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00:00:00.000Rudy Giuliani breaks some interesting news about President Trump's payoff to Stormy Daniels, Hillary Clinton finally stumbles on a true statement accidentally, and Democrats are actually having some problems in the polls.
00:00:15.000Alrighty, so there's a lot of breaking news on the Donald Trump Stormy Daniels front.
00:00:19.000I'm going to break it all down for you.
00:00:21.000I'm going to give you all the legal information that you need to understand exactly what's been happening with the Trump payoff to the porn star that Trump once had sex with and why this is important or why it's not important.
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00:02:19.000I think that it's very unlikely that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has any serious information that links President Trump to collusion with Russia over the election.
00:02:26.000I think a lot of the talk about obstruction is going to be very, very difficult to prove.
00:02:29.000It's more of a political matter than it is a criminal matter.
00:02:33.000So I really doubt that Robert Mueller has the goods on President Trump.
00:02:36.000And when I say really doubt, I mean, I would be astonished if he has the legal goods on President Trump, which is why he wants to interview President Trump, because he wants Trump to fall into a perjury trap.
00:02:46.000He wants President Trump to lie to him, or fib to him, or make a mistake that reveals something to him.
00:02:51.000So that means that if the real threat is not Robert Mueller to the Trump administration legally, then the real threat is from Michael Cohen.
00:02:57.000So remember, Michael Cohen is the president's personal lawyer, and his offices a couple of weeks ago were raided by the FBI.
00:03:02.000Now, the rationale for that raid was supposedly that the FBI was looking for proof of campaign finance violations in the Stormy Daniels payoff.
00:03:19.000And Trump said he knew nothing about it.
00:03:21.000So the legal theory was that Michael Cohen had made an in-kind contribution to the Trump campaign.
00:03:25.000That the reason that he paid Stormy Daniels to shut up is because it was the very end of the campaign, and he wanted to protect his friend, and so therefore he paid off Stormy Daniels, and this was a campaign payment, essentially, a contribution that passes the $2,700 maximum amount that you're allowed to give, and so Michael Cohen had violated campaign finance law.
00:03:45.000Now, if Trump had said, listen, I paid for it myself,
00:03:48.000Then you wouldn't have violated that particular campaign finance law, because Trump is allowed to spend as much on his own election as he wants.
00:03:54.000Trump ended up spending something like $66 million in the last election cycle on his own elect effort.
00:03:59.000So if he had said, listen, I paid off Stormy Daniels and that was my thing and I'm allowed to do that, that would have been totally fine.
00:04:06.000So Michael Cohen was sort of on the hook in terms of the in-kind contribution question,
00:04:11.000But if Trump had paid for the thing directly and then revealed that to the FEC, that would have been no problem.
00:05:08.000Now, there's a little bit of wiggle room here, but it's kind of hard to believe.
00:05:11.000The wiggle room here would be that Trump gave a bunch of money to Michael Cohen, not knowing what Michael Cohen was using the money for because he's just that kind of a dude.
00:05:28.000He's going to do a couple of checks for $130,000.
00:05:32.000When I heard Cohen's retainer of $35,000, when he was doing no work for the president, I said, that's how he's repaying it.
00:05:42.000With a little profit and a little margin for paying taxes.
00:05:45.000Okay, so the idea here is that Trump reimbursed Michael Cohen in the months after the payoff.
00:05:49.000Okay, now that could actually be a problem.
00:05:52.000Giuliani then continued, and he tried to backpedal.
00:05:55.000So he tried to backpedal, he tried to say, listen, Trump paid, but he didn't know what he was paying for.
00:05:58.000So Michael Cohen just sort of, he has sort of a slush fund and he uses it for what he wants to use it for.
00:06:02.000So according to John Roberts over at Fox News, Giuliani said that while Donald Trump reimbursed Cohen for the $130,000 Stormy Daniel payment,
00:06:18.000The White House obviously is in a little bit of chaos over this because they're not sure what legal strategy Giuliani and Trump are running together.
00:06:24.000Folks at the White House seem to be out of the loop.
00:06:26.000The White House was asked about this last night and here is what they had to say.
00:07:17.000This had nothing to do with the campaign.
00:07:18.000It's a little bit difficult to say that because Rudy Giuliani then came out and he actually said publicly
00:07:23.000That President Trump had wanted this done because it was October and this story shouldn't have broken right before the election.
00:07:28.000So Giuliani is not doing the president any favors by running his mouth.
00:07:31.000But the original problem here was Michael Cohn's problem, not Trump's.
00:07:35.000The original problem here was that Michael Cohn might have violated campaign finance law by giving too much money to the campaign, even if you considered that a campaign contribution, which it may or may not have been.
00:07:44.000Okay, now Trump steps in and he says, no, it was me, right?
00:07:55.000Way number one is to say, okay, Michael Cohen was basically just a cutout, Trump was paying Stormy Daniels, Trump's allowed to pay Stormy Daniels, but this puts Trump in a little bit of hot water because he didn't report the contribution to his own campaign to the FEC.
00:08:07.000So Trump, theoretically, if he had paid, let's say there had been no Michael Cohen, he just paid Stormy Daniels $130,000 to shut up before the election and then not reported that to the FEC, would that be a campaign finance violation?
00:08:19.000The case for yes is that it's right before the election, it's a payoff that's meant to shut somebody up right before the election, it sounds like it's a payoff to shut somebody up right before the election,
00:08:27.000Okay, so that's possibility number one right now in terms of campaign finance violations for Trump.
00:08:31.000Possibility number two is that Michael Cohen is not actually off the hook.
00:08:45.000So the popular theory is that Cohen was off the hook now that Trump has said he paid for it, but not utterly clear.
00:08:51.000So George Conway, who's Kellyanne Conway's husband and who is in fact a prosecutor, he says, he tweeted out a section from the FEC website talking about personal gifts and loans.
00:09:02.000Quote, if any person, including a relative or friend of the candidate, gives or loans the candidate money for the purpose of influencing any election for federal office, the funds are not considered personal funds of the candidate, even if they are given to the candidate directly.
00:09:13.000Instead, the gift or loan is considered a contribution from the donor to the campaign, subject to the per-election limit.
00:09:18.000In other words, even if Michael Cohen paid off Stormy Daniels and was reimbursed by Trump, that is now considered a loan to the campaign by Michael Cohen, which surpasses the amount of money he was allowed to contribute, so he may still be in trouble.
00:09:30.000He still may have made an unlawful campaign contribution to President Trump.
00:09:34.000Now, all of this sounds like it should be secondary to the major issue, which is that the President of the United States was paying off a porn star in the middle of the election cycle and then lying about it to the American public for months.
00:10:29.000None of this is really going to damage him in any serious way, just as the Monica Lewinsky scandal only damaged President Clinton a little bit because everybody already knew that Bill Clinton was scum with women.
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00:12:52.000The White House is apparently in a little bit of chaos over all of what Giuliani has had to say.
00:12:57.000So, according to Politico, Giuliani joined Trump's legal team with a mandate to quickly and aggressively stamp out the various investigations dogging the presidency.
00:13:04.000Instead, he's causing new migraines for the White House.
00:13:06.000Giuliani appeared to stun Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday night by revealing that Trump reimbursed his personal lawyer, Michael Cohn, for a $130,000 payment Cohn had made to the porn actress Stormy Daniels for her silence about an alleged affair.
00:13:18.000The statement, along with Giuliani's comment that Trump didn't know about the general arrangements of the payment,
00:13:22.000Appeared to contradict the President's denial of any knowledge of the deal.
00:13:25.000Now, the difference here, of course, is that President Clinton committed perjury.
00:13:28.000Trump may have lied, but he didn't commit perjury because he wasn't in any testimony, right?
00:13:35.000Just another reason why you should not have the President speaking to Robert Mueller and the FBI.
00:13:39.000If you do, the chances that he fibs, at least a little bit, are 197% out of a possible 100%.
00:13:46.000Okay, the chances that Trump says something that is wrong in those hearings— I've been talking with some folks from the White House, and what I've been saying is, look, if Trump is subpoenaed by Robert Mueller, all he should do is go in and say, I don't recall.
00:13:57.000Whenever you watch the movies and you see people say, I don't recall, the reason that that sounds like an admission of guilt is because you think that they're trying to escape the truth.
00:14:05.000But in Trump's case, the reason that you would say, I don't recall, is because you can't actually be prosecuted for saying, I don't recall, and Trump
00:14:36.000The PR spin is a completely different spin.
00:14:38.000But the lawyerly spin of any client that I had as a lawyer, if they were in this sort of situation, I would tell them, you don't talk to anyone, right?
00:15:02.000Talking to the people who are presumably going to prosecute you is never a particularly smart move.
00:15:06.000Okay, this is not me playing OJ Simpson's lawyer here.
00:15:09.000This is me just saying that any lawyer worth their salt would say the exact same thing about any client they had under any circumstances.
00:15:15.000Okay, so, meanwhile, damage control is underway at the White House.
00:15:19.000So, Trump on Twitter has tried to bring attention back to the argument that such a payment would not be a violation of campaign finance law.
00:15:25.000So this morning, President Trump is tweeting about it.
00:15:28.000Then he tweets, Clearly, Trump has his lawyer actually tweeting for him in this case.
00:15:30.000I mean, this is clearly not Trump tweeting.
00:15:53.000Okay, well, I mean, to be fair, NDAs where you pay off porn stars for having sex with them while your wife was just recovering from a pregnancy, is it very common among celebrities and people of wealth?
00:16:03.000I mean, it might be like some of them do it, but I'm not going to pretend that everybody does it.
00:16:08.000In this case, it is full force in effect and will be used in arbitration for damages against Ms.
00:16:13.000The agreement was used to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair, despite already having signed a detailed letter admitting there was no affair.
00:16:20.000Okay now, it is important to note here, she signed that detailed letter admitting there is no affair under the terms of the settlement agreement.
00:16:26.000Clifford and her attorney, this was a private agreement.
00:16:29.000Money from the campaign or campaign contributions played no role in this transaction.
00:16:34.000Okay, so all of that is, you know, that's Trump's case, right?
00:16:38.000And then that goes to the legal case that I was talking about.
00:16:41.000The suggestion is by Trump that he was just giving Michael Cohen a bunch of money, didn't know where that money was going.
00:16:46.000Michael Cohen then used that money out of the goodness of his heart, having nothing to do with the campaign, right?
00:16:49.000That's the way that everybody escapes legal liability here.
00:16:52.000It doesn't help Trump in the PR war, but I'm not sure Trump needs help in the PR war, because, again, Trump is Trump.
00:16:57.000I mean, you can clock the guy with 87 porn star charges, and no one is going to care, because everybody already assumes he's doing all of this stuff.
00:17:04.000So White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders went on Fox & Friends.
00:17:07.000He said, Well, that would be true, except for the fact that Giuliani was sent out there by Trump to say things on Hannity.
00:17:22.000There's a lot of great stuff happening inside the administration.
00:17:24.000For example, here's a news story that nobody is talking about today because we're all talking about Rudy Giuliani.
00:17:29.000Three Americans held in North Korea could be freed soon.
00:17:31.000Trump tweeted out yesterday, So there's solid rumors today that North Korea is going to release these three people in the run-up to their negotiations with the President of the United States.
00:17:49.000Trump was apparently referring to Tony Kim, also known as Kim Sang-duk, an American teacher detained by North Korea in April 2017.
00:17:55.000Kim Hak-song, known as Jing Ju-song, whose detention was announced the following month.
00:17:59.000And Kim Dong-chul, who was arrested in 2015.
00:18:01.000They right now are supposed to be in a North Korean labor camp.
00:18:05.000So, now it appears that the North Koreans may in fact be working to release these three Americans.
00:18:12.000Well, without any other information, sure, of course it is.
00:18:16.000I mean, without any other information, of course it's a Trump triumph.
00:18:19.000Now, if Trump makes a bunch of concessions to the North Koreans based on that, then of course it's not a triumph, but this is a very good story for Trump.
00:18:26.000Just on its face, it's a very good story for Trump.
00:18:28.000But the fact that Giuliani decided to run out there and talk openly about the Stormy Daniels payment is a distraction created by the White House, and it just gives more air to people like Michael Avenatti, who is, of course, the attorney for Stormy Daniels.
00:18:40.000Avenatti has appeared in the last month 59 times on CNN.
00:18:55.000He basically just hangs out on the set at CNN waiting for Trump to say stuff.
00:18:58.000And so Michael Avenatti on MSNBC yesterday, he's also on MSNBC a lot, he says that he was speechless about Giuliani's revelations.
00:19:05.000You know, obviously he believes that this gives more impetus to his claims that Trump was innately involved with the Stormy Daniels payoff and that it was a campaign finance violation.
00:19:13.000You know, I have to tell you, I am rarely, as your viewers know, rendered speechless, but I am absolutely speechless at this revelation and this admission.
00:19:26.000And I hope that your viewers and I hope the American people, upon hearing this and watching that clip, they should be outraged.
00:19:36.000Okay, I'm not sure why they should be outraged except for the fact that Trump lied, but again, is anyone shocked by the fact that Trump lied about sex?
00:20:22.000So is that going to have any serious impact on him politically?
00:20:25.000Probably not, unless something criminal is on the back of this, which I seriously doubt.
00:20:29.000Again, I don't think that the case is quite solid enough.
00:20:31.000Now, meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani wasn't just talking about that.
00:20:34.000Rudy Giuliani seems to be setting up the possibility that President Trump is going to fire Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, and then fire Robert Mueller along with him.
00:20:42.000I don't think that Trump is going to do that.
00:20:53.000Here's Giuliani yesterday saying that saying that saying that, well, first of all, Rudy Giuliani did say that Robert Mueller was obviously trying to trap Trump into perjury.
00:21:03.000And then he was trying to say that Trump fired Comey over over his failure to clear Trump of Russia.
00:21:08.000This, of course, is my theory all along.
00:21:11.000The reason that Giuliani talking about all this, being not particularly useful, is because all of this is going to come out in the wash.
00:21:17.000I really believe that if the administration just sits, and they just sit and they wait, and they don't try to force things, that Mueller has no evidence that Trump fired James Comey to cover anything up, because Trump wasn't actually trying to cover anything up.
00:21:28.000This has been my contention all along.
00:21:30.000The reason that Trump fired James Comey is because he was pissed that James Comey wouldn't clear him on Russia.
00:21:34.000And I don't mean that he wouldn't shut down the investigation, but that he wouldn't say publicly that Trump wasn't under investigation.
00:21:40.000Well, Giuliani reiterated that last night.
00:22:01.000Lester Holt's interview was as good as anybody could do, better than I think any of the people around Mueller could have done.
00:22:09.000Lester Holt asked him, why'd you do it?
00:22:11.000He said, I did it because I felt that I had to explain to the American people their president was not the target of the investigation.
00:22:18.000Okay, now that is obviously true, what Giuliani is saying here.
00:22:21.000But rehashing this entire case, you could see this easily as President Trump sending Giuliani out there to make the case that there's nothing for Mueller to find, so we ought to fire Mueller.
00:23:17.000But in terms of general honesty, I don't think that James Comey is a giant liar.
00:23:21.000I just think that James Comey is rather spineless.
00:23:23.000I think that James Comey is a guy who at every step of the way was madly incompetent and made a lot of mistakes, and then is acting righteously indignant after he was fired for, I think, pretty decent reason.
00:23:33.000But the question is why Giuliani is doing all of this now, and the answer may be that
00:23:37.000Maybe, in fact, Trump is thinking of firing Mueller.
00:23:40.000Now, if that's the case, Mr. President, please do not do this.
00:23:46.000And the fact is that Robert Mueller is going to come out one way or another with something or nothing.
00:23:50.000If he comes out with the stuff as weak as it sounds like he's going to come out with, everybody on the right and people in the middle are going to say this is a big, fat nothing.
00:24:13.000I mean, the fact is the president can fire him, and that would be perfectly legal.
00:24:17.000And then it would be up to Mueller to show that it actually was obstruction, that this actually was an attempt to shut down an investigation, not just pure frustration on Trump's part.
00:24:24.000But if the idea here is to set the sort of framework for Trump firing Mueller, firing Rosenstein, I think that'd be a big political mistake.
00:24:31.000And I don't think the president needs to follow that right now.
00:24:33.000I don't think the president needs to make that sort of political mistake, because I think the president's doing OK.
00:24:37.000I mean, his approval ratings right now are as good as they've been.
00:25:11.000So here's Hillary Clinton admitting that the entire Democratic base, or at least large swaths of it, are full-scale socialists who hate capitalism.
00:25:19.000You may be the only presidential candidate since World War II that actually had to stand up and say, I am a capitalist.
00:25:29.000I mean, you know, it's hard to know, but I mean, if you're in the Iowa caucuses and 41% of Democrats are socialists or self-described socialists, and I'm asked, are you a capitalist?
00:25:41.000And I say yes, but with appropriate regulation and appropriate accountability, you know, that probably gets lost in the, oh my gosh, she's a capitalist!
00:25:53.000Okay, so this is exactly right, actually.
00:25:55.000What she is saying here, that her base cannot tolerate the fact that she is a capitalist, demonstrates how far left the Democratic Party has moved.
00:26:02.000Hillary Clinton was too right-wing for her own base, which is why they didn't show up.
00:26:06.000What we're watching inside the Democratic Party is a radical shift to the left.
00:26:09.000President Trump has taken advantage of that, because President Trump is not nearly as radical on any of these issues.
00:26:14.000The Democrats, their response to President Trump has not been to moderate, to move to the center, to take back that center that they think that Trump had abandoned.
00:26:23.000Trump has been governing as a very conservative president.
00:26:26.000Instead of them moving to the center to try to take advantage, which is what a smart political party would do, instead the Democrats have been moving further and further to the left.
00:26:32.000This is the first time that Hillary Clinton has really recognized that she may be out of step with her own constituency.
00:26:39.000And she is out of step with her own constituency.
00:26:41.000Something really bad is happening in the United States among people on the left, and that is this wild, this full-scale embrace of socialism itself.
00:26:51.000It shows that 46% of Americans now say they favor government-guaranteed jobs for all.
00:26:56.000So according to Rasmussen reports, Senator Bernie Sanders is looking ahead to the 2020 presidential election with a proposed federal government program that guarantees all Americans a job with health insurance.
00:27:16.000And again, it demonstrates that the American people are being ill-served by their thought leaders who refuse to explain to them why capitalism is good.
00:27:23.000The reason that Hillary Clinton could not be a good representative of capitalism is because she really does not believe in capitalism in any serious sense.
00:27:30.000She believes that capitalism is effective, but she doesn't believe that capitalism is moral.
00:27:33.000And so Bernie Sanders comes along and he seizes her entire base by saying, listen, capitalism may be effective, but it is immoral.
00:28:11.000It is indeed theft if you and your friends vote to steal my money.
00:28:14.000And the Ten Commandments ban jealousy.
00:28:16.000You're not allowed to envy your neighbor's donkey.
00:28:19.000You're not supposed to be looking at your friend's property and eyeing it for seizure.
00:28:24.000But because people have stopped speaking in moral terms, there's an upswing on the socialist left, and that upswing ended up toppling Hillary Clinton.
00:28:30.000It was a serious problem for Hillary Clinton.
00:28:33.000The radicalization of the left is a serious problem for the Democratic Party in general, not just for Hillary Clinton.
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00:29:48.000So the same radicalization of the Democratic Party that threw Hillary Clinton out of power is also leading to a bit of a backslide for Democrats in terms of their reach, particularly for young people.
00:29:58.000So according to a new poll from Reuters, enthusiasm for the Democratic Party is actually waning among millennials as its candidates head into the crucial midterm congressional elections.
00:30:06.000The online survey of more than 16,000 registered voters aged 18 to 34 shows their support for Democrats over Republicans for Congress slipped by about 9 percentage points over the past two years to 46% overall, and they increasingly say the Republican Party is a better steward of the economy.
00:30:21.000Now, nearly two-thirds of young voters say they don't like Trump, but their distaste for him does not extend to all Republicans, which presents a potential problem for Democrats who are counting on millennials as a core constituency, because Democrats have moved really far to the left,
00:30:35.000Millennials are looking at the Democrats' identity politics, and they're looking at the Democrats' full-scale Bernie Sanders socialism, and they're not quite as enchanted as maybe they once were as the economy booms.
00:30:45.000And they certainly don't like the identity politics of all this, which I'm going to get to in one second.
00:30:49.000But the bleed over for Democrats, Democrats figured, OK, well, maybe our coalition is fractious, but Trump should unify that coalition because everybody hates Trump.
00:30:59.000Terry Hood, 34, an African-American who works at a Dollar General store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, said he voted for Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, but he'll consider a Republican for Congress because he believes the party is making it easier to find jobs, and he applauds the recent Republican-led tax cut.
00:31:15.000So the Reuters, Ipsos poll surveyed young voters during the first three months of this year and the same period in 2016.
00:31:20.000Only 28% of those polls expressed overt support for Republicans in the 2018 poll, about the same percentage as two years earlier.
00:31:26.000But that doesn't mean that everybody's going to show up to back Democrats.
00:31:31.000So much of our politics right now revolves around President Trump and what the Republicans are doing because they run the government.
00:31:37.000The reality is that just as in 2016, the Democrats lost because the Democrats were terrible, in 2018, the Democrats could easily lose because the Democrats are terrible.
00:31:45.000There's another poll out there, by the way, that should be shocking to a lot of folks on the left, and that is that their identity politics are not working increasingly among young black men.
00:31:54.000So according to a poll taken on April 22, 2018,
00:31:59.000Trump's approval rating among black men was at 11%.
00:32:02.000The same poll a week later pegged the approval rating at 22%.
00:32:05.000So, it should be noted that the margin of error there?
00:32:09.000is pretty significant, considering that there are only about 200 black males each week who are surveyed by the Reuters running poll.
00:32:15.000But Trump is experiencing a jump in approval among black people overall.
00:32:19.000It spiked 8.9% from 8.9% April 22nd to 16.5% on April 29th.
00:32:20.000Black males were also far more likely to say that they had mixed feelings about the president on the 22nd.
00:32:35.000So, it's very possible, by the way, that a lot of this is due to Kanye West saying, listen, you're allowed to think for yourselves, and it doesn't mean that you're a bad black person if you decide that you want to vote for President Trump or that you like Republicans.
00:32:47.000I think that the crack in the wall that Kanye West actually presented was an important cultural moment.
00:32:51.000So, I'm not saying, again, Kanye West is a conservative thought leader because I don't think he is.
00:32:56.000I'm not saying that Kanye West knows that much about politics, because I don't think he does.
00:32:59.000I'm saying that Kanye West ain't kooky, because I think that Kanye West's a pretty kooky guy.
00:33:03.000But Kanye West, a major cultural figure, standing up and saying, listen, you don't have to think the way the left wants you to think, is breaking down a significant barrier for a lot of people.
00:33:12.000And as my friend Eric Weinstein, who I will correct this, he's a Harvard
00:33:18.000When he said that there are a lot of people whose preferences are being hidden by the prevailing politically correct orthodoxy, and that Kanye had shattered that politically correct orthodoxy, or at least cracked the wall, I think there's a lot of truth to that.
00:33:42.000People who I would not have been able to have conversations with
00:33:45.000Three years ago, suddenly are interested in talking seriously about political issues that afflict the country because they are tired of being boxed into this area where if you talk to somebody who is just a mainstream conservative, this somehow makes you bad.
00:33:56.000Now, I'm not a person who believes that all views are created equally valid or equally useful or that everybody has to talk with everybody, but I do think that it's important that for people who have mainstream views to talk to each other,
00:34:07.000And not consider each other evil or bad or terrible.
00:34:10.000That is a useful thing and not only a useful thing, a necessary thing if we hope the country survives.
00:34:19.000You can feel that there's a whole group, particularly of young people, who are tired of the pat answers being given by parties on all sides.
00:34:27.000They're tired of the idea on the right that everything that President Trump does ever is wonderful and great.
00:34:32.000But they're much more tired on the left.
00:34:34.000Of the idea that everything they say has to be boxed into a particular little group identity.
00:34:40.000I don't want to harp on Kanye West too much, but I do think that what we're watching right now is something really, really important.
00:34:45.000And I think that it's important to note it as it happens.
00:34:48.000I don't think that everybody in the black community is suddenly going to agree with Kanye West about taxes, or certainly about his comments on slavery.
00:34:54.000I don't think everybody in the black community is going to agree with Candace Owens.
00:34:56.000But I do think that when people see major cultural figures saying, listen, I can have a conversation with anybody and you're allowed to, I think that's breaking the mold.
00:35:10.000So, meanwhile, speaking of that, speaking of the left to overreach, we talked a little bit this week about the crazy controversy that had broken out over this Utah girl who had worn a historically Chinese dress to a prom.
00:36:15.000When Kezia Daum wore a Chinese-style dress to her high school prom in Utah, it set off an uproar, but not because of its tight fit or thigh-high slit.
00:36:22.000Dahlma 18 shared pictures on social media of her prom night, a Twitter user named Jeremy Lamb hotly responded in a post that has been retweeted nearly 42,000 times.
00:36:29.000My culture is not your prom dress, he wrote, adding profanity for effect.
00:36:33.000I'm proud of my culture for it simply to be subject to American consumerism and cater to a white audience is parallel to colonial ideology.
00:36:40.000Okay, but when the Fuhrer reached Asia, many seemed to be scratching their heads.
00:36:43.000This is the New York Times reporting, not the Daily Wire, right?
00:36:46.000Dallam, who is not Chinese, many people in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan proclaimed her choice of the traditional high-neck dress as a victory for Chinese culture.
00:36:54.000I am very proud to have our culture recognized by people in other countries," said someone called Snail Trail, commenting on a post of the Utah episode by a popular account on WeChat.
00:37:02.000It's ridiculous to criticize this as cultural appropriation.
00:37:04.000Zhao Yijun, a Hong Kong-based cultural commentator, said in a telephone interview, from the perspective of a Chinese person, if a foreign woman wears a qipao and thinks she looks pretty, why shouldn't she wear it?
00:37:14.000If anything, the uproar surrounding Ms.
00:37:15.000Dalm's dress prompted many Chinese to reflect on examples of cultural appropriation in their own country.
00:37:20.000So does that mean when we celebrate Christmas and Halloween it's also cultural appropriation?
00:37:25.000Others were quick to point out that the kipow, as it is known in China, was introduced by the Manchus, an ethnic minority group from China's northeast, implying that the garment was itself appropriated by the majority Han Chinese.
00:37:35.000In its original form, the dress was worn in a baggy style mostly by upper-class women during the Qing Dynasty, which ruled China for more than 250 years until 1912.
00:37:46.000When Western influence began seeping into China, that the kipow was reinvented to become a seductive body-hugging dress that many think of today.
00:37:52.000For many cinephiles, it has become inextricably associated with Maggie Cheung, the actress who wore a stunning array of cheongsangs in War Kai-Wei's 2000 film In the Mood for Love.
00:38:02.000These days, it's rare to see Chinese women wearing kipows in the street.
00:38:25.000And it's driving people out of their arms.
00:38:27.000The crazier they are, the more people are going to be listening to shows like mine.
00:38:30.000The crazier they are, the more people are going to say, really guys, this is the best you have to offer?
00:38:36.000The more the left lies about the idea that we're not brothers, the more the left suggests that we're not brothers and sisters, we're enemies who have to be boxed off into our own little ghettos and we can't talk with each other and we can't look at stuff in each other's culture and say, wow, that's pretty cool, let's do some of that.
00:38:50.000The more we do that, the more people say, well, hold on a second, hold up.
00:38:57.000According to the left, you're saying, I can't wear a Chinese-style dress, but it is better if I import products from China and people from China into the United States as a general rule.
00:39:07.000So you want us to bring people here, but then you don't want us to assimilate to some of their culture and then to assimilate to some of our culture.
00:39:13.000You don't want any of the cross-cultural exchange.
00:39:16.000McDonald's is cultural imperialism, but it's very good when a bunch of illegal immigrants come into the country and don't learn to speak English.
00:39:22.000That's a great thing, according to the left.
00:39:35.000Good for this girl for not bowing to politically correct pressure.
00:39:39.000And again, I think that kudos to the left for being as crazy as they are, because without them, I think Republicans would be losing a lot more elections.
00:39:47.000Okay, time for a thing I like and then some things that I hate.
00:41:10.000But in any case, you can hear the cultural influences of Tower of Power resonating still, just like you can hear earth, wind, and fire in a lot of modern music as well.
00:41:18.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:41:23.000So I'd be remiss if I did not discuss the situation that arose yesterday with Alex Jones.
00:41:28.000So this is just, frankly, hysterically funny.
00:41:31.000So yesterday, there was an announcement by Alex Jones that Candace Owens and Kanye West were going to appear on his show.
00:42:01.000And I don't mean that in a clinical sense.
00:42:03.000I just mean that I look at him and, um, what?
00:42:05.000So, and I don't think that I'm out of bounds in saying this, right?
00:42:07.000I mean, if you spend any time listening to Alex Jones, this is not somebody who seems like all the, all of the lights are on in the attic, shall we say.
00:42:16.000Well, Alex Jones got very angry at me for saying that Kanye West should not do his show because it would be a bad move for Kanye West.
00:42:21.000Okay, Kanye right now is trying to do the whole, let's have a reasonable conversation with reasonable people, let's all get together.
00:42:27.000Why would he want to fringe himself out by going on Alex Jones' show?
00:42:29.000Now, there are people who say, well, what Kanye West is really arguing is that every argument should be let in the front door.
00:43:40.000People need... And so, a bunch of people are now jumping onto the caravan, and you're gonna have more and more and more people showing up at the border, trying to fraudulently gain entrance into the United... Bye-bye, Ben Shapiro.
00:44:01.000I mean, listen, I'm as critical of myself as the next guy, right?
00:44:05.000I will say that I have the second most annoying voice in America after Michelle Wolf, but I really don't think that's a very good impersonation by Alex.
00:44:11.000Alex, I think you need to up your game a little bit.
00:44:14.000I mean, I'm not one to talk about my impersonation skills, but I will say that my Alex Jones is significantly better than Alex Jones' Ben Shapiro.
00:44:47.000So, by the way, the best Alex Jones impersonation is actually Joe Rogan.
00:44:50.000Joe Rogan does a fantastic Alex Jones impersonation.
00:44:52.000But, you know, all of this is crazy and just another evidence that we are living in an alternative universe constructed by aliens in order to torture us.
00:45:01.000So, I don't know why any of this is happening, but I both love and hate it because it's really funny.
00:45:16.000He was elected, I believe, back in 2004, and he's been there ever since.
00:45:20.000He made a speech the other day in which he suggested the Holocaust was the fault of the Juden, which is not a shock because Mahmoud Abbas is a lifelong anti-Semite.
00:45:28.000Which is also not a shock, because the Palestinian Authority is an organization that is anti-semitically devoted to the destruction of the Jewish state and the murder of Jews.
00:45:35.000Which is also not a surprise, because this has been a program among Palestinian leadership for as long as there has been a Palestinian leadership.
00:45:43.000What's hilarious is the New York Times coming out and saying, Abbas has to go, because he's really brought shame upon the Palestinian leadership.
00:45:48.000Oh, you mean their grand legacy of people like Yasser Arafat?
00:45:51.000You mean the grand legacy of Hamas being the government in charge of the Gaza Strip?
00:45:55.000Yeah, like, I agree, Mahmoud Abbas is a poop show, but I am not sure why that is any different than the leadership of the Palestinian Authority over its entire history, nor why Israel should be making concessions to a group of terrorists who lead a purported government.
00:46:10.000Alrighty, so, we'll be back here tomorrow with all of the legal updates and all the rest.
00:46:13.000I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.
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