Huffington Post is taking its readers on a voyage of discovery to strange, uncharted lands, like Vasco da Gama, venturing out into new territories, Huffington Post will be packing a few of its staffers onto a leaky bus and taking them on a cross-country, seven-week tour through the dark, mysterious middle America. The cost? $1 million. This does show that so-called "flyover country" is new to the media, and their disconnect with people who live in Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, and Michigan, and Wisconsin, is quite real. This is why CNN's Aaron Burnett mocks Christian pastors for laying hands on President Trump. They did the same for Obama, but nobody cared. And why the entire media was shocked that anybody would vote for Trump in the first place. The reason that the left thinks that if they hit Trump enough on Russia, that the American people will just swivel around and hate Trump is because they hate Trump. And what they fail to acknowledge is that the real reason that Trump is a reactionary phenomenon is that they hate the rise of these people like Trump because they don't understand their values, they don t understand their lifestyles. They don't get it. And they're not even close to being in touch with people outside of New York and LA, and yet they still vote for him. Ben Shapiro breaks it all down in his new book, "Out Of Touch with Trump: The Real You: How To Be Out Of Touch With Trump: How The Left Lost It All. He explains why the left is out of touch on Trump, and why it matters and why they should hate him so much and why he's a lot more than they should be mad at Trump. Plus, the latest on Trumpcare, Russia, and the new health care bill, and what they should do about it. Plus, he also talks about how to get flowers from ProFlower. And he explains why he got flowers delivered to his wife's house. and why you should go to the grocery store to celebrate his 9th anniversary. All that and much more. - Ben Shapiro's take on it all on this week's latest on the latest in politics and Russia and the latest from The Weekly Standard's latest hubbub, and much, much more! - The Ben Shapiro Show! - THE CROWDS and the rest of it's a good one! - THE RING?
00:00:00.000On Thursday, Politico announced that Huffington Post would be taking its readers on a voyage of discovery to strange, uncharted lands.
00:00:07.000Like Vasco da Gama, venturing out into new territories, Huffington Post will be packing a few of its staffers onto a leaky bus and taking them on a cross-country, seven-week tour through the dark, mysterious Middle America.
00:00:23.000Quote, Starting in September, a traveling party of rotating HuffPost staff members, led by Editor-in-Chief Lydia Polgreen,
00:00:29.000We'll visit more than 20 cities, eschewing the coasts for the likes of Fort Worth, Indiana, Oxford, Mississippi, and Odessa, Texas.
00:00:35.000At each city, the site will host events, roll out planned stories with local media outlets, send out reporters to write about the communities and collect stories from residents in their own words.
00:00:43.000This would be identity defining for HuffPost, said Paul Green in an interview.
00:00:47.000We are in a moment for determining our own identity and the role we play in the overall news ecosystem and what the next iteration of that looks like.
00:00:54.000And this felt like a great way to go out and report out the story of who we should be in the world.
00:01:11.000They don't understand their lifestyles.
00:01:13.000This is why CNN's Aaron Burnett mocks Christian pastors for laying hands on President Trump.
00:01:18.000They did the same for Obama, but nobody cared.
00:01:19.000And why the entire media was shocked that anybody would vote for Trump in the first place.
00:01:23.000But it won't just suffice to visit these places.
00:01:26.000Until the media begins hiring in these areas, they won't have boots on the ground, or perspective into the places they seek to cover.
00:01:31.000Jet-setting through Odessa isn't exactly going to provide the sort of empathetic analysis the left lacks about people outside of New York and LA.
00:01:38.000And so the Huffington Post tour is much more likely to be a sort of Jeff Corwin experience for city folk than a real educational experience.
00:01:45.000Look, Bill, what is that lady doing going into that building with the cross on top?
00:02:22.000This week was my 9th anniversary with my wife, which is July 8th, and we were both busy, so we sort of both forgot about it, which tends to happen when you have kids, and so I had not gotten my wife flowers.
00:02:36.000Thank God there was pro flowers, so it was late at night.
00:02:38.000I wasn't gonna run to the flower store, and my wife was gonna go to sleep anyway, and so I got the flowers from Pro Flowers.
00:03:10.000And one of the things that's awesome about ProFlowers is that they don't just send you the bouquet, they actually send you the vase along with it.
00:03:16.000They're guaranteed fresh for seven days or your money back, and they have a seven-step quality check, which means the flowers are always awesome.
00:03:22.000They come in the mail, and no, that doesn't ruin the flowers.
00:03:24.000The flowers are in better quality than they will be if you go to your local grocery store.
00:03:50.000Okay, so I do want to jump into the latest on Trump-Russia and the latest hubbub, but there's an article that I think it is necessary to go through because it really struck me.
00:04:00.000The left thinks that if they hit Trump enough on Russia that the American people will just swivel around and hate Trump then.
00:04:19.000And what they fail to acknowledge is the reason that people like Trump is because they hate the left.
00:04:23.000The reason that Trump is almost completely a reactionary phenomenon.
00:04:26.000It is the stupidity and the out-of-touchness of the left that has led to the rise of President Trump and these Republican rubes that the left so despises.
00:04:34.000It's why Trump was really the apex of this.
00:04:42.000I mean, Barack Obama devastated his party because the left took off its mask in the last eight years, and what people saw underneath was worse than Phantom of the Opera.
00:04:50.000And so you can see this day in and day out when the left sort of reveals itself.
00:04:55.000So today's example of this, it actually comes from Monday.
00:04:57.000There's a column by a woman named Colleen Krajewski.
00:05:00.000This was actually a column at the Washington Post.
00:05:03.000And the title of it was, I used to be quiet about the fact that I perform abortions.
00:05:08.000Okay, but the article is even crazier than this.
00:05:10.000And this is the left bragging about what they do, right?
00:05:12.000Like, when I brag about things that I do in daily life, you know, if I'm gonna brag about it, I'll tend to brag about, like, career achievements, or maybe I'll brag about something nice that I did in terms of giving charity.
00:05:22.000Maybe I'll brag about, you know, the good things that I do with my wife and kids.
00:05:25.000I don't typically associate I killed somebody else's baby as something you brag about, but not the same, I guess, if you are a leftist.
00:05:33.000So, here is what Colleen Krajewski writes, and again, this is in the Washington Post on Monday, one of the nation's premier newspapers, right, quote,
00:05:42.000I leaned back in a black leather chair as a man hovered over me.
00:05:45.000For the first time in decades, the fate of Roe v. Wade seemed to be in real doubt.
00:05:49.000Feeling a mix of anxiety, sadness, and resolve, I thought, I'm committed now.
00:05:54.000The tattoo artist slowly etched on my right forearm a rather large coat hanger, the symbol of illegal abortions that cost unknown numbers of women their lives in the years before Roe, overlaid in bold lettering with the words, Never Again.
00:06:06.000Now, as one of the Juden, let me say, I do not like the appropriation of the phrase never again to apply to regulations against the killing of unborn human beings.
00:06:20.000It would be sort of like if the Nazis posted a picture of a hook-nosed Jew and then said, never again.
00:06:26.000You're sort of missing the point of never again.
00:06:28.000If never again, which the phrase used for the Holocaust is now used to refer to, never again will we be stopped from killing babies in the seventh month.
00:07:06.000Maybe never again means don't kill babies, but apparently it's virtue signaling for her leftist friends.
00:07:11.000But that's not the worst part of this, that she got this stupid tattoo.
00:07:15.000My favorite part of this article is that she goes on to talk about how abortion, her being an abortionist, has now enhanced her dating life.
00:07:22.000Seriously, that's what this article is about, how her abortion has enhanced her dating life thanks to President Trump.
00:07:27.000She says, embracing the symbol of the coat hanger meant also accepting myself as a symbol, which I had always resisted.
00:07:33.000But as I shed the stigma of being an abortion provider, I felt free.
00:07:37.000I was tired of playing games, and for the first time in my life I was ready for someone to love me because I provide abortions, not in spite of it.
00:07:45.000Okay, with that tattoo I made some other changes.
00:07:47.000No more batting my eyelashes on dates, feigning innocence, or acting apologetic about who I am.
00:07:52.000No more waiting the requisite three days to call back, or counting down three dates to have sex if I wanted to.
00:07:58.000She goes on and she says, an unexpected side effect of the 2016 election is that many people have become vocal about their support for reproductive rights.
00:08:05.000Suddenly, dating an abortion provider can be cool!
00:08:07.000A way to proclaim one's liberal street cred.
00:08:09.000Yeah, I'm sure that's what guys are thinking.
00:08:11.000I'm sure they're dating this girl and they go, you know what, she's so awesome, she kills babies.
00:11:14.000Okay, so now she's applied never again to killing babies and also telling guys who she wants to have sex with that she does that for a living.
00:11:23.000Again, please do not hijack holocaust phrases to justify your crappy dating life.
00:11:40.000So, this is why Trump isn't losing support.
00:11:42.000Okay, Trump can't lose support because a lot of the people who support Trump are not going to move over to the side of Colleen Krajewski or whatever her name is.
00:11:49.000They're not going to move over to that.
00:11:50.000They're going to look at this and go, I don't want to be associated in any way with these crazy people.
00:11:55.000And if Trump talked to some Russians, whatever, at least he doesn't have an abortion tattoo and then talk about his dating life.
00:12:12.000Meanwhile, there's more fallout from the Donald Trump Jr.
00:12:16.000Fredo Corleone spilling of the emails yesterday.
00:12:20.000As you recall, Donald Trump Jr., a couple of days ago, he spilled emails that showed that he was approached by some nutty British promoter, and that nutty British promoter
00:12:30.000is also the agent for a guy that Trump did business with in Russia, and he said, the Russian government really wants to help out your father, he says this Donald Trump Jr., and so we want you to meet with a Russian government lawyer who has some dirt on Hillary Clinton, and Trump Jr.'
00:12:56.000I was watching CNN because it was on at the gym and there was nothing I could do about it.
00:13:00.000And CNN was playing this footage over and over and over again like it was some sort of smoking gun.
00:13:04.000This is from, I think, 2013, 2014, long before Trump was running for president.
00:13:11.000The behind-the-scenes video, obtained exclusively by CNN, shows then-businessman Donald Trump in Las Vegas in 2013, at several events during the weekend of the Miss USA pageant, hanging out with the men now at the center of the newest development in the Russia controversy.
00:13:29.000The men, Russian pop singer Amin Agalarov and his father Aras, a real estate developer in Russia, were helping Trump hold his Miss Universe pageant in Moscow later that year.
00:13:40.000This is the most powerful people in all of Russia.
00:13:45.000In the video, Trump is seen having dinner with the Agalarovs, along with their publicist, Rob Goldstone, seen here leaning over to talk with Trump.
00:13:53.000Right, so there's that boy, Rob Goldstone.
00:13:57.000That's Les Grossman from, as I say, from Tropic Thunder.
00:14:00.000And then CNN thinks, oh, we got him now.
00:14:08.000Okay, well, Barack Obama used to, like, hang out with Bill Ayers, and CNN spent years pretending that didn't matter, so why in the world would it matter that Trump knew these people?
00:14:20.000Okay, so, Trump responds, the Trump team responds, and as always, they respond in perhaps the dumbest possible way.
00:14:26.000So Kellyanne Conway leads the way, and
00:14:31.000I understand that everything is so polarized right now that Kellyanne Conway could basically go on Fox News and do some arm farting and everybody would just say that it was brilliant in Trump land and she could do that and then she could do this a couple of times and all of CNN would claim that this was in fact secret Morse code to the Russians that we need more of their help in the next election cycle.
00:16:50.000So I guess the collusion would have been something like Wikileaks and the Russians go to Trump and they say, in two days we're dropping a new stash of emails.
00:17:00.000I mean if anyone actually thinks back to the campaign, this is not how it worked.
00:17:02.000So unless Trump was providing the Russians with material to go out and spill, or unless the Russians were providing Trump with heads up, that's not how it worked.
00:17:09.000Because as I recall, I mean I was there the entire election cycle and so were you, as I recall there would be a dump of Wikileaks.
00:17:15.000And Wikileaks was obviously dumping because they didn't like Hillary Clinton, but that doesn't mean that Trump was behind it.
00:17:20.000And then, there'd be people like me who would sip through the Wikileaks.
00:17:23.000I mean, thousands of pages of Wikileaks trying to find the most damning portions.
00:17:27.000This is exactly what happened during the election cycle.
00:17:30.000I'm still confused as to what collusion would actually look like.
00:17:34.000All of these would be good defensive points.
00:17:36.000Going on TV and rhyming like Grover from Sesame Street on Sean Hannity's show is not an actually good defense.
00:17:42.000Turns out it's not a great deal, but none of this matters.
00:17:44.000I mean, none of it matters because people are stuck in their lanes.
00:17:46.000So Trump goes on with Pat Robertson yesterday, providing certainly a contrast in visuals.
00:17:52.000And he says that the weird thing about all of this is, like, everybody keeps saying that Putin wanted me, but Putin would rather have had Hillary.
00:18:00.000As an example, if Hillary had won, our military would be decimated.
00:18:06.000Our energy would be much more expensive.
00:18:09.000That's what Putin doesn't like about me.
00:18:12.000And that's why I say, why would he want me?
00:18:13.000Because from day one, I wanted a strong military.
00:18:24.000He would like Hillary where she wants to have windmills.
00:18:28.000He would much rather have that because energy prices will go up and Russia, as you know, relies very much on energy.
00:18:33.000So there are many things that I do that are the exact opposite of what he would want.
00:18:38.000So when I keep hearing about that he would have rather had Trump, I think probably not because
00:18:44.000When I want a strong military, you know she wouldn't have spent the money on the military, but when I want a strong military, when I want tremendous energy, we're opening up coal, we're opening up natural gas, we're opening up fracking, all the things that he would hate, but nobody ever mentions that.
00:19:00.000Okay, so what Trump is saying here is actually right, which is that Trump's policies have not been particularly pro-Russia.
00:19:06.000I mean, aside from some sanctions talk, there really is a bit, like Trump's, again, Trump's White House is very weird because Trump says stuff and then his administration does stuff, and the stuff that he says and the stuff that his administration does are two separate things.
00:19:16.000So his administration is pursuing some pretty vehement anti-Russian measures on certain things.
00:19:21.000Uh, Trump himself will say very warm things toward Russia.
00:19:24.000I don't buy his argument that Russia wanted Hillary and not Trump in the last election cycle, because there's not a lot of evidence to that effect.
00:19:30.000And in fact, that email from Rob Goldstone specifically says, the Russian government wants to help you and your campaign.
00:19:37.000And Russia has been very warm toward Trump for years.
00:19:39.000I mean, predating this election cycle.
00:19:41.000He is correct to say, you know, when you say that I'm in collusion with Russia, so where's the pro quo?
00:19:45.000If you're saying there was some sort of quid, like they did me a favor, where's the pro quo?
00:19:49.000What am I doing for them that's a favor?
00:19:51.000And the answer is, not much aside from some of Trump's rhetoric.
00:19:56.000With all of that said, you know, I do want to get to other things that Trump is doing, and I want to get to the Democrats, of course, doing what they do best, which is making everyone hate them.
00:20:04.000We'll get to all of that in just a second, but first, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at Birch Gold.
00:20:09.000So, right now, a lot of uncertainty in the world.
00:20:12.000emails broke, the Dow Jones dropped like 100 points within five minutes.
00:20:16.000There's a lot of volatility still in the stock market.
00:20:19.000And I'm not saying don't invest in the stock market, but I am saying you should have at least part of your portfolio in precious metals.
00:20:23.000Because if you do not have some sort of protection against the vicissitudes of the stock market or the real estate market, then you are setting yourself up for trouble.
00:20:30.000You should have some money in precious metals.
00:21:39.000Anyway, so Brad Sherman, he actually made a proposal that Trump should be impeached and he introduced a bill on the floor of the House, a bill of impeachment against Trump on the floor of the House.
00:21:53.000Of course he's not going to be impeached in this congressional term, knowing what we know now.
00:21:57.000So what would be the point of doing this?
00:21:59.000Well, it can have either of two effects.
00:22:02.000The hope is that it triggers an intervention in the White House, and this is a faint hope.
00:22:09.000That his staff is finally able to say, now it's real articles, and for that and for so many other reasons, Mr. President, you've got to stop announcing reversals in foreign policy at 4 in the morning and 140 characters.
00:22:22.000You've got to stop making foreign policy in complete ignorance of the facts.
00:22:28.000Wait, so you're impeaching him so he'll stop tweeting?
00:22:31.000My hope is that we end incompetent, impulsive government.
00:22:39.000All this is, of course, is PR, and the Democrats know it.
00:22:42.000Then you have the ones who are running for president, like Gavin Newsom.
00:22:44.000He's going to run for governor in California, and then he's going to run for president.
00:22:47.000He says that we should all stop talking about Russia, because let's focus on the issues.
00:22:50.000You can tell the difference between the guys running for the presidency and the guys who are running for Congress, because the Democrats think they're going to win Congress in 2018 on the Russia stuff.
00:22:58.000Democrats know that in order to win the presidency, they're going to have to do more than just talk about Russia.
00:23:13.000Could you explain to Democrats out there and your base how talking about Russia on the campaign trail is not going to get you back in power?
00:23:22.000And I don't know what more evidence you need.
00:23:24.000I mean, at the end of the day, even if you gain this thing out, you get rid of Trump.
00:23:29.000You're left with a guy who's, you know, who's out there talking about conversion therapy.
00:23:33.000Don't do anything for the Democratic Party and our agenda.
00:23:35.000So unless we deal with the issues of economic anxiety, cultural issues in a substantive way, and we get in the how business and we actually demonstrate with some acuity and strength a clear conviction in terms of the fate and future of this country, then we're never going to take back.
00:24:13.000Okay, so as we continue here on the Ben Shapiro Show, I want to talk about what's going on with Trumpcare.
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00:25:59.000Alrighty, so in actual substantive news, away from Trump-Russia, Trumpcare is moving forward, sort of.
00:26:04.000So today Mitch McConnell has now revealed his bare-bones plan for the Senate bill.
00:26:08.000It's difficult in the Senate because you've got conservatives like Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and Rand Paul on the one side, and on the other side you have Susan Collins, who basically would like to double down on Obamacare.
00:26:17.000And so trying to cobble together 51 votes is sort of difficult.
00:26:26.000There's not a lot of votes that you can afford to lose if you actually want to pass some sort of change to Obamacare.
00:26:32.000So Trump is out there, of course, saying he wants Trumpcare passed.
00:26:35.000Now, one of the problems here is that Trump has been absent from the campaign trail for three days.
00:26:39.000He's now in France, which is not going to do Trumpcare any good.
00:26:42.000If he actually wanted to pass this thing, it would be useful for him to
00:26:46.000Maybe go out on the campaign trail and stump for it and discuss the details and talk about why it's good.
00:26:50.000But instead you sort of get these generic comments about why he wants Trumpcare passed, but Trump doesn't know what the hell is in it, obviously.
00:27:42.000Okay, so he's just saying slogans now.
00:27:44.000This is going to have no impact on Congress, because the problem is, you know that even if you pass something, if it starts to go bad, Trump is then going to turn on you and blame you, right?
00:27:52.000They passed a bill, and then he promptly turned around and crapped all over the bill by calling it mean, mean, mean.
00:27:56.000So Trump doesn't have a lot of weight here.
00:27:58.000So what does this new Obamacare replacement bill actually look like?
00:28:02.000There are two, there are several major problems with the Obamacare replacement bill.
00:28:05.000In some ways it got better, in some ways it actually got worse.
00:28:07.000So, they restored a bunch of the taxes that they'd cut in the original Senate bill in the bizarre hope that somehow this will lead Democrats to now think that they don't have to attack them for, their slogan has been that they are cutting healthcare for poor people from Medicaid in order to subsidize tax cuts for the wealthy, right?
00:28:24.000This is the way that the left puts it.
00:28:26.000So the Republicans cut a lot of the tax cuts for the wealthy, but they left
00:28:30.000And that means the Democrats are going to say the exact same thing.
00:28:32.000So you really have not won anything, have you now?
00:28:35.000They also have said Mitch McConnell is apparently encouraging people, he's telling moderates to support the health care bill, including the Medicaid cuts, because, quote, they will never go into effect anyway.
00:28:46.000Okay, so in other words, the entire selling point, the Paul Ryan selling point that we're going to restructure Medicaid, it doesn't even apply according to Mitch McConnell.
00:28:52.000So basically they're lying to all of you, and Mitch McConnell is telling the moderates they're lying to all of you.
00:28:56.000So even the main thrust of the bill, which was to cut Medicaid expansion, it's not even cutting Medicaid, it's cutting Medicaid's expansion in the future.
00:29:03.000Even the main thrust of it, McConnell saying it's never going to go into place, which means that you're basically keeping Obamacare in place.
00:29:08.000The other major provision that changes is Ted Cruz and Mike Lee had proposed an amendment.
00:29:13.000The amendment would have said that if you are in an Obamacare state and has an Obamacare exchange, you're still subject to Obamacare regulations on pre-existing conditions and essential benefit services and all the like.
00:29:24.000But, if you offer one of those plans in the healthcare exchange, then you can offer other plans outside the healthcare exchange.
00:29:31.000So, the reason that matters is because if it's inside the healthcare exchange, it still has to provide certain benefits, it has to be subsidized by the government, you're grouped together with other people in terms of community rating.
00:29:54.000The people who are unhealthy will get subsidized by the government to be in the Obamacare exchange.
00:29:58.000The people who are healthy will go back to having a free market system where they don't have to buy insurance they don't want to buy.
00:30:05.000McConnell comes back with a version of this, but the version of it that he proposes doesn't make any sense.
00:30:09.000Instead of separating out these other plans, these low-cost plans, it throws them into the Obamacare exchange as well, which means they're still subject to the Obamacare regulations, and it means that the rates on those low-cost plans are actually going to go up, because if they're all in the pool together, that means that they're going to have to pay for the unhealthy people.
00:30:33.000He has a piece over at Breitbart where he says, I miss the old days when Republicans stood for repealing Obamacare.
00:30:38.000He says, now too many Republicans are falling all over themselves to stuff hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars into a bill that doesn't repeal Obamacare and feeds big insurance a huge bailout, right?
00:30:47.000This is all the subsidies for these high-risk pools.
00:30:56.000Remember when Republicans complained about Obamacare's risk corridors?
00:30:59.000Remember when we called corridors nothing more than insurance company bailouts?
00:31:02.000I remember when one prominent GOP candidate during a presidential debate explicitly called out Obamacare risk corridors as a bailout to insurance companies.
00:31:10.000Now the GOP plan being put out forward is chock full of insurance bailout money to the tune of nearly $200 billion.
00:31:16.000Republicans, present company excluded, now support the idea of lowering your insurance premium by giving a subsidy to the insurance company.
00:31:24.000If the GOP now supports an insurance stabilization fund to lower insurance prices, maybe they should support a new car stabilization fund to lower the price of cars.
00:31:31.000Or maybe the GOP would support an iPhone stabilization fund to lower the price of phones.
00:31:37.000Listen, this was always a foregone conclusion.
00:31:40.000As soon as they said repeal and replace, and as soon as it was clear that Donald Trump was never going to stand for a straight repeal, it was pretty obvious that this was moving in the wrong direction.
00:31:57.000They're going to do their best to try and pass off this crap sandwich as something good, as an advance.
00:32:02.000But as we say, even the parts that advance, even the parts that I supported of this bill, like the Medicaid, the Medicaid cutbacks, even those restructuring, even those are now being cut according to McConnell.
00:32:12.000It's all just in name only to get something through.
00:32:23.000President Obama has an FBI director nominee named Christopher Wray.
00:32:31.000Christopher Wray was questioned on the Hill yesterday and he was basically asked by Congress, are you going to be independent from the President of the United States or are you going to be a lackey?
00:32:39.000And here's what he had to say about being a lackey.
00:33:01.000I can tell you that in my experience as a prosecutor and as head of the criminal division, I understand there to be department policies that govern public comments charged to individuals.
00:33:13.000I think those policies are there for a reason.
00:33:15.000I think they're important and I would follow those policies.
00:33:17.000He talked about somebody that was never charged in a despairing fashion.
00:33:25.000That's the way I understood his comments.
00:33:26.000Do you also agree that he took over the prosecutor's job by saying there's no case here?
00:33:32.000Well, Senator, again, there's an Inspector General investigation into his conduct.
00:33:37.000You would not have done either one of those, is what you're telling this committee.
00:33:40.000At least, I hope that's what you're telling this committee.
00:33:42.000I can't imagine a situation where, as FBI Director, I would be giving a press conference on an uncharged individual, much less talk in detail about it.
00:33:51.000Okay, so, you know, this is of course the correct answer, that he's not going to be like James Comey, and then he was also asked about Bob Mueller, because President Trump has suggested that the special prosecutor, special counsel, that he's on a witch hunt against the Trump family, and here was Ray's response.
00:34:06.000You say that Mueller's a good guy, right?
00:34:10.000And you will do anything necessary to protect him from being interfered with when it comes to doing his job?
00:34:18.000Absolutely, I think he's a- Do you believe that, in light of the Don Jr.
00:34:22.000email and other allegations, that this whole thing about Trump campaigning Russia is a witch hunt?
00:34:28.000Is that a fair description of what we're all dealing with in America?
00:34:33.000Well, Senator, I can't speak to the basis for those comments.
00:34:35.000I can tell you that my experience with Director Mueller- I'm asking you, as the future FBI director, do you consider this endeavor a witch hunt?
00:34:43.000I do not consider Director Mueller to be on a witch hunt.
00:34:49.000A bunch of Democrats trying to hold him up just because they're angry at Trump and they want to talk about Russia a lot, but Wray will be confirmed.
00:34:57.000The question is, will Trump allow him to do his job, or will Trump interfere and get angry at him the way he has at Bob Mueller or Reince Priebus or Steve Bannon or Jared Kushner or every single other person he has ever appointed to his administration?
00:35:09.000So, we'll find out, but Christopher Wray will be a fine pick for FBI, and he did a good job in his hearings yesterday.
00:35:16.000Okay, so I want to get to some things I like, things I hate, and Big Idea.
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00:39:23.000In the wake of the Ilford Pub bombing deaths, the government has responded with emergency legislation and increased police powers of search and arrest.
00:40:12.000The entire film is basically about his relationship with his father because his father gets dragged into this and his father's an honorable man and he really isn't at the beginning of the film.
00:40:19.000It's about how he learns to live up to his father's standards.
00:40:21.000In the Name of the Father is the name of the film.
00:40:58.000I'm mostly excited about it so that I can continue to do my Bernie Sanders impression forever.
00:41:03.000For years and years, and I hope that long after he passes, when he is 120 years old, when he passes, that they wheel his corpse around and he continues to run so I can continue to talk about vacation homes and pudding cups as he so richly deserves as a crazy socialist who has two vacation homes and a thousand pudding cups.
00:43:35.000I don't know what Bianco is, but that is legitimately the worst ad for female empowerment I have ever seen in my entire life, because if the case is that you're going to whine about the cost of your underwear so I should pay you more, and then you're gonna break my crap because of it, you are fired, okay?
00:43:48.000You're not gonna raise, you get fired.
00:44:35.000That was what happened with Clock Boy.
00:44:36.000But the Anti-Islamophobia Scam Brigade is up in arms.
00:44:40.000Linda Sarsour is very angry because people are pointing out things that she said and she doesn't like it when people point out things that she said.
00:44:56.000Riley Dennis is a prominent transgender person on Twitter, and Riley Dennis is a, he, because he is a man, is
00:45:09.000He is saying that his argument, this is a direct quote, quote, my argument, maybe your preference for women with vaginas over women with penises is to some degree influenced by our cissexist society.
00:45:20.000So Riley Dennis, who is a man with a penis, I believe, I don't know about the surgical status, Riley Dennis, I'm fairly certain on this, and believes he is a woman, he says that your desire not to have sex with a man because he's a man is because you are cisgender, not because
00:45:40.000He says it's because the reason that you as a straight man only want to have sex with women, you know, like actual women with vaginas and chromosomes and such, the only reason you'd want to do that is because of sexism in society.
00:45:59.000Nature—you don't even have to be atheist to believe this.
00:46:02.000Nature made things that men who want to have sex with women want to have sex with women who actually have the body parts that produce children, because that is what nature desires.
00:46:43.000Due process of law means there must be a law on the books that you have violated, and now we take you to trial, and then you get a lawyer, and then we decide whether you are guilty or innocent.
00:47:15.000Substantive due process doesn't make any sense, but the concept is that if you pass a law I don't like, you have violated my due process rights.
00:47:29.000But the left has been using substantive due process to cram down abortion and the so-called right to privacy and same-sex marriage.
00:47:35.000They say that any law against these things violates your due process rights.
00:47:39.000No, it does not violate your due process rights.
00:47:40.000In fact, the concept of substantive due process was actually coined by Justice Taney.
00:47:46.000In the infamous and horrific Dred Scott decision in which he actually said that an act of Congress which deprives a citizen of the United States of his liberty or property merely because he came himself or brought his property into particular territory of the United States and who had committed no offense against the laws could hardly be dignified with the name of due process of law.
00:48:04.000So what he said is that if your slave escapes into the north and you go there and then you want to bring your slave back,
00:48:10.000You should be allowed to bring your slave back because otherwise you are being deprived of your property without due process of law.
00:48:15.000Except for the fact that that has nothing to do with anything, okay?