Benjamin Netanyahu is indicted, throwing the entire system into chaos, as Democrats struggle for ratings in the wake of another snooze-fest debate, and Impeachment Gate 2019 proceeds. Ben Shapiro explains why this is a complete mess, and why it's important to remember that Israel is one of the strongest allies of the US in the Middle East, and a strong advocate for America's First Lady, Michelle Obama, who stood up to Barack Obama for a decade, and who has been a strong voice for America s role in the world for the past ten years. Ben Shapiro is the host of The Ben Shapiro Show on Fox News Radio and host of the Daily Show with Bill Maher. He is also a regular contributor to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, and is a long-time friend of the late Michael Bloomberg, who served as a foreign policy adviser to both Obama and Hillary Clinton, and was a member of both houses of Congress from both houses for the first time in 2016 and again in 2017, and has been an avid supporter of Hillary Clinton since she was elected president in 2016. The show is sponsored by ExpressVPN, a company that provides a free VPN service that allows you to access the internet, and access the world's fastest-growing and most popular social media platforms, including the internet-based news and social media sites, by connecting the world s most influential people through the use of the internet and the internet's most influential influencers, using the term "social media and the social network. . Click here to find out more about ExpressVPN and get a free trial-free VPN service! and Subscribe to the show on the best VPN service in the entire world. and get 10% off your first-world VPN service. Subscribe here to get 20% off the first month, and get $10 off the offer, plus an ad-free version of the show, plus a FREE 7-day trial, and 5% discount when you sign up for the next month, when the offer is available for Prime Minister gets 24/7 access to the entire service, starting on Prime Minister s Testify, starting at $99, US$99. ? Learn more about your first month only, and receive a discount of $99 and get 5GBR, FREE PRICING gets better than $99 gets you 5 GBR, and gets you 4 months of VIP access, plus 7 GBR gets 3 months of the service, plus 3 VIP membership and 2 VIP membership gets 4 GBR is also gets 4 VIP access and 3 VIP gets 3 VIP access.
00:00:31.000Apparently over 100 protesters have been shot by the government.
00:00:34.000You have the situation in Hong Kong where the Chinese government is running roughshod over protesters, solidifying its grasp on a territory that It was not supposed to be in control of until something like 2040.
00:00:44.000You've got situations all around the world that are just a mess.
00:00:51.000Well, that mess got a lot larger for Israel yesterday when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was indicted on three separate counts on corruption and fraud and abuse of trust.
00:01:17.000So the idea that Mandelblit is motivated purely by a desire to, quote-unquote, get Netanyahu is likely untrue.
00:01:24.000Now, there have been accusations of police misconduct or pressure on witnesses.
00:01:27.000Those are the charges that Netanyahu is making.
00:01:29.000Netanyahu called the prosecutors, he said that they were staging an attempted coup.
00:01:35.000Mandelblit himself said, a day in which the Attorney General decides to serve an indictment against a seated Prime Minister for serious crimes of corrupt governance is a heavy and sad day for the Israeli public and for me personally.
00:01:46.000He obviously was unhappy about having to bring the charges.
00:01:50.000He said, this is not a matter of politics.
00:01:51.000It's an obligation placed on us, the people of law enforcement and upon me personally as the one at its head.
00:01:57.000Now, all of this comes in the middle of a massive political crisis inside of Israel.
00:02:02.000The massive political crisis is that Israel has experienced two elections in the past year alone.
00:02:07.000There's an election back near the beginning of the year in which, effectively speaking, no coalition was able to be formed.
00:02:12.000A second election was declared, no coalition was still able to be formed.
00:02:15.000To understand exactly what's going on in Israel, you sort of have to understand their system.
00:02:18.000So very different than the United States.
00:02:19.000In the United States, there are basically two parties.
00:02:22.000One party gains a majority in the House.
00:02:24.000One party gains a majority in the Senate.
00:02:28.000These elections are utterly disconnected.
00:02:30.000You vote for the person, you don't vote for the party.
00:02:32.000In Israel, as in Great Britain, for example, instead, you have what's called the parliamentary system.
00:02:36.000In the parliamentary system, you don't vote for the person, you vote for the party.
00:02:39.000That means that Benjamin Netanyahu has been Prime Minister of Israel because the Likud party His party has been able to win a plurality of the votes in these elections and then form a coalition with other right-wing parties in Israel to form a majority of the Knesset, which is the Hebrew word for parliament.
00:02:56.000You need 61 seats in your coalition in order to be able to govern.
00:03:00.000Netanyahu has been doing that consistently since 2009.
00:03:02.000He's the longest-serving prime minister in Israeli history.
00:03:05.000Well, he was unable to gain a governing majority at the beginning of this year for the first time in a long time.
00:03:11.000And that was because an erstwhile party in his coalition, led by a guy named Victor Lieberman, who had once been very close to Netanyahu, decided not to form a coalition with Netanyahu and the right-wing religious parties.
00:03:22.000He sees the religious parties as rent-seeking and basically taking welfare money, and so he didn't want to join that coalition.
00:03:29.000And instead, he thought about joining a coalition with the left, but there weren't enough votes on the left for him to form a majority coalition.
00:03:36.000Second election happens, same thing happens.
00:03:38.000And that leads to this period in which Netanyahu is serving as Prime Minister, but he doesn't actually have a majority.
00:03:43.000And that's just because no one else can form a majority.
00:03:46.000So, I'll explain more about what exactly is happening in Israel, because it is completely chaotic and it is a complete mess.
00:03:51.000And it's worthwhile knowing, because Israel is one of America's strongest allies.
00:03:55.000And obviously, Netanyahu is a world historical figure.
00:03:57.000I mean, this is a guy who has been in charge of a state for a decade.
00:04:02.000And who stood up to Barack Obama, was a strong advocate for America's role in the world.
00:04:06.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:05:27.000Okay, so the cases against Netanyahu are really threefold.
00:05:33.000There is case 1,000, case 2,000, and case 4,000.
00:05:37.000And again, we are now in this period where nobody's able to form a government.
00:05:40.000Netanyahu is basically the figurehead prime minister.
00:05:43.000He still has the powers of prime minister, because no one else can form a government, and there can't just be an absence at the top of the government in Israel.
00:05:50.000Basically, there's two main parties in Israel right now.
00:05:53.000There's Likud, and there's one called Kachov Levan, which in Hebrew means blue and white.
00:05:57.000The Blue and White Party is sort of a coalition party of its own.
00:06:01.000It is led by a man named Benny Gantz, who was the chief of the IDF.
00:06:05.000He was the head military officer in the IDF.
00:06:07.000It's also led by a faction led by Bogie Ayalon, who's another general in the IDF, and Yair Lapid, who was a newscaster in Israel and was the son of a very famous figure in Israeli politics named Tommy Lapid.
00:06:18.000His main thing is that he won't sit with the religious party.
00:06:20.000So, Benny Gantz His party and Netanyahu's party had approximately the same number of votes in the last election cycle.
00:06:25.000Again, Avigdor Lieberman, who was that sort of middle guy, the guy who used to side with Netanyahu fairly routinely, and then broke away from Netanyahu, he said he wouldn't sit in a coalition with the religious parties, and so Netanyahu does not have a right-wing majority, even though there really has been a right-wing majority elected.
00:06:42.000Okay, so this has led to this grave impasse in Israeli politics, where Netanyahu was given a mandate to form a government, could not, and then Benny Gantz was given a mandate to form a government by the president of Israel, Reuven Rivlin, and then he was not able to form a government, and now there's this 21-day period we're in the middle of right now, where literally anyone can form a government.
00:06:57.000If you go to the president with a piece of paper with 61 signatures, of the members of Knesset, then you can form a government.
00:07:07.000On December 11th, a new election will be declared, the third election in the last year for prime minister of Israel.
00:07:13.000Now, Benny Gantz didn't want to form a coalition with Netanyahu, specifically because he saw these indictments coming down the pipe.
00:07:19.000And he figured, why am I forming a coalition with Netanyahu, who's going to be indicted?
00:07:23.000He had basically said, I'm willing to work with Likud, but I'm not willing to work with Netanyahu.
00:07:27.000Lieberman, similar sort of logic, he doesn't like Netanyahu either, he was sort of ousted from Likud by Netanyahu, so now they both have the wherewithal to basically Put Netanyahu in a box.
00:07:37.000Now, by the same token, Netanyahu is fighting not only for his political life at this point and for leadership of the Israeli government, he's also fighting for his actual life at this point.
00:07:47.000Because now that he's been indicted, there are basically two different places he can be tried.
00:07:51.000If he is Prime Minister of Israel, while he is sitting, right?
00:07:54.000If he is sitting Prime Minister of Israel, and he is indicted, and he goes through a trial, you're not automatically ousted in Israel.
00:07:59.000It's not like America, where you can't be prosecuted if you're president.
00:08:02.000And you have to be impeached before you can be prosecuted.
00:08:04.000In Israel, you can be prosecuted while you are the president, or rather, while you are the prime minister.
00:08:09.000So, if Netanyahu is indicted while he is the prime minister, then he has tried in Jerusalem.
00:08:13.000Jerusalem happens to be a much more conservative, right-wing city.
00:08:17.000That means that he is likely to get off with some sort of slap on the wrist, pay a fine, pay back whatever Payment for cigars he received, that sort of thing.
00:08:27.000If, however, he is not Prime Minister, he will be tried, not in Jerusalem, but in Tel Aviv.
00:08:33.000This is like the difference between if Donald Trump were going to be tried in Odessa, Texas, versus if Donald Trump were going to be tried in New York.
00:08:56.000If, however, he is ousted and then tried in Tel Aviv, he may end up in jail for five years, right?
00:09:02.000He could end up in jail for five to seven years on these charges of bribery.
00:09:04.000The three charges, by the way, that he is being exposed to and he says, Netanyahu for his part, he says this is all basically a game being played by the political left in Israel that is out to get him.
00:09:14.000He suggests correctly that the media do not like him.
00:09:17.000That's been true for a very long time in Israel.
00:09:19.000Israel has universally left-wing media.
00:09:20.000The only real conservative news source in Israel is Israel Hayom, which is Sheldon Adelson's free newspaper.
00:09:27.000Here's Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, explaining yesterday that this is basically a gotcha attempt by the left that could not defeat him in an election.
00:09:36.000So it feels very much like what President Trump says about the impeachment attempt in the United States.
00:09:41.000The time has come to investigate the investigators.
00:09:45.000The time has come to investigate the Attorney General that initiates this kind of investigation.
00:09:53.000I respect the police department and the attorney general office.
00:10:02.000But there are people that these people in police and attorney general, they are not above the law.
00:10:11.000So according to Netanyahu, basically, this is a railroading attempt because you could not be defeated in elections.
00:10:17.000The three cases under which Netanyahu is indicted are Case 1000, Case 2000, and Case 4000.
00:10:20.000is indicted, are case 1000, case 2000, case 4000.
00:10:23.000Case 1000 is a case where he allegedly received illegal gifts.
00:10:28.000So did members of his family, including pink champagne and jewelry and Cuban cigars and tickets to a Mariah Carey concert, which is a terrible bribe.
00:10:35.000And apparently, he supposedly received those gifts in order to benefit political allies.
00:10:40.000Police say that the allies, including an Israeli-born Hollywood producer named Arnon Milchan, and an Australian investor named James Packer, received Netanyahu's political backing on key issues.
00:10:49.000For example, the Prime Minister pushed for a law the media labeled the Milchan Law, That cut taxes for Israelis returning to Israel after living abroad.
00:11:04.000And Mandelblit says that Netanyahu should be tried with fraud and breach of trust in connection with that case.
00:11:10.000Case 2000 is a case in which Netanyahu is accused of using his connections to Sheldon Adelson in order to broker a deal With a newspaper publisher of Yediot Aharonot, which is an Israeli daily paper, which is sort of center-slash-center-right, maybe?
00:11:22.000Under the alleged deal, the editor of Yediot Aharonot would have given better coverage to Netanyahu in return for Netanyahu telling Adelson to limit the circulation of Israel Hayom.
00:11:32.000Israel Hayom is a free newspaper published by Adelson, so it's got the biggest circulation in Israel.
00:11:37.000Adelson, for his part, says, I was never talked to about this by Netanyahu.
00:11:40.000It was Netanyahu blowing off steam and saying things.
00:11:44.000Apparently, this is one of the charges where he is basically being charged with breach of trust.
00:11:48.000And then there's case 4000, which is the most severe case.
00:11:51.000In this case, Netanyahu is alleged to have offered to help the so-called Bezek Group and its former owner, Shaul Elovich.
00:11:59.000Elovich is a close friend of Netanyahu.
00:12:00.000Apparently, he ordered the Walla news site to provide more favorable coverage of the Netanyahu's in return for deregulation of the communications industry.
00:12:09.000According to the police, Netanyahu and his associates intervene in a blatant and ongoing manner, sometimes even daily, in the content published by the Wallen News website and sought to influence the appointment of senior employees.
00:12:19.000Now, Netanyahu says that's not bribery, that's just called public relations, right?
00:12:24.000I mean, we call up newspapers all the time and we tell them we don't like this reporter, we don't like that reporter.
00:12:27.000Barack Obama used to do it in the United States, Donald Trump does it in the United States.
00:12:30.000There really is no big issue of calling up newspapers and saying we don't like this or that.
00:12:34.000The question is whether he was in fact trading regulatory gifts in favor of that sort of positive media coverage.
00:12:42.000Okay, so those are the charges against Netanyahu.
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00:14:03.000Okay, so what exactly are the options left to the Israeli public?
00:14:06.000So again, December 11th, new election gets called.
00:14:10.000And then you have a sitting prime minister under indictment and the head of the Likud party, which is the biggest party in Israel, and he is under indictment.
00:14:17.000So there are a few different options that could happen here.
00:14:19.000One is that Netanyahu has the support of Likud and the right-wing bloc, which appears to be the case so far, and he just brazens this out.
00:14:26.000He just says, listen, I'm gonna keep being Prime Minister, I'm gonna keep running, and you guys are gonna have to oust me with an election, not with any sort of prosecution.
00:14:34.000In order for that to happen, he first has to go to the Supreme Court.
00:14:37.000So he's going to the Supreme Court right now, the Israeli Supreme Court, which is left-wing, and he is asking them whether he can continue to serve as Prime Minister while under indictment.
00:14:44.000Now, there's a law in Israel that if you are not Prime Minister, but one of the other ministers, like Minister of Defense or Minister of Strategic Affairs or something, then you cannot sit while you are under indictment.
00:14:54.000You are immediately Demoted right you're immediately you immediately lose your post because the idea is you can't perform your functions while you are one of these ministers if however You're a prime minister.
00:15:20.000So Netanyahu actually has a pretty good case that he can sit under indictment while serving as prime minister of Israel.
00:15:25.000And as I say, he has a very strong interest in doing so because if he steps down and then is prosecuted, he ends up in Tel Aviv and then maybe in jail.
00:15:33.000The Supreme Court either upholds the law and he gets to sit as prime minister until he is removed by the electorate while under indictment.
00:15:39.000Or they change the law sort of on the fly, which would be illegal, but they could do it.
00:15:43.000And they say that he has to step down.
00:15:45.000If they say he has to step down, then Netanyahu is tried.
00:15:48.000Whatever happens to him, happens to him.
00:15:48.000Whatever happens to him, happens to him.
00:15:50.000And then somebody else in Likud takes over the leadership of Likud.
00:15:50.000And then somebody else in Likud takes over the leadership of Likud.
00:15:52.000And that's actually probably not great for the left wing.
00:15:53.000And that's actually probably not great for the left wing.
00:15:57.000It's probably bad for Benny Gantz, right?
00:15:57.000It's probably bad for Benny Gantz, right?
00:15:58.000It's probably bad for the blue and white party in Israel because their entire glue, right?
00:16:06.000The thing that draws them together is opposition to Netanyahu.
00:16:08.000If Netanyahu is out of the way, a lot of the voters for blue and white say, okay, well, I don't really like this party very much, but Netanyahu is gone.
00:16:14.000So I'm going to go back over to Likud.
00:16:16.000So it's probably not good for Benny Gantz for Netanyahu to go away is the truth.
00:16:20.000It's probably good for Likud for Netanyahu to go away to a certain extent.
00:16:24.000But by the same token, nobody wants to be seen pushing Netanyahu out of the door because you push him out the door and suddenly you're responsible for the most significant prime minister in modern Israeli history going to jail.
00:16:35.000So nobody is going to push him out the door from the inside.
00:16:38.000Now there are a few people inside the Likud party who have suggested, listen, it's up to us, let's have a new primary.
00:16:43.000Because the way you decide the leadership in Likud is just like in the United States deciding a presidential nominee, you have an internal party primary.
00:16:50.000And if there's an internal party primary and Netanyahu loses, Then, presumably, Likud moves on, Netanyahu moves on, and everything sort of works itself out.
00:16:58.000There's also the possibility that some breakaway faction inside Likud simply leaves Likud with a bunch of members of the parliament, walks over to Blue and White, and forms a coalition without Likud properly.
00:17:12.000Now, does this mean that Netanyahu's political career is over?
00:17:14.000Well, he has one very narrow path to staying in power, and that basically is that he retains the prime ministership, he's indicted, the trial goes forward, And then he is acquitted or he gets a slap on the wrist.
00:17:29.000But in all likelihood, the most likely outcome in all of this is that the Likud does not oust him, the polls start to look bad for Likud because the Israeli public don't like the idea of a prime minister under indictment, and then they are forced to a choice which is do we leave Netanyahu in power and thus lose a majority and then you have a governing coalition of Vigdor Lieberman and Blue and White and Labor?
00:17:50.000With the Arab party sitting outside and maintaining the power of the government from the outside?
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00:20:06.000He was sort of seen as, by many people, the conservative alternative to John McCain in 2008 because McCain was wishy-washy on issues like immigration, for example.
00:21:43.000That probably means she's collapsing in Nevada.
00:21:45.000And for all of Buttigieg's momentum, in places like Iowa and New Hampshire, he has no national credibility because he has no ability to draw black votes.
00:21:53.000And when you get down south, where two-thirds of the Democratic electorate in primaries like South Carolina is black, he ain't got nothing.
00:22:00.000Obviously Joe Biden, which is why Biden, despite the fact that he is barely alive at this point.
00:22:05.000I mean, the man's eye explodes on national television in the middle of a debate.
00:22:10.000Here is Joe Biden saying something that is true, which is, while the media may maintain that Elizabeth Warren is the frontrunner, she ain't.
00:22:16.000Biden says, listen, I'm the frontrunner still.
00:22:18.000I am the clear frontrunner of the party.
00:22:20.000I'm ahead on the national average of all the polls by seven, eight percent.
00:22:27.000And the other reason is that, look, whomever is the nominee, it's not going to be enough just to beat Donald Trump.
00:22:34.000You've got to be able to win in states like this.
00:22:36.000You've got to be able to be value-added to make sure we pick up Senate seats and House seats.
00:22:41.000And so, in every one of these polls in these states that I find myself in, again, I'm not counting on the polls, but the fact is that I'm ahead in every one of the toss-up states.
00:22:53.000Okay, and he is correct about that with regard to the Democrats.
00:22:56.000He's not correct about that with regard to the Republicans.
00:22:58.000And this is the bad news for the Democrats.
00:23:01.000Right now, if you look at the swing states, Trump is pretty solid there.
00:23:05.000I'm looking at some polls of swing states right now, Trump versus the Democrats.
00:23:08.000There's one that came out just yesterday.
00:23:10.000From Marquette University Law School in Wisconsin.
00:23:13.000And you would figure that Trump would be a little bit weak in Wisconsin, considering that Wisconsin has a pretty long progressive history.
00:23:19.000Right now, he's running ahead of every major Democrat.
00:23:22.000He's beating Joe Biden, 47-44, according to that Marquette University Law School poll.
00:24:03.000He's an attack dog and man can he attack, right?
00:24:06.000I've been saying for years that he's a hammer in search of a nail and when he hits a nail, it is incredibly satisfying.
00:24:11.000In politics, that is a great skill and Trump certainly has that skill.
00:24:14.000So if you think that Pete Buttigieg looks all shiny and unvarnished at this point, Well, get—or shiny and varnished, rather.
00:24:22.000Wait for President Trump to throw a few punches, and that reputation is going to collapse into dust very, very quickly.
00:24:27.000After all, Pete Buttigieg, who right now is the thing of the moment, his biggest election victory was he won 11,000 votes in a small town in Indiana.
00:25:50.000According to Nielsen numbers, Mediaite reporting, more than 6.5 million viewers tuned in to watch the November 20th debate in Atlanta, including 1.6 million in the advertiser-coveted 25-54 demo, which is a lot of viewers, but that is a huge downturn from the 8.5 million viewers CNN earned from the October 15th debate.
00:26:07.000With 2.4 million from the Target 25 to 54 demo.
00:26:11.000By the way, 6.5 million viewers for a debate is a very bad number.
00:26:26.000Because nobody likes these candidates and they're incredibly, incredibly boring.
00:26:30.000Mediaite tries to blame that on MSNBC's coverage of impeachment, but really that should jack up the ratings, not jack them down, right?
00:26:37.000I mean, when you're trying to impeach the sitting president of the United States and then you have a Democratic primary debate, shouldn't the excitement be super high?
00:26:43.000Well, the problem is that this debate was incredibly boring.
00:26:45.000The other problem is that the moderators suck.
00:26:46.000So Andrew Yang just blasted my boy, Andrew Yang.
00:26:50.000I mean, listen, if you don't appreciate just Andrew Yang as a human being, you don't have to agree with any of his policies, right?
00:26:55.000You don't have to think that universal basic income is a good idea, but Andrew Yang is a nice and decent human being.
00:27:02.000This is a person who is trying to be reasonable in a way that I disagree with, but trying to be reasonable.
00:27:08.000And so, Andrew Yang being shut out of these debates despite the fact that he has literally come from politically nowhere in order to be in these debates in the first place, The man has a little bit of credibility.
00:27:19.000He says MSNBC moderators are just terrible.
00:27:22.000He slams them on CNN and CNN of course laps it up.
00:27:25.000You know, Wolf, all I can say is I miss CNN moderating these debates.
00:27:31.000No, no, I mean, they saw it last night, too.
00:28:17.000The RNC raised nearly three times as much money as the DNC last month, pulling in over $25 million in October, reporting over $60 million cash on hand.
00:28:25.000Additionally, the joint fundraising effort between the Trump campaign and the RNC had raised over $300 million in 2019 so far, and reported $156 million cash on hand last month, according to The Daily Caller.
00:28:36.000Tom Perez is coming under fire for his crap fundraising job.
00:28:40.000And of course they're having a tough time fundraising.
00:28:42.000Number one, they don't have a nominee.
00:28:43.000Number two, none of the people who they're talking about are particularly exciting.
00:28:46.000And when I say they're not particularly exciting, I mean they are particularly non-exciting.
00:28:51.000And the new faces are getting slammed.
00:28:53.000The New York Times, which is more woke than the general base of the Democratic Party.
00:28:59.000One of the... I was examining some poll numbers yesterday with regard to how members of each party see the members of the other party.
00:29:07.000And one of the things that you see is that the parties have a very different view of their opponents than are reflected by reality.
00:29:17.000So in other words, Republicans tend to think that people who vote Democrat are much more to the left than they are.
00:29:23.000And Democrats tend to think that people who are Republican are much more extreme than they are.
00:29:29.000And part of this is driven by media coverage.
00:29:30.000And part of this is driven by the fact that social media rules the roost.
00:29:34.000Part of this is driven by the fact that the presidential candidates on the Democratic side of the aisle are more responsible to Twitter than they are to their own actual constituents, which is why you are seeing the durability of Joe Biden.
00:29:48.000It's why you are seeing Pete Buttigieg surge when he pretends to be a moderate.
00:29:52.000There's a study this year from an organization called More in Common.
00:29:57.00055% of Republicans and Democrats believed the majority of the opposing party believed extreme views.
00:30:01.000In reality, that number was actually 30%.
00:30:03.000So, for example, Democrats believed only half of Republicans would acknowledge that racism still exists in America.
00:30:09.000In reality, 80% of Republicans acknowledged that racism still exists in America.
00:30:14.000Conversely, Republicans believed that only about half of Democrats were proud to be American.
00:31:05.000According to the New York Times, Buttigieg has failed to demonstrate even minimal support among African-Americans and Hispanics, critical voting blocs that will have a much larger say after Iowa and New Hampshire and their nearly all-white electorates begin the presidential nominating calendar.
00:31:17.000And watch as the media starts to portray the Democratic nominating calendar as itself inherently racist because it starts off with some heavily white states.
00:31:24.000On Wednesday night, debate moderators questioned Buttigieg's record on racial issues, while rivals, including Cory Booker and Kamala Harris, suggested he needed on-the-job training in talking to black audiences.
00:31:34.000And obviously, there's some truth to this.
00:31:37.000Pete Buttigieg's pitch to black audiences was, I'm gay, so I've been victimized too, just like you, which obviously is not true.
00:31:43.000Again, Pete Buttigieg has really not experienced significant political discrimination against him.
00:31:48.000He's the mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
00:31:49.000When he came out of the closet, I believe he was 30 at the time, when he came out of the closet, Mike Pence was asked about it and he was basically like, enjoy.
00:31:58.000This idea that he has experienced anything like the discrimination that a John Lewis experienced in the United States is just absurd.
00:32:05.000According to the New York Times, Buttigieg's weakness with voters of color limits his potential in the 2020 campaign.
00:32:11.000A donor class favorite who draws capacity crowds across Iowa, Buttigieg counts as his highest profile black supporter, either the man who lost a 2018 election to be Florida's Attorney General, or the former mayor of Kansas City, Missouri.
00:32:23.000No Democrat in modern times has won the party's nomination without claiming majorities of black voters, the most crucial voting bloc in South Carolina, and in an array of delegate-rich southern states.
00:32:33.000Buttigieg's supporters say black voters and politicians haven't gotten to know him.
00:32:36.000They say that once they do, his fortunes will improve.
00:33:04.000He knows where to go to get the truth in today's insane news cycle.
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00:34:54.000Okay, so, meanwhile, in impeachment gates, Adam Schiff is self-righteously declaring that Republicans must fulfill their duty despite the fact that Democrats have not yet actually proved the case for impeachment.
00:35:09.000Again, the initial investigation was based on the idea that Donald Trump specifically militarized American foreign aid in order to get Joe Biden.
00:35:17.000Right, that's what this whole thing was about.
00:35:19.000Let's not forget the original accusation.
00:35:21.000It was a quid pro quo, but it was not just a quid pro quo, it was a quid pro quo for something totally illegitimate.
00:35:25.000He wanted Ukraine to make up information about Joe Biden or launch a false investigation into Joe Biden or an investigation based on false pretenses in order to help Trump in the 2020 election.
00:36:31.000I think that when Gordon Sondland says, I perceived a quid pro quo, and then everybody was like, yeah, but nobody told you straight out it's a quid pro quo.
00:36:39.000And he's like, right, but I was talking to Rudy Giuliani, and Trump was saying, go talk to Giuliani, and Giuliani was saying, do X, and Trump was withholding the aid.
00:37:00.000Nonetheless, you have Adam Schiff self-righteously declaring that Republicans must do their duty and impeach the president.
00:37:04.000At the same time, Democrats refused to hear testimony from Hunter Biden.
00:37:08.000Remember, this whole investigation was launched on the back of the allegation that asking Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden was completely illegitimate.
00:37:20.000There's a news story out today from the Washington Examiner.
00:37:23.000Quote, an investment firm linked to Hunter Biden received over $130 million in federal bailout loans while his father, Joe Biden, was vice president and routed profits through a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands, according to federal banking and corporate records reviewed by the Washington Examiner.
00:37:36.000Financial experts said the offshore corporate structure could have been used to shield earnings from U.S.
00:37:42.000Rosemont Capital, an investment firm at the center of Hunter Biden's much-scrutinized financial network, was one of the companies approved to participate in the 2009 federal loan program known as the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, or TEL.
00:37:55.000Which is to be distinguished from the long-running and wonderful TV show ALF.
00:38:00.000Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve Bank issued billions of dollars in highly favorable loans to select investors who agreed to buy bonds that banks were struggling to offload, including bundled college and auto loans.
00:38:10.000Apparently, 177 firms participated in TALF, many of them well-connected in Washington or on Wall Street.
00:38:16.000Hunter Biden, who is just a sleaze bucket.
00:38:20.000The guy recently had to take a paternity test in Arkansas, and Joe Biden discovered he had a grandkid he didn't know he had.
00:38:30.000And the fact that he has become extraordinarily wealthy off the back of his daddy's name, and was doing so in Ukraine, does that go to Ukrainian corruption?
00:38:44.000It's obvious that Joe Biden cannot be impeached were he to win that exalted office, but the case for his immediate impeachment would dwarf Donald Trump's.
00:38:50.000If we are to believe Interfax Ukraine, there's a report out today.
00:38:53.000Some $16.5 million received by Hunter Biden, the son of former U.S.
00:38:58.000Vice President Joe Biden, as payment from Burisma was stolen from Ukrainian citizens, according to a member of parliament named Andrei Derkach.
00:39:04.000Derkach said at a press conference at the Kiev-based Interfax Ukraine news agency.
00:39:08.000That on November 14th, the prosecutor general's office announced a new suspicion to the owner of Burisma, former ecology minister, Mykola Zlochevsky.
00:39:17.000So, Interfax has some questions about it.
00:39:20.000It's originally a Russian news company, so we should say that.
00:39:22.000It was established, Roger Simon writes this, it was established during perestroika, generally took a liberal line against conservatives who wish to preserve the old USSR, but they're probably infiltrated by intelligence agencies, and so we have to view their reporting with some skepticism.
00:39:36.000But that report obviously doesn't look great.
00:39:37.000It doesn't look great for Hunter Biden.
00:39:41.000Again, are there questions that are open about Hunter Biden and Ukraine?
00:39:45.000So when Schiff says fulfill your duty and then he won't let Hunter Biden testify, and we're not allowed to hear about how these complaints were elevated to the level of whistleblower complaint in the first place, the whole thing does kind of stink, does it not?
00:39:55.000Now, again, that does not mean that there can't be legitimate questions asked about Trump's behavior here, questions that really go more to his qualifications for the presidency and his character and temperament than they do to impeachable offenses.
00:40:09.000And you can still ask questions about, did he intend to go get Joe Biden circa 2020?
00:40:13.000But the Democrats certainly have not proved that case.
00:40:15.000The self-righteousness on display from Adam Schiff, who again had a pup tent set up outside the Green Room at CNN for two years to talk about why Trump was about to go down for Russian investigations and interference.
00:40:27.000That guy is out there saying that we should really trust him when it comes to his evaluation of the evidence.
00:40:31.000Where are the people who are willing to go beyond their party to look to their duty?
00:41:43.000John Bolton is one of the people who actually would know something.
00:41:46.000As I've said from the beginning, unless you talk to President Trump, you don't know nada.
00:41:49.000That's why Gordon Sondland's testimony mattered, but it turns out that that was a bit of a dud for Democrats in terms of a window into Donald Trump's brain.
00:41:56.000Instead, Sondland basically underscored what all the other witnesses suggested about there being a quid pro quo.
00:42:02.000But he did not state, and actually would not state, despite repeated prompting from Democrats, that the quid pro quo was itself illegitimate.
00:42:09.000In fact, he said that he didn't believe that the quid pro quo was illegitimate.
00:42:12.000In any case, Fiona Hill is a John Bolton deputy.
00:42:14.000She was obviously very skeptical of the holdup in American aid to Ukraine.
00:42:17.000Even Fiona Hill said, I can't blame Trump for feeling aggrieved over the 2016 election, which is probably what prompted him to be upset about Ukraine in the first place.
00:42:25.000Many officials from many countries, including Ukraine, bet on the wrong horse.
00:42:30.000They believed that Secretary Clinton, former Senator Clinton, former First Lady Clinton was going to win.
00:42:36.000And many said some pretty disparaging and hurtful things about President Trump.
00:42:40.000And I can't blame him for feeling aggrieved about them.
00:42:42.000Okay, well, the fact is, that is probably what led Trump to do all of this.
00:42:46.000This is a man who, there, who, if you, there's a guy, I think he was writing for, for Vanity Fair magazine, back in the 1990s, and wrote about Donald Trump's small hands, called them, like, freakishly small.
00:42:58.000Since then, since like 1991, Donald Trump has been sending this man pictures of his hands signed by Donald Trump for like 25 years.
00:43:53.000I mean, despite the charming accent, what she's about to say is actually not particularly true.
00:43:57.000Based on questions and statements I've heard, some of you on this committee appear to believe that Russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country, and that perhaps, somehow, for some reason, Ukraine did.
00:44:10.000This is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security services themselves.
00:44:18.000The unfortunate truth is that Russia was the foreign power that systematically attacked our democratic institutions in 2016.
00:44:24.000Okay, so it is true that Russia was the country that attacked our system in 2016.
00:44:29.000It is also true that there's fairly serious evidence of Ukrainian 2016 meddling.
00:44:33.000Our friend Andy McCarthy from National Review, he has an entire column in the New York Post about this.
00:44:38.000He says, In her testimony before the House impeachment inquiry, Fiona Hill, formerly of the National Security Council, took great pride in telling lawmakers she was a non-partisan intelligence professional.
00:44:47.000She then labored mightily in service of a Democratic political narrative.
00:44:50.000Specifically, Hill conflated two separate theories of Ukrainian collusion in the 2016 election.
00:44:57.000Hill helped the Democrats suggest they have both been debunked.
00:45:01.000To be sure, President Trump is largely to blame for propagating the discredited Ukraine theory it holds that somehow it was Ukraine, not Russia, that interfered in the 2016 election by cyber espionage against Democratic email accounts.
00:45:13.000This is such a loopy theory it defies clear explanation.
00:45:15.000Suffice it to say it involves suspicions that a hacked DNC server is hidden in Ukraine.
00:45:19.000Perhaps the speculation runs it was Ukrainian operatives, not Russian ones, who are the culprits.
00:45:27.000And Trump referred to it when he talked about CrowdStrike in his July 25th conversation with Zelensky.
00:45:32.000And Trump has admittedly trafficked in conspiracy theories nearly his entire career.
00:45:36.000But then there is a second theory of Ukrainian collusion that is actually backed by evidence.
00:45:41.000This theory, according to Annie McCarthy, has nothing to do with Russia.
00:45:44.000It is supported by significant evidence.
00:45:46.000It includes public professions of support for Clinton and opposition to Trump by Ukrainian officials.
00:45:50.000It includes acknowledgment by Ukrainian investigators that their Obama administration counterparts encouraged them to investigate Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort.
00:45:58.000Bolstering this theory is the fact that Ukrainian officials leaked information damaging to Manafort, a ledger of payments possibly fabricated, that forced Manafort to ouster from the Trump campaign, triggering waves of negative publicity for the campaign.
00:46:12.000The weird idea that Ukraine was not involved in the election at all is not true.
00:46:18.000And meanwhile, the other big Democratic witness yesterday was a guy named David Holmes, who's an aide to Gordon Sondland and to the State Department.
00:46:24.000And he was apparently at some sort of phone call with Gordon Sondland where Sondland was talking to Trump.
00:46:29.000And he said that Trump's phone call was incredibly loud.
00:47:27.000Sure, I mean, but the phone call itself didn't actually add anything to what we already knew, which is that there was this sort of, I'm holding back the aid until I get the investigations that I want.
00:47:36.000And then David Holmes went on to say that of course Trump was pressing for the Biden investigation.
00:47:40.000No question Trump was pressing for the Biden investigation.
00:47:42.000Here's Holmes, you know, going after Jim Jordan on this, but Why it would have to be the Biden investigation as opposed to the other investigations or why the Biden investigation itself is fully about 2020 and not about 2016.
00:47:53.000Why it's not about corruption, but about getting Biden for 2020 is never made clear.
00:47:58.000I briefed the call in detail to the deputy chief of mission, went away for a week, come back, I refer to the call, and everyone is nodding.
00:48:14.000So did I go through every single word in the call?
00:48:16.000No, because everyone by that point agreed.
00:48:19.000It was obvious what the president was pressing for.
00:48:21.000Okay, so, I mean, sure, he thinks that it's obvious what the president was pressing for, but that's, again, a perception.
00:48:27.000So, bottom line is that none of this is going to be sufficient to drive Republicans in the Senate to impeach, and once this thing gets to the Senate level, Trump is going to get what he wants.
00:48:35.000Trump came out today, and he said that he wants a trial.
00:48:37.000Well, if he gets a trial in the Senate, if there's a House impeachment and there's a trial in the Senate, then President Trump is going to get his wish.
00:48:42.000Here's President Trump saying he wants a trial.
00:48:44.000The bottom line is all of those witnesses, they're all shifty shifts.
00:48:47.000Don't forget, there was no due process.
00:49:54.000And Voigt is a Hardcore Trump supporter, no question.
00:49:57.000He also happens to be a great patriot, a man who cares about his country, a really nice guy, he's done a lot of great charity work, and Jon Voight happens to be a fantastic actor.
00:50:06.000And if you want to see what a great actor Jon Voight is, you need to check out Ray Donovan, where he plays Mickey Donovan.
00:50:11.000He and Liv Schreiber hold up the show.
00:50:13.000I mean, the show is basically the two of them.
00:50:42.000I've asked you to fix things that should never have been fixed.
00:50:45.000So the show is, of course, about scuzzy Hollywood people, like incredibly scuzzy Hollywood people doing incredibly scuzzy things.
00:50:52.000Ray Donovan is basically a Hollywood fixer, and it's a bit of a fancy world where he's going around and killing people and harming people and doing all sorts of evil things, but you kind of like him because he's the anti-hero.
00:51:04.000But, there's a charm to the show, for sure.
00:51:08.000I mean, John Boyd really is first rate.
00:51:10.000So, if you're into good acting, and you don't care particularly much, it's like the good fellas, sort of.
00:51:16.000Like, if you don't care too much about the morality of the show, you're fine.
00:51:19.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:51:21.000Okay, so there is a video that is making the rounds of a student at Cal State University of Chico holding an All Lives Matter sign and getting assaulted for his trouble.
00:51:40.000The man is literally standing there holding a sign saying, All Lives Matter, and next to a woman holding a Black Lives Matter sign and getting berated and the sign ripped away from him and quote-unquote assaulted for his trouble.
00:52:09.000This sort of stuff does happen on college campuses all the time.
00:52:12.000We've seen a bunch of university speech shutdowns, including for Art Laffer.
00:52:16.000I talked about it a little bit earlier on the show.
00:52:18.000And that is a grand and grave absurdity.
00:52:20.000These places that are supposed to be super pro-free speech, catering to students who care very little about free speech and care much more About ensuring that their point of view is the only point of view that is heard.
00:52:31.000It's absurdity, but that is the way that our college campuses work, obviously, right now.
00:52:41.000So, every week we've been doing this, we've been going through a little bit of the Bible, just like the Jews do.
00:52:45.000Every week we read a section from the Torah.
00:52:47.000This week happens to be the Parsha Chayei Sarah, which is the portion of the Old Testament in which the Founding mother of the Jewish people, Sarah, dies.
00:52:59.000She is buried in Hebron, which Chevron.
00:53:01.000We are supposed to pretend that this is actually historic Muslim territory, as opposed to historic Jewish territory, despite the fact that it is the first land ever bought in the Bible, and it's bought by Abraham for money, so that he has a legitimate claim on the land.
00:53:12.000In any case, good for the Trump administration for declaring this week that Israeli settlements are not de facto illegal, because they are not de facto or de jure illegal.
00:53:21.000The fact is Jews have been in Hebron, they've been living in Hebron for literally thousands of years, and this Sabbath in particular Chevron happens to be a place where literally 100,000 Jews will go and sleep in their cars in like a three-block area just to be near the burial site of Abraham and Sarah, which, by the way, is disproportionately controlled by Muslims.
00:53:41.000I mean, the actual site, the Marat HaMachpelah, the Cave of the Patriarchs and the Matriarchs, That site, like 80% of the actual site is controlled by Muslims who will not let Jews in except on like three days of the year.
00:53:54.000In any case, the biblical portion that talks about Sarah is really interesting.
00:53:57.000So Sarah is sort of a fascinating character in the Bible.
00:54:08.000She's sort of the first real female in the Bible, in the sense that, in my opinion, the Adam and Eve story is largely meant to be a metaphor about human nature.
00:54:17.000But once you get to Abraham, you start with the actual history of the Jewish people.
00:54:20.000So Sarah is the founding mother of the Jewish people, and therefore also of Islamic peoples, because she is It's her handmaid, Hagar, who has Ishmael, who's considered the progenitor of Islam, and she also is the grandmother of Esau, who is considered the progenitor of Christians and sort of Jewish tradition.
00:54:40.000In any case, Sarah lives within the bounds of a patriarchy, right?
00:54:44.000Throughout the Bible, she is running into rough situations, and she's forced to go to Pharaoh's palace when Abraham wants to avoid death, for example.
00:54:53.000They go to Egypt, and Abraham is afraid that Sarah is so beautiful that he's going to be killed, and so he tells Farrow that Sarah is his sister and she goes to live in the palace.
00:55:02.000Nothing untoward happens, the Bible assures us.
00:55:04.000Later, Abraham does the same thing again with another king named Abimelech.
00:55:08.000This isn't exactly female-lib kind of stuff.
00:55:10.000And then later, she makes an offer to Abraham, which is apparently fairly common in the ancient world.
00:55:14.000She couldn't have kids, and so she makes Abraham an offer to consort with her maidservant, Hagar, and Abraham then goes ahead and does this.
00:55:23.000And then, finally, when she does give birth, her son is at the mercy of Ishmael, her stepson, and her husband, Abraham, refuses to do anything about this until God explicitly tells him to.
00:55:32.000And this is the key turning point for Sarah as a character, and I think a key turning point for how women are seen in the Bible generally, and how women ought to be seen.
00:55:41.000Because God says something pretty special.
00:55:43.000He tells Abraham, whatever Sarah tells you, heed her voice, since through Isaac will offspring be considered yours.
00:55:50.000Heed the Voice of Your Wife is a pretty powerful directive in ancient biblical times, right?
00:55:54.000God's saying that you need to listen to a woman, and for all the people who say that the Bible is inherently patriarchal, ignoring the fact that the Bible itself talks about changing the laws of inheritance to allow women to inherit, for example, by the daughters of Tzlovchad, despite the fact that there are actual leaders of the Jewish people in the Tanakh, in the Old Testament, who are women, like Devorah, Deborah.
00:56:16.000Despite that, there are people who suggest that the Bible is deeply, deeply patriarchal in every conceivable sense, that it is not a transition away from more patriarchal and more brutal societies.
00:57:27.000Because the test is not, I go to this place and then I say, the test that he has given is, I bring my camels here and a woman offers to bring water to the camels.
00:57:35.000It is not, I order a woman to bring water to the camels and if she complies, then she's marriageable material.
00:57:40.000It's she must offer voluntarily to bring the water.
00:57:44.000And then the final evidence of the newfound status for women is the negotiation over Rebecca who ends up marrying Isaac.
00:57:49.000Eliezer negotiates on behalf of Abraham.
00:57:51.000He offers the family of Rebecca the customary gift, but he's already negotiated with Rebecca directly, right?
00:57:57.000He's given her the customary wedding gifts.
00:57:59.000A golden nose ring, two bracelets on her arm.
00:58:02.000She accepts them, and then she accepts the marriage proposal.
00:58:05.000And she voluntarily says that she is going to leave.
00:58:10.000They are not willing to do so unless they receive fiscal gain, but she... It's the first woman to consent to a marriage in the Bible.
00:58:19.000She says, she says, I'm going to, I'm going to go with you and then she goes with.
00:58:24.000And then it says in the Torah, this is how Isaac was consoled after his mother because suddenly an independent woman who was very powerful in the Bible was replaced by another independent woman who is very powerful in the Bible.
00:58:34.000And I don't think it's any coincidence.
00:58:36.000That the most romantic relationship in the Bible is the relationship between Isaac and Rebecca because it is based on a certain level of mutual respect and a consent.
00:58:44.000It's the only time in the Torah of which I'm aware that there's a description between husband and wife that he loved her, right?
00:58:51.000That's actually explicitly said in the Bible.
00:58:52.000It says Isaac brought her into the tents of Sarah, his mother.
00:58:58.000Right, because Isaac sees that women ought to be powerful and he is more than happy to marry a powerful woman.
00:59:05.000And she ends up being incredibly powerful, right?
00:59:07.000I mean, Rebecca ends up basically deciding the fate of the Jewish people when she helps her son, Jacob, switch the skins and the birthright and the blessings with his brother Esau.
00:59:21.000So, whenever people say that the Bible is inherently patriarchal and horrible toward women, understand two things.
00:59:25.000One, the Bible is an ancient document.
00:59:27.000It's attempting to transition away from a much more patriarchal society.
00:59:30.000Number two, there are some pretty significant messages in the Bible that really do speak to the idea that women have inherent value, ought to be seen as having inherent value.
00:59:37.000When God says, listen to your wife, he means it.
00:59:39.000And he means you should listen to your wife too.
00:59:42.000And it makes my life a hell of a lot better.