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00:01:40.000Well, Great Britain, slow clap for you.
00:01:41.000474747 claim your eligibility for the special offer today text ben to 474747 well great britain slow clap for you slow clap for you today because jeremy corbyn who is a vicious communist anti-semite not only lost the election last night he's going to he's going to drop his leadership in the labor party which is just a wonderful wonderful result
00:02:08.000And this was a big gamble by Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party.
00:02:13.000So Boris Johnson had basically brought Britain to an election on the basis that he didn't have a mandate to push forward with Brexit.
00:02:21.000Now, two years ago, there was a vote on Brexit.
00:02:24.000Sorry, actually it was in 2016, so it would have been three years ago, there was a vote on Brexit.
00:02:28.000And the people of Britain decided that they were not going to go along with the EU's over-regulation and centralization of power.
00:02:38.000And this came as a shock to the world media.
00:02:40.000The world media expected that the Brits, they'd be sophisticated enough to just go along with the EU and the EU's free immigration policies.
00:02:47.000That Britain would swallow the crow of having to deal with Angela Merkel's individual German immigration policies.
00:02:53.000And then because of free transport, everybody would be able to move across state lines into Britain.
00:02:58.000That Britain would be fine with the over-regulation from Brussels.
00:03:01.000Every aspect of British life being controlled by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.
00:03:05.000And it turns out that the Brits were not okay with that, and they voted that way in the largest single referendum in the history of the nation.
00:03:12.000Well, ever since then, the government of Britain has been trying to stop Brexit from happening.
00:03:17.000So Theresa May kept putting forward Brexit proposal after Brexit proposal, but she didn't have enough of an electoral mandate in order to get that done, because members of her own party, some of them thought that the Brexit deal was too easy on the EU, others of it thought that it was too harsh on the EU, Labour was standing against Brexit.
00:03:31.000There just was not that she didn't have the numbers.
00:03:33.000And so she ended up leaving the prime ministership.
00:03:35.000She was widely perceived not to really want to do Brexit in the first place.
00:03:39.000And Boris Johnson replaced her, the very colorful former mayor of London.
00:03:45.000And Boris Johnson took over, pledging that he was going to get Brexit done.
00:03:50.000He tried to suspend Parliament at one point, in order to shorten the period that Labour would have to stop him from ramming it through.
00:03:56.000In the end, he was unable to do that, and so he called new elections.
00:03:59.000It was a risky move, because the fact is that the British people could have said, listen, we're tired of all this Brexit stuff, let's have a second referendum, and this time we will cut against Brexit, and we will stand with the Labour Party.
00:04:09.000Well, instead, Labour is handed a crushing blow, just a massive, massive blow, as the Conservative Party in Britain walks with an 80-seat majority in the House's Parliament, which is an incredible, incredible thing.
00:04:25.000It's the biggest landslide against Labour, I believe, in the country's history.
00:04:29.000It's this incredible, incredible blow to what is an incredibly powerful party in Britain.
00:04:34.000And it's not just a referendum about Brexit, obviously, although it was the British people saying, listen, we've said over and over, you guys, you got to get it done.
00:04:43.000It was in part that, in part, it was a direct referendum on the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, who is indeed, as I say, a communist and an anti-Semite who has never met an anti-Semitic dictator he does not love.
00:04:53.000According to the AP, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party has won a thumping majority of seats in Britain's Parliament, a decisive outcome to a Brexit-dominated election that should allow Johnson to fulfill his plan to take the UK out of the EU next month.
00:05:05.000With 642 of the 650 results declared on Friday, the Conservatives had 358 seats and the main opposition Labour Party had 203.
00:05:17.000Johnson said it looked like the Conservatives had a powerful new mandate to get Brexit done.
00:05:21.000This makes Johnson the most electorally successful Conservative leader since Margaret Thatcher.
00:05:25.000It was a disaster for left-wing Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who faced calls for his resignation even as the results poured in.
00:05:32.000Meanwhile, the Scottish National Party won almost 50 of Scotland's 59 seats, up from 35.
00:05:36.000That will embolden their demands for a new referendum on Scottish independence, but Parliament has to go along with that.
00:05:41.000Parliament is not going to go along with a new referendum on Scottish independence.
00:05:45.000The centrist pro-EU Liberal Democrats took only about a dozen seats, and Liberal Democratic leader Jo Swinson stepped down after losing in her own Scottish constituency.
00:05:54.000The Conservatives took a swath of seats in the post-industrial northern English towns that were long Labour strongholds.
00:05:59.000Labour's vote held up better in London.
00:06:01.000That was pretty much the only place where Labour held up.
00:06:04.000The decisive Conservative showing vindicates Johnson's decision to press for Thursday's early election, which was held nearly two years ahead of schedule.
00:06:10.000He said that if Conservatives won a majority, He would get Parliament to ratify his Brexit divorce deal and take the UK out of the EU by the current January 31st deadline.
00:06:18.000Johnson said the historic election quote gives us now in this new government the chance to respect the democratic will of the British people to change this country for the better and to unleash the potential of the entire people of this country.
00:06:30.000Pretty much everybody turned away from labor.
00:06:33.000Labor economy spokesman John McDonald said, I think Brexit has dominated everything by the looks of it.
00:06:38.000We thought other issues could cut through and there would be a wider debate.
00:06:41.000From this evidence, there clearly wasn't.
00:06:43.000The other issue is that Jeremy Corbyn is a nut job and everybody in Britain understood that Jeremy Corbyn was a nut job.
00:06:48.000The Chief Rabbi of England came out and said that Jews should not vote for this anti-Semitic party.
00:06:54.000I want to also make it clear that I will not lead the party in any future general election campaign.
00:06:56.000Kavitz told Jeremy Corbyn announcing last night that the election had gone quite poorly for him and then announcing that he was going to step down from leadership of labor.
00:07:05.000I want to also make it clear that I will not lead the party in any future general election campaign.
00:07:13.000I will discuss with our party to ensure there is a process now of reflection on this result and on the policies that the party will take going forward.
00:07:27.000And I will lead the party during that period to ensure that discussion takes place and we move on into the future.
00:07:37.000So the way that it works in Britain is that everybody who is in Parliament obviously has to be a member of Parliament.
00:07:43.000So the leader of a parliamentary party has to be a member of Parliament.
00:07:46.000You have to be elected in your own constituency.
00:07:48.000So Boris Johnson announced his election victory basically in a congressional district, the way that it would kind of be the analogy in the United States.
00:07:55.000It would be as though in Congress, the biggest party in Congress then had a leader and that leader's party, the The party leader ended up becoming president of the United States.
00:08:06.000That's how the parliamentary system works.
00:08:08.000So that means that everybody is announcing from their congressional district or from their constituency.
00:08:12.000In this case, what was wonderful about that video where Jeremy Corbyn is announcing that he will no longer lead the Labour Party in general elections.
00:08:18.000A couple of things are wonderful about this.
00:08:20.000One, Britain has this incredibly great tradition where all it takes is basically, I think it's like 50 pounds or 500 pounds or something, I think it's 500 pounds, in order to stand for parliament.
00:08:32.000If you do, then you get to stand on the stage as the parliamentary election results are read.
00:08:36.000So behind Jeremy Corbyn is standing a dude in a white coat and a goofy hat, which is pretty spectacular.
00:08:46.000Behind Boris Johnson, by the way, in his constituency was Lord Buckethead and Elmo, which is always wonderful because, honestly, democracies shouldn't take themselves that seriously.
00:08:55.000Human endeavors are all ridiculous, and this is just proof of it.
00:08:58.000But the best part of this is the Jewish guy in the yarmulke, who presumably was campaigning with the Conservative Party, who is standing behind Boris Johnson and smiling broadly as Jeremy Corbyn announces that he's not going to be leading the Labour Party.
00:09:18.000He is awful in every possible way he is awful.
00:09:21.000Not only is he basically a communist on policy, but he happens to be a vicious anti-Semite, and he has for years.
00:09:28.000Liam Hoare had a piece in thetower.org back in 2015 describing how Corbyn hobnobbed with anti-Semites.
00:09:37.000Corbyn said in 2009, quote, it will be my pleasure and my honor to host an event in Parliament where our friends from Hezbollah will be speaking.
00:09:43.000I've also invited friends from Hamas to come and speak as well.
00:09:46.000Unfortunately, the Israelis would not allow them to travel here, so it's going to be only friends from Hezbollah.
00:09:52.000And Corbyn then said he didn't mean that they were just his friends.
00:09:55.000He just meant like friends collectively.
00:09:57.000The Labour Party was rife with anti-Semites who had entered the halls of power thanks to Jeremy Corbyn.
00:10:05.000Again, none of this was new, but the British people were not going to embrace that, and good for them.
00:10:10.000Now, did any of that stop Alexander Ocasio-Cortez from endorsing Jeremy Corbyn?
00:10:15.000The fact that he is a radical leftist who has never met a dictator he doesn't love, and has never met a Jew hater he didn't become friends with?
00:10:51.000So Bernie Sanders' team, the head of Bernie Sanders' national organization, Claire Sandberg, tweeted out, The Bernie team says, Vote labor.
00:11:00.000Solidarity with all the folks knocking on doors in the cold rain, getting out to vote for the many, not the few.
00:11:05.000And then it showed a picture of people holding Bernie signs alongside people holding Jeremy Corbyn for leader signs.
00:11:11.000So openly endorsing the anti-Semites to get absolutely smashed at the polls.
00:11:25.000Now, the disconnect between the polls and the actual final election results are pretty stunning, because leading up to this election, there were a bunch of polls that were done.
00:11:33.000The media were covering this thing as though it was very, very tight.
00:11:36.000Listen, I had calls from people who have hundreds of employees in Britain, and they were... Somebody said this to me yesterday.
00:11:43.000They literally said, as the polls were happening, they said if Jeremy Corbyn became Prime Minister, they were going to remove the business from Britain.
00:11:49.000The reaction of the British people to Jeremy Corbyn was violently anti, because he's awful.
00:11:57.000It also helped Boris Johnson that a lot of working class Brits were sick of the elitists in Britain telling them that they had to listen to the elitists in Brussels.
00:12:05.000That they had to accept Angela Merkel's foreign policy, and that they had to accept Sweden's social policy.
00:12:14.000According to the AP, on the whole, Labor tried to focus the campaign away from Brexit and onto its radical domestic agenda, vowing to tax the rich, nationalize industries like railroads and water companies, and give everyone in the country free internet access.
00:12:26.000It campaigned heavily on the future of the National Health Service.
00:12:29.000It appears that was not enough to boost Labor's fortune.
00:12:32.000Defeat spells the end for Jeremy Corbyn, a veteran socialist who moved his party sharply to the left after taking the helm in 2015, but who now looks to have led his left-of-center party to two electoral defeats since 2017.
00:12:43.000He was also accused of allowing anti-Semitism to spread inside the party.
00:12:49.000The London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, who is a member of Labour, he came out and he said Jeremy Corbyn's leadership is a disaster area.
00:12:54.000Khan has been quite critical of Corbyn, specifically because of Corbyn's open tolerance of antisemitism inside the party.
00:13:01.000Sadiq Khan, who's looking for a leadership position in the Labour Party, he said this general election result is nothing short of a catastrophe for the Labour Party, for London and for the UK.
00:13:08.000For the fourth general election in a row, the Labour Party has failed to put forward a compelling case to the British people.
00:13:13.000It is no consolation that we performed so much better here in London.
00:13:16.000We have fundamentally failed those that most desperately need the help of a Labour government.
00:13:19.000They include the sick, the poorest, the vulnerable.
00:13:21.000Our dedicated activists did all they could.
00:13:23.000As ever, I'm truly grateful for all their hard work.
00:13:25.000And then he just goes right after Corbyn with a steak knife.
00:13:28.000If we are truly honest with ourselves, we knew in our hearts that Jeremy Corbyn's leadership was deeply unpopular with the British people and that we were extremely unlikely to form a Labour government last night.
00:13:36.000Labour's shocking and repeated failure to tackle anti-Semitism.
00:13:39.000Okay, this criticism is coming from inside the house.
00:13:41.000And I'd just like to make a note for the Democratic Party in today's America.
00:13:45.000Guys, you could do the same thing to the anti-Semites in your own party.
00:13:48.000You could say, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, you're not helpful.
00:13:52.000By the way, it is worth noting that Rashida Tlaib, there's that Jersey City anti-Semitic shooting, which, by the way, could have been so much worse.
00:13:58.000When I say it could have been so much worse, that, I mean, six people died.
00:14:02.000Four people who were good, and the two shooters.
00:14:05.000The shooters, apparently, were actually aiming for the site next door, where there were 50 school-aged children studying upstairs, Jewish kids.
00:14:12.000They actually shot at the door, and then when they couldn't get in the door, they went into the kosher supermarket and shot that place up.
00:14:18.000Rashida Tlaib had tweeted out how terrible the shooting was and blamed it on white supremacists, and it turns out it was black Hebrew Israelites.
00:14:24.000She has not tweeted anything about Jersey City.
00:14:26.000I believe AOC has not tweeted anything about Jersey City.
00:14:30.000Ilhan Omar, my understanding is, has not tweeted anything about Jersey City.
00:14:33.000You know, if you guys in the Democratic Party don't want to go the way of labor, then perhaps you ought to consider tossing the radicals out of your own party.
00:14:43.000He says, Labour's shocking and repeated failure to tackle anti-Semitism and our inability to put forward a credible and believable set of priorities for governing have made a major contribution to the scale of this defeat.
00:14:52.000Brexit has accelerated a fundamental shift in British politics and rewritten our political map, the full extent of which is not yet fully understood.
00:14:59.000However, Labour now stands more politically and culturally removed than ever before from many of the people our party was formed to represent, and that means asking ourselves some very difficult questions.
00:15:09.000The next five years are full of grave challenges.
00:15:11.000We'll leave the European Union on Boris Johnson's terms.
00:15:15.000We'll face damaging and far-reaching changes to our economy and public services from this hard-right Tory government.
00:15:20.000The Labour Party will have to change fundamentally in order to rise to these challenges and confront the new political reality that we face.
00:15:25.000Jeremy Corbyn has said he will stand down.
00:15:32.000Okay, it's not just going to be Jeremy Corbyn.
00:15:34.000The entire Labour Party has to be purged of the communists and the anti-Semites if they wish to be competitive again.
00:15:38.000It is good for Western civilization that Western parties not embrace communism and Jew hatred.
00:15:43.000So, very good result from Britain last night.
00:15:46.000I'll explain in just one second what I think this means for the United States because people are taking lessons away from this in the United States.
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00:17:28.000If you look at the UK Guardian today, the Guardian is just beside itself.
00:17:33.000Again, they printed an article in the UK Guardian today in which they suggested that Boris Johnson had won because the Russians helped him cheat.
00:17:43.000I mean, this is one of my favorite articles.
00:17:46.000The headline over at the UK Guardian, which is sort of the equivalent of, in Britain, The Nation, maybe?
00:17:52.000They say, Winners and losers, few bright notes on a grim night for labor.
00:17:59.000So the media in Britain is very much disconnected, especially the mainstream media in Britain, very much disconnected from the people and so they can't believe that a lot of the labor strongholds, those white working class strongholds in the north of England, voted in favor of the Conservative Party.
00:18:14.000And one of the big factors here is that Nigel Farage made the correct decision to get out of the way.
00:18:18.000So Nigel Farage's Brexit party was slated to win some of these seats.
00:18:22.000And he went to Boris Johnson, and it was obvious that Johnson, in order to get Brexit done, needed the votes that were going to go to the Brexit party to go to the Conservative party.
00:18:30.000Farage did the right thing, stepped out of the way, and now Brexit is going to get done.
00:18:36.000So the media disconnect is very similar to that in the United States.
00:18:39.000The media in the United States cannot believe that there is a single human being in the United States who would vote for Donald Trump.
00:18:43.000And that means that some of the polls are probably a little bit wrong.
00:18:46.000The polls on this thing were not particularly good.
00:18:49.000The polls on Trump may not be all that great.
00:18:51.000Now, I'm not a person who discards poll data wholesale.
00:18:54.000I think you've got to take it for what it's worth.
00:18:57.000When you talk to conservatives, when pollsters call them, sometimes they just don't answer the questions the way they honestly believe because they're screwing with the pollsters.
00:19:05.000Because they don't trust the people asking the poll questions.
00:19:07.000Very often, poll members are a referendum on the people who are asking the questions more than a referendum on the subject of the questions.
00:19:15.000The other thing is that the populist appeal of Boris Johnson is not off-putting to people.
00:19:20.000People in the British media thought, okay, he acts like a clown, Boris Johnson, he drives trucks through walls, and the truck is labeled Brexit on it.
00:20:08.000It is worth noting, when I was back in college at UCLA, I took a course on British politics, and I remember writing a paper specifically about the close mirroring between the outcomes of British elections and the outcomes of American elections.
00:20:22.000Basically, Britain and the United States tend to move politically in tandem.
00:20:26.000When Britain moves to the left, the United States tends to move to the left.
00:20:28.000When the United States moves to the right, Britain tends to move to the right.
00:20:31.000It tends to presage particular shifts, which is why a lot of people saw Brexit as sort of an indicator that Trump was going to do better than expected.
00:20:37.000Okay, so this should be scary for the Democrats in the United States.
00:20:43.000And also, It should be a wake-up call to Democrats in the United States.
00:20:47.000It should be a wake-up call that when you guys skew too far to the left the same way that Jeremy Corbyn skewed too far to the left, you are going to leave the public behind.
00:20:54.000Remember, the folks in Britain, they're a lot more used to socialism than the folks in the United States.
00:20:59.000They're a lot more used to socialist talk.
00:21:00.000They're a lot more used to big government than people in the United States are.
00:21:04.000The Democratic Party is mirroring the Labor Party in Britain.
00:21:06.000But the public in America is not even as left-wing as the public in Britain.
00:21:09.000We don't have a National Health Service.
00:21:12.000So, for the Democratic Party to mirror that is incredibly stupid.
00:21:57.000I mean, he hasn't actually changed entitlements, to my great chagrin.
00:22:01.000He is governed as a conservative on tax cuts, on judges, on parts of foreign policy, but he's not governed particularly conservatively in terms of spending.
00:22:15.000And so you could see Trump running a very similar campaign, pointing to the radicalism of the left and then pointing to his economic record.
00:22:21.000And saying, do you want that economic record to continue or not?
00:22:23.000Well, for him, that means that the best thing that could happen is that Elizabeth Warren becomes the nominee, or Bernie Sanders, who has overtaken Elizabeth Warren in national polling, becomes the nominee.
00:22:31.000It's the reason why, and Joe Biden knows this, right?
00:22:34.000This is why Joe Biden today, in the aftermath of this thing, is saying, look at Britain.
00:22:38.000Do you really think that the Democrats are going to be able to nominate their own Jeremy Corbyn and that guy's going to win in the United States?
00:22:44.000So Biden and his allies are seizing on this.
00:22:46.000Biden says, look what happens when the Labor Party moves so far, so far to the left.
00:22:51.000He said that as the British election results became clearer.
00:22:53.000Now, Bernie Sanders had already endorsed Jeremy Corbyn.
00:22:57.000Biden said Boris Johnson is winning at a walk.
00:23:00.000He predicted the pundits would say, look what happens when the Labour Party moves so, so far to the left.
00:23:03.000It comes up with ideas that are not able to be contained in a rational basis quickly.
00:23:08.000And he also drew comparisons between Johnson and Trump.
00:23:11.000He says, you're going to see some people saying, my God, Boris Johnson, who's kind of a physical and emotional clone of the president, is able to win.
00:23:18.000Well, yeah, again, I think that Boris Johnson, that's selling Boris Johnson quite a bit short, but the general point is well taken.
00:23:25.000And it is true that centrists in the United States are going to point to the radical move of the Democratic Party, and they're going to say, okay, well, do we want this to look exactly like Britain?
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00:25:50.000Because the majority, the Democrats, don't care what the minority, the Republicans, have to say.
00:25:55.000In fact, they don't want any of those rules applied.
00:25:58.000And so this hearing turned into a quite entertaining, if completely useless spectacle in the stupidity of these impeachment hearings generally.
00:26:05.000So this morning, the House Judiciary passed the impeachment vote along completely partisan lines.
00:28:22.000You have a rigged and rushed process when you don't have the facts.
00:28:25.000You have a rigged and rushed process when you can't accept the will of the American people.
00:28:29.000And of course you have a rigged and rushed process When you're afraid that you can't beat the president at the ballot box.
00:28:37.000Okay, and that last part is indeed the case.
00:28:39.000The Democrats are rushing the process because they think that Trump is likely to win.
00:28:44.000And given prevailing trends, and as we'll explain, given some of the late actions of President Trump in even the last week, Trump's odds of winning are going up fairly dramatically.
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00:30:40.000We're going to get back to the battle between the Democrats and the Republicans.
00:30:43.000And then there is this insane piece in the Washington Post that there is no way that this piece would ever be written about a group other than Jews.
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00:33:28.000So as I say, almost a complete waste of time yesterday in the House Judiciary Committee as the Democrats vote on two articles of impeachment and the Republicans militate against that militant.
00:33:42.000Matt Gaetz, who again, many of the more colorful members of Congress had their moments in the sunshine, had their moments in the sunshine yesterday.
00:33:49.000Matt Gaetz of Florida, he said, this is obviously bloodlust for Trump, which it is.
00:33:54.000Time and again, they let us down in their claims.
00:33:56.000But one thing we know for certain is that this was a sad inevitability.
00:34:01.000I had someone ask me recently, do you feel some sense of history, some sense of moment that you're about to vote on impeachment?
00:34:08.000And sadly, I knew this time was coming since the Democrats took control of the House of Representatives.
00:34:14.000Because they didn't lay out a plan to appropriate for the budget, work with us on critical generational issues.
00:34:25.000Now, the most colorful moment of this entire thing happened when Matt Gaetz went after Hunter Biden.
00:34:28.000He was pointing out that it should be kind of suspicious that Hunter Biden was obtaining these extraordinarily lucrative jobs while having a record that included busts on drugs and all sorts of other problems.
00:34:46.000Okay, so it turned real rock'em sock'em robots.
00:34:48.000I will note that, logically speaking, Matt Gaetz was elected to Congress, okay?
00:34:52.000He was not selected because his last name was Gaetz.
00:34:55.000He didn't have a connection with the Vice Presidents of the United States.
00:34:57.000There is an actual difference between being elected in spite of a past DUI, Beto O'Rourke, and between being in a situation where you obtain a $50,000 a month job despite no history in the industry, despite no actual qualifications because your last name is Biden.
00:35:16.000Anyway, here's Matt Getz versus Hank Johnson.
00:35:18.000This made a lot of headlines yesterday.
00:35:20.000And I don't want to make light of anybody's substance abuse issues.
00:35:23.000I know the president's working real hard to solve those throughout the country, but it's a little hard to believe that Burisma hired Hunter Biden to resolve their international disputes when he could not resolve his own dispute with Hertz rental car over leaving cocaine in a crack pipe in the car.
00:35:39.000The pot calling the kettle black is not something that we should do.
00:35:46.000I don't know I don't know what members, if any, have had any problems with substance abuse, been busted in DUI.
00:36:08.000Okay, so is that really, you know, is that really a fair hit?
00:36:11.000The answer is, of course, it really is not, but that made a lot of headlines because people standing up to each other.
00:36:16.000Okay, so all of this is just for sham.
00:36:18.000Everybody understands this is just for show.
00:36:20.000The Democrats were going to ram this through no matter what.
00:36:22.000Nancy Pelosi was specifically asked yesterday, why, if you are so confident that Donald Trump committed an act of bribery here as the basis for impeachment, didn't you just include bribery as one of the impeachable charges?
00:36:32.000The obvious answer, they don't have the elements, meaning they don't have the evidence.
00:36:35.000Nancy Pelosi just skips right on by I myself am not a lawyer.
00:37:56.000Now, why are the Democrats have focused in on impeachment?
00:37:57.000They keep they keep just saying it out loud and they're saying the quiet part out loud.
00:38:01.000Basically, they're focused on impeachment because they believe they're going to lose in 2020.
00:38:05.000And if they don't impeach, Trump will win.
00:38:07.000And if they do and if Trump does win and is not impeached, they're going to claim that the election was stolen.
00:38:13.000So they are setting up this basic choice between either we impeach him and then we win, or we don't impeach him and then he steals the election.
00:38:22.000Either way, the Democrats get to claim that the thing's illegitimate.
00:38:24.000So here's Eric Swalwell, when he's not threatening to nuke gun owners in the United States, is not farting on national TV.
00:38:30.000It was Chris Matthews moving a mug, guys.
00:40:42.000Yes, but I don't think it would be exactly the same, and here's why.
00:40:46.000Because even though we're impeaching him, you know, now, there's still a number of court cases.
00:40:53.000There's a ton of information that could come forward.
00:40:56.000For example, we could get his bank records and find out that he's Owned 100% by the Russians.
00:41:03.000So you are absolutely right in your scenario.
00:41:06.000But the only thing I would say slightly different is, is that it might not be the same articles of impeachment because the odds are we'd have a ton more information.
00:41:15.000Okay, so this thing is not going to end, right?
00:41:19.000They're just going to keep trying to impeach Trump, according to Karen Bass.
00:41:23.000How seriously should we take all of this?
00:41:25.000I take it about as seriously as Democrat Congressman Cedric Richmond, who apparently was watching golf in the middle of the impeachment hearings yesterday.
00:41:31.000I take it with the same level of thrill as this congressperson.
00:42:07.000Meanwhile, President Trump, he is moving closer to a re-election victory.
00:42:11.000And the reason is because he is getting some of the key issues off the table and he's doing it now.
00:42:15.000So President Trump, is going to sign today a new trade deal with the Chinese.
00:42:21.000He has settled on the outline of at least a first stage trade deal with the Chinese.
00:42:25.000Apparently, Trump has announced there will be a 50% reduction in the tariffs that he's imposed on September 1st, which covers about $110 billion of Chinese goods.
00:42:36.000There's already a 25% tariff on $250 billion in goods that he imposed in 2018.
00:42:40.000That's gonna stay for now, but he says that this is the beginning of a larger settlement with China, the de-escalation with China, Well, it may not actually be great policy in the long run because the United States needs to be confrontational with China in order to get them to do what we want, in order to get them to liberalize.
00:42:54.000They've been retrenching, they've been using the free markets to enrich themselves, and then to use that against the free markets, and then to use that against free countries.
00:43:03.000While it may be better policy to treat China as an overt enemy at this point, In terms of Trump's reelection, if he does that, there's a better chance that the Chinese sink the economy by selling some of America's bonds on the open market a month before the election, tank the economy, and throw it to whoever the Democrat is.
00:43:18.000So Trump ironing out this thing, or at least de-escalating before the election, is Quite smart politically.
00:43:25.000According to the New York Times, the United States has settled on final terms of a partial trade deal with China.
00:43:29.000Several people familiar with the negotiation said it's development that could ease tensions between the world's largest economies just days before the long-running trade war is set to escalate.
00:43:37.000Trump met with top economic advisors on Thursday afternoon at the White House, where the president agreed to significant reductions on tariffs he has placed on $360 billion of Chinese goods in return for China's commitment to purchase American farm products and make other concessions.
00:43:50.000As part of the agreement, the president is expected to announce he will delay or cancel tariffs on $160 billion of consumer products from China that were scheduled to go into effect on Sunday.
00:43:59.000Trump had foreshadowed this Thursday morning.
00:44:02.000He tweeted, getting very close to a big deal with China, they want it and so do we.
00:44:06.000Michael Pillsbury, China scholar at the Hudson Institute, he said this is a historic breakthrough and he attributed this to Trump having a good relationship with President Xi Jinping who is in fact a dictator.
00:44:17.000Trump was agreeing to roll back some of the tariffs he had imposed on China in exchange for Beijing bolstering its annual purchases of American products to about $50 billion next year.
00:44:25.000Also, China is supposed to enforce stronger protections for American intellectual property, open its markets to American financial institutions, and commit to greater transparency surrounding the management of its currency.
00:44:37.000So that's a good deal for President Trump, at least insofar as the politics.
00:44:42.000Free trade is always better for the economy.
00:44:44.000On a foreign policy front, is it a great idea to make deals with China?
00:44:48.000My general opinion is no, but from a market's perspective, it's going to help the economy.
00:44:52.000And that, of course, is very big for President Trump.
00:44:54.000Getting that issue off the table helps him a lot.
00:44:57.000Another issue he's gotten off the table, which, again, on a policy level, I disagree with it, but on a political level, he needed to do before the election.
00:45:04.000Top congressional negotiators said on Thursday they'd reached a deal in principle to approve $1.3 trillion in federal spending for 2020, probably averting a government shutdown next week.
00:45:15.000The Republicans keep Making these deals with Democrats to spend up the wazoo.
00:45:19.000They never take a strong position on spending.
00:45:24.000It's also terrible the American people are not ready to take strong positions on spending and are much more sanguine about spending a trillion dollars into the red every single year than they would be about making any cuts to the programs that would actually require the cuts in order to get us close to fiscal sanity.
00:45:39.000With that said, a government shutdown would not be good for President Trump leading up to the election.
00:45:43.000So that's another domino that he has knocked down in advance of the election.
00:45:47.000Also, Trump, following the Boris Johnson model, he is now embracing more big government policies.
00:45:54.000Boris Johnson is not a small government guy.
00:45:57.000It's just that compared to labor, he's a small government guy.
00:45:59.000Trump is sort of the same in the United States.
00:46:01.000Trump yesterday came out in favor of paid family leave, a policy which really should be left to the private sector.
00:46:06.000But again, he is trying to aim directly at those suburban moms that he has lost because of his personality.
00:46:11.000So here's Trump pushing that yesterday.
00:46:13.000But American families are coming first.
00:46:16.000With more women working today than ever before, we now have a historic opportunity to enact long overdue reforms.
00:46:24.000It's time to pass paid family leave and expand access to quality.
00:46:32.000Now, that's not a policy I like, but it is a smart political policy because big spending is always smart political policy.
00:46:39.000Trump is actually considering skipping the debates, which is not a bad idea, honestly, because while the Democrats would paint that as a form of cowardice, the fact is that the moderator is going to attack Trump.
00:46:51.000In reality, Trump's not going to skip the debates.
00:46:53.000If there is a moderator who is anti-Trump, Trump's going to attack the moderator and it's not going to go poorly for him.
00:46:58.000He did it to great success last time around.
00:47:01.000It is also true that Trump is quite pithy in debate.
00:47:06.000He's not going to give you a Pete Buttigieg smooth answer on any policy, but he's cutting and he's biting.
00:47:11.000And he says things that can be encapsulated in 30-second soundbites because the number of people who actually engage with all nine hours of these debates is fairly low.
00:47:19.000Nonetheless, Trump is apparently discussing with his advisors the possibility of sitting out general election debates in 2020 because of his misgivings about the commission that oversees them.
00:47:27.000Trump has told his advisors he does not trust the commission on presidential debates, the non-profit that sponsors the debates.
00:47:34.000I mean, the moderators that they've picked for the debates in the past have generally been awful.
00:47:38.000Less of a concern for Trump than who will emerge as the Democratic nominee is which media personality will be chosen as the debate moderator.
00:47:48.000He is afraid that the moderator is going to spend the entire debate attacking.
00:47:51.000And you saw this in 2012 when Candy Crowley openly lied about Mitt Romney on stage and Barack Obama in order to help Barack Obama.
00:47:58.000So, good for Trump to at least going in with his eyes wide open.
00:48:02.000The president's advisors declined to comment on what their plan was for the debates.
00:48:06.000One senior advisor to the president seemed to wince at the question, said it was not something advisors were prepared to discuss until next year.
00:48:13.000And again, are the debates gonna help him?
00:48:15.000Well, there were polls done last election cycle saying that Hillary won the debates, didn't help her, won IOTA.
00:48:21.000Now the key for Trump is going to be, can he contain the Trumpy?
00:48:25.000Because if Trump campaigns on the same premise as his first campaign commercial, which is, you may not like me as a person, but I'm doing a lot of good stuff for the country, and then he can minimize all the times that he's in the news doing stuff that annoys people, he'll win.
00:48:38.000But if the election is about Trump, if Trump makes the election, the only person who can defeat Trump at this point is Trump.
00:48:43.000Because the Democrats do not have much in the chamber.
00:48:46.000I mean, there's no ammo in that chamber.
00:48:50.000So is it very helpful to President Trump that he is attacking Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old proxy for the far-left's views on climate change?
00:49:01.000So yesterday, Trump tweeted out, so ridiculous, Greta must work on her anger management problem, then go to a good old-fashioned movie with a friend.
00:49:49.000No, it's not particularly smart politically, but it is very Trumpy.
00:49:53.000Now, as I say, if Trump would like to win, then the best thing that he can do at this point is to minimize the Trumpy, because we all get it, right?
00:50:44.000We're going to do a thing that I hate.
00:50:50.000There is an insane piece of the Washington Post today.
00:50:52.000A fully crazy piece of the Washington Post today.
00:50:55.000The way that the Washington Post and the New York Times cover antisemitism demonstrates how they do not take antisemitism seriously.
00:51:01.000In an incredible, incredible, obvious way.
00:51:05.000So the New York Times has a piece today in which they quote a bunch of Reform rabbis who don't know a lot about Judaism or care much about Israel.
00:51:12.000Talking about how President Trump signing an executive order to defend Jews on campus is very, very bad.
00:51:18.000The Washington Post has an even more incredible piece.
00:51:21.000It's a reported piece by Wesley Lowry, Kevin Armstrong, and Deanna Paul.
00:51:25.000And it's titled, Jersey City Grapples with Ramifications of Shooting at Kosher Market.
00:51:29.000The entire piece is about the roiling tensions inside Jersey City that led to the shooting of a bunch of Jews at a kosher supermarket.
00:51:38.000And what could have been much worse, as I mentioned earlier on the program, there's tape that now shows that these shooters were attempting to break in next door, and there, there were 50 schoolchildren upstairs.
00:51:47.000So this thing could have been a Sandy Hook-style massacre by black Hebrew Israelites against Jews.
00:51:53.000Well, the Washington Post prints a piece that they would never print about anything else.
00:51:58.000After Charleston, after the South Carolina massacre in a black church by a white supremacist, would there ever have been a piece about the roiling racial tensions that led to so much white anger?
00:52:11.000Would there have been a piece about how increased Hispanic immigration had led the white population to increase its anger and led to additional conflict?
00:52:20.000Of course not, because everybody understood that white supremacy shootings are evil and unrepresentative of the surrounding population, but, and certainly are not justified by anything that is happening in the world.
00:52:31.000But this piece from the Washington Post basically attempts to lend justification to the shooting.
00:52:36.000The JC Kosher supermarket sits on a block that appears the portrait of an American cultural melting pot.
00:52:41.000Across the street is a Catholic parish.
00:52:42.000A few storefronts away in one direction is an African hair braiding salon, in the other a mosque.
00:52:47.000The entire block rests a few miles from Ellis Island, settled in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty.
00:52:51.000Yet the market, and the ultra-Orthodox families that frequent it, also nods to a more complicated, if equally American story, that of a poor black community that, after decades of underinvestment, has seen a wave of redeployment and new arrivals.
00:53:03.000Remember, this is an article about the myrrh of Jews at a kosher supermarket by black Hebrew Israelites.
00:53:15.000By the way, we're showing some of the tape right now.
00:53:16.000You can see the lead shooter takes a look at the door.
00:53:20.000If you run it back, you'll see the lead shooter takes a look at the door that is the school and then quickly turns and enters the supermarket.
00:53:29.000That could have been a lot worse, but...
00:53:31.000That sentence from the Washington Post.
00:53:33.000Yet the market and the ultra-orthodox families that frequent it also nod to a more complicated if equally American story that of a poor black community that after decades of underinvestment has seen a wave of redeployment and new arrivals.
00:53:44.000I'm gonna change that language for El Paso, right?
00:53:47.000Yet the Walmart and the Hispanic families that frequent it also nod to a more complicated, if equally American, story.
00:53:52.000That of a poor white community that, after decades of underinvestment, has seen a wave of redeployment and new arrivals.
00:53:58.000If that sentence appeared in the Washington Post, it would get the Washington Post boycotted, and rightfully so, because guess what doesn't justify the mass murder of people on the basis of their ethnicity or their religion?
00:54:09.000Underinvestment in the local community.
00:54:14.000And the Washington Post continues along these lines.
00:54:17.000They say more than a hundred Jewish families have moved here in recent years, fleeing astronomical housing costs in Brooklyn, settling into affordable homes across the Hudson, in the heart of the historic black community.
00:54:26.000While their arrival prompted fears there would be tension between Hasidic arrivals and the black residents, who have been here for generations, many who have moved here say they have found friendly neighbors who made them feel at home.
00:54:35.000Then on Tuesday, a horrific attack threatened to shatter that goodwill.
00:54:39.000Oh, it was the attack that threatened the goodwill.
00:54:43.000We have tape from directly outside the site of the shooting of black residents of the city talking about how the shooting was a good thing.
00:54:52.000Again, the media coverage of this is so invested in the intersectional politics of the left, it's insane.
00:55:00.000We have to turn the real story about the Jersey City shooting not into a problem of Two black anti-Semites murdering Jews, and leave that to a broader conversation of anti-Semitism that exists in every community, and are there problems of anti-Semitism in parts of the black community, particularly in Brooklyn and New Jersey?
00:55:17.000We're not going to have that discussion.
00:55:18.000Instead, we're going to talk about gentrification, and how Hasidic Jews moving into the neighborhood is creating all of this turmoil.
00:55:25.000Again, imagine if the Washington Post, in the aftermath of Charleston, wrote a story about how black families moving into white neighborhoods was causing ethnic tensions that led to a shooting.
00:55:41.000Okay, according to the Washington Post, as investigators continue to probe the attack, which comes amid a rise in anti-Semitic violence nationally, this city is grappling with whether the attacks reflect underlying ethnic tensions locally and fears it could spark new ones.
00:55:55.000Well, maybe you might want to talk with black leaders locally about Why they think that this thing happened and whether, in fact, the polls that show outsized black antisemitism in the United States are reflective of a dearth of leadership in some parts of the black community.
00:56:12.000You would certainly do that if the races were reversed.
00:56:14.000If this had been a Jew who went and shot up a black church, you would get a lot of talk about our rabbis from the pulpit being racist.
00:56:21.000Is the ethnic tension between Jews and blacks, are those the fault of Jews?
00:56:26.000Now you're getting Jews moved into the neighborhood and that's causing ethnic tension.
00:56:29.000Like this, the coverage is just maddening.
00:56:32.000It's maddening and pathetic and this article would never have been written about anybody except for Jews.
00:56:38.000Nobody except for Jews would have this article written about them.
00:56:41.000They literally, half the article is about gentrification.
00:56:44.000The development of suburbs in the 1950s and 60s led to an exodus of most of the area's white residents, later followed by many middle-class black families, once the Fair Housing Act empowered them to pursue suburban living as well.
00:56:55.000The loss of moneyed residents and their businesses was coupled with the departure of manufacturing jobs, which were relocated to the South and later overseas, leaving behind an under-resourced urban core of poor black and brown people left to fend for themselves as violence and drugs spread.
00:57:07.000So in other words, if we just cut a few more government checks, and if we added more to the redistributive burden of the American people, and made this area richer, then that would have kept the Jews out and then you wouldn't have had this problem in the first place.