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00:00:00.000On Sunday, horrible white nationalists rallied at the California State Capitol over in Sacramento in a show of support, they said, for Donald Trump.
00:00:08.000There, they were confronted by hundreds of leftist counter-protesters who proceeded to attack the white nationalists with rocks and sticks and bottles.
00:00:15.000They even assaulted a reporter to get things started.
00:00:17.000The battle ended with 10 people injured, including 7 people stabbed.
00:00:21.000The media reported all of this as an even-handed clash.
00:00:24.000Here's the Sacramento Bee's headline, for example.
00:01:25.000Damian Osborne, a Sacramento community activist who came out to join the anti-Nazi protesters Sunday, said more trouble erupted about 11.20 a.m.
00:01:33.000when a neo-Nazi with a stick, a sign, and a shirt with a swastika and the words White Power approached the crowd.
00:01:38.000Quote, he dodged a bottle, and then a rock, and then someone broke a rock over his back, said Osborne, 26.
00:01:43.000The organizer said, stop, let him speak.
00:01:46.000Then some folks came up to take his sign away, and he wouldn't let go, so a girl from the anti-racist side punched him.
00:01:51.000As soon as he was getting beat down, the cops came and grabbed him and started shooting rubber pellets.
00:01:56.000The media cover anti-Trump violence at Trump rallies the exact same way.
00:02:00.000When anti-Trump protesters show up and start violently assaulting Trump supporters, the press simply calls it a scrum unworthy of further differentiation.
00:02:08.000They even cover this stuff the same way when somebody like me, an anti-Trump, anti-white nationalist, mainstream conservative speaks at a college campus.
00:02:52.000That would be factual since the jihadists just actually murdered 49 gay people in Orlando.
00:02:56.000But Republicans who don't support same-sex marriage are just like actual people who kill people.
00:03:01.000If the left believes this, is it any wonder that they sanction violence against everyone from mainstream conservative speech goers to Trump backers to neo-Nazis?
00:03:09.000These groups aren't remotely similar except in one critical aspect.
00:03:12.000The left doesn't like them and lumps them all together and then says they're worthy of violence.
00:03:16.000This is the end of political speech in America.
00:03:18.000If certain speech is violence, certain speech can be banned.
00:03:21.000If certain violence is speech, certain violence will be permitted.
00:03:38.000It's a very, very busy news day here on a Monday.
00:03:42.000You survived the weekend, and the weekend went pretty well, because Brexit happened, and then we come back and things just go straight to the crapper.
00:03:58.000They go to the Capitol to yell about white supremacy.
00:04:01.000Always ironic to me, by the way, when white supremacists yell about white supremacy, because invariably they're incredibly stupid.
00:04:07.000So they're yelling about how superior they are while being incredibly stupid.
00:04:10.000But, all these people go there, they have stupid views, people on the left show up, they also have stupid views, not to the same extent presumably, but, they do something significantly worse, which is they start assaulting and beating up the people from the neo-nazi crowd, the neo-nazi crowd fights back, and so you get something that looks like this.
00:06:27.000Not all the things, just a few that they updated from in their new Democratic National Committee platform.
00:06:33.000First off, they say that they want the Department of Justice to investigate alleged corporate fraud on the part of fossil fuel companies who have reportedly misled shareholders and the public on the scientific reality of climate change.
00:06:45.000Okay, so to translate that, what that means is they want Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, the Department of Justice, they want the Department of Justice to prosecute oil companies that give money to institutions like the Heartland Institute that says that it isn't climate change being caused by oil that's the big problem.
00:07:03.000They want to prosecute them for free speech.
00:07:34.000Well, now it's national policy, so they want a $15 minimum wage across the country.
00:07:38.000And that minimum wage also, by the way, includes the idea that they would end sub-minimum wage for tipped workers.
00:07:45.000So, in other words, if you're a waiter, or a waitress, and you work for $9 an hour, but you tend to earn another $20 an hour in tips, which is not rare, they don't want you to be able to be paid that.
00:07:55.000They want you to be paid $15 minimum wage.
00:07:57.000Restaurants typically end up taking the tips, right?
00:08:55.000They also support the repeal of harmful restrictions that obstruct women's access to health care around the world, including the global gag rule and the Helms Amendment, which bar U.S.
00:09:04.000assistance to other countries that provide safe, legal abortion.
00:09:08.000So in other words, they want us to fund abortion overseas, too.
00:09:11.000So it's not just enough to kill babies here, we have to go other places and kill babies, too.
00:10:02.000They say they want access to public coverage through Medicare or a public option.
00:10:05.000That means the destruction of all insurance companies in the United States.
00:10:09.000Once you have a public option, what that means is that they can drive the private companies out of business because no matter how bad the public option is, they can always just come and take more of my money to fund it.
00:10:19.000If an insurance company goes bankrupt, they can't take money from me to fund it.
00:10:22.000If the government goes bankrupt, they just take more of my money.
00:10:25.000Finally, they want to surrender to Black Lives Matter.
00:10:28.000They say their current draft calls for ending the era of mass incarceration.
00:10:32.000There's no era of mass incarceration, folks.
00:10:33.000We're not taking innocent people and throwing them in prison by the score.
00:10:36.000Okay, the fact is people in prison commit crimes.
00:10:42.000People aren't being in prison for political views, except Democrats who actually want to do that in this platform.
00:10:47.000Right, but they say mass incarceration must end, shutting down private prisons, again, no building of new public prisons, so presumably letting everybody out of prison, which, by the way, has worked out awesome in California.
00:10:57.000The crime rates are up double digits the last couple of years because of Jerry Brown releasing people from prison.
00:11:02.000They want to reform the grand jury process, right, they don't like that because in Ferguson, it ended up with the proper acquittal of the officer in Ferguson, so they want to get rid of that.
00:11:10.000They want to invest in re-entry programs, which is where we do job retraining for people who end up in prison after three years anyway.
00:11:17.000Okay, what banning the box means is they want to make it illegal for you when you're employing people to ask them if they have a prior felony on their record.
00:11:24.000The Democrats are out of their damn minds.
00:11:27.000They are out of their damn minds, okay?
00:11:29.000And just to prove how out of their minds they are, today, the Supreme Court issues a decision on abortion that is fully crazy.
00:11:35.000So the decision on abortion goes like this.
00:11:37.000So, in Texas, there are two laws on the books.
00:11:40.000One is a law that says doctors must have admitting privileges at hospitals in order to perform abortions.
00:11:46.000And what that means is, you know how if you are, right now, let's say you get sick and you go to the ER, you have to fill out a ream of paperwork in order to be admitted to the hospital.
00:11:54.000Doctors who have admitting privileges, they just take their patients, no need to fill out paperwork, we just bring you to the hospital and we leave you there.
00:12:00.000And it's already been filled out, they have admitting privileges at the hospital.
00:12:04.000They say that a doctor should have admitting privileges at the hospital if you want to perform an abortion, because if something goes wrong, you don't want to have to sit there filling out the paperwork.
00:12:10.000And one that says clinics must renovate to be considered ambulatory surgery centers, meaning that the hallways have to be big enough that if we need to get a gurney down the hallway, then we should be able to get a gurney down the hallway.
00:12:20.000That's what an ambulatory surgery center means, right?
00:12:22.000Here at the office, that's not the case.
00:12:24.000There are certain hallways here that are too skinny, but at hospitals, obviously the hallways are really wide.
00:12:28.000So the reason the left doesn't like this is because a lot of the abortion clinics don't have these things.
00:12:33.000So they think the abortion clinics will be closed.
00:12:35.000The Supreme Court today said that this was impermissible restrictions on a woman's right to an abortion.
00:12:41.000So let's start, number one, with the fact that there is no right to abortion in the Constitution of the United States.
00:12:52.000There is no right to an abortion in the Constitution of the United States.
00:12:56.000That comes from a whole line of cases from Griswold v. Connecticut to Roe v. Wade that creates this vague right to privacy that for some reason doesn't apply to my right to gun ownership but does apply to your ability to go publicly to a doctor who's not you and get an abortion on a third party, a baby.
00:13:12.000Somehow it's a right to privacy issue.
00:13:13.000The right to privacy does not exist in the Constitution of the United States.
00:13:27.000So, how do they say that these ones are no good?
00:13:30.000Including, by the way, they struck down fire restrictions.
00:13:33.000They struck down a restriction that says that the abortion clinic has to be able to take somebody who's unconscious out of the clinic if there's a fire.
00:13:47.000Here's what's so stupid about all of this.
00:13:49.000We all presumably have a right, according to the left, I would assume, to eat in restaurants.
00:13:53.000But there are health restrictions on restaurants, aren't there?
00:13:57.000Every restaurant you go to has health restrictions on it from the state.
00:14:00.000Whether you think it's good or whether you think it's bad, it's not unconstitutional to have health restrictions on your restaurant.
00:14:06.000I tend to think it's stupid, but that doesn't mean that it's unconstitutional.
00:14:12.000This would be the equivalent of if the government said, if the Supreme Court said, health restrictions on the restaurants you eat at prevent restaurants from opening, therefore the health restrictions are unconstitutional and there can be no health restrictions.
00:14:23.000That's basically what they're arguing right now.
00:14:26.000And all of this is based off false law.
00:14:28.000It's very irritating as a constitutionally aware guy, like A-plus from Harvard Law and Constitutional Law.
00:14:36.000The fact that the Supreme Court basically pulls these decisions directly from its own colon and then makes up a legal framework for it is really highly irritating.
00:14:47.000So they just, I mean, the truth is that they decided this case back in, the Fifth Circuit decided this case back in 2013.
00:14:51.000The people who are on the losing side didn't bother to appeal to the Supreme Court.
00:14:56.000They appealed the exact same case now that violates what's called res judicata, which is the idea, res judicata, which is the idea that the case has already been decided.
00:15:04.000There is nothing about this decision that is legal in any way.
00:15:06.000It's all a politically motivated decision, very clearly.
00:15:09.000And Justice Thomas, who I've always said was the best justice on the court, even when Scalia was alive, he has this one quote that I think is really telling.
00:15:16.000He says, 80 years on, the court has come full circle.
00:15:19.000The court has simultaneously transformed judicially created rights, like the right to an abortion, into preferred constitutional rights, while disfavoring many of the rights actually enumerated in the Constitution.
00:15:30.000But our Constitution renounces the notion that some constitutional rights are more equal than others.
00:15:35.000A plaintiff either possesses the constitutional he is asserting, or not.
00:15:38.000And if not, the judiciary has no business creating ad hoc exceptions so that others can assert rights the team especially important to vindicate.
00:15:45.000What happened in this case is that it's a right to an abortion that was being sued over, but the abortion doctor doesn't have a right to an abortion.
00:16:15.000Justice Kennedy, the only case in which he didn't vote to the left in the last five years, really, was the immigration case, and there it was
00:16:26.000He also didn't vote for Obamacare, but Roberts did, so it didn't matter.
00:16:30.000We've had a left court for a little while here.
00:16:32.000We've had a left court for a little while.
00:16:33.000If Kennedy's the swing vote, then you're in trouble.
00:16:35.000Because Justice Kennedy tends to fall to the left, particularly on social issues.
00:16:40.000All that said, you've got these Supreme Court rulings and they come out.
00:16:43.000And here's what Hillary Clinton tweeted.
00:16:44.000This is why I say the left is making it very difficult not to just try and stop them with any means at our disposal, even an absolute crapshoot like Donald Trump.
00:17:36.000She then tweets, SCOTUS's decision, Supreme Court of the United States, that's what SCOTUS is, is a victory for women in Texas and across America.
00:17:43.000Safe abortion should be a right, not just on paper, but in reality.
00:17:59.000I mean, these anti-left, these anti-fascist protesters and anti-fascist protesters in Sacramento who beat people up because they disagree, those are fascist protesters.
00:18:08.000If you beat people up because they disagree, by definition, you're a fascist.
00:18:19.000I don't know if they decided to be twinsies this morning and they're all gonna dress in the same color blue.
00:18:24.000They all went to Violet Beauregard's closet and hijacked a couple of her outfits.
00:18:30.000Elizabeth Warren, who's legitimately the only, maybe the only woman in America more irritating than Hillary Clinton.
00:18:36.000I mean, I know Elizabeth Warren, so I can say that with full verve.
00:18:40.000Elizabeth Warren is now stumping for Hillary Clinton after spending the last few years bashing her as a corporate insider, because Elizabeth Warren wants power.
00:18:47.000And Focahontas over here, a lady who claims that she's Native American, which she is not, and got her job at Harvard Law based on her minority status, even though she's whiter than Sean King.
00:18:58.000I am more Native American than Elizabeth Warren is.
00:19:01.000Here's Elizabeth Warren stumping for Hillary Clinton.
00:19:05.000Hillary Clinton believes that racism, hatred, injustice, and bigotry have no place in our country.
00:19:36.000Okay, so this delightful pair, people are saying that Warren might run with Hillary.
00:19:39.000I don't know how Hillary could possibly have found someone who's more robotic and more irritating than herself, but, I mean, what an absolute horror show.
00:19:49.000And they continue to lie, they continue to be terrible, they continue to be far-left.
00:19:54.000Elizabeth Warren, by the way, isn't gonna do much for Hillary Clinton.
00:19:56.000Yeah, she doesn't need to shore up the Bernie vote.
00:19:58.000The Bernie vote's gonna come to her, because they're socialists.
00:20:01.000I mean, Sally Cohen, who I debated yesterday at Politicon, she was a Bernie supporter.
00:20:04.000She even said to me backstage that she would think that when it came down to Bernie versus Hillary, if it were really that close, she might have voted for Hillary.
00:20:12.000She says that she would vote for Hillary.
00:20:17.000Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, meanwhile, over the weekend, she was on TV and she says that Hillary is the most transparent, the most spectacular person who ever lived.
00:21:55.000So here's Hillary Clinton talking about Brexit.
00:21:57.000We didn't have a chance to talk about that, so in a minute I'm going to sum up my thoughts on Brexit.
00:22:00.000But here's Hillary Clinton talking about the British exit from the EU.
00:22:05.000A lot of Americans woke up on Friday to alarming headlines from across the Atlantic.
00:22:12.000And they are wondering what this decision in Britain means for us.
00:22:21.000Now, we are resilient, and we will bounce back from this and from all of the other shocks that are in the system.
00:22:30.000But it is a reminder that what happens around the world has consequences.
00:22:37.000We need leaders like yourselves at the local and state and federal level who understand how to work with other leaders, to manage risks, who understand that bombastic comments in turbulent times can actually cause more turbulence.
00:23:00.000No one should be confused about America's commitment to- She's so terrible at this.
00:23:06.000So this big thing happens with the UK leaving the EU and her basic comment is, WE NEED LEADERS!
00:24:20.000There are British people who still believe there's a civilization worth preserving that is unique to the British character and they feel like it's being ripped away by a bureaucratic elite in Brussels.
00:24:32.000They don't like the fact that immigration across country lines is absolutely free in the EU, and you've got countries like Germany taking in hundreds of thousands of unvetted Muslim Syrian refugees and Libyan refugees.
00:25:45.000And we've we've taken that building and made it something really special.
00:25:50.000Inside the lighthouse right now is incredible suites.
00:25:55.000And it's called a halfway house because this is the ninth tee and it's called a halfway house and on the bottom you have dining and golfers will stop and they'll go and get something to eat and then they go into the 10th hole 10th tee right next door so the light and it was in disrepair and all of the people from Landmark Scotland and all of the people that we had to go through were I just thank you because it was a it was a long difficult process getting that approved but they really wanted to see it
00:26:25.000And now it's really at a higher level than it ever was.
00:26:28.000And when you see — I don't know if you'll get the chance, but if you do, you should try and get to see the sweets, because they are two of the most beautiful sweets you'll ever see.
00:26:36.000And, you know, when the water is rough today, it's very calm.
00:26:38.000In fact, I've almost never seen it like this.
00:26:41.000But sometimes you have waves that are literally crashing onto this piece of land that we're standing on.
00:26:47.000It's one of the most beautiful sights you'll ever see.
00:26:57.000They've wanted to do these changes for probably close to 50 years because they were so obvious, and we've made certain changes to the course.
00:27:07.000In addition to that, we fully renovated the course.
00:27:09.000Brand new sprinkler system, the highest level.
00:27:13.000Many of the holes have been jiggered and made even longer, and new greens do everything, and yet it's the same Turnberry.
00:27:21.000You would hit over there, this was a par 4, and you'd hit over there and it was a much different thing.
00:27:29.000My favorite part of this is the breaking news chyron from CNN.
00:27:32.000Trump speaking from his golf course in Scotland.
00:27:34.000For like half an hour about the golf course and people are tuning in to find out what he thinks.
00:27:40.000The British leaving the EU, which is one of the most significant moments in modern European history, is the falling apart of this massive European Union organization that really had lost its way after the fall of the Soviet Union.
00:27:51.000The EU was created, at least in part, as an economic cooperative sphere, the European Economic Cooperative, in opposition, basically, to the Soviet Union.
00:28:00.000And then after the Soviet Union fell, they sort of lost their way and forgot what they were all about.
00:28:37.000Okay, so here is the... Folks, if you can't subscribe, you don't see the good Trump, bad Trump that Lindsay made, and it's quite wonderful.
00:28:45.000This reporter asks Trump, are you traveling with foreign policy advisors who knew this was going to happen today?
00:28:50.000And Trump says, well, I've been in touch with them, but there's nothing to talk about.
00:28:54.000Ah, you know, I've been saying that I would prefer what happened.
00:30:19.000I mean, so everybody got suckered by all of this.
00:30:22.000So Chuck Todd confronts Donald Trump, of NBC, confronts Donald Trump's campaign manager, Paul Manafort, or as they pronounce it in the original, Paul Manafort.
00:30:34.000Chuck Todd confronts Paul Manafort over speaking at Turnberry for like half an hour on golf courses.
00:30:45.000In a volatile world, the last thing we need is a volatile president.
00:30:50.000It obviously picks up on what was a head-scratching event earlier this week, Mr. Manafort, which is on the day of the biggest news event in the world.
00:30:59.000He is in the country, at the heart of this,
00:31:04.000This is an example, again, of the tone deafness of the Clinton campaign.
00:31:08.000First of all, when you look at what was happening in the Clinton campaign over the last month, they have spent $60 million against Donald Trump on ads like this, talking about things that are totally distracting, distracted, and unconnected to what's going on.
00:31:26.000The American people care about what is going to happen to their lives, about change.
00:31:32.000And the issues of Brexit, this kind of phony ad, doesn't address those things.
00:31:38.000And Hillary Clinton is ignoring the reality because she's part of the establishment.
00:31:42.000She can't get away from the fact that she is part of the problem that's being rejected.
00:31:47.000So when she tries to distract with commercials like this,
00:31:50.000She's once again showing that she is absolutely afraid of the consequences of what Brexit represented and what the Trump phenomenon in the primaries represented, which is historic numbers of people voting for change against the establishment.
00:32:03.000But why was it appropriate for Mr. Trump to be promoting a golf course on the day of, frankly, what could be the most impactful decision that a country has made that impacts
00:32:14.000You know, the global community in a way that we're not fully comprehending yet, and he's promoting a golf course in the middle of his campaign.
00:32:22.000First of all, Mr. Trump is an international businessman.
00:32:25.000His success as an international businessman, and a person who gets things done, is one of the attractions of his candidacy, so that when he says he's going to bring real change to the country, voters believe him.
00:32:35.000Unlike Mrs. Clinton, who has been saying that for 25 years, and in those 25 years, the only changes that have happened have made people's lives worse.
00:32:43.000So what's what's amazing about all of this is you watch Manafort on the one end and you watch Hillary Clinton spokesperson on the other and they can't defend their own people, right?
00:32:49.000So Paul Manafort is out there saying my man's an international businessman of mystery.
00:32:55.000He has he and Goldfinger going at and and you have on the other hand you have Hillary Clinton's person saying she's the most transparent person ever.
00:33:01.000The funny thing about this campaign whenever
00:33:03.000Hillary's people attack Trump, it's accurate.
00:33:05.000Whenever Trump's people attack Hillary, it's accurate.
00:33:07.000Whenever either camp says anything about their own people, it's completely and wildly inaccurate.
00:33:15.000So, what this does raise is, as the left becomes more and more extreme, as they become more and more terrible, should there be a revolt at the RNC?
00:33:22.000Because, let's put aside personal distaste for Trump for just a second and be practical for just a second.
00:33:27.000You know, maybe the calculus changes after the convention.
00:33:30.000Is it possible the calculus changes after the convention and the threat of the left is so bad that you just have to go Trump because Trump is at least not Hillary.
00:33:43.000And it's a battle that I fight with myself every day.
00:33:45.000I mean, it's really something that I consider every single day.
00:33:47.000Is this the day when the left puts me over the top?
00:33:51.000Is this the day when Trump starts to fix himself?
00:33:56.000And the answer so far is no, because Trump is one of them.
00:33:58.000Trump is a member of the left, and if I'm going to sign off on my principles, I'd at least like to have victory.
00:34:02.000But I do think if you sacrifice your principles for victory, you don't end up with victory, and you don't end up with principles.
00:34:09.000It makes it very difficult to stick to that position when the left continues to be increasingly terrible.
00:34:14.000What this means is that there's been this increasing movement inside the Republican Party to create a revolt at the Republican National Convention.
00:34:42.000Not without a third-party candidate sucking up 18% of the vote the way Ross Perot did.
00:34:47.000So, there's a journalist at the New York Times who says he thinks that there's a pretty high probability of some sort of revolt at the RNC.
00:34:55.000Trump and the RNC are quite nervous about the fact that the convention could get messy.
00:35:02.000And what you have here is this interesting marriage of convenience between the two, where Trump people who are definitely not party people and party people who are definitely not Trump people have a common
00:35:42.000I don't know if they walk off the floor.
00:35:44.000I don't know if they try to stage some type of coup in a rules committee meeting the week before the convention, but you're pretty much guaranteed some kind of fight.
00:35:53.000I mean, there are hundreds of delegates who are openly hostile to Donald Trump, and they will be in Cleveland.
00:36:02.000I mean, I've been fielding phone calls from people who are actively attempting to do something at the convention to stop Trump from getting the nomination, not only because they think he's unpalatable as a candidate, but because they think that if you really believe this election is that important, you can't give it away by handing the nomination to a guy who's going to get absolutely schlonged, who's going to get destroyed in this campaign.
00:36:21.000And again, that's the way this is going right now.
00:36:23.000I mean, the way that this is going is that it's going to be a disaster area.
00:36:26.000Trump is going to lose and he's going to lose big.
00:36:27.000So that has to be a serious consideration
00:36:29.000For all the practical people, and this is really an argument, for all the practical people who have been saying, a vote not for Trump is a vote for Hillary, I don't buy that argument.
00:36:38.000But isn't a vote for Trump at this point a vote for Hillary if he's losing by 10, 15 points to her in the polls, and there's no prospect of him coming back, he has no campaign organization, the RNC is raising less money now than they've ever raised in the history of the party, basically, for this point in the election cycle?
00:36:53.000At a certain point, don't you start looking and going, okay, we gotta do something about this?
00:36:57.000There's an RNC rules member who told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that people are gearing up for a fight at the convention.
00:37:03.000All it would take, basically, is one vote at the convention to open up the delegates and say the delegates can vote for whomever they want for utter chaos to break out.
00:37:12.000And you're seeing how awkward this is making it.
00:37:14.000Trump's continued candidacy makes it very awkward.
00:37:16.000It makes it very hard to fight the left if Trump is the candidate.
00:37:18.000Mitch McConnell, who's the Senate Majority Leader, he's asked about Donald Trump on ABC and watch him just struggle like a
00:37:26.000Well, look, I think there's no question that he's made a number of mistakes over the last few weeks.
00:37:35.000I think they're beginning to right the ship.
00:37:36.000It's a long time until November, and the burden obviously will be on him to convince people that he can handle this job.
00:37:44.000And I think a good step in the right direction with the changes he made in the campaign
00:37:50.000He's beginning to use a prepared script more often, which I think is absolutely appropriate for any candidate, whether you're a longtime politician like Hillary Clinton or whether you're new to the game like Donald Trump.
00:38:02.000I didn't hear you say whether you thought he was qualified.
00:38:06.000Look, that'll be up to the American people to decide.
00:38:08.000You know, he won the Republican nomination fair and square.
00:38:11.000He got more votes than anybody else against a whole lot of
00:38:22.000So that's the Senate Majority Leader saying he doesn't think that Trump is qualified.
00:38:29.000George Will, who I think is too moderate, I think George Will is too moderate, but George Will, who's been a leading voice in conservatism for 40 years, George Will came out over the weekend.
00:38:38.000He said, I'm not even in the Republican Party anymore.
00:39:00.000Shortly after Trump became the presumptive nominee, he had a summit
00:39:05.000...with Paul Ryan, where they stressed their common principles and their vast shared ground, which is much more important than their differences.
00:39:12.000I thought that was puzzling, doubly so, because Paul Ryan still didn't endorse them.
00:39:17.000After Trump went after the Mexican judge from northern Indiana, then Paul Ryan endorsed him.
00:40:09.000It's a good line, and it also happens to be true, but one of the things that's so frustrating about this election cycle is being stuck defending Donald Trump in order to fight Hillary Clinton is just the worst situation anybody can be in.
00:40:20.000It's what makes it a struggle, because otherwise, this is the easiest election in human history.
00:40:26.000But the fact that Trump is both incompetent and also vile, the fact that he has no principles, right?
00:40:31.000I mean, he just walked back mass deportations, which means really any deportations.
00:40:35.000His new policy is essentially, I'll deport the bad ones, which is exactly President Obama's policy.
00:40:41.000What's a policy he hasn't walked back at this point?
00:40:44.000It makes it to say, I'm going to sacrifice my principles to vote for a guy who's going to lose anyway and who's also going to drag conservatism through the mud.
00:40:54.000And no matter how bad the left gets, I'm not sure that you end up in a situation where that calculus changes.
00:41:00.000Now, if you're the deciding vote, you know, if it comes down to a really, really close election, you're the deciding vote, maybe in the privacy of the voting booth, you decide that the next four years are more important than the next 40, and you think, okay, well, maybe Trump will be better than Hillary, and so I'll do that, and we know Hillary will be terrible, and I get that logic.
00:41:17.000But if right now, we're talking about right now, we're not talking about November 8th, we're talking about now, today, if you're looking at the polls right now and saying to yourself, I gotta support Trump through the convention, because, hey, he won,
00:41:28.000I gotta be saying, I don't see the logic, and I think that you're giving credence and impetus to a guy who's gonna get absolutely destroyed by the worst person in America, Hillary Clinton.
00:41:41.000Okay, time for things I like and things I hate.
00:41:43.000So, we're gonna do movies that are pre-The Hays Code.
00:42:44.000So Hollywood had a voluntarily imposed code
00:42:47.000In the Hays office, this is how the Motion Picture Association of America becomes so powerful.
00:42:50.000It's why they still are a ratings agency.
00:42:53.000And they say, okay, well, from now on, here's a set of rules we're going to promulgate, and those rules include bad guys have to lose at the end of the movie, they include no sex in the movies, no excessive violence in the movies, and people on the left hate this.
00:43:06.000They think it's the worst thing in the world.
00:43:08.000Except that probably most of the great movies in Hollywood history are produced between 1933 and 1960.
00:43:12.000If you look at the best movies in Hollywood history, from Casablanca to Citizen Kane,
00:43:18.000On the waterfront, to best years of our lives, to Gone with the Wind, right?
00:43:23.000All of these movies are produced during this period.
00:43:26.000There's a very famous example, The Hays Code, in Gone with the Wind, the very end, right?
00:43:32.000Rhett Butler turns to Scarlett O'Hara, no spoiler alert necessary, came out in 1939.
00:43:37.000At the very end of the film, he turns to Scarlett O'Hara, and she says, Rhett, where are you going?
00:44:00.000But there are lots of cases where the Hays Code basically overruled things and cut scenes out and all this.
00:44:03.000So, what we're going to do for this week is we're going to take films that were produced before the Hays Code, because there are a lot of films that have largely been forgotten masterpieces before the Hays Code came about, and they're very gritty and very hardcore.
00:44:16.000One of those films, this is one of my favorite films, it's a foreign film called M. You're going to recognize the star of this film, Peter Lorre, because he became big playing bit parts.
00:46:30.000Right, so... So what's iconic about that is that every time he's about to kidnap and rape a kid, he starts whistling Griggs' In the Hall of the Mountain King, right?
00:46:39.000Which you know from the Ritz Crackers commercials.
00:47:52.000Now, for people like me, who don't back Donald Trump, it makes me nuts when people try to lump my ideology in with a guy who's totally ideology-free.
00:48:00.000I mean, Trump is who Trump is, and he believes what Trump believes, and I don't believe any of those things, and so I've been very critical of Trump, more critical than Sally Cohn has been, probably.
00:48:08.000Michael Eric Dyson did the same thing on MSNBC.
00:48:11.000He said that Trump's nationalism is a white, racist, supremacist routine.
00:48:15.000I don't know why ABC's This Week bothers to have him on, but they do, so here's what it sounded like.
00:48:48.000I think insulting half of the American people who are supporting Donald Trump by saying they're racist.
00:48:54.000You have to believe that his supporters are racist to call him that.
00:48:58.000I think that demeans you and demeans us.
00:49:03.000Okay, so what the Trump guy there is saying is basically right, that a lot of people who support Trump are not this.
00:49:08.000But one of the problems with Trumpism is that Trumpism reflects a nationalism that is not rooted in founding ideology, so nationalism without founding ideology really is no different from the nationalism of Britain or the nationalism of Greece.
00:49:20.000I think that in this way, Trump and Hillary are basically very similar.