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00:00:25.000Let's start with the latest on this hurricane.
00:00:27.000So according to the Washington Post, Category 3 Hurricane Dorian has parked itself over the northwestern Bahamas since Sunday night.
00:00:33.000I mean, this sucker is moving like traffic on the 405, meaning not at all.
00:00:37.000It has unleashed a nightmare 24-hour siege of devastating storm surge, destructive winds, and blinding rain.
00:00:42.000With Dorian perched perilously close to the Florida peninsula, Monday night into the first part of Tuesday has become the critical time that is likely to determine whether the state is dealt a powerful blow or a less intense scrape.
00:00:54.000Just tens of miles and subtle storm wobbles could make the difference between the two scenarios.
00:00:59.000The storm has come to a standstill over Grand Bahama Island.
00:01:02.000If it soon starts to turn north, Florida would be spared Dorian's full fury.
00:01:06.000It looks right now, according to the Storm Act, like that is a significant possibility that it sort of hugs the coast but doesn't actually slam into Florida full force.
00:01:13.000If Dorian lumbers just a little more to the west, more serious storm effects would pummel parts of the coastline.
00:01:18.000Such small differences in the track forecast will have similar implications further north from coastal Georgia to the Carolinas.
00:01:25.000Millions of people have been evacuated in expectation that this hurricane could slam into the Florida coast.
00:01:31.000The National Hurricane Center has issued hurricane storm surge and tropical storm watches and warnings from the Atlantic coast of Florida northward into South Carolina.
00:01:39.000Storm surge refers to the storm-driven rise in ocean water above normally dry land, according to the Washington Post.
00:01:45.000The National Weather Service office in Melbourne, Florida says the threat of damaging winds and life-threatening storm surge remains high.
00:01:51.000There will be considerable impact and damage to coastal areas with at least some effects felt inland as well.
00:01:56.000Okay, so guys, if you are in the path of the hurricane and the authorities are telling you to move, do not be a silly person.
00:02:02.000We've seen too many cases where people stick around and then it puts people's lives in danger.
00:02:07.000Not just the people who stick around, but also people who are supposed to rescue them.
00:02:11.000You know, there are always these stories of people who stick around and brave it out.
00:02:13.000That's not braving it out, that's you being a moron.
00:02:15.000If they tell you to move, you should move.
00:02:17.000Because if you don't move, you're putting yourself at needless risk.
00:02:20.000So, that is sort of the story and the latest.
00:02:23.000This has not prevented the media from focusing in on the chief problem here.
00:02:26.000The chief problem, of course, is President Trump.
00:02:28.000Because always, always, It doesn't matter what's happening in the universe.
00:02:31.000President Trump is the black hole of attention that sucks in all light and emits none.
00:02:36.000So President Trump over the weekend, as per his usual routine, was riffing because this is what he does.
00:02:41.000And honestly, I find it really ridiculous.
00:02:44.000I found it ridiculous when Barack Obama did it.
00:02:46.000I find it ridiculous when Bush did it.
00:02:49.000I find it ridiculous when Trump does it.
00:02:50.000This routine where the president is supposed to go to the Storm Center at the Department of Homeland Security or at FEMA and he's supposed to oversee things.
00:02:59.000We've got entire staffs of people dedicated to doing this.
00:03:01.000You'd think that President Obama knew a lot about storm relief, like that was his area of expertise, when he would jet set into the aftermath of a hurricane and comfort people.
00:03:10.000Again, the president was a reality star long before Donald Trump was a reality star.
00:03:16.000And the notion that the president either controls the weather or has significant impact in how the weather is taken care of from above afterward is just ridiculous.
00:03:23.000FEMA handles it, there are regulations that govern how FEMA is supposed to handle all of this.
00:03:27.000In any case, President Trump, and this is not his fault, but he shows up at the Department of Homeland Security to talk about the hurricane.
00:03:34.000Again, I just find it so off-putting, this godlike emperor figure, not Trump, just the presidency, who's supposed to descend from on high and then talk about hurricanes like they know anything about hurricanes.
00:03:43.000Here's President Trump not knowing things about hurricanes.
00:03:46.000Americans are strong, determined, and resilient, and we will support each other.
00:03:51.000And we will work very hard to minimize whatever the effect of what's coming at us.
00:03:57.000We don't even know what's coming at us.
00:03:59.000All we know is it's possibly the biggest.
00:04:01.000I have not sure, I'm not sure that I've ever even heard of a Category 5.
00:04:05.000I knew it existed, and I've seen some Category 4s.
00:04:29.000And if a storm is big, it's not just big, it's the biggest we've ever seen.
00:04:32.000And if there's a recession, it's not just a recession, it's the worst recession in human history.
00:04:36.000And if it's a great economic boom, it's not just a great economic boom, it's the greatest economic boom since God created the earth.
00:04:42.000The seventh day, huge economic boom, let me tell you.
00:04:45.000Okay, so naturally the media go nuts over this.
00:04:47.000How dare Trump say he's never seen a Category 5 hurricane?
00:04:51.000Anderson Cooper is very upset about this because Anderson Cooper has stood outside in the middle of rainwater and such.
00:04:57.000So here is Anderson Cooper being very upset that Trump doesn't know there have been other Category 5s on his watch or something.
00:05:03.000Category 5 is something that I don't know that I've ever even heard the term.
00:05:08.000Okay, so what makes what you just heard even more confusing or even weirder is that multiple Category 5 hurricanes have either hit or threatened to hit the United States during his presidency.
00:05:21.000I mean, what heroic journalism there from Anderson Cooper.
00:05:32.000Again, there are certain situations in which I think that the president is basically necessary.
00:05:36.000It seems to me that, let's say, when an embassy in Benghazi is on fire, and the president might be needed in order to determine whether or not American troops ought to be sent there to protect an American embassy, that jet setting off to Las Vegas for a party with Beyonce and Jay-Z, that might be, like, not a great thing to do.
00:05:51.000Or if you're going golfing in the middle of some sort of national security crisis, but you have an entire FEMA, Hey, you have an entire federal agency that is, that's directive, it's sole directive is to watch this stuff.
00:06:02.000Do you think that President Trump's presence in the White House is going to make a large deal of difference when it comes to the fallout from a hurricane that has not yet hit land?
00:06:10.000Granted, it's bad optics, but is it really a difference maker?
00:06:14.000Again, the role of the presidency in the public mind is so large and so ridiculous that we tend to think of the president as sitting over some sort of desk with control buttons.
00:06:21.000If I just hit this one right here, well, that means that I've stopped the hurricane.
00:06:41.000It would be one thing if he had not gone after the former president about golfing and said that he would never go golfing because he'd be too busy and doing too important work and winning so much.
00:06:54.000It's not us nitpicking, it's using his own criteria for judging other presidents, and by his own criteria, he sure is golfing a lot.
00:07:05.000Okay, well, again, there's something fair about that.
00:07:08.000I mean, Trump did go after Barack Obama a lot on the golfing, but I will note somebody who did not go after Barack Obama a lot on the golfing, and his name is Anderson Cooper.
00:07:15.000I don't remember Anderson Cooper doing a lot of stories about Barack Obama golfing.
00:07:18.000Now that it's Trump, it's like, oh, it's terrible.
00:07:20.000I can't believe that Donald Trump would go golfing.
00:07:22.000I mean, especially when he said golfing was bad.
00:07:57.000Now, in a second we're going to talk about silliness with regard to another topic where there should be unity, because that is the name of the political game these days, is that there's a topic where there should be some sort of unity, and instead we decide, you know what?
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00:09:52.000Okay, so meanwhile, speaking of topics where there should be unanimity, and yet there is not, there is a mass shooting over the weekend again.
00:10:00.000And this is happening far too often, obviously.
00:10:04.000But this one was out of the news within 48 hours.
00:10:06.000And this is always fascinating to watch.
00:10:08.000Because when a mass shooting happens, if it fulfills certain criteria the media are looking for, it remains in the news forever.
00:10:14.000If it does not fulfill the criteria the media are looking for, it disappears.
00:10:57.000They're looking for somebody who's using an AR-15.
00:10:59.000Two, they're looking for somebody who's motivated by some sort of white supremacist or quasi-right beliefs that they can pin on conservatives.
00:11:07.000And three, they're looking for some sort of mass shooting scenario in which the motive is not only clear and convincing, but the person who is at issue is not really on anyone's radar so much.
00:11:20.000If there are too many red flags, then it tends to fall off, right?
00:11:24.000If there are too many red flags, so you need a clear motive in order for the media to let, and the motive has to be some sort of motive that cannot be attributed to the left.
00:11:30.000So if it's an attempted shooting of congressional baseball players, people playing baseball who are in Congress, then that doesn't make the news.
00:11:50.000A motive they can attribute to the right, and it has to be with a particular type of gun.
00:11:53.000Well, this shooting in Odessa did not fulfill all of those three categories.
00:11:57.000According to CNN, the Odessa Police Department on Sunday identified the man who killed seven people and wounded 22 others in a shooting spree in West Texas.
00:12:05.000Now immediately, as soon as the spree started happening, this was top of news, obviously, because it's big news when someone goes on a shooting spree.
00:12:11.000This person, it turns out, however, was not motivated by any sort of right-wing beliefs.
00:12:16.000And not only was this person not motivated by right-wing beliefs, there are a thousand red flags.
00:12:20.000This is one of the criteria, too, is the media would like for somebody who didn't trip off any red flags, really, because then it can't be blamed on government failure.
00:12:29.000Then it can be blamed on the right-wing generally.
00:12:32.000It can be blamed on America's tenor of violence.
00:12:34.000If, however, it can be blamed on the authorities missing it over and over and over and over again, then things get really awkward because the media don't like that story.
00:12:43.000In Parkland, it was the authorities led by the Broward County Sheriff, Scott Israel, failing repeatedly to target the shooter in that particular case or protect the school.
00:12:54.000The media just pretended that never happened.
00:12:55.000And then there's this big town hall on CNN.
00:12:58.000With Dana Lash and and with Marco Rubio in which the right wing was abused while Scott Israel stood there and grinned with Jake Tapper presiding.
00:13:06.000That's what the media are looking for.
00:13:07.000This shooting does not fulfill any of these criteria.
00:13:09.000So according to CNN, this particular shooter had been fired from his trucking job just hours before the rampage killing, according to The New York Times.
00:13:17.000Also, this person was arrested in 2001 for criminal trespass and evading arrest, both misdemeanors, according to public records.
00:13:23.000Adjudication was deferred, though the details of the case were not immediately available.
00:13:27.000Also, his record included a 2018 traffic citation for a federal motor carrier safety violation, according to Hector County Court records.
00:13:35.000Apparently, the shooter was pulled over by Texas troopers in Midland on Saturday afternoon for failing to use his signal.
00:13:40.000He then shot at the troopers with what police described as an AR-type weapon and sped away.
00:13:44.000Okay, so they get one factor, but not the other two.
00:13:47.000Driving on streets and highways, he sprayed bullets randomly at residents and motorists, according to police.
00:13:51.000The man then hijacked a postal truck and ditched his gold Honda, shooting at people as he made his way into Odessa, about 20 miles away.
00:13:57.000There, police confronted him in a movie theater parking lot and killed him in a shootout.
00:14:02.000It's unclear what the motive was, according to investigators.
00:14:06.000The FBI special agent in charge, Christopher Combs, at his agency responds to Texas frequently.
00:14:11.000He said the FBI is, quote, here now almost every other week supporting our local and state partners on active shooters.
00:14:16.000We're almost every two weeks an active shooter in this country.
00:14:20.000Apparently there are about 15 different crime scenes.
00:14:22.000Now, it was pretty clear early on, according to media reports, that there were a thousand red flags that got missed, which again counters why this thing should be in the news, according to the media.
00:14:32.000If there are red flags, it's a government failure.
00:15:35.000A neighbor tells CNN that last month he threatened her with a rifle after she put trash in a nearby dumpster.
00:15:41.000She says that he would often shoot into his backyard from a structure on top of his house and then go and retrieve dead animals.
00:15:49.000She also tells us that she called the police after that incident last month but claims they never showed up because the property's location doesn't show up on GPS.
00:16:07.000So it turns out that there are all of these terrible red flags, everybody missed them, and that's why you're not hearing about this shooting anymore.
00:16:12.000It's not going to be top of news today.
00:16:14.000If this were El Paso, it would be in the news for weeks.
00:16:16.000It's not El Paso, so therefore it's not in the news for even days.
00:16:20.000Now as we'll see, the Odessa shooter also failed a gun background check.
00:16:24.000And we'll get to that in just one second.
00:16:26.000First, let's talk about why I feel like I need to use a VPN.
00:16:29.000So just a couple of years ago, I am constantly traveling.
00:16:34.000I assume that while I was on public Wi-Fi, somebody actually hacked some of my credit card passwords and then proceeded to buy a bunch of NFL tickets.
00:18:02.000Apparently, the Odessa shooter failed the gun background check.
00:18:05.000The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, he tweeted on Monday that a gunman in Saturday's mass shooting in Midland and Odessa had previously failed the gun purchase background check, did not go through a background check to buy the gun used in Saturday's incident.
00:18:16.000Another thing that cuts against this being in the news.
00:18:25.000Abbott's tweet didn't say, according to the Texas Tribune, why the 36-year-old Odessa man didn't pass the background check or how he obtained the rifle he used to kill seven people and injure 22 others.
00:18:35.000Abbott also cited the shooter's criminal history, said we must keep guns out of criminals' hands.
00:18:39.000Now, this should be an area of relative unanimity.
00:18:42.000As I say, the left doesn't have the ability to blame it on the right.
00:18:46.000This is obviously a bunch of red flags that were ignored, a bunch of government failures.
00:18:50.000This guy violated a bunch of regulations, so additional regulations probably would not have helped here.
00:18:55.000And yet somehow, this has still become a partisan issue.
00:18:58.000Because if we can make a hurricane partisan, man, we can make anything partisan.
00:19:01.000And if it's not partisan enough, then it just sort of drops off the table in the news cycle.
00:19:07.000Well, leading the charge this time in the gun control battle is Joe Biden, who's been looking for sort of a rationale for being in the race.
00:19:13.000The big problem for Joe Biden is that he still can't answer a very simple question.
00:19:58.000So the media love, love, love, love, love Elizabeth Warren.
00:20:00.000And we'll get to Senator Warren in just a second, because her career is sort of fascinating.
00:20:05.000It's fascinating how she moved from a sort of heterodox, iconoclastic thinker into somebody who is doctrinaire, on the left, Bernie Sanders type, because she didn't used to be.
00:20:13.000But Joe Biden The reason the media are out of love with him right now is because he can't answer that simple question.
00:20:18.000So the New York Times has a piece today by Mark Leibovich titled, Does Joe Biden want to be doing this?
00:20:24.000Which is always a good sign for your campaign.
00:20:30.000Joseph R. Biden was asked after a recent speech in Pearl, Iowa.
00:20:34.000The answer to such an inquiry would appear self-evident in the case of Mr. Biden, who began his running-for-president routine more than three decades ago.
00:20:40.000In other words, very badly, one would assume.
00:20:42.000But the question posed by a reporter seemed to come at Mr. Biden as a bit of a curveball, a variant of the why-do-you-want-to-be-president riddle that CBS's Roger Mudd famously stumped Ted Kennedy with 40 years ago.
00:21:24.000So why is he running, says The New York Times?
00:21:26.000And is the singular nature of the opponent all it will take to convince voters that Joe Biden really wants to be doing this right now, at this vicious moment in our politics, at this stage of his life?
00:21:35.000Remarkably, after all this time, Mr. Biden stumbles to come up with a clear answer.
00:21:39.000His use of Mr. Trump as a campaign mission statement might be a good enough reason, at least to win Biden the Democratic nomination in a large field where two other leading candidates, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, appear to be splitting the progressive vote, which would be less inclined to support him to begin with.
00:21:53.000Biden's campaign has been jackhammering home the premise that he is best suited to winning a general election against an incumbent who must not be reelected.
00:21:59.000Anita Dunn, who used to work for the Obama White House, she says, he doesn't think you need a revolution here.
00:22:05.000Instead, it's a strategic bet, according to The New York Times, that given the possibility of another four years of Trump, Democrats will gravitate to the familiar and reach for the stitched up old teddy bear of a candidate.
00:22:18.000So Joe Biden has been looking for a rationale for why he is running, because while his numbers are fairly durable so far, if he can't answer that question sometime in here, it's going to be a serious problem for him.
00:22:30.000Right now, he's running in the low 30s.
00:22:31.000But let's say that we go another year, another year.
00:22:58.000This is part of the problem for Joe Biden.
00:23:00.000And so even when he's making the case in favor of gun control, he literally has no idea what he is talking about.
00:23:05.000This is a guy who once suggested that he bought a pump action shotgun so that if somebody came on his property and was a criminal, you could either blast through a door, which would be probably a bad idea because you don't know who's on the other end of it, or that he would go out onto the balcony of his home and fire the gun into the air, which is like something that he saw from an old Western with Charlton Heston or something.
00:23:26.000Here is Joe Biden over the weekend suggesting that his solution on this is a ban on magazines.
00:23:32.000He says any magazine that holds a bullet, which is literally what a magazine is meant to do.
00:24:33.000It will get to more of the Democrats trying to find a reason to exist by pushing gun control in just one second.
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00:25:54.000Okay, so it's not just Joe Biden out on the campaign trail.
00:25:57.000Trying to claim that we should get rid of magazines that hold multiple bullets, which good luck with that.
00:26:03.000Also, Biden then suggests that President Trump doesn't have the intestinal fortitude to pass gun control because Joe Biden is a man of courage while he's stumbling into trees and such.
00:26:12.000So no possible solution to deal with this gun issue.
00:26:39.000Well, I seem to recall that you were vice president for eight years, and for several of those years, at the very beginning of the presidency, you had basically 60 votes in the Senate.
00:27:08.000Every single solitary amendment has a limitation on it.
00:27:13.000Now, the limitation that exists on the Second Amendment is, nowhere does it say you can own any kind of weapon you want.
00:27:22.000Nowhere does it say anyone can own a weapon.
00:27:27.000And those who say, maybe some do, that the tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots, meaning you've got to be able to have enough power to take on your government, well, you need an F-15.
00:27:45.000OK, I know that that's actually not a serious argument, considering the fact that small arms have typically been a fairly good method of resisting a major power, as Joe Biden will know.
00:27:59.000I mean, as long as you're an adult with very minor restrictions, it basically says if you're a law abiding citizen, then you can own a weapon.
00:28:07.000Beto desperately looking for rationale for his campaign.
00:28:10.000And he has also stumbled on gun control because of the shooting in El Paso.
00:28:13.000He says he's just going to start confiscating semi-automatic weapons.
00:28:16.000Yes, I'm sure that nothing promotes people coming together quite like saying that you're going to take 150, 200 million Americans and just forcibly remove their guns from them.
00:28:25.000I'm sure this is going to go great for Beto O'Rourke.
00:28:28.000How do you address the fear that the government is going to take away those assault rifles, as you call them, if you're talking about buybacks and bannings?
00:29:05.000Now, one of the things that makes unanimity nearly impossible in the country right now, and it makes it impossible to even have rational discussions, even about things like gun control, is that we don't trust our neighbors.
00:29:14.000And if we did trust our neighbors, maybe we wouldn't want the government coming in and invading the rights of our neighbors so much.
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00:30:29.000So we are now in a vicious cycle of distrust, right?
00:30:40.000We have decided that because some people in our community want to use the government to come after us, that we distrust those people.
00:30:45.000And then those people decide that because they distrust you, they want the government to go after you.
00:30:49.000So it's this vicious cycle of mistrust.
00:30:51.000And this is why, for example, red flag gun laws, which seem like they make a lot of sense, they rely on the idea that your neighbor isn't going to call the cops on you just because you have a political disagreement.
00:31:02.000Red flag gun laws are the idea that a neighbor, a friend, they see something bad happening, they call the cops, and now there can be a preliminary removal of your guns for the moment while we ascertain what exactly is going on.
00:31:15.000And frankly, I don't have a general problem with this idea.
00:31:19.000The problem is that you may have your next door neighbor who just wants to remove your guns, bite into the fact they disagree with you.
00:31:25.000And evidence of this comes from our good friends in Hollywood.
00:31:27.000So, remember that time when Hollywood was super pissed off Because supposedly it was a wide breach of American values to target actual communist agents inside Hollywood.
00:31:35.000There were the McCarthy hearings, and this was apparently the worst thing that ever happened in the United States.
00:31:39.000Now, McCarthy hearings were quite bad, but worst thing to ever happen in the United States, not so much.
00:31:45.000People are going to say I'm strawmanning that.
00:31:46.000How many films has Hollywood made about the McCarthy era?
00:31:58.000The highest levels of Hollywood are McCarthyites.
00:32:00.000It's the reason why I have a number of fairly prominent Hollywood people that I talk to.
00:32:04.000When I say fairly prominent, I mean A-listers who I talk to on a fairly regular basis, and I will never, ever reveal who they are, specifically because then the left would come and ruin their career.
00:32:13.000Then the left would come in and suggest that these people should not be able to talk to me, a mainstream conservative, because this inherently makes them very, very bad.
00:32:19.000And you've seen this over and over with anybody who even has a conversation with people on the right.
00:32:25.000I have literally met in restaurants in Los Angeles wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses with people in Hollywood on like early Sunday mornings when no one else is around because people are afraid that they are going to be spotted by other forces in Hollywood who call them out for even having met with a prominent conservative.
00:32:42.000Well, listen, I'm willing to meet with pretty much anybody.
00:32:45.000I have met with all sorts of very, very prominent, famous people in a wide variety of industries.
00:32:50.000I will never reveal who those people are because, frankly, it's nobody's damn business.
00:32:55.000And the fact is that Hollywood and journalists who are out there, they wish to harm people who will even text with people, have conversations with people.
00:33:26.000I don't have the answer to the gun problem and mass shootings.
00:33:28.000I don't want to take guns away from law abiding citizens.
00:33:30.000Many people in my life own guns, but we must have a serious, but we have a serious problem and we must start talking about gun violence solutions in a bipartisan way.
00:33:38.000This is what we call a reasonable tweet, like a thing a reasonable person would say to another reasonable person.
00:33:43.000So Dana Lash, who used to be a spokesperson for the NRA, and now she's a radio host, right?
00:33:48.000She's a radio host now, that's what she does, because she's no longer with the NRA.
00:33:51.000She tweeted out, we have to penalize agencies that do not submit all prohibited cases to NCIC.
00:34:36.000Aaron Rupar, an alleged reporter for Vox.com, immediately tweets out, quote, it's silly to earnestly engage with a former paid NRA gun show on the topic of preventing gun violence.
00:34:47.000First of all, you want to talk of paid shills?
00:34:50.000Second of all, it's silly to earnestly engage?
00:34:54.000Like, you can't have a conversation with anybody?
00:34:57.000If you have a conversation, you're a very bad person?
00:35:00.000The way that the left would like to treat people on the right.
00:35:02.000This is why we can't have any sort of regulations that rely on public trust, because the public trust is gone.
00:35:07.000If you treat your neighbor like they are a leper from the leper colony in Papillon, the original, that if you get in, that if you talk, if Andy Lassner talks with Dana Lash, then Dana Lash is like a leprous character, and she's going to infect him with her leprosy.
00:35:22.000And Aaron Rupar is there to police the boundary.
00:35:24.000He's there to stop you from having that conversation.
00:35:27.000Why the hell would I allow people like Aaron Rupert to control regulations or legislation?
00:35:32.000Why would I trust a neighbor like Aaron Rupert?
00:35:39.000And it's true in journalism, right, that you have this whole This whole cadre of alleged journalists whose sole job it is apparently to prevent conversation from happening between moderate left and moderate right.
00:35:51.000To prevent any sort of discussion from happening.
00:35:53.000If you have that person on your podcast, then you are a bad man.
00:36:18.000You had Will and Grace, the stars of Will and Grace over the weekend, come out and suggest that they wanted the names of anybody in Hollywood who supported Trump.
00:36:25.000So now we are going the full Joaquin Castro in Texas route.
00:36:28.000You remember Joaquin Castro, the representative in Texas?
00:36:31.000He tweeted out the names of all the Trump donors in his district, half of whom supported him too.
00:36:37.000So the Hollywood Reporter tweeted out President Donald Trump to appear at Beverly Hills Fundraiser during Emmys week.
00:36:42.000Now, I happen to know some of the people who are going to this fundraiser, because I know most of the prominent Republicans in the city.
00:36:47.000Eric McCormick, who is one of the actors on Will & Grace, and he's also the guy from Travelers, if you've seen that, on Netflix.
00:36:55.000Hey, Hollywood Reporter, kindly report on everyone attending this event so the rest of us can be clear about who we don't want to work with.
00:37:03.000In other words, I want to blackmail everybody who disagrees with me politically.
00:37:05.000If anybody gives money to Donald Trump, I will never work with them ever, ever, ever again.
00:37:10.000Yeah, I trust you guys to be part of the common community where we trust each other, and we don't call the authorities unless we need to, and we never use the power of the government gun to point it at our friends.
00:37:28.000The public has a right to know how delightful she is.
00:37:31.000I mean, what delightful people these folks are.
00:37:34.000President Trump then tweeted his own response.
00:37:35.000He says, I have not forgotten that when it was announced that I was going to do The Apprentice and when it became a big hit, helping NBC's failed lineup greatly, Deborah Messing came up to me at an upfront and profusely thanked me, even calling me sir.
00:37:57.000Donald Trump was basically a D-list celebrity until The Apprentice.
00:38:01.000And then The Apprentice happens and he becomes an A-list celebrity again and he's appearing on the Emmys singing Green Acres with one of the stars of Will & Grace, Megan Mullally.
00:38:10.000So that's pretty ironic and pretty hilarious.
00:38:13.000The larger point is that you cannot have a community or a republic in which people are forbidden from having conversations with each other and where people are deliberately attempting to destroy each other's lives.
00:38:24.000So here is another example of this outside of Hollywood.
00:38:27.000So there's this couple named Carl and Angel Larson.
00:38:32.000And this couple is now in the middle of a lawsuit, a federal appeals court lawsuit just reinstated A lawsuit filed by these two Minnesota filmmakers.
00:38:44.000They want the right to refuse to film same-sex weddings.
00:38:46.000They said that videos are a form of speech with constitutional protections under the First Amendment.
00:38:50.000So Carl and Angel Larson run a Christian business called Telescope Media Group in St.
00:38:55.000They sued the state's Human Rights Commissioner in 2016, saying Minnesota's public accommodation law would result in steep fines and jail time if they offered services promoting only their vision of marriage.
00:39:05.000So they're videographers, they only do traditional marriages, and the state of Minnesota basically threatened them with jail if they would not create videos on behalf of same-sex couples.
00:39:16.000Because this is America, guys, and we can't have people creating the videos they want to create.
00:39:20.000A federal judge dismissed the case two years ago, but a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S.
00:39:24.000Circuit Court of Appeals reversed that decision on Friday.
00:39:27.000The panel sent the case back to the lower court with instructions to consider a preliminary injunction that would allow the Larsons to operate their business without fear of being found in violation of Minnesota's Human Rights Act, according to the Star Tribune.
00:39:39.000Judge David Strass is a former Minnesota Supreme Court Justice.
00:39:41.000He wrote in Friday's opinion that wedding videos involve editorial judgment and control and constituted a media for the communication of ideas, which is obviously true.
00:39:49.000Judge Jane Kelly issued a dissenting opinion.
00:39:51.000She said that the service the Larsons want to make available to the public is expressive, does not transform Minnesota's law into a content-based regulation, nor should it empower the Larsons to discriminate against prospective customers based on sexual orientation.
00:40:04.000It's another perfect example of neighbors not leaving each other alone.
00:40:08.000Hey, the Republic relies on neighbors leaving each other alone.
00:40:11.000If we don't leave each other alone, it's going to be extraordinarily difficult for us to have any common politics at all.
00:40:17.000And this is what we are watching in action.
00:40:19.000This is why politics continue to become so partisan.
00:40:21.000Because if I don't trust you and you don't trust me, and the only question is who gets to control the gun, That shoots the other guy?
00:40:28.000Well, then politics is basically bloodsport.
00:40:31.000Now, speaking of bloodsport, you want to know somebody for whom politics has become bloodsport is Elizabeth Warren.
00:40:35.000So, Senator Warren is obviously running strong in the Democratic primaries right now.
00:40:40.000Not quite as strong as I think a lot of the media would have it.
00:40:44.000By which I mean that if you look at the poll averages right now nationally, she is still running third.
00:40:48.000There's a lot of talk about her being the new frontrunner.
00:40:52.000The polls are pretty conflicted about that.
00:40:53.000There are a couple of polls that came out in the last week.
00:40:56.000The last two polls had Joe Biden up 7 points and Joe Biden up 4 points, respectively.
00:41:00.000Only one of those polls had Elizabeth Warren in second place.
00:41:03.000That was the Economist YouGov poll that had Biden up over her 25 to 21.
00:41:08.000The Emerson poll had her down in third, trailing Joe Biden by 16 points.
00:41:12.000In fact, on average, in the last maybe 7 or 8 polls, she's down somewhere between 13 and 17 points to Joe Biden in most of these polls.
00:41:22.000So for all the talk about her being the new frontrunner, that is a little premature.
00:41:25.000However, it is sort of fascinating to watch Elizabeth Warren's transformation as a candidate.
00:41:31.000I've only met Elizabeth Warren one time.
00:41:33.000I audited her class when I was at Harvard Law, and I was like, this isn't for me.
00:42:19.000Way back in 2003-2004, which is when I met her, she was a much more interesting thinker.
00:42:25.000So this is the thing to understand about Elizabeth Warren.
00:42:27.000that because our politics now revolves around demonizing other people and government control, heterodox thinkers like Elizabeth Warren circa 2003 are no longer tolerated by homogenous thinkers circa Elizabeth Warren 2019.
00:42:42.000Elizabeth Warren 2019 is not Elizabeth Warren 2003.
00:42:46.000Well, over the weekend, I read her book.
00:42:47.000She wrote this very famous book called The Two Income Trap in 2003.
00:42:50.000And the book is actually really, really interesting.
00:42:53.000She used to be sort of an interesting thinker.
00:42:54.000The two income trap is premised on this basic idea, which is that the number of females who had who had gone into bankruptcy had risen spectacularly over the past two or three decades, which she found kind of shocking because she figured, OK, well, it really should be a lot of males going into bankruptcy. which she found kind of shocking because she figured, OK, Yeah.
00:43:13.000After all, more females are entering the workforce, particularly mothers.
00:43:18.000It was married moms who were going into bankruptcy.
00:43:21.000What she found is that there was something called the two income trap happening.
00:43:24.000The two income trap was basically a lot of women entered the workforce with the guarantee that they would now have two incomes in the family, which meant more money for everybody.
00:43:31.000And then what would happen is one person, they would then take out expenses that were commensurate with the combined salary of the couple.
00:43:38.000So let's say one half of the couple is making 50 grand, the other is making 50 grand, their combined income is now 100 grand.
00:43:44.000So they take out a mortgage on a house, That is commensurate with 100 grand income, and then one of them loses their job.
00:44:17.000And her suggestion was that so many women had entered the workforce that it had artificially increased prices on things like housing, particularly in the suburbs.
00:44:26.000It's a really interesting sort of take, right?
00:44:27.000I mean, she's not arguing women shouldn't be in the workforce, but she is arguing that women in the workforce does have an enormous number of unintended consequences and that maybe the couples that are best situated are actually the ones where only one member of the family is working.
00:44:42.000Because you're only going to take out expenses commensurate with one salary.
00:44:46.000And not only is that take pretty interesting, she also talks about specific policy proposals.
00:44:52.000And her policy proposals are fairly interesting, including some fairly right-wing policy proposals.
00:45:00.000Right, she argued explicitly against more government regulation of the housing market.
00:45:04.000She slammed complex regulations since they, quote, might actually worsen the situation by diminishing the incentive to build new houses or improve older ones.
00:45:12.000Weird, because now her entire party is calling for rent control and government subsidized housing.
00:45:17.000Right, she favored against, instead of trying to place restrictions on housing building and caps on prices, she suggested a well-designed voucher program.
00:45:29.000That's right, Elizabeth Warren used to be a big fan of school vouchers, because she pointed out the reason that people were moving into suburbs was to get to better schools.
00:45:37.000And if you had school vouchers, then people from inner cities could actually go to those better schools, and that would allow more free transport of people to better schools, and that would bring down overall real estate prices.
00:46:03.000She actually called that a sacred cow in 2003.
00:46:06.000At the very least, she suggested that, quote, government-subsidized daycare would add one more indirect pressure on mothers to join the workforce.
00:46:12.000In other words, it removed the incentive for mom to stay home if the government was actually subsidizing daycare.
00:46:18.000So she suggested that it would have to be part of a broader comprehensive program, including tax credits for stay-at-home parents.
00:46:24.000In fact, she ardently opposed additional taxpayer subsidization of college loans.
00:46:29.000She said that we should not be subsidizing college loans.
00:46:36.000And now, she's coming out and then she was saying no taxpayer subsidization of college loans and no taxpayer spending on higher education directly.
00:46:45.000Instead, she called for a tuition freeze from state schools.
00:46:49.000She also recommended tax incentives for families to save rather than spend.
00:47:09.000This is a direct quote from Elizabeth Warren circa 2003.
00:47:11.000Secretary 2003 quote, we haven't suggested a complete overhaul of the tax structure.
00:47:14.000We haven't demanded that businesses cease and desist from ever closing another plant or firing another worker, nor have we suggested that the United States should build a quasi socialist safety net to rival the European model.
00:47:25.000Direct quote from Elizabeth Warren 2003.
00:47:27.000Does this sound like Elizabeth Warren 2019?
00:47:31.000She wrote a new intro for this book in 2016 with her daughter, because the book is written with her daughter, and now it is just boilerplate Democratic pap.
00:47:39.000Because Elizabeth Warren understands that creative solutions are not possible in a country where we don't trust one another.
00:47:46.000That when you mistrust your neighbor, that the only solution is absolute power.
00:47:50.000And so Elizabeth Warren has opted for absolute power, just like the rest of the Democratic Party.
00:47:55.000She has opted for top-down government control in every area because half the solutions she's calling for rely on you trusting your neighbor and suggesting your neighbor isn't a bad person.
00:48:04.000Now, she is in full-scale, your neighbor's a bad person territory.
00:48:07.000And if they stray, then we clock them.
00:48:11.000That is not an inherently sympathetic position to other Americans.
00:48:14.000It's amazing that so many on the left can portray themselves as sympathetic to their fellow Americans, when their actual proposal is that other Americans for making free choices ought to be punished in a general way, and the government ought to cram down.
00:48:26.000And if you even have conversations across the aisle in the most extreme cases of the left, then you should be punished just for those conversations.
00:48:33.000Elizabeth Warren used to be an interesting character.
00:48:35.000She's no longer interesting, which is why she's now seen as a front runner for the Democratic Party nomination.
00:48:40.000Elizabeth Warren circa 2003 was actually kind of interesting.
00:49:00.000And he was talking about how to fight hurricanes.
00:49:02.000And he was suggesting, well, you know, people keep saying that warming waters are making the velocity of hurricanes faster because it's easier for the hurricane to churn off of the top layer of water because of the water temperature.
00:50:19.000So there is a very good editorial in the Washington Post today by a Chinese dissident named Chen Guangcheng.
00:50:25.000He's a member of the faculty of the Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies at the Catholic University of America.
00:50:30.000And he talks about President Trump and his stance against China.
00:50:33.000He says, as someone who has spent years with the knife edge of the Chinese Communist Party bearing down on my throat for my human rights work, I know the president is on to something.
00:50:41.000Tariffs and economic threats may be blunt tools, but they are the kind of aggressive tactics necessary to get the attention of the CCP regime, which respects only power and money.
00:50:49.000It's not just about winning, as the president sometimes puts it, and it's not simply about trade.
00:50:54.000It's about doing what's right for ordinary Chinese and American people.
00:50:58.000Presidents before Trump naively believed that China would abide by international standards of behavior if it were granted access to institutions like the WTO, and generally treated as a normal country.
00:51:10.000Beijing ignored Western pressure on matters from human rights to the widespread theft of intellectual property.
00:51:14.000Trump, whatever his flaws, grasps this reality.
00:51:17.000That is the truth, and the media basically refused to acknowledge it, so at least good for the Washington Post for printing this particular op-ed by Chen Guangcheng.
00:51:25.000You know, I think we are actually out of time.
00:51:26.000So we're going to skip the things that I hate today because it's a love-filled day, guys.
00:51:30.000And we'll be back here a little bit later today with many more things that I hate, two additional hours of things that I hate later today.