The Ben Shapiro Show - July 26, 2017


Begun The Sessions War Has | The Ben Shapiro Show Ep. 347

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Ben Shapiro explains why Richard Dawkins is no friend to the right, and why the left is willing to ally itself with radical Islamic terrorists. Plus, President Trump talks to a bunch of children at the Boy Scouts, and it goes weird. Plus, the Senate is finally going to vote on some form of Trumpcare, and we'll talk about that as well. Ben Shapiro is the host of The Ben Shapiro Show on Fox News Radio and host of the conservative podcast The Weekly Standard. He's also a regular contributor to The Daily Wire and the New York Times, and is a frequent guest on CNN and NPR. His new book, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fucking Fck, is out now and available for pre-order on Amazon Prime and Vimeo worldwide. If you don't already own an Amazon Prime membership, you can get 20% off for a year by clicking HERE. You can also get 10% off your first purchase when you enter the Prime membership trial when you sign up for Prime membership starting on July 1st, 2019. It starts at $99.99, and includes shipping and handling fees, including shipping, handling, and handling of all post-purchases, as well as the option to Prime memberships, shipping, and shipping fees, plus a free copy of the book. This offer expires July 31st, so make sure to check it out before the end of the year! and use the discount code: PMILLION. at checkout at checkout. to receive a discount code "PMILLION at checkout, and you get a discount of $99 and free shipping throughout the rest of the month. and a free shipping on all other major U.S. in the US, plus free shipping, plus an additional two-and-a half-dozen copies of the paperback edition of his book, The Testaments edition of the Testaments. of his new book that comes out in September. starting July 27th, available for Prime Video. . Thank you for listening to this episode of the show? and reviewing the show on Audible and reviewing it on Apple Podcasts and The Daily Mail and The Huffington Post? Subscribe to the podcast on your favorite podcast, wherever else you re listening to the show, you get the best listening experience on the best podcast on the internet, and all the best reviews and social media access in the world, too!

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00:00:00.000 Richard Dawkins is no friend to conservatives.
00:00:02.000 The atheist author spent much of his life deriding Judaism and Christianity.
00:00:06.000 He once said that an atheist is, quote, just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the Golden Calf.
00:00:13.000 Dawkins says that even moderate religious people, quote, make the world safe for extremists.
00:00:17.000 He's far to the left on politics.
00:00:19.000 He's pro-abortion, a supporter of the Labour Party and Liberal Democratic Party in Britain.
00:00:22.000 But!
00:00:23.000 He is also smart enough to recognize that radical Islam is a greater threat to human life than Christianity or Judaism. 1.00
00:00:28.000 Dawkins explains, quote,
00:00:40.000 Such language, of course, makes him a pariah among leftists.
00:00:43.000 This week, Dawkins was scheduled to speak at an event with KPFA in Berkeley, California.
00:00:48.000 All went swimmingly, until leftists realized Dawkins had said some untoward things about Islam.
00:00:53.000 Then they canceled the speech, citing his quote-unquote abusive speech.
00:00:56.000 They explained, quote, We had booked this event based entirely on his excellent new book on science, when we didn't know he had offended and hurt, in his tweets and other comments on Islam, so many people.
00:01:05.000 KPFA does not endorse hurtful speech.
00:01:08.000 This is no shock.
00:01:09.000 The same left that barred Dawkins from his Berkeley event cheered this week, while Palestinian Arabs riot over metal detectors at the Temple Mount.
00:01:15.000 Those leftists proclaim that the true obstacle to peace in the Middle East isn't Palestinian-Arab violence, it isn't Palestinians who stab Israeli Druze police officers on the Temple Mount, or Palestinians who invade homes and slaughter old men and women, or the Palestinians in government who cheer, honor, and financially support such behavior.
00:01:30.000 Nope. 0.98
00:01:31.000 The problem is the Jews. 1.00
00:01:32.000 The same left that blames metal detectors for murderous assaults and Richard Dawkins for offending Islam makes excuses for radical Muslim and Women's March organizer Linda Sarsour, who has called for apostate Muslims to have their genitals removed, who says that Zionists cannot be feminists, and who stands up for terrorists and terrorist supporters. 0.98
00:01:47.000 So, why does the left seek to support radical Islam so ardently? 0.91
00:01:50.000 Well, because the left believes that the quickest way to destroy Western civilization is no longer class warfare, but multicultural warfare.
00:01:57.000 Simply ally with groups that hate the prevailing system and work with them to take it down.
00:02:01.000 Then, the left will build on the ashes of the old system.
00:02:03.000 In this view, Dawkins is an opponent.
00:02:05.000 How can left recruit Muslims to fight the same system if Dawkins is busy alienating them?
00:02:09.000 They support the Palestinian terror regime. 0.73
00:02:11.000 How can that colonialist outpost, Israel, be defeated without a little blood? 1.00
00:02:16.000 They applaud Sarsour.
00:02:17.000 She's an ally, so that means she must be backed.
00:02:19.000 Alliance with nefarious forces calls your own morality into question.
00:02:22.000 KPFA has a lot more to answer for than Dawkins.
00:02:25.000 But the left will never have to answer such questions so long as they focus in on their common enemy, a supposedly conservative establishment that must be fought with any tool at their disposal.
00:02:33.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:02:33.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:02:41.000 Okay, so we have a lot to talk about in Trumpville today.
00:02:44.000 So, President Trump is obviously attacking Attorney General Sessions.
00:02:47.000 Sessions is saying that he is not going to go without being pushed out the door.
00:02:50.000 We'll talk about what that means.
00:02:51.000 Plus, the Senate Republicans are finally going to vote on some form of Trumpcare.
00:02:55.000 We don't know exactly what that is yet, but it appears that the vote to proceed on some form of Obamacare change is going to happen, so we'll talk about that as well.
00:03:04.000 Democrats in confusion.
00:03:05.000 Plus, Trump talks to a bunch of children at the Boy Scouts, and it goes weird.
00:03:09.000 We'll talk about all those things, but before we do that, first,
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00:04:38.000 Okay, so President Trump is very, very, very angry.
00:04:41.000 Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
00:04:43.000 He has decided to make Jeff Sessions the focus of his ire.
00:04:45.000 Why?
00:04:45.000 Well, not because Jeff Sessions is doing a terrible job.
00:04:48.000 In fact, by most accounts, he's doing a pretty good job, particularly on immigration.
00:04:52.000 If there's anything that can be said about Jeff Sessions is that he's too ardent with regard to the civil forfeiture, the attempt to grab property after an arrest but before a conviction.
00:05:01.000 Right?
00:05:01.000 There he's wrong.
00:05:02.000 But on everything else, Jeff Sessions has been doing a pretty good job as Attorney General.
00:05:05.000 I haven't seen any problems with Jeff Sessions.
00:05:07.000 But Trump sees one big problem.
00:05:08.000 And that is Attorney General Sessions obviously has not done enough to protect Donald Trump.
00:05:13.000 Trump has gotten to the point where he is starting to see everything in terms of how it affects him personally.
00:05:17.000 Not his presidency.
00:05:18.000 Him personally.
00:05:19.000 And so this morning he unleashed a series of nasty tweets about Jeff Sessions.
00:05:24.000 So he tweeted,
00:05:25.000 So, just to put this all in perspective,
00:05:53.000 In the first six months of the Trump administration, he's fired Mike Flynn supposedly for lying to Vice President Pence.
00:05:58.000 That's not really why that happened.
00:06:00.000 He's fired the FBI Director James Comey and said openly that it's because of Comey's handling of the Russian stuff.
00:06:05.000 He is now threatening Attorney General Sessions.
00:06:07.000 He has threatened his Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in that New York Times interview last week.
00:06:11.000 He has attacked the acting head of the FBI and he's attacked the special counsel.
00:06:16.000 So what do all these people have in common?
00:06:17.000 They're all involved in the Russia investigation.
00:06:20.000 All the people who he's capped or has
00:06:22.000 We're good to go.
00:06:42.000 Those are really the only two choices.
00:06:43.000 There is no choice three.
00:06:44.000 So either this is pathological narcissism, or this is Trump has something to hide.
00:06:48.000 Now, I tend to believe it's pathological narcissism.
00:06:50.000 And again, I've said before, my entire theory here is that Trump really hasn't done anything wrong, and he's ticked that everybody isn't just stopping this nonsense already, and so he wants to fire everyone.
00:06:59.000 Yeah, let's be straight about Jeff Sessions here, okay?
00:07:01.000 Jeff Sessions is not responsible for this.
00:07:03.000 Jeff Sessions only recused himself because in his own testimony he said that he never had a meeting with Russians.
00:07:08.000 It turned out he had a meeting with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, so he recused himself.
00:07:12.000 That happened long after he was nominated and approved
00:07:15.000 For the position, the actual recusal, and there's no way for him to know that this stuff was really going to come up, so it doesn't make a lot of sense.
00:07:21.000 Plus, Jeff Sessions is the lifeline.
00:07:23.000 He is the hard wiring into the nationalist populist movement that Trump likes to talk so much about and from which he draws his support.
00:07:30.000 Sessions is the font head for the anti-immigration movement that Trump supposedly represents.
00:07:37.000 So this doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense.
00:07:39.000 So there are a few things that I want to say about all of this.
00:07:41.000 First of all, Scaramucci, the Anthony Scaramucci, the new chief of staff, he's not chief of staff yet, but he may well be, the head of communications for Donald Trump, he was on Hugh Hewitt's show this morning, and he basically said, yes, Trump wants Jeff Sessions to resign.
00:07:56.000 Here's what the mooch had to say. 1.00
00:07:58.000 Uh, the President's been tweeting this morning, I'm sure you're aware of that.
00:08:01.000 Yes, I am aware of it.
00:08:02.000 Why not just fire Jeff Sessions?
00:08:06.000 Well, listen, I mean, you know, I think the President has a certain style, a certain skill set.
00:08:13.000 He's obviously frustrated.
00:08:14.000 I said yesterday, I think, to Sarah Murray, maybe the two of them to get together, my guess is the President doesn't want to do that.
00:08:21.000 Um, and so I think it's gonna, I think him and Jeff, or sorry, Attorney General Sessions need to work this thing out.
00:08:26.000 It's clear the President wants him gone.
00:08:28.000 I have an enormous amount of respect for the Attorney General, uh, but I do know the President pretty well, and if there's this level of tension in the relationship that that's public, um, you're probably right, but I don't want to speak for the President on that because he's a Cabinet official, and I sort of think that has to be between the President of the United States and the Cabinet official.
00:08:49.000 So Scaramucci says, I don't know what he's going to do, but yeah, he sort of should go.
00:08:52.000 So there are a bunch of questions here.
00:08:54.000 Number one is why Trump doesn't just fire him.
00:08:56.000 There is a rumor today that Trump was doing this just because this is what Trump does, meaning that he got rid of Comey in the most humiliating way possible.
00:09:02.000 He fired him while he was on the West Coast, speaking to a bunch of FBI cadets.
00:09:05.000 And then he saw it on TV.
00:09:07.000 So now he's doing the same thing to Jeff Sessions.
00:09:09.000 Again, the problem here is that Sessions himself is pretty popular with the right wing of the Republican Party, especially because of immigration issues.
00:09:16.000 And that reputation is well-deserved.
00:09:17.000 So, let's talk about some of the problems here.
00:09:19.000 Number one, President Tough Guy McBallsy over here, if he's going to fire Sessions, he should just fire Sessions.
00:09:25.000 So he made his entire career on, I'm going to fire people, but instead he's giving Sessions the runaround.
00:09:30.000 Why?
00:09:30.000 Because he wants Sessions to resign.
00:09:32.000 He wants Sessions to do it on his own.
00:09:33.000 He doesn't want to fire Sessions because for some reason Trump thinks that if he openly pressures Sessions to quit, and then Sessions quit, the blowback won't come back to Trump.
00:09:41.000 That somehow Sessions will be blamed for that. 0.98
00:09:42.000 I don't know where he's getting that idea, but it's foolish. 0.94
00:09:44.000 If Sessions quits at this point, no one's going to blame him. 0.98
00:09:46.000 Everybody's going to blame Trump.
00:09:48.000 Second point, this is a very dangerous, it's a very dangerous precedent that's being set by the Trump White House, and that is that if you're not obsequious enough to President Trump, or if you don't spend your entire career capital trying to support President Trump in every single way, then he should throw you out.
00:10:05.000 Scaramucci said something else in this Hewitt interview.
00:10:07.000 He said, you know, Eric Holder acted as a goalie for President Obama.
00:10:10.000 We need somebody who's going to act as a goalie for President Trump.
00:10:12.000 Okay, that's really not the job of the Attorney General, and just because Eric Holder did the wrong thing doesn't mean that Jeff Sessions should either.
00:10:18.000 Scaramucci, of all people, shouldn't be talking about this, considering he tweeted just a few months ago that he was in favor of Sessions recusing himself.
00:10:25.000 But there's this kind of nasty tenor that's come to the Trump White House, which is, if you don't scrape and bow before Trump obsequiously enough, then he's going to behead you, Joffrey-style.
00:10:35.000 Really, really unpleasant, right?
00:10:36.000 Sean Spicer wasn't just ousted, he was humiliated.
00:10:39.000 Trump refused to take him on that tour of the Vatican, even though Spicer is a lifelong Catholic, a very ardent Catholic, and wanted to meet the Pope, and Trump left him behind.
00:10:45.000 Yesterday, Trump was speaking to the Boy Scouts.
00:10:47.000 He brought virtually all of the Eagle Scouts in his administration to this event.
00:10:51.000 He left Jeff Sessions at home.
00:10:54.000 Third point here.
00:10:55.000 Trump right now is supposed to be pushing healthcare.
00:10:56.000 We'll talk about Trump pushing healthcare in just a minute.
00:10:58.000 Immediately after he tweeted all this stuff about Jeff Sessions, he fired off a bunch of tweets.
00:11:02.000 He tweeted,
00:11:11.000 Well, that should be the entire messaging of the day, should it not?
00:11:14.000 And that way, when the Senate votes, as it did, I believe, to proceed, on a motion to proceed on some form of Trumpcare bill, then he can claim victory.
00:11:22.000 He can say, look, it was me, right?
00:11:24.000 Instead, all the headlines today are going to be about Jeff Sessions, and that is Trump's own fault.
00:11:28.000 That is Trump's own fault, and there's no way to escape that.
00:11:31.000 Okay, another point here, and this is the big one, I think, and the reason that you're seeing a split among conservatives about Trump doing this stuff.
00:11:37.000 Like, there wasn't a big split among conservatives about Trump firing Comey.
00:11:41.000 I said that Trump should have fired Comey.
00:11:42.000 I was fine with Trump firing Comey. 1.00
00:11:43.000 I just thought that his excuse for doing so was stupid and problematic. 0.98
00:11:46.000 But firing Comey itself, I didn't see any problem with. 0.99
00:11:50.000 Firing Sessions, a lot of people, including Breitbart, which has been a cheerleader for Trump all the way through.
00:11:55.000 Brit Hume, who really likes Trump on Fox News.
00:11:58.000 All the people on the right are now saying Sessions is a bridge too far.
00:12:01.000 There's a reason for this.
00:12:02.000 And the reason for that is that Jeff Sessions is a deeply conservative guy when it comes to immigration.
00:12:07.000 So, story time.
00:12:08.000 A few years back, I think it was about three years ago, there was a Horowitz Freedom Center event.
00:12:12.000 And this Horowitz Freedom Center event essentially included
00:12:17.000 We're good to go.
00:12:37.000 Drinking session as four of us when we were sitting around the only topic that was discussed the entire evening was immigration And it was very clear that this was the working group for what would become the Trump administration in fact later Steve Bannon my former boss over at Breitbart would apparently commission a white paper in 2015 from Coulter and Miller
00:12:54.000 And Miller at that time was an aide to Sessions, and Sessions for an immigration policy.
00:12:59.000 And so a lot of the ideas that made Trump president, a lot of the immigration ideas that made Trump president came directly from Jeff Sessions.
00:13:05.000 In fact, Jeff Sessions said to me at the time, at this dinner, he said that he was looking for a candidate to support
00:13:11.000 In the Republican race who would embrace his immigration program, Trump was that man.
00:13:14.000 In fact, Sessions is one of the first people on board with this whole thing.
00:13:17.000 Sessions is one of the first people to endorse Trump, right?
00:13:20.000 Much earlier than anybody else.
00:13:21.000 And now, Trump is turning around crapping all over him because he doesn't like what he's doing on Russia.
00:13:26.000 What's happening right now is basically everybody who wants policy inside the Trump administration is being sidelined in favor of people who show personal loyalty to Trump.
00:13:34.000 So, Spicer, who wants policy, out.
00:13:36.000 Reince, who wants policy, sidelined.
00:13:37.000 Bannon, who wants policy, sidelined.
00:13:39.000 Sessions, who wants policy, sidelined.
00:13:41.000 All the people who actually want conservative policy currently are being sidelined in favor of Jared Nivanka, personal loyalty to Trump.
00:13:47.000 Scaramucci, personal loyalty to Trump.
00:13:49.000 Gary Cohn, personal loyalty to Trump.
00:13:51.000 A lot of people who are really Democrats, who have a lot of personal loyalty to Trump, and Trump is surrounding himself with those people, getting rid of Sessions would be a disaster area, because that basically means the only person he's going to appoint as Attorney General is somebody who's going to vow to fire to him, who's going to vow to fire the special counsel.
00:14:07.000 If the special counsel is fired, you're going to see all hell break loose in Washington, D.C.
00:14:11.000 It doesn't mean impeachment, at least not right now.
00:14:13.000 It does mean that you're going to see a lot of kickback from Senate Republicans, and Trump's agenda completely stalls.
00:14:20.000 Final point on the Sessions thing, and then I want to talk about some other topics.
00:14:24.000 President Trump, in this tweetstorm about Sessions, once again, he uses Hillary Clinton as his excuse.
00:14:30.000 I grow tired and weary of this routine.
00:14:33.000 Okay, Hillary Clinton was vanquished by President Trump.
00:14:35.000 Thank you, President Trump.
00:14:36.000 Thank you for that.
00:14:37.000 We don't have Hillary Clinton as our president, and for that, I am eternally grateful.
00:14:40.000 Now, she's gone.
00:14:42.000 Stop it.
00:14:43.000 Enough.
00:14:44.000 Okay, she's not important anymore.
00:14:45.000 Okay, the fact is that you're not angry with Jeff Sessions because of Hillary Clinton.
00:14:50.000 Just like you weren't angry at FBI Director Comey over Hillary Clinton.
00:14:53.000 This is all just red meat for rubes, okay?
00:14:55.000 People who believe that President Trump is actually angry at Jeff Sessions over Hillary Clinton, that's nonsense, okay?
00:15:00.000 It was President Trump who instructed Jeff Sessions and everybody who's investigating to leave the Clinton family alone back in December.
00:15:07.000 This is public.
00:15:08.000 Okay, there was no secret about this. 0.95
00:15:10.000 So this notion that he just throws out Hillary Clinton's name, and we're all supposed to just bow before his wishes, it's really silly.
00:15:17.000 Okay, Hillary has nothing to do with this. 1.00
00:15:19.000 Hillary may well deserve to be prosecuted. 1.00
00:15:21.000 I'd be fine with prosecuting Hillary Clinton, although it'd be very difficult now that Trump has basically tainted the entire jury pool of the United States.
00:15:26.000 But, you know, I'm fine with that.
00:15:28.000 But,
00:15:29.000 To pretend that that's what this Sessions thing is about?
00:15:31.000 That is just an excuse.
00:15:32.000 Everybody knows that the real thing that's happening here is he's ticked that Sessions won't act as his shield on Russia, and so he's acting out against Sessions.
00:15:39.000 This is a pretty stark litmus test for a lot of conservatives.
00:15:42.000 Are you going to stand with the president getting rid of an actual conservative on his key issue, immigration, inside his cabinet for no reason other than personal pique?
00:15:49.000 There is no other reason.
00:15:50.000 It's just he's mad, okay?
00:15:52.000 Are you gonna stand with that?
00:15:53.000 Because Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump?
00:15:54.000 Or are you gonna say, Mr. President,
00:15:56.000 You want to get good policy done?
00:15:58.000 We do too.
00:15:59.000 You want to see this Russia investigation thing come to a good close?
00:16:02.000 We do too.
00:16:02.000 You can't fire the Attorney General who helped get you there and who has been the stalwart on the key issue in your campaign.
00:16:10.000 Again, it's not me saying this alone.
00:16:12.000 Even his greatest allies, like Breitbart, are saying this sort of thing.
00:16:16.000 So this is not anything new, but again, I think that it goes to a character problem that Trump has, and that is that he's so ensconced in his own narcissism, he's so pathologically narcissistic, that he's willing to fire even the people who are his friends.
00:16:29.000 The only friends he has left are family at this point, and that's really not a good way to run the operation.
00:16:33.000 Sessions, for his own sake, he says, I'm not leaving.
00:16:37.000 He says, if Trump wants to fire me, he's going to have to fire me.
00:16:39.000 Which, by the way, is a good conservative move.
00:16:42.000 If Trump wants to own this, let Trump own it.
00:16:43.000 Don't let him off the hook.
00:16:45.000 Make Trump fire Jeff Sessions.
00:16:47.000 We need Jeff Sessions in place.
00:16:48.000 Not for civil asset forfeiture, but we need Jeff Sessions in place for immigration.
00:16:52.000 We need Jeff Sessions in place for application of the law.
00:16:57.000 We need him in place to strengthen the police.
00:16:59.000 There are a thousand reasons that Jeff Sessions at AG is a good thing for the conservative movement, but, you know, him being forced out by Trump is just a disaster.
00:17:07.000 Okay, so I want to talk about Trump at the Boy Scouts, which is actually more hilarious than it was upsetting.
00:17:11.000 The left is very upset about this.
00:17:13.000 I want to talk about why I was laughing at it, but first,
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00:18:26.000 All right, so when Trump isn't busy trying to fire his Attorney General for no apparent reason, Trump is speaking with the Boy Scouts.
00:18:34.000 But I want to get to that in just a second.
00:18:36.000 First, I want to discuss what's happening on the floor of the Senate.
00:18:37.000 So the latest on the floor of the Senate is that the Senate is going to vote on a motion to proceed
00:18:43.000 We don't know what that something is.
00:18:45.000 We don't know what exactly it's supposed to be.
00:18:49.000 We do know that there's a good shot that 51 senators are going to vote in favor of some sort
00:19:01.000 Of thing, right?
00:19:02.000 They're gonna vote in favor of some sort of thing.
00:19:04.000 So there's two things that have to happen.
00:19:06.000 One, 51 senators have to vote on a motion to proceed.
00:19:08.000 That means that they will take up the House version of Obamacare replacement.
00:19:12.000 And then, we actually have to pass a bill.
00:19:15.000 So, the key vote is this one.
00:19:16.000 Because once you get past that, then it's just a question of hashing out the details.
00:19:19.000 Now, it could still fall apart.
00:19:20.000 It could be the details suck.
00:19:22.000 We don't know the answer to that. 0.96
00:19:23.000 But Trump is bringing on the pressure.
00:19:25.000 And this is where Trump is doing something good, okay?
00:19:26.000 This is what Trump should be focused on.
00:19:28.000 So yesterday,
00:19:29.000 Trump was out there stumping on Obamacare and he said Obamacare is death.
00:19:32.000 Okay, fair enough.
00:19:33.000 Here he is.
00:19:35.000 President Trump using the power of his presidential bully pulpit against the backdrop of the Blue Room and the faces of what the White House calls the victims of Obamacare. 0.96
00:19:45.000 It was a big, fat, ugly lie.
00:19:48.000 With doom and gloom declarations, the president railed against the law of the land, not surprisingly swiping at Democrats. 0.99
00:19:55.000 They run out, they say death, death, death.
00:19:58.000 Well, Obamacare is death. 0.72
00:20:01.000 Okay, so that's fair enough from President Trump, and he was pushing very hard.
00:20:03.000 He was complimenting Senator McCain, who he's not always been warm with.
00:20:06.000 Senator McCain just showed up on the Senate floor and gave a speech that is being hailed by a lot of people with regard to President Trump and with regard to the Republican handling of Obamacare in the House or in the Senate.
00:20:18.000 And I'm sure we'll have more clips of that tomorrow for you because it's sort of a big moment.
00:20:21.000 Trump also is attempting to push senators.
00:20:23.000 He says the senators who don't vote for whatever this is, we don't know what this is yet, but who don't vote for this own Obamacare.
00:20:29.000 Here's his push.
00:20:30.000 They want to forget about the countless Americans they've hurt and the many that they are continuing to hurt every day by refusing to help us replace Obamacare.
00:20:41.000 For the last seven years, Republicans have been united in standing up for Obamacare's victims.
00:20:49.000 Remember?
00:20:49.000 Repeal and replace.
00:20:51.000 Repeal and replace.
00:20:53.000 They kept saying it over and over again.
00:20:56.000 Every Republican running for office promised immediate relief from this disastrous law.
00:21:02.000 We as a party must fulfill that solemn promise to the voters of this country to repeal and replace what they've been saying for the last seven years.
00:21:14.000 But so far, Senate Republicans have not done their job in ending the Obamacare nightmare.
00:21:21.000 Okay, so, you know, Trump putting the
00:21:24.000 Pressure on his fellow Republicans in the Senate.
00:21:27.000 McCain basically called for bipartisanship.
00:21:31.000 And we will see if he votes in favor of the motion to proceed.
00:21:36.000 So we'll give you all the updates on that as it comes in.
00:21:38.000 Trump is doing the right thing in putting pressure on the Senate to take this up.
00:21:41.000 The big question is going to be, what's in that bill?
00:21:43.000 What's in that bill?
00:21:44.000 It is not sufficient just to pass any bill.
00:21:46.000 And I know that you're going to hear a lot from Republican partisans today saying, well, they have to vote for something.
00:21:51.000 Okay, well it depends on what the something is.
00:21:53.000 Do you want to own Obamacare and put the GOP stamp of approval on it?
00:21:57.000 Right now what they're talking about is something they're calling skinny repeal.
00:21:59.000 Okay, which is again, just their branding effort is spectacular.
00:22:02.000 Skinny repeal would apparently be getting rid of the individual mandate. 0.89
00:22:05.000 I don't think it gets, I don't think it reinforces the new version of the mandate, but getting rid of the individual mandate, getting rid of some of the taxes.
00:22:13.000 We're getting rid of the employer mandate, so it gets rid of the funding mechanism for Obamacare, in other words.
00:22:17.000 That would exacerbate the death spiral, and then the Republicans would have to come up with some new legislation to deal with the fallout from that, which presumably they would do in another bill after they pass this one.
00:22:27.000 So that's not a terrible strategy, as far as it goes, but we'll talk more about that.
00:22:31.000 Plus, Trump spoke at the Boy Scouts and it was pretty hilarious.
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00:23:40.000 Okay, so, yesterday President Trump spoke at the Boy Scouts, and he's getting all sorts of flack from the left for speaking at the Boy Scouts, because Trump went there, and it was pretty ridiculous. 0.60
00:23:49.000 He treated the Boy Scouts like it was a typical political rally.
00:23:52.000 Chuck Todd was particularly sad.
00:23:54.000 Chuck Todd tweeted out, Okay, so, before I begin with the critique of Trump, let me just say this.
00:23:57.000 I have grounds to stand on in critiquing Trump with regard to the sacrosanct nature of the Boy Scouts.
00:24:02.000 That's because I haven't said that the Boy Scouts should be mandatorily forced
00:24:16.000 We're good to go.
00:24:36.000 So, the left doesn't have any ground.
00:24:38.000 When they talk about the sacrosanct Boy Scouts, we must protect them. 0.98
00:24:41.000 Okay, I'm not gonna take that crap from a bunch of people who've been trying to destroy the Boy Scouts for nigh on two decades. 0.91
00:24:47.000 Okay, that stuff ain't gonna wash. 0.97
00:24:48.000 Anyway, so Trump does speak in front of the Boy Scouts, and it is pretty wild.
00:24:51.000 So, first of all, the Boy Scouts were chanting that they love Trump, and people in the media can't understand this.
00:24:57.000 Okay, maybe the reason for that is a lot of the people who are in the Boy Scouts have evangelical parents, come from conservative areas.
00:25:03.000 Here's some tape of the Boy Scouts chanting that they like Trump.
00:25:20.000 By the way, just a question.
00:25:22.000 Did President Obama ever come to a jamboree?
00:25:28.000 Okay, so there's Trump being Trump, doing his rally routine, going out there and politicizing.
00:25:35.000 He can't just accept the praise, he has to rip on President Obama at the same time.
00:25:39.000 Then, it is really funny, he says to Tom Price, who's Health and Human Services Secretary, this is in front of a bunch of children, okay?
00:25:44.000 There's people who are aged 12 to 18, that if Tom Price doesn't get the vote on Trumpcare, then he'll fire him.
00:25:50.000 Which is just great to threaten to fire everyone in your cabinet in the same way.
00:25:53.000 Good process here.
00:25:55.000 By the way, you gonna get the votes?
00:25:58.000 He better get him.
00:26:00.000 He better get him.
00:26:03.000 Oh, he better.
00:26:03.000 Otherwise, I'll say, Tom, you're fired!
00:26:06.000 I'll get somebody.
00:26:10.000 Okay, so he threatens to fire him, and then he threatens Jeff Sessions. 0.99
00:26:13.000 So this is really kind of garbage. 1.00
00:26:14.000 This is, you know, a garbage way to act. 1.00
00:26:17.000 So, it's a bunch of children, remember? 0.99
00:26:19.000 And President Trump just shows up, and Jeff Sessions is an Eagle Scout, by the way, right?
00:26:23.000 He's not invited to this, right?
00:26:24.000 All the other Eagle Scouts are there, not Jeff Sessions.
00:26:27.000 And he implies that Jeff Sessions is disloyal to him.
00:26:31.000 Okay, so he's reading the Boy Scout Oath.
00:26:32.000 Okay, the Boy Scout Oath is sort of the opposite of Trump's personal creed of duty.
00:26:36.000 And so he starts reading it, and he just breaks in in the middle to make a snide reference about Jeff Sessions.
00:26:41.000 Unbelievable.
00:26:42.000 Great Boy Scouts become great, great Americans.
00:26:47.000 As the Scout Law says,
00:26:51.000 A scout is trustworthy, loyal.
00:26:55.000 We could use some more loyalty, I will tell you that.
00:26:59.000 Okay, and then the rest of the crowd continues on with the oath, because they all know the oath.
00:27:03.000 I love that he's ripping Jeff Sessions in the middle of that.
00:27:06.000 That's pretty amazing.
00:27:07.000 So, well, well done.
00:27:09.000 Just well done.
00:27:10.000 By the way, breaking news from the Wall Street Journal.
00:27:12.000 Trump is now saying to the Wall Street Journal that Sessions, who was the only senator to endorse him in the primaries, did so because of big crowds, not loyalty.
00:27:18.000 Which is insane, okay?
00:27:19.000 I know Senator Sessions. 1.00
00:27:20.000 That's absolute garbage. 1.00
00:27:22.000 And here is Trump ripping him in front of a bunch of children. 1.00
00:27:24.000 The best moment of this was where Trump
00:27:26.000 Who legitimately at this point is starting, like, in front of a bunch of kids.
00:27:29.000 If I were a kid, this would sound like my daughter and grandfather, you know, drunk around the campfire, starting to tell a story about the old days.
00:27:36.000 Here is Donald Trump telling children, remember these are kids, a story about life and developers in New York City.
00:27:42.000 What in the world?
00:27:44.000 And he said, yes, I would.
00:27:47.000 He so badly wanted — he got bored with this life of yachts and sailing and all of the things he did in the south of France and other places.
00:27:56.000 You won't get bored, right?
00:27:58.000 You know, truthfully, you're workers.
00:28:01.000 You'll get bored, too.
00:28:02.000 Believe me.
00:28:04.000 Of course, having a few good years like that isn't so bad.
00:28:09.000 But what happened is
00:28:13.000 He bought back his company, and he bought back a lot of empty land.
00:28:18.000 And he worked hard on getting it zoning, and he worked hard on starting to develop.
00:28:23.000 And in the end, he failed, and he failed badly.
00:28:26.000 Lost all of his money.
00:28:27.000 He went personally bankrupt.
00:28:30.000 And he was now much older.
00:28:33.000 And I saw him at a cocktail party.
00:28:37.000 And it was very sad, because the hottest people in New York were at this party.
00:28:40.000 It was the party of Steve Ross.
00:28:43.000 Steve Ross, who was one of the great people he came up and discovered, really, founded Time Warner.
00:28:50.000 And he was a great guy.
00:28:51.000 He had a lot of successful people at the party.
00:28:52.000 What is he talking about?
00:28:54.000 And I was doing well, so I got invited to the party.
00:28:56.000 I was very young.
00:28:58.000 What in the world?
00:28:59.000 And all the kids are like, um, Grandpa,
00:29:03.000 You're hearing a... What?
00:29:06.000 What?
00:29:06.000 My favorite part of this speech is where he said that we beat Hillary Clinton thanks to people getting out and voting like you.
00:29:11.000 Most of the people there are under 18.
00:29:12.000 So if we're going to investigate voter fraud and all the Boy Scouts are voting, that's a problem.
00:29:16.000 Okay, so the media is going nuts over this, of course.
00:29:18.000 The media goes nuts over everything.
00:29:19.000 So they've decided that this is the worst thing that has ever happened in the history of American politics.
00:29:23.000 Again, I'm not willing to hear that from the same media that's been ripping the Boy Scouts up and down and trying to destroy them.
00:29:27.000 Is it appropriate for Trump to do this?
00:29:28.000 Of course not.
00:29:29.000 Are we used to Trump doing inappropriate things?
00:29:31.000 Yes.
00:29:31.000 This is the least of my concerns.
00:29:33.000 It's also semi-charming and ridiculous that the President of the United States is getting up there, like my grandpa on Depends, you know, getting up there and telling stories, irrelevant stories, about his days in the schmata business. 0.75
00:29:45.000 Like, what in the world?
00:29:47.000 So, with all this craziness going on, fortunately we have a second party that's intelligent and with it and really cares about the...
00:29:55.000 No, no we don't actually.
00:29:56.000 Turns out that's the Democratic Party, so this has been a giant fail.
00:29:59.000 So I love this.
00:30:00.000 The Democrats are still trying to figure out what their message is.
00:30:02.000 They have no clue what their message is.
00:30:04.000 So Chuck Schumer, he came out yesterday and he said, you know, it seems that people don't get our message.
00:30:10.000 This is the Senate Minority Leader.
00:30:11.000 People don't get, I think the problem is people may get your message actually.
00:30:13.000 Here's Schumer on the message.
00:30:16.000 Week after week, month after month, we're going to roll out specific pieces here that are quite different than the Democratic Party you heard in the past.
00:30:23.000 We were too cautious.
00:30:25.000 We were too namby-pamby.
00:30:27.000 This is sharp, bold, and will appeal to both the old Obama coalition, let's say the young lady who's just getting out of college, and the Democratic voters who deserted us for Trump, the blue-collar workers.
00:30:42.000 Economics, George, is our strength, and we are going to go at it.
00:30:47.000 Okay, again, just amazing.
00:30:49.000 Like, they think they've really got it in control this time.
00:30:51.000 We're gonna, this time, we're really gonna push our message.
00:30:53.000 But here's the problem.
00:30:54.000 There's an inherent contradiction in the Democratic message.
00:30:56.000 As we've talked about, there are two separate wings of the Democratic Party fighting for assentence right now.
00:31:01.000 Wing number one, the intersectional wing.
00:31:03.000 Right, the idea that the Barack Obama wing of the party, we're gonna cobble together all of these various identity groups and they will come together and then once they've come together, they will form a majority and they will push legislation, right?
00:31:13.000 This is Obama's theory.
00:31:14.000 But we have to first separate them out into groups and then pander to each group as necessary and call white people racists in order to provide a common point of opposition.
00:31:21.000 That's group number one.
00:31:22.000 Group number two is the Bernie Sanders Socialists.
00:31:24.000 Okay, we're not so into the intersectionality.
00:31:26.000 We just like big government.
00:31:27.000 We need big government solutions.
00:31:28.000 Socialism works for everyone.
00:31:30.000 Socialism wipes out all of the
00:31:32.000 It's a false choice.
00:31:33.000 There doesn't have to be a division.
00:31:35.000 In fact, there must not be a division.
00:31:36.000 The vision we're laying out unites both coalitions and unifies the Democratic Party.
00:31:57.000 It will have a larger, stronger appeal to Americans of all economic levels and all political stripes.
00:32:04.000 It will appeal to the young woman who just graduated from college in Los Angeles, the factory worker in Akron who's now only making $11 an hour, and the single mom in Buffalo cleaning toilets on minimum wage.
00:32:20.000 Okay, so there it is.
00:32:22.000 No, actually, it's going to be very difficult for you to bridge that gap, considering that one half of your party hates the other half of your party.
00:32:27.000 You're going to lose the blue-collar voters so long as you insist on making white males the object of all of your ire in order to unify the rest of your multicultural base.
00:32:34.000 So, fortunately, we have two parties that are in full disarray, not just one.
00:32:39.000 Again, it looks like the Republicans may be able to pass something through the Senate.
00:32:41.000 Let's see what it is.
00:32:42.000 I'm optimistic that maybe it'll make some good changes.
00:32:45.000 And I will give you my evaluation of a bill once we've seen it, because this process has been hot garbage thus far.
00:32:51.000 You know, the attempt to spin out a bill without anyone having seen it...
00:32:54.000 Because it's a mystery.
00:32:55.000 I'm not a fan of this.
00:32:56.000 I'm a fan of transparency.
00:32:57.000 I'm old enough to remember when the Republicans ran on the promise that any piece of legislation be up for three full days so people could read it before there was any sort of vote on it.
00:33:05.000 Now we've put that by the wayside because hopefully if people just don't know what's in any bill we can ram it through really fast.
00:33:10.000 We'll find out what's in it tomorrow hopefully and I will have some sort of synopsis for you on that.
00:33:15.000 Okay.
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00:34:18.000 Okay, so, time for some things I like, and then some things that I hate.
00:34:21.000 So, things that I like.
00:34:22.000 So, at the end of Dunkirk, one of the great choices, one of the great directorial choices that Christopher Nolan, the director, makes is that he doesn't use the music
00:34:42.000 That's Edward Elgar.
00:34:59.000 Very famous music.
00:35:00.000 So, I wanted to do, today, some music that's used in movies, that is not actually movie music, it's actually just classical music used in other movies.
00:35:07.000 So, this is most famous for being used, it's been used in a bunch of movies, but it's most famous for being used in Platoon, in the scene where Willem Dafoe's character is being shot.
00:35:17.000 You hear this come over the, you hear this come over the soundtrack.
00:35:21.000 It is Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, one of the more beautiful pieces ever composed, and here's what it sounds like.
00:36:22.000 So this piece was composed in 1936 by, again, Samuel Barber.
00:36:27.000 It was played on the announcement over radio that FDR was dead.
00:36:30.000 It was played when it was announced that JFK was dead on television.
00:36:34.000 It was played.
00:36:35.000 It's appeared in just a ton of movies.
00:36:37.000 The Elephant Man, Platoon, Lorenzo's Oil.
00:36:40.000 Yeah, I thought it was in Lorenzo's Oil.
00:36:42.000 It's been played to comic effect, even in Seinfeld, actually.
00:36:46.000 We're good to go?
00:37:06.000 Other things that I like.
00:37:07.000 So, everybody is focused in on Kid Rock running for Senate in Michigan.
00:37:10.000 That's, of course, because Kid Rock is super famous.
00:37:12.000 He sold 14 million records.
00:37:14.000 He is extraordinarily popular.
00:37:16.000 He's done this routine where he makes sure that all the tickets that are sold for his concerts have to be $20 or less, so he's a populist.
00:37:23.000 But, there's somebody who's better qualified running for that same Senate seat.
00:37:25.000 His name is John James, and here's an ad for John James running for office in Michigan.
00:37:30.000 I'm a Republican because I'm conservative.
00:37:32.000 Specifically, the exceptionalism of our country and our Constitution.
00:37:36.000 And they must be defended.
00:37:38.000 I'm pro-gun.
00:37:39.000 I understand that James Madison wrote this document and listed the number two thing behind religion, speech, and the right to assemble, the right to keep and bear arms.
00:37:50.000 It's that important.
00:37:52.000 I believe that life begins at conception.
00:37:55.000 It's a God-given miracle.
00:37:57.000 Michigan deserves a leader who's lived in the real world, who understands national security, who understands how to provide economic opportunity, because they've actually created jobs.
00:38:09.000 Michigan deserves a leader to make sure that everyone has a fair shot.
00:38:14.000 You do that by understanding economic opportunity and by understanding national security.
00:38:20.000 Because if you don't do both, then our future will not be as bright as it can be.
00:38:26.000 I'm John James, and I'm exploring a run for the U.S.
00:38:29.000 Senate.
00:38:30.000 Okay, so this guy would be a rock star in the Republican Party in the pre-celebrity era.
00:38:35.000 This guy is a former military guy.
00:38:37.000 He's a U.S.
00:38:38.000 Marine.
00:38:39.000 He's 36 years old.
00:38:40.000 He's black.
00:38:41.000 He is the CEO of Renaissance Global Logistics, which is a logistics and warehousing firm based in Detroit. 0.64
00:38:47.000 He's basically the perfect candidate, right?
00:38:51.000 We're good to go.
00:39:12.000 I mean, come on, folks.
00:39:13.000 At some point, we're going to need to actually nominate people who have a deeply conservative streak, who know what policies they care about, and who have a history of running businesses and dealing with communities.
00:39:26.000 Celebrity politics is not my bag, and I'm getting kind of tired of it.
00:39:29.000 Okay.
00:39:30.000 Other things.
00:39:30.000 Okay, so let's do one quick thing I hate, and then we'll get to deconstructing the culture.
00:39:35.000 The thing I hate this week is that every day on Huffington Post, there is some insane thing where somebody does something crazy or insane, and then Huffington Post says, this person is crushing a stereotype by doing a crazy thing.
00:39:48.000 So, here's what it is this time.
00:39:50.000 Barcelona-based Cinta Tort-Cartro
00:39:52.000 Uses paint and glitter to highlight parts and functions of the body women have been conditioned to feel ashamed of, like stretch marks and menstruation. 0.99
00:40:00.000 So now, if you have a stretch mark, she's painting it.
00:40:04.000 She uses a vibrant rainbow of colors to highlight stretch marks on the skin and to show the beauty of menstruation on underwear, sanitary pads, and tampons. 1.00
00:40:11.000 She told PopSugar it started with her own journey towards self-love. 0.99
00:40:14.000 Hey, anytime anyone has to tell you about their journey towards self-love, um, they're a jerk. 0.99
00:40:19.000 Okay, look, I don't want to hear about your journey towards self-love. 0.99
00:40:21.000 It's your business, not mine. 0.99
00:40:23.000 Not interested.
00:40:24.000 It says, I have not always felt comfortable with my period and stretch marks, she said.
00:40:28.000 TMI, gang.
00:40:29.000 Well, when did this phrase TMI go out of style?
00:40:31.000 Because I sort of like it, this TMI phrase.
00:40:32.000 It says, overall, I have not always felt secure with my body.
00:40:35.000 Over the years and after internal reflection, I saw that if I did not accept anything about my body, hair, stretch marks, I could never love or accept me.
00:40:42.000 Really?
00:40:42.000 Why?
00:40:44.000 Why can't you love or accept you with your flaws?
00:40:48.000 Or do you have to love... Why can't you love, like, certain things about your body, but not other things?
00:40:51.000 Like, if we all loved being overweight, we'd all stay overweight.
00:40:56.000 I'm not saying that you should, like, cultivate a hatred for your own body, God forbid, but I don't know why you taking pictures of, like, the parts of yourself that nobody really wants to see is a beneficial thing, why that is a worthwhile thing.
00:41:08.000 We're good to go.
00:41:35.000 Some sort of artistic genius, but everything must be cheered now up to and including bodily functions. 0.99
00:41:39.000 I'm looking forward to the male response, which is painting your poop. 0.98
00:41:43.000 That'll be really fun. 0.99
00:41:43.000 Painting your bowel movements. 0.99
00:41:45.000 Painting your beer belly.
00:41:46.000 I have never felt comfortable with my beer belly, but now I've painted it all the colors of the rainbow and given it a frog mouth.
00:41:52.000 Okay.
00:41:54.000 Okay, time to deconstruct a little bit of culture.
00:41:55.000 We need to leave that behind and move on with our lives.
00:41:58.000 Time to deconstruct the culture.
00:41:59.000 So, one of the things that's been bugging me this week is that all of these actors are now suggesting that it is very, very, very, very important that movies that are aimed at children and entertainment pieces contain all sorts of political messaging.
00:42:15.000 So, yesterday, the lead voice actor for the Emoji movie insisted that the movie is a very, very important way of fighting President Trump's administration, rather than just a film about talking faces, according to Alex Griswold over at The Free Beacon.
00:42:27.000 He was talking about The Huffington Post.
00:42:29.000 He trashed his co-workers on Silicon Valley, which is a show that I think is hilarious.
00:42:33.000 He said, right before the election, I asked, how much money did you donate, you Hollywood elites?
00:42:36.000 How much did you donate to Hillary Clinton's campaign?
00:42:38.000 And everybody in the cast said nothing.
00:42:39.000 They hadn't given a dollar.
00:42:40.000 Maybe because she's the worst candidate in American history. 1.00
00:42:43.000 Miller said, however, he's very much on board with the Emoji movie, said, how rare is it we get an opportunity to do an original property, right?
00:42:49.000 There's an opportunity to do something optimistic, positivistic, and, you know, we have very few weapons in the current administration, and one of them is to target a younger demographic and try and help them understand and adopt progressive values.
00:43:00.000 The movie has a lot to say to women, how they have limitless potential, and one of the characters literally breaks through a glass ceiling. 0.99
00:43:06.000 Okay, this is a movie I won't take my daughter to see.
00:43:09.000 I don't want to see your political messaging, T.J.
00:43:11.000 Miller.
00:43:11.000 I'm not interested in what Hollywood thinks my child ought to see.
00:43:14.000 I'm interested in what I think my child ought to see.
00:43:15.000 She's my child.
00:43:16.000 You don't know her.
00:43:17.000 You don't care about her.
00:43:18.000 I do.
00:43:19.000 So it's my job to determine what my child should see.
00:43:21.000 And you messaging in the emoji movie is not going to forward the ball at all in American politics.
00:43:26.000 You want to know what made Trump?
00:43:27.000 This is one of the things that made Trump. 0.94
00:43:29.000 Is the incessant attempts by the left to infuse every single damn thing with politics. 0.75
00:43:33.000 Everything. 1.00
00:43:34.000 Everything has to be infused with politics, up to and including a stupid movie with poop emojis played by Patrick Stewart. 1.00
00:43:41.000 You wonder why Hollywood is going to the dogs? 1.00
00:43:44.000 This is one of the reasons.
00:43:45.000 You want to know why people are seeing superhero movies right now? 1.00
00:43:47.000 Because they don't want to be hit with your stupid messaging. 0.99
00:43:49.000 You want to know why Dunkirk did great business, besides being a very good movie? 0.99
00:43:52.000 It's because there is no political messaging in Dunkirk.
00:43:55.000 And no matter how hard the left tried, they couldn't find political messaging in Dunkirk.
00:43:58.000 And so people were willing to go see it.
00:44:00.000 So we'll go see Spider-Man, or we'll go see Marvel movies, or we'll go see DC movies.
00:44:05.000 We'll go see all these superhero movies because we're not expecting to be sucker-punched.
00:44:08.000 But we know that if we go see a serious drama, there's at least a 35% chance there's going to be some backhanded slap at Trump or conservatives or Republicans in there.
00:44:15.000 I was watching a movie last night on the plane in New York.
00:44:18.000 I was watching this movie that was... What was the name of this film?
00:44:22.000 It was... It was a huge cast.
00:44:24.000 It was Amy Adams and... 1.00
00:44:27.000 Michael Shannon, and for some reason as I get older I forget the names of movies.
00:44:31.000 In any case, it was Nocturnal Animals, that's the name of the film.
00:44:35.000 So Nocturnal Animals is this film that opens with probably the worst opening I've ever seen to a pretty good movie. 0.93
00:44:41.000 The rest of the movie is fine, but halfway through the movie there's a scene where the main character, played by Amy Adams, just starts ripping on her mother and she says she's a terrible person because she's a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, and of course she's a Republican. 0.92
00:44:52.000 Of course she's a Republican. 0.98
00:44:55.000 And it's just like, okay, did we need that sucker punch right here in the middle of the film?
00:44:58.000 Like, was that necessary?
00:44:59.000 Now, it turns out that it's not as much of a sucker punch as it seems, but that sort of thing is what people attempt to avoid when they go to the movies.
00:45:07.000 If Hollywood wants to continue poisoning the popular culture to the point where we can't even share movies and entertainment with each other, then the end result is going to be a more polarized culture, not a less polarized culture.
00:45:16.000 Okay, so we'll be back here tomorrow to talk about John McCain's apparently big speech that I'm just now seeing on Twitter, and we'll talk also about what exactly Trumpcare is going to be, plus the latest on the Jeff Sessions saga.
00:45:26.000 When we return, I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.