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00:01:19.000So, in a little while we're going to get to President Trump and the fallout from the North Korean summit.
00:01:22.000President Trump has been tweeting some things which are...
00:02:13.000Why don't we just jump right into that?
00:02:14.000So President Trump this morning, he tweets out, quote,
00:02:29.000And listen, I think that if North Korea decides to integrate into the family of nations and liberalize and get rid of the nuclear weapons, there is a great potential for the future.
00:02:37.000For President Trump to say preemptively there's no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea is obviously untrue.
00:02:41.000There's not a single North Korean weapon that has been disarmed at this point.
00:02:44.000They have not destroyed any of their nuclear capacity.
00:02:47.000And this sort of preliminary triumphalism, I objected to it yesterday because I think that it boxes President Trump in.
00:02:53.000I think if President Trump wants to actually get something good out of North Korea,
00:02:56.000It is trust but verify, but you actually have to verify.
00:03:00.000And you can't trust that he's disarming when he hasn't disarmed.
00:03:02.000He hasn't even set a timetable for disarming.
00:03:04.000The North Korean headlines, the one they're putting out in North Korea, suggests that Kim is telling his own people that the United States and North Korea have agreed to joint disarmament.
00:03:13.000What that technically means is that Kim Jong-un is claiming to his own people the United States is going to disarm nuclearly alongside North Korea, which, of course, is totally insane and never going to happen.
00:03:22.000Trump also tweeted, Well, again, the sort of preliminary triumphalism, I think, is actually not useful and is pretty counterproductive, because here's the thing.
00:03:38.000What President Trump did is he basically signed an advance against royalties.
00:03:42.000So when you're in the book industry, right, when you write a book, then publishers typically give you an advance, and the advance is supposed to incentivize you to write the book, and then you write the book, and then you get royalties on the back end.
00:03:52.000But you don't immediately get the royalties.
00:03:54.000Instead, what happens is that you have to pay off your advance.
00:03:56.000If they advance you $20,000 for an advance, you have to make $20,000
00:04:01.000And then you make whatever royalties are on top of that.
00:04:05.000Well, in negotiations, what President Trump effectively just did is he gave Kim Jong-un an advance against royalties.
00:04:10.000He said, listen, I'm going to give you preemptively, preliminarily, a lot of credibility on the world stage.
00:04:14.000I'm going to let you stand up here with me.
00:04:16.000I'm going to give you the honor of shaking my hand.
00:04:18.000I'm going to allow you to fly your flag alongside the flag of the United States.
00:04:22.000I'm going to grant you tremendous international legitimacy, which does have a practical impact.
00:04:26.000It means that a bunch of countries located around North Korea are not going to isolate North Korea.
00:04:31.000Nearly as intensely as they were before.
00:04:33.000Instead, it looks like they're going to try and move toward normalization of relations with North Korea.
00:04:37.000All of that is a preemptive give by the president of the United States.
00:04:40.000Now, as I said yesterday, maybe this ends up being a triumph.
00:04:43.000The way it ends up being a triumph is if Kim Jong Un actually does want to come to the table and not just come to the table, but offer denuclearization in a real way.
00:05:01.000And the real question is going to be, is President Trump willing to flip?
00:05:04.000Is President Trump—because the mark of a good negotiation here, if you're going to give an advance against royalties, is you claw that back.
00:05:35.000So when it came to Iran, President Obama was so invested in the idea that he'd gotten a great deal that when it was very clear that Iran was using all of the money that they had now gotten for terrorism and long-range missile development, Obama kept proclaiming that Iran had been moderated, that something magical had been done in Iran.
00:05:52.000Well, what we don't want from the Trump administration is for them to become the PR agency for North Korea because they're so invested in the possibility of a deal that they start pretending that a deal exists when a deal does not exist.
00:06:01.000That's why I don't think that it is worthwhile for President Trump to be going out there and preemptively saying that North Korea is no longer a threat or a problem, that we've solved everything.
00:06:35.000All of that, I think, would be more useful for the president than for the president to go out there and start preliminarily declaring victory.
00:06:41.000He also said we save a fortune by not doing war games as long as we are negotiating in good faith with which both sides are.
00:07:04.000It's time for the Kim family to show the United States, to show President Trump that they really mean what it is they are saying.
00:07:09.000And this is not me being critical of President Trump for the sake of being critical of President Trump.
00:07:13.000I spent the last several weeks praising President Trump on issues ranging from the Jerusalem move to some of his domestic policies with regard to regulation.
00:07:22.000But the fact is that when President Trump is putting himself in a bad position vis-a-vis negotiations,
00:07:26.000He's putting himself in a bad position vis-a-vis negotiations, and he's putting the United States in a bad position vis-a-vis negotiations.
00:07:32.000Now, is it possible that all this works?
00:07:33.000Yes, but it's a high-risk, high-gamble, right?
00:07:36.000I mean, this is a high-risk gamble that the president is making right now.
00:07:40.000Maybe he goes out there, he shakes hands, he takes it on himself.
00:07:43.000He makes it look as though he's legitimizing Kim, and then it turns out that Kim is Mikhail Gorbachev, and something great comes out of this.
00:07:50.000But I'm gonna wait for the great thing to come out of it before I start preliminarily praising.
00:07:54.000And when I see the wild praise that's happening on TV, or the wild rips that are happening, oh, it's the end of the world, this is obviously stupid, when I see both of those things happening,
00:08:02.000It suggests to me that people are jumping to their partisan hackery.
00:08:05.000That people are jumping to, I want this to be good.
00:08:07.000I want this to be good for President Trump.
00:08:17.000I trust President Trump on policy much more than I trusted President Obama, obviously.
00:08:21.000But in the end, everything has to be verified, and the deal has to be verified.
00:08:25.000So President Trump tweets out that we are losing, that we save a fortune by not doing war games as long as we are negotiating in good faith.
00:08:32.000Number one, he shouldn't be using the term war games.
00:08:33.000War games is a North Korean propaganda term for what it is the United States does with South Korea.
00:08:43.000I've talked to members of the military yesterday who talked about what it is that we do in South Korea.
00:08:48.000Those war games, supposedly, are also directed toward China.
00:08:52.000They're directed toward training up a group of folks who can work in concert with American troops if, God forbid, some sort of military conflict breaks out on the peninsula.
00:08:58.000Look, we all want the same thing here.
00:09:01.000The question is whether you think that President Trump's original approach, the harsh approach with North Korea, was more likely to bear fruit, or if you think that President Trump has to
00:09:10.000Really give Kim Jong-un a bear hug in order to accomplish this.
00:09:13.000I think that neither is particularly necessary.
00:09:15.000I think that I would rather have President Trump wielding a big stick and letting his lower-level negotiators go and negotiate a deal rather than preemptively granting Kim Jong-un all this sort of international credibility and legitimacy and taking our allies in the region and making them more friendly to Kim Jong-un.
00:09:42.000Then he tweeted out, Now, you know, look, I think when President Trump ripped into the fake news,
00:09:59.000I think sometimes that's absolutely justified.
00:10:01.000I think that it is absolutely justified for the president to point out that a year ago, everybody was deeply worried that North Korea was going to nuke us into obliteration, right?
00:10:08.000We were going to get into a nuclear exchange with North Korea.
00:10:11.000Just a few months ago, the media were proclaiming that Trump was somehow going to gin up a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula, and now it's Trump surrendering.
00:10:22.000kind of more muscular Trump, or you like negotiating Trump, but you got to pick one.
00:10:25.000You can't do this routine where Trump is either going to bring about world peace or he's going to bring about nuclear war.
00:10:31.000This inconsistency from the media really is quite galling.
00:10:33.000So I understand why President Trump is upset.
00:10:35.000With that said, you know, when the president says our country's biggest enemy is the fake news, and then at the same time, like really within a couple of hours, he's tweeting out that North Korea is no longer our biggest and most dangerous problem.
00:10:46.000Instead, they have great potential for the future and there's no longer a nuclear threat.
00:10:50.000The North Koreans, that is still an evil regime.
00:10:53.000As much as I dislike a lot of members of the mainstream media, as much as I think that they are lying on a frequent basis, or at least biasing their coverage on a frequent basis, I'm not going to pretend that I think of the anchors at CNN in the same way I think of Kim Jong-un.
00:11:05.000Our country's greatest enemy are not the fake news.
00:11:07.000Our country's biggest enemy are places like North Korea still.
00:11:11.000At least until they prove that they are not our enemy, and they have not come close to proving that as of yet.
00:11:16.000Mr. President, take a page from the Reagan playbook.
00:11:50.000I know it's something that you are just really enthusiastic about.
00:11:53.000That's why we recommend books on the program every day.
00:11:55.000Well, when you need to learn a skill, you shouldn't be going to YouTube and watching some doofus do something for five minutes and now you're an expert on marketing.
00:12:59.000I think everybody should be optimistic and hopeful.
00:13:02.000The president needs to be the strong leader he has been on foreign policy.
00:13:06.000I've been very critical of the president when I think he's wrong.
00:13:09.000I think that there's risk the president is wrong here.
00:13:11.000And I think the president needs to show the same sort of strength and fortitude as he did when it came to the Iran deal that he is with the North Korean deal.
00:13:26.000That was Obama's deal, so he wasn't tied to it.
00:13:28.000What I'm afraid of is that President Trump is going to make a deal with the North Koreans that isn't that great, and then he's going to feel tied to that deal because he made the deal in the first place.
00:13:36.000I hope that's not the case, and I think his advisors, I hope, will advise him that that should not be the case.
00:13:42.000Mr. President, by all means, extend the warm hand to North Korea if you think that that's going to succeed.
00:13:48.000But on the other hand, it's a velvet glove and inside there must be an iron fist.
00:13:52.000And if the iron fist is gone already, then we've just handed Kim Jong-un a victory.
00:13:55.000There's either going to be a Trumpian triumph or it's going to be a Kim coup.
00:13:58.000And President Trump gets to decide how that goes.
00:14:01.000Remember, this is not a negotiation between equals.
00:14:03.000The United States is the most powerful country in the history of the world by a factor of 10.
00:14:19.000Maybe the president has in his back pocket a big win from Kim.
00:14:22.000If so, then I look forward to seeing that big win.
00:14:24.000So far, all I've seen is an advance on royalties from the president to Kim Jong-un.
00:14:28.000I don't see that as a victory for the United States unless there is a back end to this deal.
00:14:32.000If it turns out the president advanced a bunch of trust to Kim, and Kim actually wants to do something, everything will be fine.
00:14:37.000If not, then the president made a big mistake and got bamboozled by Kim, and I'm not going to preemptively declare one way or another, as so many people seem to want me to, and so many people seem to be angry that I am not.
00:14:50.000Preliminary celebration about negotiations is not my favorite thing.
00:14:52.000I just don't think negotiations are worth celebrating preliminarily.
00:14:55.000It's the outcome of negotiations that ends up mattering in the long run.
00:14:59.000Now, with all of that said, this is a very popular move.
00:15:01.000The polls show that this may be the most popular initiative that Trump has ever undertaken.
00:15:05.000There's a new poll out right now about Trump and Kim, and it shows that
00:15:09.000Voters are somewhat skeptical that Trump is going to convince Kim to give up his nukes, but most Americans and South Koreans do in fact back the summit.
00:15:16.000Nearly half of voters are confident Trump can handle threats posed by North Korea, but significantly fewer believe he'll be successful convincing them to get rid of their nuclear program.
00:15:24.000With that said, the summit itself is very popular because people feel like something has to break the impasse.
00:15:29.000I think the American people are basically correct about all of this.
00:15:31.000Well, meanwhile, the left is struggling to come up with a message to run on in 2018 and 2020, and the radicals on the left continue to drive the conversation.
00:15:40.000So there's a big conference that's supposed to happen in the next couple of days.
00:15:44.000It's Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
00:15:56.000Is that this party, which proclaims that it is mainstream, is constantly being driven to the far left by its base.
00:16:01.000I think what's happening right now in American politics is a severe polarization that is leading to reactionary politics on both sides of the aisle.
00:16:08.000It is most obvious not on the right, where people are talking about it a lot.
00:16:12.000And the latest iteration of this is the newfound campaign against Chick-fil-A.
00:16:16.000So, you may have seen over the last few days that the left has started campaigning again against Chick-fil-A because it is Gay Pride Month, and that means that we have to stop homophobic chicken.
00:17:23.000You can imagine how upsetting it was for me when Chick-fil-A's president, Dan Cathy, proudly came out as a homophobe in 2012 by claiming, quote,
00:17:40.000That is not a homophobic statement by Dan Cathy.
00:17:42.000Homophobia is the idea that gay people should be put in jail, or that homosexuality should be punishable by law, or that you are afraid of gay people.
00:17:52.000But the idea that you think that homosexual sex is a sin, or that same-sex marriage is an abomination in terms of sort of the biblical definition of marriage, that's a pretty mainstream religious view.
00:18:39.000But apparently, because Dan Cathy doesn't agree with Noah Mickelson, it is time for the entire LGBT community to boycott the entire company of Chick-fil-A.
00:18:47.000Here is why this is so stupid and so problematic for the country.
00:18:50.000When you have entire groups of people boycotting companies on the basis of the political perspective of the leader of that company, not based on the activity of the company, right?
00:18:57.000You can boycott based on the activity of the company.
00:19:14.000It means that you are now going to be obligated to vet the political viewpoint of everybody you do business with and then we are going to break off into these hive-minded
00:19:23.000Little cliques of people who only do business with, hang out with, and have conversations with people with whom we fully agree, and we try to bankrupt everyone else.
00:19:30.000That makes for a pretty terrible First Amendment environment in the United States.
00:19:33.000Now, this isn't an implication of the First Amendment itself, this isn't government regulation of Chick-fil-A, but there's such a thing as a sort of a free speech attitude, and the free speech attitude in the United States is going by the wayside as we call for companies, members of companies, to change their own particular political viewpoint, not their action, their political viewpoint expressed by them
00:19:52.000In order so that they can earn our business.
00:19:54.000And that's not the only extreme viewpoint that's now being pushed by the left.
00:19:58.000The left is also now pushing extreme viewpoints with regard to masculinity.
00:20:02.000So the latest iteration of this comes courtesy of Sarah Rich over at The Atlantic.
00:20:07.000So Sarah Rich has a long piece over at The Atlantic called Today's Masculinity is Stifling.
00:20:12.000Let me just point out, today's masculinity is less stifling than at any time in the recent past because the fact is that today's masculinity has almost nothing to do with masculinity.
00:20:19.000Masculinity used to be tied to the idea of obligation to protect.
00:20:23.000Now, when I teach my son to be a gentleman, what I'm going to teach him is that it is necessary to protect those who are weaker than you are.
00:20:28.000If you've ever seen the movie American Sniper, there's a long monologue where the main character talks about how basically people are either sheep, wolves, or sheepdogs.
00:20:37.000Either they're going to be aggressors, or they're going to be followers, or they're going to be sheepdogs protecting the sheep against the wolves.
00:20:42.000It is the job of men to be sheepdogs, essentially.
00:20:54.000We have sort of gotten rid of that, and instead, we've gone with sort of the affectation of manhood.
00:20:58.000So the affectation of manhood is, I work out a lot, and I drink lots of beer, and this is what makes me a man.
00:21:05.000I smoke cigars, and that's what makes me a man.
00:21:07.000Okay, what makes you a man is whether you are willing to protect people who are weaker than you, and whether you are willing to instill a system of values that protects the liberties of others who are not you, right?
00:21:15.000That is what makes you a good human being, and more importantly, it's what makes you a good man in terms of masculinity.
00:21:47.000Or if they do dress like women, that doesn't make you less of a man.
00:21:49.000Okay, they've done this routine where masculinity was reduced to the appearance of masculinity and then that itself was attacked.
00:21:55.000So that's exactly the case that's being made by Sarah Rich, except she is attacking.
00:21:59.000She says, In hindsight, our son was gearing up to wear a dress to school for quite some time.
00:22:03.000For months, he wore dresses or his purple and green mermaid costume on weekends and after school.
00:22:07.000Then he began wearing them to sleep in lieu of pajamas, changing out of them after breakfast.
00:22:10.000Finally, one morning, I brought him his clean pants and shirt and he looked at me and said, I'm already dressed.
00:22:14.000He was seated on the couch in a gray cotton sundress covered in doe-eyed unicorns with rainbow manes.
00:22:17.000He'd slept in it, and in his dreaming hours, I imagine, stood at a podium giving inspirational speeches to an audience composed only of himself.
00:22:57.000You should not be allowing your young boy, who is not old enough, to figure out
00:23:02.000The ways of life because the kid was not hit puberty yet.
00:23:04.000This is not a kid who's old enough to have figured out masculinity and femininity for you to have sent him to school in a dress so he can be made fun of by all the other kids is a nasty thing for you to do as a parent.
00:23:15.000There is something to the idea that you should be inculcating, yes, even the appearance of masculinity and femininity in your own children.
00:23:22.000Distinctions between the sexes are important.
00:23:24.000And it is you who are confusing your child.
00:23:26.000Your child is not going to be happier because your child is confused as a general rule.
00:23:30.000There are exceptions, but as a general rule, being gender confused and being confused about the sort of appearances of gender, it is not a worthwhile thing.
00:23:40.000You're pleased with his self-assuredness?
00:23:42.000The whole self-esteem movement, the idea that you can subjectively define the reality around you and everybody is expected to adapt, that is not going to work out well.
00:23:50.000And now that doesn't mean the kid should be bullied.
00:23:54.000But parents have an obligation to protect their kids from bullying, and they also have an obligation not to confuse their kids about basic concepts of sex and gender.
00:24:02.000The idea that boys and girls dress differently is true in every society in the history of mankind.
00:24:07.000Now, you may say that there are other societies where boys wear kilts or boys wear skirts or whatever it is.
00:24:13.000And it is true that in Scottish society, men and women do not dress the same.
00:24:16.000Men and women do not dress the same because men and women are, in fact, not the same.
00:24:19.000And it is important to re-inculcate those gender differences.
00:24:23.000Those gender differences are a beautiful part of life.
00:24:25.000Those gender differences make your child less confused.
00:24:28.000You're telling me when the kid was three and put on a dress, you could have said, you know what, sweetheart, that's not really appropriate.
00:24:34.000But even that statement is apparently too radical for the entire left.
00:24:37.000And listen, I'll get a lot of flack for saying this, obviously, from the left, because the idea is that we're supposed to pretend that all choices you make for your child are equivalent.
00:24:57.000Most days since, he's worn a dress from his small collection, though he also favors a light blue guayabara, the classic collared button-down worn by men and boys in Cuba and the Philippines.
00:25:04.000Classmates' objections continue, but with less frequency and conviction.
00:25:07.000One day, when my husband dropped him off, he heard a little girl stand up to a naysayer and shout, boys can like beautiful things, too.
00:25:43.000And reinstalling that, reinstating that, I don't know why you would want to do this as a parent.
00:25:47.000I mean, I understand why this person wanted it.
00:25:49.000She can virtue signal about it in the pages of the Atlantic.
00:25:51.000So she can prove what a wonderful person she is by giving her child the Rousseauian Emile childhood where the child gets to make every decision for themselves.
00:25:58.000Children are not capable of making important decisions for themselves.
00:26:01.000You have a four-year-old and a two-year-old.
00:26:03.000They do not get to make important decisions for themselves because if they did, they would both make stupid decisions because little kids are stupid.
00:26:11.000The whole point of civilizing young barbarians into civilized people is to make sure that you set some sort of standard.
00:26:17.000Now, is this the most important thing in the world that you don't let your kid dress in a dress?
00:26:22.000I don't think it's like the most important thing in the world, but I do think that it is important to say that boys and girls are different.
00:26:27.000And to reinstitute, again, the reason that it is important to reinstitute these differences is because biologically boys are different than girls.
00:26:33.000This has ramifications for everything ranging from the sorts of activities in which they engage to the sorts of ways that they think.
00:26:46.000The entire left that says multiculturalism is wonderful, that all cultures are created equal and we ought to celebrate each culture for what it is, says that cultural appropriation from males to females is totally fine and vice versa.
00:26:56.000We shouldn't celebrate the differences between men and women.
00:26:58.000We should obliterate the differences between men and women.
00:27:00.000Well, this is one of the key distinctions in society that actually matters.
00:27:03.000The distinction between men and women matters because boys are not the same as girls.
00:27:06.000Boys must be brought up to be gentlemen.
00:27:09.000It's not that you teach boys not to rape.
00:27:10.000It's that you teach them to affirmatively be good men.
00:27:19.000Which encompasses some aspects of being a good man and being a good woman.
00:27:22.000But being a good man and being a good woman are two different things.
00:27:25.000But the left is pushing this obliteration of all distinctions that actually matter.
00:27:29.000And the goal here is, of course, that once everything is done, we will all be the same.
00:27:33.000We will all be widgets that we get to form from scratch.
00:27:37.000People are so in love with the idea of human beings as the blank slate that they are going to pretend that human beings actually are a blank slate, or they're going to encourage all sorts of activities that look more like blank slate activities, as opposed to the biological differences that make humanity beautiful and wonderful.
00:27:52.000And this is what the left is embracing on a large scale, and it really is disturbing.
00:27:56.000This kid is not going to be healthier, in my opinion, as a result of his mother sending him to school in a dress.
00:28:02.000The fact is, even if the kid happens to have gender dysphoria, 80% of all children who identify as a member of the other gender, I understand cross-dressing and gender dysphoria are not the same thing, but 80% of kids who have the most extreme form of body dysmorphia, they believe that they are a girl in a boy's body, grow out of it by the time they are teenagers.
00:28:28.000Find a standard that actually makes your kid's life happier and that makes society around you better.
00:28:34.000Okay, so meanwhile, the city of Seattle has decided they're going to do now an about-face on Amazon and the head tax.
00:28:42.000I'm gonna discuss all that in just a second.
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00:30:59.000The Seattle Times is reporting that, if you remember just a couple of weeks ago, the Seattle City Council approved of a head tax.
00:31:04.000They were going to tax Amazon and Microsoft and all of these other companies some huge amount, $275 per employee for homelessness.
00:31:12.000They were going to tax all these major companies in the city of Seattle.
00:31:16.000Less than a month later, they reversed it.
00:31:17.000So in a stunning reversal without parallel in Seattle's recent political history, according to Daniel Beekman of the Seattle Times, the city council voted 72 on Tuesday to repeal a controversial head tax on large employers like Amazon.
00:31:28.000Mayor Jenny Durkan plans to sign the repeal into law.
00:31:30.000So that lasted for about five seconds.
00:31:32.000The move came as a business-backed campaign to kill the tax prepared to submit petition signatures this week to qualify the referendum for the November ballot.
00:31:39.000People on both sides of the head tax debate packed the council chambers, waving signs with the slogans, tax Amazon and no tax on jobs.
00:31:45.000As the council members voted, they were drowned out by activists who chanted, housing is a human right.
00:31:49.000Before the tally, council member Lisa Herbold said she felt like crying.
00:31:54.000But she would side with the majority of her colleagues because the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce had managed to persuade the vast majority of voters to oppose the tax.
00:32:00.000In other words, they knew that when the tax came up for a vote, it was going to lose, so they preemptively decided to kill the tax, and they all felt like crying.
00:32:07.000Because it turns out that when you pass some of the world's stupidest policies, even the leftist voters of Seattle can't stand it, and you're going to have to reverse yourselves and then weep about it.
00:32:15.000Herbold said she lost hope over the weekend after seeing poll results and talking with advocates.
00:32:19.000Better to retreat now rather than see voters cancel the tax in November after a months long bitter struggle, she said.
00:32:24.000Quote, this is not a winnable battle at this time.
00:32:26.000The opposition has unlimited resources.
00:32:27.000I love how the left in Seattle suggests that the Chamber of Commerce has unlimited resources.
00:32:34.000The city of Seattle is about as left a city as there is in the United States.
00:32:37.000And yet even the city of Seattle has gone, nope, sorry, can't do that.
00:32:40.000You're going to alienate all the businesses.
00:32:42.000So as the left moves further to the left, they are alienating the center.
00:32:45.000Well, you would assume from that that maybe the best move for the right would be to, you know, grab that center, since the left is apparently abandoning that center.
00:32:51.000Well, instead, the right is having so much fun drinking leftist tears that some on the right have decided in primaries that it is worthwhile to simply go after the candidate
00:33:00.000Who is the most Trumpy in affect, the candidate who is most ensconced in sort of the radical language that ticks off the left, which is why last night Corey Stewart won his primary in Virginia.
00:33:11.000So Corey Stewart was running against a guy named Nick Freitas.
00:33:42.000Pretty nefarious characters in the past.
00:33:44.000He's tried to disassociate from those characters.
00:33:45.000He went to a sort of neo-confederate ball.
00:33:49.000He made one of his key issues the upholding of confederate monuments, which I think is a controversial issue at the very least.
00:33:56.000Corey Stewart, he's a political animal for sure, and he's again likely to lose in the race to Tim Kaine.
00:34:03.000But it seems like the right in its desire for a reactionary anti-establishment politics is embracing candidates who may not be the strongest candidates in the world.
00:34:12.000The same thing holds true in South Carolina last night.
00:34:16.000Lost his congressional primary last night.
00:34:19.000He is an almost five-term member of the House of Representatives, and he lost his primary election to a political newcomer, State Representative Katie Arrington, by a 50.5% to 46.5% margin.
00:34:29.000And Arrington was a Romney and Rubio supporter in the primaries.
00:34:32.000She ended up supporting Trump and said she would do so in the House.
00:34:35.000Sanford was a Trump supporter in the 2016 election.
00:34:37.000The media's sort of take on this is that Sanford was too anti-Trump to win.
00:34:43.000I think what happened is that Sanford ran a really lackluster campaign in his own district, but the impact is going to be that Arrington is more militant in her approach, Sanford is a lot less militant, and also he said some pretty abrasive things about President Trump in the past.
00:34:57.000So what does this mean for Republican primary voters?
00:34:59.000What does this mean for the Republican Party in general?
00:35:01.000Well, it means that I understand why there's caution on the part of Republican legislators going up against President Trump.
00:35:06.000The fact is that you cannot be fully anti-Trump and win in the Republican Party right now.
00:35:12.000You cannot be fully anti-Trump in the Republican Party as a legislator and win.
00:35:15.000And that makes a certain amount of sense in the sense that President Trump is in fact the President of the United States.
00:35:21.000But it does mean cutting off your nose to spite your face because the fact is that Mark Sanford was voting 90% of the time with President Trump, including on some of his biggest priorities.
00:35:28.000Katie Arrington is a bigger government proponent.
00:35:32.000She campaigned against Mark Sanford being too small government.
00:35:34.000Which suggests that if you are voting for a candidate based on their support level for President Trump's language rather than President Trump's agenda, or if you're voting for a Republican candidate based on how much they like Trump, not how much they like limited government, that should be a sign that you're doing something wrong, okay?
00:35:49.000That's not actually a really good thing, I think.
00:35:51.000Okay, in just a second, I want to talk about
00:36:00.000There's a lot of talk these days about President Trump being too harsh on immigration.
00:36:03.000This has been specifically said about separating families at the border.
00:36:06.000As I have made clear in the past, the law of the land requires that families be separated at the border when there is an illegal immigrant who brings a child across the border and you want to arrest the illegal immigrant.
00:36:15.000The left's solution is don't arrest the illegal immigrant, which is no solution at all.
00:36:18.000Illegal immigration continues to be a threat
00:37:32.000When MS-13 is recruiting in junior highs, that's scary stuff.
00:37:50.000Although administrators deny Ward has a gang problem, the situation inside the aging, overcrowded building has left some teachers so afraid they refuse to be alone with their students.
00:37:58.000Many said they had repeatedly reported incidents involving suspected gang members to administrators, only to be ignored.
00:38:04.000Claims supported by documents obtained by the Washington Post.
00:38:06.000This is why I'm not going to get on Attorney General Jeff Sessions for being harsh on immigration.
00:38:09.000I don't think that he is wrong about his perspective on immigration.
00:38:12.000So Jeff Sessions has gotten into controversial territory recently.
00:38:31.000Because he released a 31-page decision narrowing the grounds for asylum for victims of private crime.
00:38:36.000So the asylum law is that if you are a victim of a government, that if you are coming to the United States because you're a political dissident, basically, that we are more likely to grant you asylum.
00:38:45.000But we had broadened that out to include people who, for example, were victims of domestic abuse.
00:38:48.000So you live in Guatemala and your husband beats you, and now we have to take you in for asylum.
00:38:52.000Jeff Sessions has said this is not what the law is for, and here's what he had to say about it.
00:38:58.000Asylum was never meant to alleviate all problems, even all serious problems, that people face every day all over the world.
00:39:08.000So today, I'm exercising the responsibility given to me under the INA, and I will be issuing a decision that restores sound principles of asylum and long-standing principles of immigration law.
00:39:23.000I mean, people are ripping on him, but this makes a fair bit of sense considering the fact that if you're a victim of domestic violence, that should not be your entry ticket to the United States.
00:39:30.000The question really is whether the government is failing to protect you from domestic violence, for example, or whether the government is upholding the rights of the domestic violator.
00:39:39.000You know, that sort of stuff is sort of a different story.
00:39:41.000But if the goal here is that anyone who has ever suffered in the world can come into the United States, I think that that's a mistake.
00:39:47.000Now, that doesn't mean that we shouldn't find ways to help them, that private charities particularly shouldn't find ways to help these people escape from domestic violence situations.
00:39:54.000And there are private charities that do help.
00:40:53.000But if everybody, if this is how the left wants to turn, if the Democrats want to turn to a celebrity candidate because they think they need a celebrity to beat Trump,
00:41:19.000So I am very much an advocate of free market capitalism, and that means that I am generally anti-antitrust law.
00:41:25.000So antitrust law is the idea that you have to break up companies when they get too large.
00:41:28.000The only time there is such a thing as a true monopoly is when there is a company that owns 100% market share in a particular industry and then can raise the prices to a sky-high level.
00:41:59.000And what you're going to start seeing is some of these companies consolidate to fight AT&T Time Warner.
00:42:04.000Now, the people who are objecting are saying, well, the reason AT&T is trying to buy Time Warner is they're trying to buy their entertainment content and then, in accordance with the new net neutrality rules, which have been gotten rid of,
00:42:14.000Now, AT&T is going to be able to use Time Warner Entertainment as sort of their base of operations.
00:42:19.000They're going to use and privilege Time Warner Entertainment, and put it on their own distribution mechanisms, and privilege that content.
00:42:36.000If they really want to charge me more for non-Time Warner content, and there's another company offering me a better deal, then I'll go to that other company.
00:42:42.000And the fact is, we are now getting more entertainment for cheaper than ever in human history.
00:42:45.000I mean, if you go to Netflix or Amazon, I subscribe to both.
00:42:48.000The amount of entertainment that is available at the touch of a button is just astounding.
00:43:28.000Alrighty, so it now turns out that Sarah Huckabee Sanders called Dennis Rodman with a message of thanks from President Trump for his involvement in the negotiations in North Korea.
00:43:59.000Otherwise you end up with tape like this.
00:44:01.000Sarah Huckabee Sanders on the phone congratulating Dennis Rodman in an alternative universe where Biff eventually actually went back to 1955 and actually bet on the sports book.
00:44:09.000Here is Dennis Rodman being congratulated by the White House.
00:44:20.000I know the President had seen some of your comments over the last several days and just wanted me to reach out and thank you for some of the positive things you've said and appreciate you being helpful in this process.
00:44:45.000Okay, so there's Dennis Rodman being congratulated by the White House.
00:44:48.000We now live in the most stupid timeline, I think it is fair to say.
00:44:52.000Listen, can you use people like Dennis Rodman for diplomacy?
00:44:55.000I suppose you can, but yeah, I just, I gotta say, I sort of object to the degradation of the White House to the point where they're calling Dennis Rodman a legitimate crazy person to talk about his relationship with Kim Jong-un.