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00:00:00.000President Trump threatens Iran with fire and fury, the long-awaited FISA warrant application against Carter Page is released, sort of, and President Trump's poll numbers still look solid.
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00:01:40.000What everyone is apparently very afraid of is that we are going to get into a nuclear exchange with the Iranians, who we were told, by the way, don't have nuclear weapons.
00:01:48.000Well, because Iranian dictator Hassan Rouhani, who really is just a stand-in for the mullahs,
00:01:54.000He said over the weekend that if the United States got into a shooting war with the Iranians, then it would be the quote unquote, mother of all wars.
00:02:01.000Now, this is something that the Iranians have been saying frequently since 1979, the mother of all wars.
00:02:06.000We're going to take on the great Satan and all the rest of it.
00:02:09.000Well, President Trump was in kind of a bad mood over the weekend.
00:02:12.000You can just tell, like from his Twitter feed, you can tell that he was in a bad mood.
00:02:15.000One of the nice things about the president, it's so funny, everybody is always doing this sort of Kremlinology on the administration.
00:02:20.000Kremlinology is what people used to do in the 1980s, 1970s, where you were trying to figure out by the public statements of the Russian administration, the Soviet Union, you were trying to figure out what it was they were thinking.
00:02:31.000So it was all this kind of puzzling out, what exactly are they doing behind the scenes?
00:02:35.000With President Trump, ain't no Kremlinology.
00:02:37.000Okay, it's just what the guy says on Twitter.
00:02:39.000So President Trump goes on Twitter and he tweets out this.
00:03:00.000This is apparently the sort of DEFCON 2 of Twitter.
00:03:09.000If Twitter actually had a bold or italics function, then we'd presumably be in the middle of a nuclear exchange already.
00:03:15.000Now, people on the left take this tweet and they say, well, this means that the president of the United States is going to start a war with Iran.
00:03:21.000He's going to go into Iran to distract from his domestic scandals.
00:03:25.000First of all, why would he possibly want to distract from the fact that his poll numbers are pretty good, as we're going to get to in just one second?
00:03:32.000I think that we need to take a little bit of a deep breath when it comes to President Trump's tweeting.
00:03:37.000I have been saying this consistently for more than two years, that just because the president tweets something doesn't mean that it means anything.
00:03:43.000I'm old enough to remember when the president of the United States said about North Korea that there would be fire and fury and fury and fire and fire fury fire fur fury.
00:03:57.000And then there was a missile alert, a fake missile alert over Hawaii.
00:04:00.000And everybody said, oh, we're on the brink of massive thermonuclear war.
00:04:06.000And then it turns out that President Trump, all he really wanted was to go to South Korea and play golf with Kim Jong-un.
00:04:10.000That's really all he wanted out of the thing.
00:04:11.000And then he came back and he said that Kim Jong-un had been disarmed, which he hadn't.
00:04:15.000And that was pretty much the end of it.
00:04:17.000We went back to what we were doing before, which was waiting around.
00:04:20.000The idea that Trump is about to go to war with the Iranians because the Iranians said something is so ridiculous that it is beyond compare.
00:04:27.000All of the people out there who are doing the panic attack stuff, oh, he's got his finger on the nuclear button.
00:04:41.000And all of the talk about how we're five seconds away from the nukes flying?
00:04:45.000First of all, I think that's an implicit rebuke to the Obama administration, which has said that the Iranians are definitely trying to moderate.
00:05:06.000It turns out that if you're going to talk about failed administration policies with regard to Iran, you might want to start with the prior administration, not with the current administration.
00:05:15.000If you want to talk about Trump's rhetoric, you may want to talk more about the fact that President Obama handed actual cash to terrorists.
00:05:22.000With the suggestion that this was somehow going to turn them into a bunch of moderates.
00:05:26.000And now here they are talking about the mother of all wars.
00:05:28.000Okay, so President Trump says all of this and everybody goes nuts over all this.
00:05:53.000Well, the president is predictably unpredictable.
00:05:57.000What that means is when he says stuff like this, he can fairly guarantee there's no war coming.
00:06:01.000The president has the opposite approach of Teddy Roosevelt.
00:06:03.000Teddy Roosevelt famously said that you have to speak softly and carry a big stit.
00:06:07.000For President Trump, it's tweet loudly and then get together with some FaceTime and pat each other on the back.
00:06:12.000So I think the chances are much better that there is some sort of summit in Dubai between Trump and Rouhani within the next year and a half than any sort of serious military activity happens between Iran and the United States in the next year and a half.
00:06:22.000But it just goes to show you the tenterhooks that Democrats are on.
00:06:31.000I don't even think that the Democrats are all that concerned about this stuff.
00:06:33.000I really don't think the Democrats think that the missiles are a fly and that we're this far away from nuclear war.
00:06:38.000I think they are just trying to promote a notion that we are very close to some sort of destabilizing event, even though things are relatively stable.
00:06:54.000According to a brand new Rasmussen poll, President Trump's approval numbers have now climbed back to 46%, which is near the highest of his presidency.
00:07:01.000All the other polls have reflected that bump as well.
00:07:04.000The NBC Wall Street Journal poll over the weekend showed Trump at an all-time high of 45%.
00:07:07.000Now, it is important to note that 45% is not 50%.
00:07:11.000But it is also important to note that the President of the United States won his election when his approval rating was about 42-43%.
00:07:16.000So you don't have to have really high approval ratings in order to win a presidential election.
00:07:21.000And all of this despite the fact that President Trump's moves with Vladimir Putin last week at a Helsinki conference were not wildly popular with anybody except for Republicans.
00:07:30.000The poll showed 53% of Republicans approved of Trump's behavior at his meeting with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, which isn't a good number among Republicans.
00:09:09.000It doesn't touch him, because pretty much everything is baked in.
00:09:12.000People have an image of particular people, and they jump to that image whenever they are in doubt.
00:09:18.000So Republicans have an image of President Trump as a fighter who's willing to take on the media and who's being wrongly maligned by a bunch of people on the left.
00:09:25.000And so whenever anything bad happens to Trump, they jump right into that framework.
00:09:28.000And Democrats have a framework of Trump where everything he's doing is simultaneously buffoonish and evil.
00:10:54.000And the reason they usually win, when I say usually, I mean that only one president has ever been defeated after one term without a serious third party challenger since 1932.
00:11:37.000But there are other ramifications as well.
00:11:38.000I'll talk about those in just a second.
00:11:41.000Let's talk about how much money you're spending on stamps.
00:11:45.000Okay, the reality is that when you go to the post office, you're spending more money than you're actually spending just being in the post office.
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00:14:03.000Trump's approval rating has basically been the same or higher.
00:14:06.000But the congressional generic ballot has changed radically in favor of Democrats.
00:14:10.000So at the beginning of June, Democrats led Republicans in the generic ballot by three percentage points.
00:14:15.000Now that number is 7.4% according to RealClearPolitics.
00:14:18.000So looking at President Trump's approval numbers and saying that he is successful or unsuccessful based on those approval numbers, I think is a bit of a misdirect.
00:14:26.000You know, President Obama also had remarkably stable poll approval numbers.
00:14:58.000They proceeded to lose another 12 governorships.
00:15:00.000They proceeded to lose a bunch of state houses.
00:15:03.000In other words, the presidency of the United States is not the best indicator of whether a president is successful in his political agenda or not.
00:15:10.000I think that the polls that actually matter and the results that actually matter are some of those congressional down-ballot races.
00:15:16.000Now, the good news is Democrats are absolutely blowing it on every front.
00:15:20.000So, if this isn't a referendum about Trump, and it is a referendum on Democrats, then perhaps Democrats ought to get their act together, but they're not getting their act together.
00:16:03.000And here's what Trey Gowdy had to say.
00:16:06.000There was this equivocation during the press conference that, I'm glad he corrected it, but when you're the leader of the free world, every syllable matters.
00:16:14.000And you really shouldn't be having to correct it when you're the leader of the free world.
00:16:20.000So this would be an opening for Democrats, right?
00:16:22.000You would assume that there are a bunch of Republicans who aren't super happy with what Trump did in Helsinki, and so they would be kind of warm to a Democratic message that said, you know, the president really shouldn't have acted like that.
00:16:32.000But Democrats are so reactionary at this point.
00:16:35.000We are in the midst of a velocity increase in politics.
00:16:41.000What I mean by that is that when you heat up a gas,
00:16:44.000Then one of the things that happens when you heat up a solid, one of the things that happens, the reason that ice melts, for example, is that the molecules start moving faster.
00:17:08.000With statesmanship and some level of decency or some level of moderation to other people's screw-ups, instead, we get people reacting as wildly as possible, which means that, again, not screwing up my physics here, every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
00:17:24.000What that means is that if the Democrats are ping-ponging off Republicans incredibly hard, Republicans are going to recoil in the exact opposite direction.
00:17:31.000So, Trey Gowdy criticizes the president in somewhat measured tones,
00:17:35.000And then Democrats lose their minds and suggest that Trump is actually in the pay of the Russians.
00:17:38.000So Susan Rice, who you will recall is the lady who went on national television and lied repeatedly about Benghazi.
00:17:44.000She was the lady who said that it was actually a YouTube video responsible for a terrorist attack that ended with the murder of four Americans.
00:17:50.000She lied to the American people about Iran.
00:17:52.000She lied to the American people repeatedly.
00:17:54.000She was back on national television, this time suggesting that Trump was in the pay of the Russians.
00:17:58.000He's taken a series of steps that, had Vladimir Putin dictated them, he couldn't have mirrored more effectively.
00:18:05.000What his motivations are, I think, is a legitimate question, one that I trust that the special counsel is investigating.
00:18:13.000But the policies that this president has pursued globally have served Vladimir Putin's interests in dividing the West, undermining democracy.
00:18:23.000increasing fissures within NATO and has done very little to advance U.S.
00:19:21.000And the American people are sitting idly by.
00:19:24.000Okay, so Maxine Waters says that Trump is basically like Mickey Mouse and the Sorcerer's Apprentice, that he puts on the wizard's hat and then proceeds to break up all the brooms.
00:19:32.000But in any case, if you think that this is not going to drive Republicans more into the arms of President Trump, you're out of your mind.
00:19:38.000When Michelle Wolf, supposed comedian, alleged comedian, when she suggests that ICE is like ISIS, you really think that Republicans are going to respond the way you think they are?
00:20:17.000It's popular nowadays to say ISIS is bad, but there's no better representation of American values right now than ISIS.
00:20:26.000And as an equal opportunity employer, we accept all levels of experience and education, from low to very low, and actively welcome those with diagnosed— Okay, and then they create an ICE flag that's black, and all these people are wearing masks, so it looks like ISIS, right?
00:20:48.000Okay, in just a second, I want to talk about the moderates in the Democratic Party who are struggling and trying to figure out exactly how to prevent their party from being taken over by exactly the sort of sentiment that leads to Republicans retaining their majority.
00:22:32.000So James Comey, the most self-serving FBI director and former FBI director in American history, he tweets out, Democrats, please, please don't lose your minds and rush to the socialist left.
00:22:41.000This president and his Republican Party are counting on you to do exactly that.
00:22:44.000America's great middle wants sensible, balanced, ethical leadership.
00:22:47.000Well, when Comey runs for president on the Democratic side in 2020, it's gonna be lit, as the kids say.
00:22:52.000But the fact that he is actually saying something true here is pretty amazing.
00:22:58.000It's the first time he's said something true in a while, actually, but that's pretty amazing stuff.
00:23:02.000People are beginning to realize that the Democratic rush to the left is actually going to hurt them.
00:23:06.000And so Democrats have been struggling to push a third-way message.
00:23:10.000So over the weekend, the Democrats held a big conference in Columbus, Ohio, where they were attempting to force back against the sort of
00:23:17.000Okay, so here's what the Miami Herald and McClatchy say.
00:23:20.000In other words, everything the empowered liberal base has spent a year and a half mobilizing against.
00:23:37.000Democrats gathered here in Ohio's capital city on Thursday and Friday in what was an opening salvo of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, part of a conference organized by the center-left think tank Third Way.
00:23:48.000The longtime Washington-based group was unveiling the findings of a year-long assessment launched after 2016, hoping to convince potential presidential contenders that they don't have to adopt the hard-left agenda and style of a Bernie Sanders progressive, included in the report.
00:24:25.000Politics has become a referendum on culture.
00:24:27.000It is not a referendum on actual policy anymore.
00:24:29.000And so there are too many people in the Democratic Party who resonate to the cultural critique posed by the intersectional left, by the Ocasio-Cortezes and Bernie Sanderses of the party.
00:24:39.000It's become a bumper sticker party that is mainly focused not on it's the economy stupid or the Clintonian third way.
00:24:46.000Instead, it is heavily focused on this virtue signaling I go to Whole Foods and I put an anti-Trump bumper sticker on my car feeling.
00:24:52.000That's why the entire Democratic Party has been hijacked by this radical left that has better bumper stickers.
00:24:57.000Because let's face it, who had better bumper stickers?
00:25:59.000It's not that men are sitting around going, you know what?
00:26:01.000I would really like my wife to be paid less when she goes on maternity leave.
00:26:06.000I would really like for women to be paid nothing when they go on maternity leave.
00:26:09.000It's just there are some of us who believe that the market is not designed to actually force businesses to pay for people not to work, that that's not what companies do.
00:26:18.000Like, I believe we have a maternity leave policy at this company, I'm not sure, but that is only because we want to retain our employees, not because we think that it's actually great policy to pay people not to work.
00:26:28.000But according to this sector of the Democratic Party, it's all about evil males, and this makes certain people feel good.
00:26:34.000It makes you feel better to target other people in politics than it does to maybe acknowledge that there are forces in the market that don't benefit you.
00:26:42.000But it's going to be very difficult for Democrats to overturn this sort of cultural feeling of the Democratic Party.
00:27:27.000He says Ryan's district, this is according to The Intercept, is one of the few poor majority-white districts that is represented by a Democrat.
00:27:33.000But he won't be running on a stereotypical working-class persona.
00:27:36.000Instead, he believes his path to the White House runs through the yoga vote.
00:27:43.000Ryan has long been a champion of mindfulness, meditation, and similar pursuits, and has even created a quiet-time caucus in the House of Representatives.
00:27:53.000James Gimian, publisher of The Mindful Magazine, who knows Ryan, said he isn't sure whether Ryan will run for president, but that the yoga vote has gone mainstream in recent years.
00:28:00.000The so-called yoga voters are the kind of folks who realize that while they grew up with their mom saying, pay attention, nobody trained them in how to pay attention and used their mind to focus on what's important.
00:28:20.000This is going to cut against the perception that Democrats are a bunch of pansies who engage in yoga and mindfulness meditation in their spare time.
00:28:26.000I can't imagine why they would possibly lose.
00:28:28.000I don't know, like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania.
00:28:32.000Remember, Hillary Clinton said that those 30,000 deleted emails were all about yoga.
00:28:39.000The Democrats, whenever you have a party that appeals to a particular base, you have to think, who is sort of the person you're appealing to?
00:28:46.000When you make a TV show, if you're in Hollywood,
00:28:49.000There's somebody that the creator of the TV show has in mind, right?
00:28:52.000Who is the ideal audience for this TV show?
00:28:55.000So ESPN, the ideal audience is probably a minority male, okay?
00:28:58.000Because minority males tend to watch more sports than non-minority males, so that is their target audience.
00:29:03.000The same thing is true with regard to, you know, the hunting and fishing network.
00:29:07.000If there is one, that is targeting white males disproportionately.
00:29:11.000Lifetime is targeting a middle-aged woman who's probably at home during the daytime to watch Lifetime, right?
00:29:18.000So is your target audience—do the Democrats really think their target audience is going to be women who go to yoga classes?
00:29:24.000It seems to me they already know that they won those people.
00:29:26.000What they actually need to target is that blue-collar guy living in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, because if Hillary Clinton had spent any time doing that, she wins the election.
00:29:43.000I can't imagine why they're losing election after election.
00:29:45.000I just can't imagine why that's happening.
00:29:46.000OK, in just a second, I want to talk about the other big news of the weekend, which is this released FISA warrant application regarding Carter Page.
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00:31:19.000Alrighty, so let's talk a little bit about the release of this FISA warrant application against former Trump foreign policy advisor Carter Page.
00:31:26.000So over the weekend, the DOJ, the FBI, they released via a FOIA request, a Freedom of Information Act request from Judicial Watch, they released the application for the FISA warrants against Carter Page.
00:31:37.000Now, if you haven't been following the Mueller investigation and all the collusion stuff for a long time, quick reminder, Carter Page was a foreign policy advisor for President Trump.
00:31:46.000The FBI and the intel community thought that Carter Page was actually acting as a go-between for maybe, maybe the Trump campaign and the Russians.
00:31:55.000At the very least, they thought that he was working with the Russians to do their work as some sort of foreign bidder, basically.
00:31:59.000That he was an advisor to the Kremlin and they were paying him.
00:32:03.000Of the foreign policy intelligentsia, of the intelligence community.
00:32:08.000And that had been their opinion since 2012-2013.
00:32:10.000Well, they took out a warrant application against Carter Page in October 2016.
00:32:14.000The suggestion by some on the right is that the reason that they went after Carter Page is because Carter Page was attached to the Trump campaign and because they were attempting to drum up some sort of evidence against Trump in advance of the election.
00:32:26.000I've always been more than slightly skeptical of this particular allegation, simply because it turns out that the Russia investigation, according to Devin Nunes, not according to me, according to Devin Nunes of the House Intelligence Committee, was launched on the back of the George Papadopoulos investigation.
00:32:40.000That was another low-level advisor to the Trump campaign who supposedly was meeting with a London professor who actually was a Kremlin cutout, and then was trying to coordinate with the Trump campaign, right?
00:32:50.000And Papadopoulos has pled guilty to lying to the FBI, and he'll spend a little bit of time in jail.
00:32:54.000So, everyone is focused in on this FISA warrants application because the suggestion is that this is good evidence the intelligence community was trying to get Trump.
00:33:02.000Well, over the weekend, they released a very, very redacted version of this Carter Page FISA warrant.
00:33:07.000The argument is that the Carter Page FISA warrant was basically gotten on the back of the so-called Steele dossier.
00:33:12.000You'll recall that the Steele dossier was a dossier compiled by Hillary Clinton and the firm Fusion GPS.
00:33:17.000It was an OPPO research file, and then eventually it was supplied to the FBI, and that was used to go after Carter Page.
00:33:23.000So this was a way to sort of officialize
00:33:28.000Now, the suggestion by Republicans was that all of this was trumped up in order to make Trump look bad.
00:33:38.000Now, the information was not released before the election.
00:33:40.000We didn't actually see any of this stuff before the election.
00:33:43.000However, the suggestion is that the intelligence operatives were politicized in some way.
00:33:47.000Now, is there some credibility to the idea the intelligence operatives were politicized in some way?
00:34:05.000But we don't know that from this application.
00:34:07.000So you're going to hear a lot today on the radio and in the media from people on the right that this FISA warrant application is clear evidence that the FBI was attempting to target Trump members of the campaign in order to get Trump.
00:34:21.000That's not really what this application shows.
00:34:22.000Maybe the application will show that when we get at the whole thing, but what this application really shows is a few things.
00:34:27.000First of all, it does show that the FBI relied heavily on the so-called Steele dossier in taking out this application for a surveillance warrant against Carter Page.
00:34:35.000The dossier was compiled by Christopher Steele, as you recall, at the behest of Hillary Clinton and Fusion GPS.
00:34:41.000It was allegedly handed over to the FBI in September 2016 and served as a key component of the FISA warrants application.
00:34:48.000It was not a minor role, it was the key component.
00:34:50.000With that said, most of the Steele dossier had to do with Trump and Paul Manafort, and none of that stuff made it into this warrants application, but it didn't, but the part about Carter Page did, which suggests that the FBI took it seriously.
00:35:02.000We don't know how much of the Steele dossier was corroborated.
00:35:05.000So what you're hearing from a lot of folks on the right is that the entire Steele dossier was absolute tripe, and that none of it was corroborated.
00:35:13.000We know certain parts have obviously not been corroborated, the most inflammatory parts about Trump being peed on by Russian whores and all that.
00:35:20.000None of that's been corroborated, but we don't know what's been corroborated because all of the corroborating evidence was redacted in this FISA warrants application.
00:35:28.000And they're just pages and pages of blacked out material, so we don't actually know what the FBI was doing there.
00:35:34.000OK, one thing we do know is that when when Devin Nunes suggested that the application didn't warn the FISA court that this was based on an OPPO research file from Hillary Clinton,
00:37:06.000But the fact they were never able to get anything on Carter Page
00:37:09.000Suggest that maybe this was a case of overzealousness.
00:37:12.000A final myth that has to be put to bed, the FBI warrants application here did not use a Yahoo News file in order to go after Carter Page.
00:37:21.000They used the Yahoo News story that was leaked by Christopher Steele.
00:37:25.000Not in order to corroborate Christopher Steele's story, but in order to talk about what exactly Cairo Page's response to the actual dossier was.
00:38:15.000However, Robert Jeffress, who is a pastor, he came out and he then threw Ronald Reagan under the bus, suggesting that if you're worried about Donald Trump's womanizing, perhaps you should be worried about Ronald Reagan's womanizing.
00:38:27.000Back in 1980, evangelicals chose to support a twice-married Hollywood actor who was a known womanizer in Hollywood.
00:39:26.000I don't know why the president is really all that concerned right now.
00:39:31.000Like, really, he seems he seems worried about a lot of things.
00:39:34.000And I'm not saying why he's so worried right now.
00:39:35.000I mean, to be frank with you, there's no bad situation on the horizon.
00:39:38.000There's nothing terrible happening right now.
00:39:41.000And if you were not on Twitter, everybody would have a certain sense of stability that they lack right now.
00:39:45.000But he tweeted out this morning, the Amazon Washington Post has gone crazy against me ever since they lost the Internet tax case in the US Supreme Court two months ago.
00:41:02.000Finally, Trump may be right about Amazon competing other businesses out of the market, but this idea that the Washington Post is a lobbying outfit for Amazon is absurd.
00:41:10.000The Washington Post was the anti-Republican going back decades.
00:41:43.000The biggest obstacle to Trump's success is this feeling that everything is variable, that everything is volatile, that everything is changing at all times.
00:41:49.000But things aren't actually changing all that much.
00:41:56.000When things are this good, the level of panic in the country should not be this high.
00:42:01.000And President Trump is contributing to that with these tweets.
00:42:04.000The president has done a fairly good job of governing.
00:42:07.000The stuff he says and the stuff he does are two very different things.
00:42:10.000When it comes to policy, the president's policy has been overall quite conservative.
00:42:14.000And the results can be seen in the strength of the United States right now.
00:42:19.000If we could just dispense with the feeling of chaos, I think everybody, honestly, I think he'd waltz to re-election.
00:42:23.000I think Republicans would be in much better shape in the Congress.
00:42:26.000I really think it's almost, it's almost that simple.
00:42:28.000Okay, time for a Thing I Like, and then we'll do a couple of things that I hate.
00:42:32.000So, Thing I Like, we're gonna do some jazz this week.
00:42:34.000The reason we're going to do some jazz this week is because I'm annoyed.
00:42:37.000And one of the reasons that I'm annoyed is because there was this whole hubbub last week in which a bunch of people on the left suggested that I was a racist.
00:42:44.000Why did they suggest that I was a racist?
00:42:45.000Well, they couldn't actually come up with any evidence that I was a racist.
00:42:47.000The reason I was a racist was supposedly because I don't like rap.
00:42:55.000I've thought rap is garbaggio since I was a small child, because it sounds to me like rhythm and talking with no actual melody or harmony.
00:43:02.000The small elements of melody and harmony that exist do not make up for the actual bulk of rap, which is somebody speaking rhythmically to a beat.
00:43:11.000That's what distinguishes rap from other forms of music.
00:43:14.000I've said I don't think it's a form of music, and this got me in all sorts of... So people say, how dare Shapiro not like rap?
00:43:19.000If you don't like rap, it means you don't like black people.
00:43:22.000Which is really weird, because there are a lot of people who don't like classical music.
00:43:25.000I wouldn't suggest they don't like white people.
00:45:20.000OK, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:45:26.000All righty, so a bunch of people from the movie Fantastic Beasts got up at Comic-Con and started lecturing about how it's time to impeach Trump.
00:45:34.000Because that's just what I need to hear.
00:45:35.000What I need to hear is Zoe Kravitz, who plays Leta Lestrange, say that she would impeach Trump.
00:45:41.000And apparently they came up with their own impeachment spell.
00:45:53.000Okay, the reason that everybody was doing this was apparently Johnny Depp, who appears as Grindewald in the movie, made a surprise appearance after the panel in full makeup and character as Grindewald and delivered a fascist speech that borrowed from President Trump, because of course Trump is a fascist, with a magical supremacy twist.
00:46:08.000He said, we who live for freedom or truth, the moment has come to rise up and take our rightful place in the world.
00:46:12.000And then the star of the film, Eddie Renmayne, who plays the magizoologist Newt Scamander,
00:46:18.000What's happened is Grindelwald's belief that pure blood should reign over the non-magical beings.
00:46:39.000It's all about Trump, is by Emily Zanotti over at Daily Wire.
00:46:42.000Okay, if you wonder why people on the right are annoyed by the folks in the culture who insist on inserting themselves into politics, and then suggest that they're not actually political, they're just speaking out on behalf of human rights, well, this is why.
00:46:54.000If you've decided to make a metaphor about how President Trump is actually Hitlerian, and then you create a spell called Impetuous Maximus, and then you go in front of Comic-Con and you brag about it,
00:47:05.000It's just, it's just a thing that's going to happen.
00:47:08.000It's really... Okay, and then here's, as I've said before, the left wants to claim the commanding heights in the culture, the right wants to claim the commanding heights in politics, and both of them are getting their wish.
00:48:17.000What we actually need next time is we need a 72-year-old woman who sounds a lot like Hillary Clinton and acts a lot like Hillary Clinton and is just about as sincere as Hillary Clinton but also thinks she's a Native American.
00:48:34.000Okay, now let's do a quick Federalist Paper.
00:48:36.000So we are all the way up to Federalist 38, moving steadily through those Federalist Papers.
00:48:39.000Every week we do one so that you have a little bit more knowledge about the foundations of the country and the background of the Constitution.
00:48:44.000Federalist 38 is by James Madison, the so-called father of the Constitution, and he writes about the difficulty of coming together regarding a Constitution, and then he says that critics of the Constitution aren't being consistent in their critiques.
00:48:55.000He explains that if you were looking for doctors to diagnose you with an illness and then act upon it, and they created a diagnosis, and then a bunch of new doctors came in and they said, no, no, no, that diagnosis is all wrong, but they offered no actual diagnosis, that you might say, well, okay, so what's your diagnosis?
00:49:10.000This is his complaint, that all the people who are criticizing the proposed constitution have come up with no serious workable alternatives.
00:49:17.000He says, It is a matter of both wonder and regret that those who raise so many objections against the new Constitution should never call to mind the defects of that which it is to be exchanged for.
00:49:26.000It is not necessary that the former should be perfect, it is sufficient that the latter is more imperfect.
00:49:31.000In other words, the Articles of Confederation are worse than the Constitution, so we should have the Constitution.
00:49:36.000And then he says, You can't say that the functions of a government are necessary and then not give them the power to enact it.
00:49:41.000Now, I actually find this Federalist paper a little bit unfair.
00:49:44.000If you read the Anti-Federalist paper, there's some very... The Anti-Federalist papers were put together by people who are on the other side of the Constitution, and a lot of their critiques are really solid and really well taken.
00:49:53.000A lot of them talk about the possible growth of the federal government, the idea that the government was being given too much centralized power, and a lot of those things have come true today.
00:50:01.000Now, it is important to remember the historical context.
00:50:03.000The historical context is that no one thought that the federal government would grow in this way.
00:50:07.000No one in America thought that the federal government would be what the federal government currently is.
00:50:13.000So in that way, Madison, Hamilton, John Jay, the founders, the creators of the Federalist Papers, they were right about the fact that the Constitution was better than the Articles because they never could have conceived that the Constitution would eventually grow to encompass nearly all of American life.
00:50:27.000But the Anti-Federalists were right in that they saw where the slippery slope was going to go.
00:50:31.000And I think it's important to read both the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers.
00:50:34.000Maybe when we're done going through the Federalist Papers after another 50 weeks, maybe we'll start going through the Anti-Federalist Papers so you can see the responses to the Constitution at the time.
00:50:43.000Always better to know more than you did yesterday.