Dems gain late, seriously late ground on Republicans. Everybody revs up for 2020. And we check the mailbag. Ben Shapiro on the latest breaking news coming out of the midterms, including the Florida recount, the Florida governor's race, and much, much more.
00:01:39.000But as the votes have been tallied, it looks more and more like a slow-moving blue wave.
00:01:45.000Just to be completely honest about the status of the election, the reality is that early on Tuesday night, there were a couple of races that surprised everybody.
00:01:52.000The Ohio governor's race, the Ron DeSantis race in Florida, the Rick Scott race in Florida.
00:01:56.000And because of those surprises, it sort of colored everybody's perception of what had happened in the election.
00:02:03.000It looked like Democrats would pick up 30, 31, maybe 34 seats at the outside.
00:02:08.000Now it's looking like by the end of this election, because the votes are still being tallied in some places like California, Democrats could have picked up as many as 40 seats, which is a wave, and that seats that looked like Republicans had won, including in Florida and Arizona, could still be up in the air.
00:02:23.000Right now, if you had to guess, you would suggest that Kyrsten Sinema, who is a radical leftist, Insane person is going to be the new senator from Arizona over Martha McSally, the first female Air Force pilot to fly in combat.
00:02:37.000So the Arizonans apparently picked Kristen Sinema, who in 2003 suggested that she should be okay with Americans joining the Taliban.
00:02:47.000Over Martha McSally, which means that that Republican margin, plus three in the Senate, goes down to plus two.
00:02:52.000Now it also seems that Rick Scott, Rick Scott in Florida, his race is now being upended by late vote counting.
00:02:59.000When I say late vote counting, I mean seriously late vote counting, because it turns out that Broward County is just a crap show.
00:03:05.000Broward County, of course, the site of the Parkland shooting, and it turns out that Broward law enforcement Well, it turns out that the Broward County electioneering officials, those guys are also terrible.
00:03:16.000The election officials also don't know what they are doing.
00:03:19.000Rick Scott has now filed a lawsuit against those election officials, according to Fox News.
00:03:24.000Accusing Democrats of conducting a coordinated effort to steal elections in a campaign of possible rampant fraud, Republican Senate candidate Rick Scott filed explosive lawsuits late Thursday against the top election officials in two heavily Democratic counties as they continue to report new votes and three major races in the state appear headed The official in question is named Brenda Snipes.
00:03:43.000The gubernatorial race also with Ron DeSantis and Andrew Gillum could be headed for a recount.
00:03:49.000Well, in Broward County, it turns out the officials in Broward County are refusing to even update folks on how many outstanding votes there are or how exactly they are being counted.
00:03:57.000The official in question is named Brenda Snipes.
00:04:00.000She is the person who is the supervisor.
00:04:03.000She and another woman named Susan Butcher.
00:04:05.000And Rick Scott says it has been over 48 hours since the polls closed and Broward and Palm Beach counties are still finding and counting ballots.
00:04:12.000And the supervisors, Brenda Snipes and Susan Butcher, cannot seem to say how many ballots still exist or where these ballots come from or where they have been.
00:04:19.000And so this looks like a blatant attempt to change the results of an election.
00:04:51.000Here's Brenda Snipes dodging questions about how many votes there actually are outstanding.
00:04:55.000Miss Snipes, can you talk to us at all?
00:04:58.000Can you talk, you can't speak to us this evening?
00:05:00.000Dr. Snipes, why did early voting take so long to count?
00:05:09.000Okay, now Snipes, if you say that I'm being a little bit too suspicious, it would be worth noting here that Brenda Snipes has been under serious scrutiny as well as she should have been for years because she has been, I think she was actually fired for incompetence under I think she was actually fired for incompetence under Jeb Bush.
00:05:30.000She is just, she's a terrible official.
00:05:33.000She's been a terrible official for a long time.
00:05:36.000In May 2018, she was under fire for gaffes.
00:05:39.000She vowed that the election would be safe from hackers, but she has a long history of stinking at her job.
00:05:44.000On May 11th, a circuit court judge ruled, this is of this year, Brenda Snipes broke federal and state law by too quickly destroying ballots from the August 2016 primaries, even though there was a pending lawsuit seeking access to those ballots.
00:06:32.000In 2016, the American Civil Rights Union sued Snipes for not doing enough to remove ineligible voters from the county rolls, increasing the potential for voter fraud.
00:06:42.000Snipes is just, she's a terrible official, she's been a terrible official for a long time.
00:06:46.000Rick Scott went after her on Sean Hannity's show, talked about it yesterday.
00:06:50.000Florida law says that all absentee early voting numbers must be reported within 30 minutes of the polls closing, correct?
00:07:02.000And those numbers have gone 71,000 votes.
00:07:06.000Sean, they've found 78,000 new votes since election day two days ago in Broward County and 15,000 more votes in Palm Beach.
00:07:16.000We don't know how many more votes they're going to come up with.
00:07:19.000And amazingly, as soon as people started making a fuss about this, including Senator Marco Rubio, suddenly Broward County stopped finding votes.
00:07:36.00043 hours after polls closed, two Democrat strongholds, Broward County and Palm Beach County, are still counting and refusing to disclose how many ballots they have left to count.
00:07:46.000That obviously is wildly inappropriate.
00:07:48.000A mandatory recount now appears imminent not only in Rick Scott race, but also in the Agricultural Commissioner contest and Florida's high-profile gubernatorial brawl between Democrat Andrew Gillum and Republican Ron DeSantis based on new vote totals, even though Gillum has already conceded.
00:08:02.000He says that he wants the recounts, although he is not unconceded.
00:08:06.000Scott says, we have no idea how many votes they're going to come up with, but they're going to try and keep counting until they win the election, basically.
00:08:11.000We're just going to keep finding votes.
00:08:15.000The National Republican Senatorial Committee specifically alleges that Snipes is in violation of the Florida Constitution and the Florida Public Records Act.
00:08:22.000It demands an emergency hearing as well as a court order requiring Snipes to turn over information about ballots in Broward County.
00:08:29.000Scott's complaints against Palm Beach County Supervisor of Election Susan Butcher, meanwhile, alleges first that officials there illegally refuse to allow Republicans or any witnesses to monitor the county's handling of damaged absentee ballots.
00:08:42.000According to Scott, the officials there failed to allow the Palm Beach County Canvassing Board to determine which damaged or improperly filled out absentee ballots were valid and how the voters of those ballots had intended to vote.
00:08:54.000Instead, Butcher and her staff simply did what we remember from 2000, where they were basically looking into their heart to determine how people voted.
00:09:02.000Well, if a Democrat looks into a Democrat's heart to determine how a possible Democrat voted, I think we can all determine what exactly that vote will look like.
00:09:10.000The lawsuit that Scott has filed against Butcher requires an injunction, demands an injunction requiring Butcher to make and compare duplicate copies of all damaged absentee ballots in the presence of Scott's representatives, which seems totally fair, and to allow the Palm Beach County Canvassing Board to determine voters' intent when counting those ballots.
00:09:26.000I mean, this is amazing, amazing stuff.
00:09:28.000Rubio has pointed to the slow drip of tens of thousands of additional ballots that were reported throughout the day Thursday, most of which were favorable to several Democratic candidates.
00:09:37.000Isn't it weird how every recount, every recount always seems to favor the Democrats?
00:09:43.000How every single recount, it's like across the country, it always seems to favor Democrats in counties where Democratic officials are in charge of the elections.
00:09:54.000So obviously, all of this should be deeply troubling to Republicans.
00:09:58.000With all of that said, it is pretty obvious that the 2018 message is that Republicans have a problem.
00:10:05.000If Rick Scott loses that seat in Florida, that means the Republicans end up with a net gain of just one in the Senate, leaving them with 52 senators.
00:10:12.000Which would be a serious, serious, serious problem.
00:10:16.000If they end up with 52 senators, that is not enough to provide a bulwark against the 2020 senatorial elections, in which case the Democrats could theoretically sweep all three chambers of Congress.
00:10:28.000The House, the Senate, the Presidency.
00:10:30.000They could sweep all of them in 2020 if Republicans don't have enough of a buffer zone.
00:10:35.000And this does lead us to have to recapitulate some of our analysis about the 2018 election, about the midterms.
00:10:41.000Because the sort of comfortable analysis was that it had not been a wave, that Democrats had not scored wins across the board, people like Beto O'Rourke.
00:10:52.000The Republicans don't really have as much of a problem as people are suggesting because they retained the governor's house in Ohio as well as in Florida.
00:10:59.000But if it turns out that by the end of all of this Democrats won more seats than they did in 2006, and they were able to only hold the Republican wins to plus one, and they were able to take a couple of formerly Republican seats in the Senate, In Nevada and in Arizona?
00:11:17.000That it should be a wake-up call to Republicans.
00:11:19.000Will it be a wake-up call to Republicans?
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00:13:03.000Probably not, because everyone has sort of Locked into their narrative about what American politics is right now.
00:13:09.000The right has locked into the narrative that President Trump is a magical, magical man who can simply conjure victory out of the jaws of defeat, thanks to 2016.
00:13:16.000And so it doesn't matter what the data says.
00:13:18.000It doesn't even matter what the elections say.
00:13:20.000All that matters is that we rely on President Trump to save us.
00:13:23.000I don't think that President Trump would want you to rely on President Trump to save us.
00:13:26.000I think the fact is that if Republicans want to win, they're going to have to shift strategy.
00:13:30.000That doesn't mean shift policy, but it does mean That Martha McSally would have won that seat in Arizona, in all likelihood, if it had not been for President Trump demagoguing immigration in the last three weeks of the campaign.
00:13:42.000The Republican losses in the House would have been mitigated if President Trump hadn't made himself unpalatable in suburban Republican districts like the Georgia 6th.
00:13:49.000These are actual problems for Republicans, and if they fail to recognize these as actual problems because they're too ensconced in the magical thinking that President Trump can suddenly conjure victory out of defeat out of thin air, they're likely to feel the effects of that.
00:14:06.000And where you're really seeing this is with regard to young people.
00:14:09.000I've been warning about this on this program for literally years.
00:14:12.000We have the largest young audience of conservatives and probably non-conservatives who listen to conservative shows in America.
00:14:21.000We have literally hundreds of thousands of young people who listen to this show every single day.
00:14:24.00070% of our audience is under the age of 35.
00:14:28.000With all of that said, I talk to young people probably more than anybody else in the conservative movement.
00:14:33.000Young people do not like President Trump.
00:14:35.000Young people are off-put by his antics.
00:14:37.000Young people are forming a larger and larger percentage of the electorate.
00:14:41.000And that is a serious problem for Republicans.
00:15:02.000Forty eight percent voted for Ted Cruz.
00:15:04.000Among those who moved to Texas, only 42 percent voted for Beto O'Rourke.
00:15:10.000Fifty seven percent voted for Ted Cruz.
00:15:11.000This is sort of counterintuitive, isn't it?
00:15:15.000You would have thought that it is all of the outsiders coming from LA and San Francisco and blue areas around the country moving to Texas that are turning the state purple.
00:15:37.000The people who are born in Texas, namely the younger contingent, those people, those people are voting for Beto O'Rourke.
00:15:43.000There is a generational problem for Republicans here, and that is a generational problem that is only going to grow if they don't look reality in the face.
00:15:51.000So in a second, we'll talk about how Democrats could still blow this because there is that possibility.
00:15:58.000Republicans can blow this by ignoring the problem that's looking them right in the face, namely a generational shift in which a lot of Americans do not like President Trump and they think that Republicans are character free.
00:16:08.000It's a serious problem for Republicans.
00:16:09.000If they fail to recognize this, they're going to keep getting shellacked.
00:16:12.000By the same token, Folks on the left who are suggesting that they can win simply by calling Republicans racist, that is not true either.
00:16:21.000Whichever party realizes first that the battle is in suburbia is going to win the 2020 election and will have a shot at consolidating gains in the other chambers of Congress.
00:16:30.000If Republicans realize they need to make some outreach efforts toward the suburbs, they'll be okay.
00:16:47.000Now, here's where there could be a theoretical silver lining to what is happening in Arizona, where again, I'm devastated that Martha McSally is probably going to lose to Kristen Sinema.
00:16:57.000The silver lining there is that maybe it'll be a wake-up call to Republicans that they can't just bank on the magic.
00:17:03.000And maybe it'll be deceptive Democrats who believe they can run candidates like Kyrsten Sinema all across the country and somehow pull out victory.
00:17:10.000Now, if Democrats were smart, looking forward to 2020, Democrats would be looking to candidates who are more moderate in orientation.
00:17:17.000They would be looking, for example, to theoretically Joe Biden, right, because he has sort of a blue-collar appeal and is considered more moderate, even though he's not politically moderate.
00:17:25.000They would be looking at folks like Amy Klobuchar over in Minnesota, the only Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee who acquitted herself at all well during the Kavanaugh hearings and who just won a blowout election in Minnesota, which is a hotly contested state.
00:17:38.000Klobuchar would be a pretty good 2020 candidate for Democrats.
00:17:41.000In all likelihood, they are going to be deceived by the fool's goal that is progressive victory.
00:17:46.000They think that if they run a serious progressive, then they are going to win again, simply by shouting about how mean President Trump is.
00:17:51.000That's why there is still a lot of focus on Beto O'Rourke.
00:17:54.000It turns out that Democrats are trying to push Beto O'Rourke for the national spotlight, even though he lost in the state of Texas.
00:18:02.000And remember, Trump wasn't on the ballot in Texas, okay?
00:18:04.000If Trump had been on the ballot versus Beto O'Rourke, that is not a 51-48 election.
00:18:10.000In any case, CNN reports that Beto O'Rourke's closer-than-expected loss Tuesday has fueled optimism among his friends and allies, as well as Democratic admirers around the country, that he will run for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
00:18:22.000O'Rourke smashed online fundraising records, and he huddled with senior campaign aides Wednesday in El Paso, offered them no indication of future political plans.
00:18:30.000But there have been very initial discussions with O'Rourke in recent weeks about the prospect of a 2020 bid.
00:18:35.000This is the one area where Democrats did come up short.
00:18:37.000They don't have a national candidate in 2020.
00:18:39.000They were hoping O'Rourke would win in Texas, and then he'd be the de facto frontrunner in 2020.
00:18:49.000So, they've been left a little bit leaderless at the top, but that is not necessarily a problem for them if they select somebody who actually is moderate.
00:18:57.000Chances are, however, that they will not.
00:18:58.000That they are going to double down on simple hatred of Trump as the only talking point for getting rid of Trump.
00:19:04.000Now, the thing about that is that it's effective where it's effective.
00:19:08.000Dislike for President Trump was very effective in the suburbs because Trump makes himself disliked.
00:19:14.000And you can see Democrats are already trotting out their talking points for 2020 on this score.
00:19:18.000Michelle Obama, for example, has a new book out in which she savages President Trump.
00:19:23.000She says in her new book that Donald Trump sends the message, I can hurt you and get away with it.
00:19:28.000There's been some kind of soft patter about Michelle Obama running for president herself in 2020.
00:19:33.000Truth be told, she'd be a very dangerous candidate.
00:19:35.000The AP reports that Michelle Obama denounced Trump for bragging in 2005 on the infamous Hollywood tape about sexually assaulting women, and she accuses him of using body language to stalk Hillary Clinton during an election debate.
00:19:47.000And she writes of Trump following Clinton around the stage, trying to diminish her presence.
00:19:51.000Trump's message, according to Obama, in words which appear in the book in darkened print, I can hurt you and get away with it.
00:19:58.000So this is going to be the pitch for Democrats come 2020.
00:20:01.000Now, the way to cut back against all of that, obviously, is for President Trump to not feel particularly threatening, for him to be aggressive where he needs to be aggressive, but to be less than aggressive where he does not need to be aggressive.
00:20:11.000Unfortunately, the president's aggressive streak is not confined to areas in which it helps him.
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00:21:36.000Okay, so President Trump is making himself more polarizing, not less polarizing.
00:21:41.000He did this in the lead up to the election and he is now doing it in the aftermath of the election.
00:21:45.000He's obviously irritated with the press.
00:21:47.000There's been some fallout from his willingness to go after Jim Acosta.
00:21:52.000Now, as I said yesterday on the show, Jim Acosta is a schmuck.
00:21:56.000No, find you somebody who loves you, like Jim Acosta loves Jim Acosta.
00:21:59.000Like Jim Acosta, while maintaining that his First Amendment rights have been deeply violated, he's flown to Paris to cover the White House.
00:22:06.000So he's like taking selfies outside the Eiffel Tower.
00:23:01.000Yes, and Trump obviously has about had it with the questions he's getting from the press.
00:23:05.000That is not the same thing, by the way, as him being a person cracking down on the First Amendment or we're in the throes of fascism or something.
00:23:13.000It's not that stupid a question, honestly.
00:23:15.000Like, people are wondering whether Attorney General, Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker is going to crack down on Mueller.
00:23:24.000With that said, that's the natural consequence of firing Jeff Sessions, who had recused himself from the Russia probe, where Whitaker will not.
00:24:57.000The only question is whether it is effective.
00:25:00.000True and effective are not necessarily the same thing.
00:25:01.000That doesn't mean lie, but it does mean that sometimes you don't say everything that comes through your head, because it provides fodder for the other side.
00:25:11.000Now, to be fair, the Democrats are obviously being dishonest about everything that is going on with the Mueller probe.
00:25:16.000The Mueller probe is moving forth with speed.
00:25:18.000They're going to issue a report probably in the near future.
00:25:21.000That's not stopping the Democrats from claiming that Trump is trying to quash the Mueller probe.
00:25:24.000That's because, originally, their claim was that the Mueller probe was going to uncover terrible wrongdoing between the Trump campaign and the Russians.
00:25:31.000As hopes of that have faded, it has moved into, well, maybe the Mueller probe will uncover obstruction.
00:25:36.000Maybe what they'll uncover is President Trump trying to stop a full investigation.
00:25:40.000As those hopes faded, it turned into, well, maybe Trump will try to obstruct the Mueller investigation, and then we can get him for obstruction of the investigation of his obstruction into a collusion that did not occur.
00:25:53.000Now, Nancy Pelosi tried to make that case.
00:25:55.000She says that President Trump fired Jeff Sessions to interfere with Robert Mueller.
00:25:59.000Well, I think the latter is the primary purpose, is to interfere with the Mueller purpose.
00:26:04.000The timing of the Mueller investigation, the timing of it was, of course, to distract from the big defeat that the President suffered in terms of our taking the House.
00:26:15.000Okay, so she says that she thinks that the president is apparently going to interfere with Mueller.
00:26:20.000Again, this is a pipe dream for Democrats, but... And it is a lie.
00:26:23.000There has been not a... Seriously, there is no evidence whatsoever, none, that President Trump has somehow hamstrung the Mueller investigation.
00:26:43.000That's not stopping the Democrats from jumping on this bandwagon, though.
00:26:46.000Richard Blumenthal, who's just terrible, the senator from Connecticut, he says that democracy is under attack because Jeff Sessions was fired.
00:26:53.000Now, I do love that the same Democrats who say that Jeff Sessions is evil That Jeff Sessions is a neo-confederate?
00:26:59.000These same Democrats are very, very upset that Jeff Sessions would be fired by President Trump.
00:27:04.000Here's Richard Blumenthal, who like five minutes ago was ripping on Sessions, now ripping on Trump for firing Sessions.
00:27:10.000It is a break-the-glass moment, an attack on our democracy, and it should precipitate exactly the kind of firestorm that we saw in the wake of the Saturday Night Massacre under Richard Nixon.
00:27:22.000It is, in effect, a slow-motion Saturday Night Massacre.
00:27:26.000The Saturday Night Massacre was a deliberate and open attempt to fire the special prosecutor in the case.
00:27:32.000A Saturday Night Massacre here would be Trump firing Mueller.
00:27:35.000That would be a Saturday Night Massacre.
00:27:36.000Him firing Jeff Sessions is not a Saturday Night Massacre.
00:27:39.000And unless you can come up with any evidence to the contrary, you're just fibbing.
00:27:42.000The funniest part of this is, I do love this, thousands of protesters showed up on the streets in New York City, and it's like they have nothing better to do in New York.
00:27:49.000And I don't know what they do at night.
00:27:51.000It seems like there's a good nightlife in New York, right?
00:27:54.000Madison Square Garden still has Knicks games.
00:27:56.000There are things happening in New York, but apparently, Not so much, because if you drop a hat in New York, people will gather and protest.
00:28:04.000Last night, I kid you not, they were actually protesting against the firing of Jeff Sessions, a man they despise.
00:28:11.000All President Trump really has to do to gain their love is President Trump has to fire President Trump.
00:28:17.000Democrats will turn him into a hero, and then President Trump will be able to run against President Trump in 2020 on the Democratic ticket, and he will win.
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00:31:53.000Gonna be talking about all of the Democratic plans for 2020.
00:31:58.000And why their intersectional strategy that was sort of started on college campuses around the nation has now infected the Democratic Party at an extraordinarily deep level and is tearing the country apart from sea to shining sea.
00:32:10.000How the social fabric is fraying because of the intersectional strategy pursued by the left.
00:32:14.000How that's drawing a reactionary response from the right.
00:32:16.000We're going to talk about all those things over at Ohio State University.
00:32:19.000On Tuesday, I'm sure there will be protesters, because there always are.
00:32:24.000It's a massive university, obviously, with a tremendous population, and we're going to be in a battleground state, so it should be a blast.
00:32:39.000Well, we are the largest, fastest-growing conservative podcast in the nation.
00:32:42.000Now, just before we get to the mailbag, I do want to make one note.
00:32:51.000There is a hot topic out there right now about whether, in fact, there is a reason that the current acting AG, Matt Whitaker, should not be allowed to be the acting AG.
00:33:08.000A lawyer named John Yoo, who served under the Bush administration.
00:33:11.000There's another lawyer named George Conway, who of course is the husband of Kellyanne Conway.
00:33:15.000They have read, they've written a piece for the Washington Post, in which they talk about Matt Whitaker not having been subjected to confirmation by the Senate, and so him taking a position for which he has not been confirmed is probably illegal.
00:33:29.000John Yoo says, quote, the Constitution says that principal officers must go through appointment with the advice and consent of the Senate.
00:33:36.000In Morrison v Olson, the Supreme Court made clear that the Attorney General is a principal officer.
00:33:40.000Therefore, Whitaker cannot serve as acting AG despite the Vacancies Act, which does provide for him to be acting AG.
00:33:46.000The statute is unconstitutional when applied in this way.
00:33:48.000The reason that it was okay for, for example, the, the after, uh, after Well, originally, there have been a couple of cases where acting AGs have taken over, obviously.
00:34:00.000But those cases in which acting AGs took over, they had already been confirmed by the Senate in a different capacity.
00:34:05.000That has not actually happened with Matt Whitaker.
00:34:07.000So this is an actual serious, it's an actual serious issue.
00:34:11.000Does it really mean anything for the long haul, though?
00:34:13.000Because the president does have a majority in the Senate, which means that he is going to get his AG pick.
00:34:17.000There's been a lot of talk about Chris Christie, which will just be a blast.
00:35:25.000I should come up with a list of sort of classical-friendly pieces.
00:35:28.000Honestly, another great way, if they watch TV, is the old cartoons have a lot of classical music.
00:35:32.000We played one, or a couple of them last week, in which, like, there's a Tom and Jerry cartoon that has Liszt.
00:35:37.000There's a Bugs Bunny cartoon that has Rossini.
00:35:40.000There are a bunch of different old cartoons that have classical music, because they're a little too young to watch Amadeus.
00:35:45.000Melanie says, Yeah, I do think that it is driving people toward a more polarized view of their neighbors, and that makes them more susceptible to racism on both left and right.
00:36:04.000So I think that what you're seeing is, on the left, openly racist talk about, for example, the shortcomings of white women.
00:36:11.000Which has become an actual talking point on the left.
00:36:13.000And on the right, what you're seeing is a bunch of folks who are responding to the intersectionality of left by saying, well, why can't we have an identity politics of our own?
00:36:20.000And there are black folks who say we need to vote like black folks.
00:36:23.000And there are brown folks who say we need to vote like brown folks.
00:36:25.000Well, why can't we say we need to vote like white folks?
00:37:14.000So those would be the two who are most likely to have health problems, just based on age.
00:37:18.000I think that President Trump, if he's lucky, will get one more, and that may be Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but she's going to hold on by the skin of her teeth because she doesn't want to be replaced by a Republican, obviously.
00:37:29.000Do you think the left will ever be successful in getting rid of the Electoral College?
00:37:32.000What do you think is the best argument in favor of the Electoral College?
00:37:34.000Well, the best argument in favor of the Electoral College is that it doesn't allow urban areas to completely dominate rural areas in the same way that the Senate of the United States doesn't allow urban areas to completely dominate rural areas of the country.
00:37:45.000And the Constitution was, in fact, a pact between the states as well as of the people more broadly, as we've explained in our Federalist paper series, uh, So the states are never going to approve of this, okay?
00:37:56.000Because in order for there to be an amendment to the Constitution getting rid of the Electoral College, you need two-thirds of states to approve.
00:38:02.000If you think that states like Montana are going to approve of California simply being able to outvote the rest of the country based on population, not a thing that is going to happen.
00:38:14.000I'm not sure there's ever a way to prevent mass shootings.
00:38:16.000Even in heavily gun-controlled countries where basically there's been gun confiscation, mass shootings are still present.
00:38:37.000In fact, I've been urging some friends over at the NRA to start a fund to help not only protect schools, but also protect churches, synagogues, mosques from the possibility of mass shooting.
00:38:49.000Well, my favorite place to vacation is Hawaii, just because everybody speaks English, so I don't actually have to work to try and communicate with the locals.
00:39:01.000It has American standards of living, so you don't actually have to worry about the water, for example.
00:39:31.000When I actually have time, right, when my wife and I retire in, what is it now, 35 years, then...
00:39:38.000Then I guess that we'll probably be doing a fair bit of traveling because we really do like traveling together, obviously.
00:39:43.000But there are so many great places to visit, and I feel like I'm not well-traveled enough.
00:39:46.000Joe says, Well, the first thing you have to do is you have to come up with an actual chapter-by-chapter outline and figure out what you're going to say within each chapter, including subsections within each chapter.
00:40:06.000I know that I've talked to Andrew Klavan, my friend and colleague here over at The Daily Wire about this.
00:40:10.000He writes fiction for a living and he spends an awful lot of time outlining, creating character profiles, really trying to map everything out in advance that by the time you sit down, it's really about execution and not about necessarily just going wherever the story takes you.
00:40:24.000I think that's true in nonfiction too.
00:40:26.000You should be trying to map out what you think before you actually start putting pen to paper.
00:40:30.000And then when you get good enough, when you've done it enough times, then your brain sort of starts structuring things automatically like that before you even sit down.
00:40:37.000Dan says, I'm currently a college student at St.
00:41:36.000And what I said to all the congressional staffers is that they have a harder job than I do.
00:41:39.000My job is to come here and tell you what I think on a pure intellectual and philosophical level, and tell you where particular policies stray from that purity.
00:41:48.000The job of a lot of folks in Congress is to try and get the best deal they can in line with that philosophy.
00:41:53.000Well, making a deal always means straying from that philosophy a little bit.
00:41:55.000The best thing that you can do to keep your soul is to recognize where you are straying from your core ideology and core philosophy, be honest about it, say, yeah, I'm getting the best deal that I can, but I understand this isn't the best deal that is necessarily possible in the greatest of all possible worlds where I control everything.
00:42:11.000Now, understanding where you stray and not making excuses for that straying, but simply saying, listen, things have to get done.
00:42:16.000It's a much more practical and a much more honest way of doing politics than simply saying this is the best deal that ever was.
00:42:43.000The flu shot is one of the less effective shots.
00:42:46.000In the United States, simply because it only controls for one strain of the virus, and they sort of bet on what they think is going to be the most prominent virus, and then other flus go around.
00:42:55.000Now, there is serious danger in people not getting flu shots, because it turns out that sometimes, in many cases, the government is right in the flu shot that they determine is going to be the most necessary.
00:43:06.000And the number of people who have been dying of the flu on a year-over-year basis has been increasing.
00:43:10.000Specifically because people are not getting flu shots.
00:43:12.000So I'm very much in favor of vaccines generally.
00:43:15.000I'm very much in favor of the flu vaccine.
00:43:18.000But recognize the flu vaccine is not a cure-all because it is not actually a flu shot.
00:43:21.000It is a particular strain of the flu shot.
00:43:23.000William says, Well, I think that's probably true that Ohio is moving in the direction of a non-swing state.
00:43:37.000That is because Ohio has a heavy rural population and because a lot of the people who'd be heading to urban populations are actually heading out of state in Ohio.
00:43:44.000Ohio's an interesting state because the population in some ways is getting more rural.
00:43:49.000Fewer people, on average, are going to college in Ohio than are going to college in other surrounding states.
00:43:55.000And education tends to correlate highly with voting Democrat because you go to college, you tend toward the left, and then you move to a big city.
00:44:01.000Well, Ohio seems to be moving in many areas in the opposite direction.
00:44:06.000Well, Ohio is indeed trending red in a pretty significant way, just as Indiana is trending red, just as Missouri is trending red.
00:44:12.000There are a bunch of states that are trending red.
00:44:13.000Nobody's talking about that because everybody is focusing on the states that are trending blue because they're more populous.
00:44:18.000Antonio says, Does this mean Trump is posturing for the firing of Robert Mueller?
00:44:24.000If so, do you stand by your statement on the Bill Maher show that if he quashes the Mueller investigation, impeachment should be on the table?
00:44:29.000I know Nancy Pelosi has made a strong indication the course of action isn't in the best interest of her party.
00:44:33.000You still see impeachment as a real threat for Trump.
00:44:37.000I mean, I've always said that if he quashes the Mueller investigation, then he is obviously attempting to shield himself.
00:44:43.000What he should be doing is allowing the Mueller investigation to go forward and then he can fight back against it.
00:44:48.000Now, those of us who are intellectually honest are willing to defend the president when we think that he is being unfairly maligned and targeted.
00:44:55.000I think that the Mueller investigation will come up with far less than the Democrats think.
00:44:59.000I've been as honest as I can be on the Mueller investigation.
00:45:01.000When I think that there is evidence that the Trump campaign did things wrong, like the Trump Tower meeting with Don Jr., I've said so.
00:45:08.000And when I think the Democrats are overplaying their hand by suggesting collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians that took place and affected the election, I've said that too.
00:45:17.000So, I don't think President Trump is going to quash the Mueller investigation.
00:45:20.000I've heard nothing like that from anyone in the White House, and I know a fair number of folks in the White House.
00:45:25.000So, you know, I think the media are getting their skirts in a bunch over all of this, but I don't think that that's actually the reality of what's going on here.
00:45:33.000Okay, time for a quick thing I like, and then a quick thing I hate, and then we'll get out of here for the weekend.
00:45:37.000At long last, my goodness, this week has been 87 years.
00:46:20.000Now, I don't have the skill set that Drew Brees does.
00:46:24.000So my version of kids running around in circles has taken two forms in recent weeks.
00:46:27.000Form number one is that I lie down on the floor with my head on a pillow and then my kids run around our large den in a giant circle and take turns jumping on my stomach.
00:46:37.000Uh, and this is both dangerous and apparently highly rewarding for them.
00:47:31.000And she, and so what we do is I put my son on my shoulders and then I chase her around the room and then I take him and I throw him onto the mattress stack and then I take her and I put her on my shoulders and run around the room.
00:47:42.000And this tires me out and them out, me more than them.
00:47:45.000But the good news is that this is pretty, you can see these kids are in their PJs with Drew Brees.
00:47:51.000You tire your kids out by running them around in a circle as fast as humanly possible until they collapse in exhaustion, and then you throw them in bed as fast as possible.
00:47:58.000Okay, so, you know, a little unwarranted parenting advice and unsolicited parenting advice for you there.
00:48:10.000So great moral voice, Snoop Dogg, went to the White House.
00:48:13.000Now, I will remind you that Snoop Dogg actually was inside the White House with President Trump, then went on national TV and bragged about smoking pot inside the White House because, as we all know, President Obama was a man of deep personal dignity and conviction when it came to the honor of the White House.
00:48:28.000So now, Snoop Dogg has been relegated to the lawn outside the White House.
00:48:32.000And so here is Snoop Dogg standing around outside the White House, smoking a blunt, and saying, F the President.
00:48:39.000So I'm glad that, this is why it's so astonishing.
00:48:42.000People are like, oh, Trump, he has these celebrities to the White House.
00:48:44.000You know, he has people like Sarah Palin to the White House, people who said terrible things about President Obama.
00:48:49.000Snoop Dogg went to the White House while Barack Obama was there and smoked pot in the White House and bragged about it nationally.
00:48:56.000And now he's out front of the White House doing the same thing.