Alicia Keys tweets a picture of a woman in the Islamic head covering, the veil known as the "Niqab" that covers her entire face except for her eyes, and then she says, "That's not the right one, that's the wrong one." It's the sort of empty-headed virtue signaling you'd expect from a member of the political far-left who obviously knows nothing about the way radical Islam treats women. It would be one thing to defend the hijab, which is a giant covering that covers your entire face, except for your eyes. And then she's wearing what appears to be a black, form-fitting dress with her legs sticking out of it? So, you know, the niqab is now a great thing? This is just the kind of empty headed virtue-signalling you'd be expected from a politician who knows absolutely nothing about Islamic law. Plus, we'll get to the latest from Trump land and Bernie Sanders land, plus the latest in the crazy lands that exist in this bizarre Game of Thrones world we now inhabit. Plus we'll talk about a Planned Parenthood move by the state of California, and we'll go through all the news from around the world, including the latest on the Game Of Thrones world, and all the crazy things going on in the wild lands we now exist in. Ben Shapiro is a writer, comedian, podcaster, and podcaster. He's also the host of the podcast "The Ben Shapiro Show" and host of "Ben Shapiro Show." and hosts a podcast called The Ben Shapiro Podcast. and is a regular contributor to The Weekly Standard. with his own podcast, Ben Shapiro's new podcast, "Ben and Ben." Ben is a good friend of mine, and I really like Ben's work and I hope you do too. Ben is an amazing human being and I'm glad you're listening to Ben's stuff. . Thank you for listening to this episode of the Ben Shapiro show, Ben and Ben Shapiro podcast. - - Ben Shapiro - The Daily Mail - This episode was produced and edited by Ben Shapiro - This is sponsored by Helix Sleep, a great place to get a good night's rest and rest and relax in the middle of the day, and rest so you can have a restful night. Ben's back in your bed and a good nights rest, rest in the rest of your mind so you don't have to worry about falling asleep.
00:00:00.000On Tuesday, singer Alicia Keys, who performed at the 2016 Democratic National Convention of course, posted this tweet.
00:00:06.000It says, that's not the right one, that's the right one, there we go.
00:00:09.000It says, our strength is in our differences, our power is in our diversity, we are so beautiful, all of us, when we see each other, we see ourselves.
00:00:18.000The niqab is the giant covering that covers your entire face except for your eyes.
00:00:23.000And then she's wearing what appears to be a black form-fitting dress with her legs sticking out of it.
00:00:28.000So, you know, the niqab is now a great thing.
00:00:30.000This is just the sort of empty-headed virtue signaling you'd expect from a member of the political far left who obviously knows nothing about the way radical Islam treats women.
00:00:37.000It's the idiocy of modern feminism in action.
00:00:39.000It would be one thing to defend the hijab, which is the Islamic head covering that virtually all religious Muslim women wear.
00:00:44.000It's another to defend the niqab, which is that face covering into which many religious Muslim countries force women.
00:00:50.000In the countries in which women typically wear the niqab, like Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan or Iran, a woman who exposed her leg, the way the woman does in this photo, would be criminally prosecuted.
00:00:59.000In Sudan in 2015, nine women were flogged for wearing pants.
00:01:03.000In Indonesia last year, a Muslim woman was flogged for standing in close proximity to her boyfriend.
00:01:29.000It is easy to fetishize foreign cultures, but to glamorize a symbol of oppression for millions of women across the Muslim world to pretend that the great threat to freedom comes from the West
00:01:38.000Which is willing to tolerate women wearing pretty much anything rather than a radical Muslim world that uses the criminal law to penalize women who violate their standards of modesty is asinine virtue signaling that forwards the oppression of women.
00:01:56.000All right, so today I actually want to talk a fair bit about this Planned Parenthood move by the state of California.
00:02:01.000The state of California is now charging the undercover filmmakers who went undercover with Planned Parenthood and showed that Planned Parenthood was selling baby body parts, that they were performing abortions in ways in order to preserve the body parts of the babies.
00:02:15.000The filmmakers are the ones in trouble.
00:02:17.000In California, fine to kill babies, fine to sell their body parts.
00:02:19.000Not okay to go undercover to film people doing this in news reporting.
00:02:24.000But even that is a misread of the law and we'll go through all the law in just a second.
00:02:28.000Plus we'll get to the latest from Trump land and Bernie Sanders land and all the rest of the crazy lands that exist in this bizarre Game of Thrones world we now inhabit.
00:02:36.000But first, we have to say thank you to our sponsors over at Helix Sleep.
00:02:41.000My wife can sleep through pretty much anything.
00:02:43.000Loud noises, or crying babies, or not-so-subtle advances from me.
00:03:34.000I like the small Ben and small Ben female who are my children.
00:03:40.000I don't put pictures of my kids online for obvious reasons, for safety reasons, but that's actually sort of what they look like, so it's kind of funny.
00:03:51.000So let's begin with this controversy over Planned Parenthood.
00:03:54.000So, last night it is announced by the state of California that they have charged David Dalladin and Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress on 15 felony counts over their undercover reporting regarding Planned Parenthood.
00:04:09.000Dalladin and Merritt released video showing that high-ranking Planned Parenthood members were joking about selling baby body parts for market rates and picking through actual baby body parts in order to demonstrate which sorts of body parts were available for the sale of medical research and talking about the best methods of abortion for procuring those baby body parts.
00:04:25.000I want to remind you of what's on those tapes because this is the stuff that's not criminal.
00:04:28.000It's the taping that's supposedly criminal.
00:04:30.000So here is one of the heads of Planned Parenthood saying that she wants to buy a Lamborghini with the money that she makes from selling baby body parts.
00:05:27.000The allegation that Planned Parenthood profits in any way from tissue donation is not true.
00:05:34.000A company like this that wants to, that wants to give our organization money for the tissue, like, I think that that's a valid claim, you know?
00:06:51.000For example, so I had eight cases yesterday.
00:06:56.000And I knew exactly what we needed, and I kind of looked at the list, and I said, alright, this 17-linker has 8 grams, and this we have... So I knew which were the cases that were probably more likely to yield what we needed, and I made my decisions according to that, too.
00:07:08.000So it's worth having a huddle at the beginning of the day.
00:07:20.000Just to keep everyone, to keep it... If they're gonna, you know, participate in something like this, you know, there are mechanisms by which contracts can be reviewed and things like that, but there are no guidelines.
00:07:30.000Sometimes the procedures are longer, so then anything that we piggyback onto that for collection purposes, obviously, you know, would have to reflect that additional time, cost, administrative burden.
00:08:23.000Was Kamala Harris, who's now the senator from California.
00:08:25.000She was then the attorney general of the state of California.
00:08:27.000She's the one who ordered a raid into Layden's home to try and get hold of all of the tapes.
00:08:34.000And now they've charged 15 felony counts.
00:08:36.000So here's what you need to know legally.
00:08:37.000California is what we call a two-party consent state.
00:08:40.000That means that if you and I are on the phone together and I tape it, I can't release that tape.
00:08:44.000It is actually illegal for me to do the taping itself.
00:08:46.000That is actually wiretapping in the formal sense of the term.
00:08:49.000I can't do that without your permission.
00:08:50.000However, if you and I are in a public place and there is no reasonable expectation of privacy, that's the way the law is written, if there's no reasonable expectation of privacy, then me taping you is not a problem.
00:09:01.000So if we're at Disneyland, we're talking out loud about baby tissue, then there is no reasonable expectation of privacy.
00:09:06.000But it actually goes even further than that.
00:09:08.000So 14 of the 15 charges come from the California Penal Code, Section 632A.
00:09:12.000That states in relevant part, quote, every person who intentionally and without the consent of all parties to a confidential communication
00:09:19.000By means of any electronic amplifying or recording device eavesdrops shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $2,500 or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year or in the state prison or by both that fine and imprisonment.
00:09:49.000Cecile Richards said that people were saying this publicly in restaurants and that this wasn't a privacy issue.
00:09:53.000What they're saying is that some of the other conversations, like there's a point where they went into some of the medical labs, there's a point where they went into, you can see, a private office with some of the heads of Planned Parenthood.
00:10:03.000They're saying those were private conversations.
00:10:05.000So, that would be plausible except for this 2002 case from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
00:10:11.000The Ninth Circuit was asked to rule on a case that sprang from Arizona.
00:10:15.000So ABC News, ABC News did a segment for Primetime Live in 1994.
00:10:20.000And this segment actually ended up winning a Peabody Award for great journalism.
00:10:23.000And what they did is they went into a place called Medical Laboratory Management Consultants and they were talking about mammograms and whether they were effective or not and whether they were overprescribed.
00:10:36.000Devaraj is the person who is the representative for medical laboratory management consultants.
00:10:40.000They said, Devaraj's willingness to invite these strangers into the administrative offices for a meeting and then on a tour of the premises indicated that Devaraj should not have an objectively reasonable expectation of solitude or seclusion in the parts of medical lab that he showed the ABC representatives.
00:10:55.000And then the court also found no reasonable expectation of privacy regarding the conversations between the ABC undercover reporters and the medical technicians.
00:11:02.000This is a direct quote from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the most liberal court in the country.
00:11:18.000So the ABC pretended to be something they weren't, which is exactly what this case was, and then they went and talked to people in a private setting, which is exactly what this case was, and the court found no problem.
00:11:27.000In fact, the Ninth Circuit said, Arizona law is not like California law.
00:11:31.000Maybe it would be different if this were in California, but then they add this, quote,
00:11:38.000Namely, the expectation that a communication shared with or possibly overheard by a limited group of persons will nonetheless remain relatively private and secluded from the public at large is reasonable only to the extent the communication conveys information private and personal to the declarant.
00:11:53.000To the declarant, meaning that if none of the Planned Parenthood members are talking about the stuff they do in their personal life specifically, there's no problem here.
00:12:01.000That's the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
00:12:10.000The media, you know, the people who we've been hearing for months and months and months, tyrannical Donald Trump, tyrannical he's going to destroy everything, tyrannical, awful, evil Donald Trump, he's going to crack down on press freedoms, and he's going to ensure that no one is free, he's going to throw people in jail.
00:12:26.000When the state of California is taking undercover journalists, which is what DeLayton and Merritt are, taking them and threatening to throw them in jail for at least 15 years apiece.
00:12:57.000Back in 2012, Mitt Romney, he gets taped by Jimmy Carter's grandson, and Jimmy Carter's grandson gets this tape at a private event where Mitt Romney is speaking, okay?
00:13:06.000And Mitt Romney is not speaking even to him.
00:13:07.000He's just speaking to a private group of people, and this guy tapes Romney talking about the 47%.
00:13:12.000Imagine if Romney sued the guy, or more importantly, imagine if the state in which this took place decided to prosecute Jimmy Carter Jr., or Jimmy Carter III, and what do you think the media would do?
00:13:22.000You think the media would stand up for that?
00:13:24.000You think they would say, oh, no problem, you know, that was a violation of privacy expectations?
00:13:28.000What do you think would happen if an undercover journalist, let's say, for example, that there is an undercover, somebody released, without the permission of Donald Trump, tape from, let's say, an Access Hollywood bus in California, right?
00:13:42.000And there was an Access Hollywood bus, and there was tape that Donald Trump knew the microphone was on him, but he didn't know the microphone was on, obviously.
00:13:47.000Let's say that somebody took that tape, in which Trump had a pretty reasonable expectation of privacy, and then released it publicly.
00:13:54.000And the state of California decided to go after and prosecute the people over at NBC, or wherever this was taking place, I think it was NBC.
00:14:15.000If David DeLayton had been a member of Planned Parenthood, and they went into an undercover investigation of people targeting Planned Parenthood, if they had done an undercover investigation of live action, Lila Rose's organization, and found some sort of corruption, or something damning,
00:14:27.000And then they'd release that publicly.
00:14:28.000Do you think the media would be okay with the prosecution of the people who actually did that work?
00:14:34.000And this just demonstrates that when it comes to principle, people are almost always willing to put their own political preferences above the importance of principle, and this is just another case of that.
00:14:54.000Where are those wonders of freedom over at the ACLU?
00:14:57.000Where are all the people on the left on this?
00:14:59.000They're missing in action because they think it's more important to kill babies, and this guy was a bad guy because he exposed the fact that killing babies was a bad thing.
00:15:07.000And that Planned Parenthood was in the business of killing babies.
00:15:09.000I mean, there's video of them actually picking through baby body parts on a tray.
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00:16:57.000The media have lost their minds, and the way you can tell the media have lost their minds is not just because every day I keep telling you the media have lost their minds, not just because the media are wildly inconsistent when it comes to things like the Planned Parenthood tapes, but I'm going to give you two examples of the media just going nuts and losing their freaking gourds.
00:17:17.000Yesterday at the White House press briefing, Sean Spicer is doing a press briefing, and April Ryan, who's from Urban Radio Networks, I believe, American Urban Radio Networks, she starts questioning Spicer in the most obnoxious possible way.
00:17:29.000I think that Sean Spicer is far too close to Melissa McCarthy's impression of Sean Spicer for comfort, but Sean Spicer is dealing with April Ryan's questions, and everybody, I saw this clip tweeted out yesterday, and people were going crazy over it, and I watched it, and I was like, I don't understand what the big problem is.
00:17:44.000Here's the clip, and you decide for yourself.
00:17:46.000No, no, I get it, but you keep... I've said it from the day that I got here until whatever, that there is no connection.
00:18:20.000I appreciate it, but, but... Okay, but understand this.
00:18:23.000That at some point, the facts are what they are.
00:18:25.000And every single person who has been briefed on this situation, with respect to the situation with Russia, Republican, Democrat, Obama appointee, career, have all come to the same conclusion.
00:18:37.000At some point, April, you're going to have to take no for an answer with respect to whether or not there was collusion.
00:19:44.000There is something we've never seen before here at this White House, and Sean has to do what he has to do.
00:19:50.000He is the spokesperson for this White House, but I'm a reporter, and I cover all things presidential, to include what is presidential, those investigations on the Hill.
00:20:23.000But he is now president, a president who's never had governance, and he's finding his way.
00:20:29.000And he's finding his way in ways that are hurtful to him and hopefully not hurtful to the country.
00:20:36.000Okay, so she's playing this whole thing up, and everybody on the left is playing this up this morning.
00:20:40.000Ooh, Sean Spicer was so mean to April Ryan.
00:20:42.000Now, first of all, I've defended April Ryan before.
00:20:44.000I defended April Ryan, there was that situation in the White House press briefing room during, I think Trump himself was doing a press conference, and at one point he said to April Ryan, can you fix up a meeting between me and the Congressional Black Caucus?
00:20:55.000And I was like, wait a second, that's not her job, that's weird.
00:20:57.000But this one is just absurd on its face.
00:21:00.000But this wasn't the only example of the media losing their mind over something that was almost meaningless, or at least was wildly overblown, would be more accurate.
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