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00:00:00.000Creepiness finally comes back to haunt Uncle Joe Biden, President Trump mulls closing the border, and Democrats demonstrate their lack of knowledge.
00:00:13.000I've been saying for weeks, President Biden, Vice President Biden, that his best day will be his first day and then his worst day will be every day after that.
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00:02:06.000So according to one accuser, there's an accuser who has come forward and suggested that she was inappropriately touched and kissed by Joe Biden.
00:02:16.000Now, that sounds a little bit worse than it is.
00:02:21.000Her name is Lucy Flores, and we have to take her account with a slight grain of salt in the sense that she was seen attending a Beto rally within the last week or two.
00:02:29.000But she says this in 2014, I was the 35 year old Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor of Nevada.
00:02:34.000This is according to New York magazine.
00:02:36.000The landscape wasn't looking good for my party that year.
00:02:39.000There were no high profile national races to help boost turnout.
00:02:42.000And after the top candidate bowed out of the governor's race, none of the above ended up winning the Democratic primary.
00:02:47.000So when my campaign heard from VP Joe Biden's office that he was looking to help me and other Democrats in the state, I was grateful and flattered.
00:02:55.000His team offered to bring him to a campaign rally in an effort to help boost voter turnout.
00:02:59.000We set the date for November 1st, just three days before election day.
00:03:02.000In a state as large but sparsely populated as Nevada, writes Lucy Flores, it takes nonstop travel to connect with all of its residents.
00:03:09.000I sprayed some dry shampoo in my hair, raced off to Reno airport, and flew back to Las Vegas.
00:03:13.000The event proceeded as most political events do, coordinated chaos with random problems that no one can predict.
00:03:21.000She says, I found my way to the holding room for the speakers where everyone was chatting, taking photos and getting ready to speak to the hundreds of voters in the audience.
00:03:27.000Just before the speeches, we were ushered to the side of the stage where we were lined up by order of introduction.
00:03:32.000As I was taking deep breaths and preparing myself to make my case to the crowd, I felt two hands on my shoulders.
00:04:05.000I couldn't move and I couldn't say anything.
00:04:07.000I wanted nothing more than Biden to get away from me.
00:04:10.000My name was called and I was never happier to get on stage in front of an audience.
00:04:14.000She says, I had never experienced anything so blatantly inappropriate and unnerving before.
00:04:18.000Biden was the second most powerful man in the country and arguably one of the most powerful men in the world.
00:04:22.000He was there to promote me as the right person for the lieutenant governor job.
00:04:25.000Instead, he made me feel uneasy, gross, and confused.
00:04:28.000The VP of the United States had just touched me in an intimate way reserved for close friends, family, or romantic partners, and I felt powerless to do anything about it.
00:04:37.000So why exactly didn't she say anything for years?
00:04:39.000Well, she says she told a few on her staff what happened immediately.
00:04:43.000She said she didn't plan on telling anybody else.
00:04:45.000She said, I didn't have the language or the outlet to talk about what happened.
00:04:47.000Well, I mean, she was the nominee for lieutenant governor, so that's probably not true.
00:04:52.000Is it enough of a transgression if a man touches and kisses you without consent, but doesn't rise to the level of what most people consider sexual assault?
00:04:59.000I did what most women do and moved on with my life and work.
00:05:02.000Time passed and pictures started to surface of VP Biden getting uncomfortably close with women and young girls.
00:05:07.000Biden nuzzling the neck of the defense secretary's wife.
00:05:09.000Biden kissing a senator's wife on the lips.
00:05:25.000Had I never seen those pictures, I may have been able to give Biden the benefit of the doubt.
00:05:30.000And then she continues and talks about why exactly she didn't do anything.
00:05:34.000She says, He reminded me that Biden has significant resources and argued points that made me question my memory, even though I've replayed that scene in my mind a thousand times.
00:05:58.000He reminded me that my credibility would be attacked and that I should be prepared for the type of back and forth that could occur.
00:06:03.000I'm not suggesting that Biden broke any laws, but the transgressions that society deems minor or doesn't even see as transgressions often feel considerable to the person on the receiving end.
00:06:11.000That imbalance of power and attention is the whole point.
00:06:15.000OK, so here is Biden's accuser suggesting that what she really wants is just for him to acknowledge his wrong, the invasion of her personal space.
00:06:22.000Now, of course, she knows that if he acknowledges his wrong, then he's basically toast.
00:06:26.000Because if you acknowledge wrong in this witch hunt environment, then you are finished.
00:06:30.000Now, we'll discuss whether Joe Biden is, in fact, a creeper or whether he just kind of acts like a creeper in just a second.
00:06:37.000But here's Lucy Flores on CNN with Jake Tapper.
00:06:39.000What are you looking for from the Vice President here, Vice President Biden?
00:07:29.000Now, the reason this is resonating is, of course, because there are plenty of pictures of Joe Biden acting creepy with women.
00:07:36.000I mean, here's just a little bit of Joe Biden acting creepy with women and young girls.
00:07:43.000So you can see him, he's kind of nuzzling this this little girl who happens to be the daughter of a sitting senator, and she's kind of pulling away from him because he's getting too close.
00:07:50.000And then he gives her a kiss on the head.
00:07:52.000And here's him with another little girl.
00:07:56.000And he kind of leans forward and whispers into her ear, puts both his hands on her shoulders.
00:08:35.000And then, of course, the most famous one is him holding the shoulders and then leaning in and sort of whispering to the wife of Ash Carter on the day that her husband was sworn in as defense secretary.
00:08:45.000And of course, a lot of people pointed out that was weird.
00:08:47.000But Stephanie Carter, who is that wife and who has been featured in virtually all of these photos, she says, no, this wasn't a thing.
00:08:55.000So she has a piece today called The Me Too Story That Wasn't Me.
00:08:58.000She says it happened again two weeks ago.
00:09:01.000I was at an industry conference comprised of my female peers.
00:09:05.000It would be the last time there as I had announced my intent to start my own company when a friend ran up to me joyously stating she had seen me.
00:09:11.000I assumed she was referring to a recent piece in an industry newsletter about my retirement from my firm and transition to entrepreneurship.
00:09:16.000But she quickly let me know it was again that picture which Jimmy Fallon had shown the night before.
00:09:21.000Last night, I received a text from a friend letting me know that picture was once again all over Twitter in connection to Lucy Flores' personal account of a 2014 encounter with Joe Biden.
00:09:30.000Let me state up front that I don't know her, but I absolutely support her right to speak her truth, and she should be, like all women, believed.
00:09:38.000The Joe Biden in my picture is a close friend helping someone get through a big day, for which I will always be grateful.
00:09:42.000So, as sole owner of my story, it is high time I reclaim it from strangers, Twitter, the pundits, and late night hosts.
00:09:49.000And she talks about how the day that her husband was being sworn in as Secretary of Defense, she was very nervous, there was a point at which she slipped, and then came the time that she was standing there while her husband was being sworn in.
00:10:01.000She says, after the swearing in, as Ash was giving remarks, he leaned in, this would be Biden, to tell me thank you for letting him do this, and kept his hands on my shoulder as a means of offering support.
00:10:08.000But a still shot taken from a video, misleadingly extracted from what was a longer moment between close friends, sent out in a snarky tweet, came to be the lasting image of that day.
00:10:18.000As I arrived home to my apartment that night, I was starting to get a sense from incoming texts that that picture was picking up steam, says Stephanie Carter, this is Ash Carter's wife.
00:10:25.000I got on the elevator and must have been too lost in thought to notice someone next to me.
00:10:28.000As I got off the elevator, the young woman started walking down the hall and began to feel her footsteps pick up close to mine.
00:10:33.000As I reached my door, I turned around to find her practically on top of me.
00:10:36.000When I confronted her, she said she was a reporter from the New York Post.
00:10:39.000And did I have a comment about that picture?
00:10:41.000I quickly went inside and locked the door.
00:10:42.000She says it didn't stop the next day or the day after that.
00:10:45.000And she talks about how for years now, People have been basically using this as proof that Biden doesn't know how to respect women.
00:10:51.000He says, I thought it would all blow over.
00:12:25.000Okay, so Joe Biden is responding to this controversy with a statement.
00:12:29.000He says, in my many years on the campaign trail and in public life, I've offered countless handshakes, hugs, expressions of affection, support, and comfort, Biden said.
00:12:36.000And not once, never, did I believe I acted inappropriately.
00:12:39.000If it is suggested, I did, so I will listen respectfully, but it was never my intention.
00:12:43.000He said, I may not recall these moments the same way.
00:12:45.000I may be surprised at what I hear, but we have arrived at an important time when women feel they can and should relate their experiences, and men should pay attention, and I will.
00:12:52.000I will also remain the strongest advocate I can be for the rights of women.
00:12:55.000And then he talks about how his politics should basically excuse any behavior That women have perceived as wrong.
00:13:01.000So there is Biden basically understanding that he is a bind.
00:13:04.000He's in a bind now that he can't get out of because we live in a culture where a woman's accusation of wrongdoing is tantamount to proof that the wrongdoing occurred.
00:13:13.000Remember, these are the same Democrats who said that Christine Blasey Ford, when it came to Brett Kavanaugh, was innately telling the truth that all of the other accounts were to be believed as well until it turned out that they fell apart or were to be ignored.
00:13:26.000And then they said that Brett Kavanaugh could not sit on the Supreme Court because of all of that.
00:13:30.000We live in a time when if a woman says that for a subjective reason, she feels as though she was abused in some way, that the man is to blame for the subjective feeling of abuse.
00:13:40.000Now, I will say that as a personal practitioner of the I don't get close to people without their consent thing, I've always found Joe Biden's behavior creepy.
00:13:48.000I've never been a big fan of this, but there are people out there who are just huggers.
00:13:51.000There are people out there We don't understand the limits of personal space.
00:13:55.000These are the people who are the close talkers, the people who at parties feel like it's good to shake your hand and then hold your hand too long.
00:14:03.000That doesn't mean that they are attempting to harass you.
00:14:05.000And intent does matter here, at least somewhat, because there's a difference between a sexual assault, which presumably requires a certain level of intent, and I held your hand too long and it was awkward for you, but I didn't even know what the hell was going on.
00:14:17.000Ignorance, in fact, is somewhat of a defense, at least to the idea that you are a creepy person Who deserves to be treated as some sort of moral sinner in this way.
00:14:27.000So this is not a full defense of Joe Biden, but it is true that Joe Biden's behavior has never really been complained about by anybody except for this one particular woman.
00:14:36.000Now, if a spate of women come out and they say that he's been randomly coming up to me at parties and then kissing me on the back of the head, I mean, look, that's weird behavior.
00:14:45.000And again, if somebody came up to my wife and put their hands on her shoulders and kissed her on the back of the head the first time they met her, That person may end up knocked to the ground.
00:14:55.000But with that said, Joe Biden, people get accustomed to being treated in a certain way.
00:15:00.000And Joe Biden apparently has gotten accustomed to being able to get away with this kind of behavior to the point where I'm not sure he even notices it now.
00:15:07.000I will say that the media coverage of this is very different because Joe Biden is a Democratic frontrunner than it would be were he not.
00:15:12.000I will tell you about a Washington Post headline in just a second.
00:15:16.000The Washington Post's headline today in the politics section, quote, Joe Biden's affectionate physical style with women comes under scrutiny.
00:15:26.000The descriptors there, instead of just Joe Biden's physical style with women comes under scrutiny, affectionate physical style with women.
00:15:36.000The Washington Post says, Oh, that's the defining feature of the warm and upbeat persona is what it is.
00:15:40.000is one of the former vice president's trademarks, a defining feature of the warm and upbeat persona he has built during more than four decades in the national spotlight.
00:15:46.000Oh, that's the defining feature of the warm and upbeat persona is what it is.
00:15:50.000It's not just him randomly getting too close to people because he doesn't understand personal boundaries.
00:15:54.000But the appropriateness of Biden's physical behavior toward women is now being questioned after a female Democratic politician penned a viral Internet piece describing an alleged 2014 encounter that left her offended and uncomfortableness.
00:16:05.000Now, here's where the trouble comes in.
00:16:07.000It is difficult to determine whether people are truly outraged or whether there is just political hay being made while the sun shines.
00:16:15.000So Bernie Sanders, She says she's coming forth now because she thinks it's disqualifying for Joe Biden.
00:16:20.000if he were to come out against Biden, says, listen, I'm not sure that one complaint really discredits Biden.
00:16:25.000Here's Bernie Sanders on Face the Nation, suggesting that while this woman should be listened to, is that really an indicator that Joe Biden is a serial sexual assaulter in some way? - She says she's coming forth now because she thinks it's disqualifying for Joe Biden.
00:16:41.000Do you think it's disqualifying? - Well, I think that's a decision for the vice president to make.
00:16:47.000I'm not sure that one incident alone disqualifies anybody, but her point is absolutely right.
00:16:54.000This is an issue not just the Democrats or Republicans, the entire country has got to take seriously.
00:16:59.000It is not acceptable that when a woman goes to work or is in any kind of environment that she feels anything less than comfortable and safe.
00:17:07.000OK, now it's hilarious again, is that the same Democrats who complain about this sort of stuff and say that women need to be feeling safe at the office, something with which I agree, will rip on Mike Pence for saying that he doesn't want to meet alone with women for fear of being accused of inappropriate behavior.
00:17:28.000Joe Biden is a friend and a seasoned veteran when it comes to political campaigns.
00:17:33.000I know nothing about the allegations that I also read this morning as well.
00:17:37.000I think all of us should take such allegations seriously and with respect.
00:17:41.000I took Joe Biden's statement to say just that exactly.
00:17:46.000So yes, I think he's ready if that's his decision to move forward in this presidential campaign.
00:17:51.000We have a spirited field of 15 or 16 candidates across the spectrum and the Democratic Party and its values.
00:17:58.000Certainly one allegation is not disqualifying, but it should be taken seriously.
00:18:02.000Okay, so I actually think that Dick Durbin's point here is actually pretty well taken, especially because, as it turns out, Lucy Flores is not exactly a politically uncommitted person, right?
00:18:11.000Lucy Flores is a fan, apparently, of Beto O'Rourke, and she is... It is odd, the timing of all of this.
00:18:21.000She actually was at a rally for Beto O'Rourke on Saturday.
00:18:24.000So it's hard to take all of this without at least a grain of salt, even if I think that Joe Biden is handsy with people he should not be handsy with.
00:18:33.000Honestly, how many guys do you know who are like this?
00:18:36.000I know people who are like this, older people particularly, who are like this.
00:18:41.000My wife deals with that on a regular basis as a doctor.
00:18:43.000She's constantly going into rooms with, you know, usually there's a third person there.
00:18:48.000And sometimes there are older people there, older men particularly, who will act inappropriately.
00:18:52.000And it's like, okay, well, my wife sort of just gets over it, which is not a suggestion.
00:18:56.000That the men's behavior is okay, but it's possible that Joe Biden doesn't know what he's doing.
00:19:01.000Now, it's possible Joe Biden does know what he's doing.
00:20:12.000I have no reason not to believe her, Jonathan.
00:20:15.000And I think we know from campaigns and from politics that people raise issues and they have to address them.
00:20:22.000And that's what he will have to do with the voters if he gets into the race.
00:20:26.000OK, so the only point I'm making here is that I don't know the motivations of the people who are attacking Joe Biden here.
00:20:32.000Again, I think on an objective level, on an objective level, his behavior with people who are not his wife or child, it's weird to me.
00:20:41.000It's obviously weird to me, but there's only one complaint so far, and that complaint comes from somebody who happens to be politically motivated against Biden and had nothing to say for five years about this particular incident.
00:20:54.000Now, it is also possible that the female senators in the race, maybe some of them have experienced stuff like this, and so they have a stronger belief system on this than the men.
00:21:01.000Maybe there is an actual sex gap here, and men don't understand what women are going through, and so they're more likely to brush off accusations like the one against Biden, but It's hard for me to take at face value complaints from people who are in direct competition with Senator, with Vice President Biden when it comes to all of this.
00:21:17.000So I will take this more as yet another line of attack against Joe Biden rather than as the Democratic Party suddenly discovering that Joe Biden is weird with women because he's been weird with women for years.
00:21:27.000Again, we've seen this sort of stuff going on for legitimately, it's been a meme on the right for half a decade that Joe Biden does this sort of stuff.
00:21:34.000I mean, there are pictures of him at campaign stops with women on his lap.
00:21:39.000Joe Biden's been doing this for a long time.
00:21:42.000So kind of hard to take seriously the Democratic Party's sudden observation that Joe Biden is actually creepy with women as opposed to they're just trying to knock him out of these primaries.
00:21:51.000They're just trying to knock him out of these primaries.
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00:23:14.000Over the weekend, she suggested that she wants people to debate her, which is odd, since when I actually challenged her to a debate, she accused me of catcalling, so there's that.
00:23:23.000But she had herself a very weird episode of Chris Hayes, all in with Chris Hayes on MSNBC, in which she said a bunch of things that make no sense.
00:23:32.000And yet she continues to be hailed as some sort of thought leader for the Democratic Party, which is pretty amazing, since she doesn't have lots of thoughts.
00:23:38.000But she doubled down on the notion that we are at risk from cow farts.
00:23:42.000She doubled down on her Green New Deal.
00:23:43.000Here is AOC, thought leader of the Democratic Party, continuing to push this nonsense.
00:23:47.000We need to innovate on our technology.
00:23:50.000You know, obviously, like, I had a staffer, you know, release a document that talked about cow flatulence, but... Which is an issue, I just want to say.
00:23:57.000Which is an issue, but here's the thing.
00:23:58.000It sounds ridiculous, but it literally is an issue.
00:24:00.000But it actually is an issue when it comes to contributing to methane, but that doesn't mean you end cows.
00:25:23.000It had some things that people thought were ridiculous and radical, like anyone that was unable or unwilling to work would be guaranteed a job.
00:25:29.000The FAQ was withdrawn and said it was preliminary, a draft.
00:26:26.000She explains that Congress passed an amendment to the Constitution to prevent FDR from being re-elected.
00:26:32.000Let me explain why this is dumb in one second.
00:26:35.000When our party was boldest, the time of the New Deal, the Great Society, the Civil Rights Act, and so on, we had and carried super majorities in the House, in the Senate, we carried the presidency.
00:26:49.000They had to amend the Constitution of the United States to make sure Roosevelt did not get re-elected.
00:26:56.000And, you know, there were so many extraordinary things that were happening in that time that were uniting working people.
00:27:11.000So, it is true that Democrats were winning enormous majorities in the middle of the Great Depression because people were blaming Herbert Hoover and the Republicans for all of that.
00:27:19.000It is also true that Congress was, in fact, regained by Republicans at some point during this period.
00:27:23.000But, it is also true— What is she— Wait.
00:28:08.000The beauty of being a Democrat is that no matter how radical you are, there are always members of the media, like Chris Hayes, to defend you.
00:28:14.000You want to see a great example of the media not asking eminently obvious follow-up questions.
00:28:18.000So Bernie Sanders was asked over the weekend, accidentally, on Face the Nation, an actual question.
00:28:23.000So he says that he will lower prescription prices.
00:28:27.000If I am elected president, I'm going to cut prescription drug costs in this country by 50% so that we are not paying any more than other major countries are paying.
00:29:20.000The radicalism of the Democrats was on full display over the weekend.
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00:29:24.000We will also get to the crisis on our southern border where legitimately thousands and thousands of people are arriving.
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00:32:03.000So as I say, one of the benefits of being a Democrat is that the media never ask you very difficult follow-up questions.
00:32:14.000This also holds true of some of the more intelligent Democratic candidates.
00:32:18.000I'm speaking, of course, of the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg.
00:32:21.000He was on MSNBC, and he was asked by Joe Scarborough about his position on abortion.
00:32:26.000No serious follow-up question for a guy taking the most extreme abortion position you can take.
00:32:30.000Do you support the late-term abortion legislation that was passed in the New York State Legislature as well as in Virginia?
00:32:40.000I don't think we need more restrictions right now.
00:32:42.000I just believe that when a woman is in that situation, and when we're talking about some of those situations covered by that law, extremely difficult, painful, often medically serious situations where life or health of the mother is at stake, the involvement of a male government official like me is not helpful.
00:33:00.000Okay, how about when people are just killing people on the street?
00:33:02.000Is the involvement of a male public official like you viable and useful?
00:33:06.000It turns out that in South Bend, by the way, the murder rate went up in 2016 and 2017, according to stats, so there's that.
00:33:12.000But in any case, the fact that there's no follow-up, like, what does that have to do with anything?
00:33:16.000What does your maleness have to do with that?
00:33:17.000Why should you be able to abort a baby at 32 weeks?
00:33:21.000Just because you happen to be male, that's an okay thing?
00:33:38.000So it goes Biden and then Bernie and then Beto.
00:33:42.000That's a whole bunch of white guys at the top whose names start with B. Well, actually, one whose name starts with an R, but we call him Beto.
00:33:48.000In any case, Beto O'Rourke tweeted out, The unprecedented concentration of wealth, power, and privilege in the United States must be broken apart.
00:33:57.000Opportunity must be fully shared with all.
00:33:59.000We must have the opportunity to succeed together as one country.
00:34:04.000So just to get this straight, Beto O'Rourke is such a doofus that this tweet begins with, we have to destroy all of the unity in the country.
00:34:15.000And then we can do that as one country.
00:34:27.000And then, once we do that, then we can be one country.
00:34:29.000This sort of revolutionary rhetoric on the part of the left continues to be, frankly, kind of frightening.
00:34:36.000And I think it's one of the reasons why President Trump continues to pull evenly with every Democratic candidate who has put up against him, despite the fact that he is personally, in terms of popularity, not particularly popular.
00:34:45.000Speaking of President Trump, The breaking news on the border is that there is indeed a massive crisis on the southern border because thousands and thousands of people are arriving at that southern border and we've got no resources to deal with them effectively.
00:35:09.000The families are there because permanent processing facilities have run out of room.
00:35:12.000700 miles east, busload after busload of weary, bedraggled migrants crowd into the Catholic Charities Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen, Texas.
00:35:20.000Organizers there are used to handling 200 to 300 migrants a day.
00:35:23.000Lately, the migrants have been arriving at a clip of around 800 a day, overflowing the respite center and straining city resources.
00:35:29.000It's staggering, McAllen City Manager Roy Rodriguez says, Really, we've never seen anything like this before.
00:35:34.000Along the Texas border with Mexico, from El Paso to Eagle Pass to the Rio Grande Valley, masses of migrants have been crossing the border in unprecedented numbers, overwhelming federal holding facilities and sending local leaders and volunteers scrambling to deal with the relentless waves of people.
00:35:49.000Border Patrol officials were on pace in March for more than 100,000 apprehensions and encounters with migrants, the highest monthly tally in over a decade, according to Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan.
00:36:01.000Around 90% of those crossed the border between legal ports of entry.
00:36:04.000So the talk that all the migrants are simply showing up at ports of entry so there's no need for a wall, obviously that is untrue.
00:36:12.000The vast majority of people who are crossing between ports of entry turn themselves into Border Patrol agents seeking asylum.
00:36:17.000They try to apply for asylum once they get into Border Patrol custody, and then, because we don't have the resources to actually hold everybody, a huge majority of these people are released into the interior of the United States.
00:36:29.000President Trump, of course, recently declared a national emergency at the border to secure funding for a proposed wall.
00:36:34.000On Friday, the president, in a tweet, threatened to close the U.S.-Mexico border if Mexico didn't stop undocumented migrants from coming.
00:36:41.000But it's unclear what exactly that means.
00:36:44.000When he says he's going to close the border, I suppose that just means that anybody who shows up at a port of entry is going to be turned away, and we simply won't let anybody in.
00:36:54.000If people show up to Border Patrol, what is Border Patrol going to do?
00:36:57.000Just re-release them back into the desert?
00:36:59.000That doesn't seem like that's an actual policy.
00:37:03.000In El Paso, migrant families pressed their faces against the chain-link fencing at the makeshift outdoor shelter under the Paso Del Norte International Bridge as they awaited their turn to seek asylum.
00:37:12.000Children covered their mouths with swaths of Mylar blankets and peeked through the fencing at passing Border Patrol guards.
00:37:18.000On Wednesday, more than 850 migrants were released to local shelters, marking a new high for El Paso, and those numbers are expected to continue rising.
00:37:26.000A lot of this is an expectation of a rough summer, so people are trying to get in as fast as humanly possible before the heat of the summer kicks in.
00:37:34.000President Trump correctly tweeted out, the Democrats have given us the weakest immigration laws anywhere in the world.
00:37:38.000Mexico has the strongest and they make more than $100 billion a year on the United States.
00:37:42.000Therefore, Congress must change our weak immigration laws now and Mexico must stop illegals from entering the United States.
00:37:48.000Well, the truth is that we have enough immigration laws on the books to deport all these folks, but we don't have the resources to do it because the Democrats refuse the resources.
00:37:56.000When they talk about the humanitarian crisis on the border, that is a crisis that they have greatly exacerbated by not giving Border Patrol the resources that they need.
00:38:05.000President Trump is in the middle of an argument with members of his own government because he has now cut aid to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras on Saturday.
00:38:14.000He said they were sending migrants to the United States He threatened to shutter the U.S.-Mexico border, which presumably would also include trade from south of the border.
00:38:22.000People say that if that were to happen, the supply of avocados in the United States would be gone in three, essentially three weeks, which means that millennials would finally have an excuse to get off their butts and stop playing video games to be upset.
00:38:33.000A surge of asylum seekers from the three countries have sought to enter the United States across the southern border in recent days, according to Reuters.
00:38:40.000On Friday, Trump accused the nations of having set up migrant caravans and sent them north.
00:38:44.000Weirdly enough, his own Secretary of Homeland Security, Christian Nielsen, has been suggesting the opposite, that these countries are actually trying to help us in preventing all of this from happening.
00:38:54.000The Honduran Foreign Ministry on Saturday called the U.S.
00:38:56.000policies contradictory, but stressed that its relationship with the United States was solid, close, and positive.
00:39:02.000Homeland Security Secretary Christian Nielsen says that Border Patrol officials have been overwhelmed by a sharp increase in asylum seekers, many of them children and families who arrive in groups fleeing violence and economic hardship in the so-called Northern Triangle.
00:39:16.000A border shutdown would disrupt tourism and U.S.-Mexico trade.
00:39:18.000It's not clear how shutting down ports of entry would deter asylum seekers because they're legally able to request help as soon as they set foot on U.S.
00:39:30.000And by the way, cutting aid to these countries?
00:39:33.000That would be a worthwhile cause if it actually resulted in better governance in those countries, but I'm not sure that that's actually the case either.
00:39:39.000So this seems mostly like President Trump being incredibly frustrated, rightly so, at the situation on the southern border and lashing out as opposed to an actual coherent policy.
00:39:48.000Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, is defending President Trump's threat to end assistance to three Central American countries.
00:39:56.000He said, why are we talking about closing the border?
00:39:58.000Not to try and undo what's happening, but simply to say, look, we need the people from the ports of entry to go out and patrol in the desert where we don't actually have a wall.
00:40:06.000So I guess that this is a selling point.
00:40:08.000That sounds like a sort of backfill justification to me from Mick Mulvaney, the president's chief of staff.
00:40:15.000Trump's attempt to seal off the border by building a wall, according to the New York Times, and mulling the closure of ports to tamp down on immigration and drug smuggling is at odds with a nagging reality.
00:40:38.000Mulvaney criticized Jay Johnson, who is the head of the Department of Homeland Security under Obama, for saying in an interview that the situation at the border was truly in crisis.
00:40:45.000He says, we hate to say we told you so.
00:40:48.000We're going to do the best we can with what exactly we have.
00:40:52.000The problem is there are no real good solutions absent some sort of change in Central and Latin America overall.
00:40:59.000The fact is that if we do not actually improve conditions in those southern countries, we are going to have people who are seeking to flee as soon as possible.
00:41:09.000In an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN's State of the Union, Tapper pointed out to Mulvaney that experts within the president's own administration have said that aid money has helped curb violence and migration from El Salvador.
00:41:19.000Mulvaney said that that was from career staffers.
00:41:30.000We have a bunch of failed states that are south of us.
00:41:32.000And those failed states are sending people north, not because they are actively sending people north, but because failed states emit refugees.
00:41:39.000And these states are at least failing.
00:41:42.000I wouldn't call them fail, but they are failing states.
00:41:44.000They are failing to limit the violence.
00:41:46.000They're failing to provide the sort of rights that are necessary.
00:41:52.000There are only two ways of coping with that.
00:41:53.000Helping to change the situation on the ground in these states, or two, building up our border security so much that we can continue to deport people on a continuing basis just like this.
00:42:03.000Because if not, then this crisis is going to amount to a lot of people crossing the border illegally and staying in the United States without us knowing what exactly they're doing here.
00:42:16.000Meanwhile, the left on April Fool's Day is trying to play an April Fool's trick on all of us.
00:42:20.000They're telling us there is no such thing as biological sex.
00:42:23.000So you'll recall that originally the left's argument with regard to biological sex is that gender and biological sex were two separate things.
00:42:29.000Gender was feminine or masculine attributes.
00:42:32.000The left suggested that these were utterly disconnected from actual sex, which is not true, obviously.
00:42:37.000There are a lot of masculine attributes like physical strength, and certain attitudes and how people act in many ways that are different, whether you're a physical male or a physical female.
00:42:46.000But they say that you can define yourself as more feminine or more masculine, and you have conscious decision-making power over some of that stuff.
00:42:54.000Maybe gender is just how you quote-unquote identify, but that is something that is driven by some sort of brain software as opposed to the biological, physical hardware of your being.
00:43:18.000Teen Vogue has released a video in which they have several intersex people, meaning people who are born with genetic conditions, that mean that they have certain secondary sex characteristics of the other sex, even though they are, for example, genetically male.
00:43:31.000They're using that as an example to say that sex doesn't exist.
00:43:54.000Here's Teen Vogue trying to push that propaganda point.
00:43:57.000- Hi, I'm Hannah Gaby and I'm here to tell you that binary is bull . - Gender is about your identity, your expression, and it's often based on ideas about sex. - It's important that we really break down what are we talking about when we talk about sex and gender and is there something called biological sex and what does that mean? - This idea that the body is either male or female is totally wrong and it's often based on ideas about sex. - It's important that we really break down what And I am living proof of that.
00:44:20.000We know intersex people exist and break down this binary.
00:44:24.000We all have characteristics that are typically male and typically female.
00:44:28.000And it is really about political choices, social factors, ideological choices that we assign meaning to different parts of our body.
00:45:43.000And yet, this is now being pushed by an enormous number of people of the left who suggest that politics ought to override science.
00:45:50.000I thought that this was the party of science.
00:45:52.000I was informed by the secular humanist left that what they really wanted was science, not religion.
00:45:56.000Now, as I argue in my new book, if you actually want science, you have to make certain religious assumptions about the ability of human beings to discover such a thing as objective truth.
00:46:03.000Not just evolutionarily beneficial truth, but objective truth.
00:46:08.000You have to assume that human beings are created with the capacity to reason.
00:46:12.000You have to assume that when we come to a scientific truth that it holds for a non-chaotic universe.
00:46:18.000None of that, those are all faith-based principles.
00:46:20.000None of those are rooted in pure science.
00:46:21.000They're assumptions that you have to make.
00:46:24.000But the left, which has thrown out those assumptions, is then surprised when science caves in on itself.
00:46:29.000And that's what you're watching, in astonishing manner, with mainstream outlets pushing absolute scientific nonsense.
00:46:35.000Like, there's no such thing as a boy, and there's no such thing as a girl, because I don't want there to be a boy, and I don't want there to be a girl.
00:48:11.000Because I have to sign a lot of books for folks.
00:48:14.000I mean, I have like thousands and thousands of book plates I'm supposed to sign.
00:48:18.000And so that means it's time to watch TV and sign books.
00:48:20.000There's a new movie out at Netflix with Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson called The Highwaymen about the police officers, the former Texas Rangers who took down Bonnie and Clyde.
00:49:09.000So the movie is really good, and it's not at all about Bonnie and Clyde.
00:49:13.000It demonstrates what sociopaths they were.
00:49:15.000I mean, they legitimately killed normal people.
00:49:17.000The myth of Bonnie and Clyde that was purveyed by Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, that they were sort of just dispossessed, misunderstood young people?
00:49:25.000No, they were actual criminals who were robbing, like, gas station attendants and killing people who were innocent.
00:49:29.000It wasn't just them killing police officers, which was bad enough.
00:49:32.000And so the movie is about the law tracking them down.
00:49:36.000There are some moments in it that are pretty great.
00:49:38.000Go check it out, The Highwaymen, with Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson.
00:49:58.000There's one scene right near the beginning that is incredibly effective, where they actually show what an abortion looks like.
00:50:05.000It looks like maybe a 10th or 11th week abortion, and it is Deeply unpleasant, but that is the whole point of it.
00:50:12.000I think that it is really important for people to know what the hell they're talking about when they talk about abortion.
00:50:16.000I've said for years that use of euphemistic language with regard to abortion as though it is an anodyne clean nothing of a procedure is just nonsense.
00:50:40.000This is PureFlix's anti-abortion feature.
00:50:43.000It wasn't a huge win by major studio standards, but for the Indy label, which produced the five to six million budget, it's an achievement because the picture has weathered a lot of controversy.
00:50:56.000We talked about it on our radio show, actually, with one of the stars of the film.
00:50:58.000It was rated R by the MPAA, which is amazing because, as Matt Walsh points out, if they were just showing a picture of a gallbladder surgery, the cleaning out of a gallbladder, that wouldn't have been rated R. But everybody knows that an abortion is In a violent procedure, and so it was rated R. That is why this happened.
00:51:14.000It's an effective movie because it does show those sorts of things.
00:51:28.000Because Twitter's algorithm is all screwed up.
00:51:30.000The reason, supposedly, that Twitter had banned all of this is because they had frozen their account because they'd been rated R or something.
00:51:51.000And apparently, the Pure Flix CEO, Michael Scott, he said, We are very happy for the success of the film to bring the story of Abby Johnson, who's a former Planned Parenthood clinic director, to audiences and have them show up in such large numbers shows how the topic of abortion is so important to bring to audiences.
00:52:04.000We hope that those on both sides of the debate will see Unplanned.
00:52:08.000I'm gonna be hard to get folks on the left to see it.
00:52:10.000If you can, you should, because it is an important film.
00:52:14.000It has an A-plus rating at CinemaScore right now, and despite being an R-rated film, it distributed just behind God's Not Dead as far as Pure Flix's big budget films.
00:52:24.000The trailer has about 1.7 million views.