Notre Dame burns, and the west mourns, while Bernie Sanders heads over to Fox News, and Nancy Pelosi struggles with the fresh faces. We're going to get to all of that in just one second, but first, let's talk about the burning of Notre Dame, and what it means to the people of France. Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire digs into the history of the Notre Dame Cathedral, and why it's one of the most important cathedrals in the world. And, of course, there's a brief history lesson on the cathedral, and a review of the cathedral's most famous spire and spire, which were destroyed in a massive fire that broke out in the middle of the day in the heart of the French capital, Paris, on Monday evening. Enjoy this special bonus episode of The Ben Shapiro Show, wherever you get your news and information. Subscribe to the Daily Wire to get immediate access to all our newest episodes and listen to the latest breaking news, breaking news and breaking headlines every single day. Use the promo code "UPLEVEL" to receive 20% off your first month with discount code POWER10 at checkout. ZipRecruiter is the smartest way to hire, and you'll get 10% off the entire site plus free training and support from the best recruiters in the entire world! Check out their newest product, POWER10, right here at the Dailywire. That's right, you won't want to miss it! No credit card, no fees, no strings, no swiping, no credit card required. Just paypal, no fw/online training, no spam, no insurance, just free, no questions asked, just the whole world will get it all the answers you need to get the best of it. That's what you get when you're hiring, and it's all FREE, no commitment required, no scamming, and no obligation, only the best recruiter gets it all, no more than $10, and they'll get it, no frills, no broker, no third-party marketing, no second-party, no guarantee, no fee required, just like that's all they're gonna get it anywhere else will get that'll get the whole thing, and there's gonna work it, right there's only $5, no less than $50, no matter what you say it's FREE, guaranteed, no other than that's what they say, right?
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00:01:28.000So obviously the big news of the day yesterday was the burning down of most of Notre Dame's cathedral.
00:01:35.000They're the outer structure was indeed saved, according to French fire services.
00:01:39.000Sky News says flames broke out at the 12th century building on Monday evening, quickly devastating the spire and roof and sending plumes of smoke into the sky.
00:01:50.000Local media say police were treating the blaze as an accident.
00:01:54.000French President Emmanuel Macron said he was so sad tonight.
00:01:56.000to see this part of us all burn and declared a national emergency.
00:01:59.000Speaking from the scene in Paris, he expressed sympathy with Catholics around the world following the terrible tragedy, but added that the worst had been avoided and then he vowed to launch an international fundraising campaign.
00:02:09.000Apparently, wealthy investors have already pledged to give 100 million euros for the rebuilding of Notre Dame.
00:02:14.000France's interior minister originally warned that the 400 firefighters scrambled to the scene would not be enough to save the cathedral, but a junior minister from the department later said they were more optimistic that the cathedral itself could be spared...
00:02:25.000A French firefighter official confirmed that Notre Dame's structure and two towers had indeed been saved from total destruction.
00:02:31.000Prime Minister Theresa May said her thoughts are with the people of France tonight and with the emergency services who are fighting the terrible blaze.
00:02:37.000The video of it was just astonishing and shocking.
00:02:41.000The area where the spire once was was still burning with sparks falling from the cathedral's vaulted ceiling as of Monday night.
00:02:47.000People outside were singing hymns and gasping as they watched much of the cathedral burn to the ground.
00:02:54.000The Paris mayor, Anne Hidalgo, urged the public to respect the security perimeter around the cathedral while firefighters tackled the terrible blaze, added that the areas close to the scene were evacuated.
00:03:03.000Rich Lowry Over at National Review has a good review about what exactly Notre Dame means.
00:03:09.000The great novelist Victor Hugo, who did so much to revive interest in the cathedral when it was in disrepair in the 19th who did so much to revive interest in the cathedral when it was in Every surface, every stone of this venerable pile is a page of the history not only of the country, but of science and art.
00:03:34.000It was the work of generations, completed across three centuries in a triumph over considerable architectural and logistical challenges.
00:03:41.000It arose at the original site of a pagan temple.
00:03:43.000Thousands of tons of stone had to be transported from outside Paris, one ox cart or barge at a time, So achieve its soaring height and hold up its ceiling and walls, it relied on the architectural innovations of the rib vault and the flying buttress.
00:03:55.000France built 80 cathedrals and 500 large churches across this period, says Rich Lowry.
00:03:59.000There was only one at Notre Dame of Paris, a Gothic jewel, whose towers, prior to the advent of the Eiffel Tower, were the tallest structure in the city.
00:04:06.000It is, or one hates to think was, adorned by what are culturally significant artifacts in their own right, the statuary meant to illustrate the story of the Bible and to all worshippers who couldn't read, the stained glass windows that took ingenuity to embed in stone walls and are themselves artistic marvels, the organ with more than 8,000 pipes, the bells with their own names, including the largest, the Masterpiece Emanuel, dating back to the 15th century and recast in 1681, not to mention the religious relics that mean so much to the Catholic faithful.
00:04:33.000It has been the site of countless processions and services to petition and thank God on behalf of the French nation.
00:04:38.000It is where illustrious marriages and funerals occurred, where Napoleon crowned himself emperor, where Charles de Gaulle attended a mass to celebrate the liberation of Paris in 1944, rifle fire echoing outside.
00:04:48.000It survived the rampages of iconoclastic Huguenots in the 16th century, The depredation of radicals during the French Revolution into the 18th century, they transformed it into a shrine to the cult of reason, used it as a warehouse and wanted to melt down the bells, an incidental damage during two world wars in the 20th century.
00:05:03.000All the while it accumulated layers and history and meaning.
00:05:06.000Its great advocate Hugo, author of the famous Hunchback of Notre Dame, wrote of how, the greatest productions of architecture are not so much the work of individuals as of a community, are rather the offspring of a nation's labor than the outcome of individual genius, the deposit of a whole people, The heaped up treasure of centuries, the residuum left by successive evaporations of human society in a word, a species of formations.
00:05:26.000Each wave of time leaves its coating of alluvium.
00:05:29.000Each race deposits its layers on the monuments.
00:05:31.000Each individual contributes his stone to it.
00:05:34.000And that, of course, is exactly right.
00:05:36.000Yesterday, I tweeted something out that I thought, frankly, was really uncontroversial.
00:05:41.000I tweeted out that Notre Dame was a totem to Western civilization and of Western civilization, and people got very upset with this.
00:05:50.000Particularly a lot of folks on the left were very upset with this.
00:05:53.000I tweeted out, if we wish to uphold the beauty and profundity of the Notre Dame Cathedral, that means re-familiarizing ourselves with the philosophy and religious principles that built it.
00:06:01.000That means re-familiarizing ourselves with the precepts of Catholicism, with Western history, with what Catholicism was, with how it contributed to the West.
00:06:12.000All of this stuff seems deeply important to me.
00:06:16.000A lot of folks on the left were very upset with me for suggesting this.
00:06:19.000They said, why can't we just appreciate it just as a piece of art?
00:06:23.000You can appreciate it however you want, but if you want to know why so many people in the West were deeply affected by the burning of Notre Dame, it wasn't just because it was iconic, it's because Notre Dame holds deeper meaning.
00:06:33.000Because it is a totem of a chain of history that culminates in the modern West.
00:06:38.000That's why Notre Dame means something different than just any building anywhere on Earth burning, than the Taj Mahal burning, for example, which would be, of course, a phenomenal tragedy, but would not have quite the same resonance in the Western mind as Notre Dame burning, of course.
00:06:53.000And you can see the sort of anodyne version of mourning for the cathedral from Ilhan Omar.
00:06:59.000Who, of course, is no big fan of Western civilization.
00:07:02.000She says America was founded on slavery and genocide.
00:07:04.000I can only assume she means that the rest of the West was as well.
00:07:06.000She tweeted out, Art and architecture have a unique ability to help us connect across our differences and bring people together in important ways, thinking of the people of Paris and praying for every first responder trying to save this wonder.
00:07:17.000Again, it's fine to look at Notre Dame as just art and architecture, but it has deeper resonance than that.
00:07:22.000And that was the point that I was making, is that the deeper resonance of Notre Dame is about the faith that inspired Notre Dame.
00:07:28.000And listen, this is coming from a Jew.
00:07:32.000Notre Dame apparently had certain statues that are anti-Semitic in nature, talking about the supersession of the Catholic Church over Jews in the past.
00:07:51.000My book, The Right Side of History, talks about this chain of history, the Judeo-Christian history of the West.
00:07:57.000And how Judaism and Christianity combined with Greek reason in play and intention created the world in which we live.
00:08:04.000I want to read you a section from the book talking about the period during which Notre Dame was built.
00:08:08.000Notre Dame, of course, was built during the 12th and 13th centuries.
00:08:11.000It took a couple of centuries to complete, which in and of itself is an amazing testament to the human mind and to the power of the eternal to inspire the human mind.
00:08:19.000Because after all, why plant a tree if you're not going to get to sit in its shade?
00:08:22.000Why build a building if you know that you're not going to get to complete it?
00:08:24.000Because our task is not to complete the building.
00:08:27.000Our task is to join in the building of that structure in the first place.
00:08:31.000Here's what I talk about in my book with regard to this period in Western history.
00:08:34.000From the fall of Rome through the 12th century, Christianity would spread from its base in the Italian peninsula to the British Isles, France, Germany, and eventually the Nordic countries as well.
00:08:43.000While Augustine had posited a great divide between the city of God and the city of man, The Catholic Church was quite active in the City of Man.
00:08:50.000The Church received tithes from Christians the continent over, had its own ecclesiastical courts.
00:08:54.000By the 10th century, the Church was the single largest landowner in Western Europe.
00:08:58.000Kings found their legitimacy through the conduit of the Church and battled with the Church to expand their own power.
00:09:03.000Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV walked barefoot in the snow to earn back the approval of Pope Gregory VII, Henry II of England, 1133 to 1189 had himself flogged in order to win back the approval of his Christian population after accidentally ordering the death of Archbishop Thomas Becket.
00:09:18.000Popular history maintains that this period represents the Dark Ages, but that's simply inaccurate.
00:09:23.000Progress continued as Christianity spread.
00:09:25.000The monastic system centralized learning in monasteries, where priests and nuns devoted themselves to ascetic pursuit of divine understanding.
00:09:32.000In educational terms, this devotion revolved around Scripture.
00:09:36.000The Benedictine monks, for example, lived under the rules created by St.
00:09:38.000Benedictine 480-547, a set of orders regarding the hierarchy of monasteries, the behavior by which to abide, and the requirements of work.
00:09:46.000The arts thrived in the monastic system.
00:09:48.000Manuscripts were preserved by monks devoted to writing new copies and beautifying them.
00:09:52.000In the monastic system, the liberal arts taught by the Greeks and the Romans, as championed by Cicero and Seneca, among others, survived, albeit in spiritualized form.
00:10:01.000Augustine himself, despite his distaste for paganism, suggested that the liberal arts education could be hijacked for service to God.
00:10:07.000Augustine likened such cultural appropriation to the Jews taking Egyptian gold during the biblical exodus.
00:10:13.000These liberal arts were categorized by the philosopher Boethius into the famous quadrivarium, music, arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy, and trivium, grammar, rhetoric, and logic.
00:10:22.000Meanwhile, The Middle Ages saw a technological revolution in agriculture, the rise of commerce, the institution of new forms of art ranging from polyphonic music to Gothic architecture.
00:10:32.000Notre Dame would be a perfect example of Gothic architecture.
00:10:35.000It also saw new developments in the art of war, with technological developments that would allow the West to defeat its enemies in the course of coming centuries.
00:10:41.000While many historians tout the power of Islamic civilization during this time period, and Islamic civilization did thrive on the Arabian Peninsula particularly, when Islamic civilization came up against Western civilization at the Battle of Tours, Islamic forces were soundly defeated.
00:10:55.000By the 8th century, Christian leaders were crusading against enslavement, except notably for the enslavement of Muslim war captives.
00:11:01.000Monasteries were engaging in proto-capitalism as well.
00:11:04.000Furthermore, the Catholic Church was responsible for learning and teaching.
00:11:07.000Virtually all literacy sprang from monasteries.
00:11:10.000Still, the modern world could not have been created under these circumstances, is what I write in my book.
00:11:15.000Faith provided individual moral purpose.
00:11:17.000Faith provided collective moral purpose.
00:11:19.000But while individual capacity was bolstered by the doctrinal belief in free will and the value of work, reason had been made secondary to faith.
00:11:26.000While collective capacity was bolstered by the presence of a strong social fabric, the all-encompassing power of the Catholic Church and the rule of monarchs meant that individual choice was heavily circumscribed.
00:11:36.000Even education had been radically reoriented toward the Church.
00:11:40.000The liberal arts were only useful so far as they bolstered the biblical story.
00:11:44.000For science and democracy to take hold in the West, reason would have to be elevated once more.
00:11:48.000In a second, I'm going to explain how the reintroduction of reason did happen in the West and within the Catholic Church.
00:11:54.000Again, reorienting ourselves to this history means that Notre Dame means so much more to us because we look at it and it means something beyond just a beautiful building.
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00:13:26.000So we're talking about the history of Western civilization and where Catholicism, where Notre Dame fits into that history because it means more to us when we watch that building burn than just a building burning.
00:13:37.000So I've been talking about the dominance of the Catholic Church and the reintroduction of reason to balance out the faith orientation of Catholicism.
00:13:47.000That process began, I write in my book, The Right Side of History, with the reintroduction of Greek reason to the West in the 11th century.
00:13:53.000Christianity, comfortable now in its dominance, could afford more exploratory thinking when it came to secular learning.
00:13:58.000This bred a new movement called Scholasticism, and that movement encouraged Christians to extend the prominence of God's dominance over all of the areas of human knowledge.
00:14:06.000Scholasticism would open the door for a renewed investigation into the unity between God and His created universe, and between faith and reason.
00:14:14.000Victor, 1096-1141, famously said, He followed through on his own injunction by attempting to write a book that covered the gamut of human knowledge known as the Summa.
00:14:26.000Scholasticism became the dominant philosophy of the church.
00:14:29.000The church launched a program of support for universities, the University of Paris, also known as the Sarbanes, the University of Bologna, the University of Oxford.
00:14:37.000writes, the church provided special protection to university students by offering them what was known as benefit of clergy.
00:14:43.000The popes intervened on behalf of the university on numerous occasions.
00:14:47.000And then, the Christian world moved into Thomism under Thomas Aquinas.
00:14:52.000So, the bottom line here, and the reason that I'm recounting this history, is because if we don't reorient ourselves to this history, why are these buildings important?
00:15:00.000Sure, they're beautiful, but they are more than beautiful.
00:15:02.000They're testaments to an ongoing battle between faith and reason that has bred the West And that battle has had victims.
00:15:09.000That battle has had people who have suffered, for sure.
00:15:11.000But that does not change the story of the West.
00:15:14.000We are part of that great river of history.
00:15:16.000And that's why when we see something from our past burned to the ground like that, it's devastating to everybody involved.
00:15:23.000Okay, meanwhile, speaking of people who don't know their history, so Bernie Sanders has apparently taken the lead in a new Emerson poll in the Democratic 2020 race.
00:15:50.000I guess that's neat for what it's worth.
00:15:52.000In any case, Bernie Sanders has taken the temporary lead and people are concerned in the Democratic Party that his win in the nominating process will mean, I guess, the end of the chances to stop Donald Trump.
00:16:06.000And this has led to the New York Times actually writing a full piece about it in which they talk about how terrible it would be if it were to be that Bernie Sanders, if he would win the nomination, how terrible all of this would be.
00:16:22.000So, the New York Times suggests that there is a new group that is out there fighting Bernie Sanders.
00:16:27.000Quote, When Leah Dautry, a former Democratic Party official, addressed a closed-door gathering of about 100 wealthy liberal donors in San Francisco last month, all it took was a review of the 2020 primary rules to throw a scare into them.
00:16:39.000Democrats are likely to go into their convention next summer without having settled on a presidential nominee, says Ms.
00:16:44.000Dautry, who ran her party's conventions in 2008 and 2016.
00:16:47.000the last two times the nomination was contested.
00:16:49.000And Senator Bernie Sanders is well positioned to be one of the last candidates standing, she noted.
00:16:53.000I think I freaked them out, said Ms. Daughtry.
00:16:55.000From Knapp-filled fundraisers on the coast to the cloakrooms of Washington, mainstream Democrats are increasingly worried that their efforts to defeat President Trump in 2020 could be complicated by Sanders in a political scenario all too reminiscent of how Trump himself seized the Republican nomination in 2016.
00:17:11.000Well, this is what I have been saying here on the program for months, is that Bernie Sanders is in fact well positioned to do serious damage in the Democratic primaries.
00:17:34.000And Joe Biden is going to get torn down as the frontrunner.
00:17:37.000And everybody in the Democratic Party feels the need to pay homage to Bernie Sanders in much the same way that many in the Republican Party felt the need to pay homage to President Trump because Trump was in fact this deeply popular figure.
00:17:50.000Republicans basically ignored Trump during the 2016 election cycle, thinking, this can't last, the guy's gotta collapse.
00:17:56.000And when he collapses, for sure his support will go to me.
00:17:58.000This was the strategy of both Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.
00:18:01.000It's why they ignored Trump and went after each other.
00:18:03.000Of course, Trump lasted the test of time, and the other candidates did not.
00:18:06.000You can see very much the same thing here happening with Bernie Sanders.
00:18:09.000If you attack Bernie, the Bernie bros come after you.
00:18:11.000If you leave Bernie alone and you go after Joe Biden and you try to cannibalize his support, then perhaps you're able to pick up support in spite of Bernie Sanders.
00:18:18.000But that means that Bernie Sanders is still standing.
00:18:21.000And this is freaking out the Democratic bigwigs.
00:18:24.000The New York Times reports how some Democrats are beginning to ask do they thwart a 70-something candidate from outside the party structure who is immune to intimidation or incentive and wield support from an unwavering base without simply reinforcing his, the establishment is out to get me message, the same grievance that Trump used to great effect.
00:18:40.000Stopping Sanders, or at least preventing a contentious convention, could prove difficult for Democrats.
00:18:46.000He's already substantially outraising his Democratic rivals.
00:18:49.000He is well positioned to benefit from a historically large field of candidates that would splinter the vote.
00:18:54.000And he'd pick up a formidable number of delegates for the nomination because there are no superdelegates this time.
00:18:59.000That prospect is not only spooking establishment-aligned Democrats, it's also creating tensions about what, if anything, should be done to halt Sanders.
00:19:07.000There's a Never Sanders movement that apparently is cropping up among Democrats.
00:19:10.000Some in the party still harbor anger over the 2016 race when he ran against Hillary Clinton and his ongoing resistance to becoming a Democrat.
00:19:17.000But his critics are chiefly motivated by a fear that nominating an avowed socialist would all but ensure President Trump a second term.
00:19:23.000David Brock, who is a Clintonista hack, he's the founder of Media Matters, he says there's a growing realization that Sanders could end up winning this thing, or certainly that he stays in so long he damages the actual winner.
00:19:36.000He has had discussions with other operatives about an anti-Sanders campaign.
00:19:39.000He believes it should commence sooner rather than later.
00:19:41.000Man, the bloodbath in this primary is going to be amusing to watch from the right and horrifying to watch if you're on the left.
00:19:47.000Reibach, the former Minneapolis mayor, who was vice chairman of the DNC in 2016, complained bitterly about the party's tilt toward Mrs. Clinton back then, warned that it would backfire if his fellow mainstream Democrats start with the idea that you're going to try to stop somebody.
00:20:00.000If the party fractures again, or if we even have anybody raising an eyebrow of, I'm not happy about this, we're going to lose.
00:20:05.000And they'll have this loss on their hands.
00:20:06.000So now, the never-Sanders movement is getting pilloried by the pro-Sanders movement as people who will be responsible if Trump wins re-election.
00:20:37.000If you recall, President Trump's negatives were much higher than his opponents, and he cruised to the nomination on the back of 35 to 40 percent support.
00:20:44.000It started off at 25 to 30, and then it grew to 30 to 35, and by the end, he was winning 35 to 40 percent in all of the major nominating contests.
00:20:53.000Sanders is already sending blistering letters to his enemies.
00:20:56.000He sent a blistering letter to the Center for American Progress, which is a Clintonista outfit, accusing them of playing a destructive role in democratic politics and being beholden to the corporate money they receive.
00:21:07.000He's also trying to woo a lot of veteran party strategists in places like Iowa.
00:21:11.000Tads Vine is Sanders' longtime strategist.
00:21:14.000He says, if anybody thinks Bernie Sanders is incapable of doing politics, they haven't seen him in Congress for 30 years.
00:21:19.000No, what we've seen is a guy who actually hasn't gotten anything done, but he has maintained his spot.
00:21:29.000The matter of what to do about Bernie and the larger imperative of party unity has, for example, hovered over a series of previously undisclosed Democratic dinners in New York and Washington, organized by longtime party financier Bernard Schwartz.
00:21:40.000The gatherings have included scorers from the moderate or center-left wing of the party, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senator Chuck Schumer, former Governor Terry McAuliffe of Virginia, Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, and the president of the Center for American Progress, Mira Tandon.
00:21:54.000He did us a disservice in the last election, said Mr. Schwartz, a longtime Clinton supporter who said he's going to support Biden.
00:21:59.000Man, if I had to lay money right now, I'd be hard-pressed not to lay it on Bernie, considering the fanaticism of the people who support him and the fact that Democrats have no strategy for stopping him.
00:22:10.000In a second, we'll show you that Bernie Sanders went on Fox News last night.
00:22:15.000It can be a little frustrating, especially if you're in a hurry or running late, to find yourself at a railway crossing waiting for a train.
00:22:21.000If the signals are going and the train's not even there yet, you could feel a bit tempted to try and sneak across the tracks.
00:23:03.000It's amazing that people think they can do this.
00:23:04.000I mean, there are a number of deaths every year from people who think that they can just cross a train crossing in the middle of a signal and that everything will be hunky-dory.
00:25:40.000So if I pay a subscription fee to go to Daily Wire, it is then free when I click on Daily Wire.
00:25:47.000It is not free because I am paying the subscription fee.
00:25:50.000If I pay taxes for something, that makes it not free.
00:25:53.000I love that Bernie Sanders has been getting away with this for a while.
00:25:55.000Martha McCallum calls him on this, and Sanders simply falls apart.
00:25:59.000This wasn't the only point at which Sanders fell apart.
00:26:01.000The most amusing point at which Sanders fell apart is he was asked, okay, you know, Bernie, you make a lot of money, and he does.
00:26:06.000He's been making about a million dollars a year for the last several years.
00:26:09.000And he was asked specifically, OK, well, you know, you could just pay extra taxes.
00:26:13.000So why aren't you paying the extra taxes?
00:26:15.000And Bernie Sanders had no good answer to this, because, of course, if you are a socialist and you want the government to have more money, you could do this.
00:26:21.000Your taxes do show that you're a millionaire.
00:27:36.000So he's running away from the implications of his own program because this is what all socialists do in the end.
00:27:41.000They sort of like their lifestyle, and they don't want to sacrifice it, but they do want to seem as though they care a lot about government expenditures and tax rates.
00:27:50.000The voluntary minimum is what you pay when you pay taxes.
00:27:53.000That is the minimum that you pay or the government comes and gets you.
00:28:27.000It's being made into a political issue.
00:28:28.000But at the end of the day, I believe that the decision over abortion belongs to a woman and a physician, not the federal government, not the state government.
00:28:41.000It's being made into a political issue.
00:28:58.000It made him look as though he was willing to take hard questions from people outside his own party, which apparently nobody else in his party is willing to do.
00:29:05.000And Bernie's populism does have some crossover with Trumpian populism.
00:29:11.000And this is how you end up with a situation in which Bret Baier pulled the audience on Medicare for All, and people cheered, and the media were like, oh my god, people in a Fox News audience cheering for Bernie?
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00:32:48.000Many Democrats do not give an enormous amount of charity.
00:32:50.000The dirty little secret about charity is that as charitable as Democrats pretend to be when they are seizing the money from your pocket, it is Republicans who are giving the vast majority of charity on a per capita basis.
00:33:09.000The second year he gave something like $36,000, which is not too bad, but this is not supremely shocking.
00:33:16.000Apparently, according to the Washington Post, Bernie Sanders and his wife gave $19,000 to charity out of an income of $566,000 last year, or 3.4%.
00:33:22.000Kamala Harris released 15 years of her tax returns on Sunday.
00:33:25.000She and her husband earned $1.9 million last year.
00:33:44.000Kirsten Gillibrand made $215,000 last year and gave $3,700 to charity.
00:33:46.000The most generous was Senator Elizabeth Warren.
00:33:48.000Kirsten Gillibrand made 215 grand last year and gave 3,700 bucks to charity.
00:33:52.000The most generous was Senator Elizabeth Warren.
00:33:55.000She gave about $50,000 last year of their $906,000 income.
00:33:59.000Jay Inslee and his wife, who recently released 12 years of returns, They earned an income of $203,000 in 2018 and gave out $8,000 to charity.
00:34:10.000Now, who exactly has been extremely charitable?
00:34:13.000Well, Mitt Romney was extremely charitable.
00:34:14.000In 2012, when he finally released his tax returns, it showed that he and his wife had given away $4 million out of the $13.7 million they took in during the previous year.
00:34:24.000Almost 30% of what they earned that year, they gave away in charity.
00:34:28.000By the way, speaking of charitable people, Barack and Michelle Obama gave away 22% of their income to charity in 2011.
00:34:32.000They donated $172,000 out of $790,000.
00:34:40.000They give 1.5% of their income to charity, about 50%.
00:34:43.000And in 2008, you'll remember that Joe Biden released in 10 years, over the past 10 years, he had given over 10 years, $3,700 to charity, an average of $369 a year.
00:34:48.000that Joe Biden released in 10 years, over the past 10 years, he had given over 10 years, 3,700 bucks to charity, an average of $369 a year.
00:35:00.000It's always fun to, it is always fun to see how much money Democrats actually give to charity as opposed to the supposed charitable mindset that they employ.
00:35:11.000And you saw that again when you see Bernie Sanders scoffing at paying extra taxes and suggesting that Martha McCallum should because she's rich too.
00:35:17.000And then the Bernie bros idiotically cheering along, yay!
00:35:22.000Bernie Sanders, by the way, is as radical as radical gets.
00:35:24.000And most of his plans don't have any on-the-ground actual Teeth to them because they're never going to be implemented.
00:35:31.000He has to get all this stuff through Congress.
00:35:32.000So, for example, Sanders was asked about the situation along the border and he suggested we should build housing along the border for illegals, but the Democratic Party just rejected funding for that stuff.
00:35:43.000If you were the President of the United States, we have overflowing facilities.
00:35:48.000They need to go somewhere because they're in that asylum process.
00:35:52.000What about building proper facilities for them right now?
00:35:55.000That could be done right on the border.
00:35:58.000So the people who live on the border should have more facilities in their states, but sanctuary cities which have said they're open to accepting people should not take more.
00:36:06.000Now this is a political act on the President.
00:36:36.000The fact that he is leading is a result of the stupid radicalism of a segment of the Democratic base that has no real relationship with reality.
00:36:44.000And that's the funniest part about all of this is that there are leaders in the Democratic Party looking at this askance and going, this is insane.
00:36:51.000I mean, Bernie Sanders, by the way, it is worth noting he's a radical on foreign policy, too.
00:36:56.000He said that Ilhan Omar was not anti-Semitic.
00:37:01.000Never mind she hasn't actually critiqued any of Israel's policies.
00:37:03.000She has just suggested that Israel hypnotized the world, that pro-Israel Jewish money was behind American support of Israel, and she suggested dual loyalty of people who support Israel.
00:37:14.000But according to Bernie Sanders, that's just a critique of Israel.
00:37:17.000Is not anti-Semitic to be critical of a right-wing government in Israel.
00:38:19.000Because even top Democrats recognize this.
00:38:21.000So Nancy Pelosi has been having a very, very difficult time here because she knows that her own base loves the radical talk, but very few of them actually want the policy.
00:38:30.000So she has been desperately attempting to fend off all of the radicals inside her own party.
00:38:35.000This is why she speaks disparagingly About members of her own party.
00:38:39.000This is why in an interview yesterday with Leslie Stahl on 60 Minutes, she suggested that there were just five, there were five radicals in the Democratic Party.
00:38:47.000She specifically said that AOC, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, she said that those like five people.
00:38:54.000And then when she was asked, well, they're the progressives, aren't they?
00:38:57.000Right now there's a battle for the soul of the Democratic Party.
00:39:00.000Are they going to be Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer progressives?
00:39:02.000Or are they going to be open radicals like Bernie Sanders, AOC, Ilhan Omar, and that ilk?
00:39:07.000So here's Nancy Pelosi yesterday rejecting socialism, saying, listen, I'm not in favor of socialism.
00:39:12.000Medicare for all, it's not only being pushed by some members of your caucus, but also some of the presidential candidates.
00:39:20.000And it is allowing the president to say you're all socialists.
00:39:24.000Do you know that when we did, when Medicare was done by the Congress at the time, under Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan said, Medicare will lead us to a socialist dictatorship.
00:39:34.000This is an ongoing theme of the Republicans.
00:39:37.000However, I do reject socialism as an economic system.
00:39:42.000If people have that view, that's their view.
00:39:44.000That is not the view of the Democratic Party.
00:39:47.000Well, she's going to have to fend off people like AOC, who is in fact a socialist.
00:39:51.000She's a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
00:39:53.000And that group explicitly says that they reject the profit motive.
00:39:58.000So Nancy Pelosi is going to have to battle that off.
00:40:00.000And she's not going to have a lot of success in doing that at the same time that she's hosting people like Jeremy Corbyn.
00:40:04.000Yesterday, Pelosi and Corbyn got together to apparently discuss myriad issues, not including anti-Semitism.
00:40:33.000I'm sure Nancy Pelosi has some very harsh words for Jeremy Corbyn, considering how few harsh words she has had for Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, open anti-Semites in her own caucus.
00:41:53.000Anybody who's a Democrat wins in that district.
00:41:54.000I've been saying this for a long time.
00:41:56.000This idea that she is the leader of the newfangled Democrats because she won in a heavily blue district after winning 15,000 votes in a primary is patently insane.
00:42:03.000There are a bunch of Democrats who are in purple states or in red districts who have to battle for their political lives.
00:42:09.000It's somewhat like saying that The new wave of the Republican Party is whoever is the rightmost member of the Republican Party.
00:42:16.000Even if there are a bunch of Republicans in purple states, in Ohio, in Florida, who still have to win their districts.
00:42:22.000Parties happen to be diverse because different areas of the country are diverse.
00:42:26.000But the media are treating AOC with kid gloves.
00:42:29.000And not only kid gloves, they are pushing her.
00:42:31.000They're really... And by the way, so is Pelosi.
00:42:33.000Pelosi stood on the cover of Rolling Stone with Ilhan Omar and AOC.
00:42:39.000I think that Nancy Pelosi is trying to feed the alligator a little bit of the time, hoping that the alligator eats her last.
00:42:45.000It ain't gonna eat her last, it's gonna eat her first.
00:42:47.000There's a reason that Rashida Tlaib came out yesterday and suggested that the leadership of the Democratic Party was racist.
00:42:53.000These kids, as Nancy Pelosi might put it, are not going to sit in the back of the car for very long.
00:42:58.000They are going to try to take control of the car.
00:43:16.000She was appearing on Yahoo News and she suggested that America should cut aid to Israel because Benjamin Netanyahu, the elected Prime Minister of Israel, five times over, who's made territorial concessions including the Y River Accords in the past, who unilaterally undertook a 10-month ceasefire with Hamas and a settlement stop, a settlement freeze in 2007-2008, Now this, this dolt AOC is suggesting that America should cut aid to Israel because of Netanyahu.
00:43:42.000Now, if you want to argue that America should cut foreign aid generally, that's an argument that I think is fair.
00:43:47.000But if you want to argue that America should continue giving aid to countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia, that America should continue giving foreign aid to countries that are ruled by dictators, but should cut aid to Israel because you don't like Bibi Netanyahu, you're just a dolt.
00:44:01.000What we're really seeing is the ascent of authoritarianism across the world.
00:44:06.000I think that Netanyahu is a Trump-like figure.
00:44:10.000I think that we There are so many ways to approach this issue.
00:44:18.000I would hope and wish that a diplomatic approach could change some and impact policy.
00:44:25.000It doesn't all have to be legislative.
00:44:28.000Would you be in favor of reducing military or economic aid to Israel?
00:44:39.000Okay, Bibi Netanyahu served in the Special Forces, went to MIT, served as Foreign Minister, served as Prime Minister, has a long political history, is one of the smartest men in politics.
00:45:24.000They all usually change the ending so that it's a happy ending.
00:45:26.000But the best version of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" is the original 1939 version with Charles Lawton as the Hunchback and Cedric Hardwick as the priest and Maureen O'Hara as Esmeralda It's really a terrific film.
00:45:38.000It really does hold up and stands the test of time.
00:45:41.000Huge budget film, also from the best year in the history of movies, 1939.
00:46:29.000Did not win, but worthy of a watch for sure.
00:46:32.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:46:38.000Okay, so there's a story out of Arizona that is just devastating.
00:46:42.000Apparently, according to ArizonaCentral.com, immigration officials last week deported the spouse of a U.S.
00:46:48.000soldier killed in Afghanistan in 2010, leaving the couple's 12-year-old daughter in Phoenix, then abruptly reversed its decision on Monday when the deported man was allowed to return to the United States.
00:47:20.000Apparently, González Carranza told the Arizona Republic he's allowed to re-enter the United States through the De Conciencia Port of Entry in Nogales, Arizona.
00:47:28.000On Monday afternoon, he said he was then driven back to Phoenix, where ICE officials dropped him off at the agency's headquarters near downtown.
00:47:34.000ICE officials offered no explanation for the decision to allow him to return to the U.S.
00:47:38.000Hernandez believes the reversal was triggered by media attention the deportation received.
00:47:42.000Gonzales Carrera said he was eager to see his daughter who lives with her grandparents.
00:47:45.000We obviously have to be careful in how we handle illegal immigrants in the United States illegally.
00:47:50.000This particular case is obviously ridiculous.
00:47:53.000So bad that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement had to reverse it.
00:47:57.000His wife was killed in Afghanistan and then he was deported leaving his daughter alone in Arizona.
00:48:02.000I think it is fair to say that we should be looking at giving citizenship to people whose spouses die in the line of duty in the military.
00:48:23.000The Democratic woke left is saying that Buttigieg is not intersectional enough.
00:48:27.000So she says, well, maybe the reason Buttigieg is rising in the polls is because he is less threatening, a gay white man is less threatening than a woman of color.
00:48:36.000There are a number of women who have not been getting very much traction, have been overlooked, shall we say.
00:48:41.000Klobuchar, Gillibrand, even Kamala Harris with her very big rollout has not been getting as much attention as Pete Buttigieg.
00:48:48.000Is it possible that, you know, a married, gay, white man from South Bend, Indiana is less threatening to some of the voters than a woman?
00:49:07.000If the Democrats turn the attack into Buttigieg, into he's not intersectional enough because he's just a gay guy, as opposed to a woman of color, it'll be amusing to watch the Democrats tear each other apart over this whole thing.
00:49:18.000The real reason that Buttigieg is rising in the polls is because Buttigieg comes off well, because he is an articulate guy who happens to have a sterling intellectual background, and also, more importantly, because he comes off as a moderate.