As the 2018 election approaches, both parties prepare to prepare for the mid-term elections, President Trump takes on the New York Times, and the Mueller blowback continues. Ben Shapiro explains why Rudy Giuliani has two jobs: exonerate his man, Michael Cohen, and try to make sure that President Trump doesn t get in trouble with the special counsel investigating him. Plus, Ben explains why Trump should have been on national TV over the weekend, and why he's not going to get much of a head start on the 2020 midterms unless he s willing to go on national television to prove his loyalty to the president. And, of course, who's going to believe Michael Cohen anyway? Who do you believe? Ben Shapiro: Do you believe him or do you think he's a pathological liar? The answer to that question is simple: who do you trust, and which one is more likely to be correct? Guests: Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former FBI Director Michael Cohen. Former FBI Director Robert Mueller. President Trump's lawyer, Michael Avenatti. Michael Cohen's attorney, Robert Klay Thompson. Chief White House Correspondent, Sean Hannity. Robert Downey Jr. and his wife, Stephanie Grgurich. Special Agent in charge of the Mueller investigation, Jillian Kilgariff. Senior White House Counselor, Sean Rowan. . Chief of the National Security Adviser, Mike McCarty. Director of the Joint Improving Relationships with the Justice Department, Sean Preet Bharara Senior Counselor and Chief Strategist, John Dowell, James McCarty, and Chief of Staff, Patrick Downey, John Avray, and others, and others And so on and so on, and so much more! Thanks to Ben Shapiro, Ben Shapiro and Ben Shapiro. The Weekly Standard The Daily Beast, The Daily Caller, The Hill, and The Daily Wire, The Weekly Beast, and Rachel Maddow the Weekly Standard, The Hollywood Reporter, The Huffington Post, The Wrap, The New York Post, and ABC News, The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press, and other media, The Washington Post, the Hollywood Reporter and The New Yorker, and Rolling Stone, among many other publications, among others. , and The Hill and The Hollywood Insider, and many others! and many other media outlets, for their coverage of the scandal.
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00:01:35.000It was a busy weekend, not only for me, but for Rudolph J. Giuliani.
00:01:39.000I don't actually know what his middle initial is.
00:01:41.000But in any case, Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York, he is now President Trump's personal attorney.
00:01:46.000And he was on national television over the weekend and on Monday morning talking about the president of the United States and Michael Cohen.
00:01:52.000Now, as you recall, when last we left our compelling narrative, Michael Cohen, the president's other former personal attorney, he had been arrested, well, not really arrested, but raided by the FBI.
00:03:15.000And so this has been true since the beginning of his administration.
00:03:18.000People in his administration say, and have said, that when they want to talk to President Trump, what they try to do is go on national TV, on a show they know he is watching, and then talk to him that way, because he likes to watch the telly.
00:03:30.000So, Rudy Giuliani was on the telly, and he was talking about Michael Cohen.
00:03:34.000And what he had to say about Michael Cohen, it may be good, it may be entertaining for President Trump, but it's not great for public relations.
00:03:40.000If you're trying to make sure that your client looks innocent, you probably shouldn't say stuff like this.
00:03:44.000Turned out to have a close friend betray him.
00:03:50.000Like Iago betrayed Othello, and Brutus put the last knife into Caesar.
00:03:55.000Okay, so he's going with the full Shakespeare references right there.
00:03:58.000Iago betraying Othello, and Brutus taking the last knife to Caesar.
00:04:01.000There are a couple of problems with this particular analogy.
00:04:04.000One, Iago succeeded in destroying Othello, and also Brutus succeeded in killing Caesar.
00:04:09.000So if he's likening Iago and Brutus to Michael Cone, what he's basically saying is Michael Cone's gonna take down the President of the United States.
00:05:09.000Okay, so, the goalposts are now moving, and it's very difficult to see this playing well in the public sphere.
00:05:18.000Because when you've got your personal lawyer going out there, and the goalposts move from, he didn't collude, to, even if he did collude, it's not a crime, people start to think, well, did he?
00:05:36.000There are statutes about campaign finance violations.
00:05:39.000There are all sorts of statutes that could be implicated if the President of the United States was, in fact, colluding with the Russians in order to shift the results of the 2016 election.
00:05:46.000There are actual statutes that are on point, but they don't talk about collusion.
00:05:49.000They talk about a variety of other specific crimes.
00:05:52.000Collusion is a blanket umbrella term that is supposed to cover a wide variety of activities.
00:05:57.000So when Giuliani says collusion itself isn't a crime,
00:06:04.000OK, is it something where the American people turn on the president of the United States and say, you are guilty of trying to interfere with the election by working with the Russians to do so?
00:06:14.000Doesn't matter whether there's a criminal trial.
00:06:15.000The real question is whether the American people decide that they are so sick of all of this that they oust Trump in 2020 or they oust Republicans in 2018 and then impeachment takes place.
00:06:25.000So when Giuliani says this sort of stuff, it's just not useful.
00:06:27.000Now, I'm somebody who doesn't believe the president of the United States colluded with the Russians.
00:06:32.000I don't see any evidence so far that the President of the United States was working with the Russians, and they were coordinating their activities, and that these coordinated activities, exchanges of information, played any part in the actual election cycle itself.
00:06:44.000So again, I don't see why Rudy Giuliani is moving on this point, but unfortunately, he's not the only person in Trump's camp who's saying this sort of thing.
00:06:50.000Chris Christie this morning came out and said exactly the same thing.
00:06:52.000He was on national TV, and Christie said the same thing.
00:06:54.000He said, I'm not sure collusion is a crime.
00:06:59.000If the goalpost, like just as a lawyer, okay, putting on my lawyer hat,
00:07:03.000If I'm arguing for my client, my first argument for my client is my client is innocent.
00:07:07.000And then if it turns out that my client is guilty of something, my second line of defense is, even if my client is guilty of that, it's not a real crime.
00:07:14.000But I don't preemptively go to my second defense.
00:07:16.000I don't preemptively go to, well, I'm not sure collusion is a crime, because this is all a public relations battle.
00:07:21.000And this is what has bogged down the Trump administration, not the actual criminal proceedings.
00:07:26.000The actual criminal proceedings take time.
00:07:33.000But that's not really what's bogged down the administration.
00:07:35.000What's bogged down the administration is this perception that President Trump is guilty of something.
00:07:41.000Now, most Americans don't actually believe that President Trump is guilty of something, which is why it's weird that Rudy Giuliani is out there saying that collusion is not a crime.
00:07:49.000It's just, it's a huge unforced error by Rudy Giuliani.
00:07:54.000And it doesn't help when the president is tweeting about Robert Mueller.
00:07:56.000So President Trump continues to tweet about Mueller, and here is what he tweeted over the weekend.
00:09:13.000I think there's some actual real good questions to be asked about the Mueller investigation and why they've not, for example, looked into Podesta, or if they have, how much they have, and if they've looked into the dossier, how much they have done that.
00:09:23.000But remember, every Republican, including Newt Gingrich, was out there saying that Mueller was honest, an honest man, and now Trump is out there slamming Mueller.
00:09:30.000The question is, does this make Trump look more innocent or does it make him look more guilty?
00:09:33.000Now, people who already believe he's innocent are going to say it makes him look more innocent because he's an outraged man.
00:09:38.000But for the vast, moderate, undecided in the middle,
00:09:41.000Do you really think that they look at tweets like this and Rudy Giuliani's statement and say, this sounds like a guy who's being wrongly maligned?
00:09:48.000Or do they look at that stuff and say, well, maybe there's something to this?
00:09:50.000Again, I'm saying this as someone who believes there is not something to this, or at least the evidence has not been shown that there is something to this yet.
00:09:58.000I'm not sure I understand the public relations strategy on all of this.
00:10:02.000And the Republicans are getting involved in this too.
00:10:03.000It's not just Trump and the Trump administration.
00:10:06.000Devin Nunes, who's the House Committee Chairman for Intelligence, he came forward and he says that the DOJ and the FBI have been stalling turning over their documents because they hope the GOP will lose the midterms and then they won't have to turn over those documents.
00:10:19.000So he's going after the DOJ and the FBI.
00:10:37.000And that is if the president wants to declassify this stuff, he can declassify this stuff now.
00:10:40.000If it is true, there's this awful conspiracy going on inside the DOJ, inside the FBI.
00:10:46.000And the president of the United States has an obligation, an obligation to declassify all of this material so we can see what is actually going on here.
00:10:54.000It's not enough to sit there and complain about Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Sessions and the head of the FBI.
00:11:17.000The president doesn't have to take it.
00:11:19.000He's obviously done well not taking my advice before.
00:11:21.000But I do think that it would behoove him to recognize that
00:11:25.000The base that brought him here is not going to be enough to win re-election or necessarily to do well in the 2018 midterm elections.
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00:13:01.000The Mueller investigation is going to do what the Mueller investigation is going to do.
00:13:04.000The president is not going to fire Robert Mueller.
00:13:06.000The Republicans are not going to impeach Rod Rosenstein.
00:13:08.000It's a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing.
00:13:10.000And in the end, I don't think that Mueller is going to come up with anything anyway.
00:13:14.000What I really think is going on here, you know, there are a lot of people who say, OK, so then why is Trump so fussy about this?
00:13:18.000If there's nothing happening, why is Trump so upset?
00:13:20.000Well, you'd be upset too if somebody suggested that your election victory was not real and that it had been achieved by colluding with a foreign power.
00:13:27.000But all of that said, the president really is not doing himself any service with his great frustration.
00:13:33.000A lot of the president's mistakes have been made out of a sense of frustration, and there's no reason he should feel frustrated right now.
00:13:40.000He's doing fine in the approval ratings.
00:13:42.000All he ought to be doing is focusing on what is the program for 2018 and beyond, because the polls right now are not looking good for the Republicans in 2018.
00:13:49.000So how's he gonna turn this thing around with just a few months to go here?
00:13:53.000Right now, there were two polls last week that came out D plus 12 in the generic congressional ballot.
00:13:58.000The president has to assert some leadership on all of this.
00:14:01.000It was funny, over the weekend, there was a story about Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, who are apparently in Europe, partying at a Jay-Z-Beyonce concert, dancing at a Jay-Z-Beyonce concert, and Jake Tapper of CNN got in all sorts of hot water with the left wing, because he suggested that while Obama and Spouse are partying, the Democrats are at low ebb, the lowest ebb they've been since the 1920s, which is true.
00:14:28.000It's time for you to focus on how exactly you achieve victory in 2018 midterms.
00:14:32.000Because if you lose the House and you lose the Senate, not only is nothing going to get done in 2018 to 2020, there will be nothing but endless investigations against you.
00:14:40.000Nothing but endless investigations against Republicans, against Trump himself, against other members of the administration.
00:14:46.000I mean, you want to ensure that you lose in 2020.
00:14:48.000An easy way to do that is by not doing enough to win in 2018.
00:14:50.0002018 is going to have a major impact on 2020.
00:14:52.000Right now, the Republicans can play rearguard for President Trump.
00:14:55.000The Republicans can stop President Trump from doing some of the things that would damage his own administration.
00:15:00.000The Republicans in the House can sort of act as a back shield for the President.
00:15:05.000But they can't act as a deflector shield for the President if they're in the minority.
00:15:09.000Well, with all of that said, let's talk about how the president of the United States is going to attempt to affect the midterms.
00:15:35.000President Trump in 2016, his campaign, if it was won on any two issues, it was you hate the media and the Democrats are too soft on immigration.
00:15:41.000Those were his two big issues during the campaign.
00:15:43.000Okay, so, President Trump tweets out on Sunday about the government shutdown, about a government shutdown.
00:16:03.000And then he continues along these lines, he says accurately, 90% of media coverage of my administration is negative despite the tremendously positive results we are achieving.
00:16:10.000It is no surprise that confidence in the media is at an all-time low.
00:16:13.000I will not allow our great country to be sold out by anti-Trump haters in the media, in the dying newspaper industry.
00:16:19.000No matter how much they try to distract and cover it up, our country is making great progress under my leadership and I will never stop fighting for the American people.
00:16:26.000As an example, the failing New York Times,
00:16:29.000Now, I don't think this is a terrible strategy.
00:17:23.000Look at the numbers among independents.
00:17:25.000So yes, Republicans have shifted dramatically in the direction of the White House as opposed to the media, but look at the numbers on independents.
00:17:42.000A year later, 24% said they trust President Trump, so that's a decrease of 2%.
00:17:48.00032% said they trusted the media, which is a decrease of 3%.
00:17:52.000And 44% said they didn't know who to trust.
00:17:55.000Which means that while the media say you ought to trust us, and Trump says you ought to disregard the media, most people are saying, I don't trust either of you folks.
00:18:01.000Or at least the vast majority of people in the middle.
00:18:05.000They say, I don't really trust any of you people.
00:18:07.000And even among Democrats, you're seeing that.
00:18:09.000Even among Democrats, you're seeing that fewer people trust the media now than they do a year ago.
00:18:13.000Only 7% of Democrats say they trust President Trump more than they trust the media.
00:18:17.00063% say they trust the media more than they trust Trump.
00:18:20.000But that number was 66% last year, and 29% say that they don't know who to trust, which means that more people believe that the media are simply not credible, which demonstrates the poor job that the media have done in staving off President Trump's correct critique of the media, that they are wildly biased against him.
00:18:37.000Now, President Trump tweets out that all of these outlets are biased against him and he calls them the enemy of the people.
00:18:42.000And all of this drove Pinch Sulzberger's son, the new Sulzberger who runs the New York Times, to put out a statement about his meeting with the president.
00:18:52.000So, according to the New York Times, President Donald Trump and the publisher of the New York Times, A.G.
00:18:56.000Sulzberger, engaged in a fierce public clash Sunday over Trump's threats against journalism after Sulzberger said the president misrepresented a private meeting and Trump accused the Times and other papers of putting lives at risk
00:19:17.000And then Silsburger put out a statement.
00:19:18.000He said he had accepted Trump's invitation for the July 20th meeting, mainly to raise his concerns about the president's deeply troubling anti-press rhetoric.
00:19:25.000He said, I told the president directly, I thought his language was not just divisive, but increasingly dangerous, is what Silsburger said.
00:19:31.000I told him that although the phrase fake news is untrue and harmful, I'm far more concerned about his labeling journalists the enemy of the people.
00:19:37.000I warned that this inflammatory language is contributing to a rise in threats against journalists and will lead to violence.
00:19:42.000Now, I said months and months and months ago, if the media actually want to regain credibility, the best way to do this is to turn down the rhetoric to two and turn up the fact-checking to ten.
00:19:51.000Instead, the media have turned up the rhetoric all the way to eleven, and they've turned the fact-checking down to about four.
00:19:55.000They're spending most of their time showing that they enjoy being in this sort of Rock'em Sock'em Robots mode with the President of the United States.
00:21:53.000There is no wall, and Coulter pretty much every day tweets out that we are now in day whatever it is, 400 of the presidency, and not one foot of wall has been built by the president of the United States.
00:22:11.000I'd be willing to shut down government if the Democrats do not give us the votes for border security, which includes the wall, must get rid of lottery, catch and release, etc., and finally go to system of immigration based on merit.
00:22:21.000We need great people coming into our country.
00:23:03.000What he really should be saying is, listen, I know the kind of bill I want to sign and Democrats, it's their choice whether to shut it down or not.
00:23:09.000This is what Obama did and did successfully.
00:23:11.000Now, Obama, of course, had the help of that compliant media doing his work for him, but
00:23:16.000The first person to say shutdown is usually the person who is blamed for the shutdown, so that is not particularly a great political tactic.
00:23:22.000But, is it smart for the president to stand on this particular soapbox?
00:23:26.000Yeah, I do think that it's smart for him to stand on this particular soapbox.
00:23:30.000Now, the problem is he's not going to get what he wants, because the Republicans are not going to pass a bill along these lines, and the Democrats are not going to pass a bill along these lines.
00:23:36.000So then the question becomes, if the president is going to declare a game of chicken, is he actually going to put a brick on the accelerator?
00:23:43.000Now, one of the things that you do in politics, do a tiny bit of game theory.
00:23:48.000There's a game in game theory called chicken.
00:23:52.000Now, the game of chicken, you'll recall from things like Rebel Without a Cause, you see it in movies sometimes, two people basically drive cars directly at each other, and the question is, who's going to turn the wheel first?
00:24:02.000Whoever turns the wheel first is considered the chicken and loses the game.
00:24:05.000Well, the way that you win that game, if you are that interested in winning, is you take a brick, you put it on the accelerator, and then you move over into the passenger seat.
00:24:13.000Because you've now demonstrated to the other guy, I am not turning no matter what.
00:24:16.000No matter what you do, I've pre-committed.
00:24:41.000They're saying, we're not going to be bullied.
00:24:42.000So here's Maxine Waters, anti-Maxine, as they call her, saying that she's not going to be bullied into giving the president the funding necessary in order to protect our border.
00:24:56.000American citizens are not going to pay for this wall.
00:24:59.000He's not going to shut down the government.
00:25:01.000And we're not going to be intimidated by his bluffing and his bullying.
00:25:05.000OK, I do appreciate that Anne T. Maxine, a woman who suggested that people be confronted in gas station parking lots.
00:25:11.000She's calling President Trump a bully, so that's great.
00:25:13.000But she's not wrong that if you're going to play this game of cards, if you're going to play chicken, you've got to pre-commit.
00:25:18.000So if the president wants to shut down the government, or rather, if he wants to get what he wants in this bill, then he needs to say, here's what I will veto.
00:25:24.000And he needs to make clear what he will veto.
00:25:26.000Now, it's pretty clear the Republicans don't believe him.
00:25:29.000So Senator Ron Johnson, who was elected as part of the Tea Party, he says, listen, all of this is not particularly helpful, this shutdown threat stuff.
00:25:36.000I certainly don't like playing shutdown politics.
00:25:39.000And how damaging would that be for Republicans ahead of the November races?
00:25:44.000I don't think it'd be helpful, so let's try and avoid it.
00:25:46.000Okay, so Republicans in Congress are very much afraid of the possibility of a shutdown, but I'm not sure why they should be.
00:25:51.000And I said this with regard to the last threat by President Trump of a shutdown.
00:25:55.000I don't know that they should be that scared because, in essence, it's the people who are seen as obstructing the government's workings who are going to be blamed for any sort of government shutdown.
00:26:04.000And Republicans will get out to the polls for this sort of stuff.
00:26:06.000Republicans will get out to the polls.
00:26:08.000I, you know, there was a lot of talk after Ted Cruz was, quote unquote, responsible for a government shutdown back in 2013.
00:27:55.000It's not easy to scale a nationalized healthcare system to a system just on an effectiveness level.
00:28:00.000Forget about the fact that it is an invasion of people's rights and that it's not my job to pay for your healthcare because your healthcare is yours.
00:28:07.000It's my job to pay for my health care, my kids' health care, my family's health care.
00:28:10.000It's my job to help out with people who I want to help out with regard to charity.
00:28:14.000But it is not my job to pay for your health care because if I'm paying for your health care, that creates a perverse incentive system where you can go make a bunch of decisions that are not great for your health, knowing somebody else is going to pick up the tab and access health services at a faster pace.
00:28:27.000All of that said, the effectiveness of these healthcare systems abroad, there are a bunch of different types of systems.
00:28:32.000Everybody sort of thinks that there are two systems.
00:28:33.000There's the free market system, and then there's the nationalized system.
00:28:43.000And the Nordic system works pretty well too.
00:28:46.000There are differences between how they work.
00:28:48.000They both work, but part of the reason they both work is because they had functioning health care systems before they actually had a nationalized health care system in Sweden, for example, or in Norway.
00:28:57.000And the reason for that is, again, because lifestyle differences and cultural differences in these places, these are not the same places as the United States.
00:29:04.000You have to take these things into account.
00:29:05.000You can't just take something that works in Denmark and assume it's going to work in the United States.
00:30:01.000residents would be covered with no co-pays and deductibles for medical services.
00:30:05.000The insurance industry would be relegated to a minor role.
00:30:08.000Charles Blauhaus is the study's author.
00:30:09.000He was a senior economic advisor to former President Bush and a public trustee of Social Security and Medicare during the Obama administration.
00:33:06.000Bernie Sanders' staff did find an error in the initial version of the Mercatus report, which counted a long-term care program that was in the 2016 proposal but not the current one, which means it will merely cost $29.6 trillion as opposed to $32.6 trillion.
00:34:07.000You have to deal with Medicare and Medicaid.
00:34:10.000Many doctors have stopped working with the government because they don't want to deal with all the regulations and all the paperwork.
00:34:15.000The New York Times has a piece out just a couple of weeks ago saying that it only takes a glance at a hospital bill or at the myriad choices you may have for health care coverage to get a sense of the bewildering complexity of health care financing in the United States.
00:34:26.000The complexity doesn't just exact a cognitive cost, it comes with administrative costs.
00:34:32.000In 1999, the New England Journal of Medicine, which is the premier journal of medicine in the United States, they estimated that about 30% of all American healthcare expenditures were the result of administration.
00:34:41.000In other words, dealing with insurance companies, working with the government, trying to deal with regulation, all that stuff is expensive.
00:34:51.000There are ways to cut down on that, but that means deregulation, which is precisely the opposite of what the left actually wants to do.
00:34:57.000It also turns out, by the way, that in nationalized healthcare systems, there's a lot of paperwork as well.
00:35:01.000This idea that it solves everything to be nationalized is just not true either.
00:35:06.000So this is what's so ridiculous about this.
00:35:08.000The Democrats come forward with their proposals for 2018.
00:35:10.000This is where Trump really should be hitting them.
00:35:12.000What Trump should be saying is, you can't allow these people to be in charge because if you put these people in charge, it's going to be a disaster.
00:35:49.000Okay, you'll spend more money on rent.
00:35:52.000Because if I just give you money back, because you spent a lot on rent, what do you think that your landlord is going to do?
00:35:56.000He's going to raise your rent, because there's now increased demand in the housing market.
00:36:01.000There are people who want to get into the housing market and spend more in the housing market, and they're going to offer the landlord more.
00:36:06.000You're just going to take that money, and you're now going to spend it on the rent.
00:36:09.000Democrats don't understand basic economics, so they make proposals that sound like free money, but actually are just inflating the cost of the actual product itself.
00:36:28.000So, the Democratic challenger in Virginia's 5th congressional district, Leslie Cockburn, I'm not making that name up, called out her opponent, GOP nominee Denver Riggleman, again, not making the name up, for his love of Bigfoot erotica.
00:37:11.000Her evidence included a drawing of a naked Bigfoot with a large and long censored bar over the presumptive location of Bigfoot's privates that Riggleman had posted on Instagram.
00:37:20.000And she also posted a second image with Riggleman's face pasted on top of another naked but censored Sasquatch.
00:37:28.000Rigelman just started his campaign after being named to replace Representative Thomas Garrett on the ballot in a red-leaning district in June.
00:37:34.000Apparently, he's a craft distillery owner and former Air Force intelligence officer.
00:37:39.000He's facing Cockburn, who's a journalist, author, and first-time candidate, trying to capitalize on opposition to President Trump in Charlottesville and other liberal enclaves.
00:37:54.000There's no actual such thing as Bigfoot erotica.
00:37:56.000It's a bunch of people who are mocking the fact that there should, like, the idea of it is so insane.
00:38:01.000But we now live in such a literalistic universe that somebody puts up a joke about Bigfoot erotica and their political opponent decides that it is absolutely necessary and worthwhile to turn this into a campaign issue whether, in fact, their opponent is checking out the Ding Dong
00:38:15.000Of a creature that does not exist but wanders around in the forest.
00:38:28.000But when Democrats are not worried about fake stories about Bigfoot erotica,
00:38:33.000They're also worried about renaming the city of Austin.
00:38:36.000So according to the Austin Statesman, known as both the father of Texas and the namesake of the state's capital, Stephen F. Austin carved out the early outlines of Texas among his many accomplishments.
00:38:45.000He also opposed an attempt by Mexico to ban slavery in the province of Tejas and said if slaves were freed, they would turn into vagabonds, a nuisance, and a menace.
00:38:51.000For that reason, the city of Austin's equity office suggested renaming the city in a report about existing Confederate monuments that was published this week.
00:38:59.000Also on the list of locales to possibly be renamed, Pease Park, the Boulding Creek neighborhood, Barton Springs, and 10 streets named for William Barton, the Daniel Boone of Texas, who was a slave owner.
00:39:08.000So now we are in the process of renaming all sorts of things, including the city of Austin itself, because Samuel Austin, who helped found the city, was a slave owner.
00:39:53.000I understand people being uncomfortable, particularly black folks being uncomfortable with the fact that some of these figures were being paid tribute to as people who are proposing slavery.
00:40:02.000I do think there is a difference in kind, by the way, between Samuel Austin and Jefferson Davis.
00:40:05.000I think that Jefferson Davis is mostly famous for having defended slavery.
00:40:09.000As the president of the Confederacy, I don't think the same is true of Samuel Austin, who's mostly famous for having started American settlement in Texas, right?
00:40:16.000What we pay attention to with regard to naming things is generally the thing that the person is most famous for.
00:40:21.000But it does demonstrate the left's full-scale desire to destroy history and whitewash history.
00:40:26.000Why is it possible that you can't just explain that people did bad things in the past and some people who may have been bad had an impact on the nation's history?
00:40:34.000I don't understand why any of this is supremely controversial or difficult.
00:40:38.000Teaching history is all about teaching nuance, but we now live in a world where every nuance has to be removed forcibly.
00:40:44.000And by the way, all the people who are busily getting rid of the name Austin in Austin, Texas, in a hundred years, when their names are on street signs, all of them will be cast out too, because virtually all of these people are going to be pro-abortion, pro-uh...
00:40:58.000Okay, let's do a couple of things that I like and then we'll do a couple of things that I hate.
00:42:24.000So you can check out some of these cuts.
00:42:26.000He's got a couple of cuts on YouTube that you can check out.
00:42:28.000Just search David Shapiro piano and check it out.
00:42:32.000And we'll have to have my dad on the Sunday special one time, because I think that'd be a lot of fun.
00:42:36.000And I'll interview him about all this stuff.
00:42:38.000My dad was playing clubs when he was like 12, 13 years old.
00:42:41.000He would go into the clubs and play jazz piano at these clubs.
00:42:44.000So when I say that I grew up with a bit of a musical background, that's because my dad was that guy.
00:42:49.000Okay, time for, let's do another thing that I like.
00:42:51.000So, I will admit when people on the left do something funny.
00:42:54.000People on the left have no sense of humor about people on the right.
00:42:56.000They say that nobody on the right has any sense of humor, we're all a bunch of fuddy-duddies, and when we make a joke, it's not really a joke because we're mean and we're cruel.
00:43:02.000Sometimes the left does something funny.
00:43:04.000I will acknowledge that this is actually pretty funny.
00:43:05.000So, the other day, some schmuck went down to Hollywood Boulevard,
00:43:30.000Donald Trump is not the only conservative who has a star on those sidewalks.
00:43:32.000I mean, Ronald Reagan obviously has one.
00:43:34.000But I have a friend, Larry Elder has one as well.
00:43:37.000In any case, I will admit that this was funny.
00:43:39.000So a couple of lefties went down to the star and they guarded the star dressed up as Russian soldiers in like the full-on gear with the Russian flag, which is kind of funny.
00:44:46.000I'm sure taxpayers in Britain are super thrilled that this is what they spend time on.
00:44:50.000Here is the BBC reporting on taking a couple of kids, one who's a boy and one who's a girl, and switching their clothing, and then watching as adults treat them differently.
00:44:58.000Right, because adults are not stupid enough to believe that boys and girls are the same.
00:47:17.000But it is important to recognize that men and women are not the same.
00:47:21.000And trying to undermine this by confusing a child is the stupidest thing I've ever seen.
00:47:26.000I'm sure it makes you feel better about yourself to believe that you have this much control over the world, but you actually don't.
00:47:31.000It turns out that men and women are very different in a variety of ways that extend beyond genitals.
00:47:37.000And the fact that the left continues to propose this anti-scientific nonsense that boys and girls are completely the same and that if we just retrained women to be more interested in engineering that suddenly the gap would disappear.