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00:00:11.000Oh man, is our coverage going to be comprehensive today?
00:00:13.000We are going to do this thing soup to nuts.
00:00:14.000We are going to go through everything there is to go through about the North Korean meeting, about President Trump hanging out with Kim Jong Un, everything from their personal relationship to the actual statement that they signed together.
00:00:25.000First, I have to make a couple announcements.
00:00:27.000Eastern, we are doing a Father's Day special in honor
00:00:30.000A Father's Day, which makes sense, since it's a Father's Day special.
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00:00:41.000I believe everyone there has actually had children, except for Knowles, who will sit there uselessly, as per our usual arrangement.
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00:02:44.000And he is generation number three of sheer garbage in the Kim family.
00:02:48.000A North Korean defector talked a little bit on television yesterday about the people in North Korea and the fact they don't even know that they're slaves because they've never seen the outside world.
00:02:56.000In order to understand how horrible North Korea is, you have to understand that at night, when you take a photograph from space of North Korea versus South Korea, South Korea is all lit up like a Christmas tree.
00:03:04.000In North Korea, there's one light and it is at Kim Jong-un's palace.
00:03:42.000The only reason that we're meeting with Kim Jong-un is because he's been testing his nuclear weapons and because his family has been pursuing nuclear weapons and lying about it to the West over and over and over again.
00:03:51.000And lest we forget, these lies have been continuous and repeated.
00:03:55.000Okay, the Kim family has lied no less than eight times since 1992 to the American government about denuclearization.
00:04:01.000So before everybody gets on their high horse about, oh, Trump finally got them to promise denuclearization, they've promised denuclearization more often than...
00:04:11.000As many nights as there are Hanukkah, he has promised denuclearization.
00:04:13.000I mean, he has promised denuclearization essentially every other year, the family has, every other year since 1992.
00:04:17.000And we're supposed to pretend that his current promise means something.
00:04:21.000Well, Trump tweeted in the run-up to the meeting that critics were selling him short.
00:04:57.000And President Trump then continues, and he says, meetings between staffs and representatives are going well and quickly, but in the end, that doesn't matter.
00:05:03.000We will all know soon whether or not a real deal, unlike those of the past, can happen.
00:05:06.000The truth is, usually a president of the United States does not get together with a foreign adversary to sign an agreement until there's an agreement to be signed.
00:05:14.000Until there's something real and decent and long-lasting and verifiable to be signed.
00:05:19.000The goal of these negotiations is CVID.
00:05:22.000Complete Verifiable Irreversible Denuclearization or Dismantlement.
00:05:52.000In fact, right now, the ledger is stacked in favor of Kim Jong-un because we just handed them a massive PR victory.
00:05:57.000We'll go through the PR victory and all the mistakes that were made over the last 36 hours and handing them a PR victory now.
00:06:02.000All those mistakes turn to gold if Kim Jong-un actually wants to denuclearize.
00:06:07.000So if the White House knows something that we don't, if the White House actually has some sort of verifiable regime of dismantlement coming, then this is the greatest move of all time.
00:06:18.000There's no in-between position where Trump goes over there and makes nice and plays kissy face with Kim Jong-un and doesn't get anything out of him, where it's not a debacle.
00:06:26.000And on the other hand, if he gets what he wants out of Kim Jong-un, then obviously everything is justified.
00:06:30.000But right now, everybody is jumping to their various positions.
00:06:32.000You got folks on the right, and they are jumping to the position that Donald Trump has done something masterful.
00:06:45.000If Obama had done the same thing, we would have gone nuts.
00:06:47.000If Obama had gone over to Singapore and hung out with Kim Jong-un and stacked the American flag alongside the flag of North Korea, we would have gone crazy because the flag of North Korea is the modern-day equivalent of the swastika.
00:06:57.000Imagine that Kim Jong-un is Hitler, and you understand a little bit better why it might not be a great idea to have all these photo ops with a guy without receiving any sort of serious concessions in the first place.
00:07:06.000So on the right they're jumping to, everything is great, everything's gonna be fine, no downside, all terrific.
00:07:12.000And on the left they're jumping to, this is the worst thing that has ever happened in the history of the world.
00:07:15.000The same people who are cheering Obama for signing the world's worst nuclear deal with Iran,
00:07:21.000I spend a lot of time on my show saying, let's wait for the evidence to come in.
00:07:25.000And there's another case where I'm gonna say, let's wait for the evidence to come in.
00:07:29.000But we can say that President Trump gave up something very serious in this photo op.
00:07:47.000He gave up the idea that America, as the freest country on the face of the planet, and most powerful country on the face of the planet, has the capacity to talk down to Kim Jong-un.
00:08:02.000And legitimizing him, and pretending that he's a normal person, and that this is a normal regime, and that we've got to have normal relations with this normal regime without any serious concessions being made?
00:08:10.000I don't know why the president does that.
00:08:39.000He's been going over to North Korea for years.
00:08:42.000Back in 2014, a guy named Donald Trump tweeted that he never would have said that Dennis Rodman should go over to North Korea and hang out with Kim Jong-un.
00:08:50.000It's why he's glad he fired him from Celebrity Apprentice.
00:08:53.000Now Dennis Rodman is actually at this event and he starts crying on TV while talking about how he is sponsored by some sort of pot Bitcoin company.
00:09:01.000I got so many tough threats while I was sitting there protecting everything.
00:11:00.000You know, we did sanctions and all of the things that you would do, but I think without the rhetoric, you know, other administrations, I don't want to get specific on that, but they had a policy of silence.
00:11:11.000If they said something very bad and very threatening and horrible, just don't answer.
00:11:20.000Okay, so I agree with President Trump's harsh rhetoric.
00:11:22.000I agree with President Trump's harsh rhetoric with regard to Kim Jong-un.
00:11:25.000I don't think that it was his harsh rhetoric that brought Kim Jong-un to the table.
00:11:28.000I think that it was the South Korean administration, which has been extraordinarily open toward Kim Jong-un and basically brokered this deal.
00:11:41.000More of the harsh Trump rhetoric, less of the kissy kissy face for me because I just I'm not a big fan of how this went.
00:11:47.000So in just a second, I'm going to explain to you what exactly went down in this deal because I have the document in front of me, what exactly was signed and why it basically is a giant nothing burger for the moment.
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00:13:26.000It says President Donald J. Trump of the United States of America and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea held first historic summit in Singapore on June 12th, 2018.
00:13:37.000President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un conducted a comprehensive, in-depth, and sincere exchange of opinions on the issues related to the establishment of new U.S.-DPRK relations and the building of a lasting and robust peace regime on the Korean Peninsula.
00:13:49.000President Trump committed to provide security guarantees to DPRK, and Chairman Kim Jong-un reaffirmed his firm non-wavering commitment to complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
00:13:59.000Okay, what that means is that President Trump made commitments that he would not actually involve the United States in joint military drills with the South Koreans, and Kim Jong-un said, I'm going to do the same thing my dad and my granddad promised, and I'm going to lie about it.
00:14:14.000Listen, I know, maybe there's more to come.
00:14:16.000Maybe there's more to come, but I need to see the evidence there's more to come before I start getting excited about a deal that basically is weaker than prior deals.
00:14:22.000And the fact is that the joint comprehensive framework that was come up with in 2005-2006 is stronger than this deal.
00:14:28.000Convinced that the establishment of new U.S.D.P.R.K.
00:14:31.000relations will contribute to the peace and prosperity of the Korean Peninsula and of the world, and recognizing that mutual confidence building can promote the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, President Trump and Kim Jong-un state the following, and here we get to the
00:14:42.000Actual four basic principles of the deal.
00:15:09.000The one that Trump has been pumping the hardest is the POW-MIA language, the suggestion that we're going to bring home the remains of all these POWs and MIAs.
00:15:33.000That's great, except that this has been a Korean promise for legitimately 30 years.
00:15:37.000Korean officials have been promising to do this since the 1980s.
00:15:41.000Between 1996 and 2005, U.S.-North Korean search teams conducted 33 joint recovery operations and recovered 229 sets
00:18:06.000But none of this signals strength to Kim Jong-un.
00:18:10.000It actually signals weakness to Kim Jong-un.
00:18:12.000At some point, I have to be honest, and I used to say this during my campaign, as you know probably better than most, I want to get our soldiers out.
00:18:21.000I want to bring our soldiers back home.
00:18:23.000We have right now 32,000 soldiers in South Korea.
00:18:28.000And I'd like to be able to bring them back home, but that's not part of the equation right now.
00:18:32.000At some point, I hope it will be, but not right now.
00:18:35.000We will be stopping the war games, which will save us a tremendous amount of money, unless and until we see that the future negotiation is not
00:19:50.000And we will continue that, and I think ultimately— Okay, again, brushing off human rights abuses in North Korea, as it's rough in a lot of places, this is not a good look from the President of the United States.
00:20:00.000Now, the reason I'm being critical is because what President Trump is trying to do here, obviously, is butter up Kim Jong-un.
00:20:06.000The idea here is we'll make Kim Jong-un feel so good about himself that he'll give up his nuclear weapons.
00:20:09.000I'm deeply skeptical Kim Jong-un falls for this, but clearly that's what Trump is trying to do, to put the best possible spin on it for Trump.
00:20:16.000That he doesn't like Kim Jong-un, but he's trying to manipulate Kim Jong-un.
00:20:44.000He loves his people, not that I'm surprised by that, but he loves his people, and I think that we have a, you know, the start of an amazing deal.
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00:22:37.000So President Trump continues by talking about how he and here President Trump is talking about the media hypocrisy.
00:22:44.000So a lot of people are saying, well, why is this any different than when Obama was trying to make concessions to the Cubans or the Iranians?
00:22:49.000And Trump rightly is saying, listen, the deal that I'm cutting right now isn't making more concessions than anything Obama did.
00:22:54.000And this is one of the great ironies of this particular political moment is that all the people who thought that Obama was just terrible for the Iran deal are cheering wildly President Trump meeting with Kim Jong-un and massaging his back.
00:23:05.000And all the people who are really, really angry at President Trump for doing this on the left were wildly ecstatic about President Trump back massaging the mullahs in Iran.
00:23:13.000And then there are those of us who say, listen, it's bad when Obama back massages the mullahs, and it's bad when Trump back massages Kim Jong-un.
00:23:19.000It's bad when Obama kisses the butt of some of the worst people on earth, and it's bad when Trump does that as well.
00:23:23.000There better be some sort of payoff on the other end.
00:23:26.000Here's Trump going after the media, however.
00:23:28.000Jennifer, when you look at all of those things that we got, and when we got our hostages back, I didn't pay $1.8 billion in cash.
00:23:38.000Like the hostages that came back from Iran, which was a disgraceful situation, what took place.
00:24:55.000But so far, all I've seen is the president of the United States walking arm in arm with one of the worst people on planet Earth and then flattering him as a wonderful, smart guy.
00:25:04.000I'm waiting for the great part to come.
00:25:06.000I understand that maybe this is the setup.
00:25:08.000Well, I need the punchline before I start laughing.
00:25:10.000Otherwise, I'm just going to be angry at the setup because I don't like the setup very much.
00:25:13.000Trump, though, is touting the setup as though this is some sort of big win.
00:25:16.000The problem with this video is that if you cut it shot for shot with the same music, you could play it on Pyongyang TV in favor of Kim Jong Un.
00:25:25.000So you can see Trump walking into the venue, and then you see him shaking hands with Kim Jong Un, and both of them smiling, and Trump being very warm, and the triumphal music.
00:26:39.000No, I wouldn't have him go to war with North Korea.
00:26:41.000I would have his lower-level negotiators making clear to the North Koreans what the deal should be, and then when it's time for Trump to actually triumph, then he gets to walk in and sign a big piece of paper.
00:26:51.000But preliminarily, handing this sort of legitimacy and kindness to Kim Jong-un is not useful.
00:26:56.000I mean, speaking of legitimacy and kindness, you know, President Trump has been saying for a long time that one of the keys here is that he's used very harsh language with regard to North Korea, that if North Korea violates, then we may have to use fire and fury.
00:27:08.000Well, yesterday, he basically took fire and fury off the table.
00:27:10.000Here is President Trump talking about how if we went to war, 30 million people would die, which is essentially taking military force off the table, effectively.
00:27:16.000This is the press conference, the quote beginning, Seoul.
00:27:29.000I mean, if this would have happened, I think, you know, I've heard, oh, 100,000 people.
00:27:34.000I think you could have lost 20 million people, 30 million people.
00:27:39.000This is really an honor for me to be doing this because I think, you know, potentially you could have lost, you know, 30, 40, 50 million people.
00:27:46.000The city of Seoul, one of the biggest cities in the world, is right next to the border.
00:27:52.000Okay, so the fact that he's saying this is effectively taking the option off the table, which is not a good idea, right?
00:27:57.000I mean, there should be no options off the table, obviously, and President Trump's whole shtick here, when it comes to foreign policy, is you never give away your hand.
00:28:04.000And maybe we'll hit you with a club, and maybe we'll give you a carrot, but you never give away your hand.
00:28:08.000Here's President Trump tipping his hand, and that's not particularly smart.
00:28:10.000It's just, it's not particularly bright, and I'm upset with him for having done it, obviously, unless, unless, I keep saying unless, because we don't know what the unless is, so we have to hold off judgment.
00:28:20.000Unless there is some sort of big concession by the North Koreans.
00:28:23.000And then, this I thought was the funniest part of the press conference.
00:28:31.000It's this highly produced little tape with a big narrator voice, with a big narrator going, Trump, Kim, can they make peace?
00:28:39.000And then a bunch of pictures of people playing basketball and people dancing and singing, and then a bunch of pictures of missiles and all this kind of stuff.
00:29:25.000The United States does not have to engage in a charm offensive with North Korea.
00:29:28.000We're the most powerful country in the history of the world by a factor of 10.
00:29:32.000There's legitimately no reason we have to engage in a charm offensive when we're telling a tin-pot dictatorship to give up their nukes.
00:29:51.000The charm offensive stuff, if it works, then I am happy to say that President Trump did something unprecedented and massive and wonderful.
00:29:58.000But if it doesn't, then all that happened is the President of the United States made a tin pot dictator look like somebody who's actually worth the time.
00:30:26.000Over my lifetime, I've done a lot of deals with a lot of people, and sometimes the people that you most distrust turn out to be the most honorable ones, and the people that you do trust, they are not the honorable ones.
00:30:38.000So, we are starting from a very high plane.
00:30:42.000We're starting from a very good relationship.
00:30:44.000This has been a very big day in terms of the world.
00:30:46.000I think it's been, maybe, a lot of people are saying it's historic.
00:30:57.000The media, who are treating this with grave skepticism, I wish they treated the Iran deal with the same grave skepticism.
00:31:01.000And conservatives, who are treating this as an unmitigated triumph, I wish that they had treated this the same way they treated the Iran deal.
00:31:08.000The deal is not a deal until there's a deal.
00:31:11.000This is true of every deal in business and in politics.
00:31:13.000There's no serious deal that's been made.
00:31:15.000All that's happened so far is that Trump has offered really an unwarranted open hand to the worst dictatorship on planet Earth, put their flag alongside the flag of the United States.
00:31:25.000You know how many Americans died to keep that North Korean flag from flying over South Korea?
00:31:29.00050,000 Americans died to keep that flag from flying over South Korea.
00:31:32.000That means that if you're going to fly it alongside the American flag, there damn well better be a good reason.
00:31:36.000And it can't just be because Trump wants a photo op.
00:31:38.000There has to be an actual good reason, and that means actual denuclearization.
00:31:41.000I hope that's what the Trump administration has in its back pocket.
00:31:44.000I suspect that it is not, from speaking to many people with knowledge of the situation.
00:31:49.000I suspect that it is not, but if it is, then more power to him, and all this ends up being a coup.
00:31:54.000It ends up being the greatest thing ever, and I pray that it is.
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00:33:20.000So, meanwhile, President Clinton continues to get away with everything.
00:33:23.000He made some comments the other day that went largely unremarked upon by mainstream media.
00:33:27.000He said in an interview that sexual misconduct norms have changed.
00:33:35.000In general, I think it's a good thing, yes.
00:33:37.000I think it's a good thing that we should all have higher standards.
00:33:41.000I think the norms have really changed in terms of
00:33:45.000What you can do to somebody against their will, how much you can crowd their space, make them miserable at work.
00:33:50.000You don't have to physically assault somebody to make them, you know, uncomfortable at work or at home or in their utter just walking around.
00:34:02.000Okay, so the standards have changed about how much you can do with somebody against their consent.
00:34:08.000I love that the follow-up question here is not, well, what was the standard with Juanita Broderick?
00:34:12.000What was the standard with Paula Jones?
00:34:13.000What was the standard with Kathleen Willey?
00:34:14.000My favorite part of all these interviews with Bill Clinton is that James Patterson, the best-selling author maybe of all time, is sitting next to him just looking egregiously uncomfortable, just looking like he wants to crawl into a hole and die.
00:34:48.000And then it showed a image of how much money he has spent at Chick-fil-A.
00:34:53.000He spent like 30 bucks at Chick-fil-A.
00:34:55.000And then he was called on it by Soledad O'Brien, who immediately said, this is an interesting company to boost during Pride Month, Jack, because it's Gay Pride Month this month, which if you didn't know, congratulations, it's Gay Pride Month.
00:35:09.000And then Jack responded, you're right, completely forgot about their background.
00:35:12.000He never should have shopped at Chick-fil-A during Gay Pride Month.
00:35:18.000We're gonna fast from all the Christian-owned companies during Gay Ramadan, Gay Pride Month.
00:35:23.000No one, no one must ever shop from Chick-fil-A, a company that has never discriminated against homosexuals in any way, but whose owners are against same-sex marriage.
00:35:32.000Anybody who shops at Chick-fil-A is violating the precepts of Gay Pride Month.
00:35:36.000Because the gay pride jihadis are going to come after you and insist that you do repentance.
00:35:41.000Very, very important stuff from Soledad O'Brien.
00:35:43.000The best part of this is that Soledad O'Brien did an event in 2012 sponsored by Chick-fil-A.
00:35:48.000So she was happy to take the cash from Chick-fil-A, but now she's very upset that Gay Pride Month, its sanctity, its sanctity has been violated by the evil that is tweeting out that you shopped at Chick-fil-A to get a sandwich.
00:36:00.000And then people wonder why people voted for President Trump.
00:36:03.000You know, as critical as I am of President Trump from time to time, the fact is that the left does nothing but push people into President Trump's camp with social culture war issues like this.
00:36:12.000You know, I like a lot of President Trump's policy.
00:36:14.000I don't like a lot of President Trump's rhetoric.
00:36:17.000Some of the things President Trump does, like this North Korean summit, I think are foolhardy and problematic.
00:36:21.000But when you have an entire group of people who insist that I cannot shop at the chicken sandwich shop of my choosing because that might offend homosexual people for no reason at all,
00:36:31.000It sort of makes me think maybe I'll just vote for the guy who's not doing that.
00:36:35.000Maybe I'll vote for the guy who doesn't take that stuff particularly seriously.
00:36:38.000Pretty amazing stuff there from Jack Dorsey.
00:36:41.000I love that Jack Dorsey has to acknowledge that.
00:36:42.000So it took Jack Dorsey like months and months and months to punish Louis Farrakhan by taking away his verification on Twitter.
00:36:49.000He shouldn't have taken away his verification.
00:36:58.000Jack Dorsey has banned a number of people from Twitter, but not Louis Farrakhan, so he still hasn't banned Louis Farrakhan, but he's never gonna shop at Chick-fil-A during Gay Pride Ramadan, so that's very exciting stuff.
00:37:06.000Okay, meanwhile, speaking of ridiculous stuff, the Tony Awards happened last night, on Sunday night, and they were particularly replete with anti-Trump rhetoric, foolishness, so we talked about this a little bit yesterday, but Robert De Niro dropped an F-bomb on the air.
00:37:23.000He decided that to show what a hero he was, he was going to say F-Trump in front of a crowd,
00:37:58.000It's no longer Donald Trump, it's f*** Trump.
00:38:19.000And then of course Andrew Garfield got up, the guy from Spiderman, not the new one that's good, the old one that's bad.
00:38:31.000He got up and he started talking about how everybody should abandon, everybody should basically bake cakes for the gays if they're asked to do so for a gay wedding and such.
00:38:41.000We are all sacred, and we all belong, so let's just bake a cake for everyone who wants a cake to be baked!
00:38:54.000And as I proposed yesterday, I believe that Andrew Garfield should actually act.
00:38:58.000I will write a play about the Christian bakers who were discriminated against by the Colorado Commission on Civil Rights, and Andrew Garfield can play the lead.
00:39:57.000The question is, why is it that the Tony Awards, like the Oscars, like the Emmys, have catered so specifically to one segment of the population?
00:40:02.000Now, the easy answer is they're all a bunch of leftists and they hate the right.
00:40:57.000And only one of the families is vegetarian.
00:41:00.000Well, the person who's throwing the party may think, well, you know, I really don't want to cook two meals, so I'm just going to make the entire thing vegetarian.
00:41:04.000So one person who's vegetarian can convert an entire group of people into eating vegetarian at a particular meal.
00:41:10.000Well, the same thing happens when it comes to Broadway.
00:41:13.000There are motivated niche groups who only go to the theater if their particular group is catered to, and these happen to be hardcore leftist groups, particularly.
00:41:20.000And so those shows are what tends to be produced because they figure that
00:41:23.000Everybody else who's coming to Broadway will see whatever it is that is provided.
00:41:26.000In the same way that the meat-eater will eat the vegetarian meal, a bunch of people who don't care about these niche shows will go to see the niche shows, because they're there for Broadway anyway.
00:41:33.000And that's how Broadway Remains Liberal continues to make money.
00:41:36.000It's only exposed, of course, on the Tonys, when millions of people watch it.
00:41:39.000When millions of people see this liberalism and this leftism put on full display in front of the entire country, and they find it completely off-putting.
00:41:45.000But that's how the market actually allows for Broadway and Hollywood to remain so left, even while they alienate huge swaths of the country.
00:41:52.000Okay, so time for a couple of things that I like and then some things that I hate.
00:42:28.000Okay, Cello Wars is, there's this group of guys, they're called the Piano Guys, and they did this version of the Star Wars music, and it's just for two cellos, and basically there's a little bit of background music, I believe, from a synthesizer or a piano, and it's pretty cool.
00:43:32.000And we walked past a Little League baseball field.
00:43:35.000And I had to stop and watch Little League baseball because Little League baseball is the best.
00:43:39.000Okay, and as we were walking by the Little League baseball field, the teams were going out there and they were lining up, and I didn't realize this is what they do in Little League, because I played in Jewish Little League, so Jewish Little League, we don't do any of this particular stuff, although I think that we definitely should.
00:43:52.000What they were saying, oh, they lined up both teams, right, the opposing teams on the third baseline and the first baseline, and then they had all the kids repeat this mantra, I trust in God, I love my country, and will respect its laws, I will play fair and strive to win, but win or lose, I will always do my best.
00:44:08.000Unfortunately, all those principles are under attack from both some folks on the left and some folks on the right, particularly when it comes to playing fair and striving to win and doing your best.
00:44:16.000I think that those principles are particularly under attack in today's modern era, unfortunately.
00:44:21.000But these sort of values do have an outcome, and that outcome is stuff like this.
00:44:24.000So yesterday, this is just a beautiful video.
00:44:26.000There is a high school pitcher who was pitching against, I guess it's one of his best friends since he was a kid, and his best friend played for another team from another high school.
00:44:35.000And this last pitch wins him the winning team now gets to go to the state championship in high school baseball.
00:44:43.000And what you're going to see in this video is the pitcher strike out the batter, and then his teammates rush to celebrate on the mound.
00:44:51.000And before they can, he goes and gives his best friend a hug and comforts him about striking out.
00:45:20.000And then he finally goes and he celebrates with his teammates.
00:45:38.000She was awful when she did the White House Correspondents' Dinner, and she is awful now.
00:45:41.000So she has a show on Netflix, which nobody will ever watch.
00:45:44.000We'll never know the ratings, because that's not how Netflix actually makes its money.
00:45:46.000They make their money off subscriptions, of course.
00:45:48.000So Michelle Wolf did this routine, this video, where she plays a person who is submitted to the op-ed page of the New York Times, and the op-ed editor of the New York Times, it turns out, is an actual clown.
00:46:00.000But she's not going to rip the op-ed editor of the New York Times for being too left.
00:46:02.000No, she's going to rip the op-ed editor of the New York Times for being too right.
00:46:05.000And she's specifically going to go after Barry Weiss.
00:46:07.000Barry Weiss is the only semi-conservative columnist at the New York Times.
00:46:10.000I think it's Ross Douthat and David Brooks, who's not really very conservative at all.
00:47:27.000There are plenty of horrible opinions.
00:47:29.000Barry Weiss does not fall outside the Overton window, but according to Michelle Wolfe, she does.
00:47:33.000Because according to Michelle Wolfe, the only people who should be on the pages of the op-ed of the New York Times are people that Michelle Wolfe personally agrees with.
00:47:38.000Now, the great irony of this is that Barry Weiss wrote a full column defending Michelle Wolfe after the White House Correspondents Dinner.
00:47:45.000So apparently her bad opinions include defending Michelle Wolfe.
00:47:52.000There's a whole upspate of people who are now defending Kathleen Kennedy.
00:47:56.000Kathleen Kennedy is the head of Lucasfilm, and the reason that they are defending Kathleen Kennedy is they say that Kathleen Kennedy is doing a wonderful job as the
00:48:03.000She's the head of the Star Wars universe.
00:48:11.000And you know how we know she's doing awesome?
00:48:13.000Because Kathleen Kennedy is super woke.
00:48:15.000And the real reason that Star Wars is failing right now, that Star Wars is having some trouble, the real reason that Star Wars is feeling the pain is because of these toxic fans.
00:48:26.000Does it sound sort of like what people said about Hillary Clinton?
00:48:28.000Hillary isn't failing because Hillary sucks.
00:48:30.000Hillary's failing because everybody's deplorable.
00:48:32.000That's exactly what all these columnists are saying.
00:48:34.000So there's a guy named Mark Bernardin who writes for the Hollywood Reporter.
00:48:36.000He says that all of these toxic fans, quote, hate everything the new Star Wars stood for, hated what they saw as a social justice warrior remix of the Star Wars they grew up with, and they hated Trans Rose.
00:48:47.000This would be the this cat, this actress.
00:49:44.000The reason she's being defended again is because she is super woke.
00:49:46.000The New York Times had a piece a few weeks ago talking about Kathleen Kennedy's Lucasfilm Story Group and they said, quote, Now, I don't care about any of that stuff.
00:50:14.000But the press cares about that stuff, and that's why they have to defend Kathleen Kennedy from her bad creative decision-making.
00:50:19.000The reason that Star Wars has failed is because they basically had two choices on relaunching the Star Wars universe.
00:50:23.000One would be, fast-forward 50 years when all the original characters are gone, and then you lose the nostalgia, but at least you relaunch the universe.
00:50:30.000Or two, you recast the original characters and you pick up where Return of the Jedi left off.
00:50:34.000But instead, she chose door number three, which is bring back all the original characters, kill them off in the stupidest possible ways, and then try to make backwards-looking nostalgia films about characters you've already destroyed, like Solo.
00:50:44.000I can't imagine why that was a giant fail.
00:50:46.000Kathleen Kennedy should go, but the media's gonna try and save her because she's a woman and she's a woke woman at that, so that's all that matters.
00:50:51.000Okay, quick explanation of a Federalist paper since we didn't do so yesterday.
00:50:57.000Alexander Hamilton wrote Federalist 32.
00:50:59.000This is a continuation of his discussion about the taxing power of the federal government.
00:51:03.000And what he says is that the state and federal government will be able to have concurrent taxing power.
00:51:08.000So there's a lot of worry at the state level that if the federal government can tax,
00:51:11.000That that will prevent the state from taxing, and Hamilton assures people that's not the truth.
00:51:15.000He says, this exclusive delegation, or rather this alienation of state sovereignty, would only exist in three cases.
00:51:20.000Where the Constitution in expressed terms grants an exclusive authority to the Union, where it granted in one instance an authority to the Union, and in another prohibited the states from exercising the like authority, and where it granted an authority to the Union, to which a similar authority in the states would be absolutely and totally contradictory and repugnant.
00:51:35.000In other words, unless the Constitution explicitly rules out that a state can do something, the state can still do something.
00:52:01.000That's because the growth of the federal government far beyond what Hamilton ever could have foreseen or approved.
00:52:05.000Okay, we'll be back here tomorrow with all the latest updates.
00:52:07.000Hopefully, we'll have some good news from the Trump administration in terms of actual concrete steps that the North Koreans will take to denuclearize.