The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 186 - It's Debate Night -- And Advantage: Trump

00:00:00.000 In a move that surprised many Republicans but few political insiders, Senator Ted Cruz was expected to announce on Friday, and did, that he would support Donald Trump's bid for the presidency against Hillary Clinton.

00:00:10.000 For weeks, members of the Cruz team had been hinting at such an announcement.

00:00:13.000 Cruz himself had quietly hinted he was reconsidering his publicly non-committal stance on the candidate who labeled him, Lyin' Ted, suggested he was a serial adulterer, called his wife ugly, and said his father was a conspirator in the murder of JFK, 0.90

00:00:27.000 A man Cruz himself had called a pathological liar and a non-conservative charlatan.

00:00:31.000 But on Friday, two days before the first debate, Politico broke the news that Cruz would endorse Trump.

00:00:36.000 It's a bad if understandable political move.

00:00:38.000 Here are the things you need to know.

00:00:40.000 First, Cruz has experienced more pressure than anyone else in America over Trump.

00:00:44.000 Except for maybe me.

00:00:46.000 Cruz has been hammered by former allies in the media and the Republican Party for not openly embracing Trump and bowing before his great god king.

00:00:53.000 That criticism existed before the RNC.

00:00:55.000 It escalated dramatically in the days afterward.

00:00:57.000 More on that in a second.

00:00:59.000 Cruz's donors shied away from him.

00:01:00.000 Some of his biggest boosters in talk radio began ripping him regularly.

00:01:04.000 The RNC chairman Reince Priebus, or Prince Regis as a friend calls him, openly threatened his future presidential prospects.

00:01:10.000 Second point, this is a pretty bad political move and when I say pretty bad I mean this is

00:01:28.000 Hindenburg-level disaster bad.

00:01:30.000 It's fully understandable to say you'll vote for Trump, but continue to acknowledge he's a disaster area for conservatives.

00:01:35.000 This is what Mark Levin does.

00:01:36.000 That doesn't appear to be what Cruz is doing.

00:01:39.000 Cruz is now announcing he's been surprised by Trump's new message discipline.

00:01:43.000 Even as Trump embraces Vladimir Putin, government-sponsored maternity leave, a plan to cram down tuition price controls, and an expansion of Medicaid.

00:01:49.000 This puts him less in the hold-your-nose-and-vote-Trump category than the Trump-trained category.

00:01:54.000 And it's partially due to timing.

00:01:55.000 The timing undercuts Cruz's entire image.

00:01:58.000 I think?

00:02:15.000 Or at the convention.

00:02:16.000 Or just after the convention.

00:02:18.000 To jump on board two days before the debates, at a time when Trump is obviously ratcheting up pressure on never-Trumpers to jump aboard.

00:02:24.000 Manipulative.

00:02:25.000 It seems even more manipulative given Cruz's early warmth towards Trump, when he thought he could ride Trump's coattails in the nomination, and then he broke with Trump, which seemed more principled, and now he re-embraces Trump just in time for the election.

00:02:36.000 It's worth noting here that Cruz is taking a real risk by endorsing Trump.

00:02:40.000 Cruz's Trump endorsement is risky not just because he risks fracturing his base, hoping presumably they'll forget about his endorsement if Trump loses, and acknowledging his correctness if Trump wins, but because Trump could actually destroy him.

00:02:50.000 Trump's done that before.

00:02:51.000 As I reported at the time back in the RNC, Cruz's speech at the RNC was designed to be an overture to Trump.

00:02:56.000 It was actually a quasi-endorsement.

00:02:59.000 I don't know.

00:03:19.000 It's worth noting that on Friday it's possible that Trump could have done the same thing to Cruz again.

00:03:24.000 Cruz could have been putting his head on the chopping block, Ned Stark style, only for Trump to go full Joffrey and behead him.

00:03:31.000 Trump said after the RNC he wouldn't accept Cruz's endorsement, but it appears that Kellyanne Conway was successful in prying Trump's phone from his fingers in the moments after Cruz submitted, and now he says he's glad to have

00:03:41.000 Cruz's endorsement.

00:03:42.000 So, what's the outcome likely to be?

00:03:44.000 Well, Cruz isn't going to move a lot of voters over to Trump.

00:03:46.000 Most Cruz voters who haven't moved over to Trump supported Cruz out of principle, not out of personal loyalty to him, and they're not going to be persuaded to move to Trump now.

00:03:54.000 This morning, Glenn Beck just crushed Cruz on the air.

00:03:56.000 They'll feel their guy capitulated because the establishment forced him to kneel before Zod.

00:04:01.000 Cruz will have undercut his own image, and Trump probably won't be able to help a gloating in the days to come.

00:04:05.000 Here's Cruz's best bet.

00:04:06.000 If Trump wins, he'll have been on the winning team.

00:04:08.000 If Trump loses, he won't be blamed for the loss.

00:04:10.000 That's true, as far as it goes.

00:04:12.000 But because of how Cruz played his hand here, he's going to be seen less as a reluctant man pushing Trump to victory than a guy who chose expedience over principle.

00:04:20.000 Which is actually kind of tragic, since Cruz probably is a man of principle, victimized by both a system that crushes principle and a belief he can still manipulate that system to his own ends.

00:04:29.000 He can't.

00:04:30.000 He'd be better off acknowledging that simple fact and standing with the principles he supposedly believed.

00:04:35.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:04:36.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:04:42.000 All righty, so, lots to talk about today.

00:04:44.000 Today, the big debate is coming, and I'm gonna give you my preview.

00:04:46.000 I'm gonna give you what I think the headlines tomorrow will be.

00:04:49.000 I'm gonna tell you why I woke up this morning and I thought to myself, what the F did you people do?

00:04:54.000 What did you do?

00:04:55.000 Like, now, it finally comes down to it.

00:04:57.000 We're at the debate.

00:04:57.000 You know, it sort of hit, there's some truths in life that sort of hit you randomly.

00:05:02.000 Like, I've heard from people when they lose a close relative that they'll be okay for a while, and then they'll just think about the relative, and they'll think, that's really awful.

00:05:09.000 Well, every so often in this election cycle, you just look around and you go, okay, tonight, the debate is going to be between the Wicked Witch of the West and Biff Tannen.

00:05:18.000 Like, it's actually going to be between—it's going to be between Lenny from Of Mice and Men and the most corrupt woman in the history of American politics. 1.00

00:05:27.000 And you think to yourself, oh God, one of these people is going to be leader of the free world.

00:05:31.000 What did you do?

00:05:32.000 Even if you prefer Trump.

00:05:34.000 Even if you're excited about Trump.

00:05:36.000 I don't know how you can be excited about Trump as opposed to just excited about Hillary losing.

00:05:39.000 That I understand.

00:05:40.000 Being excited about Hillary losing?

00:05:42.000 Totally on board. 0.99

00:05:43.000 Watching her weep tears of salty, salty anguish over losing to Donald Trump would be just the most fitting capstone to her ridiculous political career. 0.99

00:05:52.000 And the media, weeping into their beer, would also be particularly rich. 0.97

00:05:55.000 That would be enjoyable, watching all these people crying.

00:05:57.000 But then, Trump would also be president, and that's not going to be awesome, just saying.

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00:06:21.000 We're good to go.

00:06:48.000 We're good to go.

00:07:03.000 I don't know who's making their mind up based on this debate.

00:07:06.000 I mean, honestly, I made a couple of miscalculations in this election cycle, I'll just be honest with you. 0.98

00:07:11.000 My predictions in this election cycle have not been up to their normal par, but partially that's because I thought that Americans wanted a president who wasn't a complete moron, and partially I thought that's because Americans didn't want a president who was a complete corrupt handbag of lunacy. 0.93

00:07:27.000 I was wrong, so I apologize for that.

00:07:29.000 My opinion of American voters was apparently too high, and so we end up with a debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton for the leadership of the free world, which is It's America, the reality show, 2016.

00:07:41.000 Harambee, where are you when we needed you?

00:07:45.000 It's just tragic.

00:07:46.000 But Trump has all the advantages going into this debate. 1.00

00:07:48.000 So I'm going to put aside my own personal rage over this election cycle and put aside the fact that I think everyone is stupid and everything is stupid. 1.00

00:07:56.000 I'm going to drink heavily during this debate. 1.00

00:07:57.000 I have to be at an event in Simi Valley later today covering this thing.

00:08:00.000 I'll cover it live on dailywire.com.

00:08:02.000 I'll be covering it on Twitter, so make sure that you pay attention there.

00:08:06.000 Um, but we'll get back to my issues of rage in just a minute.

00:08:09.000 The fact that the lesser of two evils has led us to a place where everything stinks, where the debate tonight is going to go something like this.

00:08:16.000 Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:08:17.000 Donald, you're stupid. 1.00

00:08:19.000 Donald Trump. 1.00

00:08:20.000 You're so crooky. 0.98

00:08:20.000 Crooked Hillary. 0.98

00:08:22.000 Hillary.

00:08:23.000 Donald. 1.00

00:08:24.000 You're also crooked. 1.00

00:08:25.000 Trump. 1.00

00:08:26.000 You're crooked and ugly. 1.00

00:08:28.000 Hillary. 1.00

00:08:28.000 Sexist. 1.00

00:08:29.000 Trump. 1.00

00:08:29.000 Your husband raped people. 1.00

00:08:31.000 Hillary. 1.00

00:08:32.000 Meh.

00:08:34.000 Congratulations, America.

00:08:35.000 One of these two people will be your president.

00:08:36.000 Okay, so, don't worry, we'll get back to more hot rage spewing from me henceforth, but Trump has all the advantages going in.

00:08:44.000 So, there's some major advantages that Trump has going in tonight, and he should win the debate.

00:08:48.000 He should.

00:08:49.000 I'm predicting it now.

00:08:50.000 Trump should win the debate if he can hold himself in check.

00:08:53.000 Right now, Hillary's entire campaign, her entire campaign, 0.96

00:08:57.000 Is it possible, is it possible that she can win just by convincing the American public that Trump is a nut? 0.95

00:09:04.000 Trump's entire campaign is, don't look like a nut. 0.89

00:09:06.000 So, it's easier for a nut to look not like a nut for 90 minutes. 0.85

00:09:10.000 If you've ever met somebody who's completely insane in your life, they actually play normal people pretty well most of the time.

00:09:15.000 It's only every so often you realize they think that the curtains are talking to them.

00:09:19.000 But, most of the time, crazy people act kind of not crazy, which is why it's sort of hard to deal with people who legitimately have a screw loose. 0.99

00:09:26.000 Assuming Trump is crazy, he may not be, he may just be stupid, but assuming Trump is crazy, he can play not crazy for 90 minutes, which is more of an advantage. 0.99

00:09:33.000 Hillary's main fault here in the polls is people think she's dishonest. 1.00

00:09:37.000 If you're a liar, if you're a dishonest person, if people think you're dishonest, then five seconds of you is enough to convince them that you're just as dishonest as everyone ever thought you were. 0.98

00:09:48.000 If, however, you're crazy, it's actually not that hard to make it seem as though you're not. 0.99

00:09:53.000 Here are some of the advantages. 0.97

00:09:54.000 First, it is now a dead heat.

00:09:55.000 This race is a dead heat.

00:09:57.000 And that is less a testament to Trump being great at this, and more a testament to the fact that Hillary is the worst political candidate in the history of humankind. 1.00

00:10:04.000 I mean, like, there are cave dwellers, Neanderthal cave dwellers, back before the rise of human language, who are worse politicians than Hillary—that she's worse than. 1.00

00:10:13.000 Hillary Clinton.

00:10:15.000 It's very possible.

00:10:17.000 She could have lost to, like, Og, the caveman, in an election.

00:10:21.000 Like, now, today, if you brought Og the caveman, who can't speak English, and just grunts at people, Og the caveman could probably beat Hillary in a national election because she's just this bad at this. 0.97

00:10:30.000 You know, last week we played that tape of her screaming, why aren't I up by 50 points?

00:10:35.000 Because of tape like that, Hillary. 1.00

00:10:36.000 So, the numbers are really bad.

00:10:39.000 The new polls show dead heat.

00:10:41.000 Dead heat between Trump and Clinton.

00:10:45.000 Bloomberg today has Trump up over Clinton in a four-way race, 43 to 41.

00:10:51.000 So, as I've said before, this is not Trump doing unbelievably well.

00:10:54.000 He still can't break 43 percent in a national poll four-way, but he can do—but he can beat her if enough people go third party.

00:11:00.000 And this is what's amazing.

00:11:01.000 A lot of focus being put on the never-Trumpers now, because everybody's got to get on the Trump train.

00:11:05.000 There are more Republicans on the Trump train than Democrats on the Hillary train. 0.91

00:11:10.000 According to an ABC poll yesterday, 87% of Republicans are going to vote for Trump.

00:11:18.000 84% of Democrats are going to vote for Hillary. 0.96

00:11:19.000 45% of Republicans, something like that, are enthusiastic about voting Trump.

00:11:23.000 Only 34% of Democrats are enthusiastic about voting Hillary.

00:11:27.000 The new CNN-ORC poll shows Trump up one in a four-way race.

00:11:31.000 Let's go.

00:11:50.000 47% think Hillary will win. 0.93

00:11:52.000 Only 33% think Trump will win.

00:11:54.000 That means Trump is at a massive advantage.

00:11:56.000 Expectations, that's the name of the game.

00:11:58.000 All Trump has to do is not almost literally diarrhea himself on stage or eat a Mexican baby and he wins the race tonight.

00:12:05.000 He wins and he wins the debate tonight.

00:12:06.000 Hillary Clinton has to prove that she's likable. 1.00

00:12:09.000 She has to prove that she's human.

00:12:10.000 She has to prove she's not dead.

00:12:12.000 All of these are uphill battles for a walking corpse.

00:12:15.000 So,

00:12:16.000 Excuse me.

00:12:16.000 Nate Silver writes this morning, quote, the latest polling is consistent with a Clinton lead of only 1% nationally.

00:12:24.000 State firewall breaking up.

00:12:25.000 Trend lines awful.

00:12:26.000 Are you ready for this?

00:12:28.000 Lefties, it's panic time, okay?

00:12:30.000 I mean, I think everyone, it's panic time for either of these two candidates winning, but left, people who are Hillary allies, panic, panic, panic galore.

00:12:37.000 Okay, right now, here's the panic.

00:12:39.000 If the election were held today, according to Nate Silver, Hillary would lose. 1.00

00:12:43.000 If the election were held today, there is a 55% shot that Trump wins.

00:12:47.000 Woo! 0.99

00:12:48.000 And the reason for that, the reason for that is that Hillary is legitimately awful at this in every way. 1.00

00:12:55.000 So Robby Mook is her campaign spokesperson.

00:12:58.000 An IT contractor managing Hillary Clinton's private email server made reference to the, quote, Hillary cover-up operation in a work ticket.

00:13:26.000 He used those words after a senior cliquenade asked him to automatically delete emails after 60 days.

00:13:32.000 This IT worker certainly sounded like he thought he was covering something up, no?

00:13:37.000 Look, Jake, first of all, I'm actually glad you asked this question, because a lot of this stuff is swirling around there in the ether.

00:13:44.000 It's important to pull back and look at the facts here.

00:13:46.000 The FBI did a comprehensive and deep investigation into this, and at the conclusion of that, FBI Director Comey came out and said to the world that there was no case here, that they did not have evidence of wrongdoing on Hillary's part.

00:14:03.000 So what's the Hillary cover-up operation?

00:14:04.000 So, and Tapper asks, what's Hillary's cover-up operation?

00:14:07.000 And Mook has no answer for that because Hillary's cover-up operation can be translated in English as Hillary's cover-up operation because she's covering things up. 0.95

00:14:15.000 And it's amazing.

00:14:16.000 I mean, Mook is also asked, he specifically asked about Hillary's staffers.

00:14:22.000 And he says, don't worry, we're brutally honest to her.

00:14:25.000 Does Secretary Clinton have anyone in her orbit

00:14:29.000 Who can be brutally honest and frank with her?

00:14:32.000 I ask that because it seems like, based on a lot of the information we've gotten about her emails and the like, that she might not have people like that.

00:14:41.000 And in debate prep, it would be very important for somebody to really be able to go after her, to prepare her for a debate.

00:14:48.000 And I don't know that she has anybody like that in her orbit.

00:14:51.000 Well, she absolutely does, Jake.

00:14:55.000 Anybody who's worked for Secretary Clinton, first of all, knows that she surrounds herself with experts on every matter that she looks into.

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00:16:59.000 First of all, it sounds like I'm dying.

00:17:00.000 It's because I'm still... I've still been infected by the Hillary Plague.

00:17:02.000 I watched a YouTube video of her collapsing and it was so contagious that I'm still dying weeks later.

00:17:06.000 But in any case...

00:17:07.000 The standards here, Trump has a lower standard. 1.00

00:17:11.000 People know Trump's ignorant. 0.98

00:17:12.000 They're not expecting him to be fully baked on policy. 1.00

00:17:14.000 They know he's colorful, which is to say he says crazy things.

00:17:17.000 They know that he'll say offensive stuff.

00:17:19.000 They know that he kind of lies out of habit, but they think that that's just a facet of his truth-telling.

00:17:23.000 He just, he says things that are honest but not honest.

00:17:26.000 Hillary, they know she's dishonest. 1.00

00:17:28.000 They hate her. 0.97

00:17:30.000 There's a far better shot.

00:17:31.000 Trump is able to survive 90 minutes.

00:17:33.000 without looking like a complete nutcase, and that Hillary's able to look honest over the course of 90 minutes. 1.00

00:17:37.000 So, Trump has advantages.

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00:18:24.000 So, as I suffer from the black lung, we continue, and let's talk a little bit about the continued rollout of Hillary's failure.

00:18:32.000 So, Hillary's campaign is—as they continue to be a disaster, even her erstwhile allies, people who don't like Trump, realize that Hillary has no big answers here.

00:18:41.000 Bill Maher came out over the weekend.

00:18:42.000 He said, Hillary has no answers here. 1.00

00:18:44.000 We don't trust Hillary. 0.95

00:18:45.000 Why would we trust Hillary on, for example, terrorism? 1.00

00:18:47.000 I've been saying for a very long time that I worry about the Democrats on the terrorism issue. 1.00

00:18:52.000 I mean, Trump obviously is giving paranoid lunacy aimed at dumbasses. 0.99

00:18:58.000 I don't agree with his prescriptions. 0.98

00:19:00.000 But Hillary says things like, the kinds of rhetoric and language Mr. Trump used is giving aid and comfort to our adversaries.

00:19:07.000 That's what she said.

00:19:08.000 But that doesn't really tell you how he's going to stop the attacks.

00:19:12.000 She just seems to lecture us on how to be a better person.

00:19:16.000 And this is exactly right.

00:19:17.000 This is exactly right.

00:19:18.000 And so Trump has an issue advantage, which we'll get to in a moment.

00:19:21.000 Now, Hillary's people are panicking. 0.71

00:19:23.000 They're absolutely panicking, and they should be.

00:19:25.000 The polls demonstrate she's got nothing.

00:19:27.000 No thang.

00:19:28.000 She is falling apart.

00:19:29.000 Bernie Sanders is out there.

00:19:30.000 He's back now.

00:19:31.000 He's trying to convince all of his old supporters, you must go out there and vote for Hillary Clinton.

00:19:37.000 You must do it.

00:19:38.000 Otherwise, I will never be able to eat this pudding cup.

00:19:41.000 She has promised me a fruit cup and a pudding cup.

00:19:43.000 And if you do not vote for her, I will not have a pudding cup or a fruit cup.

00:19:47.000 All I will have is this piece of small cheese from Vermont.

00:19:52.000 Please vote Hillary. 1.00

00:19:54.000 I think what the focus has got to be on now is understanding that this moment in history for a presidential election is not the time for a protest vote.

00:20:04.000 It is a time to look at which candidate is going to work best for the middle class and working families.

00:20:11.000 Okay, so he's trying to convince them not to vote third party.

00:20:14.000 That's because the polls show that all of Gary Johnson's support, or a large measure of it, is coming not from Trump, but from Hillary.

00:20:20.000 In all of these polls, third party candidates are drawing 10-12% of the vote.

00:20:25.000 Probably 7-8% of that goes to Hillary. 0.98

00:20:27.000 She wins the election.

00:20:28.000 So now they're trying to cut down on that third party vote.

00:20:31.000 They're dragging out Elizabeth Warren now.

00:20:32.000 Elizabeth Warren is going out there saying that we need to vote for Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:20:37.000 There are a lot of progressives out there who are very suspicious

00:20:41.000 Of Hillary and Bill Clinton, who think that the Bill Clinton years were bad for the middle class, who think that the trade deals were bad for them.

00:20:49.000 These are people who supported Bernie Sanders, who support you.

00:20:54.000 Why should they support Hillary Clinton, who's been part of the system, and you've criticized her for a bankruptcy bill and for other things.

00:21:02.000 Why should they support her over somebody who they think might shake up the system like a 1.00

00:21:09.000 Look, Hillary Clinton has laid out a progressive agenda.

00:21:18.000 She laid it out during the primaries and she has stuck with it in the general.

00:21:22.000 She has said this is what I'm running on.

00:21:25.000 The way I see it, it is the job of progressives

00:21:29.000 To help her get elected on a progressive agenda, and then work our rear ends off to help get that progressive agenda enacted. 1.00

00:21:39.000 Okay, I mean this is weak tea.

00:21:41.000 So they're all dragging out, you know, you've got Warren, you've got Sanders, they're trying desperately, get out for Hillary, get out for Hillary, because the enthusiasm level for Hillary is so unbelievably low.

00:21:50.000 Now, there are two advantages.

00:21:52.000 So we've talked about two advantages for Trump.

00:21:54.000 The standards and the numbers.

00:21:55.000 The numbers are now moving in his favor.

00:21:57.000 The standards are also great for him.

00:21:58.000 All he has to do is surpass a baseline level of being a human.

00:22:02.000 And Hillary has a higher level that she actually has to pass in order to do well in tonight's debate. 1.00

00:22:08.000 For example, I want to show you, this is 17 and 18, I want to show you even the left media.

00:22:16.000 Let's do it.

00:22:30.000 If she signed in a smaller crowd, her husband wouldn't be shoving everything inside.

00:22:33.000 Finally, get those jokes off, adding levity.

00:22:36.000 So MSNBC is basically, you know, they're shilling for Hillary, but notice what they're saying.

00:22:40.000 She has to sell her presidency, that she's actually going to be good at this. 0.99

00:22:43.000 She has to be a different Clinton than one we've seen, and she has to show that she has a sense of humor. 0.99

00:22:48.000 Good luck, gang.

00:22:49.000 Here's what Trump has to do.

00:22:51.000 They say stop lying, show humility, and fill in the gaps in his policy proposals.

00:22:56.000 So, number one, no, there's no media bias.

00:23:00.000 There's no media bias.

00:23:01.000 Hillary doesn't have to stop lying, only Trump has to stop lying. 0.88

00:23:04.000 You know, she doesn't have to fill in the gaps in her policy proposals, he has to fill in his gaps. 0.96

00:23:08.000 I mean, that's silly.

00:23:10.000 And you take out the bias for a second.

00:23:12.000 What MSNBC is actually saying is all Trump has to do, he doesn't have to stop lying because he's not going to.

00:23:18.000 He doesn't have to stop filling in the gaps in his policy proposals because he's not capable of that.

00:23:23.000 He's not going to get out there and recite Mitt Romney's 57 point tax plan.

00:23:28.000 All he has to do is not be nuts.

00:23:31.000 Right? 0.91

00:23:31.000 When you take out the media bias, even MSNBC is saying, all he has to do is not be a nut. 0.91

00:23:35.000 What does Hillary have to do? 1.00

00:23:36.000 She has to be presidential. 1.00

00:23:38.000 She has to be likable. 1.00

00:23:39.000 She has to be winning.

00:23:41.000 Oh boy, she has an uphill battle because she is none of those things. 1.00

00:23:45.000 She is zero of those things. 0.94

00:23:47.000 Speaking of the media, Trump is just manipulating the media.

00:23:49.000 He's doing a great job of manipulating the media.

00:23:51.000 So, Hillary Clinton says she's going to bring Mark Cuban to the debate.

00:23:54.000 So, if Hillary's entire task is throw 1.00

00:23:57.000 Is throw Trump off his game.

00:24:00.000 Then all you have to do to throw Trump off his game, she thinks, is talk about his wealth.

00:24:05.000 So she's bringing Mark Cuban to the debate, this billionaire.

00:24:07.000 She's going to put him in the front row, and then she's going to say probably something like, you're not turning over your IRS records because, as Mark Cuban has said, you're not worth $10 billion.

00:24:16.000 You're lying to the American people, and you could turn it over, but you're lying, and you're not worth that much money, and she's going to hope he loses his mind, and that's why she's bringing Cuban. 0.96

00:24:25.000 Trump fires back over the weekend, puts up a tweet, and he says, maybe I'll bring Jennifer Flowers.

00:24:29.000 Right, the woman that Bill Clinton had an affair with back in, and was reported back in 1992.

00:24:32.000 I don't know why not Juanita Broderick, but okay, Jennifer Flowers.

00:24:37.000 And the media lose their mind.

00:24:39.000 Instead of covering the Mark Cuban thing like Hillary wanted, now they're covering the Jennifer Flowers thing because it's so outrageous.

00:24:45.000 So here's Mike Pence, now on national TV, talking about Jennifer Flowers.

00:24:49.000 I don't wanna ask you, will Jennifer Flowers be there?

00:24:53.000 Jennifer Plowers will not be attending the debate tomorrow night.

00:24:57.000 Donald Trump was using the tweet yesterday really to mock an effort by Hillary Clinton and her campaign to really distract attention from where the American people are going to be focused tomorrow night, which is on the issues, on the choice that we face.

00:25:14.000 So he's saying, you know, it was just all Trump trolling.

00:25:16.000 And it was Trump trolling.

00:25:18.000 And it's typical.

00:25:19.000 This means that the standards for Trump are so low now that all he has to do is say things that are headline worthy, and he gets the media coverage.

00:25:26.000 And he does get away with a lot more than Hillary gets away with, in one sense.

00:25:29.000 I mean, Hillary gets away with everything because she's a Democrat, but she's not getting away with Americans feeling like she's honest. 0.60

00:25:34.000 Americans know she's dishonest. 0.99

00:25:36.000 Trump says things just casually that are not true, and then people just sort of write them off because it's just Trump shooting from the hip.

00:25:42.000 Hey, he's a guy who shoots from the hip.

00:25:43.000 For example, Donald Trump last week said Lester Holt of NBC is a Democrat.

00:25:48.000 Lester Holt is a registered Republican.

00:25:49.000 Kellyanne Conway, his campaign manager, is asked about it, and here's what she says.

00:25:53.000 He said Lester Holt was a Democrat.

00:25:55.000 Lester Holt is a Republican.

00:25:58.000 How could he say such a thing that's just black and white factually incorrect?

00:26:03.000 I don't know that he knew what Lester Holt's voter registration was.

00:26:07.000 Without knowing then, he asserted he was a Democrat.

00:26:09.000 And I said yesterday, on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, that I think Lester Holt's a great selection for a moderator.

00:26:15.000 But here's the thing, what we don't like is the following.

00:26:18.000 What we don't like is the following.

00:26:19.000 First of all, if you're going to tell me that the media are not overly populated with Democrats, that's just empirically false.

00:26:24.000 I'm going to ask you about a very specific thing.

00:26:26.000 He made a factual claim.

00:26:27.000 I think it's a terrible and irrelevant example, respectfully, and here's why.

00:26:29.000 We were appalled at the treatment of NBC News' Matt Lauer after the Commander-in-Chief forum.

00:26:35.000 I said it, Mr. Trump has said it many

00:26:50.000 Okay, so you can stop it.

00:26:51.000 Watch how Conway—she shifts away from it, right?

00:26:52.000 So Trump said something that's casually not true.

00:26:55.000 Okay, well, you know, big deal.

00:26:56.000 That's just Trump being Trump.

00:26:57.000 And it just shows the bigger issue is that there's media bias.

00:27:00.000 Are you denying there's bigger media bias, right?

00:27:02.000 So he doesn't have to be exact in his details, but we all get the broader point.

00:27:06.000 This is why people write off Trump's casual dishonesty, because they think that his larger honesties are more important than those casual dishonesties.

00:27:15.000 Here's another example.

00:27:16.000 Trump was asked about his foundation.

00:27:18.000 I want to hit on a couple of personal controversies for you.

00:27:24.000 New York's Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who's already suing you over Trump University, which he's called a bait-and-switch fraud, now says he's opened an inquiry into the Trump Foundation.

00:27:33.000 Are you confident that the Trump Foundation has followed all charitable rules and laws?

00:27:38.000 Well, I hope so.

00:27:39.000 I mean, my lawyers do it.

00:27:40.000 We give away money.

00:27:41.000 I don't make anything.

00:27:41.000 I take no salaries.

00:27:42.000 I take no—any costs.

00:27:45.000 I have zero costs.

00:27:46.000 And a lot of money goes through the Trump Foundation into charities.

00:27:49.000 It goes to charities.

00:27:50.000 It doesn't go to me.

00:27:50.000 It goes to charities.

00:27:51.000 I love that.

00:27:51.000 I love what he says there.

00:27:52.000 I hope so.

00:27:53.000 Not yes.

00:27:54.000 I hope so.

00:27:55.000 Well, it's your foundation, dude.

00:27:56.000 I mean, you should know the answer to that.

00:27:57.000 If somebody said to Hillary, have you complied with all available laws, and she said, I hope so, we'd be all over her, wouldn't we? 0.92

00:28:03.000 But again, it's Trump, so we just sort of write it off.

00:28:06.000 And the media don't know what to do with him.

00:28:08.000 They don't know

00:28:08.000 This is my general problem, and it really hit me over the weekend a lot.

00:28:36.000 And I talked about it some last week.

00:28:37.000 The lesser of two evils logic, the idea that no matter what Trump does, it can't be as bad as Hillary Clinton, it may be true.

00:28:44.000 It may be true.

00:28:45.000 Then again, if you pose as your opposite, Satan, you can pretty much get away with anything.

00:28:51.000 If the alternatives are Satan versus X, X will always be better than Satan.

00:28:55.000 It doesn't matter what Satan did.

00:28:56.000 So, you know, my principle here is not that you shouldn't vote for Trump.

00:28:59.000 You want to vote for Trump, vote for Trump.

00:29:01.000 The point that I'm making is, let's not overlook this stuff.

00:29:04.000 But the media don't know how to deal with it.

00:29:05.000 So Trump has an advantage with the media, too.

00:29:07.000 We'll show you the advantage.

00:29:08.000 The debate commissioner

00:29:10.000 She comes out and she says, I don't think it's a good idea for moderators to fact-check candidates.

00:29:14.000 So, the Democrats have been very forthright on the notion they want a fact-check.

00:29:19.000 They want Hillary Clinton to have the moderators fact-checking Donald Trump, so that if Trump says something that's not true, the moderator immediately jumps in and says, Donald, that's not true.

00:29:29.000 Now, I don't believe that's something the moderator should be doing.

00:29:31.000 Candy Crowley did it last time and she got it wrong and she screwed up the entire campaign because of it. 1.00

00:29:36.000 It's really Hillary's job to do that. 1.00

00:29:37.000 If Hillary wants to call Trump on something dishonest, she can call him on something dishonest and that's the way that it'll go. 0.66

00:29:43.000 In fact, I think Hillary's strongest tactic tonight 1.00

00:29:45.000 She has two strong tactics. 1.00

00:29:47.000 One is going to be to try and trigger him. 0.99

00:29:48.000 The other is going to be asking him basic factual questions and then trying to make him look stupid when he doesn't know the answers. 0.99

00:29:53.000 I think she'll do a lot of that. 0.95

00:29:55.000 I think Trump's tactic will be if she does that and he doesn't know the answers, he'll misdirect to something else, but do so in a calm way.

00:30:00.000 That would be the smart way to handle that.

00:30:01.000 But the debate commissioners, they say, we don't know how to handle Trump.

00:30:04.000 We don't know how to handle this.

00:30:05.000 We just, we have no clue.

00:30:06.000 So what do we do with moderators and fact-checking?

00:30:09.000 Here's the debate, Commissioner.

00:30:10.000 Commission asks independent smart journalists to be the moderators and we let them decide how they're going to do this.

00:30:17.000 But I have to say, in our history, the moderators have found it appropriate to let the candidates be the ones that talk about the accuracy or the fairness of what the other candidate or candidates might have said.

00:30:32.000 I think personally, if you start getting into fact-checking, I'm not sure what is a big fact, what's a little fact, and if you and I have different sources of information, does your source about the unemployment rate agree with my source?

00:30:46.000 I don't think it's a good idea to get the moderator into essentially serving as the Encyclopedia Britannica, and I think it's better for that person to facilitate and to depend on the candidates to basically correct

00:31:01.000 Well, I mean, if Hillary doesn't have the moderator helping her out, she's got a problem there, too. 1.00

00:31:04.000 And if the moderator intervenes, then everybody understands that the media is being biased, and that helps Trump, too.

00:31:09.000 So Trump has an advantage with the numbers.

00:31:11.000 He has an advantage with the standards.

00:31:13.000 He has an advantage with the media, because he's better at the media game than she is, which is why she's been so awful at it all the way through.

00:31:18.000 And he has one final advantage, and that is the news cycle.

00:31:21.000 The news cycle for Hillary is just brutal.

00:31:23.000 It's just brutal.

00:31:24.000 And it should be.

00:31:25.000 It's her horrible president's administration that has really trashed America in racial terms. 1.00

00:31:31.000 It's her horrible president who's made terrorist attacks, apparently, an every-weekend occurrence now.

00:31:36.000 There's a shooting up in Washington state that's been totally undercover by the media.

00:31:40.000 The guy who was the perpetrator was somebody who posted warmly, apparently, about ISIS on his Tumblr page.

00:31:44.000 He was a Turkish immigrant.

00:31:46.000 So that helps Trump, because Trump's whole

00:31:48.000 We have the two least popular, least liked candidates in modern political history.

00:31:51.000 And so people are really trying to decide.

00:32:11.000 We're good.

00:32:31.000 And Donald Trump is the candidate of law and order.

00:32:34.000 He's also approached these things.

00:32:35.000 Remember when he went to Wisconsin and gave that speech after the riots in Milwaukee?

00:32:40.000 He gave a very temperament statement after the Charlotte riots saying that he's gonna make America safe for African Americans and we all have to come together.

00:32:49.000 If he takes that approach tomorrow night and looks presidential, with all the dynamics happening in the country right now, I think he's got a good chance of winning.

00:32:55.000 That's right, that's right.

00:32:55.000 So Hillary Clinton, what's happening in Charlotte right now is a perfect example.

00:32:59.000 Hillary Clinton's on the side of the Black Lives Matter people. 1.00

00:33:01.000 She's on the side of the rioters.

00:33:02.000 She's out there saying that the shoot that happened in Charlotte, which by the way now looks like a completely justified shoot.

00:33:06.000 They've released a picture of the gun.

00:33:08.000 It did not look like a book.

00:33:09.000 It looked like a gun.

00:33:10.000 Because it was a gun.

00:33:11.000 And not a book.

00:33:12.000 So, that looks like a good shoot by the cops.

00:33:14.000 Doesn't matter.

00:33:15.000 Hillary sides with the bad guys anyway. 1.00

00:33:18.000 You know, President Obama's out there ripping into white officers.

00:33:23.000 This news cycle is terrible for Hillary. 1.00

00:33:24.000 Here's President Obama ripping into white police officers.

00:33:28.000 Perhaps it can help a white visitor understand the pain and anger of demonstrators in places like Ferguson and Charlotte. 0.86

00:33:40.000 But it can also help black visitors appreciate

00:33:47.000 The fact that not only is this younger generation carrying on traditions of the past, but within the white communities across the nation, we see the sincerity of law enforcement officers and officials who, in fits and starts, are struggling to understand and are trying to do the right thing. 0.63

00:34:15.000 Okay, and this is—this is not going to help Hillary in any way. 1.00

00:34:19.000 Nobody's worried about the white officers, okay? 0.91

00:34:20.000 People are breaking and looting things. 0.98

00:34:22.000 They're burning things.

00:34:23.000 They're killing people. 0.99

00:34:24.000 And here's Obama lecturing white people. 0.95

00:34:27.000 Like, all of this—none of this benefits Hillary Clinton in any way.

00:34:30.000 So Hillary has some real systemic disadvantages tonight. 1.00

00:34:32.000 All the indicators are Trump should win tonight.

00:34:34.000 Trump should win tonight.

00:34:35.000 Now, he does have one real disadvantage.

00:34:38.000 He doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.

00:34:40.000 That's a disadvantage, I'll admit.

00:34:42.000 That's a bit of a disadvantage.

00:34:43.000 He doesn't know what he's talking about.

00:34:44.000 But, his not knowing what he's talking about is a lot less of a problem when he does know the central principle of there are race riots going on, side with the cops, there are terrorist attacks, don't let more terrorists in.

00:34:55.000 He doesn't have to know that much to out-debate Hillary.

00:34:58.000 I think so.

00:35:19.000 Somewhat normal.

00:35:21.000 And suddenly he's the winner.

00:35:22.000 And for Hillary, she's got a much bigger climb. 0.93

00:35:24.000 She's got serious trouble, folks. 0.98

00:35:25.000 She's in serious trouble.

00:35:27.000 And that I do find amusing, because, I mean, she deserves every bit of the trouble she's created for herself. 0.95

00:35:31.000 I'm sad for the country that one of these two people will be president.

00:35:34.000 I think it's a tragic, tragic occurrence.

00:35:37.000 I think that we're watching the devolution of America into a backlash society instead of a society that actually cares about constitutional principles.

00:35:45.000 But all that I've been lamenting for months.

00:35:48.000 The only thing that matters is the spectacle of it, and I think, honestly, that's what these debates are.

00:35:52.000 If anybody's watching tonight, because they're looking for real nuanced policy discussion between Donald Trump, who couldn't give nuanced policy discussion about healthcare, let alone Taco Bowls, and if they're looking for Hillary to suddenly be honest about her emails, like, it's just not going to happen.

00:36:08.000 This is spectacle, which is why it's going to get 100 million people watching it.

00:36:11.000 And this is why, next time we have these debates, I would really prefer that they take place on the Wipeout set.

00:36:17.000 And then we can actually watch these two people get punched by giant boxing gloves into bodies of water and such.

00:36:23.000 I think that'd be much more amusing.

00:36:25.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things I hate.

00:36:27.000 So, things I like.

00:36:28.000 Last night I saw hell or high water.

00:36:32.000 Which is a... I thought it was a really, really good movie.

00:36:35.000 The premise of the film is that there are these two brothers, and they're trying basically to pay off the reverse mortgage on Ma's farm.

00:36:43.000 And they have no money, and they have no skill set, and so they are robbing banks.

00:36:46.000 And that's sort of the setup.

00:36:48.000 And where it goes is...

00:36:49.000 Interesting, it's a great portrait of the economic discontent and downtrodden poor white areas.

00:36:55.000 And if you wonder where a lot of the rage is coming from that's backing the Trump vote, Trump is up 59 points among non-college educated white males.

00:37:02.000 That's what this movie is.

00:37:03.000 It's a really, really fascinating film.

00:37:07.000 The bank loan.

00:37:08.000 Just enough to keep your mama poor. 1.00

00:37:09.000 Thought they could swipe her land.

00:37:13.000 It's a big bank.

00:37:16.000 It's too big.

00:37:17.000 That's what she said.

00:37:18.000 Now they can foreclose on Friday.

00:37:20.000 So come hell or high water, get the money to the bank on Thursday.

00:37:24.000 And then you are free and clear.

00:37:33.000 Hello, brother.

00:37:34.000 Go get that money.

00:37:36.000 Good morning, folks!

00:37:37.000 Open the drawers!

00:37:38.000 You got a gun on you, old man? 0.97

00:37:39.000 You're damn right I got a gun on me. 0.98

00:37:41.000 Y'all gonna steal my gun, too? 0.94

00:37:43.000 When I steal from you, I steal from the bank.

00:37:46.000 You hear about these bank robberies?

00:37:49.000 You may get to have some fun before they send you off to the rocking chair yet.

00:37:52.000 I may have one hunt left in me.

00:37:58.000 Mama, it been a while?

00:37:59.000 Three months.

00:38:00.000 Bank breathing down her neck.

00:38:04.000 Okay, so the film is really good.

00:38:07.000 The performance that's the one that you're going to watch is Ben Foster's performance.

00:38:11.000 He plays sort of the crazier brother.

00:38:12.000 Chris Pine is great, though, very understated.

00:38:16.000 Chris Pine is kind of a leading movie man, right?

00:38:18.000 He's a big movie star because he's in the Star Trek films.

00:38:20.000 He's a good-looking guy.

00:38:21.000 He's actually a good actor, which is shocking, because usually when these guys are good-looking, like Chris Evans, the Captain America guy, they're usually wooden and awful.

00:38:28.000 And Chris Evans is a terrible actor, as well as a bad political commentator, but check my pinned tweet if you don't understand what I'm referring to there.

00:38:37.000 But Chris Pine's actually a really good actor.

00:38:40.000 Jeff Bridges is good in this movie, although he does his rooster-cog routine again, where he just acts like people from Texas, for some odd reason, have a speech impediment.

00:38:51.000 Okay, so, the movie Hell or High Water, really good film.

00:38:54.000 Okay, time for some stuff I hate.

00:38:56.000 Let's do it.

00:39:24.000 So, Arnold Palmer, the famous golfer, he died over the weekend.

00:39:28.000 Obviously, Arnold Palmer is a big name.

00:39:30.000 People know him.

00:39:32.000 He was the competition for Jack Nicklaus.

00:39:37.000 Very famous guy who helped revitalize popular golfing.

00:39:40.000 Golfing is a popular pastime.

00:39:43.000 The drink, the Arnold Palmer Iced Tea and Lemonade, is named after him.

00:39:46.000 So, he dies. 0.99

00:39:47.000 Barack Obama is just the worst. 1.00

00:39:49.000 He's just the worst. 0.98

00:39:51.000 The only consolation about this presidential cycle is he'll be gone at the end of it.

00:39:55.000 Barack Obama tweets out his condolences.

00:39:57.000 Here's what he tweets.

00:39:59.000 Here is to the king who was as extraordinary on the links as he was generous to others.

00:40:04.000 Thanks for the memories, Arnold.

00:40:30.000 Okay, he's like a tourist president.

00:40:32.000 He's like one of these people who goes and photoshops himself into pictures with the Great Wall of China.

00:40:38.000 Arnold Palmer dies.

00:40:39.000 Who's the centerpiece of this photo?

00:40:40.000 Barack Obama.

00:40:40.000 When Nelson Mandela died, do you remember he tweeted out a picture of himself in Nelson Mandela's cell?

00:40:45.000 Like, this is what he does.

00:40:46.000 People die, but the real subject is Barack Obama.

00:40:49.000 Like, during the Super Bowl, he tweets out a picture of himself throwing a football, because all of life revolves around Barack Obama.

00:40:56.000 All of humanity revolves around the genius of Barack Obama.

00:41:00.000 So Arnold Palmer dies, and it's all about Obama, because it's always been all about Obama, which is just why Obama's so interminably awful. 0.98

00:41:07.000 He's just awful, awful, awful. 0.97

00:41:08.000 Okay. 0.99

00:41:09.000 So that's one thing that I hate.

00:41:10.000 Another thing that I hate today,

00:41:12.000 We could have had a Libertarian candidate in this race. 0.97

00:41:14.000 That would have been nice.

00:41:17.000 The biggest problem with the Libertarians is not Libertarian philosophy.

00:41:22.000 It's that Libertarian philosophy sounds well and good until you actually meet Libertarians.

00:41:25.000 Most Libertarians are not like Gary Johnson, but they decide that it's important to nominate people like Gary Johnson.

00:41:30.000 Now, Gary Johnson over the weekend, he did an interview where he was talking about Medicaid, and for some odd reason, he decided that he would do the interview with his tongue out of his mouth.

00:41:39.000 Really, we'll grab that tape for tomorrow.

00:41:41.000 But he starts doing the entire interview like that, with his tongue out of his mouth.

00:41:45.000 Which, to say the least, is odd.

00:41:48.000 That wasn't his only odd moment.

00:41:49.000 He also was asked about global warming.

00:41:51.000 Here was his answer to what to do about global warming.

00:41:54.000 My view is that in billions of years, the sun is going to actually grow and encompass the earth, right?

00:42:01.000 So global warming is in our future.

00:42:05.000 So does that mean we don't do anything about it now?

00:42:08.000 No, George, come on.

00:42:09.000 Can't we have a little humor once in a while?

00:42:12.000 And that is long-term.

00:42:13.000 I mean, plate tectonics.

00:42:15.000 At one point, Africa and South America separated, and I am talking now about the Earth and the fact that 0.75

00:42:23.000 We have existed for billions of years and will going forward.

00:42:27.000 Look, what it points to also is the fact that we do have to inhabit other planets.

00:42:32.000 The future of the human race is space exploration.

00:42:38.000 No, that we should be prudent with the environment.

00:42:40.000 We care about the environment.

00:42:43.000 Look, clean air, clean water.

00:42:45.000 I think the EPA exists to protect us against individuals, groups, corporations that would do us harm.

00:42:52.000 Pollution is harm.

00:42:54.000 Governor Johnson, thanks.

00:42:55.000 Governor Johnson, thanks for being the craziest person in this race, and this race includes Jill Stein.

00:43:01.000 Wow.

00:43:01.000 Going for that new Gingrich vote.

00:43:03.000 So, his allusion to global warming is, we must inhabit other planets.

00:43:07.000 Apparently, he's already gotten a head start.

00:43:08.000 So, so glad the Libertarians can really show so strong in this election cycle.

00:43:12.000 My God.

00:43:14.000 Honestly, it's like we, it's like we went to an asylum and we opened four cells and just took the four people who walked out and said, one of these people will be president.

00:43:22.000 Okay, in other news, apparently,

00:43:25.000 Apparently Walmart has decided that they are not—Walmart's now apologizing.

00:43:30.000 A police officer wanted to have a retirement cake last week, and the cop's daughter came in, and she wanted a thin blue line cake, right?

00:43:36.000 It was a thin blue line cake design.

00:43:38.000 She asked for a cake with the American flag in black and white with a blue stripe added in.

00:43:43.000 This is a routine that they do where they say thin blue lines separating America from chaos, right?

00:43:48.000 And so the Walmart said they would not do it.

00:43:51.000 They told the woman the design could be perceived as racist and nobody feels comfortable decorating the cake.

00:43:57.000 When she asked for a simpler cake with just one blue line on a chocolate background, the employee said she still didn't feel comfortable with that design.

00:44:04.000 She said, is there something wrong with cops?

00:44:05.000 The employee refused to make the cake.

00:44:07.000 Taylor Wilkes, a Georgia police officer, originally posted about the cake, criticized the store for their appalling behavior, and now Walmart has apologized, and they met with the daughter to apologize.

00:44:17.000 So I do love the fact, I do love the fact that the left thinks that a religious baker should be forced to participate in a same-sex wedding by baking all the baked goods, but they're all happy-dappy-do when it comes to a police officer saying, I would just like a cake that honors police officers. 0.76

00:44:32.000 Yeah, clearly these are people who are tolerant, and all they're really looking for is tolerance.

00:44:35.000 They just think you should have to make whatever cake is brought before you.

00:44:38.000 It just shows the double standard of the left.

00:44:39.000 Okay, final thing I hate today.

00:44:41.000 So, the president of Northwestern University, his name is Morton Shapiro. 0.97

00:44:45.000 No relation, his name has a C in it for coward. 0.55

00:44:49.000 And university president Morton Shapiro blasted people who were criticizing safe spaces and trigger warnings. 0.94

00:44:54.000 He said,

00:44:54.000 The people who describe safe spaces do it from their segregating housing places, from their jobs without diversity.

00:45:01.000 They do it from their country clubs.

00:45:02.000 It just drives me nuts. 0.74

00:45:04.000 Right, we're all racists. 0.96

00:45:05.000 We're criticizing safe spaces because they're racist.

00:45:07.000 Except for the fact that a lot of safe spaces are racially segregated.

00:45:11.000 Except for the fact that at the University of Missouri, the students requested that no white people be allowed into their safe spaces.

00:45:16.000 At Cal State LA, they're now putting together segregated black housing.

00:45:20.000 Yeah, you're right, it's us. 0.93

00:45:21.000 We're the racists.

00:45:23.000 In his convocation speech,

00:45:25.000 He said that people need a space where they can let their guard down, a musical group, a religious center, or the Black House.

00:45:32.000 So, I love that.

00:45:32.000 He says, we're segregated, but it's okay for black people to be segregated.

00:45:36.000 Love it. 1.00

00:45:36.000 He also says that calling—he said, if you deny the existence of microaggressions, you are an idiot. 1.00

00:45:42.000 He says he remembers every microaggression he has experienced. 0.99

00:45:44.000 Here's a macroaggression, Mr. Shapiro.

00:45:47.000 You are adult.

00:45:48.000 You know nothing about how the real world works because you've been living in an ivory tower, apparently, for much of your life.

00:45:53.000 He says microaggressions cut you to the core and aren't easily forgotten.

00:45:56.000 How about this?

00:45:57.000 Grow a thicker skin.

00:45:58.000 You're a big boy.

00:45:59.000 I'm sure you're making a big salary over at Northwestern University. 1.00

00:46:03.000 You're getting paid, even though I'm calling you stupid. 1.00

00:46:05.000 That's not a microaggression. 1.00

00:46:06.000 That's just me saying you're a moron. 0.99

00:46:08.000 But it is amazing how these people are insistent that the more they coddle students, the better off the students are, as though the rest of the world is going to coddle them the minute that they exit. 1.00

00:46:18.000 It ain't gonna happen.

00:46:19.000 But this is the way that this works.

00:46:21.000 The left is interested in creating safe spaces that involve shutting down everybody who disagrees.

00:46:26.000 Okay, tonight, the big debate.

00:46:28.000 If you want to follow it live, go to dailywire.com.

00:46:30.000 I will be live blogging the entire VAPID experience.

00:46:34.000 I will also be doing it on Twitter, so check my Twitter account.

00:46:37.000 And we'll be back tomorrow to recap all of the lows as well as the other lows.

00:46:41.000 It'll be spectacular.

00:46:42.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:46:43.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro Show - September 26, 2016

Ep. 186 - It's Debate Night -- And Advantage: Trump

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