Trump disavows the "Send Her Back" crowd chant, Democrats lament John McCain, and The Squad continues its radical push. Ben Shapiro explains what happened and why the president should have done differently. He also explains why President Trump is fine with it, and why it's a good thing that he didn't respond to the chant at a recent rally. And he explains why The Squad should go back to their home countries, even if they're a bunch of naturalized American citizens born in the United States. Plus, a new way to save money on your cell phone bill, and a new feature on Mint Mobile that makes it easy for you to ditch your old phone plans and get a new one for free! All that and much more on today's show with Ben Shapiro! Subscribe to The Ben Shapiro Show on Apple Podcasts and other podcasting platforms wherever you get your stuff. Use the promo code "UPLEVEL" to receive 20% off your first month with discount code UPLEVEL at checkout. Use the discount code: PODCAST at checkout at checkout to get 20% OFF your entire month, plus free shipping on all third-party purchases, and free shipping throughout the rest of the month! Use promo code POWER10 at checkout for a maximum of $99.99 and free 2GB of 4GB of 3Gigabytes, and you'll get free 2 GB of 3GB of 2GB and 4GB 4G LTE at no longer than $99, plus an additional $5GBGB at no extra than usual. You'll get FREE 3GB and 2GB max at no additional fee, plus 2GB for 4GB, plus a FREE 2GB 4GB max! You get $5 and a FREE Prime membership when you sign up for the Mint Mobile plan! - use discount code "That's That's M&M-M&M&T 4GB at $15). at checkout, they'll get $15, That's That s That's 4GB and I'll get it all 4GB for $15GB and a 5GB for FREE! at $19.99, and I'm giving you $15MB and a total of $5MB and they get it'll get you a chance to get $19GB and $24GB & I'll send you 5GB and they'll also get $25MB and $12GB for the discount? FREE M&T Connected by Mint Mobile!
00:00:30.000In those tweets, he told a bunch of progressive congresswomen that they should go back to their home countries.
00:00:34.000The problem being that three of the four progressive congresswomen he was talking about were born right here, and the fourth is a naturalized American citizen.
00:00:41.000So telling them to go back to their home countries because you don't like their politics, that's not good.
00:00:47.000And then President Trump morphed that argument into, well, what I really meant was if you don't love the country, you can leave it at any time.
00:01:34.000And the President of the United States was talking about Ilhan Omar.
00:01:37.000Ilhan Omar is the worst of the so-called squad.
00:01:40.000The squad is composed, of course, of AOC, and Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley.
00:01:45.000And Ilhan Omar is the most radical member of the squad.
00:01:48.000Not necessarily in terms of her domestic politics, but certainly in terms of the language she uses about the United States, the language that she uses about terror groups, her history of going easy on, for example, ISIS recruits.
00:02:00.000She wrote a letter to a judge recommending that people attempting to join ISIS be given more lenient sentences.
00:02:05.000Her anti-Semitic comments have been routine and common.
00:02:10.000And so Trump went after Ilhan Omar on her record.
00:02:13.000And then the crowd, taking a cue from his original tweets earlier this week, started chanting, send her back.
00:02:19.000And President Trump didn't say anything at the rally.
00:02:21.000He kind of just stood there and took it.
00:02:23.000Now what the president should have done is he should have immediately stepped in and said, hold up a second.
00:02:54.000First, let's talk about your cell phone plan.
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00:04:17.000And now the media, we'll see as they covered it, the media were not interested in his apology, right?
00:04:21.000The media are not interested in the walk back.
00:04:23.000The media want him to continue saying what he was saying earlier this week.
00:04:28.000And they want to continue pushing the notion that Republicans are by and large racist and xenophobic and want to send everybody who doesn't look like them back to their home country and all this kind of stuff.
00:04:37.000So here is Trump's response to the send them back chant.
00:04:40.000Now, if you're a good American, you should be pretty happy that the president backed off of this, because whether you like Trump or not, it is not good for our politics.
00:04:47.000As I pointed out repeatedly yesterday on the show, it is very bad for our politics to have political leaders saying things that are morally indefensible.
00:04:54.000So if a political leader, or going along with things that are morally indefensible, So if a political leader backs off of that thing, that's good for the country, generally speaking.
00:05:02.000Here was President Trump doing that yesterday.
00:05:04.000Good for him, this is the right thing.
00:05:06.000You don't get full credit because your earlier tweets sort of led this thing off.
00:05:10.000And you also don't get full credit because you didn't stop the chant.
00:05:12.000But you certainly get partial credit for doing the right thing now, and at least saying to your own base, let's not make this thing a thing at our rallies, right?
00:05:19.000How about not every rally includes a send them back chant?
00:06:25.000It is true that if you look at his body language, normally, if you watch any Trump rallies, when people were chanting, lock her up, The president basically would walk away from the microphone, and then he would proceed to kind of conduct the audience, or nod along with the chant, or clap along with the chant.
00:06:39.000You didn't see any of that from President Trump.
00:06:41.000That doesn't mean that he was actively putting a damper on it.
00:07:19.000CNN's chyrons yesterday ran things like president disavows, disavows chant, while at the same time maintaining tweet from Sunday.
00:07:28.000Okay, why don't you actually just report what he did yesterday?
00:07:32.000You can give the context, that's fine.
00:07:33.000But your chyrons don't actually have to be 500 word essays about why you find his words insufficient at this point.
00:07:40.000That's not journalism anymore, now you're editorializing.
00:07:43.000So the greatest of objective reporters among us, Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo, decided that they were going to demonstrate that the president didn't do enough at the rally.
00:07:51.000Which is true, he didn't do enough at the rally.
00:07:53.000But then he came out and he said, okay, this is bad, I don't like it.
00:07:57.000So instead, on CNN yesterday, they said, watch, we're going to stay silent for 13 seconds.
00:08:00.000This is what it looks like when you don't say anything for 13 seconds while people say bad things.
00:09:12.000When President Trump likes things, he goes after them.
00:09:14.000This is not a typical President Trump move, is to back off this comment.
00:09:19.000Okay, but what is most disingenuous about the media coverage of President Trump backing off of this and telling his crowd to stop all of this is the routine that the media do now with regard to John McCain.
00:09:32.000I was having a conversation with somebody last night, and he's asking, why is it that so many Republicans are having a tough time disavowing bad things that Trump says?
00:09:39.000And I said, because most Republicans and most conservatives feel that they are not going to be given credit for doing the correct moral thing.
00:09:46.000And that, in essence, we're not going to trust you guys to make those judgments because the fact is that you would rip any Republican the same way that you are ripping Trump.
00:09:53.000You just hate Trump more because he doesn't have your highfalutin speech patterns.
00:09:57.000And you can see a pure example of this.
00:10:00.000So the media yesterday, they were aghast at Trump, of course, which I was not pleased with President Trump.
00:10:07.000You can go back and listen to the show, obviously.
00:10:09.000But the media were aghast at President Trump.
00:12:41.000So 10 years from now, when another Republican is running for the nomination for the 2028 election, it's going to be highly, highly entertaining watching the media talk about the halcyon days of President Trump and his moderate policy proposals, and the fact that he was willing to reach across the aisle, because this is what the media do with every Republican.
00:13:03.000As soon as they are no longer a threat, then they become wonderful people again.
00:13:07.000So here was John McCain, here was Don Lemon on John McCain last night.
00:13:11.000I want everyone to be respectful, and let's make sure we are.
00:13:15.000Because that's the way politics should be conducted in America.
00:13:19.000So let's make sure that we're all respectful.
00:14:10.000The question is, do you think the McCain campaign is creating a political environment that is inciting hate and hate speech?
00:14:18.000The same, the same Don Lemon, who was talking about the civility and wonder of American politics in 2008, and the fundamental decency of John McCain, was suggesting that Republicans and John McCain's specific campaign was creating a political environment, this is a direct quote, is creating a political environment that is inciting hate and hate speech.
00:14:38.000In other words, you wanna know why Republicans don't trust you guys on this crap?
00:14:40.000Because you say the same exact crap about every Republican, including John McCain.
00:14:46.000So you're going around praising John McCain as this wonderful civil fellow.
00:14:51.000And when it came to comedy in the U.S.
00:14:52.000Senate, when it came to treatment of his political opponents, I think there is truth to that.
00:14:59.000And so what Republicans say is, listen, if we're going to get treated like garbage, and we're going to get treated like we are inciting hate and hate speech, then you might as well have a president who's going to punch people in the face.
00:15:14.000You had Chuck Schumer yesterday on the floor of the Senate saying, listen, what President Trump does is so vile and so terrible and so unprecedented.
00:15:23.000I lament the fact that there is no John McCain anymore.
00:16:29.000Civil rights icon in Georgia Congressman John Lewis is accusing John McCain and Sarah Palin of stoking hate, likening the atmosphere at Republican campaign events to those featuring George Wallace, the segregationist former governor of Alabama and presidential candidate.
00:16:41.000McCain's campaign has responded with a statement in the candidate's name, urging Barack Obama to repudiate Lewis's comments.
00:16:51.000Barack Obama sat back and allowed John Lewis, without any sort of blowback, to suggest that John McCain was running a George Wallace-like campaign.
00:16:59.000So do I want to hear from you guys now what a wonderful guy John McCain was?
00:17:02.000And how John McCain was the model for American politics?
00:17:42.000John Lewis said, Because of this atmosphere of hate, four little girls were killed on a Sunday morning when a church was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama.
00:17:46.000that encourage vicious attacks against innocent Americans who are simply trying to exercise their constitutional rights.
00:17:52.000Because of this atmosphere of hate, four little girls were killed on a Sunday morning when a church was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama.
00:17:58.000Senator McCain and Governor Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.
00:18:04.000He said that about John McCain, in 2008. John McCain.
00:18:13.000They are now calling Donald Trump George Wallace.
00:18:15.000You keep saying everybody's George Wallace, eventually people conclude that no one is George Wallace and you guys can just, you can walk, take a long walk right off a short pier.
00:18:26.000Now this is particularly true when you look at the contrasting coverage between how the media cover Donald Trump and how the media cover the radicalism and hate emanating from the Democratic Party.
00:18:36.000So, Donald Trump tweeted out this morning.
00:18:38.000He tweeted out, quote, it is amazing how the fake news media became crazed, quote unquote, over the chant, send her back by a packed arena, a record crowd in the great state of North Carolina.
00:18:49.000You got to love how President Trump, under all circumstances, will never miss an opportunity to point out that he has amazing crowds.
00:18:55.000But it's totally calm and accepting of the most vile and disgusting statements made by the three radical left congresswomen.
00:19:02.000Mainstream media, which have lost all credibility, has either officially or unofficially become a part of radical left Democrat Party.
00:19:10.000It is a sick partnership so pathetic to watch.
00:19:13.000They even covered a tiny stage crowd as they greeted foul-mouthed Omar in Minnesota, a state which I will win in 2020 because they can't stand her and her hatred of our country.
00:19:22.000And they appreciate all that I've done for them, opening up mining and much more, which has led to the best employment and economic year in Minnesota's long and beautiful history." President Trump ain't wrong about this.
00:19:35.000Media attention to the crowd chant, which was appropriate.
00:19:40.000It was appropriate, but you know what is inappropriate?
00:19:42.000Ignoring the fact that there was a terrorist attack on an ICE facility over the weekend.
00:19:47.000And the person who committed that terrorist attack was a member of Antifa.
00:19:50.000And that member of Antifa was suggesting that the ICE facility was actually a quote, concentration camp.
00:19:57.000And then a bunch of top Democratic Congresswomen, the members of the squad, were specifically asked by the rebel and the Daily Caller whether in fact they would condemn that ICE terror attack.
00:20:07.000And the only one who eventually said she might condemn acts of violence is AOC.
00:21:11.000Or the president saying stupid garbage, as is his usual want on all days ending in Y. I understand it's a big story when the president says something, particularly when he sets a new low.
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00:22:46.000So as Trump says, and as I say, the media imbalance in coverage between what Trump says and what members of the Democratic Party say, astonishing.
00:22:55.000Now, I'm not saying that Ayanna Pressley should receive the same kind of press that the president does.
00:23:00.000But you would think there might be a story in the mainstream media when Ayanna Pressley says, over the last weekend, that black people aren't black unless they agree with her, gay people aren't gay unless they agree with her, and Muslim people aren't Muslim unless they agree with Ilhan Omar.
00:23:13.000You might think it would receive, you know, like, a little more coverage when, for example, AOC suggests that ICE agents are blatant racists.
00:23:21.000You know, the weekend after a terror attack on an ICE facility.
00:23:24.000So yesterday, AOC was speaking with Kevin McAleenan, who is the acting head of the Department of Homeland Security, and she went after ICE agents, labeling 10,000 of them racist.
00:23:38.000Now, she's doing this on the basis of bad information.
00:23:40.000I'll explain what she gets right, which is not much, and what she gets wrong in just a second.
00:23:44.000But here she is, maligning ICE agents across the country as racists and bigots and brutality-laden pieces of human debris.
00:23:54.000This is pretty vicious stuff that she is saying about, you know, the people who are putting their lives on the line to protect people on the border and also who go out of their way to save thousands of lives every year for refugees who are trying to cross the Rio Grande and have to be escorted to ports of entry.
00:24:07.000Here's AOC going after Kevin McAleenan and after ICE agents more generally.
00:24:12.000We do not have a dehumanizing culture at CBP.
00:24:15.000This is an agency that rescues 4,000 people a year, that's absolutely committed to the well-being of everyone that they interact with.
00:24:22.000I don't believe there's a dehumanizing culture.
00:24:24.000And Mr. Secretary, so you don't think that having 10,000 officers in a violent racist group sharing rape memes of members of Congress points to any concern of a dehumanized culture?
00:24:40.000Congresswoman, those posts are unacceptable.
00:24:42.000They're being investigated, but I don't think it's fair to apply them to the entire organization or that even the members of that group believed or supported those posts.
00:24:51.000Okay, McAleenan is totally right about this.
00:24:54.000According to ProPublica, they said members of a secret Facebook group for current and former Border Patrol agents joked about the deaths of migrants, discussed throwing burritos at Latino members of Congress visiting a detention facility in Texas on Monday and posted a vulgar illustration depicting AOC engaged in oral sex with a detained migrant, according to screenshots of their postings.
00:25:13.000ProPublica says in one exchange, group members responded with indifference and wisecracks to the post of a news story about a 16-year-old Guatemalan migrant who died in May while in custody at a Border Patrol station in West Laco, Texas.
00:25:24.000One member posted a gif of Elmo with the quote, oh well.
00:25:27.000Created in August 2016, the Facebook group is called I'm 1015 and boasts roughly 9,500 members from across the country.
00:25:34.00010-15 is border patrol code for aliens in custody.
00:25:36.000The group described itself in an online introduction as a forum for funny and serious discussion about work with the patrol.
00:25:41.000Remember you are never alone in this family, the introduction said.
00:25:44.000And then they talk about these specific comments.
00:25:47.000Okay, so were these comments that were posted by the moderators?
00:25:51.000No, these were not comments posted by the moderators.
00:25:53.000On Facebook, like this demonstrates such an ignorance of how Facebook works.
00:25:56.000On Facebook, when you have a group like this, there are the moderators who post stories, and then there are people who comment under the stories.
00:26:03.000And you can go through virtually any Facebook page.
00:26:08.000And you can find people who are members of her page, or fans of her page, who are commenting on stories and saying vile, disgusting things.
00:26:14.000Does that malign all of AOC's Facebook page?
00:26:17.000Or all of this Border Patrol Facebook page?
00:26:34.000He says people have been put on administrative leave, people have been put on desk jobs, people are being punished, we are investigating all of this.
00:26:40.000But she's maligning 10,000 Border Patrol agents and former Border Patrol agents because there were like five posts, apparently, that were ugly, on a border patrol page over the course of years, presumably.
00:26:53.000I mean, the head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Joaquin Castro, reviewed the Facebook discussions, was incensed.
00:26:59.000He said it confirms some of the worst criticisms of customs and border protection.
00:27:03.000These are clearly agents who are desensitized to the point of being dangerous to migrants and their coworkers.
00:27:07.000So AOC takes some bad comments on a Facebook page and then uses it to smear the entire border patrol agency.
00:27:15.000Now, AOC then turned back to Trump, and she says that Trump's ugly comments this week put millions of Americans in danger.
00:27:20.000So she is the one who's constantly suggesting that if you make a comment politically that does not call for violence against anybody, they are putting millions of—not just her, not just Ilhan Omar—millions of Americans in danger.
00:27:33.000So here she is explaining that Trump is inciting violence, basically.
00:27:38.000The president put millions of Americans in danger last night.
00:27:43.000His rhetoric is endangering lots of people.
00:27:47.000This is not just about threats to individual members of Congress, but it is about creating a volatile environment in this country through violent rhetoric that puts Okay, except that she has accused Nancy Pelosi of exactly the same thing, right?
00:28:03.000Just last week, she and her friends went on national TV on CBS, and they made exactly the same claim about Pelosi.
00:28:08.000They said that Pelosi was creating incitement of violence against members of Congress.
00:28:39.000There was an attack on an ICE facility by a person quoting AOC last weekend.
00:28:43.000And she's back out there suggesting that Homeland Security agents and Border Patrol agents across the country are systemically desensitized to violence and are basically violent racists.
00:28:52.000And no one will ask her a question about it.
00:29:27.000But if President Trump were an actual fascist, do you think that Ilhan Omar would be able to run around the country saying that President Trump was an actual fascist?
00:29:34.000The mark of fascism generally is not allowing your political opponents to call you a fascist all that often.
00:29:39.000So here's Ilhan Omar making that case.
00:29:43.000We have said this president is racist.
00:29:51.000I want to remind people that this is what this president and his supporters have turned our country that is supposed to be a country where we allow democratic debate and dissent to take place.
00:30:07.000This is about us fighting for what this country truly should be.
00:30:13.000Okay, so President Trump is a fascist.
00:30:14.000Important to point out at this point that Ilhan Omar has stood against sanctions against both Venezuela as well as Iran.
00:30:21.000So when it comes to actual fascism on planet Earth, she seems pretty okay with it based on country of origin.
00:30:28.000The only countries that she seems pretty down on in the leadership of those countries She really is not fond of President Trump, obviously.
00:30:51.000Anti-semitic by the lights of Nancy Pelosi, who a month ago said in front of AIPAC that BDS, Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions from Israel, is anti-semitic policy.
00:31:00.000Well, yesterday, Ilhan Omar sponsored a resolution not only backing boycotts and divestment and sanctions against Israel, but comparing Israel to Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1941.
00:31:11.000You know the place that killed all the Jews?
00:31:13.000She compared the Jewish state to the place that killed all the Jews.
00:31:24.000I mean, she is at the top of the news and the president is making the case she's an anti-Semite and the media are like, no, she's not an anti-Semite.
00:31:50.000And then she's critiqued over her history of possible immigration fraud.
00:31:55.000Not that she defrauded the government in immigrating here, but the possibility that she defrauded the government in concocting a scheme so she could bring her brother over to the United States illegally.
00:32:04.000There's some fairly decent evidence of that uncovered by David Steinberg over at PJ Media and reported by the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
00:32:11.000I mean, there are open questions about this.
00:32:28.000You guys are literally going around saying that President Trump didn't disavow a statement that he disavowed because he claimed to disavow the statement.
00:32:42.000And when it comes to her own anti-Semitism, you've got people in the media who continue to defend Ilhan Omar and AOC, her fellow traveler, and Rashida Tlaib, who is also an anti-Semite, and Ayanna Pressley, who expresses bigotry publicly, and then suggest that all these people, you know, they are the best that America has to offer.
00:32:59.000When Trump drives you this crazy, that the squad become your squad, Trump's gonna win that battle.
00:33:07.000You wanna alienate the suburban women?
00:33:09.000Great way of doing that is embracing the squad.
00:33:12.000The more Americans see of the squad, the more unpopular they're going to be.
00:33:16.000The only reason that they're at single digits underwater is because only about 50, 60% of Americans even know who these people are, except for AOC.
00:33:23.000No one knows who Elhanan Marr is, no one knows who Rashida Tlaib is, no one knows who Ayanna Pressley is.
00:33:27.000When they start hearing their comments, they ain't gonna like it very much.
00:33:30.000They're not gonna like it particularly a lot.
00:33:33.000And Ilhan Omar, I mean, this is the game that Ilhan Omar is playing.
00:33:36.000So Ilhan Omar, how radical is Ilhan Omar?
00:33:39.000So not only did she sponsor this BDS resolution, she then announced that she was going to travel to Israel.
00:33:44.000The only reason she did that is because what she hopes to do is provoke Israel into denying her entry.
00:33:49.000Israel has laws on the books that deny entry to people who are going to propagandize on behalf of the destruction of state of Israel.
00:33:55.000BDS is an anti-semitic policy directed at the destruction of the state of Israel.
00:33:58.000By the way, the United States has similar policies that if you want to come in here and talk about the overthrow of the U.S.
00:34:03.000government, we're not going to allow you to come over here and visit.
00:34:05.000Okay, so Israel has that policy and the question is whether they allow Ilhan Omar in or not.
00:34:13.000of allowing her to run around with Palestinian members of Hamas and talk about how evil Israel is and then they let her go back and all of this but this is the game Ilhan Omar is playing and no one is asking Pelosi about it.
00:34:56.000I had never talked to any of them before that interview and only spent 30 minutes.
00:35:01.000Not one of them has ever said, I hate America.
00:35:04.000Not one of them has ever said, I don't want to be here.
00:35:06.000In fact, I would say they love this country so much.
00:35:09.000They spoke with such pride about being in Congress.
00:35:12.000They pointed out where they sat in that room and the bills that they passed and the passion that they have for this country and their people and their constituents.
00:35:22.000Well if you sat with them for half an hour and they didn't openly say I hate this country, well then clearly they must love everything about America.
00:35:28.000Clearly they must not be radicals if they didn't come out and just say let's burn this place to the ground.
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00:39:51.000So go listen to the Sunday special this week.
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00:41:29.000So if you watch the poll numbers at RealClearPolitics while all of this was happening, what you see is that Joe Biden is actually climbing again.
00:42:13.000Joe Biden has 100% name recognition, and he doesn't even have 30% support in the Democratic primaries.
00:42:18.000The next debates are not going to be good for him, I predict.
00:42:20.000The reason being, The breakdown of the debates.
00:42:23.000So, the Democrats have decided to do these debates in the dumbest possible way.
00:42:26.000So what the Republicans did, in 2016, is they tried to have debates with the top contenders, and then there was sort of the kids' table.
00:42:32.000And the kids' table was for the people who, like the Eric Swalwells of the world in the Republican Party, who were going to get 2% in the polls, and then they could all debate each other, and maybe one of them would rise up, like Carly Fiorina, and then they would be included in the big-person debate.
00:42:47.000That was a much better way of doing it.
00:42:49.000The Democrats, however, in the name of anti-meritocracy have decided, because they're not in favor of merit, they've decided instead that they're just going to basically draw straws for who is in which debate.
00:43:00.000And there's still one bajillion candidates.
00:43:02.000The only candidate, shockingly, the only candidate with enough reason to see he's going nowhere was Swalwell.
00:43:16.000The first night debate is Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg and Beto O'Rourke, Amy Klobuchar, Steve Bullock, Representative Tim Ryan from Ohio, John Hickenlooper, John Delaney, and Marianne Williamson.
00:43:30.000So first of all, I will watch anything with Marianne Williamson in it.
00:43:52.000Marianne Williamson is great and I want more Marianne Williamson on the stage.
00:43:56.000But people are basically declaring that there is a white person debate and then there is a diverse people debate because every person on that stage is white.
00:44:03.000So it's Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
00:44:04.000Now, that's really good for Warren because Warren can go directly at Sanders and continue to carve away at his base.
00:44:09.000It's bad for Pete Buttigieg because he's gonna be a sideshow.
00:44:12.000Pete Buttigieg is left out of that main battle.
00:44:14.000Buttigieg has raised an enormous amount of cash.
00:44:16.000But you wanna talk, it's fascinating how the media coverage works here.
00:44:20.000So Pete Buttigieg raised insane amounts of money.
00:44:22.000He raised more money than pretty much anybody in the last quarter.
00:44:26.000And he is polling, in the RealClearPolitics poll average, at 4.8%.
00:44:49.000That's not translating into anything that looks like success anywhere.
00:44:52.000In the latest Hill poll, he has 1%. 1%.
00:44:56.000So, in any case, Buttigieg is not really a force in this race.
00:44:59.000I think that the Buttigieg boomlet is over.
00:45:02.000The first debate will be about Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren going at each other, and Amy Klobuchar going, guys, I'm the only senator in America who wildly outpaces in popularity my party.
00:45:12.000Why in the world am I not getting anywhere here?
00:45:34.000But Biden is now facing down the two-headed attack of Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, because Cory Booker is sitting there going, I started this thing, right?
00:45:44.000I'm the one who attacked Biden first, and then you put me in the other debate where I couldn't attack Biden, so now I want to attack Biden publicly.
00:45:50.000So Cory Booker is going to bring his angry eyes.
00:45:52.000I've said that he's like Mr. Potato Head.
00:47:43.000Joe Biden, because he is attempting to head off the Democrats of the past, the radical Democrats of the past, because of all of that, Joe Biden is now engaging in exactly the kind of politicking that lost Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.
00:47:55.000So here was Joe Biden yesterday being asked about President Trump.
00:47:58.000And Joe Biden didn't just go after Trump.
00:48:01.000He proceeded to go after Trump's base.
00:48:02.000He suggested that people who voted for President Trump are racist.
00:48:06.000This is exactly the same as when Hillary Clinton suggested that everyone who was thinking about voting for Trump was deplorable, was a member of the alt-right, which was bull.
00:48:14.000Here's Joe Biden suggesting that Trump's base is racist.
00:48:17.000How is this a smart electoral strategy?
00:49:36.000Turns out that Bernie Sanders hasn't been paying his folks 15 bucks an hour.
00:49:39.000Campaign field hires have demanded an annual salary they say would be equivalent to a $15 an hour wage, which Sanders for years has said should be the federal minimum.
00:49:46.000The organizers and other employees supporting them have invoked the senator's words and principles in making their case to the campaign manager, Faiz Shakir.
00:49:53.000The documents reviewed by the Washington Post show.
00:49:57.000So Bernie Sanders not living up to his socialist bona fides, that and his three houses, and his unlimited supply of pudding, suggest that he may not actually abide by his own dictates.
00:50:07.000There is a problem for Kamala Harris too, actually, as long as we are talking about problems for Democrats in the 2020 presidential race.
00:50:13.000According to the Washington Examiner, Kamala Harris's presidential campaign bio rests heavily on her career as a prosecutor, including six years as California Attorney General.
00:50:22.000But it omits a plea deal her office negotiated for former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, A serial sexual harasser, which let him escape jail time and avoid registering as a sex offender.
00:50:33.000Bob Filner was trapping women in booths at like the local Denny's and then sexually harassing them in the booth.
00:50:41.000In 2013, about 20 women accused Filner, a two-decade Democratic congressman turned San Diego mayor, of sexual harassment and misconduct.
00:50:48.000Some said he put them in, I kid you not, Filner headlocks.
00:50:52.000Harris's office drew considerable criticism in 2013 for allowing Filner to plead guilty to state charges of false imprisonment and battery against three Jane Doe's in exchange for a light sentence.
00:51:03.000Filner could have faced up to five years in prison, but the plea bargain instead gave him three months of house arrest, three years probation, and partial loss of his mayoral pension.
00:51:11.000Not complete loss, so he's still getting paid.
00:51:13.000Some of the criticism persists today, with past lenient sentences looking less understandable after a swath of prominent men drummed themselves out of public life over sexual harassment episodes.
00:51:23.000If Joe Biden wants to go after Kamala Harris, she is a target-rich environment, but he's actually gonna have to go after her.
00:51:28.000So if she starts with the race stuff again, Joe Biden should say to her, listen Kamala, you and I both know you don't support federal busing.
00:51:36.000The difference is that I'm honest about my position, whereas you lie about your position.
00:51:40.000You suggest that because I take the exact same position you do on federal busing and did in the 1970s, that this is because I am a bigot.
00:51:47.000And yet you, today, do not support federal busing.
00:51:50.000And schools are de facto more segregated than they were then.
00:52:10.000He should say to her, listen, you won't even make clear your own position on Medicare for All.
00:52:15.000You have no less than six times changed your position on private health insurance and whether it ought to be eliminated.
00:52:21.000You are a person who campaigns on this notion that you are a strong prosecutor who's going to stand up to criminality, particularly criminality directed at women.
00:52:30.000Well, how about that Bob Filner plea deal, huh?
00:52:34.000Joe Biden is going to have to aggressively go after her because sort of like in 2016, a lot of Republicans were resonating to the idea that President Trump would be the best person to prosecute Hillary on the stage because he had no limits and he'd say anything.
00:52:45.000There is a feeling among Democrats that they need the best prosecutor of Trump on that stage too.
00:52:50.000Biden has not shown himself to be that.
00:52:51.000He's thrown out the same sorts of lines over and over and over.
00:53:15.000As I said over the past couple of days, we are now playing a game of hold my beer.
00:53:19.000Basically, Donald Trump will say, hold my beer, I'm going to do And then the Democrats will say, no, no, you hold the beer, I'm gonna do something crazy.
00:53:27.000And then Trump's like, no, no, no, I'm gonna do something crazy, hold the beer.
00:53:30.000And Democrats will be like, well, what if we just embrace the squad, hold the beer?
00:53:35.000Does anyone wanna win the 2020 election?
00:53:37.000Like, I really, like, does anyone, apparently nobody wants to win.
00:53:40.000Apparently everybody just wants to yell at each other and club each other with mallets.
00:53:44.000Does any, this is like, who framed Roger Rabbit?
00:53:47.000Eventually, the only one left standing is going to be Judge Doom.
00:53:50.000Like, this is just... It's utter insanity.
00:53:53.000It's total craziness all the way through.
00:53:56.000Okay, time for some things I like, and then instead of things I hate, I'm going to do a little bit of mailbag.
00:56:15.000A heavy percentage, I think, if not a plurality, a heavy minority of all births in the United States were so-called shotgun wedding births.
00:56:22.000I mean, there were a lot of preemies back in the 1930s and 40s.
00:56:25.000A lot of people who were getting pregnant, and then two months later getting married, and then seven months later, the baby is born.
00:57:22.000I don't know what you're thinking unless you say it.
00:57:24.000And I don't know what you're thinking unless you do it.
00:57:26.000So, no, I don't think dark thoughts are the same as dark actions at all.
00:57:28.000As far as sinfulness, that one's up to God, and you're gonna have to deal with God on that level because he's the only one who can tell what's inside your head.
00:57:35.000Well, the way I explain God to my kids is there's a creator of the universe.
00:57:44.000The reason that it seems to have rules and laws is because there is a rulemaker and a lawgiver.
00:57:49.000And because that is true, there are certain actions you can take in your life that predictably will make your life better as a general rule.
00:57:57.000And God wants you to do that because God cares about you and God loves you because God created you.
00:58:01.000And what could be a greater act of love than creation?
01:00:35.000Hey guys, over on the Matt Wall Show today, Democrats just passed a bill that would raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
01:00:42.000Now, I'm going to explain why not only do I disagree with a $15 minimum wage, I actually think the minimum wage should be zero.
01:00:50.000Also, a measure that was passed in California a couple years ago.
01:00:54.000Has now made it so that thieves can walk into basically any store, any convenience store they want, and steal whatever they want, essentially without consequence.