The Daily Beast is now reporting that porn star Stormy Daniels, she of the 180 IQ and the presumably large breasts, she apparently had an affair with President Trump back in 2006, and now they are going to run a 5,500-word interview with her about her sexcapades with Trump. We ll discuss the impact of this and just scream no over and over again and then try to gouge out our eyes before this interview can come out. Plus, we may be about to find out what President Trump is like down there, and I m not talking about his hands. Oh God no, no, please, God, no. I'm Ben Shapiro and I'm here on The Ben Shapiro Show on The Daily Beast to discuss all of this, and much more, coming up on today's show with Ben Shapiro on The Weekly Standard's Rachel Maddow and the New York Times' Maggie Haberstroh. Subscribe to the Daily Beast here! Subscribe at anchor.fm/TheBenShapiroShow to get immediate access to all the latest breaking news and exclusive interviews with the highest-ranking White House and Beltway personalities, including our very own White House Correspondents, wherever you get your news and gossip, every Monday morning. Thanks to our sponsor ZipRecruiter for sponsoring the show. . Zip Recruiter is the smartest way to hire, find the best candidates, and get the most qualified candidates in all sorts of jobs, anywhere in the world. They do not only by checking out the best human resource, and they get the best of the best, the most efficient way to find the most amazing human resource in the best possible opportunities to work with the most brilliant people in the most powerful men in the highest circles, including the most successful companies in the greatest places on the highest possible places in the fastestest places, everywhere they can access the most awesome places, and the most information they can get the coolest places, the best jobs they can reach the most access to the most of the most effective human resource on the most influencers in the smartest places, including social media including the best coffee and everything else they can do the most they can most efficiently and most of all they can they can be most effective at the most affordable possible, the coolest place in the cheapest way possible, and most effective way to do it all they know how to do the coolest thing they can achieve the most, most efficient and most efficient
00:00:26.000Yes indeed, the Daily Beast is now reporting that Stormy Daniels, she of the 180 IQ and the presumably large breasts and she's a porn star, she apparently had an affair with President Trump back in 2006 and now they are going to run a 5,500 word interview.
00:00:43.000with her about her sexcapades with Trump.
00:00:46.000We'll discuss the impact of this and just scream no over and over and over and then try to gouge out our eyes before this interview can come out.
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00:02:16.000We begin with this just-breaking story that Stormy Daniels is now going to drop a long story about how she had sex with Trump in 2006.
00:02:25.000And we're all supposed to act surprised over all of this.
00:02:28.000The answer is no, none of us are surprised over any of this.
00:02:31.000President Trump's character has long been known.
00:02:33.000His latest wife, Melania, the first lady of the United States, is his third wife.
00:02:36.000He was having an affair with her when he was married to his second wife.
00:02:39.000He was having an affair with his second wife when he was married to his first wife.
00:02:42.000So, no, none of this is particularly surprising.
00:02:45.000Also, he obviously has a thing for models.
00:02:47.000Melania was working for a modeling agency that I believe he ran at the time or that he owned at the time that they were married and posing in, shall we say, provocative ways.
00:02:57.000And then he said that he married her specifically because he wanted to make other men feel jealous when he walked into the room.
00:03:02.000So it's not particularly surprising that Trump apparently had an affair while Melania was pregnant with Barron in 2006.
00:03:08.000So, InTouch Magazine has now run excerpts from an interview with adult film star Stormy Daniels, her actual name is Stephanie Clifford, wherein she detailed having this affair.
00:03:17.000So, apparently, he approached her in a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe in July 2016, in 2006, rather, just four months after youngest son, Barron, was born.
00:03:28.000He asked for her number and invited her to dinner.
00:03:29.000When she arrived, he was wearing sweatpants, and they ended up eating in his hotel room.
00:04:50.000But Jeff Flake took to the floor of the Senate.
00:04:51.000Flake, of course, is leaving the Senate.
00:04:53.000He was probably not going to win reelection.
00:04:55.000He's probably going to lose his primary in Arizona anyway.
00:04:57.000So he is leaving, but not before he throws a few brick bats at his fellow Republicans and at President Trump over his treatment of the press.
00:05:08.000No longer can we turn a blind eye or a deaf ear to those assaults on our institutions.
00:05:14.000And, Mr. President, an American president who cannot take criticism, who must constantly deflect and distort and distract, who must find someone else to blame, is charting a very dangerous path.
00:05:28.000And a Congress that fails to act as a check on the president adds to that danger.
00:05:33.000The idea that Congress has not checked the president.
00:05:35.000I'm wondering how they're supposed to check him when he says dumb stuff like fake news about things that are not fake news.
00:05:40.000Now, we'll get a little bit later to actual fake news.
00:05:42.000You know, how the media have covered, for example, President Trump's health.
00:05:45.000The suggestion that he is demented, or that he is in the early stages of Alzheimer's, that he's totally crazy, or that he's about to die of a heart attack.
00:05:52.000All of that's nonsense, and that was proved nonsense yesterday.
00:06:27.000Even when Trump does something that's not terribly wrong to Jim Acosta, Jim Acosta is on CNN whining about it, the White House correspondent for CNN.
00:06:34.000For example, this happened yesterday with regard to the media.
00:06:37.000Here is Trump was being asked questions by Acosta, Acosta just won't shut up, and finally Trump says, get out to Jim Acosta.
00:06:44.000Mr. President, did you say that you want more people to come in from Norway?
00:06:47.000Did you say that you wanted more people to come in from Norway?
00:06:55.000Just Caucasian or white countries, sir?
00:06:57.000Or do you want people to come in from other parts of the world where they're people of color?
00:07:03.000And not sure if you can hear the end of that there, Wolf, but as I tried to ask whether he wanted more people to come in just from white or Caucasian countries, he said, out.
00:07:12.000He pointed at me and said, out, as in, get out of the Oval Office.
00:07:45.000I've said that the attacks on the fake news media
00:07:47.000And just to finish with Flake, here's what Flake had to say about politicians attacking the press.
00:08:11.000And so, we know well that no matter how powerful, no president will ever have dominion over objective reality.
00:08:20.000No politician will ever tell us what the truth is and what it is not.
00:08:26.000And anyone who presumes to try to attack or manipulate the press for his own purposes should be made to realize his mistake and to be held to account.
00:08:39.000That is just as Madison, Hamilton, and Jay would have it.
00:08:42.000Listen, I'm fine with criticisms of President Trump that are earned.
00:08:45.000Again, I think that Flake making a big deal out of Trump's attacks on the press.
00:08:49.000Why don't we wait for like an actual Trump attack on the press that is worthwhile?
00:08:52.000This is a pre-planned speech that he was announcing five days in advance how he was going to go after Trump from the Senate floor because Flake sort of wants to run for president.
00:08:59.000It was bad timing for him because this is the same press that is busily going after Trump's health.
00:09:04.000As I mentioned, White House doctor yesterday said there are no concerns about Trump's cognitive abilities.
00:09:08.000He already had to stay at the White House.
00:09:09.000I watched some of this press conference live.
00:09:12.000Him just talking about the president's health.
00:09:13.000Dr. Ronny Jackson, the presidential physician.
00:09:15.000And the press just cannot believe that Ronny Jackson is giving Trump a clean bill of health and not declaring him a nut.
00:09:21.000So I had no intentions whatsoever doing that, like I said, because I didn't feel it was clinically indicated.
00:09:26.000And part of the reason I didn't think it was clinically indicated is because I've spent almost every day in the president's presence since January 22,000, you know, last year, when he got into office.
00:10:03.000The reason that we did the cognitive assessment is plain and simple, because the president asked me to do it.
00:10:08.000OK, so Trump took a cognitive assessment.
00:10:09.000He scored 30 out of 30 on that, and the press couldn't believe it.
00:10:12.000And in just a second, I'm going to tell you what the press did about it this morning, because it's just demonstrative of the fact that this is not a one-sided battle.
00:10:19.000It's not just Trump taking on the press.
00:10:20.000It's obviously the press also taking on Trump in some pretty ridiculous ways.
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00:12:07.000Okay, so I was talking about Jeff Flake suggesting that Trump's attacks on the media are bad.
00:12:34.000I don't even know what that accent was, but I certainly don't know where that logic would come from.
00:12:38.000So the idea that they're sitting around, Kim Jong-un is sitting around thinking to himself, yes, Trump attacked the press, now I'll be mean to the press.
00:12:47.000The idea that it emboldens people because Trump isn't going to stand up for press freedoms in other parts of the world, there's probably some element of truth to that.
00:12:53.000But when Trump attacks the news, it makes it easy for him to attack the news when the media decide to be idiots.
00:12:58.000As I mentioned yesterday, Dr. Ronny Jackson is the presidential physician, and he came out and cleared Trump on health.
00:13:27.000Okay, so obviously the president wants the doctor out there saying that, which is fine.
00:13:30.000There's all these conspiracy theories going around now about Trump's height and weight.
00:13:34.000People are calling them girthers instead of birthers, because the health report suggested that President Trump weighs 239 pounds and is 6'3", and for years he'd been saying that he was 6'2", so apparently he gained an inch, and that inch sort of prevented him from being labeled as obese as opposed to overweight, as though it makes any sort of difference.
00:15:43.000According to the WebMD cardiac calcium scoring chart, that means you have a moderate amount of plaque in your heart.
00:15:50.000You have heart disease and plaque may be blocking your artery.
00:15:52.000Your chance of having a heart attack is moderate to high, but it also depends on your age.
00:15:56.000So if you actually go over to the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis, which is an actual study that you can type in your information like your
00:16:46.000The media are obviously overblowing this and trying to make it seem like Trump is on the verge of having a massive heart attack, and they're suggesting that you use the eye test.
00:16:53.000Okay, Trump is fat, Trump doesn't exercise, he doesn't eat well.
00:16:57.000It's also true that a lot of people who don't eat well and are fat and have good genes live till really old ages without actually having heart attacks.
00:17:05.000George Burns smoked and lived till 101.
00:17:06.000That doesn't say smoking is good for you, but it does suggest that not every average means that you are going to be the guy who has the heart attacks.
00:17:16.000I've said before, I think that Trump does not have the character I would wish to see in the President of the United States.
00:17:20.000But the media's attempt to recast Trump's health records as a real issue now
00:17:35.000It's just insane, and that's one of the reasons why people don't take the media seriously when Trump attacks the media, which he does so often and so repeatedly.
00:17:43.000So meanwhile, obviously, the S-hole controversy has now entered its sixth day, and this will not end.
00:17:49.000I, again, hearken back to that time when the Obama administration, when President Obama specifically said about an allied Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that he was chicken bleep, and that controversy lasted under 24 hours.
00:18:00.000I remember because I was there and helped cover it.
00:18:03.000The bleephole controversy continues because the media wants to portray Trump as a racist, and not only do they want him to portray him as a racist, they also want to use that portrayal in order to blame Trump for any breakdown on a DACA deal.
00:18:15.000So, Trump yesterday came out and he sort of clarified his policy on all this.
00:18:18.000He says, listen, regardless of what you think you've heard from behind closed doors, here is my policy.
00:18:24.000The merit-based system is based on who is highly educated, who is highly skilled.
00:18:28.000Now, there are a lot of people who are coming out and saying,
00:18:30.000Well, a merit-based system is in and of itself discriminatory because there are people from different countries who are less educated, and Trump is really saying he wants white people because white people from European countries are going to have higher levels of education on average than, say, people from Haiti.
00:18:56.000I'm not sure his educational level was.
00:18:58.000The difference is, there wasn't a massive social safety net and redistributionist network that was designed to pick up the slack for him if he failed.
00:19:05.000The idea was that we were self-selecting better immigrants in terms of people who were entrepreneurial because they knew, you come here, you're not handed anything, and if things go wrong, you're basically on your own.
00:19:15.000These are risk-seeking people who came over to the United States in an attempt to better themselves.
00:19:20.000It's not the same thing as people who are coming over here for redistribution.
00:19:24.000And even if you're saying people are coming here to better their lives, they're not coming here for redistribution, if you know there's a social safety net, that is going to change the level, on average, of people who are coming into the country, just the way you're going to change the clientele of your restaurant if you say that it's a hundred bucks a plate versus if you say all the food is free.
00:19:38.000That's going to change who shows up for your restaurant.
00:19:40.000There's a difference between a soup kitchen and a five-star Michelin rated restaurant.
00:19:44.000So the idea that you can change how the United States works and not change the nature of immigration coming to the United States, which necessitates a change in the standard that you're using for immigration, is just silly.
00:19:56.000So here's Trump saying, listen, I want immigrants from everywhere, but I want a merit-based system.
00:20:02.000I just want to thank everybody for being here.
00:20:05.000Did you say that you wanted more people to come in from Uruguay?
00:20:17.000So the left should be jumping on that and saying, OK, well, there's Trump's apology, right?
00:20:20.000If they're smart, what they would say is, we want a merit-based system, too.
00:20:23.000And that's why what Trump said about Haitian immigrants is so terrible, because there are plenty of Haitian immigrants who'd be great here.
00:20:28.000Instead, they won't say that because they don't want a merit-based system.
00:20:30.000They do want to discriminate on the basis of country of origin.
00:21:17.000So if this doesn't get worked out, and I am a dreamer, the way I'm supposed to read what you just said is this is not going to be a priority of VICE?
00:21:25.000If you are a DACA that's compliant with your registration, meaning you haven't committed a crime, and you in fact are registered, you're not priority of enforcement for ICE should the program end.
00:21:35.000OK, so what she's saying is basically DACA is going to remain in place even if Congress doesn't do anything about it, which suggests that the two sides are really not that far apart on this thing.
00:21:43.000Republicans just want some of Trump's immigration priorities put in place, but Democrats have no interest in providing that because, in all likelihood, we're not going to deport these folks in any case.
00:21:52.000So why are the media going so nuts over this?
00:21:54.000Why are they going so nuts over the bleephole comment when the policy is basically so consistent?
00:21:58.000When it appears that nothing really is going to change?
00:22:01.000Because obviously they're trying to get the Republicans to cave on all of their political priorities.
00:22:04.000And I'm going to show you how that's the case in just a second.
00:22:07.000Plus, Cory Booker just loses his mind.
00:22:23.000So we'll get to that in just a second.
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00:23:46.000So the question is, Trump is signaling he wants a merit-based system.
00:23:49.000And put aside the bleephole comments, because those happened a week ago, and in news cycle speak, that's basically...
00:23:55.000News cycle speak is sort of like dog years.
00:23:58.000Every week is seven years in news cycle speak.
00:24:00.000So in news cycle speak, this happened a long time ago, but we're still talking about it.
00:24:03.000Why are the Democrats still keeping it alive?
00:24:05.000Because they're more interested in using it as a club to beat Trump than actually coming to some sort of agreement over DACA.
00:24:10.000So here's the DHS secretary yesterday testifying in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I believe.
00:24:17.000And she says she's not going to talk about these comments.
00:24:19.000And then Democrats lose their freaking minds.
00:24:23.000At any point in that conversation on Thursday, did the President of the United States use that four-letter word, begin with S, in combination with any other words or alone that you heard?
00:24:37.000Sir, respectfully, I have answered this.
00:24:39.000I've been very patient with this line of questioning.
00:24:41.000I am here to tell you about the threats our country faces and the needs and authorities that are needed by the Department of Homeland Security.
00:24:49.000I have nothing further to say about a meeting that happened over a week ago.
00:24:52.000I'd like to move forward and discuss ways in which we can protect our country.
00:24:56.000OK, and this prompts the Democrats to just go nuts.
00:24:58.000So Kamala Harris, our awful, awful senator from the state of California, she suggests that the secretary herself might be a racist, because this is what we're going to do now.
00:25:07.000We're just going to race bait all the way till the end.
00:25:10.000Again, I thought Trump's comments were at best ill-advised and at worst reeked of racism.
00:25:15.000I think there's a plausible interpretation that does not have anything to do with race.
00:25:18.000I think that, in my opinion, that may be the slightly more plausible interpretation, but
00:25:22.000The idea that the Secretary is racist is insane.
00:25:37.000About whether the people of Norway, and I will use your words, Madam Secretary, and you spoke about how they were referred to as, by contrast, to the people of Africa and the various countries, the 54 countries of Africa and Haiti, and we speak of them, and you've spoke of them, according to the President, as the people of Norway.
00:25:59.000The inference being the people of the 54 states of Africa and Haiti do not.
00:26:04.000You must understand the inference, the reasonable inference, that the American public is drawing from the words you speak, much less the words of the President of the United States.
00:26:16.000So now she's suggesting that Nielsen is a racist.
00:26:26.000The bottom line is she didn't say anything in this hearing that was racist, but Kamala Harris is going to keep screaming racism so that nobody actually has to discuss what to do with the Dreamers.
00:26:34.000The truth is that Trump does want to talk about the Dreamers.
00:26:36.000Trump basically was willing to cut any deal that he could cut at the very beginning until a spine stiffener was put in him by Tom Cotton, as well as a couple of other senators.
00:26:46.000But the Democrats lost their minds yesterday.
00:27:08.000I'm gonna talk a little bit about tears in politics in just a second because I hate this crap, but here's Cory Booker just putting on his Mr. Potato Head angry eyes in order to rip into Nielsen and Trump.
00:27:21.000In an Oval Office meeting, referring to people from African countries and Haitians with the most vile and vulgar language, that language festers.
00:27:36.000When ignorance and bigotry is allied with power, it is a dangerous force in our country.
00:27:44.000Your silence and your amnesia is complicity.
00:27:48.000Right now in our nation, we have a problem.
00:27:51.000I don't know if 73% of your time is spent on white supremacist hate groups.
00:27:56.000I don't know if 73% of your time is spent concerned about the people in fear in communities in this country.
00:28:03.000Sikh Americans, Muslim Americans, Black Americans.
00:28:07.000The fact pattern is clear of the threats in this country.
00:28:14.000I had tears of rage when I heard about his experience in that meeting.
00:28:17.000And for you not to feel that pain, and that pain, and to dismiss some of the questions of my colleagues, saying I've already answered that line of questions when tens of millions of Americans are hurting right now because of what they're worried about what happened in the White House.
00:30:10.000First of all, what does Secretary Nielsen have to do with death threats that Cory Booker received?
00:30:13.000I'm going to have to hear the explanation on that one.
00:30:16.000I'll also point out here that let's say, for example, that Hillary Clinton had been testifying in front of Republicans and they had started yelling at her the way Cory Booker was just yelling at Secretary Nielsen.
00:30:25.000Suggesting that your silence is complicity!
00:30:30.000Going full-on nutjob with the Pan's Labyrinth hands up here, right?
00:30:45.000We're still hearing about, she persisted, because Elizabeth Warren wouldn't be quiet after she was told to be quiet by the rules of the Senate.
00:31:15.000I'm going to talk a little bit more about crying in politics in just a second, because I hate emotions as a general rule, and I particularly hate it when it comes to
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00:32:00.000It was perfect for Cory Booker yesterday.
00:32:02.000I legitimately turned on my TV, opened up this mug, and magically just filled up from the bottom to the top with Cory Booker's tears of rage.
00:32:08.000I then had to boil them down so that the water was not—so that it was sanitary, because I don't actually like drinking other people's tears.
00:33:10.000You're walking through a Holocaust memorial.
00:33:12.000There are times where tears, I think, are not out of bounds.
00:33:15.000But the idea that you cried when you heard because the president said that there are some bleephole countries, wouldn't that just mean tears of rage?
00:33:25.000First of all, it sounds like a really terrible romance novel from Daniel Steele.
00:35:01.000So we used to have a country where if you cried about people attacking your wife, then that was considered wimpy.
00:35:07.000Now we have a country where Cory Booker whines about how he cried tears of rage when he heard that the president said something in a behind-closed-doors meeting, and we're supposed to take that seriously.
00:35:16.000By the way, Cory Booker is a serial fabulist.
00:35:19.000Cory Booker makes crap up on a fairly regular basis.
00:35:22.000There's a story from a few years ago where Cory Booker used to go around talking about T-Bone.
00:35:27.000Okay, T-Bone was a fixture of Booker's unsuccessful 2002 May Oral Bid.
00:35:32.000in Newark, and he used to talk about his friend T-Bone.
00:35:36.000And his friend T-Bone was alternatively a drug pusher who had threatened his life and then sobbed on his shoulder.
00:35:41.000According to Eliana Johnson, she's now over at the Washington Post, I believe, she was then at National Review, she says, the tale is one Booker admits he's told a million times.
00:35:50.000But in Booker's mind, according to city councilmen, it's not so much the details of the story that matter, but the principle that these things happen, they happen to real people, they happen in the city of Newark.
00:36:02.000So there was a Rutgers University history professor named Clement Price, a Booker supporter.
00:36:06.000He told National Review Online he found the mayor's story offensive because it pandered to a stereotype of inner-city black men.
00:36:11.000T-Bone, Price says, is a Southern inflicted name.
00:36:13.000You would expect to run into somebody or something named T-Bone in Memphis, not Newark.
00:36:18.000Price said that he was a mentor and friend to Booker and says Booker conceded to him in 2008 that T-Bone was a composite of several people he'd met while living in Newark.
00:36:25.000The professor said that he told Booker he disapproved of him inventing such a person.
00:36:29.000He said, if you're going to create a composite of a man along High Street, why don't you make it W.E.B.
00:36:35.000Booker agreed that it was a mistake, and then Booker stopped talking about T-Bone.
00:36:39.000He has never admitted, by the way, that T-Bone does not exist, but he has defended T-Bone's existence over and over.
00:36:45.000This is not the first time, of course, that he fibbed.
00:36:47.000In 2007, he described Newark activist Judy Diggs
00:36:51.000As a potty-mouthed educator who was always called cussing out my mama, cussing out my daddy, and said she had died in a truly poetic way, reading to children.
00:37:22.000Yeah, this doesn't sound stilted at all.
00:37:25.000That's who Cory Booker is, and now he's being trotted out as a hero.
00:37:27.000So this is the way we're going to do this.
00:37:28.000Whoever demonstrates the most emotion, whoever demonstrates—I think it's true on the right as well as on the left—whoever demonstrates the most emotion wins.
00:37:34.000I think this is one of the reasons Trump won the nomination, is because Trump does anger really well.
00:37:39.000Cory Booker is not all that good at anger.
00:37:41.000I mean, again, that acting job is really not good.
00:37:43.000It's a really poor acting job, but it allows people on the left to feel that he is a cathartic
00:38:05.000They say the most important measure in presidential politics is quote-unquote cares about people like you.
00:38:09.000I think this is a stupid measure because the way that people measure caring typically is not what you do for somebody else, but how you feel about somebody else.
00:39:03.000He says that Trump says that we need more Europeans, we need more people from Norway.
00:39:08.000Again, I find the ire from Dick Durbin over Trump saying that there are bleephole countries out there a little bit ironic, considering that he suggested back during the Iraq War that American soldiers were the equivalent of Nazis or the soldiers of Pol Pot from Cambodia.
00:39:21.000But here is Senator Dick Durbin from Illinois.
00:39:24.000But it was a long, far-ranging meeting about immigration in general.
00:39:28.000Negative things were said about Haitians coming to the United States.
00:39:32.000The president was talking, and I think this is a tell, if you will, we need more people from Norway, he said.
00:40:49.000We've wasted five days fighting over one word when we should be fighting over the people that are involved in the DACA program.
00:40:56.000If Democrats really want to protect these individuals, that's who they should be fighting for, and that's what they should be fighting about, is figuring out a permanent solution to DACA.
00:41:05.000OK, so it's the end of this I agree with.
00:41:07.000Not the part where Trump is politically incorrect.
00:41:10.000I always object to equating political incorrectness with just being offensive and silly.
00:41:17.000But what she says at the end here is right.
00:41:31.000So I guess we can keep just beating Trump about the ears on this comment, but it's pretty obvious what the agenda is at this point.
00:41:37.000Meanwhile, in other news, there's more nonsense from the MeToo movement.
00:41:41.000Feminists are freaking out, as I mentioned briefly yesterday, at Margaret Atwood, the author of the famed book, The Handmaid's Tale, which is not a very good book, but she's considered a feminist icon.
00:41:53.000What's she done to piss off the MeToo movement?
00:41:55.000Well, apparently, there was a piece that she signed about how a guy named Stephen Galloway, the former chair of the creative writing program at the University of British Columbia, was facing serious allegations and that those allegations were not being properly examined, that people were jumping to conclusions.
00:42:11.000So Atwood pointed to the university's lack of transparency around the allegations and noted that Galloway had been asked to sign a confidentiality agreement.
00:42:27.000A fair-minded person would now withhold judgment as to guilt until the report and the evidence are available for us to see.
00:42:33.000And she suggested this was like the Salem Witch Trials in that guilt was assumed of people who were accused.
00:42:37.000A bunch of people on the left went nuts on this.
00:42:39.000How dare Margaret Atwood call for due process?
00:42:42.000How dare Margaret Atwood suggest that we may not have all of the facts?
00:42:46.000The longer the MeToo movement continues with this, the worse it's going to be for them.
00:42:49.000Because we all agree that rape and sexual assault are bad, but it is not out of bounds to suggest that we might need to see some evidence.
00:42:54.000That in the initial phase, we can believe objective claims about what a man has done, but we need all the facts to come out, and we need to hear what the guy has to say about it as well.
00:43:03.000But that's not what the MeToo movement apparently wants to do.
00:43:06.000The Huffington Post has a piece that was leading last night about Aziz Ansari.
00:43:10.000I defended Aziz Ansari a couple of days ago.
00:43:11.000I've been defending him now for a couple of days.
00:43:16.000But because I think that if there's any implication that he was sexually assaulting or sexually harassing this woman who came to his apartment, got naked, and performed sex acts on him multiple times before deciding she wasn't having fun, that maybe she might have been sending some mixed signals?
00:43:41.000But apparently Aziz Ansari is supposed to be a mind reader.
00:43:44.000So this article from the Huffington Post talks again about another story where a guy was not nice to a woman and how it made her feel used.
00:43:53.000And we can't dismiss the Aziz Ansari story as Me Too movement run amok.
00:44:00.000This writer says, Well, maybe that's because the culture that the feminist movement created has destroyed the notion of normal sex.
00:44:29.000This is a minor thing I like today, but I did enjoy it.
00:44:31.000Orrin Hatch, who's going to be the retiring senator from Utah, he was in the middle of doing this questioning in the Senate Judiciary Committee of the Homeland Security Secretary, and he forgot that he was not wearing glasses.
00:44:45.000And so this semi-hilarious moment ensued.
00:45:40.000has become very shoddy and run down, the city of my birth and where I've spent the vast majority of my life.
00:45:46.000And that does have something to do with the city policy pursued by Democrats in city government, in the city council, in the mayor's office for years on end.
00:45:53.000And what's hilarious is that people on the left continue to be puzzled by this.
00:45:56.000How could it be that California is just terrible?
00:46:12.000Our state's per capita GDP increased approximately twice as much as the U.S.
00:46:16.000average over the five years ending in 2016.
00:46:18.000But the income inequality has gotten worse because the people who are making money at the top of the spectrum are people in Silicon Valley, people in Hollywood, people in the finance industry.
00:46:27.000But all the people at the bottom are failing.
00:47:08.000OK, time for a quick Bible analysis since it is Wednesday.
00:47:11.000So I felt like this is one of the most moving portions of the Bible.
00:47:14.000For all the people who talk about the Bible is sexist, and the Torah is sexist, and all these religious people are so sexist, this notion of how men and women are supposed to operate is more loving,
00:47:24.000And more genuine, and more real, and more committed than anything that the feminist left has come up with.
00:47:30.000And this was written at least 3,000 years ago.
00:47:33.000This is written at the beginning of Genesis.
00:47:35.000This is Genesis chapter 2, verses 22 through 25.
00:47:38.000And the Lord God built the side that He had taken from man into a woman, and He brought her to man.
00:47:42.000And the man said, This time it is the bone of my bones and the flesh of my flesh.
00:47:45.000This one shall be called Eshah, woman, because this one was taken from Esh, man.
00:47:50.000Shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh?
00:48:03.000Because there's nothing shameful about sex with a person to whom you are married.
00:48:08.000There's nothing shameful about the idea of becoming one flesh with the person who is your soulmate and who is flesh of your flesh.
00:48:14.000There's nothing shameful about the person you have chosen to create a life with having sex with you or being naked in front of you.
00:48:19.000Not only is there nothing shameful about it, there's something beautiful about it.
00:48:22.000But the beauty of sex is lost when it just becomes a series of casual one-night stands or when sex becomes about a physical impulse rather than a physical desire to fulfill a spiritual impulse.
00:48:33.000You got rid of commitment, you got rid of love, and now you're upset because everything's awkward.
00:48:36.000Maybe it's because you made bad decisions about how your sex life was going to go and because society has made bad decisions to separate off spirituality and meaning and intimacy and closeness and love and commitment from the sex act itself.
00:48:51.000Once man's desire to change how sex works prevails over the natural order, and the natural order is the idea that man and woman are supposed to be in committed relations in order to have sex with one another, right?
00:49:08.000Once that happens, you shouldn't be surprised when things go awry, and that's exactly what's happened, and that's why the MeToo movement, I think, is destined to fail, because they refuse to examine their underlying assumptions about what male-female relationships should look like, where the two sides owe something to one another, and therefore are not ashamed in the presence of one another.