The Mueller saga finally ends, but will it ever really end? Plus, the wild story of a Harvard Law professor, a lesbian con artist, and a transgender roommate it s not really a joke. Welcome to The Ben Shapiro Show, where we talk about everything you need to know about what s going on in Washington, D.C. and the people who are making it happen, including Jeffrey Epstein, Robert Mueller, Hillary Clinton, and the Krasinski Brothers, and much, much more! Ben Shapiro is the host of the podcast and is a regular contributor to the New York Times, CNN, CBS, NPR, and other media outlets. He is also a frequent contributor to The Daily Beast, and has been featured on CBS Radio's Hard Knocks and CNN's Morning Joe. He is the author of several books, including "The Devil Next Door" and "The Dark Side of Watergate: The Inside Story," and has written for The Daily Wire, The Hill, The New York Post, and The New Republic. His latest book is out now, "The People's Guide to the Trump Era." which is out in paperback. If you haven't already checked it out, you can get a copy of the book on Amazon Prime, wherever you get your copy of The Devil Wears a White House. or wherever else you get his or her copy of his work, you ll be able to find him on the internet, too. . Subscribe to his new book, "Trump s Not Really a Badass: How to Be Badass, He's Not Badass. , wherever he is Badass Is Good, Good, Badass But He's Good. The Devil Is Good: It's Not Good, He s Good, But He Sells It, Too Bad But He Ain t Badass And He s Not Bad, Too Good, and He Ain't Bad, He Sucks At It, too Bad, by by Puff and Other Things That Don t Care About That by Peezy, by John Grisham, Jr., and his new novel, Too Effing About It by Jay Sheer, too, and he s Good At That by Michael Bloomberg, who also has a podcast, too! by , and , too, is out on Amazon, and so much so that you ll get a free copy of both of them.
00:00:19.000So let's jump right in before we get to the aftermath of the Robert Mueller hearing yesterday, which was basically a disaster for Democrats.
00:00:26.000And the way you could tell it was a disaster for Democrats is folks in the media insisting that it definitely was not a disaster for Democrats.
00:00:32.000They weren't suggesting it was a win, but it definitely wasn't as big a disaster as everybody's saying.
00:00:39.000First, Jeffrey Epstein is now on suicide watch after he was found with neck injuries in jail.
00:00:45.000This, of course, sends Clinton body count trending on Twitter, because that's always how this works.
00:00:50.000Whenever somebody close to the Clintons dies, everybody on the right immediately assumes the Clintons did it because everyone is a little crazy.
00:00:57.000In any case, the New York Post reports convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has been placed on suicide watch after being found sprawled out and injured in his federal jail cell, law enforcement sources said Thursday.
00:01:07.000Epstein was nearly unconscious in his cell Tuesday at Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center with injuries to his neck.
00:01:13.000He is, of course, being held at the jail without bail pending trial on child sex trafficking charges.
00:01:20.000By Thursday, he was back at the jail and on suicide watch, according to sources.
00:01:24.000Investigators say that they don't think that this was him being attacked.
00:01:27.000They instead think that he may have injured himself on purpose or as a ploy so that he'd get transferred out of jail because he doesn't like the conditions.
00:01:35.000Of course, he is facing up to 45 years in prison.
00:01:38.000We will look for more information as it comes out, but so far, all we know is that Jeffrey Epstein is one of the world's worst human beings.
00:01:44.000And because we know that he is one of the world's worst human beings, it is highly doubtful that he was actually attempting to commit suicide, and given the conditions of the jail, it's pretty doubtful that somebody tried to injure him while he was in the jail.
00:01:55.000I mean, he is one of the most highly publicized people in American public life at this point.
00:02:00.000Okay, now, to the fallout from the Mueller hearing yesterday.
00:02:03.000Well, if you missed the Mueller hearing yesterday, There were no fireworks.
00:02:54.000After that came out, Jerry Nadler suggested maybe we won't call Mueller to testify.
00:02:58.000And I was wondering out loud at the time, why would he not?
00:03:01.000Maybe it's because Mueller just wouldn't be that good a witness.
00:03:03.000Maybe it's because Mueller is not going to say anything more than he already said in the report.
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00:05:23.000Okay, so let's recap what exactly Robert Mueller said yesterday.
00:05:27.000So Robert Mueller gave a couple of moments to the Democrats, but none of them were particularly telling.
00:05:34.000So moment number one, he said that he did not totally exonerate Trump.
00:05:37.000Now, no one who actually read the report or followed the media coverage thought Trump was totally exonerated on the question of obstruction.
00:07:07.000How about Trump could be charged with obstruction after he leaves office?
00:07:11.000So now you hear Democrats trying to trot out the argument that Donald Trump would be prosecuted by Robert Mueller after he leaves office.
00:07:18.000So this is them hoping against hope and then them saying, OK, well, if he can't be prosecuted while he's in office, at least he can be impeached.
00:07:24.000But that's not what Mueller is saying.
00:07:25.000Mueller is making a basic statement of law, which is true.
00:07:29.000Trump could be prosecuted after he leaves office.
00:07:31.000He cannot be prosecuted while he is in office.
00:07:34.000That does not mean he should be prosecuted.
00:07:54.000Well, well, I mean, case closed, except for the question is not whether you can charge the president after he leaves office.
00:08:00.000The question is, should you charge the president after he leaves office?
00:08:03.000OK, then there was an actual seeming bombshell at the time.
00:08:06.000Ted Lieu was questioning Robert Mueller and he asked him, Basically, the reason that you didn't prosecute Trump is because of the OLC opinion, right?
00:08:13.000There's an Office of Legal Counsel opinion from the Department of Justice that says you cannot prosecute a sitting president federally because he's the head of the federal executive branch.
00:08:21.000And Mueller seems to say that the only reason he wouldn't prosecute Trump is because of the OLC opinion, right?
00:09:27.000This means that if it weren't for the OLC opinion, then Mueller would have got him.
00:09:31.000See, they keep trying to make excuses as to why Mueller didn't actually do it.
00:09:34.000Mueller has told you why he didn't do it.
00:09:35.000He said he did not even reach the borderline question of whether Trump should be prosecuted because the OLC opinion said, and said he couldn't be prosecuted.
00:09:43.000So he just didn't even answer the question.
00:09:44.000So here is Mueller walking back that talking point now.
00:09:47.000He comes back for his testimony, second half of the day, and he then walks back the one win Democrats have, which is the OLC opinion question.
00:09:55.000Now, before we go to questions, I want to add one correction to my testimony this morning.
00:10:01.000I want to go back to one thing that was said this morning by Mr. Liu, who said, and I quote, you didn't charge the president because of the OLC opinion.
00:10:11.000and That is not the correct way to say it.
00:10:15.000As we say in the report, and as I said at the opening, we did not reach a determination as to whether the president committed a crime.
00:10:26.000And every time they try to push Mueller into saying that he would have indicted Trump if it weren't for the OLC opinion, they fail, as you'll see in just one second.
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00:12:21.000The investigation found substantial evidence That when the president ordered Don McGahn to fire the special counsel and then lie about it, Donald Trump 1.
00:13:06.000So his green checkmarks avail him not, and suddenly there's Robert Mueller shooting him down.
00:13:11.000And this was the story of the Democrats' day.
00:13:13.000What they really wanted from Mueller, the only key headline they wanted from Mueller, is Mueller saying, listen, I think that he did criminal stuff, and I can't prosecute him, but you can.
00:13:22.000Now the ball of honesty and truth is in your court, Democrats.
00:13:29.000And it didn't happen anyway, shape or form.
00:13:32.000Not only that, Mueller actually provided some fodder for the other side.
00:13:35.000So Republican goals, when it came to this particular hearing, were twofold.
00:13:39.000Goal number one, show that Mueller was not actually in charge of his own investigation.
00:13:43.000Because Mueller's an honest guy, but the idea from a lot of Republicans is that there was some motivation to how this thing was written.
00:13:48.000It was written in biased and slanted fashion in order to provide a supposed roadmap to impeachment and that maybe Mueller wasn't actually in charge of his own report.
00:13:57.000That was point number one that Republicans were trying to make.
00:13:59.000Point number two that they were trying to make was that the report itself was fundamentally flawed because it came at it from the wrong angle.
00:14:06.000The report did not attempt to convict Trump.
00:14:09.000It basically said, we can't exonerate Trump.
00:14:11.000Well, the job of the report was not to exonerate the person at issue.
00:14:15.000The job of the report was to provide evidence for a possible prosecution if a prosecution was on the table.
00:14:20.000But a prosecution apparently wasn't on the table.
00:14:22.000So what the hell was this about in the first place?
00:14:26.000One, Mueller wasn't really in charge of the report.
00:14:28.000Two, the report itself was fundamentally flawed.
00:14:31.000And I think there might have been kind of a third point too, which is that all the talk about Trump obstructing justice, Mueller didn't get stopped anywhere in here, right?
00:15:54.000The investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign Conspired with the Russian government in its election interference activities.
00:16:04.000Okay, so that again goes to the Republicans' point.
00:16:07.000You didn't establish what you were trying to establish.
00:16:09.000Then they get on to point number two, which is you weren't really in charge of this investigation, were you?
00:16:16.000He appeared as though he didn't know his own report.
00:16:18.000As I said yesterday on the program, he appeared like the kid in your class in third grade who was supposed to have done a book report on Bridge to Terabithia and didn't actually do the book report, but a parent did.
00:16:28.000And then they came in and the teacher was like, so what happened in Bridge to Terabithia?
00:16:31.000And the kid was like, well, I know there was a bridge, And a place called Terabithia.
00:16:37.000There's a lot of that from Robert Mueller.
00:16:40.000Now, anyone who has followed this entire unfolding scandal knows that Fusion GPS is a key player.
00:16:45.000Fusion GPS was the group that went out there and compiled the Steele dossier, which may have been Russian disinformation that was then funneled upward to Hillary Clinton's law firm, and from there, it was funneled to the FBI.
00:16:56.000And Robert Mueller is asked about Fusion GPS, and he says he has no clue what the hell anybody's talking about.
00:17:03.000When you talk about the firm that produced the steel reporting, the name of the firm that produced that was Fusion GPS.
00:17:23.000Now, Fusion GPS produced the opposition research document widely known as the Steele dossier, and the owner of Fusion GPA was someone named Glenn Simpson.
00:17:41.000And it's pretty clear he didn't know his own report.
00:17:43.000Okay, then there was point number three the Republicans were trying to establish, which is that the entire angle of the report is wrong.
00:17:48.000And when Democrats focus in on Trump being exonerated, the report is designed to provide evidence sufficient to prosecute or sufficient to impeach.
00:17:56.000It's not Mueller's job to exonerate Trump.
00:18:00.000It's not a prosecutor's job to ever exonerate somebody.
00:18:03.000That'd be the defense attorney's job or the person's job themselves.
00:18:07.000But it's really not anybody's job because in the United States you have to be proved to have committed a crime.
00:18:12.000Proof of exoneration is not necessary.
00:18:15.000So here's Mueller being asked that question and admitting he doesn't know of any other case where the DOJ has quote-unquote exonerated somebody.
00:18:23.000Can you give me an example other than Donald Trump where the Justice Department determined that an investigated person was not exonerated because their innocence was not conclusively determined?
00:18:34.000I cannot, but this is a unique situation.
00:19:04.000Now, a lot of people in the media are saying, why are you looking at the optics?
00:19:07.000Because Democrats explicitly admitted in the run-up to this that this was all for optics.
00:19:12.000The only reason to even have this hearing was that you could have that image of Clint Eastwood circa 1971 standing there growling down the president.
00:19:21.000That's what they were hoping for from Mueller.
00:20:32.000Now, Eric Swalwell, as we know, knows things about things that are supposed to begin and then end quickly, like his presidential campaign, which lasted approximately 37.2 seconds.
00:20:42.000in which he proposed that we nuke all gun owners.
00:20:44.000In any case, here is Eric Swalwell explaining this is only Act 1.
00:20:47.000And this became the Democratic talking point.
00:21:47.000That's what he said he was going to do.
00:21:48.000So I didn't go into the hearing expecting new facts.
00:21:51.000The halting nature of his answers made questioning him a challenge.
00:21:55.000You know, as a former prosecutor, it meant that, you know, you take each witness as they come, and it meant it wasn't easy to get him to tell a narrative.
00:22:04.000But what's more important than the style we saw of the witnesses, the substance.
00:22:08.000And the substance, I think, was just devastating.
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00:24:08.000It turns out that he doesn't know his own report.
00:24:11.000Republicans were basically able to establish that he was not familiar with his own stuff, which means that it kind of felt like this was politically motivated.
00:24:18.000And we're about to find out in the next month whether this investigation was properly initiated and conducted.
00:24:23.000The Inspector General of the DOJ, Michael Horowitz, is about to bring out a report about the beginnings of the Trump-Russia investigation.
00:24:29.000I'm sure that will be fascinating stuff.
00:24:31.000His report, certainly, on the Hillary investigation was fascinating reading and pretty damning for a lot of the folks involved in all of this.
00:24:38.000Well, Democrats are not going to let go of this, and that includes the people who are most closely tied to it.
00:24:42.000So, Andrew McCabe, who was fired from the FBI for lying to the FBI.
00:24:49.000And that was because he lied to the FBI about whether he had spoken to the press with the permission of James Comey about Hillary Clinton's investigation.
00:24:56.000Well now, Andrew McCabe is back on television suggesting it's time for Congress to pursue impeachment.
00:25:03.000Not based on anything Mueller said that we didn't already know for sure.
00:25:07.000From my own experience at the very beginnings of this investigation, we confronted some very hard choices, choices that we knew would have negative repercussions on our organization and on us personally, and we made those choices anyway because it was our job and our duty to do so.
00:25:25.000I feel strongly that that's the same position Congress is in now, and they should step up to the plate and do their job.
00:25:31.000It doesn't mean that the president will be removed from office This has become the talking point.
00:25:36.000from office or will be impeached, but it is absolutely clear to me that the time has come for Congress to pursue a dedicated impeachment inquiry. - Okay, this has become the talking point.
00:25:48.000People who are very invested in this thing are not going to let it go.
00:25:51.000And that's good for Trump, He can say, listen, you petty jerks.
00:26:09.000And for all the talk about the Democrats being in chaos, which is true, right now Trump is underwater in Ohio by four percentage points, according to various polls, including Morning Consult.
00:26:19.000You know, he could still win those states.
00:26:21.000He's expected to win those states, in fact, against a Democrat.
00:26:23.000Those are just his popularity ratings.
00:26:25.000Still, Trump is vulnerable, and yet Democrats don't seem to want to run against Trump.
00:26:28.000They seem to want to impeach him, or at least talk about impeaching him, for the purposes of smearing him as a Russian cat's paw, even though that all fell apart.
00:26:36.000The other folks who were invested in this, members of the media, deeply invested, CNN, every day, breaking news, Wolf Blitzer, we have a brand new piece of news.
00:26:44.000I work out every day and unfortunately the gym that I attend very often has CNN on.
00:26:48.000And so I am well aware of the chyrons that CNN runs every single day.
00:26:52.000And the chyrons for two years were about breaking news, bombshell new report.
00:26:57.000Trump's presidency over, the Russia scandal explodes, and then it turns out that the thing is a complete waste of time, pretty much.
00:27:05.000And CNN ain't gonna let that go because it makes them look bad.
00:27:07.000So here on CNN were folks yesterday trying to say, listen, listen, listen.
00:27:11.000Just because Bob Mueller appeared to be old and dithering doesn't mean that the underlying content isn't important.
00:27:16.000Guys, you were building this up because you thought that Bob Mueller was gonna walk in like Tom Cruise in the Top Gun 2 trailer and just own it.
00:27:29.000The idea that his written answers were not truthful is news, and having lived through the Clinton period where, you know, very much most of what they focused on was the fact that in a deposition, he wasn't completely honest, and that was enough to impeach him.
00:27:45.000I think there's going to be, as the dust settles, the people who matter, as we talked about yesterday.
00:28:10.000Mueller gave Democrats everything that they could possibly need.
00:28:12.000Now it's time for them to move forward.
00:28:14.000It'll be amazing to see if the Democrats somehow push their legislators into trying an impeachment attempt over a report that did not give them what they wanted.
00:28:54.000If they don't start an impeachment inquiry, given all we learned yesterday, then obviously nothing justifies an impeachment inquiry.
00:29:04.000And the Democrats not starting that inquiry will be proving Donald Trump right.
00:29:09.000OK, so Joe Scarborough, what he's saying there is not totally false, right?
00:29:12.000He's been saying you guys need to put your money where your mouth is.
00:29:14.000But anybody trying to play this off, you can see the disappointment on Mika's face.
00:29:18.000There are a lot of folks in the media who are very, very disappointed, among them Jimmy Kimmel, the Pope of late night comedy, as Guy Benson calls him.
00:29:26.000And here he is being thoroughly unfunny.
00:29:29.000Well, Going after Republicans for doing what you would expect Republicans to do, namely call into question how exactly the report was done.
00:29:37.000Because there were serious questions to be asked about the nature of the report.
00:29:40.000Like, what was Robert Mueller doing if he knew he couldn't prosecute?
00:29:43.000Why was this report not ended with a recommendation one way or the other?
00:29:48.000Why didn't Robert Mueller know his own report?
00:29:49.000Here's Jimmy Kimmel trying to make excuses.
00:29:52.000It really was something watching them defend this.
00:29:54.000Normally when people fall on their knees for Trump like that, he pays them a thousand, one hundred thirty thousand dollars afterwards in hush money.
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00:34:08.000Okay, we're gonna get to the more democratic response to Mueller, and then we have to get to The governor of Puerto Rico, who apparently is resigning.
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00:36:00.000And then you've got people who are members of the intel community who didn't like Trump and were in a running gun battle with Trump for years.
00:36:44.000But they're going to go out there and because they're running against Trump, they're going to claim that he is impeachable, that he should be impeached, that he's committed impeachable offenses.
00:36:51.000Here is Kamala Harris yesterday suggesting, don't worry, guys, there are outlined incidents of obstruction.
00:36:59.000Do you think Kamala Harris really believes this?
00:37:01.000Do you think she believes anything she says?
00:37:03.000I think there's a reason that she has regressed back to the mean.
00:37:05.000And as we'll see in a second, Joe Biden may be starting to find his sea legs, but Kamala Harris regressing back to the mean in stylish fashion.
00:37:14.000I am very clear that there are outlined incidents of obstruction of justice.
00:37:22.000And no matter what this current attorney general and the president of the United States try to say, the American people are smart enough to know what is and what is not truth.
00:37:53.000She sort of seems like she's scolding you all the time.
00:37:55.000I think Kamala Harris is significantly more magnetic a personality than Elizabeth Warren is.
00:38:00.000And just in terms of sheer political skill, Pete Buttigieg has them both beat, although he's going nowhere in this race.
00:38:04.000Anyway, here's Elizabeth Warren also calling for impeachment.
00:38:08.000We have to make clear, no one is above the law, not even the President of the United States.
00:38:16.000It is time to bring impeachment charges against him.
00:38:19.000In my view, some things are above politics.
00:38:26.000And one of them is our constitutional responsibilities to do what is right.
00:38:33.000And the responsibility of the Congress of the United States of America, when a president breaks the law, is to bring impeachment charges against that president.
00:38:46.000You know, one of the things I'm finding off-putting about Warren is that if you could deepfake Beto O'Rourke and Elizabeth Warren, they have the same mannerisms.
00:38:54.000They've got the same arm motions, they have the same cadence.
00:39:22.000It's not as though this raised awareness about what Trump is.
00:39:25.000Everybody sort of has an opinion on it already.
00:39:27.000I'll tell you what does change minds is new information.
00:39:30.000So no new information has been provided with regard to President Trump.
00:39:34.000However, every day there seems to be new information about the leading lights of the Democratic Party.
00:39:38.000So, to take an example, Ilhan Omar, who President Trump desperately wants to run against.
00:39:41.000He wishes that Ilhan Omar were the Democratic nominee.
00:39:45.000But it's okay, they're promoting her anyway.
00:39:46.000There is a clip that has been circulating from 2018 in which Representative Ilhan Omar declares that Americans should be more fearful of white men than jihadist terrorists and that basically white men should be racially profiled.
00:39:59.000She was appearing with Mehdi Hassan on Al Jazeera.
00:40:02.000Al Jazeera, of course, is a Qatari front.
00:40:05.000Qatar is a terror-supporting government.
00:40:16.000If Democrats want to run on impeachment and Trump runs on Ilhan Omar as the face of the Democratic Party, enjoy yourselves, Democrats.
00:40:23.000It's going to be a long another four years of Donald Trump.
00:40:25.000Here is Ilhan Omar saying something silly.
00:40:28.000A lot of conservatives in particular would say that the rise in Islamophobia is a result not of hate, but of fear, a legitimate fear they say, of quote-unquote jihadist terrorism, whether it's Fort Hood or San Bernardino or the recent truck attack in New York.
00:40:44.000I would say our country should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country.
00:40:59.000We should be profiling, monitoring, and creating policies to fight the radicalization of white men.
00:41:11.000There are a couple of problems with that pitch.
00:41:12.000Number one, if you go back to September 11th, there's no question that jihadists have caused more deaths than white supremacist terrorists.
00:41:19.000If she's talking about sheer numbers of deaths, then white men certainly have not caused the sheer majority of deaths in the United States.
00:41:24.000If she's talking about terrorism, which is giving her sort of the benefit of the doubt, but that's fine.
00:41:30.000If she's talking about white supremacist terrorism, yes, it has caused deaths.
00:41:33.000It is controversial as to whether it has caused most of the deaths in the United States because that's a matter of classification.
00:41:38.000Very often the classification systems take anybody who is white and who commits a terrorist act and then lumps them together as white supremacists, which is not fully accurate, but the point is taken that white supremacists cause a lot of deaths.
00:41:48.000I mean, I know because they've targeted me, right?
00:41:54.000population, white supremacists compared to the white male population of the United States is a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny fraction.
00:42:00.000It is certainly a much smaller fraction than jihadists compared to, for example, the broader Islamic population of the United States.
00:42:07.000Now, I don't think that you should label all Muslims because some radical Muslims are terrorists in the United States.
00:42:12.000I don't think that's an excuse for labeling all Muslims.
00:42:15.000But the point that she's making, that you should, that's what she should say, right?
00:42:17.000She should say what I just said, which is, why would you paint all Muslims with broad strokes when it is a small minority of Muslims who are being radicalized?
00:42:33.000Okay, meanwhile, in other news, the governor of Puerto Rico has announced that he is going to resign.
00:42:37.000His name is Ricardo Rosselló, and he is resigning because he got caught up in a scandal Where a bunch of his text messages to other members of his government were revealed.
00:42:55.000Now, the governor of Puerto Rico is a Democrat.
00:42:58.000He's been at war with other members of the government who are also Democrats, also members of his party.
00:43:04.000He's been accused of corruption before.
00:43:06.000A couple members of his administration were just indicted a couple of weeks ago, and so now he is stepping down.
00:43:11.000According to the New York Times, the people of Puerto Rico knew him first as Ricky, the handsome boy who moved into the governor's residence when he was just 13.
00:43:19.000Ricardo Rosselló grew up as a child of privilege and historic La Fortezella, a palatial 16th century mansion with heavy drapes and thick wooden doors just steps from the Caribbean Sea.
00:43:27.000Now the governor himself, Rossello lives in the same colonial fortress of his youth with a family of his own, but the estate has turned into a cage, guarded by police officers in riot gear and ringed by protesters who want him gone.
00:43:38.000It took just two weeks for his administration to reach the point of collapse, undermined by a popular uprising that the governor initially thought he could withstand.
00:43:45.000Yet Rosello misread the anger brewing among his people after years of economic stagnation and broken promises.
00:43:50.000Well, the reason for the economic stagnation and broken promises is because Puerto Rico's economy has been incredibly weak.
00:43:56.000They've spent much more money than they ever had.
00:43:58.000According to CNN, Puerto Rico has about a $70 billion debt, about 40% of its residents live in poverty, and the median household income in 2017 was just under $20,000.
00:44:06.000That's not the low-income households, it's the median household income.
00:44:10.000In the United States, it's well above $50,000.
00:44:16.000According to CNN, the Jones Act requires all goods ferried between the U.S.
00:44:20.000ports to be carried on ships built, owned, and operated by Americans.
00:44:22.000By the way, I do oppose the Jones Act, but really what this is about is the wild overspending of the Puerto Rican government.
00:44:29.000Things got really bad in 2015 when Puerto Rico defaulted on its monthly debt for the first time.
00:44:33.000In 2017, Puerto Rico filed for bankruptcy.
00:44:37.000Which is a vicious cycle because as the economy gets worse, more Puerto Ricans leave.
00:44:40.000The government has less tax money, so they end up trying to raise taxes in order to grab money back and pay things off or take austerity measures, which are unpopular.
00:44:49.000This is what happens when you get into an overspending cycle.
00:44:51.000And then there's the hurricane that hit the island.
00:44:54.000In 2017, killing somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 people, also wiping out power for months.
00:45:00.000There were serious allegations of mishandling of that by everybody from state to local authorities.
00:45:06.000The hurricane cost an estimated $95 billion in total damage.
00:45:09.000And then meanwhile, There are people in Rosello's administration who are being indicted for wasting taxpayer money on their friends, lavishing their friends with government contracts.
00:45:18.000And then it turns out that a couple of weeks ago, about 900 pages of leaked chats from the governor's private telegram messenger group ended up on the Puerto Rico Center for Investigative Journalism.
00:45:27.000Apparently, Rosello and 11 of his top aides and cabinet members exchanged profanity-laced, homophobic, misogynistic messages about fellow politicians.
00:45:35.000Now, there's a Trump angle to all of this, which is that many of the people who are attacking Rosello are angry at him because they felt that he was bending over backwards to cater to Trump.
00:45:59.000Because he's treating... I mean, it's like Chris Christie treating Barack Obama nicely.
00:46:03.000Except that Chris Christie didn't need to treat him nicely to get what he wanted.
00:46:06.000Well, Trump is the kind of guy who needs a little bit of flattering to get what he wants.
00:46:11.000In one message, Puerto Rico's then-chief fiscal officer, Cristian Sobrino-Vega, wrote he was salivating to shoot San Juan mayor, Carmen Yulis Cruz, a frequent critic of the governor and of President Trump.
00:46:21.000The governor responded, you'd be doing me a grand favor.
00:46:23.000Of course, that's a joke, and everybody knows that's a joke.
00:46:25.000Sobrino-Vega also made crude remarks about a Puerto Rican pop star, saying, nothing says patriarchal oppression like Ricky Martin.
00:46:31.000Ricky Martin is such a male chauvinist that he bleeps men because women don't measure up.
00:46:36.000And of course, this means brutality and terribleness.
00:46:39.000Okay, well, all of these people Seems pretty terrible at their jobs.
00:46:43.000But this is one of the consequences of a fiscal crisis.
00:46:46.000The reason this has brought irrelevance is not merely because one of the reasons that Puerto Rico is having trouble becoming a United States, right?
00:46:53.000Every year there's a proposal to incorporate Puerto Rico into the United States.
00:46:57.000One of the problems is that means the federal government would have to inherit all of that debt.
00:47:01.000But it does raise the question of what happens when this problem comes to the United States.
00:47:17.000And today, President Trump endorsed another two year budget deal that blows out the budget to the tune of a trillion dollars in deficit for the next two years.
00:47:24.000The Republican Study Committee came out, they said this is a bad deal, but Trump wants to get past the election.
00:47:29.000When you keep kicking the can down the road, you end up with unworkable alternatives.
00:47:33.000And Democrats want to raise the spending anyway, so they don't care about the national debt.
00:47:37.000They don't care about the fact that debt eventually ends where Puerto Rico ended up, in a place where you now have to take austerity measures and cut benefits to your citizens, who don't like it, and then elect governments that don't have the power to do anything because they can't borrow anymore because they're bankrupt.
00:47:52.000And then they have to take austerity measures, and then they don't like it, and then it creates enormous amounts of turmoil.
00:47:56.000Now, we can keep kicking the can down the road federally.
00:47:59.000Puerto Rico has not been able to keep kicking the can down the road, and so now they're eating their own.
00:48:04.000Again, this is a Democratic politician in Puerto Rico who's being ousted by fellow Democrats, many of whom are further to the left.
00:48:11.000And it's just going to get uglier over there.
00:48:13.000So bad news for the sitting governor of Puerto Rico.
00:48:17.000What he really should do at this point, were I him, were I he, if I were he, I would immediately release a yearbook photo of myself in blackface.
00:48:24.000Because as we know, if you're a democratic governor in blackface, then you survive any scandal.
00:50:28.000I talked at length yesterday on my radio show about the fact that there are not really a lot of great solutions for climate change.
00:50:34.000The fact is China and India have no interest in really doing serious work on climate change.
00:50:38.000If you're a third world country, You're mostly interested in making sure that your citizens aren't dying of starvation and that means the use of carbon-based fuels.
00:50:44.000There are no alternative energies that are anywhere close to as efficient as carbon-based fuels.
00:50:49.000Cap-and-trade has been an enormous failure in Europe.
00:50:52.000There's talk about carbon taxes that would just be, it wouldn't be a cap-and-trade system, it would just be a system of taxation on each ton of carbon emissions and then you do what you're going to do.
00:51:03.000But again, that Relies heavily on the development of an alternative energy source that is competitive with other countries in the world.
00:51:10.000And the real question becomes how much are people willing to pay additionally for energy in a political arena where people feel their government doesn't have their own interests at heart.
00:51:19.000In any case, it's much easier to go and just claim that nobody cares about the problem than to actually come up with some practical solutions for it.
00:51:25.000Like for example, deregulating nuclear energy.
00:51:27.000Yesterday, a group of environmental activists took a novel approach to calling for congressional action on climate change.
00:51:33.000They superglued themselves to the wall of a Capitol tunnel.
00:51:36.000Some of the protesters were draped in bright yellow police tape, others wearing placards reading, due to climate emergency, Congress is shut down until sufficient action is taken to address the crisis.
00:51:45.000A group of activists had used gorilla glue to fasten their hands to the door jams of a tunnel connecting the Capitol Hill to the House office buildings.
00:51:52.000According to a participant, about 15 other people were helping.
00:51:56.000The video was posted online by Extinction Rebellion, a group that organized the demonstration.
00:52:53.000That's definitely going to get things done.
00:52:55.000It was not immediately clear, according to the Washington Post, how the demonstrators were removed from the Capitol walls, and whether anyone was injured in the process.
00:53:03.000One protester may have had her hand ripped from the wall by an unidentified person trying to get through the doorway.
00:53:10.000Some members of the group were carrying acetone solution, which can dissolve glue.
00:53:14.000So at least they came prepared to, you know, leave without any further problems.
00:53:17.000Although the protesters attracted attention, they were less than successful in blocking the Capitol passageways, according to the Washington Post.
00:53:23.000Staff members, reporters, police officers, and lawmakers could be seen ducking under the activists' outstretched arms to make their way past them.
00:53:29.000If you respect the climate emergency, you will go around.
00:53:32.000One of the super-glued protesters can be heard saying in the video, as a steady stream of seemingly unfazed Capitol denizens passed below his arm and through the tunnel.
00:53:40.000I guess not, another protester replied.
00:54:08.000I'm not going to say it's a smart move.
00:54:09.000I'm not going to say it's going to achieve anything.
00:54:11.000In fact, I'm going to say the opposite.
00:54:12.000I'm going to say it's pretty stupid and it doesn't achieve anything and everybody's kind of annoyed and we laugh at you when people stretch your hand skin that is connected to the window that you put there yourself because you're an idiot.
00:54:39.000Well done, protesters, for proving once and for all that you really have nothing to do here except yell and scream and pretend that you have ideas.
00:54:46.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:54:51.000So honestly, I don't know whether to put this in things I hate or things I love, because this story is just phenomenal.
00:55:23.000This story is both glorious and horrifying in virtually every way.
00:55:28.000Quote, it was just supposed to have been a quick Saturday morning errand to buy picture hooks.
00:55:32.000On March 7th, 2015, Harvard Law Professor Bruce Hay, then 52, was in Tags Hardware in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near his home, when a young woman with long reddish-brown hair approached him to ask where she could find batteries.
00:55:43.000It was still very much winter, and once the woman got his attention, he saw that underneath her dark woolen coat and perfectly tied scarf, she was wearing a dress and a chic pair of boots, hardly typical weekend errand attire in the New England college town.
00:55:55.000When he directed her to another part of the store, she changed the subject.
00:55:58.000By the way, you're very attractive, he remembers her saying.
00:56:04.000If you're out at a hardware store, and a hot lady comes up to you, and she just says to you, randomly, by the way, you're very attractive, look for your wallet.
00:57:02.000Hey, a Francophile noticed the woman had a French-sounding accent and asked if she spoke the language.
00:57:06.000She told him her name was Maria Pia Schumann, that she was born in France, but her father was the American songwriter Mort Schumann, and that she was in town from Paris en route to New York.
00:57:30.000Since moving back in with his ex-wife in 2004, he says, their relationship had been mostly platonic, and the two had an understanding that if either of them wanted to see other people, they'd have to move out.
00:57:39.000By casual flings, he believed, fell under a tacit don't ask, don't tell policy.
00:57:43.000By email, Hay and Schumann arranged to have coffee that afternoon, where they bonded over losing parents too young.
00:57:49.000She was now 32, an accountant with young children.
00:57:52.000Hey told says she told him she had two toddlers she was co-parenting with an ex-wife who lived in London.
00:57:58.000File under friendship, Hey thought, because she's a lesbian.
00:58:01.000Schumann also told him about the friend she was staying with, Misha Hader, a brilliant trans woman pursuing a doctorate in physics at Harvard who was struggling with crippling depression.
00:58:09.000Hey, who also battled depression, listened with particular interest.
00:58:12.000After a couple of hours, Schumann said, I've really enjoyed this, but I have to leave town in a couple of days.
00:58:16.000I hope we can see each other before then.
00:58:18.000They went to dinner that night and again the next.
00:58:20.000At the end of the second evening, Schumann asked him to join her for breakfast the following morning.
00:58:25.000I wasn't sure what the Maria Pia thing was going to be.
00:58:27.000That's the truthful answer because one of the first things out of her mouth was that she had just divorced a woman in England.
00:58:32.000He didn't mind that a physical relationship was probably off the table.
00:58:35.000He was taking antidepressants, which often hampered his ability to enjoy sex anyway.
00:58:39.000Then, on the day Schumann told him she was leaving for New York on her way back to Europe, he says, she invited him to her room at the Taj Hotel in Boston, started kissing him, and led him to her bed.
00:58:50.000Hay drove Schumann to the airport early that evening.
00:58:52.000So again, at some point you might find this story suspicious, right?
00:59:28.000It seems odd she would express such feelings for him after a few days together, but while he dismissed her intensity as a folly of youth, there was a part of him that entertained the possibility she was serious.
00:59:38.000It had been years since he'd felt such a profound connection.
00:59:41.000So if you can sense that this story is going to go the wrong way, This is correct.
00:59:47.000A few weeks later, she texted to say she was returning to Cambridge and wanted to see him.
00:59:50.000They met the next day at the Sheraton Commander and had sex.
00:59:53.000Almost as soon as it was over, Shuman's mood shifted.
00:59:55.000She became dour than angry, telling him she couldn't abide his keeping their relationship a secret, nor what he says she referred to as his continued attachment to Zacks.
01:00:20.000Over the next four years, the law professor would be drawn into a campaign of fraud, extortion, and false accusations.
01:00:25.000At one point, Hay's family would be left suddenly homeless.
01:00:29.000At another, owing to what his lawyer has described as the weaponization of the university's Title IX machinery against Hay, he would find himself indefinitely suspended from his job, accrue over $300,000 in legal bills, with no end to litigation in sight.
01:00:43.000This is where the story goes from the weirdly pornographic to the merely politically delicious.
01:00:49.000Whether Schumann knew it when she met him, she'd found the perfect mark in Brussais, an authority on civil procedure who'd spent much of his life in the ivory tower.
01:00:57.000Though he leans left, he briefly clerked for Antonin Scalia, because Scalia always had a left-leaning clerk he could argue with.
01:01:03.000He joined the Harvard Law faculty in 1992.
01:01:07.000A close friend calls him the quintessential absent-minded professor who tends to lose things, phones, and laptops, and to miss social cues.
01:01:15.000Hay has a tight-knit circle of friends, many of whom are women, and though their relationships are non-sexual, the intensity, he tells me, has been a continual source of conflict with Zacks.
01:01:23.000Jennifer says my women friends have always had ulterior motives.
01:01:27.000My response has been that my best friends have been women for my entire life.
01:01:31.000He and Zacks first met at Harvard Law in 1987.
01:01:51.000He hadn't even ejaculated during either of their encounters, a side effect of his medication.
01:01:55.000But he understood that pregnancy was possible, if rare, without orgasm.
01:01:58.000Schumann said she was weighing whether to terminate the pregnancy, then quickly followed up by saying she'd made the decision to carry the term.
01:02:08.000He was more surprised when he learned that Schumann would be relocating to Cambridge that summer.
01:02:12.000She told him in June she had purchased a three-bedroom Mansard Victorian, now valued at $1.9 million, on a side street in the Radcliffe neighborhood less than a mile from his house, and had brought her children over from London.
01:02:23.000Maria Pia made it sound as though she had scarcely ever been to Cambridge, she says.
01:02:27.000She said she didn't know the area very well, didn't really know anybody.
01:02:30.000Schumann explained she'd purchased the apartment as an investment and as a place for Hayter, that's her graduate student trans woman friend, to live while she finished her grad work.
01:02:38.000She and Hayter, she told Hay, had been best friends since they met as physics students their first year at Imperial College in London.
01:02:45.000Later in a conversation that summer, Schumann revealed that she and Hayter were raising the children together.
01:02:51.000The unfolding revelations did little to put off Hay, who says he was determined to take full responsibility for my actions.
01:02:56.000Throughout the summer, he and Schumann got together once or twice and discussed rekindling their romance, but she told him it was contingent on him telling Zaks about the affair and the baby, which he wasn't willing to do.
01:03:06.000They hadn't been sexually involved since their encounter at the Sheridan Commander in April, but Schumann could be effusive.
01:03:12.000Okay, to make a longer story short, it turns out this baby, probably not his, but he wasn't willing to say so because he thought, hey, she's a lesbian, and it's politically incorrect to suggest maybe she's had sex with other men.
01:03:39.000Schumann had told him, That hater was weary of her physics program and wanted to get more involved in trans activism and write about trans issues.
01:03:45.000I thought maybe I could help her, calls Hay.
01:03:47.000She'd been described to me as this very exceptional person, but downtrodden, treated unfairly by family and by the world, by her body.
01:03:53.000By the time I met Misha, I had a protective feeling for her.
01:05:10.000So Hay used his publishing connections to help Hayter pursue her writing.
01:05:14.000He tried to get this person's, this man, I mean it's a biological man, this person's writing posted on the Guardian and the Huffington Post.
01:05:23.000Hay accompanied Hayter to Phoenix to consult about gender affirmation surgery in the spring.
01:05:28.000On January 14th, 2016, Hayter called Hay to tell him that Schumann had given birth to a baby boy.
01:05:33.000Hay had asked to be present for the baby's birth, but Schumann refused.
01:05:36.000Hay asked to meet the newborn, but again, Schumann refused.
01:05:39.000The woman also told Hay, because he'd failed to separate from Zacks, they listed Hayter's name, not his, as the other parents on the little boy's birth certificate.
01:05:47.000While he was in Paris, the woman's calls and texts intensified, taking on an increasingly combative tone.
01:05:53.000At one point, Hayter told Hay she was going to get euthanasia, Hey, meanwhile, Zax had become suspicious, and Zax took all of this as an enormous betrayal.
01:06:04.000Zax told Hay it was highly unlikely he got Schumann pregnant.
01:06:07.000Jennifer suggested I was ignoring the evidence because I wanted to believe the child was mine.
01:06:16.000Not only did he trust Schumann, he felt it would have been insulting for a heterosexual cisgender man to question a professed lesbian as to whether she had had sex with other men.
01:06:26.000He believed her when she said her sexual relationship with him was an exception.
01:07:19.000He didn't read the document, and he ended up signing over the deed to his house.
01:07:25.000He signed over the deed to his house, allegedly.
01:07:28.000And not only that, he then got involved in a Title IX scandal, because he was accused by these women, or by a woman and a trans woman, of sexual harassment.
01:07:42.000Okay, it turns out that when you blind yourself to truths, because you're trying to be too politically incorrect, there are some bad effects of that.
01:07:49.000Things tend to get rather hairy and awful.
01:07:54.000Bruce Hayman, Well, blinded by reality.
01:08:03.000Okay, I think we can all acknowledge at this point that if you get scammed by a lesbian and a transgender woman, into giving up your home, then you probably shouldn't be teaching law at Harvard.
01:08:20.000You probably shouldn't be teaching justice and law.
01:08:22.000You might not be like the best source for students.
01:08:25.000The summary, according to National Review, is that Hay says she began making hysterical demands, got him to sign a sheaf of papers he didn't read.
01:08:31.000He said that since she was an accountant, she knew best.
01:08:33.000And on a thin pretext, gave him a check for $3,000, which he then cashed.
01:08:37.000It turns out he had signed over his $3.5 million house to her and her trans buddy for lease at a nominal rate, the check framed as a security deposit.
01:08:45.000The woman and trans friend first moved all the stuff out of the house, charged the expenses to his credit card, which he had given them access to.
01:08:53.000His ex-wife saw a lot of this coming and had arranged to have the house put in her name only, so that made the lease invalid, but he incurred some $300,000 worth of legal bills, and then the woman who seduced him charged him with sexual abuse, and he was suspended automatically under the Title IX policy.