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00:00:00.000The media lose their mind over former FBI director James Comey's new book, Cory Booker makes a complete ass of himself, and we check the mailbag.
00:00:07.000I'm Ben Shapiro and this is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:13.000Some days you get up in the morning and you're just giddy to do the show because, I mean, let's be real, this news cycle is AMAZEBALLS.
00:00:21.000And there's so much to talk about, from slimeball to pee tapes to Cory Booker, who apparently is weirdly obsessed with gay sex and its various permutations.
00:00:29.000So many things to talk about in the news.
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00:01:57.000Because if this was all stuff of vital public import, then why exactly did he wait a year and a book contract before coming out with it?
00:02:04.000If he wants to demonstrate that he really is not in it for the cash, that he's really in it because he just wants to tell the truth, then he, like Stormy Daniels, could just give up the money.
00:02:12.000He's not going to be doing that anytime soon.
00:02:13.000And the media, I mean, they are so over the moon about this book, but they're really trying to make mountains out of not even molehills.
00:02:21.000I mean, the stories in this book are nothing.
00:02:22.000It's all James Comey's whiny opinions.
00:02:24.000Chris Wallace, I think, said it best on Fox News.
00:02:58.000He testified that Trump had not obstructed his Russia investigation in any way.
00:03:02.000Trump just got rid of him because Trump apparently was unhappy with him that Comey would not publicly say the truth, which is that Trump was not the target of the investigation or even a subject of the investigation at the time.
00:03:13.000Well, here are some of the revelations that the media are just going nuts over.
00:03:16.000And it's wall-to-wall coverage of James Comey's book because this was a pre-set agenda.
00:03:21.000There's a general point here to be made about the media that I think is relevant for people to understand over the last at least 15 to 20 years, most of my life in politics.
00:03:29.000And that is, the media are trying to portray it right now as though we live in a Trump-centric universe.
00:03:35.000We live in this universe where everything revolves around Trump.
00:03:37.000Every story has to be refracted through the prism of Trump.
00:05:29.000It was almost an out-of-body experience for me.
00:05:31.000I was floating above myself, looking down, saying, you're sitting here briefing the incoming President of the United States about prostitutes in Moscow.
00:05:39.000He says he may want me to investigate it to prove that it didn't happen.
00:06:58.000George Stephanopoulos is peeing on him, OK?
00:06:59.000He doesn't need Russian prostitutes doing it for him.
00:07:02.000But James Comey sitting there and going, you know, it's just insane that the president of the United States would ask me to investigate this thing.
00:07:07.000And then in the same breath, like literally in the same sentence saying, I don't know if it's true, though.
00:07:19.000Like, Seth Meyers goes on TV last night, and he says, well, clearly if Trump was asking about it, then probably Trump was peed on by Russian prostitutes, which doesn't make any sense at all.
00:07:27.000The entire media that went nuts over the pee tape for literally months is now deeply concerned that Donald Trump wanted that investigated and himself cleared of it.
00:07:51.000Why... Why would you ask the FBI director to investigate a P-Tape if you knew for a fact that P-Tape definitely didn't exist?
00:08:01.000That's like me saying, can you make sure there isn't a tape of me in 1994 doing Thunder Road, a karaoke, and then barfing and then slipping on the barf and farting?
00:08:13.000Again, if President Trump actually thought he were guilty of this, would he want the FBI looking into it?
00:08:17.000The logic doesn't even make any sort of basic sense, but because the media are invested in making Trump into a mockery, they're going to say p-tape over and over and over and over again until all this is over.
00:08:27.000Comey, of course, makes a bunch of other allegations in the book.
00:08:31.000And again, he talked to Stephanopoulos about this.
00:08:33.000Here's some more of what he had to say to George Stephanopoulos in his big primetime interview that's coming on Sunday.
00:08:38.000Ooh, it's earth-shattering, except for the fact that all this is really about, as Nate Silver put it, not a man of the right.
00:08:43.000Nate Silver says his book shouldn't be called A Higher Loyalty, it should be called A Higher Royalty.
00:08:47.000Here is James Comey talking with Stephanopoulos.
00:08:50.000President-elect Trump's first question was to confirm that it had no impact on the election.
00:08:55.000And then the conversation, to my surprise, moved into a PR conversation about how the Trump team would position this and what they could say about this.
00:09:08.000They actually started talking about drafting a press release with us still sitting there.
00:09:13.000And the reason that was so striking to me is that that's just not done.
00:09:17.000That the intelligence community does intelligence.
00:09:44.000By the way, Comey said that he did not brief President Trump on the fact that this Fusion GPS dossier was originally funded by Democrats and Hillary Clinton.
00:09:52.000He didn't reveal that to Trump because presumably he didn't want Trump tweeting that out.
00:09:55.000That if he had known that the dossier was funded by the Democrats, he just would have said the dossier was funded by the Democrats.
00:10:00.000And then that would have immediately undercut the credibility of the dossier.
00:10:03.000So he said he didn't think it was relevant for Trump to know that.
00:10:05.000Okay, so it's relevant for Trump to know about stupid allegations with no evidence to back them about a pee tape.
00:10:11.000With Russians peeing on each other and him.
00:10:13.000But it's not important at all for Trump to know that those allegations were being compiled by a firm being paid by Hillary Clinton.
00:10:50.000Also, I love this, a couple other bombshells, apparently Comey ridicules Trump for being shorter than he anticipated and described Trump as having half white, bright white half moons beneath his eyes.
00:11:01.000He also argued that Trump's ties were too long, according to the Associated Press, and suggested that when he shook Trump's hand, he evaluated his hand size.
00:11:08.000He said they might have been a little bit small, but not that much smaller than normal.
00:13:05.000Okay, this is a legit quote from the book.
00:13:08.000Comey writes that Obama, President Obama, sat alone with him in the Oval Office in late November and told him, quote, I picked you to be FBI director because of your integrity and your ability.
00:13:16.000I want you to know that nothing, nothing has happened in the last year to change my view.
00:13:20.000On the verge of tears, Comey told Obama, boy, were those words I needed to hear.
00:13:24.000I'm just trying to do the right thing.
00:13:38.000I almost cried when he said I was a good guy.
00:13:40.000Okay, other things that are hilarious in this book.
00:13:44.000So apparently, Comey says in the book that when he revealed late in the election, 10 days before the election, that Hillary Clinton, they were reopening the email investigation because Hillary's emails were found on the computer of the accused child pornographer, Anthony Weiner.
00:14:01.000Yeah, this is really a guy who's just full-on credible.
00:14:05.000I have to say, he is playing one of the great scams I have ever seen.
00:14:07.000I mean, this is a usual suspect-level scam.
00:14:40.000I mean boy oh boy if I could have thought of that one.
00:14:42.000Cost Hillary the election and then turn on Trump and get all of the people who hated you to buy your book and declare you the most honest man in politics.
00:14:52.000So apparently he also said in the book that as a prosecutor he used to tell juries trying to evaluate a witness that you can't cherry pick.
00:14:58.000You can't say things like he's saying that's about Trump.
00:15:00.000I like these things he said but on this he's a dirty rotten liar.
00:15:43.000He tweeted out a couple of things about James Comey and if you just think that America, you know, somehow we ended up in the alternative reality where Biff actually used the sports book to bet on games and then married Marty McFly's mom and somehow we ended up in that timeline.
00:15:58.000You probably would not be wrong, because, I mean, this is a real thing that is happening right now, today, okay?
00:16:02.000The president of the United States tweeted this out.
00:16:04.000First of all, you have the former FBI director accusing the president of the United States of possibly having been peed on by Russian prostitutes, even though he has no evidence of it, and then jabbering ridiculously about the president's hand size.
00:16:49.000Who was, as time has proven, a terrible director of the FBI.
00:16:52.000His handling of the crooked Hillary Clinton case, capital C, and the events surrounding it will go down as one of the worst botched jobs of history.
00:16:59.000It was my great honor to fire James Comey.
00:17:28.000Abraham Lincoln looks on and weeps, but, you know, this is the country that we have, and we've brought it upon, we bought the ticket, we take the ride, my friends.
00:17:37.000It wouldn't have been, you know, in some ways, we wouldn't have gotten this with Hillary, but we've gotten some pretty crappy stuff with Hillary, but I will say, it wouldn't have been this much fun.
00:18:23.000So a kakistocracy, by the way, is a system of government which is run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens, for those who don't know.
00:19:32.000Nobody has been able to determine if the rumor is true.
00:19:35.000So instead, what the media do is they report that the National Enquirer paid $30,000 for the story and then killed it.
00:19:41.000So they're saying the real story is that Trump and his friends kill lots of stories about Trump.
00:19:45.000But what they're really reporting, obviously, is the salacious rumor that President Trump has a little Trump running around somewhere that we don't know about.
00:19:52.000My only question is whether this is the same maid who had an affair with Arnold Schwarzenegger, because that would be a pretty good record, right?
00:19:56.000I mean, if you have a kid by Schwarzenegger and a kid by Trump, and nobody knows about it, that's pretty spectacular.
00:20:01.000But it is worth noting that this doorman's ex-wife said, quote, he's infamous for making up stories.
00:20:08.000One of our friends who passed away, he saw him, too, walking down the street.
00:20:12.000But they're printing this story anyway, demonstrating once again that this is what the media are.
00:20:17.000The media are just a bunch of rumor mongers who are seeking to get President Trump, and this is why they're on Comey, and this is why they're on this.
00:20:23.000No wonder people don't believe the quote-unquote fake news.
00:20:27.000Meanwhile, something intensely stupid was happening in Congress.
00:20:30.000And this, I have some serious comments about.
00:21:18.000So Mike Pompeo, who's the former head of the CIA, and now is being nominated for the Secretary of State position, he is brought up on charges by Cory Booker.
00:21:26.000And Cory Booker asks him the most ridiculous question I've ever seen asked in Congress by anyone at any time ever.
00:21:32.000Which is saying a lot, because Congress is filled with people of low IQ.
00:21:42.000This is a thing that happened and is now in the congressional record, the same congressional record that hosts debates between Daniel Webster and his opponents.
00:21:50.000Has Cory Booker asking Mike Pompeo what he thinks of sodomy?
00:22:46.000Like, this is a thing that's happening now.
00:22:47.000No matter how crazy you think the Republicans are—everybody, I'm not even talking Republicans now—no matter how crazy you think Republicans are, folks, this is, like, beyond.
00:22:57.000So I got into a bait about this with a friend of mine named Jane Koston over at Vox.
00:23:01.000So what's funny about this is that Jane originally, if you'll recall a few months back, wrote a pretty nasty piece about me for the New York Times.
00:23:08.000But being a genial sort of fellow, I reached out and now we're pretty friendly.
00:23:11.000Jane is a lesbian and she was very much in favor of this line of questioning.
00:23:15.000And so I was wondering what in the world, like why does it matter what exactly Mike Pompeo thinks of gay sex?
00:23:22.000Like does he have to watch gay porn in order to be, in order for him, like show us how much you like gay sex.
00:23:38.000Okay, so why exactly is this relevant?
00:23:39.000So Jane was trying to make the argument that as a public official, Mike Pompeo should feel good about gay sex because he's going to have to defend the rights of gay people.
00:23:49.000This is, I think, a very foolish argument.
00:23:51.000First of all, this is plainly religious bigotry.
00:23:54.000Virtually every religious person in the United States, every deeply religious person, every Bible-believing person in the United States believes that homosexual activity is a sin.
00:24:03.000I believe homosexual activity is a sin.
00:24:04.000Now, welcome to a free country where I think the government should not be involved in anybody's sex life.
00:24:08.000I've been libertarian on the gay marriage issue longer than Barack Obama, right?
00:24:12.000And with all of this, I mean, I've been saying since legit 2012, 2011, that there should be a libertarian position from the government on same-sex marriage.
00:25:13.000But what I think Jane was getting at, and what Booker is actually getting at, is something a little bit deeper, which is, their suggestion is that they don't believe you.
00:25:22.000If I say that I think that homosexual activity is a sin, but I also think that it's a free country, you're free to think I'm an idiot, and you're free to disobey me, and you're free to do whatever you want.
00:25:30.000I mean, I can't give you orders, you're an adult, do whatever the hell you want, right?
00:25:33.000That if I say that, I must not be sincere if I think something's a sin.
00:25:36.000In order for me to believe that you have a right to something, I have to believe that thing is good.
00:26:10.000But that's not the question being asked.
00:26:11.000So the real implication here, the real implication of course, is that if you're a religious Christian, you cannot be the Secretary of State.
00:26:16.000That's what Cory Booker really is saying.
00:26:18.000He's saying that if you're a religious Christian and you believe homosexual activity is a sin, even if you're libertarian, governmentally, even if you think that the United States should defend the rights of people all over the world on these issues,
00:26:29.000You really don't believe it because secretly, deep down, you have animus toward gay sex.
00:26:33.000You don't like watching gay people go at it.
00:26:49.000Now, the great irony of this, the thing that's really incredible about this, is Cory Booker then goes on to question Mike Pompeo about Frank Gaffney and Bridget Gabriel.
00:26:58.000So, Frank Gaffney runs the Center for Security Policy.
00:27:01.000Very hard on Islam, and radical Islam in particular.
00:27:04.000Bridget Gabriel runs something called Act for America.
00:27:07.000Which is also a group that is opposed to the influence of Sharia law and radical Islam.
00:27:12.000Now I may not agree with everything that Frank and Bridget say, but the idea that anyone who's ever associated with Frank and Bridget is somehow guilty of some grave sin is simply ridiculous.
00:27:21.000Bridget Gabriel is a Christian Lebanese woman who was forced to live for years in like an 8x10 bunker because of Islamic terrorism in Lebanon.
00:27:27.000So she has a pretty good case to make against Islamic terror.
00:27:29.000But there's another thing here that's really funny.
00:27:31.000Listen to Cory Booker go after Pompeo on his association with Gaffney and Gabriel.
00:27:37.000Were you silent in your position of authority against these words that are violative of the American Constitution?
00:27:53.000Someone who has been, who runs an organization that has been considered a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
00:28:03.000Did you ever call her out on her remarks that are hateful or bigoted?
00:28:06.000Senator, I've spoken to a number of groups in my, I believe my record with respect to tolerance and the equal treatment.
00:28:12.000Okay, so here's the part that's really funny.
00:28:14.000Okay, so what he's asking about specifically, because I looked up what the ADL says about Bridget and what they say about Frank.
00:28:19.000They basically say the same thing about Bridget that they say about Frank.
00:28:22.000What they say about both is, both of them have said that you can't really be a good American citizen if you are a fundamentalist Muslim.
00:28:28.000If you are a religious Muslim, you can't be a good American citizen.
00:28:31.000Now, that is something with which I disagree, depending on how you define religious Muslim.
00:28:35.000If you're defining religious Muslim as radical Muslim, then sure.
00:28:37.000If you're defining religious Muslim as somebody who goes to mosque, then of course not.
00:28:40.000But here's the part that's hilarious about what Booker is doing here.
00:28:43.000What Booker just said to Mike Pompeo is, if you are a religious Christian, you cannot be Secretary of State because you believe that homosexual activity is a sin.
00:28:52.000But you also cannot be Secretary of State if you say that members of a particular religion might not make good citizens.
00:29:00.000You see a little bit of a contradiction here?
00:29:02.000So in other words, Cory Booker says that if you say that Islam is not compatible with democracy, then that is bigoted.
00:29:09.000Which, you know, might be sorta like a quarter to half true.
00:29:13.000Okay, but then he says, if you're a Christian, then that's not compatible with democracy.
00:29:19.000But it shows the extremism of the left.
00:29:21.000Again, if President Trump wants to get reelected, all he has to do is somehow convince the left to nominate Cory Booker, who is a complete nutjob.
00:29:28.000Joe Biden is obviously considering a White House run in 2020, and he is making noises, saying like, well, I'm not gonna run if there's somebody else on the Democratic side who can win.
00:29:38.000And then, of course, he's going to run, because he's going to say there's no one else on the Democratic side who can win.
00:29:42.000The big problem for the Democrats is that Joe Biden might be the only guy who really has a credible shot of beating Trump.
00:29:50.000All three of those people are too busy ensconced in their own identity politics of stupidity and alienating vast swathes of America to ever win the presidency.
00:29:58.000So here is Biden basically launching his presidential run.
00:30:02.000I'm really hoping that some other folks step up.
00:30:05.000I think we have some really good people.
00:30:07.000Rev, I know Brock always asks me that question.
00:30:13.000And he said, what's going to make the decision?
00:30:15.000I got to be able to look in the mirror.
00:30:17.000And if I walk away, no, I'm not walking away because I'm afraid or I'm worried about losing or that I just don't want to take on the responsibility.
00:30:26.000I got to walk away knowing that it is there's somebody who can do it and can win because we've got to win.
00:30:44.000He might not be identity politics enough.
00:30:46.000He might not be wildly, crazily anti-Trump enough.
00:30:49.000Ted Lieu, who's a congressman from out here in California, he says, listen, if we take the House, we're going to go full-scale investigation, balls to the wall, right?
00:30:56.000Wall-to-wall investigations of President Trump.
00:31:00.000Nothing would be better calibrated to win Trump re-election than extremism on the part of Democrats.
00:31:04.000American voters have an inflection point this November.
00:31:07.000They can change the makeup of Congress and give Democrats subpoena power, and then we will conduct real investigation.
00:31:12.000Okay, if this is the direction the Democrats want to go, then Trump really does have a shot.
00:31:16.000Again, the Cory Booker Democratic Party is not a winning party.
00:31:19.000Now, I'm going to get to the mailbag in just a second.
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00:32:57.000I went to the top law school in America, by most standards.
00:33:01.000And that law school, the first year was useful, and the last two years were a waste of time.
00:33:04.000And you learn more in studying for the bar than you actually did anywhere else.
00:33:07.000And then you didn't learn anything that you really needed to know until you actually started working for a law firm and drawing up contracts and doing all that stuff.
00:33:13.000I think apprenticeships would go a lot further than the guild system they have, where you're licensed to become a member of the bar, for example.
00:33:47.000My real suspicion is that there is a way for you and your wife to have children while you are in medical school, even if you are supposed to be the breadwinner.
00:33:57.000And that is, you know, the student loans are available.
00:33:59.000There are people who are living on student loans who have kids.
00:34:02.000If you are an MD, it's pretty easy to get a student loan, considering that they know you're going to be making money on the other end of the MD.
00:34:08.000So I would urge you to look at all the financial solutions available.
00:34:10.000I'd also urge you to go to your local church and talk with people about the possibility of being given a loan.
00:34:15.000You know, I know that if there were people in my synagogue who needed a loan to go to medical school and they wanted to have a kid, that I'd be looking, giving them a loan.
00:34:21.000You know, the charity is definitely something that's worthwhile here.
00:34:23.000I don't think you should miss your childbearing years to go to medical school.
00:34:26.000But, I mean, another possibility is that you have kids right now, you work for a few years, build up a little mustache, and then go to medical school.
00:34:34.000I think life presents you a number of ways of slicing this particular egg, and I think that it shouldn't be worth giving up the most important thing you can do in life, which is having children and rearing them, because you have career aspirations.
00:34:48.000Again, I don't think they're mutually exclusive.
00:34:52.000Well, I'm glad that you enjoy your bull and branch sheets, Josh.
00:35:14.000I think the best we can do is try to check Iranian ambition in the region and let our regional allies do some heavier work around the Mideast in order to minimize their influence.
00:35:22.000Kirk says, So, the fair tax, from what I recall, depending on the, there are different fair tax proposals, but the fair tax is essentially a national sales tax.
00:35:34.000The flat tax says there's an income tax, but you, but it is flat across the board.
00:35:39.000I tend to be more in favor of the fair tax.
00:35:40.000I like the idea of a national sales tax because being taxed for per transaction on consumption is easier to monitor, and then it's also up to you what you want to do with your money.
00:35:49.000If you want to buy things, then you're going to be taxed on it.
00:35:51.000If you don't want to buy things, then you won't be taxed on it.
00:35:53.000The same thing is not true of income tax.
00:35:55.000The idea of having to turn over to the government how much money I owe on a regular basis.
00:36:00.000If you could eliminate, let's put it this way, if you could eliminate either the sales tax or the income tax, I would eliminate the income tax.
00:36:05.000In the state of California, we have both.
00:36:06.000I would eliminate the income tax because I think it is much easier for people to play class warfare with the income tax than it is for them to play class warfare with the sales tax because rich people do buy more stuff than poor people.
00:36:16.000Okay, Kenny says, Hey Ben, I was wondering your thoughts on the prenuptial agreement.
00:36:30.000A ketubah is a marital document that actually includes the divorce amount.
00:36:35.000That if I divorce my wife, it actually says in my ketubah how much money I owe her.
00:36:38.000In fact, this is a really funny story.
00:36:40.000In the Jewish community, particularly in the Sephardic Jewish community, there's sort of a tradition of haggling over the amount of money in the ketubah.
00:36:49.000Right, like how much, and you haggle usually, not with your wife, because that would be real awkward, but with her parents very often.
00:36:54.000And so I remember, I went to talk, one day I was up in Sacramento, which is where my in-laws live, and my in-laws, my father-in-law comes up to me, this is right before I was getting married, and he says, Ben, he's Israeli, he says, Ben, I have to have a very serious conversation with you.
00:37:43.000I think that if you say to your wife, or your prospective wife, listen, I want you to be guaranteed a certain amount of money if things should go south.
00:37:50.000This is actually my guarantee to you that things will go well.
00:37:52.000It depends what you're looking for in the prenup.
00:37:54.000If what you're looking for in the prenup is,
00:37:56.000You get off scot-free, then I think your wife has a reason to be suspicious.
00:37:59.000If what you're putting in the prenup is, here's a liquidated damages provision that makes this, you know, pretty likely to be locked in, then I think that is not a terrible idea by any stretch of the imagination.
00:38:07.000So, I do not have a separate bank account for my wife.
00:38:09.000I trust my wife with our finances and I'm not concerned she's going to be stealing our money.
00:38:56.000They could presumably pass a bill now to do that.
00:38:59.000But the Civil War basically answered the question as to whether states can secede from the Union if they feel that their rights have been violated.
00:39:07.000By the way, the Second Amendment is never going to be repealed.
00:39:09.000The repeal of an amendment requires two thirds of states, three fifths, two thirds of Congress and three fifths of all states
00:40:29.000So the Jewish perspective on heaven is that if you fulfill seven basic commandments, then you go to heaven.
00:40:33.000And these commandments are really, really basic.
00:40:35.000It's like, don't kill people, don't steal, don't commit adultery, don't cut flesh from a living animal, believe in God, establish courts of law.
00:41:38.000What it's going to be is that we're going to regularize this stuff.
00:41:40.000It's not going to be you slaughtering animals in your backyard.
00:41:42.000You have to go to a centralized site that is run by priests who are worshiping God, and then you're going to have to be thinking about your relationship with God every time an animal is slaughtered in order for us to make this non-holy activity holy.
00:41:55.000Maimonides' perspective says that in the future, in Judaism, when the temple is re-established, then there may not be animal sacrifices at all.
00:42:06.000And then there are people who say that the whole purpose of these sacrifices is to remind you that, really, you've committed sins that make your life forfeit.
00:42:13.000And it's only through God's mercy that you are not being killed right now.
00:42:16.000And the brutality of animal sacrifice is not supposed to be pleasant.
00:43:37.000Well, there are a couple of different responses here.
00:43:39.000So one is sort of the founding response, which is that in order to stake a claim to a land, you have to have permanent presence on the land, and you have to cultivate it, right?
00:43:45.000This is the Lockean response to property ownership, which is why there is such a thing in Western law called the adverse possession, which is if I own a piece of land and I just leave it fallow for 100 years, I just buy it, leave it there, and you go and you live on it, and you set up a house, and then you set up a farm, and you live there for 20 years, and I come back and I say, what are you doing on my land?
00:44:03.000You have now adversely possessed the land because you're cultivating it, and I am not.
00:44:07.000If Native Americans didn't cultivate the land in a way that amounted to essential ownership, then they didn't have the properties of ownership of land.
00:44:15.000Second of all, even if you put that argument aside, which is, you know, a dicey argument in some ways, then certainly one thing is true.
00:44:22.000Population movement has been happening forever.
00:44:24.000Many of the Native American tribes that were present at the founding of the United States were actually relatively recent arrivals in that part of the United States.
00:44:32.000So, Native tribes dispossessed each other.
00:44:35.000And Native tribes during certain portions of American history dispossessed settlers.
00:44:39.000Settlers dispossessed American tribes.
00:44:41.000That's not to say that brutal treatment of Native Americans was justified in any way.
00:44:44.000What it is to say is that if we're going to pretend that land is not transferred between peoples, then that is silly.
00:44:50.000And sovereign governments do have the right to push people to set their borders.
00:44:56.000Sovereign governments have a right to set their borders.
00:44:58.000And then the question becomes, can you defend it?
00:45:00.000So if you're not willing to defend it, then you're not defending it on a practical level.
00:45:03.000But the question as to whether the United States has a right to defend its border because Native Americans were incapable of defending their borders against original American settlers, I don't see really how that follows.
00:45:43.000Let's see, Santino says, Hey Ben, I've recently switched my major from music education to political science.
00:45:48.000I've been having a real hard time dealing with this only because the university I'm attending gave me a full tuition scholarship for music, but I just don't have a passion for it anymore.
00:45:54.000I'm stuck in a situation now where I'm gonna have to pay for college dry cut without any financial assistance as my parents do not understand the financial aid process one bit.
00:46:01.000Well, I'm sorry I blew it up for you, dude.
00:46:39.000Do you want to work outside government?
00:46:40.000Do you want to work at a place like Daily Wire?
00:46:43.000And then there's a set of steps that you can take to facilitate your goals.
00:46:47.000And I would just say keep your eye on the prize and come up with a plan.
00:46:50.000Feel free to email me, by the way, and I'm happy to send you some steps if you send me your goals, like some steps that I think would be useful for you to take in pursuit of those goals.
00:46:56.000Okay, time for some things that I like and then some things I hate, and then that'll be the end of the week.
00:47:07.000So Rosamund Pike is the actress from Gone Girl, you'll remember, and she was speaking to Uproxx, and she was asked about the possibility of a female James Bond.
00:49:56.000And again, it's a very modernized version because in the plot, what actually ends up happening with this woman is she, the guy who he's using as the stand-in, actually sleeps with her and impregnates her and then takes off.
00:50:05.000And now the Italian guy has to decide whether or not he wants her, whether he likes her, whether, you know, what he thinks of her.
00:50:12.000It's really interesting in a lot of ways.
00:50:14.000And the woman who, the woman who's playing the lead right here actually ended up marrying the guy who wrote the musical, Frank Lesser.
00:50:19.000Time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:50:26.000All righty, so this is a pretty amazing clip.
00:50:28.000So there is a speech at a law school at CUNY.
00:50:35.000And the associate professor of South Texas College of Law in Houston, Josh Blackman, visited the college to speak on the topics of originalism and the importance of free speech on campus.
00:50:43.000And here is what it looked like when he went to speak.
00:50:45.000And then the answer is to change the law.
00:51:35.000So Joy Behar over on The View, she says that the only thing that's saving the country right now is not the sanity of the people surrounding President Trump.