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00:00:45.040 It was a terrific night.

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00:00:50.420 There were great questions from the audience, and it was just a fabulous night with a lot of cigars and a lot of booze.

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00:01:05.020 Well, hello, everybody, and welcome to the Daily Wire backstage live.

00:01:30.900 What's in the news?

00:01:31.700 There is a dark, psychic force that has taken over the news cycle, and it has also given us the possibility of our next president, Marianne Williamson.

00:01:43.100 The Orb Gang.

00:01:45.140 I know.

00:01:46.040 She's great.

00:01:46.980 She's great.

00:01:47.320 I like to think that this is testimony to the greatness of our president, that he has ended news.

00:01:52.720 He has just gotten so much right.

00:01:54.840 He didn't just destroy the fake news media.

00:01:56.740 He destroyed news.

00:01:57.540 I know Ben thinks that.

00:01:59.440 Yeah, before you go too far in this direction, I hate to break it to you, but the president basically decided that we're going to war with Greenland.

00:02:05.740 And it's about damn time.

00:02:09.380 Ben, those poor, oppressed people in Greenland, they can't own their own real estate.

00:02:14.160 They are oppressed by a Danish tyranny.

00:02:17.020 We need shock and awe.

00:02:18.520 We need boots on the ground.

00:02:20.020 And we need to make Greenland great again.

00:02:23.400 It's what the people want.

00:02:29.500 I'll admit it wasn't what I was seeing when President Trump was elected, is a fight over Greenland.

00:02:33.900 There were certain things that were unexpected.

00:02:35.520 I also wasn't expecting the second coming.

00:02:37.620 It didn't come the way I thought it would.

00:02:39.300 I'll be honest.

00:02:39.680 I didn't think it was coming at all, to be frank with you.

00:02:40.700 You're the only one on the panel who wasn't expecting the second coming, but I'll admit that we were all a little shocked at the form.

00:02:46.300 I mean, this was more like the Spanish Inquisition.

00:02:48.220 Nobody expected it.

00:02:49.260 Like, when you figure, look, it's your religion, okay?

00:02:54.340 But if you're going to talk about, you know, Jesus coming back, I figured he wasn't going to come back in this particular form.

00:03:01.700 Yeah.

00:03:02.060 It's like Ghostbusters.

00:03:03.980 Yeah.

00:03:04.340 We just imagine the form of our Redeemer.

00:03:06.880 What was it?

00:03:07.760 Was he like, they turned me down thrice, so next time I'm coming back and grabbing him by the...

00:03:12.260 Yeah, I don't think he got the before the cock crew.

00:03:18.760 Like, I don't think he knew exactly what the record was.

00:03:19.980 I don't even want to go down that road.

00:03:21.500 I can't even imagine.

00:03:22.640 You know, you will never know the day or the hour, and this is good.

00:03:26.640 I do want to talk about this because, while it's an absolutely hilarious issue, I'm not sure that it's an inconsequential issue.

00:03:33.860 The president, if you look at the field and you're sitting where I'm sitting, I think that he has an above-average chance of holding onto the White House in the 2020 election.

00:03:43.780 When you say above-average, do you mean above the average incumbent or just, like, better than 50%?

00:03:54.020 Better than 50%.

00:03:55.040 But where I struggle to think about his chances are when he says things like, I'm the second coming of God and the king of the Jews.

00:04:05.440 It strikes me that the president's a blunt instrument, and the very same things that give him his power also are his greatest weakness.

00:04:14.520 And I actually think that's probably true of all of us, that usually your greatest strength and your Achilles heel are located in the exact same spot, right?

00:04:22.740 But the president has this amazing ability to go above the media, go past the media, use his Twitter account to speak directly to the people, and not just to speak a message about policy to the people,

00:04:34.840 but he's able to use the kind of bombastic sense of humor that he has to really decide what the media is going to talk about.

00:04:43.120 And this serves him very well.

00:04:44.760 But it also comes with a real liability, which is he's not particularly disciplined about it.

00:04:50.800 You think?

00:04:51.860 I worry that if the president goes around, you know, basically offending Jews and Christians with the exact same tweet,

00:05:00.680 that he's going to have a...

00:05:01.860 Then a lot of people who might otherwise be inclined to pull the lever for him come 2020,

00:05:08.160 he runs the risk that what they're going to want instead is just for it to be over.

00:05:12.420 Like, we just need a break.

00:05:14.380 We just need the temperature to come down.

00:05:16.380 We just can't take this tempo anymore.

00:05:19.020 That's certainly what the press is trying to set up.

00:05:21.000 They have been making noise since this guy got elected.

00:05:23.820 He is...

00:05:24.320 He's a Nazi.

00:05:25.180 He's a white supremacist.

00:05:26.340 He inspires shooters.

00:05:27.900 He's a Russian asset.

00:05:29.220 He's got dementia.

00:05:30.860 They haven't stopped since he started.

00:05:32.800 And this isn't just like, you know, clowns like Donnie Deutsch and Joy Reid.

00:05:37.180 These are actual so-called journalists.

00:05:39.840 I don't think you can refer to journalists as clowns.

00:05:42.080 That's a complete threat to the safety of...

00:05:45.460 These are guys who are just...

00:05:46.260 It's also very offensive to clowns, so you don't want to do that.

00:05:51.840 But it is interesting to think about Trump in silence for a minute.

00:05:56.580 If you think, if you just take out all the noise of the Trump administration,

00:06:00.200 it's a pretty good presidency.

00:06:01.320 You know, there's no wars.

00:06:03.980 The economy is ticking along.

00:06:06.160 You know, and it's nothing magical.

00:06:09.900 It's just pure kind of center-right governance, which always works.

00:06:14.260 A little conservatism here and there.

00:06:15.840 Isn't that kind of like saying, if you turn the sound off, Green Day is a good band?

00:06:19.060 I mean, look, here's the deal.

00:06:25.400 With every Republican president, they try to make this person out to be evil.

00:06:28.740 With Trump, they've obviously ramped it up in dramatic ways.

00:06:31.120 I mean, even more than they did with Bush Hitler, right?

00:06:32.980 I mean, I'm old enough to remember Bush Hitler.

00:06:34.580 He was not Hitler, as it turns out.

00:06:36.620 That was Trump, as it turns out.

00:06:38.360 But they decided that Trump was going to be all these things.

00:06:42.540 The thing is, when people are calling you crazy and senile and volatile,

00:06:46.660 the thing you would like to not look like is crazy, senile, and volatile.

00:06:52.020 And the big problem for the president right now is, as you say,

00:06:57.060 if it were just about his accomplishments, then he'd be reelected,

00:07:00.200 and I don't think he'd be particularly close.

00:07:01.500 Who else are they going to put up against him?

00:07:03.840 The Hillary Clinton 0.5 version of Elizabeth Warren?

00:07:08.080 Or narc Kamala Harris?

00:07:10.160 Like, who exactly would it be?

00:07:12.060 The problem for him is that because he is who he is,

00:07:16.660 he's obviously alienating a lot of suburban women.

00:07:19.520 It's hurting Republicans, particularly in purple areas.

00:07:22.560 And that's a really, really dangerous thing.

00:07:24.820 Look, I've said to the White House, they know this.

00:07:26.300 I mean, everyone at the White House knows this, except for President Trump.

00:07:28.760 All they have, they have one or two strategies available to them

00:07:30.900 to guarantee his reelection.

00:07:32.460 Strategy number one, they need to create a fake Twitter app.

00:07:35.440 They need to upload it to his phone.

00:07:37.000 And he tweets into the Twitter app, and he gets back just a bunch of people like,

00:07:46.160 mega, mega, you're the best.

00:07:47.360 And he's just so happy all day.

00:07:50.600 And then he goes out there and he tries to make permanent tax cuts.

00:07:53.040 And he thinks that this is all real, but it's not.

00:07:55.480 It's like Truman Show just for him.

00:07:56.680 That's strategy number one.

00:08:00.800 Strategy number two is they go upstairs into the top level of the White House

00:08:05.140 and they stock it with Shark Week and a porn star

00:08:07.480 and just leave him there for two years.

00:08:10.100 And he's president forever.

00:08:11.840 President for life.

00:08:12.600 President for life.

00:08:13.680 But his personality is, I mean, listen,

00:08:16.760 the reason that people despise him is not because of his policies,

00:08:19.120 because the fact is that until he was elected,

00:08:20.900 nobody even knew what his policies were really going to be.

00:08:22.680 It's a personality question.

00:08:24.500 Of course.

00:08:24.780 And he seems not capable of holding that in.

00:08:28.600 I would love to see him do it.

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00:10:49.040 Brew, you seem like you don't agree with Ben's analysis

00:10:53.740 regarding the president's Twitter account.

00:10:56.180 Well, no.

00:10:56.640 I mean, look, Trump was elected to do what he does.

00:11:00.640 And the fact that he is boorish enough and crazy enough to do it

00:11:05.280 means he's going to be boorish and crazy.

00:11:06.740 He's always going to step over the line.

00:11:09.040 And I think, but I think it's important.

00:11:10.880 Look, I think the press has created a world in which we're always the bad guy.

00:11:17.100 You know, it's a world of complete fantasy.

00:11:19.940 It doesn't even make any sense.

00:11:21.280 On the one hand, Donald Trump, our president, is Adolf Hitler.

00:11:24.620 On the other hand, we shouldn't have any guns.

00:11:26.740 So it doesn't even, it's not even a world that's making much sense.

00:11:31.780 And they've been doing this, as you say, they did it to Bush.

00:11:35.280 They've been doing it, they did it certainly to Richard Nixon,

00:11:38.000 who did terrible things, but nothing worse than Lyndon Johnson did.

00:11:41.120 They did it to Mitt Romney, the most milquetoast human being who's ever walked the earth.

00:11:44.400 Exactly, exactly.

00:11:44.800 So this is a cultural thing.

00:11:47.760 We need a voice, a guy who's not afraid.

00:11:50.140 And anybody who's not afraid has got to be a little bit nuts at this point.

00:11:54.080 How I wish the United States were, and how the voting population of the United States

00:12:01.560 goes, maybe two separate questions.

00:12:03.780 Again, I don't want to belabor the point, but we're all in favor of Trump being the

00:12:09.060 hammer that hits the nail.

00:12:10.160 As I've been saying for literally years at this point, it's when he hits the baby that

00:12:12.840 everybody begins to get a little bit worried.

00:12:15.500 And lately, particularly, he seems to be hitting a lot of babies.

00:12:18.420 He's turned into Leroy Jenkins in the last few weeks, right?

00:12:21.900 I mean, like Ilhan Omar and the squad, they're having a fight with Nancy Pelosi, and they're

00:12:26.520 going at it, and everybody's like, this is great, just let them pummel each other.

00:12:29.140 And Trump's like, Leroy Jenkins.

00:12:31.760 And he just charges right in the middle.

00:12:33.920 And then all of a sudden, the narrative is not that anymore.

00:12:36.380 Now he's in the middle of the narrative.

00:12:37.500 Or just this last week, Ilhan Omar and Rashid Tlaib were disgusting anti-Semites.

00:12:41.800 I mean, just awful, awful people.

00:12:43.280 Serious Jew haters.

00:12:44.680 These folks decide that they are going to, and they decide they're going to go to Palestine,

00:12:49.620 right?

00:12:49.800 Jerusalem, Palestine.

00:12:50.660 And they're going to...

00:12:51.780 That's that country next to Narnia and on the other side of Wakanda.

00:12:55.820 Is that where that is?

00:12:58.860 My geography is a little wonky.

00:13:01.320 I don't know.

00:13:01.640 And they're sponsored by a group called Mifta, which actually pushes the blood libel.

00:13:04.920 And the media, as you say, are awful, terrible people.

00:13:07.980 And so they ignore that entire story, right?

00:13:09.700 It is not important at any point that these women were sponsored by an actual blood libel

00:13:14.620 pro-terror group.

00:13:15.780 It's important that Israel said no, right?

00:13:17.840 That was the Jews were the problem because they're not as high on the intersectional pyramid.

00:13:23.300 So now Trump does have something to hit with, right?

00:13:27.040 I mean, he can say, look at these awful anti-Semitic Congresswomen who are retweeting cartoons

00:13:30.960 from cartoonists who competed in the Iran Holocaust denial cartoon contest in 2006.

00:13:35.700 Let's pause for a minute and think about the fact that there is a Holocaust denial cartoon contest.

00:13:40.440 I know.

00:13:40.720 I never get picked.

00:13:41.880 It's unbelievable.

00:13:44.120 Is it a depressing or an uplifting contest?

00:13:46.360 Like, on the one hand, depressing because historically inaccurate.

00:13:49.340 On the other hand, the Holocaust never happened.

00:13:50.620 So good news, guys.

00:13:52.000 All my relatives are back.

00:13:53.160 That's right.

00:13:53.860 We'll all turn up when we clean.

00:13:55.300 But the media don't cover any of this.

00:13:56.740 And Trump finally...

00:13:57.480 I mean, the last week has provided so many case studies in media bias.

00:14:00.560 And this is Trump's specialty, right?

00:14:01.660 Going after the media, this is Trump's specialty.

00:14:04.280 And instead, Trump decides that he's going to jump into a fray that he doesn't need to jump into

00:14:09.120 and be rather nonspecific.

00:14:10.680 Now, his comments in the last couple of days, 48 hours, about Jews voting Democrat.

00:14:15.200 Listen, I think that if you're a Jew who cares about Judaism, you should not vote Democrat.

00:14:18.520 I think it is wrong for you to vote Democrat.

00:14:20.100 I've been saying this my entire career.

00:14:22.920 I do not know...

00:14:23.980 If you're a Jew who cares about Judaism, I do not know for the life of me how you can possibly vote for a party

00:14:29.220 that upholds Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar as moral superiors.

00:14:32.920 I mean, it's just...

00:14:33.400 It's disgusting and unthinkable.

00:14:37.120 But that is...

00:14:38.000 You have to make clear that you're talking about Jews who care about Judaism.

00:14:41.100 You know, when Trump says things like,

00:14:42.860 all the Jews need to vote for me because the Jews care about Israel,

00:14:45.540 now you're running along the line of dual loyalty charges.

00:14:48.400 You're running along the line of just because you were born into a Jewish family,

00:14:50.840 you have to care about Israel.

00:14:51.960 And that is a distinction that he's never going to make because it's a nuanced distinction, obviously.

00:14:56.100 Think of the comparison you're making.

00:14:57.540 And you're comparing Trump, who obviously doesn't think before he talks.

00:15:00.920 He's a little...

00:15:01.460 Just a tad reckless.

00:15:02.720 And what he really said...

00:15:04.060 What he really said was,

00:15:05.500 if you are a Jew, you would be disloyal to Israel to vote for the Democrats,

00:15:09.880 which is kind of literally true.

00:15:11.520 And then he retweeted...

00:15:12.980 He retweeted...

00:15:13.620 He didn't say he was the son of God.

00:15:15.900 He said he retweeted some clown who was saying these things...

00:15:18.380 Everyone is saying I'm the son of God.

00:15:19.140 Everyone is saying...

00:15:19.680 It's not just me saying it.

00:15:20.660 It's everyone is saying...

00:15:21.820 So compare that to the fact that these virulent anti-Semites who call Israel Palestine,

00:15:28.620 which is the name the Romans gave Israel after they conquered it,

00:15:31.540 after they wiped it...

00:15:32.620 It's an Anglicization of the word Philistine.

00:15:36.760 Remember the Philistines with Goliath and all that?

00:15:39.340 That's what Palestine is.

00:15:40.660 So that's what they call...

00:15:41.500 So it's not really a comparison.

00:15:43.040 It's only a comparison in a world where the press is all on one side.

00:15:46.120 You're totally right.

00:15:46.660 But again, the art of politics is to make it easy for people to vote for you.

00:15:50.820 And Trump has to make it easier.

00:15:52.140 He does.

00:15:52.540 I mean, just as a matter of data, he needs to make it easier for people.

00:15:55.520 Like, listen, everybody who loves him is already going to vote for him.

00:15:57.780 He's not...

00:15:58.240 No one is going to say, well, you know, he tweeted one last time today not voting for him anymore.

00:16:02.440 Right?

00:16:02.780 But there are a lot of people out there who feel differently.

00:16:05.180 And Trump has so many victories that are available to him.

00:16:07.720 I mean, that whole New York Times story that unfolded last week,

00:16:11.200 where it came out that Dean Baquet over at the New York Times, the executive editor,

00:16:14.260 had overtly stated to his own staffers that they were shifting from the Trump-Russia narrative

00:16:18.660 to the Trump-racism narrative.

00:16:20.520 How is that not everything Trump said for an entire week?

00:16:23.400 How is that not every rally?

00:16:24.540 Just him saying, listen, I've been saying for years about the fake news, and they are fake news.

00:16:28.380 I mean, that should have been everything, right?

00:16:30.140 The president does a terrible job of running on his successes.

00:16:33.060 And I think part of it is because he's...

00:16:37.120 It's a compulsive behavior that he wants to have attention.

00:16:41.340 And the way he's gotten attention for most of his career

00:16:43.620 is actually to do things that are negative.

00:16:45.740 He's kind of like everybody's, you know, your kid brother or whatever.

00:16:49.540 My three-year-old.

00:16:50.260 Who only knows how to get attention by being bad.

00:16:52.800 The president's been famous for, even for all of Drew's life.

00:16:56.740 That's how long our president has been famous.

00:16:59.320 Impossible. No one has been alive as long.

00:17:01.060 He signed the Declaration of Independence.

00:17:02.700 He was there at the Constitutional Convention.

00:17:04.320 You know this man used to have hair?

00:17:06.100 I know. Unthinkable.

00:17:07.680 And Donald Trump was president even then.

00:17:11.520 He's been president...

00:17:13.240 He's been famous for this incredible amount of time,

00:17:16.120 usually by being notorious.

00:17:18.960 But Donald Trump has more notoriety than he has fame.

00:17:21.720 As time went on, The Apprentice happens,

00:17:24.080 and he gets a little more legitimate fame.

00:17:25.620 But he's been a notorious figure.

00:17:27.280 He still has those same impulses.

00:17:30.660 What he hasn't learned is that you can actually be beloved,

00:17:33.840 you can actually be supported on the basis of your actual accomplishments.

00:17:37.480 The tax cuts, the great judicial appointments,

00:17:40.280 Gorsuch on the Supreme Court,

00:17:42.120 not having us involved in foreign wars,

00:17:44.500 defeating ISIS.

00:17:45.560 And by the way, yes, fighting the culture wars properly.

00:17:48.540 Of course fighting the culture wars properly.

00:17:49.940 But I think that what he does instinctively and compulsively,

00:17:53.580 I don't think he can control himself,

00:17:55.100 is that even when the news is good for him

00:17:57.620 because it's bad for the left,

00:17:59.660 if it's not specifically about him,

00:18:02.000 he wants to make it about him.

00:18:03.160 So when he sees horrible press befalling Rashida Tlaib

00:18:08.220 and Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,

00:18:12.320 he sees them getting pummeled in the press.

00:18:14.120 Instead of going, this is great, it's going to help me win,

00:18:16.980 he goes, why aren't they talking about me?

00:18:18.780 Something, something, something, something.

00:18:20.340 I'd like to give a counterexample here,

00:18:21.980 which I agree.

00:18:23.200 The typical advice would be,

00:18:25.080 when your opponents are killing each other,

00:18:26.480 let them do it and sit back and have a cigar.

00:18:28.720 But in the case of the real moment

00:18:31.320 when the squad was burning down,

00:18:33.120 Nancy Pelosi was pouncing,

00:18:34.780 she's been waiting for this for two years now.

00:18:37.680 At that moment, Trump inserted himself into the debate

00:18:40.740 and he said, send them back,

00:18:42.340 which was technically not true

00:18:44.140 because they weren't immigrants, right?

00:18:46.000 Most of them weren't immigrants.

00:18:47.680 At that moment, he got a ton of negative press.

00:18:49.940 But what was the conclusion of that?

00:18:51.540 What was the effect of those tweets?

00:18:53.100 The effect was, all of a sudden,

00:18:55.240 you had AOC meeting with Nancy Pelosi.

00:18:57.300 You had all of the so-called moderate Democrats

00:18:59.080 rallying behind these horrific people,

00:19:02.140 Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and AOC.

00:19:04.620 That seems like a win.

00:19:05.820 That seems like where we want the Democrats to be,

00:19:08.260 which is showing themselves to be bigoted, hateful radicals.

00:19:11.740 And if they're doing that,

00:19:12.960 I think it puts Trump in a decent light,

00:19:14.880 even if he goes through a couple bad weeks of news.

00:19:16.500 Actually, it's an interesting conversation

00:19:22.060 because it is a strategy,

00:19:23.960 but it is a very risky strategy

00:19:25.300 because you're helping the Democratic Party

00:19:27.840 turn itself into the Labour Party in Britain.

00:19:29.800 And maybe you think they're already there.

00:19:31.400 Maybe they are.

00:19:32.260 But stripping off the mask,

00:19:34.520 I'm not sure that that is a good long-term strategy

00:19:36.660 because they do have a 50% chance.

00:19:38.480 They've run the Congress.

00:19:39.260 They do have a 50% chance of winning the presidency.

00:19:41.520 And by the way, I don't think Trump is weak enough

00:19:42.920 that he has to make them all about AOC and Ilhan Omar

00:19:46.140 in order to win.

00:19:46.880 I think Trump can beat Joe Biden

00:19:48.320 if he would shut up for five.

00:19:50.020 Like, not the whole time.

00:19:51.340 Just for, like, every five seconds or so

00:19:53.200 would be awesome.

00:19:54.040 Like, if he just did that,

00:19:55.440 make all of our jobs easy,

00:19:56.940 that would...

00:19:57.360 I think he could win.

00:19:58.500 I think there's a real danger

00:19:59.860 in nutpicking the other side.

00:20:01.240 And I think that the Democrats learned that in 2016

00:20:02.960 when they were like,

00:20:03.540 you know who'd be awesome to run against?

00:20:04.920 That guy Donald Trump.

00:20:06.040 He'll never win.

00:20:06.680 He'll never win.

00:20:07.600 And Hillary Clinton is like,

00:20:08.740 he should run.

00:20:09.800 And now she's sitting somewhere

00:20:10.800 up in the woods of Chappaqua

00:20:11.800 quietly weeping to herself.

00:20:13.620 You know, that's...

00:20:14.600 What do you think of this strategy, though,

00:20:21.860 as a serious strategy?

00:20:23.220 I've thought numerous times...

00:20:25.220 The time that I met Trump's speechwriters,

00:20:27.480 they said to me,

00:20:28.160 what aren't we doing?

00:20:29.080 What should we do?

00:20:30.100 And I actually have an idea.

00:20:31.780 I actually think that there's a speech

00:20:33.160 Trump should make

00:20:33.920 where he says,

00:20:35.000 I know who I am.

00:20:36.480 I know what I look like.

00:20:38.100 I know what you hear.

00:20:39.580 But look at what I've accomplished.

00:20:41.340 Where he actually says this.

00:20:42.600 And he just says,

00:20:43.260 yes, you know, I got a big mouth.

00:20:44.440 But, Drew, I would...

00:20:45.440 Drew, that's called humility.

00:20:46.420 That's called humility.

00:20:47.320 I would like to...

00:20:47.920 I don't know that...

00:20:48.440 It's fake humility.

00:20:49.320 It's fake humility.

00:20:49.780 I would like to one day...

00:20:51.660 I would like to one day

00:20:52.400 walk into a quiet little bar

00:20:53.880 in rural Texas somewhere

00:20:56.000 and see a guy sitting

00:20:57.320 in the back corner

00:20:58.060 who looks a lot like Alex Jones.

00:21:00.660 And to walk up

00:21:01.760 to the back of the bar

00:21:02.560 and pull up a chair

00:21:03.800 next to him at the bar

00:21:04.680 and look over,

00:21:05.520 and by God,

00:21:06.000 it is Alex Jones.

00:21:07.000 And I'd like...

00:21:07.780 And I'd like for him

00:21:08.820 to look over at me

00:21:09.640 and say,

00:21:10.220 I told them they were making

00:21:12.500 the frogs gay

00:21:13.240 and they made me rich.

00:21:14.060 Can you believe this crap?

00:21:16.860 But I don't think

00:21:17.740 that's who Alex Jones is.

00:21:19.680 I don't think he's in on the joke.

00:21:21.180 Trump did have this one moment.

00:21:22.640 It was the moment

00:21:23.460 that I thought,

00:21:23.940 gosh, there is some humility there,

00:21:25.500 which is when he was talking

00:21:26.960 about how he's never had a drink.

00:21:28.620 He said,

00:21:28.880 you know,

00:21:29.000 I'm the only president

00:21:29.760 who's never had a drink.

00:21:31.100 Can you believe that?

00:21:32.100 Could you imagine

00:21:32.660 if I did have a drink?

00:21:33.700 Oh, I'd be the worst.

00:21:34.780 It's my only good quality

00:21:36.000 that I never had a drink.

00:21:37.360 Oh, this guy really

00:21:38.220 has some self-awareness.

00:21:39.440 The best moment

00:21:40.740 of his presidency for me

00:21:41.880 was the time

00:21:42.480 that the Marine's hat blew off.

00:21:44.320 And without thinking,

00:21:45.180 he chased it down

00:21:46.020 and put it back on his head.

00:21:46.860 The president of the United States

00:21:48.120 chased down a Marine's hat

00:21:49.620 and put it back on his head.

00:21:51.800 That's where,

00:21:53.000 again,

00:21:54.200 he does have good instincts.

00:21:56.480 Right?

00:21:56.620 I mean,

00:21:56.700 he does have some good instincts.

00:21:57.640 Well, he's really that guy.

00:21:58.340 He really doesn't get

00:21:59.380 that he's the president.

00:22:00.660 He doesn't get

00:22:01.280 that his words

00:22:03.460 have a kind of moral weight

00:22:04.560 that other people's words

00:22:06.060 don't have.

00:22:06.660 He clearly doesn't understand.

00:22:07.760 No, I think that's true.

00:22:08.900 I mean,

00:22:09.100 the good news for him

00:22:10.220 is that the Democrats

00:22:10.940 seem to be just

00:22:12.120 destroying themselves apace.

00:22:14.080 I mean,

00:22:14.200 this is...

00:22:14.700 I love the Democrats.

00:22:17.280 I mean,

00:22:17.480 did you see

00:22:18.020 Elizabeth Warren dancing?

00:22:19.500 Did you see

00:22:20.220 Elizabeth Warren dancing?

00:22:21.400 Oh, yes.

00:22:21.940 And then the rain came.

00:22:22.820 And then...

00:22:23.820 I mean,

00:22:28.080 it was...

00:22:28.720 She went...

00:22:29.820 You never go full

00:22:30.820 Elaine from Seinfeld.

00:22:33.260 And she went full Elaine

00:22:34.560 from Seinfeld.

00:22:35.120 And I thought to myself,

00:22:35.840 this is the great hope?

00:22:37.620 The great white hope?

00:22:38.440 Like, this is Elizabeth Warren?

00:22:40.900 The great 1,023 out of 1,024

00:22:44.100 white hope, actually.

00:22:45.220 Yeah.

00:22:45.780 This is going to be it.

00:22:47.120 I mean,

00:22:47.320 their top three candidates

00:22:48.240 are a dead man.

00:22:49.300 an alive but not quite their man.

00:22:57.100 And that's Bernie, I think.

00:22:58.640 Yeah.

00:23:00.400 And Elizabeth Warren,

00:23:02.000 who seems like

00:23:02.800 the alpha version

00:23:05.580 of a beta product.

00:23:11.460 I think Elizabeth Warren

00:23:13.300 has a real chance

00:23:14.580 of being the nominee.

00:23:15.680 I don't think this is right.

00:23:16.400 I tell you,

00:23:16.980 first of all,

00:23:18.280 Biden's strategy now

00:23:20.840 is I'm electable.

00:23:23.160 I'm electable.

00:23:23.900 All that has to happen,

00:23:25.040 all that has to happen

00:23:26.100 is he loses Iowa

00:23:27.000 and he's done.

00:23:28.380 It's like his whole argument

00:23:29.600 depends on his not losing.

00:23:31.360 And everybody loses.

00:23:32.340 All frontrunners lose

00:23:33.260 when they get to Iowa

00:23:34.040 or soon thereafter.

00:23:36.220 He's not going to make it

00:23:37.980 past a certain number

00:23:39.360 of primaries

00:23:39.860 where people start

00:23:40.440 to question that.

00:23:41.440 And I think Elizabeth Warren

00:23:42.720 has been running

00:23:43.080 a good campaign.

00:23:43.780 Well, you want to talk

00:23:45.920 about the media.

00:23:46.620 The media backs her up.

00:23:47.660 Oh, my goodness.

00:23:48.380 I mean, the media treatment

00:23:49.240 of this lady,

00:23:49.860 they're giving her massages

00:23:51.520 in the backroom

00:23:52.160 Robert Kraft style.

00:23:53.040 I mean, it is astonishing.

00:23:56.280 I mean, the treatment

00:23:56.720 that they are giving her

00:23:57.620 is the Beto treatment

00:23:59.440 in Texas.

00:24:00.480 By the way,

00:24:01.440 you've got to feel bad

00:24:01.980 for Beto, right?

00:24:03.320 I love Beto.

00:24:04.220 I love to just

00:24:04.900 give the hands of Beto.

00:24:06.080 Has anybody ever been,

00:24:08.780 I have so many terms

00:24:09.500 I could use here

00:24:10.060 that are inappropriate,

00:24:11.680 brought to a particular point

00:24:13.680 and then let down

00:24:14.400 like Beto O'Rourke has been

00:24:16.260 by the media?

00:24:18.760 Wait a minute.

00:24:19.720 Wait a minute.

00:24:20.720 I think that Beto

00:24:22.300 could still get to 2%

00:24:23.280 in the polls.

00:24:24.680 I think he's upped his game.

00:24:26.700 He's doing a little better.

00:24:27.500 We could get to a solid 2%.

00:24:28.540 Bra.

00:24:29.080 That sounds unbelievable, Brad.

00:24:30.940 Frankly, it's furry phobia.

00:24:32.960 I think it's bigotry

00:24:33.860 and our country

00:24:34.480 needs to move past it.

00:24:36.100 My question is,

00:24:36.820 what happened to Kamala Harris?

00:24:38.200 I thought she was supposed

00:24:39.020 to be the big superstar

00:24:41.020 that was going to jump up.

00:24:42.360 She looks as nasty as her.

00:24:45.440 We're in California.

00:24:46.560 These people know Kamala Harris.

00:24:47.880 They know how terrible she is.

00:24:48.840 Her problem is

00:24:49.460 she looks as nasty as her.

00:24:49.480 Half of them went to prison

00:24:50.260 because of Kamala Harris.

00:24:51.820 They're out here on leave.

00:24:55.060 Kamala Harris is a perfect example

00:24:56.380 of a politician

00:24:57.040 who didn't even realize

00:24:58.180 she was a politician

00:24:58.860 until it was too late.

00:24:59.800 That's right.

00:25:00.420 Because she thought

00:25:01.840 she was going to be

00:25:02.320 this great visionary Obama

00:25:03.780 knockoff

00:25:04.780 and it turns out

00:25:05.680 that she doesn't even know

00:25:06.580 her own positions

00:25:07.240 on any of the issues

00:25:07.940 and she figured

00:25:08.420 it was just going

00:25:08.960 to be handed to her.

00:25:10.400 Meanwhile,

00:25:11.000 the white establishment media,

00:25:12.440 it turns out they like

00:25:13.040 white establishment

00:25:13.980 progressive figures

00:25:14.940 who flatter them

00:25:15.600 about their own intelligence

00:25:16.440 and that's Elizabeth Warren.

00:25:17.680 Of course,

00:25:18.760 doesn't even understand

00:25:19.440 her own programs.

00:25:20.340 She doesn't understand

00:25:20.980 her Medicare for All program.

00:25:22.460 I know Elizabeth.

00:25:23.620 I'm always tempted

00:25:24.400 to call her Professor Warren

00:25:25.240 because that's how I knew her

00:25:25.920 when she was at Harvard Law School.

00:25:27.440 She was never this radical.

00:25:29.720 When she was at Harvard Law School,

00:25:30.840 she wasn't running it,

00:25:32.460 but she was always perceived

00:25:33.680 as a sort of quasi-populist moderate.

00:25:36.320 She was never this kind of

00:25:37.200 crazed Bernie Sanders type

00:25:38.620 and now she's bought fully into it.

00:25:40.320 She's obviously the most clever of them.

00:25:41.980 The reason that I say

00:25:42.680 I'm more skeptical of her chances

00:25:44.040 than you are, Drew,

00:25:45.440 is because she has no black support.

00:25:47.840 That's a problem.

00:25:48.740 All Biden has to do

00:25:50.480 is last till South Carolina.

00:25:51.780 If he can last till South Carolina,

00:25:53.380 he will really punch her in the nose.

00:25:55.600 You know, consider this, though.

00:25:56.940 Biden is so far ahead in the polls

00:25:58.720 because he fills that kind of slot,

00:26:01.600 that outline of an electable guy.

00:26:03.600 If they had an actually electable guy,

00:26:05.480 a guy who was like not 110 years old,

00:26:07.880 a guy who actually had not been corrupt,

00:26:10.460 openly corrupt for,

00:26:11.900 what is it now, 40, 50 years?

00:26:13.360 50 years?

00:26:13.740 If they actually had the guy

00:26:15.460 who was just like a moderate Democrat,

00:26:17.380 I think they'd win.

00:26:18.980 But they haven't got that guy.

00:26:19.780 It's amazing.

00:26:20.340 I think for a brief moment

00:26:21.560 they had him in Pete Buttigieg.

00:26:24.780 And then Pete Buttigieg

00:26:26.000 didn't understand that

00:26:27.060 that was actually the best thing

00:26:28.220 he had going for him

00:26:29.040 was that he was likable

00:26:30.340 and seemed moderate

00:26:31.340 and was fairly appealing.

00:26:32.640 And he got out there

00:26:33.540 and everybody was like,

00:26:34.160 ah, fresh face,

00:26:35.240 somebody who we can actually get behind.

00:26:36.980 And he was like,

00:26:37.400 also, I hate Christians.

00:26:42.040 And everybody's like,

00:26:42.900 oh, yeah, no.

00:26:44.420 Where's Biden?

00:26:45.440 Give us Biden.

00:26:46.280 But the fact is that

00:26:47.060 the reason that right now

00:26:48.580 Bernie is running this campaign

00:26:50.300 and the polls have him

00:26:51.220 variably either up slightly unworn

00:26:53.600 or down slightly too worn.

00:26:55.100 And they're running it about

00:26:55.980 even in the polls,

00:26:56.720 somewhere between 20% and 15%

00:26:58.020 for both of them.

00:26:58.960 And that really does leave

00:27:00.320 this continuous lane

00:27:01.560 for Joe Biden

00:27:02.560 to wheel his gurney

00:27:03.380 right up the center.

00:27:07.340 I mean, he's running a weekend

00:27:08.500 at Bernie's campaign.

00:27:09.380 It's incredible.

00:27:09.920 Every time he's out there,

00:27:11.520 he gaffs.

00:27:12.340 And so his own campaign is like,

00:27:13.420 what if we just stash him

00:27:14.360 over here in this coffin?

00:27:15.780 And we'll leave him there

00:27:16.840 until November of 2020.

00:27:19.900 And it may work.

00:27:21.620 It may work because

00:27:22.300 all the other candidates

00:27:23.240 are so unappealing.

00:27:24.800 Again, I think that

00:27:25.740 Elizabeth Warren

00:27:26.580 had that first rough go

00:27:28.660 because of the Native American stuff.

00:27:30.240 And then she's been getting

00:27:30.960 all sorts of wonderful

00:27:31.860 media treatment since.

00:27:32.900 I think there's another point here

00:27:34.080 where the media say,

00:27:34.700 wait a second,

00:27:35.020 she is not intersectional enough.

00:27:36.780 She's a white woman.

00:27:37.620 We need to take another look

00:27:38.320 at this field.

00:27:39.160 We need somebody who,

00:27:40.300 I think,

00:27:40.600 second look at Kamala is coming.

00:27:41.820 I think that in the next few months...

00:27:43.240 But the question I have

00:27:45.200 with Biden is,

00:27:46.720 people forget that Joe Biden

00:27:47.960 is a complete doofus.

00:27:49.260 They forget because

00:27:49.980 he's been in politics.

00:27:50.960 I don't mean that

00:27:51.980 just to throw a bomb.

00:27:53.000 I mean, he is like technically

00:27:54.200 and objectively

00:27:55.100 a complete doofus.

00:27:56.200 He ran in 1988.

00:27:57.620 He dropped out of the race

00:27:58.460 because he lied about

00:27:59.060 his law school record

00:27:59.900 and he plagiarized a speech

00:28:01.140 by this Irish politician.

00:28:02.960 Then he did,

00:28:03.700 then he passed a good crime bill

00:28:05.380 in 1994

00:28:06.080 that he now has to run against

00:28:07.720 and pretend he wasn't involved in.

00:28:09.200 Then he ran in 2008.

00:28:10.540 He ran in 2008.

00:28:12.060 He was absolutely nothing.

00:28:13.580 The only reason

00:28:14.140 he became vice president

00:28:15.220 is because Barack Obama

00:28:16.920 didn't want to get suicided.

00:28:18.040 I'm kidding.

00:28:18.500 I mean that he didn't want to

00:28:19.940 have Hillary

00:28:21.200 as his vice president.

00:28:23.460 And so...

00:28:24.700 Never put yourself...

00:28:26.180 Never put Hillary Clinton

00:28:27.280 one heartbeat away from anything

00:28:28.540 if it's your heartbeat.

00:28:30.220 That's a bad move.

00:28:30.740 That's like the first rule of politics.

00:28:32.020 And so the question

00:28:33.360 I have about Joe Biden

00:28:35.440 is if he can't...

00:28:37.340 He can't really run on anything

00:28:38.500 that he's ever done.

00:28:39.200 The one good thing he did

00:28:39.980 he can't run on.

00:28:41.040 He's running on the Obama legacy

00:28:42.740 and yet Barack Obama

00:28:44.260 won't endorse him.

00:28:45.980 Why not?

00:28:46.660 What does Obama know

00:28:47.500 that we don't know?

00:28:48.500 Well, I think he knows

00:28:48.980 everything that we do know

00:28:49.860 is the reason

00:28:50.320 that he won't endorse him.

00:28:50.840 Right, he's Joe Biden.

00:28:51.520 Yeah.

00:28:52.880 But I will say,

00:28:53.480 did you see Biden's campaign ad

00:28:55.000 that he put out

00:28:55.520 in the last 24 hours

00:28:56.380 called Bones?

00:28:57.260 Called Bones, yeah.

00:28:58.080 Which, again, bad move

00:28:59.520 when you're 1,000 years old

00:29:00.640 until your lead campaign ad

00:29:01.920 is called Bones.

00:29:03.260 It's a little too

00:29:03.860 on the nose there, Joe.

00:29:04.860 But the ad was basically

00:29:07.240 what you would think it is.

00:29:08.820 And it is the Democrats'

00:29:09.800 best pitch, which is

00:29:10.560 everything's too crazy,

00:29:11.840 we need solidity.

00:29:13.120 Joe Biden, Barack Obama,

00:29:14.500 you remember those guys

00:29:15.320 and those nice guys.

00:29:16.780 At least it won't be so crazy.

00:29:17.880 And this is why we come back to,

00:29:19.020 you know, if Trump could

00:29:19.700 just tone it down

00:29:20.640 and not be so crazy,

00:29:21.840 it makes it nearly impossible

00:29:22.880 for the Democrats to win.

00:29:24.040 They're running on his character.

00:29:25.240 They're not running on anything else.

00:29:26.080 And I'm not sure

00:29:26.220 that Barack Obama won't

00:29:27.340 at some point

00:29:27.960 end up reluctantly endorsing Joe.

00:29:30.780 If Barack Obama thinks Joe

00:29:33.060 is the person who can win,

00:29:34.600 and if he sees that

00:29:35.360 as a way of sort of

00:29:36.480 restoring his legacy,

00:29:37.820 then he probably will

00:29:38.620 come off the sidelines

00:29:39.420 at some point.

00:29:39.900 Well, he'll have to eventually, right?

00:29:42.960 Stamps.com.

00:29:43.900 Stamps.com.

00:29:44.360 What a great segue.

00:29:45.880 Is that guy amazing or what?

00:29:47.840 I am famous for my segues

00:29:48.940 and fewer better than

00:29:50.540 when I just say

00:29:51.240 the name of the sponsor

00:29:52.300 in the middle of the conversation.

00:29:54.320 Well, let me tell you

00:29:55.060 something about Stamps.com.

00:29:56.320 Since you asked.

00:29:57.220 Tell me.

00:29:57.580 Okay, so I don't like

00:29:58.860 going to the post office.

00:29:59.860 Really?

00:30:00.060 Not because the post office

00:30:01.000 isn't great.

00:30:01.680 Tell me more.

00:30:02.240 The post office is great.

00:30:03.560 But let me explain.

00:30:04.840 So the last time

00:30:05.960 I went to the post office,

00:30:07.120 I got a parking ticket

00:30:08.080 because let me tell you

00:30:09.020 something about the

00:30:10.160 authorities in Los Angeles.

00:30:12.100 In Los Angeles,

00:30:13.400 they will leave

00:30:14.360 piles of homeless people

00:30:16.080 and their poop

00:30:17.200 and drugs

00:30:18.260 in the street

00:30:19.320 across from my house.

00:30:20.680 But if I park

00:30:21.700 in the red zone

00:30:22.280 for more than 37 seconds,

00:30:23.800 there will be a ticket

00:30:25.040 on my windshield.

00:30:26.080 If Kamala Harris

00:30:26.960 hears about this,

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00:31:51.160 So, it's absolutely,

00:31:52.700 we've talked a little bit

00:31:53.980 about the election,

00:31:55.300 talked a little bit

00:31:55.900 about the candidates.

00:31:57.460 I think Ben hit on a story

00:31:59.340 a second ago

00:31:59.800 and we moved past it

00:32:00.620 too quickly.

00:32:01.160 I think it's maybe

00:32:01.740 the most important story

00:32:02.860 that's happened

00:32:03.880 in the last three weeks

00:32:04.780 besides that predator,

00:32:05.820 that predator pedophile

00:32:07.560 hanging himself

00:32:08.400 in a jail cell.

00:32:09.140 Oh, yeah, yeah.

00:32:10.200 I mean, that was a good story.

00:32:11.220 Yeah, hanging himself.

00:32:12.300 I'm sorry, guys.

00:32:14.140 I'm sorry.

00:32:14.940 I didn't know you

00:32:15.460 were a conspiracy theorist.

00:32:17.080 You think that

00:32:17.740 Jeffrey Epstein

00:32:18.440 hanged himself.

00:32:19.260 All right, that's fine.

00:32:20.160 Alex Jones, all right.

00:32:21.900 I'm sorry.

00:32:27.600 I think the best thing

00:32:28.840 that's been said about this

00:32:29.760 was said by our friend

00:32:31.240 Norm MacDonald

00:32:32.060 who said that, you know,

00:32:33.840 there's a second side

00:32:36.500 to every coin

00:32:37.220 and that you may think

00:32:38.500 of Jeffrey Epstein

00:32:39.300 as that horrible predator

00:32:40.420 who molested all of those

00:32:41.620 underage women,

00:32:42.980 but he likes to think of him

00:32:43.940 as the guy who killed

00:32:44.960 Jeffrey Epstein.

00:32:46.000 That's true.

00:32:47.200 Going right to heaven.

00:32:48.800 The real accomplishment

00:32:49.860 for Jeffrey Epstein

00:32:50.740 wasn't that he killed himself.

00:32:52.260 A lot of people

00:32:52.640 are able to accomplish that.

00:32:53.640 It was that he cremated himself too.

00:32:58.540 Actually, though,

00:32:59.220 the story that we moved

00:33:00.160 right past is a story of,

00:33:01.900 and I think it's one story

00:33:03.540 even though it's manifested itself

00:33:05.240 even just in the last 10 days

00:33:06.580 in three or four different ways,

00:33:07.960 and that's the New York Times

00:33:09.220 really revealing their bias

00:33:11.960 in a way that we've never

00:33:12.800 seen them do.

00:33:13.820 This is the most important story

00:33:15.120 that's happened recently.

00:33:16.280 You know, I've always had this joke,

00:33:17.720 the New York Times,

00:33:18.280 a former newspaper,

00:33:19.100 which I've been making

00:33:19.660 since you and I have met.

00:33:21.420 It's the most prophetic joke

00:33:22.740 I've ever made

00:33:23.320 because the New York Times

00:33:24.060 is now openly

00:33:25.280 a former newspaper,

00:33:26.700 and it's important

00:33:27.380 because the New York Times

00:33:29.180 sends its budget,

00:33:30.240 its list of stories

00:33:31.140 out to newspapers

00:33:32.340 and radio stations

00:33:33.220 and TV stations

00:33:33.940 across the country.

00:33:34.760 Well, this is what people

00:33:35.420 don't understand.

00:33:35.960 It is absolutely the truth

00:33:37.500 that the New York Times

00:33:38.420 determines the news

00:33:39.600 for the entire country.

00:33:40.560 And these guys...

00:33:41.240 They have investigative journalists

00:33:43.240 which almost no publication

00:33:44.820 can afford to have.

00:33:45.920 They're not the only one,

00:33:47.100 but they're certainly

00:33:47.540 the dominant name brand

00:33:49.560 in this country.

00:33:50.660 And they syndicate the news

00:33:52.240 out to all the local

00:33:53.460 news affiliates.

00:33:54.500 And people just think

00:33:55.440 this is the New York Times,

00:33:56.360 these must be

00:33:56.880 the important stories.

00:33:58.100 Right.

00:33:58.320 Here is Dean Baguette.

00:33:59.800 Nobody knows how to pronounce

00:34:00.660 his last name.

00:34:01.280 Dean Baquet or Baquet,

00:34:02.920 the editor of the New York Times,

00:34:04.460 saying to people,

00:34:05.880 well, you know,

00:34:06.480 we cover this phony Russian story

00:34:08.240 as well as we could,

00:34:09.320 but it blew up in our faces.

00:34:10.760 Now we're going to call Trump

00:34:11.640 racist, racist, racist

00:34:12.700 until 2020

00:34:13.680 and hope we win the election.

00:34:15.320 He essentially said

00:34:16.280 those exact words.

00:34:16.880 That's almost what he said.

00:34:18.120 You know, it's almost what he said.

00:34:18.900 I mean, they actually said

00:34:20.020 in their big story,

00:34:21.680 their 1619 story,

00:34:23.800 they said,

00:34:24.520 our purpose for this story

00:34:25.660 is to reframe American history.

00:34:28.740 As being centered around slavery

00:34:30.740 and the arguments

00:34:31.520 that they are making.

00:34:32.380 This is the same paper,

00:34:33.260 by the way,

00:34:33.960 that had a series of articles

00:34:35.220 called Red Century

00:34:36.240 in which they argued

00:34:37.420 that women had better sex

00:34:38.620 in the Soviet Union,

00:34:40.100 which is all they had.

00:34:42.500 Which is all they had.

00:34:43.920 They didn't have bread.

00:34:45.760 They were living in a room

00:34:47.740 with their mother-in-law,

00:34:49.200 you know,

00:34:49.420 like living with 15 people

00:34:50.820 in a room,

00:34:51.520 but they were having great,

00:34:52.520 they were just banging.

00:34:55.120 That's why Bernie Sanders

00:34:56.340 was always there

00:34:57.000 with his shirt off.

00:34:58.960 And so now they're making

00:35:00.620 the argument,

00:35:01.280 now they're making the argument

00:35:02.140 that the entire founding

00:35:03.480 of America

00:35:05.180 was based on slavery,

00:35:06.760 which is actually

00:35:07.200 the opposite of the literal truth,

00:35:08.720 the opposite of the facts,

00:35:09.800 is that the founders

00:35:10.600 knew slavery was a problem.

00:35:12.240 They wished they could

00:35:13.120 get rid of slavery.

00:35:13.880 They couldn't figure out

00:35:14.620 a way to do it.

00:35:15.340 They got stuck with it,

00:35:16.260 and because they got stuck with it,

00:35:17.340 700,000 Americans

00:35:18.600 died in the Civil War.

00:35:20.300 That's the truth,

00:35:21.260 and they're just lying about it

00:35:22.560 in order to make the case

00:35:24.440 that this country

00:35:25.540 is founded on racism

00:35:27.280 when it's actually founded

00:35:28.700 on the opposite of racism

00:35:29.960 and created racism

00:35:31.120 as a problem

00:35:31.740 by being such a great country.

00:35:34.980 There are a couple issues here

00:35:38.880 that really are worth breaking down,

00:35:41.300 and one of the issues

00:35:42.240 is that the way

00:35:44.120 that that conversation went,

00:35:45.520 if you actually read

00:35:45.940 the leaked transcript to Slate,

00:35:47.600 it was obvious

00:35:48.180 that the executive editor

00:35:49.140 was basically being bullied

00:35:50.380 by the coffee-fetching intern.

00:35:51.960 That's right.

00:35:52.380 I mean, it's pretty incredible.

00:35:53.840 I mean, the staffers

00:35:54.440 are talking to the executive editor

00:35:55.700 of the New York Times

00:35:56.400 and saying, basically,

00:35:57.960 you're not woke enough.

00:35:59.320 Because they changed that headline.

00:36:01.260 That's the important part.

00:36:02.220 Right, because it said,

00:36:02.920 Trump urges unity versus racism,

00:36:04.680 and this was very bad

00:36:05.440 because Trump actually

00:36:06.120 had urged unity against racism,

00:36:07.700 and that cuts against

00:36:08.620 their narrative,

00:36:09.140 which is that Trump

00:36:09.660 is the white supremacist.

00:36:10.940 We're the news.

00:36:11.600 We can't let anybody know about it.

00:36:13.640 Right, but the fact that the,

00:36:15.680 and this is happening

00:36:16.300 at a bevy of publications,

00:36:17.620 that the editors

00:36:18.100 no longer run their publications.

00:36:19.320 They are run by all

00:36:20.420 of the brand-new

00:36:21.400 Wesleyan lesbian

00:36:22.320 dance theory graduates

00:36:23.740 who are interning

00:36:25.120 in the coffee room

00:36:26.000 and who have decided

00:36:27.000 that because they studied

00:36:28.280 intersectional theory

00:36:29.680 in their gender studies course,

00:36:31.540 they get to determine

00:36:32.240 the course of the news.

00:36:33.080 And everybody

00:36:33.580 of the baby boomer generation

00:36:34.760 is definitely afraid

00:36:35.640 of these people

00:36:36.180 and running frightened

00:36:37.060 from these people

00:36:37.680 and saying,

00:36:38.200 you're so right.

00:36:39.660 Scourge me.

00:36:40.440 Whip me.

00:36:41.160 You know, we have,

00:36:41.740 you're totally,

00:36:42.340 we have to completely change

00:36:43.460 the news coverage here

00:36:44.320 and restructure our newsroom

00:36:45.440 so that racism

00:36:46.240 is at the center

00:36:46.960 of every single story.

00:36:48.020 I mean, this was a question

00:36:48.660 from a staffer.

00:36:49.520 Why isn't racism

00:36:50.340 seen as the foundation

00:36:51.560 of the country

00:36:52.060 and at the root

00:36:52.460 of every story

00:36:53.020 and Bacay's response was,

00:36:55.000 well, what do you think

00:36:55.360 the 1619 Project is?

00:36:56.940 And these essays

00:36:57.680 are bizarre and insane.

00:37:00.100 So there was one essay

00:37:01.160 that opened the collection

00:37:03.420 that I thought was,

00:37:04.520 it's overbroad,

00:37:05.900 but at least wasn't

00:37:06.560 terribly wrong, right?

00:37:07.360 It said that black people

00:37:08.100 were the people

00:37:09.640 who helped bring about

00:37:10.840 the full,

00:37:12.040 the fulfillment of freedom

00:37:13.360 in the United States.

00:37:14.100 And I thought to myself,

00:37:15.120 okay, that's true

00:37:15.740 and they're white allies, right?

00:37:16.780 That was the group of people

00:37:18.400 who did this, right?

00:37:19.340 Black people

00:37:19.820 and all of their allies

00:37:20.920 who fought for civil rights,

00:37:21.860 who fought to overcome

00:37:22.700 slavery, fought to overcome

00:37:23.960 Jim Crow, totally true.

00:37:25.680 Without black people,

00:37:26.520 obviously the story

00:37:27.320 of America

00:37:27.620 is not only incomplete,

00:37:29.000 it's wrong, right?

00:37:29.900 I mean, that obviously is true.

00:37:31.260 And then come the bad essays,

00:37:33.060 right?

00:37:33.220 And these essays,

00:37:34.160 they said,

00:37:34.520 oh, this is deeply researched.

00:37:35.760 My ass, this is deeply researched.

00:37:37.560 Okay, so these essays-

00:37:38.960 We're all of our friends.

00:37:39.980 I mean, it really was.

00:37:41.240 They went and they got

00:37:42.000 a bunch of their sociology buddies

00:37:44.420 from the faculty lounge

00:37:46.080 to write these garbage essays.

00:37:48.200 I mean, one of these essays

00:37:49.080 by Matthew Desmond

00:37:50.240 suggested that

00:37:51.480 American-style capitalism

00:37:52.760 was rooted in slavery,

00:37:54.120 that it was founded on slavery.

00:37:55.860 This is the most insane contention

00:37:57.720 in the history of economics.

00:37:58.880 Well, their argument was that

00:38:00.660 these slaveholders

00:38:01.920 had business practices

00:38:03.180 and businessmen now

00:38:04.560 have business practices.

00:38:05.620 Right.

00:38:05.780 And therefore,

00:38:06.580 there's a relationship.

00:38:07.400 It's like-

00:38:08.220 It's like saying there's stone

00:38:10.580 in the pyramid

00:38:11.140 and there's stone

00:38:12.120 in the Empire State Building.

00:38:13.220 Therefore, it's based

00:38:13.760 on Hebrew slavery.

00:38:14.640 This is exactly right.

00:38:15.940 They were saying things like,

00:38:16.960 you know,

00:38:17.280 every time you fill out

00:38:18.180 an Excel spreadsheet,

00:38:19.320 it's a timesheet.

00:38:19.980 It literally says this

00:38:20.760 in the piece.

00:38:21.420 That Excel spreadsheet

00:38:22.300 is a vestige of slavery.

00:38:24.240 Now, listen,

00:38:24.760 I may not like Excel very much,

00:38:26.320 but I am fairly certain

00:38:27.960 that that has nothing to do

00:38:29.440 with the enslavement,

00:38:30.440 chaining, whipping, raping,

00:38:31.620 and separation of families

00:38:32.760 of black people in 1855.

00:38:34.700 Pretty sure.

00:38:35.780 And this whole thing,

00:38:36.580 by the way,

00:38:37.060 it is also historically

00:38:37.900 wildly inaccurate

00:38:38.660 to link American-style capitalism

00:38:40.300 with slavery.

00:38:41.240 As de Tocqueville was writing

00:38:42.100 in the 1820s and 1830s,

00:38:43.260 the most economically backward

00:38:44.240 part of the United States

00:38:45.180 by far was the American South

00:38:46.380 specifically because

00:38:47.280 of the slave system,

00:38:48.280 which is why the North

00:38:49.040 ran roughshod over the South

00:38:50.220 during the Civil War.

00:38:50.960 That's right.

00:38:51.320 The South rejected capitalism

00:38:52.960 because you can't embrace

00:38:54.380 the idea of free markets

00:38:56.800 and of forced labor.

00:38:58.060 And that was only one of the essays.

00:38:59.440 Then there was the essay

00:39:00.020 that suggested

00:39:00.600 that the reason America

00:39:01.760 doesn't embrace Medicare for all

00:39:03.860 is because of racism,

00:39:05.420 Jim Crow, and slavery.

00:39:06.880 It's like, no,

00:39:08.000 pretty sure it's the

00:39:08.720 limited government stuff, guys.

00:39:10.180 Pretty sure it's that.

00:39:11.600 It was essay after essay like this.

00:39:13.260 And all of this is directed

00:39:14.940 at a specific point.

00:39:16.120 And that is,

00:39:16.840 what the left likes to do,

00:39:18.100 is they like to say something

00:39:19.200 that is false,

00:39:20.520 that is based on maybe

00:39:21.180 a grain of truth,

00:39:21.880 and then they blow it up

00:39:22.620 to the point that it's false.

00:39:23.740 And then you say,

00:39:24.180 that's false.

00:39:24.620 And they say, ah,

00:39:25.020 you're denying grain of truth.

00:39:26.480 Right?

00:39:26.660 They do this with so many

00:39:27.680 different stories.

00:39:28.160 That's right.

00:39:28.460 And they do it right here.

00:39:29.240 So they say, okay,

00:39:30.420 everything in America

00:39:31.200 is based on slavery.

00:39:32.540 And you say, no,

00:39:33.180 that's not true.

00:39:33.740 Slavery is a deep,

00:39:35.160 horrible part

00:39:35.720 of the American story.

00:39:37.000 Certainly,

00:39:37.680 there are after effects

00:39:38.900 of that that obviously

00:39:39.860 shape history.

00:39:40.600 And that's true

00:39:40.940 for every aspect of history.

00:39:42.020 But slavery was so deeply rooted

00:39:43.380 that there are obviously

00:39:44.420 after effects.

00:39:45.120 And for example,

00:39:45.940 wealth discrepancies,

00:39:46.920 thanks to red lines.

00:39:47.420 Like, there's some truth

00:39:48.080 to those things.

00:39:49.220 But I'm not going to say

00:39:50.080 that slavery is the root

00:39:51.180 of all American institutions

00:39:52.380 because it's not true.

00:39:53.340 And they say, well,

00:39:53.920 obviously,

00:39:54.400 this is because you don't

00:39:55.420 take slavery seriously.

00:39:56.620 It's because you don't

00:39:57.240 take racism seriously.

00:39:58.500 And they do this

00:39:59.140 with everything.

00:39:59.860 It's why they specifically

00:40:00.740 pick cases like Michael Brown.

00:40:02.760 It's why Elizabeth Warren

00:40:04.080 and Kamala Harris

00:40:04.880 this month were pushing

00:40:06.840 a conspiracy theory.

00:40:07.960 You know,

00:40:08.060 they were all over Trump

00:40:09.080 for pushing the Jeffrey Epstein

00:40:10.460 conspiracy theory kind of stuff.

00:40:11.860 That same weekend,

00:40:13.000 both Elizabeth Warren

00:40:13.780 and Kamala Harris

00:40:14.500 suggested that Michael Brown,

00:40:16.340 an 18-year-old black man

00:40:17.400 who attacked a police officer,

00:40:18.540 tried to take his gun off of him,

00:40:19.720 fired it inside the car,

00:40:21.180 tried to run away,

00:40:21.940 then turned around

00:40:22.380 and charged the police officer

00:40:23.560 according to witness

00:40:24.180 testimony and Obama-DOJ holdings.

00:40:26.100 And multiple autopsies.

00:40:27.220 And multiple autopsies

00:40:28.220 and witness testimony

00:40:29.120 from everybody living in the area

00:40:30.260 that that guy was murdered

00:40:31.920 in cold blood

00:40:32.520 by a white police officer

00:40:33.580 for racist reasons.

00:40:34.400 That was treated out

00:40:34.800 by two separate

00:40:35.520 Democratic presidential candidates.

00:40:37.000 The reason they do that

00:40:37.840 is so that if you note

00:40:38.600 that their story is false,

00:40:40.020 they can claim

00:40:40.580 that you are being

00:40:41.900 too light on racism.

00:40:42.960 This is their goal.

00:40:44.040 It's all a setup.

00:40:44.940 This is the election

00:40:45.700 we're looking at.

00:40:46.360 On the one hand,

00:40:46.960 you have the base

00:40:47.580 of the Democrat Party

00:40:48.380 that actually believes that

00:40:49.500 whether it's true or not.

00:40:50.520 They think it's true

00:40:51.220 whether it's true or not.

00:40:52.220 The narrative is more important

00:40:53.620 than the truth.

00:40:54.340 Then you have the Trump base

00:40:55.580 which is basically

00:40:56.320 they don't care what he tweets,

00:40:57.380 they don't care what he says,

00:40:58.480 they love the guy,

00:40:59.380 they're fine.

00:40:59.740 But between those people,

00:41:01.000 there has got to be,

00:41:01.920 there has got to be

00:41:02.800 a large group of Americans

00:41:04.500 who think like,

00:41:05.700 yeah, Trump's a loud mouth,

00:41:06.920 but I am so sick and tired

00:41:09.020 of people telling me

00:41:09.880 I'm a racist.

00:41:10.380 I hope that that's right.

00:41:21.360 I'm not sure that it is.

00:41:22.660 I'm not sure that the group

00:41:23.800 in the middle

00:41:24.280 who isn't in either camp,

00:41:25.780 you think that they're going

00:41:26.620 to say Trump's a loud mouth,

00:41:28.320 but I like the stuff

00:41:29.320 that we're getting

00:41:29.800 and I don't like

00:41:30.400 what the left is saying.

00:41:31.260 I worry that that,

00:41:32.180 I worry that that group

00:41:33.420 of people is actually

00:41:37.540 going to say Trump's

00:41:39.420 a loud mouth

00:41:39.960 and I just want everybody

00:41:40.720 to be nice to each other again

00:41:42.400 like they were back

00:41:43.560 in the Obama days.

00:41:46.320 It's a legitimate fear.

00:41:47.600 It is a legitimate fear.

00:41:48.420 It's a serious worry.

00:41:49.040 I mean, there was poll data

00:41:49.700 that was out this week

00:41:50.380 that suggested that

00:41:51.120 for the Americans

00:41:52.280 who don't like either

00:41:53.460 Joe Biden or Donald Trump,

00:41:54.680 they were breaking 45-10

00:41:55.720 in favor of Biden.

00:41:56.620 That is very different

00:41:57.500 from the poll data in 2016

00:41:58.860 which showed that

00:41:59.540 of the voters

00:42:00.660 who didn't like either

00:42:01.360 Hillary or Trump,

00:42:02.220 they were breaking

00:42:02.560 in favor of Trump.

00:42:03.420 Now, with all of that said,

00:42:04.800 listen, we all feel this, right?

00:42:06.120 I mean, the left

00:42:06.620 is on a rampage

00:42:07.840 and it's evil.

00:42:09.040 I mean, it really is.

00:42:09.820 They have taken

00:42:10.220 the online world

00:42:11.180 of dunking and being dunked upon

00:42:12.580 and they've extended it

00:42:13.580 to the real world

00:42:14.360 and it's making people,

00:42:15.680 it is making people crazy

00:42:16.880 and it's justifiably

00:42:18.040 making people

00:42:18.640 who are even mildly conservative

00:42:19.900 want to throw up

00:42:20.480 the middle finger

00:42:20.940 that is Trump.

00:42:21.760 I mean, listen,

00:42:22.480 I feel it too.

00:42:23.440 I mean, over the weekend

00:42:24.060 I was in Sacramento

00:42:24.700 and I was out there

00:42:25.520 with my kids.

00:42:26.000 This happened two times

00:42:26.660 in three weeks.

00:42:27.440 I was out there

00:42:27.860 with my kids

00:42:28.320 just at a park

00:42:29.500 and some middle-aged

00:42:32.500 white couple

00:42:33.140 comes up behind me

00:42:34.720 and I hear them hiss,

00:42:36.500 ah, there's that

00:42:37.020 anti-immigrant fanatic.

00:42:38.660 They're always protesting him.

00:42:40.220 That was me.

00:42:40.960 Yeah.

00:42:41.320 And I'm carrying my five-year-old

00:42:45.300 in my arms at the time

00:42:46.100 and I turned around

00:42:47.340 and I said,

00:42:47.800 I'm libertarian

00:42:48.600 and I start to walk away

00:42:50.440 and this person

00:42:51.260 who obviously has no familiarity

00:42:52.620 with any of my immigration positions

00:42:53.920 immediately turns around

00:42:54.980 and says,

00:42:55.300 well, there's enough hate

00:42:56.320 to go around.

00:42:57.000 How do you sleep at night?

00:42:58.320 And I thought to myself,

00:42:59.320 this kind of thing

00:42:59.940 makes me want to walk

00:43:01.060 over broken glass

00:43:01.820 to vote for Trump

00:43:02.360 just to say you, right?

00:43:03.540 I mean, that's...

00:43:04.540 And I think there are a lot

00:43:06.020 of Americans who feel that way too.

00:43:07.580 So I hear you.

00:43:08.400 Go for it.

00:43:13.140 Go for that segue.

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00:43:21.700 Jasper doesn't care about you.

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00:43:28.080 I know Jasper.

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00:43:32.240 it's important to reflect

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00:43:35.300 and remember that

00:43:36.400 when the founders crafted

00:43:37.420 the Constitution,

00:43:38.400 the first thing that they did

00:43:39.880 was make sacred our rights

00:43:41.180 in a bill of rights,

00:43:42.600 including the Second Amendment.

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00:46:26.400 and Matt Best

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00:46:30.120 I know.

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00:46:32.220 His last name is Best.

00:46:34.020 And the entire comment section

00:46:36.240 was young women

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00:46:39.860 And I thought to myself,

00:46:41.580 well, you know,

00:46:41.980 you can't win them all.

00:46:45.360 So, before we left,

00:46:46.700 I teased a story

00:46:47.800 because in addition to being,

00:46:49.040 when you're a professional host

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00:46:51.440 you both segue into ads

00:46:53.620 and you also tease

00:46:55.200 what's going to come up

00:46:55.840 after the intermission.

00:46:57.840 What happened

00:46:58.500 to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?

00:47:00.100 The chick disappeared.

00:47:02.380 You know,

00:47:03.020 I know what happened.

00:47:06.180 I know what happened.

00:47:07.580 Any good idea I've ever had,

00:47:09.320 any accurate observation

00:47:10.640 I've ever gotten

00:47:11.460 was from my wife,

00:47:12.460 Sweet Little Elisa.

00:47:13.520 And this morning,

00:47:14.780 it was,

00:47:15.940 I roll over in my bed

00:47:17.440 on my purple mattress.

00:47:18.480 We're still doing

00:47:19.000 product pitches, right?

00:47:20.100 I roll over in my bed

00:47:22.020 and I see Sweet Little Elisa.

00:47:24.240 He goes,

00:47:24.760 Hey, Mike?

00:47:25.620 I said, yeah?

00:47:26.340 She goes,

00:47:26.760 Whatever happened

00:47:27.400 to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?

00:47:29.680 I said,

00:47:29.920 I don't know

00:47:30.520 what ever happened to her.

00:47:31.240 She goes,

00:47:31.660 I think that chief of staff,

00:47:32.900 Psychot Chagrabati,

00:47:33.880 was really just

00:47:34.440 the whole brains

00:47:35.000 behind the operation

00:47:35.820 and now that he's gone,

00:47:36.660 she's nothing.

00:47:37.620 I thought,

00:47:37.900 Oh my gosh,

00:47:38.700 that is the most accurate

00:47:39.920 political analysis

00:47:41.040 of that situation.

00:47:44.800 Now that her chief of staff

00:47:46.760 is gone,

00:47:47.860 she's gone.

00:47:48.540 Can you believe

00:47:49.680 that this man does

00:47:50.600 that impersonation

00:47:51.480 of his wife

00:47:52.040 and he's still married?

00:47:58.900 She,

00:47:59.460 you know,

00:47:59.880 she does talk to me

00:48:00.660 but she has not listened

00:48:01.580 to me in many, many years.

00:48:03.260 She doesn't hear

00:48:04.120 of this kind of stuff.

00:48:05.180 Yeah,

00:48:05.580 I do think it's funny

00:48:06.320 that she's completely vanished

00:48:07.420 and I think you're right

00:48:08.120 as far as the chief of staff.

00:48:09.500 It's almost as though

00:48:10.600 an organization

00:48:11.800 called Justice Democrats

00:48:13.080 had a casting session

00:48:15.920 to pick someone

00:48:17.140 to run for public office,

00:48:19.040 cast a lovely young lady

00:48:21.060 to be a congresswoman,

00:48:22.900 backed her,

00:48:23.800 got her elected,

00:48:24.880 made her very,

00:48:25.580 very famous,

00:48:26.220 then she fired them

00:48:27.500 and...

00:48:28.600 It's almost exactly

00:48:31.000 like that

00:48:31.900 with documentary proof.

00:48:33.900 Yeah, that's so interesting.

00:48:34.940 Wow.

00:48:36.380 How about that?

00:48:36.980 It actually erases

00:48:37.840 a certain conspiracy theory though.

00:48:40.120 People have always told me,

00:48:41.340 you know,

00:48:42.180 Dick Cheney is the power

00:48:43.440 behind George Bush

00:48:44.740 and the Illuminati

00:48:45.680 are behind Donald Trump

00:48:47.900 and George Soros

00:48:49.320 owns Barack Obama

00:48:50.440 and all this kind of stuff

00:48:51.180 and what my response

00:48:53.060 has always been,

00:48:53.680 it may very well be true

00:48:55.300 that powerful entities exist

00:48:58.760 and they willed money

00:49:01.380 and they willed influence

00:49:02.320 and then they elevate

00:49:03.600 certain people

00:49:04.300 to elected office

00:49:05.060 but once they get you

00:49:06.240 into public office,

00:49:07.520 you have all the power

00:49:08.680 and I think this is

00:49:09.940 actually proof.

00:49:10.720 They picked Cortez,

00:49:12.000 they elevated her,

00:49:13.220 they got her into office,

00:49:14.520 they were pulling

00:49:15.800 all the levers

00:49:16.460 like she was the Wizard of Oz

00:49:17.560 only now she's

00:49:19.080 the congresswoman

00:49:19.680 and all she has to say

00:49:20.400 is, yeah, yeah, you're fired.

00:49:21.500 I have another theory

00:49:22.800 that I've been developing

00:49:23.720 literally over the course

00:49:24.880 of the last 15 seconds

00:49:25.740 and that is,

00:49:29.940 I mean, it really goes,

00:49:30.860 it cuts against

00:49:31.260 my religious beliefs

00:49:32.200 and basically my whole view

00:49:33.580 of the universe.

00:49:34.460 What if God is actually

00:49:36.400 incredibly stupid

00:49:37.760 but he raptured

00:49:38.640 all the stupid people

00:49:39.600 so she's just gone?

00:49:48.920 Well, you guys could listen

00:49:50.300 to us gab on and on

00:49:51.560 about nonsense all day long

00:49:52.860 but we actually want

00:49:53.760 to hear from you

00:49:54.480 some of your questions.

00:50:01.560 And we were just kidding,

00:50:02.820 here's Elisha Krause.

00:50:10.040 Elisha!

00:50:10.980 Yeah?

00:50:11.780 How's your baby?

00:50:13.040 Precious and sleeping

00:50:14.220 backstage at Backstage.

00:50:15.980 That's why we named it

00:50:18.940 such.

00:50:21.040 It's good to be here.

00:50:22.200 Lots of fun.

00:50:23.080 Have great questions

00:50:24.440 from the audience tonight

00:50:25.600 which is really cool

00:50:26.520 because usually

00:50:27.060 only subscribers

00:50:28.380 get to ask the questions.

00:50:30.320 So, we ready to roll?

00:50:31.640 Let's do it.

00:50:32.280 Alrighty.

00:50:32.640 Thank you, Elisha!

00:50:34.200 Thank you.

00:50:38.200 That, for the record,

00:50:39.580 was a man's voice

00:50:40.580 and I don't think

00:50:41.260 it was your dad

00:50:41.960 and it's not my mom.

00:50:43.120 So, yay.

00:50:43.580 All right.

00:50:47.260 Oh, thanks.

00:50:48.800 Ben, what are your thoughts

00:50:50.300 on all of your fans

00:50:51.600 being called your

00:50:52.580 shopeeps?

00:50:53.140 Well, it's flattering

00:51:04.060 but I really think

00:51:08.300 they should be called

00:51:08.700 the Ben Liebers.

00:51:11.180 No, branding.

00:51:12.900 No, no.

00:51:14.100 You know, screw it.

00:51:14.740 Forget it.

00:51:15.260 Shopeeps it is.

00:51:16.320 Shopeeps.

00:51:21.760 All right.

00:51:22.420 Serious question.

00:51:23.140 It sounds like

00:51:23.600 how would you address

00:51:24.320 the argument

00:51:24.980 that simply taxing

00:51:26.280 Wall Street speculation

00:51:27.380 could fund Bernie Sanders

00:51:29.220 free plans for everything?

00:51:31.440 Of course it can't

00:51:32.340 and as a financial advisor

00:51:33.640 I know how I would

00:51:34.420 approach the discussion.

00:51:35.460 That said, I'm curious

00:51:36.420 how would you address

00:51:37.840 the argument

00:51:38.440 if conversing

00:51:39.540 with a Bernie bro?

00:51:41.300 Well, there are

00:51:41.860 a couple ways

00:51:42.260 to address this.

00:51:43.060 Number one is

00:51:43.620 the pure unworkability

00:51:44.720 of believing

00:51:45.400 that taxes are going

00:51:46.300 to pay for a $32 trillion

00:51:47.840 plan over the next 10 years

00:51:49.340 which amounts to

00:51:50.280 a full doubling

00:51:51.660 of the yearly

00:51:52.720 federal budget.

00:51:53.980 Bernie Sanders

00:51:54.480 has no plans

00:51:55.120 to actually fill that gap

00:51:56.380 because nobody has

00:51:57.000 any plans to fill that gap.

00:51:58.100 That is simply

00:51:58.500 too much to fill.

00:51:59.800 I mean, the fact is

00:52:00.320 we are running

00:52:00.680 a $1 trillion deficit

00:52:01.800 every year

00:52:02.520 under a Republican Senate

00:52:04.680 and a Republican president.

00:52:06.460 So that ain't going to cut it.

00:52:08.060 And a tax on

00:52:08.860 Wall Street transactions

00:52:09.780 unless you mean

00:52:10.340 literally confiscating

00:52:11.320 all wealth involved

00:52:12.480 in any Wall Street transaction

00:52:13.800 is not going to pay for it.

00:52:15.020 And even if you did that

00:52:15.620 you could only do that

00:52:16.200 for like maybe a year

00:52:17.020 and that would pay

00:52:17.840 for everything

00:52:18.220 for maybe a year.

00:52:19.480 So that's argument number one.

00:52:21.480 Argument number two

00:52:22.000 is the fact that

00:52:22.700 taxing Wall Street transactions

00:52:24.180 does in fact impact

00:52:26.180 all the people

00:52:26.740 who invest in the market.

00:52:27.680 And at this point

00:52:28.180 that is nearly everyone

00:52:29.620 in the United States economy.

00:52:30.780 Pension funds,

00:52:31.660 teachers funds.

00:52:32.700 I mean, you're talking about

00:52:33.540 a huge number of union funds

00:52:35.500 that are in the market.

00:52:36.900 So when you talk about

00:52:37.960 taxing Wall Street transactions

00:52:39.620 you're not talking about

00:52:40.520 hitting Goldman Sachs.

00:52:41.400 Goldman Sachs is still

00:52:41.920 going to make its money.

00:52:43.100 They don't care.

00:52:43.560 I mean, they're just

00:52:43.960 going to upcharge everybody.

00:52:45.220 They're just going to

00:52:46.020 raise the price

00:52:46.940 of the actual transaction cost

00:52:48.580 and then pass it on

00:52:49.180 to the consumer.

00:52:50.020 The people who are going

00:52:50.500 to get hurt

00:52:50.840 are the people

00:52:51.540 who are paying Goldman Sachs

00:52:52.940 to actually make those

00:52:53.680 trades on the market.

00:52:54.700 It is odd that the left

00:52:56.000 whenever they want to get rid

00:52:57.020 of something like cigarettes

00:52:58.120 they tax it

00:52:59.320 realizing that people

00:53:00.200 do something less

00:53:01.320 when you tax it.

00:53:02.460 So when they tax

00:53:03.280 Wall Street transactions

00:53:04.280 you get fewer

00:53:05.360 Wall Street transactions

00:53:06.360 especially from the people

00:53:07.540 who are paying

00:53:07.940 the ultimate price.

00:53:08.600 It's very easy for people

00:53:09.760 to rip on Wall Street

00:53:10.740 quote unquote speculators

00:53:12.280 because people don't actually

00:53:13.040 know what Wall Street does

00:53:14.140 and you feel like

00:53:15.280 they're just pushing

00:53:15.920 dollars around

00:53:16.920 and they're not producing

00:53:17.780 a product.

00:53:18.460 So what is it that

00:53:18.960 they actually do?

00:53:19.540 And the answer is that

00:53:20.360 liquidity in financial markets

00:53:21.940 is what provides

00:53:22.740 the incentive

00:53:23.680 to create new businesses

00:53:25.140 to IPO them

00:53:26.140 to allow people

00:53:26.780 to invest their money

00:53:27.880 in businesses

00:53:28.620 that they don't actually own.

00:53:30.600 All that seems pretty important

00:53:31.700 when it comes time to retire

00:53:32.740 and in the development

00:53:33.760 of the American economy

00:53:34.760 as a whole.

00:53:36.100 Alrighty.

00:53:36.620 That's the first time

00:53:42.240 that liquidity in markets

00:53:43.680 has ever gotten

00:53:44.400 a round of applause

00:53:45.280 ever but I appreciate it.

00:53:46.920 We have a very

00:53:47.480 financially literate crowd.

00:53:51.220 Oh this is very

00:53:52.460 very important

00:53:53.220 for the God King himself.

00:53:54.640 How has your life changed

00:53:55.840 since getting your

00:53:56.580 blue check mark?

00:53:57.760 Ah.

00:53:59.700 How much time do we have?

00:54:01.440 Well for anyone who...

00:54:01.940 I'm going to sit back

00:54:02.480 with popcorn

00:54:03.020 and just enjoy.

00:54:04.080 You can eat it

00:54:04.660 off the floor if it falls.

00:54:07.260 For anyone who hasn't

00:54:08.860 helped me reach

00:54:09.500 my personal goal

00:54:10.380 of having even more

00:54:11.300 Twitter followers

00:54:11.960 than Elisha

00:54:12.560 you could go over to

00:54:13.980 at Jeremy D. Boring

00:54:15.140 and just give me a like

00:54:16.100 right now.

00:54:16.580 I'd appreciate it.

00:54:17.600 It actually did all start

00:54:18.940 and Elisha you and I

00:54:20.320 have never discussed this

00:54:21.120 but a year ago

00:54:22.700 I noticed that Elisha

00:54:23.800 had 26,800 Twitter followers

00:54:26.720 and I had 212.

00:54:30.320 And I thought

00:54:31.000 I can't live in this world.

00:54:32.260 I can't live in this world.

00:54:33.500 And so I set about

00:54:34.500 to see if I could

00:54:35.480 beat her

00:54:36.140 and so I began

00:54:38.320 tweeting incessantly

00:54:39.320 and a day came

00:54:41.480 when I finally had gotten

00:54:42.580 to 28,000

00:54:43.880 Twitter followers

00:54:45.580 and I noticed

00:54:46.360 at that time

00:54:46.880 that Elisha had 36

00:54:47.940 because she was also growing

00:54:49.380 and that's when

00:54:50.680 I realized

00:54:51.140 that my entire problem

00:54:51.940 was that I did not

00:54:52.720 have a blue check mark.

00:54:54.020 The only problem.

00:54:56.780 Interestingly

00:54:57.220 by the way

00:54:57.940 during this time

00:54:58.720 when he was spending

00:54:59.320 all this time

00:54:59.940 incessantly tweeting

00:55:00.700 I think revenue

00:55:01.840 went up at Daily Wire.

00:55:03.040 Not enough.

00:55:09.720 He actually does

00:55:10.340 have a Twitter account

00:55:11.160 Jasper the Chief

00:55:12.140 at Jasper the Chief

00:55:13.360 and if my dog

00:55:15.340 gets more Twitter followers

00:55:16.480 than me

00:55:16.880 then I'm basically

00:55:17.620 going to shut down

00:55:18.240 the company.

00:55:18.620 All righty.

00:55:23.580 So Ben

00:55:24.160 why do you suppose

00:55:25.700 that Media Matters

00:55:26.780 left you off

00:55:27.600 of the 6 minute

00:55:28.400 and 53 second

00:55:29.380 Daily Wire highlight reel

00:55:30.600 that they posted

00:55:31.180 on Twitter?

00:55:31.600 Well

00:55:32.040 not to

00:55:35.240 revel in my own

00:55:36.680 fame and abilities

00:55:37.800 but

00:55:38.080 the fact is

00:55:39.540 that Media Matters

00:55:40.520 has dedicated

00:55:41.100 half of their entire staff

00:55:42.200 to just watching my show.

00:55:43.420 so

00:55:44.240 this is actually

00:55:46.320 a mutually beneficial

00:55:47.260 phenomenon.

00:55:49.200 I mean

00:55:49.320 they're like the leech

00:55:50.000 they're the barnacle

00:55:50.720 on the ass of a whale

00:55:51.980 and

00:55:52.900 they provide

00:55:58.120 we provide them

00:55:59.540 with materials

00:56:00.260 so they can fundraise

00:56:01.040 from their sucker donors

00:56:01.900 and

00:56:02.940 so that they can

00:56:03.500 create clips

00:56:04.180 out of context

00:56:04.860 so that all of their

00:56:05.960 blue check marked friends

00:56:07.300 from Al Jazeera

00:56:08.340 can retweet stuff

00:56:09.260 around the internet

00:56:09.940 and so that the hill

00:56:11.380 can make a little bit

00:56:12.060 of money off of clickbait

00:56:13.080 and then they repay us

00:56:15.240 in the form of

00:56:15.940 Leftist Tears

00:56:16.560 in our Tumblr

00:56:17.640 because

00:56:18.700 they cry

00:56:19.920 and they whine

00:56:20.660 and they can't do

00:56:21.160 anything about us

00:56:21.780 because all of you

00:56:22.460 subscribe

00:56:22.920 which we really appreciate

00:56:23.900 and they actually

00:56:25.660 must own a Leftist Tears

00:56:26.980 Tumblr

00:56:27.280 considering they are

00:56:28.000 certainly annual subscribers

00:56:29.180 and watch the show

00:56:29.940 every single day.

00:56:32.600 I love

00:56:33.340 I love the nature

00:56:34.500 of their criticism

00:56:35.160 they released this video

00:56:36.340 of Michael

00:56:38.460 and Drew

00:56:39.100 and Matt Walsh

00:56:39.940 and all these horrible

00:56:40.600 things that they said

00:56:41.460 and I thought

00:56:42.300 oh I watched it

00:56:43.440 and I thought

00:56:43.680 oh man

00:56:44.040 what did our guys say

00:56:44.940 is there going to be

00:56:45.360 some really terrible stuff

00:56:46.220 the headline basically

00:56:47.360 could have been

00:56:48.040 Daily Wire contributors

00:56:49.800 believe in conservatism

00:56:51.680 I suspect their next headline

00:56:56.220 will be

00:56:56.660 Ben Shapiro

00:56:57.700 talks very fast

00:56:59.100 you know

00:57:00.200 the folks at Media Matters

00:57:01.980 are basically

00:57:02.940 militantly stupid children

00:57:04.300 who refuse to understand

00:57:06.060 the most basic

00:57:06.820 English statements

00:57:07.600 so you'll say something

00:57:08.860 that is perfectly obvious

00:57:09.940 like however many jobs

00:57:10.980 you choose to get

00:57:11.520 in the United States

00:57:12.200 that's a you problem

00:57:12.920 meaning it's a problem

00:57:13.540 you have to solve

00:57:14.300 because that's a thing

00:57:15.040 for you to solve

00:57:15.780 not a thing for government

00:57:16.520 to solve

00:57:16.940 and it's perfectly obvious

00:57:18.000 and they're like

00:57:18.840 a you problem

00:57:19.940 are you saying

00:57:20.420 that's a problem

00:57:21.140 with me

00:57:22.200 are you saying

00:57:23.020 I'm inferior

00:57:23.740 and it's like

00:57:25.040 no that's not

00:57:26.300 what I'm saying

00:57:26.800 I speak English

00:57:27.780 and they're like

00:57:30.240 because you're a racist

00:57:31.280 and no

00:57:34.200 the language of racists

00:57:35.580 right

00:57:35.940 and that's

00:57:37.640 that's how our

00:57:38.020 relationship goes

00:57:38.720 so it's a little bit

00:57:39.380 dysfunctional

00:57:39.840 but I think we both

00:57:40.300 get something out of it

00:57:41.040 you know

00:57:42.920 you bring up a point

00:57:43.740 and I think we should

00:57:44.280 hit it one more time

00:57:45.000 it is absolutely true

00:57:47.120 that we're greedy capitalists

00:57:49.360 and we want a lot

00:57:50.100 of subscribers

00:57:50.620 so that we can buy

00:57:51.240 nice watches

00:57:51.780 and fast cars

00:57:52.420 we also need subscribers

00:57:55.000 because there is

00:57:55.900 a concerted effort

00:57:56.780 from organizations

00:57:57.480 like Media Matters

00:57:58.820 and the left

00:57:59.460 more broadly

00:58:00.100 to take away

00:58:00.880 our advertising revenue

00:58:02.020 Ben appeared

00:58:03.100 at the March for Life

00:58:04.200 earlier this year

00:58:05.940 and for the crime

00:58:18.140 of believing

00:58:18.700 that babies

00:58:19.280 have a fundamental right

00:58:20.320 to be born

00:58:21.120 Media Matters

00:58:22.820 Media Matters

00:58:29.740 made a concerted effort

00:58:30.580 to take all of our

00:58:31.400 advertisers away from us

00:58:32.760 and fortunately

00:58:33.600 you'll never hear us

00:58:35.320 stop lauding

00:58:36.380 our wonderful advertisers

00:58:37.480 and we have great partners

00:58:38.960 and most of them

00:58:40.620 stuck by our side

00:58:41.680 not all of them

00:58:43.060 stuck by our side

00:58:44.020 and enough money

00:58:45.820 that it put

00:58:46.420 the livelihoods

00:58:47.740 of ourselves

00:58:48.280 and of our employees

00:58:49.260 in jeopardy

00:58:49.820 walked out the door

00:58:50.600 it's a very real threat

00:58:51.900 you can imagine

00:58:52.620 that as the election

00:58:53.560 draws nearer

00:58:55.060 their attacks

00:58:55.860 are not going to

00:58:56.740 diminish

00:58:58.220 you know

00:58:58.760 on this point

00:58:59.500 of the March for Life

00:59:00.520 and those blood sucking

00:59:02.260 hyenas at Media Matters

00:59:03.660 I will point out

00:59:04.920 in that best of clip

00:59:07.560 is what I call it

00:59:08.380 that they put together

00:59:09.440 of me and Drew

00:59:10.100 and Matt Walsh

00:59:10.740 the most egregious

00:59:13.220 statement that they found

00:59:14.460 that I said

00:59:15.300 was over the

00:59:17.460 Ralph Northam

00:59:18.380 the governor of Virginia

00:59:19.440 that whole episode

00:59:20.980 when he wore blackface

00:59:22.680 and then the same week

00:59:24.220 that that came out

00:59:25.400 he said that we should

00:59:26.380 be able to kill babies

00:59:27.380 after they've been born

00:59:28.440 and I made the

00:59:29.640 egregiously bigoted statement

00:59:31.300 I said

00:59:32.440 I think

00:59:33.440 I'm just

00:59:34.160 this is my opinion

00:59:34.900 I think it's a little bit worse

00:59:36.660 to kill babies

00:59:38.180 after they have been born

00:59:39.980 than to wear an offensive

00:59:41.420 costume 30 years ago

00:59:42.620 and they

00:59:43.480 I think

00:59:46.260 I don't know

00:59:46.980 but here's the good news

00:59:51.140 in all of this

00:59:51.600 really I mean

00:59:52.060 what Jeremy's saying

00:59:53.180 is correct

00:59:53.560 the fact is that

00:59:54.560 when all that happened

00:59:55.200 the beginning of the year

00:59:55.900 sure that hurt us a little bit

00:59:57.120 but we could tell everybody

00:59:58.620 to go screw

00:59:59.800 because the fact is

01:00:01.280 that we had subscribers

01:00:02.460 like you

01:00:03.000 who are out there

01:00:03.520 making sure we could bring you

01:00:04.340 the content that you want

01:00:05.280 and this is true for

01:00:06.320 by the way

01:00:06.900 this isn't just true for us

01:00:07.840 this is true for the folks

01:00:09.640 over at

01:00:10.540 over at the Blaze Media

01:00:11.680 this is true for Fox News

01:00:13.200 if you like stuff

01:00:14.560 you should go subscribe to it

01:00:16.160 because you are the protection

01:00:17.280 against the nasty cusses

01:00:19.020 on the left

01:00:19.460 who want to censor everything

01:00:20.380 and besides that

01:00:21.260 there is no better

01:00:23.260 ashtray in America today

01:00:25.360 than the louder with crowder

01:00:27.480 mug club mug

01:00:28.560 and this is

01:00:35.280 this is the whole game

01:00:36.600 the whole game

01:00:37.300 you know we can disagree

01:00:38.220 on policy

01:00:38.960 we can have arguments

01:00:40.020 about how best

01:00:40.760 conservatism can be served

01:00:42.400 but if we can't speak

01:00:44.020 if we can't make jokes

01:00:45.100 if we can't

01:00:45.720 if we have to think

01:00:46.680 about everything we say

01:00:47.680 because they're going to

01:00:48.820 cause this outrage panic

01:00:50.180 and our sponsors

01:00:51.420 are going to disappear

01:00:52.080 we're done

01:00:52.960 we're finished

01:00:53.600 all of us

01:00:54.100 and I think that

01:00:54.880 the fact that our sponsors

01:00:56.060 stick with us are great

01:00:56.960 but basically it's you guys

01:00:58.400 subscribing that keeps us alive

01:00:59.880 and that's it

01:01:00.520 so this is really cool

01:01:02.800 thank you

01:01:04.120 David brought his entire family

01:01:07.300 from Toronto

01:01:08.000 to see you guys tonight

01:01:09.380 wow

01:01:10.380 feel free to get any

01:01:18.300 necessary MRIs

01:01:19.900 cat scan sonograms

01:01:21.740 while you're here

01:01:22.280 dental work

01:01:23.360 also good news for you

01:01:25.480 you won't have to live

01:01:26.440 outside America

01:01:26.960 much longer once

01:01:27.680 President Trump

01:01:28.300 makes Canada

01:01:28.920 our 51st state

01:01:29.940 Washington's greatest mistake

01:01:36.060 so David wants to know

01:01:38.220 since you flew all that way

01:01:39.500 question for all y'all

01:01:40.620 who was the best

01:01:42.120 American president

01:01:43.040 in U.S. history

01:01:43.840 Michael

01:01:44.500 George Washington

01:01:45.380 actually was

01:01:46.460 I know it's the obvious answer

01:01:47.700 but he's just peerless

01:01:49.780 even among the founding fathers

01:01:51.400 even among all of the other presidents

01:01:53.060 so Washington takes the cake

01:01:54.880 obviously

01:01:55.860 yeah George Washington

01:01:57.840 I guess

01:01:58.220 definitely Washington

01:02:00.100 and then

01:02:01.840 honorable mentions

01:02:03.440 Adams

01:02:04.760 Lincoln

01:02:05.580 Reagan

01:02:06.260 and of course

01:02:07.400 of course

01:02:09.080 President Kofethe himself

01:02:10.940 Donald J. Trump

01:02:12.100 just throw popcorn at you

01:02:19.480 alright keeping in line

01:02:27.460 with the presidential discussion tonight

01:02:29.420 if the election were tomorrow

01:02:30.740 what would each of you do

01:02:31.980 would you pull the lever for Trump

01:02:33.580 against the democratic field

01:02:34.780 show of hands

01:02:35.780 who'd vote for Trump

01:02:36.580 so I picked up two votes right here

01:02:45.700 it is true

01:02:48.520 neither Ben nor I voted

01:02:50.020 for the president

01:02:50.660 in the last election

01:02:51.540 and

01:02:51.800 things have

01:02:53.400 people will say

01:02:54.020 what's changed since then

01:02:55.020 well a lot's changed

01:02:55.800 things that were unknown

01:02:56.780 are now known

01:02:57.560 things that were feared

01:02:59.400 either didn't happen

01:03:00.640 or did

01:03:01.320 and now are baked

01:03:02.020 into the fabric

01:03:02.660 and I think Ben

01:03:03.320 has spoken about this

01:03:04.140 fairly eloquently

01:03:05.440 in the past

01:03:06.120 the bottom line is

01:03:08.860 that the 2016 election

01:03:10.860 was what it was

01:03:12.600 the 2020 election

01:03:14.740 seems to me

01:03:15.860 that it's going to be

01:03:16.560 a race between

01:03:17.500 a fairly bombastic figure

01:03:20.580 who is not always

01:03:21.640 easy to support

01:03:22.700 and a completely radicalized

01:03:25.080 insane socialist left

01:03:26.540 that must not get

01:03:27.800 the levers of power

01:03:28.600 in this country

01:03:29.180 applause

01:03:30.700 I have a feeling

01:03:39.500 you might want to offer

01:03:40.380 this FANA job

01:03:41.920 because they want to know

01:03:43.140 why did you name

01:03:44.520 Backstage Backstage

01:03:45.920 instead of quote

01:03:46.860 The Boring Show

01:03:47.920 the most ironically

01:03:49.000 thrilling podcast

01:03:49.880 in America

01:03:50.580 I love you too

01:03:54.540 thank you

01:03:58.540 you know it's funny

01:04:00.940 we actually did toy

01:04:02.080 with calling it

01:04:02.800 like cigars

01:04:03.620 with the God King

01:04:04.680 we toyed with calling it

01:04:06.540 drinks in Jeremy's office

01:04:09.040 and then we realized

01:04:09.920 that I'm not very famous

01:04:11.020 so we went with Backstage

01:04:15.060 All right

01:04:17.300 serious question

01:04:18.720 that we all want to know

01:04:19.840 the very important answer to

01:04:21.320 what do we have to do

01:04:23.020 to get Michael Knowles fired?

01:04:26.280 So

01:04:26.800 let's discuss this

01:04:29.420 in a serious fashion

01:04:30.980 Someone just yelled

01:04:33.420 Knowles lives matter

01:04:34.700 Knowles lives matter

01:04:36.040 I would hate it

01:04:39.700 if people started to chant that

01:04:41.140 I would hate that

01:04:41.940 Everyone who thinks

01:04:43.180 that Knowles should be fired

01:04:44.640 say aye

01:04:45.280 Aye

01:04:46.860 All opposed

01:04:49.020 Okay so

01:04:55.940 The ayes have it

01:04:57.660 You're like that guy

01:04:58.860 at the DNC convention

01:05:00.000 I don't believe that

01:05:01.200 Let me explain

01:05:01.860 So Jeremy Boring and I

01:05:03.340 have been business partners

01:05:04.340 for what

01:05:05.300 nearly 10 years

01:05:05.960 Almost a decade

01:05:06.640 Almost a decade

01:05:07.340 Jeremy Boring and I

01:05:08.060 have been business partners

01:05:08.680 There are very few matters

01:05:09.540 on which we have

01:05:10.060 thoroughly disagreed

01:05:10.780 One of them

01:05:12.140 is the continued employment

01:05:13.280 of Michael Molson

01:05:13.940 In any good marriage

01:05:17.000 there are certain times

01:05:18.480 where you just have to say

01:05:19.520 you know what

01:05:20.300 we disagree

01:05:21.300 you can have your way

01:05:22.860 and as much as it pains me

01:05:25.520 on a personal level

01:05:26.420 each and every day

01:05:27.180 to wake up knowing

01:05:27.980 that this human being

01:05:29.560 is in my life

01:05:30.200 I sometimes have to let

01:05:33.940 my business partner

01:05:34.780 have his way

01:05:36.020 and so

01:05:36.900 if you're going to

01:05:37.300 blame anybody

01:05:37.640 blame the schmuck

01:05:38.240 And Ben has very

01:05:42.000 very cold feet

01:05:42.720 at night

01:05:43.160 Alicia for Congress

01:05:55.960 this is a great idea

01:05:57.240 That is a great idea

01:05:59.420 I think I'd have to

01:06:02.540 move back to Oklahoma

01:06:03.580 to win that one

01:06:04.640 Correct

01:06:05.000 The real problem

01:06:06.540 that Alicia would have

01:06:07.700 in Congress though

01:06:08.580 is that she believed

01:06:09.300 some things

01:06:09.860 But I don't know

01:06:12.580 it'd be a fresh change

01:06:13.520 Me and Dan Crenshaw

01:06:14.780 could go to bat together

01:06:16.040 That could be fun

01:06:17.180 Fair

01:06:18.240 We could mend

01:06:21.380 some Red River rivalry

01:06:23.080 you know

01:06:23.700 work together

01:06:24.760 Oklahoma and Texas

01:06:25.980 side by side

01:06:27.120 If you make another

01:06:27.720 Oklahoma reference

01:06:28.440 I'm going to vomit

01:06:28.880 Continue

01:06:30.940 Boomer

01:06:31.900 Alrighty

01:06:33.020 Do you think

01:06:36.240 we are headed

01:06:36.740 for a recession

01:06:37.440 and what's causing

01:06:38.500 the commotion

01:06:39.100 is it hashtag

01:06:39.760 fake news

01:06:40.780 Drew

01:06:41.500 Well you know

01:06:42.660 actually I think

01:06:43.400 a lot of this

01:06:43.960 has to do with

01:06:44.560 the fact that it's

01:06:45.180 August

01:06:45.580 and in August

01:06:46.460 some of the smarter

01:06:47.320 investors go to

01:06:48.100 the beach

01:06:48.520 and it actually

01:06:49.320 thins out

01:06:50.140 the beach

01:06:51.240 It's true

01:06:51.920 It's true

01:06:53.260 It thins out

01:06:54.400 the number of people

01:06:55.760 smart people

01:06:56.520 making decisions

01:06:57.180 in the market

01:06:57.680 and the markets

01:06:58.100 get very volatile

01:06:58.900 happens every August

01:07:00.220 We're due for a recession

01:07:01.800 and what I'm

01:07:02.680 a little bit afraid of

01:07:03.980 is I think back

01:07:05.080 to the election

01:07:06.780 the election

01:07:08.140 between George H.W. Bush

01:07:09.820 and Clinton

01:07:10.600 when the great

01:07:12.260 Reagan economy

01:07:13.060 which lasted

01:07:13.800 through the Clinton years

01:07:14.740 and through most

01:07:15.500 of the George W. Bush years

01:07:16.780 when it took

01:07:17.660 a little bit of a dip

01:07:18.720 and that's

01:07:19.580 remember the campaign

01:07:20.740 where Clinton ran

01:07:21.600 on the economy

01:07:22.480 stupid

01:07:22.940 and the reason

01:07:23.680 he was able to do that

01:07:24.660 was the press

01:07:25.400 made such a big deal

01:07:27.140 out of this little dip

01:07:28.640 in the economy

01:07:29.420 this incredible recession

01:07:30.680 that had come upon us

01:07:31.880 and you can just tell

01:07:33.360 they are slavering

01:07:34.760 waiting for a little dip

01:07:36.180 I actually think

01:07:36.340 that's the bigger story

01:07:37.460 Can you believe

01:07:38.800 how the left

01:07:39.420 openly roots

01:07:40.640 for the economy

01:07:41.400 of the country

01:07:41.960 to collapse

01:07:42.520 so they can win

01:07:43.620 a freaking election

01:07:44.480 I mean Bill Maher

01:07:46.040 at least had the courage

01:07:46.960 to come out and say it

01:07:47.720 he is rooting for a recession

01:07:49.060 to get rid of Trump

01:07:49.800 because why

01:07:50.480 because he's not going

01:07:51.220 to lose his job

01:07:51.700 I mean look

01:07:52.440 two things can be true

01:07:53.180 one

01:07:53.380 one the media

01:07:53.980 is obviously

01:07:55.080 slavering

01:07:56.240 hoping for a recession

01:07:57.720 they would like to see

01:07:58.320 the economy

01:07:58.700 take a dump

01:07:59.160 before the election

01:07:59.800 so they can blame it

01:08:00.400 on Trump

01:08:00.720 there's a poll out today

01:08:01.480 showing that

01:08:01.960 if there is some sort

01:08:02.920 of recession

01:08:03.280 69% of Americans

01:08:04.740 would blame that

01:08:05.760 largely on President Trump

01:08:06.920 obviously the media

01:08:07.680 see that

01:08:08.060 at the same time

01:08:09.260 there are some

01:08:09.720 fundamental problems

01:08:10.640 with the global economy

01:08:11.420 not so much

01:08:11.880 the American economy

01:08:12.700 but the global economy

01:08:13.580 Chinese manufacturing

01:08:14.780 has slowed dramatically

01:08:15.560 the tariffs are hurting China

01:08:16.660 you cannot hurt China

01:08:17.720 without also hurting

01:08:18.400 the United States

01:08:18.960 they do $700 billion

01:08:19.820 worth of business

01:08:20.540 with us every year

01:08:21.160 it is also true

01:08:22.120 that Germany

01:08:22.580 has a significant

01:08:23.600 slowing in their economy

01:08:24.540 they're now providing

01:08:25.560 bonds with negative yields

01:08:26.800 for the first time

01:08:27.860 in 30 years

01:08:28.520 yeah I mean

01:08:29.060 the inversion of the yield curve

01:08:30.180 is a pretty good signal

01:08:31.100 that a lot of investors

01:08:31.820 who are not interested

01:08:32.540 in losing their money

01:08:33.300 for the sake of politics

01:08:34.220 are rushing to the bond market

01:08:36.540 because they are uneasy

01:08:37.700 about the numbers

01:08:38.740 I mean there's a report

01:08:39.360 that came out tonight

01:08:39.980 that downgraded job growth

01:08:41.440 last year by half a million jobs

01:08:42.820 the biggest problem

01:08:44.640 right now for President Trump

01:08:45.980 is that he doesn't have

01:08:47.600 a lot of tools

01:08:48.180 at his disposal

01:08:48.960 that he is willing to use

01:08:51.120 he's ranting and railing

01:08:52.480 against the Fed

01:08:53.040 and that really doesn't

01:08:54.200 help too much

01:08:54.640 because on the one hand

01:08:55.400 he's promoting the message

01:08:56.500 that the economy's

01:08:57.360 really solid

01:08:57.880 and on good footing

01:08:58.600 and everything's going to be fine

01:08:59.440 and on the other hand

01:09:00.320 he's tweeting out

01:09:00.880 like a maniac

01:09:01.400 that the Fed needs to cut

01:09:02.280 the yield by 100

01:09:04.200 needs to cut the rates

01:09:05.140 by 100 basis points

01:09:06.200 which is a crisis

01:09:07.000 kind of treatment

01:09:07.920 what President Trump

01:09:09.540 should theoretically be doing

01:09:10.740 is pushing very hard

01:09:11.840 for making permanent

01:09:13.060 the tax cuts

01:09:13.780 that were temporary

01:09:14.580 I mean those tax cuts

01:09:16.420 were temporary

01:09:16.820 they're going to sunset

01:09:17.540 he should be pushing

01:09:18.260 to make those permanent

01:09:19.000 the reason that the economy

01:09:20.280 has been so good under Trump

01:09:21.340 is not really even

01:09:22.540 just because of the tax cuts

01:09:23.640 and because of the regulatory changes

01:09:25.000 it's because business in America

01:09:26.520 got confident

01:09:27.180 the moment he was elected

01:09:28.040 that he was not going to

01:09:29.120 crack down on them

01:09:29.780 and hurt them

01:09:30.260 you know I hate to be optimistic

01:09:32.020 because it's so lonely

01:09:33.200 but in fact

01:09:37.260 people don't vote a recession

01:09:38.620 they vote the recession

01:09:39.420 they feel

01:09:40.040 they vote when they start

01:09:41.120 to feel bad

01:09:41.840 and right now

01:09:42.620 consumer confidence

01:09:43.500 is at record highs

01:09:45.200 if there were anything

01:09:47.080 but a crash

01:09:48.060 we wouldn't really feel

01:09:49.800 a recession for two years

01:09:50.960 for about 26 months

01:09:52.280 and so

01:09:52.840 I mean the yield carbon version

01:09:54.000 is a 22 month window

01:09:55.140 yeah

01:09:55.580 so the election

01:09:57.540 is actually not going

01:09:58.740 I know that the press

01:09:59.660 hopes this will happen

01:10:00.560 but I don't think

01:10:01.380 there's going to be

01:10:01.900 the kind of recessions

01:10:02.780 that's going to affect

01:10:03.600 the election

01:10:04.180 coming up in 2020

01:10:05.600 look

01:10:05.940 we know

01:10:06.740 we know

01:10:07.420 the press is going to do

01:10:08.400 every single thing it can

01:10:10.120 to make this look bad

01:10:11.300 for Donald Trump

01:10:12.340 and that's why

01:10:13.360 I think it's a positive thing

01:10:14.980 that Trump has hammered them

01:10:16.240 the way he has hammered them

01:10:17.240 and taken them on

01:10:18.240 the way he's taken them on

01:10:19.100 it has been a long time

01:10:20.400 it has been a long time

01:10:21.760 since any president

01:10:22.480 it's been since Reagan

01:10:23.120 it's been since Reagan

01:10:24.040 since any president

01:10:25.140 has turned to the press

01:10:26.140 and said

01:10:26.820 you lie

01:10:27.620 and they lie

01:10:28.740 they just lie

01:10:29.700 and I think at this point

01:10:30.880 the people get it

01:10:32.000 and I

01:10:32.520 so I don't think

01:10:33.140 I don't think

01:10:33.700 there's going to be a recession

01:10:34.400 that's going to hurt

01:10:35.180 the president

01:10:36.060 that's what I

01:10:36.700 that's fair

01:10:37.220 I also want to say though

01:10:38.080 that if you ever find yourself

01:10:39.380 no matter who you vote for

01:10:40.500 no matter what party you support

01:10:41.720 if you ever find yourself

01:10:43.160 in a position

01:10:43.700 where you're saying to yourself

01:10:44.840 I hope older people

01:10:46.660 lose their retirement savings

01:10:48.420 so that the person I like

01:10:50.100 can win a presidential election

01:10:51.600 you have lost your freaking soul

01:10:53.500 yeah

01:10:53.720 yeah

01:10:54.140 and let's not

01:11:02.820 let's not forget

01:11:03.680 these are the same people

01:11:04.640 who under George W. Bush

01:11:05.660 hoped we'd lose the war

01:11:06.820 so that he would lose the election

01:11:08.220 the same people

01:11:09.060 all right

01:11:10.900 along those lines

01:11:12.060 what do you gentlemen think

01:11:13.040 is the greatest threat

01:11:13.940 to America today

01:11:14.840 Michael

01:11:15.620 the greatest

01:11:16.380 I mean

01:11:16.780 there are so many

01:11:17.840 that was his answer

01:11:19.920 that was his answer actually

01:11:21.520 yeah

01:11:21.780 it depends if you're talking

01:11:24.800 about the short term

01:11:25.580 the medium term

01:11:26.200 or the long term

01:11:26.900 you know even when we're talking

01:11:28.020 about the economy

01:11:28.820 the trouble with economic pessimism

01:11:30.840 is eventually you're right

01:11:32.000 you know in the long run

01:11:33.320 we're all dead

01:11:33.920 and in the long run

01:11:34.600 there will be a recession

01:11:35.500 there will be an economic downturn

01:11:36.940 so right now we're in the midst

01:11:38.400 of a trade war with China

01:11:40.120 that has really been going on

01:11:41.540 for about 18 years now

01:11:42.900 and we're finally fighting back

01:11:44.560 and there's even some

01:11:45.320 bipartisan agreement on this

01:11:47.120 Chuck Schumer is one of the few Democrats

01:11:49.220 who talks openly

01:11:50.140 about getting tough on China

01:11:51.320 President Trump just today said

01:11:53.120 he is the chosen one

01:11:54.480 who is going to be the first guy

01:11:55.720 to get tough on China

01:11:56.980 which does pose a serious

01:11:59.260 economic and geopolitical threat

01:12:01.340 they steal our IP

01:12:02.320 they violate trade treaties

01:12:03.980 they illegally subsidize steel

01:12:05.820 and aluminum

01:12:06.260 they spy on us

01:12:07.560 they challenge our interests

01:12:09.340 in the region

01:12:10.660 so that's a real worry

01:12:12.300 the bigger problem

01:12:13.660 is not on the political level

01:12:15.340 it's on the cultural

01:12:16.340 and religious level

01:12:17.540 as Saint Andrew Breitbart

01:12:20.100 who everyone knew

01:12:20.940 actually I got here

01:12:21.700 unfortunately after he was gone

01:12:23.540 he pointed out that politics

01:12:25.080 is downstream of culture

01:12:26.280 and culture we know

01:12:27.440 is downstream of religion

01:12:29.180 what the culture worships

01:12:31.260 defines that culture

01:12:32.360 cult and culture

01:12:33.280 are related terms

01:12:34.140 it's time for Catholic talk

01:12:35.160 yeah and now

01:12:36.400 now let me all bring you

01:12:37.960 into the church

01:12:38.400 and what this means

01:12:40.620 though is

01:12:41.340 as we see

01:12:43.180 Pew Research always shows

01:12:44.660 these studies

01:12:45.420 people are getting

01:12:46.220 less and less religious

01:12:47.340 the biggest

01:12:48.240 bigger group now

01:12:49.440 is the nuns

01:12:50.380 the religiously unaffiliated

01:12:51.940 we don't have a sense

01:12:53.560 of who we are

01:12:54.760 what we're doing

01:12:55.760 we don't have a sense

01:12:56.500 of virtue

01:12:56.880 we don't have much

01:12:57.640 of a sense

01:12:58.060 of justice anymore

01:12:59.300 in the long run

01:13:00.280 that's going to really kill us

01:13:01.500 John Adams said

01:13:02.440 that the constitution

01:13:03.180 is built

01:13:03.820 for a moral

01:13:04.820 and religious people

01:13:05.960 that wasn't him

01:13:07.080 speaking out of

01:13:08.220 some sort of Christian bias

01:13:09.800 he meant it very seriously

01:13:11.320 and it's a really true statement

01:13:13.160 actually the most sound

01:13:15.480 and insightful thing

01:13:16.420 that any democrat

01:13:17.360 said on that debate stage

01:13:18.540 the other night

01:13:19.100 was that Marianne Williamson

01:13:21.080 of all people

01:13:21.620 said that there is a dark

01:13:23.780 psychic force

01:13:24.760 and that's what we have to attack

01:13:26.300 now she thinks it's Trump

01:13:27.580 I think it's the devil

01:13:28.420 she thinks that Trump

01:13:29.180 is the devil

01:13:29.760 so we're almost talking

01:13:31.220 about the same thing

01:13:32.140 but that is the real issue

01:13:34.420 ultimately what we have

01:13:35.560 to recapture in America

01:13:36.900 is a moral sense

01:13:38.440 and a religious sense

01:13:39.520 and without that

01:13:40.240 it doesn't matter

01:13:41.060 how good the economy is

01:13:42.200 eventually

01:13:42.940 it's going to kill us

01:13:45.020 I want to follow up

01:13:51.640 follow up

01:13:53.780 and I mentioned this

01:13:54.360 before the break

01:13:55.040 there is this phenomenon

01:13:56.640 that's been happening

01:13:57.460 for a while

01:13:57.920 but we've seen two

01:13:58.460 really high profile examples

01:13:59.860 of it in the last few weeks

01:14:00.900 which is prominent religious leaders

01:14:04.260 walking away from their faith

01:14:05.980 I would say one example

01:14:08.560 while I don't think

01:14:10.200 that it's fair to say

01:14:10.960 that Pope Francis

01:14:11.640 is not a religious man

01:14:12.700 I think that would

01:14:13.520 that would be an overstatement

01:14:16.120 he's certainly not

01:14:17.160 he's certainly not

01:14:18.320 a traditional Catholic

01:14:19.760 in the way

01:14:20.420 that John Paul II

01:14:21.700 or Pope Benedict were

01:14:22.820 you move over

01:14:26.540 into the evangelical world

01:14:27.980 you have two

01:14:29.160 very high profile

01:14:30.140 evangelical leaders

01:14:31.880 over the last couple of weeks

01:14:33.160 who've announced

01:14:34.100 that they're walking away

01:14:34.940 from their faith

01:14:35.460 one who wrote the book

01:14:36.520 I Kissed Dating Goodbye

01:14:38.300 How I Kissed Dating Goodbye

01:14:39.260 another who is

01:14:40.740 the worship leader

01:14:41.860 for Hillsong

01:14:42.540 which is basically

01:14:43.540 means the worship leader

01:14:44.620 for the entire

01:14:45.300 evangelical movement

01:14:46.900 because that's where

01:14:49.300 almost all the

01:14:50.160 evangelical music

01:14:51.060 of the last

01:14:51.660 you know

01:14:52.220 15 or 20 years

01:14:53.240 has come from

01:14:54.860 in Judaism

01:14:55.720 Ben you write about this

01:14:56.820 often and even

01:14:57.480 talked about it tonight

01:14:58.400 in reference to

01:14:59.520 the president's comments

01:15:00.380 about loyalty

01:15:01.160 vis-a-vis Israel

01:15:02.580 that the largest

01:15:05.040 contingent I think

01:15:06.040 at this point

01:15:06.660 of Jews in America

01:15:08.920 are irreligious

01:15:10.160 they're Jews ethnically

01:15:12.040 but they're not

01:15:12.660 they don't participate

01:15:14.520 in Judaism

01:15:15.200 isn't that really

01:15:18.940 the hollowing out

01:15:20.420 of our religious institutions

01:15:21.720 is happening

01:15:22.240 right in front of us

01:15:22.920 what do we do about it?

01:15:23.780 I just want to say

01:15:25.200 I think this is only

01:15:25.880 half of the phenomenon

01:15:26.880 there's another

01:15:27.520 phenomenon going on

01:15:28.980 again cursed with optimism

01:15:30.440 but still

01:15:31.080 there's another phenomenon

01:15:32.940 going on

01:15:33.640 where intellectuals

01:15:34.780 are starting to realize

01:15:35.860 that their default

01:15:37.140 setting of materialism

01:15:38.680 relativism

01:15:39.720 and multiculturalism

01:15:41.020 doesn't make any sense

01:15:42.160 and has fallen apart

01:15:43.080 at the same time

01:15:44.320 that these guys

01:15:45.060 the Hillsong guy

01:15:46.180 and this

01:15:46.500 I think it's Joshua Harris

01:15:47.660 is his name

01:15:48.140 who wrote the book

01:15:48.960 about dating

01:15:49.440 at the same time

01:15:50.400 they were announcing

01:15:50.980 they were losing

01:15:51.580 their faith

01:15:52.080 David Gerlinter

01:15:53.240 from Yale

01:15:54.200 a legendary

01:15:55.700 computer scientist

01:15:56.720 said that

01:15:58.260 mathematically

01:15:59.140 evolution

01:16:00.580 as an origin

01:16:02.080 of species

01:16:02.740 didn't make sense

01:16:04.360 that there was

01:16:04.720 no possible way

01:16:05.840 that a new species

01:16:06.880 could be created

01:16:07.800 mathematically

01:16:08.520 the odds against it

01:16:09.700 were so huge

01:16:10.720 and went on to say

01:16:11.660 that intelligent design

01:16:12.780 while he wasn't

01:16:13.540 embracing it

01:16:14.200 was a perfectly

01:16:15.080 reasonable

01:16:15.800 solution to the problem

01:16:17.360 so

01:16:18.800 so

01:16:22.580 what I think

01:16:23.100 we're seeing

01:16:23.540 what I think

01:16:24.040 we're seeing

01:16:24.340 falling apart

01:16:24.980 as a simplistic

01:16:25.740 Christianity

01:16:26.820 is falling apart

01:16:28.460 while an intellectual

01:16:29.420 Christianity

01:16:29.960 is forming

01:16:30.680 and I know

01:16:31.240 this to be true

01:16:31.880 because I know

01:16:32.440 a lot of the young

01:16:33.160 intellectuals

01:16:34.420 who are meeting

01:16:39.640 together

01:16:40.140 and reading the Gospels

01:16:41.300 in a fresh way

01:16:43.000 not a new way

01:16:43.640 there's no new way

01:16:44.320 to read the Gospels

01:16:44.980 but there are fresh ways

01:16:45.920 and modern ways

01:16:46.860 and intelligent ways

01:16:47.760 to read the Gospels

01:16:48.940 you know

01:16:49.400 the philosopher

01:16:50.420 Schopenhauer

01:16:51.520 said that

01:16:52.160 Christianity

01:16:53.100 had devolved

01:16:53.900 into a banal optimism

01:16:56.600 and I think

01:16:57.800 that that's the problem

01:16:58.680 I think when you watch

01:16:59.520 the Christian movies

01:17:00.420 like God is not dead

01:17:01.640 and when you listen

01:17:02.520 to some of the

01:17:03.200 Christian songs

01:17:04.140 you hear this banal optimism

01:17:05.780 that actually doesn't

01:17:06.640 describe the world

01:17:07.460 the birth, death

01:17:09.100 and resurrection

01:17:09.680 of Jesus Christ

01:17:10.560 is a big event

01:17:11.680 it's a big thing

01:17:13.080 and when you

01:17:13.720 embrace it

01:17:15.020 you're not just

01:17:15.640 telling other people

01:17:16.600 how to have sex

01:17:17.800 that's not

01:17:18.220 I don't think

01:17:18.940 that's what it's about

01:17:19.640 you're talking about

01:17:20.500 an entire way

01:17:21.440 of viewing the world

01:17:22.280 and as that way

01:17:23.420 of viewing the world

01:17:24.020 returns into the

01:17:25.100 intellectual sphere

01:17:26.300 which I think

01:17:26.840 it actually is doing

01:17:27.680 as we speak

01:17:28.500 I think that's going

01:17:29.360 to start to trickle down

01:17:30.400 and refresh

01:17:31.060 and reform Christianity

01:17:32.500 in ways

01:17:33.060 that are genuinely amazing

01:17:34.660 this has happened

01:17:35.120 throughout history

01:17:35.780 it happened throughout

01:17:36.420 the middle ages

01:17:36.960 it's happening again

01:17:37.700 you know

01:17:38.500 you had me

01:17:45.640 at not telling people

01:17:46.760 not to have sex

01:17:47.660 because I

01:17:48.880 I actually

01:17:49.940 sort of had this experience

01:17:51.640 I was cradle Catholic

01:17:53.200 we went to church

01:17:54.680 sometimes

01:17:55.180 I fell away

01:17:55.740 I became an atheist

01:17:56.440 at 13

01:17:57.020 and I fell away

01:17:58.380 because I thought

01:17:59.120 the religion was childish

01:18:00.400 I thought religion

01:18:01.520 in general was childish

01:18:02.680 I read those

01:18:03.740 stupid books

01:18:04.720 by Christopher Hitchens

01:18:05.800 and Richard Dawkins

01:18:07.080 which are geared

01:18:08.020 exactly toward

01:18:09.040 a 13 year old boy

01:18:10.380 who thinks he's

01:18:10.880 smarter than he is

01:18:11.620 and I rejected a faith

01:18:14.600 that was childish

01:18:15.840 that was

01:18:16.960 I think it was Niebuhr

01:18:18.420 the Protestant theologian

01:18:19.580 who said

01:18:19.920 that it was

01:18:20.740 God without wrath

01:18:22.080 leading a people

01:18:22.960 without sin

01:18:23.640 into a kingdom

01:18:24.560 without judgment

01:18:25.380 through the ministrations

01:18:26.520 of a Christ

01:18:27.060 without a cross

01:18:27.760 it was childish

01:18:28.620 saccharine

01:18:29.640 sentimental religion

01:18:30.780 with terrible songs

01:18:32.200 from the 1970s

01:18:33.420 and stupid felt banners

01:18:34.760 and I just didn't like it

01:18:36.300 and then

01:18:37.020 one thing I noticed

01:18:38.120 when I got to college

01:18:38.980 everyone was an atheist

01:18:40.140 and they were all

01:18:40.800 pretty smart

01:18:41.320 but the smartest people

01:18:42.920 were religious

01:18:43.980 and the very smartest people

01:18:46.340 were very religious

01:18:47.600 and I thought

01:18:48.540 oh my goodness

01:18:49.360 I've been lied to

01:18:50.560 for 20 years

01:18:51.820 I think

01:18:52.820 I have the same hope

01:18:53.680 you do

01:18:54.000 I think there is

01:18:55.220 a growing movement

01:18:56.060 of young people

01:18:56.740 who approach religion

01:18:58.080 with a fresh look

01:18:59.940 and with seriousness

01:19:01.540 with sobriety

01:19:02.540 and they push away

01:19:03.660 all that saccharine stuff

01:19:04.940 and they say

01:19:05.680 oh my gosh

01:19:06.320 there is something here

01:19:07.120 that is good

01:19:07.920 and true

01:19:08.460 and beautiful

01:19:08.980 and you know

01:19:09.620 the thing is

01:19:10.920 the thing is

01:19:19.960 that so many

01:19:21.220 so many of the problems

01:19:23.400 that we face today

01:19:24.360 are problems

01:19:24.840 of wealth

01:19:25.260 and success

01:19:25.820 you know

01:19:26.540 so many of the problems

01:19:27.420 we face

01:19:27.780 are problems

01:19:28.180 of wealth

01:19:28.540 and success

01:19:29.000 I mean

01:19:29.240 even if you look

01:19:29.800 at the border

01:19:30.500 people want to come here

01:19:31.340 because we're so successful

01:19:32.420 when you toss away

01:19:34.520 you know

01:19:34.920 there's an old Christian joke

01:19:36.120 I think it's a Christian joke

01:19:37.240 that everybody wants to go to heaven

01:19:38.980 but nobody wants to die

01:19:40.220 well likewise

01:19:41.300 everybody wants to save the world

01:19:42.760 but nobody wants to be crucified

01:19:43.920 and I think that

01:19:45.140 the idea

01:19:45.960 of a religion

01:19:46.860 that takes away your pleasures

01:19:48.140 that denies you certain things

01:19:51.040 that are so

01:19:51.760 all spread out

01:19:53.340 all before you

01:19:54.100 like a feast

01:19:54.700 is not that appealing

01:19:56.200 to a group of people

01:19:57.480 who live for 80, 90 years

01:19:59.920 who have good health

01:20:01.020 who have all this wealth

01:20:01.980 have all these comforts

01:20:03.360 and yet

01:20:03.820 and yet

01:20:04.220 there is something

01:20:04.760 in the human heart

01:20:05.520 that suffers

01:20:06.360 without God

01:20:07.280 and you've written about this

01:20:08.200 very eloquently

01:20:08.660 I don't think religion

01:20:10.000 has actually disappeared

01:20:10.900 I think it's just become leftism

01:20:12.080 I mean this is a point

01:20:13.400 that my friend Dennis Prager makes

01:20:15.040 we all know Dennis

01:20:15.920 and Dennis is constantly saying

01:20:17.280 that the most successful religion

01:20:18.500 of the 20th century

01:20:19.300 is leftism

01:20:19.900 and he's right about this

01:20:21.300 because people are searching

01:20:22.740 for an identity

01:20:23.880 that isn't just personal

01:20:25.060 they're searching

01:20:25.560 for an identity in group

01:20:26.860 they're searching

01:20:27.420 for an identity

01:20:28.200 them vis-a-vis society

01:20:29.740 and people will fill that

01:20:31.500 with politics

01:20:32.000 I think one of the reasons

01:20:32.920 that we have seen

01:20:33.740 politics turn into

01:20:34.980 near religious warfare

01:20:36.080 is because it basically

01:20:36.920 has become religious warfare

01:20:37.960 there is a point

01:20:38.600 at which religion

01:20:39.840 was politics

01:20:41.000 right

01:20:41.240 politics was just

01:20:42.360 a bunch of religions

01:20:43.060 fighting with each other

01:20:43.860 and then after the piece

01:20:44.960 of Westphalia

01:20:45.400 we basically said

01:20:46.040 okay we're going to put

01:20:46.480 all that aside

01:20:47.140 and we're going to

01:20:48.020 do our own thing

01:20:49.140 on religion

01:20:49.560 but we'll have a

01:20:50.580 we'll have a political sphere

01:20:51.680 and we'll fight about policy

01:20:52.760 and now

01:20:53.680 as the common backdrop

01:20:55.520 of religion

01:20:56.420 is falling away

01:20:57.920 people are reinvesting

01:20:59.080 religious feeling

01:20:59.720 into politics themselves

01:21:00.840 and so people are treating

01:21:02.020 democrat versus republican

01:21:03.140 like it's protestant

01:21:03.920 versus catholic

01:21:04.540 circa 1650

01:21:05.960 and that is really scary stuff

01:21:08.660 right

01:21:08.800 and it's why you're seeing

01:21:10.100 violence in the streets

01:21:10.980 it's why you're starting

01:21:11.720 to see people treat each other

01:21:12.820 in religious ways

01:21:14.580 right

01:21:14.760 people who are sinners

01:21:15.580 and they must be cast out

01:21:16.860 and there is no repentance

01:21:17.780 in the leftist version

01:21:18.760 of religion

01:21:19.560 and people are looking

01:21:20.480 for something

01:21:21.000 that is more fulfilling

01:21:22.220 and something that does

01:21:23.160 require them to sacrifice

01:21:24.340 you know

01:21:24.860 the lie that you can

01:21:26.060 I think that you're hitting

01:21:27.300 on something

01:21:27.720 and it's something

01:21:28.100 that Jordan Peterson

01:21:28.780 hits on too

01:21:29.380 and it's something

01:21:30.500 that I think that

01:21:31.160 I think that

01:21:34.480 religious people

01:21:35.940 are fully cognizant

01:21:37.540 of the sacrifice

01:21:38.520 that is required

01:21:39.200 by religion

01:21:39.800 religious people

01:21:40.920 who are truly religious

01:21:41.960 are fully cognizant

01:21:43.160 of the struggle

01:21:43.780 of trying to discern

01:21:44.960 a good benevolent God

01:21:46.540 in a world

01:21:46.940 that is rife with cruelty

01:21:48.000 and malice

01:21:48.580 right

01:21:49.180 good religious people

01:21:50.120 are dealing with these

01:21:50.780 questions all the time

01:21:51.900 but the alternative

01:21:52.980 to that is to not

01:21:53.880 even face up

01:21:54.680 to the question

01:21:55.220 is to say that

01:21:56.140 this is all random chance

01:21:57.260 is to say that

01:21:57.780 there is no system

01:21:58.520 by which to live

01:21:59.140 and that is going to lead

01:22:00.500 to a feeling of helplessness

01:22:02.180 of depression

01:22:02.760 it's going to make you feel

01:22:03.920 as though you are not living

01:22:05.080 in a world that you can navigate

01:22:06.260 because that's not a world

01:22:07.100 you can navigate

01:22:07.640 a chaotic world

01:22:08.440 without any compass

01:22:09.480 doesn't allow you

01:22:10.300 to navigate those seas

01:22:11.260 it just means that

01:22:11.900 you're going to die

01:22:12.880 of scurvy somewhere out there

01:22:14.100 and so if you actually

01:22:15.060 if you actually want meaning

01:22:16.540 you're going to have to

01:22:17.920 believe in a couple

01:22:19.240 of fundamental concepts

01:22:20.360 and I think that

01:22:21.300 a lot of people

01:22:22.240 who are not religious

01:22:23.300 agree with these fundamental concepts

01:22:24.860 without understanding

01:22:25.520 that they're religious in nature

01:22:26.500 the idea that the universe

01:22:27.660 is ordered

01:22:28.160 that there are rules

01:22:29.200 of cause and effect

01:22:30.020 in the universe

01:22:30.600 that make sense

01:22:31.260 that you can discern

01:22:33.840 the way that life

01:22:34.860 ought to be lived

01:22:35.540 right

01:22:35.840 these are religious assumptions

01:22:37.140 these are not

01:22:37.880 secularistic assumptions

01:22:38.940 and people feel

01:22:40.360 that those assumptions

01:22:41.340 are true

01:22:41.780 even if they don't know

01:22:42.560 that they're religious assumptions

01:22:43.500 so I am optimistic

01:22:44.620 that there will be

01:22:45.140 a comeback here

01:22:45.640 the message

01:22:46.420 that has been sent to us

01:22:48.220 through history

01:22:49.780 is so incredibly loud

01:22:51.580 that only intellectuals

01:22:53.360 could possibly not hear it

01:22:54.780 you and I both read this book

01:22:56.520 by Steven Pinker

01:22:57.800 Enlightenment Now

01:22:59.360 in which he really excoriates

01:23:01.620 the idea of God

01:23:02.800 and talks about

01:23:03.780 all the things

01:23:04.280 that have been done

01:23:04.880 terrible things

01:23:05.740 that have been done

01:23:06.200 in the name of God

01:23:06.860 and there are terrible things

01:23:07.820 that have been done

01:23:08.860 in the name of God

01:23:09.480 and this is coming

01:23:10.080 after a century

01:23:10.900 in which the communists

01:23:12.780 openly rejecting God

01:23:14.640 slaughtered

01:23:16.180 tens of millions of people

01:23:17.940 after the Nazis

01:23:19.840 rejecting God

01:23:21.440 I mean the Nazis

01:23:22.400 almost in this kind of

01:23:24.520 morbidly hilarious way

01:23:27.420 put Hitler where Jesus

01:23:28.740 was supposed to be

01:23:29.800 they openly said

01:23:30.740 no no

01:23:31.100 Christianity is just

01:23:32.280 announcing the coming

01:23:33.400 of Hitler

01:23:34.020 I'm sorry to laugh

01:23:34.820 but it's so crazy

01:23:35.780 that it's almost funny

01:23:36.980 we had this century

01:23:39.040 half a century

01:23:39.700 of absolute slaughter

01:23:41.060 in the rejection

01:23:42.260 of Christianity

01:23:42.980 and the rejection of God

01:23:44.440 and you know

01:23:45.820 you talk about

01:23:46.380 the peace of Westphalia

01:23:47.300 the peace of Westphalia

01:23:48.180 came about

01:23:48.700 because people said

01:23:49.620 we cannot do this

01:23:50.700 as Christians

01:23:51.200 we can't slaughter

01:23:52.300 each other

01:23:52.740 as Christians

01:23:53.460 it goes against

01:23:54.200 our religion

01:23:54.760 we must come up

01:23:56.080 with a better way

01:23:56.740 all of these messages

01:23:58.720 it's as if God

01:24:00.080 were writing on the sky

01:24:01.300 with a gigantic

01:24:02.080 purple finger

01:24:02.860 you know

01:24:03.280 you've got to believe

01:24:04.340 in order to go forward

01:24:05.520 it is just now

01:24:07.360 it is just now

01:24:08.340 occurring to intellectuals

01:24:10.080 ah you know

01:24:11.100 maybe we won't

01:24:11.780 kill each other so much

01:24:12.760 if we just embrace

01:24:14.080 the faith of our fathers

01:24:15.240 and I think that

01:24:15.820 that will come to pass

01:24:17.500 it will

01:24:17.920 I want to get to

01:24:25.120 a few more questions

01:24:25.900 but I wanted to say

01:24:26.740 one thing on this

01:24:27.420 which is

01:24:27.800 my reaction

01:24:30.080 to hearing

01:24:30.480 the intersection

01:24:31.260 of everything

01:24:31.660 the three of you

01:24:32.140 just said

01:24:32.560 question your own faith

01:24:35.040 don't have a childish faith

01:24:36.820 you know

01:24:37.520 there's a

01:24:38.400 New Testament idea

01:24:39.380 of coming unto Christ

01:24:40.440 in a childlike manner

01:24:41.560 as a

01:24:42.420 coming unto him

01:24:43.760 as a child

01:24:44.380 but

01:24:44.620 that doesn't mean

01:24:45.880 that you should be

01:24:46.400 childish

01:24:47.000 in your thinking

01:24:48.540 and we all

01:24:50.260 give ourselves

01:24:51.040 a lot of

01:24:51.860 we make a lot of

01:24:53.020 excuses for ourselves

01:24:54.000 we can see all the

01:24:55.380 silliness that people

01:24:56.320 around life

01:24:56.700 it's easy for me

01:24:57.340 to make fun of

01:24:57.980 my Catholic friends

01:24:58.900 and all their silly beliefs

01:24:59.920 a lot harder to reflect on

01:25:01.360 so easy

01:25:03.120 so easy

01:25:03.820 and fun

01:25:04.880 so difficult to reflect on

01:25:07.360 the inconsistencies

01:25:08.580 in my own viewpoint

01:25:09.540 I think one of the

01:25:10.560 horrible things

01:25:11.120 that conservatives

01:25:11.620 did throughout

01:25:12.280 the Christian coalition

01:25:14.680 sort of

01:25:15.520 moral majority

01:25:16.580 80s 90s

01:25:17.720 that really brought us

01:25:18.700 to this moment

01:25:19.340 is embracing

01:25:20.440 saccharine Christianity

01:25:21.640 is not preparing

01:25:23.160 our children

01:25:23.820 teaching our children

01:25:25.460 that people will

01:25:26.060 disagree with them

01:25:26.880 and saying things like

01:25:27.960 oh they'll hate you

01:25:28.640 for Jesus' namesake

01:25:29.940 but not telling them

01:25:30.900 they will also hate you

01:25:31.800 if you're an asshole

01:25:32.420 not teaching

01:25:40.480 not teaching them

01:25:41.560 the best arguments

01:25:42.660 of your opposition

01:25:44.520 and then as our friend

01:25:46.400 Jonathan Hay

01:25:47.060 who produced the show

01:25:47.940 tonight

01:25:48.220 did a great job

01:25:48.900 as he says

01:25:49.840 as he says

01:25:53.060 when you

01:25:53.420 when you teach

01:25:54.360 your children

01:25:54.880 only caricatures

01:25:57.060 of the arguments

01:25:57.900 against your own positions

01:25:59.180 you send them

01:26:00.420 into battle

01:26:01.100 worse than unarmed

01:26:02.660 you send them

01:26:03.740 into battle

01:26:04.440 against mechanized armies

01:26:06.280 with wooden swords

01:26:07.920 painted silver

01:26:08.720 and they think

01:26:09.400 they are actually armed

01:26:10.420 and then they

01:26:11.140 and then they get out

01:26:12.780 in the world

01:26:13.380 and they hear

01:26:14.340 actual smart arguments

01:26:15.780 against what they believe

01:26:17.040 and they crumble

01:26:18.040 and when they crumble

01:26:19.200 they believe

01:26:20.040 ah

01:26:20.480 what my parents

01:26:22.040 taught me

01:26:22.580 is a lie

01:26:23.580 because they led me

01:26:25.080 like a sheep

01:26:25.860 unto the slaughter

01:26:26.660 you have to teach

01:26:27.580 your children

01:26:27.940 the best arguments

01:26:28.900 that are going to be

01:26:29.360 made against them

01:26:30.000 which means you have

01:26:30.860 to have the courage

01:26:32.420 to confront

01:26:33.560 the worst arguments

01:26:34.720 that you believe

01:26:35.500 and better yourself

01:26:36.980 continually

01:26:37.480 even in your faith

01:26:38.540 and I would add

01:26:39.720 one thing to that

01:26:40.460 which is

01:26:40.920 if you think

01:26:42.100 you're going to win

01:26:42.880 the country

01:26:43.500 by keeping Donald Trump

01:26:45.040 in office

01:26:45.500 for four more years

01:26:46.540 or if you think

01:26:47.420 you're going to win

01:26:47.860 the country

01:26:48.320 by getting the Republicans

01:26:49.360 back into control

01:26:50.500 of the Congress

01:26:51.940 or keeping control

01:26:53.040 of the Senate

01:26:53.560 if you think

01:26:54.260 if we can get lower taxes

01:26:55.560 or if we can build a wall

01:26:56.740 that you're somehow

01:26:57.340 going to lead

01:26:58.000 to some sort of

01:26:58.940 Edenic utopia

01:26:59.900 and that we can arrive

01:27:01.840 at success as a nation

01:27:03.420 by hating our brothers

01:27:05.040 and sisters

01:27:05.560 by hating our fellow citizens

01:27:07.460 and somehow defeating them

01:27:08.880 you're missing the most important part

01:27:11.220 of what we all believe

01:27:12.120 which is that the collective

01:27:13.560 is only made better

01:27:14.820 in this country

01:27:15.560 when the individuals

01:27:16.820 become better

01:27:17.600 you should focus yourself

01:27:19.160 on improving you

01:27:20.040 this goes to a question

01:27:31.740 of something

01:27:32.660 that I feel

01:27:33.240 has corrupted

01:27:33.860 our conversation

01:27:34.740 which is

01:27:35.300 the fact that we can communicate

01:27:37.520 around the world

01:27:38.640 so easily

01:27:39.340 has destroyed localism

01:27:41.640 it's destroyed the idea

01:27:43.140 that really solutions

01:27:44.260 are created

01:27:45.280 by individuals

01:27:46.080 in action

01:27:47.960 with other individuals

01:27:48.880 and I think

01:27:49.700 we always come up

01:27:50.580 with these ideas

01:27:51.380 that are supposed

01:27:52.040 to solve all the problems

01:27:53.180 of the world

01:27:53.680 like try being nice

01:27:54.880 to the guy next to you

01:27:55.820 try doing the thing

01:27:57.820 that needs to be done

01:27:58.560 in your neighborhood

01:27:59.160 try lifting the guy up

01:28:00.460 who's beside you

01:28:01.400 try having an argument

01:28:02.180 with somebody

01:28:02.600 without cursing his name

01:28:03.440 look who's sitting next to me

01:28:04.520 well not you

01:28:05.680 I didn't mean you

01:28:06.620 I mean come on

01:28:07.220 this is actually true

01:28:08.180 I think that like

01:28:08.880 sometimes

01:28:09.660 I know Christians

01:28:11.760 in particular

01:28:12.340 sometimes are like

01:28:13.120 we've got to send

01:28:13.620 a lot of money to Africa

01:28:14.720 and look

01:28:15.140 people in Africa

01:28:16.180 need a lot of help

01:28:16.840 a lot of bad

01:28:18.460 poor third world countries

01:28:19.720 around the world

01:28:20.280 but I think that it's

01:28:21.300 kind of a cop out

01:28:22.040 half the time

01:28:22.760 that we want to help

01:28:23.880 people who we will

01:28:24.620 never have to meet

01:28:25.580 because they aren't

01:28:26.620 real to us

01:28:27.340 and the people

01:28:28.220 who we're actually

01:28:28.800 in a position

01:28:29.400 to do the most good for

01:28:30.640 we know them

01:28:32.080 and we know their flaws

01:28:32.860 and we don't like them

01:28:33.660 very much

01:28:34.160 and so it's a cop out

01:28:35.440 to go

01:28:35.700 eh just send it

01:28:36.600 to the third world

01:28:37.340 instead of going

01:28:38.120 no I actually have to

01:28:39.020 like all the people

01:28:39.660 who disagree with me

01:28:40.500 this is the big dichotomy

01:28:42.140 and you see it

01:28:42.940 I mean everyone does it

01:28:43.800 but you see it

01:28:44.200 especially on the left

01:28:45.340 which is that the left

01:28:46.660 loves humanity

01:28:48.500 they really do

01:28:49.300 they love humanity

01:28:50.260 and they detest humans

01:28:53.160 I know this

01:28:53.960 because I look at

01:28:54.440 my Twitter mentions

01:28:55.300 I know this

01:28:56.720 because I go to these

01:28:58.380 and I will talk to people

01:28:59.860 that I've just met

01:29:00.660 leftists

01:29:01.140 I mean you get this

01:29:01.820 all the time

01:29:02.200 we all do

01:29:02.680 and they'll scream at you

01:29:04.340 like you're not

01:29:04.920 a fellow human being

01:29:05.960 and you just think

01:29:07.360 gosh if you put

01:29:08.680 just one hundredth

01:29:10.640 of the vitriol

01:29:12.440 if you took that vitriol

01:29:13.500 that you have for me

01:29:14.320 and put that into

01:29:15.400 a little bit of kindness

01:29:16.380 maybe you would be able

01:29:17.580 to affect your grand vision

01:29:18.760 to all of humanity

01:29:19.600 if you could be nice

01:29:20.540 to like one

01:29:21.260 single human being

01:29:22.720 applause

01:29:24.160 it's hard to hear them

01:29:30.800 clap for him

01:29:31.460 I'll admit

01:29:32.040 I want to do something

01:29:34.440 we've never done before

01:29:35.380 I want to do a

01:29:37.220 ten question lightning round

01:29:39.160 I'm going to have

01:29:39.880 Alicia ask ten questions

01:29:41.220 Alicia if you would aim

01:29:42.020 each question

01:29:42.720 at just one member

01:29:44.340 of the panel

01:29:45.460 and we're going to

01:29:46.400 keep our answers concise

01:29:48.220 one, two, three sentences

01:29:49.720 top

01:29:50.120 and unless somebody

01:29:51.420 misses something

01:29:52.220 that we can't allow

01:29:53.160 to stand

01:29:53.680 or says something

01:29:55.040 that we can't allow

01:29:55.860 to stand

01:29:56.280 we're going to keep it

01:29:57.140 to a one person answer

01:29:58.240 per question

01:29:58.960 number one

01:30:00.360 alright this is interesting

01:30:01.680 back to the parenting thing

01:30:02.900 this is a white

01:30:04.360 middle aged woman

01:30:05.080 here in the audience

01:30:05.840 with her 18 year old son

01:30:07.240 she's been concerned

01:30:08.480 about his mostly

01:30:09.400 liberal views

01:30:10.400 most of which come

01:30:11.220 from his public school system

01:30:12.480 what bits of wisdom

01:30:13.820 can you impart to him

01:30:14.900 P.S. she's very glad

01:30:16.300 that he came tonight

01:30:17.080 and she thinks it's a step

01:30:18.180 in the right

01:30:18.820 no pun intended

01:30:20.000 direction

01:30:20.780 so first of all

01:30:27.660 mom nothing really helps

01:30:28.800 your son become

01:30:29.280 more conservative

01:30:29.880 like a public shaming

01:30:30.700 but the answer of course

01:30:39.180 is that

01:30:39.580 as I always recommend

01:30:41.160 on my podcast

01:30:41.820 and folks on

01:30:42.700 Pod Save America

01:30:43.240 never will

01:30:43.640 you should listen

01:30:44.040 to my podcast

01:30:44.660 then you should listen

01:30:45.180 to Pod Save America

01:30:45.840 you should read

01:30:46.360 our website

01:30:46.840 over at Daily Wire

01:30:47.620 and then you should

01:30:48.040 go check out

01:30:48.520 Huffington Post

01:30:49.100 you should examine

01:30:49.660 all of the arguments

01:30:50.500 you should

01:30:50.820 you should examine

01:30:51.620 all of the arguments

01:30:52.340 and then recognize

01:30:52.980 that the other guy's

01:30:53.660 arguments are wrong

01:30:54.320 that really is

01:30:57.080 the reason

01:30:57.700 the education system

01:30:58.500 sucks is because

01:30:59.040 they don't present

01:30:59.560 all of the arguments

01:31:00.320 they just present

01:31:00.980 you the left wing

01:31:01.840 version of American

01:31:02.560 history and then

01:31:03.280 suggest there is

01:31:03.900 no other version

01:31:04.480 of American history

01:31:05.280 I'll clap for you

01:31:08.680 number two

01:31:14.240 I feel like this one

01:31:15.260 should go to

01:31:15.640 Michael Knowles

01:31:16.320 someone wants to know

01:31:17.420 are you going to

01:31:17.960 raid Area 51

01:31:18.860 on September 20th

01:31:20.000 listen we have

01:31:26.560 3,000 illegal aliens

01:31:28.820 coming over

01:31:29.540 every single day

01:31:30.600 and we pretend

01:31:31.260 that that's a problem

01:31:32.060 who knows how many

01:31:34.160 aliens we have

01:31:35.040 at Area 51

01:31:35.940 for the last 50 years

01:31:37.380 I'm going

01:31:40.200 Andrew

01:31:45.320 Andrew

01:31:46.100 Clavin

01:31:46.560 please name a

01:31:47.640 Democrat in today's

01:31:48.540 climate

01:31:48.880 whose views

01:31:49.640 you respect

01:31:50.580 I'm stumped

01:31:58.800 I haven't got

01:32:00.980 you know

01:32:01.420 they always say

01:32:02.580 that there are

01:32:03.060 these guys

01:32:03.540 these middle of the

01:32:04.260 road guys

01:32:04.780 who are the

01:32:05.900 majority of the

01:32:06.820 Democrat party

01:32:07.440 and I never see

01:32:08.140 any of them

01:32:08.580 I never see

01:32:09.060 anybody

01:32:09.520 who comes out

01:32:10.320 how about

01:32:10.720 Kyrsten Sinema

01:32:11.380 Senator of Arizona

01:32:14.160 there are

01:32:15.740 these people

01:32:16.700 who are buried

01:32:17.780 within the

01:32:18.680 Congress

01:32:19.240 who actually

01:32:20.120 do have

01:32:20.640 middle of the

01:32:21.580 road views

01:32:22.040 but you never

01:32:22.600 see them

01:32:22.960 because they

01:32:23.320 vote with

01:32:23.640 Nancy Pelosi

01:32:24.280 I'll give you

01:32:25.740 a weird answer

01:32:26.160 I actually

01:32:26.720 have respect

01:32:27.500 for Andrew

01:32:27.960 Yang's views

01:32:28.480 I don't agree

01:32:29.100 with them

01:32:29.520 but I

01:32:31.540 respect that

01:32:32.660 he's the only

01:32:33.220 guy having

01:32:33.860 any ideas

01:32:34.540 on the left

01:32:35.040 you know

01:32:35.340 the problem

01:32:36.160 the problem

01:32:36.740 with Andrew

01:32:37.160 Yang

01:32:37.460 is he's the

01:32:38.060 civilized version

01:32:39.080 of a very

01:32:39.860 uncivilized solution

01:32:40.920 which is pay

01:32:41.760 people to go away

01:32:42.720 and I

01:32:43.340 I cannot

01:32:45.040 agree with that

01:32:46.620 at all

01:32:46.980 and I think

01:32:47.460 he's

01:32:47.660 look I think

01:32:48.140 he's a good

01:32:48.480 person

01:32:48.880 and I think

01:32:49.680 you're reacting

01:32:50.120 to that

01:32:50.520 and he is

01:32:51.160 a good person

01:32:51.640 and a decent

01:32:52.060 guy

01:32:52.360 but I think

01:32:53.060 that this

01:32:53.360 is the problem

01:32:53.880 we cannot

01:32:54.480 abandon

01:32:55.060 the meaning

01:32:55.940 we cannot

01:32:56.440 abandon

01:32:56.920 ordinary people

01:32:57.900 having a meaning

01:32:59.480 to their lives

01:33:00.280 we cannot

01:33:00.960 pay them

01:33:01.580 to not have

01:33:02.400 a meaning

01:33:02.700 to their lives

01:33:03.360 you know

01:33:03.720 four

01:33:08.300 god king

01:33:10.000 other than

01:33:10.840 Frito

01:33:11.260 or is it

01:33:12.680 Fredo

01:33:13.160 Fredo

01:33:13.980 Fredo

01:33:14.540 I don't know

01:33:15.880 I'm from Oklahoma

01:33:16.520 hey

01:33:16.800 that's our word

01:33:18.520 okay

01:33:19.100 that's our word

01:33:21.420 it's like the

01:33:21.840 n-word right

01:33:22.560 I'm not allowed

01:33:23.140 to say it

01:33:23.840 you can't say it

01:33:24.960 unless you're

01:33:25.760 Italian or something

01:33:26.580 okay

01:33:26.940 who is your

01:33:28.700 favorite character

01:33:29.580 from the

01:33:30.060 godfather

01:33:30.760 hmm

01:33:32.620 honestly

01:33:36.360 I cannot

01:33:36.940 answer the

01:33:37.440 question

01:33:37.740 like

01:33:38.080 I am not

01:33:39.280 a

01:33:39.640 I'm not

01:33:41.120 one of these

01:33:41.420 guys who's

01:33:41.880 watched the

01:33:42.320 godfather

01:33:42.800 48 times

01:33:43.860 since Christmas

01:33:44.480 I like

01:33:45.540 I love the

01:33:46.080 godfather

01:33:46.660 I think it's

01:33:47.080 a great film

01:33:48.300 and an even

01:33:48.740 better sequel

01:33:49.400 there's nothing

01:33:51.420 more entertaining

01:33:52.060 than any movie

01:33:52.700 with a 17

01:33:53.400 minute live

01:33:54.140 action wedding

01:33:54.940 that just

01:33:55.820 takes place

01:33:56.360 right in the

01:33:56.700 middle of the

01:33:57.180 riveting stuff

01:33:59.320 but I'm not

01:34:01.400 one who's like

01:34:02.100 completely chopped

01:34:02.920 apart the

01:34:03.360 godfather

01:34:03.900 and can really

01:34:04.800 ask Drew then

01:34:04.940 because this is

01:34:05.740 Drew's question

01:34:06.200 yeah I mean

01:34:06.880 my favorite

01:34:07.660 character in

01:34:08.280 the godfather

01:34:08.860 is Don Corleone

01:34:10.140 is the Marlon

01:34:10.760 Brando character

01:34:11.540 because he

01:34:12.900 actually represents

01:34:13.860 some kind of

01:34:14.920 old fashioned

01:34:15.620 idea of morals

01:34:16.720 I do have to

01:34:17.260 point out about

01:34:17.840 Fredo though

01:34:18.400 I just want to

01:34:18.840 say one thing

01:34:19.360 about Fredo

01:34:19.820 I gotta say

01:34:21.580 this

01:34:21.760 I have to

01:34:22.560 say this

01:34:22.900 Fredo

01:34:24.400 is the son

01:34:26.060 of a guy

01:34:26.560 who rose from

01:34:27.420 nothing to become

01:34:28.880 very powerful

01:34:30.420 he is the

01:34:32.300 brother of a guy

01:34:33.020 who took the

01:34:33.660 place of the

01:34:34.700 father who

01:34:35.540 became very

01:34:35.980 powerful

01:34:36.360 he is Chris

01:34:37.620 Cuomo

01:34:38.000 five

01:34:48.140 Ben you give

01:34:50.260 Michael a lot

01:34:50.920 of I think

01:34:51.900 necessary crap

01:34:52.880 but somebody

01:34:53.680 in the audience

01:34:54.180 wants to know

01:34:54.700 can you find

01:34:55.220 one nice

01:34:56.660 thing

01:34:57.240 somebody named

01:35:00.920 Michael in the

01:35:01.580 audience

01:35:01.880 wants to know

01:35:03.080 you know

01:35:05.620 what to say

01:35:07.200 about him

01:35:07.640 God commands

01:35:09.880 us in the

01:35:10.200 bible

01:35:10.420 to love each

01:35:14.800 and every

01:35:15.180 human being

01:35:16.060 to love our

01:35:16.620 neighbor

01:35:16.880 as ourselves

01:35:18.300 since that's

01:35:20.120 impossible

01:35:20.640 all I can say

01:35:24.520 about Michael

01:35:25.260 Moles is I'm

01:35:25.800 just grateful

01:35:26.580 that I don't

01:35:27.580 have to be

01:35:28.120 in the room

01:35:28.700 when he

01:35:29.080 changes outfits

01:35:29.900 for his show

01:35:30.940 that is

01:35:31.540 he's known

01:35:32.920 around

01:35:33.180 I understand

01:35:33.960 I'm not

01:35:34.280 answering the

01:35:34.680 question

01:35:34.920 around the

01:35:36.700 office he is

01:35:37.340 mostly known

01:35:38.120 for we have

01:35:39.100 a separate room

01:35:39.580 for changing

01:35:40.080 for just changing

01:35:41.520 in the middle

01:35:41.960 of the office

01:35:42.680 for no reason

01:35:44.560 at all

01:35:44.960 like Harvey

01:35:45.700 Weinstein

01:35:46.220 would

01:35:46.520 you see

01:35:50.420 Alicia nodding

01:35:51.020 over there

01:35:51.340 Alicia

01:35:51.600 no

01:35:51.840 for serious

01:35:53.300 I was doing

01:35:53.880 hair and makeup

01:35:54.360 earlier

01:35:54.820 and my husband

01:35:55.980 witnessed this

01:35:57.060 wait hold on

01:35:58.540 you're saying

01:35:59.320 you were in

01:35:59.780 the changing

01:36:00.340 room

01:36:00.740 earlier

01:36:01.240 hair and makeup

01:36:02.800 all this brings

01:36:03.500 me to the

01:36:03.940 one thing

01:36:04.460 that I can say

01:36:05.340 that's nice

01:36:05.700 about Michael

01:36:06.260 Moles

01:36:06.480 he has the

01:36:07.200 proper number

01:36:07.820 of human nipples

01:36:08.500 prove it

01:36:15.700 prove it

01:36:16.800 he said

01:36:17.200 well that's

01:36:17.720 that's pretty

01:36:18.160 nice

01:36:18.360 I think that is

01:36:18.980 technically a compliment

01:36:19.940 that's enough

01:36:20.480 six

01:36:21.140 Ben has cold feet

01:36:24.020 Michael has two

01:36:25.100 nipples

01:36:25.440 this is no

01:36:26.380 who said he had

01:36:27.180 two nipples

01:36:27.680 he said he has

01:36:28.520 the proper number

01:36:29.240 he didn't say it was

01:36:29.820 two

01:36:30.080 wait wait

01:36:32.180 you non-jews

01:36:32.980 have two nipples

01:36:33.620 oh my gosh

01:36:43.600 this is

01:36:45.300 I think this is

01:36:45.860 a good one

01:36:46.180 for the God King

01:36:46.940 born and raised

01:36:47.720 in LA

01:36:48.100 but I'm thinking

01:36:48.760 of moving out

01:36:49.240 of the state

01:36:49.740 what are your

01:36:50.320 thoughts

01:36:50.700 stay and fight

01:36:51.600 or move on

01:36:53.040 it's like our

01:36:59.120 conversation

01:36:59.600 every single day

01:37:00.320 yeah Ben and I

01:37:01.500 talked about this

01:37:02.100 on the drive down

01:37:02.780 here and every

01:37:03.560 other time we're

01:37:04.100 in a car together

01:37:04.680 listen it's quite

01:37:06.560 difficult

01:37:06.920 this is where the

01:37:07.820 action is

01:37:08.380 the daily wire

01:37:09.000 wouldn't be what it

01:37:09.660 is if we weren't

01:37:10.280 in LA

01:37:10.660 the fact that we're

01:37:11.260 an enemy occupied

01:37:12.040 territory forces us

01:37:13.080 to make our

01:37:13.520 argument sharp

01:37:14.280 it forces us

01:37:22.120 it forces us to

01:37:23.160 have a sense of

01:37:23.700 humor

01:37:23.940 it forces us to

01:37:25.400 know ourselves

01:37:25.940 it forces us to

01:37:26.800 build good

01:37:27.320 relationships

01:37:27.840 it forces us to

01:37:28.900 learn and continue

01:37:29.740 to learn

01:37:30.160 it also costs us

01:37:31.880 just a crap ton

01:37:33.000 of money and taxes

01:37:33.840 and it makes it

01:37:37.340 very difficult

01:37:38.140 to operate a

01:37:38.860 business

01:37:39.160 I guess the one

01:37:40.300 thing that I would

01:37:40.880 say is I do

01:37:42.320 believe in moving

01:37:43.100 I think that one

01:37:44.520 of the mistakes

01:37:45.100 that's being made

01:37:45.700 on the left and

01:37:46.360 the right today

01:37:46.980 is this belief

01:37:47.660 that if the factory

01:37:48.360 shuts down

01:37:49.080 we have to come

01:37:50.100 where you are

01:37:50.780 and build a life

01:37:51.460 for you

01:37:51.740 but the history

01:37:52.740 of the American

01:37:53.440 experiment

01:37:54.000 the history of

01:37:55.460 America is that

01:37:56.260 people left

01:37:57.000 the old world

01:37:57.860 and they traveled

01:37:59.180 at great risk

01:38:00.460 to themselves

01:38:01.040 across the sea

01:38:01.980 and then they

01:38:02.720 left the east

01:38:03.440 coast and they

01:38:03.940 traveled across

01:38:04.580 the Appalachians

01:38:05.440 and then they

01:38:06.340 traveled to

01:38:06.920 California during

01:38:07.700 the gold rush

01:38:08.300 and then they

01:38:08.680 traveled back

01:38:10.000 into Texas

01:38:11.400 and some of

01:38:11.780 those areas

01:38:12.220 as recently

01:38:12.960 as like my

01:38:13.440 hometown

01:38:13.840 was founded

01:38:14.620 in 1912

01:38:15.540 very recently

01:38:17.300 in a place

01:38:18.020 that the Comanche

01:38:19.120 called the place

01:38:19.740 where no one

01:38:20.220 lived

01:38:20.560 and we proved

01:38:21.320 them wrong

01:38:21.700 because we now

01:38:22.140 live there

01:38:22.620 like 200 people

01:38:25.040 but

01:38:25.360 yeah

01:38:25.620 it's not many

01:38:26.200 of us

01:38:26.540 but we're rigorous

01:38:27.920 I think that it

01:38:30.020 is important

01:38:30.740 that you be daring

01:38:32.540 it is important

01:38:33.160 that you take risk

01:38:34.020 and if that means

01:38:34.580 you have to get up

01:38:35.320 and go

01:38:35.680 then you need

01:38:36.140 to get up

01:38:36.620 and go

01:38:36.940 if that means

01:38:37.720 that you need

01:38:38.180 to leave your job

01:38:39.180 and create something

01:38:39.940 new

01:38:40.240 maybe you'll fall

01:38:41.340 on your face

01:38:41.880 but what's the point

01:38:43.380 of living in the

01:38:44.060 land of opportunity

01:38:44.860 if you don't take

01:38:45.700 any opportunities

01:38:46.520 when they're put

01:38:47.480 in front of you

01:38:48.040 the one piece

01:38:55.300 of caution

01:38:55.820 I would give

01:38:56.420 though is this

01:38:57.000 there is a need

01:38:58.020 for good people

01:38:58.700 to be here

01:38:59.160 fighting the fight

01:38:59.900 it's also important

01:39:01.580 if you leave here

01:39:02.560 because you don't

01:39:03.320 like the taxes

01:39:04.140 and the regulation

01:39:05.060 and you go to

01:39:06.080 my home state

01:39:06.860 of Texas

01:39:07.420 for God's sakes

01:39:08.580 don't vote

01:39:09.180 to raise the taxes

01:39:10.200 and increase

01:39:10.780 the regulation

01:39:11.440 seven

01:39:17.620 thanks for president

01:39:19.700 2024 baby

01:39:21.560 thanks for president

01:39:26.080 Andrew

01:39:28.640 can universal

01:39:29.880 basic income

01:39:31.080 ever work

01:39:32.280 no

01:39:33.280 that was easy

01:39:36.020 no

01:39:36.440 it's ridiculous

01:39:38.040 the whole thought

01:39:39.300 of it is ridiculous

01:39:40.080 look

01:39:40.560 work is changing

01:39:42.140 there's no question

01:39:43.020 about it

01:39:43.480 we've been through

01:39:44.660 something that was

01:39:45.300 just as violent

01:39:46.560 and chaotic

01:39:47.260 and traumatic

01:39:48.300 as the industrial revolution

01:39:49.820 we're still going through it

01:39:50.840 the technological revolution

01:39:52.060 has made

01:39:53.000 has made localism difficult

01:39:54.920 it's made federalism difficult

01:39:56.460 it's made nationalism difficult

01:39:57.960 it has made globalism

01:39:59.320 a de facto

01:40:00.360 state of mind

01:40:01.740 to just say to people

01:40:03.380 you're done

01:40:04.240 here's some money

01:40:05.300 go away

01:40:06.220 is insane

01:40:07.600 it is basically

01:40:08.840 writing off

01:40:09.680 the vast number

01:40:11.140 of human beings

01:40:11.900 who have something

01:40:12.600 to offer

01:40:13.100 every single one of them

01:40:14.380 every single one of them

01:40:15.760 is a child of God

01:40:16.600 with something to do

01:40:17.740 something

01:40:18.220 and

01:40:18.560 and

01:40:19.000 and the whole point

01:40:20.580 of capitalism

01:40:21.200 is if there's something

01:40:22.460 that you can do

01:40:23.700 you can make money off it

01:40:25.240 we don't have to offer you

01:40:26.580 some kind of income

01:40:27.460 to go away

01:40:28.220 I think we have to create worlds

01:40:29.980 and think up worlds

01:40:31.240 and not do it through

01:40:32.420 government regulation

01:40:33.160 we do it through creativity

01:40:34.280 where you create worlds

01:40:35.580 where there is work

01:40:36.380 for everybody to do

01:40:37.700 and I don't believe

01:40:38.680 that's impossible

01:40:39.300 in any

01:40:39.860 by any stretch

01:40:40.700 of the imagination

01:40:41.220 eight

01:40:48.300 Michael

01:40:49.800 when do you think

01:40:50.880 we can start packing

01:40:51.800 for Greenland

01:40:52.520 I can't wait

01:40:55.500 I think Greenland

01:40:56.260 is a great idea

01:40:57.000 everybody joked about it

01:40:58.300 when it happened

01:40:58.860 it's one of Trump's

01:40:59.920 best ideas

01:41:00.680 first of all

01:41:01.600 it's always good

01:41:03.040 to buy land

01:41:03.640 because God

01:41:04.120 ain't making any more

01:41:04.940 of it

01:41:05.200 the United States

01:41:07.120 has always done

01:41:07.840 very well on real estate

01:41:08.980 the Louisiana Purchase

01:41:10.200 did us very well

01:41:11.840 getting Texas

01:41:13.700 was pretty good

01:41:14.480 getting California

01:41:15.260 was pretty good

01:41:15.880 buying Alaska

01:41:16.700 has done us very well

01:41:17.660 also we've tried

01:41:18.820 to buy Greenland now

01:41:19.880 for well over

01:41:21.020 a hundred years

01:41:21.800 Andrew Johnson

01:41:22.820 looked into buying Greenland

01:41:23.920 Harry Truman

01:41:25.660 actually tried to buy it

01:41:26.980 for a hundred million dollars

01:41:28.140 but he wasn't

01:41:29.240 the art of the deal

01:41:29.860 kind of guy

01:41:30.360 so he didn't really know

01:41:31.380 how to make that deal happen

01:41:32.720 and President Trump

01:41:35.140 what he does

01:41:36.360 because he's this

01:41:37.280 media genius

01:41:38.200 is he says something

01:41:39.780 and just because

01:41:40.760 he says it

01:41:41.460 people laugh

01:41:42.440 you know

01:41:42.880 he's just a funny guy

01:41:43.940 who knows how to

01:41:44.440 however

01:41:44.960 the idea

01:41:45.820 has been floated

01:41:46.800 for a very long time

01:41:47.840 I want to do it

01:41:49.040 I can't wait to go

01:41:49.840 it sounds like the Danes

01:41:50.920 don't want to sell

01:41:51.960 who cares

01:41:53.420 since when do we care

01:41:54.480 what the Danes think

01:41:55.440 Greenland is a really

01:42:01.460 good opportunity

01:42:02.140 Mike Pompeo

01:42:03.100 Secretary of State

01:42:03.780 said it's a good opportunity

01:42:05.160 because

01:42:05.760 it's sort of like

01:42:06.940 a win-win

01:42:07.380 I'm not that worried

01:42:08.240 about climate change

01:42:09.500 killing us all

01:42:10.280 in the next five minutes

01:42:11.560 or whatever AOC says it is

01:42:12.920 but if it does

01:42:14.820 as Mike Pompeo pointed out

01:42:16.640 it will open up

01:42:17.260 a lot of Arctic sea lanes

01:42:18.400 it could reduce

01:42:19.240 the amount of time

01:42:19.980 that we can get goods

01:42:20.920 and services

01:42:21.440 over to Asia

01:42:22.620 by about 20 days

01:42:23.780 he says it could be

01:42:24.800 the Suez or Panama Canal

01:42:26.060 of the 21st century

01:42:27.580 it's a great military base

01:42:29.120 we're launching Space Force

01:42:30.480 I want to go to Greenland

01:42:31.640 not because it is easy

01:42:33.700 but because it is hard

01:42:35.900 so Michael

01:42:39.220 I have a plan

01:42:39.800 to send you to Greenland

01:42:40.560 yeah you might

01:42:42.040 did you whisper to Trump

01:42:43.340 is that how we got this

01:42:44.500 in the first place

01:42:45.060 who's going to stop us

01:42:46.200 the Little Mermaid

01:42:46.940 I mean we have nothing

01:42:47.800 one of our employees

01:42:50.900 Matt Gerard

01:42:51.740 said on Twitter

01:42:53.040 I think the greatest plan

01:42:54.160 that Trump should actually employ

01:42:55.340 which is that we should

01:42:56.460 rename Hawaii

01:42:58.700 Greenerland

01:42:59.940 and then we should

01:43:03.020 rename Alaska

01:43:03.980 Greenestland

01:43:04.880 and then the value

01:43:07.320 of Greenland

01:43:07.840 will just plummet

01:43:08.620 we can buy it

01:43:09.240 for pennies on the dollar

01:43:10.240 nine

01:43:12.580 for God's sakes

01:43:13.680 nine

01:43:14.040 well our plan

01:43:14.660 to send Michael

01:43:15.360 to take Sarah Huckabee

01:43:16.540 Sanders job

01:43:17.100 didn't work

01:43:17.580 but ambassador

01:43:18.460 to Greenland

01:43:19.340 governor of Greenland

01:43:21.660 governor of Greenland

01:43:23.400 Knowles

01:43:23.920 that's pretty good

01:43:24.480 Keon of Greenland

01:43:25.460 Court Jester

01:43:27.580 Peasant of Greenland

01:43:28.560 question nine

01:43:30.660 as conservatives

01:43:31.700 how worried

01:43:33.080 should we be

01:43:33.740 about the electoral map

01:43:35.180 when states like

01:43:35.820 Texas and Arizona

01:43:36.840 seem to be turning blue

01:43:38.440 Ben

01:43:40.580 super duper duper duper

01:43:43.180 worried

01:43:43.480 like really worried

01:43:45.200 so I know a lot of folks

01:43:46.700 in both the Texas

01:43:47.680 Republican Party

01:43:48.440 as well as in the

01:43:49.400 Arizona Republican Party

01:43:50.460 and Arizona

01:43:51.800 Martha McSally

01:43:52.640 losing that senatorial race

01:43:53.760 to Kyrsten Sinema

01:43:54.560 despite the fact

01:43:55.600 that there were

01:43:55.900 all these comments

01:43:56.760 that Sinema had made

01:43:57.640 that were truly

01:43:58.880 anti-American

01:43:59.500 I mean really awful

01:44:00.520 comments

01:44:00.980 and then she won

01:44:02.240 and now she is smart

01:44:03.320 enough to be governing

01:44:03.900 as moderate

01:44:04.640 that is a bad sign

01:44:07.180 for Arizona

01:44:08.080 the Texas

01:44:09.680 Texas isn't going to be

01:44:11.020 blue in the next

01:44:11.780 election cycle

01:44:12.560 Trump will win Texas

01:44:13.460 but it is trending

01:44:15.260 in the wrong direction

01:44:15.940 Mitt Romney won the state

01:44:16.760 by 12 points

01:44:17.420 Trump won the state

01:44:18.320 by 6 points

01:44:19.100 Cruz won the state

01:44:19.840 by 2 points

01:44:20.560 there were 4

01:44:21.600 Republicans in Texas

01:44:23.480 who have already retired

01:44:24.500 going into the 2020 cycle

01:44:25.860 they lost 14

01:44:27.080 House legislative seats

01:44:28.220 in the last

01:44:29.140 legislative elections

01:44:30.300 they lost a bunch

01:44:31.300 of judicial seats

01:44:32.000 because a lot of

01:44:32.820 judicial seats

01:44:33.820 in Texas are elected

01:44:34.700 the suburbs

01:44:36.400 are turning purple

01:44:37.760 and the cities

01:44:39.220 are blue already

01:44:39.940 Dallas is blue

01:44:40.640 Austin is blue

01:44:41.300 Houston is blue

01:44:41.980 Texas is a mirror

01:44:44.700 to the rest of the country

01:44:45.440 in the sense that

01:44:45.940 all of the urban areas

01:44:46.800 are extraordinarily blue

01:44:47.640 all the suburbs

01:44:48.140 are beginning to turn purple

01:44:49.080 and the rural areas

01:44:50.040 are very red

01:44:50.660 but people are overestimating

01:44:51.720 the amount of population

01:44:52.500 in Texas that lives

01:44:53.300 in the rural areas

01:44:54.060 they are getting the math wrong

01:44:55.400 and the same thing is true

01:44:56.360 in Arizona

01:44:57.180 now if you lose Texas

01:44:58.460 Republicans basically

01:44:59.460 never win another election

01:45:00.420 obviously

01:45:00.780 so it's a real disaster

01:45:03.040 and it's one of the reasons

01:45:03.860 why banking on

01:45:06.200 the same base

01:45:07.240 that got him there

01:45:08.040 for Trump

01:45:08.420 is not a victorious strategy

01:45:09.820 for Republicans

01:45:10.400 in the long run

01:45:11.040 you do need to

01:45:12.020 grow the base

01:45:13.360 I mean you do need

01:45:13.960 to reach into new audiences

01:45:14.980 I think Trump is trying

01:45:15.760 to do this in certain ways

01:45:16.900 but I think that he's

01:45:17.800 actually trying to pick

01:45:18.520 some of the hardest

01:45:19.100 fruit off the tree

01:45:19.780 right

01:45:20.000 you're starting to see him

01:45:20.720 carve into for example

01:45:22.000 the African American

01:45:22.840 vote share

01:45:23.620 well that's kind of

01:45:25.500 a hard vote share

01:45:26.080 to cut into

01:45:26.540 I'll give you an easier

01:45:27.380 vote share to cut into

01:45:28.260 white college educated women

01:45:30.260 who Mitt Romney won

01:45:31.180 in 2012

01:45:31.740 and with whom

01:45:33.100 Donald Trump

01:45:33.980 performed fairly decently

01:45:35.540 in 2016

01:45:37.640 he also performed great

01:45:39.040 among white high school

01:45:39.920 educated women

01:45:40.580 they are now voting

01:45:41.580 in minority

01:45:42.500 according to the polls

01:45:43.280 for him

01:45:44.000 so

01:45:44.520 Trump's

01:45:45.940 the Republican Party

01:45:48.280 is tied to whoever

01:45:48.920 is the president

01:45:49.400 just as the Democratic Party

01:45:50.420 was tied to whoever

01:45:51.080 is the president

01:45:51.620 that doesn't mean

01:45:52.320 it's a long term

01:45:52.980 irreversible trend

01:45:53.780 it does mean that

01:45:54.600 of course people

01:45:55.120 should be worried

01:45:55.600 deeply about Texas

01:45:56.340 and Arizona

01:45:56.820 it would be foolhardy

01:45:57.880 to say otherwise

01:45:59.180 and I don't mean

01:46:00.360 to be a downer

01:46:00.840 but that's the election

01:46:02.340 analysis

01:46:02.720 I think you're right

01:46:03.140 but I don't agree

01:46:04.140 with you about

01:46:04.580 African Americans

01:46:05.400 I think African Americans

01:46:06.400 are winnable

01:46:07.280 they're you know

01:46:08.600 they're people

01:46:09.660 just like everybody else

01:46:12.240 I'm not saying

01:46:12.640 they're not winnable

01:46:13.020 I'm saying they're not

01:46:13.840 the most obvious

01:46:15.100 it's easier not to lose

01:46:16.360 the people who voted

01:46:17.080 for you last time

01:46:17.900 right exactly

01:46:18.540 no question

01:46:19.620 criminal justice reform

01:46:20.780 is not going to pick up

01:46:21.560 10% of the black vote

01:46:22.380 you know what's interesting

01:46:23.100 is that the union people

01:46:25.740 are going with Trump

01:46:27.360 the union people

01:46:28.040 are showing up

01:46:28.500 for the Democrat candidates

01:46:30.200 but they're not applauding

01:46:31.220 the way they used to

01:46:32.180 the union leaders

01:46:33.280 are staying in their seats

01:46:34.420 when everybody else

01:46:35.100 is leaping to their feet

01:46:36.120 I mean

01:46:36.840 Trump has reestablished

01:46:39.620 the manufacturing base

01:46:40.900 in this country

01:46:41.400 and the unions

01:46:42.260 are noticing it

01:46:43.260 I think there's a lot

01:46:44.120 of good stuff

01:46:45.280 I mean he did very well

01:46:46.540 among those voters

01:46:47.020 in 2016

01:46:47.560 the problem

01:46:48.740 again is moving forward

01:46:50.220 how do you expand

01:46:50.740 those bases

01:46:51.160 question number 10

01:46:52.280 question number 10

01:46:53.620 I think I want

01:46:54.320 all of y'all to answer

01:46:55.740 okay

01:46:56.400 which is the number one

01:46:58.420 absolute bestest

01:46:59.680 Star Wars movie

01:47:00.840 oh

01:47:01.660 is the easiest

01:47:04.120 question in the world

01:47:05.780 Phantom Menace right

01:47:07.060 now that's pod racing

01:47:09.560 well of course

01:47:12.660 it's Empire Strikes Back

01:47:13.500 come on

01:47:14.340 of course

01:47:14.820 of course

01:47:15.100 it's Empire Strikes Back

01:47:16.240 okay

01:47:18.480 and also

01:47:19.140 all of them

01:47:19.820 all the new ones

01:47:20.380 are an abomination

01:47:21.140 they're an abomination

01:47:22.700 The Last Jedi

01:47:23.520 is an abomination

01:47:24.300 The Force Awakens

01:47:25.260 despite Jeremy's

01:47:26.380 best efforts

01:47:26.860 to pretend that

01:47:27.420 J.J. Abrams

01:47:28.020 is an A-list director

01:47:28.940 The Force Awakens

01:47:30.300 is a disappointment

01:47:31.000 when Ben says

01:47:32.140 all the new ones

01:47:32.780 are a disaster

01:47:33.300 he means starting

01:47:34.000 with Return of the Jedi

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The Michael Knowles Show - August 22, 2019

Daily Wire Backstage： Live In Long Beach

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