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00:00:00.000Israel's elections end with no clear winner, President Trump receives support from a feisty Corey Lewandowski, and the woke scolds come for Joe Biden and comedy.
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00:01:37.000Okay, so Israel had its second election in like eight months yesterday, and that followed another election just a few months ago in which an impasse was created after Benjamin Netanyahu apparently had a majority bloc formed, and a man named Navigdor Lieberman, who was his former defense minister and actually a former member of and a man named Navigdor Lieberman, who was his former defense minister and actually a Yeah.
00:01:57.000He took his party, the Yisrael Beiteinu party, and basically refused to form a coalition with Netanyahu, so long as Netanyahu was, in his words, pandering toward the religious parties in Israel.
00:02:08.000So, there are several competing cross-currents in Israeli politics.
00:02:12.000In the United States, abroad, everybody tends to think that Israeli politics is mainly and centrally about Policy toward the Palestinian Authority, or policy toward Europe, or policy toward the United States, and that simply is not true in much the same way that policy in the United States and politics in the United States are largely not about foreign policy.
00:02:30.000And in the United States, most of the stuff we think about is domestic policy.
00:02:33.000In Israel, most of the stuff that people think about is domestic policy, specifically because there is a widespread consensus ever since the Second Intifada of 2000-2001 There's a widespread consensus that there is no peace to be negotiated with a bunch of terrorists, which of course is true.
00:02:48.000And this is the dirty little secret of Israeli politics that the press seem to want to ignore.
00:02:52.000That dirty little secret is that even if Benjamin Netanyahu does not end up as Prime Minister of Israel, there is no world in which there are bilateral negotiations with the Palestinian Authority ending with a peace deal.
00:03:02.000It's not a thing that's going to happen.
00:03:04.000Kachov LeVlam, the blue and white party.
00:03:06.000In Israel, which is led by a former IDF chief of staff named Benny Gantz, who right now, the Europeans are attempting to try him for war crimes or some such because if you ever served in the Israeli military, the Europeans will try to try you for war crimes.
00:03:21.000Benny Gantz is not going to fundamentally shift Israeli foreign policy.
00:03:24.000He may shift domestic policy with regard to economics.
00:03:27.000Bibi has been, Netanyahu, has been a liberalizing prime minister in terms of trying to free the economy.
00:03:34.000He has also worked hand-in-glove with a lot of the religious parties.
00:03:37.000And this is another competing cross-current in Israel.
00:03:39.000So there are a bunch of domestic competing cross-currents in Israeli politics, as I mentioned.
00:03:55.000Israel has been moving in a more capitalist direction ever since, which is why it is one of the world's tech leaders now, which is why there are a lot of companies that are based in Israel.
00:04:03.000It is leaps and bounds ahead of a lot of other countries on a per capita basis in terms of technological development and education.
00:04:10.000That is because of a liberalization of the economy, but there's a significant and huge social welfare state in the state of Israel, and that's been a source of tension in the state of Israel.
00:04:19.000And then another major source of tension has been the religious versus the secular in Israel.
00:04:23.000So the state was founded by secular Zionists, people who believed that there needed to be a homeland for Jews to keep them safe, but weren't particularly religious, didn't have a lot of relationship with traditional Jewish religion.
00:04:33.000And then there's a big block of people living in Israel who are very religious, and there's all sorts of conflict over Public laws.
00:04:40.000Like, for example, should the buses run on Shabbat?
00:05:01.000A bigger one is whether the so-called Haredim, the media called them ultra-Orthodox, but basically it is a sect of Orthodox Judaism, whether the Haredim should serve in the military.
00:05:11.000Because the military is overwhelmingly secular, a lot of the...
00:05:14.000The Haredim say they don't want to serve in the military, and so they get some sort of religious exemption.
00:05:19.000Now, on a personal level, I'm not in favor of the religious exemption.
00:05:22.000On a personal level, my belief is that if a secular Israeli is serving in the military, then a religious Israeli should serve in the military.
00:05:31.000That everybody should serve in the military in Israel, and there are things called Hester Yishivot, where there are a bunch of Orthodox Jews who do serve in the military in Israel, and that should become the model in Israel, this sort of religious Zionist movement, and that's a powerful movement in Israel.
00:05:43.000But the conflict between the more Orthodox parties and the secular parties broke out into the open a couple of years ago, within the last couple of years.
00:05:51.000Because Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition in Israel, it's not a two-party system.
00:05:56.000You have to have a bunch of parties that form a majority and they all have to get together and then they have to form a majority of the Knesset in order to govern.
00:06:04.000Bibi's coalition has been formed with the help of the so-called right-wing parties as well as with the religious parties.
00:06:11.000So that would be parties like Yisrael Beiteinu, which is a secular but right-wing party, particularly when it comes to foreign policy, as well as parties like Shas or UTJ, United Torah Judaism, which are the religious parties and vote largely based on religious concerns and subsidies to religious communities and all of that.
00:06:27.000So, Yisrael Beiteinu decided, Avigdor Lieberman, who has a real dislike for Bibi Netanyahu, there's a significant personality clash between the two of them.
00:06:35.000And that is partially because Netanyahu has a long history of basically stymieing the growth efforts of people within the Likud.
00:06:42.000So one of the weird things about Israeli politics also is that a lot of the other parties in Israeli politics were started by people who were castoffs from the Likud.
00:06:50.000In other words, people who wanted to succeed Netanyahu, and Netanyahu wasn't making room for them.
00:06:54.000Because in Israel, very often, the leadership of the party sort of moves on to make room for the up-and-comers.
00:07:01.000So you have a bunch of people who are outside of Likud now, outside of Netanyahu's party, who started their own parties because Netanyahu was not really allowing them a path to power.
00:07:13.000Ayelet Chaked is a very... She's been noted in the foreign media because she's very attractive.
00:07:19.000She also happens to be a brilliant lawyer.
00:07:21.000She was Justice Minister under Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:07:24.000And now she is the head of a different party.
00:07:26.000She's the head of another right-wing party that is also led by Naftali Bennett, who also used to be a member of Likud, I believe.
00:07:32.000And then you have Benny Gantz, who I believe also used to be a member of Likud, leading Kachov Levan.
00:07:36.000And you have Yigdor Lieberman, who used to be a member of Likud, leading Yisrael Beitenu.
00:07:40.000Bibi has maintained power at the expense of kicking out, or forcing out, or convincing people to leave, moving them out of Likud.
00:07:50.000And this has led to an erosion in the size and umbrella status of Likud, but it has led to Bibi Netanyahu being able to maintain power with a series of coalition governments.
00:07:58.000So anyway, a couple of years ago, Avigdor Lieberman basically made it clear that he and Netanyahu were significantly at odds, and he was not going to sit in a government that was led by Netanyahu.
00:08:10.000Okay, so it looked as though Netanyahu might cut a deal with Lieberman.
00:08:13.000And the deal was going to be that he was going to force the religious groups with which he was already in a coalition.
00:08:20.000He's going to force those groups to do things they didn't want to do.
00:08:24.000He might think about trying to push some of them into more military service or cutting subsidies or any of that sort of stuff.
00:08:30.000And Lieberman was pushing very hard for that, Netanyahu said no, and so the government fell apart.
00:08:34.000There was an election, and Lieberman was still the kingmaker.
00:08:37.000And if Igor Lieberman is a clever political player, he was still the kingmaker, because basically you had two blocks inside of Israeli politics.
00:08:44.000You had Likud and the right-wing parties and the religious parties, and then you had Blue and White, which the media are calling center-left, but it really is not a center-left party.
00:08:52.000It's sort of a slightly to the left of Likud party.
00:08:55.000A central left party would have been in the old days labor, but labor is no longer really even a player.
00:10:01.000What Lieberman wants is he wants to be seen as the kingmaker in what they call a unity government.
00:10:04.000A unity government is where people from across the aisle come together and then they just form a broad coalition for purposes of governing.
00:10:10.000And what he wants is for Cajol the Levan, which is Netanyahu's chief rivals, to join a coalition government with Netanyahu's Likud and Lieberman holding them together.
00:10:20.000And that would be an extremely strong majority.
00:10:24.000Because if you have blue and white, which has I think 32 seats, and you have Likud, which also has 32 seats, or 33, and you add those together, it's 55, and then you have Lieberman on top of that, you now have 64, you can add in...
00:10:36.000You can add in another bunch of seats from probably the right-wing, I yell at Shaqqaid, Naftali Bennett party.
00:10:42.000You end up with probably well over 70 seats.
00:10:45.000Now, the problem with the unity government is it's kind of fragile, right?
00:10:48.000Because people don't get along so well, right?
00:10:49.000They don't have a lot of shared political priorities.
00:11:04.000Okay, Lieberman is not joining a coalition with the Muslim Arab Party joint list in Israel.
00:11:09.000The reason being, members of that party, the parties that formed that joint, it's called the joint list because it used to be a bunch of smaller parties that all joined together to create a joint list.
00:11:18.000Those parties have openly in the past called for the destruction of the State of Israel.
00:11:28.000Avigdor Lieberman is not joining a majority coalition with the Joint List, and he has said so.
00:11:32.000It's not me saying that, it's Avigdor Lieberman saying that.
00:11:34.000The media, because they hate Netanyahu so much, they keep acting as though Lieberman is going to join that coalition and cast Netanyahu completely out of power.
00:11:41.000That is not a thing that's going to happen.
00:11:43.000So, the other two possibilities are that Lieberman joins the right-wing coalition because Netanyahu pays him off with something.
00:11:49.000Netanyahu gives him a particularly juicy post.
00:11:52.000He puts a bunch of members of Yisrael Beiteinu into the government in various posts.
00:11:56.000He makes concessions to Yisrael Beiteinu with regard to the religious parties.
00:12:01.000And Lieberman is able to pry out of Netanyahu what he wasn't able to pry out of Netanyahu before, and Netanyahu remains prime minister.
00:12:07.000Or alternatively, you end up with a rotating prime ministership.
00:12:11.000And there was some talk about this after the last election, that basically, you would end up with almost what the founders envisioned when they had the president elected as the person with the most vote, and the vice president became the second most voted person.
00:12:23.000And you ended up with this weird government where Thomas Jefferson was serving in John Adams' administration.
00:12:31.000You would end up with Benny Gantz as part-time prime minister, and you'd end up with Bibi Netanyahu as part-time prime minister, and Lieberman as the power broker between the two.
00:12:47.000The way the media are playing this as big loss for Bibi Netanyahu.
00:12:51.000Except I'm not sure that Netanyahu really thought that things were gonna radically change from the last election cycle.
00:12:55.000In fact, the best thing for Bibi Netanyahu is for Bibi Netanyahu probably to enter the unity government.
00:13:00.000Now, I don't know if Netanyahu believes that.
00:13:01.000But Netanyahu may believe that his best path is to continue to maintain power by cutting a deal with Lieberman.
00:13:09.000And Lieberman is going to exact a heavy price in order to make that happen.
00:13:13.000There's been a lot of talk in Israel about whether Netanyahu's relationship with Trump didn't pay off to his benefit, that he was saying that he's super tight with Trump, and that the Israeli public was basically like, well, it doesn't have to be you, it could be Benny Gantz negotiating with Trump.
00:13:25.000Also, he had mentioned the possibility of a joint defense pact, and Trump Had not come through with anything like that in the days leading up to the election.
00:13:33.000There was this idea that maybe he had undermined Netanyahu.
00:13:36.000Jerusalem Post was talking about that.
00:14:11.000Benny Gantz, who's this general, the head of the Kachov Levan, the blue and white party, Benny Gantz is an enigma wrapped in a mystery wrapped in a riddle.
00:14:21.000They know sort of his military background.
00:14:23.000He's a lot like a lot of other former Israeli leaders who have a military background, but they've kept their politics pretty hidden.
00:14:29.000That'd be people like Yitzhak Rabin, who ended up on the left, and Ehud Barak, who's also an IDF chief of staff, who ended up on the left.
00:14:35.000It would also include People like Ariel Sharon, who ended up on the right, but not near as right as people thought he was going to be, who was a general in the Israeli army.
00:14:43.000Israel has a habit of electing high-ranking military men to positions of power because Israel is constantly in a tenuous international situation with regard to security.
00:14:50.000But if the Israeli public see a rotating prime ministership between Bibi and Benny Gantz, or a shared power arrangement between the two of them, It's pretty obvious who's going to win that public relations battle.
00:15:23.000is that the Likud actually ousts Netanyahu in order to cut a deal with Lieberman.
00:15:29.000That is sort of the out of left field possibility, is that the internal Likud battle takes place and somebody else, like a second tier person, there are a few names that are floating around, ends up taking over the leadership of Likud.
00:15:42.000He cuts a deal with Lieberman and he ends up becoming the next prime minister.
00:15:45.000What does this mean for foreign policy?
00:15:47.000The answer for foreign policy is it doesn't mean a hell of a lot.
00:15:50.000Really, it does not mean a hell of a lot.
00:15:51.000Because again, there's a widespread Israeli consensus.
00:16:03.000And we're not cutting a deal with a bunch of terrorists who want to murder us.
00:16:06.000That is the internal Israeli consensus over there.
00:16:09.000That's not changing, whether Benny Gantz ends up in power or whether Netanyahu ends up in power.
00:16:14.000And it's going to be a widespread surprise to the left when Benny Gantz ends up basically governing like Bibi Netanyahu would on foreign policy.
00:16:23.000And it'll be fascinating to see how they react to that, frankly, because they've always posed it as that Bibi Netanyahu was the obstacle to peace in the Middle East.
00:16:30.000The obvious truth is that it is all the terrorists that surround Israel that are the obstacle to peace in the Middle East.
00:16:36.000And then I predict what you will see Is the media turn on the Israeli public and suggest that the Israeli public is the real obstacle.
00:16:46.000It's all the people who elect these people.
00:16:47.000If only they would elect, they'd bring back the Meretz party.
00:16:50.000If only they bring back Shalom Arshav, then bring back the Peace Now party from the mid-90s, then everything would be healed and be all better.
00:16:57.000The media have a vested interest in trying to portray the Israel-Palestinian conflict as Israel's fault.
00:17:07.000They will continue to press that forward.
00:17:08.000They've tried to blame it on Netanyahu so they can avoid the baseline reality, which is that the Israeli public are not going to make concessions to terrorists.
00:17:17.000But I think they're soon to be disabused of the notion that this is just a Netanyahu policy.
00:17:23.000Israelis are not cutting deals with Mahmoud Abbas's terrorist Palestinian Authority or Hamas or Islamic Jihad or Hezbollah.
00:17:31.000They're not doing any of those things.
00:17:33.000Okay, coming up in a second, we'll talk about Mike Pompeo, who's heading to the Middle East to figure out Iran strategy.
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00:18:59.000is headed over to the Middle East to figure out Iran's strategy.
00:19:03.000It's unclear the Iran strategy that is actually being pursued at this point.
00:19:07.000As I say yesterday, I think that the actual foreign policy of the United States is, was, and kind of always will be muddled through because the American people aren't interested in empire building.
00:19:17.000The American people are also not interested in full-scale isolationism because every time the United States gets isolationist, we get a Pearl Harbor or a 9-11.
00:19:24.000So we end up kind of being mildly reactive.
00:19:38.000And so what happens when there's a hotspot like Iran tends to be the possibility of a flare-up, and then it kind of recedes.
00:19:45.000Iran is the herpes outbreak of the Middle East, the Iranian government.
00:19:50.000They flare up, and then they sort of recede.
00:19:52.000So Mike Pompeo is trying to create a policy right now.
00:19:55.000The Washington Post reporting, That the Trump administration has announced that Pompeo would fly to the Persian Gulf on Wednesday to discuss a response to an attack on Saudi oil facilities as Iran's Supreme Leader ruled out any direct talks with the United States.
00:20:07.000Pompeo's spur-of-the-moment trip, which will include stops in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, underscores the danger that tensions with Iran could spiral into military conflict.
00:20:16.000President Trump has said Iran was probably responsible for the attack, that he would like to avoid a war Pompeo has assigned blame more directly.
00:20:23.000Obviously, obviously does not wish for there to be a war with Iran at this point.
00:20:27.000This is why I've suggested that the likeliest solution here is that the United States pledges to strengthen the defense of Saudi Arabia without pledging any sort of aggressive action against Iran.
00:20:37.000I think that's probably the happy medium where the U.S.
00:20:40.000We maybe end up helping flag some tankers in the Straits of Hormuz and guiding those tankers through the Straits of Hormuz against the possibility of Iranian aggression, reestablishing some sense of deterrence.
00:20:52.000The weekend attack, which the United States says it believes originated in Iran, despite claims by rebels in Yemen that they carried it out, appears to have dashed all hope that Trump might meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the UN General Assembly in New York.
00:21:03.000While the Iranians, I don't think, were all that interested in face-to-face meetings with Trump, I think they're more interested in pressuring the Europeans to break with Trump and undermine the JCPOA, the revocation of the Iran nuclear deal.
00:21:17.000The Europeans want to surrender to Iran.
00:21:31.000is going to foot the bill anyway if something goes wrong.
00:21:33.000Which unfortunately has been European foreign policy since basically the late Cold War.
00:21:38.000You know, the fact that Trump, when Trump says that Europeans have not paid their fair share for defense, that is technically true.
00:21:45.000I mean, the United States basically footed the bill for all of European defense for several decades during the Cold War, and that allowed them to live high on the hog in terms of social welfare programs.
00:21:54.000Well, Europe can pursue that policy again, but there will be some tragic consequences to that policy.
00:22:00.000And you're starting, by the way, to see those consequences in terms of the outbreak of nationalist sentiment in Europe, largely driven By the increase in unvetted Muslim refugees coming from the Middle East into the heart of Europe and creating all sorts of social schisms.
00:22:16.000The Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah al-Khamenei said all the officials in the Islamic Republic unanimously believe there will be no negotiations at any level with the United States.
00:22:24.000Again, they're trying to pressure the Europeans.
00:22:25.000This is not about the United States at this point.
00:22:28.000I think that the way this ends probably is with the United States trying to strengthen, shore up Saudi defenses without getting involved in a conflict.
00:22:36.000Okay, meanwhile, There's a new NBC Wall Street Journal poll out.
00:22:40.000Joe Biden continues to lead the 2020 Democratic field.
00:22:43.000Elizabeth Warren continues to steal support from Bernie Sanders.
00:22:46.000So she's not actually taking support from Joe Biden.
00:22:49.000She's taking support from Bernie Sanders.
00:22:50.000And sooner or later, Sanders is going to have to open up the guns.
00:22:54.000See, if these poll results are real, sooner or later, Bernie Sanders is going to have to go to war with her.
00:23:01.000As I said last week, before the last debate, there was basically a Mexican standoff, like at the end of Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, in which Joe Biden was pointing his guns at Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, and Warren was pointing at Sanders and Biden, and Sanders was pointing at Warren and Biden, but nobody wanted to fire.
00:23:16.000Because if you're the first person to fire, you lose.
00:23:39.000But if Elizabeth Warren starts stealing away enough support from Bernie Sanders, he's not going to have a choice, but he has to wreck her.
00:23:45.000Because he's hoping that if he wrecks her, then maybe those people come back flooding to him.
00:23:49.000And if he sits still, he's out of the race.
00:23:52.000So we'll get to those poll results in just one second.
00:23:54.000First, let's talk about how hard it is to create healthy habits.
00:23:57.000You know, when you are trying to get in the habit of working out every day, trying to get in the habit of eating healthy, and people will talk about diets, but diets end up being yo-yo kind of things, where you go on the diet, and then you get off the diet, and it ain't great, or you start exercising because you're really enthusiastic, and like a week later, you're not enthusiastic anymore, and you stop the diet.
00:25:27.000So there's been, let's see, four polls taken since the debates last week, and two of them Have Biden up a lot larger and two of them have Biden up a lot smaller.
00:25:38.000So there's a political morning consult poll that came out yesterday and the polling period was, let's see, today is the 18th.
00:25:45.000So the polling period would have been Saturday through Monday.
00:25:49.000And that poll, the Political Morning Consul poll, showed Biden with 32, Sanders with 20, Warren with 18.
00:25:56.000So basically Biden way ahead, and Warren and Sanders neck and neck.
00:25:59.000There's a SurveyUSA poll, same basic period, and it shows Biden at 33, Warren at 19, Bernie at 17.
00:26:09.000Then there's the NBC News Wall Street Journal poll, and this is the one that has got to have Bernie Sanders in a panic.
00:26:15.000It has Joe Biden up at 31, Elizabeth Warren at 25, and Bernie Sanders at 14.
00:26:20.000In other words, the media attention on Elizabeth Warren is driving people from Bernie Sanders over to Elizabeth Warren.
00:26:26.000Now, I'd suggested that last week's debate was a blown opportunity for Warren, that if she wanted to make a strong move, then she would have to, at some point, go after Biden.
00:26:36.000That she's figuring if she bides her time, it'll be okay.
00:26:38.000I still think that she blew an opportunity.
00:26:39.000I think that she receded into the field.
00:26:42.000But it is also true that she is becoming the default, not-Biden, not-Sanders candidate.
00:27:00.000Being progressive enough for some of the Sanders people, but being not crazy enough for some of the Biden people, that's not a bad place to be.
00:27:07.000Is it enough for her to win the primaries?
00:27:17.000The New York Times, fawning over the fact that she brought out several thousand people to Central Park in New York yesterday.
00:27:23.000And Donald Trump rightly pointing out to the media, guys, if you stop in the middle of 42nd Avenue in New York City, there are like a thousand people there.
00:27:32.000If you can't draw a crowd in New York City, you suck at politics.
00:27:34.000Kamala Harris drew like 10,000, 20,000 people to her lead off in Sacramento.
00:27:38.000So drawing a big crowd, as Mitt Romney learned at the end of the 2012 election, does not mean that you're going to win an election.
00:27:56.000Economist YouGov, this one has always been very favorable to Elizabeth Warren, actually.
00:28:02.000The last time they did this poll, this Economist YouGov poll, it showed Biden and Warren basically even, so she's actually dropped a little bit in this poll, from what I see.
00:28:09.000Biden at 26, Warren at 21, Sanders at 14.
00:28:12.000So that means that she's closed within striking distance of Biden, but she would have to convince half of Sanders' support to move over to her.
00:28:21.000I do wonder if that's the case, because it seems to me that the Bernie bros, the people who love Bernie, they gotta be looking at Warren and saying, she's a phony.
00:28:31.000And this is not someone sufficiently committed to our communist way of life.
00:28:35.000And I think that there will come up, it's still very early, there will come a point somewhere in here where Warren starts to earn some negative media attention.
00:29:16.000There's still room for people to go after Elizabeth Warren.
00:29:19.000Even Stephen Colbert was tempted to do that last night.
00:29:21.000He asked her about the whole, you know, you keep saying that you're not going to raise taxes on the middle class or you avoid the question and you're avoiding the question.
00:29:28.000There hasn't been Medicare for all before.
00:29:32.000You keep being asked in the debates, how are you going to pay for it?
00:29:35.000Are you going to raise the middle class taxes?
00:30:26.000And I think that the progressive left is going to wake up to this.
00:30:28.000And when that happens, there's going to be a virulent reaction and there will be an internecine war between Joe, not between Joe Biden, between Elizabeth Warren and between Bernie Sanders.
00:31:19.000Now, in a second, we're gonna talk about the great hope for Elizabeth Warren, and it lies not in stealing Bernie Sanders' support, but in finishing Joe Biden.
00:31:28.000Because again, Joe Biden's base of support is heavily minority.
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00:34:09.000So as I've now been saying for several weeks, there are two lines of attack on Joe Biden that have been used.
00:34:21.000One is that he's old and we keep seeing him gaffe.
00:34:23.000So for example, he said yesterday that the child tax credit that he's pushing could put 720 million women back in the workforce, which is a weird stat considering there are 330 million people in the United States.
00:34:36.000So I'm not sure where he's coming up with the other 400 million people and why all of them are women.
00:34:56.000He was called Uncle Joe because he was the kind of dopey uncle at the Thanksgiving party who would have one too many beers and stumble into the den while you're watching football and knock over the chips, right?
00:35:06.000That's who Uncle Joe was when he was Uncle Joe.
00:35:08.000Now he's just Grandpa Joe, and he can't stumble into the room anymore and knock over the chips.
00:35:12.000He basically just sort of conks out on the 1970s-era recliner with his feet up and his shoes off.
00:35:36.000You know, they keep pretending that gaffe upon gaffe upon gaffe.
00:35:39.000I promise you, Elizabeth Warren's gaffes, it seems like far bigger than a gaffe that she just keeps lying about whether she's going to raise middle class taxes.
00:35:48.000That's like an actual policy fail for Elizabeth Warren.
00:35:51.000So, you know, I don't think that's going to hurt him.
00:35:54.000The second line of attack on Joe Biden is that he has to be canceled.
00:35:58.000And this one, again, I have a hard time believing that this is going to hurt him simply because the nature of the messengers carrying the attack are not capable of hurting him.
00:36:07.000So Kamala Harris briefly hurt Joe Biden when she went to the, you didn't want forced busing, even though she didn't want forced busing and nobody wanted forced busing in the 1970s.
00:36:14.000And she briefly hurt him with the, You were hanging out with segregationists, and he was like, no, they're just senators, and I was working with them, and some of them are bad people, and I said so.
00:36:25.000She briefly heard him because she had the credibility to speak on the issue, because in our era of identity politics, a white person saying that to Joe Biden has no impact.
00:36:32.000A black candidate saying that to Joe Biden has some impact.
00:36:35.000And then her poll numbers started to drop and his started to rise again.
00:36:39.000And he wasn't supremely damaged by any of that.
00:36:41.000Elizabeth Warren playing that card ain't gonna have any sort of, like, that ain't gonna work at all.
00:36:45.000Elizabeth Warren is whiter than the backside of this piece of paper.
00:36:58.000And so her going after Biden's base of support is likely unavailing.
00:37:03.000And so instead, what you're seeing is some of the so-called opinion journalists in the media Some of the professors of history going after Joe Biden on her behalf, hoping that if they knock him down, that she will rise up again.
00:37:14.000I don't think that that is likely to work particularly well, but they're going to try.
00:37:19.000Marsha Chatelain is the distinguished associate professor of history at Georgetown University, and she has a piece in The Washington Post today called Joe Biden isn't the only Democrat who has blamed black America for its problems.
00:37:32.000She says, former Vice President Joe Biden spent Sunday at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, speaking on the anniversary of a bombing there that killed four black girls.
00:37:39.000The candidate has had some trouble handling issues involving race.
00:37:43.000After conceding that institutional segregation and redlining banks exist, Biden veered away from a logic that might have called for some strands of reparative justice.
00:37:51.000Instead, he turned to the old liberal playbook, castigate black families.
00:37:54.000Look, he started, you talk about education.
00:37:56.000After rightly suggesting higher wages for teachers and more funding for schools with Title I designation, Biden reminded listeners that teachers, a profession that is majority white, cannot do it alone.
00:38:05.000They have, he said, every problem coming to them.
00:38:07.000And the way to improve outcomes in segregated schools would be simply to send social workers to visit black families to teach them how to raise their children better, complete with the record player on at night to expose kids to more words.
00:38:17.000While Biden was criticized roundly for that answer, it fit quite neatly into the grand American political tradition of evading serious conversation about the legacy of slavery by expressing displeasure with the victims of it.
00:38:28.000Well, I'm sorry if you knock up a woman and then leave, that is not you being a victim of slavery, that's you being a bad person.
00:38:39.000You don't get to blame the personal decision that you made to have a child out of wedlock with a person with whom you were not married on slavery.
00:38:47.000Because you were not enslaved, that person was not enslaved, their parents were not enslaved, their grandparents were not enslaved, their great-grandparents were likely not enslaved, their great-great-grandparents maybe were enslaved, probably you're talking about their great-great-great-grandparents.
00:39:00.000But I guess the idea is that if Joe Biden suggests that if you are going to prosecute criminality or encourage parents to spend more time on education in the home or encourage parents to stay married, that this is the vestiges of slavery, of victim-blaming, I don't think that I don't think that dog hunts, but I think that the left would like for that dog to hunt.
00:39:19.000And so they're going to continue pushing that.
00:39:21.000We'll see if the Democratic Party falls for it.
00:39:43.000Well, when Corey Lewandowski was an aide to Donald Trump, Trump, according to the Mueller Report, called on Corey Lewandowski to deliver a letter to Jeff Sessions, basically firing him for not firing Robert Mueller.
00:39:54.000And Lewandowski conveniently just didn't do it, right?
00:39:57.000Corey Lewandowski was like, that's kind of a bad idea.
00:40:12.000Democrats can't let the Mueller Report go because the Mueller Report did not recommend prosecution.
00:40:15.000It didn't make any recommendation at all.
00:40:17.000And as it turns out, it would have been very difficult to prove obstruction of justice on the basis of the allegations that were made in the Mueller Report.
00:40:25.000Democrats don't even want to impeach on that basis.
00:40:28.000And Nancy Pelosi does not want to impeach on the basis of the Mueller Report.
00:40:32.000Democrats nonetheless have to prove their mettle to their own supporters, and so they called forth Corey Lewandowski, and it went really poorly for them, because it turns out that you know what Corey Lewandowski is fantastic at?
00:40:59.000I call him Needles because he really, he resembles in both face and manner, Needles from Back to the Future 2, trying to tempt Marty McFly into a game of chicken.
00:41:08.000Here's Steve Cohen saying to Corey Lewandowski that he's a chicken.
00:41:11.000Steve Cohen, I don't know what his thing with chicken is.
00:41:13.000You remember he actually went to a press conference to call somebody a chicken and he actually brought along like a KFC container.
00:41:21.000I don't know, what's the obsession with chicken?
00:41:59.000Lewandowski isn't going to confess to committing a crime.
00:42:03.000Like, what does Steve Cohen think he's doing?
00:42:05.000And this whole thing ended up being a debacle because Lewandowski basically just said to Democrats, you're not getting anything else out of me.
00:42:18.000We as a nation would be better served if elected officials like yourself Concentrate your efforts to combat the true crises facing our country, as opposed to going down rabbit holes like this hearing.
00:42:28.000Instead of focusing on petty and personal politics, the committee focused on solving the challenges of this generation.
00:42:33.000Imagine how many people we could help, or how many lives we could save.
00:42:38.000Okay, yeah, so Lewandowski doing that routine, it's not a bad routine.
00:42:42.000So the good of Corey Lewandowski is he did call out the Democrats repeatedly for political grandstanding.
00:42:49.000And so Lewandowski completely derailed the impeachment hearing.
00:42:51.000I mean, he just went after people with hammer.
00:42:53.000He wants to run for Senate in New Hampshire, so it's a good political moment for him.
00:42:56.000Here he is pretty much fully derailing this impeachment hearing.
00:43:01.000Mr Lewandowski, is it correct that as reported in the Mueller report on June 19, 2017, you met alone in the Oval Office with the President?
00:43:09.000Is there a book and page number you can reference me to, please?
00:43:11.000I don't have a copy of the report in front of me.
00:43:49.000No, I mean, Corey Lewandowski was engaged in bad activity with Trump.
00:43:52.000I mean, Trump was in fact telling him to go fire somebody in his administration because he didn't like the investigation that was being conducted.
00:43:59.000Now, was he attempting to obstruct the Mueller investigation?
00:44:02.000I mean, not really, because Mueller didn't find anything.
00:44:05.000Sort of goes to intent here, as opposed to Trump just being irritable and volatile and saying things.
00:44:11.000I mean, that's why, again, I see it would be difficult to prosecute.
00:44:13.000I think that it probably doesn't amount to obstruction because you have to have intent to obstruct in order to do that.
00:44:17.000And Trump does have the executive capacity to fire Robert Mueller.
00:44:20.000I mean, he works for the executive branch.
00:44:22.000But here's Corey Lewandowski ripping into Sheila Jackson Lee.
00:45:29.000I don't ever remember the President ever asking me to get involved with Jeff Sessions or the Department of Justice in any way, shape, or form ever.
00:45:40.000That was you saying on MSNBC, you don't ever remember the President ever asking you to get involved with Jeff Sessions or the Department of Justice in any way, shape, or form.
00:46:29.000Insofar as this was an effort to get a particular narrative out, today has been rocky.
00:46:34.000Yes, Sally, I think it's largely been a failure and I think it's in part because Democrats have been more interested in getting their moment on television of yelling at Corey Lewandowski and making the point and winning the argument rather than patiently questioning him.
00:46:50.000OK, and that, of course, is exactly true.
00:46:55.000And because everybody feels like everything is a political football these days, nobody's going to like.
00:46:59.000Did anyone was anyone under the wild misimpression that Corey Lewandowski is like a deeply honest human being?
00:47:04.000If so, I'm wondering why and why they would be under that misimpression.
00:47:07.000So it hurts Democrats more than it hurts Republicans.
00:47:10.000But it just reinforces the fact that Democrats are there to pander, Republicans are there to pander, and everything kind of sucks.
00:47:17.000Now, meanwhile, the polarization of the American public continues apace, with woke scolds doing their best to ruin every aspect of American life.
00:47:25.000I'm very excited that Merriam-Webster Dictionary has now added the non-binary pronoun they to the dictionary.
00:47:31.000Because when I look at a book for definitions of words, what I want is a made-up definition of a word That has never been used this way in all of human history.
00:47:40.000A plural noun used as a singular noun to refer to a singular gender.
00:47:48.000And Merriam-Webster is going to go along with this, which just demonstrates once and for all that logic has gone out the window.
00:47:53.000People are tailoring science to meet politically correct demands.
00:47:56.000People are tailoring language to meet politically correct demands.
00:48:00.000Merriam-Webster, according to the Washington Post, has added a new definition of the word they to its dictionary, declaring the pronoun may be used to refer to a single person whose gender identity is non-binary.
00:48:10.000They, according to the Washington Post, is a liberating pronoun for many non-binary individuals.
00:48:15.000What the hell is a liberating pronoun?
00:48:29.000That would be for all Americans, unless you're talking about the small group of SJWs who decide we have to redefine all of language in order to meet politically correct demands.
00:49:10.000I've mentioned Howard Zinn before on the program.
00:49:12.000For people who have never read Howard Zinn's awful book, A People's History of the United States, which is basically A pastiche of horrible things about the United States taken out of context, out of historical context.
00:49:22.000A history that basically paints the United States the same as Nazi Germany.
00:49:26.000A history that suggests that the United States is uniquely responsible for every evil the world has ever seen.
00:49:31.000Howard Zinn was a garbage, a garbage historian and his book is terrible.
00:49:35.000There's a good book debunking all of Howard Zinn's stupid ideas by Mary Graybar.
00:49:40.000The book is called Debunking Howard Zinn, exposing the fake history that turned a generation against America.
00:49:45.000His book is still a massive bestseller.
00:49:46.000If you ever watched Good Will Hunting, it's invoked as like the apotheosis of American history by the brilliant Matt Damon character.
00:49:53.000And that's how I knew that Matt Damon was an idiot in that film, was because he's citing Howard Zinn.
00:49:57.000If you want to know what Howard Zinn was, namely a Marxist, if you want to know why his history is incorrect, Just take a look at the book.
00:50:13.000I mean, Howard Zinn spends a significant portion of a people's history of the United States explaining why Lincoln was bad and why he didn't really want to free the slaves.
00:50:26.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:50:32.000Okay, so Sean Spicer was on Dancing With The Stars.
00:50:34.000So I will admit that Dancing With The Stars may in fact be one of the things that I hate.
00:50:38.000Like I think that this is just, it is the apex of American stupidity and maybe Western stupidity generally.
00:50:44.000I assume they like this sort of thing in Europe as well.
00:50:46.000I mean, if you've ever seen the Eurovision concert, there's a lot of dumb in that as well.
00:50:49.000But Dancing With The Stars, which is basically where we take a bunch of B-listers and then we try to prepare them to dance and then we watch them.
00:50:56.000It does feel like the late days of Panem when you watch Dancing With The Stars.
00:51:01.000In any case, Sean Spicer, the former White House press secretary who was widely derided for his bizarre sort of hostage videos from the White House press secretaryship, where he would be asked a question and he didn't want to give the answer, and so he would kind of stare into the distance and try to blink the answer in Morse code.
00:51:19.000In any case, Sean Spicer, who was ousted pretty early on in the Trump administration, is now on Dancing with the Stars.
00:51:36.000Everybody, here we go! - When you're feeling sad and low, we will take you where you gotta go. - Hi, Steve, yeah, hold tight! - Yeah, well listen, I will give it to Sean Spicer.
00:52:17.000How could you possibly treat Sean Spicer like any other B-list celebrity?
00:52:21.000After all, this man ruined the United States.
00:52:25.000The same people, by the way, who made Donald Trump into Donald Trump, right?
00:52:28.000They took a man who was a B-list celebrity in the 1990s and then turned him back into an A-list celebrity in the 2000s with a kitschy reality show in which he fired people or pretended to fire people.
00:52:39.000Those same people are like, we can't humor Sean Spicer.
00:52:54.000Critic Linda Stassi snarked of the premiere, ABC must have gone to the well, or maybe that's the cesspool, and dredged up some of the lowest-level celebrities available in the country today for this competition show.
00:53:05.000But then the Post had to run a headline that said, Dancing is a Swinging Success, because people were perfectly willing to watch Dancing with the Stars.
00:53:12.000But they are very angry with Sean Spicer.
00:53:15.000On Monday's episode, Spicer donned a lime green shirt with ruffled sleeves and performed a salsa to the Spice Girls' Spice Up With Your Life with professional partner Lindsay Arnold.
00:53:24.000In a pre-recorded introduction, Spicer noted his time in the White House was tumultuous and that he finally felt it was time to have some fun.
00:53:30.000The judges were not impressed with Spicer's dance skills, awarded him 12 points out of 30, the second lowest score of the night.
00:53:36.000Some fans of the show complained loudly, as did high-profile ABC personnel.
00:53:40.000I deeply abhor this decision by the company I work for and truly love, tweeted Grey's Anatomy showrunner Krista Vernoff.
00:53:48.000Is being on Dancing with the Stars like receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
00:53:52.000Is this something we have to take with a great level of seriousness?
00:53:54.000Oh my god, they rewarded Sean Spicer, one of history's greatest monsters, with a slot on Dancing with the Stars, dancing to the Spice Girls in a lime green shirt while playing the bongos?
00:54:09.000Like, if Robert Gibbs had shown up on Dancing with the Stars, would I have been like, oh my god, I can't believe they had Robert Gibbs on Dancing with the Stars.
00:54:20.000Even the show's affable host, Tom Bergeron, recently released a statement suggesting he was disappointed by a choice as political as Spicer.
00:54:32.000But this is every aspect of American life now has to turn wildly political.
00:54:36.000If you can't deal with a guy you didn't like as press secretary, who was not super great at being press secretary, dancing the salsa on TV, I suggest that you get a life because you don't have enough of one.
00:54:48.000All right, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.
00:54:51.000Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.
00:55:24.000Hey everybody, it's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.
00:55:27.000You know, some people are depressed because the American Republic is collapsing, the end of days is approaching, and the moon has turned to blood.
00:55:33.000But on The Andrew Klavan Show, that's where the fun just gets started.