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Ep. 77 - State College Tries To Ban Me - I'm Going Anyway


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Ben Shapiro was supposed to speak at Cal State University Los Angeles on Tuesday night, but the snowflakes at the school don t want him there. So what's the problem? Is it diversity? Or is it silence? And if so, what does it mean for the First Amendment rights of the students who were supposed to be represented by the YAF Foundation and the CSU L.A. student group? And what does that have to do with the Democratic presidential campaign? All that and much more on this episode of The Ben Shapiro Show. Subscribe to the show Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Rate, review and subscribe to our new show on Apple Podcasts, and be sure to leave us a rating and review on your favorite streaming platform so we can keep bringing you quality, unadulterated Shapiroism. Thank you for listening and share the podcast with your fellow podulters! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! - The Shapiro Family - Ben Shapiro and the Shapiro Gang Logo by Courtney DeKorte Music by Ian Dorsch and the Crew at Slauson Records Art by Jeff Kaale and the Vigilante Media Produced in Los Angeles, CA, Inc. and edited by Mike McLendon . is a production of SPOTIFY Productions, a proud supporter of the Third Coast Productions, Inc., a proud member of the Forward Project, and supporter of The Third Coast to California's Own Project, LLC., and is a proud of the First Coast Media Outtro Productions, LLC. . . . and is an all-inclusive, and a guest of the SoCal Radio Station, and all-out, and so much more. Thank you, too, for making this podcast, and we hope you enjoy it's a good time! and we appreciate you're listening to it. - Thank you so much for your support, so much so much of it's good vibes and support it's worth it's value, too much more than you can do it, we really appreciate it, you're amazing, you'll get a chance to help us out, thank you're all of that's not enough, we appreciate it more than that's good enough, good day, and thank you can say so much, thanks, good night, good days, good morning, and you're getting it, and good night out, and thanks you're making it, y'all can have it, good thanks, and it's great day, y'll're got it, bye bye, bye, good nuzzles, good chance, good evening, good bye, and bye, yandelf, good luck, bye.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Well, hey there.
00:00:01.000 It's a Tuesday, and we are back as always.
00:00:04.000 And there's so much to talk about.
00:00:05.000 The presidential race, of course, we'll get to.
00:00:07.000 Nevada is having its caucuses today.
00:00:09.000 But chiefly, first and foremost, we're going to have to talk about the fact that the precious snowflakes over at Cal State University Los Angeles don't want me there.
00:00:18.000 So, hey, F them.
00:00:20.000 I'm going anyway.
00:00:21.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:00:21.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:30.000 So, a little bit of backstory.
00:00:31.000 Let's start with when this thing was scheduled.
00:00:33.000 This thing has been scheduled for at least two and a half months.
00:00:36.000 So, two and a half months ago, the YAF, Young America's Foundation, the Fred R. Allen Lecture Series, they decided to sponsor me to go to ten campuses all around the country.
00:00:44.000 And one of the groups that applied to have me come speak was the Young America's Foundation student group over at CSULA, California State University, Los Angeles.
00:00:54.000 Now, I pay taxes in the state of California, which means I'm supporting all of these students to go to this second-rate school.
00:01:02.000 And I decided, you know, obviously to go, and it was going to be a good event.
00:01:07.000 We had people on the ground, kids were on the ground, putting up flyers.
00:01:10.000 And as we've been reporting from time to time all throughout this process,
00:01:15.000 There's been a lot of blowback from various folks on the left.
00:01:18.000 So, for example, there's a professor named Robert Wide who threatened to wrestle students for sponsoring the event.
00:01:24.000 He called them white supremacists because there's nothing white supremacists love better than orthodox Jews talking in public forums.
00:01:30.000 We're their peeps.
00:01:32.000 There is a Black Lives Matter activist who's a professor named Malina Abdullah.
00:01:35.000 Her big thing is abolish the police, which won't hurt black people in any way if the police just go away.
00:01:40.000 That'll definitely help black people.
00:01:41.000 And she posted on her Facebook page, quote,
00:01:44.000 I say this event is a problem.
00:01:46.000 What we gon' do, y'all?
00:01:48.000 And I pronounce it that way because it's spelled what we, G-O apostrophe N, do, y'all.
00:01:55.000 Y apostrophe A-L-L, question mark exclamation point, question mark exclamation point.
00:01:59.000 This is how she wrote this.
00:02:00.000 And one of her apparent students, a guy named Ruben Martin, replied, quote, you want, and I'm reading this as it's written, okay?
00:02:05.000 I'm not making fun of the guy.
00:02:07.000 He wrote, you want, I should hoid him, boss.
00:02:10.000 I's got a few's ideas.
00:02:12.000 Me and da fella's been kickin' round.
00:02:14.000 Only thing is, he won't be talking or looking so nice no more, we'll take the cannolis.
00:02:19.000 And it's written exactly like that.
00:02:21.000 Like Hoyt is spelled H-O-I-W-T.
00:02:24.000 And Boss is spelled B-W-O-S-S.
00:02:26.000 So clearly, the academic credentialing over at CSULA is not particularly high.
00:02:30.000 But, aside from that, we're going ahead with the event, they said there was going to be a protest.
00:02:35.000 And fine, that's how this stuff tends to go.
00:02:38.000 Well, late last night, I got a call from my friends over at Young America's Foundation.
00:02:43.000 They have received an email from the president of the university.
00:02:47.000 President of the university is a guy named William Covino, and here's what he wrote, quote,
00:02:51.000 After careful consideration, I have decided that it will be best for our campus community if we reschedule Ben Shapiro's appearance for a later date so that we can arrange for him to appear as part of a group of speakers with differing viewpoints on diversity.
00:03:05.000 Such an event will better represent our university's dedication to the free exchange of ideas and the value of considering multiple viewpoints.
00:03:12.000 As nothing says free exchange of ideas and value of considering multiple viewpoints like canceling the guy who disagrees with you.
00:03:18.000 Nothing says that.
00:03:19.000 He says it's a postponement.
00:03:21.000 A postponement that has not been rescheduled, no date was set, no suggested date was set, and it has to be in the context of other people who disagree with me.
00:03:29.000 Right?
00:03:29.000 Which is, the point is, I'm the diversity.
00:03:31.000 When we talk about diversity of viewpoint, that's me.
00:03:33.000 That's why I'm going there.
00:03:35.000 Because no one at this campus thinks the way that I do, except for some of the students, who presumably are told to keep silent.
00:03:41.000 And so that was the point, is I'm the diversity.
00:03:43.000 But that's not diverse enough to them, and what they mean by that
00:03:47.000 Is that in order for there to be more diversity, I need to be subsumed in this broader conversation by folks on the left brow beating me.
00:03:55.000 So, here's the deal.
00:03:56.000 Number one, this violates the law.
00:03:58.000 Okay?
00:03:59.000 It violates the First Amendment.
00:04:00.000 It actually violates 18 U.S.C.
00:04:02.000 1983.
00:04:02.000 It violates civil rights law.
00:04:05.000 None of- all of that is secondary to me.
00:04:07.000 This is a free speech principle now.
00:04:08.000 And now they've made it a fight about free speech.
00:04:11.000 Because they scheduled this event.
00:04:13.000 They greenlit this event.
00:04:14.000 I've been told that the student body, student government, greenlisted this event twice.
00:04:19.000 Like said, it was okay not once, but twice, because people were protesting, so they reinforced that this event was okay.
00:04:25.000 And now they're saying that we can't do the event in the stated room, at the stated time, and they cancelled the event.
00:04:30.000 Say it's a postponement, it's a cancellation, they're postponing it till, you know, February 29th in a non-leap year.
00:04:35.000 That's the idea.
00:04:37.000 Never going to happen.
00:04:37.000 So, I'm going anyway.
00:04:39.000 Because screw you, gang.
00:04:41.000 I don't care about your feelings.
00:04:43.000 If you've never seen one episode of this show, or listened to one episode of this show, if you've never read anything I've ever written, if you've never watched a YouTube video about me,
00:04:52.000 The only thing that you really need to know about my view of the world is in my only pinned tweet.
00:04:57.000 I have one pinned tweet, and my pinned tweet says, So, you little precious snowflakes, you.
00:05:04.000 I don't care!
00:05:05.000 I'm gonna come, and I'm gonna talk, and I'm gonna say things that are factual, and if you wanna come and make a fuss, that's your prerogative.
00:05:09.000 Now, if you call the police, you're just proving my point.
00:05:12.000 Which is that you care about diversity of skin color, but you are absolute fascists who want to shut down freedom of speech when people disagree with you.
00:05:19.000 Which makes you a totalitarian jackass.
00:05:21.000 It makes you a bad human being.
00:05:23.000 It makes you, makes your president, makes your university a nasty, fascistic, totalitarian authoritarian place.
00:05:31.000 So screw you, I'm coming anyway.
00:05:32.000 And anyone who wants to come is free to come.
00:05:34.000 It's happening at 2pm at CSU LA.
00:05:37.000 I think it's called the USU room.
00:05:39.000 If the door is locked, we will hold the event right there in the hallway.
00:05:42.000 Doesn't matter to me.
00:05:43.000 And if they call the cops, then they will just have proved my point.
00:05:47.000 They will just have shown the world this is who they are.
00:05:49.000 That when somebody comes who disagrees, that they already pre-approved.
00:05:52.000 That they already pre-approved twice.
00:05:54.000 That they'd already planned to protest.
00:05:55.000 That when that happens, you guys call the men with the guns.
00:05:58.000 Because this is who you are.
00:06:00.000 It ain't us, or the fascists.
00:06:02.000 It is you.
00:06:03.000 Okay, so we'll bring you the latest on that as it develops.
00:06:06.000 By the way, I'm hearing from my reporters over at Daily Wire that they've called up the university for comment about these professors, particularly this one threatening violence against the student, and we were told by a representative of the president of the university that that is a personal matter.
00:06:21.000 So just to get this straight, it's a personal matter when a professor paid for by my tax dollars threatens students who don't agree with him, but I have to be banned from campus because they need a more diverse viewpoint.
00:06:32.000 Again, that's called viewpoint discrimination under the Constitution.
00:06:35.000 It's not a value-neutral thing.
00:06:37.000 They've had many leftist speakers speak on campus before, ranging from Cornel West, the radical
00:06:42.000 Black liberationists, essentially, to Angela Davis, the former terrorist and communist.
00:06:46.000 And all these people have spoken at their university, and no problem.
00:06:50.000 Only I need to be drowned out in diverse voices.
00:06:53.000 So, this is all very exciting.
00:06:55.000 And we'll keep you apprised.
00:06:56.000 There will be cameras.
00:06:57.000 I know that there's multiple websites, multiple press outlets that are coming.
00:07:02.000 And it should be a hubbub.
00:07:03.000 So, stick around and make sure that you watch that.
00:07:06.000 We'll obviously post any video that comes in from that.
00:07:10.000 I already know what I'm going to say in the speech, and let me tell you folks, it's dynamite.
00:07:13.000 It's a really good speech.
00:07:14.000 So, I'm very much looking forward to speaking with the students, as well as with the panty-waist fascists who run these universities.
00:07:22.000 Okay, on to the presidential race.
00:07:23.000 So, another day, another Trump victory.
00:07:27.000 This is the way that this is working.
00:07:28.000 Nevada, there are no results as of yet from Nevada, but Trump is widely expected to win in Nevada today.
00:07:33.000 It would be very surprising if he does not.
00:07:35.000 I've talked to people who are on the ground in Nevada today.
00:07:38.000 And and what they have what they've said is that Trump is likely to win.
00:07:43.000 A high percentage of the vote, like higher than he did in South Carolina.
00:07:46.000 He could hit 40% today.
00:07:47.000 And then we head into a series of primaries that do not favor Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio.
00:07:52.000 They favor Cruz more than Rubio, but they don't favor either.
00:07:54.000 Trump is now leading in Ohio by five points, according to the latest poll over John Kasich, which means John Kasich has no reason for being in the race.
00:08:01.000 He's behind Ted Cruz in Texas by eight points, 37 to 29.
00:08:04.000 The problem is Texas is a proportional representation state.
00:08:08.000 So what that means is that Trump ends up winning a bunch of delegates, even though he loses.
00:08:13.000 In order for Cruz to trigger the winner take all provisions of the Texas primary system, he has to win above 50%.
00:08:19.000 That's extraordinarily unlikely to happen.
00:08:21.000 So this is a Trump could run the table here.
00:08:23.000 It's very possible that Trump runs the table.
00:08:25.000 So let's talk about where Trump is on policy.
00:08:27.000 It's sort of our daily update.
00:08:29.000 What Trump said today.
00:08:30.000 So what did Donald Trump say today?
00:08:32.000 So we'll talk about
00:08:33.000 You know, all of his various policy flip-flops.
00:08:35.000 So on Sunday, here is Donald Trump appearing to endorse Obamacare's individual mandate.
00:08:40.000 This is on Sunday, I believe, on Meet the Press.
00:08:42.000 So here is, or let's see, Trump on healthcare.
00:08:45.000 Okay, yeah, yes, that one.
00:08:48.000 Trump on Meet the Press with Chuck Todd, who it did occur to me who he looks like.
00:08:51.000 I said yesterday he looks like a comedian.
00:08:53.000 He looks like Tom Green.
00:08:54.000 So here is Donald Trump talking to Tom Green about healthcare policy.
00:08:58.000 Are you, it comes across, are you taking positions that you believe, and are you, or are you sort of, as things get heated, are you switching at the last minute?
00:09:06.000 What are we to make of all this this week?
00:09:08.000 Well, on the mandate, if you look at the mandate, we had a situation where we were, Anderson Cooper, who's terrific by the way, did a terrific job, but we were talking over each other.
00:09:17.000 Uh, I want, uh, we're gonna, we're gonna repeal and, and replace Obamacare.
00:09:22.000 Obamacare is a total and complete disaster.
00:09:24.000 It's gonna be gone.
00:09:25.000 We're gonna come up with a great healthcare plan, whether it's healthcare savings accounts.
00:09:29.000 We have a lot of different things.
00:09:30.000 We're gonna get rid of the lines between states.
00:09:32.000 We're gonna have great competitive bidding.
00:09:33.000 But I say all the time, you can call it anything you want.
00:09:36.000 People are not gonna die in the middle of the street.
00:09:38.000 People are not gonna die on the sidewalk.
00:09:41.000 If I'm
00:09:41.000 Let me get something definitive from you on this.
00:09:44.000 Chuck, I say that to packed houses with thousands and thousands of people, Republicans mostly, and I get standing ovations.
00:09:51.000 I'm not going to let that happen.
00:09:53.000 If I'm president, we're not going to have people dying on the streets.
00:09:55.000 So you can call it whatever you want.
00:09:56.000 I don't call it a mandate.
00:09:58.000 I just say it's common sense.
00:10:05.000 So, you know, forcing people to buy health insurance is something he's for and he doesn't want people dying on the streets.
00:10:10.000 Have you seen a spate of people just plotting right in the middle of the street?
00:10:14.000 I've missed it.
00:10:15.000 If there are people who are just walking around and then they start coughing and they got the black lung pop and they just keel over and die in the middle of the street,
00:10:23.000 I've been missing it, but he says he's going to stop people from dying in the middle of the street.
00:10:26.000 He'll be just like Elijah.
00:10:28.000 He'll walk up and he will breathe life back into their lungs personally with his pursed lips.
00:10:32.000 So he says that on Sunday.
00:10:34.000 Then on Monday, he goes on with Sean Hannity, and he's asked about the health care mandate, and here's what he says.
00:10:38.000 This is 24 hours apart.
00:10:39.000 Here is him with Sean Hannity on the health care mandate.
00:10:42.000 Do you or do you not support mandates?
00:10:44.000 In other words, mandating that the American people... No, I don't support them, but I want to take care of people... On healthcare?
00:10:49.000 Look, on healthcare.
00:10:51.000 People are not going to die.
00:10:53.000 I make many speeches to tremendous crowds of people.
00:10:56.000 Tonight I'm going to have 12,000 people after this.
00:10:58.000 There's not enough room for 12,000 here, but there were about 12,000 outside.
00:11:01.000 I talk about healthcare a lot.
00:11:03.000 And I know a lot about health care, because I've had tens of thousands of people over the years working for me.
00:11:08.000 I know a lot about health care.
00:11:09.000 It's a very important thing, and I feel very proud that I've been able to give so much education to people in health care, you know, to people that have worked for me.
00:11:16.000 And they don't have to worry about Obamacare, my people.
00:11:19.000 I treat them really good with health care.
00:11:20.000 It's a very important thing.
00:11:22.000 But I'll tell you, when I'm president, I am not going to let people die in the middle of the street because they have no money.
00:11:28.000 Can't do it.
00:11:29.000 And when I speak...
00:11:32.000 So immediately these, you know, conservatives, the one that wrote the 27 people wrote about Donald Trump not being conservative.
00:11:38.000 Because honestly, I'm more conservative than most of those people in most ways.
00:11:43.000 But I say it, and I say it in front of big crowds of 10, 15,000 people, I get standing ovations.
00:11:49.000 Largely Republicans, I guess, but we're gonna have a lot of Democrats and a lot of Independents going over and we have a lot of them in our audiences.
00:11:55.000 I say we cannot let people, we can't let people die in the middle of Fifth Avenue, in the middle of different streets all over the country, all over this country.
00:12:03.000 They have no money.
00:12:04.000 And you know I get standing ovations when I say- Okay, pause it.
00:12:07.000 So, has any of this been clarifying?
00:12:09.000 So, he can't let people die in the middle of Fifth Avenue unless he shoots them and then tells his supporters and they still support him.
00:12:14.000 None of this is clarifying.
00:12:15.000 He says he's against mandates, but then he proceeds to say, again, with this nonsense about people dying in the middle of the streets.
00:12:21.000 Folks, it is against the law for emergency rooms not to treat people if you walk into an emergency room and you have a medical emergency.
00:12:29.000 It is against the law.
00:12:30.000 Doctors are bound to provide you care.
00:12:33.000 This is nonsense what he's saying, but he says he's for the health care mandate.
00:12:36.000 He's against the health care mandate.
00:12:38.000 He's not gonna let people die in the streets, but he's more conservative than anybody else who's in the race.
00:12:42.000 Okay, so that's one quasi flip-flop from Trump.
00:12:45.000 Last week, Donald Trump also said that, we played it last week on MSNBC, he was asked about Israel versus the Palestinians.
00:12:51.000 He said, I really don't want to take a side on this.
00:12:53.000 This is not something where I feel like neutrality is important.
00:12:56.000 I don't want to give away my position.
00:12:57.000 So Hannity asks him about that last night and Trump flips 180 degrees.
00:13:01.000 Here we go.
00:13:04.000 No, I was made over the issue when you said that you would be neutral in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but you do see that Israel is the victim.
00:13:15.000 Yes.
00:13:16.000 In this.
00:13:16.000 I'm a great friend of Israel.
00:13:18.000 I was the Grand Marshal of the Israeli Day Parade.
00:13:23.000 I was the Grand Marshal of the Israeli Day Parade.
00:13:26.000 I have so many friends.
00:13:27.000 In fact, one of them, one of my great friends, where is Jared, my son-in-law?
00:13:31.000 Where is he?
00:13:32.000 My son-in-law is Jewish.
00:13:35.000 And he's fantastic.
00:13:37.000 A very successful guy in New York real estate.
00:13:39.000 He's expecting a baby any day now.
00:13:41.000 Ivanka is going to have a baby over the next week or so.
00:13:45.000 Yeah, baby!
00:13:47.000 There's nobody closer.
00:13:48.000 And Bibi Netanyahu asked me to do a commercial for him for his campaign.
00:13:52.000 I did a commercial for him.
00:13:54.000 But I think what you want to do is, the ultimate deal would be making a deal between Israel and the Palestinians, if we could do that, if that's possible, okay?
00:14:03.000 I have been told by people, very high-level people, it's impossible.
00:14:06.000 Because the hatred, especially on the one side, I won't even say one side.
00:14:09.000 On the Palestinian side?
00:14:11.000 Is so intense, it's so incredible, and from the time they're two years old, they're told to hate, to hate, to hate.
00:14:18.000 It's got to be taken away.
00:14:19.000 I mean, I've heard stories that are just unbelievable.
00:14:22.000 It's got to be taken away.
00:14:23.000 But here's the thing.
00:14:24.000 I've been told, and I use that as an example.
00:14:26.000 When a deal is tough, I say it's nothing compared to this.
00:14:29.000 This is the toughest of all deals.
00:14:31.000 I'm not saying the best.
00:14:33.000 This is the toughest deal to make, okay?
00:14:36.000 If they can't make the deal like the Iran deal, that's like a simple deal.
00:14:39.000 That should have taken a week or less.
00:14:41.000 It took years and years and years.
00:14:43.000 This is a deal that's tough.
00:14:44.000 I've had people that are very smart and great negotiators involved in negotiations and that deal, they have not been able to do it.
00:14:50.000 So again, he's saying he's pro-Israel and then he says it would be a great deal to make but it's a tough deal and I don't know if we can make the deal.
00:14:57.000 First of all, it's not a question of a deal.
00:14:59.000 I mean, for folks who have been watching the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for a while, it is a conflict between people who want to live and people who want those people to die.
00:15:05.000 I mean, that's what the conflict is.
00:15:07.000 There's no deal there.
00:15:08.000 And he's sort of saying that, but...
00:15:10.000 Who knows?
00:15:10.000 I mean, if he got in office, we should have done the Iran deal in a week.
00:15:13.000 Well, what is he even talking about?
00:15:14.000 What is he even talking about?
00:15:16.000 And then, none of this matters.
00:15:19.000 None of it matters.
00:15:19.000 And the reason it doesn't matter is because of the next clip.
00:15:22.000 Because here's Donald Trump on Hillary Clinton.
00:15:25.000 Before we get to our next question, we were talking during the break about Hillary Clinton, and if a Republican wins, if you win, you'll have an attorney general.
00:15:34.000 The statute of limitations will not have passed.
00:15:36.000 Six years, actually.
00:15:38.000 Well, look, you have no choice.
00:15:39.000 I mean, we have to solve all sorts of problems and fairness is you have to look into that.
00:15:44.000 Now, maybe she can prove her innocence, but it just seems to me that I think the public knows everything that they're going to know.
00:15:49.000 You know, the emails have come out and it's it's she seems to be guilty.
00:15:54.000 But you know what?
00:15:55.000 I wouldn't even say that.
00:15:56.000 But certainly it has to be looked at.
00:15:58.000 If a Republican wins, if I'm winning, certainly you will look at that as
00:16:02.000 As being fair to everyone else.
00:16:04.000 So unfair to the people that have been prosecuted over the years for doing much less than she did.
00:16:09.000 So she's being protected.
00:16:11.000 But if I win, certainly it's something we want to do.
00:16:13.000 So you think she's running for her own survival?
00:16:15.000 I think she's running a very important race.
00:16:17.000 The most important race of her life before.
00:16:19.000 Not just because it's president.
00:16:20.000 I mean, she's running a very important race.
00:16:23.000 I'll bet you that Barack Obama would pardon her before he leaves.
00:16:27.000 Let's get back to our...
00:16:31.000 I didn't say I would partner, but, you know, come on.
00:16:35.000 I agree with Mr. Trump on this.
00:16:36.000 Okay, so, Trump says, I'll prosecute Hillary Clinton if I become President of the United States.
00:16:40.000 First of all, why no one else in the Republican race has said this?
00:16:43.000 I'll have my Attorney General look into it, and prosecution certainly looks warranted.
00:16:48.000 is beyond me.
00:17:05.000 Conservative New York Times writer.
00:17:07.000 For folks who can't see me, I put that in air quotes.
00:17:09.000 He's not conservative.
00:17:10.000 He's a guy who just wrote a column like a week ago saying that he's going to miss Barack Obama as President of the United States.
00:17:16.000 David Brooks on Sunday said that Republicans should consider Barack Obama's judicial nominee.
00:17:19.000 Trump is a direct reaction to people like David Brooks, and you'll see why.
00:17:25.000 There may not have been disagreements that way, but there certainly are disagreements politically, David, over what's going to happen now.
00:17:30.000 The president says he's going to nominate someone.
00:17:32.000 The Senate Republican leadership is saying, well, we're not going to confirm them.
00:17:36.000 We may not even consider.
00:17:37.000 Yeah, well, of course they should consider.
00:17:39.000 I mean, he is president, and the Constitution says the president nominates, and the Constitution is there to put rules around our struggles for power.
00:17:45.000 John Marshall was nominated by John Adams, like, after the election had already happened.
00:17:51.000 And so I think it's totally fair, and the Republicans are going to probably get away with not doing anything.
00:17:55.000 And to me, what it will do, and I don't know the effect of this, it'll polarize the bases.
00:17:59.000 It'll create more conflict, it'll elevate the social issues on the Republican side, it'll elevate campaign finance on the Democratic side, and so probably have a polarizing effect on the election.
00:18:09.000 If the candidacies are strong, it would probably help a Cruz and a Sanders, because the issues that would get elevated.
00:18:15.000 So the Republicans, to avoid all of this, they should just go along and get along?
00:18:19.000 And so people say, screw this guy, I'll go with the guy who's the most brash, and that's Donald Trump.
00:18:24.000 The other problem for some of the other candidates in the race is because Trump is so brash, he actually has a strategy to what he's doing.
00:18:31.000 And we can kind of gaze into how this strategy works.
00:18:34.000 Clip 10 is the one that I'm looking for here.
00:18:35.000 This is Ted Cruz talking about what he wants to do with illegal immigrants.
00:18:39.000 And the reason that this is important, I'll explain in just a minute.
00:18:41.000 Here's Ted Cruz last night with Bill O'Reilly on The O'Reilly Factor.
00:18:45.000 Here's a policy question I need you to define for me tonight.
00:18:47.000 12 million illegal aliens here in America.
00:18:52.000 Mr. Trump says he would deport them forcibly.
00:18:54.000 The federal authorities would round them up and send them back home.
00:18:57.000 It costs a lot of money, but he says it's worth it because we just can't allow the law to be broken this way.
00:19:03.000 Would you round up 12 million illegal aliens here, and if so, how?
00:19:09.000 Listen, we should enforce the law.
00:19:11.000 How do we enforce the law?
00:19:12.000 Yes, we build a wall, we should triple the border patrol, and federal law requires that anyone here illegally that's apprehended should be deported.
00:19:19.000 You know the biggest difference, Bill?
00:19:20.000 Would you go look for them, though, as Mr. Trump would look for them to get them out?
00:19:23.000 Would you do that if you were president?
00:19:26.000 Bill, of course you would.
00:19:27.000 That's what ICE exists for.
00:19:29.000 We have law enforcement that looks for people who are violating the laws, that apprehends them, and deports them.
00:19:35.000 But Bill... Wait, wait, wait.
00:19:36.000 Just let me get this straight, because this is important, very important.
00:19:39.000 So, and I use the same example.
00:19:42.000 So Tommy O'Malley from County Cork in Ireland is over here, and he overstays his visa, and he's got a couple of kids, and he's settled into Long Island, and you, President Cruz, are going to send the feds to his house, take them out, and put them on a plane back to Ireland?
00:19:58.000 You better believe it.
00:19:58.000 Now, right now, we actually can't do that because we don't have a biometric exit-entry system, so we don't know when, in your example, Tommy goes home.
00:20:07.000 Federal law requires... But then the court would probably, as I told Trump, the court would probably block you.
00:20:14.000 Look, I'm sorry to cut you off, but I want to get to the meat of this.
00:20:17.000 The federal courts would probably block you from doing that, taking Mr. O'Malley and putting him on the plane.
00:20:22.000 Why would they do that?
00:20:23.000 Because due process.
00:20:24.000 Why would they do that?
00:20:24.000 Due process.
00:20:25.000 Even if you're here illegally.
00:20:27.000 Listen, I've spent my entire life as a constitutional lawyer.
00:20:30.000 No, that is not.
00:20:31.000 So federal law right now requires a biometric exit entry system on visas.
00:20:35.000 The Obama administration refuses to enforce federal law as president.
00:20:40.000 I will put that in place so we will know the day someone overstays their visa and be able to send law enforcement to apprehend them and send them home.
00:20:48.000 And the biggest difference, Bill, between Donald Trump and Marco Rubio and myself
00:20:53.000 Is that both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio would allow those 12 million people to become U.S.
00:20:59.000 citizens.
00:20:59.000 Donald said once he deports them he'd let them back in as citizens.
00:21:03.000 I will not.
00:21:04.000 And for anyone who's concerned about jobs doesn't want to see wages driven down.
00:21:08.000 They are going to be under existing law.
00:21:11.000 They're not eligible to come back in legally if they have been deported for breaking the law.
00:21:16.000 And I think Donald Trump and Marco Rubio are wrong.
00:21:19.000 So we can stop this here.
00:21:20.000 So here's Ted Cruz taking a very, very hardline position.
00:21:23.000 Now, just about a month ago, Jake Tapper from CNN asked Cruz the same question.
00:21:28.000 He asked him, would you send people to go out and apprehend all the illegal immigrants?
00:21:32.000 And here's what Cruz said then.
00:21:33.000 He said, No, I don't intend to send jackboots to knock on your door and every door in America.
00:21:38.000 That's not how we enforce the law for any crime.
00:21:40.000 We don't have any system that knocks on the doors of every person in America.
00:21:43.000 We also don't have people going door to door looking for murderers.
00:21:45.000 We don't live in a police state.
00:21:46.000 We do have law enforcement.
00:21:48.000 So it's not a complete contradiction because here you have Cruz
00:21:51.000 Saying that once you have biometric scanning systems, you'll know where people are so you won't have to go door-to-door or anything, but there's no question he took a much harsher tone now than he's taken five weeks ago.
00:22:00.000 Cruz seems to think he can outflank Trump on immigration.
00:22:04.000 He can't.
00:22:05.000 The reason he can't is because Trump plays this game on his positions and makes it very, very difficult to actually pin him down.
00:22:11.000 Here's what he does.
00:22:12.000 Because Trump is a simplistic thinker on politics.
00:22:15.000 He hasn't spent any time with the political issues.
00:22:17.000 It's all gut for him.
00:22:19.000 If he's asked a question, he immediately takes the most extreme possible view.
00:22:22.000 So people ask him about illegal immigration.
00:22:24.000 We're gonna build a wall, make Mexico pay for it, and deport everybody.
00:22:28.000 That's what he says.
00:22:29.000 Then we get to ISIS and he says we're just gonna either let Putin take care of them completely or we'll bomb them into submission completely.
00:22:36.000 And then when it comes to immigration, he says, no Muslim immigrants of any sort, even if they're people who have been allies of the United States in Afghanistan, working with American soldiers, no way, no Muslims, no how, right?
00:22:47.000 And then that's only the first step.
00:22:48.000 The next step is, he looks at the polls.
00:22:51.000 And if the polls like what he's saying, he doubles down on it.
00:22:53.000 And he says, I'm, not only do I not want people coming in illegally, I'm deporting everybody, and I'm the strongest on this issue, and I've always been the strongest on this issue, doesn't matter, I switched my position from three years ago, I'm now the strongest person on this issue.
00:23:06.000 If the polls, by the way, say that they don't like what he says, he pretends he never said it.
00:23:09.000 I never said that.
00:23:10.000 I never said I liked the individual mandate.
00:23:12.000 I've always been against the individual mandate.
00:23:13.000 Now, we need something that doesn't let people die on the streets, you know, like kind of an individual mandate, you might say, but you need something, right?
00:23:19.000 So, he takes the poll, and then he adjusts.
00:23:22.000 And then, if somebody tries to outflank him, he attacks.
00:23:25.000 So, you have Cruz here trying to outflank him on immigration.
00:23:27.000 He says, no, no, no.
00:23:28.000 I was always here.
00:23:29.000 I was always the harshest guy in the race.
00:23:32.000 It's Ted Cruz, who's now trying to steal my thunder because he's copying me.
00:23:37.000 So it's impossible to outflank him, except in an unpopular position, right?
00:23:41.000 Because he's already looked at the polls.
00:23:42.000 So what he does, he takes this position here, all the way out on the right, and then if the poll says, go to the center, he moves to the center, and if someone tries to outflank him, he knows he wins already because he's already moved to the popular position.
00:23:53.000 And if the popular position is the hard right position, which he didn't come to ideologically, he just kind of spat it out, then he stays there and then no one can outflank him.
00:24:01.000 So that's the way that Trump plays this political game.
00:24:04.000 And he gets away with it because people like him, they sort of like his persona, they trust that he's being honest even when he's being wildly dishonest.
00:24:12.000 And that's why Cruz is going to have trouble making this particular attack.
00:24:16.000 Marco Rubio's tried a different tactic.
00:24:17.000 Marco Rubio's tactic, senator from Florida, his tactic has been, I'm going to attack Trump for being unelectable.
00:24:23.000 People don't like him.
00:24:24.000 People think he's a jerk.
00:24:25.000 He's unelectable.
00:24:26.000 Here's Marco Rubio making that case on, making that case in his clip six.
00:24:32.000 We can't win if we nominate someone.
00:24:35.000 If we nominate someone that half of the Republican Party hates, we're going to be fighting against each other all the way to November.
00:24:41.000 I don't care how much you may think they're funny, or how interesting they may sound, if we nominate someone that 40-50% of our party can't stand, we are going to lose.
00:24:53.000 We are going to lose if we nominate somebody that the Republican Party can't stand, right?
00:24:57.000 And there's only one problem, Marco, which is that half the party hates everybody.
00:25:01.000 I mean, the Trump people, if you're the nominee, they're not gonna show up.
00:25:05.000 The Trump people can't stand you, so this is a poor argument, too.
00:25:08.000 Trump has a better electability argument than Rubio does, actually, because Trump at least says, here are the people I'm gonna bring in who you're not, right?
00:25:14.000 Who are the people?
00:25:15.000 I had this argument with a friend yesterday.
00:25:17.000 Which are the states that Marco Rubio is going to win that Mitt Romney did not?
00:25:21.000 He might win Florida, it's his home state.
00:25:24.000 Is he going to win Virginia when Romney didn't?
00:25:26.000 I don't know that he will.
00:25:27.000 Is he going to win Ohio?
00:25:28.000 Why would he?
00:25:30.000 Maybe he wins Colorado because there are more Hispanics there, but does he win Iowa or Wisconsin?
00:25:33.000 Does he win Indiana?
00:25:35.000 Which are the states that propel Rubio to victory?
00:25:37.000 If you say Trump,
00:25:40.000 I don't know.
00:25:40.000 Trump could lose 50 states.
00:25:41.000 He could win 50 states.
00:25:43.000 I mean, there's a plausible world in which Donald Trump wins New York, for example.
00:25:47.000 That's not completely implausible.
00:25:48.000 It's a lot more plausible than Rubio winning New York.
00:25:50.000 So the electability argument isn't going to cut it either.
00:25:54.000 And Donald Trump is kind of brushing at Rubio.
00:25:57.000 He's brushing him off.
00:25:58.000 He's not really even taking Rubio seriously.
00:25:59.000 He's expending most of his effort right now on Cruz because the next set of primaries are in the South and tend to benefit Cruz more than Rubio.
00:26:06.000 So here's Donald Trump playing the eligibility card.
00:26:08.000 He's going to declare everybody in America ineligible except for Donald Trump.
00:26:12.000 It's really quite astonishing.
00:26:14.000 You actually sent out a retweet yesterday suggesting that Marco Rubio might be ineligible to be president.
00:26:20.000 A tweet that said both Cruz and Rubio are ineligible to be POTUS.
00:26:24.000 Do you really believe that?
00:26:28.000 I think the lawyers have to determine it.
00:26:31.000 It was a retweet.
00:26:32.000 Not so much with Marco.
00:26:33.000 I'm not really that familiar with Marco's circumstance.
00:26:36.000 But then why retweet it?
00:26:39.000 Uh, because I'm not sure.
00:26:41.000 I mean, let people make their own determination.
00:26:43.000 I know Ted is being now, I think he's being sued by somebody, having nothing to do with me, by the way, is being sued by somebody, uh, maybe it's in New York, having to do with eligibility.
00:26:52.000 You're really not sure that Marco Rubio is eligible to run for president?
00:26:56.000 You're really not sure?
00:26:57.000 I don't know.
00:26:58.000 I've never looked at it, George.
00:27:00.000 Honestly, I've never looked at it.
00:27:01.000 Somebody said he's not and I retweeted it.
00:27:04.000 I have 14 million people between Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and I retweet things and we start dialogue and it's very interesting and maybe that's why I have 14 million people and others have 200 million.
00:27:16.000 So he says what he feels like saying, and he starts dialogue.
00:27:18.000 I'm sure he retweeted some white supremacist somewhere, but started a dialogue, didn't it?
00:27:22.000 I mean, come on.
00:27:23.000 That's all that really matters.
00:27:24.000 He's sort of brushing away Rubio.
00:27:25.000 And the reason he's brushing away Rubio is because Rubio is actually a very poor strategist.
00:27:30.000 So Rubio is great on the stump, but what people are neglecting to point out about Rubio is that he is not good at the strategy game.
00:27:37.000 So Cruz has his flaws as a strategist.
00:27:40.000 He thinks that the only way to defeat Trump is to not out-masculine Trump, but to out-conservative Donald Trump.
00:27:47.000 That's not working because of the strategy I pointed out earlier.
00:27:49.000 Rubio thinks that the way he's going to defeat Trump is becoming more establishment than Trump, which is just a mistake.
00:27:54.000 So he trotted out Bob Dole yesterday, age 197.
00:27:59.000 Bob Dole, after having granted his patina of approval to Jeb Bush, took his leprous touch to Marco Rubio.
00:28:06.000 Here we go.
00:28:07.000 My good friend Jeb Bush is no longer running.
00:28:14.000 I'm supporting Rubio.
00:28:16.000 Wait, did we just make some news here?
00:28:18.000 So you're endorsing Marco Rubio?
00:28:20.000 Right.
00:28:23.000 He worked for me in my 96 campaign in Dade County, Florida.
00:28:32.000 And so I've had an acquaintance with him way back to 96.
00:28:38.000 And he was a hard worker.
00:28:41.000 And as much as I love John Casey, you know, Rubio I think is probably a better candidate.
00:28:53.000 And he's young.
00:28:55.000 He's 44.
00:28:56.000 He's two years older than Kennedy was when he was elected.
00:29:03.000 Three years younger than Obama when Obama was elected.
00:29:07.000 But I think you would bring- We need to stop this before I go comatose.
00:29:12.000 I'm sorry.
00:29:13.000 There's only so much Bob Dole that you can take in a setting.
00:29:16.000 Bob Dole.
00:29:17.000 You like it.
00:29:18.000 I like it.
00:29:18.000 The American people know it.
00:29:20.000 So Bob Dole endorsing Marco Rubio in what has to be one of the most inspirational endorsement messages ever recorded for a presidential candidate.
00:29:27.000 And then Rubio doubles down on his moderate credentials.
00:29:30.000 He says that illegal immigration, yeah, I'm not going to try to out-tough Donald on illegal immigration.
00:29:35.000 If we just clear up this whole, like, border mess, I think everybody will be okay with the illegal immigrants who are already here.
00:29:40.000 Here's Marco Rub- Remember, this is the guy who says that he's not for amnesty anymore.
00:29:44.000 Here's Marco Rubio.
00:29:47.000 Your vision.
00:29:48.000 Not the American people's vision.
00:29:50.000 Your vision.
00:29:52.000 You got 12 million people living here.
00:29:54.000 Trump says he's gonna round them up, use federal authorities and federal power to force them to go back home.
00:30:00.000 Some people say that's not realistic.
00:30:02.000 Some people say that won't happen because courts would block it.
00:30:06.000 But your vision is to deal with illegal aliens here who have broken our laws.
00:30:12.000 How?
00:30:13.000 What will you try to sell the voters?
00:30:16.000 Yeah, and first just to set the record straight, my parents came in 1956 before Castro.
00:30:20.000 They came through the regular green card process.
00:30:23.000 They applied and they entered the country the normal immigration way.
00:30:27.000 They didn't have any sort of special status.
00:30:29.000 And then as far as the 12 million that are here, look, I don't believe the American people support some sort of militaristic roundup of individuals and I don't think you could carry it out.
00:30:37.000 The sort of tactics that would require would offend the American people.
00:30:40.000 And the good news is we don't have to do it that way.
00:30:42.000 If you secure our border,
00:30:43.000 If you secure our border, if you put in place mandatory e-verify, if you put in place a mandatory entry-exit tracking system, if we prove to the American people that illegal immigration is finally under control, I think the American people will respond in a very rational, reasonable, but responsible way.
00:30:57.000 But what do you do with someone that fits certain criteria?
00:31:00.000 Okay, so that's the end of it.
00:31:03.000 What he's saying right now is, yes, amnesty, as soon as we've cleared up the border issue.
00:31:07.000 Which, again, that does not make anybody feel real sanguine about Marco Rubio as president.
00:31:12.000 Trump continues to dominate because he's the toughest guy because of his strategy because of all of this and he's been spending a lot of time
00:31:19.000 Knocking out the only other contender who's Cruz.
00:31:22.000 And so as I said, Cruz is trying to outright wing Trump instead of out masculine him, and it's failing dramatically.
00:31:27.000 So yesterday, there was this video that was going around of Marco Rubio, and it's a video that was distributed by the Cruz campaign, by Rick Tyler, who was the Cruz communications director.
00:31:42.000 Here's what that video looked like, and then we'll tell you the rest of the story.
00:31:45.000 Meanwhile, we've actually got a little bit of video from the campaign trail.
00:31:49.000 I know, Brett, you're familiar with it.
00:31:51.000 Over the weekend, Saturday morning, at a Hampton Inn, Marco Rubio was going down to breakfast.
00:31:56.000 He spotted Ted Cruz's father, Rafael, at breakfast, on the table next to him, a Bible.
00:32:02.000 Also, a Cruz staffer right next to him.
00:32:05.000 What happened then was somebody incorrectly subtitled what had happened, put it on YouTube, and then the Cruz campaign retweeted it and whatever, put it out there.
00:32:18.000 But anyway, what was said was, Rubio said, got a good book there, all the answers are in there, especially in that one.
00:32:27.000 But the way it was incorrectly subtitled, not many answers in that book, and now the Cruz campaign has had to apologize.
00:32:35.000 Okay, so that's a good explanation of what happens in the video.
00:32:39.000 It doesn't even make sense that somebody would think that's what Rubio said.
00:32:42.000 Like, why would Rubio walk by and say, that's a great book, it's crap, right?
00:32:46.000 Like, it doesn't make any sense.
00:32:47.000 So clearly that's not what Rubio was saying.
00:32:49.000 Rick Tyler, who's the communications director, he tweeted it, and then he proceeded to apologize for having tweeted it out.
00:32:56.000 He put up a message on his Facebook.
00:32:57.000 He said, I want to apologize to Senator Marco Rubio for posting an inaccurate story about him here earlier today.
00:33:03.000 The story showed a video of the senator walking past a Ted Cruz staffer seated in the lobby of a hotel reading his Bible.
00:33:10.000 The story misquoted a remark the senator made to the staffer.
00:33:12.000 I assumed wrongly that the story was correct.
00:33:15.000 According to the Cruz staffer, the senator made a friendly and appropriate remark.
00:33:18.000 Since the audio was unclear, I should not have assumed the story was correct.
00:33:22.000 I've deleted the post because I would not knowingly post a false story.
00:33:25.000 The fact remains I did post it when I should have checked its accuracy first.
00:33:28.000 I regret the mistake.
00:33:30.000 And so that's what his communications director does.
00:33:33.000 Rubio says that's not enough.
00:33:34.000 Somebody's head has to roll over this.
00:33:37.000 And so Cruz obliges.
00:33:38.000 Cruz fires him.
00:33:40.000 So here's Ted Cruz firing the communications director yesterday.
00:33:44.000 Deleted the tweet.
00:33:45.000 Apologized.
00:33:47.000 And pulled it down.
00:33:48.000 Although I've spent this morning investigating what happened.
00:33:51.000 And this morning, I asked for Rick Tyler's resignation.
00:33:57.000 I have made clear in this campaign that we will conduct this campaign with the very highest standards of integrity.
00:34:04.000 That has been how we've conducted it from day one.
00:34:06.000 It is why, when other campaigns attack us personally,
00:34:12.000 Impugn my integrity or my character, I don't respond in kind.
00:34:15.000 None of you have heard me throw the kind of insults at Marco Rubio that he throws at me every single day.
00:34:22.000 If other candidates choose to go into the gutter, we will not do the same.
00:34:26.000 Rick Tyler's a good man.
00:34:27.000 This was a grave error of judgment.
00:34:30.000 It turned out the news story he sent around was false, but I'll tell you, even if it was true,
00:34:35.000 We are not a campaign that is going to question the faith of another candidate.
00:34:39.000 Even if it was true, our campaign should not have sent it.
00:34:41.000 That's why I've asked for Rick Tyler's resignation.
00:34:44.000 Because the standards of conduct in this campaign have been made absolutely clear for every member of the campaign.
00:34:50.000 So, okay, that's enough.
00:34:52.000 So he's firing him because he doesn't meet the standards of the campaign.
00:34:57.000 So did that help Cruz or did that hurt Cruz?
00:35:00.000 Well, here's how the Rubio campaign responded.
00:35:05.000 Ted Cruz, well here it is, Rick is really a good spokesman, who had the unenviable task of working for a candidate willing to do or say anything to get elected.
00:35:14.000 There is a culture in the Cruz campaign, from top to bottom, that no lie is too big and no trick too dirty.
00:35:19.000 Rick did the right thing by apologizing to Marco.
00:35:22.000 It's high time for Ted Cruz to do the right thing and stop the lies.
00:35:25.000 So in other words, Cruz does what Rubio wants, and Rubio proceeds to stab him right in the face with a piece of glass.
00:35:31.000 What did Donald Trump do?
00:35:32.000 He tweeted, quote, Ted Cruz has now apologized to Marco Rubio and Ben Carson for fraud and dirty tricks.
00:35:37.000 No wonder he has lost evangelical support.
00:35:40.000 And then Donald Trump went on TV and called Ted Cruz a liar.
00:35:43.000 Here's Donald Trump calling Ted Cruz a liar after having fired a guy for tweeting bad information.
00:35:48.000 Here it is.
00:35:49.000 I have one going on now, Cruz.
00:35:51.000 He's got an ad, something to do with, I want to take away your land and I want to keep it in the federal government.
00:35:57.000 I don't even know what the hell they're talking about.
00:35:59.000 It's an ad.
00:36:01.000 It's a cruise ad.
00:36:01.000 It's a cruise scam.
00:36:03.000 I'll tell you, so the evangelicals didn't vote for him.
00:36:05.000 You know why?
00:36:06.000 Because they don't like liars.
00:36:08.000 They're really smart people.
00:36:10.000 They don't want to vote for a liar.
00:36:14.000 Okay, that's enough.
00:36:15.000 So we don't want to vote for a liar.
00:36:17.000 By the way, Donald Trump, same day, same day, here's Donald Trump saying he never questioned Cruz's Christianity.
00:36:25.000 Last week when the Pope made his remarks questioning your Christianity, you said, quote, no leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man's religion or faith.
00:36:35.000 But just last week, you questioned Ted Cruz's Christianity several times in the course of the campaign.
00:36:41.000 It might have even helped you win South Carolina.
00:36:43.000 So why is it okay for you and not okay for the Pope?
00:36:46.000 No, I never questioned Ted's anything having to do with his religion.
00:36:51.000 I just said, you can't lie and hold up a Bible, and you can't do that.
00:36:56.000 You just can't do that.
00:36:57.000 It's not appropriate.
00:36:58.000 Oh.
00:36:58.000 And I was tough on him on that, because things were said about me that were not true.
00:37:02.000 And Marco Rubio actually said that he lied.
00:37:05.000 And I've never seen a politician say to another politician that he lied.
00:37:09.000 I guess it happens.
00:37:09.000 But what Marco actually gave me cover, because he actually said the same thing.
00:37:14.000 And he said it during the debate.
00:37:17.000 Okay, so that's enough.
00:37:24.000 I mean, this is such nonsense, but this is what Trump does.
00:37:29.000 So Trump is taking out Cruz on the base.
00:37:31.000 So Cruz apologized.
00:37:32.000 This is the no apologies campaign, folks.
00:37:34.000 This is how this works.
00:37:35.000 He who apologizes first loses.
00:37:37.000 That's how this works in these primaries.
00:37:38.000 You apologize, people are going to step
00:37:41.000 On your throat and they are not going to step off your throat until you are done breathing.
00:37:45.000 The biggest mistake that Ted Cruz made in this campaign, the biggest one, was not standing by as Trump rose and then riding his coattails a little bit and then turning on him.
00:37:53.000 None of that was a huge mistake.
00:37:55.000 That all made sense.
00:37:56.000 The part that was a mistake was apologizing to Ben Carson after Iowa.
00:37:59.000 Because all that did is it said to all of the Trumps and the Rubios of the world, now we've got him.
00:38:04.000 We can claim that he's an untrustworthy character, and because Cruz is, as we've said on the program, facially challenged, because he has bad physiognomy, because just the way his facial bones are constructed, he doesn't look trustworthy, so they just hammer that home over and over and over.
00:38:18.000 So, for all the talk about Cruz gonna surge and overtake Trump, I don't see it.
00:38:22.000 For all the talk about Rubio's gonna surge and overtake Trump, I don't see that one either.
00:38:26.000 I think Trump is the nominee.
00:38:27.000 And that makes me sad, because I think that
00:38:30.000 If Cruz had not spent so much time nailing Rubio as a wishy-washy guy, then maybe Rubio would have a better shot.
00:38:37.000 I think if Rubio hadn't spent so much time giving Trump cover by hitting Cruz as dishonest, that wouldn't give Trump cover either.
00:38:43.000 But now, I think that both candidates may be too severely damaged to really stop Trump in any real way.
00:38:49.000 Okay, moving on to the Democratic side of the aisle.
00:38:51.000 President Obama is... Understand, no matter how dishonest the people on the Republican side of the aisle are, and there's a lot of dishonesty, the Democrats take the cake.
00:39:00.000 President Obama, over the weekend, was joking about naming a replacement for President Scalia.
00:39:05.000 This is the National Governors Association dinner.
00:39:08.000 President Obama looking thrilled in his tuxedo as the country goes down the tubes.
00:39:11.000 And here he is, making fun of Justice Scalia's death, essentially.
00:39:17.000 I am going to be brief.
00:39:20.000 There comes a time in the second term when the President should make his toasts short.
00:39:29.000 And this is one of those moments.
00:39:32.000 Tonight, I plan to fulfill my duty and give you an indisputably qualified set of remarks.
00:39:39.000 I trust that you'll give them a fair hearing.
00:39:51.000 He is so galling.
00:39:52.000 So there he is saying that they have to give his nominee a fair hearing.
00:39:55.000 His Vice President Joe Biden in 1992.
00:39:58.000 Just to show you how dishonest these folks are.
00:40:00.000 This is Joe Biden back when he had real hair.
00:40:02.000 And he'd just come off of a plagiarism scandal that finished his presidential campaign in 88.
00:40:07.000 Here he is in 92 saying that they shouldn't give a fair hearing to George H.W.
00:40:12.000 Bush's nominee.
00:40:12.000 Here it goes.
00:40:14.000 Mr. President,
00:40:16.000 Where the nation should be treated to a consideration of constitutional philosophy, all it will get in such circumstances is a partisan bickering and political posturing from both parties and from both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.
00:40:34.000 As a result, it is my view that if a Supreme Court justice resigns tomorrow or within the next several weeks, or resigns at the end of the summer,
00:40:47.000 President Bush should consider following the practice of a majority of his predecessors and not, and not name a nominee until after the November election is completed.
00:41:01.000 Okay, so we can shut this idiot up.
00:41:02.000 But that's what's amazing.
00:41:04.000 So on the Democratic side of the aisle, they're so dishonest.
00:41:06.000 Chuck Schumer has said that they shouldn't approve late-term Bush nominees.
00:41:10.000 You got Joe Biden saying they shouldn't approve late-term Bush nominees, but everybody should approve late-term Obama nominees.
00:41:17.000 Dishonest people altogether.
00:41:18.000 Okay, time for a couple of- one quick thing I like, and then one quick thing that I hate.
00:41:22.000 So, thing I like, I've been doing a little bit of music this week.
00:41:25.000 So yesterday, we did Carole King.
00:41:27.000 Today, I'm sort of dating myself here, but these are all people before my time.
00:41:31.000 So I grew up on this music because my parents were into this music.
00:41:34.000 The Doobie Brothers.
00:41:35.000 So I'm a big Doobie Brothers fan, and particularly the song China Grove, which has one of the great openers of all time.
00:41:41.000 So here's the beginning of China Grove from the Doobie Brothers.
00:41:45.000 Let's do it.
00:42:14.000 Okay, so that's good stuff.
00:42:21.000 And just notice something.
00:42:23.000 The Doobie Brothers, there's like the Good Doobie Brothers, and then there's the not-as-good Doobie Brothers.
00:42:27.000 So Tom Johnston, as the lead singer, Good Doobie Brothers.
00:42:30.000 Michael McDonald?
00:42:32.000 Years?
00:42:33.000 No.
00:42:34.000 No, no.
00:42:36.000 If you're ever into Doobie Brothers stuff and want to check it out, make sure that you have the early Doobie Brothers, not the late Doobie Brothers.
00:42:45.000 For whatever reason, Michael McDonald sounds like he's singing through a dishrag.
00:42:50.000 I don't know why that is.
00:42:52.000 The only thing that he has in common with Tom Johnson is that they don't speak English.
00:42:56.000 None of what they're saying is ever... I have no idea what the lyrics to this song are, but it's a good song.
00:43:01.000 Okay, a quick thing that I hate, Louis Farrakhan is making headlines again, this anti-Semitic piece of human debris, head of the Nation of Islam.
00:43:08.000 So he has said, and we'll save more discussion of this for tomorrow, but Beyonce, after her terrible Super Bowl performance, her racist Super Bowl performance, which we talked about at length, a lot of police departments around the country have said, we're not gonna provide free security for her concerts.
00:43:22.000 If she wants to hire people, she can do it.
00:43:23.000 We're not doing it.
00:43:25.000 And Louis Farrakhan came out yesterday and he said, don't worry, Nation of Islam will provide security
00:43:30.000 Please don't put up another basketball court thinking that you've given back to the black community.
00:43:59.000 Basketball courts are training ground for a basketball plantation.
00:44:07.000 What?
00:44:08.000 Do they grow basketballs?
00:44:08.000 Do you understand what I'm saying?
00:44:11.000 No.
00:44:12.000 No, actually.
00:44:13.000 You know when we were slaves?
00:44:16.000 When?
00:44:21.000 When we were in a different kind of slave situation?
00:44:25.000 Oh.
00:44:27.000 White folk would put us on the auction block.
00:44:32.000 Come by and squeeze your buttocks.
00:44:35.000 Look at you and say, this is a strong specimen.
00:44:39.000 How much for this one?
00:44:41.000 I'll buy it.
00:44:44.000 And we got bought and sold just like that.
00:44:47.000 Well, that's what you do in sports.
00:44:52.000 You run up and down the field.
00:44:54.000 You show them how swift you are.
00:44:56.000 How clever you are.
00:44:59.000 And they're sitting there, watching you, timing you.
00:45:03.000 That's a good one.
00:45:05.000 Okay, so we can pause it here.
00:45:06.000 Okay, so Louis Farrakhan, by the way, good friends with Jeremiah Wright.
00:45:09.000 I think that he and Barack Obama were on like back-to-back issues of Trumpet magazine, which was Jeremiah Wright's church magazine.
00:45:18.000 This is so intensely stupid.
00:45:21.000 I mean, so intensely stupid.
00:45:22.000 First of all, there's no such thing as a basketball plantation because basketballs are not made on a plantation, folks.
00:45:27.000 They're actually made in manufacturing plants where they make basketballs.
00:45:29.000 There's no place that they grow basketballs.
00:45:31.000 It just doesn't work that way.
00:45:33.000 Also, what's he talking about?
00:45:35.000 Like, yes, slavery was evil and horrible.
00:45:40.000 But the slaves were not getting paid $15 million a year.
00:45:43.000 Like, when they were squeezing the buttocks of the slaves to check whether they were healthy or not way back when, that's because they were going to pay the slaveholder to sell this human being, which is an act of evil.
00:45:56.000 In the NBA, you have people who are volunteering to run up and down a field and get paid vast quantities of money themselves.
00:46:02.000 Like, nobody else is getting paid for that.
00:46:04.000 But it all goes by the wayside because the vast American racist conspiracy has to continue according to Louis Farrakhan.
00:46:10.000 And there are people who listen to this guy.
00:46:11.000 There are people who listen to this nonsense.
00:46:13.000 There are people who think that even aspects of American life where blacks are
00:46:19.000 Inarguably, wildly successful, like the NBA, which is at least 75% black.
00:46:25.000 This is some sort of discrimination against black people.
00:46:28.000 It's madness.
00:46:29.000 And this is where you really create generations of black people who feel like they're being victimized.
00:46:35.000 Because if you're even being victimized when you're winning, then how does it feel when you're losing?
00:46:40.000 If Charles Barkley, you know you remember he posed for Sports Illustrated wearing like a neck chain at one point like he was a slave, it was very controversial.
00:46:48.000 If even when you're making millions and millions of dollars a year you're still a slave, how's the guy in the inner city supposed to feel who's making ten bucks an hour working at McDonald's trying to struggle to get by?
00:46:57.000 Mentality matters.
00:46:58.000 What you teach people matters.
00:47:00.000 And this kind of stuff isn't just counterproductive, it's actually evil because it's a lie.
00:47:03.000 Well, when we come back tomorrow, well one day until the blow up at CSULA, we'll give you the updates because I'm sure there will be some.
00:47:11.000 Plus we'll tell you how the Nevada caucuses went.
00:47:13.000 Cross your fingers that a miracle occurred and Donald Trump didn't win in Nevada.
00:47:17.000 But if he did, that'll just fulfill my predictions and I get sick of being right sometimes.
00:47:21.000 We'll be back tomorrow and you can hear me be right again.
00:47:24.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:47:24.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.