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00:00:00.000President Trump faces off with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer in the Oval Office, Google goes to the hill, and another terror attack rocks France.
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00:01:48.000Okay, so, the big news yesterday, obviously, was that President Trump faced down Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer in the Oval Office.
00:01:55.000Now, I'm not a fan of these sorts of meetings.
00:01:59.000I don't know, for example, why President Trump, if he wanted to meet with the leadership of the incoming Congress, didn't meet with Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell.
00:02:07.000Why he met with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer You know, Chuck Schumer doesn't have tons of power in the Senate, considering that he is still in the minority.
00:02:14.000With that said, the president did something smart.
00:02:17.000President Trump did something very smart.
00:02:18.000He said, we are going to negotiate in front of these cameras.
00:02:20.000Now, Nancy Pelosi did not want to negotiate in front of the cameras.
00:02:31.000And then they just went at each other.
00:02:33.000And that was good for President Trump, I think.
00:02:35.000So President Trump did some good things and some bad things.
00:02:37.000I mean, this was case study in good Trump, bad Trump.
00:02:39.000President Trump did some good things and some bad things.
00:02:41.000The good thing that he did was he forced the Democrats to defend their position that they would never fund a border wall, that they would not fund border security, and that, in fact, they'd be willing to shut down the government in order to prevent funding For border security, because it's pretty much the only thing Democrats don't want to spend money on.
00:02:56.000They want to spend money on federal sponsorship for lesbian dance theory in college, but they don't want to spend money on supporting our southern border needs.
00:03:04.000So President Trump making them say that in front of the cameras is a very good thing.
00:03:08.000A not so good thing is when the president then says, well, you know what?
00:04:13.000Mandatory government spending continues.
00:04:15.000Essential government employees in the Social Security office and Medicaid office, all those folks continue to work.
00:04:21.000It just curbs some of the activities around the fringes.
00:04:24.000So Republicans should not be so fearful of a government shutdown.
00:04:27.000And I've always been skeptical of Republicans who say, well, no, we really have to avoid the government shutdown.
00:04:31.000Now, with that said, your preferred strategy is this, if you're a Republican, if there's an issue that you really care about, like border security.
00:04:38.000It is, I want my budget to have border security funding in it.
00:04:42.000This does not have border security funding in it.
00:04:44.000And if you are willing to shut down the government by not sending me a budget with what I want in it, well, then that's your fault.
00:04:50.000Because you're now responsible for people not being able to go to work today because you wouldn't give me the funding necessary in order to secure our southern border.
00:05:51.000If we close down the country, I will take it, because we're closing it down for border security.
00:05:57.000And I think I win that every single time.
00:05:59.000OK, so I'm not sure that he wins it every single time, but I mean, his own logic, President Trump's own logic suggests that, you know, it'd be great if Chuck Schumer got blamed for the government shutdown.
00:06:08.000He just says Chuck Schumer tried to shut down the government in order to get funding for his priorities, and then he got blamed for it.
00:06:15.000And it was a real bad move by Chuck Schumer.
00:07:16.000Chuck Schumer did a poor enough job in the Senate that his side lost seats in an election, a wave election in which they won the House vote by 8.6%.
00:07:26.000So, you know, President Trump says, and this is where he's good.
00:07:29.000He says, "I won't take a deal without border security." Like, if you're gonna give me a deal and it doesn't have border security, guess what, not happening. - We have a proposal that Democrats and Republicans will support to do a CR that will not shut down the government.
00:07:57.000And he was being tough with Chuck Schumer.
00:07:59.000A lot of the back and forth had to do with Nancy Pelosi saying, well, if you you guys run the House, you guys run the Senate, why don't you just pass a budget that you guys want?
00:08:06.000And Trump saying, well, I don't have 60 votes in the Senate.
00:08:08.000And Pelosi saying, well, you could at least vote in the House.
00:08:10.000And Trump going, I don't have 60 votes in the Senate.
00:08:13.000And Trump, of course, was right about all of this.
00:08:15.000You could see who sort of won this showdown, at least in the public mind, or at least in the public eye, by how the Democrats reacted to this.
00:08:21.000So Nancy Pelosi, after this whole hubbub, she went out to the press and she was basically whining that had gone poorly for her.
00:08:29.000And she was doing her routine from Seinfeld, the jerk store routine, where she was insulted and then she thought of a comeback 30 minutes after the insult battle ended.
00:08:37.000Here was Nancy Pelosi saying, Well, you know, I'm just so nice and kind, I didn't want to tell President Trump that he didn't know what he was talking about while there were cameras there.
00:08:46.000So now I'll tell all the cameras, while he's not here, that he didn't know what he was talking about.
00:08:50.000We don't want to contradict the president when he was putting forth figures that had no reality to them, no basis in fact.
00:08:57.000We have to, if we're going to proceed in all of this, have evidence-based, factual, truthful information about what works and what doesn't.
00:09:07.000I didn't want to, in front of those people, say, you don't know what you're talking about.
00:09:11.000So I'll just say it in front of you, the press.
00:09:13.000I mean, I love the casual dishonesty of the Democrats saying, well, no, I just didn't want to say it in front of Trump.
00:09:17.000The reason she didn't want to say it in front of Trump is because Trump would have whomped her.
00:09:20.000Because President Trump was not going to sit there and take it.
00:09:22.000Again, President Trump, in confrontational situations, is at his best when those confrontations are about politics.
00:09:30.000President Trump's aggression in situations like this is actually quite a good thing.
00:09:34.000Now, does it necessarily feel good to a lot of establishment Republicans?
00:09:38.000But this is why a lot of President Trump's base likes President Trump, is because if Nancy Pelosi sits there and fibs about border security, or if Chuck Schumer sits there and says, I don't want to talk about this stuff publicly, and Trump says, we're going to talk about it publicly, You know, that's that's good for Trump.
00:09:54.000Again, I don't think you should say you own the shutdown and give Democrats the headline.
00:09:57.000But still, I don't think this went poorly for President Trump by any stretch.
00:10:01.000Again, Nancy Pelosi looked very angry and very upset after this meeting.
00:10:04.000She says that she told Trump to pray for biblical wisdom, always a great injunction from a woman who believes that children should be killed in the womb.
00:10:10.000I myself thought we would open the meeting with a prayer.
00:10:12.000And I told him about Solomon, King Solomon, when he became, when he was to become king of the Jews.
00:10:20.000He prayed to God, he said, how can I ever follow King David?
00:10:26.000I need you to give me great understanding and wisdom, Lord.
00:10:29.000And after he prayed and prayed and prayed, God came to him and said, Solomon, because you did not ask for longevity, great wealth, or vengeance against your enemies, I will give you more wisdom than anyone has ever had.
00:10:45.000Okay, so I don't know how she's paraphrasing Bible here, but in any case, I'm sort of shocked that she didn't actually... I'm shocked she didn't actually quote the section of the Bible in which Solomon says that he might split a baby, because that seems actually more in line with...
00:11:02.000Nancy Pelosi's general political viewpoint.
00:11:05.000I love it when people who are super pro-abortion are quoting the Bible at people like President Trump.
00:11:11.000Pelosi and Schumer finish off by saying that President Trump threw a temper tantrum in the Oval Office and they called it the Trump shutdown.
00:11:17.000And this is where Trump's mistake starts to take root, is you're going to hear from now till the end of whatever happens here from the press that this is the Trump shutdown.
00:11:26.000That was a mistake by President Trump.
00:11:27.000This Trump shutdown This temper tantrum that he seems to throw will not get him his wall, and it'll hurt a lot of people because he will cause a shutdown.
00:11:40.000It's hard to believe that he would want that.
00:11:44.000Should, unfortunately, that the president choose to shut down the government, that we have a Trump shutdown as a Christmas present, a holiday present to the American people.
00:11:59.000So when it was Congress, it was Ted Cruz's fault when the government shut down in 2013 because he was in Congress.
00:12:05.000Now it's President Trump's fault that the government is shutting down when he's not in Congress.
00:12:09.000Weird how the media always try to spin it as a Republican shutdown of the government, even when Democrats are pretty obviously shutting down the government.
00:12:15.000Again, President Trump did not help here particularly a lot.
00:12:17.000We're going to get to Nancy Pelosi's final shots at President Trump in just one second.
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00:13:32.000Nancy Pelosi concluded the negotiations with President Trump by going back to her Democratic caucus and then talking about President Trump's manhood.
00:13:43.000These people are all civility and all class.
00:13:45.000She said, it's like a manhood thing with him, as if manhood can be associated with him.
00:13:50.000And then she said of the conversation with Trump, it goes to show you, you can get into a tinkle contest with a skunk.
00:14:06.000Well, I guess when you are 1,000 years old, this is the kind of language that you use to describe a political club fight in the Oval Office.
00:14:15.000Democrats don't want to fund President Trump's priorities on the border.
00:14:18.000The question we should be asking ourselves is why do they not actually want to be funding these border priorities?
00:14:24.000We're not talking about a lot of money.
00:14:26.000We're not talking about a great deal of expenditure.
00:14:28.000We're not talking about something impossible or crazy.
00:14:31.000It is not impossible or crazy to ensure that our border is secure.
00:14:35.000President Trump is talking about $5 billion.
00:14:37.000I mean, the government spends that about every five seconds.
00:14:40.000The fact that Democrats are trying to suddenly skimp on border security should be telling you something about their actual priorities.
00:14:47.000And I think President Trump knows that, which is why President Trump is pushing on this particular subject and pushing very hard on this particular subject.
00:14:56.000And I think that now that he's got Democrats in the majority in the House, at least incoming, he has the ability to at least cast aspersions at their willingness to protect Our southern border, which should be of serious concern.
00:15:07.000It should be of serious concern who crosses that border.
00:15:10.000Apparently, we've been arresting thousands of people every day crossing that border.
00:15:14.000Securing the border seems like a no-brainer.
00:15:16.000The American people are in favor of it.
00:15:18.000And the fact that Democrats are willing to let people go unemployed for the holidays because they won't fund a border wall is pretty astonishing.
00:15:27.000That said, President Trump, you know, should have done this when there was Republican Congress, and it is kind of devastating that he didn't.
00:15:33.000OK, in just a second, I want to get to the latest developments in the Mueller investigation and in the Michael Flynn pleading.
00:15:40.000So here's the latest with regard to all of the various Trump legal development.
00:15:46.000So according to Hans van Spakowski, Hans von Spakowski, sorry, over at the Daily Signal Heritage Foundation, he talks about the possibility that President Trump will be indicted.
00:15:55.000So this entire week, a lot of last week, thanks to Michael Cohen's plea agreement and thanks to the Southern District of New York's sentencing memo, There's been a lot of talk the President of the United States is going to be indicted for a campaign finance violation.
00:16:08.000Hans von Spakovsky makes the case that President Trump cannot be indicted for a campaign finance violation because Michael Cohen didn't actually commit a campaign finance violation.
00:16:18.000He says, Indeed, the Southern District's aggressive stance on this issue might have violated the Justice Department's own policy.
00:16:22.000the Federal Election Campaign Act, nor its former commissioners would likely agree with the over-aggressive view that the Southern District is taking.
00:16:28.000Indeed, the Southern District's aggressive stance on this issue might have violated the Justice Department's own policy.
00:16:33.000Well, the initial claim is that Michael Cohen used money from his pocket to pay off Stormy Daniels and was reimbursed by President Trump in order to avoid disclosure issues in campaign finance.
00:16:44.000That basically this was an in-kind contribution to President Trump in the amount of $130,000 that was never reported to the FEC and surpassed all campaign finance limits.
00:16:53.000But Robert Kusami, who's the acting U.S.
00:16:55.000attorney standing in for Jeffrey Berman, who's recused himself from the Cohen case, says in the government sentencing memo, that Cohen committed a campaign finance violation by arranging payments from corporations to two women, women one and women two, that'd be Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels, who claimed they had affairs with Trump in order to buy their silence.
00:17:11.000Cohen eventually invoiced the Trump organization for the Daniels payment.
00:17:14.000Kuzami asserts these were illegal corporate contributions to the Trump campaign because they were made with the intent to influence the 2016 presidential election.
00:17:21.000But there are a lot of problems with this claim.
00:17:23.000First, his theory that anything intended to influence an election is a campaign-related expense fails to take into account about the statutory limitation on this definition.
00:17:32.000According to federal elections law, it specifically says that campaign-related expenses do not include any expenditures used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense of a person that would exist irrespective of the candidate's election campaign.
00:17:44.000These payments were relatively small given Trump's net worth, the kind of nuisance settlement celebrities often make to protect their reputations.
00:17:50.000Given Trump's celebrity status, the potential liability to these women existed irrespective of the president's election campaign.
00:17:56.000This is the case that I've made is that Trump has been paying off women for years.
00:17:59.000This is just the latest example of a woman being paid off.
00:18:02.000Unlike Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal in the John Edwards case, Riel Hunter, who is Edwards' mistress, was paid a million bucks while directly working for the campaign and John Edwards.
00:18:12.000Her payments did not go through the Edwards campaign's account, but the government tried to claim they were campaign expenditures because they were intended to protect Edwards' reputation during his presidential run and thus influence the election.
00:18:22.000But a jury acquitted Edwards on the charge of accepting an illegal campaign donation and failed to reach a verdict on the other charges.
00:18:28.000The fact that a jury didn't convict Edwards wouldn't ordinarily mean the government didn't have a viable claim, but Edwards had two former chairmen of the FEC on retainer who were prepared to testify that such payments to a mistress are not actually campaign-related expenses.
00:18:41.000So this is the affirmative case being made by Hans von Spakovsky as to why President Trump cannot actually be prosecuted in terms of violation of campaign finance.
00:18:49.000Now, in other President Trump legal news, the incoming New York Attorney General has now said that she is interested in prosecuting any and all members of the Trump family.
00:18:58.000I mean, this is pretty incredible stuff.
00:19:00.000It's pretty obvious at this point that law enforcement mechanisms are being used to target specific people.
00:19:05.000As Ari Fleischer pointed out on Twitter, and he's exactly correct, the former Bush press secretary, The way that law enforcement is supposed to work is you identify a crime, and then you identify the person responsible for the crime, and then you prosecute the person responsible for the crime.
00:19:18.000But now it appears that the prosecutor, the attorney general-elect in New York, is saying that she's going to identify the person, and then identify the crime.
00:19:25.000This would be the definition of selective prosecution.
00:19:27.000New York Attorney General Elect Letitia James says she plans to launch sweeping investigations into President Donald Trump, his family, and anyone in his circle who may have violated the law once she settles into her new job next month.
00:19:38.000She said we will use every area of the law to investigate President Trump and his business transactions and that of his family as well.
00:19:44.000She, of course, is a Democrat, and she told NBC News in her first extensive interview since she was elected last month that she intends on targeting Trump and his family.
00:19:52.000This would include investigating any potential illegalities involving President Trump's real estate holdings in New York, the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a Russian official, government subsidies received by President Trump, whether he's in violation of the emoluments clause in the U.S.
00:20:06.000Constitution, continuing to probe the Trump Foundation and supposed illegalities in their handling of their 501c3.
00:20:13.000James says we want to investigate anyone in his orbit who has, in fact, violated the law.
00:20:18.000This is pretty astonishing stuff to openly say that you are taking on a specific human as opposed to a specific crime.
00:20:25.000That is a basic violation of prosecutorial duty.
00:20:28.000James said, taking on President Trump and looking at all the violations of law, I think, is no match to what I have seen in my lifetime.
00:20:35.000And this is if you're wondering why so many Republicans feel that the justice system looks like it's being used as a tool against President Trump, statements like that certainly have something to do with it.
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00:22:13.000OK, meanwhile, the FBI, there's a new memo out that shows that the FBI recommended that Michael Flynn, who you will recall was prosecuted by the Department of Justice, that he not have a lawyer present during his interview and did not warn him that his statement would have consequences.
00:22:31.000So according to a memo from former FBI director, Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, The interview that ultimately led to Michael Flynn's guilty plea on one count of making false statements, this is where Michael Flynn said he had not talked with the Russians during the transition, suggested that Flynn not have a lawyer present at the session according to newly filed court documents.
00:22:47.000In addition, FBI officials, along with the two agents who interviewed Flynn, decided specifically not to warn him that there would be penalties for making false statements because the agents wanted to ensure that Flynn was relaxed during the session.
00:22:59.000The new information was drawn from McCabe's account of events, plus FBI agents' write-ups of the interview.
00:23:03.000The so-called 302 report is contained in a sentencing memo filed Tuesday by Flynn's defense team.
00:23:08.000Citing McCabe's account, the sentencing memo says that shortly after noon on January 24th, the fourth day of the new Trump administration, McCabe called Flynn on a secure phone in Flynn's West Wing office.
00:23:17.000The two men discussed business briefly, and then McCabe said he felt that we needed to have two of our agents sit down with Flynn to discuss Flynn's talks with Russian officials during the presidential transition.
00:23:26.000McCabe, by his own account, urged Flynn to talk to the agents alone without a lawyer present.
00:23:30.000I explained I thought the quickest way to get this done was to have a conversation between Flynn and the agents only, said McCabe.
00:23:35.000I further stated that Lieutenant General Flynn wished to include anyone else in the meeting, like the White House counsel, for instance, that I would need to involve the Department of Justice.
00:23:42.000Flynn stated this would not be necessary and agreed to meet with the agents without any additional participants.
00:23:47.000Within two hours, the agents were in Flynn's office.
00:23:49.000According to the 302 report quoted in Flynn's sentencing document, the agent said Flynn was relaxed and jocular and offered the agents a little tour of his part of the White House.
00:23:57.000The agents did not provide General Flynn with a warning of the penalties for making false statements under 18 U.S.
00:24:02.000Code 1001 before, during, or after the interview, according to the Flynn memo.
00:24:06.000According to the 302, before the interview, McCabe and other FBI officials decided the agents would not warn Flynn it was a crime to lie during the FBI interview because they wanted Flynn to be relaxed and they were concerned that giving the warnings might adversely affect their rapport.
00:24:18.000Now, is that bad behavior by the agents?
00:24:23.000I mean, the fact is that when you are a police officer and you're interviewing a suspect, you have to inform them of their right to have an attorney present if you have arrested them.
00:24:31.000But if you're just bringing a witness in for questioning, then you don't actually have to warn them of the possibility of lying to the police being a crime, right?
00:24:52.000So the FBI doesn't have to warn Flynn that he can have an attorney president or that any statements he can, that he says can and will be used against him in a court of law, like you would on law and order.
00:25:01.000Miranda warnings don't apply to this particular situation.
00:25:04.000That said, does it sound a little bit dishonest for the FBI to have brought in Flynn under the auspices of we're having a friendly little conversation and then sandbag him with false charges?
00:25:13.000Yeah, especially when you get him on something as minor as he talked with the Russians in the middle of the transition, which is not in and of itself criminal activity.
00:25:20.000This is why a lot of folks are upset today.
00:25:23.000Again, I think the upset is a little bit overwrought, but I understand why folks think that the same thing would not have been done to any Obama officials, for example.
00:25:32.000Now, meanwhile, there was a terrorist attack in France, another one, and it did not make global headlines in the same way that terrorist attacks have in the past.
00:25:41.000The reason being that we are getting used to this, unfortunately.
00:25:44.000According to the Daily Mail, at least three people were killed, 13 others injured, when a gunman opened fire at a Christmas market in Strasbourg, northeastern France, on Tuesday evening.
00:25:51.000Police identified the gunman as Sheriff Cheket, a Strasbourg-born 29-year-old who has a criminal record and is a designated threat to the state.
00:25:58.000The carnage unfolded just after 8 p.m.
00:26:00.000A manhunt is now underway for Shekat, who managed to flee the scene in a hijacked taxi after being wounded in a shootout with soldiers.
00:26:07.000And President Emmanuel Macron has raised France's terror level.
00:26:10.000The carnage unfolded just after 8 p.m. local time outside the historic Christmas market in Strasbourg's central square, Place Kleber, one of the busiest areas in the city, which is also home to the European Parliament.
00:26:19.000Four of the people injured were still fighting for their lives.
00:26:35.000I don't know why the Europeans have this terror watch list where apparently you only appear after you've committed an act of terror and then we apparently worry about it.
00:26:41.000He was on the terror watch list and apparently while he was shooting, he said the magic words.
00:26:46.000He said Allahu Akbar while he was shooting.
00:27:08.000Yeah, again, another radical Islamist terrorist attack in the heart of Europe.
00:27:13.000And yet you're considered Islamophobic if you wonder whether immigration to Europe ought to be vetted or curbed.
00:27:19.000If you do that, then you have a problem.
00:27:21.000Instead, we're all supposed to sort of plunge our heads into the sand and pretend that nothing threatening has ever happened because of mass Islamic immigration into Europe, which is, of course, silly.
00:27:30.000And that's not to say the vast majority of people who are coming into Europe are criminals or terrorists.
00:27:34.000But if you're not vetting the folks coming into your country, then it should not be a surprise when some of those people turn out to be bad people, terrorists, threats to public security.
00:27:44.000Now, meanwhile, Google showed up on the Hill for a hearing yesterday.
00:27:49.000And whenever tech companies show up on the hill for hearings about how they run their business, it gets really awkward because nobody in Congress is below the age of 97, except for Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, who is 29 and knows nothing.
00:28:03.000But everybody else in Congress, there's a huge age gap.
00:28:05.000It's basically you're 97 or you're 29 and know nothing.
00:28:07.000So there's no point at which people actually know things in Congress.
00:28:10.000All these 97-year-olds were grilling the heads of Google on the biasing of Google results, and they clearly do not know what they are talking about.
00:28:20.000Like, over and over and over, they were just saying silly things.
00:28:22.000So, for example, Steve Cohen, who is a Democratic representative from Tennessee, here he was saying that he's angry at Google because when he Googles himself, mean things come up in the Google results.
00:28:55.000And I'd like you to look into overuse of conservative news organizations to put on liberal people's news on Google.
00:29:02.000Okay, maybe the only people who give a crap what Steve Cohen says are people on the right, because the left basically ignores them.
00:29:07.000Now, Cohen was saying this because there were folks on the right who were claiming that Google was biased against conservatives in a lot of its search results.
00:29:14.000We here at The Daily Wire know that Google is biased against conservatives in some of its search results.
00:29:18.000There was a while there where Google had an app, basically, it had a section of its website where if you searched Daily Wire, then all the results from a left-wing fact-checking organization came up.
00:29:30.000It did the same thing for The Daily Caller.
00:29:32.000It did the same thing for The Federalist.
00:29:33.000It did not do the same thing for any left-wing website.
00:29:36.000It did not fact check any of their stories and show how dishonest those websites were.
00:29:40.000And by the way, over at Daily Wire, when we make mistakes, we make corrections to those mistakes, just as any other news organization would.
00:29:46.000But nobody in Congress seems to understand exactly how All of this works.
00:29:50.000And so the members of Congress simply suggest that Google is absolutely neutral.
00:29:56.000In a second, we're going to talk a little bit more about that and why that simply is not true.
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00:31:36.000OK, well, I do want to talk more about Google's bias.
00:31:39.000Also, a piece in The Washington Post suggesting that I should not actually speak at the March for Life in a Piece.
00:31:44.000At Vox, suggesting that women have better sex under socialism, which is why women are prostituting themselves in Venezuela, I suppose.
00:31:51.000We'll get to all of that in just a second.
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00:33:10.000So as I say, there is bias at Google, but very few people on the Hill actually know enough about Google to understand how the bias actually operates.
00:33:23.000So for example, you have Democrat Ted Lieu from out here in California, and he says that the only reason there are bad search results for people like Steve Scalise is because Google is unbiased and because Steve Scalise is a jerk.
00:33:33.000So basically, the Google results are reflective of the fact that they're a bunch of jerky Republicans.
00:33:39.000So if everything is biased to the left, it's not because there's bias, it's because Republicans are terrible people.
00:33:44.000If you want positive search results, do positive things.
00:33:48.000If you don't want negative search results, don't do negative things.
00:33:52.000And to some of my colleagues across the aisle, if you're getting bad press articles and bad search results, don't blame Google or Facebook or Twitter.
00:34:13.000So Eric Weinstein, who, a friend of mine, fellow member of the Intellectual Dark Web, probably, in all honesty, its founder, he's a guy who is the The business head of Peter Thiel's empire.
00:34:25.000And Peter Thiel, of course, a major investor originally in Facebook.
00:34:40.000And unbiasing is supposedly politically neutral.
00:34:42.000It's just that in view of woke engineers, conservatives are typically biased by history, privilege, biological essentialism, et cetera.
00:34:48.000And so he says of Google CEO Sundar Pichai, he says, these are questions he would ask.
00:34:53.000We'd ask, do you unbiased searches you think are biased under an internal fairness initiative?
00:34:57.000Did Google find that history can represent latency bias?
00:35:00.000Findings in biology and psychology can lead to exclusion bias.
00:35:03.000Economic theory can lead to inequality bias, et cetera.
00:35:06.000So in other words, what he's saying is that Google biases through its unbiasing.
00:35:10.000Because if they were just to allow the full stream of information to carry forth, then what would end up is maybe a bunch of right-wing stuff that people are interested in.
00:35:17.000So instead, they unbiased the results to ensure that conservatives are downplayed.
00:35:20.000He says, if you found conservatives were likely to believe in more traditional interpretations of gender, biology, markets, military power, ethnicity, religion, borders, psychology, wealth achievement, would they be more likely to be unbiased by Google?
00:35:40.000We need tough folks in Congress with technical backgrounds who can operate in all areas where Google operates.
00:35:45.000In other words, somebody has to set the parameters.
00:35:48.000Somebody has to set the parameters for all of this.
00:35:51.000Somebody has to set the parameters for how these algorithms work in the first place and how the unbiasing operates And Google is doing so in biased fashion, as Eric says.
00:36:00.000And the fact that folks in Congress don't really get it is pretty astonishing.
00:36:03.000By the way, there is some pretty solid evidence of bias inside Google.
00:36:06.000Representative Matt Katz of Florida, he slammed the bias at this hearing yesterday at Google.
00:36:10.000I would strongly suggest that one of the crisis response tools that you use is in an investigation into the discourse of your employees on resisting the Trump presidency, resisting the Trump agenda, and then smothering some of the conservative outlets that seem to amplify that content.
00:36:25.000Okay, and I think Matt Gaetz is not completely wrong about this.
00:36:28.000Now, a piece of breaking news that I didn't get to earlier, breaking news is that Michael Cohen has now been sentenced to three years in prison for campaign finance violations.
00:36:37.000The idea here is that he, again, was ordered to commit these campaign violations at the behest of President Trump.
00:36:43.000As I said earlier, I think that that is a stretch, but Cohen is pleading guilty to crimes that are friendly for the prosecutors, specifically so that he can get off on Worst charges.
00:36:55.000You know, the charges with regard to tax fraud and taxi medallions and all of the rest.
00:37:00.000According to CNN, Michael Cohen has now been sentenced to three years in prison.
00:37:04.000President Trump's former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen said he takes full responsibility for the actions he has previously pled guilty to during his appearance in a New York federal court on Wednesday.
00:37:12.000Cohen is in court to be sentenced as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
00:37:18.000He says, I take full responsibility for each act I pled guilty to, the personal ones to me and those involving the president of the United States.
00:37:25.000In court Wednesday morning, Cohen's attorney offered a sweeping case for leniency, comparing the significance of Cohen's actions and the work of the special counsel to the Watergate investigation.
00:37:33.000He said the cooperation here should be viewed against a non-standard framework.
00:37:36.000The special counsel's office investigation is of utmost national significance, no less than seen 40 years ago in Watergate.
00:37:42.000So therefore he should be let off because they're going after the president.
00:37:45.000Now again, critics of the prosecution here are going to say that Cohen didn't actually commit a campaign finance crime.
00:37:52.000Even if he did commit a campaign finance crime, it now has to be established that he did so at the behest of President Trump, and that Michael Cohen is basically pleading guilty because he was guilty of a bunch of other ancillary crimes, and that therefore he is pleading guilty to these ones specifically in order to get off on other ones.
00:38:07.000Suffice it to say, this is not good news for the president of the United States.
00:38:10.000During his remarks, Cohen addressed the president's comment, referring to him as weak, but said it was for a much different reason.
00:38:15.000Cohen said, quote, Recently, the president tweeted a statement calling me weak, and it was correct, but for a much different reason than he was implying.
00:38:21.000It was because time and time again, I felt it was my duty to cover up his dirty deeds.
00:38:26.000He said his action stands in... This is the attorney for Cohen.
00:38:29.000His action stands in profound contrast to the decision of some others not to cooperate and allegedly to double deal while pretending to cooperate.
00:38:37.000In addition to the disclosures from the U.S.
00:38:39.000Attorney's Office in Manhattan about Trump's participation in payments to silenced women, Mueller also supplied fresh revelations on the president on Friday, disclosing new information on a set of efforts to communicate between Trump, his associates, and the Russian government, according to CNN.
00:38:52.000They try to quote Cohen as saying that he was meeting with Russian government officials, but again, none of that is necessarily illegal.
00:38:59.000The net seems to be tightening around President Trump here, although, again, I think there's a pretty solid case to say that President Trump is not guilty of a criminal enterprise.
00:39:07.000There's no question that within the next month, there's going to be serious talk in Democratic circles about whether to move forward with impeachment of President Trump.
00:39:14.000And this is going to bring up a lot of questions about whether President Clinton should have been impeached.
00:39:17.000He was impeached for obstruction of justice and perjury.
00:39:20.000He was not convicted in the Senate on either of those charges, but he was impeached on that basis.
00:39:24.000And If President Trump is to be gotten on any basis, it will be on very similar auspices to how President Clinton was impeached in 1999.
00:39:33.000He was actually impeached in 98 and then he was acquitted by the Senate in 1999.
00:39:39.000I'm going to get to the dumbest stories of the day.
00:39:42.000I also want to get to the new 2020 frontrunner.
00:39:44.000So there was a poll out yesterday, and it suggests, this moveon.org poll, poll of progressive leftists.
00:39:50.000And NBC News reported that the straw poll of moveon.org members on Scientific Poll, but still kind of relevant, They are now favoring these progressive leftists, Texas Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke over Joe Biden.
00:40:01.000So their number one choice is Beto O'Rourke, Robert O'Rourke.
00:40:04.000Some 29 percent of respondents said they didn't know who they wanted, but O'Rourke has seized a narrow lead with 15.6 percent of respondents followed by former Vice President Joe Biden at 14.9 percent and Senator Bernie Sanders at 13.1 percent.
00:40:17.000Elizabeth Warren way down in the pack.
00:40:18.000Warren looks like she has lived past her sell-by date.
00:40:21.000And the same thing is true of Bernie Sanders.
00:40:23.000It looks like Bernie Sanders has lost a lot of the enthusiasm that carried him forward In 2016, when the MoveOn.org crowd, they were all Bernie bros.
00:40:29.000Now it looks like they're gonna be Beto bros.
00:40:31.000Look, Beto is the most dangerous candidate in the Democratic field.
00:40:34.000He's the person you have to look out for.
00:40:37.000And there are three basic And pillars of the Democratic Party at this point, the intersectional coalition, all of these various pandered to minority groups that are essentially being told by the Democratic politicians that they ought to be privileged in American society because of a past history of victimization.
00:40:59.000He panders to those people by by suggesting I'm not when I say those people, I don't mean actual members, minority groups.
00:41:05.000I mean that he is pandering to politically active, progressive leaders who consider themselves part of this intersectional coalition.
00:41:12.000He is he's pandering to a lot of those folks specifically because by saying things like the criminal justice system is inherently biased and racist, this sort of stuff.
00:41:22.000You have to say if you actually want to succeed with the intersectional coalition.
00:41:25.000He also has to appeal to the mainline Democrats and he has to appeal to the progressive.
00:41:29.000MoveOn.org is the Bernie Sanders wing of the party.
00:41:34.000The mainstream Democratic Party likes Beto because O'Rourke is smart enough That he was never a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
00:41:42.000Instead, he joined the New Democrat Coalition, which was a centrist caucus with Clintonian views, according to social democratic columnist Elizabeth Bruning.
00:41:49.000He's been rather mild on climate change issues, at least for the radical left.
00:41:53.000Of course, he's being upheld by the media.
00:41:55.000I think that at this point, O'Rourke would be a fool not to run for president.
00:41:58.000He's still got bank from his last election cycle, and he's got a lot of momentum, and people are looking for a fresh face.
00:42:05.000He is young, the media love him, and he is also combative.
00:42:10.000You know, he's a dangerous candidate and pretending that he is going to simply fade away into the horizon, I don't think is accurate in any way.
00:42:16.000Now, meanwhile, the stupidest stories of the day.
00:42:19.000There is a piece in The Washington Post today about me headlining the March for Life.
00:42:23.000There's a piece by a guy named Charles Camosy, who is the head of Democrats for Life, which means he's the only member of Democrats for Life because there are like three Democrats for Life.
00:42:30.000Now, again, I think there are a lot of people who vote Democrat, who may be pro-life.
00:42:55.000He says that in a few, he says, the biggest problem with the March for Life has to do with the near total lack of huge name promoters as the anti-abortion movement continues to be the third rail for American celebrities.
00:43:25.000Many in the pro-life movement will consider this a huge get, not me.
00:43:28.000Despite Shapiro's star power and stature, I consider his appearance a serious mistake for the march, one that will move us even further from being understood as a broad-based human rights movement we need to embody in order to go from fringe to mainstream.
00:43:38.000The idea being that I am a partisan Republican or a conservative, an open conservative, and therefore it's bad for me to speak at the March for Life.
00:43:47.000So this is what he says, Trump is a buffoon, but Shapiro is helping to form the imagination of many millions of young conservatives.
00:43:52.000He also has deep relationships and regular exchanges with pro-choice members of the intellectual dark web and is one of the few pro-life public figures who is taken seriously outside the pro-life movement itself.
00:44:00.000Though I disagree with Shapiro about 60 to 70 percent of the time, I listen to his entertaining show regularly and consider him a very important voice for vulnerable populations.
00:44:08.000His commitment to argument and evidence represents the only chance those who lack power in our culture have to get their interests taken seriously.
00:44:14.000The problem is that I'm going to be doing the podcast live, and that because the podcast is politically oriented, this is going to alienate Democrats.
00:44:21.000Honestly, if you're more alienated by my Republican politics than you are by the pro-choice movement, or if you feel that I can't be a good promoter of pro-life beliefs, if you believe I can't be a good promoter of pro-life beliefs because I am a conservative, then I would suggest that you are making a very large mistake.
00:44:37.000When folks on the left say something that is right, it is my job to give them credit for saying something that is right.
00:44:41.000And when I say something that is pro-life and correct, it seems to me pro-life Democrats should be on my side, and it's not my job to pretend that the Democratic Party has played an innocuous role in the pro-choice versus pro-life debate.
00:44:54.000OK, let's get to some things that I like and then some things that I hate.
00:44:57.000So things that I like that I have to show you this.
00:45:00.000This is so I will acknowledge I love magic.
00:45:04.000I don't just mean I'm not talking about like Harry Potter.
00:45:06.000I'm talking about the the kind of sleight of hand magic illusion, Michael, illusion.
00:47:14.000This is the original announcement, the beautiful, I think, announcement that she was going to marry a 300-year-old ghost pirate a few years ago, but now she has apparently left the marriage.
00:47:24.000Here is her original statement announcing her engagement to the ghost pirate.
00:47:27.000Amanda is a pirate impersonator married to a 300-year-old ghost pirate.
00:47:33.000I'm the first person in the UK and Ireland to marry post-human sleep.
00:47:37.000She says when deceased pirate John Teague contacted her spiritually, she had some doubts, but he proved himself by telling her historic facts she later Googled and found to be true.
00:47:49.000Amanda says she's seen John in astro travel and in meditation.
00:47:53.000The two were married on international waters, surrounded by a small group of friends and family.
00:48:06.000I mean, I don't know why you would think this is stupid or anything.
00:48:09.000First of all, if she believes that the ghost pirate speaks to her and that she can marry the ghost pirate, I don't see why you would think that is delusional.
00:48:16.000There's nothing delusional about that.
00:48:17.000It doesn't impede her capacity to function in normal society.
00:49:23.000Teague said, growing up in Ireland, in my era, you were taught that if a man bedded you, he should wed you.
00:49:27.000I knew from my research that spiritual marriage was a thing.
00:49:29.000So it was more than, it was more me that wanted to get married than him.
00:49:33.000He would have been happy, like most men, with just sex.
00:49:36.000Because she says that apparently she was having sex with her ghost partner.
00:49:41.000The apparition began on a happier note in 2014 when she said she suddenly felt the spirit's energy with her in bed.
00:49:47.000She told the Daily Star the spirit sat with her while she watched TV and drove her car and that she started developing strong feelings toward it.
00:49:54.000Alright, it's worth noting that in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, by the way, the character of Edward Deag was played by Keith Richards and is the father of Jack Sparrow.
00:50:03.000So, presumably, His actual full name, Jack Sparrow, would be Jack Teague.
00:50:07.000So she just has a... I guess that she just really likes Johnny Depp a lot, like Faye Johnny Depp.
00:50:12.000So, a sad end to a meaningful relationship.
00:50:20.000When someone's heart breaks over marrying a 300-year-old fake ghost, And they have to break up.
00:50:27.000And then when all of your hopes and dreams just sort of disappear for no reason, then you have to you have to wonder whether whether life can go on as it did before.
00:50:38.000You know, what happens under the bedsheet stays under the bedsheet.
00:50:41.000OK, meanwhile, other things that so let's do a couple of things that I hate.
00:50:49.000Thing number one that I hate, Sean Illing, who is actually a nice guy.
00:50:52.000He writes over at Vox.com, which, as I say very often, is a repository of extreme stupidity.
00:50:57.000Sean Illing has an interview with a woman named Kristen Godsey, and it is titled, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism, According to an Anthropologist.
00:51:07.000Is it the tyrannical domination that they really like, or is it the forced redistribution of income?
00:51:12.000According to a new book by Kristin Godsey, an anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania, she argues that women have better sex under socialism.
00:51:19.000If that sounds strange to you, consider this.
00:51:21.000A survey of East and West Germans after reunification in 1990 found that Eastern women, the socialist side of Germany during the Cold War, has twice as many orgasms as Western women.
00:51:29.000What in the world accounts for such a wide gap?
00:51:31.000According to Godsey, it's about social safety nets.
00:51:33.000If, she argues, you build a society that supports women and doesn't punish them for having children or devalue their labor, it turns out they'll be happier and have better sex.
00:51:42.000Except for how all the people in the West, in Europe, at the time this was happening, were living in democratic socialist states with extraordinarily strong safety nets and a serious focus on gender inequity.
00:51:54.000Maybe, maybe it's because marital rates were actually higher in places like the Soviet Union than they were outside places like the Soviet Union.
00:52:02.000Because it turns out that inside the Soviet Union, marriage out of wedlock was actually not something that these empires really liked a whole hell of a lot.
00:52:09.000The line between social safety nets and better sex is blurrier than the title of the book implies.
00:52:13.000Says Sean Elling, meaning it doesn't exist.
00:52:15.000But there are some interesting ideas here, and to her credit, Gatsi doesn't reduce everything to a simplistic choice between capitalism and socialism, nor does she call for a return to Soviet-style communism.
00:52:23.000Her book is really about using socialist principles to offset the gender inequities in capitalist societies.
00:52:29.000Again, I think that if you really believe that women in the Soviet Union were having better sex because they were in the Soviet Union, it's worked out great in Venezuela.
00:52:39.000I mean, using the Soviet Union as the example, you would figure that if you were going to write this book, you'd at least say, oh, women in Norway are having better sex, right?
00:52:45.000Isn't Norway the new hot socialist country, even though it's not really socialist?
00:52:48.000But using the Soviet Union means I get to use Venezuela and Cuba as examples.
00:52:52.000So, if you're now using the Soviet Union as a place for great sex, how's Commie China working out?
00:53:23.000And he wrote a piece for The Federalist talking about being gay.
00:53:27.000He says, the stigma against my conservative politics is worse than the stigma of being gay, meaning that he is treated worse online for being conservative than for being homosexual.
00:53:35.000Well, there's a piece today by a woman named Lauren Thiessen called Conservative Gays Need to Shut the F Up.
00:53:42.000So proving Chad Felix Green's thesis that it is worse to be a conserver than to be gay in social media, she says, That's good news, right?
00:53:50.000I mean, in a utopian society, nobody would much care whether people prefer to F or fall in love with, but everyone would care deeply about the laws and policies that would actually impact the world.
00:53:58.000So our hypothetical utopian folks wouldn't bat an eye at two men sharing a kiss, but would likely get pretty pissed if someone came around advocating the use of tear gas against people in need, or death for sick people who don't have the money to pay for treatment, Or killing machines for everybody.
00:54:27.000And the final thing that I hate today, we're going to do a piece of deconstructing the culture.
00:54:30.000So we haven't deconstructed the culture in a while.
00:54:31.000When we deconstruct the culture, we take a piece of popular culture and we look at the messaging in that piece of popular culture that you may not have been listening to.
00:54:38.000Because very often when they play a song on the radio, you may not catch the lyrics.
00:54:41.000You may not be seeing the music video.
00:54:43.000Well, our intrepid producer, Senya, sent me a piece that she got from the Googles about the 10 hottest music videos of 2018.
00:54:51.000Suffice it to say, replete with stupidity.
00:54:55.000And I had to stop when I saw Janelle Monae's pink spelled P Y N K because we can't spell things correctly anymore because that's uncool.
00:55:02.000Janelle Monae is the feminist of the day.
00:55:08.000And she says that feminism is all about the female genitalia.
00:55:13.000Now, I have to acknowledge that it used to be.
00:55:16.000I love that we live in a society where the subtlety of baby, it's cold outside, which is Basically, how a lot of wooing goes on, right?
00:55:25.000I mean, every woman and every man who is honest about this knows that when you are wooing a person of the opposite sex, particularly a man wooing a woman, very often it is the woman who is saying, I need to leave now.
00:55:34.000And the guy is saying, why don't you just stick around a little bit longer?
00:58:48.000Then, even if you assume, you know, put aside that idiocy, and assume that there is in fact a correlation between the female anatomy and being female, I don't understand why that would be the thing that you choose to take pride in.
00:59:00.000It seems to me that females have been making the case for a while that they are more than their anatomy, that femininity involves more than just your genitalia, and that men, if they think of you as just your genitalia, that's a bad thing.
00:59:15.000And if you want to treat a woman as a full-fledged human being, you probably should not be thinking quite so much about her genitalia and start thinking about the folds of her brain inside.
00:59:22.000You should start thinking about the things she thinks, and feels, and the actions she takes in her life.
00:59:27.000If I were to talk about all the wonderful things that make my wife my wife, Genitalia, like this is a component part, but this is not what makes my wife my wife.
00:59:35.000Like, every woman on planet Earth has female anatomy.
00:59:41.000But what makes my wife my wife, what makes her special, and what makes her unique as a woman is not that.
00:59:44.000What makes her unique as a woman is the fact that she's a wonderful wife, the fact she's a wonderful mother, the fact that she is a doctor.
00:59:50.000The fact that she does all of these wonderful things every day.
00:59:53.000That's what makes her a unique person.
00:59:54.000That's why I respect my wife as a human.
00:59:58.000If you're on the feminist left and you want to reduce females to their genitalia, but then say also that genitalia don't mean that you are female and also men should stop objectifying your genitalia.
01:00:06.000And also if you talk about female genitalia, then this makes you a sexist.
01:00:10.000None of these things can hold true at the same time.
01:00:12.000But if this is the empowerment, if this is the new empowerment, we got to ban baby cold.