The Ben Shapiro Show - May 02, 2016


Ep. 110 - Can The Trump Train Turn Hillary Into Roadkill?

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Donald Trump Ted Cruz Hillary Clinton Barack Obama Mike Tyson Larry Wilmore Luke Skywalker Caitlyn Jenner David Brock John Boozman Amy Schumer Karl Rove George W. Bush Sean Spicer Boba Fett Wolf Hall Newt Gingrich John Boehner Marco Rubio Darth Vader and 48 more
Ep. 109 - Trump Finally Comes Out Of The Closet Ep. 111 - Trump Kills Ben! And Other Trump Fantasies Come To Life

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Donald Trump is the favorite to win the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, but what does that mean for the rest of the field? Is he a shoo-in for the nomination, or is he destined to lose to Hillary Clinton? And what will the establishment do now that they know they veered into a primary that won t go their way? What will they do if Trump doesn t win the nomination? And how will they move forward now that he s the presumed favorite to become the next president of the United States? Alex Blumberg lays out the strategy the Trump campaign is using to prepare for the possibility that Trump will lose the primary and what they can do to make sure he s not the next President of the USA. (Spoiler: it s not what you think.) Alex also explains why the establishment is getting behind Trump and why it s a good bet he s going to win in November. If he doesn t, they re going to have to go all in on Hillary Clinton and hope for the best possible outcome. And if he does lose, they ll have to figure out a way to get behind him in the polls and keep him there until the fall, and then they'll have to deal with the fallout from the inevitable Democratic primary chaos that s sure to come from a fractured Republican primary. They'll also have to learn how to counter Hillary Clinton in order to keep him on the trail in the general election, which is going to be messy and messy and ugly and nasty and nasty, and they won't be able to do it the way they think they want them to win it. . And they'll also learn that they can t stop him from winning the nomination unless he s running against Hillary Clinton. And they have to be prepared for a third party candidate who s gonna beat Hillary Clinton and they can win the primary or they know he s gonna win it in the fall ...and they don t know what to do about it that s gonna be a good thing, right? Can they do it, right or they don't know what they re gonna do? ? What do they do with it? What s the best way to stop him, and how to stop Trump s chances of winning in November? and what s their best chance of winning the election, and can they prepare for that chance at winning in the mid-term election? And what s the worst thing they ve got?

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00:00:00.000 With the end of the Republican primaries in sight and Donald Trump the prohibited favorite for the nomination, critics of the Never Trump movement have been out in force and they're trying to browbeat those of us who don't support Trump into embracing this demagogic loudmouth moron with tyrannical views of government and an incoherent quasi-isolationist foreign policy.
00:00:18.000 So last week I talked about Never Trump and I said never means never.
00:00:23.000 But here's a more important question given the fact that the Trump train is now barreling down the 2016 tracks.
00:00:30.000 What comes next for the Trumpsters?
00:00:32.000 Now that their whining, mewling rage has brought about the nomination of the most leftist candidate in the GOP's history, here's the question.
00:00:40.000 What do they do?
00:00:41.000 Well, they have to do three things.
00:00:42.000 First, they inflate the myth of Trump.
00:00:44.000 Trump is the overwhelming favorite to lose according to every betting market.
00:00:48.000 He's currently at 18% at Betfair.
00:00:50.000 He's at 29% at Bovada.
00:00:52.000 Predict-wise, gives him a 27% chance of winning the Republican presidency.
00:00:57.000 Of the last 50 head-to-head polls between Clinton and Trump, Clinton wins 42 of them.
00:01:02.000 She ties three.
00:01:04.000 So, Trumpsters have claimed for months their man is the only one who can beat Hillary.
00:01:08.000 So they have sort of a bind.
00:01:10.000 Like the Joker in the Dark Knight, they've now chased the car and they've bitten the bumper, but now they don't know what to do with it.
00:01:16.000 So they'll pretend for just a few months that Trump will win.
00:01:19.000 Today they're holding up a new Rasmussen poll that shows Trump ahead of Hillary 41 to 39.
00:01:23.000 This, they say, shows Trump is competitive.
00:01:26.000 Now, put aside that Rasmussen polls were wildly off last time around in 2012.
00:01:31.000 Instead, focus on the fact that the poll includes 15% of voters who say they want somebody else and another 5% who are undecided.
00:01:39.000 No candidate in history has won an election with 41% of the vote without a third-party candidate, and there's no third-party candidate on the horizon.
00:01:47.000 Beyond that, the poll shows that Trump wins about 48% of white voters.
00:01:50.000 He needs 63% to be competitive with Hillary Clinton. 0.67
00:01:54.000 So, in the absence of decent stats showing that Trump would be competitive with Clinton, they're starting to spin.
00:02:00.000 Michael Walsh, who's a big Trump supporter over at the New York Post, he says Trump can win.
00:02:04.000 He says, quote,
00:02:05.000 You're darn right he can.
00:02:06.000 Does anyone think that in the debates, Hillary will be able to withstand the blunt force trauma the braggadocious billionaire deployed to knock Jeb and his other rivals out of the race? 0.99
00:02:16.000 First off, he didn't really knock Cruz out of the race with that same routine.
00:02:19.000 He didn't knock Rubio out of the race with that same routine.
00:02:22.000 He looked pretty bad in those last debates.
00:02:24.000 New debates will look much more like those late debates.
00:02:26.000 Then they have to move on to step two.
00:02:27.000 Wait for the consolidation.
00:02:29.000 They have to pretend that the old establishment is the new anti-establishment.
00:02:32.000 Everybody who's anti-Trump, but used to be establishment, is now the new anti-establishment.
00:02:36.000 So the Trump people made a bet.
00:02:39.000 They bet that the establishment wing of the GOP would get behind them if they could threaten them into conciliation.
00:02:45.000 Historically, that's a pretty good bet.
00:02:46.000 Obama made the same bet.
00:02:47.000 He constantly threatened and cajoled Republicans, and it always paid off.
00:02:52.000 Now, Marco Rubio is making ridiculously funny noises about how Trump is coming around and has become more mature.
00:02:59.000 John Boehner, the former Speaker of the House, says Cruz is Satan incarnate and he'd vote for Trump over Hillary, but not Cruz.
00:03:05.000 Trump is overtly defending Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
00:03:09.000 In Indiana, former Governor Mitch Daniels has kept quiet, and current Governor Mike Pence reluctantly endorsed Cruz, but then said nice things about Trump.
00:03:16.000 GOP leaders are getting behind Trump for a few reasons.
00:03:18.000 First, they don't want the party split.
00:03:20.000 Second, they want the cash.
00:03:22.000 Anytime there's an election, they get a lot of cash.
00:03:24.000 And third,
00:03:25.000 They actually like Trump's leftist program, even if they don't like Trump personally.
00:03:29.000 Okay, third thing that the Trumpsters are prepared to do.
00:03:32.000 They're preparing for the crash.
00:03:33.000 So the Trumpsters are really worried that Trump's gonna lose.
00:03:36.000 And so they're preparing, they're stabbed in the back myth early.
00:03:39.000 They're relying on these first two steps, they're claiming Trump is a super powerful, wonderfully brilliant candidate, and they're gonna say that even the establishment got behind him, and then if they lose, they're gonna say that the evil, nasty conservatives wrecked the whole thing.
00:03:51.000 Ian Tuttle put it this way at National Review.
00:03:54.000 He said if Trump is the nominee, it's not going to matter what anti-Trump conservatives do leading up to November.
00:03:58.000 If he wins, supporters will trot out the guillotine.
00:04:01.000 If he loses, they'll trot out the guillotine. 0.71
00:04:03.000 They just want to see heads roll.
00:04:04.000 This has been the animating impulse from the beginning.
00:04:06.000 At the heart of the Trump phenomenon is a bloodthirst, and one way or another there will be blood.
00:04:11.000 Now the Trump people have to push this narrative, or they'll be blamed for nominating the most despised person in modern politics, and thus losing the presidency to the most despised leftist in modern politics. 0.99
00:04:22.000 That'll turn 2020, four years from now, into a brawl between the Trump supporters, the people who initiated this stupid, pathetic Beer Hall Putsch, and those who oppose them. 0.98
00:04:31.000 The burden is now on the Trumpsters. 0.98
00:04:33.000 They're about to find out that if you like the match for the burn-it-all-down movement, that's not quite the same thing as sitting in the center of the house while the walls are flaming.
00:04:41.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:04:42.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:04:50.000 So we're back from Passover, and this week's episode is sponsored by the post-Passover laxative Let My People Go.
00:04:57.000 And it's a- And it was a great vacation, I'm so glad that I had it.
00:05:02.000 And I'm so sad that I get to come back the day before Armageddon.
00:05:05.000 It's just- it's bad vacation scheduling.
00:05:07.000 Like, if you're gonna schedule a vacation, preferably you do it when Armageddon is actually happening.
00:05:12.000 You don't come back right before the sweet meteor of death hits the earth and obliterates all life.
00:05:17.000 That's the time when you'd prefer to be on the vacation.
00:05:20.000 We're coming back the day before Indiana.
00:05:22.000 Newest poll from the Wall Street Journal, NBC, shows that Trump is up 49 to 35 over Ted Cruz, which of course has everybody who cares about the Republic, everybody who thinks Trump will be bad for the Republic, shredding their clothing and ripping their clothes and gnashing their teeth and
00:05:41.000 Donald Trump is poised to win Indiana.
00:05:43.000 There are two different polls that came out over the weekend.
00:05:45.000 One shows Cruz way ahead, and then one shows that Trump is way ahead, the one that shows Trump way ahead.
00:06:03.000 Take that for what it is worth.
00:06:09.000 The establishment couldn't be happier about this, by the way.
00:06:12.000 The establishment, which I've been saying for months, was going to swing behind Donald Trump when the chips were actually down.
00:06:18.000 When there's only one way to stop Trump, and that was going to be them, they would cave, and that's what they're doing.
00:06:22.000 And so what you're starting to see is this new call from the elite
00:06:27.000 In the Republican Party, that Trump is actually fine.
00:06:29.000 Secretly, he's okay.
00:06:30.000 It's all just been a big ruse.
00:06:31.000 You know, this whole thing is, it'll be okay, it'll be okay.
00:06:34.000 And Cruz really is desperate.
00:06:35.000 Now, yes, of course Cruz is desperate.
00:06:38.000 But one of the things making him desperate is that you guys keep saying that he's desperate.
00:06:41.000 Like, it turns out that when everybody in the establishment jumps onto the seesaw on Donald Trump's very heavy side, then that's going to make Cruz a little bit more desperate.
00:06:50.000 So here's Newt Gingrich.
00:06:52.000 Rolling out like the bowling ball that he is, talking about how Indiana is life or death for Ted Cruz.
00:06:58.000 What do you think?
00:06:58.000 You think Indiana is the make-or-break situation?
00:07:00.000 I mean, if Trump wins Indiana, is it over?
00:07:04.000 Oh, sure.
00:07:05.000 Look, Indiana is make-or-break for Cruz, and it's a bump in the road for Trump.
00:07:12.000 If Cruz can't win Indiana, and by win I mean get virtually all the delegates, do something like close to what he did in Wisconsin,
00:07:21.000 There's no possibility that he can stop Trump.
00:07:23.000 It'll just be over sometime Wednesday morning.
00:07:26.000 On the other hand, if Trump doesn't do particularly well in Indiana, he has so much overall momentum and is such a huge lead, he could still win by winning in New Jersey and California on June 7th.
00:07:38.000 So for Trump, it is a significant event.
00:07:41.000 For Cruz, it's life and death.
00:07:43.000 Well, it's become that because people like Gingrich over the past few weeks have been throwing their rather ample support behind Donald Trump.
00:07:50.000 And he's not the only one.
00:07:51.000 David Brooks, who really doesn't like Trump very much, he hates Cruz even more.
00:07:54.000 I mean, David Brooks despises Cruz because he thinks that Ted Cruz is just the worst. 0.97
00:07:59.000 He said that he has, I think he called it a satanic impulse toward darkness, something ridiculous like that. 0.96
00:08:04.000 David Brooks, who actually is a leftist, he's a leftist masquerading as a right winger.
00:08:08.000 David Brooks says he's the in-house conservative over at PBS and New York Times.
00:08:13.000 He says that cruises drown and cruises collapsing and all the rest of it.
00:08:17.000 The second thing that's happened is not only Trump is strong, but Cruz looks a lot weaker.
00:08:22.000 And flailing about with Carly Fiorina and the alleged Kasich deal, that looks like the axe of a drowning man.
00:08:31.000 And so just in terms of the moral rigor, the motivation force, the morale, Cruz is collapsing and Trump is surging.
00:08:40.000 So I agree with Mark.
00:08:41.000 And you don't have to look quite so happy about it there, David.
00:08:44.000 Karl Rove, too, seems a little... He's coming around, too.
00:08:47.000 You're seeing the entire Republican establishment jump on this bandwagon.
00:08:49.000 Now, look.
00:08:50.000 There's objective analysis.
00:08:51.000 Cruz is desperate.
00:08:52.000 Cruz has to win Indiana.
00:08:54.000 If he doesn't win Indiana, it is over.
00:08:56.000 Essentially, unless something unforeseen happens, Donald Trump spontaneously combusts from dusting his face with the Hot Cheetos instead of the regular Cheetos or something like that.
00:09:05.000 But...
00:09:07.000 It's true.
00:09:07.000 Donald Trump is probably going to be the nominee.
00:09:10.000 But the point that I'm making is that the talk about Cruz, you can see there's like a little bit of glee behind a lot of these folks talking about how Cruz is basically done.
00:09:17.000 And the reason that he's basically done is because these people have blown up in the last two weeks Trump's victories, which he was expected to win, on the East Coast into, well, this is over now.
00:09:25.000 He won New York.
00:09:26.000 He won Delaware.
00:09:27.000 Clearly he's going to sweep.
00:09:28.000 The media helped craft a feeling of momentum.
00:09:30.000 It's what they do.
00:09:32.000 After Iowa, the media did not push the notion that Ted Cruz had a lot of momentum going into New Hampshire.
00:09:36.000 They said, oh, he's gonna get killed in New Hampshire, and he actually did much better than expected in New Hampshire.
00:09:40.000 The media helps craft the momentum conversation, and they're really behind the Trump train right now, and which is why Trump will probably win Indiana tomorrow, and he'll probably win it in bigger numbers than people think he will.
00:09:51.000 Karl Rove does the same thing.
00:09:52.000 Rove has been making secret, quiet overtures
00:09:55.000 We're good to go.
00:10:22.000 Again, why this man is considered a legitimate political figure is beyond me after he ran up and down the halls of Fox News during the last election cycle like a character from Harry Potter haunting the bathrooms.
00:10:34.000 Like moaning Myrtle, here's Karl Rove.
00:10:37.000 He said if Trump won Indiana it could all be
00:10:40.000 But over.
00:10:41.000 Right.
00:10:42.000 So, look, this is not a strategic move.
00:10:44.000 This was a tactical move.
00:10:46.000 The Ocella primary was a night of good night for Donald Trump.
00:10:49.000 And what better way to stop people in Indiana from focusing on that than naming your vice presidential running mate and spending a lot of time in Indiana.
00:10:57.000 And so, you know, it was a desperate move.
00:10:59.000 But it may have shut down a certain amount of the coverage of Trump's Ocella primary win and spend a little bit more time on the pizazz of a vice presidential running mate.
00:11:09.000 And they're eager.
00:11:09.000 The media is eager to make it into a Cruz-out-Trump-in routine.
00:11:14.000 E.J.
00:11:14.000 Dionne, he's a leftist, he's trying to push the horse race narrative now, and this is what the entire media are going to do.
00:11:19.000 This is a real horse race.
00:11:20.000 Trump can win this thing.
00:11:22.000 You're already starting to see that narrative out today, as I suggested earlier.
00:11:25.000 This is the first step in the narrative.
00:11:26.000 The first step is Trump can win.
00:11:28.000 Then it's the establishment jumps on the bandwagon, because they like the money and they want to keep the doors open.
00:11:33.000 And then finally it'll be, Trump loses and he loses pretty big, and then they turn around and they say, well it's because of all you conservatives who wouldn't back him in the first place.
00:11:40.000 EJ Dionne is on the left, he's pushing the horse race narrative, here he is.
00:11:44.000 Trade, trade, trade, and deindustrialization.
00:11:47.000 And that's his whole card.
00:11:49.000 If he could win those Rust Belt states that are traditionally democratic, he could win the election.
00:11:54.000 His problem is, on Matt's point, the country may say we're on the wrong track, but Barack Obama's numbers have gone over 50%, as he said last night.
00:12:06.000 And if Barack Obama is doing that well in November, it's going to be very hard for Trump to advance that argument.
00:12:12.000 Whatever he picks up among voters concerned about trade and those issues, he's going to lose with those massive negative numbers he has among women. 0.83
00:12:21.000 So I think his path is very difficult.
00:12:24.000 But if there is a path for him, it's in the Rust Belt and it's with young voters not voting in the numbers that Hillary needs.
00:12:32.000 He helps bring them out.
00:12:36.000 Okay, so the idea is that this will be a more competitive race than everybody thinks.
00:12:39.000 Now, I want to talk a little bit about how Trump can win.
00:12:42.000 Okay, how Trump can actually win.
00:12:43.000 So I don't think that it's going to be as much of a cakewalk as even I have been saying Hillary over Trump.
00:12:49.000 I do think that Hillary will end up winning. 1.00
00:12:50.000 I do think she'll win a lot of states that Trump has put into play.
00:12:53.000 But if Trump wins, it's really going to be just because the left is so terrible, which is what makes this whole thing really frustrating for me.
00:13:00.000 Because if Trump wins because the left is just so terrible, that means that Cruz could have won just because the left is so terrible. 0.88
00:13:06.000 And then we could have a constitutional conservative as president of the United States, not this bloviating big state buffoon. 0.95
00:13:12.000 Right?
00:13:12.000 If the left is so terrible that anybody could have won, which is basically the premise, because the only other premise is basically that Trump attacks a lot, but Trump's attacks backfire as often as they strike,
00:13:24.000 But if Trump wins, it's going to be because the people who are on the other side are so terrible.
00:13:27.000 So one of the big narratives that's emerged over the last few days has been all of the protesters at Trump rallies.
00:13:33.000 There are a lot of protesters showing up and harassing people, and this is true.
00:13:37.000 And when I watch this stuff, as somebody who ardently does not like Donald Trump, somebody who ardently dislikes Donald Trump, I understand the sympathy for Donald Trump when you look at this stuff.
00:13:47.000 So here are a bunch of Hispanic kids protesting one of Trump's appearances in California, and here's what it looked like.
00:13:57.000 We've got people driving past with Trump signs, and what you see is a bunch of Bernie Sanders holding Latino kids.
00:14:04.000 They're children.
00:14:05.000 I mean, we're looking at children.
00:14:06.000 They're wearing sombreros, and they are flipping the birds.
00:14:10.000 There's people driving past. 0.99
00:14:11.000 There's a rather large black woman who's shaking her rump at the cars and slapping her butt. 1.00
00:14:17.000 All these kids. 1.00
00:14:18.000 These kids must be, what, 12 years old?
00:14:19.000 Maybe 10, 12 years old?
00:14:20.000 And they're flipping off all of the cars that are passing.
00:14:23.000 I look at this and I say, you're holding a Mexican flag and you're wearing a sombrero and you're flipping off to cars that are passing.
00:14:28.000 I have a lot of sympathy for the people who oppose you, even if I don't like the people who oppose you.
00:14:32.000 And this is what's... The Trump movement is an anti-movement.
00:14:36.000 It's an anti-movement.
00:14:37.000 It's an anti-everything movement.
00:14:38.000 And it's an anti-these-people movement.
00:14:40.000 So the more prominent these folks are, the better off Trump is going to be.
00:14:44.000 Another event over the weekend.
00:14:45.000 There was a bunch of protesters who clashed with the police at a Trump event.
00:14:49.000 Here's what that looked like.
00:14:50.000 Mr. Haight!
00:14:51.000 Leave our state!
00:14:53.000 Protesters in California tried stopping the billionaire in his tracks, clashing with police, breaking down barricades, even fighting with a Trump supporter, the most violent opposition to a Trump appearance since a canceled event in Chicago last month.
00:15:05.000 They forced the candidate to take a winding detour to a GOP convention near San Francisco.
00:15:10.000 That was not the easiest entrance I've ever made.
00:15:15.000 My wife called.
00:15:16.000 She said, there are helicopters following you.
00:15:18.000 And we did.
00:15:19.000 And then we went under a fence and through a fence.
00:15:21.000 And, oh boy, it felt like I was crossing the border, actually.
00:15:24.000 I was crossing the border, but I got here.
00:15:31.000 It's a funny line.
00:15:32.000 Okay, it's funny.
00:15:32.000 And this is what creates the feeling of popularity for Trump.
00:15:35.000 Because the people who face him are such dimwits. 1.00
00:15:37.000 The people who face him are so terrible. 1.00
00:15:40.000 Right?
00:15:40.000 It's sort of the same feeling.
00:15:41.000 I'm sure there are people who dislike me.
00:15:43.000 And when I go and I speak on a campus and people try to throw people who want to hear lectures around and start beating them up, people start to have sympathy for my point of view just because the people who are protesting me are so terrible.
00:15:54.000 Here's another Trump supporter.
00:15:56.000 They showed him briefly there.
00:15:58.000 Sean Hannity described this guy as somebody walking through hell.
00:16:01.000 Okay, let's be real about this.
00:16:02.000 Like, this isn't Auschwitz, and it's not Normandy, okay?
00:16:05.000 It ain't quite hell.
00:16:06.000 And the guy is choosing, in fact, to walk through a bunch of leftist protesters, but it does show that there are a bunch of people out there on the left who are violent.
00:16:14.000 There they are, flying Mexican flags, and honestly trying to beat up a guy who's wearing a Make America Great Again hat. 0.97
00:16:25.000 Of course, this is a pro-Trump video, so it's the legend of Christopher Connelly.
00:16:28.000 This guy's walking, and if it's a fancy video, you should subscribe, number one.
00:16:35.000 But number two, this guy, and he's walking, he's getting all feisty with some of these protesters.
00:16:38.000 Like, he wants to fight them.
00:16:40.000 And he kind of looks like Trump, this kind of big dude.
00:16:42.000 Um, and, uh...
00:16:44.000 And finally, here's a Trump protester explaining why it is that these protesters are doing what they're doing.
00:16:50.000 This was on MSNBC over the weekend.
00:16:59.000 Can you tell us just how this escalated?
00:17:02.000 How this kind of gotten out of control?
00:17:04.000 I don't think it is out of control.
00:17:05.000 I think that what you're seeing is people express righteous rage at the fact that we've got this hateful bigot coming to speak in our state.
00:17:12.000 And they're saying no, absolutely not.
00:17:13.000 Was this action planned?
00:17:14.000 Was this planned to be a peaceful protest?
00:17:17.000 Or was it by any means necessary at this point?
00:17:20.000 We respect the diversity of tactics, right?
00:17:22.000 We plan to lock down the streets and keep him out and stop him from speaking.
00:17:26.000 And by any diversity of tactics, you mean anything goes?
00:17:29.000 We mean that black and brown and poor people have a righteous rage and they have a right to express it in the way that they need to and to prevent this man from speaking in our state. 1.00
00:17:36.000 Why is the anger so directed at this one person, at Donald Trump?
00:17:40.000 What is the rage about? 0.97
00:17:42.000 Because he's been inciting violence against black people and brown people and 0.96
00:17:47.000 Muslim people and giving a platform for basically hate speech and white supremacy to permeate the country. 0.99
00:17:53.000 Do you feel like rushing over the barriers and heading towards the entrance of a convention is the right way to approach this?
00:18:01.000 I think that we should be interrupting the convention and making sure that Donald Trump does not take stage today.
00:18:05.000 Do you plan to keep going?
00:18:06.000 The bottom line is these people, if Donald Trump becomes president, it's because of these people.
00:18:11.000 It's because of these people.
00:18:12.000 And they're handing a talking point to the RNC.
00:18:15.000 So RNC Communications Director Sean Spicer, he said this, he was on CNN, he says, why is it that we never talk about the anti-Trump protesters who are getting violent?
00:18:23.000 But what was not as fun is to watch the violence outside of the Donald Trump rally last night.
00:18:28.000 Sean, I want to just pull some pictures up of what happened last night.
00:18:31.000 These were anti-Trump protesters.
00:18:33.000 They were turning over police cars.
00:18:36.000 They were just, you know, there was all sorts of vandalism.
00:18:39.000 Yeah.
00:18:39.000 So what, I mean, how much of a concern do you have moving forward, Sean, about these scenes that we're seeing?
00:18:48.000 Well, I'll tell you, here's what's interesting.
00:18:49.000 When the issues happened in Chicago a few months ago, it was the Republican National Committee and members of folks on our side that called out and said, we agree this sort of violence is unacceptable.
00:18:59.000 But yesterday, you heard absolute silence when folks on the left went and caused this absolute disrespectful nature, caused violence, you know, ruining public property.
00:19:10.000 Silence from the DNC.
00:19:11.000 Silence from Hillary Clinton. 1.00
00:19:12.000 They are such hypocrites. 1.00
00:19:13.000 When it comes to voting rights... Sean, I'll announce it right now. 0.99
00:19:16.000 I will announce it right now, Sean.
00:19:18.000 They said nothing.
00:19:18.000 When it comes to violence, they say nothing.
00:19:20.000 Hold on, Sean.
00:19:21.000 You know, it's interesting.
00:19:22.000 They're always willing to call out everybody else, but when it's their side that disrupts, that creates violence... I will announce it right now, Sean.
00:19:29.000 Give Lewis a chance.
00:19:30.000 Sean, hold on.
00:19:32.000 Go ahead, bro.
00:19:32.000 Protests should be peaceful, absolutely.
00:19:34.000 And I hope you join me, too, in denouncing your local Republican Party chairman in Broward County, Florida, who last night said the most offensive, misogynistic thing that anyone has said on this campaign.
00:19:45.000 And it's largely driven because the RNC has stood by and not stood up to Donald Trump's misogynistic... Okay, let me stop it there.
00:19:51.000 So, again, the contrast here is what's going to help Donald Trump.
00:19:54.000 Because on the one hand, you have Sean Spicer who's saying, you guys won't even stand up to people who overturn cop cars.
00:19:59.000 And on the left, you have their spokesperson, and he's saying, yeah, well, we don't like when they do that, but you should really condemn the comments of this person.
00:20:08.000 There's a difference, as I like to say, between action and words. 0.99
00:20:11.000 Okay, somebody saying something can be something you don't like, it can be something offensive, it can be Donald Trump saying stupid things, it can be lots of things. 0.98
00:20:18.000 Violent action, of course, is the line that once you cross it, there is no return. 0.96
00:20:22.000 And so equating the two things is very dangerous stuff.
00:20:25.000 The idea that Donald Trump says something that's the equivalent of people surrounding cars and overturning them, that's absurd.
00:20:31.000 That's absurd and that is the road to fascism and that's why Trump is seeing
00:20:34.000 A significant base of support.
00:20:36.000 Because the opposition to Trump, and this is the problem for folks like me, I oppose both Trump and the opposition to Trump.
00:20:43.000 The people who you're seeing in these streets, I think they're awful.
00:20:45.000 I think they're terrible. 0.95
00:20:46.000 I also think that Trump is awful and terrible, but not in the same way. 0.98
00:20:49.000 So Trump is awful and terrible because he says a lot of things that I think are really terrible. 0.99
00:20:53.000 I think he has a lot of bad positions. 0.99
00:20:54.000 I think he hangs out with bad people.
00:20:56.000 I think he incentivizes bad people.
00:20:57.000 I think he's incoherent on policy.
00:20:59.000 I think the people who face him are worse.
00:21:01.000 Because they're actually engaging in violent action.
00:21:04.000 But this puts me in a small minority because people tend to think in binary terms.
00:21:09.000 People tend to think in binary terms.
00:21:10.000 Jeremy Boring, who's the managing editor over at Daily Wire, he likes to give the example, I think I've talked about it before, he likes to give the example that people love Star Wars, but Luke Skywalker is one of the most boring heroes in movies.
00:21:24.000 What makes Luke Skywalker the hero is that you open the movie with Darth Vader.
00:21:27.000 You open the movie with a 7 foot tall guy in a black death mask bursting open a door and force choking somebody, picking him up from the ground, and choking him to death for no reason.
00:21:36.000 Right?
00:21:37.000 Just crushing his larynx, his windpipe, for no reason.
00:21:40.000 And then you cut to Luke, who's a whiny teenager, like, oh, that guy must be the hero.
00:21:44.000 Okay, in this scenario, Darth Vader is these protesters, and Donald Trump is Luke Skywalker,
00:21:50.000 But what if Luke Skywalker is actually just, like, not a great guy?
00:21:52.000 What if Luke Skywalker, in that case, is Boba Fett?
00:21:54.000 If they just cut to Boba Fett, now Boba Fett is the good guy, right?
00:21:57.000 Because the guy you cut to after the worst person must be the best person, and that's how the mind operates in terms of Trump versus his opposition.
00:22:07.000 And so, for example, you see that sort of stuff, and then you see Trump getting all pugnacious, and he's asked about Vincente Fox and the wall, and he says, his usual line, the wall just got 10 feet taller, right?
00:22:17.000 You look at Trump doing this, and you go, okay, I get this.
00:22:20.000 The former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox, he said today, and I'm quoting him, he said, I'm not going to pay for that effing wall.
00:22:31.000 So if you don't get an actual check from the Mexican government for 8 or 10 or 12 billion dollars, whatever it will cost, how are you going to make them pay for the wall?
00:22:43.000 I will, and the wall just got 10 feet taller.
00:22:46.000 Believe me. 0.99
00:23:02.000 And Hillary is so terrible. 1.00
00:23:03.000 Hillary's irritating and annoying and awful. 1.00
00:23:07.000 Hillary Clinton, she said that, for example, here's a good juxtaposition. 0.99
00:23:11.000 So, Hillary is so bad, she makes Trump look funny and good by contrast.
00:23:14.000 So Hillary said, over the weekend, that when she has to deal with, how will she deal with Donald Trump?
00:23:19.000 Well, she knows how to deal with men off the reservation, is clip 20. 1.00
00:23:22.000 Here's Hillary Clinton talking about Donald Trump.
00:23:24.000 I have a lot of experience dealing with men who sometimes get off the reservation in the way they behave and how they speak.
00:23:33.000 I'm not going to deal with their temper tantrums or their bullying or their efforts to try to provoke me.
00:23:40.000 He can say whatever he wants to say about me.
00:23:42.000 I could really care less.
00:23:44.000 I'm going to stand up for what I think the American people need and want in the next president.
00:23:50.000 That's why I've laid out very specific plans.
00:23:52.000 There's nothing secret about what I want to do with the economy, with education, with health care, with foreign policy.
00:23:58.000 I've laid it all out there.
00:23:59.000 And he can't, or he won't.
00:24:01.000 I can't tell which.
00:24:02.000 So two things.
00:24:02.000 One, she looks like death.
00:24:03.000 Second, she sounds like a scold, right? 0.93
00:24:05.000 I've dealt with men who get off the reservation before.
00:24:07.000 I've dealt with men who get off the reservation before. 0.95
00:24:10.000 Except, of course, the reservation where her husband lived, in which case she just brought the hookers to him. 1.00
00:24:15.000 I mean, she basically was his procurer. 0.51
00:24:17.000 But in any case, Trump says that, and so the contrast is going to benefit Trump.
00:24:21.000 So here is Trump responding to that comment from Hillary.
00:24:25.000 It is funny.
00:24:27.000 She has taken from others a lot of heat having to do with that statement, and I think it's a very harsh statement.
00:24:32.000 It's basically...
00:24:34.000 Like, I can handle men.
00:24:36.000 Don't worry about me.
00:24:37.000 I can handle men.
00:24:38.000 If somebody said that, if I made that statement about women, there'd be front-page headlines.
00:24:43.000 Yeah, you basically did.
00:24:44.000 The way she talks about, I can handle men.
00:24:46.000 You basically did.
00:24:47.000 You said all she's got is that she's a woman. 1.00
00:24:49.000 Now, I won't even bring up the fact that the Indians have gone wild on that statement. 0.60
00:24:54.000 You know that, okay?
00:24:55.000 The Indians have said that that statement is a disastrous statement, and they want a retraction.
00:25:00.000 I'm not going to get into that.
00:25:02.000 Well, you just did get into it.
00:25:04.000 I had not really heard that.
00:25:05.000 I'm not bringing that up.
00:25:06.000 I'm saying that has been taken pretty quickly.
00:25:08.000 You did bring it up.
00:25:09.000 But I think it's a very nasty statement to men.
00:25:13.000 And if I made that statement, it would be a big, big story.
00:25:17.000 Okay, so Trump is fighting back on her level, and because she's nasty and inheritant, and he's also nasty and a horror show, they'll fight it out on that level with each other.
00:25:28.000 So, in that way, Trump could win.
00:25:30.000 Now, here's the problem.
00:25:31.000 Here's where Trump goes wrong, and this is the problem.
00:25:35.000 The benefit of Trump is, if he really were everything he says he is, if he were just a counter-puncher, that's all he were,
00:25:40.000 You know, people attack him and he hits them back really hard.
00:25:42.000 If that's just what his candidacy was, he'd be in good shape.
00:25:45.000 But that's not all he is.
00:25:46.000 Donald Trump is also a sideshow.
00:25:48.000 And because he's a sideshow, the media will turn on him in a New York minute.
00:25:51.000 They will break him.
00:25:52.000 So the media made him, and the media will break him.
00:25:54.000 And the media made him, they've spent 30 years portraying him as this master of the financial universe, this whiz kid who comes from nowhere and makes himself into this massive brand and the whole deal.
00:26:06.000 And they spent $2 billion worth of media coverage in this primary alone to help push him.
00:26:10.000 And now they're going to destroy him because all of this sideshow nonsense?
00:26:14.000 If it's initiated by Hillary and he responds, that's not sideshow.
00:26:17.000 He's good at that.
00:26:19.000 Legitimately, he's good at it.
00:26:20.000 It's his best trait.
00:26:21.000 It's what he's good at.
00:26:23.000 If he has to initiate action, he's in serious trouble.
00:26:26.000 When he's left to his own devices, he's in serious... Listen, I said back in 2011 that if the man had any discipline, he'd be president.
00:26:32.000 We're about to find out whether he has any discipline at all.
00:26:35.000 So here is, you know, the sideshow.
00:26:37.000 Here's the part of the sideshow campaign.
00:26:38.000 So, you remember two weeks ago, Donald Trump said he'd let Caitlyn Jenner use a women's restroom in his Trump Tower.
00:26:44.000 So Caitlyn Jenner took him up on it and decided to truck on over to Trump Tower and then use the restroom over there. 1.00
00:26:51.000 And Caitlyn Jenner, a very beautiful woman.
00:26:54.000 Oof.
00:26:54.000 And here we go.
00:26:57.000 Oh my god, a trans woman in New York. 0.89
00:26:58.000 I gotta take a pee. 0.89
00:27:00.000 Anyway, oh my god.
00:27:03.000 Trump International Hotel.
00:27:04.000 I love this.
00:27:05.000 Okay, last week Donald Trump said I could take a pee anywhere in a Trump facility.
00:27:10.000 So I am gonna go take a pee in the ladies room. 0.99
00:27:20.000 It's not a man, folks. 0.91
00:27:21.000 That's a woman. 1.00
00:27:22.000 Just keep remembering.
00:27:25.000 And then here comes Caitlyn Jenner into the lobby, asking where the ladies' room is. 0.79
00:27:30.000 They tell him where the ladies' room is.
00:27:32.000 He's eight feet tall.
00:27:34.000 And he's going on.
00:27:36.000 He's not going to go to the men's room, because he has a willy.
00:27:39.000 He's going to go into the women's room. 1.00
00:27:41.000 And that's where the tape cuts out.
00:27:43.000 Now, it is funny to me that the tape cuts out there, presumably because you don't want to show what happens in the women's room.
00:27:50.000 It gets real awkward when it turns out that he's standing facing the toilet in order to go pee-pee. 0.98
00:27:54.000 They always stop it right where that cuts out because the offensive part actually happens inside the door when he takes out his very feminine penis and begins peeing in the women's room. 0.99
00:28:03.000 But this is part of the Trump sideshow campaign because now this is all over the news. 0.99
00:28:07.000 Caitlyn Jenner peeing in Trump Tower.
00:28:10.000 And now all over the news, Donald Trump talking about Mike Tyson. 0.97
00:28:14.000 Mike Tyson is, of course, the famous boxer who is a convicted rapist.
00:28:17.000 He did three years and he was, I guess, a resident in Indiana for three years while he was in the state penitentiary.
00:28:23.000 He was actually in prison in Indiana.
00:28:25.000 And Mike Tyson came out and endorsed Trump.
00:28:34.000 Eat his children.
00:28:35.000 So Donald Trump was asked about this.
00:28:39.000 Ted Cruz came out and he said... Donald Trump touted this, first of all.
00:28:42.000 And Ted Cruz said, well, I don't go around touting endorsements from rapists.
00:28:47.000 Here's Donald Trump coming back at Ted Cruz via Chris Wallace. 0.99
00:28:52.000 It just shows what a liar he is. 0.95
00:28:54.000 So Mike Tyson, over the internet, endorsed me. 0.97
00:28:56.000 He said, I endorse Mr. Trump.
00:28:58.000 He said that.
00:28:59.000 That was it.
00:29:00.000 No big deal.
00:29:00.000 I didn't have a meeting or anything.
00:29:01.000 I haven't seen Mike in years.
00:29:03.000 But he said he endorsed me. 0.99
00:29:04.000 So Cruz is now saying, oh, he was a rapist. 1.00
00:29:06.000 This guy is a real liar. 1.00
00:29:07.000 That's why we call him Lying Ted Cruz. 1.00
00:29:09.000 I mean, the greatest liar that ever lived, except he gets caught every time. 0.95
00:29:12.000 Except he gets caught every time. 1.00
00:29:14.000 He's a convicted rapist. 0.94
00:29:16.000 Convicted, okay? 1.00
00:29:17.000 Not even accused, like Bill Clinton.
00:29:18.000 Convicted.
00:29:19.000 Went to jail.
00:29:20.000 I know the prosecutor, Greg Garrison.
00:29:22.000 He's a talk show host over in Indiana. 1.00
00:29:24.000 Convicted rapist, but Ted Cruz is a liar. 0.98
00:29:27.000 So how do you think that's gonna play in a general? 0.99
00:29:29.000 When he's saying that convicted rapists are not actually rapists.
00:29:31.000 By the way, Donald Trump, going back 20 years, was defending Mike Tyson from the rape allegations.
00:29:36.000 Suggesting, in fact, that Mike Tyson had been sort of suckered into this whole thing.
00:29:41.000 And that Desiree Washington, the woman who accused him of rape, was actually just trying to get him.
00:29:46.000 Trump, of course, was running his casinos at that time and wanted Tyson to be able to box there.
00:29:50.000 So here, he says, again, this is the Trump sideshow.
00:29:54.000 So if Trump were just the counterpuncher, he'd be fine.
00:29:56.000 He's the sideshow also. 0.98
00:29:57.000 So Donald Trump says Mike Tyson is not a rapist, and anyone who calls Mike Tyson a rapist, despite the fact he was convicted of rape, is a liar. 0.95
00:30:04.000 But there is one kind of rape that Donald Trump doesn't like, and that is economic rape. 1.00
00:30:09.000 So here's Donald Trump on China. 0.88
00:30:11.000 Don't forget, we're like the piggy bank that's being robbed.
00:30:14.000 We have the cards.
00:30:15.000 We have a lot of power with China.
00:30:17.000 When China doesn't want to fix the problem in North Korea, we say, sorry folks, you got to fix the problem.
00:30:22.000 Because we can't continue to allow China to rape our country, and that's what they're doing. 1.00
00:30:28.000 It's the greatest theft.
00:30:30.000 In the history of the world.
00:30:31.000 Okay, I'm gonna stop it there. 0.99
00:30:33.000 First of all, Ted Cruz is the greatest liar in the history of the world. 0.95
00:30:36.000 China manipulating its currency is the greatest theft in the history of the world. 0.99
00:30:40.000 Not like, I mean, admittedly not quite, not, maybe it's a little bit worse than like, I don't know, killing six million Jews and taking all their money.
00:30:47.000 But you know, aside from that, it's like the greatest theft in history, or maybe, you know, the various mass wars of attrition across the Middle East and across the, maybe the stealing of oil and the nationalization of British petroleum by Iran. 0.87
00:31:02.000 But no, the greatest theft in history is not actually theft, it's just China trading with us.
00:31:05.000 But that's rape. 1.00
00:31:06.000 Okay, so Mike Tyson is not a rapist, but China is an economic rapist. 0.99
00:31:10.000 Okay, again, this is where the Trump sideshow begins to run off the rails. 0.98
00:31:14.000 And this is the problem for the Trump train, is that if Trump just stayed on track, if he were just fighting Hillary, if he just were the counterpuncher, he'd be okay.
00:31:21.000 But he's not.
00:31:22.000 But he's not.
00:31:22.000 Because he's all these other negative things.
00:31:24.000 And here's how things are gonna go.
00:31:25.000 Here's how things are gonna go.
00:31:26.000 Harry Reid says, look, we're gonna win back the Senate.
00:31:28.000 Democrats are gonna win back the Senate because of Donald Trump.
00:31:32.000 We need to pick four to take the majority.
00:31:34.000 With the numbers I've given you, it's gonna be a fairly certain thing that we can do that.
00:31:41.000 Okay, and this continues.
00:31:43.000 Here's why the Democratic Senate takeover is likely.
00:31:46.000 They're now starting to run ads about Trump.
00:31:48.000 So this is the first time we're now nearing the Trump nomination to the point where Democrats feel comfortable spending their money on anti-Trump ads.
00:31:54.000 So, there's an ad that's now running in Arkansas.
00:31:57.000 And it's an ad that is running.
00:31:59.000 I'm trying to remember the name of the candidate who's running this ad.
00:32:03.000 I'm bringing it up right now if I can.
00:32:05.000 But in any case, the guy who's running this particular ad is running for Senate in Arkansas.
00:32:11.000 And he's running against a guy named John Boozman, who's the current Senator in Arkansas.
00:32:15.000 It's Connor Eldridge is the guy's name.
00:32:17.000 He's a Democrat.
00:32:18.000 Here's the ad that he's now running against the Republican senator in Arkansas.
00:32:21.000 This is how the campaign is going to go, because again, Trump is a negative force.
00:32:25.000 He's not just an anti-force, he's a negative force too.
00:32:28.000 Here's the ad that's running in Arkansas. 0.98
00:32:32.000 So, for folks who can't see... She ate like a pig. 1.00
00:32:35.000 I'd look her right in that fat ugly face of hers. 1.00
00:32:37.000 He once sent her a picture of herself with the words, the face of a dog or not. 0.99
00:32:43.000 So somebody typing the word harassment to subject someone to hostility.
00:32:48.000 The boob job is terrible. 0.85
00:32:49.000 You know, they look like two lightbulbs coming out of a body.
00:32:51.000 Blood coming out of her wherever.
00:32:54.000 A person who's flat-chested is very hard to be a tent. 0.91
00:32:57.000 You don't think you could get it up for her?
00:32:58.000 I think I'd have a hard time.
00:33:00.000 Wow.
00:33:00.000 No, I don't find her attractive.
00:33:04.000 And then it goes back to explaining what harassment is.
00:33:07.000 You dropped to your knees.
00:33:09.000 It must be a pretty picture you dropped to your knees.
00:33:11.000 John and Dennis thought I should be, Omarosa said me, some other people said you.
00:33:15.000 It's like you wouldn't have your job if you weren't beautiful.
00:33:17.000 I put together a montage of Marla.
00:33:19.000 Donald's had her.
00:33:21.000 What is it like when she is in bed with you, Donald?
00:33:23.000 It is a beautiful structure, there's no question.
00:33:28.000 Trump enabler.
00:33:30.000 And this is Arkansas Senator John Boozman, right?
00:33:32.000 So the idea is that Boozman supports Trump, and then they kill Boozman.
00:33:36.000 I'll support the candidate regardless of who we pick.
00:33:38.000 Whether Donald Trump, it certainly would be a lot better presidency.
00:33:45.000 And then it goes to Conor Eldredge and there's the rest of the ad.
00:33:47.000 The rest of the ad doesn't matter.
00:33:48.000 So, that's the point, okay?
00:33:50.000 Trump's negatives are very real.
00:33:52.000 It's not just that he's anti, it's that he's an active negative force.
00:33:55.000 So, he's a package deal.
00:33:57.000 You're getting the guy who's gonna throw the kitchen sink. 0.87
00:33:59.000 You're getting the guy who's gonna hit people with a hammer.
00:34:01.000 He's also the guy who's always a hammer and has been hammering people badly and in negative ways and in nasty ways for legitimately years.
00:34:09.000 Now, what's sad about all of this, again, is that Hillary is so vulnerable.
00:34:13.000 If you're just anti-Hillary, you have a good shot at winning. 0.96
00:34:15.000 If you're anti-Hillary, Hillary's such a shrew, she's such a shrieking harpy of evil, that if you just went out there and ran against her, you'd be in great shape. 0.96
00:34:23.000 But Trump has so much baggage, there's so much that is negative about Trump, Hillary is just going to eat him up on all of those things. 0.94
00:34:32.000 And the Trump support base, but again, this is the disconnect, right?
00:34:36.000 The point that I'm making is a pretty objective one.
00:34:39.000 Trump is good in some ways, but he's really bad in some ways, and the ways that he's bad are really gonna hurt him.
00:34:43.000 The Trump support base, though, is so passionate because they're anti.
00:34:46.000 Because they're anti.
00:34:47.000 And because Trump is anti things, they now assume, his Trump support base assumes, that everything that Trump is anti is something worth being anti.
00:34:55.000 So, there's an exchange that happened, it was today, earlier this morning, Ted Cruz was campaigning in Indiana and he was confronted by a Trump supporter.
00:35:04.000 And it looked, just to give you sort of a hint, is to, well, let's play a little bit of it.
00:35:10.000 Here's Ted Cruz meeting a Trump supporter, and you're about to see why this election has gone so badly.
00:35:15.000 Because the anti-feeling, the feeling of resist, has now been extended to even people who are constitutional conservatives, not just the actual enemy, people like Hillary Clinton.
00:35:24.000 Because for Trump, and for Trump's people, Hillary isn't necessarily the enemy. 0.60
00:35:27.000 Everybody who's not Trump is the enemy.
00:35:29.000 I'm going to treat you with respectability, even if not everyone in this process does.
00:35:35.000 I'll tell you, this election matters.
00:35:36.000 It matters a lot, and you need someone to stand up for you.
00:35:38.000 Yeah, it does matter.
00:35:39.000 It matters!
00:35:39.000 It matters a lot.
00:35:40.000 So I appreciate your coming out.
00:35:42.000 I appreciate you coming out and standing up.
00:35:44.000 And I thank this entire process.
00:35:47.000 I think anyone that wants to be president owes it to the people of this state to come in front of you and ask for your support.
00:35:52.000 And I'm running to be everyone's president, those who vote for me and even those who don't vote for me.
00:35:56.000 We don't want you.
00:35:57.000 Well, you're entitled to your view, sir, and I will respect it.
00:35:59.000 In fact, I will protect your rights.
00:36:01.000 Do the math.
00:36:01.000 You ask cases to drop out, it's your turn.
00:36:04.000 Well, take your own word.
00:36:05.000 Now, I'm curious, sir.
00:36:06.000 Time to drop out.
00:36:07.000 When Donald doesn't get to 1237, are you going to call him in to drop out?
00:36:10.000 Donald's definitely going to get to 1237.
00:36:11.000 No, he's not.
00:36:11.000 No, he's not.
00:36:12.000 He's going to get more than 1237.
00:36:13.000 Let me ask you something, sir.
00:36:16.000 What do you like about Donald?
00:36:17.000 Everything.
00:36:18.000 Give me one.
00:36:19.000 Everything.
00:36:20.000 Give me one.
00:36:20.000 You can pick anything.
00:36:22.000 The wall.
00:36:24.000 Okay, the wall.
00:36:24.000 That's the main thing.
00:36:25.000 Integration.
00:36:26.000 Ted's building the wall.
00:36:27.000 All right, hold on a second.
00:36:28.000 Now, do you know on the wall that Donald told the New York Times editorial board he's not going to build a wall and he's not going to deport anyone?
00:36:35.000 You're lying.
00:36:36.000 Once again, lying Ted!
00:36:38.000 Well, sir, you know, actually, civilized people don't just scream and yell at each other. 0.66
00:36:43.000 I'm not yelling at you.
00:36:45.000 Do you know that Donald's words were caught on tape?
00:36:49.000 The New York Times recorded the whole thing.
00:36:51.000 Publicly recorded.
00:36:52.000 That's a total lie made up by Donald Trump's campaign.
00:36:57.000 Okay, and this is, and, okay, so basically this has now become the scene from Tombstone where Kurt Russell is dealing at the casino and Ike, right, Ike Clanton comes up to him and this is the end, this is the scene, this is the exact scene.
00:37:10.000 Here's what it looks like, right?
00:37:12.000 Wide herb, huh?
00:37:14.000 Heard of you.
00:37:17.000 Listen now, Mr. Kansas, law dog.
00:37:20.000 Law don't go around here. 0.90
00:37:22.000 Savvy?
00:37:24.000 I'm retired.
00:37:25.000 Good.
00:37:27.000 That's real good.
00:37:29.000 Yeah.
00:37:30.000 Yeah, that's real good, Law Dog, cause law just don't go around here.
00:37:34.000 Yeah, I heard you the first time.
00:37:35.000 Winner to the king, $500.
00:37:39.000 That is that exchange, right?
00:37:40.000 I mean, he's got the same number of teeth, right?
00:37:42.000 You got that guy and he's got three teeth talking to Ted Cruz, Harvard Law graduate and constitutional lawyer about a lying Ted. 0.51
00:37:51.000 Well, here you are, lying Ted.
00:37:53.000 You definitely had those affairs, that's true.
00:37:55.000 But when you side that New York Times, them city people, with their crazy words and such, well...
00:38:02.000 Now listen, most Southerners are not this guy.
00:38:05.000 I assume that he's in Indiana, so he's not even Southern, right?
00:38:07.000 He's Midwestern.
00:38:08.000 But this is what a lot of Trump supporters have become because they're so anti-things.
00:38:14.000 They're anti the Trump protesters.
00:38:15.000 I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
00:38:16.000 I think a lot of the Trump people ardently support Trump because they were pushed into the Trump camp by a lot of people who were anti-Trump, originally the hard left in the media.
00:38:24.000 And now they've bought full into the dictatorial impulse
00:38:28.000 Nothing Trump says can be wrong.
00:38:29.000 What do you like about him?
00:38:30.000 Everything.
00:38:31.000 I like everything.
00:38:31.000 I like the size of his hands.
00:38:32.000 I think he has a nice ass. 1.00
00:38:33.000 Everything. 1.00
00:38:34.000 All of the things about Donald Trump are wonderful.
00:38:37.000 Let me tell you, when he says he's got great appendages, I believe him.
00:38:40.000 I believe him.
00:38:41.000 I believe every word he says.
00:38:43.000 Once you get to that point, folks, you've moved beyond the realm of rationality.
00:38:48.000 I fully understood the reactionary love for Donald Trump's candidacy, but you have to acknowledge, on an objective level, that there are problems with Donald Trump as a candidate.
00:38:56.000 I've acknowledged, on an objective level, there are problems with my guy, Ted Cruz, as a candidate.
00:39:00.000 He comes off like a snake oil salesman, he comes off like a Baptist preacher, and it's very difficult to feel that he's sincere. 0.97
00:39:06.000 Donald Trump is a bad man, and he comes off like a bad man. 0.99
00:39:10.000 You can acknowledge that and still support your guy, but this whole routine where everything he does is right, every single thing that he does is right, everything, they're all great, all the things are wonderful about Donald Trump, you truly have to be foolish to believe this. 0.98
00:39:23.000 And if you buy into this, if you buy into this all the way through the election, you're gonna be in for a bad surprise, because you're gonna think all the way up till the time he gets beat by a thousand percent.
00:39:31.000 All the way up until the time he loses 43 states, you're going to be thinking that he's going to win, because that's all he does.
00:39:36.000 He just wins.
00:39:36.000 That's all he does.
00:39:38.000 Lying Ted.
00:39:39.000 Crooked Hillary. 1.00
00:39:39.000 And if you just keep saying these things over and over, I'll love everything. 1.00
00:39:42.000 It's just... There's no way to convince those folks.
00:39:46.000 And those people will be the first people who are saying that Trump was stabbed in the back when he loses, even though we told you... 1.00
00:39:52.000 A year in advance that he was gonna get his butt kicked. 0.99
00:39:55.000 Alright, time for one thing that I like and then a couple of things that I hate. 0.98
00:39:58.000 Alright, so things that I like.
00:40:00.000 The, uh, Hillary Mantel wrote a book called Wolf Hall that's very good.
00:40:04.000 It's now a series on PBS.
00:40:05.000 I'll show you, like, a little bit of the preview of the series.
00:40:07.000 The series is okay.
00:40:09.000 The book is much better.
00:40:10.000 Um, but, uh, but the acting on the series is really good.
00:40:12.000 So here, it's about Henry VIII and, uh, and the...
00:40:16.000 At last!
00:40:17.000 A man born in a more lowly state than myself.
00:40:37.000 Cromwell, I knew there was something about you that I didn't like.
00:40:40.000 I swear to be a true and faithful counsellor to the King's Majesty as one of his Highness's Privy Council.
00:40:46.000 You'll not find any talent I possess that England cannot use.
00:40:52.000 I trust in your discretion and your skill.
00:40:55.000 You made a mistake threatening me, sir.
00:41:03.000 Now is the time for you to become the king you should be.
00:41:05.000 Weren't you afraid?
00:41:09.000 Of what?
00:41:09.000 Those who've been made can be unmade.
00:41:12.000 I keep you because you are a serpent.
00:41:15.000 Everything that you are, everything that you have.
00:41:22.000 The acting in the series actually is really good.
00:41:25.000 Damian Lewis is a terrific actor.
00:41:27.000 I first started to really like him when I watched Band of Brothers, which is the best series ever on TV.
00:41:31.000 Band of Brothers is spectacular.
00:41:33.000 We'll have to do a Things I Like just on Band of Brothers because it's that good.
00:41:36.000 But that's where... So the book itself, Wolf Hall, is what I've read.
00:41:39.000 I haven't seen the full series.
00:41:40.000 Started to watch it.
00:41:42.000 And the series is okay, but the book is much better.
00:41:44.000 So Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.
00:41:46.000 Alright, things that I hate.
00:41:47.000 Amy Schumer has now put out a new video on guns.
00:41:50.000 Amy Schumer is the gal who recently was on the cover of... I can't remember which magazine it was.
00:41:55.000 It was one of the women's magazines.
00:41:56.000 And it was a picture of her setting her Vahuhu on fire. 0.99
00:42:00.000 Which is what syphilis will do to you, by the way.
00:42:01.000 And she also is a far leftist who pushes anti-gun routines.
00:42:07.000 So she did this anti-gun routine.
00:42:09.000 This is her routine of selling guns. 0.98
00:42:11.000 This is why she thinks right-wingers buy guns. 1.00
00:42:15.000 Here we go.
00:42:16.000 Amy Schumer.
00:42:16.000 Now, speaking of perfect gifts, now, this is a no-brainer, all right?
00:42:20.000 Now, this is a gun!
00:42:22.000 Just your regular, run-of-the-mill, meat-and-potatoes handgun.
00:42:26.000 Now, how cute is that?
00:42:27.000 I love that.
00:42:28.000 Oh, can we pick it up?
00:42:29.000 Oh, heavy.
00:42:29.000 Oh, can I see this?
00:42:30.000 You can hold it, sure.
00:42:32.000 Wow.
00:42:33.000 Wow.
00:42:33.000 Look at that.
00:42:34.000 Wow.
00:42:35.000 It's like a toy, but it's extremely real.
00:42:38.000 Yeah, and now here is what's great about this.
00:42:40.000 Now, pretty much anyone can purchase this.
00:42:43.000 Mm-hmm.
00:42:44.000 Okay?
00:42:44.000 Oh, my God, this is so fun.
00:42:46.000 I love this.
00:42:47.000 It's fun.
00:42:47.000 Hey, lady, hand me all your money and your makeup.
00:42:51.000 Oh! 0.60
00:42:51.000 Oh, my God, so fun, and it's on sale now. 0.60
00:42:53.000 Call in.
00:42:54.000 Oh, we got a caller.
00:42:55.000 Oh, caller!
00:42:56.000 Hey, did I miss the Steve Irwin coins?
00:42:58.000 Oh, yeah, you did.
00:42:59.000 You sure did, honey, but that's okay.
00:43:01.000 You want a gun?
00:43:02.000 Oh, no, I could never get a gun.
00:43:03.000 I have several violent felonies.
00:43:06.000 Oh no. 1.00
00:43:06.000 Caller, you bite your tongue, you silly goose. 1.00
00:43:09.000 You can absolutely get a gun if you have several phonies as long as you buy it on the internet or at a gun show. 1.00
00:43:17.000 None of these things are true.
00:43:19.000 What's so bad about this?
00:43:20.000 First of all, it's bad comedy because it's not funny in any way.
00:43:22.000 But beyond that, every element of this is false.
00:43:25.000 All of the things about this are false.
00:43:27.000 It's actually not that easy to buy a gun.
00:43:29.000 You have to be over a certain age.
00:43:30.000 They do a background check on you.
00:43:32.000 Every federally licensed firearms dealer has to do a background check for felonies.
00:43:35.000 If you buy a gun over the internet, it has to be shipped to a federally licensed firearms dealer.
00:43:40.000 You then have to go to that federally licensed firearms dealer for a background check.
00:43:43.000 The gun show loophole is not a real thing.
00:43:46.000 Real firearms dealers at a gun show still have to do a background check on you.
00:43:49.000 The so-called gun show loophole is if I sell a gun to Lindsay.
00:43:52.000 That's not a gun show loophole, that's a private party purchase loophole.
00:43:56.000 It's a different thing.
00:43:57.000 And there's been no evidence that private party purchases like that are what are leading to any sort of spike in gun prices. 0.99
00:44:02.000 In any case, you wouldn't expect intelligence from a woman who sets her vagina on fire to show the world how she sets the world on fire, presumably. 1.00
00:44:10.000 But comedy in the service of leftism has now become the thing. 0.99
00:44:13.000 So, over the weekend was the White House Correspondents Dinner, and I hate
00:44:17.000 Hate the White House Correspondents Dinner.
00:44:19.000 There are two Washington spectacles I absolutely despise in every way it's possible to despise them.
00:44:24.000 The first Washington spectacle that I despise is the State of the Union.
00:44:28.000 It's an imperial diktat that comes from a guy who's an elected official in front of other elected officials, but when he walks into the chamber everybody cheers.
00:44:35.000 Oh, it's the King of England!
00:44:36.000 He's here!
00:44:37.000 And now we all have to worship at his altar, and it's gonna be great.
00:44:40.000 So that's the number one thing I hate.
00:44:41.000 The second thing I hate is the White House Correspondents' Dinner, because it's the media, which is supposed to cover the president in all of the gory detail, and the president, who's supposed to serve the media and the public.
00:44:54.000 And they get together and then they just drink and they wear tuxes and they feed each other and they talk about how they're best friends.
00:45:00.000 I don't want the media to be friends with the president.
00:45:02.000 The media coverage of George W. Bush was significantly better than any of the media coverage of Barack Obama because the media didn't like Bush and they like Obama.
00:45:09.000 So I hate this thing, and I think that if you were somebody who was out of a job watching President Obama wear a tux and sip champagne as he makes jokes with the celebrities, you would think, well, maybe our political class is a little bit out of touch.
00:45:22.000 I'm voting for Donald Trump because of all of that.
00:45:24.000 Even though Donald Trump is these people, he's both Hollywood and Washington, D.C.
00:45:27.000 So there are a couple of things that were particularly galling.
00:45:30.000 We can start with Obama's joke.
00:45:32.000 So Obama does this comedy routine, and honestly, if I were the President of the United States, I think I would just tell them to stick it.
00:45:39.000 I think I would just... I would probably skip the event.
00:45:42.000 I'd probably just cancel the event altogether, because they call this thing nerd prom.
00:45:46.000 It's not nerd prom, okay?
00:45:47.000 All of these people are not nerds. 1.00
00:45:48.000 Most of them are talking heads who are incredibly stupid but good-looking. 0.99
00:45:51.000 And so they're there, and they're supposed to be nerds, and they're joking with each other, and it's just... the whole thing just sticks in my craw in a real way. 1.00
00:45:58.000 Here's President Obama joking about Donald Trump.
00:46:03.000 So this night is a testament to all of you who've devoted your lives to that idea.
00:46:08.000 Although I am a little hurt that he's not here tonight.
00:46:11.000 We had so much fun the last time.
00:46:17.000 And it is surprising.
00:46:19.000 You've got a room full of reporters, celebrities, cameras, and he says no.
00:46:26.000 Is this dinner too tacky for the Donald?
00:46:31.000 What could he possibly be doing instead?
00:46:34.000 Is he at home eating a Trump steak?
00:46:38.000 Tweeting out insults to Angela Merkel?
00:46:42.000 What's he doing?
00:46:44.000 And there's one area where Donald's experience could be invaluable, and that's closing Guantanamo.
00:46:50.000 Because Trump knows a thing or two about running waterfront properties into the ground.
00:46:56.000 Okay, so I just want to point one thing out.
00:46:59.000 We'll play one more clip of this and then I want to point one thing out.
00:47:01.000 So here is President Obama talking about how warm he is with the press, how much he loves the press.
00:47:06.000 I know that there are times that we've had differences and that's inherent in our institutional roles.
00:47:14.000 It's true of every president and his press corps.
00:47:18.000 But we've always shared the same goal.
00:47:20.000 To root our public discourse in the truth.
00:47:24.000 To open the doors of this democracy.
00:47:27.000 To do whatever we can to make our country and our world more free and more just.
00:47:43.000 does this routine where now he's feeding the press.
00:47:46.000 He spent his entire administration prosecuting members of the press who attempt to uncover things about him.
00:47:51.000 He went after the AP, he bugged the AP.
00:47:53.000 He sent his reporters, he sent his DOJ after reporters from the Washington Post.
00:47:58.000 The media have said openly this is the least transparent White House in the history of White Houses.
00:48:03.000 And yet there he is talking about how he has this close relationship with the media and they're all there clapping for him.
00:48:07.000 Yay! 0.99
00:48:08.000 That's what I hate about all of this.
00:48:10.000 And it's not just the media, obviously, it's also the folks in Hollywood.
00:48:13.000 So you saw Amy Schumer using comedy in the service of leftism, or rather, taking a gun to the head of comedy and pulling the trigger, splattering its brains across the wall in service to leftism.
00:48:24.000 Larry Wilmore, who as I've said before, is the second least funny human being on the planet after Trevor Noah.
00:48:29.000 Larry Wilmore was the guy who hosted this one, and
00:48:32.000 Same deal, same deal.
00:48:33.000 So his jokes about Obama basically fell flat.
00:48:36.000 They were really quite terrible.
00:48:37.000 His jokes about Trump were much more hard-hitting.
00:48:40.000 And then, how he finished it up was the big story of the day.
00:48:44.000 So here's Larry Wilmore finishing up.
00:48:45.000 Remember, he's the comedian.
00:48:46.000 He's the comedian, right?
00:48:47.000 He's supposed to be the comic entertainment.
00:48:49.000 Here's Larry Wilmore finishing up.
00:48:50.000 If this doesn't tell you everything you need to know about the nexus between Hollywood and the media and the White House, this is it right here.
00:48:56.000 Okay, Larry Wilmore got praise, nothing but praise for this, from the media.
00:49:00.000 The media thought this was brave and wonderful.
00:49:02.000 The same media that thought Stephen Colbert going on stage and calling George W. Bush a liar in front of him at the White House Correspondents' Dinner about 10 years ago now, they thought this was just the bravest thing they ever saw Larry Wilmore do.
00:49:12.000 Here's Larry Wilmore talking about President Obama.
00:49:15.000 Thank you for being a good sport, Mr. President.
00:49:17.000 But all jokes aside, let me just say how much it means for me to be here tonight. 0.88
00:49:22.000 I've always joked that I voted for the president because he's black.
00:49:25.000 And people say, well, do you agree with his policies? 0.91
00:49:27.000 And I've always said, I agree with the policy that he's black. 0.98
00:49:32.000 I say, as long as he keeps being black, I'm good. 1.00
00:49:35.000 People say, what about Iraq? 0.99
00:49:36.000 Is he still black? 0.73
00:49:38.000 But behind that joke is a humble appreciation for the historical implications for what your presidency means. 0.93
00:49:45.000 When I was a kid, I lived in a country where people couldn't accept a black quarterback.
00:49:51.000 Now think about that. 0.91
00:49:52.000 A black man was thought by his mere color not good enough to lead a football team. 0.98
00:49:59.000 And now, to live in your time, Mr. President, when a black man can lead the entire free world. 0.96
00:50:23.000 Words alone do me no justice. 0.98
00:50:27.000 So, Mr. President, if I'm going to keep it 100, yo, Barry, you did it, my nigga.
00:50:36.000 Oh, and Obama's so pleased because, of course, he spent his entire life searching for his black identity according to dreams from my father.
00:50:42.000 A couple of things worthwhile there pointing out.
00:50:43.000 One, he's a comedian.
00:50:44.000 He is not a political commentator.
00:50:46.000 Second, even if you were a comedian who does political comedy, the idea that he's coming out in full... This isn't true.
00:50:52.000 This is politician worship.
00:50:53.000 It's Trump-like politician worship on the right, and this has existed for Obama for a long time.
00:50:57.000 This sort of stuff created Trump in every way.
00:51:00.000 The worship for Obama created a feeling of worship on the other side of the aisle for the anti-Obama.
00:51:04.000 The media's collusion with President Obama created a hatred for the media that allows Trump to get away with unbelievable lies.
00:51:11.000 I mean, that's an amazing line, what Larry Wilmore says there, where he says, have you do agree with his policies?
00:51:15.000 He says, if he keeps being black, I agree with his policies. 1.00
00:51:18.000 Can you imagine a white person saying that? 0.92
00:51:19.000 Can you imagine that?
00:51:20.000 End of the world.
00:51:21.000 Pure racism, right? 0.88
00:51:22.000 And then when he drops the N-word at the end of that, everybody's supposed to be okay with that, because a black man talking to another black man making a black guy in-joke in front of the entire country, right? 0.92
00:51:32.000 With the president who's supposed to be the president of all the people. 0.95
00:51:34.000 It really is appalling.
00:51:35.000 But this entire dinner is appalling.
00:51:36.000 And it demonstrates again that we've become a politics of celebrity.
00:51:40.000 Thank you for watching.
00:51:56.000 Right, and he was a general.
00:51:58.000 But the president didn't do anything then.
00:51:59.000 Now it's the most powerful office in the world.
00:52:02.000 And the only question is whether it ought to be controlled by Kanye West or whether it ought to be controlled by Justin Bieber.
00:52:08.000 That's basically the conversation now.
00:52:10.000 And so we've got our own Kanye and Justin Bieber.
00:52:13.000 We have our own President Obama and Donald Trump.
00:52:15.000 Just because he's anti-things doesn't make him pro-the-right-things.
00:52:18.000 We'll talk tomorrow.
00:52:19.000 We'll be back tomorrow for the last episode, the ultimate episode, before the apocalypse arrives.
00:52:25.000 We'll see if, in the mold of Pacific Rim, we are able to cancel the apocalypse.
00:52:29.000 Somehow, being a pessimist, I doubt it, but we'll still be here, and Clavin will make you feel better this afternoon.
00:52:34.000 He'll tell you some happy talk or something, and, you know, that's just the way that it goes.
00:52:38.000 But I'm here!
00:52:38.000 I'm here to impress you.
00:52:39.000 I'm back.
00:52:39.000 I got all the notes.
00:52:40.000 I'm here.
00:52:41.000 Yep.
00:52:41.000 You brought me back.
00:52:42.000 All right.
00:52:43.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:52:44.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.