Trump has a backup plan in case Trumpcare goes down in flames: He ll simply leave Obamacare in place, blame Democrats, and then stump for more Republican votes in Congress to help him replace it. But is that a good idea? And why is it a bad idea in the first place? Ben Shapiro explains why it s a terrible idea. He also talks about the Steve King blow-up, and why the media are doing a hit job on the King. Ben Shapiro is the host of the conservative podcast "The Weekly Standard" and host of "The Ben Shapiro Show" on Fox News Radio. He is also a regular contributor to The Weekly Standard and has been featured on CNN and other conservative media outlets. He is a frequent contributor to conservative publications, including The Daily Caller, Hot Air, Hot Water, and Hot Water Magazine. His latest book, "American Idiot," is out now and is available for pre-order on Amazon Prime and Vimeo worldwide. Click here to get a free copy of the book, American Idiot: How to Succeed in the 21st Century, by John McCain and Steve King, wherever you get your copy of The New York Times, The New Republic or Hot Air. If you like what you read, consider subscribing to Vogue or Vogue, or become a Vogue Member, by becoming a Friend of the Times Square Insider, and become a Patron of Vogue. Subscribe here to the Vogue Insider, Vogue s newest podcast, The Cutthroat, wherever else you get access to the latest news and gossip, including Vogue and celebrity reviews, including the latest gossip, and Vogue's newest issues, including celebrity profiles, and much more. You can get exclusive access to all sorts of things going on the best things happening in the highest-ranking celebs and more! Subscribe and listen to the best vizzionations, including gossip and gossip. The most authentic and the most influential people in the world, including women s reviews, the most authentic things happening around the world. Vogue is a must-listens to all things happening everywhere you read and hear more than you can viably, including celebrities and more. v=1& v=3s=1s&q&qid=8s&t=4s=2s=4q&f&f=3&q=3 v=2q&s=3QQ&qref=3q&a&qx&qb&qq=1
00:00:00.000President Trump reportedly has a backup plan in case Trumpcare goes down in flames.
00:00:04.000He'll simply leave Obamacare in place, blame Democrats, and then stump for more Republican votes in Congress to help him replace Obamacare.
00:00:12.000According to CNN, quote, During an hour-long meeting, sources said Trump chastised groups including Club for Growth, the Heritage Foundation, Americans for Prosperity, FreedomWorks, and the Tea Party Patriots for calling the House GOP proposal Obamacare lite,
00:00:52.000They said in 2016 they need the White House to repeal Obamacare.
00:00:55.000If they fail again, do you really think Republicans will keep going back to the well on the same old promise when Republicans could pass a one-line bill repealing Obamacare now?
00:01:03.000As Alipunda says at Hot Air, at some point people get wise to the scam.
00:01:14.000States will continue to pile people on Medicaid.
00:01:16.000Those people will continue to vote for Democrats.
00:01:18.000The entitlement program will get bigger, not smaller.
00:01:20.000And when people on Obamacare plans can't obtain their doctor, who's to say they won't go to the government for more money and bigger subsidies, rather than decrying the evils of Obamacare?
00:01:28.000We're already seeing a spike in Obamacare's popularity, now that there's talk of replacement.
00:01:33.000Do we think that will stop when Republicans vow to kill a law affecting a larger and larger share of the health market?
00:01:39.000No entitlement program has ever gotten less popular over time, no matter how bankrupt it is.
00:01:45.000Obamacare is already popular enough that Republicans are afraid of killing it outright.
00:01:48.000Give it another couple years and Republicans will be talking about how they want to preserve it the same way they do with Social Security and Medicare.
00:02:36.000I want to talk a lot about this Steve King blow-up that's happened, because I think that it's pretty clear that the media are doing a hit job here.
00:02:44.000And this is coming from somebody who says that, you know, when the media is right, the media are right.
00:02:48.000When they are calling it accurately, they're calling it accurately.
00:02:50.000I'm not somebody who's knee-jerk when it comes to the media is always wrong, the media is always lying.
00:02:55.000Sometimes the media is right, sometimes the media is wrong.
00:02:57.000In this case, I really think that Steve King is getting railroaded a little bit.
00:03:02.000Some of that's his own fault, because he uses verbiage that is really kind of stupid.
00:03:06.000But some of that, a lot of it, I think, is just the media lying.
00:03:09.000And so I want to talk about that specifically in just a minute.
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00:04:48.000Okay, so I was going to start with Trumpcare today, and then there was a big controversy that broke out this morning over Representative Steve King.
00:04:55.000So, full disclosure, I know Representative King.
00:04:57.000I think Representative King is, from the times I've met him, he seems like a nice fellow.
00:05:02.000I don't think that Representative King is the brightest guy in the basket.
00:05:06.000I think that Representative King tends to boil everything down to a little bit too simplistic a version of reality, but here's what happened.
00:05:13.000So, Steve King gets on Twitter over the weekend, and he tweets out
00:05:17.000Wilders, talking about Gert Wilders over in the Netherlands, understands that culture and demographics are our destiny.
00:05:23.000We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies.
00:06:32.000Is Merkel a white supremacist or a racist?
00:06:34.000I mean, she wants to reduce the number of refugees, and it seems like what she's saying here is that multiculturalism connected with high levels of immigration from foreign culture creates enclaves that are dangerous for any sort of Western civilization that's attempting to thrive.
00:07:13.000That somebody else's babies... We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies?
00:07:17.000Does he mean by that that if somebody else raises their babies not in accordance with Western civilization, you can't restore your civilization?
00:08:38.000Well, if you go down the road a few generations or maybe centuries with the intermarriage, I'd like to see an America that's just so homogenous that we look a lot the same from that perspective.
00:08:51.000I think there's been far too much focus on race, especially in the last eight years, and I want to see that put behind us, and I want to be as bonded together.
00:08:58.000I gave a speech on this on Saturday, and half the liberals got up and left the room when I talked about
00:09:03.000Because when you say, when you suggest to anybody... They're looking for hatred is the point, Chris.
00:09:50.000I mean, this is, he said over and over.
00:09:52.000What's amazing here is that, so here's where the media lies.
00:09:54.000So the headline that you have seen this morning, undoubtedly, the headline that you've seen this morning is King, quote, I'd like to see an America that's just so homogenous that we look a lot the same.
00:10:05.000If you just see that headline, you would assume immediately that what Steve King is talking about is that he just wants to see lots of white babies.
00:10:11.000He wants a racially homogenous America with lots of white babies.
00:10:13.000That's the implication of that headline.
00:10:15.000But the first half of the sentence is, if you go down the road a few generations and maybe centuries with the intermarriage, I'd like to see an America that's just so homogenous that we look a lot the same.
00:10:24.000As somebody who's been labeled a cuck by the alt-right,
00:10:26.000As somebody who hates the alt-right, who despises racism, who thinks racism is disgusting, if I thought Steve King was being racist here, if I thought that what he was actually talking about was the first interpretation of his tweet, not the second interpretation, I'd be the first person calling for his censure on the floor of the House.
00:10:39.000I'd be calling for his constituents to dump him at the nearest bus stop.
00:10:42.000Okay, this idea that, you know, I'm looking to defend Steve King for racist comments is just silly.
00:10:47.000But what's amazing here is, again, the first half of the sentence is that he wants to see more intermarriage, not less.
00:10:53.000That he wants to see all the races intermingle.
00:10:56.000Last I checked, that's not a white supremacist position.
00:10:58.000It's not a white nationalist position.
00:11:00.000It's not a position that suggests that race and ethnicity are inherently connected with culture.
00:11:14.000He's not saying, I just want a bunch of white people.
00:11:16.000He said, quote, if you go down the road a few generations or maybe centuries with the intermarriage, I'd like to see an America that's just so homogenous that we look a lot the same.
00:11:23.000The reason I mention the alt-right here is because what the alt-right has called people like me, people who actually like immigration.
00:11:28.000I think immigration is a good thing when combined with assimilation.
00:11:31.000I want more immigration when combined with assimilation.
00:11:34.000You're looking at somebody right now or listening to somebody right now who has said, I would trade 50 million people from abroad who share America's values for people who live in the United States and don't appreciate America's values.
00:11:47.000I think that that's actually sort of what King is saying here and the media is out to jump on him because they're suggesting that what he really means is that black babies are bad as opposed to if we bring in people from a bunch of foreign cultures and don't assimilate them, those babies are not going to make American culture better because they're not going to be assimilated.
00:13:04.000If we have an element of Americans here, and that's a big element, that reject Western civilization, then what have we?
00:13:11.000This is an effort on the left, I think, to break down the American civilization and the American culture and turn it into something entirely different.
00:13:19.000I'm a champion for Western civilization, and yes, our English language is a big part of it.
00:13:36.000And there are civilizations that produce very little, if any.
00:13:39.000This Western civilization is a superior civilization, and we want to share it with everybody.
00:13:45.000Okay, he keeps saying civilization and culture, you know, civilization and culture, civilization and culture, and Cuomo just keeps going back to race, because Cuomo wants to get him on the race point.
00:13:55.000And so when you read the headlines today, and when you see people immediately jumping to Steve King is a racist, or what Steve King said here anyway, is racist,
00:14:03.000Just do yourself a favor and do your own research on this stuff, because the fact is, and listen to what they're actually saying, because the headlines do not convey what exactly was going on in this case.
00:14:12.000And it's very frustrating, because I've been in arguments this morning on Twitter with people, and I keep just quoting King, right?
00:14:17.000I just keep saying, okay, here's what he actually said.
00:14:18.000Here's the actual text of what he said.
00:14:24.000And everybody just keeps going to, but that's not what they want to believe.
00:14:27.000Everybody just keeps doubling down on what they want to believe.
00:14:29.000What's the narrative they want to embrace?
00:14:30.000What's the convenient narrative to embrace?
00:14:33.000And there's some virtue signaling, I think, going on from some people on the right who are looking to just disassociate with anybody who says anything mildly controversial and who are looking to prove to everybody they're not racist by throwing this guy under the bus for saying something that really actually is not racist.
00:14:46.000What he's saying right now is not actually racist.
00:14:49.000He keeps denying that it's racist and he keeps saying, again,
00:14:54.000When I'm called a cuck, the term cuck, what that means is that I want to see the races mixed.
00:14:59.000That I want to see the races mixed because I'm a terrible person.
00:15:02.000This is according to white supremacists.
00:15:03.000If I didn't support Trump sufficiently, it's because I'm a cuck who wants my wife to have sex with a black person so I don't have black babies and be tweeted about it by my little Yiannopoulos.
00:15:10.000That's demonstrative of the fact that I'm a cuck.
00:15:14.000There's nothing more cuckish than what just got said there by Steve King with regards to intermarriage.
00:15:19.000Okay, if you think that the white supremacists are into that, that's just- it's just not true.
00:15:23.000So, I think that it's worthwhile debunking this kind of stuff because, you know, we're- we attempt to be fair-minded and objective and honest as we can be here on the program in line with conservative principles, and I'm not just gonna bend over backwards and say that the guy said something racist when we can all look at the tape ourselves and determine whether- who's lying here.
00:15:41.000Or is it the media who are lying about him?
00:15:43.000Okay, well before I get to Trumpcare, because there's a lot to talk about there,
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00:16:52.000I want to talk a little bit about the myths and the facts surrounding Trumpcare, because this rollout continues amidst all of the chaos, amidst all of the hubbubs.
00:17:00.000The fact is that the Trumpcare rollout continues apace, and the Democrats continue to lie about it.
00:17:08.000And when I say Democrats, I mean the quote-unquote conservative columnists at the New York Times, too.
00:17:12.000So David Brooks is the in-house conservative columnist at the New York Times, and he says that Trumpcare is just a boondoggle for the rich.
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