Biden remains atop the polls, Bernie proposes free college, and Buttigieg steps into dicey racial territory as the Democratic Debates approach. Plus, a look at the latest Morning Conspirator poll that shows Biden gaining ground in the polls and could he be the front-runner in the Democratic primary race. Plus, Ben Shapiro explains why he thinks Joe Biden is a better presidential candidate than Elizabeth Warren and why he should have been in the race a long time ago. And, of course, there's the question of whether or not Joe Biden can hold off a field of 1,000 potential Democratic primary candidates against Hillary Clinton in a primary that s more fractured than it was a couple of weeks ago, and more importantly, can he beat her in the primary if he's the only Democratic candidate with any serious shot at winning the nomination? All that and much more on this episode of The Ben Shapiro Show! Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Use the promo code to receive 20% off your first month with discount code POWER10 at checkout. If you like the show, consider pledging a small monthly fee of $10 or more, and we'll send you an ad-free version of the show over to your favorite podcast listening platform! You get 10% off the entire service, plus a FREE stock like Apple Watch membership when you sign up for the program gets 24/7 access to the program! The average annual membership gets you an extra $10,000, plus an additional $5,000 when you become a patron gets an ad discount when they begin shipping their first month, they get the offer starts shipping a product they receive $5 or more than they receive the deal they choose the program, they also get 20% discount, and they get a complimentary cartelist gets 20% of your choice of the deal starts the service gets you two months of the service starts the program starts their first place they get $4/month they can choose they get two months they get their first choice of $3/place they also receive $4 or they get an offer they choose, they can get $5/choice of the program they receive two times they get first they get in-depth, they decide they can access the service they choose that they also decide they get free, they receive three times they can also get the service will also get their choice of a complimentary rate? They also get two-and-a-half-choice option.
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00:01:36.000The first debate is Elizabeth Warren, who is steadily rising in the polls, taking away Bernie Sanders's support, maybe rivaling Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic field.
00:02:01.000That's the one where you get Biden and Buttigieg and Bernie.
00:02:04.000And it's all party central over there.
00:02:06.000But tomorrow night is the sort of more boring debate where Elizabeth Warren does get her showcase.
00:02:11.000At the same time, she's sort of getting left out.
00:02:13.000She's sort of getting left, particularly if the second debate elevates into a Biden versus Bernie fight, which is what everybody sort of foresees at this point and what Bernie needs to happen.
00:02:22.000Right now, if Bernie wants to elevate himself above Warren, he needs to regain control of the narrative.
00:02:27.000He needs to wrest that control away from Elizabeth Warren, who's receiving these odes, these pans from the media.
00:02:54.000But here is the current state of the Democratic primary, according to a morning consult poll.
00:02:59.000And this is actually a little bit surprising.
00:03:00.000So according to this morning consult poll, Joe Biden remains the heavy front runner at 38 percent in the primaries.
00:03:07.000Now, that of course means that he has not really felt the impact of the whole he was hanging out with segregationists and he's racially insensitive and all of this.
00:03:17.000There's not a lot of evidence that's damaged him at all.
00:03:19.000In fact, these same poll numbers show that something like 30% of black folks who supported Joe Biden say they still support Joe Biden.
00:03:28.000And only 20% said they were less likely to support Joe Biden.
00:03:31.000That's not a significant amount of movement.
00:03:33.000So Joe Biden is up at 38%, which is precisely where he was a couple of weeks ago in the morning consult poll, which shows that his candidacy is durable.
00:03:41.000Now, is it durable enough to withstand a singular challenger?
00:03:44.000Right now, he can hold off a field of 1,000.
00:03:49.000This was the question for Hillary Clinton against Bernie Sanders.
00:03:52.000This will also be the question for Joe Biden against, presumably, Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders, or if Kamala Harris starts to gain momentum, Kamala Harris.
00:03:59.000As we'll see, I think Pete Buttigieg is in serious trouble this early on.
00:04:03.000So Bernie Sanders is in second place right now with 19%.
00:04:07.000This is also kind of surprising from the morning consult poll.
00:04:10.000A lot of the recent polls have showed That Elizabeth Warren was climbing over Bernie Sanders for that second place spot, that she was gaining momentum, that Bernie was losing momentum.
00:04:19.000Well, Elizabeth Warren is gaining momentum, according to the morning consul poll.
00:04:22.000She's up a couple of points to 13%, but she's still trailing Bernie Sanders by six in this morning consul poll, and they're both far behind Joe Biden.
00:04:29.000Now, as I say, if you aggregate together, All of the far-left progressive votes, this is a much closer race, right?
00:04:36.000If Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg and Kamala Harris were all one candidate, that candidate would be receiving 45% of the vote to Joe Biden's 38% of the vote.
00:05:19.000Andrew Yang, my boy, Andrew Yang, at 2%.
00:05:22.000So I'm kind of happy about that because Andrew Yang, I actually think, is at least a nice person who doesn't despise everybody who disagrees with him.
00:06:04.000Now, Elizabeth Warren has seized control of the MoveOn.org crowd, and this is why folks think that there's going to be a significant fade here from Bernie Sanders.
00:06:13.000According to NBC News, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders top a new straw poll from the progressive group MoveOn.org, illuminating how the packed field of candidates is coming into focus for more left-leaning Democratic voters just before the first debate of the 2020 cycle.
00:06:28.000The poll, which was released on Tuesday and first reported by NBC News, shows Warren is the top choice of 38 percent of MoveOn's members nationwide, the top choice of voters surveyed in the early voting states of California, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
00:07:01.000There's actually a study that came out earlier this week that was pretty fascinating.
00:07:03.000What it showed is that college-educated liberals were far more politically polarized and woke than the Democratic base.
00:07:10.000So the Democratic base is much more moderate.
00:07:11.000The Democratic base doesn't have perverse perceptions of Republicans quite as much.
00:07:16.000They tend to think that Republicans, by and large, are their neighbors and decent people.
00:07:20.000The politically progressive woke base, which is largely people who are college-educated liberals who go to campus and then ensconce themselves in their cozy echo chamber.
00:07:30.000Those people are the ones who are being pulled by moveon.org, and those are the people who have been rallying around Elizabeth Warren as the candidate of progressive ideas.
00:07:39.000So Sanders is all the way down at 17%.
00:09:14.000That he has a plurality chance of being the nominee, but he certainly does not have the majority chance of being the nominee.
00:09:20.000A new poll from the AP and NORC Center for Public Affairs, however, finds that Democrats are not nearly as interested in the intersectional credentials of many of the candidates as the media are.
00:09:29.000The media are firmly convinced that they need an intersectional, a woman, somebody who's gay like Buttigieg, somebody who's black like Kamala Harris or Cory Booker.
00:09:38.000You need somebody Who is going to awaken the intersectional coalition to fight, fight, fight against the majority and all of this.
00:09:45.000But most Democrats aren't super interested in that, according to the AP, which is why Biden continues to maintain and why Biden should not be backing down or cowering at charges that he is quote unquote racist over old comments that were not in fact racist.
00:09:59.000The AP and NORC Center, they find that Democrats give a collective shrug to gender, race, and age as factors they are considering when supporting a candidate.
00:10:07.000Instead, Democratic registered voters are yearning for experience in elected office.
00:10:11.000A whopping 73% cited that as a quality that would make them more excited about supporting a presidential candidate.
00:10:16.000That's because they are using experience in office as a measure of electability, meaning you've been elected a bunch of times before.
00:10:22.000This means you are electable, and therefore you have a better chance of defeating Donald Trump.
00:10:25.000The top priority for Democrats is defeating Donald Trump now.
00:10:28.000As we've seen in the past, there is a live debate over whether that's actually a good strategy for an election.
00:10:34.000Whether it is actually smart to go for the guy who is considered most electable.
00:10:37.000In 2012, Republicans went for the supposedly most electable candidate in Mitt Romney and he proceeded to lose to Barack Obama.
00:10:44.000In 2016, Hillary Clinton was widely perceived early on as the most electable Democrat and then she proceeded to lose to Donald Trump.
00:10:51.000One of the problems with people who are perceived as electable is very often they don't generate the kind of heat necessary to inspire people to go out to vote.
00:11:00.000He could be falling into a Hillary Clinton sort of trap here, where people get comfortable, people think he's going to win, nobody's super enthused, but at least he's not Trump.
00:11:09.000That didn't work for Hillary Clinton, and you could see something similar happen for Joe Biden as well.
00:11:14.000Twenty-five candidates, of course, are running for the party's nomination and include a very, very diverse field.
00:11:19.000But four in 10 Democratic voters said only that they would be excited about voting for a woman for president, as opposed to 73 percent who said that they were looking for experience in elected office.
00:11:30.000So here are candidate qualities that ignite excitement in Democrats.
00:11:41.00026% has experience running a business.
00:11:43.00026% black, 25% Latino, 20% LGBT, 20% shares your religious beliefs.
00:11:49.000By the way, that shows you something about the Democratic base at this point, that the same number of Democrats are interested in a candidate who shares their religious beliefs as are interested in a candidate who is lesbian, gay, or bisexual, or is transgender, 17%.
00:12:02.00017% say would be interested in a candidate.
00:12:04.000That'd be a priority, if the candidate were transgender.
00:12:07.000Yeah, we'll see how all of this plays in middle America.
00:12:10.000But that's why they're favoring Biden at this point.
00:12:13.000Now, could Biden start to become the target?
00:12:16.000And we'll get to one article targeting Joe Biden in just a second.
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00:14:17.000None of the top candidates, with maybe the exception of Pete Buttigieg, who I don't think is worth very much money, are worth a lot of money.
00:14:26.000But Joe Biden is going to be excoriated for this, as we'll see.
00:14:29.000So this article suggests The Georgian-style home, once from the front of a brick version of the White House, once belonged to Alexander Haig, the former Secretary of State.
00:14:38.000Nestled on a wooded lot in McLean, the nearly 12,000 square foot residence contains five bedrooms and ten bathrooms, marble fireplaces, a gym, and a sauna.
00:14:47.000Surrounded by Washington elite and sitting high above the Potomac River, there is undeniable grandeur in the design of this home, said the British-accented agent in a video released when it went on the market in 2015.
00:14:56.000This property makes an imposing statement with parking for over 20 cars and creates a perfect setting for the most lavish of events.
00:15:02.000I do love that they added that the person who made the real estate video is British-accented.
00:15:19.000The house was purchased for $4.25 million, so that's an expensive home.
00:15:24.000In June 2016 by Mark Ein, a wealthy venture capitalist who lives next door to Joe Biden, Joe Biden and his wife Jill have been renting this house.
00:15:33.000Now, this is a very cozy arrangement that we saw with Barack Obama, for example, political backers buying a piece of property and then cutting sweetheart deals with politicians they support so the politicians can live there.
00:15:43.000Biden points out on the campaign trail he was often the poorest member of the U.S.
00:15:47.000Senate and for at least a decade has referred to himself as middle-class Joe.
00:15:50.000I've always found this also a bizarre sort of brag.
00:15:54.000I'm confused as to why you not earning a lot of money is a brag.
00:15:58.000Like, you being a poor senator, why is that better than you having earned a lot of money in the private sector by being a productive citizen and then going into public service?
00:16:05.000Like, the idea that you are very wealthy and that you make a lot of money before you join the government, as opposed to, you know, living off the government teat for 40 years, I'm not sure why that's a worse pitch than, I'm middle class, too poor, because I've been working for the government my entire life.
00:16:21.000Since leaving office, however, Joe Biden has violated his own rules.
00:16:24.000He has enjoyed an explosion of wealth, making millions of dollars largely from book deals and speaking fees that range to as much as $200,000 per speech, public documents show.
00:16:33.000As Biden traveled the country before announcing his presidential campaign this spring, his sponsors provided VIP hotel suites, town cars and professional drivers, chartered flights and travel expense reimbursements that for some of his appearances reached at least $10,000 per event, according to contracts obtained by The Post through public records requests.
00:16:51.000I mean, it is amazing to me that I have to become a Joe Biden defender under these circumstances.
00:16:56.000So far, I've defended Joe Biden from the scurrilous accusation that he's a vicious racist, and now from the scurrilous accusation that, ooh, he spoke for people who are willing to pay him money.
00:17:22.000The Washington Post found at least 65 instances in which Biden gave a speech or appeared at a book event.
00:17:27.000In at least 10 of those instances, he did not take a fee, though he was reimbursed for travel expenses.
00:17:32.000Biden's campaign said he has given less than 50 paid speeches, but declines to be more specific about exactly how many he delivered or how much he earned in total.
00:17:40.000Biden's campaign declined to comment on the record for this story.
00:17:43.000They have taken care to avoid the backlash that haunted Hillary during the 2016 Democratic primary because she gave private speeches to Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street interests.
00:17:52.000He only limited his appearances to less politically sensitive venues public documents show.
00:17:58.000Biden has been renting the McLean home.
00:17:59.000He purchased another $2.7 million, 4,800 square foot vacation house near the water in Delaware to go along with his primary residence, the nearly 7,000 square foot lakeside home he built more than two decades ago in Wilmington, Delaware.
00:18:14.000Joe Biden really enjoying himself in his post-vice presidency time.
00:18:19.000Now, Again, I don't really think that this matters very much, but for Democrats who hate wealth and think that being wealthy means that you're now evil, I guess that this is a bad thing.
00:18:29.000So Joe Biden is going to feel the impact of all of this.
00:18:34.000A review of his previous tax returns show that Biden's adjusted gross income at $215,000 in 1998, the first year he has made available, remained in that neighborhood until 2009.
00:18:44.000By Biden's final years in office, the couple's gross income totaled about $390,000 annually, and they donated nearly nothing to charity.
00:18:51.000For the 10 years preceding 2008, they donated an average of $369 annually to charity.
00:18:56.000This is one of the beautiful things about being a Democrat.
00:18:58.000It means never having to give charity.
00:19:00.000It really is delightful to be a Democrat calling for everybody else to be patriotic and give more money to the government.
00:19:05.000Also, here is the change I found in my couch cushions, and I'm going to give this to a charity.
00:19:12.000For an average of $369 annually to charity, there was never a point in my adult life where I gave that kind of money to charity.
00:19:19.000I mean, I was making way less money than Joe Biden was here, and I was giving more, and I am not the ideal of charity.
00:19:25.000There are people who give way more in charity than I do.
00:19:28.000The total increase when Biden served as VP, with donation of book proceeds to charity, clothing to Goodwill, and other contributions, The 2015 forms show he has taken out a mortgage on his Delaware home in 2013.
00:19:40.000He also took out a line of credit on his home the next year.
00:19:43.000His Delaware estate became the source of income for several years.
00:20:14.000And now they're going to say he's out of touch with the common man because he's rich.
00:20:18.000It'll be amusing to watch the fellow progressives make him their targeting, their target.
00:20:24.000It'll be very amusing to watch that, frankly.
00:20:27.000It is incredible to watch how far left the Democratic Party has moved.
00:20:30.000I mean, Joe Biden was on the progressive wing of the Democratic Party for many years, just as Nancy Pelosi was the leader of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party in Congress for many, many years, until AOC arose, at which point Nancy Pelosi became a moderate.
00:20:42.000The fact that Joe Biden is now considered the moderate in the Democratic Party is pretty astounding.
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00:22:22.000He's holding steady in a few of them at around 20 percent, but he is certainly nowhere near to challenging Joe Biden in supremacy in these polling numbers.
00:22:30.000He's basically getting doubled up by Joe Biden or surpassed by Elizabeth Warden.
00:22:34.000And that means that Bernie Sanders has to announce free stuff.
00:22:39.000It's time for Bernie Sanders to announce free stuff.
00:22:40.000So yesterday, he announced that he wants to cancel the entirety of all student loan debt in the United States and presumably also going forward.
00:22:47.000So this is going to cost like $3 trillion.
00:22:50.000He says that he wants to spend $1.6 trillion right now.
00:22:53.000The case that he made on Twitter was, if we can bail out Wall Street, then we should be able to bail out student loans.
00:23:09.000Here is Bernie Sanders yesterday, on the lawn, on CNN, telling all the younger people, first get off my loans, second I'm paying off your student loans.
00:23:20.000This proposal will make it possible for every person in America to get all of the education they need, regardless of their financial status.
00:23:31.000This means making public colleges, universities, and HBCUs tuition-free and debt-free by tripling the work-study program, expanding Pell Grants, and other financial incentives.
00:23:47.000Okay, so we're going to just pay off everybody's student loans.
00:23:52.000Now, there are a million reasons this is a crap idea.
00:23:55.000Disproportionately, the people with student loans are people who are middle income and higher income, or who will be because they have college degrees.
00:24:01.000So you are now creating a regressive tax system Whereby people who have either already paid off their student loans or people who didn't take student loans are paying for people who did take student loans.
00:24:11.000Second, you're incentivizing people to go to college without regard to their financial situation.
00:24:17.000And that's really stupid because the fact is that very often if you're going to college to major in art history at the cost of $150,000, that's not a good deal for you and it's not a good deal for the taxpayer.
00:24:26.000You should be going to college to learn a trade.
00:24:29.000And banks are a great way of telling you what exactly they think you're going to make coming out of college.
00:24:35.000You can take out those loans, but banks may charge you a higher interest rate depending on your major, if this were all privatized.
00:24:40.000One of the great tragedies of the American higher educational system is the subsidization of individual choice in education by the taxpayer.
00:24:51.000You know, we're not talking about mandatory education now.
00:24:53.000We're not talking about school vouchers for seventh graders who have to go to a school.
00:24:56.000We are talking about people going to college to major in random crap that they completely don't need, and doing so on the back of people who are already earning the taxpayer dollars, many of whom are not going to college.
00:25:08.000And this is not a rip by saying that only dumb people don't go to college or something like that.
00:25:24.000He runs a business that employs a hundred people.
00:25:26.000You don't have to go to college to be highly successful.
00:25:29.000By proclaiming that you do, and that the taxpayer should foot the bill, we're engaged in something dumb.
00:25:34.000The reality is that many other countries that heavily subsidize higher education also do what's called tracking.
00:25:39.000In Israel, they subsidize higher education.
00:25:42.000They also track the students at age 17, 18 years old, and basically, you are tracked into engineering, or you are tracked into some other field, and that way, the government basically knows that they're getting their worth out of you.
00:25:54.000Bernie Sanders, on the other hand, would simply like to throw everybody into wokeness studies at the university and then have you pay for it, and me pay for it.
00:26:22.000In fact, I want student loan reparations.
00:26:25.000I was sucker enough to pay back the government if she took a Pell Grant, which I don't remember, frankly.
00:26:30.000I was certainly sucker enough to pay back the banks that made us the loans.
00:26:32.000I feel like I deserve reparations from Bernie Sanders.
00:26:35.000If we're going to do this, then everybody who fairly paid their debt ought to be paid also.
00:26:39.000Why is it only the people who didn't pay their debt who ought to be paid?
00:26:42.000So the more irresponsible you were with your debt in taking it out and then not paying it back, the more I'm supposed to pay for it even though I already did my job by paying back my debt?
00:27:19.000True carefree feeling comes from economic security.
00:27:22.000True freedom comes in living like an adult where you bear the consequences of your actions.
00:27:26.000This actually incentivizes you to take more responsible actions.
00:27:29.000Bernie Sanders wants to disincentivize all of that.
00:27:32.000Bernie Sanders would like for everyone to have no incentive to be responsible.
00:27:36.000And you can see how this thinking leads to utter silliness.
00:27:39.000So the venerable Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, who is just a crown jewel of intellect in the United States Congress, she was out there yesterday stumping for Bernie Sanders' dumb plan.
00:27:52.000And she says that she told a very, very sad story, a very sad story about a girl who got into a dream college, but she couldn't afford to go.
00:28:06.000She was about three or four years younger than me.
00:28:09.000And she had gotten into all of these prestigious universities, but she was given no student loan assistance.
00:28:17.000And she truly felt, at 16, 17 years old, she felt that the decision of college was so important that she felt that she needed to consider taking on $250,000 worth of debt to go to college.
00:28:32.000And I think that in and of itself illustrates the absurdity of our education financing system.
00:28:45.000So she had to consider whether to take out debt to pay for an education that would presumably give her a calling card so she could make more money afterward and then pay back the debt.
00:28:53.000When you take out a mortgage for a house, it's because you think that the house is either going to accrue in value or you're going to pay off the mortgage.
00:29:13.000Not only because Joe Biden is living there and might go out on a balcony and shoot a shotgun into the air or something, but also because I can't afford that house.
00:29:21.000Why would I go and buy a house I can't afford?
00:29:24.000Making responsible financial decisions is part of being an adult.
00:29:36.000Reality doesn't fulfill all of our dreams.
00:29:39.000But it seems to me that, suggesting that there's something broken in our finance system, there is, by the way, something broken in our student loan finance system.
00:29:45.000And that is the involvement of the federal government in the first place, which has led to a radical increase in the number of people trying to get into college, which has led to a radical increase in the number of administrators, not a radical increase in supply, and thus, a rising price.
00:29:58.000It's dramatically rising prices in the student loan markets despite, and not despite, because of federal subsidies.
00:30:04.000That's why you're seeing these rising prices.
00:30:06.000But if the idea is that this poor girl achieved, got into a college and then had to take out student debt, which presumably she will then pay off, maybe she should assess whether it is worth the debt or not.
00:30:17.000The fact that we take it for granted that it is worth the debt to go to college is very silly.
00:30:26.000You wouldn't do it with any other form of debt.
00:30:27.000You wouldn't say, listen, my dream is to own that enormous house right there, and so I'm taking on $4 million of debt on a $100,000 salary.
00:30:33.000You wouldn't do that because this would make you a fool.
00:30:38.000It's just because there's been a lie that's been promulgated by our media and our politicians that if you go to college, you are instantly guaranteed a six-figure income when you come out, no matter what garbage you major in.
00:30:47.000And it's silly, and it's stupid, and it's counterproductive.
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00:33:13.000Despite the fact that AOC is the youngest elected member of Congress, despite the fact that AOC is completely unqualified for her position on any intellectual or governmental level, despite the fact that AOC earns close to $180,000 a year and lives in a luxury apartment in Washington, D.C., she's a victim.
00:33:56.000A year ago, I was waiting tables in a restaurant, and it was literally easier for me to become the youngest woman in American history elected to Congress than it is to pay off my student loan debt.
00:34:19.000I have student loans at poor little me, and therefore bail me out.
00:34:23.000I mean, talk about a privileged mentality.
00:34:26.000I voluntarily took out student loan debt, and then I used my college degree to brag about how smart I am, because I have a degree in international relations, where apparently I learned things like Jeremy Corbyn is wonderful, and we have concentration camps on the border, and also I have a minor in economics, where I learned things like capitalism is very bad, and also it's some sort of oppression to grow certain types of vegetables in Brooklyn or something.
00:34:46.000And then she stands around talking, Oh, poor little AOC.
00:34:53.000OK, so if her contention is that it was easier for her to get elected to Congress than to pay off her student loan debt, this is an excellent case for her not being in Congress.
00:35:01.000It's an excellent case, and I will tell you why.
00:35:04.000If you are unable to pay off your student loan debt, I have a proposal.
00:35:07.000If you are unable or unwilling to pay off your student loan debt, you should not be a representative in the public sphere.
00:35:13.000Number one, you got skin in the game and you're bailing yourself out.
00:35:15.000So if you're bailing yourself out, that's not great.
00:35:18.000That's not a great thing, because here we're not talking about you keeping more of your own money.
00:35:22.000We're talking about you being forgiven debt that you voluntarily took out.
00:35:26.000She's basically Michael Scott in the office, running out in public, shouting, It's ridiculous.
00:35:34.000Like, if you can't pay for your student loan debt, don't take it out.
00:35:37.000And also, your voters should know that, like, really, if it was easier for you to be elected to Congress than to pay off your student loan debt, that doesn't say a lot about you.
00:35:47.000Maybe you should have worked on paying off your student loan debt like a responsible human being.
00:35:51.000By the way, how much of that $175,000 to be in Congress, which is basically a part-time job?
00:36:21.000It's not a giveaway to the rich to give a bunch of people who graduated college and voluntarily took out debt Forgiveness for their loans, as opposed to, you know, low-income people who have to take out loans from payday lenders and stuff.
00:36:32.000No, we should definitely make sure that people who graduated from Harvard with $200,000 in debt, that their loans must be paid off.
00:36:38.000That's not a giveaway to the rich, says Ilhan Omar.
00:36:41.000What my bill does is simple as it is revolutionary, as Senator Sanders says.
00:36:47.000It cancels all of 1.6 trillion student loan debt.
00:36:53.000No exceptions, no questions asked, full cancellation.
00:37:19.000You know the reason it's absolute nonsense?
00:37:21.000Because many rich people do take out student loan debt, specifically because they want their kids to have to pay off the debt.
00:37:27.000Okay, also, many people take out student loan debt because the student loans are actually really low interest rates, so it doesn't make a lot of sense to pay cash out of pocket now, when you could incur a low interest rate over time.
00:37:37.000Also, The idea is that you have increased your earning potential by going to college.
00:37:42.000So the question isn't, were you rich when you went into college and took out the loan debt?
00:37:45.000The question is, are you richer coming out?
00:37:47.000Because that was the whole bargain, wasn't it?
00:37:49.000Is that you were going to have a higher earning potential and therefore you can pay off the debt.
00:37:52.000None of this makes any sense, but that's okay.
00:37:59.000I feel more free knowing that there are a bunch of Democrats who are going to come to my house with a gun if I don't pay taxes to pay for AOC student loan debt.
00:38:05.000Makes me feel more free, I can tell you that.
00:38:07.000And herein lies the pitch for Joe Biden, right?
00:38:10.000In the end, here's the pitch for Joe Biden.
00:38:12.000Joe Biden said yesterday, listen, I'm not saying free stuff for everybody, that this is a revolutionary statement in modern American politics.
00:38:21.000The thing is that the idea, as we strengthen the African-American community throughout this country, what we do is we not only make it better for them, we make it better for all of America.
00:38:32.000And to those people who are cynical about this, I want to point out, we save billions of dollars in the process.
00:39:01.000Now, what's fascinating about the current race is that when you look at the racial breakdown among the Democrats, it really is fascinating.
00:39:09.000Joe Biden has a heavy share of the black vote, and this is why he is off to such a strong start.
00:39:13.000If you look at his share of the white vote, It actually ain't great.
00:39:15.000He's running absolutely competitively with Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders among white Americans.
00:39:20.000Among black Americans, he is way the hell ahead.
00:39:22.000He has something like 40% of all the black vote in the Democratic primaries, which means that he walks away with the nomination.
00:39:28.000And there have been attacks on Biden over race, right?
00:39:31.000Ta-Nehisi Coates was out there saying that Joe Biden shouldn't be the nominee.
00:39:34.000Al Sharpton, who for some reason is still considered an expert that people are looking to for moral guidance, despite the fact that he's one of the worst race baiters in modern American history and a garbage heap of a human being.
00:39:45.000The man who was originally made famous by the Tijuana Browley hoax, a man who is deeply anti-Semitic.
00:39:52.000You know, pin back your yarmulkes and come on over to my house, he said, right before the Crown Heights riots of 1991.
00:39:56.000He's shouting about diamond merchants right before Freddie's fashion market's burned down in the 1990s.
00:40:02.000This guy is considered somebody that everybody has to go visit and pay homage to.
00:40:08.000Well, Al Sharpton last night said that Joe Biden needs to apologize for suggesting that he has to work with people with whom he disagrees, including in the past segregation of senators.
00:40:21.000This is about showing that you're sensitive and that you regard and respect the feelings of people that you want to govern and say, you know, I can grow and I can learn that if I make a mistake, even if it's unintentional, I can say that's a mistake.
00:40:36.000I'm sorry if I hurt somebody there, but let's move on and bring the country together to normalize But it's having no impact on Joe Biden.
00:41:38.000At the same time, the racial attacks are working on Pete Buttigieg.
00:41:41.000So Pete Buttigieg, who was until five seconds ago the darling of the media when they decided to change their allegiance from Buttigieg to Elizabeth Warren wholesale.
00:41:49.000Pete Buttigieg has been confronted by angry protesters in South Bend, Indiana after a black man who was allegedly breaking into cars, was confronted by police, turned around, allegedly was carrying a knife.
00:41:59.000There's no dash cam footage or camera footage from body armor or anything from the police.
00:42:17.000Well, Pete Buttigieg went back to South Bend, Indiana to deal with this, and then he just got shellacked by his own citizens, and the media are burying him.
00:43:00.000When we get retaliated against for fighting against y'all, how can we trust y'all?
00:43:03.000OK, so the View went after him wholesale yesterday, and I think that this is indicative of where the Democratic mindset is going with Pete Buttigieg.
00:44:09.000And it was an answer that he gave to several people that she spoke to.
00:44:13.000So that in and of itself not being able to answer that question is problematic and it's making some of these folks that Hannah spoke to think that he's not serious and that he's kind of naive about his interactions with the African-American community and this what's going on in South Bend is underscoring that right now.
00:44:31.000So the attack is still useful, but it's only working on Buttigieg, not on Biden.
00:45:53.000So if you are a fan of the John Wick series, as you all know, I think that John Wick, in retrospect, some of the great movies in the history of mankind, The first 15 minutes of John Wick 3 is just nothing but pure wonder and joy.
00:46:06.000There is a movie that was made back in 2011.
00:46:08.000It's an Indonesian film, and it was directed by Gareth Edwards, who has gone on to direct the 2014 Godzilla, which actually is a really good film.
00:46:19.000It's effectively Die Hard with Karate.
00:46:24.000Basically, it is, the entire premise is that there's a criminal who lives on the top building of this, the top floor of this building, and the cops go in and they have to get to the top floor of the building, dodging all of the criminals who live in the building and are directed by the criminal at the top.
00:47:51.000So, I have a friend who works over at Vox.
00:47:53.000I'm Jane Koston, and Jane and I disagree on an enormous amount about politics, but we have very similar taste in movies, and we're agreeing that this is one of the great films in the history of film.
00:48:14.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:48:20.000Okay, so the suppression of speech continues apace.
00:48:22.000Yesterday, James O'Keefe and his group over at Project Veritas unleashed video that showed a Google insider talking specifically about how Google has been manipulating its search results, how top members of the Google brass are interested in preventing another Trump election in 2020, and so they've been manipulating things from behind the scenes.
00:48:40.000The amount of trust in social media is declining rapidly, and thanks to videos like this, it definitely should.
00:48:45.000Here's a little bit of what it sounded like.
00:48:47.000They're a highly biased political machine that is bent on never letting somebody like Donald Trump come to power again.
00:48:54.0002020 is certainly on top of my old organization, Justin Safety, top of mind.
00:49:00.000They've been working on it since 2016 to make sure we're ready for 2020.
00:49:04.000Elizabeth Warren is saying that we should break up Google.
00:49:10.000That will not make it better, it will make it worse, because now all these smaller companies who don't have the same resources that we do will be charged with preventing the next worst situation.
00:49:20.000So Jen Janai is the head of responsible innovation at Google.
00:49:22.000And she's making the case that you can't break up Google because if you have too many small companies, then those small companies won't be able to police and stop Trump in 2020 the same way that they couldn't stop Trump in 2016.
00:49:34.000We're going to see more of this because basically the Democrats, the Republicans are militating, I think, you know, wrongly in terms of government And the headline over at Huffington Post, as we speak, right now, is all about shareholders at Mastercard trying to get Mastercard to refuse to work with people they don't like.
00:49:49.000down speech they don't particularly like.
00:49:51.000And the headline over at Huffington Post, as we speak right now, is all about shareholders at MasterCard trying to get MasterCard to refuse to work with companies, to work with people they don't like.
00:50:03.000Now, there are a lot of people I don't like that these people also don't like.
00:50:08.000But the Orwellian idea of having credit card companies and banks, you're starting to see this too, banks and credit card companies decline to do business, not with violent organizations, that's one thing, or organizations that sponsor violence or that violate the law, but with organizations that express opinions they don't like.
00:50:24.000So what, are we now going to have credit cards that are available by every different political orientation?
00:50:29.000So now if you voted for Donald Trump, you won't be able to use MasterCard?
00:50:43.000The hard left says, I'm a white supremacist, even though I hate white supremacists, think they're evil, they threaten my life on a regular basis, and I have full-time security because of them.
00:50:51.000So do I trust these folks to draw the lines?
00:50:54.000No, I don't trust these folks to draw the lines.
00:50:55.000Huffington Post says, for months, MasterCard has tried to suffocate the creation of an internal committee that would monitor payments to white supremacists and far-right extremists.
00:51:03.000See, they're already broadening it out.
00:51:04.000But on Tuesday, renegade shareholders will finally force a vote on the matter during the company's annual shareholder meeting.
00:51:09.000Like most credit card companies, MasterCard is hesitant to surrender profits by blocking violent white supremacists from using its services unless laws are being broken.
00:51:17.000Notice the coverage here from Huffington Post.
00:51:28.000Mastercard currently processes payments for several extremist groups, including the League of the South, National Policy Institute, Proud Boys, Stormfront, VDARE, Identity Europa, Occidental Dissent, and Radix Journal, according to Color of Change.
00:51:39.000I don't like any of those organizations.
00:51:42.000That does not mean that we can withstand a climate in which the left gets to decide which companies get to work with which groups, even if those groups are not breaking the law.
00:52:10.000Okay, in any case, back to the topic at hand.
00:52:14.000So when it comes to the attempts to use major companies to shut down people who you don't like, this is truly dangerous to America's discourse and it kills all trust.
00:52:25.000You're gonna end up with really radicalized politics simply because if you're banned from using certain types of credit card, where are you gonna go?
00:52:32.000To the credit card that presumably will take you.
00:52:34.000That's why I'm not in favor of deplatforming.
00:52:42.000Don't ban ideas, even ideas that I think are crappy.
00:52:44.000And by the way, I've been targeted by these folks far more than anybody writing for the Huffington Post, and it ain't close.
00:52:49.000Okay, other type of things that I hate today.
00:52:52.000So, The media are asking themselves why they're not covering the allegations of E. Jean Carroll Moore.
00:52:57.000E. Jean Carroll is the gossip columnist who claims that back in the 1990s, Donald Trump forcibly raped her.
00:53:02.000It's the most serious accusation against Trump.
00:53:04.000So the media are trying to lump this in with all of the other allegations against Trump because there are 16 or 21 other allegations.
00:53:11.000against President Trump, depending on the numbers that you use.
00:53:13.000Some of those allegations range from he kissed me, he forcibly kissed me in a closet, to he tried to touch my genitals or did touch my genitals.
00:53:22.000This is the most serious allegation because it is an allegation of forcible penetrative rape.
00:53:26.000And she suggests that Donald Trump took her into a dressing room at a Bergdorf and then forcibly raped her.
00:53:34.000So this is by far the most serious allegation.
00:53:37.000And you can take all these allegations seriously and say, as I have said for a very long time, that President Trump has a long record of being garbage with women, which he does, and still say that you still have to take each allegation as per the allegations.
00:53:50.000So I think many of the allegations about him forcibly kissing women, for example, those seem credible to me.
00:53:55.000I can't say I think that this allegation Does not raise significant red flags.
00:54:00.000And the reason that I think it raises significant red flags is the behavior of E. Jean Carroll here does not bespeak a level of credibility.
00:54:09.000She took a picture on the cover of New York Magazine wearing the jacket she says that President Trump raped her in.
00:54:13.000She says she refuses to turn it over to police for DNA analysis so we can determine whether that is true or not.
00:54:19.000She said yesterday that she would not actually be attempting to push prosecution because it would distract from rape at the border or something.
00:54:27.000And then yesterday, she suggested she did something so bizarre on Anderson Cooper on CNN that Anderson Cooper had to randomly cut to a commercial.
00:55:33.000But it is amazing to watch the media pretend that the allegations by this woman are as substantiated as some of the other allegations against Trump.
00:55:42.000And these are much more serious allegations than some of the other allegations.
00:55:45.000I mean, there is a level of seriousness that it tends to penetrate a forcible rape that is not quite the same as he grabbed my face and kissed me and kissed me on the lips at a public event, which are some of these other allegations.
00:56:04.000You can't brush her off as just one more.
00:56:05.000You have to assess the allegations on their own merit.
00:56:08.000What the Democrats and many in the media are trying to do is wrap this all up into a ball and say, okay, well, if he did the X, then he did Y. He may have done Y, I don't know.
00:56:15.000You don't know, nobody knows, except for Eugene Carroll and Trump, presumably.
00:56:19.000But if the allegation is that he has done a lot of things before, therefore he did this thing, You know, in court, we don't actually allow that.
00:56:27.000Evidence of past crimes is not actually admissible in court specifically because you're supposed to assess whether a thing occurred on the basis of whether the thing occurred.
00:56:36.000Here is Chris Cuomo, though, saying that we shouldn't just brush this one off.
00:56:39.000No one's brushing it off, but you do have to listen to what the lady's saying, and she is not helping herself here.
00:56:44.000This prominent journalist accuses the sitting president of rape.
00:56:49.000This is the most extreme accusation we've had against this president.
00:56:54.000And it has had almost no impact, really, on our dialogue.
00:56:57.000If people are so appalled by this president's nonchalance and the wild number of women who say they were attacked or assaulted, or in this case, raped, why isn't this most serious account to date?
00:57:10.000When others were covered in large ways, why is this not front page news?
00:57:15.000Okay, the answer is that it's not front page news, really, because this lady has undercut her own credibility a bunch of times.
00:57:22.000This would be front page news if she weren't going on national television and suggesting that she's not prosecuting because she doesn't want to distract from rape at the border.
00:57:30.000It would be front page news if she weren't coming out with a book next week after staying silent on this thing for 20 years, despite the fact that Trump was a public figure in the 1990s, remained a public figure all the way up to his presidency, and was hit with a wave of these allegations in 2016.
00:57:41.000And it would be front page news if she weren't going on Anderson Cooper and then saying that rape is sexy.
00:57:47.000And that she doesn't, she says, I wasn't thrown on the ground and ravaged.
00:58:01.000You got to actually look at the evidence in these cases before you decide whether or not this actually, this particular instance, and that doesn't undercut the generalized argument about what President Trump is with women.
00:58:14.000But the reason people are not taking this allegation with the same seriousness as some of the others in 2016 is because, frankly, some allegations are more credible than others.
00:58:21.000This one seems less credible to most people.
00:58:23.000I think that there's a reason why that is.
00:58:25.000And it's not simply political partisanship.
00:58:27.000OK, we'll be back here a little bit later today with a couple additional hours of content, or we'll see you here tomorrow.