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00:01:46.000So, one of the reasons that I'm in a mood today, aside from the fact that I had an allergic reaction to fish last night and spent half the night in the hospital, aside from that, the reason that I am in a mood today is because there's a guy who I thought was a very nice guy named Mark Duplass.
00:01:59.000Mark Duplass, you probably recognize his face.
00:02:01.000He's one of these sort of face guys from TV, or if you see him walking around on the street, you go, yeah, I recognize that guy from TV.
00:02:06.000But he's not like a top line star where you would know his name.
00:02:08.000He's apparently very big and sort of the indie director.
00:02:11.000I don't agree with him on much, but he's a genuine person who wants help me for no other reason than to be nice.
00:02:34.000I mean, that's a nice thing for him to say, right?
00:02:36.000And I'll tell you what the nice thing that I did for Mark Duplass was.
00:02:39.000The nice thing I did for Mark Duplass is he emailed me, like a lot of folks do, and he said, I'm doing a show that has to do with a narrative.
00:02:45.000There's a narrative in there about guns and gun control and gun use.
00:02:48.000And I wanted to get a perspective on the right side of the aisle because I don't get to hear that all that often.
00:02:52.000And I thought, well, that's a nice thing.
00:02:53.000I'm glad somebody from Hollywood actually cares enough.
00:02:55.000To want to hear from people who are pro-Second Amendment folks.
00:02:58.000People who actually care about gun rights.
00:03:00.000So, he came into the office, and I kept it on the down low, because there's a basic rule that I have here.
00:03:06.000We actually do have a fairly large number of active Hollywood stars who come into the office, who are pretty big fans of the show, or they enjoy what I do, and I have a rule with them, which is no one gets to take pictures, basically.
00:03:17.000We try to keep it on the down low as much as possible, because Hollywood is a one-party Stalinist town.
00:03:21.000Hollywood is the kind of place where if it gets out that you once took a picture with me, they will crush you.
00:03:26.000If they find out that you are friendly with me, or we once had dinner, we went out to lunch or something, then they will come after you with a vengeance.
00:03:38.000Probably an hour and a half, just talking over gun rights with him, trying to explain the various points of view, trying to explain where I thought the flaws were in the pro-Second Amendment position and how you counter those, where the flaws are in the pro-gun control position, how you counter those.
00:03:50.000I tried to be sort of as honest about the argument as I possibly could.
00:03:54.000And then we shook hands and he took off.
00:03:55.000And I said, if you need any other contacts, you need anybody who you need to talk to on either side of the aisle, I know some folks on both sides of the aisle who have different opinions on this issue.
00:04:09.000And then, I didn't ask him to do anything, because I literally have not spoken with him since this day, which was what, maybe a couple of months ago, guys?
00:05:26.000I appreciate the original sentiment to the tweet.
00:05:28.000Okay, this morning, Mark Duplass puts out an actual apology for his original tweet.
00:05:33.000So after all of this happens, he actually apologizes for the original tweet.
00:05:36.000And not only does he apologize, he now suggests that I, in fact, endorse hatred, racism, homophobia, xenophobia, or another form of intolerance.
00:06:29.000But I do believe deeply in bipartisan understanding and I will continue to do my best to promote peace and decency in this world right now.
00:06:47.000I'm not even going to go into critiquing whether I think that he did the right thing here, because I think that it's obvious from what I'm saying that I think that this is a mistake, a strategic mistake, that if you're trying to reach across the aisle and you get criticism for reaching across the aisle, maybe it's the people doing the critiquing who are the problem.
00:07:21.000He could have tweeted this about any friend.
00:07:23.000Probably half the left he could have tweeted this about.
00:07:25.000And there was a group of people, this SJW mob that exists on Twitter, solely to cudgel people into line.
00:07:32.000And those are the people who help run Hollywood, by the way.
00:07:34.000A lot of those folks are people who are living in these massive mansions off of Sunset Boulevard and decrying capitalism.
00:07:40.000I promise, it wasn't just the Twitter.
00:07:41.000It wasn't just the people on Twitter, the randos on Twitter who spend all of their days in their mommy's basement and are tweeting out nasty things about me to Mark Z. Blass.
00:07:49.000I promise you what happened is that his wife probably came to him and said, I got calls from my friends.
00:07:53.000His brother, who I guess is his business partner, probably came to him and said, listen, we're getting blowback for this.
00:07:57.000Other directors with whom he has friends, I'm sure, came out and said, why would you possibly have done this?
00:08:02.000My favorite along these lines, by the way, was Tom Arnold.
00:08:05.000So Tom Arnold, to be clear, is another person we've been nice to here at this office.
00:08:08.000Tom Arnold came in and actually did a show with Michael Mowles, and we were kind enough to let him in with his camera crew into the office.
00:08:53.000Because Mark, I think, was originally trying to do the right thing, and I think that Hollywood does not allow you to do the right thing.
00:08:58.000Hollywood has a vested interest in making sure that everyone who disagrees with them, in any small, minute amount, is portrayed as the worst person on Earth.
00:09:07.000I don't want to say this is why you got Trump, but this is one of the reasons that they got Trump.
00:09:10.000When you lump everybody together, when you say that everybody who disagrees with you is a racist, sexist, homophobic, bitter clinger who just wants guns and God, when you say that that's what those people are and you cannot even speak to them, how dare you try to have an honest conversation with one of them?
00:09:24.000Then this is the predictable result, which is that you can bully anybody with just a few tweets.
00:09:28.000And unfortunately, I think this has become endemic.
00:10:00.000It's people ranging from Jordan Peterson to Dave Rubin to Christina Hoff Summers.
00:10:04.000I believe I'm the only registered Republican on that list.
00:10:07.000And the reason that exists, the reason this IDW exists, is because it's a bunch of people who are honestly trying to reach answers by having conversations with one another.
00:10:15.000And we don't want to engage with the worst versions of the arguments.
00:10:18.000We're not interested in engaging with the stupidest version the other side has to present, and we're not interested in the sort of mudslinging that goes on on Twitter.
00:10:25.000And this has all become very, very popular.
00:10:27.000The reason it has become popular, the reason it is important, is because the left has become so deeply intolerant of anything remotely resembling an honest conversation.
00:10:36.000If Mark had come into this office and Mark had filmed us talking for an hour and a half in cordial fashion, he would have got hit the exact same way.
00:10:44.000He wouldn't have even had to tweet out that people should follow me on Twitter if they want an honest conservative take.
00:10:58.000Because when Bill Maher had me on his show and treated me like a human being, and by the way, it was pretty far left when he talked about Trump and Russia, he got blowback from the left for even having me on.
00:11:09.000The goal here is to shut that Overton window tight, to make sure that no one who exists outside that Overton window, that area of authentic, decent discourse, that no one outside that area of accepted opinion, that area of accepted left-wing opinion, is allowed to talk or have a conversation with one another.
00:11:25.000And if you had a problem with something I've said in the past, I have a great solution for this.
00:11:28.000Because it turns out that if you did half a second of research, you would realize that people change their opinions over time, that people make mistakes.
00:11:35.000You might realize that you're misconstruing something someone said, normally that's happening on purpose.
00:11:41.000Instead, it's a lot easier to run for the safe space and pretend that everyone who disagrees with you, and that's the real problem here, is that in the end, I'm sure Mark and I disagree on all these issues, and that really is the problem.
00:11:52.000Because if I were on the left, I don't think that Mark, number one, would have gotten the blowback, and number two, I doubt that he would have apologized, because Hollywood doesn't care.
00:12:08.000But if you endorse anybody who disagrees with you, then you must be taken out to the woodshed and caned.
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00:13:40.000Is it good for the left to continually cave to this mob?
00:13:43.000My answer is it is not good for the left.
00:13:45.000It's probably good for the right that the left continually caves to this mob.
00:13:48.000Here's the truth in pure partisan breakdown.
00:13:50.000The more the left caves to its most extreme radicals and says we're not going to have a conversation across the other side of the aisle, the more they are likely to engage in an echo chamber where they move further and further and further to the left.
00:14:00.000And that is further and further and further away from the American people.
00:14:03.000The way that you end up in an intersectional bubble of your own making, where you're not allowed to talk about politics unless you have the right skin color, or the right background, or the right ethnicity.
00:14:10.000The way you end up in that bubble is by excising everyone who doesn't count in your little group.
00:14:15.000And again, this is the way that it works in Hollywood.
00:14:17.000Hollywood morality has now been expanded out across America, but it is particularly predominant in Hollywood.
00:14:23.000You know, my business partner, Jeremy Boring, he was the executive director of the least secret secret organization in the history of man.
00:14:30.000It was on the front page of the New York Times.
00:14:31.000That organization was called Friends of Abe.
00:14:33.000Friends of Abe was a group of literally thousands, thousands upon thousands of Hollywood conservatives
00:14:41.000And they all had to be part of a secret group because they know what kind of blowback you face for even saying that you voted for George W. Bush, or you didn't oppose the war in Iraq, or you thought about voting for Donald Trump.
00:14:55.000I wrote a book called Primetime Propaganda, all about leftist bias in Hollywood, in which a bunch of top-name Hollywood producers admitted openly to me
00:15:03.000On tape, that they discriminated against conservatives in their work.
00:15:06.000So I understand what Mark Duplass was going up against here.
00:15:13.000All I can say is that that mentality has now extended out across America.
00:15:17.000Unfortunately, I think it exists for some folks on the right side of the aisle as well.
00:15:20.000I think there's a small sliver of the right that says that if you talk with somebody across the aisle, then that is to be condemned in the worst possible fashion.
00:15:35.000You can't find a single conservative the left thinks it's okay to talk to.
00:15:39.000The only ones they'll let you talk to are Max Boot and David Frum, because Max Boot has decided you should vote Democrat, and so has David Frum.
00:15:45.000And maybe George Will now, because George Will says you should vote Democrat.
00:15:47.000There's not a single person in America who says vote Republican that the left would not have attacked with equal vigor.
00:15:53.000Over an actor saying that you maybe ought to follow my stuff.
00:16:13.000You don't know anything about me, dude, but I understand you have to virtue signal for your friends so you feel better at the cocktail parties.
00:16:17.000Okay, so this is the way the left has decided to operate.
00:16:20.000Unfortunately, it is having some broader implications for not governmental-oriented free speech, but for the attitude of free speech that we have in the country.
00:16:27.000So the latest example of this is Mark Zuckerberg.
00:16:30.000is now under serious fire because he has defended the rights of Facebook users to publish Holocaust denial posts.
00:16:34.000He said he didn't think that they're intentionally getting it wrong.
00:16:36.000This is according to The Guardian, which means it's a biased source to the left.
00:16:39.000In an interview with Recode, published on Wednesday, the CEO also explained Facebook's decision to allow the far-right conspiracy theory website InfoWars to continue using the platform, saying the social network would, quote, try to reduce the distribution of that content, but would not censor the page.
00:16:53.000Zuckerberg's comments came the same day Facebook announced a new policy pledging to remove misinformation used to incite physical harm.
00:17:00.000And people jumped all over Zuckerberg for this.
00:17:13.000Last time he talked about me on his show, I believe, he said that Satan should get behind him, and that I was actually an atheist sent to convert to Christians.
00:17:48.000But even in normal everyday conversation, the idea is
00:17:51.000That stuff that's not nearly as extreme as Infowars, or nearly as extreme as Holocaust denial, that stuff should not be allowed into the public debate.
00:18:08.000So you have the smallest circle, which is the speech I agree with and like.
00:18:10.000And then there's the broader circle, which is speech that I don't agree with, don't necessarily like it all that much, but I think is worthy of engagement.
00:18:17.000And then there's this broad, broad, broad circle, which is speech that should be allowed, some of which I think is just vile and disgusting.
00:18:22.000Okay, for the left, what the left has done is they have now collapsed a couple of these circles into themselves.
00:18:27.000So that first circle, which is stuff that I like and that I agree with, that circle has become the second circle, stuff that I'm willing to engage with.
00:18:35.000The only stuff they're willing to engage with is stuff they agree with.
00:18:37.000If you disagree with somebody, you're not allowed to have a conversation about it, because that just shows that they're wrong, and secretly, secretly, they're racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes, and we have the proof, because we have old tweets ten years ago taken out of context deliberately.
00:18:50.000This is what the left is attempting to do right now, and it creates this sense of frustration on the right.
00:18:55.000It creates a sense like, well, if anybody is willing to shatter this entire matrix that has been created by the left with regard to speech, go!
00:19:02.000Trump's popularity is very much tied to this.
00:19:04.000Trump's popularity is tied to the idea that the dude takes a hammer to the politically correct matrix.
00:19:08.000Now, I've said many times, I don't always like how he does it.
00:19:11.000I think that President Trump says things that are not just politically incorrect, but that are flat out wrong.
00:19:15.000I think that happens, but the drive on the right to listen to President Trump when he says outrageous things is driven by the fact that the left has ruled everything into the outrageous category.
00:19:26.000Every single thing is now in the outrageous category.
00:19:28.000So, I am President Trump, is Charles Krauthammer, is George Will.
00:19:31.000They're all the same, according to the left.
00:19:34.000Now, if you have any brains, or you take half a moment of self-reflection, you realize there's a pretty wide diversity of viewpoints between all of the people that I just mentioned.
00:19:42.000But if you're on the left, then all these people must be cast into the outer darkness.
00:19:45.000The left has basically become the little boy in the Twilight Zone episode who wishes people into the corn.
00:19:51.000And everybody who wants to have a reasonable conversation, they're just sitting in the room with the little boy, hoping that he doesn't wish them into the corn, too.
00:20:04.000And what's happened here is that the left, being this little boy who wishes people into the cornfield,
00:20:09.000You know, if you offend him too much, he wishes people into the cornfield.
00:20:11.000The left, being that little boy, eventually that little boy will be the only one left in the town.
00:20:16.000And that little boy can't take care of himself.
00:20:19.000That little boy is not capable of feeding himself, or governing, or having a conversation.
00:20:23.000That little boy is capable of nothing.
00:20:25.000The tyrannical nature of the left with regard to having decent conversation is utterly asinine.
00:20:30.000I'm willing to converse with pretty much everyone outside of, you know, open Holocaust deniers, and even those people I don't think ought to be banned.
00:20:37.000I don't think there should be laws against them.
00:20:38.000I just am not willing to listen to that point of view because I think it's so obviously a-factual.
00:20:43.000But there are plenty of people on the left I talk to on a frequent basis.
00:20:52.000Because it turns out that conservatives are willing to actually engage in argument and discussion, and people on the left believe that they are so morally righteous because politics is their religion, that all the blasphemers must be burned at the stake.
00:21:01.000And anyone who harbors blasphemers, like Mark Duplass, those people must also be burned at the stake as well.
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00:22:30.000OK, so meanwhile, more hubbub breaking out over President Trump and his meeting with Vladimir Putin.
00:22:36.000President Trump tweeted this morning that he thinks that there should be a second meeting with Vladimir Putin, which made his entire national security team shudder to their core.
00:22:43.000The polls show that Republicans are pretty much OK with Trump's meeting with Putin, which is not
00:22:47.000A real surprise, because Republicans take every poll question on President Trump as a referendum on Trump as a whole.
00:22:53.000So if you ask Republicans, President Trump took a dump on the front lawn of the White House, approve or disapprove?
00:22:59.000Most Republicans see that as the media attempting to get Trump, and they will say approve.
00:23:04.000Really, like 6 in 10 Republicans, 7 in 10 Republicans, they always see poll questions as an attempt to paint Trump in a bad light and say they'll defend him no matter what.
00:23:14.000Jimmy Kimmel does this routine where he will actually go out and ask people about particular policies that were Trump policies that are not Obama policies, but he'll say that they were Obama policies and Democrats will suddenly embrace the policy.
00:23:27.000As a general rule, people tend to fall toward confirmation bias, and they tend to fall toward this kind of tribal siding with particular political figures.
00:23:34.000But suffice it to say, Trump's move on Monday with Russia was not popular across the country.
00:23:39.00060% of Americans did not like his press conference with Vladimir Putin.
00:23:43.000And now there's a new report out from the New York Times
00:23:45.000That is not particularly good for the President of the United States because Trump has basically been suggesting for a while that he doesn't believe his intelligence community when it comes to their assessment, all 17 intelligence agencies, that the Russians were trying to monkey with our election through information breaches and hacks and release of that information.
00:24:02.000Trump, apparently according to the New York Times, was told two weeks before his inauguration that there was classified intelligence, highly classified intelligence, indicating that Putin had personally ordered complex cyber attacks to sway the 2016 American election.
00:24:14.000The evidence included texts and emails from Russian military officers and information gleaned from a top secret source close to Mr. Putin who described to the CIA how the Kremlin decided to execute its campaign of hacking and disinformation.
00:24:25.000Mr. Trump sounded grudgingly convinced, according to several people who attended the intelligence briefing.
00:24:29.000But ever since, Mr. Trump has tried to cloud the very clear findings that he received on January 6th, 2017, which his own intelligence leaders have unanimously endorsed.
00:24:37.000So is that President Trump not believing his own intelligence?
00:24:40.000I think that's President Trump looking at the data and not liking the data, and so the data becomes false because he doesn't like it.
00:24:45.000President Trump has an unfortunate tendency to do that.
00:24:48.000So, for example, yesterday, he was asked at the end of a press conference that was happening in one of the cabinet rooms, he was asked whether Russia is still attempting to interfere
00:24:55.000In our political system, and here was his answer.
00:24:58.000Okay, so he went on to talk about all the harsh measures he's taken against Russia, and a lot of that is true.
00:25:01.000But when he says no, when he says no, now the White House says he wasn't using no to something else.
00:25:04.000People in the room say that's not true.
00:25:21.000Assume for a second that he said no, that Russia was not monkeying with the, is not monkeying now with the election.
00:25:26.000That obviously is counter what his intelligence officials are saying as in right now.
00:25:29.000So here's FBI Director Chris Wray explaining, no, actually the Russians are sort of attempting to meddle.
00:25:34.000The intelligence community's assessment has not changed.
00:25:37.000My view has not changed, which is that Russia attempted to interfere with the last election and that it continues to engage in malign influence operations to this day.
00:25:51.000Okay, and that of course is, I think, the general consensus of the intelligence community.
00:25:56.000DNI Coats, the Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, he said three days before Trump said that Russia wasn't monkeying with us, that the lights are now blinking red when it comes to cyber security threats directly from Russia.
00:26:06.000It was in the months prior to September 2001 when, according to then CIA Director George Tenet, the system was blinking red.
00:26:18.000And here we are two decades, nearly two decades later,
00:26:22.000And I'm here to say the warning lights are blinking red.
00:26:26.000OK, so the White House tried to walk this back a little bit.
00:26:48.000Do you hold him personally responsible?
00:26:51.000Well, I would, because he's in charge of the country, just like I consider myself to be responsible for things that happen in this country.
00:26:57.000So, certainly, as the leader of a country, you would have to hold him responsible, yes.
00:27:02.000Okay, so that is exactly the right answer, and I would hope that President Trump would continue to say that over and over and over, because the reality is that Putin, according to the intelligence community, and they have better information than I do, or you do, right, is saying that the Russians were attempting to interfere in the election, not necessarily to make Trump win, per se, but to ensure that President Trump and Hillary Clinton were locked in this acrimonious debate over Russia specifically.
00:28:21.000So, all of this is actually quite simple, but the administration seems to be struggling over it because Trump is at war with himself.
00:28:27.000His head is saying all the things that I'm telling you right now, and his heart is saying, I don't like anything the intelligence community tells me, so I'm just going to reject all of it outright.
00:28:34.000Well, this ends up putting the administration itself in a very odd and kind of ugly position.
00:28:39.000So Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House press secretary, yesterday she was specifically asked about an offer that Vladimir Putin made
00:28:47.000And that offer was, Putin had said, he said, we're happy to bring Americans like Bob Mueller over to Russia to watch us investigate all of these supposed Russian bad actors.
00:28:57.000But in return, we want you to work on the arrest and shipment to Russia of Michael McFaul, the former US ambassador to Russia, as well as Bill Browder, a British citizen who is largely responsible for the passing of Magnitsky Act, which is essentially a set of sanctions that was put in place in 2012.
00:29:13.000OK, now the normal answer to that is no.
00:29:16.000We have no evidence these people broke the law.
00:29:18.000If you want to provide evidence these people broke the law and have Interpol arrest them, you can try that.
00:29:21.000They've tried it with Bill Browder in Spain most recently.
00:29:25.000But even countenancing the idea that we are going to essentially trade
00:29:30.000American citizens like Michael McFaul, who had the temerity to pass a sanctions bill against Russia, for, like, basically we're going to take a political prisoner, ship him to Russia, to Putin, and in exchange we are going to receive back these 12 hackers.
00:29:44.000It's asinine, but Sarah Huckabee Sanders couldn't quite disown it yesterday.
00:29:52.000Is that a topic that came up in their conversation?
00:29:55.000Did President Putin raise this with President Trump?
00:29:58.000There was some conversation about it, but there wasn't a commitment made on behalf of the United States, and the President will work with his team, and we'll let you know if there's an announcement on that front.
00:30:08.000The right answer is there was discussion and Trump laughed at it.
00:30:11.000Because we're not going to start arresting American citizens and sending them to Russia just because Vladimir Putin wants to quote-unquote make an offer.
00:30:33.000The disconnect is that President Trump usually comes to the right conclusion, but only on his own.
00:30:39.000If he feels that people are pushing him in a particular direction, he tends to push back against them.
00:30:43.000So the normal response by any press secretary, even not having asked the president, would have been, no, of course he wouldn't consider such a thing, knowing that they have the faith of the president and that the president would never consider such a thing.
00:30:52.000For Sarah Huckabee Sanders and other people in the White House, I think there's a tendency to say, we'll consider it, because they figure, okay, then they'll go back, they'll ask Trump, Trump will say no, and then they'll come back the next day and they'll say, of course, we're not gonna do any of that.
00:31:03.000I think this is actually more of a personality issue than an issues issue, but it does grant a certain amount of aid to Putin in his attempt to portray Trump as a lack of his, and that's what Putin wants more than anything.
00:31:13.000Makes perfect sense that Ambassador McFaul, under Obama, again, not a big fan of Ambassador McFaul, but
00:31:39.000Again, this is not a time for uncertainty.
00:31:41.000This is a time for looking strong in the face of Vladimir Putin's aggression.
00:31:44.000Otherwise, you might get more Vladimir Putin aggression.
00:31:46.000I'll talk a little bit more about that in just a second.
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00:37:03.000I would prefer that everybody be home and everything be hunky-dory.
00:37:05.000But our military exists to protect the safety and security of Western civilization and, more importantly, of the United States.
00:37:11.000And the way that you make sure that we never have to put troops in Montenegro is you don't act weak around dictators.
00:37:17.000This idea that you could make exactly the same argument.
00:37:19.000You could make exactly the same argument.
00:37:20.000Do we really want American troops to die for Czechoslovakia?
00:37:25.000Do we really want American troops to die for the Sudetenland?
00:37:27.000Do you really want American troops to die for, for that matter, France or Britain?
00:37:32.000Which list of countries, I really would like to know this actually, which list of countries does Tucker Carlson think that it would be okay for American troops to fight?
00:38:07.000Is that no one wants to defend Montenegro, but you're not going to have to defend Montenegro if you say you cross that line and we bust you up.
00:38:14.000This is this is true in every this is basic Reagan foreign policy.
00:38:17.000Peace through strength was the idea, not just that we're going to build up our military capacity, but that if you cross that line, we are going to break you.
00:38:24.000But if you make this move, we will fight you to the ends of the earth.
00:38:29.000Usually, the way the United States gets drawn into conflict is by not doing that.
00:38:32.000Usually, the way the United States gets drawn into conflict is by acting isolationist up to the point where an unspoken red line is crossed, at which point we have to jump into the war.
00:38:39.000And that's exactly what happened, for example, with World War II, where the United States, by the time of World War II, had the 19th largest military in the world, smaller than the army of the Philippines.
00:38:48.000Okay, and we had signaled that we were going to be isolationists.
00:38:50.000And that led our enemies to become more and more aggressive to the point where they actually attacked us, and then we had to fight a horrible, bloody war.
00:38:56.000Same thing happened in World War I, where the United States literally pledged not to get into the war, and then was drawn gradually into the war, and lots and lots of people died.
00:39:03.000If you don't want war, make sure that the other side knows that if you do go to war, you're going to break them.
00:39:32.000Keith Ellison is the deputy head of the DNC.
00:39:35.000He was almost the head of Democratic National Committee.
00:39:37.000He said yesterday that if you don't allow people to freely cross the border for any reason,
00:39:41.000If you don't allow us to just open up our borders, this creates injustice.
00:39:45.000This is the direction in which the left moves when they cut themselves off from the American people and any debate involving the American people.
00:39:50.000Here's what Keith Ellison, again, Deputy Chair of the DNC, had to say.
00:40:50.000I think he exaggerated the case, but he said a few things that were basically true, and a lot of people on the left refused to accept them.
00:40:55.000He said that there is a problem with regard to radical Islamic terror.
00:40:59.000And he said that over and over and over.
00:41:01.000And then Hillary Clinton would come out and say, there is nothing wrong with Islam.
00:41:04.000And if she just polled the American public, what you'd find is that most Americans don't think that all Muslims are terrorists.
00:41:09.000Most Americans do think that radical Islamic terror is a problem.
00:41:13.000But because she was so convinced that everybody on the right is a rube and a hick, she decided, I can just safely ignore those people and I can label everyone a deplorable and it'll be fine for me.
00:41:21.000The same thing happened with regard to immigration.
00:41:23.000Trump ran on a hardline immigration platform.
00:41:26.000Probably the hardest line immigration platform we've ever seen.
00:41:30.000Not because people actually agree with every element of that hardline immigration platform.
00:41:34.000In fact, polls show people don't even necessarily agree with the wall, right?
00:41:37.000But what it does show is that there is a seething problem
00:41:41.000That is bubbling under the surface in this country with regard to immigration, where people are looking at illegal immigration and they're saying there are a lot of people coming here, and they're coming here for the benefits, and there are a lot of people who are coming here who are criminals, and there are a lot of people who are coming here who are just not being integrated into our culture.
00:41:54.000And that doesn't mean we're anti-immigrant.
00:41:56.000It means go to the border and cross legally.
00:41:58.000It means we have to vet the people who come into the country.
00:42:00.000And Trump took that to its ultimate extreme.
00:42:02.000He basically said, illegal immigrants are disproportionately all of these things, all these bad things, which is not true.
00:42:08.000But it is true that this was a problem that Americans were seeing and the left was simply saying, like Keith Ellison, open up all the borders.
00:42:14.000This is the danger of an echo chamber.
00:42:16.000So when you rule out viewpoints from the other side, particularly reasonable viewpoints from the other side, because everybody's a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, all you end up doing is isolating yourself.
00:42:24.000All you end up doing is destroying your own credibility with your own people.
00:42:28.000And this has become, I think, the case of the left.
00:42:32.000This is why the left keeps winning the culture and they keep losing the political wars.
00:42:37.000What's happening right now in the country is if you look at Hollywood, Hollywood continues to move left, left, left, left, left, as far left as they possibly could go.
00:42:43.000And then if you look at politics, politics keeps moving to the right.
00:42:47.000Republicans have won the presidential election.
00:42:49.000They won the last 1, 2, 3, 4 congressional elections.
00:43:03.000Sorry, 12 years of power, and then they've had an uninterrupted run of eight years of power in Congress.
00:43:07.000In the Senate, the Republicans have taken back the Senate.
00:43:10.000They've taken 12 governor's houses since Obama took office.
00:43:12.000They've taken 35 state legislatures, something like that.
00:43:15.000All of that's happening because the left has so
00:43:19.000So the culture, where you're not allowed to talk to people across the aisle, that culture has created this bubble mentality among leftist politicians, and that's why they're losing elections.
00:43:32.000So I think it's safe to say that Hollywood and DC, which are very much interconnected on the Democratic side of the aisle, they've created this self-reinforcing radicalism that is causing the left to lose elections.
00:43:41.000It's also destroying the country as a whole because we can't have good conversations with one another, but it is certainly causing the left to become more and more and more radical, which is a serious, serious problem for the future of the country.
00:43:50.000Okay, so let's get to some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:45:08.000You're watching the moment employees of a Riverside gun store say they caught actor Sasha Baron Cohen coming to their shop in disguise and under false pretense.
00:45:42.000The only thing that would've been even better is if he had pranked Borat, right?
00:45:44.000Like, he'd recognize that it was Borat, and instead of tossing him out of the shop, he'd basically offered to sell him, like, a zucchini gun.
00:45:50.000Or he'd made up different types of guns and shown how ignorant Sasha Baron Cohen is, actually, about guns.
00:45:55.000And he actually said to him, you know, in the back, I have a grenade launcher that attaches to a pistol.
00:46:25.000So the show today has been chock full of things I hate, but here's another thing that I hate.
00:46:28.000So according to San Francisco, they are now registering non-citizens, including undocumented immigrants, to register to vote in the November election for the city's school board, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
00:46:37.000The move follows passage of a 2016 ballot measure by San Francisco voters opening school elections to non-citizens who are over the age of 18.
00:46:44.000Hillary Ronan, who's a San Francisco supervisor, said, this is no-brainer legislation.
00:46:48.000Why would we not want our parents invested in the education of their children?
00:46:51.000Now, I'm fine with parents being invested in the education of their children.
00:46:53.000I'm just not fine with parents who don't pay taxes being invested in how tax dollars get spent at the public school.
00:46:59.000It seems to me that you ought to be in the system, and if you don't pay taxes because you don't have to under the law, that's one thing.
00:47:05.000But why shouldn't... I mean, you could literally make this argument about any criminal in the United States.
00:47:11.000You could say somebody who was convicted of predatory child sex abuse, they should be able to vote in local elections if they have a kid.
00:47:19.000Right now, undocumented immigration, illegal immigration, is not the same thing, obviously, as pedophilia, but the point is a general legal one, which is that if law-breaking is not a barrier to voting, then why shouldn't we have any law-breaker who has a kid able to vote in school elections?
00:47:35.000They're real weird over there, and they poop on the sidewalk, so it's quite a possibility, but that said, is this a good model?
00:47:40.000Probably not, and what you will see, and it'll be hilarious, is a bunch of people who don't pay taxes voting for more and more tax spending, which will eventually allow
00:47:48.000For people to move out of the school district when the school district is bankrupted by all the people who are voting for more benefits to which they do not pay in.
00:47:55.000Okay, we'll be back here tomorrow with all the latest.