did, and I'm not going to repeat it, because I'm smart

02:41enough to know what that is.

02:43Are you saying that Elon Musk is not smart enough to know what that is?

02:46Of course Elon Musk is smart enough, and I'm sure he knows that it did look like it, and

02:51that's why it's funny.

02:52And why has he not said that?

02:53But why not just say that?

02:54What do you want to hear him say?

02:56How about, look, I know what that looked like.

02:58It wasn't meant to be that.

02:59Sorry.

03:00Just leave it at that.

03:01Instead, he made it political.

03:02He made it political.

03:03He made it political.

03:04And it's not political, Mike.

03:05But it looked like it.

03:06It is political, though.

03:07But it looked ...

03:08It is political.

03:09Actually, it's not, Mike.

03:10It's like, if you look online, there are plenty of people who are actually Republicans who

03:14feel like that was a Nazi salute.

03:17I could ...

03:18It doesn't mean that you ...

03:19Give me 20 seconds on my computer.

03:21I will give you 10 people who have criticized Elon Musk, who have made the same hand gestures.

03:27He's an awkward person.

03:28It looked bad.

03:30I don't like the way it looked at all, but the bottom line is it was not a Nazi salute.

03:35It was not.

03:36Please tell me.

03:37Can we stop with this?

03:38I'll accept what you're saying.

03:39I totally will accept what you're saying.

03:41He didn't want to do a Nazi salute.

03:44It didn't look like it.

03:45And it was a high profile thing.

03:47And it upset people.

03:49Just say ...

03:50Who did it upset, Harv?

03:51Me.

03:52But if his intent was to do a Nazi salute, of course, I will be the first person.

03:57No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

03:58I promise you I'll be the first person.

03:59We're not talking about his intent.

04:00And I'm not talking about his intent, Mike.

04:02That's not the issue.

04:03We're talking about the perception of it.

04:04We're talking about what he did.

04:07I could just perceive what you just did, Harv, sticking your arm out then as a Nazi salute.

04:11It wasn't.

04:12You didn't stick it out that way.

04:14I could put my arm out, but not the way he did.

04:17And I'm just saying, I'm not ...

04:18I just don't know what you're arguing about here.

04:20I don't get it.

04:21I'll accept everything you're saying.

04:23But when you watch that video, it's like, ugh, hey, if I'm Elon, I didn't mean ... I

04:30know the way that looked.

04:31I'm sorry.

04:32It was just a gesture I made.

04:33Had nothing more than that.

04:35I'm sorry.

04:36I mean, done, over, right?

04:39And now it's political.

04:41And now it's, you know, the Prime Minister of Israel is getting involved.

04:45And I feel like, in a way, he loses credibility because of that.

04:49The Prime Minister.

04:50I mean, I just think it's ... sorry.

04:52Hi, I'm Marie from Richmond, Virginia.

04:56And Elon Musk knows better.

04:59He's a public figure.

05:01And that's not the first time he's been on a massive stage like that.

05:05And perception is everything.

05:07I grew up indoctrinated into learning about Holocaust history.

05:12And this just feels like we're about to be publicly gaslit for the next four years.

05:17Yeah.

05:18I don't know.

05:19What's the other thing?

05:20What are you going to believe?

05:21Me or your lion eyes?

05:22Yeah.

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