Kamala Harris drops out of the 2020 Democratic presidential race, and it's a sad day for the Democratic Party, but it's also a good one for the country, because Kamala Harris is no longer running for president. And that's a good thing, because it means the other Democratic presidential candidates will have a much better chance of getting a shot at the nomination. Plus, a new impeachment report from the House of Representatives reveals the full contents of their massive, 300-page report on what happened in the Watergate scandal, and why they should all be impeached. The Ben Shapiro Show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. If you haven't gotten a VPN yet, what are you waiting for? Visit Express VPN.org/TheBenShapiroShow and use the promo code "ExpressVPN" to get 20% off your first month with discount code "BENSHAPIRTS" at checkout. The show is now available in Kindle, iBook, Paperback, Hardcover, and Hardcover. It's also available on Audible, and Audible. Subscribe to the show and leave us a rating and review the show on your favorite podcast platform so you can be notified when a new episode hits the web! of the show drops! Subscribe, rate and review in Apple Podcasts, and share the show with your fellow podcast listeners! and become a supporter! Ben Shapiro is a proud member of the Conservative Manifesto Podcasts Pod! - Rate, review, and subscribe to our newest podcast, The Ringer. . Rate and review our new podcast, Rate/subscribe to our new show The RATE & review our newest episodes! The Roster? Subscribe on iTunes and review us on Podchaserfracture! Rate & review us a review our work is going to be featured on The Ritz Media Podcasts! on iTunes! We'll be giving out a special bonus episode on the RATE AND SUBSCRIKE & Review our new ad-free version of the podcast next week! FREE FASTEST BONUS CONTENT: FREE PROMO and other ways to win a copy of our newest issue of The RING AND FREE PRODUCING AND PATREON BOWLSYNN VODCAST CLICK TO CHECK OUT OUR PODCAST? FREE TRAINING AND GIVE US REVIEWS ARE AVAILABLE ON CHECKED AND SHIPPED TO OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA?
00:00:00.000Kamala Harris drops out, the other 2020 presidential candidates jockey for position, and House Democrats release their massive 300-page impeachment report.
00:00:25.000A sad day, because one of our favorite candidates here at the Ben Shapiro Show, Kamala Harris, the illustrious senator from my home state, who is a terrible attorney general, and she's a terrible senator, Most well known in the Senate for pushing conspiracy theories about how Brett Kavanaugh was potentially a gang rapist and pushing standards of evidence that would not pass like a straight jury trial in any normal county in the United States, Kamala Harris
00:00:52.000Who soared to the lead very briefly and then immediately crashed and burned like the Hindenburg.
00:00:57.000Well, finally, she called it quits yesterday, months in advance of the first primary, which is pretty shocking, considering that my theory was that this was going to be sort of a wheel of fortune, that basically everybody was going to get a shot at the top, that if Kamala Harris had stuck around long enough, the media would have done second look at Kamala.
00:01:11.000Well, instead, she dropped out yesterday.
00:01:14.000And honestly, I'm really sad about it.
00:01:16.000All I can think about are all the memories we shared together.
00:02:18.000It was once the conservative columnist for the Washington Post, and then, instead of just getting rid of her when it was obvious that she was not conservative, they just were like, oh yeah, she's not our conservative columnist anymore, she's just not conservative.
00:02:29.000She'll remain our columnist, she just won't be conservative anymore.
00:02:32.000Which I guess is one way to approach it, but for years, they kept calling her conservative, even as she kept moving to the left and to the left.
00:02:38.000So she tweeted out, after all of this, if empathy and joy determined presidential elections, Harris would lap the field.
00:02:47.000If by empathy, you mean complete executive tyranny and locking up truant mothers, absolutely.
00:02:52.000And if by joy, you mean creepy, inappropriate laughter that puts you second on the list to succeed Joaquin Phoenix, then sure, empathy and joy.
00:03:35.000I think it says something good about the Democratic Party, honestly, that Harris is out.
00:03:37.000One of the things that I think that it says that is good is that black voters in the Democratic Party never latched onto Harris.
00:03:44.000Which is great, because frankly, identity politics sucks.
00:03:46.000And if they latched onto Harris simply because of the color of her skin, or if they latched onto Cory Booker simply because of the color of his skin, that'd become a racist.
00:03:53.000The fact that black voters have turned toward Joe Biden instead of turning toward Kamala Harris or Cory Booker is a good thing for the country.
00:03:58.000Just like I think that white voters should not judge people on the basis of their color.
00:04:03.000I don't think they should only elect white people.
00:04:05.000I don't think the black voters should only elect black people.
00:04:06.000That says a good thing that the Democratic Party seems to have missed in their craze for intersectionality.
00:04:12.000And as we'll see, the media simply don't understand it.
00:04:15.000The media believe that the black community in the United States, black voters in the United States should have resonated to Cory Booker and Kamala Harris.
00:04:22.000All the white members of the media, they cannot understand why black voters didn't automatically rush in droves to a candidate as awful and off-putting as Kamala Harris, or as awful and off-putting as Cory Booker, who To be fair, it's a lot better than Kamala Harris.
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00:06:11.000Okay, so Kamala Harris put out the announcement.
00:06:13.000She also, her husband put out, honestly I thought it was kind of a rather sweet tweet of him hugging her and saying, I've still got you, which is nice.
00:06:20.000But her campaign announcement that she was suspending is fairly ridiculous.
00:06:24.000She says, 11 months ago, at the launch of our campaign in Oakland, I told you all, I am not perfect, but I will always speak with decency and moral clarity and treat all people with dignity and respect.
00:06:33.000Unless they are accused truant mothers, I'll throw them in jail and threaten them, or potential Supreme Court justices who disagree with me on Roe vs. Wade, then I will unfairly persecute them and pretend that I have evidence that they're gang rapists.
00:07:06.000And as the campaign has gone on, it's become harder and harder to raise the money we need to compete.
00:07:09.000Now, I will say it is hysterically funny to watch as every major Democrat now complains that there's too much money in politics on the Democratic side of the aisle.
00:07:17.000We haven't even reached the general election yet.
00:07:21.000All the Democrats today are claiming that the reason that Kamala Harris is out, the reason Cory Booker is experiencing trouble, is because they can't raise money.
00:07:27.000And if only they were billionaires like, what, Joe Biden?
00:07:30.000Joe Biden is, I think, the poorest person on the Democratic side of the aisle.
00:07:36.000Buttigieg hasn't been having trouble raising any money because he's a crap candidate.
00:07:40.000Biden has been having trouble raising money, but he's got name recognition.
00:07:44.000So the complaints that I'm not a billionaire so I couldn't get ahead in this race, there was a point where Kamala Harris was your poll leader.
00:07:49.000In fact, there was a point where she was bragging about how she was your poll leader.
00:07:52.000Right after Tulsi Gabbard slapped her during one of the debates, Kamala Harris said that she was a top candidate.
00:07:58.000In fact, she was a top tier candidate.
00:08:00.000This is one of the charming things that makes Kamala Harris one of the earliest candidates to drop out of this race.
00:08:05.000This is gonna sound immodest, but I'm obviously a top-tier candidate, and so I did expect that I would be on the stage and take hits tonight, because there are a lot of people that are trying to make the stage for the next debate.
00:08:15.000Yeah, for a lot of them it's do or die.
00:08:17.000Well, yeah, and especially when people are at 0 or 1% or whatever she might be at.
00:08:21.000And so I did expect that I might take hits tonight.
00:08:24.000By the way, guess who's still in the race?
00:08:27.000Now, by the way, the conventional wisdom that you're seeing online, which is that Tulsi Gabbard slapping at Kamala Harris basically killed Harris's candidacy, that is not true.
00:08:34.000Kamala Harris started dipping in the polls as soon as she achieved the lead because she's awful.
00:08:39.000Because she was lying about her Medicare for All plan.
00:08:42.000She flip-flopped on that eight different ways from Sunday.
00:08:45.000Because she lied about her own criminal justice record.
00:08:57.000Tulsi Gabbard, I mean, the subtlest cuts cut deepest.
00:09:00.000Here's Tulsi Gabbard tweeting out, Sending my best wishes to Kamala Harris, her family and supporters who have campaigned so hard.
00:09:05.000While we disagree on some issues, we agree on others.
00:09:07.000And I respect her sincere desire to serve the American people.
00:09:10.000I look forward to working together on the challenges we face as a nation.
00:09:13.000Well, that kind of hurts considering how Tulsi Gabbard stabbed her directly in the chest in one of the earlier debates.
00:09:20.000Remember this glorious moment when Tulsi Gabbard just finished Kamala Harris on the stage.
00:09:25.000Senator Harris says she's proud of her record as a prosecutor and that she'll be a prosecutor president, but I'm deeply concerned about this record.
00:09:33.000There are too many examples to cite, but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.
00:10:24.000Her only big moment in the race is when she was hitting Joe Biden on forced busing, suggesting that Joe Biden was a racist for not supporting forced busing in the 1970s.
00:10:31.000By the way, she doesn't support force busing.
00:10:34.000Virtually no one really supported forced busing in the 1970s because it was a bad policy.
00:10:38.000Forcing children out of their local schools, forcing them onto buses to drive an hour to schools where they knew no one, was a bad policy that ended with white flight to suburban areas and different local school districts.
00:10:50.000I mean, that's what forced busing resulted in.
00:10:53.000In fact, Kamala Harris knew that, which is why she doesn't back busing today.
00:11:13.000To hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country.
00:11:26.000And it was not only that, but you also worked with them to oppose busing.
00:11:32.000And, you know, there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools.
00:11:40.000And she was bused to school every day.
00:11:46.000Okay, well, it turned out that her whole story on busing was, at the very least, deeply flawed.
00:11:52.000And also, her attack on Biden for suggesting that he had to work with senators he didn't even like, which was his actual quote, that backfired on her dramatically.
00:12:29.000That bus will now be repurposed back to the California Department of Corrections where it will jail.
00:12:34.000Low-level marijuana violators at the behest of Kamala Harris.
00:12:37.000By the way, I'm expecting the Department of Corrections to show up at my door for criticizing Kamala Harris because she is still the senator from this awful state.
00:12:42.000The real downside to Kamala Harris dropping out of the race is now she can focus on making my home state even more garbage-y than it already is.
00:12:48.000We will get to more on the Democratic side of the aisle, more on the Democratic race momentarily.
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00:14:50.000And I'm sure she's not dropping out and wanting to make the changes she cares about.
00:14:55.000One of the things I love about Joe Biden is that he is so rankly dishonest in so many ways, but every so often he says things and his face betrays him.
00:15:03.000As he gets older, the sort of grin that he pastes on that mug, it's becoming more and more obvious when he's actually happy inside.
00:15:11.000And that entire clip, he can barely hold back from chortling.
00:15:14.000He can barely hold back from chortling.
00:15:56.000Every time a black person is elected, that is symptomatic of the fact that America Has moved, has somehow gotten past its own racism, but only momentarily, only momentarily, only for like eight years.
00:16:07.000And then, Obama's no longer in office, and everybody goes right back to, you know what?
00:16:14.000It's this idiotic, bizarre notion that That outcome determines intent.
00:16:21.000Okay, meaning that it's not that intent determines outcome.
00:16:24.000It's that if the outcome is not what you want, then you can infer the intent from what happened.
00:16:27.000So if Barack Obama was elected, that means that the American people got past racism for like half a second.
00:16:31.000But if they don't resonate to Kamala Harris or Cory Booker, mainly because both of them are wildly rehearsed, Kamala Harris was mechanical.
00:16:43.000He's like Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman.
00:16:45.000Everything that Cory Booker does is wild-eyed and crazy, and so he has not caught on with anyone.
00:16:49.000He's also manipulative, and everybody sort of gets that.
00:16:52.000But the media's play is that if Cory Booker or Kamala Harris are not on the final debate stage, that is because Democratic voters are racist.
00:16:59.000I feel like Emperor Palpatine in Return of the Jedi.
00:18:14.000Now, if Harris is a victim of anything, it's of the fact that she's horrible, that she's absolutely terrible.
00:18:20.000But here's MSNBC declaring that she had it rough because she's a black woman, despite all the evidence that she actually had it a lot easier from the media specifically because she's a black woman.
00:18:30.000I think that women are still held to different standards as candidates.
00:18:48.000I mean, I do think there is a gender piece here that we still suck at talking about.
00:18:52.000She had the double-edged sword of not just being a woman, but being an African-American woman, and the judgment and the standards that she had to deal with with that baggage.
00:19:16.000The Democratic voters, they're the ones who are not polling for her.
00:19:19.000Andrew Yang was getting better numbers than she was.
00:19:22.000And it's because the Democrat voters are racist.
00:19:23.000So I'm glad to see that MSNBC elites are now turning to their own voting base and saying, you guys are racist because you didn't love Kamala Harris.
00:20:25.000So Cory Booker, who is the last black candidate left in the race.
00:20:29.000Booker is like, yeah, man, now's my moment.
00:20:32.000Sure, I've only raised $7 so far, and sure, nobody likes me, and sure, everybody is sort of weirded out when in the middle of a debate, I reach into my Mr. Potato Head back and pull out my hangry hoist.
00:20:45.000Because if I can just get the Democratic base to rally around the fact that they are racists and they need to vote for a black person, then that will change everything!
00:20:53.000So here is Cory Booker, on with Chris Hayes last night, talking about our debate stage might have no diversity.
00:21:20.000Kamala, before she was a senator, presidential candidate, she was my friend, she was my sister.
00:21:24.000And so today I'm a little angry, I have to say, that we started with one of the most diverse fields in our history, giving people pride.
00:21:31.000And it's a damn shame now that the only African American woman in this race who has been speaking to issues that need to be brought up is now no longer in it.
00:21:40.000And we're spiraling towards a debate stage that potentially, we're still fighting to get on it, but could have six people with no diversity whatsoever.
00:21:48.000You thought your pitiful powers were a match for the dark side of the force?
00:22:34.000Six candidates currently in the race are qualified for the DNC's December debate.
00:22:37.000But as it stands now, after starting with the most diverse presidential fields in our nation's history, you might not see our party's diversity reflected on that stage.
00:22:44.000Not a single one of the candidates who have qualified for the December debate is a person of color.
00:23:01.000That guy says these thresholds have had the effect of denying candidates of color access to the debate stage while paving the way for billionaires who are inflating their support through massive ad buys.
00:23:12.000Ah, so now we're gonna rip on the people like Tom Steyer, who've been spending hundreds of millions of their own dollars in a quixotic campaign for the presidency.
00:23:19.000If Tom Steyer wants to do that stupid thing, Tom Steyer can do that stupid thing.
00:23:23.000But, I am enjoying the fact that Andrew Yang is out polling Cory Booker.
00:23:26.000He ain't outspending Cory Booker, so far as I'm aware.
00:23:29.000He's raised some money, but that's because Andrew Yang is not a charmless human being.
00:23:33.000I love that he is now ripping the thresholds.
00:23:36.000He's ripping the basic standards for getting on the stage because he can't surpass them.
00:23:40.000He says, the race is still far from decided.
00:23:42.000No one knows who we will choose as our party's nominee, but it would be unacceptable if our final choices did not reflect the rich diversity of our party.
00:23:51.000Your final choices will not reflect the rich diversity of your party.
00:23:54.000It is a unilaterally, homogenously, leftist party.
00:23:59.000And the fact that you've ended with a bunch of white candidates... By the way, I'm also enjoying the fact that apparently we are now getting a clarification of the hierarchical intersectional standard.
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00:25:57.000Cory Booker turning on the media, turning on his own party.
00:26:00.000He says, put me on the debate stage and I'll demonstrate that I can and I have united moderate and progressive Democrats.
00:26:06.000I'll demonstrate that I can and I have excited and engaged black voters, the most loyal constituency of our party.
00:26:12.000Well, not only have you not excited and engaged black voters, you have 0% black support.
00:26:17.000He says he'll demonstrate he's the only person in this race who can rebuild the coalition that elected President Obama we need in order to defeat Donald Trump.
00:26:23.000Basically, Cory Booker is saying that only if we have a black nominee will black voters show up, which seems tacitly racist, does it not?
00:26:30.000That the only way that you're going to get black voters to show up in droves is if you have a black candidate at the top of the ticket?
00:26:38.000That's one letter that's pretty funny.
00:26:39.000The other letter that is pretty funny comes from Elizabeth Warren.
00:26:42.000So, as I say, I'm finding it hi-larious, hi-larious, that the entire media are now saying the stage is old and white.
00:26:49.000Did they just notice Elizabeth Warren's a white person?
00:26:52.000I was reliably informed by members of the media that she, because of her high cheekbones and her Native American heritage, she was a representative of diversity on that stage.
00:27:01.000She called herself a Native American in like the Harvard Law School yearbook for years.
00:27:06.000Elizabeth Warren was a member of the Indigenous Tribes of America.
00:27:10.000Now yesterday, the media were pointing out that the stage is old and light, and Liz Cheney tweeted out, don't forget about Pocahontas, and everyone went nuts.
00:27:20.000Can we dispense with this idiocy, please?
00:27:24.000When Trump calls Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas, or when Liz Cheney calls Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas, they're not making fun of Pocahontas, they're making fun of Elizabeth Warren, who lied about her own heritage.
00:27:34.000And it is ridiculous to me that the media focus in on people pointing out that she has stolen intersectional valor.
00:27:44.000That the mockery of her is somehow considered the racism as opposed to the fact that she was masquerading as a Native American for decades of her own political and personal and professional life.
00:27:57.000No, Liz Cheney was not making fun of Native Americans.
00:27:59.000She was making fun of Elizabeth Warren for pretending to be a Native American for years.
00:30:10.000So here is the letter from fading Elizabeth Warren, who's gonna have to go back to, if you're Elizabeth Warren and you fail in this race, basically you have to move to a Native American reservation and then you have to sell sweaters, right?
00:30:21.000I mean, that's pretty much what you do.
00:30:22.000You just did a bunch of the same sweater, different colors, like a rainbow variety of sweaters, maybe some Planned Parenthood scarves.
00:31:41.000He was, by the way, in 2005, when he was reelected mayor, he was reelected by a margin of 20%, which is a pretty good stat for Mayor Bloomberg.
00:31:50.000In any case, she says that it's the billionaires forcing people out.
00:31:53.000So it's that the Democrats are not just racist, they are also sexist, don't you see?
00:31:57.000Elizabeth Warren, who for a brief period in time was leading the race, She was riding the planes of Oklahoma on her trusty Mustang, leading this race, while following the buffalo herd.
00:32:10.000Elizabeth Warren is now claiming that if she's not the nominee, it's because people are sexist!
00:32:15.000It's wonderful that Kamala Harris can play this kaleidoscopic role.
00:32:20.000For Cory Booker, if Kamala Harris drops out, it's because the Democratic populace is racist, unless they elect him.
00:32:26.000For Elizabeth Warren, it's because the Democratic populace is sexist, if they don't elect her.
00:32:30.000And also, classist, because they're favoring Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg.
00:32:35.000She says, our party and our democracy deserve better.
00:32:38.000By the way, the only reason that Elizabeth Warren is putting out this letter, of course, and mentioning Kirsten Gillibrand is because of the woman card.
00:32:43.000It'd be one thing if she just said that Kamala Harris was forced out by bigger money, but dropping Kirsten Gillibrand's name, Kirsten Gillibrand was one of the first people to drop out because Kirsten Gillibrand had zero voters, including immediate family.
00:32:55.000Everyone in her immediate family was turning to her and going, Kirsten, what are you doing?
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00:34:29.000Alrighty, so we'll get to the rest of the Democratic field and then we'll get to impeachment, okay?
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00:36:14.000We have to launch them at all the coal mines in India and in China.
00:36:18.000I would just like to note that there's an article from the Huffington Post today about global carbon emissions hitting a record high in 2019.
00:36:22.000You know which is one country that actually lowered its emissions?
00:36:26.000Buried deep down in this article from the Huffington Post?
00:36:29.000Well, that would be the United States.
00:36:30.000The United States withdrew from the Paris Agreement.
00:36:33.000emissions are predicted to fall by 1.7% over 2018 levels.
00:36:37.000Coal production will likely decline by about 10%.
00:36:40.000So, for all the talk about how the United States is the real problem here, we are actually in a period of declining emissions, while emissions are rising pretty much everywhere else.
00:36:48.000China and India being the leaders in this sphere.
00:36:51.000I'm looking forward to Elizabeth Warren launching a full-scale war.
00:36:54.000I'm always amused by this idea that if we do not stop global warming today, we're all gonna die.
00:36:59.000If that were really true, we would have to do something to force China and India to stop the emissions, would we not?
00:37:05.000I mean, to be fair, isn't that what they are the leading emitters by a long shot and their emissions are going up and are going to continue to go up until at least 2030.
00:37:14.000But don't worry, Elizabeth Warren will solve global warming just like Barack Obama.
00:38:01.000By the way, Pete Buttigieg, who's supposed to be the moderate in this race, when Democrats aren't calling their own voters racist, they're calling everybody a racist.
00:38:06.000So here's Pete Buttigieg yesterday campaigning in South Carolina and suggesting that every single person who voted for President Trump in 2016 or is considering voting for Trump in 2020 is ignoring racism, which is idiotic.
00:38:18.000You don't have to actually love everything President Trump says to vote for him.
00:38:22.000You can disagree with many of the things that he says.
00:38:26.000You can do lots of things and still vote for him when faced with the alternative of a very, very bitter Democratic Party intent on rewriting the American bargain.
00:38:47.000All 63 million people who voted for President Trump.
00:38:50.000By the way, I'd just like to point out that obviously Pete Buttigieg is a homophobe because you know way back when, he actually was smiling and standing in front of a Salvation Army red kettle during a charity drive.
00:39:02.000So, now who's not woke, Pete Buttigieg?
00:39:05.000I mean, first you say things like, not all educational disparities are the result of systemic discrimination, which makes you a lying MF-er according to Michael Harriot at The Root.
00:39:13.000And then, you stood in front of a Salvation Army kettle.
00:39:17.000Are you a self-hating gay person, Pete Buttigieg?
00:39:39.000Okay, the Democrats are going to impeach Trump in the House, and then this is going nowhere in the Senate.
00:39:43.000And they're going to do so on pretty scanty evidence of actual impeachable crimes.
00:39:46.000How do we know that the evidence is scanty?
00:39:47.000Well, they released a 300-page report Yesterday that does not actually back up its key assertions is released by Adam B Schiff He wrote it in between like during the during the commercial breaks on CNN when he wasn't camped out in the pup tent outside the green room he wrote this 300 page report and He talked about how this is that the president has committed crimes crimes He says The decision to move forward with an impeachment inquiry is not one we took lightly
00:40:17.000Under the best of circumstances, impeachment is a wrenching process for the nation.
00:40:21.000I resisted calls to undertake an impeachment investigation for many months.
00:40:24.000On that basis, notwithstanding the existence of presidential conduct, I believe to be deeply unethical and damaging to our country.
00:40:30.000The alarming events and actions detailed in this report, however, left us with no choice but to proceed.
00:40:37.000And then he talks about the Founding Fathers.
00:40:39.000Yes, I'm sure that the Founding Fathers, the Founding Fa- By the way, the Founding Fathers would have looked at the activity of Trump here and they would have thought, Impeachable?
00:40:48.000The reason being, impeachment has only been used against a president three times in our nation's history.
00:40:55.000It never has actually been used to remove a president.
00:40:59.000What is the exact angle on the impeachment?
00:41:03.000So, they say, here's the executive summary of the charges.
00:41:10.000Okay, that is too vague to be an impeachable crime.
00:41:12.000You know what presidents do all the time?
00:41:13.000They do things beneficial to their re-election campaign.
00:41:15.000on a public announcement of investigations beneficial to his re-election campaign.
00:41:18.000Okay, that is too vague to be an impeachable crime.
00:41:22.000You know what presidents do all the time?
00:41:24.000They do things beneficial to their re-election campaign.
00:41:26.000When Barack Obama said, I repeat myself because I've said this often, but it remains true.
00:41:31.000When Barack Obama said to Dmitry Medvedev, if you tell Vladimir Putin to back off, I will provide flexibility to the Russians in my next term.
00:41:52.000In fact, as it turns out, presidents frequently have an eye on their re-elect efforts when they do foreign policy.
00:41:57.000So the fact that it was beneficial does not answer the question.
00:42:00.000The chief question in this entire inquiry, remember where this started, it started with the accusation that Donald Trump specifically and maliciously withheld Aid to Ukraine.
00:42:10.000Military aid to Ukraine in a time of war in order to force the Ukrainians to go after a 2020 political opponent, Joe Biden.
00:43:11.000They put the brick on the accelerator, and now, instead of playing chicken with somebody, they're just flying off that cliff like Thelma and Louise.
00:43:18.000Americans are not supremely excited about this impeachment effort.
00:43:22.000So the claim of Adam Schiff is that the president conditioned a White House meeting and military aid to Ukraine on a public announcement of investigations beneficial to his re-election campaign.
00:43:29.000Again, it would have to be that his intent, which has not been established by any testimony, was purely about getting Joe Biden for 2020.
00:43:54.000Legal obstruction is when you get a court order that orders you to turn over the documents and then you say no.
00:44:00.000The way that a subpoena normally works, it even works this way with interrogatories, in depositions, is that you get a request for stuff and then you are allowed to reply and say no.
00:44:10.000And then a court adjudicates whether you are allowed to say no or not.
00:44:13.000Schiff didn't even go through this process, not with Giuliani, not with Pompeo, not with Mick Mulvaney, not with anybody, not with Pence, with no one.
00:44:20.000There is no one who has defied a legal subpoena from the House.
00:44:45.000Like, I don't think that the evidence supports that, but it does not support the actual impeachment case of the Democrats either.
00:44:50.000The story I've been telling since pretty much the very beginning when it became clear that there was in fact some sort of quid pro quo, right?
00:44:56.000Trump was withholding military aid for a reason and then gave up the withholding as soon as it became public.
00:45:01.000What that was really about was Trump being obsessive about the 2016 election, buying into bad information provided to him by Rudy Giuliani.
00:46:05.000And Schiff was like, we can't wait for the facts!
00:46:07.000When someone says you can't wait for the facts, that's because they know the facts ain't going to come in on their side.
00:46:11.000Here's Adam Schiff just basically blowing a hole in his own case.
00:46:15.000If we do uncover additional evidence and we do learn more every day, we will feel free to file supplemental reports to the Judiciary Committee.
00:46:25.000But there is, I think, grave risk to the country with waiting until we have every last fact when we already know enough about the president's misconduct to make a responsible judgment.
00:47:06.000In fact, there's a Washington Post piece today about the origins of the Ukraine pressure campaign by Rosalyn Helderman.
00:47:12.000It completely undercuts the Democrat case.
00:47:14.000Remember, the Democrat case, to reiterate, again, was about Donald Trump trying to win the 2020 election by using Ukraine's gears of justice to grind Joe Biden.
00:47:27.000But here's an article from the Washington Post titled, How the Ukraine Pressure Campaign Began as an Effort to Undercut the Mueller Investigation.
00:47:35.000Does that have anything to do with 2020?
00:47:37.000The Mueller investigation was, in fact, an ongoing thing in the United States.
00:47:42.000And as it turns out, if Trump was being fed bad information by Rudy Giuliani about Ukrainian interference in the election, and then he acted on the basis of that bad information, again, that may be bad judgment.
00:47:52.000Presidents act on the basis of bad information all the time.
00:47:54.000In fact, Barack Obama did with Iran on a routine basis.
00:47:59.000This piece from the Washington Post says, Special Counsel Robert Mueller had secured the cooperation of Trump's one-time fixer, Michael Cohen, and appeared to be prepping to indict a longtime advisor, Roger Stone.
00:48:09.000Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was in jail.
00:48:11.000It was in this uncertain moment that Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, said he had the idea to focus on Ukraine.
00:48:16.000That November, he received a tip from former colleagues that it was the Ukrainians who had conspired to help Democrats in 2016, Giuliani said in recent interviews.
00:48:24.000Giuliani's efforts to undermine the special counsel probe eventually snowballed into the current impeachment crisis gripping the Capitol, highlighting how the pressure Trump and his allies put on Ukraine originated as an effort to sow doubts about the Russia investigation.
00:48:36.000The entire effort began as an attempt to gather more information about the 2016 election campaign.
00:48:41.000If we expended tens of millions of dollars to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, then Trump, even on the basis of bad information, Using American resources to pressure Ukraine to cooperate on an investigation into Ukrainian interference into 2016?
00:48:56.000It may be stupid, it is not, in fact, impeachable.
00:49:00.000The Washington Post is admitting as much.
00:49:39.000People apparently were very angry at this ad.
00:49:41.000I'm going to play the ad and then explain why people were angry.
00:49:43.000And then I'm going to explain why there's nothing wrong with the ad because you have to, honestly, you have to have been hit on the head as a child repeatedly in order to spot the problem with this ad.
00:50:58.000Hey, the entire ad is just a woman climbing on a bike and then taking this video so she can say thanks to her husband after a year because a Peloton's an expensive gift.
00:51:04.000And talking about how it's changed her life.
00:51:06.000You know exercise can actually make your life better?
00:51:44.000Brittany Shamus writing for the Washington Post.
00:51:46.000The woman wears an eerie expression as she climbs onto her new Peloton for the first time.
00:51:49.000She's sort of smiling, sort of grimacing.
00:51:51.000She looks like she might burst into tears.
00:51:53.000I'm a little bit nervous, but excited, she says, not at all convincingly at the start of the pricey stationary bicycle company's new commercial.
00:51:59.000It was a look that spawned a thousand Twitter jokes.
00:52:01.000To some, the young mother, who spends the majority of her 30-second ad toiling away on the bike after her husband gives it to her for Christmas, looked like a hostage.
00:52:07.000Okay, first of all, I have a wife who does not particularly love exercising, and every time she starts to exercise, she gives me that same look, and then she's happy afterward.
00:53:31.000I don't, because it's not in the ad, because that's crazy.
00:53:33.000But apparently, according to the media, and according to idiots on Twitter, that is an integral part of the ad.
00:53:39.000Apparently, at the end, in a twist some found to be a little too Black Mirror, she plays the montage of grueling workouts for her husband the next Christmas, turning to him to watch his reaction.
00:53:52.000It was sexism, a descent into wellness hell, society's nightmare before Christmas.
00:53:59.000Vice said she would rather be anywhere in the world than here in her glacial home with the husband she loathes putting on this sick pantomime of wellness and marital bliss.
00:54:06.000She'd even rather be back on the dreaded Peloton.
00:54:12.000There's just something wrong with you.
00:54:13.000There's just something wrong with you.
00:54:15.000If you watched the ad when you got out of that is what a horrible husband who got his wife a $2,000 bicycle so that she can exercise when she sees fit.
00:54:32.000Social justice warrior garbage is nonsense.
00:54:36.000And by the way, if my wife suggested that she wanted to be healthier and so I got her a Peloton bike, There's nothing wrong with that.
00:54:43.000And by the way, if my wife were dramatically overweight, which she is not, and I said to her, you know, honey, it would be more healthy if you lost some weight.