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00:02:22.000Okay, so, a lot happening in the news.
00:02:25.000You know, one of the frustrating things about doing a daily show is that you can plan your show the night before, and the news cycle is so fast that by the next morning, the entire show has been upended.
00:02:33.000That's exactly what happened yesterday.
00:02:34.000Like, when we planned the show yesterday, last night, because I was on a plane to D.C.
00:02:39.000When we planned that show, it was all about North Korea and it was all about tax cuts.
00:02:42.000And then this morning, Matt Lauer was fired.
00:02:44.000So Matt Lauer, of course, is a long-standing mainstay of morning television, always considered kind of the nice guy of morning TV, the guy that women loved and trusted and he was very friendly and everybody liked him.
00:02:57.000Yeah, it turns out that he's a bit of a douchebag.
00:02:59.000So, here is the announcers on NBC were apparently told that Lauer was fired like five minutes before they went on air.
00:03:05.000I thought that the best suggestion today came from Chrissy Teigen, who suggested that SNL should do a skit in which anchors start reading the news and then the teleprompter comes up that they're resigning because they've been accused of sexual harassment.
00:03:17.000Because that's basically where we are right now, is with no notice people are being fired right and left.
00:03:21.000Here is the footage from NBC this morning as they announced that Matt Lauer is now gone.
00:03:26.000Dear colleagues, on Monday night we received a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace by Matt Lauer.
00:03:34.000It represented, after serious review, a clear violation of our company's standards.
00:03:39.000As a result, we have decided to terminate his employment.
00:03:42.000While it is the first complaint about his behavior in the over 20 years he has been at NBC News,
00:03:47.000We were also presented with reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident.
00:03:53.000Our highest priority is to create a workplace environment where everyone feels safe and protected, and to ensure that any actions that run counter to our core values are met with consequences, no matter who the offender.
00:04:05.000We are deeply saddened by this turn of events, but we will face it together as a news organization and do it in as transparent a manner as we can.
00:04:15.000That is the statement from our chairman, Andy Lack, and we just learned this moments ago, just this morning.
00:04:21.000As I'm sure you can imagine, we are devastated and we are still processing all of this and
00:04:27.000I will tell you right now, we do not know more than what I just shared with you.
00:04:30.000But we will be covering this story as reporters, as journalists.
00:04:34.000I'm sure we will be learning more details in the hours and days to come.
00:04:38.000And we promise we will share that with you.
00:05:26.000Sort of on top of all of the all of the allegations about various people For sexual harassment sexual assault and he says that he's talked to many women who have felt intimidated by Matt Lauer So this is not a complete surprise.
00:05:37.000In fact, Barry Weiss of the New York Times
00:05:41.000She predicted a week ago that Matt Lauer would be the next guy to go.
00:05:44.000Well, this does raise a couple of questions.
00:05:46.000I mean, I think number one, it raises the question of why is it that the treatment of sexual harassers and assaulters in the media is so different than it is in politics, right?
00:05:53.000Here are the people who in the last few months are gone, right?
00:05:56.000Harvey Weinstein, Bill O'Reilly, Roger Ailes, Kevin Spacey, Charlie Rose, Michael Oreskes of NPR, Mark Halperin, and Leon Wieseltier, among many others.
00:06:04.000Glenn Thrush, Louis C.K., Brett Ratner, John Lasseter, all those people are going home.
00:06:15.000So you can see that there is a vast gap between how we treat people who are accused of this stuff in politics and how we treat people who are accused of this stuff in the media.
00:07:02.000They're calculating that they have to vote for Roy Moore even if they find him disreputable because Doug Jones is a pro-abortion fanatic.
00:07:21.000It is striking, the difference between how sexual harassment allegations are treated in the media versus how they are treated in politics.
00:07:26.000Okay, so that's breaking piece of news number one.
00:07:30.000And that means good news cycle for President Trump.
00:07:32.000Because again, another member of the mainstream media, a well-respected member of the mainstream media, is outed for sexual harassment and assault.
00:07:38.000And for President Trump, that's good news because number one, it means that it's very difficult for the media to suggest that Roy Moore is alone.
00:07:45.000And number two, it means that all these people who were yelling at President Trump for being a woman abuser back in 2016, half of them were doing the same stuff themselves, apparently.
00:07:53.000So that's a good piece of news for President Trump.
00:07:55.000Another good piece of news for President Trump is that the GDP is out, the GDP statistics are out, and in the third quarter, apparently there was 3.3% GDP growth.
00:08:03.000That is the best GDP growth that we have seen since 2014.
00:08:06.000That is a big win for President Trump.
00:08:08.000It doesn't matter that President Trump hasn't really done all that much on economic policy.
00:08:12.000What matters is that businesses know that under President Trump and a Republican Congress, there are not going to be a lot of moves to shut them down.
00:08:19.000And so they are investing and they are creating new jobs.
00:08:21.000And all of that is due to the election of President Trump, even if President Trump isn't taking sustained action to actually impact the economy in any serious way.
00:08:29.000So that's a piece of good news for President Trump, number two.
00:08:32.000Piece of good news for President Trump number three from a political side.
00:08:35.000It's very bad news for the United States, but it's good news for whomever is the president.
00:08:38.000Whenever there's an ever-present foreign threat, that's good for the president in terms of popularity ratings.
00:08:42.000Just from a pure political calculation.
00:08:44.000Well right now, we have an ever-present threat.
00:08:46.000Yesterday, North Korea launched a ballistic missile that traveled ten times higher than the NASA International Space Station into space.
00:09:01.000Basically, the entire world is now under the threat of a North Korean nuclear missile if they can get a nuke affixed to the head of that ICBM.
00:09:09.000And that is a major, major ground shift in the nature of the technology the North Koreans have demonstrated thus far.
00:09:15.000President Trump came out yesterday and he tried to quiet the nation, basically said, don't worry, I'm handling this.
00:09:22.000A missile was launched a little while ago from North Korea.
00:09:26.000I will only tell you that we will take care of it.
00:09:29.000We have General Mattis in the room with us, and we've had a long discussion on it.
00:09:35.000It is a situation that we will handle.
00:09:38.000Okay, whenever there's an ever-present threat, again, it redounds to the benefit of the president.
00:09:42.000And President Trump, you know, is doing what he can here.
00:09:46.000This was a system that was built over the past three decades by presidents, both Democrat and Republican.
00:09:50.000And now Trump's there, and this fell into Trump's lap, right?
00:09:53.000I mean, this is—Trump's gonna have to figure out what to do about it.
00:09:56.000But the fact of the matter is that Trump is not to blame for it, and the American people know that.
00:10:01.000The best that we can do right now is build up our missile defense system, and I think Trump is very much for that.
00:10:05.000So that's piece of news number three that cuts in favor of the President of the United States.
00:10:09.000Piece of news number four that cuts in favor of the President of the United States is that yesterday we discussed at length the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
00:10:18.000This is this ridiculous organization that was set up by Elizabeth Warren and the Democrats under Dodd-Frank that was basically independent of Congress and independent of the president and it was supposed to crack down on all sorts of anti-consumer fraud by businesses.
00:10:32.000It was supposed to crack down on credit card companies and lending companies and all of this.
00:10:36.000And it very quickly turned into a shakedown unit where the CFPB would basically approach a particular business and instead of coming to some sort of agreed-upon settlement that was fair and just
00:10:45.000They would try to shake down that business, take that money, and then direct it toward Democratic offers.
00:10:49.000They were renting space from the Obama organization.
00:10:52.000They were funneling money to an Obama-linked PR firm.
00:10:55.000They had staffed up completely with Democrats.
00:10:57.000There's a guy named Ronald Rubin who's written about this extensively at National Review.
00:11:00.000Well, President Trump comes in and he says, we're gonna clean house.
00:11:03.000And he wants to get rid of Richard Cordray.
00:13:02.000Use the slash Ben so they know that we sent you.
00:13:03.000Okay, so we've had, to recap, we've had several pieces of news that cut in favor of President Trump politically.
00:13:09.000Again, that's not the be-all end-all, but it is of importance because it shows that, you know, the news cycle is not against Trump right now.
00:15:02.000I think it's important to lower corporate tax rates.
00:15:04.000But Republicans really have not made that case.
00:15:06.000Instead, what they keep discussing is individual tax rates and how those are going to be lowered.
00:15:10.000The problem is that this bill is really...
00:15:13.000...structure to lower individual tax rates in any serious way.
00:15:16.000It lowers them marginally, but it really is designed to do is make up tax revenue by getting rid of certain deductions, by getting rid of your ability to deduct your state income tax.
00:15:40.000Since I'm in the top tax bracket, that means that every dollar I earn in the top tax bracket, I'm going to be paying at least 50%, basically, when you include other taxes.
00:15:48.000More than 50% of that will go to the state and federal government.
00:15:51.000So it's a real shock to the system for folks like me.
00:15:55.000And even if you're not like me in the top tax bracket, if you're in California or New York, then you are going to be smacked.
00:16:00.000If you're in Massachusetts, you're going to be smacked.
00:16:02.000All these high-tax states are going to be smacked now.
00:16:04.000I don't think that's bad policy, actually.
00:16:06.000I think that's good policy, because I don't think the federal government should be sponsoring the states to raise their own taxes.
00:16:25.000It's not really revenue to the federal government, because the federal government doesn't earn anything.
00:16:28.000It's your money that they're sucking out of your pocket.
00:16:30.000The amount of money that the federal government does not take in is lower than it otherwise would be because of the lowered corporate tax rates.
00:16:36.000And so they are trying to increase the individual tax rates in certain ways in order to basically make up for that lost money so that they can pass with 51 votes in the Senate instead of 60.
00:16:46.000That's because they have to use a process called reconciliation.
00:16:49.000Reconciliation requires that the Congressional Budget Office issue a ruling on any law that shows that it does not increase the deficit over time.
00:16:59.000All of that said, the Republicans look like they're on the verge of passing this thing.
00:17:02.000Yesterday, Susan Collins signaled that she would support the tax reform bill, including the repeal of the individual mandate.
00:17:08.000Now, there's a problem with the repeal of the individual mandate.
00:17:11.000The repeal of the individual mandate, which is basically forcing you
00:17:15.000Two, the individual mandate forces you to buy health insurance or pay a fine.
00:17:19.000And the Supreme Court ruled that it was not a fine, it was a tax because the Supreme Court is a leftist institution and they were lying and Justice Roberts did a real disservice to the American people and the Constitution in that decision.
00:17:29.000But, suffice it to say, that individual mandate is bad.
00:17:33.000However, if you get rid of the individual mandate and you leave all the other Obamacare regulations in place, the prices are going to skyrocket.
00:17:39.000Unless the federal government comes in and jacks up the subsidies.
00:17:43.000Yesterday, basically, Trump endorsed the idea of getting rid of the individual mandate, but jacking up the subsidies through the Alexander, uh, Murray bill, I believe.
00:17:52.000It's this bill that's being pushed by the Democrats and moderate Republicans for the federal government to come in and subsidize all of these, all of these Obamacare regulations, even without the individual mandate.
00:18:05.000If you're gonna get rid of the individual mandate, you also need to get rid of the regulations.
00:18:08.000That would be getting rid of Obamacare.
00:18:09.000Just getting rid of the individual mandate and then having the government pick up the slack actually is close to nationalized healthcare.
00:18:15.000It's actually close to nationalized healthcare in a lot of ways.
00:18:18.000So that is not a grand and glorious thing, but...
00:18:21.000With all these buy-offs, with all these payouts, it looks like tax reform is in pretty good shape.
00:18:25.000And the Democrats don't know what to do about it.
00:18:27.000Last night on CNN, there was a debate between Tim Scott and Ted Cruz on the one hand, and Maria Cantwell, Senator from Washington, and Bernie Sanders, the new leader of the Democratic Party, that crazed old bat loon.
00:18:36.000You know, he was there talking about taxes.
00:18:39.000And Bernie Sanders was trying to make the case against the tax reform, but having a tough time doing it.
00:18:43.000He basically had to argue that the GOP wants to cut Social Security, which, of course, there's been no indicator that they want to do.
00:18:50.000In my view, I have not the slightest doubt that if this bill, God forbid, is passed, as soon as it is passed, the Republican leadership will come back and say, my God, we have to deal with the deficit, and that's why we're going to cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and education.
00:19:09.000Okay, now the reality is that I wish the Republicans would say that.
00:19:12.000The fact is the deficit is not going away, the debt is not going away, and the main drivers of the debt are not tax cuts.
00:19:17.000The main drivers of the debt, always and forever, will be these massive entitlement programs that need to be restructured in a very significant way.
00:19:24.000The big drivers of the debt are things like Social Security.
00:19:27.000That needs to be restructured and privatized.
00:19:29.000I need to be able to take my own money and invest it for myself, and I should not have it removed from me and placed into a quote-unquote social security lockbox that does not exist.
00:19:40.000If I want to give my grandmother money, that's my business.
00:19:42.000But you shouldn't force me to take my money, pay it out to a bunch of old folks who've had 60 years to earn, and then deprive my children of it.
00:20:18.000But the idea that we're going to mandate that you pay your money into a pyramid scheme is really morally egregious.
00:20:24.000And by the time I hit retirement age, I'm not going to see any of this money.
00:20:26.000I mean, this money is gone or they're going to dramatically raise taxes on my children because they're going to have no other choice.
00:20:30.000But again, this is a win for Trump because it looks like tax reform is on its way.
00:20:35.000And final win for Trump, okay, so final win for Trump is that it looks like there may be a government shutdown.
00:20:40.000Government shutdowns, the theory goes, always benefit the president in power because the people who are not allowing the government to continue operating are seen as obstructionists.
00:20:48.000This at least was the theory when the Republicans were arguing that they shouldn't shut down the government and Ted Cruz was arguing, let's just shut it down over Obamacare.
00:20:55.000The Republicans kept saying, we can't shut it down, we can't shut it down, we can't shut it down because it'll benefit Obama.
00:21:30.000And we will explain the difference between good and bad trollery.
00:21:32.000I'm not coming at this, folks, from a perspective of, I want President Trump to fail.
00:21:36.000If you want Trump to succeed, if you want Trump to be a successful president and get done all the things you want him to get done, you need him to be disciplined.
00:21:45.000One ounce of discipline in this news cycle and Trump would get a five-point bump in his approval ratings.
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00:23:42.000President Trump has the capacity to troll well.
00:23:44.000The reason I say he has the capacity to troll well is because he did it yesterday.
00:23:47.000So yesterday, President Trump led off by tweeting that the Democrats were not—that they would be able to come to no actual resolution with the Democrats.
00:23:55.000It looked like the Democrats were going to insist on some sort of amnesty agreement in order for them to move forward with funding the government.
00:24:01.000The reason the Democrats are necessary here is because the Democrats can filibuster funding for the government.
00:24:05.000They can shut down the government with a filibuster the same way that Ted Cruz basically did in 2014, I believe—2013.
00:24:12.000Well, the Democrats have been signaling that they're perfectly willing to do a government shutdown.
00:24:16.000Here is House Democratic Chairman, I think his name is Patrick Crowley, and he says maybe we'll shut down the government over DACA.
00:24:23.000Democrats are willing to work to secure the future of the 800,000 plus individuals who are DREAMers who are in the DACA program.
00:24:32.000Democrats are working to ensure the extension of the CHIP program that will provide health insurance for children throughout our country, almost 10 million children throughout our country.
00:24:44.000Democrats are going to work towards keeping government open and we think we can walk and chew gum at the same time.
00:24:49.000These are all legitimate and good issues that need to be addressed.
00:24:51.000Okay, so they say that they're willing to shut down the government.
00:24:53.000That's Joe Crowley, by the way, from New York.
00:24:55.000And they say that they're willing to shut down the government if need be.
00:24:58.000And then Trump tweets out, I'm not sure we're going to come to an agreement.
00:25:01.000And so Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, who are scheduled to come to the White House, use that as an excuse to pull out.
00:25:06.000And so Trump does something that is quite imagistically brilliant, right?
00:25:10.000He sets up a meeting, right, Paul Ryan is there, Mitch McConnell's there, and he leaves seats on either side of him, one with Schumer's name and one with Pelosi's name tag in front of them, and he leaves the seats empty, like they're waiting for Elijah the Prophet on the first night of Passover, and he leaves the seats empty, and then he says, listen, they're not here.
00:26:21.000So here's Chuck Schumer saying that Trump tweeting, that's what made it just a photo op.
00:26:26.000If he hadn't tweeted that, we would have been happy to show up, but the tweet came out, and then we weren't going to show up just to, you know, sit next to him for a photo op.
00:26:34.000Unfortunately, this morning, instead of leading, the President tweeted a blatantly inaccurate statement and then concluded, I don't see a deal.
00:26:44.000The President said, I don't see a deal, three hours before our meeting, before he heard anything we had to say.
00:26:53.000Given that the President doesn't see a deal between Democrats and the White House, Leader Pelosi and I believe the best path forward is to continue negotiating with our Republican counterparts in Congress instead.
00:27:08.000Okay, and then Schumer went on and he said Trump was a destructive force, and Trump was the end of the world.
00:27:13.000Here he is, you know, going after Trump.
00:27:18.000If you think this is going to work, then you need to explain why it is.
00:27:21.000For establishment Republicans, if you think that Trump is wrong and Schumer is right, you need to explain why you oppose Ted Cruz doing the same thing to President Obama.
00:27:28.000If you think that Schumer is making the right political move, why was it so bad for the Republicans to stand up for a government shutdown during the Obamacare debate?
00:28:21.000This is the first time I've seen a political party, or even a fraction of it, saying that their number one goal is a
00:28:28.000To shut down the American government, it is the American government, kill a bill that's already been passed by Congress, and refuse to pay bills already run up by the Congress in an attempt to basically risk the fall.
00:28:40.000It wasn't just Chris Matthews, it was also the White House, right?
00:28:43.000The Obama White House called Republican lawmakers terrorists.
00:28:46.000Dan Pfeiffer was on CNN with Jake Tapper, and he said, we're for cutting spending, we're for reforming our tax code, we're for reforming entitlements, but what we're not for is negotiating with people who have a bomb strapped to their chest.
00:28:56.000Okay, this is the same game that Republicans can play if they choose to play it, and Trump is happy to play it.
00:29:00.000So, okay, so that is useful trollery, right?
00:29:36.000And it's allowing the media to escape all of these headlines that would be great for Trump and instead misdirect to the fact that Trump doesn't seem like he can control his Twitter thumbs.
00:29:44.000Okay, so Trump starts off this morning by retweeting a bunch of videos from Jada Franzen.
00:30:21.000Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches.
00:30:24.000There's only one problem with that video.
00:30:25.000Apparently it wasn't a Muslim migrant beating up a Dutch boy on crutches at all.
00:30:28.000Apparently it was a dark-haired Dutch boy beating up a light-haired Dutch boy.
00:30:30.000You know, he tweets all of these things from Britain First.
00:30:34.000It became such an issue that over in the House of Commons, there was actually a movement to censure Trump, I believe, from the House of Commons floor for retweeting stuff from Britain First.
00:30:48.000And for people who say, well, he can walk and he can chew gum at the same time, this is not about walking and chewing gum at the same time.
00:30:53.000It's about walking and stepping in crap at the same time.
00:31:06.000You know, Trump should understand by this point that his Twitter account is basically like a laser pointer and the media are like cats.
00:31:13.000But the problem is that those cats are only going to follow the laser points or where he points it.
00:31:17.000So if he points it in irrelevant places, they're going to follow him to those irrelevant places and they would prefer to stay there because it's more fun.
00:31:52.000And then, Trump decided that it was necessary not only to troll Matt Lauer, but then to use that as an excuse to troll Joe Scarborough and all the heads of MSNBC and CBS.
00:33:00.000If you'd like the country to be better, if you'd like all the good headlines to actually get some play, you need to stop stepping on your own wiener.
00:33:09.000Okay, so, before I go any further with what Trump is talking about with Joe Scarborough, first, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at NatureBot.
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00:35:14.000Terminating the contract of Phil Griffin, no one really knows why.
00:35:17.000Because they're fake news practitioners, I guess.
00:35:19.000And then he says, well, they terminate low ratings Joe Scarborough.
00:35:21.000What's he talking about with Joe Scarborough?
00:35:22.000This unsolved mystery that took place in Florida years ago?
00:35:25.000What he's talking about, specifically, is that Joe Scarborough, when he was in Congress, there was a 28-year-old intern, I guess, in one of his local offices.
00:35:35.000The medical examiner did a full examination and what they found is that she had an undisclosed heart condition, that she had a heart attack, she hit her head and she died.
00:36:06.000And the problem is that when you mix... If you have a crap sandwich, like Trump's Twitter feed, where half of the sandwich is just high-quality roast beef and half of the sandwich is poop,
00:36:15.000People are going to tend to focus more on the poop that's in the sandwich than the roast beef, right?
00:36:47.000But because he can't focus, instead we're going to get a day of headlines over him retweeting racist groups from the UK and him trying to bring up discredited conspiracy theories about Joe Scarborough.
00:36:56.000How that's beneficial to his agenda is beyond me.
00:36:59.000So don't blame—you know, there are a lot of people who get angry at me when I criticize President Trump.
00:37:02.000I'm criticizing President Trump because I want him to do better.
00:37:07.000This is not the way that you're going to make the GOP more popular, or get your agenda passed into law, or maintain any long-lasting grip on power.
00:37:16.000There's a poll out today, and people are asking, how do we get young people conservatives?
00:37:20.000How exactly are we supposed to draw young people?
00:37:56.000And the way that you increase that bad statistic is by taking the wrong side of moral conflicts, especially when you could be taking the right side of moral conflict.
00:38:04.000And it is taking the wrong side of moral conflict to put out unbased conspiracy theories or retreat white supremacist accounts from Britain.
00:38:09.000It's just, forget about the morality of it for a second.
00:38:12.000It's not smart politically, from a utilitarian point of view.
00:38:32.000So I really wish that we would stop all of this.
00:38:35.000Okay, so before we get to things I like, things I hate, and a little bit of Bible talk,
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00:40:01.000But what I will say is that in a comic book universe, where every time you imprison someone, they escape prison and immediately murder 10 other people, the only moral solution is to kill criminals.
00:41:54.000So last night at UConn, a guy named Lucian Wintrich, who is the White House correspondent for Gateway Pundit, and has sort of made a name for himself in the past for tweeting memes and such, he was speaking on, it's okay to be white, which is sort of the new slogan that's used by some edgier members of the right, shall we say.
00:42:16.000It's also used by the alt-right a fair bit as sort of like, you say it's okay to be black, I say it's okay to be white, what's the problem?
00:42:22.000So in any case, Wintrich goes and he speaks, and the students act like idiots at UConn.
00:42:26.000So they start chanting that he's a Nazi, and shouting him down, and all the usual forms of stupidity that you expect from the snowflakes at a college campus.
00:42:35.000And then one of these idiot snowflakes, this young woman, she walks up to his podium and she grabs his notes.
00:42:43.000You're not allowed to steal other people's property.
00:42:46.000Wintrich, instead of doing the smart thing and saying to the cops who are standing right there, stop her and get my notes back, he immediately charges into the crowd and grabs the notes by kind of reaching around her body and basically pulling her down to the ground.
00:43:09.000It's nuts to respond like this in a public way.
00:43:11.000And it's nuts to respond like this when you have a series of police officers, particularly when, if they don't respond, you can then claim, rightly, that the police fail to do their jobs at these universities, which is actually the headline that a lot of folks are looking for, that the police are not doing their jobs in protecting freedom of speech and protecting conservative speakers from being victims of assault and from being victims of petty theft, right?
00:44:00.000So, I do love that the media, who are trying to fight the fake news charge, keep trotting out Dan Rather as though he's the epitome of journalistic integrity.
00:44:08.000Here is Dan Rather, yesterday, talking about how Trump is moving us into an Orwellian space where truth does not matter.
00:44:14.000Look, previous presidents sometimes have lied, but none has relentlessly, so consistently lied, and I use the word measured, as this president has done.
00:44:49.000Why would the media keep trotting out the guy who's famous for losing his job over trotting out a fake letter that he still maintains was real?
00:46:11.000And the Assyrian army, according to the prophets, ends up basically being destroyed outside the walls of Jerusalem.
00:46:18.000The point of this story is that sometimes, you know, it's always easy to do the side with Stalin to defeat Hitler.
00:46:23.000Sometimes the danger of being seduced by the dark side is grave enough that you have to rely on God and yourself.
00:46:29.000And I think that there are cases in, you know, you have to decide for yourself how you're going to vote if you're in Alabama, but I've told you how I would vote.
00:46:36.000I would not go to the polls or I'd vote right in.
00:46:38.000And the reason that I would do that is because I think that sometimes siding with the bad guys dirties your soul.
00:46:43.000Even if siding with the bad guys, you're trying to defeat people who you perceive are going to do worse to you.
00:46:47.000Okay, so that's a story from Second Kings that sort of backs up my point of view instead of doing the, you know, some people are trying to make the case that the Bible demands that you support Roy Moore.
00:46:56.000I think that that is a dicey case at best.
00:46:58.000David French, by the way, wrote an entire column on this segment of Second Kings that is quite good at national review.