The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 82 - Hillary Vows 'Love and Kindness.' We're Screwed.

00:00:00.000 They're here.

00:00:01.000 They've come.

00:00:03.000 Oh yes, the Trump supporters had their big day in the sun yesterday.

00:00:06.000 Super Tuesday.

00:00:07.000 Big win for Donald Trump.

00:00:08.000 We'll talk about all the math.

00:00:09.000 Can anyone stop Donald Trump?

00:00:11.000 What does it mean for our nation?

00:00:12.000 Plus, Chris Christie.

00:00:14.000 Dude, what's up with him?

00:00:16.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:16.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:25.000 So I have to admit, the last few weeks of broadcasts have been incredibly depressing, even for me, and I'm a naturally upbeat person.

00:00:32.000 But aside from that, okay, so Chris Christie has to be even more depressive than I am at this point, and he's backing the guy, right?

00:00:39.000 He's backing Donald Trump.

00:00:40.000 I don't back Donald Trump.

00:00:41.000 If you've missed the last several weeks of the program, I think that Donald Trump is a horror show.

00:00:45.000 But all that aside, Chris Christie has become the saddest person in America.

00:00:50.000 Here's Chris Christie.

00:00:51.000 The governor of New Jersey, at one point, he thought he was going to be president.

00:00:54.000 You remember, he gave his big, bloviating, Tony Soprano-style speech at the 2012 Republican National Convention, pushing himself, not pushing Romney at all.

00:01:02.000 And now, here is Chris Christie introducing Donald Trump, and he looks like he's about to break down and cry.

00:01:08.000 Tonight, Donald Trump has won Georgia and Massachusetts, Alabama and Virginia.

00:01:17.000 And he's also won the great state of Tennessee.

00:01:21.000 Tonight is the beginning of Donald Trump bringing the Republican Party together for a big victory this November.

00:01:33.000 Tonight is the beginning of Donald Trump bringing the people of our nation together to help America win again.

00:01:46.000 Honest to God, it looks like Chris Christie was just forced into a shotgun marriage after impregnating Donald Trump. 0.91

00:01:50.000 That's what it looks like in this video.

00:01:53.000 Well, he's going from victory to victory.

00:01:55.000 And I'm so glad we're in love.

00:01:57.000 And I guess we're gonna stay together forever.

00:02:00.000 And he won a lot of states.

00:02:02.000 And yeah, I'm glad I'm here, guys.

00:02:05.000 He was so glad that he was here that this vine started making the rounds.

00:02:09.000 Chris Christie was standing behind Donald Trump at the debate after all of this was over.

00:02:14.000 Trump was making his victory speech.

00:02:15.000 And Chris Christie, I tweeted out, he looks like Renfield to Trump's Dracula at this point.

00:02:20.000 And other people said that he looked like LeFou to Donald Trump's Gaston in Beauty and the Beast.

00:02:27.000 But whatever he looks like, he looks like an incredibly disappointed potato.

00:02:30.000 That's essentially what he is, like a russet potato.

00:02:35.000 Who has lost all contact with reality and optimism.

00:02:39.000 Looks like a man who's staring.

00:02:41.000 He's got the thousand-yard stare like he just got back from NOM.

00:02:43.000 And here is Chris Christie.

00:02:45.000 Hey, just watch this.

00:02:46.000 You have to watch it.

00:02:46.000 It's too funny.

00:02:47.000 Okay, here we go.

00:02:57.000 And Christie's like, I can't believe that I'm here.

00:03:00.000 This is what my life has come to.

00:03:02.000 I'm standing behind this con man bloviating real estate narcissist reality star with crappy hair and stubby fingers and I'm standing behind him and I had to endorse him so that he'll make me Attorney General.

00:03:15.000 What has happened to my life?

00:03:20.000 Folks, we laugh now because this is going to be everybody who votes for Trump, who's not a Trumpster, in about three weeks.

00:03:27.000 We're all going to be standing behind Trump going, oh, I can't believe this is happening.

00:03:32.000 Like, really?

00:03:33.000 Really?

00:03:33.000 I'm here?

00:03:34.000 This can't be real.

00:03:35.000 He looks like a Rod Serling character who's about to wake up from a dream.

00:03:41.000 He's gonna wake up and say, oh my god, I had the worst dream.

00:03:43.000 I had a dream that I ran for president and Donald Trump beat the crap out of me and then I had to endorse him and I was standing behind him at his speech looking all awkward.

00:03:51.000 Oh my god, it was terrible.

00:03:53.000 You actually need some like animated sweat pouring down his face.

00:03:57.000 In order to make this complete, like, airplane-style sweat where he's got, like, the huge flop sweat and buckets of water pouring off his face.

00:04:03.000 Ah, we mock because he deserves it.

00:04:05.000 Chris Christie is truly a terrible person.

00:04:07.000 Donald Trump has made his latest hostile takeover Chris Christie's soul.

00:04:11.000 That's essentially what happened.

00:04:13.000 So, alright, so Donald Trump was the big winner last night.

00:04:17.000 He won 7 out of the 12 states, or 8 out of the 12 states.

00:04:23.000 Marco Rubio, who has all the momentum gang, Marco Rubio won one state, Minnesota, and he won it narrowly.

00:04:29.000 That means that he's gonna be president.

00:04:31.000 Yeah, not so much.

00:04:33.000 We'll go through the numbers on Marco Rubio in a second, but Marco Rubio, he made it sound like he's winning.

00:04:38.000 I will say this, the man has a gift for never winning anything and then going around talking about how he's winning and the momentum is all with it.

00:04:45.000 I tweeted out last night, I have won at this point, early in the night, I tweeted out, I have currently won as many states as Marco Rubio.

00:04:51.000 I have all the momentum.

00:04:53.000 And that's essentially the Rubio campaign.

00:04:55.000 The Cruz campaign is sitting in the background going, guys, guys, I'm actually winning a couple of states.

00:04:59.000 Can you give me some coverage?

00:05:00.000 And Fox is like, no.

00:05:01.000 No, you're Ted Cruz!

00:05:02.000 We'll cover Marco Rubio, who has all the momentum, and we'll cover Donald Trump and pretend that we hate him, even though most of us kind of like him and he raises our ratings.

00:05:10.000 So, it's... Ted Cruz is just the sad guy in the corner.

00:05:13.000 He's like, I don't know what I have to do here.

00:05:15.000 I'm working on the group project.

00:05:16.000 I did all the work and I've given the credit to the entire group.

00:05:19.000 I'm the only one who's beaten this guy and you're sitting over here telling me I can never be president, I can never get the nomination.

00:05:24.000 And Trump, meanwhile, is just kind of cruising.

00:05:26.000 So there are a couple of signs of weakness for Trump last night.

00:05:29.000 Not enough to actually defeat him, as I'll explain in a little while, because in order to defeat Donald Trump, in order to truly defeat Donald Trump, you need a bunch of presidential candidates to put their egos aside.

00:05:46.000 Yeah, things that are never gonna happen.

00:05:48.000 But in order to defeat Trump, that needs to happen.

00:05:50.000 It's not going to happen.

00:05:51.000 Basically, and we'll get to the analysis later, Marco Rubio would have to win Florida and then quit, and John Kasich would have to win Ohio and then quit.

00:05:58.000 Neither of those two things are going to happen.

00:06:00.000 There were a couple of signs of weakness for Trump last night.

00:06:02.000 In the only closed primary, meaning the only primary where Democrats can't register as Republicans or register for a Republican primary and go and vote, in the only closed primary, Oklahoma, Ted Cruz won, Ted Cruz won in Texas.

00:06:14.000 Trump did not show quite as strong in some of the other states as people thought he was going to.

00:06:18.000 They thought he was going to wipe the floor in Vermont, for example.

00:06:20.000 He very narrowly beat Ohio Governor John Kasich.

00:06:23.000 He won seven states instead of eleven.

00:06:27.000 Ted Cruz won the caucus in Alaska.

00:06:29.000 He also won Oklahoma, and he won Texas, and Marco Rubio won Minnesota.

00:06:34.000 And there's some evidence that late-breaking voters turned away from Trump, that maybe the KKK incident

00:06:39.000 In which Donald Trump's earpiece led him to say racist things.

00:06:56.000 You know, that may have had some impact.

00:06:58.000 The fact that Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, as per my advice, finally went on attack against Trump, that may have had some impact.

00:07:04.000 There's still two weeks to March 15th, so it's possible that that starts to tell a little bit on Donald Trump.

00:07:10.000 It's also more possible that it doesn't.

00:07:12.000 But first, let's go through what Donald Trump had to say for himself.

00:07:15.000 Then we'll go through the analysis of the numbers.

00:07:18.000 And then finally, we'll get to the big game-changer.

00:07:21.000 The big game-changer.

00:07:22.000 Is that a tease or what?

00:07:23.000 Just a few minutes.

00:07:24.000 Stick around.

00:07:24.000 The big game-changer.

00:07:25.000 So here is Donald Trump talking last night about how Marco Rubio had a really, really rough night.

00:07:31.000 And he did.

00:07:31.000 Marco Rubio had a bad night.

00:07:32.000 Here's Donald Trump.

00:07:33.000 And notice, try to ignore Chris Christie in the background, looking just like a big old sack of sad lard.

00:07:39.000 And try and follow what Donald Trump is saying about Marco Rubio.

00:07:44.000 I know it was a very tough night for Marco Rubio.

00:07:47.000 He had a tough night, but he worked hard.

00:07:50.000 He spent a lot of money.

00:07:51.000 He is a lightweight, as I've said many times before.

00:07:54.000 But you know what?

00:07:55.000 We're going to go to Florida.

00:07:57.000 We're going to spend so much time in Florida.

00:07:59.000 We've got about a 20-point lead.

00:08:01.000 I know that a lot of groups, a lot of the special interests and a lot of the lobbyists and the people that want to have their little senator do exactly as they want, they're going to put $20 or $25 million into it over the next two weeks from what just came over the wires.

00:08:16.000 And frankly, I think that's fine.

00:08:18.000 As far as I'm concerned, it's fine.

00:08:20.000 And if he wins, they'll have total control.

00:08:22.000 Total control.

00:08:22.000 But he's not going anywhere anyway.

00:08:24.000 But we'll see what happens.

00:08:25.000 Donald Trump, magnanimous in victory, as always.

00:08:28.000 And behind him, Chris Christie, just looking like Igor over there.

00:08:33.000 Igor, fetch me my water!

00:08:35.000 And Chris is like, okay, go get your- People are starting to call Chris Christie, Chris Shinebox Christie.

00:08:42.000 Like, from the Goodfellas, like, go get your Shinebox, Chris.

00:08:44.000 Little bit.

00:08:45.000 Okay, so Trump says that Rubio had a tough night.

00:08:47.000 He did have a tough night.

00:08:48.000 Trump is right.

00:08:50.000 The polls may be slightly overstated in Florida, but Trump does have a lead in Florida.

00:08:54.000 Again, we'll get to the numbers in a minute.

00:08:56.000 The thing you gotta love about Donald Trump is that Donald Trump, he's twirling, twirling, twirling towards the future.

00:09:02.000 There is no position he holds for more than five seconds.

00:09:04.000 So, Marco Rubio's a lightweight.

00:09:06.000 He had a tough night.

00:09:06.000 He's controlled by the special interests, unlike Donald Trump, who is the special interest.

00:09:10.000 And then Donald Trump turns and he says, but don't worry, I'm a unifier.

00:09:13.000 Here we go.

00:09:15.000 But I will say this, look, we have expanded the Republican Party.

00:09:20.000 When you look at what's happened in South Carolina and you see the kind of numbers that we got in terms of extra people coming in, they came from the Democratic Party or the Democrat Party, and they're Democrats, and they're longtime Democrats, and they were never going to switch, and they all switched.

00:09:35.000 And they were independents.

00:09:37.000 And we've actually expanded the party.

00:09:39.000 Look at the number of votes we had in that area, as an example.

00:09:44.000 Four years ago, they had 390,000 or so votes.

00:09:45.000 We doubled it.

00:09:45.000 We were almost 800,000.

00:09:50.000 Whereas the Democrats went down.

00:09:52.000 There's much less enthusiasm for the Democrats.

00:09:55.000 So, look, I'm a unifier.

00:09:58.000 I know people are going to find that a little bit hard to believe, but believe me, I am a unifier.

00:10:02.000 Once we get all of this finished, I'm going to go after one person.

00:10:06.000 That's Hillary Clinton, on the assumption she's allowed to run, which is a big assumption. 1.00

00:10:10.000 I don't know that she's going to be allowed to run.

00:10:13.000 And I think that's frankly going to be an easy race. 0.98

00:10:16.000 You see the polls.

00:10:16.000 I beat Hillary in many polls.

00:10:18.000 I know one thing.

00:10:19.000 I don't think Marco is going to be able to beat her.

00:10:21.000 I don't think, in all fairness, I think Ted's going to have a very hard time.

00:10:24.000 But Ted at least has a shot because at least he's won a little bit.

00:10:28.000 So I just tell you this.

00:10:29.000 We are going to be a much

00:10:32.000 We're going to be a unified party.

00:10:35.000 I mean, to be honest with you.

00:10:37.000 And we are going to be a much bigger party.

00:10:40.000 And you can see that happening.

00:10:41.000 We're going to be a much bigger party.

00:10:42.000 Our party is expanding.

00:10:44.000 And all you have to do is take a look at the primary states where I've won.

00:10:48.000 And just look, we've gone from X number to a much larger number.

00:10:52.000 That hasn't happened to the Republican Party in many, many decades.

00:10:57.000 So I think we're going to be more inclusive, I think we're going to be more unified, and I think we're going to be a much bigger party, and I think we're going to win in November.

00:11:07.000 Okay, so he's a unifier, he's gonna bring people together.

00:11:09.000 Also, Marco Rubio's a loser and will never win anything ever again.

00:11:13.000 Plus, you know how big a unifier Trump is?

00:11:15.000 He's such a big unifier that he said this about Paul Ryan, the current Speaker of the House.

00:11:20.000 And again, Chris Christie, there was something that popped into mind while I was watching this.

00:11:23.000 He looks exactly like Luca Brasi from The Godfather.

00:11:26.000 Like, exactly like Luca Brasi from The Godfather.

00:11:29.000 And it's gonna be so awkward when Trump makes him sleep with the fishes when he crosses him.

00:11:32.000 It's really gonna be awkward.

00:11:33.000 Here's Donald Trump saying that

00:11:36.000 After saying that he's a big unifier and he's bringing people together, he brings people together by threatening Paul Ryan.

00:11:41.000 Good times.

00:11:44.000 I wasn't equivocating.

00:11:45.000 Let's not ask it again.

00:11:46.000 How many times do I say... Listen, who are you by the way?

00:11:49.000 Who are you with?

00:11:52.000 Okay, very good.

00:11:53.000 Good job.

00:11:54.000 Look, I don't want to waste a lot of time.

00:11:57.000 I've disavowed... Okay, I'm going to get along great with Congress, okay?

00:12:01.000 Paul Ryan, I don't know him well, but I'm sure I'm going to get along great with him.

00:12:04.000 And if I don't, he's going to have to pay a big price, okay?

00:12:08.000 Okay.

00:12:10.000 And he's going to pay a big price, because if you don't pay attention to Donald Trump, if you're mean to Donald Trump, you pay a huge, brutal, magnificent, luxurious price.

00:12:19.000 That was Donald Trump last night.

00:12:20.000 He also said Chris Christie would make a spectacular Attorney General, which is why Chris Christie is standing there looking like just...

00:12:29.000 Whatever Chris Christie looks like.

00:12:30.000 He looks like a walking tombstone.

00:12:31.000 If you remember from Fantasia, there's a scene in Fantasia, there's kind of a shot in Fantasia where they're playing Beethoven's Fifth, where you see kind of a walking coffin.

00:12:41.000 Boom, boom, just bouncing.

00:12:42.000 That's Chris Christie now.

00:12:43.000 Okay, so that was Trump last night.

00:12:46.000 And Trump gets to say whatever he wants.

00:12:48.000 He's the winner, right?

00:12:48.000 I mean, the winners win.

00:12:50.000 And meanwhile, Marco Rubio is fully delusional.

00:12:53.000 Marco Rubio

00:12:56.000 His plan is completely working.

00:12:57.000 His plan to go 3rd, 5th, 2nd, 4th, 3rd, 3rd, 3rd, 3rd, 2nd, 3rd, 3rd, 3rd, 3rd, 2nd, 3rd, 3rd, 3rd.

00:13:08.000 It's working perfectly.

00:13:10.000 So far he is totally on track to be President of the United States and last night was just more evidence of his momentum.

00:13:15.000 He won Minnesota where there are seven voters.

00:13:17.000 And so here is Marco Rubio.

00:13:18.000 He's giving a big victory speech last night.

00:13:20.000 Things are really looking up for the Rubio campaign.

00:13:24.000 We are going to send a message loud and clear.

00:13:32.000 We are going to send the message that the party of Lincoln and Reagan and the presidency of the United States will never be held by a con artist.

00:13:45.000 Never be held by a con artist except for how it's going to be held by a con artist apparently.

00:13:49.000 And I love just the optimism and the cheers and it's all going great.

00:13:53.000 We're right on track.

00:13:55.000 And then Marco Rubio says, you know who really had a bad night?

00:13:57.000 It wasn't me.

00:13:59.000 That's me.

00:13:59.000 The one who really had a bad night was Ted Cruz.

00:14:01.000 Sure, he won at least two more states than I did, but the one who really, really had a bad night was Ted Cruz, even though he's beating me by like 100 delegates right now.

00:14:09.000 So here's Marco Rubio explaining, he wasn't a big loser, he was really a big winner.

00:14:13.000 It's all working out just spectacularly.

00:14:16.000 And we're going to pick up delegates in every state on the map tonight, for the most part.

00:14:20.000 John Kasich can't say that.

00:14:21.000 And Ted Cruz, a bad night for him, too.

00:14:23.000 I mean, this was supposed to be a Southern strategy.

00:14:25.000 Let's not forget, his campaign said that tonight was the night that it would all come to an end and he would be the nominee.

00:14:31.000 He didn't even come close to fulfilling that.

00:14:33.000 And if Ted Cruz, given how he's running, cannot sweep on Super Tuesday in the South, where in this country is he going to win?

00:14:41.000 I, on the other hand, I can make the case that given where you see voters are going in different parts of the country, we have many states remaining, the bulk of the delegates outstanding, where we're going to do very well and have a real chance to stop Donald Trump and become the nominee.

00:14:55.000 Okay, so all of that is going beautifully.

00:14:57.000 His plan to never win a state and yet somehow magically win the nomination, it's beautiful.

00:15:02.000 It's going just great.

00:15:03.000 Meanwhile, Ted Cruz is giving his own speech, and he's explaining that it's morning in America, everything is great, everything's rosy except for, like, no one's winning.

00:15:13.000 No one's actually beating Trump.

00:15:14.000 And if they do beat Trump, it's because he's running slightly under projections.

00:15:18.000 But let's just put it this way, folks.

00:15:19.000 Donald Trump, right now, at this point in the process, has more delegates than Mitt Romney had in 2012, at this time in the process.

00:15:26.000 Here's Ted Cruz declaring victory.

00:15:27.000 I guess everybody...

00:15:28.000 I declare victory.

00:15:29.000 I won last night.

00:15:30.000 I was the big winner.

00:15:31.000 Donald Trump got schlonged.

00:15:32.000 It was me.

00:15:32.000 I won.

00:15:33.000 As long as we're living in this magical fan- Lindsey.

00:15:35.000 Lindsey won.

00:15:36.000 Turns out Lindsey won.

00:15:38.000 Mathis, who looks like, according to his Uber driver, an ugly James Dean.

00:15:40.000 Mathis won.

00:15:42.000 Everybody wins.

00:15:43.000 Everybody's a big winner last night.

00:15:45.000 Except for the guy who actually won.

00:15:46.000 Here's Ted Cruz declaring himself a big winner last night.

00:15:49.000 From this day forward,

00:15:51.000 Let us together show that Reagan's love, optimism, and faith in the American people were not misplaced.

00:16:04.000 Let us show that we will not let the American light go out, that we will fight for our Constitution, for life, and for freedom.

00:16:19.000 You have shown that we remain a strong and just people.

00:16:24.000 A people who do not give in to fear, but rise always in our righteous might to meet the challenges of the future.

00:16:37.000 Together, we can do it.

00:16:40.000 If we stand together and return to the free market principles and the constitutional liberties that built America.

00:16:54.000 Okay, so he's saying all this stuff is fine.

00:16:57.000 Trump is running a completely different campaign than the rest of these guys.

00:17:00.000 Marco Rubio is talking about how he's the big winner.

00:17:02.000 Ted Cruz is talking about constitutional principles.

00:17:05.000 Ah!

00:17:05.000 Passe.

00:17:05.000 We don't do those sorts of things anymore.

00:17:07.000 Come on.

00:17:08.000 This is America.

00:17:09.000 This is the Republican Party 2016.

00:17:10.000 We don't talk about the Constitution or conservatism or things that actually matter like values.

00:17:16.000 We don't talk about those things.

00:17:17.000 We talk about little Marco and we talk about how Hillary Clinton is ugly and we talk about how

00:17:22.000 Megyn Kelly is bleeding from her wherever, and how we're going to make America great again by building a wall that we're never actually going to build, and deporting people we're never actually going to deport. 1.00

00:17:29.000 But trust me, because I've lied in the past.

00:17:31.000 So, it's all wonderful.

00:17:33.000 Everything is just going swimmingly for the Republican Party all the way to the end.

00:17:38.000 By the way, Ted Cruz, he did make one good point in all of this.

00:17:42.000 He was talking about Fox News, and he was asked why exactly he's not getting any attention from Fox News clip 12.

00:17:48.000 He says this to Sean Hannity.

00:17:50.000 He says this on CNN.

00:17:52.000 If you think Donald Trump is so antithetical to conservatism, what took you so long to say so?

00:17:59.000 Because you really cozied up to him for the majority of this campaign.

00:18:05.000 Well, listen, Dana, for the last couple of months I've been taking Donald on directly.

00:18:09.000 And in fact, in the last few debates, prior to this one last week, nobody else was willing to jump into the fray.

00:18:17.000 In order to... The way this primary has played out, it's a winnowing process.

00:18:21.000 And so there were some candidates that took Donald on when there were 17 of us, and they didn't have a strong enough base, and you couldn't do that.

00:18:27.000 From my end, I needed to build my base of support.

00:18:30.000 I needed to take care so that I was on a strong foundation first before I could take him on, and that was a natural process.

00:18:36.000 So this is Cruz explaining, wrong clip my fault, but this is Cruz explaining why he didn't take on Trump earlier.

00:18:42.000 Clip 13 is where he explains why exactly he's not getting any attention for actually winning things on Mark Levin's show.

00:18:49.000 I don't know what, I don't want to waste your time with this, but the Chris Wallace interview, I mean, I'm on the air and I said today is Trump day on Fox and yesterday was Rubio day.

00:18:58.000 There never seems to be a Cruz day on Fox.

00:19:01.000 I'm serious about this.

00:19:04.000 It is, and as you understand, that is not accidental.

00:19:07.000 That, by all appearances, is a corporate decision from the top.

00:19:14.000 They can have their own agenda, but we're not going to worry about that.

00:19:18.000 We're going to worry about getting straight to the voters.

00:19:20.000 Okay, so he's right, by the way.

00:19:23.000 Fox does not cover Cruz in the way that Cruz ought to be covered.

00:19:26.000 He is the second place guy right now.

00:19:28.000 He is not the third place guy.

00:19:29.000 They're treating Rubio like he and Cruz are a parody, and they absolutely are not.

00:19:34.000 So, two questions.

00:19:35.000 So, you know what?

00:19:36.000 Let's start by going through the math.

00:19:38.000 Here's where we currently stand.

00:19:39.000 So, for people who are wondering, there are a lot of people today, and they're sitting around going, yeah, don't worry, there's still a way to win this.

00:19:45.000 Hugh Hewitt, who I'm friends with over at Salem Radio Network and CNN,

00:19:50.000 He called into the morning show I do to talk about how, don't worry, it is still going to go open convention.

00:19:55.000 No, in all likelihood, it is definitely not going to go open convention.

00:19:58.000 Okay, here is how the math works from here on in.

00:20:01.000 So, there are only two scenarios, really only two.

00:20:04.000 Where Trump gets stopped.

00:20:06.000 The first is Trump losing Florida to Rubio and losing Ohio to Kasich.

00:20:10.000 And then there would have to be some sort of major Rubio-Cruz-Kasich counteroffensive where all of them win a bunch of individual states and take enough votes away from Trump in order to win.

00:20:19.000 The problem with this particular strategy is that that means that they actually have to not split the vote sufficiently to let Trump win and the winner take all states that come later in the race.

00:20:29.000 Trump could lose Florida and Ohio and still take the nomination easily if he wins Pennsylvania and California and New York, and if he does all of that, because the field is too split.

00:20:38.000 The second scenario is Marco Rubio drops out, and Kasich drops out, and all of the support consolidates behind Cruz.

00:20:45.000 Cruz can't drop out right now.

00:20:46.000 He's got the most delegates, and why would he?

00:20:48.000 He's likely to do better in the next few primary states.

00:20:51.000 They're a bunch, actually, up till Super Tuesday.

00:20:54.000 And if he drops out,

00:20:55.000 There's a possibility that a lot of Cruz voters actually switch back to Trump, which is a problem.

00:20:59.000 This is why even Lindsey Graham, who despises Cruz, came out yesterday and said, it's possible that the only win here comes via Cruz.

00:21:07.000 So, here's how the math breaks down.

00:21:09.000 Right now, Donald Trump is leading with a significant number, I think he's got 300 and some delegates.

00:21:17.000 On Super Tuesday, before Super Tuesday, for the next few weeks, there are 326 delegates at stake.

00:21:23.000 Assume that Trump wins the same share of those delegates that he's won in the early primary contest, which is a fair assumption.

00:21:29.000 That means he's going to win 160 more delegates.

00:21:31.000 That means he has 526.

00:21:32.000 Remember, he only needs to get to 1,237.

00:21:33.000 He needs to get to 1,237 delegates.

00:21:35.000 So, by Super Tuesday, he's going to be about 40% of the way there.

00:21:37.000 He'll have 526 or so delegates heading into Super Tuesday.

00:21:46.000 On Super Tuesday, there are another almost 400 delegates at stake.

00:21:50.000 The problem is, a lot of these delegates are at stake in winner-take-all states.

00:21:53.000 So those winner-take-all states means that if Trump wins 35% and Cruz wins 34%, Trump takes all of them.

00:21:59.000 There's no even split in terms of the delegates.

00:22:02.000 So, even if Cruz wins a solid percentage of North Carolina, for example, but Trump wins Florida and Ohio, it's over.

00:22:07.000 He picks up in excess of 300 votes,

00:22:09.000 And suddenly he's up in the 800s.

00:22:11.000 He's up in like the 850 range.

00:22:14.000 800, 850 range.

00:22:15.000 And that means that there's still another 1,000 delegates available.

00:22:18.000 There's still another 1,000 delegates available.

00:22:21.000 And he only has to win 200 of them.

00:22:22.000 So it's a foregone- or 400 of them.

00:22:24.000 It's a foregone conclusion at that point he wins the nomination.

00:22:27.000 If Trump loses Florida and Ohio, he could still win if the field doesn't consolidate.

00:22:31.000 And again, it stays too fragmented.

00:22:33.000 So if Rubio stays in and Cruz stays in and Kasich stays in after Super Tuesday,

00:22:37.000 The chances that Trump wins the nomination are extraordinarily good.

00:22:40.000 So, that means the only real shot, the only real shot that Trump loses the nomination at this point, or that he doesn't have enough delegates to win the nomination more accurately, because no one else will have a majority, the only way that this happens is if Donald Trump drops Florida to Rubio, drops Ohio to Kasich, and then the two of them immediately get out of the race

00:22:59.000 And that prevents Trump from going forward and winning outright.

00:23:13.000 So, in other words, Marco Rubio, who hasn't dropped out all the way till now, after winning a grand total of one state, and he's not gonna win any of these upcoming states, he's gonna win one state going into Super Tuesday, in all likelihood.

00:23:24.000 That guy, who hasn't dropped out until now, will win Florida, and then turn around and say, I'm out?

00:23:30.000 The chances of this are zero.

00:23:32.000 John Kasich, who is only sticking around for Ohio, he sticks around, he wins Ohio, the chances of him dropping out are this.

00:23:38.000 Zero.

00:23:38.000 Big goose egg.

00:23:39.000 Not gonna happen.

00:23:41.000 Which means Cruz can't drop out, as I mentioned.

00:23:44.000 He's got the most delegates other than Trump.

00:23:46.000 He's the only person who's beaten Trump in any significant sense.

00:23:49.000 And, again, if Cruz gets out, thanks to his immigration position, there's a good shot that at least, say, 30% of his vote goes to Trump.

00:23:56.000 And at that point, it doesn't matter who else drops out, because the fact is that Trump ends up winning enough delegates to take it home.

00:24:03.000 You have to assume at this point there's about a 75% chance that Trump wins the nomination outright.

00:24:08.000 Even if he doesn't win the nomination outright, he has more delegates than anybody else going into the convention, and he's won more states than anybody else going into the convention.

00:24:17.000 The only people who are eligible at this point

00:24:19.000 Our people who have won eight states.

00:24:22.000 And there's a controversy over whether you have to win a majority in those eight states, or just a plurality will do it.

00:24:27.000 In any case, it's possible we may enter the convention with Trump being the only one who's actually won eight states.

00:24:34.000 I mean, at this point, Cruz has only won four, and it's hard to spot the other four that he's going to win.

00:24:39.000 Right?

00:24:39.000 If he does, it's going to be very slim.

00:24:41.000 For point of reference, Rick Santorum, who was the challenger to Mitt Romney in 2012, he won a grand total of eight states.

00:24:48.000 So, it's not that easy to get to eight states.

00:24:51.000 So that's where we currently stand.

00:24:52.000 So earlier I mentioned, there is a game changer.

00:24:55.000 There's a game changer.

00:24:56.000 The game changer is, you ready for this?

00:24:58.000 We need someone to come out of the wings, riding a white horse, unifying the party against Trump, really bringing people together, maybe even putting his name on ballots as a writing candidate or challenging him at the convention.

00:25:11.000 Mitt Romney!

00:25:13.000 Oh yes!

00:25:14.000 Mitt Romney has announced that he is going to give,

00:25:18.000 Mitt Romney has announced that he is going to give a major address tomorrow on the 2016 election cycle.

00:25:24.000 He's going to give a major address tomorrow at the University of Utah on the 2016 election cycle.

00:25:30.000 This is according to TheHill.com, breaking just moments ago.

00:25:33.000 According to The Hill, Romney will hold a speech addressing the 2016 race.

00:25:38.000 It says, quote, the 2012 nominee and former Massachusetts governor will address the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah.

00:25:47.000 They don't really have any more information about what he's going to say.

00:25:50.000 Is he going to announce a run?

00:25:52.000 Unlikely.

00:25:52.000 Is he going to throw his support to Rubio?

00:25:54.000 Maybe, although how that's going to help, I don't know the answer to that, given the fact that so many people dislike Romney.

00:26:01.000 That's sort of one of the things driving the entire Trump base, is that they disliked Romney, they disliked McCain.

00:26:07.000 Romney last week warned of a bombshell in Trump's tax returns.

00:26:10.000 Speculation has been mounting that Romney might even declare himself a candidate.

00:26:13.000 A Romney aide told The Hill that that is highly unlikely, that he's not going to declare himself a candidate.

00:26:19.000 The campaign strategist, she doesn't think, Katie Packer, she said she doesn't think that he's going to jump into the race.

00:26:25.000 She says that he wants to be a voice, an adult in the room, so he'll jump into the attacking of Donald Trump.

00:26:30.000 It's going to be throw the kitchen sink at Donald Trump.

00:26:33.000 The problem is coming from Rubio, and coming from Romney, it just doesn't wash in any real way.

00:26:39.000 By the way, other breaking news, Ben Carson has decided he's not going to show up at the debate tomorrow night.

00:26:43.000 There's another debate tomorrow night.

00:26:45.000 Then it's going to be everybody against Trump.

00:26:47.000 Ben Carson is not showing up, so I guess that we are deprived of Ben Carson mumbling his way through a Wikipedia entry on North Korea.

00:26:54.000 So that's exciting.

00:26:55.000 And we won't have to—Ben Carson can complain about not getting enough time to talk from his couch at home.

00:27:00.000 By the way, Ben Carson was the margin by which Ted Cruz lost in at least two states last night.

00:27:06.000 In at least two states last night.

00:27:07.000 So thank you, Ben Carson, for sticking around just long enough.

00:27:09.000 To make sure that Donald Trump won a bunch of states.

00:27:12.000 Just great.

00:27:13.000 I love this.

00:27:14.000 A Carson Stafford says, the campaign is not suspended.

00:27:17.000 Ben is going to continue advocating for issues he cares about.

00:27:20.000 So he's, I guess he's just going home for another laundry run.

00:27:24.000 Amazing.

00:27:25.000 Amazing.

00:27:25.000 And this is what it comes down to, folks, and I think this is important to mention.

00:27:28.000 The number of egos in this race?

00:27:30.000 Everybody's ripping on Trump's ego, including me.

00:27:32.000 I think it's absurd.

00:27:33.000 Okay, but...

00:27:35.000 There are enough egos in this race doing stupid things that that's why Donald Trump is winning.

00:27:40.000 If they've been able to consolidate around any one of these people, Trump does not win.

00:27:44.000 But they haven't, and so Trump is winning.

00:27:45.000 Because he's the biggest ego in the room, and he's not competing for anybody else's votes, he's got his own voter base.

00:27:52.000 The only other possibility here is that Trump really starts to slide because of this KKK thing. 0.59

00:27:56.000 And people are saying, well, you know, he disavowed the KKK.

00:27:59.000 Oh, how many times does he have to disavow the KKK?

00:28:01.000 He disavowed David Duke and the KKK before he did it, after he did it a thousand times.

00:28:06.000 And the answer is, he has to disavow them every single time.

00:28:10.000 That's the answer.

00:28:11.000 It's really not difficult.

00:28:12.000 If somebody came up to you and said, Nazis, good or bad?

00:28:16.000 If you said, 99 times, really terrible people, really awful, and that one last time, you're like, ah!

00:28:22.000 You know, they still build the Autobahn.

00:28:24.000 They're kind of okay.

00:28:25.000 I mean, I don't know.

00:28:26.000 I don't really know much about the Nazis, per se.

00:28:28.000 If you give me more information, maybe I can make a call on it.

00:28:31.000 People are going to focus in on that one time, right?

00:28:33.000 If somebody says, do you beat your wife?

00:28:34.000 And you say, no, no, no, no, no.

00:28:35.000 And then one time you say, well... You know, I don't...

00:28:39.000 It depends on how you define beating, I guess.

00:28:42.000 Everybody's gonna jump on that, of course.

00:28:44.000 And they should, because, again, there are certain questions with universal answers.

00:28:49.000 In any case, how much is it actually gonna hurt Trump?

00:28:52.000 It won't hurt him in the primaries, apparently, or at least not much.

00:28:56.000 It may hurt him in general a lot more, because I promise you they'll be running these ads from here until November.

00:29:00.000 Van Jones, who's a black commentator on CNN, he's a racial radical.

00:29:05.000 I know this because Van Jones and I were in a green room once, talking, and he compared the Los Angeles Police Department to Hamas.

00:29:12.000 Van Jones was in a debate with Jeffrey Lord, who's a spokesperson for Donald Trump.

00:29:17.000 Sorry, I almost mixed up the two New York liberals.

00:29:19.000 And here's Jeffrey Lord versus Van Jones on the KKK scandal.

00:29:25.000 You can go back to the Central Jogger case, where he came out and had innocent black kids running up to him. 0.89

00:29:31.000 Innocent kids?

00:29:32.000 Listen, hold on a second.

00:29:35.000 We have a big problem at this point now, because I agree with you about a lot.

00:29:38.000 I think that we have taken him not seriously.

00:29:41.000 We have not respected his voters.

00:29:42.000 But there is a dark underside here.

00:29:44.000 And Esty is right.

00:29:46.000 He is whipping up and tapping into and pushing buttons that are very, very frightening to me and frightening to a lot of people.

00:29:52.000 Number one,

00:29:54.000 When he is playing funny with the Klan, that is not cool.

00:30:00.000 He didn't play funny with the Klan.

00:30:01.000 Hold on a second.

00:30:02.000 I know this man when he gets passionate about terrorism.

00:30:05.000 I know how he talks about terrorism.

00:30:07.000 The Klan is a terrorist organization that has killed... A leftist terrorist organization.

00:30:10.000 You can put whatever label you want.

00:30:12.000 That's your game to play.

00:30:15.000 We're not going to play that game.

00:30:19.000 You need to take a serious look at the fact that this man is playing fast and loose and footsie.

00:30:26.000 When you talk about terrorism, he gets passionate.

00:30:29.000 He says, no, this is wrong.

00:30:30.000 But when you talk about the Klan, oh, I don't know, I don't know.

00:30:33.000 That's wrong.

00:30:33.000 And then you came on the air and you said, well, this is just like when Reverend Wright was speaking.

00:30:39.000 Yeah.

00:30:39.000 Reverend Wright never lynched anybody.

00:30:40.000 Reverend Wright never killed anybody.

00:30:42.000 Reverend Wright is an anti-Semite.

00:30:44.000 Reverend Wright never put anybody on a post.

00:30:46.000 And you guys play these word games.

00:30:48.000 And it's wrong to do in America.

00:30:50.000 It is wrong to do.

00:30:51.000 It is wrong to understand that these are not leftists.

00:30:54.000 What difference does it make if you call them leftists?

00:30:58.000 It makes a lot of difference.

00:30:59.000 They're killing people.

00:31:00.000 And you don't play games with that.

00:31:02.000 You're right, and you don't hide and say that's not part of the base of the Democratic Party.

00:31:07.000 They were the military arm, the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party, according to historians.

00:31:11.000 For God's sakes, read your history.

00:31:13.000 His whole attitude of dividing by race is still here, and this is how Democrats do the deal. 0.64

00:31:20.000 I don't care how they voted 50 years ago.

00:31:22.000 I care about who they killed.

00:31:24.000 I care about American history.

00:31:25.000 It counts.

00:31:26.000 You have stood with Donald Trump.

00:31:28.000 And you have made a case for Donald Trump when nobody else wanted to, and you've earned the respect of an awful lot of people.

00:31:32.000 But when you do not acknowledge that he did not answer that question with a passion, he's answered with other terrorist organizations.

00:31:40.000 You do yourself a disservice, you do your kids a disservice.

00:31:43.000 He has made this point over and over and over again.

00:31:46.000 This is a media thing here.

00:31:48.000 Did he make a mistake?

00:31:49.000 Sure, but he has said this many, many times.

00:31:51.000 I've gone back and looked.

00:31:53.000 He's well on record over and over and over again on this.

00:31:55.000 It's worse than that, sir.

00:31:56.000 It's worse than that.

00:31:57.000 That whole thing with those Central Jogger kids. 0.88

00:32:00.000 He got the entire city of New York whipped up on this idea that these kids had done something wrong.

00:32:04.000 And then when it turned out they were innocent.

00:32:05.000 We all make mistakes.

00:32:06.000 Right.

00:32:06.000 He never apologized to those kids.

00:32:08.000 And that's a stain on him.

00:32:10.000 And you can walk through time after time where he's done stuff like that.

00:32:13.000 The stuff he said about Native Americans being criminal organizations and mafia.

00:32:18.000 But Ben, what you're doing right here, what you're doing here is dividing people.

00:32:23.000 We're all Americans here.

00:32:24.000 You are dividing people.

00:32:26.000 This is what liberals do.

00:32:26.000 You are dividing people by race.

00:32:28.000 Okay, so the fact is that this may work in a Republican primary, this attempt to kind of shluff off everything, this moral equivalence.

00:32:34.000 Well, Trump was weak on the KKK, but the KKK were your people, which is true. 1.00

00:32:39.000 You know, all of that may work in a Republican primary.

00:32:41.000 It ain't gonna work in a general.

00:32:42.000 This is gonna be a real problem in a general election.

00:32:45.000 Whether you agree with Jeffrey Lord or whether you think that Van Jones is crazy, this is not going to play well in a general election.

00:32:51.000 End of story.

00:32:52.000 So, you know, could that still damage Trump in a primary?

00:32:54.000 It's possible if people recognize that Trump is in many ways unelectable, but...

00:32:59.000 You know, again, the math militates against the idea that somebody else is going to be able to defeat Donald Trump.

00:33:04.000 Okay, on the other side of the aisle, Hillary Clinton had herself a big night, and Hillary Clinton is just egregious in every way it's possible for her to be egregious. 1.00

00:33:12.000 Here was Hillary Clinton's victory speech last night after winning a bunch of states, including Vermont, which hurts.

00:33:19.000 Did she win Vermont?

00:33:20.000 She won Massachusetts, I guess.

00:33:22.000 He won Vermont.

00:33:23.000 She won Massachusetts, I think.

00:33:25.000 She won a bunch of states. 0.68

00:33:26.000 She's obviously going to win the nomination. 0.98

00:33:28.000 Here was Hillary Clinton talking about what we really need in America. 0.98

00:33:32.000 All we need is love.

00:33:34.000 America never stopped being great.

00:33:36.000 We... We have to make America whole.

00:33:46.000 We have to fill in.

00:33:51.000 Fill in what's been hollowed out.

00:33:58.000 You know, we have to make strong the broken places, restitch the bonds of trust and respect across our country.

00:34:10.000 Now, it might be unusual, as I've said before,

00:34:14.000 For a presidential candidate to say this, but I'm going to keep saying it.

00:34:19.000 I believe what we need in America today is more love and kindness.

00:34:26.000 Yeah, for love!

00:34:27.000 Woohoo! 1.00

00:34:28.000 Love!

00:34:29.000 Nothing says love like throwing lamps at your husband.

00:34:31.000 Nothing says love like trying to destroy his rape victims.

00:34:35.000 Nothing says love quite like that.

00:34:36.000 I mean, when I think love, I look at that Puddin'. 1.00

00:34:39.000 I mean, that face.

00:34:40.000 That's the face of love right there.

00:34:41.000 Look at that Puddin'. 1.00

00:34:42.000 Woo! 0.99

00:34:43.000 Yeah, that's a loving person.

00:34:45.000 She says, all we need is love, and then her laser eyes turn on, and she starts to swivel her head around, and you can actually hear her going, as she takes in all of the adoration.

00:34:55.000 You know, she's gonna unify us. 1.00

00:34:57.000 She's really gonna bring us together.

00:34:58.000 In fact, Hillary is so loving and so wonderful, that yesterday she was confronted by a voter, and here's how loving and wonderful she is.

00:35:05.000 Yeah, it gets awkward.

00:35:08.000 I'm very proud to have met the Somali-American community.

00:35:11.000 We have a lot of hard work in the Somali-American community.

00:35:14.000 A lot of people, including, you know, the young council members.

00:35:18.000 You know what, dear?

00:35:19.000 You have the right sort of thing.

00:35:21.000 He is a Somali-American elected to the city council.

00:35:24.000 I'm really proud of that.

00:35:25.000 Well, then why don't you go run for something, then?

00:35:28.000 You've got work to do for a Somali-American.

00:35:31.000 Well, good.

00:35:32.000 Good luck to you.

00:35:32.000 Thank you.

00:35:34.000 Oh boy.

00:35:34.000 Look at that face.

00:35:36.000 That's the face of love and kindness, gang.

00:35:38.000 That's the face that's going to be looking at you from posters all over America when she's the President of the United States and she's extending that love and kindness into control of your lives.

00:35:46.000 This is how the American left works.

00:35:49.000 They're so lovely.

00:35:50.000 They're so gentle.

00:35:51.000 They're so warm.

00:35:52.000 You hear her say to this girl who disagrees with her, well you go run for something, dear.

00:35:56.000 You go run for something.

00:35:58.000 And if Donald Trump were that nasty to a voter, it would be all over the front pages.

00:36:01.000 Hillary Clinton does it on a routine basis. 1.00

00:36:03.000 No problem whatsoever.

00:36:04.000 Meanwhile, her big rival, Bernie Sanders, he's not running to actually be the nominee.

00:36:09.000 He's running to be the face of a movement.

00:36:11.000 And I think that it's important to recognize something about the Democratic race.

00:36:14.000 And it's true of the Republican side also.

00:36:16.000 Everybody's talking about the collapse of the Republican Party, how it's falling apart, how we're in dire circumstances.

00:36:21.000 I agree.

00:36:21.000 The Republican Party is basically on its last legs here.

00:36:25.000 And it's been on its last legs for 15 to 20 years, is the truth.

00:36:28.000 The only thing that happened is that victory covers up for problems.

00:36:31.000 Right?

00:36:31.000 Victory covers up for problems.

00:36:33.000 Just like in life, wealth covers for certain problems that you may have in your life.

00:36:38.000 It may be able to, you know, buy you... It can't buy you love, but it can buy you certain amounts of distance from people.

00:36:44.000 You know, money does cure some ills.

00:36:46.000 Victory cures a lot of ills for a political party.

00:36:50.000 If Hillary Clinton were to lose this election, you would see a gap begin to form inside the Democratic Party that would tear that party apart, because there is a difference between the lying, supposed moderation of Hillary Clinton and the truthful insanity of Bernie Sanders, who last night said he wants to continue fundamentally transforming the country.

00:37:06.000 This campaign, as I think all of you know, this campaign

00:37:14.000 It's not just about electing a president.

00:37:17.000 It is about transforming America.

00:37:26.000 It is about making our great country the nation that we know it has the potential to be.

00:37:40.000 It is about dealing with some unpleasant truths that exist in America today and having the guts to confront those truths.

00:37:58.000 It is about recognizing that in our state, we have town meetings, and people come out and they argue about budgets, and then they vote.

00:38:08.000 One person, one vote!

00:38:12.000 Okay, so this is what it's all about, right?

00:38:14.000 It's about transforming the country.

00:38:16.000 The truth is that Trump wants to transform the country, too.

00:38:18.000 He says he just wants to maintain, but he doesn't.

00:38:20.000 He actually wants to transform it in his own likeness.

00:38:23.000 And, again, at this point, I understand.

00:38:26.000 Trump is probably going to be the nominee.

00:38:27.000 That doesn't mean I'm going to stop fighting against Trumpism, because that philosophy is damaging and dangerous.

00:38:32.000 Trump may not even be Trumpism.

00:38:34.000 Trump may just be Trump.

00:38:36.000 Trumpism is a philosophy that's a mash-up of populism and authoritarianism that's scary.

00:38:41.000 Trump may not even be that guy, but his backers are looking for that guy, and that's a problem.

00:38:45.000 So, was it today, was yesterday a good day for the country?

00:38:48.000 No, it wasn't a good day for the country.

00:38:50.000 Is this election good for the country?

00:38:51.000 No, it's possible that this election will serve only as a warning to other planets.

00:38:56.000 It's possible that, you know, the glimmers of hope that you've been given about a brokerage convention are about to be stamped out by the boot of justice and reality.

00:39:04.000 But the fact is that the hope of conservatism cannot rest on the back of Donald Trump.

00:39:11.000 And whether he's the nominee or not, whether you vote for him or not, that doesn't mean that you ought to change your philosophy of governance and your philosophy of mankind and your philosophy

00:39:19.000 Of what a constitutional republic looks like because you like Donald Trump or because you want to transform along with Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders.

00:39:27.000 All of this is pretty troubling stuff.

00:39:30.000 Okay, so now it's time for some things that I like and some things that I hate.

00:39:33.000 Okay, things that I like.

00:39:35.000 I grew up, people ask kind of what kind of cultural influences I had when I grew up.

00:39:40.000 So I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up, at least not TV that was concurrently on.

00:39:45.000 My parents were not big on what was on TV, so they used to go out and they used to rent us old episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Waltons.

00:39:52.000 But the movie that I really grew up on, more than any other movie, was a movie that's of a musical called 1776.

00:39:56.000 And if you've never seen 1776, it won the Best Tony for Best Musical in, I think, 1972.

00:40:04.000 I don't know.

00:40:21.000 Here is the opening number from 1776, at least the beginning of the opening number.

00:40:25.000 This is William Daniels, who for TV fans, you'll remember when he's much older, playing in Boy Meets World.

00:40:30.000 He's the teacher of John Adams in John Adams High School, but he started off as a musical theater guy.

00:40:35.000 He won.

00:40:36.000 He didn't win.

00:40:37.000 He should have won.

00:40:38.000 Best actor, Tony, for this.

00:40:39.000 But here is William Daniels in the movie version, which is really a terrific movie version.

00:40:44.000 You can find the restored cut, which actually has a song that they cut out.

00:40:47.000 There's a song called Cool Conservative Men.

00:40:49.000 Um, in there that they cut out because Richard Nixon didn't like the song, actually.

00:40:53.000 Um, but here is the opening number, at least the beginning of the opening number to 1776.

00:40:58.000 This movie influenced me so much when I was growing up that on Purim, which is sort of the Jewish Halloween where we dress up, every year when I was a kid I had a red coat and I had a powdered wig like John Adams, and I used to dress up as John Adams every year for Purim.

00:41:11.000 So here is the beginning of 1776.

00:41:21.000 I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress.

00:41:36.000 And by God, I have had this Congress!

00:41:40.000 For ten years, King George and his Parliament have gulled, cullied, and diddled these colonies with their illegal taxes.

00:41:48.000 Stamp Acts, Townshend Acts, Sugar Acts, Tea Acts.

00:41:52.000 And when we dared stand up like men, they have stopped our trade, seized our ships, blockaded our ports, burned our towns, and spilled our blood!

00:42:03.000 And still, this Congress refuses to grant any of my proposals on independence, even so much as the courtesy of open debate!

00:42:12.000 Good God, what in hell are you waiting for?

00:42:15.000 Thomas, for God's sake, listen to me!

00:42:23.000 I've had enough of you, sir!

00:42:27.000 Now listen!

00:42:31.000 Will you listen to me and forget the window?

00:42:41.000 It's a great musical.

00:42:50.000 It's a really terrific musical.

00:42:52.000 And you should go and you should rent the whole thing.

00:42:54.000 It's really great.

00:42:56.000 Thomas Jefferson is in it.

00:42:57.000 Benjamin Franklin is in it.

00:42:59.000 John Hancock is a major character.

00:43:01.000 Edward Rutledge, who was, I think, 26 when the Continental Congress happened.

00:43:06.000 For all those people who think that the founders were a bunch of racists who just went along with slavery, in the original draft of the Declaration of Independence, and this is a major point in the musical,

00:43:16.000 There was a provision talking about how the King of England had pushed slavery, crammed slavery down on the colonies.

00:43:22.000 And the South objected.

00:43:24.000 They said, we don't want that.

00:43:25.000 The South actually said, if you put this in the Declaration of Independence, we will not sign it.

00:43:29.000 We will not join the Union.

00:43:31.000 We will not join the United States if you put that in there, because the implication is that we have to abolish slavery.

00:43:35.000 John Adams said in 1780, he said, if we do not fight slavery now, in 80 years there will be a great civil war in this country.

00:43:42.000 He said that in 1780, 80 years exactly later.

00:43:44.000 There's a great civil war in the country.

00:43:46.000 So the idea that all the founders were terrible racists, who are pro-slavery, and terrible, horrible humans, it's just not true.

00:43:53.000 There's a major battle over it, and it's a great musical.

00:43:56.000 You should rent it, especially for kids.

00:43:57.000 Perfect for kids.

00:43:58.000 If you have kids, if you are a kid, this is the thing that you should watch.

00:44:02.000 It's based on a novel called Four Days in July, which is really a terrific novel as well.

00:44:07.000 It's a dramatization of what happened, and very historically accurate.

00:44:10.000 This musical was written by a history professor, actually.

00:44:13.000 So it's really, really good stuff.

00:44:14.000 I love this music.

00:44:15.000 It's my favorite musical.

00:44:16.000 So, that's things that I like.

00:44:19.000 Okay, a couple of things that I hate really quickly.

00:44:21.000 So the state of California, my state, which is just a garbage heap.

00:44:25.000 I mean, if you want the United... It's sad when you watch that and you see that

00:44:29.000 You know, what our founders fought for, they were fighting against the idea that you had an unelected bureaucratic government, right, that you couldn't do anything about, that was cramming down taxes and excises and measures against you, that was invading your personal privacy by quartering troops, that was destroying your rights, and now we have a government that we're supposed to embrace for doing all of these things.

00:44:49.000 That's what we call Hillary Clinton's love and kindness. 1.00

00:44:53.000 We used to fight against the idea of a tyrant dictator.

00:44:55.000 George Washington, when he was the most powerful man in America, was offered that slot and he turned it down.

00:45:01.000 He said, this is against what America stands for.

00:45:03.000 Now, we have this yearning for a strongman.

00:45:06.000 200 years, I guess, was a good run.

00:45:07.000 In any case, here in California, we've already embraced the strongman.

00:45:10.000 I mean, California is the... You want to know what America looks like. 0.97

00:45:14.000 It looks like California, except less prosperous.

00:45:16.000 And California is already sinking into the economic mire.

00:45:20.000 So, what exactly are our legislators worried about?

00:45:23.000 The lawmakers, according to the Sacramento Bee, have jammed a mountain of bills into the legislative queue just ahead of the February 19th deadline to introduce them.

00:45:31.000 One of those bills is Assembly Bill 1887, by Evan Lowe, who's a Democrat, of course.

00:45:37.000 He wants to prohibit state employees from government-funded travel to states that have a law in effect that sanctions or requires discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.

00:45:49.000 So what exactly does that mean?

00:45:50.000 There's no state that requires sexual orientation discrimination.

00:45:53.000 There's no state that says you must discriminate against the gays.

00:45:56.000 There are zero states in America that do this.

00:45:58.000 Zero.

00:45:59.000 So what's he talking about?

00:46:00.000 He's talking about states like Indiana that have what are called Religious Freedom Restoration Acts.

00:46:04.000 These are acts on the books, or were until Indiana

00:46:09.000 Pansied out.

00:46:10.000 There are acts on the books that say that religious business owners do not have to service same-sex weddings, for example.

00:46:16.000 That religious institutions don't have to hire gay people because it violates their religious precepts. 0.95

00:46:21.000 Right?

00:46:21.000 That's what a Religious Freedom Restoration Act is.

00:46:23.000 So what does California do?

00:46:25.000 They say, we're not even gonna let people travel there.

00:46:27.000 We'll build a wall to keep you out of these evil, terrible places that are so terrible to the gays. 1.00

00:46:31.000 Because as we know, there have been just pogroms against gay people all throughout Indianapolis.

00:46:35.000 It's this sort of intolerance for religious people that truly is maddening, and this is where we're going.

00:46:41.000 If the Supreme Court goes to the Democrats, this is why I'm still, as much as I dislike Trumpism, as much as I dislike Trump, I'm still leaning toward the side that says you must vote for Trump against Hillary Clinton, because if there's even a 10% chance that Donald Trump nominates someone to the Supreme Court who's not a wild leftist,

00:46:57.000 Then, that is better than Hillary Clinton's 0% chance that you do this.

00:47:01.000 I mean, it's... Honestly, I have to struggle every day with the idea of pulling the lever for Donald Trump, but against Hillary Clinton, that decision becomes slightly easier for sure, because otherwise people like this bureaucrat will run things, and it's... and that's truly, truly frightening.

00:47:16.000 Okay, final thing that I dislike.

00:47:17.000 Adam Eaton is an outfielder for the Chicago White Sox.

00:47:20.000 They're my team.

00:47:21.000 Unlike President Obama, I actually like the White Sox.

00:47:23.000 I actually follow the White Sox.

00:47:25.000 I don't just make up support for teams based on political expedience.

00:47:28.000 So, Adam Eaton is a Chicago White Sox outfielder, and during the Academy Awards, he tweeted during the Chris Rock opening monologue, which we talked about a couple of days ago, he tweeted, quote, Why does it always have to be about black and white?

00:47:41.000 Hashtag American.

00:47:44.000 Okay.

00:47:45.000 Anything wrong with that?

00:47:46.000 I don't see anything wrong with that.

00:47:47.000 That seems like something perfectly legit.

00:47:49.000 Why does it always have to be broken down based on race?

00:47:51.000 Why can't it just be we're all American?

00:47:53.000 Some actors were good this year who were white, some were bad this year who were white, there were some who were bad this year who were black, and there were none that were tremendous this year who were black.

00:48:00.000 Why is that the end of the world?

00:48:02.000 So, what happened?

00:48:03.000 What happened?

00:48:04.000 He had to delete the tweet and then he said, I feel terrible.

00:48:08.000 I mean no harm and I apologize.

00:48:10.000 I should not have even gone into that realm.

00:48:11.000 In my baseball world we have equality.

00:48:13.000 Everyone in this room I respect and love and everybody has an opportunity.

00:48:17.000 He says, I may, I want to have a connection with people and I may step back for a little bit.

00:48:22.000 So in other words, if you say something completely, completely innocuous like race should not be a qualifying characteristic, race does not matter.

00:48:30.000 If you say that sort of thing, then now you will be forced off Twitter if you are, if you are in the celebrity world.

00:48:36.000 And they wonder why we think they're intolerant bigots?

00:48:38.000 They wonder why there's a culture war?

00:48:39.000 Because they started the culture war.

00:48:41.000 Because this is their culture war.

00:48:43.000 This is their culture war. 0.59

00:48:44.000 And you want to know why Trump is winning?

00:48:45.000 It's because of stuff like that.

00:48:46.000 That's why Trump is winning.

00:48:47.000 Because the reaction to that, the reaction to force the white guy to take down the anti-racist tweet, the reaction to that is, screw all of you, we'll elect the white guy who defends white people, at least on the part of some of these white people who support Donald Trump.

00:49:03.000 Screw political correctness, we'll elect the politically incorrect guy. 0.99

00:49:07.000 And it's, you know, you can't blame people for the sentiment, even if you disagree with the message that they're promoting, as I do strenuously.

00:49:15.000 But this is what the left has wrought.

00:49:16.000 They've wrought a racially divided America, and when Hillary says she's going to unify people, she's lying. 0.99

00:49:20.000 There's no one more racially divisive in America than Hillary Clinton, except for, perhaps, Barack Obama. 1.00

00:49:25.000 So, that's where we are.

00:49:27.000 It's, you know, it's a difficult time, but don't worry, we'll get through it together, because the fact is, as they say at the end of, at the end of 1776, this is actually the clip I wanted to pull, but I couldn't find it online.

00:49:37.000 At the end of 1776, George Washington writes a letter to Congress, and he says,

00:49:42.000 He's in the battlefield and he doesn't have resources.

00:49:45.000 And he keeps sending letters and missives to Congress.

00:49:47.000 And at one point, and what I love about the musical is it's, again, very historically accurate.

00:49:51.000 He sends a letter to Congress saying, is anyone, is anybody there?

00:49:55.000 Does anybody care?

00:49:57.000 Because nobody is writing him back and giving him resources of any kind.

00:50:00.000 And John Adams sings this great number where he talks about, is anybody there?

00:50:04.000 Does anybody care?

00:50:05.000 Does anybody see what I see?

00:50:06.000 Here's my vision of what America looks like.

00:50:08.000 That vision is still there.

00:50:10.000 The vision is still there.

00:50:11.000 And they can stomp on it.

00:50:13.000 And they can bury it.

00:50:14.000 And they can bury it under loads of populist rhetoric or leftist rhetoric or whatever kind of garbage you want.

00:50:19.000 They can push it under loads of

00:50:21.000 We're good to go.

The Ben Shapiro Show - March 02, 2016

Ep. 82 - Hillary Vows 'Love and Kindness.' We're Screwed.

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