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00:00:21.000All righty, tonight is the very last Democratic debate until the next Democratic debate, but it is the last one until Iowa.
00:00:27.000And right now, Joe Biden is the man who is apparently in the lead in Iowa, according to a Monmouth University poll released on Monday.
00:00:36.000According to Bloomberg, Biden is on top in Iowa as more voters say they have firmly decided on their choice.
00:00:41.000Biden is currently ahead with 24 percent support, up five points from the same poll in November.
00:00:46.000Bernie Sanders is in second place with 18 percent, virtually tied with Pete Buttigieg at 17 and with Elizabeth Warren at 15.
00:00:52.000Biden has been at the top of most Iowa polls, though Sanders has had the lead in a Des Moines Register CNN MediaCom poll released on Friday with 20%.
00:00:58.000Biden was fourth in that poll with 15% support.
00:01:01.000The Monmouth poll is notable because 43% of respondents said they are firmly decided on their top choice.
00:01:06.000As people are firming up their choices.
00:01:09.000They are finally settling on Joe Biden.
00:01:11.000I've said for a while here that Joe Biden feels a lot like Mitt Romney in 2012.
00:01:16.000In 2012, Mitt Romney was the presumptive Republican nominee when he jumped into the race.
00:01:20.000He had, of course, come in second to John McCain in 2008.
00:01:22.000And then over the course of the race, people fell out of love with Mitt Romney over and over and over.
00:01:27.000Everybody got a chance at the top of that wheel of fortune.
00:01:30.000Every single person, Michelle Bachmann, Herman Cain, everybody got a chance in 2012.
00:01:34.000And then finally, everybody kind of went, OK, I guess we'll give it to Romney.
00:01:37.000It seems like that may be happening with Joe Biden.
00:01:40.000In recent weeks, Biden has sought to revive a flagging operation in Iowa, spending more time in the state and outlaying more on online and TV ads ahead of the February 3rd caucus.
00:01:49.000Biden's frontrunner status in this poll could cause him to come under fire from his rivals on Tuesday as six Democratic candidates meet in Des Moines for the final debate before the caucuses, along with Warren Sanders and Buttigieg.
00:01:58.000He faces Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, And billionaire activist Tom Steyer.
00:02:02.000Steyer is showing some signs of life in the early states after a huge amount of spending.
00:02:06.000Amy Klobuchar has never been able to really catch fire.
00:02:09.000The poll also revealed more about who voters would support as a second choice, according to Bloomberg.
00:02:14.000Under Iowa caucus rules, supporters of candidates who don't receive at least 15% on the first round actually have to switch to a viable candidate so the second picks of supporters could prove important.
00:02:22.000So let's say that 8% of people vote for Tom Steyer.
00:02:30.00023% said they would pick her if their first choice did not make the cut.
00:02:32.000Up from 17% in November, Buttigieg was virtually tied with Sanders at 15 and 14% respectively.
00:02:38.000Biden was the second choice of only 10%.
00:02:40.000In other words, it seems as though everybody who is voting for Biden, he is their first choice.
00:02:45.000There are not a lot of people who are thinking, okay, well, if Warren falls out, I'm moving over to Biden.
00:02:48.000If Warren drops out, then probably that goes to Sanders.
00:02:51.000If Sanders drops out, that goes to Warren.
00:02:52.000If Buttigieg drops out, that probably breaks between all the various candidates.
00:02:56.000But When pollsters asked likely caucus goers who they would pick if the only viable candidates in their caucus site were in the top four, Biden sat at 28%, Buttigieg at 25%, Sanders at 24%, Warren at 16%.
00:03:08.000And one person who will not be taking part in the Iowa caucuses is, of course, Cory Booker, to whom we bid a fond farewell.
00:03:21.000Cory Booker would go around popping those angry eyes, blink deliberately, and then tell you.
00:03:26.000How seriously he took everything in the world.
00:03:29.000Well, he released a video explaining that he was very sad to drop out.
00:03:32.000This, of course, has prompted the usual spasms of apoplexy from all of the people in the media who are now firmly convinced that Democrats are racist again.
00:03:43.000The perpetual revolution promised by the intersectional advocates.
00:03:47.000The way this works is that if Democrats elect a black president twice, if they nominate a black guy with no actual record over Hillary Clinton in 2008, and then he becomes president and then they do it again in 2012, That doesn't matter anymore.
00:04:00.000As long as you're not nominating a black guy this time, that means that you're a racist.
00:04:03.000It's sort of how the Oscars work also.
00:04:05.000It doesn't matter that Lupita Nyong'o actually won an Oscar for 12 Years a Slave in 2014.
00:05:04.000I can't wait to get back on the campaign trail and campaign as hard as I can for whoever is the eventual nominee and for candidates up and down the ballot.
00:05:16.000I mean, what's Rosario Dawson gonna do now?
00:05:18.000She had this whole big campaign to her plan, and now I guess she's just gonna have to go back and be like a fringe character on Daredevils.
00:05:25.000Well, we bid a fond farewell again to Mr. Potato Head, and we hope that he always keeps with him his anger.
00:05:31.000In a second, we'll get to the democratic debate itself.
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00:07:13.000Now, what's weird about that is the notion that minority voters only vote for minority candidates, which, of course, is untrue.
00:07:19.000If you look at the Democratic caucuses, one of the big problems for Cory Booker and Kamala Harris is that black voters have overwhelmingly resonated to Joe Biden, who's about as white as white can be.
00:07:27.000But the idea here is that Democratic voters overall are racist if they didn't somehow prop up a candidate of color into the final Sort of.
00:07:37.000Here is Yamiche Alcindor, PBS NewsHour White House Correspondent, talking about how this is an all-white debate, and expect to hear a lot of that today.
00:07:44.000Now that Cory Booker is out, you really have one African-American contender left.
00:07:49.000And then you have Andrew Yang, both of which have not qualified for the next debate.
00:07:54.000So the next debate at this point is going to be an overwhelmingly white debate, a white, all-white debate.
00:07:58.000And there are a lot of Democratic voters that are wondering if the Democrats are going to continue to rely on African-American voters, and specifically African-American women, for their loyalty, how they're going to continue to make that case while not having a field that looks like the voters are trying to get.
00:08:13.000They're gonna bully one of these candidates into picking Kamala Harris's VP, aren't they?
00:08:17.000I mean, that's the way this is going to work.
00:08:19.000They're gonna bully Joe Biden into picking Kamala Harris, who he can't stand, or Cory Booker, who has been running for VP for several months here, as a candidate, just because we can't have too many women.
00:08:31.000But as I say, I will enjoy it while all of these candidates profess their deep upset at the fact that minority candidates have not been more successful in the 2020 race.
00:08:42.000It reminds me of this very famous novel by Arthur Kessler called Darkness at Noon.
00:08:46.000The entire novel It's about a Soviet apparatchik who had fought in the Russian Revolution and then had served under Stalin.
00:08:53.000He's eventually made the target of the revolution during the 1938 purges and he finds himself in jail.
00:08:58.000His choice is whether to confess to treason, which he knows is not true, or to stand up to the regime.
00:09:04.000He chooses to confess to treason because he has to go along with the program, even if the program eats him.
00:09:09.000And that's exactly the Democratic Party at this point.
00:09:11.000You're going to see all of these Democrats who know that they are not racist proclaiming that their party is indeed racist because Kamala Harris and Cory Booker aren't on that stage.
00:09:19.000Meanwhile, intersectionality fight breaking out now between two very white people, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
00:10:06.000The hobnobs with some of the worst anti-Semites in Congress.
00:10:09.000I mean, he's just, he's just terrible.
00:10:10.000But, compared to Elizabeth Warren, at least the man's honest.
00:10:13.000So last night, Elizabeth Warren, after spending years proclaiming falsely to choose a Native American, Drops a story.
00:10:19.000She leaks this story that when she and Bernie Sanders met in December 2018, Bernie Sanders told her he didn't think that a woman could win the presidency.
00:10:34.000The longtime friends knew that they could soon be running against each other for president.
00:10:39.000The two agreed that if ultimately they face each other as presidential candidates, they should remain civil and avoid attacking one another so as not to hurt the progressive movement.
00:10:46.000They also discussed how to best take on President Donald Trump, and Warren laid out two main reasons she believed she'd be a strong candidate.
00:10:53.000She could make a robust argument about the economy, and she could earn broad support from female voters.
00:10:58.000Sanders responded that he did not believe a woman could win.
00:11:16.000In 1988, he said a woman could be president.
00:11:18.000It is now 2020, so it is now 32 years later, and Bernie Sanders, I mean, he had like a little more hair then, but he feels like the high school principal in Back to the Future.
00:11:57.000But, Bernie Sanders, who was apparently an 80-year-old communist when he was 40, The idea that he's going around telling women that they can't win the presidency because he doesn't like women is silly.
00:12:06.000Now, maybe Bernie Sanders said, I think against Donald Trump, women are going to have a particular challenge.
00:12:11.000That happens to be a fairly common political analysis in the aftermath of Hillary Clinton losing the 2016 election to Donald Trump, who's about as toxic a male as it is possible to have in American politics.
00:12:21.000According to CNN, that evening in 2018, Sanders expressed frustration at what he saw as a growing focus among Democrats on identity politics.
00:12:29.000According to one of the people familiar with the conversation, Warren told Sanders she disagreed with his assessment that a woman could not win, three of the four sources said.
00:12:37.000So Bernie Sanders was on CNN and he denied the report.
00:12:42.000It is ludicrous to believe that at the same meeting where Elizabeth Warren told me she was going to run for president, I would tell her that a woman couldn't win.
00:12:51.000It's sad that three weeks before the Iowa caucus and a year after that private conversation, staff who weren't in the room are lying about what happened.
00:13:01.000What I did say that night was that Donald Trump is a sexist, a racist, and a liar who would weaponize whatever he could.
00:14:04.000At the same time, gotta feel a little bit bad for Bernie.
00:14:07.000He's just over there being a useless socialist and getting some momentum and here comes Elizabeth Warren stomping through that front door.
00:14:15.000In traditional Native American garb, suggesting that he is sexist.
00:14:20.000It's got to be a little bit rough to be a Democrat, honestly.
00:14:22.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:15:54.000I have no interest in discussing this private meeting any further, because Bernie and I have far more in common than our differences on punditry.
00:16:00.000I'm in this race to talk about what's broken in this country and how to fix it.
00:16:03.000And that's what I'm going to continue to do.
00:16:05.000I know Bernie is in the race for the same reason.
00:16:07.000We have been friends and allies in this fight for a long time.
00:16:09.000I have no doubt we will continue to work together to defeat Donald Trump and put our government on the side of the people.
00:17:26.000Well, it's pretty obvious what happened here, which is probably that Bernie made an offhand comment about how he thought that a woman might be at a disadvantage against Trump because Trump is so vicious.
00:17:33.000Right, that's the kind of thing Bernie would say.
00:17:35.000Does that mean that Bernie is an actual sexist who doesn't believe that a woman can be president?
00:17:39.000Of course not, he just got beat by a woman in the primaries in the last go-around, so the whole thing is unbelievably silly.
00:17:44.000So, on that level, I have a bit of sympathy for Bernie.
00:17:46.000And then there is the political level, where Bernie is just a garbage fire.
00:17:49.000So the fact that Bernie Sanders is taken seriously by the Democratic Party, the fact that this guy is one of the top two candidates, the fact that he really did have a significant amount of momentum going into this week's politics, it just shows you how far the Democratic Party has skewed to the left.
00:18:03.000I mean, this guy was an independent for years in the Senate, specifically because he was too far left for the Democratic Party.
00:18:17.000Okay, Bernie Sanders' record is egregiously, egregiously far left.
00:18:21.000And that is why even people like Chris Matthews, who's sort of a normal left winger, even Chris Matthews, he gets up in the morning, puts on a rub of soap, come out here, have an iron in my shirt, come out of the show, Not as much hair as I used to be.
00:18:36.000And then I come in here, I talk to John Kerry, whose face looks like it's collapsing in a mudslide from 1994 El Nino in Southern California.
00:18:56.000Do you think he's a danger as a president, as a candidate?
00:18:59.000You're out there fighting like hell for Joe Biden.
00:19:02.000How much of danger is that Bernie Sanders, who's now leading in the polls, in the latest poll out there in Iowa, how big a danger would he be to the country or to the party, the Democrats?
00:19:10.000Let me give you a softball right up the middle, John Kerry.
00:19:13.000Tell me, how much of a danger would Bernie Sanders be if he were the nominee?
00:19:16.000I mean, would he be as dangerous as me ice skating around a rink behind an elephant?
00:19:26.000But here's the thing, Chris Matthews isn't wrong.
00:19:29.000Bernie Sanders is, in fact, a candidate who's not likely to win the hearts and minds of the American people.
00:19:34.000And people who think that he is are a little bit delusional about exactly who Bernie Sanders is.
00:19:38.000They've obscured his past, his 40-year-long history of being an actual communist, in order to shield from the fact that he is an actual communist, right?
00:19:47.000If you want to make him electable, you can't talk about anything he's done for 40 years.
00:19:50.000Instead, you have to buy his nonsense now that he only likes Finland.
00:20:31.000So, let's look back at Bernie's record briefly.
00:20:34.000According to Andrew Kaczynski and Nathan McDermott, this is from March 14th, 2019, over at CNN, Bernie Sanders advocated for the nationalization of most major industries, including energy companies, factories, and banks, when he was a leading member of a self-described radical political party in the 1970s.
00:20:48.000By the way, in the 1970s, Bernie Sanders was still 72 years old.
00:20:52.000Bernie Sanders' past views shed light on a formative period of his political career that could become relevant as he advances in the 2020 Democratic primary.
00:20:59.000Many of the positions he held at the time are more extreme compared to the more tempered democratic socialism the Vermont senator espouses today, and could provide fodder for moderate Democrats and Republicans looking to cast the Democratic presidential candidate and his beliefs as a fringe form of socialism that would be harmful to the country.
00:21:15.000Aspects of Sanders' plans and time in the Liberty Union have been reported before, But the material taken together, including hundreds of newly digitalized newspapers and files from the Liberty Union Party archives at the University of Vermont, paint a fuller picture.
00:21:28.000In a statement to CNN, Sanders' campaign spokesperson, Josh Orton, said last year, Throughout his career, Bernie has fought on the side of working people and against the influence of both the powerful ultra-rich and giant corporations who seek only to further their own greed.
00:21:40.000The record shows that from the very beginning, Bernie anticipated and worked to combat the rise of a billionaire ruling class and the exploding power of Wall Street and multinational corporations.
00:21:48.000Bernie's priority has always been and always will be defending the interests of working people across the country.
00:21:54.000That does not sound, right there, so much like an apology.
00:21:58.000I'm not getting the apology there from Bernie Sanders.
00:22:01.000Okay, so a little bit more on Bernie Sanders in the Liberty Union Party.
00:22:04.000After moving to Vermont in 1968, according to CNN, several years after graduating college, Sanders became an active member of the left-wing Liberty Union Party.
00:22:11.000Under the Liberty Union banner, Sanders, then in his early 30s... Bernie Sanders back in the 1970s is the same age that I was now.
00:22:19.000He ran for governor of Vermont in 1972 and 1976, and then as a candidate for Senate in 72 and 74.
00:22:26.000Sanders also served as chairman of the party from 73 to 75.
00:22:29.000During this time, Sanders and Liberty Union argued for nationalization of the energy industry, which worked out amazingly well for the oil industry in Venezuela, bankrupting the country and leading to people eating dogs in the streets.
00:22:39.000Public ownership of banks Which typically has gone hand in hand with a complete socialization of lending, which has ended with a death of entrepreneurship, telephone, electric, and drug companies, and of the major means of production such as factories and capital, as well as other proposals such as a 100% income tax on the highest income earners in America.
00:23:53.000And it turns out that Bernie Sanders has been fairly consistent about all of this.
00:23:57.000Paul Sperry had a column in January of 2016 talking about how Sanders was an actual communist.
00:24:03.000He says, while attending the University of Chicago, Sanders joined the Young People's Socialist League, a youth wing of the Socialist Party USA.
00:24:09.000He also organized for a communist front, the United Packinghouse Workers Union, which at the time was under investigation by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
00:24:17.000Then he moved to Vermont, where he headed the American People's History Society, an organ for Marxist propaganda, where he produced a glowing documentary on the life of socialist revolutionary Eugene Debs.
00:24:27.000Apparently, he still hangs a portrait of Eugene Debs on his wall in his Senate office, which is pretty astonishing.
00:24:35.000In 1918, Debs announced his solidarity with Lenin and Trotsky.
00:24:39.000And then, of course, as we just mentioned, Sanders helped found the Liberty Union Party, which called for the nationalization of everything.
00:24:44.000And then after he failed, in 1981, he managed to get elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont, where he restricted property rights for landlords, set price controls, raised property taxes to pay for communal land trusts.
00:24:54.000Local small businesses handed out flyers complaining the mayor did, quote, not believe in free enterprise.
00:25:00.000And then he took a bunch of goodwill trips to various communist dictatorships around the world, where he was very angry at the violence, but also they seem like pretty great places, do they not?
00:25:09.000In 1985, he traveled to Managua to celebrate the rise to power of the Marxist-Leninist Sandinista government, which was slaughtering its opponents.
00:25:16.000He called it a heroic revolution, and he undermined anti-communist U.S.
00:25:20.000policy, denouncing the Reagan administration backing the Contras in a letter to the Sandinistas.
00:25:25.000He even tried to broker a peace deal and invited Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega to visit the United States.
00:25:30.000He exalted Ortega as an impressive guy while attacking President Reagan.
00:25:34.000I mean, yes, this is who Bernie Sanders was, and I've seen not a lot of evidence that Bernie Sa- I mean, he's never repudiated any of this.
00:25:42.000At no point did he turn around and say, yeah, by the way, this is a- this is- this was a mistake, and I went too far.
00:25:49.000It was youthful exuber- sure, I was 47, but it was youthful exuberance!
00:25:58.000I'm 8 years old, but I was still a baby.
00:26:01.000Today, Sanders wants to bring what he admired in the USSR, Cuba, Nicaragua, and other communist states to the United States, according to Paul Sperry.
00:26:07.000And obviously, his program for government spending is extraordinarily ambitious, to put it kindly.
00:26:15.000Back in 1986, Bernie suggested that JFK's response to the rise of the Castros made him want to puke.
00:26:21.000That would be the Castro's who are busy shooting dissidents in the streets, jailing them, and then imposing communal land ownership and wrecking the economy of Cuba such that people in 2020 are still driving around Chevys from the 1950s when they're not attempting to float them to the coast of Florida.
00:26:34.000Kennedy was saying that Nixon was too soft on communism.
00:26:38.000We pick up a point that Rick was making in Cuba.
00:26:40.000We should deal firmly with Fidel Castro.
00:26:42.000And Nixon was playing the role of, hey, you've got to be patient.
00:26:58.000So he, he was the liberal and Kennedy was playing the conservative.
00:27:03.000Actually, you know, when you read novels, people say there's a sick feeling in your stomach.
00:27:06.000Usually I'm Sufficiently unemotional not to be sick, but I actually got up in the room and almost left the puke.
00:27:12.000He almost left the puke when I found out that the United States opposed a communist revolution that ended with the slaughter of people who actually wanted to just keep their property.
00:27:20.000Back in the day, Bernie was also praising bread lines.
00:29:21.000Also, I was impressed by the youth programs that they have.
00:29:25.000They have palaces of culture for the young people, a whole variety of programs for young people, and cultural programs which go far beyond what we do in this country.
00:29:37.000They have unbelievable cultural programs in the USSR!
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00:31:47.000Okay, so when I say that Bernie Sanders has not changed, like ever, This week, he did an interview with the New York Times.
00:32:07.000It's a favorite topic for folks on the left, the Noam Chomsky left.
00:32:10.000People liking to suggest that the United States has been interventionist in South America in unbelievably terrible ways because the United States worked sometimes with right-wing dictators in order to fight communist insurgencies in South America, which is true, because the United States has acted through the Monroe Doctrine to prevent great powers from intervening.
00:32:26.000In Latin America, because it happens to be a fact of life and of history that when the United States was quote unquote imperialist in particular areas of the world, that has generally been in order to counter imperialism from countries across the sea that goes all the way back to the 18, really the 1820s and the Monroe Doctrine, the notion that no European country should set foot in the Western Hemisphere.
00:32:48.000But Bernie Sanders is asked a simple question by one of the members of the New York Times editorial board, quote, you've long supported movements in Latin America to oppose American intervention and oppressive regimes there.
00:32:57.000Why do you think it is that so many of the leftist governments that have taken power in the last few years, despite the hopes that many American leftists had that they would bring about change, have become anti-democratic, corrupt and even brutal?
00:33:32.000Only communists should be able to overthrow governments because workers of the world should rise up and break their feathers.
00:33:38.000Alright, I think it was wrong to overthrow Salvador Allende in Chile.
00:33:41.000It was wrong to overthrow the Brazilian government.
00:33:44.000Wrong to overthrow the government in Dominican Republic.
00:33:46.000Wrong to overthrow the Grenadian government.
00:33:48.000You know, it's just Big Brother thinking they have a right to intervene, whatever they wanted, in Latin America.
00:33:53.000Now you raise an interesting question.
00:33:55.000First of all, when we talk about recent governments, Lula, this would be the former president of Brazil, who I talked to a couple of weeks ago, we can argue it.
00:34:01.000Now I'm not telling you I'm the world's greatest expert, but I suspect the case against them was an illegitimate case.
00:34:24.000He was attempting to oust Morales after he attempted to change the constitution single-handedly.
00:34:30.000The New York Times editorial board even came out and said that Morales had, quote, shed his legitimacy as a leader because of his attempts to destroy the constitutional republic.
00:35:58.000I think I'm going to be up all night on my first day.
00:36:00.000I'm going to go to bed at five in the morning.
00:36:02.000I think the most important point, aside from the legislation, is to convince the American people that, in fact, we can have a government that represents working people and not just the 1%.
00:36:12.000The notion that the American government has ever represented only the 1% is absolute nonsense.
00:36:16.000It's been absolute nonsense for all of American history.
00:36:19.000And it is particularly nonsense today.
00:36:21.000He says, obviously the legislation we're going to introduce will deal with climate change, which I consider to be an enormous threat, not only to this country, but to the planet.
00:36:29.000We'll introduce Medicare-for-all legislation in the first week!
00:36:32.000That's only going to cost us a minimum of $32 trillion over 10 years.
00:36:35.000It will likely cost much more than that.
00:36:37.000There has yet to be a government estimate of cost that even remotely approaches what the actual cost looks like when you set up the government program.
00:36:44.000He says, we'll be introducing legislation not dissimilar to what the House passed, raising the minimum wage to a living wage.
00:36:51.000He would like to see the House of Representatives raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, which of course will not cause any unemployment in the teenage ranks.
00:37:00.000When a minimum wage is raised, the people who retain their jobs have a higher minimum wage.
00:37:04.000Everybody else is unemployed, and this particularly creates a downward pressure on labor, because it means that if you're less qualified, you can no longer get the $7.25 an hour job, because now it's paying $15 an hour.
00:37:14.000That one's gonna go to, you know, a college junior or something.
00:37:18.000He also says that he's going to introduce legislation to rebuild our infrastructure, make public colleges and universities tuition-free.
00:37:24.000He's going to do all of this in the first hundred days, and he's going to do it magically.
00:37:26.000Because he was asked, how are you going to do this?
00:37:30.000Because Mitch McConnell is in the Senate.
00:37:32.000And he says that the agenda is supported by the American people, so I'm going to yell about it.
00:37:38.000That he's going to actually just stand there and yell.
00:38:01.000And meanwhile, The hubbub over impeachment continues.
00:38:06.000Apparently, according to The Hill, GOP leadership believes there are not 51 votes to dismiss the Trump articles of impeachment right away, which is not a shock.
00:38:11.000It is not surprising that the Republicans do not have a preemptive dismissal prepared.
00:38:17.000Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri told reporters on Monday the Senate Republican caucus does not have the votes to dismiss the articles of impeachment against President Trump, who endorsed an outright dismissal over the weekend.
00:38:27.000Blunt said, I think our members generally are not interested in a motion to dismiss.
00:38:30.000Certainly there aren't 51 votes for a motion to dismiss.
00:38:33.000President Trump has been trying to push all of that.
00:38:35.000But the fact is that the Republicans are not going to go for that.
00:38:38.000They're going to run through the process and then they are not going to vote to impeach him.
00:38:44.000There's also a poll out today from Quinnipiac suggesting that a majority of Americans are interested in hearing from John Bolton, which is, again, not a surprise.
00:38:52.000The media have been stumping No trial will be a fair trial without witnesses and documents, and John Bolton is a key witness.
00:39:00.000President Trump, Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, is saying that Bolton should be subpoenaed, which is weird because he wasn't saying the same thing when Nancy Pelosi in charge of the House didn't subpoena John Bolton.
00:39:07.000No trial will be a fair trial without witnesses and documents.
00:39:39.000Bolton is not going to get up there and give a bombshell testimony that breaks President Trump's presidency.
00:39:43.000That's not where any of this is going to go.
00:39:45.000Democrats, however, would certainly rather focus on that than they would on President Trump's victory over the last couple of weeks in Iran.
00:39:50.000The American public increasingly are basically in favor of what Trump did with regard to Soleimani.
00:39:56.000Trump's Never going to show up in the polls this way.
00:39:58.000What I mean is that if you ask the American people if they ever approve of anything Trump does, only about 45% will ever say yes.
00:40:04.000Because the other 55% have been taught by the media that it's very, very bad to say anything nice about President Trump ever.
00:40:11.000I mean, the media essentially suggests that if you're seen within a 30-foot radius of President Trump, you have become absolutely toxic.
00:40:16.000Last night, people went nuts because the actor Vince Vaughn was in a luxury box with the President of the United States at the college football national championship game.
00:41:04.000According to Quinnipiac, slightly more American voters say that the killing of a top Iranian general was the right action for the United States to take, with 45% saying it was the right action, 41% saying it was the wrong action.
00:41:15.000However, 45% say the killing of Qasem Soleimani has made Americans less safe.
00:41:19.000While 32% say it has made Americans more safe.
00:41:23.00018% say it has had no impact on the safety of Americans.
00:41:25.000Okay, those are actually good numbers for Trump because that means that 50% say that the killing of Soleimani didn't actually make America less safe.
00:41:33.000And it says that a plurality of Americans say that killing Soleimani was the right action.
00:41:36.000Also, a vast majority of voters, 58%, believe that the tensions between the United States and Iran will not lead to war.
00:41:43.000Only 29% believe that it will lead to war.
00:41:46.000And that is led by a... Even the Democratic Party is evenly split on that question.
00:41:52.000So, President Trump gets a win with regard to Iran.
00:41:55.000The Democrats continue to pretend that the Trump administration did something deeply wrong in killing Soleimani.
00:42:02.000It is amazing to watch the same Democrats who suggested that the Obama administration did not lie in the aftermath of Benghazi, that the thing was not a terror attack, it was a spontaneous uprising caused by a random YouTube video.
00:42:12.000The same media who say that was not a scandal, suggest it is a scandal, that Trump suggested that Soleimani was going to participate in imminent terror, when that was literally his job.
00:43:10.000Alternatively, you could just notice that Soleimani was a lifelong terrorist.
00:43:14.000Yes, Trump has a habit of getting over his skis and saying things that are not true or embellishing.
00:43:20.000Does that undermine the central point?
00:43:22.000When Soleimani was a terrorist and needed to die?
00:43:25.000No, it does not undermine that point at all, but the media are going to focus on the trees specifically so they can avoid focusing on the forest.
00:43:31.000Okay, time for a quick thing I like and then a quick thing that I hate.
00:43:47.000Von Mises really debunks socialism, Marxist socialism, from beginning to end, and many other types of socialism, ranging from syndicalism to guild socialism.
00:43:56.000He does all of that in this, what at the time was a very famous book, Socialism, an Economic and Sociological Analysis.
00:44:09.000The Austrian School of Economics, ranging from Schumpeter to Hayek to von Mises, did an excellent job of debunking the theoretical underpinnings of socialism, and in the process, debunking a lot of the idiocies of Keynesianism and government interventionism as well.
00:44:24.000But we prefer to ignore all of that because the lure of socialism, the lure of what if we just had the wisest among us delegating power to the rest of us and determining what was fair and correcting all cosmic imbalances?
00:44:36.000The ring of power is incredibly seductive.
00:44:41.000The fatal conceit that we are so wise that we can control the economy top-down is incredibly seductive.
00:44:46.000And by the way, you see it on the right and the left.
00:44:48.000These days you see it on the right too.
00:44:49.000People suggesting that if we just correct the economy, if we just chain up the economy and make it work for us, why do we work for the free markets?
00:44:55.000Why don't the free markets work for us?
00:44:58.000That's like saying, why don't we make breathing work for us as opposed to working for breathing?
00:45:02.000Free markets are just a recognition that individuals have rights.
00:45:04.000They have a right to own their own labor.
00:45:06.000They have a right to dispense with their own labor as they see fit.
00:45:08.000They have a right to alienate their own labor.
00:45:09.000They have a right to do anything they want with their own labor.
00:45:13.000And mutual exchange is a matter of consent, right?
00:45:16.000Recognizing those basic principles brings you to the free market.
00:45:19.000Suggesting that the collective need overrides those individual principles eventually leads you down the road to tyranny.
00:45:26.000That doesn't mean that you always end up at tyranny.
00:45:28.000Sometimes you end up at sort of half tyranny.
00:45:30.000Sometimes you end up with violations of property rights that are minimal.
00:45:34.000Sometimes you end up with violations of property rights that are at the ultimate extreme as you see in the Soviet Union.
00:45:39.000But the bottom line is that socialism as a theory was never workable.
00:45:43.000Von Mises debunked it thoroughly in 1920.
00:45:46.000We are now a hundred years later and people are pretending that it has not been debunked.
00:45:50.000That somehow there is some new information out there that is going to somehow solve the knowledge problem.
00:45:54.000The idea that the entire economy has more information than any cadre of wise folks at the top.
00:46:02.000There are people who are suggesting that somehow computers are going to solve all this.
00:46:05.000Algorithms are going to solve the vagaries of the market.
00:46:08.000Yeah, except for the fact that people don't actually know what they want until an entrepreneur actually creates a new product and creates a dynamic economy.
00:46:15.000One of the great conceits of both right and left when it comes to government running the economy or government interventionism in the economy is the notion that government has the capacity not only to pick winners and losers, but also to forecast what comes next.
00:46:31.000The great developments in human history have been responses to market needs that people did not even know existed.
00:46:36.000If you had asked people, there's a famous sort of Henry Ford apocryphal statement, if you had asked people in 1890 what they were looking for in a form of transportation, they would have said a faster horse.
00:46:46.000People don't know what they want until somebody invents something new, until somebody creates a new product, until that product meets the price point at which people are willing to pay.
00:46:54.000And when you hear socialists suggest that profit margin is an innate evil, this is like the AOC view and the Bernie Sanders view, that profit is greed.
00:47:02.000It is the profit margin that provides the incentive structure that leads to the development of new, better processes, that leads products to become cheaper and more plentiful and more available.
00:47:12.000And it is the price mechanism of the market itself, a price mechanism that cannot be set by government, because not only do they not have the information, even if they did have information, they'd have to get it from some sort of outside market, is the point Mises makes.
00:47:25.000The notion that an entirely socialist earth, wherein no price mechanism exists, That you could then define the price of labor in that you can't define labor that way.
00:47:35.000Because how would you know which labor is more valuable and which labor is not?
00:47:37.000The only way you can do that is by submitting the product of the labor to the market and determining how much of somebody's labor they wish to trade in favor of somebody else's product.
00:47:46.000That's the only way to determine what things are worth.
00:47:49.000And we're still operating under the labor theory of value, which is that things are worth the amount of work that people put into them.
00:48:03.000If you ask somebody, what is more valuable?
00:48:07.000An hour of labor in a coal mine or an hour of a man tinkering on a machine in his garage in 1982?
00:48:12.000Most people would say an hour of work in the coal mine.
00:48:15.000But if it turns out that the guy tinkering in his garage on a computer in 1982 is Bill Gates, well, then you might be wrong.
00:48:22.000Turns out the market provides good, an excellent barometer of subjective values.
00:48:28.000See, the thing is that every decision that you make is a subjective decision insofar as the value of a particular good, service, or product.
00:48:34.000And the fact that the left refuses to acknowledge this and increasingly people on the right refuse to acknowledge it.
00:48:38.000They think that there is some sort of objective value that can be assessed in a good or a product or a service, and that the government can therefore set it and get rid of the profit margin.
00:48:47.000And then because the profit margin has gone, develop products more efficiently.
00:48:51.000This ignores the fact that the market is, as Schumpeter put it, a part, a machine of creative destruction.
00:49:00.000And that all the good stuff you have in your life, the reason you live better now than your parents did in 1950, Is because of all of the entrepreneurs who are creating new products and services and all the competition that made those luxury products available to the masses.
00:49:12.000The economy is not, in fact, stagnant.
00:49:14.000Socialism, the only thing it's good for is redistributing products that exist in the here and now.
00:49:18.000That's the only thing that the government can do.
00:49:20.000The government cannot produce more efficiently than the free market, nor can the government develop new products and services that have the capacity to reach the entire American market, at least now.
00:49:30.000Without going about it at the expense of the actual market itself.
00:49:35.000The only way you can tell what people want is to ask them.
00:49:37.000And the fact that people refuse to recognize this is because people refuse to read books.
00:49:40.000Go check out Ludwig von Mises' Socialism.
00:49:42.000Not an easy read, but an important read.