The Ben Shapiro Show - April 12, 2018


Crisis Point | Ep. 516

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Mueller investigation and James Comey book
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Donald Trump Paul Ryan James Comey Michael Cohen Robert Mueller Hillary Clinton Rod Rosenstein George Stephanopoulos Lindsey Graham Newt Gingrich Steve Bannon George W. Bush Meghan McCain Barack Obama Tommy John Mark Zuckerberg Mitch McConnell Frank Lesser Tommy Johns Ashley and 53 more
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00:00:00.000 Speaker of the House Paul Ryan steps down, the Trump probe pushes the president toward precipitous action, and James Comey's book is a-comin'.
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00:00:13.000 So we do have a lot to get to today, and we'll get to all of it in just a second.
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00:01:47.000 Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is now out.
00:01:50.000 And what's been fascinating to see is how the left and how the media have reacted to Paul Ryan leaving.
00:01:55.000 So for a long time, they were looking at Paul Ryan as though he was the future of the party.
00:01:58.000 He was the alternative to Trump.
00:02:00.000 And there are a lot of people who are who are thinking that this was a Trump-Ryan battle.
00:02:03.000 That was the battle that really mattered.
00:02:04.000 Now, listen, President Trump won the presidency and that battle
00:02:08.000 Ended in a certain way with a rapprochement, which is that President Trump was going to be the attitude of the party and Paul Ryan was going to be the idea man of the party.
00:02:17.000 And that's essentially how things worked for the first year.
00:02:19.000 Because let's be real, most of Trump's sort of heretical priorities, you know, the things like trade wars or infrastructure plans, those things didn't go anywhere with Paul Ryan in the House.
00:02:29.000 The stuff that actually did move
00:02:30.000 Were some regulatory reform measures, were the tax cuts, the attempt to restructure entitlements in the tax bill.
00:02:40.000 All of that was Paul Ryan stuff.
00:02:41.000 So what you actually got was Paul Ryan type governance in many areas and Donald Trump style rhetoric.
00:02:47.000 That was the sort of agreement that Republicans came to.
00:02:49.000 But with Ryan out, now what you're seeing is an attempt to recast this entire battle as a battle between Ryan and Trump, even though Ryan was actually pushing a lot of Trump's priorities and Trump was signing a lot of Ryan's priorities.
00:02:59.000 That doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense.
00:03:01.000 And this misread, I think, is an attempt to paint everyone in the Republican Party as sort of beholden to everything bad about Trump.
00:03:08.000 See, this is the goal of the left now.
00:03:09.000 So the left tried to do this in 2016 by calling everybody a deplorable who supported President Trump.
00:03:14.000 Now what they're attempting to do is they're attempting to say that anyone who even tangentially worked with President Trump actually made a Faustian bargain with President Trump.
00:03:21.000 This is the tenor of the media coverage.
00:03:22.000 And I don't think that that's correct.
00:03:24.000 I don't think it's a Faustian bargain at all to say, listen,
00:03:27.000 I don't like President Trump's character.
00:03:28.000 I don't like what he's been doing on character.
00:03:30.000 But I like a lot of his policy.
00:03:31.000 That doesn't seem like a Faustian bargain at all. 0.89
00:03:33.000 That seems like normal politics on a pretty daily basis in Washington, D.C., where everybody sucks and where the politics is what matters in the end.
00:03:40.000 The policy is what's supposed to matter in the end.
00:03:43.000 But Paul Ryan was asked about this by Jake Tapper.
00:03:45.000 Tapper on CNN said to Ryan, you know, did you make a Faustian bargain with President Trump?
00:03:50.000 I'm really proud of the accomplishments we have here.
00:03:53.000 And so I don't see this as some Faustian bargain, devil's bargain, or whatever it is you call it.
00:03:58.000 I see it as the country said, go fix these problems.
00:04:01.000 You guys get the majority in the House.
00:04:03.000 You get the majority in the Senate.
00:04:05.000 Here's the presidency.
00:04:06.000 Now go do something with it.
00:04:07.000 That's what we're doing.
00:04:08.000 That's not devil's bargain.
00:04:09.000 That's actually doing what the people in this country asked us to do and keeping our word.
00:04:15.000 And I'm very proud of that fact.
00:04:16.000 I mean, I'm wondering what exactly the media mean when they say things like devil's bargain.
00:04:19.000 Do they mean that Paul Ryan has not been critical of Trump on character grounds?
00:04:22.000 Because that's not true.
00:04:23.000 Do they mean that Paul Ryan has sometimes soft-pedaled those character criticisms in order to get policy done?
00:04:28.000 Maybe that's true.
00:04:29.000 But he's also working with a Republican.
00:04:31.000 He's working with a president in his own party.
00:04:33.000 And he has to keep his eye on the prize when it comes to policymaking, which, after all, is his job as Speaker of the House.
00:04:38.000 Tapper continued to push Ryan on this on CNN yesterday, saying, does Trump embarrass you?
00:04:42.000 I know after the Access Hollywood tape came out in October 2016, Mr. Trump was asked not to appear at an event for you.
00:04:50.000 Now it's back in the news in a major way.
00:04:52.000 This must bother you, Access Hollywood, Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal at a certain point.
00:04:57.000 It must be embarrassing.
00:05:00.000 I didn't even read the article.
00:05:01.000 I mean, I'm obviously familiar with what you're talking about.
00:05:03.000 So we're pretty focused on just getting our work done here.
00:05:07.000 And so this is something that I'll let you guys speculate about.
00:05:12.000 Right now, I'm busy trying to get things done in Congress.
00:05:15.000 We've got a big agenda here.
00:05:16.000 And so that's kind of where my focus is.
00:05:18.000 And I don't really have much punditry to offer you on this.
00:05:22.000 And look, I just think the way the President ought to handle this is compartmentalize it and focus on doing your job.
00:05:28.000 We've got issues with Syria. 0.98
00:05:30.000 We've got a Bentley's budget memo we're passing this week.
00:05:33.000 We've got a lot to do, and that's what I'm focused on.
00:05:34.000 So here's what's hilarious about this.
00:05:36.000 Basically, if you're Paul Ryan and you're just a guy who's trying to get an agenda through, you're just trying to get some things done, you're getting ripped by the right as somebody who's not sufficiently supportive of President Trump, even while you're pushing President Trump's agenda, and you're being ripped by the left for not going out there and ripping Trump every day.
00:05:49.000 Well, for Paul Ryan and for a lot of other Congress people who I'm talking to in Congress, Trump is not the top of their priority list.
00:05:55.000 They weren't elected 10, 15, 20 years ago to be beholden to Trump, nor were they elected 10, 20, 30 years ago in order for them to shift their entire schedule of their day around reacting in the media to what President Trump does, either negative or positive.
00:06:09.000 And so, you know, when Paul Ryan says, listen, I'm gonna keep my nose to the grindstone and do what I'm supposed to do, he gets ripped on both sides.
00:06:15.000 It's pretty astonishing.
00:06:16.000 It's pretty astonishing.
00:06:17.000 And I think Meghan McCain made a really good point yesterday.
00:06:19.000 So Meghan McCain obviously is John McCain's daughter.
00:06:21.000 And yesterday on The View, there are a bunch of people who are all the left was cheering Paul Ryan.
00:06:27.000 Oh, it's just so great that Paul Ryan is out because Paul Ryan is a shill and Paul Ryan hasn't stood up to Trump and all the rest of this stuff.
00:06:33.000 All these same Democrats who never stood up to Bill Clinton or Hillary Clinton, one iota, and now it's about Paul Ryan who didn't stand up to Trump, even though during the election cycle, Paul Ryan actually did stand up to then-candidate Trump in the middle of the election cycle and disinvited him from a particular event after the Access Hollywood tape and told all the members of his Republican caucus that he wasn't going to be openly campaigning for Trump up till the election.
00:06:54.000 Right, but this was not enough for the folks on the left.
00:06:56.000 They say that, you know, they're really happy that Ryan is going.
00:06:58.000 And Meghan McCain makes a good point.
00:06:59.000 She says, listen, if Ryan is not sufficient for you in terms of his sort of tenor, then why exactly wouldn't people vote for President Trump?
00:07:07.000 This is the problem, though.
00:07:08.000 What do you want?
00:07:09.000 If Paul Ryan isn't good enough and people... I want them all out.
00:07:11.000 But that's not what...
00:07:16.000 We shouldn't want that.
00:07:18.000 We live in a democracy.
00:07:19.000 We should want two healthy parties debating against each other.
00:07:21.000 But if Paul Ryan is the greatest sin, this is how we got Trump.
00:07:25.000 Because if Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney and people like this are the worst kind of politicians, then you deserve Trump.
00:07:31.000 Because he's not.
00:07:31.000 He's a truly decent man that was trying to fight for democracy and conservative ideals.
00:07:35.000 And now what's going to be left, I have no idea.
00:07:37.000 Okay, good for Meghan McCain. 0.99
00:07:38.000 This is exactly right.
00:07:40.000 What Meghan McCain is saying here is exactly right.
00:07:41.000 You know, the left sits around and they wonder, how did we get Trump?
00:07:43.000 How did we get Trump?
00:07:44.000 By calling Paul Ryan the worst.
00:07:46.000 By calling Mitt Romney the worst.
00:07:48.000 By suggesting that people who were decent were actually bad.
00:07:50.000 And then you know what the right did?
00:07:51.000 They said, well maybe it was their decency that lost them the election.
00:07:53.000 Maybe what we need is an indecent man who punches in order to win an election. 0.99
00:07:57.000 And then Trump won on exactly that basis.
00:07:59.000 And then you're wondering why the right has resonated to President Trump?
00:08:01.000 You're seeing this sort of coverage across the spectrum from folks on the left.
00:08:06.000 Tim Alberta, who actually used to work at National Review, so he's not a left-winger, but he writes now for Politico, and he has a whole article called, The Tragedy of Paul Ryan.
00:08:14.000 He began as a Jack Kemp conservative.
00:08:16.000 He ended as Donald Trump's man on Capitol Hill.
00:08:18.000 That's not remotely true.
00:08:20.000 He was not Donald Trump's man on Capitol Hill.
00:08:23.000 He was trying to push against a lot of Trumpian priorities.
00:08:25.000 It was Paul Ryan who was attempting to end around Mitch McConnell and get some actual things done.
00:08:30.000 Now again, I'm not a huge advocate of Paul Ryan as Speaker of the House.
00:08:33.000 I don't think Paul Ryan was the best Speaker of the House in the world.
00:08:36.000 I don't think that he was the worst Speaker of the House in the world.
00:08:37.000 I think he was better than John Boehner.
00:08:39.000 I think he was worse than Newt Gingrich.
00:08:40.000 And I think he's somewhere in the middle.
00:08:41.000 But this newfound attempt to paint Ryan leaving as anything but
00:08:46.000 Ryan leaving because he doesn't want to be blamed for a blue wave that is not his fault is, I think, revisionist history on both sides.
00:08:51.000 On the left, they're saying Paul Ryan is leaving because Trump has taken over the party.
00:08:54.000 On the right, they're saying Paul Ryan is leaving because Trump has taken over the party.
00:08:58.000 I don't think any of that is true.
00:09:00.000 I mean, that's why President Trump was praising Paul Ryan yesterday, because in President Trump's view, correctly, Paul Ryan was an ally in helping him push some of his political priorities.
00:09:08.000 But here's the article from Tim Alberta at Politico.
00:09:10.000 He says,
00:09:31.000 The harsh reality is that he might be remembered more for accommodating the impulses of the 45th president than for crafting a generational overhaul of the tax code.
00:09:38.000 This is a political obituary of Ryan's own writing.
00:09:41.000 His silence in the face of Trump's indignities and his observance of the exquisite presidential leadership, a line that will live in infamy,
00:09:47.000 Would be less remarkable had he not first established himself as one of Congress's good guys, someone whose sense of principle and decency informed his objections to Trump's candidacy in the first place.
00:09:55.000 Indeed, the Speaker's habit of turning a blind eye to the President's behavior is relevant and revelatory because it was not always so.
00:10:01.000 There was hardly a tougher Trump critic during the 2016 campaign than Ryan, who felt duty-bound to combat the candidate's dark rhetoric and the party's nativist drift.
00:10:09.000 Yet there has hardly been anyone softer on Trump since Election Day than Ryan, who felt duty-bound to deliver on the policy promises made to voters, and decided that doing so meant ignoring the ad hominem and savaging of private citizens, the hush money paid to porn stars, the attacks on private companies, the attempts to delegitimize institutions, and the innumerable other acts for which Barack Obama would have been impaled by the right.
00:10:27.000 This was Paul's deal with the devil, a phrase used by several of the speaker's confidants in the days following Trump's shocking triumph.
00:10:33.000 So again, the idea here from some of these folks is that presumably, I guess, the idea is that that Paul Ryan should have been out front all the time, spending his time ripping on President Trump.
00:10:44.000 This is this would have pleased a lot of the folks on the left.
00:10:47.000 Now, listen, I'm in the business of political commentating.
00:10:49.000 This is what I do for a living.
00:10:50.000 And so one of the things I'm able to do is when I think Trump has done something wrong, I will rip him for it.
00:10:54.000 And when I think President Trump does something right, I will praise him to the skies.
00:10:57.000 This is something that I am able to do.
00:10:59.000 But I also am not in the position of having to negotiate with President Trump over policy.
00:11:03.000 So to pretend that Paul Ryan's sole job was to comment on President Trump's doings day in and day out is to ignore the role of the legislature in the process.
00:11:13.000 I think if Paul Ryan committed any great sin, it was not standing up to Trump and McConnell on policy, not even on Trump's character.
00:11:19.000 Listen, would I prefer that all Republicans played the same fiddle that I'm playing?
00:11:23.000 Sure.
00:11:24.000 I would prefer that when Donald Trump does something bad, all Republicans say that's bad, and when Donald Trump does something good, all Republicans say that's good, and that would include legislators.
00:11:31.000 But these are the people who also have to negotiate with Trump, and there is a bit of practicality that has to take place here with regard to how you get policy done that you have promised your own constituents.
00:11:40.000 This may be the last time in our modern history that Republicans run all the branches of government. 0.99
00:11:46.000 And you expect him, Paul Ryan, to blow that on a daily basis by talking about Donald Trump's dumb tweets when everybody already knows Donald Trump's tweets are dumb? 0.88
00:11:54.000 Again, the media are really driving people toward Trump because a bunch of people on the right are simply going to respond to all of this by saying very simply, listen, you don't like Paul Ryan? 0.97
00:12:02.000 We'll give you somebody who really doesn't care what you think.
00:12:04.000 We'll give you Donald Trump.
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00:13:36.000 OK, so again,
00:13:37.000 I think that the focus on Paul Ryan from the left has been Paul Ryan is a bad guy because he didn't spend enough time ripping Trump up and down.
00:13:45.000 And then if you watch Fox News and some of the commentators on Fox News, the problem with Paul Ryan is that he wasn't sufficiently obsequious to Donald Trump. 0.99
00:13:53.000 He should have spent all of his time kissing Trump's ass more. 0.99
00:13:56.000 Well, again, talking to the legislatures, talking to the legislators, I can tell you this. 0.99
00:14:01.000 There are a lot of legislators who don't like President Trump much personally, but they are keeping it under wraps for a couple of reasons.
00:14:06.000 One, because they think that it is counterproductive to rip into a president they have to negotiate with.
00:14:11.000 And number two, because they already figured that it is well known that President Trump has some character flaws that are pretty serious, and them mouthing off about it only allows the media to use them as a tool against the Republican Party more generally.
00:14:23.000 That's why I think it's very important to draw distinction in our minds in the conservative movement between our legislators and our thought leaders.
00:14:29.000 These are not the same people.
00:14:31.000 Now, this is a broader conversation that I think needs to be had.
00:14:34.000 Who are the thought leaders inside the Republican Party?
00:14:37.000 Who are the thought leaders inside the conservative movement?
00:14:39.000 Ever since the days of Woodrow Wilson, there's been an idea that the president is the thought leader of the country.
00:14:44.000 Barack Obama was the thought leader.
00:14:45.000 George W. Bush was the thought leader.
00:14:46.000 Bill Clinton was the thought leader.
00:14:48.000 Ronald Reagan was the thought leader.
00:14:49.000 But the reality is that the way that the founders drew up the Constitution, that the folks who were running all of our lawmaking were not supposed to be the quote-unquote thought leaders, they were supposed to be the implementers subject to the public will.
00:15:00.000 And that meant that thought leaders were really supposed to exist, in many cases, outside of government.
00:15:05.000 And many of the great thought leaders in American history were people who never served as president, who barely served in legislatures.
00:15:13.000 Alexander Hamilton was somebody who never became president, obviously.
00:15:16.000 He served inside a couple of administrations.
00:15:18.000 But he was not somebody who was going to be president of the United States.
00:15:22.000 Benjamin Franklin, another great thought leader.
00:15:25.000 There are many great thought leaders in American history, and those thought leaders
00:15:29.000 Have been as important or more important than people who are in positions of power.
00:15:33.000 Looking to people whose job it is to write and rewrite legislation as the people who are going to speak to principle, I think is largely a mistake.
00:15:40.000 And it's a mistake also for the base.
00:15:41.000 The reason it's a mistake for the base is because when you listen to people like Paul Ryan talk,
00:15:44.000 Or Mitch McConnell talk.
00:15:45.000 And they talk about philosophy.
00:15:47.000 Their philosophy sounds a lot like yours in the base.
00:15:49.000 Their philosophy sounds a lot like mine.
00:15:51.000 This is why when I interviewed Paul Ryan a couple of weeks ago, and he and I talked conservative philosophy, he sounds exactly like me with regard to spending priorities.
00:15:58.000 And then a week later, he's pushing into law a $1.3 trillion omnibus spending package, with which I assume he totally disagrees.
00:16:05.000 Why?
00:16:06.000 Because legislators have two jobs. 1.00
00:16:07.000 One is to talk about ideas, but the more important job is for them to actually get legislation done.
00:16:12.000 It is our job to have the ideas and to hold people responsible for those ideas.
00:16:17.000 So don't look to politicians for being your thought leaders.
00:16:20.000 Don't look to politicians to be the character advocates.
00:16:23.000 Don't look to politicians to be these guys because they just won't be.
00:16:26.000 I wish they would be.
00:16:27.000 I wish that everyone in politics spent all their days talking about principle and worrying about principle.
00:16:32.000 And then openly stating when they were straying from principle in order to make legislative gambits.
00:16:37.000 But that's not how this works.
00:16:38.000 That's not how this works.
00:16:39.000 And blaming Paul Ryan for how the system works I think is a mistake and also leads us to some pretty stupid conclusions about the kind of politicians that we should be electing instead of the kind of politicians who can get things done and then it's up to us to toss them out if they don't get those things done or if they don't reflect our own ideology.
00:16:54.000 Okay, meanwhile... 0.83
00:16:56.000 President Trump's really, really angry.
00:16:58.000 He continues to be very, very upset about this FBI probe.
00:17:01.000 And we are now finding out what exactly the FBI was looking for when it raided Michael Cohen's office.
00:17:05.000 Michael Cohen, of course, was President Trump's personal lawyer, and the personal office of Michael Cohen was raided by the FBI.
00:17:12.000 Apparently, one of the things that they were looking for were documents related to the Access Hollywood tape.
00:17:17.000 So what exactly does Michael Cohen have to do with the Access Hollywood tape?
00:17:21.000 As you recall, in the late days of the election,
00:17:23.000 There is a tape that was broken from Access Hollywood in which President Trump was caught on a hot mic talking with Billy Bush and speaking about how he was a found fan of grabbing women by the genitals and how if famous people grabbed women by the genitals, they were totally fine with this.
00:17:39.000 And of course, this is a big hubbub and Donald Trump dropped.
00:17:41.000 8 to 10 points in the polls, and everybody assumes his electoral chances were over, including me, right?
00:17:46.000 All of this was a big hubbub at the time, but what does it have to do with Michael Cohen?
00:17:49.000 What does that have to do with President Trump's lawyer?
00:17:51.000 Well, the suggestion is now being made, and if this is really all this is going to be, honestly, if the FBI raided Michael Cohen on this basis, if the FBI raided Michael Cohen based on only the Stormy Daniels stuff,
00:18:03.000 This is really weak tea.
00:18:05.000 But here's what the suggestion is.
00:18:06.000 The suggestion was made by Adam Schiff, the representative from, actually, I believe, my district.
00:18:10.000 He made that suggestion.
00:18:11.000 He said, quote, That's one possibility.
00:18:28.000 It's also a possibility that they're looking at whether the Trump campaign and Michael Cohen had any role in the timing of the WikiLeaks of the Russia-stolen Podesta emails.
00:18:35.000 You'll recall that the timeline that day was the Access Hollywood tapes were released at like 3.56 p.m.
00:18:40.000 and 4.30 p.m.
00:18:42.000 WikiLeaks dropped all of the Podesta emails.
00:18:44.000 And so I guess the suggestion is now being made by Adam Schiff that Michael Cohen called up the Russians and said, listen, guys, I know you're going to release the Podesta emails anyway, but it'd be great if you could accelerate that release so that we can have a counter-narrative.
00:18:55.000 I find that exceedingly hard to believe.
00:18:57.000 Now, it's quite possible that they're looking for evidence that Michael Cohen has spent a lot of time paying off various paramours and bad stories for Donald Trump.
00:19:07.000 There's another story like that from The New Yorker today.
00:19:10.000 The New Yorker printed a story that says that the National Enquirer paid $30,000 to a doorman of Donald Trump's who was trying to sell a story that said that Donald Trump had fathered a child out of wedlock in the late 80s.
00:19:21.000 No one knows who that child would be.
00:19:22.000 We can all speculate.
00:19:24.000 And I guess we could do some fun speculation and just pray and hope that it wasn't Justin Bieber.
00:19:28.000 But what we also know is that the National Enquirer had actually done this to Stormy Daniels before, I believe.
00:19:34.000 Or was it... There's another Playboy bunny? 0.67
00:19:38.000 There was somebody else that the National Enquirer had paid for a story.
00:19:41.000 Karen McDougal, maybe?
00:19:42.000 And then dropped the story and quashed the story.
00:19:44.000 And so there was suggestion that this was also an in-kind contribution to the Trump campaign.
00:19:49.000 If all that we've got here is in-kind contributions to the Trump campaign, I don't think that's enough for impeachment.
00:19:54.000 I just don't.
00:19:54.000 I think campaign finance violations are a big nothing when it comes to the American public imagination.
00:19:59.000 Very few people care about campaign finance violations.
00:20:02.000 People assume that there is a lot of corruption with regard to how campaign finance is done.
00:20:07.000 And again, the Obama administration took in $2 million in 2008 of illegal campaign contributions, and they ended up paying a $400,000 fine by 2012.
00:20:15.000 There was no suggestion that Obama should have been impeached over all of that.
00:20:20.000 But again, this investigation is certainly a thorn in the side of President Trump.
00:20:25.000 Steve Bannon is suddenly back, right?
00:20:26.000 You remember Sloppy Steve, and President Trump ousted him to my great enjoyment.
00:20:31.000 And Steve Bannon, who was the former White House chief strategist, who then went
00:20:37.000 Well, now Bannon is back and he's trying to weasel his way back into Trump's good graces by doing what he does best, giving unbelievably crappy advice.
00:20:48.000 According to the Washington Post, Steve Bannon has called up Trump and he's pitching a plan to West Wing aides to try and end the special counsel probe, to end Robert Mueller's probe.
00:20:58.000 The first step would be to fire Rod Rosenstein.
00:21:00.000 Rod Rosenstein, of course,
00:21:02.000 is the deputy attorney general who actually recused himself and appointed the special counsel.
00:21:07.000 He still has the jurisdiction to fire Robert Mueller.
00:21:10.000 But Rosenstein has been blamed for a lot of stuff by President Trump.
00:21:14.000 So step one would be firing Rod Rosenstein.
00:21:16.000 Step two would be stop cooperating with Mueller.
00:21:18.000 And step three would be invoking executive privilege so that previous White House staffer interviews with Mueller become null and void, according to Bannon.
00:21:24.000 So Bannon told The Washington Post, quote,
00:21:34.000 An executive privilege should be exerted immediately and retroactively.
00:21:39.000 Okay, well, that is not a possibility.
00:21:41.000 Executive privilege only applies when you apply it.
00:21:43.000 You can't retroactively apply executive privilege.
00:21:46.000 You don't get to just declare willy-nilly executive privilege on stuff that's already been turned over to the FBI.
00:21:51.000 At least that's a difficult legal case.
00:21:53.000 So Bannon is trying to get Trump to fire Rod Rosenstein, which would end in presumably the firing of Mueller eventually.
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00:23:32.000 OK, so again, Steve Bannon is trying to get the president to fire Rod Rosenstein.
00:23:36.000 That would be a disastrous idea.
00:23:38.000 And not only that, there are other folks in the Republican Party who are doing the same. 0.95
00:23:43.000 Newt Gingrich, I think, made just an asinine statement yesterday.
00:23:48.000 He was talking about this FBI raid on Michael Cohen's offices.
00:23:50.000 Now, you may not like the FBI raid on Michael Cohen's office.
00:23:53.000 Alan Dershowitz certainly doesn't.
00:23:54.000 And I think that there's some logistical reasons why you wouldn't like that raid.
00:23:58.000 Well, we haven't seen the warrant.
00:24:00.000 We don't know exactly what they were looking for.
00:24:01.000 This seems overbroad.
00:24:02.000 We have to carefully protect attorney-client privilege.
00:24:05.000 One of the most amazing things that I saw yesterday, this is really funny, is the New York Times saying, if Trump's innocent, why would he care about attorney-client privilege?
00:24:14.000 Okay, that's like saying, if you don't have anything to hide, why don't you just let the police search your house every day?
00:24:18.000 If you don't have anything to hide, why don't you just make your walls of glass?
00:24:21.000 Maybe because you actually like your privacy.
00:24:23.000 Maybe because there's stuff that Trump has done with Cohen that's not illegal, but that's embarrassing.
00:24:27.000 There are plenty of reasons why you would like attorney-client privilege if you're President Trump, even if you're not trying to cover up a crime.
00:24:32.000 The New York Times, however, doesn't accept that.
00:24:34.000 Again, Alan Dershowitz has said that he thinks that this search was overbroad, that since we don't know the basis of the search or what they're looking for, it seems like a wild jump to allow the FBI to raid the offices of Michael Cohen, who's the president's lawyer.
00:24:46.000 I know that there are other talk show hosts who have been suggesting
00:24:50.000 That it may not in fact even be a campaign finance violation if the president of the United States and Michael Cohen were to pay off Stormy Daniels.
00:24:57.000 So what exactly would be the underlying crime?
00:25:00.000 Nonetheless, what Newt Gingrich says here is so crazy that it's not good for President Trump's case.
00:25:04.000 Here's what Newt Gingrich said about the FBI search.
00:25:07.000 We're supposed to have the rule of law.
00:25:09.000 It ain't the rule of law when they kick in your door at 3 o'clock in the morning, and you're faced with armed men, and you have had no reason to be told you're going to have that kind of treatment.
00:25:18.000 That's Stalin. 0.68
00:25:20.000 That's the Gestapo in Germany.
00:25:22.000 That shouldn't be the American FBI.
00:25:25.000 OK, so no, it is not the Gestapo.
00:25:27.000 No, it is not Stalin-esque. 0.97
00:25:29.000 This is ridiculous. 0.77
00:25:29.000 There is a full warrant process that was gone through. 0.77
00:25:32.000 It went to a magistrate judge, went to the U.S.
00:25:33.000 District Attorney in the Southern District of New York, who was a Republican.
00:25:38.000 So again, all of this is overstated.
00:25:41.000 Now, does this mean that Mueller hasn't exceeded his brief here?
00:25:44.000 I think Mueller pretty clearly has exceeded his brief in some ways.
00:25:47.000 Do I think that this violation of attorney-client privilege is a wonderful idea?
00:25:51.000 I'm not going to know that until I see more evidence.
00:25:53.000 I'm happy to wait for more evidence instead of jumping to conclusions about where this is going.
00:25:57.000 But one thing is clear, with all of the hubbub over it, with all of the lack of information, it's pretty obvious that President Trump is getting more and more agitated about this.
00:26:05.000 And you can see that the media are goading him.
00:26:06.000 You can actually see this.
00:26:07.000 If you watch CNN, the media are goading President Trump.
00:26:10.000 Over and over and over, they're goading President Trump.
00:26:13.000 Wolf Blitzer yesterday was spending most of the day talking about, the President is probably in the Oval Office, fulminating right now.
00:26:19.000 The President is probably in the West Wing, just angry and tweeting right now.
00:26:23.000 And then they would have full panel conversations on how angry Trump was, which of course is designed to make Trump angrier because the media would love nothing better than for President Trump to fire Robert Mueller.
00:26:33.000 Whoopi Goldberg sort of let the cat out of the bag here.
00:26:35.000 She explained,
00:26:39.000 We're sitting around pontificating about something that hasn't happened, that's going on a lot of unnamed sources, so I don't think that we should get too far ahead of our skis.
00:26:46.000 I do think everything you're saying about what would happen if he does fire Mueller, I've said, Lindsey Graham has said it's political suicide.
00:26:53.000 I 100% think there would be, I think there would actually be rioting in Washington, D.C.
00:26:56.000 I think it would be at levels we haven't seen.
00:26:58.000 Now that would be fun to watch, I have to say.
00:27:00.000 Yeah, I mean, but I think it would take levels that we can't comprehend since the Nixon era.
00:27:05.000 Okay, so she says that she would love it, right?
00:27:07.000 That Whoopi is looking forward to the riots.
00:27:09.000 The left wants this.
00:27:10.000 They want the excuse to impeach President Trump.
00:27:12.000 They want the excuse to say that this is full-scale obstruction of justice.
00:27:15.000 And that's another reason why they've been pushing, for example, the James Comey book, which is coming out now.
00:27:20.000 Lindsey Graham gets this, right?
00:27:21.000 Senator Lindsey Graham from South Carolina, he says to President Trump, please do not
00:27:25.000 Do not fire Mueller.
00:27:26.000 If you fire Mueller, it's just going to backfire on you.
00:27:29.000 It's a big mistake.
00:27:30.000 Lindsey Graham is exactly correct about this.
00:27:31.000 Even if you hate the Mueller investigation, even if you think the Mueller investigation sucks, even if you think that it's all a sham, even if you think they've got nothing on collusion, I think they have nothing on collusion, even if you think that there's no evidence of criminal activity yet, and I've seen no evidence of actual criminal activity yet, even if you believe all of that, firing Mueller is a big mistake, as Lindsey Graham says.
00:27:49.000 Mr. President, you're watching.
00:27:51.000 I think you're going to be fine unless you screw this up.
00:27:55.000 Let the process play out.
00:27:57.000 I don't believe you colluded with the Russians, but Mueller will soon tell us.
00:28:00.000 The Cohen situation, I am convinced, has got nothing to do with Russia.
00:28:05.000 I think they're trying to squeeze Michael Cohen in order to—and there's obviously all kinds of correspondence that would have related to President Trump in the time even before he was running that would be in that office.
00:28:15.000 And the president seems incensed about it, based on what he's writing.
00:28:18.000 I understand the president feel like they're getting out of bounds here, but I want to tell you this.
00:28:22.000 If Mueller was trying to squeeze Cohen, Mueller would have done it.
00:28:27.000 This is something unconnected to Russia.
00:28:29.000 I'm 100% convinced of that.
00:28:31.000 And we'll see what Mueller finds.
00:28:32.000 Let him do his job.
00:28:34.000 Okay, so, you know, I think that Lindsey Graham is totally right about this.
00:28:37.000 But again, the media are now in the business of trying to goad President Trump into making a presidency-ending mistake by firing Robert Mueller.
00:28:44.000 One of the other ways they're doing this is by pushing James Comey's book.
00:28:46.000 So, let's start with this.
00:28:48.000 James Comey, the former FBI director, is indeed a grandstander.
00:28:51.000 President Trump called him a grandstander.
00:28:52.000 President Trump suggested that he was in it for the attention.
00:28:55.000 James Comey, it's pretty clear, is exactly that.
00:28:58.000 He should have been fired after he went out front and said that Hillary Clinton did not violate the law, even when she did.
00:29:03.000 That was completely inappropriate.
00:29:04.000 It was completely inappropriate for him to do a full press conference laying out all the reasons that Hillary Clinton had committed criminal violations and then to recommend to the DOJ in order to cover for then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
00:29:15.000 And say that she shouldn't be prosecuted anyway.
00:29:17.000 Then he came back about a few days before the election and he issued a letter about how he had reopened the Hillary email investigation, essentially.
00:29:24.000 And then a couple days later, he shut it down again.
00:29:26.000 So again, well done, James Comey.
00:29:28.000 And then Trump should have fired him when he first came into office and said, listen, this guy's incompetent.
00:29:32.000 This guy obviously loves the limelight.
00:29:34.000 He loves being out front.
00:29:35.000 You know, this is absurd.
00:29:37.000 Instead, President Trump kept him around in some sort of misguided bid for, I guess, bipartisanship.
00:29:42.000 And then he kept going to James Comey, and he kept saying, listen, you know, FBI director, can you just say that I'm not under investigation?
00:29:49.000 And Comey kept saying, you're not under investigation, but I'm not going to say it.
00:29:52.000 And the reason I'm not going to say it is because if you do fall under investigation, then I'll have to announce it.
00:29:56.000 And Trump said, OK, fine, so do that.
00:29:58.000 Like, fine, but just say I'm not under investigation right now.
00:30:01.000 Like, why is that so tough?
00:30:02.000 Comey wouldn't do it, so Trump fired him.
00:30:04.000 Totally within his purview.
00:30:06.000 James Comey himself testified before Congress that his investigation was not impeded in any way by President Trump, that President Trump did not act well, that President Trump had asked him about loyalty, that President Trump had suggested that he drop the investigation of Mike Flynn, but at no point had Trump actually exerted pressure on Comey to do anything.
00:30:24.000 He said a couple of things, but that does not necessarily amount to exerting pressure, especially when he's the President of the United States, and he can actually do a lot of stuff within the purview of his executive power in order to quash an investigation if he wants to.
00:30:34.000 Well, Comey waits a full year, a full year after his firing, and now he's coming out with this book.
00:30:40.000 All about how honorable and duty-bound he is.
00:30:42.000 And now he'll answer all the questions.
00:30:43.000 So we've been told that he's answering.
00:30:45.000 He was with, for an hour, with George Stephanopoulos on ABC News.
00:30:48.000 And that's where he's launching his book.
00:30:50.000 And we're supposed to believe that he is some sort of great honorable figure who's now going to answer all the questions.
00:30:55.000 Well, he was in front of Congress and didn't answer like half their questions.
00:30:58.000 So now all of a sudden he's a great honorable figure?
00:31:01.000 And of course, the media are truly well and good excited about this.
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00:32:03.000 So the media are very pumped up, of course, about James Comey.
00:32:05.000 And James Comey, there are clips now coming out from his interview with George Stephanopoulos.
00:32:09.000 First of all, every time I mention George Stephanopoulos, I'm going to say former Hillary Clinton chief of staff, George Stephanopoulos.
00:32:15.000 And George Stephanopoulos acting as a lead anchor on a major news network is just insane.
00:32:19.000 It is insipid.
00:32:20.000 It's the equivalent of having Karl Rove anchor coverage on some tell-all book from the Obama administration. 0.99
00:32:26.000 It's just ridiculous.
00:32:27.000 But here's George Stephanopoulos interviewing James Comey and Comey doing his righteous indignation routine. 0.94
00:32:33.000 How strange is it for you to sit here and compare the president to a mob boss?
00:32:38.000 The things that you know but haven't said that could damage President Trump.
00:32:45.000 And to those who say you should have brought Hillary Clinton before a grand jury?
00:32:49.000 The exclusive interview everyone will be talking about.
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00:32:54.000 Should Donald Trump be impeached?
00:32:56.000 Stephanopoulos.
00:32:58.000 Comey.
00:32:59.000 This Sunday night at a special time.
00:33:01.000 10, 9 central on ABC.
00:33:03.000 So much honor.
00:33:04.000 So much higher loyalty.
00:33:07.000 You can see George—I mean, I love that promo, especially because all you have are cutaway shots of Comey.
00:33:12.000 Comey doesn't say a word anywhere in there.
00:33:15.000 He apparently calls Trump a mob-like figure, a mob boss figure.
00:33:18.000 Well, again, I don't think that that's wildly unpredictable, given the fact that
00:33:23.000 President Trump's own lawyer has suggested he is Tom Hagen, right?
00:33:26.000 I mean, Michael Cohen has said that he's Tom Hagen to Donald Trump's Michael Corleone, so that's not exactly a shock in any real sense.
00:33:32.000 But the media are very excited about Comey because what they're hoping is that, again, Donald Trump gets so angry over Comey that he just gets mad the next day and fires Mueller for no reason at all.
00:33:42.000 The reality is that James Comey, there's so much politics going on and so little of honor going on, it's pretty insane.
00:33:48.000 The media are also hot and bothered by the news that the RNC is going after James Comey in advance of the release of this book.
00:33:57.000 So, according to CNN, the battle plan against Comey, obtained by CNN, calls for branding the nation's former top law enforcement official as Lion Comey through a website, digital advertising, and talking points to be sent to Republicans across the country before his memoir is released next week.
00:34:10.000 The White House signed off on the plan, which is being overseen by the RNC.
00:34:13.000 The chairwoman of the RNC, Ronna Romney McDaniel, has said, quote, Comey is a liar and a leaker, and his misconduct led both Republicans and Democrats to call for his firing.
00:34:21.000 If Comey wants the spotlight back on, and will make sure the American people understand why he has no one to blame but himself,
00:34:26.000 For his complete lack of credibility.
00:34:28.000 And they have actually opened up a site.
00:34:30.000 It is called WhyInComey.com.
00:34:32.000 They've been using Trump's appellation for James Comey.
00:34:35.000 And it has quotes from Democrats testifying how James Comey was unfit for office, as well as explanations for why Trump's firing of Comey was not obstruction of justice.
00:34:44.000 Now, the media, of course, are treating this as a scandal.
00:34:46.000 How dare the RNC attack Comey?
00:34:48.000 Well, maybe the RNC is attacking Comey because Comey is
00:34:51.000 Yeah.
00:35:06.000 Trump was smart to fire him.
00:35:07.000 He wasn't.
00:35:07.000 It doesn't mean that Trump was smart in how he fired him.
00:35:09.000 He fired him, and then he went on TV two days later and suggested that the reason that he fired James Comey was because he didn't like how James Comey had been asking about the Russia investigation, and he used Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General, as cover for the firing of James Comey, requiring Rod Rosenstein to appoint Robert Mueller in the first place.
00:35:25.000 So if Trump had never fired Comey, none of this ever happened.
00:35:28.000 That said, does James Comey deserve the criticism? 0.99
00:35:31.000 You bet your ass he deserves the criticism. 0.99
00:35:33.000 James Comey is, in fact, a grandstander. 0.99
00:35:36.000 That said, is it smart strategy of the RNC to be parroting Trump's branding of Lyin' Comey?
00:35:41.000 No, it makes it look political.
00:35:43.000 What they really should do is they should just say, listen, James Comey's credibility on these issues has been called into question.
00:35:48.000 James Comey is somebody who likes the limelight.
00:35:50.000 James Comey is somebody who wants to be in front of the cameras.
00:35:53.000 James Comey could have said all of this a year ago when it was most relevant.
00:35:55.000 He waited a year to speak it because he wanted his money.
00:35:58.000 And now he's here for the money.
00:36:00.000 He's here for the publicity, and he's here for the money.
00:36:02.000 And that is not unfair by any stretch of the imagination.
00:36:05.000 I want to see a reporter ask Comey that.
00:36:06.000 Why is it that he wouldn't answer these questions for a year, but suddenly you want to go around talking about how James Comey is the king of honor?
00:36:15.000 That doesn't make a lot of sense.
00:36:16.000 I said that Newt Gingrich had said something absurd earlier in the show, but Gingrich said something that's obviously true as well.
00:36:22.000 He said Comey is in it for the cash.
00:36:23.000 I think that's pretty clear at this point.
00:36:26.000 The objective reality is Comey's off grandstanding and making money, but the truth is that he didn't do his job in the Bush administration.
00:36:33.000 He colluded with Schumer to embarrass President Bush.
00:36:36.000 The truth is he appointed a special counsel in the Bush administration who ran wild.
00:36:41.000 And the truth is he failed to prosecute the people in the Clinton campaign.
00:36:45.000 And I think we ought to take this as a chance to educate the country about Comey.
00:36:51.000 Okay, and I think that that is exactly right.
00:36:53.000 Again, all these battles can be fought, but these should be fought by proxy.
00:36:56.000 These should not be done by the President of the United States himself.
00:36:58.000 He'd be better off being above the fray and dealing with serious issues that we are dealing with right now, like the situation in Syria.
00:37:04.000 There are people who are going to speak out on his behalf when he deserves it.
00:37:07.000 And right now, you know, it is fair to say that this Comey attempt by the media is an area where the President deserves a certain amount of defense, a certain rational, reasonable defense.
00:37:17.000 Trotting out the Lion Comey line, I think, is counterproductive.
00:37:20.000 Okay, meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg was appearing on the Hill yesterday, and he got himself in a bit of hot water.
00:37:25.000 Steve Scalise, who's the House Majority Whip.
00:37:28.000 Maybe the next Speaker of the House.
00:37:29.000 He grilled Zuckerberg on Zuckerberg's anti-conservative bias over at Facebook.
00:37:33.000 I think it's well worth the watch.
00:37:34.000 Who develops the algorithm?
00:37:36.000 I wrote algorithms before, and you can determine whether or not you want to write an algorithm to sort data, to compartmentalize data, but you can also put a bias in if that's the directive.
00:37:48.000 Was there a directive to put a bias in?
00:37:50.000 And first, are you aware of this bias that many people have looked at and analyzed and seen?
00:37:56.000 Congressman, this is a really important question.
00:37:59.000 There is absolutely no directive in any of the changes that we make to have a bias in anything that we do.
00:38:05.000 To the contrary, our goal is to be a platform for all ideas.
00:38:09.000 Okay, well that there is nonsense.
00:38:11.000 Obviously the way that you bias your algorithms is going to determine which sort of news sources are benefited and which ones are not.
00:38:16.000 And the way that it is, the proxy for politics in the new algorithm is established media.
00:38:21.000 So CNN, NBC, New York Times, these are all being benefited by the new algorithm changes over at Facebook.
00:38:27.000 And Zuckerberg is fibbing when he says that that has nothing to do with politics.
00:38:31.000 Okay.
00:38:31.000 Meanwhile, today actually marks Holocaust Remembrance Day.
00:38:34.000 So this is Yom HaShoah. 0.70
00:38:36.000 It's the day in Israel that they do something that's pretty amazing.
00:38:38.000 I think that we should probably do it in the United States on Memorial Day as well.
00:38:43.000 They actually, there's a certain time of the day where the siren goes off and everyone in the country, literally everyone in the country, stops their cars.
00:38:50.000 Everybody steps out of their cars and there is about a minute of silence across the entire country in honor of the Holocaust. 0.87
00:38:56.000 That seems to me something we should do in the United States with regard to our fallen soldiers.
00:39:02.000 There's a poll out that really is shocking on Holocaust Memorial Day, and that is a poll from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
00:39:09.000 According to this poll, fully 41% of Americans do not know what Auschwitz was, including two-thirds of millennials.
00:39:15.000 Approximately 22% of millennials had not heard of the Holocaust.
00:39:19.000 41% of millennials thought two million or fewer Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.
00:39:23.000 That is a shocking, shocking number.
00:39:25.000 These are shocking numbers.
00:39:27.000 Four out of ten, four out of ten Americans don't know what Auschwitz was.
00:39:30.000 Two-thirds of millennials, two-thirds of people aged 18 to 34 don't know what the killing chambers were in Auschwitz.
00:39:36.000 This is, it's amazing stuff.
00:39:38.000 And again, one-fifth of all millennials have not even heard of the Holocaust.
00:39:41.000 You talk about deficits in our education system.
00:39:43.000 You want to know why millennials don't know enough about politics? 0.99
00:39:45.000 Why millennials are willing to go along with the identity politics and race-baiting of the left? 0.83
00:39:50.000 You want to know why millennials are so fine going along with the socialism that's being promulgated by the media?
00:39:55.000 Well, it's because they don't know anything about the Soviet Union.
00:39:57.000 They don't know anything about actual Nazi Germany, other than people they don't like are to be called Nazis.
00:40:01.000 They don't know anything about any of these issues.
00:40:03.000 The way history is taught in our public schools and in our private schools is through the Howard Zinn lens.
00:40:08.000 You want to talk about a certain level of egocentricity.
00:40:13.000 Egocentricity runs rampant through Howard Zinn.
00:40:15.000 Why?
00:40:16.000 Because his entire take on history is that America is responsible for virtually everything bad.
00:40:21.000 And the way that American students should learn is by learning what America has done that's wrong.
00:40:24.000 Now, I think that part of a well-rounded education is understanding what Americans have done right and what we have done wrong.
00:40:29.000 What America has done right and what we have done wrong.
00:40:32.000 If you want to look at the actual learning of history, you have to look at world history, and you have to look at the alternatives to America.
00:40:38.000 You have to look at what has happened in other countries, when other systems of thought have been embraced.
00:40:42.000 The Holocaust was not something that happened in a vacuum.
00:40:45.000 The Holocaust happened because it was subject to a particularly virulent strain of a nasty nationalist ideology combined with a big government ideology that suggested that a fascist central government ought to bind the German people together in a sort of romantic unity.
00:41:04.000 There's a sort of Weltanschauung that dominated in Germany.
00:41:07.000 And that the government was the font head of all of this.
00:41:10.000 That Hitler was the father figure. 0.98
00:41:13.000 And that he was the great leader.
00:41:14.000 And that all of the German people were going to unite behind Adolf Hitler and recognize their own Aryan superiority. 0.86
00:41:22.000 And then they were going to unite in order to make Germany great again by having Germany essentially run from the top down. 0.74
00:41:31.000 And eventually this culminates, obviously, in the gas chambers at Auschwitz.
00:41:35.000 Now, the question is, where does this fit into our modern political context?
00:41:38.000 Well, it should tell us a few things.
00:41:39.000 It should tell us about the dangers of a centralized government that disarms people and then determines that some people are subjected to different rules because of their race.
00:41:47.000 It should tell us that identity politics is really negative and really dangerous, and that judging people by their race and ethnicity ends poorly.
00:41:53.000 It should tell us that romantic nationalism is not the same as patriotism, that if you are a patriot, you believe in America because of our ideals and our creed.
00:42:00.000 You don't believe in America just because of the people who are here.
00:42:03.000 And you certainly don't believe in America because of ethnic solidarity.
00:42:06.000 These are the lessons of the Holocaust, but you're not going to learn those lessons if you don't know anything about it. 0.84
00:42:10.000 And you're certainly not going to know anything about the Middle East if you don't know anything about the Holocaust.
00:42:15.000 You're going to give a lot of credibility and credence to groups that openly call for a second Holocaust.
00:42:19.000 I'm talking about Hamas and Hezbollah, both of which have been praised by Jeremy Corbyn, the leading figure in the Labour Party in Britain, the possible next Prime Minister of that country.
00:42:27.000 You're not going to know why Israel exists if you don't understand the threat of anti-Semitism in Europe.
00:42:32.000 They're going to give a lot more credence to the Iran deal if you don't recognize the possibility of a second Holocaust. 0.95
00:42:37.000 This is something that happened, folks.
00:42:38.000 This was not a myth.
00:42:40.000 A few years back in 2011 or 2010, I wrote a memoir for helping out a fellow who had survived the Holocaust.
00:42:48.000 And this memoir was about his survival at Auschwitz.
00:42:51.000 He was actually a cousin of Elie Wiesel.
00:42:53.000 And I can tell you, this was a real thing that happened, okay?
00:42:56.000 And if students don't know about it, that is a shonda, right?
00:42:59.000 It is a shame.
00:43:00.000 It is a disgrace to our education system.
00:43:02.000 And it's something that needs to be immediately corrected by an education system that is failing us on virtually every level.
00:43:08.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I like, and then a couple of things that I hate.
00:43:13.000 So, let's begin with a thing that I like.
00:43:15.000 So, I've been doing kind of little-known musicals.
00:43:17.000 Well, I'm straying from that today.
00:43:18.000 I'm doing a well-known musical.
00:43:20.000 This is one that your high school probably produced, but I was re-listening to it the other day, and the lyrics particularly to this musical are just great.
00:43:27.000 Guys and Dolls, the movie version.
00:43:29.000 Is not bad.
00:43:29.000 It's a little long.
00:43:30.000 Marlon Brando can't sing, which is a serious problem because the actual main part should be able to sing, right?
00:43:35.000 Skye Masterson should be able to sing in it. 0.94
00:43:37.000 But the lyrics are so clever in Guys and Dolls, it's really worth the listen.
00:43:42.000 Here is, of course, one of the famous numbers from it called Fugue for Tin Horns.
00:43:45.000 It's three guys who are talking about betting on horse racing.
00:44:00.000 I got the horse right here, the name is Paul Revere, and here's a guy that says if the weather's clear, can do, can do.
00:44:09.000 This guy says the horse can do, if he says the horse can do, can do, can do.
00:44:18.000 I pickin' Valentine, cause on the mornin' line, the guy's got him bigger than five to nine.
00:44:24.000 But make it epitaph, he wins it by a half, according to this here in the telegraph.
00:44:30.000 For for a Vera fight, I hear his foot's all right.
00:44:33.000 Of course it ought to be, he's a big red last night. 1.00
00:44:36.000 I know it's Valentine to fight.
00:44:38.000 It's a really fun, light musical, and it's worth watching.
00:44:41.000 Tomorrow, I'll probably do another musical by Frank Lesser.
00:44:43.000 This one's by Frank Lesser.
00:44:44.000 I'll probably do another one tomorrow by Frank Lesser, which I will tell you about then, because he wrote, like, three or four really good musicals.
00:44:52.000 So, I believe I've done How to Succeed in Business without really trying before, but there's another one that people don't know that much about that was a relatively big hit on Broadway.
00:45:00.000 We'll do that tomorrow.
00:45:02.000 Okay, other things that I like.
00:45:03.000 I just have to mention this.
00:45:04.000 This happened on Wheel of Fortune last night.
00:45:06.000 This is just
00:45:07.000 This is so terrible.
00:45:08.000 So there's this guy on Wheel of Fortune, and he has all of the letters, literally all of the letters are filled in, okay?
00:45:14.000 There's no way to get this wrong.
00:45:15.000 He has every letter filled in.
00:45:17.000 He gets it wrong anyway.
00:45:19.000 He gets it wrong anyway because what the puzzle says is flamenco dance lessons.
00:45:23.000 Flamenco dance lessons.
00:45:25.000 The guy wildly mispronounces it, and they do not give him the answer.
00:45:29.000 He gets it wrong, and he loses because he cannot read.
00:45:31.000 Okay, on Wheel of Fortune.
00:45:33.000 So here it is.
00:45:34.000 All right, carefully.
00:45:35.000 What's up there?
00:45:36.000 Flamingo dance lessons.
00:45:42.000 Sorry.
00:45:42.000 Explain.
00:45:45.000 Ashley, it's your turn.
00:45:47.000 I'll solve?
00:45:47.000 Yeah.
00:45:48.000 Flamingo dance lessons.
00:45:49.000 Yeah, that's it.
00:45:50.000 And we're going to... There we go.
00:45:53.000 She's got it.
00:45:55.000 To explain what we all heard was, and I know you didn't mean to say it, but you gave us a G instead of a C. But we're gonna, we'll look at things and make sure we did things correctly during our commercial, but that's the way it's been heard everywhere.
00:46:06.000 You get the thousand dollars.
00:46:07.000 We will take a break.
00:46:09.000 Look at the guy's face.
00:46:11.000 You just look at Johnny's face.
00:46:12.000 Johnny's like, what just, what?
00:46:14.000 What just happened now?
00:46:16.000 Pretty amazing stuff.
00:46:17.000 And Ashley's like, Ashley can't believe it either.
00:46:18.000 These are the two contestants.
00:46:20.000 Pat Sajak can't believe that just happened.
00:46:21.000 So well done, everybody involved.
00:46:24.000 Yeah, we may need to revitalize our education system for a second reason, namely learning how to read because wow, just the thing, just the thing.
00:46:33.000 Okay, so other things that, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:46:41.000 All right, so yesterday, President Trump signed a bill into law against sex trafficking.
00:46:45.000 This is not a thing I hate, this is a thing I like very much.
00:46:47.000 Here's what it looked like when President Trump did this yesterday.
00:46:49.000 You'll see a couple of the women actually dancing as he signs the bill, because it's rather important to have laws on the books against sex trafficking of women and children.
00:46:58.000 HR 1865, Mr. President.
00:47:00.000 They are so excited, and this is landmark legislation that is truly, as the leader said, going to save lives, and it already is.
00:47:09.000 I received a text message from the Manhattan D.A.
00:47:12.000 last night that said we have already shut down 87%.
00:47:14.000 87% of the online sex trafficking ads out there.
00:47:24.000 Well, I want to thank everybody.
00:47:25.000 This is my great honor, and I will say the political people around the desk of every one of them, Democrat and Republican, have worked very hard.
00:47:35.000 Okay, so this is obviously a good thing.
00:47:37.000 Well, there is a problem, however, and that's that the Women's March is very upset about it.
00:47:40.000 So you ask, why would the Women's March be in favor of a site that involves itself in sex trafficking? 0.83
00:47:45.000 Why would that possibly be?
00:47:47.000 The answer is because the Women's March is also standing up for prostitution. 1.00
00:47:51.000 So they tweeted out on April 7th, the shutting down of Backpage is an absolute crisis for sex workers who rely on the site to safely get in touch with clients.
00:47:58.000 Sex workers' rights are women's rights. 1.00
00:48:01.000 Okay then.
00:48:02.000 In the coming days, we'll be sharing more about sex workers' rights to uplift this critical issue.
00:48:06.000 We're all still learning, and as always, we have listened to the voices of those most impacted.
00:48:10.000 Hashtag sex work is work. 0.96
00:48:12.000 Well, but I assume that the Women's Marchers would also think that men who engage in prostitution are disgusting pieces of human filth, which is a proposition with which I generally agree. 0.99
00:48:22.000 So that's a weird statement. 0.98
00:48:23.000 And you're in favor of prostitution, but you think the men who engage in it are disgusting. 0.99
00:48:26.000 Got it. 0.98
00:48:27.000 Also worth noting, Backpage itself is directly linked, according to critics, with sex trafficking and sexual abuse of children.
00:48:34.000 Senator Rob Portman said, it is a positive step forward in our efforts to hold accountable sex traffickers that sell women and children online.
00:48:40.000 Claire McCaskill, who's a Democrat,
00:48:42.000 She said, State and local law enforcement need this bill to enable them to take swift action against websites that knowingly facilitate sex trafficking of children online.
00:48:51.000 So the Women's March, why exactly would they be defending this?
00:48:54.000 Because the Women's March defends the worst things on earth. 1.00
00:48:56.000 The leaders of the Women's March have defended Louis Farrakhan.
00:48:59.000 The leaders of the Women's March have been involved with Planned Parenthood.
00:49:02.000 Is it any shock that they're defending Backpage.com because they haven't done the sufficient research at best? 0.60
00:49:07.000 Again, it's pretty astonishing that they would go so far as to defend a site that apparently is involved in child sex trafficking, but I guess that we're supposed to believe that only Trump voters are deplorable.
00:49:17.000 Okay, well we'll be back here tomorrow with all the latest.
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