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00:00:00.000Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis runs up against a media eager to charge him with racism, the Democratic Socialists are on the march, and Cynthia Nixon goes mano y mano with Andrew Cuomo.
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00:01:53.000So, there are legitimately a billion people who know more about Catholicism than I do on planet Earth.
00:01:58.000Maybe more than a billion people who know more about Catholicism than I do, but the basic information as it has been conveyed to me is that the Pope is supposed to be communicating God's Word on Earth and he is the Vicar of Christ.
00:02:20.000I didn't realize he was actually guest starring on Mad Men this week.
00:02:23.000But when Pope Francis says things like, we Christians are not selling a product, we are communicating a lifestyle, he might want to think a little bit about the lifestyle that he and the church have been communicating in the last few weeks.
00:02:33.000You know, the lifestyle that says that a Catholic cardinal, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick,
00:02:38.000There's an awful, awful story that was out today about how the Pope basically dealt with the McCarrick situation.
00:02:44.000And apparently he made some sort of joke about McCarrick being in the clutches of the devil.
00:03:21.000McCarrick shared a conversation he had with the newly elected Pope Francis.
00:03:24.000McCarrick told the audience he had a very serious cardiac incident while he was at the Vatican during the 2013 conclave.
00:03:29.000When he returned from the hospital to the seminary where he was staying, his phone rang, and it was the newly elected Pope Francis on the line inquiring about McCarrick's health.
00:03:36.000McCarrick relayed this conversation with the Pope, quote, I told the Pope that I guess the Lord still has some work for me to do.
00:03:41.000The Pope responded to McCarrick, but on the other hand, maybe the devil did not have your accommodations ready.
00:03:46.000And this was retold in a Washington Post story.
00:03:48.000Well, if it turns out that the Pope was aware of the allegations against McCarrick, and he was making jokes about the devil having his accommodation ready in 2013, that's not good.
00:04:06.000Because the media was all over the Catholic sex abuse scandals of the mid-2000s, when we had the Boston Archdiocese, which was caught basically covering up an enormous number of sex crimes.
00:04:18.000And the media rightly was after the Catholic Church for that, in a way that, by the way, have never been, over secular institutions that engage in sex abuse.
00:04:25.000When it's a secular institution engaging in sex abuse, that's just par for the course.
00:04:28.000When it's the Catholic Church, then it's a huger deal, according to the media.
00:04:31.000It should be a huge deal in either case.
00:04:33.000But at least the media was going after the right folks back in 2006.
00:04:37.000Now, of course, the media is interested in protecting Pope Francis because they feel that he reflects their political priorities.
00:04:42.000If you want to know what's best for the Catholic Church, never trust the New York Times.
00:04:46.000The New York Times is a pretty good indicator of exactly what the Catholic Church should not be doing, because you know what the New York Times editorial board would love more than anything else?
00:04:53.000For all Catholics to stop being Catholic.
00:04:55.000They would like to see the Catholic Church utterly destroyed, just as they would like to see Protestant churches destroyed, just as they would like to see Orthodox Judaism destroyed.
00:05:02.000The secular media has an extraordinary bias.
00:05:05.000against religious institutions that they see as being restrictive and repressive of individual freedoms, particularly on issues of sexuality.
00:05:12.000So if they're upholding a particular Pope, it's a fair bet that Pope is not a friend to traditional Catholic doctrine.
00:05:18.000And it's certainly fair to say that the Pope's activities over the last several months here are creating a serious possibility of a schism within the Catholic Church.
00:05:26.000I mean, there's a serious possibility here that you could actually see a break in the Catholic, a serious break in the Catholic Church for the first time in half a millennium.
00:05:35.000I'm hearing from a lot of Catholic friends.
00:05:37.000I'm not even talking about people who are politically conservative.
00:05:39.000I have a lot of Catholic friends who are saying that this is making them seriously doubt the ability of this Pope to continue in his current job.
00:05:45.000And there's no impeachment procedure for Popes.
00:05:48.000He's there until he decides to step down.
00:05:51.000And the fact that the Pope is tweeting out these nonsensical nostrums from Cosmo magazine
00:05:57.000Just demonstrates that he never was fit for the job.
00:06:00.000I mean, listen, there are those of us who have been very critical of Pope Francis since day one, because it's very clear that Pope Francis had a certain political spin, a Marxist spin, on his own version of Catholic doctrine.
00:06:10.000And as somebody who doesn't have a dog in the fight, other than I think the Catholic Church is a deeply important institution to the foundations of Western civilization, and I think the Catholic Church's continued health,
00:06:20.000is absolutely vital to the continuation of central values that perpetuate the power and glory of Western civilization.
00:06:28.000But I don't have a stake in this as a practicing Catholic, because I'm not Christian.
00:06:31.000That said, when I see the Catholic Church being brought low by its own leadership on the basis of political leftism, because whether Pope Francis thinks that he has to appeal to a different crowd in order to raise the rates of conversion in poorer parts of the world, or whether he's just pandering to a leftist press, or whether he actually believes this stuff,
00:06:49.000What he is doing, it's so obviously undermining the foundations of the Catholic Church that it's pretty astonishing.
00:06:54.000Again, the New York Times is very pro-Francis because Francis was, every five minutes they would run a headline about Francis talking about homosexuality because he's much more to the left on homosexuality, even while still supposedly abiding by Catholic doctrine.
00:07:06.000They would never run headlines about Pope Francis on abortion, of course.
00:07:09.000Where he is traditionally well within the sort of Catholic doctrine.
00:07:12.000It shows you where the press is in all this, and it shows you why there are so many Catholics who are really uncomfortable today about the leadership of the Catholic Church.
00:07:20.000OK, so meanwhile, in the United States, we are fighting over much less serious issues because the future of the Catholic Church is a lot more important than any one election that's happening in the United States.
00:07:30.000But demonstrating more of the press's just utter incapacity to tell the truth,
00:07:35.000Yesterday, the press went absolutely insane over a comment by Ron DeSantis.
00:07:39.000Now, full disclosure, I know Congressman DeSantis.
00:07:41.000He's a representative in the House of Representatives.
00:07:43.000He is the new Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate.
00:07:48.000I'm friendly with Congressman DeSantis, but even were I not, this is just a bunch of crap.
00:07:52.000Basically, Ron DeSantis was on Fox News, and he was talking about his opponent, a guy named Gillum, Andrew Gillum, who's the mayor of Tallahassee, who also happens to be embroiled in an FBI investigation of the Tallahassee mayor's office.
00:08:04.000But more importantly, Andrew Gillum is a very, very left candidate.
00:08:08.000He's basically a Democratic Socialist like Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
00:08:12.000We'll talk in a little bit about what his victory in Florida means and how it happened.
00:08:16.000But Ron DeSantis was talking about his opponents in this race because it's basically a dead even race.
00:08:21.000And here's what Ron DeSantis had to say.
00:08:23.000But I mean, he performed better than the other people there.
00:08:25.000So we've got to work hard to make sure that we continue Florida going in a good direction.
00:08:30.000Let's build off the success we've had on Governor Scott.
00:08:33.000The last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases and bankrupting the state.
00:09:26.000But, we are supposed to believe that Ron DeSantis used the term monkey this up as some sort of dog whistle to a bunch of racists in the sticks who weren't aware that Andrew Gillum is a gay black man.
00:10:03.000There's nothing about that phrase that is racist, but it is racist because you cannot use monkey and apparently socialist in the same sentence.
00:10:08.000So even in that sentence, he wasn't talking about Andrew Gillum being black, right?
00:10:12.000Which actually would probably be racist if you use monkey and then you say like, and I don't want them monkeying it up by electing a black candidate.
00:10:32.000So apparently the theory is that Ron DeSantis was desperately trying to reach out to the Trump voters he already has in his pocket.
00:10:38.000Remember, Ron DeSantis ran the most pro-Trump campaign in America.
00:10:42.000He ran an actual ad in which he dressed his kid, his baby, in a Trump onesie.
00:10:47.000And according to the media, all Trump voters are racist, which means all the racists were already voting for Ron DeSantis.
00:10:51.000But apparently it was deeply necessary that he had to somehow dog whistle to these five people who were going to vote against Andrew Gillum because he's black by using the phrase, let me just remind you, monkey it up.
00:11:09.000Again, so he was using monkey as a verb in a commonly used phrase in order to make an oblique reference to a noun in order to appeal to people who are already voting for him, thinking the media wouldn't catch on and therefore driving an entire news cycle against him.
00:11:26.000I mean, it's the machinations that DeSantis had to go through, apparently, in order to come up with this racist dog whistle.
00:11:31.000The genius of it, the sheer genius of it, should boggle the mind.
00:11:34.000But of course, all this is a bunch of crap.
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00:12:46.000So, the media are not satisfied with simply suggesting that Ron DeSantis is an evil Republican.
00:12:52.000He's a racist for using a term that is commonly used politically, like, all the time.
00:12:56.000In fact, Andrew Gillum himself, the Tallahassee Democrat, has said in the past that his opponents were like monkeys on his back.
00:13:05.000So it turns out there are lots of ways to use the word monkey without actually making a racially charged reference designed to elicit a certain response from the evil racists who supposedly make up your base.
00:13:14.000But that's not going to stop the Democrats from jumping on this in fully dishonest fashion.
00:13:17.000They did the same thing, by the way, to Mitt Romney.
00:13:20.000Back in 2006, Mitt Romney suggested that the big dig in Boston, which I was there for this, they were digging a tunnel,
00:13:27.000It cost him billions of dollars and he suggested the project was a tar baby, meaning that the project was costing money and you'd spend the money and then you'd have to spend more money on it.
00:13:36.000And people pointed out that the phrase tar baby has a racist history going back to like the Br'er Rabbit tales of the 19th century.
00:13:42.000And suddenly it was that Mitt Romney was making some sort of veiled racist reference about a tunnel project.
00:13:49.000I remember they did the same thing to George Allen in Virginia.
00:13:51.000There was an Indian guy who was following his campaign at the behest of his senatorial opponent.
00:13:57.000And the Indian guy following his campaign, not like Native American, like India, from India.
00:14:02.000And George Allen said something like, oh, you see this guy following our campaign around?
00:14:05.000I don't know, his name is like Makaka or something.
00:14:07.000And then it turned out that Makaka was a Portuguese slur for black person.
00:14:11.000And so people said, well, his use of the term Makaka was directed at the Indian guy.
00:14:16.000He's making a racist reference to a random reporter in the back of the room in order to gin up the base in Virginia.
00:14:22.000And it basically caused George Allen to lose the election.
00:14:24.000I mean, George Allen legitimately lost a senatorial election on the basis of this.
00:14:27.000It's why, just a couple of days ago, here on this show, when we were talking about a British story about men wearing frilly underwear, and the British word for underwear is knickers, K-N-I-C-K-E-R-S, I had to spell it out and explain exactly what word I was using, because otherwise, Media Matters would claim that I was using the N-word.
00:14:48.000In 1999, there was a guy in the mayor's office in Washington, D.C.
00:14:55.000The guy was fired for using that word back in 1999.
00:14:58.000So this is the part of the DeSantis thing that's so incredible.
00:15:01.000The assumption here is that he was using the term monkey this up
00:15:10.000Yes, I'm sure that the Yale grad and the Harvard Law grad is secretly a deep racist who is attempting to use a Southern strategy in a state he is likely to win already.
00:15:25.000Yeah, I'm sure that's exactly what he was going for, but that's what the media decided to push out.
00:15:52.000And what I've got to say about that is that we've got to make sure that we stay focused, I think, on the issues that confront everyday people.
00:16:02.000I mean, I think it'd be fair to say that the president of the United States has used more of this dog whistling than than Ron DeSantis.
00:16:09.000Like, I think the Charlottesville thing was really egregious.
00:16:11.000I did, I think, several full episodes on the Charlottesville incident with the president of the United States.
00:16:15.000But to claim that the phrase monkey this up with reference to socialism destroying the economy is some sort of racist dog whistle or racist bullhorn.
00:16:24.000I know we use this phrase too much, but it's something that the left needs to understand.
00:16:28.000The reason that Trump is President of the United States is because you cried wolf too many times.
00:16:33.000You keep saying that every Republican who ever makes any reference to something that has nothing to do with race is actually making a covert racist reference and using Richard Nixon's 1972 Southern strategy.
00:16:53.000You claimed all these people were racist.
00:16:54.000Now you're claiming Ron DeSantis is a racist.
00:16:55.000You cried wolf so many times over a dog whistle that it turns out that when there are actual dog whistles, no one pays attention to you anymore.
00:17:05.000Because it basically hears what you do.
00:18:27.000It has everything to do with whether we want Florida to continue to go in a good direction, building off the success, or do we want to turn to left-wing socialist policies, which will absolutely devastate our state.
00:18:41.000Okay, the Washington Post, however, was not buying this.
00:18:43.000The Washington Post suggests that it is absolutely true.
00:19:15.000Leading American scientists in the 1850s embraced scientific racism to conclude that black people's similarities to apes was so significant that it influenced laws, policies and other decisions about African-Americans.
00:19:26.000Yes, I'm sure that Ron DeSantis is a scientific racist from 1852.
00:19:31.000I'm sure that that's exactly what he was doing.
00:19:33.000This idea entered American pop culture at blockbuster levels and thus became more widespread via early 20th century films like Tarzan and King Kong, and images depicting black people as apes became common in anti-black art during the Jim Crow era of government-sponsored segregation.
00:19:47.000What in the hell are you actually accusing DeSantis of?
00:19:49.000Are you accusing DeSantis of being an 1850s-style scientific racist?
00:19:52.000Are you accusing him of being a Jim Crow Democrat?
00:19:55.000Is that what you're accusing Ron DeSantis, a Florida Republican?
00:20:21.000And meanwhile, the media won't cover the actual facts about Andrew Gillum.
00:20:23.000So, now let's talk about Andrew Gillum in just one second, because there are some things you should know about Andrew Gillum, this beloved Democrat who they want to prop up to the Florida governorship on the basis of lies about race baiting.
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00:22:09.000He's a democratic socialist along the lines of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, which is to say that he will conveniently praise capitalism when he must, but he will generally say that capitalism is a bad thing, and he will claim that he's not a socialist when he sort of is a socialist.
00:22:23.000This is the new game that we play if we are Democrats.
00:22:25.000We say we are democratic socialists, which means we don't want to nationalize all industry or abolish the profit motive.
00:22:31.000Unless we're talking to our base, in which case we kind of want to nationalize all industry or abolish the profit motive.
00:22:39.000Like Norway, where we have capitalistic principles, but lots of social programs stacked on top of those capitalist principles.
00:22:45.000And if it costs just a crap load of money, then we'll just do it anyway.
00:22:48.000So Gillum, Andrew Gillum, is the mayor of Tallahassee.
00:22:52.000As I talked about yesterday on the program, the FBI is investigating the Tallahassee mayor's office for use of public-private contracts to toss money
00:22:59.000To some of Andrew Gillum's friends, it is worth noting that Andrew Gillum's rise is paid for by rich people.
00:23:07.000So, Andrew Gillum is making hay right now, specifically because there are billionaires who are backing him.
00:23:12.000It's also important to know that Andrew Gillum won this particular primary because he was running in a three-way primary and the votes split.
00:23:17.000So, in much the same way that Martha McSally, who won a pretty clear-cut victory over Joe Arpaio and Kelly Ward in Arizona, she won
00:23:25.000In part, at least, because that vote was split.
00:23:27.000I think it was 17% for Arpaio, 28% for Kelly Ward, and the right person won in Martha McSally, who's a good candidate, an Air Force colonel, I believe.
00:23:35.000In any case, the same sort of thing happened in Florida, where Andrew Gillum won this race specifically because the vote split between two other viable candidates in the Florida race.
00:23:45.000Both of them ignored Gillum, and he ran directly to the left.
00:23:47.000I mean, he just ran the inside rail, basically.
00:23:49.000But he was also backed by literally millions of dollars
00:24:02.000Gillum had recognized that big money in the Democratic Party, Tom Steyer's money, George Soros' money, is now on the left, not the center.
00:24:08.000Last year, Gillum watched closely as Soros' cash helped propel progressive candidates to victory in several local elections, including the Philadelphia District Attorney's race.
00:24:16.000Gillum was familiar with Soros and his organization, the Open Society Foundation, a few years ago,
00:24:20.000He helped launch a national network for young progressive elected officials and the Open Society Foundation was the group's main donor.
00:24:26.000He'd been in the financier's New York apartment, addressed his board of directors, and this spring dined with him in San Francisco when the two men happened to be in town.
00:24:34.000Soros committed to back Gillum's gubernatorial campaign.
00:24:36.000He says, if I'm remembering it correctly, it was, we don't know if you can win, but we would like what it could represent.
00:24:40.000I interpret it to mean that it would be significant to see a person of color taken seriously in a statewide race.
00:24:45.000No, it actually means that George Soros backs a lot of socialists.
00:24:47.000I know we're going to turn everything into a color issue, but it has very little to do with color and everything to do with Gillum's economic policies, which are indeed extraordinarily left.
00:24:58.000You would screw up the economy if you actually were to embrace all of his policies.
00:25:02.000Even Gillum understands, by the way, that if he runs too far left, he's actually honest about his own ambitions, that he ends up undercutting the economy.
00:25:08.000So he was asked specifically about his Medicare-for-all plan.
00:25:11.000So Medicaid-for-all is what... Medicare-for-all is what he's pushing.
00:25:15.000Just like Bernie Sanders, just like Alexander Ocasio-Cortez.
00:25:18.000Sure, it's going to cost a minimum of $32 trillion, tripling the federal budget over the next 10 years.
00:25:24.000Sure, it's going to bankrupt virtually everyone in the country.
00:25:27.000Sure, that's a minimum that it will cost because it'll actually cost a lot more than that.
00:25:30.000That $32 trillion doesn't take into account renegotiations, doctor pay raises.
00:25:34.000It doesn't take into account all of the additional costs that will be necessary.
00:25:37.000Medicare can exist at its current levels because a lot of people have private insurance.
00:25:40.000You do Medicare for all, private insurance disappears, and the costs are going to be a lot more than $32 trillion.
00:25:45.000In any case, even Gillum understands that his agenda is too far left, so he's basically soft-pedaling it.
00:25:50.000Here he is explaining that he won't try Medicare for All in Florida alone, because he needs a confederation of states, which is a way to say, I'm for Medicare for All, unless I actually have to bear the political brunt of Medicare for All.
00:26:01.000If for Florida to move in that direction, we would have to do it as a confederation of states.
00:26:06.000We could not do it by ourselves, solely here in the state of Florida, because it would collapse the system.
00:26:11.000We would only attract the sickest of patients, and it wouldn't work.
00:26:14.000Listen, people are terrified of getting sick.
00:26:18.000They're terrified of getting sick because if they get sick, they can't go to work.
00:26:22.000And if they can't go to work, they can't earn a wage.
00:26:24.000If they cannot earn a wage, they can't pay their bills.
00:26:26.000Okay, I love that Chris Cuomo there is actually feeding him the talking points on CNN.
00:26:30.000Well, you know what you should say here is what you should say is you're a paycheck away from poverty if you get sick.
00:26:35.000And Andrew Gilman's like, yeah, that's right.
00:26:36.000Yeah, I'm sure that's exactly how Chris Cuomo coaches Republicans through interviews as well.
00:26:42.000I love that Andrew Gillum there basically explains the rationale for why Medicare won't work at any level.
00:26:47.000He says all it will do is attract all the sick people who will then overtax the system and then are going to have to pay for it somehow.
00:26:52.000So, we'll do it, just not in Florida when I'm governor.
00:26:55.000So we should do it, but we won't do it because it'll be expensive and it'll bankrupt the system, but we should do it.
00:27:01.000I can't imagine why folks are looking at this as a fantasy candidacy, but it's very easy to promise things that will never come to fruition.
00:27:08.000Gillum then says, I'm not a socialist.
00:27:10.000When he's called on all this stuff, he says, don't worry, I'm not a socialist.
00:27:58.000So this is just fudging their way out of the fact that their policies are completely out of left field.
00:28:05.000Gillum is going to run a strong race now based on a media that wishes to push him to victory.
00:28:10.000We'll see how successfully the media can do all of that.
00:28:13.000The irony of all this, of course, is that because of this push to the left that's been happening, at least in part thanks to a left-wing media that loves this kind of stuff,
00:28:21.000Other candidates are also seeing a rise.
00:28:23.000One of those candidates, delightfully enough, is Cynthia Nixon.
00:28:25.000So Cynthia Nixon, the former Sex and the City star, whose political background consists entirely of being the least likable member of a cast that included Sarah Jessica Parker, she is going to actually, she's running against Chris's brother, Andrew, and they've been running gun battle, Andrew and Chris, for stupidest Cuomo brother.
00:28:41.000Chris occasionally takes the lead, but then Andrew sort of surges, and we'll see that even on today's show.
00:28:46.000So what you see there is that Chris Cuomo
00:28:51.000But we'll see in a second that Andrew Cuomo really makes a Secretariat like pull away at the end here of the show.
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00:30:42.000So, they have this debate, and it's just amazing to watch, because it legitimately is like watching two small children club each other with frying pans.
00:30:53.000Neither of them have very compelling points to make, but they make them the most militant possible way.
00:30:57.000As someone with a two-and-a-half-year-old son, I'm familiar with how two-and-a-half-year-olds argue.
00:31:01.000Basically, they say, I want X, and you say, you can't have X, and then they lie on the floor and they scream and kick.
00:31:05.000That's basically how this gubernatorial debate went.
00:31:07.000But because one of them is the sitting governor of a state, he looks small compared to Cynthia Nixon, who looks like the surging candidate.
00:31:14.000I would not be surprised to see — I'll predict it here now — I would not be surprised to see Cynthia Nixon pull out this race.
00:31:19.000It would not surprise me in the slightest to see Cynthia Nixon surge from behind and at least make this a very competitive race.
00:31:24.000Right now, she's about 30 points behind in the polls.
00:31:26.000But the polls are done infrequently, and Andrew Cuomo is one of the more lackluster candidates I have ever seen.
00:31:33.000And Cynthia Nixon at least has the sincerity of her convictions.
00:31:36.000And since we live in a political age where sincerity is prized far more than actually knowing things, when you being sincere is really, really important.
00:31:56.000So here is Andrew Cuomo trying to critique Cynthia Nixon last night by saying that she lives in a fantasy world.
00:32:03.000And listen to the audience's response.
00:32:05.000This is over at Hofstra University, which would be friendly ground for Andrew Cuomo, except he's running against the gal from Sex and the City.
00:32:11.000My opponent lives in the world of fiction.
00:32:31.000He's actually right that the MTA is run by the city of New York and they have not been contributing their fair share.
00:32:35.000The state has been chipping in a lot of money.
00:32:37.000She's not wrong that he's directed money away from the MTA and toward other projects.
00:32:40.000But the fact that he's getting openly booed in the middle of debates by people, this looks a lot like Bernie Sanders versus Hillary Clinton.
00:32:47.000It looks like the anti-establishment candidate versus the establishment candidate.
00:32:50.000And the establishment candidate still has to pay lip service to, you know, the things that actually make the state run, whereas Cynthia Nixon can sit there and say whatever she wants.
00:32:58.000Also, Andrew Cuomo then participates in one of the great self-owns I have seen in recent debate history.
00:33:03.000I mean, this is a self-own of epic proportions.
00:33:09.000Okay, that is what we call an own goal right there.
00:33:12.000So, he asks her to stop interrupting, and she says, as soon as you stop lying, and he says, I will when you do.
00:33:31.000Okay, that, logically, just putting on your logic hat for a minute, that means he just admitted that he lies all the time, and then he will stop lying as soon as she stops lying, so you have two liars on the stage is what he's saying.
00:33:45.000You're the liar, or in the famous words of President Trump, you're the puppet.
00:33:50.000He should have said something along those lines.
00:33:52.000Instead, he comes back with, I'll stop lying when you just,
00:33:56.000As I say, in the running gun battle for stupidest Cuomo brother, Chris had an early lead in this episode, but Andrew makes a very late comeback.
00:34:16.000She had asked that the city of New York and that the city of New York
00:34:19.000Not allow helicopters to fly over Central Park during performances of Shakespeare in the Park because it was disturbing people's ability to watch the play.
00:34:26.000That was his example of Cynthia Nixon engaging in corporate lobbying.
00:34:59.000Okay, so it's so funny to watch them go at this because, again, it's two small children clubbing each other with frying pans.
00:35:05.000What he's saying is that you're legally organized as a corporation for purposes of taxes, just like half of rich people in the United States.
00:35:18.000Because you do this for tax purposes, because then you write off all your expenses into the corporation, then the corporation files taxes and signs you a check at the end of the day.
00:35:25.000I know, I'm organized exactly the same way.
00:35:27.000Anybody who, as soon as you earn a certain level of money, it becomes beneficial tax-wise to do this.
00:35:31.000So it's true that Cynthia Nixon is a corporation.
00:35:34.000The great irony of this particular debate is that both of them believe that corporations should be less involved in politics,
00:35:39.000But he's acknowledging, and so is she, a basic truth.
00:35:47.000He says, right, but you organize as a corporation.
00:35:49.000And she says, right, but I'm a person.
00:35:51.000Right, both of you are arguing that people shouldn't be able to speak politically so long as they're organized as corporations, which makes no sense at all.
00:35:56.000But again, this is what you get when sincerity and socialist kind of talking points come to the fore.
00:36:03.000I do love that the same people proclaiming money and politics are bad are going and hitting up George Soros and Tom Steyer for millions of dollars in campaigns.
00:36:11.000And the two people who are running for governor in New York are a very, very wealthy actress who calls herself a socialist, and Andrew Cuomo, the son of a former governor of New York and the brother of a CNN host, who obviously, this is a guy who clearly brought himself up by the bootstraps.
00:36:26.000I mean, this is a guy who had to work his way from the bottom of American society, really grasping that bottom rung, just pulling himself up step by step.
00:36:35.000It's worthy talking about the President of the United States, who's now on a tear against Bruce Ohr.
00:36:41.000I'd be remiss if I didn't mention this, because this has become a major issue.
00:36:44.000The President of the United States is ripping into Bruce Ohr, who's the former Deputy Assistant Attorney General over at the Department of Justice.
00:36:52.000He was deeply involved in a variety of issues.
00:36:56.000He spent more than 25 years at the Justice Department, and he's drawn President Trump's ire.
00:37:00.000So President Trump was going after Bruce Ohr, suggesting that
00:37:05.000Bruce Ohr, his security clearance should be revoked, that he's been involved in an attempt to basically stop President Trump from being successful.
00:37:13.000Trump tweeted in the last couple of weeks, quote, Bruce Ohr of the Justice Department, can you believe he's still there, is accused of helping disgraced Christopher Steele find dirt on Trump.
00:37:23.000Ohr's wife Nellie was in on the act big time, worked for Fusion GPS on fake dossier.
00:37:29.000And then he continued, I feel like now's a good time to actually explain what's going on here, because you're seeing a lot of attention to Bruce Ohr and the conservative media.
00:37:38.000So let's explain what exactly happened here.
00:37:54.000So Bruce Orr is a longtime DOJ official.
00:37:56.000He was friends with Christopher Steele, and it looks like he was communicating with Christopher Steele even after Christopher Steele, the author of the Fusion GPS dossier against President Trump, was basically cut off by the FBI.
00:38:06.000So the FBI said, we can't talk to Christopher Steele anymore because he was leaking to the media.
00:38:11.000And then it turns out Bruce Orr was still talking with Christopher Steele and apparently taking that information and passing it on to the FBI.
00:38:18.000Deciding they would no longer work with Steele, Bruce Ohr was trying to act, it looks like, as an intermediary for Steele's information to get to the FBI.
00:38:25.000Now all of this is in the aftermath of the election.
00:38:27.000There are two accusations that are being made.
00:38:29.000One of them has some evidentiary support.
00:38:32.000One of them has not a lot of evidentiary support.
00:38:34.000The one that has some evidentiary support is the idea that Bruce Ohr, whose wife Nellie does work for Fusion GPS, there's a whole nexus here.
00:38:40.000Nellie works for Fusion GPS, and Bruce works for the DOJ, and Bruce is friends with Christopher Steele.
00:38:45.000Nellie hired Bruce... Nellie hired Christopher Steele to, at least in part, come up with this Fusion GPS dossier.
00:38:53.000He then met with Bruce Ohr, was funneling him information, Ohr was funneling that to the FBI.
00:38:58.000The accusation, one, is being made that all of this information is what led to the continuation of the Mueller investigation and to the wiretap on Carter Page, that all of this led to the FISA application against Carter Page, that the Fusion GPS dossier was used as the basis for the FISA application against Carter Page, and that it never should have been, and it was being basically treated corruptly by Bruce Ohr because he wanted to get President Trump.
00:39:23.000There is some evidence of that, although I will again note that the actual FISA application has a full footnote at the bottom of the application that specifically talks to the court about how this is an OPPO research piece of dossier that was handed by Hillary Clinton's campaign to the DOJ and the FBI.
00:39:38.000So it's not entirely true that the court had no idea that this was a piece of OPPO research and to take it with a grain of salt.
00:39:45.000What it really does raises the question of how easily the FISA court actually gives out warrants for wiretapping people.
00:39:51.000I think it more goes to a systemic problem.
00:39:54.000Accusation number two is the one that I haven't seen the dots fully connected on, and I try to be as objective as I can in my assessment of which dots have been connected so far.
00:40:02.000The dots that are trying to be connected is what a lot of Trump's fans are trying to do.
00:40:32.000Original investigation, according to Devin Nunes, right, who is the representative leading this particular investigation, into the investigation, right?
00:40:39.000Devin Nunes is the head of the House Intelligence Committee.
00:40:41.000He says that the George Papadopoulos investigation, the investigation of a low-level foreign policy aide who worked for Trump and was communicating with what appeared to be a Russian cutout, that's what led to the investigation.
00:40:51.000So it had nothing to do with Bruce Ohr, it had nothing to do with Christopher Steele.
00:40:55.000The accusation that's being made is that Bruce Ohr and Christopher Steele, that's the real reason that the Mueller investigation was launched.
00:41:00.000The evidence isn't there for that yet.
00:41:02.000The best evidence they have is that Christopher Steele and Bruce Ohr met on July 30th, 2016, in the middle of the campaign.
00:41:08.000And the next day, the investigation launched.
00:41:10.000But it's not clear that's what launched the investigation.
00:41:12.000Usually it takes a couple of months to actually initiate that process.
00:41:15.000So we'll have to see if that final dot is connected.
00:41:16.000If that final dot is connected, then you have the serious possibility that the entire thing was trumped up.
00:41:22.000There's a difference, by the way, between the investigation not coming up with anything and the investigation originally being trumped up for political reasons.
00:41:27.000There's a logical distinction between those two.
00:43:54.000Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, is prepping new policies on campus sexual misconduct that would bolster the rights of students accused of assault, harassment, or rape, and reduce liability for institutions of higher education and encourage schools to provide more support for victims.
00:44:07.000All of which sounds good, except the feminists don't like it because they like this vague standard where if a girl claims that something bad happened to her of any sort,
00:44:15.000And anybody fights back against that, that person basically loses their job.
00:44:18.000And we've actually seen that in places like Northwestern, where Laura Kipnis, who's a professor, female professor, who's a feminist, at Northwestern University protested at the standard in Northwestern, where a male professor who had sex with a female student
00:45:03.000As I've said a thousand times on the show, rapists should be castrated or killed.
00:45:06.000It's the worst crime you can commit against somebody and I may include murder in that.
00:45:10.000That does not change the actual stats and the fact that so many of these universities basically run Stalinist show trials based on no evidence and then get sued on the back end, right?
00:45:19.000We saw this with mattress girl Emma Sulkowicz over at NYU.
00:45:22.000It's really bad stuff, so good for Betsy DeVos.
00:45:25.000The New York Times, of course, is very skeptical.
00:45:27.000They say, unlike the Obama administration's guidance documents, the Trump administration's new rules will have the force of law and can go into force without an act of Congress after a public comment period.
00:45:38.000DeVos rescinded a 2011 letter prepared by the Obama administration that outlined the responsibilities of schools and colleges that receive federal funding to address episodes of sexual misconduct.
00:45:47.000Victim rights groups praised the Obama-era guidelines for aggressively holding schools accountable for complaints of sexual harassment, assault, and rape that they said had been often played down or ignored.
00:45:55.000But critics contended that they too often trampled due process rights for accused students, which is absolutely true.
00:46:00.000If you've seen the actual process on any of these campuses, it's insane.
00:46:04.000We have a criminal standard for a reason.
00:46:06.000And the idea that you're going to destroy a student's life based on a lack of due process seems fundamentally un-American in virtually every way.
00:46:20.000The reason that we take rape so seriously is because the consequences for rape should be so serious.
00:46:25.000All of these fools in the feminist media who have been claiming that one in four women on campus is sexually assaulted and then they conflate actual rape with a man going in for a kiss with a woman and a woman turns her cheek and glances off her cheek and that's sexual assault now.
00:46:41.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:46:47.000So CNN continues to push news that they can no longer back up.
00:46:51.000President Trump has ripped into Carl Bernstein.
00:46:53.000Now, Carl Bernstein did a report for CNN suggesting that he knew about the Trump Tower meeting in advance.
00:46:58.000Now, do I fully trust the president that he didn't know about the Trump Tower June 2016 meeting in advance between his team and a Russian-backed lawyer?
00:47:06.000Do I really trust the president on that?
00:47:08.000Not really, because Trump says a lot of stuff that ain't true.
00:47:11.000I mean, I'm not going to fib about that.
00:47:13.000But there's been no evidence presented to actually show that he did any of that.
00:48:26.000We're in the circus, we might as well enjoy the show.
00:48:29.000But Carl Bernstein has indeed refused to back down from his story, but he won't exactly explain how he knows the story is true.
00:48:35.000He's sort of betting that eventually it will come out that Trump knew about the Trump Tower meeting, because he knows that he will face no consequences if that never comes out, because the media want that story to be true.
00:48:48.000They tweeted back, The schoolmarmish nature of CNN communications, tweeting back, CNN does not lie, we report the news.
00:48:53.000Again, it is this insistence that drives people up a freaking wall.
00:49:13.000If they would just ignore the president and just let it sit, everybody would understand that, you know, it ain't great that the president always says fake news about everything he doesn't like.
00:49:19.000It's not that great that he calls people degenerate fools.
00:49:21.000He's the president of the United States.
00:49:23.000You know, Abraham Lincoln back in 1863 wasn't going around being like, my political opponents in the press are degenerate fools.
00:49:31.000To be fair, Lincoln was locking them up, but the President of the United States now probably should not be doing that in the modern media era.
00:49:38.000But when CNN says stuff like that, and then you have Chris Cuomo who actively is feeding lines to Florida gubernatorial candidates who are Democrats, it's hard for you to say that all you do is report the news.
00:49:48.000Carl Bernstein himself doubled down on this.
00:49:50.000He responded to Trump's Twitter attacks.
00:49:51.000He said, Real Donald Trump, I've spent my life as a journalist bringing the truth to light through administrations of both parties.
00:49:56.000No taunt will diminish my commitment to that mission, which is the essential role of a free press.
00:50:00.000CNN stands by its story, and I stand by my reporting.
00:50:03.000This is why the president shouldn't really do this, because all it does is elevate the people who are attacking him.
00:50:07.000It's the Streisand effect for people who don't follow sort of pop culture stuff.
00:50:11.000The Streisand effect is there was a person, an environmental photographer, who took a bunch of pictures of the California coast and wanted to put a book about it.
00:50:19.000And there was like a map from above, a helicopter shot.
00:50:21.000It included Barbara Streisand's house.
00:50:29.000She tried to sue him for like $10 million and suddenly the photo was downloaded one million times because people wanted to see what Barbara Streisand's house looked like.
00:51:36.000I'm not saying that if this is this woman's healthy weight, fine, fair game, good for her.
00:51:41.000But I highly doubt that this is a healthy weight for any person, let alone this person, and treating it as though what the world truly needs is to change its definition of sexy
00:51:52.000To include people who are dramatically overweight, I'm not sure what the positive impact of that is.
00:51:57.000Maybe it makes people feel better, but it also is going to lead to a lot of folks not losing weight who probably should lose weight.
00:52:03.000I mean, let's be realistic about this.
00:52:05.000America right now is in the middle of an obesity epidemic.
00:52:07.000We're not in the middle of an epidemic of people who are dramatically trying to be healthier.
00:52:12.000We're in the middle of an epidemic where people are trying to, don't care about being healthy, and then they're being told that they should be fulfilled in their non-health.
00:52:21.000If they were just to put in, like, Bridget Phetasy, who used to write for Playboy, and I'm friendly with her, and she tweeted something out that I think is exactly right.
00:52:28.000She basically said, like, I'm a normal-looking 40-year-old woman.
00:52:30.000Why am I not on the cover of Cosmopolitan?
00:52:33.000Why is it that we have to go from either rail-thin supermodels, who no woman actually looks like unless she exercises three hours a day and eats kale, or we have to go with the 300-pound woman.
00:52:44.000Why can't we just go to, like, a normal woman in the middle?
00:52:46.000If you want to glorify what the normal woman looks like, why don't you take, like, the average?
00:52:50.000Well, again, when I say normal, I mean like in terms of normal distribution.
00:52:53.000In the normal distribution of weight, this is on one edge of the distribution, and then the real thin supermodels on the other edge of the distribution.
00:53:00.000If you want to focus on like healthy body image, why not focus on the people in the middle who are actually living healthy lifestyles?
00:53:32.000One of the things that's kind of telling about this psalm is how confident this psalm is.
00:53:45.000So this psalm is very confident about the idea that there is cause and effect, and that if you do something good, God will reward you, and if you do something bad, God will punish you.
00:53:51.000Well, as we see from everyday life, that's clearly not the case.
00:53:53.000There are plenty of people who do bad things who are rewarded, and plenty of people who do good things who suffer.
00:54:00.000But the idea here is that we have to accept God's justice no matter how it comes.
00:54:05.000So David was well aware that he was a sinner.
00:54:08.000I mean, this is one of the different... When people say Donald Trump is like King David, yeah, except for the whole repentance part.
00:54:13.000So, you know, David was actually rather well known in the Bible for being a guy who was penitent in the face of God.
00:54:19.000And what this psalm isn't is David saying, I'm innocent, therefore absolve me.
00:54:25.000It's David saying, I will live with your justice no matter what it is.
00:54:28.000I believe I'm innocent, but I'm not going to, but your justice is higher than mine.
00:54:33.000And you may have a different standard for justice than I do.
00:54:36.000And I think that that's why I was talking with somebody yesterday about my faith and whether my faith has ever been shaken.
00:54:41.000And what I said is usually from what I see from other folks, faith is shaken in two particular ways.
00:54:49.000Something bad happened to someone good, right?
00:54:51.000They're close to somebody and something bad happens to that person.
00:54:53.000And then they say, how could a good God allow this?
00:54:56.000And I've never really had such a problem with that.
00:54:58.000Maybe it's because I haven't suffered enough.
00:55:00.000And, you know, I hope that that continues, obviously.
00:55:02.000And I can never blame somebody who's undergone tremendous suffering and then just cannot live with the faith that God knows better than they do.
00:55:08.000Like, I understand the emotional, the emotional draw to that.
00:55:58.000I think that you're making a mistake because your relationship with God is between you and God, and it's you on a desert island alone with God.
00:56:04.000Because in the end, that's how we all die, right?
00:56:06.000It's us on a desert island alone, facing down our maker.
00:56:10.000It is also true that religious people should understand that the easiest way to drive other people away is to act like a bad person.
00:56:17.000And I think that that's particularly true in a time when we're talking about scandals inside the Catholic Church.
00:56:20.000But as I've said before, these scandals exist in every institution, religious and non-religious.
00:56:24.000It's incumbent on religious people to go out of their way not to have guilt on their hands.
00:56:30.000If God judges them to be guilty, that's one thing.
00:56:32.000But if it's clear that you're guilty to everybody else, then you are complicit in the destruction of your own religious institutions, and you are complicit in