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00:00:00.000Bernie Sanders shares some unfortunate news with his followers, the Israeli election comes to an end, and a Democratic congressman spars with Candace Owens.
00:00:16.000Obviously, the big news out of Israel is that Bibi Netanyahu retains the prime ministership for a fifth term.
00:00:21.000He has been prime minister for well over a decade.
00:00:24.000At this point, Netanyahu has, for the fifth straight time, surprised the press in Israel, which is constantly on the left and has been routinely critical.
00:00:33.000And obviously, the New York Times is very unhappy about all this.
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00:02:24.000Alrighty, so the big news of the day is obviously Benjamin Netanyahu's victory in Israel.
00:02:28.000So with 96% of all the ballots in, Netanyahu retains the prime ministership.
00:02:33.000He essentially wins the same number of seats as the so-called Kachov-Lavan party, the blue and white party.
00:02:39.000And that party was a unity party that was created the These things happen in Israel sometimes, where a unity party is created by a couple of prominent figures just in time for the election.
00:02:50.000A while back, Ariel Sharon had left the Likud party, which is the right-wing party in Israel, and had created his own party called Kadima.
00:02:58.000And for a couple of election cycles, Kadima was an actual thing, and then it sort of fell apart.
00:03:02.000The two big parties historically in Israel for people who don't follow Israeli politics are Likud And labor.
00:03:08.000Labor has completely fallen off the map.
00:03:09.000The left in Israel has fallen apart completely.
00:03:12.000The truth is that the Blue and White Party is a center party.
00:03:15.000Which means that if you were to view Israeli politics on a spectrum of left to right, what you actually see is that something like 90 out of 120 seats in the Israeli Knesset are center to center-right.
00:03:26.000Because the Blue and White Party is not wildly divided from the Likud, especially on issues like foreign policy.
00:03:31.000Now, the press were attempting to do this job, where they suggested that Blue and White was actually labor, that Blue and White, the Benny Gantz party, Benny Gantz is a former IDF general, Yair Lapid is a sort of moderate former television host in Israel.
00:03:44.000The idea was that this party was the new labor, that they were peaceniks, and if they had won the prime ministership, then there would certainly be productive negotiations with the Palestinian Authority in Hamas.
00:03:54.000This is absolutely untrue, and it's not untrue because the Israelis are intransigent on negotiation.
00:03:59.000It's untrue because they literally have no one to negotiate with.
00:04:02.000I mean, there's no one for them to negotiate with.
00:04:06.000Hamas, an actual terrorist group that spends its days figuring out how to build terror tunnels to kidnap Israeli citizens and shooting the people that it presides over?
00:04:15.000Hamas is now in the 14th year of a four-year term in the Gaza Strip.
00:04:20.000Mahmoud Abbas was last elected in 2005 in Judea and Samaria in the West Bank.
00:04:26.000Okay, that was 14 years ago at this point.
00:04:29.000So we're supposed to believe that that anti-democratic terrorist force is going to negotiate with Israel.
00:04:34.000So the Palestinian Authority, a terrorist group, is supposed to negotiate with Israel.
00:04:45.000There are a lot of people I know who are on the political right who are hoping that Netanyahu would lose, not because they dislike Netanyahu, but because they wanted the rest of the world to see that the so-called left in Israel can't even negotiate with Palestinian terrorists like the Palestinian Authority, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas.
00:05:00.000They wanted to give the lie to the idea that it's just Bibi's right-wing intransigence that is leading to this breakdown in negotiations.
00:05:28.000The whole attempt to portray Netanyahu as a dictatorial figure when he is trying to free up economics has been elected multiple times.
00:05:35.000He's now the longest-serving prime minister in Israeli history.
00:05:38.000It's an obvious misread from a left-wing press in the United States that has true animus against Israel and not just against Netanyahu.
00:05:46.000That's why, again, a lot of people on the right were saying they hope Netanyahu loses just to expose the New York Times for being anti-Israel because they'd be just as anti-Israel with Benny Gantz in power, for example.
00:05:57.000Now, the New York Times hilariously ran a headline last night, because the New York Times can be counted on to get it wrong all the time.
00:06:03.000The New York Times ran a headline last night suggesting that no matter how the election turned out, it was a rebuke to Netanyahu.
00:06:10.000Netanyahu, in many of the exit polls, was losing by four to five seats.
00:06:14.000When all the results came in, he is at the very least in a tie with about 35 seats in Knesset with Blue and White.
00:06:20.000He may be at 36 and Blue and White at 35, but all the right-wing parties The New York Times reports that Netanyahu was in position to win a fourth consecutive term on Wednesday with nearly all the votes counted.
00:06:30.000They say the race was extremely tight.
00:06:31.000His main rival, Benny Gantz, also claimed victory.
00:06:33.000hoping that Israel will make concessions to the Palestinians, among other things.
00:06:36.000The New York Times reports that Netanyahu was in position to win a fourth consecutive term on Wednesday with nearly all the votes counted.
00:06:41.000They say the race was extremely tight.
00:06:43.000His main rival, Benny Gantz, also claimed victory.
00:06:45.000Now, that is not unusual because what happens in Israel is the exit polls start to come out really quickly.
00:06:52.000And everybody can plausibly claim victory because you never know how the coalitions are going to shape up.
00:06:55.000The big surprise of the night actually wasn't Netanyahu winning.
00:06:58.000It was how many of the bigger right-wing parties didn't make the cutoff threshold.
00:07:03.000So there was a party called New Right With Naftali Bennett, who's a big media figure over in Israel, and Shaqed, who is the former justice minister in Israel and a real rising star in Israeli politics.
00:07:19.000Basically, it seems that because Netanyahu was campaigning on the basis The Israeli left was in danger of taking over.
00:07:26.000A lot of people who would have voted for right-wing splinter parties instead shifted their vote to Likud, giving Netanyahu the lead.
00:07:33.000The president, Reuven Rivlin, is going to choose who exactly gets to form a government.
00:07:37.000The way the government works in Israel is that you form a coalition with a majority in the Knesset, and the president has to decide who to hand the opportunity to to form the coalition.
00:07:48.000You just sort of look at where the parties naturally align, and then you say, okay, these right-wing parties are going to form a majority of the Knesset, and these left-wing parties can't form a majority, so we give it to the right wing.
00:08:01.000The New York Times says, regardless of the final result, the election appeared to be a grave scare for Mr. Netanyahu, who's led Israel for a decade of relative security and prosperity.
00:08:09.000More than a million Israelis voted for the blue and white, a record for a new party, placing it in a position of being the main alternative to Israel's right wing, a spot held for decades by the Labor Party.
00:08:18.000Well, no, this is more of a scare for the Labor Party than it is for Netanyahu, who was hit with not one but two indictments in the middle of this election cycle, unending hatred from the left-wing press across the United States and in Israel, and pulled out a victory anyway for the fifth consecutive term.
00:08:31.000Okay, that is not exactly a brutal scare for Netanyahu.
00:08:34.000The guy ended up winning 65 of the seats in Knesset, which in Knesset is a pretty solid majority.
00:08:41.000So, the parties that are lining up behind Netanyahu, that includes the right-wing and religious parties, and he will have a majority in office that the four parties will be Kulanu, the union of right-wing parties, the ultra-Orthodox Shas, which is really a Sephardic political party, and largely concerned with preserving the benefits that that some Orthodox Jews receive in Israel, and United Torah Judaism, which is a right-wing Israeli Orthodox party.
00:09:08.000Those are combined to win a combined 25 seats.
00:09:11.000And then the Israel Beit Anu party, led by Avigdor Lieberman, which is projected to take five seats as well.
00:09:17.000Now, the way this works is that Netanyahu will then hand out cabinet ministries to a bunch of his coalition partners.
00:09:23.000So it'll be interesting to see what happens from here.
00:09:26.000But the bottom line is that the press is going to play this as though the evil Israeli right-wing won here, and that it's just another sign that the Israelis are unwilling to make concessions.
00:09:36.000You can see Chris Matthews do this routine.
00:09:38.000Chris Matthews, who knows less about Israeli politics than he knows about cooking a good borscht.
00:09:43.000I mean, the guy really doesn't know anything about Israeli politics.
00:09:46.000President Trump has forged no deeper political bond than with the one he has with Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:09:50.000I've been following the Middle East like every grown-up American who lives in this country.
00:09:55.000President Trump has forged no deeper political bond than with the one he has with Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:10:00.000I've been following the Middle East like every grown up American who lives in this country.
00:10:05.000We all follow Middle East negotiations and politics and always our president from Eisenhower from all the way up to W, although some lean towards Israel more, some leaned against it a little bit.
00:10:16.000Their government, they've always played this other role as honest broker in the region so they can bring peace and play a bigger global role than just being buddies with Israel.
00:10:24.000This president has ignored his global role, ignored the role, forfeited that of peacemaker or honest broker and just played political sidekick of Bibi.
00:10:33.000OK, that's an amazing statement by Matthews.
00:10:36.000So basically, all the other presidents were great because they refused to support Israel in their battle with terrorism, whereas Trump is very bad because he has been a true solid ally to the only democratic state in the Middle East.
00:10:48.000We in the United States, you can tell how Israel has, you know, the only free elections in the Middle East by the fact that we in the United States can watch as the results roll in in real time.
00:10:57.000And Bibi Netanyahu could have lost this election.
00:10:59.000Can that be said anywhere else in the Middle East?
00:11:05.000Israel is a country where all of its citizens have rights.
00:11:08.000And yet, people like Matthews want the United States to treat Israel and the Palestinians on an even plane when the Palestinians are led by legitimately terrorist groups.
00:11:18.000Who have not been elected for the last 14, 15 years.
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00:13:53.000You know, as I say, the media coverage is just, they're lamenting, they can't handle the fact that Bibi Netanyahu retains the premiership and his fifth term.
00:14:10.000Because eventually reality sets in when every day you have to face the prospect of rockets flying over your cities because you unilaterally withdrew and handed territory to a terrorist group.
00:14:20.000At a certain point, people are going to say, you know what?
00:14:22.000I don't think we can make a deal with those folks.
00:14:24.000We need somebody who's going to guarantee us security.
00:14:26.000That's all that has happened in Israel.
00:14:28.000Everyone in Israel, right, left, and center, understands there has to be a separation with the Palestinians.
00:14:32.000The only question is whether that separation happens with more territory under Israeli control or less territory under Israeli control.
00:14:39.000Everyone, right, left, and center, understands there cannot be an independent Palestinian state in control of its own borders so long as that state is run by terrorists and it will, for the foreseeable future, be run by terrorist groups.
00:14:57.000And I think that the vast majority of Palestinians have either been brainwashed by an education system that has taught them that the Israelis are the reason for their suffering.
00:15:05.000Whereas if the Palestinian government actually just came to the table, this would all end tomorrow.
00:15:10.000Or, the vast majority of Palestinians are under the active oppression of terrorist groups that are active in the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian Authority and under Islamic Jihad.
00:15:20.000You can't blame the Israelis who have tried to bend over backwards at every step of the way, every single step of the way.
00:15:25.000Name a list of concessions Palestinians have made.
00:15:33.000They withdrew from the entire Gaza Strip in 2005.
00:15:36.000They have withdrawn from well over 80% of Judea and Samaria.
00:15:41.000They have tried to hand direct control over to the Palestinian Authority routinely.
00:15:45.000Ehud Barak made an offer where he tried to hand half of Jerusalem to the Palestinian Authority.
00:15:49.000Ehud Omer tried to do exactly the same thing.
00:15:52.000And add something like 94% of all territories asked and land swaps in return for the other 6%, which would have been areas like Afrad, heavily Jewish territory.
00:16:01.000Israel is constantly trying to make concessions.
00:16:03.000It's been rejected every step of the way for literally the entire history of Israel.
00:16:07.000And yet, the left-wing press constantly is putting the onus on the state of Israel, which suggests either they don't understand the politics, or there is animus, unique animus, for the state of Israel, which is driven by a perverse view of the world and of global politics.
00:16:22.000Even if Blue and White had won, that would not have been an endorsement of the leftist position on Israel, because Blue and White was not a left party.
00:16:59.000And then he added, he's contrasting his wealth with that of President Trump not being a billionaire.
00:17:05.000He said, what will your records look like?
00:17:07.000He said, not being a billionaire, not having investments in Saudi Arabia, wherever he has investments all over the world, mine will be a little bit more boring.
00:17:16.000And then he conceded, and here's the best part.
00:17:19.000He conceded that he is a millionaire, that he is worth more than a million dollars, which puts him in the top percent of wealth owners in the United States, and probably in the top 1% of income between him and his wife.
00:17:40.000As I said yesterday, Bernie Sanders, man, Marx in the streets, Hayek in the sheets.
00:17:46.000That's an amazing, amazing thing, right?
00:17:52.000Bernie Sanders, the guy who is constantly ripping on the free market system, saying, well, if you work hard and you write the book, then you also could be rich.
00:18:04.000That's what everybody who is right of center says.
00:18:06.000By the way, that's what a lot of people on the left say, too.
00:18:08.000Hillary Clinton has said that she is a capitalist.
00:18:11.000In 2016, there was a debate between her and Sanders, and Sanders said, he was asked whether he was a capitalist, and he said, if by that you mean, am I in favor of corporations that own the American political system, then no, I am not a capitalist.
00:18:23.000And then he went to Hillary, and Hillary said, yeah, I'm a capitalist, because capitalism has created the greatest middle class in the history of the world.
00:18:35.000So there are a bunch of Democrats who still like the capitalist system, but they just said that they want to redistribute the gains, right?
00:18:43.000Now, Bernie says all of that, but then he proclaims that he is a socialist, and he doesn't like the free market system.
00:18:49.000Because the truth is that if Bernie told the truth, if Bernie actually said the same thing as all the other Democrats, that he likes capitalism, he just wants to, quote unquote, curb its excesses, Or that he wants to stack more welfare programs on top?
00:19:01.000Then people would understand that his program is actually not substantially different from the rest of the Democratic Party.
00:19:06.000His differentiating point is his dislike for the profit motive in capitalism.
00:19:11.000If he doesn't do that, he's exactly the same as Joe Biden.
00:19:15.000He's a little bit more extreme in his government nationalization scheme, but his basic take would be the same as the mainstream Democratic Party.
00:19:22.000He couldn't really claim independence from that party.
00:19:38.000And that's what makes it ridiculous and hypocritical for him to say that if you publish a book you can be a millionaire too.
00:19:43.000Now a couple of things that are also noteworthy about this.
00:19:46.000Bernie Sanders is not a millionaire because he wrote a book.
00:19:48.000Bernie Sanders is a millionaire because he has lived off of government largesse his entire life and he wrote a book.
00:19:53.000Meaning that Bernie Sanders has been a professional useless person for virtually all of his adult life.
00:19:57.000I mean the man was so lazy he was tossed off a commune in the 1970s.
00:20:01.000You know how lazy you have to be to be tossed out of a commune?
00:20:03.000So Bernie Sanders has been in the public eye, elected official, being paid by the taxpayers for virtually all of his 60 years in the workforce, because the man's nearing 80.
00:20:15.000And using that platform, he then launched a book that sold a lot of copies.
00:20:19.000So using the platform of a taxpayer-funded position to become prominent and then launching a book on the back of that is not exactly the same thing as somebody like me launching a book and that's selling a lot of copies.
00:21:09.000I think it's a violation of the sovereignty of private property to forcibly remove wealth from people so that you can spend it on stuff that you want.
00:21:16.000But at least Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are fans of the free market.
00:21:20.000Bernie Sanders has spent most of his career ripping on the free market.
00:21:23.000The only time he occasionally pays lip service to capitalism is to swivel and call for nationalization of major sectors of the American economy.
00:21:30.000In the 70s, he urged nationalization of nearly every major industry in the United States from oil to banking.
00:21:35.000In 1988, he explained that his brand of socialism revolved around a system, quote, That's communism.
00:21:39.000Human beings can own the means of production and work together, rather than having to work as semi-slaves to other people who can hire and fire.
00:22:05.000In other countries, people don't line up for food.
00:22:07.000The rich get the food, and the poor starve to death.
00:22:10.000Sanders's entire critique of capitalism is that it inherently causes inequality and that that inequality leads to domination by the rich at the expense of the poor.
00:22:32.000Now, the left will simply ignore all of this.
00:22:34.000His supporters will simply ignore all of this, or they'll do the routine where they say, yeah, well, he never said that he hates all of capitalism.
00:22:41.000That's been the underlying theme of his campaign forever.
00:22:43.000It's the differentiating point, again, between him and Hillary Clinton.
00:22:47.000It's funny, people on the left were struggling to come up with a differentiation in 2016 between Sanders and Clinton, and basically this was the common consensus, that in his heart, Sanders does not like the free market, Hillary Clinton does like the free market, and Hillary herself has said, One of the reasons that I lost in 2016 is because I had the gall to come out in favor of capitalism.
00:23:06.000So, fascinating to watch Bernie Sanders being exposed for what he really is, which is apparently a typical mainline Democrat, not a brand new revolutionary leftist.
00:23:16.000In just a second, we'll get to the rest of the positive Democratic agenda.
00:23:19.000So today we're going to break down the Democratic agenda into three separate prongs.
00:23:23.000There's the positive Democratic agenda, the negative Democratic agenda, and then the delusional Democratic agenda.
00:23:29.000So we'll get to all of those in just a second.
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00:24:38.000All righty, so meanwhile, the Democrats are rolling out their positive agenda.
00:24:42.000Suffice it to say, it ain't that great.
00:24:44.000Maisie Hirono, who may in fact be the new dumbest person in the United States Senate.
00:24:48.000Barbara Boxer used to hold that title, and then she retired.
00:24:51.000Now it is Maisie Hirono, the senator from Hawaii.
00:24:53.000So she was talking about the abortion agenda of the Democratic Party, and she said, you know what?
00:24:58.000Let's not focus on The unborn children.
00:25:00.000Let's focus on the children who are already here.
00:25:03.000The word hypocritical doesn't even begin to cover what is happening to women and children across our country.
00:25:09.000My thanks to you, Dr. Peterson and Senator Jordan today once again.
00:25:13.000And I hope the supporters of bills that we're talking about today, both in the states and in Congress, turn their efforts to improving the lives of the children who are very much here already and who are so poorly served by the Trump administration and his policies.
00:25:55.000Meanwhile, you got AOC, who says that there will be blood on our hands if we don't pass her crappy Green New Deal that we are not allowed to vote on.
00:26:02.000I mean, I do love the fact that AOC, who is incredibly fresh and incredibly face, as we know, that she put forward a Green New Deal so unpopular that every co-sponsor of it voted to abstain from passing it.
00:26:16.000And then she has the temerity to come out and say, if we don't pass my Green New Deal that I encourage people to abstain from, then we have blood on our hands.
00:27:06.000When people on the right say stuff like this, if you say that if we fail to act on abortion, we have blood on our hands, then the left suggests that this is an incentive to violence.
00:27:14.000If AOC says that we have blood on our hands if we don't do exactly what she wants to do, that is not an incentive to violence.
00:27:20.000Even though, legitimately, this is, I mean, this was really what the Bernie Sanders supporter who shot up a congressional baseball game said about climate change.
00:27:26.000He said that these people are trying to kill us because they won't do anything about climate change, so I need to step in and do something about them.
00:27:34.000Bernie Sanders wasn't to blame for that.
00:27:35.000AOC isn't to blame for people who do violence in her name.
00:27:38.000Obviously, she's not calling for violence.
00:27:40.000With that said, is this rhetoric dramatically overheated?
00:27:43.000She hasn't even put forward a practical policy.
00:27:45.000What exactly are we supposed to be doing?
00:27:47.000One of my pet peeves is people who suggest that without any actual policy, I'm supposed to agree with them.
00:27:54.000They just wave around this weird bloody flag where they just sort of say, if you disagree with me on this general idea, then you have blood on your hands.
00:28:05.000Well, I can't boil that down into anything.
00:28:07.000The Democrats did this, as I said yesterday, about slavery reparations.
00:28:10.000If you disagree about slavery reparations, then this means you're anti-black.
00:28:16.000How am I supposed to agree or disagree before you propose anything?
00:28:19.000But this is the positive Democratic agenda is that we need a Green New Deal that is unspecified and we need to ignore the death of babies in the womb.
00:28:27.000Then there's the negative Democratic agenda and this is really where Democrats are seeking to make hay.
00:28:31.000Democrats are hoping that they can win election in 2020 simply by ripping on Republicans.
00:28:36.000And so this means that even the most, quote unquote, moderate and kind Democrats are going to do this routine.
00:28:41.000One of the people who's been doing this to my great consternation is Pete Buttigieg.
00:28:44.000So Buttigieg, who's the South Bend, Indiana mayor, I've had praise for him over the past several weeks because I say, hey, look, a normal human, a human who thinks that just because we disagree, that does not make us a bad person.
00:28:56.000And yet, Buttigieg has spent the last several weeks ripping on my pants for no reason that I can fathom.
00:29:39.000Now the media want to create the feeling there's a battle here, so it doesn't look like Buttigieg is just being aggressive for political gain.
00:29:45.000So it doesn't look like Buttigieg is just being a jerk, attacking Pence for no reason, simply so he can claim that he's a victim of Pence, who's never said a bad word about him or done anything bad to him.
00:29:54.000So CNN politics, in their inimitably stupid way, massive journalisming, journalisming out the wazoo, CNN politics puts out this headline.
00:30:02.000The feud between Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Vice President Mike Pence escalates.
00:31:04.000It was if there was a risk of trafficking or other kind of harm that might have been incurred.
00:31:08.000But even if he did do that, why is Donald Trump saying that two wrongs make a right?
00:31:13.000Again, Obama wasn't wrong, but so he's saying that because something happened under President Obama, he's repeating it and upping the ante.
00:31:37.000I'll bring you some more of these attacks, and I'll bring you an epic moment from Candace Owens, who did an amazing job in firing back on Democrats who attacked her yesterday on the Hill.
00:33:05.000When Obama separated families, that was for their own good, but Trump is a bad man.
00:33:09.000And also, Stephen Miller is a white nationalist.
00:33:11.000So Stacey Abrams, who has become A really bad actor on the American political stage.
00:33:16.000She's a good speaker, she's a charismatic figure, and she's a bad actor.
00:33:20.000She's spent every day since losing her Georgia gubernatorial election proclaiming that it was stolen from her.
00:33:26.000I'm old enough to remember when the media said that if Trump did that, it would be a cut against both the American way of life and the democratic system, and the media that covered it.
00:33:34.000Now Stacey Abrams says that kind of stuff daily and the media feed her for it and talk about her running for president.
00:33:39.000Stacey Abrams appears on CNN and calls Stephen Miller, the president's immigration advisor, a white nationalist.
00:33:44.000What is her evidence that he is a white nationalist?
00:33:46.000That he disagrees with her, obviously.
00:33:49.000Congresswoman Ilhan Omar actually referred to him as a white nationalist.
00:33:56.000I believe that what we have seen from Stephen Miller is vestiges of white nationalism.
00:34:01.000One of the deepest concerns that I have, that this is a person who's directing the Department of Homeland Security, the third largest agency in this nation, that's responsible for protecting us, but the person who is pulling the strings does not seem to care about protecting many Americans.
00:34:20.000So Stephen Miller doesn't care about protecting Americans and she gets this from... no one knows.
00:34:25.000And also he's acting vestiges of white nationalism based on... But I guess that we can just yell at everybody who's Republican and call them racist.
00:34:34.000The best example of this was yesterday on the Hill.
00:34:35.000So Candace Owens was speaking at a white nationalism hearing on the Hill by Democrats in Congress.
00:34:42.000Now, everyone should be concerned with white nationalism and white supremacism.
00:35:01.000The reason the Democrats on the Hill were having this hearing, however, was to suggest that white nationalism is on the rise because conservatives have been winning elections.
00:35:09.000That is because of the great expansion of white nationalism in the United States on the basis of conservatism.
00:35:14.000And then the left was going to, Democrats were going to try and conflate sort of mainstream conservatism with white nationalism, which is a bad faith tactic designed not to unify us, but to tear us apart.
00:35:24.000So Candace Owens goes and she testifies and she talks about And she talks about how the Democrats are using this tactic, that what they are really trying to do is scare minorities into voting for them by suggesting that if Republicans win, then they will be a danger of being attacked in the streets, Jussie Smollett style.
00:35:42.000That is obviously a political tactic that is being used by Democrats.
00:35:45.000I take white supremacy absolutely seriously.
00:35:47.000I take white nationalism absolutely seriously.
00:35:49.000It is also true that on a factual level, a lot of the statistics that have been put out about the rise in white nationalist crime are based on changing the method of statistic gathering.
00:35:58.000More reporting agencies have been reporting hate crimes and therefore the numbers have been going up.
00:36:04.000The truth is that they were going up year on year before President Trump ever entered the White House.
00:36:08.000With all of that said, Candace Owens was speaking about all of this and sort of the broader democratic political agenda and Ted Lieu, who is just awful.
00:36:17.000The congressperson from Los Angeles he pulls out a video on his phone of Candace Owens talking about Hitler.
00:36:25.000Now this made a controversy what a couple of months ago where she was giving some sort of speech and she was talking about nationalism.
00:36:30.000She was asked what what she thought of nationalism and she made an ill-advised and poorly articulated statement about How Hitler's big problem is that he was an imperialist, not a nationalist.
00:36:39.000Meaning that nationalism is about pride in your state and trying to build up your state.
00:36:43.000And imperialism is about trying to spread those values outward and take over other states.
00:36:49.000And she used Hitler as an example and it was a very poor example because obviously Hitler's crimes began in Germany with the repression and murder of his own citizens.
00:36:59.000Now, I think that that error did not come from Candace Owens being a fan of Hitler.
00:37:03.000I think to suggest that Candace Owens is a fan of Hitler is fanciful at best and obviously obviously slanderous at worst.
00:37:13.000Yeah, it was a badly articulated statement.
00:37:16.000Ted Lieu pulls out this clip to try and demonstrate that Candace Owens, Candace Owens is somehow a person who is inspiring white supremacy all over the world.
00:37:25.000This black woman is somehow inspiring white supremacy all over the world because she made an ill-advised statement about the difference between nationalism and imperialism and used Hitler as a poor example.
00:37:36.000Here's Lieu doing that and then Candace Owens clocking him.
00:37:38.000When people try to legitimize Adolf Hitler, does that feed into white nationalist ideology?
00:37:44.000I think it's pretty apparent that Mr. Lew believes that black people are stupid and will not pursue the full clip in its entirety.
00:37:50.000He purposely presented an extractive clip.
00:37:54.000The witness will suspend for a moment.
00:38:09.000As I said, he is assuming that black people will not go pursue the full two hour clip.
00:38:14.000That was unbelievably dishonest and he did not allow me to respond to it, which is worrisome and to tell you a lot about where people are today in terms of trying to drum up narratives.
00:38:36.000And then a Republican had to come back to Candace Owens to allow her to respond to the clip.
00:38:40.000And this justifies what you were saying about the hearing, that what the hearing was actually designed to do was lump in conservatives with white nationalists so that they can smear everybody as a member of the white nationalist movement.
00:38:49.000I'm alt-right, Candace is alt-right, everybody's alt-right and white nationalist.
00:39:24.000Jews are the victims of 60% of the religious-motivated hate crimes in America.
00:39:29.000Jew hatred is the canary in the coal mine.
00:39:31.000It's unfortunately incumbent upon us to speak about the major issue threatening violence against Jews and all Americans, which is Muslim anti-Semitism.
00:39:39.000Especially as a child of Holocaust survivors, I was horrified to see Speaker Pelosi leader Hoyer defend Representative Omar after her vicious anti-Semitic remarks.
00:40:32.000Stephen Miller is a white nationalist, and Katniss Owens is a Nazi.
00:40:35.000And now we get to the delusional Democratic agenda, which is Democrats still desperately hoping that Robert Mueller will save them from themselves, that the Mueller report will emerge, and that when it does, magically, it will say the opposite of what the Attorney General has said that it says, which is that there was no collusion, and that there wasn't sufficient evidence for an obstruction of justice charge.
00:40:55.000Chelsea Handler, who I don't even know why she started getting into politics.
00:41:00.000I have a rule about comedians and politics generally.
00:41:03.000That is that comedians who do politics are usually like C or D level political commentators, and they're A comedians.
00:41:10.000Well, if you mix your comedy with your D level politics, your A comedy with your D level politics, it just ends up being a C.
00:41:17.000It's one of the reasons why sometimes the show is funny.
00:42:12.000Comedying of epic levels happening from Chelsea Handler right there.
00:42:16.000By the way, it is worthwhile noting that the Attorney General is now going to engage in a probe of the initial investigation into President Trump.
00:42:25.000Attorney General Barr said on Wednesday that he thought that spying on a political campaign did occur in the course of intelligence agencies' investigations into Russian interference In the 2016 election, this is according to the Washington Post.
00:42:37.000At a hearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Barr was asked about his statement a day earlier that he would review how the FBI launched its counterintelligence investigation that sought to determine whether Donald Trump's associates were interacting with Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign.
00:43:15.000Although he added that the key question, and this is correct, is whether law enforcement officials had a proper legal justification to open such an investigation and intelligence gathering.
00:43:28.000I also want to make clear this is not launching an investigation of the FBI, frankly, to the extent that there were any issues at the FBI.
00:43:34.000I do not view it as a problem that's endemic to the FBI.
00:43:36.000I think there was probably a failure among a group of leaders there in the upper echelon.
00:43:39.000This is exactly what I have said about the scandal of members of the FBI, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, James Comey, members of the FBI skewing their coverage of particular political events to meet a narrative that the Obama administration wanted to meet, whether you're talking about the Hillary investigation or the Trump investigation.
00:44:00.000Current and former law enforcement officials, of course, have defended their handling of the Russia investigation, saying it was carefully handled based on available evidence and they firmly denied they engaged in political spying.
00:44:11.000Barr said that the review could result in scrutiny of senior FBI official conduct.
00:44:15.000He said, I feel I have an obligation to make sure that government power is not abused.
00:44:18.000I think that is one of the principal rules of the attorney general.
00:44:21.000The Washington Post, of course, speculates that this is all about Barr appeasing Trump.
00:44:25.000Although the reality is that there are serious questions that need to be asked about the conduct of the Trump investigation, given that it dragged on for two years and that there wasn't sufficient evidence to bring a prosecution or, in fact, any evidence or, in fact, any evidence at all that the president openly colluded with the Russians any evidence at all that the president openly colluded with the Russians during Now, I have to bring you this story just because it's hilarious.
00:44:48.000Apparently, President Trump visited Mount Vernon yesterday, and it was amazing.
00:44:53.000Actually, it was last April, I guess, but the report is only emerging now.
00:44:57.000Apparently, during a guided tour of Mount Vernon last April with French President Emmanuel Macron, this is according to Politico, President Trump learned that Washington was one of the major real estate speculators of his era.
00:45:07.000So he couldn't understand why America's first president didn't name his historic Virginia compound or any other property he acquired after himself.
00:45:14.000According to three sources briefed on the exchange, Trump said, If he was smart, he would have put his name on it.
00:45:18.000You got to put your name on stuff or no one remembers you.
00:45:21.000Yes, clearly, no one remembers George Washington.
00:45:25.000The VIP tour for the evening, Mount Vernon President and CO Doug Bradburn then told Trump that Washington did, after all, succeed in getting the nation's capital named after him.
00:45:44.000Apparently that wasn't the only hilarious comment that he made.
00:45:48.000The president's disinterest in Washington made it tough for the tour guide Bradburn to sustain Trump's interest during a deluxe 45-minute tour of the property, which he later described to associates as truly bizarre.
00:45:58.000The McCrones, Bradburn has told several people, were far more knowledgeable about the history of the property than the president.
00:46:03.000A former history professor with a PhD, Bradburn was desperately trying to get Trump interested in Washington's house, said a source familiar with the visit.
00:46:09.000So he spoke in terms Trump understands best, telling the president that Washington was an 18th century real estate titan In fact, Washington was indeed incredibly wealthy.
00:46:17.000Part of that is that the widow that he married, Mary Custis, was incredibly wealthy.
00:46:19.000asked whether Washington was really rich, according to a second person familiar with the visit.
00:46:24.000In fact, Washington was indeed incredibly wealthy.
00:46:27.000Part of that is that the widow that he married, Mary Custis, was incredibly wealthy.
00:46:30.000This is what Trump was really the most excited about, the person said.
00:46:34.000Apparently, if Trump was impressed with Washington's real estate instincts, he was less taken by Mount Vernon itself, which the first president personally expanded from a modest one and a half story home into an 11,000 square foot mansion.
00:46:46.000The rooms, Trump said, were too small, the staircases too narrow, and he even spotted some unevenness in the floorboards, according to four sources briefed on his comments.
00:46:55.000He said he could have built the place better and for less money.
00:46:59.000That's our president, ladies and gentlemen.
00:47:01.000Solid, solid stuff from the president.
00:47:53.000So, speaking of actual history that matters, there is a fantastic, fantastic documentary that came out a little while back called They Shall Not Grow Old, directed and produced by Peter Jackson.
00:48:04.000It's the best thing that Peter Jackson has done since Lord of the Rings.
00:48:08.000He colorized, added sound to, and smoothed out a bunch of World War I footage, and it dramatically changes your take on, and your feelings about World War I.
00:48:18.000As things recede into the midst of history, we tend to ignore them.
00:48:21.000We tend to dehumanize the people who are involved in those historic occurrences.
00:48:25.000We tend to depersonalize from their suffering and to feel that their suffering occurred at a different time.
00:48:31.000Black and white footage is one of the things that does it.
00:48:33.000Everything that exists in black and white feels like it's just not, it's almost half real.
00:48:37.000Well, Peter Jackson, by recolorizing all of this footage and changing the nature, adding sound, suddenly World War I feels like the Vietnam War or like the Iraq War, stuff that happened just yesterday and that resulted in immense human carnage.
00:49:56.000There's a whole sequence that is deeply affecting and moving where he shows kind of slow-mo footage of these guys in color and then he clips to them after they've been killed.
00:50:36.000And it says, they tweeted this out, new cover story, how Ilhan is changing the conversation about Israel and upending the 2020 campaign.
00:50:43.000Now weird, I don't remember after Steve King said his garbage about white nationalism, them putting him on the cover with Steve King, white nationalism, and America.
00:50:51.000And the tweet, how Steve King is changing the conversation about race.
00:52:05.000So, I guess what the consent condom is for, is for the guy evil enough that he is going to rape a girl, but woke enough that he buys the condom that requires four hands to open it.
00:52:15.000So for that very small group of guys who are woke enough to go buy a condom that can only be opened by two pairs of hands, for that guy, who is also a rapist, that's what this condom is for, I guess?
00:52:29.000With consent at the forefront of modern conversations about sex, says Sophie Lewis, one company is highlighting its importance in a unique way.
00:52:35.000Argentinian company Tulipan has created a consent condom that requires four hands to be opened, intending to raise awareness about consent in the bedroom.