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00:01:17.000So the big story over the weekend, obviously, was the death of Senator John McCain.
00:01:20.000Senator McCain served for, I believe, 35 years in the Senate.
00:01:23.000He became famous not because of that, but because he did five years in a North Vietnamese prison.
00:01:44.000The man truly was an American hero despite the fact that there are many who would say otherwise for no reason other than petty spite.
00:01:50.000The fact is that anyone who serves in uniform and then does five years in a North Vietnamese prison and then gives up their opportunity to come home in order to maintain
00:02:01.000A solidarity with the troops who are already there.
00:03:05.000They tried to use him as a propaganda tool.
00:03:07.000They wanted to return him to the United States because his father was an admiral and thereby create the narrative that the United States gave preferential treatment to the children of the privileged.
00:03:17.000McCain turned that down and instead stayed under the gentle mercies
00:03:38.000No, I disagreed with John McCain routinely.
00:03:40.000Most recently when John McCain gave the thumbs down to what they called skinny repeal, the repeal of large parts of the Obamacare package, including the individual mandate.
00:03:49.000And he said he did that because he didn't approve of the way the Senate was running.
00:03:52.000He was a guy who was constantly talking about the rules of the Senate, even though the Democrats were constantly breaking those rules.
00:03:58.000But John McCain overall understood that America was an exceptional place and he put his life on the line.
00:04:03.000In order to prove that America was an exceptional place, he certainly understood the threat that was posed to America by outside actors.
00:04:09.000He understood the threat that was posed to America by places like Russia.
00:04:12.000There's a reason that Russia today basically ran a bunch of smears against him or ignored him after his death.
00:04:35.000Apparently, Vice President Pence will attend the funeral.
00:04:37.000Donald Trump will not attend the funeral because he has a longstanding spat with John McCain.
00:04:41.000Barack Obama and George W. Bush are both expected to speak at the funeral.
00:04:44.000And I want to talk a little bit in a second
00:04:46.000About the sort of reason why there's so many people on the Trumpian right who are very angry at John McCain.
00:04:52.000There are a lot of people who are trashing his memory the day of his death, and I don't think that that is appropriate in any way, shape, or form.
00:04:58.000President Trump did tweet after Senator McCain's death,
00:05:06.000Are with you, but obviously President Trump was not a fan of Senator McCain and that goes all the way back to early in the campaign when he suggested that Senator McCain was not a war hero, which was an abominable statement.
00:05:15.000I mean, by any standard for Donald Trump to say a guy who avoided the Vietnam draft and then bragged about how his own personal Vietnam had been avoiding STDs during the 1970s while sleeping with various and sundry women.
00:05:27.000For him to say that John McCain was not a war hero because he hadn't been caught was an egregious statement, obviously, and led to a tremendous rift between McCain and Trump from the very beginning.
00:05:39.000According to the Washington Post, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Chief of Staff John Kelly, and other White House aides advocated for an official statement
00:05:46.000That gave the decorated Vietnam War POW plaudits for his military and Senate service and called him a hero, according to current and former White House aides, who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive internal deliberations.
00:05:56.000The original statement was drafted before McCain died Saturday.
00:05:58.000Sanders and others edited a final version this weekend that was ready for the president, the aides said, but Trump told aides he wanted to post a brief tweet instead and the statement praising McCain's life was not released.
00:06:06.000So despite the fact that Trump had released official statements on the death of John Glenn, former senator,
00:06:11.000He refused to do so for John McCain, and Trump has no plans, apparently, to attend McCain's funeral.
00:06:17.000This is generating all sorts of media headlines.
00:06:19.000It's stupid politics by the president.
00:06:21.000It's just, from a political perspective, it is dumb politics by the president because he is reopening a rift in the aftermath of a guy's death that is completely unnecessary.
00:06:28.000Showing a little bit of grace would probably be a much better move here.
00:06:32.000And this was exacerbated this morning by the fact that President Trump ordered the flags at the White House
00:06:40.000So the normal rule, so by federal statute, the rule is...
00:06:45.000That when a senator dies, that the flag is lowered for about a day.
00:06:49.000But the unofficial rule, and this is the one that we've kept to, is that when a sitting senator dies, what you do is you leave the flag at half-staff until the senator is actually buried.
00:06:58.000If you look at the pictures of the White House, you can see that the flag is back up to top of the staff, and I think the most troubling picture, obviously, is there's a picture of the White House flag at the top of the staff, and there's another picture
00:07:33.000The president's honesty is one of the attributes that people like about him.
00:07:36.000It would have looked dishonest if the president had called McCain a war hero, had called him a war hero after not calling him a hero and after ripping him up and down.
00:07:43.000But to issue some sort of gracious statement and take the temporary hit, I think, would have been well worthwhile.
00:07:47.000I want to talk about McCain's record in just a second and why there's a perception on parts of the right that this sort of kind of slap at McCain is a decent thing, that it's not a huge deal.
00:07:58.000But let's flash back to a couple of things about John McCain that I think are relevant.
00:08:01.000First of all, let's talk about his record.
00:08:02.000So, there's been a lot of talk today about the things that John McCain did right and the things that John McCain did wrong.
00:08:07.000I would say that John McCain was right on about 65% of issues and he was wrong on about 35% of issues.
00:08:43.000It was January 1987, and he had some problems with scandal.
00:08:47.000He was involved with the so-called Keating Five.
00:08:49.000Charles Keating was a banker that McCain had met while working at Hensley and Company, and Keating's associates at the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association had given money to McCain, as well as five other senators.
00:08:58.000Keating supported them in the hopes of preventing the government seizures of his savings and loan.
00:10:09.000He's a decent family man, citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues and that's what this campaign is all about.
00:10:23.000McCain had a baseline of good sense to him when it came at least to relationships with other people in politics.
00:10:30.000But it's exactly that that led a lot of people to kind of dismiss him on the right, because the reality is in 2008 he did run a lackluster campaign.
00:10:36.000He ran a campaign where he refused to say truths about Barack Obama, including about Barack Obama's associations with Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers.
00:10:45.000He did lose that campaign because I think that his sense of honor in politics overwhelmed
00:10:50.000His necessity for victory in politics.
00:10:52.000And you can say some good things about that.
00:10:53.000You can also say some bad things about that.
00:10:55.000But it led to the feeling that the Republican Party wasn't fighting hard enough.
00:10:58.000So what we really need is a counter puncher.
00:11:00.000And so people who favor Trump over McCain in that battle are largely relying on the fact that McCain was seen as sort of milquetoast in the way that he went after other politicians.
00:11:08.000Whereas Donald Trump is seen as a guy who'll go no holds barred.
00:11:11.000Now I want to talk about the media reaction to John McCain.
00:11:15.000In just a second, because in some ways I think that it is quite revealing about who the media are when it comes to Republicans generally.
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00:12:30.000So, while the media are fulminating over the fact that President Trump is disrespectful to John McCain, which is true, the media are suddenly experiencing a strange new respect for John McCain.
00:12:42.000And I'd like to remind you that in 2008, while John McCain was running an honorable campaign against Barack Obama, the media were calling him a racist, they were calling him a sexist, they were suggesting that he was a crazed old loon who was going to land the United States in the middle of interminable war.
00:13:18.000Combined with GOP columnists and bloggers arguing that Obama supports painting the White House black and racial reparations represents an embrace of the problematic southerner strategy the GOP has historically used to increase white racial resentment, said Spence, who is African-American.
00:13:31.000But as can be seen in the most recent presidential debate, he's employing the strategy selectively, only among the GOP faithful.
00:13:37.000That was the take of the media at the time.
00:13:38.000There are a lot of people in the media who are suggesting that John McCain was just as bad as they suggest Donald Trump is today.
00:13:43.000The media routinely say, whoever is the Republican who is running for office now, every other Republican before has been decent.
00:14:01.000They already said about Mike Pence that if Donald Trump were to be somehow deposed from office and Mike Pence were to take his slot, be careful what you wish for because Mike Pence is more dangerous and even more scary than Donald Trump.
00:14:12.000It is because the left slandered folks like John McCain, who was a moderate on politics.
00:14:16.000John McCain was a moderate Republican at best.
00:14:20.000They slandered Mitt Romney, another moderate on politics and moderate Republican at best.
00:14:24.000They slandered both of them as racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes.
00:14:27.000And the Republican base responded by saying both of those guys were nice guys who refused to run a bare knuckles campaign against the Democrat.
00:14:33.000So let's nominate the not nice guy who's happy to go bare knuckles.
00:14:37.000To underestimate the effect that Democratic attacks on John McCain and Mitt Romney had on the 2016 primaries is to ignore reality.
00:14:47.000There were a lot of Republicans who resonated to the fact that Donald Trump was willing to take a hammer to anyone, specifically because they said, well, we nominated a couple of genteel folks, and we had a genteel president in George W. Bush, and you guys hammered the living daylights out of those folks, so why wouldn't we nominate somebody like Donald Trump?
00:15:02.000Now, the cost of that is that you end up with somebody like Donald Trump
00:15:05.000We're going to talk in a second about what exactly the media said upon John McCain's death, because suddenly it was a different tune.
00:15:23.000So first of all, I have to point this out.
00:15:25.000This was the best gaffe of the weekend.
00:15:54.000If you can't see this, they then went back to Saturday Night Live, Dolphin Love Story, in which two fat men with dolphin heads are walking around making dolphin songs, sounds, and then, and then proceeding to make out with each other.
00:16:13.000Yeah, so from John McCain's death to this, well done media.
00:16:17.000Best gaff of the weekend, just astonishing.
00:16:26.000But, when you look at the media's response to all this, take for example, Jake Tapper.
00:16:31.000So I like Jake, I'm friendly with Jake.
00:16:34.000And I think that Jake tries his best to keep his bias out of the politics.
00:16:37.000What he says here is not completely untrue, but it is also indicative of one of the reasons why John McCain lost and one of the reasons why Donald Trump won.
00:16:46.000Here's Jake Tapper explaining that a lot of the reverence you're seeing for McCain today is because of anger at President Trump and hatred of President Trump.
00:16:54.000And Amanda, for a younger generation of conservatives, what does McCain mean?
00:16:59.000And I can't help but think that part of the reason why there's such reverence for him today is because of who's in the White House right now, because they are polar opposites.
00:17:12.000Okay, so that idea that Tapper is spelling out, that's correct, but it's also relevant to mention that when John McCain was running for the White House, there was a lot of talk about John McCain as a nutjob who's going to land us in war with Iran because he was a crazy person with his finger on the trigger.
00:17:25.000And then as soon as Trump is in the White House, it's like, oh, well, you know, that John McCain guy, that guy was great.
00:17:32.000Of course you miss that John McCain guy because the guy was never president.
00:17:36.000You miss that John McCain guy because that John McCain guy lost to your guy, Barack Obama.
00:17:40.000The media loved Barack Obama and so they were happy with John McCain who lost in the same way that suddenly they're romantic about Mitt Romney.
00:17:45.000There is even some romance about George W. Bush who's no longer in office.
00:17:48.000Now, is it true that Donald Trump is a difference in kind from John McCain, from George W. Bush, from Mitt Romney?
00:17:56.000Of course he's a difference in kind, right?
00:17:57.000He's the kind of person who refuses to keep the flag lowered to half staff at the White House out of personal pique at a dead senator.
00:18:05.000Yes, he is a difference in kind from those other Republicans.
00:18:08.000And it's not out of bounds to point out that he is a difference in kind.
00:18:10.000It is important, however, to recall the media malfeasance that surrounded John McCain.
00:18:15.000Every time he became a threat to the left, suddenly they turned on him.
00:18:19.000And it's something to recall about the way that the press treat any Republican.
00:18:23.000They will find their favorite Republican, treat them well until the point when they turn, at which point, as soon as they figure out that a Republican is actually a Republican, that Republican becomes a bad guy again.
00:18:31.000And you see this with every major Republican of the modern era.
00:18:36.000Were Ben Sasse, the senator from Nebraska, to turn out to be a Republican presidential nominee, he would once again become a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe.
00:18:43.000It's what drove people into the arms of President Trump in the first place.
00:18:46.000The media's malfeasance is what allowed President Trump to become President of the United States, which is why he campaigns against them on a regular basis.
00:18:53.000And the media don't even recognize this.
00:18:55.000Chuck Todd was defending the media over the weekend, and he said that, you know, all this mistrust in media, all of it is, it's based not in fact, it's just based on lies and propaganda.
00:19:05.000I think one of the best things going in Donald Trump's favor, we know this, is the mainstream media.
00:19:10.000I hate to say it, but the conservative echo chamber created that environment.
00:19:14.000It's not, it's not, no no no, I mean, it has been a tactic and a tool of the Roger Ailes created echo chamber.
00:19:20.000Let's not pretend it's not anything other than that.
00:20:15.000One of the memes that's been going around lately is the only scandal Obama had was his tan suit that he wore at the White House.
00:20:21.000And members of the mainstream media have been pushing this.
00:20:23.000John Harwood said this over the weekend.
00:20:25.000If you actually believe that, then it's no wonder you also believe that people think that the media is biased for no reason.
00:20:32.000People think the media is biased for a very good reason and McCain's death is the latest example as they swivel from McCain was a bad guy to McCain was a good guy based on how much damage he can do to the Republican Party and based on who is in the White House currently.
00:20:44.000Okay, in just a second, I want to talk about President Trump's poll numbers and then a massive scandal for the Catholic Church.
00:20:49.000There's a lot coming up and a mass shooting in Jacksonville.
00:22:00.000With all of this said about John McCain and President Trump, President Trump had a very bad week last week, and the media were hoping that this was sort of the end of little Trump, that this was going to be the end of Donald Trump's administration.
00:22:11.000Well, it turns out there's a poll out, and shock of shocks, the poll numbers haven't moved at all.
00:22:17.000So according to NBC and the Wall Street Journal, after a week that saw President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman convicted on eight counts of fraud,
00:22:23.000and his former lawyer plead guilty to felony campaign finance charges, the president's job approval rating remains virtually unchanged, new polling from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal shows.
00:22:33.000But the stability in Trump's approval rating also comes as more than half of voters say he has not been honest and truthful regarding the ongoing investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller, and fewer than 3 in 10 voters are convinced that Trump himself is not implicated in the wrongdoing of six of his associates who have now either been convicted of crimes or have pled guilty.
00:22:50.000Trump's approval rating is 44% approve, 52% disapprove.
00:22:54.000That is basically the same as it was a week ago when it was 46% approve, 51% disapprove.
00:23:00.000The president's approval ratings are extraordinarily stable.
00:23:02.000I have been saying this now for months.
00:23:04.000The president of the United States is the beneficiary of what I call the strong market sufficiency theory.
00:23:09.000There's a theory about the stock market that you can't beat the stock market because all available information is immediately priced into the price of a stock.
00:23:16.000Well, when it comes to Donald Trump, everything is priced in except for an economic collapse.
00:23:20.000Basically, except for an economic collapse or nuclear war, the President of the United States' approval ratings will remain absolutely stable.
00:23:26.000And part of the reason for that is because we are so ensconced in our own corners.
00:23:31.000We are now cemented in our own political corners.
00:23:33.000And one of the reasons we are so cemented in our political corners is indeed the bias of the media.
00:23:38.000The feeling that no matter what Trump does, the media are out to get him.
00:23:40.000It wouldn't matter if he were innocent or whether he were guilty.
00:23:42.000They would treat him exactly the same way.
00:23:47.000It was the boy who cried wolf one too many times.
00:23:49.000You can't do it that many times and then get away with it interminably.
00:23:54.000And the thing is, even when the wolf shows up, the moral of the story of the boy who cried wolf is that even when the wolf shows up, nobody believes him.
00:24:22.000It'd be great if Trump didn't justify all that with bad behavior.
00:24:24.000You know, people treating you badly is not an excuse for bad behavior.
00:24:27.000That said, to fail to recognize the impact of a polarized media environment on President Trump's stable approval ratings is absolutely short-sighted.
00:24:36.000Okay, meanwhile, over the weekend, the other big news is that there was this terrible shooting at the Madden.
00:24:42.000I guess it was Madden Tournament in Jacksonville, Florida.
00:25:00.000So he was coming, obviously, from a gun-free zone, because Baltimore, as we know, doesn't have any gun control laws.
00:25:05.000Except for how it has tons of gun control laws.
00:25:06.000He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside Chicago Pizza after going on a shooting rampage that left two dead and 11 other people injured.
00:25:13.000It was a gun-free zone with not enough security.
00:25:16.000This is the typical story, unfortunately, of a lot of these sorts of mass shootings.
00:25:19.000When you have a public event, a popular event, popular or public event, you have to have people there with guns.
00:25:24.000When my sister's wedding happened, I paid personally for security with guns to make sure that nobody could actually get into my sister's wedding, and that was a private event.
00:25:32.000This was a major public event that was a gun-free zone where they didn't have enough security, and this guy got in with a gun.
00:25:38.000So he had gone in the first round, he had lost, and then he was so upset with his life that he went out and decided to murder a bunch of people, which is just evil and sick.
00:25:46.000He used at least one handgun in his attack, so a ban on assault rifles would apparently do nothing.
00:25:51.000He had previously appeared in a photo with a Buffalo Bills player after winning another competition.
00:25:56.000There's been no motive announced for the killings.
00:25:58.000There are reports that he snapped after losing an event.
00:26:01.000He stayed at a local hotel the night before the shooting.
00:26:06.000EA Sports issued a statement saying, I want to point out the hypocrisy of folks in the media who are immediately jumping
00:26:20.000It's hilarious because literally five days ago they were suggesting that it was impossible.
00:26:25.000You should not politicize the killing of Mollie Tibbetts in Iowa.
00:26:28.000You should certainly not say that that has anything to do with illegal immigration.
00:26:31.000That would be politicization of the issue.
00:26:32.000And I discussed at length on Friday what's true about that and what's not true about that.
00:26:36.000The fact that we know more about Mollie Tibbetts' killing than we know about the average mass shooting in the first few days.
00:26:42.000And that's why you can say with a certain amount of certainty that illegal immigration had something to do with the Molly Tibbetts killing, where in this case, we don't know where he got the gun.
00:26:48.000We barely know what kind of gun the guy used.
00:26:50.000We don't know about his criminal history.
00:26:52.000We don't know about his psychological history.
00:26:53.000There are a lot of other issues that conflate and confound.
00:26:57.000The media immediately jumped to gun control because it was deeply necessary for them to push their agenda.
00:27:01.000This just shows the hypocrisy of so many in the media who are willing to overlook their ban on politicization of major events.
00:27:12.000So long as it pushes their particular agenda.
00:27:33.000But the idea that you are a professional video game player at 24 years old, and that basically your job consists of sitting in a room alone and playing video games,
00:27:40.000I can't say I think that's great for society that more and more people are doing that.
00:27:43.000And that's not a rip on people who play video games.
00:27:44.000We have tons of people at the office who play video games.
00:28:08.000A job, by the time I was 24 years old.
00:28:09.000I graduated from law school by the time I was 24.
00:28:12.000The fact that 24 years old in American society now is considered a kid, that the level of responsibility that attaches to people in their mid-twenties is basically zero, that you're expected to live at home, mooching off your parents, not for reasons that you have family solidarity, but just because you don't want to pay your bills, and that you do this all the way until you're basically 30, and then you start looking to get married and have a family.
00:28:31.000The prolonged adolescence of young men is not good for American society for a variety of reasons.
00:28:37.000Now, is that leading to an uptick in the number of mass shootings like this?
00:28:41.000It seems like there is some basic connection.
00:28:43.000I don't think that it is the main factor.
00:28:45.000I think that there are a bunch of factors that are conflated here, but to refuse to acknowledge that young men are not being treated with the level of responsibility necessary from the time they are teenagers to mature into fully blown adult human beings who are capable of handling their lives is a mistake.
00:29:01.000Also, it'll be interesting to see what this guy's psychological history was and how well it was taken care of.
00:29:06.000Okay, in just a second, I want to talk about what I think is actually the
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00:30:05.000It really is a terrible story and it speaks to the liberalization of the Catholic Church and a serious problem with institutional protection.
00:30:11.000So a few weeks ago we talked about, probably two weeks ago, we talked about the scandal that broke out in the state of Pennsylvania with regard to the archdiocese in Pennsylvania covering up over 30 years, a thousand cases of child molestation in the church.
00:30:24.000And we talked about the problems that exist within every institution, the tendency to cover for the problems of an institution in order to quote-unquote protect the institution.
00:30:32.000And this exists not only in the Catholic Church, it exists in various religious communities around the country and around the world.
00:30:40.000There's always, the human instinct is to feel solidarity.
00:30:46.000With a particular structure you find to be important.
00:30:48.000And then whenever that structure is threatened, particularly if it's threatened routinely, you tend to circle the wagons and defend anything that's happening in-house.
00:30:55.000And this is how you end up with the quiet ascent to true evil that happens so often around the planet.
00:31:03.000Basically, there's a population that for bad reasons and wrongly felt threatened by the outside world.
00:31:09.000Decided to circulate, basically circle the wagons around the Nazi regime, and then the Nazi regime decided to kill all of the enemies of the people, including the Jews.
00:31:17.000And people went along with that because the in-group was more important than the out-group, and the out-group was threatening them.
00:31:22.000In-group, out-group politics is deeply important when it comes to understanding how institutions get perverted from the inside.
00:31:27.000Well now, there's stories that basically the institutional perversion of the Catholic Church has reached up to the top levels of the Catholic Church.
00:31:34.000This is from the NC Register, the National Catholic Register.
00:31:38.000In an extraordinary 11-page written testament, a former apostolic nuncio to the United States has accused several senior prelates of complicity in covering up Archbishop Theodore McCarrick's allegations of sexual abuse, and has claimed that Pope Francis knew about sanctions imposed on then-Cardinal McCarrick by Pope Benedict XVI, but chose to repeal them.
00:31:58.000Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, 77, who served as apostolic nuncio in Washington, D.C.
00:32:03.000from 2011 to 2016, said that in the late 2000s, Benedict had imposed on Cardinal McCarrick sanctions similar to those now imposed on him by Pope Francis, and that Vigano personally told Pope Francis about those sanctions in 2013.
00:32:16.000So McCarrick has been accused of sexual abuse of young seminarians.
00:32:20.000He's also been accused of engaging in homosexual acts with a bunch of people who are under his auspices, which is a violation, obviously,
00:32:49.000It stretches back all the way back to when, you know, Henry II trying to say that we should actually try priests in secular courts in Great Britain, in England in the 12th and 13th centuries.
00:33:03.000So this sort of battle between secular and church has been going on for a very long time.
00:33:07.000But one of the premises of the idea that the church should handle its own business is that the church will actually handle its own business.
00:33:12.000The church did not handle its own business.
00:33:14.000According to Archbishop Vigano, he said in his written statement, simultaneously released to the Register and other media, that Pope Francis continued to cover for McCarrick.
00:33:22.000And not only did he not take into account the sanctions that Pope Benedict had imposed on him, but also made McCarrick his trusted counselor.
00:33:28.000Vigano's story has now been backed by a couple of other sources.
00:33:30.000He said the former Archbishop of Washington advised the Pope to appoint a number of bishops in the United States, including Cardinals Bla... I think it's pronounced Blaise Cupich of Chicago and Joseph Tobin of Newark.
00:33:41.000Archbishop Vigano who said his conscience dictates the truth be known as the corruption has reached the very top of the church's hierarchy ended his testimony by calling on Pope Francis and all those implicated in the cover-up of Archbishop McCarrick's abuse to resign.
00:33:53.000The accusation basically suggests that McCarrick has abused
00:33:59.000The media has reported written reports of victims of abuse spanning decades, including a teenage boy, three young priests or seminarians, and a man now in his 60s who alleges that McCarrick abused him from the age of 11.
00:34:10.000The Pope later accepted McCarrick's resignation from the College of Cardinals, but Vigano wrote that Benedict much earlier had imposed sanctions on McCarrick.
00:34:17.000Similar to those handed down by Cardinal Perelin, the Cardinal was to leave the seminary where he was living.
00:34:22.000He was forbidden to celebrate Mass in public, to participate in public meetings, to give lectures, to travel, with the obligation of dedicating himself to a life of prayer and penance.
00:34:29.000He said the sanctions were applied as far back as 2009-2010.
00:34:33.000Benedict's measure came years after Archbishop Pagano's predecessor at the nunciature,
00:34:42.000Basically, the accusation here is that all of these memos were ignored by the top levels of the College of Cardinals and the papacy.
00:34:51.000Lugano claims he wrote several memos to a series of cardinals who repeatedly refused to do anything about this.
00:34:58.000They basically gave in to what he essentially calls a homosexual clique in the Catholic Church.
00:35:26.000Now, free from all constraints, had felt free to travel continuously to give lectures and interviews.
00:35:31.000He said McCarrick, who backed Pope Francis, became the kingmaker for appointments in the Curia and the United States and the most listened to advisor in the Vatican for relations with the Obama administration.
00:35:41.000He says that appointments of other cardinals were orchestrated by McCarrick.
00:35:47.000There are a lot of traditional Catholics who are looking at this and wondering if Pope Francis can actually survive this.
00:35:52.000Whether Pope Francis should step down for having helped cover all of this up because Pope Francis has been extraordinarily soft on LGBT issues.
00:35:59.000It's something the media have taken note of for a very long time and there's a feeling among traditional Catholics that perhaps his softness on those issues led him to basically look the other way with regard to this Archbishop McCarrick who is actually engaged in violations of Catholic code with other seminarians alongside allegations of him molesting underage kids.
00:36:32.000Now it's time for you to actually do something about it, right?
00:36:34.000It seems like you could be in a position to help God out here.
00:36:36.000I mean, I'm not, I'm not a Catholic, but it seems like if you're the Pope, you might be in a position to actually, you know, help cleanse the Catholic church of this stuff, as opposed to just tweeting out vague references to prayer.
00:36:45.000I'm not usually a person who says that prayer is not an answer, but when it comes to you having the power to do something about this at the head of a church to cleanse your own church of this stuff, you're gonna need to do more than pray about this.
00:37:51.000This, of course, led to a massive controversy.
00:37:52.000Why isn't Tiger Woods, such a powerful voice, speaking up on issues of race relations?
00:37:58.000Tiger Woods is the reason people are still watching sports.
00:38:00.000People had stopped watching golf because Tiger Woods became irrelevant.
00:38:03.000Tiger Woods is relevant again, and people are watching.
00:38:05.000The last thing Tiger Woods should be doing is talking about politics in sports.
00:38:09.000You want to destroy the last common area we have left in common?
00:38:13.000Destroy the sporting world by polarizing it around issues of politics.
00:38:15.000Suggest that every celebrity has the necessity to talk about every political issue under the sun.
00:38:20.000There's kind of a running joke on Twitter these days about Taylor Swift, because Taylor Swift has basically stayed out of politics as well.
00:38:25.000And so anytime there's some sort of issue, people will start joking, Taylor Swift's silence on this issue is deafening.
00:38:33.000Because the joke is that the media expects all these public figures who have nothing to do, they're not famous for politics, to start sounding off about politics because celebrity dominates our politics.
00:38:52.000More importantly, he's playing great golf again.
00:38:55.000So President Trump is right about this.
00:38:57.000It's not particularly smart of him to draw attention to it, because now Tiger Woods is going to be badgered beyond belief by the media even more than he was before.
00:39:04.000And now it looks as though Tiger is tacitly supporting the president, which will force him to come out and say something against the president.
00:39:09.000You can see how this is exactly going to play out, right?
00:39:12.000You can see how this is going to work.
00:39:29.000On our Sunday special this week, we had on Clay Travis, Clay Travis, sports commentator, and he has a new book coming out called Republicans Buy Sneakers Too, which is a line from Michael Jordan, because during the 1990s, Michael Jordan didn't get political, and a lot of the people in the media wanted him to get political.
00:39:55.000But we have this weird tendency in American life now to think that everybody is an expert on everything, and the more prominent you are in any field, the more you're an expert on something.
00:40:03.000So you'll see people who have become very rich in the hedge fund area, and suddenly we think they're experts on politics.
00:40:08.000I mean, this is why Trump is president, right?
00:40:50.000So we think he should say something about politics because he must know.
00:40:53.000He must know about the intricacies of race relations because Tiger Woods hits a golf ball for a living.
00:40:58.000Now LeBron James must know everything there is to know about politics and have important things to say on politics because he's very famous and because he plays basketball.
00:41:06.000And this is not saying that he should shut up and dribble.
00:41:12.000If celebrities want to talk, that's their issue.
00:41:14.000But if you want to alienate half the population, if you want to drive people up a wall, if you want ESPN to continue declining in the ratings, please keep asking Tiger Woods what he thinks of President Trump.
00:41:25.000You want to destroy what's left of our common culture, all you have to do is keep pushing this idea that our celebrities should be spokespeople for the policies that you particularly like.
00:41:35.000It's ugly stuff, and it makes for a worse country.
00:41:38.000Which is why ESPN is declining in the ratings, it's why people are watching less and less of sports, and it's why the media's focus on the politicization of every angle of sports is actually making Star secondary.
00:41:50.000You know how many baseball fans want to see more of Mike Trout on TV?
00:41:53.000The answer is virtually every baseball fan.
00:41:54.000We can't even see Mike Trout on TV anymore because we're busy battling out kneeling for the National Anthem, an issue that has really very little bearing on anybody's life.
00:42:02.000When the continuation of this polarization is only going to make our politics worse.
00:42:06.000I think things are likely to get worse before they get better in American life, and that's not a good thing.
00:43:34.000It's a really funny movie, and it's worth watching.
00:43:37.000Maybe we'll do a Neil Simon this week, like a bunch of Neil Simon stuff, because there's a bunch of great Neil Simon plays that he did that are really funny and really good.
00:43:47.000And so we'll check some of that out this week.
00:44:33.000I just want to make that absolutely clear because I would never say a racial slur like that, but I want to make absolutely clear so Media Matters doesn't suggest that I would ever say a racial slur because I just pronounced a word for undergarments in British, okay?
00:44:45.000Because that's the way that this industry works now.
00:44:47.000So here is what the Daily Mirror says.
00:44:49.000Ladies, if you've ever looked at your man's underwear and thought it was a bit dull, then you're not alone.
00:44:53.000I don't know a single lady who has ever looked at men's underwear and thought it was a bit dull.
00:44:57.000They say, there's so much choice when it comes to women's underwear.
00:45:00.000From thongs to Brazilian and Bridget Jones style pants.
00:45:02.000Not to mention strapless, multi-way and water bras.
00:45:04.000Most men have only boxers or briefs to choose from.
00:45:13.000Men will check out pretty much any woman that is moving because that is evolutionarily beneficial for men to check out women.
00:45:20.000Women don't think about sex in exactly the same way, which is why men find the unclothed female body a lot more attractive than women find the unclothed male body as a general rule.
00:45:29.000This is not to say that women aren't into sex, but it is to say that to compare men's view of sex to women's view of sex is obviously ridiculous.
00:45:36.000And it's one of the reasons why prostitution is an industry that almost entirely caters to males, and why pornography is an industry that almost entirely caters to males.
00:45:43.000In any case, we're now going to try to pretend that women are exactly the same about sex as men are, and that women are into men dressing like ladies, which is real weird.
00:45:52.000So the Daily Mirror says, this is all about to change.
00:45:54.000As one lingerie company has created a unique line of bras and undergarments, I'm going to change the word, especially for men.
00:46:59.000One man reviewing the Tiffany sleepwear set commented, The material feels so soft and sensuous to the touch and feels so comfortable, you could sleep in it all night if it wasn't so sexy.
00:47:45.000There's not a straight woman alive who wants men to be more feminine, just as there is no straight man alive who's interested in women being really, really masculine.
00:47:55.000What I really want my wife to be is more like a man.