Louder with Crowder - #456 | TRUMP'S WINNINGEST WEEK EVER! | Dan Crenshaw Guests | Louder With Crowder

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00:00:15.000 The media lies all day.

00:00:17.000 Lie harder!

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00:00:19.000 How are we supposed to know what the truth is anymore?

00:00:21.000 The truth is irrelevant.

00:00:22.000 Obfuscation is key.

00:00:24.000 This is all funny news, Wong Kar!

00:00:27.000 They think I'm gonna be sick. 1.00

00:00:29.000 Oh, now he's brought out the black homosexual! 1.00

00:00:32.000 Banjo! 1.00

00:00:33.000 Now I am gonna be sick!

00:00:35.000 It's the DMC's poor boy!

00:00:41.000 We're in college chaos in Spanish.

00:00:43.000 What's a college chaos?

00:00:46.000 Where are you, man?

00:00:47.000 He's singing there, I wonder.

00:00:50.000 where they're going, or who they're deplatforming.

00:00:55.000 Are they lining, or just bending?

00:01:02.000 Doesn't matter, once it's trending.

00:01:06.000 Ha-ha! 1.00

00:01:09.000 Not a shred of truth is showing.

00:01:11.000 From the investigations ongoing, are the overlords still eyeing, accusing the president of spying?

00:01:19.000 Yes!

00:01:20.000 The content they keep demonetizing for fake tech keeps on lying,

00:01:25.000 but we're certainly not trying, because through Moth Club, they are dying! 0.99

00:01:32.000 Stop! 1.00

00:01:33.000 Moth Club Moth Club

00:02:13.000 Moth Club That means that I have marks on my knuckles because we have Representative Dan Crenshaw on the service!

00:02:24.000 And all the ladies and a lot of the men in the studio have been going, that iPad show.

00:02:28.000 People love it, it works for them.

00:02:30.000 We have my half-Asian lawyer, Bill Richmond, in third chair, along with, because we had a booking error, Mahmoud Al Mahmoud, ISIS communications director.

00:02:39.000 How are you, sir?

00:02:39.000 Doing well, here again to show you the softer side of life.

00:02:42.000 I am very impressive.

00:02:44.000 You are here.

00:02:44.000 Court of Black Air, join me, Hood Pass.

00:02:46.000 What's up, bro?

00:02:46.000 G. Morgan Jr., what's the wine of the day?

00:02:48.000 Bridesmaid Red.

00:02:49.000 Bridesmaid.

00:02:51.000 That's what I thought.

00:02:52.000 You are going to be the bridesmaid.

00:02:54.000 Always the bridesmaid, never the bride.

00:02:55.000 Yep, I still don't buy it.

00:02:56.000 28 days?

00:02:57.000 22.

00:02:57.000 Not buying it.

00:03:00.000 Question of the day.

00:03:01.000 Let me ask you this.

00:03:02.000 Was this President Trump's breakthrough week of winning?

00:03:05.000 Are you tired yet?

00:03:06.000 If so, what was your favorite...

00:03:08.000 Name your favorite win this week.

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00:03:13.000 How are you receiving them?

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00:03:15.000 We don't know what's going on.

00:03:16.000 We need to know.

00:03:17.000 We can't play by the rules.

00:03:19.000 Representative Dan Crenshaw, we're going to get into the top wins of this week with Southern Donald Trump.

00:03:23.000 So much, so much Wittig, frankly.

00:03:26.000 How do you feel about that, Mahmood?

00:03:28.000 Well, you know, a week where you're winning is not a week where we're winning, so not that great, but that's kind of why I'm here.

00:03:34.000 Yeah, a hell of a week for us, though.

00:03:36.000 Offering different points of view, like Brian Stelter's program.

00:03:39.000 Leading the news, for those who weren't following, the FBI is now reportedly probing why charges against Jussie Smollett were dropped.

00:03:46.000 This comes from the New York Post.

00:03:47.000 There's confusion as to why charges were dropped, even though there was evidence for a conviction.

00:03:52.000 We now do in fact have the check the suspect paid the two brothers with.

00:03:54.000 Thankfully, the actor promises to answer all the questions in his upcoming tell-all,

00:03:58.000 If I Totally Did It, which seems...

00:04:02.000 And all signs, by the way, point to a highly partisan decision made by the

00:04:04.000 District Attorney's Office. It's the suspicions that were all but confirmed

00:04:07.000 after this leaked phone call.

00:04:09.000 Okay, so we now do in fact have the check the suspect paid the two brothers with.

00:04:13.000 The suspect paid by check.

00:04:15.000 Okay, got it.

00:04:16.000 And we now have the receipt for the rope the brothers bought for the noose for the staged attack.

00:04:22.000 Okay, noose.

00:04:23.000 Got it.

00:04:24.000 Now, the department believes that this, in combination with all of the other evidence, should lead to an easy conviction of Jesse Smollett.

00:04:31.000 Wait.

00:04:32.000 Jesse Smollett as an Empire?

00:04:34.000 Uh, yes.

00:04:36.000 Oh my god, I love that show!

00:04:39.000 Well, justice is blind. 1.00

00:04:42.000 Unless you're a rich, gay, black guy. 1.00

00:04:43.000 Apparently so. 0.99

00:04:44.000 And look, I don't want to pile on.

00:04:45.000 Anybody who's having a bad day like he is definitely having a bad day.

00:04:48.000 He would love to pile on, of course, yes, I know.

00:04:49.000 But he should definitely get whatever penalty comes with, what, 16 charges?

00:04:55.000 $10,000 and what, 15, 16 hours worth of community service?

00:04:58.000 I don't think that's normal.

00:05:00.000 I mean, he's got so many different things.

00:05:02.000 You know the amount of money that was spent by the city dealing with all of this is not even... I mean, we're not coming anywhere near that with what he's done so far.

00:05:10.000 And Rahm Emanuel's pissed and going after that money.

00:05:12.000 He said he's actually going to tally it all up and send him a bill.

00:05:14.000 And when Rahm Emanuel gets pissed, someone gets finger-poked in the shower.

00:05:18.000 Naked, by the way.

00:05:19.000 None of this would be happening in Chicago if Carl Winslow was still patrolling.

00:05:24.000 You know what I mean?

00:05:25.000 I do!

00:05:26.000 Yeah, I think something was wrong with the translation.

00:05:28.000 That was not a documentary film, but it's tough to know now with Amazon Prime.

00:05:32.000 They all bleed together.

00:05:33.000 In international news, New Zealand is now calling for citizens to voluntarily surrender their guns after the mosque shooting.

00:05:40.000 Of an estimated 1.2 million guns in the country, the total number surrendered thus far is 37.

00:05:47.000 Wow.

00:05:48.000 Ouch.

00:05:48.000 Amazing.

00:05:49.000 So this comes from BuzzFeed.

00:05:50.000 The Prime Minister reminds people that, quote, to make our community safer, the time to act is now in a country where there is one gun for every four people, or is seen after encouraging gun owners to surrender their weapons, one gun for every four people.

00:06:08.000 I now love New Zealand.

00:06:09.000 I really do.

00:06:10.000 I mean... They overreacted a little bit with this, but I love the New Zealanders.

00:06:13.000 Like, 37 of us are gonna come out and do it.

00:06:14.000 What did you think would happen?

00:06:15.000 Yeah, you know what we definitely didn't either was anyone defending us with a gun.

00:06:19.000 Exactly!

00:06:20.000 I think that guy should donate his gun back.

00:06:22.000 Yes, exactly.

00:06:23.000 The guy that defended him and chased him off.

00:06:27.000 We tried something like this when we overtook Raqqa.

00:06:30.000 We did this whole, you know, turn in your head thing.

00:06:33.000 Nobody does it.

00:06:35.000 Nobody does it.

00:06:36.000 Total failure.

00:06:37.000 That's true.

00:06:37.000 You should call me New Zealand.

00:06:39.000 That's what we learned.

00:06:40.000 We'll set it up.

00:06:41.000 I don't even know who the Prime Minister is, but I'm sure he's free.

00:06:44.000 Turning to religion.

00:06:45.000 She, who cares? 0.99

00:06:45.000 She, Stephen. 0.99

00:06:46.000 It's an inconsequential country.

00:06:48.000 And now they'll be pissed, and I don't care.

00:06:51.000 That's how you know.

00:06:52.000 Turning to religion.

00:06:53.000 The Pope, for some reason, really, really doesn't want anyone to kiss his ring.

00:06:57.000 Here you go.

00:06:58.000 I can't believe that's real.

00:07:05.000 When asked, the Pope said, do you have any idea where those Cardinals' mouths have been?

00:07:10.000 It's been like... ...while he's... ...in the kitchen... Which, by the way, is why when offered, refuse the syrup.

00:07:21.000 Always refuse the syrup!

00:07:24.000 In other news, Ladder of Crater obtained exclusive audio from the Pope's lav mic.

00:07:53.000 But it's so weird to me.

00:07:54.000 Like the moral superiority here of a ring pop, which is probably what he was trying to protect.

00:07:58.000 Yes!

00:07:59.000 Yes!

00:08:00.000 It's Cherry!

00:08:00.000 He had the ring pop.

00:08:01.000 I love Cherry!

00:08:02.000 What's weird to me is the people who can clearly see up ahead in the line and they try to fake him out.

00:08:07.000 They're trying to pull the Gordon Bombay triple deke. 0.99

00:08:09.000 One of the ladies, she walks up like, I'm not going to. 0.99

00:08:11.000 Yes, I am!

00:08:12.000 Oh, skunked again!

00:08:13.000 Look at him in the eyes, duck it.

00:08:15.000 Oh my god, that's awesome.

00:08:16.000 I get it, man.

00:08:17.000 It's flu season, you know?

00:08:17.000 I get it.

00:08:20.000 You can't be too certain.

00:08:23.000 No, if you manage to scale the Vatican walls, hopefully you've had your flu shot.

00:08:26.000 By the way, walls don't work.

00:08:27.000 In entertainment news, Chris Evans now says that he wouldn't play Tom Brady in a movie as long as Brady remained a Trump supporter.

00:08:34.000 This comes from a Hollywood reporter.

00:08:36.000 To quote the actor, if Brady's still on that Trump train, I might have to cut ties.

00:08:40.000 It's really tough.

00:08:41.000 Yeah, really hard for Chris Evans.

00:08:44.000 This explains recent Comic-Con leaks of Captain America, Infinity Twink.

00:08:47.000 We were wandering for a bit.

00:08:50.000 That's a little bad right there.

00:08:52.000 I'd watch it.

00:08:55.000 On the Trump train?

00:08:56.000 I mean, what does that even mean?

00:08:57.000 You can't support the sitting president?

00:08:59.000 What, more than half of the people in the country do that?

00:09:01.000 Are you now the thought police?

00:09:02.000 Like, we can't even associate?

00:09:04.000 What is it, that spiral of silence that they talked about in Nazi Germany?

00:09:07.000 That's exactly how stuff like that starts.

00:09:09.000 Don't compare it to Nazi Germany, for crying out loud.

00:09:11.000 I am going to do that because it's the same thing that happened.

00:09:14.000 It's a drama geek on steroids in a subpar Marvel film.

00:09:17.000 It's a ton of other people that won't let you even think about it.

00:09:20.000 Ask people to wear a MAGA hat out there.

00:09:21.000 I will point out that Chris Evans played the Hitman in the Iceman movie.

00:09:26.000 Oh, he did?

00:09:27.000 Yes!

00:09:29.000 So, that's kind of interesting.

00:09:33.000 The Iceman would eat pizza while dismembering people. 1.00

00:09:36.000 Sick person. 0.95

00:09:37.000 Honestly, it inspired me to get into violence. 0.96

00:09:40.000 You know, everybody has that moment.

00:09:42.000 And pizza.

00:09:42.000 Everybody has that moment.

00:09:43.000 That was mine.

00:09:44.000 Mine was David Letterman and yours was Iceman.

00:09:46.000 Yeah, Iceman.

00:09:46.000 Wasn't there another one, not with Chris Evans, but with, what's his name, the guy from NYPD Blue.

00:09:51.000 He has that really English name, but he's Latino.

00:09:53.000 He was in Sons of Anarchy.

00:09:54.000 Gemma.

00:09:55.000 That guy?

00:09:56.000 I don't know.

00:09:56.000 Gemma.

00:09:56.000 There was another one.

00:09:57.000 The Large Man.

00:09:57.000 Yeah, there was.

00:09:58.000 Gemma.

00:09:59.000 That's all I know.

00:09:59.000 If someone's going to hear this, Gemma, and they're going to know what I'm talking about.

00:10:02.000 He was in NYPD Blue.

00:10:03.000 He always had bags under his eyes.

00:10:03.000 Anyways, I think he played Iceman in another one.

00:10:05.000 Finally, there's Nancy Pelosi.

00:10:06.000 Before we get to the wins of this week, Nancy Pelosi, while pandering to AIPAC, she confused Syria with cereal. 1.00

00:10:14.000 Hezbollah seeks to set up terror networks on the border between Israel and cereal.

00:10:19.000 Yeah.

00:10:20.000 Quick to capitalize on it, of course, was Kellogg's.

00:10:22.000 Terror networks on the border between Israel and cereal.

00:10:25.000 We're coming in command. 0.94

00:10:29.000 Two scoops of bulls**t. So before the show, actually, Mahmoud was kind enough to share with us some of the most popular cereals in Syria in actuality. 0.96

00:10:40.000 I figured it would be educational, you know, differences in cultures. 0.97

00:10:43.000 So we're really appreciative and we're glad to have you here and that brings us to this week's 7 Plus 1!

00:10:51.000 You forgot Stefan in the chamber!

00:10:53.000 You always forget the one in the chamber.

00:10:55.000 If my half-Asian lawyer weren't uncomfortable in this program after the Pope bit, this is definitely... He will be! 0.99

00:11:01.000 We'll go through them.

00:11:02.000 These are the top 7 plus 1 most popular cereals in Syria.

00:11:06.000 Number 7, Fruity's Pebbled.

00:11:08.000 Yeah, that's a popular one that would seem to... We grew up on that one.

00:11:13.000 Yes, yeah.

00:11:14.000 Not necessarily healthful.

00:11:17.000 Number six, Burka brand, which almost seems as though it's redundant given the previous one.

00:11:21.000 I think, Mahmoud, how about you take a swing here.

00:11:24.000 This is number five, most popular cereal in Syria.

00:11:26.000 Choux Krispies? 0.96

00:11:28.000 Oh my gosh.

00:11:30.000 I don't remember this one.

00:11:31.000 I think you do.

00:11:32.000 I think you do.

00:11:35.000 Number four, count... Oh yes, I remember that.

00:11:40.000 What are your favorites?

00:11:41.000 You know, that one is gluten-free.

00:11:43.000 It's very difficult to commercialize.

00:11:48.000 Let's have half-Asian lawyer Bill Richmond, number three. 0.87

00:11:52.000 Fruit loops being thrown off of buildings.

00:11:54.000 Yes, that's... This is the only one that's good as a lunchtime or pastime.

00:12:02.000 They can't fly, Mahmoud! 0.99

00:12:04.000 Number two, actually, total annihilation of the Jews. 0.80

00:12:09.000 It's almost as though it isn't a real serial so much as it's the expressed purpose in your charter.

00:12:14.000 Mahmoud?

00:12:15.000 There's a theme.

00:12:16.000 Yeah, there's a theme.

00:12:18.000 And the number one most popular serial in Syria right now, Rape Nuts.

00:12:23.000 Yes, and of course we always forget the one in the chamber.

00:12:25.000 Mahmoud, why don't you take us out with the plus one? 0.88

00:12:27.000 Well, this one's my favorite one growing up, was Honey Bunches of Goats.

00:12:31.000 Honey Bunches of Goats!

00:12:33.000 That has been this week's 7 Plus 1!

00:12:38.000 You forgot Stefan in the chamber!

00:12:40.000 I don't know why he feels the need to repeat it when we clearly know now.

00:12:43.000 It's been drilled in.

00:12:45.000 Who's he yelling it at anyway?

00:12:46.000 It can never be too safe.

00:12:48.000 Usually James Bond.

00:12:50.000 That's where it comes from.

00:12:51.000 I have no idea.

00:12:51.000 I think.

00:12:52.000 I just feel like it's something you've heard in a lot of films.

00:12:54.000 But I don't know who forgets the one in the chamber.

00:12:54.000 Yes.

00:12:56.000 Not anymore they don't.

00:12:57.000 I have no idea.

00:12:58.000 By the way, did you hear that Alexandria Ocasio-Nina Pinto Santa Maria Cortez, she wants to ban all semi-automatics? 1.00

00:13:03.000 Oh, bless her heart. 0.99

00:13:04.000 She just fit that in there.

00:13:05.000 She's like, high-capacity magazines and semi-automatics. 0.96

00:13:07.000 We don't have this prepped for the show. 0.97

00:13:08.000 But in her tweet, she says, designed to kill people. 0.83

00:13:12.000 Because I like my guns designed to not kill people.

00:13:15.000 I don't know.

00:13:16.000 I want them to hurt him a little bit.

00:13:17.000 When I pull the trigger, I want them to say, stop me.

00:13:20.000 Can we set the Walther to stun?

00:13:23.000 What is this, Star Trek?

00:13:23.000 Yes, exactly.

00:13:25.000 It's a lot of what they do, yeah.

00:13:27.000 She just shoehorns in all semi-automatics. 1.00

00:13:29.000 Wait, hold on a second.

00:13:30.000 That means everything but a lever action or pump shotguns and I don't know.

00:13:35.000 But you heard what she did recently, right?

00:13:36.000 She actually put her money where her mouth is and she actually asked all of the congressional police who are around her office to give up their guns. 1.00

00:13:43.000 That's smart.

00:13:45.000 I agree.

00:13:45.000 That totally didn't happen.

00:13:47.000 I thought you were telling the truth because I would expect the fake news from Mahmood because of the propaganda. 0.91

00:13:51.000 You guys should do that, though.

00:13:54.000 Last week's trivia winner, by the way, was Laura Van Pelt, who correctly answered that the chosen drinking vessel among survivors of the zombie apocalypse is, well, I guess it's the mug?

00:14:04.000 I don't know how she won.

00:14:07.000 It seems like we're getting a little loose giving away the mug clubs. 0.62

00:14:09.000 All right, so, context here.

00:14:14.000 Donald Trump, President Trump, has had an unusually good week.

00:14:16.000 Huge.

00:14:17.000 And as a group of people here who've been critics of the president, when wrong, I think it's important to praise him when he's right.

00:14:24.000 So we've actually rounded up the top four, top four or five, I think.

00:14:28.000 Again, you tell us which one you think is the most significant from this week.

00:14:31.000 So much winning.

00:14:32.000 Obviously the biggest one right here is the Mueller report.

00:14:35.000 So keep in mind here, for the past two years, two years, the left told us that Mueller was closing in on President Trump.

00:14:42.000 It was basically, right, it was inevitable.

00:14:44.000 The walls are closing in.

00:14:46.000 I think of Donald Trump as the Titanic and Robert Mueller as the iceberg.

00:14:52.000 So flowery!

00:14:53.000 Everyone in the Oval Office must go!

00:14:54.000 of him, his family, and his aides.

00:14:57.000 Everyone in the Oval Office must go! 0.90

00:15:01.000 Speaking of crazy Bobby Muller!

00:15:05.000 Comedy!

00:15:06.000 How does Chris Matthews do it?

00:15:08.000 I think of him as a Titanic and Muller as the iceberg.

00:15:12.000 I also like to think of him as a homeless man and Muller with a sandwich, only there's mold.

00:15:22.000 Did I take my pill with the tea on it today?

00:15:24.000 I drank a bucket of salt water before this program.

00:15:28.000 You really want to make sure you're going to be right if you're that flowery in your language.

00:15:32.000 If you really go that far in, make sure it's 100%.

00:15:34.000 Multiple writers, you know, they say, well, hold on a second.

00:15:37.000 Maybe we could spice up this analogy a little bit.

00:15:39.000 No!

00:15:40.000 Iceberg is the way to go.

00:15:42.000 It's all about icebergs nowadays, kids.

00:15:42.000 Trust me.

00:15:45.000 All you kids with your Twitters and your books of faces and social media, you don't know a good iceberg analogy when you see one.

00:15:53.000 It's all icebergs, Carl.

00:15:54.000 Hey, all the growing ice in Greenland, right?

00:15:56.000 Yeah, there's too much of it now.

00:15:57.000 I mean, this is a big danger now.

00:15:58.000 It's going to sink more ships. 1.00

00:15:59.000 We should get rid of it.

00:16:00.000 Right, but let's check in and see how they're doing this week.

00:16:02.000 Yeah.

00:16:03.000 When Barr released a four-page letter summarizing it, it was like the Cliff Notes, or more like, I want to jump off a cliff notes.

00:16:11.000 So let me make sure I understand this, Mr. Colbert.

00:16:13.000 You want to jump off a cliff because our president didn't collude with a foreign power to rig an election, and they wonder why we think the left hates America.

00:16:20.000 He wants to cut his wrists to Elliot Smith's needle in the hay because we found out that our president was honest.

00:16:27.000 Right, he wasn't colluding with a foreign power. 0.95

00:16:30.000 What else do you guys really want, right?

00:16:31.000 Your basic argument now is that he is guilty because we said it, I saw myself say it on the news last night, it must be real.

00:16:37.000 That's the argument.

00:16:38.000 I dreamed a dream and I want it to be true.

00:16:41.000 That's all it is.

00:16:41.000 I thought it was a bummer.

00:16:44.000 I'm sure you did.

00:16:45.000 Looking for any opening, aren't you?

00:16:46.000 Agree to disagree.

00:16:49.000 I dreamed a dream there was an iceberg!

00:16:52.000 I don't know, I don't get the Titanic iceberg thing.

00:16:54.000 Someone let that make air. 0.94

00:16:56.000 Please, if ever I'm doing something, I'm sure that this program alone, we've done things that are far lazier than that.

00:17:01.000 That being said, it still doesn't come across as off-putting.

00:17:05.000 Remember, by the way, how all of these progressive outlets, they were outraged when Rush Limbaugh said that he hoped Obama would fail?

00:17:09.000 Oh yeah.

00:17:10.000 They're saying he's un-American.

00:17:11.000 Well, we were supposed to think that he had committed treason just because he wanted Obama

00:17:15.000 to fail with a socialist agenda.

00:17:17.000 You know, like giving him sweeping legislative control over the fifth of the US economy,

00:17:19.000 record job-loan participation, you know, that kind of thing.

00:17:22.000 Exactly.

00:17:23.000 He just wanted him to fail at implementing an agenda, but now it's fine to wish that

00:17:26.000 the president was a Russian asset just because it would be a point to your political team.

00:17:31.000 And these are the same people who talk about political division all the time.

00:17:33.000 This is why I don't want to find common ground.

00:17:35.000 How do you find common ground with someone who is bummed that our president didn't collude with Putin?

00:17:40.000 Yeah, and he's not for socialism.

00:17:42.000 That's totally fine.

00:17:43.000 By the way, like a silver lining to Bernie, he's brought all the socialists kind of out of the closet.

00:17:46.000 It's actually kind of a nice thing.

00:17:47.000 Ocasio-Cortez as well.

00:17:49.000 They're out in front now.

00:17:50.000 Back in Obama's day when Limbaugh was saying socialism, it's not socialism now, it's like, yeah, he was being right.

00:17:54.000 Remember they said, they said, I think they're saying socialism because they can't say the n-word.

00:17:57.000 Remember that?

00:17:58.000 That's what they used to say?

00:17:59.000 They said it's a dog whistle for the n-word.

00:18:01.000 That's right, it was.

00:18:02.000 Because all of the noted socialists throughout history were black people.

00:18:02.000 Yeah.

00:18:09.000 And then right away when they say, yeah, well, you're racist, socialism, you're racist against Obama, well, okay, give me an example of successful socialism.

00:18:15.000 Whitest country ever, Norway.

00:18:16.000 Yeah, let's go with that.

00:18:19.000 Denmark, you prefer?

00:18:20.000 You prefer Iceland.

00:18:21.000 There are icebergs over there!

00:18:23.000 Misleading us.

00:18:25.000 It's a great country.

00:18:26.000 Win number two, Michael Avenatti.

00:18:29.000 And I just need to, hold on, just say it and let it ride.

00:18:32.000 I don't need to say anymore, but I'll explain it because, you know, I feel like you deserve more confidence.

00:18:35.000 This is the lawyer who represented Stormy Daniels, a porn star suing Donald Trump.

00:18:40.000 Julie Swetnick.

00:18:41.000 People remember Stormy Daniels, they don't remember Julie Swetnick.

00:18:42.000 She was the one who accused Kavanaugh of running quaalude rape gangs in high school. 0.96

00:18:47.000 That phrase actually made headlines.

00:18:47.000 Entrepreneur apparently.

00:18:50.000 Accused sitting Supreme Court Justice of running quaalude rape gangs.

00:18:55.000 What?

00:18:56.000 What do you mean, what?

00:18:57.000 You don't remember this?

00:18:57.000 I don't remember the headline.

00:18:58.000 We covered it live!

00:18:59.000 I don't remember the headline, I remember the story.

00:19:00.000 Maroon, you probably remember the story.

00:19:02.000 I remember it, actually, and I'm still waiting to see how it turns out.

00:19:05.000 This Avenatti thing, this one caught me off guard.

00:19:08.000 I really thought that this guy was a good guy.

00:19:11.000 Half-Asian Bill, did you know anything about Avenatti before this?

00:19:14.000 No, other than before Stormy, no.

00:19:17.000 No, not much.

00:19:18.000 I don't know if you ran in the same circles.

00:19:20.000 No, no, not often.

00:19:21.000 He runs in circles.

00:19:22.000 Not all lawyers are the same.

00:19:24.000 Well, keep in mind, this is why we want to go pre and post.

00:19:27.000 Avenatti was supposed to be Trump's worst nightmare.

00:19:29.000 And, by the way, to hear Brian Stelter, which I still don't get, hear Brian Stelter tell a serious presidential contender.

00:19:34.000 Here, remember this?

00:19:35.000 Well, you know, if anyone knows a con, I guess it would be Donald Trump.

00:19:39.000 This guy has zero credibility in the eyes of most Americans and certainly in the eyes of the world. 1.00

00:19:46.000 He's a habitual liar. 1.00

00:19:48.000 The dominoes have already started to fall. 0.99

00:19:51.000 And I truly believe that this is the Achilles heel of the president.

00:19:55.000 Looking ahead to 2020, one reason why I'm taking you seriously as a contender is because of your presence on cable news.

00:20:01.000 By the way, can you be any more transparent, Stelter?

00:20:05.000 By the way, the reason that I think it would be great that you were in office is because you do my show?

00:20:10.000 Like, we all know you want an in. 1.00

00:20:13.000 Fat, ignorant, bald, and gay is no way to go through life, son. 1.00

00:20:16.000 I don't get the Stelter thing. 1.00

00:20:18.000 Who lost?

00:20:19.000 Someone at CNN had to pick between Brian Stelter And someone, there was someone else!

00:20:29.000 There was a lot of, more than the people letting him to kiss the Pope's ring, and someone said, you, Mr. Stelter!

00:20:36.000 That's got to be the worst second place ever.

00:20:38.000 I get why you guys watch and hate America when you watch our news.

00:20:41.000 Yeah, I don't know.

00:20:42.000 I see Stelter, I feel like it almost reminds me of your wrestling where you have the heel.

00:20:51.000 I feel like, you know, maybe he knows what he's doing.

00:20:53.000 Maybe a little bit.

00:20:55.000 He's like a Ric Flair, I guess.

00:20:55.000 A little bit.

00:20:57.000 Or Jesse Ventura.

00:20:58.000 Okay, so anyways, back to Avenatti.

00:21:00.000 I got so distracted by stealth.

00:21:01.000 Someone please explain to me this stealth thing.

00:21:03.000 Here's the thing.

00:21:04.000 Like I've talked about school choice.

00:21:05.000 I don't understand the case for it.

00:21:07.000 I can understand the case for Bill Maher.

00:21:09.000 I certainly understand the case for Jon Stewart.

00:21:10.000 I know you guys don't like Colbert.

00:21:11.000 I think Colbert can be very funny.

00:21:13.000 I understand Anderson Cooper, OK?

00:21:15.000 He was great on The Mole.

00:21:15.000 I get it.

00:21:16.000 I understand Don Lemon, because, you know, he seems like he could be intelligent sometimes.

00:21:22.000 He seems like he's relative.

00:21:23.000 Brian Stelter has, please, someone make a case for any redeeming quality for this man.

00:21:29.000 He makes everyone else around him look much smarter.

00:21:31.000 That's it.

00:21:33.000 He got it.

00:21:34.000 And I just read today that he's straight. 0.84

00:21:36.000 Okay, so Michael Avenatti... I just... How could we know?

00:21:42.000 Michael Avenatti, now been arrested for a $20 million extortion plot against Nike, embezzling clients' money, defrauding a bank, could spend life in prison if convicted.

00:21:51.000 That's serious.

00:21:51.000 He's from CNBC.

00:21:53.000 The good news for Avenatti is that dreams do come true.

00:21:53.000 So, you know what?

00:21:57.000 All of my sexual fantasies involve handcuffs. 0.96

00:22:00.000 Good morning. 0.97

00:22:01.000 Wow.

00:22:03.000 Oh my gosh.

00:22:03.000 Good for him.

00:22:04.000 When God closes a door. 0.99

00:22:07.000 He opens a sex dungeon. 0.99

00:22:09.000 Oh my gosh. 1.00

00:22:11.000 With handcuffs.

00:22:12.000 Now, by the way, really quickly, before you feel sorry for him, don't.

00:22:15.000 Yeah, no, I was about to say, it's hard in general for us to feel sorry for lawyers.

00:22:19.000 Sorry, half-Asian lawyer Bill. 1.00

00:22:20.000 It's alright, it's alright.

00:22:22.000 I'm asking, is anybody coming to his defense at all?

00:22:24.000 Like, it's been crickets for this guy.

00:22:26.000 Stormy Daniels threw him under the bus. 0.92

00:22:26.000 No! 0.92

00:22:28.000 They're all like, oof.

00:22:29.000 I know, but normally the left kind of comes out and tries to kind of make something happen, and no one.

00:22:33.000 Everybody just, he stepped forward and everybody's like a hundred yards behind him now.

00:22:37.000 But we'll get to this at the end of this whole segment.

00:22:40.000 It is amazing that the media is not talking about this, really.

00:22:44.000 I mean, this guy, he was a centerpiece of media for a long, long time.

00:22:47.000 Kavanaugh, you couldn't hear without Avenatti.

00:22:49.000 They were saying, oh, Donald Trump, they just assumed the Stormy Daniels thing was true.

00:22:53.000 And I'll be honest, I said at that point, it's a 50-50 shot.

00:22:56.000 That being said, even if there's a 50-50 shot that something did happen with Stormy Daniels, now no one will believe you because you're Michael Avenatti.

00:23:06.000 This is a big one.

00:23:07.000 For me, this is probably the biggest one.

00:23:09.000 You've heard us talk about it.

00:23:11.000 I read the whole Green New Deal in its entirety, unedited.

00:23:11.000 You can watch on the channel.

00:23:14.000 This was supposed to be the legislative darling of the left. 0.86

00:23:17.000 Climate change and our environmental challenges are one of the biggest existential threats to our way of life.

00:23:26.000 We have the technology to do it.

00:23:28.000 We have the moral obligation.

00:23:30.000 We have the economic imperative.

00:23:33.000 We just need the political will to get this done.

00:23:37.000 I support a Green New Deal, and I can tell you why. 0.90

00:23:41.000 Climate change is an existential threat to us, and we've got to deal with the reality of it.

00:23:48.000 Today we say to Donald Trump and the fossil fuel industry that climate change is not a hoax.

00:23:58.000 But it's a massive threat, an existential threat to our country and the entire planet.

00:24:05.000 Apparently our greatest existential threat tallies up to a whopping zero votes of support.

00:24:13.000 And she said afterwards that that was a strategy.

00:24:15.000 I don't understand.

00:24:15.000 The vote present strategy looks a heck of a lot worse than the zero yes votes.

00:24:20.000 It is remarkable to me.

00:24:22.000 And they say it's a political stunt.

00:24:23.000 This was the thing.

00:24:24.000 It's a political stunt to put it to a vote without a hearing.

00:24:26.000 So is introducing a five-page bill that takes over the entire American economy because we want, quote, a smart grid! 0.83

00:24:34.000 With no definition.

00:24:34.000 How long did it take you to read that, by the way?

00:24:36.000 Uh, 16 minutes.

00:24:37.000 People can go watch it.

00:24:38.000 Reddit Instant Tips.

00:24:39.000 16 minutes to read the whole book.

00:24:40.000 Is it monetized yet?

00:24:41.000 Oh, it's never monetized.

00:24:42.000 What do you think?

00:24:44.000 They just saw Green New Deal, and they said, oh, Crowder, Green New Deal.

00:24:49.000 This matches up with an algorithm of screw, screw, screw, screw.

00:24:53.000 Fourth win this week, President Trump's emergency declaration.

00:24:57.000 So, for people who haven't really been following the timeline, and this is kind of difficult, I think, for a lot of people.

00:25:00.000 Back in February, President Trump declared a national emergency.

00:25:03.000 We're going to get funds for the border wall.

00:25:04.000 Congress voted to reject the declaration.

00:25:07.000 Then he vetoed the rejection.

00:25:08.000 This week, President Trump's veto of their blocking was upheld, and a billion dollars is on its way to the border as we speak.

00:25:16.000 Pallets of cash, baby.

00:25:18.000 We'll talk with Congressman Crenshaw about this because some Republicans are divided on this.

00:25:21.000 I think this is an issue of national security.

00:25:25.000 He does have the authority.

00:25:26.000 What do you think, half-Asian lawyer Bill Richman? 0.62

00:25:28.000 Absolutely.

00:25:28.000 I mean, there's no question.

00:25:30.000 I've said this before.

00:25:31.000 I've got family in El Paso.

00:25:32.000 When you go to El Paso and you look right there between the border of America and Juarez, Yeah.

00:25:36.000 Mexico is a wall and no one is saying that there has to be an exact same wall across the entire border

00:25:42.000 But there needs to be security. So yeah putting a billion dollars into something as important as regulating

00:25:47.000 What can come into this country both from a physical sense or a person sense?

00:25:50.000 Yeah Been the policy strategy of every single nation that has

00:25:54.000 ever existed or that hopes to exist Or keep in existence, right?

00:25:59.000 Exactly.

00:25:59.000 And this is really two wins in one for him.

00:26:01.000 When you're a president and you pull out your first veto, that's a big deal.

00:26:04.000 That's putting everything kind of on the line, because if you lose that, you're pretty powerless after that.

00:26:08.000 So he was able to sustain the veto, and he's getting his border wall.

00:26:11.000 So this is huge.

00:26:12.000 A veto stings, but to Brian Stelter, maybe the billion dollars going to it will act as a salve Do we say, do we pronounce the L in salve?

00:26:23.000 Salve?

00:26:26.000 Salve doesn't sound right.

00:26:27.000 All I know is you pronounced Nike right earlier, so that was good.

00:26:27.000 I don't know.

00:26:29.000 Did I say it correctly?

00:26:30.000 Good job.

00:26:30.000 Yeah, I think so.

00:26:31.000 I don't know what Nike is.

00:26:31.000 You know what word I pronounce incorrectly all the time?

00:26:34.000 I know it's supposed, but I often say supposed.

00:26:37.000 It's like, sounds like I'm saying suppose, like I'm Jodie Foster. 0.99

00:26:40.000 And I know how to say it right, but I'm very stupid. 0.89

00:26:43.000 I almost put like Nike with like five E's after it just to help. 0.92

00:26:46.000 Yeah, to just read it out phonetically.

00:26:48.000 Nike.

00:26:51.000 No, that's what the children say when they jump from the fourth-story window at the factory.

00:26:56.000 What's the ISIS policy on national immigration?

00:27:00.000 Well, I think this is where I feel like more of a Democrat, because I don't want you to have a wall, first of all.

00:27:07.000 And also, I agree in part with some of the statements made as far as the climate, the Green New Deal people.

00:27:14.000 I do think that your days are numbered.

00:27:18.000 Just ours?

00:27:20.000 Yes.

00:27:21.000 It's a localized phenomenon, is what you're saying.

00:27:24.000 Are you going to hasten the end of America?

00:27:29.000 By the way, you guys cannot see how funny my half-Asian lure ability is.

00:27:33.000 He's positively tickled pink this whole time next to Mahmood. 0.95

00:27:37.000 Mahmood, you bring joy into everyone's life.

00:27:38.000 We're hanging out!

00:27:40.000 By the way, here's the thing, it doesn't matter where you stand, and Republicans have this debate, conservatives have had this debate about the national emergency, and I think it's a healthy debate to have.

00:27:49.000 That's a good example where we can find common ground or have a healthy debate.

00:27:53.000 Regardless of where you line up, this is definitely a win from President Trump's perspective.

00:27:57.000 But you don't have to take my word for it.

00:27:59.000 We have two national emergencies, one declared on the southern border where the president transfers and is taking away millions of dollars from other agencies to address a wall, which doesn't even solve these issues.

00:28:12.000 Why are we going to waste billions of dollars on a medieval fortress that won't work?

00:28:19.000 I urge my colleagues to vote and override the veto.

00:28:22.000 Is he not cuddly enough for the Turtles Club?

00:28:24.000 A wall is an immorality.

00:28:24.000 Is Mr. Peabody?

00:28:24.000 for the Turtles Club?

00:28:26.000 I'm more convinced than ever that the president's actions are not only unlawful, they are deeply irresponsible.

00:28:30.000 Is Mr. Peabody?

00:28:31.000 A wall is an immorality.

00:28:33.000 Oh, really?

00:28:34.000 It's not who we are as a nation.

00:28:35.000 Was that Mr. Peabody before Nancy Pelosi?

00:28:38.000 I don't think we should have a wall.

00:28:41.000 I'm not a big fan.

00:28:44.000 No, I'm not sure about it.

00:28:48.000 Was that Mr. Peabody or was that Boo Boo?

00:28:51.000 I think it's the same guy.

00:28:52.000 Oh, Yogi, my little future's on tour.

00:28:57.000 Oh, gosh.

00:28:59.000 Even as recent, people were saying that Trump's chances, they were gone for 2020.

00:29:02.000 This is what people were saying three weeks ago.

00:29:03.000 This is why you have to look at the long ball of politics.

00:29:05.000 If you look at this week, you'd have to make a very different prediction than you would have made three weeks ago.

00:29:10.000 And that's why the media, where are they right now?

00:29:12.000 Go check Huffington Post.

00:29:13.000 Go check Vox.

00:29:14.000 Go check Washington Post right now.

00:29:15.000 See if they're talking about the wall being built, completely being exonerated from the Mueller report.

00:29:20.000 And I don't, it's just, Avenatti?

00:29:23.000 They're quietly slipping away.

00:29:24.000 Green New Deal.

00:29:24.000 And you know what?

00:29:25.000 I just, I think it's time I'm exhausted!

00:29:28.000 I will tell you frankly, I'm exhausted.

00:29:30.000 I am tired from all this winning, and I'm gonna need to take a nap, and then after this, we'll have, uh, we'll have Crenshaw after a little bit of REM sleep from so much winning.

00:29:40.000 like...drapes of sugar, b****. 0.84

00:29:47.000 Usually when I'm talking to a Frenchman I'm insulting him or his mother. 1.00

00:30:02.000 There's a lot of rape that goes up in rural Wisconsin at truck stops. 1.00

00:30:06.000 Ready?

00:30:09.000 We're rolling?

00:30:11.000 Tapette. 0.98

00:30:12.000 Tapette means f*** in French. 0.99

00:30:17.000 Usually when I'm talking to a French, I'm insulting him or his mother. 1.00

00:30:19.000 You know, there's a lot of rape that goes up in rural Wisconsin at truck stops. 1.00

00:30:23.000 And Brian Spelter keeps bungholing each other!

00:30:26.000 Did you understand the implication?

00:30:30.000 No!

00:30:31.000 They don't want it, but they keep bungholing and blowing!

00:30:34.000 And so you end up...CNN.

00:30:37.000 Will you join up at louderwithcrowder.comslashmugclub? 0.99

00:30:40.000 Or are you a butt muncher? 0.97

00:30:42.000 The suspense is killing me! 0.98

00:30:45.000 Hello, YouTube!

00:30:46.000 Betty Crowder here with an update.

00:30:48.000 As many of you know, this week I was quite sick.

00:30:52.000 I had to get a surgery on my tooth infection, and after the anesthesia, I started shaking and convulsing like Michael J. Fox on A Tilt-A-World.

00:31:01.000 I was at the hospital for four days, during which time I lost six pounds and chewed out my IV and catheter.

00:31:08.000 But they cleared me to go home and now I'm giving it a little of this, and a little of that, and I'm back fighting pots!

00:31:15.000 And now I can say at four months old, I am officially the most expensive puppy in the wild!

00:31:23.000 And they still don't know exactly what's wrong with me.

00:31:26.000 So as shameless as it sounds, if you want my continued medical care, and you don't want Betty Crowder to die, join at louderwithcrowder.comslashmugclub.

00:31:37.000 Why I oughta.

00:31:42.000 There's no point in wondering where your pockets are.

00:31:45.000 Tasting smooth, creamy milk.

00:31:47.000 Chocolate, ginger, you're an M&M.

00:31:49.000 It's all right.

00:31:50.000 There's no sense in wondering where your pockets are.

00:31:53.000 I just realized I went the wrong way on that, where I'm supposed to do this and lean into it

00:31:57.000 here like the Hogan. 0.70

00:31:59.000 But I leaned in this way, which I think means, you know, that I'm functionally retarded. 0.69

00:32:03.000 I think it means that there's a serious problem and I'm in trouble.

00:32:06.000 And I'm in trouble because our next guest really classes up the show.

00:32:10.000 Elegant guest.

00:32:11.000 And a lot of our fans have been asking for him to be on.

00:32:14.000 Let me just give him his intro, because a lot of people complain if we don't give them the intro, but everyone already knows who he is.

00:32:18.000 They've been all on Twitter.

00:32:20.000 See what I did there?

00:32:22.000 All right, he is a representative from Texas' second congressional district.

00:32:25.000 I wouldn't have gotten the number right otherwise.

00:32:26.000 I just know he's a representative.

00:32:27.000 But more importantly, more interestingly, a former Navy SEAL officer who earned two Bronze Star medals, Purple Heart, went to Harvard after military service, and a lot of people know, you know, he lost his right eye serving in Afghanistan due to an IED.

00:32:42.000 You can follow him on the Twitter at Rep.

00:32:44.000 Dan Crenshaw.

00:32:46.000 Representative Crenshaw, thank you for being here.

00:32:48.000 Sorry, Tycoon Crenshaw, you told me before the break.

00:32:51.000 Thanks for having me, Steven.

00:32:52.000 This is awesome to be with you.

00:32:54.000 I am very glad to have you here.

00:32:56.000 And just to get the discomfort right out of the way, and I'm going to be hypocritical, how annoying is it that everyone always asks you about your eye patch first, knowing that I just did that?

00:33:06.000 Oh, well, no one's as annoying as...

00:33:10.000 You, I guess.

00:33:13.000 And Pete Davidson threw you a few jabs, and I topped the list.

00:33:13.000 Really?

00:33:17.000 I feel horrible about myself.

00:33:19.000 No, you're great.

00:33:20.000 I'm a big fan.

00:33:21.000 I'm a big fan.

00:33:22.000 No, I don't mind.

00:33:24.000 It's part of my story, and frankly, being in politics is telling your story, because you do have to connect with people in order to Right.

00:33:35.000 Well, I appreciate how level-headed you are.

00:33:37.000 I want to get to that as it relates to Trump a little bit.

00:33:39.000 and sharing part of yourself with them is a big part of that.

00:33:43.000 So I truly expect it.

00:33:44.000 Right.

00:33:45.000 Well, I appreciate how level-headed you are.

00:33:46.000 I want to get to that as it relates to Trump a little bit.

00:33:49.000 But since we led with that, you know, Pete Davidson obviously got in trouble

00:33:52.000 for mentioning your eye patch on Saturday Night Live.

00:33:55.000 And I remember a lot of conservatives were outraged, saying he needed to be fired.

00:33:58.000 Then you appeared with him and buried the hatchet pretty quickly.

00:34:02.000 That's not typical.

00:34:03.000 And we're held to that same standard as a comedy show, where often I say, listen, I don't think you want to take everything that we say 100% seriously.

00:34:10.000 What inspired that?

00:34:11.000 Because that is counterculture to the outrage society in DC, both on the right and left.

00:34:17.000 Yeah.

00:34:17.000 And it's something we've got to fix in this country because it's out of control.

00:34:21.000 So, you know, well, of course, you know, going back in time a little bit, just so everybody understands, you know, there was there was certain elements of his joke that were like, no, they were kind of funny, but, you know, kind of offensive. 0.52

00:34:32.000 But like, you know, at first he said that I looked like a hitman and a porno.

00:34:36.000 And I was like, OK. 0.53

00:34:38.000 I'm curious of what kind of films you're watching, Pete.

00:34:42.000 Is this a genre?

00:34:46.000 I think he just went down Avenatti's client list and just searched those.

00:34:52.000 That wasn't the part that got everybody riled up.

00:34:55.000 It was the part after that.

00:34:57.000 Maybe he misspoke.

00:34:58.000 Maybe it was scripted funny.

00:35:00.000 Who knows?

00:35:01.000 But he just said, I know he lost his eye more or whatever, right?

00:35:04.000 It was dismissive.

00:35:05.000 That's what, that's what, that's what made everybody angry.

00:35:07.000 So I woke up the next day and, um, you know, to a bunch of texts from friends and, uh, you know, noting that this had happened and we kind of watched the media outrage sort of play out.

00:35:17.000 Um, there, there were a lot of, there was a lot of outrage for it and I was expected to make a comment on it and I couldn't, I can't fake outrage.

00:35:25.000 I'm not, I'm not good at that.

00:35:26.000 We have very dark senses of humor in the SEAL teams.

00:35:30.000 It's true, yeah.

00:35:32.000 So we're pretty used to having thick skin, and so I have to admit, it did not take some kind of emotional toll on me.

00:35:41.000 The frustration with it was the fact that I had to deal with it at all.

00:35:46.000 So I just kind of said what I felt, which is like, listen, try hard not to offend people, but also try hard not to be offended.

00:35:51.000 I think that's a good way to live.

00:35:53.000 In this world.

00:35:53.000 Yeah.

00:35:54.000 And, you know, just because our society at this moment tends to value and, I would say, elevate this sort of victim mentality and elevate this aggrieved victim status, it's like, oh, man, if I can just be an aggrieved victim, then I'll really be right.

00:36:09.000 Then I'll win.

00:36:10.000 That's kind of a terrible place for our culture to be.

00:36:13.000 Right.

00:36:14.000 And I want to be part of that.

00:36:15.000 And so there was no reason to demand apologies for any of this nonsense.

00:36:21.000 Right.

00:36:22.000 It's a good point, though.

00:36:23.000 It's a really good point.

00:36:24.000 Not a lot of politicians—we make that point on this show, but yeah, the seeking affliction, as you see with people out there.

00:36:30.000 And people say, well, why would anyone want to be in this—and then insert minority class of the day here? 1.00

00:36:34.000 I go, well, I don't know, because you could get off faking hate crimes, for starters.

00:36:40.000 I mean, you know, but rich Hollywood, so it's across the board at that point.

00:36:45.000 Let me ask you this.

00:36:46.000 How have you become, I mean, obviously as a freshman representative, and we use that term a lot, but so popular, despite being one of, I would say, the few balanced viewpoints out there, if people follow your social media, on President Donald Trump?

00:36:58.000 You know, a lot of people are seen as either never Trump or they're seen as MAGA hat wearing.

00:37:03.000 It doesn't matter what he does.

00:37:05.000 You praise him where he's right and, you know, you called him out.

00:37:08.000 You criticized him when he was talking about John McCain recently and criticizing him and lobbying some attacks after he had died.

00:37:15.000 How do you remain so popular?

00:37:16.000 Because there aren't many people who've seemed to figure out that equation.

00:37:21.000 Well, I mean, we haven't done a poll.

00:37:23.000 I don't know that I'm so popular.

00:37:25.000 I can tell you with our viewers and our readers.

00:37:27.000 Yeah, they love you.

00:37:28.000 Oh yeah.

00:37:29.000 I hope so.

00:37:30.000 You know, because I think people respect intellectual consistency and honesty.

00:37:34.000 They just want you to tell you why you're saying what you're saying.

00:37:38.000 They don't want to feel like it's just part of a political calculation.

00:37:41.000 And so the way to avoid it looking like it's part of a political calculation is for it not to be a political calculation and for it to actually be true.

00:37:49.000 Right.

00:37:51.000 And listen, I don't take swipes at the president just to do it, okay?

00:37:55.000 A lot of never-Trumpers just do that.

00:37:57.000 I think they do it just because it's become part of their brand, and they just can't help themselves, and they forget to defend conservatism.

00:38:04.000 So that's a real problem, because a lot of what President Trump does is conservative.

00:38:07.000 A lot of the way he governs is conservative, and it's good.

00:38:10.000 There's some things I disagree with.

00:38:11.000 It should be really simple to simply say, well, I disagree with those things.

00:38:15.000 You know, I'm not a sycophant.

00:38:16.000 I'm not just following blindly.

00:38:18.000 Yeah.

00:38:18.000 Well, you know, that segues into an interesting point.

00:38:21.000 First off, I love that Beto O'Rourke had to respond to your tweet in an interview with, uh, was it, uh, was it Chris Hayes?

00:38:27.000 I don't know.

00:38:28.000 He's actually called him out on that, which is interesting.

00:38:30.000 Yeah.

00:38:30.000 Chris Hayes.

00:38:31.000 Uh, I was still, by the way, if anyone could explain the Brian Stelter thing to me, please let me know.

00:38:34.000 I still don't get it.

00:38:35.000 We just talked about that.

00:38:36.000 I don't understand it.

00:38:37.000 I don't get it.

00:38:38.000 Um, I love that he was forced to respond because of your social media.

00:38:41.000 But, um, let me ask you this.

00:38:43.000 You, you've, Also held a position on the border crisis.

00:38:48.000 A lot of people have talked about the constitutionality of that and the state of emergency.

00:38:52.000 You were just explaining this to me during the brief break.

00:38:55.000 What is your stance and how do you justify it as a consistent conservative?

00:38:59.000 Because it may surprise a lot of people.

00:39:01.000 Yeah, I've got a series of things I want to point out to my conservative colleagues who I think rightfully have concerns over it.

00:39:09.000 Okay, so there's a couple arguments, right?

00:39:11.000 One is that it's not an emergency.

00:39:12.000 Okay, well, the counter argument to that is, well, yes, it is an emergency and the numbers dictate that it is.

00:39:17.000 Okay, last month there was You know, 66,000 apprehensions, depending on how you measure that, almost 80,000 just last month.

00:39:26.000 Yesterday it was reported that we're going to have the highest amount of daily illegal crossings in 13 years.

00:39:31.000 The other reason it's an emergency and a humanitarian emergency at that is because our system is designed to encourage immigrants to drag children across because they know if they bring a child across, they get let go into the population. 1.00

00:39:44.000 We have a whole new generation of dreamers being created because of that.

00:39:48.000 And that constitutes a crisis, all right?

00:39:52.000 There's more family units being apprehended than ever before.

00:39:55.000 So that's a problem.

00:39:56.000 Is it an emergency?

00:39:57.000 Yes.

00:39:58.000 Is it different than it was even a year ago?

00:39:59.000 Yes, absolutely.

00:40:00.000 There is a different situation.

00:40:01.000 Okay?

00:40:02.000 So that's that part.

00:40:03.000 Then there's the constitutionality of it.

00:40:05.000 Now there's two elements of the Constitution that I believe butt up against each other

00:40:11.000 here and you pretty much have to decide which one you value more.

00:40:14.000 On this side, you have the appropriations part.

00:40:16.000 Okay?

00:40:17.000 That's one, right?

00:40:18.000 Congress is in charge of appropriating money.

00:40:21.000 You can't just change that.

00:40:22.000 Now technically, the president is reprogramming money.

00:40:24.000 He's not taking it out of the treasury like the Constitution says you can't do.

00:40:27.000 But that's just a, okay, that's a technicality.

00:40:29.000 There's the other part of it, though, which says that the President needs to faithfully execute the law.

00:40:33.000 That's Article 2.

00:40:34.000 Well, what law are we talking about?

00:40:36.000 Well, how about U.S.

00:40:38.000 Code 1325, which is— Is this how popular you are?

00:40:40.000 Is this your computer letting you know that everyone's texting you right now?

00:40:44.000 I wish I could make that—if I mute that, I wonder if I mute you.

00:40:44.000 Yeah.

00:40:48.000 That's okay.

00:40:48.000 That's the problem.

00:40:49.000 We'll deal with it because we love—because you're so cuddly.

00:40:52.000 Sorry.

00:40:54.000 And you were talking about, so yes, you were going to the President after you got into the constitutionality, Article 1, and now you're going over to the President and what kind of falls under his legitimate purview, I believe is where you're headed.

00:41:04.000 Exactly.

00:41:05.000 We want you to faithfully execute the law.

00:41:06.000 And 1325 is a law.

00:41:08.000 It says you cannot cross the border illegally.

00:41:10.000 And so, it's not being enforced right now.

00:41:13.000 It's the President's job to enforce it.

00:41:15.000 So, again, those two butt up against each other.

00:41:17.000 I value that one.

00:41:18.000 I value the one that says we have to protect our country over this other one, which is an appropriations law that was passed by Congress.

00:41:25.000 So that, coupled with the National Emergencies Act itself, which clearly puts it in writing and statute to use that act in that way, I think we've got a pretty good case.

00:41:38.000 Yeah, I would agree with you.

00:41:39.000 And that actually would be one of the few areas where people could look at executive orders and say, as it relates to national security or national emergency, that's what the role of the president is effectively.

00:41:49.000 It should be limited.

00:41:50.000 But if it deals with national security, obviously, he's called the commander in chief for a reason.

00:41:54.000 And I think it does come down to, I guess, the gray area of whether you consider the border crisis a national emergency.

00:41:59.000 I think you've made a very strong case.

00:42:01.000 And this brings me to something else here.

00:42:02.000 There are a lot of similarities between you and Go with me here, so don't take offense to it right away, because what I'm about to say is way worse than what Pete Davidson said, but I'm going to bring it all back home.

00:42:11.000 Some similarities here between Alexandria Ocasio-Nina Pinto Santa Maria Cortez in that you are both new fresh faces, social media is a huge portion of your platform, very influential, both seen as firebrands, but I think There are some differences here which really sort of draw a significant line in the sand as to how the people conservatives embrace versus the left, in that, namely, you're articulate, pragmatic, not a doomsday theorist in the same way that Nina Pinto Santa Maria Cortez is, and you openly list references, sources.

00:42:45.000 You know, when you were talking about the border crisis, you listed charts on Twitter.

00:42:47.000 I had Cortez respond to me on Twitter and just say, well, look it up.

00:42:51.000 Well, hold on a second.

00:42:52.000 Why don't you show me?

00:42:53.000 You made the claim.

00:42:57.000 Have you heard these comparisons before, and do you see it as a good thing?

00:43:01.000 Something that you embrace?

00:43:02.000 I was hoping you would just continue your list of compliments, but it can't go on forever.

00:43:09.000 Yeah, the interview can't go on that long, but when we get off air, I'll make you feel very comfortable.

00:43:16.000 I'm married, by the way.

00:43:17.000 People are going to take that the wrong way.

00:43:18.000 I mean, I'll make you feel comfortable in coming back.

00:43:21.000 I took it the wrong way.

00:43:22.000 I apologize.

00:43:22.000 Yeah, I took it the wrong way.

00:43:23.000 Hey, Ted Cruz came back.

00:43:24.000 Hey.

00:43:25.000 Four times.

00:43:28.000 No, I always take a slight amount of offense when people say that, but I do understand what people mean by it.

00:43:34.000 It's a matter of media attention.

00:43:36.000 We're both young.

00:43:37.000 We're both millennials.

00:43:38.000 We're both, I think, trying to drive a future for our party.

00:43:43.000 I'm really happy with the future that me and my colleagues talk about for our party.

00:43:49.000 I'm not so sure they have that same kind of unity over on that side.

00:43:52.000 And listen, you brought up something, which is defend what you're saying.

00:43:58.000 And unfortunately, we're getting too comfortable in this culture with this idea of kind of bold ignorance.

00:44:05.000 Right, where it's just like, if you're emotional about it, if you're genuine, if you're authentic,

00:44:13.000 then the facts don't matter.

00:44:15.000 Right?

00:44:16.000 I think she's actually said that before in an interview.

00:44:19.000 She said something along those lines.

00:44:21.000 Well, Vox and Huffington Post said that even if Cortez, I believe it was either Vox, Huffington Post, it might have been Washington Post, so I don't know exactly, but we did a piece on it not that long ago where they said, it doesn't matter if she hasn't ironed out all the details because she's morally right.

00:44:33.000 She's fundamentally morally For me, I go, well, how do you know that you're morally right?

00:44:37.000 The facts should line up with how you feel.

00:44:39.000 The facts should line up with how you're emoting.

00:44:41.000 And if they don't at all, well, chances are you're probably morally incorrect.

00:44:46.000 But they grant her, and especially the media, and I know this sounds like a tired trope, but you deal with this all the time as a conservative.

00:44:52.000 The media really does prop this up and assume the moral high ground to someone like AOC.

00:44:59.000 Yeah.

00:45:00.000 Well, they operate from a different premise.

00:45:01.000 I mean, if you're, like, for instance, if you're looking at a Green New Deal and you're operating from a premise of the entire world ending in 12 years, well then, then there's no cost is too much. 0.95

00:45:12.000 Right.

00:45:12.000 So they, so they, they, they use, they, they, they, they configure the data and their arguments in a way to, to assume that if you disagree with them, then you are morally corrupt.

00:45:24.000 That's a real problem.

00:45:25.000 It means you're not having an intellectual conversation.

00:45:29.000 And they accuse conservatives and Republicans of doing that with global terrorism.

00:45:33.000 Like, oh, you're fear-mongering.

00:45:35.000 Well, hold on a second.

00:45:37.000 I would say that there is reason for legitimate concern, and I would maybe defer to you since you've obviously served in our military.

00:45:44.000 My injury only came from crashing a Jeep on the way to an AIDS walk, so not exactly the same thing.

00:45:49.000 But global terrorism, more of a concern to me than Yeah.

00:45:54.000 I mean, one is true, one is not.

00:46:02.000 And more recently, what they did that with was simply the border, right?

00:46:05.000 There's no crisis, nothing to see here.

00:46:07.000 I mean, we heard this over and over.

00:46:10.000 Sure.

00:46:10.000 Yeah.

00:46:10.000 of a manufactured crisis. And like, again, I can just lay out

00:46:12.000 the numbers, you know, when you have 400,000 people crossing

00:46:15.000 illegally last year, these are just apprehended, by the way, Border Patrol thinks they maybe get one in three. Yeah,

00:46:20.000 that's an enormous number. I don't have to call them bad people. I

00:46:23.000 don't have to say that there, there might be terrorists among

00:46:26.000 them. And this is where our messaging gets screwed up, I think, is conservatives. Sure. Like, I don't have to call

00:46:29.000 them all criminals. Okay. I mean, technically, they're

00:46:31.000 conducting a criminal act by crossing the border illegally. But let's

00:46:34.000 just assume that they're all good people. 100%. Yeah, it's still

00:46:37.000 an unsustainable, it's an unsustainable inflow of people, right?

00:46:41.000 Because you come in here, we're putting these kids into our schools, we're using emergency rooms, there's a cost on society and it's also impossible to to integrate them into our society.

00:46:54.000 And here's the second thing that people don't talk, conservatives don't say enough,

00:46:57.000 is you're cutting in front of the line in front of legal immigrants

00:47:00.000 who deserve to be in this country, because we do want immigrants in this country.

00:47:03.000 And we can have a valid conversation about whether we should up our quota of legal immigrants,

00:47:08.000 but there really shouldn't be any discussion over whether we should have illegal immigrants

00:47:12.000 coming into the country.

00:47:13.000 Well, that sounds about like something a white male millennial would say,

00:47:16.000 but I'll let the audience make their own judgment here.

00:47:20.000 I have to ask you about a couple more things.

00:47:21.000 We do have to get going relatively soon.

00:47:22.000 You just introduced a bill that would include family leave for millennials.

00:47:26.000 You introduced it, I believe, on Wednesday.

00:47:30.000 Yeah.

00:47:31.000 Yes.

00:47:31.000 Can you explain that to people who may not understand it and where they can go to learn more about it?

00:47:35.000 Senator Rubio and Representative Anne Wagner have been working on this for quite a while now.

00:47:41.000 Senator Romney was there at the press conference as well, too, supporting this.

00:47:44.000 So really proud to be a part of this.

00:47:46.000 Basically, it's an understanding that, and I think Sometimes.

00:47:53.000 The left is not always wrong about the problems they point out and what they want.

00:47:57.000 They're just almost always wrong about the solutions they propose.

00:48:01.000 Very good point.

00:48:01.000 Okay, so pay family leave is a pretty good example of that, right?

00:48:04.000 Pay family leave.

00:48:05.000 That's not a terrible thing in and of itself.

00:48:07.000 I would love for new young parents to be able to have some kind of financial cushion if they're going to have their first baby, especially if they're in their 20s or 30s or even 40s.

00:48:17.000 You know, you're getting your start in life, all right?

00:48:19.000 Millennials understand this.

00:48:21.000 And it's important to point out the millennial generation, not because this bill is just for millennials,

00:48:25.000 but because we could probably, as millennials, we could probably make the most use of it.

00:48:29.000 So the question is, how do you pay for something like this?

00:48:32.000 Because the Democrat solution is, well, giant government program, billions and billions

00:48:37.000 and billions and billions of dollars, completely unsustainable.

00:48:40.000 The very people we're trying to help, we're going to indebt them to do it.

00:48:43.000 Well, that's a terrible solution, not very creative, and pretty much pertains to most of the solutions they propose for just about every problem that they think is a problem.

00:48:51.000 Okay, but let's assume this is a problem, because I think it is, and we're pro-family, right?

00:48:56.000 I want the family unit to thrive.

00:48:58.000 So, what this allows is it allows you to borrow from your future social security funds.

00:49:04.000 Basically, and I'll give you the simplest explanation of it.

00:49:06.000 Basically, you take three months of family leave.

00:49:09.000 Okay, now you have to back up your retirement by a similar amount of time to pay it back.

00:49:15.000 Now you have other options to pay it back too.

00:49:17.000 You can pay it back sooner if you'd like.

00:49:20.000 You can pay it back in lengthier payments if you'd like, but it doesn't change the long-term budget.

00:49:27.000 It doesn't change the long-term health of social security either.

00:49:31.000 It does change how we formulate the short-term health, but not the long-term, and that's important.

00:49:36.000 So we're basically, the way I put it, you're borrowing from someone richer than yourself,

00:49:41.000 which is you in the future, because you've actually had time to make it in this world.

00:49:45.000 So it's like Time Cop with entitlements.

00:49:49.000 It's a really good way to put it.

00:49:50.000 I'm going to use that.

00:49:51.000 Perfect.

00:49:51.000 Yeah, there you go.

00:49:52.000 And also, maybe a little bit of Demolition Man with entitlements?

00:49:55.000 I'm not entirely sure.

00:49:56.000 The whole Van Damme catalog, really.

00:49:58.000 That was an interesting movie at the time, especially Stallone.

00:50:02.000 No wait, was Demolition Man Stallone?

00:50:04.000 Yes, it was.

00:50:05.000 Oh, Snipes?

00:50:06.000 Was Snipes in Timecop?

00:50:08.000 No, Snipes was in Demolition Man.

00:50:11.000 I have no idea.

00:50:12.000 I know Time Cop was Van Damme, but for some reason I'm thinking he was also in Demolition Man.

00:50:16.000 I know Snipes.

00:50:16.000 I think Snipes was in both.

00:50:17.000 The point is, I don't want to muddy the waters on your brilliant proposal here with my stupid commentary. 0.98

00:50:23.000 We do have to get going here. 0.98

00:50:24.000 So, final thing.

00:50:26.000 One thing I love.

00:50:26.000 I have a tweet right here from you to Representative Adam Schiff where you said, That he said he had direct evidence of Trump-Russia collusion.

00:50:34.000 And this is important because he's putting a fine point on it.

00:50:36.000 He didn't say maybe there's a possibility.

00:50:38.000 He said that he had direct evidence of Trump-Russia collusion.

00:50:40.000 That means it's a lie.

00:50:42.000 And he's doubling down still with those comments that he's made before.

00:50:47.000 This is important for people to maintain a timeline.

00:50:49.000 And this is why, like you said, intellectual consistency is important, because we need to hold people to the same standard that they would hold out.

00:50:55.000 And if you say, listen, we need to investigate someone for collusion, not for collusion, for Russia, Russian collusion, collusion could be a country, could be a city in a country, I have no idea.

00:51:05.000 Then we need to say, okay, by that same standard, if you've claimed that you have evidence, we might need to investigate you.

00:51:11.000 So this is a springboard to say, what would you say is President Trump's biggest win of the week?

00:51:15.000 Would it be the Mueller Report?

00:51:17.000 Would it be Avenatti?

00:51:19.000 If you had to list them and rank them.

00:51:21.000 Man, it's been a pretty good week for the president.

00:51:25.000 I think he's just kicking his feet up right now.

00:51:29.000 And well-deserved.

00:51:30.000 Because it really did all come down to one moment where the Mueller Report found that there was no collusion.

00:51:39.000 Avenatti got arrested.

00:51:41.000 Which is still a little disappointing for some of us who would have liked to see him jump into the presidential primary, along with every other Democrat, but he's not going to be part of that.

00:51:50.000 Too bad.

00:51:52.000 Just to watch all that take place.

00:51:55.000 Happy for the President.

00:51:56.000 I think it's a good win.

00:51:58.000 His veto was not overridden either.

00:52:00.000 We should be seeing some money come into wall funding, which I think we need, and I think we're going to send it to the right places.

00:52:10.000 I think just west of El Paso is the last I heard on that.

00:52:14.000 And I don't think that'll hurt our military readiness either, based on where I'm seeing that money coming from, or disaster preparedness.

00:52:20.000 So these are all good things.

00:52:21.000 The President's making good on his promises to actually secure our country.

00:52:25.000 We have all found out that he indeed did not collude with Russia.

00:52:28.000 I never really thought he did, but it looks like we now have a lengthy investigation that shows that he did not.

00:52:34.000 And Democrats really need to accept that.

00:52:36.000 The one thing I want to say about Adam Schiff is, Yes.

00:52:38.000 he uses position on the intelligence committee to make everybody believe that

00:52:42.000 he had access to information that he really did yes that's

00:52:45.000 that that is straight that's beyond the science is one thing to just kind of say

00:52:48.000 it is politicians always do but he really you really uh...

00:52:52.000 he he abused his position and then that's really problem Yeah, and you know, sometimes President Trump can come across a little nutty, but I think that anyone would lose their marbles a little bit when people are out there claiming that you've done something that you haven't done.

00:53:07.000 I think anyone would go a little bit nuts in the public eye, where they're going, hold on a second, you're trying to obstruct justice.

00:53:11.000 What?

00:53:11.000 Obstruct what?

00:53:12.000 There's no crime!

00:53:13.000 And then afterwards, like, well there's no crime, but maybe obstruction?

00:53:15.000 We don't know!

00:53:16.000 And he's going, Schiff!

00:53:17.000 Schiff!

00:53:18.000 That's how I feel.

00:53:18.000 Schiff!

00:53:19.000 But I will say this.

00:53:20.000 We have to get going and I am tired and you must be exhausted from all the witting.

00:53:24.000 It's so much.

00:53:25.000 I think people are getting tired.

00:53:28.000 People can follow you at RepDanCrenshaw.

00:53:30.000 Is there anywhere else that you would like to plug?

00:53:33.000 Real quick.

00:53:34.000 Yeah, well, at Rep Dan Crenshaw, I got another Twitter account, at DanCrenshawTX.

00:53:38.000 We use them both.

00:53:39.000 They're both great follows.

00:53:40.000 Please follow both Instagram, DanCrenshawTX, and just search for Dan Crenshaw on Congress and on Facebook.

00:53:47.000 Crenshaw, thank you so much for being here, sir.

00:53:48.000 I appreciate it.

00:53:49.000 We must go.

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00:56:53.000 I didn't have that much energy, because Dan Crenshaw really took it out of me.

00:56:56.000 Representative Dan Crenshaw.

00:56:56.000 He just looks too badass all the time.

00:56:58.000 Hey, I need to issue an apology really quickly before I get to the closing segment here.

00:57:02.000 Johnny Depp, I'm sorry.

00:57:04.000 I'm sorry, Johnny.

00:57:04.000 I have given Johnny Depp a rough time, because I do think he's kind of douchey.

00:57:07.000 A little bit, yeah.

00:57:08.000 When he was accused of beating Amber, is Amber Heard?

00:57:12.000 Amber Heard.

00:57:12.000 Amber Heard up a little bit.

00:57:13.000 I think we had a bit about that at that point. 1.00

00:57:15.000 It wasn't really, we weren't really condemning him, but his drunken tirade where he threw the, turns out she kicked his ass. 1.00

00:57:21.000 Yes. 0.99

00:57:21.000 So I hope that guy just, I hope you take her for everything she's worth. 0.99

00:57:24.000 So really you're probably taking yourself for everything you're worth because probably a joint checking account in that household, let's be honest.

00:57:31.000 So, this week, and you can bring it up there, Garrett, for those who didn't follow earlier, I was subject to my first auto accident.

00:57:40.000 As a passenger, I should say.

00:57:42.000 When I was a kid, I was hit by a car once.

00:57:45.000 Yeah, look, the whole dashboard just exploded.

00:57:45.000 Oh, yeah, I know that story.

00:57:47.000 Airbags.

00:57:48.000 Those were not friendly airbags, by the way.

00:57:50.000 On the highway?

00:57:51.000 Yeah, it was a tire blew on an older Jeep.

00:57:53.000 We're exiting on a loop from one freeway to another.

00:57:55.000 It's hard for me to explain, but basically, here's a freeway.

00:57:58.000 You need to get on this freeway, okay?

00:58:00.000 And there's a loop.

00:58:02.000 And the loop comes around to get on this freeway.

00:58:03.000 And then there are only two lanes.

00:58:05.000 Where you're one, and basically these two lanes, one lane is trying to get over on this other freeway.

00:58:11.000 The freeway that goes east west.

00:58:12.000 And the other one, people are trying to get over on another loop that goes downward going north south.

00:58:16.000 And I've had to do this exit many times.

00:58:20.000 I've always thought it was incredibly dangerous.

00:58:23.000 So, when the tire blew while we were taking it, I panicked.

00:58:28.000 Looking at it now, it doesn't look so bad, thank God.

00:58:30.000 And it really was not as bad as it could have been.

00:58:33.000 We're fortunate that actually, ironically, the complete spin-out of the car, which could potentially increase the force of the impact, we went around taking the concrete girder, I think caused it to scrape a little bit.

00:58:43.000 Which cradled... Saved you a little bit.

00:58:46.000 ...the crash.

00:58:47.000 I mean, the frame is totaled.

00:58:49.000 I heard concrete.

00:58:50.000 I was like, aw.

00:58:50.000 Oh yeah, the frame is completely... Well, it's a Jeep with a metal bumper, and the bumper's completely broken, the steel frame completely cracked, bent.

00:58:59.000 So, it breaks my heart, because Johnny Boy, who's driving, loves that Jeep.

00:59:02.000 But it could have been a lot worse.

00:59:04.000 Thank God he's fine.

00:59:04.000 He'll get another Jeep.

00:59:06.000 So I say this to explain to you what happened and to let you know that I understand

00:59:10.000 that this isn't exactly a scrape with death as many car accidents could be.

00:59:14.000 But at the time, I didn't know that.

00:59:17.000 So at that moment in time, feeling the tire blow out in one of the most difficult loops in Texas,

00:59:22.000 all I knew was just pop, spin, screech.

00:59:25.000 And with each spin, I can just see two lanes behind us, the two lanes, one of which is going very, very fast

00:59:32.000 and the other people are coming in on a blind loop and then spin, spin, spin, spin, concrete girder,

00:59:36.000 spin, spin, spin, car is going by.

00:59:39.000 And it felt like they were getting faster.

00:59:41.000 And then the concrete girder was getting faster I thought it might be, really, I thought it might be curtains.

00:59:47.000 In retrospect, no.

00:59:49.000 But it's kind of like that kayak story that I've told you about before, I think, where I was sure that death was just, like, my parents were going to be on shore and just I couldn't turn a kayak over.

00:59:58.000 It was one of those old, you know, like the sealskin kayaks.

01:00:00.000 I've heard that before.

01:00:00.000 Not these open kayaks like today.

01:00:01.000 Kayaks are questionnaire. 0.99

01:00:02.000 Yes!

01:00:03.000 Especially when you have no idea.

01:00:03.000 I was just at a cottage.

01:00:04.000 I'm like, yeah, I'm going to go out.

01:00:05.000 I thought I was going to die.

01:00:05.000 That doesn't sound like a smart design.

01:00:07.000 Let's stick you inside of a kayak and you can't get out.

01:00:09.000 Well, they needed to be watertight back in the day.

01:00:12.000 Yeah, that's what they did.

01:00:16.000 I bring that up because obviously I didn't die in a kayak, obviously we didn't die in this car crash, but at that moment I thought this might be it, this is how it ends.

01:00:26.000 I wouldn't say that my life flashed before my eyes, but let me explain it.

01:00:30.000 In this short moment, a million different thoughts were going through my head.

01:00:35.000 After it happened, I was like, how did I think of all these things at that second?

01:00:42.000 was obviously, my God, just please straighten out.

01:00:44.000 And then I thought, this exit is the worst, and I remember thinking this, I was like, damn it, this exit is the worst city engineering in history.

01:00:51.000 And then I thought, I'm never traveling in an old Jeep with crappy felt seats again.

01:00:55.000 And then I thought, oh, okay, we're definitely spinning out.

01:00:57.000 And then I thought, God, just please let us crash some more, not into these two lanes.

01:01:00.000 And I thought, oh my God, we're gonna crash.

01:01:01.000 And now I just really hope that another car doesn't come and hit us.

01:01:04.000 And then it hit me, okay, I could die right here.

01:01:07.000 I remember that thought going through my head, this could happen, just.

01:01:11.000 And the odd thing is, I was oddly accepting of it. 0.53

01:01:15.000 And sometimes in those moments, it's kind of a silly but perfect example of ego.

01:01:21.000 You try to almost strike a bargain with God.

01:01:24.000 And I remember thinking, you know what?

01:01:27.000 In this moment, I remember thinking, death would be okay, I just don't want to get hurt.

01:01:32.000 So let me die, that's fine, but just don't let me be crippled or maimed or pried out with the jaws of life on a nightly news in a quadrant view.

01:01:39.000 And then there was the moment when the airbags went off.

01:01:43.000 Again, these are mid-90s airbags.

01:01:44.000 They were certainly not soft.

01:01:45.000 It wasn't like being cradled in your love's bosoms at all.

01:01:49.000 These were decidedly unfriendly, aggressive airbags.

01:01:52.000 They went off.

01:01:54.000 Causing my head to what I can only imagine was like getting paddled back and forth between the unsupportive bucket seats like a pinball.

01:02:02.000 And I couldn't hear anything.

01:02:04.000 Everything went completely white.

01:02:06.000 Things slowly kind of came back into view and sounds warped back in.

01:02:10.000 Smoke was coming out of the dash.

01:02:11.000 I think it was the airbag gas.

01:02:12.000 I don't know.

01:02:12.000 I've never had airbags deployed before.

01:02:15.000 Certainly not in a... I don't know.

01:02:16.000 It's a 90s model Jeep, I think.

01:02:18.000 It was total sensory deprivation.

01:02:20.000 And I couldn't really move when I came to. 0.97

01:02:22.000 And there was a moment there where I thought, oh, crap.

01:02:25.000 I'm still here, but I can't move. 0.96

01:02:28.000 Cars are coming.

01:02:29.000 They're going to hit us. 0.99

01:02:30.000 And then I thought, oh, crap. 0.99

01:02:31.000 I'm still here. 0.98

01:02:32.000 I don't know how bad this is going to be.

01:02:35.000 And I can't move.

01:02:37.000 And we're being upset about it.

01:02:38.000 And thinking about it now, it's pretty disgusting.

01:02:41.000 I'm pretty disgusted that I thought that.

01:02:44.000 And sometimes there are aspects of yourself that you can't really fully understand until you're put in that kind of a scenario.

01:02:49.000 Isn't that the way it often goes in life?

01:02:51.000 Many times we'll do anything just to avoid the pain.

01:02:54.000 Sometimes we'd rather take the loss, the finality of defeat.

01:02:58.000 Or in this case, I'll take death instead of being in a wheelchair. 0.77

01:03:02.000 It sounds silly, but I remember thinking that.

01:03:05.000 We'll take that finality rather than the pain of the struggle.

01:03:09.000 And I think I know why, at least in my case, in trying to deconstruct some of this, because afterward there was a lot of...

01:03:16.000 It's a cornucopia of adrenaline-induced, visceral, emotive reactions.

01:03:20.000 And many of you watching the show know that I'm not a big fan of cliches.

01:03:22.000 Not the Oprah-friendly soundbites, but usually because they're often untrue.

01:03:27.000 And in this case, one that comes to mind we hear a lot is, people aren't afraid of being powerless, they're more afraid of being more powerful than they can possibly imagine.

01:03:34.000 Something along those lines.

01:03:35.000 Neither one of those things is true.

01:03:37.000 No one wants to be powerless.

01:03:38.000 And I can attest to, in that moment in time, sort of, I was trying to control aspects of the uncontrollable, But I think the reason that many of us will find the out, look for it, take the defeat over the pain of the struggle is because we all find comfort in the idea that our limitations, our burdens, or even our ultimate defeats are completely out of our control.

01:04:00.000 Right?

01:04:01.000 If I die, I die. 0.94

01:04:03.000 It's just my time.

01:04:03.000 That's out of my hands.

01:04:05.000 But if I don't, the ball's back in my court.

01:04:08.000 If I don't die, this might hurt a lot.

01:04:10.000 I might have to go through a really tough climb just to get back to capable.

01:04:15.000 And it's an even harder pill to swallow that sometimes we feel the setback is out of our control, but the recovery is on us.

01:04:20.000 And that's a lot to take.

01:04:22.000 That's hard.

01:04:24.000 And that's life.

01:04:24.000 And you know what?

01:04:25.000 That never changes.

01:04:25.000 Let me give you another example from this crash that'll hopefully explain it.

01:04:29.000 Again, to explain a lot of the crap to unpack that I'm not proud of as it relates to ego.

01:04:34.000 Right after the accident, my friend Johnny Boy, who was driving, was shaking. 0.55

01:04:37.000 Okay, my vitals were fine.

01:04:39.000 His blood pressure was through the roof.

01:04:41.000 I could tell he was out of it in the past.

01:04:43.000 I hope he doesn't mind me sharing this.

01:04:44.000 I asked him before.

01:04:45.000 I know that he has had absent seizures when he was young, so I was very worried about him because he was shaking.

01:04:51.000 So our wives, Tim and Manny, who work with us, they're fantastic.

01:04:57.000 They came and got us off the freeway, went to a nearby McDonald's.

01:04:59.000 Right away I said, Johnny has to go home.

01:05:01.000 Send him home.

01:05:01.000 And I remember telling my wife and the team that I was pretty much fine and I just needed a moment to gather my bearings.

01:05:07.000 It was a lie.

01:05:09.000 I lied.

01:05:10.000 I did not feel fine.

01:05:12.000 And I said to them that I thought I could still go down to the AIDS walk and do the whole day of filming.

01:05:17.000 I said I just needed a minute.

01:05:18.000 It reminds me of that scene in, if you ever saw the film Regarding Henry, did you ever see Regarding Henry?

01:05:23.000 Yeah.

01:05:24.000 It's where Harrison Ford gets shot.

01:05:25.000 And I think it's the most accurate depiction of the kind of shock in that scenario ever put on screen.

01:05:30.000 Maybe along with Captain Phillips, that was really good too.

01:05:31.000 But Harrison Ford is at a convenience store getting a pack of smokes and a guy holding up the store, he just demands his wallet and he shoots him.

01:05:37.000 And Harrison Ford, he doesn't spin over like in a Spaghetti Western, or he doesn't scream in pain, he just holds up his hand and he, you know, Harrison Ford, he's, now wait, wait, wait, wait a minute, wait a minute, he's just holding, hold on, hold on a minute, and he falls over in shock.

01:05:50.000 And he's bleeding, he was shot.

01:05:52.000 And it's almost more impactful when you watch this because you think that's probably how someone might react.

01:05:55.000 That's how I felt at the McDonald's at that point.

01:05:58.000 I was saying, I'm fine, I just need to take a second.

01:06:00.000 But the adrenaline dump stopped, and I'm pretty sure the airbag boxed my right ear because I couldn't hear.

01:06:09.000 All day, it was ringing.

01:06:10.000 Just a high-pitched ringing, like in Saving Private Ryan.

01:06:14.000 I couldn't hear out of my right ear for the rest of the day.

01:06:17.000 And that was my equivalent to saying, well, hold on a minute.

01:06:20.000 I was sore.

01:06:21.000 I was tired.

01:06:22.000 I couldn't hear.

01:06:22.000 I didn't feel fine.

01:06:24.000 You know why I lied?

01:06:25.000 Because of ego.

01:06:27.000 I was thinking of the people depending on me, the people that we employ here, the idea that this story would circulate and that they would maybe say, oh man, you know, Steven was such a trooper, he went on down, he finished the segment anyway, and so I lied.

01:06:40.000 And I said it was fine.

01:06:41.000 But I remember when I was saying it, I was looking to my wife, and I think we've all done this at some point, I was looking to my wife with the eyes saying, I'm not fine, I'm not fine, step in here, call it, don't let me go, because I wanted to prove that I could do it.

01:06:52.000 But if my wife said, no, you're going home, well, guys, that's out of my hands.

01:06:58.000 See, the point here is, I realized that I wanted my limitations to be set by someone else.

01:07:03.000 I wanted my defeat, or what I perceived as my defeat, to be out of my control.

01:07:07.000 Because otherwise, people would see me as a quitter.

01:07:09.000 The truth is, in not being honest, in lying to myself and my team about what I could or couldn't control, that was more of quitting.

01:07:19.000 What would have been less of a quitter's mentality would have been to say, guys, I can't hear you.

01:07:24.000 My neck hurts.

01:07:25.000 I'm tired.

01:07:26.000 I'm going home.

01:07:26.000 We'll live to fight another day.

01:07:27.000 Because that would have been taking ownership of the situation myself.

01:07:31.000 But instead, I just wanted to say, no, no, no, I can do it.

01:07:33.000 I can do this.

01:07:34.000 And I was looking for anyone else, anyone else to take the out for me.

01:07:38.000 And that's the mentality of wanting to absolve myself of the responsibility of accepting and recognizing my own limitations.

01:07:45.000 And I was doing it all over again.

01:07:47.000 Just like the crash, the bargain with God.

01:07:49.000 Hey, if I die, that's fine.

01:07:51.000 That's on you. 0.98

01:07:51.000 Just please don't let me live and be a vegetable because that's on me and that's gonna suck and it'll be embarrassing. 0.98

01:07:57.000 In this scenario, I was saying, hey, if my wife calls it, if one of you calls it, that's on you.

01:08:00.000 There's nothing I can do.

01:08:01.000 If you don't, it's on me and I'm gonna have to grit my teeth and bear it.

01:08:06.000 It being on me is hard because that means now I've got a decision to make.

01:08:09.000 A decision to recognize my limitations and chart a realistic course of action to recognize what I could not do.

01:08:14.000 Now here's the thing.

01:08:15.000 Manny and Tim, they decided to call it.

01:08:18.000 They said, no, you're going home because they're good people.

01:08:20.000 And I'll tell you, I felt relief.

01:08:22.000 But that doesn't change that I was lying to myself.

01:08:25.000 They didn't decide for me.

01:08:27.000 I let them decide for me because through ego I basically abandon my post.

01:08:31.000 So my challenge to you is this.

01:08:33.000 Think of how often you do this.

01:08:34.000 Particularly the young men out there.

01:08:37.000 How often do you look for a reason to lie to yourself?

01:08:39.000 To present this facade of things being out of your control?

01:08:42.000 Just to avoid admitting your weaknesses?

01:08:45.000 Have you done it?

01:08:45.000 I guarantee you have.

01:08:48.000 I guarantee you'll do it this week.

01:08:49.000 Could be as severe as what I went through.

01:08:52.000 Or much more severe than what I went through.

01:08:53.000 Or it could be as simple as, oh, you know, I was late.

01:08:55.000 Traffic on the freeway.

01:08:56.000 It's out of my hands.

01:08:57.000 There's nothing I can do.

01:08:58.000 Is it?

01:08:59.000 Do you often find yourself running late?

01:09:02.000 Are you really Superman?

01:09:03.000 Do you make promises you can't keep?

01:09:04.000 Why?

01:09:05.000 And what I want you to do is rather than wait until a crisis occurs so you can throw up your hands and chalk it up to being out of your control, I want you to take inventory right now.

01:09:13.000 What are your limitations?

01:09:14.000 What are your weaknesses?

01:09:16.000 Your quiet time.

01:09:17.000 Take a minute.

01:09:18.000 Take inventory.

01:09:19.000 Because guess what?

01:09:20.000 It's okay.

01:09:22.000 It's okay to have limitations.

01:09:23.000 It's okay to have weaknesses.

01:09:24.000 It's okay to be honest about them.

01:09:26.000 This is where we get it wrong.

01:09:27.000 It's not okay to celebrate them.

01:09:29.000 We don't need to celebrate our weaknesses.

01:09:32.000 But it's good to work on them.

01:09:33.000 And there are many things in life that we can't control.

01:09:37.000 But I think we all want to bear a little less responsibility than we probably should sometimes.

01:09:41.000 Here's something you can control.

01:09:42.000 You can control right now recognizing your weaknesses, recognizing your limitations, and accepting the incremental improvements that you can make to correct them.

01:09:52.000 But you can never know what that is.

01:09:54.000 This is something, too.

01:09:55.000 We've talked about this a lot with knowing what the hard door is, knowing what the easy out is, and recognizing you can never know, you will never know what your potential is, what you're capable of truly accomplishing if you're lying to yourself because of ego.

01:10:08.000 The guy who claims he can do it all and can't, okay, is of far less value than the man who can look you in the eye and say, you know what?

01:10:15.000 I know that I can do this because I know that I can't do that.

01:10:20.000 So I can tell you about any shadow of a doubt, Because I know I can't do that, I know I can do this.

01:10:27.000 That's what the world needs more of.

01:10:30.000 That's a real man.

01:10:31.000 And we get it wrong a lot.

01:10:33.000 Take that experiment with you this week.

01:10:34.000 See how it turns out.

Louder with Crowder - March 29, 2019

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