A woman opened fire in a courtyard at YouTube headquarters in Mountain View, California on Tuesday afternoon, wounding three people. She was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. We discuss what we know about the shooter, and what we don't know about her, without actually naming her and glorifying her in the way that the media glorifies mass shooters. We also discuss the possibility that the shooter may have been a screw loose guy, a person who creates these types of videos and is not in control of her own life. And finally, we discuss Robert Mueller's announcement that President Trump is not a criminal target, and President Trump says he s going to send the military on the border. We'll discuss all that and much more on today's show with Ben Shapiro on The Ben Shapiro Show! Subscribe to the Daily Wire to receive immediate access to all the latest breaking news and analysis from The Daily Wire and The Hill, wherever you get your news and information. Use the promo code: "GPODCAST" to receive 20% off your first month with discount code "UPLEVEL" at checkout at checkout. That's a discount code of 40% off the entire Daily Wire product line. Use promo code POWER10 at checkout and get 40% OFF your entire purchase when you place an order of $50 or more! You get 10% OFF the entire month, plus free shipping when you sign up at LegacyBox.com/LEGOODBOARD. and a FREE stock like a year-long membership when you become a member! Use the discount code: BONORABLE! Ben Shapiro's 5 stars and get 20% OFF THE FIRST MONTH! to receive $10 OFF THE FASTEST PRICING WEEKEND GET FREE Shipping starts starting on 6/7/27/28/ VIP PRICED! FREE FAST FOLLOWING THIS WEEKEND AND VIP SUPPORTING THE PODCAST AND VIP PROMOTION AND PATREON WEEKEND AT CHECK OUT THE CHALLENGE AND PRODUCING VIP SUPPORTED IN PERSONALIZED IN CHALLER CODE "UPON THE FIRST MODE? BONUS OFFER AND VIP RATE AND VIP TRAINING PLACE TO BUY TWO MONTH AND VIP REVIEW AND PATROCIAL PRODCAST WITH VIP SUPPORT AND PROGRAM AND PATRIOTS GET A MONTH OFF THE CHECKBOOK TO CHECK IN AND FREE MEDITATION TO SUBSCRIBER?
00:00:15.000All right, so we do have a lot to get to today.
00:00:17.000We're going to go through in fulsome detail everything that we know about the YouTube shooter, about the attempted murderer over at YouTube who shot herself after wounding several people.
00:00:27.000We're not going to mention her name because that's something that we don't do here on The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:02:36.000People want to think that their message is getting out there.
00:02:39.000So what we will discuss is everything we know about this woman without actually mentioning her specific name.
00:02:44.000Just what you need to know as news consumers.
00:02:47.000So according to Mercury News in San Jose, the night before this woman opened fire in a courtyard at YouTube's headquarters Tuesday afternoon, Mountain View Police found this woman sleeping in her car.
00:02:57.000She'd been reported missing by her family in Southern California, and her father told police she might be going to YouTube because she hated the company.
00:03:31.000She had about 55,000 followers on Instagram, I guess is the latest.
00:03:35.000She had a few followers on YouTube, and YouTube cracked down on some of her videos, and she was very angry at YouTube for that, and so her dad called the cops and said she might be going to YouTube.
00:03:44.000The cops obviously did nothing, so just like in Parkland, the cops were called over and over and over.
00:03:49.000There was no follow-up, and this person obviously was unwell.
00:03:52.000Okay, I'm not going to sit here and diagnose this person with anything, but a person who creates these kind of videos, there's a screw loose, okay?
00:03:59.000Just in conventional terminology, this woman had a screw loose.
00:04:03.000After this guy, the father, called the police, the police called the family at 2 a.m.
00:04:07.000Tuesday to say that this woman had been found and that everything was under control.
00:04:10.000But hours later, this woman was dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after shooting three people and causing an afternoon of terror at YouTube's headquarters.
00:04:17.000In an interview Tuesday night with the Bay Area News Group, this woman's father said his 38-year-old daughter told her family a couple of weeks ago that YouTube had been censoring her videos and stopped paying her for her content.
00:04:27.000She was angry, he said in an interview.
00:04:29.000It wasn't clear Tuesday night what Mountain View Police knew about her history with YouTube.
00:04:32.000A police spokeswoman confirmed that officers had found a woman of the same name asleep in a vehicle early Tuesday morning in a parking lot, and the officers made contact with the woman after the license plate of her vehicle matched that of a missing person.
00:04:44.000Out of SoCal, the woman confirmed her identity and answered subsequent questions.
00:04:47.000At the conclusion of their discussion, her family was notified that she had been located.
00:04:51.000So according to her dad, his daughter was a vegan activist and animal lover.
00:04:55.000As a youngster, she would not even kill ants that invaded the family home, instead using paper to remove them to the backyard.
00:05:00.000State records show she had once established a charity called Peace Thunder Inc., which
00:05:15.000And again, I'm not going to show you the YouTube videos because I don't think future shooters should have it in their mind that the media are going to give them the sort of coverage they seek if they go and shoot people.
00:05:25.000So according to this woman, she was actually quoted by the San Diego Union Tribune at a PETA rally in 2009 outside Camp Pendleton, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
00:05:34.000And she said, for me, animal rights equal human rights.
00:05:38.000She told her family that YouTube had stopped paying her for the content she posted to the site.
00:05:42.000YouTubers, of course, can receive payments if their videos have been monetized.
00:05:54.000But a bunch of her latest posts show evidence of her growing frustration.
00:06:00.000Apparently, all of her pages were taken down late on Tuesday.
00:06:02.000But, for example, in a March 18th Instagram post, she railed at YouTube, quote, This also happened to many other channels on YouTube.
00:06:14.000This is the peaceful tactic used on the internet to censor and suppress people who speak the truth and are not good for the financial, political gains of the system and big businesses.
00:06:22.000I recently got filter on Instagram too and maybe it's related to YouTube and YouTube staff asked Instagram to filter me here too and then she recorded a video on January 28th where she was complaining about her perceived discrimination by YouTube.
00:06:33.000She said, I'm being discriminated and filtered on YouTube and I'm not the only one.
00:06:37.000They restricted my ab workout video, a video that has nothing bad in it, nothing sexual.
00:06:41.000She has at least four YouTube channels, one in English and then others in Farsi and Turkish as well.
00:06:47.000So, the original story that was coming out of the police department is that this was a woman who was angry at an ex-boyfriend, and so she went into YouTube and started shooting up the place.
00:06:56.000It is now clear, or at least becoming clear, that there's not a lot of evidence for this, that it seems more likely that she had a vendetta against YouTube and she decided to just go and start shooting.
00:07:05.000The family apparently came to California from Iran in 1996,
00:07:09.000And apparently, this woman was living with her grandmother, and she was always complaining that YouTube ruined her life.
00:07:14.000So, apparently, nobody knows where she got the gun.
00:08:35.000We'll get right back to Parkland, which has a nice narrative that the media can glom onto, ignoring, of course, all the facts about what happened in Parkland, where the FBI ignored warnings and the local police ignored warnings, and then the shooting happened anyway.
00:08:46.000So, look for this shooting to hit the back pages in about five seconds flat.
00:08:50.000Again, because it doesn't promote the agenda that folks want it to promote.
00:08:53.000The entire left decided that they were going to jump immediately on this as it was happening.
00:08:58.000And this is one of the problems with social media, places like Facebook and YouTube and Twitter, is that people react immediately to all of this stuff as soon as it happens.
00:09:20.000We don't have the facts, but the narrative must be purveyed at all costs.
00:09:23.000And then folks on the right are saying, well,
00:09:25.000Maybe this woman was a religious Muslim.
00:09:27.000Maybe it's a terrorist attack, based on the initial report that it was a woman in a headscarf who walked in.
00:09:32.000So nobody actually waits for the facts to come out.
00:09:34.000It's important to wait for the facts to come out, because if you don't wait for the facts to come out, you screw things up.
00:09:39.000And in this particular case, the facts demonstrate that, once again, we had a mentally ill person who was basically being ignored by the cops, and the cops didn't do what they were supposed to.
00:09:51.000The police were told that she had a vendetta against YouTube.
00:09:53.000Now, the other thing that you may see in the coming days is the media tried to turn this into a defense of YouTube's policies.
00:10:00.000Suggesting, for example, that this woman was egged on by people who were angry at YouTube and angry at social media.
00:10:07.000That she was angered because there were so many people, on the right particularly, who talk about the problems with demonetization of video.
00:10:13.000Now, in order to get to that point, they would have to ignore the fact that this woman was, in fact, left-wing.
00:10:17.000I mean, she was rallying with people for the ethical treatment of animals.
00:10:20.000But that wouldn't stop the left before.
00:10:21.000The reality is that every time there's a shooting, the left immediately swivels and tries to blame it on the right.
00:10:26.000This goes all the way back to the JFK assassination, when the New York Times attempted to blame right-wingers for the JFK assassination, even though JFK was assassinated by a communist.
00:10:35.000Who may or may not have been in contact with the Cuban government.
00:10:39.000They suggested it was America's collective guilt.
00:10:41.000You may see that emerge in the aftermath of the shooting.
00:10:44.000But now you know what you need to know about the shooter.
00:10:46.000And again, it's pretty clear this does not fit into the narrative that the left would like from all of this.
00:10:51.000Now, what would have stopped something like this?
00:10:52.000Presumably a gun violence restraining order if she obtained her weapon legally.
00:10:55.000So some of the stuff that Marco Rubio is pushing and some of the stuff that's been pushed by David French over at National Review.
00:11:01.000The policy that suggests that family and friends could have gone to a judge and said this woman should not have guns because she's a danger to herself or others.
00:11:09.000That would have stopped her from getting a gun.
00:11:11.000Well, if the police had followed up and ensured that this woman did not have guns after it turns out that she was sleeping in her car and ranting about YouTube.
00:11:19.000One of the big problems that we have in American society with regard to the treatment of mental illness is we act as though a person who rants crazy things and lives in their car is just exercising normal American freedoms.
00:11:29.000You don't have the freedom to sleep in your car in public areas.
00:11:32.000And you don't have the freedom to be deeply mentally in danger to yourself or others.
00:11:37.000And the ACLU has made a cause, a crusade, out of ensuring that, for example, homeless people get to sleep on the streets of Los Angeles.
00:11:44.000This person was not homeless, presumably.
00:11:48.000And when there are problems like this, again,
00:11:50.000Jared Loeffner, the shooter in the Gabby Giffords situation, the shooter in Aurora, Colorado, the shooter in Sandy Hook, the shooter in Parkland.
00:12:01.000All of these people had serious mental health issues, serious mental health problems.
00:12:11.000I'm going to get to the other big story of the day, and that, of course, is regarding President Trump and whether he is a target of criminal investigation.
00:12:18.000Robert Mueller comes up with some interesting analysis.
00:12:22.000But first, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at PolicyGenius.
00:12:25.000So, 71% of people say they need life insurance, but only 59% of people have coverage.
00:12:30.000So, that's a pretty solid discrepancy.
00:12:32.000A lot of people who say they want life insurance haven't bothered to go get the coverage.
00:12:35.000So 12% of people are just procrastinating.
00:13:35.000Okay, so meanwhile, the other big news of the day yesterday.
00:13:38.000I'm still confused as to how we're actually supposed to pronounce his name.
00:13:42.000So for the sake of argument, we will say Mueller right now.
00:13:45.000But Robert Mueller, who is the special investigator who was tasked by the DOJ with checking into supposed Trump-Russia collusion in the last election cycle, he has now come out with some information and suggested that President Trump is not in fact a target of the investigation.
00:13:59.000When the rest of the left, the entire left,
00:14:08.000They can't believe that Robert Mueller isn't going to come in, deus ex machina, and oust President Trump from office with some sort of criminal indictment.
00:14:14.000Here's what The Washington Post reported that blew up the internet last night.
00:14:18.000Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III informed President Trump's attorneys last month that he is continuing to investigate the president, but does not consider him a criminal target at this point, according to three people familiar with the discussions.
00:14:29.000In private negotiations in early March about a possible presidential interview, Mueller described Trump as a subject of his investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election.
00:14:38.000Prosecutors view someone as a subject when that person has engaged in conduct that is under investigation, but there is not sufficient evidence to bring charges.
00:14:45.000The special counsel also told Trump's lawyer that he is preparing a report about the president's actions while in office and potential obstruction of justice, according to two people with knowledge of the conversations.
00:14:55.000Mueller reiterated the need to interview Trump, both to understand whether he had any corrupt intent to thwart the Russia investigation and to complete this portion of his probe that people said.
00:15:04.000Mueller's description of the president's status has sparked friction within Trump's inner circle as his advisors have debated his legal standing.
00:15:10.000So the president, some of his allies, they apparently are seizing on Mueller's words as an assurance that Trump's risk of criminal jeopardy is low.
00:15:17.000But other advisors say, well, a subject can quickly become an indicted target.
00:15:20.000So there are a couple of questions here.
00:15:23.000And some good news for Trump and some bad news for Trump in this report from The Washington Post about what Robert Mueller is labeling Trump, a target, a subject, but not a target of the investigation.
00:15:33.000After a year of investigation, more than a year of investigation by the DOJ, and about nine months of investigation by Team Mueller, there is no evidence to indict Trump at this point.
00:15:44.000So all of the talk about how Trump is on the ropes, and Trump is going to be ousted from office in a criminal investigation, there is not evidence at this point, which means that the only evidence that Mueller can get is from Trump himself.
00:15:57.000Right here, this brings us to some of the bad news for President Trump.
00:16:00.000When Mueller says that President Trump is a target of the, a subject, but not a target of the investigation, what he means is that he's still looking at everything Trump is doing, but he doesn't have enough information to indict.
00:16:58.000over the executive branch and firing anybody inside the executive branch, it's difficult to claim that there would actually be a solid case against President Trump.
00:17:08.000So I've done this before, but I'm gonna do it again.
00:17:10.000Let me explain to you what obstruction of justice constitutes under federal law.
00:17:13.000Code 1503, it's called the Omnibus Clause.
00:17:16.000Okay, it covers corruptly or by any threatening letter or communication, influencing or impeding or endeavoring to influence, obstruct or impede the due administration of justice.
00:17:25.000But the clause requires a pending judicial proceeding.
00:17:27.000There is no pending judicial proceeding right now.
00:17:30.000If there were a pending judicial proceeding, if, for example, Trump fired James Comey in order to protect Michael Flynn, then that would be one thing.
00:17:36.000But if he fired James Comey just because he got mad, or if he fired James Comey because he didn't want James Comey investigating him, then that would all be actually perfectly legal under this clause.
00:17:46.000It's only if there's a pending judicial proceeding and the president interferes with that pending judicial proceeding
00:17:50.000By firing someone, maybe, that you could theoretically say that's obstruction.
00:17:54.000Very difficult to make that case when the president obviously has the right to fire someone like James Comey, the former FBI director, who was underneath his rule, right?
00:18:02.000Under his purview in the executive branch.
00:18:03.000Okay, another clause of federal law that's often used when you're talking about obstruction is 18 U.S.
00:18:56.000There are no accusations at this point that Trump has destroyed evidence of any kind.
00:19:00.000So, again, very difficult to make a criminal case on obstruction of justice against the President of the United States.
00:19:05.000However, even if Trump talks to Mueller, and then he says something like, Yeah, I fired Comey because I didn't like what he was doing with Flynn.
00:19:12.000Now you're talking about a possible obstruction of justice charge.
00:19:15.000It would be difficult to prove in court.
00:19:16.000It would be really out of the box for the President of the United States to be actually charged with obstruction of justice.
00:19:23.000Obstruction of justice was part of the impeachment proceeding, however, against Richard Nixon.
00:19:27.000And this brings us to the second point with regard to what Mueller is doing.
00:19:30.000So what Mueller is doing here, right, is he is compiling a report to issue to Congress.
00:19:36.000That seems to me perfectly appropriate, considering that this is basically a political issue, but I'm not sure that it was inside Mueller's purview in the first place.
00:19:43.000Now, Alan Dershowitz, who's a defense lawyer, obviously a Harvard Law School professor, he has suggested that Mueller is operating outside his purview.
00:19:50.000His purview is not to issue reports to Congress.
00:19:52.000His purview is not to issue intelligence or counterintelligence reports.
00:19:56.000His issue is to do a criminal investigation.
00:19:58.000Either he's got the goods or he doesn't.
00:19:59.000If he doesn't have the goods, then he should shut up.
00:20:02.000That's Dershowitz's basic point here, is that every special counsel investigation is set, has set parameters, and Mueller has exceeded those parameters.
00:20:11.000Other people who believe this, Andy McCarthy over at National Review has made the same case, that Mueller's parameters have expanded and expanded and expanded, so now we're no longer talking about Trump-Russia collusion anywhere in here, right?
00:20:20.000Trump-Russia collusion has nothing to do with anything.
00:20:22.000Instead, we are now talking about something completely different, possible obstruction of justice by President Trump.
00:20:28.000But this is a problem for President Trump.
00:20:30.000Because, remember, there's an election coming up in 2018.
00:20:33.000And in just a second, I'm going to explain to you why Mueller's little report to Congress could be pretty devastating for President Trump.
00:20:39.000Just another reason why Trump probably should not talk to Mueller.
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00:23:05.000Hope will spring alive anew for Democrats and the turnout will be even greater than it otherwise would be because they will now have the grounds to go after President Trump.
00:23:13.000If he does it after the election and Democrats run the House, then there will presumably be some sort of impeachment proceeding because all they need is the drop of a hat and they're going to move to impeach Trump just because they don't like Trump.
00:23:31.000They'll talk about obstruction, obstruction.
00:23:33.000Sure, there was no collusion, but there was obstruction, and the president was acting in criminal fashion, and that means we have to impeach him.
00:23:39.000So, this is why Trump should not talk to Mueller, because if he talks to Mueller, is there any doubt that if you're Trump's lawyer, you're just gritting your teeth the entire time?
00:23:47.000If you're Trump's lawyer, President Trump has an unfortunate habit of making loud, brash statements.
00:23:53.000You can't do that in front of lawyers.
00:23:54.000You do that in front of Mueller, and Mueller will catch you in a perjury trap faster than you can say boo.
00:23:59.000So there you actually do have criminal liability, right?
00:24:02.000If Trump actually lies to the FBI, then you have a crime.
00:24:05.000But even if he doesn't lie to the FBI, if he provides any evidence that allows Mueller to suggest obstruction that's not quite criminal, but is uncomfortable and weird, then you could see Democrats move to impeach President Trump.
00:24:16.000And that, of course, is the end goal of so many of these folks.
00:24:21.000This investigation is still dangerous.
00:24:22.000Now, does that mean that Trump should fire Mueller?
00:24:24.000No, because then there would presumably be an impeachment proceeding against Trump by the House anyway for obstruction.
00:24:29.000But at least we can fight back if the Mueller report proves to be particularly weak.
00:24:34.000Everybody who's jumping to conclusions, suggesting that Trump is off the hook now, that's not right.
00:24:38.000Everybody who's suggesting that this shows that Trump is on the hook, that's not right either.
00:25:01.000If the Democrats try to impeach Trump in 2018, and he doesn't get convicted in the Senate, and he remains in office,
00:25:06.000How big is turnout going to be for Republicans in 2020?
00:25:10.000Nothing was better for Bill Clinton than Republicans attempting to impeach him in 1998.
00:25:13.000His approval rating skyrocketed to 60%.
00:25:16.000So I think the same thing will happen with Trump?
00:25:17.000No, because I think Trump is a more polarizing figure on the American public scene, or at least people react to him in a more polarized way.
00:25:24.000If Democrats try to impeach him on weak grounds, that would be a political mistake that could really hurt them in the re-elect effort in 2020.
00:25:34.000Okay, so meanwhile, the President of the United States, President Trump, has now decided that he wants to put the military on our southern border and Democrats are losing their minds.
00:25:41.000Here's President Trump announcing that he wants to put the military on the border yesterday.
00:25:47.000And we are going to be doing some things.
00:25:50.000I've been speaking with General Mattis.
00:25:51.000We're going to be doing things militarily.
00:25:53.000Until we can have a wall and proper security, we're going to be guarding our border with the military.
00:26:20.000ICE is a federal armed force that is on the border.
00:26:22.000This is just supplementing that federal armed force with members of the National Guard.
00:26:26.000And right now, there is a serious problem with not just illegal immigration, but flow of drugs and crime across that southern border.
00:26:34.000Even the Mexican ambassador came out yesterday and said that they understand President Trump's concerns, that, you know, this isn't completely ridiculous.
00:26:50.000OK, so even the Mexican ambassador, I think, is making some noises that are correct here.
00:26:54.000The Mexican government has facilitated illegal immigration.
00:26:57.000The Mexican government benefits from remittances from people who cross the border illegally into America and then send money back to their family back in Mexico.
00:27:06.000They have an interest in those sort of cross-border monetary transfers that have been happening into Mexico.
00:27:11.000And that's why Mexico is not anti-illegal immigration, even though they are anti-illegal immigration into Mexico.
00:27:16.000But there's a deeper question at issue here.
00:27:19.000First of all, I just want to point this out.
00:27:21.000The reality is that illegal immigration does carry with it serious risks, not just in terms of crime, but also in terms of the heroin epidemic.
00:27:28.000There's a great book called Dreamland by Sam Quinonez.
00:27:31.000I've recommended it on the show before in the things that I like.
00:27:34.000And one of the things that the book talks about is the fact that the heroin epidemic that's been taking place has largely been pushed by black tar heroin traffickers out of a small town called Elisco in the state of Nayarit in Mexico.
00:27:48.000They take drugs, they look for new markets, and they've set up an entire distribution system all throughout the United States.
00:27:55.000So, according to Quinones, Mexican drug cartels use customer service.
00:27:58.000They deliver just like pizza delivery, and it really appeals to this new class of addicts who are white, really kind of unfamiliar, maybe a lot of times, with the drug world.
00:28:05.000They don't want to get involved in skid row or housing projects where everyone has always bought dope.
00:28:09.000A drug addict wants one thing above all, and that's reliability, and these guys provided that above all.
00:28:13.000They relied on being very low profile.
00:28:15.000They didn't spend their money lavishly.
00:28:16.000They look like the day workers outside your Home Depot.
00:28:46.000And they saw that this was a route to real economic progress.
00:28:49.000One of the strangest things I encountered when I was doing this book was how Levi's 501s were these huge forces in pushing the system across the United States.
00:28:56.000They're these very well-made, very expensive jeans.
00:28:58.000And the system was a system for turning cheap heroin into stacks of Levi 501s.
00:29:03.000Because dealers noticed that addicts they were selling to were fantastic shoplifters.
00:29:07.000So, I mean, there's a whole system here.
00:29:09.000The book is really phenomenal and really, I think, a must-read.
00:29:13.000They talk about the fact that this entire Mexican drug cartel invaded the United States, and when people are about to be arrested and deported, those people are deported back to the United States.
00:29:22.000They just send people right across the border, new people right across the border.
00:29:25.000Trump is not wrong to use the military on the border in order to secure that border.
00:29:29.000But in a second, I'm going to explain to you something amazing, and that is why the left is so all-fired enamored, really enamored,
00:29:37.000with the idea of keeping the border open.
00:29:39.000And I have a couple of clips to show you and clips to talk about on that.
00:29:43.000But first, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at Chappaquiddick.
00:29:46.000So as I say, if they had not sponsored Chappaquiddick to be on the program, I would still be talking about Chappaquiddick.
00:29:59.000Not only is it well acted, not only is it beautifully shot, not only is it beautifully written, but it really tells a story about one of the worst crime covers up in the history of the United States.
00:30:10.000That is Ted Kennedy leaving Mary Jo Coppock to drown in about six feet of water.
00:30:14.000She actually died suffocating in an air bubble at the top of the car.
00:30:17.000So it wasn't that he left her and she was already drowned.
00:30:20.000She was alive in the car when he left her.
00:30:22.000And then he went home, he went to sleep, he woke up the next morning, and only the next morning did he call the cops, by which point she had suffocated to death in the air bubble at the top of the car.
00:30:30.000All he had to do was walk about 50 feet to a phone, make a call to the police, and Mary Jo Kopechni would be alive today.
00:30:36.000And if he had, by the way, Ted Kennedy probably would be president.
00:30:42.000The movie is fascinating in so many ways, not just because it paints a really realistic picture of what happened at Chappaquiddick, but also
00:30:48.000Because it took 50 years to even get this on the screen, which is an incredible thing.
00:30:51.000Again, imagine the top Republican candidate, top Republican contender, you know, somebody like a George W. Bush figure who left a woman who died at the bottom of a river and then was excused with two months of probation, right?
00:31:03.000And two months served was the time served, right?
00:31:05.000He didn't serve a day in jail for any of this.
00:31:07.000Imagine how quickly that movie would be made by Hollywood.
00:31:09.000It went for 50 years without a Hollywood movie being made about this.
00:31:13.000And if you're a conservative and you care about the culture and you care about film, you need to go see the movie because you must support films that actually tell the truth, even if they're 50 years late.
00:31:26.000And it does paint a well-rounded, I think, nuanced picture of Teddy Kennedy at the time and the Kennedy family, which was replete with scumbags and liars.
00:31:36.000I have a lot more to say about the U.S.
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00:35:24.000And I said because there's a group of people who really believe that America bears blood guilt for all of the problems in the rest of the world.
00:35:29.000They look at America, they say America's rich, America's powerful.
00:35:31.000There are a lot of people all over the world who are poor, who are not powerful.
00:35:35.000Lots of countries all over the world where people are suffering.
00:35:38.000That's our fault, because we're rich and powerful.
00:35:40.000In their view, world politics is a zero-sum game.
00:35:43.000Well, just demonstrating this, Tucker Carlson had on last night a fellow who calls himself a border angel.
00:35:51.000He is a person who attempts to smuggle people across the border.
00:35:56.000He's a founder of the caravan of migrants that was headed to the U.S.
00:36:00.000via the U.S.-Mexico border from Central and Latin America.
00:36:03.000And here he is with Tucker Carlson explaining why he thinks
00:36:06.000That it's fine to smuggle people across the border.
00:36:09.000And Tucker does a good job with both making the famed Tucker Carlson face, as well as quizzing this guy.
00:36:17.000In the United States, interfering in these countries, the demand for the drugs, invading sovereign land like Iraq, or interfering in the civil wars of Central America, that causes people to flee.
00:36:36.000You're blaming America for illegal immigration into America.
00:36:41.000Okay, and that is essentially what he's saying.
00:36:43.000Tucker does a good job of boiling it down there.
00:36:45.000But this guy is saying that America is responsible for sins all over the world, so America should take in all of the refugees from those sins.
00:36:52.000So a couple of things that are weird about that.
00:36:53.000Number one, if you really think America is such a terrible place filled with such awful people, why do people want to get in?
00:37:00.000If a country victimized my country and destroyed my country and made my country a wrecked state, why would I want to live in the country that just wrecked my state?
00:37:08.000Why would I want to be a citizen of the country that is apparently just a predatory force around the globe?
00:37:15.000Maybe just for the materialistic gain, I suppose.
00:37:18.000But the other point here is that there is an actual attempt by some members of the radical left to castigate America for our global sins.
00:37:26.000Again, the idea being that America is bad and America must be punished.
00:37:29.000Too much of America's foreign policy from the left has been based on this.
00:37:32.000When Barack Obama did his fabled apology tour all around the Middle East and Europe after he was elected, this was the basic message.
00:37:39.000America has sinned in the world, and we are here to rectify those sins.
00:37:43.000And if that means that we have to curb our economy with the Paris Accords, cracking down on American economic growth for the sake of chimerical environmental gain, then we will do it.
00:37:54.000Everything will be fine because we deserve it.
00:37:57.000And if it comes to propping up the UN, one of the most useless and nefarious institutions in the history of modern politics, if we have to do that in order to slap America itself, we'll do that because America is a guilty place filled with guilty people and they have to pay.
00:38:12.000Now, this view of the left is a really dangerous one.
00:38:15.000And if you're wondering why politics has become so polarized and so, so yelly and so screamy, it's because there's no way to have a rational conversation with people who legitimately believe that the United States has to pay for its past sins and that virtually everything counts as an American sin.
00:38:31.000So when President Trump says he's going to put people on the border, I'm all in on that.
00:38:34.000I think that's a perfectly rational thing to do.
00:38:36.000And I also think that the illegal immigration crisis is not all that hard to solve.
00:38:40.000It's just that there are a bunch of people on the left, particularly, who don't want that crisis solved.
00:38:44.000They want more illegal immigration because they think that America ought to pay on a moral level.
00:38:51.000There are many other Democrats who don't want to solve the illegal immigration situation because they believe that they're going to be able to get additional Democratic voters as people are made citizens, or they believe that, for example, a bunch of people are going to vote Democrat if they see nasty pictures of Republicans pushing for deportations.
00:39:09.000But again, this core group of leftists who believe that America is a bad force in the world, and therefore we must be punished by taking in all sorts of refugees and immigrants,
00:39:18.000That's dangerous stuff, and there's no way that the United States can survive with that sort of perspective becoming more and more common.
00:39:25.000Okay, so now I want to talk about something really weird that happened yesterday.
00:39:29.000This is a weird thing that happened yesterday to me.
00:39:34.000I have become friendly with a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School whose name is Kyle Kashuv.
00:39:39.000He first started becoming prominent when he was speaking out in favor of gun rights, even though he was a witness to what happened at the Parkland High School.
00:39:48.000And the entire left basically ignored him.
00:39:51.000And so I pointed out to the media that they should stop ignoring survivors who disagreed with them.
00:39:56.000And so he started getting booked a little bit more.
00:39:58.000And one of the things that has happened in the past couple of days is that there are a bunch of people on the left who have attacked him.
00:40:03.000And the reason this is relevant is because, of course, there was this massive boycott launch against Laura Ingraham by the left, suggesting that she had been mean to another Parkland survivor named David Hogg.
00:40:12.000David Hogg, of course, had been the kid who'd gone on TV and suggested that everyone who disagreed with him was basically a murderer with blood on their hands, taking NRA blood money.
00:40:21.000And Laura Ingraham said that he was whiny about his college admissions, an ill-advised comment, and then there was a boycott against her.
00:40:26.000Well, Kyle was attacked in much more nefarious fashion by the left, and no one seems to be commenting on this other than to say that the guy who did it is kind of crazy.
00:40:33.000So the guy who did it is a guy named Kurt Eichenwald.
00:40:36.000Kurt Eichenwald, on his bio on Twitter, five days ago, it said he was an MSNBC contributor and a Vanity Fair contributing editor, right?
00:41:33.000One, he's been actively working to trick journalists he believes work for non-Fox television networks into taking any action in something in which his Twitter account was linked.
00:41:41.000Two, he's been coordinating with some of the trolls involved with these people.
00:41:45.000Three, he in fact coordinated with the other guy with the podcast who was demanding my respect.
00:41:49.000He used the same attack on me as the other guy, which was unprovoked.
00:41:51.000He used this garbage pushed by conservative media and leftists that I am a fan of tentacle porn.
00:41:56.000That's what he actually wrote because about a year ago it turned out that Kurt Eichenwald tweeted out a link accidentally to Tentacle Porn.
00:42:34.000And the best part of it was where he says this.
00:42:36.000So remember, all of this started with Kurt Eichenwald saying that the boycott against Laura Ingraham was justified because Laura Ingraham had been mean to a Parkland survivor.
00:42:47.000Here is what Kurt Eichenwald wrote in this email to me that he sent to me, this crazy email, quote,
00:42:52.000I engaged in a DM conversation with Kyle, which was quite disturbing.
00:42:55.000I consulted a friend of mine who is a psychiatrist, a political conservative since that seems so important to you, and based on what he read, the psychiatrist said the following.
00:43:03.000One, Kyle is in desperate need of psychiatric help or support.
00:43:06.000The psychiatrist did not have enough information to assess if the issues he saw in the conversation were the consequence of the shooting, being psychologically unprepared for being thrust into the conservative media as a go-to kid, or if there's an underlying pathology that preceded these events.
00:43:21.000In fact, our DM conversation with you, which involves a lot of irrational rage, seemed to have been sparked by my asking you to debate.
00:43:28.000And then he goes on, and finally, at the very end of this email, he asks a series of questions suggesting that I am running Kyle, that I am the nefarious for, that Kyle doesn't have his own opinions, he wasn't conservative before he met me, that Kyle has been getting his cues from me.
00:43:41.000Now listen, I've openly said on the program that I talk with Kyle.
00:43:45.000They're like, there's no secret about this.
00:43:55.000But the best part of this email is where Kurt says at the very end of it,
00:44:05.000So, this guy, who purported to be a Vanity Fair contributing editor, he sends me an email accusing Kyle Cash of a Parkland survivor of being psychologically deficient, right, to having a psychiatric problem, and then says at the end of the email that I am harming him and I shouldn't forward the email.
00:44:21.000So naturally, I did what any rational person would do when you receive a crazy email like this.
00:44:25.000I immediately posted it on Twitter, the entire text of it.
00:44:27.000And Vanity Fair responded by sending out a notice that Kurt Eichenwald no longer works for Vanity Fair, that he hasn't worked for Vanity Fair for several years.
00:44:36.000So Kurt's Twitter biography shrunk yet again, and now he was no longer an MSNBC contributor or a Vanity Fair contributing editor.
00:44:43.000He actually emailed, I believe it was Brian Stelter at CNN, claiming that, no, he was still a Vanity Fair contributing editor.
00:44:50.000No, you're not, and you haven't written for us since 2014.
00:44:54.000So all of this is to say, listen, I don't want to pick on a guy when he's down, kick a guy when he's down, but all of this is to say that there are people on the left who do attack Parkland survivors, and the blowback on them does not extend to their venues.
00:45:09.000It doesn't really extend to their outlets.
00:45:12.000Joan Walsh, as we played yesterday, said some nasty things about Kyle Kashuv.
00:45:17.000There's been no boycott effort against CNN.
00:45:20.000When the left wants to boycott something, they're doing it for political purposes.
00:45:22.000The right usually is better than that, and usually doesn't engage in these kind of boycotts, unless it is a reverse boycott, like they're boycotting Chick-fil-A, and we say, okay, we'll all go shop at Chick-fil-A just to show that we're not going to allow you to boycott institutions we like out of business.
00:45:36.000It's amazing what the same left that says you can't target a Parkland shooter, can't target, rather, a Parkland survivor, will say that if it's a Parkland survivor we don't like, that we will actually go have them psychologically evaluated without their knowledge, and then say that you should not tell the person that that happened.
00:45:51.000It's an amazing thing, and frankly, I think that Kyle has a very solid legal case for defamation against Kurt.
00:45:56.000So we'll see how all of that goes, but things certainly are crazy.
00:45:59.000Okay, time for a couple of things I like and then a couple of things that I hate.
00:46:05.000Since it is the middle of Passover, I would be remiss if I did not play some music from the Prince of Egypt.
00:46:09.000I remember when I first saw this movie, as an Orthodox Jew, I found a couple of things a little irritating about it because it's not exactly biblically accurate in a couple of ways.
00:46:17.000So, for example, they use the trope that is used, I believe, in the original Ten Commandments as well, that the king of Egypt is the same age as Moses.
00:48:12.000He said he knew he would risk fan fury by casting an actress in the role made famous by Harrison Ford, but believes it is time the Explorer took a different form.
00:48:21.000Make Indiana Jones like a dog or something, I guess.
00:48:23.000I mean, any different form will work, apparently.
00:48:26.000In an exclusive interview, Spielberg nodded when asked if this new-look Jones could be female and added, we'd have to change the name from Jones to Joan, and there'd be nothing wrong with that.
00:48:33.000He's been a vocal champion of the Time's Up campaign for gender equality in the movie industry.
00:48:38.000And of course, he was married to the actress Kate Capshaw since 1991.
00:49:10.000It's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Actual Skull is where we are at this point.
00:49:14.000But when you have Steven Spielberg saying that we're going to take iconic male characters and then shift them to female, I've said this before, I find it really stupid.
00:49:21.000One of the things that's great about film, one of the things that's great about art, is that specificity
00:49:27.000So the more specific a character is, the better the art is, because in specific, we see what we have in common with other people.
00:49:32.000When you draw a person really well, what you see is what I have in common with that person, and that's universal.
00:49:37.000If you draw people broadly, so broadly that you can legitimately just take a woman and put in a man's role, then it's not good.
00:49:43.000It's not, like, I think this is the reason that the movie Atomic Blonde didn't do well at the box office, is because, basically, Charlize Theron is playing a male role, but she's just a woman.
00:49:53.000And I guess this is for female equality or some such, but it's okay to have a female action star who's a woman, right?
00:49:58.000I mean, Ridley Scott did it with Aliens with Sigourney Weaver, and it works fine, because guess what?
00:50:03.000Sigourney Weaver plays a woman, and she plays a woman like a woman.
00:50:06.000And she's a very aggressive woman in that film, obviously.
00:50:08.000But she plays it like a woman, and you couldn't put a man in that role and have them read the same lines.
00:50:12.000The whole point of Indiana Jones is, Indiana Jones is a dude.
00:50:34.000But it's irritating to suggest that women and men are exactly the same, and therefore you can just pop a woman in a man's role, and it's totally fine.