Ben Shapiro delivers a blistering defense of his controversial campus speech at California State University Los Angeles last February, and how it was handled by the administration, the media, and even some of his own supporters. He also explains why he thinks a third party candidate should run against Hillary Clinton in 2020, and why he doesn t think she's going to win the 2020 election, and what it means for the country as a whole if she does. And he explains why it s a good thing he s running against her. Ben Shapiro is a conservative commentator, writer, and host of the Daily Wire podcast The Ben Shapiro Show. He is a regular contributor to The Daily Wire and the Weekly Standard, and is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and the Los Angeles Daily News, among other publications. Click here for the full video version of this episode. You can also watch the full clip here. Thanks for listening and share it with your friends and family. Tweet me if you liked it! and tell a friend about it. Timestamps: 4:00 - What do you think of Ben Shapiro? 5:30 - What would you do if he was running for President in 2020? 6:15 - Who would you vote for Hillary Clinton? 7:00 8 - Is Hillary Clinton running against Donald Trump? 9 - Why he s a third-party candidate? 10 - Who should I vote for him? 11:40 - Is he s going to run for President? 15:00- Is he a racist? 16:10 - Why Hillary Clinton should be a cuck? 17:10 18: Who s running for president? 19:15 Is he running against me? 21: Does he have a chance to win in 2020 or is he s not running for anything other than Hillary? 22:40 23:30 26:40- What s he thinks I m going to be a good person? 25:00 Is he going to have a good chance of winning in 2020 27:00 Does he think I m running against Hillary s chances of winning the 2020 primary? 24:00 Do you think he s gonna run for president in 2020 ? or does he think that s gonna be better than I m gonna run against me in the next election? 26 - Who s a racist or a racist guy?
00:00:01.000Last week, California State University Los Angeles held a healing space to provide a safe forum for students and professors to unleash their feelings about my campus speech back in February, sponsored by Young America's Foundation.
00:00:13.000That speech, as you may recall, was originally canceled by the university president, William Covino.
00:00:18.000After I decided to go to the campus anyway, hundreds of screaming students blocked the doorways and they assaulted prospective speech goers and pulled the fire alarm.
00:00:27.000One even threatened student organizers.
00:00:29.000I was forced to enter through a back door.
00:00:31.000I exited, surrounded by a full phalanx of armed and uniformed officers, thanks to the near-riotous conditions outside.
00:00:36.000So, naturally, the professors and students who caused the commotion had some hurt feelings.
00:00:42.000At their little get-together, Covino announced he would, quote, never have anybody like Ben Shapiro to campus.
00:00:47.000Covino fretted that, very tragically and unfortunately, somebody like me could show up on campus again.
00:00:52.000Meanwhile, Professor Malina Abdullah, who is the chair of the university's useless Pan-African Studies Department, said I had advocated, quote, anti-blackness.
00:01:01.000After realizing it was sort of awkward to label an Orthodox Jew a neo-Nazi, she then shifted her language slightly and she said that I was a neo-KKK member.
00:01:10.000Traumatized by a speech they definitely didn't hear and feeling brutalized physically, emotionally, and mentally by me.
00:01:18.000I spent the bulk of my speech talking about how racial diversity was irrelevant, diversity of viewpoint mattered.
00:01:23.000This was enough to drive chaos and insanity at the school for months.
00:01:26.000Apparently, quoting Martin Luther King, which I did, makes me a Neo KKK member.
00:01:30.000Meanwhile, David Duke, who's the former KKK Grand Wizard, has labeled me an enemy of the KKK.
00:01:36.000I've been hit daily on Twitter by certain alt-right white supremacist Donald Trump supporters labeling me a cuck, which means a weak-kneed leftist who wants to watch his wife have sex with a black man.
00:01:45.000Prominent Breitbart News columnist and provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos tweeted a picture of a black child at me upon my announcement of the birth of my second child, a boy.
00:02:08.000Enthused by people like Bernie Sanders and sought by Hillary Clinton, call anybody who disagree a Neo-KKK member.
00:02:14.000The KKK, meanwhile, calls anybody who won't support Donald Trump a cuck.
00:02:18.000This is what happens when basic American principles are no longer taught.
00:02:21.000This is what happens when grievance politics replace the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.
00:02:28.000If you speak in favor of free speech, it makes you a pariah for those who would control speech in order to build their own magical utopia.
00:02:34.000So, what happens to people like me who really hate the KKK and think the Black Lives Matter movement is terrible?
00:02:41.000What about those of us who think white nationalism is despicable and that the censorious brutality of the diversity clique is gross?
00:02:49.000We're gonna have to teach a new generation from scratch that freedom and liberty still matter regardless of race.
00:02:54.000We'll have to attempt to restore the notion of a social fabric rather than the racial tribalism that now seems to dominate our conversation.
00:03:01.000We'll have to stand against authoritarianism, unfortunately, from both sides.
00:03:45.000Okay, so the big news of yesterday is that Bill Kristol, who's the editor of the Weekly Standard and an ardent Never-Trumper,
00:03:53.000He has come out and he says that he now has the guy he thinks is going to run a third-party candidacy against Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
00:04:01.000And this person is David French, Mark Halperin of Bloomberg.
00:04:05.000He's the one who announced this yesterday.
00:04:09.000Everybody wants to know who's the independent candidate who Bill Kristol has been touting.
00:04:15.000According to our sources, we can now report that the man being hired by Crystal is a conservative lawyer, writer, and Iraqi war veteran named David French.
00:04:26.000The big guessing game has been going on since Crystal tweeted this weekend that he has a candidate in mind who he said would be a strong candidate.
00:04:34.000John and I both talked to French and Crystal late this afternoon.
00:04:37.000Both of them declined to comment, but here's what we know.
00:04:40.000French is a staff writer for the National Review.
00:04:43.000He lives in Tennessee with his wife and three kids.
00:04:48.000He says, he declined to comment, but the two Republican sources were too intimately familiar with what Crystal has in mind, says that while French has not made a final decision, that is indeed who Crystal was talking about.
00:05:00.000And John, he wrote about French in the current issue of the Weekly Standard, kind of hiding him in plain sight.
00:05:06.000Okay, so the fact is that David French has, let's give a little bit of information about David French.
00:05:12.000So first of all, David French, nobody knows who he is.
00:05:16.000I know who he is because I follow National Review, and I've read his stuff, and I'm a big fan of his writing, and have been for a very long time.
00:05:22.000He graduated from Harvard Law School, and then he became a constitutional lawyer for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, so if you like how the campuses are going,
00:05:32.000That's exactly what David French is trying to fight.
00:05:34.000He's trying to stop the censorious left, the people who want to stop free speech on campus and rip on religious people on campus.
00:05:41.000He worked also for the American Constitutional Law and Justice Society.
00:05:46.000So he's worked for a bunch of right-wing
00:05:48.000Conservative, constitutionalist organizations as a lawyer.
00:05:52.000After 9-11, and after the beginning of the Iraq War, he was sitting around, and he was reading about how the Iraq War was going really badly, and he realized that he felt like he wasn't doing his part.
00:06:02.000So even though he had a couple of young kids, he signed up for the Iraq War.
00:06:05.000You can see he's a middle-aged guy in this particular picture, and he signed up as a middle-aged guy to go fight in Iraq.
00:06:11.000He did a tour in Iraq, came back, and now he is a lawyer in Tennessee.
00:06:40.000It looks like he's just, like Crystal was just searching for somebody and grabbed somebody and threw him out there.
00:06:45.000It minimizes the level of actual disenchantment with Trump and Hillary because there are gonna be a lot of people who don't vote for David French who don't like either Trump or Hillary Clinton and
00:06:54.000Also, there's something to be said for the idea that the Trumpsters sort of deserve what's coming to them in November.
00:06:59.000That if you ardently supported Donald Trump and now you say it's the Trump train or be run over, that what happens in November basically ought to be on you.
00:07:07.000Now, with all of that said, I think there are some good arguments in favor of David French.
00:07:11.000By the way, I would vote in a heartbeat for David French above both Hillary and Trump.
00:07:15.000And it would not take any... I'd vote for David French.
00:07:44.000Really, I think this is a good thing for America.
00:07:46.000It's good for America for the critique of a candidate to be about his ideas and not about his persona.
00:07:51.000We've had a year of Donald Trump and all of his various scandals and all of his various peccadilloes and all of his various personality quirks analyzed on the front page of your daily paper.
00:08:15.000Somebody who didn't make his money off The Apprentice?
00:08:17.000Or off riding her husband's coattails to the White House?
00:08:19.000I like the idea of somebody who just has principles but isn't famous running for the highest office in the land, because I care about the principles.
00:08:29.000Nobody's going to know what to talk about with David French except for principles when he's on the air, because they don't know anything about him.
00:08:34.000So what are they going to say about him?
00:08:35.000They don't get to talk to him about whether he molested people.
00:08:37.000They don't get to talk to him about whether he said he wanted to have sex with his daughter.
00:08:41.000So they're actually going to have to talk with him, presumably, about issues.
00:08:45.000I mean, I've read David French, and the nice thing about French is no one expects him to do any damage in this campaign, so he can say whatever he wants.
00:09:27.000Did he love his wife less than I loved my wife?
00:09:29.000Did he love his kids less than I love my kids?
00:09:32.000Yet he was risking everything and I was risking nothing, so I enlisted.
00:09:35.000I became a JAG officer in the US Army.
00:09:37.000And deployed to Iraq as part of the surge in 2007, attached to the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment.
00:09:42.000I prayed throughout my deployment, every night when I fell asleep, every time a friend and brother fell, every time I put on my gear, we called it battle rattle to go outside the wire.
00:09:53.000Now, granted, Donald Trump, that tough guy Donald Trump, did survive his own personal Vietnam while attempting to avoid STDs during the go-go 80s.
00:10:02.000This is what he actually called it, because it was his own personal Vietnam, quote, I feel like a great and very brave soldier.
00:10:09.000And Trump did go to a military high school, which is basically like serving in the military, except not like serving in the military.
00:10:15.000And he did dodge the draft, of course.
00:10:17.000And granted, I mean, Hillary Clinton did get four Americans killed in Benghazi and then blamed a video, and tried to mandate when she was in the White House that military members not be able to wear the uniform in the White House.
00:10:27.000And she did try to join the Marines as a woman, specifically in order to try and call them out for sexism.
00:10:34.000I mean, David French can't rise to those standards, but still, I think that's kind of nice what he did.
00:10:39.000Fourth, he's a constitutional scholar.
00:10:41.000He actually knows something about the document.
00:10:42.000So watching him argue with Trump or Hillary, if they actually gave him the time of day, which they probably won't, watching him argue with them would be entertaining, to say the least, since he's actually read the Constitution, which puts him one up on Donald Trump, and actually believes in the Constitution, which puts him one up on Hillary Clinton.
00:11:00.000So, one of the attacks on David French that was brought up immediately upon the
00:11:08.000Immediately upon this whole thing breaking was by Kevin Robillard of Politico.
00:11:13.000He tweeted this section about David French.
00:11:16.000It was from a National Review article.
00:11:18.000Before David left for Iraq, he and Nancy put together rules, Nancy's his wife, in a painfully honest conversation about human frailty.
00:11:25.000There would be no drinking during the year of separation.
00:11:27.000Nancy would not have phone conversations with men or meaningful email exchanges about politics or any other subject.
00:11:32.000She wouldn't be on Facebook where the ghosts of boyfriends past could contact her.
00:11:36.000When Nancy innocently started emailing about faith with the man associated with the radio show she was on, she told David about it and he asked her to end the relationship.
00:11:43.000David knew with his stomach clenching that the most intimate conversations a person has about are about life and faith, and that spiritual and emotional intimacy frequently leads to physical intimacy.
00:11:53.000So Robillard tweeted, when David French was in Iraq, he wouldn't let his wife email men or use Facebook.
00:12:00.000What that says is that he and his wife jointly agreed that there were certain restrictions they would place on themselves so they didn't put themselves in risky situations.
00:12:08.000Which, by the way, every married couple does, to one extent or another.
00:12:12.000And I assume that if you're gone for two years overseas, those restrictions would have to be a little bit more heavy-handed than me going to the supermarket.
00:12:20.000Now, granted, I mean, granted, the man has, clearly, he has marital issues.
00:12:25.000He doesn't have a joyful three marriages like Donald Trump, with children from all of them and his wife raising them, and he hasn't made jokes about having sex with his own daughter.
00:12:33.000Granted, I mean, he doesn't have a great family life like Donald Trump, and granted, he doesn't have a great family life like Hillary Clinton, defending her husband against charges of rape by attacking the rapist.
00:12:43.000And it's not like David French has great children.
00:12:47.000It's not like he adopted a kid from Ethiopia, which he did.
00:13:01.000For those who have not adopted, it's difficult to fully communicate the immediate intensity of the connection.
00:13:06.000I remember looking at her sleeping in the crib the night we arrived back in America and feeling indescribably blessed.
00:13:11.000This immediately was met with tweets from Donald Trump supporters calling his daughter, and this is a direct quote, a nigglet.
00:13:33.000Which is the n-word, but for a child, apparently, and a picture of Donald Trump hitting the button on a gas chamber with a black girl inside it.
00:13:42.000So, granted, I mean, David French doesn't have delightful people like that supporting him, but, you know, at least he seems like a decent guy.
00:13:49.000Finally, final reason why David French would be good, he's an alternative.
00:14:26.000But instead, what I'm seeing is people very angry that somebody named David French is running.
00:14:29.000They don't even know who he is, but they're very angry that he would be running because Trump can only run unopposed and hope to win is sort of the idea.
00:14:37.000In reality, do I think that French's candidacy will go anywhere?
00:14:39.000No, I don't think that he's going to win a ton of votes.
00:14:41.000I don't think David's going to win a lot of votes.
00:14:42.000I can't predict anything because this election cycle is not predictable.
00:14:46.000I don't think he's going to get a lot of votes, but his campaign will be worthwhile.
00:14:50.000And one of the reasons his campaign will be worthwhile is because of what I said in the intro here.
00:14:57.000The capacity to even have basic conversations about constitutional freedoms, and our candidates are not going to have those conversations.
00:15:03.000Our candidates are not interested in those conversations.
00:15:05.000Donald Trump wants to talk about how the press is mean to him, and Hillary Clinton wants to talk about how Donald Trump is mean to everybody, and that's the level of our political conversation.
00:15:13.000David French is actually going to talk about values.
00:15:16.000I would love to see a campaign based on that.
00:15:18.000I would love to see a campaign based on that.
00:15:21.000I think that that would be something that's worthwhile.
00:15:23.000All that said, the media's addicted to its own gas fumes.
00:15:26.000The media, they're, as a friend of mine likes to put it, they're the kinds of folks who fart in closed cars and enjoy the smell.
00:15:33.000And the media are really, they're very upset that David French, anybody would deign to
00:15:40.000To jump into a race that's so clearly going to be won by these famous people that they made famous, like Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
00:15:47.000How dare anybody try to jump into a race, edge into a race, that the media doesn't run?
00:15:51.000So, Mika Brzezinski, who, she along with Joe Scarborough, big Donald Trump fans, she's very upset about this.
00:15:58.000She's Bill Kristol, who recruited David French.
00:17:15.000If this is where you draw the line as to what the country has come to, if where you draw the line is not the nomination by a major party of a felon, if where you draw the line is not the nomination by a major party of a know-nothing, isolationist, alt-right idiot, if where you draw the line is a constitutional attorney with a Harvard Law background and Iraq War experience, if that's where you draw the line because you don't know who he is, you're shallow.
00:19:01.000But you're not going to take that choice because the reason that David French is not going to be a viable candidate is because people think they have to vote for Donald Trump in order to stop Hillary Clinton.
00:19:09.000They think Trump has a better shot of stopping Hillary than somebody who actually is a decent human being like David French.
00:19:15.000Well, you know, then there's the argument, and then the entire media is on the side of this.
00:19:19.000So Charles Krauthammer says it's a mistake to run a third-party candidate.
00:19:22.000I actually agree, it may be a mistake generally to run a third-party candidate, but as long as there's going to be one, I think that in many ways French is almost the ideal, because he's not going to, quote-unquote, steal the election from Trump.
00:20:07.000And if he doesn't win, he should not be able to claim he was stabbed in the back.
00:20:12.000That would be a terrible mistake in the future.
00:20:15.000And that's the argument that I've heard, and I think it's a good argument that Trump is going to start his whole stabs-in-the-back myth and anybody who didn't back Trump is going to be on the table.
00:20:22.000Okay, if I back David French and he gets 100,000 votes and Donald Trump loses by 10 million votes, that ain't on me.
00:20:45.000Either David French, one of two things happens, either he's wildly successful beyond his imagining, in which case it underscores how weak Trump was, or David French doesn't go anywhere, in which case me voting for David French is not going to make any difference in this election, because he's not going to have enough votes to actually make a difference, he's not going to be the margin of difference.
00:21:03.000But the part again that's amazing is that Chris Matthews, you know, he's out there smacking third party talk and he's very upset with the third party talk because obviously that would take control out of the hands of a media that have generated Hillary and Trump.
00:21:16.000That's what we can't get past here, folks.
00:21:43.000This is a step-by-step process for them.
00:21:45.000But it's not just to get to 15%, it's to keep... So what do you think, a country should be governed by somebody who loses a three-way race?
00:21:52.000Is it good for the country to be governed by somebody who loses a three-way race?
00:22:01.000This is anti-Trump, anti-Hillary Clinton.
00:22:04.000But, you know, even as the... First of all, I don't think the country's ready for the Libertarian Party.
00:22:08.000And if the country begins to sort of look at Libertarians...
00:22:11.000If they're going to try to reach out to the quote-unquote Obama coalition and go after women and African-Americans, people are going to start asking questions like, for example, when Johnson over the weekend said he would have voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1954.
00:23:41.000He's a smart guy, but I hope he's unsuccessful in this effort.
00:23:45.000And the Trump people suddenly love Mitch McConnell.
00:23:47.000They found love for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
00:23:50.000And so the fact that they're all of a sudden getting behind Mitch McConnell demonstrates that this is, at least for a segment of the Trump base, a cultish support for Trump, not a principled support for Trump.
00:24:00.000But again, I think one of the things that's been driving Trump is the media.
00:24:04.000If you want to make sure that you get media attention, attack the press because they are self-obsessed
00:24:08.000They exist in a world of mirrors and cameras.
00:25:09.000So, watch the press obsession with itself.
00:25:12.000Chris Cuomo, who, again, should not be anywhere near a television studio.
00:25:16.000I mean, Chris Cuomo, who is the brother of Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, and the son of Mario Cuomo, who's the former governor of New York.
00:27:34.000And you can see that the media, even when they're angry at Trump, they still love that they get to talk about themselves as the righteous defenders of truth.
00:27:40.000So CNN's Dana Bash, she was blasting Trump yesterday because she says, well, Trump's attacking us for no reason.
00:27:53.000He attacked the press, as you said, as sleazy, as dishonest, multiple times.
00:28:00.000And, you know, not to get too corny about it, but it is the press.
00:28:06.000Number one, it is our job to ask questions, particularly of public figures.
00:28:11.000Especially somebody who wants to be the leader of the free world, when they make a promise, and they do it in a very public way, like you did with this big rally for veterans, to say, it is our job to say, where's the money?
00:28:46.000Dana Bash is the same person who attacked, who was it, Major Garrett for going after President Obama too hard, but here she's a crusader for truth.
00:30:10.000I did see a very funny tweet about this.
00:30:11.000Somebody tweeted, I wish my wife looked at me the way Sean Hannity looks at Donald Trump.
00:30:16.000But there's, I mean, look, Sean's been pushing Trump for a long time.
00:30:19.000The only thing that's wrong with that, in my view, is number one, don't back Trump, but number two, this idea that you are just as obsequious to the other candidates is clearly not true.
00:30:29.000But look, Hannity, I love what he says there, even in that clip.
00:30:33.000Sean Hannity says, I'm not the corrupt press.
00:31:04.000And it's that I've been saying for literally my entire political career, the media is terrible, they lie about conservatives, they're unfair to conservatives.
00:31:13.000Trump comes in, and he says the media is lying, they're terrible, and they treat me unfairly.
00:31:18.000But he says it about things where they're actually not treating him unfairly, where they're actually saying things that are true.
00:31:22.000As you mentioned yesterday, it is perfectly in bounds to say, you pledged to give a million dollars to the vets, it's five months later, where's the cash?
00:31:30.000There's nothing wrong with that whatsoever, right?
00:31:33.000So the left press attacks him, he calls them corrupt, and then what happens?
00:31:37.000Members of the right press come to his defense because they're so used to being reactive to the left press that they just come to his defense.
00:31:43.000So Sean Hannity, he comes out and he says, what, did the press think that you were going to steal the money or something?
00:31:48.000I mean, why were they even asking these questions?
00:31:50.000I watched this and I'm thinking, what do they think?
00:33:45.000None of the veterans group said they'd received the money.
00:33:47.000That's the best proof that you can offer.
00:33:49.000But, again, I'm not gonna say that Hannity and O'Reilly are just in the tank totally for Trump, although I think that there's some truth to that.
00:33:56.000There's also, I mean, listen, Bill O'Reilly's the guy who wanted to have milkshakes with Trump, and Sean Hannity is, I mean, gazing lovingly into Trump's eyes during these interviews.
00:34:04.000But there's something else, too, and that is they're just reacting to a media that has been habitually and consistently in favor of Hillary Clinton and the left.
00:34:13.000What is your reaction to what happened at Trump Tower today?
00:34:29.000Well, I think the problem here is the difference between what Donald Trump says and what Donald Trump does.
00:34:36.000You know, he's bragged for months about raising six million dollars for veterans and donating a million dollars himself, but it took a reporter to shame him into actually making his contribution and getting money to veterans groups.
00:35:41.000Yeah, no, I don't buy that in any way, shape or form.
00:35:45.000So people react to that and they say, OK, well, if Hillary says it, then it must be then it must be false.
00:35:49.000Therefore, Trump must be justified in all of this.
00:35:52.000The lengths to which people are willing to go to defend Trump.
00:35:54.000This is why I think the French run is interesting because.
00:35:57.000It's casting a light on the lengths to which people will go to defend Donald Trump.
00:36:01.000So last night, I was on with Megyn Kelly.
00:36:03.000And she had me talking about Donald Trump, of course, because that's all anybody can talk about.
00:36:08.000And I was on with Robert Wohl, or David Wohl is his name, I think.
00:36:12.000And David Wohl is a lawyer, he's a very pro-Trump lawyer.
00:36:15.000And she had me talking about the fact that Donald Trump, during one of his rallies, came out and attacked a judge in his Trump University case.
00:36:22.000So for people who haven't been following this,
00:36:24.000Trump University is a scam university Trump set up.
00:37:16.000Naturally, this means that Donald Trump has to attack the judge for being Mexican, right?
00:37:19.000He doesn't attack him for saying that you're an Obama appointee, or attack him on the grounds that he has associations with groups that Trump doesn't like.
00:37:27.000Instead, he goes directly to, this guy's a Mexican, that's why he doesn't like me.
00:37:31.000So, that would be, in any real world, pretty unacceptable, right?
00:37:35.000Just saying that you're Mexican, therefore, you must not like me.
00:37:38.000You're Mexican, therefore, you must believe X.
00:37:40.000Okay, Mexican, it turns out, is not an ideology or philosophy.
00:37:46.000So watch, you know, I'm beautiful and handsome here, but watch David Wall, who's the lawyer, because his defense of Trump, this is how far Trump advocates are willing to go in defense of a man.
00:37:57.000And if you say that this doesn't tear the beating heart out of decency and conservatism, I don't know what does.
00:38:02.000For Trump, there's some sort of bizarre connection between the ethnicity of the person and the ideology the person must hold.
00:38:09.000I don't know why him being a Mexican would even be relevant to the conversation, especially when he's not from Mexico and his parents are Mexican.
00:38:28.000The issue of him going after this judge, though, I gotta say, how is this any different than Barack Obama in 2010 at the State of the Union when he excoriated Supreme Court justices who were sitting right in front of him?
00:38:56.000Bill Burton, by the way, who was Obama's press secretary at the time, you've got to listen to this.
00:39:00.000He said, I'm quoting, one of the great things about our democracy is that powerful members of government at high levels can disagree in public and in private, and this is one of those instances.
00:39:34.000Listen, you can say that there's no merits to the case and Trump will get his day in court, but to go after the judge as a, quote, Mexican and hater takes it to a different level, Ben.
00:39:46.000And the fact that Trump defenders have to rely on Barack Obama was a bad guy, therefore if our guy does the exact same thing, it's just doubly as awesome.
00:41:38.000So basically, you insult the judge, and then when the judge does something that he's perfectly allowed to do under the law, and there's a motion before the court in order to release these documents, then you say he has to recuse himself.
00:41:52.000So you create the issue, and then the only solution is for Trump to get what he wants.
00:41:56.000And by the way, this is a whole slip of the tongue nonsense.
00:41:59.000When your tongue keeps slipping in the same direction, at a certain point you sort of have to figure that there's a little bit of intentionality to it.
00:42:10.000So, you know, the reason I played the whole segment here, beyond the fact that it's wildly entertaining, is if you look at Trump's lawyer, he's spinning every which way.
00:42:18.000And this is what Trump's defenders have to do.
00:42:20.000And the media is happy to cover it because with every spin, with every spin, the media either gets to portray itself as the beautiful victors or as stumped by Trump, which means that they're still being
00:42:31.000Cucked by this wonderful man, by this egregious man.
00:42:35.000So the media gets to play itself as great in opposition to Trump.
00:42:39.000Or Trump is just a master manipulator of the media and so we're still worshipping at our own altar, right?
00:42:44.000Because we're the ones who still make the power decisions.
00:42:47.000It's all about the media for Trump, and that's why it would be wonderful if conservatives would actually stand up for principle and stop backing this nonsense.
00:42:55.000Because you're gonna go down with this ship.
00:43:09.000And now there's an alternative for you.
00:43:10.000You may not like it, you may think he's obscure,
00:43:12.000He may not be as fancy, he may not have the same number of wives, he may not have the Solomon-esque kingdom of horses, but he's somebody who actually believes in principles you supposedly do, so I'd like to see you defend why exactly Trump is your man instead of somebody like David French.
00:43:28.000Okay, time for a couple of things I like and then a thing I hate.
00:47:43.000And then he cuts to a shot of his dog.
00:47:44.000So, obviously the one quibble I have is when he says that we have the same stuff going on today that was happening in the days of slavery.
00:47:51.000This is factually incorrect, as noted by the fact that Snoop Dogg is a convicted criminal who's worth a bajillion dollars, mainly because he raps and smokes enormous quantities of ganja.
00:48:01.000So, the idea that Snoop Dogg is living just as his ancestors lived
00:48:05.000During the times of slavery, yeah, not so much.
00:48:08.000But when he says that it would be good to actually provide a vision for young black people in America of what black success looks like, that's exactly right.
00:48:16.000What you don't need is more victimization TV.
00:48:19.000And listen, I think we should all know our history.
00:48:25.000I think that it was important for what it did at the time.
00:48:28.000I think that it's significantly more important for black people in the United States and Jewish people, every person in the United States, to see the possibilities of the American dream, what you can do if you put your nose to the grindstone, than it is to talk about all the terrible things that have happened to people who looked like you 150 years ago.
00:48:49.000It was kind of predictable, and that's not something I like, but I can't say it's something that I truly hate, that it's the worst thing in the world.
00:48:55.000Some people feel really betrayed by Marco Rubio.
00:48:58.000I think that Marco Rubio, like most Republican politicians, feels the necessity to rally around the candidate because he feels like he wants a future.
00:49:06.000In Republican establishment politics and party politics is all about the establishment.
00:51:03.000So UCLA, there's apparently a shooting today at UCLA, my alma mater, where my wife is graduating med school the end of the week.
00:51:10.000And it's a really, apparently what they're reporting now, this is the latest news so it may change, what they're currently reporting is that it was a murder-suicide at UCLA, they had the campus on lockdown.
00:51:20.000This prompted Deborah Messing, who has not been relevant since Will and Grace, to come out and tweet this.
00:51:27.000So she tweeted a picture of herself and she wrote, And then it's a picture of her wearing a t-shirt that is the t-shirt for Katie Couric's new documentary.
00:51:44.000Okay, there are a couple of things about this that are just asinine.
00:51:47.000Number one, Katie Couric's documentary has been discredited to the point where Epix actually pulled it.
00:51:52.000That's the network that was gonna run it.
00:51:53.000They pulled it because, as we discussed yesterday, Katie Couric inserted a pause in the film to make it look like the gun advocates she was talking to were stupid and didn't know answers to her questions.
00:52:50.000And so if I selfie myself wearing a t-shirt about gun violence, you know how many less people will die in gun violence because she took the selfie?
00:53:15.000California is already the most heavily gun-regulated state in America.
00:53:18.000They got an A from the Brady campaign.
00:53:21.000And right now, there are a bunch of bills on Jerry Brown's desk, including a bill to ban so-called assault rifles that have a capacity for switching the magazine.
00:53:28.000So they, I guess, want to go back to either bolt-action or back to you're stuck with one magazine and you can't eject the magazine and change magazines.
00:53:36.000Which means you have to unscrew the magazine between each time you use it, which is just absurd.
00:53:40.000Every time I go shooting, I'm supposed to unscrew the magazine when I practice with my rifle?