The Ben Shapiro Show - April 07, 2016


Ep. 101 - Crazy Old Socialist Fight!

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Ep. 100 - Bernie Sanders Is The Democrats' Future. They Should Be Terrified. Ep. 102 - Trump's Very Good Brain Doesn't Know How Delegates Work

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Has Hillary Clinton ever actually met her husband s wife, Hillary Clinton? Is she a feminist? A socialist? A communist? A woman who thinks you should be able to have the right to abortion up to the point of birth? Hillary Clinton is a woman who is completely foreign to her own husband, former president Bill Clinton. And yet, she's running for president in 2016 as a Democrat. Ben Shapiro points out that Hillary Clinton seems to have never even met Bill Clinton, and yet she talks about him all the time as though she's never met him. Ben also notes that Hillary has a new course at Hillsdale College called "Presidency and Constitution," which is a great way to get an education in the Constitution and the presidency. And if you want to know more about what the presidency is supposed to do and how it s been betrayed by eight generations of presidents, then all you have to do is go to hillsdale.edu/presidencyandconstitution and get educated. Ben Shapiro is the host of the conservative podcast "The Ben Shapiro Show" and is a regular contributor to the conservative newsletter "The Weekly Standard" and host of "The Daily Caller" and "The New York Times" and has been a long time supporter of conservative causes, including the Weekly Standard. The Weekly Standard and The Daily Caller. He's also a frequent contributor to conservative publications such as "Vanity Fair" and the "New York Times." and "Huffingtonpost." He can be found on social media at and . and can be heard on the radio show "The View From The Hive on SiriusXM Radio and radio station on Sirius XM Radio and the radio station "The FiveThirtyEight. and his website is on the airwaves. as well as his new podcast, "The SixThirtyEight radio show on the Four Corners radio show, The FiveThirtyActress on The Six Sigma and is also on the internet. on Social Media account. is . He is a frequent guest on Fox News Radio, and his new book, and is on the Fox News Channel, and radio show is , and his book is The Six Figures and The Six Figure Thing and the New York Post, , and he also has a podcast on the podcast is on The Five Guys is also The Real Thing on Podchronicity, and so much more.

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00:00:00.000 On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton vowed that she would shut down tax havens used by rich people.
00:00:05.000 Here's what she said to the AFL-CIO, quote,
00:00:24.000 Question.
00:00:25.000 Has Hillary Clinton ever actually met Hillary Clinton?
00:00:28.000 You know the lady who used the Clinton Foundation as a slush fund? 1.00
00:00:31.000 The New York Post reported last April on its 2013 tax forms, which are the most recent available, the foundation claimed that it spent $30 million on payroll and employee benefits, $9 million in rent and office expenses, $9 million on conferences, conventions, and meetings, $8 million on fundraising, and $8.5 million on travel.
00:00:48.000 Charity Navigator
00:00:49.000 So, Hillary apparently has never met herself.
00:00:50.000 And I have lots of evidence of this.
00:00:52.000 So, for example, all the way back in September, she tweeted, quote, Hillary Clinton tweeted.
00:00:56.000 You know, the same lady who went after Juanita Broderick and who slandered all of her husband's 1.00
00:01:16.000 Various mistresses as bimbos and talked about how they were just out to get her husband. 0.98
00:01:22.000 And, you know, the same lady who once laughed about defending a rapist. 1.00
00:01:24.000 That lady. 1.00
00:01:25.000 She says that all people who allege sexual assault ought to be believed because Hillary has never met Hillary.
00:01:31.000 How about this one?
00:01:31.000 In September, she said, quote, We have to end the flood of secret, unaccountable money that is distorting our elections, corrupting our political system and drowning out the voices of too many everyday Americans.
00:01:42.000 Yeah, Hillary Clinton said that. 1.00
00:01:44.000 You know, after her husband's administration was enmeshed in a Chinese fundraising scandal and the Mark Rich Pardons scandal.
00:01:50.000 She said that after the Clinton Foundation revelations.
00:01:53.000 Or how about in January?
00:01:54.000 Hillary said, quote, 1.00
00:02:00.000 Yes, Hillary Clinton said that. 0.98
00:02:02.000 She is the individual too powerful to jail. 1.00
00:02:05.000 Or in 2014, she told a group of her supporters that political candidates, quote, have to be willing to answer the tough questions.
00:02:11.000 It should be disqualifying to avoid answering questions.
00:02:14.000 Hillary Clinton has answered a grand total of about seven questions in this election cycle, and most of them have to do with her grandbaby.
00:02:21.000 In November, she told Jimmy Kimmel, quote, seriously, it really does matter what you're saying when you're president, and it probably should matter what you say when you're running for president.
00:02:29.000 This is the same lady who said that it didn't matter what difference did it make whether she was blaming the death of four Americans in Benghazi on a YouTube video.
00:02:38.000 I think most ironic of all is what she said just a couple of weeks ago, late March.
00:02:42.000 She penned these words, quote, I will work to save and protect the lives of our nation's children.
00:02:48.000 Hillary Clinton believes that you have the right to an abortion up to the point of birth. 0.97
00:02:53.000 But Hillary Clinton has never met Hillary Clinton.
00:02:54.000 She's completely foreign to Hillary Clinton. 1.00
00:02:56.000 Which is, of course, why she looks so awkward all the time.
00:02:59.000 Because Hillary doesn't know Hillary. 1.00
00:03:01.000 Donald Trump infamously said there are two Donald Trumps.
00:03:03.000 There are two Hillary Clintons, too. 1.00
00:03:05.000 The one who does corrupt and insanely leftist things, and the one who talks about it as though she's never met that Hillary Clinton. 1.00
00:03:11.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:03:12.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:03:20.000 So much to get to here on a Thursday, and we will get to all of it.
00:03:23.000 But first, we have to say hello to our friends over at Hillsdale College.
00:03:26.000 The American presidency, it is the most powerful office in the world, but it is not all-powerful.
00:03:31.000 It is not an empire.
00:03:32.000 It's not a monarchy.
00:03:33.000 You're not Napoleon.
00:03:34.000 But all the candidates, or at least a lot of them, seem to view the presidency as an accumulation of all the powers that were delegated in the Constitution.
00:03:42.000 The president should have legislative power and judicial power and executive power.
00:03:46.000 If you want to know more about what the presidency is supposed to do and how it's been betrayed by literally about eight generations of presidents, then all you have to do is go over to hillsdale.edu slash ben.
00:03:57.000 They have a new course there, a new course, and the course is called Presidency and the Constitution, hillsdale.edu slash ben.
00:04:04.000 And it's for adults, it's for kids.
00:04:05.000 Hillsdale College is a great place to send your kids.
00:04:07.000 It's also a great place for you as an adult to get educated
00:04:11.000 Thanks for having me.
00:04:29.000 Okay, so, obviously the races are both heating up.
00:04:33.000 On both sides of the aisle, the races are heating up.
00:04:34.000 And I want to start with the Democrat side of the aisle today, because we spent a lot of time on the Republican side of the aisle, where even my old friends at Breitbart News are now projecting that Donald Trump is not going to have the requisite number of delegates to win the nomination on the first ballot.
00:04:48.000 And if he doesn't win the nomination on the first ballot, he is certainly not going to win the nomination
00:04:52.000 Pass that. 0.95
00:04:53.000 He's just too crazy.
00:04:54.000 If Donald Trump had any presidential ability whatsoever, if Donald Trump were able to turn it down from an 11 to even a 9, then maybe. 0.78
00:05:02.000 But if he goes in and he's short the delegates, no way they give him the nomination because he's just too alienating.
00:05:07.000 The man has negatives higher than any politician in modern American history. 0.96
00:05:13.000 On the other side of the aisle, however, it's easy to forget just what a crappy candidate Hillary Clinton is. 1.00
00:05:18.000 And Bernie Sanders is showing what a crappy candidate she is, because Bernie Sanders is a terrible candidate. 0.99
00:05:23.000 He's a 74-year-old socialist loon bag from Vermont who speaks 0.99
00:05:29.000 Like a parody of a New York Jewish rabbi. 0.98
00:05:31.000 I mean, Bernie Sanders is awful in every way. 0.98
00:05:34.000 He doesn't know anything about economics. 0.93
00:05:36.000 He doesn't know anything about how the world actually works.
00:05:38.000 He thinks that Cuba and the Soviet Union are just halcyons of decency and equality.
00:05:43.000 So Hillary Clinton has now been forced to get into the mud with Bernie Sanders. 1.00
00:05:46.000 They're getting into the mud with each other, which is basically...
00:05:49.000 The most unattractive mud wrestling contest anyone has ever fantasized about.
00:05:53.000 Hillary Clinton started it.
00:05:55.000 It wasn't Sanders.
00:05:56.000 She, like Trump, likes to claim that she's always hitting back.
00:05:58.000 Hillary is almost always the aggressor. 1.00
00:06:00.000 Hillary Clinton said the other day that Bernie Sanders is not qualified for the presidency, essentially, because he hasn't done his homework.
00:06:07.000 This followed hard on Hillary Clinton reading and talking about Bernie Sanders' interview with the New York Daily News, which we talked about yesterday, where Bernie Sanders demonstrated he doesn't know about anything, but he likes to say equality and fairness a lot, because those are the only two words he remembers, because he may, in fact, be borderline senile.
00:06:24.000 Hillary Clinton went after him for this.
00:06:26.000 Here's what Hillary had to say about Bernie Sanders doing his homework.
00:06:29.000 So the question, and I'm serious, if you weren't running today and you looked at Bernie Sanders, would you say, this guy is ready to be President of the United States?
00:06:39.000 Well, I think he hadn't done his homework, and he'd been talking for more than a year about doing things that he obviously hadn't really studied or understood.
00:06:49.000 And that does raise a lot of questions.
00:06:52.000 And really what it goes to is for voters to ask themselves, can he deliver what he's talking about?
00:06:59.000 Can he really help people?
00:07:01.000 Can he help our economy?
00:07:02.000 Can he keep our country strong?
00:07:04.000 Well obviously I think I'm by far the better choice.
00:07:07.000 But do you think he is qualified and do you think he is able to deliver on the things he is promising to all of these Democratic voters?
00:07:16.000 Well, let me put it this way, Joe.
00:07:18.000 I think that what he has been saying about the core issue in his whole campaign doesn't seem to be rooted in an understanding of either the law or the practical ways you get something done.
00:07:36.000 Hillary's saying he's unqualified.
00:07:37.000 That's what she's saying.
00:07:38.000 And she says, I'm going to leave it to voters.
00:07:40.000 I called him unqualified, but you make the decision as to whether I called him unqualified.
00:07:44.000 So Bernie Sanders responds.
00:07:46.000 Thank you.
00:08:04.000 And this is the campaign that she's run, and he's responded.
00:08:06.000 I mean, the way that he's responded is by saying that Hillary Clinton is basically entitled, that Hillary Clinton is not sufficiently leftist, right?
00:08:15.000 She's not sufficiently ideologically pure.
00:08:17.000 He stayed away from her corruption, for the most part.
00:08:20.000 But Bernie Sanders finally hit her back yesterday.
00:08:23.000 He finally kind of unchained the dogs.
00:08:27.000 Let the dogs out, so to speak.
00:08:28.000 Woof woof, woof woof. 1.00
00:08:29.000 And here was Bernie Sanders going after Hillary Clinton saying, she too is unqualified.
00:08:34.000 Remember, Hillary hit first. 1.00
00:08:35.000 Here's Bernie responding.
00:08:36.000 She has been saying lately that she thinks that I am, quote unquote, not qualified to be president.
00:08:50.000 Let me just say in response to Secretary Clinton, I don't believe that she is qualified if she is through her super PAC taking tens of millions of dollars in special interest funds. 0.99
00:09:22.000 I don't think that you are qualified if you get $15 million from Wall Street through your super PAC.
00:09:34.000 I don't think you are qualified if you have voted for the disastrous war in Iraq.
00:09:44.000 And so there's Bernie Sanders unleashing his inner llama.
00:09:48.000 The llama is free and it's roaming the earth.
00:09:51.000 And he's right, okay?
00:09:52.000 From a leftist perspective, he's right.
00:09:54.000 Hillary Clinton pretends to be sufficiently left, but she takes lots of money from Wall Street. 0.76
00:09:58.000 She did vote for the war in Iraq.
00:09:59.000 He's not even going after the parts where she's most vulnerable.
00:10:01.000 He's still being nice, right? 1.00
00:10:03.000 Hillary Clinton is a criminal. 1.00
00:10:05.000 She's a felon. 1.00
00:10:06.000 She hid classified information on her private server and had all of her aides set up private servers so that none of this would be subject to the scrutiny of the public.
00:10:14.000 And she put all of our national security information that went through her inbox at risk in order to protect herself, right? 0.98
00:10:19.000 Hillary Clinton is a criminal. 1.00
00:10:21.000 She is a criminal. 1.00
00:10:22.000 But he's not attacking her on that. 1.00
00:10:23.000 He's attacking her precisely the same way she attacked him.
00:10:26.000 She says Bernie Sanders is unqualified because he's ignorant about law, and he says she's unqualified because she is not sufficiently leftist.
00:10:33.000 Now watch as Hillary's spokespeople play victim. 1.00
00:10:36.000 So this is the game Hillary plays. 1.00
00:10:37.000 She hits first, and then if you hit her back, she says, oh, but I'm a girl.
00:10:40.000 But I'm a girl.
00:10:41.000 How dare he?
00:10:42.000 How dare he do this?
00:10:43.000 It's so terrible.
00:10:45.000 How could Bernie Sanders possibly hit a girl like this?
00:10:48.000 It's one of the most amusing things about some of the most militant feminists like Hillary Clinton. 1.00
00:10:52.000 That they proclaim constantly that men and women are not just equal, they are identical.
00:10:57.000 That they ought to be treated identically.
00:10:58.000 But the minute that Hillary is treated like any other politician, they immediately run for the hills and it turns into, well, I am woman and he really should treat me with more respect.
00:11:07.000 Here's Hillary's spokesperson tearing into Bernie Sanders, saying, well, I don't even know why he's coming after us this way.
00:11:12.000 It's just so cruel.
00:11:13.000 It's just so vicious and mean.
00:11:15.000 So here's what
00:11:16.000 Hillary's press secretary Brian Fallon said, he went on Twitter and he said, quote, Bernie Sanders take back your words about Hillary Clinton.
00:11:38.000 It's so hurtful.
00:11:40.000 It's so harmful.
00:11:42.000 Listen, you listen to that clip that Hillary said, right?
00:11:44.000 She was calling him unqualified.
00:11:46.000 This is exactly the same thing as when Donald Trump says Heidi Cruz is ugly and then a week later he says, oh no, I thought it was a fine picture of Heidi Cruz.
00:11:53.000 These are the lies that the Clinton campaign tells.
00:11:56.000 But they're feeling threatened.
00:11:58.000 They're feeling threatened.
00:11:58.000 And so they're going after Bernie Sanders now.
00:12:00.000 And they're going after him in harsh fashion. 0.98
00:12:02.000 And for the first time, it's beginning to occur to Bernie Sanders and that crazy loon bag mind of his. 0.96
00:12:07.000 It's beginning to finally occur to Bernie Sanders. 0.96
00:12:10.000 He might be able to actually steal this nomination away from her.
00:12:13.000 The race on the Democratic side is significantly closer than the race on the Republican side in terms of both delegates and also in terms of the percentages of votes that are being won.
00:12:23.000 Donald Trump's only won about 37% of all Republican votes.
00:12:26.000 Bernie Sanders is solidly in the 40s, and he's won six of the last seven states, and six in a row.
00:12:31.000 Bernie Sanders actually has some momentum right now.
00:12:33.000 And so Bernie Sanders has decided to double down on that momentum.
00:12:36.000 He said today, as I've been predicting this for literally months, literally, I hate saying I told you so,
00:12:42.000 That's a lie.
00:12:43.000 I love saying I told you so because I say it so often.
00:12:45.000 And it's just one of my favorite things to say.
00:12:46.000 But I've been saying for months that if Bernie Sanders actually wanted to win the nomination, he should endorse slavery reparations.
00:12:52.000 He needs to win minority votes.
00:12:54.000 The best way to do that, unfortunately, if you're a Democrat, is to pander nonsensically.
00:12:58.000 Now Bernie Sanders is doing it.
00:13:00.000 He says he wants to formally apologize for slavery.
00:13:02.000 I wasn't aware Bernie Sanders held slaves, but I guess that's a new revelation.
00:13:06.000 He wants to apologize for slavery.
00:13:08.000 And also, Bernie Sanders says he wants a form of reparations.
00:13:11.000 Here's what he had to say.
00:13:13.000 Senator Sanders, will you, if the next President of the United States, make that necessary an overdue apology?
00:13:19.000 You want the short answer?
00:13:35.000 What anybody can do to undo the deaths and the misery of how many people, we don't even know, who died on the way over here from Africa, the ships.
00:13:46.000 Nobody.
00:13:47.000 You know, we cannot do that.
00:13:48.000 But we've got to do everything that we can to wipe the slate clean, acknowledge the truth.
00:13:53.000 You know, truth is not always an easy thing.
00:13:56.000 And a lot of things that we have done in this country have been shameful, and we've got to recognize that and hold on to it.
00:14:03.000 So the answer is yes.
00:14:04.000 And then he went on to say that he wouldn't endorse open slavery reparations, but he wanted some sort of reparations basically through socialist redistribution.
00:14:12.000 Which has been his case all along, he's just now couching it in terms of race.
00:14:17.000 The rationale for this, obviously, is that Bernie Sanders wants to win some black votes in states coming up, and he feels like if he appeals to black voters by saying this sort of stuff, then he'll be able to edge Hillary out.
00:14:27.000 I've been saying that if he wanted to win, he should have been doing this months ago.
00:14:31.000 I will say that Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, this sort of language is morally bereft.
00:14:36.000 Talk about virtue signaling.
00:14:37.000 Is there anybody in America who's pro-slavery?
00:14:39.000 Anybody who thinks slavery was a great idea?
00:14:42.000 Of course not.
00:14:43.000 Slavery died in the United States, thank God, over 150 years ago.
00:14:46.000 But Bernie Sanders is going around suggesting that we all have to apologize for the sin of slavery.
00:14:51.000 Listen, I don't apologize for things that my ancestors did 150 years ago, because I wasn't involved in those things.
00:14:57.000 I don't think that Christians need to apologize to me for the Crusades. 0.98
00:15:01.000 I don't think that Germans who were born 20 years ago need to apologize to me for the Holocaust. 0.86
00:15:05.000 I don't think any of that is relevant or necessary.
00:15:08.000 Why I should apologize for slavery, I wasn't part of it. 0.54
00:15:11.000 I think slavery is evil.
00:15:13.000 And by the way, so did hundreds of thousands of white Americans who died in order to get rid of the institution of slavery during the Civil War 150 years ago.
00:15:20.000 So why should all of America apologize when half of America fought to erase slavery, went to war, bled and died to erase slavery, white people dying on the battlefields to free black people who are being held by other white people?
00:15:32.000 I mean, you want to talk about a race war?
00:15:33.000 That is the opposite of a race war. 0.72
00:15:35.000 It's white people fighting other white people to free black people. 0.60
00:15:38.000 That's an amazing thing.
00:15:39.000 It's an amazing moral moment for the United States, right?
00:15:42.000 But Bernie Sanders plays it as though slavery is the enduring legacy, as opposed to the opposition to slavery, and the fighting of slavery, and the civil rights movement, and all the rest of it.
00:15:52.000 It's really quite sickening.
00:15:53.000 And it's this sort of stuff that actually leads black communities to a sense of victimhood that does not help their children. 0.76
00:16:00.000 If you tell your kids, no matter what, they're victims of a society that still thinks slavery is okay,
00:16:05.000 Then, you know, you're bound to create a generation of dependent children.
00:16:10.000 Because if they really believe that the decisions they make are being quashed by a system of people who are still secretly pro-slavery, you know, unlike Bernie Sanders, who's a really good guy who dislikes slavery, you're going to create dependency and misery for generation upon generation.
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00:16:58.000 Okay, so on one side of the aisle, you have Hillary Clinton, who's really feeling the arthritic fingers of Bernie Sanders, beginning to encircle her cankle. 1.00
00:17:04.000 And on the other side, you have Donald Trump, who's beginning to feel uneasy.
00:17:27.000 He's feeling uneasy.
00:17:29.000 And so he's entered into basically two separate strategies.
00:17:33.000 Two separate strategies.
00:17:34.000 One is more Trumpism, where he's going to double down on being Donald Trump.
00:17:39.000 And the other is that he's going to now try to be a policy wonk.
00:17:43.000 Neither of these strategies is destined for tremendous success.
00:17:45.000 So first, the more Donald Trump side of... Well, actually, let's start with the policy side of Donald Trump.
00:17:51.000 So, Trump's senior policy advisor, Stephen Miller, who is a friend of mine.
00:17:55.000 Stephen, I've known for many, many years.
00:17:57.000 He worked for Jeff Sessions.
00:17:59.000 In the Senate for a long time, he was his immigration advisor, moved over to the Trump campaign in the last couple of months, now he's a Trump surrogate.
00:18:05.000 He says that Trump is about to give a series of detailed policy speeches, which is shocking for two reasons.
00:18:11.000 One, that Trump actually has policies, and two, that Trump knows how to read.
00:18:14.000 These are two actual shocks.
00:18:16.000 So here is Stephen Miller talking about Trump's upcoming grand policy speeches in the mold of Abraham Lincoln.
00:18:22.000 As you've maybe seen, we're going to be doing a series of policy speeches, getting into more detail about the issues that have animated the campaign and that have been at the center of this election.
00:18:33.000 And again, I would really say three of those big issues are foreign policy, trade policy, and immigration policy.
00:18:39.000 And Lou, this is something you've covered so much.
00:18:41.000 But in those three areas, the political class has drifted far away from where the voters are.
00:18:47.000 Whether it's reckless interventionism, whether it's shipping all of our manufacturing jobs overseas, or whether it's admitting such a large number of migrant workers that you can't earn a fair wage in America. 1.00
00:18:58.000 Okay, so he's saying that we're going to get trade speeches from Donald Trump.
00:19:02.000 He's going to inform us on how trade works. 0.99
00:19:03.000 Donald Trump is absolutely ignorant as to how trade works. 0.96
00:19:06.000 The people who want to put up trade barriers, these are people who basically want to subsidize one class of people at the expense of other classes of people. 0.99
00:19:14.000 And if you're a member of that subsidized class, I get it.
00:19:16.000 If you are a member of an industry that's dying because companies can get the labor cheaper elsewhere, I understand why you're upset.
00:19:23.000 I understand why you want tariffs.
00:19:25.000 You're still a welfare queen, you're still somebody who's interested in taking corporate benefits from the government, but at least you're personally interested.
00:19:34.000 If you're just somebody who doesn't understand economics, let me break this down for you, okay?
00:19:39.000 There's a basic economic concept, it's called comparative advantage.
00:19:42.000 Comparative advantage suggests that even if I, Ben Shapiro, am great at making many different types of products, I should instead specialize in the thing that I'm really good at and use the income I make from producing that product to pay somebody else to make the other products for me.
00:19:59.000 So, for example, if I'm great at making laptops and I'm also great at making t-shirts,
00:20:03.000 I should spend all of my time making laptops, even if I'm better at making t-shirts than you are, because laptops are a higher-end product, they're more expensive, there's more of a profit margin, and then I'll take the money I use from that, and I will trade it to you to make the t-shirts.
00:20:16.000 Because if you spend all your time making t-shirts, you're gonna make more t-shirts than if I spend half my time making t-shirts and half my time making laptops, right?
00:20:23.000 This is the basic concept of comparative advantage, and this is why trade is good.
00:20:27.000 What the left and what Trump as an economic leftist on trade seeks to do is get rid of the good deal in comparative advantage.
00:20:35.000 He wants to force everybody to make both the t-shirts and the laptops, right?
00:20:39.000 So America has to make both t-shirts and laptops.
00:20:41.000 Somebody tweeted me the other day on this.
00:20:43.000 They said, well, it used to be in the Eisenhower era that 95% of all clothing in the United States was produced in the United States.
00:20:50.000 And I said, right, and now we have iPhones.
00:20:53.000 Right?
00:20:53.000 Because it turns out that we shipped all those jobs to Vietnam.
00:20:56.000 Are we better off?
00:20:57.000 Would we be better off if we were still making t-shirts?
00:21:00.000 They are mutually exclusive.
00:21:01.000 They're only 24 hours in a day and there's only so much money on the table.
00:21:05.000 How you invest that money and where you spend that time determines whether you are a developed economy or whether you are a less developed economy wasting money on inefficient resources.
00:21:14.000 So all of this sounds cold because economics is not a particularly warm subject and that's why tariffs tend to appeal to particular groups of people.
00:21:22.000 But the idea that Trump is going to lay forth any sort of coherent policy is nonsense.
00:21:26.000 He will just speak slogans, right?
00:21:28.000 Shipping jobs overseas as though the job is here and we just decided because we hate Americans we're gonna ship it to China. 0.95
00:21:36.000 It's Bernie Sanders trade policy, okay?
00:21:37.000 The reality is the job is a piece of labor for a wage that is negotiated.
00:21:44.000 That's what a job is.
00:21:45.000 It is labor for wage.
00:21:46.000 It's labor for price.
00:21:49.000 It doesn't exist inside borders.
00:21:51.000 It doesn't exist for specific groups of people.
00:21:53.000 It is just labor being provided at a certain price.
00:21:56.000 If you can get the better price elsewhere, you will go elsewhere.
00:21:58.000 And there is nothing immoral about that.
00:22:00.000 What seems to me more immoral is to penalize the person who's willing to take the lower wage by saying they're not allowed to take the lower wage.
00:22:06.000 But Trump will apparently talk about trade.
00:22:09.000 We'll talk about immigration in detail.
00:22:11.000 And if his AIPAC speech, his speech at the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, is any indicator, when he speaks on policy, he looks slightly awkward, but he's capable of reading a teleprompter.
00:22:21.000 And, you know, he'll give his policy speeches, and every so often, he'll break to inform you that not only does he know about trade, he knows the most about trade, because he has a very big brain, and he will use his very big brain to come up with great, fantastic, unbelievable trade policies bigly.
00:22:38.000 Right, this is what he will do.
00:22:39.000 So, I don't think that's gonna work.
00:22:41.000 I think most Americans look at him speaking policy, and as Samuel Johnson said, in sexist fashion, about a woman talking intelligently, he said, it's like a dog walking on its hind legs.
00:22:53.000 You're not so surprised.
00:22:56.000 The surprise comes in that the dog is doing it at all, that you don't expect the dog to do it well.
00:23:00.000 That's Donald Trump talking policy, right?
00:23:03.000 The surprise is that he's doing it at all,
00:23:05.000 You don't really expect him to do it particularly well.
00:23:07.000 So I don't think that's going to work.
00:23:08.000 I mean, him talking policy versus Cruz talking policy, no contest.
00:23:14.000 And then his second strategy is to just double down on being Trump, because these are the only things in his arsenal.
00:23:18.000 So his latest strategy is to deny that polls exist.
00:23:21.000 So the man who has spent his entire run talking about how the polls are everything, he's winning in all the polls.
00:23:26.000 Let me tell you, the polls are the most important thing.
00:23:28.000 I don't agree with any of those polls and any of those numbers.
00:23:51.000 The media, this liberal media, comes after Mr. Trump on everything, no matter what he says.
00:23:56.000 That's not the liberal media, that's just a poll.
00:23:58.000 The poll is, as far as I'm concerned, manipulated in order to come up with these.
00:24:03.000 Women do not have an issue with Mr. Trump. 0.98
00:24:05.000 We started...
00:24:06.000 We're good to go.
00:24:28.000 His anecdotal evidence trumps your polling numbers.
00:24:29.000 Your statistics don't matter because your statistics are wrong.
00:24:54.000 This is the Trump campaign.
00:24:55.000 They're in the realm of doubling down on Trump.
00:24:57.000 So Trumpism is two things.
00:25:00.000 Unearned arrogance and delusion.
00:25:02.000 And also attack, attack, attack, attack.
00:25:03.000 So the latest Trump attack is on Ted Cruz.
00:25:06.000 It's in New York State.
00:25:07.000 Cruz isn't even running second in New York State, by the way.
00:25:09.000 John Kasich is running second in New York State.
00:25:12.000 If Trump is driven below 50%,
00:25:15.000 In a lot of the congressional districts in New York, he loses a lot of delegates.
00:25:18.000 That's what he's concerned about.
00:25:20.000 So he's going after Cruz very hard.
00:25:22.000 He's doing so on the basis of comments that Cruz made, if you remember, back to a debate a few months ago.
00:25:27.000 Cruz had this to say about New York values when he attacked Donald Trump.
00:25:31.000 You know, I think most people know exactly what New York values are.
00:25:35.000 I am from New York.
00:25:36.000 You're from New York, so you might not.
00:25:39.000 But I promise you, in the state of South Carolina, they do.
00:25:45.000 And listen, there are many, many wonderful, wonderful working men and women in the state of New York.
00:25:51.000 But everyone understands that the values in New York City are socially liberal or pro-abortion or pro-gay marriage, focused around money and the media.
00:26:03.000 And I guess I can frame it another way.
00:26:07.000 Not a lot of conservatives come out of Manhattan.
00:26:11.000 I'm just saying.
00:26:14.000 That is true.
00:26:15.000 I mean, when he's talking about New York values, that's accurate.
00:26:18.000 And when people find this insulting, by the way, I find this absolutely absurd. 0.90
00:26:22.000 New Yorkers are supposed to be the rudest, toughest, roughest bunch. 1.00
00:26:25.000 And I said this back at the time. 0.96
00:26:27.000 If somebody came to me, I'm from Los Angeles, literally my entire life.
00:26:29.000 I've lived in LA my entire life.
00:26:31.000 If somebody said to me, well, you know, those Hollywood types with their Hollywood values.
00:26:36.000 Okay, both my parents work in Hollywood.
00:26:37.000 I would say,
00:26:38.000 Yeah, okay, yeah.
00:26:39.000 You're right, they're lefty.
00:26:40.000 You know, LA's a lefty place. 0.96
00:26:41.000 If somebody said California values, you immediately go to, okay, granola-eating, Birkenstock-wearing hippies, right?
00:26:48.000 That's where you go.
00:26:49.000 Or to plastic celebrities in LA.
00:26:51.000 Those are the two places that your mind goes.
00:26:53.000 That's okay.
00:26:53.000 If somebody says Texas values, you immediately go to the guy in the cowboy hat with the gun on his hip.
00:26:58.000 Right?
00:26:59.000 That's how it is.
00:27:00.000 There's nothing wrong with that.
00:27:02.000 And when New Yorkers act all offended because Cruz is saying that New York values are not conservative values,
00:27:07.000 I mean, you can be thin-skinned, I guess, but it sort of undercuts your argument that you're the roughest, toughest bunch out there, the people who can withstand anything.
00:27:15.000 So Trump is honing in on this.
00:27:17.000 He's going back to the New York Values comment, and here is Donald Trump going after Ted Cruz over the New York Values comment.
00:27:23.000 There was never anything like it in this country.
00:27:27.000 The worst attack in the history of the United States.
00:27:30.000 The bravery that was shown was incredible.
00:27:33.000 We all lived through it.
00:27:34.000 We all know people that died.
00:27:36.000 And I've got this guy standing over there, looking at me, talking about New York values with scorn in his face, with hatred, with hatred of New York.
00:27:47.000 So folks, I think you can forget about him.
00:27:54.000 Forget about it.
00:28:05.000 And I can't really hear what they're chanting there, but the bottom line is that the idea is that Ted Cruz is somehow disloyal to America because he ripped New York values. 0.75
00:28:13.000 First of all, the idea that New York values are just what happened on 9-11 is silly.
00:28:18.000 Everybody loves that New Yorkers rallied around on 9-11.
00:28:21.000 By the way, it's not unique to New York.
00:28:23.000 The idea that only New Yorkers would have acted with unity and strength in the face of 9-11 isn't true.
00:28:28.000 Boston acted with unity and strength in the face of the Boston bombing.
00:28:33.000 I'm an American enough to believe that if 9-11, God forbid, had happened a hundred times over in various cities around the country, virtually all of those cities would react exactly the way New Yorkers did.
00:28:45.000 When Washington, D.C.
00:28:46.000 was hit on the same day and people in Washington, D.C.
00:28:48.000 came together, the idea that New Yorkers are outliers when it comes to basic human decency I don't think is true.
00:28:54.000 So they get credit for being strong on 9-11, but that's not what Cruz is ripping, obviously.
00:28:57.000 He's saying, what is unique to New York?
00:28:59.000 What is unique to New York is not the New York strong.
00:29:01.000 What is unique to New York is the brash, rude, we're socially liberal.
00:29:06.000 We have a naked cowboy in the middle of Times Square. 0.78
00:29:11.000 We think that abortion is just a sacrament.
00:29:13.000 That's what he's talking about.
00:29:14.000 And again, you may not like that he said it, but that's pretty much you being thin-skinned.
00:29:20.000 So, but they're doubling down on this.
00:29:22.000 So, Scott Brown, who actually also has New York values, he's a social liberal, he says that the New York values comments will hurt Cruz.
00:29:27.000 This is the new refrain in New York from the anti-Cruz folks.
00:29:30.000 And it will hurt Cruz, I'm sure.
00:29:32.000 It's not something that Cruz ever thought would matter. 0.97
00:29:34.000 Cruz thought that he would have wrapped this sucker up long ago.
00:29:37.000 He didn't expect Trump to win as many states as he has. 0.94
00:29:40.000 He thought, I mean, the original line from Cruz, if you recall, was that 0.81
00:29:43.000 If Cruz was going to win the nomination, he would have wrapped this sucker up by mid-March.
00:29:47.000 That obviously hasn't happened. 0.90
00:29:48.000 He didn't think that New York would ever matter.
00:29:50.000 It does.
00:29:50.000 But here's Scott Brown going after Cruz on the New York Values comment.
00:29:54.000 I just want to refer back to some of the comments that Ted Cruz just was talking about, about jobs and job creation, with respect to Ted, who I like, and if he's the nominee, I'll support him.
00:30:03.000 The only person in this race who's actually created jobs is Donald Trump, especially in New York, and this New York values comment is absolutely going to crush Ted Cruz, because I know New Yorkers as you know New Yorkers, and they're very, very proud, especially after 9-11, how they so heroically came together, and I thought Donald Trump
00:30:21.000 Was at his best when he made that reference and corrected him and scolded him for his attitude towards New Yorkers.
00:30:26.000 So I think Donald's going to win big in New York.
00:30:29.000 I'm old enough to remember when people objected to Rudy Giuliani citing 9-11, the actual mayor of New York on 9-11.
00:30:35.000 I'm old enough to remember when this was considered bad form and bad taste, but Trump immediately goes to 9-11, and Scott Brown goes to 9-11, and everybody just sort of shrugs, as though the only thing that characterizes New York is 9-11.
00:30:47.000 Again, that's simply not true, any more than when Ted Cruz talks about Washington, D.C.
00:30:51.000 values, which he does, he means, oh, the people, he must be ripping the people who responded with bravery at the Pentagon. 0.80
00:30:58.000 It's just silly talk.
00:31:00.000 Here's Ted Cruz responding to the New York Values stuff in the Bronx. 0.61
00:31:12.000 A significant number of Hispanic pastors, of African-American pastors here in the Bronx.
00:31:17.000 And one of those pastors, Senator Ruben Diaz, who was a Democratic state senator who hosted the gathering, Senator Diaz said, I know exactly what you mean by New York values.
00:31:26.000 We fight them every day in our community.
00:31:28.000 We fight them.
00:31:29.000 They're the values that led, for example, Mayor Bill de Blasio.
00:31:35.000 Liberal Democrat upon getting elected mayor, one of the first things he did was to try to shut down charter schools in Harlem because he is captive to the union bosses who control him.
00:31:48.000 So one of his first actions was to try to throw young African-American and Hispanic kids out of the schools that were giving them hope and giving them a lifeline. 0.98
00:31:57.000 Those are the values.
00:31:58.000 It's the values of the liberal Democratic politicians.
00:32:02.000 That have been hammering the people of New York for a long time.
00:32:04.000 They have been suffering.
00:32:05.000 So why do I call them liberal values?
00:32:06.000 Why do I call them New York values?
00:32:07.000 We're in New York campaigning.
00:32:09.000 Let's be clear.
00:32:10.000 The people of New York know exactly what those values are.
00:32:13.000 They're the values of liberal democratic politicians like Andrew Cuomo, like Anthony Weiner, like Eliot Spencer, like Charlie Rangel, all of whom
00:32:26.000 Donald Trump has supported, given tens of thousands of dollars throughout the years.
00:32:30.000 If you want to know what liberal democratic values are, follow Donald Trump's checkbook.
00:32:35.000 He has been funding these policies.
00:32:38.000 Okay, and of course all of this is right.
00:32:39.000 It's not going to help Cruise, obviously, because apparently there are a lot of thin-skinned voters.
00:32:44.000 But I would just urge everybody to stop being quite so thin-skinned and look at the policy instead of the verbiage.
00:32:50.000 But again, you know, not a smart political move for Cruise, in retrospect, obviously.
00:32:55.000 But nobody could have predicted how this thing was going to go, to be fair to Cruise.
00:32:59.000 Okay, time for some things I like, and then a couple of things I hate, and then the mailbag.
00:33:02.000 So, thing I like.
00:33:03.000 There's a new trailer out for the new Star Wars flick, Rogue One.
00:33:07.000 And it looks really good.
00:33:08.000 Here's some of the trailer.
00:33:13.000 State your name for the record.
00:33:14.000 Jyn Erso.
00:33:18.000 Forgery of Imperial documents.
00:33:20.000 Possession of stolen property.
00:33:22.000 Aggravated assault.
00:33:23.000 Resisting arrest.
00:33:26.000 On your own from the age of 15.
00:33:28.000 Reckless, aggressive, and undisciplined.
00:33:31.000 This is a rebellion, isn't it?
00:33:37.000 I rebel.
00:33:44.000 We have a mission for you.
00:33:48.000 A major weapons test is imminent.
00:33:50.000 We need to know what it is.
00:33:51.000 Okay, so that's enough of it.
00:33:53.000 So the bottom line here is that this is the origin story for how they got the plans for the original Death Star that Luke Skywalker blew up.
00:34:00.000 At some point they'll make a Star Wars movie that doesn't center on the Death Star, but
00:34:04.000 This was obviously the origin story of that.
00:34:07.000 There are a couple theories that are floating around as to who this gal is.
00:34:12.000 Some people online who are more of the fretful types, they say, well, she's just another Mary Sue, which is a term in science fiction, meaning that it's just some girl who's absolutely heroic and perfect in every way, like Katniss Eberdeen, who stands out in every way.
00:34:27.000 And you don't really know how she got her skill set, she just has it.
00:34:30.000 And so they're saying this is just another one of those.
00:34:32.000 Disney has been attempting to promote female heroines over and over in these flicks because originally the series was very male-centric.
00:34:40.000 I don't happen to care very much about that.
00:34:42.000 You know, if it's a girl, it's a girl.
00:34:43.000 If it's a guy, it's a guy.
00:34:45.000 It annoys me if they're purposefully going overboard, but aside from that, I really don't care.
00:34:51.000 So the other theory is that this gal is going to end up basically being Rey's mom, you know, from the new Star Wars flick.
00:34:57.000 This gal will end up being the mother of Rey. 0.98
00:34:59.000 She will end up being a lover of Luke, basically.
00:35:02.000 And they together will produce this child.
00:35:04.000 So the movies will end up tying together.
00:35:06.000 That's the going theory here.
00:35:09.000 So we'll see how it turns out.
00:35:11.000 But I think that at this point, evergreen description of Star Wars flick.
00:35:15.000 Young rebellious girl signs up with Rebellion to blow up Death Star. 0.72
00:35:19.000 This will now be every movie ever made in the Star Wars canon, so that's exciting.
00:35:24.000 Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:35:26.000 So last night I was speaking at Penn State, and it was, shall we say, dicey.
00:35:32.000 Here is a taste of what it was like.
00:35:38.000 No.
00:35:45.000 The reason I say no, I'd be happy to let people in if they're not screaming, but the reason I say no is because it's a fire hazard, and the last time people tried to create a fire hazard, they pulled the fire alarm in the middle of the lecture.
00:35:56.000 No, we're trying to break down the door.
00:35:59.000 This is our money.
00:36:00.000 We are students, too.
00:36:01.000 This was UPAC funding.
00:36:03.000 We deserve the right to be in there.
00:36:05.000 That was our funding, too.
00:36:06.000 You had the right to let us in.
00:36:08.000 If it was too big, you could have moved it outside.
00:36:10.000 It's a fire code.
00:36:10.000 It's a fire code.
00:36:12.000 You can film me.
00:36:13.000 I don't care.
00:36:13.000 We have the right to be in there.
00:36:15.000 It's a fire coat.
00:36:16.000 You could have moved it outside.
00:36:17.000 If you wanted to be there, you should have showed up earlier.
00:36:20.000 You could have moved it outside.
00:36:21.000 You just don't care.
00:36:23.000 I mean, I wish you would have been outside.
00:36:26.000 So, here's the deal.
00:36:34.000 To my speeches.
00:36:35.000 So this room held about 400 people.
00:36:37.000 There were another 250 outside lined up.
00:36:39.000 This also happened at Virginia Tech.
00:36:40.000 It happened at University of North Carolina.
00:36:42.000 It happened at George Washington.
00:36:44.000 It's happening pretty much everywhere now, which is cool that people want to hear the speech.
00:36:48.000 The problem is, obviously, those people didn't actually want to hear the speech.
00:36:51.000 They were outside literally shouting, shut it down.
00:36:54.000 Right?
00:36:54.000 So if they wanted to come in and sit quietly and listen to the speech and then ask questions, that's perfectly fine.
00:36:59.000 But they didn't want to.
00:37:00.000 They wanted to actually shut it down.
00:37:03.000 Maybe commit acts of violence.
00:37:04.000 I mean, there are points during the speech at which these ideological fascists were pounding on the door, like literally pounding on it, trying to break in. 1.00
00:37:12.000 There was one point where a guy broke through and shouted something to the effect of, come out here, bitch, which was not something I was inclined to do after he shouted at me, come out here, bitch. 0.99
00:37:21.000 That seemed like a poor idea. 0.99
00:37:23.000 So this is how things are on campus.
00:37:25.000 If you haven't been watching closely, folks, at what's happened to college campuses,
00:37:29.000 This is new.
00:37:30.000 What's happening in the last couple of years is new, and it's much worse than it was even 10 or 15 years ago.
00:37:36.000 I was flattered, however, that these folks decided to send me some notes.
00:37:39.000 Here's a picture of the notes that they sent me.
00:37:42.000 There it is.
00:37:42.000 Yeah.
00:37:43.000 So there are the notes.
00:37:44.000 They dropped a bunch of notes inside the cracks of the doors, calling me racist and horrible.
00:37:49.000 But I know these are nice valentines, but really, guys, I'm flattered, but I'm taken.
00:37:55.000 Sorry.
00:37:56.000 Okay.
00:37:56.000 Time for a couple of questions from the mailbag, and we'll do what we do every week.
00:38:00.000 So that means that
00:38:02.000 If you are a subscriber, you can see me visually right now, and I'm going to flash a number up on the screen.
00:38:08.000 If you include this number in your mail, then you will be given priority in the mailbag, and we get literally hundreds of emails a week.
00:38:14.000 We get probably 100 emails, fanmails a day, so priority matters.
00:38:18.000 Here is your number.
00:38:19.000 Ooh, okay.
00:38:22.000 Include that in the subject line of your email, and you will be given priority.
00:38:27.000 All right, okay, so here's the mailbag.
00:38:30.000 First, William, he writes, I think the push for a new economic system based on the notion of combating climate change or global warming is terribly flawed.
00:38:38.000 However, I do see a more advanced future in which some of the technologies, environmentalists, and those on the left speak of are main aspects of our lives.
00:38:45.000 How do you suggest we get to that point?
00:38:47.000 Incentives for the private sector, tax breaks, et cetera?
00:38:50.000 I can't see you suggesting more government agencies partaking in the development of new technologies.
00:38:55.000 So the answer is that, thank God, the market provides impetus
00:38:59.000 We're developing more environmentally friendly technology, but they also have to be efficient.
00:39:03.000 So we did this, by the way.
00:39:05.000 It turns out that Germany, you know, before they, it's amazing how the environmental left shoots itself right in the foot. 0.88
00:39:12.000 Germany used to rely largely on nuclear power, which is totally environmentally friendly.
00:39:17.000 Then there was a campaign against nuclear power and suddenly the number of coal plants in Germany skyrocketed.
00:39:23.000 You can come up with really good technologies, but the left tends to oppose them on other environmental grounds, because the left's agenda here is not technological advancement, it's the opposite.
00:39:33.000 The left actually wants to return to the living standards of the 1930s, 1920s, because then we can all be more equal.
00:39:39.000 What they're looking for is global economic redistributionism, not development into a cleaner age.
00:39:44.000 If they cared about development into a cleaner age, then presumably they would let the market do its work, because technology has been getting cleaner,
00:39:51.000 For your lifetime, my lifetime, and our parents' lifetime.
00:39:54.000 This is why the gas mileage on your car has been going steadily in the right direction.
00:39:58.000 It's not because of case standards.
00:40:00.000 It's not because of government regulation.
00:40:01.000 It's because there's a demand for cheaper cars that move more ground for the same amount of gas.
00:40:07.000 Seth writes, From what you see right now, is Cruz still able to win this election?
00:40:11.000 Would he be able to win in a contested convention?
00:40:13.000 If he did, would the Trump supporters ditch him and cause him to lose in a general election?
00:40:18.000 OK, so Cruz cannot win outright the nomination.
00:40:21.000 He doesn't have enough delegates.
00:40:22.000 Would he be able to win in a contested convention?
00:40:25.000 I think that's the most likely outcome at this point.
00:40:27.000 I think if it's contested, Cruz ends up with the nomination because no one's going to hand it to Trump.
00:40:31.000 And Kasich is just sitting around for no reason, because he's a delusional raisin of a man.
00:40:37.000 If he did, would Trump supporters ditch Cruz?
00:40:40.000 Maybe they'd ditch Romney.
00:40:41.000 I don't think all of them would.
00:40:42.000 I think that some of them would.
00:40:44.000 Some of them would unify behind Cruz.
00:40:46.000 But the same worry should hold true for the Trump supporters.
00:40:49.000 There are a lot of Cruz supporters who would not back Trump, including me, because I won't back Trump under any circumstances, as I've mentioned before.
00:41:08.000 No, that's not true.
00:41:09.000 Tax breaks and loopholes are called deductions.
00:41:11.000 People at the upper echelon tend to take more deductions because they are paying more taxes and spending more money.
00:41:17.000 It's not like there's an income barrier beyond which you get certain tax breaks.
00:41:21.000 That's not how taxes work.
00:41:22.000 There's nothing in the tax code that says you're earning over $400,000 a year.
00:41:26.000 Congratulations!
00:41:27.000 Here's a loophole.
00:41:28.000 That's not how the tax code works.
00:41:30.000 Georgia writes, what is your favorite food?
00:41:32.000 Is it hard to eat kosher on the road?
00:41:34.000 Yes, it is hard to eat kosher on the road.
00:41:37.000 This is how I stay skinny, essentially.
00:41:39.000 Exercise and going on the road.
00:41:40.000 This is how I stay skinny.
00:41:42.000 My favorite food?
00:41:44.000 Well, I used to really love ravioli.
00:41:46.000 Ravioli is spectacular.
00:41:47.000 I could put away, and we used to get frozen ravioli.
00:41:49.000 I'd put away like three bags of that stuff.
00:41:51.000 I'd put away like 30 ravioli at once.
00:41:54.000 They're unbelievable.
00:41:56.000 Sarah writes, do you support Bitcoin?
00:41:57.000 Why or why not?
00:41:59.000 The truth is, I really don't know that much about Bitcoin.
00:42:01.000 I don't oppose alternative forms of currency as a general rule, so long as they're verified and so long as there's something backing them.
00:42:09.000 I do like the idea, if the question is about private currency, so long as the government is manipulating currency, I'm fine with the idea of a private currency that's more pegged to current value than whatever Janet Yellen decides this week.
00:42:20.000 James writes, the 11 tactics for destroying leftists in debate are effective.
00:42:24.000 But what strategy would you suggest in softening a liberal's perspective?
00:42:27.000 Not all of them are intrinsically evil, just misinformed.
00:42:30.000 Agreed.
00:42:31.000 You have to meet people on their own level.
00:42:33.000 So the 11 debate tactics that I talk about are debate tactics.
00:42:36.000 They're for debate.
00:42:37.000 For discussion, you have to actually get to the root of what the left is talking about.
00:42:41.000 What do they want?
00:42:42.000 And you can't allow them to stand on moral superiority because leftist perspectives are not morally superior.
00:42:47.000 You can talk about that.
00:42:49.000 Once you get past that argument,
00:42:50.000 Once you get past the moral argument, where they say, I'm moral, and you say, no, really, your perspective is not moral, it's immoral, you can argue about the morality itself, and you can try to come to some consensus, which you may be able to do.
00:43:02.000 Or you can move on to the efficiency and efficacy of policy.
00:43:06.000 That was sort of the rest of the discussion with Piers Morgan that nobody pays attention to, that I had on gun control, is me trying to peg him down to policy so that we could come to some sort of consensus.
00:43:14.000 He refused to do it because he didn't know anything about policy.
00:43:18.000 Nick writes, Can you please do a short segment on the new lawsuit from the US Women's National Soccer Team?
00:43:22.000 They are suing for wage discrimination.
00:43:25.000 There are a whole bunch of flaws with their argument, citing that the women's team gets paid less than the men when the women brought in $20 million more than the men's team.
00:43:31.000 This is misleading because they had a World Cup last year while the men did not.
00:43:35.000 Right?
00:43:35.000 This is true.
00:43:36.000 The main point I find troubling is that they are complaining about a payment plan that they set up.
00:43:40.000 Well, yes.
00:43:41.000 You know, you're summing it all up.
00:43:43.000 I mean, the idea is if you don't like the contract, don't sign the contract.
00:43:46.000 I'm seeing that women in tennis are complaining about the same thing. 1.00
00:43:49.000 Well, we generate revenue, so why shouldn't we get paid the same as men? 0.98
00:43:52.000 Well, if you think you should be paid the same as men, then hold out.
00:43:55.000 Hold out.
00:43:56.000 You can do it.
00:43:57.000 I'm not against, by the way, private unions.
00:43:59.000 I'm not against private strikes.
00:44:01.000 What I'm against is kneecapping people who refuse to engage in your strike.
00:44:04.000 So that you can't do.
00:44:06.000 Ramin writes, is the gun control debate still a losing battle for leftists?
00:44:09.000 Yes, it is.
00:44:10.000 There are 300 million guns in the United States and 100 million gun owners.
00:44:14.000 That is a losing battle for the left.
00:44:17.000 Jimmy writes, I saw from your Tuesday and Wednesday podcasts you are away from the West Coast and on the East Coast.
00:44:22.000 I'm from Dover, Delaware, which is near Salisbury, Maryland, and I now live in Brooklyn.
00:44:27.000 As a subscriber, I'm wondering how I can see where you're touring.
00:44:30.000 All you have to do is go to dailywire.com.
00:44:32.000 We've been covering it in detail.
00:44:34.000 Go to my Twitter feed.
00:44:35.000 I tweet out the periscopes and the videos as they come out.
00:44:39.000 Alex writes, if no Republican nominee receives a majority of delegates during primaries and caucuses, who do you realistically see getting the nomination from a brokered convention?
00:44:47.000 As I say, I think that Cruz will likely be the winner of a brokered convention, because going completely outside the box, that's likely to alienate pretty much anybody.
00:44:57.000 Final one from Jeremy.
00:44:58.000 He writes,
00:45:10.000 Yes.
00:45:11.000 Yes.
00:45:12.000 And we should have an areligious basic philosophy test as well to determine whether you are in line with Western civilization and Western freedoms.
00:45:21.000 And if we can background check you and you agree with those principles, and you're not going to go on welfare, then welcome it.
00:45:26.000 And if not, then no.
00:45:28.000 And that holds true across the board.
00:45:29.000 That holds true across the board.
00:45:31.000 Well, folks, that's it for the mailbag this week.
00:45:33.000 Again, if you want to write into the mailbag next week, write me with this number.
00:45:37.000 Ooh.
00:45:38.000 And you'll be given top priority.
00:45:40.000 Have yourselves a merry little weekend.
00:45:42.000 We're going to be at University of Michigan tonight.
00:45:45.000 We are expecting fireworks because it seems that the fireworks follow me because I'm just that hot.
00:45:51.000 So it'll be good times.
00:45:53.000 Check us out and have yourself a wonderful weekend.
00:45:56.000 We will see you on Monday if indeed you're alive and so am I. I'm Ben Shapiro.
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