New York AG Eric Schneiderman resigns after horrific sexual abuse allegations, the Obamas are back in the news, and the Hunger Games crowd shows up for the Met Gala. Ben Shapiro explains why so many people dress like freaks at the MET Gala, and why we should be more wary of government power and the restraints it places on our liberties. Ben also explains why we need to be more skeptical of the use of surveillance by the government to protect us from people in positions of power, including those in the executive and legislative branches of the executive, executive, and executive branches of our government, such as the White House, the Justice Department, the CIA, the FBI, the DOJ, the NYPD, the DEA, the Homeland Security Department, etc., etc. Ben also talks about why the president should be worried about being spied on and why he should be concerned about who is spying on him and what he is doing about it. And Ben explains why the Me Too movement is a good thing and why you should be scared of power and how to be a libertarian in the 21st century. Thanks to Helix Sleep for sponsoring the show! Stay tuned for the next episode of The Ben Shapiro Show! Subscribe to Ben Shapiro's new podcast, "The Ben Shapiro Podcast" on Apple Podcasts! and don't forget to rate, review, and subscribe to Ben's other podcast "The Dark Side Of" wherever you get your favorite podcast listening choices. Subscribe, review and subscribe! to get exclusive ad-free episodes of the show recommendations, and much more! - Ben's new book "The Devil Next Door" out there! is out now! The Dark Side of the Dark Lord is out! Ben's Take on the Dark Side's Guide to the New York Times' newest novel, Dark Lord's New York Magazine's newest novel is out on Amazon Prime Video, "Mr. John McCain's Most Powerful Man Is My Story," out on Tuesday, May 1st, so you won't want to be notified when there's a copy of the latest novel, too! by Ben Shapiro is out in paperback, too? and more! Subscribe to his new novel, The Dark Lord Is My Best Friend, Too Sensible, Too Effing Good, Too Badass, Too Good, You'll Hear About It, Too Smart, Too Sexy, Too Beautiful, Too Cool, Too Funny, Too Feminist, Too Weird, Too Sassy, and More!
00:00:00.000New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman resigns after horrific sexual abuse allegations, the Obamas are back in the news, and the Hunger Games crowd shows up for the Met Gala.
00:00:08.000I'm Ben Shapiro, this is the Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:14.000Oh man, I simply cannot wait to go through the Met Gala dresses, because let me tell you, people dress like freaks at the Met Gala, and I don't understand why.
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00:02:36.000Schneiderman, New York's Attorney General, has long been a liberal democratic establishment of women's rights, and recently has become an outspoken figure in the Me Too movement against sexual harassment.
00:02:45.000As New York State's highest ranking law enforcement officer, writes Farrow, Schneiderman, who is 63, has used his authority to take legal action against the disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein and to demand greater compensation for the victims of Weinstein's alleged crimes.
00:02:57.000Last month, when the Times and this magazine were awarded a joint Pulitzer for coverage of sexual harassment,
00:03:02.000Schneiderman issued a congratulatory tweet praising, quote, the brave women and men who spoke up about the sexual harassment they had endured at the hands of powerful men.
00:03:09.000Without these women, he noted, there would not be a national critical reckoning underway.
00:03:15.000As his prominence as a voice against sexual misconduct has risen, so too has the distress of four women with whom he has had romantic relationships or encounters.
00:03:22.000They accused Schneiderman of having subjected them to non-consensual physical violence.
00:03:26.000All have been reluctant to speak out, fearing reprisal, but two of the women, Michelle Manning Barish and Tanya Selvarantam, have talked to the New Yorker on the record because they feel that doing so could protect other women.
00:03:36.000They allege that Schneiderman repeatedly hit them, often after drinking, frequently in bed, and never with their consent.
00:03:41.000Manning Parish and Selva Ratnam categorized the abuse he inflicted on them as assault.
00:03:46.000They did not report their allegations to the police at the time.
00:03:48.000Both say they eventually sought medical attention after having been slapped hard across the ear and face and also choked.
00:03:53.000Selva Ratnam says that Schneiderman warned her he could have her followed and her phones tapped, and both say he threatened to kill them if they broke up with him.
00:04:00.000Schneiderman, of course, denies all of these allegations, but resigned literally three hours after the story broke.
00:04:06.000So a couple of things worth noting here.
00:04:07.000People in positions of power can do really horrible things, which is why it is deeply important that we have institutional checks on power.
00:04:14.000And when you have people who have the capacity to ruin your life with a phone tap, when you have people like Schneiderman running the Attorney General's office and threatening people,
00:04:24.000And this is why so many people ought to be more skeptical of power.
00:04:27.000It's why more people ought to be libertarian when it comes to the use of government power and the restraints on government power.
00:04:33.000A third romantic, former romantic partner of Schneiderman's told Manning, Barish, and Selva Ratnam he also repeatedly subjected her to non-consensual physical violence, but she told them that she is too frightened of him to come forward.
00:04:43.000The New Yorker has independently vetted the accounts they give for allegations.
00:04:46.000The fourth woman, an attorney who has held prominent positions in the New York legal community,
00:04:50.000Oh, that's what they're calling it now.
00:05:16.000So these stories are really, really wild.
00:05:38.000She recalls, quote, sometimes he told me to call him master and he'd slap me until I did.
00:05:42.000Selva Ratnam, who was born in Sri Lanka, has dark skin and she recalls that he started calling me his brown slave and demanding that I repeat that I was his property.
00:05:50.000So, um, yeah, sounds like a good liberal there.
00:05:55.000Schneiderman not only slapped her across the face, often four or five times back and forth with his open hand, he also spat at her and choked her.
00:06:01.000He was cutting off my ability to breathe, she says.
00:06:03.000Eventually, she says, we could rarely have sex without him beating me.
00:06:06.000In her view, Schneiderman is a misogynist and a sexual sadist.
00:06:09.000She says she often asked him to stop hurting her and tried to push him away.
00:06:12.000At other times, she gave in, rationalizing she could tolerate the violence if it only happened once or twice a week during sex.
00:06:17.000But the emotional and verbal abuse started increasing.
00:06:19.000The belittling and demeaning of me carried over into our non-sexual encounters.
00:06:22.000He told her to get plastic surgery to remove scars on her torso that had resulted from an operation to remove cancerous tumors.
00:06:28.000He criticized her hair and said she should get breast implants and buy different clothes.
00:06:31.000He mocked some of her friends as ditzes.
00:06:32.000And when these women attended a birthday celebration for her, he demanded that she leave just as cake was arriving.
00:06:37.000I began to feel like I was in hell, she says.
00:06:39.000Well, I mean, it seems like the hell would less be the criticism of your body and calling your friends ditzes and more the smacking the crap out of you and suggesting that you are his slave.
00:06:51.000Apparently, Schneiderman routinely drank heavily, a bottle and a half of wine or more.
00:08:29.000Do you ever sometimes wonder if President Trump is actually a hero from the future who's sent back to the past to warn us all of what's to come?
00:08:36.000Because when you look at his Twitter feed, there's a tweet for literally everything.
00:09:35.000It turns out that Eric Schneiderman is, in fact, the worst kind of human.
00:09:38.000Now, there are a couple of things to note about his presence in the MeToo movement.
00:09:42.000Harvey Weinstein tried to do the same thing.
00:09:43.000Harvey Weinstein, when he was first accused of abusing women, immediately said, listen, I've been a great defender of women.
00:09:48.000I supported Hillary Clinton for president.
00:09:50.000One of the things that's really good about the MeToo movement is that the MeToo movement has essentially said, look, your politics do not matter nearly as much as the stuff that you do to women.
00:09:58.000So in the past, Schneiderman probably would have been defended.
00:10:00.000In the past, there would have been a move to say, listen, Schneiderman,
00:10:03.000Yeah, he claims that this is all consensual, and it's a he said, she said, and that it was S&M kind of stuff, and these women didn't leave, right?
00:10:27.000That's a really good thing about the MeToo movement.
00:10:29.000It is also worth noting that people on the left are going to continue to claim coverage by the MeToo movement, just as Schneiderman has.
00:10:34.000You know, people like Schneiderman are going to continue to go out there and proclaim that they are allies of the MeToo movement, even if in the boudoir they are doing things that are at the very least untoward and at the very most abusive.
00:10:46.000And what the left has immediately done, is they say, well now that we got rid of Schneiderman, I mean, this shows that we are clean and we are honest.
00:10:52.000Unlike the right, which has retained President Trump, despite all the allegations against President Trump, you know, the left has dumped Schneiderman by the door.
00:11:00.000Now, the left didn't dump Schneiderman, right?
00:11:03.000Schneiderman said, I can't stand this anymore, I'm out, because he knew what was coming, and it was more of these reports, and none of them were going to be good for him.
00:11:10.000But President Trump has stood by and said, I'm denying all of this.
00:11:14.000So denial still has a certain amount of power in the public mind.
00:11:17.000Plus, people on the right do not trust people on the left to actually be consistent about this.
00:11:21.000They figured that Schneiderman was going to go down anyway, and so Schneiderman went down.
00:11:24.000But they are still happy to have the Kennedy Center, to have the Met Gala, even though the Kennedys were some of the worst people with regard to treatment of women in the history of modern American politics.
00:11:33.000I want to talk a little bit more about the differences between Trump and Schneiderman in just a second and what the right should do about President Trump's pension for mistreatment of women or alleged pension for mistreatment of women in just a second.
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00:11:45.000So, you want to look the best you can.
00:11:46.000You don't want to look like the people over at the Met Gala.
00:11:48.000You don't want to look like you hijacked a Halloween costume from 1927.
00:13:00.000Okay, so the left is saying that the right are being hypocrites on Schneiderman.
00:13:04.000That we're sitting around and we're cheering the downfall of Eric Schneiderman, but we have yet to call for the resignation of President Trump over all of the allegations.
00:13:13.000Well, there are those of us who called for President Trump to actually drop out of the race when a lot of these allegations first hit in the middle of the campaign.
00:13:18.000The difference, again, between Eric Schneiderman, I've said this about Trump and Franken, I've said this about Trump and Schneiderman now.
00:13:40.000So we just found out about what was going on with Schneiderman, and that means that it's up to Schneiderman whether he wants to stick that out or not.
00:13:45.000You see, like, Eric Reitens, right, the governor of Missouri,
00:13:47.000He's been under fire for sexual abuse allegations as well, but he has not quit.
00:13:52.000And now there's a move to impeach him in the Missouri state legislature.
00:13:57.000Schneiderman knew that he was not going to stand up to the scrutiny of his fellow New Yorkers, and so he stepped down.
00:14:02.000Trump did stand up through the scrutiny of Americans, because Americans figured, okay, we'll take this guy, even though he's gross with women, we'll take him over Hillary Clinton.
00:14:10.000Once you're greenlit by the American public, with the American public knowing all the facts, it's difficult to call for somebody's resignation.
00:14:17.000Because again, the resignation would be in expectation of the idea that the American public would throw you out if they had the opportunity, but they haven't had the opportunity yet.
00:14:25.000So there's a big difference between a sex scandal hitting you after an election and a sex scandal hitting you before the election.
00:14:31.000Now, does that mean there's a moral differentiation between Trump's alleged treatment of women and Schneiderman's?
00:14:49.000Which is why when Stormy Daniels is on national TV and the left thinks that Stormy Daniels is somehow going to damage Trump, the answer is no, it's not going to damage Donald Trump, not in the slightest, because everyone knows who President Trump is.
00:14:59.000Everyone knows what President Trump has done.
00:15:01.000Everybody knows, you know, the kind of person that President Trump is.
00:15:05.000And none of this is any sort of grand shock with regard to Trump.
00:15:07.000Does that make Republicans hypocrites?
00:15:09.000You're not a hypocrite unless you say that what Trump did with women is okay.
00:15:13.000And again, it's not hypocrisy to say that Trump isn't obligated to resign if the public greenlit him after they already knew about all this stuff.
00:15:20.000If a lot of new stuff broke about President Trump, then there would be talk of resignation.
00:15:23.000But right now, it's premature because again, not much has changed.
00:15:28.000Speaking of one of the reasons that President Trump was elected in the first place, the Obamas are back on the scene.
00:15:32.000One of the great ironies of American politics is that Barack Obama really felt that he was the savior of American politics.
00:15:41.000A guy who spoke in glowing tones, super articulate, brilliant, bright, smart.
00:15:48.000Had all the grasp of politics at his fingers.
00:15:50.000And then it turns out the guy who replaces him is a reality TV show boob, according to Barack Obama.
00:15:55.000The reality, of course, is that Barack Obama was the reality TV show boob.
00:15:59.000He started off as this faux intellectual, and then he quickly morphed into a guy who was appearing with GloZell and showing up on every sporting event ever.
00:16:08.000And making a mockery of his office, not in the same way that Trump has done, but making a mockery of his office.
00:16:14.000By essentially turning it into a paparazzi special.
00:16:18.000Inviting everyone from Hollywood out there on a constant basis.
00:16:22.000Making overtures to the TV-watching public by appearing on television shows regularly that had nothing to do with politics.
00:16:29.000He was a reality TV show president, and he knew it.
00:16:42.000Important to note, all the talk about values that have, you know, Donald Trump undermining our values,
00:16:47.000Listen, I don't think that Trump has done a great job of restoring a lot of America's values when it comes to conciliation and decent discussion and treatment of other people on a decent level.
00:16:56.000I don't think that's something that matters to Trump very much.
00:16:58.000But we would be fools if we did not acknowledge that Trump is more of a symptom than a cause of all of this.
00:17:04.000Donald Trump was the apotheosis of a movement that was already happening.
00:17:07.000The left had decided that discussion was not worth having.
00:17:09.000The left had decided that based on your race, we could evaluate whether or not your view was worth hearing.
00:17:15.000Barack Obama was very instrumental in undermining core American values regarding unity, regarding the idea that we are all brothers and sisters, not enemies with one another.
00:17:24.000People believe that racial animus in the United States began to rise again, coincident with Barack Obama's move to racially polarize during the 2012 election.
00:17:33.000In 2008, people were really optimistic about race in this country.
00:17:35.000Now, people are really not optimistic about race in this country.
00:17:38.000That did not start because of President Trump.
00:17:41.000But Obama is going around now and pretending that he is some sort of moral halcyon.
00:17:44.000Here he is explaining that our values are not being upheld.
00:17:48.000It is important for us to make sure, regardless of our political proclivities, that the values underlying this great country don't get eroded because, situationally,
00:18:10.000In this particular circumstance, it's convenient for us to abandon our values to get what we want.
00:18:17.000OK, so I always wonder what he means when he says, our values are not being abandoned.
00:18:21.000He already abandoned a crap load of our values.
00:18:23.000Again, it was that undermining of values that helped lead to President Trump.
00:18:28.000Donald Trump is just a mirror held to American society.
00:18:30.000Donald Trump just says, listen, I'm going to strip away all the pretense.
00:18:34.000I'm going to strip away all of the pretty words that Barack Obama speaks.
00:18:37.000And what I am is what Barack Obama was, except flip side.
00:18:40.000I'm more than happy to strip away that pretense.
00:18:42.000And I think that's why people resonated to President Trump.
00:18:45.000Because while Barack Obama is talking about our values not being upheld, his wife, Michelle, is out there lamenting about little girls who want to get pregnant and have babies.
00:18:53.000I still think that our girls are taught to be perfect.
00:18:57.000And I think that they still dream of weddings and the security of the Prince Charming coming to say, I still think we do.
00:19:08.000I think, you know, I'm proud of what I hear from young girls, but I think something happens when they get to that stage where you're supposed to be married and have kids.
00:19:20.000Our fundamental values are being undermined, says Barack Obama, and then his wife goes on stage and talks about undermining traditional family values.
00:19:39.000But this idea from the left that they're not undermining American values, they're upholding American values, when they say things like Michelle Obama just said, that little girls who dream of weddings and getting married and having babies, that this is some sort of terrible evil thing, and that what they really should be dreaming about is a career.
00:20:08.000My mom worked and my dad was basically at home helping to raise the kids.
00:20:11.000You can choose to do what you want to do, but to obviate that choice and to pretend that the vast majority of women are not happier getting married and having babies is not only anti-social science, it's anti-nature.
00:20:21.000But then it's people on the right who are undermining values.
00:20:23.000It's Barack Obama who's bragging about how he is the great upholder of American values.
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00:23:52.000He says, quote, Magazines like The Atlantic and op-ed pages like The New York Times have long aimed to host a dialogue that represents the major intellectual currents on both sides of the aisle while upholding fundamental principles of civility, good faith, and respect for the equal dignity of all human beings.
00:24:06.000There was a tension in that mission before Trump.
00:24:08.000For decades, many of the American right's most influential voices had rejected these supposedly shared values, and many of the conservative movement's animating ideas were manifestly irrational and racist.
00:24:17.000Well, if you start from the premise that everybody on the right is irrational and racist, it sort of makes it difficult to have a conversation, you jerk.
00:24:23.000But he continues, I'm not sure who before Trump thought David Brooks was a good representative of conservatism.
00:24:26.000I remember criticizing David Brooks heavily before Donald Trump was ever on the scene.
00:24:41.000But according to this columnist over at New York Magazine, Brooks had proved useless, as did every conservative who had not voted for Trump, because Trump had overwhelmed all of them.
00:25:26.000I mean, says somebody on the left who believes those ideas on the far left.
00:25:30.000This wasn't the only piece yesterday to claim that conservatives ought to be thrown out of every hall of discussion.
00:25:37.000That conservatives who, of any stripe, should not be allowed to have open conversations with people on the left.
00:25:43.000At Crooked Media, Brian Butler, who was formerly the editor-in-chief of the New Republic before he was forced to resign in ignominy because he stunk at his job,
00:25:50.000He writes a piece saying that it is time to stop looking for conservative columnists.
00:25:53.000He declares that all conservatives reflect a wellspring of right-wing contempt for modern culture and for sources of neutral authority—science, law, journalism—that get in the way of conservative objectives.
00:26:05.000Did it ever occur to Brian Buechler that maybe the intolerant jackass here is Brian Buechler?
00:26:10.000Because if the implication is that everyone on the right disrespects science, law, and journalism, you're out of your mind.
00:26:15.000There's a really interesting, great piece today by Barry Weiss over at the New York Times.
00:26:21.000You should get a really in-depth look at what my friend Eric Weinstein has called the intellectual dark web.
00:26:25.000The intellectual dark web is a group of people who have become very successful outside the auspices of mainstream media.
00:26:31.000And they really range politically, right?
00:26:32.000It's people like me, and Jordan Peterson, and Brett Weinstein, who is a socialist, who voted for Bernie Sanders, and Eric, and Sam Harris, who's a militant atheist who voted for Hillary Clinton, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and Christina Hoff Sommers.
00:26:44.000There's this whole group of us, right?
00:26:46.000And Joe Rogan, who's really not super political, but asks questions.
00:26:50.000And this whole group of people have become known as the intellectual dark web, specifically because we disagree with each other, but we're willing to have conversations with each other, and because we all do believe in science law and journalism.
00:27:05.000Now, I may disagree with you about the implications of a particular scientific study.
00:27:10.000I may disagree with a particular scientific study and how it was conducted as opposed to other scientific studies, which is why when I'm arguing things like transgenderism, I cite certain studies, other people on the other side will cite other studies, and then we critique each other's studies.
00:27:22.000That's normally how you go about having these discussions.
00:27:24.000But on the left, the idea is there should be no intellectual dark web.
00:27:28.000The reason it's called the Intellectual Dark Web, by the way, that's the term Eric coined, is because the Intellectual Dark Web, the idea is that it is sort of hidden from sight by the mainstream media, which is focused on these internecine wars between Trump and anti-Trump, but they're not focused on having deeper conversations on any real level, and they're interested in throwing their political opponents out of the house.
00:27:50.000The people who want to stop the intellectual dark web are people like Ezra Klein over at Vox.com, who says that Sam Harris is an Islamophobe because Sam Harris says that Islam has a more threatening record in public over the last decades than does Christianity, which is eminently and obviously true.
00:28:07.000It's people like Ezra Klein, it's people like Antifa, it's people who have decided that they don't want to allow people to have fulsome conversations.
00:28:18.000Brian Butler is the threat to the intellectual dark web, and that's why he is kicking and screaming that people who are conservative should not be allowed to speak out on supposedly neutral pages.
00:28:28.000But the reality is that the people who oppose science, law, and journalism, a lot of those people are on the left.
00:28:34.000How can the left argue that they don't oppose science when they say that a baby is not a baby?
00:28:37.000My son had his second birthday yesterday.
00:28:39.000That means that two years and two days ago today, they would have been fine with my wife killing him.
00:28:44.000How can they say that that is in any way a reflection of biology?
00:28:54.000How can people on the left claim that they are universally in favor of law when they are fine with throwing out the law so long as it serves their public purposes?
00:29:04.000And they only like journalism when that journalism covers the stories they want it to cover.
00:29:07.000Confirmation bias exists on all sides, but according to the left, it only exists on the right.
00:29:11.000And that's why the right ought to be tossed out of the tent.
00:29:14.000Buetler concludes it's conservatives who must be barred from the halls of discussions.
00:29:18.000He says there is no Goldilocks conservative up for hire, and there never will be.
00:29:22.000There's no such thing as a good conservative.
00:29:23.000The only good conservative is a dead conservative.
00:29:25.000Writers steeped in conservative movement politics are poor fits at institutions that embrace the professional standards of mainstream journalism.
00:29:33.000How many good journalists came from National Review?
00:29:35.000Eliana Johnson over at the Washington Post, very good journalist, came from National Review.
00:29:38.000Tim Alberta over at the Washington Post, quite a good journalist, came from National Review.
00:29:43.000Lachlan Markey at CNN came from, he's now at the Daily Beast, he believed came from Daily Caller.
00:29:47.000They're a bunch of good conservative journalists who went into mainstream journalism because they're fine at their jobs, but according to the left, these people must be cut out.
00:29:56.000The left's desire for separation from people on the other side is what is driving this whole upswing for this intellectual dark web.
00:30:05.000Keep driving people into discussions that involve people like me, because I love those discussions, and I think that we're able to actually have valuable, useful discussions.
00:30:13.000You know, on my one-hour show, on the one-hour interview show that I'm doing, we're gonna be having people like Sam Harris.
00:30:18.000We're gonna be having people like Jay Tapper.
00:30:20.000Okay, the fact is, people on the left, who, like Brian Buetler, are not interested over a crooked media in having me on.
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00:30:28.000I've invited John Lovett from Pod Save America to come on the show.
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00:34:01.000So, meanwhile, the breaking news is that President Trump is pulling out of the Iran deal.
00:34:05.000At the very least, he wants to reinstall some of the sanctions, which will kill the Iran deal effectively anyway, according to the Angeles France Press.
00:34:13.000President Trump is expected to deliver a hammer blow to the Iranian deal on Tuesday, removing key sanctions relief for Tehran and casting the accord's future into serious doubt.
00:34:21.000Officials and diplomats expect the pugnacious U.S.
00:34:23.000leader to ignore last-ditch European pleas and withdraw U.S.
00:34:25.000support from what he has repeatedly slammed as a very badly negotiated agreement.
00:34:29.000At 2 p.m., Trump was slated to make the most consequential foreign policy decision of his young presidency from the diplomatic reception room of the White House, and he has to decide by May 12th whether to continue to waive sanctions on Iran's central bank and its oil sector dealings, which was a key pillar of the 2015 agreement.
00:34:44.000Now, the entire left is saying this is a disaster.
00:35:04.000The Iran deal was a garbage heap of flaming crap from the minute that it was signed and before.
00:35:08.000Okay, it was a lie that was told to the American people by Ben Rhodes and the Obama administration that Iran was moderating.
00:35:14.000And that if only we bribed them a little bit, and if we were nice to them, and if we petted them, and if we gave them a nice buttock massage, then everything would just be better.
00:35:21.000If we just shipped pallets of cash to Tehran, everything would be fine.
00:35:24.000And if we allowed them to build ballistic missiles,
00:35:26.000And allowed them to funnel all of that money to groups like Hezbollah, which has now fully taken over Lebanon.
00:35:31.000There was an election a couple of days ago in Lebanon in which Hezbollah became an openly majority party in the Lebanese parliament, meaning a terrorist group now runs an entire state in the Middle East.
00:35:39.000They run Tehran, already a terrorist group, and they run Lebanon, which is already a terrorist group.
00:35:43.000They also run Hamas, which is the Gaza Strip's governing party.
00:35:47.000And the Palestinian Authority is a terrorist group, too.
00:35:49.000You have legitimate terrorist organizations that are in charge of full countries in the Middle East.
00:35:53.000And President Obama was forwarding that with the Iran nuclear deal.
00:36:22.000The unilateralism of Barack Obama, who did this without congressional approval, that is now being rejected by Donald Trump as well it should be.
00:36:33.000Because it was a horrible, horrible deal.
00:37:04.000The choice included allowing Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel to plan military operations to stop Iran's nuclear program.
00:37:13.000The choice included further sanctions.
00:37:15.000The choice included Newt Gingrich was encouraging this blockade of Iran's oil supplies.
00:37:19.000There are plenty of ways to go about throttling the regime in Tehran.
00:37:23.000By the way, there's been a consistent rolling rebellion going on under the surface in Iran for a long time.
00:37:28.000And there are a lot of people who hate the Iranian regime and would like to see it fall.
00:37:31.000And if we're not expending full resources to help make that happen, then we are being derelict in our duty.
00:37:36.000If the Iranian regime were to fall to a moderate regime, it would be one of the great changes in modern world history.
00:37:41.000But Barack Obama helped strengthen that regime, just as he helped strengthen the Syrian regime, just as he helped strengthen Vladimir Putin.
00:37:47.000And now, Donald Trump is doing the right thing here.
00:37:49.000Donald Trump is kicking harder against Russia by fighting Iran than anyone on the left has any right to expect, considering they think that he's supposedly in Vladimir Putin's pocket.
00:37:58.000Remember, Iran is a client state of Russia, and Syria is a client state of Russia and Iran, and Lebanon is a client state of Iran and Russia as well.
00:38:07.000Donald Trump is fighting that axis a lot harder than Barack Obama ever did.
00:38:11.000So, good for President Trump for doing the right thing about all of this.
00:38:14.000But, you know, you can always count on the left to do the wrong thing about all of this.
00:38:29.000You can already see the articles being written about how Kim Jong-un is the new Gorbachev.
00:38:34.000That if he were to give up his nuclear program, then it wouldn't be because he destroyed the nuclear mountain that he uses for testing.
00:38:40.000It would be because he's really a Gorbachev-like figure.
00:38:43.000Amazing how the left always has to rewrite history to take credit away from Republican presidents, whenever humanly possible.
00:38:49.000Meanwhile, I have to tell you about a fake scandal at the University of Florida that is just astonishing.
00:38:54.000The media are obsessed with every race scandal they can find, like every single race scandal they can find.
00:38:59.000So, Good Morning America, the same people who brought you the Starbucks scandal, have decided that there is another scandal in the making over at University of Florida.
00:40:47.000And then, finally, after like a thousand of these people, you get some people who start breaking into moves, and basically the bigger the moves are, the more you're actually going to have to physically restrain people in order to take them off the screen.
00:40:57.000That guy Oliver Tlusma, who you heard on Good Morning America, that guy was resisting being pushed off the screen.
00:41:02.000OK, it's amazing what the media will do in order to try and generate the narrative that everybody in the world in America is racist.
00:41:38.000And the Met Gala was honoring Catholic...
00:41:41.000Something or other it was I guess that they have this costume party every year at the Mac gala and this one was I guess titled It was what was this was a stupid thing titled.
00:41:50.000It was called Catholic bodies or something And and basically it's an excuse for celebrities to dress up like idiots Okay, the Metro Mountain Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is you know, although they have a lot of good stuff there But they also a lot of crap
00:42:03.000They have the heavenly bodies, fashion, and the Catholic imagination.
00:42:07.000Now, how many Catholics are actually at this event?
00:42:12.000The vast majority of people who are showing up are people who are probably not Catholic, don't go to church ever.
00:42:16.000And it's hilarious that the same left that will complain about cultural appropriation is fine with appropriating actual Catholic symbols of purity and holiness and then using them in the sluttiest possible costumes.
00:44:00.000And then the best I think was Cara Delevingne, who hid the fact that she can't act beneath a costume that can only be described as a series of stripes and fishnetting.
00:44:10.000I think that what this actually looks like is that she was a steak that was seared for too long.
00:44:42.000Jared Leto, who's standing next to her, dressed apparently as a mashup of Jesus and Prince John from the Robin Hood cartoon made by Disney.
00:45:30.000She looks as though she, and the good news is that, I assume that's her husband, he looks like he's been afflicted by Scarlet Fever as well.
00:46:36.000There are people in this country actually suffering who are poor, and you spend probably thousands of dollars to look like a tree ate you, Francis McDormand.
00:46:43.000Or look like you were seared on a grill, Cara Delevingne.
00:46:45.000Or look like you were attacked by a plastic jellyfish.
00:46:48.000I can't imagine why everybody thinks you're a doof.
00:48:56.000It's very distracting, actually, how bad the score to this movie is.
00:48:58.000But the acting is good, and what's kind of fun about it is when you watch it, you'll see a bunch of people who went on to be huge stars and really big parts.
00:49:04.000So Timothy Olyphant has a really big part in this.
00:49:07.000You'll see Bobby Cannavale, who shows up for five seconds, and he's in it as well.
00:49:11.000There are a bunch of faces that you'll recognize in the movie.
00:49:15.000One of the pushes in World War II that was wildly unsuccessful, and that was a push against the Siegfried Line near the end of the war in an attempt to invade Germany.
00:49:21.00024,000 Americans died in this forest battle that was basically useless, and this movie is about that.
00:51:02.000Well no, it's just that you disagree with Donald Trump's agenda.
00:51:04.000Listen, do I think that Trump has been good on racial issues?
00:51:07.000No, I was the first person to criticize the living crap out of him after Charlottesville.
00:51:10.000I did a full episode on how terrible it was.
00:51:12.000I ripped Trump over and over during the campaign for being soft on the alt-right.
00:51:16.000Right, so I'm not somebody who's going to defend President Trump's statements on race over and over because I don't think that they're defensible.
00:51:22.000But, to say that he's done nothing for black Americans?
00:51:24.000Well, a booming economy is a pretty good thing for black Americans.
00:51:26.000By the way, worth noting, one of the things that the Trump administration is actively pushing right now is criminal justice reform.
00:51:36.000They're trying to reach out to people like Colin Kaepernick in order to talk about criminal justice reform.
00:51:40.000And Whoopi Goldberg saying he's doing nothing for the black community?
00:53:48.000And then he goes into more of a hard rap.
00:53:50.000Okay, and everybody is standing behind him dancing.
00:53:53.000You can see people in the background driving.
00:53:55.000You can see people rioting in the background.
00:53:57.000But he's dancing, and he's doing all these kind of happy dances, and a bunch of people come in behind him, dancing with him.
00:54:04.000The whole point of the video is that all the stuff happening in the background is the real stuff and all the stuff happening in the foreground is the fake stuff.
00:54:10.000That him dancing and him entertaining, all of that is sort of the fake stuff, but the rioting that's happening in the background, there's one part of this video where there's a guy who obviously represents death.
00:55:23.000I think that's actually not complex enough.
00:55:25.000I think that's actually not complex enough.
00:55:27.000So I think that, here's the part that I was talking about with the horse, the horse riding through, right, the horse of death riding through.
00:55:33.000I think that one of the things that this video is also pointing out is that, and maybe I'm misinterpreting, Glover will have to tell me, if it's a more complex video than this, and it's not just there's stuff happening in the foreground but the real stuff's happening in the background, then what's interesting about this is that Glover
00:56:09.000It's still the same point, that there are a lot of problems that are being obscured by the obsession with pop culture and by the obsession with entertainment.
00:56:15.000But I think it's a little too simplistic to just use the Black Lives Matter logic here, that all problems in the United States are due to white people, and that it's the popo and it's the police who are the real problem, because this thing ends with Donald Glover running away from the police down a hallway, right?
00:56:29.000It ends with him sprinting down a hallway and the police chasing him.
00:56:47.000So maybe the point here is that there's a lot more complexity to these issues than anybody is willing to look into or cares about because everybody is too distracted by the narrative that's being put out there.
00:56:56.000By the way, I do think it's really well directed.
00:56:58.000I think it's really well put together.
00:57:16.000So, we'll be back here tomorrow with all of the latest news.
00:57:18.000There are a bunch—I believe the West Virginia primary is supposed to take place today, so we'll know whether that kook Blankenship ended up winning the Republican nomination.