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00:00:00.000 On Tuesday, Politico reported that former President George H.W.

00:00:03.000 Bush would vote for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump.

00:00:05.000 The Bush family has shunned Trump since the primaries, and they've drawn close to the Clintons ever since George H.W.

00:00:11.000 left office in 1992.

00:00:13.000 But still, the news was kind of shocking given both the Bush family's continued prominence in American politics.

00:00:18.000 George P. Bush is currently Texas Land Commissioner and has his eye on higher office.

00:00:22.000 But the H.W.

00:00:23.000 apparent decision, which was reported by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend,

00:00:27.000 Really doesn't come as much of a surprise.

00:00:28.000 The Bush family isn't put off so much by Trump's policy proposals, except for immigration and free trade.

00:00:33.000 The Bush family actually likes a lot of what Trump has to say.

00:00:36.000 They're mostly put off by Trump's attitude, his boorishness, his ignorance, his general sense of know-nothing-ism.

00:00:41.000 To be fair, Trump clubbed Jeb like a baby seal, and the Bush family specifically during the debates, and that had to draw some ire from the family, you'd imagine.

00:00:48.000 But for George H.W.

00:00:49.000 Bush, the deciding factor was likely attitudinal.

00:00:52.000 Trump just doesn't belong.

00:00:54.000 The Clintons, by dint of two decades in the White House, spotlight do.

00:00:57.000 This is one of the objections to Trump that many Trump supporters have a right to be angry about.

00:01:01.000 It's one thing to object to Trump based on policy differences and a general belief he toxifies the conservative message.

00:01:06.000 That's why I oppose Trump.

00:01:08.000 It's another thing to do it because you think he doesn't belong in the Tony company of the upper crust bluebloods.

00:01:15.000 The Bush family feels like American royalty.

00:01:17.000 They appear to see Trump as some sort of nouveau riche blowhard.

00:01:20.000 That feels elitist, not principled.

00:01:22.000 Nobody was surprised the person who reported H.W.'

00:01:24.000 's voting choice was a Kennedy.

00:01:25.000 That's how the Bushes apparently roll.

00:01:27.000 And that feeling of Republican elitism helped drive Trump to new heights in the primaries.

00:01:31.000 Trump wasn't merely a reaction to the neocons or the Republican establishment.

00:01:35.000 He was a reaction to the Bush family in particular.

00:01:38.000 Their genteel sensibilities, their family heritage, their general chumminess with the Clintons.

00:01:42.000 Republican primary voters reveled in the Trump-Jeb pile drivers every time Trump would climb up on the third level of the ring and then jump on top of Jeb.

00:01:51.000 They felt great because it felt like Trump was willing to hit people hard, unlike the Bush family.

00:01:55.000 Which means that H.W.'

00:01:57.000 's quasi-endorsement of Hillary Clinton isn't likely to drive a lot of Republican voters away from Trump.

00:02:01.000 In fact, it may do precisely the opposite.

00:02:04.000 It actually may drive Republican voters toward Trump, since H.W.

00:02:07.000 lost the presidency to the Clintons, made friends with them, and now appears to want them back in office.

00:02:12.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:02:12.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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00:03:26.000 So if you're, if you're wondering why I have a curtain behind me, it's not because Trump has finally sent me to the Gulag.

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00:04:03.000 Okay, lots to get to.

00:04:04.000 Let's begin with something that Hillary Clinton is just now tweeting about.

00:04:08.000 There's a shooting of a black guy in Tulsa, and his name is Terrence Crutcher.

00:04:12.000 What happened in this particular case is that Terrence Crutcher, somebody called the cops because he stopped his car in the middle of the road,

00:04:17.000 And then apparently ran from his car saying that it was going to explode at any second.

00:04:21.000 People called 9-1-1.

00:04:22.000 They said there's this crazy guy who appears to be high and he's running in the middle of the road and he stops his car in the middle of the road.

00:04:27.000 The cops show up and here's what happens.

00:04:36.000 Alright, I'm gonna hit the recorder.

00:04:38.000 This guy's still walking.

00:04:41.000 And following commands.

00:04:42.000 Topper taser, I think.

00:04:48.000 I've got a feeling that's about to happen.

00:04:50.000 That looks like a bad dude, too.

00:04:52.000 Gotta be on something.

00:04:53.000 Which way are they facing?

00:04:56.000 Police 1, they're facing westbound.

00:04:58.000 I think he may have just been tasered.

00:04:59.000 Shots fired!

00:05:02.000 3-3-1, we have shots fired.

00:05:05.000 We have one suspect down.

00:05:07.000 I need to get this eastbound closed down if they could, because they're not going to be able to let anybody...

00:05:15.000 Okay, so you can see the tape, and it's really bad.

00:05:30.000 And what you're actually seeing is you're seeing this large black man walk down the street with his hands raised in the air.

00:05:36.000 He's walking away from the cops.

00:05:37.000 They're telling him to stop.

00:05:38.000 He's not paying attention to their commands.

00:05:41.000 He walks back to his car, and then he

00:05:44.000 Sort of drops his hands down toward the car.

00:05:46.000 It looks like he's leaning toward the car and then one of the cops shoots him.

00:05:49.000 One tases him and one shoots him.

00:05:51.000 Now you can hear somebody say that looks like that looks like a bad dude.

00:05:54.000 People are thinking that that means that it's a race thing, but he follows that up with it looks like he's on drugs.

00:05:58.000 OK, the reason that so so everyone is trying to turn this into a racial issue.

00:06:02.000 Now it looks like a bad shoot.

00:06:03.000 OK, it really looks like a bad shoot.

00:06:04.000 Apparently the officer who actually shot the guy, a female officer, she apparently was just devastated, which she should be because she shot somebody.

00:06:12.000 Uh, who was unarmed.

00:06:13.000 I mean, he had his hands up and was walking back to his car.

00:06:16.000 He obviously should have obeyed officer commands, but that's no excuse for the police shooting you for no reason.

00:06:20.000 Uh, and this is a case where the police commissioner immediately came out when they released the tape.

00:06:25.000 He said, this is really bad.

00:06:26.000 We're doing a full investigation.

00:06:27.000 The FBI is on it.

00:06:28.000 The DOJ is on it.

00:06:30.000 So normally in a situation like this, in a situation like this, good hearted people of all stripes look at this sort of situation and they say, that's a terrible shoot.

00:06:39.000 The full weight of the law should come down on the person.

00:06:42.000 Who killed somebody here, right?

00:06:43.000 The full weight of the law should be brought to bear.

00:06:45.000 That's true for black and white and green.

00:06:47.000 It's true for people on the right side of the aisle.

00:06:48.000 It's true for people on the left side of the aisle.

00:06:50.000 And I'm not seeing today a lot of people saying Terrence Crutcher deserved to get shot.

00:06:54.000 I really haven't seen it anywhere.

00:06:55.000 That doesn't stop the left.

00:06:57.000 That doesn't stop the left.

00:06:58.000 So Sean King of the New York Daily News, a white guy who thinks that he's black or pretends that he's black.

00:07:03.000 Sean King is a columnist there, and he did the usual routine, which is he says,

00:07:07.000 Look at that black guy he shot because his car is stopped in the middle of the road and he's signaling for help.

00:07:12.000 Well, that's not the whole story, obviously.

00:07:13.000 The story is that people called in and said that they thought he was on drugs, but it doesn't even matter.

00:07:17.000 The idea, what he says is the black guy was shot for being in the middle of the road as opposed to Ahmed Rahmani, Rahami, who is the New York City terrorist, and they captured him alive and then they took him away without killing him.

00:07:29.000 And this is a frequent complaint you hear.

00:07:31.000 Dylan Stormroof, the guy who shot up the Charleston church, they took him alive.

00:07:35.000 And they didn't end up killing him, whereas Eric Garner ends up dying.

00:07:39.000 Okay, first off, statistically speaking, there have been multiple studies now.

00:07:42.000 There's one from Harvard that came out last July, and it showed that black people are significantly less likely to be shot by the police than white people are likely to be shot by police in the same circumstances.

00:07:52.000 In fact, officers, police officers, are 18.5 times more likely to be shot by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be shot by a police officer.

00:08:00.000 Okay, all of that said,

00:08:02.000 Everyone agrees that a bad shoot is a bad shoot, but the left can't deal with that.

00:08:05.000 The left doesn't want to believe that we all agree a bad shoot is a bad shoot.

00:08:09.000 They actually want to believe that there are a bunch of people in the country who are fine with black people getting gunned down for no apparent reason.

00:08:15.000 Hillary Clinton is playing on this today, and it's really disgusting.

00:08:18.000 Hillary Clinton, here's what Hillary Clinton just tweeted.

00:08:22.000 She tweeted, quote, another unarmed black man was shot in a police incident.

00:08:26.000 This should be intolerable.

00:08:27.000 We have so much work to do.

00:08:28.000 Hashtag Terrence Crutcher.

00:08:29.000 Okay, so there are a bunch of issues with the police here.

00:08:32.000 Number one, this looks like police incompetence, not necessarily racism.

00:08:36.000 There is a difference.

00:08:37.000 It's not like they drove up on the guy.

00:08:38.000 He was black.

00:08:39.000 They immediately shot him because he was a black guy.

00:08:41.000 He wasn't paying attention to their commands.

00:08:43.000 It looks like one of the officers tased him and the other officer panicked and shot him.

00:08:46.000 So is that racism or is that just the police being bad at their jobs?

00:08:50.000 Once you get into the idea that the police all across the country are racist, I think that you run into a problem because it's very difficult to actually establish a history of racism

00:08:59.000 We'll see if this cop who shot him had a history of racism and went to work that day looking to shoot a black guy.

00:09:03.000 I tend to think not.

00:09:04.000 Every time the DOJ investigates this stuff, they tend to find the opposite.

00:09:08.000 They tend to find no evidence of racism at play, but there is tremendous evidence of incompetence.

00:09:12.000 And the same thing is true with regard to this guy bleeding out.

00:09:15.000 So apparently he was shot and then they stand there for one minute not really knowing what to do.

00:09:18.000 And the Tulsa Police Department says, we don't even really have a procedure for this sort of thing since we don't shoot people very often.

00:09:24.000 That's a failure of procedure.

00:09:25.000 But the left will attribute it to racism.

00:09:27.000 They'll say that black people get left to die on the streets.

00:09:29.000 Again, no evidence of that.

00:09:31.000 No statistical evidence of that happening at all.

00:09:34.000 There are police regulations, by the way, with regard to handcuffing people who are wounded.

00:09:38.000 And that's been a complaint of the left.

00:09:40.000 They've said every time a black person gets shot, then the police go and they handcuff them.

00:09:44.000 They're supposed to because a wounded person could still theoretically do damage to you.

00:09:48.000 But again, the left's drive here is to blame America for anything that goes wrong and blame American racism for anything that goes wrong.

00:09:55.000 And suggest that everybody doesn't care about this guy, Terrence Crutcher.

00:09:58.000 And that's nonsense.

00:09:59.000 There's no evidence.

00:10:00.000 There's no evidence that people in America don't care about this.

00:10:04.000 We want the officer prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

00:10:06.000 We all want that.

00:10:08.000 We all want justice done here.

00:10:09.000 We want a full investigation.

00:10:11.000 If this shoot appears to be as bad as it appears to be, this officer's going to go to jail for a very long time.

00:10:17.000 At the very least, this is manslaughter, clearly, right?

00:10:19.000 It might be second degree murder.

00:10:20.000 So the fact is,

00:10:22.000 That this is a case where the officer will likely end up in prison.

00:10:25.000 And there's a reason she crumbled to her knees after shooting the guy, realizing he was unarmed.

00:10:29.000 And all the officers are on tape comforting her because they realize a bad shoot just happened in all likelihood.

00:10:34.000 But again, the fact is that Hillary Clinton is always race baiting.

00:10:38.000 The left is always race baiting.

00:10:39.000 They put out all these tweets saying this is just more evidence that Colin Kaepernick was right.

00:10:43.000 Colin Kaepernick's argument is not that black people sometimes get shot by the cops wrongly.

00:10:47.000 That's not his argument.

00:10:48.000 We all agree that sometimes black people get shot by the cops wrongly, because sometimes white people get shot by the cops wrongly.

00:10:54.000 In my home city of Los Angeles, there was a case recently where a homeless man was basically beat to death by some cops, and he was a white guy, and it didn't receive anywhere near the sort of national attention that Michael Brown received, who's an actual criminal trying to attack a cop.

00:11:07.000 The fact is that police do things that are wrong, obviously.

00:11:09.000 You give people guns, and you put them in harm's way a lot.

00:11:12.000 And bad things are apt to happen, and people make mistakes, and people do stupid things.

00:11:16.000 And yes, people do racist things, and people do terrible things.

00:11:18.000 But Colin Kaepernick's argument is that America celebrates when this happens.

00:11:22.000 And nobody cares.

00:11:23.000 That's Hillary's argument, too.

00:11:24.000 That's Sean King's argument.

00:11:25.000 That people like me are sitting here saying, God, I'm glad that Terrence Crutcher got shot.

00:11:28.000 What absolute nonsense.

00:11:30.000 What absolute nonsense.

00:11:32.000 Leftists insist that every individual injustice is in fact a reflection of deep-seated, deep-rooted American racism and evil.

00:11:39.000 And that in and of itself is evil because there is no evidence that that is true whatsoever.

00:11:44.000 In fact, all the evidence is to the contrary.

00:11:45.000 Again, everybody who I see in my own timeline and a lot of the people in my timeline on Twitter are right wingers.

00:11:51.000 I would say 90% of the people who I follow are on the right side of the aisle.

00:11:54.000 I haven't seen one person, not one, say Terrence Crutcher deserved to be shot.

00:11:57.000 Glad it happened.

00:11:58.000 Haven't seen one of them.

00:11:59.000 But if you listen to Colin Kaepernick, the idea is that Americans across the country are rallying in the streets today in support of this cop celebrating the death of Terrence Crutcher.

00:12:07.000 And this is the problem.

00:12:08.000 If we can't agree,

00:12:10.000 If we can't agree that we all believe good things in terms of having good personal feelings for innocent people who are shot, then there's no country anymore.

00:12:20.000 There really is no country.

00:12:21.000 If you can't agree that I have good motivations when I mourn for somebody like Terrence Crutcher, when I say that's awful what just happened to Terrence Crutcher, full extent of the law should be brought.

00:12:29.000 If you suggest I'm a racist anyway, then it's obvious you don't want a country where we all get along and where we're all able to come together.

00:12:35.000 If we can't come together around cases like Terrence Crutcher, we can't come together around anything.

00:12:39.000 Now, what the left likes to do is pretend that cases like Michael Brown are exactly the same as cases like Terrence Crutcher.

00:12:45.000 What the left likes to do is take cases that are, at best, under investigation, things like Alton Sterling, and turn them into the Terrence Crutcher case.

00:12:54.000 They like to take all of these cases and lump them into one giant basket and then say that they're all the same, and if you disagree with the left on Michael Brown, that means that you don't care about Terrence Crutcher.

00:13:03.000 That's sheer nonsense, it's absolute horsepucky, and it's a problem.

00:13:06.000 It really is a problem.

00:13:08.000 So, okay.

00:13:09.000 Let's move on.

00:13:10.000 The next thing I want to talk about today is the continued fallout from the New York City bombing.

00:13:14.000 And there is continued fallout today from the New York City bombing.

00:13:18.000 So, we now know that the bombing suspect, we know more about the bombing suspect, Ahmed Rahami, who appears to be, they say, acting alone, but his wife and his mommy both left the country two days ago, three days ago, so they knew something was up.

00:13:32.000 And meanwhile, we have a report now from the New York Times that all the way back in 2014,

00:13:37.000 There was actually a report by Ahmed's daddy that he was a terrorist.

00:13:42.000 So apparently he tried to stab his brother, and that's when dad called the cops, and dad said he's a terrorist, and the FBI looked into it, and they said, oh, no big deal here.

00:13:51.000 Nothing to see here.

00:13:52.000 By the way, he traveled to Afghanistan.

00:13:53.000 Now, I don't want to put too fine a point on it.

00:13:56.000 When's the last time you traveled to Afghanistan?

00:13:59.000 When's the last time you were in Afghanistan?

00:14:00.000 Like, really?

00:14:00.000 You know how many people go to Afghanistan as tourists?

00:14:03.000 Like, not journalists, not aid workers, actual tourists.

00:14:07.000 Who picks up and decides, you know what, today, I need to go to the most romantic spot on earth, Kandahar.

00:14:12.000 I just need to be there.

00:14:13.000 I need to be there in the middle of Taliban-occupied territory in the northern part of Afghanistan, right on that Afghani-Pakistani border.

00:14:20.000 That's where I want to be.

00:14:21.000 This guy, Ahmad Rahami, he was making repeat trips over to Pakistan, into the most Taliban-infested area over there, and then he was traveling to Afghanistan.

00:14:30.000 If that's not the red flag of all red flags, I don't know what is.

00:14:33.000 And the idea that the law enforcement community

00:14:35.000 Can't keep their eye on just the number of people who travel to Afghanistan.

00:14:39.000 If you travel to Afghanistan and you're not going there as a journalist or an aid worker, we should be keeping an eye on you.

00:14:45.000 Nobody goes there just for fun.

00:14:47.000 Again, nobody's vacationing in the mountains of Afghanistan.

00:14:51.000 That's just not how it works.

00:14:53.000 So he goes to Afghanistan, he goes to Pakistan, he gets married, he brings back his wife.

00:14:56.000 I mean, this sounds very much like Syed Farouk, the guy who, in San Bernardino, shot up that civic center.

00:15:03.000 He went to Saudi Arabia, brought back a wife.

00:15:05.000 They were both radicalized.

00:15:06.000 They shut up the civic center.

00:15:07.000 In this case, he goes to Afghanistan and Pakistan.

00:15:09.000 He's radicalized.

00:15:10.000 He brings back a wife.

00:15:11.000 He actually went to a New Jersey congressperson to help import his wife.

00:15:16.000 And that New Jersey congressman, a Democrat, of course, said that he helped the guy get the woman in.

00:15:24.000 Rahami contacted my office in the year 2014 because he wanted his wife to come from Pakistan.

00:15:31.000 He wanted his wife to come from Pakistan, and he contacted your office.

00:15:35.000 Did his wife ever get to the United States?

00:15:36.000 I assume she did.

00:15:37.000 At the time, she was pregnant, and in Pakistan, they told her that she could not come over until she had the baby, because she had to get a visa for the baby.

00:15:46.000 Another piece of information we're learning right here.

00:15:48.000 Again, just to finish that thought, those five individuals... And he was kind of nasty, too.

00:15:51.000 That's as we learn more about it.

00:15:53.000 Obviously, based on what he's accused of doing, he clearly was kind of nasty.

00:15:56.000 Those five individuals, family members, to be clear, they have all been released.

00:15:59.000 None of them was charged.

00:16:02.000 Oh, he's kind of nasty, too.

00:16:03.000 Well, I'm glad that you really sounded off on that at the time.

00:16:06.000 Better to import his wife and his babies so that later he could commit a terrorist attack.

00:16:10.000 Great.

00:16:10.000 Glad that happened.

00:16:11.000 You know, Donald Trump is on a rampage about all this, and he should be.

00:16:14.000 He should be.

00:16:15.000 So, you know, let's play a little bit of Good Trump, Bad Trump, because the fact is that there was some good Trump yesterday.

00:16:21.000 All righty.

00:16:29.000 Time for some good Trump.

00:16:30.000 I don't have my magical faces with me, unfortunately, because the fact is that I'm not back in L.A.

00:16:35.000 I'm stuck in this hotel in Michigan.

00:16:36.000 But in any case, Donald Trump says that it's ridiculous how well this terrorist is being treated.

00:16:42.000 Here's what he had to say.

00:16:44.000 We have caught this evil thug who planted the bombs.

00:16:48.000 Thank you, law enforcement.

00:16:50.000 Thank you, police.

00:16:52.000 Right.

00:16:59.000 But the bad part, now we will give him amazing hospitalization.

00:17:07.000 He will be taken care of by some of the best doctors in the world.

00:17:14.000 He will be given a fully modern and updated hospital room.

00:17:21.000 And he'll probably even have room service, knowing the way our country is.

00:17:26.000 And on top of all of that,

00:17:29.000 He will be represented by an outstanding lawyer.

00:17:34.000 OK, so, you know, this is sort of an unfair hit.

00:17:36.000 This guy's actually an American citizen.

00:17:38.000 He's a naturalized American citizen, which means that you have to give him all the things an American citizen would get.

00:17:43.000 But the underlying message of what Trump is saying is that we treat terrorist suspects too lightly.

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00:18:51.000 Okay, so Donald Trump, that wasn't the only thing that Donald Trump said or did.

00:18:55.000 Donald Trump's son has gotten himself in significantly hot water for tweeting this.

00:18:59.000 We have a picture of this tweet, the Skittles tweet.

00:19:02.000 Let's see, here it is.

00:19:03.000 So it says, if I had a bowl of Skittles and I told you just three would kill you, would you take a handful?

00:19:08.000 That's our Syrian refugee problem.

00:19:09.000 That's a picture of a bowl of Skittles.

00:19:11.000 And everybody on the left loses their mind over this graphic.

00:19:14.000 They all go absolutely nuts over this graphic.

00:19:17.000 How could he compare Syrian refugees to Skittles?

00:19:20.000 I agree.

00:19:20.000 Skittles are delicious and sugary treats.

00:19:23.000 Syrian refugees, I assume, are not delicious.

00:19:26.000 I don't eat them.

00:19:26.000 But in any case, everybody goes nuts over this.

00:19:28.000 How could he possibly make the Skittles analogy?

00:19:31.000 I have to say, I don't really understand what's so horrible about the Skittles analogy.

00:19:35.000 If the idea is that it's possible to determine which Skittles are poisoned, then we don't have a problem, do we?

00:19:40.000 But if we can't determine which Skittles are poisoned, then perhaps we ought to think about how our immigration system works, especially given the fact that, again, the Rahami family, his father was an immigrant.

00:19:49.000 The Farouk family, I believe the father was an immigrant.

00:19:52.000 The Tsarnaev brothers immigrated as children and teenagers, and the mom was radicalized.

00:19:58.000 So the fact is that everybody's going nuts over the Skittles analogy.

00:20:01.000 I just don't, I really don't see why particularly.

00:20:04.000 I mean, there's some holes in the analogy, but if you actually take it for what it is, which is a very simplistic analogy, I don't see the big problem, except that the media are out to get Trump.

00:20:13.000 It's not gonna work.

00:20:13.000 Most people actually agree with the analogy.

00:20:16.000 Most people look at that and they say, well, yeah, that's right.

00:20:17.000 If there are gonna be a couple of people

00:20:19.000 Who come across from overseas to murder Americans, let's just shut that whole thing down.

00:20:23.000 This is why Trump has an advantage on the terror issue.

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00:21:17.000 So the entire left has gone nuts over this Skittles analogy.

00:21:20.000 And what they've said is, if you have a bowl of Skittles and three of them are poisoned, why not just shut down the Skittles factory?

00:21:25.000 Meaning that the analogy can be carried too far.

00:21:28.000 Every Muslim all over the world, let's just prevent everybody everywhere from immigrating.

00:21:33.000 That's a stupid point.

00:21:34.000 The reason that's a stupid point is we know that the poisoned Skittles are in this one bowl of Skittles.

00:21:41.000 Not every Skittle in the world, this one bowl.

00:21:43.000 And this one bowl includes people

00:21:45.000 Who are immigrating from countries we can't vet.

00:21:47.000 It's that simple.

00:21:47.000 So I don't see, everybody's going nuts over the Skittles analogy.

00:21:50.000 I don't see why it doesn't seem all that controversial to me.

00:21:54.000 If you find it implausible, if you find it unconvincing, all right, but I don't know what's so offensive about the idea that you're making basically, I mean, if you had said a bag of marbles and three of them are dangerous, do you take the whole bag?

00:22:06.000 This seems uncontroversial.

00:22:09.000 Trump basically said the same thing.

00:22:10.000 He was asked about profiling, and here's what Donald Trump had to say, and this is more good Trump.

00:22:14.000 You want to profile.

00:22:16.000 You want to profile Arab or Muslim men.

00:22:18.000 How would that work?

00:22:20.000 Well, then we have no choice.

00:22:22.000 Look, Israel does it, and Israel does it very successfully.

00:22:25.000 They do it at the airport.

00:22:25.000 It's not that you want to do it.

00:22:26.000 They do it at the airport.

00:22:27.000 Well, they do it.

00:22:28.000 They do it.

00:22:29.000 And when they see somebody that they'd like to talk to, that they'd like to look at, that they'd like to maybe open up their satchel and take a look what's inside, they do it.

00:22:38.000 And they don't like to do it.

00:22:39.000 I don't like to do it, but we have to be, you know, you have a woman who's 87 years old in a wheelchair from Sweden, and we have to look at her if we're going to look at somebody else.

00:22:49.000 If we see somebody that we think there could be a problem at airports and other places, you talk to them and you see what's going on.

00:22:57.000 Okay, so again, there's nothing really wrong here.

00:23:00.000 He's talking about behavioral profiling.

00:23:01.000 Now what's amazing is the media are so out to get Trump that they deceptively edit this one.

00:23:06.000 They actually edit Trump's comments to lie that he suggested racial profiling.

00:23:09.000 Check out this clip 17.

00:23:11.000 Here's what CNN edited those same Trump comments to say.

00:23:17.000 He said, but Israel has done an unbelievable job and they'll profile.

00:23:20.000 They profile, they see somebody that's suspicious, they will profile, they will take that person in, they'll check.

00:23:25.000 And then underneath, it says, Trump says, quote, racial profiling will stop terrorism.

00:23:31.000 Right, that's what it says.

00:23:32.000 Quote, racial profiling, did he say racial profiling?

00:23:34.000 Nowhere in there does he say racial profiling.

00:23:36.000 By the way, religious profiling is not racial.

00:23:38.000 There are lots of different kinds of Muslims.

00:23:40.000 The most populous Muslim country on earth is an Asian country, Indonesia.

00:23:43.000 This idea that Trump is talking about racial profiling is not true.

00:23:47.000 He's talking about behavioral profiling.

00:23:49.000 The more the left goes out on the limb here, the worse they look.

00:23:52.000 The worse they look.

00:23:53.000 And you can see how bad they look.

00:23:55.000 Josh Earnest at the White House looking really bad here.

00:23:58.000 He says, we're not going to link this bomber to ISIS.

00:24:01.000 I'm not prepared to draw the same kind of links to ISIL.

00:24:04.000 This is something that FBI officials are still investigating in Minnesota.

00:24:06.000 I recognize what ISIL has put out in terms of their propaganda, but we're going to let the facts guide this investigation.

00:24:12.000 The president's been getting regular updates from his national security team starting Saturday night shortly after the detonation that took place here in New York.

00:24:21.000 Okay, so he's saying that there's no connection to ISIS.

00:24:24.000 They keep saying this sort of stuff, and then later we always find out there's some sort of connection.

00:24:28.000 But at the very least, this is somebody who's radicalized.

00:24:30.000 Does any of this make you feel more secure?

00:24:32.000 Andrew Cuomo, he says what makes us great, he's arguing with Trump on the whole giving rights to terror suspects routine.

00:24:38.000 Here's Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, talking about how it's great that we give rights to terror suspects.

00:24:44.000 We have a system of jurisprudence.

00:24:46.000 You're innocent until proven guilty.

00:24:48.000 You have a right to counsel.

00:24:51.000 And you have a right to hospitalization if you're ill.

00:24:56.000 That is our system.

00:24:58.000 And it's what makes this country special and what makes this country great.

00:25:03.000 We believe we have the right man.

00:25:05.000 We believe that's who was on the video.

00:25:08.000 We believe that was his fingerprint.

00:25:12.000 But I was a prosecutor.

00:25:13.000 I was the Attorney General in this state, as you know.

00:25:16.000 Sometimes the government is wrong.

00:25:18.000 And that's why we have a judicial process and we have trials and hearings, etc.

00:25:23.000 So, I don't know what the alternative would be.

00:25:28.000 Unless you said we should have a government that, on their own belief, is judge and jury and execution are all in one.

00:25:38.000 So I fully, I actually agree with what Andrew Cuomo is saying.

00:25:41.000 The problem is that he actually wants to extend that outward.

00:25:44.000 He actually wants to extend that, I would assume, to foreign terror suspects, which is what the Obama administration has done.

00:25:50.000 If he's talking about American citizens, obviously I agree.

00:25:53.000 American citizens have rights.

00:25:55.000 Of course, his president is busy droning American citizens if they're overseas, right?

00:25:59.000 I mean, he droned Anwar al-Awlaki, who may have deserved to be droned, but was an American citizen, so he's willing to deprive him of his American rights.

00:26:09.000 You get in real dicey territory when you're talking about people who commit terrorist acts, legally speaking.

00:26:14.000 John Yoo has a lot to write about this and a lot to say about this, how you treat people who are American citizens but actively work as enemy combatants and all this.

00:26:21.000 You know, when they're on American soil, for sure they are treated

00:26:24.000 Just the same way they would be as any other American citizen.

00:26:26.000 If they're overseas, like Anwar al-Awlaki, maybe the calculus changes.

00:26:30.000 But the problem for the Obama administration is they want to extend this to terrorists everywhere.

00:26:34.000 Okay, so put that to the side for a second.

00:26:37.000 Let's talk a little bit about the Democrats' new hysteria to attack Trump.

00:26:41.000 And it's on everything.

00:26:42.000 I mean, it really is on everything.

00:26:44.000 So Harry Reid today, the exquirable Harry Reid.

00:26:48.000 I mean, an exquirable, for those who don't know, exquirable is a word deriving from excrement.

00:26:52.000 The exquirable Harry Reid.

00:26:53.000 Was attacking Donald Trump over his tax returns today.

00:26:56.000 Here's what he had to say on the Senate floor.

00:26:58.000 Elected Donald Trump would be the scammer in chief.

00:27:02.000 Trump is a fraud.

00:27:05.000 That's a word that I chose.

00:27:08.000 He was born with an inheritance but lost his daddy's wealth.

00:27:14.000 Mr. President, that is why Donald Trump won't release his tax returns.

00:27:18.000 That's certainly one of the reasons, of course.

00:27:20.000 So he continues along these lines.

00:27:22.000 He says, here are all my theories as to why Donald Trump won't release his tax returns.

00:27:26.000 One of the problems that the left has with Trump is that they've cried wolf so many times.

00:27:29.000 I've said this before.

00:27:31.000 They've cried wolf so many times about other Republican candidates that this stuff no longer applies.

00:27:35.000 Harry Reid made the exact same argument about Mitt Romney.

00:27:38.000 He lied.

00:27:39.000 He said Romney paid no effective income tax.

00:27:41.000 Romney did pay an income tax, paid about 15% effective income tax, right?

00:27:46.000 Harry Reid is lying here, too.

00:27:47.000 He doesn't know anything about what's in Trump's tax returns, and it's absurd for him to suggest he does.

00:27:51.000 It doesn't matter.

00:27:51.000 The media are covering it straight, pretending that Harry Reid is saying something worthwhile when Harry Reid is just a corrupt tool bag.

00:27:58.000 He's not the only one.

00:28:00.000 Elizabeth Warren making similarly extreme arguments, suggesting that Donald Trump wants his supporters to shoot Hillary Clinton.

00:28:07.000 Do you think he's actually intimating, suggesting, hinting, or urging violence?

00:28:12.000 What else do you think he means when he says, let the Secret Service lay down their arms and then let's see what happens?

00:28:19.000 Of course he is.

00:28:20.000 And I'm sorry, for me, that's not even wink-wink, nod-nod.

00:28:25.000 This is Donald Trump saying, hey, there's another way to deal here.

00:28:32.000 You know, again, this kind of goes back to this question about what kind of a human being are we talking about?

00:28:39.000 So, he's losing to Hillary Clinton, and his answer is to say somebody should get out there and do violence.

00:28:48.000 You know, and look, I get it.

00:28:50.000 Okay.

00:28:51.000 Campaigns are— What she's saying is absurd.

00:28:53.000 Okay.

00:28:54.000 There was a comment earlier in Trump's campaign where it seemed like he made a joke about somebody taking a shot at Hillary Clinton.

00:29:00.000 The comment she's talking about is not that comment.

00:29:01.000 The comment she's talking about is the one where Trump was saying, Hillary Clinton is so all fired, interested in disarming everybody, you know what would happen if we disarmed her Secret Service.

00:29:10.000 Okay, that's an anti-gun control argument, not an anti-Hillary-let's-watch-Hillary-get-killed argument.

00:29:14.000 He's saying, Hillary ought to have protection, and so should you.

00:29:18.000 That's his argument.

00:29:19.000 But the left is so eager to paint Donald Trump as a nutcase, they're now trying to imply that he wants Hillary Clinton

00:29:24.000 To be murdered.

00:29:25.000 And the media are just going to go along with this whole thing.

00:29:27.000 So Trump says that the debates are going to be rigged against him.

00:29:29.000 And he's correct.

00:29:30.000 He is correct.

00:29:31.000 Here is Donald Trump talking about the debates that are starting.

00:29:33.000 First debate is next Monday.

00:29:35.000 You have two kind of partisan people, though.

00:29:38.000 The next to me, you have Martha Raddatz at ABC, who I work with in Boston.

00:29:41.000 A brilliant journalist.

00:29:43.000 But she's a Democrat.

00:29:45.000 And then Anderson Cooper, I think he does a decent job over there, but he's a Democrat.

00:29:50.000 Okay?

00:29:50.000 So you have two Democrats.

00:29:51.000 And are you showing up for that, or what are you going to do?

00:29:56.000 And by the way, Lester's a Democrat.

00:29:58.000 I didn't know that.

00:29:59.000 Look, it's a phony system.

00:30:01.000 Lester's a Democrat.

00:30:02.000 I mean, they're all Democrats, okay?

00:30:05.000 It's a very unfair system.

00:30:07.000 Look, I've worked pretty well within the system.

00:30:10.000 I guess by a lot of polls, I'm leading many of the polls, and most of the polls, I just... That'll change, and then you'll see.

00:30:17.000 But Raddatz and Cooper, you okay with them or no?

00:30:22.000 No, not really.

00:30:23.000 I'm not okay with Anderson Cooper because I think he treats me very unfairly at CNN.

00:30:27.000 I think he's very unfair on CNN.

00:30:29.000 I think CNN, they call it the Clinton News Network.

00:30:32.000 That's why the ratings aren't doing very well.

00:30:33.000 Well, they have to compete with MSNBC.

00:30:35.000 That's why they may be doing that.

00:30:38.000 But you say you're not happy with it, but you'll show up.

00:30:40.000 You're not going to boycott it like you did the Fox thing.

00:30:42.000 No, I'll show up.

00:30:43.000 I'll show up.

00:30:44.000 Look, they're gaming the rest.

00:30:46.000 That's what they're doing.

00:30:47.000 Right.

00:30:47.000 The last one is Chris Wallace.

00:30:48.000 He's fair, right?

00:30:50.000 He's fair, he's tough, he's fair, and I don't mind as long as he's fair, and I've done a lot of work with Chris, and I've never had a problem with him.

00:30:58.000 All right, good.

00:30:59.000 Okay, so Trump is actually right about all of this, and he's right that the media are out to get him.

00:31:04.000 And we'll show you some evidence.

00:31:05.000 So Don Lemon on CNN.

00:31:08.000 Watch what Don Lemon has to say.

00:31:09.000 There's a Trump supporter who comes on, they're talking about birtherism.

00:31:11.000 Again, Trump said last week,

00:31:13.000 Obama was born in America that should put this stupid thing to bed.

00:31:16.000 Yes, he shouldn't have dragged it on for years and years, stupid implications that Obama put out a fake birth certificate.

00:31:22.000 Yes, that was ridiculous.

00:31:23.000 Yes, it's typical of Trump and his conspiracy theory nonsense, but this issue is dead.

00:31:27.000 So why are we still talking about it?

00:31:29.000 Because the media want to talk about it.

00:31:30.000 So here is Don Lemon talking about it.

00:31:34.000 I know that there were comments in the 2008 campaign where that was raised.

00:31:39.000 Not by Hillary Clinton.

00:31:40.000 There were no comments.

00:31:40.000 I think it was by her campaign.

00:31:41.000 Name one comment by Hillary Clinton.

00:31:43.000 No, no.

00:31:43.000 It was by her campaign.

00:31:44.000 Name one public comment by her campaign.

00:31:45.000 It was by her campaign.

00:31:46.000 There was no public comment by her campaign.

00:31:49.000 This, again, is another lie.

00:31:51.000 Jennifer, this is something you all think you can push on because you're in the tank.

00:31:55.000 Listen, I'm telling the truth because I'm following

00:32:00.000 One at a time, she's actually stating a fact, Congresswoman Blackburn, and that's the point.

00:32:06.000 Facts do matter.

00:32:07.000 Is there one instance that you can espouse or show of Hillary Clinton publicly pushing the birther issue?

00:32:16.000 Okay, so notice how they've limited this now.

00:32:18.000 Now it used to be Hillary had nothing to do with the birther issue, and now they've actually consolidated their position.

00:32:24.000 Hillary never said anything about the birther issue.

00:32:26.000 The reason they're now recasting this is because it turns out that Sidney Blumenthal, who is Hillary's personal hatchet man, was going around to members of the media pitching the idea that they ought to investigate Obama's Kenyan connection, his connections in Kenya, the possibility that he was born there.

00:32:39.000 There was also a memo put out in 2007, as part of the Clinton campaign, trying to cast Obama as a sort of foreign personality in the election and asking questions about his past in Indonesia and all the rest of this.

00:32:51.000 So, yes, the Clinton campaign pushed out the idea that Trump was kind of a foreigner,

00:32:56.000 If you recall, she was asked specifically about whether Trump was a Muslim.

00:32:59.000 She said, no, I don't think so.

00:33:01.000 I don't really have any evidence of that.

00:33:02.000 Wink, wink, nod, nod.

00:33:03.000 So this idea that Hillary Clinton never pushed any of this, that the media are now trying to put it all on Trump.

00:33:09.000 Look, Trump deserves what he gets on this issue.

00:33:11.000 He is the one who pushed it the hardest.

00:33:12.000 But the idea that Hillary had nothing to do with it is also a lie.

00:33:16.000 And these sort of lies just continue.

00:33:18.000 I mean, we showed you earlier the CNN stealth edit that suggested that he was in favor of racial profiling.

00:33:23.000 Watch CNN deceptively edit Hillary Clinton's comments about the bombing, see if you can spot what's missing here, and then I'll explain what they did.

00:33:31.000 Well, I think it's important to know the facts about any incident like this.

00:33:47.000 That's why it's critical to support the first responders, the investigators, who are looking into it, trying to determine what did happen.

00:33:56.000 I've been briefed about the bombings in New York and New Jersey and the attack in Minnesota.

00:34:04.000 Obviously, we need to do everything we can to support our first responders.

00:34:09.000 Also, to pray for the victims.

00:34:15.000 We have to let this... Okay, we need to stop it there.

00:34:16.000 That's the edit, right?

00:34:17.000 I mean, she called it a bombing and MSNBC and CNN both edited that part out.

00:34:21.000 They just had her condemning Trump.

00:34:24.000 For preemptively saying bombing.

00:34:27.000 Okay, now she's still right.

00:34:28.000 Trump preemptively said it, but they edited out the part where she also called it a bombing, which of course undermines her own case.

00:34:34.000 I thought that Jimmy Fallon, who's actually become, I used to really despise Jimmy Fallon.

00:34:39.000 Now, by process of elimination, I'm getting to like Jimmy Fallon more than his other, his compatriots in the late night comedy club.

00:34:48.000 Jimmy Fallon had Hillary on the other night, and I thought actually this was funny because it was symbolic and true.

00:34:52.000 Here's what Jimmy Fallon did with Hillary the other night.

00:34:55.000 We just had Donald Trump on the show a few days ago.

00:34:56.000 Oh, I heard that.

00:34:57.000 Yeah.

00:34:59.000 But I heard that he left something in your dressing room, and I apologize because I didn't know that he left something behind.

00:35:05.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:35:06.000 We usually don't.

00:35:07.000 He left that here, and this is just... Are you sure?

00:35:09.000 Let's look.

00:35:10.000 I mean... Let's see what's in there.

00:35:12.000 Well, this is a framed photo.

00:35:14.000 It must be of his wife or something.

00:35:16.000 Is that... No, that's not Melania, is it?

00:35:18.000 No, that's... No, that's not... Are you sure?

00:35:21.000 That shouldn't... I don't know if this is... Yeah, the most famous romance going, right?

00:35:26.000 Besides me and Timberlake.

00:35:27.000 But, Justin's worthy of your... I appreciate that.

00:35:39.000 Last I checked, he hadn't, you know, killed off his adversaries.

00:35:43.000 No, I don't think he has either.

00:35:47.000 A CD?

00:35:48.000 Why would he have a CD in there?

00:35:49.000 We don't even have a CD player in the back there.

00:35:51.000 Oh, I see.

00:35:51.000 This is Pink Floyd, The Wall.

00:35:53.000 So I understand what he's talking about.

00:35:56.000 That's as close as he's gonna get to The Wall.

00:36:01.000 We've got to make a return.

00:36:02.000 I don't know.

00:36:03.000 Is there anything else?

00:36:04.000 Is there anything?

00:36:05.000 Do you want to see what's in here?

00:36:06.000 Well, let me see what else you've got in here.

00:36:07.000 Oh, I don't know.

00:36:08.000 This is just... It's a pretty beat-up bag.

00:36:09.000 Because he carries that around with him?

00:36:11.000 It's like a homeless person's bag, you know?

00:36:13.000 Oh, look, you know what?

00:36:15.000 What?

00:36:15.000 He left these for you.

00:36:16.000 Softballs.

00:36:18.000 Oh, is that?

00:36:18.000 No, I didn't... No, that was my gift to him.

00:36:20.000 No.

00:36:21.000 Yeah, that's what I gave him.

00:36:22.000 Yeah, you gave him.

00:36:23.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:36:24.000 Well, I'll give them to you later in the interview.

00:36:26.000 Yeah.

00:36:28.000 Okay, so at the very end, at least he makes the right joke, which is that he's offering softballs to both of them.

00:36:33.000 Obviously, having on Hillary so that he can bash Trump.

00:36:36.000 I don't remember him having on Trump so they could bash Hillary.

00:36:39.000 I just remember him sort of asking softball questions.

00:36:41.000 But at least he acknowledges that that's his job.

00:36:43.000 That's what Fallon does.

00:36:44.000 He just asks softball to everybody.

00:36:46.000 Okay, meanwhile, Hillary just can't get out of her own way.

00:36:49.000 The polling data is better for Hillary.

00:36:51.000 I asked late last week whether Trump's surge in the polls, and he didn't really surge.

00:36:56.000 Again, Hillary sort of fell.

00:36:58.000 Whether that was the new normal or whether that was going to be sort of a spike in the polls and then you would see a reversion back to normal.

00:37:05.000 I think that you're starting to see a reversion back to normal.

00:37:07.000 There's a new NBC poll out today that shows Hillary up five among registered voters and five among likely voters as well.

00:37:14.000 That, of course, is not good news for Donald Trump.

00:37:16.000 But Hillary still can't get out of her own way, which is the only reason this is a close race.

00:37:19.000 And Bill can't either.

00:37:20.000 Here's Bill Clinton trying to explain.

00:37:22.000 Well, since we had more than 300,000 donors, it would be unusual if nobody did, but I don't

00:37:48.000 The names I saw in the paper, none of them surprised me, and all of them could have gotten their own meeting with Hillary.

00:37:54.000 And, you know, when you've been doing this kind of work for as long as we have, you know the people who are the major players.

00:38:01.000 And also, some of them who call my staff, people were doing double duty back then, and I had an office with the former president when it was natural for people who had been our political allies and personal friends to call and ask for things.

00:38:16.000 I trusted the State Department wouldn't do anything they shouldn't do, from a meeting to a favor.

00:38:22.000 Ah, he trusted the State Department not to do anything they wouldn't do.

00:38:26.000 If anybody believes that Bill Clinton trusted the State Department not to do things that were illegal, I recommend highly that you have your head checked.

00:38:34.000 Obviously, he trusted that the State Department would do exactly what the State Department did, which was act as a corrupt tool for Hillary Clinton, which is why, of course, Charlie Crist

00:38:42.000 Who is now running again for office in Florida, I think?

00:38:45.000 I mean, the guy's run for office as a member of every political party.

00:38:48.000 He's now down to, like, the UK Independent Party running in Florida, which doesn't even make any sense.

00:38:52.000 He apparently, he was talking about Hillary Clinton.

00:38:54.000 He said that she was honest, and listen to the crowd reaction.

00:38:58.000 I am proud of Hillary Clinton.

00:38:59.000 I think she's been a very good secretary of state, a very good senator from the state of New York.

00:39:04.000 The thing I like most about her is I believe that she is steady.

00:39:08.000 I believe that she is strong.

00:39:10.000 I believe that she is honest.

00:39:11.000 And I look forward to voting for her.

00:39:16.000 And the entire crowd loses it because, of course, she's not honest.

00:39:19.000 So this election will continue to be close despite the media's attempts to tear Trump down.

00:39:24.000 And that's because the Democrats are so terrible at this, and because they also blow up every attack on Trump into a level 11 attack, and that sort of deafens you.

00:39:33.000 If the volume's constantly at full blast, then there's no nuance, there's no dynamic.

00:39:37.000 We can never tell whether something's really important or whether they're just saying it's important.

00:39:41.000 Okay, time for some stuff I like, and then some stuff I hate.

00:39:44.000 So we're doing classic comedies today.

00:39:45.000 I don't think we've done this one before.

00:39:47.000 Great old comedy.

00:39:48.000 This one's called The Awful Truth.

00:39:49.000 It's Cary Grant and Irene Dunn.

00:39:51.000 Irene Dunn, one of the great unsung talents in Hollywood history.

00:39:55.000 She could sing.

00:39:56.000 She could act.

00:39:57.000 I mean, she could do comedy.

00:39:59.000 She could do drama.

00:40:00.000 Really a tremendous, tremendous actress.

00:40:02.000 This is a great comedy.

00:40:03.000 It really does hold up well today.

00:40:05.000 Cary Grant and Irene Dunn play this couple that's divorced, and she has a new suitor, and he's trying to win her back.

00:40:12.000 And it's a great movie.

00:40:15.000 There can't be any doubt in marriage.

00:40:17.000 The whole thing's built on faith.

00:40:19.000 If you've lost Apple, you've lost everything.

00:40:21.000 Yes, I suppose when that's gone, the marriage is washed up, isn't it?

00:40:24.000 Do you mean that?

00:40:26.000 All right, then, that settles it.

00:40:27.000 I guess it does.

00:40:28.000 I wouldn't go on living with you if you were dipped in platinum.

00:40:31.000 So go on, divorce me.

00:40:32.000 Go on, divorce me.

00:40:32.000 It'll be a pleasure.

00:40:33.000 Divorce you?

00:40:34.000 Are you crazy?

00:40:35.000 Do you think I dragged that music lover into court to show people the man you preferred to me?

00:40:38.000 All right, then I'll divorce you.

00:40:40.000 I believe it's customary, anyhow, for the wife to bring suit.

00:40:42.000 It has something to do with the husband being a gentleman, if you know what I mean.

00:40:45.000 Oh, never mind that stuff.

00:40:46.000 Just get on with the divorce proceedings.

00:40:47.000 I can hardly wait.

00:40:48.000 I'll call up our lawyer right now.

00:40:50.000 All right, here.

00:40:52.000 You don't mind my using him.

00:40:53.000 I don't know anyone else.

00:40:54.000 You get around so much more than I do.

00:40:56.000 Is that so?

00:41:05.000 Hello?

00:41:07.000 Hello, Lucy.

00:41:09.000 What's that?

00:41:10.000 Divorce?

00:41:12.000 You and Jerry?

00:41:13.000 Now, now, Lucy.

00:41:15.000 Don't do anything in haste that you might regret later.

00:41:18.000 Marriage is a beautiful thing and... Why can't they call you back after we've finished eating?

00:41:22.000 Please be quiet, will you?

00:41:23.000 Just imagine, dear Lucy.

00:41:27.000 Try and calm yourself.

00:41:29.000 I hate to see you take any hasty action in a matter like this.

00:41:32.000 Marriage is a beautiful thing and... Why don't you finish your meal?

00:41:35.000 Why can't they call you back later?

00:41:36.000 Will you shut your mouth?

00:41:39.000 As I was saying, Lucy.

00:41:41.000 Marriage is a beautiful thing.

00:41:43.000 And when you've been married as long as I have, you'll appreciate it, too.

00:41:46.000 Your food is getting ice cold.

00:41:47.000 You're always complaining about your food.

00:41:49.000 Will you shut your big mouth?

00:41:51.000 I'll eat when I get good and ready, and if you don't like it, you know what you can do.

00:41:55.000 So shut up!

00:41:58.000 And the whole movie is very caustic that way.

00:42:01.000 And it is great.

00:42:02.000 Two terrific performances and some great supporting acting work.

00:42:07.000 The Awful Truth, this is, I think, 1937, so very early film.

00:42:11.000 Okay, other things that I like.

00:42:13.000 The Princeton professor, this black Princeton professor, is very angry at President Obama because Obama went to the Congressional Black Caucus and lectured black people.

00:42:20.000 You must vote for Hillary or you're ruining my legacy, which is just absurd.

00:42:24.000 I mean, the idea that you're going to lecture an entire racial group on how they ought to vote just because you share a race with them is really disgusting.

00:42:30.000 This Princeton professor basically says the same thing.

00:42:33.000 I was really annoyed, actually, by the president's speech.

00:42:36.000 Were you really?

00:42:37.000 I thought that was inspiring.

00:42:38.000 Well, you know, I think part of what we see is that the Clinton campaign made a bad decision.

00:42:44.000 They spent most of the summer

00:42:46.000 Yeah.

00:43:04.000 Latino voters, how would it excite African-American voters?

00:43:07.000 And so now what do we get?

00:43:08.000 Instead of a series of rational arguments from the president to black political, to black voters, we get, you know, don't insult me.

00:43:15.000 Wow.

00:43:16.000 And I just, I just find that condescending.

00:43:20.000 Okay, so that's exactly right.

00:43:22.000 It is condescending.

00:43:23.000 It is ridiculous.

00:43:24.000 Okay, time for some stuff that I hate.

00:43:29.000 A couple of things.

00:43:30.000 One thing that I hate, and then we will do some deconstructing the culture.

00:43:33.000 So, the thing that I hate.

00:43:35.000 Rick Perry was on Dancing with the Stars again.

00:43:36.000 I understand that Donald Trump has turned all of politics into a reality show, and it really wasn't Trump.

00:43:42.000 It was Obama who turned it into a reality show with his interviews with GloZell and his appearances on the Emmys and the Grammys and the Native American Fiddle Awards and any TV show he could get his face on.

00:43:55.000 But now, Rick Perry, who's obviously seen the end of his political career,

00:43:59.000 He decides it's very important for him to go on Dancing with the Stars.

00:44:02.000 He's raising money for the Vets, which is always sort of the go-to when you're doing something a little bit ridiculous.

00:44:09.000 And that doesn't mean that he's not raising money for the Vets.

00:44:11.000 He is.

00:44:11.000 That's great.

00:44:12.000 That's wonderful.

00:44:12.000 But you don't have to go on Dancing with the Stars to do it.

00:44:14.000 Here's Rick Perry on Dancing with the Stars.

00:44:27.000 Greenacres is the place to be.

00:44:31.000 Far living is the life for me.

00:44:36.000 Lands spread out so far and wide.

00:44:39.000 Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside.

00:44:43.000 New York is where I'd rather stay.

00:44:46.000 I get allergic smelling hay.

00:44:54.000 That's the fourth term governor of the state of Texas.

00:44:58.000 What are those?

00:44:58.000 Oh, man.

00:44:59.000 What?

00:44:59.000 The chores!

00:44:59.000 The stores!

00:45:01.000 Fresh air!

00:45:01.000 Time to play!

00:45:03.000 You are my wife!

00:45:04.000 Goodbye, city life!

00:45:05.000 Green Acres, we are there!

00:45:08.000 Yeah!

00:45:09.000 Greg and Emma at the Hooderville Hotel!

00:45:24.000 That was horrifying.

00:45:27.000 There's no other word for it.

00:45:29.000 This is what our politics is now.

00:45:31.000 Oh God.

00:45:32.000 The founding fathers are certainly happy that a presidential candidate and a four-term Republican governor of the state of Texas is dancing to Green Acres on Dancing with the Stars.

00:45:43.000 And my favorite part of the part was...

00:45:48.000 What have we come to, gang?

00:45:49.000 Yeah, we're screwed.

00:45:51.000 I can't imagine how it came down to the two worst people in America.

00:45:53.000 I just can't freaking imagine how it came down to these two.

00:45:56.000 Okay, fine.

00:45:57.000 It's time for some deconstructing of the culture.

00:45:59.000 So you thought I couldn't get any more grumpy?

00:46:00.000 It's time to get even more grumpy.

00:46:01.000 This is the number one, believe it or not, this right here we're about to play is the number one chart-topping rap song in America from the Rap Top 40.

00:46:10.000 I've done kind of the normal pop Top 40.

00:46:13.000 I haven't done Rap Top 40 because you get into some real dicey territory and our editors have to spend a lot of time bleeping things if we do the Rap Top 40.

00:46:21.000 But for those who say that rap culture isn't dangerous, isn't a problem for people who take it seriously, doesn't promote terrible values, doesn't harm anybody, I present to you Exhibit 1, Broccoli by D.R.A.M.

00:46:34.000 I assume that's Dram.

00:46:36.000 I don't know if that was the kid's given name.

00:46:38.000 It came out of his mom.

00:46:39.000 We'll call you Dram.

00:46:40.000 It also features Lil Yachty.

00:46:42.000 I don't know who Lil Yachty is, or Lil Yachty, the t's are silent.

00:46:47.000 Lil Yachty.

00:46:48.000 I don't know if he owns a yacht.

00:46:49.000 I assume he does.

00:46:50.000 I don't know if he was born on a yacht.

00:46:51.000 I don't know if maybe his name is Yachtober, and they shortened it to Yachty.

00:46:58.000 In any case, here is a little bit of the music video, the part that's not obscene, from Broccoli by DRAM.

00:47:10.000 So for people who can't see, we're in the middle of a river.

00:47:13.000 And there's a woman who's shaking her arm.

00:47:17.000 And then there's a second woman who's shaking her arm.

00:47:20.000 And then there are people playing a piano in the middle of a river, which seems like a dramatic mistreatment of a piano.

00:47:35.000 Okay.

00:47:35.000 Okay, so there it is.

00:47:37.000 It's sort of intercut with all these pictures of people hugging and kissing and making out.

00:47:42.000 And shaking, and many, many black women shaking their rears.

00:48:00.000 Okay, so let me now pause before we get to the part where it's just another 37 minutes of a woman shaking her ample posterior at the camera.

00:48:10.000 Okay, so here is what the actual lyric is.

00:48:12.000 Okay, and I'm reading this straight.

00:48:14.000 Okay, this is what the actual lyric is.

00:48:15.000 I'm gonna bleep out the stuff that I can't obviously say.

00:48:19.000 Ain't no telling what I'm finna be on.

00:48:21.000 A-A.

00:48:22.000 I'm beyond all that.

00:48:23.000 F-S.

00:48:24.000 Hey.

00:48:25.000 Okay?

00:48:28.000 Good English.

00:48:29.000 But, hey, little mama, would you like to be my sunshine?

00:48:32.000 N-word, touch my gang.

00:48:34.000 We gonna turn this blank to Columbine, because there's nothing that's more lovely and evocative of having a good life than shooting up a bunch of children at a high school.

00:48:44.000 Ice on my neck cost me 10 times 3, so I assume that's $30,000.

00:48:48.000 $30,000 for an N-word to get flea.

00:48:50.000 I assume that's short for fleek, because fleek is short for fliktacular?

00:48:55.000 I don't know.

00:48:55.000 I just hit Rodeo and I spent like 10 Gs.

00:48:57.000 I thought you just spent 30.

00:48:58.000 I just did a show and spent the check on my mama.

00:49:02.000 When I go on vacay, I might rent out the Bahamas and I keep like 10 phones.

00:49:05.000 Damn, I'm really never home.

00:49:07.000 All these N-Word clones trying to copy what I'm on.

00:49:10.000 N-Word, get your own.

00:49:11.000 Trying to pick an N-Word bone.

00:49:13.000 Word to Brother Skip, boy, I had a good day.

00:49:16.000 Metro PCS Trappin', boy, I'm making plays.

00:49:18.000 Fifty Shades of Grey beat that P-Word like Hulk Hogan.

00:49:22.000 I know you hate my slogan, if it ain't about

00:49:25.000 Guap, I'm gone.

00:49:26.000 I assume guap is pot.

00:49:29.000 N-word's hatin' cause I'm chosen from the concrete I had rose.

00:49:32.000 Shawty's starin' at my necklace cause my diamonds really froze.

00:49:35.000 Put that blank up in her blank.

00:49:37.000 Bet she feel it in her toes.

00:49:39.000 So.

00:49:41.000 The song, you haven't heard the word broccoli yet.

00:49:43.000 It turns out that it's not actually a nutritional ode.

00:49:45.000 I was under the impression that broccoli was something that people didn't like to eat because it wasn't very tasty.

00:49:51.000 But it turns out that broccoli is just another of the myriad words for pot.

00:49:54.000 And this video is obviously a pot-worshipping, sex-worshipping, spending lots of money.

00:50:00.000 And this is supposed to be a lifestyle that is worthy of emulation.

00:50:04.000 The lifestyle that is not going to make people into losers is smoking lots of pot, having sex with random strangers, and spending all of your money on luxuries like jewelry.

00:50:13.000 Now, I spend lots of money on jewelry for my wife, but that's because I can afford to spend lots of money on jewelry for my wife.

00:50:19.000 The idea here is that you are a real man

00:50:22.000 If you buy lots of jewelry, not necessarily for a girl, just for yourself, and then people envy you, and then you have raunchy sex with a bunch of different women and smoke pot.

00:50:34.000 Now, could you possibly imagine why people, black, white, doesn't matter, I'm not talking about race here, why people who listen to this kind of music all day, and there are lots of white kids who do, the majority of rap consumers are white, the kind of folks who listen to this sort of music all day might have a perverse view of women, might have a perverse view of work,

00:50:52.000 Might have a perverse view of what you're supposed to spend money on.

00:50:56.000 This sort of stuff is so damaging and stupid.

00:51:00.000 It's not enriching in any way.

00:51:02.000 And not only is it not enriching, it's celebratory of promiscuity and raunch.

00:51:06.000 I mean, is there any romance to these girls at all?

00:51:08.000 I mean, really, there's no romance to their treatment of women.

00:51:11.000 They treat them like strippers.

00:51:13.000 There's no idea that you actually have to work hard to make money.

00:51:16.000 No, it all just sort of comes to you, and then you spend it all on broccoli and diamonds.

00:51:21.000 And everybody worships you.

00:51:24.000 And it's just, it's ridiculous.

00:51:27.000 I'm sorry.

00:51:27.000 It's ridiculous.

00:51:28.000 And it's more than ridiculous.

00:51:29.000 It's actually, it's actually pretty, it's pretty insulting to the idea that there are people who work hard in this country so that they can live a good moral life and build families and build a society worthy of surviving.

00:51:40.000 Because this is not how you build a society.

00:51:41.000 It's not by doing drugs and having sex with random strangers and then bragging about it to your friends.

00:51:45.000 That's not how you build a society.

00:51:48.000 And yes, culture does have an impact.

00:51:50.000 On how people live and how people act and what people worship and what people think about the way politics are working.

00:51:55.000 By the way, if you have expectations that money is going to descend on you and you can live this sort of lifestyle, and then that lifestyle doesn't descend on you, and then you turn around and you ask the government for help, that's how you end up with a tremendous amount of leftism.

00:52:06.000 You have outsized expectations for your life based on the guarantee that pop culture is offering you that this life, this life of sex and drugs and jewelry, is just a stone's throw away

00:52:18.000 If you're lucky, and if you're unlucky, then you're a victim of the society itself.

00:52:21.000 Okay, well that takes us to the end of today's show.

00:52:23.000 We'll be back tomorrow, broadcasting from New Haven, Connecticut, because I'm speaking at Yale tomorrow night, so that'll be a party.

00:52:28.000 If you're out in Michigan, we're at Grand Rapids Valley College tonight, and that should be a party.

00:52:36.000 I believe it's open to the public, so I'll see you then.

00:52:38.000 I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.

Ep. 183 - Black Man Shot, Leftists Blame America

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