The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 140 - The Left Loses Its Damn Mind

00:00:00.000 On Sunday, horrible white nationalists rallied at the California State Capitol over in Sacramento in a show of support, they said, for Donald Trump. 0.97

00:00:08.000 There, they were confronted by hundreds of leftist counter-protesters who proceeded to attack the white nationalists with rocks and sticks and bottles. 0.96

00:00:15.000 They even assaulted a reporter to get things started.

00:00:17.000 The battle ended with 10 people injured, including 7 people stabbed.

00:00:21.000 The media reported all of this as an even-handed clash.

00:00:24.000 Here's the Sacramento Bee's headline, for example.

00:00:26.000 Again, who started it?

00:00:27.000 Who knows?

00:00:44.000 Press do.

00:00:45.000 They just don't want to report it properly.

00:00:47.000 Here's what the Sacramento Bee itself reported, buried several paragraphs down.

00:00:50.000 Let's pause that for just a second.

00:00:53.000 That's hilarious, okay?

00:00:55.000 They were confronted by anti-fascist protesters shouting no cameras and demanding they leave.

00:01:10.000 The report continued, quote,

00:01:25.000 Damian Osborne, a Sacramento community activist who came out to join the anti-Nazi protesters Sunday, said more trouble erupted about 11.20 a.m.

00:01:33.000 when a neo-Nazi with a stick, a sign, and a shirt with a swastika and the words White Power approached the crowd.

00:01:38.000 Quote, he dodged a bottle, and then a rock, and then someone broke a rock over his back, said Osborne, 26.

00:01:43.000 The organizer said, stop, let him speak.

00:01:46.000 Then 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.

00:01:51.000 As soon as he was getting beat down, the cops came and grabbed him and started shooting rubber pellets.

00:01:55.000 Unquote.

00:01:55.000 This is all from the Sacramento Bee.

00:01:56.000 The media cover anti-Trump violence at Trump rallies the exact same way.

00:02:00.000 When anti-Trump protesters show up and start violently assaulting Trump supporters, the press simply calls it a scrum unworthy of further differentiation.

00:02:08.000 They even cover this stuff the same way when somebody like me, an anti-Trump, anti-white nationalist, mainstream conservative speaks at a college campus.

00:02:15.000 There's a reason for this.

00:02:16.000 According to the left, non-leftist violence isn't violence.

00:02:20.000 Non-leftist rhetoric is violence, sorry.

00:02:23.000 And according to the left, leftist violence isn't violence at all.

00:02:27.000 Take, for example, this tweet from Montel Williams in the aftermath of the Sacramento violence.

00:02:31.000 Quote, violence is never the answer.

00:02:34.000 That said, way to shut down some neo-Nazi Sacramento. 0.99

00:02:38.000 Uh, no.

00:02:39.000 But that's the way the left thinks.

00:02:40.000 Over the weekend, the New York City Gay Pride Parade featured a banner.

00:02:44.000 And the banner said, 0.90

00:02:49.000 Republican hate kills. 0.94

00:02:50.000 That's what it said. 0.97

00:02:51.000 Not jihadism kills. 0.93

00:02:52.000 That would be factual since the jihadists just actually murdered 49 gay people in Orlando. 0.99

00:02:56.000 But Republicans who don't support same-sex marriage are just like actual people who kill people. 0.85

00:03:01.000 If 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?

00:03:09.000 These groups aren't remotely similar except in one critical aspect.

00:03:12.000 The left doesn't like them and lumps them all together and then says they're worthy of violence.

00:03:16.000 This is the end of political speech in America.

00:03:18.000 If certain speech is violence, certain speech can be banned.

00:03:21.000 If certain violence is speech, certain violence will be permitted.

00:03:24.000 This is morally hideous.

00:03:26.000 Unfortunately, that's what the modern left has created.

00:03:28.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:03:29.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:03:37.000 Alrighty, so tons to get to.

00:03:38.000 It's a very, very busy news day here on a Monday.

00:03:42.000 You 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.

00:03:47.000 So, let's start off with this.

00:03:50.000 Briefly, I just want to show you the footage of what I'm talking about in Sacramento here.

00:03:54.000 So here's what it looked like in Sacramento.

00:03:55.000 A bunch of neo-Nazis go to the Capitol. 0.99

00:03:57.000 They're terrible people. 1.00

00:03:58.000 They go to the Capitol to yell about white supremacy. 1.00

00:04:01.000 Always ironic to me, by the way, when white supremacists yell about white supremacy, because invariably they're incredibly stupid. 1.00

00:04:07.000 So they're yelling about how superior they are while being incredibly stupid. 1.00

00:04:10.000 But, 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. 1.00

00:04:27.000 Oh my god! 1.00

00:04:36.000 Notice the guy with the sticks about to wail on that dude.

00:04:38.000 Boom.

00:04:39.000 Down he goes.

00:04:48.000 We've literally taken, like, two by fours and beaten them. 0.81

00:04:51.000 Seven people, by the way, were stabbed during this altercation.

00:04:54.000 Stabbed.

00:04:55.000 A couple were in critical condition.

00:04:57.000 And so, who started that?

00:05:00.000 The people who started that were the anti-fascists, which is just typical.

00:05:04.000 It's just lovely.

00:05:05.000 I also want to show you that poster that I was talking about in the Gay Pride Parade. 0.99

00:05:09.000 Republican hate kills, all these gay people standing behind a giant rainbow flag that says Republican hate kills. 1.00

00:05:14.000 A Democrat Muslim just killed 49 people in Orlando. 1.00

00:05:18.000 So me, not wanting to cater a same-sex wedding, that's what killed 49 people in Orlando, not the jihadist who killed 49 people in Orlando.

00:05:26.000 So this is how the left thinks, and it's really why the left 0.71

00:05:29.000 They are so terrible, and they are. 0.95

00:05:30.000 I mean, they're just awful in every way.

00:05:32.000 The theme of today's show is basically that the left is making it almost impossible not to vote for Trump, seriously. 0.91

00:05:40.000 They are so awful as human beings.

00:05:43.000 They espouse such horrible things and stand for such horrible things that it makes the argument, vote Trump to stop them, more compelling.

00:05:52.000 It does, because there are two ways that that argument could become more compelling. 0.99

00:05:55.000 One is Trump could stop sucking. 0.93

00:05:57.000 He's not doing that, as we'll get to. 0.99

00:05:59.000 Two is the left could become even worse than you thought they were.

00:06:02.000 And the left continues to show they're just as terrible as you always thought that they were.

00:06:06.000 So today, the Supreme Court had a decision that, well, you know, before we even get to that, I want to go through for a second.

00:06:11.000 There's breaking news.

00:06:13.000 Here's the Democratic National Committee has now released updates to its platform.

00:06:16.000 Over the weekend, they released updates to its platform.

00:06:18.000 So here are some of the things from its updated platform.

00:06:21.000 Okay, the Democrats are fully extreme. 0.98

00:06:23.000 They are fully insane. 1.00

00:06:24.000 They are nutcases. 1.00

00:06:25.000 They are nuts. 1.00

00:06:26.000 Okay, here's a few of the things. 0.98

00:06:27.000 Not all the things, just a few that they updated from in their new Democratic National Committee platform.

00:06:33.000 First 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.

00:06:45.000 Okay, 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.

00:07:03.000 They want to prosecute them for free speech.

00:07:05.000 Prosecute them.

00:07:06.000 That's in their platform now.

00:07:08.000 By unanimous consent.

00:07:09.000 No dissenters on the Democratic side on this one.

00:07:12.000 They also want their $15 minimum wage.

00:07:14.000 They've been saying $15 minimum wage since I did a show in Seattle.

00:07:17.000 And when I was doing a show in Seattle, it was proposed by a socialist.

00:07:20.000 An open socialist.

00:07:21.000 Not a Democrat who calls herself a socialist.

00:07:22.000 An actual socialist.

00:07:24.000 Named Shama Sawant.

00:07:24.000 She's the one who started the $15 minimum wage push.

00:07:27.000 And I did a debate with her.

00:07:29.000 And I specifically asked her, why not $1,000 minimum wage?

00:07:31.000 Why $15?

00:07:33.000 And she had no clue.

00:07:34.000 Well, now it's national policy, so they want a $15 minimum wage across the country. 0.55

00:07:38.000 And that minimum wage also, by the way, includes the idea that they would end sub-minimum wage for tipped workers.

00:07:45.000 So, 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.

00:07:55.000 They want you to be paid $15 minimum wage.

00:07:57.000 Restaurants typically end up taking the tips, right?

00:08:00.000 That's what ends up happening.

00:08:01.000 So, well done for the people who are working at restaurants.

00:08:04.000 They want to abolish the death penalty full out.

00:08:06.000 This is new.

00:08:06.000 I mean, we always knew the Democrats wanted to do this, but now they've actually acknowledged it.

00:08:10.000 Also, they want you to pay for every abortion on planet Earth. 0.60

00:08:14.000 That's not really an exaggeration.

00:08:15.000 I mean, it's a little bit of an exaggeration, but not much.

00:08:18.000 Here's what they actually say in their new platform.

00:08:30.000 All federal and state laws.

00:08:32.000 All of them.

00:08:32.000 Okay?

00:08:33.000 They want you to be able to get an abortion literally one second before the baby exits your body and maybe even after that. 0.99

00:08:39.000 Not only that, they want to get rid of the Hyde Amendment.

00:08:41.000 The Hyde Amendment is a federal law that says federal taxpayer dollars cannot be used to sponsor abortion.

00:08:47.000 They want to get rid of it.

00:08:47.000 So they want you to pay for other people's abortion.

00:08:49.000 So abortion up to the point of birth, maybe beyond, and they want you to pay for that. 0.68

00:08:54.000 So that's very exciting.

00:08:55.000 They 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.

00:09:04.000 assistance to other countries that provide safe, legal abortion.

00:09:08.000 So in other words, they want us to fund abortion overseas, too. 0.94

00:09:11.000 So it's not just enough to kill babies here, we have to go other places and kill babies, too. 0.99

00:09:14.000 That's exciting. 0.99

00:09:15.000 They also want to expand Social Security.

00:09:18.000 They want to expand it.

00:09:19.000 It's hard to bankrupt us.

00:09:20.000 They want to increase the amount we spend on Social Security.

00:09:23.000 As far as illegal immigration, they want to, quote, keep families together, end family detention.

00:09:28.000 So if a family comes across, we're just supposed to let everybody go.

00:09:32.000 Close private detention centers.

00:09:33.000 Nine of the top 10 detention centers in the United States for ICE, for illegal immigrants, are private.

00:09:39.000 They want to close them.

00:09:40.000 They don't want to open new detention centers, they just want to close them.

00:09:42.000 So they want to release all of the illegal immigrants. 0.98

00:09:44.000 They want to release all of them.

00:09:46.000 And then they want to guarantee legal counsel for all unaccompanied minors in immigration proceedings.

00:09:50.000 So now you want to deport people?

00:09:52.000 Now we have to hire attorneys for you, a non-American citizen, so that you can be deported. 1.00

00:09:56.000 This means everybody gets to stay.

00:09:58.000 They also come out in favor of nationalized healthcare.

00:10:01.000 They say openly.

00:10:02.000 They say they want access to public coverage through Medicare or a public option.

00:10:05.000 That means the destruction of all insurance companies in the United States.

00:10:09.000 Once 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.

00:10:19.000 If an insurance company goes bankrupt, they can't take money from me to fund it.

00:10:22.000 If the government goes bankrupt, they just take more of my money.

00:10:25.000 Finally, they want to surrender to Black Lives Matter. 0.99

00:10:28.000 They say their current draft calls for ending the era of mass incarceration.

00:10:32.000 There's no era of mass incarceration, folks.

00:10:33.000 We're not taking innocent people and throwing them in prison by the score.

00:10:36.000 Okay, the fact is people in prison commit crimes.

00:10:39.000 That's why they're there.

00:10:39.000 This isn't the Soviet Union.

00:10:41.000 There are no gulags.

00:10:42.000 People aren't being in prison for political views, except Democrats who actually want to do that in this platform.

00:10:47.000 Right, 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.

00:10:57.000 The crime rates are up double digits the last couple of years because of Jerry Brown releasing people from prison.

00:11:02.000 They 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.

00:11:10.000 They 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.

00:11:15.000 And they want to ban the box.

00:11:17.000 Okay, 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. 0.99

00:11:24.000 The Democrats are out of their damn minds. 1.00

00:11:27.000 They are out of their damn minds, okay? 1.00

00:11:29.000 And just to prove how out of their minds they are, today, the Supreme Court issues a decision on abortion that is fully crazy. 1.00

00:11:35.000 So the decision on abortion goes like this.

00:11:37.000 So, in Texas, there are two laws on the books.

00:11:40.000 One is a law that says doctors must have admitting privileges at hospitals in order to perform abortions.

00:11:46.000 And 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.

00:11:54.000 Doctors 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.

00:12:00.000 And it's already been filled out, they have admitting privileges at the hospital.

00:12:04.000 They 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.

00:12:10.000 And 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.

00:12:20.000 That's what an ambulatory surgery center means, right?

00:12:22.000 Here at the office, that's not the case.

00:12:24.000 There are certain hallways here that are too skinny, but at hospitals, obviously the hallways are really wide.

00:12:28.000 So the reason the left doesn't like this is because a lot of the abortion clinics don't have these things. 0.99

00:12:33.000 So they think the abortion clinics will be closed.

00:12:35.000 The Supreme Court today said that this was impermissible restrictions on a woman's right to an abortion.

00:12:41.000 So let's start, number one, with the fact that there is no right to abortion in the Constitution of the United States.

00:12:48.000 End of story.

00:12:49.000 None.

00:12:50.000 Nowhere, nada, zilch, zippo. 0.80

00:12:51.000 None.

00:12:52.000 There is no right to an abortion in the Constitution of the United States.

00:12:56.000 That 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.

00:13:12.000 Somehow it's a right to privacy issue.

00:13:13.000 The right to privacy does not exist in the Constitution of the United States.

00:13:17.000 But they ruled that it does.

00:13:19.000 Then, they figured that there are health restrictions on lots of doctors and nurses and medical facilities all over the place, right?

00:13:27.000 That's true.

00:13:27.000 So, how do they say that these ones are no good?

00:13:30.000 Including, by the way, they struck down fire restrictions.

00:13:33.000 They 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.

00:13:41.000 They struck that down.

00:13:41.000 They said that's too harsh.

00:13:43.000 It prevents a woman's right to choose. 1.00

00:13:46.000 Prevents a woman's right to choose. 1.00

00:13:47.000 Here's what's so stupid about all of this. 0.99

00:13:49.000 We all presumably have a right, according to the left, I would assume, to eat in restaurants. 0.99

00:13:53.000 But there are health restrictions on restaurants, aren't there?

00:13:57.000 Every restaurant you go to has health restrictions on it from the state.

00:14:00.000 Whether you think it's good or whether you think it's bad, it's not unconstitutional to have health restrictions on your restaurant. 0.96

00:14:06.000 I tend to think it's stupid, but that doesn't mean that it's unconstitutional. 0.80

00:14:12.000 This 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. 0.99

00:14:23.000 That's basically what they're arguing right now.

00:14:26.000 And all of this is based off false law.

00:14:28.000 It's very irritating as a constitutionally aware guy, like A-plus from Harvard Law and Constitutional Law.

00:14:36.000 The 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.

00:14:47.000 So they just, I mean, the truth is that they decided this case back in, the Fifth Circuit decided this case back in 2013.

00:14:51.000 The people who are on the losing side didn't bother to appeal to the Supreme Court.

00:14:56.000 They 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.

00:15:04.000 There is nothing about this decision that is legal in any way.

00:15:06.000 It's all a politically motivated decision, very clearly.

00:15:09.000 And 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.

00:15:16.000 He says, 80 years on, the court has come full circle.

00:15:19.000 The 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.

00:15:30.000 But our Constitution renounces the notion that some constitutional rights are more equal than others.

00:15:35.000 A plaintiff either possesses the constitutional he is asserting, or not.

00:15:38.000 And if not, the judiciary has no business creating ad hoc exceptions so that others can assert rights the team especially important to vindicate.

00:15:45.000 What 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.

00:15:52.000 He's a dude.

00:15:53.000 So the doctors don't have a right to an abortion. 1.00

00:15:55.000 They weren't suing over anything that impacts them.

00:15:57.000 The court made an exception and allowed the doctors to sue on behalf of the patients, which never happens ever.

00:16:01.000 So basically, the court had its decision in mind, they decided to push that decision forward, and the rest of it just didn't matter.

00:16:07.000 The rest of it just didn't matter.

00:16:08.000 And this is what the left does.

00:16:09.000 If the left takes control of the court, which they already have, I mean, let's not pretend.

00:16:13.000 Justice Kennedy is a leftist.

00:16:15.000 Justice 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

00:16:24.000 A close thing.

00:16:26.000 He also didn't vote for Obamacare, but Roberts did, so it didn't matter.

00:16:30.000 We've had a left court for a little while here.

00:16:32.000 We've had a left court for a little while.

00:16:33.000 If Kennedy's the swing vote, then you're in trouble.

00:16:35.000 Because Justice Kennedy tends to fall to the left, particularly on social issues.

00:16:40.000 All that said, you've got these Supreme Court rulings and they come out.

00:16:43.000 And here's what Hillary Clinton tweeted. 1.00

00:16:44.000 This 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.

00:16:52.000 Hillary Clinton tweets, quote,

00:17:01.000 Okay, who's being punished for exercising a basic right? 0.94

00:17:03.000 First of all, I didn't realize it was a basic right to kill a baby.

00:17:05.000 I didn't realize that was a thing.

00:17:07.000 In fact, it seems to me that if you acknowledge that that's a baby there in the womb, and the left always does this, right?

00:17:12.000 They'll say, on TV, you'll see a woman's pregnant and say, oh, how's the baby doing?

00:17:16.000 And the mom who wants the baby, oh, it's beautiful.

00:17:19.000 I feel like I'm glowing.

00:17:21.000 Same woman, same pregnancy. 0.96

00:17:22.000 Oh, I don't want it.

00:17:23.000 It's terrible.

00:17:23.000 Oh, well, just get rid of that thing.

00:17:25.000 I mean, it's just ghoulish.

00:17:26.000 It's absolutely ghoulish.

00:17:27.000 And she says, women won't be punished for exercising their basic rights? 1.00

00:17:30.000 Okay, babies are not a punishment. 0.99

00:17:32.000 Babies are a gift.

00:17:34.000 This is vile, vile stuff.

00:17:36.000 She 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.

00:17:43.000 Safe abortion should be a right, not just on paper, but in reality.

00:17:46.000 Well, it isn't a right.

00:17:48.000 What she declares to be a right doesn't make it a right.

00:17:50.000 I mean, this is all crazy town.

00:17:51.000 This is crazy town stuff.

00:17:53.000 And she wants you to pay for abortions, and she wants you to pay for abortions abroad. 0.82

00:17:56.000 The left is radical in every way.

00:17:58.000 They're violent. 0.79

00:17:59.000 I 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. 0.60

00:18:08.000 If you beat people up because they disagree, by definition, you're a fascist. 0.97

00:18:12.000 This is sick stuff. 0.88

00:18:13.000 I mean, so Hillary is campaigning with Elizabeth Warren, and Elizabeth Warren is kind of nerdy Hillary. 1.00

00:18:17.000 And you see that here.

00:18:18.000 They're wearing the same coat.

00:18:19.000 I don't know if they decided to be twinsies this morning and they're all gonna dress in the same color blue.

00:18:24.000 They all went to Violet Beauregard's closet and hijacked a couple of her outfits.

00:18:30.000 Elizabeth Warren, who's legitimately the only, maybe the only woman in America more irritating than Hillary Clinton. 0.94

00:18:36.000 I mean, I know Elizabeth Warren, so I can say that with full verve.

00:18:40.000 Elizabeth Warren is now stumping for Hillary Clinton after spending the last few years bashing her as a corporate insider, because Elizabeth Warren wants power. 1.00

00:18:47.000 And 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. 0.99

00:18:58.000 I am more Native American than Elizabeth Warren is.

00:19:01.000 Here's Elizabeth Warren stumping for Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:19:05.000 Hillary Clinton believes that racism, hatred, injustice, and bigotry have no place in our country.

00:19:13.000 She fights for us! 1.00

00:19:17.000 She fights for us and we will fight for Hillary Clinton! 0.81

00:19:21.000 She fights for us! 1.00

00:19:24.000 Please join me in welcoming to the stage our next president!

00:19:29.000 Whoa! 0.71

00:19:30.000 Come down there with the hands! 0.98

00:19:33.000 Everybody's going there with their hands.

00:19:36.000 It's crazy.

00:19:36.000 Okay, so this delightful pair, people are saying that Warren might run with Hillary.

00:19:39.000 I 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. 1.00

00:19:47.000 What an absolute horror show. 0.87

00:19:49.000 And they continue to lie, they continue to be terrible, they continue to be far-left.

00:19:54.000 Elizabeth Warren, by the way, isn't gonna do much for Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:19:56.000 Yeah, she doesn't need to shore up the Bernie vote. 0.99

00:19:58.000 The Bernie vote's gonna come to her, because they're socialists.

00:20:01.000 I mean, Sally Cohen, who I debated yesterday at Politicon, she was a Bernie supporter.

00:20:04.000 She 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.

00:20:12.000 She says that she would vote for Hillary.

00:20:14.000 Everybody on the left is going to.

00:20:15.000 Everybody on the left is going to.

00:20:17.000 Hillary 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.

00:20:25.000 How about Clinton's ethics?

00:20:27.000 How is she going to answer about that?

00:20:30.000 Well, Hillary Clinton has actually been the most transparent Secretary of State in our history. 0.99

00:20:35.000 She's released all of her emails.

00:20:37.000 She's released her schedules.

00:20:40.000 You know, I think the record speaks for itself here.

00:20:42.000 Donald Trump has yet to release his taxes.

00:20:44.000 Without litigating all of it, you know there's a lot of pushback on that.

00:20:49.000 Well, again, we're talking about transparency and ethics.

00:20:53.000 It has been a given for decades that presidential candidates release their taxes.

00:20:57.000 Donald Trump refuses to do that.

00:20:58.000 He refuses to release the documents related to Trump University.

00:21:03.000 I think this is a deflection technique.

00:21:05.000 Paul Manafort is trying to get a teleprompter in front of him and change the subject.

00:21:11.000 It's just not working.

00:21:12.000 And just real quickly on that subject, what about Hillary Clinton's transcripts for the Goldman Sachs speeches?

00:21:19.000 Well, look, Donald Trump has given dozens of paid speeches himself.

00:21:24.000 Nobody's asking him to release them.

00:21:26.000 Again, Hillary Clinton has released her taxes for decades now. 1.00

00:21:30.000 Donald Trump hasn't released a single one.

00:21:32.000 We have to assume he's hiding something.

00:21:34.000 I think Donald Trump has a lot of work to do before he starts asking questions about other candidates.

00:21:39.000 Awkward towns make awkward face with Hillary Clinton's campaign manager there trying to claim that she's transparent. 1.00

00:21:44.000 Of course she isn't.

00:21:45.000 And Hillary is struggling. 1.00

00:21:46.000 I mean, she is struggling.

00:21:48.000 Because not only does she represent a far-left extreme ideology, but she's really bad at this. 1.00

00:21:54.000 She's really bad at this.

00:21:55.000 So here's Hillary Clinton talking about Brexit.

00:21:57.000 We didn't have a chance to talk about that, so in a minute I'm going to sum up my thoughts on Brexit.

00:22:00.000 But here's Hillary Clinton talking about the British exit from the EU.

00:22:05.000 A lot of Americans woke up on Friday to alarming headlines from across the Atlantic.

00:22:12.000 And they are wondering what this decision in Britain means for us.

00:22:21.000 Now, we are resilient, and we will bounce back from this and from all of the other shocks that are in the system.

00:22:30.000 But it is a reminder that what happens around the world has consequences.

00:22:37.000 We 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.

00:23:00.000 No one should be confused about America's commitment to- She's so terrible at this. 0.59

00:23:06.000 So this big thing happens with the UK leaving the EU and her basic comment is, WE NEED LEADERS!

00:23:12.000 Thanks, Captain Obvious.

00:23:14.000 Really enjoyed that one.

00:23:15.000 We need leaders!

00:23:17.000 Okay, that's really exciting.

00:23:19.000 So, to move from the left to the right now.

00:23:21.000 So, as I've said, the left is making it almost impossible, almost impossible not to jump onto any bandwagon that is anti-the left.

00:23:28.000 And I hear it.

00:23:29.000 Folks, I hear it.

00:23:30.000 I hear you screaming at me.

00:23:31.000 I get it. 0.90

00:23:32.000 Again, it doesn't alleviate any of my problems with handing over the future of the conservative movement to a charlatan like Donald Trump.

00:23:39.000 At this point, stop him at the convention if you have to.

00:23:41.000 Do anything to get somebody who's actually... By the way, he'll get schlonged by Hillary. 1.00

00:23:44.000 He's gonna get killed by Hillary. 0.99

00:23:45.000 The polls over the weekend show him down alternatively 5 and 12 points to Hillary Clinton. 0.93

00:23:50.000 Okay, and any talk about how Reagan was losing to Carter at this point, it's not true.

00:23:54.000 There was one poll in which he was losing.

00:23:55.000 All the other polls, he was already winning by this point.

00:23:57.000 In any case, Donald Trump was talking about Brexit, but let me give you my quick sum-up of Brexit.

00:24:01.000 So, the British leave the EU.

00:24:04.000 And it really is the British.

00:24:05.000 It really isn't the Scottish or the folks from Wales.

00:24:09.000 Northern Ireland, they were actually in favor of staying in the EU.

00:24:12.000 Scotland, they were in favor of staying in the EU.

00:24:13.000 In England, they were very much in favor of leaving the EU.

00:24:16.000 The reason for this is because there are really, really a couple of reasons.

00:24:19.000 One is

00:24:20.000 There 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.

00:24:29.000 I'm with them.

00:24:30.000 I agree.

00:24:32.000 Second point.

00:24:32.000 They 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.

00:24:44.000 Also, I'm on board with them.

00:24:46.000 I'm on board with them.

00:24:47.000 And finally, some of this is just an anti-elitist thing.

00:24:49.000 Like, I don't want people abroad making rules for me without my vote. 0.97

00:24:52.000 And it's not just anti-elitist, it's anti-anti-democratic.

00:24:55.000 And again, I agree with them.

00:24:56.000 I'm in favor of Brexit.

00:24:57.000 I think Brexit's a good thing. 0.96

00:24:58.000 Hillary has no clue how to deal with it. 1.00

00:25:00.000 Trump really doesn't either.

00:25:02.000 Trump really doesn't either.

00:25:03.000 So here is Trump responding.

00:25:05.000 He just happened to be in Scotland opening his new golf course.

00:25:11.000 Which, I guess that he was campaigning in Scotland because that all-important 51st state.

00:25:15.000 He really needs to gain their support.

00:25:17.000 By the way, in the last two weeks, Donald Trump has traveled to the vital swing states of Texas and Scotland.

00:25:24.000 And today, Donald Trump is in Maine.

00:25:27.000 Where I'm sure he's going to win the presidency in Maine.

00:25:30.000 In any case, in any case, Donald Trump was talking, and here's what it looked like in Turnberry, Scotland at his golf course.

00:25:36.000 We've taken the lighthouse, which is a very, very important building in Florida.

00:25:44.000 I mean, in Scotland.

00:25:45.000 And we've we've taken that building and made it something really special.

00:25:50.000 Inside the lighthouse right now is incredible suites.

00:25:55.000 And 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

00:26:24.000 At the highest level.

00:26:25.000 And now it's really at a higher level than it ever was.

00:26:28.000 And 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.

00:26:36.000 And, you know, when the water is rough today, it's very calm.

00:26:38.000 In fact, I've almost never seen it like this.

00:26:41.000 But sometimes you have waves that are literally crashing onto this piece of land that we're standing on.

00:26:47.000 It's one of the most beautiful sights you'll ever see.

00:26:50.000 This hall didn't exist.

00:26:51.000 The Royal and Ancient has been incredible.

00:26:54.000 They've worked with us on design.

00:26:57.000 They'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.

00:27:07.000 In addition to that, we fully renovated the course.

00:27:09.000 Brand new sprinkler system, the highest level.

00:27:13.000 Many of the holes have been jiggered and made even longer, and new greens do everything, and yet it's the same Turnberry.

00:27:21.000 You would hit over there, this was a par 4, and you'd hit over there and it was a much different thing.

00:27:27.000 He goes on and on like this.

00:27:29.000 My favorite part of this is the breaking news chyron from CNN.

00:27:32.000 Trump speaking from his golf course in Scotland.

00:27:34.000 For like half an hour about the golf course and people are tuning in to find out what he thinks.

00:27:40.000 The 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.

00:27:51.000 The EU was created, at least in part, as an economic cooperative sphere, the European Economic Cooperative, in opposition, basically, to the Soviet Union.

00:28:00.000 And then after the Soviet Union fell, they sort of lost their way and forgot what they were all about.

00:28:03.000 He's not talking about that, though.

00:28:05.000 We do get his take on sprinkler systems at Turnberry, so that is absolutely vital.

00:28:09.000 And I have to tell you, it's really funny.

00:28:11.000 He's out there tweeting today, I said Brexit was gonna happen.

00:28:13.000 I said it was gonna happen!

00:28:15.000 Two weeks ago, literally two weeks ago, somebody asked Donald Trump about Brexit.

00:28:20.000 And Donald Trump said, who is that?

00:28:24.000 Really?

00:28:24.000 Okay, here's... I have to read you this quote because this is legitimate.

00:28:28.000 This may be my favorite Donald Trump quote of all time.

00:28:30.000 It's spectacular.

00:28:31.000 It's so good.

00:28:32.000 A reporter asked Donald Trump, and so, you know, now it's time I have to use it.

00:28:36.000 Bad Trump.

00:28:37.000 Okay, 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.

00:28:45.000 This reporter asks Trump, are you traveling with foreign policy advisors who knew this was going to happen today?

00:28:50.000 And Trump says, well, I've been in touch with them, but there's nothing to talk about.

00:28:54.000 Ah, you know, I've been saying that I would prefer what happened.

00:28:57.000 I thought this would be a good thing.

00:28:59.000 I think it will turn out to be a good thing.

00:29:00.000 Maybe short term, not.

00:29:01.000 But ultimately, I think it will be a good thing.

00:29:03.000 And I've actually been in touch with some.

00:29:05.000 And some, by the way, don't like it.

00:29:06.000 And some do like it.

00:29:07.000 You know, they're advisors.

00:29:09.000 They're like everybody else.

00:29:10.000 It probably no less every one of these advisors.

00:29:13.000 Somebody said, gee, you should use advisors that have been really hot for the last five years.

00:29:17.000 I said, really?

00:29:17.000 I think I want to use ones that haven't been involved.

00:29:20.000 Take a look at what's happened in the world.

00:29:22.000 Remember, the original question was, are you traveling with foreign policy advisors?

00:29:27.000 Who knew this was going to happen today?

00:29:31.000 That is some word salad.

00:29:33.000 I mean you can lose calories on that word salad.

00:29:35.000 That's pretty impressive.

00:29:37.000 My favorite little quote there is, some by the way don't like it and some do like it.

00:29:42.000 Well thank you for that Dr. Seuss.

00:29:45.000 Some are fast and some are slow.

00:29:51.000 Donald Trump is also walking back, by the way, his immigration policy.

00:29:54.000 He said a couple of days ago, President Obama has deported vast numbers of people, the most people ever, and it's never reported.

00:30:01.000 I think people are going to find that I have not only the best policies, but I have the biggest heart of anybody.

00:30:06.000 And then he was asked about, does this mean mass deportations?

00:30:09.000 No, I wouldn't call it mass deportations. 0.85

00:30:11.000 I call it magical Trump unicorn poo.

00:30:15.000 He says he won't do mass deportations anymore. 0.99

00:30:17.000 So you're all suckers, right? 0.98

00:30:19.000 I mean, so everybody got suckered by all of this. 0.98

00:30:22.000 So 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.

00:30:34.000 Chuck Todd confronts Paul Manafort over speaking at Turnberry for like half an hour on golf courses.

00:30:40.000 Hillary couldn't add about this. 0.83

00:30:42.000 And here's Paul Manafort's response.

00:30:43.000 Coming to Turnberry.

00:30:45.000 In a volatile world, the last thing we need is a volatile president.

00:30:50.000 It 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.

00:30:59.000 He is in the country, at the heart of this,

00:31:02.000 And he's promoting a golf course.

00:31:04.000 This is an example, again, of the tone deafness of the Clinton campaign.

00:31:08.000 First 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.

00:31:25.000 ...political system.

00:31:26.000 The American people care about what is going to happen to their lives, about change.

00:31:32.000 And the issues of Brexit, this kind of phony ad, doesn't address those things.

00:31:38.000 And Hillary Clinton is ignoring the reality because she's part of the establishment. 1.00

00:31:42.000 She can't get away from the fact that she is part of the problem that's being rejected.

00:31:47.000 So when she tries to distract with commercials like this,

00:31:50.000 She'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.

00:32:03.000 But 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

00:32:14.000 You 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.

00:32:22.000 First of all, Mr. Trump is an international businessman.

00:32:25.000 His 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.

00:32:35.000 Unlike 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.

00:32:43.000 So 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?

00:32:49.000 It's impossible.

00:32:49.000 So Paul Manafort is out there saying my man's an international businessman of mystery.

00:32:55.000 He 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.

00:33:01.000 The funny thing about this campaign whenever

00:33:03.000 Hillary's people attack Trump, it's accurate.

00:33:05.000 Whenever Trump's people attack Hillary, it's accurate. 1.00

00:33:07.000 Whenever either camp says anything about their own people, it's completely and wildly inaccurate.

00:33:13.000 So, that's pretty hilarious.

00:33:15.000 So, 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?

00:33:22.000 Because, let's put aside personal distaste for Trump for just a second and be practical for just a second.

00:33:27.000 You know, maybe the calculus changes after the convention.

00:33:30.000 Is 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.

00:33:39.000 At least not Hillary. 0.63

00:33:41.000 I'm not sure that the under... It's tempting.

00:33:42.000 It definitely is.

00:33:43.000 And it's a battle that I fight with myself every day.

00:33:45.000 I mean, it's really something that I consider every single day.

00:33:47.000 Is this the day when the left puts me over the top?

00:33:51.000 Is this the day when Trump starts to fix himself?

00:33:56.000 And the answer so far is no, because Trump is one of them.

00:33:58.000 Trump 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.

00:34:02.000 But 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.

00:34:09.000 It makes it very difficult to stick to that position when the left continues to be increasingly terrible.

00:34:14.000 What this means is that there's been this increasing movement inside the Republican Party to create a revolt at the Republican National Convention.

00:34:21.000 They're looking at the polls. 0.98

00:34:22.000 They're looking at the fact that Donald Trump is utterly and wildly incompetent. 0.87

00:34:26.000 They're looking at the fact that Donald Trump is likely to get absolutely creamed by Hillary Clinton in this election cycle.

00:34:31.000 Again, latest ABC News poll has Hillary at 51 and Trump at 39. 0.52

00:34:35.000 It has now been two months since Donald Trump has broken 42% in a national poll.

00:34:39.000 You're not going to win with those kind of numbers.

00:34:40.000 It's just not going to happen.

00:34:42.000 Not without a third-party candidate sucking up 18% of the vote the way Ross Perot did.

00:34:47.000 So, 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.

00:34:55.000 Trump and the RNC are quite nervous about the fact that the convention could get messy.

00:35:02.000 And 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

00:35:14.000 We're good.

00:35:35.000 That's a real threat to the integrity of the Republican Party's process.

00:35:38.000 There's a high probability of some kind of revolt.

00:35:41.000 I don't know what it looks like.

00:35:42.000 I don't know if they walk off the floor.

00:35:44.000 I 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.

00:35:53.000 I mean, there are hundreds of delegates who are openly hostile to Donald Trump, and they will be in Cleveland.

00:36:00.000 And I think that's right.

00:36:02.000 I 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.

00:36:21.000 And again, that's the way this is going right now.

00:36:23.000 I mean, the way that this is going is that it's going to be a disaster area.

00:36:26.000 Trump is going to lose and he's going to lose big.

00:36:27.000 So that has to be a serious consideration

00:36:29.000 For 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.

00:36:38.000 But 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?

00:36:53.000 At a certain point, don't you start looking and going, okay, we gotta do something about this?

00:36:57.000 There's an RNC rules member who told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that people are gearing up for a fight at the convention.

00:37:03.000 All 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.

00:37:12.000 And you're seeing how awkward this is making it.

00:37:14.000 Trump's continued candidacy makes it very awkward.

00:37:16.000 It makes it very hard to fight the left if Trump is the candidate.

00:37:18.000 Mitch McConnell, who's the Senate Majority Leader, he's asked about Donald Trump on ABC and watch him just struggle like a

00:37:26.000 Well, look, I think there's no question that he's made a number of mistakes over the last few weeks.

00:37:35.000 I think they're beginning to right the ship.

00:37:36.000 It's a long time until November, and the burden obviously will be on him to convince people that he can handle this job.

00:37:44.000 And I think a good step in the right direction with the changes he made in the campaign

00:37:50.000 He'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.

00:38:02.000 I didn't hear you say whether you thought he was qualified.

00:38:06.000 Look, that'll be up to the American people to decide.

00:38:08.000 You know, he won the Republican nomination fair and square.

00:38:11.000 He got more votes than anybody else against a whole lot of

00:38:14.000 Wow, wow, wow.

00:38:22.000 So that's the Senate Majority Leader saying he doesn't think that Trump is qualified.

00:38:29.000 George 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.

00:38:38.000 He said, I'm not even in the Republican Party anymore.

00:38:40.000 Trump has caused me to leave.

00:38:42.000 Talk about you.

00:38:43.000 You announced this week that you have left the Republican Party.

00:38:48.000 Why?

00:38:49.000 I left it for the same reason I joined it in 1964 when I voted for Barry Goldwater.

00:38:54.000 I joined it because I was a conservative.

00:38:56.000 I leave for the same reason that I'm a conservative.

00:38:58.000 I'll give you a timeline.

00:39:00.000 Shortly 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.

00:39:12.000 I thought that was puzzling, doubly so, because Paul Ryan still didn't endorse them.

00:39:17.000 After Trump went after the Mexican judge from northern Indiana, then Paul Ryan endorsed him.

00:39:23.000 And I decided that, in fact,

00:39:25.000 This is not my party anymore.

00:39:26.000 I changed my registration to unaffiliated 23 days ago.

00:39:30.000 I hardly made an announcement.

00:39:31.000 I just mentioned this in a meeting with the Federalist Society.

00:39:35.000 So the long and the short of it is, as Ronald Reagan said when he changed his registration, I did not leave the Democratic Party.

00:39:42.000 The Democratic Party left me.

00:39:44.000 Now, not surprisingly, Donald Trump has tweeted his reaction to this news today.

00:39:50.000 Let's put it up on the screen.

00:39:52.000 He says that you are overrated and that you lost your way a long time ago.

00:39:58.000 Would you like to respond?

00:40:00.000 He has an advantage on me because he can say everything he knows about any subject in 140 characters and I can't.

00:40:08.000 Well, that's a good line.

00:40:09.000 It'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.

00:40:20.000 It's what makes it a struggle, because otherwise, this is the easiest election in human history.

00:40:24.000 Otherwise, this is so easy.

00:40:26.000 But the fact that Trump is both incompetent and also vile, the fact that he has no principles, right? 0.75

00:40:31.000 I mean, he just walked back mass deportations, which means really any deportations. 0.95

00:40:35.000 His new policy is essentially, I'll deport the bad ones, which is exactly President Obama's policy.

00:40:41.000 What's a policy he hasn't walked back at this point?

00:40:44.000 It 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.

00:40:53.000 That's an uphill slog.

00:40:54.000 And no matter how bad the left gets, I'm not sure that you end up in a situation where that calculus changes.

00:41:00.000 Now, 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.

00:41:17.000 But 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,

00:41:28.000 I 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.

00:41:41.000 Okay, time for things I like and things I hate.

00:41:43.000 So, we're gonna do movies that are pre-The Hays Code.

00:41:46.000 So, I'm a big movie buff.

00:41:48.000 And there is something called the Hays Code that came into existence in 1933 to 1960.

00:41:53.000 It was in Hollywood.

00:41:55.000 Hollywood makes fun of it now.

00:41:56.000 It's all the rules where if you had a man and a woman in a room together, the man had to have one foot on the floor at all times. 0.93

00:42:04.000 It's the one foot on the floor rule.

00:42:05.000 It's why when you watch the old movies, the men and the women have separate beds. 0.89

00:42:08.000 It's why they cut to black every time there's about to be a sex scene.

00:42:11.000 It's why the bad guys always pay at the end.

00:42:13.000 The Hays Code was a voluntarily imposed code in Hollywood.

00:42:17.000 That was brought about by the Catholic Legion of Decency. 0.90

00:42:20.000 In the early 1930s, watch the films from the 20s and the 30s, and what you'll see is the films look a lot like today's films, actually.

00:42:26.000 There's sex, and there's nudity, and there's homosexuality, and there's anything that you can imagine. 0.88

00:42:31.000 There's a movie called The Island of Dr. Moreau, where, you know, their bestiality was a thing.

00:42:35.000 It was very controversial at the time.

00:42:38.000 And Catholics said, we can't have our kids watching this stuff. 0.77

00:42:41.000 We're going to boycott Hollywood.

00:42:42.000 We're not going to take part.

00:42:44.000 So Hollywood had a voluntarily imposed code

00:42:47.000 In the Hays office, this is how the Motion Picture Association of America becomes so powerful.

00:42:50.000 It's why they still are a ratings agency.

00:42:53.000 And 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.

00:43:06.000 They think it's the worst thing in the world.

00:43:08.000 Except that probably most of the great movies in Hollywood history are produced between 1933 and 1960.

00:43:12.000 If you look at the best movies in Hollywood history, from Casablanca to Citizen Kane,

00:43:18.000 On the waterfront, to best years of our lives, to Gone with the Wind, right?

00:43:23.000 All of these movies are produced during this period.

00:43:26.000 There's a very famous example, The Hays Code, in Gone with the Wind, the very end, right? 0.84

00:43:32.000 Rhett Butler turns to Scarlett O'Hara, no spoiler alert necessary, came out in 1939.

00:43:37.000 At the very end of the film, he turns to Scarlett O'Hara, and she says, Rhett, where are you going?

00:43:41.000 Take me with you, what are you doing?

00:43:44.000 And he says, frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn, right?

00:43:47.000 So the Hays Code came back to them, the Hays Office. 0.97

00:43:49.000 They said, well, can you not use damn? 0.95

00:43:52.000 And he said, no. 0.98

00:43:54.000 No, we can't.

00:43:55.000 We have to use that.

00:43:55.000 It's in the book.

00:43:56.000 Like, sorry.

00:43:57.000 And so the Hays Code said, okay, fine.

00:43:58.000 And so they let it go.

00:44:00.000 But there are lots of cases where the Hays Code basically overruled things and cut scenes out and all this.

00:44:03.000 So, 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.

00:44:16.000 One 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.

00:44:25.000 In, uh, in the United States.

00:44:26.000 It's a foreign film from Germany.

00:44:27.000 The guy who directed it, Fritz Lang, came to the United States and became a pretty big director here, too.

00:44:31.000 Lori was an honest-to-goodness movie star back in the old country, back in Germany.

00:44:35.000 This is, you know, right as the Nazis were rising.

00:44:38.000 And he, um, he was Jewish, so he fled, uh, like half of Hollywood did from, from Germany.

00:44:45.000 And what this film is about is Peter Lorre, who you see in Casablanca.

00:44:48.000 He's the guy at the very beginning of Casablanca.

00:44:50.000 You know, Peter Lorre!

00:44:51.000 Everybody does the

00:44:52.000 The parodic stuff, right?

00:44:53.000 They even do it in Aladdin.

00:44:55.000 There's a point where Robin Williams breaks into a Peter Lorre voice while he's doing the genie.

00:45:02.000 When he says, we're going to raise you from the dead, he has a Peter Lorre voice.

00:45:06.000 Peter Lorre is famous.

00:45:07.000 He's in Maltese Falcon.

00:45:09.000 He's always playing this kind of creepy guy who's hanging around the fringes and he's corrupt.

00:45:12.000 So in this movie, Peter Lorre, like I said, this gritty stuff, Peter Lorre plays a pedophile. 0.98

00:45:18.000 He's a guy who kidnaps and rapes children and kills them.

00:45:22.000 And he is... And the movie's called M. And what ends up happening is that the police crack down in order to catch this guy. 0.91

00:45:31.000 They have no idea who he is.

00:45:33.000 In order to catch this guy, they crack down on the entire criminal underground.

00:45:36.000 And so the criminal underground decides that if they want to stop this crackdown, they have to start looking for Peter Lorre.

00:45:41.000 So now everybody's looking for Peter Lorre.

00:45:43.000 So here's one of the scenes from M.

00:45:50.000 So what you're seeing now is Peter Lorre looking through a glass window.

00:45:55.000 And he sees a child, of course.

00:46:05.000 And for people who can't see, you're missing how good the acting is, but he's, I mean, basically he's turned on by the kid.

00:46:16.000 It's so well shot.

00:46:17.000 I mean, look how well shot this is, right?

00:46:19.000 The shot over the collar of him looking down the street.

00:46:24.000 And what's iconic from this film is every time he's... I mean, listen to the sound production, right?

00:46:28.000 All you hear is the horns.

00:46:30.000 Right, 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?

00:46:39.000 Which you know from the Ritz Crackers commercials. 0.90

00:46:40.000 Dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun!

00:46:43.000 So it's a very creepy movie.

00:46:45.000 The final scene of this movie is one of the best final scenes of any movie ever.

00:46:48.000 I won't spoil it for you.

00:46:49.000 You should go and rent it.

00:46:50.000 It's not a very long movie, but it's a very intense movie.

00:46:55.000 I mean, this is creepy stuff, right?

00:46:59.000 He's following a little kid here.

00:47:01.000 That's what you can't see.

00:47:02.000 This is why you need to subscribe, folks.

00:47:07.000 The kid found her mother.

00:47:23.000 Super creepy.

00:47:24.000 The whole movie's really creepy.

00:47:25.000 Okay, we'll stop it there.

00:47:26.000 But the final scene... I should do a week where it's just best final scenes in movies.

00:47:31.000 The final scene of this movie may be, may be the best final scene of any movie ever.

00:47:36.000 It's a phenomenal scene.

00:47:38.000 It's a phenomenal scene.

00:47:39.000 I don't want to spoil it for you.

00:47:40.000 I'll tell Lindsay and Mathis after the show what happens, but...

00:47:43.000 I don't want to spoil it for you, because it's really great.

00:47:45.000 Okay.

00:47:45.000 Things that I hate.

00:47:46.000 So, yesterday I debated Sally Cohn, and Sally Cohn did something that was highly irritating to me.

00:47:51.000 She lumped everybody in with Trump.

00:47:52.000 Now, 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.

00:48:00.000 I 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.

00:48:08.000 Michael Eric Dyson did the same thing on MSNBC. 0.78

00:48:11.000 He said that Trump's nationalism is a white, racist, supremacist routine.

00:48:15.000 I don't know why ABC's This Week bothers to have him on, but they do, so here's what it sounded like. 0.58

00:48:24.000 We're good to go.

00:48:48.000 I think insulting half of the American people who are supporting Donald Trump by saying they're racist.

00:48:54.000 You have to believe that his supporters are racist to call him that.

00:48:58.000 I think that demeans you and demeans us.

00:49:03.000 Okay, so what the Trump guy there is saying is basically right, that a lot of people who support Trump are not this.

00:49:08.000 But 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.

00:49:20.000 I think that in this way, Trump and Hillary are basically very similar.

00:49:22.000 Look, Donald Trump is a Democrat.

00:49:23.000 He's a lifelong Democrat.

00:49:25.000 He may be a more moderate Democrat than Hillary Clinton, but he's also running in my party.

00:49:29.000 We're gonna have to see how this plays out.

00:49:31.000 I mean, I can't make a guarantee for the future if I'm never Trump, you know, a week from now, if I'm never Trump two weeks from now.

00:49:38.000 I'm never Trump as he currently stands, as I've said.

00:49:40.000 Unless he changes, I can't see myself voting for Donald Trump.

00:49:42.000 If he changes, and if the left continues to do what the left is continuing to do, then things may change.

00:49:47.000 Because the left is making it nearly impossible to look at them and take them seriously as a governing force in the United States.

00:49:55.000 And that's the Democratic Party, particularly.

00:49:57.000 So that's the latest.

00:49:59.000 We'll bring you more tomorrow.

00:50:00.000 There'll be more to talk about, I'm sure, and we'll see you then.

00:50:02.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:50:03.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro Show - June 27, 2016

Ep. 140 - The Left Loses Its Damn Mind

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