Students across the country are taking the day off of school to protest gun violence, and President Trump says some stuff about a space force or something. Today's episode of The Ben Shapiro Show is all about the massive student walkout, and why we should let the kids do the work. Plus, a look at the Democratic primary in Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district, and a call from the New York Times to let the children run the country. Ben Shapiro is the host of the conservative podcast "The Weekly Standard" and is a regular contributor to CNN and other major news outlets. He's also the co-host of the radio show "The Daily Wire" and hosts the podcast "Off The Record" with Alex Blumberg. His new book Other Words For Smoke is out now and available for pre-order on Amazon Prime and Vimeo worldwide. Click here to buy a copy of the book here. Thanks for listening and share the podcast with your friends and family. Tweet me and let us know what you thought of this episode! if you have any thoughts, suggestions, suggestions or opinions on anything else you d like to hear me talk about in the future episodes of the show. Timestamps: 1:00 - What's going on in the news? 3:30 - What do you think of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Walkout? 4:15 - What would you like to see more of Ben Shapiro's new book? 5:00 6:00- What are you looking for in the country? 7:10 - What are your thoughts on the future of gun control? 8: Should the kids take over your homework? 9: What's the role of the kids? 11:40 - Why do the kids run the job? 12:30- What should the kids lead us? 13:30 15:15- What do the job of the children? 16:40- What is your opinion on abortion? 17:10- Why the kids can do better than the job than the adults? 18:00 + 17:00+ - Is it necessary? 19: What are the job the kids should do? 21: Is there a job the job that the kids are doing? 22:00 Is the work that the adults should be running the work? or not? 25:00 | What are they running the table?
00:00:17.000So today, I'm interested in talking about what's happening with this student walkout rather than awkwardly staring at the camera for weird periods of time.
00:00:25.000I'm actually going to talk about what's going on in the news.
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00:02:12.000A couple of big news stories out the gate today, so we will get to what happened in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District last night, because that actually—I have a lot of notes on that.
00:02:22.000But we begin today with this massive walkout that's happening at supposedly 2,500 schools all over America, where a bunch of kids, astroturfed by people who organized the Women's March, have decided to walk out of school for 17 minutes to honor the victims at Parkland—rather, the Parkland school shooting, the victims at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
00:02:42.000And of course, what this really is, is not a call for an agenda, right?
00:02:46.000It's not actually an agenda-driven march, right?
00:02:49.000We actually don't know what they want, and if you read what the Women's March say they are marching for, nobody agrees with their actual agenda.
00:02:55.000I'll get to their actual agenda in a second, but what it really is about,
00:02:57.000It's about having a lot of pictures of a lot of young people standing around and saying that they hate gun violence so that a bunch of leftist politicians can claim that they are standing with the children in pushing for vast gun confiscation regimes.
00:03:26.000All the adults at the New York Times, who are all in their 50s, they always talk about how wonderful and genius these 17-year-olds are, but I don't see them giving up their jobs anytime soon to high school juniors who are attending Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
00:03:36.000But here's what they write in their editorial.
00:03:51.000But now, of course, adults are supposed to take care of children, according to the New York Times, not by defending kids with guns, but by letting kids decide policy, which is a weird way of protecting them.
00:04:00.000They say schools are essentially an extension of the home in that sense, providing sanctuaries of learning, of nurturing and care.
00:04:05.000But after years of attacks by people with weapons of war, students cannot feel safe and are demanding that adults end years of complacence and act.
00:04:13.000The school shootings are actually on the decline, not on the uptick, statistically speaking.
00:04:17.000And your chances of being killed in a school shooting are significantly worse than your chances of being killed in virtually any other sort of accident in the United States.
00:04:39.000They just look at young people and they magically know that all of Chuck Schumer's proposals on gun control have embedded themselves in the minds of young folks.
00:04:47.000But what is the smack of the smacks of the New York Times?
00:04:49.000Basically, taking a child, putting the child out front and saying, this child demands that you do what I say you do.
00:04:54.000Are you going to say no to this very cute child?
00:04:57.000It's like the Pinky and the Brain episode, where they decide to take over the world by becoming small children with big puppy eyes.
00:05:03.000The way to actually become leaders is to show something really cute.
00:05:07.000Well, that's what the New York Times is basically doing here.
00:05:09.000They say, at Stoneman Douglas Jr., Florence Yared said at the Florida State Capitol late last month,
00:05:27.000Again, you know, I understand that this girl went through something absolutely horrible, but the world is significantly safer for kids growing up today than it has been at any time literally in human history.
00:05:38.000And if she thinks that she's going to be able to ram through gun control because something bad happened to her, I have another thing coming for her.
00:05:43.000She says, with Wednesday's demonstration and their March for Our Lives movement on March 24th in Washington, young voices are being heard.
00:06:21.000Then all of these high schoolers are the wisest and greatest among us.
00:06:23.000Now again, tragedy does not confer expertise.
00:06:26.000I've said this about Jimmy Kimmel and his son.
00:06:28.000Just because something bad happened to you in your life does not make you an expert on the underlying issue.
00:06:33.000Jimmy Kimmel had a surgeon perform the surgery on his son.
00:06:35.000He didn't perform the surgery himself because he understands that just because he was suffering doesn't mean that expertise goes out the window.
00:06:42.000Just because you witnessed something awful happen at your school does not mean you know what you are talking about when it comes to the best public policy to stop such shootings.
00:06:49.000But the New York Times, again, they want to use these kids as political human shields, and so here is what they do.
00:06:55.000They turn over their editorial page to these kids, and then they quote them, right?
00:08:25.000But just because we all want to stop mass shootings doesn't mean I agree with Emma Gonzalez's prescription.
00:08:29.000I mean, all of this is basically Bernie Sanders-style politics.
00:08:32.000I've ripped on Bernie Sanders' Twitter account for a long time because Bernie Sanders' Twitter account is largely Bernie Sanders just saying things like, there are rich people and there are poor people.
00:09:36.000So, the New York Times did turn over one of the editorials on their editorial page to a sophomore at Randolph High School, a junior at Toms River North High School, and a senior at Marlboro High School, all in New Jersey.
00:09:48.000Again, this is just political human shield stuff, right?
00:09:51.000They're going to bring out a bunch of young kids and then suggest these kids know something better because they are kids.
00:10:21.000Well, I'm sure that some of you are, and some of you are not.
00:10:23.000I mean, there are lots of people who vote, there are lots of people who don't vote, there are lots of people who lead, there are lots of people who don't.
00:10:39.000There are lots of people who are young who will join the NRA.
00:10:51.000Now, the reason that I'm reading all of this from the New York Times is to demonstrate that they're rather selective in the folks that they choose to feature.
00:10:58.000Because there are a lot of young listeners to The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:11:00.000There are a lot of young people who listen to this show.
00:11:02.000Something like 70-75% of our audience is under the age of 35.
00:11:05.000We have a very disproportionately young audience, of which we're very proud.
00:11:09.000And we have tons and tons of high schoolers who listen to this show.
00:11:20.000I'm talking about probably more than 100 emails from high schoolers over the last week alone.
00:11:25.000And today, many, many more, after I wrote this piece, who are saying that they are upset with the media coverage of this mass walkout and asking for advice on how to deal with it.
00:11:35.000I've gotten lots and lots of emails from these folks.
00:11:39.000And I want to read the emails from some of these students who are not going to be featured in the New York Times.
00:11:43.000I want to read some of the emails from these students who are not going to be shown on network news tonight.
00:11:46.000I want to read the emails from some of the students who are going to be ignored and castigated and told that they are worse, that they are worse human beings because they disagree with gun control.
00:11:55.000I want to give them a voice, because the rest of the media certainly are not giving these kids a voice.
00:11:59.000And I am speaking with these kids, I promise you, far more often than the editorial board of the New York Times is.
00:12:03.000The editorial of the New York Times hasn't talked to a person under the age of 40, except for, like, this last couple days in years.
00:12:09.000I'm talking to people under the age of 20 every single day.
00:12:12.000So I'm going to read some of the things that they've been sending to me and let them speak.
00:12:15.000So I'm going to turn over my show to them in just one second.
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00:13:29.000Now, I want to read some of the emails that I've been getting from high schoolers all over the country who are deeply upset and deeply angry that there are so many people who are castigating them as bad people because they disagree.
00:13:41.000I mean, I'm looking at just in the last hour.
00:13:43.000In the last hour, I've received 15 separate emails in one hour.
00:13:47.000Before the show, from various high school students who are asking about what they should do during these walkouts, because they're frustrated and they're upset.
00:13:56.000Here's a high school junior today, quote, honestly, it's like the Women's March.
00:13:59.000There's no single consolidated argument, just a loose collection of rants that obscure the main point.
00:14:03.000From a 16-year-old high school girl, quote, I was planning on not participating in the walkout.
00:14:07.000I do not see the point in leaving class to simply walk outside, stand and talk with peers for 17 minutes, and return to class.
00:14:12.000The act of walking out of class to protest school violence
00:14:15.000Does not seem to have a target audience, even though they may have a news crew.
00:14:18.000It is doubtful the students in Florida will see the actions of our school's walkout as a stand with solidarity.
00:14:23.000I also support the Second Amendment, and I see this walkout as another opportunity for students and their parents to attack that amendment and my opposition to gun control.
00:14:31.000I do see that my refusal to participate may be seen as unsympathetic or cruel.
00:14:35.000My brother, who's a freshman, is being pressured in class to participate.
00:14:38.000from a 17-year-old high school student.
00:14:39.000Tomorrow, my school is having a walkout at 10 a.m.
00:14:41.000for the 17 students who were killed in the Parkland, Florida shooting.
00:14:43.000The walkout, however, here at my school is not really about that.
00:14:46.000It is being promoted by an anti-gun leftist political agenda that I just don't and can't support, especially using the 17 kids that were my age as a platform.
00:14:53.000I was wondering what you would say to people who want to call me insensitive and a terrible person.
00:14:57.000I mean, my initial response to that is anybody who calls you insensitive and a terrible person because you disagree on political matters is insensitive and a terrible person.
00:15:05.000Here's from another 17-year-old high school student.
00:15:17.000I'm in favor of walking to honor the victims, but not in favor of promoting gun reform.
00:15:21.000I feel like I have to choose between going against my political values or looking like a bad person.
00:15:53.000Here's one that came in in the last four minutes.
00:15:55.000Okay, hello, my name is — I'm going to bleep out his name and his class because I don't want him to get in trouble.
00:16:00.000I saw your tweet about the unheard conservative students and it is very relatable.
00:16:03.000There was a walkout at my school today.
00:16:04.000A large majority of the students sat in the gym instead of walking out.
00:16:06.000This is a school of about 1,800 people.
00:16:08.000Fortunately, my school would not allow protests, so the liberal students had to mask it as a memorial, but the motives were still very much apparent.
00:16:14.000The local media only covered the minority of the students participating in the walkout.
00:16:18.000I have a question as to how to get my own and my conservative peers' voices heard.
00:16:22.000Can you post about that or something related to that sometime, please?
00:16:30.000I'm just pulling them up from my mailbag right now.
00:16:33.000This guy, this guy is named Anthony, says, Ben, first, let me say I'm a big fan of the show on the website.
00:16:37.000Second, I'm a 16-year-old sophomore in Philadelphia.
00:16:41.000Our student council, in collaboration with our school administration, organized a walkout today to remember and pray for the victims of the recent shooting.
00:16:47.000In my opinion, this walkout quickly shifted into a walkout for gun control, similar to the walkouts occurring across the nation.
00:16:52.000We thankfully had the option to choose to stay inside, which I did.
00:16:55.000As a Catholic, I stayed inside and said a prayer for the victims of the shooting.
00:16:58.000However, I refuse to go outside to protest gun control because I am a proud Second Amendment supporter.
00:17:02.000I believe we have the constitutional right to bear arms, and therefore it shall not be infringed upon.
00:17:05.000Just thought I would share my story regarding this walkout.
00:17:08.000I'm getting these things—they're coming in faster than I can actually read all of them, because there are tons of them coming in over and over and over.
00:17:22.000The media won't read you any of these emails, because the media wants to promote this agenda.
00:17:25.000The media wants to suggest that the only reason in the world that you would not walk out with these students is because you hate the students and you don't care about the students, and by the way, we support gun control.
00:17:34.000Now, in a second, I'm going to talk about the supposed agenda of this gun control walkout.
00:17:39.000In a second, I'm going to talk about that.
00:17:42.000The Women's March is organizing this, first of all.
00:17:44.000The Women's March is organized by some of the worst people on earth.
00:17:48.000Three of the four people who are Women's March co-chairs are open supporters of Louis Farrakhan.
00:17:53.000And still, the Women's March has not really disciplined them.
00:17:55.000The Women's March has not demoted them.
00:17:57.000These three people have not come out and apologized for their support of Louis Farrakhan.
00:18:00.000The Women's March put out sort of a ridiculously vague statement about how they want to be tolerant, but they didn't go any further than that.
00:18:06.000The Women's March is a group of radicals who like to obscure their message by suggesting that you have to walk out in support of women.
00:18:13.000We have to walk out in support of children.
00:18:15.000But here's what they're actually stumping for.
00:18:16.000So if you actually go to the Women's March website, and they have something called hashtag enough national school walkout, our demands.
00:18:25.000You can elect people who do what you want, but your demands are going to fall on deaf ears because it's just you shouting at the wind with media support.
00:18:40.000Assault weapons don't protect, they harm, and too easily these deadly weapons can be bought, sold, and distributed within the borders of our nation.
00:18:46.000How can we enjoy freedom if our own country condones the selling of deadly, military-grade weapons which threaten our very existence?
00:18:52.000The right to bear arms should not be the right to kill.
00:18:55.000No one says you have the right to kill, you idiots.
00:18:57.000And the notion that assault weapons are even a definable category is ridiculous.
00:19:03.000You know what a military-grade arm is?
00:19:28.000This is, again, a misstatement of the law.
00:19:30.000The statement is that if you're going to buy from a federally licensed firearms dealer over the internet, at a gun show, or anywhere else, you have to go through a federal background check.
00:19:36.000The well-researched connection between a history of domestic violence and gun violence, combined with expanded background checks, could have prevented much of the gun violence we experience in this country.
00:19:44.000We know states that required background checks on all handgun sales or permits had 35% fewer gun deaths per capita than states without that background check requirement.
00:19:54.000I don't know where you are getting that particular statistic, and I would like to.
00:19:59.000I haven't had a chance to actually vet that statistic.
00:20:00.000That comes from the Giffords Law Center to prevent gun violence.
00:20:05.000I think that, you know, the statistics do not bear out that one factor in a multifactorial analysis explains the states that have fewer gun deaths per capita.
00:20:16.000That background check on handgun sales, you'd have to explain that there are a bunch of people who are buying privately and then shooting people.
00:20:20.000Again, those statistics are not available as a general rule.
00:20:58.000Then they get to the final one, and this undermines all their others.
00:21:02.000In 2017, there were only 14 days when police didn't kill someone.
00:21:07.000So it's important that when we talk about gun violence, we not forget state-sanctioned gun violence that disproportionately impacts black or brown communities.
00:21:18.000Non-mentioned here, black people also constitute one half of all murder victims in the United States and approximately half of all murderers in the United States.
00:21:26.000This is not a statement about race being implicitly tied with violence, but so long as you are citing race in connection with violence statistics, it's important to note that police actually statistically undershoot minority people.
00:21:35.000They don't overshoot minority people if you actually connect that with the levels of violence occurring in the minority community.
00:21:41.000This act would slow the process of turning our neighborhoods into war zones by preventing the police from having the weaponry and equipment of invading armies.
00:22:22.000I mean, at some point in here, they actually talk about how they want to oppose international violence or something like that.
00:22:28.000This is an agenda-driven march masquerading as a broad statement of sympathy for students.
00:22:33.000I hate that sort of conflation because it's just not true.
00:22:36.000Okay, in a second, I'm going to move on to Pennsylvania 18th, and I want to also give a piece of advice to all the students who are experiencing the walkouts today.
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00:24:45.000Go to the walkout and carry a sign saying that you stand with the Second Amendment and you stand with the kids.
00:24:49.000The media will ignore you, but at least you'll have made your point, and I think that's sort of important.
00:24:53.000Okay, so last night the other big news, aside from the impending school walkout, was the results from the Pennsylvania 18th Congressional District.
00:25:00.000So, Conor Lamb apparently has won that seat, or apparently it looks like he's going to win that seat.
00:25:06.000That district went to Donald Trump by 20 points. 20.
00:25:09.000And it is flipped all the way Democrat.
00:25:11.000This makes just another data point in a data set that is really, really bad for conservatives.
00:25:17.000According to FiveThirtyEight.com, in the seven special elections that have taken place since 2016, there's been an average swing in favor of Democrats of 16 points.
00:25:25.000And the way they're measuring that swing is they average the differences between how the constituencies in these particular districts voted and how the country overall voted in the last two presidential elections.
00:25:34.000So the average swing has been 16 points.
00:25:37.000There was a 31-point swing, for example, in the Alabama U.S.
00:25:39.000Senate race, in which Doug Jones ended up becoming the senator.
00:25:42.000The Democrat ended up becoming the senator.
00:25:44.000The same thing happened in Pennsylvania last night.
00:25:47.000There's a 20 point swing in that race.
00:25:50.000This is not good news for Republicans.
00:25:52.000It's actually very bad news for Republicans, pretty obviously.
00:25:55.000And Republicans are trying to make all sorts of excuses for this.
00:25:57.000They're trying to explain why this is not such a big deal.
00:26:00.000One of the explanations is put forward by Kayleigh McEnany, who's a big Trump fan, big Trump acolyte.
00:26:05.000And she says, listen, Conor Lamb won because he was basically running as a Republican.
00:26:08.000Conor Lamb has essentially run as a Republican.
00:26:38.000He says he is personally pro-life, but he is in favor of abortion being legalized all the way across the board.
00:26:44.000He is not pro-gun control, so he opposes gun control.
00:26:47.000This is not an argument that Republicans are going to do well in 2018.
00:26:50.000It's an argument that if Democrats are not stupid and they run people tailored to their districts, they will do better.
00:26:54.000If they run John Ossoff in the Georgia 6th district, if they run a Nancy Pelosi fan who's not from inside the district, they're going to lose.
00:26:59.000If they run Doug Jones, who is perceived as moderate in Alabama, even though he is not, if they run Conor Lamb, who is perceived as moderate in the Pennsylvania 18th, then they will win.
00:27:07.000So, the argument here is not that Republicans are doing fine because this Democrat ran a conservative campaign.
00:27:12.000The point is, a Democrat, just one, who caucused with Democrats in a district that no Republican has lost—no Republican has lost in 20 years, and no Republican has won by fewer than 15 points in the last 20 years.
00:27:47.000I don't want Republicans to lose the House.
00:27:48.000I think it would be terrible, as I've said many times on the show, for Republicans to lose the House because I think the Democrats would then start passing all sorts of bills, and I think President Trump would be sorely tempted to sign a lot of those bills.
00:27:57.000I'm not sure that Trump is going to stand between the Democrats and their policy priorities if he thinks he's going to get some good headlines out of it, particularly if he can swivel to the middle.
00:28:05.000If he can give Democrats a bunch of things they want and get a bunch of good headlines, Trump likes pleasing the people who are in the room with him.
00:28:11.000I'm very perturbed by the possibility of a Democratic Congress.
00:28:15.000And it's fairly obvious at this point that Democrats do have a major enthusiasm advantage.
00:28:20.000Again, in those seven special elections in 2017, Democrats gained an average of 16%.
00:28:25.000Last night, they gained 20% just over 2016.
00:28:28.000So in a year, like one year, that district shifted by 20 points.
00:28:33.000One of the reasons for that is obviously that Republican enthusiasm is really low.
00:28:36.000There's only 60% of the turnout that they got in 2016.
00:29:08.000Republicans will win the vast majority of those seats.
00:29:10.000But Democrats only need to pick up 24 seats in order to win the House.
00:29:12.000So you have to say at this point that statistically speaking, in a data-driven way, they are the favorites to pick up the House, which means House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, God help us.
00:29:35.000His base was not big enough to win the popular vote.
00:29:38.000And congressional elections are going to look a lot more like the popular vote than they are like the electoral college because, again, they're within smaller districts.
00:29:44.000The electoral college means that if you win the state of Florida by one vote, you win all of their electoral votes.
00:29:49.000But congressional districts are much more localized.
00:29:51.000So that means that national polling, you know, these sort of generic congressional ballots, they do matter.
00:29:56.000If there's a generic congressional ballot that shows the Democrats are up by about nine, which is where they're saying it is right now, Democrats win back the House in a pretty easy walk.
00:30:05.000My president's with low popularity ratings, depressed turnout for their own side, and Trump has a gift for increasing turnout on the other side, at least now that Democrats realize that he could be president.
00:30:14.000The reason that the Democrats didn't show up to vote for Hillary is because Hillary was awful, but also because they believed it was a foregone conclusion that Hillary was going to win.
00:30:20.000And they believed that if they stayed home, it wouldn't make a difference.
00:30:22.000Hillary was going to walk over Trump by 10 points.
00:30:26.000And I don't think they're going to make that mistake again.
00:30:28.000So Trump had better pull his plummeting popularity ratings out from the sewer.
00:30:33.000Democrats are also, as I say, running better candidates.
00:30:35.000Conor Lamb is a much better candidate than John Ossoff.
00:30:38.000Lamb ran, it is true, as a soft Republican.
00:30:41.000But the fact that he ran as a soft Republican
00:30:44.000Demonstrates that Democrats may not be quite as stupid as the intersectionality-laden politics they have been promoting would suggest, which is devastating for Republicans.
00:30:54.000We've been hoping that Democrats are going to basically cave in on themselves.
00:30:59.000They will run the worst candidates in human history again and again and again and again.
00:31:03.000They will in some districts, but not in all districts.
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00:32:27.000All of which is to suggest that things are not going to get better for President Trump.
00:32:31.000And not unless President Trump makes a market shift in how he approaches politics, which is very unlikely at this point, because the economy's booming.
00:32:38.000Like, what could get better at this point, really?
00:32:41.000Policy-wise, for all those policy wonks who think that everything's going to get better, this was supposed to be one of the districts that was going to love President Trump's tariffs, right?
00:35:32.000The races separated by like a thousand votes.
00:35:35.000So before we just start ignoring data because it is convenient to us to ignore data, then I think we should probably look at that data and analyze whether or not any of this is a good idea.
00:35:46.000Okay, so quick note on my friend Steven Crowder.
00:35:48.000So my friend Steven Crowder has now been suspended from Twitter for violating its hateful conduct terms.
00:35:54.000He's apparently also been suspended from YouTube, which is insane.
00:35:57.000Right, so now they posted a South by Southwest video of Sven computer infiltrating a gender fluid panel and Twitter suspended Steven's account.
00:36:09.000So they've said that he needs to delete the tweets that violate the rules.
00:36:12.000They've suspended the account for 12 hours.
00:36:14.000Okay, here's what Crowder's website is saying.
00:37:21.000And his counterparts on the right, people like Richard Spencer, who I even hesitate to call of the right,
00:37:26.000You know, Richard Spencer, who is sort of the white version of Louis Farrakhan in reverse, right?
00:37:31.000Richard Spencer has been suspended from Twitter.
00:37:33.000I don't think he's on Twitter anymore.
00:37:34.000I think he's been banned from Twitter.
00:37:35.000The same thing holds true of Milo Yiannopoulos.
00:37:37.000Now, I'm not in favor of any of these people being banned from Twitter, even though I despise all of them, but...
00:37:41.000I think that it is completely absurd that Steven is getting knocked off these platforms because Steven happens to be a conservative comedian, where if you were a left-wing comedian and you said exactly the same words about Christians, everything would be totally fine.
00:37:53.000If you said the same words about Jews, everything would be totally fine.
00:37:56.000This double standard that exists in social media is really dangerous.
00:37:58.000It's one of the reasons why Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google, all of these outlets seem to be targeting conservative content right now.
00:38:05.000Conservatives better get on their horse.
00:38:06.000I mean, we better start building some of our own outlets because the reality
00:38:09.000Is that if we don't build some open threat outlets, if we don't build some open source outlets that allow people to post what they want to post with some very, very minute restrictions, then the left will simply castigate everything as hate speech.
00:38:21.000And this is one of the things that's been so funny in the recent couple of weeks.
00:38:24.000The left keeps saying, well, you know, you know, you're worried about crackdowns on free speech on college campuses.
00:38:29.000You're worried about intolerant leftists.
00:38:30.000But if you look at the polls, people on campus say they're for free speech.
00:38:34.000Right, but those same polls show that these people say that they are against what they call racist speech, but the problem is they then define racist speech as anything they disagree with.
00:38:40.000So you have a definitional problem that's very serious.
00:38:43.000Okay, the same thing is happening to Crowder here.
00:38:45.000Lumping in Crowder with Milo Yiannopoulos or lumping in Christina Hoff Summers with Richard Spencer.
00:38:50.000As some people on the left are trying to do is just absurd.
00:38:55.000If you're not going to make any sort of honest intellectual distinction between these categories, then you don't deserve to have a platform.
00:39:21.000President Trump there in San Diego, California, taking a look at the border wall prototypes.
00:39:27.000In the meantime, I just want to let you know that more than 400 firms submitted proposals to be included here.
00:39:34.000Six companies built a total of eight prototypes.
00:39:38.000The prototypes, you can see a lot of them there in the background, are 18 to 30 feet high.
00:39:43.000Okay, so Trump goes and visits the prototypes.
00:39:45.000The purpose of this, of course, is to show the Democrats that he's serious about building the wall, even though we have not had one foot yet built of the wall.
00:39:53.000The president then talked a little bit about the wall, and for some odd reason started talking about the Jamaican bobsled team or the Mexican mountain climbing team.
00:40:00.000Like, really, this is a thing that happened.
00:40:02.000The larger it is, the better it is, because it's very hard to get over the top.
00:40:06.000It's really deterrent from getting over the top.
00:42:08.000Okay, meanwhile, the President, this is breaking news in the last few minutes, the President of the United States about to appoint, as the head of his National Economic Council, the famed free trader, Larry Kudlow.
00:42:20.000Which just goes to show you that Trump really doesn't have policies, he just has people he likes.
00:42:25.000is basically Gary Cohn, except his name is Larry Kudlow.
00:42:28.000So, Gary Cohn, you recall, was ousted from the National Economic Council head.
00:42:32.000He was supposed to be the guy who stood up to Trump's anti-free trade agenda, and he stepped down after Trump said that he was going to push forward with his steel and aluminum tariffs.
00:42:41.000Kudlow has been an ardent free trader for years.
00:42:42.000He says that free trade is the bulwark of the international system.
00:42:46.000Trump's appointing him to replace Cohn, which is a really weird pick.
00:42:53.000President Donald Trump plans to name Kudlow as his top economic advisor, sources told CNBC.
00:42:57.000Trump could announce his decision to choose Kudlow as his National Economic Council director as soon as Thursday.
00:43:02.000The CNBC senior contributed an on-air personality to replace Gary Cohn, who left the White House earlier this month amid disagreements about tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.
00:43:10.000Now, I can't imagine that Larry's going to go in there and that he's immediately going to turn into a tariff fanatic, that he's suddenly going to turn into Peter Navarro.
00:43:18.000I mean, this means that Peter Navarro isn't the head of the NEC, which would just be a disaster.
00:43:22.000But it is pretty astonishing that Trump is willing to appoint somebody who disagrees with him on all the policy because he saw him on TV, which basically is what it sounds like here.
00:44:42.000The scene with the kiss was part of a two-night season opener for the new American Idol, which is now on ABC after it was kicked off of Fox.
00:44:48.000And the new panel of celebrities is Katy Perry, Lionel Richie, and Luke Bryan, and it's hosted by Ryan Seacrest.
00:44:54.000In the segments that featured Mr. Glaze, he was shown waiting around in anticipation for his audition with other hopefuls.
00:44:58.000As he entered the studio, guitar slung over his shoulder, looking a bit starstruck.
00:45:02.000He said he enjoyed his work as a cashier because it let him meet cute girls.
00:45:05.000And have you kissed a girl and liked it?
00:45:06.000Asked Mr. Brian, making a coy reference to Miss Perry's first hit single, I Kissed a Girl.
00:45:21.000And then she asked for another kiss, complaining he hadn't even made the smush sound.
00:45:24.000As he moved toward her cheek again, Miss Perry swung her face toward him and kissed him quickly on the lips.
00:45:28.000And then she raised her arms in victory.
00:45:30.000Okay, a Me Too moment that no one will care about because obviously even though the contestant was not into it, even though he didn't want it, Katy Perry is a hot liberal so we are allowed to pretend that that's all okay.
00:46:55.000She's a staff sergeant who died in a military accident, a plane crash.
00:46:59.000But at Dover Air Force Base, when our hero, Zig, is laying the body to rest, he opens it up and sees that there's a hidden note inside her stomach.
00:47:07.000And the note says, Nola, you were right.
00:47:23.000on a USO tour a number of years ago, entertaining our troops, and found out about Dover Air Force Base, of course knew that Dover was where our soldiers, our fallen soldiers are laid to rest.
00:47:33.000What I didn't know is Dover is home to our absolute top biggest cases.
00:47:38.000So whether it's 9-11 and the Pentagon flight, or the space shuttle going down, or our top spies around the world, they go to Dover too.
00:47:45.000And that means Dover is a place that's built on secrets and mysteries.
00:47:50.000And you'd originally apparently heard the story that there were actual notes found in the bodies, correct?
00:47:53.000So that's based on actually a true thing that you'd heard.
00:50:22.000So there's a book that is very popular in sort of conservative intellectual circles but is not well known called The Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset.
00:51:30.000They're responsible for this whole production.
00:51:31.000They hold the strings to control the public.
00:51:34.000Okay, so there he is saying the NRA is responsible for all of this, all these people clutching their guns, etc, etc, etc.
00:51:39.000I have a bit of bad news for Mr. Eminem.
00:51:41.000His actual name is Marshall Mathers, correct?
00:51:59.000Yes, I have some bad news for Mr. Eminem.
00:52:02.000In 2001, he was sentenced to probation for gun charges.
00:52:08.000Apparently, the gun was not loaded, nor was it directed at anyone, but the rapper pled guilty to a concealed weapons count on February 14, 2001.
00:52:19.000And also, he had had all sorts of problems with run-ins with the law, including weapons.
00:52:25.000He got two years probation on gun charges back in 2001.
00:52:32.000Again, all the virtue signaling by all these artists who are running out of steam, and so now they are looking for the approval of the critics in the hope that this will boost their profile a little bit.