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00:00:00.000Former First Lady Barbara Bush passes away, Justice Gorsuch actually rules against President Trump, and James Comey continues to make his pathetic rounds.
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00:01:49.000Okay, so the big news yesterday, obviously, was the death of Barbara Bush.
00:01:53.000So Barbara Bush, the wife to one president and the mother of another.
00:01:57.000A couple of things are worth noting right off the bat.
00:01:59.000First of all, if you look at all the obituaries, it says that Barbara Bush was most famous, obviously, for, as I say, being the wife of one president and the mother of another.
00:02:17.000There's this weird idea that goes around in feminist circles that being a wife and being a mother is somehow degrading to women.
00:02:21.000That somehow it is what you do, not in your relationship with others, but what you do in your career that matters most.
00:02:28.000Well, for the vast majority of human beings, it is what you do in your family life and the kind of children that you raise that is going to be your final legacy on the world.
00:02:36.000Barbara Bush said this herself in 1990.
00:03:15.000Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps and preside over the White House as the President's spouse, and I wish him well.
00:03:30.000So, she's a person who definitely understood the value of family.
00:03:34.000One of the charming clips that was going around yesterday, as well as a clip from 2011, George H.W.
00:03:38.000Bush and Barbara were on the Today Show together, and they read, with their granddaughter actually, and George W. Bush's daughter, and they read, George H.W.
00:03:47.000read some love letters that he'd written to Barbara, and you can sort of see their relationship encapsulated in this short clip.
00:05:06.000Okay, so, Barbara Bush, she was definitely a pistol.
00:05:09.000There's a good piece in the New York Times by Christopher Buckley, who is a novelist and speechwriter for VPHW from 81 to 83, and he talks about exactly who Barbara Bush was.
00:05:20.000He said that he learned a couple of lessons from her.
00:05:46.000If she was in Mrs. No-Nonsense, she also had a playful, even girlish side to her.
00:05:50.000On one occasion, I was alone in a freight elevator with Mr. and Mrs. Bush and their Secret Service detail when it got stuck between floors.
00:05:55.000Stuck elevators are viewed grimly by the Secret Service.
00:05:57.000The atmosphere quickly elevated to condition red, with hands reaching for the holstered Glock 9s, orders barked into wrist mics, and all the rest.
00:06:05.000Mr. Bush's fingers reached for Mrs. Bush's derriere and gave it a pinch.
00:06:08.000She turned to him and grinned like an 18-year-old.
00:06:09.000Hiya, fella, she said, so I can claim to have witnessed a primal scene between Mom and Dad Bush.
00:06:13.000So, just, you know, she was apparently a really good woman by virtually all accounts, and there were tributes that came in from the Clintons, there were tributes that came in from the Obamas, and class all across the aisle, except, of course, for the far left.
00:06:28.000The far left found an excuse to be upset about Barbara Bush.
00:06:32.000So, Randa Jarrar, who is a professor at Fresno State and obviously a delightful human being,
00:06:36.000She tweeted out, So, you can always count on Twitter to provide you some of the best in American life.
00:06:48.000But this does demonstrate that there is a primal hatred that exists on both sides of the aisle, unfortunately, with regard to some of these figures, because
00:06:56.000The reality is that if people can't get beyond their own politics to see the personal side of people like Barbara Bush, who is not a political figure, right?
00:07:02.000I mean, Barbara Bush is the kind of woman who when she was the first lady in 1989, it was right after the election, there was a lot of talk about how babies with AIDS, people were afraid that if they held the baby with AIDS or if the baby with AIDS spit up on them that they would actually get AIDS.
00:07:44.000You know, that may be the extent to which our politics have gone awry.
00:07:47.000Now, speaking of our politics going awry, the story of the day yesterday continued to be the Stormy Daniels fallout, the Michael Cohen fallout, and all of it continues to be very weird and very bizarre.
00:07:59.000We're obviously living in a reality show simulation.
00:08:04.000Leading presidential candidate for the Democrats for a certain period of time, Bernie Sanders, actually tweeted out today that he wants Cardi B to decide Social Security policy.
00:08:13.000See, I was joking when I said I thought that Cardi B's tax policy was great, because I don't think Cardi B knows all that much about tax policy.
00:08:18.000Bernie Sanders apparently was not joking.
00:08:19.000That just shows you how crazy things have gotten.
00:08:21.000Well, now Stormy Daniels was appearing on The View.
00:08:24.000And if you don't believe that so much of our controversy, so much of the hatred that we see in America's public life is now driven by the TV theatrics of our political actors,
00:08:33.000All you have to do is watch TV for five minutes and be disabused of this.
00:08:35.000So Stormy Daniels, who is a self-aggrandizing porn star who had sex with a married man in 2006, earned $130,000 out of it right before the election, and then decided to forego the $130,000.
00:08:46.000She's giving it to Planned Parenthood, which is obviously a very classy move.
00:08:50.000And she instead wants to make a fortune by speaking openly about her affair with Donald Trump, which lasted apparently a grand total of one night.
00:08:58.000Well, now she's on The View, and on The View, she's explaining that she is not in it for the money, that she is not in it for the glory.
00:09:05.000She is obviously in it for both the money and the glory.
00:09:07.000And listen, she's a free person in the United States.
00:09:09.000She can do whatever she pleases, but that doesn't mean that we have to put aside our critical thinking skills.
00:09:13.000She showed up with her lawyer, Michael Avenetti, at the Michael Cohn hearing the other day in New York.
00:09:17.000There's no reason for her to be there.
00:09:19.000She showed up there because she wants to stay in the news.
00:09:21.000And she's very good at staying in the news.
00:09:23.000And the news are very good about keeping her in the news.
00:09:25.000So here was Michael Avenatti explaining that this was not a publicity stunt and Stormy Daniels saying this was not a publicity stunt to show up in court to an event that had nothing to do with her.
00:09:34.000I want to address the first part and I'm going to let her address the second part.
00:09:37.000As it relates to us having nothing to do with the case, I mean, that's just not accurate.
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00:13:11.000Speaking of the craziness of Stormy Daniels on The View, everybody's favorite portion of television, of course, yesterday, was the reality TV show reveal of the likeness of the person who allegedly threatened Stormy Daniels.
00:13:22.000So I do love that Stormy Daniels says in this interview she tried to stay silent about this for a long time.
00:13:26.000Well, no, actually, she tried to sell the story to In Touch magazine, and then she tried to sell the story to National Enquirer, and then she sold the story to Trump, and now she's selling the story to the media.
00:13:34.000So that's not good at being quiet about things, just last I checked.
00:14:06.000If this were something that really mattered to Stormy Daniels, I assume she would make a police report of some sort.
00:14:11.000I assume that she would actually turn in this photograph to the police.
00:14:14.000I assume that she would take it a little more seriously than to go on The View to reveal it.
00:14:18.000Now, listen, I'm not ripping on The View.
00:14:19.000I desperately want to appear on The View.
00:14:20.000But that said, this does not exactly pass the smell test in terms of non-publicity-seeking behavior from Stormy Daniels.
00:14:27.000So, Normie, you recently sat down with a forensic artist, a very well-known one, who created a sketch of the alleged suspect based on your memory from that day, and now you're ready to reveal that sketch for the first time.
00:15:03.000I'm sure that all the information will certainly be forthcoming, although I have my own suspicions that it was Tom Brady fresh off the flight gate.
00:15:09.000He had to do something to get his name out of the headlines, and so he decided to go and threaten Stormy Daniels in 2011, wearing the boy band haircut.
00:15:16.000Just really strong stuff from Stormy Daniels there.
00:15:18.000And the media taking all this stuff seriously is truly incredible, but of course,
00:15:22.000That's not the only stuff they're taking very, very seriously.
00:15:24.000They are also taking very seriously, and continuing to do so, all of the information about Michael Cohen.
00:15:30.000So Michael Cohen, of course, is President Trump's lawyer.
00:15:33.000And Michael Cohen was dragged into court by—well, actually, he dragged the FBI into court because he is suing for access to all the materials that they seized from his offices.
00:15:43.000There's a lot of speculation about what exactly is in those materials, what exactly Michael Cohen has to worry about, but the two big headlines to come out of this are that Michael Cohen is in serious legal jeopardy, which could be trouble for Trump, and two, that one of Michael Cohen's clients was, of course, the talk show host on Fox News, Sean Hannity, right, with whom I'm friendly.
00:16:01.000Michael Avenetti, who is the lawyer for Stormy Daniels, again on The View, he says that he has no fear that Michael Cohen will eventually flip on Trump and Trump will be taken down by the great and brave Stormy Daniels.
00:16:11.000Here he is actually on MSNBC, Avenetti, talking.
00:16:13.000I mean, the guy just must have, he must live at these TV studios as often as he's appearing on TV.
00:16:18.000You think Michael Cohen's wife is going to advise him to take a 20-year bullet for the president?
00:16:43.000Children are saying, Dad, what's going on?
00:16:45.000It's either Trump or not watch your kids grow up.
00:16:48.000The level of speculation that is occurring right now on cable television is just astonishing.
00:16:52.000I was watching CNN again at the gym yesterday, and I'm trying to remember whose show it was, but one of the shows was just, the entire hour was dedicated to speculation about the connection between Michael Cohen and Sean Hannity, which is cable news' other favorite topic.
00:17:05.000They're fascinated with the idea that Sean Hannity had the same lawyer as the president.
00:17:10.000That Sean Hannity is friendly with the lawyer for the president.
00:17:13.000Sean Hannity is probably calling Trump every night.
00:17:15.000In fact, I have pretty good information that he does talk to President Trump on a very frequent basis.
00:17:18.000The Washington Post reported the same thing today.
00:17:20.000That's not any sort of surprise, and he's known Michael Cohen for years.
00:17:24.000The only weird legal issue here is that Sean has alternatively claimed that Cohen was his lawyer and that Cohen was not his lawyer.
00:17:29.000For purposes of confidentiality and privilege, that does make some difference, but
00:17:34.000The newsers that are going crazy over this, the CNNs and MSNBCs that are going totally nuts over this, I'm just wondering what's so crazy about Hannity having the same lawyer as Trump?
00:17:43.000Like, I assume that Hillary Clinton's lawyers represent a lot of members of the media because she probably is represented by mainstream law firms.
00:17:52.000Half the people in the media worked in the Clinton administration.
00:17:54.000Is that supposed to be some sort of great shock to anyone?
00:17:58.000For example, you're seeing Chuck Todd over at NBC and MSNBC saying that he is stunned by Fox News' coverage of the fact that Sean Hannity was using Michael Cohen as his lawyer and covering Michael Cohen's fallout at the same time.
00:18:10.000I'm just, I am stunned that Fox had no punitive response.
00:18:17.000Not a, Sean Hannity must disclose every night.
00:18:32.000Okay, literally, George Stephanopoulos, the chief of staff for Hillary Clinton, who wrote in his memoirs about crime with Hillary Clinton after President Clinton won in 1992, interviewed Hillary Clinton multiple times during the last campaign, and ABC News made no disclosure about that at the top of any of the shows, and he covered it as an objective journalist.
00:18:50.000How has he magically changed into an objective journalist?
00:18:53.000It's just that the media don't care when it's a lefty who has close associations with members of the Democratic Party.
00:18:58.000They care very deeply when a member of the media has close relationships with top members of the Republican Party.
00:19:03.000Brian Stelter said some of the same stuff on CNN.
00:19:05.000He said, if Rachel Maddow had been getting legal advice from Hillary's attorney, Sean Hannity would go crazy.
00:19:11.000Let's imagine in a parallel universe where Hillary Clinton's president, Rachel Maddow, was discovered to have been getting secret legal advice from a Clinton lawyer.
00:19:19.000Never mind the idea that that Clinton lawyer would have been raided and would have been under investigation.
00:19:23.000If Maddow was under the microscope like that, Hannity would be, he would be ripping, he would be going wild with it.
00:19:30.000He would be talking about it non-stop.
00:19:32.000And I think what is so frustrating to most Americans, when these partisan wars, is the lack of consistency.
00:19:39.000That Hannity would erupt if it were the other side.
00:19:42.000Okay, so I agree on the lack of consistency point.
00:19:44.000My only question is why is it that Brian Stelter is willing to ignore the lack of consistency on his own side of the aisle?
00:19:49.000I like Brian, but I'm just wondering why is it that all these people on the left side of the aisle are willing to completely overlook the fact that half of the media are staffed by people who I'm sure share lawyers with Hillary Clinton and were probably interviewing her at the same time.
00:20:00.000They don't seem to care about any of that, right?
00:20:01.000I mean, the head of CBS News was the brother of Ben Rhodes, who was the national security advisor under President Obama.
00:20:07.000You know, whether or not that makes a difference in news coverage is questionable, but it is something that ought to be displayed on a regular basis.
00:20:14.000These close relationships that are happening in the media all the time.
00:20:17.000I'm just amazed that the media suddenly latch onto all of this, except they're not really amazed.
00:20:20.000They don't like Sean Hannity very much, and obviously they don't like President Trump very much.
00:20:24.000Now, speaking of not liking President Trump, James Comey continues to do his
00:20:49.000Dude, you're the one who literally went and wrote a book about how much you don't like Trump.
00:20:54.000Trump wasn't saying a lot of stuff about you until you decided to come back with the book.
00:20:57.000Now, I'm not really pleased with how Trump has handled the whole James Comey debacle.
00:21:01.000I didn't think that it was greatly handled in the first place.
00:21:04.000For James Comey to be walking around saying that Donald Trump is the scorned lover in this particular relationship seems to be ignorant of things like mirrors and self-awareness.
00:21:29.000This is the guy who was responsible for the Fast and Furious scandal.
00:21:32.000This is the guy who described himself as the President of the United States' wingman, as opposed to, you know, a law enforcement officer, the chief law enforcement officer of the country, and he's complaining about Donald Trump not believing in the rule of law, and the media are just sitting there taking this, and then people wonder why people are not taking the media seriously.
00:21:50.000How do you make sense of those two different ways the president talks about law and order?
00:21:53.000Well, he believes in situational law and order.
00:21:56.000And there is no way that I think you can resolve the tension that you have just described.
00:22:02.000He is not a believer at base in the rule of law.
00:22:07.000He wants to make sure that those people who he likes, the people who support him, are treated in one way, and those other people, whoever those other people are, are treated in a different way.
00:22:18.000Okay, so I love that Eric Holder is sitting here saying this with a straight face.
00:22:22.000That Donald Trump, you know, he wants to make sure that only his allies are treated fairly, but everybody else is treated unfairly.
00:22:27.000You were the Attorney General under President Obama who utilized the IRS, or at least his IRS, went after conservative nonprofits.
00:22:35.000You were the Attorney General during Fast and Furious.
00:22:38.000You were the Attorney General during the HHS scandal.
00:22:40.000There were a dozen scandals that happened under Eric Holder, and Eric Holder was simultaneously describing himself as Barack Obama's wingman, and now he says that Donald Trump is inconsistent about the use of law enforcement?
00:22:52.000Speaking of inconsistent about the use of law enforcement, James Comey, you know, again, the guy with the higher loyalty, he comes out and he says that he has no opinion on disciplining Andrew McCabe.
00:23:00.000Andrew McCabe, of course, was deputy director of the FBI when James Comey was there.
00:23:03.000And now it turns out that Andrew McCabe repeatedly lied to the FBI.
00:23:30.000He had an opinion on what should happen to Hillary Clinton.
00:23:31.000He has opinions on what should happen to President Trump.
00:23:34.000But he has no opinion on what should happen to Andrew McCabe, the guy who worked underneath him and who was simultaneously leaking materials to the media and pretending that somebody else inside the FBI was performing those leaks.
00:23:45.000The inspector general has a full report on Andrew McCabe, okay, and what they found is that McCabe lacked candor on multiple occasions and violated FBI policy when he authorized the disclosure of sensitive investigative information to a reporter.
00:23:58.000And James Comey has no opinion on any of this.
00:24:00.000But don't worry, the only people who are engaging in selective use of law enforcement are members of the Trump administration.
00:24:05.000And look how the media propped Comey up, right?
00:24:07.000Stephen Colbert has on James Comey last night.
00:24:10.000Comey actually raised Colbert's ratings, which is not a shock, because Colbert's ratings have been very up and down.
00:24:15.000And they drank together, I mean, Comey and Colbert, because there was that story in Comey's book about how Comey, after being fired, drank red wine from a paper cup on a plane on the way home.
00:24:24.000If it felt like you were working for a mob boss, were you surprised that you got whacked?
00:25:01.000Because that would be a crazy thing to do.
00:25:02.000Why would you fire the FBI director who's leading the Russia investigation?
00:25:08.000Because you're leading the Russia investigation.
00:25:12.000I don't know if you've dealt with mob bosses before, but they don't like to be investigated.
00:25:16.000Okay, so Stephen Colbert, of course, is making a point that he doesn't know that he's making, which is, if James Comey really thought all these terrible things about Trump, why didn't he quit the first day?
00:25:23.000Why didn't he just quit and say, the president asked me for a loyalty oath, I wasn't willing to give him a loyalty oath, and I'm not going to serve under that president.
00:25:29.000But, of course, James Comey is there in his...
00:26:07.000I admire LeBron James and he's probably about to find out I used to talk about him all over the FBI and say he illustrates what the endless pursuit of excellence looks like.
00:26:18.000But every offseason I've read he tries to find a part of his game to make better, which is crazy because he's already better than everybody else.
00:26:24.000It's because he measures himself not against the others but against himself.
00:26:29.000So I used to say inside the FBI, look, this is a great organization, but it's not good enough.
00:26:43.000There's no way to watch James Comey and not think that he's actually doing damage to the anti-Trump cause by being this insufferably douche-ish.
00:26:56.000President Trump doesn't help himself, by the way, when he fires back on this.
00:26:59.000He should just let James Comey hang out there in the breeze.
00:27:01.000I mean, he really should just let James Comey, all six foot nine of him, say silly things and be looked at as silly.
00:27:06.000But President Trump can't help himself, so he tweets out, Slippery James Comey, the worst FBI director in history, was not fired because of the phony Russia investigation where, by the way, there was no collusion except by the Dems.
00:27:16.000You know, Mr. President, you literally said on national television to Lester Holt that you fired him because of the Russia investigation.
00:27:36.000President Trump made a big mistake when he fired James Comey and then went on national television to brag about it, saying that the real reason he fired James Comey is because Comey wouldn't come out and say that he was innocent in the Russia investigation.
00:27:47.000That forced Rod Rosenstein, the guy who wrote the letter that provided the impetus for firing James Comey, that forced Rosenstein to recuse himself and appoint Robert Mueller.
00:27:55.000There would be no Robert Mueller today if it were not for President Trump firing James Comey and then talking about it on national television.
00:28:07.000I have enough faith in the American people that they can look at the Stormy Daniels stuff and they can look at her revealing ridiculous mock-ups of generic-looking white men who threatened her in a parking lot and say, all of this seems like reality TV show nonsense.
00:28:20.000The president apparently doesn't have that faith, or he can't control himself, so he tweeted out about Stormy Daniels.
00:28:25.000He said that this was a con job as well.
00:28:27.000He said, quote, Again, you know, for fake news media for fools, all of that is capitalized, which is weird.
00:28:39.000But, you know, why is the president doing this?
00:28:42.000I think that not only does it not serve his purpose, it's counterproductive in a very serious way, because
00:28:47.000What he really should be saying—he shouldn't be saying anything.
00:28:49.000But if his people are saying anything, it should be, well, if that actually happened, then the president had no knowledge of any of that.
00:28:55.000When he just says that this is a non-existent man, when he comes out and says this never happened, now he's in a food fight with a former porn star he had sex with.
00:29:02.000And none of this is good for the president.
00:29:04.000None of this is good for the president's agenda.
00:29:06.000Now, speaking of not great for the president's agenda, yesterday,
00:29:10.000There were a couple of dings in the White House.
00:29:13.000One of those dings came courtesy of Justice Gorsuch.
00:29:15.000So, there's been a lot of talk, of course, about Justice Gorsuch and Justice Gorsuch being President Trump's main victory as President of the United States.
00:29:40.000So the case was called Sessions v. DiMaia and involved a legal immigrant who came to the United States years ago.
00:29:44.000As an adult, this guy was twice convicted of burglary.
00:29:46.000Federal law permits deportation of legal immigrants if they are convicted of an aggravated felony, one type of which is a crime of violence.
00:29:53.000The Obama and Trump administrations both claim this, according to Ala Pundit over at Hot Air, that burglary can be categorized as a crime of violence because of the way the statute is worded.
00:30:00.000Any crime, which by its nature involves a substantial risk that physical force against the person or property of another may be used in the course of committing the offense, is a crime of violence whether or not physical force was actually used.
00:30:11.000In deciding whether a crime by its nature is a crime of violence, courts are supposed to look at what the ordinary case involving that crime might look like.
00:30:17.000So the courts for liberals thought that this was unconstitutionally vague.
00:30:21.000This did not make clear when you could deport somebody and when you could not deport somebody.
00:30:53.000So this does not sound like a wildly liberal decision from Justice Gorsuch.
00:30:56.000In fact, it sounds very much like what Justice Scalia might have said in the same case.
00:31:00.000There's an argument over whether this statute was vague or whether the statute was not vague, and nowhere does it say that Congress can't simply redraw the statute to make it less vague and then apply it going forward.
00:31:11.000Again, there was a case called United States versus Johnson a couple of years ago about the Armed Career Criminal Act.
00:31:16.000And it said if you were convicted of three prior violent felonies under the law, then you could be given extra prison time.
00:31:22.000And there was some wiggle room in what it meant to be a violent felon.
00:31:25.000And Antonin Scalia actually wrote with the four liberals as well as John Roberts.
00:31:31.000So it's not, you know, out of the realm of possibility for Justice Gorsuch to... And people are saying, well, this means he's Anthony Kennedy.
00:31:39.000I just don't think that's right at all.
00:31:42.000I think Justice Gorsuch continues to be a real asset to the court.
00:31:45.000And I think the ruling yesterday, it's controversial, but I don't think that Gorsuch gets this one wildly wrong.
00:31:50.000Now, speaking of controversies that may mean more inside the administration, apparently Nikki Haley is now in a fight with other members of the administration.
00:31:57.000So Nikki Haley, who is, of course, at the United Nations, as I have said, my spirit animal,
00:32:00.000Nikki Haley at the United Nations is my favorite thing in American government in a very long time.
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00:35:51.000It doesn't matter whether you believe that conversion therapy works.
00:35:54.000I think the evidence on that is at best mixed and leaning very strongly toward no.
00:35:58.000But that does not mean that you shouldn't be able to read a book about how to fight particular urges or that urge you to behave in certain ways.
00:36:08.000The entire religious worldview is that you have lots of urges, right?
00:36:11.000We all have lots of urges, and a lot of those urges are bad for you, and you should resist those urges as much as possible.
00:36:16.000But under California law, such books could be banned in the state of California.
00:36:22.000And even worse, it says it includes efforts to change behaviors or gender expressions.
00:36:26.000So in other words, if I have a three-year-old kid, and that three-year-old kid is expressing that they want to be the opposite sex, I can't take that kid to a therapist who is going to say that, who's going to try to make sure that my kids
00:36:38.000Feelings of gender disorientation are alleviated?
00:36:42.000I don't have the ability to do that in the state of California.
00:36:44.000How in the world is that constitutional?
00:36:46.000The answer is it's not constitutional.
00:36:47.000The answer is also that folks on the left in California don't care.
00:36:50.000So we talk about tyranny coming in the guise of a happy face, well this is what we're talking about.
00:36:54.000The folks on the left in California suggesting, of course, that gender expression is innately baked into the cake, that sexual orientation is innately baked into the cake, and that any attempt by anyone to say any difference should be illegal in the state of California is fully crazy and fully violative of First Amendment basic freedoms.
00:37:19.000But it is a fact that when it comes to, for example, gender expression, 80% of all kids who identify as cross-gender when they are young grow out of it by the time they are teenagers.
00:37:29.000And you're now telling me that I have to reinforce that at the state level?
00:37:32.000And that if I don't, the state is going to sue me?
00:37:41.000If Barnes & Noble carries a book about how to deal with a child who's suffering from gender dysphoria, and that book suggests that you don't have hormone treatment or humor it, that this may actually be a violation of California state law?
00:38:20.000You can see a world in which California goes even further than this and starts taking children out of homes.
00:38:24.000If you're a parent who says, listen, my little girl is not a little boy, no matter what she says, then you could see the state saying you are now engaging in child endangerment.
00:38:33.000I cannot imagine the Supreme Court of the United States would uphold this law.
00:38:49.000And of course, this is the future of—California is the future of the left.
00:39:00.000So, if you wonder why folks on the right are so unwilling to make bargains with folks on the left about social issues, this is the reason.
00:39:06.000Because social leftists are interested in not only changing minds, but in forcing that change on people from above using the power of government.
00:39:16.000Suggesting to people they shouldn't be able to buy books they want to buy, suggesting to people that they shouldn't be able to bring kids to the therapist they want to bring kids to, is just insane and evil.
00:40:13.000But the relationship between Rodgers and Hammerstein, not only does it say something about
00:40:19.000You know, how great art is created, but the art that they created is quintessentially American.
00:40:23.000If you look at the work that they did, so much of it is about this sort of liberal consensus post-World War II and even during World War II about what it was that America stood for, what America was fighting for.
00:40:33.000They have several shows about cross-cultural exchanges.
00:40:35.000They have a couple of shows specifically about fighting racism.
00:40:38.000South Pacific, particularly, is a very anti-racist show.
00:40:41.000They take on some really difficult issues.
00:40:44.000In Carousel, for example, Billy Bigelow, who's the hero of the show, he's really not the hero of the show.
00:40:50.000One of the descriptions about Billy Bigelow's character that I think resonates is that Billy Bigelow in Carousel is supposed to be a really bad person who you significantly dislike until he starts to sing.
00:40:59.000Because when he sings, suddenly he's expressing what he feels as opposed to how he behaves.
00:41:02.000And you sort of understand all the challenges that he faces as a character.
00:41:06.000But there's spousal abuse in Carousel.
00:41:08.000And it's taken very seriously in the show.
00:41:11.000It's just, there has been no better lyricist than Oscar Hammerstein.
00:41:16.000Despite all the talk about how naive his lyrics are, you cannot listen to the soliloquy from Carousel without understanding how good his understanding of human character was.
00:41:24.000And also, the understanding of what male and female are like.
00:41:28.000I think that if you look back to his lyrics particularly, about how women sing about men, how men sing about women,
00:42:23.000Suddenly he realizes he has to be a responsible human being.
00:42:25.000Suddenly he realizes that he has to go out and make some money.
00:42:27.000He says that you can have fun with a son, but you have to be a father to a girl.
00:42:32.000And by the end of the show, by the end of the song, he starts off talking about how strong he is and how tough he is and how he wants to see that in his son.
00:42:38.000And by the end of the song, he says, you know, I can't, I need to go out and I need to earn.
00:42:43.000I need to go make some money because I don't want my daughter growing up in an area with a bunch of bums just like me.
00:42:48.000Suddenly there's actually some introspection that takes place when you have kids that you're responsible for.
00:42:52.000It's an amazing, amazing song, but that's true of all of their lyrics.
00:42:55.000The simplicity of Hammerstein's lyrics are deceptive because people think that
00:43:02.000They think that Lin-Manuel Miranda's lyrics are of the same level as Hammerstein's, or even Sondheim's are of the same level as Hammerstein's.
00:43:08.000I think that Hammerstein had a unique understanding of human individuality, and that's why you can listen to lyrics from two different characters in Hammerstein's show, and they sound very different, whereas if you listen to Sondheim lyrics, for most of his characters, they sound like Sondheim.
00:43:21.000Almost in the way that Aaron Sorkin is a very good writer, but all of his characters sound like versions of Aaron Sorkin.
00:44:32.000They got us down to Philly, and that's when I took a photo of the engine, and it appeared that it shredded the left side engine completely.
00:44:46.000As they say, she was one of the first female fighter pilots and the first woman to fly an F-18.
00:44:51.000She wasn't permitted to fly in combat, but she became an aggressor pilot and an instructor.
00:44:55.000And of course, she is also a religious Christian.
00:44:58.000She talks about the fact that every time she flies, she sees it as proof of Christ in her life.
00:45:02.000So, sounds like a pretty amazing person and well worth celebrating.
00:45:05.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:45:11.000All righty, so I wanna give you the update on the Starbucks, the Starbucks boycott, the stupid Starbucks boycott.
00:45:16.000So, as I say, yesterday, I said yesterday on the show that I am skeptical of the stories that some vast swath of racism is happening across the country by Starbucks employees.
00:45:25.000And I showed you a tape from one Starbucks in Torrance, which is an area that is about 40%, 35% Asian, and I think it's about 2% black, and largely Hispanic as well, so it's a heavily minority area.
00:45:39.000And this Starbucks employee, who's Asian, supposedly told a black guy he couldn't use the restroom and all we saw of the tape is what the black guy had to say about it, but we never heard the manager's account of exactly what happened.
00:45:49.000Well, the same thing happened at the Starbucks in Philadelphia that led this whole thing off.
00:45:53.000It turns out that the manager of the Starbucks has spoken out, her name is Holly, and she has spoken relatively anonymously.
00:45:59.000What she says happens is that these two black guys come in, and they sit down, and then they not only refuse to leave, but when asked politely to leave because they're not buying anything, they begin to get a little bit aggressive with her.
00:46:11.000They begin to—and she calls the police.
00:46:13.000She says—they come in, they say, can we use the restroom?
00:46:15.000She says no, and then they just sit down, and they stay there.
00:46:19.000Now, do I believe her or do I believe the two black guys who are talking about this?
00:46:23.000Well, you know, all I can say is that the supporting evidence tends toward the story of the manager.
00:46:30.000And the reason I say that is because the police chief, who's a black guy, said that when the police came and they asked these two guys to leave, the two guys said no.
00:46:37.000The two guys refused and they said, go ahead and arrest us.
00:46:39.000You know, they were apparently relatively aggressive with the officers as well.
00:46:44.000Not only that, but it turns out that this woman, Holly, who was the store manager, I got a letter from one of the listeners to The Ben Shapiro Show, who routinely goes to this particular Starbucks and knows the manager.
00:46:57.000What she wrote me is, Well, according to this person who listens to the show, quote,
00:47:07.000From my observations and interactions with her, I was actually under the impression that Holly is an SJW feminist of the highest order.
00:47:14.000Once I even heard her scorn a male barista for not using the proper neutral pronouns of somebody.
00:47:18.000That's why this whole situation is so shocking to me.
00:47:20.000Even though I did not agree with her and all the SJW pins that adorn her beanie, I think calling her a racist all over the news and doxing her name, address, phone, family, etc.
00:47:28.000The patron said Holly's not racist and doesn't deserve what is happening to her here in Philly.
00:47:32.000The patrons of the Starbucks are, quote, both black and white, and I've personally seen Holly give the oh-so-coveted restroom code to both black and white people, patrons and non-patrons.
00:47:40.000I've seen her train both black and white staff members.
00:47:42.000She has been nothing but nice to everyone.
00:47:43.000I've never witnessed any racist behavior.
00:47:45.000I may not agree with the way she carries herself with the colorful hair and the hippie pins, but I can recognize when someone is doing their job well.
00:47:51.000Again, it would be very weird if Holly were a giant racist working in Philadelphia at a Starbucks.