Robert Mueller drops the mic, Democrats pick it up, and did President Trump hide the USS John McCain? It s like an entire ship. Ben Shapiro breaks it all down for you on today's show, and you won t want to miss it!
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00:01:34.000And... Okay, so let's analyze what exactly Robert Mueller said, because everybody seems a little more confused today than they were yesterday, because Mueller did not clarify anything.
00:01:44.000In fact, Mueller basically just threw fuel on the fire of impeachment talk without actually adding any new information to the mix.
00:01:52.000There was no real reason for his statement.
00:01:54.000The only thing I think it revealed is that the purpose of his investigation was always confused and confusing.
00:02:00.000So I want to go through what Mueller actually said, because there were a few key messages in his valedictory speech.
00:02:07.000So he began his statement by recognizing that his original brief was to investigate Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election.
00:02:21.000He was hired specifically with regard to the Trump-Russia collusion stuff, the first half of his report, where he basically found nothing of importance.
00:02:29.000Two years ago, the acting attorney general asked me to serve as special counsel, and he created the special counsel's office.
00:02:39.000The appointment order directed the office to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
00:02:48.000This included investigating any links or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the Trump campaign.
00:02:57.000As alleged by the grand jury in an indictment, Russian intelligence officers, who were part of the Russian military, launched a concerted attack on our political system.
00:03:17.000Because the Russia stuff turned out to be basically nothing.
00:03:20.000And this is what's got Trump fulminating this morning.
00:03:23.000After two years of hearing that he was a Russian tool, now the case is that Donald Trump was involved in obstruction of the fact that he was not, in fact, a Russian tool.
00:03:31.000And he's very upset about all of this, and I think rightly so.
00:03:34.000So President Trump tweeted out this morning about this.
00:03:42.000And now, Russia has disappeared because I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected.
00:03:47.000It was a crime that didn't exist, so now the Dems and their partner, the fake news media, say he fought back against this phony crime that didn't exist, this horrendous false accusation, and he shouldn't fight back, he should sit back and take it.
00:03:57.000Now, I don't think there's a lot in this tweet that is deeply wrong.
00:04:05.000The phraseology that people are using against Trump here is actually from that first tweet.
00:04:10.000In that first tweet, Trump says, And people are jumping on the phraseology, Russia helping me to get elected, because this is Trump's first admission that Russia was trying to get him elected, something that he has denied for a very long time.
00:04:25.000That's also Trump just being awkward on Twitter, because that's what Trump does for a living.
00:04:29.000Trump clarified this in a statement to the press afterward.
00:04:32.000He said, Russia didn't help me get elected.
00:04:35.000Russia was just trying to interfere with the election.
00:04:37.000He's trying to walk back what he said on his tweet.
00:04:39.000All of this is not useful to the president, at the very least.
00:04:45.000No, Russia did not help me get elected.
00:05:22.000And meanwhile, the second message that Mueller put forward really, and this is where I think Trump does have a right to be somewhat outraged by the extent of the investigation, is that it really never should have included obstruction.
00:05:33.000And Mueller was giving these mixed messages yesterday in his farewell message here.
00:05:38.000These mixed messages about why he was investigating obstruction in the first place.
00:05:45.000Unlike the election interference investigation, which started as a counterintelligence investigation inside the FBI, the obstruction investigation began as a criminal investigation.
00:05:53.000It was not an investigation of Russia.
00:05:55.000It was an investigation of Trump and his associates for criminal activity.
00:05:59.000But Mueller said yesterday he did not actually have the authority to conclude that investigation.
00:06:06.000Mueller said regarding Russian interference that it was critical to obtain a full and accurate information from every person they questioned.
00:06:14.000But he also explained that the president can't be charged with a federal crime.
00:06:19.000So if he can't be charged with a federal crime, then what exactly were you investigating?
00:06:24.000Like you don't have The police cannot investigate me for a crime that doesn't exist and that I can't be charged for.
00:07:13.000Everybody's looking around today going, so what was this all about?
00:07:16.000If you could not consider a prosecution at any point and you were unwilling to recommend impeachment straight out or say that the president committed a crime straight out, he wasn't even willing to say the president committed a crime in the absence of the DOJ statute.
00:07:30.000He just said, I'm not going to come to a conclusion on that because I can't indict And because I can't indict, I'm not going to formally accuse the president.
00:07:51.000The opinion says that the Constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing.
00:08:31.000Here's his excuse for the investigation.
00:08:34.000The opinion explicitly permits the investigation of a sitting president because it is important to preserve evidence while memories are fresh and documents available.
00:08:45.000That evidence could be used if there were co-conspirators who could be charged now.
00:08:50.000But there were no co-conspirators charged now in obstruction.
00:08:53.000There were no crimes alleged by Mueller.
00:08:56.000So then what the hell was all of this about?
00:08:58.000The answer is what this really was about is impeachment.
00:09:03.000He said that there was a process, but the process was basically constitutional in nature.
00:09:09.000In other words, I did this as a predicate to impeachment.
00:09:12.000I think it's the only way to read Mueller's press conference, which means that he was acting as a tool for the legislative branch inside the executive branch, which is unconstitutional.
00:09:29.000People who work for the president typically are not charged with investigating the president.
00:09:32.000This is why for a long time there was something called the Independent Counsel Act, which made a member of the executive branch subject to the legislature.
00:09:39.000And Justice Scalia famously wrote that he thought that this was unconstitutional.
00:09:43.000That the idea of having an independent counsel who doesn't really work for the president and also doesn't really work for the Congress, that creates a weird fourth branch of government that doesn't really exist.
00:09:53.000So the only takeaway from this is basically that Mueller wanted Trump to go down, but he wouldn't call for prosecution.
00:09:59.000Here's Mueller explaining that effectively.
00:10:02.000There was insufficient evidence to charge a broader conspiracy.
00:10:06.000If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.
00:10:12.000We did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime.
00:10:16.000We concluded that we would, would not reach a determination one way or the other.
00:10:22.000About whether the president committed a crime.
00:10:51.000And you remember that James Comey, the former FBI director, basically went out there and said, Hillary Clinton is guilty as sin, but I'm changing the law in order to let her off the hook.
00:10:58.000And a lot of folks were like, whoa, that seems wildly inappropriate.
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00:12:34.000The one thing that Mueller said that cut in favor of the Trump administration is he basically suggested that Bill Barr, the Attorney General, was not trying to hide anything.
00:12:43.000Conducted an independent criminal investigation and reported the results to the Attorney General as required by department regulations.
00:12:53.000The Attorney General then concluded that it was appropriate to provide our report to Congress and to the American people.
00:13:01.000At one point in time, I requested that certain portions of the report be released.
00:13:06.000The Attorney General preferred to make the entire report public all at once, We appreciate that the Attorney General made the report largely public, and I certainly do not question the Attorney General's good faith in that.
00:13:22.000Okay, so there he is undercutting the Democratic line that Bill Barr has been lying to them consistently, the Attorney General of the United States has been lying consistently.
00:13:28.000Now, the media are not letting go of the idea that Bill Barr lied.
00:13:31.000So they've been playing on a loop these sort of contradictions between Robert Mueller's statements and William Barr's statements before Congress.
00:13:40.000So there are a couple of contrasts between the statements that we have to analyze to see who's lying or who's telling the truth or if there's really any conflict to begin with.
00:13:48.000I'll point out that the supposed conflicts were Cleared up quasi, in a way, by Kerry Kupec, the spokeswoman for the Department of Justice, and Peter Carr, the spokesman for the Special Counsel's Office.
00:13:57.000They released a joint statement right after Mueller's statement.
00:14:01.000They said, quote, The Attorney General has previously stated that the Special Counsel repeatedly affirmed that he was not saying that, but for the OLC opinion, he would have found the President's obstructed justice.
00:14:10.000The Special Counsel's report and his statement today made clear that the office concluded it would not reach a determination one way or the other about whether the President committed a crime.
00:14:18.000There is no conflict between these statements.
00:14:20.000I pointed this out yesterday in our analysis that when Mueller said that the DOJ regulations prohibited him from reaching a conclusion, That did not actually contradict the statement made by Barr that Mueller said that even in the absence of the OLC ruling, he might not have prosecuted the president.
00:14:37.000There is no conflict between those two points.
00:14:40.000But let's play some of these clips back-to-back.
00:14:42.000Barr versus Mueller on, for example, the evidence of collusion.
00:14:45.000Because there does seem to be some shading that is going on here.
00:14:48.000Here's William Barr talking about the evidence of collusion versus what Robert Mueller had to say about evidence of collusion.
00:14:54.000The special counsel's report did not find any evidence that members of the Trump campaign or anyone associated with the campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in these hacking operations.
00:15:08.000In other words, there was no evidence of the Trump campaign collusion with the Russian government's hacking.
00:15:15.000The first volume of the report details numerous efforts emanating from Russia to influence the election.
00:15:22.000This volume includes a discussion of the Trump campaign's response to this activity, As well as our conclusion that there was insufficient evidence to charge a broader conspiracy.
00:15:33.000Those two things are not actually in conflict.
00:15:35.000So you have Mueller saying that there is insufficient evidence of conspiracy.
00:15:40.000That is a softer thing than no evidence of collusion.
00:15:43.000But conspiracy and collusion are two different things.
00:15:45.000Conspiracy is an actual criminal charge.
00:15:47.000Collusion is a general political accusation.
00:15:49.000So when Barr says there's no evidence of collusion, That's correct.
00:15:54.000And when Mueller says there's insufficient evidence of conspiracy, that is also correct because conspiracy is a criminal charge.
00:16:02.000So the purported conflict between Barr and Mueller on this point, I don't find particularly convincing.
00:16:07.000In a second, we'll get to the other supposed conflict between Barr and Mueller.
00:16:10.000So there's another conflict supposedly between William Barr, the attorney general's testimony, and what Robert Mueller said in his statement yesterday.
00:16:18.000And this one surrounded obstruction of justice.
00:16:20.000So here's what Barr had to say versus what Mueller had to say.
00:16:23.000After carefully reviewing the facts and legal theories outlined in the report and in consultation with the Office of Legal Counsel and other department lawyers, the Deputy Attorney General and I concluded that the evidence developed by the Special Counsel is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction of justice offense.
00:16:45.000If we had had confidence that the President clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.
00:16:52.000We did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime.
00:16:56.000Okay, those two things, again, are not in conflict.
00:16:59.000When William Barr says, right there, that the obstruction of justice evidence isn't sufficient for a prosecution, that is the same thing, effectively, as Robert Mueller saying, we can't exonerate him, but also, we didn't recommend prosecution.
00:17:14.000Again, Barr was using a legal standard and Mueller is going further than that.
00:17:18.000I think that President Trump, frankly, has reason to be angry at Robert Mueller.
00:17:22.000I'm a little more upset at Robert Mueller today than I have been for a couple of years.
00:17:25.000I've been very much in Robert Mueller's corner.
00:17:27.000I believe that this is a guy who is trying to do his job.
00:17:30.000But I think it appeared from his statements yesterday that he surpassed his original brief and that his original brief was not supposed to encompass a lot of the stuff that he ended up doing.
00:17:41.000If Congress wants to investigate this stuff, that is their purview.
00:17:45.000But to effectively become a tool for impeachment was beyond his mandate, beyond the scope of his mandate.
00:17:52.000Now, what has happened, effectively speaking, is that all of this has now been tossed into the lap of Congress, which is where it should have begun in the first place.
00:17:58.000If Democrats want to impeach, they have every ability to do that.
00:18:01.000The media were blowing this up, suggesting that Robert Mueller had now made the case for impeachment.
00:18:05.000The editorial board over at The Washington Post says, quote, Special Counsel Robert Mueller broke his long silence Wednesday telling a news conference that his two-year Russia investigation is closed and that he did not have anything to say publicly beyond what was written in the report.
00:18:18.000But the key passages he chose to highlight underlined the dishonesty of President Trump and Attorney General William Barr in seeking to dodge and mischaracterize his conclusions.
00:18:26.000The central allegations of the investigators, Mueller said, was that there were multiple systematic efforts to interfere in our elections.
00:18:31.000Yet today, it has not been fully acknowledged by Mr. Trump.
00:18:36.000Trump has constantly said that he doesn't think that it was important that Russia basically interfered in the election.
00:18:41.000That's a fair criticism, but that's not really a criticism of Barr.
00:18:44.000Then the Washington Post says, Mr. Barr claimed there was not a case to be made against Mr. Trump for obstruction of justice based on Mueller's findings.
00:18:50.000So it's significant that Mueller restated what his report actually says, that if we had confidence the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.
00:18:57.000Again, those two things are not in conflict.
00:18:59.000This is the Washington Post creating a falsehood.
00:19:02.000When Barr says there was not a case to be made, that it was not sufficiently prosecutable, that is not in conflict with Mueller saying that we can't exonerate.
00:19:10.000We can't exonerate and we can prosecute are two very different terms.
00:19:14.000We can't exonerate OJ Simpson, but we also can't prosecute him.
00:19:19.000There are a lot of reasons why you can't prosecute someone who also cannot be exonerated.
00:19:23.000This happens legitimately all the time in the American criminal justice system.
00:19:29.000Mr. Mueller could have avoided much confusion and short-circuited the administration's attempt to manipulate public opinion, says the Washington Post, if he had made his statement weeks ago in conjunction with the release of a lightly redacted version of his report.
00:19:40.000So the Washington Post continues to try to claim that there's some cover-up that went on, even though Mueller explicitly said there was no cover-up that went on in the middle of this press conference.
00:19:51.000The left is basically hoping to hang their hat on Mueller's press conference.
00:19:56.000And what's amazing is that they continue to call out for Mueller to do the work they won't do.
00:20:01.000Here's the problem for the Democrats and for the left now.
00:20:04.000The ball is in their court and they don't actually want the ball in their court.
00:21:57.000Robert De Niro says, As I prepared for my role on the show, I got to know you a lot better.
00:22:01.000I read about your lifetime devotion to public service and your respect for the rule of law.
00:22:05.000I watched how you presided over the special counsel's office, apparently without leaks, and you never wavered, even in the face of regular vicious attacks from the president and his surrogates.
00:22:14.000While I and so many Americans have admired your quiet, confident, dignified response in ignoring that assault, it allowed the administration to use its own voice to control the narrative.
00:22:23.000There's a lot of speculation about the president being tone-deaf to facts, but there's not much disagreement about the tone.
00:22:27.000Whether you take delight in it, as his loyal supporters do, or you're the unfortunate target of his angry rhetoric, the hostile way he expresses himself registers with anyone.
00:22:36.000Say what you will about the president, and I have.
00:22:38.000When it comes to that lying, exaggerating, bullying thing, no one can touch him.
00:22:41.000And here, Mr. Mueller, is where you come in.
00:22:49.000It may speak For itself to lawyers and lawmakers who have the patience and obligation to read through the more than 400 pages of carefully chosen words and nuanced conclusions.
00:22:58.000You've characterized the report as your testimony, but you wouldn't accept that reason from anyone your office interviewed.
00:23:02.000Additional information and illumination emerge from responses to questions.
00:23:06.000I know you're uncomfortable in the spotlight, as the president is out of it.
00:23:09.000I know you don't want to become part of the political spectacle.
00:23:12.000I know you will, however, reluctantly testify before Congress if called, because you respect the system and follow the rules.
00:23:40.000Well, Mueller isn't coming back, and his report does say what it says, and that means that it's basically up to the Democrats now whether they want to impeach.
00:23:46.000We're going to get to that in just one second.
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00:26:36.000Investigating and potentially impeaching Trump dominated Capitol Hill talk on Wednesday, both behind closed doors where influential Democrats urged starting an inquiry and out loud among progressives demanding action.
00:26:47.000Pelosi did not utter the word Wednesday in a terse five-paragraph statement issued two hours after Mueller left it to Congress to investigate Trump further.
00:26:56.000The Congress holds sacred its constitutional responsibility to investigate and hold the president accountable for his abuse of power.
00:27:02.000The Congress will continue to investigate and legislate to protect our elections and secure our democracy.
00:27:06.000The American people must have the truth.
00:27:08.000Now, the reality is that the House Judiciary Committee has not been calling the proper witnesses.
00:27:33.000I'm not going to sit here and do your work for you.
00:27:35.000I was not allowed to do that by the by the rules of the DOJ, and I didn't reach a conclusion.
00:27:40.000So maybe Democrats don't want to hear that message.
00:27:42.000There's also the possibility that I was hearing that Democrats are concerned that Mueller will look bad in front of Republicans.
00:27:47.000We'll say, OK, so why did you even do this stuff in the first place if the DOJ prohibited you from the very beginning from either recommending an indictment or indicting yourself?
00:27:56.000Here's Jerry Nadler yesterday basically acknowledging that he is not interested in calling Robert Mueller, which is an amazing switch for the Democrats.
00:28:03.000Remember, Robert Mueller was the most important person to hear from for the Democrats for two years.
00:28:08.000For two years, they were buying votive candles.
00:28:11.000For two years, they were suggesting that Robert Mueller is going to save them from Trump.
00:28:14.000And even for the past two months, since William Barr released his four-page letter, the Democrats have been claiming that we need to hear directly from Mueller.
00:28:22.000Well, Mueller spoke yesterday for a grand total of about 9 minutes and 40 seconds.
00:28:25.000And that's all that they're going to get.
00:28:27.000And Democrats apparently are satisfied with that, which suggests maybe they know they're not going to get much more out of Mueller that is going to benefit them.
00:28:33.000Here is Nadler, the head of the House Judiciary Committee, effectively saying, yeah, I'm not interested in calling Mueller at this point.
00:28:40.000Mr. Mueller told us a lot of what we need to hear today.
00:28:51.000It's very important to be clear on what he told us, on what the Special Prosecutor told the American people.
00:28:56.000He reaffirmed what was in the investigation.
00:29:00.000Which was in the report about the investigation, which found substantial evidence that Russia attacked our political system, that the Trump campaign benefited from Russia's interference, that Trump and those around him repeatedly welcomed Russia's support, and that throughout the investigation, Trump sought to obstruct justice and undermine Mueller and the investigation over and over again.
00:29:21.000OK, well, again, he's saying, I'm not going to call Mueller.
00:29:28.000They're not going to do anything here.
00:29:29.000They're going to they're going to smear Trump.
00:29:31.000They're going to suggest that Trump engaged in obstruction of justice.
00:29:35.000The 2020 Democrats are going to suggest that Trump is impeachable without actually having to own all of this.
00:29:39.000Kamala Harris yesterday said, absolutely, we've got to impeach.
00:29:42.000And she's indicative of the general Democratic mindset at this point.
00:29:46.000What was the message that Mr. Mueller was sending to you, a sitting member of Congress?
00:29:52.000And do you have a reaction to the president's tweet saying that this case is closed and nothing has changed?
00:29:59.000Well, I try not to respond to those tweets, but I will say that I think what is clear is that I think it's a fair inference from what we heard in that press conference, that Bob Mueller was essentially referring impeachment to the United States Congress.
00:30:15.000Okay, so she actually went further than that on MSNBC.
00:30:17.000She actually said that President Trump should be prosecuted and locked up.
00:30:20.000So we have shifted from lock her up to lock him up.
00:30:22.000And Kamala Harris has a long history of attempting to lock people up many times unjustly.
00:30:26.000Here is Kamala Harris saying that the president should go to jail.
00:30:30.000I am also clear from reading what he wrote in that report that the only reason they did not return an indictment against this president on obstruction of justice is because of an opinion from the Department of Justice that suggests that you cannot indict a sitting president.
00:30:48.000But there is no question that the evidence supports a prosecution of that case.
00:30:56.000So taking it to the point of your next question, absolutely.
00:31:00.000OK, so this is easy for the 2020 candidates to say it's not so easy for Nancy Pelosi.
00:31:04.000They are going to slow play it, despite Chris Matthews saying that it's time for Democrats to poop or get off the pot.
00:31:12.000Nancy Pelosi is going to slow play this.
00:31:14.000Nancy Pelosi is not interested in moving forward with impeachment.
00:31:16.000She's got too many moderate members of her own caucus who exist in suburban areas where the vote is closely split.
00:31:23.000And she's deeply afraid those people lose their seats.
00:31:26.000As McClatchy reports, Representative Lucy McBath, a Georgia Democrat who won her seat last year with 50.5% in a district Trump narrowly won in 2016, refuses to mention impeachment.
00:31:36.000She says, The Democrats in moderate areas are not going to talk impeachment.
00:31:38.000We need this administration to stop stonewalling Congress, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:31:42.000The Democrats in moderate areas are not going to talk impeachment.
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00:33:54.000OK, we're going to get to other democratic strategies for 2020 coming up.
00:33:59.000Strategies that are going to have some pretty significant implications for your freedoms.
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00:35:44.000Okay, so there's some other tactics that Democrats are trying for 2020.
00:35:55.000I don't think impeachment is going to be sufficient for them for 2020 because I don't think they're actually going to pursue it.
00:36:01.000Well, the other tactic they're trying for 2020 is this sort of nefarious tactic where they signal to social media companies that social media companies ought to shut down material they don't like.
00:36:12.000So I think after 2016, Democrats refused to acknowledge that Hillary Clinton was a garbage candidate who lost because she was a garbage candidate.
00:36:18.000Instead, it must have been Russian election interference.
00:36:20.000Instead, it must have been Facebook and fake news and all these other excuses.
00:36:24.000Well, one of the things they are focused like a laser on is that come 2020, they do not want alternative methods of distribution to the mainstream media.
00:36:32.000And so they're focusing it on social media companies.
00:36:34.000They're threatening them with legislation.
00:36:36.000They're threatening them with regulation.
00:36:38.000And so you have the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, now suggesting that because there was a video of her on Facebook, just of her slowed down a little bit.
00:36:46.000So it sounded like she was drunk a little bit, like this humorous video.
00:36:49.000And this shows that the Facebook leaders wittingly helped the Russians, wittingly helped.
00:36:53.000I mean, this is an affarious accusation.
00:36:55.000There is no way in hell that the Facebook leadership, that Mark Zuckerberg, was like, yeah, I'm helping the Russians throw this election to Trump.
00:37:01.000I'm sure that was going through Mark Zuckerberg's head.
00:37:03.000Nor is it the job of Mark Zuckerberg to censor stuff on his platform that is not illegal.
00:37:10.000I've been saying for a very long time that to treat the social media companies as though they are the ultimate arbiters of good and evil, of truth and falsity, is simply nonsense.
00:37:20.000If you want to say that Facebook should remove things that violate the law, violent, incitement, slanderous materials, copyright violations, fine.
00:37:28.000But if you want to say that Facebook is supposed to remove everything Nancy Pelosi doesn't like or they unwittingly help the Russians, or in her case, she says, wittingly help the Russians, this is a pretty close to overt threat against Facebook designed to get Facebook to change its policies in advance of the 2020 election.
00:37:57.000One, that I was giving them the benefit of the doubt on Russia, but clearly they, I thought it was unwitting, but clearly they wittingly were accomplices and enablers of false information to go across Facebook.
00:38:43.000And then because Barack Obama was the new normal, Trump's victory was some unbelievably shocking thing where he built this brand new coalition.
00:38:51.000Hillary Clinton is the normal Democrat.
00:38:52.000Barack Obama is the abnormal Democrat.
00:38:54.000Donald Trump got basically the same percentages as normal Republicans do, even though he is an abnormal Republican.
00:39:01.000So when he beat Hillary Clinton, that was mostly about Hillary sucking at her job, about her not being able to hold the new gains that Barack Obama had made.
00:39:10.000And yet for Hillary Clinton, it's all Facebook's fault.
00:39:13.000So here is, she's making the same point.
00:39:15.000All of this is designed to softly push, not so softly, push Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey over at Twitter and the people over at Google to basically bias their tech in favor of Democrats come 2020.
00:39:38.000And YouTube took it down, but Facebook kept it up.
00:39:42.000So let's send a message to Facebook that those who are in Facebook's communities would really like Facebook to pay attention to false and doctored videos before we are flooded with them over the next months.
00:39:58.000OK, this idea that she's going to cram down on Facebook her vision of what is true and what is false is going to get dangerous very, very quickly.
00:40:06.000It's not restricted to the United States, by the way.
00:40:07.000The left is on the move across the world in terms of trying to crack down on social media because they don't like the idea of free platforms.
00:40:15.000My view on this, and I've been targeted by a lot of people on social media for things up to and including death.
00:40:20.000So I'm very well aware of social media being misused.
00:40:24.000But trying to crack down on social media as a platform and instead turn it into some sort of left-wing publishing site, that's what a lot of folks on the left want.
00:40:32.000It's created an enormous amount of blowback in Germany, where Angela Merkel's heir apparent is facing criticism.
00:40:39.000Her name is Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer.
00:40:41.000She replaced Merkel as the leader of the ruling CDU last year.
00:40:46.000She denied that she was promoting censorship after her comments, which were prompted by a YouTube video by a popular 26-year-old blogger named Rezo.
00:40:53.000In the video, seen by millions ahead of the EU Parliament vote, Rezo called on voters to reject the two parties for betraying the young by not addressing the climate crisis.
00:41:01.000Kramp-Karrenbauer said, quote, I asked myself, what would be the response in this country if, say, 70 newspapers issued a joint appeal two days before the election saying, don't vote CDU or SPD?
00:41:10.000Those would be the sort of center-right or center-left parties.
00:41:14.000She says, that would have been a clear propagandizing before the election.
00:41:16.000I believe it would have unleashed a lively debate.
00:41:18.000So the question remains, what are the rules from the analog era, and how do they apply in the digital era?
00:41:24.000It sounds like she wants to regulate the social media company.
00:41:26.000She wants to regulate YouTube so that you can't electioneer before a campaign.
00:41:29.000The political class, the political elite, do not like the fact that they cannot control podcasts like this one.
00:41:35.000They do not like the fact that they cannot control distribution of information on Facebook and YouTube and Twitter.
00:41:41.000And so they are attempting to push pressure cram down their vision of society on the already left-leaning leaders of these various tech companies who are willing to hear it, number one, because many of them are on the left, and number two, because they wish to escape the governmental censure that is going to be promoted by people like Speaker Pelosi and like Hillary Clinton.
00:42:35.000military officials worked to ensure that President Trump wouldn't see the warship that bears the name of the late senator, a frequent target of the president's ire.
00:42:42.000This story is by Rebecca Ballhouse and Gordon Lewbald.
00:42:46.000Navy to move out of sight the warship U.S.S.
00:42:48.000John McCain ahead of President Trump's visit to Japan.
00:42:52.000The ship was named after the father and grandfather of the late senator, a war hero who became a frequent target of Mr. Trump's ire, and the senator's name was added to the ship in 2018.
00:43:03.000Indo-Pacific Command official outlined plans for the president's arrival.
00:43:07.000In addition to instructions for proper landing areas for helicopters and preparations for the USS Wasp, where the president was scheduled to speak, the official issued a third director.
00:43:15.000USS John McCain needs to be out of sight.
00:43:18.000Please confirm number three, that was that directive.
00:43:21.000We'll be satisfied, the official wrote.
00:43:23.000When a Navy commander expressed surprise about the directive for the USS John McCain, the U.S.
00:43:27.000Indo-Pacific Command official replied, first, I heard of it as well.
00:43:30.000He said he'd work with the White House military office to obtain more information.
00:43:34.000Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan, according to the Wall Street Journal, was aware of the concern about the presence of the USS John McCain in Japan and approved measures to ensure it didn't interfere with the president's visit, according to a U.S.
00:44:38.000And his staff obviously should have just said, whatever, it's a ship.
00:44:42.000And if Trump can't get over it, then it's then on Trump.
00:44:45.000But from the staffer's position, I understand you're trying to shield the President, you're trying to prevent a blow-up in public from the President of the United States.
00:44:52.000The fact that Trump has these personality foibles is not A good thing, for sure.
00:44:56.000A senior White House official confirmed on Wednesday the person who issued the directive did not want the warship with the McCain name seen in photographs during Trump's visit.
00:45:03.000The official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations said the president was not involved in the planning, but the request was made to keep Trump from becoming upset.
00:45:12.000So there are a lot of folks in the White House, apparently, who are attempting to prevent President Trump from basically feeling quasi-angst at the fact that there is a ship named after John McCain.
00:45:26.000Now, it is reported by the Navy Chief of Information that the name of the USS John McCain was not obscured during the President's visit to Yokosuka on Memorial Day.
00:45:34.000The Navy is proud of that ship, its crew, its namesake, and its heritage.
00:45:38.000Trump himself obviously tweeted that he had nothing to do with this.
00:45:42.000this katie tur reports from nbc a spokesperson for the u.s pacific fleet said the picture of a tarp there's a picture from friday of a tarp over the mccain name a spokesperson for the u.s pacific fleet said the picture of the tarp is from friday it was taken down on saturday all ships remained in normal configuration during the president's visitor said commander nate christensen so the media did in fact push this too far The media suggested that Trump himself was responsible for this.
00:46:10.000The media suggested that the ship was in fact hidden when apparently it was not.
00:46:15.000But a couple of things can be true at once.
00:46:16.000One, the media can get overzealous on these stories.
00:46:18.000Two, people around the president need to not protect him from things that are stupid.
00:46:22.000If Trump can't handle it, Trump can't handle it.
00:46:58.000Well, now there's going to be another election.
00:47:00.000I will say here that it is worthwhile noting that Israel has now had two elections inside of a year or will have two elections inside of a year.
00:47:07.000That's as many elections as the Palestinians have had ever.
00:47:12.000Because Israel is a democracy and a wild, chaotic, functioning parliamentary democracy at that.
00:47:19.000Nonetheless, it's a very weird circumstance.
00:47:21.000The first time in Israeli history that an elected governmental leader has been unable to form a coalition.
00:47:26.000According to the Washington Post, in a stunning turn, Israel will head to elections for a second time in less than six months after President, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a government before a midnight Wednesday deadline.
00:47:37.000Rather than give someone else the chance to do so, his party advanced a bill to dissolve parliament and trigger new elections in September.
00:47:43.000Netanyahu was unable to bring Avigdor Lieberman, his former defense minister, into a coalition that would give the prime minister a majority at parliament.
00:47:50.000The two veteran politicians were at loggerheads over legislation sought by Lieberman to draft ultra-Orthodox Jews into the military, a measure bitterly resisted by Netanyahu's powerful political allies in the religious parties.
00:48:01.000There's a lot of controversy over Orthodox service in the military because the military is a pretty secular place.
00:48:08.000There are what they call Hester units, which are units that are specifically of the Orthodox and tend to be more in line with Orthodox rules.
00:48:15.000The expansion of those Hester units would obviously be the proper solution here.
00:48:18.000The move for new elections leaves Israel in political disarray as it now embarks on an expensive nationwide vote that has no guarantee of shifting the balance of power among the They're going to do this again for no apparent reason.
00:48:32.000But again, proof that a functioning democracy is still in Israel.
00:48:36.000Apparently there was a vote of 74 to 45 to dissolve the body just a month after being sworn in.
00:48:41.000Gil Hoffman, chief political correspondent for the Jerusalem Post said, this is devastating to the average Israeli who's really tired of such selfish politics.
00:48:47.000There's no way to explain the situation to the average Israelis who are saying their politicians aren't working for their interests.
00:49:46.000So Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, was getting a lot of flack over the last couple of days because he was specifically asked about whether if Ruth Bader Ginsburg were to leave the court, for example, and Trump were to nominate a replacement, whether they'd fill that vacancy in the last year of his presidency.
00:50:01.000Now, the reason that that has become an issue is because McConnell said that the Senate was not going to vote in the last year of President Obama's presidency on Merrick Garland.
00:50:09.000Now, it is also important to note that Mitch McConnell said at the time, the reason for that is because we have a split in the parties.
00:50:14.000It is not the job of a Republican Senate to approve a Democratic nominee.
00:50:17.000Now, I've always said I didn't understand why that logic obtained only for the last year of a presidency.
00:50:23.000Why did Mitch McConnell have to approve of anybody that was put forward?
00:50:27.000There's an advice and consent rule for Senate.
00:50:29.000The Senate does not have to approve anybody.
00:50:31.000Mitch McConnell made it time-bound, basically saying if Hillary won, they'd vote on Merrick Garland.
00:50:36.000But there's no reason for him to say even that.
00:50:38.000In any case, Mitch McConnell was asked if he would fill a vacancy in the last year of Trump's first term.
00:50:54.000Okay, so people are laughing because supposedly this is a hypocritical, hard-nosed move by McConnell.
00:51:02.000And that's very taciturn stuff from Mitch McConnell.
00:51:06.000But what he's saying there is obviously correct.
00:51:09.000Democrats are going to approve a Democratic nominee.
00:51:11.000Republicans will approve a Republican nominee If there is a split, then at the very least, A delay seems somewhat appropriate.
00:51:17.000I would say the delay can be indefinite.
00:51:19.000I don't think that Republicans are bound to vote for Merrick Garland, even if Obama had nominated him in the very first year of his presidency.
00:51:26.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:51:32.000So, the move by major corporations to virtue signal on politics is really quite terrible.
00:51:40.000Disney has now come out and said maybe they'll move their production outside of Georgia if the Georgia law goes into effect.
00:52:18.000If the left wants to play this game, where they refuse to do business with people with whom they disagree on politics and on crucial issues like abortion, Well, then they're gonna pay the price.
00:53:02.000I am more than willing to delay my enjoyment of a Disney movie by watching it at home in the comfort of my home, renting it and spending $2.99 instead of $45 to bring my wife and kids to a movie.
00:53:12.000If this is the game that Hollywood wants to play, there will be consequences to this game.
00:53:21.000Or otherwise, this is just a bunch of virtue-signaling nonsense, and the reason that you're holding off on pulling from Georgia is because you want the tax benefits, you want to be able to virtue-signal to all your liberal members, your leftist coterie, without actually having to pull the money.
00:53:34.000Also, worthwhile noting, while Disney is talking about pulling all of their production from Georgia because of the heartbeat bill, you know, they also were producing Star Wars The Last Jedi.
00:54:13.000So, speaking of Brands that are getting involved in politics in the stupidest possible way.
00:54:19.000The Associated Press is reporting that Gucci has what they call the Cruise 2020 collection.
00:54:24.000It debuted to a VIP audience this week in Rome.
00:54:27.000It was themed around the subject of abortion because I know when I'm buying jeans, I'm thinking about killing babies.
00:54:32.000The collection featured a purple jacket with the slogan My Body, My Choice on the back and a sweater emblazoned with the date May 22, 1978, marking the day abortion became legal in Italy, according to the Associated Press.
00:54:42.000The brand's creative director, Alessandro Michele, says the theme is no coincidence.
00:54:46.000He was inspired, he says, by the sudden pro-life resurgence in the United States The restrictions in the United States, Michelle said, made me consider how much women should be highly respected.
00:54:55.000Sometimes in life, choices are difficult, but I believe it is the most difficult decision for a woman.
00:55:32.000If we are going to see all of these brands endorse wild left sloganeering, All you're going to see is pop-up brands that do not do this, who are going to pick up the lion's share of the revenue that leaves.