The Broward County Sheriff makes a complete ass of himself, and high school classmates of shooting victims take it way too far, and Democrats try to defend the FBI over the Steele dossier. Lots to get to, lots to cover, including: 1. The Florida school shooter who killed 17 people after he opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School called the police distressed after his mother passed away just a few months ago. 2. A woman who knew the shooter called the FBI tip line and said, I know he s going to explode. On January 5th, 2019, a woman who was close to the shooter told the FBI that she was worried he was going to try to enter the school. 3. On Saturday night, the Sheriff released a statement saying there were only 23 calls involving the shooter or his family over the years. But a BuzzFeed News report shows at least 45 calls made to the suspect's home by the police over the past decade. 4. The number of calls made by the shooter and his family were nearly twice the number publicly disclosed by the department on Friday. 5. There were four different deputies standing outside the shooting scene. 6. There was no evidence that the shooting was actually a shooting. 7. The shooter was actually calling the police on himself. 8. And finally, there's good news for our listeners. 9. There's not just one loan! Check your rate for free! Ben Shapiro: Check it out at LendingClub.com/Ben Shapiro: Checking Your Rate for Free! And when you do, you can get a rate for $40,000 up to $40k for a home improvement project, or a car loan, for almost any other purpose, you get a better chance of getting a better car, a better loan, and you can make it faster than you can use that? Ben: Checking your Rate for FREE! - Ben: Check your Rate For Free, Check Your Rate For FREE, Ben: 09999, Check It Out Here: Ben: $5, $4, 5, $7,99, $15,000, $19,99 or $25,000? - Check It Up? Also, check it Out! Plus, Check it Out: Lending Club: And When You Can Help Me Out: Check It Rate For $40K, It s Not That Good?
00:00:00.000The Broward County Sheriff makes a complete ass of himself, high school classmates of shooting victims take it way too far, and Democrats try to defend the FBI over the Steele dossier.
00:00:15.000So here we are in beautiful, scenic Minnesota.
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00:02:29.000So, we begin today with the news update on what we now know about what happened in Parkland.
00:02:34.000So, we now know from the UK Daily Mail that not only was everybody around the shooter in Parkland actually calling the police over all of this, we now know
00:02:44.000That the shooter himself called the police on himself.
00:02:47.000According to the Daily Mail, it has been revealed that the Florida school shooter who killed 17 people after he opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School called the police distressed after his mother passed away just a few months ago.
00:02:57.000He called authorities just after Thanksgiving, saying he had been in a fight and was struggling with the death of his mother.
00:03:23.000Sheriff of Broward County who's made a complete fool of himself.
00:03:27.000He came out earlier, late last week, and he suggested that there weren't quite as many calls to the house as he had once been accused of.
00:03:35.000Apparently there were people saying there were 39 different calls to the house by the police because of all the warnings about the shooter.
00:03:43.000Only one problem, according to BuzzFeed, that is not true.
00:03:45.000They say Broward County Sheriff's officials said in a statement late Saturday they responded only to 23 calls involving suspected Florida shooter or his family over the years.
00:03:54.000But records obtained by BuzzFeed News show at least 45 responses since 2008.
00:03:58.000The number of calls made over the years involving the shooter or his family, according to the call records, are nearly twice the number publicly disclosed by the department.
00:04:06.000On Saturday night, they had released a statement pushing back on reports they had been called to more than 23 incidents released by the department.
00:04:13.000They also put out a statement suggesting that it was not true, as CNN reported on Friday, that there were four different deputies standing outside the shooting with their guns drawn, refusing to go in.
00:04:24.000But then they admitted that they actually did not know whether that was the case or not.
00:04:33.000The idea that anybody's going to give up their gun because the authorities are going to take care of them when the authorities clearly are not taking care of them.
00:04:41.000Not a lot of Second Amendment advocates going to sit around waiting for you to show up when you prove that you can't even show up to a school shooting when you have an armed school officer there.
00:04:49.000So, just to show how ridiculous this is, Scott Israel finally appears with Jake Tapper on Sunday morning.
00:04:54.000Now, I was very critical of Jake and his role in what I thought was just an absolute debacle.
00:04:59.000Last week on CNN, they had a two-hour CNN town hall with Dana Lash from the NRA and Senator Marco Rubio and Senator Bill Nelson, the Democrat, who was a hero to the crowd for suggesting that they ought to ban all semi-automatic weapons.
00:05:10.000And I thought Jake did not do a good job of handling that situation.
00:05:13.000I thought the thing was a setup from the beginning.
00:05:14.000I thought it was an emotional manipulation move.
00:05:18.000With disseminating important information to the public, it was just a way for people to vent their spleen and ire at Dana and at Rubio, two people who had nothing to do with the shooting, while completely ignoring Scott Israel.
00:05:28.000Scott Israel, the Broward County Sheriff, was there too.
00:05:30.000And as you recall, he ripped into Dana Lash.
00:05:37.000Well, then it came out, literally within 48 hours, that there was a deputy on the grounds who did nothing, that the police department had gotten warning after warning after warning after warning nearly 40 times, or more than 40 times, according to BuzzFeed, and did nothing.
00:05:50.000And he went on stage with Dana Lash, and he ripped her up and down, knowing that the culpability was, for the most part, his.
00:05:57.000So on Sunday, he comes back, and he does his sit-down with Jake Tapper.
00:06:01.000And Jake, this time, does a really good job.
00:06:27.000There's a lot of things we've done throughout.
00:06:30.000You don't measure a person's leadership by a deputy not going into a... These deputies received the training they needed.
00:06:40.000Maybe you measure somebody's leadership by whether or not they protect the community.
00:06:43.000In this case, you've listed 23 incidents before the shooting involving the shooter.
00:06:50.000And still, nothing was done to keep guns out of his hands, to make sure that the school was protected, to make sure you were keeping an eye on him.
00:07:05.000Good for Tapper for calling him on it.
00:07:07.000Too bad that they didn't have this information before that town hall, when Israel was allowed to rant and rave around the stage like a maniac, blaming everybody but himself.
00:07:16.000He said, are you really not taking any responsibility here?
00:07:19.000He grilled Israel for suggesting that everything was hunky-dory.
00:07:23.000Here is Tapper going off on Scott Israel again.
00:07:25.000Deputies make mistakes, police officers make mistakes, we all make mistakes.
00:07:29.000But it's not the responsibility of the general or the president if you have a deserter.
00:07:33.000You look into this, we're looking into this aggressively, and we'll take care of it and justice will be served.
00:07:40.000Are you really not taking any responsibility for the multiple red flags that were brought to the attention of the Broward Sheriff's Office about this shooter before the incident, whether it was people near him, close to him, calling the police on him?
00:07:54.000I mean, really, what the hell is he talking about?
00:07:56.000When Israel says that this is like the president being responsible for a deserter, no, this is not like the president being responsible for a deserter.
00:08:02.000There you have an entire chain of command and the deserter is punished in some cases with jail time and in rare cases with actual death penalty.
00:08:10.000In this case, not only was there one deputy there, there may have been four deputies there who did nothing, and again, there were dozens and dozens and dozens of warnings.
00:08:17.000If there were dozens of warnings that there was an attack about to happen, a specific warning, not just a general warning, specific warnings that there was an attack about to happen on 9-11, and the President of the United States ignored warning after warning after warning after warning that was brought to him, and all of his people did that, and then an attack took place, and 3,000 Americans died, do you think that impeachment might be on the table?
00:08:35.000People were talking about how Bush was neglectful of 9-11 based on one vague warning that airplanes might be used for a terror attack at some point in the future.
00:08:45.000One warning that I'm not even sure Bush saw at any point.
00:09:46.000How about you go in front of the community and you go on bended knee and you ask their forgiveness for all of the crappy job that you did here?
00:09:53.000It is just an amazing thing that he says, and it gets even worse.
00:09:56.000It gets even worse, because in just a second, I'm going to play you what Israel said when he was asked about what the department could have done differently, because it truly is an amazing thing.
00:10:05.000First, okay, so Israel is asked about when he knew that the deputies had not entered.
00:10:10.000He's asked again by Tapper, and again, he misdirects the question.
00:10:13.000When did you find out that Deputy Peterson had not gone into the building?
00:10:17.000How soon after the shooting did you know that?
00:10:43.000Rick Scott, the Florida governor, who's a Republican, who's come in for a lot of criticism from Israel, has said that he wants a full investigation before he fires Israel.
00:10:50.000That's probably not the worst move in the world, considering that he doesn't want the partisan blowback.
00:10:54.000He wants to be able to show, case in point, exactly how Israel screwed this thing up, so that Israel can't claim it's a partisan hit, but
00:11:01.000If Israel had any sort of moral fortitude at all, he would step down.
00:12:22.000If he didn't have the heart to go in, that's not my responsibility.
00:12:26.000So I gave him the gun, I gave him the training, I gave him the badge, but it's not my fault if he didn't go in?
00:12:30.000How about it's your fault if you were told nearly 50 times what the shooter was doing?
00:12:34.000Again, all of this is an attempt to misdirect.
00:12:36.000Now what's truly astonishing is you would expect the survivors, you would expect some of the victims to speak out against Scott Israel, and some of them are.
00:12:42.000There are some of the shooting victims who are actually coming out and saying that this sheriff is a coward and he did something wrong.
00:12:47.000These are not the ones, however, that you're seeing on CNN.
00:12:51.000You're not seeing them in the mainstream media nearly as much as you're seeing, for example, David Hogg or Gonzales, the 17-year-old girl who's been on TV a lot.
00:13:31.000I know as a fact he could have made it to the third floor and saved all six victims if he wasn't some little, I can't even, words can't even describe what, the way I think about him.
00:13:43.000But I'm not trying to think about that stuff because that's just negative and I'm just gonna make me toxic.
00:13:49.000It's the father of a shooting victim saying the sheriff's deputy was a coward, which is obvious.
00:13:52.000The sheriff himself has said that, but the real question is, is it the sheriff's fault?
00:13:55.000A survivor, a young student named Kyle Kashuv, he came out, he says, yeah, of course it's the sheriff's fault.
00:14:00.000Why are we even talking about random law-abiding gun owners across the country instead of talking about the sheriff?
00:14:04.000It absolutely outrages me that on the CNN town hall, we had the sheriff who was virtue signaling against the NRA and against guns, when he didn't even act properly.
00:14:14.000The armed officer at our school waited outside, and then the sheriff and his men, for four minutes, let my classmates die while he sat outside and waited.
00:15:24.000He's been saying some pretty absurd things.
00:15:26.000And over the weekend, he was on CNN with Brian Stelter and Dan Rather.
00:15:30.000For some reason, he's a journalism student, I guess, and Dan Rather was there to advise him on journalism, which
00:15:35.000Is sort of like being advised on journalism by Stephen Glass.
00:15:38.000Like, why you're being advised on journalism by a guy who was run out of the industry in 2004 for putting forward a fake letter about George W. Bush is beyond me.
00:15:45.000But I guess that's what the media do now.
00:15:48.000In any case, David Hogg, who's one of these students, he actually gets on national TV.
00:15:53.000And because he understands that his agenda here, his goal here, is to push the notion that guns are responsible and not the police department, suddenly he's defending the cops for not doing their job.
00:16:03.000Here's David Hogg defending the police officers.
00:16:05.000By the way, no one should be doing this, okay?
00:16:06.000If a police officer does something that is wrong, then everybody should be condemning that police officer.
00:16:17.000And David Hogg, nobody else, nobody is allowed to go out there and exonerate this person for the sin of letting children die when you had the capacity to stop it and it was your legal duty to do so, which is what happens here.
00:16:27.000Now I'm not talking about whether it's suable, I'm talking about you were hired to do a job and you purposefully did not do that job, even according to your own sheriff, who himself is a garbage provocateur.
00:16:37.000Here is David Hogg on CNN defending the police officers and saying, well, I don't really want to say anything about Scott Israel.
00:16:43.000No shock, he doesn't want to say anything about Scott Israel.
00:16:45.000Scott Israel is on the same side as he is when it comes to guns.
00:16:48.000And if he goes after Scott Israel, then it may allow the press to swivel their attention away from their maniacal approach to gun control and toward what actually happened here.
00:17:00.000He didn't take action in this event, and I can't explain why, or I just can't explain, there are no words to explain why he wouldn't take action to take out this individual, but I think it's a good example of how if he didn't take action, and supposedly four others didn't, I mean, who does?
00:17:14.000Who wants to go down the barrel of an AR-15, even with a Glock?
00:17:17.000And I know that's what these police officers are supposed to do, but they're people too.
00:17:21.000They need to worry about themselves as well as all the other students, and I don't think teachers need to have that responsibility either.
00:17:27.000So no one should have the responsibility of facing down a bad shooter.
00:17:30.000So who's going to stop that bad shooter?
00:17:32.000I love this assumption that the guns are magically going to disappear from society, but they're not.
00:17:36.000So who's going to stop the bad shooter?
00:17:37.000Was it that long ago that we forget that there was a security officer with a Glock who stopped a congressional baseball shooting?
00:17:46.000Is it that long ago that we forget that it was an NRA member who shot a mass shooter in Texas?
00:17:52.000Is it that long ago that we forget that the vast majority of these mass shooters are stopped eventually by a cop?
00:17:59.000Most of them don't end up shooting themselves?
00:18:00.000Usually it's the police officers who have to do something to stop these guys?
00:18:04.000But I guess that we're going to pretend that David Hogg gets to be the Pope now.
00:18:27.000And there, he defended the sheriff again, said that the sheriff, Scott Israel, hadn't done anything wrong, but attacked Dana Lash again.
00:18:33.000Because, of course, Dana is more responsible, and the sheriff whose job it is to actually protect these kids, and who failed dramatically over and over and over and over, 45 times, and then had a sheriff's deputy there who didn't do anything, and maybe three more who didn't do anything, and then went on national television and yelled about it.
00:18:46.000Here's David Hogg, though, attacking Dana Lash, because it's really Dana's fault.
00:18:49.000Here's what Dana's been saying as a spokesperson for the NRA.
00:18:52.000She says that she wants to continue to pass laws.
00:18:55.000She wants people in Congress to pass laws that help out with mental health and things like that, and she says that she can't do that.
00:19:03.000You've passed legislation that enables these bump stocks, which by the way, aren't allowed at NRA shooting ranges because they're too dangerous.
00:19:19.000She can get them to do things, it's just she doesn't care about these children's lives.
00:19:24.000I asked Dana, if she owns congressmen, can she get them to do entitlement reform?
00:19:27.000I mean, so long as she's got them completely in her pocket.
00:19:29.000Can she push them for maybe some better regulations?
00:19:34.000There are about a thousand things that I could ask Dana to do as long as she has Congress directly in her pocket.
00:19:39.000But that last statement is really egregious, and we're going to discuss that at length in just a second.
00:19:42.000That last statement where he says that Dana doesn't care if children get killed, this is sick stuff.
00:19:48.000And I understand you went through a tragedy.
00:19:50.000I understand something bad happened to you.
00:19:52.000That does not make that statement any less immoral.
00:19:55.000It is immoral to sit around suggesting that Dana Lash does not care about dead kids because she disagrees with David Hogg, of all people, on gun control.
00:20:02.000Again, I've been saying this for a week and a half.
00:20:04.000I don't understand what about tragedy somehow confers expertise on policy on people.
00:20:13.000But you don't magically have knowledge about gun control or how it works.
00:20:16.000You don't magically have knowledge about gun policy after studying the issue for half a second, half a hot second, and then going on TV and spouting slogans that you got from Chuck Schumer's webpage.
00:20:26.000And you certainly don't have the moral credibility under any circumstances to impugn the intent of people who clearly do care about the death of children.
00:20:36.000You know who doesn't care about the death of those kids?
00:21:07.000We have all these statements that are being put out there, one after another, and they all contradict each other, and we are supposed to pretend like they don't.
00:21:13.000So, for example, we keep hearing that the Parkland shooting witnesses are taking moral leadership of the gun control debate.
00:21:42.000And if they are innocent children, then wouldn't that suggest we have to protect their innocence rather than using them as political shields?
00:21:48.000It's so disingenuous to go around saying, these kids are the new experts on gun control, and then the minute you say what they just said is wrong or immoral or not true, then it's you who are the problem.
00:21:57.000I'm not the one who stepped in front of the camera after a shooting and decided to spout off about gun control.
00:22:26.000There's this weird notion going around that they can simultaneously claim that they are the great moral arbiters of society, and at the same time receive no blowback whatsoever.
00:22:34.000That's not how the First Amendment works, that's not how public debate works, and that's certainly not how politics should work.
00:22:38.000We cannot have a society if the way we make policy is someone experienced a tragedy, therefore they are the new king and potentate, and they get to determine what the policy is.
00:22:55.000People who are saying the Parkland shooting witnesses demonstrate that 16-year-olds have important things to say about public policy and they should vote.
00:23:04.000Let's pretend that's true for just a second.
00:23:06.000I'm going to need to hear you make the case why it is, then, that we should raise the age of being able to obtain a weapon to 21 years old, that children should stay on their parents' health insurance until they're 26 years old, and that teenage criminals should be treated as juveniles.
00:23:23.000People on the left suggesting that the police response to the Parkland shooting shows that a good guy with a gun can't stop a bad guy with a gun.
00:23:33.000Then how do you also argue that I should hand over my guns to the authorities who are going to protect me?
00:23:38.000So if the good guys with the guns can't stop the bad guys with the guns, why should I give my guns to a bunch of the good guys who can't stop the bad guys?
00:23:57.000Members of the NRA don't care about the deaths of children in mass shootings because they disagree with particular policies the left wants.
00:24:05.000And then we hear from the same people that the media do care deeply about the deaths of children in mass shootings, even if they continue to show the names and the faces of shooters regularly and engage in the same sort of coverage issues that apparently make those shootings more common by studies.
00:24:21.000If we are going to impute motives to people based on their activity, if we're going to say the NRA doesn't care about school shootings because their policies lead to more school shootings, not true but okay if that's your argument, then how can you say that the media obviously do care about mass shootings even when they continue to show names and faces of mass shooters on TV for ratings?
00:24:52.000David Hogg was completely right to shellack Dana Lash over her culpability in the Parkland shootings, but he was also completely right to ignore the culpability of Sheriff Israel in the Parkland shootings because the facts aren't out yet.
00:25:09.000The shooting survivors claiming that Dana and Senator Rubio are morally inferior human beings who don't care about the mass slaughter of innocent kids, but Americans are doing something deeply wrong if we question whether it's appropriate for survivors to impute nasty motives to those with whom they disagree.
00:25:23.000So in other words, if you're a survivor, you get to impute whatever motive you want to anybody else, but if I say, I'm going to impute a motive to you, which is a political motive, to how you are assessing blame, then I'm the bad guy for having politicized.
00:25:44.000People who are saying semi-automatic rifles must be banned because they're so commonly used in mass shootings, but then say that if I say the Second Amendment is under assault, I'm paranoid and crazy.
00:25:52.000Why would I possibly think the government wants to take away my rights?
00:25:55.000Why would I think I need a gun to protect the government from taking away my rights?
00:25:59.000And then at the same time, they say the government should remove my guns from my house.
00:26:05.000I saw an argument online today from some dolt that the Second Amendment should be interpreted to give everyone a musket, as opposed to the rifle that they currently have, right?
00:26:18.000That is equivalent to saying, it is the pure equivalent of saying that we should get rid of the internet, we should get rid of text messaging, we should get rid of the telegraph, we should get rid of the telephone.
00:26:25.000None of those are protected by the First Amendment.
00:26:27.000Your ability to speak on none of those is protected by the First Amendment because none of those things existed in 1791.
00:26:58.000Holding mass town hall events with mass shooting victims and witnesses before a stacked crowd of community gun control enthusiasts is journalism.
00:28:25.000And I just didn't grow up in the gun culture.
00:28:27.000It wasn't until I was threatened with death after I said to Piers Morgan that there was a Second Amendment right to own a gun that I actually went and bought a gun.
00:28:35.000And that's why people are buying guns now, because they feel like they are being assaulted for exercising their rights.
00:28:38.000They feel like they are being told what to do by a government and by a media who are intent on infringing their rights and getting no safety in return.
00:28:47.000It's not even like they're trading their gun away for safety.
00:28:59.000I mean, I hesitate to bring up Jimmy Kimmel again because Jimmy Kimmel says the dumbest possible thing about this kind of stuff, but yesterday he retweeted an account suggesting that Republicans would take money from ISIS because that's the same as taking money from the NRA.
00:29:10.000And then you wonder why people are joining the NRA at record numbers?
00:29:13.000You wonder why people like me are going out and looking to purchase a rifle?
00:29:16.000Because when you say you're going to infringe our rights and then you show that you can't defend me, of course I'm going to go out and get another gun.
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00:30:39.000The reason I was never enthused about this is because I always thought that the allegations were a little exaggerated.
00:30:44.000Recall, the allegation was that the FBI targeted then-candidate Trump, or president-elect Trump, in order to discredit him over Trump-Russia collusion ties.
00:31:01.000Now, I've always had a few problems with this.
00:31:03.000Number one, if this was the case, Trump could have declassified all the materials proving it.
00:31:06.000Number two, if they were actually trying to get Trump, why didn't any of this material leak into the public in the middle of the election cycle?
00:31:15.000And so the argument was forwarded by Devin Nunes.
00:31:17.000Devin Nunes is the House Intelligence Committee chair, and he wrote this four-page memo, six-page memo, in which he discussed supposed FBI malfeasance.
00:31:27.000What he suggested is that there was a Trump former foreign policy advisor named Carter Page.
00:31:32.000Carter Page was apparently connected with Russia, or very friendly with the Russians, going all the way back to 2013, when there was a FISA warrant on him at that point, supposedly.
00:31:41.000Okay, so Carter Page was investigated by the FBI, and they took out a FISA warrant on him.
00:31:46.000Well, Devin Newton said there was harm and there was foul.
00:31:48.000He says that basically the FBI took what is known as the Steele dossier, and they used it in order to get the FISA warrant against Carter Page.
00:31:58.000His argument was that the Steele dossier was a compendium of bad intel by Christopher Steele, who didn't like President Trump, and it was a piece of OPPO research put together by Fusion GPS through Christopher Steele at the behest of the Clinton campaign.
00:32:13.000So basically, Hillary Clinton paid for information that went from the Russian government to Christopher Steele.
00:32:18.000That information was used by the FBI to go get a warrant against Carter Page in an attempt to tie together the Trump-Russia collusion
00:32:47.000That said, it didn't look to me like there was anything that suggested the FBI was specifically targeting Page in order to get to Trump.
00:32:54.000It looked to me more like they suspected Page, they got a flimsy warrant based on material they suspected was true, and it hasn't panned out yet.
00:33:07.000Okay, so the real accusation, the most damning accusation in the Nunes memo, was that the FISA warrant that was gotten on behalf of the Steele dossier, when they got the warrant, the FBI lied to the FISA court.
00:33:18.000They lied to the FISA court by telling the FISA court that the actual Steele dossier was not OPPO research, or at least they didn't show that it was OPPO research.
00:33:26.000So they didn't say it was OPPO research.
00:33:28.000If they had said that, then the court would have taken it less seriously, and then they wouldn't have granted the FISA warrant.
00:33:32.000Okay, so now Adam Schiff, who is in fact a leaker, he's a radical Democrat from California.
00:33:38.000He's from my district, I believe, or the district over.
00:33:42.000No, he has come out with a new memo, and his memo is an attempt to rebut Devin Newton's memo.
00:33:59.000That originally the investigation started in July 2016 thanks to investigation into Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos having nothing to do with Carter Page.
00:34:07.000So the idea that the entire Trump-Russia collusion investigation is fruit of the poisonous tree based on a bad FISA warrant, that's not the case.
00:34:14.000Okay, claim number two is that the Steele memo was not the sole basis for the FISA application.
00:34:57.000It's possible that the FBI believed the Steele memo was filled with real information because Steele had a history of working with the FBI and passing them real information.
00:35:06.000But then again, there's the Nunes allegation that the application did not include the fact that the Steele memo, the Steele dossier, was actually paid for by the Clintons.
00:35:15.000Okay, so Schiff goes on, he says, He also says there was no wiretap on the Trump campaign because Page was not working for Trump at the time of the surveillance.
00:35:21.000That claim by Schiff is probably the most dicey of all because
00:35:34.000The warrants against Page allows for retroactive searches of his messages, including the time that he was on the Trump campaign.
00:35:40.000So, Page obviously was being investigated for Trump campaign connections.
00:35:47.000Also, but the biggest claim that is made by Schiff in this memo is that he actually lets the application speak for itself.
00:35:55.000So Nunes' memo claims that the FBI did not tell the FISA court exactly how biased the dossier process was, the information gathering process was.
00:36:14.000This would be Fusion GPS's Glenn Simpson, who indicated to Source One, that'd be Steele, that a U.S.-based law firm had hired the identified U.S.
00:36:22.000person to conduct research regarding Candidate One's ties to Russia.
00:36:33.000person never advised Source Number One as to the motivation behind the research into Candidate One's ties to Russia.
00:36:40.000The FBI speculates, now this is the key, the FBI speculates that the identified U.S.
00:36:44.000person was likely looking for information that could be used to discredit Candidate One's campaign.
00:36:50.000So it says right there in the application, let me read that again slowly.
00:36:52.000It says, in the application, the FBI speculates that the identified U.S.
00:36:56.000person, that'd be Fusion GPS's Glenn Simpson, was likely looking for information that could be used to discredit candidate number one's campaign, that could be used to discredit Trump's campaign.
00:37:06.000When I read that, that says to me that the FBI did in fact tell the courts that this was oppo research.
00:37:10.000That sounds to me like them telling the courts oppo research.
00:37:13.000It doesn't sound to me like they were hiding the ball.
00:37:21.000Again, would that have prevented the court, if the court knew that it was Apple Research, would that have prevented the court from actually granting the FISA warrant?
00:37:28.000They would have said, okay, we trust that your source, Steele, has worked with you guys before, and he's provided you good information, and we assume that you did some checking into the veracity of the information.
00:37:40.000Now, here's where it gets a little bit problematic for the FBI, because they didn't apparently do a lot of checking into the information regarding the allegations made in the Steele dossier.
00:37:50.000Andy McCarthy says yes over at National Review.
00:37:54.000Andy McCarthy is defending the Nunes memo.
00:37:58.000He says that the FBI should have told the FISA Court that the Russians considered Page an idiot, which they had said in some intercepted conversations.
00:38:05.000They should have known the Steele dossier was nonsense because FBI agent Bruce Ohr worked for Fusion GPS and knew Steele did not want Trump to become president.
00:38:13.000So the FBI should have revealed that Steele was biased against Trump.
00:38:17.000And that the FBI's language was misleading, since they knew Steele was doing opera research for Hillary.
00:38:21.000And also, that Lisa Page and Peter Strzok's bias — remember, these are the FBI agents who were texting each other about how much they hated Trump — that matters, because they worked on the investigative team together.
00:39:20.000All of the allegations that are currently being made by the Democrats have so far been unsupported by evidence.
00:39:25.000All of the indictments that have been brought down by Mueller have nothing to do with collusion.
00:39:29.000The indictments against Manafort are for him working with the Russian government before he knew Trump.
00:39:34.000All of the activity with Rick Gates involves Manafort and the Ukrainian government, but nothing to do with Trump.
00:39:40.000The George Papadopoulos thing involves him lying to the FBI, but it's not clear at all that he was funneling information up the chain to Trump.
00:39:47.000Mike Flynn was indicted not for corrupt carryings on during the campaign, but for making a phone call to the Russian government while he was still in the transition period, and then lying about it to the FBI.
00:39:58.000So he was charged with obstruction, not even with collusion or any crime that could plausibly be called conspiracy.
00:40:04.000So a lot of the talk about how the Trump-Russia investigation is proceeding apace, I think this ends with maybe some obstruction charges against some folks, but I don't see this being the blockbuster that the left really wants.
00:40:18.000So there is your update on MemoGate 2018.
00:40:23.000But it's important to debunk this stuff because you're seeing partisans on both sides jump to conclusions.
00:40:27.000People on the left saying, obviously everything was fine, and people on the right saying, obviously... and people on the right saying, obviously...
00:40:35.000The FBI is a bad organization, all the rest.
00:40:37.000I don't think either of those things are true.
00:40:39.000I think the FBI cuts corners on a pretty routine basis on FISA warrants, and I think this is another case of that.
00:40:44.000I don't know that it was an attempt to quote-unquote get Trump by the deep state, which is the accusation that's currently being made over and over and over.
00:40:53.000That the President of the United States is talking about various policies on gun control right now.
00:41:00.000He's talking about arming what he calls adept teachers.
00:41:04.000The President of the United States is also talking about using the gun violence restraining orders.
00:41:09.000This is a topic that I have talked about a little bit before, recommended by David French over at National Review.
00:41:15.000This was the policy that would allow family members, close friends, to apply to courts to temporarily withhold your capacity to have a gun or buy a gun based on your mental health.
00:41:24.000This seems to me perfectly reasonable.
00:41:26.000The president also made a comment today that was not quite so reasonable, where he suggested that he would run into—that he was ripping into the deputy again in Parkland, and he said, I would have run in there unarmed.
00:43:48.000I did not get him a present other than this, but this should suffice because, I mean, this is the most famous he's ever gonna be, is me talking about him right now.
00:43:54.000So Mathis, congratulations on your birthday.
00:43:57.000And yes, that's right, you get ripped even on your birthday.
00:43:59.000Because you knew that, though, coming in here today, dude.
00:45:00.000Ivanka Trump went to South Korea for the Olympics, the very end of the Olympics, and an Olympic skier named Gus Kenworthy, who apparently is also, he also stars as Robb Stark, apparently.
00:45:14.000I guess in Game of Thrones, you'll see what I mean when we show a picture of him.
00:45:18.000He came out and said, what is Ivanka Trump doing here?
00:45:20.000Well, what Ivanka Trump is doing there is that she's the daughter of the president of the United States, and she's going there for goodwill.
00:46:27.000I mean it is absurd to have women who are taking heavy doses of what would be banned drugs if they were taking them for athletic purposes suddenly being allowed to wrestle girls who are not allowed to take those drugs for competitive purposes.
00:46:40.000So this woman, this girl who has muscles that are
00:46:44.000You know, man-looking muscles, let's put it that way.
00:46:48.000She just won the Texas class 6A championship in the girls division for the second year in a row.
00:46:54.000She is on a dosage of testosterone pursuant to her transition.
00:46:58.000And of course, she had a perfect 32-0 record against steroid-free girls she took on this season.
00:47:04.000And of course, some people booed and some people cheered.
00:47:06.000The wrestler's mother has argued the steroids are not really an advantage to her daughter, and that wrestling has more to do with skill and discipline.
00:47:12.000Okay, if that's the case, then why do we have to have separate divisions at all?
00:47:14.000Maybe men should just wrestle women, since testosterone doesn't matter and it's all technique.
00:47:17.000Okay, men have different body types than women, and testosterone gives you an advantage.
00:47:21.000This is why, if you're at the Olympics and you take testosterone, you will be banned from competition, as many Russians were.
00:47:33.000In Federalist 17, Alexander Hamilton makes the case that it does not threaten the Union to have a strong central government, that people should not feel threatened by a strong central government.
00:47:41.000That may seem like a laughable case to you now because the central government is so strong and so overpowering.
00:47:46.000He claims that the federal government would not want to interfere in every part of our life and usurp authority from the states.
00:47:52.000The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same state, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a similar nature, all those things in short, which are proper to be provided for by local legislation, can never be desirable cares of a general jurisdiction.
00:48:05.000He's saying that state business is going to remain state business.
00:48:07.000And he also says that because people are going to be more loyal to states than they are to the federal government,
00:48:13.000They will not take kindly to federal usurpations of state power.
00:48:18.000And the question now is why that isn't true.
00:48:38.000Some of it is the Civil War and the change in the balance of power between the states and the federal government, some of which had to happen in order to assure the rights of former slaves, black Americans.
00:48:48.000But there's something else that's happened too, and that is that Americans' belief in their local community has completely fallen by the wayside.
00:48:55.000As we become more atomized, as we engage less socially, as we work less with our neighbors,
00:48:59.000Our adherence to community loyalty is dumped in favor of adherence to broader national ideals, I would say.
00:49:07.000And that's why you see local communities being ignored so often in favor of women's marches and million man marches, or March for Life marches, these widespread public events.