Trump has some weird ideas about how to make America great again, and it has a lot to do with foreign policy. Ben Shapiro breaks it all down, starting with: 1. The man who will make the United States great again seems to have some pretty weird ideas on how to do that internationally. 2. In an interview with the New York Times, Donald Trump openly stated he might let Russia march right into the Baltic Republics in spite of NATO, explained that Turkey s Islamist would-be dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan was doing a wonderful job of locking down his country, and attacked America in the process of doing so. 3. Trump even cheered Erdogan, even though the coup never even took place. 4. Trump said, I don t think we have a right to lecture. 5. We have to fix our own mess. 6. Equating America with Turkey cracking down on dissidents is disgusting. 7. Trump pretends to be strong on defense, but he pretty much mirrors Obama s policies at every turn when it comes to foreign policy 8. Trump isn t just an isolationist, he's a Ron Paul-style isolationist. 9. Trump is a devotee of the notion America makes the world worse when it intervenes, which has some consequences. And it certainly gives the lie to the notion that Trump is basically a soft guy on the world stage, who s basically a wolf in a wolf s clothing. What's going on here, you ask? - Ben Shapiro What s going on with Trump's foreign policy? - Is he a tough guy? or is he a weak guy bluster about how he s going to make the U.S. or a softie bluster, or a guy who's going to be tough on foreign policy ? or just a big bluster bluster? What kind of bluster is he going to do it, you ll have to be a big guy, right, right? -- or not? -- Ben Shapiro: Is he blustering about it, or not blustering, or blowing, or is it blowing about it? Is it bluster or blustery, you re just blowing or blundering, right or bluing, or he s gonna bluster like that he s a real guy, or are you blowing like that, or do he blowing it, he s blowing?
00:00:00.000The man who will make America great again seems to have some pretty weird ideas about how to do that internationally.
00:00:05.000In an interview with the New York Times, Donald Trump openly stated he might let Russia march right into the Baltic Republics in spite of NATO, explained that Turkey's Islamist would-be dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan was doing a wonderful job of locking down his country, and attacked America in the process of doing both.
00:00:21.000So Republicans basically just nominated Howard Zinn, which is awesome.
00:00:25.000First, the New York Times asked Trump if he would defend NATO allies if they were attacked by Russia.
00:00:29.000He answered he would, quote, decide to come to their aid only after reviewing if those nations have fulfilled their obligations to us.
00:00:36.000If they fulfill their obligations to us, the answer is yes.
00:00:40.000The whole purpose of NATO is deterrence.
00:00:42.000If you attack one of us, you attack all of us.
00:00:44.000Even if Trump were to consider whether to defend Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania, or for that matter Poland or the Czech Republic, on a case-by-case basis, you don't say that out loud unless you're either a dummy or you're unworried about signaling to the Russians they can invade other nations with impunity.
00:00:58.000Ed Morrissey of Hot Air, who's definitely not prone to exaggeration, Ed writes, quote, But don't worry, the insanity didn't stop there.
00:01:11.000Turkish thug Erdogan has now purged tens of thousands of people from positions of power and influence in Turkey following a failed coup that very well could have just been a Reichstag fire event.
00:01:20.000Just hours ago, Turkey suspended the European Convention on Human Rights in their country so they could pursue Erdogan's enemies with alacrity.
00:01:28.000Asked about pressuring Turkey to abide by their human rights commitments, Trump said, quote, I don't think we have a right to lecture.
00:01:33.000Trump even cheered Erdogan, quote, the coup never even took place.
00:01:38.000And based on the fact and I give him great credit to him for being able to turn that around, I do give great credit to him for turning it around.
00:01:44.000Then he said, quote, I think right—this is direct transcript, guys—I think right now, when it comes to civil liberties, our country has a lot of problems, and I think it's very hard for us to get involved in other countries when we don't know what we are doing and we can't see straight in our own country.
00:01:57.000We have tremendous problems when you have policemen being shot in the streets, when you have riots, when you have Ferguson, when you have Baltimore, when you have all of the things that are happening in this country.
00:02:04.000We have other problems, and I think that we have to focus on those problems.
00:02:07.000When the world looks at how bad the United States is, and then we go and talk about civil liberties, I don't think we're a good messenger.
00:02:12.000I don't know that we have a right to lecture.
00:02:14.000Just look at what's happening with our country.
00:02:16.000How are we going to lecture when people are shooting policemen in cold blood?
00:02:19.000How are we going to lecture when you see the riots and the horror going on in our own country?
00:02:22.000We have so many difficulties in our country right now that I don't think should be, and there may be a time when we can get much more aggressive on that subject, and it would be a wonderful thing to be more aggressive.
00:02:30.000We're not in a position to be more aggressive.
00:02:34.000This is discombobulated, but it's also despicable.
00:02:36.000It's right in line with Russia's perspective, of course, which is totally unsurprising given the Trump campaign's decision to gut anti-Putin language in defense of Ukraine from the RNC platform and Trump's campaign manager Paul Manafort's super close relationship with the Putin regime.
00:02:51.000More importantly, this is anti-American crap.
00:04:12.000I'm not one quarter cynical enough to be cynical enough about the Republican National Convention and the committee and Donald Trump and Ted Cruz and all of the various players here.
00:04:22.000Even I am not cynical enough for this.
00:04:26.000Basically what happened last night at the Republican National Convention, in a nutshell,
00:04:31.000Is that Ted Cruz tried to offer an olive branch to Donald Trump.
00:04:35.000Donald Trump used the opportunity to shiv Ted Cruz and the RNC used the opportunity to shiv Cruz and side with Trump and cast Cruz out of the party.
00:04:42.000That's basically what happened last night.
00:04:44.000Now that's not the story you're going to hear from the media.
00:04:45.000The story you'll hear from the media is that Cruz made this wonderful stand against Trump.
00:04:58.000And the story that you'll hear from the RNC is that Ted Cruz is the worst guy ever.
00:05:02.000Okay, so let's go through a little bit of facts.
00:05:04.000I know that facts are foreign to these conversations about Donald Trump because everybody has to bow before the Orange God King, but basically, in short, what happened last night is that there was a Stalin-esque show trial, and Ted Cruz did not stand and applaud loudly enough for Donald Trump, and thus he was taken out and politically executed.
00:05:23.000People are saying that Ted Cruz should have endorsed Donald Trump because he took the pledge.
00:05:27.000Okay, number one, the pledge to support the Republican nominee.
00:05:30.000I said at the time, Trump, by the way, when he started, would not take the pledge.
00:05:33.000I defended Donald Trump on that, because I think pledges are stupid.
00:05:37.000I think unless you're pledging to principle, I don't care about your pledge.
00:05:40.000If you pledge allegiance to any single human being, or to an unnamed human being, anybody who's the Republican nominee, you're stupid.
00:05:47.000What if the Republican nominee is something terrible?
00:05:50.000That's exactly what ends up happening.
00:05:53.000So the pledge was dumb in the first place.
00:05:54.000Second of all, I'm not going to hold you to a pledge to support the Republican nominee after that guy brands you Lion Ted, calls your wife ugly in national view, says your father assassinated JFK.
00:06:05.000Here's that tweet where he compared Melania being hot to Heidi Cruz supposedly being ugly.
00:06:12.000And then there is the Trump accusing Cruz's father of killing JFK.
00:07:52.000The Cruz campaign was approached by the RNC and the Trump campaign a few weeks back, and they said, we would like you not to make trouble with the delegates at the convention.
00:08:01.000And Cruz said, OK, I'd like a primetime spot at the convention.
00:08:04.000And Trump and the RNC said, OK, you can speak at the convention.
00:08:07.000You're just not allowed to rip on Donald Trump.
00:08:09.000If you could show some tacit support for Donald Trump, that would be great.
00:08:15.000I won't make trouble with the delegates at the convention.
00:08:17.000Then, this week, the Cruz campaign was in talks with the Trump campaign for Cruz to actually help out with the definition of the Israel platform in the Trump campaign.
00:08:26.000So not only was Cruz trying to offer an olive branch to Trump, he was actually offering to get involved, in a small way at least, with the Trump campaign.
00:09:27.000The way that it works is that when there's a major speech, they print out transcripts, and they put piles of the transcripts on a table, and that way people can start writing their stories before the speech is done.
00:09:56.000But Cruz basically wanted to split the baby here.
00:09:58.000So he wanted to go and take advantage of the fact
00:10:00.000That he is still beloved in some sections of the Republican Party.
00:10:03.000He was the second leading vote-getter in the Republican Party.
00:10:05.000He wanted to go, and he wanted to basically put down his flag and say, look, I'm still here, right?
00:10:11.000I mean, like, I still believe in conservative principles, and while I can't openly endorse Trump, I'm going to sort of suggest support for Trump.
00:10:36.000And then, vote your conscience up and down the ticket.
00:10:40.000That's the intent—so if I just said those things to you, forget everything else.
00:10:43.000If I just said those things to you, you'd say, okay, that's kind of a tacit endorsement of Trump.
00:10:47.000It's certainly not an endorsement of Hillary Clinton.
00:10:48.000It's not an endorsement of Gary Johnson.
00:10:50.000If I go out there and I rip Hillary Clinton, and I say that you should vote your conscience after ripping Hillary Clinton, the implication is rather clear, isn't it?
00:10:58.000Clear enough that the Trump campaign signed off on it.
00:11:00.000Clear enough that the RNC signed off on it.
00:11:03.000So, that's the speech that Cruz is gonna give.
00:13:02.000So he is basically making the case against Hillary.
00:13:06.000And then where he goes from there, from there on, he says, and now you should go vote your conscience, vote for principle.
00:13:11.000Now he can't, as I say, endorse Trump, because he wasn't gonna do that.
00:13:14.000Because again, if you slandered my wife and my father, and were not conservative, I would not endorse you either, but he's basically saying that, right?
00:13:21.000So, and then here's where Trump comes in.
00:13:23.000So, Cruz thought he could split the baby, because the goal of this speech for Cruz was, position yourself if Trump loses, that you're gonna take over the party, number one.
00:13:30.000But number two, make overtures to the RNC, so it's not like you're openly in opposition to the party.
00:13:35.000And that's what the speech was, right?
00:13:36.000It was a half-olive branch, basically.
00:13:41.000And Donald Trump decided it was more important, instead of just sitting there and cheering and going all the way through the speech and then moving on with our lives, Donald Trump decided it was more important to humiliate Ted Cruz and shiv him.
00:13:58.000Those chants are being led by the New York delegation, which is Trump's personal preserve, and they're being led by people in yellow hats who are watching the coverage.
00:14:05.000There are a bunch of people who are walking around in yellow hats.
00:14:11.000They're walking around in a yellow hat.
00:14:13.000At the point at which—and everybody had the transcript beforehand—at the point at which Cruz starts talking about voting your conscience, at that point, the Trump people start whipping—again, this is from—I've talked to multiple people who are on the floor, and Manafort himself essentially admitted this.
00:14:30.000The Trump people start whipping up the booing.
00:14:32.000They start whipping up the booing, because here's the thing.
00:14:34.000Donald Trump, number one, is a petty man with a taste for vengeance.
00:14:38.000And number two, he wants to make himself into a WWE hero, so he needs a WWE villain.
00:14:43.000So he's gonna turn Ted Cruz into the WWE villain.
00:14:45.000So what he does, he whips people into a frenzy because Cruz isn't openly endorsing him.
00:14:50.000So Cruz refused to bow on bended knee before the God King, he refused to kneel before Azad, he wasn't clapping loud enough at the Stalinist lecture, and therefore he had to be politically kneecapped, he had to be taken out and shot.
00:15:01.000So Trump sets it up so that Cruz gets booed really loudly when he says something that is pretty utterly uncontroversial.
00:15:10.000We deserve leaders who stand for principle, who unite us all behind shared values, who cast aside anger for love.
00:15:23.000That is the standard we should expect from everybody.
00:15:29.000And to those listening, please, don't stay home in November.
00:15:53.000If you love our country and love your children as much as I know that you do, stand and speak and vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution.
00:16:17.000Now people are reading into it because they know that Cruz dislikes Trump, and Trump dislikes Cruz.
00:16:21.000But the words themselves, he wasn't going to give him an endorsement.
00:16:24.000So when he says, vote your conscience up and down the ticket, what he's saying is, basically, I just ripped Hillary Clinton, go vote your conscience.
00:16:30.000Now I can't say go vote for Trump, but you can vote for Trump.
00:16:34.000Trump's people go into a frenzy and start whipping up the booze to the point where at the end of the speech, this is what it looked like.
00:16:41.000We must make the most of our moment to fight for freedom, to protect our God-given rights, even of those with whom we don't agree, so that when we are old and gray, and when our work is done, and we give those we love one final kiss goodbye, we will be able to say,
00:17:10.000Freedom matters, and I was part of something beautiful.
00:17:39.000To the American people, the case each person in this room has to make to the American people is to commit to each of them that we will defend freedom and be faithful to the Constitution.
00:18:19.000But that's not what Trump wanted because Trump is about revenge and Trump is about creating a villain.
00:18:23.000And by the way, halfway through this part of the speech, Trump walked out into the convention hall amidst the booze and sat down with his family.
00:18:30.000He knew exactly what was going on this entire time.
00:18:33.000And then he claimed ignorance because he's a liar and because all Donald Trump cares about is petty vengeance.
00:19:27.000If you're sitting there waiting for Ted Cruz to cave because that's going to define your vote, let me suggest to you that you have no brain.
00:19:33.000It's up to you to make your own calls.
00:19:39.000But this idea that you're going to boo somebody for saying, vote your conscience, and you're going to do it at the behest of Donald Trump, is pretty incredible.
00:19:46.000It's pretty incredible and it's pretty telling.
00:19:47.000One of the people afterwards said, we're very upset because why should Cruz get to be the only pure one?
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00:20:33.000So, the reaction to Cruz was universal and brutal.
00:20:40.000Everybody in the Republican establishment says this is just the end of the world.
00:20:44.000This is the worst thing that anyone has ever done.
00:20:46.000Joel Pollack, a former friend, but now Trump lackey, over at Breitbart, he tweets out something to the effect of, this is the worst stab in the back politically since Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton.
00:20:59.000I was like, um, we did fight a civil war in this country, unless you forgot about that, in which hundreds of thousands of people died, so there was that, and stuff.
00:21:10.000But, you know, the Breitbart maniacs in favor of Trump, they have to play this game where it was a stab in the back again!
00:21:27.000Why did he have his people in the convention hall stirring up the booze?
00:21:30.000Why did he walk out into the floor in the middle of the Cruz speech?
00:21:34.000Because what he wanted was, Ted Cruz is the villain, he's the traitor, and here I am, the great god-king, bow before me, and if you don't bow, I sick my people on you.
00:21:43.000To the point where Heidi Cruz had to be rushed by security from the hall.
00:21:47.000By the way, Trump admits that he knew about this beforehand.
00:22:05.000In fact, actually, everybody in the Trump campaign had his speech days in advance, but he saw it in advance, so you don't get to bitch about it now.
00:22:11.000I mean, you don't get to sit around and talk about, oh, I was stabbed in the- It's not a stab in the back when you know it's coming, gang.
00:22:17.000You have to turn your back on somebody in order to be stabbed in the back.
00:22:21.000The real stab in the back here is that Cruz thought he was making an overture.
00:22:23.000He thought he was making a clever overture to Trump and that he'd be able to play both sides.
00:22:27.000That he was going to be able to make friends with Trump, but also hold his credibility in his hands and say, I didn't openly endorse this guy.
00:23:11.000I mean, this is a good gambit by Trump if he wants to stab Cruz.
00:23:22.000And this was, and the RNC acts like they're wildly angry.
00:23:26.000Sean Spicer, who's the spokesperson for the ridiculous, stupid RNC, he comes out and he says that Cruz, this is on national television, says that Cruz is an a-hole, right?
00:24:14.000So just to get this straight, okay for the nominee of your party to call wives of candidates ugly and say their father assassinates people and say that they had affairs with five women they didn't have affairs with, okay for a congressman in your party to say about another senator in your party that he's an a-hole, but bad if you don't say I endorsed Donald Trump.
00:24:30.000That's where you draw the civility line.
00:24:33.000Okay, let's just make clear one thing here.
00:24:34.000The establishment could not be more happy in some ways about the nomination of Donald Trump.
00:24:41.000They weren't going to back Ted Cruz in the primaries.
00:24:43.000Now they get the opportunity to pretend that they're being loyal to conservatives, that they're being loyal to the party, while stabbing the anti-establishment guy on behalf of the fake anti-establishment guy.
00:24:56.000I mean, all this is maddening because the actual narrative that you're going to hear, there are a couple different narratives, dueling narratives you're going to hear.
00:25:01.000There's the truth, which is what, as I've told you, based on all the information I have, including inside information.
00:25:06.000There's the truth, and then there's the media narrative, which is going to be, Ted Cruz was a big hero, stood up to Trump.
00:25:27.000There was not one word against Trump in that speech.
00:25:29.000But the narrative for the media is, Cruz stands up to Trump, Trump is appalled and angry and upset and it's a surprise and he was stabbed.
00:25:35.000There's the Trump campaign narrative, which is Cruz is a traitor, and he's a traitor because he won't get behind me to stop Hillary Clinton, even though Trump made a deal with Cruz to do all of this so that Cruz would not make trouble with the delegates at the convention.
00:25:49.000So those are the narratives, and then there's the truth.
00:25:52.000And you can see that the amount of fake ire from the Trump camp is truly astonishing, truly astonishing.
00:25:59.000Now, Chris Christie, who's just a pathetic specimen of a human being at this point, he actually said yesterday that if you don't back Donald Trump, then you have less humanity, you're less of a person.
00:26:10.000It makes you less of a person if you don't back Donald Trump.
00:26:12.000Technically, 99.9% of the population is less of a person than Chris Christie.
00:26:18.000Here's Chris Christie going after Cruz on national TV right after his speech.
00:26:21.000What did you think of Ted Cruz's speech?
00:26:35.000And Donald Trump gave him the opportunity to speak here at this convention tonight.
00:26:40.000And I think it was too cute and I think you saw by the end of the speech that the crowd was waiting for him to do the right thing and realized that once again he wasn't going to do it.
00:26:51.000And I think the performance you saw up there is why Ted has so, so richly deserved the reputation that he's developed on Capitol Hill.
00:27:02.000Are you saying that he gave Donald Trump a promise that he would endorse him here?
00:27:29.000And I thought Jeff Rowe, who's Cruz's campaign manager, had the best comment about this.
00:27:32.000The best comment that Cruz's campaign manager had, he said, well, at least my candidate still has his testicles.
00:27:38.000Unlike Chris Christie, being carried around in a jar somewhere by Donald Trump.
00:27:41.000You know, the fact is that Chris Christie, this fat idiot, is the same guy who in 2012 went out on stage and gave the keynote address in favor of Mitt Romney without mentioning Mitt Romney, okay?
00:27:52.000And now he's hypocritically standing, and then hugged Barack Obama one week before the election and said that Obama was a wonderful president.
00:27:58.000That guy sitting there lecturing Ted Cruz about not being loyal enough to a guy who's legitimately a Democrat.
00:29:08.000Cruz thought, because he always thinks he's too smart by half, he thought he was manipulating the entire system and he was going to be able to walk in, quasi-endorse Trump, get Trump's kudos, walk out having pleased his people for not endorsing Trump openly.
00:31:12.000The only thing that matters is that we worship at the altar.
00:31:14.000But it really does sicken me to my stomach.
00:31:17.000And watching the RNC play this game like they're wounded innocents when they brokered the deal.
00:31:22.000And now they're coming out and using this as an opportunity to club Cruz like a baby seal.
00:31:27.000Look, part of this is Cruz's fault for walking into it.
00:31:29.000Lots of people are telling him, don't go.
00:31:31.000So part of this is Cruz's fault because he wanted to have his cake and eat it too.
00:31:35.000But that doesn't mean that the RNC isn't a brutal establishment occupation, and that they're not attempting to take out anybody who's their real enemy, which does not include Donald Trump, and that Donald Trump's real preoccupation in life is going after his personal enemies, not politics, not helping, none of that.
00:31:51.000And if Trump reserved the kind of rage for Hillary Clinton that he reserved for Ted Cruz, this thing would be a very different race.
00:32:27.000Here's Cruz this morning talking about what happened last night.
00:32:34.000I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father.
00:32:42.000And that pledge was not a blanket commitment that if you go and slander and attack Heidi, that I'm gonna nonetheless come like a servile puppy dog and say thank you very much for maligning my wife and maligning my father.
00:32:58.000So Cruz saying that he wouldn't be a servile puppy to Trump.
00:33:02.000He said that he wouldn't be a servile puppy to Trump, and that was obviously a reference to Chris Christie, who legitimately has physically turned into a servile puppy for Donald Trump.
00:33:09.000He goes around actually licking Donald Trump's shoes and pooping on the floor.
00:33:13.000All of this, it just makes you cynical about everything and everyone in politics.
00:33:17.000It makes you cynical about the whole game.
00:33:20.000Cruz sort of cares about it, but Cruz also wanted to manipulate his way forward by being the leader of the anti-Trump movement while still sort of quasi-endorsing Trump.
00:33:27.000It makes you cynical about Trump, which, if you weren't already, you want to be conned.
00:33:30.000If you're conned at this point, you want to be conned.
00:33:39.000Now it's, if you don't stand there and declare your allegiance to the party, we will take you out to this brick wall and we will shoot you!
00:33:50.000The thing about all of this is that if Trump had just treated it like it really wasn't a big deal, again, had his people just applaud, because he was given the speech in advance, you can't get away from that.
00:34:05.000You can't get away from the fact that Trump sabotaged his own VP rollout.
00:34:08.000Mike Pence is the unluckiest man in the world.
00:34:10.000So Mike Pence has now been sabotaged three separate times by Donald Trump in his VP rollout.
00:34:15.000First he was sabotaged when Trump basically, it was leaked from the Trump camp that Trump wanted to reconsider and not make Mike Pence the VP.
00:34:23.000Then he was sabotaged again when they went on 60 Minutes together and Donald Trump basically treated him like an intern.
00:34:30.000And as I said, that video looks a lot like Donald Trump, the drunk wife, sitting next to her husband and the husband is just sitting there going, Oh God, please don't take any more drinks.
00:35:25.000So we've been doing creepy villains, and there are enough of them in politics, but the movie No Country for Old Men is not one of my favorite movies.
00:35:33.000The first two-thirds of the movie is spectacularly good.
00:35:36.000The first three-quarters, really, of the movie is spectacularly good.
00:35:39.000Then somebody gets killed off-screen, and the rest of the movie is just garbage that makes no sense.
00:35:44.000The villain in the movie, who's played by Javier Bardem, is the creepiest villain, one of the creepiest villains in the history of movies.
00:35:51.000Here is the scene that is, this scene is absolutely creepy.
00:35:54.000We don't have time to watch the whole thing, but basically Javier Bardem walks into a gas station and tells the owner of the gas station to flip a coin.
00:36:12.000What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?
00:39:00.000Laura Ingraham is not, number one, even if Laura Ingraham believed that stuff, which I know she doesn't, even if she did, you think she's gonna get up there and give the Nazi salute at a Republican National Convention?
00:39:09.000If we're gonna play this game, if we're gonna play this game,
00:39:31.000Like, seriously, I'd be worried more, if I'm the left, I'd be worried more about the fact that Donald Trump wants to basically let the Russians take over the world than the fact that Laura Ingraham put out her arm awkwardly and weird.
00:40:25.000I mean, at this point, you want to believe the lie.
00:40:27.000Okay, the idea that the pledge, the pledge, the pledge... Donald Trump said in the very first debate he wouldn't pledge to support the other candidates.
00:40:33.000Then after a couple of months, he said he would support the other candidates when he started to win.
00:40:37.000Okay, does anyone really believe that if Ted Cruz had been nominated, Trump would have gone out there in full support?
00:40:45.000Also, ask your pops, hey dad, what if there was a guy who was running against you for public office and said mom was basically ugly, that your father had murdered JFK, and that you were a pathological liar?
00:41:16.000And the reason I say hurt is because he loses from both sides.
00:41:19.000Meaning that the never-Trump people, the people like me who don't like Donald Trump and think that he's ripping the heart out of the Republican Party, and by the way, the proof that that is the case is today Tom Cotton going out there and pretending like what Donald Trump says about Russia is okay.
00:41:32.000And people today saying that Ted Cruz is a bad guy for not sufficiently clapping loud enough for Kim Jong-un over here.
00:41:41.000It's because I'm watching the party that I believe in perverted and ripped apart by Donald Trump to support a man who doesn't believe in a principle in which I believe.
00:41:50.000He doesn't believe in any principle other than his own self-aggrandizement.
00:42:40.000Because then Cruz can say, look, I went there, I said what I had to say, I didn't endorse him, and you guys booed me for it, and now I told you so.
00:42:48.000If Trump gets blown out, then Trump is just gonna blame Cruz, right?
00:42:51.000Now he's already setting up the narrative.
00:42:53.000It's Cruz's fault, it's everybody's fault he didn't vote for me.
00:42:56.000And Cruz, you know, if Cruz is really that anti-Trump, then why'd he go to the convention in the first place?
00:43:02.000If Trump just gets smacked by Hillary, if he loses big, then all the narrative will be about Cruz was, well, if he had just shown a little more loyalty on the part of the Trumpsters, and, well, why'd he go on the convention in the first place, and why did he treat Trump so warmly at the beginning of the run, if that was the case?
00:43:17.000So I think it's a rough road for Cruz.
00:43:19.000I think that he got outplayed by Trump.
00:43:21.000I think he was trying to outplay Trump.
00:43:24.000But I don't think that Trump is... What's amazing about that is I don't think that Trump was even playing this... Trump wasn't supposed to even be playing a game here, right?
00:43:32.000As I said, Cruz was sitting around going, okay, I'll go there, I'll split the baby.
00:43:36.000What kind of nutcase would sabotage his own rollout of his vice president in order to bang on me?
00:43:42.000And then Trump did that because Trump is that kind of a nutcase.
00:44:19.000So, that means if there's any tape of your opponent, if you know anything about your opponent, if you know how they argue, check out the arguments that they've made in the past, because you have to scout it like game tape.
00:44:27.000Two, when it comes to the actual topic of the argument, don't just learn your arguments, learn your opponent's arguments, and learn how to handle those arguments.
00:44:34.000Know their own arguments better than they do, and it makes it very difficult for them.
00:44:37.000And if you want more on that, there's an e-book that I put out, 11 Rules for Basically Debating the Left, and that's a pretty good guide.
00:44:44.000Jacob writes, Dear Ben, apropos of your comments on the Turkish junta, with which I agree wholeheartedly, would you object to someone like Colin Powell leading a military junta to restore order if a Trump America descends into tribal warfare?
00:44:56.000Would this be acceptable under any conditions?
00:44:58.000If so, which ones, and if not, why not?
00:45:01.000Some rights may be inherent to the human soul, but might it also be true that, in a brass tacks political sense, robust institutions make rights coherent and durable?
00:45:37.000Could you please get Lindsay an intern to catalog all of the things I like and other book, movie, and music recommendations you and Claven give to be made available on the website as an extra?
00:45:48.000Aside from shouting loudly when the mailbag comes and handling the teleprompter and doing the makeup and handling the mailbag, Lindsay also is compiling that list, so that should be available shortly.
00:45:59.000Alex writes, hey Ben, first of all, as an active duty Marine and someone in the hiring process with a couple of PDs, police departments, thank you for everything you do.
00:46:06.000I only wish more people would be open to hearing the truth.
00:46:08.000Anyway, I don't understand why the left is opposed to school vouchers.
00:46:11.000Wouldn't this promote diversity and high quality education for all children?
00:46:15.000Yes, and that's why they're opposed to it.
00:46:17.000They don't want diversity in education.
00:46:20.000They don't want people in the black community doing well.
00:46:22.000They want people in the black community dependent on them.
00:46:24.000They want everybody dependent on them.
00:46:25.000The public sector unions are controlled by the left, and those unions control the school districts.
00:46:30.000They don't want to cut off the flow of cash back to their own political coffers.
00:47:35.000Here's my answer on the Supreme Court, because we get this one a lot.
00:47:38.000The answer on the Supreme Court is the chances of Donald Trump actually getting through a conservative nominee to the Supreme Court are zero.
00:47:57.000Republicans have been not willing to use the nuclear rule to end the filibuster.
00:48:01.000That means if Republicans don't have 60 votes in the Senate, they're not going to approve a justice.
00:48:05.000They don't have 60 votes in the Senate.
00:48:07.000That means that what is going to happen is Donald Trump, if he were elected, would nominate someone from his list to start, because he doesn't care.
00:48:13.000He'd nominate a conservative from his list.
00:48:15.000The Democrats would filibuster that person.
00:48:18.000With a highly qualified, very smart, very smart, very qualified person, who's just some guy with no record that everybody can sign off on, he got 99 votes in to declare himself a victor and go home.
00:48:29.000He's not going to ram anything through.
00:48:33.000He doesn't even know what the court does.
00:48:36.000He thinks the Supreme Court prosecutes people because he's stupid.
00:48:39.000Kanye writes, Do you feel that Pakistan is perhaps a greater threat to the West than Iran in the near future, given their large percentage of radicalized Muslims, nuclear capability, and ongoing conflicts with India and Balochistan?
00:48:50.000Very specific, Kanye, and tell Kim I say hello.
00:49:48.000David writes, a common argument for Obama supporters is that he halved the deficit and it's Bush's fault for handing him a deficit that would eventually double the national debt.