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00:00:24.000Yesterday, impeachment got real because Democrats finally voted on procedures for impeachment.
00:00:29.000Now, Republicans had been saying for a while that all of this was illegitimate because Democrats had not held an official vote on whether there ought to be an impeachment inquiry.
00:00:37.000Basically, Nancy Pelosi had gone out there and said, impeachment inquiry declared.
00:00:43.000She's the Speaker of the House, but she is saying a thing.
00:00:45.000It's the equivalent of Michael Scott declaring bankruptcy in the office by standing in the middle of the office and shouting, I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!
00:00:52.000So Republicans kept saying, well, you've established no procedures.
00:00:55.000The procedures that you haven't established are obviously bad for us.
00:00:58.000All of this stuff is being hidden behind closed doors.
00:01:01.000So how are we supposed to take any of this seriously?
00:01:04.000Well, the Democrats were holding off from officially declaring an impeachment inquiry And setting the ground rules because they didn't really know where this was going to go.
00:01:11.000Originally, all of this was expected to be quick and dirty.
00:01:14.000Originally, the Democrats said that within a month, like by Halloween, they were already going to be voting on impeachment.
00:01:48.000In order for Republicans in the Senate to vote to actually convict the president and remove him from office, it's going to take a lot more than what Democrats have right now.
00:01:56.000Again, the entire allegation against President Trump relies on his intent, on his intent level.
00:02:01.000Was he intending to militarize a foreign government by using taxpayer dollars as leverage to get them specifically to target an American citizen, Joe Biden, for political purposes?
00:02:11.000Not as part of a broader anti-corruption rubric, not as part of a broader 2016 investigation, not as part of a broader anti-Ukrainian agenda.
00:02:19.000As part of a, I want Joe Biden to go to jail in a foreign country thing.
00:02:23.000And so I'm withholding American taxpayer dollars so that the Ukrainians will go get Joe and Hunter Biden, right?
00:02:29.000And the transcript didn't clear that up.
00:02:31.000None of the testimony so far has cleared that up.
00:02:33.000I've been saying this for weeks now, probably months at this point.
00:02:36.000The fact is that unless Trump testifies or Rudy Giuliani testifies, those are the only two people who really know what the president's intent was in all of this.
00:02:44.000Because the president's intent Let's just say it's a skittish thing.
00:02:58.000And so I've been saying the whole time, I think that this whole phone call with the Ukrainians, his whole Ukrainian policy here, is basically just a reaction to Rudy Giuliani telling him things.
00:03:07.000The person at fault here, yes, the president for not actively We're actively failing to recognize what Rudy Giuliani was doing.
00:03:17.000Yes, the president should have should have not taken Giuliani so seriously, but Giuliani was the one who was feeding all this information to Trump.
00:03:22.000Trump was taking all of that, wrapping it up in his mind with Ukrainian corruption and then talking to the Ukrainians about it in the same way because he does this with everything.
00:03:31.000Every topic, the President of the United States has sort of this file card, right, like almost just a note card, a three by five, that has like a few ideas on it, and he just spits them out if you give him the topic.
00:03:43.000So you say global warming and he'll go, Chinese hoax, spend too much money, like it's just a bunch of ideas that come in response to a stimulus.
00:03:50.000And the same thing happens with regard to Ukraine.
00:03:53.000Somebody says Ukraine to him, and the first thing that he thinks is, Ukraine, 2016, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, like it's not that he is thinking this thing out.
00:04:10.000That's been my case in defense of President Trump.
00:04:13.000Well, Democrats believe they've got enough politically damaging material on Trump that now they're going to move forward with a formal impeachment inquiry and call the Republican bluff to the extent that they have now fully voted on at least opening the impeachment inquiry.
00:04:25.000We'll get to all of that in just one second.
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00:05:38.000Last night, the House passed an impeachment resolution along basic partisan lines.
00:05:48.000That would be Justin Amash, who was recently re-registered as an independent.
00:05:52.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the House passed a resolution almost entirely along party lines to initiate the public phase of an inquiry into President Trump's dealings with Ukraine, setting a blueprint for the fourth presidential impeachment investigation in American history.
00:06:04.000The 232-196 vote underscored the sharp partisan divide in Washington over impeachment.
00:06:09.000All Democrats but two supported the measure.
00:06:12.000The independent, Amash, who used to be Republican, voted yes on the measure.
00:06:17.000Though the move, according to the Wall Street Journal, will make the investigation more public, including the likelihood of televised hearings, no timeframe was given for when that will happen.
00:06:24.000The resolution authorizes the House Intelligence Committee to release transcripts from past closed-door interviews with witnesses and gives more power to Republicans, including the right to call their own witnesses, though those requests are subject to approval by Democrats.
00:06:36.000So, in reality, This thing is still going to be kept largely behind closed doors.
00:06:41.000It's still going to be handled by the majority.
00:06:45.000Republicans who are acting outraged at the fact that the Democrats are going to veto witness requests and subpoena requests from Republicans, that's sort of how this works.
00:06:54.000I mean, the majority does have the power to do that as a general rule.
00:06:58.000With that said, Once this moves into the Judiciary Committee, it becomes incredibly public.
00:07:02.000So the basic Democratic plan is have Schiff, who is a partisan hack of the highest order, right?
00:07:07.000The guy who is spending every five seconds on the CNN cameras talking about how the Mueller report was definitely going to take down Trump.
00:07:14.000He had set up an actual pup tent outside the green room at CNN.
00:07:19.000Like he would bring a thermos and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and just wait for the producers at CNN to call him up.
00:07:24.000And then he would just walk one foot into the CNN studios and do a hit.
00:07:28.000Well, now Adam Schiff is going to be running this thing.
00:07:30.000Yes, it will still be behind closed doors.
00:07:33.000They have the authority to release transcripts from past closed-door interviews, but that authority does not necessarily have to be exercised.
00:07:40.000House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said ahead of the vote, if we don't have a system of checks and balances, we might as well just elect a president and go home.
00:07:47.000She waved away GOP complaints, saying these rules are fairer than anything that has gone before in terms of an impeachment proceeding.
00:07:53.000The two Democrats who opposed the measure were Representatives Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey and Colin Peterson of Minnesota.
00:07:58.000Both of them are in Trump District circa 2016.
00:08:02.000Republicans have said that this investigation is still a sham, that the procedures are still unfair.
00:08:08.000House Republicans' campaign arm sent moving boxes to about 20 vulnerable Democrats' offices.
00:08:15.000Trying to suggest that all of these swing Democrats are in serious trouble.
00:08:19.000Democrats are buoyed by polling, however, that shows growing support for at least the impeachment inquiry.
00:08:24.000So most Americans believe the impeachment inquiry should move forward.
00:08:28.000Very few actually believe that there's enough evidence to go after Trump and impeach him now.
00:08:33.000Which is probably why the Democrats are looking for the televised House hearings, right?
00:08:35.000What they are trying to do is build momentum for the impeachment itself.
00:08:39.000Because what they've done is they've pried open the door where Americans say, well, we'd like to hear more, but what you've got now is insufficient.
00:08:45.000So Democrats are saying, well, how would you like it if we just spilled it all out in public?
00:08:48.000This is a demonstration of a certain level of confidence by Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats.
00:08:54.000The resolution passed on Thursday, according to the Wall Street Journal, will allow President Trump and his counsel to attend all Judiciary Committee hearings, cross-examine witnesses, and make closing presentations.
00:09:04.000Republicans in the White House criticized the resolution because it doesn't give the president these rights while the investigation is run by the Intelligence Committee, as it currently is.
00:09:13.000Democrats say this is still because this is early, we're in our information-gathering stage.
00:09:36.000You're not just talking about investigating a phone call.
00:09:39.000You're not just talking about investigating, I guess, a potential crime, although nobody has been able to point to the statute that Trump allegedly violated here.
00:09:46.000So the question becomes whether this is really still a sham process.
00:09:50.000Republicans were complaining it was being done by the Intel Committee behind closed doors.
00:09:53.000It's still being done by the Intel Committee behind closed doors.
00:09:56.000But now Democrats are saying openly, we'll push it over to the Judiciary Committee.
00:10:21.000I mean, two things can be true at once.
00:10:26.000One, Democrats are partisan hacks who want to destroy the President.
00:10:29.000Two, there can be some open questions that probably should be asked about Trump's behavior with Ukraine.
00:10:35.000The problem is that it's very difficult for the, it's going to be difficult for the American people to separate those two things.
00:10:40.000And frankly, I'm not sure that they should.
00:10:41.000I mean, it is pretty obvious that the Democrats have wanted to impeach Trump since the day that he was elected and they continue to want to impeach Trump.
00:10:48.000And so when they stand there and say, we're just here defending the constitution, the American public is like, well, are you though?
00:10:55.000Or is it just that you really, really, really hate Trump?
00:10:58.000In the private depositions, according to the Wall Street Journal, that the House has already conducted, Republicans and Democrats on the three committees of jurisdiction have had equal time to question witnesses, but lawmakers not on the panels have also been excluded.
00:11:10.000Conducting witness interviews behind closed doors has been pretty common in high-profile investigations run by both Republicans and Democrats.
00:11:17.000Under GOP leadership, both the Senate and House Intelligence Committees conducted separate reviews of Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
00:11:23.000They interviewed witnesses in private.
00:11:25.000But again, there is a difference in kind between inquiries into particular events.
00:11:31.000And once you've declared this is about impeachment, at that point, we all know what this whole thing is.
00:11:34.000At that point, we should really be hearing what is going on behind closed doors.
00:11:38.000So we'll get to more of that in just one second.
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00:13:17.000So back in March, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that she would only move forward with Trump's impeachment if the move received significant bipartisan support.
00:13:24.000Not a single Republican voted in favor.
00:13:26.000The New York Times reported the vote was expected to be deeply partisan.
00:13:30.000Pelosi claimed historically that she was not for impeachment.
00:13:32.000This is all the way back in March, right?
00:13:34.000So we're not talking about ancient history here.
00:13:36.000She said impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there's something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don't think we should go down that path because it divides the country.
00:13:48.000By the way, back in 1998, she said similar stuff.
00:13:51.000And when she was talking about the Clinton impeachment, she said impeachment is traumatic for the country.
00:13:55.000You should really only do this if you have bipartisan support.
00:13:57.000Because to move forward on an impeachment is very serious.
00:14:02.000I think it has traumatic impact on the confidence that the American people have in government, that the world has in our president, and that we are setting a precedent Uh, that we, and I believe that we shouldn't be frivolous in how we go forward in punishing a president whose politics we don't approve of.
00:14:20.000Well, flip the parties and obviously she flips on that nearly immediately.
00:14:23.000She then came out yesterday and she said, listen, this is a tragic day for the country.
00:14:27.000Oh, the crocodile tears just spilling down her well Botox cheeks.
00:14:31.000I mean, this is crocodile tears, obviously.
00:14:33.000She says, nobody comes, nobody comes to Congress to impeach a president.
00:15:13.000Yeah, she's very, very sad, Nancy Pelosi.
00:15:16.000And then Adam Schiff does the same routine.
00:15:17.000Adam Schiff, who has spent his entire waking life for the past several years talking about why President Trump should not be president, why the Mueller report was going to get him.
00:15:25.000And then if the Mueller report wasn't going to get him, then racism was going to get him.
00:15:27.000And if racism wasn't going to get him, Ukraine was going to get him.
00:15:30.000Now you got Adam Schiff also doing me more in sadness than an anger routine.
00:15:36.000I think he is totally broken up about this effort to impeach President Trump, Adam Schiff.
00:15:40.000I don't think he's been spending every single breath he has from like 24 hours a day, even in his dreams, he is thinking about how he gets rid of Trump and then stands on the steps of the Capitol building and talks about what a hero he is.
00:15:53.000Here is Adam Schiff pretending to be very sad about all of this.
00:15:57.000We take no joy in having to move down this road and proceed with the impeachment inquiry.
00:16:25.000I know there are a lot of Republicans who say, no, the American people should just reject all impeachment inquiry out of hand.
00:16:30.000That's not the job of the American people.
00:16:32.000The American people should keep their minds open to new information, just as they were with the Mueller report.
00:16:36.000But just as with the Mueller report, there was no support for impeachment, there was no support for getting rid of President Trump, and the American public did not draw conclusions about Trump-Russia collusion.
00:16:44.000They just said, listen, we want to wait and see all the information.
00:16:47.000This should be the new slogan of the show, right?
00:16:49.000You got Washington Post with its nonsense declaration, democracy dies in darkness.
00:16:53.000But the slogan of our show should be, let's wait for the info, right?
00:16:55.000I mean, because that's really what I say half the time, is just wait for the information.
00:18:05.000It is hilarious to watch Democrats pretend to be bipartisan with not a single Republican supporter.
00:18:10.000It's funny to watch them act as though they are doing this not because they hate Trump, but because they just care about the Constitution of the United States.
00:18:17.000As we'll see in a little while, the Democrats are not particularly interested in corruption.
00:18:22.000At the same time that they are talking about impeaching President Trump and all of this, which again, open questions on what Trump did, They are out there fulsomely defending Katie Hill, who is stooping nearly every member of her congressional staff, male and female.
00:18:37.000Nancy Pelosi was out there defending that.
00:18:38.000So don't give me, you guys are deeply concerned about corruption, when you're out there defending a member who is under an ethics investigation and had to resign because she was under an ethics investigation and calling it sexist that she had to resign because she was under an ethics investigation.
00:20:51.000You seem as though you can't get your act together, and it seems as though you're using your congressional offices as a sort of personal sexual playground.
00:20:58.000I don't think that many people are in favor of that.
00:21:00.000I'm very much amused by the idea that Katie Hill is being targeted because she's a woman.
00:21:07.000Do you believe that if Katie Hill were a man, stripping a male subordinate and a female subordinate in his own office, that that person would not be forced to step down?
00:21:21.000Now there are lots of media defenders, because Katie Hill's a woman, and because she is bisexual, that means she's part of the intersectional hierarchy, but...
00:21:27.000If you were a white male Republican doing the same thing with the same people, then it would be, look at this piece of crap.
00:21:55.000I'm leaving because I didn't want to be peddled by papers and blogs and websites, used by shameless operatives for the dirtiest gutter politics that I've ever seen, and the right-wing media to drive clicks and expand their audience by distributing intimate photos of me, taken without my knowledge, let alone my consent, for the sexual entertainment of millions.
00:22:16.000Okay, well, I don't know when those photos were taken.
00:22:18.000According to media reports, some of the photos she posted along with her husband online.
00:22:39.000It's a violation of congressional ethics.
00:22:40.000And yes, if you were a man, it would be much worse for you.
00:22:43.000Not like a little worse, much worse for you.
00:22:45.000Hey, but Nancy Pelosi was out there defending Katie Hill.
00:22:49.000Don't tell me the Democrats are deeply, they're deeply committed to fighting corruption in every aspect of American life, except when a congressional, when an elected congressperson is stripping half her staff and paying them at the same time, then Nancy Pelosi, The same Nancy Pelosi is like, more in sadness than in anger.
00:24:00.000So when I say that I have trust issues with the Democrats when it comes to their honesty on issues like impeachment, There's a reason I'm saying that.
00:24:10.000By the way, I have trust issues with the media, too.
00:24:11.000The media that wants to root out corruption.
00:24:13.000They are really angry about corruption.
00:24:14.000Except, again, when there's an ethics investigation into a sitting congresswoman who was apparently sexually using the help.
00:24:25.000Wait until you hear the media's take on Katie Hill leaving versus imagine for just a second it were President Trump.
00:24:30.000Imagine President Trump were having an affair, I know this is weird, with one of his male staffers and one of his female staffers while the White House is paying them.
00:24:37.000Do you think that maybe the media might be less sympathetic?
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00:26:15.000Okay, well, as I say, the media reaction to Katie Hill Let's just say it's a little bit different than the media reaction to the Trump impeachment.
00:26:22.000So the media reaction to the Trump impeachment is like, yeah, Trump has to go.
00:26:26.000Trump definitely did something very, very bad and very, very wrong.
00:26:28.000And then when it's Katie Hill, the media mourn it.
00:26:34.000Now, I've said all along since day one of the Katie Hill debacle that if, in fact, people were releasing revenge porn on her, they should go to jail.
00:26:42.000That is a crime in the state of California.
00:26:45.000She is a victim of people who are doing that to her.
00:26:48.000Also, she's involved in pretty severe ethics violations if she is doing what she is alleged to have been doing, and she was, because The material is out there.
00:28:37.000You mean Nancy Pelosi who told her to step down, in all likelihood?
00:28:40.000Nancy Pelosi's trying to backfill that now, saying, no, I didn't tell her to step down.
00:28:43.000The media rushing to Katie Hill's defense.
00:28:46.000Let's just say that they do not have tons of credibility when it comes to, we are the corruption fighters.
00:28:51.000It seems to me that your agenda is pretty clear.
00:28:53.000Now, with that said, I've been saying all along, there's still open questions about President Trump's conduct with regard to Ukraine.
00:28:59.000Now, there was a piece of testimony that was pushed out there yesterday, and the media jumped all over it.
00:29:04.000This was the testimony of Tim Morrison.
00:29:06.000Tim Morrison is a senior White House official who listened to President Trump's controversial call with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to the Daily Beast.
00:29:13.000And they were pushing out this testimony, the Democrats were, the media were, because they were suggesting that he was deeply worried about the phone call.
00:29:19.000But there's one thing that he said in his testimony that kind of is the crux of the matter.
00:29:48.000The question is, did he do something illegal?
00:29:51.000So, he said two things in his testimony.
00:29:54.000One of them was widely covered by the media, one not so much.
00:29:56.000The one not so much was he didn't do anything illegal.
00:29:58.000The one that was widely covered is that after the call between Zelensky and Trump took place, Morrison directed that the transcript of it be put on a secret White House server.
00:30:06.000He said that the memo the White House released about the call, to the best of his memory, is complete and thorough.
00:30:11.000Okay, so that gives the lie to all of the testimony that was being put out there that the ellipses in the transcript of the call revealed the part where Trump offered to sign a personal check to Vladimir Zelensky if he prosecuted Joe Biden personally.
00:30:28.000Apparently, President Trump wants to do a dramatic reading.
00:30:30.000The latest news is that President Trump is so confident in the perfect phone call that he apparently wants to read the Ukraine call transcript to the American people.
00:30:40.000This is where people around him should say, Mr. President, let's not.
00:30:53.000According to the Washington Examiner, a defiant President Trump signaled he will not cooperate with the Democratic Party's impeachment proceedings, insisting his telephone conversation with Volodymyr Zelensky was a good call, that he might read it aloud to Americans so they can see his point.
00:31:06.000He said in an interview with the Washington Examiner, this is over a phone call.
00:31:31.000You want to create campaign ads for Democrats?
00:31:32.000I can't think of a much better way to do that.
00:31:34.000Like, when you get to that line, I'm asking you for a favor.
00:31:37.000Don't you think the Democrats are immediately gonna grab the audio of you saying that and put it at the lead of every single ad they run from now till the end of the election?
00:32:45.000But Democrats actually have to prove this stuff.
00:32:48.000Okay, so as I say, the media were trying to turn Tim Morrison's... I mean, this is a perfect example of the media trying to spin a piece of testimony that's not actually great for the Democrats.
00:32:57.000Tim Morrison said a couple of things, and only one of those things... only one of those things actually...
00:33:03.000The one that helps Democrats, the others do not.
00:33:05.000The one that helps Democrats is the idea that he put it on a secret White House server.
00:33:08.000But even that doesn't really help the Democrats.
00:33:10.000That's been common practice for years.
00:33:11.000The New York Times already reported that.
00:33:13.000Why has that been common practice for years?
00:33:15.000Maybe because every single time Trump says anything, it gets leaked to the media.
00:33:19.000So he's been putting it on the secret server for years.
00:33:21.000Like he's been putting on this confidential server.
00:33:31.000He said that the president did not engage in illegal behavior and the transcript was complete.
00:33:35.000None of that cuts in favor of Democrats.
00:33:38.000But the headline, of course, is that the headline from Politico is that this particular official, Morrison, confirmed key testimony linking Trump to quid pro quo.
00:34:11.000The question is whether this is a violation of law in terms of being bribery or attempt to influence the election from outside or anything like that.
00:34:19.000Now, as I say, Republicans are increasingly suspicious about all of this, mainly because Democrats continue to make Republicans suspicious about all of this.
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00:35:15.000Okay, so what are the Republican defenses against all this going to be?
00:35:24.000Well, first of all, they are going to cite the fact that this is indeed highly partisan, and they are going to cite to a report that was made by Paul Sperry yesterday at Real Clear Investigations, talking about who this whistleblower is.
00:35:34.000According to Sperry, and according to sources inside various congressional committees, Sperry reports, the person is a guy named Eric Schiramella.
00:35:44.000He's a registered Democrat held over from the Obama White House.
00:35:47.000He previously worked with VP Joe Biden.
00:35:49.000He previously worked with former CIA Director John Brennan.
00:35:52.000And he left his National Security Council posting in the White House's West Wing in mid-2017 amid concerns about negative leaks to the media.
00:35:59.000He has since been returned to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
00:36:02.000According to a former NSC official, according to Paul Sperry, he was accused of working against Trump and leaking against Trump.
00:36:08.000Also, apparently he huddled for guidance with the staff of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff.
00:36:13.000So, if you are a Republican, of course, you have a lot of trust issues with this particular impeachment inquiry.
00:36:18.000The whistleblower who apparently created the thing was a Democratic operative who was working for the National Security Council and then was booted from the NSC and back to CIA headquarters.
00:36:28.000And then he was working with Adam Schiff behind closed doors.
00:36:30.000And now you have Adam Schiff leading up an impeachment inquiry that does not have proper evidence.
00:36:35.000So that gives Republicans a few lines of defense.
00:36:37.000Basically, the Republican line of defense is sort of akin, but with more evidence, to the Hillary Clinton line of defense during the Clinton impeachment.
00:36:45.000So she said there was a vast right-wing conspiracy.
00:36:47.000The line on the right is going to be that this was a Democratic put-up job from the very start.
00:36:51.000That everybody knew there was no illegal activity, but They were going to elevate activity about which they could rightly be concerned into impeachable activity because they were looking for an excuse to impeach.
00:37:02.000Liz Cheney, who is the third-ranking member of the House on the Republican side, she said history will hold the Democrats responsible.
00:37:08.000You saw Democrats on the floor of the House arguing that somehow it was Republicans who were putting politics above national security.
00:37:16.000There is no one who has done that the way that Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff have done that.
00:38:51.000Here is the ad that the Trump campaign ran during the World Series.
00:38:54.000President Trump is changing Washington, creating 6 million new jobs, 500,000 new manufacturing jobs, cutting illegal immigration in half, obliterating ISIS, their caliphate destroyed, their terrorist leader dead.
00:39:08.000But the Democrats would rather focus on impeachment and phony investigations, ignoring the real issues.
00:39:55.000Because they know that if Trump runs an ad, they're just going to critique the ad.
00:39:59.000And then the only thing you see is their critique of the ad, if you can't directly access the ad by going onto Facebook or Twitter.
00:40:05.000That's why the media are wildly cheering a shutdown in core political speech by Twitter.
00:40:09.000Twitter yesterday announced that they were going to not run any political ads, no ads by politicians.
00:40:15.000And they said they're going to do this because they don't have the resources to fact-check the ads.
00:40:19.000Well, they don't have the resources to fact-check every tweet either.
00:40:21.000If they did, they'd have to shut down Twitter.
00:40:23.000So what exactly are they talking about here?
00:40:25.000What they're really talking about is shutting down the ability of campaigns to reach you.
00:40:29.000They don't want Republican campaigns to reach you because they know full well that Democratic campaigns will reach you through the editorial board of the New York Times, through the shows at CNN.
00:40:37.000There are two methods of receiving information.
00:40:39.000One is through the media, and one is directly from politicians.
00:40:42.000Trump has an uncanny ability to go around the media and directly address the American people.
00:40:47.000That's what his Twitter account is really good for, for him.
00:40:49.000That's why he's constantly talking it up.
00:40:51.000What Democrats thus would like to do is deprive him of that second ability, so everything has to be filtered through the prism that the media are using.
00:41:00.000And that's why they're attacking Mark Zuckerberg, right?
00:41:01.000This is what you're seeing over at the New York Times every single day.
00:41:04.000They're trying to browbeat Mark Zuckerberg into banning political advertising on Facebook.
00:41:08.000Now, What they are neglecting is that at a certain point, this is going to come back and bite them too, right?
00:41:14.000What happens when Planned Parenthood wants to run an ad?
00:41:16.000Why is it that a politician should not be able to run an ad, but Planned Parenthood should be able to run an ad?
00:41:20.000You're not fact-checking Planned Parenthood's ad, are you?
00:41:23.000So this thing is going to extend out pretty radically.
00:41:25.000Some of the accusations made against Zuckerberg are patently ridiculous.
00:41:28.000So for example, Yesterday, Kara Swisher, who's just a god-awful columnist at the New York Times, she suggested that Mark Zuckerberg is allowing political ads on Facebook, not because he doesn't wish to quash free speech, but because he needs the profit.
00:41:42.000Okay, the gross revenue of Facebook, you know how much of the gross revenue of Facebook is like direct political ads from campaigns?
00:41:49.000It's a minute percentage, minute, minute percentage.
00:41:53.000Now the media were saying just a second ago that when Facebook was fined some $5 billion for privacy violations, the fine wasn't big enough to affect their behavior.
00:42:00.000I promise you that Facebook is not making $5 billion from political advertising.
00:42:05.000They're probably not even making 500 million.
00:42:06.000They're probably not making $5 million.
00:42:08.000Maybe they're making $5 million, maybe.
00:42:12.000It's about the media wants an excuse to shut all this down.
00:42:14.000So the dumbest column of the day along these lines comes courtesy of Aaron Sorkin, who frankly sounds like he's back on the sauce.
00:42:20.000Aaron Sorkin has a piece today titled, An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg.
00:42:26.000Says Mark, in 2010, I wrote The Social Network and I know you wish I hadn't.
00:42:30.000You protested that the film was inaccurate and that Hollywood didn't understand that some people build things just for the sake of building them.
00:42:37.000I didn't push back on your public accusation that the movie was a lie because I'd had my say in the theaters.
00:42:41.000But you and I both know that the screenplay was vetted to within an inch of its life by a team of studio lawyers with one client and one goal.
00:43:09.000In any case, what Sorkin then goes on to say is absurd.
00:43:12.000He says, I didn't push back on your public accusation that the movie was a lie.
00:43:16.000It was hard not to feel the irony while I was reading excerpts from your recent speech at Georgetown University in which you defended, on free speech grounds, Facebook's practice of posting demonstrably false ads from political candidates.
00:43:48.000Not even Larry Flint would say Larry Flint.
00:43:50.000This isn't the same as pornography, which people don't rely upon for information.
00:43:54.000Last year, over 40% of Americans say they got news from Facebook.
00:43:57.000Of course, the problem could be solved by those people going to a different news source or you could decide to make Facebook a reliable source of public information.
00:44:04.000The tagline on the artwork for the social network read in 2010, you don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.
00:44:10.000That number sounds quaint just nine years later because one third of the planet uses your website now.
00:44:14.000And right now on your website is an ad claiming that Joe Biden gave the Ukrainian attorney general a billion dollars not to investigate his son.
00:44:21.000Every square inch of that is a lie and it's under your logo.
00:44:26.000Well, that's not actually what the ad actually says.
00:44:30.000The ad is a little bit more oblique than that, to be fair, to the ad.
00:44:33.000But with that said, Sorkin saying that he wants to be the fact-checker is patently insane.
00:44:39.000But everybody on the left wants to be the fact-checker because what they really want is for Trump not to be able to run that ad on Facebook.
00:44:49.000He says, Even after the screenplay for The Social Network satisfied the standards of Sony's legal department, we sent the script, as promised over a handshake, to a group of senior lieutenants at your company and invited them to give notes.
00:44:59.000After we shot the movie, we arranged a private screening of an early cut for your chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg.
00:45:04.000Sandberg stood up in the middle of the screening, turned to the producers who were standing in the back of the room and said, How can you do this to a kid?
00:45:10.000You were 26 years old at the time, but alright, I get it.
00:45:12.000I hope your CEO walks into your office, leans in and says, how can we do this to tens of millions of kids?
00:45:18.000Are we really going to run an ad that claims Kamala Harris ran dogfights out of the basement of a pizza place, while Elizabeth Warren destroyed evidence that climate change is a hoax, and that Deep State sold meth to Rashida Tlaib and Colin Kaepernick?
00:45:29.000What in the world is he even talking about?
00:45:32.000What in the actual hell is he talking about?
00:45:37.000The answer is that none of those ads would ever run.
00:45:40.000Because the blowback from the ads would be worse than the effect of the ads themselves, obviously.
00:45:44.000The greatest check on misinformation is good information.
00:45:47.000It is not a shutdown from people who supposedly know better.
00:45:49.000By the way, Zuckerberg promptly destroyed, I mean like really owned Sorkin.
00:45:56.000He proceeded to, it's pretty fantastic, he proceeded to tweet out an actual quote from the American president In which the main character waxes philosophic about the First Amendment.
00:46:10.000Zuckerberg responded to all of this by tweeting out, quote, America isn't easy.
00:46:16.000You got to want it bad because it's going to put up a fight.
00:46:17.000It's going to say, you want free speech?
00:46:19.000Let's you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs, that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours.
00:46:26.000You want to claim this land as the land of the free?
00:46:28.000Then the symbol of your country can't just be a flag.
00:46:30.000The symbol also has to be one of its citizens, So, again, what is this really about?
00:46:39.000This is about the fact that they want to shut down the flow of information.
00:46:47.000That is the goal, to shut down the flow of information.
00:46:49.000Why are Democrats so focused in on this?
00:47:09.000I'm the only one that's not running for anything and ever, or at least she may or may not ever run for anything, but I can't legally run for president again.
00:47:50.000Meanwhile, the Democrats are celebrating because President Trump apparently announced on Twitter that he is moving out of New York.
00:47:56.000He tweeted out, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the White House, is the place I have come to love and will stay for hopefully another five years as we make America great again.
00:48:02.000But my family and I will be making Palm Beach, Florida our permanent residence.
00:48:06.000I cherish New York and the people of New York and always will.
00:48:08.000But unfortunately, despite the fact that I pay millions of dollars in city, state, and local taxes each year, I've been treated very badly by the political leaders of both the city and the state.
00:48:33.000I have a feeling that he paid some taxes in New York.
00:48:35.000And then Bill de Blasio said, don't let the door hit you on the way out or whatever.
00:48:40.000Serial groundhog killer Bill de Blasio has some words.
00:48:43.000Obviously, look, Trump is making a good move.
00:48:45.000He doesn't need to stick around New York.
00:48:47.000Why would he stick around New York where the Attorney General overtly stated upon her election that she was out to get him?
00:48:53.000But it does show that the gap in the country that has now arisen and it's the reason why Any impeachment inquiry from here on out, unless the evidence is clear and convincing, the American people are just not going to trust it.
00:49:02.000Right now, the evidence is not clear and convincing.
00:49:04.000The Democrats have not proved themselves to be honest arbiters of any of this, which means they better come up with the goods or the American people are not going to back them in this.
00:49:12.000Right now, it's not hurting them because the American people are withholding judgment.
00:49:16.000But there will come a point at which Democrats vote on this thing.
00:49:18.000And if the evidence is just not strong enough, the American people are going to buck back against them.
00:49:22.000And that's when you could actually see a bit of a boost for Trump.
00:50:01.000Not just because I'm a Bible believer, but because even if you're not a Bible believer, as I say every week now, even if you're not a Bible believer, you should understand the roots of your civilization and how deeply embedded these stories are in the psyche of Judeo-Christian civilizations in the West.
00:50:14.000The Parsha, which is what we call Parsha means portion, the portion of Genesis that we read is this portion about Noah.
00:50:21.000And this portion covers basically three different fundamentally different ways of viewing the world.
00:50:27.000So this portion begins with libertinism.
00:50:30.000The world before Noah is this very libertine place.
00:50:50.000The entire world had become corrupted.
00:50:52.000In a live and let live world, the person who doesn't actually indulge, it becomes... You see this in the West now to a certain extent.
00:50:59.000In a libertine world, it's not about you just hurting other people.
00:51:01.000It's about if you refuse to celebrate sin, then you become the bad guy.
00:51:07.000That is what was happening then, that is what is happening to a certain extent now.
00:51:11.000If you don't celebrate sin, and engage in sin, and cheer sin, then that's because you're intolerant, and you're bad, and you have to be sort of roped into the hedonistic good time, or you are the killjoy.
00:51:21.000Okay, so that is institution number one.
00:51:23.000It fails, that society fails, and brings upon the earth the flood.
00:51:28.000Okay, then there's the second institution, which is what is saved from the flood, and that is the institution of family, right?
00:51:35.000That is Noah and his immediate family.
00:51:37.000So, God, in the Bible here, eliminates all of the social institutions except for the family.
00:51:42.000So God says, So the purpose of building the ark is to keep the family alive.
00:51:54.000It's to be holy within the confines of your own domain.
00:52:01.000So you have three ways of viewing the world.
00:52:02.000One is a family-based way of viewing the world.
00:52:04.000One is an individual way of viewing the world that doesn't care about anybody else.
00:52:07.000And then finally, you have the other extreme, which is the communal-based way, the communitarian way of viewing the world, where the individual doesn't matter.
00:52:15.000The only thing that matters is the collective.
00:52:17.000So we've had the individual is the only thing that matters, not the collective.
00:52:20.000Then you've got the collective matters, but not the individual, and then you've got the family, which is the proper merger of how society is supposed to be formed, based on these small phalanxes of people who have individual interests, but exist within a communal sphere.
00:52:35.000The sort of communitarian way of viewing the world is told by the Tower of Babel.
00:52:42.000So, the Tower of Babel story is really puzzling, because what's wrong with a bunch of people getting together and building up a tower?
00:53:16.000What happens here is that the community starts to value itself more than it values any individual.
00:53:21.000So there's something in the Jewish commentary called the Midrash.
00:53:26.000The Midrash is basically kind of expounding on the stories and adding to the stories in ways that explain the story, usually metaphorically.
00:53:33.000According to the Midrash, the Tower of Babel becomes so tall and so grand, it supposedly took a year to shuttle bricks from the bottom of the tower to the top, which of course is an exaggeration, but the idea is that this is this grand, magnificent project.
00:53:45.000And this is the key part of the Midrash.
00:53:46.000People mourned when a brick fell and broke because a year of work had been lost.
00:53:50.000But when somebody died, there was no mourning.
00:53:51.000They just put them right into the wall, right?
00:54:23.000He has breathed life into them as individuals.
00:54:25.000He has made them in the image of God, and they are promptly subsuming that for the building of the greater good.
00:54:31.000So what this portion of the Bible is really talking about is what sort of society is the best society to build.
00:54:36.000The society that's built on the individual alone without reference to the collective, the society built on the collective alone without focusing on the individual, or the society that is built on family structure, recognizing that you value the people who are closest to you the most, but also that you're an individual who has to work within that family structure and that families have to learn to live with each other in a broader collective while still maintaining their value as families.
00:54:59.000The very libertine movement, the hedonistic movement hates family.
00:55:05.000They want to destroy the institution of family.
00:55:12.000And then on the other side, you've got the sort of communist movement, which says family is also bad because family stands up to the communist project, which says that we are all supposed to view each other the same way that I would view my sister or brother or kids or wife.
00:55:52.000Building a family around you that you enjoy because you are also building for the future.
00:55:56.000As Solomon says, enjoy life with the wife you love through all the fleeting days of your life.
00:55:59.000He has granted you beneath the sun all of your futile existence for that is your compensation in life and in your toil which you exert beneath the sun.
00:56:07.000So that's the covenant that God ends up making with Noah, is that he's preserving the earth for families.
00:56:11.000That is the goal, to preserve the earth for families.
00:56:13.000Okay, so that's a little bit of Bible talk for you on a Friday.
00:56:16.000We'll be back here a little bit later today with two additional hours.
00:56:18.000Otherwise, we will be here with all the updates for you on Monday.