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00:00:09.000I know when I found out that Michael Knowles was attacked last night at a speech, my first thought was, well, thank God.
00:00:20.000And then I found out he was okay, and I was like, damn it, if I hire somebody to do a job, you just can't get good people to do things these days, you gotta do everything yourself.
00:00:27.000So when he gets back to LA, I'm just gonna go out there with a Super Soaker full of bleach and go after him.
00:00:31.000We'll get to all that in just a second.
00:01:42.000Alrighty, so we begin today with the continuing fallout over Ilhan Omar getting herself into trouble once again because it is a day ending in Y and a month with more than 17 days.
00:01:53.000So that means that Ilhan Omar is in trouble again and she's doubling down on her being in trouble because she is not good at this.
00:02:01.000So there are a few different things that are wrong with Ilhan Omar's take on 9-11.
00:02:06.000So She begins, this all came to light over the past few days because she was speaking at the Council on American Islamic Relations, we played the clip several times, and while she was there, she suggested that care was founded in the aftermath of 9-11, not true, to defend Muslims after some people did something.
00:02:22.000And people who remember 9-11 said to themselves, what now?
00:02:34.000And she defended this, not by suggesting that she may have been insensitive in her remarks or that's not what she meant, or obviously 9-11 was a truly terrible tragedy for the country and an act of tremendous evil.
00:02:46.000All the things that you would expect a person to say in this position.
00:02:49.000Instead, she simply keeps doubling down on all of this.
00:02:54.000So, for example, Ilhan Omar tweeted out this morning, she tweeted out this morning in response to all of this, quote, The people and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear from all of us soon.
00:03:20.000You remember him saying that, if you are older than 17 years old, because he was standing on the rubble of Ground Zero at the time with a bullhorn and explaining to people that the people who perpetrated the attack would soon be dead because we would be sending our soldiers overseas to kill them.
00:03:37.000The people who knocked those buildings down, we'll hear from all of us soon, was not him saying, we're going to call them and then have a nice conversation.
00:03:59.000The real victims, the real victims of 9-11 were the Muslims, obviously.
00:04:03.000The real victims of 9-11 across the United States were Muslims.
00:04:06.000Now, I am old enough to remember all of this going down.
00:04:09.000And the media's chief concern, one of their chief concerns in the aftermath of 9-11 was the so-called Islamophobic backlash, which did not end up materializing.
00:04:16.000There's a lot of worry about Muslims being mistreated across the country.
00:04:20.000And George W. Bush went out of his way over and over and over to separate Islam from the terrorists.
00:04:27.000I think he went overboard by characterizing Islam as a religion of peace, for example.
00:04:32.000I don't think he's an Islamic scholar, so I don't think that he had the expertise to do that, but he obviously was attempting to protect innocent Muslims from being lumped in with radical Muslims who had committed terrorist atrocities.
00:04:43.000And yet, Ilhan Omar continues with this narrative that Muslims were truly victimized on 9-11 as opposed to the people who were murdered in the 9-11 terror attacks.
00:04:53.000So, you want to prove that you are sympathetic to the victims of 9-11 and your first response to all of this is to downplay 9-11 again by suggesting that the real issue here is whether Bush was treated differently because he was not a Muslim guy.
00:05:34.000They don't want anything to do with the comments, but they also don't want to tick off these three young women who are the new fresh faces, so fresh, so face of the Democratic Party.
00:05:46.000There is a top Democrat named Lujan who came out and said, yeah, this is not great stuff.
00:05:52.000This is, this is, you know, she, she needs to do better than that.
00:05:55.000Those statements were not only hurtful to me, but extremely hurtful to everyone that was personally impacted by those terrorist attacks.
00:06:04.000No one should refer to what happened on 9-11 with terrorist attacks that killed thousands of Americans as something by some people.
00:06:13.000Okay, that person is the Assistant Speaker of the U.S.
00:06:16.000House of Representatives, Representative Ben Ray Lujan from New Mexico.
00:06:20.000Now, he is obviously right, but you're not hearing this overwhelmingly from the Democratic Party.
00:06:23.000Instead, what you're mostly hearing in the media is all of Ilhan Omar's radical friends, including anti-Semites like Rashida Tlaib and anti-Semite fellow travelers like AOC, come out and defend Ilhan Omar because they're the new diverse Freshman class, ooh!
00:06:37.000So here's Rashida Tlaib suggesting that the real problem here is that people don't like Ilhan Omar because she's a Somali woman who is a Muslim.
00:07:16.000It must be the color of skin or the character of genitalia.
00:07:20.000It must be that you're a female or that you are Muslim or that you have a darker hue of skin color.
00:07:25.000It must be that, not the open antisemitism both you and Ilhan Omar repeatedly engage in.
00:07:30.000It can't be that Omar is a radical on foreign policy, which she is.
00:07:34.000Muslim or not, she is a radical on foreign policy.
00:07:37.000I will show you the evidence of this in just one second.
00:07:39.000But it must be that the criticism is all it's all related to race.
00:07:42.000Now, weird, because there are other Muslims in the U.S.
00:07:45.000Congress and they don't receive this kind of criticism because they don't say this kind of crap.
00:07:50.000There are other black people, there are other people who are of brown hue in the U.S.
00:07:55.000Congress who do not receive this kind of blowback because they're not routinely saying things that are disgusting in public.
00:08:01.000But it must be racism and sexism and bigotry and homophobia and all the rest.
00:08:06.000Leading this charge, of course, is AOC, who spends every waking moment trying to defend idiocy by suggesting that opponents of idiocy are actually opponents of minorities.
00:08:58.000So the rule now is that if you criticize a member of Congress who happens to be a woman of color, it's incitement.
00:09:04.000This is the speech is violence nonsense that you see on college campuses, where people like me go to speak on college campuses, or Michael Mowles goes and speaks on a college campus, and suddenly people are popping up and actually attempting violence because speech, after all, is violence.
00:09:17.000If the new standard is that harshly critiquing somebody is incitement to violence, then you know who's going to be responsible for violence.
00:10:11.000the two one is human the other is is it true that you just think that he's more polished than trump one is human the other is not okay which one is more inciting that or people pointing out that ilhan omar's comments about 9-11 were at best insensitive at best it's pretty it's pretty incredible aoc went even further than this again it is amazing to me that people see her as an If this is the case, sell your bonds.
00:10:38.000Because my goodness, AOC tweeted this out about Dan Crenshaw.
00:10:41.000So Dan Crenshaw is one of the people who's been critical of Ilhan Omar's comments about 9-11.
00:10:46.000Representative Crenshaw from Texas served in Afghanistan, lost an eye to an IED in Afghanistan.
00:10:51.000Did that defending Muslims in Afghanistan.
00:10:54.000So AOC tweets this out at Dan Crenshaw.
00:10:57.000So Dan Crenshaw had tweeted, AOC responds, In 2018, right-wing extremists were behind almost all U.S.
00:11:04.000AOC responds, you refuse to co-sponsor the 9-11 Victims Compensation Fund, yet have the audacity to drum resentment toward Ilhan Omar with completely out-of-context quotes?
00:11:15.000In 2018, right-wing extremists were behind almost all U.S. domestic terrorist killings.
00:11:20.000Why don't you go do something about that?
00:11:22.000So there are about eight lies in here, Number one, he backs the 9-11 Victims' Compensation Fund.
00:11:27.000So does Donald Trump, to the extent that even Jon Stewart has praised the Trump administration for their work on the 9-11 Victims' Compensation Fund.
00:11:36.000Number two, you don't have to co-sponsor a bill to support a bill.
00:11:38.000Three, she's really going to suggest that people like Ilhan Omar are doing more for 9-11 victims than Dan Crenshaw, who joined the military and lost an eye To fight the people who perpetrated 9-11?
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00:14:02.000So why is Ilhan Omar receiving this kind of blowback?
00:14:04.000Well, because she has been for years saying stuff like this.
00:14:06.000So back in 2012, she did an interview with a pretty radical TV slash radio show in which she questioned why exactly, why exactly is it that we say England and America in the same way that we, why don't we say England and America in the same way that we say Al Qaeda?
00:14:29.000And she did a full clip where she was joking and laughing about Hamas and Hezbollah and Al-Qaeda.
00:14:34.000She said that she took a class where the professor, every time he said Al-Qaeda, he said, Al-Qaeda, with like a feeling of dread.
00:14:40.000Why didn't he say England or America or the army in the same way?
00:14:44.000Because those are terrorist groups, lady, that's why.
00:14:47.000And that's not the only time that Ilhan Omar has said something like this.
00:14:50.000Just two years ago, she wrote a piece for Time Magazine We'll get to in just one second.
00:14:57.000Okay, so this piece in Time Magazine from Ilhan Omar.
00:15:01.000In this piece, she's talking about Charlottesville, and here is what she talked about with regard to the United States.
00:15:07.000Listen to how she characterizes the United States versus how she characterizes Islamic terrorism.
00:15:11.000Quote, we must confront that our nation was founded by the genocide of indigenous people and on the backs of slaves, that we maintain global power with the tenor of neocolonialism.
00:15:22.000So first off, virtually every aspect of that statement is wrong.
00:15:25.000The quote unquote genocide of indigenous people was diseased brought over centuries earlier by Europeans from a variety of different countries.
00:15:48.000And when she says that our nation was founded on the backs of slaves, slavery was an evil part of America's founding.
00:15:54.000Also, it did not exist in the North part of the United States.
00:15:58.000Members of the North were very much opposed to slavery.
00:16:00.000There's a big fight over it in the Declaration of Independence.
00:16:05.000And It is also possible that an evil thing that was a part of America's history was not actually the foundation of the country.
00:16:11.000The foundation of the country was the ideas.
00:16:14.000As I've said many times, I say this in my new book, The Right Side of History, the great divide right now in the West is between people who think like Ilhan Omar and people who have respect for the history of Western civilization.
00:16:23.000People who mischaracterize Western civilization as based on hatred and fear and racism and all of the great ideas of the Declaration and the Constitution were just a bunch of nonsense.
00:16:32.000And then there are people who recognize that the ideas of the Declaration and the Constitution are wonderful, terrific ideas that were not always fully lived up to by human beings.
00:16:41.000Nonetheless, she says all that and then she says, we maintain today global power with the tenor of neocolonialism.
00:17:22.000In other words, America's a brutally racist, terrible place.
00:17:26.000And because we don't want to confront the fact that America is a brutally racist, terrible place, we make up this international terrorist threat.
00:17:33.000We focus on the international terrorist threat We don't have to focus on the threats here at home, you know, like white supremacy and the evils of racism and all that.
00:17:41.000Obviously, this is a person who takes racism, who takes terrorism super duper seriously.
00:17:47.000She takes terrorism so seriously that she characterized in 2016 in a letter to a judge trying to get a bunch of terrorists who had joined ISIS off the hook.
00:18:18.000We must alter our attitude and approach to these young men.
00:18:22.000She said a long-term prison sentence for one who chose violence to combat direct marginalization is a statement that our justice system misunderstands the guilty.
00:19:08.000But I guess this is what the Democratic Party wishes to become.
00:19:11.000I guess the Democratic Party wishes to become the party of people who rant and rave about how terrible America is routinely, and then when called upon, it suggests that this is incitement against people of color.
00:19:47.000It is pretty amazing and it's pretty terrifying.
00:19:48.000Okay, so, meanwhile, there's a big story that came up yesterday with regard to the Daily Wire's own Michael Knowles.
00:19:57.000As I said earlier, when you hire somebody to put out a hit, presumably the person should fulfill their duty, but apparently you can't get good people these days on college campuses.
00:20:05.000Anyway, University of Missouri-Kansas City.
00:20:30.000But this person pops through the door and starts shooting the super soaker at Michael, at which point one of the police officers in the room Who obviously should get some sort of tryout with the chiefs.
00:20:40.000Takes down the perpetrator with a strong armbar.
00:20:42.000I mean, this is a solid tackle right here.
00:20:44.000Okay, so good times over there. so good times over there. - Good times over there.
00:22:08.000Okay, coming up, we'll get to President Trump on illegal immigration, because there's a breaking story that's getting a lot of play, and I'm not sure exactly why.
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00:23:24.000Okay, so President Trump is now being ripped upon because there was a proposal that was made inside the White House that would have directed a lot of the illegal immigrants who could not be absorbed by Border Patrol.
00:23:38.000The White House had thought about directing those illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities and send them to democratic areas and let the Democrats deal with the fallout from illegal immigration if they won't actually give us the money that we need to fund the border wall or the beds.
00:23:50.000According to the Washington Post, White House officials have tried to pressure U.S.
00:23:53.000immigration authorities to release detainees onto the streets of sanctuary cities to retaliate against President Trump's political adversaries, according to Department of Homeland Security officials and email messages reviewed by the Washington Post.
00:24:06.000Trump administration officials have proposed transporting detained immigrants to sanctuary cities at least twice in the past six months.
00:24:12.000Once in November, as a migrant caravan approached the U.S.
00:24:15.000southern border, and again in February amid a standoff with Democrats over funding for Trump's border wall.
00:24:20.000One of the districts looked at was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's district in San Francisco.
00:24:24.000The administration also considered releasing detainees in other Democratic strongholds.
00:24:28.000The White House officials first apparently broached the plan in a November 16th email Asking officials at several agencies whether members of the caravan could be arrested at the border and then bused to small and mid-sized sanctuary cities, places where local authorities have refused to hand over illegal immigrants for deportation.
00:24:44.000The White House told ICE that the plan was intended to alleviate a shortage of detention space, but also served to send a message to Democrats.
00:24:51.000The attempt at political retribution raised alarm within ICE, with the top official responding that it was rife with budgetary and liability concerns and noting there are PR risks as well.
00:25:00.000After the White House pressed again in February, ICE's legal department rejected the idea as inappropriate and then rebuffed the administration.
00:25:07.000A White House official and spokesman for DHS sent nearly identical statements to the Post on Thursday, indicating the proposal was not under consideration.
00:25:14.000This was just a suggestion that was floated and rejected, which ended any further discussion, the White House statement said.
00:25:19.000Nancy Pelosi's office blasted the plan.
00:25:21.000Her spokeswoman, Ashley Etienne, said, The extent of this administration's cynicism and cruelty cannot be overstated.
00:25:27.000Using human beings, including little children, as pawns in their warped game to perpetuate fear and demonize immigrants is despicable.
00:25:35.000Frankly, I am confused by Pelosi's reaction.
00:25:40.000If the idea is that illegal immigrants coming into the country provide no threat and should be placed in areas where the resources are available, Sanctuary City seemed like a pretty good place for that.
00:25:59.000I am constantly amazed at the hypocrisy of a media that went along with Barack Obama shutting down open-air World War II memorials in the middle of a government shutdown just to prove to people he could make people suffer.
00:26:19.000Doesn't matter World War II vets can't get in.
00:26:21.000He's... If Barack Obama has to make people suffer to end the shutdown, I guess that's the way this is going to go.
00:26:26.000I also don't understand why it would be markedly worse, on a moral level, to send illegal immigrants to cities where they are going to be treated really well, presumably.
00:26:38.000Where they're going to be treated really well, as opposed to small border towns that are being overwhelmed with the number of illegal immigrants and don't have the resources there.
00:26:45.000Why is it better for these folks to be shipped and let off a bus in the middle of a small town in Texas than to be shipped to other places and be let off the bus there?
00:26:56.000I mean, why does Nancy Pelosi actually have a problem with illegal immigrants being sent to San Francisco?
00:27:02.000In fact, I'm old enough to remember, because I'm more than five years old, when one city in California called Murrieta objected to having illegal immigrants sent to the city.
00:27:13.000And they tried to stop the buses of illegal immigrants that were being bused to the city.
00:27:17.000And the media covered this as though the people who were protesting were racist.
00:27:39.000And listen to how the media cover these people from Murrieta who do not want thousands of illegal immigrants bused into their small town community.
00:28:23.000Okay, well, there is truth to the idea that people overreact to illegal immigration in their area, but I don't see why Nancy Pelosi gets to do it and the people from Murad don't.
00:28:31.000I don't understand why it is... I mean, and listen to the media coverage there.
00:28:34.000They seek out the people who are the most vile, the people who are spitting at people, the people who are shouting at children.
00:29:04.000Illegal immigrants should be let off in towns that have the resources to deal with them.
00:29:08.000If those are border towns, let them be border towns.
00:29:11.000If they're not border towns, then let them not be border towns.
00:29:14.000But in reality, none of these illegal immigrants should be being released into the general population at all.
00:29:19.000What we should be having are enough beds at the border to take care of these people.
00:29:23.000And it is the Democrats' fault that those beds are not available, specifically because Democrats want people released into the general population.
00:29:29.000Democrats are pushing catch and release.
00:29:32.000If Democrats push catch and release, it doesn't seem unreasonable to me for the Trump administration to say, OK, well, then you get to deal with the consequences of catch and release, as opposed to these people in small border towns who didn't sign up for this.
00:29:46.000Well, maybe you ought to bear the impact, the human impact of illegal immigration, meaning a strain on your local resources.
00:29:54.000Now, I understand why people see that as a cynical political move by the Trump administration.
00:29:58.000It is a cynical move by the Trump administration.
00:30:00.000What I don't understand is how those same people cannot see it as cynical for Nancy Pelosi to oppose funding necessary at the border and then object when people are sent to her town.
00:30:15.000If you are a sanctuary city and you are saying that you're not even going to report to ICE when illegal immigrants show up in your town and commit crimes, then why do you object to more illegal immigrants being sent to your town?
00:30:29.000According to the Washington Post, the White House believed it could punish Democrats, including Pelosi, by busing ICE detainees into their districts before their release, according to two DHS whistleblowers.
00:30:38.000One of the whistleblowers spoke with the Post.
00:30:39.000Several DHS officials confirmed the accounts.
00:30:41.000They spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
00:30:46.000Again, why do Democrats view it as a punishment?
00:30:49.000Why aren't Democrats like, great, we want more of these people.
00:30:52.000We can take care of them better than you can.
00:30:53.000Wouldn't that be the smart political play here?
00:30:55.000According to these two DHS officials, who's a senior Trump advisor, Stephen Miller, who discussed the proposal, I'll be interested to see how all the late night comedians treat this.
00:31:03.000Oh, it's absolute cruelty to ship illegal immigrants to LA and San Francisco.
00:31:26.000My advice was heeded, which is also true.
00:31:28.000The proposal itself, I am saying, is politically understandable.
00:31:32.000The Democratic response is not politically understandable.
00:31:34.000And also, the Trump administration didn't do it because of liability issues, presumably.
00:31:40.000Homeland Security officials said the Sanctuary City request was unnerving, and it underscores the political pressure Trump and Miller have put on ICE and other DHS agencies at a time when the president is furious about the biggest border surge in more than a decade.
00:31:52.000One congressional investigator said it was basically an idea Miller wanted that nobody else wanted to carry out.
00:31:56.000By the way, that's not what I'm hearing from inside the White House.
00:31:58.000I'm hearing it was actually somebody else who originally proposed this.
00:32:00.000What happened here is that Stephen Miller called people at ICE, said if they're going to cut funding, you've got to make sure you're releasing people in Pelosi's district and other congressional districts.
00:32:09.000Apparently the idea was not presented to Ronald Vitiello, the agency's acting director.
00:32:14.000The day after the nomination was rescinded, President Trump said he wanted to put someone tougher over at ICE.
00:32:20.000According to a person named May Davis, Deputy Assistant to the President, Deputy White House Policy Coordinator, the idea was raised by one or two principles that if we are unable to build sufficient temporary housing, caravan members be bused to small and mid-sized sanctuary cities.
00:32:34.000There is not a White House decision on all of this.
00:32:37.000One of the DHS officials said, it was retaliation to show them your lack of cooperation has impact.
00:32:41.000I think they thought it would put pressure on those communities to understand, I guess, a different perspective on why you need more immigration money for detention beds.
00:32:49.000A formal legal review was never completed, so this thing didn't even go very far.
00:32:52.000Nonetheless, the very idea is deeply offensive.
00:35:29.000I assume that's because Kevin has been watering the grass with the contents of his Leftist Tears Tumblr, which has been overflowing ever since Bibi Netanyahu was reelected earlier this week.
00:35:37.000Kevin, thank you for being a subscriber.
00:37:08.000He's not American and he's not a journalist.
00:37:10.000So there are a couple of problems with that particular statement.
00:37:12.000Also, if the idea is that Trump is providing a threat to journalists by arresting Julian Assange, why are members of the Obama administration celebrating all of this?
00:37:23.000They're like, "Mustle, Most of the members of the Obama administration are very, very happy that Assange was arrested.
00:37:27.000Some of them came out of the woodwork yesterday and said, listen, we tried to get him on hacking, we didn't have enough to get him on hacking, now we do, so good.
00:37:34.000So it's interesting to see the political breakdown here.
00:37:37.000There are folks on the, it's also funny to see who on the left has sort of flipped on Assange.
00:37:43.000So Hillary Clinton came out yesterday, she said Assange must now answer for what he's done.
00:37:46.000She was Secretary of State under Obama when they didn't go after Assange really.
00:37:50.000And when Barack Obama granted clemency to, to Chelsea Manning, who was the person funneling American classified information to Assange.
00:37:59.000They didn't take Assange, WikiLeaks, Manning very seriously.
00:38:04.000Well, because Assange helped make her lose in 2016, obviously.
00:38:08.000I'll wait and see what happens with the charges and how it proceeds.
00:38:15.000But the bottom line is, he has to answer for what he has done, at least as it's been charged.
00:38:23.000I do think it's a little ironic that he may be the only foreigner that this administration would welcome to the United States.
00:38:31.000Okay, it is pretty amazing how the left has flipped on him.
00:38:34.000By the way, it's amazing how the right flipped on him in the middle of the 2016 election, where you have certain Fox News hosts who spent a lot of time defending Julian Assange from charges that he was, in fact, a person who had endangered American national security.
00:38:46.000Which, by the way, he is a person who had endangered American national security.
00:38:50.000Okay, one more story and then we'll get to the mailbag.
00:38:52.000So, there's this wild story from the Boston Globe.
00:38:55.000They ran a 1,200-word op-ed From a guy named Luke O'Neill, a Boston-based freelance journalist and a regular contributor to the Boston Globe Opinion section, his piece called on people to taint the food of Republicans.
00:39:12.000He said at one point, the original op-ed suggested that one of the biggest regrets he had in his life was not pissing in Bill Kristol's salmon in the middle of the Iraq war.
00:39:22.000And at the end of his piece, he suggested that patriotic waiters should somehow taint the food of Kirstjen Nielsen.
00:39:29.000He said, keep Kirstjen Nielsen unemployed and eating Grubhub over her kitchen sink.
00:39:33.000As for the waiters out there, I'm not saying you should tamper with anyone's food, as that could get you into trouble.
00:39:37.000You might lose your serving job, but you'd be serving America, and you won't have any regrets years later.
00:41:48.000The word malach in Hebrew is both messenger and also angel, the idea being that angels are effectively just forces in the world that have a singular purpose and do not have the capacity to choose.
00:41:58.000Justin says, Ben, do you think illegal immigrants, if allowed to vote, would vote along the lines of their Christian values and not the left?
00:42:03.000If true, what would the Democrats do then?
00:42:05.000Well, I think that what the record tends to show is that illegal immigrants or people who are fresh immigrants from Central America and Mexico, that people tend to vote Democrat for the first generation, then they tend to move toward the middle over time.
00:42:18.000Second generation Latino immigrants tend to vote more Republican, which is what you've seen in places like Texas.
00:42:23.000it If they are given tremendous benefits, if people are given tremendous benefits and do not integrate or assimilate, then they tend to vote Democrat for a very long period of time, which is what you see in California.
00:42:34.000Also, it's true that the California Republican Party treated Latinos very differently than the Texas Republican Party.
00:42:43.000And so you've seen the disparate impact of that in voting patterns.
00:42:47.000Andy says, hey Ben, do you think the Attorney General should be elected rather than appointed by the President?
00:42:51.000It just seems that Attorney Generals could always be portrayed as having motives in protecting the President, of which appointed them to that position.
00:42:57.000Would this solve any of the scrutiny Barr is facing for opening this investigation?
00:43:39.000It's the balance of power that allows us to check power from Congress and not make it the Supreme Branch.
00:43:45.000And it's the executive that is checked by Congress.
00:43:48.000So having an elected Attorney General who is free to do whatever they want, that person will be political too.
00:43:55.000I don't believe that anybody is completely apolitical.
00:43:57.000The Attorney General would then be the most powerful person, presumably, in America because they can investigate the president if they didn't like the president.
00:44:05.000Let's say that you elected a Democratic AG under a Republican president.
00:44:09.000Then all you would get is a bunch of A bunch of investigations of the president, many of them poorly motivated.
00:44:16.000Let's say that you had an AG who was elected, who was the same party as the president, well then you have exactly the same problem.
00:44:36.000There's no rationale for countries that are run by evil human beings to have the same weight in the UN General Assembly as the United States.
00:44:44.000There's no reason to suggest that Russia should be on the UN Security Council having veto power over issues in which it has a direct hand.
00:44:52.000Direct negotiations with Russia are a better idea than the UN Security Council.
00:45:35.000Well, this is one of the questions that I ask in my new book, Bestseller, The Right Side of History, the number one New York Times bestseller.
00:45:43.000My answer here is no, that if you are a complete scientific materialist, there is nothing that distinguishes us from a fly, let alone from a monkey.
00:45:50.000So, the capacity for reason is just a more complex firing of neurons, and there is nothing more moral about that, per se.
00:45:57.000Now, there are people who say that humans are more important than animals because we have the capacity to reason, but as I mentioned in the book, even the capacity to reason is only morally beneficial because The capacity to reason is seen as something higher, something morally good.
00:46:10.000Where are you getting that morality from?
00:46:12.000You're not getting it from evolutionary biology.
00:46:14.000Nothing in evolutionary biology suggests that a value attaches to the use of reason as opposed to the use of force.
00:46:20.000Spencer says, Hey Ben, I'm 20 years old.
00:46:22.000I'm starting to pick up musical instruments.
00:46:24.000I've been playing the piano for less than two months.
00:46:26.000I'm itching to start the more difficult pieces.
00:46:27.000What are your suggestions for learning to play difficult classical pieces like sonatas?
00:46:37.000So you can train yourself to play specific pieces.
00:46:39.000But if you really want to get good, Then you need to start from the basics and then work your way up so that you have a skill set and so that you're not basically a jukebox with one tune on it.
00:46:48.000says hey ben after listening to you for several years i've gathered you grew up more or less on the straight and narrow with extremely high standards for yourself that's right my question is what were the key factors in maintaining that level of integrity through the endlessly challenging phases of becoming a man and what advice do you have for parents wanting to support and strengthen their son on that journey thanks donovan
00:47:05.000i think the number one thing is my parents always taught you have to have responsibility for your own actions that you will be held accountable by us or by god and that you are doing something that is important and good that there is a purpose to what you are doing and that the opposition that you face in life the challenges that you face in life make you stronger rather than weaker that you are for that that living on the straight and narrow is not you bowing to external pressures you're
00:47:28.000Living on the straight and narrow is you failing to bow to external pressures because the external pressures, the lusts that you have, the things that you want to do, the hedonism you wish to pursue, those are much stronger internal and external pressures than living on the straight and narrow and being in control of yourself.
00:47:44.000The highest purpose that you can have as a human being is to use reason in pursuit of virtue.
00:47:48.000That's the Aristotelian idea, not even the religious idea.
00:49:15.000The answer is that repentance is always a possibility.
00:49:17.000The first thing you have to do is go back to the people you stole from, if you can find them, and then repay, which will be a weight off your head.
00:49:24.000I mean, repentance in Judaism, if you commit a sin against another person, you're supposed to repent to the person, and then you can repent to God.
00:49:31.000So if you can track down which convenience store it was, it may be a lot later, then try and do it, right?
00:49:37.000And you'll feel better about yourself, and that person will feel better about you.
00:49:40.000It would be, I think, an amazing thing.
00:49:41.000I think it would be an amazing, it's a great story if you do that.
00:50:13.000Well, HLS as a for-profit institution is going to charge what they need to charge in order to ensure that they continue to function properly.
00:50:21.000The legal education industry is a hierarchy because most states have laws on the books that prevent you from taking the bar without going to an accredited law school, I don't I think that's a mistake.
00:50:31.000I think apprenticeships should be on the table.
00:50:32.000I think you should be able to take the bar without going to law school.
00:50:35.000I think that you should be able to do one year without actually one year of law school.
00:50:47.000Mark says, after watching your talk at GSU yesterday, well, I assume that was Grand Canyon University, GCU, I was wondering, what do you suggest to atheists when balancing faith and reason?
00:50:55.000Are we supposed to believe in God without a reason sufficient for us?
00:50:58.000No, you don't have to believe in God, but you have to take as valuable assumptions, the same assumptions that Judeo-Christian values make, and you have to understand that what you're doing is making an assumption about those values.
00:51:11.000And you can't lie to yourself by saying that you can reason your way to those values, or that reason invariably carries you to those values, because I don't think that it does.
00:51:19.000Assuming that reason can do too much is just as dangerous as assuming that reason can't do enough.
00:51:24.000There's a balance between reason and faith, as I say.
00:51:26.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I like, and then we'll get to a thing that I hate.
00:51:33.000When Kevin McCarthy did something I think was valuable yesterday, he pushed back on the Democrats in Congress who have spent their entire time running Congress, passing useless resolutions designed to make them look good and to virtue signal.
00:51:44.000Here is Kevin McCarthy, the House Minority Leader, going after the Democrats.
00:51:49.000A question more and more Americans are beginning to ask.
00:51:54.000What have the Democrats done with their majority?
00:51:56.000This Friday marks the 100th day of the new Democrat majority.
00:52:02.000A hundred days of Democrat disappointment.
00:52:05.000At this point in the last Congress, Republicans had passed 141 bills out of committee and 132 out of the House.
00:52:14.000By contrast, Democrats have passed 68 bills out of committee and 97 out of the House.
00:52:21.000So much for doing the job of the People's House.
00:52:27.000Okay, well, he is not wrong about this, and it is quite sad that Democrats have decided that they're going to spend all of their time passing crazy crap like the Green New Deal or Medicare for All that's going nowhere, specifically in order to signal about stuff they have no intention of voting for at all anyway.
00:52:41.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:52:46.000Alrighty, so two quick things that I hate.
00:52:48.000So Maxine Waters, it is unbelievable this woman chairs a committee, particularly House Financial Services.
00:52:53.000She has been one of the most corrupt members of Congress for virtually her entire career.
00:52:58.000Yesterday, she was doing a hearing with Steve Mnuchin.
00:53:00.000Mnuchin had already negotiated, he's the Treasury Secretary, he'd already negotiated with the committee that he was gonna have to leave after three and a half hours, he'd be happy to come back at another time.
00:53:08.000He looked up at the clock, he said, listen, I gotta go, and Maxine Waters suddenly decided, still she persisted, the strength of Maxine Waters, telling him that she was violating... I have changed the agreement.
00:55:07.000Okay, speaking of what the hell is wrong with this country, San Jose Airport has decided it is deeply necessary to place LGBTQ pride flags in the airport in front of a Chick-fil-A.
00:55:17.000As though people who work at Chick-fil-A give two craps about this.
00:55:21.000The San Jose City Council voted 11-0 on Tuesday to hang rainbow flags in support of LGBTQ people and pink, blue, and white flags for transgender rights at or near a Chick-fil-A due to open in May at San Jose International Airport.
00:55:38.000And this is the equivalent, it really is the equivalent of there's a gay bakery that opens in a small Midwestern town and the City Council votes to put a bunch of crosses up on flags across from the gay bakery.
00:55:52.000Chick-fil-A has not discriminated against gay people.
00:55:54.000The owner of Chick-fil-A, Dan Cathy, backs traditional marriage.
00:55:57.000We are six years after he made a statement about it, and they are still doing this spiteful nonsense where Chick-fil-A is deeply evil because the owner holds a different position on traditional marriage and homosexual sin?
00:56:09.000I'm so glad that the San Jose City Council has solved all of their problems, and now they're going to try and shame, what, the employees of the local Chick-fil-A?
00:56:15.000How often do you think Dan Cathy's gonna go there?
00:56:17.000You think Dan Cathy's gonna stand in the window and then stare angrily out the window at the gay flags?
00:56:23.000What do these people think they're accomplishing?
00:56:25.000They think that they are suckering their own population into believing that they have done something meaningful by merely virtue signaling with the stupidest possible methodology.
00:57:09.000Hey, it's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.
00:57:11.000You know, Confucius said, if you want to know the truth, you have to use the proper names for things.
00:57:16.000Can anyone deny that the left has made that almost impossible, whether it's calling the FBI spying, spying, or calling Julian Assange's spying journalism?