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00:01:58.000Expectation is that the Mueller report could drop as early as today.
00:02:03.000According to NBC News, President Trump on Friday continued to claim there is no collusion between his 2016 presidential campaign and Russia, as Washington braces for special counsel Robert Mueller's highly anticipated report.
00:02:14.000Trump said he has no idea when the report is going to drop.
00:02:21.000In all likelihood, this report is not going to contain anything the Democrats can run on.
00:02:25.000He added that the AG, the Attorney General William Barr, will ultimately make a decision about the report's release.
00:02:30.000Mueller is supposed to submit the report to Barr at the conclusion of his investigation into the Russian election interference and Trump.
00:02:37.000Barr is required to notify Congress about Mueller's findings.
00:02:41.000However, Justice Department regulations do not require Barr to give a comprehensive report to lawmakers.
00:02:46.000In fact, the report is expected not to be comprehensive.
00:02:49.000It is expected not to include all sorts of unverified allegations because of current Justice Department regulations.
00:02:56.000Unlike the Starr investigation, the Justice Department regulations now govern what comes out from the Mueller report.
00:03:03.000Apparently, they're reporting no more indictments are expected, is according to ABC News.
00:03:07.000Jonathan Karl reporting, there is no shortage of speculation on the special counsel Robert Mueller's report, much of it totally uninformed.
00:03:14.000But we don't need to speculate on the scope.
00:03:15.000The man who appointed Mueller has already given us a potential roadmap on what to expect from the special counsel.
00:03:21.000The bottom line, do not expect a harsh condemnation of President Trump or any of his associates if they have not been charged with crimes.
00:03:51.000The letter was written to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley.
00:03:55.000The letter was in response to Grassley's demands for more information on the special counsel investigation, and it offers a brief history of special counsel investigations.
00:04:02.000It actually quotes former and future A.G. William Barr, who appointed three special counsels during his time as A.G. under President George H.W. Bush.
00:04:10.000In the letter, Rosenstein makes it clear he believes the DOJ will not and cannot, without violating longstanding Department of Justice policy, include disparaging or incriminating information about anybody who has not been charged with a crime.
00:04:24.000So don't expect this thing to be a 500-page Ken Star compendium of details about Donald Trump's private life.
00:04:30.000Rosenstein wrote, Sources familiar with the investigation believe there are no more indictments coming from the special counsel.
00:04:46.000Amika Brzezinski was reading this story on air this morning on Morning Joe, and you could see her face collapse.
00:04:51.000I mean, she was really upset about this, that there were no more indictments expected from the special counsel.
00:04:57.000If that's all that Mueller's got, This thing has been a giant waste of time.
00:05:02.000Like, if all he came up with is a bunch of people who lied to the FBI about ancillary matters going to jail for a bunch of random stuff, For very short periods of time, for the most part.
00:05:13.000If all that came out of this was that they nailed Paul Manafort for being a violator of the Foreign Registration Act, the Foreign Lobbyist Registration Act, and all they got out of this was Michael Cohen and taxi medallions, my goodness, what a waste of America's time and money.
00:05:31.000He says, in fact, disclosing uncharged allegations against American citizens without a law enforcement need is considered to be a violation of a prosecutor's trust.
00:05:40.000What you don't want is people being tried in the court of public opinion based on information that wasn't strong enough to prosecute in the first place.
00:05:47.000Later in the letter, Rosenstein says he makes this standard clear to anyone under investigation, even public officials.
00:05:54.000He says, no matter who an investigation involves, an ordinary citizen, a local or state politician, a campaign official, a foreign agent, an officer of the federal legislative executive or judicial branch, agents and prosecutors are obligated to protect its confidentiality.
00:06:07.000Now, I know there are a lot of people who are on the left listening to this and they're thinking, wait a second, didn't James Comey come out about Hillary Clinton and give a full explanation of their entire investigation before recommending that she not be indicted?
00:06:18.000The answer is yes, and that's why James Comey should have been fired at the time.
00:06:21.000When James Comey came forward and exonerated Hillary Clinton on charges for which she should have been indicted, he should have either shut up and said, no indictment necessary, or he should have come forward and indicted.
00:06:33.000He split the baby and it ended up costing Hillary Clinton the presidency, at least quite plausibly.
00:06:38.000In this letter from last year, Rosenstein directly takes issue with the justification then-FBI Director James Comey used to publicly criticize Hillary Clinton in 2016, even as he decided not to charge her with a crime.
00:06:50.000At the time, Comey justified the break with longtime DOJ practice as an extraordinary step necessary because of circumstances so unusual they were comparable to a 500-year flood.
00:06:59.000That's because Comey was an idiot and terrible at his job.
00:07:02.000Rosenstein wrote, it is important for the DOJ to follow established procedures, especially when the stakes are high.
00:07:10.000James Comey, by the way, the reason he did that is because he knew that Hillary Clinton probably should have been indicted.
00:07:16.000But as testimony now from Lisa Page and Peter Strzok has established, the Obama DOJ crammed down on the FBI that she would not be indicted.
00:07:25.000And thus, James Comey decided to take it on his own shoulders, the hit.
00:07:29.000He decided that to preserve the reputation of both the FBI and DOJ, he would come clean with the American public.
00:07:34.000He did a deep disservice to both Hillary Clinton and the general public in doing what he did.
00:07:40.000But the fact is that the Obama administration wanted him to do that because they figured that it would end up getting Hillary Clinton off the hook, not costing her the presidency.
00:07:48.000Of course, they ended up figuring wrong.
00:07:51.000So if the Mueller report drops today, obviously all the presses will stop.
00:07:57.000We will see what is in this thing, presumably pretty quickly, because you assume there's not going to be a long turnaround time between Mueller releasing the report and William Barr condensing that report and releasing it to Congress, in which case it'll be leaked to the public in relatively short order.
00:08:20.000It is possible that Mueller If he thinks these offenses are impeachable but not criminal, could in fact include a lot of detail in this report simply to justify his time expenditure on this thing.
00:08:30.000But if it ends up that there's not much here?
00:08:34.000And we are getting rid of this in March of 2019, not in November of 2020.
00:08:38.000That is very good news for President Trump.
00:08:41.000He can then move on and we won't have to hear President Trump fulminate, except that he will rightly say that he is going to be continued to be targeted by the Democratic House for a bunch of investigations that the Mueller investigation has already concluded are unnecessary.
00:08:56.000If it turns out that the Mueller indictments are a big nothing, there are no more indictments.
00:09:00.000If the Mueller report is essentially an empty bag and Democrats continue to launch investigations into matters already covered by Mueller, Trump is always going to be able to say, listen, he said I didn't obstruct justice.
00:09:27.000All the folks on the left who keep claiming that Trump obstructed justice, there is no actual evidence of Trump obstructing justice.
00:09:34.000He's tweeted a few times at people like Michael Cohen.
00:09:36.000That is the closest you can come to an argument that he obstructed justice.
00:09:39.000It is not like when Bill Clinton legitimately told people to lie to the FBI for him, like directly told people to do this, according to the Star Report, and according to testimony from those people.
00:09:51.000That's what Bill Clinton was caught up on.
00:09:52.000There's nothing like that in the Trump case, at least so far as I can remember or see.
00:09:57.000We've been through a lot of this material.
00:09:59.000What that means is that if the Democrats continue to press on this score, they're going to be seen as vindictive.
00:10:41.000If the Democrats decide to be a fan service party and spend all of their time launching foolish investigations into President Trump, Trump is rightly going to be able to say, you guys are wasting your time and my money and everybody's money on your dumb investigations instead of focusing in on the issues at hand.
00:10:56.000And then his fulmination will actually have some teeth to it.
00:10:59.000Him fulminating against Mueller never made any sense.
00:11:01.000Mueller works for the executive branch.
00:11:03.000Him fulminating against Jeff Sessions, the AG, didn't make any sense either.
00:11:06.000Jeff Sessions worked for him and was selected by him.
00:11:08.000Rod Rosenstein works for President Trump.
00:11:11.000But Trump fulminating at Congress, that is a tried, tested, and true strategy for winning re-election.
00:11:18.000This has been true ever since Harry Truman won re-election in 1948 on the back of arguing that he had to deal with a do-nothing Republican Congress.
00:11:26.000And he pulled his chestnuts out of the fire against Thomas Dewey.
00:11:29.000This has been a long-standing, historical, running strategy by presidents.
00:11:34.000President Obama, by the way, did the same thing in 2012.
00:11:37.000He said, we were going great guns until 2010, and now we're being obstructed, and I'm running against a do-nothing, useless Congress.
00:11:51.000Yeah, it's bad for all the people who work for President Trump who are going to have to lawyer up and spend a lot of money to defend themselves against dumb investigations.
00:11:57.000But it does give Trump something to run on that is not the Democrats calling him an deplorable human being.
00:12:03.000In just a second, we will discuss An amazing Time Magazine cover piece about AOC.
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00:13:39.000OK, so as I say, the Democrats are in a bit of trouble if they have staked all of their all of their claim to the presidency on the back of Trump colluded with Russia.
00:13:50.000They couldn't accept the fact that Trump won the election in the same way that Stacey Abrams in Georgia refuses to accept that she lost her election for governor of Georgia.
00:13:58.000And now the Democrats are trying to elevate her.
00:14:32.000John Kerry, after he lost in 2004, went away.
00:14:35.000Al Gore, after he lost in 2000, went away.
00:14:38.000Now Democrats, after they lose, say that they didn't lose, and then not only don't they go away, they rip on the institutions of American government and suggest that because they didn't really lose, the other person in office is illegitimate.
00:14:50.000If that's your best shot at president, I just, I literally do not understand the strategy.
00:14:55.000I legitimately don't understand that strategy.
00:14:57.000It's not like President Trump doesn't provide them fodder to run on every day, but if they are fully invested in the narrative that Hillary Clinton is the actual president of the United States, and thus, the best attack on President Trump is that he is illegitimate, that sort of stuff does not carry weight with the American public, for whom President Trump has been the legitimate president since his election in 2016.
00:15:17.000Again, that doesn't mean Democrats aren't going to show up.
00:15:21.000But if your best shot at Trump is Russian collusion after all of this, Man, what a disappointment you're gonna be to the vast majority of Americans in the upcoming election cycle.
00:15:31.000Okay, meanwhile, the true star of the Democratic Party, so fresh, so incredibly fresh, and so incredibly phased, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:16:35.000One of dozens will arrive each day leaving neon-colored post-it notes as devotional offerings.
00:16:40.000But in her first three months in Congress, they'd say, enough people have threatened to murder Ocasio-Cortez.
00:16:44.000that Capitol Police trained her staff to perform risk assessment of her visitors.
00:16:48.000This is the daily reality for America's newest human Rorschach test.
00:16:52.000Wonder Woman of the left, Wicked Witch of the right, Ocasio-Cortez has become the second most talked about politician in America after the President of the United States.
00:17:37.000This is her first big full-time job in Congress?
00:17:41.000That does not sound like a life of hardship in the United States.
00:17:46.000Going to Boston University, being given a degree for learning apparently nothing, working at various odd jobs while your parents are upper-middle income, and your first big-time job is in Congress, that doesn't sound like a rags-to-riches story.
00:18:01.000That sounds like a some-riches-to-more-riches story.
00:18:07.000She's a suffering servant, according to Charlotte Alter.
00:18:09.000I miss being able to go outside and sweat, she says in her office one day in March, settling into a black leather chair after a long day of subcommittee hearings.
00:18:16.000She's much smaller than she looks on TV, with a warm but cautious manner.
00:18:57.000On Ocasio-Cortez's office bookshelf, near a picture of her late father and a photo of her with a local Girl Scout troop, two books nestled together in uneasy union.
00:19:07.000One is The Federalist Papers, written mostly by James Madison and Alexander Hamilton and published in 1788.
00:19:12.000The other is The Uninhabitable Earth, Life After Warming, written by journalist David Wallace-Wells 231 years later.
00:19:20.000There's a picture of Wonder Woman leaning in one corner of the office and a giant cardboard cutout of Cardi B's face in another.
00:19:30.000Now, here is where things become hilarious.
00:19:33.000They say she was born into a working class family in the Parkchester section of the Bronx.
00:19:37.000Yeah, her family moved out of there real fast, into a pretty upper-income area of New York.
00:19:42.000As Michael Knowles of the Daily Wire has pointed out, he grew up in the neighboring county, which was not quite as wealthy.
00:19:47.000Her dad owned a small architecture company.
00:19:48.000Her Puerto Rico-born mother cleaned houses.
00:19:50.000They were deeply rooted in the neighborhood, but also wary of its limitations.
00:19:54.000Ocasio-Cortez has told friends she learned early on that wearing hoop earrings and the nameplate necklaces was fine in the Bronx, but she wouldn't be taken seriously if she wore them to a job interview.
00:20:02.000The family moved to the prosperous Westchester County suburb of Yorktown Heights when she was about five.
00:20:09.000So the first part of that paragraph makes it sound as though she lived her entire life growing up in the Bronx, and then she moved into the upper echelons of American society.
00:20:16.000Her family moved into a nice area when she was five.
00:20:22.000She describes herself as a dorky kid who once asked for a microscope for her birthday.
00:20:26.000Her 2007 high school microbiology project on the effect of antioxidants on the lifespan of roundworms won second place in the microbiology category at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
00:20:37.000She often joined her mom to clean the homes of neighbors, and she wrote her college application essay about two of them helping a man who lost the wife the only way they could, by cleaning out his fridge.
00:20:46.000She took out student loans to enroll at BU.
00:20:53.000Graduating in 2011 with a degree in economics and international relations.
00:20:57.000By the way, she knows nothing about either of those two things.
00:21:00.000That shows you how crappy our colleges are.
00:21:01.000Now, the part of this that is really galling is not that Time Magazine put her on its cover.
00:21:06.000The media have been pushing her since she defeated Joe Crowley with like 15,000 votes in a deep blue area in a plurality Hispanic congressional district.
00:21:19.000People treat this as though it's a massive shocker.
00:21:21.000It was only a massive shocker if you weren't following the race all that closely, is sort of the truth.
00:21:26.000But regardless, you don't want to diminish her accomplishments.
00:21:29.000She won 15,000 votes in a heavily blue suburb that was majority or plurality Hispanic against a white guy who was not super popular and didn't spend a lot of time in his home district, reportedly.
00:21:39.000In any case, Regardless, she won, but she was immediately elevated to the upper echelons of democratic leadership, and the real reason is because she's attractive, and she looks like she's having a good time, and she's kind of fun, and she knows how to use Instagram, and she has an instant pot, and all the rest of this.
00:21:54.000But Charlotte Alter, the columnist of Time, is what I actually want to talk about, not AOC.
00:21:59.000Because she spilled the beans on why it is that millennials think like AOC.
00:22:07.000It is pretty astonishing and pretty damning.
00:22:08.000If you're a millennial and you think like AOC because you think like Charlotte Alter, You need to get your head straightened out because you are not being accurate about the state of the world.
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00:24:01.000And the thing about AOC and the reason that she is, I think, tapping into something that is so exciting to some and threatening to others is that she is really bringing us into the politics of the 21st century.
00:24:17.000She is a 21st century leader trying to tackle 21st century problems in a body that is largely dominated by 20th century thinking.
00:24:25.000Okay, what the hell is she even talking about?
00:24:46.000Weird, because I don't really feel jealous of her as much as I feel angry at the media for having decided that her ideas are worth airing and defending, despite the fact that they are unintelligible masses of gibberish.
00:24:58.000Here is Charlotte Alter playing defense as a journalist for AOC.
00:25:04.000Don't worry, the media are not biased in any way.
00:25:06.000There are certainly some Democrats who are a little annoyed that she's getting so much airspace and so many headlines.
00:25:12.000And they think that she, and they, you know, frankly, I think, seem a little jealous that she's getting so much attention.
00:25:17.000They would like to be on the cover of Time magazine.
00:25:20.000But everyone that we spoke to who's worked with her has said that she's kind, she's prepared, she, you know, she shows up, she does her homework.
00:25:28.000Oh, well, everyone you spoke to, is it?
00:25:31.000Maybe you might want to broaden that circle out from her immediate family and people she pays.
00:25:35.000Because if you actually talk to anyone in the Democratic caucus who knows anything, they are all deeply unhappy with the fact that AOC is constantly stepping all over every serious legislative proposal they put out.
00:26:05.000People our age have never experienced American prosperity in our adult lives, which is why so many millennials are embracing democratic socialism.
00:26:30.000AOC writes, yes, and this is not just my story.
00:26:34.000This is true of wide swaths of our entire generation who are now poised to become a much more influential civic and electoral bloc as we mature into our 30s and beyond.
00:26:53.000You don't know what the hell you're talking about.
00:26:54.000You are living the best life any people have ever lived on planet Earth.
00:26:58.000You're living in a country where you can say anything you want.
00:27:00.000You're living in a place where you have more income than anyone in history.
00:27:04.000With a touch of a button, any product anywhere on Earth will arrive at your door in three days for the cheapest available price.
00:27:10.000You're living in a world where your chances of starvation are zero, where your chances of homelessness are effectively zero, if you have any sort of social fabric or any money at all.
00:27:19.000A world in which you live in a nation with 3.8% unemployment and 7 million unfilled jobs.
00:27:26.000Where your poverty line involves having a microwave, a car, a stove, and a TV.
00:29:34.000Imagine the difficulty of having to grow up in a house where your mom produces for Comedy Central and your dad is one of the more famous columnists in the West.
00:29:47.000It's always astonishing to me to watch people who've really had it pretty good in the United States whine about how rough they have it in the United States.
00:29:56.000Like me, I've had it great in the United States.
00:29:58.000I don't whine about having it rough because I've had it great, okay?
00:30:01.000And I grew up in a two-bedroom house in Burbank, California that fits six people.
00:30:07.000It was like an 1,100-square-foot house.
00:30:25.000Millennials whining about how rough they have it while chomping down on avocado toast is one of the more obnoxious phenomena of our modern world.
00:30:35.000In a second, I'm going to show you some charts to demonstrate that it's not just Charlotte Alter's story, that millennials have actually been pretty well off, that they stand on a 3,000-year tradition of a West that has produced prosperity, science, decency, morality, and democracy, and then they sit there and whine about it all day and talk about tearing it down in favor of a socialist utopia that has never existed and will never exist.
00:30:59.000I'm going to show you the stats that show that Charlotte Alter is not an outlier in terms of being benefited from being in the United States.
00:31:05.000I have some charts, and facts, and figures, which mean more than Charlotte Alter's tweets about Dunkaroos.
00:31:12.000By the way, I don't even know why she's suggesting that eating Dunkaroos is some sign of poverty.
00:31:18.000When I was a kid, that's all I wanted.
00:31:20.000Dunkaroos, I don't think, were kosher, and I was always looking at the commercials on TV, and I'm like, God, those look fantastic.
00:31:26.000Cookies that you dip into chocolate dip, and it comes in a package?
00:31:58.000You can see in this photo that Murp has made three excellent choices.
00:32:01.000First, he became a Daily Wire annual subscriber.
00:32:04.000That's how he got a Leftist Tears Tumblr.
00:32:06.000Second, he bought my brand new best-selling book, The Right Side of History, number one on Amazon, number one non-fiction in Barnes & Noble.
00:32:12.000And finally, he included those two things in a photo with the hashtag, Leftist Tears Tumblr.
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00:33:45.000This is a timeline of when products were invented and how long it took for them to be integrated into 100% of household use in the United States.
00:33:54.000So the telephone took essentially a full century from its invention until it was available in 100% of households.
00:34:01.000By 1970, it was available by about 80% of households.
00:34:06.000You know, 70 years between invention and its actual acceptance by the vast majority of American households.
00:34:13.000If you look at electricity, electricity was made available at the beginning of the 20th century.
00:34:18.000It was not widely available in all American households until you got to about 1945, 1950.
00:34:26.000That's when it was available in like 80% of American households.
00:34:28.000The radio was invented in the mid-1920s, and it was available in most American households, and the vast majority anyway, by 1940.
00:34:34.000Now look at the right side of this chart, the right-hand side of this chart.
00:34:39.000Every major invention of the modern era, the line from invention to prevalence is essentially straight up.
00:34:48.000The smartphone was invented shortly after 2000.
00:34:51.000By 2010, the smartphone was available for more than 50% of the public.
00:34:56.000And by 2015, it was available to 75% of the public.
00:34:59.000A 15-year lag period between invention and acceptance by everyone.
00:35:03.000The digital camera was invented in about 1995.
00:35:05.000It was already available for pretty much everybody.
00:35:11.000So basically, any major product that has been invented since 1970 in the United States has been available to pretty much every American household within 10 to 15 years.
00:35:40.000We had doubled our rate of consumption.
00:35:42.000That doesn't sound like poverty to me.
00:35:44.000The share of household budget spent on food, clothing, shelter, and utilities went down The share spent on entertainment and recreation went from 8.9% in 1980 to 14.3% in 2015.
00:35:54.000in 2015 the share spent on entertainment and recreation went from 8.9 percent in 1980 to 14.3 percent in 2015 the average size of a new home went from 1595 square feet in 1980 to 2700 square feet in 2015 in other words um guys things have gotten a lot better and you should stop your whining That's not true for everyone.
00:36:19.000Listen, if you're an exception, if you're somebody who's really had it hard, you grew up in poverty, obviously this is not true for you, but that's been true for all time.
00:36:25.000There are people growing up in poverty.
00:36:28.000To pretend that millennials, as a generation, have it significantly worse off than past generations is to ignore the products that we get to consume now.
00:36:37.000The people who are middle class now live better than rich people did even 30 years ago.
00:36:42.000The market capitalization of all listed U.S.
00:36:44.000firms in consistent 2015 dollars, $3.4 trillion in 1980, $25.1 trillion in 2015.
00:36:46.000Life expectancy has risen by nearly six years since 1980.
00:36:48.000The overall death rate has dropped from 1,007 per 100,000 people to 724 per 1,000 people.
00:37:45.000The money prices for consumer goods move steadily upwards.
00:37:48.000Americans' true cost of living is better measured in hours and minutes of work, and that has been moving downward, consistently.
00:37:55.000So money prices have gone up, but that's because of inflation.
00:37:58.000But when you look at work hour prices, meaning how much work it takes to buy a particular product, that has been declining steadily since 1900, to all-time lows now.
00:38:06.000There is falling real cost of everyday products.
00:38:10.000The iPad, okay, the iPad, when it was introduced in 2010, and now what it costs, it only costs 85% of what it used to.
00:38:37.000It's a lot of people like AOC whining about their wonderful upbringing in a fantastic country.
00:38:42.000Show a little gratitude and maybe you'll stop whining about the system and start focusing on maybe the fact that if you are not succeeding the way you want to, you need to change the decisions that you are making.
00:38:50.000You are in control of your own life, not some impersonal chaotic forces beyond your control.
00:38:56.000What we are watching right now is a return to a misunderstanding of civilization.
00:39:01.000That's what we are watching right now.
00:39:02.000I'm going to talk about that in just a second.
00:39:03.000So, what we are watching In essence, in the United States, is a misunderstanding of the system under which we live.
00:39:27.000Some of us have more athletic ability.
00:39:29.000We all have different capacities and we are all born into different situations.
00:39:33.000The question is, do we live in a country that is free for you to make decisions and reap the consequences of those decisions?
00:39:39.000Or is the system, quote-unquote, rigged against you?
00:39:41.000And if it is, quote-unquote, rigged against you, is that because reality is just reality?
00:39:46.000Or is it because there's somebody who's actively standing in your way?
00:39:50.000What I mean by that is that there are certain people who are just going to do better than others in American society.
00:39:54.000People who are more likely to make good decisions.
00:39:57.000People who may be smarter, or faster, or bigger, or taller, or more beautiful.
00:40:02.000That's been true for all of human history, and government is not in a position to rectify these cosmic inequities.
00:40:08.000The question is, is government actively impeding you from feeling the effect of your own choices?
00:40:13.000And if it is not, then maybe we ought to examine the choices and discuss how we can make better choices so that we succeed in American society.
00:40:20.000This is why I dislike populism of both right and left.
00:40:22.000Populism basically says to people, we'll give you what you want, an excuse.
00:40:26.000Populism of the right says, well, you know, there are all these factory towns where the jobs have gone away and we lie and we say it's because of China and Mexico, not because of technological development.
00:40:35.000And then we say, well, we want to make sure that the system isn't quote-unquote rigged against you.
00:40:40.000And we're going to have to show me which part of the system was rigged and why we wouldn't be better off just saying to folks, listen, let's help you make decisions.
00:40:46.000If we're going to help you, let's find private charitable ways to help you make decisions that better your life.
00:41:16.000Decisions that make your life better and build the social fabric.
00:41:19.000This is what my entire book, The Right Side of History, is about.
00:41:23.000If we reject those fundamental assumptions and we assume that we are in fact just corks bobbing about on the eddies of civilization, and that if we just radically reshifted civilization, then suddenly it would be better for everyone?
00:41:35.000Any attempt to radically reshift human nature away from freedom and toward oppressiveness from the top down in the name of kind-hearted, smiley-faced, redistributive justice and social justice, all that's going to do is create more misery, which is typically what these systems do.
00:41:53.000Meanwhile, I think it is worthwhile noting the Democratic Party has moved dramatically anti-Israel.
00:41:57.000Not only did Ilhan Omar win, Ilhan Omar, the anti-Semite, the representative from Minnesota, Not only did she somehow amazingly get the Democratic Party to fold to her, but now the entire Democratic Party is essentially mirroring her position on the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee.
00:42:14.000So AIPAC is not a lobbying organization.
00:42:30.000AIPAC is largely considered just a pro-Israel place, and virtually every candidate right, left, and center has spoken at AIPAC, no matter their position, even if that position happens to be an incredibly dovish position on Israel.
00:42:41.000Barack Obama used to speak there every year, despite the fact that Barack Obama was dramatically anti-Israel in policy.
00:42:47.000Because he wanted to show, listen, my policy is not driven by anti-Israel animus.
00:42:52.000Now the Democrats have decided they are not showing up anymore.
00:42:57.000Because she's retweeting people saying she won.
00:42:59.000Because Ilhan Omar started this whole thing by saying it was Jew money behind American support for Israel and what she really meant was AIPAC.
00:43:24.000But for every Democrat to basically say we're not speaking to a pro-Israel group because it would signal to our base that we like Israel is pretty astonishing.
00:43:36.000Five, count them, five Democratic candidates say they will not attend the AIPAC policy conference this year, which is an astonishing move considering, again, that all of these people want to win Democratic primaries and Jews vote overwhelmingly Democrat.
00:44:25.000She said it was Jew money behind American support of Israel.
00:44:28.000And then she pointed her finger at AIPAC and the entire left-wing media went, yeah, let's ask some questions about those Jews and their money.
00:44:35.000The New York Times ran a headline saying, And now?
00:44:40.000Listen, we know where the heart of the Democratic Party is.
00:45:08.000Beto O'Rourke also says that he is not going to show up either.
00:45:11.000So that means that there are six Democratic candidates who say they will not show up at AIPAC because they're afraid of ticking off the anti-Israel and at least partially anti-Semitic base of the Democratic Party.
00:45:23.000Meanwhile, President Trump yesterday recognized that the Golan Heights were a part of Israel, which is a good move considering you don't want the Golan Heights, which is a strategically important, valuable asset in the hands of Syria.
00:45:34.000It is literally a giant cliff, the Golan Heights, from which Syrian batteries were shelling Israel in 1973.
00:45:40.000Israel had to expend thousands of lives in order to take the Golan Heights and keep them safe for civilized people in Israel.
00:46:04.000As we all know, the New Zealand Prime Minister announced the country would ban all semi-automatic guns less than a week after the shooting.
00:46:10.000As a conservative, I'm weary of legislative changes being made in reactionary fashion, but I have difficulties explaining why.
00:46:15.000Could you maybe explain why reactionary legislative action is bad?
00:46:50.000In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shooting, that was when Piers Morgan was doing this every night, and I said to him that he was bullying people by suggesting their moral inferiority if they didn't agree with him on gun control.
00:47:00.000Which of course was true, and effectively ended his career on television.
00:47:03.000The fact is that too many people in positions of legislative power react to events with character assassination of people who disagree with them on policy.
00:47:12.000That is not a recipe for good policymaking.
00:47:14.000If you have good evidentiary policy that has been based on evidence, then you should be putting that forward in non-crisis scenarios.
00:47:20.000And then if there's a crisis and public attention is on the issue, then you put it forward again.
00:47:24.000But if the idea is that we are supposed to react in non-reasonable fashion to bad stuff that happens because there's an emotional appeal and we can use it as an emotional club, that's bad policymaking and worse morality.
00:47:35.000Stephen says, hey, Ben, do you have thoughts on President Trump's executive order to protect free speech on campus?
00:47:52.000The text of it basically just says that it's essentially advisory.
00:47:56.000It says to college campuses, unless you take proper procedures to protect free speech, we are going to remove your research funding.
00:48:01.000But it doesn't go any further into specifics.
00:48:04.000That effectively means that it's up to the Department of Education to determine whether the First Amendment has been violated in terms of removing public funding from universities that engage in anti-free speech activity.
00:48:15.000I have a feeling that it's not going to be invoked very often, but just as a sort of advisory opinion, I think it's a good thing, and every administration, Democratic and Republican, should reinforce that idea.
00:48:24.000By the way, it should be uncontroversial.
00:48:26.000Barack Obama himself was very hard on colleges that attempted to shut down free speech.
00:48:33.000So I'm a traditionalist when it comes to baseball, so I'm not generally in favor of the DH rule.
00:48:37.000I think it changes the strategic nature of the game.
00:48:40.000Should the National League adopt the DH rule?
00:48:42.000So I'm a traditionalist when it comes to baseball, so I'm not generally in favor of the DH rule.
00:48:47.000I think it changes the strategic nature of the game.
00:48:50.000I understand the rationale, which is to keep old players from having to play the field.
00:48:53.000And also you don't lose a position in the batting order.
00:48:57.000And There are some rule changes I think that would be good.
00:49:00.000I think that, number one, you should have to pitch to more than one batter if you are a relief pitcher, because it is very irritating to watch seven relief pitchers be brought in to finish one inning.
00:49:11.000Second of all, absolutely there should be a pitch clock.
00:49:14.000And not only should there be a pitch clock, batters should not be allowed to back out of the box 1,000 times, no more Garciaparra style, and relace their gloves every five seconds.
00:49:46.000But as a general rule, listen, baseball is one of the healthier sports right now.
00:49:50.000Baseball, if you had to buy stock in sports right now, you'd buy stock in basketball and you'd buy stock in baseball and you'd sell on football.
00:49:55.000Noah says, Hey Ben, you often speak about the social fabric and community institutions like churches being there for those in need.
00:50:02.000If these avenues continue to decline, how can those in need get help?
00:50:06.000I'm not sure they can, other than government interventionism, which is why you're seeing an increasing demand for government interventionism.
00:50:12.000The beautiful thing about being a government interventionist is you intervene with the government in the name of doing good.
00:50:17.000You crowd out private alternatives, and then you point to the fact that private alternatives have been crowded out to grow government even more.
00:50:24.000That's what the welfare system generally does.
00:50:26.000It reduces private giving because we have less money to give.
00:50:46.000And I'm seeing parents walking around on the street with their kids dressed up in costumes.
00:50:51.000I'm seeing them drop off gift baskets, mishloch manot, at everybody else's house.
00:50:56.000We ourselves are driving around my car.
00:50:58.000My kids and I are walking up to front doors and dropping off gift baskets.
00:51:01.000And you receive, you know, 20, 25 gift baskets just from people in the community who you've had over to your house and who have been over to your house.
00:51:07.000And you think to yourself, this is what the social fabric looks like.
00:51:10.000You know if you have a social fabric and you know if you don't.
00:51:12.000And the reason the social fabric exists is, of course, this is a pretty diverse group of people, diverse jobs, diverse experiences from a variety of countries.
00:51:21.000And yet we all have a common goal, and that is to worship God in Jewish fashion.
00:51:51.000Beatriz says, I think this week you mentioned it was a Jewish fast day, and therefore you could not drink out of the leftist year's tumbler.
00:53:37.000Kate says, Hey Ben, huge fan of yours.
00:53:39.000My question is as a pro-life woman and someone who is struggling with fertility problems, I'm curious about your view on in vitro fertilization.
00:53:45.000From what I've gathered, clinics automatically destroy embryos that don't meet a certain standard.
00:53:49.000Do you believe this is a form of abortion, and if so, should this be something we talk about as pro-life conservatives in order to be consistent in our views of life at conception?
00:53:57.000So I don't know enough about the destruction of embryos.
00:53:58.000My view is that if you destroy an embryo that is, in fact, a form of abortion, And that's why you should only implant the number of embryos that you are willing to give birth to.
00:54:07.000And that may be more expensive, but that seems to me the only pro-life way to do it.
00:54:11.000So I'm not against in vitro in the sense that if you fertilize an egg and then you implant it artificially in a woman's uterus, that that is something terrible.
00:54:20.000I don't agree with that, but the destruction of an embryo obviously does raise serious pro-life moral concerns.
00:54:38.000What I mean by you shouldn't be prejudiced against a religion is that religious practice alone should not disqualify you from being seen as holding certain views.
00:54:46.000So I've said, for example, that wearing hijab does not mean that you are anti-Western or anti-American or anything like that.
00:55:06.000Radical Islamism is not only fundamentalist, it is anti-woman, and it is anti-Western.
00:55:12.000So obviously you can hold that viewpoint against someone just as you would hold communism or socialism against somebody, ideologically speaking.
00:55:19.000What I mean is that simple religious practice alone cannot be the barrier to being seen as a fully-fledged Westerner, obviously.
00:55:27.000You should be able to worship however you choose, so long as your ideology itself is not evil.
00:55:33.000So, again, religious practice generally is not sufficient as a marker to rule people out of line in that way.
00:55:41.000Rachel says, Ben, Thursday you talked about how it's unfair to judge Jordan Peterson on being photographed with someone in a dumb shirt.
00:55:47.000Did this also apply to Obama and Farrakhan, or is this different because we know the views of Farrakhan?
00:56:05.000Louis Farrakhan is a very, very famous anti-Semite who has met with pretty much every Democratic member of Congress at this point, or at least a lot of them.
00:56:41.000I like Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas.
00:56:44.000I like Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida.
00:56:46.000There are a lot of really good up-and-coming young Republicans who have pretty solid records, and I'm excited about the future of conservatism among a lot of those faces.
00:56:57.000As far as a run for office in my future, man, you'd have to make a convincing case.
00:57:24.000It's called The Right Side of History.
00:57:25.000And a large part of that book is dedicated to the difference between the Scottish, English, American Enlightenment and the French Enlightenment.
00:57:34.000The French Enlightenment saw the Enlightenment as a break between reason and religion.
00:57:38.000That all the Judeo-Christian values of the past could now be abandoned and we had to build a new morality on the basis of reason alone.
00:57:45.000The cult of reason was actually an actual worshipped cult in France during the French Revolution.
00:57:50.000Like they actually went into They actually went into Notre Dame, they ripped out all the crosses, and they put up a statue of something that they called Reason.
00:57:58.000And then they actually worshipped Reason.
00:58:04.000And then there was the Cult of the Supreme Deity, and that was founded by Robespierre, and that was supposed to be sort of the deist response to the Cult of Reason, but it effectively was the same thing.
00:58:13.000The fact is that when you withdraw from the fundamental principles that undergird Western civilization in the name of reason, you destroy reason itself.
00:58:21.000What America understood is that you need a social fabric built on Judeo-Christian values, and that you can reason, but you have to make the fundamental assumptions of Judeo-Christian values, and then use reason in accordance with those.
00:58:32.000So the fundamental premises themselves should not be questioned, meaning the fact that the universe is an orderly place, the fact that Human beings are made in the unique image of God, and human beings have creative power and free will, and that history is a progression, and that you can impact the world.
00:58:49.000All of these principles are stuff I talk about in The Right Side of History.
00:58:51.000The French Revolution dispensed with them.
00:58:53.000In doing so, they dispensed with individual rights in favor of romantic nationalism.
00:58:57.000They valued equality of outcome rather than equality of rights, and they did an enormous amount of damage.
00:59:03.000People, I've heard the critique that my book is anti-Enlightenment.
00:59:06.000That is such absolute sheer crap, I can't even believe it.
00:59:09.000I mean, you have to be illiterate to believe that.
00:59:12.000The goal of my book is to explain that the Enlightenment had roots and didn't magically spring into being in 1760, and that we have to recognize those roots or we lose the part of the Enlightenment that is actually worth preserving.
00:59:44.000Any help would be extremely appreciated.
00:59:46.000Well, if you want a pretty good translation of the Hebrew, there's a new Bible commentary that is out by Rabbi Soloveitchik that I don't remember if I've recommended it already this week.
01:00:01.000It's a Bible commentary by Rabbi Joseph Baer Soloveitchik, one of the more famous rabbis of the 20th century.
01:00:07.000And the translation of the Bible is quite good and it has his commentary below it.
01:00:11.000So that's a good way to study it, so that you're not just trying to read it straight.
01:00:14.000Speaking of which, there's another great book by Rabbi Soloveitchik called Halakhic Man, all about why Jews follow Jewish law, why Jewish law matters, even in a world where you think that you have natural law principles.
01:00:45.000Elizabeth Warren, not understanding things.
01:00:46.000So Senator Elizabeth Warren, she's running the progressive, populist, left-wing viewpoint, which is shocking, because she started her career as a moderate, talking about economic problems in the United States, the two-income trap, and all the rest of this stuff.
01:00:58.000She suggested she was a fan of school vouchers, for example.
01:01:00.000Now she's abandoned all that, and she claims that she wants to break up Amazon.
01:01:03.000But don't worry, guys, it won't hurt anybody in any way, because if one person knows how to run a business, it's the lady who's never done it.
01:01:09.000Somebody starts to grow a business in there, then Amazon, Google, Facebook just reaches out and snatches up the business.
01:01:39.000So her suggestion is that you're going to be able to get the same things at the same prices if you increase the cost of production for Amazon.
01:01:46.000She says that Amazon shouldn't be able to be vertically integrated, in other words.
01:01:49.000She wants it so that if you Make coffee makers.
01:01:52.000You should not be able to distribute those coffee makers.
01:01:54.000This is true of legitimately every business in the United States.
01:01:58.000That you're going to give competitive advantage to the products that you make.
01:03:18.000So here's Beto explaining, we don't need any walls.
01:03:21.000We don't need any walls in a room filled with walls.
01:03:24.000We do not need any walls, $30 billion, 2,000 miles long, 30 feet high, that will not be built on the international boundary line, which is the center line of the Rio Grande River.
01:03:36.000That wall will be built well into the interior, on someone's ranch, someone else's farm, someone else's home.
01:03:43.000You and I will be forced to take their property to solve a problem that we do not have.
01:03:48.000Okay, I'm so bored with Beto O'Rourke at this point.
01:03:52.000Not only is his point not well taken, because if you are to build any sort of barrier, presumably there will be land upon which the barrier must be located, and we should always worry about the extent of government overreach when it comes to eminent domain.
01:04:04.000Something he, by the way, did not worry very much about when he was a city councilman in El Paso.
01:04:08.000But Beto O'Rourke's sophomoric ramblings about why walls are unnecessary generally The fact this guy is considered a frontrunner to the Democratic Party shows a certain lack of ideas.
01:04:21.000Now, it doesn't mean everybody on the left lacks ideas, but the fact that this guy is considered an idea guy.
01:05:15.000Also, make sure that you pick up a copy of my best-selling book, The Right Side of History, number one on Amazon, number one in non-fiction, at Barnes & Noble, really racing up the sales charts.
01:05:31.000I think it is the most important book I've ever written, so I appreciate you going out and taking a look at it, and we'll see you here a little bit later.
01:06:04.000Hey guys, over on the Matt Wall Show today, with all of these very deep ideological divides in our country, are we on the verge of a civil war?
01:06:13.000What would it look like if we were headed in that direction?