On Friday, three Palestinian terrorists opened fire on the holiest site in Judaism, the Temple Mount, and were shot dead by police, but not before murdering two Druze police officers, one of whom has a three-week old baby in his arms. Meanwhile, the mainstream media reacted ineffectually to the news, and continued to demand moral equivalence where none exists. Ben Shapiro explains why this is a predictable pattern, and how to deal with it. Plus, the latest on the latest in the Trump-Russia scandal, and a listener mailbag featuring Mark Levin. Ben Shapiro is the host of The Ben Shapiro Show on the FiveThirtyEight Network and host of the Daily Wire's "Politics with Ben Shapiro" podcast. He is a regular contributor to The Daily Wire and the Weekly Standard, and is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, CNN, and the Wall Street Journal. He's also a frequent guest on CNN and NPR. His new book, "Trump's Russia," is out now, and will be available for purchase on Amazon Prime and Vimeo, as well as on Audible, iTunes, and Podchaser, where you can get 20% off your first month for free! if you search for "Trump, Russia." and use the promo code "RUSSIA" at checkout to receive $5 and receive a FREE month of unlimited access to a free course from the site that includes a $99 credit plan from Shraga, which includes access to "The Daily Beast. and Shrutee and a $10 credit plan. You can also get an ad-free version of the entire show on the show, plus a free copy of The Daily Beast app, and an additional $5 promo code, and access to the show is available for a month of the show. The show will include a $5 discount, plus an additional discount on the full course, and $5 VIP membership when you sign up to the service, which is available in full-service only you get $5.00 and receive $10.00 a month, plus they will receive $25, plus $5, and they will get an additional month of VIP access to The Shapiro will also receive a VIP membership and a discount on The Daily Mail and VIP membership begins in 7 days, plus 7 other places they can receive $4 VIP membership starts in March 2019. Learn more about the offer begins in March 2020. Want to become a supporter?
00:00:20.000Two Israeli policemen killed in shooting near Jerusalem Shrine.
00:00:23.000The BBC, quote, Israelis injured in gun attack near Jerusalem Holy Site.
00:00:27.000Al Jazeera, breaking, at least three Palestinians killed in shooting in Jerusalem's Old City.
00:00:32.000Getty Images, Israeli policemen killed three Palestinians in Al-Aqsa Mosque.
00:00:36.000All of this is in keeping with the mainstream media's dedication to imposing moral equivalence where none exists.
00:00:42.000Holy sites in Israel are routinely under assault, not from Jews, but from Palestinians.
00:00:45.000Palestinians have burned Joseph's tomb multiple times.
00:00:48.000They've spent years destroying archaeological evidence of Jewish presence on the Temple Mount itself.
00:00:53.000Whenever Palestinians attack Jews, the official response from the supposedly peaceful Palestinian Authority is to continue funding terrorism, then offer a vague statement about stopping violence on all sides.
00:01:02.000Meanwhile, the Israeli government has already announced it will maintain current policy on the Temple Mount, which favors Muslims to such an extent that Jews are not even allowed to mouth silent prayers on the Temple Mount.
00:01:14.000In cities like Bethlehem, the number of Christians has dropped from 50% of the population to 12%, and terrorism is still a serious threat.
00:01:22.000In 2002, Palestinian terrorists actually used the Church of the Nativity as a safe haven.
00:01:26.000All of this is demonstrative of the fact that Israeli control of holy sites is the only way to preserve their free and open access.
00:01:33.000Yet the United Nations continues to rip away Jewish history piece by piece, claiming that the Temple Mount and the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron are not Jewish, but Palestinians' historical site.
00:01:42.000Don't expect the truth to emerge anytime soon.
00:01:44.000The media are dedicated to perpetuating this conflict.
00:01:46.000They see Israel as a colonialist aggressor,
00:01:48.000No, it's all just a cycle of violence, as always.
00:02:08.000We have a very busy show today, so we'll give you the latest on all of the Trump-Russia stuff.
00:02:11.000Then we're going to be talking with Mark Levin in just about 15 minutes here.
00:02:14.000He will be stopping by, and that'll be awesome.
00:02:17.000And then, after that, we are going to do the mailbag, so lots to get to on today's show.
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00:03:52.000Last night, after all of the Trump-Russia, Don Jr.
00:03:56.000stuff seems to have boiled down a little bit, and everybody seems to have retreated to their respective corners in this fight, a new article from the Associated Press breaks.
00:04:04.000And here's what this article says, quote, A Russian-American lobbyist says he attended a June 2016 meeting with President Donald Trump's son, marking another shift in the account of a discussion that was billed as part of a Russian government effort to help the Republicans' White House campaign.
00:04:21.000Confirmed his participation to the Associated Press on Friday.
00:04:24.000Akhmetchin has been reported to have ties to Russian intelligence agencies, though he denies ever working as an intelligence agent, which is what you do if you're an intelligence agent.
00:04:31.000He told the AP he served in the Soviet military in a unit that was part of counterintelligence, but was never formally trained as a spy.
00:04:37.000So we just keep learning that more and more people were at this meeting.
00:04:39.000So originally, the meeting never happened.
00:04:41.000Then the meeting happened, but it was just with this crazy lady who wanted to talk about adoption.
00:04:45.000Then it turned out that the crazy lady who wanted to talk about adoption was billed as a Russian government lawyer,
00:04:49.000Who's going to spill information about Hillary Clinton in order to help Russia's pro-Trump campaign.
00:04:54.000And now it turns out there was a second Russian there with apparent intelligence ties.
00:05:01.000Trump administration, if you want us to believe you on these things, you are going to need to stop omitting details that are not details, right?
00:05:08.000You're going to actually have to come clean about this, and then we'll all let it go.
00:05:12.000Because as I have said a million times, there's no evidence of law violation.
00:05:15.000There's no evidence that actual active collusion took place even beyond this.
00:05:19.000I've been saying this for a while, but I'm still confused by the Democrats' theory of what collusion would constitute.
00:05:24.000Do they think that the Russians went with WikiLeaks and hacked the DNC?
00:05:27.000And then they were giving hints to Trump about what would come.
00:05:29.000I didn't see that at all during the campaign, did you?
00:05:31.000I didn't see any speeches where Trump was like, there's something unbelievable it's gonna drop tomorrow.
00:05:40.000And I didn't even see that the Trump campaign was on top of the content of the WikiLeaks.
00:05:45.000Like they'd been pre-warned and all of a sudden an hour later they'd militarized it and they exploited it.
00:05:49.000What I saw was WikiLeaks was releasing a lot of stuff, and then people like me were group sourcing it, crowd sourcing it, so that we could see what exactly was in there.
00:05:56.000So a lot of this is, again, I still don't see what exactly they're saying the strategy was here.
00:06:01.000That said, Trump is going to have to do a better job of telling the truth on this, and so is Trump Jr., if they want this whole thing to go away.
00:06:09.000So yesterday, President Trump is in France, and it's been a week since he's answered any questions from the press.
00:06:15.000As far as my son is concerned, my son is a wonderful young man.
00:06:17.000He took a meeting with a Russian lawyer.
00:06:19.000Not a government lawyer, but a Russian lawyer.
00:06:43.000Two other people in the room, I guess one of them left almost immediately and the other one was not really focused on the meeting.
00:06:50.000I do think this, I think from a practical standpoint, most people would have taken that meeting.
00:06:56.000It's called opposition research or even research into your opponent.
00:07:00.000Okay, and he continues along these lines.
00:07:02.000He said, you know, it's called opposite research.
00:07:05.000I've had many people, I've only been in politics for two years, I've had many people call up and say, oh gee, we have information on this factor or this person or, frankly, Hillary.
00:07:19.000I guess they talked about, as I see it, they talked about adoption and some things, and then he goes on and he says that it's really Obama's fault because Attorney General Lynch brought in this Natalia Veselnitskaya character, this Russian lawyer, in January.
00:07:32.000As I said yesterday, I think that's a bunch of crap.
00:07:34.000I think the idea that she was brought in as some sort of attempt to
00:07:54.000I think it would endanger any sort of Republican agenda that we have left.
00:08:17.000If Trump were to completely fold and collapse and this whole thing were to end up being a giant scam, but he's gonna have to do better than this just from any objective point of view.
00:08:26.000He needs to tell the truth and come clean.
00:08:28.000I was on Steven Crowder's show yesterday and we were agreeing that one of the things you do in politics is when there's something that's quasi-scandalous, you get out in front of it by explaining it before anyone else has a chance to.
00:08:38.000So Barack Obama did this wonderfully in Dreams for My Father.
00:08:40.000There was all sorts of oppo material in there.
00:08:43.000That really could have damaged him, particularly the idea that when he was in college and high school, he did a little blow.
00:08:48.000You remember, he said this in his, uh, I did a little blow.
00:09:15.000You have a chance here, if you're the Trump team, to get out in front of this thing and explain what exactly you were doing.
00:09:20.000They're not doing that very well so far.
00:09:23.000Meanwhile, you have the people of the Trump administration trying to say to the media, you need to pay attention to real issues.
00:09:31.000Well, it's hard for people in the media to pay attention to real issues when, again, you keep not telling the truth.
00:09:35.000So Sebastian Gorka, who I think actually usually does a very good job on the media, he's on with Jake Tapper, and he says, listen, why aren't we paying attention to the fact that people are dying in Syria?
00:09:44.000People are dying in Syria, that's why, Jake.
00:09:51.000Well, we've got life and death issues.
00:09:53.000Russia is killing some of those people.
00:09:56.000We've got life and death issues, and if we can create a ceasefire, which we did, with Israel, with Jordan involved, that's what we have to do.
00:10:07.000Okay, so Gorka is trying to say, let's get back to the issues.
00:10:10.000Again, the best way to get back to the issues is to actually bring focus back to the issues as opposed to having all of these silly scandals running around.
00:10:18.000As Charles Krauthammer says, this really is Keystone Cops kind of stuff.
00:10:22.000Well, I'm not impressed by the story about the lawyer.
00:10:25.000I think it's a red herring the size of a whale.
00:10:29.000It doesn't change the central fact in the scandal.
00:10:32.000The scandal is that the email received from an intermediary by Donald Trump Jr.
00:10:37.000said that a Russian government lawyer, the president is wrong, it was not a lawyer, a Russian government lawyer,
00:10:45.000Would be coming with dirt on Hillary, and that the Kremlin was supporting his campaign, and that the Crown Prosecutor, that's a misnomer, the State Prosecutor in the Kremlin had a trove of documents that they would offer.
00:11:18.000Okay, when you've lost Krauthammer, Krauthammer has been very skeptical of the Trump-Russia stuff for months at this point, and the White House needs to do a better job of explaining itself.
00:11:25.000Now, meanwhile, one of the great ironies in all of this is that the Democrats are now super, super pissed at Russia.
00:11:30.000So yesterday, Brian Fallon, who's a Hillary spokesperson, he comes out and he says, Mitt Romney was right, we never should have mocked him over the Russia stuff.
00:11:42.000But this is what's happened, is that politics has become so gross that everyone has now switched positions.
00:11:47.000So you got Paul Begala out there, as Rush Limbaugh used to call him, the forehead out there, saying we should blow up Russia, that we should bomb Russia over this.
00:11:55.000We were and are under attack by a hostile foreign power and they seem to be abetting that hostile foreign power.
00:12:04.000We should be debating how many sanctions we should place on Russia or whether we should blow up the KGB or GSU, GRU.
00:12:11.000I mean, we should be retaliating massively.
00:12:15.000Because, by the way, if I were a Trump supporter, I would want to retaliate massively because it has tainted, it has tainted his victory.
00:12:20.000Okay, and so now all of a sudden we should blow up Russia, right?
00:12:24.000So these are the same people who said it was no big deal in 2012 when Barack Obama wanted to offer flexibility to the Kremlin.
00:12:29.000Now he says we have to blow up Russia, right?
00:12:32.000Nancy Pelosi is saying Russia has desecrated our democracy.
00:12:51.000Okay, and then on the right, so now all of a sudden the Democrats are really anti-Russia.
00:12:55.000And on the right, you have people like Tucker Carlson, whose show I enjoy.
00:12:58.000I think Tucker's a really talented guy.
00:13:00.000But Tucker, yesterday, a couple nights ago, he did a debate with Max Boot that I thought was really not intellectually honest in some ways from Tucker, in which Tucker actually says that Russia is not a top five threat to the United States or her interests.
00:13:14.000And then he actually ended up defending Iran.
00:13:16.000He ended up saying, well, when's the last time Iran killed Americans after 9-11?
00:13:19.000And Max Butz said, well, they killed hundreds of Americans in Iraq.
00:13:24.000What we have here is IowaHawk, who's hilarious, IowaHawk on Twitter.
00:13:28.000He says, basically, we're no longer playing in a game with rules.
00:14:57.000It existed and it was larger than Trump's.
00:14:59.000It was that people decided they didn't care enough about her that they were going to go out there and fight for her.
00:15:04.000Sapping the energy from your base is a problem.
00:15:06.000And right now, all of this energy and focus being spent on Russia does sap the base.
00:15:10.000It would be one thing if Trump were pushing some sort of world-shaking policy, and then his people would have something to be enthusiastic about.
00:15:16.000But right now, there's no world-shaking policy.
00:15:18.000The only thing that seems to jazz up the base in the absence of policy is Trump tweeting out stuff about Mika Brzezinski's face.
00:15:25.000Maybe the idea is that if Trump tweets things out about people we don't like, then we get all excited about it.
00:15:29.000But I'm not sure that's enough to win over the people who voted for Obama twice and then voted for Trump, or to get a lot of people out to vote in 2018.
00:15:36.000You have to motivate your voters somehow.
00:15:38.000And one way you motivate your voters is by saying, here's all the things I've done.
00:15:42.000And the other way to motivate your voters is by saying, I'm a better person than the people who oppose me.
00:15:47.000And when you're in a situation where every day is a new scandal and you can't clearly explain what exactly you're doing, it causes problems for you.
00:15:55.000And again, I don't even think that this is not coming from a place that I think Trump is guilty of anything.
00:15:58.000I don't think there's any evidence of that.
00:16:00.000What I'm saying is, come out, explain what your position is, and you'll save everybody a lot of grief.
00:16:05.000I mean, listen, I would prefer to spend the day talking about the stupidities of Amanda Marcotte and her idiotic feminism, okay?
00:16:11.000But I can't do that because of all this stuff, okay?
00:16:14.000I mean, I can, but I'll have to spend less time on it than I normally would.
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00:17:44.000We are so pleased and honored to welcome to the Ben Shapiro Show one of my ideological mentors and a guy who I think brought a lot of people into the conservative movement, Mark Levin, nationally syndicated talk show host, host of Levin TV, chairman of the Landmark Legal Foundation, and of course author of a thousand best-selling books including Liberty and Tyranny.
00:18:01.000His new book is Rediscovering Americanism and the Tyranny of Progressivism.
00:18:20.000Well, I mean, I have to say that I still recommend many of your older books.
00:18:24.000Men in Black is still the go-to book for me to recommend when it comes to judicial activism.
00:18:29.000So I want to talk about your new book, because it really does something that I think we need to do as conservatives right now, which is re-educate
00:18:36.000Our own side and other people about what our fundamental principles are, because we've gotten so caught up in the partisan bashing, which is fun and necessary, but we've got so caught up in it that sometimes we forget our own central principles.
00:18:47.000What exactly are we fighting for other than mean tweets about the other side?
00:18:51.000And so in Rediscovering Americanism, you talk about what the founders would have thought about today's America, and you basically say that they would have thought that the government is unrecognizable.
00:19:25.000What they did invent, though, is a country that was based on them, that had never been done before in world history, and hasn't been done since.
00:19:33.000So, when I started thinking about what I was going to write, I just started writing.
00:19:38.000And I didn't have chapters, I wrote the entire book, and then I went back and broke it into chapters as best I could.
00:19:45.000It's really two forces, and that is this force of the enlightenment of individualism, of freedom, of unalienable rights.
00:19:54.000What Aristotle talked about, these universal law and truths, these eternal truths, where did the Founders get this from?
00:20:17.000Because when you start to read this material,
00:20:20.000Even though you and I, we love our country, you really even love it more, because you realize, wow, these ideas are absolutely incredible, and they predate this country, and they go back thousands and thousands of years.
00:20:33.000And so I felt if more and more people fully understood what we mean, rather than the surface level, you know, I believe in liberty, and I believe what that means, then more and more people can spread the word.
00:20:43.000Conversely, there's a dark side, and a bleak side, and a miserable side.
00:20:48.000And that's what we call progressivism.
00:23:16.000And this is what I try and get across in the book, and also I interlink the principles, because they are, which is individualism, freedom, private property rights, and constitutional republicanism.
00:23:29.000You need every one of those elements to be a fulsome human being in order to pursue your interests and so forth.
00:23:38.000When one is under attack, they're all under attack.
00:23:43.000Well, Mark, one of the things that is fascinating in your book, and you talk about this with regard to the progressive era, the book, again, is Rediscovering Americanism.
00:23:50.000One of the things that's fascinating is that the progressives, when they first came around, they were actually very open about the fact that they were attacking the founding, that they thought the Declaration of Independence was passe.
00:23:58.000Woodrow Wilson did a whole speech in which he talked about how the Constitution of the United States needed to be put aside and shelved because it was just hampering our ability to get things done.
00:24:07.000Today's left seems to have understood that it is a mistake to attack those terms, and so they're a lot more insidious.
00:24:13.000You see Barack Obama, I thought his second inaugural address was perfect proof of this, where he started actually quoting the founders to justify precisely the opposite of what the founders would have wanted, and that's why I think it's so important that you distinguish what they would have wanted.
00:24:24.000But did the founders' language, I mean I love the founders as much as you do, did the founders' language leave the opening
00:24:31.000For the left to take it and run with it.
00:24:33.000In other words, when they say things like, we hold these truths to be self-evident, and the left says, well, it's not self-evident to me, but here is a self-evident truth.
00:24:39.000A self-evident truth is that poor people can't take care of themselves, and so we need a welfare state.
00:24:43.000Or, it's a universal law of nature, there will be poor people.
00:24:46.000In other words, did natural law, I know this is a big, kind of abstruse debate between West Coast Straussians and East Coast Straussians, but is there a, didn't the doctrine of natural law that the founders all believed universally,
00:24:58.000Did that open the door to the possibility of a progressive twisting of that terminology, do you think?
00:25:04.000Well, you know, they put in place this Constitution, which was the governing manifestation of these principles in the Declaration.
00:25:10.000So they thought they could do... they did the very best they could to put these checks and balances in place with direct election of the House, the state legislators, legislatures electing the Senate, an electoral college process for the President of the United States,
00:25:43.000A little bit about Athens and Rome and he says, you know, obviously I'm paraphrasing, he says, you know, John, I've been thinking about Rome.
00:25:52.000And he said, they had Cicero, great man.
00:25:59.000These are men who were small R Republicans and who put their lives on the line, challenging the emperor and the system that was in place and the corruption and so forth.
00:26:09.000And he said, if all those men together,
00:27:13.000That about a third of us want to be a free people, about a third of us don't, and about a third of us don't give a damn.
00:27:19.000And so that's about where we are today, I think.
00:27:21.000Which, I mean, the good news is that was exactly the breakdown during the American Revolution and the right guys ended up winning.
00:27:26.000The bad news is that we could certainly lose.
00:27:28.000So with that in mind, Mark, I would be remiss if I didn't ask you if you had to give some advice to President Trump right now on what he could be due to further the cause of the causes you're talking about.
00:27:38.000I'm not sure that President Trump thinks a lot about ideas like natural law or constitutionalism, but
00:27:43.000He's still, he could be an effective tool for these things if he would do some of the right things.
00:27:46.000So what do you think, you know, President Trump ought to do at this point to promulgate the sorts of values you talk about in rediscovering Americanism?
00:27:54.000And on the same page, you know, is there anyone in Congress that can be trusted to forward these values at all?
00:27:59.000Because obviously Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan are doing a pretty shoddy job of it thus far.
00:28:03.000You know, Paul Ryan called me many months ago when he was pushing his nonsense with this Obamacare.
00:28:11.000And I had told his people, I don't want to talk to him.
00:28:27.000And I said, and why are you wasting your time calling me?
00:28:30.000And for 45 minutes, we had this chat last time.
00:28:34.000Look, the problem right now with the administration is it's under a full-bore attack, and they're trying to dislodge this president.
00:28:44.000I don't agree with this president on everything, as you well know, and I backed Ted Cruz in the Republican primary.
00:28:49.000There are things I do agree with this president on, including his selection of judges, his attack on the regulatory state, and certain other things.
00:28:57.000But what I cannot accept is the effort by the left
00:29:23.000If I were advising the President, I would say, take a closer look at the judiciary, because 40% of these judges were appointed by Barack Obama.
00:29:31.000We have many vacancies, and Schumer is slow-walking them, and he's slowing them down.
00:29:35.000I would pull Mitch McConnell in my office, and I would say, all right, dammit, get rid of that filibuster rule.
00:29:40.000If that's what we have to do, that's what we have to do.
00:29:42.000We're up against this entrenched, radical, leftist,
00:29:47.000And if they're prepared to burn the place down, I'm not prepared to burn the place down, but the filibuster rule is the filibuster rule, and you're going to have to suspend it if we're going to get anywhere.
00:29:57.000I mean, the Senate, quite frankly, is this absurd entity now, since the 17th Amendment, where we have two people elected directly from the people of each state.
00:31:44.000And so Ted Cruz offers this incredibly radical amendment, which says, OK, look, offer your damn Obamacare policy to insurance companies, but let them offer whatever they want to the rest of us.
00:32:15.000You know, this is the only place where at three in the morning you can walk down the street to a 7-Eleven and buy darn near anything you want.
00:32:22.000Or, at ten in the morning, go into a grocery store.
00:32:25.000You've got stuff from all over the country, all over the world.
00:33:08.000This is the design they have created, which is a perversion of what the founders intended.
00:33:14.000We've got to convince each other as citizens, the way the columnist did, of the greatness of this country, of the disaster of the other side, and if we can't win minds and hearts, then we can't win.
00:33:27.000The book is Rediscovering Americanism and the Tyranny of Progressivism, another number one New York Times bestseller from Marklevin, who is the author of just a bevy of them at this point.
00:33:36.000Mark, thanks so much for everything that you do, and thanks so much for joining the show, I always appreciate it.
00:33:46.000Okay, so there it is, the great one, Mark Levin.
00:33:49.000Now, before we go any further, and I do want to talk about things I like, and I have some pretty epic things I hate, as always today, plus the mailbag, so lots more to get to.
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00:37:23.000I think that you're not allowed to prefer it to Raiders.
00:37:25.000The reason being that the entire predicate for Last Crusade is the presence of Indiana Jones before.
00:37:30.000It stands alone as a film, but you have to know who Indiana Jones is in order for it to work, because the whole premise is that Indiana Jones, as Mathis and I were discussing earlier, the whole premise is that Indiana Jones is the coolest person on the planet, and his father thinks that he's a giant loser nerd.
00:37:42.000That's the entire premise of the film.
00:40:18.000It turns out that the vast majority of us who grow up as boys in households that have good parents, we're not part of a rape culture because we are taught at a very early age that you're not supposed to rape people.
00:40:31.000I thought this was pretty clear rule of Western civilization for the past thousand years or so.
00:40:34.000Because I didn't think it would be controversial when I wrote it.
00:40:37.000The struggle I wrote about was universal, I thought, but I was wrong.
00:40:39.000My essay went semi-viral, and for the first time, my sons encountered my words about them on their friends' phones, their teachers' computers, and even overheard them discussed by strangers on a crowded metro bus.
00:40:48.000Right, because when you say your sons are potential rapists, that might have some bad ramifications.
00:40:54.000And then she says it was one thing to agree to be written about in relative obscurity, and quite another to have my words intrude on their daily lives.
00:40:59.000By the way, this is the same lady who wrote a column about how one of her sons was apparently suicidal, with a mother like this.
00:41:05.000And she says, one of my sons is suicidal, so we sat down and watched 13 Reasons Why.
00:41:11.000Are you the stupidest person on planet Earth?
00:41:13.000Okay, have you ever seen 13 Reasons Why?
00:41:15.000Like, half the show is dedicated to why suicide is a choice that is driven by outside forces.
00:43:16.000Okay, and I'm gonna go with that on this one.
00:43:18.000She says, My sons won't rape unconscious women behind a dumpster, and neither will most of the progressive men I know.
00:43:23.000But what all of these men share in common, even my sons, is a relentless questioning and disbelief of the female experience.
00:43:28.000I didn't realize the common female experience was to be raped while unconscious behind a dumpster.
00:43:33.000I know a few females, and I don't know any of them who've been raped while unconscious behind a dumpster, at least none who have told me about it, and if they did tell me about that, I would say, can we find the person and hunt them down?
00:43:41.000Like, that would be my first reaction.
00:44:56.000In any case, apparently, everybody was very angry because Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor were, like, verbally sparring with each other, which is what people do at these events.
00:45:05.000That's the whole reason they have these events.
00:45:06.000They flew in on the same jet, okay, folks?
00:46:30.000Again, my recommendation is that this fight ends with Conor McGregor actually using MMA rules in violation of the rules, and I think it would just be hilarious if he roundhouse kicks Floyd Mayweather, Mayweather goes down and is knocked out, and then as he's unconscious on the floor, the ref picks up his hand and declares him the victor.
00:46:44.000The greatest specter in boxing history.
00:46:45.000Okay, time for some mailbags, so let us do this.
00:48:00.000I think there are plenty of justice systems that the founders would have embraced.
00:48:05.000I don't think they believe that there is a quote-unquote natural God-given right to a jury.
00:48:08.000They believe there's a right to due process of law.
00:48:09.000In other words, when you have a state that is established for the purpose of protecting rights, there has to be some sort of process of law by which they can convict you.
00:48:16.000You know, the same question can be asked about court-appointed attorneys.
00:48:21.000The idea of these kind of rights, this is a sort of positive right, the right to have a jury because you are imposing on others.
00:48:27.000But as I say, that is only because the state is now invading your normal rights and so we have to protect those rights with some sort of system.
00:48:35.000So it's not the same as say a right to somebody else's labor for
00:48:40.000Well, I mean, I think that's a pretty good juxtaposition.
00:48:41.000I think that if you teach your kids how ridiculous that is, that's a good way to do it.
00:48:48.000And we tend on the right to do this routine where we don't want to offend people because we on the right tend to be more polite than our counterparts on the left.
00:49:07.000And so we don't want to offend, we don't want to be the jerks, but I'm sorry, it is absurd that you are suggesting that people can pick their gender, but they can't pick their nose.
00:49:15.000Vashti, which is, that's a cool name, I haven't heard that, I mean, really, the only time I've seen that is in the Book of Esther.
00:49:24.000I don't think that you're violating your principles.
00:49:31.000I mean, you're going to pay those loans back.
00:49:33.000I think that the federal government is violating its principle for being by offering the loans.
00:49:37.000I'm not sure that you're violating it by taking the loans when you are repaying your loans, meaning that you are doing what you are supposed to do.
00:49:43.000Now, if you vote in favor of the loans, that's a different thing.
00:49:46.000If you vote because of the loans, that's a different thing.
00:50:19.000A difference between doing what you love for a living and doing what you are capable of doing for a living.
00:50:24.000So, I do think that one of the secrets to happiness is doing something that you love, but I think that you should try and define what you love by something you're good at.
00:50:32.000Like, in other words, if what you love to do for a living is play basketball and you're really bad at basketball, I don't think that's a recipe for happiness.
00:50:38.000I think that you should be, you should be, in order to determine
00:50:42.000Do something that you love and are good at.
00:51:50.000My feeling is the best answer for climate change is the same answer that we've given to virtually all other environmental issues, which is you regulate where there are emissions that cannot be prevented any other way, but mostly the market solves this kind of stuff.
00:52:02.000I mean, the fact is that your car has gotten more efficient.
00:52:04.000It hasn't gotten more efficient because of CAFE standards, it's gotten more efficient because it's cheaper for people to drive more efficient cars, and because those cars are better.
00:52:11.000People are buying Teslas right now because they're cool.
00:52:13.000So I think that market forces can be used
00:52:15.000In order to push toward a more environmentally friendly world.
00:52:20.000I don't think that, the same thing is true of nuclear power.
00:52:22.000I don't think that you need governmental regulation.
00:52:24.000The left seems to start from the premise that they want governmental regulation and then they reason their way backward.
00:52:28.000Dylan says, Dear Ben, what is your stance on people who burn election posters from parties they disagree with?
00:52:33.000Not sure if this occurs in the US, but here in Northern Ireland around 12th of July there are bonfires burned with nationalist party election posters featured prominently on the scrap to be burned.
00:52:41.000I don't think it should be considered a crime to burn any sort of message.
00:52:45.000I don't think it should be a crime to burn the flag.
00:52:48.000I think flag burning is evil, but I don't think that it should be a crime to burn it.
00:52:52.000I think lots of things are evil, but I'm not enough of a governmental advocate to suggest that we should make everything I don't like illegal.
00:53:03.000Capitalism involves voluntary exchanges between employer and employee.
00:53:06.000Yeah, I notice how when I try to get a raise, the employer typically asks, what do you think you're worth?
00:53:10.000While you have little to no background of what the average performer receives in the company.
00:53:13.000Do companies or individuals have the means to mitigate this so that employee can get paid what they're worth?
00:53:17.000Well, you decide what you're worth, right?
00:53:18.000I mean, this is the market assumes better flow of information.
00:53:22.000But if there's worse flow of information, you still have the capacity to bargain.
00:53:26.000Right, so yes, would your life be better?
00:53:27.000Would your life be easier if you could determine what the other people in your company are being paid?
00:53:32.000Sure, your life would be better and easier, but it is not the obligation of the company to give you that information.
00:53:36.000This is why you should go talk to your friends and get a general idea, and why people should refuse to sign contracts that say this.
00:53:43.000I mean, as a worker, you can say, listen, if there's a confidentiality provision about my pay,
00:53:48.000I think most companies are probably not thinking that's a huge deal.
00:53:52.000The fact is that you can get a pretty good metric of what you ought to be paid by just doing a little simple research online, I think, as a general rule.
00:54:00.000Well, he'd need to actually promulgate some policy, so...
00:54:07.000My standard for Trump has always been that I need him to actually promulgate conservative policy and I need him not to wreck the conservative brand.
00:54:27.000It's a shorter putt for him to win my vote in 2020 than it was for him to win my vote in 2016.
00:54:31.000The reason being that in 2016, I still thought that a lot of the damage that would be done by the Republican Party by him being president would be short-term damage and long-term damage.
00:54:44.000He's already the president now, so a lot of that damage has already been done.
00:54:47.000A lot of the things that he's done to the conservative brand have already been done, so now we are working from a reality where the conservative brand is what the conservative brand is.
00:54:54.000What that means is that, is he going to damage things much further, or is he going to make things better?
00:54:58.000And that's the question when it comes to 2020.
00:55:00.000Okay, so we will be back here next Monday.
00:55:03.000We have a surprise for you from Daily Wire that should be coming on Sunday.