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00:00:00.000Richard Dawkins is no friend to conservatives.
00:00:02.000The atheist author spent much of his life deriding Judaism and Christianity.
00:00:06.000He 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.
00:00:13.000Dawkins says that even moderate religious people, quote, make the world safe for extremists.
00:00:40.000Such language, of course, makes him a pariah among leftists.
00:00:43.000This week, Dawkins was scheduled to speak at an event with KPFA in Berkeley, California.
00:00:48.000All went swimmingly, until leftists realized Dawkins had said some untoward things about Islam.
00:00:53.000Then they canceled the speech, citing his quote-unquote abusive speech.
00:00:56.000They 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.
00:01:09.000The same left that barred Dawkins from his Berkeley event cheered this week, while Palestinian Arabs riot over metal detectors at the Temple Mount.
00:01:15.000Those 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.
00:01:32.000The 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.
00:01:47.000So, why does the left seek to support radical Islam so ardently?
00:01:50.000Well, because the left believes that the quickest way to destroy Western civilization is no longer class warfare, but multicultural warfare.
00:01:57.000Simply ally with groups that hate the prevailing system and work with them to take it down.
00:02:01.000Then, the left will build on the ashes of the old system.
00:02:17.000She's an ally, so that means she must be backed.
00:02:19.000Alliance with nefarious forces calls your own morality into question.
00:02:22.000KPFA has a lot more to answer for than Dawkins.
00:02:25.000But 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.
00:02:51.000Plus, the Senate Republicans are finally going to vote on some form of Trumpcare.
00:02:55.000We 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.
00:03:05.000Plus, Trump talks to a bunch of children at the Boy Scouts, and it goes weird.
00:03:09.000We'll talk about all those things, but before we do that, first,
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00:04:45.000Well, not because Jeff Sessions is doing a terrible job.
00:04:48.000In fact, by most accounts, he's doing a pretty good job, particularly on immigration.
00:04:52.000If 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.
00:06:44.000So either this is pathological narcissism, or this is Trump has something to hide.
00:06:48.000Now, I tend to believe it's pathological narcissism.
00:06:50.000And 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.
00:06:59.000Yeah, let's be straight about Jeff Sessions here, okay?
00:07:01.000Jeff Sessions is not responsible for this.
00:07:03.000Jeff Sessions only recused himself because in his own testimony he said that he never had a meeting with Russians.
00:07:08.000It turned out he had a meeting with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, so he recused himself.
00:07:12.000That happened long after he was nominated and approved
00:07:15.000For 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.
00:07:23.000He is the hard wiring into the nationalist populist movement that Trump likes to talk so much about and from which he draws his support.
00:07:30.000Sessions is the font head for the anti-immigration movement that Trump supposedly represents.
00:07:37.000So this doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense.
00:07:39.000So there are a few things that I want to say about all of this.
00:07:41.000First 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.
00:08:14.000I 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.
00:08:21.000Um, and so I think it's gonna, I think him and Jeff, or sorry, Attorney General Sessions need to work this thing out.
00:08:26.000It's clear the President wants him gone.
00:08:28.000I 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.
00:08:49.000So Scaramucci says, I don't know what he's going to do, but yeah, he sort of should go.
00:08:52.000So there are a bunch of questions here.
00:08:54.000Number one is why Trump doesn't just fire him.
00:08:56.000There 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.
00:09:02.000He fired him while he was on the West Coast, speaking to a bunch of FBI cadets.
00:09:07.000So now he's doing the same thing to Jeff Sessions.
00:09:09.000Again, the problem here is that Sessions himself is pretty popular with the right wing of the Republican Party, especially because of immigration issues.
00:09:32.000He wants Sessions to do it on his own.
00:09:33.000He 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.
00:09:41.000That somehow Sessions will be blamed for that.
00:09:42.000I don't know where he's getting that idea, but it's foolish.
00:09:44.000If Sessions quits at this point, no one's going to blame him.
00:09:48.000Second 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.
00:10:05.000Scaramucci said something else in this Hewitt interview.
00:10:07.000He said, you know, Eric Holder acted as a goalie for President Obama.
00:10:10.000We need somebody who's going to act as a goalie for President Trump.
00:10:12.000Okay, 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.
00:10:18.000Scaramucci, 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.
00:10:25.000But 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.
00:10:36.000Sean Spicer wasn't just ousted, he was humiliated.
00:10:39.000Trump 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.
00:10:45.000Yesterday, Trump was speaking to the Boy Scouts.
00:10:47.000He brought virtually all of the Eagle Scouts in his administration to this event.
00:11:11.000Well, that should be the entire messaging of the day, should it not?
00:11:14.000And 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.
00:11:24.000Instead, all the headlines today are going to be about Jeff Sessions, and that is Trump's own fault.
00:11:28.000That is Trump's own fault, and there's no way to escape that.
00:11:31.000Okay, 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.
00:11:37.000Like, there wasn't a big split among conservatives about Trump firing Comey.
00:11:41.000I said that Trump should have fired Comey.
00:12:37.000Drinking 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
00:12:54.000And Miller at that time was an aide to Sessions, and Sessions for an immigration policy.
00:12:59.000And 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.
00:13:05.000In fact, Jeff Sessions said to me at the time, at this dinner, he said that he was looking for a candidate to support
00:13:11.000In the Republican race who would embrace his immigration program, Trump was that man.
00:13:14.000In fact, Sessions is one of the first people on board with this whole thing.
00:13:17.000Sessions is one of the first people to endorse Trump, right?
00:13:21.000And now, Trump is turning around crapping all over him because he doesn't like what he's doing on Russia.
00:13:26.000What'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.
00:13:51.000A 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.
00:14:07.000If the special counsel is fired, you're going to see all hell break loose in Washington, D.C.
00:14:11.000It doesn't mean impeachment, at least not right now.
00:14:13.000It does mean that you're going to see a lot of kickback from Senate Republicans, and Trump's agenda completely stalls.
00:14:20.000Final point on the Sessions thing, and then I want to talk about some other topics.
00:14:24.000President Trump, in this tweetstorm about Sessions, once again, he uses Hillary Clinton as his excuse.
00:14:30.000I grow tired and weary of this routine.
00:14:33.000Okay, Hillary Clinton was vanquished by President Trump.
00:15:10.000So 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.
00:15:17.000Okay, Hillary has nothing to do with this.
00:15:19.000Hillary may well deserve to be prosecuted.
00:15:21.000I'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.
00:15:32.000Everybody 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.
00:15:39.000This is a pretty stark litmus test for a lot of conservatives.
00:15:42.000Are 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?
00:16:12.000Even his greatest allies, like Breitbart, are saying this sort of thing.
00:16:16.000So 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.
00:16:29.000The only friends he has left are family at this point, and that's really not a good way to run the operation.
00:16:33.000Sessions, for his own sake, he says, I'm not leaving.
00:16:37.000He says, if Trump wants to fire me, he's going to have to fire me.
00:16:39.000Which, by the way, is a good conservative move.
00:16:42.000If Trump wants to own this, let Trump own it.
00:16:48.000Not for civil asset forfeiture, but we need Jeff Sessions in place for immigration.
00:16:52.000We need Jeff Sessions in place for application of the law.
00:16:57.000We need him in place to strengthen the police.
00:16:59.000There 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.
00:17:07.000Okay, so I want to talk about Trump at the Boy Scouts, which is actually more hilarious than it was upsetting.
00:17:13.000I want to talk about why I was laughing at it, but first,
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00:19:35.000President 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.
00:20:01.000Okay, so that's fair enough from President Trump, and he was pushing very hard.
00:20:03.000He was complimenting Senator McCain, who he's not always been warm with.
00:20:06.000Senator 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.
00:20:18.000And I'm sure we'll have more clips of that tomorrow for you because it's sort of a big moment.
00:20:21.000Trump also is attempting to push senators.
00:20:23.000He 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.
00:20:30.000They 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.
00:20:41.000For the last seven years, Republicans have been united in standing up for Obamacare's victims.
00:20:53.000They kept saying it over and over again.
00:20:56.000Every Republican running for office promised immediate relief from this disastrous law.
00:21:02.000We 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.
00:21:14.000But so far, Senate Republicans have not done their job in ending the Obamacare nightmare.
00:21:44.000It is not sufficient just to pass any bill.
00:21:46.000And I know that you're going to hear a lot from Republican partisans today saying, well, they have to vote for something.
00:21:51.000Okay, well it depends on what the something is.
00:21:53.000Do you want to own Obamacare and put the GOP stamp of approval on it?
00:21:57.000Right now what they're talking about is something they're calling skinny repeal.
00:21:59.000Okay, which is again, just their branding effort is spectacular.
00:22:02.000Skinny repeal would apparently be getting rid of the individual mandate.
00:22:05.000I 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.
00:22:13.000We're getting rid of the employer mandate, so it gets rid of the funding mechanism for Obamacare, in other words.
00:22:17.000That 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.
00:22:27.000So that's not a terrible strategy, as far as it goes, but we'll talk more about that.
00:22:31.000Plus, Trump spoke at the Boy Scouts and it was pretty hilarious.
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00:23:40.000Okay, 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.
00:23:49.000He treated the Boy Scouts like it was a typical political rally.
00:27:10.000By the way, breaking news from the Wall Street Journal.
00:27:12.000Trump 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.
00:27:22.000And here is Trump ripping him in front of a bunch of children.
00:27:24.000The best moment of this was where Trump
00:27:26.000Who legitimately at this point is starting, like, in front of a bunch of kids.
00:27:29.000If 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.
00:27:36.000Here is Donald Trump telling children, remember these are kids, a story about life and developers in New York City.
00:27:47.000He 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.
00:29:33.000It'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.
00:30:16.000Week 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.
00:30:27.000This 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.
00:30:42.000Economics, George, is our strength, and we are going to go at it.
00:30:54.000There's an inherent contradiction in the Democratic message.
00:30:56.000As we've talked about, there are two separate wings of the Democratic Party fighting for assentence right now.
00:31:01.000Wing number one, the intersectional wing.
00:31:03.000Right, 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?
00:31:14.000But 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.
00:31:35.000In fact, there must not be a division.
00:31:36.000The vision we're laying out unites both coalitions and unifies the Democratic Party.
00:31:57.000It will have a larger, stronger appeal to Americans of all economic levels and all political stripes.
00:32:04.000It 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.
00:32:22.000No, 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.
00:32:27.000You'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.
00:32:34.000So, fortunately, we have two parties that are in full disarray, not just one.
00:32:39.000Again, it looks like the Republicans may be able to pass something through the Senate.
00:32:57.000I'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.
00:33:05.000Now 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.
00:33:10.000We'll find out what's in it tomorrow hopefully and I will have some sort of synopsis for you on that.
00:33:15.000Before I get to things I like, things I hate, and some deconstruction of the culture, I first want to say thank you to our sponsors over at My Patriot Supplies.
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00:34:22.000So, 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
00:35:00.000So, 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.
00:35:07.000So, 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.
00:35:17.000You hear this come over the, you hear this come over the soundtrack.
00:35:21.000It is Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, one of the more beautiful pieces ever composed, and here's what it sounds like.
00:36:22.000So this piece was composed in 1936 by, again, Samuel Barber.
00:36:27.000It was played on the announcement over radio that FDR was dead.
00:36:30.000It was played when it was announced that JFK was dead on television.
00:37:39.000I 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.
00:37:57.000Michigan 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.
00:38:09.000Michigan deserves a leader to make sure that everyone has a fair shot.
00:38:14.000You do that by understanding economic opportunity and by understanding national security.
00:38:20.000Because if you don't do both, then our future will not be as bright as it can be.
00:38:26.000I'm John James, and I'm exploring a run for the U.S.
00:39:13.000At 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.
00:39:26.000Celebrity politics is not my bag, and I'm getting kind of tired of it.
00:39:30.000Okay, so let's do one quick thing I hate, and then we'll get to deconstructing the culture.
00:39:35.000The 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.
00:39:52.000Uses paint and glitter to highlight parts and functions of the body women have been conditioned to feel ashamed of, like stretch marks and menstruation.
00:40:00.000So now, if you have a stretch mark, she's painting it.
00:40:04.000She 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.
00:40:11.000She told PopSugar it started with her own journey towards self-love.
00:40:14.000Hey, anytime anyone has to tell you about their journey towards self-love, um, they're a jerk.
00:40:19.000Okay, look, I don't want to hear about your journey towards self-love.
00:40:29.000Well, when did this phrase TMI go out of style?
00:40:31.000Because I sort of like it, this TMI phrase.
00:40:32.000It says, overall, I have not always felt secure with my body.
00:40:35.000Over 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.
00:40:44.000Why can't you love or accept you with your flaws?
00:40:48.000Or do you have to love... Why can't you love, like, certain things about your body, but not other things?
00:40:51.000Like, if we all loved being overweight, we'd all stay overweight.
00:40:56.000I'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.
00:41:59.000So, 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.
00:42:15.000So, 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.
00:42:27.000He was talking about The Huffington Post.
00:42:29.000He trashed his co-workers on Silicon Valley, which is a show that I think is hilarious.
00:42:33.000He said, right before the election, I asked, how much money did you donate, you Hollywood elites?
00:42:36.000How much did you donate to Hillary Clinton's campaign?
00:42:38.000And everybody in the cast said nothing.
00:42:40.000Maybe because she's the worst candidate in American history.
00:42:43.000Miller 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?
00:42:49.000There'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.
00:43:00.000The movie has a lot to say to women, how they have limitless potential, and one of the characters literally breaks through a glass ceiling.
00:43:06.000Okay, this is a movie I won't take my daughter to see.
00:43:09.000I don't want to see your political messaging, T.J.
00:43:45.000You want to know why people are seeing superhero movies right now?
00:43:47.000Because they don't want to be hit with your stupid messaging.
00:43:49.000You want to know why Dunkirk did great business, besides being a very good movie?
00:43:52.000It's because there is no political messaging in Dunkirk.
00:43:55.000And no matter how hard the left tried, they couldn't find political messaging in Dunkirk.
00:43:58.000And so people were willing to go see it.
00:44:00.000So we'll go see Spider-Man, or we'll go see Marvel movies, or we'll go see DC movies.
00:44:05.000We'll go see all these superhero movies because we're not expecting to be sucker-punched.
00:44:08.000But 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.
00:44:15.000I was watching a movie last night on the plane in New York.
00:44:18.000I was watching this movie that was... What was the name of this film?
00:44:27.000Michael Shannon, and for some reason as I get older I forget the names of movies.
00:44:31.000In any case, it was Nocturnal Animals, that's the name of the film.
00:44:35.000So Nocturnal Animals is this film that opens with probably the worst opening I've ever seen to a pretty good movie.
00:44:41.000The 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.
00:44:59.000Now, 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.
00:45:07.000If 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.
00:45:16.000Okay, 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.
00:45:26.000When we return, I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.