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00:00:00.000Why in the world did you humor Donald Trump?
00:00:02.000That's the question the left has been asking us for months over here, those of us on the right, who originally granted Trump an open hearing on his ideas.
00:00:12.000After all, Trump had a pretty long record of leftist support and a history of saying silly things.
00:00:16.000But he also had 100% name recognition, an undeniable draw, a deep wallet, an aggressive streak with the media, and a willingness to say politically incorrect things.
00:00:25.000Over the course of the campaign, Trump revealed more and more of himself, unpeeled himself like an onion, and it became clear that his positive qualities as a candidate were significantly outweighed by his personal authoritarianism, his narcissism, his lack of core conservative principles, and so the right sort of threw Trump over.
00:00:41.000It's not establishment moderates driving the Never Trump movement.
00:00:44.000By poll numbers, it's hardcore conservatives who don't trust Trump and think he's a leftist.
00:00:49.000So I have a question for leftists now.
00:01:30.000Well, look, why don't I support a million things in the world?
00:01:32.000I'm just telling you that I happen to believe—anybody help me out here because I don't remember the figures, but my recollection is over 10,000 innocent people killed in Gaza.
00:02:29.000Trump represents the past of the conservative movement.
00:02:31.000The revenge of frustrated paleo-conservatives and out-of-work blue-collar workers who want protectionism and alt-right racists masquerading as free speech activists.
00:02:40.000Bernie Sanders represents the future for Democrats.
00:02:43.000He won 82% of voters aged 18 to 29 last night in Wisconsin.
00:02:48.000Cruz, Ted Cruz, crushed Donald Trump 44% to 33% among that same age group.
00:02:54.000So Sanders won 82% of voters aged 18 to 29 in Wisconsin.
00:06:33.000So Trump, instead of winning an overwhelming majority, could win just a slight majority.
00:06:37.000Right now, the name of the game is not Cruz winning the nomination outright.
00:06:41.000It's Cruz depriving Trump of the nomination by denying him the number of delegates that he needs.
00:06:46.000And this is more and more likely to happen.
00:06:48.000Not just because Cruz is winning more and more delegates, but also because it used to be that you might make at least the argument that if Trump goes into the convention with 1,100 delegates and the next highest guy is 800, that Trump ought to take the nomination.
00:07:00.000No one is going to give it to him now.
00:07:02.000No one is going to hand it to him on a silver platter.
00:07:04.000The man to whom everything has been handed his entire life, he's not just going to have it handed to him.
00:07:11.000It's because he's alienated pretty much everybody.
00:07:13.000If Trump had just gone away for the last two weeks, if he'd just gone on vacation, if he'd found another model to show up, if he'd just done something else with his life the last two weeks, he'd be walking away with the nomination right now.
00:07:22.000Instead, Trump proceeded to just blow it out.
00:07:25.000And we're talking about not just the Corey Lewandowski debacle, but the Heidi Cruz debacle, the abortion debacle, him accusing Ted Cruz of actually violating federal law.
00:10:31.000So somebody is going to have to be the nominee.
00:10:32.000Reince Priebus over at the RNC, he says the nominee will be someone still running.
00:10:36.000It's not going to be a Paul Ryan type.
00:10:40.000If there is an attempt to jump leapfrog over the two top vote getters, the two top state winners, the two top delegate winners,
00:10:49.000Don't you think that those people that caucused and voted for those two top guys, if they don't get it, that they're gonna walk away and never come back?
00:10:59.000Well, look, I mean, clearly there's a rule in place now that candidates need a majority of eight states, delegates, eight different states, a majority, to be even nominated.
00:11:10.000So, I mean, this, and I've said it before, so it's not like I'm making news, I believe our nominee is going to be someone running.
00:11:18.000And as far as this Paul Ryan talk, let me just say it again for the tenth time.
00:11:33.000Is it your opinion as the state chairman that the nominee of your party, are you confident tonight that it will be either Donald Trump or Ted Cruz?
00:12:52.000This is the same sort of system that, as I've mentioned before, is used all over the country in gubernatorial runoffs, where you have two candidates, they run against each other, or three candidates, they run against each other, nobody gets a majority.
00:14:16.000It's from a 1994 episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, in which host Robin Leach asks Donald Trump and his second wife, Marla Maples, an innocent question about their one-year-old daughter, Tiffany.
00:14:27.000Now, Donald, what does Tiffany have of yours, and what does Tiffany have of Marla's?
00:15:08.000So you'll see that kind of stuff all the way through, right?
00:15:10.000Donald Trump talking about the breasts of his nemord, maybe, which just demonstrates that he is a weird dude.
00:15:15.000I mean, that is one messed up weird dude.
00:15:17.000And if you don't believe me, then why don't you fast forward about 12 years and here is Donald Trump talking about another one of his daughters.
00:15:24.000This one would be Ivanka, circa 2006 from The View.
00:15:27.000This one is slightly more famous, but you'll see this on a loop all the way until election day.
00:15:31.000If Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her.
00:16:03.000When you're somebody who campaigns on personal authoritarianism and the appeal of the great leader, then you can never admit that you lost.
00:16:14.000Trump now says he has been cheated seriously in nine different states.
00:16:17.000He says that Cruz has cheated him in nine different states.
00:16:19.000Every state where Trump has either lost delegates or where he has lost outright, he says that he has been cheated by Ted Cruz.
00:16:26.000And that's, you know, that's how Trump operates.
00:16:29.000OK, so over to the other side of the, oh, sorry, final note, just because this is sort of hilarious.
00:16:34.000The former French first lady, Carla Bruni, was an Italian model.
00:16:38.000She was linked in the early 90s with Trump.
00:16:40.000And Trump apparently claimed that he had done some stuff with her.
00:16:47.000On the morning of June 26, 1991, this is according to BuzzFeed, Donald Trump's picture was splashed across the front page of the New York Post.
00:16:55.000Next to the photo, which featured then girlfriend Marla Maples, was the headline, quote, it's over.
00:17:00.000Trump, according to the Post, was leaving Maples for Italian model Carla Bruni.
00:17:04.000She was then the first lady of France.
00:17:05.000That morning, NBC's Today ran with the report.
00:17:08.000Trump confirmed to the Post the next day that Bruni was the new one in his life.
00:17:12.000Bruni denied she was dating Trump, and according to one biography, Trump himself planted the story for publicity.
00:17:49.000So Trump even makes up his model lovers.
00:17:56.000So all of this stuff will be dragged out, all of it.
00:17:58.000Whether you think it's fair or whether you think it's unfair, it will all be dragged out of the woodwork.
00:18:02.000All of the negatives of Hillary Clinton will be negated by the negatives of Donald Trump.
00:18:06.000And we'll get to Bernie Sanders and Hillary in just a minute.
00:18:08.000But first, a note, a shout out to our friends over at Reagan.com.
00:18:12.000If you are concerned about your privacy, if you fear the government and corporations seeking your private information for both marketing and security or to target you, then you need to go to reaganprivacy.com.
00:19:22.000My dad's critique of Andrew Lloyd Webber is that if you're singing these big, virtuosic numbers, these loud, virtuosic numbers about tiny little topics, then how do you ever turn it up?
00:19:51.000But if he does, it'll just be by the skin of his teeth.
00:19:53.000Meanwhile, on the other side of the aisle, real firefight now breaking up between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.
00:19:58.000Bernie won big in Wisconsin last night, blew out Hillary Clinton.
00:20:02.000And they are very close when it comes to delegate count.
00:20:04.000In the delegate count, they're pretty much even.
00:20:06.000And this is scaring the living crap out of Hillary Clinton.
00:20:10.000It should scare the living crap out of the left.
00:20:12.000I want to point one thing out before we get to the clips of Bernie and Hillary, and that is this particular comment from Bernie Sanders.
00:20:20.000I mentioned at the very outset this interview that he did with the New York Daily News.
00:20:24.000I think it's important to point out what the morality of Bernie Sanders and the left are, because they like to pretend that they are great moral arbiters, and they are not.
00:20:31.000Here is Bernie Sanders explaining morality from the perspective of the left.
00:20:36.000He gave this answer when he was asked why companies ought to be legally punished for outsourcing.
00:20:50.000So, love thy neighbor as thyself, but as government policy.
00:20:55.000Right, not as religious policy, not God telling you, not you should be caring about your fellow human being, but as government policy.
00:21:02.000In other words, if I outsource jobs because it's cheap or somewhere else in order to create cheaper, better products for consumers, I'm not loving your wife properly.
00:21:11.000First of all, Bill Clinton always took love thy neighbor's wife extremely seriously.
00:21:16.000He rewrote the Bible to include that particular passage, love thy neighbor's wife.
00:21:19.000But Bernie's morality is, it's morally vacuous.
00:21:23.000And the problem is that his morality is based around the idea that free and voluntary activity that is not based around caring about his wife is immoral.
00:21:32.000So if you and I have a transaction and his wife doesn't get a cut, that's us not caring sufficiently about his wife, and that has to be stopped by the government.
00:21:39.000It's not just my job to care about his wife, according to Bernie Sanders.
00:21:46.000But Bernie is winning, and he's winning among young people because he uses this guise of caring and fairness in order to cram down an authoritarian mindset.
00:21:54.000So here is Bernie Sanders last night talking about how now that he's beating Hillary Clinton in Wisconsin, he's going to beat Trump.
00:22:04.000Momentum is that when you look at national polls or you look at statewide polls, we are defeating Donald Trump by very significant numbers.
00:22:25.000And in almost every instance, in national polls and in state polls, our margin over Trump is wider than is Secretary Clinton.
00:22:39.000The reason that he's beating Donald Trump is because Trump actually thinks the same way that he does.
00:22:44.000The only difference between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump is Bernie Sanders says, you have a duty to care about my wife, and I will use government to enforce that duty.
00:22:52.000And Trump says, you have a duty to care about me personally, and I will use government to enforce that duty.
00:22:57.000But otherwise, they're very much the same, particularly on trade and economic policy.
00:23:02.000They both say they want to break up the big banks.
00:23:03.000They both say that they want to restrict trade in significant ways.
00:23:08.000There's a reason that Trump is successful and there's a reason Bernie is successful.
00:23:11.000The difference is Trump is the past of conservatism and Bernie is the future of leftism.
00:23:16.000And this is going to tear apart the Democratic Party in the same way that Trump has torn apart the Republican Party.
00:23:20.000Trump is the last vestige of paleo-conservatism, grabbing the hem of conservatism, trying to rip it away.
00:23:27.000Bernie Sanders is the future of leftism.
00:23:35.000He's actual old-school Marxism, and he is coming—1930-style New York Marxism—he is coming to take it away from Hillary Clinton, and the young people are following him.
00:23:46.000Here's Trevor Noah again, and you can see the ire from the actual left at the Democratic Party if they deprive Bernie Sanders of his nomination, if they steal his nomination.
00:23:58.000I don't know if you saw this weekend, this past week.
00:24:01.000He's been going at Hillary quite hard.
00:24:03.000And a lot of people feel that Bernie Sanders has been... I'm gonna paraphrase, or really quote Twitter, rather, that Bernie's being... blocked, um... by the DNC.
00:25:14.000And now she's trying to ascribe her defeat like Donald Trump.
00:25:18.000So Sanders is like Trump in terms of policy.
00:25:21.000Hillary is like Trump very much in terms of personality.
00:25:24.000Hillary and Trump are very close together in terms of personality.
00:25:27.000They're both narcissists, they both can't deal with the idea of losing, and they ascribe their losses to anything but their own incapacity.
00:25:34.000So if Trump loses, it's because he's being cheated.
00:25:36.000If Hillary loses, it's because she's a woman.
00:25:38.000Here is her I-am-woman-hear-me-lose routine again yesterday.
00:27:26.000Look, I think it's exciting to be in effect protesting.
00:27:29.000I remember I did that a long time ago when I was in my 20s, and I totally get the attraction of this.
00:27:38.000And in all the research that I have seen about who is supporting Senator Sanders, a lot of the young people like both of us.
00:27:45.000They really like me, they admire what I've done, what I stand for, and they really, really like him.
00:27:50.000So I'm not as worried as the numbers might show about how he has attracted so many young people because I think that it is important to bring them into the process and I give him a lot of credit for doing that.
00:28:08.000We are electing a president and a commander-in-chief.
00:28:11.000We are electing the Democratic Party's standard bearer to go up against whoever the Republicans wind up nominating.
00:28:19.000And we really need to be sure that we elect someone who can walk into that Oval Office on January 20th, 2017 and start making... Okay, and then she swivels back to her qualifications.
00:28:31.000But the truth is that she doesn't have young voters behind her.
00:28:33.000So again, in terms of personality, Trump and Hillary very similar.
00:28:37.000In terms of policy, Trump and Sanders very similar.
00:28:39.000Again, the difference is that Trump and Hillary and Sanders, they're all above the age of 1,000.
00:28:44.000The difference is that the older Democrat is reflective of the future of the Democratic Party.
00:28:49.000The older Republican, Trump will be 70 in about a month.
00:28:54.000He is not reflective of the future of Republicanism, he's actually reflective of a past that's now coming back to bite Republicans right on the butt.
00:29:38.000If you're looking for a great book by Steinbeck, don't look to Grapes of Wrath, which is a mediocre book.
00:29:43.000Look to East of Eden, which is a truly great book.
00:29:45.000Leonard Rosenman wrote the score to East of Eden, and you can hear how great the score is in this trailer for East of Eden from Leonard Rosenman.
00:29:58.000Half the stinking city hall would go there.
00:30:04.000They sneak in at night, and I walk in this front door in the daytime, see?
00:30:41.000Yes, life in its every emotion leaps from the pages of John Steinbeck's best of all his best sellers.
00:30:48.000And to bring new vitality to every explosive chapter, to capture for you the stark realism of people who love so deeply, hate so fiercely, live so recklessly,
00:31:00.000Warner Brothers had to seek out vibrant new personalities, tap new sources of talent, create new stars.
00:31:25.000And I know Clavin is off this week, but as I'm reading it, it's very reminiscent of Connecticut Yankee and King Arthur's Court, which is all about a guy from the 19th century traveling back and being part of King Arthur's Court and bringing all these technological innovations.
00:31:39.000Doomsday Book is basically an update of that.
00:31:42.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:31:44.000So, Barack Obama announced yesterday, his administration announced yesterday, that they want you to rent your third bedroom to O.J.
00:31:51.000Simpson or they are going to fine you.
00:31:54.000The Housing and Urban Development Department issued new guidelines, and the guidelines say, quote,
00:32:10.000Because of widespread racial and ethnic disparities in the U.S.
00:32:13.000criminal justice system, criminal history-based restrictions on access to housing are likely, disproportionately, to burden African Americans and Hispanics.
00:32:21.000In other words, if you keep criminals out of your house because the justice system is evil and racist and terrible, that means that you're actually being a racist.
00:32:30.000This just demonstrates how racist the Obama administration is.
00:32:33.000I want to keep criminals out of my third bedroom because I don't want O.J.
00:33:04.000The justice system, by the way, is not biased against Black people or Hispanic people.
00:33:07.000Read Barry Latzer's The Rise and Fall of American Crime, Violent Crime in America, and you will see there are statistics that he lists backing this up.
00:33:16.000The actual racism here is that Blacks and Hispanics are incapable of avoiding criminal acts resulting in conviction.
00:33:23.000Criminality is not a proxy for race because race isn't related to criminality.
00:33:53.000This is a picture... Well, you can't say... You know what?
00:33:56.000We'll save this for when we actually have video.
00:33:57.000This guy who's... We'll save the man identifying as a mythical beast for when I can actually show you the picture because it's quite gross.
00:34:04.000Instead, we'll go to the virtual reality sex suit.
00:34:59.000We're not looking to build lives together.
00:35:00.000We're just looking for whatever gets our rocks off.
00:35:03.000This is just the latest indicator of that.
00:35:04.000We need to restore a culture of common values, and that involves common values that don't impinge on the freedoms of others, as Bernie Sanders would have you do, or as Donald Trump would say that we should do.
00:35:14.000It's not about you creating a society that pleases you.
00:35:18.000It's about you staying out of everybody else's business, because if we don't do that, we'll have a society that pleases no one.