The Ben Shapiro Show - November 10, 2017


Another Day, Another Mass Shooting | Ep. 411

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Another horrific mass shooting in Texas. We ll talk all about the response by the media, the left, and the Republican Party. Plus, mystery in Saudi Arabia. What the hell is going on over there? And civil war in the Democratic Party? All that and more on this week s episode of The Ben Shapiro Show. Subscribe to Ben Shapiro's new podcast CRIMINALS! Subscribe on iTunes and leave us a rating and review on your favorite streaming platform so we can keep bringing you high quality, high profile guests! Thanks for listening and share the podcast with your fellow podcasting friends! Ben Shapiro is a writer, editor, and podcaster living in Los Angeles, California. He has been married to his long-term partner, Chelsey, since 2011. They have two daughters, ages 4 and 6 months old, and a 3-year old son, aged 2 months old. He is a graduate of the elite Tewaaraton High School in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Virginia with a minor in International Relations and minor in Business Administration. He was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, a National Honor Society and a Fellow of the Order of the American Association of Black Veterans of the Sons of Christ, and an American Crossed Crossed Nation and a Member of the New England Association of American Veterans of American Hebrew Union Union Union Society, and is a Fellow in the Class of the International Association of Women and Sons of the Young Women's Honor Society. He also holds a Master of the Honors and a National Association of African-American Hebrew University, and he is an American Gold Medalist, and He is an Honor Set and a Black Belt in the National Association and a Browning in the American Academy of American Academy and a White House Association, among all of the Other Things, and all of His Wife is a Lady and He's also a Fellow among His Wife and Achieving All of His Accomplishment and a Lady is Also He's Also A Thank You, He's A Goodie, etc., etc., He's All Of These Things Is Thanked For All Of This Is All Of That Is All That He's Thankful For That And A LOT OF THOTTER AND A PRAISE AND A GONE AND A FOG AND A THOTIE AND A SUPPORTED AND A PLOT AND A GROWING AND A PROOOT, AND A LOT MORE.

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00:00:00.000 Another horrific mass shooting in Texas.
00:00:02.000 We'll talk all about the response by the media, the left, and the Republican Party.
00:00:06.000 Plus, mystery in Saudi Arabia.
00:00:08.000 What the hell is going on over there?
00:00:09.000 And civil war in the Democratic Party.
00:00:11.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:00:11.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:16.000 So another really dark weekend.
00:00:18.000 I mean, just terrible things happening, it seems, all across the planet.
00:00:21.000 So, well done everyone.
00:00:22.000 But the worst of all the things, obviously, is what just happened in Texas.
00:00:26.000 And I'm going to give you the full rundown, and why it is that the left constantly jumps to particular positions with regards to guns, and the right jumps to different positions with regards to guns, what this says about their different views of human nature, in just a second.
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00:01:57.000 Okay, so here is what we know about what happened in Sutherland Springs.
00:02:01.000 So yesterday, yesterday morning, at least Pacific time, this horrific story breaks that 26 people have been slain at a church in Texas.
00:02:12.000 12 to 14 of those were children, pregnant women who were shot.
00:02:16.000 Basically, there are 50 people in church.
00:02:17.000 It looks like half of them were murdered and half of them were injured in this particular shooting.
00:02:21.000 The shooter is a guy named Devin Patrick Kelly, and he is the gunman.
00:02:25.000 He apparently,
00:02:26.000 Now, contrary to some of the factual kind of accounts that are going around, a dishonorable discharge is not the same as being discharged under dishonorable circumstances.
00:02:32.000 One means that your weapon is automatically banned, one does not, but in this case,
00:02:55.000 It doesn't make any difference because the reason he was discharged was apparently for domestic battery.
00:03:00.000 Apparently he committed violence against his wife and their child in November 2012, and he was sentenced with a bad conduct discharge, 12 months confinement, and two reductions in rank to basic airman.
00:03:10.000 According to an appeals court decision in 2013 that affirmed the decision against Kelly.
00:03:15.000 Well, what that means is that under Texas state law, you're refused the capacity for a concealed carry permit.
00:03:21.000 Under federal law, you're banned from buying a gun if you commit a domestic violence, if you're convicted of a domestic violence assault.
00:03:29.000 This was a domestic violence case, so he was banned by law from owning this gun as far as we know.
00:03:33.000 Didn't matter, he was still able to obtain it anyway.
00:03:35.000 He entered First Baptist Church at approximately 11.30 a.m.
00:03:38.000 Sunday opened fire.
00:03:39.000 Officials said he wore a ballistic vest and was dressed all in black so he was ready to go.
00:03:43.000 A law enforcement source close to the investigation said that the rifle he used is similar to the one pictured.
00:03:47.000 They couldn't confirm it was the same rifle.
00:03:50.000 He exited the church and he dropped his rifle and he was then pursued by a civilian with a shotgun and died near the city of New Berlin.
00:03:56.000 Apparently he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, but it was thanks to the neighbors arriving and shooting at him.
00:04:02.000 So here is some of the things that the neighbors were saying after all of this happened.
00:04:07.000 Here's a witness talking about a citizen who stopped the massacre.
00:04:10.000 I pulled up to the intersection where the shooting happened and I saw two men exchanging gunfire, the other being a citizen of the community.
00:04:20.000 The shooter of the church had taken off lead in his vehicle and the other gentleman came and he said we need to pursue him.
00:04:29.000 He just shot up the church.
00:04:31.000 So that's what I did.
00:04:32.000 I just acted.
00:04:41.000 That suspect crossed the street to the church, exited his vehicle, and began firing at the church.
00:04:48.000 The suspect then moved to the right side of the church and continued to fire.
00:04:52.000 That suspect entered the church and continued to fire.
00:04:56.000 As he exited the church, a local resident grabbed his rifle and engaged that suspect.
00:05:03.000 The suspect dropped his rifle, which was a Ruger AR assault type rifle, and fled from the church.
00:05:11.000 Our local citizen pursued the suspect at that time.
00:05:15.000 Okay, so this is what's, you know, there are a lot of people who immediately jump to gun control, but one of the things that is important to recognize here is that it was an armed citizen, a guy with a gun, a good guy with a gun, who showed up to stop the bad guy with the gun.
00:05:28.000 Apparently there were two good guys with guns who showed up to stop the bad guy with the gun.
00:05:31.000 We still don't know the details of exactly what happened inside the church.
00:05:34.000 Was anyone armed inside the church?
00:05:35.000 Was there any security at the church?
00:05:37.000 You know, I've been an advocate for a long time that places of worship should have armed security there.
00:05:43.000 Maybe that's just because I'm a part of the Jewish community.
00:05:45.000 It's very, very common inside the Jewish community to have armed security.
00:05:47.000 We have several security guards at the place where I worship.
00:05:50.000 Every major synagogue in Los Angeles has many security guards, specifically because of the threat of violence like this.
00:05:57.000 But all of the people on the left immediately respond by suggesting gun control is the answer, even though the reality is that it was illegal for this guy to own guns in the first place.
00:06:04.000 According to
00:06:06.000 The U.S.
00:06:06.000 Code.
00:06:07.000 There are restrictions already on possession of firearms by an individual convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.
00:06:14.000 This is Title 18 U.S.
00:06:16.000 Code Section 922G9, the so-called Lautenberg Amendment in the fall of 1996.
00:06:22.000 And it banned the possession of firearms by individuals convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.
00:06:26.000 In this case, he was convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence against his wife and his child.
00:06:32.000 And, you know, the fact that he still had a gun demonstrates that just because there are laws on the books doesn't mean that bad people will obey them nonetheless.
00:06:39.000 So it is a good thing that there were good people with guns there to at least stop him before he could go to another location and begin trying to murder people there.
00:06:47.000 Just a horrific, horrific event.
00:06:49.000 Now, last week, we talked about whether it was appropriate for President Trump to talk politically about what had happened in New York City after a terror attack, and he was talking immigration.
00:06:57.000 And you remember, the left said, how dare he politicize?
00:06:59.000 How dare he politicize?
00:07:00.000 Well, they could not wait to politicize this, as always.
00:07:03.000 I mean, just like the Las Vegas shooting, they could not wait to politicize.
00:07:06.000 So Chris Murphy, Senator from Connecticut,
00:07:09.000 We're good to go.
00:07:33.000 Who's ever been on the right has been pro-gun and is not being paid by the gun industry.
00:07:37.000 The reason that the NRA is so prominent is not because the gun industry is paying the NRA.
00:07:42.000 It's because there are millions and millions of people who are members of the NRA who join voluntarily because maybe they're afraid that the left tries to grab guns and suggest that guns ought to be grabbed every time something bad happens.
00:07:53.000 And they think, well, if I were in that church, I wish that I would have had a gun too.
00:07:56.000 Here's the statement from Chris Murphy.
00:07:57.000 Again, there's been no talk on the left, none, about why this is inappropriate, why he shouldn't be talking this way.
00:08:03.000 He tweeted, he put out a statement and said, Again, cut into the NRA's profits.
00:08:06.000 The NRA doesn't sell guns.
00:08:24.000 They don't sell guns.
00:08:25.000 How would that cut into the NRA's profits?
00:08:26.000 If you ban people with misdemeanor violent crimes against family from owning guns, which we already have, would that seriously interfere with the NRA in any way?
00:08:36.000 Would that even seriously interfere with the profit margins of gun dealerships?
00:08:40.000 I think not.
00:08:42.000 This is, again, Chris Murphy.
00:08:43.000 Now, one of the things that I think is worthwhile noting here, before we even go any further and talk about some of the myths that are being purveyed by folks on the left with regard to this shooting,
00:09:05.000 I think it's important to note that the left and right treat terror attacks and acts of violence in very, very different fashion.
00:09:12.000 The left assumes that human beings are basically good.
00:09:15.000 Human beings are basically good.
00:09:17.000 And therefore, if you pass a law, most people will obey that law.
00:09:20.000 And that if you don't pass the law, basically, human beings as restrained by the state are basically good.
00:09:25.000 That there won't be a bad guy who breaks the law and goes out and gets a gun.
00:09:28.000 And therefore, because human beings are inherently good, we don't need to worry about somebody breaking the law.
00:09:33.000 And the best thing to do would basically be for everyone to put down their arms.
00:09:35.000 On an international level, this leads to the sort of pacifism that led to the anti-nuke movement.
00:09:39.000 The idea that if we unilaterally disarm, we will create a world without nukes.
00:09:43.000 You saw some of this kind of pie in the sky stuff from President Obama when he was Senator Obama.
00:09:47.000 The right thinks something different.
00:09:48.000 People on the right tend to think, in religious terms, in natural law terms, that human beings are capable of both great good and great evil, and that a bad guy with a gun is separated from a good guy with a gun by the fact that one is good and one is bad.
00:10:02.000 They're not separated by the gun, they are separated by the fact that one is good and one is bad.
00:10:05.000 And this is the problem, is how do you group these people?
00:10:07.000 So if the left sees two guys with guns, the left's first instinct is to say, the guns should be taken away from both of them.
00:10:13.000 The right's first instinct is to say, well, who are they?
00:10:16.000 Is the guy on the right a cop?
00:10:17.000 Is the guy on the right good?
00:10:19.000 Is the guy on the right a preacher?
00:10:20.000 Is the guy on the right a doctor?
00:10:22.000 Is the guy on the left a vagrant with a violent history? 0.70
00:10:26.000 We have to separate by human being whether or not that person should have a particular capacity.
00:10:32.000 The right tends to look to the vagaries of human nature when they see sin and evil, and the left tends to look to the implement of violence.
00:10:38.000 Now, I think there's a halfway position that there are a lot of people who adopt.
00:10:41.000 They say, okay, human beings can be good, human beings can be bad, but there are some guns that are too dangerous for even a good human being to own.
00:10:47.000 I think most people agree with that with regards to, for example, fully automatic machine guns, which have been banned in the United States, at least new sales of those, since the 1980s.
00:10:54.000 And there are a lot of people who feel the same way about, you know, everyone owning a tank.
00:10:58.000 I think that's reasonable and rational.
00:11:00.000 That's where you can have reasonable, rational discussion, is which weapons are too dangerous that the risk outweighs the benefit, right?
00:11:07.000 The risk outweighs the reward.
00:11:08.000 But that's not the conversation the left wants to have.
00:11:10.000 The left wants to have the conversation, basically, that all guns are bad, because the same exact weapon that was used to gun down these people at the church was probably used by one of the civilians in order to fire at the bad guy running away from the scene.
00:11:23.000 The AR, the Armalite rifle, is the most commonly used rifle in the United States.
00:11:30.000 The AR does not stand for Assault Rifle.
00:11:32.000 And I think that it's important to note all this because you have to make a decision as a human being.
00:11:36.000 Are you worried more about the character of the people that we produce in the United States or are you worried more about the capacity of people of any stripe to get weapons like an AR?
00:11:46.000 I'm not particularly worried about me owning an AR, or my friends at the office owning an AR, or millions of people owning an AR.
00:11:51.000 I am worried about somebody who's been convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence owning an AR, a handgun, a knife, or a toothpick.
00:11:58.000 And I think all of these things are dangerous.
00:11:59.000 So I'm going to talk in a second about some of the myths that the left has immediately begun to purvey online.
00:12:04.000 It's one of them is I think really dangerous and another of them is actually just vile.
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00:13:16.000 As always, people run to Twitter to say the dumbest things they can think of. 0.97
00:13:19.000 And basically, this is broken down along two lines. 0.97
00:13:21.000 Line number one is the political, and line number two is the spiritual.
00:13:24.000 So, they're sort of intertwined on the left, but there's a slight difference.
00:13:27.000 So on the political side, there are a bunch of folks on the left, like Alyssa Milano, who just put out stuff that is not true about guns. 1.00
00:13:34.000 So here's what Alyssa Milano wrote.
00:13:36.000 And again, she's now seen as some sort of political figure, which is amazing.
00:13:39.000 I'm not sure why being uncharmed makes you an expert on guns, but apparently.
00:13:42.000 I have much to learn about witchcraft and also ignorance about firearms.
00:13:47.000 This is untrue.
00:13:50.000 This is a lie.
00:13:54.000 There are background checks on long guns in Texas.
00:13:56.000 In fact, this guy went in, he actually got a background check, and then he received a gun anyway, even though he was already federally barred from owning a gun.
00:14:04.000 So yes, there are background checks.
00:14:05.000 As I have said, there are universal background checks across the United States when you buy from a federally licensed firearms dealer.
00:14:11.000 Every federally licensed firearms dealer, every FFL in the United States, must perform background checks on you before giving you a gun.
00:14:18.000 The only ones that are not...
00:14:20.000 Police this way are so-called hand-to-hand transactions.
00:14:22.000 I want to sell a gun to Mathis, and so I can sell a gun to Mathis without going through a federal background check, because then I would have to go to a store, and I'd have to run a background check, and it would put the onus on me.
00:14:34.000 And in reality, it's impossible to police, except
00:14:36.000 You know what?
00:14:52.000 Federally licensed firearms dealers are a bigger issue because they can be audited at any time by the federal government.
00:14:56.000 So this is just not true from Alyssa Milano. 0.98
00:14:59.000 This is also idiocy from Chelsea Handler. 0.96
00:15:02.000 Chelsea Handler, again, another one of these political experts who knows everything there is to know about politics, including the fact that Dana Rohrabacher is actually a woman. 0.99
00:15:10.000 She tweets, quote, Innocent people go to church on Sunday to honor their God and while doing so get shot and killed.
00:15:16.000 What country?
00:15:16.000 America.
00:15:17.000 Why?
00:15:17.000 Republicans.
00:15:19.000 Well, no.
00:15:21.000 No, it turns out that the shooter in this particular case is actually a militant atheist.
00:15:25.000 If you go to his Facebook page, it is covered with militant atheist slogans.
00:15:28.000 He's apparently on the left, on the political left.
00:15:30.000 He went to a church and murdered all of these people.
00:15:34.000 Apparently he'd been speaking negatively about religious people for a long time.
00:15:38.000 They have an atheist who goes and shoots up a church, and the first instinct is to blame Republicans, which makes no sense at all.
00:15:44.000 The idea here, of course, is if it were up to Democrats, then they would ban guns all the way.
00:15:47.000 Now, you know, I would suffice it to say that if it were up to the left, there wouldn't be as many people going to church on Sunday to honor their God, period.
00:15:54.000 But, you know, that's a story I'm going to get into in just a second.
00:15:57.000 The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution provides a right to keep and bear arms.
00:16:02.000 The founders knew that it was important that human beings be able to keep arms in order to resist tyranny from governments, foreign and domestic.
00:16:09.000 This is why you were actually mandated in certain states in the United States, in the early colonies, to own a gun in your home.
00:16:14.000 Mandated.
00:16:15.000 Because in order to be a member of the militia, you had to own a gun.
00:16:18.000 It was your job to obtain a gun.
00:16:19.000 This is not uncommon in Switzerland.
00:16:21.000 They basically have similar laws, essentially.
00:16:24.000 But the idea that it's Republicans' fault when a bad guy goes and shoots up a church is really sick.
00:16:30.000 I've never said it's Democrats' fault when a guy goes and shoots up a congressional baseball game.
00:16:33.000 In fact, I defended Bernie Sanders when that happened. 0.97
00:16:36.000 This is pretty pathetic from Chelsea Handler. 0.74
00:16:38.000 But unfortunately, it's a widespread sentiment, and it's not just held by Chelsea Handler. 0.96
00:16:42.000 Joy Reid.
00:16:44.000 Who makes a living being wrong about everything.
00:16:46.000 She blocked me on Twitter, so I had to see this through somebody else's account.
00:16:53.000 She says, Now, whenever a Republican says prayers, because Republicans actually take prayer seriously, folks on the left lose their minds.
00:17:02.000 How dare they say prayers?
00:17:04.000 They could act right now to stop all this.
00:17:05.000 What, are you just going to pray?
00:17:06.000 You just want to sit around and pray?
00:17:08.000 That's your thing, to pray?
00:17:10.000 So, this demonstrates a full-fledged failure to understand what prayer is for on a couple of levels, but Joy retweets out, So, first, a bit of irony.
00:17:24.000 These people were shot in the middle of prayers.
00:17:26.000 They were shot and they were murdered in the middle of their prayers.
00:17:29.000 And here you are saying that no one should pray for them.
00:17:31.000 I'm pretty sure that the people who would be most certain
00:17:34.000 Fairly certain that's the case.
00:17:35.000 You know, you didn't hear this sort of stuff after the massacre.
00:17:45.000 In Charleston, South Carolina, the massacre at the Black Church.
00:17:48.000 You didn't hear a lot of this, you know, don't say thoughts and prayers, stop saying thoughts and prayers.
00:17:51.000 You didn't hear it as much because it was Barack Obama in power and Barack Obama was saying things like, we should express our thoughts and prayers, right?
00:17:59.000 And then he went down there and he sang Amazing Grace.
00:18:00.000 Imagine if Trump went down to Sutherland Springs and sang Amazing Grace.
00:18:03.000 The left would go ballistic.
00:18:06.000 Obama did.
00:18:06.000 But because Obama was pushing their favorite policy positions, that meant that his prayers were genuine, you see.
00:18:11.000 Because according to the left, you're a bad person if you disagree with them, and so your prayers are worthless.
00:18:15.000 We can't disagree on politics and both pray.
00:18:17.000 Our prayers are worthless unless we agree with you on the politics of the situation.
00:18:22.000 So, she's not the only one saying this.
00:18:23.000 Keith Olbermann, Keith Olbermann, is saying this too.
00:18:27.000 He says, Speak Orion.
00:18:28.000 Bluntly. 1.00
00:18:29.000 Shove your prayers up your ass. 1.00
00:18:31.000 And do something with your life. 1.00
00:18:32.000 Besides platitudes and power grabs.
00:18:35.000 Okay, so number one, if you're gonna tell people not to do something, then what you probably shouldn't do is say, do something with your life besides platitudes and power grabs, in a tweet that is purely platitudinous and is clearly also a power grab.
00:18:49.000 I mean, Keith Olbermann would like to grab a certain amount of power from the American people by seizing guns. 0.78
00:18:54.000 This idea that prayers, if I pray for you, that that's something terrible, is just ridiculous. 0.56
00:18:59.000 So prayers serve a number of purposes.
00:19:01.000 I've talked about this more in the Bible segment,
00:19:03.000 that I have in the main of the show.
00:19:04.000 But as a religious person who prays three times daily, thrice daily, and then I say prayers before and after my meals, I say blessings before the meals and after my meals, you know, we say a lot of blessings in Judaism.
00:19:14.000 So we're constantly blessing God.
00:19:15.000 We're constantly praying in Judaism.
00:19:16.000 It's a thing.
00:19:18.000 There are a few reasons for prayer.
00:19:19.000 One of the reasons for prayer is to seal yourself.
00:19:22.000 Seal yourself.
00:19:22.000 It's for you less than it is for God.
00:19:24.000 God doesn't need you and He doesn't need your prayers.
00:19:26.000 But you need your prayers.
00:19:27.000 Why?
00:19:27.000 To steal you for doing things.
00:19:30.000 So the idea that prayer is only about prayer, that you just pray and then you go about your daily business, that's not right.
00:19:35.000 One of religion's sort of basic premises is that it is your job as a human being when you see bad things happening in the world to recommit yourself to being a better person.
00:19:44.000 That's what prayer helps you to do.
00:19:46.000 It helps you to confess what you've done wrong.
00:19:48.000 It helps you to realize what you could do better.
00:19:50.000 It helps you realize that you were created by a creator who cares about you and cares about other people.
00:19:54.000 And are you doing honor to his creation?
00:19:57.000 And it helps you go out and do better things with your own life.
00:20:00.000 Second, you know, there is a belief in Judaism and Christianity that God hears your prayers and acts because of them, not, as I've said, because God is reactive to you, not because God needs your prayers, but because you have changed as a human being and we can change as a country if we pray together.
00:20:13.000 We are more unified and God responds to that, right?
00:20:16.000 That's sort of the idea in Jewish and Christian communities.
00:20:19.000 It's true in Muslim communities, I assume as well, that if you pray to God, then you are signifying your subservience to God. 1.00
00:20:26.000 And God responds favorably to that.
00:20:27.000 So we actually believe that prayers do something.
00:20:30.000 They're not just spewing empty words.
00:20:32.000 And there is a great irony to all of these people spewing empty words on Twitter and saying, how dare you talk to God?
00:20:39.000 Like, there you are, talking to your imaginary sky being, but here I am on Twitter, tweeting to no one.
00:20:44.000 But I'm doing something, because I tweeted.
00:20:46.000 I promise you, my prayer did more than your tweet.
00:20:50.000 My prayer did more than Keith Olbermann's tweet here.
00:20:52.000 Especially because what he's actually doing is driving the country apart.
00:20:55.000 If you want to create a consensus based on anything here, you can't insult everybody who prays in the United States.
00:21:00.000 It's like 80% of Americans pray at some point.
00:21:03.000 So that's just, that's silliness.
00:21:05.000 It's not just him, the sort of scorn that a lot of people on the left feel for religion, 0.84
00:21:09.000 It's pretty palpable.
00:21:09.000 Again, recognize the irony here.
00:21:11.000 An atheist shoots up a church, and the first thing that people are saying on the left is, stop praying.
00:21:15.000 That seems like bad politics.
00:21:16.000 Very, very bright.
00:21:18.000 Stephen King did the same thing.
00:21:19.000 He basically said, it's time to stop praying, and he dropped the G. It's time to stop praying and start legislating.
00:21:24.000 And get rid of the other G as well. 1.00
00:21:26.000 A couple of things.
00:21:27.000 One, again, it was illegal for this man to hold guns from all that we know.
00:21:31.000 So, more legislation would not have stopped that.
00:21:33.000 And two,
00:21:35.000 If you really want to show the scorn that you have for the American people by dropping G's in praying and legislating, look at those Hicks.
00:21:41.000 With their praying, with their Jesus and their Bible.
00:21:44.000 Those were the Hicks that were shot.
00:21:46.000 Those were the quote-unquote Hicks that were shot.
00:21:48.000 They were people who lived in Texas, in all likelihood.
00:21:50.000 The parents of these children voted for President Trump because Texas went heavily for President Trump.
00:21:54.000 It was a very small town.
00:21:56.000 These are people going on a Sunday morning to pray.
00:21:58.000 It's horrific.
00:21:59.000 It's horrific.
00:21:59.000 And for people to sit around ripping, would you hear this ever if, God forbid, a mosque had been shot up?
00:22:05.000 Would you ever hear this?
00:22:06.000 A mosque gets shot, would you hear people saying, you know, all these people should stop praying to Allah.
00:22:10.000 They should stop praying to God for Muslims who are shot. 1.00
00:22:14.000 Of course you wouldn't hear that. 0.99
00:22:15.000 It's just scorn for Christians that really drives a lot of this, and that's really kind of gross. 0.91
00:22:19.000 Okay, so... 0.51
00:22:21.000 In other news today, I mean, by the way, this is not the only violent story of the day.
00:22:26.000 Yesterday or Saturday, Senator Rand Paul was actually attacked on his own property by a guy who's a registered Democrat.
00:22:32.000 We're still waiting to hear all the details, but the guy broke five of Rand Paul's ribs.
00:22:36.000 Five of them.
00:22:38.000 Okay, that's like, that's not a minor injury.
00:22:40.000 You know, breaking a rib, you can't actually bind a rib.
00:22:42.000 Like, my dad cracked a rib one time, and it is extraordinarily painful.
00:22:47.000 And they can't put you in a cast.
00:22:48.000 So you're basically walking around suffering because your ribs are poking you in the lungs.
00:22:52.000 It's really awful.
00:22:53.000 And this guy broke five of Rand Paul's ribs.
00:22:55.000 There may be more to the story.
00:22:56.000 We'll hear about it.
00:22:57.000 But if not, then this is just another left attack on a Republican politician.
00:23:02.000 And imagine if Bernie Sanders had been tackled and broken five ribs.
00:23:05.000 Would that lead every newscast ever?
00:23:07.000 Yes.
00:23:08.000 Remember, there was a congressional baseball shooting.
00:23:10.000 That was in the news for like four days and it was out.
00:23:12.000 You want to look at media bias?
00:23:13.000 Look at how these shootings get treated.
00:23:15.000 The variety of how the shooting gets treated.
00:23:16.000 Is it useful to the left's agenda?
00:23:18.000 Is more of a judge than is it newsworthy?
00:23:20.000 Bernie Sanders being tackled by a right-winger would be newsworthy, and it would also serve the left's agenda.
00:23:25.000 It would never leave the news.
00:23:26.000 Rand Paul gets tackled, breaks five ribs on his own property by a Democrat, and nothing.
00:23:31.000 Nothing.
00:23:32.000 I mean, I had to find this on Twitter.
00:23:33.000 It wasn't even covered anywhere. 0.92
00:23:34.000 It's ridiculous.
00:23:35.000 Okay, so, I want to try to elucidate some foreign policy news in just a second, because it's quite fascinating what's going on over in Saudi Arabia. 0.56
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00:24:51.000 Okay, so, meanwhile, mysterious happenings in Saudi Arabia.
00:24:55.000 And it looks a lot like the Godfather, basically.
00:24:58.000 Okay, it looks, essentially, like Michael Corleone cleaning, Michael Corleone basically cleaning up, cleaning up events.
00:25:05.000 After his dad dies, right?
00:25:07.000 I mean, Clemenza's going around shooting people in elevators. 0.99
00:25:09.000 That's basically what's happening here.
00:25:10.000 So, over the weekend, all of these events happened.
00:25:13.000 I'm going to tell you the events and then why I think they're happening and what I think is going on.
00:25:17.000 We could be five minutes away from a full-on Saudi-Sunni versus Iranian-Shia internal Middle East conflict.
00:25:24.000 We could be looking at another war in the Middle East in very short order, and there's a significant possibility the United States ends up dragged into it in some way, so I think it's important stuff. 0.88
00:25:33.000 So here's what happened over the weekend.
00:25:35.000 So Saudi Arabia is basically being taken over by a 32-year-old young new prince.
00:25:43.000 This 32-year-old guy is considered a reformer.
00:25:46.000 He is a, as I say, he is a kid.
00:25:49.000 And he has formed a newly formed anti-corruption committee.
00:25:53.000 Over the weekend, they arrested at least 17 princes and top officials.
00:25:57.000 So they basically went around arresting people.
00:25:59.000 The list includes Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.
00:26:01.000 You've heard his name.
00:26:02.000 He's an investor in Kingdom Holding, which 95%, he owns 95% of that.
00:26:08.000 It owns stakes in Citigroup, Twitter, Apple, Fox News, right?
00:26:12.000 Well, News Corp, right?
00:26:13.000 Which is the parent company of Fox News.
00:26:16.000 After he was arrested, $750 million was wiped off of his fortune on Sunday.
00:26:22.000 At least 38 former current deputy ministers have been arrested on accusations of corruption.
00:26:26.000 CNN has obtained the list of 17 people, including the formal head of the royal court, Khaled al-Tuwairi, the Saudi media mogul, Walid al-Ibrahim, and Prince Turki bin Nasser.
00:26:37.000 Okay, so all of this is basically the new guy coming in and arresting all of the people who could potentially pose a threat to him.
00:26:45.000 Badr Asaker is the bureau manager of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and he tweeted the list of arrested business people.
00:26:50.000 Three ministers were removed from their positions.
00:26:52.000 Tens of former ministers were detained as part of the new anti-corruption campaign initiated by King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
00:26:58.000 So, the new king
00:27:01.000 who replaced King Fahd after King Fahd died.
00:27:03.000 His son is basically running the show, and his son is this crown prince that we are talking about, this Mohammed bin Salman, right?
00:27:09.000 Because King Salman is the king over there.
00:27:12.000 So the three ministers removed were the Economy and Planning Minister, the National Guard Minister, and the Naval Forces Commander.
00:27:18.000 And they said that they needed to do this due to the propensity of some people for abuse
00:27:22.000 So, in the last few months, he's eased some restrictions on women.
00:27:25.000 He's supposedly a modernizer.
00:27:45.000 He's eased some restrictions on women.
00:27:46.000 He's allowed them to drive, for example.
00:27:48.000 And he has vowed to destroy, quote, extremist ideologies in a bid to return to a more moderate Islam.
00:27:53.000 So he's considered a reformer, and he is making some moves.
00:27:57.000 Okay, so what are some of the other moves that he's making?
00:27:59.000 I mean, it's really astonishing, all the stuff that happened over the weekend.
00:28:01.000 It's really kind of creepy and astonishing at the same time.
00:28:04.000 Prince Mansoor bin Muqrin is the deputy governor of Asir province, which is a major province in Saudi Arabia.
00:28:09.000 He's returning from an inspection tour when his aircraft was downed near Aba late on Sunday, according to the Interior Ministry.
00:28:16.000 He is dead, seven other officials dead in this helicopter crash.
00:28:19.000 Why does that matter?
00:28:20.000 Because this guy is basically the lead rival to this Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
00:28:24.000 So it's obviously an attempt to cement power.
00:28:28.000 You know, this is suspicious as it looks.
00:28:31.000 This particular province exists on the kind of southernmost tip of Saudi Arabia.
00:28:35.000 Yemen exists just to the south.
00:28:36.000 We'll talk about Yemen in just a second because that's important too.
00:28:40.000 And there's news out of there as well.
00:28:43.000 Basically, this guy's father, the guy who was just killed, I mean, it looks like, I would say, suspicion is that he was murdered.
00:28:49.000 You know, helicopters don't randomly go down in the middle of a purge.
00:28:53.000 This guy's father was the lead rival to King Salman.
00:28:58.000 So Prince Mansoor bin Mukrin was kind of the next heir to the throne if the other guy had gotten picked.
00:29:03.000 Okay, so that's another thing that's happened.
00:29:04.000 Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia is accusing Yemen of firing an Iranian ballistic missile into Saudi Arabia over Riyadh.
00:29:11.000 Okay, so they're essentially saying that there was Iranian technology in this missile fired from Yemen into the heart of Saudi Arabia.
00:29:19.000 They said they intercepted a ballistic missile over the capital, according to CNN.
00:29:24.000 And now they are accusing the Iranian government of having provided the technology that was in that missile.
00:29:29.000 Now, Saudi Arabia and Iran have been in basically a proxy war in Yemen for at least a couple of years here.
00:29:36.000 It was the US-made Patriot system that shot down the missile.
00:29:40.000 There have been about 14,000 civilian casualties in Yemen, 5,000 people killed from the beginning of the fighting until late August.
00:29:47.000 And again, Saudi Arabia has been very active because they are concerned with being surrounded by an Iranian proxy on their southern border.
00:29:53.000 So this also looks like, you know, more provocation.
00:29:56.000 And finally, this is the final piece of Saudi Arabia news, then I'm going to explain what exactly the hell is going on here, because this is all very mysterious and it does have some significant ramifications for the United States.
00:30:06.000 The Lebanese Prime Minister's name is Sa'ad Hariri.
00:30:10.000 His father was murdered by the Iranians, basically. 0.99
00:30:13.000 His father was killed, I believe it was in 2005, by the Iranians.
00:30:18.000 And there have been basically a couple of revolutions, one called the Cedar Revolution that was a response to the Iranian presence in Lebanon.
00:30:24.000 Lebanon is a country, for those who don't know, just to the north of Israel and just to the west of Syria.
00:30:29.000 It has basically become a Syrian proxy state, an Iranian proxy state, but
00:30:34.000 The Cedar Revolution was an attempt to move Iran out of Lebanon.
00:30:38.000 And in the meantime, what has basically happened is that the new Prime Minister, his name is Saeed Hariri, who, again, he's a Sunni guy.
00:30:45.000 He's not Shiite like the Iranians. 0.99
00:30:49.000 And he has formed a coalition government involving Hezbollah as well.
00:30:53.000 Well, now that is breaking up.
00:30:55.000 So, the Lebanese Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, resigned on Saturday during a trip to Saudi Arabia.
00:30:59.000 He said his life was in danger.
00:31:00.000 It created a leadership vacuum in Lebanon.
00:31:04.000 Hariri said he feared an assassination plot accused Iran of meddling in the region, causing devastation and chaos.
00:31:09.000 He said Iran controls the region and the decision-making in both Syria and Iraq.
00:31:12.000 I want to tell Iran and its followers it will lose in its interventions in the internal affairs of Arab countries. 1.00
00:31:18.000 And the Iranians are accusing the Saudi Arabian government and President Trump of coordinating Hariri's resignation in order to exacerbate tensions.
00:31:27.000 They said the resignation was aimed at creating tension in Lebanon and the region.
00:31:30.000 The resignation was also meant to compensate the U.S.
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00:33:22.000 I think what's happening here is pretty simple.
00:33:24.000 Saudi Arabia has been having significant problems with maintaining the grip of the Saudi royal family.
00:33:29.000 The Saudi royal family has been threatened from two sides.
00:33:31.000 They've been threatened by the Iranians, because the Iranians hate the Saudis, and they've been threatened by extremists inside their own country.
00:33:38.000 There are a bunch of extremists inside their own country, and I'm talking about like Al Qaeda, who have basically been threatening the Saudi royal family for years.
00:33:44.000 It's one of the reasons that the Saudis were suspected of giving money to Al Qaeda for so many years, is because basically it was a payoff to
00:33:50.000 A bunch of terrorists to get them off the Saudi royal families back. 0.98
00:33:53.000 There's been the suspicion for many, many, many, many years. 0.91
00:33:56.000 In any case, Saudi Arabia has a bunch of problems.
00:33:58.000 One, they are disproportionately young.
00:33:59.000 It's a country that is disproportionately young and male.
00:34:02.000 It is also a country that is disproportionately poor outside of the oil wealth of the Saudi royal family.
00:34:07.000 Virtually the entire country runs on the oil industry.
00:34:10.000 And the problem is fracking, natural gas,
00:34:13.000 Advanced technologies, all of these are making Saudi Arabia's oil less valuable than it once was, which has put the Saudi royal family in some trouble.
00:34:20.000 It's also created a need for the Saudi royal family to draw close to the United States.
00:34:25.000 We could have a Shah of Iran situation here, where basically the leadership of Saudi Arabia is unpopular inside the country and out, but...
00:34:32.000 The United States has
00:34:48.000 I think so.
00:35:08.000 I think so.
00:35:27.000 There is something else happening here, which is that the new Saudi regime is trying to use that as an excuse for preventing the... They don't actually border Iran.
00:35:35.000 I'm sorry, they border Syria and Iraq.
00:35:37.000 They come close to bordering Iran.
00:35:39.000 In any case...
00:35:41.000 It is important for the Saudis to demonstrate this threat because if they can turn this into a Sunni-Shia fight as opposed to a Sunni versus Sunni fight, then they are more likely to retain power. 0.91
00:35:49.000 So what that means is right now they are exacerbating tensions.
00:35:53.000 And the problem is both sides sort of have an interest in exacerbating tensions to a certain extent.
00:35:57.000 Iran actually has an interest in keying down tensions until the point where they can maximize their regional power.
00:36:02.000 Saudi Arabia has an interest in ratcheting up tensions in order to enshrine the current Saudi royal family with the help of the United States.
00:36:09.000 So, could this break into war?
00:36:10.000 You can see a bunch of ways this breaks into war.
00:36:12.000 You can see the Houthis in Yemen firing ordnance, the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen firing ordnance on Syria, on the Saudi capital again.
00:36:22.000 And you can see the Saudis going in full scale with the help of the United States, and you can see the Iranians then moving in to defend their boys in Yemen.
00:36:28.000 You can see a situation where Iran makes a direct move against Saudi Arabia because they say that Saudi Arabia is threatening them.
00:36:36.000 Lebanon, obviously, is polarizing.
00:36:38.000 So what is now happening, it's not really because of Trump.
00:36:42.000 It's because of a couple of different forces that have happened.
00:36:44.000 The Arab Spring, President Obama's Arab Spring was a disaster for the Middle East.
00:36:48.000 It emboldened Iran. 0.99
00:36:49.000 It emboldened, quote-unquote, reform forces in countries, but a lot of those reform forces are actually Islamists, like you saw in Egypt.
00:36:55.000 And so you actually see the threat of terrorism increased in Saudi Arabia under President Obama.
00:36:59.000 President Obama polarized the region.
00:37:01.000 Now you basically have these regimes on one side and these regimes on the other.
00:37:04.000 Okay, so on one side you have Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan.
00:37:08.000 Jordan and Saudi Arabia both living on borrowed time because both of those regimes are basically, you know, the families there that run the place are in some serious trouble.
00:37:20.000 And then, on the other side, you have Iran. 0.69
00:37:23.000 We're good to go.
00:37:39.000 If Iran goes wrong here, Saudi Arabia has every interest in starting a war, but only if they have the assurance of the United States that the United States will back them. 0.91
00:37:46.000 So this is going to lead to some serious conversations about under what circumstances the United States would back a Saudi military move.
00:37:52.000 In Yemen, the answer is they would. 0.98
00:37:53.000 Against Iran directly, it's questionable.
00:37:56.000 Israel would back it because Iran's nuclear capacity has to be destroyed.
00:38:00.000 Would Saudi Arabia and Israel together, along with Egypt, go after Iran?
00:38:04.000 You could see something like that.
00:38:05.000 You could.
00:38:06.000 Especially if the United States either tacitly stays out or moves in to back.
00:38:10.000 And this could turn into a significant regional war if Russia decides to back its proxies in Iran and Syria.
00:38:15.000 So this thing could explode very, very quickly.
00:38:17.000 All because the Saudi royal family is attempting to maintain power. 0.97
00:38:21.000 And there are no good options here, okay?
00:38:24.000 I can't say that I think there's a great option here.
00:38:26.000 We do have to back the Saudi royal family.
00:38:28.000 We do.
00:38:29.000 There is no alternative in Saudi Arabia. 0.98
00:38:31.000 And so, basically, you know, we all sort of have to hope and pray this doesn't break out in the open.
00:38:36.000 Presumably, the Trump administration could theoretically tell the Saudis, you're on your own here. 0.89
00:38:40.000 But that would only embolden the forces that want to overthrow the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and instead establish either a terrorist state or a state that is Iran-friendly, both of which would be worse options. 0.97
00:38:51.000 So, thank you, President Obama, for just another crap situation you handed over to President Trump. 0.85
00:38:58.000 Meanwhile, speaking of things that President Obama destroyed, the Democratic Party continues to be in a state of civil war. 0.97
00:39:04.000 Donna Brazile is now in a one-woman crusade to basically wreck the party. 1.00
00:39:09.000 So she has decided that she has to go off against Hillary Clinton.
00:39:11.000 Donna Brazile has ambitions to continue running the Democratic Party. 0.99
00:39:14.000 She wants to move over and side with Bernie Sanders. 1.00
00:39:17.000 So she put out a piece last week that we discussed in which she accused the Hillary Clinton campaign of basically hijacking the DNC with Debbie Wasserman Schultz's permission. 0.99
00:39:24.000 And she sort of backed off that a little bit this week.
00:39:27.000 For example, in her piece, she openly said, openly, that the DNC had basically rigged the primaries.
00:39:33.000 Now she's saying, I didn't find any evidence the primaries were rigged, so here she is backtracking, but that's not what she said last week.
00:39:39.000 George, for those who are telling me to shut up, they told Hillary that a couple of months ago.
00:39:43.000 You know what I tell them? 1.00
00:39:44.000 Go to hell. 1.00
00:39:45.000 I'm going to tell my story. 0.98
00:39:47.000 I'm going to tell my story, George, because this is a story of a young girl who started in American politics at the age of nine, who continues to fight each and every week of her life.
00:39:58.000 Okay, and she has today called the Hillary Clinton campaign racist and sexist, but she's also sort of trying to back off the claim that the primaries were rigged. 1.00
00:40:06.000 Here's what she said about that.
00:40:08.000 Do you agree with Elizabeth Warren that the primaries were rigged?
00:40:11.000 I don't think she meant the word rigged.
00:40:14.000 Because what I said, George, as you well know after I left this show back on July 24th, I said I would get to the bottom of everything.
00:40:21.000 And that's what I did.
00:40:22.000 And I called Senator Sanders to say, you know, I wanted to make sure there was no rigging in the process.
00:40:27.000 I'm on the Rules and Bylaws Committee.
00:40:28.000 I found no evidence.
00:40:30.000 None whatsoever.
00:40:31.000 Okay, that is not what she said last week, right?
00:40:34.000 That is not what she said.
00:40:35.000 Quote, by the day I had called Bernie, I had found my proof and it broke my heart.
00:40:40.000 This is literally what she said.
00:40:41.000 She starts off this little piece by saying that she wanted to find out if things had been rigged.
00:40:45.000 She said, I needed to have solid proof and so did Bernie.
00:40:47.000 She said, I promised Bernie when I took the helm of the Democratic National Committee after the convention, I would get to the bottom of the process as to whether Hillary Clinton's team had rigged the nomination process.
00:40:55.000 I needed to have solid proof and so did Bernie.
00:40:58.000 I had found my proof and it broke my heart.
00:40:59.000 Now she's saying of course it wasn't rigged because she realizes that she overstepped here.
00:41:03.000 The conversation is actually less about whether it was rigged and about how much it was rigged.
00:41:08.000 So according to Hillary Clinton's contract... 1.00
00:41:12.000 She was only supposed to receive certain benefits during the general election process in return for giving money to the DNC.
00:41:17.000 The DNC said they'd offer Bernie Sanders a similar deal, but Hillary Clinton was already staffing up the DNC upon signing that contract, so it's sort of a distinction without a difference.
00:41:26.000 Team Clinton is now defending—they're attempting to defend themselves.
00:41:29.000 They sent a letter from 100 people who are members of the team, including people like Huma Abedin, and they said that this is not true.
00:41:36.000 They said that Donna Brazile is the tool of Russian propaganda. 1.00
00:41:39.000 So it's just tearing the party apart, which is glorious to watch.
00:41:42.000 They said, quote, there's an open letter on Medium.
00:41:44.000 We were shocked to learn in the news that Donna Brazile actively considered overturning the will of Democratic voters by attempting to replace Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine as the Democratic presidential and VP nominees.
00:41:53.000 She said over the weekend that she actively thought about replacing, and this is an amazing thing, right?
00:41:58.000 She actively thought about putting Joe Biden on the ticket instead of Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine in the last days of the campaign.
00:42:06.000 This is obviously her attempt to move beyond the Clintons and to shiv the Clintons and to end this whole Clinton debacle. 0.98
00:42:12.000 I think that's smart by Donna Brazile. 0.99
00:42:13.000 I think the party would be smart to throw Hillary under the bus here. 1.00
00:42:16.000 Whether they will or not is another question.
00:42:17.000 They've been clinging to life here, clinging to the hope that Hillary Clinton will eventually become president through some sort of weird confluence of events.
00:42:24.000 It's not going to happen.
00:42:27.000 It is pretty amazing, though, as they tear each other apart.
00:42:29.000 Tom Perez, who's the current head of the DNC, he came out and he said that there was an accusation by Donna Brazile that Hillary basically had a seizure on the campaign trail, and Tom Perez says that's absurd.
00:42:42.000 I have great respect for Donna.
00:42:43.000 I consider her a friend.
00:42:44.000 She's done a lot for the Democratic Party.
00:42:47.000 The charge that Hillary Clinton was somehow incapacitated is quite frankly ludicrous.
00:42:53.000 Hillary Clinton was a tireless senator, a tireless Secretary of State, and a tireless candidate. 1.00
00:43:01.000 Okay, so the idea, again, that Hillary was just fine on the campaign trail, that did not seem to be supremely true, and so they're still debating this.
00:43:08.000 The longer Hillary stays in the headline, the better for Trump, the worse for the Democratic Party, it's that simple.
00:43:12.000 Okay, time for some things I like, things I hate, and then we'll do Federalist number two, because every Monday now, we are now going through a new Federalist paper, so you will learn more about the Constitution and the system that our founders created.
00:43:21.000 Okay, first,
00:43:22.000 Things I like?
00:43:23.000 Over the weekend I had a chance to go see a movie.
00:43:24.000 Instead of seeing Thor, I went to see Goodbye Christopher Robin with my wife.
00:43:28.000 That's because I'm a huge Winnie the Pooh fan.
00:43:30.000 I've recommended Winnie the Pooh on the show before, not just the movie but the book, because the book is just clever and charming.
00:43:36.000 The movie is quite good.
00:43:38.000 It's really about how the father, A. A. Milne, he created these books partially as a way to reach out to his child, but partially as a way to get over his World War I war experiences.
00:43:53.000 And the movie is really a heartbreaking movie.
00:43:56.000 And really, what it is more about, anything else,
00:43:58.000 Like, you can read this movie in a really interesting context with regards to some of the children who have been abused in Hollywood.
00:44:03.000 Because a lot of this movie is about basically how this kid was the first Hollywood star.
00:44:07.000 Because he wasn't, it was before, you know, movies were really a huge thing in the early 1920s.
00:44:12.000 And Christopher Robin was turned into a worldwide phenomenon.
00:44:15.000 The kid basically was pushed out by his mother with the sort of tacit consent of his father to become a celebrity and how it sort of ruined his life.
00:44:22.000 You know, I have a child star in our family, in our extended family, Mara Wilson, who was quite a good actress as a child.
00:44:27.000 And, you know, I don't want to speak for Mara.
00:44:30.000 We were very close to their family, obviously.
00:44:32.000 My dad and her mom were brother and sister, and they were extraordinarily tight their entire life.
00:44:38.000 But I think Mara would be the first to tell you that being a child star in Hollywood is a very difficult thing, and a lot of children are definitely mistreated by the Hollywood system.
00:44:48.000 In any case, that's sort of what this movie is about.
00:44:50.000 Celebrity can really cripple children. 0.93
00:44:52.000 Here is some of the trailer.
00:44:57.000 Once upon a time, there was a great war that brought so much sadness to so many people.
00:45:05.000 Hardly anyone could remember what happiness was like.
00:45:10.000 But something happened that changed all that.
00:45:20.000 His name is Christopher Robin, but we generally call him Billy.
00:45:23.000 A toast.
00:45:24.000 C.R.
00:45:25.000 Milne.
00:45:26.000 C.R.
00:45:26.000 Milne.
00:45:28.000 It helped us to believe in the good things.
00:45:30.000 Which one would you like?
00:45:32.000 This one.
00:45:33.000 Yeah, same height, please.
00:45:35.000 Go! 0.95
00:45:37.000 So really, it's more of a family drama than anything else, but it's very well done.
00:45:40.000 All the acting is quite good, and it's beautiful to watch.
00:45:44.000 So you can go check it out.
00:45:45.000 Goodbye, Christopher Robin.
00:45:46.000 It won't be in theaters for very long.
00:45:47.000 I do have to say, they've really upgraded a lot of these theaters.
00:45:49.000 They understand the crowds are not going to be as big unless you're going to see Thor or something.
00:45:53.000 And so they've put in the recliner chairs, the full leather recliner chairs.
00:45:56.000 Really nice theater experience now.
00:45:58.000 So good for them for doing that.
00:46:00.000 So you can go check out the movie.
00:46:02.000 It's worth seeing.
00:46:02.000 OK, things I hate.
00:46:03.000 So last night, I saw this headline.
00:46:05.000 And I just thought it was really, really funny.
00:46:07.000 It was supposedly about how President Trump had been meeting with Shinzo Abe, who is the prime minister of Japan.
00:46:13.000 They're in Japan right now.
00:46:14.000 And Shinzo Abe and Trump had gone and fed the koi fish, right?
00:46:19.000 So they were going, I hate when politicians do these photo ops, but they're feeding the koi fish. 0.98
00:46:23.000 The way that CNN cut this tape, what it looked like, and this would have been really funny.
00:46:26.000 And what it looked like was they were both, they both had boxes of spoons and they're sort of feeding the koi fish.
00:46:32.000 The fish food with these spoons.
00:46:33.000 They're dropping it from what looks like a balcony into this fish pond.
00:46:37.000 And then it looks like, according to CNN, Shinzo Abe is still spooning it, and Trump just gets impatient and takes the entire box of fish food and just dumps it over the side.
00:46:44.000 This is how CNN showed it.
00:46:48.000 So here you can see, for those who are not watching, this is why you need to subscribe, you can see Shinzo Abe and Trump are both given a wooden box, and now they're just spooning out fish food into the pond.
00:47:02.000 Right, and you can see there, it just continues like this.
00:47:05.000 And now they focus in on Trump, right?
00:47:07.000 They just focus in on Trump.
00:47:09.000 And they, and look at how the, look at how this is cut, right?
00:47:12.000 So they cut away from Shinzo Abe.
00:47:14.000 So you don't actually see what he does.
00:47:20.000 Right, they pull out.
00:47:21.000 And they're gonna pull back in on Trump.
00:47:24.000 And they pull all the way back in on Trump, so you can't see what Shinzo Abe does.
00:47:29.000 And what does Trump do?
00:47:30.000 He takes the entire box and he flings it over the side. 0.98
00:47:33.000 So it looked like, oh, look at that Trump, that boorish American. 0.92
00:47:36.000 He just, he got bored and he didn't care. 0.91
00:47:38.000 And while Shinzo Abe was still doing this kind of patient ritual, Trump takes the box and chucks it over the side.
00:47:42.000 Now listen, that would be hilarious.
00:47:44.000 It would be.
00:47:44.000 I mean, I would laugh.
00:47:45.000 If Trump did that, I would have thought, okay, it's such a Trump thing to do.
00:47:48.000 I mean, the guy did make hats with Shinzo Abe.
00:47:50.000 It said, making our relationship even better.
00:47:52.000 He made them hats.
00:47:54.000 Right?
00:47:54.000 It's like a gift you get for your girlfriend when you're 14.
00:47:56.000 In any case,
00:47:59.000 Well, here's what actually happened.
00:48:00.000 CNN cut the video in order to make Trump look bad.
00:48:03.000 The media ran with it.
00:48:05.000 Abe threw out the fish food first.
00:48:06.000 He actually took the box of fish food and he threw it out before Trump did it.
00:48:09.000 And the media ran with the story that Trump had been deliberately rude. 1.00
00:48:12.000 Absolutely idiotic. 1.00
00:48:13.000 Same thing happened, by the way, with regard to comments that Trump made about Japanese cars. 0.99
00:48:18.000 So Trump had said to the Japanese, if you could make some more of your cars in the United States, that would be great.
00:48:22.000 And people were like, well, they make lots of their cars here, right?
00:48:24.000 We have Toyota plants all over the United States.
00:48:25.000 There are like 16 Honda plants in the United States.
00:48:29.000 Trump said earlier in the night that he understood the Japanese made cars in the United States.
00:48:33.000 So again, you want to know why people believe Trump when he says fake news?
00:48:37.000 Because some of this stuff is just fake news. 0.99
00:48:39.000 It's just ridiculous. 0.57
00:48:42.000 Okay, time to go through Federalist Paper No. 0.55
00:48:44.000 2 very briefly.
00:48:44.000 So, Federalist Paper No.
00:48:45.000 2, as I say, the Federalist Paper is written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison.
00:48:49.000 Federalist No. 0.54
00:48:50.000 1 was written by Alexander Hamilton.
00:48:52.000 Federalist No. 0.54
00:48:53.000 2 is written by John Jay, all under the
00:48:58.000 So, this is really about natural rights theory, and the question in Federalist No.
00:49:01.000 2 is should we form one country or many countries?
00:49:03.000 This is actually super relevant now when people are talking about secession, and can we even live together, and what do we have in common anymore?
00:49:10.000 And this is the important thing to note.
00:49:11.000 What the founders thought is that we should be one country as opposed to many because we had certain fundamental principles in common.
00:49:16.000 I'm writing my new book on this.
00:49:17.000 What fundamental principles did we have in common?
00:49:20.000 Were they right?
00:49:20.000 And should we have them in common now?
00:49:22.000 Because we need something to hold us together.
00:49:24.000 What John Jay says is that basically the government was instituted in order to preserve certain of our natural rights.
00:49:29.000 And we all have to give up certain of our natural rights to the government in order
00:49:32.000 So that we can live together under a government that ensures the rest of those natural rights.
00:49:36.000 He says, Right, so some of those natural rights include the idea you don't have to pay taxes, for example.
00:49:52.000 No one can come and seize your property.
00:49:54.000 The idea that, you know, you may have to go to a draft.
00:49:57.000 There are certain natural rights that in a state of nature would exist, and this is sort of a theoretical construct the founders talked about, or, alternatively, the idea that you were living in an area without a centralized government, you know, you had a bunch of family farms that didn't have a centralized government, you had deadwood before the actual institution of a government.
00:50:15.000 That in that state of nature, there are certain things you could do that you can't do once a government has been formed.
00:50:18.000 Right?
00:50:18.000 That's fair.
00:50:19.000 And then he says, here's why we should form one country.
00:50:22.000 And this is important for the policies we take now.
00:50:24.000 With equal pleasure, I have as often taken notice that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people.
00:50:30.000 A people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint councils, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side through a long and bloody war,
00:50:44.000 He's saying don't have a South and a North.
00:50:45.000 Don't have a Northeast and a Southwest.
00:50:46.000 Instead, we should have one country because here are the things he says we hold in common.
00:50:48.000 Common ancestors.
00:50:49.000 Okay, for the most part, this was true of the people of the United States in the main.
00:50:52.000 Speaking the same language.
00:51:13.000 So there are people today who say everyone should speak English.
00:51:15.000 This is one of the reasons.
00:51:17.000 Professing the same religion.
00:51:18.000 We have to have a certain common denominator in terms of religion.
00:51:21.000 It doesn't mean everyone has to be a Christian, but it does mean everyone has to have respect for Judeo-Christian values and the Judeo-Christian God.
00:51:27.000 Attached to the same principles of government, we have to believe in a limited government instituted to preserve rights, not to infringe upon them.
00:51:33.000 Similar in manners and customs.
00:51:35.000 We have to talk to each other in a way where we can all understand one another, and who have fought side by side through long and bloody wars.
00:51:42.000 These are the things we have to have in common.
00:51:43.000 It seems like a pretty good description of what the country needs right now, and unfortunately, all of this has been dissolved.
00:51:48.000 We're not a people descended from the same ancestors, because we bring in lots of immigrants. 1.00
00:51:52.000 That's fine, so long as those immigrants hold the same principles.
00:51:55.000 That's more important, but they don't, always.
00:51:57.000 This is why there are people who say, we need to make sure that immigrants who come into the United States assimilate into American culture.
00:52:03.000 We don't all speak the same language.
00:52:04.000 You know, the notion that we can speak different languages and still get along, very difficult to get along and form a government together when you don't speak the same language, professing the same religion. 1.00
00:52:13.000 When you have people who say that Judeo-Christian values are worthless, the values that the country was founded upon are worthless, backwards, and stupid. 0.98
00:52:20.000 When they say that prayer itself is a bad thing, instead we need a government that violates rights. 1.00
00:52:25.000 There's a difference in vision.
00:52:26.000 It's difficult to have a country when we have basic disagreements over these things.
00:52:29.000 And when we don't believe in the same principles of government, very difficult to have one country.
00:52:33.000 That's why people are talking about dissolution of the United States now, because we seem to be more divided than we ever have been in these contexts.
00:52:39.000 And then Jay laments, he finishes by lamenting, he says, whatever the dissolution of the Union arrives, America will have reason to exclaim, in the words of the poet, farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness.
00:52:49.000 This is still true.
00:52:50.000 America, a disunited America, is a less great America.
00:52:53.000 Okay, so we'll be back here tomorrow with lots more to discuss, plus maybe some deconstructing the culture.
00:52:58.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:52:58.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.