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00:00:18.000We will get into everything Michael Avenatti-related.
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00:01:55.000So, you all remember Michael Avenatti, my dark horse pick for the 2020 presidential election?
00:02:00.000And he was my dark horse because he was the most militant of the Democrats.
00:02:03.000He was the guy who kept talking about punching President Trump, and I've got to hit back, and we've got to punch twice as hard, and when they go low, then we punch back, and all this kind of stuff.
00:02:12.000Well, it turns out that there are now allegations that he didn't just punch back against President Trump, he punched back against a woman.
00:02:18.000Here are the allegations, courtesy of KTLA.
00:02:21.000Michael Avenatti, who skyrocketed to fame as a critic of President Donald Trump and the lawyer for porn actress Stormy Daniels, was arrested on Wednesday and booked on a felony domestic violence charge, according to the LAPD.
00:02:32.000Now, you'll recall that Michael Avenatti is also the guy Who trotted out Julie Swetnick to claim that Brett Kavanaugh had been involved in gang rape.
00:02:40.000That Brett Kavanaugh, who is now justice on the Supreme Court, had been involved in getting girls drunk or drugged at parties, and then he had involved himself in gang rape trains.
00:02:52.000And Michael Avenatti pushed all that out there, and Democrats jumped on it because Michael Avenatti is their friend.
00:02:57.000Michael Avenatti is somebody who says mean things about President Trump.
00:03:00.000And that's our only standard for good people now.
00:03:03.000If you say something mean about President Trump, this means inherently you're a good person.
00:03:06.000Well, in this case, it turns out that Michael Avenatti, the evidence isn't in, right?
00:03:13.000Michael Avenatti, we don't know whether he's guilty or whether he is innocent in a court of law.
00:03:17.000But it's kind of ironic that a guy who suggested believe all women is now saying, well, don't believe this one over here with the black eye.
00:03:24.000The alleged victim in the case had visible injuries, according to Officer Tony Im, a police spokesman.
00:03:29.000Avenatti slammed the allegation as completely bogus and fabricated and meant to do harm to my reputation in a statement released by his law firm.
00:03:35.000Avenatti says he's mulling a 2020 presidential run.
00:03:38.000He posted $50,000 bail and was released about four hours after being arrested on the same block where he lives in a skyscraper apartment on Santa Monica Boulevard in Century City.
00:03:48.000Police didn't provide any details about the alleged victim, including that person's relationship to Avenatti.
00:03:53.000And here is what Avenatti had to say after being released on $50,000 bail.
00:04:24.000So, this is all going very well for Michael Avenatti.
00:04:28.000Avenatti, by the way, is now- he says he'll be fully exonerated, and he suggested that he- that the woman hit him first, apparently.
00:04:36.000This was apparently one of the suggestions.
00:04:38.000Stormy Daniels, who of course is the great feminist of our time, has released a statement on the incident saying these are serious and obviously very troubling allegations.
00:04:45.000But right now, that is all they are, allegations.
00:04:47.000We should all reserve judgment until the investigation, an investigation Michael has said he welcomes, is complete.
00:04:54.000But kind of weird coming from the same people who said that Brett Kavanaugh should be run out of town on a rail, lose his Supreme Court judgeship, lose his actual life, career, career, family, on the basis of unverified and unverifiable allocations and allegations that are now being investigated by the Senate Judiciary Committee for being false, probably the Julie Swetnick allegations, which are now under like full investigation by the Senate.
00:05:17.000Apparently, this is according to TMZ, the alleged incident occurred Tuesday night, but there was another confrontation police on Wednesday between the two at an exclusive apartment building in the Century City area of Los Angeles.
00:05:30.000Law enforcement sources say Avenatti was arrested Wednesday after a woman filed a felony domestic violence report.
00:05:35.000The TMZ folks were told her face was swollen and bruised with red marks on both cheeks.
00:05:40.000Security apparently Apparently, here's what TMZ says.
00:05:43.000We're told Wednesday afternoon the woman was on the sidewalk on her cell phone with sunglasses covering her eyes, sobbing and screaming on the phone, I can't believe you did this to me.
00:05:50.000I'm going to get a restraining order against you.
00:05:52.000We're told security brought her inside the building, took her upstairs, and Michael showed up five minutes later and ran into the building.
00:05:57.000He screamed repeatedly, she hit me first.
00:06:02.000She Hit Me First, by the way, is not an actual defense to domestic violence allegations.
00:06:06.000He apparently then angrily added, this is BS, this is effing BS.
00:06:10.000We're told he tried getting into the elevator, but security then denied him access, and then cops showed up and escorted Avenatti into a corner of the apartment lobby and spoke with him for five to ten minutes before taking him into custody.
00:06:20.000A law enforcement source said on Tuesday that Avenatti kicked this woman out of the apartment, and that's when the alleged domestic violence occurred.
00:06:26.000And then she went back to the apartment on Wednesday to retrieve her belongings and called police to stand by in case things got heated.
00:06:43.000They really know how to ratchet up the tension and bring back old storylines that we'd forgotten about, like Michael Avenatti and Brett Kavanaugh.
00:06:50.000Like, we were beyond those storylines.
00:06:51.000And then the writers were like, you know what?
00:07:00.000Let's see if we can somehow intertwine these strands and really build this thing to an epic conclusion.
00:07:05.000For the second or third episode of season four of Trump, the show.
00:07:10.000So Michael Avenatti apparently is now blaming Jacob Wohl.
00:07:13.000Jacob Wohl, you'll recall, is a big Trump supporter who was recently implicated in accusations that he was attempting to falsely malign Robert Mueller, suggest that Robert Mueller was responsible for Some sort of rape allegations, extra marital affairs, and Wohl had created this entire fake intelligence company apparatus that was gonna reveal the deep dark truth about Robert Mueller.
00:07:41.000Well now, Avenatti is blaming Jacob Wohl.
00:08:11.000If it turns out that all this is false and Jacob Wohl made it up about Michael Avenatti, then Michael Avenatti shoots back to the top of the heap That's how our presidential politics go these days.
00:08:21.000There are a few lessons to be learned here.
00:08:22.000One, you know what's great in the United States?
00:08:24.000Due process and the presumption of innocence.
00:08:46.000Lesson number three, if a guy ever says, believe all women, and he just spends all his time shouting, believe all women, I would say that a certain amount of time, those are the guys that you should trust the least with women.
00:08:55.000Because, honest to goodness, that is such a virtue-signaling position that makes no sense in the real world.
00:09:01.000That it makes you suspicious of the person who says it in the first place.
00:09:04.000So, all of this is absolutely delightful, obviously.
00:09:29.000So, New York and Virginia collectively have offered more than $2 billion in tax credits, rebates, and other incentives to attract Amazon.
00:09:35.000And as I mentioned when I discussed Amazon yesterday and the day before, I said it's kind of ironic that Democrats have suddenly realized that if you lower taxes, And allow people more freedom without regulation that it attracts businesses.
00:09:48.000Suddenly they are saying this about Amazon.
00:09:50.000So it's okay to have low taxes for Amazon, but everybody else has to pay higher taxes.
00:09:55.000So Governor Andrew Cuomo was asked about this because he's a Democrat.
00:09:58.000And a lot of Democrats were saying, uh, Governor Cuomo, you say corporations are bad and they don't pay a high enough tax rate, and then you're giving all sorts of goodies to Amazon.
00:10:48.000These are the policies that are, and if you're a business in New York, all you should do is now go over to de Blasio's office and go over to Cuomo's office and say, listen, we're investigating moving to Texas.
00:11:14.000And then go over to de Blasio's office, hand him a groundhog, and say to him, Mayor de Blasio, we're gonna leave unless you give us some sort of tax breaks.
00:11:21.000And presumably, the tax breaks will then be forthcoming.
00:11:25.000So, pretty great stuff from the Democrats.
00:11:28.000Other great stuff from the Democrats with regard to Amazon.
00:11:33.000That we're trying to lure Amazon and BuzzFeed News has sort of a rundown on what those cities were offering Amazon in order to lure them there for their second headquarters.
00:12:59.000So it's not just that Washington DC and New York were using all sorts of incentives to Northern Virginia.
00:13:05.000We're using all sorts of incentives to lure Amazon.
00:13:08.000Some of the other incentives that were being used to lure Amazon are pretty spectacular.
00:13:14.000According to BuzzFeed News, cold cash wasn't the only thing local governments used to lure Amazon.
00:13:18.000They made other desperate overtures as well, including exclusive Amazon-only executive lounges at local airports, a personal appeal from William Shatner himself.
00:13:42.000So Boston didn't offer the same billion-dollar tax incentives as other HQ2 finalists.
00:13:47.000Instead, it hoped that its pool of top university talent would draw them.
00:13:50.000But they committed to $75 million in funding over 10 years to maintain home prices around the proposed 8 million square feet of development needed for HQ, and $13 million in workforce training grants.
00:14:00.000So all these leftist cities, happy to pay off big corporations to move Into town.
00:14:06.000Chicago was happy to give 2.25 billion dollars in incentives and potentially more.
00:14:11.000Half of that offered in the form of tax credits.
00:14:14.000400 million allocated to infrastructure spending.
00:14:16.000Apparently, it was Chicago that enlisted William Shatner to narrate its proposal video.
00:16:27.000Sure, when people break the law, you should be suspicious, right?
00:16:29.000That is the responsible way to talk about voter fraud.
00:16:31.000Then there's the way that President Trump talked about voter fraud with The Daily Caller yesterday.
00:16:35.000Here's what he said about voter fraud generally.
00:16:37.000He said, The Republicans don't win, and that's because of potentially illegal votes.
00:16:42.000When people get in line that have absolutely no right to vote, and they go around in circles, sometimes they go in their car, they put on a different hat, they put on a different shirt, come in and vote again.
00:16:54.000It's really a disgrace what's going on.
00:16:57.000Note number one, not a lot of evidence that people are going and voting, going back out to the parking lot, putting on a different hat, walking back in and voting again.
00:17:04.000Most jurisdictions do have a signature match.
00:17:07.000Most jurisdictions, you do have to give an address that actually matches up with the name that you are giving.
00:17:13.000So, it's not quite, you can just, I mean, maybe at Tammany Hall and like, In like 1880, maybe you could do this?
00:17:21.000Maybe like if you watch the gangs of New York, maybe that's what Trump was doing, he was watching gangs of New York and then he was like, oh okay, that's how voting goes.
00:18:07.000We saw this from Nate Silver over at FiveThirtyEight.
00:18:10.000Nate Silver put out a tweet saying, As I said a few days ago, Guys, you have been saying since 2016 that Donald Trump won in 2016 because of the Russians.
00:18:42.000I'll go back to my slot in the House of Representatives.
00:18:45.000Republicans, when they lose elections generally, in recounts, don't protest those elections.
00:18:50.000It's Democrats who are going around literally saying, not just implying with voter ID and serial, but literally going around and suggesting that when they lose an election, it is absolutely due to voter fraud.
00:19:01.000And it's every major Democrat now who wants to run for president.
00:19:03.000So, Sherrod Brown, who's a senator from Ohio, He's kind of Captain Rumpel.
00:19:08.000You know, that's his schtick, is that he walks around looking like Martin Sheen in Wall Street.
00:19:13.000I came from a union house, and that's what I'm doing here.
00:19:15.000So Sherrod Brown, who wants to run for president, just won his latest race in Ohio, and he says if Stacey Abrams, who is the Democratic candidate for governor of Georgia, and who lost, who's going to lose, fair and square to Brian Kemp in Georgia, If she loses, it's because the election was stolen.
00:19:30.000I'm not hearing the same whining from Nate Silver about the undermining of our electoral integrity when Sherrod Brown openly says that if Stacey Abrams loses in Georgia, it was stolen.
00:19:40.000If Stacey Abrams doesn't win in Georgia, they stole it.
00:19:46.000What they're trying to do in Florida to the gubernatorial candidate and to the Senate candidate running for re-election.
00:19:52.000What they tried to do in Ohio with some success by voter purging.
00:19:56.000What they did in Georgia when they shut down rural precincts that were predominantly African Americans where many people simply don't have transportation to get to the polls.
00:20:06.000Okay, this is irresponsible and it's a lie.
00:20:08.000There was no attempt to shut down rural precincts in Georgia.
00:20:11.000There were some malfunctions of machines in Georgia, which were pretty quickly rectified.
00:20:15.000So Sherrod Brown, and he's speaking of the National Action Network, so this is obviously his attempt to reach out to the African-American base and suggest that they are being unduly barred from elections, which is just nonsense.
00:20:25.000In fact, in Georgia, the black population, again, in this particular election, outvoted its percentage of the normal population in terms of overall electoral percentage, is my understanding.
00:23:38.000But you never hear the same outcry from people in the media about Hillary Clinton openly saying, openly saying, that if a Democrat loses in Georgia, the election was stolen.
00:23:46.000Doesn't that undermine electoral integrity a lot more than Donald Trump talking about using voter ID to buy cereal?
00:23:53.000We all know Trump says stuff, but when Democrats, mainstream Democrats say that elections have been lost due to voter suppression, that does undermine electoral integrity.
00:24:21.000All the Democrats' attempts to talk about voter suppression because Brian Kemp, who is the Secretary of State in Georgia, now the future governor of Georgia, was purging the voter rolls of people who were dead or who had changed addresses?
00:24:35.000Chuck Schumer says, well, Bill Nelson, who's the current senator in Florida, who's about to lose his seat to Rick Scott, in a fair and square election.
00:25:36.000The Broward County election officials, they keep saying they can't meet deadlines.
00:25:40.000Alex Seitzwald, who reports for NBC News, was down there yesterday.
00:25:43.000He was tweeting pictures of what's going on at the election headquarters for Broward County.
00:25:48.000The answer is nothing, literally nothing.
00:25:49.000So they're saying they can't meet deadlines.
00:25:51.000At the same time, they're not even attempting to comply with deadlines.
00:25:54.000There is nothing wrong with saying, why in the world won't you guys just do your damn job and count the ballots how you're supposed to do under Florida law?
00:26:19.000By claiming that there are a bunch of white folks who are trying to suppress black votes, this is why Democrats are doing this.
00:26:24.000This is why Democrats are... Democrats understand that the crucial factor in 2016, more than anything else, is that in heavy urban areas, and in areas with heavy black turnout in 2012, folks didn't show up for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
00:26:38.000So what they're trying to say now is Trump is a racist, and Trump is trying to suppress your vote, so you better show up in 2020 and vote for Democrats.
00:26:45.000And maybe that'll shift Ohio back, maybe it'll shift Wisconsin back with a heavy Milwaukee vote, maybe it'll shift Pennsylvania back with a heavy Philadelphia vote.
00:26:53.000They're trying to rebuild the intersectional coalition.
00:26:55.000Now, President Trump is fighting back against that in a couple of ways.
00:26:58.000One way that he's fighting back against that is with criminal justice reform.
00:27:01.000So, he has pursued criminal justice reform in what I think is a pretty obvious attempt to win support in minority communities, because the idea here is that our criminal justice system cracks down on minorities too heavily, even though there's not a lot of evidence of systemic racism.
00:27:17.000In the criminal justice system, it is true that the laws do hit black folks disproportionately because black folks are disproportionately involved in, for example, marijuana distribution crimes, for example.
00:27:28.000Here is President Trump talking about criminal justice reform yesterday, which he has embraced, which is really interesting because, you know, five minutes ago he was suggesting death penalty for drug dealers.
00:27:36.000Here he is basically saying, well, maybe we ought to just let a bunch of people out of prison if they are, in fact, engaged in drug crimes.
00:27:43.000First, it will provide new incentives for low risk inmates to learn the skills they need to find employment, avoid old habits and follow the law when they're released from prison.
00:27:57.000That reduce their chances of recidivism and, in other words, reduce their chances of going back to prison.
00:28:05.000Second, this legislation will allow federal inmates to be placed closer to their home communities in order to help facilitate family visitation.
00:28:15.000Third, the bill includes reasonable sentencing reforms while keeping dangerous and violent criminals off our streets.
00:28:22.000Among other changes, it rolls back some of the provisions of the Clinton crime law Okay, so there are some good things about this bill, there are some things I don't like about the bill.
00:28:35.000One of the good things about the bill is the idea of keeping people in prisons closer to their hometown makes a lot of sense, because obviously you want people to be able to visit.
00:28:43.000Some of this was driven by Jared Kushner, whose dad was in prison for a while, and he was unable to visit his father in prison, and so he's been pushing very hard for this.
00:28:52.000You know, as far as reducing federal mandatory minimums, for example, on certain crimes, that's a lot more unpopular among members of the Republican base.
00:29:00.000But there's no question Trump is trying to reach out to minority communities with this.
00:29:03.000I mean, that's why, even in that shot of Trump right there, where he's talking, you can see in the background there are a lot of brown and black faces, specifically because this is a political attempt by President Trump to reach out to those crowds, just in a purely boiled-down political manner.
00:29:16.000In a second, I want to talk a little bit more about criminal justice reform, and then I want to talk about what Democrats are doing to try and label Trump racist anyway.
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00:31:35.000So, you know, the criminal justice reform bill that President Trump is pushing, as I say, some of it is good and some of it is not so good.
00:31:42.000But, you know, Daniel Horowitz has a good piece about this over at Conservative Review, talking about the flaws in the criminal justice system.
00:31:50.000So, he points out that there are some criminals who have been let out of prison in similar situations, who are obviously not meant to be out of prison.
00:32:01.000Because there are certain cases in which people have pled down to crimes and by pleading down to these particular crimes, they've gotten off on more severe crimes.
00:32:11.000And this means that there are people who have actually committed pretty severe crimes who are going to get out of prison based on criminal justice reform.
00:32:16.000With that said, President Trump is obviously attempting to reach out to Different communities, and that's something that's good politically for him.
00:32:24.000Democrats, however, are counting on winning the same amount of the black vote they did in 2012, and they're counting on heavy black turnout.
00:32:30.000This is why you have people like Nancy Pelosi hanging out with Al Sharpton.
00:32:34.000Again, it is amazing to me that Democrats are allowed to hang out with Al Sharpton with no questions asked.
00:32:38.000Al Sharpton is a race hustler of the worst possible variety.
00:32:42.000Al Sharpton is an anti-Semite of the worst possible variety.
00:32:45.000Nancy Pelosi will hang out with Al Sharpton, though, and then thank him for helping to save America.
00:32:49.000Thank you for helping take back America.
00:32:53.000People all over the place are calling me, writing in the airports here and there.
00:33:15.000And there's Nancy Pelosi on the podium, championing him.
00:33:18.000The intersectional coalition is in a rebuild mode.
00:33:21.000That's why Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, she says she wants to run for president because women are called to stop Trump.
00:33:25.000So it's not just black folks who are called to stop Trump.
00:33:27.000It is women who are called to stop Trump, according to Senator Gillibrand.
00:33:31.000And I think there are many women who will look at what President Trump has done to this country, dividing us, tearing us apart, really at the seams and destroying the line between what's right and what's wrong.
00:33:41.000I think women will feel called to this moment as to whether they need to run, whether they need to share their vision for America.
00:33:50.000Elizabeth Warren's doing the same routine.
00:33:51.000She says, Trump divides us with racism.
00:33:53.000Again, it's Democrats over and over and over who are accusing President Trump of being divisive, even at a time when he's pretty much attempting to reach across boundaries with things like criminal justice reform.
00:34:02.000Here's Elizabeth Warren saying, Trump is dividing us with racism.
00:34:06.000Not I. It is not I. At the National Action Network, again, with Al Sharpton, trying to divide us based on race.
00:34:11.000No, it's President Trump who's trying to do all of that.
00:34:14.000Donald Trump still practices the dark art of ruling by fear.
00:34:20.000Fear designed to pit Americans against Americans.
00:34:24.000You know, we have seen this roadshow before.
00:34:27.000It is the old divide and conquer strategy.
00:34:32.000Hate and racism have divided America for a very long time.
00:34:36.000Okay, the divide-and-conquer strategy that's actually being employed is being employed by everyone, but it's being employed more by the left as a mainstream tactic than the right.
00:34:45.000Now, I've criticized the reactionary right when I think they're engaging in identity politics.
00:34:49.000But the Democrats have made it a main part of their platform, and they are making it even more of a main part of their platform.
00:34:54.000This is where Democrats could be making a mistake.
00:34:56.000Really, electorally speaking, Democrats did well with suburbia this year because they seemed less threatening than President Trump.
00:35:02.000But if they continue with this routine, this intersectional coalition routine, this identity politics routine, black people, you should hate Trump because he's a racist.
00:35:09.000Women, you should hate Trump because he's a sexist.
00:35:12.000Hispanics, you should hate Trump because he's a racist.
00:35:14.000You do this too often, and then you suggest that all of Trump's supporters are racist, and there is, in fact, blowback.
00:35:20.000So when Sherrod Brown, whose main appeal in Ohio is that he is considered a blue-collar moderate reaching out to rural whites, when he says that he's running for president to stop President Trump's hate speech, giving license to racist violence, I'm not sure how he thinks that's actually going to help him win states like Ohio.
00:35:35.000I mean, a lot of my colleagues have thought about wanting to be president for a long time.
00:35:39.000And I really haven't until this election.
00:35:47.000I'm worried about longtime young federal judges that he puts on the bench.
00:35:51.000I'm worried long term about climate change.
00:35:54.000I'm worried about the hate speech coming out of the White House.
00:35:58.000And that's given license to for people to engage in racist or worse racist rhetoric or worse.
00:36:07.000Okay, they're doubling down on stupid.
00:36:09.000All they have to do is run against President Trump on the basis that they are more moderate than President Trump, that he's too extreme.
00:36:15.000Instead, they're running on the basis that President Trump is a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe.
00:36:18.000All of his followers are racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes.
00:36:21.000This is not the way you're going to win back Pennsylvania, Michigan, or Ohio.
00:36:24.000And yet, this is exactly what Democrats are doing on a routine basis right now, which is really dumb.
00:36:31.000Again, all Democrats have to do is say that President Trump overstates his case.
00:36:34.000There are serious problems in the country, and we have to deal with them rationally, but President Trump is not a rational person.
00:36:39.000Like, I don't want to give Democrats electoral advice because I would prefer them to lose.
00:36:43.000But the campaign that they're running right now is bad for the country.
00:36:45.000The campaign that suggests that everybody has to be broken down by race and class in separate groups to oppose President Trump, it's pretty ugly, ugly stuff.
00:36:54.000And meanwhile, the news is that hundreds of migrants in the caravan traveling from Central America have been done arriving.
00:37:00.000In the northern Mexico border city of Tijuana, setting up a potential confrontation with American authorities.
00:37:05.000We're gonna give you the update on that in just a second.
00:37:07.000So, the migrants are arriving in this caravan.
00:37:10.000They've arrived in Tijuana, and it marks the end of one struggle, according to the New York Times, in making it safely across the U.S.
00:37:15.000It signaled the start of another to get across that border, something President Trump has promised to impede, even for those seeking asylum.
00:37:22.000A few of the migrants were trying to figure out how to get appointments with American border officials to present their case for sanctuary, but many of them were trying to figure out what to do now.
00:37:31.000Were they going to try and seek sanctuary, try to cross illegally, or remain in Mexico?
00:37:35.000There's video of some of these folks trying to hop the fence from Tijuana into the San Diego area.
00:37:43.000There's a bunch of people who have like climbed up the fence.
00:37:53.000They're sort of sitting on top of the fence.
00:37:54.000Apparently, these folks jumped the fence, and then they saw Border Patrol, and they sort of just hung out near the fence and then climbed back over.
00:38:00.000So, the notion that they just kind of fled into the unprotected wilds of the United States is not actually true.
00:38:07.000When President Trump said there are people who are trying to illegally enter the country in this caravan, obviously that was true.
00:38:12.000Now is it a crisis that requires thousands of troops on the southern border?
00:38:16.000I don't think so, but by the same token, the notion that these folks are just coming here to abide by the law, there's not a lot of evidence of that either.
00:38:23.000Some of them are, And some of them aren't.
00:38:25.000Authorities in Tijuana said they expected between 1,500 and 2,000 migrants associated with the caravan to arrive by the end of the day on Thursday, with many hundreds more showing up throughout the rest of the week.
00:38:34.000That influx could possibly overwhelm the city's resources.
00:38:37.000Another 2,400 migrants associated with two other separate caravans were in Mexico City on Wednesday, according to the president of that city's Human Rights Commission, and they are staying in a vast temporary shelter set up in a sports stadium.
00:38:49.000You do have to ask why it is that the Mexican government is helping to Bring these folks to the American border.
00:38:54.000Like, if the Mexican government wants to help these folks out, it could just give them residency.
00:38:58.000They're obviously moving folks to America's southern border, and that is not the mark of a government that wants to work smoothly with that of the United States.
00:39:06.000Now, President Trump is right to be worried about illegal immigration, and he's not wrong to suggest that we have to vet the people coming in across the southern border.
00:39:14.000However, they're not a critical threat to America's national security, because we do have people at the southern border right now.
00:39:21.000And also, when Democrats deny that illegal immigration is a problem, they're wrong too.
00:39:26.000Meanwhile, there's a lot of news about the Mueller probe.
00:39:28.000Apparently, according to the Wall Street Journal today, special counsel Robert Mueller's office is now exploring whether longtime Trump advisor Roger Stone tried to intimidate and discredit a witness who's contradicting Mr. Stone's version of events about his contacts with WikiLeaks.
00:39:42.000So, as you'll recall, the Mueller investigation is trying to look into the idea that Trump campaign associates were working with the Russians, specifically WikiLeaks, which is a Russian-backed front group, to release information about Hillary Clinton in advance of the election in order to harm her.
00:39:57.000In grand jury sessions and interviews, prosecutors have repeatedly asked about emails, text messages, and online posts involving Roger Stone and his former friend, Randy Credico, a former New York radio personality.
00:40:07.000Stone has asserted that Credico is his back channel to WikiLeaks, a controversial transparency group, which Credico denies.
00:40:14.000They're apparently looking at texts between the two of them, suggesting that Credico had access in advance to the situation with WikiLeaks, and that he was passing that along to Roger Stone.
00:40:24.000Then the idea would be that Stone was coordinating with the Trump campaign.
00:40:27.000So you have to connect a lot of dots to get to President Trump here.
00:40:31.000Mr. Mueller's team is examining whether Stone, along with several other pro-Trump activists, knew in advance about WikiLeaks' release of Democrat emails in the 2016 campaign, according to people familiar with the matter.
00:40:42.000And then the question becomes, who is Roger Stone talking to on the other end with regard to the Trump campaign?
00:40:46.000President Trump is obviously agitated about all of this.
00:40:49.000He was tweeting out earlier today about how angry he is at the Mueller report.
00:40:54.000And the fact is that, you know, I don't know how worried he should be at this point, I think that it's a long stretch for him to be implicated in any of this, but we're going to have to wait for the report to come out in the end.
00:41:06.000Anyway, here is what President Trump was tweeting out a little bit earlier today.
00:41:10.000He said, the inner workings of the Mueller investigation are a total mess.
00:41:13.000They found no collusion and have gone absolutely nuts.
00:41:16.000They're screaming and shouting at people, horribly threatening them to come up with the answers they want.
00:41:20.000They're a disgrace to our nation and don't care how many lives they ruin.
00:41:24.000These are angry people, including the highly conflicted Bob Mueller.
00:41:29.000Fact check, he worked for Obama for four years, he worked for President Bush for eight years.
00:41:32.000They won't even look at all of the other bad acts and crimes on the other side.
00:41:35.000A total witch hunt like no other in American history.
00:41:39.000And then he talks about Bob Mueller protecting Crooked Hillary and Comey and McCabe and Lisa Page and her lover Peter S, that'd be Peter Strzok, and all of his friends on the other side.
00:41:47.000The only collusion is Democrats with Russia and many others.
00:41:49.000Now listen, I think there's a case to be made that Hillary Clinton should be, should be, Investigated.
00:41:56.000Her campaign should be investigated for ties to, for ties including the Fusion GPS tie to the Russian collusion dossier and all the rest of it.
00:42:05.000But we're gonna have to wait to see what comes out in this report before we can actually make a judgment.
00:42:08.000I'm not gonna prejudge evidence that has not actually, that has not actually been released at this point.
00:42:13.000Okay, time to Time for some things I like, and then some things that I hate.
00:42:16.000So things I like, as you know, I'm a big baseball fan.
00:42:19.000I've been getting into a book by Joe Torre, or really about Joe Torre, called The Yankee Years, written with Tom Verducci, and it's really a fun read.
00:42:29.000It's all about Joe Torre's tenure as manager of the Yankees, beginning in 1996 and stretching for more than a decade, and how he had to deal with Steinbrenner and how he had to deal with his own team.
00:42:40.000Again, if you're into baseball and you like baseball books, then this is a good book for you.
00:42:44.000The Yankee Years by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci.
00:43:02.000So I will have a trophy for the first time since I won a spelling bee back in third grade, I guess, if there's a trophy that comes along with this, which I hope there is.
00:43:36.000Here's Mayor Bill de Blasio, an idiot.
00:43:39.000Amazon understood that if you're going to come to New York City, you have to live with our values.
00:43:44.000And in the end, what we're going to see is not only a vast number of jobs, it's by far the biggest number of new jobs this city's ever seen.
00:43:51.000I mean, I don't even know what that means.
00:43:54.000What does that even mean they have to live by our values?
00:43:57.000What do they think, that Amazon was going to come in and start rounding up all the gays or something?
00:44:02.000What exactly is de Blasio trying to imply?
00:44:05.000What he's really trying to do is cover his own ass because the reality is that he, like all other Democrats, is willing to offer the store to a business that can help prop up his failing regime in New York.
00:44:16.000And meanwhile, One other thing that I don't like, so President Trump did an interview with the Daily Caller, and in that interview, he went after Antifa.
00:44:22.000Now, I am no friend of Antifa, because Antifa legitimately targets me, and they've been doing so for quite a while, right?
00:44:28.000They did so at Berkeley, they did so at Ohio State University.
00:44:31.000The other night, well, President Trump talked about Antifa, and here's what he said, he said, They better hope the opposition to Antifa decides not to mobilize, because if they do, they're much tougher, much stronger, potentially much more violent, and Antifa's going to be in big trouble.
00:44:46.000But so far they haven't done that, and that's a good thing.
00:44:48.000Okay, the reason that that's not good is because you actually do not want groups mobilizing in the civilian area in opposition to Antifa to pursue violence against other people.
00:44:59.000This is why the government has a monopoly on legitimate use of force except in self-defense.
00:45:04.000You actually don't want, you know, like we've seen brawls between Antifa and other groups in Portland, we've seen it in Berkeley.
00:45:11.000What would be better is if law enforcement were to do its job.
00:45:13.000And then President Trump talked about how it was law enforcement that was going to oppose Antifa, but the law enforcement was getting very angry.
00:45:19.000Well, again, law enforcement's anger should not be the standard.
00:45:22.000Law enforcement is there to enforce the law.
00:45:24.000None of this is particularly good, and none of it takes down the temperature at all, even though, again, I hate Antifa, and I think President Trump speaking out against Antifa is really a worthwhile thing, and a little bit of measured language here would be useful if we want to take down the temperature a little bit.
00:45:38.000Okay, well, we'll be back here tomorrow.
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