The Ben Shapiro Show - June 26, 2019


Debate Night | Ep. 809


Episode Stats

Length

51 minutes

Words per Minute

203.76448

Word Count

10,555

Sentence Count

709

Misogynist Sentences

12

Hate Speech Sentences

16


Summary

The Democrats prepare for their first official debate, Democrats in the media discover there s an actual crisis at the border, and Google doesn t know what Nazis are. All that and much more on this episode of The Ben Shapiro Show! Featuring: Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Joe Biden, Tulsi Gabbard, Amy Klobuchar, Beto Beto O Rourke, Julian Castro, Joe Crowley, John Delaney, Elizabeth Warren and more. The Democratic Debates are happening tonight, and it's going to be a night to remember. Don't miss it! Ben Shapiro is the host of the podcast and is a regular contributor to the New York Times, CNN, CBS, NPR, and other media outlets. He's also a frequent contributor to The Weekly Standard, and has been featured in The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, and The Daily Caller. His new book, is out now, and is available for pre-order on Amazon Prime and Vimeo worldwide. If you haven't already, you can get a copy of the book for only $99.99! at linktr.ee/TheBenShapirott or use the discount code: PODCAST at checkout to get 20% off your first purchase, and get 10% off the entire course for the rest of the course, including mailers, tickets, stickers, and T-shirts, and t-shirts! You'll get an ad-free version of the show, too! and a free copy of The FiveThirtyEight printable book, The Vagabonds and all other VIP memberships! Thank you, Ben Shapiro's new book is available on amazon Prime and The Vagrant if you sign up to receive $50 or more, and I'll send you a review of the entire five-course tasting edition of The Six Sides of the Vagrant's newest book, Four Seasons, Four Sides in the next issue of Four Seasons starting on January 15th, coming out on the 27th! I'll be shipping out a limited edition edition of the FiveThirty-six copies of Four S&C on Tuesday, September 5th, The Vagrants and will be shipping them out to you! on November 6th, 2019! Thanks for listening and reviewing the book out to the press? Thanks Ben Shapiro


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00:00:00.000 The Democrats prepare for their first official debate.
00:00:02.000 Democrats in the media discover there's an actual crisis at the border, and Google doesn't know what Nazis are.
00:00:07.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:00:08.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:09.000 Well, a lot going on in the news, and we will get to all of those things immediately.
00:00:21.000 So let us jump in.
00:00:22.000 We begin with the Democratic debate.
00:00:25.000 The Democratic debate is tonight, the first Democratic debate.
00:00:27.000 Are you excited?
00:00:30.000 Does it feel like we've already had like three of these?
00:00:33.000 And these will be endless.
00:00:34.000 These Democratic debates, there are 25 Democratic candidates.
00:00:37.000 Virtually everyone who is a registered Democrat in the United States will be part of this debate.
00:00:42.000 Well, the first debate will feature some real big names.
00:00:46.000 By big names I mean nobodies.
00:00:48.000 The only big name in this debate is Elizabeth Warren.
00:00:50.000 So she's got the night all to herself.
00:00:52.000 We'll see how many people actually tune in just to watch Elizabeth Warren and her magical plan.
00:00:56.000 Ooh, she has plans.
00:00:57.000 This is what we keep hearing from the media.
00:00:59.000 Now, they never actually evaluate whether the plans are feasible or workable.
00:01:02.000 They never even assess whether her proposed wealth tax, which would take a percentage of wealth from people who have already paid taxes on their income, whether that proposed wealth tax is even constitutional.
00:01:12.000 They haven't assessed whether any of those plans would work financially, whether they work in terms of the budget of the United States.
00:01:20.000 Short answer, no, they don't.
00:01:21.000 The fact is that the vast growth in the United States budget is driven by out-of-control spending, and that out-of-control spending is driven by entitlement programs, many of which she wants to add to, including Medicare for All.
00:01:32.000 If you took out Medicare and Social Security from the United States budget, the United States budget would be in surplus.
00:01:38.000 It is Social Security and Medicare that have bankrupted the country to the point where 30 years from now, 144% of our GDP will be spent on the national debt.
00:01:46.000 So that's going to be very, very exciting.
00:01:48.000 Well, anyway, Elizabeth Warren is leading the pack, and we're going to go through these candidates so that you know who exactly is going to be on stage in this most important of debates.
00:01:56.000 So, you've got Elizabeth Warren, fake Native American and faux moderate, who once upon a time was in favor of things like school vouchers and wrote books like The Two Income Trap, in which she discussed the problem with having two parents outside the household working, and now is such a progressive leftist that she is threatening Bernie Sanders' flank.
00:02:14.000 Bernie Sanders is running a little bit scared from Elizabeth Warren, and that is largely because the progressives in the media have decided that Elizabeth Warren is the hot new thing.
00:02:23.000 So she's going to be on the stage.
00:02:24.000 The other big name on the stage, if you can call him that, is Cory McBooker.
00:02:28.000 So Cory Booker, the senator from New Jersey, who's been desperate for attention.
00:02:32.000 A man so manipulative that you can actually see the gears moving behind his eyes when he speaks.
00:02:38.000 You can actually see him flipping the anger switch up when it's time to be angry.
00:02:43.000 A man who is basically the Mr. Potato Head of politics.
00:02:47.000 He walks around and at a certain point he decides that it's time for the angry eyes!
00:02:52.000 And he reaches into his back and pulls out the angry eyes and puts them on.
00:02:54.000 Then suddenly he's very sincere.
00:02:56.000 Cory Booker.
00:02:56.000 So Cory Booker will be on stage fresh off having shot himself directly in the foot by attacking Joe Biden and it back and basically backfiring on him.
00:03:07.000 We've also got Bill de Blasio, a very large groundhog killer, a crappy mayor of New York that nobody likes and nobody understands why he's even running.
00:03:13.000 Julian Castro, who is hanging around basically in the hopes that somebody will give him a cabinet slot.
00:03:19.000 John Delaney.
00:03:20.000 Who?
00:03:21.000 If you're asking who John Delaney is, I join you in this query.
00:03:24.000 No one knows who John Delaney is or why he's there.
00:03:26.000 He's basically just a guy who walked in off the street and they're like, would you like to be in a debate?
00:03:30.000 And he's like, yeah, sounds good.
00:03:32.000 Tulsi Gabbard, who is Bashar Assad's favorite congressperson.
00:03:36.000 Jay Inslee of Washington State, a governor who has focused so much on climate change that he's done nothing about climate change in his actual state.
00:03:44.000 Emissions are not actually down in the state of Washington.
00:03:46.000 Amy Klobuchar, who is expected to be sort of a moderate candidate in this race, is somebody who is going to draw the middle in.
00:03:52.000 And it turns out, yeah, not so much.
00:03:54.000 She can't draw flies.
00:03:55.000 And then you got Beto.
00:03:57.000 Beto O'Rourke, who has flamed out worse than any candidate in recent memory, a man who started off with a money bomb and then proceeded to basically melt into shards.
00:04:09.000 I've never seen a candidate melt down quite as completely as Beto O'Rourke.
00:04:12.000 It's pretty insane.
00:04:14.000 From a launch on the cover of Vanity Fair in the one shirt that he apparently owns to weirdo who eats dirt and was a furry.
00:04:21.000 That transition's been rather rough for Beto.
00:04:24.000 Have you ever seen such a fall from grace?
00:04:25.000 I mean, it's like a Grace Kelly-esque fall from... Well, that's actually a different kind of fall.
00:04:29.000 And then you have Tim Ryan.
00:04:30.000 Again, a congressperson from Ohio who is supposed to be a moderate but has failed to break out from the pack.
00:04:34.000 So, it will be a...
00:04:36.000 A cornucopia of boredom and stupidity tonight.
00:04:39.000 I hope that you're looking forward to it the same way that I am.
00:04:41.000 We'll talk about what's going to happen in that debate in just one second.
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00:06:00.000 Okay, so the Democrats are worried about a clown car on stage.
00:06:05.000 And that's pretty much, I think, how they should open the debate.
00:06:07.000 I think an actual clown car should drive up on stage, the door should open, and 20 candidates should all climb over each other to get out.
00:06:16.000 Like a scene from Dumbo.
00:06:18.000 Really fantastic.
00:06:20.000 Okay.
00:06:20.000 Okay.
00:06:20.000 So Politico reports, this week's debates will be the first time millions of Americans meet the cast of Democrats trying to take out President Donald Trump.
00:06:29.000 That's precisely what has the party brass terrified.
00:06:32.000 Yes, I would be terrified too if you're leading candidates or an octogenarian socialist who is so lazy he was kicked out of a commune in the 1970s, A fake Native American who has spent her career basically lecturing people while picking up a half million dollar salary from Harvard Law School and then proclaiming that she is some sort of leader of the people.
00:06:52.000 Joe Biden, a gaffe machine who has failed in every presidential run he has ever tried and whose only fame and notoriety is due to the fact that he lucked out by having Barack Obama select him as his vice president.
00:07:03.000 And And Kamala Harris, who is a narc, right?
00:07:07.000 Those are your leading candidates, Democrats.
00:07:09.000 Congratulations.
00:07:10.000 And they'll all be on stage trying to outdo each other.
00:07:13.000 This is the big problem.
00:07:15.000 Because no one wants to be outflanked.
00:07:16.000 If you're outflanked on that stage, you've got a problem on your hands.
00:07:18.000 So instead, what you're going to get is Elizabeth Warren saying things like, I want to relieve student debt for future generations.
00:07:24.000 And Bernie Sanders saying, what about past generations?
00:07:26.000 Why cannot we relieve student debt for Abraham Lincoln, who only had two years of schooling, after all?
00:07:32.000 And then you'll have Joe Biden sitting off to the side going, I remember once when... It'll be great.
00:07:39.000 Great entertainment.
00:07:40.000 So the Democratic Party is a little bit worried about this.
00:07:44.000 Interviews with nearly 20 Democratic elected officials, party chiefs, labor leaders, and operatives the past week revealed an air of foreboding, verging on alarm, that the debates will degenerate into a two-night bare-knuckle brawl, which, honestly, that's why Republicans should watch this thing, because you never know what's going to happen, guys.
00:08:00.000 I mean, if this turns MMA, If this turns ground and pound, it's gonna be good, solid stuff.
00:08:05.000 Well, maybe that's because they will be left with the proper impression.
00:08:07.000 Because it is a bickering, small-minded opposition party.
00:08:09.000 So, that's... accurate?
00:08:09.000 candidates starting to take swipes at one another, the fear is that voters will be left with the impression of a bickering, small-minded opposition party.
00:08:16.000 Well, maybe that's because they will be left with the proper impression because it is a bickering, small-minded opposition party.
00:08:23.000 So that's accurate.
00:08:24.000 Randy Weingarten, who's president of the American Federation of Teachers and a member of the DNC, and this should just remind you folks that the teachers unions are not friends to They are friends to the Democratic Party, who promised them insane amounts of treasure and loot.
00:08:41.000 Randy Weingarten says, It's going to be a scrum.
00:08:45.000 A lot of people trying to score points on each other and looking like scoring points was more important than communicating with the American people.
00:08:50.000 That circular firing squad is not going to help save our democracy or help working families.
00:08:55.000 There are a few reasons Democrats think their presidential hopefuls might escalate their attacks on Wednesday and Thursday.
00:09:00.000 Well, number one, somebody has to break out of the pack and this would be the time to do it.
00:09:05.000 Cory Booker has been attacking Joe Biden.
00:09:07.000 Kamala Harris has been attacking Joe Biden.
00:09:09.000 Booker's not in the Biden debate.
00:09:10.000 Kamala Harris is.
00:09:11.000 It would not be a surprise to see Harris go after Joe Biden.
00:09:14.000 Bernie Sanders, meanwhile, has criticized Biden for voting for the Iraq War and free trade deals.
00:09:20.000 Moderate candidates, meanwhile, have been unloading on progressive opponents.
00:09:23.000 Governor John Hickenlooper, who is not a relevant human being but is in the Bernie Sanders debate, has gone after Bernie Sanders.
00:09:31.000 The big question tonight is going to be whether anybody attacks Elizabeth Warren.
00:09:35.000 Does anybody have the stones to go after Elizabeth Warren?
00:09:37.000 Or are they all just going to pretend that Elizabeth Warren isn't the true threat lurking inside the party?
00:09:40.000 It'll be fascinating to see if Amy Klobuchar, for example, goes after the foolishness of Elizabeth Warren's actual plans.
00:09:48.000 That'll be kind of fascinating.
00:09:50.000 It turns out that Joe Biden's lead, by the way, is starting to deteriorate in some of the major states, according to a new poll from Crooked Media and Change Research.
00:09:57.000 Crooked Media, of course, the far left group that brings you Pod Save America.
00:10:01.000 They've put together a poll.
00:10:03.000 Their poll shows Biden leading in Iowa and South Carolina and Bernie Sanders leading in New Hampshire, which is kind of fascinating.
00:10:10.000 According to their polling, Joe Biden is only up on the rest of the field by nine points.
00:10:15.000 So these polls are all over the place at this point.
00:10:17.000 You got the Morning Consult poll that has Joe Biden all the way up at 38%.
00:10:21.000 And then you got this Crooked Media poll that has Joe Biden all the way down at 29%.
00:10:25.000 That's a 10 point gap.
00:10:28.000 Pretty astonishing.
00:10:29.000 And then Bernie Sanders following at 20%, Elizabeth Warren at 19%, Pete Buttigieg at 14%, and then very sad, sad Kamala Harris all the way down at 5%, Cory Booker at 3%, and Beto trailing at 3%.
00:10:42.000 According to that new poll, Joe Biden leads the Democratic primary horse race, but in the various states, it's pretty close.
00:10:48.000 In Iowa, Biden is only up 27-20 over Elizabeth Warren.
00:10:52.000 They've got Sanders at 18 and Buttigieg at 17, so that's a crowd right there.
00:10:56.000 In South Carolina, that is the only place where Biden has a serious lead, according to the Crooked Media polling group.
00:11:02.000 They say that he is up at 39 percent, presumably because there are a lot of black voters in the South Carolina Democratic primary, and that is where Biden's base of support is, followed by Warren at 15, Sanders at 13, and Buttigieg at 11.
00:11:14.000 One of the other things this poll is showing is how closely grouped Warren, Sanders, and Buttigieg are.
00:11:19.000 In New Hampshire, Sanders is actually ahead at 28 percent.
00:11:21.000 Biden is at 24 percent.
00:11:22.000 Warren is at 21 percent.
00:11:27.000 It'd be fascinating to see sort of what the breakdown here is in terms of the voting population.
00:11:32.000 Are they oversampling young white people?
00:11:34.000 Because that would be sampling the Pod Save America audience, presumably.
00:11:39.000 But Joe Biden is, the real question is not going to be for tonight.
00:11:42.000 The real question is going to be for tomorrow night.
00:11:44.000 The real question is going to be what happens when Joe Biden is on the stage and all the guns train on Joe Biden.
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00:13:01.000 Okay, so as I say, Tonight, it will be interesting to see if anybody opens up on Elizabeth Warren.
00:13:07.000 Tomorrow night, Joe Biden's on stage.
00:13:09.000 And that's going to be Joe Biden thrown in with a pack of alligators.
00:13:12.000 And you can see the New York Times setting up the groundwork for some of these attacks.
00:13:16.000 There's an article in the New York Times today called Lock the SOBs Up, Joe Biden and the Era of Mass Incarceration.
00:13:23.000 This is not a piece of analysis.
00:13:24.000 This is a piece of supposed reportage.
00:13:26.000 Amazing that nobody in the Democratic Party discovered that Joe Biden was a tough-on-crime Democrat in the 1990s until just the minute they seek to sink him in the nomination process.
00:13:35.000 Weird how that works.
00:13:35.000 Wasn't he VP for like eight full years?
00:13:40.000 Here's what the New York Times says.
00:13:41.000 He now plays down his role overhauling crime laws with segregationist senators in the 80s and 90s.
00:13:46.000 That portrayal today is at odds with his actions and rhetoric back then.
00:13:50.000 So the idea is that if he was tough on crime back in the 80s and 90s, it's because he was secretly in league with segregationists.
00:13:56.000 Now, this is incredibly stupid.
00:13:58.000 One of the reasons it's incredibly stupid is many of the people who are very much behind better policing in the black community were members of the black community who were pointing out that the crack epidemic Was wrecking an enormous number of lives in the black community.
00:14:11.000 In fact, federal government and states getting tougher on law enforcement in 1994 reversed a 30 year downward spiral in violent crime in the United States.
00:14:20.000 It's one of the most dramatic stories in American public policy history.
00:14:23.000 The fact that Joe Biden is now being dragged through the mud over it.
00:14:27.000 Is fairly insane.
00:14:28.000 We get to live off the benefit of the fact that we got tough on crime in the 1990s.
00:14:32.000 Now we get to say, oh, well, you know, crime, it's really down.
00:14:34.000 That means we can loosen up our laws.
00:14:35.000 We'll see how that works out.
00:14:36.000 I am very skeptical that works out well.
00:14:38.000 But to suggest that because Joe Biden was worried about crime during the highest crime time in modern American history, To suggest that that was a problem for Joe Biden because Joe Biden was therefore a racist is insane.
00:14:50.000 But that's exactly what the New York Times is going for right here.
00:14:54.000 So here's what the New York Times reports.
00:14:55.000 In September 1994, as President Bill Clinton signed the new Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act in an elaborately choreographed ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, Joseph R. Biden Jr. sat directly behind the president's lectern, flashing his trademark grin.
00:15:09.000 Oh, the cruelty.
00:15:12.000 For Mr. Clinton, the law was an immediate follow-through on his campaign promise to focus more federal attention on crime prevention.
00:15:17.000 But for Mr. Biden, the moment was the culmination of his decades-long effort to closely marry the Democratic Party and law enforcement and to transform the country's criminal justice system in the process.
00:15:27.000 He had won.
00:15:28.000 The truth is, Biden boasted a year earlier in a speech on the Senate floor, every major crime bill since 1976 that's come out of this Congress, every minor crime bill, has had the name of one Democratic senator from the state of Delaware, Joe Biden.
00:15:41.000 Now more than 25 years later, as Biden makes his third run for the White House, many calling for ambitious criminal justice reform, among the other Democrats, he must answer for his role in legislation that criminal justice experts and his critics say helped lay the groundwork for the mass incarceration that has devastated America's black communities.
00:15:58.000 Black voters don't seem to care about this stuff.
00:15:58.000 Now, here's the problem.
00:16:00.000 By polling data, black voters are not running away from Joe Biden at this point.
00:16:04.000 first debate on Thursday has only added to his challenge.
00:16:06.000 So has the fact that black voters are a crucial democratic constituency.
00:16:09.000 Now, here's the problem.
00:16:11.000 Black voters don't seem to care about this stuff.
00:16:13.000 By polling data, black voters are not running away from Joe Biden at this point.
00:16:17.000 Now, maybe that changes.
00:16:18.000 But at this point, this belief that because Joe Biden was tough on crime, when crime rates were at record highs in the United States, therefore he's a racist, is ridiculous and insane.
00:16:28.000 You know how many black lives were saved by criminal justice?
00:16:31.000 By increases in criminal justice resources at the federal and state level in the 1990s?
00:16:35.000 It would be tens of thousands of human lives were saved by that.
00:16:38.000 The murder rates in America's capital cities were skyrocketing throughout the 1980s, culminating in the early 90s.
00:16:45.000 And then the government decided, hey, maybe we better get tough on crime instead of following these lefty protocols on exactly how crime ought to be fought.
00:16:52.000 And the crime rates started to drop.
00:16:54.000 In fact, if you want a more prosperous minority community in the United States, if you want prosperous black communities with a serious tax base, with growing economies, with people who are able to go to well-funded schools, you know what you need?
00:17:07.000 Crime rates to drop.
00:17:08.000 The only way to do that is to have more police in these areas.
00:17:13.000 Literally, that's the only way to do this.
00:17:15.000 The reality of high black crime rates in the United States goes all the way back to the early 20th century and before.
00:17:22.000 And that was largely because the white community decided that they didn't care if black people killed each other, because racists decided they didn't care if black people killed each other, so they simply would not allocate law enforcement resources to the black community.
00:17:33.000 This ended with increases in violence.
00:17:35.000 That was a result of white racism.
00:17:36.000 Then, in the 1960s, There was a decision made by folks on the American left that they would get loose on crime, supposedly out of sympathy for black communities, and crime rates skyrocketed, including in the black community.
00:17:49.000 And particularly in the black community.
00:17:51.000 And those differentials have never been corrected between black and white crime.
00:17:54.000 That is not the fault of race.
00:17:56.000 That is the fault of government policy that ignored, for well over a century, crime in the black community because people who are racist didn't care if black people hurt each other.
00:18:06.000 And then it was followed by lefties who thought they were being sympathetic if they pulled those resources out of the black community.
00:18:11.000 And now you're starting to see that again.
00:18:13.000 One of the best things that happened to the black community in the 1990s and 2000s was the decrease in crime rates that led to the capacity for investment in a lot of these communities.
00:18:24.000 This isn't a particularly supremely conservative position.
00:18:29.000 There's a columnist for the Los Angeles Times.
00:18:33.000 Jane Levy, she wrote a book on this about crime rates in, I believe it's called Crimeland, something like that, in Los Angeles, specifically in Los Angeles.
00:18:41.000 And what she talks about is the fact that contrary to popular opinion, what is actually needed in high crime areas is not fewer arrests.
00:18:49.000 It is more law enforcement presence, people living in the community, people who are visible on the streets, people working with those people.
00:18:56.000 The fact that Joe Biden is getting dragged through the mud over all of this, is fairly insane and it's being led, let's be frank about this, is not being led by members of the black community.
00:19:04.000 This is being led by the progressive woke credentialed class who have decided that police are bad and that the real problem is quote-unquote mass incarceration.
00:19:13.000 When folks say mass incarceration, the question is which of the people who are in prison are in prison because they didn't commit crimes?
00:19:18.000 In order to make the case that mass incarceration has been a serious problem in the United States, you need to make the case that the people who are in prison are actually innocent or are being over-punished.
00:19:27.000 So which people are those?
00:19:28.000 If you want to make the case that low-level drug arrests should be decreased, I'm basically okay with that case.
00:19:34.000 But the vast majority of people who are in prison are in prison for violent crime.
00:19:39.000 Releasing those people on the street is not going to make communities better.
00:19:43.000 In fact, it's going to make crime rates skyrocket.
00:19:45.000 The combination of welfare benefits that are created to help single mothers at the expense of married families, and a crime policy that has been loosened over the course of the past few years, is making things worse, not better.
00:20:00.000 The single largest factor in rising crime rates, and crime rates generally, the single rising factor in poverty, and poverty generally, is single motherhood, is men not in the community.
00:20:09.000 There are two ways that men are being removed from the community.
00:20:12.000 One is voluntarily, the men are knocking up women and leaving.
00:20:16.000 That is not just true of black communities.
00:20:17.000 This is true of poor white communities in Appalachia.
00:20:19.000 Hillbilly Elegy, J.D.
00:20:20.000 Vance's excellent book about this, makes this case, that high crime rates in poor white communities are also driven by single motherhood.
00:20:27.000 That's obviously true.
00:20:28.000 It's driven by that, and yes, people committing crimes and then getting arrested.
00:20:33.000 But if people commit crimes and are not arrested, how exactly is that going to make any of these communities safer?
00:20:37.000 Is the idea here that if men are out there committing crimes, these are also solid family men, generally, who are sticking at home and playing with the kids at night?
00:20:45.000 There's not a lot of evidence to support this particular contention.
00:20:48.000 So Joe Biden is not the bad guy here, but the media are going to try and make him the bad guy just in time for this debate.
00:20:53.000 It's amazing that I've become a Joe Biden defender.
00:20:56.000 I can't stand Joe Biden.
00:20:58.000 But the Democratic Party has moved so far to the left that Joe Biden, who is indeed a far left dude, is now considered a serious moderate who's going to be attacked on stage for the Horrible sin of working to militate against incredibly high crime rates in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
00:21:16.000 Truly astonishing.
00:21:17.000 Maybe it's time for criminal justice reform.
00:21:18.000 That doesn't mean that in 1994, we didn't need to delegate a lot more resources to fighting crime, which we did.
00:21:25.000 And Joe Biden was right about that.
00:21:27.000 He was right, but he'll be torn up and down about it anyway.
00:21:29.000 OK, in just a second, speaking of fighting crime and illegal immigration, we'll get to an amazing shift.
00:21:35.000 In the minds of so many in the Democratic Party and the media about whether there is a crisis on our border.
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00:23:00.000 Meanwhile, controversy again breaking out over illegal immigration.
00:23:04.000 Democrats are trying to pass funding that would presumably alleviate some of the circumstances at the border, which there is a humanitarian issue at the border.
00:23:15.000 There is no question there's a humanitarian issue at the border.
00:23:18.000 So what are Democrats trying to do?
00:23:20.000 They're simultaneously trying to tie together Emergency border aid and trying to force the government to release more illegal immigrants into the interior.
00:23:30.000 That's what they're doing instead of alleviating conditions at the border and making it easier for the government to keep track of people at the border and to process asylum claims more easily.
00:23:38.000 Democrats are forcibly attempting not to do that.
00:23:41.000 Instead, they now want to provide humanitarian aid without actually allowing for the more quick processing, quick and easy processing of the people who are crossing that border, which of course is not going to alleviate the problem.
00:23:51.000 It's going to increase the problem.
00:23:53.000 If you are suggesting to people that if they evade the authorities for long enough, they get a green card, or that if we don't have more people at the border to process asylum claims, that somehow this is not going to lead to more people trying to cross between ports of entry, You're just dead wrong.
00:24:11.000 So here's what House Democrats are trying to do.
00:24:13.000 The House passed a $4.5 billion emergency border aid bill on Tuesday.
00:24:17.000 It contained provisions for the treatment of migrant children in U.S.
00:24:20.000 custody that Democratic leaders added amid widespread anger in their ranks over President Trump's handling of the crisis.
00:24:25.000 I mean, even notice how the Washington Post covers this.
00:24:27.000 It's not about Trump's handling of the crisis.
00:24:29.000 Democrats Just three months ago, we're pushing not to fund more beds at the border.
00:24:35.000 In fact, they're still pushing.
00:24:37.000 Some Democrats are still pushing not to fund more beds at the border.
00:24:41.000 Take, for example, the conflict between Hillary Clinton and AOC.
00:24:44.000 They both tweeted yesterday about the situation on the border.
00:24:47.000 Hillary Clinton tweeted, I've been heartbroken and horrified to read the news of children at the border being detained in appalling conditions.
00:24:53.000 No soap, no toothbrushes, no beds.
00:24:55.000 By the way, this goes all the way back to the Obama administration and before.
00:24:58.000 Not enough food, babies being forced to take care of babies, everyone sick.
00:25:02.000 Okay, now we should all be concerned about this, obviously, which is why we should increase the amount of funding at the border for Border Patrol.
00:25:10.000 So what does AOC do about this?
00:25:12.000 The illustrious, venerable, intelligent, brilliant, Fresh face.
00:25:17.000 So fresh.
00:25:18.000 So face.
00:25:18.000 AOC, what does she tweet?
00:25:20.000 She tweets, Wayfair is the company that makes beds.
00:25:23.000 So just to get this straight, there is a shortage of beds at the border.
00:25:26.000 Wayfair makes those beds.
00:25:27.000 They asked the company to stop.
00:25:29.000 CEO said no.
00:25:30.000 Tomorrow they're walking out.
00:25:31.000 This is what solidarity looks like, a reminder that everyday people have real power as long as we're brave enough to use it.
00:25:37.000 So just to get this straight, there is a shortage of beds at the border.
00:25:40.000 Wayfair makes those beds.
00:25:42.000 AOC is encouraging people not to make the beds for the kids at the border to presumably help the kids at the border.
00:25:48.000 Democratic policy on illegal immigration is completely incoherent, and not only incoherent, it is not driven toward alleviating humane conditions at the border, making them more humane, It is directed at increasing the number of illegal immigrants crossing the border and creating public pressure to allow those people to move into the interior in order to quote-unquote alleviate the crisis.
00:26:07.000 That is the goal here.
00:26:09.000 So the House voted along party lines 230 to 195.
00:26:13.000 in favor of this border bill.
00:26:16.000 The backdrop for the vote is not only the humanitarian concerns about the surging number of migrants, but also President Trump's threats, delayed but not canceled Saturday, to begin a mass deportation of undocumented immigrant families.
00:26:26.000 Notice how the Washington Post uses undocumented immigrants.
00:26:29.000 This is typical media speak for illegal immigrants.
00:26:32.000 These are not immigrants who are just lacking documentation.
00:26:36.000 The vast majority of people crossing the border are people who are immigrating without any claim to enter the United States.
00:26:41.000 Most of the people who apply for asylum in the United States are not granted asylum on the basis of an asylum claim.
00:26:47.000 Democratic lawmakers have expressed concerns about passing a border aid bill that would not address both of these issues.
00:26:52.000 Nita Lowey, who is the House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman, Democrat in New York, unveiled changes to the bill Tuesday morning that would require the Border Patrol to establish new health and safety standards for migrants in its custody, as well as protocols for dealing with migrant surges within 30 days.
00:27:07.000 The changes would also limit children's stays at influx shelters used by the Department of Health and Human Services to no more than 90 days and require the department to report to Congress on their use.
00:27:16.000 Now all of that sounds innocent and wonderful until you recognize that Democrats are simultaneously defunding and preventing additional funding for the courts that would process these people.
00:27:24.000 So basically what Democrats are doing, they're saying to Border Patrol, you need to certify that you're keeping people in humane conditions.
00:27:30.000 Also, here's none of the money that you need.
00:27:32.000 And also, you need to release people if they're not processed within 90 days, and we won't give you the resources to process.
00:27:38.000 What do you think is the predictable effect of these two policies combined?
00:27:42.000 The predictable effect is to grant a legal waiver so that people can enter the country based on shortage of resources that Democrats themselves refuse to provide.
00:27:50.000 That's what's going on here, because $4.5 billion ain't gonna do it.
00:27:54.000 Additional changes Lowy unveiled Tuesday afternoon would bar HHS shelter contractors who do not provide adequate accommodations, food and personal items such as toothbrushes, as well as routine medical care, schooling, leisure activities and other basic services.
00:28:06.000 Listen, I think we should provide all of these things.
00:28:08.000 You know how we should provide them?
00:28:09.000 By also increasing the amount of resources we dedicate to processing the claims so that we can make sure that people who are not supposed to be here do not remain here.
00:28:19.000 You know how we can change this?
00:28:20.000 By negotiating a deal with the Mexican government That they are a safe third-party country, just like Canada is a safe third-party country.
00:28:26.000 If you're applying for asylum, you do so in the first country upon which you set foot that is outside your home country.
00:28:31.000 You know how we can do this?
00:28:32.000 By changing the law to allow people to apply for asylum from Mexican territory as opposed to being housed in U.S.
00:28:37.000 facilities.
00:28:40.000 By the way, four Democrats voted against this thing.
00:28:42.000 They thought that it was even more important not to fund anything at the border than to fund anything at the border.
00:28:47.000 Those Democrats were Ayanna Pressley, AOC, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib.
00:28:51.000 Of course.
00:28:52.000 Of course.
00:28:52.000 The cadre of radicals inside the Democratic caucus.
00:28:57.000 Tuesday's House vote was not expected to garner significant Republican support.
00:29:01.000 The White House announced it was opposed to the bill on Monday.
00:29:03.000 House GOP leaders said they favored a competing bipartisan bill that passed the Senate Appropriations Committee on a 30-to-1 vote last week.
00:29:11.000 So it's bipartisan, that Senate bill.
00:29:13.000 No Republicans basically voted for this bill because it's a bad bill.
00:29:16.000 Kevin McCarthy, the House Minority Leader, he said, um, guys, you could just pass the bipartisan Senate bill that we passed.
00:29:24.000 There are some Republicans who are not in favor of the bipartisan bill even, but the fact is that that is a better bill than the House bill.
00:29:32.000 The two chambers now have only two days to spare before lawmakers are set to leave Washington for a week-long holiday recess.
00:29:39.000 HHS has already warned Congress it will exhaust its funding for housing migrant children at the end of the month, a scenario that would impede efforts to move them out of border control facilities.
00:29:48.000 The Senate is poised to vote this week on its own $4.6 billion emergency spending bill that included $2.9 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services to address the large numbers of unaccompanied children arriving at the border.
00:30:01.000 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that it was time to get this thing done.
00:30:06.000 Why is the House trying to hold this up?
00:30:07.000 Specifically, by creating provisions designed to allow people to be released into the interior by law.
00:30:14.000 The Senate bill includes $50 million more than the House bill for immigration judges to speed the adjudication of asylum claims and $61 million in back pay for ICE agents that Democrats in the House refuse to provide.
00:30:26.000 Representative Chuck Fleischman of Tennessee, the ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Subcommittee, said Republicans are especially unhappy with the lack of funding for immigration judges and restrictions on ICE funding.
00:30:38.000 He said this should have been an easy situation, but nothing is easy when it comes to the border.
00:30:43.000 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested that a vote against the House bill was a vote for Donald Trump and his inhumane, outside-the-circle-of-civilized attitude toward the children.
00:30:54.000 She said that basically we are going to hold up the Senate bill.
00:30:59.000 President Trump came out and he blasted all this.
00:31:01.000 We'll get to the Democratic response to Trump, Trump's response to all this, and the media, who are just damned liars.
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00:33:15.000 So President Trump came out yesterday and he said, listen, the Democrats don't support anything.
00:33:26.000 They've been trying to hold us up on every front.
00:33:28.000 And when you look at what the House is doing by not providing the resources necessary to process people, which effectively forces people to be released into the interior, he is not incorrect.
00:33:37.000 We're trying to get the Democrats to agree to really give us some humanitarian aid, humanitarian money.
00:33:45.000 But with that, if we can get this bill signed, we'll be able to do it.
00:33:48.000 You know, the Democrats don't want to sign anything.
00:33:52.000 And now I think they're going to probably sign this, from what I understand.
00:33:55.000 I call it humanitarian aid.
00:33:57.000 What we would like to do, and I'll do it right now officially, is ask the Democrats to give us Help on asylum, help on all of the loopholes, the horrible loopholes that get signed in over a period of years that don't allow us to do what we should be able to do.
00:34:15.000 We need the votes of Democrats.
00:34:17.000 OK, and he's not going to get the votes of Democrats.
00:34:20.000 Democrats are busily blaming President Trump for the situation on the border, even as they withhold the funding that he needs on the border, even as they do not give him the resources that he requires in order to process asylum claims for people trying to get into the country.
00:34:34.000 In a second, I'll show you what the predictable effect of this is.
00:34:36.000 Here's Dick Durbin, the ridiculous senator from Illinois, blaming President Trump for the situation on the border despite the fact that inhumane conditions go all the way back to the 1980s and all the way forward through the Obama administration and nobody in the media or the Democratic Party gave any craps about it.
00:34:50.000 Here is Dick Durbin.
00:34:51.000 Suddenly it's Trump's fault.
00:34:53.000 The talk stops here when it comes to the President.
00:34:55.000 It's his decision.
00:34:56.000 Look at his record, Willie.
00:34:58.000 First he started us with a Muslim travel ban.
00:35:01.000 Then he eliminated the DACA program, protecting 790,000 people.
00:35:06.000 Then he said no protection for those under temporary protected status.
00:35:09.000 Then they took 2,880 children, infants and toddlers, away from their parents and tossed them in a bureaucratic sea.
00:35:17.000 And now he's calling for mass arrest.
00:35:19.000 It's the President.
00:35:20.000 Make no mistake, we've had four different secretaries over at Department of Homeland Security.
00:35:25.000 And of course that's inexcusable, but ultimately it's the President's responsibility.
00:35:29.000 Okay, again, every claim that he makes about what Trump has done, either the Obama administration did it, it's forced by court order, or the Trump administration has refused to release adults into the interior of the United States without keeping tabs on them, which is actually what Democrats want.
00:35:42.000 So, here's what's happening.
00:35:44.000 Right now, we have a shortage of resources on the border to process asylum claims.
00:35:47.000 Very few people are being processed because our resources are spread so thin.
00:35:51.000 Statistically speaking, we have seen a massive uptick in the number of illegal immigrants attempting to cross the border, particularly since November, December of last year.
00:36:01.000 Now the media are finally realizing it, and naturally it's Trump's fault, despite the fact that back in November, December, January, February, he was saying we've got a crisis on the border.
00:36:09.000 And the idea was that Democrats said, no, no, no, it's a manufactured crisis.
00:36:13.000 It's not a real crisis.
00:36:14.000 It's a manufactured crisis.
00:36:16.000 Now, the truth is that the escalation of the crisis happened in January, February and March.
00:36:21.000 Partially, I'm sure, as a result of the fact that Democrats refused to work with President Trump on any of this stuff.
00:36:27.000 And let's go back to that period for just a second and point out exactly how members of the media treated the supposedly manufactured crisis.
00:36:35.000 So here's Jim Acosta.
00:36:37.000 And ladies, find you a man who loves you like Jim Acosta loves Jim Acosta.
00:36:40.000 Here's Jim Acosta of CNN.
00:36:41.000 You'll remember this.
00:36:42.000 Reporting from the border, standing next to a fence, and explaining that there is no emergency on the border.
00:36:47.000 And here are some of the steel slats that the president's been talking about right here.
00:36:52.000 As you can see, yes, you can see through these slats to the other side of the U.S.-Mexico border.
00:36:58.000 But as we're walking along here, we're not seeing any kind of imminent danger.
00:37:02.000 There are no migrants trying to rush toward this fence here in the McAllen, Texas area.
00:37:07.000 As a matter of fact, there are some other businesses behind me along this highway.
00:37:10.000 There's a gas station, Burger King, and so on.
00:37:13.000 But no sign of the national emergency that the president has been talking about.
00:37:18.000 As a matter of fact, it's pretty tranquil down here.
00:37:21.000 It's pretty tranquil.
00:37:22.000 There's no national emergency.
00:37:23.000 And then there are members of the media.
00:37:26.000 Here's a montage of members of the media explaining this is absolutely a manufactured crisis from Chris Matthews to everyone else on MSNBC and CNN.
00:37:33.000 This is just six months ago.
00:37:35.000 And it was not a manufactured crisis at the time.
00:37:38.000 It was not.
00:37:39.000 And it certainly wasn't by February or March.
00:37:41.000 Here are all the members of the media doing this routine.
00:37:43.000 Well, there is no national emergency at the border.
00:37:46.000 It's all made up.
00:37:47.000 It's presidential fiction.
00:37:48.000 Because there clearly is no emergency.
00:37:50.000 There's no reason for this on border security ground.
00:37:52.000 We don't have a crisis at the border.
00:37:54.000 Nothing has changed on the southern border.
00:37:56.000 If the war was such a crisis, why wasn't that a priority?
00:37:58.000 So it's a fake crisis.
00:37:59.000 The president is lying to the American people about a national emergency.
00:38:04.000 There is no emergency at the border.
00:38:05.000 It all depends on, you know, how you say there's a national emergency and a crisis at this moment when there wasn't one before.
00:38:12.000 What the president is doing is manufacturing a crisis.
00:38:16.000 There's a crisis going on there and it needs to be dealt with and Congress... But is it a crisis just because you call it that?
00:38:22.000 Is it a crisis just because you call it that?
00:38:24.000 There's Chris Cuomo of CNN.
00:38:25.000 Is it a crisis just because you call it that?
00:38:26.000 Well that was their message back in January and February.
00:38:30.000 Now their message is that this crisis is unprecedented, which is what Trump was saying back in January and February.
00:38:36.000 Hey, there was a serious situation at the border.
00:38:38.000 It was exacerbated by the fact that the media refused to call it a serious situation at the border.
00:38:42.000 But now they've realized, hey, wait a second, there's a serious situation at the border.
00:38:47.000 So today, let's start with the New York Times.
00:38:49.000 The New York Times and the Associated Press, everybody printed this photo of drowned migrants.
00:38:55.000 It's a horrible photo, a horrible, horrible photo.
00:38:58.000 It's a photo of a man named Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez.
00:39:03.000 He died with his 23-month-old daughter Valeria as they tried to cross from Mexico into the United States.
00:39:08.000 It is a horrifying photo of a dead child with her dead father.
00:39:11.000 Apparently what happened here is that trying to cross between ports of entry, because people were not being processed fast enough at ports of entry due to, wait for it, shortage of resources, Because of all that, because of all that, this father tried to swim his daughter across the river.
00:39:28.000 He then proceeded to leave his daughter across the river and go back across the river for his wife, at which point his 23-month-old daughter, being a 23-month-old and I have small children, tried to jump back in the river to follow her daddy.
00:39:40.000 First of all, the fa- Like, as a parent, that's inexcusable.
00:39:44.000 I'm sorry, that's inexcusable.
00:39:45.000 To leave a 24-month-old next to a giant body of water?
00:39:50.000 Not expect that the kid might try to jump in the water and follow you across the water?
00:39:55.000 Instead of just waiting at the port of entry?
00:39:57.000 In which case, both father and daughter would presumably be alive today?
00:40:00.000 Just as a parent, that's inexcusable.
00:40:02.000 It just, it is.
00:40:03.000 It's irresponsible.
00:40:04.000 But, what creates the situation?
00:40:06.000 The feeling among people that they have to do this sort of thing?
00:40:09.000 Well, inability to process people at the border would be one thing.
00:40:12.000 Inhumane facilities at the border would be another thing, although that wouldn't really be the concern because presumably this father and daughter would have then approached the border patrol authorities and claimed asylum.
00:40:22.000 Because once you're on American soil, you can do that, which is why people are trying to cross between ports of entry.
00:40:26.000 You know what might have helped here?
00:40:27.000 A wall.
00:40:28.000 Because if there were a wall, you couldn't cross the border and then claim asylum.
00:40:31.000 You would be forced into the ports of entry.
00:40:33.000 You'd be funneled into the ports of entry.
00:40:34.000 Democrats oppose that wall.
00:40:36.000 So the media have been pushing out this photo.
00:40:38.000 And I honestly am not clear on which dead bodies the media are willing to show.
00:40:44.000 It seems like an unclear standard and a politically driven standard, by the way.
00:40:47.000 I'm not saying that they shouldn't show pictures like this.
00:40:49.000 I'm saying that they are radically inconsistent on when they will show pictures like this.
00:40:52.000 So they'll show a picture like this or the drowned migrant famously drowned on the beaches of Turkey trying to reach European soil in the midst of the refugee crisis over there.
00:41:03.000 They will not show pictures from, for example, the Bataclan or from the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting or Israelis who are killed in terror attacks.
00:41:12.000 So it's very weird which photos the media choose to feature and which they don't.
00:41:17.000 I would guess that there's a pretty significant political motivation there.
00:41:20.000 But the photo is obviously horrifying.
00:41:22.000 And now the media have awakened.
00:41:24.000 Oh, look, there's an actual crisis on the border.
00:41:26.000 So Don Lemon.
00:41:28.000 Last night, saying, will this picture move the needle?
00:41:31.000 Well, I don't know.
00:41:32.000 When the entire Republican Party and the President of the United States was declaring there was an emergency on the border, he needed more resources to deal with it.
00:41:38.000 You and your friends were busy explaining that it was all manufactured, it was all fake, Trump was lying, he just needed a political win.
00:41:45.000 And now all of a sudden it's, will these photos move the needle?
00:41:48.000 With whom?
00:41:49.000 Trump has wanted more resources on the border for virtually his entire presidency, and that really escalated leading up to the 2018 election.
00:41:56.000 Here is Don Lemon.
00:41:58.000 Are we shocked enough?
00:41:59.000 I don't know.
00:41:59.000 Where were you three months ago?
00:42:01.000 How about that?
00:42:03.000 The Salvadorian government released a statement from an earlier press conference where they said that the father and daughter drowned on Sunday the 23rd.
00:42:14.000 And as they attempted to cross the river, their bodies were found on Monday.
00:42:19.000 They add that they're in touch with the Mexican authorities to make arrangements to repatriate the victims.
00:42:24.000 This photo is just tough to look at.
00:42:27.000 I'm wondering though, is it going to move the needle here?
00:42:34.000 Is it going to move the needle here?
00:42:36.000 You know what would move the needle here is if you guys had agreed.
00:42:38.000 We've got a crisis on our southern border.
00:42:39.000 You know it'd be great there.
00:42:41.000 Faster processing of asylum.
00:42:43.000 Faster movement to deport people who shouldn't be here.
00:42:46.000 A wall on the southern border.
00:42:48.000 More resources for humane treatment of people who are crossing the border illegally.
00:42:53.000 I mean, it's amazing.
00:42:54.000 The shift is amazing.
00:42:55.000 I mean, it really is.
00:42:58.000 Chris Hayes over at MSNBC says, Trump dehumanizes everyone.
00:43:02.000 This is all about Trump dehumanizing people.
00:43:04.000 AOC voted against a bill that would even provide the most basic increase in funding for border facilities and was designed to allow more illegal immigrants to be released into the country.
00:43:14.000 This is about Trump dehumanizing people?
00:43:17.000 There is broad American agreement on what to do here.
00:43:20.000 It is Democrats who have been refusing the funding that is necessary specifically for political gain.
00:43:23.000 Here's Chris Hayes doing this routine.
00:43:26.000 New York Times reporting a CBP official quote said the agency was able to send about a hundred children back to the station because overcrowding there had been alleviated.
00:43:35.000 The official disputed the lawyer's accounts of conditions at the facility, insisting that migrant detainees housed by the agency were given access to periodic showers and were offered unlimited snacks throughout the day.
00:43:46.000 Perhaps it's not surprising that this keeps happening when the people running our nation's immigration infrastructure constantly denigrate, insult, and dehumanize immigrants.
00:43:56.000 Again, the conditions on the border have been consistent since Barack Obama was in office and before.
00:44:01.000 No one on the left gave a damn about that.
00:44:03.000 Brandon Darby over at Breitbart has been doing reporting on this stuff since I was working there.
00:44:07.000 He's been doing reporting on this since like 2012, 2013.
00:44:08.000 And nobody cared about it.
00:44:09.000 No one cared about it.
00:44:13.000 Because Barack Obama was president.
00:44:15.000 The same New York Times that printed that photo, that printed that terrible photo today, that same New York Times has a, had a piece January 11th, 2019.
00:44:27.000 Trump claims there's a crisis at the border.
00:44:29.000 What's the reality?
00:44:30.000 The reality is illegal border crossings have been declining for nearly two decades.
00:44:34.000 In 2017, border crossing apprehensions were at their lowest point since 1971.
00:44:40.000 There's one group of migrants that is on the rise, families.
00:44:42.000 A record number of families have tried to cross the border in recent months, overwhelming officials at the border and creating a new kind of humanitarian crisis.
00:44:50.000 Nonetheless, the idea was that Trump was saying something that was false.
00:44:55.000 This is how the media covered this thing because they couldn't just give Trump the win.
00:44:59.000 They couldn't just allow Trump to say something true and then we could all deal with it in responsible, reasonable, adult fashion.
00:45:05.000 No, that was unnecessary.
00:45:06.000 We couldn't do that.
00:45:08.000 We simply couldn't do that.
00:45:08.000 Okay, time for some things that I like and then some things that I hate.
00:45:12.000 So, things that I like today.
00:45:15.000 And so since the Democrats are going to be a farce on stage tonight, I figured it was time to feature a comedy of errors on the show.
00:45:25.000 There's a play called Noises Off that's been playing pretty consistently in London for years and years and years.
00:45:30.000 They made a movie out of it with a great cast.
00:45:33.000 People like Carol Burnett and Michael Caine and John Ritter is in it.
00:45:38.000 He's terrific in it.
00:45:39.000 Noises Off is basically a farce about a farce.
00:45:43.000 So it's a play that's taking place that's supposed to be a farce and it denigrates into even more of a farce as the actors blow all of their lines and are terrible at everything.
00:45:50.000 The movie is really, really funny.
00:45:52.000 It's kind of a gem from the 80s.
00:45:53.000 So here's a little bit of the trailer.
00:45:56.000 Critics everywhere are calling Noises Off one of the most hilarious films you'll ever see.
00:46:01.000 It's screamingly funny, side-splitting, ripping good fun.
00:46:05.000 Noises Off is a rib-tickling, hysterical, raucous, riotous romp that's funny, funny, funny.
00:46:11.000 It's actually a very, very funny movie, so you can go check that out.
00:46:15.000 Noises Off, which is a great cast, very funny movie, worth the watch.
00:46:20.000 Okay, time for a bevy of things that I hate.
00:46:26.000 So this veritable cornucopia of things that I hate today, that begins with Google.
00:46:31.000 So Google apparently had an internal conversation, it's now been uncovered by James O'Keefe, in which one member of the Google team emailed other members of the YouTube team saying, "Today it is often one or two steps to Nazis.
00:46:45.000 "If we understand that PragerU, Jordan Peterson, "Ben Shapiro et al. are Nazis, "using the dog whistles you mentioned in step one.
00:46:51.000 "I can receive these recommendations "regardless of the contents of what I'm looking at, "and I have recorded thousands of internet users "sharing the same experience." I don't think correctly identifying far-right content is beyond our capabilities.
00:47:03.000 But if it is, why not go with Meredith's suggestion of disabling the Suggestions feature?
00:47:07.000 This could be a significant step in terms of user trust.
00:47:10.000 So, in other words, in order to achieve user trust, we have to shut down opinions we don't like and call everybody a Nazi.
00:47:15.000 Sir, this is from the Trust, and I believe this guy is a member of the Trust and Ethics Council?
00:47:22.000 Is the IDA here?
00:47:24.000 And nothing I trust more than people who label me a Nazi.
00:47:27.000 Just for the record, not only am I not a Nazi, I am probably one of the most hated people by Nazis in the United States and white supremacists in the United States, which is why the FBI arrested somebody two months ago for threatening to kill me and my family, finding in his house a copy of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a framed photo of Adolf Hitler, and body armor.
00:47:44.000 So that's good times over there.
00:47:46.000 You know, as the person most targeted by the alt-right on the internet in 2016, as a person who has spoken out routinely and repeatedly on the evils of the alt-right and white supremacy, as a person who despises Nazis, I think Nazis are evil, obviously, I will tell you, I did not see this coming.
00:48:04.000 I find it strange that PragerU, run by Dennis Prager, who I know personally, and happens to be a fairly observant Jew, and also does not like Nazis, That PragerU and Jordan Peterson, whom I also know personally, and who spends half of his lectures talking about the evils of Nazi totalitarianism and judging people on the basis of race.
00:48:24.000 These are Nazis, according to this person over at Google.
00:48:27.000 And the fact that these people are, the step from, we hate Nazis, let's fight Nazis, to everyone I hate is a Nazi, was about one second.
00:48:35.000 That was about a one second step.
00:48:37.000 And that should scare the living hell out of everybody.
00:48:40.000 It's one of the reasons why big tech is under the gun right now.
00:48:43.000 And you know what?
00:48:44.000 Big tech should be under the gun.
00:48:45.000 If they refuse to provide any sort of transparency, that's right, this comes from the Transparency and Ethics Council.
00:48:50.000 There's no transparency because I have no idea they're calling me a Nazi and then downgrading my videos, presumably.
00:48:55.000 I have no idea that they're doing that.
00:48:58.000 But apparently they are, and when it comes to ethics, nothing seems more ethical to me than falsely labeling somebody a Nazi.
00:49:04.000 It's become the Democrats' favorite pastime of late, and certainly members of the woke left, this is their favorite pastime of late.
00:49:11.000 It's insane, it's insipid, it's disgusting.
00:49:14.000 I mean, look, I'm a libertarian.
00:49:15.000 So that means that I'm not in favor of regulating YouTube.
00:49:18.000 I'm not in favor of regulating Google.
00:49:20.000 I'm not in favor of regulating Facebook.
00:49:22.000 I don't want those companies regulated.
00:49:23.000 I think the heavy hand of government may be your friend today, but it will be your enemy tomorrow.
00:49:28.000 With that said, if these companies do not provide any standard of transparency, how the hell are we supposed to trust them?
00:49:34.000 And you know what?
00:49:35.000 I can't hold back the dogs of war here.
00:49:38.000 There are people who are far more militant than I who are on the Raging against this stuff.
00:49:46.000 And raging against this stuff and ready to regulate this stuff because they feel like the promise was broken.
00:49:50.000 That Google and YouTube and Facebook did not pitch themselves as lefty outlets that would only allow material they liked to be featured.
00:49:59.000 These places were not pitched as Huffington Post.
00:50:02.000 These places were pitched instead as platforms that were generally going to be generous in their allowance of content.
00:50:11.000 And if they have shifted that into a left-wing, woke sensibility, there are going to be a lot of people who say, OK, you broke the bargain, so sure, it may violate my principles to regulate you, but what the hell, man?
00:50:20.000 You broke the bargain, so my bargain with you is broken.
00:50:22.000 Not going to play fair with people who don't play fair.
00:50:25.000 I'm not one of the people who is suggesting that.
00:50:27.000 I have, again, come out against Josh Hawley's bill, the senator from Missouri, in terms of regulating Facebook, regulating Google.
00:50:33.000 I've come out against Elizabeth Warren breaking up big tech.
00:50:36.000 But I'll tell you what, the bubbling, seething undercurrent of hatred for big tech is largely driven by the fact that they are completely non-transparent, and that when they are exposed, they're talking about crap like this, censoring materials they don't like.
00:50:49.000 It's pretty astonishing stuff.
00:50:51.000 Okay, you know what?
00:50:52.000 We'll stop there.
00:50:53.000 We'll be back here later today for two additional hours of content, so stick around for that, or we'll see you tomorrow for a full recap of the first Democratic debate.
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00:51:34.000 Democrats go full open borders ahead of tonight's debate.
00:51:38.000 Google admits that it is trying to silence all of those scary Nazis like Orthodox Jew Ben Shapiro.
00:51:44.000 And the Washington Post smears me with a bunch of fake history.
00:51:47.000 We'll get into it all.