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00:00:15.000He says so openly, he shouts his love into the nearest microphone at every available opportunity.
00:00:21.000And then there's actually what Donald Trump thinks of you.
00:00:23.000And he thinks that you're a bunch of rubes.
00:00:25.000Here are four indicators that Donald Trump thinks that you are a bunch of rubes.
00:00:28.000First of all, he thinks you're losers.
00:00:30.000So yesterday Donald Trump says he likes to surround himself with losers to make himself feel better.
00:00:34.000He said, quote, you'll find when you become very successful, the people you will like best are the people that are less successful than you.
00:01:28.000He says he never changes his positions, he's constant as the Northern Star, except he changes his positions pretty much all the time and he admits it to you.
00:01:36.000He said in an open debate just about three weeks ago, quote, I've never seen a successful person who wasn't flexible and who didn't have a certain degree of flexibility.
00:01:44.000He was talking about immigration policy at the time, which is supposed to be your big issue.
00:01:48.000He apparently told the New York Times off the record his immigration position was just sort of an opening bargaining stance for negotiation.
00:01:54.000And when he was asked to release the tape, he said he couldn't because, you know, it was off the record.
00:02:00.000Off the record is a protection for the subject of journalists, not for the journalists themselves.
00:02:06.000Finally, Donald Trump thinks that you will worship him no matter what he does and no matter where you go.
00:02:11.000When he said in January he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and gun somebody down and he wouldn't lose voters, he wasn't really joking.
00:02:17.000He actually thinks this, and he obviously believes this.
00:02:21.000His campaign manager can yank and grab and bruise a woman, and can deny that it ever happened and be caught on tape doing it, and then Trump can accuse the reporter of attacking Trump and trying to kill him with a pen bomb, and his supporters just go right along with it.
00:03:54.000A lot of folks in both sides of the political aisle don't get economics because it's supposed to be the dismal science, the boring science.
00:04:01.000The reality is that economics is probably the most vital part of any conservative education.
00:04:05.000If you don't understand why capitalism works and what it does and how it operates, then you haven't fulfilled your obligation as a conservative.
00:04:27.000So Donald Trump, let's start with Trump because he's always in the news cycle because he drives the news cycle now.
00:04:33.000So Donald Trump, one of the big issues with Trump is that he clearly does not think deeply about issues like in any way.
00:04:39.000And he doesn't even bother to do his research on issues.
00:04:41.000Donald Trump's typical campaign strategy, and I've been saying this for literally months at this point, is when asked about a topic about which he knows very little, he takes the most extreme possible position, and then, if he doesn't get a good response, he sort of walks it back.
00:04:55.000So he'll say, we completely shut the border, we built a giant wall, and everybody cheers, and he goes, ah, I was the first one there.
00:05:01.000And then anybody else who takes a right-wing position
00:05:03.000They must be imitating or copying Donald Trump, right?
00:06:13.000But the churches make their moral judgments, but you running for President of the United States will be Chief Executive of the United States.
00:06:18.000Do you believe in punishment for abortion, yes or no, as a principle?
00:06:22.000The answer is that there has to be some form of punishment.
00:06:56.000One, if you really wanted to avoid the question, what he could have said is Roe versus Wade talks about how the federal government, the federal government
00:07:04.000Has to sort of take over the abortion issue, right?
00:08:04.000For the same reason that a lot of Republicans will say that they support exceptions for rape and incest because they believe, okay, fine, let's make illegal the other 98% of abortions and then we'll talk about these.
00:08:14.000A lot of Republicans find it politically unfeasible or infeasible to push forward the idea that women should go to jail.
00:08:28.000For folks who don't know, even when abortion was illegal in the United States, in most of the United States, women were almost never prosecuted.
00:08:34.000So abortion law was generally construed and was generally written to punish the abortion doctors.
00:08:41.000Because that was the easiest way to shut down abortion and the most practical way to stop abortion.
00:08:46.000There were laws against self-induced abortion, and there were rare cases in which women were prosecuted for that, but it turns out that if you get rid of a woman's access to abortion, if you get rid of her access to the accomplice in killing the baby, or the contractor in killing the baby, then you have prevented her from having the abortion, effectively speaking.
00:09:04.000It's the same sort of logic that says, we have scarce resources, don't bother prosecuting the drug user, go after the drug dealer.
00:09:11.000We have scarce resources, don't go after the low-level guy, go after the criminal who's actually pushing.
00:09:37.000If a woman kills her baby, isn't that murder?
00:09:39.000And shouldn't she be prosecuted as such?
00:09:41.000And they can make the case even stronger, right?
00:09:43.000Now, I want to be intellectually honest to the leftist argument here, because I don't think that it's completely non-meritorious in terms of trying to hold people to their own logic.
00:09:52.000When the left says, okay, so a woman has a premature baby at seven months, and she takes the baby and dumps it in a dumpster, how is that morally different from the woman going in and having the baby killed?
00:10:32.000If you want to see evidence of this, look at the argument that I had with a woman the other night at Salisbury University.
00:10:39.000She was saying that a baby all the way up to the point of birth was not a baby, it was a cluster of cells.
00:10:44.000This is the lie that women have been told and have bought into.
00:10:47.000If they're not even aware that they're killing a human being, it's hard to prosecute them for the killing of the human being on a moral level.
00:10:52.000These women are victims of brainwashing by the left, by the media, by the press, and by abortion clinics.
00:10:59.000So that's one moral reason why women should not be prosecuted, because they're ignorant of the actual morality here.
00:11:05.000The second is because women are very often pressured into the abortion by the abortionists, who deprive them of the resources to make a fully cognizant
00:11:13.000So, Ben Carson basically expresses what everybody thinks about Trump at this point, which is Trump is ignorant.
00:11:18.000He doesn't know what he's talking about.
00:11:20.000Here's Ben Carson saying here's why Trump got it wrong.
00:11:37.000So Donald Trump, though this was all happened in the space of just a couple hours this afternoon, you know, first he said the woman, then he said no, not the woman, the abortion provider, the woman's a victim.
00:11:47.000Can a president reverse himself so quickly on such a fundamental issue?
00:11:54.000Well, bear in mind, I don't believe that he was warned that that question was coming, and I don't think he really had a chance to really think about it.
00:12:04.000That happens very frequently, and, you know, what you develop with experience is how to answer that in a way that
00:12:19.000He hasn't really learned that because he's not a politician.
00:12:22.000But he has now had time to come back and think about it and to talk with his people about it and come up with a more rational and informed type of answer.
00:12:35.000So in other words, Donald Trump is ignorant, doesn't know what he's talking about, and he went back to his people, they informed him what the right position was, now he'll repeat that.
00:12:43.000But he won't be able to explain it, but he'll repeat it.
00:12:45.000So, but Donald Trump isn't a politician, so we shouldn't hold him to the same standards.
00:12:49.000If that's true, then what you would imagine is that Donald Trump should double down on his non-politician-ness.
00:12:54.000I mean, again, there's an argument that's being put out there by Trump fans that I just don't get.
00:14:28.000Being pro-life means standing and defending the unborn, but it also means defending moms, defending women, and defending the incredible gift women have to bring life into the world.
00:14:39.000And Donald's comments, they were unfortunate, they were wrong, and I strongly disagree with them.
00:15:12.000Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, who's been in this issue for decades, was explaining that what troubled him is that at the beginning of this, Trump said, many conservatives, many Republicans, think the woman ought to be punished.
00:15:28.000Perkins said, anybody who's been on this issue, who knows the pro-life community, who knows what the arguments are and what people really believe, knows that is not true.
00:15:38.000That is not the position of anybody on the pro-life side.
00:15:42.000That is the position that the pro-choice people attribute this kind of hard-heartedness
00:16:02.000We were talking about this earlier in one of his debates.
00:16:05.000He obviously had no idea when asked about the nuclear triad, which anybody who knows anything about foreign policy has heard about, looked at, and would know.
00:16:35.000If you want to protect your emails from government intrusion and spying, if you want to protect them from the corporations that want to grab your email information,
00:16:44.000And use that email information for whatever purposes they want to use it for.
00:16:48.000You can go to our friends at reaganprivacy.com.
00:16:51.000You get also the ability to have a reagan.com at the end of your email address, which is better than a gmail.com or an aol.com if you're over 60.
00:16:59.000The reagan.com email address allows you to sort of make a note to all of your friends, this is where I stand and I will not be moved, and so that's pretty cool.
00:17:07.000reaganprivacy.com is where you go to get the email address.
00:17:10.000If you go to reaganprivacy.com right now, you get two months
00:17:17.000Okay, so it's not just that Trump is ignorant about abortion.
00:17:26.000He's ignorant about pretty much everything.
00:17:27.000And again, I'm gonna make the argument in a second that it's also that he's unable to win, which is the other counter-argument.
00:17:35.000The argument has been, he's not a politician, he's learning.
00:17:37.000As I say, I find that argument not only unpersuasive,
00:17:42.000And then the argument is, but he's still going to win.
00:17:44.000And I'll explain to you why this is false in just a moment.
00:17:47.000But let's finish up with the demonstration that Donald Trump is just ignorant.
00:17:51.000So yesterday, we played tape of Donald Trump talking about how the functions of the federal government include education, health care, and housing.
00:17:58.000A position absolutely indistinguishable from that of Bernie Sanders.
00:18:03.000He also said yesterday that he wants to appoint justices to the Supreme Court who will investigate Hillary Clinton's emails, which doesn't even make any sense.
00:18:13.000Coming from the same guy who said judges sign bills, I guess it makes some sense, but apparently judges are both the executive branch and the legislative branch and the judicial branch.
00:20:54.000Okay, and that's not even the worst thing he said.
00:20:56.000The worst thing he said was clip five, where he talks about the Geneva Conventions, because he clearly doesn't know what the Geneva Conventions are.
00:21:46.000Donald Trump is currently losing the white male vote in the United States, which is supposed to be his big, his big crowd is the white males, right?
00:22:00.000In the polls, he is doing far worse than Romney among whites, among Hispanics, among blacks, among every subgroup.
00:22:06.000Donald Trump does not do well among white voters.
00:22:09.000He does well among a certain subset of older white
00:22:13.000Quasi-populist voters, but he doesn't do well among white voters in general.
00:22:17.000He's dramatically underdrawing among all groups in any broad poll.
00:22:21.000John Dickerson says this over at CBS News, you know, Dickerson's a lefty, but what he's saying here is correct.
00:22:26.000Clip 10, Trump's numbers are now toxic.
00:22:28.000He's now entered the basically, if you ever saw Back to the Future 3,
00:22:33.000There was a point where the train is running toward what they call Eastwood Ravine later, and the train is running toward Eastwood Ravine, and there's a point of no return, right?
00:22:54.000But we've also seen something else, which is that in the general election, when you look at his numbers, both among women, but then the larger public, his numbers are toxic in terms of his unfavorability rating.
00:23:05.000So it may not matter with his supporters at the moment, but it does collect.
00:23:11.000One other thing I'd say is when I talk to Republican lawmakers, it's the Trump campaign is one constant diet of unpredictability and drama and they think about what's this gonna look like in the general election where he's hurting maybe not just his brand but the entire Republican brand.
00:23:26.000And again, if you look at the polls, the polls do not bear out the idea that Trump is going to overperform, that he's going to do incredibly well.
00:23:32.000I'm looking at some of the numbers right now.
00:23:33.000He currently has an 80% unfavorable rating with young voters.
00:23:37.000An 80% unfavorable rating with young voters.
00:25:28.000He's going to bring everybody to victory?
00:25:33.000You really have to buy into miracles in politics to believe that.
00:25:38.000One of the reasons for this is because Donald Trump is just an awful, awful liar.
00:25:42.000And I want to make something clear, if I didn't make it clear yesterday about the Michelle Fields story.
00:25:46.000First of all, what Michelle said was true, but that wasn't the real story.
00:25:49.000The real story was that Donald Trump and Corey Lewandowski, instead of just apologizing,
00:25:54.000Instead of Trump disciplining Corey Lewandowski, or suspending him for grabbing a woman and bruising her, they decided to smear her and lie about it, and they continue to lie about it.
00:26:21.000I don't know what, what are you missing here?
00:26:24.000In order for you to say it exonerates Lewandowski, you have to inflate Michelle's original claims to unbelievable proportions, proportions to which she didn't inflate them.
00:26:35.000And you see all these Trumpsters, these Trumpkins, now pushing out the video of Michelle on Megyn Kelly, talking about how it was the worst incident of her life, or this was the worst day of her life.
00:26:45.000The reason it was the worst day of her life, gang, was not because she was grabbed by Corey Lewandowski.
00:26:49.000It's because she was then subjected to an immense amount of blowback from people who should have been defending her.
00:26:55.000And it's because she was smeared by a presidential candidate.
00:26:58.000She just moved out of her apartment, Michelle did, because BuzzFeed and Fox News ran the arrest report publicly with her address on it, and she's been hit with a bunch of death threats.
00:28:53.000Wouldn't that have been appropriate here?
00:28:54.000I'm not sure he didn't maybe even say it there.
00:28:57.000What he was doing is, in my opinion, just in watching the tape, because nobody even remembers the incident because it was so minor, it's not like they, you know, got your... Even the police remember it.
00:29:23.000I mean, it's just, and he says, oh, well, my crowd, you know, the people who watched the video, none of them thought something bad happened, right?
00:29:29.000Because they're your fans and they've allowed their idolatry of you personally to cloud their basic human decency.
00:29:36.000If you grab somebody by the arm and you bruise them, you apologize.
00:29:39.000And his lie, by the way, that if they'd apologized to Michelle, that she would have gone after them anyway, she went totally silent for 36 hours while Breitbart talked to them.
00:30:08.000I think there are bruises there, but it's quite clear she's lying when she said that he grabbed her and nearly tried to forcefully pull her to the ground that she lost her balance.
00:30:18.000Trump is absolutely right, and it's one of the first things I noticed, that her face is placid the entire time, even if it were...
00:30:25.000A justifiable touching, like in a subway, walking into a concert, in a bar.
00:30:29.000And by the way, if that is a battery that we just saw on that screen, I've been thrown down and gang raped at bars and on the New York City subway.
00:30:38.000But if that is such an egregious touching, Trump's right.
00:31:19.000I mean, is Anne now suggesting she made up the bruising?
00:31:21.000The whole she-deserved-it or she-assaulted-Trump, which is even more ridiculous.
00:31:25.000You want to hear the she-assaulted-Trump story?
00:31:27.000Here's Pat Robertson making a fool of himself, talking about how Michelle Fields was a danger to the Republic, telling the old Trump story here that
00:31:34.000And Michelle Fields was going after Trump with a pen and then like Jason Bourne was about to stab him in the throat when heroic Corey Lewandowski descended from the sky on a cable like Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible and thrust her away from the presidential candidate.
00:31:46.000Here's Pat Robertson telling that ridiculous story.
00:31:49.000The female reporter rushed the candidate.
00:31:52.000Where were the Secret Service people who were supposed to defend him?
00:31:56.000But she could have had a knife, she could have had a gun, she could have had a bomb, but the Secret Service did nothing, and so now the aide is being sued.
00:32:08.000Okay, first of all, the aid isn't being sued.
00:32:09.000Second of all, that's such an absurd contention.
00:32:14.000Again, when your own eyes are telling you something, but your heart says follow Donald Trump, believe your eyes, because you're being a moron.
00:32:20.000And then meanwhile, what are the Trumpsters really upset about today?
00:32:23.000What the Trumpsters are really upset about today is they're upset about Ted Cruz making a joke on Jimmy Kimmel.
00:32:28.000Here's the joke Ted Cruz told on Jimmy Kimmel, and people who are Trump fans are just up in arms about this.
00:36:30.000Alec writes, could you explain Senator Cruz's plan for monitoring Muslim neighborhoods?
00:36:34.000A small piece in my school newspaper discussed it and called it racist and fear-mongering.
00:36:39.000I don't think she's doing the ideas justice.
00:36:41.000OK, what he's talking about is the same program, Alec, that the Bloomberg administration had in New York City and Giuliani before that.
00:36:48.000And what that was, was basically in heavily Muslim neighborhoods, you have people who are police officers going to public areas and just kind of listening around.
00:36:56.000That's perfectly well within constitutional limits.
00:37:00.000We're not talking about deporting people for no reason.
00:37:02.000We're not talking about grabbing lawyer taps on people for no reason.
00:37:05.000We're talking about having more people on the ground in potential areas of terrorism.
00:37:10.000Not very difficult and obviously well substantiated.
00:37:13.000Great article from Commentary Magazine in 2012 talked specifically about this program.
00:37:24.000Well, Roman, we don't tend to take too many submissions at Daily Wire itself, but I would recommend, I believe, Town Hall takes submissions, American Thinker takes submissions, Daily Caller sometimes takes submissions, right for free for anybody who will take you.
00:37:55.000No, the gold standard has a lot of validity in economics.
00:37:59.000I'm myself of the Vienna School of Economics.
00:38:01.000I don't believe in a constant rate of inflation from the federal government, because that's just fake money.
00:38:05.000The reality is that services and goods have values, and those values are not dictated by how many dollars you print.
00:38:12.000It's like saying that if I trade you one piece of paper for an apple, or if I trade you two pieces of paper for an apple, that really makes no difference, because the pieces of paper have no inherent value.
00:38:22.000It's pieces of paper that say, I owe you more labor,
00:38:25.000If the pieces of paper are doubled, and I'm giving you the same amount of labor, I haven't helped the economy in any way.
00:38:31.000I'm very much in favor of the gold standard, or what they like to call the gold-pegged standard, which means that you take the value of gold, peg it to the dollar, and leave it there.
00:38:38.000It doesn't mean that you have to, you know, be able to trade in one dollar for a silver, for a gold coin of dollars.
00:38:46.000Okay, Enoch writes, how do you give a counter-argument who compares terrorist attacks to gun ownership?
00:38:51.000For example, when an attack happens, their argument is that it's only a few people versus over 1 billion Muslims that exist.
00:38:56.000And then we say, well, it happens that this religion is responsible for most of the attacks.
00:39:00.000And then they say, how come when a few shootings happen, people don't blame gun owners or guns?
00:39:05.000Okay, the reason is because if you are looking at ideology, I believe that guns don't kill people, people kill people.
00:39:12.000I don't believe that bombs kill people.