It's September 11th, so we commemorate 9/11, we also talk about Hillary Clinton, who just can't let go. Plus, I'm headed to Berkeley, and apparently it's just like a hurricane or something. This is The Ben Shapiro Show, where I'm ready to give you the update on what's going on at UC Berkeley and give you some notes on 9-11. Plus I want to discuss Hillary Clinton's interview with Steve Bannon in an interview, so there's a lot to get to today. But before we do any of that, I want you to go over to MyPatriotSupply and get some survival food supplies for your family. You're not going to want to miss this! Order now at 888-803-1413 and get a 99-dollar survival food supply for less than a dollar per serving. That's Preparedwithben. You look at the disasters right now, there's no question you should be prepared. Order NOW at Mypatriot Supplies.com and make sure you're making sure your family is prepared for the worst possible natural disasters. It's a no-brainer to me! I'll send you a bunch of food you can eat and you'll be well on your way to surviving the worst natural disasters you can think of. If you don't have enough food to survive a natural disaster, you'll need to go to My Patriot Supplies, where you can get it for 99 bucks. That's 99.99! You'll get 102 servings of breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dinner for 99 cents per serving, for 99.13. order now! Get your survival food, you're not gonna need it! Order today! It doesn't get any better than that. . You're gonna need to be prepared for a day in the worst disaster you can afford it, right? Preparewithben, right here at My Patriot Supply, right at your local grocery store, or your local Target, they're going to be giving you the best of everything you need to survive the worst of what you can do to survive in a day of the worst weather forecast, and you won't have to pay for it in the best way possible. you'll get it all in the cheapest way possible, and they're gonna make it in less than $99. I'm not joking. Ben Shapiro is here to talk about it.
00:00:24.000And I will tell you all of the things about that.
00:00:26.000I'll also give you some notes on 9-11.
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00:02:23.000Okay, the fact is that Berkeley is, I would say, going above and beyond in terms of its security.
00:02:29.000They already said we couldn't bring a thousand people.
00:02:32.000Because they're afraid people are going to go on the upper deck of the stadium and start throwing chairs down on people, which is just totally insane.
00:02:39.000Then they've apparently created a security perimeter.
00:02:42.000They're creating a hard security perimeter.
00:02:44.000When I go on Thursday, that means that they're going to have police cordons basically around six buildings.
00:02:49.000They've shut down the buildings completely, so people have to have classes in other buildings.
00:03:31.000So, according to Newsweek, okay, ahead of a talk from conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro at UC Berkeley, a letter has been sent by the university to students, faculty, and staff stating that counseling services will be made available to those who, quote, feel threatened or harassed
00:03:46.000If you feel so insulted by my speech that you feel that your safety has been assaulted, you definitely need mental help.
00:04:00.000If you really feel that way, then you can certainly use some counseling.
00:04:04.000Because you're a sad sack, pathetic piece of crap.
00:04:06.000Like, seriously, if this is what you worry about all day, is that I'm gonna come to your university, and I'm gonna say, ooh, conservative things?
00:04:27.000Refused fascism says I'm a fascist thug and a white supremacist.
00:04:31.000Which is really amusing considering I was literally the number one recipient of hatred from the alt-right on Twitter last year according to the Anti-Defamation League.
00:05:01.000We're still trying to figure out how to deal with the situation, the eventuality, where a bunch of Antifa members come in the stadium, into the venue, and then get up and leave, and leave a bunch of empty seats.
00:05:32.000I remember that, you know, everybody has their where-were-you-when-9-11-happened story.
00:05:36.000For me, I was, let's see, 17 years old, and my dad and I were actually supposed to go golfing that morning, and we dropped off my sisters at school, and as we pulled into the parking lot,
00:05:46.000One of the security guards came running out and said that planes had hit the World Trade Centers and they had collapsed.
00:06:06.000I have a horrific, horrific day and everybody remembers the images.
00:06:09.000It still gives you a pit in your stomach.
00:06:11.000If you're not old enough to remember, if you're one of my younger listeners, then you should go back and watch the tape because it's important to know what happened in our country on September 11th, 2001.
00:06:19.000And it's important to remember because there are certain lessons that we learned after 9-11 that I think we've sort of been in the process of unlearning.
00:06:25.000All of history tends to be a process of learning lessons and then forgetting them as fast as possible so that you can repeat the history again.
00:06:32.000So I want to go through a couple of lessons I think that it is worth remembering from 9-11 so that we don't repeat 9-11 again, even though I think that, you know, that's... the chances that there will be another major terrorist attack sometime in the next 10 years I think are pretty high.
00:06:44.000And I don't just mean truck-style attacks from ISIS.
00:06:47.000I mean like an actual spectacular attack that takes out thousands of people.
00:06:50.000And I'm not saying that, obviously, I'm saying that with tremendous hope that I'm wrong.
00:06:56.000But it seems to me that the more we go down this road of forgetting what we learned on 9-11, the more we're getting closer to that.
00:07:01.000Number one, global retreat is not a strategy.
00:07:03.000If you remember the Clinton era, you remember that Clinton's basic foreign policy strategy was retreat from the world, except when you did sort of these pinprick strikes in particular areas.
00:07:12.000Sometimes we'd intervene on humanitarian grounds, but we never intervened with regard to preserving our own security.
00:07:18.000We never took preemptive strikes to preserve our own security.
00:07:23.000In 1998, he bombed the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, that sovereign American territory, and the United States basically did nothing.
00:07:31.000When Bin Laden bombed the USS Cole, the United States did basically nothing.
00:07:35.000And Bin Laden, I mean this is in his writings, said he thought that we were a paper tiger at that point.
00:07:39.000It was only because of George W. Bush, really.
00:07:42.000George W. Bush gets a very bad historical rap, but if you talk to the people at Al-Qaeda, from Al-Qaeda, they openly acknowledge that they were not expecting the kind of response they received from George W. Bush.
00:07:52.000They prepared a second wave of attacks, and because Bush was so aggressive, it finished that.
00:07:56.000So, James Mitchell, who is the man who questioned al-Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is the planner of 9-11, KSM said, quote, According to Mitchell, KSM explained that if the U.S.
00:08:04.000had treated 9-11 like a law enforcement matter, he would have had time to launch a second wave of attacks.
00:08:16.000But now it seems like we are very reticent about preemptive attacks.
00:08:20.000It seems like we are reticent about looking at the threats that face us.
00:08:25.000We're fighting ISIS now, which is great, but what about the next threat?
00:08:29.000That doesn't mean that we have to take out the regime and Iran doesn't mean we have to go to war with them, but the fact is that unless we are willing to consider measures to stamp out terrorist groups across the planet, we are setting ourselves up for a fall.
00:08:39.000Okay, second lesson that we should have learned on 9-11.
00:08:42.000Money and friendliness do not buy off Islamists.
00:08:44.000There's this weird idea from both the Ron Paul right and from the Barack Obama left that if we just give enough money, if we just show the Muslim world that we are caring and wonderful, that we will be left alone by terrorists.
00:08:57.000This is not an argument, by the way, for being mean to Muslims worldwide.
00:09:00.000It's not an argument for not having relationships with countries like Saudi Arabia, where we have an actual intelligence relationship.
00:09:06.000It is an argument suggesting that if we think that's enough, if we think that being friendly, that being a human right to proactive, that this is going to be enough to prevent terrorism, we are wildly mistaken and stupid.
00:09:16.000The fact is, for a decade, the Clinton administration reached out to the Palestinian government, for example, with cash, with concessions from the Israelis.
00:09:24.000You remember the tape on 9-11 of Palestinians handing out candy in the streets to their children as the towers fell.
00:09:30.000We were pretty humanitarian toward the Muslim world in the 1990s.
00:09:34.000We saved a bunch of Bosnian and Croatian Muslims in former Yugoslavia.
00:09:40.000We prevented the invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein.
00:09:44.000We gave tons of money and foreign aid to various Muslim countries around the world in an attempt to prevent humanitarian catastrophes.
00:09:52.000We sacrificed American soldiers in far-off places like Somalia just because we didn't want to see the disaster of Muslims dying for no reason.
00:10:00.000We did all of these things and that obviously was not enough to turn off the terrorists.
00:10:03.000This is not to say we shouldn't have done any of those things.
00:10:05.000What it is to say is that if you think that that in and of itself is going to buy off terrorists, you are sadly mistaken.
00:10:10.000The Obama administration took to heart this idea.
00:10:13.000That's why they backed the so-called Arab Spring.
00:10:14.000Oh, if we back democracy in Muslim places, then certainly these people will turn out to be pro-America, not the way that it works.
00:10:21.000Okay, third lesson we should have learned on 9-11.
00:10:23.000This is one I think President Trump did take to heart.
00:10:33.000One was on a student visa, the other were here on travel visas or business visas, and virtually all of them, I believe, overstayed their visas.
00:10:43.000President Trump has focused laser-like on a couple of different areas of immigration.
00:10:46.000He's focused on deportation of people who cross the border illegally, on the southern border illegally.
00:10:52.000He's focused on building a border wall.
00:10:54.000He's focused on travel bans from seven specific Muslim countries.
00:10:58.000But what he has not focused on so much is how we deport people who are overstaying their visas illegally.
00:11:03.000Half of all illegal immigration in the country, 40 to 50 percent, is people who are overstaying their visas illegally.
00:11:09.000We let them in the country and then we let them wander around and we don't check up on them.
00:11:13.000The fact is that the government ought to be deeply concerned about people who are entering the country from Islamist rich areas of the world.
00:11:24.000That's something that I hope the Sessions DOJ does.
00:11:27.000And the fourth point that we recognized on 9-11 that we need to recap here is that major terrorist attacks do require sponsor states.
00:11:34.000If you look at terror in Western Europe and the United States, what you will see is that there's a giant spike, obviously, in terror deaths in 2001.
00:11:40.000There were a few more terror deaths in 2002.
00:11:43.000And then you see a pretty big gap in terms of terror against Americans and Western Europeans from about 2003, 2002, 2003, all the way until about 2010, 2011.
00:11:58.000The fact is, major terrorist attacks were forestalled because we were fighting terrorists over there and we weren't fighting them over here.
00:12:05.000The minute that ISIS began to regain territory, that gave them the capacity to sponsor terror attacks all over the world in a way they had not been able to before.
00:12:12.000Al Qaeda required a terror safe haven in Afghanistan.
00:12:15.000It's one of the reasons why I think President Trump is correct not to give up on the war in Afghanistan.
00:12:19.000I think that simply surrendering it back to the Taliban is a recipe for another state-sponsored terrorist attack.
00:12:25.000This is why the Iran deal is so devastating.
00:12:27.000You have a major wealthy power in Iran that is willing to sponsor terror groups all over the planet.
00:12:32.000State sponsors of terror can do things that simple terrorist groups cannot.
00:12:35.000You're always going to have what they call lone wolf terrorism or small cell terrorism.
00:12:39.000That's not quite the same thing as these major spectacular terrorist attacks killing hundreds of people.
00:12:43.000That requires a base like ISIS to train people, provide them services, provide them guns, provide them ammo, provide them bombs, provide them all the things that they need.
00:13:10.000He used to say that this isn't an existential threat.
00:13:13.000It's not just the government's job to protect you from existential threats.
00:13:16.000It is also the government's job to protect you from being murdered in your bed.
00:13:20.000It doesn't have to be an existential threat for it to be an existential threat for you.
00:13:23.0009-11 was not an existential threat to the United States.
00:13:27.000It was an existential threat to the 3,000 Americans who were murdered on 9-11.
00:13:31.000It is the government's job to protect us from those things.
00:13:33.000You know, when people say things like, well, how many soldiers died in order to protect us from the next one, number one, we don't know how many people were saved by that.
00:13:50.000And it is sort of a slander on their patriotism to suggest they join the military just for the benefits, but they don't join up in order to fight the bad guys.
00:13:57.000The vast majority of people I've talked to in the military, they joined up to fight the bad guys.
00:14:01.000And so long as the government is deploying them properly, then they are more than happy to go and kill the bad guys.
00:14:08.000Okay, so before I go any further, I'm going to talk about Hillary and Steve Bannon's interview on 60 Minutes that's getting a lot of play.
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00:19:01.000But Hillary continues to double down on this line.
00:19:04.000And it's one of the reasons why there is this backlash that has been soft toward the alt-right.
00:19:08.000Because the more that Hillary Clinton says that everybody's a white supremacist, the more that people say, well, I'm not a white supremacist.
00:19:13.000Maybe those actual white supremacists over there aren't white supremacists either.
00:19:16.000Here's Hillary Clinton doubling down on the deplorables line.
00:19:19.000You remember, she had a speech in the middle of the campaign in which she suggested
00:19:22.000that everyone who is supporting Donald Trump was a deplorable white supremacist.
00:19:26.000She read a bunch of headlines from Breitbart, she talked about the alt-right, and then she linked everybody on the right with the alt-right, and everybody on the right picked up on that, and they said, well, I'm not a deplorable, and if she's gonna call me a deplorable, then I'll call myself a deplorable.
00:19:38.000And she still doesn't understand that was a galvanizing moment for the opposition to her.
00:19:43.000Why do you think that word deplorable had been circulating in your mind?
00:19:47.000Well, I thought Trump was behaving in a deplorable manner.
00:19:51.000I thought a lot of his appeals to voters were deplorable.
00:19:56.000I thought his behavior, as we saw on the Access Hollywood tape, was deplorable.
00:20:03.000And there were a large number of people who didn't care.
00:20:32.000She says that Trump's inauguration speech was a cry from the white nationalist gut.
00:20:37.000So there I was, on the platform, you know, feeling like an out-of-body experience, and then his speech, which was a cry from the white nationalist gut.
00:20:56.000Okay, it was not a speech that was a cry from the white nationalist gut.
00:20:59.000His speech, his inauguration speech, was, I thought, quite well written.
00:21:02.000I thought it was very dark, but I thought that it was effective.
00:21:05.000I don't think it was about white nationalism so much as it was about the idea that America had fallen on hard times and now Trump was going to raise us up again, right?
00:21:12.000Trump was going to be the guy who dragged us out of that crevasse.
00:21:15.000The reason all of this matters, the reason Hillary Clinton still matters is because her spirit still infuses the Democratic Party.
00:21:20.000Her cackling spirit still infuses the Democratic Party.
00:21:36.000And you can see that what's happened here is we now have reactionaries on both sides.
00:21:42.000So Hillary Clinton is a reactionary of the left.
00:21:44.000She thinks that everybody on the right is a white nationalist.
00:21:46.000Then you have reactionaries on the right who, people like Steve Bannon I think,
00:21:50.000Who have turned to Hillary Clinton and said, OK, well, if you're going to react that way, then I'm going to look at the alt-right and I'm not going to consider these people the worst things in the world.
00:22:25.000He was on his show the other night, and he actually gave a Nazi salute, because his suggestion was that Donald Trump and Steve Bannon were actual Nazis, and then he throws up a Nazi salute.
00:22:33.000After the Charlottesville situation, that's what I told General Kelly.
00:22:35.000I was the only guy that came out and tried to defend him.
00:22:37.000I was the only guy that said, he's talking about something, taking it up to a higher level.
00:22:42.000Yeah, he's definitely taking it to a higher level.
00:22:44.000I'd say his support is about, uh, about up there.
00:22:54.000Okay, so there he is giving the Nazi salute as though Bannon and Trump are Nazis, and then the right goes, well, if you're gonna call them Nazis, I mean, then everybody's a Nazi.
00:23:02.000This is the mistake the left makes, and it's really stupid.
00:23:05.000It's really stupid, but the right has to be careful not to fall into the same mistake.
00:23:08.000Now, I want to talk about Bannon because I think that Bannon's interview on 60 Minutes was less important for who Bannon is, and it was more important for what Bannon hopes to represent, and why the Trump movement is, I think, irrevocably split, and I don't think it's likely to cohere.
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00:24:52.000Okay, so last night, former White House chief strategist and former campaign chief strategist Steve Bannon was on 60 Minutes.
00:24:58.000Now, as I say, I know Steve pretty well.
00:25:07.000And Steve's appearance on 60 Minutes is less interesting for who he is and for what he was in the Trump administration than for what he represents, which is a sort of attempt to meld the id of the Trump
00:25:56.000You know, Trump does not have any substance to him that you can actually tack to the wall.
00:26:00.000And you can see Bannon's difficulty in doing this.
00:26:03.000So, first, I want to say that, you know, all of the media's attention on Bannon is wildly overblown in an attempt by the media to pretend that Trump isn't president.
00:26:10.000That's really what's going on here with Steve, okay?
00:26:14.000He was not, by any stretch of the imagination, the key figure in the Trump campaign.
00:26:17.000Trump was always the key figure in the Trump campaign.
00:26:20.000I think he was able to impose a little bit of discipline on Trump during the campaign and did a good job with that in a way that some other people couldn't.
00:26:26.000He was kind of the Trump whisperer for a little while.
00:26:28.000But the fact is that Bannon himself was never particularly important either to the Trump campaign or to the Trump administration.
00:26:35.000By the end of the administration, by the end of his time in the administration, he'd basically been marginalized to a small office where he had a whiteboard full of Trump's promises that hadn't been kept.
00:26:43.000Where he would obsessively read the newspapers and the internet and then call, presumably, Matthew Boyle over at Breitbart to talk about it.
00:26:49.000The fact is, Steve was not a major figure by the end of the Trump administration, his time in the Trump administration.
00:26:56.000He did not leave because he was so vital.
00:26:59.000In fact, he was so non-vital that his slot still has not been filled.
00:27:03.000They literally made up a position for him, gave him the position.
00:27:06.000And then didn't fill the position when he was gone.
00:27:08.000He also happens to be the money connection for Trump.
00:27:10.000He's very much connected to the Mercers, who are a very wealthy family down in Florida, who funded Trump and are funding a Trump super PAC.
00:27:16.000The reason that Bannon is sort of important as a general mood is because now Bannon is saying that he's going to attempt to lead a bunch of primaries against sitting Republican senators who don't back Trump.
00:27:27.000Now, the only reason that he can get away with this is because of this split inside the mentality with regard to Trump.
00:27:33.000One, people really like Trump and they want to back Trump.
00:27:36.000Two, Trump doesn't really have an agenda.
00:27:38.000So even people who voted with Trump on key issues like Jeff Flake in Arizona, right?
00:27:57.000The reason I say that Bannon is not such an important figure and that the media are making him an important figure is because the media do not want to... It's another way for the media not to accept that Trump is president.
00:28:33.000This is why Bannon giving this excuse, you're about to hear Bannon give an excuse for why he's no longer at the White House and it just doesn't fly.
00:28:38.000Here he says, he was not cut out to be a staffer.
00:28:42.000To be this strong a defender, why aren't you there?
00:28:48.000Why, and would the President of the United States, who you applaud so loudly, have allowed you to leave if he didn't want you out?
00:29:21.000Okay, that's not really why he left, okay?
00:29:23.000He's already achieved the height of his power.
00:29:25.000You have to understand something about Steve personally to understand why he's not super an important figure, and that is that Steve basically lucked into every job that he's held for the last 10 years.
00:29:32.000He sort of latched on to various figures.
00:29:34.000He latched on to Michelle Bachmann, and then he latched on to Dick Morris, and then he latched on to Sarah Palin, and then he latched on to Andrew Breitbart.
00:29:41.000That allowed him to get his foot in the door in terms of using editorial at Breitbart to push for Trump, and then he latched on to Trump, and Trump won.
00:29:49.000Bannon is not a force in his own right.
00:30:00.000If I really think he's not that important, why am I wasting the time on him?
00:30:03.000I do think that he is important as a window into the mentality of what some members of the media are trying to do with Trump or Trump supporters.
00:30:10.000And that is they're trying to fuse the id with the superego.
00:30:14.000In the Freudian analysis, your personality is made up of three parts, okay?
00:30:40.000And then there's the ego that militates between them.
00:30:42.000Then there's the ego that decides, okay, that's you.
00:30:45.000The ego is you, and the ego is what decides, am I going to follow the id, or am I going to follow the superego?
00:30:50.000A little too basic, but that's sort of the breakdown.
00:30:52.000So, what's happened with Trumpville is that Trump is largely driven by his id.
00:30:57.000There's been an attempt to intellectualize Trump.
00:30:59.000There was something called the Journal of American Greatness, which attempts to intellectualize Trump.
00:31:02.000There are some intellectuals, like Victor Davis Hanson, who have tried to create a philosophy around Trump.
00:31:06.000Bannon sort of tried to create a philosophy around Trump.
00:31:09.000But Bannon is posing himself as the ego of Trumpism.
00:31:12.000That he is going to do the hard work of trying to bring together the philosophical strain of Trumpism and the id of Trump.
00:31:19.000And so, in order to do that, sometimes he has to be the id and sometimes he has to be the superego.
00:31:23.000He thinks this is what Breitbart's going to be.
00:31:24.000He thinks this is what all of these candidates that he's going to use to primary all of these other Republican figures are going to be.
00:31:31.000The new movement is going to be a merger.
00:31:33.000It's going to be a philosophy of Trumpism that Trump may not at all times believe, but the soul of Trump, the fighting soul of Trump, this is sort of what he wants to create.
00:31:57.000So, you'll see Bannon trying to do this, right?
00:31:59.000It was almost a dichotomous interview of 60 Minutes, and you see this from a lot of Trump supporters, that half the time it's, Trump's the id, fight, fight, fight!
00:32:06.000And then half the time it's, well, he's playing 4D chess.
00:32:09.000It's not really that he's not fighting, it's not knee-jerk, it's not angry, he's just, he's playing super sophisticated chess.
00:32:15.000And I've suggested all along that most of what he does cannot be explained by strategy.
00:33:52.000If we have another huge... If this goes all the way down to its logical conclusion in February and March, it will be a civil war inside the Republican Party that will be every bit as vitriolic as 2013.
00:34:06.000His fear is the civil war, but he just said he wanted a civil war, right?
00:34:09.000He just said one second ago, I want a civil war with Ryan and with McConnell, but my great fear is a civil war that will bleed down into 2018 over DACA.
00:34:37.000Between id and superego, and the id pays no attention to the superego, and the superego pays no attention to the id, unless the central figure is Trump.
00:35:52.000And remember, for all this talk about how much power Bannon and Breitbart wield in these election cycles, I mean, I was there when they tried to basically primary Paul Ryan with Paul Nalin and Nalin got killed by 70 points.
00:36:02.000So, you know, the only race I'm aware Breitbart had any impact in at all, which, again, I think Breitbart, when I was working there, was a very powerful site and did some good things, but, and I think they still do some good things, but I think that the idea that Breitbart had a market impact on election cycles outside of, you know, Trump, which is a huge one, obviously, and the primaries, which were enormous, and Dave Brat, I think, is a mistake.
00:36:25.000The idea that they're going to go around primarying all these candidates and be successful in that, I think that's probably a little bit much.
00:36:31.000Okay, so again, you can sort of see this split between the id and the superego when you look at people like, for example, Jeanine Pirro and Jim Jordan.
00:36:41.000So Jeanine Pirro is definitely a representative of the Trumpian id, and she is obviously on Fox News, Chelsea has a radio show, and here she was talking about how Trump making a deal with Democrats last week was a great, great, great thing, right?
00:36:53.000This is the id portion of the movement.
00:36:58.000They say nice things because they don't want to really be outed.
00:37:02.000But when I saw Donald Trump this week decide that he was going to cut a deal with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, certainly, you know, not people that I admire for sure, but I can't blame him.
00:37:37.000Sure, he bit me, but I mean, I did smell like bacon.
00:37:41.000This notion is not really... it doesn't indicate the strength of a movement.
00:37:46.000Again, it indicates that this split... Trump, because he's such an id-driven candidate, he has opened up this gap between id and superego in the movement that I'm not sure can be rectified again unless there's a new leader of the movement, which may come along sometime in the future, but until then we're just gonna have to suffer through the split.
00:38:02.000Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:38:41.000It makes a very rational case for the notion of an unmoved mover in the universe and explains why that is not easily refuted simply by saying, well, why can't there be a mover of the unmoved mover?
00:38:51.000The whole book is about why that's not true.
00:39:17.000But a lot of philosophers are really not readable, and they read like garbage, and that is not the case with Edward Fieser.
00:39:22.000The book is The Last Superstition, A Refutation of the New Atheism, and I think it has a lot of important insights and interesting things to say.
00:39:30.000So, Betsy DeVos, as I mentioned, the Secretary of Education last week, she came out and she got rid of the, what they call, Dear Colleague letter, put out by the Obama administration in 2011, and this was a letter that basically said that colleges were no longer allowed to kick over
00:39:45.000Sexual harassment, sexual abuse allegations to the police.
00:39:48.000Instead, they had to create up these kangaroo courts.
00:39:50.000She says this is nonsense, and she's exactly right.
00:39:54.000Any perceived offense can become a full-blown Title IX investigation.
00:40:00.000But if everything is harassment, then nothing is.
00:40:06.000Punishing speech protected by the First Amendment trivializes actual harassment.
00:40:12.000It teaches students the wrong lesson about the importance of free speech in our democracy.
00:40:17.000Harassment codes which trample speech rights derail the primary mission of a school to pursue truth.
00:40:26.000Okay, what she is saying here is exactly right, and I understand that there are a lot of people who are wary that schools are going to quash allegations of sexual harassment.
00:40:33.000Well, that's why we have a police force.
00:40:35.000I'm sorry to say that we can't do any better than that.
00:40:39.000We can't do any better than, if something bad happens, you have to go report it to the authorities, and the authorities have to have some sort of evidentiary showing in order to prosecute people.
00:40:46.000Otherwise, this turns very quickly into Stalinist show trials.
00:40:49.000And that's not just accusations of... Even if something bad happened, if you don't have evidence to prove that it happened, we're a country where innocence is still required before we call somebody guilty.
00:41:20.000So it's amazing how the left will jump on any talking point that's anti-Trump in order to push against him without looking at, you know, actual logic or fact.
00:41:34.000Alrighty, so, uh, a couple of things that I hate.
00:41:36.000First of all, uh, the media have been making complete fools of themselves.
00:41:39.000They go out in the middle of the hurricane, and they stand out there, like, getting blown over by wind.
00:41:44.000And I understand that this is, like, amusing to all of us.
00:41:47.000I understand that we are all sort of hoping that, that eventually Chris Cuomo will be standing out there, and then he'll just go flying a hundred feet.
00:41:53.000Not that he'll get hurt, but that he'll, like, go flying a hundred feet and go,
00:41:56.000Disappear into the waves for just a second before a helicopter picks him up.
00:42:00.000For the same reason we watch the Wallendas try to walk across the Grand Canyon, i.e.
00:42:05.000you want to be there in case they fall, you sort of want to watch the coverage of these hurricanes.
00:42:09.000Here is some moron getting out of his car and then trying to demonstrate how strong the winds are in Hurricane Irma.
00:42:57.000I wish that President Trump, his first instincts were not always to deal with things in terms of fame and fortune, but that's just how he deals with stuff.
00:43:07.000Here's President Trump praising the Coast Guard.
00:43:10.000If you talk about branding, no brand has improved more than the United States Coast Guard.