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00:00:00.000Accusations and counter accusations mount regarding Brett Kavanaugh's nomination, Ted Cruz's run out of a restaurant, and President Trump visits the UN, i.e.
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00:01:47.000Michael Avenatti has now come forward with his bombshell accusation.
00:01:51.000And this is one of these accusations where it's either true or it's false.
00:01:55.000And if it's true, it shouldn't be all that hard to prove because the witness who Avenatti is bringing forward is claiming an enormous number of people who
00:02:05.000should have seen this going on, who should have seen the events going on.
00:02:09.000The precursor was that Michael Avenatti, over the past 48 hours, while I was out, announced that he had a woman who was willing to come forward and testify that Brett Kavanaugh was involved in a gang rape ring.
00:02:24.000So, Avenatti wrote Sunday in an email to Mike Davis, quote, who's the chief counsel for nominations for the Senate Judiciary Committee,
00:02:44.000He says there are multiple witnesses that will corroborate these facts.
00:02:47.000Each of them must be called to testify publicly.
00:02:48.000Now, it is worth noting that Michael Avenatti has, in the past, come up with some credible accusations, i.e.
00:02:54.000Stormy Daniels, and in the past, he has made some non-credible accusations.
00:02:57.000So, for example, he claimed that he had a DVD of Trump engaged in sexual congress, and he suggested there were three other women he was going to bring forward who'd been paid off by Trump, and then any of those things.
00:03:07.000Evidence to support such an accusation would surely upend Kavanaugh's confirmation, which has already become a Chernobyl-like political disaster for the White House, according to Vanity Fair.
00:03:15.000In reality, it is not, in fact, a Chernobyl-like political disaster for the White House.
00:03:19.000The polls don't show any impact on Trump on the 2018 election.
00:03:24.000But Michael Avenatti today, he finally comes out with the accusation.
00:03:27.000So first, he was accused of getting this story from 4chan.
00:03:31.000So the 4chan pranksters decided that they were going to accuse Avenatti of picking up on some rumor that they had put out there, essentially for fun, in order to harm Avenatti.
00:03:43.000Avenatti denied all that and he came forward and he said that his client was going to come forward within 48 hours.
00:03:48.000Well, Rachel, I'm representing one client who I can describe as a witness and victim, as well as additional corroborating witnesses to what she is going to allege publicly within the next 48 hours.
00:04:05.000As it relates to her particular allegations, we're not going to provide additional information beyond that.
00:04:12.000So Avenatti was acting kind of suspicious in the run-up to the release of this.
00:04:15.000For example, he began protecting his tweets, which is unusual for a guy who has said that he wants to run for president in 2020.
00:04:21.000He also then released the sworn declaration of a woman named Julie Swetnick, and he tweeted out a picture of her and said, here's her name, here's her picture, please respect her privacy, which is a very weird way to ask for somebody's privacy.
00:05:12.000I observed Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh as extremely close friends during the early 1980s, when I knew them and interacted with them.
00:05:18.000I would describe them as quote joined at the hip and I consistently saw them together in many social settings.
00:05:24.000There's no question in my mind that Mark Judge has significant information concerning the conduct
00:05:29.000of Brett Kavanaugh during the 1980s, especially as it relates to his actions towards women.
00:05:34.000Following that first introduction, I attended well over 10 house parties in the Washington, D.C.
00:05:38.000area during the years 1981-1983, where Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh were present.
00:05:43.000These parties were a common occurrence in the area and occurred nearly every weekend during the school year.
00:05:47.000On numerous occasions at these parties, I witnessed Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh drink excessively and engage in highly inappropriate conduct, including being overly aggressive with girls and not taking no for an answer.
00:05:57.000Kind of vague, because you don't know what that means.
00:05:58.000Now remember, she's not claiming she's one of these girls.
00:06:00.000She's saying that she witnessed this sort of behavior.
00:06:21.000I likewise observed him to be verbally abusive toward girls by making crude sexual comments to them that were designed to demean, humiliate, and embarrass them.
00:06:30.000So the last part there is him being a jackass in high school.
00:06:34.000I often witnessed Brett Kavanaugh speak in a demeaning manner about girls in general as well as specific girls by name.
00:06:45.000So far, the only allegation she's made that is actually damaging is the allegation that he was engaged in physically aggressive behavior toward girls without their consent.
00:06:53.000Guys saying mean stuff about girls when they're in high school is kind of called high school.
00:06:56.000I've been told by other women that this conduct also occurred during the summer months in Ocean City, Maryland on numerous occasions.
00:07:02.000I also witnessed such conduct on one occasion in Ocean City, Maryland during Beach Week.
00:07:07.000And she says, I've reviewed Brett Kavanaugh's recent claim on Fox News regarding his alleged innocence during his high school years and lack of sexual activity.
00:07:14.000This claim is absolutely false and a lie.
00:07:16.000I witnessed Brett Kavanaugh consistently engage in excessive drinking and inappropriate conduct of a sexual nature with women during the early 1980s.
00:07:23.000And then here's where she gets to the actual damaging allegation.
00:07:27.000And it's a little vague, as I'll explain in just a second.
00:08:03.000During the years 1981-1982, I became aware of efforts by Mark Judge, Brett Kavanaugh, and others to spike the punch at house parties I attended with drugs and or grain alcohol so as to cause girls to lose their inhibitions and their ability to say no.
00:08:15.000This caused me to make an effort to purposely avoid the punch at these parties.
00:08:18.000I witnessed efforts by Mark Judge, Brett Kavanaugh, and others to target particular girls so they could be taken advantage of.
00:08:24.000It was usually a girl that was especially vulnerable because she was alone at the party or shy.
00:08:28.000I also witnessed efforts by Mark Judge, Brett Kavanaugh, and others to cause girls to become inebriated or disoriented so they could then be gang raped, this is an actual accusation, in a side room or bedroom by a train of numerous boys.
00:08:40.000I have a firm recollection of seeing boys lined up outside rooms at many of these parties waiting for their turn with a girl inside the room.
00:08:46.000These boys included Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh.
00:08:49.000So now she's saying that she knows that there was a gang rape train going on and the line included Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh.
00:09:40.000She's claiming now that they were at parties where there were dozens of witnesses, where people saw this gang rape train occurring on a regular basis, that she would continue going to these parties on a regular basis, even knowing that these boys were performing a gang rape train in the other room, which is sort of an odd sort of suggestion.
00:09:59.000If you went to a party and you saw people performing gang rapes there, at the very least, would you continue going to those parties on the weekend?
00:10:34.000Now, one of the things that's happening here is that Democrats and folks on the left are jumping on Brett Kavanaugh's interview on Fox News last night to claim that Brett Kavanaugh actually was claiming that he is clean as the driven snow, pure as the driven snow, and therefore, if they can find evidence that he went to parties and was drinking, then he is therefore a liar and ought not sit on the Supreme Court.
00:10:55.000It's this big straw man that's being set up against Brett Kavanaugh.
00:10:58.000So here's what Brett Kavanaugh actually said.
00:10:59.000He was on Martha McCallum's show, and he talked about his experiences in high school, and here's what he had to say.
00:11:07.000We're talking about an allegation of sexual assault.
00:11:41.000Okay, so, number one, it's kind of absurd that he's now on TV having to brag about whether he was a virgin in high school.
00:11:46.000Now, as somebody who thinks that there's nothing wrong with being a virgin in high school or all the way until marriage, I don't have much of a problem with folks saying this, but this is what our political discourse has now come to based on unverified allegations.
00:11:57.000We're gonna get to the unverified nature of Christine Blasey Ford's allegations in just a second, but to finish up with the Kavanaugh interview here,
00:12:06.000It's being portrayed by the media as though Brett Kavanaugh said that he was, again, as clean and as pure as anyone has ever been in high school.
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00:13:42.000And yes, people might have had too many beers on occasion, and people generally in high school.
00:13:49.000I think all of us have probably done things we look back on in high school and regret or cringe a bit, but that's not what we're talking about.
00:13:55.000We're talking about an allegation of sexual assault.
00:13:57.000I've never sexually assaulted anyone, right?
00:13:58.000That's when he gets to the part that he was talking about.
00:14:01.000So, McCallum asked him, sir, you're gonna be pressed on something you just said about people do things in high school, and you were all drinking.
00:14:07.000Were there times, perhaps, when you drank so much, was there ever a time you drank so much you couldn't remember what happened the night before?
00:14:12.000And Kavanaugh said, no, that never happened.
00:14:15.000McCallum said, you never said to anyone, I don't remember about anything about last night.
00:14:18.000And Kavanaugh said, no, that never happened.
00:14:20.000So, the great lie here that is being promulgated is that
00:14:25.000Brett Kavanaugh is saying that he was completely innocent in high school, that he never drank to excess, that he was never involved in raucous parties or anything like that.
00:14:35.000Remember, the original accusation is that he tried to rape a girl.
00:14:38.000The original accusation is that he pushed a 15-year-old girl into a room, pulled down her clothes, and tried to rape her, and then stifled her screams with his hand as she tried to cry out.
00:14:48.000Now we have the second accusation from Avenatti, and it's not even clear at this point what exactly the accusation is, because the woman who's making the claim is basically saying that she was present at parties where gang rapes were occurring, and she saw Brett Kavanaugh in line, and she saw Brett Kavanaugh, I guess, grab and fondle girls, but those girls haven't come forward, and then she's making a claim that she was gang raped at one of these parties.
00:15:11.000And Brett Kavanaugh is present at the party, but not clear that Brett Kavanaugh is actually involved in the gang rape.
00:15:15.000So the extent of the claims that she's making is not particularly clear.
00:15:19.000And you can see that the media are attempting to push the boundaries of the actual accusation.
00:15:24.000Now the media are moving into the arena of suggesting that Brett Kavanaugh was basically a sloppy drunk.
00:15:32.000The new accusation against him is that he was a sloppy drunk.
00:15:34.000So they're going to claim that he was a sexual assaulter, and if they can't prove that, they're going to claim that he was a sloppy drunk, and therefore, if he was a sloppy drunk and he lied about it, he shouldn't sit on the Supreme Court.
00:15:43.000So we're seeing a sort of mission creep with regard to what Democrats are claiming about him, depending on how seriously they end up taking Michael Avenatti's suggestions.
00:16:29.000But the Washington Post has this long piece today.
00:16:31.000They say on Monday night, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh said in a nationally televised interview that in his younger years he was focused on sports, academics, and service projects, but it was his comments about drinking that rankled some Yale University classmates, prompting them to speak out.
00:16:45.000Liz Swisher, who described herself as a friend of Kavanaugh in college, said she was shocked that in an interview focused largely on his high school years and allegations of sexual misconduct, he strongly denied drinking to the point of blacking out.
00:16:57.000Brett was a sloppy drunk, and I know because I drank with him.
00:16:59.000I watched him drink more than a lot of people.
00:17:01.000He'd end up slurring his words and stumbling, said Swisher, a Democrat and chief of the Gynecological Oncology Division at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
00:17:08.000There's no medical way I can say that he was blacked out, but it's not credible for him to say he has had no memory lapses in the nights that he drank to excess.
00:17:15.000Well, but I don't understand what that means.
00:17:18.000Like, he said that he wasn't a blackout drunk, and then he says that he remembered what went on.
00:17:23.000I'm not sure exactly how you would claim that he had memory lapses when he claims he didn't have memory lapses.
00:17:28.000Lynn Brooks, who, like Swisher, was a college roommate of one of the two women now accusing Kavanaugh of misconduct, said the nominee's comments on Fox do not match the classmate she remembered.
00:17:36.000He's trying to paint himself as some sort of choir boy, said Brooks, a Republican and former pharmaceutical executive who recalled an encounter with a drunken Kavanaugh at a frat event.
00:17:43.000You can't lie your way onto the Supreme Court.
00:17:45.000And with that statement out, he's gone too far.
00:17:47.000It's about the integrity of that institution.
00:17:49.000So now the accusation made by the Washington Post and made by these women is that if Brett Kavanaugh looked too clean in that interview,
00:17:57.000Then he shouldn't be on the Supreme Court.
00:18:29.000And then meanwhile, there's another allegation that they've brought forth, the Democrats have brought forth, and it is indeed an extraordinarily weak allegation.
00:18:37.000It's an allegation from the New Yorker.
00:19:25.000Here's her attorney explaining that she didn't even know whether her own memory of the situation was true and yet were supposed to take it seriously.
00:19:33.000Um, with that passage of time, you know, she went through those memories and there were some things that she believed were probably true, but she didn't disclose those because she wasn't completely convinced of their accuracy.
00:19:42.000So that's the only reason why she did the work with the attorney and spent the six days to make sure that that information she did put forward was indeed accurate.
00:19:51.000So, in other words, she didn't remember, and then she talked to her attorneys for six days, and Democratic staffers for six days, and then she came forward.
00:19:57.000A lot of problems with this particular story.
00:20:00.000Even Ronan Farrow seems uncomfortable that he ran this story in the first place.
00:20:03.000The woman at the center of that story is a woman named Deborah Ramirez.
00:21:13.000Has not brought any other witnesses or corroborating details, so we're going to have to find out about that.
00:21:17.000And the fact that all of this is being conjured out of the nearby Democrats makes me a little suspicious of all this.
00:21:22.000Speaking of which, we're going to show you in one second all of the reactions of the political players to all of this.
00:21:26.000We're going to get to that, and we're going to get to the big hearing that's supposed to happen tomorrow on Capitol Hill if Christine Blasey Ford decides to show up.
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00:22:49.000The political reaction to all of this continues to play out.
00:22:54.000There's a big story yesterday that seems a little bit overblown.
00:22:57.000This is that the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court on Friday morning, less than 24 hours after Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, this is the original accuser, appear before the panel to discuss Ford's allegation that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her more than 30 years ago.
00:23:48.000If I claim right now on this show that Dianne Feinstein slaughters puppies in her backyard,
00:23:53.000And then I get signed declarations from the million people who listen to this show saying that they heard me claim that Dianne Feinstein slaughters puppies in her backyard.
00:24:01.000That is not actually a corroboration of the claim that Dianne Feinstein slaughters puppies in her backyard.
00:24:07.000You're corroborating the claim that I said it.
00:24:08.000You're not corroborating that it happened.
00:24:10.000But the media say that this claim has now been corroborated.
00:24:13.000And this is the problem with all of these stories.
00:24:14.000These all should be easily verified and corroborated.
00:24:59.000By the way, it is worth noting that if these accusations that are now being brought forth by Avenatti are true, Kavanaugh shouldn't just lose his Supreme Court seat, he should lose his D.C.
00:25:07.000I mean, if he was involved in gang rapes with Quaaludes when he was in his teens, seems to me that that dude shouldn't be sitting on any court, let alone the Supreme Court of the United States.
00:25:16.000But we're gonna need some verifying evidence.
00:25:18.000Supposedly, everybody knew about all of this.
00:25:51.000Here's the Senate Minority Leader saying that Brett Kavanaugh, in his hearing on Thursday, is not entitled to a presumption of innocence or guilt.
00:25:57.000They're just fact-finding, so we shouldn't suggest that he's innocent until proven guilty, or innocent until preponderance of the evidence shows otherwise, or anything.
00:26:04.000The burden of proof, according to Chuck Schumer, doesn't exist.
00:26:09.000He has the, quote, presumption of innocence.
00:26:12.000I agree that we, this is not, that's a criminal trial.
00:26:16.000What I believe is we ought to get to the bottom and find the facts in the way that the FBI has always done.
00:26:23.000There's no presumption of innocence or guilt when you have a nominee before you.
00:26:29.000Okay, no presumption of innocence or guilt?
00:26:31.000Well, I mean, the American public should have some presumption of innocence.
00:26:34.000Otherwise, what are we supposed to do?
00:26:35.000Just believe every accuser that comes along without any other evidence?
00:26:39.000Really, I guess that's the suggestion here.
00:26:41.000He says there's no presumption of innocence or guilt, but there's a presumption of something, right?
00:26:46.000Because that presumption decides the burden of proof.
00:26:48.000So in court, when you say somebody is innocent until proven guilty, that means the quote-unquote burden of proof is on the prosecutors to show that the person is guilty.
00:26:55.000The burden is not on the person being accused to show that they are innocent.
00:26:59.000The burden lies with one party or the other party.
00:27:10.000Either you presume that the accusation is true, in which you presume he's guilty, or you presume that the accusation is not true until proven otherwise, in which case you presume that he's innocent.
00:27:17.000But the idea that there's no presumption either way, and we are just a fact-finding inquiry, like you're the police, kind of hard to credit when Democrats have trotted this out every step of the way as politically as humanly possible.
00:27:59.000I've never done any such thing, known about any such thing.
00:28:04.000When I was in high school, and I went to an all-boys Catholic high school, a Jesuit high school, where I was focused on academics and athletics, going to church every Sunday at Little Flower, working on my service projects, and friendship.
00:28:18.000Friendship with my fellow classmates and friendship with girls from the local all-girls Catholic schools.
00:28:24.000Okay, so he's denied the accusations that Avenatti is putting forward already, and that's perfectly obvious that he's denying the accusations that have been put forward.
00:28:32.000But Democrats, again, they're playing a game here where we don't even know where the burden of proof lies.
00:28:38.000We have no clue where they're even putting the burden of proof, what their specific allegation is, what they have to prove in order for them to knock Kavanaugh out of the box.
00:29:13.000Okay, again, I don't think that there's anything wrong with him saying that, and I think that he's basically right, that this has all been ginned up by Democrats at this point.
00:29:21.000I mean, look at Kirsten Gillibrand, who basically said that Brett Kavanaugh should be calling for an FBI investigation into himself, or he's guilty in some way, which is essentially a Stalinist tactic.
00:29:30.000Now she's saying Fox News is evil because they're trying to confuse people about Kavanaugh.
00:29:34.000No, they're trying to say, you're gonna need to show some proof of something here, but here she is making the claim anyway.
00:29:40.000Every time you hear on Fox News, oh, innocent, assume you're innocent, you have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, they're trying to confuse voters, they're trying to confuse people across this country.
00:29:53.000No, you are trying to confuse people across this country by not making clear your standard of proof and by not making clear the nature of an accusation that you think should rule somebody out of politics.
00:30:01.000Again, if the accusation is he got drunk in high school, guilty.
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00:33:36.000So here is the latest on the hearing that's supposed to take place on Thursday.
00:33:39.000Democrats keep trying to push off these hearings, keep trying to prevent anybody from actually testifying.
00:33:44.000Two days ago, Senator Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, according to the Washington Post, called for a delay in further consideration of Brett Kavanaugh after a second woman accused him of sexual misconduct.
00:34:12.000And Democrats are very upset because Republicans are going to have an Arizona prosecutor asking the questions instead of members of the committee.
00:34:20.000According to LMT Online, Republican senators have selected Arizona prosecutor Rachel Mitchell to question Judge Brett Kavanaugh and the woman who has accused the Supreme Court nominee of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers, according to a top senator.
00:34:33.000Mitchell is the Sex Crimes Bureau chief for the Maricopa County Attorney's Office in Phoenix.
00:34:37.000And she's going to query the two at Thursday's highly anticipated Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
00:34:43.000She's worked for the Maricopa County Attorney's Office for 26 years.
00:34:46.000Because she's in Maricopa County, this has led Democrats to claim that they basically went through Sheriff Joe Arpaio to come up with this prosecutor.
00:34:53.000There's no evidence of that whatsoever.
00:34:55.000She's a well-respected prosecutor in this particular region.
00:35:00.000Republicans are turning to her to ask all the questions specifically because she's a woman.
00:35:16.000This is exactly what Democrats are saying.
00:35:18.000Maisie Hirono, who's the Democrat Senator from Hawaii, she basically said that, right?
00:35:23.000After spending days and days and days saying it's just terrible that all these old white men want to question this young woman who has a traumatic experience in her past, now when Republicans say, okay, we'll have a woman do it, now the Democrats come forth and they say, it's just terrible that these old white men won't question this young, traumatized woman.
00:35:41.000But it should be very obvious to the people of our country by now that the Republicans do not want to question Dr. Ford directly because it will reveal who they are and I think they're afraid of that.
00:35:53.000Okay, so they don't want the Republicans questioning them, but they also don't want a woman questioning them, which suggests, again, these do not look like honest allegations that are coming from an honest place for the Democrats.
00:36:04.000Now, maybe all of this happened, and if it all happened, as I say, over and over and over, these are egregious crimes that he's being accused of.
00:36:25.000Hirono says that Kavanaugh will always have an asterisk over his name no matter what happens from now on, which is a pretty hellish standard.
00:36:31.000If the way we're going to now run things is that there's an asterisk by your name if an allegation is even made about you, what's to prevent allegations from being made about everyone at any time for any reason, and then there's just a cloud surrounding you?
00:36:52.000Should he get on the court, there will always be an asterisk and a cloud over his name and on his name.
00:36:59.000And I think that is not what we want to do to the Supreme Court.
00:37:04.000And to be frank about this, you know, when she says that there will always be an asterisk over his name, Democrats have tried to place an asterisk by the name of every single justice who's been appointed by a Republican for the last 25 years.
00:37:14.000Clarence Thomas, George W. Bush appointed two of them.
00:37:17.000Democrats say he wasn't even elected properly, so both of those should be out of bounds.
00:37:20.000And now they're trying to do the exact same thing.
00:37:23.000With both Gorsuch and now with Kavanaugh, right?
00:37:28.000Both of them were appointed by Trump who lost the popular vote and who stole the seat from Merrick Garland.
00:37:32.000So all five of the justices appointed by Republicans who currently are sitting on the court or about to sit on the court, Democrats have attempted to create a miasma of confusion about.
00:37:42.000And that miasma of confusion extends to the way that they talk about the case itself.
00:37:46.000So Christine Blasey Ford is the one who wants to limit the Senate coverage.
00:37:49.000And she says she only wants one camera in the room.
00:37:51.000And apparently Republicans agreed to that, which is insane.
00:38:05.000But if we wanted Colton on camera, now we're asking Colton questions, you'd need two cameras in the room, otherwise you just get the camera swiveling.
00:38:44.000Until I see more evidence, I cannot buy into this.
00:38:47.000This is not to say that the allegations, if they are credible, and if they are, if there's any evidence to them, that they shouldn't be damaging.
00:39:52.000Because obviously this has to do with racism for some odd reason that nobody knows.
00:39:57.000So there are a bunch of videos around this.
00:39:58.000Apparently one shows a woman who identified herself as a constituent and a survivor of sexual assault said, I'd love to talk with you about Brett Kavanaugh.
00:40:14.000I believe survivors when there's evidence to back their case.
00:40:18.000I'm not saying I don't believe survivors when there's not evidence, but I don't have enough evidence to say I fully believe them.
00:40:24.000I can say I find their account credible, but I can't say I fully believe every detail of that account without any corroborative evidence from 30 years ago.
00:41:06.000The question is, do you believe every allegation of sexual assault ever made by a woman?
00:41:10.000That is the question that actually is to be asked.
00:41:12.000And the answer to that, obviously, should be no.
00:41:15.000Because there are some accusations that are not true, or people misremember, or they get the facts wrong.
00:41:20.000But, that means that we have to run Ted Cruz out of a restaurant, and people on the left will say, well, you know, that's good, Ted Cruz deserves it.
00:41:25.000You gotta live out your values in public life.
00:41:28.000I go to kosher restaurants, and I'm pretty popular with my crew.
00:41:31.000So when I go to kosher restaurants, this has never happened to me.
00:41:34.000But I could see it happening if I was ever out to lunch with some folks, you know, and just having my typical water while they eat a nice dinner.
00:41:42.000If I were to do that, I could see this happening.
00:41:44.000The idea that we're going to extend all of this to public life?
00:42:46.000It is not true to the ultimate point, which is that you get to define how you treat your people without any sort of interference from the outside.
00:42:54.000But here was the president making his main point, talking about America first and sovereignty.
00:42:58.000To unleash this incredible potential in our people, we must defend the foundations that make it all possible.
00:43:07.000Sovereign and independent nations are the only vehicle where freedom has ever survived, democracy has ever endured, or peace has ever prospered.
00:43:22.000And so we must protect our sovereignty and our cherished independence above all.
00:43:31.000Everything that he just said there about nationalism actually being a good vehicle, everything there about nationalism being a good vehicle for human society, agree.
00:43:39.000And the idea of a global government where we're all brothers, a brotherhood of man, as John Lennon says in Imagine, that's a bunch of nonsense.
00:43:45.000With that said, even Trump believes that nationalism doesn't mean that sovereignty is completely left alone, right?
00:43:54.000He said this about socialism and communism.
00:43:56.000He basically said Venezuela can't run things like the Venezuelan government is currently running things.
00:44:00.000That's a breach of Venezuelan sovereignty, I would imagine.
00:44:03.000The basic rule about Venezuela and the basic rule about nationalism is that nationalism is good so long as it follows good ends and uses good means.
00:44:12.000It is not good so long as it involves genocide against a population or so long as it involves socialism and communism, destruction of the rights of the individual.
00:44:20.000Here is President Trump going off about Venezuela.
00:44:53.000We ask the nations gathered here to join us in calling for the restoration of democracy in Venezuela.
00:45:01.000Okay, so obviously when he talks about sovereignty, he only means that sovereignty applies so far as it doesn't violate sovereign human rights and individual rights, which is correct, which is correct.
00:45:10.000And I think that he should make that clear in future speeches, but a lot of this is very good.
00:45:14.000And it is good to have a president who goes before the UN and doesn't make apologies for the United States.
00:45:18.000I mean, I think President Trump is at his best in international scenarios because a muscular America on the world stage defending her own interests is a very good thing for the world as a general rule.
00:45:28.000An America that goes in front of the U.N.
00:45:30.000and apologizes for Ferguson or Baltimore, which is what Barack Obama did in front of the U.N., apologizes for American interests, apologizes for America promoting her own interests around the world, suggesting that national sovereignty of bad countries is more important than human rights or national sovereignty of good countries.
00:45:50.000And I know that a lot of people say, oh well, you know, President Trump went there and he got laughed at by the international community.
00:45:54.000Why do you care if a second-rate dictator is laughing at you, so long as we're taking action to stop the second-rate dictator?
00:46:01.000I would much prefer that the second-rate radical Islamic dictators of Iran laugh at President Trump and feel it in their pocketbook than that they smile at President Obama and enrich themselves on the back of their own people and then use all of that money to fund terrorism.
00:46:15.000So, President Trump, I thought, did a just fine job at the UN in the General Assembly yesterday.
00:46:21.000The way that he talked about Israel and Iran, I thought, was just terrific.
00:46:25.000Here's what the President said with regard to Iran.
00:46:29.000It's a very different language than President Obama was using just a couple of years ago.
00:46:33.000This year, we also took another significant step forward in the Middle East in recognition of every sovereign state to determine its own capital.
00:46:51.000The United States is committed to a future of peace and stability in the region, including peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
00:47:03.000That aim is advanced, not harmed, by acknowledging the obvious facts.
00:47:11.000Okay, and then what do you have to say about the Israelis and Palestinians?
00:47:13.000Obviously a far cry from when Barack Obama would go to the UN and suggest that all world problems were to be laid at the feet of the Jews.
00:47:19.000They would be laid at the feet of the Israelis, who are of course so intransigent with regard to, you know, the terrorist groups on their borders.
00:47:24.000And if they would only be a little nicer, that would solve the problems with regard to Iran.
00:47:29.000I do like that the President's America First attitude on the world stage means that we're going to stand up to bad countries again.
00:47:36.000He was doing that today in the Security Council.
00:47:39.000Apparently he said today in the Security Council that China has been attempting to interfere with our elections.
00:47:43.000He suggested that Russian interference in Syria cannot go unnoticed.
00:47:52.000More of the President speaking on international affairs in the face of countries that are pursuing evil ends.
00:47:57.000And, you know, less of the President tweeting.
00:47:59.000I think the last several weeks for the President have actually been quite good.
00:48:01.000He's really kept himself from saying the obviously dumb thing.
00:48:07.000Much more frequently than usual, and that would be good.
00:48:09.000I'd like to see a continuation of that.
00:48:11.000Again, if I were running the president's team, I would be sending the president abroad as often as possible to talk about how bad Iran is, to talk about foreign policy and building up America's military capacity, to talk about building up America economically.
00:48:23.000The president performs pretty well overseas, generally.
00:48:28.000I'm not gonna include Helsinki in that particular assessment.
00:48:30.000Okay, so, let's do a couple of things I like, and then a couple of things I hate, and then we will be back here tomorrow with a lot more from the Christine Blasey Ford hearing.
00:48:39.000Over the Jewish holidays, I did some light reading.
00:48:41.000I was reading Paradise Lost by John Milton.
00:48:43.000If you've never actually read Paradise Lost,
00:48:45.000It is a masterful use of the English language and people misread paradise law so because we live in a post-romantic era in which people value emotions above facts and in which people value rebellion and passion above
00:49:00.000People for a long time have identified Satan in Paradise Lost as sort of the anti-hero, that really the hero of Paradise Lost is Satan, right?
00:49:09.000Satan fights a war with God because he doesn't feel like paying obeisance to God all the time, and so God casts him down, and then Satan infiltrates the world and acts as the snake in order to seduce mankind into original sin, and then God sends Jesus in order to make up for the original sin, basically.
00:49:26.000I mean, when you read it, Satan gets all the good dialogue.
00:49:28.000So everything Satan says is really compelling because good evil characters on film and in plays and in Paradise Lost are very compelling because something draws us to the passion of evil.
00:49:39.000But Milton specifically said that this book was written
00:49:42.000And this epic poem was written as a piece of theodicy.
00:49:46.000It was trying to explain why bad things happen to good people, why original sin occurred, what God's actual plan is, trying to justify the actions of God.
00:49:52.000And if you read it with sympathy for Satan in mind, you're getting it completely wrong.
00:49:56.000The whole point is that Satan is cunning.
00:49:58.000The whole point is that Satan is deceptive.
00:50:00.000The whole point is that Satan is attractive.
00:50:02.000And that if we are to look to our own lives and see the activities of what we in Judaism call the yetzer hara, the kind of evil inclination, we would see that it's not as obvious as
00:50:11.000Somebody just saying, let's go do something evil, it really more often is somebody saying, let's go do something brave.
00:50:50.000So, Bill Cosby, good, was convicted on an account of date rape, basically, where he was quaaluding women and then having sex with them against their will, which is what Michael Avenatti is now accusing sort of Brett Kavanaugh of doing.
00:51:03.000So if Brett Kavanaugh is guilty of it, then obviously Brett Kavanaugh should go down, but you're going to need some actual proof.
00:51:08.000So Bill Cosby's lawyer said the dumbest thing that is possible to say here.
00:51:12.000And he said that Bill Cosby being persecuted here after acknowledging that he used Quaaludes, like Bill Cosby said, he himself said he used Quaaludes when he was with women.
00:51:22.000His lawyer says that this was just like the persecution of Jesus.
00:51:29.000For those who've never read the New Testament, nothing in there about Jesus turning the water into the wine without the consent of the women.
00:51:48.000They persecuted Jesus, and look what happened.
00:51:50.000I'm not saying Mr. Cosby's Jesus, but we know what this country has done to black men for centuries.
00:51:57.000Well, I don't think that this is about his race.
00:51:59.000I think this has a lot more to do with the fact that there are a bunch of women, as in dozens of women, who came forward with credible allegations, all of which backed one another.
00:52:07.000Now, here's the part where it gets dicey.
00:52:15.000You know, during the break, I'm scrolling through Twitter and I'm looking at people actually saying and applauding the judge in this sentence, and then in the same breath, wanting to defend Kavanaugh.
00:52:25.000And it's disturbing to me, because again, like Areva said, this is a monumental, defining moment this week, when you have someone like Cosby going to prison, and then in the same breath, having Kavanaugh possibly going to the highest court in the land.
00:52:58.000The fact that Democrats are trying to link together Cosby and Kavanaugh without actual evidence that Kavanaugh did any of this stuff yet, outside of the allegations themselves, pretty astonishing and demonstrative of just how intellectually bankrupt a lot of folks on the left are.
00:53:17.000It doesn't make me someone who takes sexual abuse lightly.
00:53:19.000It makes me someone who likes evidence before we decide that we're going to destroy somebody based on accusations alone, unsourced accusations alone.
00:53:28.000Okay, well, we'll be back here tomorrow with all the latest high drama as Christine Blasey Ford heads to the Senate to testify, being questioned by an Arizona prosecutor.
00:53:35.000Brett Kavanaugh will be there as well, and we'll be there to cover all of it.