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00:02:03.000 All right, so what do we have on the show?

00:02:06.000 You don't know this?

00:02:07.000 You didn't read this show, Matt?

00:02:09.000 Look, man.

00:02:10.000 Senator Ted Cruz.

00:02:11.000 Oh, nice.

00:02:12.000 Yeah.

00:02:12.000 Fantastic.

00:02:13.000 I'm a big Ted Cruz fan.

00:02:14.000 I think his assistant there said he enjoyed doing the show, so he's been coming back.

00:02:19.000 He's been on a lot.

00:02:20.000 He always seems like he's one show of ours away from losing his career, so I think he gets the show.

00:02:27.000 It tells me he knows...

00:02:32.000 I know that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.

00:02:40.000 I'll see you next time.

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00:04:06.000 We have Senator Ted Cruz in the program today, and Courtney, Kirchhoff, Courtney Skops.

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00:05:43.000 We're going to talk about this in depth.

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00:05:48.000 Jerusalem.

00:05:49.000 We'll talk about it in depth, but do you think that it should be Israel's capital?

00:05:52.000 Or, I guess, sort of rephrase that.

00:05:54.000 Do you think that presidents should have enforced the law for it to be Israel's capital since it passed in 1995?

00:06:01.000 What do you think?

00:06:03.000 Like a little asterisk you put on that question.

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00:06:05.000 A little bit next.

00:06:06.000 And Al Franken, by the way, is gone now.

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00:06:09.000 Why are you laughing?

00:06:10.000 I just don't like him at all.

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00:06:25.000 I don't think he should have resigned.

00:06:27.000 Here's why I don't think he should have resigned.

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00:06:46.000 I think you should have resigned before all this, just on principle that I don't like his face.

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00:09:36.000 A Delta flight.

00:09:37.000 We're going to talk about Jerusalem in a bit.

00:09:40.000 We'll talk about things.

00:09:41.000 Look at the series in a minute.

00:09:44.000 Christmas.

00:09:47.000 We just defended three states.

00:09:48.000 By the way, it changed my mind in not too long.

00:09:50.000 Kwanzaa.

00:09:50.000 It's not a real thing.

00:09:51.000 Changed my mind.

00:09:52.000 It was the most contentious one we did, but I will give it zero credence, just like Hamas in Palestine.

00:09:57.000 No tolerance, no empathy.

00:09:58.000 You can tweet me at us.

00:09:59.000 We lost half our audience just now.

00:10:00.000 A Delta flight from New York.

00:10:03.000 To Seattle's bathrooms were so filled to capacity, the pilot had to make a pit stop in Billings, Montana.

00:10:11.000 Delta says that upon landing...

00:10:12.000 Was I on this flight?

00:10:13.000 Yeah, in Billings, ground crews rolled a stairway to the airplane so passengers could, quote, disembark to find relief of built-up pressures.

00:10:21.000 When asked, actually, if landing the plane for a pit stop was common practice, the pilot responded, only if we don't fly over Detroit.

00:10:28.000 so that's out of everything we've ever done that is possibly the most offensive visual Think about this.

00:10:39.000 If you send a stranger into Detroit and say, document just the first five things you notice, that wouldn't even make the list.

00:10:47.000 Oh, and number ten, there's these planes!

00:10:49.000 Uh-huh.

00:10:50.000 Okay, so that's okay.

00:10:50.000 Number three, number four.

00:10:51.000 Did you notice at all the raining of human s***?

00:10:54.000 No, no.

00:10:55.000 I just thought that was...

00:10:56.000 Is that what that was?

00:10:58.000 I thought that was a style choice.

00:11:00.000 Cities of the Midwest were raining s***.

00:11:02.000 I was trying to survive one through five.

00:11:04.000 It's coffee, bro.

00:11:05.000 I just thought it was the new coffee shops.

00:11:06.000 Sorry.

00:11:07.000 We've got your censor button ready for you.

00:11:08.000 And one of the more bizarre Tupac memorabilia items for sale is another news story that I couldn't...

00:11:14.000 An auction...

00:11:16.000 An auction house is now selling a close-up picture of his member snapped in 1990.

00:11:22.000 An unnamed female companion of Tupac said that the then up-and-coming rapper was fond of dropping his trousers at parties and taking pictures and has begun the bidding at $7,500.

00:11:31.000 So, the all-beloved Tupac took dick pics.

00:11:36.000 It really shouldn't be that surprising to those of us who've heard his B-sides.

00:11:44.000 Hit him with a little wiener gospel.

00:11:47.000 Those who wish to follow me.

00:11:51.000 Little wiener gospel.

00:11:53.000 I welcome with my hands.

00:11:57.000 And the red sun sings at last into the hills of gold.

00:12:03.000 I'm feasting this young warrior without the sound of guns.

00:12:09.000 If I could recollect before my hood days, I sit, reminisce, showin' my dick for some good praise.

00:12:15.000 You stop and stare and you wonder, is it just the cold or is it just the stress that he's under?

00:12:22.000 But babe, I swear things change.

00:12:24.000 You know I ain't ashamed of my room cause the tip looks strange.

00:12:28.000 Almost sounds preemptive on his parts. - We're sorry it went on.

00:12:38.000 I used to be a Tupac fan.

00:12:39.000 Way to go.

00:12:40.000 Far longer than necessary.

00:12:42.000 It's been a long week.

00:12:43.000 Oh my gosh.

00:12:44.000 You only see the front side.

00:12:46.000 By the way, 16-hour CNN live stream on December 21st, and that's the launch of a YouTube kill.

00:12:51.000 We've been working on a lot of stuff.

00:12:52.000 That's a lot of work.

00:12:53.000 Yeah.

00:12:54.000 So...

00:12:55.000 That's why you get Tupac singing Pecker Gospel, okay?

00:13:00.000 Plus, we were keeping our kinder drive for this segment.

00:13:03.000 So, obviously, big story.

00:13:05.000 Donald Trump, this administration, is going to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

00:13:12.000 We're going to be responding to, I guess, sort of using New York Times as a fulcrum because they released a video on it.

00:13:17.000 First off, let me just say something off the bat, okay?

00:13:20.000 If people are going to say you're biased, absolutely.

00:13:23.000 Here's where I line up, okay?

00:13:24.000 There's a good guy.

00:13:25.000 There's a bad guy.

00:13:26.000 You put mass genocide in your charter, Hamas.

00:13:29.000 You're the bad guy.

00:13:30.000 That's it.

00:13:31.000 I don't care what you have to say anymore.

00:13:31.000 Done.

00:13:33.000 Extermination, eradication of all Jews.

00:13:35.000 You're the bad guy.

00:13:35.000 That's it.

00:13:37.000 Is it reductive?

00:13:38.000 Absolutely.

00:13:39.000 Do I have inherent biases there?

00:13:41.000 I do for people who want to commit mass genocide.

00:13:44.000 Absolutely.

00:13:45.000 Just take that to the bank.

00:13:47.000 Know it going in.

00:13:49.000 Now let's roll the clip.

00:13:50.000 Jerusalem is holy to three major religions.

00:13:53.000 It's where Solomon built the first Jewish temple, where Christ was crucified, and where the prophet Muhammad ascended into heaven.

00:14:00.000 Well, Alexis is Jesus, a fictional character.

00:14:04.000 This is where the prophet Muhammad violated the laws of physics.

00:14:08.000 And dimensions as well.

00:14:11.000 I mean, it's like, come on.

00:14:12.000 For instance...

00:14:14.000 And I know people say, oh, so did Christ for the resurrection.

00:14:17.000 But, you know, he's real.

00:14:17.000 Yeah, I know.

00:14:18.000 Muhammad's a liar.

00:14:20.000 So, you know, listen, Muhammad, he's in hell.

00:14:22.000 So let's address the religious aspect first.

00:14:24.000 No, no, absolutely.

00:14:26.000 Muhammad's burning in hell.

00:14:27.000 Muhammad would have been a nice guy if it were for climate change, and you know it.

00:14:27.000 I'm sorry.

00:14:31.000 If it was just balmy over there, it would have been easy.

00:14:34.000 They just needed a jobs bank.

00:14:37.000 So let's address the religious claim first.

00:14:39.000 And this is something you always hear, they're all part of the Abrahamic religions.

00:14:41.000 No!

00:14:42.000 No!

00:14:42.000 We'll do the historical and the religious perspective.

00:14:45.000 The religious significance, it's not even close.

00:14:49.000 Okay, let me tell you, nowhere in the Quran is Jerusalem ever mentioned By name.

00:14:55.000 The Quran merely records that Muhammad, it says that Muhammad, I guess, was taken up probably in a dream, mind you, were on an acid trip to the farthest mosque.

00:15:03.000 I'll read you the exact verse.

00:15:04.000 Exalted is he who took his servant by night from al-Majid al-Haram to al-Majid al-Khasa.

00:15:08.000 I know, I'm an Arabic.

00:15:10.000 Axa.

00:15:10.000 Axa, whatever.

00:15:11.000 I don't care anymore.

00:15:12.000 I've given up.

00:15:13.000 We blessed to show him of our signs.

00:15:15.000 Indeed, he is the hearing, the seeing.

00:15:18.000 Only the Hadith, written 200 years after Muhammad lived, links the site to Jerusalem.

00:15:23.000 Yeah, so that he heard Allah's apostles saying, when the people of Qadish, now it's my turn, did not believe me, i.e.

00:15:29.000 the story of the night journey, I stood up in Al-Hidra, and Allah displayed Jerusalem in front of me, right?

00:15:34.000 So there it is.

00:15:34.000 You make a horrible Barack Obama.

00:15:37.000 Remember Barack Obama, he'd always be sitting there, and he'd be talking, depending on if he wanted to fake the black sound, and then, Pakistan!

00:15:43.000 I'll do that when I get to Baghdad later on, right?

00:15:46.000 Here's the thing.

00:15:46.000 In contrast, when they just try and throw it all in the same boat, in contrast, Jerusalem is mentioned specifically over 800 times in the Jewish Old Testament.

00:15:55.000 655 times by name is Jerusalem, 161 times under the synonym Zion.

00:16:00.000 Yeah.

00:16:02.000 It's not the same!

00:16:03.000 By the way, we should also mention that the Palestinians have a long history of being pricks, desecrating Jewish and Christian holy sites just to do it.

00:16:16.000 What was it, Joe?

00:16:17.000 The Tomb of Joseph?

00:16:18.000 The Tomb of Joseph in 2013, that wasn't good enough, so came back and burned it in 2015.

00:16:21.000 Burned it down in 2015.

00:16:23.000 And then they were bulldozing churches and tearing up all kinds of religious sites all throughout the Middle East during the wars that we had over there and still going on to this day.

00:16:31.000 Apparently they have a problem with shrines.

00:16:33.000 Right.

00:16:33.000 Okay.

00:16:34.000 It was like the kid who you put in a timeout and it was like, I'm going to do it.

00:16:38.000 I'm going to burn the tomb of Joseph!

00:16:42.000 That's the last straw.

00:16:44.000 Yeah.

00:16:46.000 The last straw.

00:16:47.000 Burn down the tomb of Joseph.

00:16:49.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:16:50.000 Burn down blocks.

00:16:51.000 Emily, do you have my suicide vest?

00:16:54.000 Second, and more importantly, is the history.

00:16:57.000 Let's get beyond the religious significance.

00:16:59.000 The New York Times, they suggest that it's a question of locating the capital of a nation.

00:17:06.000 Jerusalem, here's something historically people don't realize, okay, has existed under the rule of many, many Islamic caliphates and empires throughout history, and not once, none of them declared the capital of Of any Muslim state to be Jerusalem.

00:17:20.000 We have some examples, right?

00:17:21.000 A lot of time to do so.

00:17:22.000 Yeah, a lot of time to do so.

00:17:23.000 So that's important.

00:17:24.000 When they were in charge and they had it, it wasn't their capital.

00:17:28.000 Well, the Umayyad Caliphate, the capital was Damascus.

00:17:30.000 Damascus.

00:17:31.000 The Abbasid Caliphate, the capital was Baghdad.

00:17:33.000 See, I did it for you.

00:17:34.000 There you go.

00:17:34.000 And then the Fatimid Caliphate was Cairo.

00:17:36.000 And then the Ottoman Empire, those nice, gentle Ottomans.

00:17:39.000 It was Constantinople.

00:17:39.000 Yeah, it was Constantinople.

00:17:40.000 Which is also really scary when you think about Constantinople.

00:17:43.000 Well, yes.

00:17:43.000 You think about that and you think...

00:17:45.000 It's had a lot of names.

00:17:45.000 Yeah, it's had a lot of names.

00:17:46.000 So, in contrast, Jerusalem has been the center of the Jewish nation since King David made it to the capital of Israel.

00:17:51.000 I think, what, around 1000 B.C.? Right around 1000 B.C., yeah.

00:17:53.000 For 400 years until these guys were conquered by the Babylonians.

00:17:56.000 And that's, you can find it.

00:17:57.000 So, in the Bible, there are historical books that record history just like every other historian.

00:18:01.000 And this is one of them, 2 Chronicles 6.6.

00:18:02.000 But now I've chosen Jerusalem for my name to be there, and I have chosen David to rule my people, Israel.

00:18:07.000 Ow!

00:18:07.000 Pretty simple.

00:18:08.000 Jerusalem!

00:18:09.000 There it is again.

00:18:10.000 Oh, but we can't believe anything the Bible says.

00:18:12.000 But after the Babylonian exile ended, around 538 BC, Jerusalem again served as a capital for over 500 years.

00:18:19.000 So much so that even Cyrus and Artaxerxes knew that that was the capital and it dispatched people back to rebuild the city.

00:18:25.000 Right.

00:18:25.000 Okay?

00:18:26.000 And then you look in Ezra 1-3.

00:18:28.000 Any of his people among you may go up to Jerusalem and Judah and build the temple of the Lord, the God of Israel, the God who is in Jerusalem.

00:18:35.000 He's on the road again!

00:18:36.000 No!

00:18:37.000 Is this like a drinking game with a Bible?

00:18:40.000 I'm just saying.

00:18:42.000 Not even at all.

00:18:44.000 And that whole night dream thing, I think he was on a flying horse that had a human head?

00:18:48.000 Maybe he was high.

00:18:49.000 He probably was high.

00:18:51.000 The point is he's in hell.

00:18:51.000 But what really matters, when you think about this for a second, I always find this funny when Muslims, I'm just going to say, hashtag yes all Muslims.

00:18:58.000 When you say, when you say, well we respect the Bible, all you do except going back to the blessing of Abraham and you think the Jews lied about everything, you respect it?

00:19:05.000 Well, Why do you desecrate these things?

00:19:07.000 It's like, well, I guess like Baltimore, you're burning down your own crap.

00:19:10.000 Is that your philosophy?

00:19:12.000 What purpose does it serve to destroy stuff?

00:19:16.000 You think this thing was in immaculate condition already?

00:19:20.000 These things are falling down.

00:19:21.000 Why push them over?

00:19:22.000 Well, let me ask you this, because obviously you're quoting Bible verses, but this can be obviously viewed outside of the Bible.

00:19:28.000 There are other historical accounts.

00:19:29.000 Yeah, tons of historical accounts.

00:19:30.000 Of course, Jerusalem and the Jews.

00:19:32.000 Of course!

00:19:33.000 It has been confirmed!

00:19:34.000 Okay, so here's the thing.

00:19:35.000 You may have an argument of, do the Jews, do they have a right to Israel?

00:19:38.000 But no one in their right mind ever makes the argument they don't have a right to Jerusalem as their capital.

00:19:43.000 It has been the capital forever, literally.

00:19:48.000 I'm trying to think if that's a misuse of literally.

00:19:49.000 Probably so.

00:19:50.000 Courtney would tell me so.

00:19:51.000 It would be a misuse of literally because you have to go into modern Israel after World War II. Okay, fine.

00:19:56.000 All right, so.

00:19:57.000 In their hearts.

00:19:58.000 In their hearts.

00:19:59.000 It was still the capital.

00:20:00.000 In their hearts.

00:20:01.000 Now we're going to in their hearts.

00:20:02.000 Yeah, okay.

00:20:03.000 You and Gloria Estefan.

00:20:04.000 All right, next clip.

00:20:05.000 For decades, U.S. administrations have said the city's status must be decided by peace talks and that moving the embassy to Jerusalem would be taking Israel's side.

00:20:14.000 This thing is...

00:20:17.000 That's not true.

00:20:18.000 In 1995, Congress passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act, specifically relocating the Embassy of the United States to Jerusalem and recognizing it as Israel's capital no later than May 31st, 1999.

00:20:29.000 This is important.

00:20:30.000 There was a red line due date.

00:20:32.000 Oh, another red line.

00:20:33.000 Yeah, a red line due date back in the 90s.

00:20:35.000 And it passed overwhelmingly...

00:20:38.000 93.5 in the Senate, and three...

00:20:41.000 It's such an important number I have to use a note for reference.

00:20:45.000 374 to 37 in the House!

00:20:47.000 That's a blowout.

00:20:47.000 That's what you call a significant majority.

00:20:50.000 When did we just start renaming red lines like purple nines?

00:20:52.000 Yeah.

00:20:53.000 They're like purple nines?

00:20:54.000 Purple lines.

00:20:55.000 Purple lines.

00:20:56.000 Because they're super gay and never observed.

00:20:58.000 It is true.

00:20:59.000 This goes back to 95, by the way.

00:21:02.000 It was not executively enforced, which is why every single modern president has claimed that they would.

00:21:09.000 They've all just been too pansified to actually enforce it executively.

00:21:14.000 Jerusalem is still the capital of Israel and must remain an undivided city accessible to all.

00:21:20.000 As soon as I take office, I will begin the process of moving the United States ambassador to the city of Israel as chosen as its capital.

00:21:28.000 I continue to say that Jerusalem will be the capital of Israel.

00:21:32.000 And I have said that before and I will say it again.

00:21:35.000 And Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided.

00:21:40.000 We will move the American embassy to the eternal capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem.

00:21:47.000 A couple of things that are important to note there.

00:21:49.000 It almost seems like it's consistent there.

00:21:50.000 A couple of things that are important to note here before we wrap this up and we have to get to Senator Ted Cruz.

00:21:56.000 They've used the term people quite a bit.

00:21:58.000 And that matters because Jewish people, that's one thing that historically has long been recognized.

00:22:03.000 There is no Palestinian people.

00:22:04.000 They don't really exist as a distinct group.

00:22:05.000 They're just Arab Muslims who want to take over Israel.

00:22:08.000 I actually can't put any better than Zurel Mohsen, head of the PLO. I'm not going to get these names right, so I'm not going to try.

00:22:14.000 It's like when you take a stupid picture on the driver's license because you just say, I just meant to do that.

00:22:17.000 This is him.

00:22:18.000 The Palestinian people does not exist.

00:22:21.000 The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity.

00:22:26.000 In reality today, there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians, and the Lebanese.

00:22:31.000 There is no Palestinian people.

00:22:33.000 Palestine has never been a country...

00:22:35.000 And if you're going to talk about, listen, there are a lot of issues with President Donald Trump on which I disagree.

00:22:40.000 But, you know, I'm glad he finally got something done.

00:22:42.000 And I'm unapologetic about this.

00:22:43.000 The reversal of the reversal of the Mexico City policy, that was a good thing.

00:22:47.000 And this is a good thing.

00:22:48.000 And even if you absolutely cannot stand Trump, you've got to give him some respect.

00:22:54.000 You've got to give him some respect for doing the thing that all of the other people, including the people who hate Trump, so your Obama, your Bill Clinton, said they were going to do.

00:23:01.000 Of all of his flaws, being the only president to actually deliver on his words and his promise regarding Jerusalem, that's not amongst them.

00:23:11.000 Therefore, I have determined that it is time to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

00:23:24.000 There you go!

00:23:25.000 Winning!

00:23:25.000 So much winning for the Jews.

00:23:28.000 All right, we'll be back with Senator Ted Cruz.

00:23:30.000 There's a lead.

00:23:34.000 She's funny.

00:23:35.000 Got the background.

00:23:36.000 I'm breaking off.

00:23:37.000 Got the background.

00:23:38.000 She's funny.

00:23:39.000 Got the background.

00:23:48.000 She's side, boys.

00:23:50.000 Got the background.

00:23:56.000 She's side, boys.

00:23:57.000 She's side, boys.

00:24:02.000 What are you doing here?

00:24:03.000 It's the middle of the night.

00:24:05.000 Good evening, Jared.

00:24:06.000 I heard that you are in need of a guard dog services, and I would like to...

00:24:12.000 Son of a...

00:24:17.000 All right, glad to have our glad to have our next guest.

00:24:44.000 I am amazed.

00:24:45.000 I shouldn't say amazed, but I'm surprised, I guess, that I'm not at all that surprised, that I am surprised.

00:24:50.000 Does that make sense?

00:24:51.000 It doesn't.

00:24:51.000 They haven't removed his blue checkmark from Twitter yet, so he still has the same place.

00:24:55.000 He is at Ted Cruz on the Twitter.

00:24:58.000 Senator, coming off some, I guess, what the Republican Party would consider big wins with tax reform.

00:25:03.000 How are you, Senator?

00:25:05.000 I am doing terrific.

00:25:07.000 Last week was a big, big week, and it's nice to see Republican majorities in Congress actually doing something, and doing something meaningful that's going to make a big difference in the country.

00:25:16.000 Now, was this something that you really think you guys needed?

00:25:18.000 Because obviously under the Trump administration, a lot of people were saying, hey, there was a lot of bluster.

00:25:22.000 Not a whole lot had been done this year, and now finally something tangible.

00:25:27.000 I think that's exactly right.

00:25:29.000 I mean, my message this year has been very simple.

00:25:32.000 Let's do what we promised.

00:25:33.000 Let's deliver, I think, the four big priorities are tax reform, regulatory reform, repealing Obamacare, and nominating and confirming strong constitutionalist judges.

00:25:44.000 And I think if we do those four, it's historic.

00:25:47.000 And if we fail to get any of them done, it will be one of the greatest missed opportunities of our lifetime.

00:25:51.000 So last week was big because we made a major step towards delivering on a big, big element of getting this economy moving, bringing back jobs, raising wages, all of which obviously matters enormously.

00:26:03.000 Well, explain that for people because, like I said, we have a lot of young people who watch on YouTube and they say, man, this is just a tax break for the wealthy.

00:26:09.000 And if you look at it, it's a tax break for pretty much everybody who pays taxes.

00:26:13.000 And they think trickle-down is this six degrees of Kevin Bacon kind of separation.

00:26:18.000 Hold on a second.

00:26:19.000 I'm going, we actually, if we could have the adjustments that we want with the corporate tax rates, could hire two new people.

00:26:24.000 So explain for people who think it's for the rich, man.

00:26:28.000 Well, look, everyone is young.

00:26:30.000 They either want a job.

00:26:33.000 Or they want higher wages.

00:26:35.000 My number one priority is easy.

00:26:38.000 Jobs.

00:26:39.000 Jobs, jobs, jobs.

00:26:41.000 You know, we've had, for the last nine years, from 2008 to today, our economy has grown only 1.2% a year.

00:26:50.000 That is anemic.

00:26:51.000 That is molasses.

00:26:53.000 The historical average is about 3.3% a year.

00:26:56.000 So the Obama growth is incredibly unusual.

00:27:00.000 And so for a lot of young people, they've never known an environment different than the one we have now.

00:27:04.000 A lot of young people, you come out of school, you got student loans up to your eyeballs, and you're wondering, am I going to get a job?

00:27:10.000 Am I, you know, I busted my tail to get a degree and I'm making venti lattes for minimum wage.

00:27:18.000 I mean, that's not the American economy.

00:27:20.000 That's not what we should be doing.

00:27:23.000 This tax cut is all about jobs.

00:27:25.000 It's all about, if you want more jobs, History has shown, you know, in the 1920s, Calvin Coolidge came in, passed a major tax cut, the economy boomed, jobs were created in massive numbers.

00:27:38.000 In the 1960s, John F. Kennedy came in, campaigned on big tax cuts, passed a big tax cut, and the economy boomed.

00:27:46.000 In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan, I've got Ronald Reagan on the Wall behind me came in, campaigned on a big tax cut, passed a big tax cut, millions of jobs.

00:27:55.000 So for young people, if you want to see a bunch of people giving you new job offers, if you want to see people competing and raising your wages, you want to see tax cuts on job providers that gets the economy booming.

00:28:07.000 Well, for young people, though, it's kind of a hard sell, certainly for a lot of the younger, more liberal, you know, those of the liberal persuasion, because they say, well, hold on a second, Republicans don't want to do student loan forgiveness.

00:28:16.000 That's tangible.

00:28:17.000 There's a, all right, No more debt, even if I studied, you know, for four years in gender studies or underwater basket weaving, whereas it takes a step of faith to believe that this tax cut going to someone who's wealthy, they're actually going to use that money to employ more people.

00:28:29.000 How do you sell it to those kids when they're looking at, boom, forgiving your debt?

00:28:34.000 You know, the beauty of it is I don't think it does take a step of faith.

00:28:38.000 You know, we did last week, I did a debate on CNN with Bernie Sanders, and we had Tim Scott on my side and Maria Cantwell on Bernie's side.

00:28:46.000 And Bernie and the Democrats are very honest.

00:28:48.000 They're very candid.

00:28:49.000 Bernie admits he's a socialist.

00:28:51.000 And he admits he wants to raise your taxes.

00:28:54.000 He wants to raise everybody's taxes.

00:28:56.000 The difference between Bernie and the Socialists and the Democrats, and by the way, I've asked Bernie now repeatedly, what's the difference between a Socialist and Democrat on taxes?

00:29:05.000 His answer is, I can't give you an answer, and the reality is you can't.

00:29:09.000 They want to raise your taxes a lot, and Republicans, what I want to do is cut everybody's taxes.

00:29:17.000 And I will say most of the Media and Democratic hysteria over this tax cut is nuts.

00:29:25.000 Nancy Pelosi went on national television and called it Armageddon that your taxes are being cut.

00:29:30.000 Let me say something to everyone who's watching this.

00:29:32.000 You're hearing Democrats claiming this is not a tax cut.

00:29:35.000 There's going to be a real easy test.

00:29:37.000 Come January, Take a look at your first pay stub you get after the first two weeks in January and just ask the question, are you paying more taxes or less taxes?

00:29:48.000 Virtually every single person in America will be paying less taxes, and in many instances, significantly less taxes.

00:29:56.000 That makes a difference in terms of the money you've got to pay off your student loans, the money you've got to save, the money you've got if you've got kids to provide for your kids.

00:30:05.000 And, you know, it's interesting.

00:30:06.000 What Bernie and Maria said is what they want to do instead is tax the living daylights out of you and then give stuff back to you.

00:30:13.000 Forgive student loans.

00:30:15.000 You know what?

00:30:16.000 How about you just keep your money and you can pay for stuff on your own.

00:30:19.000 Don't launder it through the politicians in Washington that are like the money launderers in Scarface running the cash, keeping a big chunk of it.

00:30:28.000 You know, let's put Tony Montana out of business in Washington and just leave money with the people instead.

00:30:33.000 Although that was probably the worst Cuban accent, I think, in the history of mankind, Scarface.

00:30:37.000 Whenever I watch it, I'm like, oh gosh, Al Pacino was so good, and then this?

00:30:41.000 You know, it's funny, this is a true story.

00:30:43.000 The day after your last tax debate with Bernie, Senator Sanders.

00:30:47.000 Jared, you know this.

00:30:48.000 We were going to Burlington, Vermont.

00:30:50.000 I was on a plane.

00:30:52.000 Who is sitting right in front of me?

00:30:54.000 But Bernie Sanders.

00:30:55.000 And what I couldn't get over was he was sitting in Economy Premium Plus Plus, that very last row, right before the curtain of first class.

00:31:03.000 And I was like, oh, you know that's a point of pride.

00:31:05.000 Like, I'm among the people.

00:31:06.000 I don't write.

00:31:07.000 It's just the difference is a cocktail at that point.

00:31:09.000 But I wanted to go up and say something.

00:31:11.000 But man, he looked so dejected.

00:31:12.000 It was right after your first debate.

00:31:14.000 He didn't have a briefcase, so it was not working.

00:31:16.000 Flying back to Burlington, Vermont.

00:31:17.000 But you know, it's funny that you say that.

00:31:18.000 That's a simple test.

00:31:19.000 Are you paying more?

00:31:20.000 Are you paying less?

00:31:21.000 But if you look at the recent Vox video, they do this creative math where they say, hold on a second, if you look at this charitable deduction, if a wealthy person gives 10% to charity, then they go, look at how much more it benefits them in tax cuts.

00:31:33.000 Hold on a second, hold on a second.

00:31:34.000 Instead of being selfish, saying, hey, the wealthier person is having less stolen, It would be a simpler test to say, are you paying less?

00:31:41.000 But that's not the way a lot of people's minds work.

00:31:41.000 Are you keeping more?

00:31:44.000 They think it's assumed we take this amount, and if we're not, it's like we're giving them something.

00:31:49.000 Well, Stephen, look, I actually think millennials are a heck of a lot smarter than the media.

00:31:54.000 The Democrats give them credit.

00:31:55.000 They're better informed, and they understand that there are a lot of politicians who are just lying, who are just shoveling manure.

00:32:02.000 Here's an easy decoding key.

00:32:06.000 Every time the Democrats say a tax cut is a tax cut for the rich, and by the way, that is the only talking point they have.

00:32:12.000 They're going to say it nonstop, tax cut for the rich, tax cut for the rich.

00:32:15.000 That's the only thing they have to say.

00:32:18.000 Understand that by rich, they mean taxpayer.

00:32:22.000 If you are paying federal taxes, you're rich.

00:32:27.000 And not the debate last week with Bernie, but the one I did a number of weeks back.

00:32:33.000 Bernie was very explicit.

00:32:35.000 He wants to raise every taxpayer's taxes.

00:32:39.000 You, if you're paying taxes.

00:32:40.000 Now, it's right.

00:32:41.000 If you're not paying taxes, if you're not working, he's happy not to raise your taxes.

00:32:46.000 He'll just give you free stuff to sit at home and not work and just tax everybody else.

00:32:50.000 But if you're actually out working, and you know what?

00:32:52.000 I think millennials are smart enough.

00:32:55.000 And want opportunity, want to have a great career, want to have great jobs, want to be able to change jobs, change professions, pursue your dreams, are not particularly interested in letting politicians decide what to do with their money.

00:33:12.000 And one of the things that was interesting, the presidential race, if you went to college campuses, if you talked to young people, College campuses were heavily divided between Bernie's campaign and my campaign.

00:33:24.000 We had a ton of support among young people.

00:33:27.000 It was our strongest demographic.

00:33:28.000 So did Bernie.

00:33:30.000 And when I ran into Bernie supporters out, particularly college kids, what I would say to them over and over again, I'd say, you know what?

00:33:38.000 I agree with Bernie.

00:33:40.000 Bernie says Washington is corrupt.

00:33:43.000 Both parties are in on it.

00:33:44.000 Both parties are in bed with big business and the rich and the powerful, the lobbyists.

00:33:49.000 All of that's true.

00:33:50.000 Washington is fundamentally corrupt, fundamentally broken.

00:33:54.000 And you'd see these people look at me and kind of, what do you mean you agree with Bernie?

00:33:57.000 I don't understand.

00:33:59.000 And I'd say, look, the only place Bernie and I disagree is the solution.

00:34:03.000 If Washington is corrupt, Why on earth would you want to give a whole lot more money and more power to Washington?

00:34:10.000 If you don't like what they're doing with it now, keep the money, keep the power with you, the people, and keep it out of Washington, D.C. Well, I think you disagree on the solution as it relates to Washington and also the concept of hoarding.

00:34:22.000 I expect to find Senator Sanders in an episode of that.

00:34:24.000 It's like, there's so many cats!

00:34:26.000 Okay.

00:34:27.000 On that note, I know we want to talk about the Amendment 529, but on that note, net neutrality.

00:34:31.000 This is something...

00:34:32.000 I will say, by the way, the image of Bernie as the cat lady from The Simpsons is a little terrifying.

00:34:36.000 It is, it is, because it's a little too close to home.

00:34:39.000 When he was coming down that aisle in the plane, I could see him...

00:34:42.000 You know, whipping them down.

00:34:44.000 Yes, whipping them down at us lesser economy non-plus-plus.

00:34:49.000 Net neutrality, huge issue on YouTube right now.

00:34:52.000 All of these creators.

00:34:53.000 I'm one of the few going, hold on a second.

00:34:55.000 If we actually look at what net neutrality is, it's an issue that's obfuscated.

00:34:59.000 One thing.

00:35:01.000 That I find interesting and nobody else is discussing.

00:35:04.000 People always like to vilify corporations, like we just talked about, the wealthy, okay, Verizon, Comcast, and of course all the mom-and-pop ISPs.

00:35:11.000 But the support from Google and YouTube and Facebook for net neutrality, are we supposed to believe they're all of a sudden virtuous?

00:35:18.000 I have my suspicions, but I would love to hear from someone like you, why do these giant, well-known leftist corporations with a history of censorship and curation so adamantly support net neutrality?

00:35:30.000 Look, it's the same game.

00:35:31.000 It's actually the same answer what we were just talking about a minute ago.

00:35:34.000 Washington is corrupt.

00:35:36.000 And so the big corporations, the power players, want as much power in Washington as possible because who do you think the government regulators listen to?

00:35:43.000 They listen to the big lobbyists.

00:35:46.000 I love the Internet.

00:35:47.000 Why do I love the Internet?

00:35:48.000 Because it grew up unregulated.

00:35:50.000 It grew up.

00:35:52.000 Nobody had to come to Washington on bended knee and ask someone's permission.

00:35:56.000 When you started your show, did you get anyone's permission?

00:35:59.000 Did you have to file a permit?

00:36:00.000 You just started recording and putting it out there.

00:36:03.000 It's true.

00:36:04.000 The internet has been this incredible oasis of free speech.

00:36:10.000 You can say whatever you want.

00:36:11.000 If you're right or if you're full of it, you can say either one and let what John Stuart Mill called the marketplace of ideas decide.

00:36:19.000 Entrepreneurship.

00:36:20.000 You want to start a small business?

00:36:21.000 You can make a product in your living room, put up a website, and sell all over the world instantaneously.

00:36:26.000 You don't need distribution.

00:36:27.000 You don't need advertising.

00:36:28.000 You have a portal to the world.

00:36:30.000 Now, what was net neutrality?

00:36:32.000 Net neutrality was the Obama FCC For the first time ever, seizing the power to regulate the Internet.

00:36:40.000 And what they did is they declared the Internet to be what's called a Title II regulated monopoly.

00:36:45.000 What's a Title II regulated monopoly?

00:36:47.000 The phone company.

00:36:48.000 Right.

00:36:48.000 And this is 2015, right, for people who don't understand the timeline.

00:36:51.000 Because net neutrality, as an umbrella term, has existed for a long time.

00:36:55.000 But I think we're talking about 2015.

00:36:57.000 The specific changes, a lot of people aren't aware of that very acute switch.

00:37:01.000 Yes, yes.

00:37:02.000 So prior to 2015...

00:37:04.000 Federal government regulators didn't have the power to regulate the internet, and it grew up free and unregulated and untaxed.

00:37:11.000 And there's nothing a socialist hates more than something that is free of government regulation and government taxes.

00:37:17.000 They want their sticky little fingers all over everything you're doing on the internet.

00:37:22.000 And so the Obama FCC just declared, we're treating it like a telephone monopoly from the 1930s.

00:37:31.000 And the Obama FCC claimed the power to regulate prices and terms of service.

00:37:38.000 So every term of service, which means they claim the power to decide, you know what?

00:37:44.000 We don't like what you're doing on the internet, so we're not going to allow you to do it.

00:37:48.000 And you know, how are we going to decide if we like it or not?

00:37:50.000 Well, we'll let a bunch of big corporate lobbyists lobbyists one way or another, and you know what?

00:37:54.000 Magically, the giant corporations will be favored.

00:37:57.000 When you think of innovation, Do you think of the old government monopolies?

00:38:03.000 I'm trying to think.

00:38:05.000 It's not the first thing that springs to mind, because now I still have my mind on Bernie Sanders as the cat man.

00:38:09.000 But come back to me, but I think the answer's no.

00:38:14.000 This, at the end of the day, is about government power.

00:38:18.000 And they've concocted this boogeyman.

00:38:21.000 That internet service providers might suddenly start regulating what content you're allowed to see.

00:38:28.000 Well, you know what?

00:38:29.000 No ISPs are doing that.

00:38:31.000 And more fundamentally, would you sign up for an internet company that says you can get this website but not that one?

00:38:37.000 Heck no!

00:38:37.000 You want to be able to access whatever you want on the web.

00:38:41.000 That's what consumers want.

00:38:42.000 Right.

00:38:43.000 And so this whole power grab...

00:38:44.000 Except actually not necessarily.

00:38:46.000 Here's something that's interesting to me.

00:38:47.000 You know, if you talk about these rural areas, the idea is there's no competition.

00:38:50.000 Let's say in rural Mississippi, I think Cable 1, right?

00:38:53.000 Well, hold on a second.

00:38:53.000 They only have one broadband provider.

00:38:55.000 I understand that.

00:38:55.000 But at the same time, they have eight mobile carrier providers.

00:38:59.000 And T-Mobile can, it's different with applications, say, hey, Spotify doesn't count toward your data cap.

00:39:04.000 Or AT&T can say Netflix doesn't count toward your data cap.

00:39:07.000 I'm going, you know what?

00:39:08.000 If I'm doing nothing but downloading 4K videos all day...

00:39:12.000 I don't mind paying for a different plan than my grandmother who does nothing but forward prairie dog pictures.

00:39:18.000 I'm okay with it.

00:39:18.000 Look, but Stephen, the beauty of it is that never happened.

00:39:23.000 No.

00:39:23.000 So this was literally an imaginary danger.

00:39:26.000 They concocted, to go back to The Simpsons, they concocted Mr.

00:39:29.000 Burns.

00:39:30.000 Yes.

00:39:31.000 Mr.

00:39:31.000 Burns, excellent, just regulating everything.

00:39:33.000 And they said, here's the solution to Mr.

00:39:36.000 Burns.

00:39:36.000 We're going to have government take it over and have the power to regulate the whole internet.

00:39:40.000 My position is simple.

00:39:42.000 No regulations, no taxes.

00:39:44.000 Leave the internet the hell alone.

00:39:46.000 I don't want Washington regulators touching the internet.

00:39:50.000 And that's what the FCC is doing.

00:39:52.000 It's going back to saying, now, fraud, deception, if people are ripping people off, there's a long time.

00:39:58.000 You can sue someone.

00:39:59.000 There's law enforcement.

00:40:01.000 If you're breaking the criminal laws, it doesn't matter if you're doing it on the internet or in the bricks-and-mortar world.

00:40:07.000 But we don't need government regulators deciding what websites can open up.

00:40:11.000 We don't need government regulators deciding what content you can have.

00:40:14.000 And by the way, you look at Europe.

00:40:16.000 You look at China.

00:40:17.000 They regulate content aggressively on the internet.

00:40:21.000 And the big tech companies, Apple, Apple just complied with China pulling down the apps that let people get uncensored content.

00:40:29.000 You know, the big tech companies are perfectly happy to get in bed with these totalitarian thugs.

00:40:34.000 My view here, if you like freedom on the Internet, the worst thing for Internet freedom is giving Washington bureaucrats the power to regulate your Internet.

00:40:43.000 Well, okay.

00:40:44.000 I know you're busy, but if I may float a theory, because this might take just a couple minutes here.

00:40:48.000 I talked about this earlier this week with net neutrality.

00:40:50.000 Like you said, you talk about regulating them under Title II like a telecommunications company.

00:40:54.000 If we continued with net neutrality, right, they would be allowed to set prices.

00:40:54.000 Okay.

00:40:58.000 They'd basically be allowed to tell ISPs how you have to treat all content outside of antitrust laws.

00:41:04.000 An emphasis in the laws we're talking about is on transparency.

00:41:07.000 I've talked about this a lot.

00:41:09.000 The government can micromanage or they can provide strict oversight.

00:41:13.000 You can't play for a team and be a referee.

00:41:15.000 So in this instance, we're erring on the side of being a referee.

00:41:18.000 Here's something that I find interesting.

00:41:20.000 A lot of people, including some people on Fox News, I think Tucker Carlson, talked about regulating YouTube, Google, Facebook as under Title II because they thought it was a monopoly, that people were requiring these to communicate.

00:41:31.000 Now, I said, hold on a second, no.

00:41:32.000 Of course I'm against it.

00:41:33.000 I don't want to tell YouTube what they have to allow on their site.

00:41:37.000 I do think if you were to say, okay, we're going to apply the same kind of regulation as we do to ISPs, demanding transparency, YouTube, meaning you have to let people know if you're throttling conservative content, meaning Facebook, you have to let people know if you're banning news you don't like, a lot of people would be on board.

00:41:53.000 Does it stand to reason that maybe that's why they're a little bit cautious about the transparency laws that we're talking about here?

00:42:00.000 Yeah, I don't even think they're that cautious.

00:42:02.000 You know, we had a Judiciary Committee hearing where Democrats were hyperventilating, were bellowing that we've got to regulate all the tech companies because there were Russian ads.

00:42:14.000 And it was all about, we've got to prevent Russian ads.

00:42:17.000 You know what?

00:42:18.000 The last thing I want is government regulators deciding what ads can run on Google or Facebook or anyone else.

00:42:23.000 Now, the problem you mentioned I'm very worried about.

00:42:26.000 I think these big tech companies have a terrible record Of censorship, a terrible record of trying to push their own political agendas.

00:42:35.000 Now, I don't think government should regulate them, but I do think right now under current law, the big tech companies enjoy immunity from liability under what's called the Communications Decency Act, and it's based on the premise that they're public forums, that they're just letting people speak.

00:42:51.000 Well, you know what?

00:42:52.000 If they're not just letting people speak, if they're actively engaging and pushing their own political agenda, that's fine.

00:42:58.000 They have a First Amendment right to do it, but there's no reason they should be given immunity from liability if they defame someone, if they commit conduct that Yeah.

00:43:16.000 so many people make their living off of YouTube.

00:43:17.000 You know, for us, we saw our advertising cut down to a quarter, and they said, "Oh, it's an algorithm." And we said, "Well, hold on, can we look at this algorithm?

00:43:24.000 Because you ran ads for us to put our videos on YouTube.

00:43:27.000 You invited us here.

00:43:28.000 Ah, no, we can't show you.

00:43:29.000 Okay, listen, we could talk about that all day.

00:43:31.000 You specifically have been spearheading this amendment, I think 529 amendment when we're talking, going back to taxes now.

00:43:38.000 Tell people what that's about and where they can go to follow it.

00:43:41.000 Well, late Friday night when we were voting on tax reform, there was one amendment adding a provision to the bill that passed.

00:43:47.000 The only amendment that passed was an amendment I introduced.

00:43:50.000 And it concerns 529 college savings accounts, which many of the folks listening may have had 529s, maybe saving them.

00:43:57.000 It's a tax advantage vehicle that you can save for the college education of your kids or your grandkids.

00:44:03.000 And it works like a Roth IRA. So you put money in after tax.

00:44:08.000 And then all the growth of the money is tax free.

00:44:10.000 And so it's a really powerful tool to save for college.

00:44:14.000 The amendment I introduced that passed was an amendment that says 529s that are incredibly powerful.

00:44:20.000 You can spend them not just on college.

00:44:23.000 You can also spend them on K-12 education.

00:44:26.000 You can spend them on public school, on private school, on religious school, on homeschooling.

00:44:30.000 It puts parents and grandparents and kids in a position of controlling your own savings.

00:44:37.000 It goes back to the theme we've been emphasizing over and over again, putting you in charge of your money instead of politicians in Washington.

00:44:43.000 It came to a vote after midnight on Friday night on the Senate floor.

00:44:48.000 The Senate ended up dividing 50-50.

00:44:50.000 Actually, let me tell you the inside drama because you'll enjoy this.

00:44:53.000 I do.

00:44:53.000 I want some House of Cards kind of business here.

00:44:55.000 Give it to me.

00:44:56.000 All right.

00:44:56.000 So we're standing on the Senate floor.

00:44:58.000 We have 52 Republicans, so very narrow majority.

00:45:01.000 First one, then two Republicans vote no.

00:45:05.000 So the Senate floor staff calls the Vice President, calls Mike Pence and says, Mr.

00:45:09.000 Vice President, we need you down here.

00:45:11.000 He was at his home at the residence of the Naval Observatory.

00:45:13.000 We need you down here to break the tie.

00:45:15.000 So the Vice President gets in the motorcade, starts heading down Massachusetts Avenue.

00:45:21.000 Then Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, comes down and votes yes, votes with me.

00:45:26.000 And there's an audible gasp in the well of the Senate.

00:45:30.000 And so the floor staff, they pick up the phone and they call Pence and say, Mr.

00:45:33.000 Vice President, we don't need you after all.

00:45:35.000 We've got the votes.

00:45:36.000 Manchin just voted yes, so turn around and go home.

00:45:39.000 So the motorcade turns around, starts heading back.

00:45:42.000 Manchin returns to his desk.

00:45:45.000 And Senate Democrats descend on him like locusts.

00:45:48.000 I mean, they're surrounding him and yelling him.

00:45:51.000 I'm pretty sure they just started sticking knives in him.

00:45:54.000 Right.

00:45:55.000 Like in a bullfight, you know, the people that stick all the spears.

00:45:58.000 Someone at C-SPAN is going, camera four, camera four, switch, switch, switch.

00:46:02.000 And after five minutes, Joe cried, uncle.

00:46:06.000 And he walked down and he switched his vote to a no.

00:46:10.000 And so the floor staff had to pick up the phone, call the Vice President a third time, and say, I'm sorry, Mr.

00:46:15.000 Vice President, we do need your vote.

00:46:17.000 He turned the motorcade around yet again.

00:46:19.000 We waited 15 minutes for him to drive from the Naval Observatory to the Capitol, and he came to the floor and he said, the ayes being 50, the nays being 50, the President of the Senate votes in the affirmative, and that amendment was passed.

00:46:32.000 And the beauty of it is, There are 50 million school kids in America at any given time.

00:46:39.000 That is a tax cut for every school child, for every parent, for every grandparent.

00:46:44.000 That lets you...

00:46:45.000 I've got 529s for both my daughters.

00:46:48.000 Next year, I'm going to start using those 529s, not just to save for college, but also to help pay for their education now in first and fourth grade.

00:46:55.000 That is real.

00:46:56.000 It is the most significant national school choice legislation we have seen for perhaps ever Right.

00:47:04.000 And it is powerful tax relief to tens of millions of parents and grandparents and kids.

00:47:11.000 Do you hear that?

00:47:11.000 That's the sound of teachers unions going, yeah!

00:47:15.000 So that is fantastic.

00:47:17.000 Again, this is something I hope people who are watching who may disagree with Senator Cruz, people who are left or right, can go, oh, okay, hold on a second.

00:47:23.000 Here's a solution that costs us as opposed to trillions or billions.

00:47:26.000 Nothing.

00:47:26.000 We're putting money back in the hands of Americans that...

00:47:30.000 We can find some common ground.

00:47:31.000 If we want to talk about finding common ground, I don't know how allowing people to save for themselves, giving them tax incentives to be responsible, and giving them more choice how anyone could be against it.

00:47:42.000 I know you are busy, Senator.

00:47:44.000 Thank you very much for taking that.

00:47:45.000 You look rested.

00:47:46.000 I would imagine there's a weight lifted off your shoulders after this last week.

00:47:49.000 There is.

00:47:50.000 I am encouraged.

00:47:52.000 We're actually doing our jobs, and we're getting something powerful done, and...

00:47:58.000 And I'm encouraged.

00:47:59.000 We need to finish it.

00:48:00.000 We need to go across the finish line and get the job done.

00:48:02.000 But I think we're going to get that done.

00:48:04.000 A major tax cut for every American by the end of the year.

00:48:08.000 And then we need to go back to Obamacare repeal and regulation reform and unleash small businesses so that we have more and more jobs, higher wages.

00:48:16.000 And we ought to trust the people and take power out of Washington.

00:48:19.000 Absolutely.

00:48:20.000 Thank you so much.

00:48:21.000 At Ted Cruz, next time I want you to have told Senator Sanders to stop throwing cats.

00:48:25.000 We'll be back after this. - - - What are you doing?

00:48:39.000 I didn't, uh, I don't think we made sure it's that big.

00:48:41.000 Oh yeah, now we sell 3X and 4X for burly men.

00:48:44.000 Or women.

00:48:44.000 Yeah, right.

00:48:45.000 So who is, like, the person you want to see in these, like, the most, but the least likely to put one on?

00:48:51.000 You mean, like, on three?

00:48:52.000 Yeah, three.

00:48:53.000 Ready?

00:48:53.000 Alright.

00:48:54.000 Three, two, one.

00:48:57.000 Michael Moore.

00:49:01.000 LottoWithCrowderShop.com.

00:49:02.000 Shirts are now available in 3X and 4XL for the Burley Man in you and the fat f***s.

00:49:09.000 Now listen to this.

00:49:11.000 All right.

00:49:21.000 Senator Ted Cruz.

00:49:23.000 Boom.

00:49:25.000 Good guy.

00:49:26.000 Fun guy.

00:49:26.000 He has more fun on the show.

00:49:28.000 We have an editor-in-chief of Ladder.

00:49:31.000 I think he's starting to.

00:49:33.000 I think he gets it.

00:49:33.000 He gets it.

00:49:34.000 Editor-in-chief of Ladder.com.

00:49:35.000 At Courtney Scoffs.

00:49:38.000 F's.

00:49:39.000 Not T's.

00:49:39.000 Not Scott's.

00:49:41.000 Not Scott's.

00:49:41.000 Courtney Kirchoff, how are you?

00:49:42.000 I'm great.

00:49:43.000 You've never been sitting in that chair, I don't think.

00:49:45.000 Well, not when the camera's on me.

00:49:48.000 How does it feel?

00:49:49.000 It feels...

00:49:51.000 Not any different.

00:49:52.000 Yeah, it doesn't feel any different?

00:49:52.000 No, there's no superpowers here.

00:49:54.000 Courtney learned during the break that Jared's cough button is optional.

00:49:57.000 It's really more just of a placeholder.

00:49:59.000 It is.

00:50:00.000 It's more of a decoration for my desk.

00:50:01.000 It's more of a decoration.

00:50:02.000 You just cough and you don't even use it.

00:50:04.000 No.

00:50:05.000 Don't even use a cough button.

00:50:05.000 Seems like extra work.

00:50:07.000 And by the way, I think I'm hearing myself through your microphone right now.

00:50:09.000 So I don't know what's going on there.

00:50:10.000 I'm just hearing myself like I'm talking in a hallway.

00:50:14.000 Sounds kind of cool.

00:50:15.000 I guess it sounds kind of, but I'm not a fan of it.

00:50:18.000 Someone's losing an employment contract.

00:50:19.000 Now it sounds better.

00:50:20.000 Courtney.

00:50:21.000 Yes.

00:50:22.000 Al Franken, your thoughts.

00:50:24.000 My thoughts.

00:50:26.000 Well, I would like to note, to quote Ted Cruz, that it took seven accusers in the party of feminism before Franken decided, ah, maybe I'll resign eventually.

00:50:40.000 Do you think that's a good thing that he resigned or not?

00:50:43.000 I think he's resigning so that the Republicans, or I'm sorry, so that the Democrats can say, ha ha, we're clearing house now, you need to get rid of Roy Moore.

00:50:50.000 Yeah, I know, but do you think he should resign?

00:50:54.000 Yes.

00:50:55.000 Really?

00:50:55.000 Yeah.

00:50:56.000 See, I'm surprised.

00:50:57.000 And I was saying this earlier.

00:50:57.000 Jared just hates him.

00:50:58.000 He thought a principal was Al Franken's a dick.

00:51:01.000 I was like, that's not a principal.

00:51:02.000 I stand by it.

00:51:03.000 But I don't think it should be based on the number of accusers but the quality of evidence.

00:51:09.000 And I think it's crappy quality of evidence all around right now.

00:51:14.000 There is photographic evidence of him grabbing a lady's ta-tas.

00:51:18.000 He didn't grab her ta-tas.

00:51:19.000 She was wearing a breastplate and his hands were near it.

00:51:22.000 He wasn't groping her ta-tas.

00:51:24.000 Okay.

00:51:25.000 And was she the Playboy model?

00:51:27.000 No.

00:51:28.000 This was a staged picture, wasn't it?

00:51:29.000 No.

00:51:29.000 I know.

00:51:31.000 Well, he's grabbed a...

00:51:31.000 Yeah, that's pretty bad.

00:51:32.000 Okay.

00:51:35.000 It's pretty bad, but he didn't resign because of that.

00:51:37.000 He resigned because of the number of accusers.

00:51:39.000 You know what I mean?

00:51:39.000 So if you were to be like, okay, that's on me.

00:51:42.000 Grabbed her tits while she was sleeping.

00:51:44.000 That was bad.

00:51:44.000 I'm out.

00:51:45.000 Fine.

00:51:45.000 But now it's just because there's seven people.

00:51:47.000 That's when he should have gone out, I think.

00:51:49.000 Right.

00:51:49.000 But the pressure mounted and...

00:51:52.000 The other Democrats said, hey, this is looking pretty bad for us being the party of feminism.

00:51:56.000 Maybe you should go so that we can point fingers at the Republicans and tell them to get rid of their bad guys.

00:52:00.000 I have mixed feelings on all of it because I think on one hand, I kind of find myself in the Mitt Romney camp of all.

00:52:07.000 Somebody has to have standards, but then it's kind of like with the Rory Moore and everything.

00:52:11.000 I don't want...

00:52:12.000 To just not have the House and Senate, because everyone steps down either.

00:52:15.000 Right.

00:52:16.000 I kind of want Roy Moore there.

00:52:18.000 But on the other hand, it's like, somebody has to.

00:52:20.000 See, this is the problem where you don't understand principle.

00:52:22.000 You think Al Franken's a dick as a principle, and you're like, I don't know about Roy Moore.

00:52:26.000 What do you think with Roy Moore?

00:52:28.000 On the sliding scale, so I would say harassment, abuse, assault is probably on a spectrum, unlike gender.

00:52:35.000 Um...

00:52:37.000 What Roy Moore is accused of doing is a lot worse than what Franken is accused of doing.

00:52:41.000 Yeah, it's a lot worse.

00:52:41.000 But what is the evidence?

00:52:43.000 How strong is the evidence?

00:52:45.000 I think that has to be the standard in all of it.

00:52:46.000 Because we've written about it, you know, with Lana Dunham saying, I think I was raped because I thought kind of in a plan.

00:52:50.000 We're like, that's absurd.

00:52:51.000 Right.

00:52:52.000 I think we have to apply the same standard here.

00:52:53.000 What is the strength of the evidence?

00:52:56.000 What's the quality of evidence with Roy Moore?

00:52:58.000 It doesn't look good.

00:52:59.000 No.

00:53:00.000 No.

00:53:01.000 And it's underage girls, so, you know.

00:53:03.000 Well, I don't know.

00:53:04.000 I don't know unless he's changed it.

00:53:06.000 I don't know that he's ever actually denied the underage girl thing.

00:53:09.000 Right.

00:53:09.000 He's just denied that there was no consent.

00:53:13.000 No?

00:53:13.000 Unless I'm mistaken?

00:53:14.000 Does anyone else here read the news?

00:53:17.000 No?

00:53:18.000 Not my thing.

00:53:19.000 Okay, so if Franken's gone, you would have Roy Morgan?

00:53:21.000 I would have Roy Morgan.

00:53:22.000 Okay.

00:53:22.000 Yeah.

00:53:22.000 What about President Donald Trump?

00:53:24.000 That's the next one.

00:53:24.000 They're trying to say, you know, the Access Hollywood tapes.

00:53:26.000 That's what, and that's what Franken was saying in his apology.

00:53:30.000 Yeah, the non-apology.

00:53:31.000 The non-apology speech on the floor was that I can't believe that I'm having to resign when there's a...

00:53:37.000 Pervert in the White House.

00:53:40.000 It's pretty bad all around.

00:53:41.000 This is not a proud moment for the United States.

00:53:45.000 Not necessarily, no.

00:53:46.000 Not our finest moment.

00:53:47.000 No.

00:53:48.000 The difference, I would say, is with Frank and we have photographic evidence of him actually grabbing someone.

00:53:53.000 Or mock grabbing someone.

00:53:55.000 We have audio of Trump saying that he did it.

00:53:59.000 No, he didn't say he did.

00:54:00.000 He said you can do it.

00:54:01.000 You can do it.

00:54:02.000 Yeah.

00:54:02.000 What bothered me about the Trump thing—here's the thing.

00:54:04.000 There's no evidence there of sexual assault from Trump.

00:54:06.000 What bothered me is he was talking about someone else's wife.

00:54:09.000 He was talking about a specific woman in Access Hollywood, how hot she was.

00:54:12.000 And if I were her husband, I would kick his ass.

00:54:15.000 Right.

00:54:16.000 You could grab—okay.

00:54:17.000 But it's not—he never actually claimed that he committed sexual assault.

00:54:21.000 No, he was just bragging about how famous he was and that he could do it.

00:54:25.000 He could do it.

00:54:26.000 But he didn't necessarily say they were unwilling.

00:54:27.000 He was kind of saying, like, they like it!

00:54:31.000 Yeah, it was disgusting if you listen to it.

00:54:33.000 You're like, oh, God, I guess he is saying that they are giving consent if he's famous enough.

00:54:37.000 Right.

00:54:37.000 Which is pretty sick.

00:54:38.000 That's a bit of a stretch.

00:54:39.000 It's a stretch.

00:54:40.000 As a woman, is that like...

00:54:41.000 I didn't like it.

00:54:42.000 Oh, yeah, a real estate mogul just grabbed me by the undercarriage.

00:54:47.000 Yeah, no.

00:54:48.000 No.

00:54:48.000 Not a turn on.

00:54:49.000 No.

00:54:50.000 Alright, so there you go.

00:54:52.000 Straight from the lady's mouth.

00:54:53.000 I mean, you know, we gave you the female perspective.

00:54:55.000 Yeah.

00:54:55.000 We tried.

00:54:56.000 Don't grab their genitals when they don't want you to.

00:54:59.000 It's just...

00:55:00.000 You know, it's not how we like to be wooed.

00:55:03.000 No.

00:55:04.000 So much.

00:55:04.000 Yeah.

00:55:05.000 It's a rough time.

00:55:06.000 It's a rough time and it's tough because it's been obfuscated so much by the whole idea of rape culture.

00:55:10.000 And we've always said that, right?

00:55:12.000 That there are real victims of harassment and assault.

00:55:15.000 And when you muddy the waters with, he whistled at me, ergo rape.

00:55:19.000 Yeah.

00:55:21.000 Now you're crying wolf and...

00:55:23.000 Yeah, there is one landmark case where the guy was raping while blowing on a whistle.

00:55:29.000 And I was like, well, that's not, it's happenstance.

00:55:32.000 It's what we call circumstantial.

00:55:34.000 He's raping while whistling.

00:55:36.000 Yes.

00:55:36.000 The crime wasn't the Oscar Mayer weenie whistle.

00:55:39.000 It was the unlawful penetration.

00:55:41.000 This is true.

00:55:42.000 Yeah.

00:55:43.000 Not consensual.

00:55:44.000 Yes, exactly.

00:55:45.000 So, what were you going to say?

00:55:46.000 My question still comes down to the macro point of the idea, would you rather have a scumbag that represents your side and gets the things done you want in office, or would you rather have, you know, be clear of that conscious, have your conscious clear of those kind of things, but have the other side in which is doing all kinds of crap you don't.

00:56:03.000 That's kind of what a lot of people came down to with the Hillary-Trump thing anyways.

00:56:06.000 Kind of thinking like the scumbag you...

00:56:08.000 I think I'm following you.

00:56:09.000 You think you're following me?

00:56:10.000 I'm not entirely sure.

00:56:11.000 Well, think about Warren Moore, okay?

00:56:13.000 For instance, would you rather have the majority in the Senate?

00:56:17.000 Yeah.

00:56:17.000 Or would you rather have...

00:56:20.000 Well, I think that it comes down to, right, the other perspective is, well, if Roy Moore is there, you may never get another Republican in there again, kind of like President Donald Trump.

00:56:29.000 You know, he really hadn't been doing a whole lot outside of Jerusalem, Mexico City policy.

00:56:32.000 He hasn't been accomplishing a whole lot as president, and he's been pissing a lot of people off.

00:56:36.000 You might never have another Republican again unless he really has a super strong showing the next couple of years, right?

00:56:43.000 So there's that argument.

00:56:45.000 Roy Moore comes from a deep red state, so is he going to tarnish the Republican brand with this?

00:56:52.000 Possible.

00:56:53.000 Yeah, I mean, I don't know.

00:56:55.000 He's going to tarnish Roy Moore's brand for sure.

00:56:58.000 Like, you're not going to see him in a Wheaties box anytime soon.

00:57:00.000 All right, we have to wrap this up.

00:57:02.000 We had Senator Ted Cruz at Courtney Scoffs.

00:57:03.000 You can read her on louderwithcrowder.com.

00:57:05.000 People stop searching Scots, right?

00:57:08.000 I don't know if they do or not.

00:57:09.000 I just see the SEO results.

00:57:10.000 It's like, wow, you guys.

00:57:12.000 Listen.

00:57:13.000 F's.

00:57:14.000 Scoffs.

00:57:15.000 Like felony.

00:57:16.000 I don't even know why she would.

00:57:17.000 That's not healthy that that's the first place she would go, like felony.

00:57:19.000 We'll be back after this to wrap up.

00:57:21.000 There you go.

00:57:22.000 Frisk.

00:57:24.000 Frisk.

00:57:24.000 There it is again, so strong.

00:57:28.000 Look who I found.

00:57:42.000 I have nowhere to go.

00:57:44.000 Hopper!

00:57:46.000 Hopper!

00:57:46.000 What?

00:57:47.000 You mean, you miss me?

00:57:49.000 Hopper, of course we missed you, buddy.

00:57:51.000 But I thought you didn't want me no more now that you have SimpliSafe and I'm a guard dog.

00:57:55.000 SimpliSafe is just as much for dogs as anything else.

00:57:58.000 You're the most important thing in the house.

00:57:59.000 I'll never leave.

00:58:01.000 You mean it?

00:58:02.000 Hopper.

00:58:03.000 He's such a good boy.

00:58:04.000 SimpliSafe can never replace you.

00:58:07.000 Yeah.

00:58:08.000 We can work together.

00:58:09.000 SimpliSafe can help make me a better guard dog.

00:58:12.000 Of course it can't replace me.

00:58:14.000 I don't know what I was thinking.

00:58:16.000 SimpliSafe can help monitor and warn, but it can't scare and bite bad guys like Hopper can.

00:58:23.000 Oh no!

00:58:23.000 Buggers!

00:58:24.000 Quick!

00:58:25.000 Run everybody!

00:58:25.000 They can't cut you off!

00:58:27.000 *Sings* *Sings* *Sings* *Sings* *Sings* *Sings* *Sings* *Sings* *Sings* *Sings*

00:58:57.000 Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

00:59:16.000 oh. calling it.

00:59:28.000 Do it.

00:59:29.000 Take it.

00:59:30.000 Take it.

00:59:31.000 Courtney Scoffs, Senator Ted Cruz, thank you so much for being on.

00:59:34.000 Good show.

00:59:35.000 Next week, regular shows.

00:59:36.000 I think we might not have a show on Wednesday.

00:59:40.000 I'm not entirely sure.

00:59:41.000 The next week after that, no shows all week for Mug Club members because we have a 16-hour live stream on the 21st.

00:59:47.000 16 hours.

00:59:48.000 And the reason was we thought, what can we do to top waterboarding?

00:59:52.000 How could we self-inflict pain to a more severe degree?

00:59:59.000 Yeah.

00:59:59.000 That's still legal.

01:00:00.000 Still legal.

01:00:01.000 And we looked into a lot of options.

01:00:02.000 Most of what I wanted to do to knock it, Jared, was entirely...

01:00:05.000 It was not lawful.

01:00:06.000 Not in America, no.

01:00:07.000 But CNN. Apparently still allowed.

01:00:10.000 Yeah.

01:00:10.000 In 48 states.

01:00:13.000 And we're going to watch it for 16 hours.

01:00:15.000 So what's the point?

01:00:15.000 We are going to show you just how biased it is.

01:00:18.000 You'll be able to watch with us in real time and see what news coverage is like.

01:00:21.000 You hear people all the time talk about how biased media is.

01:00:24.000 But you're often hearing them talk about media.

01:00:26.000 We want you to watch media with us.

01:00:28.000 And it's going to be a 16-hour Christmas party.

01:00:30.000 We have all kinds of guests.

01:00:31.000 I don't even know all the guests that we're going to have.

01:00:33.000 Think of any A-listers on this show.

01:00:35.000 They're going to be on there, coming in.

01:00:36.000 And then we have some games.

01:00:37.000 And, of course, we have the world premiere of the miniseries, YouTube Carol.

01:00:40.000 The tale of Ebenezer YouTube and his covetous old censoring, throttling ways.

01:00:45.000 And we need the first three days to get drunk enough to endure.

01:00:49.000 Yes.

01:00:50.000 The whole thing.

01:00:51.000 Oh, is that all about you?

01:00:54.000 That's about all I have to say.

01:00:55.000 That's about all my thoughts is just getting shwayzy.

01:00:59.000 Getting shwayzy?

01:01:00.000 Shwayzy.

01:01:01.000 What does that mean?

01:01:01.000 I'll hear you later.

01:01:03.000 What does shwayzy mean?

01:01:04.000 Drunk.

01:01:05.000 Shwayzy means getting drunk?

01:01:06.000 Yeah.

01:01:07.000 Are you making this up?

01:01:08.000 Is this like Barack Obama saying I got wee-weed up?

01:01:10.000 No, this is really...

01:01:11.000 It's more real than Palestine.

01:01:13.000 I don't think her comment is getting Shwayze a real thing.

01:01:16.000 Yeah, absolutely real.

01:01:17.000 I had heard only this last year that chill means to fornicate, to engage in coitus.

01:01:22.000 I don't know that that's true.

01:01:24.000 Shwayze a real thing.

01:01:25.000 Palestine, not a real thing.

01:01:26.000 Exactly.

01:01:26.000 We learned something.

01:01:27.000 Shwayze a real thing.

01:01:29.000 Palestine, not so much.

01:01:31.000 All right, there are a couple of things I was going to sit here and talk about, but, you know, let's go with this.

01:01:37.000 You're a bad person.

01:01:41.000 Or you're looking at the camera.

01:01:42.000 Yeah.

01:01:42.000 You're a bad person.

01:01:44.000 I'm a bad person.

01:01:45.000 I think a big part, we were just talking about this, doing the Change My Mind, we'll have plenty of those segments going up.

01:01:49.000 You know, the ability to rationalize, it starts with being critical of yourself.

01:01:54.000 We've been taught that you have to love yourself, that self-esteem is a birthright.

01:01:59.000 Really?

01:02:01.000 You're a bad person.

01:02:01.000 We talked about this with Dennis Prager.

01:02:02.000 If you believe that humans are all inherently great and wonderful the way they are, or if you believe that human beings are inherently flawed or evil.

01:02:09.000 And you know, it's important because if you think of it that way, it doesn't mean that you need to be depressed.

01:02:15.000 It doesn't mean that you don't be grateful.

01:02:16.000 You should live a life, if you live a life of gratitude, being grateful, and recognizing that, you know what?

01:02:23.000 You're inherently a bad person.

01:02:25.000 Inherently, your selfish desires are usually not the best approach.

01:02:30.000 I've come to realize that recently.

01:02:32.000 It changes your life.

01:02:33.000 Good example.

01:02:35.000 This is pretty personal, but with my wife.

01:02:37.000 We've heard about love languages.

01:02:38.000 This is a term that goes around.

01:02:39.000 You know, funny enough, people think because I express myself verbally all the time that I express myself emotionally verbally.

01:02:46.000 It's kind of the opposite.

01:02:48.000 I express myself logically.

01:02:50.000 I rationalize verbally.

01:02:52.000 Express emotion through action.

01:02:53.000 That's a big thing for me.

01:02:54.000 I'm an acts of service guy.

01:02:57.000 Now, my wife is a woman of verbal words of affirmation, as most women are.

01:03:02.000 There were some miscommunications that happened this week.

01:03:05.000 And I remember thinking like, well, you know what?

01:03:06.000 But I do X, Y, and Z.

01:03:08.000 And this came down from this argument of me thinking, look at all that I do for you.

01:03:13.000 But that's not really what she needed.

01:03:15.000 That's not what most women need.

01:03:16.000 You'll find this out, guys.

01:03:17.000 Most women want to hear.

01:03:18.000 Most women, when they know that you've listened to the problem, that problem is fixed.

01:03:24.000 For us, we want the problem to be fixed.

01:03:26.000 We have a solution.

01:03:27.000 For example, I got in a huge fight with my wife one time because I have a charger in my office.

01:03:31.000 I have a home office for my iPad.

01:03:33.000 I said, please do not move this.

01:03:36.000 It would get moved.

01:03:37.000 I'd come into the show.

01:03:38.000 My iPad wouldn't be charged.

01:03:40.000 And it was about the charger.

01:03:42.000 She genuinely thought it was about something else.

01:03:45.000 She genuinely thought it was...

01:03:46.000 I don't know.

01:03:47.000 I don't know what she thought about it.

01:03:48.000 I don't know if she thought it was about sex.

01:03:50.000 No.

01:03:50.000 I don't know if she thought it was about the remote control.

01:03:52.000 I don't know if she thought it was about the fact that it wasn't...

01:03:53.000 No.

01:03:53.000 It was about the charger.

01:03:55.000 And it was a very clear path to fixing it.

01:03:57.000 Just please put the charger where it is.

01:03:59.000 And it took a third party to say, just leave the damn charger there!

01:04:03.000 That's one that I want.

01:04:05.000 It's incredibly rare.

01:04:07.000 On the flip side, I think men do this a lot.

01:04:09.000 We will look at what I do.

01:04:11.000 We tend to act more than write letters.

01:04:13.000 We have those friends who, of course, write every single Facebook intimate letter and you just want to throw up.

01:04:18.000 That's not me.

01:04:19.000 If you don't share this five times and tag your favorite friends, you're a bad friend.

01:04:24.000 Right.

01:04:25.000 But where does that come from?

01:04:26.000 That comes from assuming that you're good.

01:04:27.000 That comes from assuming that your motives are pure.

01:04:29.000 That comes from assuming that you are correct.

01:04:32.000 I'm not correct.

01:04:33.000 I was incorrect.

01:04:35.000 I thought that the certain things that I did were enough because I wasn't saying enough nice things.

01:04:41.000 It's a mistake.

01:04:42.000 I willingly admit it.

01:04:44.000 That was a big deal that I was going through this week.

01:04:47.000 It takes a long time to just kind of humble yourself.

01:04:50.000 It doesn't matter what I did.

01:04:51.000 Even if I did that thinking that I was doing the right thing, ultimately, I'm doing it because it's the way that I'm most comfortable showing affection.

01:04:58.000 Ultimately, I did it because it's the way that I'm most comfortable communicating with people.

01:05:02.000 But that's not really giving somebody else what they want, particularly in a relationship.

01:05:05.000 The same applies when it comes to critical thinking.

01:05:07.000 You're going to go out and say, well, you have to use the pronouns that I want.

01:05:11.000 Why?

01:05:12.000 Because you assume that you're a good person, therefore your conclusion is right.

01:05:16.000 You assume that you're a smart person, therefore your conclusion is correct.

01:05:21.000 You assume that you are a smart, virtuous little tranny who hasn't even gone through the operation.

01:05:27.000 Therefore, I have to use them, they, their.

01:05:30.000 It's not going to happen.

01:05:32.000 And a lot of people say, how do you keep the patience with this change my mind thing?

01:05:36.000 I'm not by nature a patient person.

01:05:38.000 A big part of it, and I've noticed that I apply that in those segments, but I haven't been applying it all the time with my life.

01:05:43.000 I think all of us are guilty of this.

01:05:45.000 Certainly I am.

01:05:45.000 I'm kind of obviously being vulnerable here to some degree.

01:05:49.000 When I am sitting there and someone is saying, use these pronouns, when someone is saying, well, actually, all of these societies have had X amount of genders, I can't even remember what they said, something about ancient Egypt, I don't know.

01:06:00.000 The whole thing is non-gender, it's a gender-neutral blur.

01:06:05.000 A big blur, a heavy blur.

01:06:07.000 A buzz-cutted, Bobby Hill-looking blur.

01:06:12.000 I sit there, and this is different from when I'm debating.

01:06:15.000 This is different from when I have the microphone on a stage and someone chimes in and someone is being abusive.

01:06:19.000 At that point, you need to protect yourself.

01:06:20.000 So if you come to one of our live shows and you think it's a Change My Mind, don't.

01:06:24.000 You're not going to put one over on Jared, let alone myself.

01:06:27.000 But with Change My Mind, it is a constant process of me going, okay, maybe I'm wrong.

01:06:33.000 Okay, maybe I'm incorrect.

01:06:35.000 Maybe my logic is bad.

01:06:37.000 If you constantly assume that your logic is bad, or possibly bad, and needs to be corrected, or at the very least needs to be questioned, you are in a pool of very little risk.

01:06:49.000 Of being incorrect at that point, if you're just asking the question to try and correct your logic.

01:06:53.000 A good example is combat sports.

01:06:57.000 I'm just talking about odds and percentages here.

01:06:59.000 Assuming human nature is not good, assuming that you're wrong, assuming that you're bad, puts you in a position where if you're having that conversation, you are in the least amount of risk and they are at the greatest amount of risk.

01:07:11.000 Right?

01:07:12.000 People watch boxing and think it's two guys swatting.

01:07:14.000 Why can a boxer beat the hell out of some guy in the street?

01:07:16.000 It's not because he can punch harder.

01:07:17.000 Look at Floyd Mayweather.

01:07:18.000 The guy couldn't crack an egg.

01:07:19.000 What it is is you can cut an angle.

01:07:22.000 This is what a boxer does.

01:07:23.000 If I'm standing here, right, I'm trying to do this with a camera, boom, we both have a 50-50 shot.

01:07:28.000 Now, if I go outside to your weak side and you're still there, guess what?

01:07:33.000 Most people reach, oh, I can hit you, you can't hit me.

01:07:37.000 Doesn't mean that I'm guaranteed to have a knockout shot.

01:07:40.000 What it does mean is I've premeditatedly taken an approach, I've set in my mind that I am going to try and fight this battle that puts me in the least amount of risk possible and you at the greatest risk of damage possible.

01:07:54.000 The way to do that with your life, and I've noticed this, is to, funny enough, assume you're wrong.

01:08:00.000 Assume that if you don't do that, you're going to lose.

01:08:03.000 It would be the same thing if right now you got into a bar fight.

01:08:06.000 You said, you know what?

01:08:07.000 I'm sure that I'm stronger than this guy.

01:08:09.000 I'm sure that I'm better.

01:08:10.000 And you line up right up square.

01:08:12.000 You don't know who he is.

01:08:13.000 He could be Bruce.

01:08:14.000 I don't want to use Bruce Lee as an example.

01:08:15.000 You'd kick Bruce Lee back.

01:08:16.000 Okay, I don't know.

01:08:17.000 He could be Vladimir Klitschko.

01:08:19.000 He could be George St.

01:08:20.000 Pierre.

01:08:21.000 The point is, if you assume, eh, I got this, you might get really hurt.

01:08:25.000 And the same thing when it comes to logic.

01:08:27.000 If you assume, no, my logic is sound, you might not.

01:08:30.000 And if that other person is saying, hey, my logic might not be sound, who would you rather be?

01:08:34.000 And who would you rather be in a relationship?

01:08:36.000 In a relationship, if the goal is to ultimately be happy, would you rather be the person who says, I got it all figured out.

01:08:43.000 She just needs to get her grip together.

01:08:46.000 While she's simultaneously saying, you know what, maybe I can accommodate.

01:08:48.000 Maybe I'm incorrect here.

01:08:51.000 Who would you rather be?

01:08:52.000 Who do you think is going to be happier?

01:08:53.000 Who would you rather be when it comes to a debate?

01:08:56.000 Who would you rather be when it comes to the logical process, the critical thinking process?

01:09:00.000 Do you think that you're better off being the person saying, nah, I got this figured out, gender-neutral pronouns, you're gonna use Z, there are countless genders, it's not even a question?

01:09:09.000 Or do you think you'd rather be the person saying, I think there are two genders, but maybe I'm wrong.

01:09:13.000 Let me tread lightly here.

01:09:15.000 Let me find the right angle to see what they're about.

01:09:19.000 And see if I can correct what I'm doing.

01:09:21.000 In relationships, in logic, with finances, assuming that you are wrong, assuming that your very nature as a human being is corruptible and it's already been corrupted and it is your job to rectify it, is a better approach to life.

01:09:37.000 When combined with gratitude, you'd be a lot happier.

01:09:40.000 As some self-help guru, Maybe you're going to be a miserable bastard and it can't help you.

01:09:45.000 But I will tell you, that's done a whole lot for me.

01:09:48.000 And someone in this room needs to do it.

01:09:50.000 Hint.

01:09:52.000 He's not gay.

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