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00:00:22.000But the worst of all the things, obviously, is what just happened in Texas.
00:00:26.000And 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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00:02:26.000Now, 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.
00:02:32.000One means that your weapon is automatically banned, one does not, but in this case,
00:02:55.000It doesn't make any difference because the reason he was discharged was apparently for domestic battery.
00:03:00.000Apparently 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.
00:03:10.000According to an appeals court decision in 2013 that affirmed the decision against Kelly.
00:03:15.000Well, what that means is that under Texas state law, you're refused the capacity for a concealed carry permit.
00:03:21.000Under federal law, you're banned from buying a gun if you commit a domestic violence, if you're convicted of a domestic violence assault.
00:03:29.000This was a domestic violence case, so he was banned by law from owning this gun as far as we know.
00:03:33.000Didn't matter, he was still able to obtain it anyway.
00:03:35.000He entered First Baptist Church at approximately 11.30 a.m.
00:03:39.000Officials said he wore a ballistic vest and was dressed all in black so he was ready to go.
00:03:43.000A law enforcement source close to the investigation said that the rifle he used is similar to the one pictured.
00:03:47.000They couldn't confirm it was the same rifle.
00:03:50.000He 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.
00:03:56.000Apparently he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, but it was thanks to the neighbors arriving and shooting at him.
00:04:02.000So here is some of the things that the neighbors were saying after all of this happened.
00:04:07.000Here's a witness talking about a citizen who stopped the massacre.
00:04:10.000I pulled up to the intersection where the shooting happened and I saw two men exchanging gunfire, the other being a citizen of the community.
00:04:20.000The shooter of the church had taken off lead in his vehicle and the other gentleman came and he said we need to pursue him.
00:04:41.000That suspect crossed the street to the church, exited his vehicle, and began firing at the church.
00:04:48.000The suspect then moved to the right side of the church and continued to fire.
00:04:52.000That suspect entered the church and continued to fire.
00:04:56.000As he exited the church, a local resident grabbed his rifle and engaged that suspect.
00:05:03.000The suspect dropped his rifle, which was a Ruger AR assault type rifle, and fled from the church.
00:05:11.000Our local citizen pursued the suspect at that time.
00:05:15.000Okay, 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.
00:05:28.000Apparently there were two good guys with guns who showed up to stop the bad guy with the gun.
00:05:31.000We still don't know the details of exactly what happened inside the church.
00:05:37.000You know, I've been an advocate for a long time that places of worship should have armed security there.
00:05:43.000Maybe that's just because I'm a part of the Jewish community.
00:05:45.000It's very, very common inside the Jewish community to have armed security.
00:05:47.000We have several security guards at the place where I worship.
00:05:50.000Every major synagogue in Los Angeles has many security guards, specifically because of the threat of violence like this.
00:05:57.000But 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.
00:06:16.000Code Section 922G9, the so-called Lautenberg Amendment in the fall of 1996.
00:06:22.000And it banned the possession of firearms by individuals convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.
00:06:26.000In this case, he was convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence against his wife and his child.
00:06:32.000And, 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.
00:06:39.000So 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.
00:06:49.000Now, 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.
00:06:57.000And you remember, the left said, how dare he politicize?
00:07:33.000Who's ever been on the right has been pro-gun and is not being paid by the gun industry.
00:07:37.000The reason that the NRA is so prominent is not because the gun industry is paying the NRA.
00:07:42.000It'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.
00:07:53.000And they think, well, if I were in that church, I wish that I would have had a gun too.
00:07:56.000Here's the statement from Chris Murphy.
00:07:57.000Again, there's been no talk on the left, none, about why this is inappropriate, why he shouldn't be talking this way.
00:08:03.000He tweeted, he put out a statement and said, Again, cut into the NRA's profits.
00:08:25.000How would that cut into the NRA's profits?
00:08:26.000If 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?
00:08:36.000Would that even seriously interfere with the profit margins of gun dealerships?
00:08:43.000Now, 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,
00:09:05.000I think it's important to note that the left and right treat terror attacks and acts of violence in very, very different fashion.
00:09:12.000The left assumes that human beings are basically good.
00:09:48.000People 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.
00:10:02.000They're not separated by the gun, they are separated by the fact that one is good and one is bad.
00:10:05.000And this is the problem, is how do you group these people?
00:10:07.000So 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.
00:10:13.000The right's first instinct is to say, well, who are they?
00:10:22.000Is the guy on the left a vagrant with a violent history?
00:10:26.000We have to separate by human being whether or not that person should have a particular capacity.
00:10:32.000The 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.
00:10:38.000Now, I think there's a halfway position that there are a lot of people who adopt.
00:10:41.000They 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.
00:10:47.000I 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.
00:10:54.000And there are a lot of people who feel the same way about, you know, everyone owning a tank.
00:10:58.000I think that's reasonable and rational.
00:11:00.000That's where you can have reasonable, rational discussion, is which weapons are too dangerous that the risk outweighs the benefit, right?
00:11:08.000But that's not the conversation the left wants to have.
00:11:10.000The 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.
00:11:23.000The AR, the Armalite rifle, is the most commonly used rifle in the United States.
00:11:30.000The AR does not stand for Assault Rifle.
00:11:32.000And I think that it's important to note all this because you have to make a decision as a human being.
00:11:36.000Are 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?
00:11:46.000I'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.
00:11:51.000I am worried about somebody who's been convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence owning an AR, a handgun, a knife, or a toothpick.
00:11:58.000And I think all of these things are dangerous.
00:11:59.000So I'm going to talk in a second about some of the myths that the left has immediately begun to purvey online.
00:12:04.000It's one of them is I think really dangerous and another of them is actually just vile.
00:12:10.000So we'll talk about that in just a second, but first I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at My Patriot Supply.
00:12:15.000So getting prepared for emergencies should not be tough.
00:12:17.000You know, the government suggests that when you are in an emergency you should have at least some supply of food available to you.
00:12:23.000You should at least have some supply of food in case you can't get to the grocery store, in case you're blocked, in case the grocery store is sold out, in case the government can't get to you.
00:13:54.000There are background checks on long guns in Texas.
00:13:56.000In 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.
00:14:20.000Police this way are so-called hand-to-hand transactions.
00:14:22.000I 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.
00:14:34.000And in reality, it's impossible to police, except
00:14:52.000Federally licensed firearms dealers are a bigger issue because they can be audited at any time by the federal government.
00:14:56.000So this is just not true from Alyssa Milano.
00:14:59.000This is also idiocy from Chelsea Handler.
00:15:02.000Chelsea 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.
00:15:10.000She tweets, quote, Innocent people go to church on Sunday to honor their God and while doing so get shot and killed.
00:15:21.000No, it turns out that the shooter in this particular case is actually a militant atheist.
00:15:25.000If you go to his Facebook page, it is covered with militant atheist slogans.
00:15:28.000He's apparently on the left, on the political left.
00:15:30.000He went to a church and murdered all of these people.
00:15:34.000Apparently he'd been speaking negatively about religious people for a long time.
00:15:38.000They have an atheist who goes and shoots up a church, and the first instinct is to blame Republicans, which makes no sense at all.
00:15:44.000The idea here, of course, is if it were up to Democrats, then they would ban guns all the way.
00:15:47.000Now, 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.
00:15:54.000But, you know, that's a story I'm going to get into in just a second.
00:15:57.000The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution provides a right to keep and bear arms.
00:16:02.000The founders knew that it was important that human beings be able to keep arms in order to resist tyranny from governments, foreign and domestic.
00:16:09.000This is why you were actually mandated in certain states in the United States, in the early colonies, to own a gun in your home.
00:17:10.000So, 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.
00:17:24.000These people were shot in the middle of prayers.
00:17:26.000They were shot and they were murdered in the middle of their prayers.
00:17:29.000And here you are saying that no one should pray for them.
00:17:31.000I'm pretty sure that the people who would be most certain
00:17:35.000You know, you didn't hear this sort of stuff after the massacre.
00:17:45.000In Charleston, South Carolina, the massacre at the Black Church.
00:17:48.000You didn't hear a lot of this, you know, don't say thoughts and prayers, stop saying thoughts and prayers.
00:17:51.000You 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?
00:17:59.000And then he went down there and he sang Amazing Grace.
00:18:00.000Imagine if Trump went down to Sutherland Springs and sang Amazing Grace.
00:18:35.000Okay, 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.
00:18:49.000I mean, Keith Olbermann would like to grab a certain amount of power from the American people by seizing guns.
00:18:54.000This idea that prayers, if I pray for you, that that's something terrible, is just ridiculous.
00:18:59.000So prayers serve a number of purposes.
00:19:01.000I've talked about this more in the Bible segment,
00:19:04.000But 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.
00:19:30.000So the idea that prayer is only about prayer, that you just pray and then you go about your daily business, that's not right.
00:19:35.000One 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.
00:19:46.000It helps you to confess what you've done wrong.
00:19:48.000It helps you to realize what you could do better.
00:19:50.000It helps you realize that you were created by a creator who cares about you and cares about other people.
00:19:54.000And are you doing honor to his creation?
00:19:57.000And it helps you go out and do better things with your own life.
00:20:00.000Second, 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.
00:20:13.000We are more unified and God responds to that, right?
00:20:16.000That's sort of the idea in Jewish and Christian communities.
00:20:19.000It's true in Muslim communities, I assume as well, that if you pray to God, then you are signifying your subservience to God.
00:21:35.000If 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.
00:21:41.000With their praying, with their Jesus and their Bible.
00:23:35.000Okay, 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.
00:25:10.000So, over the weekend, all of these events happened.
00:25:13.000I'm going to tell you the events and then why I think they're happening and what I think is going on.
00:25:17.000We could be five minutes away from a full-on Saudi-Sunni versus Iranian-Shia internal Middle East conflict.
00:25:24.000We 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.
00:25:33.000So here's what happened over the weekend.
00:25:35.000So Saudi Arabia is basically being taken over by a 32-year-old young new prince.
00:25:43.000This 32-year-old guy is considered a reformer.
00:26:13.000Which is the parent company of Fox News.
00:26:16.000After he was arrested, $750 million was wiped off of his fortune on Sunday.
00:26:22.000At least 38 former current deputy ministers have been arrested on accusations of corruption.
00:26:26.000CNN 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.
00:26:37.000Okay, 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.
00:26:45.000Badr Asaker is the bureau manager of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and he tweeted the list of arrested business people.
00:26:50.000Three ministers were removed from their positions.
00:26:52.000Tens of former ministers were detained as part of the new anti-corruption campaign initiated by King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
00:28:36.000We'll talk about Yemen in just a second because that's important too.
00:28:40.000And there's news out of there as well.
00:28:43.000Basically, this guy's father, the guy who was just killed, I mean, it looks like, I would say, suspicion is that he was murdered.
00:28:49.000You know, helicopters don't randomly go down in the middle of a purge.
00:28:53.000This guy's father was the lead rival to King Salman.
00:28:58.000So Prince Mansoor bin Mukrin was kind of the next heir to the throne if the other guy had gotten picked.
00:29:03.000Okay, so that's another thing that's happened.
00:29:04.000Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia is accusing Yemen of firing an Iranian ballistic missile into Saudi Arabia over Riyadh.
00:29:11.000Okay, so they're essentially saying that there was Iranian technology in this missile fired from Yemen into the heart of Saudi Arabia.
00:29:19.000They said they intercepted a ballistic missile over the capital, according to CNN.
00:29:24.000And now they are accusing the Iranian government of having provided the technology that was in that missile.
00:29:29.000Now, Saudi Arabia and Iran have been in basically a proxy war in Yemen for at least a couple of years here.
00:29:36.000It was the US-made Patriot system that shot down the missile.
00:29:40.000There have been about 14,000 civilian casualties in Yemen, 5,000 people killed from the beginning of the fighting until late August.
00:29:47.000And again, Saudi Arabia has been very active because they are concerned with being surrounded by an Iranian proxy on their southern border.
00:29:53.000So this also looks like, you know, more provocation.
00:29:56.000And 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.
00:30:06.000The Lebanese Prime Minister's name is Sa'ad Hariri.
00:30:10.000His father was murdered by the Iranians, basically.
00:30:13.000His father was killed, I believe it was in 2005, by the Iranians.
00:30:18.000And there have been basically a couple of revolutions, one called the Cedar Revolution that was a response to the Iranian presence in Lebanon.
00:30:24.000Lebanon is a country, for those who don't know, just to the north of Israel and just to the west of Syria.
00:30:29.000It has basically become a Syrian proxy state, an Iranian proxy state, but
00:30:34.000The Cedar Revolution was an attempt to move Iran out of Lebanon.
00:30:38.000And 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.
00:31:00.000It created a leadership vacuum in Lebanon.
00:31:04.000Hariri said he feared an assassination plot accused Iran of meddling in the region, causing devastation and chaos.
00:31:09.000He said Iran controls the region and the decision-making in both Syria and Iraq.
00:31:12.000I want to tell Iran and its followers it will lose in its interventions in the internal affairs of Arab countries.
00:31:18.000And the Iranians are accusing the Saudi Arabian government and President Trump of coordinating Hariri's resignation in order to exacerbate tensions.
00:31:27.000They said the resignation was aimed at creating tension in Lebanon and the region.
00:31:30.000The resignation was also meant to compensate the U.S.
00:31:34.000I'm going to explain all of it, but for me to explain it all and elucidate it all and why it's important to you, you're going to have to go over to Daily Wire right now for the latest news.
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00:33:22.000I think what's happening here is pretty simple.
00:33:24.000Saudi Arabia has been having significant problems with maintaining the grip of the Saudi royal family.
00:33:29.000The Saudi royal family has been threatened from two sides.
00:33:31.000They've been threatened by the Iranians, because the Iranians hate the Saudis, and they've been threatened by extremists inside their own country.
00:33:38.000There 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.
00:33:44.000It'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
00:33:50.000A bunch of terrorists to get them off the Saudi royal families back.
00:33:53.000There's been the suspicion for many, many, many, many years.
00:33:56.000In any case, Saudi Arabia has a bunch of problems.
00:33:58.000One, they are disproportionately young.
00:33:59.000It's a country that is disproportionately young and male.
00:34:02.000It is also a country that is disproportionately poor outside of the oil wealth of the Saudi royal family.
00:34:07.000Virtually the entire country runs on the oil industry.
00:34:10.000And the problem is fracking, natural gas,
00:34:13.000Advanced 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.
00:34:20.000It's also created a need for the Saudi royal family to draw close to the United States.
00:34:25.000We could have a Shah of Iran situation here, where basically the leadership of Saudi Arabia is unpopular inside the country and out, but...
00:35:27.000There 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.
00:35:35.000I'm sorry, they border Syria and Iraq.
00:35:41.000It 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.
00:35:49.000So what that means is right now they are exacerbating tensions.
00:35:53.000And the problem is both sides sort of have an interest in exacerbating tensions to a certain extent.
00:35:57.000Iran actually has an interest in keying down tensions until the point where they can maximize their regional power.
00:36:02.000Saudi Arabia has an interest in ratcheting up tensions in order to enshrine the current Saudi royal family with the help of the United States.
00:36:10.000You can see a bunch of ways this breaks into war.
00:36:12.000You can see the Houthis in Yemen firing ordnance, the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen firing ordnance on Syria, on the Saudi capital again.
00:36:22.000And 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.
00:36:28.000You can see a situation where Iran makes a direct move against Saudi Arabia because they say that Saudi Arabia is threatening them.
00:37:01.000Now you basically have these regimes on one side and these regimes on the other.
00:37:04.000Okay, so on one side you have Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan.
00:37:08.000Jordan 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.
00:37:20.000And then, on the other side, you have Iran.
00:37:39.000If 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.
00:37:46.000So this is going to lead to some serious conversations about under what circumstances the United States would back a Saudi military move.
00:38:29.000There is no alternative in Saudi Arabia.
00:38:31.000And so, basically, you know, we all sort of have to hope and pray this doesn't break out in the open.
00:38:36.000Presumably, the Trump administration could theoretically tell the Saudis, you're on your own here.
00:38:40.000But 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.
00:38:51.000So, thank you, President Obama, for just another crap situation you handed over to President Trump.
00:38:58.000Meanwhile, speaking of things that President Obama destroyed, the Democratic Party continues to be in a state of civil war.
00:39:04.000Donna Brazile is now in a one-woman crusade to basically wreck the party.
00:39:09.000So she has decided that she has to go off against Hillary Clinton.
00:39:11.000Donna Brazile has ambitions to continue running the Democratic Party.
00:39:14.000She wants to move over and side with Bernie Sanders.
00:39:17.000So 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.
00:39:24.000And she sort of backed off that a little bit this week.
00:39:27.000For example, in her piece, she openly said, openly, that the DNC had basically rigged the primaries.
00:39:33.000Now 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.
00:39:39.000George, for those who are telling me to shut up, they told Hillary that a couple of months ago.
00:39:47.000I'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.
00:39:58.000Okay, 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.
00:40:41.000She starts off this little piece by saying that she wanted to find out if things had been rigged.
00:40:45.000She said, I needed to have solid proof and so did Bernie.
00:40:47.000She 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.
00:40:55.000I needed to have solid proof and so did Bernie.
00:40:58.000I had found my proof and it broke my heart.
00:40:59.000Now she's saying of course it wasn't rigged because she realizes that she overstepped here.
00:41:03.000The conversation is actually less about whether it was rigged and about how much it was rigged.
00:41:08.000So according to Hillary Clinton's contract...
00:41:12.000She was only supposed to receive certain benefits during the general election process in return for giving money to the DNC.
00:41:17.000The 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.
00:41:26.000Team Clinton is now defending—they're attempting to defend themselves.
00:41:29.000They 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.
00:41:36.000They said that Donna Brazile is the tool of Russian propaganda.
00:41:39.000So it's just tearing the party apart, which is glorious to watch.
00:41:42.000They said, quote, there's an open letter on Medium.
00:41:44.000We 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.
00:41:53.000She said over the weekend that she actively thought about replacing, and this is an amazing thing, right?
00:41:58.000She actively thought about putting Joe Biden on the ticket instead of Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine in the last days of the campaign.
00:42:06.000This is obviously her attempt to move beyond the Clintons and to shiv the Clintons and to end this whole Clinton debacle.
00:42:12.000I think that's smart by Donna Brazile.
00:42:13.000I think the party would be smart to throw Hillary under the bus here.
00:42:16.000Whether they will or not is another question.
00:42:17.000They'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.
00:42:27.000It is pretty amazing, though, as they tear each other apart.
00:42:29.000Tom 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.
00:42:44.000She's done a lot for the Democratic Party.
00:42:47.000The charge that Hillary Clinton was somehow incapacitated is quite frankly ludicrous.
00:42:53.000Hillary Clinton was a tireless senator, a tireless Secretary of State, and a tireless candidate.
00:43:01.000Okay, 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.
00:43:08.000The longer Hillary stays in the headline, the better for Trump, the worse for the Democratic Party, it's that simple.
00:43:12.000Okay, 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.
00:43:38.000It'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.
00:43:53.000And the movie is really a heartbreaking movie.
00:43:56.000And really, what it is more about, anything else,
00:43:58.000Like, you can read this movie in a really interesting context with regards to some of the children who have been abused in Hollywood.
00:44:03.000Because a lot of this movie is about basically how this kid was the first Hollywood star.
00:44:07.000Because he wasn't, it was before, you know, movies were really a huge thing in the early 1920s.
00:44:12.000And Christopher Robin was turned into a worldwide phenomenon.
00:44:15.000The 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.
00:44:22.000You know, I have a child star in our family, in our extended family, Mara Wilson, who was quite a good actress as a child.
00:44:27.000And, you know, I don't want to speak for Mara.
00:44:30.000We were very close to their family, obviously.
00:44:32.000My dad and her mom were brother and sister, and they were extraordinarily tight their entire life.
00:44:38.000But 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.
00:44:48.000In any case, that's sort of what this movie is about.
00:44:50.000Celebrity can really cripple children.
00:46:33.000They're dropping it from what looks like a balcony into this fish pond.
00:46:37.000And 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.
00:46:48.000So 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.
00:47:02.000Right, and you can see there, it just continues like this.
00:47:05.000And now they focus in on Trump, right?
00:48:53.0002 is written by John Jay, all under the
00:48:58.000So, this is really about natural rights theory, and the question in Federalist No.
00:49:01.0002 is should we form one country or many countries?
00:49:03.000This 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?
00:49:10.000And this is the important thing to note.
00:49:11.000What the founders thought is that we should be one country as opposed to many because we had certain fundamental principles in common.
00:49:20.000And should we have them in common now?
00:49:22.000Because we need something to hold us together.
00:49:24.000What John Jay says is that basically the government was instituted in order to preserve certain of our natural rights.
00:49:29.000And we all have to give up certain of our natural rights to the government in order
00:49:32.000So that we can live together under a government that ensures the rest of those natural rights.
00:49:36.000He says, Right, so some of those natural rights include the idea you don't have to pay taxes, for example.
00:49:52.000No one can come and seize your property.
00:49:54.000The idea that, you know, you may have to go to a draft.
00:49:57.000There 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.
00:50:15.000That in that state of nature, there are certain things you could do that you can't do once a government has been formed.
00:50:19.000And then he says, here's why we should form one country.
00:50:22.000And this is important for the policies we take now.
00:50:24.000With equal pleasure, I have as often taken notice that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people.
00:50:30.000A 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,
00:50:44.000He's saying don't have a South and a North.
00:50:45.000Don't have a Northeast and a Southwest.
00:50:46.000Instead, we should have one country because here are the things he says we hold in common.
00:51:18.000We have to have a certain common denominator in terms of religion.
00:51:21.000It 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.
00:51:27.000Attached to the same principles of government, we have to believe in a limited government instituted to preserve rights, not to infringe upon them.
00:51:35.000We 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.
00:51:42.000These are the things we have to have in common.
00:51:43.000It seems like a pretty good description of what the country needs right now, and unfortunately, all of this has been dissolved.
00:51:48.000We're not a people descended from the same ancestors, because we bring in lots of immigrants.
00:51:52.000That's fine, so long as those immigrants hold the same principles.
00:51:55.000That's more important, but they don't, always.
00:51:57.000This is why there are people who say, we need to make sure that immigrants who come into the United States assimilate into American culture.
00:52:04.000You 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.
00:52:13.000When you have people who say that Judeo-Christian values are worthless, the values that the country was founded upon are worthless, backwards, and stupid.
00:52:20.000When they say that prayer itself is a bad thing, instead we need a government that violates rights.
00:52:26.000It's difficult to have a country when we have basic disagreements over these things.
00:52:29.000And when we don't believe in the same principles of government, very difficult to have one country.
00:52:33.000That'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.
00:52:39.000And 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.