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00:00:00.000I have for you the worst example of media bias I have seen in recent memory.
00:00:03.000President Trump signs an executive order that may or may not end family separation at the border, and President Trump rallies in Minnesota.
00:00:59.000Well, this is going to have some pretty significant ramifications for the currency, considering that China actually could retaliate against the United States by selling off American bonds, for example.
00:01:08.000Well, what that really means is that you ought to have at least some of your assets in a hard asset like gold, right?
00:01:13.000You should have some of your assets, not all,
00:01:15.000You should have a lot of your assets in stocks and bonds.
00:01:18.000I have a lot of that stuff in stocks and bonds, too.
00:01:20.000But you should have some of your assets in precious metals, because my savings plan and every savings plan should have something that is not subject to the uncertainty and instability of inflation or government manipulation.
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00:02:22.000And the reason President Trump is a Nazi is because of his policy of separating children from their parents at the border.
00:02:27.000When people enter illegally into the United States, not at ports of entry, when they enter across the border in Arizona, for example, or Texas, and they're picked up by ICE, then they are immediately criminally prosecuted.
00:02:38.000And that means that by law, their kids have to be separated from them.
00:02:46.000You might ask yourself, did this policy begin with Trump?
00:02:49.000And as I've been saying for well on two weeks now, no, this policy did not begin with Trump.
00:02:53.000This policy began with Barack Obama, whose policy in 2014-2015 was that he would arrest entire families and keep the kids unified with the parents.
00:03:02.000That there was a 2016 ruling, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, that says you're not allowed to do that anymore, you have to release the kids.
00:03:08.000That's what leads to the parental separation.
00:03:10.000I've also been saying that if Trump backed down on this, that if Trump said we're going to reunify the families but keep them in custody, immediately there would be a bunch of Democrats who signaled that this was unacceptable as well.
00:03:20.000So separating families was like the Nazis.
00:03:22.000And keeping families together in custody is also like the Nazis.
00:03:25.000The only solution left, of course, is to release everybody into the general population.
00:03:29.000And that's exactly what Democrats have been pushing for.
00:03:31.000Well, one of the things that is truly maddening about this entire situation is the lack of intellectual honesty on virtually all sides on it, but particularly from the left.
00:03:39.000Tammy Baldwin is a senator from, I believe, Wisconsin.
00:03:44.000And Tammy Baldwin was on CNN yesterday, and she was specifically asked about whether
00:03:49.000She felt the same way when young migrant children were being imprisoned by Barack Obama.
00:03:54.000Brooke Baldwin actually asked her a solid question on CNN, so good for Brooke Baldwin.
00:03:57.000Watch Tammy Baldwin's struggle to come up with an answer as to why she wasn't angry when Barack Obama was imprisoning children.
00:04:03.000Did you raise your voice under the Obama administration?
00:04:07.000You know, in numbers of cases, usually I remember a constituent who was in detention at the border, arguably very inappropriately, and we, you know, we raised our voice in that instance and many others, but that's, we've got to do this now in unison.
00:04:28.000It's not enough to do it case by case or senator or house member by house member.
00:04:34.000We've got to resolve to fix this issue.
00:04:38.000Okay, that's a no, I didn't care when Obama was president.
00:04:40.000Yes, I do care when Donald Trump is president.
00:04:42.000The best evidence that the media seriously don't care about this issue until Trump is president comes today, courtesy of the Associated Press.
00:04:48.000So, there's a story from the Associated Press.
00:04:54.000Now, you can imagine, just from reading that title, that the allegations of abuse are taking place because of stuff that is happening today.
00:05:31.000So paragraph 19, they finally mention, oh, by the way, all these illegal immigrant minors who were abused or allegedly abused, they were abused under Obama.
00:05:38.000They mentioned that in paragraph 19, and they mentioned Donald Trump seven times, and they mentioned Barack Obama by name zero times.
00:05:44.000And then you wonder why when Donald Trump goes to his rallies and he shouts about fake news and people cheer and chant fake news, you wonder why people take Donald Trump seriously when he says fake news?
00:05:53.000Because you bury the lead, and then you don't report that Obama had anything to do with it.
00:06:00.000Immigrant children as young as 14 housed at a juvenile detention center in Virginia say they were beaten while handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells.
00:06:11.000The abuse claims against the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center near Stoughton, Virginia are detailed in federal court filings that include a half dozen sworn statements from Latino teens jailed there for months or years.
00:06:20.000Multiple detainees say the guards stripped them of their clothes and strapped them to chairs with bags placed over their heads.
00:06:25.000Whenever they used to restrain me and put me in the chair, they would handcuff me, said a Honduran immigrant who was sent to the facility when he was 15.
00:06:31.000Strapped me down all the way from your feet all the way to your chest.
00:06:37.000It has little holes you can see through, but you feel suffocated with the bag on.
00:06:40.000In addition to the children's firsthand translated accounts and court filings, a former child development specialist who worked inside the facility independently told the AP this week she saw kids there with bruises and broken bones they blamed on guards.
00:06:51.000She spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to publicly discuss the children's cases.
00:06:55.000Now, normally, when I lead a story and when I write a story, I usually say on Wednesday or in 2015.
00:07:02.000The date is the first thing you say because it sort of matters to the story.
00:07:05.000You don't get any dates here until paragraph 19.
00:07:09.000Many of the children were sent there after U.S.
00:07:11.000immigration authorities accused them of belonging to violent gangs, including MS-13.
00:07:15.000President Donald Trump has repeatedly cited gang activity as justification for his crackdown on illegal immigration.
00:07:21.000So that sounds like Donald Trump has been saying everybody's MS-13, so ICE is out there arresting a bunch of innocent kids, throwing them in prison and torturing them because they say they're MS-13, right?
00:07:28.000That's what you would get from that AP story.
00:07:31.000And the AP continues like this, right?
00:07:32.000Trump said Wednesday that our Border Patrol agents and our ICE agents have done one great job cracking down on MS-13 measures, on MS-13 gang members.
00:07:40.000We're throwing them out by the thousands, he said.
00:07:43.000But a top manager at the Shenandoah Center said during a recent congressional hearing that the children did not appear to be gang members and were suffering from mental health issues resulting from trauma that happened in their home countries, problems the detention facility is ill-equipped to treat.
00:07:58.000This is now in, let's see, paragraph 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, paragraph 10.
00:08:04.000Okay, paragraph 10, we finally get to a point here.
00:08:21.000Okay, so in other words, this has nothing to do with the current issues that are being debated about family separation.
00:08:26.000And then, all the way down in paragraph 19, all the way down in paragraph 19, we get this.
00:08:32.000The complaint, filed by the non-profit Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, recounts the story of an unnamed 17-year-old Mexican citizen apprehended at the southern border.
00:08:41.000The teen fled an abusive father and violence fueled by drug cartels to seek asylum in the United States in 2015.
00:08:47.000Let me recall, when was the election of 2016?
00:08:49.000Oh, that's right, it was after 2015, it turns out.
00:09:36.000Donald Trump became president, and only then did the media start reporting on lawsuits alleging horrible abuses happening under Barack Obama.
00:09:43.000But remember, Obama's administration was scandal-free.
00:09:45.000Barack Obama says so, and that means that it's true.
00:09:47.000We also know that there was an ACLU report in 2015 talking about detaining abuses between 2009 and 2014.
00:10:06.000Hey, here's a story, another story like this.
00:10:09.000From the Drudge Report, the tragic case of Roberto Aguilar Batista, 38, whose family sued Barack Obama and multiple federal agencies after Batista died from complications of diabetes while being held in one of the administration's ill-equipped detention centers.
00:10:21.000In a report published August 29, 2014, CBS2 Los Angeles says, quote, at a news conference Friday attended by CBS2's Amy Johnson, Nancy Luna said her husband had type 2 diabetes and his care was neglected.
00:10:31.000He was held at the Metropolitan Detention Center, among other places.
00:10:34.000Last March, 2014, Roberto Aguilar Batista died from complications of diabetes at the Dalby Correctional Facility.
00:10:42.000In other words, there were lots and lots and lots of detaining abuses.
00:10:45.000It was considered a detaining abuse to keep children together with their parents.
00:10:49.000And yet the media are only interested in a crime.
00:10:51.000Rachel Maddow is crying openly on air about the separation of children from parents.
00:10:55.000Now, in a second, I'm going to show you why the Trump administration's response to this has been so foolish.
00:11:00.000Because the reality is Trump should have stuck to his guns here.
00:11:02.000He should have said, listen, we have a zero tolerance policy.
00:11:03.000You cross the border, you're getting arrested.
00:11:05.000And it is not up to me to change the law.
00:11:09.000The job of the executive branch is to execute the law.
00:11:12.000The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has already ruled that a settlement between the Clinton administration government in 1997 and illegal immigrants in 1997, the Flores Settlement,
00:11:22.0009th Circuit Court of Appeals rules that settlement means I cannot keep children together with parents, but I am not going to release everybody into the interior of the country.
00:11:29.000Trump should have maintained that line because that is the correct legal line.
00:11:32.000Instead, President Trump decided that he was going to announce an executive order under pressure.
00:11:36.000That's because the polling numbers were really not good on this stuff.
00:11:39.000The media attention on it, obviously, has been incredibly biased.
00:11:42.000But here was President Trump yesterday announcing that he was going to sign an executive order, and then we'll go through the text of the executive order in just a second.
00:12:58.000I'm one of these guys who drives past the gas station, like, we have a 5,000 thread count sheet over here, and then you open it up and it's an actual plastic tarp.
00:13:05.000Well, it's not the thread count that matters so much, it's the actual quality of the sheet.
00:13:09.000And these are made of pure organic cotton, which means that they get softer with each wash.
00:14:01.000The Trump administration does not have the legal ability to keep children together with their parents in detention.
00:14:07.000That is a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling based on the Obama administration's policy of keeping children together with parents in detention.
00:14:14.000At the time, this was considered inhumane.
00:14:17.000Folks on the left suggested that it was inhumane to keep children in detention with their parents.
00:14:21.000Now they are suggesting it is inhumane to separate children from their parents in detention.
00:14:25.000So here is what Trump actually put in the executive order.
00:14:28.000The executive order is one of two things, just as a preliminary note.
00:14:31.000Either it reinstates catch and release, meaning that all of these parents have to be released into the general population, or it does nothing.
00:14:47.000It says, By the authority vested in me as President of the United States, and by the laws of the United States of America, including the Immigration and Nationality Act, it is hereby ordered as follows.
00:14:58.000It is the policy of this administration to rigorously enforce our immigration laws.
00:15:03.000Under our laws, the only legal way for an alien to enter this country is it is at a designated port of entry at an appropriate time.
00:15:09.000When an alien enters or attempts to enter the country anywhere else, that alien has committed at least the crime of improper entry and is subject to a fine or imprisonment under Section 1325A of Title VIII United States Code.
00:15:19.000This administration will initiate proceedings to enforce this and other criminal provisions of the INA until and unless Congress directs otherwise.
00:15:44.000So far, this has just reinstated the Trump administration's policy, which is, we're going to arrest everybody, and we'd like to keep the families together, but we can't, legally speaking.
00:15:52.000Okay, then, they get into the actual operative portion of this.
00:15:56.000Temporary detention policy for families entering the country illegally.
00:15:59.000The Secretary of Homeland Security shall, to the extent permitted by law, and subject to the availability of appropriations, maintain custody of alien families during the pendency of any criminally improper entry or immigration proceedings involving their members.
00:16:11.000The Secretary shall not, however, detain an alien family together when there is a concern that detention of an alien family with each child's alien parent would pose a risk to the child's welfare.
00:16:19.000The Secretary of Defense shall take all legally available means to provide for the Secretary any existing facilities available for housing or care of alien families.
00:16:26.000Now, as you'll note, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall, to the extent permitted by law, the law does not permit them to keep these kids together with their parents in the facilities.
00:16:34.000That means that they're either going to have to release the parents or they're going to have to separate the parents.
00:16:37.000So either nothing changed or everything changed.
00:16:40.000OK, this executive order doesn't actually do much.
00:16:42.000Nonetheless, we're going to talk about the media response to it because the media response to it is so bifurcated.
00:16:55.000OK, so catch and release is the policy that preexisted Trump, where instead of arresting everybody across the border illegally, instead they would just arrest a bunch of people and then they would release them into the society and then they would hope that they showed back up in court for their day in court.
00:17:09.000Well, in absentia rates for released aliens, initial case completions, fiscal year 2016,
00:17:15.00039% of people in 2016 who were arrested and then released, 39% of them never showed up again.
00:17:30.000That means that there were 9,722 in absentia orders that were declared in 2016.
00:17:36.000So there were almost 10,000 people who went missing, basically, in 2016 alone, after they were arrested and then released into society.
00:17:43.000That's the reason why Trump wants to keep them in custody, because the idea is if you release them, they're just going to run away, which is, of course, perfectly right.
00:17:49.000Well, President Trump signs this executive order.
00:17:51.000And as I say, legally speaking, because he cannot keep the families together, he has two choices.
00:17:56.000He can separate the families, or he can release the entire family.
00:17:59.000So either the executive order reinstates catch and release, or the executive order does nothing.
00:18:03.000And now my inclination is going to be the executive order does a lot of nothing, but...
00:18:09.000Here's the problem with what Trump just did.
00:18:10.000Trump has maintained for two weeks that he can't actually do anything by executive order.
00:18:14.000And then he actually didn't do much by this executive order.
00:18:16.000The executive order doesn't actually do anything.
00:18:19.000And the answer is he didn't like the headline.
00:18:21.000President Trump has a bad habit of he gets himself into hot water and then all of the people around him stand up and defend what he's done.
00:19:20.000The actual agenda of the left is full release of anyone coming across the border.
00:19:24.000There's a feeling on the left that ICE itself is inappropriate, that there is something deeply wrong with even arresting people at the border.
00:19:46.000Well, now she comes forward and she says, listen, Trump retreats on separating families and then he signs an order to detain them together.
00:19:52.000But for Samantha Bee, this is not enough.
00:20:07.000To be clear, I am happy that at least these kids are theoretically going to stay with their parents, but mommy and me jails are not a solution.
00:20:15.000They're not new, and they're also not legal.
00:20:37.000I told you that as soon as Trump said he's going to hold the families together, Democrats were immediately going to claim that something egregious had gone on.
00:20:50.000So, you have Bernie Sanders saying, that's it, here's Bernie Sanders saying that President Trump's executive order, it did not go far enough.
00:20:57.000It did not include pudding funding for me and my friends, and also, I will not share my pudding with actual illegal immigrants, but I will rant about it until I get my pudding from one of my aides.
00:21:07.000So, please, talk Anderson Cooper to Bernie Sanders, and then later, Bernie Sanders will eat his pudding.
00:21:12.000The idea of tearing little children from the arms of their parents, putting them into detention cages, and then making a big deal about an executive order, which may do absolutely nothing.
00:21:26.000It was a crisis that he created and attempted to address today, but he didn't go anywhere near far enough.
00:21:33.000OK, the only way the Democrats are going to feel that President Trump went far enough is if he does an en masse release.
00:21:39.000He gets an en masse release of all of these people.
00:21:41.000And that, of course, is the whole point here.
00:21:43.000That's what the media is pushing for, as well as what the media are pushing for.
00:21:55.000I don't remember this sort of cover with Barack Obama and his giant camps full of children who are wrapped in aluminum foil, but I am seeing this cover.
00:22:12.000The whole point here is that no matter what Trump does, he loses according to the media.
00:22:15.000So if that's the case, why not just enforce the law and then put it back on Congress?
00:22:18.000Well, in just a second, I'm going to explain to you why it is that the Democrats are pushing all of this and what they think that the policy actually should be.
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00:25:18.000If that's not their priority, they need to propose a policy solution that allows us to arrest illegal immigrants who come in here with kids.
00:25:23.000Otherwise, they're not providing us a policy solution.
00:25:25.000They just want people released generally.
00:25:27.000This could lead to family internment camps, Wolf, and that is what we do not want to see.
00:25:30.000And the way to avoid that is to still follow that Flores decision, which is a humane decision that does not want people in camps like this indefinitely.
00:25:52.000Okay, so my favorite part of this is that that was the policy.
00:25:54.000Okay, the new Trump policy, keeping these kids together with their parents, that was the Trump policy, the stated Trump policy, the Obama policy, the government policy, up till 2015-2016.
00:27:19.000We had a D by his name, and that means that he had a heart and he had a soul.
00:27:21.000By the way, the Democrats' proposed legislation on border separation would let nearly all parents who commit federal crimes get off scot-free.
00:27:29.000Gabriel Malar has an entire column on this where he went through the Senate Democrat co-sponsored bill written carelessly.
00:27:35.000It doesn't distinguish between migrant children at the border and U.S.
00:27:38.000citizen children already within the United States.
00:27:40.000The bill further does not distinguish between federal officers handling the border crisis and federal law enforcement pursuing the ordinary course of their duties.
00:27:47.000The bill provides that an agent or officer of a designated agency shall be prohibited from removing a child from his or her parents or legal guardian at or near the port of entry or within 100 miles of the border of the United States.
00:27:58.000Okay, well, this is a serious problem, because if you can't remove the kids from the parents, then you can't arrest the parents, according to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
00:28:05.000So their bill actually just releases all illegal immigrants who come across the border with kids.
00:28:09.000But of course, that's their entire policy.
00:28:11.000Jay Johnson, who you'll recall was the Secretary of Homeland Security under Barack Obama, the exorable DHS Secretary under Barack Obama from 2013 to 2017, who presided over this Obama-era policy.
00:28:24.000You know, the Obama-era policy of keeping kids together with parents in detention centers?
00:28:27.000He has an entire piece in the Washington Post virtue signaling.
00:28:30.000So he did the exact same thing Trump is now saying that he's gonna do, and he has a long piece in the Washington Post talking about what a good dude he is, just like Luis Gutierrez says.
00:29:16.000This is the guy who's responsible for actual families being held in detention centers in 2014, 2015, and who said openly that this was a deterrent policy.
00:29:24.000Designed to keep little girls with beautiful black hair from journeying from Central America.
00:29:29.000He says, as I witnessed the Trump administration's current practice of separating children from their parents at the border with Mexico, the image of that little girl and hundreds of other migrant women and children is fixed in my mind.
00:29:38.000Not the images of those kids who you're keeping in detention centers, you know, Jay Johnson.
00:29:42.000The images, of course, that have to do with Trump.
00:29:46.000Democrats don't actually have to act sympathetic.
00:29:48.000All they have to do is act as though they are sympathetic.
00:29:52.000They don't actually have to pursue policies that are sympathetic to American citizens.
00:29:55.000They don't have to pursue good legal policies.
00:29:57.000All they have to do is talk about how much they cry, and we're all supposed to pretend that that means that they have the best of intentions.
00:30:12.000Yeah, he hesitates in the pages of the Washington Post.
00:30:15.000He says he doesn't like the zero-tolerance deterrence policy.
00:30:17.000He doesn't like that everybody who's coming across the border illegally is arrested.
00:30:30.000Now, he doesn't have anything to say about the actual separation policy because he engaged in it.
00:30:34.000And he doesn't actually have anything to say about keeping families together because he engaged in it.
00:30:39.000Instead, he just says that we should get rid of the zero-tolerance policy, which essentially means that we should release all of these people into the center of the United States.
00:30:46.000He says the answer to the underlying problem is twofold.
00:30:50.000In 2016, Congress started down this road by appropriating $750 million in assistance for Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.
00:30:57.000In subsequent years, that level of support has fallen off, so we're supposed to pay off these countries.
00:31:00.000Second, encourage the neighboring countries in the region—Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Belize—to develop their own systems for accepting Central American refugees and asylum seekers.
00:31:09.000So his two solutions don't involve separation or keeping kids together with their parents.
00:31:15.000The only solutions he's actually suggesting, Jeh Johnson, the former DHS secretary under kind, caring, generous Barack Obama, is cut a check to Honduras and try to ask the Mexicans to take care of the problem.
00:31:24.000Those are really his only two solutions.
00:31:40.000It's so irritating to watch as the media falls prey to this, and they're doing it on purpose.
00:31:45.000I'm going to give you the worst of all of these people's responses in just one second, but for that, you're going to have to go over to dailywire.com.
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00:32:04.000Earlier this week, we had the angriest episode of the conversation ever with Alicia Krauss, and the questions came fast and furious because I was furious.
00:33:07.000There has been a problem with the policy.
00:33:09.000There will continue to be a problem with the policy until Congress does something about it.
00:33:12.000Congress is not going to do anything about it because Democrats are far more interested in yelling and screaming and doing stompy foot than they are in actually solving things.
00:33:19.000The proof of this comes courtesy of Joe Kennedy III.
00:33:22.000Nothing I like better than a guy who's only famous because he had a grandpa who was president.
00:33:31.000And Joe Kennedy III, a man who dumped his face into a vat of chapstick before speaking in his response to the State of the Union address, is now tweeting.
00:33:38.000And we're supposed to take him seriously because his grandpa was president of the United States and also banged around a lot.
00:33:44.000Here's Representative Joe Kennedy III.
00:33:45.000He said, you might not know this about me, but I'm a white guy.
00:34:09.000So if you consult the people over at ICE, my guess is that they have some ideas, but they might not actually agree with Joe Kennedy.
00:34:13.000I love the assumption that all black people and brown people agree with Joe Kennedy on his preferred policy of releasing all illegal immigrants into the United States en masse.
00:34:21.000It's really just because of whiteness.
00:35:39.000Well, now there's an internal memo from the American Civil Liberties Union, and they say that they are going to weigh their interest in protecting the First Amendment against other commitments to social justice, racial equality, and women's rights, given the possibility that offensive speech might undermine ACLU goals.
00:35:53.000In other words, the ACLU, which was supposed to be the premier civil liberties union in the United States, is now changing its policy.
00:36:00.000They're going to balance free speech concerns, like you should be able to say what you want in the United States of America, like the First Amendment, they're going to balance that with, does it offend black people?
00:36:12.000So in other words, if, for example, the state of California cracks down on this show, because I broadcast from the state of California, and I say that a man is a man and a woman is a woman, and you can't magically change from one to the other.
00:36:22.000If the state of California were to crack down on me and attempt to fine me, and I went to the ACLU and I said, listen guys, you may disagree with me, but this is a basic First Amendment issue.
00:36:29.000The ACLU, you would have 20 years ago defended me.
00:36:50.000So they're now going to do a balancing act.
00:36:52.000And they're now going to do a balancing act.
00:36:54.000They say, Well, no, it shouldn't, because you're talking about government policy, right?
00:37:13.000When you're talking about government policy, your dislike of a particular Nazi statement does not mean that you think that the government should be able to ban that Nazi statement.
00:38:02.000They say the ACLU's involvement in the protests and subsequent tragedy in Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017 brought these issues to the floor once again and prompted these guidelines, first proposed on a nationwide call of the ACLU's affiliate legal directors.
00:38:13.000These guidelines are designed to assist in consideration of the competing interests that may arise when such conflicts arise.
00:38:18.000In other words, they defended the right of the Charlottesville protesters, who are white supremacists, to do their rally, and then they didn't like what emerged, and now they don't want to defend those rights anymore.
00:38:27.000This is the death of the First Amendment.
00:38:29.000This is the end of the First Amendment.
00:38:31.000So this is a full, this is a full surrender to the forces of intersectionality.
00:38:37.000So, in the Wall Street Journal, this former board member talks about this entire situation.
00:38:41.000The former board member who revealed this memo was a person named Wendy Kaminer.
00:38:44.000I'm going to go through her op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in just a second.
00:38:48.000What she says is, the speech case guidelines reflect a demotion of free speech in the ACLU's hierarchy of values.
00:38:54.000Their vague references to the serious harm to marginalized people occasioned by speech can easily include the presumed psychological effects of racist or otherwise hateful speech,
00:39:20.000This is why there are a lot of folks on the right who are deeply concerned that all of the hate speech legislation that you see in Canada is going to come to the United States forthwith.
00:39:27.000That very soon what you're going to see is legislation pursued by Democrats and upheld by courts that says that you cannot say things that offend other people.
00:39:35.000And if you offend other people, then you will be fully responsible in a court of law for offending other people.
00:39:41.000The end of the First Amendment is at hand.
00:39:43.000What we are watching right now is deeply scary and deeply troubling, and the fact the ACLU is caving to it is demonstrative of the collapse of liberalism into leftism.
00:39:51.000I've always said there's a difference between people who are liberal and people who are of the left.
00:39:54.000People who are liberal are people who may disagree with me on policies like the amount of government involvement in the economy, but they believe I have a right to speak.
00:40:02.000They believe that I have a right to live my life as I see fit, for the most part, with certain government regulations that would restrict interactions between people in the business sphere, right?
00:40:10.000Or they believe in redistributive economics, but they believe that I should be able to talk as I see fit.
00:40:15.000Leftists, by contrast, believe that my very speech is a threat to their safety.
00:40:20.000It's a destruction of the... It's a bolstering of institutions of privilege.
00:40:27.000And therefore, my speech has to be shut down.
00:40:29.000Well, leftists are the people who are protesting me on campus.
00:40:31.000Leftists are the ones who are protesting me.
00:40:33.000Liberals are the ones who are debating me.
00:40:34.000Leftists are the ones who are protesting me and asking that I be shut down on campus.
00:40:38.000These leftists used to be at odds with the ACLU.
00:40:41.000The ACLU used to say, people on the left who are trying to shut down free speech, these are part of the problem.
00:40:47.000But instead, they've decided that they are going to collapse full scale into the foolishness of the hard left.
00:40:55.000That now they are going to give up on free speech entirely, and instead they are going to just jump full scale into an embrace of intersectional politics in which race and gender matter a lot more than basic principles like freedom of speech.
00:41:07.000Now, with all that said, you wonder why Trump is drawing big numbers at rallies?
00:41:11.000It's because of the ACLU, it's because of media malfeasance.
00:41:13.000So Trump yesterday was in northern Minnesota.
00:41:15.000Minnesota went very narrowly for Hillary Clinton in the last election cycle.
00:41:18.000She only won it by, I think it was under 2%.
00:41:20.000And so Trump actually has some momentum in Minnesota.
00:41:23.000And he is not wrong when he says that Democrats are putting illegal immigrants before American citizens.
00:41:27.000I can't say that he's wrong when he says this, when Democrats are openly saying that all illegal immigrants who cross the border with kids should be released into the center of the country.
00:41:34.000Democrats put illegal immigrants before they put American citizens.
00:41:45.000I'd like to say that he's wrong, but I'm having a problem saying that he's wrong when, again, Democrats are making very clear that this is how they feel about this stuff.
00:41:54.000And by the way, the media malfeasance continues full scale.
00:41:56.000Here's President Trump yesterday saying that he wanted to send MS-13 back.
00:42:00.000He said that it was necessary to send MS-13 back.
00:42:02.000And ABC News said that he said all illegal immigrants, including children.
00:42:06.000We have liberated towns out in Long Island.
00:42:31.000So this is you wonder why President Trump continues to gain momentum.
00:42:34.000It's because the left cannot just make factual critiques of President Trump.
00:42:37.000They gin up false narratives and use them against him.
00:42:40.000And then they use those false narratives in order to push liberal organizations like the ACLU into hard leftism by saying the priority here has to be fighting the bad guy.
00:42:48.000And the bad guy is the Hitlerian Trump.
00:42:50.000And if we can fight Trump, if we can fight the Hitlerian right by violating First Amendment principles, by violating the Constitution, well, then we will have made the world a much, much better place.
00:42:58.000The left's drive for utopia means that they're going to run roughshod over your right.
00:43:04.000And this is driving people to a reactionary support of anyone who promises to be anti-left.
00:43:09.000That's what's happening in the country right now.
00:43:11.000And that's a dangerous phenomenon because now we have reactionary politics on both sides and very little principled opposition to specific violations of liberty.
00:43:18.000OK, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:43:56.000I'm very into the piano quintet as a form.
00:43:58.000So there are lots of different forms of chamber music.
00:44:01.000A piano quintet is quite wonderful because instead of the full booming sound of the orchestra, piano quintet is two violins, violist, cellist, and pianist.
00:44:09.000And so you get a wide variety of sound in sort of the minimal number of people.
00:44:13.000Here's the beginning of Dvorak's Quintet in A Major, Op. 81.
00:45:08.000And it's a hell of a lot better than Ape Bleep, okay?
00:45:10.000I mean, like that terrible new Beyonce song.
00:45:13.000First of all, kudos to the multiple people who have now taken my lyric read of Ape Bleep and put it on YouTube to the actual soundtrack from Ape Poop.
00:46:33.000The zero-tolerance policy is arresting everyone who crosses the border.
00:46:36.000The separation is a necessary legal byproduct of the arrest.
00:46:44.000A family separation has been portrayed as a women's issue in the media, with all four former living First Ladies opposing it.
00:46:50.000The administration has deployed Nielsen, along with White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, to defend it.
00:46:54.000Both women appeared at a press briefing on Monday and performed that job with gusto.
00:46:59.000White women, like Nielsen and Sanders, have always been part of making white supremacy seem more palatable and less like the brutal, repressive ideology it is.
00:47:06.000Historical examples abound, from white women who worked alongside male colonizers to the wives of slaveholders.
00:47:27.000Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter are both women who I'm sure would have involved themselves in lynching of black people for no reason and taking pictures of it.
00:47:34.000I just I love the idea that race and sex define the evil.
00:47:38.000And the woman who's writing is of that race and sex.
00:47:39.000But this is the point of intersectionality.
00:47:41.000Intersectionality is the suggestion that we can define you purely by the various groups to which you belong unless you do penance, unless you come forward and achieve the grace of the left.
00:47:50.000By claiming that you have moved beyond your own parochial interests as a white woman writing for the Huffington Post.
00:47:56.000Now you have given up all of your own opinions and you have embraced the collective because you no longer are an individual, obviously.
00:48:03.000You've moved beyond your whiteness and your woman-ness and instead you are going to say exactly what the left wants you to say.
00:48:10.000This sort of silliness obviously leads the country to become a much worse place.
00:48:14.000Christian Nielsen and Sarah Huckabee Sanders are not doing what they're doing because they're white women.
00:48:18.000They're doing what they're doing because they are conservatives and work for the Trump administration.
00:48:21.000And that is why they're doing what they're doing.
00:48:24.000But I guess if we're going to reduce everybody down to racial categories, you can't be particularly surprised when the country tears itself apart.
00:48:29.000OK, we'll be back here tomorrow with all the latest, plus the mailbag, because tomorrow's a Friday.
00:48:33.000Wow, we've made it to the end of the week.