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00:02:01.000OK, so the big breaking news, Michael Cohen, the president's personal lawyer.
00:02:06.000Not a smart cookie, as the president might say.
00:02:08.000He has now pled guilty in a new deal with Robert Mueller.
00:02:12.000Now, this is kind of a shock because people thought that Michael Cohen, the president's personal lawyer, was going to plead guilty in a deal with the Southern District of New York, the D.A.
00:02:20.000That's because the original investigation around Michael Cohen that everybody was worried about was the investigation concerning the supposed bribery of Stormy Daniels.
00:02:30.000The original story, if you recall, was that President Trump had allegedly used Michael Cohen as a thoroughfare for paying off his former lover, Stormy Daniels, and had done so specifically in order to avoid campaign finance law.
00:02:44.000That's why the Southern District of New York was investigating, because it had nothing to do with election 2016 and the Trump-Russia election stuff.
00:02:51.000It had to do with campaign finance reform.
00:02:52.000It had to do with the election, but not with any of the Trump-Russia stuff that is actually under Robert Mueller's purview.
00:02:57.000Well, now it turns out that Michael Cohen has pled guilty in a deal with Robert Mueller.
00:03:01.000So why exactly is he pleading guilty in a deal with Robert Mueller?
00:03:05.000Well, here's where things begin to get quite dicey for the Trump campaign slash administration.
00:03:11.000Special Counsel Robert Mueller has reached a tentative deal with Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney and longtime fixer for President Donald Trump, sources told ABC News.
00:03:20.000Cohen appeared in federal court in Manhattan Thursday, where he entered a guilty plea for misstatements to Congress in closed-door testimony last year about his contacts during the presidential campaign, when the AP reported that it was a surprise appearance, which is sort of a weird statement.
00:03:34.000It's like Barbara Streisand showing up randomly at the Hollywood Bowl, except that it was Michael Cohen showing up in court to plead guilty.
00:03:40.000First of all, It is a very rare occurrence when somebody pleads guilty for misstatements to Congress.
00:04:05.000Cohen's earlier plea deal with federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York implicated President Trump in campaign finance felonies.
00:04:10.000Since then, Cohen has spent more than 70 hours in interviews with Mueller's team.
00:04:15.000The questioning has focused on contacts with Russians by Trump associates during the campaign, Trump's business ties to Russia, obstruction of justice, and talk of possible pardons.
00:04:24.000Sources familiar with the discussions have told ABC News.
00:04:28.000attorney in Florida, says the potential significance of Cohen's cooperation is immense.
00:04:33.000So what exactly is Cohen telling the Mueller investigation?
00:04:37.000That is not eminently clear at this point, but the suggestion is that Cohen lied to Congress about President Trump's continuing connections with Russian companies in the middle of the 2016 election.
00:04:49.000Sources familiar with the special counsel's proposed agreement with Cohen told ABC News the 52-year-old New Yorker will admit to making multiple misstatements to two congressional intelligence committees investigating alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election.
00:05:03.000It was not immediately clear what Cohen told the congressional committees in the fall of 2017 that he will now say was false.
00:05:10.000The other reports are already speculating that it's that Cohen had said that Trump was not involved in negotiations over the building of a Trump Tower in Moscow into mid-2016, and now it turns out that Trump was directly involved in exactly those sorts of conversations.
00:05:26.000Cohen played an integral role, according to ABC News, in discussions about a possible Trump Tower in Moscow, negotiations that were going on at least through the early stages of the 2016 presidential campaign.
00:05:37.000So, here's where we get a problem, okay?
00:05:41.000The reason that this is a problem is because If it turns out that the president of the United States during the 2016 campaign was involved in business transactions with the Russian government and the Russian government was basically rooting for Trump to win because they thought that they had him bought and thus they were helping him out in the election, this is another avenue of investigation for Mueller.
00:06:01.000Cohen, according to the Steele dossier, it asserted that Cohen had a key role in secretive Trump campaign connections with Kremlin operatives.
00:06:09.000Cohen claimed in a statement that the proposal he worked on during the campaign to build a Trump property in Moscow, quote, was solely a real estate deal and nothing more.
00:06:16.000Cohen said the plan was terminated in January 2016 after it was determined that the project was not viable for business reasons.
00:06:22.000Now, apparently, he is saying something different.
00:06:25.000Now he is saying that the deal continued all the way into June 2016.
00:06:32.000He denied working on a Trump Organization real estate project in Moscow, which Cohen said they'd pursued until June 2016 during the presidential campaign.
00:06:40.000Trump attacked his former lawyer, who called him a weak person, and accused Cohen of lying about the real estate project to try and obtain a reduced sentence from prosecutors.
00:06:47.000Trump told reporters outside the White House he had decided not to build the building in Moscow, although he did not specify when he decided against pursuing that project.
00:06:55.000Now, again, the reason this is important is because if Trump was actually in the middle of business negotiations with a geopolitical enemy of the United States in the middle of a presidential run in which there are accusations that that geopolitical enemy was rooting for Trump and trying to hack his political opponent in order to release material to get an ally elected, that is a problem.
00:07:12.000Now, even if that were true, would that mean that there was active collusion between Trump and the Russians?
00:07:27.000Would it look about as bad as Hillary Clinton using the State Department to reach out to various and sundry governments who were giving donations to the Clinton Foundation?
00:07:39.000Would it mean that he was colluding with the Russians to release Hillary Clinton's emails?
00:07:43.000No, that would have to be proven independently.
00:07:45.000However, it would create an incentive for the Russian government to want Trump to win, and this has been a hot point of contention In the Mueller investigation all along.
00:07:53.000Is it the Russians really wanted Trump to win or is it that they just wanted to cause electoral chaos?
00:07:58.000There's been a split in the intelligence community over which it is.
00:08:01.000Did they actually want Trump to become president and so they were rooting against Hillary and trying to undermine Hillary or were they undermining Hillary just to create chaos assuming that Hillary Clinton was going to win anyway?
00:08:12.000So all of this is is obviously dicey for President Trump and it comes amidst a bunch of other dicey material with regard to President Trump That other material includes the Mueller office now looking at phone calls between President Trump and Roger Stone, a longtime President Trump confidant.
00:08:32.000As we mentioned yesterday, there was all this material that was coming out with regard to Roger Stone, the suggestion that Roger Stone had been coordinating with WikiLeaks in the dump of material on Hillary Clinton and that he had been sort of a go-between for President Trump.
00:08:46.000Mueller's office is now apparently looking at late-night phone calls between Roger Stone and President Trump, according to the Washington Post.
00:08:55.000The calls almost always came deep into the night.
00:08:57.000Caller ID labeled them unknown, but Roger Stone said he knew to pick up quickly during those harried months of the 2016 presidential campaign.
00:09:03.000There'd be a good chance the voice on the other end of the line would belong to President Donald Trump than just Donald Trump.
00:09:09.000Dialing from a blocked phone number, those nocturnal chats and other contacts between the man who now occupies the Oval Office and an infamous political trickster have come under intensifying scrutiny as Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation bores into whether Stone served as a bridge between Trump and WikiLeaks as the group was publishing hacked emails.
00:09:26.000Roger Stone, of course, denies that President Trump and he ever talked WikiLeaks.
00:09:30.000Who the hell knows whether that is true or not.
00:09:32.000Roger Stone is a congenital liar, and President Trump is not exactly forthcoming on these matters.
00:09:37.000Here's Roger Stone telling Sean Hannity, no, no, no, we never talked about any of that sort of WikiLeaks stuff.
00:09:41.000Did you ever talk to the president about Julian Assange or WikiLeaks ever?
00:09:54.000At no time did Donald Trump and I, either candidate Trump or President Trump, discuss WikiLeaks.
00:10:00.000Meanwhile, Jerome Corsi, another supposed go-between between WikiLeaks and actually Roger Stone, Jerome Corsi rejected a plea agreement this week suggesting that he was not going to be forced to lie by the Mueller team.
00:10:12.000He says, listen, I'm not taking a deal and I could go to jail because I'm not going to allow Team Mueller to force me to lie in order to go after President Trump.
00:10:19.000You were offered a plea deal by Bob Mueller's team.
00:10:42.000I might die in jail, but I'm still making this decision.
00:10:46.000OK, so one of the possibilities here is that it's not that he's actually innocent and all this stuff.
00:10:51.000It's that he's angling for a presidential pardon like Paul Manafort.
00:10:55.000But Michael Cohen obviously has a spirit of a presidential pardon and is now working with the Mueller investigation forthwith.
00:11:00.000Stone and Corsi both have defense arrangements with President Trump's team.
00:11:05.000This leads to a point that we were talking about yesterday with regard to the possibility of President Trump pardoning Paul Manafort or pardoning Roger Stone or pardoning Jerome Corsi.
00:11:14.000The president could theoretically cut off all ends of an investigation simply by pardoning all the people who are under investigation.
00:11:21.000Ken White, known as Pope had on Twitter, is a criminal defense lawyer, former federal prosecutor.
00:11:25.000He has an article in The New York Times specifically talking about Paul Manafort and why Paul Manafort has a defense agreement and why exactly the Mueller team is now deciding to revoke his plea arrangement in favor of prosecuting him more strongly.
00:11:42.000He says, on Tuesday, The Times reported that Mr. Manafort's lawyers have been telling Mr. Trump's lawyers what the special counsel asked Mr. Manafort and what the latter said in response.
00:11:51.000The first development isn't much of a surprise.
00:11:54.000This is the development that suggests that Mueller filed a status report accusing Manafort of lying.
00:11:58.000Wise prosecutors know cooperating witnesses can be notoriously unreliable.
00:12:02.000It's not unusual for prosecutors to catch cooperators in lies or recidivism.
00:12:06.000But the second development, Mr. Manafort's lawyers have been spilling the details of their clients' cooperation to Trump lawyers under the cover of an often used but little understood pact called a joint defense agreement is shocking.
00:12:17.000The revelation is a potential catastrophe for everyone involved.
00:12:20.000In a second, I'm going to get into Ken White's analysis of what exactly it means that Paul Manafort now has a joint defense agreement with President Trump.
00:12:27.000And apparently it looks like the same thing may soon exist with Jerome Corsi or Roger Stone.
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00:13:51.000OK, so back to the analysis of Paul Manafort and whether Paul Manafort will be pardoned by President Trump.
00:13:57.000Ken White analyzing this over at The New York Times.
00:14:00.000He says that the development that Manafort has been coordinating with Trump is a blow to Robert Mueller's team, because their questions to Mr. Manafort may be a roadmap to at least part of their special counsel investigation.
00:14:10.000Mr. Trump's lawyers can now adjust their defense and the president's responses, and with their filing on Monday asserting Mr. Manafort's dishonesty, the prosecutors have now lost him as a cooperating witness.
00:14:19.000It's a blow to Mr. Manafort, who will receive no sentencing credit for his brief cooperation.
00:14:24.000But it also may be a blow to President Trump.
00:14:32.000He says, Mr. Manafort, like many of the hapless former luminaries snared in Mr. Mueller's investigation, had a joint defense agreement with Mr. Trump.
00:14:39.000Such a pact lets defense lawyers exchange information without waiving attorney-client privilege.
00:14:43.000So Manafort's lawyer could talk with Trump's lawyer about what was going on and privilege would not be waived.
00:14:48.000And so the federal government couldn't come in and say, OK, what were you guys talking about?
00:14:54.000is very beneficial to Team Trump, obviously.
00:14:56.000Under normal circumstances, if a lawyer reveals what a client said in confidence or reveals strategy and analysis of a case, that information is no longer confidential, however, and the government can compel testimony about it.
00:15:07.000A joint defense agreement allows lawyers for people with a common interest in a case to share what they learned from clients without that information losing its confidential nature.
00:15:16.000Joint defense agreements are pretty common, but the pact almost always explicitly require the parties to withdraw from the agreement immediately if they cooperate with the government.
00:15:25.000In other words, if Manafort's team and Trump's team were coordinating before any of the plea agreement was arranged with Manafort, And then Manafort made the plea deal.
00:15:36.000And anything they said after the plea deal is no longer confidential.
00:15:40.000When someone begins to cooperate, says Ken White, his interests are no longer in common with the other members of the joint defense agreement.
00:15:46.000This is often how we learn that someone will soon plead guilty.
00:15:49.000The former national security advisor, Michael Flynn, also had a defense pact with the president, but his withdrawal from it signaled his cooperation and plea.
00:15:56.000So maybe what happened here is that Mr. Manafort's lawyers actually uncovered By doing this, they may have actually uncovered their communications with Team Trump and offered material to Mueller.
00:16:09.000Suffice it to say, none of it is very good for President Trump.
00:16:13.000Now President Trump is responding to all of this with the ire that Could either demonstrate guilt or innocence, right?
00:16:20.000He's saying that all of this is a witch hunt, that there was no collusion with the Russians.
00:16:25.000And again, I tend to believe that there was no collusion with the Russians, of which President Trump was aware, because President Trump does not have a greatly functional brain to malfilter.
00:16:34.000And that means that he says whatever comes to mind.
00:16:37.000He never said that he was colluding with the Russians, so I don't think that he was.
00:16:40.000I mean, really, it almost is that simple, because the president is not particularly good at hiding things.
00:16:46.000But With that said, is it possible that collusion was going on at a low level with Don Trump Jr.
00:16:51.000and the Russians, or with Paul Manafort and the Russians?
00:16:59.000If we're actually going to do this thing, then I will go after the Democrats.
00:17:02.000If the Democrats continue to push this forward, then I will hit back as hard as I possibly can.
00:17:08.000I'm just going to declassify everything that makes Democrats look bad.
00:17:11.000Here's what President Trump had to say about it.
00:17:13.000He said, what he actually said is in an interview with the New York Post, He said, if they go down the presidential harassment track, if they want to go and harass the president and the administration, I think that would be the best thing that would happen to me.
00:17:24.000I'm a counterpuncher and I will hit them so hard.
00:17:28.000He said, I think it would help my campaign.
00:17:31.000If they want to play tough, I will do it.
00:17:32.000They will see how devastating these pages are, meaning that the FBI investigation was a setup by members of the Obama administration to get him back in 2016.
00:17:44.000He says that he could declassify FISA warrant applications and other documents from Robert Mueller's probe.
00:17:49.000He predicted the disclosure would expose the FBI, the Justice Department, and the Clinton campaign as being in cahoots to set him up.
00:17:56.000This would be the longtime theory on the right.
00:17:58.000The Mueller investigation was launched under false pretenses before it was the Mueller investigation, right?
00:18:02.000When it was just an FBI investigation into Russian collusion, it was launched by people like Peter Strzok, And Lisa Page in an attempt to get Trump because they didn't like Trump personally.
00:18:12.000And then this thing is just spun out of control and that the Clinton campaign had put together the Steele dossier, which was used as the most solid basis for attempting to go after President Trump and his allies like Carter Page.
00:18:25.000President Trump threatening to declassify all that.
00:18:27.000I've always asked why he didn't declassify all of that.
00:18:29.000He basically said, I didn't want to do it yet because I can save it.
00:18:35.000Meaning that maybe he wants to drop that as the responsive bombshell.
00:18:38.000Instead of just declassifying the stuff and undercutting the Mueller investigation, he wanted to wait until it was most useful to him and then drop it at that point, which is An interesting move.
00:18:49.000I don't think that it's very good for transparency, but if President Trump does have the material, I think that it would behoove him to drop it now as opposed to later.
00:18:57.000Again, using material that implicates the FBI, DOJ, and Clinton campaign and corruption, keeping that under wraps as just a response may be politically smart, but it's not particularly good for the country.
00:19:10.000President Trump also responded to accusations that he is engaged in obstruction of justice because the president I came out and you recall that he has now gotten rid of Rod Rosenstein over at the Department of Justice.
00:19:27.000And he had retweeted a picture of a bunch of Democrats and Rod Rosenstein showing his deputy attorney general there.
00:19:41.000Why was he showing his own deputy attorney general behind bars?
00:19:45.000Well, I guess the reason he's showing his own deputy attorney general behind bars is because, as he says, he never should have picked a special counsel.
00:19:51.000So obviously he's very angry about all of this.
00:19:56.000He's not happy about Anything that is happening.
00:20:01.000He said that Rosenstein belongs in jail because he never should have picked a special counsel.
00:20:21.000The claim that was made by the Mueller investigation, and that they still have to prove, is that there was actual collusion between Team Trump and the Russian government, and that that investigation is going to undercover that collusion, and that the president is going to be implicated in that collusion.
00:20:46.000We've seen not a lot of connections between those dots.
00:20:48.000We haven't seen clear testimony at this point.
00:20:50.000Jumping to conclusions would be wrong.
00:20:53.000And while the left is overtly excited about everything that is currently happening right now, I have my doubts that this is going to result in exactly what people on the left and in the media hope it results in, namely the demise of President Trump.
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00:22:56.000So I have to say that in the past few weeks, really since the Pittsburgh shooting, the left has been on a tear about the supposed anti-Semitism of the Trump administration, We saw a piece from the New York Times saying that Jared and Ivanka were complicit in anti-Semitism.
00:23:10.000We saw many pieces talking about how the Trump administration had forwarded anti-Semitism, rises in hate crimes against Jews and all the rest.
00:23:16.000First of all, The statistics that were cited by the ADL were just not true.
00:23:20.000But, beyond that, if you want to talk about real, mainstreamed antisemitism, it does not exist in the Trump administration.
00:23:28.000And this is coming from a guy who received an enormous amount of antisemitism in 2016, like the most of anyone on the internet in 2016, from the alt-right, from people who I thought Trump was winking and nodding at during 2016.
00:23:37.000But, To suggest the Trump administration has been complicit in antisemitism is just bizarre.
00:24:16.000Here's what Mark Lamont Hill had to say.
00:24:18.000We must advocate and promote nonviolence at every opportunity, but we cannot Endorse a narrow politics of respectability that shames Palestinians for resisting, for refusing to do nothing in the face of state violence and ethnic cleansing.
00:24:36.000To commit to political action that will give us what justice requires, and that is a free Palestine.
00:25:44.000Okay, and Marc Lamont Hill has a long history of such anti-Semitic comments.
00:25:49.000In May 2018, Hill implied that Israelis were murderers in the Huffington Post, according to Hank Barian over at the Daily Wire.
00:25:55.000He says, this is about the 70-year struggle of a people who have been expelled, murdered, robbed, imprisoned, and occupied.
00:26:01.000He defended Palestinians' right to use violence against Israel, and then said the Palestinians actually wanted peace, which is nonsense.
00:26:07.000He then continued by slamming Israel's right to exist.
00:26:09.000He said, by naturalizing the idea that nation states have a right to exist, we undermine our ability to offer a moral critique of Israel or any settler colony's origin story.
00:26:27.000And not only that, there's been a continuous presence in the land of Israel by Jews since anyone gave a damn about the land.
00:26:34.000Mark Lamont Hill is also a guy who has basically sloughed off openly anti-Semitic commentary from Louis Farrakhan.
00:26:43.000Mark Lamont Hill said that it was offensive to compare Palestinian resistance to settler colonialism to the actions of ISIS, even while Hamas was firing rockets at Jewish areas.
00:26:54.000And in 2014, he tweeted that he opposed the occupation of Gaza.
00:26:59.000The only problem being that there was no occupation of Gaza.
00:27:36.000And we hear a lot about anti-Semitism on the right, even though the amount of anti-Semitism on the right is significantly lower than the amount of anti-Semitism on the left.
00:27:43.000But Marc Lamont Hill goes out there and says, from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free, calling for the full-scale genocide of 7 million Jews.
00:27:55.000And this, this does have an interesting relationship with the left's view of antisemitism generally.
00:28:01.000So in this context, I bring up Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:28:04.000Now, every time I bring up Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, I do so with this proviso.
00:28:08.000The reason I'm talking about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is because she has been appointed by the media and many on the left as a thought leader for the Democratic Party.
00:28:16.000I'm not picking, It's not like I just pick random Congress people out of a hat.
00:28:20.000It's not like I'm just, there are 435 of them.
00:28:22.000It's not like I'm just like, you know what, let's talk about some weirdo from like, from Kansas today.
00:28:27.000Okay, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez was a national figure.
00:28:29.000She was made a national figure and the face of the party by the media.
00:28:32.000When the face of your party is associating with open anti-Semites like Linda Sarsour, when the face of your party Has embraced everyone associated with the boycott divest sanctions movement, which is anti-semitism.
00:28:44.000The idea that people should not buy products from Israel and every product from Israel should be labeled basically with a Jewish star so people cannot buy.
00:28:53.000But then Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, she does all this, right?
00:29:02.000We'll get to her past comments in a second.
00:29:03.000She has said that she is not in favor of a two-state solution.
00:29:06.000She told Haaretz, which is the anti-Israel Israeli newspaper, she told Haaretz back in, this would have been July, that she didn't know whether she was in favor of the two-state solution.
00:29:18.000She said maybe there should be a one-state solution, which means the abolition of the state of Israel, right?
00:29:22.000She said all of this clearly, and then she tweets out stuff like this.
00:29:26.000This is a picture from NBC News of that migrant family running away from tear gas.
00:29:32.000gasp says asking to be considered a refugee and applying for status isn't a crime.
00:29:35.000It wasn't for Jewish families fleeing Germany.
00:29:38.000It wasn't for targeted families fleeing Rwanda.
00:29:40.000It wasn't for communities fleeing war torn Syria.
00:29:42.000It isn't for those fleeing violence in Central America.
00:29:44.000Comparing migrants at the southern border to Jewish victims of the Holocaust is not only disgusting, it's insulting historically, intellectually on every level.
00:29:58.000But it does speak to something deeper.
00:29:59.000And this is something I want to get into in just one second.
00:30:01.000Something deep and important about how the left views anti-Semitism.
00:31:27.000Okay, I want to get to Why the left completely blows it on antisemitism and a deeper form of antisemitism in which the left is engaged, which is really messed up.
00:33:02.000So let's talk about what this actually means in terms of anti-Semitism on the left.
00:33:12.000So, Marc Lamont Hill makes openly anti-semitic statements.
00:33:14.000He's pretending it's not anti-semitic to say, from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free, which means Israel no longer exists, and Israel as a Jewish state no longer exists.
00:33:27.000I'd like for him to name a Muslim-dominated country where the Jews are treated fantastic and where the Jews exist.
00:34:01.000But what you see from the left are Open engagements with anti-Semites like Louis Farrakhan, like Linda Sarsour, like Ilhan Omar, like Rashida Tlaib, both of the latter two of whom are elected members of Congress, like Keith Ellison, who's now attorney general of the state of Minnesota and was the deputy DNC head.
00:34:19.000All of these people in positions of prominence, anti-Semites all, involved in anti-Semitic activity and rhetoric, No problem, but then you'll see the exact same people using the Holocaust as a club on ancillary issues.
00:35:18.000There's been a sort of replacement theology in antisemitism on the left, in which the Jews have been removed from the question of antisemitism.
00:35:25.000And this allows folks on the left to engage in open anti-Jewish behavior, open antisemitism, while simultaneously using antisemitism as an excuse for pushing policy with regard to other groups.
00:35:51.000The black folks in America, they're just fine.
00:35:52.000Let's not talk about black folks in America anymore.
00:35:54.000The real slaves, the real black slaves in America today are X group.
00:35:59.000If you said that, you'd be accused of making light of slavery and properly so.
00:36:03.000But instead, what we've got on the left is we can use the Holocaust and use it as the basis of arguing about migration patterns on our southern border, but we can simultaneously pretend that Hamas is fine and that Israel should be boycotted and divested from.
00:36:18.000If you're making anti-semitism a political tool on behalf of a non-Jewish disfavored group, and you're ignoring your own treatment of the Jews, I would suggest that you are making light of anti-semitism and, in fact, engaging in a soft form of it.
00:36:32.000In Marc Lamont Hill's case, not even a soft form, a very hard form of anti-semitism.
00:36:36.000Speaking of intersectionality and race, I do have to point out today that when it comes to leftist hypocrisy on racism, There is really no limit.
00:36:45.000Jay-Z, who has been hosted at the White House, right?
00:36:48.000He's a great American political figure.
00:36:50.000You know, it was really bad when Kanye West went to the White House.
00:36:53.000Well, when Jay-Z went there with Obama, like, every five minutes, that was totally cool.
00:37:08.000He said, the AAA's lack, the American Arbitration Association's lack of African-American arbitrators came as a surprise, in part because AAA's advertising touts its diversity.
00:37:20.000He says that the panel from the American Arbitration Association is too white to be fair.
00:37:26.000What is in this case is basically Jay-Z filed a case against the clothing company Iconics to delay an impending arbitration over his trademark infringement claims related to a line of Roc Nation baseball caps.
00:37:37.000Iconics bought Jay-Z's apparel brand in 2007, and then Iconics sued the mogul in Manhattan federal court last year, claiming that a hat deal with Major League Baseball interfered with their licensing agreement.
00:37:48.000Jay-Z said he was confronted with a stark reality when he reviewed members of the American Arbitration Association.
00:37:53.000He could not identify a single African-American arbitrator on the large and complex cases roster, composed of hundreds of arbitrators that had the background and experience to preside over the situation.
00:38:04.000The association eventually identified three black arbitrators, but one of them couldn't serve due to a conflict of interest.
00:38:10.000Jay-Z argues minority business owners should be able to select from a group that reflects the diverse population.
00:38:16.000I'm old enough to recall when President Donald Trump, then a candidate Donald Trump, said that a judge of Mexican heritage could not adjudicate properly his Trump University case in California because he had a particular immigration program and the quote-unquote Mexican judge would be biased against him.
00:38:39.000But, if you're on the left, that sort of racism is just fine.
00:38:42.000So, racism in which a member of the black community says, only black people can judge me, that's cool.
00:38:49.000Anti-Semitism, in which we talk about the elimination of Israel while at the same time using the Holocaust to promote immigration policy on our southern border, that's totally fine, according to the left.
00:38:58.000And the white left just goes along with this.
00:39:10.000It reports that Sydney Dupree, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at Yale School of Management, and her co-author Susan Fisk of Princeton University, they wanted to know how whites interacted with minorities.
00:39:21.000Dupree stated, there's less work that explores how well-intentioned whites try to get along with racial minorities.
00:39:26.000We wanted to know their strategies for increasing connections between members of different social groups and how effective these strategies are.
00:39:32.000I'll tell you the punchline of the study in just one second.
00:39:57.000The results showed that Democratic candidates used fewer competence-related words speaking to minorities than when speaking to white audiences.
00:40:05.000Republican candidates did not change their discourse.
00:40:08.000In other words, Democrats pander to minority audiences by refusing to talk about the same topics in the same way that they would talk to white audiences.
00:40:17.000They are racially discriminating against black people.
00:40:21.000Maybe you think it's a beneficial discrimination, but it is certainly a discrimination.
00:40:24.000When you say something in front of a black audience, you would never say it in front of a white audience, and vice versa.
00:40:29.000Dupree said it was really surprising to see that for nearly three decades, Democratic presidential candidates have been engaging in this predicted behavior.
00:40:37.000The researchers then tested white participants to see how they would interact with a hypothetical or presumed real interaction partner.
00:40:43.000Half the time, the partner was given a name that ostensibly sounded white, like Emily.
00:40:46.000The rest of the time, the partner received a name that sounded ostensibly non-white, like Lakeisha.
00:40:50.000Participants chose a list of words, all of which had been rated for warmth or competence, to use to send an email to the partner.
00:40:56.000The researchers found that leftists eschewed using words that would limb them as highly competent when addressing minorities.
00:41:03.000Conservatives simply talked the way they always did.
00:41:05.000According to Dupree, it was kind of an unpleasant surprise to see this subtle but persistent effect.
00:41:09.000Even if it's ultimately well-intentioned, it could be seen as patronizing.
00:41:13.000Seen as patronizing, it is patronizing.
00:41:14.000If you are using words that you would never use with white people, with black people, because you think that you have to pander to black people in some way, this would be intersectional discrimination.
00:41:54.000I think President Trump can do better on that score.
00:41:57.000But to suggest that the left is a great unifying body in America is a lie.
00:42:01.000President Trump is a reactionary force.
00:42:03.000President Trump and the current Republican administration are a direct reaction to the polarization of politics around racial and identity politics for eight years under Barack Obama and longer under the Democratic Party more generally.
00:42:14.000You know, Chris Matthews, I remember they say, saying that, President Trump's thinking about, it's like Zimbabwe over here.
00:42:21.000Neglecting the fact that Zimbabwe is a case in point in which the leadership of Zimbabwe, a tyranny, forcibly discriminated against white farmers I was reading about Zimbabwe today, and I've been to Zimbabwe.
00:42:36.000I was reading about Zimbabwe today, and I'd been to Zimbabwe.
00:42:51.000I know it's a young country with all kinds of problems, but that's sort of a young democracy trying to figure things out.
00:42:58.000He is taking us back to where they are.
00:43:00.000Where all the opposition does is say that people win elections are crooked, that everything's rigged, nothing's on the level, there's no such thing as objective truth, everything is tribal.
00:43:18.000Barack Obama said about Trayvon Martin, if I had a son, he would have looked like Trayvon Martin without even bothering to examine the facts of the case.
00:43:24.000President Obama went out there in the middle of the Ferguson riots and said that the community of Ferguson wouldn't make something up like Michael Brown, except that it was made up about Michael Brown.
00:43:35.000And then you wonder why there's a reactionary tribalism on the other side?
00:43:39.000Tribalism in all of its forms is garbage.
00:43:42.000This sort of tribal politics is yucky.
00:43:44.000Your identity group politics is gross.
00:43:46.000But let's not pretend that the left is not the initiator of it, because the left is the initiator of it, and it's pretty obvious the left has initiated all this sort of stuff.
00:44:00.000My wife and I have delved into another series.
00:44:01.000This is the series Bodyguard on Netflix, starring the guy who plays Rababa from Game of Thrones, who it turns out is actually a really good actor.
00:44:10.000So he's good in Game of Thrones and he plays a completely different character in this.
00:44:13.000It's compelling, it's well shot, it's interestingly written.
00:44:17.000I have no idea where it's going specifically, but you can check out Bodyguard on Netflix, really good.
00:45:13.000Who knew you were allowed to make such TV shows?
00:45:14.000But it turns out that you actually are.
00:45:16.000Now, I don't know where this series is going.
00:45:18.000All I can say is that it does actually take that threat somewhat seriously, which is Something I haven't seen on TV too often, really since, I guess in the Jack Ryan series they do it a little bit, and really since before that, maybe 24, you'd have to go all the way back to 24, early seasons before they were told they're not allowed to have radical Muslim terrorists be bad guys.
00:45:35.000Okay, time for a bevy of things that I hate.
00:46:11.000So, in any case, there's a speech that I was giving where I was talking about, you know what will happen if the water level rises on the coast?
00:46:27.000What I'm saying is that if you forecast that in 20 years your place is going to be underwater, you're going to sell it right now at the earliest available opportunity.
00:46:34.000I don't see Barbara Streisand selling her beachfront property in Malibu.
00:46:38.000I don't see any of these folks in Miami who are complaining about global warming selling their property.
00:46:42.000If they really thought this was a grave threat, wouldn't they be selling it right now?
00:46:46.000And by the way, If you aren't, if there's no market, if you can't sell the property because everybody knows it's going to be underwater, then you don't sell and you move.
00:46:54.000The point that I was making there is not that you're not going to lose money if you live on a beachfront property and the water level rise.
00:47:00.000Of course, you're going to lose money.
00:47:01.000What I'm saying is you're not going to die because if it's rising three inches a year, you're not just going to sit there in your living room for like 50 years waiting for the water level to reach your nose.
00:49:39.000It's going to ruin your child's innocence if they watch a fictional reindeer be mistreated because of his glowing nose, only to emerge triumphant in the end.
00:49:48.000Your child will not be damaged if you put them on puberty blockers at age six.
00:49:54.000Yeah, I'm gonna trust you guys with my kids.
00:50:26.000It turns out that the reason that everybody is going to, the reason that her daughter was being mocked is because she named her daughter, I kid you not, Abciddy, spelled A-B-C-D-E.
00:50:39.000Now, you shouldn't mock the five-year-old.
00:50:42.000It's not the five-year-old's fault what their idiot parent named them.
00:51:11.000And I wouldn't mock the kid, but I'd mock the mom, who has the brains of a kumquat, apparently.
00:51:17.000Parents, you have responsibility to your children, and just because you wanted to name your kid after the alphabet... I mean, is her name Alphabetty?
00:51:25.000Maybe that'd be kind of great, if her name was Alphabetty.
00:51:56.000In fact, they're both repositories for many stupid things.
00:51:59.000Here is NowThis, which is promoting a video in which Jesus is a Republican, but Of course, it's a bunch of people who have done a cursory read of the Old and New Testament, if they've done that, and then they basically misinterpret radically what Jesus was saying, and then they say that Jesus is actually a social justice democrat in favor of transgenderism, abortion, and gay rights.
00:52:19.000So here is a little bit of this comedic video.
00:52:35.000You know, so we can figure out what's going on.
00:52:40.000This comedy sketch asks, what would Jesus do if he were a Republican?
00:52:44.000I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat.
00:52:47.000I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink.
00:52:50.000and behold now i'm all lazy and entitled you shouldn't have done that do unto others as you suspect they might want to do unto you what is a man profited if he gained the whole world but lose his soul a lot he has profited a lot okay like you don't understand conservatism you don't understand republicanism and you don't understand anything about the bible like a thing about the bible Jesus never says illegal immigration is mandated by the Bible.
00:53:21.000In fact, Jesus' family was on the way to register Jesus' birth.
00:53:25.000I'm not a New Testament scholar, but that's what they were doing when he was born in Bethlehem.
00:53:28.000And as far as this idea that do unto others as you would have them do unto you, that that is somehow do unto others as you think they're going to do unto you.
00:53:38.000Nothing, nothing in Christianity says you have to allow other people to murder you or endanger your kids, obviously.
00:53:45.000The idea that the Republicans are anti-charity?
00:53:47.000I'd like to see this guy's tax returns.
00:53:49.000Okay, on a per capita basis, religious people in the United States give far more charity than anyone else, and people who are Republican give far more charity than people who are Democrats.
00:54:51.000Jeffrey Epstein, as you'll recall, was a pedophile, okay?
00:54:56.000And this pedophile was deeply connected with a multiplicity of major characters, including Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, okay?
00:55:05.000According to the Miami Herald, Jeffrey Epstein had a little black book filled with the names and personal phone numbers of some of the world's wealthiest and most influential people, from Bill Clinton and Donald Trump to actors, actresses, scientists, and business tycoons.
00:55:16.000A money manager for the super rich, Epstein had two private jets, the largest single residence in Manhattan, An island in the Caribbean, a ranch in New Mexico, and a waterfront estate in Florida.
00:55:27.000For years, Epstein lured an endless stream of teenage girls to his Palm Beach mansion, offering to pay for them for massages.
00:55:34.000Instead, police say, for years he coerced middle and high school girls into engaging in sex acts with him and others.
00:55:40.000As evidence emerged that there were victims and witnesses outside of Palm Beach, the FBI began an investigation in 2006 into whether Epstein and others employed by him were involved in underage sex trafficking.
00:55:50.000But in 2007, despite substantial evidence that corroborated the girls' stories of abuse by Epstein, The U.S.
00:55:55.000Attorney in Miami, Alexander Acosta, signed off on a secret deal for the multimillionaire, one that ensured he would never spend a day in prison.
00:56:02.000Acosta is now President Trump's Secretary of Labor.
00:56:04.000He agreed to seal the agreement so that no one, not even Epstein's victims, would know the full extent of his crimes or who was involved.
00:56:11.000So basically what happened is that Epstein was able to get off on a minor charge for legitimately hundreds of cases of child molestation because he apparently had deep connections to a variety of highfalutin characters.
00:56:26.000Epstein was basically a career Democrat.
00:56:29.000The prosecutor in this case is a Republican.
00:56:32.000All this goes to show is that there is truth to the idea that if you have friends in the right places, America's criminal justice system can be a serious, serious problem.
00:56:41.000That there is the ability for prosecutors to let you off on crimes you never should have been let off on.
00:56:45.000And what's worse is that we still don't know who's out there.
00:56:48.000Because the agreement was sealed, we don't know who else was implicated.
00:56:52.000We don't know which friends and associates were implicated in all of this.