The Ben Shapiro Show - A Tale Of Two Rallies | Ep. 715

00:00:00.000 President Trump rallies in El Paso, Beto responds, and the government shutdown deal is on the table.

00:00:05.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:06.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:07.000 Man, I knew that 2020 was going to be great.

00:00:17.000 I did not know that the circus was going to be this much fun.

00:00:20.000 All three rings of the circus have been filled and there are more rings to come. 0.92

00:00:23.000 More candidates thinking about entering and all of them making fools of themselves. 0.96

00:00:27.000 And it's just glorious. 0.85

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00:01:48.000 So last night, President Trump held his first real campaign rally of 2020.

00:01:54.000 And his first campaign rally of 2020 was a blowout.

00:01:57.000 I mean, there were thousands and thousands of people who showed up.

00:02:00.000 Gigantic crowd there on the border in El Paso.

00:02:04.000 And it was Trump at his finest.

00:02:05.000 I mean, it was freewheeling Trump.

00:02:07.000 It was Trump doing what he does best, just going off on folks.

00:02:10.000 It was pretty solid stuff. 0.98

00:02:11.000 So he began by launching into an attack on the Green New Deal and Alexandro Ocasio-Cortez's stupid frequently asked questions and backgrounder checklist. 0.96

00:02:21.000 Here he is going after AOC, and it is pretty spectacular. 0.94

00:02:24.000 Last week, they introduced a massive government takeover that would destroy our incredible economic gains.

00:02:32.000 They introduced the so-called Green New Deal.

00:02:39.000 It sounds like a high school Term paper that got a low mark.

00:02:44.000 This is exactly right, of course.

00:02:46.000 I mean, it's as though he listens to the show, since that's exactly what I said when it came out.

00:02:50.000 I said that this was a paper that should never have gotten a C-plus in an English class from, like, eighth grade, which is exactly right. 1.00

00:02:58.000 The president has a real benefit in 2020 that people are ignoring, and that is he will be running against a Democrat.

00:03:04.000 Everybody in 2020 is looking forward to the fact that Trump has low approval ratings.

00:03:08.000 Okay, so he's around 40, 42, 44 percent.

00:03:11.000 And the going wisdom is that that's just not popular enough to get re-elected.

00:03:15.000 That obviously is not true.

00:03:16.000 He was at 40 percent when he got elected in 2016. 0.93

00:03:19.000 And again, Democrats, as we will get to, are interested in making fools of themselves over and over.

00:03:24.000 This primary fight, not only is a lot of dirty laundry going to be aired, but An enormous amount of leftism is going to be pushed out into the public square because Democrats have to outflank each other.

00:03:34.000 If somebody gets to the left of the rest of the crowd, suddenly they're distinguished from the rest of the crowd.

00:03:39.000 In a race with 1,000 people, all you have to do to stand out is be the one person wearing a different color.

00:03:45.000 And in the Democratic Party primaries, The only way to do that is to outflank everybody to the left.

00:03:49.000 You can't outflank everybody to the right.

00:03:51.000 You can't be the moderate in the race and somehow win this thing.

00:03:53.000 The progressive base just won't stand for it, as Joe Biden may be about to learn.

00:03:57.000 So that means that Trump is going to be able to run against the craziness of the Democrats.

00:04:00.000 As I have said for literally three years at this point, All the Democrats had to do was not be crazy, and they just can't do it. 0.91

00:04:08.000 It is pathologically impossible for Democrats not to be insane at this point, because Trump has driven their base totally insane.

00:04:14.000 Now, does that mean they're necessarily going to lose?

00:04:16.000 Should we get overconfident about this thing?

00:04:18.000 No.

00:04:18.000 It doesn't mean the Democrats are necessarily going to lose.

00:04:20.000 Remember, Democrats thought the same thing about Republicans in 2016.

00:04:23.000 They thought that Obama had driven the right so insane that they nominated a cartoon character TV show host And then he was going to lose because the right had been driven crazy and then Trump ended up winning.

00:04:33.000 So it is quite possible for the left to be both insane and also to win.

00:04:37.000 It's a risky situation in the sense that whoever is put up there for the Democrats is going to be incredibly radical and that person does have a 40, 50, 60 percent shot at winning depending on what the circumstances are.

00:04:49.000 But suffice it to say, Trump is going to have a lot to run against.

00:04:51.000 But it wasn't just Trump running against the Democrats.

00:04:54.000 He also went after the fact-checkers in the media.

00:04:55.000 Again, well-deserved.

00:04:57.000 You can keep your doctor.

00:04:58.000 Remember that?

00:04:59.000 28 times.

00:05:02.000 That didn't happen.

00:05:04.000 Turned out to be a lie.

00:05:05.000 Hey, where are the fact checkers?

00:05:06.000 You know, some of the most dishonest people in media are the so-called fact checkers.

00:05:14.000 28 times.

00:05:14.000 You can keep your doctor.

00:05:17.000 That didn't turn out to be what he said.

00:05:19.000 They're coming for your money, and they're coming for your freedom, and it'll never happen.

00:05:25.000 Okay, and that of course is exactly true.

00:05:26.000 When he goes after the fact-checkers, that is absolutely accurate. 1.00

00:05:29.000 We talked yesterday about the Washington Post covering for AOC.

00:05:32.000 So AOC lied about her own release of her Green New Deal backgrounder and frequently asked question, and the Washington Post refused to even give her a Pinocchio on the basis of what was an obvious lie.

00:05:43.000 The fact-checkers are in the Democrat camp, Trump has a lot to run on there.

00:05:46.000 Trump also stood by his El Paso border remarks.

00:05:49.000 There are a bunch of fact-checkers who are suggesting that he was not telling the truth about the building of the border wall in El Paso.

00:05:56.000 He stood by his comments anyway.

00:05:57.000 I've been hearing a lot of things.

00:05:59.000 Oh, the wall didn't make that much of a difference.

00:06:00.000 You know where it made a big difference?

00:06:02.000 Right here in El Paso.

00:06:05.000 I spoke to people that have been here a long time.

00:06:07.000 They said when that wall went up, it's a whole different ballgame.

00:06:11.000 Is that a correct statement?

00:06:13.000 I don't care whether a mayor is a Republican or a Democrat. 0.99

00:06:16.000 They're full of crap when they say it hasn't made a big difference. 0.99

00:06:21.000 I heard the same thing from the fake news. 1.00

00:06:24.000 They said, oh, crime actually stayed the same.

00:06:27.000 Didn't stay the same.

00:06:28.000 Went way down.

00:06:30.000 Okay, so, he is not wrong that crime continued to drop.

00:06:32.000 The crime was already dropping by the time the border fencing was put in place.

00:06:35.000 What did drop were illegal border crossings.

00:06:37.000 Dan Crenshaw tweeted out yesterday a statistical chart showing that illegal border crossings into El Paso dropped pretty dramatically after the implementation of fencing, so Trump isn't totally wrong about this.

00:06:48.000 Trump also had one of his famous moments.

00:06:50.000 Protesters showed up, and I don't know what they think they're getting done by doing this, except for giving Trump something to bounce off of.

00:06:57.000 What's amazing to me is how short-sighted a lot of protesters are.

00:06:59.000 You know, I've had my share of protesters at my college speeches.

00:07:02.000 They come and they try to disrupt.

00:07:04.000 I don't know what is going through their heads.

00:07:05.000 Do they actually think they are accomplishing something good? 0.98

00:07:08.000 I guess that because they are patted on the back by many members of the left, because they are seen as people speaking truth to power, that this gives them the impetus to go out there and act like fools. 0.93

00:07:18.000 But all they're really doing is giving the president something to club into submission. 0.94

00:07:22.000 As I've been saying about President Trump for legitimately years at this point, the man is a hammer in search of a nail.

00:07:27.000 Sometimes he hits a nail, and it's incredibly satisfying.

00:07:29.000 Sometimes he hits a baby, and it's a lot less satisfying.

00:07:32.000 But when the protester shows up, they're giving him a nail that he can hit.

00:07:36.000 And President Trump takes out that sledgehammer and just wails away at it.

00:07:40.000 Rather than waiting online for five days, for nine days, for three weeks.

00:07:44.000 Where do these people come from?

00:07:53.000 Where do they come from?

00:07:57.000 They go back home to mommy.

00:07:59.000 They get punished when they get home.

00:08:02.000 That's great.

00:08:03.000 I mean, what can you say about that?

00:08:04.000 He's not wrong. 0.53

00:08:06.000 That's good stuff.

00:08:07.000 And this is where the president's best is off the cuff.

00:08:10.000 Honestly, he is very quick on his feet when it comes to rebutting people who don't like him.

00:08:14.000 And it comes off really well in crowd settings.

00:08:17.000 He also went after Ralph Northam in Virginia.

00:08:18.000 Again, Democrats providing him an endless font of material.

00:08:21.000 All Trump has to do in 2020 is just sit back, gather material, and then make fun of it.

00:08:26.000 Really, that's all he has to do.

00:08:27.000 He just has to play kind of low-rent Jon Stewart.

00:08:30.000 All he has to do is let the Democrats say things, and then he just comes out and he mocks them or repeats their comments.

00:08:35.000 Then the media go crazy.

00:08:36.000 How could Trump repeat his comments?

00:08:38.000 So Trump goes after Ralph Northam.

00:08:40.000 And it's just, I mean, this is solid stuff.

00:08:42.000 This is good material from the president of the United States.

00:08:45.000 Listen, is it Lincoln-esque?

00:08:46.000 No, but you know what you were getting when you elected President Trump?

00:08:49.000 The guy's been this way for years.

00:08:51.000 I'm still, I honestly, I find it rather hilarious and simultaneously off-putting when you see some of the folks who didn't vote for Trump in 2016.

00:09:00.000 And I didn't vote in the 2016 election for president.

00:09:03.000 When you see people who Are so anti-Trump on the right that they can't appreciate the humor of what President Trump does.

00:09:10.000 As though it's a brand new shock.

00:09:11.000 It's a brand new terrible thing every time he does something funny.

00:09:14.000 It's a brand new insult to the office.

00:09:16.000 Can you get off your high horse for just a second?

00:09:17.000 Barack Obama did an interview with a lady who once bathed in Cheerios.

00:09:21.000 Can you get off of it?

00:09:22.000 Like, the office of the presidency, it's been degraded for a little while now.

00:09:25.000 President Trump isn't anything new in this respect.

00:09:27.000 Can you just appreciate the humor for what it is?

00:09:29.000 Like, instead of sitting here and being the funny duddy, can you just appreciate that this is some funny stuff?

00:09:34.000 God!

00:09:35.000 It is!

00:09:36.000 It's funny!

00:09:36.000 Here's the president going after Ralph Northam, and it's pretty hilarious.

00:09:40.000 So in Virginia, the governor, he's gotten a little publicity lately.

00:09:46.000 I like him.

00:09:47.000 Keeps us out of the papers.

00:09:48.000 I like him.

00:09:50.000 I'd like to find a few more guys like this one.

00:09:53.000 He almost moonwalked.

00:09:54.000 His wife stopped him.

00:09:55.000 Darling, darling, it would be inappropriate.

00:09:57.000 I want to see somebody try and imitate Michael Jackson in the moonwalk.

00:10:03.000 This would not have been a good scene.

00:10:04.000 His wife saved him.

00:10:08.000 Come on! 0.61

00:10:09.000 That's great stuff!

00:10:10.000 It's just great!

00:10:11.000 I mean, look at— It's true!

00:10:13.000 It's true, and it's funny because it's true.

00:10:15.000 He also then repeated Ralph Northam's comments about abortion, and the media went crazy.

00:10:19.000 He suggested that Ralph Northam had said that a baby would be born alive during an abortion, they would keep the baby comfortable while the parents and the doctor decided whether to execute it or not, and people were like, How dare he?

00:10:28.000 Ralph Northam never said that.

00:10:29.000 He basically quoted Northam word for word.

00:10:31.000 So this was Trump at his finest last night.

00:10:34.000 If Trump does this, just this comedy routine all the way up till 2020, everyone will go home happy.

00:10:38.000 The economy, if it's still good, will be good.

00:10:40.000 Everybody will be in a good mood because this is some funny stuff.

00:10:43.000 But he saved his best repartee for Beto O'Rourke. 0.61

00:10:47.000 He saved his best stuff for Beto O'Rourke.

00:10:48.000 So here is the president of the United States.

00:10:50.000 Now, remember, This rally was being held at the El Paso County Coliseum and it was also broadcast outside the Coliseum on a giant screen because there was an overflow crowd of several thousand people because it was like 45 degrees out there.

00:11:03.000 But the President of the United States in El Paso?

00:11:05.000 You're gonna go, and you're gonna see it.

00:11:07.000 In just a second, I'm gonna explain to you what he did to Beto O'Rourke, who's holding a rally maybe 500, 1,000 feet away.

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00:12:47.000 So.

00:12:49.000 Trump saved his finest mockery for Beto O'Rourke, who's holding a counter-rally.

00:12:53.000 Now remember, El Paso is in O'Rourke's district, so you figure O'Rourke would have drawn a huge crowd.

00:12:58.000 We'll get to Beto's counter-rally in just a second.

00:13:00.000 President Trump spared no mockery for Beto O'Rourke, went directly at him, and yeah, this, come on, like, we live in a WWE world now.

00:13:09.000 So you can either root for the Undertaker, or you can root against the Undertaker.

00:13:13.000 Okay, that's all that's going on here.

00:13:15.000 And here comes The Undertaker, from the top rope, with the flying elbow, go!

00:13:19.000 A young man who's got very little going for himself, except he's got a great first name.

00:13:28.000 He is... He challenged us.

00:13:32.000 So we have, let's say, 35,000 people tonight, and he has 200 people, 300 people, not too good.

00:13:40.000 In fact, what I do, what I would do is I would say that may be the end of his presidential bid.

00:13:49.000 But he did challenge me.

00:13:50.000 So great.

00:13:51.000 Come on.

00:13:52.000 It's such good stuff.

00:13:54.000 You just got President Trump.

00:13:55.000 He's a showman.

00:13:56.000 He's a showman.

00:13:57.000 And he's at the center of this three ring circus, just making Beto O'Rourke jump through rings lit on fire.

00:14:03.000 It's phenomenal.

00:14:04.000 It's such good stuff.

00:14:06.000 So.

00:14:06.000 Meanwhile, Beto O'Rourke was giving his own rally, and things were not going all that great for Beto O'Rourke.

00:14:11.000 So a few things were going poorly for Beto O'Rourke.

00:14:14.000 One, as you can actually see from the footage, in the background of Beto O'Rourke's speech is a giant screen of President Trump speaking.

00:14:22.000 And Beto O'Rourke, he's now become a parody of Beto O'Rourke.

00:14:25.000 So Beto O'Rourke has been trying to do his Obama impersonation for a couple of years now.

00:14:29.000 And it was a pretty good impersonation when it was subtle.

00:14:32.000 Now, he's got the whole arm-waving thing.

00:14:34.000 Big arm motions for 2020.

00:14:37.000 He's broken out the full-on marionette posture for 2020.

00:14:42.000 And so he starts talking about standing for America and against walls.

00:14:46.000 He's saying this next to a fence that separates his rally.

00:14:49.000 We stand for America, and we stand against walls.

00:14:51.000 Also about a thousand feet from the actual border of El Paso, which, as it turns out, is covered with a lot of fencing.

00:14:57.000 So here is Beta O'Rourke railing against walls and fences. 1.00

00:14:59.000 Honestly, if Democrats want to make this their run, go for it, man.

00:15:02.000 Go for it.

00:15:03.000 We stand for America and we stand against walls.

00:15:10.000 We know that there is no bargain in which we can sacrifice some of our humanity to gain a little more security.

00:15:22.000 We know that we deserve and will lose both of them if we do.

00:15:28.000 Okay, no one knows what he's talking about, but he's making big arm motions really awkwardly.

00:15:32.000 So, it is amazing how so many of these Democratic candidates seem somewhat attractive and interesting on first glance, and then when they give a big campaign rally, suddenly they look like parodies of themselves.

00:15:42.000 We will show you the most hilarious moment of Beto's rally in just one second.

00:15:46.000 So, the funniest thing that happened at Beto's rally is that Again, he staged it too close to Trump's rally.

00:15:52.000 There were like a few hundred people at Beto's rally.

00:15:55.000 We still haven't seen a complete far shot of Beto's rally to see how many people showed up at his rally as opposed to Trump's.

00:16:00.000 So, Beto is giving his speech, and in the background, in the background, President Trump's walk-on music is drowning out Beto O'Rourke.

00:16:07.000 So it literally is WWE.

00:16:10.000 It's some guy in the center of the ring going, I'm gonna take The Undertaker, and then it's like, whose music is that?

00:16:15.000 It's the Undertaker's music.

00:16:16.000 Oh, my God.

00:16:18.000 Here in one of the safest cities in the United States of America.

00:16:32.000 And the cheers for the cheers are not at his rally.

00:16:36.000 The cheers are from the other rally for President Trump.

00:16:39.000 Now, I don't know who worked out the stagecraft for Beto O'Rourke.

00:16:42.000 My goodness, guys, I recommended that Beto O'Rourke do a rally at the same time as President Trump, but not like right there with 20 of his friends.

00:16:51.000 That looks not great.

00:16:53.000 That turns out to be a terrible, terrible idea.

00:16:55.000 Also, it's not real great when some of the people who show up to your rally are actually carrying Mexican flags. 0.66

00:17:00.000 That's not particularly wonderful.

00:17:02.000 People were hawking Beto 2020 buttons and holding signs, and they were selling Beto shirts.

00:17:06.000 And then there were a few folks who showed up with actual Mexican flags at the Beto counter rally, which, when you're trying to make the case that you're standing up for Texas, is not actually a wonderful, wonderful idea.

00:17:17.000 So, A bad night for for Beto O'Rourke.

00:17:20.000 But that's not a great shock.

00:17:21.000 The Democrats in 2020 are all struggling a little bit.

00:17:25.000 So there are a couple of stories about Kamala Harris that have come out today.

00:17:27.000 Both of them are just glorious.

00:17:29.000 Story number one about Kamala Harris, the Democratic frontrunner for 2020.

00:17:32.000 We call her the Democratic frontrunner not only because she's polling pretty well at this point, but because she fulfills the intersectional checkboxes. 0.57

00:17:38.000 She's black and she is a woman. 1.00

00:17:40.000 That's all you need in the Democratic primary to mean that you're going to win 15 to 20 percent of the vote pretty much automatically, according to the new math.

00:17:47.000 And I'm not saying this.

00:17:48.000 FiveThirtyEight is saying this.

00:17:50.000 Nate Silver is saying that there are actual segments of the Democratic Party that can be labeled black and Hispanic.

00:17:54.000 You can just label them by race.

00:17:56.000 So if you don't like me saying it, talk to lefty Nate Silver, the pollster.

00:18:00.000 OK, so here's a story that's not going to be great for Kamala Harris.

00:18:04.000 It turns out that Kamala Harris, her big threat is going to come not from her right because she's too radical. 1.00

00:18:09.000 It's going to come from her left.

00:18:10.000 Because it turns out that she was a prosecutor for a long time in the state of California. 0.99

00:18:14.000 Now, I think she was a garbage prosecutor. 1.00

00:18:15.000 The crime rates went up while Kamala Harris was Attorney General of the state. 0.96

00:18:19.000 She was actively involved in changing the language on some of the referenda in the state of California to loosen crime regulations so that people would be released from prison early and so that certain felonies would then be prosecuted as misdemeanors.

00:18:31.000 She was a very, very bad Attorney General, but Even being in the law enforcement system, according to the left, makes you a career narc.

00:18:39.000 You are now a person who is stamped with the badge of infamy.

00:18:42.000 You once worked for law enforcement.

00:18:44.000 So Kamala Harris is trying to live that down by suggesting that she was a subversive narc. 1.00

00:18:48.000 She was really a cool person.

00:18:50.000 She was super cool.

00:18:51.000 So she was asked on a show called The Breakfast Club whether indeed she has ever smoked pot.

00:18:56.000 And here was her supremely awkward answer.

00:18:58.000 Have you ever smoked?

00:19:00.000 I have.

00:19:00.000 Okay.

00:19:02.000 And I inhaled.

00:19:03.000 I did inhale.

00:19:06.000 It was a long time ago.

00:19:07.000 I know you have to go.

00:19:09.000 They say you have to go.

00:19:10.000 I just broke loose.

00:19:12.000 I mean, was it in college?

00:19:13.000 See, I like stuff like that.

00:19:15.000 That's a real honest answer.

00:19:17.000 Was it a blunt or joint?

00:19:19.000 It was a joint.

00:19:20.000 hey hey okay so she's cool because she's mug pot everybody's fun everybody's enjoying the fact that kamala harris smoked pot and also has a really awkward hillary-esque laugh it is a weird yeah people have weird quirks not unique to kamala harris everybody has sort of a weird quirk when when things get awkward how do you respond and for kamala harris she goes to her awkward laugh which is very much like the hillary clinton awkward laugh it's like nobody said anything really funny here senator but you're kind of laughing weird you're

00:19:45.000 That interview went on, and then things got a little dicey, because it turns out, she was an undercover cop.

00:19:52.000 So they asked her what was playing in the background when young Kamala was hitting a joint.

00:19:55.000 She said, oh yeah, definitely Snoop.

00:19:58.000 Tupac for sure.

00:19:59.000 So basically the only time she smoked pot was back in college and she was listening to Snoop or Tupac.

00:20:05.000 There is only one problem.

00:20:08.000 Tupac's first album came out in 1991.

00:20:10.000 Snoop's first album came out in 1993.

00:20:12.000 How do I know all this?

00:20:13.000 Because as you know, I'm a rap connoisseur.

00:20:16.000 Obviously.

00:20:17.000 No, I mean somebody else tweeted this.

00:20:18.000 Okay, Tupac's first album came out in 1991.

00:20:21.000 Snoop's first album came out in 1993.

00:20:23.000 Kamala Harris graduated college in?

00:20:26.000 1986.

00:20:26.000 So unless she got hold of the audition tapes for Tupac and Snoop some five to seven years before they actually premiered their work, This is bull.

00:20:38.000 So one of two things is true.

00:20:39.000 Either Kamala Harris smoked pot in college and also smoked pot a lot later in college, as in when she was a DA, because by this time she was a DA. 0.50

00:20:46.000 So she was toking while she was prosecuting people for toking, presumably.

00:20:50.000 Either that is the case, or she's just lying about having smoked pot, whatever it is, as was a comfortably smug or David Burge.

00:20:58.000 Basically, she's a character from 21 Jump Street.

00:21:01.000 That's what she is now.

00:21:03.000 She's... I'm so cool.

00:21:04.000 I'm one of the kids.

00:21:06.000 Also, I'm 50,000 years old.

00:21:09.000 Also, I don't remember what was playing on the radio.

00:21:11.000 It was probably... She's like, when I was in college, what were you playing?

00:21:14.000 It was Lady Gaga. 1.00

00:21:15.000 Lady Gaga wasn't born yet, Senator.

00:21:16.000 it doesn't matter.

00:21:17.000 Good times with Senator Harris.

00:21:24.000 Also, it turns out that Narke Harris, she apparently tried to stop the reduction of California's overcrowded prisons.

00:21:32.000 Now, how does this mesh with my contention that she was soft on crime and tried to let people out of prison? 0.90

00:21:36.000 Well, the answer is that she didn't want to prosecute additional people and put them in jail. 0.98

00:21:40.000 She just wanted to keep the people in jail who were there, there, so that they could fight wildfires. 0.83

00:21:45.000 I am not kidding you.

00:21:46.000 Article from the Daily Beast.

00:21:48.000 Apparently, lawyers for Harris wrote in a filing with the court, extending two-for-one credits to all minimum custody inmates at this time would severely impact fire camp participation, a dangerous outcome while California is in the middle of a difficult fire season and severe drought.

00:22:03.000 What does that mean?

00:22:04.000 Well, the lawyers say that California, they said that California met benchmarks and argued that if certain political parolees were given a faster track out of prison, it would negatively affect the prison's labor programs, where certain inmates were fighting California wildfires for two bucks a day, which is significantly below minimum wage in the state of California.

00:22:21.000 They also noted that draining the prisons of minimum custody inmates would deplete the labor force both internally and in local communities, Where low-level nonviolent offenders worked for pennies on the dollar collecting trash and tending to city parks.

00:22:32.000 So Narc Harris out there talking about how cool she was when she was smoking pot while listening to people who had not yet released albums.

00:22:39.000 She also was arguing, and her office was arguing, that we should keep prisoners in prison so that they could work for low wages, so slave labor for the state of California.

00:22:48.000 Yeah, things are gonna go great for Kamala Harris.

00:22:49.000 And it's not just Kamala Harris.

00:22:51.000 It gets even better.

00:22:52.000 So wait until you hear what Cory Booker is now proclaiming on the campaign trail.

00:22:57.000 Oh, these candidates.

00:22:58.000 Where do they come up with these folks? 0.76

00:22:59.000 As President Trump, where do they come up with them?

00:23:01.000 I don't even know.

00:23:02.000 Go back home to Miami.

00:23:03.000 We can get this in just a second.

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00:24:05.000 Alright, so here's what we have learned in the past 24 hours.

00:24:07.000 Beto O'Rourke is a marionette who can't draw a crowd in his hometown.

00:24:10.000 Kamala Harris is an ARC.

00:24:11.000 Again, that's WIN to 87222.

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00:24:14.000 All right, so here's what we have learned in the past 24 hours.

00:24:18.000 Beto O'Rourke is a marionette who can't draw a crowd in his hometown. 0.99

00:24:21.000 Kamala Harris is a narc. 0.98

00:24:23.000 And Cory Booker is Cory Booker. 0.97

00:24:26.000 Because, man, Cory Booker.

00:24:28.000 So, this is according to the Washington Free Beacon.

00:24:31.000 Senator Cory Booker said the planet can't sustain people eating meat, as the 2020 hopeful aims to become the first vegan president.

00:24:39.000 Booker told the vegan magazine VegNews, which I'm sure is just riveting stuff.

00:24:44.000 Like, do you open up the mailbox every Saturday to read the vegan magazine VegNews?

00:24:49.000 Where you're just like, oh man, look at that cucumber.

00:24:52.000 Man, the centerfold of a salad?

00:24:55.000 Unbelievable.

00:24:56.000 Booker, earlier this month, told VegNews that he became vegan after coming to the realization that eating eggs didn't align with my spirit.

00:25:06.000 Weird realization.

00:25:07.000 While claiming he does not want to lecture Americans on their diets, Booker said Americans need to be nudged into fake cheese because the planet cannot sustain the environmental impact of the food industry.

00:25:17.000 You see, the planet Earth moving towards what is standard American diet, Booker said.

00:25:20.000 We've seen this massive increase in consumption of meat produced by the industrial animal agriculture industry.

00:25:25.000 The tragic reality is this planet simply can't sustain billions of people consuming industrially produced animal agriculture because of environmental impact, he said.

00:25:33.000 It's just not possible.

00:25:34.000 Weird, because the planet...

00:25:36.000 A century ago had like 2 billion, 3 billion people.

00:25:39.000 Now we have some 8 billion people.

00:25:41.000 Most of those people are subsisting on a lot more meat than people were a century ago.

00:25:45.000 Things are okay.

00:25:46.000 Things are kind of okay.

00:25:47.000 It turns out, you know what we're really good at doing? 0.97

00:25:49.000 Growing cows, killing them, and eating them.

00:25:51.000 And also they taste delicious.

00:25:52.000 Now, this is coming from somebody who actually has a little bit of moral sympathy for the vegan position, or at least the vegetarian position.

00:25:59.000 The position that animals have a certain level of sentience, and killing them may be a morally questionable behavior in a hundred years.

00:26:05.000 People may look back on us and say, wow, you were killing animals to eat them?

00:26:09.000 That seems kind of barbaric.

00:26:10.000 I actually have a little bit of sympathy for that position.

00:26:12.000 Not enough sympathy to make me stop eating chicken or steak, but Some sympathy, at the very least. 0.99

00:26:17.000 But Booker is doing this in the worst and stupidest possible way. 0.96

00:26:20.000 He's saying the reason that you shouldn't eat meat is not for moral reasons, because you have objections. 0.99

00:26:24.000 You shouldn't eat meat because the planet can't help, the planet can't sustain you eating meat.

00:26:30.000 Except for, again, the population skyrocketing over the past 50 to 100 years, and people eating more meat, not less.

00:26:38.000 Booker says the devastating impact of greenhouse gases produced by the meat industry is just not practical.

00:26:42.000 So he too, like AOC, is deeply worried about farting cows.

00:26:46.000 He says the numbers just don't add up.

00:26:47.000 We will destroy our planet unless we start figuring out a better way forward when it comes to our climate change and our environment.

00:26:54.000 Booker said his vegan journey began in 1992 after reading Gandhi's biography.

00:26:59.000 He said he wants to make the existing model of the food industry obsolete.

00:27:02.000 He's going to have to come up with a better way of feeding billions of people, because you know what it turns out is very, very protein intense?

00:27:08.000 Meat.

00:27:09.000 People need protein.

00:27:10.000 If he can find a better way to generate these products, I'm all ears, man.

00:27:13.000 But if you are going to talk about starving people who need cheap meat to survive because you have moral objections to cow farts, Not as much sympathy.

00:27:24.000 He says, you never change things by fighting what exists in reality.

00:27:27.000 To change something, you gotta build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

00:27:30.000 That's the deal here.

00:27:31.000 American consumers should not be told what to eat, but if you provide viable alternatives in some cases that taste even better, and if people have more information, if we consumers are informed about whatever it is, the dangers of the overuse of plastics all the way to the conditions in which animals that we are consuming are being treated.

00:27:46.000 He says that his non-vegan friends love vegan foods, like his favorites, vegan pancakes and vegan stuffed French toast.

00:27:53.000 He says, I've seen incredible vegan cheese shops popping up around the country, and my friends who are lovers of cheese just can't tell the difference.

00:28:00.000 Okay.

00:28:01.000 Again, as somebody who's... There's a pretty good vegan restaurant here in town that's kosher, and it's good.

00:28:07.000 Is it as good as you know the natural thing?

00:28:08.000 No.

00:28:09.000 It is not.

00:28:10.000 I'm just gonna break it to you.

00:28:12.000 Vegan cheese?

00:28:13.000 Not as good as regular cheese.

00:28:15.000 Okay, and I say this as a person who's constantly used to eating ersatz foods because, for example, I can't eat pork because I'm a Jew, so we have kind of soy products that substitute.

00:28:27.000 I guarantee that my friends who do eat pork here, I have a feeling they might not like the soy products quite as much.

00:28:33.000 So, Cory Booker talking about how we all need to become vegan.

00:28:37.000 So that's going to be just wonderful.

00:28:39.000 So the Democrats, really, are they sending their best?

00:28:41.000 Apparently they are. 0.93

00:28:42.000 Bill de Blasio, that crazy nutjob who throws groundhogs, is headed to New Hampshire as he contemplates his run for the presidency. 0.92

00:28:51.000 He's a communist, but I guess that's kind of rote at this point for Democratic candidates. 0.94

00:28:55.000 He is now talking about running for president, so he's going to outflank everybody on the far left.

00:29:00.000 He's actually going to launch his campaign from Cuba.

00:29:03.000 He's traveling to Nashua, New Hampshire.

00:29:05.000 There he's going to meet with Mayor Jim Donchess and make chat with locals at a diner.

00:29:09.000 I do love this stuff about presidential politics.

00:29:11.000 It's where we all pretend that this is what normal politicians do.

00:29:14.000 And what normal politicians do is they just go to random places and stop at diners.

00:29:18.000 When's the last time you stopped at a diner?

00:29:20.000 Just like a random diner in the middle of nowhere.

00:29:23.000 Probably not that often.

00:29:25.000 Probably you have like your local eateries that you go to.

00:29:27.000 But politicians apparently spend their days finding babies to pat on the head and diners to go to.

00:29:32.000 I promise you, by the way, when he walks into a diner in Nashua, New Hampshire, nobody's gonna know who he is.

00:29:36.000 He's gonna walk in, people are gonna be like, who's that big geeky guy?

00:29:39.000 And why is he carrying a groundhog?

00:29:40.000 And why is he wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt?

00:29:42.000 That's weird.

00:29:44.000 On Friday evening, de Blasio will drive to Concord, where he will meet with local organizers of the group Rights and Democracy New Hampshire, which describes itself as part of a movement across the region to counter the influence of money in politics.

00:29:56.000 Apparently, his people are telling His people are telling the press that he wants to make sure ideas like pre-K for all, paid personal time, and mental health are on the table as Democrats debate the party's vision for the future.

00:30:10.000 Everybody in the pool, every single person is going to run for president, and it's going to be delicious.

00:30:15.000 So that is pretty excellent stuff.

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00:31:41.000 Okay, so as all of this continues, it is wonderful to watch the media defend the fresh faces of the Democratic Party.

00:31:52.000 So much freshness.

00:31:53.000 So much faceness.

00:31:55.000 So, Ilhan Omar, you will recall, is an anti-Semite.

00:31:58.000 She has a long anti-Semitic record.

00:31:59.000 She says lots of anti-Semitic stuff, like all the time.

00:32:01.000 And then over the weekend, she was like, the Jews and their shekels are paying for Israel support. 0.94

00:32:07.000 And people are like, what do you mean, Congresswoman?

00:32:09.000 And she was like, AIPAC.

00:32:11.000 And then, the Democratic higher-ups are like, could you apologize for that, please?

00:32:17.000 And she's like, okay, I apologize, but also, the Jews! 1.00

00:32:21.000 And AIPAC!

00:32:23.000 And then the media responded to that by saying, look, she apologized, why can't you just leave this stuff alone?

00:32:27.000 It's enough, right?

00:32:28.000 I mean, come on!

00:32:28.000 Leave her alone!

00:32:29.000 She's a fresh! 0.99

00:32:30.000 She's a face! 1.00

00:32:31.000 She's a fresh face!

00:32:31.000 Come on!

00:32:33.000 Well, I'm going to show you some tape of Ilhan Omar, and we will determine if she sounds truly regretful at her anti-Semitism.

00:32:39.000 I'm going to go with no.

00:32:41.000 I don't want to prejudge this for you, but I'm going to go with no.

00:32:44.000 So here she was walking through Congress, and she was asked if she regrets her comments.

00:32:48.000 Her answer?

00:32:50.000 Not really.

00:32:50.000 Do you regret your comments, Congressman?

00:32:55.000 I'm pretty sure that was stated in my statement.

00:32:57.000 Were you surprised by the criticism?

00:33:00.000 Always surprised.

00:33:02.000 Are you worried about losing committee assignment?

00:33:04.000 Absolutely not.

00:33:05.000 Okay, so she is an angry, angry human, right?

00:33:08.000 She's very upset about all of this.

00:33:09.000 Does that seem like somebody who really has learned her lesson?

00:33:12.000 Or does that seem like somebody who's pissed that they were called out?

00:33:15.000 Does that seem like a teenager who's pissed that their mom caught the pot in the- found the pot in the top drawer?

00:33:19.000 Like Kamala Harris.

00:33:21.000 Are they- It doesn't matter.

00:33:24.000 Look, she is an anti-Semite. 1.00

00:33:25.000 She, three weeks ago, had to apologize for anti-Semitism. 0.94

00:33:27.000 Then, three weeks later, she had to apologize for anti-Semitism.

00:33:30.000 So start your clocks now.

00:33:32.000 It has been one day since accident.

00:33:34.000 Because in three weeks, they're going to have to reset that clock again.

00:33:37.000 Is she going to lose her committee assignments?

00:33:38.000 Of course she's not going to lose her committee assignments.

00:33:40.000 Steve King, the congressman from Iowa, said that white nationalism shouldn't be a term of castigation.

00:33:46.000 It shouldn't be a bad term. 1.00

00:33:47.000 He lost all of his committee assignments, as he should have.

00:33:50.000 Republicans punished him.

00:33:51.000 Ilhan Omar said the Jews are paying for support for Israel and everybody in the Democratic Party just shrugged.

00:33:57.000 Or even better, members of the left suggested that the real problem with her comments was not that she was anti-Semitic.

00:34:03.000 The real problem is that it gave credence to the right.

00:34:06.000 That it gave the right room to run.

00:34:07.000 Michelle Goldberg, who is, again, one of the repository of intellectuals over at the New York Times, by which I mean I love that angle.

00:34:15.000 intellectually swirls the drain in your toilet.

00:34:18.000 So she has a piece today in the New York Times.

00:34:19.000 It is called Ilhan Omar's very bad tweets.

00:34:22.000 Left-wing antisemitism is a gift to the right.

00:34:24.000 I love that angle.

00:34:27.000 So normally, when we say antisemitism is bad, usually we say it's bad because it's, you know, bad.

00:34:34.000 And so if I were to write a column about Steve King, I would say that white nationalism is bad.

00:34:39.000 I wouldn't say it's a gift to the left.

00:34:40.000 I'd say it's bad.

00:34:41.000 It's just bad. 0.73

00:34:43.000 It turns out that hating Jews? 0.97

00:34:44.000 Bad thing. 0.95

00:34:45.000 According to the left, hating Jews is only bad when you say it out loud and it backfires on you.

00:34:49.000 That's when it gets kind of awkward.

00:34:50.000 So Michelle Goldberg has a full column about all of this.

00:34:53.000 She says, Last October, after a crude mail bomb was found in George Soros' mailbox, Representative Kevin McCarthy, the California Republican, who is now the House Minority Leader, tweeted, We cannot allow Soros, Steyer, and Bloomberg to buy this election.

00:35:05.000 The tweet, since deleted, was referring to Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg, both of them like Soros Jews who are often the object of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

00:35:12.000 Speaking on CNN, Steyer, who had also been sent a mail bomb, described McCarthy's tweet as a straight-up anti-Semitic move.

00:35:19.000 By the way, it was not.

00:35:20.000 Tom Steyer is a very wealthy person who gives a lot of money to politics.

00:35:24.000 Michael Bloomberg does the same.

00:35:26.000 So does George Soros.

00:35:27.000 That is not the same thing as saying the Jews are buying support for other Jews on the basis of their Jew money, which is what Ilhan Omar said.

00:35:34.000 She was saying that Jewish money stands behind support for the Jewish state.

00:35:38.000 It is not anti-Semitism to say Michael Bloomberg gives a lot of money to anti-Second Amendment causes.

00:35:42.000 That is a fact.

00:35:43.000 It is not anti-Semitism to say that Tom Steyer spends a lot of money That is a fact.

00:35:50.000 And it is not a slander or an anti-Semitic libel to suggest that George Soros spends a lot of money on a lot of left-wing crazy causes.

00:35:57.000 That is absolutely true.

00:36:00.000 It is, however, a lie to suggest that Jewish money is behind American support for Israel.

00:36:04.000 That is not true in the slightest.

00:36:06.000 Nonetheless, Michelle Goldberg is very angry against Republicans, because after all, when Ilhan Omar, a Democrat, says something bad about Jews, you obviously have to talk about Kevin McCarthy.

00:36:15.000 She says, it would have been easy enough for either Omar or Rashida Tlaib to point out McCarthy's cynical hypocrisy.

00:36:21.000 Instead, Omar responded with a blithely incendiary tweet, quoting Puff Daddy's odes to the power of money.

00:36:26.000 It's all about the Benjamins, baby.

00:36:28.000 When an editor at The Forward, a Jewish publication, asked who Omar thinks is paying American politicians to be pro-Israel, she responded, AIPAC.

00:36:35.000 Consciously or not, Omar invoked a poisonous anti-semitic narrative about Jews using their money to manipulate global affairs.

00:36:40.000 I do enjoy the consciously or not addendums here.

00:36:43.000 It's funny how people on the left will immediately apply those adjectives and modifiers to situations that are clearly conscious.

00:36:51.000 Ilhan Omar knows exactly what she is saying.

00:36:53.000 As I mentioned on yesterday's radio show, Ilhan Omar is scheduled on February 23rd to speak alongside an actual terrorist supporter.

00:37:02.000 I mean, this is not a person who's a babe in the woods when it comes to these subjects.

00:37:05.000 In 2013, she gave an interview where she laughed about Hamas and Hezbollah alongside a host who calls Israel the Jewish ISIS.

00:37:13.000 So Michelle Goldberg says on Monday afternoon, Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the House Democratic leadership rebuked Omar and called on her to apologize for her use of anti-Semitic tropes and prejudicial accusations about Israel supporters.

00:37:24.000 It was a depressing fall from grace for someone who just a few weeks ago was feeded as a pathbreaker, a refugee from Somalia who, alongside Tlaib, rose to become one of America's first two Muslim congresswomen.

00:37:35.000 Omar herself has been subject to vicious Islamophobic smears.

00:37:39.000 Yes, she's the real victim here.

00:37:40.000 Then she says, the real problem here, the real problem is that because Ilhan Omar said something anti-Semitic, she has now undercut the anti-Israel case.

00:37:50.000 She says, in truth, while AIPAC's influence is extensive, no one needs to pay off conservatives to make them support Israel.

00:37:55.000 Evangelicals, a far bigger constituency than American Jews, tend to be pro-Israel for religious reasons.

00:37:59.000 Not long after Pelosi's statement, Omar released one of her own, apologizing unequivocally.

00:38:04.000 Personally, I'm happy to accept her apology.

00:38:06.000 Oh, are you? 0.99

00:38:07.000 There's a giant ass shock. 0.97

00:38:09.000 That is a huge shock that Michelle Goldberg is willing to accept a completely insincere apology from a member of her own political caucus. 0.99

00:38:16.000 Parsonship, hell of a drug.

00:38:18.000 She's very upset that Ilhan Omar exposed the rifts inside the intersectional coalition.

00:38:21.000 Our mutual future depends on deepening this country's embattled commitment to multi-ethnic democracy.

00:38:25.000 Prejudice helps bind the modern right together, but unchecked, it can rip the left apart.

00:38:30.000 So she's very upset that Ilhan Omar exposed the rift inside the intersectional coalition.

00:38:34.000 Instead, Ilhan Omar should be anti-Semitic, but quietly.

00:38:37.000 That'd be the best thing.

00:38:38.000 If she could, you know, take that anti-Semitism and shove it back into the anti-Zionism, anti-Israel box, then we can all pretend that they're not anti-Semitic. 0.55

00:38:45.000 They just don't like Israel. 0.96

00:38:47.000 But they like Jews! 1.00

00:38:48.000 They just don't like Israel. 0.96

00:38:50.000 Or the people who live in Israel. 0.59

00:38:52.000 Who happen to be Jews.

00:38:53.000 Because the Jewish state.

00:38:55.000 It shouldn't exist. 0.99

00:38:55.000 Because of the Jews. 0.99

00:38:57.000 So, very solid stuff there from the media.

00:38:59.000 That is not the only media defense of the fresh faces of the Democratic Party.

00:39:04.000 Best headline of the day.

00:39:06.000 Okay, so here's the best headline of the day.

00:39:07.000 This one comes courtesy of the New York Times.

00:39:10.000 I do love it.

00:39:11.000 So, Ocasio-Cortez team flubs a Green New Deal summary and Republicans pounce.

00:39:18.000 Yes!

00:39:19.000 I wish I could buy, honestly, I wish I could buy stock in particular words.

00:39:23.000 If I could buy stock in pounce, I would have bought stock in pounce like three years ago, and man, I would be a wealthy man today.

00:39:29.000 Because the Democrats have such supporters in the media.

00:39:32.000 Every time the Democrats make a mistake, the story is Republicans pouncing.

00:39:36.000 They're like young Simba in The Lion King.

00:39:38.000 Pounce! 0.98

00:39:39.000 Out of your pounce! 0.98

00:39:41.000 It's amazing. 1.00

00:39:42.000 All these evil, terrible Republicans pouncing on Democrats for their Support of infanticide and racism and blackface and antisemitism. 0.99

00:39:51.000 Why won't these Republicans stop pouncing on innocent Democrat infanticidal maniacs? 0.99

00:39:56.000 Why won't they just stop their pouncing? 1.00

00:39:58.000 The real problem here is the pouncing, obviously.

00:40:00.000 Now, I assume the editors at the New York Times must know what they're doing here.

00:40:04.000 I assume they know that they're just tweaking people on the right.

00:40:06.000 If so, it just demonstrates their insane bias even more.

00:40:09.000 If not, then their bias is bad enough.

00:40:12.000 But if they know what they're doing, it's even worse.

00:40:14.000 Ocasio-Cortez team flubs a Green New Deal summary and Republicans pounce.

00:40:18.000 Coral Davenport reporting for the New York Times.

00:40:21.000 Days after introducing her Green New Deal, a plan to combat climate change that has won the endorsement of several Democratic presidential candidates, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez found the proposal enmeshed in confusion when her staff published a summary that included provisions not endorsed by the candidates.

00:40:35.000 Okay, a couple of things to note here.

00:40:37.000 The FAQ and background check, the backgrounder and the frequently asked questions document was posted about two days, two days before the Green New Deal resolution hit the floor of the subcommittee in the House.

00:40:49.000 So that's not even accurate reporting.

00:40:51.000 It is not accurate that all of these Democrats endorsed the Green New Deal and then Ocasio-Cortez came out with the flub document.

00:40:56.000 She came out with the flub document and then, two days after that, she was forced to pull it down because the Green New Deal came out. 0.65

00:41:04.000 Over the weekend, her staff backed away from the document, saying it was incomplete and had been published by accident.

00:41:09.000 After Republicans pounced on the plan, citing a blog post of frequently asked questions.

00:41:14.000 It was not a blog post.

00:41:15.000 She put it up on her own campaign website.

00:41:18.000 She emailed it to various media outlets.

00:41:21.000 It's not a blog post.

00:41:24.000 This is what passes for reporting at the New York Times.

00:41:26.000 The post included language that called for economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work.

00:41:31.000 The plan, written by Ms.

00:41:32.000 Ocasio-Cortez, a freshman Democrat from New York and Senator Edward Markey of Massachusetts, was modeled on FDR's New Deal and embraced by several presidential candidates.

00:41:40.000 It was also welcomed by Senator Bernie Sanders.

00:41:42.000 The sweeping resolution, which calls for the United States to eliminate additional emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide by 2030, was also signed by more than 60 House and Senate Democrats.

00:41:51.000 The plan is a non-binding resolution and outlines goals in broad strokes rather than mapping out concrete legislation.

00:41:57.000 Spokeswomen and spokesmen for Senators Harris, Gillibrand, Booker, and Sanders did not return telephone calls or emails requesting comment on the error.

00:42:04.000 So shouldn't that be the headline?

00:42:06.000 Shouldn't that be the headline?

00:42:08.000 Shouldn't the headline be, every Democrat running for president who endorsed this plan refuses to answer questions about AOC's plan for the Green New Deal?

00:42:16.000 Shouldn't that be the headline?

00:42:17.000 How is the headline, Republicans pounce?

00:42:19.000 How in the world is the headline, Republicans react to thing Democrats did?

00:42:22.000 That's called every day in politics in this country.

00:42:25.000 Every single day, every single hour, every single minute.

00:42:29.000 Let's say that the sun rises this morning.

00:42:32.000 And let's also say that a famous person dies.

00:42:34.000 Is the headline sunrises in the morning or famous person dies?

00:42:38.000 You're adding no information.

00:42:40.000 News is about breaking new information, presumably.

00:42:42.000 You're adding no information by headlining that Republicans react to a thing Democrats did.

00:42:47.000 It would be significantly more important information, I would think, that Democrats will not answer simple questions about what exactly AOC posted online. 0.98

00:42:57.000 Because they are so afraid of her on the one hand, and they are afraid to endorse her idiocy on the other. 0.98

00:43:02.000 I mean, that's just unreal. 1.00

00:43:04.000 Ms.

00:43:05.000 Ocasio-Cortez has promoted the plan as a blueprint for the eventual Democratic presidential nominee, but Republicans have turned the episode, with the frequently asked questions, into a campaign moment, putting out a news release saying the document revealed the extreme left's startling priorities.

00:43:19.000 That's the real story, is that Republicans turned a Democrat gaffe into a Democrat gaffe, because that's never happened before in politics.

00:43:27.000 According to the New York Times, however, mistakes happen.

00:43:30.000 Mistakes happen.

00:43:31.000 This is the last paragraph.

00:43:33.000 Mistakes happen when coordinating multiple groups and collaborators, said AOC's campaign chief of staff.

00:43:39.000 What's in the resolution is the Green New Deal.

00:43:41.000 Oh, okay.

00:43:42.000 Well, I'm glad that we got all of that settled.

00:43:43.000 Well done, media.

00:43:44.000 Meanwhile, it looks like a budget deal is now on the table.

00:43:48.000 It's not a very good budget deal, but It's what President Trump may get after all of this hubbub.

00:43:53.000 According to the Associated Press, three people familiar with Congress's tentative border deal tell the Associated Press that the accord would provide $1.375 billion to build 55 miles of new border barriers.

00:44:03.000 That is well below the $5.7 billion President Trump demanded to build over 200 miles of wall along the Mexican boundary.

00:44:10.000 Apparently, the money will be for vertical steel slats called bollards, not a solid wall.

00:44:15.000 Democrats dropped their proposal to limit the number of detained immigrants caught inside the U.S.

00:44:19.000 to a daily average of 16,500.

00:44:21.000 Republicans opposed that demand.

00:44:23.000 There is currently no such limit.

00:44:25.000 Instead, bargainers agreed to fund 40,520 beds to detain immigrants entering or in the United States illegally.

00:44:31.000 That is the same number funded last year, but the actual figure held is around 49,000.

00:44:36.000 So, in other words, after all of this, President Trump is not going to get any more money than he would have gotten in the original budget that was presented to him by the Democrats, which included $1.3 billion to build whatever he wanted.

00:44:48.000 It was just funding for border security.

00:44:51.000 He refused that.

00:44:51.000 He wanted more money.

00:44:52.000 He didn't get more money.

00:44:53.000 But now he can claim that there's some money to build 55 miles of new border barriers?

00:44:58.000 I suppose.

00:44:58.000 Sean Hannity was livid about this yesterday on his Fox News program, as well he should be.

00:45:02.000 This deal is a garbage deal. 0.96

00:45:04.000 It doesn't give the president anything more than he would have had if he had never gone through this rigmarole in the first place. 0.99

00:45:09.000 And again, Democrats actually made it a negotiating point to have fewer beds available to house criminal illegal aliens so that they would be released into the general population.

00:45:19.000 That's a pretty amazing thing.

00:45:21.000 So do I think that Trump ends up going for the deal?

00:45:23.000 I think there's enough blowback from the right that Trump ends up declaring a national emergency or having his Department of Defense say that we need additional wall building and additional fencing to stop drug corridors along the southern border.

00:45:34.000 I think that's probably the direction that he is going to go politically.

00:45:37.000 It makes more sense than signing off on this deal.

00:45:39.000 But if the president just wants to get past it and move on to 2020 and he'll sign this deal, we will all move on.

00:45:44.000 He won't pay a serious price for this with his base.

00:45:47.000 Honestly, from a political point of view, I get it.

00:45:49.000 From a we-need-a-wall point of view, I don't get it at all.

00:45:52.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:45:55.000 So, things that I like today.

00:45:58.000 This is pretty hilarious.

00:45:59.000 A bunch of college students were asked about the Green New Deal.

00:46:02.000 And as per the usual arrangement around the United States, when college students are asked about anything that sounds like a left-wing proposal, they love it until they're told what's in it.

00:46:10.000 This is true for every poll ever taken.

00:46:11.000 When people are asked whether they like socialism, people are like, yeah, socialism sounds great!

00:46:15.000 They're like, oh yeah, that'll be 60% taxes on you, and also we're gonna end your private health insurance. 0.96

00:46:20.000 And they're like, oh wait, hold up, that's not as great.

00:46:23.000 That's not particularly awesome.

00:46:25.000 Okay, so here was a person from Campus Reform going around asking college students about the Green New Deal.

00:46:30.000 Their responses are quite hilarious.

00:46:32.000 Based on what you've heard of the plan, would you say you view it favorably or unfavorably?

00:46:36.000 I view it favorably.

00:46:37.000 I think that we need to cut our reliance on fossil fuels.

00:46:40.000 It's definitely a great idea.

00:46:41.000 I like that it's progressive.

00:46:43.000 I like that it is going to push the world forward in the way we need to be.

00:46:47.000 So the plan says within 10 years, we're going to completely outlaw coal, natural gas, and oil.

00:46:53.000 So gasoline, anything like that, in 10 years.

00:46:55.000 I don't agree with that.

00:46:57.000 To be honest with you, I think we need those things to live.

00:46:59.000 I do not think it is feasible in 10 years.

00:47:02.000 If you're unwilling to work, we will still supply help for your salary and help for a living wage.

00:47:07.000 No, absolutely not.

00:47:08.000 If you're not willing to contribute to society, then I don't think that the people who are contributing should pay for you.

00:47:14.000 Eliminating almost all air travel with high-speed rails.

00:47:17.000 What's your thought on that?

00:47:19.000 Uh, I feel like it's kind of the same one.

00:47:20.000 It's like, I feel like 10 years is a little extreme for that.

00:47:22.000 I think that's drastic.

00:47:23.000 I haven't heard of that one yet.

00:47:25.000 Who's gonna pay for all of it?

00:47:27.000 Who's gonna offset the trillions of dollar cost it would be?

00:47:29.000 Right.

00:47:30.000 I don't know.

00:47:32.000 Nobody knows.

00:47:33.000 Based on what you've heard from these, does it change your perception of the planet at all?

00:47:36.000 Yeah.

00:47:37.000 A lot.

00:47:37.000 Sometimes you need to take extreme measures to save the environment, but I don't think that is like, I think it's a bit too extreme.

00:47:43.000 Okay, so even these college students are realizing that these proposals are insane, which is why all Trump has to do is just let Democrats make the proposals, and then he has to point out that these proposals are in fact fully insane.

00:47:54.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.

00:48:00.000 Okay, so, thing I hate, number one.

00:48:04.000 There's a pair of shoes that were distributed by Walmart, and Katy Perry, I guess, was the branding name on it.

00:48:11.000 These shoes are just, they come in black, and they come in yellow, and they come in white, like, they come in various colors, and they have eyes, a nose, and a mouth on them. 0.89

00:48:19.000 The only question you should be asking about these shoes is why in the hell anyone would buy them because they're hideous. 0.95

00:48:24.000 I mean, I am not a fashion critic, but these are ugly, ugly shoes. 0.84

00:48:26.000 But that is not the question that people began asking.

00:48:28.000 The question people began asking were, were the shoes blackface?

00:48:32.000 Were the shoes blackface? 0.72

00:48:34.000 It's a shoe.

00:48:35.000 That comes in multiple colors.

00:48:38.000 With just eyes and nose and mouth on them.

00:48:40.000 Is it blackface? 0.99

00:48:41.000 Like making fun of black people. 1.00

00:48:43.000 These are what we call forced world problems. 0.97

00:48:45.000 If you really believe that Katy Perry designed a hideous shoe specifically to make fun of black people, and you are deeply insulted by a shoe, and you think that the people walking around in those shoes are attempting to insult black people, or that you should feel insulted by a shoe, let me suggest that you need to get your priorities in order.

00:49:03.000 These are not shoes with swastikas on them. 0.93

00:49:05.000 These are not shoes with confederative flags on them.

00:49:07.000 These are shoes with eyes, a nose, and a mouth on them.

00:49:10.000 And yet, they are now being... Seriously, these were now pulled from the shelves because they were blackface shoes. 0.99

00:49:16.000 We have lost our minds.

00:49:18.000 In similar news, hilariously, there is a shirt that was available at Bloomingdale's that said on it, fake news, and our journalistic firefighters rushing to the site of the fire to fight those fires every day.

00:49:29.000 They rushed to the site of the fire where they proceeded to say that those fake news shirts had to be taken off the shelves because if journalists stand for one thing, it's freedom of speech.

00:49:38.000 That's the thing they stand for.

00:49:40.000 The shirts were removed, lest anyone believe that fake news is fake news.

00:49:44.000 So, well done, again, journalists.

00:49:47.000 Not all heroes wear capes.

00:49:48.000 Okay, final thing that I hate.

00:49:50.000 So Bill Nye, who is a science guy by way of not knowing a lot of kind of basic things about science, shockingly enough, He did a video about abortion.

00:50:00.000 It is the worst video, the worst pro-abortion video I have ever seen.

00:50:04.000 It is just a giant straw man against the pro-life movement.

00:50:07.000 But again, we're supposed to pretend that he knows things because he wears a bow tie and he knew, like, basic scientific stuff when we were in third grade.

00:50:13.000 When it comes to women's rights with respect to their reproduction, I think you should leave it to women. 1.00

00:50:20.000 She has rights over this, especially if she doesn't like the guy that got her pregnant.

00:50:26.000 She doesn't want anything to do with your genes. 0.99

00:50:28.000 Get over it.

00:50:29.000 If you're going to say, when an egg is fertilized, it's therefore has the same rights as an individual, then whom are you going to sue?

00:50:40.000 Whom are you going to imprison?

00:50:42.000 Every woman who's had a fertilized egg pass through her? 1.00

00:50:45.000 It's just a reflection of a deep scientific lack of understanding.

00:50:50.000 Okay, he doesn't, honestly God, he's a mechanical engineer, okay, he got his career started as a mechanical engineer, and he doesn't know things.

00:50:55.000 First of all, he just equated miscarriage with abortion.

00:50:58.000 And when he says every woman who has a fertilized egg pass through her, if you had a miscarriage, That's not an abortion.

00:51:04.000 What we are talking about when we talk about abortion is the forcible ending of an incipient human life.

00:51:08.000 That is what we are talking about.

00:51:10.000 And when he says that you should be able to abort a kid because you don't like the father?

00:51:14.000 I mean, it's hard to imagine a more evil thing than that. 0.99

00:51:16.000 So if you get divorced, can you shoot your seven-year-old? 0.99

00:51:20.000 Really, this is the logic.

00:51:21.000 The logic is you don't like the person with whom you share genetic material, and thus that genetic material loses all right to exist.

00:51:28.000 That's a pretty astonishingly broad argument.

00:51:30.000 As you would say in law school, it's an argument that proves too much.

00:51:33.000 But again, we're supposed to pretend that Bill Nye knows things because we called him the science guy back when he wore a white coat.

00:51:37.000 And back, by the way, when he used to say that male and female were things that were determined by genetics.

00:51:42.000 So, that's good times for Bill Nye the science guy.

00:51:45.000 Alrighty, so.

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00:51:58.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - February 12, 2019

A Tale Of Two Rallies | Ep. 715

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