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00:00:00.000Republicans debate unmasking the original Trump-Ukraine whistleblower, news stories circulate about Joe Biden's family problems, and Bill Gates shreds Elizabeth Warren.
00:01:42.000Okay, we will get to the impeachment gate 2019 updates of the day because that is the large majority of the news today.
00:01:50.000But first, I want to give you a quick update on what's going on tonight.
00:01:53.000So tonight, I'm speaking at Stanford University, and it should be a lot of fun.
00:01:57.000I mean, every year I do the campus tour.
00:01:59.000This year, in this quarter, we haven't announced what's happening in the next semester, but this semester, we are speaking at Stanford University, as well as Boston University and Baylor University.
00:02:09.000And in each one of these universities, we have seen people on the left lose it.
00:02:12.000Over at Boston University, apparently they have been adorning the flyers for my speech with Hitler mustaches, which is always delightful because, you know, when you take an Orthodox Jew and then label him a Hitler.
00:02:27.000So many of these social justice warriors on the left, these so-called snowflake types, are the people who are so sensitive that they can't bear to hear an opposing viewpoint.
00:02:35.000And they're really sensitive because if you say something, it hurts them.
00:02:43.000And they have to stand up and they have to, they have to protest or they have to, they have to try and get you cancelled.
00:02:48.000These same people whose sensitivities are just like the all-time high, when it comes to the most blatant violations of civic discourse, they are first and foremost.
00:02:58.000Now, you contribute to ignorance, like they don't know anything, because this is particularly true when it comes to stereotypes about Jews.
00:03:03.000They don't know anything and they don't care anything about that because Jews are not an intersectional hierarchy group.
00:03:08.000For people who don't understand intersectionality, the original concept of intersectionality, as thrown out there by Kimberly Crenshaw, this professor, Maybe that's true, right?
00:03:15.000Her argument was that there are different ways people can be discriminated against.
00:03:20.000And if you check the box in a couple of different categories, then you may be discriminated against in more than one way.
00:03:25.000So for example, if you're a woman, maybe you get discriminated in one way.
00:03:27.000And if you're a black woman, maybe you get discriminated against in another way because you're discriminated against by virtue of being both black and a woman.
00:03:37.000But what the intersectional left has done is they've taken that argument and then they have decided that there is an intersectional hierarchy, that there are levels of victimhood in American society that there are levels of victimhood in And the more levels of victimhood you check, the more we should value your opinion and the more victimized you are by American society.
00:03:51.000Well, that means that Jews don't rank, right?
00:03:53.000Because Jews are disproportionately well-educated.
00:03:58.000Jews are disproportionately living in nice areas in the United States.
00:04:03.000They don't have severe family problems as a general statistical rule.
00:04:06.000And that means that they don't list on the intersectional hierarchy despite the fact that Jews are per capita the group most likely to be targeted by hate crimes in the United States, for example.
00:04:15.000The left thinks that Jews are not part of the intersectional hierarchy and that means they don't bother to learn The offensive lingo they shouldn't be using.
00:04:22.000So the left is supremely sensitive about any language that is used by anyone reasonable, and then they imply that that language is exorbitantly racist, bigoted, sexist, homophobic.
00:04:35.000So for example, if you say Western civilization, People on the hardcore social justice warrior left will say, what you actually mean by Western civilization, actually, what you mean is you mean white people.
00:04:46.000You're like, no, I, that's not what I mean.
00:04:49.000If you say Judeo-Christian culture, like, no, it's not, by Judeo-Christian culture, you mean white people.
00:05:00.000Everything is a dog whistle for the left.
00:05:02.000Right, when Donald Trump said that this impeachment hearing is a political lynching, they immediately went to, oh, he means like black people.
00:05:09.000He's comparing himself to black people being lynched in 1921 Tulsa.
00:05:13.000And it's like, no, he means the same thing that Joe Biden meant when he talked about Bill Clinton being politically lynched in the late 1990s.
00:05:19.000He meant like, you know, the long history of people in the United States of many different races actually being killed without a proper trial.
00:05:26.000I mean, that's what Trump meant, but the antennae are up, except when it comes to the Jews.
00:05:29.000And you can see this in perfect Perfect ways with regard to this one group at Stanford.
00:05:36.000So they're holding what they call the silent rally, which has got to be the most boring rally of all time, right?
00:05:44.000You actually festoon yourselves with makeup or something.
00:05:47.000A silent rally is, I guess, you just stand there, and then we're all supposed to believe that you've been silenced even though you have silenced yourself.
00:06:04.000We are tired of Stanford administration's complicity in putting black, brown, trans, queer, and Muslim students at risk by allowing the Stanford College Republicans to bring Ben Shapiro to campus.
00:06:14.000So we'll start with this particular point before we get to the insanity of the rest of the flyer.
00:06:19.000So this is a line that the left likes to use a lot, is that if they hear something they don't like, they've now been put at risk.
00:06:40.000And the fact that they think that this is now putting people at risk, that it is incitement, my language is incitement by virtue of the fact they disagree with it.
00:06:48.000I've never called for violence against anybody.
00:07:53.000And then below that, there's a picture of me and a picture of an ant and a picture of me and a picture of a cockroach and a picture of me and a picture of a potato bug, it looks like.
00:08:03.000So I am literally portrayed a Jew as an insect to be exterminated on their poster.
00:08:13.000Oh, oh, the most sensitive people on earth.
00:08:22.000I mean, this is the same kind of it is the same graphic that was being used in like the Rwandan genocide by people who wanted to murder vast swaths of people that famously Famously, the groups in Rwanda were being targeted on radio, the ones that were murdered, they were being targeted as quote-unquote cockroaches.
00:08:39.000Here you have an exact graphic of this sort of thing.
00:08:44.000It's like Nazi rhetoric, and they put it on the poster.
00:08:48.000And then, they issued some sort of apology, which is hilarious.
00:08:52.000Their apology is almost as bad as the bottle picture itself.
00:08:58.000I guess it's an ant, a flea, and a beetle on the bottle.
00:09:43.000Their apology says we would like to apologize to the Jewish community for the flyer put out with the Ben Be Gone bottle that resembled insect spray.
00:09:50.000They're apologizing to the Jewish community more broadly.
00:09:53.000We understand that this imagery plays into anti-Semitic tropes that say Jews are insects and pests that need to be exterminated.
00:09:58.000This trope has been used to justify violence against Jews in many instances throughout history and is never acceptable.
00:10:03.000We sincerely apologize for using this imagery.
00:10:06.000While it was not our intention to hurt anyone or invoke Ben Shapiro's Jewish identity with this flyer, we hold ourselves accountable to the impact of this imagery.
00:10:13.000As a coalition of concerned students that includes Jewish students, we are very sensitive to anti-Semitism.
00:10:24.000They say, therefore, as we call back this flyer and apologize for its anti-Semitic tropes, we condemn Shapiro's unwavering Islamophobia and anti-Semitism.
00:11:18.000By the way, I don't say the only way to be a real Jew is to agree with me.
00:11:20.000I do believe that Judaism is a philosophy as well as a religion, and if you reject all the tenets of the philosophy and the religion, then it's very hard to argue that you are in any way consonant with Judaism.
00:11:30.000It's like saying that you're not a real Christian if you reject the divinity of Jesus, right?
00:11:34.000I mean, that's... it seems like fairly obvious.
00:11:37.000They also say, we reject Shapiro's false belief in white Western supremacy, that he cloaks in the idea of Judeo-Christian values.
00:11:43.000Now they're back to the dog whistling.
00:11:44.000I say Judeo-Christian values, and they say what I mean is white Western supremacy.
00:12:11.000So we'll get to more on that in just a moment.
00:12:13.000Plus, I do have an update for you on a story that of course made major headlines across the country.
00:12:17.000That is the story of this kid in Texas who was nearly handed over to his mom, who was basically prepping him for gender transition at age seven.
00:12:25.000She said she was gonna wait till he was 11, but nothing stopped her from reinforcing all of the kids' supposed priors about being a girl.
00:12:32.000I have an update on that story that's pretty amazing in just one second.
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00:13:40.000Okay, so quick update on this case in Texas, and then I promise we will get to all of the impeachment gate 2019 updates.
00:13:46.000Okay, so here is the update according to Amanda Prestigiacomo over at Daily Wire.
00:13:51.000A seven-year-old boy, whose mother claims he's actually a girl named Luna, recently chose to go to school as himself, a boy named James, now that his father has been granted equal say in his transition.
00:14:01.000Two weeks ago, Dallas Judge Kim Cooks ruled that Dr. Ann Georgilis and Mr. Jeffrey Younger, James' parents, have joint managing conservatorship and joint decision-making over their boys.
00:14:09.000James also has a twin brother named Jude.
00:14:11.000Both Georgilis, a pediatrician, and Younger had gag orders placed on them by Judge Cooks barring them from speaking to the media.
00:14:17.000Well, a third party yesterday posted on Facebook a picture of James going to school as James does going to school.
00:14:21.000This is what it looks like when James gets to choose.
00:14:34.000Also, a photo taken yesterday just before church, James and Jude, proud to be men.
00:14:39.000Save James, save thousands of children.
00:14:41.000In an update, it was noted that Mr. Younger emailed the principal on Monday, and James and Jude's teachers had reported there was zero stress or disruption in the classroom today.
00:14:49.000Just another day in school, prayers answered, the updates concluded.
00:14:54.000As you know, Georglas argued that James was actually a girl, because James said that he was a girl, and there was testimony from the father that mom had basically been telling him he was a girl since the age of three and reinforcing all of his gender confusion.
00:15:06.000Younger said that his ex-wife would, in his opinion, only show James love and affection when he would present as a girl.
00:15:11.000He also posted a video that we played on the show of James at three, telling Younger that mommy tells him he is a girl.
00:15:17.000Giorgalis had complete authority over the psychological and psychiatric care for the boys prior to the judge's October 23rd ruling, but the fight over James is not over.
00:15:25.000According to the Dallas Morning News, now Giorgalis is seeking to have Judge Cooks recused, so she's going after the judge.
00:15:32.000Because the judge tweeted out or put out on Facebook an article from the Dallas Morning News and captioned it, the governor, nor any legislature, had any influence on the court's decision.
00:15:41.000Basically saying, yeah, we're an independent court and the fact that Greg Abbott said that he would step in and investigate had nothing to do with what the court actually ruled here.
00:15:49.000Before Younger was hit with the gag order, he told LifeSite News reporter Madeline Jacob his ex-wife contemplated, quote, cutting the penis off James in an email presented to the jury.
00:15:58.000He said, the Texas I grew up in, the Texas I live in, if a parent did that, we're just gonna give him the child to the other parent.
00:16:03.000We're not gonna tolerate that kind of craziness.
00:16:04.000It tells you how far our society has changed.
00:16:06.000Well, if that story is accurate, if this is all accurate, then...
00:16:10.000James is now going to school as a boy.
00:16:11.000It does give the lie to the idea that somehow this kid invariably identified as a girl, that parental behavior has no impact on child behavior.
00:16:21.000I mean, that's an insane idea in the first place.
00:16:23.000That parental reaction to child behavior has no impact on how children act.
00:17:04.000I mean, they did a lot of this behind closed doors.
00:17:06.000They did not actually comply with the same sort of procedures that they did with regard to the Clinton impeachment.
00:17:10.000But now they're doing a lot of open doors hearings.
00:17:12.000Next week, they have vowed that they are going to open the doors and do a bunch of different hearings.
00:17:19.000Apparently those hearings are going to include hearings with William Taylor, the ambassador, Bill Taylor, who was the highest ranking Ukraine official from the United States during this entire period.
00:17:28.000Taylor has been militant in his belief that President Trump was attempting to engage in a quid pro quo with the Ukrainian government to benefit himself politically.
00:17:35.000They're also going to interview George Kent, and they're also going to interview Mary Yovanovitch, who was the ambassador to Ukraine, who the best information seems to suggest was ousted because Trump didn't trust her.
00:17:44.000And maybe he didn't trust her because Rudy Giuliani was telling him not to trust her.
00:17:49.000Adam Schiff announced these hearings so that the Wednesday hearing will feature Bill Taylor and George Kent and then next Friday they'll hear from Mary Yovanovitch.
00:17:57.000So the impeachment hearings are moving forward in a sort of If not normal, then close to normal way, right?
00:18:04.000This is the way that the process typically sort of works.
00:18:07.000But then there's another track that the Democrats and the media seem to be pushing, and that is trying to get inside Trump's head, trying to trigger him to do something.
00:18:14.000And frankly, it's a smart, if nefarious, strategy.
00:18:18.000One of the things that you saw from the second half of the Mueller report is that President Trump is reactive to the media coverage of him.
00:18:24.000To the chaos that he senses around him.
00:18:26.000So, if he feels as though the media are targeting him, he is more likely to fly off the handle, according to the Mueller report, and then he is more likely to say things like, go fire Mueller, and get himself in trouble.
00:18:36.000In other words, when you put pressure on Trump, he tends to lash out, and exactly that sort of lashing out is what Democrats are looking for, because what they would like for Trump to do is appear to be obstructing the investigation, appear to be involving himself in further law-breaking activity, because here's the truth.
00:18:50.000It's going to be very difficult for them to prove that Trump engaged in any sort of law-breaking with regard to his Ukraine activity.
00:18:59.000It may be something a president shouldn't do.
00:19:01.000But in order for them to determine that President Trump has committed a crime, they actually have to fulfill statutory definitions of bribery, and that's very difficult.
00:19:08.000It's going to be difficult to prove that.
00:19:10.000Even folks on the left acknowledge this.
00:19:12.000Even if they were to come up with a serious abuse of power, what they would basically have to do in that case Is they would have to show full intent by Trump to get Joe Biden in advance of the 2020 election, not intent by Trump to target political opponents from 2016 out of ire over 2016.
00:19:28.000One of those has crossover with American interests.
00:19:30.000We just spent two and a half years investigating whether Russia interfered with the American election.
00:19:34.000So if we get to investigate that, why would we not get to investigate whether Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election or to condition Ukrainian aid on their investigation of corruption?
00:19:43.000I mean, Joe Biden allegedly did just that, and that was totally fine.
00:19:47.000So in order for Democrats to prove actual wrongdoing here, they have to prove intent.
00:19:51.000Proving intent with Trump is a tricky business.
00:19:54.000This is what the Democrats found out in the second half of the Mueller report.
00:19:57.000It's why they didn't impeach over the second half of the Mueller report because basically the second half of the Mueller report said Trump was fulminating about Mueller all the time.
00:20:03.000He was ordering members of his cabinet to issue letters to other members of his cabinet telling them to do certain things and then those things were being rejected.
00:20:11.000And so Democrats could have pushed impeachment, but Trump would have said, listen, I didn't have the requisite intent to shut down the investigation.
00:20:23.000So instead, Democrats are trying to push Trump to make a mistake now.
00:20:26.000Not six months ago, not three months ago, now.
00:20:28.000They're trying to push Trump to do something now that will lead Trump into an obstruction trap, or into a perjury trap, or into something that will create an impeachable offense moving forward, because they actually don't have the goods moving backward.
00:20:41.000And this is why you're seeing the media start to manipulate their coverage to basically elicit a response that will be wild from Trump.
00:20:49.000That also happens to benefit them electorally, right?
00:20:51.000I mean, the wilder Trump looks, the worse it's going to be for him in 2020.
00:20:55.000Whoever is the adult in the room in 2020 is likely to win because nobody, nobody who is center to center right wants to vote for Elizabeth Warren.
00:21:04.000All Trump has to do is appear to not be crazy and he will win.
00:21:07.000All Democrats have to do is appear not to be crazy and they will win.
00:21:35.000Okay, well now, Huffington Post journalist Yash Arli has reported on Wednesday night that the book claims that Mike Pence, the Vice President of the United States, was fully prepared to go along with the invocation of the 25th Amendment to remove the President of the United States from mental incapacity.
00:21:51.000Now there's a lot of talk about this in left-wing circles immediately after Trump's election that Trump is so crazy he can't be president the cabinet will oust him on the basis of the 25th amendment that he's incompetent and that he has to be put aside.
00:22:03.000If you know Mike Pence, if you know anything about Mike Pence, the idea that Mike Pence was telling anyone around him that he was ready to get rid of Trump over the 25th Amendment, that is patently ludicrous.
00:22:16.000But the media have been pumping this story anyway, with a serious amount of credulity.
00:22:23.000This claim does not warrant credulity.
00:22:24.000In fact, this claim basically undermines the entire credibility of the anonymous person who wrote this particular book.
00:22:32.000According to Yasha Ali, the much-anticipated book A Warning, reportedly written by an unnamed senior White House official, claims that high-level White House aides were certain that VP Mike Pence would support the use of the 25th Amendment to have President Donald Trump removed from office because of mental incapacity.
00:22:47.000The source that provided the excerpts did so on the condition of anonymity.
00:22:50.000So it's an anonymous source providing stuff from an anonymous book by an anonymous person inside the Trump administration.
00:22:57.000So now we are now three levels of anonymity removed from reality.
00:23:01.000According to the Huffington Post, According to Anonymous, there was no doubt in the minds of these senior officials that Pence would support invoking the 25th Amendment if the majority of the cabinet signed off on it.
00:23:10.000The discussions about invoking the 25th Amendment took place, according to the book, soon after FBI Director James Comey was fired by the president.
00:23:17.000Katie Waldman, the press secretary for Pence, responded to the news report by tweeting fake news.
00:23:21.000A top Trump ally in the White House responded to the report, told the Daily Wire, whoever anonymous is, assuming this is actually in the book, has exposed themselves as a complete fraud.
00:23:29.000Anyone who knows the VP knows he would never tolerate such talk and any such person would be immediately shown the door.
00:23:34.000Mark Lauder, the Trump 2020 director of strategic communications, responded to the story, writing on Twitter, this is the dumbest thing I've ever read.
00:23:40.000I served as vice president's press press secretary at the time.
00:23:43.000Anyone who gives this nonsense, any credibility does not know Mike Pence.
00:23:46.000By the way, even leftist journalists and center journalists were saying like, this is crap.
00:23:51.000Jonathan Swan of Axios says, anybody who covers Pence knows this is an absurd claim.
00:23:54.000Well, Jonathan's a good reporter and that is 100% true.
00:23:57.000Washington Post White House reporter Josh Dousey also agreed said, what Mr. Swan said, Obviously, that's true.
00:24:03.000But the goal of these sorts of stories is not, of course, to illuminate the situation in the White House.
00:24:11.000Because the belief is on the left, the more you get inside Trump's head, the more likely he is to be volatile and to do something that will harm him in this whole impeachment saga and in the 2020 election.
00:24:20.000And listen, I think Trump has reason to be suspicious.
00:25:58.000As I say, the strategy of the left getting under Trump's skin, it's not a bad strategy.
00:26:02.000It isn't a bad strategy because the fact is that Trump has a rationale for being pretty suspicious of the people who are coming after him.
00:26:11.000So there are tweets now that have emerged from the whistleblower's lawyer.
00:26:16.000So you remember the whistleblower in this case, right?
00:26:18.000The whistleblower in this case is the person who first reported the Trump-Ukraine phone call, reported it up the chain, and then there were pretty serious and I think pretty well-substantiated allegations that the whistleblower was coordinating with Adam Schiff's team.
00:26:28.000And then it started to come out that this whistleblower Whose name has been named?
00:26:31.000I mean, we mentioned it on the show, right?
00:26:53.000NPR says, In recent days, President Trump and his allies have amplified their calls for the whistleblower who sparked the impeachment inquiry to be identified, presenting the question of whether it would be a crime for the president to unmask the anonymous whistleblower.
00:27:19.000But it's not meant to protect their anonymity.
00:27:21.000And that makes sense because what if the anonymous whistleblower is a partisan hack?
00:27:24.000And that has some ramifications for things that matter for the country like, say, impeachment.
00:27:29.000According to Robert Litt, former General Counsel for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence under Barack Obama, he says if Trump thinks he knows the name, he can come out and say it.
00:27:36.000He's probably as protected as anyone is.
00:27:39.000Litt and several other legal experts who talked to NPR said that Trump uttering or tweeting the name could in theory trigger an article of impeachment for retaliating against a whistleblower.
00:27:47.000But it would not run afoul of any federal criminal statutes.
00:27:50.000Similarly, if a news outlet, member of Congress, or member of the public outed the whistleblower, legal experts said, no criminal law would be violated.
00:27:56.000Dan Meyer, lawyer and former executive director of the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Program, says, There's no overarching protection for the identity of the whistleblower under federal law.
00:28:04.000Congress has never provided that protection.
00:28:05.000Now, again, is it relevant to the consideration of the American people, who the whistleblower is, and how this whole thing came about?
00:28:16.000Okay, for people on the left who don't understand the word dispositive, dispositive means it is not sufficient to get rid of the charges against President Trump to point out that the whistleblower is a hack.
00:28:24.000The whistleblower can be a hack, and his allegations can be true and troubling.
00:28:28.000Both of those things can be true, but in calculating for the American public, whether this is in fact a good-faith attempt to impeach a president on the basis of constitutional violations, or whether this is a put-up job by Democrats seizing on a violation by President Trump allegedly of the Constitution or official duty, It's funny to me to watch the media pretend that motivation of the people behind this thing doesn't matter when they ran along with the motivations of the people behind impeachment are bad for literally years during the Clinton impeachment stuff.
00:28:58.000I'm old enough to remember when James Carville was saying about Paula Jones that if you drag a $100 bill through a trailer park, you'll come up with people like Paula Jones.
00:29:05.000James Carville worked for the president at the time.
00:29:10.000I'm old enough to remember when Hillary Clinton went on national television and accused Kenneth Starr of being part of a vast right-wing conspiracy.
00:29:28.000And it's usually the way these things go.
00:29:31.000Okay, and that is only going to be exacerbated by the fact that the identity of the whistleblower, again, who was mentioned by John Solomon, is the alleged identity.
00:29:38.000The guy apparently was an Obama acolyte, worked with Joe Biden, worked with James Clapper, was staffed in the White House, in the Trump White House, and then was thrown out and apparently went back to the CIA base at Langley after people in the White House suspected he was leaking to the media.
00:29:54.000And now it comes out that Mark Zaid, who's one of the attorneys representing the intel community whistleblower, tweeted in January 2017, quote, A coup has started, and impeachment will follow ultimately.
00:30:06.000He tweeted, we'll get rid of him, and this country is strong enough to survive, even him and his supporters.
00:30:12.000He also tweeted, as one falls, two more will take their place, apparently referencing the Trump administration employees who defy the White House.
00:30:18.000Zaid promised that the coup would occur in many steps.
00:31:52.000mention the name of the whistleblower?
00:31:54.000And if the parties here were reversed, I have very, very little doubt that the media would be outing this whistleblower inside of 30 seconds.
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00:35:34.000Alrighty, so let me just note for the record, you know, when I talk about the press and their unwillingness to out whistleblowers, like their standards, their standards and practices, we are not going to mention the name of this whistleblower.
00:36:22.000ABC News execs believe they know who the former employee is who accessed footage of Amy Robach expressing her frustrations about her shelved Jeffrey Epstein story.
00:36:33.000That former employee is now at CBS and ABC executives have reached out to CBS News executives.
00:36:38.000In a statement, an ABC News spokesperson tells me, we take violations of company policy very seriously, and we're pursuing all avenues to determine the source of the leak.
00:36:46.000It's important to note that ABC News does not know if this former employee leaked the footage to Project Veritas.
00:36:51.000What they do know is who accessed the footage.
00:36:54.000It's possible that person could have shared it with others who leaked it.
00:36:56.000As I noted in this thread, ABC News has confirmed they're conducting an investigation into the leak.
00:37:01.000In response to an email, CBS News says they're declining to comment for this story.
00:37:06.000Two sources familiar with the matter tell me that CBS News has now fired the staffer in question.
00:37:11.000This comes after ABC informed CBS that they had determined who accessed the footage of Amy Robach expressing her frustrations about the Epstein story.
00:37:17.000So just to point out the insane contrast here.
00:37:21.000The same media who are saying, we cannot know the net.
00:37:24.000We must never mention the identity of the whistleblower.
00:37:26.000Who initiated an impeachment inquiry into the President of the United States.
00:37:30.000We have to keep his name locked up under lock and key.
00:38:04.000Really, protecting your whistleblowers over their media.
00:38:07.000Stephen Miller, not the one from the administration, Red Stees on Twitter, he says, two news networks colluding to fire someone who leaked a massive bombshell about one of them covering up for a highly connected pedophile.
00:38:18.000Now watch as journalists all turn away so as not to endanger their own future job prospects.
00:38:22.000But sure, guys, truth to power or something.
00:38:24.000Guessing there won't be a ton of drum banging about this whistleblower's rights.
00:38:30.000So, when you hear the media getting all hot and bothered about the fact that Donald Trump's son tweeted out a link to Breitbart that named the alleged whistleblower, and the media are like, oh, that's so terrible, how could this happen?
00:38:43.000Oh, it's just, again, he didn't violate a law.
00:39:15.000We don't know anything about the whistleblower except that which has been reported by John Solomon and Breitbart.
00:39:21.000The fact is that the media have not dug into the story because if they dig into the story, they may come up with some answers they don't like.
00:39:27.000So the AFP, for example, could not independently verify the whistleblower's identity as not publishing the name.
00:39:32.000Weird, because it seems like the entire press was happy to run with Brett Kavanaugh as a gang rapist on the basis of Michael Avenatti saying a bunch of crap.
00:39:42.000My favorite is that they say that they're not gonna name the names because they're afraid for the guy's safety.
00:39:47.000So just to recap, they will fire a person who leaked information relevant to public discussion from a different network But they're afraid to leak the name or talk about the name of a whistleblower who is not protected by law when it comes to anonymity.
00:40:04.000They won't discuss the name or the identity or anything about the whistleblower.
00:40:07.000They won't do it because it might put him at physical risk.
00:40:12.000These are the same people who have outed people who made memes on Twitter.
00:40:17.000When somebody made a meme of President Trump tackling a CNN-headed cartoon on Twitter, the media outed that guy.
00:40:25.000When a guy named Carson King in Iowa committed the egregious sin of giving a million dollars to charity after he held up a sign at a college football game and received a million dollars from people offering to buy him beer, the media promptly outed him, went back to his old tweets, and tried to destroy his reputation.
00:40:41.000They're super concerned, however, about the safety of the whistleblower.
00:41:00.000That is the question that may soon bear down on mainstream news organizations as Donald Trump's allies step up the pressure to make the Ukraine whistleblower's identity public.
00:41:07.000As in, all over cable news and on the front page of the New York Times type of public.
00:41:10.000So far, as Politico reported Tuesday, mainstream newsrooms have been unified in their resistance to naming the whistleblower, whose anonymity is meant to be protected by law.
00:41:18.000Now, again, they say his anonymity is meant to be protected by law.
00:41:47.000outs the whistleblower, but apparently the Drudge Report had previously linked to an article that mentioned the whistleblower, so there's that as well.
00:41:59.000Suddenly the violation of privacy is a big deal to the media that don't care about privacy at all, except when it applies to apparently one side of the aisle.
00:42:06.000Representative Jim Jordan, for his part, he is on the Intelligence Committee and he says that we are going to question this whistleblower.
00:42:14.000Six weeks ago, Schiff said the whistleblower would testify and that he must testify, right?
00:42:17.000Remember, what happened is that the whistleblower report, the existence of it came out, then the transcript came out.
00:42:23.000The transcript didn't back everything the Democrats were claiming, right?
00:43:11.000They know when someone is getting a raw deal.
00:43:13.000The impeachment push, based on this anonymous and secondhand complaint, is fundamentally unfair.
00:43:18.000And then Jim Jordan says, President Trump and Zelensky, and President Zelensky of Ukraine, affirmed there was no quid pro quo and no pressure.
00:43:25.000The transcript of the call shows no conditionality.
00:43:27.000At the time of the call, Ukraine did not, no security aid was delayed, and Ukraine never took any of the actions it was supposed to take under pressure, and the Trump administration turned over the aid.
00:43:35.000So that is at least a partial defense.
00:43:38.000Meanwhile, the Democrats continue to maintain that the identity of the whistleblower is sacrosanct.
00:43:42.000So nothing is sacrosanct except that, apparently.
00:43:45.000So that is where things currently stand.
00:43:49.000Meanwhile, for all the people who talk about the Trump administration basically just being a proxy for Trump himself and ripping into Attorney General William Barr, who's supposed to be a political hack, a massive political hack.
00:43:59.000Well, it turns out that according to the Washington Post, President Trump went to Attorney General Barr.
00:44:03.000He wanted Barr to hold a news conference saying that Trump broke no laws in his call with the Ukrainian leader.
00:44:11.000According to the Washington Post, the request from Trump traveled from the president to other White House officials and eventually to the Justice Department.
00:44:37.000The request from Trump traveled from the president to other White House officials and eventually to the Justice Department.
00:44:42.000The president has mentioned Barr's demurral to associates in recent weeks, saying that he wished Barr would have held the news conference.
00:44:48.000In recent weeks, the Justice Department has sought some distance from the White House, particularly on matters related to this burgeoning controversy.
00:44:54.000People close to the administration say that Barr and Trump remain on good terms.
00:44:58.000And according to Deputy White House Press Secretary Hogan Gidley, the president has nothing but respect for AG Barr and greatly appreciates the work he's done on behalf of the country.
00:45:05.000Again, this is, I think, at least in part, an attempt by the media to, again, generate controversy within the Trump administration.
00:45:14.000By the way, there was some news yesterday that did not get the kind of play that you would have suspected it would get, given the contents of these impeachment hearings.
00:45:20.000And that is news surrounding Kurt Volker.
00:45:23.000So Kurt Volker was the special envoy to the Ukraine.
00:45:27.000He did testify that he didn't know anything about a quid pro quo.
00:45:32.000He said, I did not know there was a quid pro quo.
00:45:35.000And when he was confronted with the fact that Ambassador Bill Taylor had suggested there was a quid pro quo, then he said, well, no.
00:45:42.000In those texts, he was asking if there was a quid pro quo.
00:45:44.000He wasn't saying he knew if there was a quid pro quo.
00:45:47.000So President Trump tweeted out and he said, well, thanks to Volcker for saying there was no quid pro quo.
00:45:51.000The fact is the only way you're going to know whether there was a quote unquote quid pro quo for something corrupt is when you get Rudy Giuliani in to testify.
00:45:57.000All of this is going to come down to Rudy Giuliani because all the rest of it is third party perception of action that was being taken by Trump and Giuliani.
00:46:11.000There's another piece in Politico today for a guy who's supposedly non-shady.
00:46:15.000He does a lot of shady things for his family.
00:46:17.000According to Politico.com, in 2013, an oil heiress hired a Florida state senator to lobby the federal government on behalf of a pet cause, banning the slaughter of horses for meat.
00:46:26.000The lawmaker, Joe Abruzzo, was a close associate of Frank Biden, the younger brother of then-Vice President Joe Biden.
00:46:32.000At the time, the younger Biden was looking for state funding for his charter school business, and Abruzzo sat on a key appropriations subcommittee in the Florida legislature.
00:46:40.000The two men met frequently, so it's only natural that when the horse slaughter measure stalled in Congress, Abruzzo sought Frank Biden's help.
00:46:46.000As those involved recounted months later in videotaped remarks for an equine welfare conference, the VP quickly went to bat, quote, I also turned to Frank and said, we may need a little help from the VP and the administration talking to some senators, said Abruzzo.
00:46:59.000Biden then leaned on Mitch McConnell to overcome the minority leader's objections.
00:47:03.000Frank Biden said on video, my brother's long-term relationships in the Senate proved to be the final nail in the coffin to be able to pull this thing forward.
00:47:11.000By the way, Frank Biden and Abruzzo run a lobbying business together, basically.
00:47:19.000In fact, after Frank Biden and Abruzzo teamed up on the horse measure, after Abruzzo received nearly $900,000 in lobbying fees from his wealthy client, the pair teamed up again to lead the government relations division of a law firm in Florida, where they've been pushing a high-profile class-action lawsuit.
00:47:34.000So, does it raise questions that Joe Biden's family was doing business in Ukraine?
00:47:37.000Particularly because, as we've mentioned over the past couple days, there is now some very solid information.
00:47:43.000that Hunter Biden's firm, that the Burisma firm, had hired public relations specialists to go to the State Department and try to have the State Department relieve pressure on Burisma by using Hunter Biden's name.
00:47:55.000That report was out there, again, from John Solomon, who's been doing the leading edge on this work.
00:48:00.000According to Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air, basically, it looks as though Biden's son, that firm, hired somebody to use Hunter Biden's name to get access to the State Department.
00:48:12.000And a month later, Joe Biden was talking publicly about pressuring the prosecutor to step down.
00:48:16.000Ed Morrissey says that certainly looks like the kind of corruption of which House Democrats are accusing Trump, does it not?
00:48:21.000At the very least, these emails undermine the idea that Shokin wasn't being tough enough on Burisma and that no one in the Obama administration connected the dots between Hunter Biden, his dad, and Burisma.
00:48:29.000It stinks of corruption and interference for personal or familial gain.
00:48:35.000So there's still open questions for Biden that are going to have to be answered here.
00:48:40.000All right, meanwhile, in the 2020 presidential race, all of this is going to harm Joe Biden, but Elizabeth Warren is running into some headwinds, and those headwinds are coming from people who actually know how business works.
00:48:50.000So people who are actually in the business world, lifelong Democrats, are looking at Elizabeth Warren and going, No, no, this is not a real human that I'm going to vote for.
00:48:58.000Bill Gates, who's a, I mean, real lifelong Democrat, has given millions of dollars to democratic causes.
00:49:12.000you know, make political declarations.
00:49:15.000But I do think no matter what policy somebody has in mind, a professional approach is even, as much as I disagree with some of the policy things that are out there, I do think a professional approach to the office, whoever I decide would have the more professional I do think a professional approach to the office, whoever I decide would have the more professional approach in is the thing that I'll weigh the most.
00:49:40.000And I hope the more professional candidate is an electable candidate. - Okay, what he means by that is Elizabeth Warren is a crazy person.
00:49:49.000By the way, Elizabeth Warren then fired back at Bill Gates because this is her shtick, suggesting that she wants to meet with Bill Gates and talk about his wealth tax.
00:49:56.000She says, I'm always happy to meet with people, even if we have different views.
00:49:59.000Bill Gates, if we get the chance, I'd love to explain exactly how much you'd pay under my wealth tax.
00:50:28.000So, Jeff Sessions is going to run for Senate in Alabama.
00:50:30.000Now, this has drawn the ire of a lot of people.
00:50:33.000It's drawn the ire of the White House.
00:50:35.000The White House keeps saying, well, we don't like Jeff Sessions.
00:50:37.000Jeff Sessions is a bad Attorney General.
00:50:39.000Actually, Jeff Sessions is a pretty good Attorney General.
00:50:41.000Jeff Sessions being in that slot basically prevented Trump from engaging in activity that probably would have resulted in this impeachment inquiry two years sooner.
00:51:09.000Because the reason that the Alabama Senate seat right now is being held by a Democrat, Doug Jones, is because the Republicans, like idiots, nominated Roy Moore, an alleged creeper going after 14-year-old girls at the food court.
00:51:31.000Representative Bradley Byrne, Republican of Alabama, former Auburn University coach Tommy Tuberville, Secretary of State John Merrill, Stanley Adair, State Representative Arnold Mooney, and Roy Moore.
00:51:41.000And people are like, well, that's a crowded field.
00:51:45.000That's why you need Sessions in there.
00:51:47.000Really, if you're a Republican, and you wanna see that seat be read, the only thing that will prevent that seat from going red, literally the only thing, is if Roy Moore is the nominee.
00:51:55.000If Roy Moore is the nominee, he is not making it into the Senate, Doug Jones is gonna earn himself another term, like a full term, not in a special election.
00:52:00.000Okay, so what that requires is somebody who can actually consolidate support behind them.
00:52:05.000The problem with a crowded field is, who is the biggest name in that field?
00:52:08.000The only two big names in that field are Tommy Tuberville and Roy Moore.
00:52:12.000And there's a good shot that Roy Moore is able to consolidate his base to a much stronger extent than anybody else in the field.
00:52:17.000Sessions was a longtime senator from Alabama.
00:52:19.000Coming back in and sweeping to victory with 65% of the vote would be a very good thing for the Republican Party.
00:52:24.000The fact that Trump has personal animus for Sessions should not prevent the Republican Party of Alabama from actually putting a Republican back in the Senate.
00:52:31.000Apparently Sessions has yet to speak with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell or Senator Todd Young, the chairman of the Senate GOP campaign arm.
00:52:37.000Sessions has actually not talked to Trump or Vice President Pence either.
00:52:41.000Although the White House has communicated to Sessions' inner circle, they would view his candidacy extremely unfavorably.
00:52:48.000The operative said, the one thing you want in 2020 is to ensure that the Alabama race is not a national news story.
00:52:53.000If it's no drama affair, the outcome isn't in doubt.
00:52:55.000Yeah, but it will be a drama affair because Roy Moore is going to run again.
00:52:58.000So what you need is a name who has won before.
00:53:01.000The operative said, Sessions is the favorite in the primary.
00:53:04.000If Trump decides to embark on a tweet storm, it changes everything.
00:53:10.000I'm sorry, but if Trump's personal animus causes Republicans to lose the Alabama Senate seat again, that is unforgivable, politically speaking.
00:53:32.000But Beto O'Rourke, Beto, still cruising the land, and he has decided that he is going to be a resistance hero, and he's gonna lobby hard for that commentary spot on MSNBC, which he's been aiming for.
00:53:42.000That Saturday morning slot is wide open for a Beto comeback, brah!
00:53:46.000Well, Beto is now going around saying that the American flag is too negative to display.
00:53:52.000By the way, if this Beto O'Rourke had run in Texas against Ted Cruz, he gets shellacked.
00:53:56.000This is not the Beto O'Rourke who ran in Texas and lost by two points.
00:53:58.000This is the Beto O'Rourke who, if he ran in Texas, would get Wendy Davis-style numbers in a gubernatorial race.
00:54:03.000Here's Beto O'Rourke saying that the American flag is too negative to display.
00:54:07.000At a time that we seek to repair the damage done following the legacy of slavery and segregation and Jim Crow and suppression, I think it's really important to take into account the impression that that kind of symbol would have for many of our fellow Americans.
00:54:25.000And so, respect the decision that Nike made.
00:54:29.000Okay, so, we can't display the American flag, it's too divisive.
00:54:33.000If you can't display the American flag in America, I would suggest that you might think about whether there's a future for you in the country.
00:54:38.000I don't see why this is super controversial.
00:54:40.000Listen, you have a right to burn the flag, you have a right to kneel on the flag, you have a right to do all of those things, but if you believe that the Ameri- if you actually believe, like as a politician, that the American flag itself is too divisive, not all the issues that you're associating with the American flag, the flag itself is too divisive, then there's no future for the country, so why would you stay here?
00:54:58.000Beto O'Rourke, again, signifying the id of the Democratic base, and that is ugly, ugly stuff.
00:55:03.000Okay, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.
00:55:06.000Also, speaking at Stanford University tonight, make sure that you watch the Young America's Foundation livestream.
00:55:10.000We'll also be livestreaming it from our Facebook account and all the rest, so go check that out tonight.
00:55:14.000Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.
00:55:47.000Hey everybody, it's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.
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