Ben Shapiro is back with breaking news and a new book. President Trump takes on the press, the 2020 Democrats compete for attention, and radical leftists decide the problem is guns and white people in New Zealand. Ben Shapiro is a conservative commentator and host of the podcast "The Ben Shapiro Show." He is also the author of the book, "The Right Side of History," which has risen to No. 1 on Amazon's bestseller list and is the number 1 nonfiction political book in the world, making it the number one nonfiction book on planet earth! He's a regular contributor to the New York Times, CNN, CBS, NPR, and other media outlets. His latest book, The Right Side Of History, is available for pre-order now. It's also available in Kindle, iBook, Paperback, Hardcover, and Audio Book format. You can also get a copy of "The Devil Next Door" for only $19.99. If you don't have a Kindle device, you can get a free eReader device with a $99.99 annual membership from Amazon so you can read the book and access all of the latest eReader bestsellers, too! You won't want to miss it! Links From This Episode: Free Training From Amazon: Kindle: Kindle $9.99 iBook Free eReader $99 Audio Book: 4900 All Previous Podcast Epilog $49.99, All Previous Books Free Training from Amazon Freebie: 4999 Kindle Freebie $99, or buy it for 4999.00, or Watch it on Audible Freebie, or become a Member of the Audible Prime $99 and get a 7-day trial, and get 7-months of the service for 7-years of Prime Video + 7-tracks, 7-rates, and 7-inches for a limited edition course starting at $99/month, plus 3-tracks from Audible Places like Audible, Vimeo Free, and Vimeo is also available for $99 or Vimeo gets you get a discount on the service, and gets full access to the service? Learn more about the entire service for the ultimate edition of the show, Prime Video $29.99/Vimeo FREE Subscribe to the show on the show starts on July 1st, starting July 5th, 2019 and gets an ad-only version starting July 4th, 2020.
00:00:00.000President Trump takes on the press, the 2020 Democrats compete for attention, and radical leftists decide the problem is guns and white people in New Zealand.
00:00:17.000We'll get to all of it in just one second.
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00:01:29.000First, I want to thank you all who went out and had a chance to purchase a copy of my book, The Right Side of History, which has soared up the bestseller charts.
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00:02:10.000Meanwhile, when it comes to the news, Both Republicans and Democrats are sort of sitting around waiting for the Mueller report.
00:02:15.000And what's shocking about that is that there are no real indicators that Mueller's got anything.
00:02:20.000Mueller, so far, has filed a bunch of cases against people in Trump's orbit for ancillary crimes.
00:02:25.000There's been no direct implication that President Trump was directly involved in any sort of collusion with Russia, which, as you will recall, was the original purpose of the Mueller hearings in the first place.
00:02:36.000Well, now everyone is sort of sitting around waiting.
00:02:38.000Democrats are waiting for the other shoe to drop.
00:02:40.000Republicans are waiting for this thing to come out so they can move it to the back burner for 2020.
00:02:44.000And Mueller is just taking his sweet time.
00:02:46.000We still don't know when this is going to actually be released.
00:02:49.000Actually, at Amazon, there's a placeholder date for the release of the Mueller report.
00:02:52.000The Mueller report's already selling hot on Amazon.
00:02:56.000The release date there lists March 26th, but it says that's a placeholder date.
00:03:00.000We have no idea when this thing is going to drop.
00:03:02.000The Associated Press says, with Robert Mueller's findings expected any day, the president has grown increasingly confident the report will produce what he insisted all along, no clear evidence of a conspiracy between Russia and his 2016 campaign.
00:03:14.000Trump and his advisers are considering how to weaponize those possible findings for the 2020 race, according to current and former White House officials and presidential confidants who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.
00:03:25.000Well, that's one of the things I love.
00:03:26.000It's all about how Trump is going to weaponize the report.
00:03:28.000So we've spent two and a half years investigating what may turn out to be a giant nothing.
00:03:34.000And the question is, how is Trump going to weaponize it, according to members of the press?
00:03:38.000How is Trump going to turn this to his advantage?
00:03:42.000A change is underway as well among congressional Democrats, says the AP, who have long believed the report would offer damning evidence against the president.
00:03:49.000The Democrats are busy building new avenues for evidence to come out, opening a broad array of investigations of Trump's White House and businesses that go far beyond Mueller's focus on Russian interference to help Trump beat Democrat Hillary Clinton.
00:04:02.000No one knows exactly what Mueller will say, but Trump, his allies, and members of Congress are trying to map out post-probe political dynamics.
00:04:08.000One scenario would have seemed downright implausible until recently, says the Associated Press.
00:04:13.000The president will take the findings and run on them, rather than against them, by painting the special counsel as an example of failed government overreach and Trump himself as the victim who managed to prove his innocence.
00:04:23.000Trump has been tweeting all of this stuff out.
00:04:26.000He's been tweeting out that the Democrats' House investigative committees are, quote, stone-cold crazy.
00:04:32.000On Twitter, meanwhile, Adam Schiff, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, says there's a lot more to look into.
00:04:38.000And the American people, I think, have basically made up their mind here, which is that President Trump is President Trump.
00:04:42.000He's done what he's done, and nobody really cares.
00:04:44.000I think virtually all of this is baked into the cake.
00:04:46.000Most of the people who spend their time fulminating over President Trump's supposed crimes are people who really, really dislike President Trump in the first place.
00:04:53.000Everybody else keeps saying, okay, where's the meat?
00:05:21.000If it had gone the other way, then he would have had to run against the implication that he cheated the first time around.
00:05:26.000But if the report comes out and basically says nothing incredibly damning about him, he's going to be able to say, and rightly so, that the media have spent two full years running chyrons about how he was a Russian tool.
00:05:38.000I mean, that's every chyron over at CNN.
00:05:41.000Unfortunately, the president has other agenda items that he is worried about, namely John McCain and George Conway.
00:05:48.000That's funny, I spoke at the Reagan Library last night for the book launch, and it was great.
00:05:52.000A thousand people showed up, more than a thousand people showed up, most of them young people, and people were asking me about President Trump's re-election prospects, and I said, well, the first thing he has to do is stop saying things.
00:06:03.000Like, just stop your face from opening and sounds from coming out, dude, because none of this is helpful.
00:06:08.000The truth is, when people think about Democrats, they don't want them in the White House.
00:06:12.000And then when people think about Trump, they generally don't want him in the White House.
00:06:15.000So, if you're Trump, you'd rather people think about Democrats.
00:06:19.000Well, the only way they're going to do that is if you just suck the oxygen out of the room for the press.
00:06:38.000Here's President Trump going after John McCain.
00:06:40.000I'm very unhappy that he didn't repeal and replace Obamacare, as you know.
00:06:46.000He campaigned on repealing and replacing Obamacare for years, and then he got to a vote and he said, thumbs down, and our country would have saved a trillion dollars and we would have had great healthcare.
00:06:58.000So he campaigned, he told us, Hours before that he was going to repeal and replace, and then for some reason, I think I understand the reason, he ended up going thumbs up.
00:07:07.000And frankly, had we even known that, I think we would have gotten a vote because we could have gotten somebody else.
00:07:26.000John McCain's behavior on Obamacare was egregious.
00:07:29.000He basically killed the Republican attempt to repeal the individual mandate, and he did so at least partially out of personal pique with President Trump, which is bad behavior.
00:07:37.000But President Trump doesn't need to feed into this.
00:07:39.000Unfortunately, he's feeding into a number of storylines that are not helpful to him.
00:07:44.000He has decided to punch back, for example, at Kellyanne Conway's husband, because this is the real Housewives over here.
00:07:49.000I mean, it's just, this is a reality TV show.
00:07:51.000And listen, President Trump knows reality TV, so he should know that reality TV is not necessarily a way to gain popularity, unless you are the host and you can preside over the chaos.
00:08:02.000President Trump raised the temperature on Wednesday on his feud with lawyer George Conway, according to the Daily Mail, calling him a, quote, husband from hell.
00:08:10.000George Conway, often referred to as Mr. Kellyanne Conway by those who know him, is very jealous of his wife's success and angry that I, with her help, didn't give him the job he so desperately wanted.
00:08:29.000I barely know him, but just take a look.
00:08:30.000A stone-cold loser and husband from hell.
00:09:15.000And mostly, why should Trump be punching down at Kellyanne's husband?
00:09:19.000And if you're Kellyanne Conway, I mean, I don't even know how you make that marriage work, when you've got your boss calling your husband a husband from hell.
00:09:28.000I can tell you that we have female employees here.
00:09:30.000I have not insulted their husbands this way.
00:09:32.000This is not the way to run an administration, no matter what their husbands do.
00:09:37.000The Washington Post apparently has released a May 31st, 2017 letter from Kellyanne Conway's husband to the President, in which he turned down the position of Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division of the DOJ.
00:09:47.000So Trump was claiming that Conway was trying to get a job with him, and that turned out not to be true.
00:09:52.000It turns out that Conway actually turned down a job from the Trump administration.
00:09:57.000He wrote at the time, "Kellian and I continue to support you and your administration.
00:10:01.000I look forward to doing so in whatever way I can from outside the government." That did not obviously end up happening.
00:10:07.000So this sort of drama continues to play out.
00:10:32.000Conway had launched a barrage of insults at the president Monday evening, tweeting medical definitions of personality disorders, including deceitfulness and grandiosity as symptoms, and saying they apply to the 45th president.
00:10:42.000And that, of course, follows on President Trump slamming John McCain and then Saturday Night Live.
00:10:46.000Over the weekend, President Trump had some extra time and just decided to tweet from the Oval Office a bunch of stuff, a lot of it really dumb, including Some nonsense about how SNL should be federally regulated, or something.
00:10:59.000And Kellyanne Conway's husband decided to jump into the fray, and now President Trump has decided to jump into the fray.
00:11:03.000If you're a Republican, if you're a conservative, if you're an American, you do have to be wondering, what is the President of the United States thinking?
00:11:11.000Like, this is an office that does have, I know, I know we're done with decorum, I know we've decided that we don't want that as the American people, that we want selfie-stick Presidents, and Presidents who tweet their innermost thoughts from the Oval Office, but, Is this really forwarding even your political goals?
00:11:27.000In just a second, we're going to get to a new study that shows that trigger warnings are effectively useless.
00:11:33.000We will also get to the Trump The Trump attacks on the press and the press attacking President Trump, because while Trump's attacks on Kellyanne Conway's husband are worthless and his attacks on McCain are counterproductive, his attacks on the press are somewhat called for.
00:11:47.000We'll talk about that in just one second.
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00:13:30.000In which CNN just won an award, the Walter Cronkite Award, from USC's Norman Lear Center, announced by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
00:13:42.000For that awful, terrible, 15 minutes hate, Parkland Town Hall shooting, in which Dana Lash was booed and called a murderer, in which Marco Rubio was compared to a school shooter.
00:13:55.000CNN just won an award from USC for journalism for that.
00:14:00.000Unbelievably, the Norman Lear Center titled its press release announcing the award, Cronkite Award Proves That Facts Matter, it stated, CNN Parkland Town Hall, a two-hour special aired for only seven days after 17 students and teachers were murdered by a gunman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
00:14:14.000In this compelling and powerful forum, moderator Jake Tapper deftly gave generous space to speak to gun control advocates, politicians, Parkland students, parents, and a representative from the NRA.
00:14:24.000The program helped, quote, advance the national conversation on gun control and violence, the jury said.
00:14:37.000That media event was specifically designed to allow the targeting of pro-gun people and allow really deplorable human beings like Sheriff Scott Israel of the Broward County Police Department, Sheriff's Department, to allow him to shirk his responsibility and blame others for his own failures.
00:15:21.000President Trump, yesterday at the White House, he was railing against the discrimination against conservatives between social media censorship and fake news.
00:15:29.000He is not wrong about any of this stuff.
00:15:31.000When you get the back scene, back office statements made by executives of the various companies, and you see the level of, in many cases, hatred they have for a certain group of people that happened to be in power, that happened to have won the election.
00:16:08.000He is correct that the media have been attacking him, that the media are in fact stacked to the left.
00:16:13.000There is no question that the heads of the social media companies are to the left.
00:16:16.000Now, their algorithms may not always spit out results that are to the left, because maybe it turns out that conservatives are kind of good at business, and that we spend a lot of time and effort trying to figure out how we can best reach audiences on these platforms.
00:16:28.000Maybe it turns out that our content is good and people want to engage with it.
00:16:31.000But it is true that the social media companies have never had a discussion about how to downplay the traffic to Huffington Post.
00:16:37.000They certainly have had discussions about how to do so to Fox News or to Daily Wire.
00:16:41.000There's no... When was somebody last asked... When did someone last ask the head of YouTube whether they ought to be censoring material from the Young Turks?
00:17:15.000We are a successful one here at Daily Wire.
00:17:17.000There are plenty of successful right-wing media outlets.
00:17:20.000If you agglomerate all of them, and you stack them up against CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, virtually every major newspaper in the country, does that even play a minute role?
00:17:36.000I mean, it's hard to suggest that right-wing media are on even par with everybody else in the left-wing media.
00:18:05.000But the notion that most of us look upon Donald Trump as being an absolute fiasco, he's not mistaken in that perception.
00:18:15.000And he's not mistaken when so many of the liberal media, for example, describe themselves as belonging to the resistance.
00:18:27.000Okay, so Koppel is acknowledging a basic truth.
00:18:30.000Good for him for at least being honest enough to acknowledge it.
00:18:32.000This is one of the reasons people don't trust CNN.
00:18:34.000They trust MSNBC more than they trust CNN.
00:18:36.000They are not the most trusted name in news, and that is because CNN has always hidden its opinions behind the facade of objective journalism.
00:18:43.000They are not objective journalists over there.
00:18:46.000And by the way, neither are the members of the Washington Post editorial board.
00:18:50.000The folks over at the Washington Post, these are not objective journalists either.
00:18:53.000The same people at the Washington Post who changed the slogan of their paper to Democracy Dies in Darkness and slapped it on their masthead as soon as President Trump became president because the press was so much under attack.
00:19:04.000Yesterday, they ran an op-ed from the dictator of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is an Islamist who has jailed legitimately tens of thousands of dissenters, including vast numbers of members of the press.
00:19:16.000These are the same members of the press who will claim that President Trump is participating in a grave crackdown on freedom.
00:19:21.000That doesn't mean that President Trump's language with regard to the press is good.
00:19:27.000When the President Trump says fake news is the enemy of the people, that would make a little more sense if, number one, he didn't use the phrase enemy of the people, and number two, if he defined fake news as made-up stories or faux objectivity.
00:19:39.000But very often, fake news to President Trump just means something that he doesn't like.
00:20:00.000When you look at when you look at, for example, the coverage and the narratives that are driven by the Christchurch massacre.
00:20:06.000So the narratives driven by the Christchurch massacre on the left and pushed by the media have been that white supremacy is driven by President Trump, despite the fact that the number of white supremacist attacks In the West, over the past 10 years, has fluctuated up and down, and there's no real solid evidence that it has fluctuated up in any permanent direction in the last two years.
00:20:58.000What are the topics that we talk about?
00:21:00.000Do we talk about the rise of tribalism in the West?
00:21:03.000Do we talk about the rise of white supremacy on its own?
00:21:06.000Do we talk about, for example, the role of social media as the first order?
00:21:11.000Or do we immediately jump to this is President Trump's fault on cable news?
00:21:15.000So we immediately jump to this is everybody on the right's fault, and anybody like Sam Harris or Bill Maher or me, who has discussed radical Islam, that those people are somehow to fault for a white supremacist shooting up a mosque, even though that white supremacist presumably likes none of the people that I just mentioned.
00:21:47.000I know people think that it's just a way for President Trump to deflect from the issues, but if people can't see how the narrative is being driven by motivated people, they are more likely to believe the narrative than if they see the motivations that undergird the narrative that is being driven.
00:21:59.000Okay, in just a second, I want to get to a fascinating study that suggests that trigger warnings are a giant fail on college campuses.
00:22:06.000We'll talk about that in just a second.
00:22:07.000First, let's talk about how you can save money.
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00:23:32.000If you do not have a son or daughter in college, or if you're not a college student yourself, you probably don't know what a trigger warning is.
00:23:38.000Because you live in the real world, where people say things that offend you sometimes, and then you get over it.
00:23:43.000But on college campuses, trigger warnings have become a thing.
00:23:46.000This is where you're about to discuss a controversial topic, and you're afraid that by doing so, you're going to trigger someone's emotions.
00:23:52.000And so you are expected to issue a trigger warning.
00:23:55.000So, if you are going to talk about the issue of rape, for example, then you are expected to say, here's a trigger warning to anyone who has been victimized by rape, or anybody who knows anybody who's been victimized by rape.
00:24:07.000And if you don't issue that trigger warning, you are considered insensitive and gauche, and as though you are doing psychological damage to somebody.
00:24:14.000And this is taken to the logical extreme at university campuses, where any controversial topic must be accompanied by a trigger warning, lest you offend somebody, lest you micro-aggress them.
00:24:23.000And if you micro-aggress them, right, if you say these things without a trigger warning, then you participate in a micro-aggression, and that micro-aggression is a real damage.
00:24:33.000It is the equivalent of violence, is how many on the radical left and in mainstream academia see it.
00:24:47.000It recently appeared in Clinical Psychological Science, and it pushes back against the findings of Harvard University researchers who suggested that trigger warnings might actually be a net negative.
00:24:57.000It could make some people less resilient to trauma.
00:25:00.000Trigger warnings don't really leave anyone worse off, according to a newer research conducted by a team of researchers from the University of Waikato and the City University of New York, but they don't help matters either.
00:25:09.000Study participants who received a trigger warning were just as bothered by traumatic words and images as participants who saw words and images without any forewarning.
00:25:18.000These results suggest a trigger warning is neither meaningfully helpful nor harmful.
00:25:22.000So we now have a study from Harvard that says the trigger warnings are effectively harmful because they essentially raise your radar.
00:25:28.000For stuff that is going to offend you.
00:25:30.000And now we have a new study that says they're useless.
00:25:32.000So trigger warnings fall somewhere between harmful and useless on the scale of things, and yet they are the expected mode of communication at university campuses.
00:25:41.000This study involves six experiments and exposure to both disturbing written materials and video clips.
00:25:46.000Researchers also asked participants about their previous experiences with traumatic episodes, but determined that trigger warnings were effectively useless even for people with a history of trauma.
00:25:57.000So, this stuff is not only useless, in many cases it's counterproductive.
00:26:20.000Another woman is facing a police investigation and potentially a jail sentence because she wrote things online about sex, gender and a person who changed gender.
00:26:31.000Her name is Carolyn Farrow, she's 44, and she's the subject of an investigation by Surrey Police over tweets she sent referring to the adult child of Susie Green, head of Mermaids, a charity concerned with transgender children.
00:26:43.000Farrow said the investigation arises because she quote-unquote misgendered the child, who was born male, but now identifies as female.
00:26:50.000Farrow is a columnist and occasional TV commentator.
00:26:53.000She writes and speaks from a Catholic perspective, so she's Catholic, about a number of issues including education, Family policy, euthanasia, and gender.
00:27:00.000Her political and religious stance makes her relatively unusual among women who question transgender orthodoxy.
00:27:07.000And the columnist for the spectator says, I point this out here because some people are keen to suggest anyone who challenges the trans rights agenda is automatically a right wing culture warrior, possibly in league with U.S. Christian conservatives.
00:27:16.000There will no doubt be those who cite Farrow's faith as proof of this thesis.
00:27:20.000In fact, I'd suggest it proves the opposite.
00:27:22.000It shows you can find women and men who worry about gender issues right across the political and social spectrum.
00:27:28.000Farrow tweeted out, I'm being interviewed under caution for misgendering Susie Green's It's all rather Orwellian and rather scary.
00:27:35.000The thing is, I can't even remember what I said.
00:27:38.000My tweets automatically delete after two weeks, so they are investigating me for tweets which have been deleted, but which cause offense to Suzy Green.
00:27:45.000She believes that she is being investigated by the police for potential malicious communications, which would be a breach of the Communications Act of 2003.
00:27:53.000Section 127 of that act in Britain relates to the improper use of public electronic communications networks and says a person is guilty of an offense if he, quote, sends by means of a public electronic communications network a message or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene, or menacing character, or B, causes any such message or matter or menacing character, or B, causes any such message or matter to be
00:28:13.000A person can also offend if for purposes of causing annoyance, inconvenience, or needless anxiety to another, he sends by means of a public electronic communication a message he knows to be false, causes such message to be sent, or persistently makes use of a public electronic communications network.
00:28:28.000You could theoretically be fined or jailed up to six months.
00:28:37.000In a rational society, we should be able to point out that biological males are biological males.
00:28:44.000But, apparently, this is no longer a thing.
00:28:46.000And we say that we're making our society better because of this?
00:28:49.000That taking offense at basic biological truths is making our society more tolerant, and more wonderful, and more accepting?
00:28:56.000You're talking about jailing your political opponents, folks.
00:28:58.000And this is really, really dangerous stuff.
00:29:01.000And yet the left continues to push it and claim that they're making society better.
00:29:06.000Nothing could be further from the truth.
00:29:08.000Okay, now let's check out what's going on on the Democratic side of the aisle.
00:29:11.000So there's a brand new CNN poll out and it shows that there is serious movement in the poll for really one candidate and one candidate only.
00:29:46.000So, Kamala actually came out and said last night, Kamala Harris did, in her quest for the nomination, that she wants to jail President Trump, that she would try to prosecute President Trump.
00:29:57.000Remember when it was really bad, that President Trump was saying, lock her up, and people were chanting, lock her up, about Hillary Clinton, because she committed a crime?
00:30:05.000Well now, Kamala Harris is pledging that she will prosecute President Trump for crimes unspecified.
00:30:12.000It's always great when you have a former prosecutor pledging to use the full power of the executive branch to go after somebody for a crime that she can't even name.
00:30:20.000Here's Kamala Harris pledging to do just that.
00:30:22.000I also believe that what voters are going to want is they are going to want that there is someone who has the proven ability to prosecute the case against this administration.
00:30:36.000And that is going to be about having an ability and a proven ability to be able to articulate the evidence that makes the case for why we need new leadership in this country.
00:30:51.000You're saying if you are president and Donald Trump is out of the White House, you will then continue to prosecute him and his various hench characters.
00:31:02.000I am very supportive of Bob Mueller being able to finish his process and do his job.
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00:33:12.000So with Senator Kamala Harris picking up steam, Cory Booker is very angry.
00:33:22.000And when Cory Booker is angry, Cory Booker gets his angry face.
00:33:26.000He was doing a town hall last night and he slammed Kamala Harris over her laughing over her use of pot because he was saying correctly that she was prosecuting people for use of pot back when she was using it herself or laughing about it.
00:33:41.000We have presidential candidates and congresspeople and senators that now talk about their marijuana use almost as if it's funny.
00:33:48.000But meanwhile, in 2017, we had more arrests for marijuana possession in this country than all the violent crime arrests combined.
00:33:56.000Do not talk to me about legalizing marijuana unless in the same breath you talk to me about expunging the records of the millions of people that are suffering with not being able to find a job.
00:34:07.000Okay, so, you know, that is not a criticism that is ill-aimed.
00:34:12.000You know, slamming Kamala Harris for laughing about pot use while she was in favor of jailing pot dealers is kind of a fascinating take.
00:34:20.000Now, the truth is that Booker and Harris are trying to compete inside one lane of the Democratic Party.
00:34:26.000They're trying to compete inside that intersectional lane of the Democratic Party.
00:34:30.000And apparently they're doing so somewhat successfully, because it turns out that right now, inside the Democratic Party, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are not actually gaining any sort of support among black populations.
00:34:41.000This is according to the Washington Post.
00:34:42.000Quote, The crowd packed into the gym of a century-old black church every time Senator Bernie Sanders attacked inequities that hit disadvantaged African-Americans especially hard, applauding his ideas to address the disparity within the disparity.
00:34:56.000But the problem Sanders faces in appealing to black voters was staring at him as he spoke for an hour recently at the gym of the Royal Missionary Baptist Church.
00:35:03.000Of the more than 1,600 people who came to see the candidate, fewer than 40 were black.
00:35:08.000Last month, Senator Elizabeth Warren faced a similar dynamic in Greenville, South Carolina.
00:35:12.000More than 800 people filled the community center of a politically active church to hear her speak.
00:35:16.000But only about a dozen black faces were visible in a state where about 60% of the Democratic electorate is African American.
00:35:23.000Sanders and Warren share a liberal philosophy focused on helping those who have been hurt by the prevailing system, a message both say should resonate in black households.
00:35:30.000But both are older white candidates hailing from New England, and they often confront skepticism, if not ambivalence or indifference, from black voters who have been noticeably absent from their campaign events.
00:35:41.000Their challenges provide a preview of hurdles likely to confront other white candidates, including former Congressman Beto O'Rourke and former Vice President Joe Biden should he join the race.
00:35:49.000The Democratic field for the first time includes two well-known black U.S.
00:35:52.000politicians, both of whom are attracting more diverse crowds and interest from the black community.
00:35:57.000A month before Sanders spoke at Royal Missionary Baptist Church, Kamala Harris held a rally in the same room.
00:36:02.000Her crowd was much more racially varied, including a group of black women who showed up in church hats.
00:36:06.000The crowds showing up for Senator Cory Booker also have included far more voters of color.
00:36:10.000If Sanders or Warren hope to extend their primary campaigns beyond Iowa and New Hampshire, they must find ways to forge stronger connections with black voters, strategists from both campaigns say privately.
00:36:21.000And I wonder if that's going to be an actual option here.
00:36:25.000This is the unspoken strength, perhaps, of Joe Biden.
00:36:28.000If you look at that CNN poll, what it shows is Joe Biden up at 28%, Bernie Sanders at 20%, and then Kamala Harris at 12%.
00:36:33.000In a Democratic party that is so divided by race, it is quite possible that somebody like Kamala Harris runs the table in a lot of the southern states where black voters provide a plurality or majority of the Democratic vote.
00:36:47.000And if that's the case, then Kamala Harris has to be considered the frontrunner.
00:36:49.000Betting markets right now, by the way, do have her as the frontrunner in this race, even though in the national polling, she's only at about 12%.
00:36:56.000That's why Cory Booker is going after Kamala Harris.
00:36:59.000And that's why maybe, maybe the focus on Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders is overlooking the actual frontrunner, Kamala Harris.
00:37:07.000And you can see that a lot of the more woke liberals are quite upset with the fact that the generalized polls are showing Biden and Sanders and Beto atop the pack.
00:37:18.000The Huffington Post headlined yesterday.
00:37:19.000Their giant headline was the hot new thing in the Democratic Party.
00:37:25.000They say last week in a profile of Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O'Rourke, Vanity Fair reporter Joe Hagan wrote that being a white man in a party longing for a woman or a person of color is perhaps O'Rourke's biggest vulnerability.
00:37:35.000NBC's Chuck Todd also raised this possibility in an interview with O'Rourke last weekend.
00:37:39.000But the former Texas congressman dismissed the idea and rightfully so.
00:37:44.000It's white men who are getting an early boost in the Democratic campaigns.
00:37:46.000O'Rourke announced Monday he had raised $6.1 million for his presidential bid in just 24 hours, the most of any of the candidates who have publicly disclosed their numbers.
00:37:54.000He narrowly beat Bernie Sanders, who announced a $5.9 million haul in his first day.
00:37:59.000And polls show that the most popular Democrat is Vice President Joe Biden, all white men at the top of the ticket.
00:38:11.000And that once the Democratic primaries start, if Kamala Harris shows any sort of serious strength in Iowa and New Hampshire, then maybe she surges out to the lead.
00:38:21.000And that's particularly true if it turns out that, for example, Beta O'Rourke is an empty vessel.
00:38:27.000If he's doing well at the beginning, but then he is exposed as the empty vessel he is, that's a problem for him.
00:38:31.000Speaking of which, Beta O'Rourke continues to be hit with profiles that demonstrate that the dude is just weird.
00:38:48.000I don't see why that's relevant to a person's candidacy unless it speaks to moral character in some way.
00:38:55.000But as far as how they divide up household duties or who works or who doesn't, that seems to me an internal matter for the married people to decide themselves.
00:39:03.000But this Washington Post story does underscore the idea that Beto is kind of a weirdo.
00:39:08.000And when I say kind of a weirdo, I mean he's really a giant weirdo.
00:39:22.000He told her on one of their first dates that he planned to name his first son Ulysses, which they did about a year after marrying, followed by a Molly and a Henry.
00:39:28.000He dubbed their dog Roosevelt before realizing that the dog was a girl who now goes by Rosie.
00:39:34.000The remote-controlled cockroach in the kitchen.
00:39:37.000The psycho-style scares in the shower.
00:39:40.000Nothing says romance quite like popping open that curtain and brandishing a knife at your spouse.
00:39:44.000One time, according to a friend, Beto collected an especially verdant turd from one of their kid's diapers and put it in a bowl, telling Amy it was avocado.
00:39:53.000Man, the millennials are not going to stand for this.
00:39:55.000You can't treat avocado this way with the millennials.
00:40:56.000She does actually have a pretty impressive resume, even if I think that her politics really stink.
00:41:02.000Even though I think her politics are completely wrong and are really bad, she does have a more impressive resume than somebody like Beto O'Rourke.
00:41:08.000And Bernie Sanders, he is increasingly stuck in his own lane.
00:41:14.000Now, Bernie is sort of running a Trump campaign circa 2016, which is, I've got my base, my base is solid, if everybody else divvies up to vote, I win the nomination.
00:41:23.000But Kamala Harris may continue to grow her brand.
00:41:26.000If she continues to grow, if she continues to take over not only the intersectional wing of the Democratic Party, but but starts to make inroads into the mainstream wing of the Democratic Party, then Bernie Sanders could be in some trouble because he's not changing his ways at all in any way.
00:41:42.000I mean, he's a hardcore socialist who is not going to change any time down the line.
00:41:47.000He thinks that's going to carry him to victory.
00:41:48.000I got to wonder whether he's got enough there.
00:41:54.000I think the answer is probably he does not have enough there to actually get him over the finish line unless the field just shatters, unless it fragments.
00:42:03.000Elizabeth Warren, meanwhile, she continues to...
00:42:06.000To throw out crazy solutions to America's problems in the hopes that she will gain attention.
00:42:12.000Yesterday she suggested we should dump the Electoral College, which is the new Democratic hot thing, is undermining key American institutions like the Senate and the Electoral College.
00:42:20.000Here was Warren yesterday saying that it was time for the Electoral College to go.
00:42:24.000I believe we need a constitutional amendment to guarantee the right to vote to every single citizen and to guarantee that that vote gets counted.
00:42:33.000Nobody comes to Alabama in the general presidential election or to Massachusetts because they figure we're not in the game because of the Electoral College.
00:42:44.000So my view on this is that we ought to get rid of the Electoral College.
00:42:51.000Okay, so first of all, she is just lying when she says that people will show up in Alabama to campaign if the Electoral College is no longer a thing.
00:42:59.000People will just skip Alabama completely.
00:43:01.000The entire campaign will take place in New York and Boston.
00:43:04.000And Los Angeles and Chicago and Dallas, all wonderful cities.
00:43:07.000But the reason for the Electoral College was because the founders specifically wanted there to be coalition building in American politics.
00:43:15.000They were not big fans of the popular vote, which is why every single institution in America was militated by a bunch of checks and balances.
00:43:24.000But Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, all the Democratic candidates now are coming out against the Electoral College.
00:43:31.000Funny, they weren't against the Electoral College when they were winning massive electoral victories.
00:43:35.000Only after they lose do they start whining about the Electoral College.
00:43:37.000Meanwhile, Elizabeth Warren's still having trouble shaking all the questions about her lies about her Native American heritage.
00:43:43.000She was asked about this on a CNN town hall, and she basically just said, yeah, my family lied to me.
00:43:48.000How do you respond to people who think that, regardless of the underlying facts, the way you handled the question of your Native American heritage was tone-deaf, offensive, and indicative of a lack of presidential tact?
00:44:13.000Nothing I ever did or my family played any role in any job I ever got.
00:44:20.000So she was told about it, she was lied to by her family, and that's why you should ignore the fact that she was lying about her heritage in official U.S.
00:44:28.000By the way, there's a brand new poll from Emerson Polling that is out, and it is very similar to that CNN poll, except that it shows Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden running exactly even.
00:44:36.000It shows Bernie Sanders at 26 and Joe Biden at 26.
00:44:39.000So that 8-point advantage in the CNN poll for Biden is gone.
00:44:42.000It is at 26-26 according to the Emerson poll.
00:45:30.000Actually, when I turned, I believe, 17, my dad got me a jacket from the Reagan Library for my birthday.
00:45:35.000So it's an amazing thing to be a fan of a place and a president your entire life and then get to speak at his presidential library for the launch of your book, which it was an amazing thing.
00:45:45.000And I couldn't be more grateful to the folks over at the Reagan Library for organizing the event.
00:46:13.000But if you enjoy my book, The Right Side of History, and you want a deeper dive into many of the great philosophers that I talk about in The Right Side of History, this is a great place to start.
00:46:35.000I'm not as much a fan of his esoteric, exoteric distinctions as I am of his kind of generalized political philosophy.
00:46:42.000He's one of the big believers in this sort of dichotomy between Jerusalem and Athens and the tension between them that I talk about in Right Side of History.
00:46:48.000Go check it out if you have time and if you have the inclination.
00:46:51.000History of Political Philosophy from Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey.
00:46:55.000All right, time for a thing that I hate.
00:47:01.000So yesterday, there's a big story in the New York Times about how only seven black students got into New York's most selective high school out of 895 spots.
00:47:50.000Bronx High School of Science is 58% Asian.
00:47:53.000Brooklyn Technical High School is 48% Asian.
00:47:56.000Virtually every selective public high school in New York City is plurality or majority Asian.
00:48:02.000So unless you want to make the argument that the system is stacked in favor of Asian Americans in the United States, and that it has nothing to do with the fact that single motherhood in the Asian community is exorbitantly low, that Asian families place extraordinarily high value on education, If you want to say that the system is built for Asians by Asians or something, you're going to have to make that case a little bit more apparent.
00:48:22.000The fact that folks in the New York City school system are discussing destroying these schools in the name of melanin levels, in the name of racial diversity, without recognizing that what makes these schools good in the first place is the fact that they have admission standards that require students to perform.
00:48:42.000And it's, again, another way for Democrats to escape responsibility for the fact that the non-elite schools in New York City suck, just as they do in Los Angeles and in Washington D.C.
00:48:50.000When you make yourself When you make yourself subject to the whims of teachers' unions, your schools are not going to be all that great.
00:48:58.000And you've seen this in the LAUSD system, where we keep signing bad deals with the teachers' unions and kowtowing to them so that they will pay off all of our politicians.
00:49:08.000You have to be a member of a teachers' union to teach in the LAUSD system.
00:49:11.000And then the state will actually collect the union dues out of your paycheck for the LAUSD, for the Teachers Federation, the Teachers Union out here.
00:49:20.000And then the Teachers Union will take those dues and pay off politicians with them to make new deals with the politicians.
00:49:27.000It's really, it's a deeply corrupt system.
00:49:30.000There's a good book called Shadow Bosses by Mallory Factor that's worth reading about, that's worth reading all about this.
00:49:35.000Maybe I'll make it my thing I like tomorrow.
00:49:37.000It is disturbing, beyond all measure, that Democrats in major cities would rather destroy the working public high schools than build up the ones that aren't working simply out of fealty to unions that are putting money in their pocket.
00:49:48.000Alrighty, well we'll be back here later today with a couple more hours of programming, or we'll see you here tomorrow.
00:49:53.000Make sure to pick up my book, The Right Side of History, which continues to do really well.
00:49:56.000Thank you so much if you already have.