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00:00:00.000Devastating bombings by radical Islamists kill hundreds on Easter in Sri Lanka, fallout from the Mueller report continues, and Democrats open fire on each other for the 2020 nomination.
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00:01:39.000So the big news over the weekend, obviously, are these devastating bombings in Sri Lanka.
00:01:44.000A According to the Agence France-Presse, the AFP, Sri Lanka said on Monday it believed a local Islamist extremist group was behind deadly suicide bomb blasts that killed nearly 300 people as it ordered a national state of emergency beginning on midnight.
00:01:58.000Government spokesman Rajitha Senaratne said investigators were looking at whether the national Falkeeth Jamaat, NTJ group, had international support for the deadly Easter Sunday attacks on churches and luxury hotels So far, 24 people have been arrested in connection with the attack.
00:02:13.000So this is a large, coordinated attack.
00:02:16.000Apparently, there were seven suicide bombers who detonated near simultaneously in different spots.
00:02:20.000No details were given about the people who were actually arrested yet.
00:02:23.000Little is known about this particular group, but documents seen by the AFP show Sri Lanka's police chief issued a warning on April 11th, so not very long ago at all within the last couple of weeks, saying a foreign intelligence agency had reported that the group was planning attacking churches and the Indian High Commission.
00:02:38.000The group had previously only been linked to vandalizing Buddhist statues, so all sorts of tolerance and wonder from the radical Muslim world.
00:02:45.000Again, Sinarotini said of the deadly attacks, we don't see that only a small organization in this country can do all that.
00:02:51.000They think that this was created by outside support as well.
00:02:54.000They say we are now investigating the international support for them and their other links, how they produced the suicide bombers here, how they produced bombs like this.
00:03:03.000The death toll from Sunday's attacks rose dramatically on Monday to 290, including dozens of foreigners.
00:03:09.000It's the worst atrocity since the country's civil war ended a decade ago.
00:03:12.000More than 500 people were injured in the assault that saw suicide bombers hit three high-end hotels popular with foreign tourists and three churches, unleashing a carnage in Colombo and beyond.
00:03:21.000Two additional blasts were triggered as security forces carried out raids, searching for the suspects.
00:03:25.000Presumably, these places had been booby-trapped as well.
00:03:28.000When folks look at the casualty statistics in areas like this, what they tend to often do is look at the deaths and not at the injured.
00:03:37.000Well, knowing some people who have been injured in terrorist attacks, the injuries are often devastating and life-demolishing in nearly the same way that a KIA would be, in nearly the same way that being killed
00:03:50.000On-scene would be I mean people lose limbs people are mentally crippled from from these attacks if they're hit in the head People lose years off their lifespan I mean it's so so pretend that this is just about the 290 dead obviously the 500 injured plays into this as well Police also found 87 bomb detonators at a Colombo bus station as well.
00:04:11.000So obviously all of this is extraordinarily scary and devastating The government has announced that the victims' families and the injured will receive some government compensation.
00:04:21.000They say that they'll compensate all the people who died, which is about 100,000 rupees for their funeral expenses.
00:04:27.000So 100,000 rupees is not all that much money, unfortunately.
00:04:30.000But, you know, the government is going to do what they're going to do.
00:04:33.000It's about $1,000, $1,400 in American currency.
00:04:37.000The health minister has said that authorities were warned full two weeks before the attacks.
00:04:40.000They had the names of the attackers, but that information was not shared with the prime minister.
00:04:44.000The president has the portfolio of defense.
00:04:48.000This is the only country where when the prime minister summons the security council, they don't assemble.
00:04:52.000Minister Sarinatne said, we're not trying to evade responsibility, but these are the facts.
00:04:55.000We were surprised to see these reports.
00:04:57.000So it looks a lot sort of like the Chinese wall that was created between the FBI and CIA in the United States prior to 9-11.
00:05:03.000It looks like the health ministry apparently not only knew about the attacks, they knew the names of the potential attackers, but the prime minister didn't actually have that information.
00:05:12.000And the president and the prime minister weren't talking to one another.
00:05:15.000So obviously internal government issues there.
00:05:18.000Now, there is something odd about the reaction to these attacks.
00:05:21.000There's something very odd about the reaction to these attacks.
00:05:23.000So in the aftermath of the Christchurch attacks in New Zealand, everyone came forth, And they said, it's time to re-examine, and it's time to examine, the relationship between white supremacy and Islamophobia, between the slaughter of innocents at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, and the evils of white supremacy.
00:05:40.000The evils of white supremacy are indeed evil.
00:05:43.000And looking at white supremacist groups, and looking at the evil they perpetrate, is well worth looking into.
00:05:48.000I don't know a good-hearted person who avoided this conversation.
00:05:51.000We did, I think, two or three full episodes on exactly this issue after Christchurch.
00:05:57.000And yet, oddly and strangely, folks on the left seem unwilling or unable to acknowledge that what happened here was a radical Islamist terror attack.
00:06:04.000So Hillary Clinton tweeted this out, quote, This was in the aftermath of Christchurch.
00:06:09.000In the aftermath of Christchurch, I want you to contrast, compare and contrast Hillary Clinton's tweets on Christchurch and what just happened in Sri Lanka.
00:06:15.000And Christchurch was awful, and it was evil, and 50 Muslims were killed.
00:06:20.000About six times as many people were killed in Sri Lanka on Sunday during Easter, which is in fact a holy day.
00:06:26.000So this is a pretty apples-to-apples comparison.
00:06:29.000Hillary Clinton tweeted this in the aftermath of the Christchurch attacks.
00:06:33.000Quote, my heart breaks for New Zealand and the global Muslim community.
00:06:37.000We must continue to fight the perpetuation and normalization of Islamophobia and racism in all its forms.
00:06:42.000White supremacist terrorists must be condemned by leaders everywhere.
00:06:44.000Their murderous hatred must be stopped.
00:06:47.000In contrast to that, which is a very strong statement about the victims, right?
00:06:51.000It states who the victims are, it states who the perpetrators are, and it states that their ideology must be fought.
00:06:56.000Contrast that with Hillary Clinton's comments after nearly 300 people are murdered while going to church during Easter in Sri Lanka.
00:07:03.000So here's what she said about Sri Lanka.
00:07:05.000Quote, on this holy weekend for many faiths, we must stand united against hatred and violence.
00:07:10.000I'm praying for everyone affected by today's horrific attack on Easter worshipers and travelers in Sri Lanka.
00:07:15.000Okay, so do you notice the difference?
00:07:18.000No clear explanation of who was targeted.
00:08:32.000It is an argument to continue to focus in on that and also to focus in at least a little on radical Islam, which is responsible for exponentially more deaths worldwide than white supremacy is.
00:08:43.000I'll give you the statistics in just a second.
00:08:45.000I mean, that tweet from Hillary, that contrast is really stunning.
00:09:56.000Hillary comes forth and she says, we have to fight Islamophobia in all of its forms, and white supremacy in all of its forms, and then radical Muslims go and kill a bunch of Christians at church on Easter Sunday, and it's, hatred and violence are really bad, guys.
00:10:08.000Can't really get more specific than that.
00:10:11.000Yeah, Obama, you can at least make the argument that by Easter worshipers like I don't think the Easter worshipers part of this silliness is the worst part of it.
00:10:19.000I think that it is indicative of a failure on the part of many people on the left to single out Christians as victims because that does not fit within the intersectional hierarchy in the United States.
00:10:28.000The intersectional hierarchy for the left is the suggestion that we know just Based on our own experiences, based on anecdotal evidence, we know who are the most victimized groups in America.
00:10:37.000Those victimized groups are transgender people and black people and Muslims.
00:10:40.000Those are the people who are most victimized in America.
00:10:42.000Never mind the hate crime statistics that say that on a per capita basis in the United States, Jews are the most victimized.
00:10:47.000And never mind the global statistics that say on a global basis, Christians are the most victimized group on planet Earth.
00:10:54.000There's a Pew report from June of 2018 that specifically says this.
00:10:58.000This is not me just making up that Christians are the most victimized religious group on planet Earth.
00:11:03.000According to Pew Research Center, the center's report on religious harassment in 2016 found that Christians were harassed in 144 countries, up from 128 the year before, while Muslims were harassed in 142 countries, up from 125 in 2015.
00:11:17.000By the way, that's kind of astonishing considering that there are many, many more officially Muslim countries than there are officially Christian countries on planet Earth.
00:11:25.000There's 50-odd officially Muslim countries on the planet.
00:11:29.000And there are... How many officially Christian countries are there?
00:11:32.000A couple in Eastern Europe that I believe are officially Christian?
00:11:37.000In any case, the report says Christians and Muslims have typically been harassed in the largest numbers of countries around the world.
00:11:42.000Those two groups are the largest religious groups in the world.
00:11:45.000They have substantial populations in more countries than other smaller and less geographically dispersed religious groups.
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00:13:20.000So as we say, the Pew Research Center found that Christians are in fact the most persecuted religious group on planet Earth, not on a per capita basis, but on a generalized basis.
00:13:31.000It is also true that while we have spent enormous attention focusing on white supremacy here in the West, and again, I think every iota of that is deserved, If you are going to compare the deaths and the carnage attributable to white supremacy to the deaths and carnage attributable to radical Islam, the numbers are not even remotely close.
00:13:53.000The only way that you can get to close to parity in any sense is if you look specifically and only within the West.
00:13:59.000If you look specifically and only within the West, then it looks like white supremacist terror attacks Are somewhere near on par since 2003 with Islamist terrorist attacks in the West.
00:14:08.000Although Islamist terrorist attacks in the West have been responsible for vastly more deaths, there are a lot of white supremacist terror attacks that don't end in as many mass casualty incidents.
00:14:17.000So you have white supremacist terrorist attacks in places like the Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue where I believe 11 people were killed or Christchurch where 50 people were killed.
00:14:25.000Every year we have a couple of Islamic incidents where 50 people are killed at a Christmas market in Berlin.
00:14:32.000And this sort of stuff happens on a fairly regular basis.
00:14:34.000But if you look worldwide, and Sri Lanka is not in the West, Sri Lanka is not a European country.
00:14:39.000If you look worldwide, radical Islamic terrorism is a significantly greater threat than white supremacy.
00:14:48.000Okay, I'll give you an example and it does demonstrate how the media coverage here is extraordinarily skewed and almost darkly funny because of how extraordinarily skewed it is.
00:14:58.000There's an article in US News and World Report Called Globally, Terrorism Deaths Are On The Decline.
00:15:04.000This is from December of 2018, so just a few months ago.
00:15:07.000And it talks about the 6th Global Terrorism Index, which was published by the Institute for Economics and Peace, an independent non-profit think tank based in Australia.
00:15:16.000And it looked at the number of terrorist deaths across the world.
00:15:19.000It found that in 2017, there were 18,814 deaths globally, according to the study.
00:15:25.000That was a 27% drop, according to the study.
00:15:28.000Now, in just a second, I'm going to give you the actual breakdown in how many of those were white supremacist deaths.
00:15:32.000So as we say, the deaths attributable to terrorism in 2017, 18,814 globally, according to the Institute for Economics and Peace.
00:15:43.000How many of those were due to white supremacy?
00:15:47.000So listen to how the media covered this.
00:15:50.000The threat of far-right political terrorism is a growing concern in North America and Western Europe, according to the findings.
00:15:55.000While the U.K., Spain, Finland, Sweden, and Austria were the only countries to experience increases in deaths from terrorism in Western Europe, both Canada and the United States experienced increases in total deaths in North America.
00:16:05.000Far-right groups and individuals caused 66 deaths and launched 127 attacks in the regions between 2013 and 2017.
00:16:16.000So, they spend several full paragraphs discussing the threat of far-right political terrorism in the West.
00:16:29.000Between 2013 and 2017, there were 66 deaths from white supremacist terrorism in the West compared to 19,000 in 2017 alone globally.
00:16:41.000And yet the media will spend vastly more time talking about white supremacist terrorism than they will spend talking about radical Islamic terrorism, which is a very important Why is that?
00:16:51.000It's because it reinforces a narrative.
00:16:53.000The narrative is that the true threat to the West and the true threat across the world really is white supremacist evil.
00:16:59.000And in the West particularly, if we're going to look at white supremacy, white supremacy is a threat.
00:17:04.000Again, this is me for the 90th time this show saying that we should take white supremacy seriously as a person who has full-time security thanks to threats from white supremacists, as a person who has security at their shul basically thanks to threats from white supremacists.
00:17:17.000Let me suggest that we should focus on white supremacy, but the media's unwillingness to even say radical Islamic terrorism when an obvious radical Islamic terror attack occurs somewhere else in the world or at home on American soil is pretty astonishing and indicative of a worldview that is perverse.
00:17:34.000If you cannot label specific evil by the specific type when it happens because you are afraid of the consequences, you're part of enshrining that evil.
00:17:44.000If you can't label Christchurch a white supremacist terror attack, then you are lending cover to people who commit those sorts of terror attacks?
00:17:50.000I think, on a philosophical level, there is some truth to this.
00:17:53.000If that is true, I think that on a philosophical level, if you refuse to acknowledge that the Orlando Pulse attack or the San Bernardino terrorist attack were radical Islamic terror attacks, if you say that what happened in Sri Lanka was due to generalized racism and violence, generalized hatred and violence, Then you are providing cover to some pretty terrible people.
00:18:10.000You ought to be able to name evil for what it is.
00:18:13.000You ought to be able to label evil for what it is, so then we can determine how we ought to distribute our resources in fighting that evil.
00:18:20.000And we also ought to be able to suggest that two threats are present at the same time and not in equal numbers.
00:18:28.000This is why when people were criticizing Ilhan Omar for not taking terrorism seriously, they were correct.
00:18:32.000Ilhan Omar does not take terrorism seriously.
00:18:34.000Representative Omar had suggested in a column in 2017, which I think is worse than any other thing that she's written other than a letter in 2016, where she tried to have a judge let ISIS recruits off early because they were victims of what she called American marginalization.
00:18:48.000In 2017, she wrote a piece suggesting that America was founded in genocide and slavery.
00:18:52.000And in order to misdirect away from our foundations in genocide and slavery, We therefore focused on international terrorism.
00:18:59.000That provides cover for a radical ideology that does create violence.
00:19:04.000Why can't we walk and chew gum at the same time?
00:19:06.000It's one thing to say we don't pay enough attention to white supremacy.
00:19:08.000I would argue that is certainly not the case now.
00:19:10.000It is another to argue that we should ignore one type of terrorism in favor of another type of terrorism.
00:19:16.000And those tweets from from Hillary Clinton are pretty damned telling.
00:19:21.000You should be able to label this stuff for what it is.
00:19:24.000And if you cannot, you should be able to explain why it is that you cannot label these things for what they are.
00:19:30.000Turns out there are lots of different types of victims and lots of different types of perpetrators.
00:19:33.000And those perpetrators commit crimes at wildly variant rates.
00:19:36.000And particularly when you are talking about problems abroad and violence abroad, radical Islam has bloody borders.
00:19:42.000Radical Islam does create the vast majority of terrorism worldwide.
00:19:50.000All righty, meanwhile, the other big story over the weekend was, of course, all the fallout from the Mueller report.
00:19:54.000So, last week, you want to listen to my total take on the Mueller report, listen to our shows on Thursday and Friday, because I had read the entire report by the time we did the show on Thursday, and I broke it down on Thursday, and then I broke it down in eight specific ways from eight angles on Friday.
00:20:09.000My bottom line in the Mueller report is that there's no collusion, obviously.
00:20:13.000The report itself, the first half of the report is basically an empty vessel.
00:20:16.000There's not much there other than a lot of smoke, With various members of the Trump campaign who are sort of hobnobbing with Russians in incompetent ways, but that never getting passed up the chain.
00:20:25.000The Trump Tower meeting turns out to be a big nothing.
00:20:27.000It turns out that virtually all of the smoke turned into no fire.
00:20:32.000It was a giant waste of time in the original theory of the Mueller Report and of James Comey and of Andrew McCabe and of and of James Clapper and of John Brennan.
00:20:41.000The original theory that Donald Trump was somehow in cahoots with Putin in 2016, that was a bunch of nonsense.
00:20:48.000Finding number two is that there was no proof sufficient to prove obstruction of justice because President Trump was basically walking around the White House and fulminating and fuming.
00:20:58.000over all of the wrongs done to him by the Mueller report and so he's walking around telling people to fire people and send letters and lie to the press and none of that is good stuff but none of that is obstruction of justice.
00:21:08.000He could have fired any of those people and it wouldn't be obstruction of justice in a technical criminal sense.
00:21:12.000Maybe it was impeachable but it wouldn't have been obstruction of justice in any criminal sense.
00:21:17.000Now the Trump administration continues to come out and suggest that the Mueller report got it wrong.
00:21:23.000Now at this point if you're the Trump administration what you'd probably want to do is just say Look, Mueller found what he found.
00:22:16.000Okay, and that was also true of obstruction of justice.
00:22:18.000The most exonerating part of this report is how when you read that second half of the report, it is obvious that Mueller and Mueller's prosecutors really do not like Trump.
00:22:26.000It is really obvious that they are trying to draw the worst possible conclusions from what is, by all available evidence, just evidence of a volatile and shallow personality problem the president has.
00:22:38.000I mean, his volatile behavior is well known to everyone.
00:22:44.000The attempt to draw some sort of nefarious conclusion about him obstructing justice or shutting down the Mueller report when the Mueller report, as we know, reached a terminus.
00:22:52.000It reached a conclusion is a pretty absurd thing.
00:22:55.000Well, the left is now saying, well, we have the material to impeach.
00:22:58.000We'll talk about that in just one second.
00:23:00.000So what they're saying is that while Trump did not testify and members of his administration were declaring that they didn't know things, The idea was that, presumably, if they had all talked, if we had been able to get to the bottom of this, there would have been something criminal and impeachable.
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00:24:24.000Meanwhile, as we say, the left is focusing in on the Mueller report as the basis, not for criminality, but for impeachment.
00:24:33.000And they are clinging to a couple of different lines of argument.
00:24:36.000Line of argument number one is that while the report found no collusion, there's still collusion.
00:24:41.000This is so empty and so foolish, but listen, Adam Schiff still has to defend himself.
00:24:46.000I mean, Representative Schiff from California has spent the last two years claiming that he has secret knowledge that Mueller would get Trump, that in the end, Mueller would uncover the secret meeting.
00:24:56.000In a Russian hotel, in which prostitutes peed all over the President of the United States as he shouted, I hate Hillary!
00:25:03.000And then, he went in the other room, cleaned himself off, and signed an agreement with Vladimir Putin to build Trump Tower Moscow in return for, in return for, giving some sort of favors to Vlad.
00:25:14.000That's what Adam Schiff has sort of been suggesting all along.
00:25:16.000And the Steele dossier is probably true.
00:25:34.000Adam Schiff continues to maintain, however, that there is still evidence of collusion.
00:25:38.000What a joke this guy is, the fact that he's still being treated with seriousness.
00:25:42.000It speaks to the same media that treated Michael Avenatti with seriousness for years and started promoting him as a potential 2020 candidate.
00:25:49.000Here's Adam Schiff still making excuses for the fact that he's a liar.
00:25:53.000When I talked about evidence of collusion in plain sight, I used those words in plain sight.
00:25:58.000And I pointed to the meetings in Trump Tower that Don Jr.
00:26:04.000And what more clear intent to collude could you have than the Russians offering dirt on Hillary Clinton as part of what was described as an effort to help Mr. Trump in the campaign?
00:26:43.000That'd be Fusion GPS, which accepted OPPO from a foreign source, namely from Christopher Steele.
00:26:48.000Who it turns out was not some high-ranking spy.
00:26:50.000He was a hack who put together, cobbled together, a terrible piece of OPPO research that the FBI then accepted as the basis for things like a FISA warrant.
00:27:00.000Ash Scow over at Daily Wire, my site, she has a great piece today talking about how the New York Times has finally acknowledged that the Steele dossier might actually not be all that great.
00:27:09.000She says the salacious and uncorroborated dossier compiled by ex-British intelligence officer Christopher Steele was used by the media to justify its endless attacks on President Trump and accuse him of treason.
00:27:19.000The dossier was never anything more than oppo research paid for by Fusion GPS, and not even good oppo research at that.
00:27:25.000Steele reported rumors and gossip, including some internet comments to bolster his report.
00:27:29.000What wasn't corroborated was downright debunked by special counsel Robert Mueller's report, including the allegations that Trump's attorney, former attorney Michael Cohen, went to Prague to meet with the Russians.
00:27:38.000Now, after two years of using the dossier to perpetuate the collusion narrative, the New York Times has finally acknowledged what those of us not parroting the collusion delusion have known for years.
00:27:49.000The Times reported, quote, Mr. Mueller's report contained over a dozen passing references to the document's claims, but no overall assessment of why so much did not check out.
00:27:54.000underscored what had grown clearer for months, that while many Trump aides had welcomed contact with the Russians, some of the most sensational claims in the dossier appeared to be false, and others were impossible to prove.
00:28:03.000Mr. Mueller's report contained over a dozen passing references to the document's claims, but no overall assessment of why so much did not check out.
00:28:11.000Now the dossier is going to be subjected to two inquiries, one from the DOJ's inspector general and one from congressional Republicans.
00:28:18.000The FBI, according to the Times, appears to have been suspicious of the dossier That was right around the time that media outlets reported on the existence of the dossier, and BuzzFeed published the unverified document in a breach of journalistic ethics without checking out any of it.
00:28:32.000And so the fact that the FBI doubted the dossier's credibility was never part of the story.
00:28:36.000Instead, media outlets like the Times spent years talking to sources claiming Mueller had evidence supporting claims in the dossier.
00:28:44.000So pretty funny that the New York Times has finally acknowledged, but Democrats will not.
00:28:48.000And so they continue to say that impeachment is on the table.
00:28:50.000Now this puts them in a box because the American people are not interested in impeachment.
00:28:54.000By polling data, a majority of Americans want to move beyond this.
00:28:56.000Only 39% of Americans say that they want further investigation on all this.
00:29:01.000That would be the hardcore anti-Trump base.
00:29:03.000The vast majority of Americans not interested in more of this.
00:29:06.000We've spent $25 million and two years and billions of dollars in free media coverage on a nonsense issue that never had any verifiability to it.
00:30:08.000And then, of course, you have nutty Maxine Waters, who says, yeah, you know, let's impeach.
00:30:11.000Of course, she was saying let's impeach, even if he wasn't guilty of collusion, just because she doesn't like him.
00:30:15.000Now, if we're going to talk about public officials who should have been impeached long ago, Maxine Waters, who is one of the most corrupt members of Congress, allegations that when she was on the House Financial Services Committee a dozen years ago, she was funneling money to a bank in which her husband was an investor.
00:30:29.000Maxine Waters says that Trump should be impeached.
00:30:40.000I have been calling for his impeachment for a long time because I understood very clearly who this man is, how he conducted himself during his campaign, and the kind of information that we learned about him even before Mueller came on board.
00:30:57.000The fact of the matter is, I think that when you look at this report, you can see that there's enough information there, not only on obstruction of justice, but also on collusion or conspiracy, whatever you want to call it, to move forward with impeachment on this president.
00:31:15.000Okay, they're just going to continue with this over and over.
00:31:39.000Are you unaware that President Trump is a volatile human who does volatile things and says silly things and yells at people and treats his employees badly?
00:32:07.000We did not know about Donald Trump at this point.
00:32:09.000That's, I think, why so many people are off-put by tweets like Senator Mitt Romney.
00:32:12.000So Romney, who everyone felt did not fight Barack Obama with the alacrity that President Trump fought Hillary Clinton, that he left some of the ammo in the closet, He tweeted out in the aftermath of the Mueller report, Senator Romney, quote, It is good news that there is insufficient evidence to charge the president of the United States with having conspired with a foreign adversary or with having obstructed justice.
00:32:31.000The alternative would have taken us through a wrenching process with the potential for constitutional crisis.
00:32:35.000The business of government can move on.
00:32:36.000Even so, I am sickened at the extent and pervasiveness of dishonesty and misdirection by individuals in the highest office of the land, including the president.
00:32:44.000I am also appalled that, among other things, fellow citizens worked in a campaign for president welcoming help from Russia, including information that had been illegally obtained, that none of them acted to inform American law enforcement, and that the campaign chairman was actively promoting Russian interests in Ukraine.
00:32:57.000Reading the report is a sobering revelation of how far we have strayed from the aspirations and principles of the founders.
00:33:03.000On an ideological level, I don't really disagree with much that Romney says there, but the angle is totally wrong.
00:33:11.000These criticisms were perfectly appropriate for two years when we found out about George Papadopoulos, when we found out about the Trump Tower meeting.
00:33:17.000And when we found out about Paul Manafort, all of these things were perfectly appropriate then.
00:33:23.000The breaking news of the report is not all the stuff we already knew, it's all the stuff that we didn't.
00:33:27.000And all the stuff that we didn't know basically just suggests that the president is volatile, and the president is mean to people, and the president yells a lot, and that his advisors stop him from doing dumb things, and also, most importantly, that there was no obstruction of justice.
00:33:49.000The Democrats were lying when they said they had extra information.
00:33:52.000That the media were lying when they suggested that there was far more to come.
00:33:56.000That the media proclaiming that Robert Mueller is going to end Trump's presidency, that that was a bunch of nonsense for two years and that they are motivated players in this space.
00:35:43.000So in just a second, we're going to get to the 2020 campaign, which is heating up Elizabeth Warren, throwing random ideas at the wall to see what sticks.
00:35:50.000Most of them are exactly what that phrase would suggest.
00:37:51.000Well, get ready, because it's going to be fun this time among the Democrats.
00:37:55.000There are 20 candidates fighting for scraps and apparently another candidate just joined a guy named Seth Moulton from Massachusetts.
00:38:01.000He's probably gonna he was looking to lose his primary race in Massachusetts.
00:38:04.000He's considered a slightly more moderate Democrat, but it's hilarious.
00:38:08.000I mean there are 1 million candidates.
00:38:09.000They're all struggling for attention and a lot of the people who are supposed to be top tier simply have had failure to launch.
00:38:15.000Top among those has of course been Senator Elizabeth Warren, our Native American princess, who once wrote a recipe for pow wow chow to demonstrate her Native American bona fides.
00:38:23.000That pow wow chow recipe was apparently a New York chef-based recipe for crab bisque, a traditional Cherokee dish about crabs roaming the fruited plains of Oklahoma.
00:38:33.000In any case, Elizabeth Warren is trying to jump out to the radical left.
00:38:37.000She's trying to out Bernie Bernie, so good luck with that.
00:38:40.000Here she was over the weekend suggesting that President Trump must be impeached.
00:38:44.000The report is absolutely clear that a foreign government attacked our electoral system to help Donald Trump.
00:39:05.000No one is above the law, and that includes the President of the United States.
00:39:10.000It is the constitutional responsibility of Congress to follow through on that.
00:39:15.000I mean, it's the responsibility of Congress?
00:39:18.000Like, she knows she's never gonna have to vote on this.
00:39:19.000This is one of the beautiful things about being a Democrat in the Senate running for president.
00:39:22.000There are 90 of you, and you have a minority in the Senate.
00:39:25.000So no matter what you do, you can vote for Trump's impeachment, get all the credit, and never have to actually live with the consequences, politically speaking.
00:39:33.000So, Elizabeth Warren pushing for impeachment.
00:39:36.000She's trying to push to the left of Bernie Sanders.
00:39:38.000Sanders has not actually commented formally on impeachment at this point, so far as I'm aware.
00:39:42.000And now she's rolling out another proposal.
00:39:44.000She rolls out a proposal every day because she figures, okay, at some point, some of these have got to make some headlines.
00:39:49.000I mean, come on guys, what do I have to do here to get some attention?
00:39:53.000I mean, I already did a DNA test and you just made fun of me.
00:39:55.000So now I'm just going to roll out a proposal every single day.
00:41:36.000You get to keep the benefits and it's not going to the government.
00:41:39.000The benefit doesn't go to the government.
00:41:40.000Eminent domain is the government needs your house because they're building a highway and so they compensate you for the house.
00:41:45.000Eminent domain really was not supposed to be the government takes my house and hands it to you because you are more capable of paying higher taxes because you're adding a second story onto the house.
00:41:54.000And certainly it's not the government just feels like bulldozing the house because the government feels like bulldozing it for no reason.
00:42:00.000Well, that's what she is talking about right here.
00:42:02.000She's talking about a violation of the Takings Clause, simply forgiving all college debt.
00:42:09.000Let me read you what her proposal is, and then I'll explain why this is so incredibly dumb and counterproductive, and doesn't fulfill even what it is attempting to do.
00:42:17.000So she has proposed to wipe out student debt and tuition at public colleges.
00:42:22.000She unveiled on Monday her proposal for easing access to higher education.
00:42:25.000It would spend $1.25 trillion over 10 years to eliminate up to $50,000 in student debt with household incomes under $100,000.
00:42:34.000Okay, first of all, I will note, this is already a wealth redistribution that actually favors people who are middle class or wealthier.
00:42:40.000Because who do you think is going to college?
00:42:41.000It's mostly people who are middle class or wealthier people who have higher income potentials and higher income trajectories.
00:42:47.000So you're talking effectively about taxing low-income people in favor of middle and high-income people.
00:42:52.000She says she would allow states to make public colleges tuition-free.
00:42:54.000There are already states that do this, like University of Tennessee.
00:42:57.000And she wants to spend $100 billion on expended Pell Grants to defray more non-tuition expenses.
00:43:03.000So she wants to simply wipe out all of this college debt.
00:43:08.000Her plan would scale back relief for people with incomes above $100,000 and would end it entirely at the $250,000 level.
00:43:14.000She said her proposal would benefit 95% of the 45 million Americans carrying a student debt and wipe it out for 75% of them.
00:43:21.000She said that this would stimulate the economy by improving credit scores.
00:43:42.000What if we just forgive the debt, and then that increases your credit score?
00:43:45.000This is the equivalent of when the city of Los Angeles decided that South Central Los Angeles had too much crime, and if they just called it South Los Angeles, that would fix the problem.
00:43:54.000No, the problem is you're not paying your debts.
00:43:57.000The problem is not that your credit worthiness goes up if we simply forgive your debts.
00:44:06.000So the people who are incapable of paying back their college debts, we should definitely make it super easy for them to take out home loans.
00:44:13.000Like, I know these aren't prime borrowers.
00:44:15.000Maybe what we should do is probably call them subprime borrowers.
00:44:18.000What we could do is have the government subsidize subprime home loans to people who are incapable of paying off their debts in other ways.
00:44:25.000And then we could grant them these subprime home loans with government subsidies.
00:44:29.000And we could incentivize private businesses by saying that if those subprime home loans are not paid back, then the government will bail you out.
00:44:48.000And then she says this will ease small business formation.
00:44:51.000If you want to ease small business formation, let me make you a recommendation.
00:44:54.000Instead of incentivizing lenders to give money to people to go to college, to major in lesbian dance theory, instead, we should be incentivizing lenders to lend money to people who are starting businesses.
00:45:58.000If you actually wanted to fix all of this, you actually eliminate federal involvement in student loans, and fewer people go to college.
00:46:04.000And that would be a good thing, because not everyone needs to go to college.
00:46:07.000Instead, we would have apprenticeships, people who are skipping college to apprentice themselves in a business where they get to learn a skill set.
00:46:14.000What colleges are good for, I've said this for years, what colleges are good for is two things.
00:46:17.000They're fundamentally a sorting mechanism.
00:46:19.000So if you went to Harvard, we assume you're smarter than someone who went to JUCO.
00:46:22.000And two, they create a social fabric of friends with whom you can correspond and get jobs.
00:46:29.000Well, by vastly broadening the number of people going to college and creating affirmative action programs that skew the system, And what you're actually doing is eliminating both of the actual effective methods of increasing income mobility inside colleges.
00:46:44.000You're getting rid of the sorting factor on the one hand, and on the other hand, you're also getting rid of the AirSat social fabric.
00:46:50.000Because you don't create a social fabric at JUCO.
00:46:52.000Those are not people you associate with the rest of your life.
00:46:55.000This really only applies to elite colleges.
00:46:58.000Sending somebody to a low-level state school with free tuition to major in whatever they please is not going to materially better their lives.
00:47:35.000Two, step two, it should prohibit educational lending by federally regulated financial institutions or require the application of ordinary credit standards in any private educational lending, treating the student as the main credit risk in the same way that you would a mortgage.
00:47:51.000And three, it should make student loan debt dischargeable in ordinary bankruptcy procedures.
00:47:55.000So this would put the risk on the banks.
00:47:57.000The banks would have to make an actual decision as to whether people should get a loan or should not get a loan based on whether they think the person is going to be able to pay the thing back or not.
00:48:28.000Over the holiday, I re-read a book by Gerald Schroeder, who is an MIT physicist, MIT-educated physicist, called The Science of God, The Conversions of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom.
00:48:41.000It's all about how the book of Genesis can be read in a way that makes room for science, which is something that I am very much in favor of.
00:48:50.000And his take particularly on how the six days of creation match up with the timeline for creation that is expressed via science is really fascinating.
00:48:59.000The essential thesis is that there is a universal background clock of the universe that is being used up until the creation of man.
00:49:06.000And that 24 Earth hours correspond to a certain number of background radiation wavelengths in the universe.
00:49:13.000Blackbody radiation wavelengths in the universe.
00:49:16.000For 24 hours within the creation time frame.
00:49:49.000Gay transgender man tells story of giving birth.
00:49:52.000Okay, so it says, not only women feel broody, transgender man reveals he was desperate to have a child before he went through a total loss of self as he became pregnant with his baby.
00:50:53.000I like that he said that she, because this is a genetic female, she is now a gay transgender man, which means a woman who is attracted to men, but had a surgery.
00:51:05.000That makes more sense than whatever the hell this mishmash word salad that you've created here.
00:51:10.000A film of his experience of pregnancy will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.
00:51:14.000His mother described her fears for her son as he embarked on the pregnancy.
00:51:17.000He spent most of the nine months he was pregnant with his son in Diehl, Kent.
00:51:21.000Here's a little bit of this magical film about a female having a baby, but this female has a beard because of hormone treatment and because of breast removal.
00:52:23.000The unbelievable stupidity of a media that refuses to objectively cover facts of biology is insane.
00:52:30.000And biology is certainly implicated when we are talking about, you know, biological things like giving birth, like the biological organs necessary to the birth giving.
00:52:40.000How do you suggest that gender is the thing on the table when what we are really talking about here is a pure biological process?
00:52:47.000We'd all be shocked if we read a story about a man having a period, because that's impossible.
00:52:51.000A man does not have a period, by definition.
00:52:53.000But the media will repeat this crap like no problem.
00:54:25.000troops were on the south side of the security perimeter.
00:54:28.000But North of the Rio Grande and elsewhere in the United States on the American side of the border, Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security officials demanded an explanation from the Mexican government.
00:54:38.000An inquiry by CPB and DOD revealed that the Mexican military members believed that the U.S.
00:54:42.000Army soldiers were South of the border.
00:54:44.000Though they were South of the border fence, U.S.
00:54:48.000So this looks like confusion more than anything else, but the fact that This confusion almost led to a violent incident is definitely on the Mexican government, which should be spending a lot more of its resources prohibiting people from moving across the American border en masse.
00:55:03.000We have hundreds of thousands of people descending on the American border now every month.
00:55:07.000That's a disaster area the Mexican government should obviously be helping more with.
00:55:10.000The fact that we have a failed state on our southern border is a disaster area nobody seems to want to face up to because it would actually there's a better case for American intervention in Mexico, frankly.
00:55:21.000One's on our border and is creating a human catastrophe in which the drug cartels are in control of large swaths of the territory is leading to not only humanitarian problems, but actual direct impact on America's southern border.
00:55:33.000Maybe a wall solves that, maybe a wall doesn't.
00:55:35.000But what we're watching in Mexico is really a continuing problem.
00:55:42.000As I say, there's two more hours of the show, but I'm not hosting them later today because it's Passover and I want to take a little bit of time off.