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00:00:00.000One of the more irritating leftist tropes to emerge in the last year has been the rise of Fearless Girl, a hedge fund-sponsored bronze statue of a small girl standing defiantly in front of the Wall Street Bull, which would presumably trample her to death if both figures were real.
00:00:12.000Now, Democratic politician after Democratic politician has come forward to pay homage to this bronze calf.
00:00:18.000First, it was New York Mayor Bill de Blasio who criticized Wall Street, the same Wall Street that erected the annoyingly stupid icon.
00:00:24.000Now it's Senator Elizabeth Warren, who took a break from writing shrimp recipes for Native American cookbooks to demonstrate that she, too, cares about metal effigies erected by disproportionately male investment firms.
00:00:34.000And, you know, the picture's pretty amazing.
00:00:38.000She did persist in irritating the rest of us.
00:00:40.000Warren, of course, has been one of the lead Democratic voices in favor of so-called pay equality between men and women, ignoring all statistical evidence that the pay gap does not actually exist when all relevant factors are taken into account.
00:00:51.000Worth noting, Warren's female staffers earned 71% less than her male staffers did last year.
00:00:57.000Only one of Warren's top staffers earns more than $100,000 and was female.
00:01:02.000But this is all virtue signaling, of course.
00:01:04.000The notion is that if you don't stand in solidarity with a little girl against a giant bull, you must hate women and children.
00:01:10.000Somebody ought to inform Warren and other leftists that the little girl was once an unborn little girl, and Warren would then, presumably, stand with the bull.
00:01:25.000I feel like every time I take off a couple of days, the world just reaches a new level of chaos, and so it is and so it shall be.
00:01:31.000Plus, in just a few minutes, we're going to be having on Lauren Southern, who, of course, a well-known right-wing commentator from Canada, and she was at the Berkeley riots again.
00:01:41.000Berkeley does not seem like a nice place.
00:01:43.000All these friendly hippies are not that friendly, and so we'll talk about that.
00:01:47.000Starting to look like the Weimar Republic out there.
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00:03:13.000Among the things that are going on in the world, the Trump administration continues to kind of futz around on foreign policy and we'll talk about that.
00:03:22.000But first I want to talk about the fallout that happened from this election in the Georgia 6th District last night.
00:03:28.000So Georgia 6th District is a district that I think Trump won by a relatively small margin.
00:03:34.000He won it by 1.5 or 2 percent because there's been some redistricting there.
00:03:39.000There has been some significant movement in that district over time.
00:03:41.000Four years ago, Barack Obama lost that district by 23% to Mitt Romney.
00:03:46.000So, this particular district, last night, there was a runoff because Tom Price was the representative from that district, and now Tom Price is the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
00:03:56.000So, his name is John Ossoff, he's a Democrat, he doesn't even live in the district, and he ran against a slew of Republicans, I think there were 11 Republicans,
00:04:04.000And the idea was that if he crosses 50% in this original election, then he wins the seat outright.
00:04:09.000If he doesn't cross 50%, there's a runoff.
00:04:11.000If there's a runoff, he likely loses because it's a heavier Republican district.
00:04:14.000So, Democrats poured a crap load of money into this district.
00:04:17.000They poured $8.3 million into this local special election, trying to demonstrate that they were going to fight back against the Trump administration, and that was a giant fail.
00:04:26.000So, the candidate, John Ossoff, won about the same percentage in the district as Hillary Clinton won in the district.
00:04:33.000One of the reasons he came up just short is because he doesn't actually live in the district and that came out a couple of days before the actual election.
00:04:39.000Now that's not illegal, but obviously most people who vote for their congressperson like to know the person actually lives where they represent.
00:04:45.000There was an Ossoff yesterday trying to explain why he doesn't live in the home district.
00:04:54.000I'm a mile and a half down the street to support Alicia while she finishes medical school.
00:04:59.000It's something I've been very transparent about.
00:05:01.000In fact, I'm proud to be supporting her career.
00:05:03.000And as soon as she finishes her medical training, I'll be ten minutes back up the road into the district where I grew up.
00:05:09.000Okay, so that explanation did not really do a lot for him.
00:05:13.000He's not going to win the general election in all likelihood because, again, now all the Republican votes are going to consolidate.
00:05:18.000He won, I think, 46%, 47% of the vote last night.
00:05:22.000All of that Republican support is going to now rally around a woman I actually know pretty well, Karen Handel, who used to be an executive at
00:05:31.000Komen for the cure, the anti-cancer institute.
00:05:35.000She has been the Georgia Secretary of State before.
00:05:37.000She ran unsuccessfully for governor in the past.
00:05:44.000She's not somebody who gets enthusiasm up high, but she will do the work that she needs to do and she'll probably win.
00:05:49.000That's why Ossoff yesterday, after he did not win outright, he was out there touting it as a victory for the ages.
00:05:55.000The entire Democratic Party is now trying to overstate how big a victory this was for them because he didn't win.
00:05:59.000So now they're trying to say that he just blew it out of the water and this is just what's to come under Trump, that the Democrats are going to win back the House.
00:06:23.000You couldn't win an election in which there were a combined, looks like, less than 200,000 votes.
00:06:28.000I'm gonna go with that's not a victory for the ages, especially if you don't end up with the congressional seats.
00:06:33.000Most of the people who talk about moral victories are losers.
00:06:35.000If you're talking about moral victory, it's because you didn't win.
00:06:37.000So, there are some troubling signs for Republicans here.
00:06:40.000The most troubling sign for Republicans in the Georgia 6th, to be accurate, is that the Democratic turnout was down from the general election cycle, but it wasn't down nearly as much as it was down among Republicans.
00:06:51.000So, if you look at the Georgia 6th or the Kansas 4th, the Kansas 4th district was another case where there was a special election, Republicans won that one too, but the Democratic turnout was down 25%,
00:07:01.000From the Hillary election in this district in the special election, the Republican turnout was down 51% from the last election cycle in this election.
00:07:09.000So in other words, twice as many Republicans as Democrats by percentage dropped out of this election cycle.
00:07:14.000And that's not going to bode well for midterms because obviously Democrats are going to be more geared up for all of this.
00:07:20.000It's a little early to say that this just demonstrates that Trump is not hurting people down ballot.
00:07:25.000The number of candidates who ran in this Georgia 6th district, the people who are more closely tied with Trump, there is a heavy correlation between being closely tied with Trump and not doing particularly well in this election cycle.
00:07:37.000But it's not clear what's going to happen in 2018 based on this.
00:07:40.000Democrats raised an enormous amount of money, as I said.
00:07:42.000They put forward a huge, huge amount of cash in this election and they still weren't able to get this guy over the top.
00:07:50.000You know, it's going to be a good Democratic year, but is it going to be a good enough Democratic year to put them over the top?
00:07:55.000And the media, in search of some sort of victory, are, of course, overstating this dramatically.
00:07:59.000Don Lemon, CNN, he says that John Ossoff, you just saw him, John Ossoff, he looks like, he looks like the guy from Ferris Bueller, who's not Ferris Bueller, the guy who drives his dad's Porsche out the window.
00:08:52.000Over the weekend, I didn't have a chance to discuss it, obviously, because it was Passover, but over the weekend there was this riot that occurred in Berkeley.
00:08:59.000Basically, there was a pro-Trump rally in Berkeley.
00:09:02.000The only reason to have a pro-Trump rally in Berkeley is to stick it to the left in Berkeley, obviously.
00:09:06.000And a bunch of anti-Trump Antifa characters, these are the people who consider themselves anti-fascist,
00:09:11.000There's nothing more fascist than showing up to an opposing rally and then wailing on people and beating the living crap out of them.
00:09:17.000It's actually pretty reminiscent of the Weimar Republic where the Reds and the Browns were beating the living crap out of each other and that actually led to the rise of a more dictatorial authoritarian government.
00:09:26.000That's usually what happens when there's chaos.
00:09:28.000People want more authority in order to tamp down on chaos because nobody wants to see this in their streets.
00:09:32.000Apparently the cops were sitting by and doing nothing as all of this continued.
00:09:37.000Here's a little bit of the footage from what was happening during this
00:11:55.000We're not going to live in a world in Berkeley where we cannot have a certain political idea without fear of being physically injured.
00:12:01.000So they had an even bigger rally this time.
00:12:04.000And the police assured myself and the organizers that there would be an impressive presence there, that the left wouldn't be able to shut it down this time.
00:12:12.000But it was under one condition that the police would be there, that everyone that went into this protected zone by the police disarmed, that we didn't have any sticks, any bear mace, any pepper spray.
00:12:22.000So all the Trump supporters went into this kind of
00:12:25.000They put up a little mesh orange fence around an area where we were going to have the free speech event, and then Antifa showed up and started surrounding the place around a bunch of disarmed people, but we were like, you know what?
00:12:45.000They'd gotten stand-down orders, and we were left in the center of this area, surrounded by Antifa, totally disarmed, and things just turned into chaos.
00:13:37.000They actually come from a wing of the German Communist Party, and they're a militant group that believe, by any means possible, anything that can remotely be perceived as right-wing, anything to the right of Marx, basically, has to be shut down violently, and they use a tactic called Black Bloc.
00:14:23.000Would have killed someone if it hit them in the face.
00:14:24.000Were there any arrests at this thing or literally it just sort of ended and everybody went home?
00:14:29.000At the beginning, there were a couple arrests of Antifa that were trying to go over the mesh and, I guess, Trump supporters that were trying to fight back.
00:15:03.000That it was an equal distribution of blame.
00:15:06.000That it was half Milo's fault and half the protesters' fault.
00:15:09.000And here it's half the Trump people's fault.
00:15:10.000If the Trump people hadn't been there being so provocative, then it wouldn't have been up to the Antifa people to hit them.
00:15:16.000What do you make of all the media coverage?
00:15:19.000BBC actually uploaded one of those little short videos to Facebook where they spliced together the tax protests and this Berkeley protest and wrote that Trump supporters showed up to the tax protest and started attacking the anti-Trump protesters.
00:15:45.000It's deliberately lying to people, and they knew what they were doing.
00:15:49.000So, it's horrifying the state of media.
00:15:53.000I couldn't believe the coverage after the fact.
00:15:55.000Yeah, I mean, we saw that obviously throughout the campaign.
00:15:57.000We kept hearing that it was Trump who was pushing violence at his rallies, but then it would be
00:16:00.000It would be protesters from Black Lives Matter shutting down an actual Trump rally in Chicago or protesters from the left beating the crap out of Trump supporters in San Jose.
00:16:09.000It is amazing how the media is able to flip this on its head.
00:16:11.000So are you guys planning any more of these events?
00:16:13.000And if you do plan these events in the future, how can you do that knowing that
00:16:18.000You know, if anybody from the pro-Trump side or the pro-free speech side, because it doesn't matter if you like Trump or not, it's really more of a free speech issue.
00:16:24.000From the pro-free speech side, if anybody shows up with a weapon, you'll probably immediately be arrested, but if anybody from the left shows up with a weapon, then they probably get off scot-free.
00:16:32.000Well, Ann Coulter is supposed to be speaking on the 27th.
00:16:35.000I can't get too much into it, but I think there's some troubles already with that event, with Berkeley trying to shut it down.
00:16:43.000We're at the point where we have to defend ourselves.
00:16:46.000I don't like to see that the state of political discourse in 2017 is fists and mace instead of signs and bullhorns.
00:16:53.000But that's the reality is that we have to defend ourselves I can't blame the Trump supporters for punching back or the free speech activists for punching back because the cops are gone So I think this is going to continue to escalate until the police stop getting stand-down orders in Berkeley.
00:17:09.000How much of this do you think are the students at Berkeley and how much is it this outside group Antifa?
00:17:12.000Because there's a lot of talk about that with Milo speaking there, that it wasn't really a bunch of the, it wasn't really a bunch of lefties from Berkeley.
00:17:19.000It was really this Antifa group that was coming from outside, infiltrating and then making trouble here.
00:17:23.000It looks like a bunch of Antifa people.
00:17:24.000And I spoke at Berkeley two years ago.
00:17:31.000I think it's because Antifa was not a presence when I was there a couple of years ago, and it seems like a pretty recent development, but how much of this do you think is organic, and how much of this is astroturfed?
00:17:40.000Well, I will say, I went for a walk around the area before the event, and everywhere in Berkeley, the whole damn city is covered in spray paint that says Antifa Zone.
00:17:50.000And that could be people that have come in.
00:17:52.000There were definitely people that were brought in from different areas to fight, like the one girl who got decked in the face.
00:17:58.000She drove down from quite a while to be there.
00:18:02.000But it's definitely been, over the past two years, I would say, these kids also in university have been
00:18:08.000Radicalized more and more and more over the media, saying all right-wingers are Nazis.
00:18:11.000Of course they want to fight and stop Nazism.
00:18:14.000When they've watched Indiana Jones and Glorious Bastards, they want to get their 100 Nazi scalps, right?
00:18:19.000And they've truly been convinced this last year that Trump supporters and free speech activists are Nazis.
00:18:25.000So it's a mix between people coming down and between young people being radicalized over this past year.
00:18:30.000Lauren Southern, thanks so much for doing what you're doing.
00:18:31.000Lauren Southern, you can follow her at Lauren Southern on Twitter.
00:18:34.000It's Lauren underscore Southern, or on YouTube as Lauren Southern.
00:18:40.000Okay, so before we continue with the analysis of what Trump is doing on foreign policy, and it's a real mixed bag there.
00:18:46.000There's a bunch of stuff happening on foreign policy that demonstrate continued divided mind among the members of the Trump administration.
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00:20:56.000On everything from North Korea to Turkey to Iran.
00:20:58.000So big story of the day is that the Trump administration has now stated that Iran is abiding by its commitments under the Obama nuclear deal.
00:21:09.000This is just a terrible move by the Trump administration.
00:21:12.000It is asinine to suggest that everything is hunky-dory with regard to Iran.
00:21:16.000That Iran is doing everything that it can to abide by the nuclear deal.
00:21:21.000Then not only are they violating it with regard to attempting to buy certain types of uranium on the open market, but also they have been violating the nuclear deal by test firing ballistic missiles.
00:21:31.000They've been doing that repeatedly since November.
00:21:33.000And yet, this is from Rex Tillerson, he says, the US Department of State certified to US House Speaker Paul Ryan today that Iran is compliant
00:22:06.000There's no reason why we should be involved this way.
00:22:08.000But I think there's a split inside the Trump administration.
00:22:11.000They don't want to start some sort of firefight politically with Iran.
00:22:14.000They are obviously divided on what to do about Iran because Iran is sponsoring Assad and they're divided about what to do about Assad.
00:22:22.000They're not sure that Iran is not a solidifying influence in Iraq.
00:22:26.000This is always my fear about Trumpian foreign policy is that it's just so vague and so all over the place that it opens the door to the continued growth of evil regimes like Iran.
00:22:37.000But that's not the only problem with Trump foreign policy that's cropped up this week.
00:22:42.000I want to talk about Turkey and North Korea, but we'll do that
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