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00:01:42.000So, we're in that time of year, when we have an awards show every other week.
00:01:46.000And no one's actually watching these awards shows.
00:01:48.000So the ratings last night at the Grammys stunk, according to Deadline Hollywood.
00:01:52.000Back in New York City, for the first time since George W. Bush's first term and drenched in the politics of the Donald Trump era, last night's Grammy Awards was rockin' with multiple wins for very non-political Bruno Mars and a very, very political Kendrick Lamar.
00:02:03.000It was a three and a half hour long CBS show.
00:02:06.000Okay, guys, if it's longer than it would take to read the Bible twice,
00:02:19.000Because it turns out that watching a bunch of celebrities reward each other and pat each other on the back and ruffle each other's hair and talk about how brave they are and how wonderful they are
00:02:28.000Is super duper irritating for everyone involved.
00:02:32.000With a 12.721 in metered market ratings, the Recording Academy's Big Hootenanny was also way down from the early numbers for the February 13th, 2017 59th annual show.
00:02:40.000So that's a 20% decline from last year to this year.
00:03:26.000Everyone who thinks they've done so is just at a rave and they got super high and then passed out.
00:03:30.000No one has ever listened to one of these songs all the way through.
00:03:32.000The only one of these artists who anyone could listen to for any substantial period of time is Bruno Mars, which is why he won awards, right?
00:03:38.000The only reason that he won is because he's the only person anyone has ever listened to a complete song from.
00:03:44.000So, they have these awards last night, and they decide that it is deeply imperative that we know what they think on politics.
00:03:50.000Now, this is just about as irritating as when—there are a lot of people who are big fans of pop music, and they get very irritated when I deconstruct the culture.
00:03:57.000Like, Mike.com did a full piece on how I didn't understand the lyrics to Cardi B's song that we analyzed last week.
00:06:56.000Hillary Clinton chose to shield a top advisor accused of harassment in 2008.
00:07:01.000Quote, a senior advisor to Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, who was accused of repeatedly sexually harassing a young subordinate, was kept on the campaign at Mrs. Clinton's request, according to four people familiar with what took place.
00:07:12.000Wait, you mean that a woman who is so brave, so stunning, who's broken every glass ceiling except the last one left, that that woman left a guy on her campaign who was sexually harassing to help?
00:07:24.000She would never do anything like that.
00:07:25.000She would never stay married to such a person.
00:07:27.000She would never defend such a person and threaten his accuser.
00:07:30.000She would never do something like that.
00:08:19.000He sent the candidate scripture readings every morning for months during that campaign.
00:08:22.000He was hired five years later to lead an independent group that supported Mrs. Clinton's 2016 candidacy, Correct the Record, which was created by David Brock.
00:08:30.000Nothing says faith advisor, by the way, like working with David Brock, one of the scuzziest people in the history of mankind.
00:08:36.000He was fired after several months for workplace issues, including allegations he harassed a young female aide, according to three people close to the Correct the Record management.
00:08:44.000Hillary Clinton had no statement on this.
00:08:47.000A spokesman for Mrs. Clinton provided a statement, said, Yeah, except for how the guy remained on the campaign and the woman was apparently banished off to anti-feminist land.
00:08:54.000But don't worry, Hillary got straight from fire and fury at the Grammys because she'll never go away.
00:09:23.000And that allegation was essentially that Nikki Haley was having an affair with Trump, which is completely unsubstantiated.
00:09:29.000And Nikki Haley tweeted, And everybody on the left went nuts.
00:09:31.000How dare Nikki Haley sound off about this?
00:09:32.000So, let me just make something clear to all you folks on the left with regard to the Grammys.
00:09:46.000If Nikki Haley sounds off about how a sexist book smears her as having an affair with her boss without any evidence, and then you attack her, you're not a feminist.
00:11:33.000I mean, it's everything from Architectural Digest and National Geographic to ESPN the Magazine and Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, Time.
00:11:40.000All of the top magazines are available here and they're all great.
00:12:55.000But beyond that, put aside the artistry of it, that doesn't even make any sense.
00:12:59.000Blessed are the bleephole countries because they gave us America?
00:13:03.000No, people left because they were terrible.
00:13:06.000What you'd really want to say is, wouldn't you want those countries not to be bad?
00:13:10.000That's like saying, blessed is the abusive Hoban that gave us Beethoven.
00:13:14.000Couldn't you just be thankful for Beethoven and not the fact that his father used to wake him up in the middle of the night and smack him on the knuckles every time he made a mistake while he was practicing?
00:15:48.000So it turns out that when you alienate half the country, and when you shout about how stupid they are, and when the entire evening is just about how much you hate the President of the United States, no one wants to watch, which is why the ratings are down.
00:17:09.000The idea that everybody in the audience is all for women, the number of men who have abused women in that audience, it makes the Oscars blush.
00:17:18.000Here's Janelle Monáe talking about Time's Up, and every headline last night was, powerful message about the Me Too movement, powerful message about Time's Up, powerful, powerful message.
00:17:28.000I'm in favor of the MeToo movement, so long as the MeToo movement is about not abusing women.
00:17:34.000I was about not abusing women long before any of these other people were about not abusing women, presumably, because I've been talking about it my entire career.
00:17:41.000But not a single name was named last night.
00:17:43.000Not a single person was called out last night.
00:18:25.000Let's talk about men who degrade women.
00:18:27.000And women who degrade women, by the way.
00:18:28.000Women can also degrade women, it turns out.
00:18:30.000Let's talk about the fact that Me Too and Time's Up were supposedly not just about abusive women.
00:18:34.000They were also about female dignity, right?
00:18:36.000They're supposed to be about men not treating women like sexual objects, and women treating themselves as free creatures capable of making rational decisions, right?
00:18:44.000It's all about people's autonomy, and it's all about people treating themselves with the dignity necessary in order to lead a good life, and men treating women with the dignity that they deserve.
00:18:53.000All right, that's what Time's Up and Me Too are supposed to be about.
00:18:55.000So Keisha, whose stage name is spelled with a dollar sign, which I don't really understand.
00:19:02.000It was their typo on her birth certificate.
00:19:03.000In any case, Keisha sang at the Grammys with a bunch of other women.
00:19:06.000And again, this one got a lot of play because it's all about respect, don't you see?
00:19:11.000It's all about dignity because nothing says dignity quite like the top of this woman next to her.
00:21:23.000Should women, do women deserve dignity?
00:21:26.000Yes, but there is such a thing as degrading yourself.
00:21:29.000And when you degrade yourself, and when you degrade women by extension, it's not good.
00:21:32.000If a man made a video that looked like this, and Kesha were not a famous person, you'd be talking about how the man who directed this video degraded women.
00:21:39.000That's what you'd be talking about last night.
00:21:41.000Last night on the Grammys, Rihanna did a performance, and it was—what's the name of the guy?
00:21:52.000So DJ Khaled is there, and he walks out and he starts rapping, and then Rihanna appears from backstage and starts pelvic thrusting for like five minutes.
00:22:00.000Okay, if you don't believe that that's a male fantasy, then you're out of your mind.
00:22:05.000Some guy, is there some fat, ugly guy, is there, talking about, oh, women, rapping about women, and then out comes a beautiful woman and starts pelvic thrusting?
00:22:13.000Yes, don't talk to me about female dignity.
00:22:15.000When you are out there trying to, there are so many dignified women, okay?
00:22:20.000There are so many women who are striving for dignity.
00:22:22.000If you think this is what female dignity looks like, you don't know a woman, and you have no respect for women.
00:22:26.000And yes, I'm talking about women who think this is what female dignity looks like.
00:22:29.000Because if Me Too is about anything, it's supposed to be about more than we don't deserve to be raped, we don't deserve to be sexually assaulted or harassed.
00:22:35.000It's also about we deserve to be treated as dignity, as fully fleshed human beings, as full human beings.
00:22:42.000Not just as objects of sex, bearing our all for the pleasure of men.
00:22:46.000Because let's face it, who do you think is watching Kesha videos?
00:22:49.000Do you think that it's all a bunch of women?
00:22:50.000Empowered women watching Kesha videos?
00:22:52.000Or do you think that when she's singing about it being a dirty free-for-all, it's a bunch of guys in their basements jacking off?
00:23:00.000Okay, so we'll get to more on feminism in just a second.
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00:25:01.000First of all, I don't know which rights women are fighting for that they don't already have.
00:25:04.000Women literally have every right that men have, and a couple of additionals, like you're able to go to a doctor and have your baby killed in six months.
00:25:41.000Second wave feminism said marriage is bad, marriage is stupid, and if you're engaged in marriage, sort of Betty Friedan feminism, then you're engaged in a kitchen holocaust, is some of the language that was actually being used at the time.
00:25:51.000Then there was third wave feminism that said that women and men are essentially the same, right?
00:25:55.000There's no difference between women and men.
00:25:57.000Okay, so if you just said, are men and women to be treated equally?
00:27:41.000So they take these generic terms that originally have a meaning that's non-generic, and then they fill them with another meaning, and then they're shocked when you say, I'm not a feminist.
00:27:49.000So by the original definition, am I a feminist?
00:28:36.000Now, that wasn't the only kind of landmine Trump stepped on over the weekend.
00:28:40.000So over the weekend, he got in a fight with Jay-Z, which is just what America needs, I think, is this fight between Jay-Z and the President of the United States.
00:28:47.000Jay-Z, who is, by virtually all accounts, it's amazing to me that Jay-Z is being held up as some sort of halcyon of decency.
00:28:56.000Not only started off as a drug dealer, but Jay-Z, in the very recent past, was in serious trouble because he was cheating on Beyonce, right?
00:29:04.000That was the allegation, anyway, was that he was cheating on Beyonce.
00:29:06.000I think it was more than an allegation, considering that Solange was basically beating the crap out of him in elevator, if I remember this correctly.
00:29:14.000He got his career started by dealing drugs, and then I believe he was nearly convicted for stabbing a guy?
00:30:24.000I ripped him after the Charlottesville protests, for example.
00:30:28.000I ripped him after the bleephole comments.
00:30:31.000I suggested that while some of that was somewhat defensible, it's really stupid, and if the Haiti comments were right, then that was actually a serious problem.
00:30:39.000I've been on the same page as Jay-Z, actually, on some of this stuff.
00:30:43.000Using Jay-Z as sort of the model for behavior.
00:30:46.000Like, who you are matters when you say this kind of stuff.
00:30:48.000So Trump, of course, fires back, and here's what he has to say about Jay-Z.
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00:34:13.000Okay, meanwhile, Trump on immigration.
00:34:15.000So, one of the things that is allowing Trump to continue to maintain, to continue to get his agenda done,
00:34:22.000It's the fact that the left have completely lost their mind on every issue.
00:34:26.000So, it's not enough for them to critique President Trump in the normal ways.
00:34:29.000They have to go full-on Hollywood hysterical.
00:34:32.000They have to do all of the nonsense that Hollywood does.
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00:37:27.000So President Trump's immigration plan is much more generous, much more generous than even Barack Obama's was.
00:37:33.000All he wanted in return was an end to chain migration after like 17 years, meaning another 4 million illegal immigrants, or 4 million not illegal, 4 million legal immigrants get into the country.
00:37:42.000He also wanted an end to the diversity visa lottery, which is a terrible program.
00:38:38.000Okay, so, if you think that the plan is to make America white again, by allowing 1.8 million non-white people to become legal American immigrants, and then another 4 million people, who are probably not white, to get into the United States, like, I'm missing how this works.
00:40:27.000But the fact is that when it comes to the strategy that was being laid out, a lot of people last week were saying, look at Trump just caving on immigration.
00:40:55.000This is one of the things that is sort of irritating about Trump.
00:40:58.000I've worked on this story for a year and then he just tweets it out.
00:41:00.000What I love about President Trump is that if you think that the man thinks strategically, he sometimes does, but then he tweets out his strategy.
00:41:10.000I have offered DACA a wonderful deal, including a doubling in the number of recipients and a 12-year pathway to citizenship for two reasons.
00:41:17.000One, because the Republicans want to fix a long-time, terrible problem.
00:41:21.000Two, to show that Democrats do not want to solve DACA, only use it.
00:41:25.000Let's see, whose logic was I suggesting that was last week?
00:41:44.000And his racism cannot be contained as he offers a deal that is significantly better than any of the deals that even Obama put on the table.
00:41:53.000Now, in breaking news, apparently—let's see if this is true.
00:41:56.000I just have to—you know, one of the nice things about doing a live show is that when news breaks, news breaks, there's a rumor going around that Andrew McCabe is about to step down at the FBI.
00:42:06.000I'm just going to check that really quickly.
00:42:25.000The idea here is that Trump has been attacking him as corrupt.
00:42:27.000Now, Andy McCabe should have stepped down from the Hillary investigation a long time ago, if you recall, in the text.
00:42:32.000The reason he's really stepping down here is because the attacks on McCabe have elevated.
00:42:35.000That's right, they should have elevated, because there were new texts that were out between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, those FBI agents who are knocking boots, and those texts suggested that Andy McCabe
00:42:47.000Could have recused himself from the Hillary investigation, didn't do it early or maybe for political reasons, and that he was involved with basically covering for Hillary.
00:42:54.000According to NBC News, he stepped down from his post effective immediately.
00:42:57.000He was reportedly set to retire in March when he's fully eligible for his pension.
00:43:00.000He'd come under increasing criticism from Republicans over alleged political bias in the FBI and investigations into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.
00:43:10.000So, the Democrats will try to turn this into Trump somehow obstructed justice here, but
00:43:16.000It's not clear to me exactly how McCabe voluntarily stepping down amounts to that.
00:43:20.000He's not being fired, he's just stepping down.
00:43:22.000But that is the latest breaking news on Andy McCabe.
00:43:25.000Now speaking of breaking news, the Republicans are supposed to vote today in the House Intelligence Committee about releasing the memo.
00:43:32.000So, as you recall, the memo was written by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, and Devin Nunes wrote this four-page memo that was supposed to summarize all of the problems with the intelligence-gathering process when it came to President Trump and the Trump-Russia surveillance campaign and all the rest.
00:43:48.000So, that memo had been classified in order for it to be declassified, as we asked Representative
00:43:57.000What's the name of the representative?
00:44:20.000Don't we have the responsibility for oversight?
00:44:22.000And the Justice Department will be able to see it, because you have the Executive Branch and you have the Legislative Branch.
00:44:27.000And as the Legislative Branch looks at it, it will send it to the Executive Branch beforehand.
00:44:31.000They have the approval whether to declassify and put it forward.
00:44:35.000So they will have the opportunity, if the committee... Do you want the President to declassify this memo?
00:44:39.000Having read this memo, I think it would be appropriate that the public has full view.
00:44:44.000So as I said, my view here is that we should declassify everything, right?
00:44:46.000Declassify this memo, the Democrats have their own memo, declassify the underlying materials so far as it doesn't compromise national security.
00:45:13.000And, of course, the media wish to play up the feeling of chaos.
00:45:15.000Democrats wish to exacerbate the feeling of chaos.
00:45:18.000And then Republicans, in response, wish to generate their own tornado of chaos in order to prevent any sort of narrative from forming that Trump was obstructing justice on all of this.
00:45:29.000So we'll bring you all the latest on all of this in just a few minutes, because it really is kind of insane.
00:45:35.000First, let's do some things I like and some things that I hate.
00:45:41.000So, just to contrast music with non-music, the Grammy Awards, which are filled with nonsense and yuck, I want to contrast that with actual godly music.
00:45:50.000This would be the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
00:46:43.000Then Mozart actually took a break from composing for months to study the counterpoint in Bach.
00:46:48.000If you look at Bach's music, it's very often sounds... For example, when you listen to Bach's inventions, his two-part inventions, then what you see in his piano music is the use of counterpoint.
00:47:00.000Counterpoint is basically two themes that are playing simultaneously, and it sounds like two different instruments are playing simultaneously.
00:47:38.000If you can't see this, in the corner of the dress, she is wearing what looks like a fetus in the womb, and then her purse is painted on it, Choose Life.
00:47:45.000So she's wearing a pro-life thing to the Grammys.
00:47:49.000You know, put aside people have other issues with Joy Vila.
00:47:52.000Good for her that she has the guts to actually come forward and represent a pro-life position in the least pro-life place on planet Earth last night at the Grammy Awards.
00:48:01.000Okay, time for a quick thing I hate, and then I'll do a Federalist paper.
00:48:09.000OK, so Kirsten Gillibrand wants to run for president.
00:48:12.000And she tweeted out last night, she's on The View yesterday, she's going to be the new face of the female candidacies inside the Democratic Party.
00:49:53.000This was true for most of the period of the American Republic.
00:49:57.000It has not been true for the last 100 years.
00:49:58.000We now have something like 2 million people working for the federal government, which is because the federal government has grown and become insane.