Brett Kavanaugh fights back with alacrity, Lindsey Graham shows his teeth, and Republicans push forward with Brett Kavanaugh's nomination. Today we ll get into Brett's testimony, the overall effect of yesterday's hearing, and what comes next for Brett's nomination to the Supreme Court, as well as the media response to all of this and the Democratic response to it, which is just as egregious as it is predictable. Ben Shapiro's full reaction to the hearings, and how the hearings were handled by the committee, and the impact on the confirmation process, are covered in this episode of The Ben Shapiro Show with Ben Shapiro. Subscribe and comment to stay up to date on all things Supreme Court Nominee! Want to become a Friend of The Weekly Standard? Subscribe, Like, and Share to keep up with the Scooby Doo Show on all social medias including Apple Podcasts, and become one of the few people to know who is getting the inside scoop on the latest happenings in Washington, D.C. and the people who are making it all happen! Subscribe today using the promo code CRIMINALS at checkout to receive 20% off the first month of your first month only deal! Learn more about your ad-free membership only discount when you sign up for VIP access to our VIP membership! Use the discount code: CRIMIALSALE at CHECKOUT at CHAMPION20 when you become a patron! to receive $50 or more than $100 when you shop at CHICK-FILTERING! CHECK out of $100 and get 20% OFF your choice of a year and receive 5 VIP membership when you enter the offer of $99 or more get a VIP membership gets $25 OFF THE CHECK OUT VIPREVIEW AND VIP PRICING AND VIP SUPPORTING THE CHANCE TO BUY VIP access gets $50 OFF THE FIRST MONTH AND VIP REVIEW AND PATREON THE CHALLENGE AND VIP OFFER $5 OFF THE FASTEST PROMOTION AND VIP RATE? FREE PRIVATE FREE EVERYTHING GET A VOTING TO VIP PRACTICALLY PRICY AND VIP FREE AND VIP DISCUSSION AND PATROCIAL SUPPORTING VIPRELLION AND PRIVACY AND VIP FACEBOOK GROUP AND VIP TRAINING TO CHANGE $5 AND VIP RECREARING A FRIEND WILL BE INCLUSION TO WIN VIPREAR?
00:00:12.000Well, unless we left our story on our podcast yesterday, I was very downbeat on the possibility of Brett Kavanaugh getting on the court, because we recorded the podcast directly after Ford's testimony, but before Kavanaugh actually got to testify.
00:00:23.000Today, we'll get into Kavanaugh's testimony, the overall effect of yesterday, and what comes next.
00:01:36.000The big news, obviously, the continuing fallout from the Brett Kavanaugh hearings.
00:01:39.000The Senate Judiciary Committee today voting on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination.
00:01:42.000Senator Jeff Flake has said that he will vote in favor of Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court.
00:01:47.000It looks all but assured that Kavanaugh will enter the court.
00:01:50.000It looks also like some Democrats are going to be peeled along with some Republicans that mean Joe Manchin of West Virginia, maybe Heidi Heitkamp from North Dakota.
00:01:58.000It looks like Brett Kavanaugh probably ends up on the Supreme Court by early next week, which is as it should be.
00:02:05.000Because yesterday, Christine Blasey Ford gave testimony about what allegedly happened to her 36 years ago at a party.
00:02:11.000Not a single witness she has named has verified her story from the party.
00:02:14.000Brett Kavanaugh denied it entirely, and Kavanaugh is extraordinarily fiery.
00:02:19.000In his denunciation of how the committee had handled its business, which is perfectly appropriate.
00:02:24.000Remember, these accusations first came about July 30th.
00:02:27.000Senator Dianne Feinstein of California saw them.
00:02:36.000Instead, she just sat on this stuff for weeks and weeks and weeks and at the very last minute launched the allegation in an attempt to push this entire sham hearing beyond the election.
00:02:46.000When Democrats say that they want an FBI hearing, they want an FBI investigation, what they really mean is they want a months-long FBI investigation that pushes them beyond the Senate election in the desperate hope
00:02:57.000It didn't happen yesterday, and it mostly didn't happen because Brett Kavanaugh fought back.
00:03:00.000He fought back by really coming out strong.
00:03:14.000And we'll get to the media response to all of this, the Democratic response, which is just egregious and disgusting.
00:03:18.000But we begin with Brett Kavanaugh's actual comments yesterday.
00:03:22.000Brett Kavanaugh started by saying that his life has been destroyed by the committee, has been destroyed by allegations without a scintilla or iota of corroborative evidence.
00:03:31.000As was predictable, and as I predicted, my family and my name have been totally and permanently destroyed.
00:03:41.000By vicious and false additional accusations.
00:03:45.000The 10-day delay has been harmful to me and my family, to the Supreme Court, and to the country.
00:03:55.000Okay, so he is exactly right about all of that, and this hearing was turned into a farce, as he made clear.
00:04:00.000He said, you guys have replaced advice and consent, which would be all about the political views of my judicial philosophy, and you've replaced that with search and destroy, an attempt to destroy my life, destroy my family, and Brett Kavanaugh is exactly right about this.
00:04:11.000The reason this resonated with so many conservatives is for, there are really a couple reasons.
00:04:17.000The Me Too movement has been militarized into, an allegation is made, we destroy your life.
00:04:23.000Not proof of an allegation, not multiple allegations, not credibility of an allegation, none of that.
00:04:28.000An allegation is made, we destroy your life.
00:04:30.000A mildly credible allegation is made, your life is over.
00:04:33.000And there are a lot of people, conservatives and non-conservatives, who are looking around and saying, that could happen to literally anyone.
00:04:39.000I was talking to a female friend last night, somebody who's led a pretty rough life actually, and she was talking to me,
00:04:46.000About the fact that such accusations could be leveraged against anyone.
00:04:51.000I'm, as I've said before, the cleanest person in American public life when it comes to matters sexual.
00:04:56.000But at one point I went over to this woman's house with her husband for dinner.
00:05:01.000She said, you know, what I could say theoretically is that my husband left the room for a minute and you tried to make a move on me.
00:05:07.000Anybody can say anything about anyone at any time.
00:05:09.000I'm not saying that Christine Blasey Ford, the accuser in this case, is completely making up the story.
00:05:14.000I don't think that she's completely making up the story.
00:05:16.000I do think that it's quite possible that her memory is wrong.
00:05:19.000But regardless, you need some sort of corroborative evidence.
00:05:22.000And in just a few minutes, I'm going to discuss why it's so necessary to have corroborative evidence for these sorts of allegations.
00:05:27.000That's reason number one why so many people are uncomfortable with what's happening here.
00:05:30.000Reason number two why so many people are uncomfortable with everything that is happening here is because for years and years and years, Republicans have been ripped as racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes.
00:05:40.000They have been ripped as everything that is wrong with society, everything that is wrong with the world.
00:05:45.000And Brett Kavanaugh seems like, and his record shows him to be, a fundamentally decent person.
00:05:53.000The mildest reference to any sort of serious misbehavior over the course of his life until two minutes before he was supposed to be confirmed for the Supreme Court.
00:06:02.000And a lot of conservatives went, somebody has to stand up in the face of this.
00:06:05.000Somebody has to say no to this sort of character assassination.
00:06:08.000And Brett Kavanaugh did that yesterday and it resonated with people.
00:06:11.000It also resonated because Brett Kavanaugh wasn't just angry and righteously indignant.
00:06:15.000Brett Kavanaugh demonstrated a fundamental decency even in the midst of his anger.
00:06:19.000So here was some of his anger talking about replacing advice and consent with search and destroy.
00:06:24.000This confirmation process has become a national disgrace.
00:06:28.000The Constitution gives the Senate an important role in the confirmation process.
00:06:36.000But you have replaced advice and consent with search and destroy.
00:06:41.000And of course, he's exactly right about that.
00:06:43.000The moment that really made this happen for Kavanaugh, that really saved his nomination, I don't even think, was him coming out so strongly against the committee, which was perfectly appropriate.
00:06:52.000It was when he talked about his own family and he talked about his daughter.
00:06:55.000Because this was the moment when I think a lot of people looked at Brett Kavanaugh and they said, okay, the anger is not fake.
00:07:05.000rage that he must feel are enormous and yet this is a guy who has the decency to talk about with his daughter what was going on and his daughter has the decency to pray for the woman who's accusing her father in his view wrongly and and falsely of attempting to rape her 36 years ago.
00:07:22.000I intend no ill will to Dr. Ford and her family.
00:07:26.000The other night Ashley and my daughter Liza said their prayers and little Liza all of 10 years old
00:07:40.000Said to Ashley, we should pray for the woman.
00:07:42.000That's a lot of wisdom from a ten-year-old.
00:07:51.000All of this really did save Brett Kavanaugh's nomination.
00:07:53.000Now, what happened next is that Lindsey Graham came into the room.
00:07:57.000And to understand how monumental this was, you have to understand who Lindsey Graham is.
00:08:00.000The senator from South Carolina is not exactly known for being a firebrand.
00:08:05.000Lindsey Graham is about as milquetoast a human being as it is possible to find on planet Earth.
00:08:09.000It's one of the reasons why the Republican base has never been fond of Lindsey Graham.
00:08:13.000They've always thought of Lindsey Graham as the very soft-spoken gentleman from South Carolina who sort of wanted to go along to get along with the other side of the aisle.
00:08:20.000He voted in favor of the nominations of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court.
00:08:23.000He voted in favor of the nomination of Justice Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court.
00:08:26.000This is a guy who has a reputation for bipartisan work.
00:08:29.000Well, he came into the hearing room, the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room yesterday, and he launched into what is going to be seen as one of the great all-time Senate speeches, really.
00:08:36.000I mean, this is one that people are going to remember for quite a while.
00:08:39.000He launched into Democrats, and he said they have destroyed the entire process here, and it is disgusting what they have done to this man.
00:08:45.000What you want to do is destroy this guy's life, hold this seat open, and hope you win in 2020.
00:09:22.000I mean, it certainly was a moment, because the fact is that this was mob justice being brought to bear against Brett Kavanaugh, and Lindsey Graham stood up and said, no, there has to be some sort of process here.
00:09:30.000There has to be some sort of corroborative evidence.
00:09:32.000President Trump tweeted yesterday, and this was clearly, I think, written by staff, and it was a good tweet.
00:09:50.000Okay, he's exactly right about all this.
00:09:52.000Now, how will the Senate vote in the end?
00:09:54.000How will the Senate vote when it comes down to it?
00:09:58.000There are some rumors today that Joe Donnelly from Indiana, who is a Democrat, is going to vote against it.
00:10:05.000There were rumors yesterday that Donnelly was going to vote the same way as Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, and Manchin of West Virginia.
00:10:11.000But none of that is clear at this time.
00:10:36.000This is where the Democrats are going.
00:10:37.000Their actual implication here is that if you want corroborative evidence, it's because you hate women, you don't care about the accounts of women, and you're fine watching a rapist enter the Supreme Court.
00:10:46.000No one is fine watching a rapist enter the Supreme Court.
00:10:49.000But we must have corroborative evidence for allegations.
00:10:51.000We can't just say that an allegation on its own is enough to destroy a man, particularly when he gives credible evidence on the other side.
00:10:57.000It's not that this woman, it's not that Christine Blasey Ford has evidence and then he has evidence.
00:11:01.000It's that she has no evidence and then he has evidence.
00:11:06.000Every witness she says was at the party denies that it ever happened, denies remembering, says, we don't remember this ever happening.
00:11:13.000Her best friend, Leland Kaiser, came forward and said that she doesn't even know Brett Kavanaugh.
00:11:19.000And when asked about this, Christine Blasey Ford basically impeached her own best friend, as a witness, basically said, my own best friend doesn't know what she's talking about.
00:11:30.000I mean, that's pretty amazing stuff, and we're just going to ignore all that.
00:11:32.000I also want to talk in just a second about why corroborative evidence is necessary and why the Democratic line that you must believe all women is basically a load of tripe.
00:11:40.000We're going to talk about that in just one second.
00:11:42.000First, let's talk about the possibility of emergency.
00:11:44.000I saw a video from Indonesia today about a tsunami hitting the small Indonesian city.
00:11:48.000It was pretty shocking and frightening, and that's certainly true.
00:13:12.000She made some statements yesterday about the way the brain chemistry works and the way the memory works that are just flat-out wrong and it's actually important to note these things because this is why we need corroborative evidence.
00:13:21.000This is why we need some sort of detail.
00:13:24.000We need something that we can latch on to because witness testimony or victim testimony alone is not enough.
00:13:32.000Alan Dershowitz pointed this out yesterday, said there is no empirical evidence supporting the gender-based political view that women who claim to have been sexually assaulted in alleged acquaintance rape situations tell the entire truth more often than men who are accused and deny the accusation.
00:13:47.000National Research Council explains eyewitnesses are notoriously unreliable, quote, Unknown to the individual, memories are forgotten, reconstructed, updated, and distorted.
00:13:55.000Elizabeth Loftus, who's a psychologist at University of Washington, says memories are, quote, more easily modified, for instance, when the passage of time allows the original memory to fade.
00:14:25.000According to a well-cited paper in Nature, findings from basic psychological research and neuroscience studies indicate memory is a reconstructive process that is susceptible to distortion.
00:14:34.000Furthermore, the commonly held belief among the general public that an eyewitness's confidence in the accuracy of his or her memory is a strong indicator in the actual accuracy of the memory is a myth.
00:14:46.000It's not true that because you believe that you're remembering something accurately, you are actually believing something you're remembering something accurately.
00:14:53.000Now, again, maybe Ford is remembering this accurately.
00:14:55.000I don't know, but you don't know either.
00:14:57.000And to simply say that Christine Blasey Ford's memory is enough to impeach and get rid of and destroy the life of Judge Kavanaugh requires you to throw out due process entirely.
00:15:14.000At any point, at any point in due process.
00:15:18.000And you can, the proof was in the pudding.
00:15:21.000So Democrats in the committee hearing yesterday were just abysmal.
00:15:25.000First of all, if you thought this wasn't a circus, if you thought that this was folks taking things seriously, why was Alyssa Milano there?
00:15:32.000There were only about 35 seats in the audience, apparently.
00:15:35.000And yet right behind Brett Kavanaugh, there was actress Alyssa Milano from Charmed.
00:15:38.000There she was sitting right behind Brett Kavanaugh.
00:15:46.000Because Dianne Feinstein invited her, the same woman who quote-unquote did not leak Christine Blasey Ford's testimony and her letter to the media, the same woman who held that letter for six weeks without actually asking any serious questions about it, invited a famous actress to sit in at the hearing specifically for publicity purposes.
00:18:34.000If Einstein came out today and she said, I've never seen a nominee for any position behave in that manner, Judge Kavanaugh used as much political rhetoric as my Republican colleagues.
00:18:42.000Because you are all political hacks who tried to destroy his life.
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00:22:24.000Instead, they just kept begging Kavanaugh over and over to call for an FBI investigation into himself.
00:22:30.000The real reason that he won't do that is because he understands, as does everyone else, the only reason Democrats are calling for an FBI investigation is because it will take, minimum, a couple of months, which brings us beyond the election, which is all the Democrats want.
00:22:43.000They just want this pushed off beyond the election so that there can be a new Senate that is impaneled, at which point Kavanaugh doesn't get approved even if he's innocent, and then they just hold the seat open until after Trump is president.
00:22:54.000That is their entire goal here, as Lindsey Graham said, but here is Kamala Harris and Dick Durbin
00:22:58.000Pretending that it was really all just about, why won't you ask for an FBI investigation?
00:23:27.000Democrats boycotted the actual hearing with Mark Judge.
00:23:30.000Not a hearing, but the actual interview with Mark Judge because they didn't want to lend credibility to the actual interview with Mark Judge.
00:23:35.000This is all political gamesmanship of the most disgusting magnitude.
00:23:40.000Here's Kamala Harris, though, who wants to run for president in 2020.
00:23:43.000She walked out of the Judiciary Committee vote this morning.
00:23:46.000And she held hands with Maisie Hirono because women unite.
00:23:50.000Here was Harris yesterday pressing on the FBI investigation point.
00:23:54.000The FBI would gather witness statements.
00:26:52.000Gaslighting is where you tell somebody something not true, and then when they respond to the untruth, you blame them for responding to the untruth.
00:27:56.000The way he talked, he was so arrogant in how he spoke to senators and dismissive.
00:28:03.000I was I was really offended by how he behaved at the hearing.
00:28:07.000Oh, no, we're not offended by Kristen Gillibrand.
00:28:09.000We're not offended by Dianne Feinstein hiding a story of rape for six weeks so that she could get away with pushing Brett Kavanaugh off the court.
00:28:24.000The most absurd, of course, is from ex-Senator Barbara Boxer, who used to be, officially, the stupidest woman in the United States Senate.
00:28:32.000Now she's no longer in the United States Senate.
00:28:33.000She's been replaced by Kamala Harris, and so now there's a running gun battle for stupidest woman in the United States Senate, who may not in fact be stupidest person in the United States Senate.
00:28:41.000Sheldon Whitehouse is definitely up for that honor.
00:28:42.000But in any case, Barbara Boxer, who used to be the stupidest woman in the United States Senate, she says that Brett Kavanaugh, you could actually see him attacking a woman because he was sitting there getting angry that people were accusing him of attacking a woman.
00:28:56.000All of a sudden, we see a man transformed from a choir boy who, up to now, has said, after hours in front of the committee, he lived this very perfect life.
00:29:10.000All of a sudden, his anger is triggered.
00:29:13.000And what we saw today is someone who you could now see attacking a woman.
00:30:34.000And the media, complicit in it at every step of the way, because the media have demonstrated that they are, in fact, democratic outlets.
00:30:41.000I'm a guy who's criticized President Trump for saying that the media are fake news, but this week they proved that they were partisan hacks in objective news journalist sheep's clothing.
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00:31:33.000I'm going to show you some of the media treatment of all of this.
00:31:35.000Now, we're going to start with some of the quote-unquote objective media, and then we'll get to the non-objective media, because the non-objective media are Democrat hacks, are basically Democrat hacks, and I want to discuss their point of view.
00:31:45.000But let's start with the folks who are supposed to be objective.
00:31:49.000So John King of CNN yesterday, he comes out and he says, Brett Kavanaugh went full Trump, which is the worst thing you can say about anyone on CNN.
00:32:29.000I remember someone named Hillary Clinton who went in front of the Senate committee on Benghazi and said that she didn't really matter, right?
00:32:38.000What difference does it make how things went down in Benghazi?
00:32:40.000What difference does it make why the protests happened in the first place?
00:32:43.000Yelling at senators, being as militant and nasty as humanly possible, and the Democrats cheered her.
00:33:19.000John Bresnahan of Politico, a supposedly objective journalist over at Politico, he tweets out, this indignant, angry attitude is not good for Kavanaugh.
00:33:28.000And then we had the Washington, Brian Stelter, right?
00:33:31.000A supposedly objective journalist on CNN.
00:33:33.000He quotes a piece from the Washington Post.
00:33:35.000Today in America, this was men against women, right against left, a cascade of recrimination, explosions of anger, hours of tears and sobs.
00:34:39.000The Washington Post had this headline, Kavanaugh's sexual assault hearing turns partisan as Republican senators lash out at treatment of Supreme Court nominee.
00:36:03.000is the quote-unquote conservative columnist over at the Washington Post, which is just absurd.
00:36:07.000I think they recently finally changed that because it is obvious that Jennifer Rubin is the hack of all hacks.
00:36:12.000If you go back and look at what she wrote about Mitt Romney in 2012 versus what she has written about Mitt Romney today, she's reversed herself on virtually every position because Trump legitimately drove her out of her mind.
00:36:22.000And she proved that with this tweet yesterday.
00:36:24.000Quote, with him screaming and interrupting senators, I could imagine him putting his hand over someone's mouth.
00:36:31.000Yes, you see, he was mean to senators calling him a rapist, and that means that you can imagine him putting his hand over a woman's mouth while attempting to rape her.
00:36:40.000Well, weird, because after reading that tweet, I can imagine Jennifer Rubin ranting in an insane asylum as someone tries to catch her with a butterfly net as she runs around in a straitjacket.
00:36:48.000Doesn't take much of a leap for me to get there, actually.
00:36:52.000But this was the entire shtick up and down yesterday, over and over yesterday.
00:36:58.000And then you finally get to the real nub of the matter.
00:36:59.000And the nub of the matter, I think, was brought forth by Stephen Colbert.
00:37:05.000Now he just does unfunny political commentary.
00:37:08.000I am a political commentator who is, at moments, funny.
00:37:12.000Stephen Colbert basically is now in my lane.
00:37:15.000He used to be a comedian who was sometimes political.
00:37:17.000Now he's a political commentator who's occasionally funny.
00:37:19.000Here he was yesterday being completely unfunny about the Kavanaugh hearings, but spilling the beans on what the real agenda here is for Democrats.
00:37:26.000And the wind was sown when Donald Trump had 19 credible allegations of sexual assault against him, bragged about sexual assault on tape, and your Republican buddies up on that committee said, yeah, but we want our guy on the Supreme Court.
00:37:44.000That doesn't mean you're guilty, but please save your indignation that finally someone is taking one woman's accusation of sexual assault serious.
00:37:54.000Okay, so I mean, that's an amazing statement.
00:37:56.000So Brett Kavanaugh has no right to be outraged.
00:38:57.000For folks who don't know the Dreyfus Affair, back in 1892, France, there was an attempt by French nationalists to railroad a member of the French military named Alfred Dreyfus, a Jew.
00:39:06.000It was an anti-Semitic attempt to suggest that he was funneling documents to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
00:39:11.000He was not, but it turned into a cause celeb anyway.
00:39:16.000Political purposes infect, infect situations like this.
00:39:20.000And it is obvious that for Democrats, it has infected situations like this.
00:39:54.000All this is about is petty revenge, and if they have to tear down a man based on a bunch of fraudulent allegations and a credible allegation with no corroborative evidence, they will do it.
00:40:03.000They will do it, and they will do it to anyone.
00:40:06.000If they'll do it to Brett Kavanaugh, they'll do it to you.
00:40:12.000There are so many people out there who are saying, we need a new unity in this country.
00:40:16.000You can't have unity when you don't have basic agreement on standards of due process.
00:40:19.000I mean, these are the basics of Western civilization.
00:40:21.000And we are seeing them thrown out in favor of sheer partisan brutality on the part of the left.
00:40:27.000I've ripped it when I've seen it from the right.
00:40:29.000I ripped it when I saw the associations with the alt-right of the Trump campaign.
00:40:33.000And I will rip it when I see it from the left.
00:40:35.000And today what you're seeing is the mainstream Democratic Party embracing their worst instincts, embracing the worst angels of their nature, the devils of their nature, in order to get what they want.
00:40:45.000And it is disgusting and awe-inspiring to watch.
00:40:58.000So, we'll do a few questions from the mailbag, since we sort of ran out of time on the mailbag, but we'll do a few questions for our subscribers anyway.
00:41:05.000So, Alexander asks, Shalom, is the intellectual dark web, you, Rogan, Rubin, Harris, Hoffsommers, Brothers, Weinstein, sufficient to develop a well-rounded worldview?
00:41:33.000You know, this is an interesting question because there are a bunch of people on the intellectual dark web, particularly Sam Harris and Eric Weinstein, who disagree with me sharply on Kavanaugh.
00:41:41.000I actually had an exchange with Sam Harris on Twitter yesterday about Kavanaugh.
00:41:45.000What the intellectual dark web is good for is the idea that we can actually have conversations about difficult topics, but it does not mean we agree on things.
00:42:11.000But the difference between the partisans of the IDW, I hope, and people who are outside the IDW is that people inside the IDW are trying not to make intellectually incoherent arguments.
00:42:21.000With that said, if you're looking for a coherent worldview from the IDW, I don't think that's... I think that's asking too much.
00:42:28.000I think that the dark web is like any other forum.
00:42:31.000I think it is more of a forum with a few values in common, like belief in free speech and a huge variety of differences on matter substantive.
00:42:39.000And I think people ought to keep that in mind.
00:42:41.000It's not like we all get together and we agree on everything or even close to it.
00:42:45.000Nicole says, Please enlighten me as to how you keep your emotions in check during this despicable circus.
00:42:49.000My blood is boiling, but I try to stay quiet because I know if I speak up, I will probably blow with anger.
00:43:28.000I mean, how do you keep your emotions in check?
00:43:30.000That's why, listen, I'm a human being just like anybody else.
00:43:34.000I try to present as many facts as I can.
00:43:36.000I hope that those facts are convincing to you.
00:43:38.000I'm not going to pretend I don't get emotional about subjects, but I hope that those emotions are not dispositive because I don't think that emotions should be dispositive.
00:44:17.000But in terms of kind of interpersonal relations, OK, so a couple of them.
00:44:22.000When people say, can I just have a minute of your time and I'm in the middle of work, that's a pet peeve, because the answer is no, you can't, because it's not actually a minute.
00:45:05.000Colton was on a flight from Sacramento to L.A.
00:45:08.000with me and my two kids and my wife, because we just ended up on the same flight, back the other day.
00:45:13.000And he watched as my son lost his bleep for a full 35 minutes on the descent into Los Angeles because he wouldn't sit his little ass down in the buckle.
00:45:23.000He stood up, he was trying to stand because he was obsessed with the lights above the seats, and he actually would take down the tray table, and then he would stand on the tray table, and then hit all the buttons, and then he'd get mad if you took him down, and he would scream like a banshee, and my wife would try to appease him by giving him chocolate.
00:45:41.000So now he's covered in chocolate, and he's got his hands all full of chocolate, and he's
00:46:58.000It's hard not to feel like the timeline is sped up, right?
00:47:01.000I mean, it looks like now, like, would you be surprised if tomorrow a senator gets shot in the Dirksen building?
00:47:13.000Would that be completely surprising to you in the aftermath of all these protesters who are showing up and screaming at people and getting in their face and throwing Ted Cruz out of restaurants?
00:47:34.000The real question is whether there are massive leftists who are actually willing to get violent.
00:47:37.000Like a real massive leftist willing to get violent.
00:47:40.000My inclination so far is no, that it's a lot of talk.
00:47:42.000But that sort of thing can change over time.
00:47:45.000And it can certainly change from the other point of view.
00:47:47.000If Democrats ever get in charge of power and they start trying to, say, take away guns in Texas, things could get violent very quickly in this country.
00:47:53.000If they start telling religious people that religious people have to shut down their schools, shut down their churches because they won't abide by social strictures promulgated by the left, things could get really bad really fast.
00:48:02.000So, yeah, I mean, it's hard not to watch this week and feel like we're five seconds from chaos.
00:48:07.000I mean, I don't know what a more thorough investigation looks like.
00:48:10.000He's had six FBI background checks at this point.
00:48:13.000All the people who have been questioned have been questioned.
00:48:16.000I don't mind a more thorough investigation, but if time were not a consideration, would I have, like, significant objections to an FBI investigation?
00:48:36.000Probably not, but it's also, at this point, a balancing act between the fact I don't think an FBI investigation is likely to do anything and the fact that the reason Democrats are calling for it is specifically so it doesn't do anything.
00:50:11.000So listen to this episode three times, because basically, I don't know that much is going to change, except I think Kavanaugh will probably get confirmed.
00:50:17.000But we'll be back here next Wednesday.
00:50:19.000But let's do some things I like and some things... Oh yeah, and also, you can check out what I think on Sunday, because we're doing the Ben Shapiro election special on Fox News.
00:50:27.000So if you miss me that much, we have a Sunday special on Sunday and the Ben Shapiro election special on Sunday on Fox News.
00:51:22.000And he is tasked with driving around this blind general.
00:51:27.000to kind of his final wishes before this blind general is going to commit suicide.
00:51:31.000That's basically the plot of the movie.
00:51:34.000And there's only one scene that comes to mind this week, and that is there's a scene near the end of the movie where Al Pacino is testifying on behalf of this kid.
00:51:41.000They basically have a hearing into the prank, and Al Pacino basically goes off on the school, and it's pretty reminiscent of kind of what happened in court yesterday in the Judiciary Committee with Kavanaugh.
00:51:51.000Anyway, here's a little bit of the preview.
00:53:02.000So Candace Bergen, who is now approximately 97 years old, is back in the starring role as Murphy Brown, when in reality, this would never happen, because let's be real about the news industry and CBS and NBC.
00:53:13.000They'd fire every woman at 60, except for Barbara Walters.
00:53:15.000I mean, this is... First problem, I'm having a tough time with the believability.
00:53:21.000In any case, Murphy Brown is there, and suddenly, Hillary Clinton shows up to interview as her secretary.
00:53:28.000This is maybe the most spine-chillingly boring segment of television you have ever seen.
00:53:35.000And it reminds you why Hillary Clinton is not president, because my God, woman, as somebody who has no capacity to act, I mean, I'm an awful actor.
00:55:51.000I mean, God, if I come back after the holiday and the world is just on fire, well, I guess that would be like a normal Wednesday around here.