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00:00:00.000President Trump declares his trade war on hold, the White House cracks down on CNN, and Republicans go after Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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00:02:09.000Okay, so yesterday was an epic day of Good Trump, Bad Trump, which is a great excuse for us to bring back our Good Trump, Bad Trump jingle.
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00:02:33.000Well, I've been talking for several weeks about the silliness of trade wars, about why you don't rally tariffs, why you don't increase tariffs in order to increase prices on your own citizens and increase prices on inputs and sink your own economy simply to punish other countries.
00:02:47.000The president, however, likes tariffs a lot.
00:03:14.000European Union nations will be open to the United States and at the same time benefiting by everything we are doing for them.
00:03:19.000There is great warmth and feeling in the room.
00:03:21.000A breakthrough has been quickly made that nobody thought possible.
00:03:24.000Actually, I mean, to be a little fair, pretty much everybody thought that was possible, so long as we just said, we're not going to raise our tariffs and you're not going to raise your tariffs and then we get to be friends again.
00:03:31.000He says, great to be back on track with the European Union.
00:03:33.000This was a big day for free and fair trade.
00:03:36.000Now, it was a good day for free and fair trade.
00:03:39.000One of the big questions here is whether it was Trump's tough talk with the EU that caused them to lower some of their tariffs on American products.
00:03:45.000That is, I would say, unclear at best, just to be completely honest.
00:04:11.000Was this just a negotiating ploy or was this the president speaking his true feelings on tariffs and then his administration sort of fixing it in the back room?
00:04:19.000Either way, the outcome is the same and the outcome is good.
00:04:21.000The Wall Street Journal editorial board was very excited about this this morning.
00:04:24.000They said the meeting on Trade Wednesday between President Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker had all the makings of a potential crackup, but in the event it provided the best economic news in weeks, financial markets were clearly pleased as stocks rose across the board before the closing bell on the statements by the two presidents after their White House session.
00:04:42.000The two sides essentially declared a tariff truce, pending negotiations on a larger trade deal between the 28-nation European Union and the U.S.
00:04:49.000Mr. Trump agreed to step back from his threat of 25% tariffs on European car imports, while the two sides pledged to resolve the current U.S.
00:04:55.000steel and aluminum tariffs and Europe's retaliatory levies on U.S.
00:04:59.000Europe also agreed to buy more soybeans immediately and much more liquefied natural gas from the United States in the future as its import capacity expands.
00:05:07.000Particularly is a good thing that the EU is now going to import a bunch of American liquefied natural gas.
00:05:12.000It cuts off the market for the Russians who are increasing their power and their influence in the European Union by shipping all sorts of natural gas to that area.
00:05:21.000LNG export capacity is expected to nearly triple by 2020 to 9.6 billion cubic feet a day as more export terminals come online and the fracking boom continues.
00:05:31.000Well, I wish that he would extend it to auto industrial goods.
00:05:34.000I don't think that we should maintain all of these trade barriers with regard to autos and motorcycles.
00:05:48.000But it is good that everybody is back at the table.
00:05:51.000The Wall Street Journal points out that Europe has a 10% tariff on U.S.
00:05:55.000charges only 2.5% on cars made in Europe, but we charge a 25% tariff on imported trucks and Europe will want the United States to take that to zero, which won't please Ford and U.S.
00:06:05.000Let's all hope that this is all honest and everybody wants to get to zero tariffs and zero subsidies and that we all want to get to a perfectly free trade scenario.
00:06:55.000And if a deal got made, the president gets credit for it, no matter what tactics he used in order to engage in it.
00:07:01.000Now, did we actually have to threaten the EU with all these really high tariffs in order to get them to lower some of their barriers on soybeans?
00:07:36.000First, because we abandoned the Trans-Pacific Partnership, that'd be TPP.
00:07:39.000There are problems with TPP, as negotiated by Barack Obama, but
00:07:57.000I think it was a mistake, I said so at the time, to scrap TPP.
00:08:00.000I think that instead, President Trump should have gone in and opened up some of those provisions to congressional approval, obviously.
00:08:06.000Also, President Trump continues to muck about with NAFTA, and he's unclear on whether we are going to allow NAFTA to move forward or not.
00:08:14.000Everybody else is creating these great trade blocs, and the United States is sort of picking and choosing trade deals, some of which are beneficial and some of which seem relatively minimal.
00:08:28.000And President Trump gets credit for the EU lowering its trade barriers, even if I think that this sort of threatening language with regard to tariffs is unnecessary.
00:08:35.000We'll also have to see the final product.
00:08:36.000We will have to see the final product of the agreement.
00:08:44.000More good Trump was the Trump administration, officials from the Trump administration, coming forward and making clear that American policy on Russia is not going to weaken anytime soon.
00:08:54.000So we've been hearing ever since the Helsinki conference last week between President Trump and Vladimir Putin, we've been hearing that the president of the United States is weak on Russia.
00:09:04.000We hear this from various members of the Democratic caucus, that Trump
00:09:11.000Well, that actually is not true, as evidenced by the policy of the administration.
00:09:15.000Now, I suggested in the last couple of weeks that there is this massive gap between President Trump's rhetoric and the actions of his administration.
00:09:21.000And it's one of the reasons, I think, that the left can't understand why so many conservatives support President Trump.
00:09:26.000They say, well, President Trump says crazy things you'd never accept from Barack Obama.
00:10:46.000Today, the Trump administration is releasing what we're calling the Crimea Declaration.
00:10:50.000One part reads as follows, quote, the United States calls on Russia to respect the principles to which it has long claimed to adhere and to end its occupation of Crimea.
00:11:13.000Comparison matters here, because there is a narrative that has developed that somehow President Trump is weak on Russia, when in fact the converse is true.
00:11:22.000OK, and then Bob Menendez, the terrible senator from New Jersey,
00:11:27.000He starts trying to go after Pompeo, suggesting, of course, that President Trump is indeed soft on Russia, and Pompeo just destroys him.
00:11:33.000Senator, I'm telling you what he had a conversation with Vladimir Putin about, and I'm telling you what U.S.
00:13:28.000President Trump's policies continue to be quite good, even if his rhetoric continues to be not so good.
00:13:33.000Now, all we need is for his rhetoric to actually mirror his policies.
00:13:36.000If President Trump's rhetoric mirrored his policies, he'd be in a lot better shape right now.
00:13:40.000And I say this as somebody who wants the president of the United States to succeed, because I like a lot of the policies his administration is putting in place.
00:13:47.000One of the problems, however, that I'm seeing is, and this is where the bad Trump comes in,
00:13:53.000The president's rhetoric does matter when it comes to some of the polling data.
00:13:56.000There was a poll yesterday that shows Democrats are now plus 12 in the congressional generic ballot.
00:15:34.000Instead, he sort of preemptively ratchets up pressure because he likes tariffs, for example.
00:15:37.000And then when the tariffs come down, it's unclear whether it was because of Trump's action or because we could have gotten this deal in the first place when it comes to Russia.
00:15:44.000The president could say, listen, Russia meddled with the 2016 election.
00:15:47.000It did not have an impact on the final outcome.
00:15:49.000But we are going to stop all that because we are tougher on Russia than the prior administration was, no matter what the media have to say.
00:16:21.000Let's talk about some actual bad Trump yesterday.
00:16:24.000So there's a big news story yesterday where a woman named Caitlin Collins, who works for CNN, she formerly worked for the Daily Caller, she was essentially barred from the White House.
00:16:33.000She was denied access to an open press event in the Rose Garden.
00:16:36.000Because she was the pool reporter earlier in the day and she asked President Trump some questions that apparently he didn't like.
00:16:42.000According to CNN, they said, we demand better.
00:16:44.000The network said Collins was told by Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications Bill Shine and Press Secretary Sarah Sanders that her questions were inappropriate.
00:16:51.000Now, she was representing the White House press pool at the time.
00:16:53.000The way this works, for folks who don't understand, is that it's not like a bevy of reporters just get to follow President Trump around.
00:16:59.000There's usually one reporter who's assigned for part of the day to ask the president questions in sort of smaller areas, and that person's questions are then distributed with the answers to the entire press pool.
00:17:12.000It happens at rallies all the time because all the networks basically agree that they're going to cooperate in asking these questions and then distributing the answers.
00:17:26.000Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that Collins, quote, "...sorted questions and refused to leave, despite being asked repeatedly to do so."
00:17:32.000Subsequently, our staff informed her she was not welcome to participate in the next event, but made clear that any other journalist from her network could attend.
00:17:39.000She said it didn't matter to her because she hadn't planned to be there anyway.
00:17:41.000To be clear, we support a free press and ask that everyone be respectful of the presidency and guests at the White House.
00:17:46.000Here is Caitlin Collins talking about this yesterday on CNN.
00:17:50.000This, of course, turned into a big blow up.
00:17:52.000So I was blocked from attending an open press event here at the White House because the White House did not like the questions I posed to President Trump earlier in the day during an event in the Oval Office with the President of the European Commission.
00:18:07.000Okay, so it was an open press event, and she was calling out some questions on behalf of the press pool, and then Trump basically booted her from a future White House press conference at the Rose Garden.
00:18:19.000And this became a huge story, because the idea was, she asked tough questions, Trump didn't like it, and now they're going to prevent her from entering.
00:18:24.000Now, Trump says it was because she was rude.
00:18:26.000Well, if that were the case, then Jim Acosta should be barred for life from the White House.
00:18:29.000I mean, the guy's rude every single day.
00:18:31.000But that's not the way any of this should work.
00:18:33.000Now, in the name of consistency, I think the press should be aggressive with the executive branch.
00:18:37.000I like it when the press is aggressive with the executive branch.
00:18:42.000And I think they should have been much more aggressive with Obama.
00:18:43.000My critique is the double standard, that they weren't aggressive with Obama, and they were aggressive with President Bush, and they are aggressive with President Trump.
00:18:51.000As a member of the White House press pool, Fox stands firmly with CNN on this issue of access.
00:18:54.000So far, no response from the White House.
00:19:19.000Okay, Brett Baier got all sorts of crap for this, but again, you should want a press asking questions.
00:19:24.000Your real critique of the press should be that they didn't ask questions to Democrats, not that Republicans should be able to boot people.
00:19:29.000Now, I'll show you an example of the double standard here with regard to the press coverage.
00:19:34.000So, this was an event at the White House, and this person was called a heckler.
00:19:38.000He's a transgender quote-unquote heckler who is present at some
00:19:43.000Press conference that Obama was doing with Joe Biden, and this transgender reporter started asking questions about the deportation of LGBT immigrants, and Obama tossed the person to the cheers of members of the press.
00:20:18.000Now, this was characterized as a heckler.
00:20:21.000The same thing happened to Neil Munro.
00:20:22.000You remember Neil Munro was a reporter for the Daily Caller, and at a White House press conference in the Rose Garden, Neil Munro called out a question to President Obama.
00:20:29.000The entire press sided against Neil Munro, and Neil Munro was asked to apologize to the President of the United States.
00:20:35.000My feeling is that the press should be as abrasive with the president as they feel like being.
00:20:38.000I like the back and forth of politics.
00:20:40.000I think that this sort of abrasiveness from the press is good, not bad.
00:20:43.000I held that standard when Obama was president.
00:20:46.000I hold that standard when President Trump is president.
00:20:48.000This is a bad look for the White House, and it's something that they probably should not have done.
00:20:51.000So that is some bad Trump right there.
00:20:54.000I think it's easily fixable, but it creates a perception that Trump is not pro-free press, which I think is at least somewhat inaccurate.
00:21:04.000I want to talk about some bad GOP because I think that some of my friends in the house, people I like, people who I know, are making a bad move in the House of Representatives.
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00:22:27.000The GOP has decided to file articles of impeachment against Rod Rosenstein.
00:22:32.000So Rod Rosenstein, who is the Deputy Attorney General, he's in hot water because a lot of the members of the House, the Republicans, are very upset that the Deputy Attorney General is not fast enough to turn over records from the DOJ with regard to, for example, the FISA application for Carter Page, as well as records of the Trump-Russia collusion investigation.
00:22:52.000And they're very unhappy with the DOJ for all of this.
00:22:54.000So yesterday, House Freedom Caucus leaders Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan, both of whom I'm friendly with, both of whom I like, escalated their fight with the Justice Department, introducing a resolution to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
00:23:05.000The resolution is not a sign the House is about to vote to impeach Rosenstein, as House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte and House Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy, who have been pushing for documents from the DOJ, did not sign on.
00:23:17.000The House is leaving for a month-long recess after Thursday.
00:23:19.000This is the part where you start to say,
00:23:22.000And I say that with all due respect to representatives who I like and I'm friendly with.
00:23:26.000It looks like a publicity ploy if you can't get an actual vote on the impeachment, if it just looks like, we're going to file for impeachment and then we won't hold a vote.
00:23:34.000You know, if you're actually going to try and impeach somebody, you got to try and impeach them.
00:23:37.000By the way, very few people have ever been impeached in the United States.
00:23:41.000Like 19 people in the entire course of the history of the country have been actually impeached by the House.
00:23:46.000And I think only eight have been convicted by the Senate and removed from office.
00:23:49.000The resolution is the strongest step that conservative allies of President Trump have taken in their feud with Rosenstein and the Justice Department.
00:23:55.000In a statement, Meadows said Rosenstein should be impeached because of the Justice Department's stonewalling of congressional subpoenas and hiding information from Congress and for signing one of the FISA Act
00:24:05.000Well, that last excuse, right, that Rosenstein signed on to the FISA warrant renewal application, I find that uncompelling given that we don't actually know what's in that warrant application right now, right?
00:24:22.000We've only seen the hundreds of pages of redactions, so we don't actually know what was in there.
00:24:26.000So before you impeach a guy over signing a warrant renewal that may in fact not be bad, you may want to see what's behind the redactions.
00:24:32.000There's also a bigger problem for the Republicans here.
00:24:35.000And that bigger problem is pretty simple.
00:24:37.000It turns out that Rod Rosenstein can be trumped.
00:24:41.000President Trump can simply release all these documents tomorrow.
00:24:44.000Rod Rosenstein is a member of the executive branch.
00:24:46.000The DOJ is a department of the executive branch.
00:24:48.000All Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan have to do is walk across the street to the White House, go into the Oval Office, and say, Mr. President, tell Rod Rosenstein that it's his job to release these documents or declassify them yourself.
00:25:02.000Trump hasn't done that, which suggests to me that there is something weird going on.
00:25:06.000I've asked members of the House about this, like, why is it that President Trump doesn't just release this information?
00:25:10.000And then members of the House, people like Devin Nunes will tell me, they will say, well, because President Trump doesn't want to interfere in the investigation.
00:25:18.000Congress is going to interfere in the investigation by going after members of the Trump cabinet, right, going after members of the Trump team, but Trump can't interfere in the investigation by releasing documents into public view?
00:25:30.000And I think that it's, I think it's, even Andrew McCarthy over at National Review, who's been a legal booster of the president in the Mueller investigation, he says basically the same thing.
00:25:38.000He says, you know, going after Rosenstein is obviously of secondary consideration.
00:25:48.000And then President Trump nominates somebody new to fill that slot.
00:25:51.000And then the Republicans approve that somebody new.
00:25:53.000And that person walks through the front door and fires Bob Mueller.
00:25:56.000You think the blowback's not going to be on Trump?
00:25:58.000What do you think is going to cause more blowback?
00:25:59.000Republicans impeaching Rosenstein, replacing him and having that person fire Mueller, or the President of the United States just declassifying documents so that the entire public can see them?
00:26:07.000The answer, of course, is that the first is going to be significantly more burdensome to the future of a Trump presidency than the President just releasing all of these documents himself.
00:26:16.000Also, it's worth noting, you know how many impeachment articles were filed against members of the Obama administration when Republicans were in charge of Congress?
00:26:36.000But if you're only going to file for contempt against Eric Holder, who is a lot worse than Rod Rosenstein, I'm not sure why Rosenstein gets impeached under a Republican president you can talk to, but Eric Holder, who considered himself Barack Obama's wingman, and on behalf of whom Barack Obama declared executive privilege, does not get impeached.
00:27:55.000One of the many political ironies of our time is that feminism's most powerful cultural moment has coincided with the rise of extreme misogyny.
00:28:02.000While women protest, run for office, and embrace the movement for gender equality in record numbers, a generation of young, mostly white men are being radicalized into believing that their problems stem from women's progress.
00:28:14.000I don't think that men believe that women in the workplace is a real problem or women being able to choose what they want to do with their sex lives.
00:28:22.000I don't think there are a lot of young men who object to that, frankly.
00:28:24.000I don't think there are a lot of men who are sitting around thinking, man, these women, I wish they'd go back to the kitchen.
00:28:30.000This is a feminist canard that all of us are sitting here going, yeah, you know what?
00:28:33.000I wish my wife were barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen.
00:28:35.000It turns out that my wife can be barefoot, pregnant in the kitchen and work a full-time job as a doctor.
00:28:39.000Wow, lots of things happening right there.
00:28:41.000It turns out she doesn't like wearing slippers.
00:28:50.000But there's this idea from the feminist left that young men who feel emasculated by the feminist movement, they feel emasculated because they fear women's empowerment.
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00:32:36.000Alrighty, so continuing on with our good friend Jessica Valenti.
00:32:39.000She says, Whether it's misogynist terrorism, the rash of young men feeling sexually entitled to women, or the persistent stereotype of real men as powerful and violent, it's never been clearer that American boys are in desperate need of intervention.
00:32:51.000They are in desperate need of intervention because you have robbed them of purpose.
00:32:53.000As I've said many times, when feminists say things like, teach boys not to rape,
00:32:58.000You know, I'm, I think, a pretty good guy.
00:33:00.000When I say a pretty good guy, I don't mean I'm nice to people because, come on, I'm not nice to people.
00:33:03.000But I'm... The reality is that I was a virgin until I was married.
00:33:08.000I have very high sexual standards for myself, and I did all the way up until the time that I was married.
00:33:14.000I am a... I've been married for 10 years already.
00:33:18.000I have two children under the age of five.
00:33:20.000I spend an awful lot of time with them.
00:33:21.000Every single day, I take care of them.
00:33:50.000And the answer is, you are your brother's keeper, and you are your sister's keeper, and you are taught that you are to protect yourself, and your family, and your civilization, right?
00:33:57.000These are the things that make good men.
00:33:59.000Men who are robbed of purpose become destructive.
00:34:01.000Men who are robbed of purpose turn that aggression outward.
00:34:04.000Men who are robbed of purpose tend to hurt others in ways that they are not even thinking about.
00:34:08.000They tend to treat other people as objects.
00:34:11.000You want to know why men are treating young women as objects?
00:34:13.000Because they've not been taught that they are supposed to have responsibility for those women.
00:34:17.000I don't mean they're supposed to own them.
00:34:19.000I don't mean they're supposed to control them.
00:34:21.000I mean, they're taught that they're supposed to protect women.
00:34:23.000If you're not taught to protect women, if you have a bunch of young men who are never taught that their job is to protect women, and they are taught that instead, women are just these things out there, and you treat them as you would treat other things, then you shouldn't be surprised when men treat women as objects, which is a great, great evil.
00:34:45.000We haven't built the same structures of support for boys that we have for girls.
00:34:48.000If we want to stop young men from being taken in by sexism, that has to change.
00:34:52.000Well, first you have to define sexism.
00:34:53.000The feminist left has an unfortunate tendency to define sexism as treating women nicely, like opening a door for a woman, picking up the tab, saying that a woman looks pretty today.
00:35:05.000One of feminism's biggest successes, according to Valenti, was creating an alternative culture for girls and women seeking respite from mainstream constraints.
00:35:12.000Girls worried about unrealistic beauty standards, for example, can turn to the body positivity movement.
00:35:17.000Those of us who find traditional media's treatment of women unappealing can read feminist blogs and magazines.
00:35:21.000Female college students who have critical questions about how gender shapes their lives can take women's studies classes.
00:35:26.000All of these things make women less happy.
00:36:17.000From social media campaigns to after-school equality clubs, feminism has birthed dozens of online and real-life spaces where girls can find alternatives to the sexist status quo.
00:36:27.000But boys and young men who are struggling have no equivalent culture.
00:36:31.000As Sarah Rich recently wrote in The Atlantic, while society is chipping away at giving girls broader access to life possibilities, it isn't presenting boys with a full continuum of how they can be in the world.
00:37:14.000What he has said is that there are hierarchies of competence in virtually every area of life and that in a free system, those hierarchies are not going to be evenly distributed in any area.
00:37:25.000This is absolutely true on every level.
00:37:27.000It's always been true in a free country.
00:37:29.000There will be hierarchies of competence because there are in every area of life.
00:37:33.000There are hierarchies of competence in basketball.
00:37:35.000I fail at that hierarchy of competence.
00:37:37.000That is not because of racism or sexism.
00:37:39.000Some of Mr. Peterson's other claims, Valenti says, include the idea that sexual harassment wouldn't be such a problem if women didn't wear makeup to work.
00:37:56.000What he actually said is that a system that encourages monogamy is going to end up with a more evenly distributed sexual distribution of partners than a system where a few men get a lot of women, for example.
00:38:07.000But he doesn't say the government should force women to get married to a man and men should... Like, he doesn't say any of that stuff.
00:38:13.000Online misogynist communities offer similarly dangerous advice to young men distressed over sexual rejection.
00:38:18.000Instead of teaching them, says Jessica Valenti, that their value has nothing to do with their sexual experience or that they are simply not entitled to sexual attention no matter how badly they want it, incel forums tell boys that the real problem is women's freedom.
00:38:29.000If women didn't have a choice, they say, any man could have sex with whomever he liked.
00:38:32.000Okay, well, I myself have critiqued the incel community exactly this way, saying that if you actually want to get a woman, perhaps you ought to act better.
00:38:39.000Perhaps you ought to aim for marriage and commitment and responsibility, rather than just aiming for random sex.
00:38:44.000But the feminist movement doesn't agree with that, because they think that marriage and responsibility are impediments to freedom.
00:38:49.000I think that they are the greatest indicator that you have a societal basis for freedom.
00:38:54.000And Jessica Valenti continues, she says Instead, what we need is
00:39:09.000is a new sort of system, a new support system.
00:39:12.000It says white male leaders in government corporations and institutions vastly outnumber women.
00:39:15.000Men have more cultural and economic power than women.
00:39:18.000But until we grapple with how to stop misogynists themselves, starting with ensuring boys don't grow up to be one, women will never be free.
00:39:23.000And then she offers no actual solutions except for we should have women's studies classes that teach men not to be men.
00:40:25.000According to Wilson, this is not a joke.
00:40:27.000According to Cassie Dillon over at Daily Wire, dog parks are just the place to observe toxic masculinity and heterosexuality.
00:40:43.000According to Wilson, dog parks are oppressive spaces that lock both human and animals into hegemonic patterns of gender conformity, adding oppressive patriarchal norms reach their zenith in dog parks.
00:40:55.000And then it gets even where nobody can actually say whether this woman has a Ph.D.
00:41:10.000I mean, if this is real, it's just unbelievable.
00:41:13.000Maybe one of the reasons that heterosexuality is the norm in dog parks is because dogs, in order to reproduce, have to have sex with other dogs of different sex.
00:41:21.000I'm not sure how these dogs actually self-identify, but I don't think it matters at the dog park because everything is terrible and weird.
00:41:55.000There's a reason that it was called that.
00:41:57.000The reason that the parliament actually passed this law is because the courts in Israel are even more leftist than they are in the United States, and there were a bunch of attempts by the Supreme Court of the State of Israel to essentially rewrite all of the basic laws in Israel to not make Israel a Jewish state.
00:42:11.000Now, there have been a lot of people who say Israel is ethnocentrist because it's a Jewish state.
00:42:15.000Israel is not ethnocentrist unless you consider Latvia ethnocentrist, unless you consider France ethnocentrist.
00:42:21.000There are lots of countries that are made for the people who are in them.
00:42:25.000Now what's great about America is you can become an American.
00:42:27.000What's great about Israel is that you can become a citizen and become a Jew.
00:42:32.000Judaism is not something that you are only born with.
00:42:34.000You can actually convert into becoming a Jew.
00:42:36.000I also noticed that all the people who are very upset with the idea of a Jewish state have no problem whatsoever with a Palestinian state that will be run under Islamic law and will have zero Jews living in it, whereas 20% of all people living in the state of Israel are actually Arab.
00:42:48.000And 20% of people living in Israel are Arab, and the vast majority of those people are Muslim.
00:42:53.000And in fact, when asked, Israeli Arabs do not want to leave Israel and move into the non-existent state of Palestine.
00:42:58.000They don't want to leave and move into a Muslim country because they have it better in Israel.
00:43:01.000But an article in the New York Times says Israel is terrible because democracy and Judaism cannot coexist.
00:43:07.000Weird how you're allowed to say that in the pages of the New York Times, but you can't say that Islam and democracy can't coexist.
00:43:12.000So just to get this straight, according to the left, Christianity and democracy can't coexist, even though they have coexisted and democracy was basically born inside Christian countries.
00:43:21.000Judaism and democracy can't coexist, even though Israel is in fact a Jewish and democratic state.
00:43:25.000But Islam and democracy can coexist, even though there are precisely zero actual major Islamic democracies.
00:43:33.000The closest thing that you might have is something like Indonesia, even though there are significant restrictions on democracy.
00:43:39.000But according to the New York Times, it's very, very bad that Israel says that it is now a nation state of the Jewish people.
00:43:45.000Israel also made Hebrew its official language, which originally it was, I guess, Hebrew and Arabic and English, but that was a holdover from British Palestine mandate.
00:43:54.000So they have said that Hebrew is the official language, but these other two languages are given quasi-official status.
00:44:00.000So now Israel is apparently evil, evil, evil, evil.
00:44:04.000This editorial in the New York Times suggests that the nation-state law is terrible.
00:44:10.000They say that Judaism cannot coexist because the minute that Judaism and democracy are attempting to coexist, then you are writing non-Jews out of the Declaration of Israel's Independence and the State of Israel.
00:44:21.000Arab parties sit in Israeli's parliament.
00:44:23.000The only thing that this really does, in reality, is prevent the Supreme Court of the State of Israel from cramming down a bunch of leftism that would undermine the identity of the State of Israel in order to promote a leftist view of what the State of Israel ought to be.
00:44:35.000OK, so we're going to get to now some things I like and then we'll do some things I hate and then we'll get out of here.
00:45:53.000He reportedly went to a McDonald's in Tallahassee to apply for a job, but he was told he couldn't be hired unless he shaved his beard.
00:45:58.000Phil started shaving his thick beard in a gas station parking lot without a mirror, and then Officer Tony Carlson came up.
00:46:04.000He saw the man struggling, so he came by.
00:46:06.000He tightened the screw on Phil's razor and then proceeded to shave Phil's face for him, and somebody captured this video and it went viral.
00:46:15.000Yeah, you can't really hear it, but what you can see is this police officer who's actually shaving this homeless man so he can go in and apply for a job.
00:46:21.000And the officer said, if he's wanting to help himself, I need to be more careful, more than careful, and try to help him out the best that I can.
00:46:29.000Just a great story of human beings helping other human beings.
00:46:32.000You only see the stories about the police when the police are shooting somebody.
00:46:35.000You never see the stories about how often the police actually help people.
00:46:38.000A lot of great police officers out there doing a lot of wonderful things.
00:46:41.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:46:46.000So, Representative Joe Crowley, not long for Congress because he was defeated in a primary by everybody's favorite socialist, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:46:54.000I am getting better at saying her name.
00:46:55.000Joe Crowley came out yesterday and he said that he has an idea.
00:46:58.000You know, where Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez merely says that ICE should be abolished, Joe Crowley says we should pay the families of illegal immigrants.
00:47:07.000Yes, really, this is a thing that happened in real life.
00:47:10.000I suggest they need to be compensated for what this administration did to them.
00:47:15.000The first form of compensation needs to be the full reunification of these families.
00:47:22.000Okay, so reunify the families, fine, but then we should pay them?
00:47:25.000They crossed the border illegally and then cost us a lot of money.
00:47:32.000I mean, none of this makes any sense, but it is obvious right now that members of both parties, but particularly Democrats, are really catering to a hardcore radical base.
00:47:41.000And the more radical you are, the more popular you are, which is why Maxine Waters, who is a full-fledged nutjob, is now anti-Maxine inside the Democratic Party.
00:47:49.000This is why, you know, when I said earlier in the show that I think President Obama, President Trump rather, needs to do better with the rhetoric, because Democrats cannot be allowed to win Congress.
00:47:57.000If Democrats win Congress, if they win the Senate, there won't be any judges, there won't be anything good that gets done, it'll be a bunch of radical proposals and investigations for the next two years.
00:48:05.000And if Trump loses re-election on the back of that, and you have a Democratic president with Democrats in the House and Senate, look for things to get wild and terrible as fast as humanly possible.
00:48:13.000The pendulum swings in this country, and it swung to the right for a bit.
00:48:16.000And we've got to be very careful it doesn't swing back to the left, because when it does, it's going to swing back to people like Joe Crowley and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her democratic socialism.
00:48:24.000So we've got to be very, very careful here.
00:48:26.000OK, we'll be back here tomorrow with all the latest news updates.