The Ben Shapiro Show - March 14, 2019


Beto’s Excellent Adventure | Ep. 737

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Vanity Fair Beto O'Rourke profile ring Start Kit security Beto's presidential announcement We The People holsters emergency preparedness food live book signing
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Beto O'Rourke Bernie Sanders Joe Biden Donald Trump Elizabeth Warren Tucker Carlson Sam Harris Amy Hoover Sanders Howard Schultz Barack Obama Drop Fox News Dave Rubin Johnny Depp Ted Cruz Heard Bob Dylan's Chronicles Melissa O'Rourke Justin Trudeau Amy O'Rourke Bob Dylan and 44 more
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Beto O'Rourke declares for the presidency, Elizabeth Warren attacks to the center, and President Trump runs up against his own party? I have many, many thoughts on Beto. Many thoughts, including: 1. Why the media love Beto 2. Why they see themselves in him 3. 4. The real reason the media like Beto is because they look in a mirror and see themselves and what they see is a white kid who grew up extraordinarily privileged, in a rich situation, who spent a few years kicking around before he found himself and settled down, who has broadly liberal views, but likes to think through the issues is really considered and temperate, but also cool, like a guy you d want to hang out with and be with And that is why they love him the same thing that Chris Hayes does over at MSNBC. And that's why all the people who went to NYU journalism school see themselves as Beto O Rourke which is why every one of these profiles of this guy is written by a white guy who is sitting in a crappy apartment in Brooklyn overlooking an alley overlooking a pissing into a trash alley can be written by someone who is a bum sitting in an alley in which is a trash so you can see yourself that s how folks in the journalistic world see themselves. Go check it out and let me know what you think of Beto, and why you re in love for Beto and why they re so enamored by him. I'm Ben Shapiro - The Ben Shapiro's thoughts on this guy. - THE PODCAST Ben Shapiro Show is a must-listen for all things Beto! The Best of Ben Shapiro. Subscribe to my new show on The FiveThirtyEight Podcast Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices and become a supporter of my show on Audible Subscribe on Podchaser.me/Ben Shapiro's New York Times bestselling book, The Devil NextDoor or any other podcast on the road Subscribe and review my book recommendations on amazon Learn more at Audible Become a Friend of the Devil? Subscribe for a chance to win a FREE 7-day VIP membership Join my FB group Thanks for listening to my show? I'll be giving out 5-star reviews?

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00:00:00.000 Beto declares for the presidency.
00:00:02.000 Elizabeth Warren attacks to the center. 0.90
00:00:04.000 And President Trump runs up against his own party.
00:00:06.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:00:06.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:08.000 I have many, many thoughts on Beto.
00:00:15.000 Many thoughts on Beto.
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00:01:29.000 Alrighty, so.
00:01:31.000 The big moment has finally arrived.
00:01:33.000 Beidou is off the fence.
00:01:34.000 That calls for some music, guys.
00:01:36.000 That's right.
00:01:43.000 Beidou's in!
00:01:45.000 Oh! 0.60
00:01:46.000 Kickflip! 1.00
00:01:47.000 Bongrip! 0.94
00:01:48.000 Beidou's in!
00:01:50.000 So exciting!
00:01:51.000 I know everybody is very excited.
00:01:53.000 The millennials are so raucous that they just smoked a larger joint than usual. 0.99
00:01:58.000 The progressives are so into it that they looked at Beto and then went, now we're going to go with Bernie.
00:02:03.000 The moderates looked at Beto and they're like, he's like young Joe Biden.
00:02:07.000 Wow, how impressive.
00:02:09.000 Beto O'Rourke.
00:02:10.000 OK, let's let's start with Beto's announcement.
00:02:13.000 So yesterday he is featured on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine.
00:02:16.000 This tells you everything you need to know about Beto O'Rourke.
00:02:19.000 If your announcement is essentially made on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine, we know what you are.
00:02:25.000 You're a white elite liberal.
00:02:26.000 Okay? 0.85
00:02:27.000 That is what you are.
00:02:28.000 And the reason that the media love themselves some Beto, the real reason the media love Beto, is because they look at Beto and they see themselves.
00:02:36.000 They look at Beto, and what they see is a white kid who grew up extraordinarily privileged, in a rich situation, who spent a few years kicking around before he found himself and settled down, who has broadly liberal views, left-leaning views, but likes to think through the issues, is really considered and temperate, but also cool, like the cool guy whose kids think he's cool.
00:02:58.000 Also a little bit nerdy, but really mostly just cool, and like a guy you'd want to hang out with and be with.
00:03:03.000 Basically, when the folks at CNN look in a mirror, they see Beto O'Rourke.
00:03:07.000 And that is why they love Beto O'Rourke.
00:03:08.000 The same thing is true over at MSNBC.
00:03:11.000 When Chris Hayes looks in a mirror, he sees Beto O'Rourke.
00:03:14.000 And that's why all of the media are in love with Beto. 1.00
00:03:16.000 When they looked at Barack Obama, it was even better, because Barack Obama mirrored all of those things except for the race, so they could say they were intersectional.
00:03:23.000 And also, Barack Obama mirrored who they think they are, the considered politician Who really likes to think through the issues and then comes up with sophisticated analyses.
00:03:32.000 Who spent a few years kicking around until he found himself helping the downtrodden.
00:03:36.000 That's how folks in the journalistic world like to see themselves.
00:03:39.000 All the people who went to NYU journalism school.
00:03:41.000 All those people see themselves as Beto O'Rourke.
00:03:43.000 Which is why every fawning profile of Beto O'Rourke is written by the same former NYU English grad. 0.78
00:03:50.000 who is sitting in a crappy apartment in Brooklyn overlooking an alleyway in which a bum is pissing into a trash can.
00:03:56.000 Every one of these profiles is written with this sopping, I'm-writing-the-great-American-novel attitude.
00:04:03.000 So, the Vanity Fair piece in which Beto essentially declares his presidential run is no different.
00:04:09.000 The cover of the magazine, if you can't see it, is Beto standing in the only shirt he apparently owns.
00:04:14.000 Every picture I've ever seen of Beto O'Rourke, he is wearing this blue kind of beat-up shirt because he's a man of the people despite the fact that he's worth nine million dollars and his wife is the daughter of a near billionaire and his father was an extraordinarily powerful county judge.
00:04:27.000 There he is, man of the people, standing in jeans across a lonely road in Texas and just standing there considering his future.
00:04:36.000 Maybe he'll take out a guitar, flick his bangs out of his eyes and play you a ballad, yeah?
00:04:40.000 So, Vanity Fair has his profile, and the profile is just as pathetically drooling over Beto O'Rourke because all of these profiles of Beto O'Rourke are the same.
00:04:51.000 Sure, he has no ideas. 0.64
00:04:52.000 Sure, he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.
00:04:54.000 Sure, he's never done anything of real importance.
00:04:57.000 But Beto O'Rourke is a man who likes to think through issues and consider them.
00:05:01.000 And he'll take your point of view into consideration.
00:05:05.000 Beto O'Rourke is the guy that apparently a lot of suburban women are into. 1.00
00:05:09.000 And he was the guy in high school who a lot of the girls were into.
00:05:12.000 Why?
00:05:12.000 Because he was the guy who seemed deep, but it turns out that he was just... He seemed deep because he was a mirror.
00:05:18.000 Meaning it looked like there was depth to him, but he was just mirroring back to you what you wanted to hear.
00:05:23.000 And that is basically what Beto O'Rourke has been for his entire political career.
00:05:27.000 And the media love this!
00:05:28.000 They love it!
00:05:30.000 So this Vanity Fair article, in which he was photographed by Annie Leibovitz, the article was written by Joe Hagan, who is just the same as every other columnist who has ever written about Beto O'Rourke.
00:05:38.000 There's a great thread.
00:05:40.000 Someone put together on Twitter, of all of the physical descriptions that the media have given to Beto O'Rourke, he's sweating because of his passion.
00:05:46.000 Like he's playing Great Rock in a hot stadium.
00:05:50.000 And then there's talk about how he's just relaxed, leaning back, looking wistfully at the world.
00:05:56.000 Every description of Beto O'Rourke is exactly the same because everybody who's writing it is exactly the same.
00:06:02.000 So, this entire Vanity Fair piece, it's got pictures of Beto sitting with his dog, his dog looking forlornly at the camera like, why am I here?
00:06:10.000 What am I doing here?
00:06:11.000 That's the best part of every one of these pictures, is the dog just in the background looking like, I can't believe this is my life now.
00:06:18.000 Anyway, here's what Vanity Fair writes about Beto O'Rourke. 0.90
00:06:23.000 Beto O'Rourke's mission-style home in the El Paso neighborhood of Sunset Heights is the site of a famous 1915 meeting between Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa and U.S.
00:06:31.000 General Hugh Scott.
00:06:32.000 While renovating it, O'Rourke had a wrought iron fence around the property removed, save for a few feet of it around a pistachio tree.
00:06:38.000 In late February, he came home to find Republican protesters live-streaming video and asking why he still had a fence, mimicking Trump's remark that politicians like walls when they're around their own homes.
00:06:47.000 I said, come up with me, and I'll take you to our front door, he recalls.
00:06:50.000 This is just decorative fencing.
00:06:52.000 Why do you have walls in your house, they retorted?
00:06:53.000 Why do you have a door?
00:06:55.000 Okay, that's true.
00:06:56.000 Behind the door, in the O'Rourke living room, and here is where we get into the deep heart of the media's love for Beto.
00:07:03.000 Behind the door, in the O'Rourke living room, a floor-to-ceiling bookshelf contains a section for rock memoirs.
00:07:08.000 Bob Dylan's Chronicles, a favorite.
00:07:14.000 Okay, and a step.
00:07:18.000 The pretentiousness of people who sit around reading Bob Dylan's chronicles.
00:07:22.000 Cannot be overstated.
00:07:24.000 A stack of LPs.
00:07:25.000 The Clash, Nina Simone, but also a sizable collection of presidential biographies, including Robert Caro's work on Lyndon B. Johnson.
00:07:31.000 I love that this means that he's a sophisticate.
00:07:33.000 Again, all of the members of the media who love Beto O'Rourke consider Beto O'Rourke one of them.
00:07:38.000 That's why they love him.
00:07:39.000 Hey, look, I also have Bob Dylan's Confessions or Chronicles on my shelf.
00:07:44.000 Also, when I was in high school, I liked The Clash.
00:07:47.000 And I also liked to skateboard a little bit.
00:07:49.000 Or at least I wished I had.
00:07:51.000 Most of the kids in the media are actually the fat kid who is sitting with the typewriter in the AV room, but they wish they were Beto.
00:07:58.000 Beto was the kid they always wished they had been.
00:08:00.000 Arranged in historical order, the biography suggests there's been some reflection on the gravity of the presidency, but there's also some political poetry to it.
00:08:07.000 A sense that O'Rourke might be destined for this shelf.
00:08:10.000 He has an aura.
00:08:12.000 Oh, don't describe to me his aura.
00:08:14.000 First of all, the rigorous party of science describing politicians with an aura.
00:08:19.000 Good stuff right there from Vanity Fair.
00:08:21.000 It is worth noting here that the same members of the media who have spent years at this point praising Beto O'Rourke and overlooking the fact that he lives in a three-story house in El Paso and is worth nine million dollars, almost none of which came from him, presumably.
00:08:37.000 Or at least was made really only through family connections.
00:08:40.000 That Beto O'Rourke is somehow a man of the people, but Howard Schultz, the head of Starbucks, there's a big article in the New York Times today about how Howard Schultz isn't as poor as he said he was when he was growing up.
00:08:50.000 Howard Schultz has said that he grew up in the projects.
00:08:52.000 There's a big article in the New York Times today, well, you know, the project he grew up in was actually kind of middle class. 0.82
00:08:57.000 So obviously he's a liar.
00:08:59.000 Okay, now do Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, guys. 0.98
00:09:01.000 Now do Beto.
00:09:03.000 Not gonna happen.
00:09:04.000 O'Rourke and his wife, Amy, an educator nine years his junior, both described the moment they first witnessed the power of O'Rourke's gift.
00:09:12.000 It was in Houston, the third stop on O'Rourke's two-year Senate campaign against Ted Cruz.
00:09:16.000 Every seat was taken, every wall, every space in the room was filled with probably a thousand people.
00:09:20.000 You could feel the floor moving almost.
00:09:21.000 It was not totally clear that Beto was what everyone was looking for, but just like that, people were so ready for something.
00:09:27.000 So that was totally shocking.
00:09:28.000 I mean, like, took my breath away shocking.
00:09:31.000 And then Beto says, I honestly don't know how much of it was me.
00:09:35.000 It's a rockumentary.
00:09:37.000 I mean, this is political spinal tap, guys.
00:09:40.000 It is a rock documentary in which Beto O'Rourke plays a fake political candidate on TV.
00:09:45.000 I honestly don't know of it, how much was me.
00:09:48.000 But there is something abnormal, super normal, or I don't know what the hell to call it, that we both experience when we're out on the campaign trail.
00:09:56.000 He says, I don't ever prepare a speech.
00:09:58.000 I don't write out what I'm gonna say.
00:10:00.000 I remember driving to that.
00:10:01.000 I was like, what do I say?
00:10:02.000 Maybe I'll just introduce myself.
00:10:03.000 I'll take questions.
00:10:05.000 I got in there, and I don't know if it's a speech or not, but it felt amazing, because every word was pulled out of me, like by some greater force, which was the people there.
00:10:16.000 The people are the force.
00:10:18.000 I am the people.
00:10:19.000 The people are me.
00:10:20.000 Give me another rip on that bong, bro.
00:10:22.000 That's quality, quality weed! 0.93
00:10:26.000 It's, he's so obnoxious.
00:10:28.000 I'm sorry. 0.56
00:10:29.000 He's so obnoxious.
00:10:30.000 And again, the media fawning over this guy as though he is a self-made man.
00:10:35.000 As though he's a person who came out of nowhere.
00:10:38.000 Here is Beto O'Rourke's life story.
00:10:39.000 Okay, we're gonna do Beto, you know what?
00:10:41.000 Hold on.
00:10:41.000 One more quote from Beto O'Rourke, then we will get to Beto O'Rourke's life story.
00:10:45.000 Which the media love because this is the media's life story.
00:10:49.000 Most of them grew up middle class to upper class in big cities.
00:10:53.000 Growing up with a lot of privilege, and then they found themselves, and now they see themselves as purveyors of the truth, who are broadly liberal-minded.
00:11:00.000 And they look at Beto and they're like, yeah, that guy's me. 0.90
00:11:03.000 Beto O'Rourke was a useless person for most of his life, and then he became non-useless later on in his life. 0.60
00:11:08.000 And we are supposed to think of that as a spiritual journey, or in any other context, we would think of that as a person wasting opportunity. 0.95
00:11:15.000 Really?
00:11:16.000 So, final quote from Beto O'Rourke before we get to his short biography.
00:11:19.000 He says, there's something that happens to me, he says, or that I get to be a part of in those rooms.
00:11:25.000 That is not like normal life.
00:11:26.000 I don't know if that has ever happened to me before.
00:11:29.000 I don't know if that would happen again.
00:11:32.000 Wow, what an amazing, amazing guy. 0.97
00:11:34.000 Now we're gonna get to his political announcement in just one second, which is filled with this sort of platitudinous garbage.
00:11:40.000 First, let's talk about making your home safe. 0.92
00:11:43.000 You know, you have a wall, you have a door, maybe you have a fence because you're not a dummy and you want to keep your house safe.
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00:11:58.000 Ring helps you stay connected to your home anywhere in the world.
00:12:00.000 So, if there's a package delivery or a surprise visitor, they'll get an alert and be able to see, hear, and speak to them all from your phone.
00:12:06.000 That's thanks to HD video and two-way audio features on Ring devices.
00:12:10.000 I love Ring.
00:12:11.000 We have Ring at our house.
00:12:12.000 It allows me to know who is showing up and ringing the doorbell at any time, and regardless of where I am in the country.
00:12:17.000 I mean, I can be in New York, and if somebody rings the doorbell, I can say that I'm in the house, which prevents my house maybe from being burglarized.
00:12:23.000 That's how a lot of burglaries happen.
00:12:24.000 Zing! 1.00
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00:12:47.000 Okay, so, Vanity Fair ushers in Beto, and again, that tells you everything you need to know.
00:12:51.000 The entire circulation base of Vanity Fair is upper-class white women. 1.00
00:12:56.000 That is everyone who subscribes to Vanity Fair.
00:12:58.000 And that's who Beto is going for.
00:12:59.000 So here is Beto's announcement. 0.99
00:13:01.000 First of all, we should note, Beto's a liar.
00:13:04.000 Like, one year ago, Beto said that he would not run for president.
00:13:07.000 So let's just play him saying he's not going to run for president, and then we'll play him saying he'll run for president.
00:13:11.000 I'm not looking at 2020.
00:13:13.000 And in fact, I'm completely ruling that out.
00:13:17.000 I'm not going to do that.
00:13:19.000 No matter what, win or lose, you're not going to run in 2020.
00:13:21.000 Win or lose, I'm not running in 2020.
00:13:25.000 I gotta tell you, it's incredibly flattering that anyone would ask me the question or that that's even up for discussion.
00:13:32.000 But since people have asked, the answer is no.
00:13:36.000 Fast forward to today.
00:13:38.000 Beto O'Rourke, his announcement.
00:13:41.000 Amy and I are happy to share with you that I'm running to serve you as the next president of the United States of America.
00:13:47.000 This is a defining moment of truth for this country and for every single one of us.
00:13:53.000 The challenges that we face right now, the interconnected crises in our economy, our democracy, and our climate have never been greater.
00:14:00.000 And they will either consume us, or they will afford us the greatest opportunity to unleash the genius of the United States of America.
00:14:07.000 We can begin by fixing our democracy and ensuring that our government works for everyone.
00:14:12.000 This is going to be a positive campaign.
00:14:16.000 That seeks to bring out the very best from every single one of us.
00:14:20.000 That seeks to unite a very divided country.
00:14:23.000 There's a lot more to come, but I want to leave you with this.
00:14:27.000 The only way for us to live up to the promise of America is to give it our all and to give it for all of us.
00:14:35.000 What does that even mean?
00:14:38.000 What does that even mean?
00:14:40.000 For us to give us our all, and give us all of us, and all of our all, and all of us, and here are some spiritual camp band leader hands.
00:14:47.000 Woo! 0.99
00:14:48.000 Check this out.
00:14:52.000 God, Beto O'Rourke.
00:14:53.000 Okay, so we're gonna get to Beto's bio now, because here is the thing about this.
00:14:57.000 The media have proclaimed for years that what is the real problem in America is the problem of rich white privilege.
00:15:03.000 That is the problem in America.
00:15:05.000 So it is good to know That finally, for the first time in a long time, a rich, white man, growing up in a rich, powerful, white family, and marrying a very rich, white woman, and spending years playing in a punk rock band uselessly, can also be President of the United States.
00:15:25.000 America has grown, guys.
00:15:26.000 You got that?
00:15:27.000 A rich, white guy who married a rich, white lady, and has run for office and failed in an attempt for Senate?
00:15:33.000 Finally, a person like that can be President of the United States.
00:15:38.000 Slow clap, America.
00:15:39.000 Well done.
00:15:40.000 It's going to be fun to watch as all the intersectional Democrats in the media suddenly embrace Beto O'Rourke, who is presumably the least intersectional candidate of all time.
00:15:47.000 A man who calls himself Beto, but who is whiter than I am by a long shot.
00:15:52.000 So let's go through who is Beto O'Rourke.
00:15:56.000 Who is Beto O'Rourke?
00:15:56.000 So, Beto O'Rourke is a fellow who was born in El Paso, Texas to an extraordinarily powerful family.
00:16:03.000 So his father was, in fact, a powerful local Democratic politician.
00:16:10.000 His father was named Pat O'Rourke.
00:16:13.000 He was nicknamed Beto in infancy because he grew up in El Paso.
00:16:16.000 His mother was the stepdaughter of the former secretary of the Navy under President John F. Kennedy, and his dad served as county commissioner and county judge.
00:16:25.000 Paddle Rourke was also a close associate of the Texas governor, so obviously Beto grew up in very difficult circumstances.
00:16:31.000 A little Beto was growing up really on the rough streets of El Paso.
00:16:35.000 He began his education at the Escuela Montessori Del Valle Preschool and continued to Rivera Elementary School and Mesita Elementary School.
00:16:42.000 And then he went to the Woodbury Forest School, an all-male boarding school in Madison County, Virginia, just like all the underprivileged little kids. 0.89
00:16:50.000 Between graduating high school and starting college, he was a summer congressional intern in the Capitol Hill office of U.S.
00:16:55.000 Congressperson Ron Coleman.
00:16:57.000 Then he went to Columbia University, where in junior year he captained Columbia's heavyweight rowing crew.
00:17:03.000 I mean, is this an intersectional-inspiring story, or is it an intersectional-inspiring story?
00:17:07.000 He graduated with a B.A.
00:17:09.000 in English literature, which means that he was qualified to be a professional useless person, which, fortunately, is a job he has fulfilled.
00:17:17.000 Well, he's also been arrested a couple of times.
00:17:19.000 But he's been arrested for cool kid stuff, right?
00:17:21.000 Cool kid stuff so long as you happen to be well-connected.
00:17:24.000 So he was arrested back in 1995 for breaking into the University of Texas El Paso campus.
00:17:30.000 He was arrested for burglary.
00:17:32.000 His misdemeanor was then waived.
00:17:34.000 And of course, as everybody knows, he was also arrested in 1998 for a misdemeanor DWI after he was driving so drunk that he actually crossed the median line and crashed into somebody apparently head-on and then fled the scene of the arrest.
00:17:48.000 So Beto O'Rourke, you know, really making the most of his youthful opportunities.
00:17:54.000 His dad, by the way, had his own political issues as well.
00:17:59.000 His father, apparently, apparently, was, in 1983, sheriff's deputies installed a radio, installing a radio in the Jeep of Pat O'Rourke, his dad, found a condom filled with a white powder believed to be either cocaine or heroin, according to press reports at the time.
00:18:15.000 A sheriff's captain then ordered the substance destroyed and was indicted by a grand jury on charges of official misconduct and tampering with evidence.
00:18:22.000 So that's Beto O'Rourke's dad, right?
00:18:23.000 That's the family in which he grew up.
00:18:25.000 The kind of family where if sheriff's deputies find a full condom filled with cocaine in your truck, they destroy it for you.
00:18:32.000 Clearly, Beto was on a path to self-made success.
00:18:37.000 O'Rourke's public life started in 2005, according to the Houston Chronicle, when, at the age of 32, he ran for city council and became one of El Paso's youngest ever representatives.
00:18:45.000 That was the same year he married Amy Hoover Sanders.
00:18:48.000 Amy O'Rourke was an educator and charter school executive. 0.74
00:18:51.000 She has a constant presence at his Senate campaign events.
00:18:54.000 In 2006, the personal became very public for the O'Rourke family.
00:18:57.000 Just a year into O'Rourke's council tenure, he became enmeshed in a controversial urban renewal plan led by the Paso del Norte group, a non-profit business organization spearheaded by his father-in-law.
00:19:07.000 So you have to understand that between the time that Beto O'Rourke graduated from Columbia University and the time that he decided that he was going to be a local politician, he played for years in a punk rock band.
00:19:18.000 So his great claim to fame is that he didn't need money enough that he could actually afford to blow several years running around the country playing in a crappy punk rock band.
00:19:25.000 He also worked as a live-in caretaker and an art mover.
00:19:28.000 He's basically Justin Trudeau.
00:19:29.000 You know, Justin Trudeau, the Canadian Prime Minister, grew up extraordinarily privileged, extraordinarily wealthy, and then was best known for being like an elementary school P.E.
00:19:37.000 teacher and then became Prime Minister because he was handsome Bernie Sanders.
00:19:40.000 That's basically Beto's shtick.
00:19:42.000 So O'Rourke worked as a nanny and an art mover before working for an internet service provider, and that's when he started talking about how he didn't know what he wanted to do with his life, man.
00:19:51.000 Just would brood.
00:19:52.000 I'd just sit there and I'd brood.
00:19:54.000 Remember several weeks back, there was an entire New York Times article about Beto's brooding, how he was brooding now, just like he brooded then.
00:20:01.000 Because we love people who brood.
00:20:03.000 They're so dark and meaningful.
00:20:05.000 As opposed to people who actually have purpose in their lives, who just go out and do, Beto had the privilege of being able to sit around and brood, which in other circumstances we would call intellectual and moral laziness.
00:20:15.000 In any case, Beto returns to El Paso in 1998, and then he co-founds something called Stanton Street Technology Group.
00:20:26.000 His wife, Amy, operates the business now.
00:20:29.000 He also published an online newspaper called Stanton Street, which he modeled on the village voice.
00:20:34.000 And then he decided that he was going to run for city council.
00:20:38.000 And that's where things started to get dicey for young Beto when it came to his public career.
00:20:43.000 In 2006, he became enmeshed in a controversial urban renewal plan led by Paso Del Norte Group, a nonprofit business organization spearheaded by his father-in-law.
00:20:52.000 As originally envisioned, the plan called for redeveloping a blighted part of downtown El Paso, including a largely Hispanic residential area called Segundo Barrio.
00:21:00.000 Opponents feared gentrification and dubbed it urban removal.
00:21:03.000 So this was young Beto getting involved.
00:21:07.000 In non-intersectionality.
00:21:09.000 He was going to redevelop parts of El Paso.
00:21:11.000 But there is a bigger problem for young Beto.
00:21:14.000 Residents and business owners facing displacement organized and filed a pair of ethics complaints with the city, citing O'Rourke's ties with his father-in-law, William Sanders, who is a real estate executive in Texas.
00:21:24.000 They complained that O'Rourke was, quote, impermissibly entangled in the Paso Del Norte group's downtown revitalization plan through both family and business ties.
00:21:33.000 His critics, as according to the Houston Chronicle, honed in on past work O'Rourke's tech company had done for Paso Del Norte, as well as his vote to approve the group's downtown 2015 redevelopment plan.
00:21:43.000 O'Rourke had been a dues-paying member of Paso Del Norte, though he dropped out soon after being elected to the council.
00:21:49.000 Eventually, the Ethics Review Commission dismissed the complaints.
00:21:53.000 And they said it because even if it was true, it wouldn't be a technical violation of ethics ordinances.
00:21:58.000 But opponents argued that O'Rourke's daddy-in-law stood to make millions through a real estate investment trust called the Borderplex Community Trust, which was formed to buy real estate in downtown El Paso for redevelopment.
00:22:10.000 And they would have aggressively used the city's eminent domain powers, which is hilarious because now Beto O'Rourke stands around talking about how President Trump is going to have to aggressively use eminent domain powers to build a wall.
00:22:20.000 That's very bad.
00:22:21.000 It wasn't quite as bad when his father-in-law was seeking to do it for redevelopment purposes.
00:22:25.000 We'll get into more of Beto O'Rourke's Sterling political career. 0.55
00:22:29.000 You know, the sort of thing that really has launched a thousand ships.
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00:24:16.000 Alrighty, so back to the story of Beto O'Rourke.
00:24:20.000 So, Beto O'Rourke was apparently faulted for his associations with his father-in-law and the use of eminent domain for purposes of supposedly driving up real estate prices in areas owned by his father-in-law.
00:24:35.000 The New York Times reported on this back in October.
00:24:36.000 They said at a special city council meeting in 2006, a billionaire real estate investor unveiled his vision for redeveloping downtown El Paso.
00:24:43.000 To replace tenements and boarded up buildings, he proposed restaurants, shops, and an arts walk rivaling San Antonio's Riverwalk.
00:24:49.000 Representative Beto O'Rourke, one of hundreds attending, wasn't exactly a disinterested party.
00:24:53.000 Not only had he married the investor's daughter, but as a member of the city council, he represented the targeted area, including a historic Mexican-American neighborhood.
00:25:01.000 Calling downtown one piece of El Paso that was missing on the road back to greatness, O'Rourke voted to take the first step forward with the plan.
00:25:08.000 Over the next two years, O'Rourke would defend the plan before angry Barrio residents and vote to advance it.
00:25:12.000 At other times, he would abstain.
00:25:14.000 Business owners who opposed the plan accused O'Rourke of a conflict, citing the involvement of his father-in-law.
00:25:19.000 Twelve years later, O'Rourke is championing progressive causes.
00:25:23.000 But his involvement in that proposed El Paso redevelopment highlights a side of his record that seems to contradict the populist image he has cultivated in Texas and nationally.
00:25:33.000 According to David Dorado-Romo, a local historian, Mr. O'Rourke was basically the pretty face of this very ugly plan against our most vulnerable neighborhood.
00:25:40.000 Barrio residents feared they would lose their homes through eminent domain.
00:25:44.000 And among a lot of the residents, the hurt feelings have lingered.
00:25:47.000 He says that in the past he never voted for eminent domain, says O'Rourke, and no property was ever taken by the city through eminent domain, and that he had no financial interest in the project.
00:25:56.000 Nonetheless, his father-in-law was deeply involved in this project.
00:26:00.000 There's a lot of suspicion surrounding that.
00:26:01.000 But that's not the only issue with Beto O'Rourke.
00:26:04.000 According to the Houston Chronicle, O'Rourke's sunny vision of immigrant energy in many ways echoes his father-in-law's focus on cross-border business development in a region known for its young bilingual bicultural workforce.
00:26:15.000 Sanders, who is his father-in-law, said the U.S.-Mexico border region is a very attractive place to be.
00:26:20.000 So Sanders formed up a bunch of real estate firms.
00:26:24.000 He sold a lot of them for inane, I mean, just crazy amounts of money.
00:26:28.000 He sold security capital for $5.4 billion.
00:26:32.000 He was considered one of the founders of real estate investment trust REIT.
00:26:36.000 And Sanders and his business associates have boosted O'Rourke's political career with generous donations.
00:26:42.000 O'Rourke stepped back from his family business activities since 2013.
00:26:45.000 That was when he came under scrutiny for purchase of stock in several companies just going public, including Twitter.
00:26:51.000 IPOs are generally reserved for heavy hitters looking for big profits.
00:26:55.000 O'Rourke said the purchases were made by a financial professional who manages his investments.
00:26:59.000 They were reported on his financial disclosure forms.
00:27:01.000 When reporters discovered them, he reported himself to the Ethics Committee, which directed him to send the profits to the U.S.
00:27:06.000 Treasury by mail overnight.
00:27:08.000 He said that none of the purchases were made on our behalf because of my position.
00:27:13.000 And he says he has no involvement in his and his wife's personal investments.
00:27:19.000 Great.
00:27:20.000 Okay, the fact again is that throughout his career, he's been involved with businesses that are deeply family-oriented and in which people in his family stand to make a lot of money based on his public connections.
00:27:31.000 I mean, for example, O'Rourke went back to El Paso in 1998.
00:27:35.000 He founded Stanton Street Technology Group.
00:27:36.000 I mentioned that.
00:27:37.000 His mom, Melissa O'Rourke, eventually became a shareholder in the company.
00:27:41.000 Amy O'Rourke joined the company as well, and she ran it from the time he went to Congress in 2013 until March 2017.
00:27:47.000 She sold all shares in the company for between $250,000 and $500,000, according to House Financial Disclosure Reports.
00:27:53.000 One of Stanton Street's clients?
00:27:55.000 O'Rourke.
00:27:56.000 Since 2011, his political campaigns for the House and Senate have paid the company more than $125,000 for web hosting and other online services, according to federal campaign reports.
00:28:06.000 So in other words, Beto O'Rourke raised a bunch of money for his congressional campaigns, and then paid a company that his wife was running, and she would eventually sell her shares in the company for something like half a million dollars.
00:28:17.000 That's Beto O'Rourke.
00:28:18.000 But don't worry.
00:28:19.000 Beto is a man of the people.
00:28:21.000 He's a man of the people who really understands because he travels around, you see.
00:28:25.000 He travels around like a Johnny Appleseed of politics.
00:28:29.000 Speaking Spanish, talking to the folks, wandering into bars, talking with the people.
00:28:34.000 That he's a down-to-earth fellow who could simply afford to blow several years of his life wandering around after racking up debt at Columbia University, wandering around with a punk rock band, and then suddenly move into a historic 1915 three-story home once occupied by Pancho Villa.
00:28:49.000 Pretty amazing and inspiring, uplifting story of American mobility now.
00:28:53.000 Pretty impressive stuff.
00:28:53.000 Now listen, as you know, I don't tend to believe that politicians have to come from nothing in order to be something.
00:28:59.000 I think that you're supposed to judge a politician on their own merits, but that's not what the media believe.
00:29:04.000 The media tell you that you have to have an inspiring personal narrative, and so they've worked very, very hard to craft an inspiring personal narrative for Beto.
00:29:12.000 The problem is, his actual circumstances are not in any way inspiring.
00:29:16.000 He grew up privileged, he spent his teenage years privileged, he spent his young adulthood privileged, and now he's spending his adulthood privileged.
00:29:23.000 That is not an inspiring story in any way.
00:29:25.000 He made a bunch of silly decisions, including two arrests, and he's basically gotten away with all of that, and he's moved on with his life, and now they're abjectly falling over themselves.
00:29:35.000 Why?
00:29:35.000 Because for a lot of people who work in the media, if you're gonna manufacture a story about Beto, it has to be an internal story.
00:29:42.000 You wanna know why all the media coverage focuses on Beto's soul?
00:29:45.000 On his deep, brooding soul?
00:29:48.000 It's because they can't talk about his story.
00:29:50.000 Because his story is not only a nothing burger, it is a negative for him in these primaries.
00:29:54.000 There are still some candidates who have more inspiring stories in the Democratic primaries.
00:29:59.000 Howard Schultz has a much more inspiring story than any of those people.
00:30:02.000 Nonetheless, what you are seeing from folks in the media is this worship of Beto.
00:30:08.000 Now, okay, so how is Beto actually going to do in these primaries?
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00:34:04.000 So how are the polls showing up right now?
00:34:06.000 Well, Beto is running currently fourth, according to the morning consult polls.
00:34:10.000 Joe Biden is running first at 31%.
00:34:12.000 I think his lead is the most tenuous, mainly because Joe Biden is not a clever politician.
00:34:17.000 He tends to make a lot of gaps, makes a lot of mistakes.
00:34:20.000 And so the moderate lane is kind of open, and you're going to see Beto move into that moderate lane.
00:34:25.000 Bernie Sanders is running second to 27%.
00:34:27.000 I think that if you have to forecast this primary process right now, Bernie has to be the frontrunner.
00:34:33.000 I've been saying this for weeks.
00:34:34.000 Why?
00:34:35.000 Because in a 19-candidate primary, the person with the most solid base of support is going to win.
00:34:40.000 That was the story of Donald Trump in 2016.
00:34:43.000 Everybody else was moving up and down in the polls.
00:34:45.000 Rubio was sometimes doing really well.
00:34:46.000 Sometimes Cruz was doing well.
00:34:48.000 And then Trump was just riding there at 30%.
00:34:51.000 Just consistently, right there at 30%.
00:34:53.000 And everybody else was splitting the other 70% of the vote.
00:34:55.000 And Trump was just sitting there like, go for it.
00:34:58.000 Do what you want.
00:34:59.000 They were all attacking each other, assuming he would fade.
00:35:02.000 Everybody's doing the same with Bernie, it seems.
00:35:04.000 They're all sort of ignoring Bernie.
00:35:05.000 They're attacking each other.
00:35:08.000 If I were a betting man, which I no longer am after 2016, I would be betting my money on Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primaries.
00:35:15.000 Biden is at 31%, according to Morning Consult.
00:35:17.000 Bernie is at 27%.
00:35:18.000 Then there's a massive drop-off.
00:35:20.000 Kamala Harris is at 10%.
00:35:21.000 Now, she already got her initial boost, right?
00:35:23.000 Her initial boost came when she announced, and she went from 0% to 10%.
00:35:27.000 She's been stagnant ever since.
00:35:29.000 She's not really growing.
00:35:31.000 And one of the reasons she's not really growing is because she does not have the same sort of appeal, particularly in the black community, that Barack Obama has.
00:35:39.000 She was hoping that she would get that sort of boost and she'd be up around 15 to 20% right now.
00:35:43.000 She is not.
00:35:43.000 Beto O'Rourke was running at 7% without having declared, Elizabeth Warren at 7%, and then the also-rans, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, which I guess is pronounced Boot-Ej-Ej?
00:35:55.000 Is that how it's pronounced?
00:35:57.000 Really, I think that's how it's actually pronounced.
00:35:59.000 In any case, Beto O'Rourke at 7%.
00:36:01.000 So the real question is, how does Beto run when it comes to this race?
00:36:05.000 Well, I think he gets a little boost.
00:36:06.000 I think he's probably in third place, which demonstrates, once again, the Democratic Party, the party of intersectionality.
00:36:13.000 They really make it easier for white guys, don't they? 0.94
00:36:15.000 And that means the top three candidates in the Democratic Party are all white guys.
00:36:18.000 So that's exciting.
00:36:20.000 One of the things that is that is fascinating, though, is that this morning consult poll shows where everybody's second preference goes, where everybody's second preference goes.
00:36:29.000 And it's pretty fascinating.
00:36:31.000 So look at, for example, Biden supporters.
00:36:34.000 So Biden supporters split like this.
00:36:36.000 Their second choices.
00:36:37.000 So if Biden starts to go down in flames and people are shifting their votes, where are they going to go?
00:36:42.000 30 percent of them say they will go to Bernie Sanders.
00:36:45.000 30% say they will go to Bernie Sanders.
00:36:47.000 12% say Kamala Harris.
00:36:48.000 10% say Elizabeth Warren.
00:36:50.000 So that means there are a lot of Biden supporters who are actually pretty warm toward Bernie.
00:36:55.000 Now, the thought, I think, in Beto's camp is that Biden supporters will move on over to Beto.
00:36:59.000 That may be true.
00:37:00.000 He may be younger, more moderate.
00:37:02.000 He may have some suburban female appeal. 1.00
00:37:04.000 But there's a heavy percentage of Biden's vote if he goes down that will move over to Sanders and may move over to Sanders more quickly if Biden begins to move toward the moderate center.
00:37:14.000 Where do Bernie Sanders' supporters go?
00:37:16.000 Fascinatingly enough, most Bernie Sanders, plurality of Bernie Sanders supporters, their second choice is Joe Biden.
00:37:21.000 31% say they'd go to Biden, 15% to Elizabeth Warren, 9% to Kamala Harris.
00:37:28.000 Kamala Harris's supporters are pretty evenly split.
00:37:31.000 Joe Biden, 19%.
00:37:32.000 Bernie Sanders, 18%.
00:37:33.000 Elizabeth Warren, 15% for their second choice.
00:37:36.000 Elizabeth Warren supporters would go to Bernie Sanders.
00:37:39.000 So that means that Sanders continues to have tremendous upside in a lot of these polls.
00:37:45.000 And Beto O'Rourke's supporters are split evenly between Sanders and Biden.
00:37:50.000 Their second choice would be Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden, pretty evenly split.
00:37:54.000 So here's the question.
00:37:55.000 What's the lane for Beto O'Rourke?
00:37:58.000 Really, we know what Bernie's lane is.
00:38:00.000 Bernie's lane is the uber-progressive socialist wing of the Democratic Party, which has some millennial appeal.
00:38:06.000 He's not going to do great with the black community.
00:38:08.000 He's not going to do fantastic with the Hispanic community. 1.00
00:38:10.000 He'll do okay with the Hispanic community.
00:38:11.000 He did last time, actually.
00:38:12.000 But he's not going to do amazing with the Hispanic community.
00:38:15.000 He's not in the moderate lane.
00:38:17.000 But he's not actively alienating the moderates either as much as he did last time around.
00:38:22.000 So what you are seeing is that Bernie is crowding everybody else out of his lane.
00:38:26.000 Bernie's crowding out everybody.
00:38:27.000 And the way you can tell he's crowding out everybody is Elizabeth Warren, who wanted to rival Bernie in that progressive lane, is already shifting to the right.
00:38:35.000 She's now talking about capitalism in a warm and friendly light, which is pretty fascinating, since she wanted Bernie Sanders' vote.
00:38:42.000 So here is Elizabeth Warren yesterday talking about how capitalism was actually a force for good.
00:38:47.000 Do you believe capitalism over the course of history has been a force for good?
00:38:52.000 Yes, I do.
00:38:54.000 I think it also, when it doesn't work, it's been a force for bad.
00:38:58.000 But that's been true of every form of government that we can identify.
00:39:02.000 We've gotten it right sometimes and gotten it wrong sometimes.
00:39:06.000 When you let markets work with rules and with people on the beat to enforce those rules, We can produce a lot of wealth in this country.
00:39:19.000 That's what we've done for a very long time.
00:39:22.000 So Elizabeth Warren's sounding more like Howard Schultz there than like Bernie Sanders. 0.99
00:39:25.000 So she is trying to run to the right.
00:39:26.000 She feels that Joe Biden is more vulnerable.
00:39:28.000 If she can move over to the right, then maybe she can move into that Joe Biden category and steal some of his support. 0.96
00:39:36.000 The part of the base that is seen as most vulnerable is not the progressive socialist part of the base.
00:39:41.000 That part is seen as Bernie's base.
00:39:43.000 And all Bernie has to do is wait for everybody else to divvy up the rest.
00:39:46.000 That's all he really has to do.
00:39:48.000 So I'm not sure where Beto thinks that the opportunity really lies other than in overwhelming media coverage of how wonderful Beto O'Rourke is.
00:39:57.000 But again, Beto O'Rourke's background is not intersectionally inspiring.
00:40:00.000 He's not going to win a lot of the black vote or the Hispanic vote.
00:40:02.000 He's banking on suburban women, but suburban women may not be enough of a percentage of the Democratic primary vote to get him through. 1.00
00:40:09.000 In my view, Beto is running for VP.
00:40:12.000 What Beto really wants is that VP slot.
00:40:14.000 Now that would be the smart move, by the way.
00:40:16.000 If Bernie Sanders were to win the primaries, he'd be smart to pick somebody like Beto O'Rourke, even though Beto is a complete lightweight.
00:40:23.000 He would be smart to pick Beto O'Rourke because he needs suburban women, and those are the people who are most likely to feel unsafe because of Bernie's socialist policies. 1.00
00:40:34.000 He might pick Kamala Harris, too, just because the media would push him to pick somebody who wasn't white. 0.99
00:40:38.000 But Beto is obviously running for VP.
00:40:40.000 If Kamala Harris were to win the nomination, there's very little doubt that she would pick Beto O'Rourke for her VP.
00:40:46.000 If Joe Biden were to win the nomination, people are already speculating Biden-Beto.
00:40:49.000 I think that's unlikely.
00:40:50.000 I think more likely is Biden-Kamala Harris.
00:40:53.000 In any case, the fact that Beto O'Rourke is even taken seriously as a national candidate after losing a Senate race to Ted Cruz is pretty well insane.
00:41:03.000 There's no shot that Beto wins Texas in a presidential race.
00:41:06.000 I don't want to say no shot.
00:41:07.000 There's a very slim shot that he wins Texas in a presidential race.
00:41:10.000 In a presidential race, everybody shows up and Beto's flaws are on full display.
00:41:15.000 He lost to Ted Cruz, who is not the world's most popular politician.
00:41:19.000 Okay, but I guess if Democrats can deceive themselves into believing that Beto is the wave of the future, then maybe he'll draw just enough support to push him into that sort of presidential territory.
00:41:30.000 I don't think so.
00:41:30.000 I don't think so.
00:41:31.000 I think the initial push that you're seeing, I don't think it's gonna last.
00:41:34.000 I don't think Beto has quite the magic that Barack Obama did.
00:41:36.000 And the attempt to manufacture magic typically does not work.
00:41:40.000 He feels a lot more like John Edwards circa 2008 than he feels like Barack Obama circa 2008.
00:41:45.000 Okay, meanwhile, The attack on Tucker Carlson continues apace.
00:41:51.000 Media Matters continues to press against Tucker Carlson, tries to get him ousted from the air.
00:41:56.000 And this is obviously a concerted campaign at this point by the entire left to take away the advertising base for Fox News because the left just doesn't like Fox News.
00:42:03.000 This has nothing to do with the specific opinions voiced by Tucker Carlson on the Bubba the Love Sponge show in 2007.
00:42:10.000 It has nothing to do with that.
00:42:11.000 It is obviously that there are a bunch of motivated leftists who do not like Fox News and they will use any club at At their disposal, to beat Fox News about the ears with it.
00:42:20.000 That's why, if you actually look at the footage of Media Matters' protest at Fox News, nothing was about how terrible Tucker Carlson's comments was.
00:42:26.000 All of it was about how Fox News should be banned.
00:42:29.000 Drop Fox News!
00:42:31.000 Drop Fox News!
00:42:32.000 When I say foxes, you say racists! 0.92
00:42:35.000 Foxes! 1.00
00:42:35.000 Racists! 1.00
00:42:36.000 Foxes!
00:42:36.000 Be Americans, support actual real news because what you are supporting now is hurting people and is dangerous.
00:42:44.000 Drop Fox News!
00:42:46.000 Drop Fox News!
00:42:47.000 The problem is much bigger than Tucker Carlson.
00:42:50.000 The problem is this entire network.
00:42:52.000 When I say Foxes, you say racist! 0.72
00:42:55.000 Foxes! Racist! Foxes! 1.00
00:42:57.000 Racist! Fox News lies! Fox News lies! 1.00
00:43:01.000 So obviously this has nothing to do with Tucker, right?
00:43:03.000 Everything here has to do with they just don't like Fox News and they have pre-printed signs by Media Matters to do all of this.
00:43:09.000 Well, the irony of this, of course, is that Media Matters is hanging its hat on these old comments by Fox News's Tucker Carlson back when he was working for MSNBC.
00:43:18.000 But it turns out that the head of Media Matters himself has made a bunch of terrible comments about various minority groups.
00:43:23.000 Now his excuse today, Angelo Carusone, who's the head of Media Matters, his excuse is that when he wrote that stuff, it was a parody.
00:43:30.000 He was parodying the right wing.
00:43:32.000 Oh, so that's how he's going to get off the hook for this.
00:43:35.000 Here's Tucker Carlson shellacking him last night on his show.
00:43:37.000 Carusone runs Media Matters.
00:43:39.000 Almost every day, he issues outraged press releases accusing other people of bigotry.
00:43:45.000 And yet, because everything is irony, Carusone is himself an enthusiastic bigot.
00:43:52.000 We know this for sure because he has written about it extensively.
00:43:56.000 It turns out that for years, Carousel maintained a racist blog.
00:44:00.000 Media Matters probably ought to issue a press release about this.
00:44:03.000 They've done a lot more for a lot less.
00:44:06.000 But they're not going to issue a press release about that.
00:44:08.000 Huffington Post last night ran with a massive headline about how everybody should boycott Fox News, how everybody should stop advertising with Fox News.
00:44:19.000 This sort of wave, this sort of tsunami that has come for Tucker Carlson, once again, has nothing to do with Tucker Carlson.
00:44:24.000 This is fake outrage.
00:44:25.000 Everybody knows that it's fake outrage.
00:44:27.000 Does that mean that stuff that Tucker said was good?
00:44:30.000 No.
00:44:30.000 Does it mean that Tucker should apologize?
00:44:31.000 He should apologize to people he actually harmed.
00:44:34.000 He should apologize to people who were actually victimized by his comments.
00:44:37.000 He shouldn't apologize to media matters for any reason whatsoever.
00:44:41.000 But this is all in bad faith.
00:44:42.000 As we've always known, it is in bad faith.
00:44:44.000 And the media covering it as though this is an actual story as opposed to a bad faith hit attempt on a fellow member of the media is pretty astonishing.
00:44:52.000 Honest to goodness, it is really astonishing.
00:44:53.000 Meanwhile, President Trump is fighting a power battle with the Senate.
00:44:58.000 The Senate was on the cusp of passing a rebuke to President Trump on his national emergency declaration as of last night.
00:45:04.000 According to the Washington Post, the Senate prepared Wednesday to rebuke President Trump over his national emergency declaration at the U.S.-Mexico border.
00:45:11.000 Senator Mike Lee, who we had on our radio show yesterday, was leading compromise efforts.
00:45:14.000 He wanted to pass A bill that would basically allow Congress to end any sort of funding for national emergency declarations after 30 days.
00:45:23.000 Trump threatened to veto it.
00:45:24.000 And then that bill sort of fell apart.
00:45:26.000 So now it's turned into a simple showdown where the Senate is voting to not basically to condemn or override Trump's national emergency declaration.
00:45:34.000 And Trump is just going to veto it.
00:45:35.000 So this will end up in the courts.
00:45:37.000 Here's President Trump talking about it yesterday.
00:45:39.000 I think it's a bad vote if they go against.
00:45:41.000 I think anybody going against border security, drug trafficking, human trafficking, that's a bad vote.
00:45:47.000 The Democrats are for open borders.
00:45:49.000 They're for crime.
00:45:50.000 I mean, frankly, they're for crime.
00:45:52.000 But I told Republican senators, vote any way you want.
00:45:55.000 Vote how you feel good.
00:45:56.000 But I think it's bad for a Republican senator.
00:45:59.000 I also think it's bad for a Democrat senator. 0.50
00:46:02.000 Okay, so this is, it's a foolish, non-strategic move by President Trump to threaten to veto Lee's bill.
00:46:07.000 Why?
00:46:07.000 where it's a very bad thing for them long into the future.
00:46:10.000 Okay, so this is a foolish, non-strategic move by President Trump to threaten to veto Lee's bill.
00:46:15.000 Why?
00:46:15.000 Because if Lee's bill had passed, it would have let Congress override a national emergency declaration when they don't agree with the president, but it would have allowed them to quietly allow a national emergency declaration to move forward if they did agree with the Effectively, it acted like the War Powers Resolution.
00:46:34.000 Congress has 30 days, basically, to withdraw funding from any sort of war in which the president is currently engaged.
00:46:41.000 It is very rarely invoked by Congress.
00:46:43.000 Instead, Congress usually just looks the other way and lets the executive continue spending money on foreign conflicts.
00:46:49.000 In fact, actually, today was the first time in a long time that the Senate fought back against the executive's use of war powers.
00:46:55.000 When it came to Saudi Arabia, for example, the Senate voted to cut funding for Saudi Arabia in Yemen.
00:47:02.000 Which is kind of fascinating and has some ramifications for Middle Eastern politics, considering that Iran is the other party in Yemen fighting for control over there.
00:47:12.000 Suffice it to say that President Trump is not being strategic in his approach to this thing, but I'm not sure that strategy really came into play anywhere here.
00:47:20.000 Really, I don't think strategy came into play at any point along the line.
00:47:23.000 Will the wall be built under these conditions?
00:47:26.000 Probably not.
00:47:28.000 Probably it now goes to a court which says this is not a national emergency.
00:47:31.000 Congress just doesn't agree with the president.
00:47:33.000 The president doesn't get to declare a national emergency simply to overrule Congress in doing what they are doing.
00:47:40.000 You know, the president had a way out here.
00:47:42.000 He didn't take the way out.
00:47:43.000 And frankly, you can see from his administration that everybody in his own administration is puzzled by it.
00:47:48.000 Vice President Pence was negotiating with the Senate, came to an agreement with Senator Lee, and then Trump blew it all up.
00:47:54.000 It's a problem when the greatest negotiating president of all time turns out not to be able to negotiate a simple deal with his own members in Congress.
00:48:01.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:48:04.000 So, things that I like today.
00:48:06.000 There is great irony to Elizabeth Warren.
00:48:09.000 Just wonderful irony to Elizabeth Warren.
00:48:12.000 So, Elizabeth Warren, you'll recall, wrote on official papers that she was Native American.
00:48:19.000 And the speculation has long been that Elizabeth Warren used her quote-unquote Native American status to move forward in the academic world.
00:48:26.000 She was asked on MSNBC about this college scandal we talked about yesterday, in which parents were paying exorbitant amounts of money to basically cheat their kids' way into top university.
00:48:36.000 Here was Elizabeth Warren talking about it.
00:48:38.000 As a parent, how much sympathy would you have for these parents who are embroiled in this alleged cheating scandal?
00:48:44.000 Zero.
00:48:45.000 Zero.
00:48:45.000 Okay.
00:48:46.000 Okay, so she has no sympathy whatsoever.
00:48:49.000 The irony meter here is off the charts.
00:48:52.000 So in other words, if you falsified your SAT scores to get into university, she has no sympathy for you.
00:48:56.000 But if you falsified Native American heritage to be listed in minority faculty, Listings?
00:49:03.000 Then she has tremendous sympathy for you.
00:49:04.000 I mean, after all, high cheekbones run in her family. 0.74
00:49:07.000 Solid stuff there from Elizabeth Warren.
00:49:09.000 Gotta enjoy that.
00:49:10.000 Okay, other things that I like today.
00:49:11.000 So there's an article today called, How Real America Became Queer America by Samantha Allen.
00:49:16.000 She's an author and reporter covering LGBT issues.
00:49:18.000 And it's a big column in the New York Times.
00:49:20.000 What's hilarious about this column is that it implicitly acknowledges that people across the country who disagree with her on politics still treat people well.
00:49:27.000 She refuses to acknowledge this in the piece.
00:49:30.000 But, like, she immediately assumes that everybody who treats gay people well, or transgender people well, must inevitably agree with her on the political issues.
00:49:39.000 But the article subtly understands and accepts that there are a lot of people in the middle of the country who disagree with her on the issues, who still treat people really well who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.
00:49:50.000 Her article says this may seem like a strange time to feel optimistic about the future of LGBT rights in America, but as a queer transgender woman who has spent most of her adult life in red states, hopeful is exactly how I feel.
00:50:01.000 In July 2017, the same month that President Trump announced on Twitter he would ban transgender troops, I left on a six week long road trip across the red states.
00:50:09.000 I wanted to understand what motivated LGBT people to stay in the heartland at a time when some progressives were still pondering escaping to Canada.
00:50:16.000 What I learned on the way from Utah to Georgia only reaffirmed what I have come to believe over the past decade.
00:50:21.000 Attitudes toward LGBT people are changing rapidly in conservative states, and no one inside the Beltway can stop it.
00:50:26.000 This country's bright queer future is already here, hiding where too few of us care to travel. 0.99
00:50:31.000 From a bird's eye perspective, this person writes, it may not seem that life has changed for LGBT Americans in so-called flyover country.
00:50:37.000 State laws prohibiting discrimination against them remain elusive in red states.
00:50:41.000 But in their absence, midsize cities have become pockets of LGBT acceptance.
00:50:46.000 This progress includes transgender people.
00:50:48.000 On my road trip through what is ostensibly Trump country, I met many LGBT people who saw no need to flee their conservative home states for the coastal safe havens of generations past, thanks to local progress.
00:50:59.000 It's so much better, said one of these people.
00:51:01.000 It's so much freer.
00:51:02.000 It needs to be reported.
00:51:04.000 The inherent connection between the political preferences of the left and tolerance is assumed by people on the left, but it is simply not true.
00:51:13.000 I spend my life working with religious people, religious Christians, religious Jews.
00:51:18.000 I spend my life talking to people in the middle of the country.
00:51:21.000 I spend a lot of time traveling in the middle of the country.
00:51:23.000 These are nice people.
00:51:24.000 Being a nice person can be, you can be a nice person and still disagree with the political priorities of people and still treat those people well.
00:51:34.000 For example, I'm good friends with Dave Rubin.
00:51:37.000 Dave Rubin is a gay, same-sex married man. 0.97
00:51:40.000 Dave knows that I believe that homosexual activity is sinful because I'm a religious Jew. 0.98
00:51:46.000 I've sat with him and his husband.
00:51:48.000 I don't believe in same-sex marriage on a legal or on a moral level. 1.00
00:51:52.000 It doesn't matter.
00:51:53.000 I still treat Dave really well and he treats me really well because we don't have to agree on political priorities to understand that each of us is made in the image of God and that it is our job to treat people with tolerance even if we don't necessarily like their behavior.
00:52:07.000 Because guess what?
00:52:08.000 It's not my business.
00:52:09.000 It's not my business.
00:52:10.000 On a spiritual level, I can disapprove of something, but that's God's business.
00:52:13.000 It is not my job to force anybody to do anything.
00:52:17.000 That is the perspective, I think, of the vast majority of Americans across the political spectrum.
00:52:20.000 But folks on the left believe that in order to be tolerant toward LGBT Americans, you must therefore agree with everything that the LGBT movement has to say.
00:52:30.000 That in order to be tolerant towards transgender people, for example, you have to accept that a trans woman is a woman.
00:52:36.000 I do not accept that.
00:52:38.000 But I treat every transgender person I've ever met, I've treated decently. 1.00
00:52:42.000 Because that's what decent people do.
00:52:45.000 Folks on the left don't seem to understand that there is a difference between politics and how you treat people.
00:52:49.000 That decency doesn't necessarily mean that we agree with you.
00:52:52.000 It's why, for the left, that conflation between decency and we agree with you, it's why they believe that if you disagree with them, you are indecent.
00:52:59.000 They conflate the two.
00:53:01.000 I know there are a lot of people who disagree with me on politics, who are decent, kind, loving people.
00:53:05.000 I know that's true.
00:53:07.000 And we just disagree on our political priorities in many cases.
00:53:10.000 That doesn't mean we can't treat each other with dignity.
00:53:12.000 But for a lot of folks on the left, if I disagree with them on their political priority, it's because I have a lack of compassion, a lack of care.
00:53:18.000 And therefore, I must be the kind of person who would treat people individually in a mean way.
00:53:23.000 That's nonsense.
00:53:24.000 The article makes that assumption, but the article is wrong.
00:53:26.000 What the article is right about is that LGBT people across the country are being treated extraordinarily well, and they are treated extraordinarily well even in deeply red areas.
00:53:35.000 And that shouldn't be shocking to anybody.
00:53:37.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:53:43.000 Pretty shocking story in The Week all about Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard.
00:53:48.000 So you'll recall that for years, the story was basically that Johnny Depp had physically abused Amber Heard, his ex-wife.
00:53:54.000 And this was repeated.
00:53:55.000 Amber Heard was used as the Me Too poster girl.
00:53:58.000 Well, now it's turning out that it may have been the other way around.
00:54:01.000 According to The Week, Depp has now filed a lawsuit against Amber Heard for $50 million for defamation.
00:54:08.000 Depp's lawsuit referred to Heard's allegation as a hoax.
00:54:11.000 He has presented new evidence who is actually Depp, who was physically abused in the marriage, and not the other way around.
00:54:16.000 Ms.
00:54:16.000 Heard also knew that her elaborate hoax worked, said the lawsuit.
00:54:19.000 As a result of her false allegations against Mr. Depp, Ms.
00:54:22.000 Heard became a darling of the MeToo movement, was the first actress named a human rights champion at the UN Human Rights Office, was appointed ambassador on women's rights at the ACLU, and was hired by L'Oreal Paris as its global spokesperson, the lawsuit stated.
00:54:35.000 Depp's legal team have provided fresh evidence alleging Heard punched Depp in the face and chopped a part of his finger.
00:54:42.000 The new video and photographic evidence submitted showed Depp's face with a huge bruise and one of his fingers severed.
00:54:48.000 Depp also submitted 87 surveillance camera videos to the court and 17 depositions of witnesses, including police officers.
00:54:57.000 Fans have been apologizing to the actor for accusing him of abuse.
00:55:02.000 It's pretty horrendous stuff, obviously, but it just demonstrates that, once again, believe all women is just as nonsensical as believe all blank. 1.00
00:55:10.000 You shouldn't believe all anything.
00:55:12.000 You should check the facts and you should follow the evidence.
00:55:15.000 Believe all women is just an excuse for people not doing their homework or for enshrining their confirmation bias in the public consciousness. 1.00
00:55:23.000 That's all that's happening there.
00:55:24.000 So, and we'll wait to see the rest of the facts come out.
00:55:27.000 Reporting 87 surveillance videos, and my goodness, if it turns out the entire media fell for this thing, it's once again a demonstration of where the media's sympathies actually lie on these issues, and it's not with the truth.
00:55:37.000 Okay, other things that I hate today.
00:55:39.000 There's an article in the New York Times all about China's declining birth rate.
00:55:44.000 The title, a flurry of ideas to reverse China's declining birth rate, but will Beijing listen?
00:55:49.000 Now, there's something hilarious about the New York Times complaining about China's declining birthrate.
00:55:54.000 The real reason that they're worried about the declining birthrate in China, of course, is because they have a massive social welfare state infrastructure.
00:56:00.000 It's a communist country.
00:56:01.000 If you don't have young people, nobody's paying the bills. 1.00
00:56:03.000 And they used a one-child policy to completely destroy the future of their country.
00:56:08.000 The same New York Times will call next week for people not to have kids because of global warming.
00:56:13.000 Maybe the New York Times should do a little soul-searching.
00:56:15.000 If it turns out that no kids in China is a bad thing, maybe no kids in America is also a bad thing.
00:56:21.000 Maybe if you want your giant social welfare state, you're actually going to have to have an influx of new people who can work. 0.57
00:56:26.000 Maybe you're going to have to have young people. 0.98
00:56:29.000 Maybe if you want a giant social welfare state, you're going to have to do what China does and limit immigration pretty tremendously. 0.93
00:56:35.000 It's hilarious that the same folks who will push for a Nordic-style social system refuse to acknowledge that a giant social welfare state relies on new populations of young people to work, and also relies on restrictive immigration policies, both of which the New York Times opposes.
00:56:49.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here a little bit later today with two more hours of coverage.
00:56:53.000 I'm sure there will be lots of breaking Beto news, like he's probably playing a song right now, and brooding, and then brooding, and then playing a song, and then thinking, and then brooding, and being dark, and then brooding.
00:57:03.000 So I'm sure we'll have every brooding update about Beto O'Rourke.
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00:57:09.000 If not, we'll see you here tomorrow.
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