Iran allegedly bombed some ships, so obviously this is Trump s fault. Trump reaps the whirlwind after saying he d'd take opposition research from foreigners, and the left loses its taste for tolerance. Ben Shapiro on Iran's supposed attack on American ships in the Persian Gulf, and why the media is totally wrong about it. Plus, a discount on Raycon earbuds! Subscribe to Ben Shapiro's new podcast, "The Ben Shapiro Show," wherever you get your shows, to get 20% off your first pair of Raycon Wireless Earbuds. Use the discount code "ELISSA" at checkout to receive 20% all-in-all, plus free shipping on all orders of $99 or more. You won't want to miss this deal! Go to buyraycon.co/BenShapiroShow and use discount code: PODCAST at checkout for 20% OFF your first order of the Raycon E50 Wireless Earphones. Now is the time to get an amazing deal on a pair of E50 wireless earphones for $99.99! They're stylish, stylish and discreet, unlike some other wireless options...and they sound just as good as they sound great as well! Check them out right now! If you ve been eyeing up the E50s and want to get a pair for around $99, you can get them for under $100, you re gonna love them! now is the perfect time to score 20% on your first-day shipping on the best pair of wireless headphones you ll ll be able to use them in the US! and get free shipping throughout the world! You ll get 10% off the entire service, free shipping, plus an additional 20% shipping and free shipping when you sign up for next month, plus a 20% discount when you place an ad-free version of the service is available. . You re getting 20% of your first month, no credit card, plus I ll get an extra $5 and an additional $10 discount when they begin shipping an ad discount, and a free shipping offer when you enter the offer starts! you get $50 and get $99 and they get $25,000 in the offer gets $50, plus they get the deal starts in two weeks, and I ll receive $5,000, and they ll get $95,000 shipping starts starting at $99 gets you a maximum of $75,000.
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00:02:00.000Obama was so great that he cut a deal with a bunch of terrorists who run a regime to basically give them a 10-year window to start building up their economies so they could build a nuclear weapon and then they could spread their terrorism everywhere.
00:02:24.000This is the way the media have been covering this particular issue.
00:02:27.000For the last day and a half, the media have been running stories that say things like, Trump administration alleges, without evidence, that the Iranians are behind the bombing of ships in the Persian Gulf.
00:02:39.000And Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of State, came out yesterday and he said yes.
00:02:42.000It turns out that intelligence reviewed by American officials showed that Iran was responsible for attacks earlier in the day on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman, a critical waterway for the transit of much of the world's oil.
00:02:51.000See, it's all fun and games for folks when it comes to Iranian militancy until the Iranians effectively choke off one of the actual bottlenecks In oil supply, in terms of global oil supply, and suddenly the price of oil doubles.
00:03:05.000You know, that would be kind of unfortunate, would it not?
00:03:07.000Here's Secretary of State Pompeo talking about this, and then we'll get to the media saying, well, he's making up the intelligence.
00:03:13.000It's weird how the intelligence community under George W. Bush was never to be trusted, ever, ever, ever to be trusted.
00:03:20.000You cannot trust them because of the Iraq War fiasco, because they got WMD wrong, despite the fact that intelligence services all over the world got WMD wrong because Saddam Hussein was actively lying about WMD.
00:03:31.000The intelligence community was terrible.
00:03:33.000And then it came to the Obama administration and suddenly the intelligence community was awesome again.
00:03:38.000Suddenly they were great at their job and everything we were told by the Obama administration about, for example, the newfound moderation of the Iranian regime.
00:03:53.000And then the intel community went back to being sort of half-awesome and half-awful.
00:03:57.000Half-awesome when they were targeting President Trump and Russian collusion, and super-awful when it came to their record in terms of foreign policy in the Middle East.
00:04:05.000So here's Mike Pompeo explaining that yeah, it was the Iranians who were behind the bombing of these couple of ships in the Persian Gulf yesterday.
00:04:12.000The Islamic Republic of Iran is responsible for the attacks that occurred in the Gulf of Amman today.
00:04:18.000This assessment is based on intelligence, the weapons used, the level of expertise needed to execute the operation, recent similar Iranian attacks on shipping, and the fact that no proxy group operating in the area has the resources and proficiency to act with such a high degree of sophistication.
00:04:37.000This is only the latest in a series of attacks instigated by the Islamic Republic of Iran and its surrogates against American and allied interests.
00:04:46.000And they should be understood in the context of 40 years of unprovoked aggression against freedom-loving nations.
00:04:53.000The Iranian Navy has a long history of getting itself involved in attacks on shipping in the Persian Gulf.
00:04:59.000It has ended poorly for them before, as we'll get to in just a second, but the media coverage of this thing is just about what you would expect it to be.
00:05:05.000So, the New York Times says, Mr. Pompeo did not present any evidence to back up the assessment of Iran's involvement.
00:05:10.000The assertion is certain to further fuel tensions between the Trump administration and Iranian leaders.
00:05:15.000See, it's not the Iranians bombing things that fuels tension.
00:05:18.000It is the Trump administration responding to the bombing of things that fuels the tension.
00:05:22.000You see, Iran puts mines on ships and blows holes in them and sets them on fire and people have to evacuate.
00:05:33.000That's where the big problem really is.
00:05:36.000The sarcasm font there is very strong.
00:05:39.000And then the New York Times says, the assertion is certain to further fuel tensions between the Trump administration and Iranian leaders, which have been at heightened levels since early May, when the White House announced military movements in response to what American officials have said is an increased threat from Iran.
00:05:52.000So again, twice in one paragraph, the New York Times basically suggests that America's response to Iranian aggression is what causes the Iranian aggression.
00:05:58.000You get the timeline wrong here, guys.
00:06:01.000Iran got militant, and then we put 1,500 additional troops into the region.
00:06:05.000Iran has been bombing things, and then we have been responding to the bombing.
00:06:09.000They're now using cycle of violence language they usually only reserve for the Israelis when the Israelis are being hit by unprovoked rocket assaults.
00:06:17.000Now they're using it on the Trump administration.
00:06:19.000So the Iranians bomb stuff, Trump gets mad.
00:06:21.000Trump's anger caused the Iranian bombing.
00:06:27.000Well, there is a little bit of tape that we have seen that has been released of apparently the Iranian Navy in the SS Minnow from Gilligan's Island approaching a larger ship and removing one of the mines that was on it.
00:06:42.000There's no sound on it because it's security footage.
00:06:45.000The Iranian Navy, needless to say, is not exactly the world's most powerful Navy.
00:06:49.000And the fact that we have been allowing them to basically bully us in the Persian Gulf for the past several years going all the way back to the Obama administration really is pathetic.
00:06:58.000You remember there was that incident in which the Iranian Navy hit a U.S.
00:07:01.000vessel and then basically took a bunch of Americans prisoner.
00:07:05.000And there are pictures of the American prisoners on their knees with their hands behind their head.
00:07:09.000It was quite humiliating, but since Obama was president, it was great.
00:07:12.000And that was the way the media covered it.
00:07:14.000It was evidence of President Obama's tremendous diplomatic abilities that we were able to get those American soldiers out of Iran.
00:07:23.000Listen, we should be able to tell Iran to release our soldiers whenever we please, considering the fact that, again, their navy is made up of ships that barely fit inside my son's bathtub.
00:07:33.000I mean, it's the Iranian Navy is not exactly well known for it.
00:08:22.000Ben Rhodes, may I have a seat, my friend?
00:08:25.000Ben Rhodes, the national security advisor to Barack Obama, was the guy who openly admitted that he lied to the American people about the incipient moderation of the Iranian regime.
00:08:34.000Basically, in 2009, there was a near-Iranian revolution, again, to overthrow the Iranian government, and Barack Obama sat by and allowed people to be slaughtered in the streets without any level of support other than a few tepid public statements.
00:08:46.000And then he made out that the Iranian regime was on the verge of a turnaround.
00:08:50.000And if only we paid them billions of dollars in cash, if only we opened up their economy by allowing them to develop quote-unquote peaceful nuclear power.
00:08:58.000Because if there's one thing that Iran, one of the most oil-rich nations on earth needs, it is nuclear power.
00:09:03.000It has nothing to do with developing a nuclear weapon that they have been seeking for decades at this point.
00:09:08.000If only we did that, then they would come around, then they would moderate.
00:09:11.000And they were about to moderate, according to Ben Rhodes.
00:09:14.000Ben Rhodes went out there and he lied to the American people over and over.
00:09:17.000And he said that the Iranian government was on the verge of moderation, that Hassan Rouhani was a different, he was a different kind of person than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
00:09:25.000And now the Ayatollahs were finally coming around.
00:09:27.000If only we were nice to them and stroke their buttocks in precisely the proper way by giving them money and allowing them to re-enter the family of nations.
00:09:50.000Next time, if they hit an American ship, if there's any situation in which they hit an American flag vessel, we should do exactly what we did to the Iranian Navy all the way back in 1988.
00:10:01.000According to History on the Net, there's a pretty good description of what happened.
00:10:04.000There's something called Operation Praying Mantis.
00:10:07.000A western and allied navies participated in the Persian Gulf tanker war during the mid to late 1980s, protecting oil tankers from attack by Iranian small craft.
00:10:15.000In April 1988, the frigate Samuel B. Roberts hit a mine, sustaining heavy damage but no casualties.
00:10:20.000Physical evidence proves what was already apparent, the mine came from Iran.
00:10:23.000In response, Enterprise and her escorts, with a surface action group, launched Operation Praying Mantis, attacking Iranian facilities in the Gulf on April 18th.
00:10:31.000The 46th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid, primary targets were two Iranian oil platforms that offered a base for Revolutionary Guard speedboats harassing, re-flagging Kuwaiti tankers.
00:10:41.000Marines helicoptered onto one platform, leaving explosives to disable the facility.
00:12:25.000But You know what is not particularly large or particularly strong is the Iranian Navy.
00:12:29.000They're mosquitoes and they're harassing.
00:12:31.000And, you know, if they approach American ships at any point, we should just blow them out of the water.
00:12:36.000Seriously, it will not end in a full-scale war because that is the last thing the Ayatollahs want.
00:12:40.000What they want is to look strong to their people by harassing American ships and then have plausible deniability when it comes to the international stage, knowing that people like Ben Rhodes will cover for them.
00:12:49.000Okay, we'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:14:57.000Just look at the killed numbers from the United States versus the Viet Cong, for example.
00:15:02.000So this idea that countries around the world are itching for a full-scale military conflict with the United States is just a joke.
00:15:09.000Which means that there's no reason why the United States should tolerate any of this placing of mines on vessels in the Persian Gulf, Iran choking off the Straits of Hormuz.
00:15:22.000There are certain countries where you don't want to play chicken with them.
00:15:24.000China would be a country where you don't want to play chicken simply because they have tremendous leverage over the American economy and they have a massive military and they have the power to project into the South China Sea.
00:15:39.000OK, so again, that is not the Trump administration itching for war.
00:15:42.000And I don't even think that's the perspective that they are taking right now.
00:15:45.000But it is a perspective that is on the table.
00:15:47.000OK, meanwhile, A lot of hubbub is being paid to Kellyanne Conway.
00:15:52.000Supposedly, Kellyanne Conway violated the law.
00:15:55.000An independent government agency recommended on Thursday that President Trump fire Kellyanne Conway, his White House counselor, for repeated violations of an ethics law barring partisan politics from the federal workplace.
00:16:07.000In a letter accompanying a report to Mr. Trump, the agency called Ms.
00:16:10.000Conway a repeat offender of the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from engaging in campaign politics at work, saying that her flagrant defiance of the law justified her dismissal from the White House.
00:16:21.000Let me just say that right off the bat.
00:16:22.000Head of the agency says, as a highly visible member of the administration, Ms. Conway's violations, if left unpunished, send a message to all federal employees that they need not abide by the Hatch Act's restrictions.
00:16:32.000Her actions erode the principal foundation of our democratic system, the rule of law.
00:16:40.000The Hatch Act is completely incoherent, legally speaking.
00:16:43.000The Hatch Act basically says that you do have a right to speak out and vote how you want as a federal employee, but you can't use the power of your office to endorse any political candidate.
00:16:53.000Well, what exactly do these people think politics is?
00:16:56.000I totally agree with the idea that you should not be using government resources in order to stump for a particular candidate, right?
00:17:02.000By the way, Congress people are not federal employees, so they don't really have these sorts of boundaries.
00:17:09.000But Congress, this is actually the biggest issue, is that incumbent Congress people can use all sorts of congressional resources in order to push their reelection.
00:17:17.000So this is why you get a letter from your congressperson paid for by you that says, here's all the great things that I've done this year.
00:17:22.000I mean, that is obviously campaigning.
00:17:24.000It's legal, but I don't think that's right.
00:17:26.000When it comes to federal employment, is the idea here that Kellyanne Conway is allowed to talk about how great Trump is, but she can't say how much Joe Biden sucks?
00:17:52.000I'd be saying the same thing if this were a Democrat.
00:17:54.000It has never occurred to me that members of the federal executive branch are apolitical actors who are not going to be using at least their ability with their face to talk about people they don't like.
00:18:06.000In other administration news, Sarah Huckabee Sanders is headed out.
00:18:10.000According to the New York Times, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary who fiercely defended President Trump through one of the most tumultuous periods in American politics, while presiding over the end of the iconic daily news briefing, will step down at the end of the month.
00:18:22.000I do find it hilarious that so many members of the media, all of whom have dealt with press secretaries for their entire political career, suddenly are finding it shocking that Sarah Huckabee Sanders fiercely defended President Trump.
00:18:34.000I'd like for them to name a time when Jake Harney or Robert Gibbs or any of the other myriad spokespeople for Barack Obama went out there and they're like, yeah, you know that Obama?
00:18:46.000That was pretty bad what you said, right?
00:18:48.000Like, this is the job of the press secretary.
00:18:53.000You're paid to stand out there and defend the president.
00:18:56.000Yeah, you don't even have any of your own opinions.
00:18:58.000And what was hilarious was to watch members of the press say things to Sarah Huckabee Sanders like, well, what, Sarah, what do you think of what the president had to say?
00:19:06.000If she wanted to run for office, she can.
00:19:08.000She's going to go back to Arkansas, maybe she'll run for office there.
00:19:11.000Then you can ask her what she thinks of various statements of President Trump.
00:19:14.000But if her job is to be the press spokesperson for the President of the United States, then she has asked the administration's position on things, not her personal position.
00:19:24.000It was always bizarre to me watching the media try to separate out Huckabee Sanders from Trump and then be like, that's Sarah Huckabee Sanders shilling for the president.
00:19:33.000Literally, the job should be retitled shilling for the president.
00:19:37.000That is what these folks are paid for.
00:20:37.000Because President Trump said yesterday that he would consider not reporting to the FBI if he was approached with opposition research by a member of a foreign government or a foreign national agent.
00:20:49.000And people lost their minds over this.
00:20:51.000Now, you should morally lose your mind over this.
00:20:53.000On a moral level, it is very, very bad when politicians are saying that they would take information presented to them by foreign governments about their political opposition.
00:21:02.000It was bad when Hillary Clinton did it, too.
00:21:04.000Now I know that we're not supposed to talk about Hillary Clinton doing this, but Hillary Clinton did do this.
00:21:08.000There's a lot of talk about Trump receiving information from Russia.
00:21:11.000There's no actual information he received from Russia.
00:21:13.000The Mueller Report does not provide a shred of information that the Trump campaign directly received from Russia.
00:21:33.000Christopher Steele was a foreign national and he was getting his information from Russian governmental officials and then funneling it to Hillary Clinton.
00:21:40.000Hilariously enough, folks on the left have been defending the Steele report on the grounds that, well, that's legal because the, because Fusion GPS and the Clinton campaign paid Christopher Steele.
00:21:49.000So if you pay a foreign national for the information, then it doesn't violate the law.
00:21:59.000But if you pay the foreign national to go get the information, then it's not illegal?
00:22:03.000No, I do not buy this particular line of legal argumentation.
00:22:07.000Nonetheless, Ellen Weintraub, who is the head of the FEC, she issued, she was nominated under George W. Bush a while ago, she issued a statement about all of this.
00:22:16.000And the statement is basically a slap at President Trump It's not actually legally true, and herein lies the issue.
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00:23:29.000Okay, so, Ellen Weintraub is the head of the Federal Election Commission, and in response to the President of the United States saying that Sure, he might or he might not report to the FBI.
00:23:39.000He'll sort of take it on like a case-by-case basis.
00:23:42.000That's the Trump campaign line right now, by the way.
00:23:45.000According to Kayleigh McEnany, the campaign's press secretary, she said on CBS's news red and blue on Thursday, the campaign will follow President Trump's lead when it comes to handling potential offers.
00:23:54.000Quote, the president's directive, as he said, it's a case by case basis.
00:24:05.000I mean, honestly, if Trump just said, listen, I'm going to what am I supposed to like block out my ears if they give me a good piece of information, but I'll report it to the FBI for sure.
00:24:48.000When the DNC was coordinating with the Ukrainian government, that is a bad thing.
00:24:52.000Now it's worse if you're coordinating with an overtly adversarial country like Russia.
00:24:58.000If you're getting information from an overtly adversarial country like Russia, that would be worse.
00:25:02.000There's no evidence the Trump campaign actually received that sort of information from the Russians.
00:25:07.000But Ellen Weintraub from the FEC, she says that this is a violation of law.
00:25:10.000That if a foreign national approaches you with OPPO research, or a member of a foreign government approaches you with OPPO research, that this is obviously a violation of law.
00:25:21.000Again, there's a difference between legal and moral.
00:25:23.000I've just said many times in the past few minutes, it is immoral to take opposition research from a foreign party and not report it to the FBI.
00:25:38.000Well, weird, because Christopher Steele gave a lot of stuff of value to the Hillary Clinton campaign.
00:25:40.000"to the American public and anyone running for public office, "it is illegal for any person to solicit, accept, "or receive anything of value from a foreign national "in connection with the U.S. election." Well, weird, 'cause Christopher Steele gave a lot of stuff of value to the Hillary Clinton campaign.
00:25:55.000Don't see the incipient prosecution happening.
00:25:58.000This is not a novel concept, Electoral intervention from foreign governments has been considered unacceptable since the beginnings of our nation.
00:26:05.000Our founding fathers sounded the alarm about foreign interference, intrigue, and influence.
00:26:09.000They knew that when foreign governments seek to influence American politics, it is always to advance their own interests, not America's.
00:26:15.000Anyone who solicits or accepts foreign assistance risks being on the wrong end of a federal investigation.
00:26:20.000Any political campaign that receives an offer of a prohibited donation from a foreign source should report that offer to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
00:26:27.000Hey now, there's what you should do and then there's what you are legally mandated to do.
00:26:31.000The provision of law that governs all of this is section, it is 52 U.S.
00:26:43.000It shall be unlawful for a foreign national, directly or indirectly, to make a contribution or donation of money or other thing of value, or to make an express or implied promise to make a contribution or donation in connection with a federal, state, or local election.
00:26:57.000And it is unlawful for a person to solicit, accept, or receive a contribution described in subparagraph A or B of paragraph 1 from a foreign national.
00:27:07.000They say a foreign national means a foreign principal, except that the term foreign national should not include anybody who has dual citizenship, and it means an individual who's not a citizen of the United States or a national of the United States who's not lawfully admitted for permanent residence.
00:27:21.000Well, Christopher Steele was a non-resident alien, so he actually kind of falls under this definition, and if the idea is you paid him for it, I'm not sure how that really changes the game very much on a legal level.
00:27:33.000The question in the law is whether this provision, a contribution or donation of money or any other thing of value, means also information.
00:27:42.000And it's pretty dicey to say that it does.
00:27:44.000The reason is because throughout American law, whenever it says other thing of value, it doesn't mean information.
00:27:48.000It typically means Another thing of value.
00:28:04.000So Eugene Volokh, who's a professor over at UCLA Law, wrote a long piece back in 2017 specifically talking about this in the context of the Trump Tower meeting.
00:28:13.000He says it would make opposition research on much possible foreign misconduct virtually impossible if this stuff were legal.
00:28:19.000Say that Hillary Clinton's campaign heard rumors that the construction of a Trump resort in Turkey might have involved some shenanigans.
00:28:25.000It's likely impossible to effectively follow up on that without soliciting some valuable information from foreign nationals, such as the foreign government officials, who are hypothetically and allegedly bribed, or rivals, who may have a motive to provide information.
00:28:38.000Or say that Bernie Sanders' campaign heard rumors of some misconduct by Hillary Clinton on her trips abroad.
00:28:43.000It wouldn't be allowed to ask any foreigners about that under these particular interpretations of the law.
00:28:49.000So the case that's being made that it is illegal for Trump to receive information from a foreign national, OPPO Research, again, Hillary Clinton actually did it in 2016.
00:29:00.000She actually received opposition research from a foreign national by the name of Christopher Steele, who is receiving information in turn from Russian governmental officials.
00:29:20.000It's one of the reasons why Republicans are mad about the Steele report.
00:29:24.000Now, you're seeing folks come out and say that what Trump said is completely different.
00:29:28.000So Andy McCabe, who of course hates President Trump because basically Trump ended his career after he lied to the inspector general of the FBI and ended up losing his pension.
00:29:38.000So he's on CNN talking to block of wood Chris Cuomo, and he explained there is no equivalent on how Hillary and Trump acquired opposition information from foreigners.
00:29:46.000You shouldn't have Russians giving you anything and you shouldn't have been paying Russians for information to amass a dossier the way Clinton did.
00:29:57.000There's no equivalence between those two examples.
00:30:01.000To say, to openly invite foreign intelligence officers, representatives from a hostile foreign government, to steal information, to acquire opposition research in any way, in any illegal way that they might do that, and to present it to you, is one thing.
00:30:19.000Okay, so, in other words, if you pay somebody for the information, it's not illegal, but if they give it to you for free, then it's illegal.
00:30:24.000That is a bizarre interpretation of law at the very least.
00:30:27.000who then contracts out with a foreign individual, that is not illegal. - Okay, so in other words, if you pay somebody for the information, it's not illegal, but if they give it to you for free, then it's illegal.
00:30:38.000No, that is a bizarre interpretation of law at the very least.
00:30:43.000Okay, in a second, we'll get to why this is still political poison for President Trump.
00:30:48.000So again, I'm just debunking the idea that this is obviously illegal that was put out by the FEC.
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00:32:25.000So if you want to listen to something fun, yesterday, Larry Wilmore put out an interview that he did with me.
00:32:32.000I'm sure he's getting all sorts of crap for it from the left.
00:32:34.000Larry Wilmore, you'll remember from Comedy Central, very controversial figure at the time in 2016.
00:32:39.000He was at the White House Correspondents Dinner and he controversially, I criticized him for it, he controversially Suggested that President Trump was his N-word, and this made all sorts of waves.
00:32:48.000Larry and I disagree about virtually everything, but Larry Wilmore is also an open-minded, good dude who's willing to have a conversation, which is something I appreciate.
00:32:56.000I think a lot of conservatives appreciate.
00:32:58.000So, he was on my podcast, and I was on his podcast.
00:33:01.000You can go listen to our conversation with him interviewing me.
00:33:03.000It covers a lot of issues regarding race and American history.
00:33:07.000It's called Larry Wilmore Black on the Air.
00:33:38.000It covers a lot of ground and it covers some of our agreements and disagreements and good for Larry Wilmore, seriously.
00:33:43.000You know, it's something that I really do appreciate because the fact is that if we are going to have a politics together, then we are going to have to have conversations with people with whom we disagree and treat them with respect and not turn every conversation into an opportunity to club somebody to death.
00:34:17.000But in real life, when we have conversations, every single Ben Shapiro destroys video of me with a college student or me with a member of the media is a polite conversation in which people who like what I'm saying think that I made a good argument.
00:34:32.000And this Larry Wilmore thing, I'm sure he will get hit for it.
00:34:35.000I'm sure folks on the left will suggest that Deadspin, which is a disgusting website, is already suggesting Larry Wilmore is a very, very bad man for even having a conversation.
00:34:43.000Well, good for Larry Wilmore for having the conversation.
00:34:46.000And that's what we need more of in this country.
00:34:49.000We need more conversations between people who disagree that are polite and well-motivated and people who are interested in learning more about the philosophy of the other, because the conversation themselves reinstills a feeling that we ought to live in a country together and not just separate and go our own separate way.
00:35:04.000So go check out our Sunday special with Larry Wilmore.
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00:35:18.000But I'm the first, let's say, my pitch on his show was not the anti-Trump pitch.
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00:36:41.000Alrighty, so just because the president of the United States didn't do anything illegal in 2016, nor would it necessarily be under current law illegal for the president to accept opposition nor would it necessarily be under current law illegal for the president to accept opposition research from a foreign source tomorrow, as I explained a minute ago,
00:37:05.000It is not politically smart, especially because the Democrats have crafted a narrative whereby President Trump is a tool of foreign powers and is open to being a tool of foreign powers, and President Trump's own language tends to underscore this sort of silliness.
00:37:17.000And President Trump is a guy who said in 2016 repeatedly that the United States, our foreign policy is somehow akin to Vladimir Putin's.
00:37:24.000He's a guy who has really kissed the rear of Kim Jong-un, one of the worst dictators on planet Earth.
00:37:29.000I've been highly critical of him for that.
00:37:32.000I think it's morally not only unbecoming, but disreputable.
00:37:37.000So President Trump needs to not underscore all of that by suggesting that he is willing to work with foreign powers to undermine some sort of Democrat who is running against him.
00:37:46.000Mark Warner, the senator from Virginia, says Americans should be outraged at even the very suggestion.
00:37:51.000Here is where, again, I think it goes a little bit too far.
00:37:53.000You might want to look to your own party, dude, and talk to like Hillary Clinton, who actually did some of this stuff, too.
00:37:57.000If there is a standard, We should uphold it for everyone.
00:38:00.000It is not whataboutism for me to point out that what Trump did is bad but not illegal and also what Hillary Clinton did is very bad but not illegal.
00:38:09.000Whataboutism would be me saying that what Trump did was okay because Hillary Clinton also did it, which is not a thing that I am saying.
00:38:15.000Mark Warner, many other politicians seem to be completely ignoring the fact that there are other politicians who do this stuff and pretending as though this is a singular incident of President Trump doing something out of the realm of normal bad.
00:38:28.000OK, it is, in fact, normal bad and it is, in fact, bad.
00:38:32.000I think this last incident and again, time will probably prove me wrong again.
00:38:39.000But there was beginning of folks stepping up.
00:38:42.000And I frankly, at the end of the day, it's also up to the American public.
00:38:46.000If the American public, no matter whether they watch Fox or MSNBC or anything in between, isn't outraged by the comments that he made yesterday, then shame on Americans as well.
00:38:59.000This is why it's still politically damaging.
00:39:00.000And of course, you have Senator Mitt Romney from Utah, and he says it's the same thing.
00:39:04.000It's unthinkable for a presidential candidate to accept dirt from a foreign government.
00:39:08.000I agree, and that applies to all candidates equally, Democrat and Republican.
00:39:13.000That would be simply unthinkable for a candidate for president to accept that involvement, to encourage it, to participate with it in any way, shape, or form.
00:39:21.000It would strike at the very heart of our democracy.
00:39:24.000OK, and then you have Lindsey Graham, who's an ally of the president, who is acknowledging it's a mistake for the president to talk this way on a political level.
00:39:31.000It is, in fact, a lack of morality to say that you wouldn't report it to the FBI if the Chinese government approached you with some sort of negative information on Joe Biden.
00:39:51.000I don't want to send a signal to encourage this.
00:39:54.000And I hope my Democrat colleagues will be equally offended by the fact that this actually did happen in 2016, where a foreign agent was paid for by a political party to gather opposition research.
00:40:09.000What Lindsey Graham says right there is exactly right.
00:40:11.000Now, should President Trump be talking the way he is?
00:40:13.000No, which is why it's very awkward when Kevin McCarthy, the House Minority Leader, has to go out there and say, yeah, Trump doesn't want foreign interference, while the president is out there saying, well, you know, we'll take it on a case-by-case basis, guys.
00:40:25.000Doesn't the president have to set a tone about what is right and what is wrong?
00:40:28.000I think the president's been very clear.
00:40:30.000The president does not want foreign governments to interfere in our elections.
00:40:44.000I believe the president would always do the right action.
00:40:46.000OK, OK, Mr. President, Mr. President, first of all, bad, bad.
00:40:55.000Your job as the president of the United States is not only to do the moral thing, but also as a politician, it is to make it easy for your defenders to defend you.
00:41:02.000Kevin McCarthy is out there trying to defend this.
00:41:05.000Why don't you just make it easy for him by saying the right thing?
00:41:09.000Instead, you're out there saying that your own FBI director, Chris Wray, is wrong when he says that you should report this sort of stuff to the FBI.
00:41:14.000After all, who has time for- This is bad stuff.
00:42:49.000But states are basically cracking down on adoption agencies if those adoption agencies have religious backgrounds.
00:42:54.000We've seen adoption agencies in places like Massachusetts actually shut down if they prefer to hand a baby over to a traditional male-female couple as opposed to a same-sex couple.
00:43:03.000So Catholic charities have shut down adoption services in Massachusetts because of this.
00:43:08.000Now, I think that there is a perfectly secular, rational case for handing a baby over to a male and a female, because I don't think that males and females are the same.
00:43:15.000I don't think fathers and mothers are the same, which is why every single Father's Day and Mother's Day, I make the same joke on Twitter.
00:43:20.000It's a running joke, and it is, happy second legal guardian of unspecified gender day.
00:43:26.000Because if you don't think there's a difference between fathers and mothers, or males and females, then why have a Father's Day or a Mother's Day?
00:43:31.000Just have an unspecified legal guardian day.
00:43:34.000But if you feel a child needs a mother and a father, then yes, I think that it is perfectly fine and perfectly rational and, in fact, good to prefer all other things being equal, obviously, a male-female couple to a male-male or a female-female couple or a single mom.
00:43:49.000There is nothing, I think, remotely controversial about that in a social science sense.
00:43:54.000Now, again, that's all other things being equal.
00:43:56.000If you're talking about an abusive household where the male is abusing the female as opposed to two males who are not abusing each other, obviously that is different.
00:44:02.000If you're talking socioeconomically, the difference between growing up in a house on food stamps as opposed to growing up in a middle-class household, that makes a difference too.
00:44:11.000It's multifactorial, in other words, but One of the things that would make adoption easier is more adoption agencies, not fewer adoption agencies.
00:44:18.000Also, the hoops that you have to run through in order to adopt are just ridiculous.
00:44:23.000And one of the things about... We already have laws against child abuse.
00:44:27.000We already have laws against child endangerment.
00:44:30.000The notion that the state has to be involved in every adoption runs counter to my libertarian sensibility that suggests that if I give... Let's say that I wanted to put my kid up for adoption.
00:44:40.000And so I went to my local church or synagogue and I said, I want you to put the kid up for adoption.
00:44:44.000The local synagogue or church has an interest, presumably, in the child going to a good home.
00:44:47.000That's why I'm a member of the synagogue or the church.
00:44:50.000The state does not have a particularly wonderful record in its treatment of children.
00:44:54.000I have friends right now who are seeking to adopt, and they're asked some of the dumbest questions I have ever heard, the process is years long, and you basically have to sign on to the government's version of what good parenting looks like in order to get a child.
00:45:06.000So if you tell a member of the state's adoption resources that, for example, you might swat the kid on the fanny if the kid tries to run into the street, it will put you in basically a re-education course in order to make you eligible for getting the kid.
00:45:29.000When I was growing up, my parents spanked a little bit, but really not much.
00:45:32.000I don't think there's a lot of data to back spanking, but There are a lot of friends of mine who do believe that on occasion you have to spank a kid.
00:45:40.000I've seen no evidence that mild spanking is the end of the world.
00:45:44.000But according to the state of California, if you say that to them, they will not give you a kid.
00:45:48.000So in other words, you have a beautiful middle-class household, you have a beautiful religious household, and every so often you say, if my kid is deeply disobedient, I'm going to slap them on the tuchus.
00:45:58.000And then the state's like, no, you can't have a baby.
00:46:00.000Instead, we're giving it to this couple that we like.
00:46:23.000They just had an election and then Prime Minister Netanyahu couldn't form a coalition government and so he dissolved the Knesset and made a new election.
00:46:32.000The problem with parliamentary systems is that there are so many interests to juggle that you can never actually get any political work done.
00:46:39.000Basically you have to appease everybody.
00:46:41.000So if you are worried about bribery in the United States Congress, if you are worried about Conflicts of interest in the U.S.
00:46:46.000Take a look overseas, where in order to form a coalition, you have to bribe this little party, and this little party, and this little party, just to get them to stick around.
00:46:52.000You have to make sure their welfare benefits are maintained.
00:46:55.000It takes disaster in order to motivate those governments to do anything of real consequence.
00:46:59.000Pat says, Hey Ben, thank you for everything you do.
00:47:01.000I'm a recent subscriber to the Daily Wire and many other conservative platforms to show support against this leftist censorship lunacy.
00:47:08.000I'm 31 years old, have been a conservative libertarian basically my whole conscious life.
00:47:11.000However, aside from passing conversations with friends and living according to my values, I've sat mostly on the sidelines of public political discourse in my life.
00:47:18.000My question to you is, what, in your opinion, is the best way to get involved in the war of ideas and changing hearts and minds when you don't have a large platform?
00:47:25.000Well, you know, I honestly think that the best way to get involved in the war of ideas and change hearts and minds is to act well for the other people that you know.
00:47:34.000Truly, if you live out your values, that is the best way to convince people that your values are something worthwhile and something worth preserving. - Yeah.
00:47:42.000I think this is one of the reasons why so many folks on the left are unwilling to grant the basic humanity of their political opposition.
00:47:47.000Truly unwilling to grant the humanity of their political opposition.
00:47:52.000In a second, I'm going to give you an example of this and things that I hate.
00:47:55.000But one of the aspects of living with each other in a society is that we get to learn what a good person looks like.
00:48:02.000And very often that good person doesn't share your political values.
00:48:06.000And so that makes you think, OK, well, that person can be good and not share my political values.
00:48:10.000Well, maybe that means that my political values are up for debate and I can still be a good person.
00:48:14.000So being a good person to the people around you is deeply worthwhile.
00:48:31.000So the other night I was over at the Magic Castle.
00:48:35.000And Magic Castle has all of these different rooms where people are doing different magic acts.
00:48:40.000And in one of the rooms, which is kind of off the main rooms, one of the cool things is that sort of in random corners, there are random magicians who are trying out their acts and working on them, and it's really cool.
00:48:50.000There was a really young guy, I mean, under the age of 21, so he had a probably special dispensation to be there, and he was doing a magic act.
00:49:59.000About how he had sort of assumed that I would be a jerk because we disagreed politically.
00:50:03.000And then when we actually met, we met in a different context, and it turns out that I was actually a decent person, like a nice person to him, and it made him sort of rethink things a little bit.
00:50:12.000Now, that's not me complimenting myself, that's just me recognizing that there's been this political duality that's been set up, where if you disagree with somebody politically, then we are automatically to assume that they are a bad person.
00:50:24.000And if we can get past that, if you can break down that barrier, then you can actually have some good, productive Conversations.
00:50:30.000And in that particular situation, all it took was being a nice person.
00:50:33.000And I would treat that guy the same whether I knew his politics or didn't know his politics.
00:51:28.000So, the first movement of Concerto for Orchestra, for example, the end of it, The entire first movement is incredibly dissonant, and then it comes together in this non-dissonant moment, and it's tremendous, because music creates tension and then relieves tension.
00:51:41.000It's also why the interval of the seventh was considered basically forbidden in Western music for centuries, because it was considered the devil's chord, because it wants to resolve.
00:51:51.000The seventh wants to resolve to an octave, and it's also one of the reasons why, for example, If you listen to Bach's music, very often he'll have a minor piece and it ends on a major chord.
00:52:01.000The reason is because the undertones, there are undertones to every tone, the undertones in music like organ music, for example, the undertones resonate in churches.
00:52:12.000And so if you finished on a minor chord, there would be dissonance to undertones.
00:52:15.000And so you'd finish on a major chord to avoid the dissonance.
00:52:18.000One of the purposes of music is to, again, have dissonance that resolves.
00:52:22.000Or, to move toward consonants, I'm not a huge fan of atonal music.
00:52:25.000Schoenberg was deeply talented, but I think the 12-tone method is a huge mistake.
00:52:29.000Nick says, Hey Ben, I love your show a lot.
00:52:31.000I'm 14 years old and currently taking a rhetoric and civics class for my high school.
00:53:01.000I mean, it's an unfortunate reality of the modern world and of the world generally that you do have to side with bad people very often to fight worse people.
00:53:07.000So the Lend-Lease program in World War II meant that the United States was providing enormous support, material support to the USSR One of the worst countries in the history of the world, run by one of the worst people in the history of the world, Stalin, in order to fight probably the worst person in the history of the world, Hitler.
00:53:22.000So, this is true throughout international politics, and it means that our allegiances shift and change.
00:53:27.000So, there may be a time when we are arming people against Saudi Arabia, depending on what Saudi Arabia's interests in the region are.
00:53:33.000Right now, we're arming Saudi Arabia against Iran, which is more threatening to American interests.
00:53:37.000Realistic understanding of politics means that sometimes you have to work with bad people in order to achieve better ends.
00:53:43.000Now, in an ideal world, would we be able to not arm any of these folks?
00:54:06.000He did not get us out of the Great Depression.
00:54:08.000In fact, the Great Depression was lengthened, according to studies from UCLA, by at least eight years by FDR's crap economic policy, which was a terrible economic policy.
00:54:16.000He's also set us on the road to bankruptcy with programs like Social Security.
00:54:20.000Also, FDR imprisoned literally hundreds of thousands of Japanese people, which everybody seems to forget, during World War II.
00:54:26.000He put them in actual concentration camps.
00:54:33.000He has given credit for his leadership during World War II, and he deserves credit for his leadership during World War II, and that's about it.
00:54:39.000Otherwise, he was an incredibly divisive president.
00:54:42.000He was a president who castigated the mere earning of wealth.
00:54:46.000He was a president who went after his political opponents that would make Nixon look like nothing.
00:54:51.000He was one of the worst presidents in American history, I think, bar none.
00:54:57.000When talking about the census question of being a citizen, you briefly mentioned that the district's Congress should change.
00:55:02.000What would happen if a large population moved, let's say, out of New York State to Florida?
00:55:05.000Would New York districts merge together based on population size?
00:55:09.000And if so, how would that work for, say, let's say AOC and a neighboring district congressperson battling it out?
00:55:14.000Then would Florida create a whole new district?
00:55:15.000Bottom line are the number of house seats locked in?
00:55:17.000No, the number of house seats are not locked in.
00:55:19.000They're based on the census, which is why there's so much controversy right now over the census and whether we should be able to ask about legal immigration status, as I explained yesterday on the program.
00:55:29.000The reality is that we should base our district on the number of legal citizens living in the district.
00:55:34.000It should not be based on the people living illegally there.
00:55:36.000If you ask people whether they are living there legally or illegally, then you will end up with redistricting, which is what Democrats are afraid of.
00:55:42.000They would prefer to stack up Democratic districts with illegal immigrants so they can have more of those Democratic districts and thus more Congress people.
00:55:50.000Well, I appreciate the compliment, by the way.
00:55:52.000And yes, we do put an enormous amount of time and effort.
00:55:53.000I promise you, at the end of every day, I'm pretty much exhausted, at least until I get home and see my kids, because they don't care, and the energy has to pick up, or I'm not being a good father.
00:56:15.000So as far as the Trump in prison talking point, yes, this is a way for Nancy Pelosi to avoid saying that she wants to impeach him because then she doesn't have to do anything.
00:56:24.000Well, I don't know Section 35, so I can't speak specifically to that.
00:56:44.000Well, I don't know section 35, so I can't speak specifically to that.
00:56:47.000I think that the making it more easy to involuntarily commit somebody who is mentally ill and a danger to self or others is a very good thing.
00:56:58.000I think one of the big problems we have right now is that there's this perception that if you're a threat to yourself or others, you should simply be left out there and make it impossible to involuntarily commit people who desperately need help and who are not in control of their own minds.
00:57:10.000As far as alcohol or substance abuse, If you are a substance abuser, there is a good shot that you are unable to actually reason that you... I mean, addicts are addicts.
00:57:22.000And like other diseases, this being treated as an act of will alone, I think could be a huge mistake.
00:57:28.000Now, I think you have to very carefully apply this power, because obviously you don't want people being involuntarily committed because they have relatives who don't like them or something like that.
00:57:38.000But if you're talking about somebody who is a deep drug addict who will not voluntarily check into a clinic, And is basically stoned out on the street, living in a tent?
00:57:47.000It seems to me that that is not a bad solution.
00:57:50.000Family members saying, we need to do something about this.
00:57:52.000This person is a danger to themselves.
00:57:54.000In that case, I am not against the idea of involuntary commitment.
00:57:57.000Okay, Eric says, hey, Ben Kenobi, on the most recent backstage with Dave Rubin, someone asked a question about anti-discrimination laws in employment and whether political affiliations qualified.
00:58:07.000You and Jeremy discussed how anti-discrimination laws protect against discriminations for people things cannot change, such as race and sex, but malleable things like political affiliations are not covered.
00:58:16.000My question is, operating under the leftist narrative that sex is malleable, wouldn't that notion negate someone's sex from being protected under anti-discrimination law?
00:58:40.000But sexual orientation is actually not about what you feel.
00:58:44.000It is about how you are perceived and what action you take.
00:58:46.000In other words, there's no way for me to tell what your sexual orientation is unless you tell me your sexual orientation.
00:58:51.000There's no way for me to tell what your sexual orientation is unless I see you and you are with a boyfriend and you're a man.
00:58:59.000There's no way for me to tell that, which means that now I'm supposed to not discriminate based on action, not on an immutable characteristic that I can detect objectively from the outside.
00:59:10.000Broadening that out means that they can also now broaden that out to more More choice of display driven things, like choosing your own gender, for example.
00:59:22.000So I can't tell if you're transgender just by looking at you, unless you are actually dressed in the garb of the opposite sex, or unless you have undergone some sort of physical transformation.
00:59:33.000What that means is that, you know, I can't detect what's in your head, in other words.
00:59:38.000Anti-discrimination law was never meant to protect folks against what is in their head.
00:59:44.000Now, that is not saying these things aren't real.
00:59:46.000I mean, when I say in your head, I mean, like, I literally can't tell what you're thinking, not that it's in your head or you're crazy or anything like that.
00:59:51.000OK, so my problem is that I don't really believe in anti-discrimination laws, period.
00:59:56.000What I mean by that is that the government should not be allowed to discriminate, but the government should not be forced to allow private citizens forced.
01:00:02.000The government should not be able to force private citizens to act in the way that the government wants them to act.
01:00:07.000The solution to discrimination in private life is for people not to associate with people who discriminate, for people to boycott businesses that openly discriminate.
01:00:15.000Listen to my podcast with Larry Wilmore.
01:00:16.000I talk a lot about this, I've said for years.
01:00:18.000I would have voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1965 because it needed to happen.
01:00:22.000The Civil Rights Act of 1964, rather, because it needed to happen.
01:00:25.000But would I oppose on an individual level Title II, which deals with public accommodations and specific I don't think that that is my power.
01:00:54.000I think that you have the right to do bad things that I disagree with so long as you are not depriving me of my rights and I don't have a right to make you That's just not a thing.
01:01:03.000Hey, Elizabeth says, I was born in 1995, so I'm right on the edge between the generations, although I probably relate more to the boomers.
01:01:09.000I keep waiting for Generation Z to decide that they want to be rebels and go against the millennials by leaning conservative.
01:01:13.000Do you think I'm being too optimistic?
01:01:16.000I think that there are a lot of Generation Z folks who are looking at the Millennials, and they're saying, these people are woke-skulled, they're annoying, they're irritating, we can't have conversations.
01:01:24.000They suggest that people that disagree with them are bad and evil, and can't be talked to.
01:01:29.000And I think that that is obviously not only wrong, but stupid.
01:01:32.000Well, first of all, he's great in John Wick.
01:01:34.000with the John Wick trilogy and his appearance at E3.
01:01:36.000I've noticed a rise in Keanu Reeves' popularity.
01:01:39.000He's very popular for being wholesome in meme culture as well.
01:01:53.000I am noticing that the popularity of Keanu Reeves is largely related to the restoration of an idea of a movie star that existed in the 1930s, 40s, 50s, and 60s.
01:02:01.000And that was that movie stars were protected from studios, so you didn't know much about their personal life.
01:02:06.000What you saw of them, you saw on screen.
01:02:08.000And then in their regular life, they were expected to act like just normal, decent human beings.
01:02:12.000We didn't care all that much about We cared, but we didn't know much about their sex lives, or about whether they were alcoholics, or drug users, or their family lives.
01:02:21.000The studios really guarded the image of their stars.
01:02:24.000And the stars were what you saw on screen, which is why you would go see a Katharine Hepburn movie, because Katharine Hepburn was a star.
01:02:30.000You didn't know anything about her other than what you saw on screen, and you saw some glamour shots of her in the paper.
01:02:35.000He acts like a nice guy publicly, you don't know much about him and his personal life, he doesn't make his personal life into a political issue, and then he goes and makes movies that you like.
01:02:43.000You want to restore the star system in Hollywood?
01:02:48.000It's very ironic that so many members of Hollywood think that the way to create stars is to put them in the public eye at every available opportunity and to make them as human beings the issue.
01:03:23.000Speaking of Katharine Hepburn, there is a great old comedy.
01:03:26.000Again, I've been on an old movie spate with my wife.
01:03:29.000We watched last night Spencer, Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in their best movie together, Adam's Rib, which is a movie about Two lawyers, Spencer Tracy, a prosecutor, Catherine Hepburn, a defense lawyer, who basically try opposite sides of the case.
01:05:22.000Some folks may accuse me of writing this book for the resistance.
01:05:25.000I'll tell you, if you read this book, I'm writing this book also for the Republicans.
01:05:30.000Uh, because I really feel, you know, deep down in my heart that, you know, Republicans are just as patriotic as everybody else, and they want a country handed off to the next generation that is just as strong as the one we inherited.
01:05:41.000Okay, that language at the very end is so telling.
01:05:43.000I believe deep down in my heart that Republicans are as patriotic as anybody else.
01:06:43.000Here's where it starts getting weird for Charlotte Clymer, supposedly an advocate of tolerance and diversity.
01:06:48.000Not all opinions should be given space in the public square.
01:06:51.000If you push a belief that is directly harmful to others, you have moved past opinion and into a threat to public safety.
01:06:58.000If you push a belief that is directly harmful to others... So who defines a belief that is directly harmful to others?
01:07:04.000Beliefs aren't directly harmful to others.
01:07:06.000Actions are directly harmful to others.
01:07:09.000If you do an action that is directly harmful to somebody else, we call that a crime.
01:07:13.000If you have a belief, the belief isn't directly harmful to others because it is in your mind.
01:07:18.000This notion that this is now a threat to public safety, if you have a belief.
01:07:21.000The belief itself is a threat to public safety, and thus we must shut you out of the public square.
01:07:25.000This is the excuse every dictator ever has used in order to shut down political debate.
01:07:29.000Now, a bunch of people jumped on Charlotte Clymer for saying this, and Charlotte Clymer immediately said, well, I was talking about vaccinations.
01:07:35.000Well, there's nothing in that tweet about vaccinations.
01:07:38.000I, as folks know, am very much in favor of vaccinations.
01:07:41.000I think that anti-vaccination material is generally propagandistic.
01:07:46.000I think that vaccinations have been responsible, based on the science, for the vast decrease in killer diseases over the past century.
01:07:55.000But I think anti-vaxxers are allowed to have opinions.
01:07:58.000I think people who are anti-vaccines are allowed to have opinions and allowed to express those opinions, even if I think those opinions are wrong, and even if I think that people acting on those opinions is dangerous to children and to others.
01:08:07.000Because this is a battle that ought to be fought in the public space.
01:08:12.000And that's not even an argument about legislation.
01:08:14.000But this idea that you get to shut down opinions because the beliefs are dangerous?
01:08:23.000I assume that Charlotte Clymer would suggest that because I say that Charlotte Clymer is a genetic man, because Charlotte Clymer is a genetic man, that this is a belief that is directly harmful to Charlotte Clymer.
01:08:34.000It is a belief that happens to be based on biological fact, And it is not harmful to Charlotte Clymer that I believe this.
01:08:41.000It would be harmful to Charlotte Clymer if I were to come and do something bad to Charlotte Clymer.
01:08:47.000But me believing a thing is not inherently a threat to public safety.
01:08:54.000The unwillingness to distinguish between thought and action in leftist thought is incredibly dangerous, and it is going to lead to a crackdown on speech and thought itself, and you're already seeing it in the way that the left treats folks.
01:09:42.000Hey guys, over on the Matt Wall Show today, is it bigoted and homophobic that the Trump administration won't let American embassies fly gay pride flags at their embassies?
01:09:51.000Well, of course it's not, but the left says that it is, and we'll talk about that today.
01:09:56.000Also, Hollywood is continuing in its efforts to destroy your children.
01:10:00.000We'll talk about the latest in that war.