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00:00:00.000John Kerry violates the Logan Act, Rudy Giuliani makes the rounds, and there's a reason that people think that feminist studies professors are all sticks in the mud.
00:01:29.000Alright, so, over the weekend there was a lot of hubbub about the Mueller investigation and the evils of the Trump administration and the supposed dishonesty therein.
00:01:44.000But there's another story that the media seemed to have been paying less attention to, but that is, in fact, a lot more troubling.
00:02:24.000Took him to New York on a Sunday afternoon two weeks ago, where more than a year after he left office, he engaged in some unusual shadow diplomacy with a top-ranking Iranian official.
00:02:32.000Now, just before I go any further, let's recall something.
00:02:35.000Mike Flynn was the former National Security Advisor.
00:02:38.000And you remember that Mike Flynn got in all sorts of trouble because he lied to the FBI about the fact that he had been calling up the Russians after the election.
00:02:45.000And just as before he was supposed to take his official role as National Security Advisor, he'd been calling up the Russian ambassador and having conversations about sanctions with regard to Israel.
00:03:30.000Here you have an actual former Secretary of State who is not in any way connected with the current government of the United States, going around and attempting to perform his own foreign policy on foreign soil as well as domestic soil.
00:03:43.000He sat down at the United Nations with Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, who is the Foreign Minister of Iran, to discuss ways of preserving the pact limiting Iran's nuclear weapons program.
00:03:50.000It was the second time in about two months the two had met to strategize over salvaging a deal they spent years negotiating during the Obama administration, according to a person briefed on the meetings.
00:03:59.000With the Iran deal facing its gravest threat since it was signed in 2015, Kerry has been on an aggressive yet stealthy mission to preserve it, using his deep lists of contacts gleaned during his time as the top U.S.
00:04:08.000diplomat to try to apply pressure on the Trump administration from the outside.
00:04:12.000Trump is now firing back, by the way, on Kerry.
00:04:15.000Kerry met last month with the German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
00:04:18.000He's been on the phone with top EU official Federica
00:04:21.000Okay, but this has gone relatively unremarked upon by the mainstream media.
00:04:24.000Remember, again, Mike Flynn might end up in jail because he supposedly lied about
00:04:42.000Doing something that was completely not illegal.
00:04:45.000But John Kerry is doing the same thing except it could very well be illegal and that is not a big deal at all.
00:04:50.000So Donald Trump has responded now to John Kerry and Donald Trump tweeted out,
00:05:21.000He continues to suggest that it is his job to do foreign policy.
00:05:29.000Again, just pointing out the hypocrisy of a left that suggested that Michael Flynn was the world's worst criminal for calling the Russians well.
00:05:35.000He was the incoming national security advisor, but the former Secretary of State can do whatever he wants.
00:05:39.000Rudy Giuliani made this point on national TV over the weekend.
00:05:43.000Certainly before April 5, 2018, the president knew that Michael Cohen had made these payments because he, in fact, had reimbursed Michael Cohen for them.
00:05:50.000I don't know, and I don't think it's at all relevant anymore.
00:05:53.000This is another tangent like, you know, chasing the Flynn tangent, when it turns out that John Kerry is now violating the Logan Act, and nobody seems to care.
00:06:02.000Right, and then Giuliani is exactly right about this.
00:06:04.000Nobody's asked him about the Kerry-Logan Act violation, of course.
00:06:08.000By the way, we're now finding out the FBI is not interested in investigating the text sent between Carter Page and Lisa—sorry, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
00:06:18.000So there's no interest in investigating the text of the FBI agents who apparently were texting with each other while they were having an affair.
00:06:25.000Both were married about Donald Trump and the investigation.
00:06:29.000But every page of Donald Trump's memoirs has to be dug through.
00:06:32.000Michael Cohen has to be dug out of the closet.
00:06:35.000All of his files have to be put before the FBI.
00:06:37.000Again, if this all turns out to be just a campaign finance thing, this is really egregious overstep by the FBI.
00:06:42.000If the Mueller investigation turns out to be nothing but a giant fishing expedition, that is going to reflect horribly, not only on the FBI, but also on the DOJ that has allowed this to go forward.
00:06:53.000Who was the Deputy Attorney General who appointed Robert Mueller.
00:06:56.000He has to set the basis for the Mueller investigation.
00:06:59.000He actually has to set the limits of the Mueller investigation.
00:07:02.000And the Mueller investigation was originally supposed to be limited to Trump-Russia collusion and all of the elements that were related there too.
00:07:08.000But now we're all the way at Michael Cohen and Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort and all this kind of stuff.
00:07:13.000Now judges are beginning to look at the scope of the Mueller investigation and they're saying, this has nothing to do with your original investigation.
00:07:19.000Now, does that mean that Paul Manafort, for example, is off the hook?
00:07:21.000No, you could have an attorney general in the District of New York suddenly take up the Manafort case.
00:07:26.000But the question is, what is the scope, the proper scope of the Mueller investigation?
00:07:30.000And again, when you go back and you read the original Rosenstein memo that was appointing Robert Mueller to the special counsel, it was quite
00:07:42.000But now they've gone far beyond that, and that's why over the weekend, according to Politico, a federal judge has rejected special counsel Robert Mueller's request to delay the first court hearing in a criminal case charging three Russian companies and 13 Russian citizens with using social media and other means to foment strife among Americans in advance of the 2016 U.S.
00:08:02.000District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich offered no explanation for her decision to deny a request prosecutors made Friday to put off a scheduled Wednesday arraignment for Concord Management and Consulting, one of the three firms charged in the case.
00:08:15.000So, the 13 people charged in the high-profile indictment in February are considered unlikely to ever appear in a U.S.
00:08:20.000court, and the judges are looking askance at Mueller's prosecutors.
00:08:24.000They're saying that Mueller's prosecutors do not have the authority to actually go after anyone on these grounds.
00:08:30.000Mueller's team sends a formal copy of the sanctions to all these people, and then they submitted it to the judge, and the judge is not interested.
00:08:33.000The judge is basically saying that this is a waste of time, that there is no supporting legal authority to any of this.
00:08:58.000Again, if this all turns out to be a giant wild goose chase, it's one of the worst abuses of power in modern American history, honestly.
00:09:05.000To run the presidency ragged for a year and a half and bankrupt a bunch of people in the Trump administration over nothing is a pretty astonishing thing.
00:09:13.000Meanwhile, the Michael Cohen investigation, which is not taking place under the auspices of Mueller, is continuing apace.
00:09:18.000That, of course, was an FBI raid on Michael Cohen's office.
00:09:21.000Michael Cohen, you'll recall, is the personal attorney of President Trump, and that investigation is being pursued not by Mueller's office, but by the U.S.
00:09:28.000District Attorney in the Southern District of New York.
00:09:33.000Trump's new lawyer is attempting to go around and explain why Trump didn't do anything illegal.
00:09:37.000The case he's making for why Trump didn't do anything illegal is he's saying there was no campaign finance implication at all to Trump paying Stormy Daniels $130,000 to shut up.
00:09:45.000He says, basically, Trump has a slush fund with Michael Cohen.
00:09:47.000There are probably payments out of this fund regularly to shut up stories about Donald Trump, which means this had nothing to do with the campaign.
00:09:54.000So it may be gross, it may be seedy, it may be yucky, but it's not actually a violation of law.
00:10:00.000You said this was a regular arrangement you had with Michael Cohen.
00:10:02.000So did Michael Cohen make payments to other women for the president?
00:10:05.000I have no knowledge of that, but I would think if it was necessary, yes.
00:10:11.000He made payments for the president, or he conducted business for the president, which means he had legal fees, monies laid out, and expenditures, which I have on my bills to my clients.
00:10:22.000OK, so the case that Giuliani is making legally here, people are going crazy over this.
00:10:26.000Kellyanne Conway saying, I'm not sure why anyone would say what Giuliani is saying.
00:10:30.000Here's Kellyanne Conway trying to move away from Rudy Giuliani.
00:10:33.000But Giuliani has a legal strategy here, and it does make some sense.
00:10:52.000Okay, so the case that's being made by Giuliani, and sort of here by Kellyanne Conway, is that Trump regularly pays off his mistresses.
00:10:59.000And so, if he paid off a mistress right before the election, that was by coincidence, because he basically gives a giant chunk of change to Michael Cohen every year, and Michael Cohen basically shuts down any rumors that he's having sex with porn stars.
00:11:10.000That's not completely implausible, but it is not great for the President of the United States to be saying that, except that it's Trump and we all know that he's doing this stuff anyway.
00:11:18.000No one's really shocked by any of this.
00:11:19.000And if you are shocked, it's because you haven't watched Donald Trump any time for the last 40 years.
00:11:23.000I mean, this has been his shtick for a really long time.
00:11:26.000The real danger to Trump, you know, if he can make this case, then it's not a danger to Trump.
00:11:31.000The real danger to Trump is only going to be self-imposed, and I'll explain in a second why the only person who can damage Trump in a lot of these legal proceedings is going to be Trump himself.
00:11:39.000But first, I want to say thanks to our sponsors over at MVMT.
00:11:41.000So you've heard me talk about MVMT, and you know those two college dropouts that started their own watch company?
00:12:59.000Okay, so the only person who can really damage Trump, it seems, if Trump is telling the truth and he had this giant slush fund and he was always paying off mistresses,
00:13:06.000Then the Cohen thing will probably come to nothing.
00:13:08.000Cohen might be hit with a campaign finance violation, but that's about it.
00:13:11.000Cohen might be hit for some ancillary violations, but it's not going to damage Trump.
00:13:15.000Which brings us back to the Mueller investigation.
00:13:16.000The only thing that could hurt President Trump in the Mueller investigation is if he goes off half-cocked and decides that it would be a very, very smart idea for him to suddenly, for no reason at all, fire Robert Mueller because Mueller's not going anywhere and he's annoying me.
00:13:29.000I'm going to rip off the band-aid and fire him.
00:13:45.000No one knows because we're only hearing leaks.
00:13:47.000But because it gives the impression that he's trying to hide something, even if he's really just annoyed.
00:13:52.000Trump fires people when he gets annoyed.
00:13:53.000He doesn't fire them when they're ineffective.
00:13:55.000He doesn't fire them when they're bad at their job.
00:13:57.000He fires them when he personally is annoyed by them.
00:13:59.000And this is the case with James Comey.
00:14:01.000Now it's the case with Robert Mueller.
00:14:03.000But you can see that the groundwork is being set by certain members of the Trump administration to do this.
00:14:07.000So here's Rudy, Trump's lawyer again, who's saying, you know, if Mueller grants, if he sends a subpoena, if there's a grand jury subpoena for President Trump to testify, Trump does not have to comply.
00:14:16.000What happens if Robert Mueller subpoenas the president?
00:15:01.000is the House Intelligence Committee chairman, and he's saying that he wants to hold Jeff Sessions in contempt, the Attorney General.
00:15:07.000He's saying the DOJ is stonewalling Congress on a bunch of material.
00:15:10.000Now, the DOJ does have an obligation to turn over all that material.
00:15:13.000Congress is an oversight body for the DOJ, and the DOJ does have to turn over these materials.
00:15:18.000The DOJ is saying, listen, we don't have to turn over confidential materials in the middle of an investigation, because that doesn't comply with regulation.
00:15:24.000Nunes is now saying he wants to hold Sessions in contempt.
00:15:26.000Now, remember, this is Nunes doing Trump's dirty work.
00:16:02.000The only thing left that we can do is we have to move quickly to hold the Attorney General of the United States in contempt.
00:16:08.000OK, so in just a second, I'm going to show you more evidence that the Trump administration seems to be moving against Mueller and seems to be moving against anyone who would protect Mueller.
00:16:16.000So, for example, Rudy Giuliani, he comes out yesterday, he says, listen, here's what Trump wants.
00:16:21.000Trump wants the Hillary Clinton treatment from Robert Mueller.
00:16:24.000So Hillary Clinton got kid glove treatment from the FBI and the DOJ.
00:16:28.000Again, the implication being that if Mueller doesn't give that sort of treatment, then suddenly he's going to turn around and fire Mueller.
00:16:33.000I'd rather have the Hillary Clinton treatment.
00:16:36.000Yeah, I think President Clinton was before the jury, before more than two and a half hours.
00:16:40.000No, he was two and a half hours in the grand jury.
00:17:04.000Now, what's interesting is that the people who have political aspirations inside the Trump administration are not saying quite the same thing, right?
00:17:10.000Nikki Haley is saying, no, you know, let's let this probe go.
00:17:13.000And the reason she's saying that is, of course, she doesn't want to be seen as someone who's stonewalling on behalf of the president.
00:17:18.000I have a feeling there's a Nikki Haley-Donald Trump confrontation coming sometime in the relatively near future here.
00:17:24.000Here is Haley's statement when asked about the Mueller investigation.
00:18:11.000Right now, they are staking a lot of 2018 on, if you put us in a majority in the House, then we will impeach President Trump.
00:18:18.000But the polls are not really very much in support of the idea of impeaching President Trump.
00:18:22.000Most Americans are not thrilled with the idea that there are going to be impeachment hearings and throw Trump out of office on the basis of what?
00:18:30.000Jonathan Karl is right that the best thing that could happen, Jonathan Karl, the reporter from ABC News, he's right.
00:18:35.000The best thing that could probably happen here for the Republicans is for Democrats to start pushing impeachment on the basis of zero evidence at this point.
00:18:42.000The Republicans that are running this strategy, in terms of from Capitol Hill, don't necessarily want that.
00:18:48.000It's a district-by-district, state-by-state effort.
00:18:50.000Some of those candidates will have to distance themselves from Donald Trump.
00:18:53.000But the Trump political team believes that you have to make this all about, you have to make this a referendum on impeachment, a referendum on the president.
00:19:02.000I mean, I think that if the Democrats push for impeachment, that backfired against Republicans after they tried to impeach Clinton in 1998, 1999.
00:19:09.000And I think it will backfire against, yeah, I think it will backfire against Democrats if they try it now.
00:19:14.000Karen Finney is a former spokesperson for Hillary Clinton, and she's admitting that if Democrats try to push for impeachment, it's actually going to be very bad for them.
00:19:21.000And the Democrats cannot let that happen because, I agree with you, that is the way to fire up that base.
00:19:27.000I mean, part of why the messaging from the Democrats does matter is they've got to try to keep the president's numbers as low as they can and create as much of a wedge for Republicans who are either running for re-election or running in these races.
00:19:38.000It's part of what we've seen, the challenge that they've had already in these special elections.
00:19:42.000But this is the problem that Democrats have with their own base.
00:19:45.000While the politicos understand that you can get your own base revved up with the impeachment talk, most Americans don't like it.
00:19:50.000The Democratic base only wants to talk impeachment.
00:19:52.000And Michael Knowles, the ex-Gribble Michael Knowles, he actually made a really good point over the weekend.
00:19:56.000Only time you'll ever hear me say this.
00:19:58.000Michael Knowles actually came out and he said, listen, Stormy Daniels is the de facto head of the Democratic Party, and that's basically right.
00:20:04.000They're now using Stormy Daniels as the physical embodiment of the Trump lies argument.
00:20:10.000And you can see this right on SNL, they featured Stormy Daniels on Saturday night.
00:20:13.000And she got a big cheer, Stormy Daniels.
00:20:15.000Because she slept with the president once?
00:20:17.000And then she reneged on a $130,000 settlement agreement?
00:20:20.000But listen to the cheers she gets from the crowd when she appears.
00:20:23.000And then this little segment on SNL turns into, what it really turns into is her stumping for Trump's impeachment and the crowd cheering it along.
00:22:54.000You know, when you look at SNL's treatment of Stormy Daniels, what you see is that they're treating her like she's a heroine.
00:22:59.000The Democratic Party believes that Stormy Daniels is going to save them.
00:23:02.000She's going to come like deus ex machina, going to come from the outside and somehow save the Democratic Party from the predations of Donald Trump.
00:23:10.000Well, people are pointing out that this is not the first time that a former lover of the President of the United States has appeared on television on SNL.
00:23:17.000Particularly, Monica Lewinsky did an actual cameo in 1998.
00:23:20.000But you actually have to see how Monica Lewinsky treats Bill Clinton in this little cameo.
00:23:25.000It's not about Bill Clinton's resignation anymore.
00:23:27.000She basically tut-tuts him for being a bit of a sleaze.
00:24:50.000And he's already planning who he wants at his funeral.
00:24:52.000So the left is very, very excited because McCain has said he does not want Donald Trump at his funeral.
00:24:57.000According to NBC News, people close to Senator McCain have told the White House the ailing Arizona Republican does not want Trump to attend his funeral and would like Vice President Mike Pence to come and said.
00:25:04.000A source close to McCain confirmed to NBC News.
00:25:08.000He's been battling an aggressive form of brain cancer for nearly a year, and he's back home in Arizona after undergoing surgery last month.
00:26:28.000So you can predict how this thing was going to go.
00:26:31.000According to Catherine Mangan, who's the reporter at Chronicle of Higher Education, political theory professor Richard Ned Lebow of King's College was in an elevator with a bunch of other humans, including professor Simona Chironi, who teaches women's and gender studies at Merrimack College.
00:26:47.000And Chironi, who clearly had been conditioned to submit to the patriarchy, she offered to hit buttons on the elevator.
00:26:53.000And that's when Liebaud did the unthinkable.
00:26:55.000He jokingly asked for the women's lingerie department.
00:26:57.000Which has been like a joke since the 1950s, that you get on an elevator with a bunch of people, and then somebody says, which button would you like to hit?
00:27:11.000Okay, this women's studies professor complained to the International Studies Association just as an empowered woman would.
00:27:18.000She went and she whined to the male bosses of the ISA.
00:27:21.000She tremblingly wrote, quote, I am still trying to come to terms with the fact that we froze and didn't confront him for making a joke about the women's lingerie department in an elevator.
00:27:31.000Okay, they launched a full investigation of Liebau.
00:27:36.000She wrote to him, and he wrote back, quote, And then he suggested that Chironi, who was born in Romania and raised in Israel, might have misinterpreted his remark.
00:27:45.000When he was young in the 1950s, he said, And then he wrote,
00:27:58.000As such evils continue, it seems to me to make sense to direct our attention to real offenses, not those that are imagined or marginal.
00:28:05.000By making a complaint to ISA that I consider frivolous, and I expect will be judged this way by the Ethics Committee, you may be directing time and effort away from the real offenses that trouble us both.
00:28:50.000Instead, the association said that Liebau, this professor, had to write an unequivocal apology.
00:28:55.000Liebau said no, because he's not a ridiculous stupid moron.
00:28:58.000Instead, he wrote an email calling the entire situation, quote, a horrifying and chilling example of political correctness that encourages others to censor their remarks for fear of retribution.
00:29:12.000Women and other marginalized groups in the academy had to put up with white men who decided what counts as a violation and what is frivolous.
00:29:20.000As someone who has dedicated her life to confronting sexism and other forms of discrimination and oppression in academic spaces, I cannot and will not remain silent when misogyny is at play.
00:29:29.000You can hear the swelling music from behind and you get the upshot with the lights behind her and you see her in profile.
00:29:34.000She looks out staring into the sun because of the magical thing she's just done in resisting a joke about a women's lingerie department.
00:29:45.000And then people wonder why people think that gender studies professors are humorless scolds you would never want to spend any time in an elevator with.
00:29:51.000Probably because they're humorless scolds that you wouldn't want to spend any time in an elevator with.
00:31:14.000Okay, so, meanwhile, speaking of extremism on the left, there's a CNN columnist who's now explaining that violence, all violence in the United States, is due to the patriarchy.
00:32:01.000Why you think Michael Knowles has anything to answer you is beyond me, but you get to ask him any question that you want, including why he has hairless legs.
00:32:08.000Alicia Krauss will be there to host it and keep Knowles in line, which is a really, really difficult job.
00:33:08.000We are the largest conservative podcast in the nation.
00:33:16.000So talking about the polarization and extremism of the left and the fact that they want to impeach Donald Trump, the fact that you have feminist studies professors who are attempting to shut down jokes in elevators, well, the latest example comes courtesy of CNN.
00:33:28.000There's a community organizer there named Richard Edmund Vargas, and he has finally cracked the code to violence in American society.
00:34:36.000It's because men are built to be more violent than women.
00:34:39.000And finally, it's really funny that this guy wants to blame the entire patriarchy when it is in fact lack of men in society that is leading to a violent uptick where there is a violent uptick.
00:34:48.000Single motherhood is one of the leading indicators in American society of criminality among young men.
00:34:53.000It's very weird that Vargas is willing to blame a culture of American patriarchalism at large for violence, rather than looking at specific cultures that have a violence problem and saying, OK, what do all of these things have in common?
00:35:09.000One of the things that they have in common is lack of men in the community teaching boys that they are safe, that they don't need to react violently, and that it is, in fact, bad to react violently.
00:35:17.000Instead, Vargas blames cartoons, video games, and contemporary politicians, which is just idiotic.
00:35:22.000Cartoons have been around since the 1940s, 1930s.
00:35:41.000That's what it's supposed to be mocking.
00:35:43.000Okay, those cartoons have gotten less violent.
00:35:45.000Video games, very little evidence to show that playing video games makes you violent.
00:35:48.000In fact, there's virtually no evidence to show that.
00:35:51.000And contemporary politicians, again, blaming Trump, I understand.
00:35:54.000It just shows how Trump has warped the minds of the left.
00:35:56.000Blaming Trump for upticks in violence is insane, considering that whatever uptick in violence has happened in the last couple of years predated him.
00:36:03.000The uptick in violent crime was due to the Ferguson effect in 2015 and 2016, as cops stopped getting aggressive in high-crime areas, and that led to an increase in crime generally.
00:36:14.000So where is Vargas getting his evidence for the idea that America's patriarchal society is responsible for the evils of violence?
00:36:34.000When I was 19, I followed this script and decided that committing robberies was an acceptable way to deal with the fact that I couldn't pay my rent.
00:36:40.000When my girlfriend offered to help me pay it, I saw accepting a woman's help as weakness and decided to rob instead.
00:36:45.000That led to me being sentenced to 10 years in state prison.
00:37:53.000Who are inculcating in their sons the idea that they have to be protectors of women and children.
00:37:57.000That they are not to act out violently.
00:37:59.000Maybe you need more men, not fewer men.
00:38:01.000Maybe you need more masculinity, not less masculinity.
00:38:04.000Maybe testosterone is not the problem.
00:38:06.000It's unchanneled testosterone because there's no other men there to deter the use of testosterone.
00:38:12.000You know why boys don't listen to their moms?
00:38:14.000Because boys, very often, are physically more powerful than their moms.
00:38:17.000Okay, talk to any guy who's alive now, right, any man who has lived through the age of 16 or 17 and ask them if they were really intimidated by their mom.
00:38:26.000But ask any of those men who grew up with powerful dads if they were afraid that if they crossed the line, their dad was going to whoop their butt.
00:38:41.000It's having a lot of men in the community at large.
00:38:44.000There's that study that I talked about a few weeks ago from Harvard, in which they looked at violent crime statistics, and what they found is that the leading indicator of depressing violent crime wasn't actually having a father in the home.
00:38:58.000It was having lots of fathers in the neighborhood.
00:38:59.000It was having an entire system of men.
00:39:02.000So getting rid of the men isn't the solution.
00:39:04.000And feminizing men isn't the solution either.
00:39:06.000The answer is channeling masculinity in a positive way that matters.
00:39:10.000Channeling masculinity in a special, positive way.
00:40:42.000By the way, it's also kind of nasty because it turns out that Jackson had vitiligo, right?
00:40:46.000So Jackson, there was a lot of suspicion that he was bleaching his skin, but it turns out that on his autopsy, they actually found he did have vitiligo, which actually makes your skin white.
00:41:14.000Okay, first of all, if you are worshiping cultural figures as gods, you got a bigger problem on your hands than Kanye West.
00:41:19.000It's Kanye West, a god in this time, awakened recently from a long public slumber to embrace Donald Trump.
00:41:23.000He hailed Trump as a brother, a fellow bearer of dragon energy, and impugned those who objected as suppressors of unpopular questions, thought police, whose tactics were based on fear.
00:41:47.000He says, the tragedy is so old, but even within it, there are actors, some who have chosen resistance and some like West, who have blithely chosen collaboration.
00:41:54.000So apparently, he is now a collaborator.
00:41:57.000And here is the amazing part of this ridiculously long and silly article.
00:42:05.000Because when Jackson sang and danced, when West samples or rhymes, they're tapping into a power formed under all the killing, all the beatings, all the rape and plunder that made America.
00:42:13.000The gift can never wholly belong to a singular artist, free of expectation and scrutiny, because the gift is no more solely theirs than the suffering that produced it.
00:42:20.000So in other words, Kanye West is not an individual.
00:43:41.000You're just like the person who killed Trayvon Martin.
00:43:43.000You are looking for the white freedom of Calabasas.
00:43:48.000I think that Ta-Nehisi Coates just proved Kanye West's point.
00:43:50.000Kanye West's entire point was, you won't let me think for myself, because you suggest that if I do, then I am betraying black people everywhere.
00:44:14.000And if he betrays that social milieu, then he has become a traitor, a race traitor.
00:44:18.000He finishes up Ta-Nehisi Coates by saying, I wonder what he might be if he could find himself back into connection, back to that place where he sought not a disconnected freedom of eye, but a black freedom that called him back, back to the bone and drum, back to Chicago, back to home.
00:44:32.000OK, well, maybe he doesn't need to be called back to Chicago, back to home.
00:44:36.000Maybe home is where you make it because you're an individual.
00:44:39.000But this clash between collective and individual is too much for Ta-Nehisi Coates to stand.
00:44:53.000Over the weekend, HBO is recommending, I have Amazon Prime and I subscribe to HBO, so one of HBO's documentaries is this fascinating documentary called Going Clear.
00:45:01.000Now, it started off as a book, and the book itself is quite good.
00:45:08.000If you've never followed what the Scientologists believe or what they do, what the Church of Scientology is, this is a really good introduction.
00:45:31.000And this is true whether you are secular or whether you're religious, because Scientology is not really particularly religious, right?
00:45:36.000The draw to Scientology, the original draw to Scientology, is psychological, right?
00:45:39.000It's, we are going to better you, we're going to make you stronger, we're going to make you a better version of you.
00:45:43.000It's only when you reach the upper levels of Scientology that they start giving you all the weird stuff about Xenu and Thetans and all that kind of stuff.
00:45:50.000But, it just shows how people who are looking for answers can be gulled into a lot of crazy stuff.
00:45:56.000Here is a little bit of the preview for Going Clear, Scientology and the Prison of Belief.
00:46:00.000Someone had told me there's this cult and it'll make anything possible in your life.
00:46:05.000I was deeply convinced that we were getting to save the world.
00:46:51.000So actually, I have a couple of things that I hate today.
00:46:53.000The first thing that I hate, there is this tweet that had, at last count, it was deleted, but it had almost two million views, I believe, on this little video.
00:47:02.000And it is a person who is berating a small Jewish child.
00:47:06.000I mean, this kid, how old is this kid?
00:47:09.000I mean, this kid looks the age of my daughter, maybe.
00:47:11.000And this is a Hasidic kid from probably Crown Heights, New York, walking around wearing a yarmulke.
00:47:17.000And what some of the more Hasidic members of the community do is, because they believe that you're supposed to let your side locks grow, the kid has really long side locks and the kid's hair is cut really, really short.
00:47:27.000So here is this video that it was being mocked, right?
00:47:37.000And again, this thing had like two million views on Twitter and everybody laughing at the kid and these stupid people who do this to the kid.
00:47:43.000The guy's standing there mocking the kid.
00:47:44.000He's not mocking the parents, he's mocking the kid.
00:48:24.000And what's amazing is that this, of course, there have been a couple of beatings of Hasidic guys in New York in the last few weeks, like anti-Semitic beatings of Hasidic guys in New York.
00:48:33.000It's been largely unremarked upon by national media because only certain, only certain beatings get actually covered by the national media.
00:48:40.000If there's an Islamophobic beating, for example, an Islamophobic attack, well-deserved media coverage.
00:48:44.000If there's an anti-Semitic attack, only if it's Trump supporter, if it's an alt-right guy, for example, then it gets media.
00:48:49.000But if it's a black guy attacking a Hasidic kid in New York, which is what that sounds like, then, and if you look at the comments and the person who tweeted it out, the person who tweeted it out is black,
00:49:07.000If you look at the polls, anti-Semitism inside the black community is much higher than anti-Semitism in the white community, which is a real problem, and it's something that needs to be dealt with internally in the black community, but it's...
00:49:21.000You know, the media won't cover any of this stuff because you're not allowed to say that the intersectional coalition actually has fault lines, that black people, that the polls show that the black community has more of an anti-Semitism problem than the white community, because obviously blacks are supposed to be allied with Jews, and all of them are supposed to be allied against the white power structure, but that is not the reality.
00:49:41.000The reality is that there are serious fault lines between a lot of these communities, and those need to be rectified in all directions.
00:50:44.000By the way, this is a public forum, so moving this guy off of the sidewalk.
00:50:49.000As long as he's not disturbing anyone is not actually a thing.
00:50:53.000But it just goes to show you the hypocrisy of the left when it comes to gun control.
00:50:56.000It only extends so far as their security guards.
00:50:59.000Okay, now time for a Federalist paper.
00:51:01.000Every week we do a Federalist paper here on the Ben Shapiro Show.
00:51:03.000We are all the way up to Federalist number 27.
00:51:05.000Alexander Hamilton wrote this one and it is all about the fears that the federal government would use the military to execute its laws.
00:51:11.000Now this Federalist paper is kind of weird because it actually has some holes in it.
00:51:14.000Hamilton argues that the people are not going to have to worry about the federal government cracking down using federal troops because they're only going to rebel.
00:51:21.000People are only going to rebel if the government sucks.
00:51:32.000So therefore, if they administer well, you're not going to have to worry about the military.
00:51:35.000That's not really a very good argument.
00:51:37.000That's an argument like, well, I'm worried that the police are going to come into my community and harm me.
00:51:41.000And the answer is, well, if you obey the laws, then the police won't come and harm you.
00:51:45.000Well, what if the laws are the question?
00:51:47.000What if the extent of the legal authority is the question itself?
00:51:50.000Okay, then Hamilton continues, he says,
00:52:09.000In other words, the more regular intercourse you have with the federal government, the more you're going to be likely to obey its commands.
00:52:27.000But at the same time, this should be a case for the federal government doing less.
00:52:33.000The more you deal with the federal government, the more you become dependent on the federal government.
00:52:36.000What Hamilton is using as an argument in favor of a standing military at the national level
00:52:43.000should actually be used as an argument in favor of less federal intervention, because the fact is, the more the government is interacting with you on a daily basis, the more you're going to accept them interacting with you on a daily basis, which they should not be in the first place.
00:52:55.000I think this argument actually cuts in the opposite direction of how Hamilton wants it to cut.
00:52:58.000Okay, we'll be back here tomorrow with all the latest.