For those who thought media bias against Donald Trump would stop after his election to the presidency, Trump's interview with 60 Minutes Conclusively demonstrated just how wrong that idea was. CBS News' Leslie Stahl desperately attempted to blame Trump for violence breaking out across the country against Trump. She said, "Now, Trump, you see, is ignorant, and it's all his fault." Meanwhile, we, in the real world, are all watching mass protests and rioting on our TV against Trump, yet, Stahl worked to make Trump the problem, not the solution. Trump said, I'm very surprised to hear that. I mean, I hate to hear it, but you do hear it." And Stahl responded, "I don't hear it. ... I saw one or two instances. ... But I think it's a very, very small amount." And Trump responded, "I would say don't do that. ... Do you want to say anything to those people? ... I would say, don t do that." And then the rest is downhill from there. In any case, we can jump right into the news and talk about Ring. Ring is a tool that prevents home burglaries and allows you to know who's at your front door, which is always a good idea. Ring. Ben Shapiro: Ring is an item you should know about, and you can know who is at your doorbell, so you can act like you're home. And you can also see who's there! . If you are concerned about home burglary, then you should check out Ring, which prevents burglaries, which allows you know who s there, and can also be at the front door. and what you can do to see who you're there. . . . and what they do. You can also check out our friends at the doorbell. We're good to know that you're at home, and that you can be at your doorstep. if you're not home . . And that you don't know who you are there . and that s there . . you can check it out on Ring is good to be safe and secure and ready to help you keep your house on the job . . and they can help you out! And if you like it or you're looking for a good night out. It's a great place to keep up to date on what's going on.
00:00:00.000For those who thought media bias against Donald Trump would stop after his election to the presidency, Trump's interview with 60 Minutes conclusively demonstrated just how wrong that idea was.
00:00:09.000CBS News' Leslie Stahl desperately attempted to blame Trump for violence breaking out across the country against Trump.
00:00:16.000Here was what Leslie Stahl had to say.
00:01:24.000Okay, so, we don't have Stahl's original question to Trump, but from the content of the exchange, it seems like she focused almost exclusively on supposed violence by Trump supporters, most of which appears to be unfounded.
00:01:35.000This is asinine, and it's also disingenuous.
00:01:38.000Stahl seems quite concerned about violence surrounding Trump's election, but CBS News held the tape of Trump condemning violence and telling people to cut it out for three days.
00:01:47.000If they truly cared about tamping down violence, why not release that tape right away?
00:01:50.000They released a bunch of other clips from the interview.
00:01:52.000Well, that's because the media don't care about the violence.
00:01:53.000They just care about blaming Trump for the violence.
00:01:56.000It's why the media never put pressure on Obama to condemn riots in cities across the United States, even as Obama and his Department of Justice justified them.
00:02:03.000It's why the media never cared about asking Hillary Clinton about violence against Trump supporters during this campaign.
00:02:09.000Violence only matters if it can be blamed on those the left-wing media hates.
00:02:15.000Just ask media darling DeRay McKesson, who was feeded at the White House, or the members of Occupy Wall Street.
00:02:20.000But if any Republican goes to a Tea Party rally, they're obviously the problem.
00:02:24.000Don't expect the media to change, but if they don't want to destroy their own credibility permanently, they better start treating more honestly with the American people.
00:02:38.000Everybody's getting ready to launch the new Trump White House.
00:02:40.000We will get to the staffing decisions at the Trump White House in all of their glory and shame in just a moment.
00:02:46.000But first, we have to say hello to our friends over at Ring.com.
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00:03:35.000In any case, we can jump right into, let's jump right into the news.
00:03:39.000Okay, so, at the beginning, let's just say, it is fun to watch the left meltdown.
00:03:43.000It is really a lot of fun to watch the left lose their minds.
00:03:46.000And what makes it fun, for me, is the knowledge that the left would lose their minds the exact same way if Ted Cruz had won, or Marco Rubio had won, or hell, if John Kasich had won,
00:03:55.000They would still lose their minds and go crazy.
00:03:57.000So there's a lot of talk about Trump being out of the box.
00:04:38.000More than 180 people were arrested in what became a dangerous situation for some officers.
00:04:44.000We did have an officer who was injured when trying to take someone into custody.
00:04:48.000That officer was transported to a local hospital and at this time he's in stable condition and he's expected to be released later today.
00:04:56.000LAPD saying those they arrested had interfered with traffic and vandalized public property including buildings and patrol vehicles.
00:05:03.000The group growing to several hundred in size.
00:05:06.000We want our voices to be heard and we will not stand down.
00:05:09.000There were even some reports of people throwing rocks and bottles at officers and demonstrators who according to police just wouldn't go home.
00:05:18.000Oh my god, so we need to stop it there.
00:05:20.000So these idiots take over the streets in L.A.
00:05:22.000to which Trump says, I drink your salty bitter tears, they're delicious.
00:05:25.000Like, Donald Trump is going to resign the presidency because a couple of whiny college students from L.A.
00:05:29.000decided to take over a street in a city that Trump lost every vote in.
00:05:33.000Like, all these riots, all these protests are taking place in areas where Trump lost, right?
00:05:37.000It's not like there's any impact on Trump.
00:05:39.000It's not like there's any impact on the administration.
00:05:42.000I'm not even sure what they're protesting at this point.
00:05:44.000Like, there's lots of stuff that Trump is going to do that's probably worthy of protest, but he hasn't done it yet.
00:05:49.000Like, maybe later tonight I'll lead a protest against Steve Bannon becoming the White House Chief Counsel or whatever he is, but, like, he hasn't done anything yet.
00:06:42.000So the whole thing is just ridiculous.
00:06:44.000Naturally, Cory Booker, who thinks he's going to run for president in 2020 against Trump, he's trying to make inroads with these protesters, hoping to jazz them up.
00:06:54.000I'm sitting here right now having this conversation with you because of the tradition of American protest.
00:07:00.000I have my rights not because of Washington suddenly deciding, Strom Thurmond and others, hey let's give certain Americans equal rights, but because of the ardent, unyielding voice of protesters.
00:07:14.000That is, in his campaign, who ran saying things that not aren't just contrary to fact, but literally threatening to use presidential power in a way that would erode the rights and privileges and equality of large sections of Americans.
00:08:03.000White House chief, he's not the chief of staff, he's the chief strategist is what they're calling him, which means that he's basically Valerie Jarrett or Karl Rove.
00:08:10.000It means he has a very heavy portion in the policy making and the direction of the administration.
00:08:17.000So I've written columns about what I think of Steve.
00:08:20.000I legitimately think that Steve Bannon is one of the worst people in America.
00:08:23.000But that doesn't mean that this is the worst thing that's ever happened to the country, that he's the White House chief strategist.
00:08:30.000I'll explain what's good about this and what's bad about this and what he's actually going to do.
00:08:33.000And a lot of it is still up in the air.
00:08:35.000Now, I will say the left are going too far in this.
00:08:37.000So they're immediately saying that he is anti-Semitic.
00:08:40.000They're saying that Steve is a white supremacist.
00:08:42.000You have all these people who are saying that Steve is a white nationalist.
00:08:46.000Okay, so there's Steve's personal views, and then there's who Steve associates with, and who he's willing to humor.
00:08:53.000I have no evidence on a personal level, and I worked with Steve for years.
00:08:55.000I have no evidence on a personal level that Steve's a racist or an anti-Semite.
00:10:15.000That's what the root of the philosophy is.
00:10:18.000That doesn't mean that everybody identifying as alt-right believes that, because some of them are doing it wrong, but it does mean that that is the root of the philosophy.
00:10:25.000He's not a stupid man, and he has pandered to those people.
00:10:28.000He had Milo Yiannopoulos, who's an alt-right popularizer, write a long piece for Breitbart about how the alt-right was the kind of new legit new right in the United States.
00:10:36.000And the actual white supremacists do love Bannon, and they think that Bannon—I mean, Bannon
00:11:09.000What does that mean that Bannon has elective affinities with the alt-right and that he's warm toward a bunch of white supremacists and anti-semites?
00:11:15.000And he is warm toward the philosophy of the intellectualized alt-right.
00:11:59.000He likes to think of himself that way, so it wouldn't be a surprise for me to say this, even to him.
00:12:04.000And so when I jokingly said earlier this year that if Trump wins, I expect my IRS audit, that was not really a joke.
00:12:10.000I mean, I think that with Bannon in the White House, I think a lot of people who did not support Trump
00:12:14.000Sufficiently, and didn't support Bannon and think Bannon's a bad guy.
00:12:18.000Those people will be targeted by Bannon, or at least there's a good shot they will be.
00:12:22.000But more importantly, beyond sort of personal vendettas, Bannon's actual agenda is he does not like the Republican Party, which is okay, except that he doesn't like them for the wrong reasons.
00:12:30.000Bannon is a European far-right populist.
00:12:33.000He's somebody who believes first and foremost in the idea that we have to have tariffs and we have to assure the continuation of Western civilization by limiting immigration.
00:12:42.000Not just immigration on the basis of philosophy, just immigration generally has to be limited.
00:12:47.000He doesn't believe in small government per se.
00:13:10.000The American right traditionally, the conservative American right, traditionally has said constitutional principles like individual liberty and personal responsibility and limited government.
00:13:19.000These are the core of Americanism and if you can accept those principles you can come from anywhere and be part of America.
00:13:25.000That's not what the nationalist right believes.
00:13:27.000The nationalist right believes close the borders now.
00:13:30.000We have to stand up for our culture against all other cultures and people can't really integrate into the culture.
00:14:08.000There's the optimistic way to read that, and then there's the pessimistic way to read that, and I'll let you choose.
00:14:12.000And by the way, I'm trying to be as objective as I possibly can be, given the fact that I have personal distaste for a man that I believe is a destructive force inside the Republican Party, and in the conservative movement generally, and who's out for his own self-aggrandizement.
00:14:25.000If you're optimistic, Bannon leads the war on the media.
00:14:28.000He just fights the left media on behalf of Donald Trump, because that's sort of what he did at Breitbart.
00:14:33.000And Reince handles all of the internal party squabbles and just helps Trump work with Reince, because Reince is very, very close with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.
00:15:01.000Reince is the bag man and Bannon is whispering in Trump's ear.
00:15:05.000This morning, Reince came out and he was praising Trump, praising Bannon, and here is what he had to say about Bannon.
00:15:11.000A lot of people are concerned because they look at the website he ran, Breitbart News.
00:15:17.000As one paper put it, it recently accused President Obama of, quote, importing more hating Muslims, called Bill Kristol a renegade Jew, advised female victims of online harassment to just log off and stop screwing up the internet for men.
00:15:31.000I guess people are wondering, is this the worldview that Steve Bannon will bring to the White House?
00:15:36.000Can you let them know anything about him that would be contrary to the website he ran?
00:16:59.000He can be charming with people who he thinks he's conning, basically.
00:17:03.000And Reince, since he spent this entire election cycle massaging Trump's buttocks and the people of those around him, it's not a surprise that Bannon was temperate with him.
00:17:23.000So the left is wrong about Bannon, but the idea that Bannon's not going to have any say in this White House is really not true.
00:17:29.000And when it comes to how that breaks down, the problem is, of course, that if Bannon wants to go to war with Reince, like literally an hour after they announced that Bannon would be working with Reince at the White House,
00:17:39.000Breitbart ran a story about how Ryan should be ousted as Speaker of the House.
00:17:42.000So if you think that Bannon is just going to sit by while all the policy gets done, yeah, that's not happening.
00:17:49.000And Kellyanne Conway, who really has turned out to be, I thought this during the campaign, but she's a very, very skilled liar, she talked up Bannon as well on Meet the Press.
00:17:59.000It was a very small core senior team, probably less than 10 people all told, and I'm sure that everyone will be very important to the president moving forward.
00:18:10.000I think having worked with him and known him, Steve Bannon in this particular campaign was the general, and he is much more the Goldman Sachs managing partner and much more the naval officer, I think, than people realize.
00:18:25.000So what you're saying is he's not, he wouldn't come in to say, let's burn Washington down, proverbially?
00:18:30.000I think that the president-elect is there to actually implement his first 100-day plan and those around him know that and will appreciate that whether it's within his inner circle on Capitol Hill.
00:18:41.000We are very grateful in Trump world to both Bannon and Priebus.
00:18:47.000And I think you'll see them work, continue to work together.
00:18:52.000So look, people are not going to be in the mood to hear bad stuff about Trump right now, which is why I'm trying to be honest about what I think this means.
00:19:00.000But the idea that's being promulgated that Steve is some sort of temperate moderate moderating force in the, in the white house, that just is not true.