After over two decades in the heart of America s spotlight, Hillary Clinton is still sort of an unknown quantity for most Americans. That s thanks to one factor and one factor only, the love and worshipful attention of the mainstream media. Over the weekend, no less than six terrible stories broke that would have crippled anyone else s campaign. And what was the media s response to this tidal wave of incompetence and corruption? Well, naturally, they focused on Trump, naturally. And that s why Trump became the Republican nominee in the first place, because the American people had already rejected the media's capacity for truth-telling. And when the media targeted Trump, and Trump didn t back down, many Republicans resonated to Trump s call. They believed that Trump would hit Clinton with all the material the media had covered up and ignored. And so far, that hasn t panned out. Today, we ll talk about why that is, and why the media are still the gatekeepers, and how they still have no intention of allowing Hillary Clinton to become the story when Trump s tweets can be the story. Plus, we'll talk about the Trump flip on immigration and why Ann Coulter may be on the verge of committing suicide. And we'll play audio of Ann explaining that she's about five minutes from driving down to the local mobile station and dousing herself in gasoline and lighting a match. Ben Shapiro's take on transgender identity and why it's so vital that we should all be teaching transgender students in schools that teach them that they can become men and women who can become women and women. . The Ben Shapiro Show is a must-listen to the truth about transgender identity in public schools, and the politics of the transgender identity crisis. The Daily Mail's new video on the transphobia in the school system in Baltimore, and what it means, not the transgenderism in public education, and much more. This is not your average high school teacher's guide to the transgender education system in America's public high school experience. In this episode of the Ben Shapiro show, you won't want to miss it. It's not your normal high school guidebook, it's a guide to transgender identity, and it's not even better than the one you're going to learn about that's going to be your guide to that in the Daily Mail or The New York Times or the New York Sun, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Onion, and more!
00:00:16.000We learned Clinton aide and confidant and super special absolutely platonic friend Huma Abedin acted as assistant editor on the Radical Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs where she greenlit pieces that stated that quote pushing mothers out into the open labor market is a clear demonstration of a lack of respect of womanhood and motherhood.
00:00:35.000Next, we found out that Clinton had blamed former Secretary of State Colin Powell for giving her the idea to set up a private email server at a dinner party, and that Powell not only denied giving her the idea, but also denied ever having had a dinner conversation on the topic.
00:00:47.000Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who Clinton also claimed was there for the conversation, she said she wasn't there either.
00:00:52.000Then we found out the Clinton State Department oversaw about $6 billion in mismanagement, fraud, and incompetence.
00:00:58.000Then, also, it was revealed that Clinton's pay-for-play, Clinton Foundation donations in exchange for access to the State Department, ran deeper than originally thought.
00:01:06.000Also, we learned the FBI and Justice Department are investigating the Podesta Group, co-founded by Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, over its own ties with former Ukrainian president and Vladimir Putin ally Viktor Yanukovych.
00:01:18.000Finally, we found out the FBI uncovered about 15,000 emails Clinton said never existed and that she failed to disclose to the State Department.
00:01:24.000Presumably, these all do not concern Yoga and Chelsea Clinton's wedding plans.
00:01:28.000So, what was the media's response to this tidal wave of incompetence and corruption?
00:01:33.000Well, they focused on Trump, naturally.
00:01:36.000And that's why Trump became the Republican nominee in the first place.
00:01:38.000See, the media once painted former Governor Mitt Romney the way they paint Trump.
00:01:42.000They excoriated anyone who dared to ask about President Obama's botched Benghazi policy.
00:01:47.000They scoffed at Romney's suggestion that Obama's Russian policy had emboldened Moscow.
00:01:52.000They yelled at legislators like Michelle Bachmann for connecting Huma Abedin to Islamic radicalism via that same Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs.
00:01:59.000By the time Trump came along, the American people had already rejected the media's capacity for truth-telling.
00:02:04.000So when the media targeted Trump, and Trump didn't back down, many Republicans resonated to Trump's call.
00:02:10.000They believed that Trump would hit Clinton with all the material the media had covered up and ignored.
00:02:14.000So far, of course, that hasn't really panned out.
00:02:16.000Trump's been pretty distractible, but that doesn't mean he couldn't.
00:02:20.000If Trump were to target Clinton, he'd be doing the job Americans thought that they nominated him to do, exposing the empress who's protected by the media praetorian guard.
00:02:27.000If he doesn't, Clinton will become president, scandals and all.
00:02:44.000Alrighty, so here we are, lots to get to today here on the Ben Shapiro Show.
00:02:47.000I want to start with something a little bit different.
00:02:49.000So instead of talking presidential politics, we'll get to that in just a little while, the Trump flip on immigration and Coulter.
00:02:56.000Right now, maybe we have to take away her belt and her shoelaces.
00:03:00.000Because she may be on the verge of suicide.
00:03:02.000We'll play audio of Ann later explaining that she's about five minutes from driving down to the local mobile station and dousing herself in gasoline and lighting a match.
00:03:13.000But we're going to start today with transgender identity.
00:03:16.000So the federal government has decided it is absolutely vital and important that everybody in America believe that men can become women and women can become men.
00:03:24.000And it's so vital that they're going to force
00:03:27.000Children to engage in this fantasy and if you as a parent say no, if you as a parent say no, then presumably they will come in and take your kids.
00:03:37.000So the reason this comes up today is because there's this school district in Maryland and they've released a video that's sort of an informative video directed toward administrators and teachers.
00:03:51.000No matter what side of this issue one personally falls on, however, what is clear is this.
00:03:58.000At Anne Arundel County Public Schools, our charge is to fully support every student in their pursuit of reaching their full potential.
00:04:06.000We owe students who identify as transgender the same levels of support as we do gay students, poor students, rich students, special education students, ELL students, or any other group of students.
00:04:17.000Simply put, in a school system that aims to elevate all students and eliminate all gaps, all must mean all.
00:04:26.000What you are about to view is a training session conducted in June that covers the latest guidance and legal opinions regarding this matter.
00:04:33.000Clearly, this is an evolving issue, and the guidance from the courts or elsewhere may change in the coming months or years.
00:04:40.000We will do everything we can to convey any such changes to you in a timely manner so that you can best support our students.
00:04:47.000Meanwhile, please listen carefully to what you are about to hear.
00:04:50.000A formal set of guidelines will be provided to principals and department heads to distribute as needed.
00:04:56.000If you have general questions, please contact the Office of Student Services.
00:05:00.000If you have specific legal questions on a particular case, please contact the Office of Legal Services.
00:05:07.000Okay, he goes on in this video to explain that what ought to happen in cases where boys think they are girls and therefore want to go on overnight sleeping trips with girls, what should the school do?
00:05:20.000So according, this is serious really, according to this school district, according to that guy, Chris Christie over there, according to that dude, the idea here is that we now must not tell parents that it's even happening.
00:05:33.000We can't tell parents that this is even happening.
00:05:36.000Really, here's the quote from the video.
00:05:38.000He says, So, many of you might be asking yourself, So, I'm at an overnight field trip, and I have a student who's biologically male, identifies as female, and we've worked with that student and her family, and that student wants to sleep in the dorms or whatever sleeping arrangements are with the females.
00:05:53.000They don't want to sleep in a room by themselves, they want to sleep with the rest of the females.
00:05:57.000And the answer is, they sleep with the females.
00:05:59.000That's not the easy answer, it's the right answer.
00:06:01.000And in some cases, it's going to cause issues because the private information piece doesn't allow you to share that with parents of all the other campers.
00:06:09.000Okay, so let's just be straight about this.
00:06:11.000This is not just him saying that they're going to notify the parents that this is their new policy.
00:06:15.000What he's saying is we won't even tell parents it's happening.
00:06:18.000We won't even tell parents it's happening.
00:06:20.000So you have a 12-year-old girl, and she goes on a sleepaway trip for a night to the local aquarium, and there's a 12-year-old boy who thinks he's a girl, and it's okay—not only is it okay by the school district if he sleeps next to the girls, because obviously he's a girl, because he says he is,
00:06:34.000Not only is that okay, they're not even going to inform the parents about it because it's none of the parents' business if there's a boy sleeping next to the girls.
00:07:49.000Not because he was going to rape them, but because it makes girls feel uncomfortable to be unclad in front of boys.
00:07:54.000And it was considered an assault on women, an assault on feminism, to suggest that men should be able to walk into women's locker rooms.
00:08:01.000Title IX was specifically designed with this in mind.
00:08:03.000Title IX of the Civil Rights Act was designed with this in mind.
00:08:06.000The idea that there's men and there's women, and women should be treated equally with men, with equal dignity, and their privacy should be protected.
00:08:13.000The federal government is so insane that now they're trying to reinterpret this as gender that you identify as.
00:08:20.000Because why have separate locker rooms at all?
00:08:23.000If the idea is that the girls are so terrible because there's a guy who identifies as a girl coming into their locker room, if they're so terrible, then what's the problem if the guy identifies as a guy?
00:08:32.000Are you telling me that these people are safer with a guy who identifies as a girl than a guy who identifies as a guy?
00:08:39.000Where's the scientific evidence to back that one up?
00:08:41.000That the normal guy is more likely to be a sexual abuser or rapist than the transgender guy.
00:08:46.000Is there any evidence to support that notion?
00:08:48.000I mean, I'm waiting for the evidence to support that notion.
00:08:51.000I'm not making the claim transgender people are outstandingly dangerous.
00:08:54.000I'm making the claim that other people are not, but the claim seems to be you're less dangerous to women if you're transgender than you would be if you weren't transgender, and I just don't see any evidence to back that up.
00:09:12.000And the real issue is the federal government has decided that certain subjective realities can now be imposed on everyone through force of government.
00:09:19.000Now the government says that if you believe that there's a God, and therefore you believe, and you believe that that God gave us a Bible,
00:09:26.000And therefore you believe that it's sinful for you to take part in a same-sex wedding.
00:09:30.000The government says your subjective reality must be overruled by our version of reality in which the Bible is nonsense and you have to serve the gay couple.
00:09:38.000That's what the federal government essentially says.
00:09:41.000They say that your subjective reality as a religious person is irrelevant to our concerns.
00:09:46.000But when it comes to a transgender person saying they're a girl, then all of a sudden we have to abide by their subjective reality.
00:09:52.000We can't use any objective measures of reality.
00:10:03.000It's a very short step from your kid is in a bedroom with a transgender girl, and we're not telling you about it, to your kid is having transgender feelings, is having gender dysphoria, is confused about gender, not even transgender feelings, just is confused about his or her gender.
00:10:18.000You think that that's evidence that the kid needs some psychological help.
00:10:22.000We think that means the kid should transition.
00:10:24.000We're coming into the home and we're seizing the kid.
00:10:26.000We're coming into the home for the protection of the child.
00:10:28.000The child cannot be victimized by you and your benighted ideas about biological sex.
00:10:34.000We have to take the kid away from you.
00:11:13.000They say it could be partly biological, it could be environmental, it could be social.
00:11:16.000There are a lot of factors that go into shaping sexual orientation, which is why you'll see people like Anne Heche, you know, marry to Ellen DeGeneres and then she leaves Ellen DeGeneres and marries a dude.
00:11:28.000You see guys who are straight for their entire lives and suddenly they're gay.
00:11:31.000It could work the other way too, except the left doesn't wish to acknowledge that there is variability and mutability to sexual orientation.
00:11:38.000So they create this fiction whereby your biological sex is irrelevant, your gender identity is inborn,
00:11:44.000You're a boy born in a girl's body, which is nonsense, and your sexual orientation is inborn.
00:11:51.000Okay, you're born with certain inclinations, but those inclinations are impacted by environment and society and treatment and all the rest of it, just like every other human behavior.
00:12:03.000What they did with the religious parent who has a kid who's worried that he might have sexual attraction to somebody of the same sex, religious parents used to say, okay, let's go to the psychiatrist and let's talk about whether this is real, how severe it is, whether this is just normal kind of gender and sexual confusion that happens with a lot of kids.
00:12:21.000I mean, really, this happens with a lot of kids.
00:12:23.000There are a lot of kids, if you've ever had a teenage brother or sister, if you've ever been a teenager yourself, the chances are very high that you were sexually confused at one point or another.
00:12:39.000That's as opposed to people above the age of 60, 90% of them consider themselves completely straight.
00:12:45.000That's because how people view their own sexual orientation changes over time.
00:12:48.000Their attractions may change over time.
00:12:50.000The left has decided it's entirely biological.
00:12:53.000The next step has been, okay, if you have a kid, you're a religious person, and your kid has sexual attraction to another kid of the same sex,
00:13:00.000And you say, OK, well, let's let's treat that.
00:13:02.000Let's talk about whether that's a good thing.
00:13:04.000Let's let's see if you're if you're actually gay or if you're straight, if there's a way to to alter your sexual behavior and your sexual attraction.
00:13:10.000That's now illegal in the state of California.
00:13:12.000It's illegal in the state of California.
00:13:13.000So if you have a gay kid and the gay kid wants to become straight,
00:13:16.000That's legal in the state of California.
00:13:17.000If you have a straight kid, or if you have a gay kid, and the gay kid wants to become straight, that's illegal in the state of California for you to take that kid to a psychiatrist or to a psychologist because that's harmful to the child.
00:13:29.000You can see that's going to be the next step here.
00:13:31.000The next step is going to be, you have a kid, your kid's three years old, your kid decides one day they want to dress up as a boy, as a girl, and they decide they want to dress up as a boy, and you say, honey, cut it out.
00:13:41.000Then the kid goes to school and tells the teacher, you know, I was at home and I wanted to dress up as a boy and mommy told me I couldn't.
00:13:47.000And next thing you know the teacher is calling Child Protective Services saying that you're damaging the psyche of the child because obviously if the kid, the three-year-old, says that she is a he, then she must be right.
00:14:01.000You can see where this is going because the left has to impose its own version of reality on everybody else.
00:14:05.000And the reason the left has to impose its own version of reality on everybody else is because the utopia of the left, what the left truly seeks, is a fully androgynized society in which male and female have nothing, there's no separation.
00:14:18.000They're trying to create an excuse for bigger government, in essence.
00:14:21.000Because the truth is, we all have various differences.
00:14:42.000So men can become women, women can become men.
00:14:45.000Gay people can't become straight, but straight society should just assume that all kids who have any sort of sexual attraction at any point to another kid of the same sex, those people are immutably gay.
00:14:54.000All of this is designed to lead to familial confusion, larger government control, and an attempt to break down the family structure so that when we are all genderless, androgynous widgets who are fully mutable in terms of our sex, then the government can step in and make everybody equal.
00:15:09.000So the government uses the excuse of bullying in order to cram down its own version of reality, and they cram down their own version of reality in order to assert their power over you and your ability to parent and your ability to take care of your own kid.
00:15:21.000We'll talk a little bit more about that in just a little while, but you have to go to Daily Wire for the rest of that to subscribe to the rest of the show.
00:15:54.000And this brings to an end our Facebook and our YouTube, but you can listen on iTunes or SoundCloud where we are, in fact, the number one conservative podcast in America.
00:16:02.000And thank you so much for being a part of it.
00:16:03.000But there's more to come, so stick around.
00:16:10.000Okay, so now on to the presidential race.
00:16:12.000So, there's been a lot of hubbub over the past 48 hours because Donald Trump is beginning to soften on illegal immigration.
00:16:20.000And I have all sorts of jokes that I could make about that, but I won't.
00:16:22.000But here's Donald Trump yesterday sharing the stage with Border Patrol mothers of people killed by illegals, and here he is standing next to Sean Hannity talking about it.
00:16:36.000Nineteen years as a Border Patrol agent has taught me one thing.
00:17:19.000Okay, so that's the Border Patrol agent.
00:17:21.000But you have really great people wanting and so proudly wanting to come into a country
00:17:51.000And now what you'd be doing is you'd take people away from that line.
00:17:56.000Is there any part of the law that you might be able to change that would accommodate those people that contribute to society, have been law-abiding, have kids here?
00:18:11.000I had a meeting with great people, great Hispanic leaders, and there certainly can be a softening because we're not looking to hurt people.
00:19:06.000But I'll take better care of them, Matt, because what I would, I would take a big swatch of land and I'd have lots of other people, including Germany.
00:20:20.000Well, you're not going to sort it out with Congress in the coming days.
00:20:23.000That would have to wait for a potential Trump-Pence administration.
00:20:29.000Mike Pence continued by saying that Trump's immigration policy is going to reflect compassion and humanity.
00:20:35.000Beyond that, I just think, you know, stay tuned.
00:20:37.000Another one of these major speeches is coming up.
00:20:40.000Donald Trump will address the issue of immigration.
00:20:43.000I guarantee you that he's going to be a man of his word.
00:20:47.000Securing our borders, enforcing our laws, and whatever else we do will be tough, but fair, and it will reflect the kind of compassion and humanity that the American people would expect.
00:20:59.000And frankly, that proceeds out of the character of this good man.
00:21:04.000I mean, Donald Trump is a... I saw it in Louisiana on the streets last Friday.
00:21:10.000Uh, where he was embracing families that had been caught up in that hundred years flood.
00:21:14.000This is a deeply compassionate man, but he's a man committed to the rule of law.
00:21:19.000I think the American people know that, and you're going to see that unpacked in the weeks ahead.
00:21:24.000So he's, so, so the new spiel is that we're getting compassion and humanity from Donald Trump.
00:21:30.000Meanwhile, Jeff Sessions is, it's kind of funny to watch some of the people who jumped on the Trump train specifically because they liked Trump on immigration.
00:21:39.000A few years ago, probably a couple of years ago, I had a dinner with Jeff Sessions and Stephen Miller, who's now the campaign, one of the campaign directors, policy directors for Donald Trump, and Ann Coulter.
00:21:49.000And the three of us were sitting, I mean, we're talking like till two o'clock in the morning, sitting up having beer and talking immigration, because it's all Ann Coulter and Jeff Sessions really like to talk about is immigration.
00:21:58.000And they were both very much on the same page.
00:22:00.000And of course, both of them have jumped behind Trump, largely on the basis of Trump's harsh stance on immigration.
00:22:06.000And now you can see them clinging to the slender reed of Donald Trump's honor and dignity, right?
00:22:12.000Here's Jeff Sessions saying, no, no, no, no, no.
00:22:17.000Has he changed his view on deportation?
00:22:19.000He has not changed his view, but he had a great meeting with people who had different ideas, and I understand I wasn't there, but he had a good discussion.
00:22:28.000He listened to all the different views.
00:22:30.000Look, we need a lawful system of immigration.
00:22:33.000Trump is absolutely clear and correct on that.
00:23:11.000People are still crossing in massive numbers because they're just floating right across the Rio Grande and then they are walking up to ICE officers knowing that they're going to be detained but not supported.
00:23:21.000Okay, so the deportations are the core of what Trump is talking about.
00:23:24.000Ann Coulter last night looked like she was beside herself.
00:23:27.000I mean, I've been friends with Ann for a very long time, but Ann Coulter looked like she was ready to take a plunge off a very high building.
00:23:35.000She's on with Chris Maddow, I'm at my stake!
00:23:37.000She's talking about her new book, In Trump We Trust, which, by the way, I mean, Ann, come on.
00:23:49.000I will say, there's a certain irony in writing a book called In Trump We Trust, and literally the day of your book launch, you were nagged on the only issue you care about.
00:23:55.000Remember, it's not that Ann Coulter, her main issue is immigration, it's that it's the only issue for Ann.
00:24:01.000And you can watch me interview Ann about this.
00:24:02.000I did an hour-long interview when her last book, Adios America, came out.
00:24:05.000I did an hour-long interview with her, it was on C-SPAN, in which we talked about all of the gradations of her position and what she felt about it.
00:24:12.000We went through her book basically chapter by chapter.
00:24:15.000This is all she cares about, and it was on that basis that she supported Trump, and here is Anne basically saying, well, if Trump flips, I don't know what I'm gonna do.
00:24:23.000What's Trump saying to the American people right now about immigration?
00:25:02.000I don't think this is going to have a major impact on Trump.
00:25:04.000I think most of the people who are Trump fans
00:25:06.000I think that if Donald Trump said tomorrow that he was going to amnesty and give full citizenship to all 11 million illegal immigrants, at least half of the people who support him would nod along and say, better than Hillary.
00:25:30.000Really, because he has gained a serious support base and a lot of personal brand loyalty.
00:25:43.000One of the reasons why I think it's important that people at least have one foot off, even if you're on the Trump train, you should have one foot off, is if you wish for him to be held accountable for his policy, if you actually want him to do the things you want him to do, you have to keep pressuring him.
00:25:57.000Donald Trump is not a trustworthy man.
00:26:01.000Unless you are pressuring him from the outside and cheering him from the inside when he does something you like, he can flip on you in a heartbeat.
00:26:07.000I'm trying to think of a major policy issue he hasn't flipped on other than free trade.
00:26:11.000Because now he's basically flipped on all of them.
00:26:14.000So if you want to keep pressuring him, you need to pressure him from the outside.
00:26:16.000It's important to keep up the pressure.
00:26:18.000That's why, actually, I respect Dan for saying that, because at least Dan is with it enough to understand that if she truly cares about immigration, she's going to have to hold his feet to the fire if he flips on it.
00:26:28.000Okay, meanwhile, this is a disappointing thing.
00:26:33.000So that was some bad Trump, but we're going to do a final round.
00:26:36.000I promised good Trump, bad Trump, just so we could play the theme.
00:28:48.000And don't tell me any of them scientists.
00:28:51.000Okay, here's Kellyanne Conway explaining that there's no such thing as a real poll.
00:28:56.000Donald Trump performs consistently better in online polling, where a human being is not talking to another human being about what he or she may do in the election.
00:29:05.000It's because it's become socially desirable, especially if you're a college-educated person in the United States of America, to say that you're against Donald Trump.
00:29:12.000The hidden Trump vote in this country is a very significant proposition.
00:29:16.000Have you been able to put a number on that?
00:29:39.000And so she's saying that there are a bunch of secret Trump voters and they're sitting around and they won't pick up the phone or if you ask them, they'll say they vote for Hillary Clinton or Gary Johnson.
00:29:47.000But secretly, secretly, deep down in the cockles of their hearts, they're going to vote for Donald Trump.
00:30:17.000The online polls that have been taken are more beneficial to Trump because most of the online polls are not official.
00:30:22.000Most of the online polls are like drudge polls.
00:30:24.000I love drudge report, but let's be real, drudge report watchers, drudge report viewers, the people who go to his page, are pro-Trump.
00:30:34.000When it shows that he won every single debate, I loved that during the primaries where Trump would say, all the polls show that I won every single debate.
00:30:40.000All of them show that all the people love me.
00:31:08.000I don't know who are all these secret—I understand, this is based on something called the Bradley effect.
00:31:12.000Back in the 1980s, there was a guy who was running for mayor of Los Angeles named Tom Bradley, and Tom Bradley was slated to win and he lost, and the reason he lost is apparently because there were a bunch of people who said they wanted to vote for the black guy but then didn't, because Tom Bradley was black.
00:31:36.000With all that said, Hillary Clinton's campaign is just the same kind of crap show, except it's much worse, because Hillary is much more corrupt than Trump.
00:31:43.000As I mentioned at the top of the program, Hillary's been hit by all these scandals.
00:31:47.000The newest one from the Associated Press, at least half of the people who she visited with while she was Secretary of State gave money to the Clinton Foundation.
00:32:05.000Hillary Clinton, there are 150-some people, and more than 80 of them, gave money to the Clinton Foundation and suddenly found themselves in her good graces.
00:33:01.000She said the meeting was scheduled right now.
00:33:03.000I'm not sure I want to be there for it at the time.
00:33:05.000When Doug Bann talked to Huma Abedin, then Huma Abedin made it happen.
00:33:08.000That's not the chronology of it, A. And B, when she said she didn't want to be there, she said she wasn't sure whether she was going to be in D.C.
00:34:05.000Shortly after this exchange, Hillary Clinton supporter Christine Quinn was put into a white coat and dragged away to the asylum for screaming like a banshee.
00:34:12.000But I love that she basically says—I love that the reporter who's standing in for Jake Tapper there on CNN says, yeah, Hillary rejected the meeting.
00:34:20.000She got the bribe, and then she went to the meeting.
00:34:22.000And Christine Quinn's like, yeah, but the bribe achieved something good.
00:35:27.000And we didn't see anything of interest in the fact that she and Huma Abedin were coordinating with the Clinton Foundation directly on activities?
00:36:07.000Well, they were always going to try to figure out, it'll be the first time that he will be... They just announced this week that they're not going to take money from overseas anymore.
00:36:15.000They're not going to take money from... They are admitting there's a conflict.
00:36:18.000Everybody watching now knows that when you give to a politician, you expect access.
00:36:24.000When they call up and say, he wants to meet with you sometime this week, you get the meeting!
00:36:33.000So there's chaos on the left side of the aisle too, and if it weren't for the chaos on the right side of the aisle, that would make it a lot easier.
00:36:40.000But, you know, this is the business we have chosen, as they say.
00:36:44.000Okay, time for things I like and then some things I hate.
00:36:47.000So things I like, we've been doing sort of Israel edition, so I want to give some biblical criticism.
00:36:51.000A biblical criticism book that I think is really terrific.
00:36:54.000Rabbi David Forman is the author of this one.
00:36:56.000It's called The Beast That Crouches at the Door.
00:36:58.000And it's a really good biblical analysis of Adam and Eve and what the Bible is talking about in Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel.
00:37:38.000Ben Carson, I'm beginning to think that neurosurgery can actually be an idiot savant thing.
00:37:44.000Because Ben Carson is the worst campaign surrogate ever.
00:37:48.000So Ben Carson's on national TV, and he's trying to talk up the idea that Hillary Clinton is unhealthy.
00:37:52.000Again, I still don't understand the angle here.
00:37:54.000That if you say she's unhealthy often enough, people are like, oh she's gonna die, I'll vote for Trump, I'll vote for that sack of gas over there.
00:38:02.000Goes on national TV and he wants to talk about Hillary Clinton's health and why it's important.
00:38:08.000And then things kind of just go off the rails a little bit.
00:38:11.000I think that somebody who is running for president of the United States, particularly if they're elderly, and that would include both major candidates, should disclose their medical history.
00:38:24.000And I'm not talking about from a year or two years ago.
00:39:03.000And so you would have no diagnosis yourself on Hillary Clinton, Dr. Carson?
00:39:08.000My diagnosis would be that anybody who is elderly should expose their records and we, the people, should know what they are because it's a very stressful job.
00:39:35.000Donald Trump has not turned over his complete medical records.
00:39:38.000So well done, Dr. Carson, from shifting the onus of responsibility on Hillary to release her full medical records to now Donald Trump's release his full medical records.
00:39:47.000Officially the worst campaign surrogate ever, Dr. Ben Carson.
00:39:57.000So, Gary Johnson is the worst libertarian ever.
00:40:00.000He is not libertarian in any major respect.
00:40:02.000He has said that he's in favor of the government cramming down its view of commerce on people in spite of their religious liberty.
00:40:10.000And the other day, he's on Fox News, and he decides, you know what I'm going to do?
00:40:13.000I'm going to go on there and I'm going to defend Black Lives Matter, and I'm going to do so by citing a bunch of statistics that are just not true.
00:40:33.000Well, not a pushback, but all lives do matter.
00:40:37.000But when it comes to whites, guess what?
00:40:39.000We're not being shot at the rate of six times blacks are being shot at.
00:40:44.000When it comes to the war on drugs, if you are of color, there's a four times more likelihood that you'll end up behind bars as opposed to being of color.
00:41:46.000So he's citing all these statistics and they're not true.
00:41:48.000I mean, maybe what Gary Johnson means is I should be in jail because I've smoked more pot than the entire state of Arizona.
00:41:54.000But, Gary Johnson, when he says that blacks are being targeted by law enforcement in drug crimes, that's not true disproportionate to the amount of drug dealing that's going on.
00:42:04.000When he talks about the sentencing, that's also not true.
00:42:07.000When he talks about the levels of crime versus the levels of shootings,
00:42:11.000So he's citing all of these false statistics.
00:42:14.000By the way, when it comes to drug crimes, the vast, vast, vast majority of people in prison are not in prison on the basis of drug crime alone.
00:42:21.000Most of the people who are in for drug possession were drug dealing, and then they were plead down to a drug possession charge to do jail time.
00:42:29.000And the people who actually stumped for the stronger sentences for crack cocaine were black people from the inner city who were sick of watching crack cocaine ravage the inner city.
00:42:39.000But Gary Johnson, like some libertarians, doesn't like the government very much generally, and therefore he's against law enforcement more generally.
00:42:49.000He's not even like a Rand Paul libertarian.
00:42:51.000So, for example, it now turns out that the libertarian nominee said he's no skeptic of man-made global warming, and he's now endorsed a fee on carbon dioxide emissions.
00:43:02.000He now says, I believe climate change is occurring, I believe that it is man-caused, and that there can be and is a free market approach to climate change.
00:43:10.000He says there should be a fee, but not a tax.
00:43:31.000All right, time for a little bit of biblical analysis because, indeed, it is Wednesday.
00:43:34.000So, this week's Parsha, this week's Torah portion, every week, as I always explain, there's a Torah portion, a portion of the five books of Moses that Jews read.
00:43:43.000By the end of the year, we've read through the entire Torah, the entire five books of Moses.
00:43:47.000This week's Torah portion is called Ekev.
00:43:56.000And it says, Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you this day, lest you eat and be sated, and build good houses, and dwell therein, and your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and gold increase, and all that you have increases, and your heart grows haughty, and you forget the Lord your God, who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, who led you through the great and awesome desert, in which there were snakes, and vipers, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water, who brought water for you out of solid rock,
00:44:56.000And when people talk about the continuing relevance of the Bible, this is America in a nutshell.
00:44:59.000So there's a new Pew poll out today that says a historic number of Americans no longer believe in God.
00:45:04.000A historic number of Americans no longer believe in God.
00:45:06.000According to Pew Research Center, 49% of people who say they're—half of Americans who have left their church no longer believe in God at all.
00:45:14.000Another 20% said they don't like organized religion.
00:45:18.000So, yeah, they're basically saying there's an increase in atheism, essentially.
00:45:23.000Typically, the reason that people are given for why people become atheists is because they're disappointed in God.
00:45:31.000That they're very upset that God has done something they don't like and so they're angry at God and so they become atheists and they say, there is no justice to the universe, I'm done here.
00:45:40.000But you look at America and the belief in God, Europe and the belief in God, they're declining dramatically.
00:45:44.000Belief in God is declining dramatically.
00:45:47.000And you say to yourself, why could that possibly be?
00:45:49.000We're the richest, most prosperous, freest society in the history of the world.
00:45:52.000How could it possibly be that less people believe in God, fewer people believe in God because of that?
00:45:59.000And the answer is right here in the Bible, right?
00:46:00.000The answer is that essentially we now believe that it is through our own hands.
00:46:05.000It is through the great grace of government.
00:47:16.000When human beings believe they are the powerful ones, that is the road to tyranny.
00:47:20.000The road to tyranny is paved with the belief that human beings are the powerful ones in the universe as opposed to the God who made them and crafted their rights.
00:47:29.000Once you believe that, it's not that God is saying, I'm going to punish you.
00:47:33.000The natural consequence of your action is self-destruction.
00:47:36.000And we're watching that by Western civilization.
00:47:38.000We declared ourselves more powerful than God.
00:47:40.000We said that the rights that God gave us are less important than our ability to do what we want ourselves.
00:47:44.000And because of that, we are now in the process of turning on our own freedom and ramrodding it down and crushing it beneath our boots in the name of our own power.
00:47:58.000So, you know, the only solution to this really is a little bit of humility.
00:48:02.000If you're smart, you're smart because God gave you the brains.
00:48:04.000If you grew up in America, that's because you were lucky enough to be born in the greatest nation of all.
00:48:08.000And if you are somebody who benefits from the rights that spring from the Judeo-Christian foundation of civilization, then maybe you ought to consider why it is that only Judeo-Christian civilization has ever respected these rights.
00:48:22.000This isn't to say that you have to believe in God.
00:48:25.000You can be a good person and not believe in God.
00:48:27.000But a society that ditches God is bound in the end to worship man, and a society that worships man is bound in the end for Armageddon.
00:48:34.000Well, on that light note, we will see you tomorrow, and we will discuss all of the latest political happenings, plus the mailbag, which is why you should subscribe if you're not already doing so at dailywire.com.