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00:00:00.000Joe Biden reverses himself on public funding for abortion, President Trump reaches the verge of a major win on immigration, and we check the mailbag.
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00:02:01.000In the RealClearPolitics poll average right now, he leads Bernie Sanders in Iowa by just 4%.
00:02:06.000He's up on Bernie Sanders by about 13 points in New Hampshire, but there are no real late-breaking polls there, so my guess is that the lead is smaller than that.
00:02:14.000And the reason that he's beginning to recede, he's beginning to regress back to the mean, is because Joe Biden is not a good candidate.
00:02:34.000I'm a rock of solidity in a time of instability.
00:02:37.000You can feel comfortable with old Joe Biden.
00:02:39.000Well, the only problem is that if the case that you are making is that you are a rock of solidity, you cannot be waving around like a palm tree in the wind.
00:02:49.000If the idea is that Donald Trump is too volatile, and that you are, again, going to be that safe harbor for Americans who just want something steady in a time of trouble, you're gonna be that ship that doesn't move with the waves, you're just gonna plow right on ahead through those eddies.
00:03:05.000If you are that guy, you can't be the guy who switches your mind every five minutes out of pressure to the left.
00:03:11.000Because now, many Americans are gonna feel that you are unstable, and many folks on the left are gonna feel that you are insincere.
00:03:17.000See, what people are looking for in a candidate is a level of authenticity.
00:03:20.000This is why Donald Trump was the nominee and why he's the president.
00:03:23.000Because when it came right down to it, he has a level of authenticity that is well, that I think is rare in politics, and people see that.
00:03:33.000I was listening to another podcast by a guy named Larry Wilmore, who's a comedian and a comedian of the political left.
00:03:39.000And he made a distinction that I thought was actually quite a good distinction.
00:03:42.000The distinction was he was talking about politics and he said there are three types of people in politics.
00:03:47.000There are the truth tellers, people who say things that you don't want to hear, but are true.
00:03:50.000And then there are people who are honest.
00:03:52.000And then there are people who just spout bullcrap.
00:03:54.000Bullcrap are people who just say what they think you want to hear.
00:03:57.000Kirsten Gillibrand, perfect example of the bullcrap candidate.
00:04:00.000The candidate who just wants to say whatever it is that you want her to say.
00:04:05.000And then there's the honest candidate.
00:04:06.000The honest candidate isn't necessarily honest about the situation, but is honest to their feelings.
00:04:12.000So they're saying what is in their heart.
00:04:14.000And this is very attractive to Americans because usually these are the only two choices available.
00:04:18.000And sometimes honesty beats the third choice, truth-telling, because if truth-telling amounts to, I'm going to tell you something you don't want to hear, people don't want to hear that stuff.
00:04:27.000They don't want to feel like they're being pandered to.
00:04:29.000So what they're looking for is somebody who mostly tells them the things that they kind of like, but somebody who says what is in their heart, because now we can get a glimpse at the real you, right?
00:04:50.000You can only beat honesty with somebody else who is perceived as honest.
00:04:54.000And this is the case that the radical left is making.
00:04:56.000They're saying, listen, of all of our candidates, the guy who is the most honest is Bernie Sanders.
00:05:00.000Now, the left is having to determine whether Elizabeth Warren is honest or whether she is a B.S.
00:05:04.000or to them, whether she's just telling the radical left.
00:05:07.000Whether she's just telling the radical left what they want to hear.
00:05:10.000But one thing is becoming eminently clear.
00:05:12.000In the first few weeks of his campaign, Joe Biden, who portrays himself as Honest Joe, a guy who gaffes into honesty, but he's honest and he's solid, he is none of those things.
00:05:22.000He is a BS artist who will shift all of his opinions on a moment's notice if he receives any sort of pressure.
00:05:28.000Today's example, Joe Biden has now caved on the Hyde Amendment.
00:05:31.000So the Hyde Amendment, for those who don't know, is an amendment that was passed in the 1990s to a federal bill.
00:05:38.000It has been attached in virtually every appropriations bill since and has been continuously enforced for 20 some years.
00:05:43.000The Hyde Amendment says there will be no federal funding for abortion.
00:05:46.000So if federal funds are available for a clinic, the clinic has to make sure that it is not using those federal funds for abortion.
00:05:52.000So Planned Parenthood gets funding from the federal government, but they have to pledge that that money is not going to be used for abortion.
00:05:58.000Now, the reason that this isn't helpful when it comes to Planned Parenthood is because Planned Parenthood is an abortion clinic.
00:06:03.000So that means that all the money is fungible.
00:06:05.000Any cost that they defray from federal funding in one area, they can then use money Money from another source and then put it into sponsoring abortion.
00:06:13.000With that said, the Hyde Amendment is obviously a very good part of law.
00:06:16.000And the reason it's a good part of law is because you should not be paying for somebody else's abortion, obviously.
00:06:26.000I'm going to tell you the history and then we'll play some audio of Joe Biden backing up the case.
00:06:30.000David Harsanyi of The Federalist puts this out there.
00:06:34.000In 1976, Biden voted for the Hyde Amendment, a law banning federal funds to pay for abortion.
00:06:40.000In 1981, the Biden Amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act banned any American aid from being used in research related to abortions.
00:06:46.000In 1984, Biden supported the Mexico City Policy, which bans federal funding for private organizations that provide abortion, advocate to decriminalize abortion, or expand abortion services.
00:06:56.000In 1993, Biden voted to save the Hyde Amendment.
00:06:59.000In 1995 and 1997, Biden voted for partial birth abortion bans that would be vetoed by Bill Clinton.
00:07:07.000On June 5, 2019, Joe Biden continued his 40-plus year support for the Hyde Amendment.
00:07:13.000In fact, I have right before me a New York Times piece that we talked about just two days ago.
00:07:37.000So back in 2007, here was Joe Biden talking about public funding for abortion on Meet the Press.
00:07:42.000Are you still opposed to public funding for abortion?
00:07:44.000I still am opposed to public funding for abortion.
00:07:47.000And the reason I am is, again, it goes to the question of whether or not you are going to impose a view to support something that is not a guaranteed right, but an affirmative action to promote.
00:07:59.000OK, so that was Joe Biden's perspective and that remained his perspective from 1976 all the way to 2019.
00:08:06.000Then about a month ago, he was asked this question by a member of the ACLU on the Hyde Amendment.
00:09:00.000From Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, who tweeted, Repealing the Hyde Amendment is critical so that low-income women in particular can have access to the reproductive care they need and deserve.
00:09:09.000Reproductive rights are human rights, period.
00:09:11.000They should be non-negotiable for all Democrats.
00:09:13.000Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont said, There's no middle ground on women's rights.
00:09:49.000I've done some reporting on this today and I am told explicitly that it is Joe Biden himself who says, this is my conviction and I'm not changing it.
00:09:57.000This is how I have felt and this is how I have voted for my four decades in public service and I'm not changing, despite the fact that the party clearly has changed.
00:10:09.000Okay, that was Dana Bash yesterday on CNN.
00:10:44.000And what do you say if someone says, no, this is the smart political move if you need to win in a general election to support the Hyde Amendment?
00:10:52.000What this is about is about healthcare, about reproductive freedom, about economic freedom, and about equal opportunity for all women.
00:11:02.000Okay, now this would be the point where Joe Biden stands up and he says, no.
00:11:06.000You know, the Hyde Amendment is good law.
00:11:07.000The reason the Hyde Amendment is good law is because it ensures that a taxpayer who disagrees with abortion in Georgia does not have to pay for somebody getting an abortion in New York.
00:11:18.000He could stand up tall if you're going to portray yourself as the moderate in the race, if you're going to portray yourself as the guy who can unite all Americans.
00:11:25.000This would be a great moment to have a sister soldier moment, as Bill Clinton supposedly had, and you're supposed to stand up and say to your radical left flank, guys, hold up a minute.
00:11:33.000I agree with you about abortion, but I don't agree with you that somebody else is supposed to fund somebody else's abortions, right?
00:11:38.000This would be the moment when Joe Biden distinguishes himself from the field.
00:11:41.000Joe Biden really shows the American people why he's different from the rest of these jokers, why you should trust him, why he should be earning 40% here, why he should be looking at the presidency straight in the face.
00:11:53.000This would be the moment for Joe Biden.
00:13:08.000So Joe Biden has the opportunity now to stand up to his radical left base based on 46 years of a consistent position on federal funding of abortion.
00:13:17.000And this is a position, by the way, that is widely popular with Americans.
00:13:21.000Most Americans are not in favor of federal funding of abortion.
00:13:24.000This is particularly true in a lot of the swing states that Joe Biden needs to win.
00:13:33.000Even people who tend to be kind of pro-choice, or at least don't want full pro-life bills on the table, even those people say, you know what seems like a pretty good solution here?
00:14:57.000He is more flexible than the USA gymnastics team.
00:14:59.000So here is Joe Biden yesterday explaining That he has now shifted his position on the Hyde Amendment after 46 years.
00:15:06.000This is sheer political cowardice, and it undermines his case to be president.
00:15:10.000His case to be president is that he stands like a rock where he believes that he doesn't change based on the prevailing winds, that pressure from outside groups is not going to shift him or move him, that he is the moderate in the race who understands the heart of Americans.
00:15:23.000Instead, he gets a little bit of pressure from a crazy old loon like Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts, and suddenly he moves.
00:15:31.000I don't see so many Republican governors denying health care to millions of the poorest and most vulnerable Americans by refusing even Medicaid expansion.
00:15:41.000I can't justify leaving millions of women without access to the care they need and the ability to exercise their constitutionally protected right.
00:15:51.000If I believe health care is a right, as I do, I can no longer support an amendment that makes that right dependent on someone else.
00:16:40.000Because Joe Biden stared directly into the face of the hard left, and instead of making the stand that would have allowed Joe Biden to continue to portray himself as a moderate in the face of this radical left group inside his own party, instead he decided that he was going to try to co-opt that left part of the party.
00:16:57.000If you're on Joe Biden's campaign, and so far your entire campaign has been a series of apologies and hiding, He's like the Bonnie and Clyde of the campaign trail.
00:17:07.000He pops out to apologize and then he flees back into his car into the backwoods.
00:17:12.000And then he pops out again to apologize.
00:17:14.000If that's your idea of a campaign, that you hide and then apologize and then you hide some more and then you apologize, do you really think that Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, these folks are going to let up?
00:17:23.000You really think Kamala Harris is going to go, is suddenly going to be kind to you?
00:18:02.000I know we haven't always gotten things right, but I've always tried.
00:18:07.000He's still coming out now and quasi defending the 1994 crime bill, which, by the way, was a good bill.
00:18:13.000Crime rates in the United States were skyrocketing.
00:18:15.000The 1994 crime bill went into effect with mandatory minimums and more policing resources available, and the crime rates began to drop, and they have continued to drop to today.
00:18:24.000It's one of the great reversals of crime in the history of the United States.
00:18:28.000Joe Biden is running away from his own record on that.
00:18:30.000Now, Joe Biden is doing exactly what he's done on the Hyde Amendment, which is he's still maintaining today that the 1994 crime bill was necessary and good, and he's sort of defending it.
00:18:39.000Within two months, he will deny that he had anything to do with it.
00:18:42.000Within two months, he will suggest that the 1994 crime bill may have been a necessary preventative measure at the time, but it was a bad bill, and he never should have supported it, and oopsie whoopsie daisy.
00:19:28.000So no one on the right side of the aisle really has a problem saying that Joe Biden is a decent guy.
00:19:34.000Well, Joe Biden called Mike Pence a decent guy.
00:19:37.000This is something you are no longer allowed to do.
00:19:39.000If you are a member of the hard left, or you kowtow to the hard left, if you call somebody on the right a decent person, you are now to be excoriated, you are to be cast out of the tent.
00:19:47.000So Joe Biden, earlier last year, he called Mike Pence a decent guy, and he got ripped for it.
00:19:52.000Here's what it sounded like when he was actually being a decent human by calling Mike Pence a person with whom he disagrees, a decent fellow.
00:19:57.000I was followed on by a guy who's a decent guy, our vice president.
00:20:04.000who stood before this group of allies and leaders and said, I'm here on behalf of President Trump.
00:20:19.000So even in the midst of ripping Pence, he says that Pence is a decent guy.
00:20:23.000Cynthia Nixon, a failed gubernatorial candidate in New York, who's a radical, she tweeted out, Joe Biden, you've called you've called America's most anti LGBT elected leader a decent guy.
00:20:34.000Please consider how this falls on the ears of our community.
00:20:37.000And then she tweeted, Joe Biden's wife.
00:20:41.000And Joe Biden then kowtowed, just like he did with regard to the Hyde Amendment, a little bit of pressure from Cynthia Nixon, and boom, he falls down.
00:20:49.000Instead of him just saying, listen, Mike Pence is a decent guy, we disagree on politics, which would be the normal, right thing to say.
00:20:59.000"I was making a point in a foreign policy context "that under normal circumstances, "a vice president wouldn't be given a silent reaction "on the world stage.
00:21:06.000"But there is nothing decent about being anti-LGBTQ rights, "and that includes the vice president." So he goes from, "Mike Pence is a decent guy," to, "Mike Pence is an indecent guy," based on a Cynthia Nixon tweet.
00:21:17.000"This is your idol of stability, Democrats?
00:21:22.000This is the person that you're going to put up as a as a solid counter to the chaos of President Trump, a guy who switches his positions every five seconds, depending on the amount of pressure that he receives.
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00:23:18.000But, when he looks doddering, when he looks as though he can be pushed around by anybody on his side of the aisle, How do you think he's going to face up against President Trump in a general elect matchup?
00:23:27.000It's pretty impressive to see a man destroy his entire case for qualification on the basis of having to please the radical left.
00:23:35.000If there's any question who's in control of the Democratic Party, Joe Biden just answered it.
00:23:39.000Joe Biden and the so-called moderates, they ain't in control of this Democratic Party anymore.
00:24:18.000OK, because Spartacus is about standing up in the face of pressure.
00:24:21.000Cory Booker has never done that his entire career.
00:24:23.000There was Cory Booker pandering on the basis of the Hyde Amendment and suggesting that you're racist if you don't support the Hyde Amendment.
00:24:28.000It was this kind of rhetoric that drove Joe Biden to disown his own position.
00:24:32.000This assault on women's reproductive rights is an assault on women, but it's a particularly assault on African-American women.
00:24:43.000And the Hyde Amendment to deny people through Medicaid and Medicare abortion rights, that is an assault on African American women too.
00:25:05.000And when I say he goes to 11, I mean, I know this is a side point, but when Cory Booker goes to 11, there is something innately hysterical about somebody who is hysterical, and Cory Booker getting hysterical in the most calculated possible fashion.
00:25:17.000He's basically like a jukebox of anger.
00:25:20.000Like, you take a quarter and you drop it in, and you wait for the quarter to drop, And suddenly, the volume is up too loud?
00:25:30.000Make this a movement election that activates the consciousness of a country that brings out everybody from the sidelines of a democracy to getting on the field, joining together in unison, in collective voice and say, I too dream of America.
00:25:44.000If we do like that, then we won't just win an election.
00:25:48.000We will change neighborhoods from coast to coast.
00:25:51.000Communities like mine will see a nation where justice does roll down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
00:25:58.000Oh, sorry, the jukebox ran out right there.
00:26:09.000Even the folks who were supposed to campaign as moderates have been taken over by the far left policies.
00:26:14.000Pete Buttigieg, when he first announced, I said he was one of the more attractive Democratic candidates because he seemed like a person who actually wanted to get along and have conversations.
00:26:24.000And then, of course, he has run directly to the left.
00:27:04.000Here's Pete Buttigieg running off the road by suggesting that Stacey Abrams is the legitimate governor of Georgia, which is just a bunch of crap.
00:27:10.000But he's speaking in front of the African-American Leadership Summit.
00:27:13.000And so we have to pretend that a lady who lost an election by 55,000 votes is the actual elected governor of Georgia.
00:27:18.000Stacey Abrams ought to be the governor of Georgia.
00:27:24.000When racially motivated voter suppression is permitted, when districts are drawn so that politicians get to choose their voters instead of the other way around, when money is allowed to outvote people in this country, we cannot truly say that we live in a democracy.
00:27:41.000And it is time for us to stand up for democracy, not just because our party tends to do better when more people are allowed to vote, But because every American will be better off when our democracy lives up a little more to its ideals.
00:27:55.000Okay, this is the supposed moderate in the party pretending that voter suppression prevented Stacey Abrams from winning the governorship, which is just a bunch of hooey.
00:28:02.000Joe Biden could have distinguished himself.
00:28:05.000He could have distinguished himself in this field.
00:28:07.000He chose not to distinguish himself in the field.
00:28:09.000He figures, with a high level of name recognition, that he can run directly back to the pack.
00:28:25.000Going back to that tripartite distinction, that BS, honesty, truth-teller distinction.
00:28:30.000Ain't nobody in the Democratic Party doing serious truth-telling.
00:28:32.000A lot of folks in the Democratic Party doing BSing.
00:28:35.000There are a couple of people who are honest.
00:28:37.000And if I have to pit the honesty of or purported honesty of Elizabeth Warren on leftist principles or Bernie Sanders on leftist principles against Joe Biden, who now appears to be a BS-er, it feels to me like Joe Biden is set for a fall.
00:28:50.000I think there's a reason he is receding back to the field.
00:28:53.000And there ain't no second win for Joe Biden.
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00:30:52.000Okay, in just a second, we are going to get to a possible victory for President Trump over Mexico.
00:30:58.000You know, it was a strategy that I doubted, but if it works out, if it works out, then big win for President Trump.
00:31:03.000We'll get to that in just a second first.
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00:33:50.000All righty, so in other news, as you know, I've been highly critical of President Trump's tariff strategy with regard to Mexico.
00:34:03.000I was very skeptical that the president threatening 5% tariffs, then 10, then 15, then 25% tariffs on Mexican goods by October was going to actually drive the government of Mexico to start making moves to stop illegal immigration into the United States.
00:34:18.000I was skeptical also because President Trump has always been kind of unclear on whether he uses tariffs as a leverage mechanism or whether he just likes tariffs.
00:34:26.000Now his supporters will say it's a leverage mechanism and he sort of pretends to like tariffs to show that he's not bluffing.
00:34:33.000It seems in this case that might actually be true in which case I would owe the president an apology because I've been ripping on the policy.
00:34:39.000Here is what the Washington Post reports today.
00:34:41.000Mexico aims to avoid tariffs with potential deal limiting migrants going north, allowing the United States to deport Central American asylum seekers.
00:34:51.000and Mexican officials are discussing the outlines of a deal that would dramatically increase Mexico's immigration enforcement efforts and give the United States far more latitude to deport Central Americans seeking asylum, according to a U.S.
00:35:02.000official and a Mexican official who cautioned the accord is not final and Trump might not accept it.
00:35:07.000Faced with Trump's threat to impose steadily rising tariffs on goods imported from Mexico beginning on Monday, Mexican officials have pledged to deploy up to 6,000 National Guard troops to the area of the country's border with Guatemala, a show of force they say will immediately reduce the number of Central Americans heading north toward the U.S.
00:35:23.000In other words, they're going to stop people at their southern border so they don't come up to America's southern border.
00:35:27.000The plan, a sweeping overhaul of asylum rules across the region, would require Central American migrants to seek refuge in the first country they leave, they enter after leaving their homeland, the two officials say.
00:35:38.000In other words, if you are seeking to avoid Guatemala because of human rights conditions in Guatemala, then why do you have to come to the United States for that?
00:35:45.000Why would not applying for asylum in Mexico be sufficient?
00:35:48.000You're not going to be persecuted, presumably, in Mexico, the same way you are in your home country.
00:35:52.000For Guatemalans, that would be Mexico.
00:35:53.000For migrants from Honduras and El Salvador, that would be Guatemala.
00:35:56.000His government held talks last week with acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan.
00:36:02.000border generally would be deported to the appropriate third country.
00:36:05.000Any migrants who express a fear of death or torture in their home country would be subjected to a tougher screening standard by U.S.
00:36:10.000asylum officers more likely to result in rejection because one of the things that's been happening is hundreds of thousands of people appeal for asylum on America's southern border and then We have to take them in by U.S.
00:36:21.000law, and then we just sort of release them, and they never show up again.
00:36:24.000Or they show up at their first check-in, and then they just stick around and get a provisional green card.
00:36:29.000Mexico has repeatedly said it would not accept what is known as a safe third-country agreement with the United States, requiring it to take in all U.S.-bound asylum seekers.
00:36:37.000has such a pact with Canada, it requires asylum seekers to apply for refuge in whichever country they first arrive, since both countries are considered safe.
00:36:44.000On Thursday, the Mexican official said the Mexican government indicated it's willing to make asylum changes for the sake of a coordinated regional approach to stem the flow of Central American migrants now flooding into the United States.
00:36:55.000But Mexican negotiators also made it clear they will withdraw the offer if Trump makes good on his threat to impose tariffs, telling their U.S.
00:37:01.000counterparts the economic damage would undermine Mexico's ability to pay for the tougher immigration enforcement.
00:37:52.000Trump officials have told Mexico that their prior pledges are not enough, making it clear that the White House will be only satisfied with a return to the numbers tallied in the months after Trump was inaugurated, when arrests fell below 20,000, the lowest level in half a century.
00:38:07.000Trump said he had still not made up his mind.
00:38:08.000He said something pretty dramatic could happen.
00:38:10.000He said, we've told Mexico the tariffs go on, and I mean it, too.
00:38:14.000Trump also dismissed Republican senators' threat to block his tariff plan, saying they have no idea what they're talking about when it comes to tariffs.
00:38:20.000This is the part where I'm always a little disquieted, because Trump appears to actually like tariffs.
00:38:23.000He's been pretty consistent about it since the 1980s.
00:38:26.000But again, if these are used as leverage, then, and he successfully does that, then it's a gambit, it's a big bet that pays off for the president, and he gets the credit.
00:38:44.000He's going to need results on this one because if he doesn't get, when I say it's a big bet, what I mean is that the economy seems to be slowing.
00:38:50.000So if he doesn't get the results that he is seeking and the tariffs do go into place, then it's going to get dicey for him.
00:38:56.000Job growth numbers sputtered in May, but people think that the Fed is going to loosen the monetary supply.
00:39:03.000According to the Washington Post, hiring cooled in May, the Labor Department reported on Friday as firms appeared more hesitant to bring on new employees amid the uncertainty and concern over President Trump escalating the trade war with China.
00:39:13.000The U.S. economy added some 75,000 jobs in May, a significant pullback from 224,000 jobs added in April.
00:39:20.000That is likely to heighten fears that the trade war is taking a greater toll.
00:39:24.000The unemployment rate remains at a five decade low of 3.6%.
00:39:26.000There's anemic job growth in manufacturing and construction.
00:39:31.000A lot of folks are worried about the tariffs.
00:39:33.000So as I say, this is a high risk, high reward play for the president.
00:39:36.000If the tariffs don't go into effect and we get some actual results on illegal immigration, huge win, huge win for President Trump.
00:39:50.000I just subscribed for the first time because it seems more important than ever to financially support shows and websites like The Daily Wire to fight back the heckler's veto.
00:39:59.000As I've been saying to everyone, you need to subscribe to your favorite shows right now because the left is intent on making them unavailable or destroying their profit motive by going after advertisers and secondary boycotts.
00:40:26.000What are your thoughts on conversion to create a cohesive family unit in which to raise our first child?
00:40:30.000Well, I do agree that both parents should share a faith.
00:40:34.000This is why I'm not in favor of mixed marriages, generally speaking, across religious lines when both parties are interested in raising kids religious.
00:40:44.000You have to share values with your spouse, and very often those values are religious values.
00:40:48.000So, if you're Jewish, I think that you should marry Jewish.
00:40:50.000If you're Catholic, I think you should marry Catholic.
00:40:52.000If you're Protestant, I think you should marry Protestant.
00:40:53.000If you're Muslim, I think you should marry Muslim.
00:40:55.000I think it's just generally a better rule.
00:40:57.000Just as if you hold certain values on specific social issues, you should marry people who agree with you, because you want to raise your kids in a certain way.
00:41:04.000If you are able to do that, I think that it's a very good thing.
00:41:13.000My daughter is in sixth grade public school in New Jersey.
00:41:15.000She just received an assignment from her honor science teacher stating she has to write a letter to the president regarding climate change, urging the president to sign the Green New Deal, which is just insane.
00:41:24.000I raised my daughter with conservative values.
00:41:26.000She knows the Green New Deal is socialist drivel.
00:41:28.000I told her to do the assignment, but to instead write in the letter real solutions to climate change that don't involve banning planes, cows, car farts, etc.
00:41:35.000Well, I think that, again, in 6th grade, the answer is yes.
00:41:37.000but I may get a bad grade on the assignment.
00:41:39.000I told her I don't care if she is graded poorly on the assignment because I don't think she should be told what to write.
00:41:48.000Well, I think that, again, in sixth grade, the answer is yes.
00:41:51.000In junior year of college, the answer is probably no.
00:41:54.000So I differ from my friend Dennis Prager on this Prager says that always you should write what you believe on all of your tests and all the rest of this sort of stuff.
00:42:02.000In 6th grade, your grades really don't matter.
00:42:04.000In fact, funny story about this, I have a younger sister who is now, she's an opera singer and she's highly educated, went to USC and then went to Manhattan School of Opera.
00:42:15.000And back when she was a little kid, she came home from school one day, and she was really upset about her homework.
00:43:03.000She didn't end up taking the homework assignment, from what I understand.
00:43:05.000So, you know, the idea that your kid is going to get a bad grade in sixth grade and it's going to affect life, I don't think that's right.
00:43:11.000Once you get to college, the question is, what is your end goal?
00:43:14.000And if your end goal, I've said this to many college students, if your end goal is to get through college with the degree and not be stifled by the left, then sometimes you have to play their game.
00:43:23.000You have to determine sort of risks and rewards in particular circumstances.
00:43:27.000In this circumstance, I think that writing a letter about the value of nuclear power would probably be a worthwhile thing.
00:43:37.000I don't even enjoy every minute of the show.
00:43:38.000I would like to know your opinion on the matter of states trying to eliminate the Electoral College.
00:43:42.000Is there anything that can be done legally to stop this?
00:43:44.000Right, so there's some states that have tried to pass bills that basically say that they will cast all of their electoral votes in favor of the popular vote winner.
00:44:04.000And, again, it's a stupid idea because the Electoral College is one of the things that militates in favor of the country staying together.
00:44:09.000Yes, certain areas of the country are going to get slightly disproportionate weight in the Electoral College over the popular vote.
00:44:16.000But it does answer the question as to why Wyoming should give a crap what California thinks if Wyoming actually matters in the national election.
00:44:23.000Chad says, one issue that Republicans seem not to take very seriously is that of climate change.
00:44:27.000Well, obviously, the Green New Deal is extremely unrealistic.
00:44:29.000What policies would you like to see the Trump administration put forward in order to better deal with carbon emissions and setting our planet up for a brighter future?
00:44:36.000Well, I think that we should be delegating studies on how to mitigate the effects of climate change, because from what I've seen, all of the all of the attempts to curb climate change themselves have been quite foolish.
00:44:48.000We actually need to deregulate a lot of the fracking industry, for example, because fracking has been a boon to reducing carbon emissions as opposed to, for example, just oil drilling.
00:44:57.000So, Nuclear power would be a great solution.
00:45:01.000There should be a push for more innovation.
00:45:05.000Deregulation in industry generally creates more innovation.
00:45:09.000The fact is that if people care enough about this sort of stuff, then there will, in fact, be a move toward technological change.
00:45:18.000The big question here is what are the effects of climate change?
00:45:21.000When it comes to the changing of degrees over the course of a century, what are the costs and what are the effects?
00:45:27.000William Nordhaus just won the Nobel Prize in Economics, and one of the things he talks about is how much global warming can we accept before it does so much damage that it outweighs the risk of harming the economy.
00:45:38.000And he comes to the conclusion, I believe, if I'm not misstating it, that 2.5 degrees Celsius increase is about what we should accept before we even discuss harming the economy.
00:45:47.000Now, that may well be within what actually happens over the course of the next century.
00:45:51.000A lot of the climate models that have been used are wrong.
00:45:53.000There have been many climate models that have been used.
00:45:55.000I agree with the general perception by scientists that the climate is warming over the course of the last century, and that a majority of that activity is caused by human activity.
00:46:05.000But the answer to that is actually more prosperity.
00:46:08.000It's developing countries that are emitting on a global level.
00:46:11.000As I've said before, if you agree with the sort of catastrophic take from the left, then we have no choice but apparently to go to war with India and China and bomb all their coal plants because a huge percentage of emissions are coming from those countries.
00:46:22.000The United States is actually dropping in terms of emissions on a year-to-year basis.
00:46:26.000We've reduced emissions more than any other country on planet Earth since 2015.
00:46:32.000Innovation will take care of a lot of these problems.
00:46:35.000Technological change takes care of a lot of these problems.
00:46:37.000And obviously mitigating, building seawalls, ensuring that infrastructure is shored up.
00:46:43.000That'll take care of the problems too.
00:46:44.000I'm not of the opinion that the so-called sort of carbon taxes that are being proposed are going to do enough to mitigate the effect that it won't just be a giant waste of money.
00:46:53.000Diane says, hey Ben, I'm currently in a summer class on the Old Testament where We're discussing the authorship of the Torah.
00:46:58.000What's the traditional view of Orthodox Jews on the first five books of the Bible?
00:47:02.000Do you think Moses was the sole author or do you think there were multiple sources loved the show?
00:47:06.000So the traditional Orthodox view is that Moses was the sole offer.
00:47:10.000Well, Moses via God, right, is that when Moses went up on the mountain for 40 days, God dictated the Bible to him.
00:47:15.000There are questions that are raised by some of the commentaries about how much of the Torah was written to that point.
00:47:20.000In other words, after the 40 days on the mountain, a lot of stuff happens in the Torah.
00:47:25.000Was that Moses writing contemporaneously?
00:47:28.000Was that Moses prophesying that that was going to happen?
00:47:32.000How about the last few verses of the Torah where Moses dies?
00:47:37.000Also, there's a sort of rich commentariat on the case.
00:47:42.000But what Orthodox Jews do not believe is the sort of Wellhausen theory that became very popular in the 19th century, that there are multiple authors and that these authors can be dated from the Pharisaic period or they can be dated from the earlier period.
00:47:56.000This is a compilation and a cobbling together.
00:48:20.000However, as the end point of all of this, two separate parallel economies all the way down to the most basic transactions, ultimately living as separate societies.
00:48:27.000So I think that this is the direction the left wants to move.
00:48:30.000The left is basically saying that if you're on the left, you can't eat at Chick-fil-A.
00:48:33.000The left is basically saying that if you are on the left, then you must buy Marc Jacobs and get Gillette Razors.
00:48:40.000The left is trying to make the argument that only socially woke companies ought to receive your business, and if you are not overtly woke, then you will be boycotted.
00:48:48.000And if, God forbid, you're owned by somebody who opposes you politically, then you should be shellacked as well.
00:49:08.000If YouTube decides that it's going to crack down on Crowder, people will go subscribe to Crowder because they still want Crowder.
00:49:13.000If people decide to crack down on us at the big tech companies, people will subscribe to Daily Wire.
00:49:18.000And this will extend down to the lowest common denominator.
00:49:21.000It's one of the reasons that I've been militating very hard against the politicization of sports and culture and product lines.
00:49:28.000I know that a lot of these corporations think that by pandering, they're going to win additional converts.
00:49:33.000They think that conservatives are simply going to sit still as they pander to the hard left.
00:49:38.000And that's why you see, for example, during Pride Month, all of these major corporations start to virtue signal about gay pride.
00:49:44.000Now, why Oreo Cookies has anything to do with gay pride is beyond me.
00:49:47.000They release this stuff in order to show where they stand on the issues because they understand that the left is focused on buying products that they think agree with them.
00:50:04.000But if it gets to the point where the left pushes these corporations to actively alienate conservative audiences, conservative audiences will find other places to shop.
00:50:14.000It is just exacerbating the divisions in the country and making it so not only are there no common spaces, there are no even common products.
00:50:20.000There will be a coffee company, like Black Rifle Coffee, that rises up at great coffee, better coffee than Starbucks, but rises up in response to Starbucks.
00:50:28.000That is a thing that will continue to happen.
00:50:30.000And the left will be advertising for these right-wing products every time they decide to crack down on right-wing beliefs, and every time they decide to virtue-signal to the hard left, which is censorious and nasty by nature.
00:50:41.000William says, Hey Ben, what do you think would have happened if the D-Day invasion had failed?
00:50:44.000There are some who speculate that the Soviets, who are already fighting against the majority of the German army, would have defeated the Germans regardless of the campaign in the West.
00:50:58.000To actually, you know, speculate about what would have happened militarily.
00:51:02.000It is certainly true that Stalin was militating extraordinarily hard for the Allies to launch the D-Day invasion, specifically because he wanted the Germans to redirect troops away from the Eastern Front.
00:51:28.000So you bring the Soviets from basically neutrality into opposition.
00:51:33.000With their enormous tens of millions of man army and then you turn and take the most powerful industrial country on planet earth and turn it against you.
00:51:42.000Well, it's because if you look at the map, basically it goes United States.
00:51:45.000I mean, the world is a globe, obviously, but it goes United States, Germany, Russia, Japan.
00:51:52.000And so with the United States fighting Japan, There's a fair bit of historical speculation that Germany wanted the Japanese to attack the United States.
00:52:03.000Well, basically, Japan had to attack the United States.
00:52:06.000Germany was hoping that Japan was going to attack Russia from the other side.
00:52:10.000And so in order to get Japan to fight that war, the Germans basically declared war on the United States.
00:52:16.000So it looked sort of like a checkerboard.
00:52:18.000Well, you know, with all of that said, obviously a terrible mistake.
00:52:21.000If the United States had failed in D-Day, that wouldn't have been the only amphibious attempt, obviously.
00:52:25.000But let's say that the United States and Britain and France, that all of the allied countries fail to make significant pushes into Western Europe via a Normandy invasion.
00:52:35.000Well, obviously there was already a lot of fighting that was going on from the south.
00:52:38.000The United States had, by the time D-Day, the United States had already pushed the Germans into full scale retreat, not only in Africa, but also in Italy.
00:52:46.000So it's possible that that invasion continues to succeed.
00:52:50.000But let's say that the United States has stopped cold everywhere here.
00:52:54.000I mean, Germany probably wins the war.
00:52:56.000I mean, the fact is that it was German lack of resources that led them to lose the war against the Red Army, not brilliant strategy by the Red Army.
00:53:03.000I mean, the Red Army was basically just throwing men in many cases without guns in the front lines in the Battle of Stalingrad.
00:53:10.000Featured a bunch of Russians charging the Germans with no guns, knowing they would be shot in the back by their own people if they didn't do it.
00:53:17.000The Red Army was extraordinarily brutal because Stalin was one of the worst people ever to walk planet Earth.
00:53:22.000So yeah, D-Day made a difference during the war.
00:53:25.000By the way, it made even more of a difference in the post-war.
00:53:29.000It's funny, the Russian foreign ministry put out something saying, well, it was the Red Army that won the war.
00:53:33.000Well, if it had not been for the D-Day invasion, all of Western Europe then is probably red.
00:53:37.000Let's say that the Red Army, quote-unquote, liberates France, and liberates all of Germany, and liberates Italy, and liberates all those countries.
00:53:55.000Well, I believe that the states should actually be in the business of preserving natural wonders.
00:53:58.000I'm not sure the federal government was created to preserve those natural wonders.
00:54:02.000I'm very much in favor of minimizing the federal government.
00:54:03.000Well, I believe that the states should actually be in the business of preserving natural wonders.
00:54:08.000I'm not sure the federal government was created to preserve those natural wonders.
00:54:12.000I'm very much in favor of minimizing the federal government.
00:54:15.000I think states are fully capable of doing a lot of that stuff.
00:54:17.000Lauren says, Dear Ben, what is your opinion on patents regarding pharmaceuticals?
00:54:20.000Do you believe they incentivize the creation of better drugs or does the interference in the free market create an inefficiency when once companies patent the drug, they have no incentive to improve it?
00:54:30.000Well, I mean, the fact is that certain patents don't really change in the pharmaceutical industry, right?
00:54:34.000The patent on aspirin and Advil, these things have existed, but the formula has not changed radically.
00:54:42.000There is a serious question to be asked about how long the patent should last.
00:54:45.000So right now, the patent period for pharmaceuticals In many cases, it's somewhere between five and ten years.
00:54:50.000That is a long time to have a quasi-monopoly on a particular type of drug.
00:54:55.000And sometimes you can see somebody comes along, they take the drug, they reverse engineer it, they release it as a generic.
00:55:02.000That's better for consumers, obviously, but you do have to have enough of a patent to incentivize the creation of the drug.
00:55:09.000The libertarian case against patent protection for drugs is that you create the drug, you have a manufacturing advantage, you're first in the market, and so that's your benefit.
00:55:18.000Honestly, I'd want to look more deeply at the costs and benefits of it on a financial level.
00:55:23.000Mason says, Hey Ben, I don't know why a former president would want to, but theoretically, could a former president run on a ticket as vice president after?
00:55:29.000Could President Obama run for VP on a Michelle Obama ticket?
00:55:40.000So I think that Ayn Rand's philosophy of objectivism works quite well when it comes to economics.
00:55:44.000I think that it works quite horribly when it comes to interpersonal relationships.
00:55:48.000Objectivism basically says selfishness is a virtue.
00:55:51.000I mean, she wrote a book called The Virtue of Selfishness.
00:55:53.000That's a fine philosophy, and really is not unique to Ayn Rand.
00:55:57.000I mean, that goes all the way back to Mandeville and the Parable of the Bees.
00:56:01.000The idea that your selfishness creates market opportunities for other people, and also your selfishness creates a creative imperative in you to do creative things that benefit other folks.
00:56:12.000So when it comes to that, I agree with that on a very basic level.
00:56:17.000I've called capitalism forced altruism, because again, your selfishness is now channeled toward creating a product somebody else needs, wants, and must have.
00:56:26.000However, when it comes to interpersonal relationships, The problem here with objectivism is it becomes entirely subjective, meaning that your perception of your own best good has externalities that are quite difficult, particularly with children.
00:56:40.000One of the things my dad once noted about Ayn Rand's books is that there are no kids anywhere.
00:58:05.000Well, this movie is basically about Broderick Crawford is a gangster, Judy Holliday is his mall, and William Holden is a journalist who is brought in to educate Judy Holliday to become more knowledgeable about Washington, D.C.
00:58:18.000because Broderick Crawford is trying to buy politicians, basically.
00:59:09.000One of the things that's fascinating about the movie is that when you watch the film, half of the movie is dedicated to William Holden taking Judy Holliday around and teaching her about the American way of life, basically, because she doesn't know anything.
00:59:22.000And so he takes her to the Jefferson Memorial, which must be torn down because Jefferson was evil.
00:59:27.000And then he takes her to the Library of Congress and she sees the Constitution, the Declaration, and he teaches her about the fundamental principles of the country.
00:59:36.000Basically about how America is a wonderful place and it's wonderful because of these founding documents.
00:59:42.000And it's a movie that could not be made today because now it would be about how America is horrible and he has to teach her to be woke and America was steeped in racism and sexism and bigotry and all the rest of it.
00:59:50.000There's something nice about the fact that Americans used to believe that America was rooted in terrific fundamental principles that thank God have now been extended over the vast swath of Americans.
01:00:02.000And the movie's patriotism is quite obvious.
01:00:05.000And one of the best moments of the movie, not to give it away, but one of the best moments of the movie is Judy Holliday, who's again in a gangster's mall.
01:00:12.000She's talking about her dad, who she hasn't seen in years.
01:00:14.000And she's talking about how he would just go to work every day and get up and take care of her and her siblings and her mom died young.
01:00:21.000And she, over the course of the movie, realizes that her dad is more of an American than this rich gangster who's trying to bribe politicians.
01:00:29.000Because her dad goes to work every day and lives out the founding principles.
01:00:32.000It's really a terrific, funny, patriotic movie.
01:00:37.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
01:00:43.000So there is a really good thread on Twitter by a person who calls himself Woko Harambe.
01:00:51.000But the thread is actually a pretty serious thread.
01:00:54.000This person points out that the woke activists are using something called power mapping.
01:01:00.000They're using something from a site called Beautiful Trouble.
01:01:04.000And Beautiful Trouble is basically an activism site for the left.
01:01:07.000And he points out the strategy that is being used by the left to target people like Laura Ingram, or like me, or like Steven Crowder, or like Tucker Carlson, or like anybody else on the right that you like.
01:01:17.000First, they target the company with the power.
01:01:20.000So in the case of Steven Crowder, it would be YouTube.
01:01:22.000In the case of Fox, it would be their advertisers.
01:01:25.000Then, they would choose a secondary target.
01:01:28.000Because according to this website, again, Beautiful Trouble, They say you might not have enough power to push your primary target at first, but your actions may help you identify a secondary target that can be pressured to leverage their influence on the primary target.
01:01:41.000So, what they actually do is they identify who they are targeting and then they find a group of allies.
01:01:48.000And this is the part of the analysis that I found pretty sophisticated and I thought was quite good.
01:03:41.000Fine, you guys go create your own woke Twitter or your own woke YouTube.
01:03:45.000But instead, by utilizing the power of public pressure, by taking journalists at the New York Times and Washington Post and shifting them from passive allies to active allies, by taking people who are sort of neutral on Twitter and then showing them a montage video of Steven Crowder being mean to Carlos Maza, shifting the neutrals into passive opposition, and then Into passive alliance, rather, by taking passive opponents and shifting them to neutrality by making those people feel uncomfortable.
01:04:12.000Then you can shift the entire spectrum.
01:04:13.000I think it's a really good analysis of what you are seeing happen on a regular basis with advertisers.
01:04:17.000And all it takes is for people to say no.
01:04:19.000And it takes active opposition to push back and say, listen, there will be consequences the other way.
01:04:25.000The active opposition has to act just like the activists are acting.
01:04:29.000In other words, they have to take all of their passive allies and shift them into active allies.
01:04:32.000They have to take all of the neutrals and shift them into passive allies.
01:04:35.000And the way to do that is by pushing back on the principle and by saying, listen, There will be consequences for this game.
01:04:41.000You play this game, there will be consequences.
01:04:43.000Those consequences will involve us not subscribing to YouTube Red.
01:04:48.000Those consequences will involve us subscribing to channels that we like.
01:04:51.000Those consequences will involve us boycotting advertisers that decide to boycott our favorite shows.
01:05:04.000Now, I'm warning you, Monday, I'm not going to be here because Monday is Shavuot, which is the holiday that celebrates the giving of the Torah.