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00:00:00.000While appearing on a show that lowers the collective IQ of the nation by at least one standard deviation, The View, Allie Wentworth, who is the wife of ABC News objective news anchor George Stephanopoulos, explained what election night was like at the Stephanopoulos-Wentworth home.
00:00:14.000And I have an 11-year-old daughter who doesn't really understand what ISIS is, but she knows that she's scared, and she's now sleeping in bed with us every night.
00:01:02.000If you're wondering why the left have gone completely insane, perhaps it's because they were raised to be insane and now they're raising their kids the exact same way.
00:01:08.000Why in the world would a 14-year-old girl think that her world is ending because Donald Trump has been elected president?
00:01:14.000More importantly, why would she think her world is ending because of possible restrictions on abortion?
00:01:20.000Are leftist parents truly raising their daughters to believe that their right to freedom is dependent on their ability to kill their own offspring in the womb?
00:01:27.000I'll raise my kids to believe that certain rights are sacred.
00:01:29.000The right to religious practice, the right to freedom of speech, the right to defend ourselves.
00:01:32.000The notion of teaching a little girl that abortion is the chief right women should expect from their government, or that their life is somehow inevitably impacted by laws cracking down on abortion, that's patently crazy.
00:01:43.000The fact that some leftists apparently teach their kids that liberty can be boiled down not to individual choice and responsibility for that choice, but to the ability to pay a clinic, to kill a baby in the womb and then take it out, that's pretty disgusting.
00:01:56.000As the parent of a daughter, here's what I plan to tell her about abortion.
00:01:59.000I plan to say, sweetheart, when you get married, and when you have sex and get pregnant, that will be the greatest joy you can experience.
00:02:04.000I know that because it was the greatest joy that your mom and I ever experienced.
00:02:07.000Your birth was the highlight of our lives.
00:02:09.000Your existence is a timeless reminder that God loves us, and he loves you, and that he favors us with miracles every day, none greater than your creation.
00:02:17.000You're beloved of God, and your children will be too.
00:02:19.000Children are the greatest gift we can receive.
00:05:12.000This is making a nation of crazy people.
00:05:15.000And it really is dividing us along lines that don't need division.
00:05:20.000There was a question somebody put out on Twitter, must have been a few weeks ago, where they said, what's the thing where in a hundred years people are going to look back on American politics and say, I can't believe that was even a debate?
00:05:31.000Because as science gets better, as we see into the womb better, as it is clear to people what exactly is going on inside the womb, what happens in pregnancy, as more people become aware of it,
00:05:40.000People are going to see this for the evil that it is.
00:05:42.000Again, the idea of a 14-year-old running around screaming because she won't be able to get an abortion under Trump, number one, it's not true.
00:05:48.000Number two, even if it were true, how about mommy says to her, sweetheart, you're never going to want an abortion and abortion is bad and actually what you should be focused on is making good decisions in your life and not your ability to kill a baby.
00:06:03.000The idea that your lifestyle is compromised because you have a baby
00:06:08.000I mean, the basic notion the left promotes with regard to abortion, that your lifestyle must be preserved at the cost of another human life, is really, really stomach-churning.
00:06:15.000That's not the only stomach-churning thing, though.
00:06:17.000The left proclaims itself a big fan of human rights, and the big news story of the day is what's happening in Aleppo in Syria.
00:06:23.000So Aleppo, as Gary Johnson well knows now, is a city in Syria.
00:06:51.000Had committed suicide in order to avoid being raped by Assad's forces.
00:06:55.000Apparently there are a hundred schoolchildren who were killed when they were suffocated under a building that was blown up by Assad's forces.
00:07:02.000The UN is saying that there are scores and scores of people who are civilians who are being killed in Aleppo.
00:07:07.000And the Obama administration is just devastated about this.
00:07:11.000And so they sent out Samantha Power, who's the UN ambassador, and who by the way wrote a book about American inaction during genocide.
00:07:22.000I mean, the fact is that she was appointed specifically because of her unwillingness to stand by blindly, supposedly, when genocide was occurring.
00:07:30.000The book was called A Problem from Hell.
00:07:31.000It was a big bestseller back in, like, 2002.
00:07:34.000And it explicitly talked about American inaction.
00:07:37.000It goes through all of the various genocides that have happened around the planet during the last hundred years and gets very upset with the United States for not stepping in.
00:07:45.000The New York Times Book Review talked about her book at the time.
00:07:49.000And it said, Washington is a place of defeatism, inertia, selfishness, and cowardice.
00:07:54.000Warnings pass up the chain and disappear.
00:07:56.000Intelligence is gathered and then ignored or denied.
00:07:58.000The will of the executive remains steadfastly opposed to intervention.
00:08:01.000Its guiding assumption is that the cost of stopping genocide is great, while the political cost of ignoring it is next to nil.
00:08:07.000And basically, she makes the case that we ought to be more interested in genocide around the world.
00:08:13.000Well, the Obama administration obviously didn't care about the genocide that was happening in Syria, and it is a genocide.
00:08:18.000I mean, you're talking hundreds of thousands of people dead.
00:08:20.000The latest estimate is 470,000 people dead in Syria.
00:08:24.000Several million have been exiled from Syria.
00:08:26.000The entire refugee crisis in Europe is largely due to what's happening in Syria.
00:08:30.000Obama, as you recall, he said that he drew a red line.
00:08:33.000If Assad had used chemical weapons against his own people, then Assad did use chemical weapons against his own people.
00:08:38.000And Obama said that he was going to take military action.
00:09:54.000In the last 24 hours alone, pro-Assad forces reportedly killed at least 82 civilians, including 11 women and 13 children.
00:10:02.000And it is up to each and every one of us here to defend those rules.
00:10:07.000To the Assad regime, Russia, and Iran, three member states behind the conquest of and carnage in Aleppo, you bear responsibility for these atrocities.
00:10:20.000By rejecting UN-ICRC evacuation efforts, you are signaling to those militia who are massacring innocents to keep doing what they are doing.
00:10:37.000As you will do today, saying up is down, black is white, will not absolve you.
00:10:43.000To the Assad regime, Russia and Iran, your forces and proxies are carrying out these crimes.
00:10:49.000Your barrel bombs and mortars and airstrikes have allowed the militia in Aleppo to encircle tens of thousands of civilians in your ever-tightening noose.
00:11:02.000Okay, and so she is obviously condemning Russia, Iran, and Syria.
00:11:12.000You remember, Hillary Clinton called Assad a reformer.
00:11:15.000The media used to treat Assad with kid gloves.
00:11:17.000They used to pretend that he was a good guy in the region.
00:11:20.000Iran has been empowered massively by the same administration.
00:11:23.000They cut a nuclear deal with Iran, giving them the capacity to broaden their economy, give them $150 billion, open their economy to the world.
00:11:54.000And I want to point something else out here, too, and that is that there's this weird idea that has prevailed inside the Obama administration that you can shame bad people into doing good things.
00:12:03.000If you just shame them, then they'll do the right thing.
00:12:05.000You remember Michelle Obama with her Bring Back Our Girls hashtag.
00:12:09.000After Boko Haram, a terrorist group in Nigeria, kidnapped a bunch of schoolgirls, she held up that hashtag.
00:12:14.000Like Boko Haram cares what you hashtag.
00:12:16.000You remember that after Putin invaded Ukraine, Jen Psaki of the State Department, she tweeted, Hashtag United for Ukraine.
00:12:27.000But this all extends back to the same mentality as Gandhi.
00:12:30.000So Gandhi was a big fan of nonviolent resistance.
00:12:33.000Back in 1938, he said this about the Jews.
00:12:35.000He said, if I were a Jew born in Germany, this is during the Nazi period, if I were a Jew born in Germany and earned my livelihood there, I would claim Germany as my home, even as the tallest gentile German might.
00:12:44.000And challenge him to shoot me or cast me in the dungeon.
00:12:47.000The Jews of Germany can offer satyagraha, that's the passive resistance, under infinitely better auspices than the Indians of South Africa.
00:12:54.000Of course, that was inherently untrue, because the British were not vile Nazis, and the Nazis were.
00:13:00.000In 1946, after he found out about the Holocaust, he continued to maintain this.
00:13:03.000He said, Hitler killed 5 million Jews.
00:13:06.000It is the greatest crime of our time, but the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife.
00:13:10.000It would have aroused the world and the people of Germany.
00:13:13.000They sort of didn't have a choice, and they were slaughtered by the millions.
00:13:17.000The idea that the world would have been aroused by knowledge of the Holocaust is nonsense.
00:13:20.000Everybody knew about the Holocaust while it was happening.
00:13:22.000The contemporaneous documents show that was the case, and the United States wouldn't even bomb the rail lines.
00:13:27.000So the idea that you can offer passive resistance to evil, and that that somehow suffices, that's ridiculous, but that's been the Obama administration policy all the way through.
00:13:38.000Putin is a deeply evil human being who has not only expanded Russian borders at the expense of free peoples, he's also murdered dissidents, imprisoned dissidents, imprisoned people who are oligarchic, who he doesn't like, and then handed their money to other oligarchs that he does like, personally enriched himself to the tune of $40 billion, supposedly.
00:14:21.000And it talks about net favorability of Vladimir Putin among Republicans.
00:14:24.000So the net favorability of Vladimir Putin among Republicans, in 2016, in 2014, July 2014, Republican net favorability for Putin, meaning the number of people who like him minus the number of people who hate him, was negative 66%.
00:14:37.000So it's probably like 10% liked him, 76% thought that Putin was evil.
00:14:43.000Today, today, December 2016, that is a negative 10%.
00:14:48.000So that means that 35% probably like him and 45% think that he's bad.
00:14:54.000If you're one of these people who's gotten warm to Putin because you think that Putin was mean to Hillary and the enemy of my enemy is my friend, understand.
00:15:45.000If you want to say that there are alliances of convenience that you might be able to draw with Putin from time to time, that's one thing.
00:15:50.000But if you want to say that Putin is an actual ally in the war on terror, or you want to say that Vladimir Putin is the guy you're going to delegate foreign policy to, look, Putin knows what he's doing here, and he knows which buttons to push, and I think that it's only a matter of time before Putin makes a very aggressive move in Central Asia, you know, talking about Kazakhstan, or he makes a strong move against Latvia, or Estonia, or Lithuania, and then he dares Trump to stop him, and the chances are Trump won't do anything.
00:16:14.000The chances are very strong that Trump won't do anything.
00:18:00.000Okay, what he said earlier, he said that hundreds of thousands of people in Syria being killed, we were viewing that through the wrong lens.
00:18:07.000That's what he said on Fox News a little bit earlier today.
00:18:10.000We should view that through a different lens.
00:18:15.000Something is really bad happening and you can say that we don't have the wherewithal or we don't have the resources or we don't have the will to stop it, but to pretend that Obama's
00:18:25.000Awful, awful, awful about Syria and then pursue exactly the same policy and actually warm to Trump is more than a little bit hypocritical.
00:18:33.000The same thing is happening, by the way, about Russian hacking, of course.
00:18:36.000The real reason that Republicans shifted on Putin is not because they thought that Putin was fighting ISIS.
00:18:41.000The real reason the Republicans shifted on ISIS is the same reason they shifted on Wikileaks.
00:18:45.000When Wikileaks was targeting the American military, we hated Wikileaks.
00:18:48.000Then it started targeting Hillary, and a lot of Republicans said, hey, Wikileaks, they're great!
00:18:51.000They now have a, by the way, they went from a 47% net unfavorable rating among Republicans in 2014 to a net 27% favorable rating among Republicans now, Wikileaks.
00:19:01.000Hey, they still are releasing American military information, but we're cool with that because they're serving our purposes.
00:19:06.000Again, this just goes to show you that most people down deep don't really care about anything remotely approaching intellectual honesty.
00:19:13.000They care much more about, does it serve my interests?
00:20:14.000Trying to understand what Russia is doing, not only here in the United States, but in elections around the world, is an important thing for us to know, right?
00:20:24.000But we shouldn't have our hair on fire about it, right?
00:20:26.000We should just say, I don't even know what that means.
00:20:28.000And I'm not sure, I would like to see Bob Corker's hair on fire just for the thrill of, the fun of it.
00:20:33.000I mean, just the deputy dog of him running around.
00:20:36.000With the coronavirus still speaking with the slow cadence would be amusing.
00:20:40.000We have to sign off here, but there's a lot more to come.
00:20:42.000We are going to talk about some good things that Donald Trump has been doing.
00:20:44.000The man obviously has tremendous personal magnetism, and we'll talk about the evidence of that at dailywire.com to view the rest of the show.