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00:01:28.000Well, as the battle over abortion law in Georgia heats up, it is amazing to watch as many on the left have shifted their perspective on abortion itself.
00:01:37.000They've moved away from the 1990s formulation, safe, legal, and rare, toward a new formulation, good, plentiful, and happy.
00:01:46.000And the idea here is that abortion is, in fact, a moral good.
00:01:49.000In fact, there's an article in The New Yorker today that is titled, Abortion is Morally Good.
00:02:19.000unborn quote, weigh the suffering of women against the prospective life of the fetus and favor the fetus in the end.
00:02:25.000Well, that's true, but why would that make abortion morally good?
00:02:30.000Well, writes this writer, I've never needed an abortion, but I've been in an abusive relationship and I think still of all the ways it could have been worse for me.
00:02:36.000I could have gotten pregnant and I think that would have killed me.
00:02:41.000You weren't in the relationship, were you not?
00:02:44.000And your creation of a new human life would not, the killing of that life would not be justified by the fact that you made a choice to be in a bad relationship.
00:02:52.000This writer says, What's amazing is that this woman admits she was in an abusive relationship, but she's very angry at the Christian university that is trying to uphold the standard that says you should not be in abusive relationships.
00:03:08.000It's just, I was suicidally depressed.
00:03:10.000When I look back at myself across the valley of a decade, I'm still surprised to be alive.
00:03:14.000I think of the people I knew then and how so many of them would have told me to carry a baby to term, even if it destroyed me.
00:03:21.000I mean, I think that a lot of people would have suggested that you should carry the baby to term because, again, the life of the baby Means something here.
00:03:29.000And if you were going to commit suicide, right, if you were actually suicidal, then the vast majority of people who are pro-life would suggest that that is a case in which the mother's life is in danger.
00:03:37.000Just pregnancy would have been a punishment, not a miracle.
00:03:39.000Nothing I lived through will convince an Alabama Republican to change his mind.
00:03:42.000To them, nothing I've done in my 31 years on earth, none of my accomplishments, none of my happiness, elevates my worth above that of an embryo.
00:03:50.000Your worth As a human being, as if in your life were being endangered versus that of the embryo, your life would take precedence.
00:03:57.000But your worth, your feelings, your accomplishments, your subjective feeling of happiness, yes, that does not take precedence over a human life.
00:04:08.000But she says abortion is a moral good.
00:04:10.000And unfortunately, this is a line that has been picked up by the left.
00:04:14.000And if it's such a mistake by the left, honestly, like as a matter of politics, it's a mistake.
00:04:19.000Safe, legal and rare was a formulation that at least most Americans could feel OK about.
00:04:25.000I mean, pro-life Americans were going to oppose it anyway, but people who are on the fence could at least feel like, yeah, abortion, it's not great, but I still want it to be there.
00:04:34.000It at least made them feel a little bit more sanguine about legalizing abortion because the suggestion was that no one would take abortion so frivolously as to simply have an abortion out of convenience.
00:04:47.000And thus, because people were weighing abortion as a moral quandary, then their final decision shouldn't be left up to the state, it should be left up to them.
00:04:54.000Now, I think that's wrong, obviously, but that argument has at least a little bit more moral tether to it than the argument that is being made now.
00:05:02.000The argument being made now by the radical left is that abortion is fundamentally good.
00:05:06.000That depriving people of abortion is depriving them not only of a right, but of something that benefits them and has no consequences, has no downside.
00:05:14.000Now, the truth is that this is a line that's been pushed by radical feminists for a very long time.
00:05:18.000Gloria Allred was speaking at a rally yesterday in New York City.
00:05:23.000And she described pre-Roe America as women's Vietnam, which is an unbelievable statement.
00:05:29.000I mean, it's an unbelievable statement.
00:05:31.000Tens of thousands of Americans died in Vietnam.
00:05:33.000Hundreds of thousands of Americans were wounded in Vietnam.
00:05:37.000How in the world was saying that women should bear children in their body?
00:05:42.000How is that exactly a Vietnam-like situation?
00:05:46.000Here's Gloria Allred making that radical argument.
00:05:49.000The victims are the women and the girls who have to get a back alley abortion and who are going to be left to die.
00:06:22.000The lie that tens of thousands of women were dying in back alley abortions, it is in fact a lie.
00:06:27.000There are CDC statistics that exist from that time period, and they were suggesting the number of women who were dying in illegal abortions, it was in the hundreds at most, not the tens of thousands.
00:06:37.000And even so, the fact is that any law is going to have consequences for people who break the law, and attempting to violate that law is going to be more difficult and more dangerous than if the law did not exist in the first place.
00:06:48.000I also want to point out here that an argument that is constantly made by feminists is that abortion, legalizing abortion, is what allowed women to live productive, healthy lives and be part of the workforce in all of this.
00:06:58.000This is a chart from the government, it's from the Department of Labor, and it shows the civilian labor force in the United States by sex.
00:07:05.000The second half of the chart, if you can see it, shows the share of the civilian labor force by sex.
00:07:12.000And what you see here is that that green line on the bottom chart is the share of the female workforce.
00:07:19.000Okay, so what percentage of the workforce is female?
00:07:21.000And what you see is that in 1960, there's about 25% and then it rises continuously and steadily.
00:07:29.000It rises continuously and steadily until about 1980, and then it ceases to grow, and women represent slightly, slightly under 50% of the workforce as of right now.
00:07:41.000Basically, women have achieved near parity with men in terms of the workforce.
00:07:45.000By the way, the male share of the workforce has been declining steadily since 1950.
00:07:49.000What you do not see here is a massive escalation in females in the workforce circa 1973, 1975, with the legalization of abortion.
00:07:57.000In fact, you see that the rate of women in the workforce begins to slow after that point.
00:08:01.000So the notion that it was abortion that allowed women to get out of the house and go get a job, it's just not true.
00:08:10.000Now, abortion may mean that some women are able to not have to support a baby while going to work.
00:08:18.000But that does not change the overall impact of abortion law, which has not been to stymie women from getting into the workforce.
00:08:26.000Obviously, this chart demonstrates that full scale.
00:08:29.000Nonetheless, the argument again is being made by the left that abortion is not just something that is an unfortunate part of life, which is an argument that the left used to make, now it is an affirmative good.
00:08:40.000It is something that is affirmatively good, and we can judge you morally based on how you feel about abortion.
00:08:45.000If you are willing to say that a woman should be able to kill a baby in her womb at any time, this means that you are properly woke and properly feminist.
00:08:53.000Eric Swalwell, who's running a bizarre campaign for the presidency, In which, I guess he needs to keep the support of his immediate family in this race.
00:09:01.000Maybe his wife, I believe, is his only voter.
00:09:03.000Eric Swalwell, he was speaking at a pro-abortion rally outside the Supreme Court.
00:09:08.000And I'm not going to say it's pro-choice, because this is legitimately pro-abortion.
00:09:11.000I mean, these are people who are saying that abortion is a moral good.
00:09:20.000Here's Eric Swalwell saying that, sure, he has kids, but if his wife had decided to kill his kids in the womb, well, he would have had no say about that.
00:09:26.000I am a proud male feminist, and I am proud to be here with you tomorrow's day.
00:09:33.000My wife, Brittany, also wants you to know we've got two beautiful children, Nelson and Cricket.
00:09:42.000But the decision to have children was her choice.
00:10:03.000That he has two beautiful children with his wife, but if she had decided to kill those babies in the womb, well then, that would have been fine with him because he is a male feminist.
00:10:10.000Can you imagine him telling that to his kids?
00:10:13.000He has a daughter, I think, and he mentions her there.
00:10:17.000Does he think that that is going to make her proud to be a feminist?
00:10:20.000He's like, yeah, you know, honey, I hope that you have beautiful dreams.
00:10:24.000Also, if your mother had murdered you in the womb, that would have been her choice.
00:10:31.000Jackie Spier, who's a Congresswoman from California, Democrat, she got up at that exact same rally and she bragged about having an abortion and the crowd cheered her.
00:11:42.000But if this is the moral conflict the Democrats choose, that it's not merely that abortion is an unfortunate choice some people have to make, but it's an affirmative good, I think the vast majority of Americans are not interested in this particular version of morality.
00:11:56.000We'll get to more of this in just a second.
00:11:58.000Again, these are mainstream Democratic figures, and I'll show you some more mainstream Democratic figures doing the same thing and saying that you should pay for abortion, by the way.
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00:13:22.000All righty, so Mazie Hirono, the senator from Hawaii, very much following in Jackie Spire's footsteps.
00:13:29.000She is speaking at the same insane rally outside the Supreme Court, and she's bragging about the fact that she told eighth graders, meaning 11-year-old girls, that their abortion rights were under attack.
00:13:38.000Pre-pubescent girls, she is telling that it is deeply important that they be able to have an abortion if a child is conceived with someone that they are having sex with.
00:13:49.000They should be able to kill that child.
00:13:51.000Maisie Hirono is bragging about that to 8th grade girls.
00:13:54.000I told them I was coming to a rally in front of the Supreme Court and they said, why?
00:14:00.000And I told them I was coming to a rally in front of the Supreme Court.
00:14:13.000And I asked the girls in that group of eight graders, how many of you - Do girls think the government should be telling us, women, when and if we want to have babies, not a single one of them raise their hand. - Okay, it's just, it's amazing.
00:14:35.000Now, Joe Biden is, as a guy running for president, trying to shake his non-woke credentials.
00:14:41.000The fact is that Joe Biden has held a series of positions over the years that are not in line with the radical segments of his base, which for the money is the reason why he is a front runner in the Democratic nomination process right now.
00:14:54.000Joe Biden is only a frontrunner right now because he appears moderate.
00:14:57.000And people in the Democratic Party are looking at Biden.
00:14:59.000They're saying, what if we just ran a moderate who doesn't look completely crazy against Donald Trump to win?
00:15:07.000And that's a plurality of the Democratic base by leaps and bounds.
00:15:11.000And yet Biden, in an effort to stave off opposition from his radical left compatriots, he is now shifting on positions that he has held for years.
00:15:18.000So for years, Joe Biden said that he was against public funding for abortion.
00:15:21.000He was in favor of the so-called Hyde Amendment that banned public funding for abortions.
00:15:24.000If you want to have an abortion, that would be a you issue.
00:15:28.000Then we'll show you Joe Biden reversing himself in the last 48 hours.
00:15:32.000Are you still opposed to public funding for abortion?
00:15:34.000I still am opposed to public funding for abortion, and the reason I am is, again, it goes to the question of whether or not you are going to impose a view to support something that is not a guaranteed right, but an affirmative action to promote.
00:15:49.000OK, again, this is Joe Biden's old position.
00:15:51.000Then he was asked specifically by the ACLU whether as president he would lift the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal insurance coverage of abortion.
00:16:00.000And then he came out with a video talking about how wonderful Roe versus Wade is and how it is imperative that Roe v. Wade be enshrined in law forever.
00:16:21.000And what this is all about is trying to get an appeal to the Supreme Court in the hope that the conservative justice the president has in fact put on the court, two of them, will vote to overrule the Roe v. Wade, the law of the land.
00:17:06.000So this is the new Democratic Party position on this thing.
00:17:08.000What would you say to taxpayers out there who say, look, I support everyone having their own freedoms, but that when it comes to my tax dollars, abortion isn't something that I want to support?
00:17:17.000I do not believe that that is a valid argument.
00:17:19.000I think that the Hyde Amendment should be repealed and that we actually need to make sure that women, regardless of their income level, have a basic right to reproductive care.
00:17:29.000It's about our humanity and it's about our basic civil rights.
00:17:32.000And so I will work I mean, this is an amazing move by the Democratic Party.
00:17:49.000They used to understand that the best solution for the Democratic Party was some level of moderation on this particular issue.
00:18:16.000This is not us finding nuts in the Democratic Party saying crazy things.
00:18:19.000These are all mainstream elected members of the Democratic Party saying this stuff.
00:18:24.000But our generation now can't simply lay back and luxuriate in the blessings of their struggles.
00:18:32.000Because freedom, liberty, and democracy must be re-earned in every generation.
00:18:39.000And the only way to secure them is with sacrifice and struggle.
00:18:44.000We have work to do so that we codify Roe v. Wade as the law of the land.
00:18:53.000We have work to do until we get rid of the Hyde Amendment once and for all!
00:18:59.000Yeah, public taxpayer funding of abortion!
00:19:01.000I love that he describes the killing of the unborn, that he describes snuffing out human life as luxuriating in the blessings of other's struggle.
00:19:10.000I'm glad you get to... I mean, that is the definition of abortion, is that you are luxuriating in the blessings of the struggle of the unborn.
00:19:19.000That you are reaping the benefits, presumably, of killing something that is not you.
00:19:27.000It's three cheers for abortion in the Democratic Party.
00:19:29.000Maybe four cheers for abortion, if that's even possible.
00:19:32.000And then you get the insane radical wing of the Democratic Party.
00:19:35.000They go so far as to suggest This is Planned Parenthood.
00:19:39.000Planned Parenthood representative in New York City doing a rally yesterday suggesting that the people who pay the most when it comes to pro-life policy are transgender men.
00:19:49.000You can't forget transgender men in this equation.
00:19:50.000We have to make sure that women who believe they are men are included in all of the abortion talk.
00:19:56.000Yeah, this is all a winning recipe, I think, for Democrats.
00:20:00.000This is a coordinated attack in order to drive care underground, but also to force a national showdown in our Supreme Court about access to our constitutional and human rights.
00:20:16.000And it's not just an attack on women, it's an attack on anyone who can or might get pregnant, including transgender men and gender non-conforming people!
00:20:28.000Oh, it's an attack on all of those people too?
00:20:30.000It seems to me abortion is a pretty obvious attack on, you know, the person who's getting killed.
00:20:35.000That seems like probably the attack we might want to focus on here.
00:20:38.000Now I want to talk about a couple of bad faith arguments that are being put out there naturally by the op-ed pages over at the New York Times and the Washington Post.
00:20:45.000There's an article by a guy named Dr. Warren Hearn, who's a physician and epidemiologist who specializes in late-term abortion services.
00:20:53.000Naturally, he's defending that by saying, this is the title of the article, again, abortion is affirmative good.
00:21:08.000And you know what also makes women safe, late term, would be giving birth to the baby and then they are also not pregnant anymore except that they have not killed the baby.
00:21:17.000But according to this New York Times headline, pregnancy kills.
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00:23:22.000If you are a median voter, let's say you're a moderate voter, living in, say, a suburban area, and you look at the Democratic Party right now, and the Democratic Party is focused intensely on taxpayer funding for abortion.
00:23:47.000The pitch is, abortion is an affirmative good, and Donald Trump is an affirmative evil.
00:23:53.000And then they send out their cultural elites to appeal to us on this basis.
00:23:58.000Late night television has basically become a psychiatrist's couch for Hollywood stars who can't sleep because of Trump, you know, on their beds of money.
00:24:06.000In the Hollywood Hills, far away from all the problems of regular life.
00:24:10.000Here's Julianna Margulies, who's the star of, what, she was on The Good Wife?
00:24:15.000And here she is explaining that she has problems sleeping because of Trump, you know, in her giant mansion on top of her pile of money, overlooking a city that she doesn't even have to engage in.
00:24:25.000Here is Julianna Margulies whining to Stephen Colbert about this, another extraordinarily wealthy Hollywood star who doesn't have to deal with any of the problems of everyday life, but Donald Trump keeps them awake at night.
00:24:37.000One of the things I stopped doing was I do not read the news at night.
00:24:43.000Because I was waking up in the middle of the night from nightmares of just screaming.
00:24:53.000Well, I was in a boardroom, there was a long board, there was a long table and it was just the guy who's in the Oval Office right now sitting there and I walked in and I was screaming, screaming, don't you care about the next show!
00:25:07.000I mean, I was going crazy and screaming at him and yelling and that was 2016 and I woke up in a sweat and I went, oh my god, I've gone insane and I have to stop reading the news at night.
00:25:39.000If you want to look at democratic governance right now, if you want to look at people who are living in the suburbs and worrying about what their life is going to look like, I guarantee you they care far less about Julianna Margulis's sleep patterns and far more about the fact that their cities have turned into hot garbage.
00:25:53.000This is a clip from NBC Los Angeles today talking about the homeless problem in Los Angeles.
00:25:58.000We've got 65,000 homeless people living on the streets of Los Angeles, which has been Democratic governed for nigh on two decades at this point in a state that has Democratic majorities in both houses and a Democratic governor.
00:26:11.000And the city has turned into a garbage pit.
00:26:50.000Because Democrats who govern the city have refused to do anything about it in the name of the freedom of people to apparently pollute public areas.
00:26:59.000My taxpayer dollars aren't going to fund, you know, my neighborhood being livable and my children being able to walk outside without fear of stepping on an open needle.
00:27:07.000They're going toward taxpayer funding of abortions.
00:27:08.000That's where Democratic priorities are.
00:27:10.000Here's a clip from NBC Los Angeles talking about the problem in L.A.
00:27:14.000will ever consider maybe it's the people in charge who are the problem.
00:27:18.000We're getting a bird's eye view of L.A.' 's most notorious trash pile.
00:27:22.000It's in downtown on Saris Avenue, right between the fashion and produce districts.
00:27:28.000Day and night, this spot and countless others are magnets for rats that could carry fleas infected with typhus and other diseases.
00:27:37.000This national survey now ranks LA as the second most rat-infested city in the nation.
00:27:43.000One reason, experts say, heaps of uncollected trash at hundreds of homeless encampments, where people are literally living in piles of garbage.
00:27:53.000They're literally living in piles of garbage.
00:28:13.000They're not even, because of an ACLU lawsuit, they're not even allowed to remove shopping carts full of garbage that attract fleas and rats.
00:28:59.000I have to get up and I have to go do the morning show.
00:29:02.000And I look outside, and right outside of our front door, there is a homeless person who is riding a bicycle, and he has two shopping carts full of trash behind him.
00:29:11.000And the front wheel has come off of his bicycle.
00:29:15.000And so he's right outside our front door.
00:29:30.000According to Eve Fuller-Torrey, who's written extensively about mental illness, at least a plurality, maybe a majority of the homeless people in major cities are suffering from some form of severe mental illness.
00:29:42.000So, I call the police, and the police take 35-40 minutes to respond.
00:29:47.000And the reason it's not a priority call is because they have been told, basically, that they are not to do anything about these problems.
00:29:53.000So, I sit there, waiting inside my door for this homeless person to move on, because I don't want to get into a confrontation with the person.
00:30:00.000And this person then gets angry, proceeds to take a crowbar out of one of the shopping carts, and starts beating the hell out of his bike in front of our front door.
00:30:09.000Eventually, the police arrive and move him along.
00:30:12.000But this is what major cities are becoming, okay?
00:30:15.000And I'm living in a fairly nice residential area.
00:30:18.000Skid Row in Los Angeles is actually a breeding ground for actual disease.
00:30:23.000We are seeing third world diseases return to the United States in major cities because politicians have made it a priority not to do anything about these problems.
00:30:38.000I used to do a show up in Seattle, local show up in Seattle.
00:30:41.000Seattle is a beautiful city, except it has been made into a homeless encampment by a series of Democratic mayors who have decided that they can do nothing about people living out in the open.
00:30:52.000I'll talk in a second about what some actual solutions would look like to this problem.
00:30:56.000But if Democrats are going to make the case that they ought to run things, then how about we look at where they run things and see how things are going?
00:31:02.000Because it turns out they've turned my city into a rat-infested craphole.
00:31:06.000They've turned Los Angeles into... I mean, the quality of life in Los Angeles for taxpayers has declined markedly, and that is due to Mayor Garcetti and Mayor Villaraigosa.
00:31:15.000It is due to Governor Gavin Newsom and Governor Jerry Brown.
00:31:18.000It is due to Democratic governance in this city and in this state.
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00:35:14.000You know, if we just have a bunch of people, Blue Ribbon Task Force, like they'll sit around, they'll talk about things, then they'll issue a white paper that they'll do nothing about.
00:35:21.000Gavin Newsom used to be the mayor of San Francisco.
00:35:23.000You know what he did when he was mayor of San Francisco?
00:35:26.000He pledged to end homelessness in San Francisco.
00:35:28.000Has homelessness been ended in San Francisco?
00:35:30.000Well, there's an article in the Washington Post today called How San Francisco Broke America's Heart.
00:35:36.000No, he did not end homelessness in San Francisco.
00:36:25.000I'm sorry, you and democratic governance in this state are a national disgrace.
00:36:29.000The homelessness problem in San Francisco, in Los Angeles, increasingly in San Diego, across democratic areas, in big cities, is a national disgrace.
00:36:40.000Again, I talk to people who are on the neighborhood councils.
00:36:59.000And that is a result of Democrats who have decided to go along to get along with the ACLU and have declared that you have a right to sleep in your car, you have a right to sleep on the street, you have a right to do all this stuff.
00:37:09.000Now, how would you actually solve the homelessness problem?
00:37:12.000Well, the homeless break down into a bunch of separate categories.
00:37:16.000By the way, I just want to point out, the New York Times has a piece today.
00:37:19.000Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York.
00:37:20.000I'll get to the solutions when it comes to homelessness in just one second.
00:37:38.000That is the reason that rats are taking over the city of New York.
00:37:43.000In New York, says the New York Times, rats once scurried in the shadows, but now they frolic brazenly in broad daylight.
00:37:49.000Mr. de Blasio, calling for more rat corpses, unveiled a $32 million assault on rats in 2017, which included increased litter basket pickups, deployment of solar-powered trash-compacting bins, and rat-resistant steel cans.
00:38:02.000The city has also used dry ice to smother rats where they live.
00:38:06.000But rat sightings are on the upswing anyway.
00:38:09.000Because nobody is still picking up the trash.
00:38:11.000City health inspections found 31,000 instances of active rat signs, including sightings and droppings, at buildings and properties last year, nearly double the instances in 2014.
00:38:22.000A major contributing factor, according to the New York Times, is how the city collects trash.
00:38:25.000Bags are left outside on the curb for hours before pickup the next morning.
00:38:29.000It's just an all-night buffet for the rats, says Jason Munchie-South, a biology professor at Fordham University, who has led rat safaris to observe the vermin in Columbus Park in Chinatown.
00:38:39.000Michael Deutsch, an entomologist with the Arrow Exterminating on Long Island, said there's no magic bullets reducing rats.
00:38:44.000You can't just go in and order an airstrike and then leave.
00:38:46.000Rat populations can rebound unless you are always pressing them.
00:38:50.000And by the way, one thing that contributes to this is open trash, is people living in trash.
00:38:57.000All of this is a good indicator that maybe if you are concerned about the future of your community, if you're concerned about Times Square not turning back into what it was during the 1970s and 80s, under people like Ed Koch and David Dinkins, if instead maybe you'd like, I don't know, a cleaned up area of New York, If you would like a Los Angeles that looks, at least in terms of clean streets, more like it did a couple of decades ago and less like homeless people on every bench.
00:39:24.000There was an old political slogan, a chicken in every pot.
00:39:27.000Okay, Los Angeles can promise you, Los Angeles can promise you that there will be a homeless person on every bench.
00:39:34.000That was the Herbert Hoover campaign slogan in 1928, a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage.
00:39:40.000In Los Angeles, the promise is if you pay enough taxpayer dollars, there'll be a homeless person on every bench and open needles on every street corner.
00:39:46.000In San Francisco, it's poop on every street corner, human poop on every street corner.
00:39:50.000By the way, it's funny, I was talking with Newt Gingrich the other day, and the former speaker pointed out that in San Francisco, you get a $300 fine if your dog craps on the corner and you don't pick it up.
00:39:59.000If you're a human, you crap on the corner, you get nothing.
00:40:01.000So, if you own a dog, your best solution is to let your dog crap on the corner and then just claim it was you.
00:40:05.000If the police stop by to find you or something.
00:40:08.000Okay, so what exactly could be done with regard to the homeless problem if people actually had the stones to do it?
00:40:14.000First of all, you have to break down the homeless problem into several categories.
00:40:41.000And then there is a second problem, which is not irrelevant.
00:40:44.000And the people who pointed out are not bad people.
00:40:46.000There are good people who would like to see their taxpayer dollars used in a proper way and who'd like to live in safe communities.
00:40:52.000The second problem is the impact of homeless people on every park bench, on every street corner, shooting up in doorways, leaving open needles on the street, pooping on street corners.
00:41:01.000It is not irrelevant that there are externalities to homelessness.
00:41:04.000And one of the things that many members of the political left have done is they have said that if you call the cops on a homeless person who's outside your front door beating the crap out of his bicycle with a crowbar, that you're part of the problem now.
00:41:15.000Because now you've called in the authorities.
00:41:16.000And don't you have sympathy for these homeless people?
00:41:19.000I can have sympathy for someone and still recognize That when you are infringing on the public space that I paid for, you do not have a right to do that, and you are making my community worse.
00:41:29.000It is a community in which I live, and I pay taxes, and I raise my children, and you do not have a right to make that community worse.
00:41:36.000Both of these problems can be handled, but it means getting serious.
00:41:39.000And yes, it means some consequences for a certain group, particularly of homeless people.
00:41:43.000So let's take the homeless problem as an example in terms of governance.
00:41:46.000As I say, there are four types, I think, four types of homeless people.
00:41:50.000One, they're the severely mentally ill.
00:41:52.000Those people do not have a right to live on the street.
00:41:54.000Those people need to be institutionalized.
00:41:56.000If you are a schizophrenic who is living on the streets and storing, I mean, there's an article in the New York Times today, or actually it's in the Huffington Post, rather, a couple of years ago, I think.
00:42:07.000If you are a severely schizophrenic person who takes your unemployment or welfare check and you stash wads of cash around the city because you're schizophrenic and mentally ill, we are not doing you any good by allowing you to do that.
00:42:22.000We need to make it easier to institutionalize people who are severely mentally ill.
00:42:27.000You are doing mentally ill people no favors by allowing them to live in their own filth on city streets.
00:42:32.000I don't know when this became sympathy.
00:42:48.000And here, the answer is that if you're a heroin addict, you do not have a right to live on the street.
00:42:52.000So, you will be arrested for loitering, and you will be arrested for trespassing, and then, instead of being jailed, you will be put into a clean-out program.
00:43:01.000And we will fund those clean-out programs.
00:43:03.000We will make sure that you can go to a clean-out.
00:43:04.000And if you refuse to abide by that, if you go back to living on the street, then you will be jailed.
00:43:08.000There are consequences to doing this sort of thing.
00:43:11.000Then there are people who just want to live on the street, no matter what.
00:43:14.000They just feel like they have a right to live on the street in Los Angeles.
00:43:17.000Many of those people claim that their jobs won't pay for rent, they won't pay for an apartment.
00:43:21.000And the answer to that is, here's money for a bus ticket.
00:43:25.000If you live on the street, you're going to be arrested.
00:43:26.000And if not, here's a bus ticket and you can leave.
00:43:29.000Because if the question is, I can't afford to live here, then you should not be living here.
00:43:32.000We're not talking about mentally ill people.
00:43:43.000So we'll pay for your bus ticket, so you can leave.
00:43:46.000Because if you can't afford to live here, you should not be living here.
00:43:48.000And then finally, there are the chronically homeless, who are kind of in-betweeners.
00:43:53.000You know, people who may have mental issues, but are not significantly a danger to themselves or others.
00:44:00.000People who are incapable of holding down a job.
00:44:02.000And there, if you have to build more public housing facilities, you build more public housing facilities.
00:44:06.000If you have to open more shelters, you open more shelters.
00:44:08.000This is the way that you would handle the problem.
00:44:09.000But yes, you do have to give police the ability to move people.
00:44:13.000You do have to give police the ability to take people's crap that is in a stolen shopping cart away from them.
00:44:19.000You have to pay attention to quality of life issues.
00:44:21.000And that doesn't mean shuffling them over into the poorer areas of Los Angeles and leaving them there.
00:44:26.000It means that every area of Los Angeles should be free of people who are living on the streets.
00:44:32.000You do not have a right to live on the streets.
00:44:35.000And if people choose to live outside the borders of Los Angeles, in homeless encampments, then that becomes the local authority's issue there.
00:44:43.000But instead what we've gotten from the left is, it's unsympathetic.
00:44:47.000It's NIMBYism to say I don't want a homeless person shooting up heroin outside my front gate.
00:44:57.000We'd like neighborhoods where our kids can walk.
00:44:59.000We'd like neighborhoods where there isn't open crap and open needles on the street.
00:45:03.000And if Democrats won't do that, and they're too focused on weeping over Donald Trump being president, and they're too focused on what Alabama chooses to do to protect human life, and if their great governing suggestion is that we have to make sure the taxpayer dollars are used not to clean up city streets, but to ensure that a woman who has sex with a guy and then gets pregnant can pay for the killing of that unborn child, that's where my taxpayer dollars are supposed to go, then, you know what?
00:45:39.000Remember, there's a gubernatorial candidate in California.
00:45:41.000He was running as a Republican several years ago.
00:45:43.000And the homelessness problem was already an issue.
00:45:45.000There was also something called prison realignment that was pursued by Governor Jerry Brown, in which he basically released criminals into the public square by reclassifying felonies as misdemeanors and then sending misdemeanor prisoners over to local jails that would not hold them.
00:46:00.000And I said to this Republican candidate, I do not understand for the life of me why you are not running on quality of life and safety issues.
00:46:08.000Of course you should be running on quality of life and safety issues.
00:46:14.000By the way, Donald Trump should as well.
00:46:15.000Donald Trump should be running on this problem.
00:46:17.000He should be pointing out that Seattle, which is a gem of a city, is being turned into a giant Hooverville.
00:46:23.000You should point out that San Francisco is being turned into a stratified society where if you can afford to, you live on the penthouse level and you never have to deal with the homeless encampments.
00:46:30.000And then, if you can't, then you're homeless.
00:46:32.000It should be Republicans pointing this stuff out and proposing solutions.
00:46:36.000And yes, that obviously is going to involve the ability of the police to at least move people.
00:46:41.000That doesn't mean that police have to be trained in how to deal with mentally ill people.
00:47:25.000As you know, I am a huge baseball fan, and there's a great baseball book that came out a couple of weeks ago by Tyler Kepner, who's a baseball writer over at The New York Times.
00:47:32.000It's called K. A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches.
00:47:36.000K, obviously, is the scorecard sign for a strikeout.
00:47:40.000It's got all sorts of anecdotal stories, wonderful little tidbits, data about 10 pitches, everything from the forkball to the split-finger fastball.
00:48:17.000Kamala Harris is being asked softball questions by CNN, because this is how it goes if you're a Democrat.
00:48:21.000You never get asked by CNN if you're a Republican what your favorite song is, or how you thought of the Game of Thrones finale.
00:48:27.000But if you're a Democrat, you get asked these questions all the time.
00:48:29.000Watch as Senator Kamala Harris, who I don't know.
00:48:33.000When God distributed the awkward from his jar of awkward in the creation of human beings, he used a heavy dose on Hillary Clinton and he used what was left over on Kamala Harris.
00:48:41.000Here's Kamala Harris being incredibly awkward about a pretty simple question.
00:48:45.000Do you have a favorite band or a favorite musician?
00:48:48.000I'd say one of my favorites is Bob Marley.
00:50:57.000I trust the Speaker is taking a measured approach to ensure that we're moving everyone forward.
00:51:03.000I know that, you know, being a Speaker is hard.
00:51:06.000Holding this party together is a difficult task, but I think that we know what we need to do.
00:51:10.000I personally believe that I think we have to move forward.
00:51:13.000We have to move forward, according to AOC, and of course, according to Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, who also says she's yes on impeachment.
00:51:18.000So prepare for the battle inside the Democratic Party.
00:51:22.000Today, in the next 48 hours, I'll be introducing a resolution of investigation.
00:51:29.000The opening comments in that resolution says that the Judiciary Committee will investigate whether sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise the power Okay, so I'm gonna have to ask her, what exactly is the ground?
00:52:45.000Hey everybody, it's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.
00:52:47.000Donald Trump is doing everything he can to force the Democrats to play out their impeachment fantasies right here in reality, where they'll make them look like idiots.
00:52:57.000Nancy Pelosi knows it, can't do a damn thing about it.