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00:01:58.000Alrighty, so, the world waits, aghast, as we find out more about the accusations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
00:02:05.000Brett Kavanaugh, of course, President Trump's pick.
00:02:08.000To replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court.
00:02:11.000And he was considered the establishment pick, let us recall.
00:02:13.000I had serious questions about Judge Brett Kavanaugh on policy grounds, but there seemed to be no real question about him on character grounds.
00:02:19.000This is a Catholic father of multiple girls.
00:02:22.000This is a guy who had been very active in his community.
00:02:25.000This is somebody who coached his girls' basketball team.
00:02:28.000And now there's an accuser who has come forward
00:02:30.000Her name is Christine Ford, and she has come forward, and she suggests that back when Brett Kavanaugh was 17 years old, and she was 15 years old, at an unspecified party, at an unspecified date, at an unspecified location, he lay on top of her, tried to rip off her bathing suit, covered her hand, her mouth with his hand, in an attempt to stifle her screams, and then somehow she escaped.
00:02:51.000There are a bunch of things to be noted about this accusation.
00:02:53.000First of all, he was 17 at the time and she was 15, according to her.
00:02:57.000This is why it's good to go to juvenile court when stuff like this happens, because for a lot of juvenile crimes,
00:03:03.000The records on this sort of thing would be sealed, right?
00:03:06.000I mean, we have a general presumption with regard to teenagers that teenagers are to be granted a little bit more leeway.
00:03:12.000Now, listen, I'm not somebody who actually likes that argument a whole heck of a lot, depending on the nature and severity of the crime.
00:03:18.000I think there are a lot of cases in which teens ought to be tried as adults if you're talking about rape or murder.
00:03:21.000But in this particular case, the FBI was told about this and they can't even check it out because there is no alleged crime that has taken place.
00:03:29.000Like, they don't even know what alleged crime would rise to the federal level, as I mentioned yesterday.
00:04:46.000It's not, we don't have enough evidence to actually show something happened, but the FBI, they will ferret out the truth.
00:04:52.000It's funny how the left has come to rely on the FBI this way, as opposed to, you know, actually holding hearings on this issue.
00:04:58.000So, yesterday, Senator Chuck Grassley invited the alleged victim, Christine Blasey Ford, invited her to speak in front of the Senate committee, and supposedly she accepted.
00:05:07.000According to CNN, the Republican leader of the Senate Judiciary Committee said on Monday he would convene remarkable new public hearings in a week's time after sexual assault allegations emerged against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
00:05:18.000Both Kavanaugh and the woman who has accused him of physical and sexual assault, Christine Blasey Ford, will testify before the panel, setting up a blockbuster event that could decide Kavanaugh's fate.
00:05:27.000The announcement, made under pressure from lawmakers to fully examine the new claims, will delay what had been a glide path toward confirmation for President Trump's nominee.
00:05:34.000The political stakes for the White House and members of Congress are enormous as the MeToo movement galvanizes women ahead of key congressional elections in November.
00:05:42.000The only thing the left wants out of this is a withdrawn Kavanaugh nomination in the hopes that somehow, for some desperate reason, Democrats will take the Senate in November, and by the time Trump can nominate somebody else and go through the process, it will be a Democratic Senate that can reject the nominee.
00:06:13.000She didn't tell her Senate Democratic colleagues.
00:06:14.000She didn't tell the rest of the Senate.
00:06:15.000She didn't ask any questions of Kavanaugh in writing or in person.
00:06:18.000She didn't have a phone call with Kavanaugh.
00:06:19.000She didn't talk to the lady, presumably.
00:06:22.000All that happened is that she received this letter, she sat on it, and then just before the confirmation, she decided to release it in a last-ditch attempt to hold off the hearings as long as possible so that this would stretch beyond the next election cycle.
00:06:33.000That's all that is happening right here.
00:06:56.000In view of the enormity and seriousness of these allegations, a staff-only phone call behind closed doors is unacceptable and Democratic staff will not participate.
00:07:04.000This isn't how things should be done and is in complete violation of how this committee has worked in the past.
00:07:08.000The FBI has the resources and know-how to conduct an objective, independent evaluation of these sensitive allegations with appropriately trained investigators.
00:07:30.000So Democrats are throwing this to the FBI so that they can avoid actually going forward with a hearing that might clear this up.
00:07:35.000Their entire goal is to smear Brett Kavanaugh.
00:07:37.000Whether this woman is telling the truth or not,
00:07:40.000That is not relevant to the Democrats.
00:07:42.000The Democrats in the Senate Judiciary Committee are obviously engaged in political brinksmanship here.
00:07:47.000This has nothing to do with guilt or innocence.
00:07:49.000It has nothing to do with the truth of the charges.
00:07:51.000It's one of the most scurrilous political attacks I've ever seen, whether she's telling the truth or not, because Democrats don't actually want to get at the truth.
00:07:57.000That's what's obvious from this procedural maneuvering.
00:08:00.000They're not doing this because they want to know what actually happened.
00:08:02.000They're not doing this because they think Brett Kavanaugh ought to be kicked off because they believe the charges.
00:08:06.000They're doing this because they want a delay so that they can stop whoever Trump nominates.
00:09:05.000Tom Cruise isn't in the back room with a bunch of weird goo people trying to figure out what's going to happen in the future and prevent future crime.
00:11:03.000They were having family counseling in part because of what happened to her five years ago and told all the details.
00:11:10.000And third, to come out and say something like this.
00:11:13.000Okay, this argument that a woman has a great deal of credibility because she has a lot to lose coming forward?
00:11:32.000Who has more to lose, Christine Blasey Ford or Judd Brett Kavanaugh, who's not only going to lose his career, but also a slot in the Supreme Court?
00:11:38.000If we're going to talk about people who have something to lose and who are risking a lot here, it's Kavanaugh, not Christine Blasey Ford, who's being held up as a heroine for all of this.
00:11:45.000Now, I'm not saying emotionally it's not difficult for her to come forward.
00:11:49.000I'm going to say it for the 1,000th time.
00:11:50.000It's quite possible she's telling the truth, but I don't know, and you don't know, and nobody knows, because the only people in that room, even allegedly, were Brett Kavanaugh and Mark Judge, both of whom deny, and this woman.
00:11:59.000Brett Kavanaugh, by the way, says he wasn't even at a party.
00:12:17.000And I'll talk in a minute about the lie detector side of this.
00:12:21.000What Chuck Schumer has to say right there, because it's just asinine.
00:12:24.000But first, let's talk about the possibility of natural disasters.
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00:14:10.000And this is now proof that she is absolutely telling the truth.
00:14:13.000By the way, she could be telling the truth about what she thinks she believes.
00:14:17.000People actually, over time, people have memories of events that are not necessarily the most accurate, but you start to believe that that was your memory of the event.
00:16:01.000Delay it until they run the table in the Senate, then they have a majority, then they can reject Brett Kavanaugh or anyone else Trump nominates and keep the Supreme Court seat open until after 2020, claiming that Trump is under FBI investigation, which he is not, and therefore that President Trump has no ability to appoint a Supreme Court justice.
00:16:17.000The Republicans know what's going on here, right?
00:16:20.000Mitch McConnell knows what's going on here.
00:16:21.000So, the Senate Majority Leader, he says, listen, it's obvious what's happening here.
00:16:25.000Democrats waited until the 11th hour to dump this allegation, specifically in an attempt to scuttle Kavanaugh.
00:16:30.000This is not about getting to the truth in any real way.
00:16:32.000Yet chose to keep secret until the 11th hour.
00:16:35.000Neither she nor any of her Democratic colleagues chose to raise this allegation during the committee staff's bipartisan background calls with the nominee.
00:16:46.000Okay, all of this is true, what he is saying, and it is absurd the lengths to which the left is going on this.
00:16:51.000When I say it's absurd, I mean legitimately absurd.
00:16:54.000So now they have people like Julia Louis-Dreyfus signing letters in support of the accuser.
00:17:01.000What the hell does the Veep star have to do with anything?
00:17:06.000She signed a letter signed by 200 women from this woman's high school who say, quote, we believe Dr. Blasey Ford and are grateful that she came forward to tell her story.
00:17:41.000I went to Walter Reed Junior Middle School.
00:17:43.000Okay, if I went to Walter Reed and somebody else went to Walter Reed, well, that means that if I sign a letter having to do with that person, even if they graduated 20 years before I went there, that means I have additional credibility on what they did in a bedroom that I haven't heard of 20 years, 36 years beforehand, maybe before I was born.
00:18:21.000The MeToo movement was all about the believability and credibility of women.
00:18:24.000The idea was, if a woman says something, we should initially give it credibility, and then we should go examine the evidence to try and confirm the story.
00:18:30.000But we shouldn't dismiss her story out of hand, as many people sometimes want to do.
00:18:35.000That was the case of the MeToo movement.
00:18:36.000Instead, Democrats, by cynically using an accusation that has no corroborating evidence to this point, none,
00:18:42.000Okay, the first time this was ever reported to anyone who is not her husband in 2002 was 2012, 30 years after the event.
00:18:50.000Instead of actually holding all of our accusations and accusers to the same standard of evidence, now that Democrats are cynically playing politics, it is obvious that they just want to believe what they want to believe here.
00:19:02.000The best example that I can spot is from Anna Marie Cox, who was on MSNBC last night.
00:19:07.000Again, the fact that anyone takes Anna Marie Cox seriously is beyond me, but she was on MSNBC last night on Lawrence O'Donnell's show, and she explains it doesn't matter
00:19:15.000Whether Kavanaugh is guilty or innocent, the only thing that matters is whether, in the hearings, he's nice to the woman.
00:19:24.000I legitimately cannot make up what she's about to say.
00:20:01.000So if a woman accuses me, like Ben Shapiro, the woman accuses me of rape, and I say she's totally full of crap, this is made up for political purposes, then Anna Marie Cox's question is going to be, do I treat her pain with respect?
00:20:13.000I'm falsely alleged to have committed rape or attempted rape, and I'm supposed to treat that woman's accusations, her pain, with respect?
00:20:22.000And you're going to prejudge how I treat that woman based on the fact that I have ruled in the past in ways you don't like on judicial cases?
00:20:31.000And then you have the gall to say this isn't a political maneuver?
00:20:42.000And now the way the Democrats are treating this woman makes me think she is less credible just because of the way Democrats are treating her.
00:20:47.000Because they're treating her as a political football.
00:20:49.000That statement from Anna Marie Cox is just morally abysmal, morally disreputable, disgusting, repulsive, repugnant.
00:20:57.000I'm going through the full thesaurus here.
00:21:01.000I lose capacity for speech at how disgusting it is to suggest that if you are falsely accused of a crime, your activity in feeling the pain of the person falsely accusing you, in your view, is really the main consideration here, not your guilt or innocence.
00:21:14.000It doesn't matter if the person is lying about you or got it wrong.
00:21:17.000The only thing that matters is how nice you are about it when you deny it.
00:21:21.000My God, my God, these people, and she has no shame.
00:21:26.000Have these people no sense of decency or shame?
00:23:12.000And Matthew Dowd tweeted out this regarding the Brett Kavanaugh accusations.
00:23:15.000And this is why, you wonder why the MeToo movement is breaking down?
00:23:20.000What the left has a tendency to do, what the left has a tendency to do is take issues where we are unified and then pick cases where there is not enough evidence for unity to be
00:24:14.000That you can name off the top of your head five, six police shootings of people that are racially suspect at best.
00:24:20.000If you don't agree with me on this fringe case where the evidence is not on my side, it demonstrates you don't have any care about the underlying issue.
00:24:26.000That's the way the left likes to play these things.
00:24:27.000And they're doing the same thing with regard to the MeToo movement.
00:24:30.000Folks on the right are not in favor of sexual assault.
00:24:54.000I believe that rapists should be castrated or killed.
00:24:57.000I think rape is a worse crime than murder in many cases.
00:25:00.000I think sexual abuse is the worst thing you can do to a human being, basically.
00:25:05.000And the implication is if I have questions about this woman's account, because there's not enough evidence to verify it, that this means I don't care about sexual assault, that's how the MeToo movement falls apart.
00:25:14.000That's how you take an issue where 90% of Americans agree and turn it into an issue where 55% of Americans agree.
00:25:23.000I don't think it's just the left, by the way.
00:25:24.000I think that on the right, there's a tendency to do this with regard to the American flag, for example.
00:25:28.000I think most Americans are not in favor of kneeling for the American flag.
00:25:31.000President Trump, by injecting himself into the American flag kneeling situation, he may be technically right, but he's also allowing a polarization around a specific issue that's not good for the country.
00:25:41.000The left does this on far less of an evidentiary basis than Trump does about kneeling for the flag.
00:25:47.000The left picks cases like this Christine Ford case, where all we're saying is, can we see some more evidence?
00:25:52.000And they say, well, if you don't just believe the woman, it's because you don't care about sexual assault.
00:25:56.000If you don't just see and believe, hear and believe, then that means you don't care enough about women.
00:26:02.000He says, it was despicable and outrageous what happened to Anita Hill more than 25 years ago, and a sexual predator was given a lifetime seat on the Supreme Court.
00:26:11.000Never been proved that Clarence Thomas is a sexual predator.
00:26:13.000I mentioned yesterday there are a lot of holes in Anita Hill's story.
00:26:16.000There are a lot of holes at the time in Anita Hill's story.
00:26:19.000She originally wanted to be anonymous before she came forward.
00:26:21.000Once she came forward, there are a bunch of problems with her story, including the witnesses she talked to, including the fact that she called Clarence Thomas many, many times over many years after the supposed incident.
00:27:42.000I thought the basis of feminism is that men and women are to be treated exactly the same way.
00:27:47.000If that's the case, then why should we believe the woman over the man if he denies and she says it happened and there's no corroborative evidence?
00:27:54.000Like, I'm more than willing to believe her story if she can even provide any corroborative evidence, but you're providing none, and then saying we should just believe the story.
00:28:03.000And he says, this is one of their favorite things, she has nothing to gain and everything to lose.
00:28:16.000She had an HBO full-on movie made about her and Clarence Thomas because supposedly he once said something about a pubic hair on a Coke can.
00:28:25.000Hey, this is... Again, this woman may be telling the truth.
00:28:28.000For the 1001st time during this program, she may be telling the truth.
00:28:32.000But it is not true to suggest that she has nothing to gain and everything to lose.
00:29:13.000Show right now, the Democrats have the upper hand in Arizona and Tennessee in the Senate races.
00:29:19.000Kyrsten Sinema, who is a real radical in Arizona, now has a slight lead over Martha McSally in the latest CNN poll.
00:29:27.000It shows that she is beating her by 7.50% to 43%.
00:29:32.000In Tennessee, there's a candidate named Phil Bredesen, who is the former governor, and he holds a five-point edge over Marsha Blackburn, 50% to 45% among likely voters there.
00:29:43.000Some of this has to do with the President of the United States, and the fact is that Bob Corker would still be running in Tennessee if Donald Trump hadn't basically destroyed him.
00:29:51.000And in Arizona, President Trump has made himself unpopular by attacking John McCain and such, so Martha McSally is paying a polling price.
00:29:58.000But if Arizona goes blue and Tennessee goes blue, that is a bad indicator.
00:30:09.000They're about the same as the chances that Donald Trump was going to win the presidency in 2016, according to FiveThirtyEight.
00:30:14.000In just a second, I'm going to discuss some of those statistics and give you the latest breakdown on the Senate and why Democrats are so eager to vote.
00:30:21.000Plus, we'll talk about President Trump revealing some new FISA documents and Stormy Daniels describing the president's junk.
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00:33:32.000So the reason the Democrats are trying to hold off on Kavanaugh, as I've been saying this entire time, is because they're hoping they win the Senate.
00:33:37.000According to FiveThirtyEight, many of the individual race forecasts in the FiveThirtyEight Senate model, which launched on Wednesday, look pretty optimistic for Democrats.
00:33:44.000The model shows Manchin in strong position to retain his seat in West Virginia.
00:33:48.000It has Democrats as slight favorites to win GOP seats in Nevada and Arizona.
00:33:52.000It thinks Democratic incumbents like Claire McCaskill and Heidi Heitkamp could close well down the stretch.
00:33:57.000It even gives Beto O'Rourke a credible shot in Texas, although Cruz remains the favorite in that race.
00:34:03.000538's House forecast is there is a 4-in-5 chance Democrats win control of Congress, a 1-in-5 chance that Republicans keep control of Congress.
00:34:12.000And when you take a look at their Senate forecast, their Senate forecast basically say that there is a 2-in-3 shot that Republicans maintain the Senate, but there's a 1-in-3 shot that Republicans lose the Senate.
00:34:23.000But 538 says the Senate model basically suggests Republicans have between a 2 and 3 and a 7 and 10 chance to hold the Senate depending on which version of their model they're looking at.
00:34:32.000That's because the Senate map is really, really bad for Democrats.
00:34:34.000It's about as unfavorable a map as any party has faced in the Senate ever.
00:34:38.000Democrats have 26 seats up for election in November.
00:34:52.000And they still would not win the Senate.
00:34:55.000Instead, they need about an 11-point advantage in the House popular vote before they become favorites to claim the Senate.
00:34:59.000But it's possible that Republicans could lose the Senate, and Democrats know this, and this is why they are attempting to push this vote off on Kavanaugh as long as humanly possible.
00:35:11.000So, the tailwind could be strong enough to carry them.
00:35:14.000Also, there are 11 seats that each party has at least a 10% chance of winning.
00:35:17.000Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Nevada, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia.
00:35:23.000Democrats need 8 of those 11 to take the Senate.
00:35:27.000You know, have a have a micropath and a macropath, as FiveThirtyEight says.
00:35:31.000And it is worth noting that Democrats are highly motivated.
00:35:35.000Right now, if Republicans do not turn out to vote, they could lose the Senate.
00:35:38.000And then Trump has a Democratic Congress the last two years of his first term, which is a disaster for President Trump.
00:35:43.000He's going to be fighting investigations at every possible turn.
00:35:47.000Impeachment hearings will probably be held.
00:35:49.000Things will get very ugly very quickly.
00:35:51.000You can sense the Democrats are really mobilized.
00:35:55.000The way that you can sense this is from people like Charles Blow, who has a piece titled, Not Deranged, Determined.
00:36:01.000The piece, spoiler alert, is actually kind of deranged.
00:36:04.000It says, They told us that we suffered from Trump Derangement Syndrome, this of course is in the New York Times, an emotional and illogical obsession with opposing and unseating Donald Trump.
00:36:12.000They saw our principled stand against corruption and criminality, against immorality and hatred, as born of hyper-partisanship and the bruises of defeat.
00:36:19.000They were unable to see that our objection to Trump was an achingly particular phenomenon that transcended party tribalism,
00:36:25.000And went to the core of who we are as a people and as a country.
00:36:49.000Doesn't matter whether you like Trump or not.
00:36:51.000The only thing that matters at this point is ensuring Republicans keep the Senate if you do not want Democrats to hold the Supreme Court at 8 and then wait until Justice Anthony Kennedy is replaced in 2021 by Justice Elizabeth Warren.
00:37:04.000You got to be very worried about this if you are a Republican or a conservative in any way.
00:37:11.000is moving forward with declassification of documents related to the FISA warrants on Carter Page.
00:37:17.000According to Politico, and I've been waiting for this for a long time, I keep saying, why doesn't Trump just release the documents?
00:37:22.000If, in fact, the FBI was wrongly surveilling Carter Page, if, in fact, our nation's law enforcement bodies were targeting the Trump campaign, Trump has the ability to declassify all this, and he should.
00:37:34.000If he's got the goods, let's see the goods.
00:37:35.000Well, it appears that Trump is now moving toward the revelation of those goods, which I think adds some credibility to his accusations.
00:37:41.000Here's what Politico says about all of this.
00:37:54.000Trump's latest offensive against a Russia investigation that has ensnared associates and has consumed his attention for much of his presidency.
00:38:04.000The breadth of the order came as a surprise and landed him in a full-court White House effort to shore up the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
00:38:12.000Trump demanded the FBI produce 20 pages of the surveillance application, which Republicans on Capitol Hill have suggested would help show anti-Trump bias at the highest levels of the FBI.
00:38:21.000We're not going to be able to actually analyze how bad the Carter Page FISA warrant is until we actually see it.
00:38:27.000But the fact that Trump wants to reveal more of it, not less of it, is an indicator that at least he thinks that something nefarious was going on.
00:38:33.000Devin Nunes, who's been really pushing this at the House Government Oversight Committee, he says that a shocking number of people have bought the conspiracy theories and the real conspiracy here is that the FBI was basically targeting Team Trump.
00:38:47.000But you are slowly starting to see this collapse in on them, even though the mainstream media is not covering this, because they seem so focused on drinking the Russian Kool-Aid, on terms of what's, you know, who's getting indicted by the special counsel, and instead focus on, look, was there any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, which the answer is no.
00:39:08.000Okay, so we'll see what's in the documents.
00:39:10.000And this is another case where I'm going to do the unpopular thing and say I'm going to wait to see the actual documents before I jump to the FBI was targeting Trump.
00:39:18.000But the fact that Trump wants to release more, not less, is an indicator that at least he thinks he has some of the goods on the so-called deep state targeting him.
00:39:25.000Well, in just a second, we're going to talk about Stormy Daniels at long last and her accusations in her new book because she's a feminist heroine.
00:39:32.000Let me tell you, she's just a hero for the ages.
00:39:35.000We'll talk about that in just one second.
00:39:38.000So here is Stormy Daniels has a new book coming out.
00:39:40.000Because you have to read a book by a porn star.
00:39:44.000This is a woman who has forged her way, using nothing but grit and her genitals, toward the head of American public life.
00:39:51.000This is a woman who was featured on Saturday Night Live telling President Trump to step down because she had consensual sex with him a couple of times.
00:39:57.000I mean, just amazing stuff from Stormy Daniels.
00:40:00.000So, the new book is called Full Disclosure, and it's now been obtained by the UK Guardian, which is the source of choice for all left-wingers.
00:40:08.000And basically, The Guardian acts as sort of a conduit for a lot of left-wing material, which is their prerogative.
00:40:13.000In it, Daniels describes her mounting disbelief as Trump began to win primary contests in 2016 for the Republican presidential nomination.
00:40:20.000Former castmates, whom she had not heard from in years, but who had heard her story about sleeping with Trump in 2006, would call her up to marvel at the news.
00:40:27.000As Trump kept winning Daniels' rights, she began to think she might be in danger.
00:40:30.000And this is where she starts telling her stories again.
00:40:34.000About how she was threatened in 2011 by somebody associated with Trump and all the rest of this again providing little to no evidence that this ever happened.
00:40:43.000She did take a $130,000 payment from Team Trump to shut up about it and then of course she's getting a book deal so that'll be lucrative for her.
00:40:51.000She continued to answer Trump's many phone calls over the next year after she had an affair with him back in 2006.
00:40:58.000In hopes that he would make good on his promise to put her on his reality television show, The Apprentice, Daniel writes.
00:41:03.000Trump even suggested that a cheat could be arranged to allow her to survive through more episodes of the show.
00:41:07.000Quote, we'll figure out a way to get you the challenges beforehand.
00:41:10.000She quotes him as saying, and we can devise your technique.
00:41:13.000He was going to have me cheat, and it was 100% his idea.
00:41:16.000Ooh, ooh, clearly he is the nefarious character here.
00:41:19.000Not you, the porn star who had sex with a married man and then took $130,000 to shut up about it and had sex with him in the hopes that you'd get on TV.
00:41:26.000Clearly the only bad character here is Trump.
00:41:28.000Now listen, this is not me defending Trump.
00:41:30.000I think Trump with regard to women is dirt.
00:41:32.000I think he's terrible with regard to the way he's treated women over the course of his life.
00:42:05.000I mean, you decided you were going to have sex with a married man because you don't care about sex that much, and because you thought that it would be worthwhile to get on The Apprentice.
00:42:12.000And then there's the part of the book that everybody cares deeply about.
00:42:15.000This is her first sexual encounter with Donald Trump.
00:42:18.000Trump's bodyguard invites Daniels to dinner, which turns out to be an invitation to Trump's penthouse, she writes, in a description of alleged events that Daniels has disclosed previously, but which in the book are rendered with new and lurid detail.
00:42:29.000She describes Trump's genitals, his penis, as, quote, smaller than average, but not freakishly small.
00:44:25.000On a much more serious note, tonight is Yom Kippur, so after all of that hilarity, I'm going to have to do a bit of atonement this evening and tomorrow.
00:44:32.000And I'm going to go from actually the most ridiculous stuff to the most serious stuff that ever happened.
00:44:37.000There's a book that I read over Rosh Hashanah, which is a history of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
00:44:41.000Man, how I switched gears on this one is beyond me.
00:44:44.000But the book is called Resistance by Israel Gutman, who is the head of the Yad Vashem
00:44:49.000Museum dedicated to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, at least part of it.
00:44:53.000And the book is sort of a comprehensive look at what happened during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, one of the great kind of heroic Jewish stories of all time.
00:45:18.000The Nazis basically wanted to starve them to death.
00:45:20.000And then when the final solution was decided upon, they started shipping all of these folks to Auschwitz.
00:45:26.000After the first shipment to Auschwitz, a group of Jews, knowing they were going to die anyway, formed a resistance with pretty much no arms, and they proceeded to hold off the Germans for weeks on end.
00:45:35.000All the way from April 19th, 1943 into mid-May, they held off the German army.
00:46:03.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:46:10.000So one of the things that's very difficult about the internet is that so many memes go around and you're never sure what's real or not.
00:46:15.000So there's a meme that was going around of Anderson Cooper standing in really deep water while his producer stood above him with a camera.
00:46:23.000And we were supposed to believe that Anderson Cooper was sort of faking it.
00:46:26.000It was from Hurricane Ike in 2008, I believe.
00:46:30.000And the implication was that Anderson Cooper was faking the footage that the water wasn't really all that deep.
00:46:36.000And this followed on the heels of a lot of video from the current hurricane where you'd see like a weather person standing in front trying to brace against the wind and then two dudes walking in the background like there was no big deal happening.
00:46:46.000Well, the problem is that if you're going to actually make those sorts of accusations, you probably should back them up.
00:46:50.000Anderson Cooper rightly is ticked off about this.
00:46:51.000He says that entire segment was about how there are ditches underwater and that you can be walking along and not spot the ditch and go plunging right into the ditch.
00:47:01.000Now, over the weekend, however, the son of the president, Donnie Jr., tweeted out this picture of me in waist-high water, my camera crew a few feet away on higher ground in only a little bit of water.
00:47:11.000was claiming it showed me in Florence faking the depths of floodwaters in order to somehow harm his father.
00:47:17.000And I quote from his tweet, stop lying to try to make at-real Donald Trump look bad, he wrote.
00:47:23.000Now look, I don't expect the President's son to ever admit he was wrong, or one of the President's former advisors, or frankly anyone else who's retweeted these pictures.
00:47:31.000But I at least thought that they, and you, should know the truth.
00:47:34.000Okay, and he's not wrong to be upset about that.
00:47:37.000I will say that nowhere in that tweet from Donald Trump Jr.
00:47:39.000does he actually accuse Cooper of doing this during the current hurricane, but the level of vagary in the tweet is not a great thing, and people should be careful about what they tweet.
00:47:48.000You know, we all make mistakes on Twitter because everything moves too fast.
00:47:51.000You sort of retweet what comes across your page, but if you're going to make those sorts of accusations, you ought to be clear about it.
00:47:56.000Okay, so meanwhile, the Emmys happened last night.
00:48:00.000And I'm not sure that anybody actually watched the Emmys.
00:48:02.000I'm not sure what the ratings were like.
00:48:24.000We're going to protect ourselves by ensuring that our politicians don't agree with you.
00:48:27.000Well, that was underscored last night by just more politicking from the Emmy stage, because they can't just give awards to people on the basis of non-politics, they have to talk politics, naturally.
00:48:39.000Last Man Standing was cancelled by ABC and then picked up by Fox.
00:48:56.000How messed up is your life when you have to go to the Middle East just to get peace of mind?
00:49:03.000Okay, now that last joke is particularly stupid because Israel is actually a pretty good place to live.
00:49:07.000I mean, I have a lot of relatives in Israel.
00:49:09.000How many of these folks in Hollywood have said that they want to pick up and move to Canada just because Trump was elected in the first place?
00:50:07.000Thank you for making millions of dollars from a massive multinational corporation that uses cheap labor from abroad just so that people can posture on red carpets.
00:50:18.000Can't imagine why anybody wouldn't trust you with the future of the country.
00:50:22.000And the left doesn't understand that when they insult the rest of the country culturally, the country responds by putting people in power who they think will protect them from Hollywood.
00:50:29.000You want to know what makes people in the middle of the country feel threatened?
00:50:32.000The idea that folks on the Emmy stage will one day be in the halls of power again governing them.
00:50:36.000That's what scares people in the middle of the country, and rightly so.
00:51:03.000I don't even believe in God, but I'm going to thank her tonight.
00:51:10.000Well, I don't even believe in the Emmys, but I'm going to laugh at them right now, because why do we possibly care what Thandie Newton thinks about God?
00:51:21.000The sort of disparaging remark that God is only God if God is a woman?
00:51:26.000We did this with Ariana Grande, who did a song the same way, and it was God is a woman, but God was apparently a very highly sexualized woman performing for the pleasure of men, so that was weird.
00:51:36.000Again, this sort of cultural sneering is not going to be to Hollywood's benefit, and I think that they haven't paid the price for it yet, but they will at some point in the future.
00:51:43.000Speaking of which, Sir Paul McCartney has a new song ripping President Trump as well.
00:51:48.000His new song talks about how terrible President Trump is.
00:51:52.000The song is called Despite Repeated Warnings, and it contains this jab against President Trump.
00:52:48.000Just the musical self-righteousness of these folks.
00:52:50.000Again, there are lots of reasons to criticize President Trump, but our cultural better is informing us why President Trump ought not be trusted on politics.
00:52:58.000I'll assume Paul McCartney knows about music, somewhat, but I'm not going to assume he knows much about politics just because he writes songs like that.
00:53:05.000I'm not sure from that song he knows much about music, because the song sucks.
00:53:08.000Okay, well we will be back here, not tomorrow, because tomorrow is Yom Kippur.
00:53:11.000We will be back here on Thursday with all of the latest.