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00:00:00.000Social media companies target Alex Jones, Trump goes off on the Trump Tower meeting, tariffs Anne LeBron, and the left continues to defend racism so long as it's directed against white people.
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00:01:39.000OK, so big story over the weekend is that Apple and Facebook have now targeted Alex Jones over at InfoWars.
00:01:45.000For those who don't know who Alex Jones is, he's a crazy human.
00:01:48.000So Alex Jones' craze extends to believing that there was a pizza shop in Washington, D.C.
00:01:55.000that was associated with Hillary Clinton that was running pedophiles from it or some such.
00:02:00.000He also has suggested that the Sandy Hook massacre was actually a false flag, that it was a bunch of child actors.
00:02:07.000He has suggested that Seth Rich was murdered by Hillary Clinton, I believe.
00:02:10.000I think he was involved in the Seth Rich stuff as well.
00:02:12.000There are very few conspiracy theories in which Alex Jones does not engage.
00:02:16.000Most famously, he has said in the past that he believes that the government is turning the frogs gay by somehow changing the chemical composition in the water.
00:03:27.000Suffice it to say that while I think that Alex Jones is basically a giant dumpster fire of human, that he smells like the burning garbage that aerates the scent of New York City, I think that Alex Jones should not be banned from Apple and Facebook simply because
00:03:43.000The standards that are being used by a lot of these social media companies are extraordinarily vague.
00:03:47.000Apple and Facebook, according to CNBC, have now clamped down on content by Alex Jones Monday.
00:03:51.000The former pulled five of his podcasts.
00:03:53.000The latter removed four pages controlled by him.
00:03:55.000Apple confirmed on Monday it removed five of the six podcasts, which included Jones' infamous The Alex Jones Show, as well as a number of other InfoWars audio streams.
00:04:03.000The news was originally reported by BuzzFeed News.
00:04:05.000Jones, of course, is a controversial conspiracy theorist who has claimed that the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax, and he has been hit with other content bans from YouTube as well as Spotify.
00:04:47.000In July, Facebook removed four of Jones' videos and hid his own personal profile with a 30-day ban over what the firm deemed as a violation of its policies on bullying and hate speech.
00:04:57.000The company explained that when it deletes content, the removal counts as a strike, essentially a warning against the person that uploaded it in the first place.
00:05:04.000In the case of pages, Facebook says it holds both a page and an administrator who posts content in violation of its rules accountable.
00:05:10.000They said that this was not about fake news.
00:05:12.000They said this was not because of Jones's tendencies toward conspiracism.
00:05:16.000Instead, it was about hate speech and bullying.
00:05:19.000They said, while much of the discussion around InfoWars has been related to false news, which is a serious issue we are working to address by demoting links marked wrong by fact checkers and suggesting additional content, none of the violations that spurred today's removals were related to this.
00:05:33.000So it is again unclear what exactly it was that triggered all of this.
00:05:38.000They say that it was it was his threatening language.
00:05:41.000But again, I would need to see the specific threatening language that he was using.
00:05:45.000And I'm somebody who's been threatened by Alex Jones.
00:05:47.000I mean, Alex Jones has legitimately gone on his show and threatened that he would send
00:05:51.000His buddies down to the people who help fund Daily Wire, that he would send those people down to their ranch in Texas and have them harassed.
00:06:05.000Once you start saying that hate speech is a rationale for banning people from social media, you get into some very, very vague territory.
00:06:10.000Because as we know, the left does not have a consistent standard that they uphold when they are looking at hate speech.
00:06:15.000They don't say that anything that is hateful is banned and then define hateful in extraordinarily specific terms.
00:06:20.000They don't say anything that is offensive is banned because a lot of things are offensive.
00:06:23.000Instead, they use this term hate speech to simply label stuff they don't like hate speech.
00:06:27.000I know this because I've been targeted, not by social media per se, but by a lot of folks on the left who suggest that I am some sort of provocateur involved in hate speech.
00:06:36.000What exactly have I said that is hate speech?
00:06:38.000Well, their favorite is that I don't use preferred pronouns.
00:06:41.000So if somebody like Caitlyn Jenner says that Caitlyn Jenner is a woman, I will still say that Caitlyn Jenner is a man, and I will say Caitlyn Jenner is a he.
00:06:48.000This is hate speech, according to a lot of folks on the left.
00:06:54.000Facebook, from removing my content online simply because I don't abide by their standards.
00:06:59.000There are rumors today that a lot of these social media giants are going to start banning or restricting content from people who they deem climate change deniers.
00:07:07.000Not even people who acknowledge that climate change is happening, but worry that it may not be happening to the same extent that some on the left say and don't look like the left's solutions.
00:07:16.000Those people may not be safe from the predations of social media also.
00:07:21.000So, again, what exactly is so terrible?
00:07:25.000The company said it removed Alex Jones' pages for glorifying violence, which violates our graphic violence policy, and using dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender, Muslim, and immigrants, which violates our hate speech policies.
00:07:35.000Again, this is where we get into some serious, serious issues.
00:07:38.000What exactly violates that hate speech policy?
00:07:41.000So if I say that transgender people have mental disorders, which they do, okay?
00:07:46.000Gender dysphoria or gender identity disorder is, as you may have noticed from the term gender identity disorder, a disorder.
00:07:52.000If you say that, is that now hate speech?
00:07:54.000What if I say that while not all Muslims are terrorists, a disproportionate number of terrorists are Muslim?
00:08:01.000What if I say that immigrants coming to the United States, you know, ought to be vetted because we don't know who's violent and who is not?
00:09:21.000I think it's deeply dangerous stuff to have so many folks on the left trying to determine what content constitutes hate speech.
00:09:27.000The reason that I think that it's deeply dangerous, and the reason I don't trust them, is because there is a massive double standard when it comes to the left, and for example, racism.
00:09:34.000So, when I suggest that hatred of a particular race is the definition of racism, people on the left will say, well, it depends on the race.
00:09:43.000So, for example, there's an article in the New York Times this week all about why calling white people racist may not actually be the most, the best possible way of curbing racism.
00:09:52.000And this article drew all sorts of hatred from folks on the political left.
00:09:58.000was an opinion piece by a woman named Margaret Rankle, and what it said was, This argument goes,
00:10:18.000Southerners aren't alone in believing such mendacity, but the South is where slavery and segregation metastasize, so it may be more concentrated here.
00:10:24.000Whatever this insidious delusion takes hold, however, it requires a gargantuan ignorance of history to maintain.
00:10:29.000And there's a lot of ignorance afoot in the land right now.
00:10:31.000More people in Tennessee today drive cars bearing a license plate, it's emblazoned with the Confederate battle flag than ever before, a strong majority of Southerners, 61%,
00:11:08.000And the problem with writing off people who don't recognize this country's pervasive and enduring culture of white supremacy, much less the ways in which they themselves benefit from it, is simple.
00:11:16.000Being called a racist almost never causes a racist to wake up.
00:11:19.000Being called a racist almost never causes a racist to say, oh wow, you're right.
00:11:23.000I get that it's hard not to scream racist at a racist.
00:11:25.000If you're a white person who wants to be an advocate, it's both infuriating and demoralizing to know that the people causing all the suffering are people who look just like you.
00:11:38.000We trust the familiar and are drawn to it.
00:11:40.000We distrust the unfamiliar and keep our distance.
00:11:42.000White people, liberal and conservative, often claim not to notice another person's race, but it's just not true.
00:11:47.000We are hardwired to recognize difference and to view it as an aberration.
00:11:50.000Noticing difference is not the same thing as hating difference, of course, but I'm not just talking about vicious white supremacists here.
00:11:55.000I'm talking about garden variety prejudice, and the answer that this lady says is, maybe yelling racist at people is not actually a good idea.
00:12:02.000Because when you yell racist to people, all you are doing is alienating people.
00:12:09.000When you encounter a person who believes he's merely honoring his ancestors by driving a car with an image of the Confederate battle flag on the tag, when a Facebook friend announces it's disrespectful to take a knee during the national anthem, when you sit down next to someone at a church picnic who genuinely loves and respects the black people they know, but who consistently votes for politicians with overtly racist policies, stop for a moment and take a breath.
00:12:27.000Before you say a single word, think of all the times you made an assumption about a stranger that proved to be untrue.
00:12:32.000Think of the times you found yourself feeling uneasy in the company of strangers of another race.
00:12:35.000This is not only a reasonable article, it's a far-left article, right?
00:12:39.000It suggests that all of these are elements of racism, but the best way to fight all of that is not to yell racist to people.
00:12:45.000The left says that this is a huge mistake.
00:12:48.000The left says that if you yell racist at a bunch of non-racist white people, that's totally fine, but if you say anything racist
00:12:54.000about a member of another race, then it's racism.
00:12:57.000I want to explain why the left believes this and what the ramifications are of that in just one second.
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00:14:25.000She says, poverty doesn't make you racist.
00:14:27.000It's more that the exhaustion strips you of the ability to dissemble for long.
00:14:30.000So if you're inclined toward racism already, it shows.
00:14:33.000A life lived close to tears of sheer fatigue and stress is not one in which you can expend the energy to stop yourself spouting your resentments or wielding your fears as a weapon.
00:14:41.000So in other words, some people choose racism, poverty doesn't cause racism, but individuals are responsible for their own racism, so why would you go easy on white racists?
00:14:50.000That's an opinion with which I have some sympathy.
00:14:53.000The problem is that the left has then claimed that Sarah Zhang, who is this new member of the New York Times editorial board, who has literally dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens of anti-white hate tweets on her feed, right, she's been left alone by the left.
00:15:05.000The left says that her brand of racism is just fine.
00:15:07.000Now, how do you know the left has a double standard on this?
00:15:10.000Candace Owens, who is black, right, a black woman, she took all of Sarah Zhang's tweets, or some of them, and she replaced the word white with black, tweeted them out, and Twitter banned her for a day.
00:15:22.000Candace Owens was tossed from Twitter for a day.
00:15:24.000Twitter called it a mistake, but it's pretty obvious that there's a double standard in how exactly the left approaches these issues.
00:15:30.000So when we talk about Alex Jones and whether Alex Jones ought to be banned by Facebook or Apple, no matter how much you dislike Alex Jones, the reality is the left is never going to consistently apply their standards, which suggests that if we have to choose between an inconsistently applied standard and no standard, no standard might actually be the better move, which is a scary place to be because the left is so
00:15:49.000Damn dishonest about their social standards on this sort of stuff.
00:16:50.000said that the meeting was originally about adoptions, that it was really about adoption policy and Russia wanting to change adoption policy.
00:17:32.000So the entire world goes nuts because now President Trump, who once claimed that this meeting was about adoptions and that he had nothing to do with writing the statements, has now announced that he wrote the statement and also that the meeting was not about adoptions.
00:17:43.000The meeting was actually about getting information on Hillary Clinton.
00:17:47.000Now, people are pointing out that the media is overwrought on this, considering that Trump tweeted the same thing like a year ago.
00:18:46.000What he asked was, if it's illegal for Donald Trump Jr.
00:18:48.000to get information on an opponent from a source that is not a U.S.
00:18:51.000citizen, how can the Clinton campaign and Fusion GPS gather information using a former British spy without violation?
00:18:58.000Seems like a reasonable question, right?
00:19:00.000How is it that you're saying it's criminal for Donald Trump Jr.
00:19:02.000to go get information from the Russians about Hillary Clinton, but it's not illegal for Hillary Clinton to pay Fusion GPS to go to a British spy named Christopher Steele, who will then go to Russia and then obtain OPPO information on Donald Trump?
00:19:14.000How is one illegal, but the other is not illegal?
00:19:16.000And the answer is, I'm not sure any of it is actually illegal.
00:19:19.000Eugene Volokh, who is a brilliant, brilliant lawyer, I think he teaches at UCLA School of Law still,
00:19:24.000He has a piece over at the Washington Post talking about whether it is a crime to do opposition research using foreign nationals.
00:19:31.000And he essentially concludes that it probably is not.
00:19:34.000That there is nothing in law that prevents you from going and talking to a Chinese citizen about the sins of your political opponents.
00:19:42.000He says, what happens if a Turkish dissenter
00:19:46.000Knows that there's a corrupt relationship between President Obama and the Turkish government and decides to tell the opposition in the presidential election about it.
00:19:53.000Are you just supposed to ignore that information?
00:19:55.000Are you supposed to pretend that the person didn't say it?
00:19:58.000Is it collusion to work with that person?
00:20:01.000And Volokh comes down on the side of no, that none of this is illegal, that Donald Trump Jr.
00:20:04.000meeting with the Russians was not, in fact, illegal, that getting information from the Russians probably was not illegal.
00:20:09.000I think that that is plausible, and I think it's probably right.
00:20:11.000I think it's difficult to imagine how exactly it's illegal for Donald Trump Jr.
00:20:15.000or even Donald Trump Sr., right, even Trump himself, to actually go and talk with Vladimir Putin and get information directly.
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00:22:31.000So let's say that the Trump administration, or the Trump campaign rather, paid the Russians for the information, then didn't report it to the FEC.
00:22:38.000Well, that would be a violation of campaign finance.
00:22:40.000The theory that they are using most often here, though, is illegal in-kind contributions unreported from foreign sources.
00:22:46.000So, in other words, you've got the Russian government that is donating information to the Trump campaign, and that acts as an illegal in-kind contribution.
00:22:55.000Again, though, I'm unsure that's the way that the law ought to be applied.
00:22:58.000And the reason I say that is, again, you have a situation where
00:23:02.000You find out that the president of the United States is in bed with the Turkish government and a Turkish dissenter goes to the opposition in the United States and gives that information.
00:23:11.000Is that an illegal in-kind contribution?
00:23:13.000Hard to imagine that counts as an illegal in-kind contribution.
00:23:16.000People do stuff for campaigns on a daily basis.
00:23:18.000That's not necessarily an illegal in-kind contribution.
00:23:22.000And the bar is a little bit higher than that.
00:23:24.000And it should be higher than that because the fact is that free flow of information during a campaign is actually a good thing.
00:23:29.000We want to know more about the candidates for whom we are voting.
00:23:32.000So what is the distinction, theoretically, between Hillary Clinton hiring Fusion GPS to hire a foreign citizen to go get oppo on Trump and Trump Jr.
00:23:58.000But that leads to this bizarre situation where if you pay a foreign source for oppo on your opponent, that's better than just getting it on a volunteer basis from a foreign source.
00:24:06.000So in other words, it's not clear that Trump Jr.
00:24:08.000actually committed a crime in any of this.
00:24:12.000and Trump admitting that this whole thing was designed to get OPPO research on Hillary Clinton, not clear that any of that is criminal, even if it is true.
00:24:33.000Is that if the president of the United States knew that the Russian government was attempting to work with him to take down Hillary Clinton and he decided to operate in those fears, that Democrats would attempt impeachment.
00:24:44.000They would claim that this was enough to go after President Trump.
00:24:46.000This is why you are seeing the Trump team say collusion is not a crime.
00:24:50.000Saying, okay, you actually need a crime in order to impeach.
00:24:53.000The Democrats are just going to impeach for whatever reason they can get behind.
00:24:56.000Now, where is the actual criminal activity?
00:25:14.000So none of this actually affects Trump personally.
00:25:18.000Unless Donald Trump was colluding with the Russians to actually commit a crime, and not just they were giving him information about Hillary Clinton, that they were hacking Hillary, and they were doing it with Trump's express coordination, that would be a crime.
00:25:31.000Anything else here is probably not a crime.
00:25:33.000Now, this does raise another issue, and that is obstruction.
00:25:36.000So, the Mueller investigation is now focusing in on obstruction of justice.
00:25:42.000They're trying to suggest that President Trump is trying to obstruct the investigation, and therefore,
00:25:46.000He has committed a crime in that sphere.
00:25:48.000Well, obstruction of justice would actually require him to shut down the investigation or stop the investigation in some way.
00:25:53.000There's no evidence that he has done any of that whatsoever yet.
00:25:57.000And it is not, in fact, obstruction of justice if the president doesn't decide to speak with Robert Mueller.
00:26:02.000It's a serious legal question right now as to whether President Trump, if subpoenaed by Robert Mueller, actually has to obey the subpoena.
00:26:09.000There's a case against Richard Nixon in which Richard Nixon was forced to give up evidence against himself.
00:26:13.000He was forced by a court to give up the Watergate tapes.
00:26:16.000But it's not clear, per se, the Supreme Court ruled, but it's not clear exactly whether Nixon would have had to testify in front of Congress if they had called him, or if a special investigator had called the president, whether the president would be compelled to testify.
00:26:30.000Jay Sekulow, who's still on the president's legal team, he says that President Trump is not going to obey subpoenas.
00:26:34.000If Robert Mueller decides to go after him, he may just ignore it.
00:26:38.000In a subpoena, you file what's called a motion to quash.
00:26:40.000That will be argued at the district court, then it would go to the Court of Appeals, then it would go to the Supreme Court of the United States.
00:26:46.000From the Supreme Court of the United States, it goes back down to the lower courts again.
00:26:50.000A subpoena for live testimony has never
00:26:53.000Okay, so this is going to be the argument that Trump makes.
00:27:02.000Now, is the strongest argument that he has politically that none of this is a crime?
00:27:06.000The strongest argument he has politically is that he didn't know about any of it, he didn't involve himself in any of it, there was no actual collusion in any legal or real sense.
00:27:15.000If however it turns out that there was in fact collusion, it's possible the collusion is not a crime.
00:27:19.000Then we have to determine whether the President of the United States gets tried in an actual criminal court or whether the proper approach is impeachment.
00:27:25.000It seems to me that constitutionally the proper approach is indeed impeachment.
00:27:29.000That was the system the founders set up.
00:27:31.000Remove a president by having a criminal case brought against him.
00:27:35.000This would happen to virtually every president because it's not too hard to come up with a situation in which the president committed a crime.
00:27:43.000I wrote an entire book about why theoretically you should be able to prosecute a president.
00:27:47.000It was called The Case Against Barack Obama.
00:27:49.000It was about Barack Obama's various crimes, his violations of statutory law, and the suggestion that I made is that law might have to be changed to allow for the prosecution of presidents, but I think that the Constitution itself is not really designed for that.
00:28:03.000You may actually need a constitutional amendment, although all of this is a really murky area of the law because
00:28:43.000I don't know what's possessing him to do this.
00:28:45.000I think he was just bored over the weekend, and he decided he's going to tweet out a bunch of stuff.
00:28:48.000And as we will see, these sort of stream-of-consciousness Twitter threads from the president, if you want him to be successful, folks, you got to root for him to stop, because it's not helping him in any way.
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00:30:21.000Okay, so speaking of the President's tweets, we're gonna get to the President tweeting about LeBron and tweeting about tariffs and tweeting about the press.
00:30:27.000It's a busy weekend on Twitter for the president.
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00:31:13.000All righty, so let's talk about the rest of President Trump's Twitter.
00:31:17.000So he didn't just tweet about how the Trump Tower meeting, which is now two years old, how that Trump Tower meeting was actually about colluding with the Russians, right?
00:32:21.000So now we're going to get into a full-on, greatest-of-all-time conversation between LeBron James and Michael Jordan, led by Donald Trump, which is going to be awesome.
00:32:30.000By the way, I will take Jordan narrowly.
00:32:32.000LeBron has definitely climbed in the rankings.
00:32:43.000Okay, for the president to call Don Lemon dumb or LeBron James dumb or Maxine Waters dumb, no, that's not racist because a complete listing of all the people that President Trump has called dumb numbers into the millions.
00:32:54.000Seriously, there are fewer people that President Trump has not called dumb than has called dumb on planet Earth right now.
00:32:59.000And yet the media decides that all of this is just evidence of President Trump's racism.
00:33:03.000Now, is this a fight that Trump needed to pick?
00:33:04.000Do we really need to have a Donald Trump versus LeBron James fight?
00:33:08.000He's the president of the United States.
00:34:00.000If you don't see this as racist, I would ask you to please go get your vision checked.
00:34:05.000When it comes to African Americans, when it comes to black people, he seems to go to the low IQ, dumbest person in the world attack quite often.
00:34:14.000It is his go-to when it comes to African Americans, that they are dumb.
00:34:19.000Okay, or alternatively, he calls everyone dumb because the President of the United States has insulted everyone from Chuck Todd to Jeb Bush.
00:34:29.000I mean, legitimately, he calls every single person dumb, right?
00:34:35.000He asked if he could have an IQ comparison with his own Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson.
00:35:42.000OK, so number one, I'm not sure which war he's saying that the American media caused.
00:35:46.000The last time the American media caused a war was probably the Cuban War, probably Spanish-American War, in which Teddy Roosevelt was a rough rider.
00:35:53.000So it's been probably 120 years since the media legitimately caused a war in the United States.
00:36:09.000So here's Chuck Todd saying this rationalizes violence.
00:36:13.000When you call a group of people, you otherize them the way he's trying to do with the press, calling them sick and sort of dehumanizing them.
00:36:20.000It makes violence against the press easier to rationalize for some.
00:36:31.000Really, I'm wondering, because, like, this morning, Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk, over at TPUSA, they were sitting in a restaurant over in Philadelphia, and a bunch of Antifa members saw them, decided to run inside, and then harassed them out of a restaurant, where they started dumping water on them.
00:36:45.000Here's what that looked like and sounded like.
00:37:01.000And then they're trying to scream, just geniuses over here.
00:37:06.000I do have to, and then they're pouring water on Charlie, which is, yes, I'm sure that the media have much to fear, but those on the right, understand, it's only Trump that has made this climate.
00:37:15.000It's only Trump that has made this climate.
00:37:17.000Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens, by the way, you're gonna be hard-pressed to find any two bigger Trump supporters in America, and they're the ones who are having water poured on them for the sin of sitting at a restaurant in Philadelphia.
00:37:27.000So, look, Trump knows how to troll the press, and the press fall for it every time.
00:37:30.000Still, should the president be calling the press the enemy of the people?
00:37:59.000That has broken out amongst folks on the right as to whether Trump is legitimately a fan of tariffs or whether he is not.
00:38:04.000The answer is he is legitimately a fan of tariffs.
00:38:06.000The president likes to signal on the one hand that he wants to lower all tariffs to zero and on the other hand that he likes tariffs.
00:38:13.000The lower tariffs to zero argument is actually not the one coming from President Trump's heart.
00:38:17.000The reason I know this is because if you look at President Trump's rhetoric over the last legitimately 35 years, he has always been in favor of high trade barriers and protectionism.
00:38:25.000He's a fan of high trade barriers and protectionism.
00:38:28.000And he tweeted out his fanhood for tariffs over the weekend.
00:38:30.000He tweeted out, In either event, it means jobs and great wealth.
00:39:29.000And that company has to reinvest in the United States, which is why some of the biggest automakers in the United States are Toyota and Honda, as well as BMW, by the way.
00:39:37.000And then he says, he says, No, it does not.
00:39:46.000It does not mean jobs and great wealth to tax the American people by charging them higher prices for the goods that they wish to buy.
00:39:53.000And then he continues with the falsehoods here.
00:39:55.000I mean, this is not even economically literate.
00:39:59.000He says, because of tariffs, we will be able to start paying down large amounts of the $21 trillion in debt that has been accumulated.
00:40:06.000What he basically has to be saying is the amount of taxes that we take off of foreign products, right, by raising the price and then we tax a product as it comes in, we're going to take all that money and we're going to pay it back to pay down the debt.
00:40:18.000The problem is, of course, that when you lower the economic growth in a society, which is what tariffs also do, you take in less income tax and less sales tax.
00:40:24.000So, there's no evidence that tariffs are going to outweigh the economic impact of the tariffs in terms of paying down the debt.
00:40:31.000Also worth noting, President Trump has blown out the deficit.
00:40:33.000I know that we're all supposed to pretend that this has been a fiscally responsible administration.
00:40:36.000This has not been a fiscally responsible administration.
00:40:39.000I like a lot of their monetary policy.
00:40:45.000The deficit is actually increasing at a higher rate than it did in the last years of Obama.
00:40:50.000So this talk about Donald Trump being some sort of deficit hawk is just ridiculous.
00:40:54.000And when he finally says that this reduces taxes for our people, tariffs are literally a tax.
00:40:59.000It does not reduce taxes on Americans to make them pay more for products.
00:41:03.000Tariffs are literally a tax on the American people.
00:41:05.000So none of this makes any sense at all.
00:41:07.000And again, it betrays what the president actually thinks.
00:41:09.000Now, there are people who say, well, this is going to come out in Trump's favor because the fact that he speaks so warmly of tariffs means that other countries are going to be afraid that he will use them and then they will lower their own tariffs.
00:41:19.000OK, well, if they come out that way, then great.
00:41:21.000But I don't think that that's part of Trump's strategy.
00:41:23.000I also don't think that that's necessary in order to get other countries to lower their tariffs.
00:41:27.000In fact, one of the best ways to get other countries to lower their tariffs is to lower your own tariffs.
00:41:31.000Because when you lower your own tariffs, what you're actually doing is you are making it easier for your own companies to produce advanced products with the importation of cheaper products from abroad.
00:41:40.000So let's say we lower our tariffs against foreign steel.
00:41:42.000Yes, it hurts the domestic steel industry, but it sure as hell helps the American car industry.
00:41:47.000The American car industry becomes a global leader because suddenly it's a lot cheaper to produce that car.
00:41:52.000When you import cheap products into the United States, I now save money that I can use to invest in workers here at The Daily Wire.
00:42:08.000If you would just go to a basement for two years and turn off your phone and watch just replays of Shark Week all the time, you would be at 55% of the approval ratings.
00:42:19.000What I don't like is the fact that all of this is happening and it's obvious it's having an impact on down-ballot races.
00:42:24.000If Congress goes the wrong way in 2018 and we hear the revisionist history about how it's the fault of the media, or about how it had nothing to do with Trump, or about how it was Democrat lies, or all the rest of the stuff.
00:42:34.000Listen, there are a few factors that are always consistent in American politics.
00:42:37.000The media are the left and Democrats lie.
00:42:40.000But, the one factor that has changed, and that is undermining a lot of popularity for Republicans in swing districts, is the fact that the president creates this feeling of chaos, and then he tweets out silly things at a ridiculous rate.
00:43:00.000So, I've been very critical of President Trump today, but one of the things that makes President Trump very popular, obviously,
00:43:07.000Is the fact that he has an innate sense of nationalistic patriotism.
00:43:12.000And that was on full display yesterday.
00:43:13.000The motorcade was passing a bunch of firefighters and he decided to get out of the motorcade and just go say thank you to the firefighters, which is pretty awesome.
00:43:31.000Just like you are, you're good, you're good.
00:43:37.000Trump is a terrific retail politician, and he does have a gut-level loyalty to cops and firefighters and soldiers, and that is a far cry from the former president of the United States, Barack Obama, who is constantly ripping on police officers particularly.
00:44:01.000I mean, that's, I think, how all of our politicians should behave when it comes to cops, firefighters, and soldiers.
00:44:07.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:44:12.000So over the weekend on Water's World on Fox News, a show in which I've appeared, there's a guy named Terrence Williams, black guy, and he was talking about Sarah Jean.
00:44:20.000Sarah Jean, who we discussed last week and a little bit earlier on the show, is of course this newest member of the New York Times editorial board.
00:44:38.000It is legitimately dozens and dozens and dozens of them.
00:44:41.000And Terrence Williams goes on Jesse Waters' show and he launches into what can only be described as a racist attack on Asians, which is just great.
00:44:48.000I'm glad that we've decided to do this now.
00:44:50.000So they're saying, oh yeah, some people said some racist stuff to her.
00:44:54.000So then she said racist stuff back to imitate them.
00:45:10.000Terrence, I think you now got yourself in trouble.
00:45:15.000Okay, so what's funny about this, the only thing that's funny about this at all, because the joke is not funny, the joke's terrible.
00:45:20.000The only thing that is funny about this at all is that the left got really offended at this after spending all of last week explaining that racism by people of color is not a thing.
00:45:33.000But I guess black people can be racist against Asians, but only under certain circumstances.
00:45:37.000This is the problem with the intersectional hierarchy.
00:45:39.000When you suggest that we can judge by the color of your skin whether you are capable of bad behavior or not, first of all, it's unbelievably paternalistic.
00:45:48.000Second of all, it's incredibly insulting to black folks and Asian folks and people of every race to suggest that bad behavior cannot be attributed to individual choices.
00:46:00.000To whether you are a member of a victimized minority group.
00:46:04.000I will say that there is something ironic about the left getting very, very upset about Terrence Williams saying this sort of stuff, where they would be fully fine with Sarah Zhang saying the same thing about white folks.
00:46:12.000She's sitting on the New York Times editorial board.
00:46:15.000I don't think Terrence Williams' invitation is in the mail anytime soon.
00:46:20.000So Jeremy Corbyn, who's legitimately just an awful human being, he has now apologized for the hurt caused by the Labor Party's anti-Semitism in Britain, the Labor Party.
00:46:29.000is a far-left anti-semitic party that has basically embraced Hamas and Hezbollah.
00:46:35.000He was caught on video in 2010 showing him at a pro-Palestinian rally and referring to Hamas terrorists as his friends and comparing the destruction in Gaza to that of Stalingrad and Leningrad during World War II.
00:46:45.000And here he is pretending that the Labour Party is not anti-semitic.
00:46:49.000I'm sorry for the hurt that's been caused to many Jewish people.
00:46:52.000We have been too slow in processing disciplinary cases of mostly online anti-Semitic abuse by party members.
00:47:00.000We're acting to speed this process up.
00:47:03.000People who hold anti-Semitic views have no place in the Labour Party.
00:47:08.000People who hold anti-Semitic views have no place in the Labour Party except in their top leadership because Jeremy Corbyn is in fact a brutal anti-Semite and the fact that he is considered not so is just a demonstration that if you're a leftist you can get away with legitimately anything on planet Earth.
00:47:22.000It truly is an incredible, incredible thing.
00:47:24.000Okay, time for a quick Federalist paper.
00:47:27.000Every week, we go through a Federalist paper.
00:47:28.000We are all the way up to Federalist number 40.
00:47:30.000So, in this Federalist paper, James Madison is still attempting to defend the fact that the Constitutional Convention went beyond its original mandate to alter the Articles of Confederation.
00:47:38.000So, if you remember your history, there was something called the Articles of Confederation.
00:47:42.000That was the first attempt to form an American government.
00:47:44.000It was too weak because the centralized government didn't actually have the power to tax, relieve, or gather an army, or protect the country.
00:47:50.000And so, there was an Articles of Convention meeting, an Articles of Confederation convention, rather,
00:47:56.000In which people were supposed to get together and change the Articles of Confederation.
00:48:01.000Instead, they went beyond that and just scrapped the entire thing.
00:48:04.000And here's Madison suggesting why that was okay.
00:48:19.000So this sounds a lot like the ends justify the means, the argument that Madison is making here, which is, you sent us here to do one thing, we decided to do another thing, the product's good, so deal with it.
00:48:28.000I don't like this logic very much from James Madison.
00:48:30.000I think that when you are sent for a particular purpose, that you ought to fulfill that particular purpose.
00:48:34.000They are delegates, they are not there to completely surpass that.
00:48:37.000However, this is the difference between a republic and a democracy.
00:48:42.000In a democracy, the people get to vote on every specific policy.
00:49:02.000You have to have everybody, when it comes to the Constitution itself, after the establishment of the Constitution, every branch has to feel an independent need to justify its own behavior along constitutional lines, and the American people have to hold our representatives accountable along those same lines, rather than just suggesting that whatever they decide to do is totally fine.
00:49:22.000You have to constantly be holding yourself to a higher standard.
00:49:24.000I don't think they did, actually, when they formed the Constitution of the United States.
00:49:28.000In this case, maybe the ends did justify the means, but as a general rule of thumb, I think that the anti-federalists who argued this were probably on better footing than James Madison was.
00:49:35.000Okay, we'll be back here tomorrow with all the latest.