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00:01:49.000The President of the United States essentially sided with Vladimir Putin over his own intelligence agencies who, lest we forget, work for him.
00:01:56.000These are the people who work for him.
00:01:57.000If he doesn't like how the intel agencies are doing their job, he can replace their leadership, which he has already done with the FBI.
00:02:03.000Yeah, he has his own CIA hidden there.
00:02:05.000The dude has all of the people he wants in place.
00:02:08.000So if he doesn't like his own intel agencies and what they're telling him, he has every capacity to find new, more honest intelligence agencies.
00:02:14.000He's not actually doing that, which suggests that he knows full well that the idea that the Russians were attempting to interfere in the election is true.
00:02:21.000Now, does that mean that the Russians actually swung the election to Trump?
00:02:29.000is that he is personally so egotistical that he believes that any sort of aspersion that is cast at the presidential election of 2016 must be false, because he believes that he won fair and square, and that means that anything anybody says about what went wrong in 2016 with the Russians, all of that is an attempt merely to undermine his grand victory, and therefore anyone who claims that the Russians were attempting to hack into the election system, basically, all those people are simply unwilling to accept that Hillary lost.
00:02:59.000Listen, I'm willing to accept that Hillary lost, and it is also true that the Russians were attempting to monkey with our electoral system.
00:03:06.000And they're attempting to monkey with our election cycle, with the news cycle, by hacking into the DNC, the DCCC, and the Hillary Clinton campaign.
00:03:13.000Well, all of this manifested itself in a pretty awful way yesterday when President Trump got up to the podium with Vladimir Putin.
00:03:18.000There are a lot of people soft-pedaling this today.
00:03:20.000A lot of people, on the right particularly, suggesting that this wasn't a big deal and none of it really matters.
00:03:25.000Yesterday I said, I'm not sure that it matters a lot in terms of Vladimir Putin invading other countries.
00:03:29.000I'm not sure that it matters a lot in terms of actual hard-headed foreign policy.
00:03:33.000But it does matter in terms of the American perception of our own intelligence agencies.
00:03:36.000And it matters with regard to Vladimir Putin's perception that he can play with Trump when it comes to monkeying with our news cycle and hacking into enemies of President Trump.
00:03:45.000President Trump did a real disservice yesterday.
00:03:47.000What he did was really rather unprecedented in modern American history.
00:03:53.000I don't mean completely unprecedented, because you do have Barack Obama who sent pallets of cash to the Iranian mullahs.
00:03:57.000You do have Barack Obama who pledged flexibility on a hot mic to the Russian government.
00:04:01.000But to go before the entire world and suggest that your own intelligence agencies are wrong, and a thug piece of human debris like Vladimir Putin is right when he lies about how he didn't hack into the DCCC or the DNC or Hillary Clinton's campaign,
00:04:15.000When you do that, you're doing a real disservice to the American intelligence agencies, as well as to America in general.
00:04:43.000OK, well, if you really believe that four hours ago the change happened, then you're in the same category as George W. Bush, who said he looked into Vladimir Putin's eyes and saw his soul, or Barack Obama, who sent Hillary Clinton to bring a reset button that was mismarked.
00:05:50.000And the United States did very little about it.
00:05:52.000Vladimir Putin turned Iran into a sphere of influence, and Syria into a sphere of influence, and the United States did very little about that.
00:05:58.000Now, was the United States wrong not to do more about these things?
00:06:01.000Of course the United States is wrong not to do more about these things, but that's sort of like saying that the bus and the person run over by the bus are equally responsible for the accident.
00:06:10.000The United States is not responsible for Vladimir Putin actually invading surrounding countries and murdering dissenting journalists and murdering dissenting politicians.
00:06:18.000The United States is not responsible for any of that stuff.
00:06:20.000And for Trump to suggest anything different is Howard's in Noam Chomsky territory.
00:06:30.000And he has a right to be upset about that because he says I didn't collude.
00:06:32.000There's not a lot of evidence to suggest that he did collude at this point.
00:06:36.000And so he launches into a rant about how the probe is a disaster for the country.
00:06:39.000Well, the problem is the probe is doing a couple of things.
00:06:42.000The probe is looking into the possibility that the Trump campaign works with Russia.
00:06:45.000And Trump, I think, has a right to be upset about that.
00:06:47.000I think he has a right to be upset with the idea that the intelligence agencies, as led by people like Peter Strzok, were biased against him in their attempt to pin Russian collusion on him and his campaign.
00:06:57.000I think he has every right to be upset about that, but he does not have a
00:07:00.000I have a right to be upset about intelligence agencies coming up with an estimate that says that the Russians hacked the DNC and the DCCC and the Hillary campaign.
00:07:08.000All of our intelligence agencies agree on that.
00:07:11.000So when Trump says that the probe is a disaster for the country, what he really should be saying is any suggestion that I colluded with Vladimir Putin is a disaster for the country because it's not true.
00:07:19.000But when he undermines the intelligence agencies by throwing out the baby with the bathwater, you got a problem.
00:08:56.000It looks like Trump got unmanned by Putin here.
00:08:58.000That's what it looks like, just for any objective viewer.
00:09:00.000If you're not a Trump fan, if you are a Trump fan, you at least have to try and be objective as to what happened yesterday.
00:09:06.000Trump looked like he was bullied by Vladimir Putin on that podium.
00:09:09.000He looked like Vladimir Putin owned him on that podium.
00:09:11.000He makes a couple of statements that are worthy of explication in that particular quote.
00:09:15.000So first, the president says, I really do want to see the server.
00:09:18.000Now, this goes to his suggestion that the DNC has not turned over its servers to the FBI because the DNC is hiding something.
00:09:24.000So the theory goes something like this.
00:09:26.000The FBI goes to the DNC and they say, listen, we think you've been hacked by the Russians.
00:09:29.000And the DNC says, no, we're not going to show you anything.
00:09:32.000Which would be suspicious if that had been the case.
00:09:33.000If they had said, we're not going to show you anything because we are trying to hide something, because we actually leaked out these documents ourselves, because it was Seth Rich or something, then you'd be suspicious.
00:09:43.000But that's not actually what happened.
00:09:44.000OK, let me give you the facts on the DNC server, because there's a lot of fiction that's going around today.
00:09:50.000And I think that fostering that fiction is not useful.
00:09:52.000So the theory on the right seems to be, by some on the right, and Sean Hannity talked about it last night on his show.
00:09:59.000Basically, the theory on the right is,
00:10:01.000That the DNC is hiding something so they didn't turn over their servers to the FBI, but the FBI somehow came to the conclusion it was the Russians anyway.
00:10:31.000You do not have to grab a physical entity that has on it computer materials and bring it outside the offices of the DNC in order to examine those materials in the same way that you can remotely access your computer from home
00:10:42.000The FBI has the capacity to remotely access the material on those servers.
00:10:46.000The Daily Beast has a pretty good look at this today.
00:10:48.000They say when cyber investigators respond to an incident, they capture the evidence in a process called imaging.
00:10:53.000They make an exact byte for byte copy of the hard drives.
00:10:55.000They do the same for the machine's memory.
00:10:57.000They capture evidence that would otherwise be lost at the next reboot, and they monitor and store the traffic passing through the victim's network.
00:11:03.000This has been standard procedure in computer intrusion investigations for decades.
00:11:06.000The images, not the computer's hardware, provide the evidence.
00:11:09.000Both the DNC and the security from CrowdStrike hired to respond to the breach have said repeatedly over the years they gave the FBI a copy of all the DNC images back in 2016.
00:11:18.000So the DNC didn't have to turn over its physical servers because they were still using those during the campaign.
00:11:23.000The FBI had access to the imaging via CrowdStrike and via the DNC.
00:11:27.000James Comey said as much in his testimony.
00:11:29.000He said he wanted direct access to the DNC servers for purposes of accessing their live network, and this is where the DNC turned the FBI down.
00:11:36.000Apparently, it's not all that uncommon.
00:11:38.000According to the Daily Beast, when the computers belong to a cooperating victim, seizing the machines is pretty much out of the question, said James Harris, a former FBI cybercrime agent who worked on a 2009 breach at Google that's been linked to the Chinese government.
00:13:42.000Okay, so, Vladimir Putin responds to President Trump, and you can see, he looks like the cat that just ate the canary.
00:13:51.000I mean, he is so gleeful, he is so happy about all of this.
00:13:54.000Here is Putin, a dictatorial thug who murders dissidents, talking about how, you know, there's no reason why President Trump shouldn't believe me.
00:14:40.000And then, he was asked specifically if he wanted Trump to win the election, and here's what he had to say.
00:14:45.000Isn't it natural to be sympathetic towards a person who is willing to restore the relationship with our country, who wants to work with us?
00:14:53.000Now, do I really think that Vladimir Putin was attempting to rig the election for Donald Trump in any serious way?
00:15:33.000So what that requires is for people on the right to recognize that Trump needs to put his ego behind him and recognize who Putin is.
00:15:38.000We'll talk about who Putin is in just a second.
00:15:40.000And at the same time, folks on the left have to understand that every time they scream collusion to the sky without any evidence, every time they suggest that we are in crisis mode or that Trump has committed some act of treason, all they are doing is giving Putin what he wants in a certain sense, which is a certain level of chaos in the American political system.
00:15:58.000And Chris Wallace at Fox News really grilled Putin.
00:16:01.000He started off by asking Putin about NATO.
00:16:03.000And Putin essentially said that NATO should never expand because NATO is a threat to Russia.
00:16:07.000There is an opportunity for bilateral contacts with member states, which was done with Poland, with Romania, which now station and deploy elements of the strategic anti-missile defense of the United States.
00:16:20.000Moving this NATO infrastructure towards our borders would be a threat, and the reaction would be extremely negative.
00:17:09.000I don't want to insult President Trump when I say this and I may scum.
00:17:17.000Okay, my favorite part of this interview is the part where Chris Wallace tries to hand Vladimir Putin the indictment, right?
00:17:28.000This indictment put out by the Mueller investigation of these 12 Russians, and Putin refuses to look at it.
00:17:33.000He says, utterly ridiculous, just utterly ridiculous.
00:17:35.000And this is the guy that Trump says he believes as much as the intelligence agencies.
00:17:39.000Do you really believe that someone acting from the Russian territory could have influenced the United States and influenced the choice of millions of Americans?
00:18:10.000He's playing to an audience of one there, and the audience he's playing to is President Trump.
00:18:14.000Okay, the worst part of this interview, and also the best part, is the part where Putin is specifically asked about him murdering his political opponents.
00:18:19.000His answer here is such a Bond villain answer.
00:18:21.000And you can just see that the camera slowly pulls back, and Vladimir Putin is petting a hairless cat.
00:19:09.000I'd make fun of Vladimir Putin more except that I know that he kills people.
00:19:11.000So I'm a little bit, I'll be honest with you.
00:19:13.000I'm gonna steer clear of that one because I'm fond of breathing.
00:19:17.000But this is the guy who Trump decided that he wanted to favor in these negotiations.
00:19:21.000This is the guy that Trump wanted to compliment and pat on the head during these negotiations.
00:19:26.000If you had watched that press conference with the sound off, what you would have assumed is that Putin was the powerhouse in the room and Trump was the weakling.
00:19:32.000Okay, we had the same sort of phenomenon when Obama was president.
00:19:35.000He always felt like the weakest guy in the room.
00:19:36.000Well, Trump, that's supposed to be the opposite of what he is, right?
00:19:38.000He's the brash, bold, rude American who goes in there and knocks heads together.
00:19:45.000He's the guy who goes up to Canada and tells Justin Trudeau that he looks stupid with that hair, right?
00:19:49.000That's that's the guy who the American people elected.
00:19:51.000They didn't elect the guy who goes in there and then talks about how Vladimir Putin is really a nice guy when you get to know him and how Vladimir Putin's assessment of the 2016 election is more accurate than that of his own intelligence agencies.
00:20:02.000Now, what's the practical impact of any of this?
00:20:04.000Does Putin actually believe that Trump is such a weakling that he can now walk into Lithuania or Latvia or Estonia?
00:20:10.000He can walk into the Baltic states and he can just take them over and that Trump will do nothing about it?
00:20:15.000But I think that Putin is just really happy that the United States seems embroiled in this chaos that he has helped create and that is exacerbated every day by the dual problem of Trump's ego and the left's
00:20:25.000Brutal and ridiculous attempt to paint Trump as a Russian colluder.
00:20:29.000Those are two sides of the same coin, and both of them are pleasing Vladimir Putin infinitely.
00:20:34.000They're really, really pleasing Vladimir Putin.
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00:21:36.000It is clinically tested, so it's safe for you and your family.
00:21:39.000And because it's pure and because it's potent, that means that you're not going to have the fish burp and fish flavor.
00:22:14.000And she is basically this redheaded supposed gun rights activist who spends an awful lot of time since 2013 going to Republican functions and ingratiating herself with pro-gun rights people.
00:22:25.000And then she was using those pro-gun rights people to get to politicians.
00:22:27.000So she'd say, I want you to fix me up with Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, for example.
00:22:31.000And somebody at the gun rights organization would say,
00:22:33.000Well, this seems like a nice pro-gun rights lady from Russia.
00:22:36.000I'll fix her up with Dana Rohrabacher, and then she would go and try and create a back channel between those Congress people and members of the Russian government.
00:22:41.000This is what the indictment basically says.
00:22:43.000So according to law and crime, the woman who the Department of Justice has charged for allegedly failing to properly register as a Russian operative...
00:22:50.000Well, in the United States, apparently bragged several times she helped the campaign of President Trump communicate with the Russian government.
00:22:55.000Maria Butina, 29, was charged Saturday.
00:22:57.000The complaint was not unsealed until Monday, July 16th.
00:23:00.000Butina's alleged bragging about the Trump campaign connections was reported in February 2017 by the Daily Beast.
00:23:05.000The original report is now getting renewed attention due to the criminal complaint.
00:23:09.000The Daily Beast report says she was in business with Republican activist Paul Erickson and previously worked with Alexander Torshin, a member of Vladimir Putin's political party, who once served as a Russian senator before becoming a leader of the Central Bank of Russia.
00:23:21.000So Paul Erickson, it should be said, is a very
00:23:24.000active member of sort of upper-ranking Republican circles.
00:23:28.000Now, Paul Erickson hobnobs with a lot of prominent Republicans.
00:23:30.000I've met Paul Erickson at, like, a David Horowitz Freedom Center event, and always seemed like a nice guy.
00:23:35.000Apparently, he had formed some sort of company with this Maria Butina, but there are no allegations that he actually violated the law.
00:23:41.000So the big question is whether people who are fixing up Butina with actual members of the American government knew she was a Russian agent, and whether the people in the American government knew she was a Russian agent, and even if they did know she was a Russian agent,
00:23:51.000There's nothing wrong with the back channel so long as no actual illegal activity took place.
00:23:55.000So there are a bunch of holes that still have to be filled in.
00:23:57.000The left, however, is jumping to the conclusion that Butina is the go-between between Trump and the Russian government and that she is the nexus of all collusion.
00:24:05.000Those charges are not in this indictment.
00:24:06.000So this is people jumping to conclusions in a pretty significant way.
00:24:10.000Butina reportedly bragged about the Trump campaign twice.
00:24:12.000Once during a November 12, 2016 birthday party said to have been attended by Erickson and Trump campaign aides at a cafe near American University in Washington, D.C., she brazenly claimed she'd been part of the Trump campaign's communication with Russia to individuals who were present said, according to the Daily Beast.
00:24:27.000However, Dr. Svetlana Savranskaya, who is a professor at American University, said that Butina made the same claim in class.
00:24:32.000That was the second time she bragged about the alleged connection.
00:24:35.000Supposedly, she tried to broker a meeting between Trump and Putin in 2016.
00:24:38.000Okay, but that doesn't necessarily mean election collusion.
00:24:42.000You know, presidential candidates meet with a lot of foreign powers.
00:24:45.000That doesn't necessarily mean that they are colluding with those foreign powers to change the effects of an election.
00:24:50.000People, however, are jumping to the most ridiculous conclusions about all of this.
00:24:54.000My favorite is this political reporter today who tweeted out this morning a picture from the Oval Office, a picture of President Trump moving to shake hands with Sergey Lavrov, who's the foreign minister of Russia, as well as Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
00:25:08.000And then in the very, very background, there's a redhead.
00:25:34.000So, you know, people jumping to conclusions trying to paint Trump as a Russian collaborator when in reality, Trump is just an ego, an egotist driven by that ego to say silly things from time to time and say dangerous things from time to time.
00:25:46.000Again, one of the big problems I see here is that because President Trump is so invested in countering the narrative that the election was monkeyed with,
00:25:53.000It's led him down a path of defending some pretty bad people.
00:25:55.000So here's President Trump defending Paul Manafort.
00:25:58.000Paul Manafort has been under investigation by American intelligence agencies for years and they have a lot of goods on him.
00:26:04.000But here's Trump defending Manafort when really what he should be doing is saying, I didn't know anything about Manafort when I hired him.
00:26:09.000I was told by the RNC that he'd be a good guy to hire.
00:26:11.000So I hired him and then he turned out not to be a good guy and I fired him.
00:26:28.000And then I fired him when something went wrong.
00:26:29.000Instead, he now finds himself defending Paul Manafort because he wants to rebut any accusation that the Russians had any part in the election.
00:26:36.000So now he's become a press agent for the Russians, which is, why is Trump doing this?
00:26:58.000There are a lot of folks in the White House who were not supremely happy with the president of the United States' comments yesterday.
00:27:04.000And they were dreading the fact that Trump was going to go on with Sean Hannity, not because they dislike Sean, they love Sean, but simply because they knew that Sean has a tendency to double down on every worst excess that Trump has.
00:27:14.000And that's what happened on national TV last night.
00:27:16.000Trump bragged to Hannity about Putin denying the Russian meddling.
00:27:32.000So were the vast majority of Republicans.
00:27:34.000It was a winning moment for President Trump.
00:27:36.000A couple of weeks ago, the President of the United States was on the upswing.
00:27:39.000And now the President of the United States had a very bad two weeks, and I think he had the second worst day of his presidency yesterday after Charlottesville.
00:27:45.000And yet he was on national TV doubling down on all of this.
00:27:50.000Because when you have an echo chamber, you tend to double down on the things you believe, whereas if you were to open your ears a little bit, you might recognize that two things can be true at once.
00:27:58.000One, Trump did not collude with Russia.
00:28:00.000Two, Russia did attempt to influence the election.
00:28:53.000And I don't think the people out in the country buy it, but the reporters like to give it a shot.
00:28:59.000I thought that President Putin was very, very strong.
00:29:02.000Okay, what is this very, very strong nonsense?
00:29:04.000It's the same thing about Kim Jong-un.
00:29:06.000Of course he's strong, he's a dictator.
00:29:08.000But he's a dictator of a third-rate country.
00:29:09.000Okay, Russia, as a nation, has the same GDP as Italy.
00:29:13.000And we're treating Russia as though it's some sort of grand world power that Trump has to cope with on the world stage in the weakest possible way.
00:29:20.000I saw Judge Jeanine came out today, and she said, what would you expect Trump to do?
00:29:30.000I didn't realize these were the two options.
00:29:31.000I thought there was a whole range of options between those two.
00:29:34.000By the way, if Trump had shot Putin in the face, I think even Putin would have appreciated the manliness of that.
00:29:38.000If Trump had actually just gone up there and shot Putin on Fifth Avenue, I think that Putin probably would have said, more power to you, Mr. President.
00:29:51.000There are two sides to the coin when it comes to the promulgation of a nasty politics in the country.
00:29:58.000What Trump did yesterday is inexcusable.
00:30:02.000In a different way, just as bad, is the Democratic overreaction.
00:30:06.000And the reason I say that is because when you have people claiming treason, instead of, this is stupid, this is a problem, it's really terrible, when you have people claiming treason or making claims that the Russians would be happy that you're making,
00:31:55.000That, I think, is a relatively objective take on what is going to come out from all of this.
00:31:59.000Because President Trump operates pretty independently of his own administration.
00:32:03.000His own administration, when it comes time to make policy, actually goes and makes the policy, and Trump says a lot of stuff.
00:32:07.000I've been saying it for literally years, literally years, that his slogan shouldn't be, make America great again, it should be, I say a lot of stuff, because Trump says a lot of stuff.
00:32:15.000Okay, and that means that a lot of people don't take the stuff he says particularly seriously.
00:32:18.000I don't think Vladimir Putin takes Trump seriously enough on policy that he's gonna go invade surrounding countries, believing that Trump is gonna allow him to do that.
00:32:25.000And, it is important to mention, that in this terrible press conference, Trump did say at least one good thing.
00:32:30.000He said, listen, we still have our disagreements about Crimea.
00:32:33.000So he didn't come out and say, listen, Putin gets to keep Crimea.
00:32:35.000He said that the United States and Putin disagree on Crimea.
00:32:38.000So when it comes to territorial aggression by the Russians, Trump did not signal weakness.
00:32:41.000He signaled weakness when it came to Russian interference in American elections.
00:32:46.000And he signaled weakness because his own egotism got in the way of his better sense, I think.
00:32:52.000The non-practical take is that Trump is a traitor, Trump is a Russian agent, all of this is because Trump is some sort of Manchurian candidate, and yet that's exactly what Democrats are suggesting, which is what Putin wants.
00:33:01.000What Putin wants is to drive chaos in the United States.
00:33:04.000His actual goal is to make us all hate each other, and suspicious of each other, and think that we are all foreign agents of an evil power.
00:33:11.000That is exactly what Vladimir Putin wants, and the Democrats are eager to jump to that because they think they're going to make electoral gain off the back of that, and they may be right.
00:33:18.000Hey, there was a generic ballot, a generic congressional ballot out yesterday.
00:33:21.000It shows Democrats are back up to an eight point lead, which is wave territory for Republicans.
00:33:24.000So Democrats think that the more overboard they go on this stuff, the better it is for them electorally.
00:33:29.000It may very well be, but it ain't good for the country.
00:33:31.000Here was Chuck Schumer yesterday saying millions of people are going to wonder if Putin has dirt on Trump after Trump's behavior.
00:33:37.000Millions of Americans will continue to wonder if the only possible explanation for this dangerous behavior is the possibility that President Putin holds damaging information over President Trump.
00:33:53.000There's not a lot of credence to that.
00:33:54.000Why wouldn't you just say the obvious?
00:33:56.000Again, the obvious thing is that it's the unifying feature of all of the silly things he's done.
00:34:01.000Whether it is firing Comey precipitously, or whether it is attempting to defend Mike Flynn, or whether it's attempting to defend Paul Manafort, or whether it was what he did with Putin yesterday, or whether it's him talking about firing Rod Rosenstein.
00:34:15.000Now the left is seeing a unifying thread in Trump colluded with Russia.
00:34:18.000That is a lot more far-fetched than Trump is an egomaniac, which he has been for legitimately his entire life.
00:34:23.000This is a guy who used to call the New York Post to report on them his amorous adventures with various starlets, and he would make things up and claim that his name was John Miller and he was his own PR agent.
00:34:35.000Is it more likely that that guy is an egotist who will say stuff to protect his ego, or is it more likely that that guy is a secret Russian agent moving around the back channels of the Kremlin in order to do Vladimir Putin's dirty bidding?
00:35:22.000And I get that there is such a thing as using the word treason colloquially.
00:35:26.000You don't actually mean that Trump should receive the death penalty.
00:35:29.000But the overwhelming use of the word treason yesterday on the part of the left suggests that there are some people who really believe that not only should Trump be removed from office, but that he has committed acts of treason.
00:35:37.000Coming from the same people who cheered when Barack Obama sent blank pallets of cash to terrorists in Iran, I find all of this more than slightly irritating.
00:36:14.000Again, the double standard when it comes to treason is pretty stunning right here.
00:36:18.000And if people were just using this colloquially, I think that'd be one thing.
00:36:21.000I think it's also rich coming from people who believe that it was totally fine when Barack Obama was pledging flexibility to the Russian government in 2012.
00:36:53.000And I would say that his performance today will live in infamy as much as the Pearl Harbor attack or Kristallnacht.
00:37:01.000And it's really a serious issue that we need to deal with.
00:37:06.000The Pearl Harbor attack, 2,400 Americans dead, Kristallnacht, the murder of 90-plus Jews, and the beginning of the run-up to the Holocaust.
00:37:14.000Yeah, it was exactly like that when the President of the United States said some dumb crap about the intelligence agencies.
00:37:35.000The left has this bizarre tendency to attribute gay feelings to people that it doesn't like.
00:37:42.000So the same left that will say, not that there's anything wrong with that, that homosexuality is something worthwhile and wonderful, and if you ever make a gay joke, then this means you are a dramatic homophobe,
00:37:52.000We'll make gay jokes about Donald Trump on a regular basis.
00:37:55.000So here's Jim Acosta, the most obnoxious reporter over at CNN.
00:37:59.000Jim Acosta loves that dude, so Jim Acosta, find you somebody who loves you like Jim Acosta loves Jim Acosta.
00:38:03.000Here's Jim Acosta on CNN yesterday explaining that it looked like a marriage, but it was unclear who was the wife between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
00:38:11.000I don't know which side is the bride and which side is the groom, Anderson, but it sort of feels like we're at a wedding here.
00:38:16.000And on the other side of the room are friends from the Russian Federation.
00:38:20.000It feels like we are at a wedding between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
00:38:24.000This is actually before the press briefing, right?
00:38:26.000That was actually before the press briefing.
00:38:27.000So he was already foreseeing that there was going to be some sort of a consummation of the wedding night on stage.
00:38:33.000Very weird to see reporters do this sort of stuff.
00:38:37.000Then, of course, there is the New York Daily News, which, of course, hates President Trump.
00:38:41.000They put out a cover, and the cover looked something like this.
00:38:43.000It said, And then it shows a picture of Donald Trump shooting Uncle Sam in the head while holding hands with Vladimir Putin.
00:38:52.000Is this sort of stuff going to raise the temperature such that there'll be a serious assassination attempt on Trump?
00:38:57.000I gotta say, I don't think that would surprise me at this point.
00:39:00.000When you spend all your days thinking that Donald Trump is essentially Thanos, and that he is gathering infinity stones, and he's gonna snap his fingers, and everyone's going to die, or at least half the people are going to die,
00:39:10.000Would it surprise me if somebody takes a pot shot at Trump and that the temperature has been raised because of this?
00:39:16.000That would not surprise me in any real way.
00:39:18.000Now, would that be the fault of the New York Daily News?
00:40:04.000And super funny because he said the word dick, right?
00:40:06.000When you say that word, then that means that you are really, really funny, is what I've come to learn from our comedic masters over at Comedy Central.
00:40:13.000Okay, with all of this said, what's the final outcome?
00:40:20.000This looks like a black splat on Trump's resume, and nothing materializes barring some sort of precipitous action by Putin that Trump doesn't counter.
00:40:43.000And if anything, there's a good case to be made that Trump's behavior actually increased the perception of the intelligence agencies around the country, except with regard to people who think that every word that comes out of Trump's mouth is invariably true and wonderful, and that he's playing 17-degree underwater, upside-down, hungry, hungry hippos.
00:40:58.000But I think the likelihood is that most people do what you are doing today, what most people are doing today.
00:41:03.000They look at Trump saying stuff and they say, look at that dude.
00:41:32.000And I think when it comes to what Vladimir Putin said about the intelligence agencies and Trump siding with him, is it a bad moment for Trump?
00:41:41.000Does it have any long-lasting ramifications?
00:41:42.000Does it undermine the entire presidency?
00:41:44.000Does it mean that Trump can't get good things done anymore?
00:41:47.000No, it doesn't mean any of those things.
00:41:48.000But I think it would be worthwhile for Republicans to note when President Trump does bad things because it is intellectually dishonest not to do so.
00:41:54.000And also, don't push President Trump to double down on the bad.
00:41:57.000Even Newt Gingrich and Laura Ingraham were on Trump over this thing.
00:42:00.000It's not about people being anti-Trump, being all over Trump for what he said.
00:42:03.000It's about anybody with any sense of objectivity realizing that if Barack Obama had said the same thing, we would have been all over his ass.
00:42:09.000OK, and when Trump says that kind of stuff, then he deserves the flack he gets.
00:42:12.000OK, time for some things I like and then some things I hate, and then we'll deconstruct the culture in a pretty serious way.
00:42:46.000Not only does he write really well, he was described by Tom Wolfe as one of the founders of sort of the new journalism.
00:42:51.000The new journalism was this idea of narrative journalism, this long form journalism where it wasn't just about the who, what, where, when, why.
00:42:56.000Instead, it was also about drawing characters and writing nonfiction in a way where you could actually feel the characters.
00:43:03.000The book is really fun and worth reading.
00:43:05.000Again, The Silent Season of a Hero, a sports writing of Gaytolis, who's actually quite a good columnist.
00:43:10.000He actually came out and he suggested that he understood why Trump won.
00:43:13.000He's a real New Yorker, Gaytolis, and so I think he sees Trump as sort of a 1960s Rat Pack figure, which, come to think of it, is not a terrible description of the president for all the good and all the ill.
00:43:21.000Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:43:27.000Alrighty, so, today we begin, again, with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:43:34.000So Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, she said, we played her yesterday on Firing Line with Margaret Hoover, talking specifically about how she knew nothing about the Middle Eastern conflict.
00:43:42.000It turns out she knows nothing about economics either.
00:43:44.000Here she is explaining that capitalism is something that didn't exist in the past and someday won't exist again.
00:43:49.000And I will explain why she is both wrong and possibly right.
00:43:53.000Unemployment is low because people are working 60, 70, 80 hours a week and can barely feed their kids.
00:44:00.000And so I do think that right now, when we have this no-holds-barred, Wild West hyper-capitalism, what that means is profit at any cost.
00:44:13.000Capitalism has not always existed in the world and it will not always exist in the world.
00:44:18.000Okay, she says the beginning of that is so unbelievably stupid it is almost impossible to describe how stupid it is.
00:44:24.000She actually said in this interview that unemployment is low because people are holding two jobs.
00:45:28.000Capitalism raised half the world from abject poverty since 1980.
00:45:30.000The number of people on planet Earth living in abject poverty since 1980 has been sliced in half.
00:45:37.000The reason that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was able to make a living as a barkeep with a degree in economics from Boston University, which obviously is worth nothing, is because she's living in a capitalist society and she has to wear nice dresses and have her special lipstick that everybody loves.
00:45:53.000Capitalism is the greatest force for human prosperity ever and it is not closed.
00:45:57.000Jonah Goldberg basically says that capitalism is artificial because it says you have to respect other people's property rights and that centralized planning is not the way to do things even though there are a bunch of people who believe they're so wise they can run the entire economy from top down.
00:46:10.000It's unnatural for capitalism to thrive.
00:46:13.000It is unnatural for capitalism to thrive.
00:46:14.000When capitalism dies, what you're going to see is not going to be a return to wonder in the economy because there was no wonder in the economy before capitalism.
00:46:23.000They are the greatest, most moral economic system ever devised by man, specifically because they were not devised by man.
00:46:29.000They were devised by the idea that you were supposed to leave each other alone, which I thought was a good thing.
00:46:33.000Okay, time to deconstruct the culture.
00:46:35.000So each week, when we can, we try to go through a piece of culture that you or your kids are listening to, and we try to deconstruct what is happening in the culture because, as my good friend Andrew Breitbart used to say, culture is upstream of politics.
00:46:46.000Many more people will watch this garbage Ariana Grande video.
00:46:53.000And first, before we even play the video, I want to show you how immature Ariana Grande is as a person.
00:46:58.000Not just because she actually went to a donut shop in Lake Elsinore, California a couple years ago, licked one of the donuts behind the display case and put it back, which is just gross, but because she's a puerile child.
00:47:09.000Okay, she's not a child, she's a woman.
00:47:11.000She's a woman, but she acts like a child.
00:47:25.000She tweets back the curse word for the vulgarity that President Trump famously used with regard to female genitalia.
00:47:34.000If that's your favorite word, I would suggest that you are an 11-year-old.
00:47:37.000Like really, if your favorite word is a curse word for a genital, then you are a small child who's obsessed and in an arrested stage of development.
00:47:47.000It's like how my two-year-old's favorite word right now is poop, because he's two.
00:47:51.000Okay, Ariana Grande's favorite word, if your favorite word describes your genitals, and it's not just genitals, it's your genitals, then I would suggest that you need some meaning in your life.
00:48:11.000So, somebody notified Daryl Issa, whose name is spelled exactly the same way, the House Chairman on Government Oversight, to let him know, the Congressman from California, because apparently, P-word, ISSA Privilege, which is very exciting.
00:48:25.000Okay, so, she did all of this in advance of a new song that she has put out called God is a Woman.
00:48:35.000God is an eternal being who exists beyond space and time.
00:48:38.000This has been true for every deist who has ever lived.
00:48:41.000Anyone who believes in a one God, any theist, believes that God is not a man, God is not a woman, God is an eternal being who exists beyond space and time and who designed the universe in which we live and is the force holding up that universe.
00:48:57.000But because we are now pagan, and we have entered a pagan period in which everything can be devolved down to your genitals and how much pleasure they give you, God is apparently a woman.
00:49:04.000So here is Ariana Grande, Grande, Grande-goo, singing, God is a woman.
00:49:10.000And she is, of course, hijacking all the great elements of Western civilization in order to do this.
00:49:14.000So you'll see at the very end that there is a picture from the Sistine Chapel in which she has substituted herself for God reaching out to Adam in the Sistine Chapel.
00:49:25.000What we do is we take great works of art, we take the history of Western civilization, and then we destroy it on the shoals of our own hedonism.
00:49:31.000So we have Beyoncé and Jay-Z talking about ape crap.
00:49:35.000In the Louvre, in front of some of the great sculptures ever created.
00:49:38.000And then we have Ariana Grande hijacking the Sistine Chapel to talk about her vagina, which is just lovely.
00:49:47.000I mean, it really spells, I think, it's a good descriptor of where we've gone with our civilization.
00:49:51.000Perhaps when she realizes this doesn't actually generate any sort of meaning in your life, that your genitals don't give you meaning, and that anybody who lives by their genitals will also likely die by their genitals from an STD, then perhaps we'll get a society that cares about meaning again.
00:50:04.000But here is Ariana Grande making the case for why God is a woman, which does, if, by the way, if God is a woman, why osteoporosis?
00:50:44.000Okay, so for those who can't see, she's naked in paint and then here she is on a bed with like 73 other people because this is what God is, right?
00:50:52.000God is a woman having sex with lots of people.
00:50:55.000Now, my favorite part of this is that Ariana Grande says sex is amazing because sex gives life.
00:51:01.000Right, but she's pro-abortion, so I'm wondering how that works.
00:51:04.000And then there's, in this video, a bunch of fat white guys who are yelling at her.
00:51:08.000So I guess that she will eventually use this video of me talking about her to suggest that I don't appreciate that God is a woman.
00:51:14.000You're right, I don't appreciate God as a woman because that's the stupidest garbage I've ever heard in my life.
00:51:17.000God isn't a woman, God isn't a man, and God certainly is not Ariana Grande, an idiotic 22-year-old who can't warble more than an octave.
00:52:00.000Groundhogs popping out and making weird faces at the camera.
00:52:03.000Very exciting stuff here from Ariana Grande.
00:52:06.000What I love is that this thing's already been viewed tens of millions of times, of course, because the reality is nobody's actually going to imbibe the message.
00:52:15.000The message is in the fact that she's there in body paint.
00:52:18.000I'm old enough to remember when people used to worship at the altar people like Ella Fitzgerald.
00:52:24.000This is the very closing image, is her in the Sistine Chapel, reaching out, surrounded by a bunch of women.
00:52:30.000Of course, it has to be women of color so that all of the Rolling Stone folks can say that this is a recreation of great art, but in a more diverse way.