The government shutdown is in its seventh day, and things are only getting worse for the Democrats. President Trump is being blamed for the shutdown, but a new poll shows that Americans actually support the idea of a border wall and want to see it built.
00:02:15.820Statistically, you are making it through the government shutdown.
00:02:19.040And great new news for conservatives and people who want to build the wall coming out of this shutdown.
00:02:26.180You probably missed it because all of the headlines right now are talking about how increasingly people blame President Trump for the shutdown.
00:02:34.620They blame President Trump for the shutdown over Democrats.
00:04:32.960People don't really seem to care about it.
00:04:34.900But the problem for Democrats is not even the PR.
00:04:39.800It's not the PR of the shutdown so much.
00:04:42.040Speaking of PR, Democrats right now are sunning themselves down in Puerto Rico.
00:04:46.120If you've just eaten or you have a weak stomach, do not close your eyes right now when we put up this photo.
00:04:52.280Senator Bob Menendez was photographed on a beach in Puerto Rico, shirtless, gawking at some woman's bikini right in front of her.
00:05:02.020He just looks like he's lost in this cloud of, oh, this woman.
00:05:06.020And Bob Menendez, this is a bad look for him because federal investigators are fairly confident that he paid underage prostitutes in the Dominican Republic.
00:05:23.320I'm very glad I didn't have breakfast before today's show.
00:05:27.200The reason, it's not a PR problem because they're not going to be blamed for the shutdown.
00:05:31.180Even if it shows the government's shut down, they should be in Washington trying to make a compromise, and they're there sunning themselves on the beach.
00:05:39.300The issue for them is more tactical when it comes to the policy because while they're sipping their Mai Tais and Bob Menendez is gawking at young bikini-clad women, the numbers are moving in the direction of building the wall.
00:05:51.760We know already the vast majority of Americans support ending illegal immigration.
00:06:01.600But the majority of Americans support reducing legal immigration from its current rate of 1.2 million people per year down to about half a million people per year.
00:06:10.860That's more than a 50% reduction even in legal immigration.
00:06:14.460So this immigration issue has always been a huge winner for Republicans and for President Trump.
00:06:19.260That's why President Trump staked his presidential campaign on building the wall and on border security.
00:06:25.440Now, even when they pulled Democrats a year ago, they pulled them on whether giving amnesty to Dreamers, the DACA people, illegal aliens who came to the United States below the age of 18.
00:06:36.760If that should be a priority for a Democrat Congress, even the majority of Democrats said, no, that shouldn't be the priority.
00:06:56.000It means that, you know, the American people contain multitudes and maybe they're confused about public policy.
00:07:01.580But while Democrats have been sunning themselves in Puerto Rico, those numbers have moved and they're not moving in a good direction for Democrats.
00:07:08.540So right now, the American people, I think, are also realizing how much government they won't miss.
00:07:15.100Democrats were hoping, they were praying that if the shutdown dragged on now to the longest in history, people would say, gosh, we need our IRS.
00:07:27.000They would say they would miss all of this government.
00:07:28.920The country is going just fine without all of the non-essential government workers.
00:07:32.940Now, it can't go on forever, but it can go on for a pretty long time.
00:07:36.120As Ronald Reagan said, you'll be surprised at how much government you'll never miss.
00:07:39.720So I hope the Democrats stay in Puerto Rico.
00:07:42.120I hope Bob Menendez has the time of his life.
00:07:43.960That poor girl, she's in my thoughts and prayers.
00:07:46.240Because the smart Democrats know that it benefits them to end this shutdown.
00:07:50.560And you can see Mika Brzezinski trying to turn up the pressure on MSNBC.
00:07:55.560I would take it a step further and worry that we look weak and that this is the moment that anybody with ill will has to act or to get further than they have been able to get in the past as it pertains to us on the international stage.
00:08:12.400So Mika now, she's not using the talking points that appeal to Democrats.
00:08:17.400She's not using, oh, the poor illegal aliens, oh, the federal workers.
00:08:33.240She's using talking points that appeal to Republicans and that appeal to President Trump and that appeal to President Trump's base.
00:08:38.540She has to do this because they're trying to turn up the pressure on President Trump, make it feel as though his own people are cracking, his own Republican caucuses are cracking on this issue.
00:09:29.340The old conventional wisdom was you would have to pay for a government shutdown at the ballot box.
00:09:35.260The old conventional wisdom was, regardless of who started it, Republicans get blamed for government shutdowns and they lose elections because of it.
00:09:42.900We found out that wasn't true in 2014.
00:09:45.400In 2013, Republicans shut down the government.
00:09:59.440So I think it's really shrewd if the White House, let Trump take the personal popularity hit, let the policy gain in popularity, and we'll end up in a place where already you're seeing certain Democrats saying, well, maybe we could have some border security.
00:10:12.800Well, Chuck Schumer used to support the wall.
00:10:15.900Well, it's only getting better, and time is still on our side.
00:10:19.540You can't wait forever on this government shutdown, but the Republicans still do have time on our side.
00:10:25.300So they should hold firm, and if it means invoking a national emergency finally to break it, fine.
00:10:31.180But I see much more pressure right now on Democrats than I do on Republicans.
00:10:35.040They're also, the Democrats, you'll notice, are also eager to change the subject from the shutdown.
00:10:40.960So they thought for a while they were focusing on it.
00:10:42.820Before Christmas, you remember, it was all about the shutdown.
00:10:45.400This is going to be our big talking point.
00:10:47.120The Trump shutdown, they called it in the Oval Office.
00:10:49.380And then it didn't, when it didn't matter so much, when it wasn't a matter of, you know, really moving poll numbers on approval ratings, all of a sudden they start talking about other things.
00:11:01.420Here's Brian Stelter wondering if we're not talking enough about Russian collusion.
00:11:06.540I was watching Good Morning America this weekend, and both mornings they led with snowstorms and scares at malls and other stories, and not this.
00:11:14.840And I just keep wondering if the public is ill-served, if we don't make it really clear what the stakes of this story are.
00:11:21.540How can a more issue not lead with this drama, I guess is what I'm saying.
00:11:24.840I think plenty of times we lead with this drama.
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00:14:48.860Give us more headlines about the border wall and border security.
00:14:53.200The trouble with if they pivot to Russia is there's not a lot of there there, and even ABC News is admitting this.
00:15:00.740What I am getting is that this is all building up to the Mueller report and raising expectations of a bombshell report.
00:15:09.040And there have been expectations that have been building, of course, for over a year on this.
00:15:12.340But people who are closest to what Mueller has been doing, who have interacted with the special counsel, caution me that this report is almost certain to be anticlimactic.
00:15:22.220That if you look at what the FBI was investigating in that New York Times report, look at what they were investigating.
00:15:27.900Mueller did not go anywhere with that investigation.
00:15:30.300He has been writing his report in real time through these indictments.
00:15:33.580And we have seen nothing from Mueller on the central question of was there any coordination, collusion with the Russians in the effort to meddle in the elections?
00:15:45.340Or was there even any knowledge on the part of the president or anybody in his campaign with what the Russians were doing?
00:15:51.160They haven't laid that out yet in the indictment.
00:15:53.460Oh, George Stephanopoulos, the former spokesman and communications director for Bill Clinton.
00:15:58.060And he's saying, well, no, not yet, not yet, but maybe they could.
00:16:00.140But Jonathan Karl is a very serious journalist.
00:16:02.380And by the way, that wasn't a clip from the Daily Wire.
00:16:04.660That wasn't a clip from CRTV or the Blaze TV.
00:16:08.860It wasn't a clip from any right-wing source.
00:16:10.460That was ABC with the former Clinton communications director sitting there in the anchor chair.
00:16:17.060And they're saying that sources familiar with the Mueller investigation are pointing out there isn't much there there with regard to Russian collusion.
00:16:26.420So you've got now these big issues, the two issues dominating the news, the Mueller investigation and the government's shutdown slash border wall.
00:16:35.660And everything you see in the headlines says this is really damaging to Republicans and conservatives and Donald Trump.
00:16:42.680When you dig in just slightly below the surface, it doesn't really seem to be.
00:16:46.220The poll numbers seem to be in our favor.
00:16:47.880And everything we're hearing about the Russia investigation seems to be in our favor as well.
00:16:52.420Bad news for Democrats, especially as they look toward 2020.
00:16:55.880And I know you're going to remember where you were on Saturday afternoon.
00:17:00.340I know you probably came home, you wrote it in your diary.
00:17:03.280I remember exactly where I was when the future also ran Julian Castro admitted that he was going to, or announced rather, that he was going to run for president.
00:17:14.660And I just, I remember where I was when a guy with the name of Castro decided that he was going to win the state of Florida and win the presidential election.
00:17:24.040Here is his very, very sad presidential announcement.
00:17:27.980We have always been at our best, but we're united by something bigger.
00:17:33.200And in this journey, in the days to come, together we will show that hope can be bigger than fear, that light can be bigger than darkness, and that truth can be bigger than lies.
00:17:44.600And as long as we work for it, tomorrow will always be better than today.
00:24:50.900They haven't figured out how to attack him yet, but I'm sure they will.
00:24:54.360What this all goes to show gets back to our first point we made in the show today.
00:24:59.860All of the headlines, all of the generic headlines seem to show that things are going very poorly for the Republicans and specifically for Donald Trump.
00:25:07.380With regard to the 2020 race, a generic Democrat almost certainly would defeat President Trump in a 2020 election.
00:25:17.200If we got generic Democrat, capital G, capital D, to run for office on a ticket with generic Democrat number two, they probably would beat Donald Trump in 2020.
00:25:29.400The problem is there is no such thing as a generic Democrat.
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00:27:15.940One of the most disturbing stories that I've seen in a long time is the new drag kid.
00:27:20.280I guess it's the most disturbing story since the last story about a drag kid.
00:27:24.560This is parents putting their little children, 7, 8, 10-year-old children, dressing the little boys up as girls, having them parade around for lecherous men and do little dances.
00:27:40.780Now there's a new kid, a 10-year-old Canadian boy, Nemus Quinn Malencon Golden.
00:27:46.460He was featured in a very troubling piece in Huck Magazine.
00:27:51.160It was just talking about his life as a child drag queen.
00:27:54.260And it gets even creepier than some of the other ones because he posed for a photo with a drag queen named Violet Tchotchke, who is this guy who won season 7 of RuPaul's Drag Race, who in the photo was naked.
00:28:11.780So they're now pimping out this kid, this 10-year-old little kid.
00:28:16.580They're dressing him up like a girl and they're having him pose with naked men for the amusement of their sick and perverted audience.
00:28:25.220This child's parents should be in prison at the very least.
00:28:41.300If this were happening, not on the pages of glamorous leftist magazines, but in a housing project somewhere in the Bronx, that kid would be taken away from his parents.
00:28:51.920Kids have been taken away from their parents by the state for good reason, for a hell of a lot less than putting him out in sexualized women's clothing and having him pose with naked men for magazine photos.
00:29:26.380I've seen, you know, I've gone by drag bars.
00:29:28.980It is inherently sexual because the idea of a drag queen is a character, a sexualized cartoonish idea of what a woman is and of what femininity is.
00:29:47.320You don't see child drag queens wearing pantsuits like Hillary Clinton.
00:29:51.840They're wearing feathered boas and they're wearing sequined dresses and it is a sexualized act.
00:29:56.460The other kid, the other drag kid whose parents are abusing him, was recently found dancing at a gay bar with men throwing dollar bills at him.
00:30:07.800But you're going to tell me that that's not sexualized?
00:30:22.400And I know that we as conservatives, we often talk about the overreaches of the government and the overreaches of the government telling us how to raise our kids, how to come into our kids' lives and our families' lives.
00:30:35.520This is an example of where the government could come in and do a lot of good.
00:30:38.660That those kids should be removed from their highly, horribly abusive parents.
00:30:43.340Their abusive parents should be prosecuted, should be convicted, should at least go to prison for a very long time.
00:30:49.720And these kids will have better lives.
00:30:51.860The one, Desmond is amazing, his abusive parents said that when he was two or three years old, he began to explore different identities.
00:31:06.060These sick pedophile freaks are imposing this on their children and ruining their lives.
00:31:12.500Look, children who put their kids into show business generally are ruining their lives because it's a really awful industry.
00:31:18.940You wouldn't put your kids in the coal mines when they're seven years old, and you probably shouldn't put them in front of a camera either.
00:32:55.400And I hope that lawmakers are listening in Canada and the United States, and I hope law enforcement is listening in Canada and the United States.
00:33:01.260And I hope you take these kids out of their awful abusive environments, and I hope that you throw these awful parents in the clink and throw away the key.
00:33:10.460Another terrible idea that's going on right now in society is Starbucks.
00:33:14.860Starbucks now installing needle disposal boxes in some of its bathrooms.
00:33:19.540This is after a 3,700 signature petition from Coworker.org.
00:33:25.860You remember a little while ago when Starbucks said that everyone is welcome in the store.
00:33:35.160If we don't let vagabonds in to live here and do drugs, we're racist somehow.
00:33:40.380So shock, surprise, surprise, it turns out that Starbucks has turned into a homeless shelter.
00:33:44.800And when you go into the bathroom now, employees have been stuck by needles that have been left over by drug addicts,
00:33:50.520potentially exposing them to hepatitis or HIV or anything else.
00:33:54.340So now these co-workers are saying we don't want to step on needles while we're doing our job at the coffee shop, figure out a way to stop this.
00:34:02.420They can either kick out vagabond drug addicts, as they should, or they can install needle disposal cartons in the bathrooms,
00:34:10.640which is what it sounds like they're going to do.
00:34:12.880And the trouble is Starbucks, because it's such a prominent industry leader, can set the tone and other places can follow suit.
00:34:20.100This is broadly reflected in our debate on criminal justice reform.
00:34:25.500And I know a lot of right-wingers are in conflict on this question.
00:34:30.080Should we let a lot of criminals out of prison?
00:34:32.320Is that compassionate or should we not do that?
00:34:35.340Should we try to lock up criminals and be a little harsher on crime?
00:34:38.500The answer is be harsher on crime, period.
00:34:40.960There is nothing compassionate, nothing compassionate about Starbucks allowing drug-addled vagabonds to come in and further damage their lives
00:34:50.200and further inject poison in their veins and give them incentives to do it by giving them a place to dispose their needles.
00:34:58.120There's nothing compassionate about allowing their employees to be possibly exposed to HIV and other diseases just for coming in and working at a coffee shop.
00:35:07.560There's nothing compassionate about having customers who tend to be sort of millennial yuppies just in there writing the next great American novel or something.
00:35:16.200There's nothing compassionate about having them in that disgusting environment.
00:35:43.800This is why the left doesn't understand economics, so you've got to really make it simple for them.
00:35:47.420You can either give them incentives not to do drugs and defecate in the street, or you can give them incentives to do all of those things.
00:35:55.100If we took all of these people and offered them a choice, said you can either go to a shelter where you can't do drugs, or you can go to prison, that would clear up the problem.
00:36:05.580Rudy Giuliani basically did that in the 90s in New York, and it turned New York into Disneyland.
00:36:10.000It turned a disgusting crime-ridden city into a relatively quite nice place to live.
00:36:36.780It's not the ideal of the libertarian, stateless society or whatever fantasies are put forward by political theorists.
00:36:45.700But we are in the midst of a horrific opioid epidemic.
00:36:50.320We see that policies where we encourage people to have new needles and live on the street and defecate wherever they want do not help the problem.
00:37:38.340The way that Japanese internment first worked is that all foreign aliens, illegal aliens, or resident aliens from the Axis nations, Germany, Italy, and Japan, had to register with the U.S. Department of Justice.
00:37:52.060Following this, there was the Alien Registration Act of 1940.
00:37:57.600Then finally, in 1942, there was the Executive Order 9066, which authorized the physical removal of all Japanese Americans.
00:38:05.580Even if you had as little as one-sixteenth Japanese ancestry, you could be physically, forcibly moved into an internment camp.
00:38:13.380The reason I bring this up is because it's not brought up very much in American politics.
00:38:18.640And the reason it's not brought up very much is it doesn't look very good for progressives and Democrats.
00:38:23.420So every crime committed by anyone who could vaguely be called conservative is constantly rehashed, dating all the way back to the Crusades.
00:38:36.900When conservatives and Republicans point out that Democrats have an awful history, a party history of misery, from slavery to Jim Crow to disfranchising people to lynchings, on and on and on, they say, well, that was before the parties switched.
00:38:56.580Those guys were conservative Democrats.
00:39:37.640Because the logical conclusion of leftist, big government, socialist governments taking over the industries, the logical conclusion of that is that they can control you.
00:40:11.080As Ronald Reagan pointed out, the government big enough to give you everything that you have is, everything that you want, rather, is big enough to take away everything that you have.
00:40:20.480And nowhere do you see that more clearly than in the leftist progressive legacy of Franklin Roosevelt.
00:40:27.980We also have to talk about, speaking of political philosophy, on this day in history, in 1639, the first constitution in any American colony came to be the fundamental orders in Hartford, Connecticut.
00:40:44.400The reason that I bring up this obscure colony constitution is because it really shows us an important aspect of what we conservatives should think about when we frame our political philosophy with regard to modern politics.
00:41:01.160I think conservatives talk too much about the constitution.