The Ben Shapiro Show - Everybody In The Pool! | Ep. 704

00:00:00.000 Every Democrat in the world declares for 2020.

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00:00:09.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:00:16.000 Well, I hope you had a wonderful, relaxing weekend.

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00:01:35.000 Oh, I know everyone in California was waiting for it, just so excited about our garbage Attorney General Kamala Harris, our garbage Senator Kamala Harris, deciding that she was going to run for President of the United States. 1.00

00:01:47.000 It was all super exciting because she's basically like Hillary Clinton, except even more intersectional. 0.97

00:01:53.000 Which is just amazing.

00:01:54.000 So she gave her opening speech, her I'm going to run for president speech, based on zero actual accomplishments in office.

00:02:01.000 She's been senator for about five minutes.

00:02:03.000 So she's following the Barack Obama path to glory.

00:02:06.000 Kamala Harris's career as a senator has been, shall we say, Testy. 1.00

00:02:11.000 She spent most of the Kavanaugh hearings suggesting that religious people were terrible and also that Brett Kavanaugh is a gang rapist. 0.70

00:02:17.000 That seems like a great platform to run on a unifying, a unifying theme. 0.52

00:02:21.000 So Kamala Harris announced yesterday in Oakland, number one, important to note, she drew a big crowd in Oakland.

00:02:27.000 That's not that hard to do for people like Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:02:29.000 And I'm not talking about her race, I'm talking about the fact that if you are a lefty in Oakland, Donald Trump won 5% of the vote in Oakland in 2016.

00:02:39.000 She was introduced by Libby Schaaf.

00:02:41.000 For people who don't remember the Oakland mayor, Libby Schaaf, Libby Schaaf is such a leftist, she's such a crazy leftist, that she actually probably obstructed justice when she informed illegal immigrants in her own city of an upcoming ICE raid.

00:02:54.000 In February, Schaff issued a public warning for the immigrant communities in her city that U.S.

00:02:59.000 Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents in San Francisco were going to be engaging in raids of illegal immigrant criminals.

00:03:05.000 So she warned criminals, and they all escaped.

00:03:08.000 She was the person who decided to introduce Kamala Harris.

00:03:11.000 So that's where Kamala Harris is. 0.92

00:03:13.000 Kamala Harris is a very, very far-left character.

00:03:15.000 She's masquerading as a middle-of-the-road character so that she can get ahead in these primaries. 1.00

00:03:20.000 Now, she has some advantages a lot of the other Democratic candidates don't. 1.00

00:03:24.000 And if you had to handicap the race right now, you would think that she would have a pretty heavy advantage.

00:03:28.000 Number one, she checks two intersectional boxes. 0.95

00:03:30.000 She is a woman and she is black. 1.00

00:03:31.000 A heavy dose of the Democratic base is black. 0.99

00:03:34.000 About 30% of the Democratic primary base in 2008 was black.

00:03:37.000 That's what allowed Barack Obama to defeat Hillary Clinton, despite the fact that I believe in the end she won more popular votes in the primaries than he did.

00:03:44.000 While Kamala Harris is going to have I think some of those same advantages because she is the only black candidate who has yet declared running for president. 1.00

00:03:53.000 She also has the advantage of tremendous media coverage. 0.85

00:03:55.000 The media love her, and the media love her specifically because they think that she is Obama part two.

00:04:00.000 We had Obama part one with Obama, and now we're gonna get Obama part two with Kamala Harris.

00:04:04.000 She's more attractive than Hillary Clinton, just physically attractive than Hillary Clinton, And so that's going to help her out. 1.00

00:04:09.000 I'm not saying that.

00:04:10.000 Barack Obama is saying that.

00:04:11.000 Barack Obama in 2013 labeled her, what was it, the hottest attorney general in the country?

00:04:16.000 He was not labeled a sexist for that, by the way, which is fascinating.

00:04:19.000 And more than that, Kamala Harris touches all the various aspects of the Democratic base that need to be touched.

00:04:25.000 So she's got a foot in sort of the moderate camp because she's not as wild and crazy and out there as Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, at least overtly.

00:04:32.000 She is privately.

00:04:34.000 She touches on the intersectional camp.

00:04:37.000 She touches a little bit on the millennial camp, not as much as people like Beto O'Rourke or maybe even Bernie.

00:04:42.000 But she's probably the most well-rounded Democratic candidate just in terms of who she can reach out and touch. 1.00

00:04:48.000 She also has an inherent advantage because of her race. 1.00

00:04:51.000 So if she wants to reach out to black folks, she does not actually need to play the pandering game.

00:04:56.000 Now what you'll see from all the other Democratic candidates who have declared today is that they are indeed playing a pandering game.

00:05:02.000 Where they do this routine where they go out there and they talk about racism a lot.

00:05:05.000 And the problem for them is that by doing that, what they actually do is they push people away during a general election.

00:05:12.000 Kamala Harris, because she is who she is, doesn't have to talk about racial polarization all that much. 1.00

00:05:16.000 People sort of assume that she understands the issue because of her race.

00:05:19.000 And so that gives her the ability to just simply go over the top.

00:05:24.000 Not talk about the racial issue as much.

00:05:26.000 Barack Obama did much the same thing in 2008.

00:05:28.000 Alright, so she kicked off her presidential campaign with about apparently 20,000 people showing up in Oakland, and she did it speaking against City Hall. 1.00

00:05:37.000 So I'm not even sure how she got a license to do that, but she did it against City Hall, so it looked like a presidential address. 1.00

00:05:42.000 And she quoted Bobby Kennedy, because we will never escape the baby boomers. 1.00

00:05:47.000 She said, these are not ordinary times, and this will not be an ordinary election.

00:05:50.000 She then threw out a bunch of platitudes, although she dropped a few kind of new twists.

00:05:57.000 Like, for example, she talked about transphobia, which I'm sure is going to be a massive winner across the country in a general election. 0.88

00:06:03.000 She also stressed her experience prosecuting sex crimes and fighting transnational gangs.

00:06:07.000 Now, the funny part about this is that she was a terrible attorney general. 1.00

00:06:10.000 She was such a bad Attorney General that she was roundly criticized by law enforcement for her general failures to defend law enforcement. 1.00

00:06:18.000 In fact, there was one particular case where illegal immigrants On the left, there are a lot of people who criticize Kamala Harris because they feel that she was too harsh.

00:06:28.000 They feel that she was too willing to put people in jail, particularly for drug crimes.

00:06:32.000 and that led a lot of law enforcement officials to come after her and criticize her for good reason. 0.97

00:06:38.000 On the left, there are a lot of people who criticize Kamala Harris because they feel that she was too harsh.

00:06:42.000 They feel that she was too willing to put people in jail, particularly for drug crimes.

00:06:46.000 In any case, here was Kamala Harris announcing her run yesterday in Oakland. 0.99

00:06:50.000 We are here at this moment in time because we must answer a fundamental question.

00:06:58.000 Thank you.

00:07:00.000 Who are we?

00:07:02.000 Who are we as Americans?

00:07:05.000 So let's answer that question to the world and each other right here and right now.

00:07:16.000 America, we are better than this.

00:07:22.000 So I mean, that's some pretty boring stuff right there.

00:07:24.000 She's not an inspiring speaker by any stretch of the imagination.

00:07:26.000 She's pretty charisma-free, but that's not going to hurt her all that much, because again, we're going to get the media's favorite thing, which is she's the first.

00:07:35.000 So Barack Obama was the first black president, and we're going to have the first female black president.

00:07:39.000 And then in eight years, we will have the first female black little person of Native American heritage Who has transgender as president. 0.86

00:07:47.000 It'll be very exciting when that happens.

00:07:49.000 Then, Harris, who is a radical leftist, she says, I'm running to be president of the people.

00:07:53.000 Okay, this is just a lie.

00:07:54.000 She's running to be president of Democrats. 1.00

00:07:55.000 Again, this is a lady who has insulted Catholics, suggested that Catholics don't belong on federal courts. 1.00

00:08:01.000 This is a lady who has suggested that Brett Kavanaugh was a gang rapist.

00:08:04.000 This is a woman who was so bad at representing the people of California that when the people of California voted in favor of traditional marriage, and then there was a lawsuit, I'm running for president because I love my country. 0.81

00:08:13.000 that vote.

00:08:13.000 She refused as California attorney general to represent the people.

00:08:16.000 This was actually an issue.

00:08:18.000 It went to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on the basis of Kamala Harris alone deciding that she was not going to stand up for the vote of the Californian people.

00:08:27.000 They decided they weren't even going to take up the case and they would strike down Proposition 8.

00:08:30.000 But here she is pretending to be a uniter rather than a divider.

00:08:33.000 I'm running for president because I love my country.

00:08:41.000 I love my country.

00:08:44.000 I'm running to be president of the people, by the people and for all people. - Yeah!

00:08:52.000 Okay, well, again, no.

00:08:54.000 That's not a thing that's happening.

00:08:56.000 And the way you can tell this is because even in the midst of her speech, she started dropping all sorts of alienating language.

00:09:02.000 So here she was yesterday explaining that in her fights against transnational gangs, a wall won't work.

00:09:07.000 We can't have a wall, obviously.

00:09:08.000 What we need instead is the sanctuary city policy that she herself supports.

00:09:12.000 Black people meant fighting transnational gangs who traffic in drugs and guns and human beings. 0.71

00:09:19.000 And I saw their sophistication, their persistence, and their ruthlessness.

00:09:24.000 And folks, on the subject of transnational gangs, let's be perfectly clear.

00:09:30.000 The president's medieval vanity project is not going to stop them.

00:09:36.000 Okay, you know what probably won't stop them either, by the way, is her sanctuary city policy. 0.89

00:09:40.000 Again, the person who introduced her here was Libby Schaaf, the Oakland mayor, who legitimately warned criminal gang members that ICE was going to come raid the city.

00:09:48.000 So if you feel safe with Kamala Harris, let me tell you, as a resident of California, crime rates rose under Kamala Harris when she was Attorney General out here.

00:09:55.000 Okay, the crime was not great under her.

00:09:57.000 She did not do a good job. 0.98

00:09:59.000 Doesn't matter.

00:10:00.000 She's going to be touted by the media anyway. 1.00

00:10:01.000 And why does she have such a bad relationship with law enforcement? 1.00

00:10:04.000 Because she, like Barack Obama, like much of the Democratic Party, spends an awful lot of time suggesting that the police are basically racist.

00:10:10.000 I'm running to fight for an America where no mother or father has to teach their young son that people may stop him, arrest him, chase him, or kill him because of his race.

00:10:30.000 Okay, this is such a slander against law enforcement. 0.96

00:10:32.000 It's such a slander against law enforcement that law enforcement officials are running around shooting black people because of their race. 0.99

00:10:37.000 It's just a lie. 0.84

00:10:38.000 There is no statistical evidence to support that whatsoever, that there is a wild racial discrimination problem in police departments across the country that results in police officers shooting black people simply because of their race.

00:10:49.000 It's a myth that was pushed by the Obama administration.

00:10:51.000 It is simply not true.

00:10:53.000 By every statistic I have ever seen, this is simply not true.

00:10:56.000 Okay, particularly when you're talking about people being shot.

00:10:58.000 If you want to make the case that police treat black folks disproportionately in terms of roughing them up during arrests, there's some evidence to back that up. 1.00

00:11:08.000 There was a Harvard study by Roland Fryer that suggested that maybe that was the case.

00:11:11.000 But when it comes to the idea that police are disproportionately overall racist and are going after black folks because of race, again, no evidence of this.

00:11:18.000 But look, she's a radical and the media love this. 0.98

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00:12:44.000 What is the big problem for Kamala Harris? 0.87

00:12:46.000 Well, the biggest problem for Kamala Harris is she's utterly unqualified. 1.00

00:12:49.000 Right?

00:12:49.000 She's utterly unqualified for this office.

00:12:51.000 Again, she was not a good attorney general of the state of California.

00:12:54.000 She's a terrible senator from the state of California. 1.00

00:12:56.000 And the way she got started, if she had gotten started, if any Republican woman had gotten started in politics the way Kamala Harris got started in politics, she would be a laughingstock. 1.00

00:13:05.000 Off the bat, she would be a laughingstock. 0.94

00:13:07.000 What am I talking about?

00:13:07.000 I'm talking about Willie Brown.

00:13:09.000 So for folks who don't know California politics, Willie Brown is the former leader of basically the Democratic caucus across the state of California, a very powerful man in California politics.

00:13:19.000 Well, Willie Brown has been married for many, many years.

00:13:22.000 And there's one problem with that, which is that he has also dated half of the women in California while he was married. 0.99

00:13:30.000 Yeah, he's a bit of a douchebag.

00:13:31.000 Brown served as San Francisco mayor from 1996 until January 2004, and he was considered a very, very powerful Democrat across the state. 0.90

00:13:43.000 He was succeeded by Gavin Newsom.

00:13:45.000 He was sort of associated with Arnold Schwarzenegger a little bit.

00:13:49.000 In any case, when he was 60 years old, Willie Brown met Kamala Harris.

00:13:54.000 He was married at the time.

00:13:56.000 And Kamala Harris, who was 30, started dating him.

00:13:58.000 I'm sure it was just a partnership of love.

00:14:00.000 I'm sure they fell in love at first sight.

00:14:02.000 I'm sure that she looked at him and she thought, 60-year-old, so attractive, 60-year-old man, twice my age.

00:14:08.000 That's, that's the, I love him.

00:14:10.000 That's, that's what's gonna happen here.

00:14:12.000 Or, alternatively, Or alternatively, and this is not cynical, this is just the fact, he gave her a bunch of jobs.

00:14:18.000 How do I know he gave her a bunch of jobs? 0.92

00:14:20.000 Because he says so in an editorial for the San Francisco Chronicle today.

00:14:26.000 Here's what he writes.

00:14:27.000 I've been peppered with calls from the national media about my relationship with Kamala Harris, particularly since it became obvious that she was going to run for president.

00:14:34.000 Most of them I have not returned.

00:14:35.000 Yes, we dated.

00:14:36.000 It was more than 20 years ago.

00:14:38.000 He was married at the time.

00:14:39.000 He was 60.

00:14:39.000 She was 30.

00:14:41.000 Yes, I may have influenced her career by appointing her to two state commissions when I was assembly speaker. 0.83

00:14:46.000 First of all, that's just an outright admission of corruption.

00:14:49.000 That you were nailing somebody until you appointed them to state commissions when you were assembly speaker?

00:14:54.000 Like, how is that okay?

00:14:55.000 I'm wondering.

00:14:56.000 How is that not just blatant corruption?

00:14:58.000 Of course, it is blatant corruption.

00:15:00.000 By the way, both of those jobs were near six-figure salaries for nothing, for doing nothing, except for presumably dating a married man.

00:15:08.000 And then he says, I certainly helped her with our first race for district attorney in San Francisco.

00:15:12.000 I've also helped the careers of Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, Dianne Feinstein, and a host of other politicians.

00:15:17.000 Oh, really?

00:15:18.000 Did you date them also?

00:15:19.000 I missed the part where you were dating Gavin Newsom.

00:15:20.000 I missed the part where you were dating him and presumably Enjoying each other?

00:15:25.000 And then you decided that you were going to help Gavin Newsom with his mayoral run.

00:15:28.000 Missed that part.

00:15:29.000 He says the difference is that Harris is the only one who, after I helped her, sent word that I would be indicted if I so much as jaywalked while she was DA.

00:15:36.000 Right, because she has to say that, because if she doesn't say that, then it looks like open corruption.

00:15:40.000 Because that's politics for you.

00:15:43.000 Wow, just amazing stuff.

00:15:44.000 In a second, I'm going to explain why nobody in the media is going to pay attention.

00:15:47.000 They're going to call it sexist if you mention this story.

00:15:50.000 Right?

00:15:50.000 If you mention this story, it's... Okay, so the media are going to say that Willie Brown did something terrible by mentioning this.

00:15:56.000 Except for the fact that, again, if any Republican ever had done anything like this, they would be a laughingstock.

00:16:01.000 Let's say that... Let's say, for example, That Sarah Palin, when she was selected for vice president, it had come out that she dated George H.W.

00:16:09.000 Bush while he was married to Barbara, and that he made sure that she got her start in Alaska politics. 0.99

00:16:14.000 You think that might have been a bit of an issue for her for her VP run? 0.66

00:16:17.000 You think?

00:16:19.000 Or no.

00:16:20.000 If it turned out that Nikki Haley, for example, had gotten into politics by dating a man twice her age who then gave her political favors, you might think that'd be used as a club by the media.

00:16:28.000 Yeah, I think so.

00:16:30.000 Unless you think that this is a sexist thing, it is not.

00:16:32.000 You know how many times I have mocked John Kerry?

00:16:35.000 John Kerry, former 2004 candidate and Secretary of State.

00:16:39.000 I've mocked him one million times for having married Teresa.

00:16:42.000 He married one rich woman and then divorced her and then married another rich woman and then lived off her fortune.

00:16:48.000 It's always seen, and it should be seen, as a bad thing in American politics to marry for political purposes. 0.99

00:16:54.000 This was the rip on Hillary Clinton, too, by the way, is that she lived off her husband's name and lived off of his coattails so that she could then run for senator and president and be secretary of state. 1.00

00:17:05.000 Kamala Harris is not a feminist icon if she was dating Willie Brown so she could get appointed to a bunch of positions while he was married, by the way. 1.00

00:17:12.000 I know that we gloss over this in American life now.

00:17:15.000 And on both sides, in both political parties, we have ignored the idea that adultery is bad.

00:17:19.000 I know that Republicans now think, oh, well, you know, it happens because of President Trump.

00:17:23.000 And I know that Democrats Do they have been doing this routine for literally decades that since the era of JFK, whatever, so they commit adultery.

00:17:31.000 It's kind of bad when you are the other woman to a married man who is then providing you with giveaway jobs in the California state government.

00:17:39.000 That's kind of bad.

00:17:41.000 Now, nobody's going to attack her on this, because if other Democrats do, then she will claim sexism. 1.00

00:17:45.000 President Trump might, because President Trump has no limits.

00:17:47.000 One of the beautiful things about the man is that he will say anything at any time.

00:17:51.000 But should that be an issue?

00:17:52.000 Of course that should be an issue.

00:17:53.000 It is obvious.

00:17:54.000 Overt corruption.

00:17:55.000 And she should have to answer questions about that.

00:17:57.000 And she shouldn't be able to shy away with answers like, oh yeah, I fell deeply in love with Willie Brown when he was 60 and I was 30.

00:18:03.000 Eh.

00:18:04.000 Yeah, that's a thing that happens all the time.

00:18:06.000 And there are lots of 60-year-old men.

00:18:08.000 You know how many of them who are, you know, kind of middle-class schlubs, who aren't powerful men in politics, are getting 30-year-old up-and-coming law student girlfriends?

00:18:17.000 Tons of them.

00:18:18.000 Tons.

00:18:18.000 Just, it happens all the time.

00:18:20.000 And meanwhile, it's not just Kamala Harris who's jumping into the pool. 1.00

00:18:23.000 It's also Elizabeth Warren.

00:18:24.000 Now, Elizabeth Warren is going to campaign as an open communist. 1.00

00:18:27.000 I'm old enough to remember when Elizabeth Warren was writing books like The Two-Income Trap, all about how the middle class in the United States was suffering And how school vouchers, for example, could be a solution for some of these families. 0.64

00:18:40.000 Well, now she's decided to steal Bernie Sanders' audience by going overtly commie. 1.00

00:18:44.000 And the New York Times is praising her for it.

00:18:45.000 So here's what she tweeted out over the weekend, did Elizabeth Warren.

00:18:49.000 This billionaire NFL owner just paid $100 million for a superyacht with its own IMAX theater.

00:18:54.000 I'm pretty sure he can pay my new ultra-millionaire tax to help the millions of yachtless Americans struggling with student loan debt.

00:19:01.000 There's a reference to Dan Snyder, who's the owner of the Redskins.

00:19:04.000 Well, Elizabeth Warren might have a problem with the owner of the Redskins. 1.00

00:19:07.000 In any case, I do love the overt communism of this is pretty astonishing.

00:19:12.000 So, is there any allegation that Dan Snyder did not pay his taxes?

00:19:16.000 No.

00:19:17.000 He paid his taxes, as far as I know.

00:19:18.000 Is there anything wrong with him buying a giant yacht, which presumably employed lots and lots of people to build?

00:19:24.000 I love the idea from a lot of folks on the left that when you spend money on a product, there's no one on the other end of that product.

00:19:29.000 Ooh, he spent money on a yacht.

00:19:31.000 You know how many people made that yacht?

00:19:33.000 If it costs $100 million, I thought you guys were in favor of spending.

00:19:36.000 I thought you liked spending over saving.

00:19:38.000 So, shouldn't you be in favor of him spending $100 million on a yacht, as opposed to simply putting it into his bank account?

00:19:45.000 But I guess that if you buy something that is excessively expensive, then Elizabeth Warren will come after you.

00:19:50.000 By the way, Elizabeth Warren is worth something like 15 to 18 million dollars herself, so she can start giving away her cash anytime she damn well pleases. 1.00

00:19:57.000 What's hilarious to me is the way that the media treat all of these candidates.

00:20:01.000 So, they'll treat Kamala Harris with kid gloves even though, again, a married man is openly relating in print how he dated her and then corruptly gave her jobs.

00:20:10.000 Elizabeth Warren is one of the more charmless candidates in the 2020 race. 0.99

00:20:14.000 And there's a piece in The New York Times called Elizabeth Warren's 2020 strategy stands out by nerding out.

00:20:21.000 Now, it is incredible.

00:20:22.000 When's the last time you heard a Republican referred to as a nerd by the New York Times?

00:20:27.000 Like, maybe they'll do it every so often with somebody like Ben Sasse or something because they have a book review, but when is the last time you heard an actual political candidate for office, like Ted Cruz, called a nerd by the New York Times?

00:20:37.000 Usually, they are considered charmless manipulators.

00:20:40.000 Right?

00:20:40.000 They never call them nerds.

00:20:42.000 If a Republican fails to connect to people, that's because that Republican is cold and calculating and Machiavellian.

00:20:48.000 When a Democrat fails to connect to the people, it's because they're just too smart.

00:20:53.000 Al Gore was just too smart.

00:20:56.000 Sure, he wasn't smart enough not to tell a masseuse to go after his third chakra, but he was really, really smart.

00:21:02.000 John Kerry.

00:21:04.000 Sure, he wasn't smart enough to get into Harvard Law School.

00:21:07.000 After going to Harvard undergrad, he ended up at BU, which is not a great recommendation for his intellect.

00:21:11.000 But John Kerry, he couldn't connect with the people.

00:21:15.000 He was just so smart.

00:21:17.000 Hillary Clinton, just so brilliant.

00:21:20.000 So brilliant.

00:21:21.000 But that's why she couldn't connect to humans, because she's like a whiz in there. 1.00

00:21:25.000 I mean, just so many brains.

00:21:27.000 Now they're doing the same thing with Elizabeth Warren.

00:21:29.000 So here is the New York Times, the objective, unbiased New York Times.

00:21:32.000 The gym was hot.

00:21:33.000 The lights malfunctioned.

00:21:34.000 But the audience of nearly 1,000 people was engrossed as Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat and presidential hopeful, did what she does best.

00:21:42.000 Nerd out, as she puts it.

00:21:44.000 Well, I ain't just carry around a drool bucket, people.

00:21:47.000 After talking up gun control laws and criminal justice reform on a recent South Carolina campaign swing, Ms.

00:21:52.000 Warren dug into the nitty-gritty of free market regulation and a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal agency she helped create, which has returned more than $12 billion to people in refunds and canceled debts.

00:22:03.000 Nothing made her more enthusiastic.

00:22:05.000 By the end, she had many in the audience cheering.

00:22:07.000 Okay, now remember, this is not just like a regular audience.

00:22:09.000 They came up to see Elizabeth Warren. 0.99

00:22:11.000 It's like if you buy a ticket to a Broadway production these days, you will never go to a Broadway production that does not receive a standing ovation at the end.

00:22:18.000 Why?

00:22:19.000 Because if you drop a hundred bucks on a ticket, you want to make yourself feel that you actually did it for something worthwhile, so you give a standing ovation.

00:22:25.000 If you drive out to see Elizabeth Warren on a school night, you gotta give her a standing O at the end so you feel like you did something useful with your time.

00:22:32.000 Almost one month into her presidential campaign, says the New York Times, Ms.

00:22:36.000 Warren's passion for policy minutiae has become her way of standing out in an increasingly crowded Democratic field, establishing herself as a wonk's wonk whose expansive ideas and detail-oriented speaking style are her bid for a good first impression on voters.

00:22:51.000 Wow.

00:22:52.000 She's just so brilliant.

00:22:53.000 She's so brilliant.

00:22:54.000 In a second.

00:22:55.000 I'm gonna read you some more of this, and we'll get into the other Democrats who have jumped into the race, legitimately everyone on Earth.

00:23:01.000 We'll get to Howard Schultz, too, in just a second.

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00:24:40.000 All right, so the New York Times, praising Elizabeth Warren, listens to the description of the various candidates.

00:24:45.000 So they say that she has expansive ideas and a detail-oriented speaking style, a.k.a.

00:24:50.000 she's boring. 1.00

00:24:51.000 And they say that Kamala Harris focuses on sweeping themes of unity and change, that Ms. 0.97

00:24:56.000 Warren is making a personal and political wager that audiences care more about policy savvy than captivating oration, which is her saying, basically, I'm incredibly boring, but let me just talk to you about my garbage tax ideas.

00:25:11.000 So that is the way the New York Times is positioning Elizabeth Warren. 0.64

00:25:13.000 Very, very exciting stuff.

00:25:14.000 She's a nerd. 1.00

00:25:15.000 She's a nerd. 1.00

00:25:15.000 And then there's Senator Bernie Sanders. 1.00

00:25:17.000 So he is also considering running for president now.

00:25:20.000 He says that he is set to announce his 2020 presidential run.

00:25:24.000 Two sources with direct knowledge of his plans told Yahoo News that Sanders, an independent and self-described democratic socialist, plans to announce his presidential bid imminently.

00:25:31.000 In the latest polls, by the way, The most recent poll that I saw, I believe it was a Politico poll, and what it showed was Biden up front with 26, Bernie with like 16, Kamala Harris with 9, everybody else with 5.

00:25:43.000 So, Sanders is still a presence in the race.

00:25:46.000 He's still charming to millennials for the same reason that old people at the old age home are sometimes charming to young people.

00:25:54.000 He's kind of like a fun uncle.

00:25:55.000 He's like a fun uncle.

00:25:56.000 Sure, he says kooky things about Venezuelan dictatorship, but he's kind of kooky.

00:26:01.000 He's kind of cookie.

00:26:01.000 So Sanders is is going to jump in as well.

00:26:06.000 You could actually actually see a brokered convention.

00:26:08.000 Honestly, like there's so many candidates right now that if the vote splits eight ways from Sunday and the superdelegates don't actually get to have an impact on the Democratic race this time.

00:26:16.000 What you could see is 83 candidates all running and maybe two or three who are viable as a presidential candidate.

00:26:24.000 Now, I don't think that's going to happen.

00:26:24.000 I think that if you have to handicap the race right now, then you put Kamala Harris probably near the top again because she's the best-rounding candidate.

00:26:31.000 And then maybe Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders after that.

00:26:35.000 Joe Biden wants to jump in, too.

00:26:37.000 Biden is doing exactly what I suggested earlier in the show.

00:26:40.000 Joe Biden wants to appeal to minority Americans.

00:26:43.000 He knows that the only way he wins the primaries is if he gets black folks to vote for him. 0.83

00:26:47.000 Well, now he's got a challenge because Kamala Harris is in the race.

00:26:49.000 So here he is talking about racism.

00:26:51.000 Joseph R. McBiden, the same guy who once said that all people who run 7-Elevens are Indian and who said that Mitt Romney wants to put black people back in chains.

00:27:00.000 Here's Joe Biden going off on race.

00:27:01.000 The bottom line is we have a lot to root out.

00:27:05.000 But most of all, there's systematic racism that most of us whites don't like to acknowledge even exist.

00:27:11.000 We don't even consciously acknowledge it, but it's been built into every aspect of our system.

00:27:17.000 White America has to admit there's still a systematic racism and it goes almost unnoticed by so many of us.

00:27:27.000 Super weird how that systematic racism magically disappeared for like eight years there.

00:27:31.000 And then now it's back!

00:27:32.000 Boom! 0.99

00:27:32.000 Check that stuff out! 0.99

00:27:33.000 Whoa! 0.71

00:27:34.000 Where'd that racism come from?

00:27:36.000 Oh, it came from people didn't elect Democrats.

00:27:39.000 So all the racism is back.

00:27:40.000 Even Hillary Clinton is still thinking about running. 0.72

00:27:43.000 Now, Hillary would not win the nomination because Democrats do not want this. 1.00

00:27:47.000 Again, they just don't.

00:27:49.000 But would she be at the top of the polls initially?

00:27:51.000 Yeah, she would.

00:27:52.000 Okay, apparently.

00:27:54.000 According to CNN White House correspondent Jeff Zeleny, he said on Sunday that Clinton told people as recently as this week she isn't closing the doors to the idea of running in 2020.

00:28:03.000 According to Zeleny, I'm told by three people that as recently as this week she was telling people that, look, given all this news from the indictments, particularly the Roger Stone indictment, She talked to several people saying, look, I'm not closing the doors to this.

00:28:14.000 It doesn't mean there's a campaign in waiting or a plan in the works.

00:28:16.000 She said last October she would still like to be president.

00:28:19.000 By the way, if she ran again against President Trump, I am not certain she doesn't win.

00:28:23.000 Not because she is better at campaigning, but simply because the reason she lost last time is because people assumed she was going to win and she's deeply unlikable.

00:28:29.000 Well, she's still deeply unlikable, but there are gonna be a lot of Hillary revenge voters out there. 1.00

00:28:34.000 Here's the problem for Democrats.

00:28:35.000 They have so many people running that you could see an incredibly fractious primary.

00:28:38.000 And that's exactly what Republicans are hoping for.

00:28:41.000 It's one of the reasons why they've closed the doors to the possibility of a strong primary run inside their own party.

00:28:46.000 They're hoping if Republicans consolidate around Trump early and Democrats savage each other, that that will end up dividing the party.

00:28:52.000 Well, what's kind of surprising is that a lot of Republicans are also apparently negative on Howard Schultz running.

00:28:57.000 So Howard Schultz is the CEO of Starbucks, the former CEO of Starbucks.

00:29:01.000 I think he stepped down recently.

00:29:02.000 And he announced on 60 Minutes that he might run for president.

00:29:05.000 Now, he is just, he is just what the radical left is looking for.

00:29:09.000 An older white guy who's a billionaire and head of a corporation.

00:29:12.000 I know, I know.

00:29:13.000 It's just what people have been looking for.

00:29:15.000 But if he runs as a moderate, he could take votes away from a radical left candidate in the Democratic Party.

00:29:21.000 So here is Howard Schultz expressing his wish to run.

00:29:24.000 Do you worry that you're going to siphon votes away from the Democrats and thereby ensure that President Trump has a second term?

00:29:33.000 I want to see the American people win.

00:29:35.000 I want to see America win.

00:29:37.000 I don't care if you're Democrat, Independent, Libertarian, Republican, bring me your ideas and I will be an independent person who will embrace those ideas.

00:29:48.000 Okay, first of all, what I love is that Democrats have gone nuts over this.

00:29:52.000 How many Democrats are actually gonna vote for Howard Schultz?

00:29:54.000 The same number of Republicans who are gonna vote for Michael Bloomberg, okay?

00:29:56.000 It's a very limited number of folks.

00:29:58.000 But, you're seeing Democrats go off the wall about this, because they are afraid that somebody will come in and split the vote again.

00:30:04.000 They think that the Libertarian vote is what won Donald Trump the presidency, Jill Stein's vote.

00:30:09.000 They think that won Donald Trump the presidency in 2016, so they are deeply afraid of Howard Schultz running.

00:30:14.000 And this has led a lot of Democrats to attack Howard Schultz.

00:30:16.000 Now, if you're Trump, you've got to be sitting there going, OK, fine.

00:30:20.000 Good.

00:30:20.000 Schultz is a lefty.

00:30:21.000 Let him run.

00:30:22.000 But unfortunately, President Trump has the habit of immediately dumping on whoever else jumps into the race.

00:30:28.000 So he tweeted out this morning, Howard Schultz doesn't have the guts to run for president.

00:30:32.000 Watched him on 60 Minutes last night, and I agree with him that he is not the smartest person.

00:30:36.000 Besides, America already has that.

00:30:38.000 I only hope that Starbucks is still paying me their rent in Trump Tower.

00:30:43.000 Oh, a lot going on here.

00:30:45.000 So many things going on.

00:30:46.000 First of all, Mr. President, Schultz is not a threat to you, he's a threat to the Democrats!

00:30:50.000 Stop it! 0.99

00:30:50.000 You want Howard Schultz to run. 0.99

00:30:52.000 You want him to split the vote.

00:30:53.000 That is your goal.

00:30:54.000 Second of all, I just love that Trump declares himself openly the smartest person.

00:30:58.000 You have to love that.

00:30:59.000 I know lots and lots of really smart people.

00:31:02.000 You know how many of them go around telling everybody how smart they are?

00:31:05.000 Like on a regular basis.

00:31:07.000 The thing about smart people is they know they're usually not the smartest person in the room.

00:31:11.000 I mean, I know people who have incredibly high IQs, and when I'm in the room with them, they are smarter than I. But...

00:31:19.000 They don't go around talking about it, right?

00:31:21.000 It's just, it's amazing stuff.

00:31:22.000 You gotta love that the president, that's a man with confidence right there.

00:31:25.000 Okay, in a second, I wanna get to Holocaust Memorial Day and the left's reaction to Holocaust Memorial Day.

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00:32:38.000 All righty.

00:32:44.000 So I want to talk for a second about Holocaust Remember in the States.

00:32:47.000 So International Holocaust Remembrance Day is not Yom HaZikaron.

00:32:49.000 Yom HaZikaron is a Holocaust Memorial Day. 0.66

00:32:52.000 It's celebrated in Israel in early May, like May 7th.

00:32:56.000 International Holocaust Remembrance Day is sort of celebrated, well commemorated, worldwide.

00:33:01.000 And what's amazing about the commemorations for the Holocaust is how few people actually know jack squat about the Holocaust.

00:33:07.000 There's a poll that showed that two-thirds of Americans, two-thirds, did not know anything about the Holocaust, particularly two-thirds of millennials don't know what Auschwitz was.

00:33:16.000 Which is an amazing, amazing thing.

00:33:18.000 I mean, that's just tremendous ignorance of history.

00:33:20.000 According to a 2018 poll, two-thirds of American millennials surveyed in a recent poll cannot identify what Auschwitz is, according to a study released on Holocaust Remembrance Day that found that knowledge of the genocide that killed six million Jews during World War II is not robust among American adults.

00:33:35.000 22% of Millennials said they had not heard of the Holocaust or are not sure whether they have heard of it.

00:33:40.000 That's twice the percentage of U.S.

00:33:41.000 adults as a whole who said the same.

00:33:43.000 Only 41% of respondents and 66% of... Well, let's see.

00:33:48.000 41% of respondents and 66 2-thirds of Millennials could not come up with a correct response identifying Auschwitz as a concentration camp or extermination camp.

00:33:57.000 Which is, what I love the most about this is that millennials, who apparently know the least about the Holocaust of any generation in American history, are also the most likely to call people Nazis.

00:34:07.000 So the same people who don't know a damn thing about the Holocaust or Auschwitz, they're the same people who will say that Trump is a Nazi, that I am a Nazi. 0.65

00:34:14.000 This is the way that this works. 0.79

00:34:15.000 The less you know about the Holocaust, the more you throw around the term Holocaust as though you know what the term Holocaust means.

00:34:21.000 And the worse it is.

00:34:22.000 And you see this from the left.

00:34:24.000 The left is only interested, at least many members of the left, not all members of the left, many members of the hardcore radical left, So let's take, for example, Planned Parenthood.

00:34:31.000 are not real fond of Jews, are very fond of using the Holocaust as a reference point in their political propaganda. 0.91

00:34:37.000 So let's take, for example, Planned Parenthood.

00:34:40.000 So Planned Parenthood, lest you forget, is an organization that slaughters some 300,000 unborn children every year.

00:34:45.000 They are the closest thing to a murderous organization in the United States right now.

00:34:50.000 And Planned Parenthood actually tweeted out this, right.

00:34:53.000 On Holocaust Memorial Day, we remember the tremendous, immeasurable human cost of bigotry, and we reaffirm that there can be no place for antisemitism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, or any form of hatred in our communities, our politics, and our country.

00:35:06.000 This is very typical of the intersectional left.

00:35:08.000 Instead of talking about the specific hatred of Jews, which is what Holocaust Memorial Day is about, or about the dehumanization of innocents for purposes of slaughtering them en masse, which might undercut Planned Parenthood's entire business plan. 0.57

00:35:20.000 Instead, they sort of do this vague gloss on the Holocaust, where the Holocaust is just a bad thing that happened because of racism.

00:35:27.000 The Holocaust is just, racism is bad.

00:35:29.000 That's the lesson that we take away from the Holocaust. 0.97

00:35:31.000 Not that you cannot dehumanize your political opposition.

00:35:34.000 Not that you should not dehumanize entire groups of people for purposes of murdering them.

00:35:37.000 Not that you might want to think about anti-Semitism in its own context, as opposed to as a subset of a broader racist rubric.

00:35:46.000 Instead, they just cite the Holocaust as a way to beat up on people who, for example, believe in biological sex or also believe that you shouldn't kill babies.

00:35:55.000 This is how the Women's March can proclaim that it opposes bigotry, even while its leaders call for anti-Semitic boycotts against Israel from the podium at the Women's March.

00:36:03.000 See, here's the thing about the Holocaust. 0.85

00:36:05.000 The more specific you get about the Holocaust, the less likely you are to actually invoke it as an analog, as a basis of comparison.

00:36:14.000 When folks in the pro-life movement talk about a Holocaust of the unborn, that's a very specific charge.

00:36:19.000 The charge is that there are groups of people who are dehumanizing a specific subset of humanity for purposes of exterminating them.

00:36:24.000 That's very specific.

00:36:26.000 When people say, everybody I don't like is a Nazi, That's them taking the Holocaust and taking Nazism and then zooming out with the lens so far that the Holocaust and Nazism become meaningless.

00:36:39.000 And this is very common.

00:36:40.000 This is how you get people like Jeremy Corbyn, who's an open anti-Semite, tweeting this out.

00:36:43.000 Jeremy Corbyn is the head of the Labour Party.

00:36:45.000 He's so anti-Semitic that people inside his own party have had to run screaming from him.

00:36:49.000 He tweeted out, In memory of the millions of Jewish people and others who perished in the Holocaust, let us never allow anti-Semitism or any other form of racism to disfigure our society.

00:36:59.000 Jeremy Corbyn is an open anti-Semite who has backed Hamas and Hezbollah.

00:37:03.000 He has worked with them to speak in the parliament.

00:37:05.000 He's an ardent Israel hater who is associated with characters who actually repeat the medieval blood libel that Jews are using the blood of non-Jewish children for various purposes.

00:37:16.000 He has worked with Holocaust deniers in the past and Jeremy Corbyn is tweeting that out.

00:37:19.000 Why?

00:37:19.000 Because for people of the radical left, the Holocaust is only important so long as you can use it as a club against your political opponents.

00:37:26.000 Same thing for Representative Ilhan Omar.

00:37:28.000 The Democrat from Minnesota.

00:37:29.000 Now you remember Ilhan Omar from such glorious things as tweeting out that Israel was hypnotizing the world and may Allah awaken everyone. 0.96

00:37:36.000 Well, over the weekend she tweeted out an ADL, an ADL tweet.

00:37:41.000 And it said right-wing extremists committed nearly every extremist murder in 2018.

00:37:45.000 There's an older tweet from the ADL and also that report was deeply flawed.

00:37:51.000 Okay, the report was deeply flawed not because right-wing extremists don't commit murder, but because the ADL's case that there was an increase in the number of murders in the United States is simply not true.

00:38:02.000 Ilhan Omar tweeted out, today we remember the murder of 17 million people including 6 million Jews at the hands of the Nazis.

00:38:07.000 First of all, necessary to To point out that there's a difference between people who are innocent who died during World War II and the Holocaust, which was the systemic targeting and killing of a specific group of humans.

00:38:19.000 At best, 10 million people were killed in the Holocaust. 0.78

00:38:23.000 Even that is upper end in terms of systemic targeting of particular groups.

00:38:26.000 Six million people who were Jews were specifically targeted because they had the last name that ended in Stein or Berg.

00:38:32.000 With the rise of anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi ideology, writes Ilhan Omar, It's more important than ever that we learn from the atrocities of the past and commit to fighting intolerance.

00:38:40.000 Hashtag Holocaust Memorial.

00:38:42.000 Yes, I want to hear from the lady who has backed terrorists in the past against Jews and joins with people who want boycott of Israel to destroy the only Jewish country on planet Earth to talk about the Holocaust and to talk about anti-Semitism. 0.63

00:38:56.000 It's amazing how many folks from the left are willing to use terminology they actively do not know anything about or know better than to use in order to push their political agenda.

00:39:08.000 It truly is an astonishing thing and shows how cynical so many of these folks are.

00:39:13.000 Ilhan Omar and Jeremy Corbyn paying attention to Planned Parenthood, pretending they care about the Holocaust.

00:39:18.000 Yeah, give me a break.

00:39:20.000 Give me a break.

00:39:21.000 Okay, meanwhile, meanwhile, there's this amazing thing that's happening on Twitter, according to John Levine.

00:39:26.000 Okay, John Levine is a media editor over at The Wrap, and he tweeted this out earlier.

00:39:29.000 Now, to understand why this is hilarious and ridiculous, you have to understand what's happening.

00:39:33.000 at any recently laid off journalist will be treated as abusive behavior and as a violation of twitter's terms of service and now to understand why this is hilarious and ridiculous you have to understand what's happening so buzzfeed recently laid off a couple of hundred journalists now i'm in the journalism business the opinion journalism business and i'm never happy to see journalists laid off of any particular stripe because i like more opinion i I like people battling it out.

00:39:57.000 I think it's good for the country when we have people battling it out.

00:40:00.000 It is also true that a lot of these enterprises expanded too fast and then had to contract because they did not control their growth.

00:40:06.000 Instead, they simply hired a lot of people on the basis of projected future growth as opposed to cash flow, and now they've had to fire a lot of people.

00:40:14.000 Well, the irony here is that there are a lot of folks on the left, and particularly in the sort of elitist left, who have been suggesting that when people who are Trump supporters lose their jobs in small towns, that the solution is to learn to code.

00:40:27.000 This has become sort of shorthand for elitists sneering at people who are less educated than themselves.

00:40:34.000 Now, I've said to myself, listen, if you're in a dying town, then maybe the best solution is to move out of the dying town, because I don't think that the politicians are going to bring your job back.

00:40:43.000 The learn-to-code point has been something that you get from left-leaning elitists for a long time, and when illegal immigrants come into the country and threaten, for example, the labor base, that that's not a problem because people should just learn to code. 0.90

00:40:54.000 Well now, these journalists are being laid off, and a lot of people who are Trump supporters are going after the journalists saying, well look, you lost your job, it ain't coming back, so learn to code.

00:41:03.000 Well, John Levine is now reporting that Twitter is going to ban people for telling journalists to learn to code.

00:41:10.000 That's right, our nation's bravest firefighters, the intrepid people out there every day, bringing you the truth, cannot handle somebody telling them to learn to code.

00:41:21.000 Okay, yeah.

00:41:22.000 Sure.

00:41:23.000 Twitter, that's not a mockery of anything.

00:41:25.000 No reason.

00:41:27.000 That doesn't make a mockery of these journalists.

00:41:29.000 It doesn't make them look like children in pansies to be very upset about.

00:41:33.000 Learn to code.

00:41:34.000 Come on.

00:41:34.000 I love it.

00:41:36.000 Just amazing.

00:41:37.000 What's good for the goose is not good for the gander in the media.

00:41:40.000 This is why Jim Acosta is going to be writing a book about Jim Acosta being a victim because Jim Acosta loves Jim Acosta.

00:41:46.000 Because the members of the journalistic community have such a picture in their head that they are all heroic, Woodward and Bernstein types, that if somebody tells them, hey, maybe you ought to get a job for a living, then they get very upset.

00:41:56.000 Whereas a lot of them will tell everybody else to get a job for a living.

00:42:00.000 Pretty amazing stuff.

00:42:01.000 Okay.

00:42:02.000 Now, I wanted to bring you an update on the government shutdown, which ended last Friday when President Trump unilaterally decided, we are done here.

00:42:09.000 No more government shutdown.

00:42:10.000 Maybe we'll be back here in three weeks.

00:42:11.000 My guess is that in three weeks, the president will declare Some national emergency and then try to activate border funding from other parts of the Defense Department.

00:42:20.000 But there was a poll that came out last week that was largely ignored until just about now.

00:42:25.000 And it's pretty interesting.

00:42:27.000 There is a NBC Wall Street Journal poll.

00:42:30.000 And here is what this poll showed.

00:42:32.000 What this poll showed is that by popularity, by popularity, Who was the least popular?

00:42:39.000 Who was the least popular politician during the actual shutdown?

00:42:43.000 Now, if you listen to the media, you would have thought it was Donald Trump, right?

00:42:46.000 It was Trump who had lost the most ground during the government shutdown.

00:42:50.000 But that is not true.

00:42:52.000 That is not true.

00:42:52.000 So they've done sort of a before and after the government shutdown snapshot of poll numbers.

00:42:58.000 And here's what they found.

00:42:59.000 The Democratic Party, by the end of the shutdown, 35% of Americans were positive on the Democrats.

00:43:05.000 40% were negative.

00:43:06.000 So that means that they were 5 points underwater.

00:43:09.000 The Republican Party was 9 points underwater.

00:43:11.000 34% positive, 43% negative.

00:43:13.000 So they had basically the same positive rating as the Democratic Party.

00:43:16.000 Almost identical.

00:43:17.000 Trump was more popular than both.

00:43:19.000 He was at 39%.

00:43:21.000 39% positive, 51% negative, which means he was 12 points underwater.

00:43:26.000 Mitch McConnell was 18 points underwater, 17% positive, 35% negative.

00:43:31.000 Who was the most unpopular politician in America during the government shutdown?

00:43:35.000 Nancy Pelosi.

00:43:36.000 She was at 28% positive, 47% negative.

00:43:40.000 So in other words, the same media that were cheering her, you remember Seth Meyers, on his show, saying they should build the wall out of Nancy Pelosi since she's just so tough, The same media, cheering Nancy Pelosi, shockingly, were not covering her radical drop in popularity.

00:43:54.000 They weren't covering the fact that the government shutdown was hurting Nancy Pelosi even worse than it was hurting President Trump.

00:44:01.000 And that media coverage caused people to jump early in the Republican Party, thinking that the damage from the government shutdown was simply too great.

00:44:07.000 As I said last week, if President Trump wanted to go all the way on the government shutdown, then you have to be willing to go all the way.

00:44:13.000 There's no such thing as a good bluff in politics.

00:44:16.000 You have to be willing to pull the trigger.

00:44:17.000 Trump was not willing to pull the trigger.

00:44:19.000 Now he's going to take, I think, the other way out, which is the national emergency route.

00:44:22.000 But it is important to note that that headline only came out after the shutdown ended.

00:44:27.000 After the shutdown ended, suddenly we are learning that Nancy Pelosi, in fact, was deeply unpopular with the American people.

00:44:33.000 Amazing.

00:44:34.000 Amazing how that worked.

00:44:35.000 Just a shock.

00:44:36.000 That's not media bias, though.

00:44:37.000 That's simply... They must have missed it.

00:44:39.000 They must have missed it.

00:44:40.000 And meanwhile, there's still aftermath from the Roger Stone indictment last week.

00:44:44.000 So Roger Stone, as you recall, was arrested last week on charges that he lied to the House Intelligence Committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee, the FBI.

00:44:52.000 Over the weekend, Stone went off on the FBI.

00:44:54.000 He was very upset at the FBI, obviously.

00:44:56.000 He said these are Gestapo tactics, which, again, no, they're not.

00:45:00.000 A warrant and an arrest for lying to law enforcement, that's not the Gestapo. 1.00

00:45:04.000 Please do not make Holocaust comparisons that are completely stupid. 0.99

00:45:07.000 I'm 66 years old. 0.99

00:45:08.000 I don't own a firearm.

00:45:10.000 I have no prior criminal record.

00:45:12.000 My passport has expired.

00:45:15.000 The special counsel's office is well aware of the fact that I'm represented.

00:45:19.000 The idea that a 29-member SWAT team in full tactical gear with assault weapons would surround my house.

00:45:26.000 It's an offensive show of force to try to depict me as public enemy number one, the OG.

00:45:32.000 It's an attempt to poison the jury pool.

00:45:34.000 Let's get... These are Gestapo tactics.

00:45:37.000 Let's get... No, they're not Gestapo tactics, but was it over the top?

00:45:40.000 Yes.

00:45:40.000 No.

00:45:42.000 He is saying that he may in fact cooperate with Robert Mueller's probe.

00:45:46.000 He was talking with this week, and he said that that's a question I'll have to determine after my attorneys have some discussion.

00:45:51.000 If there's wrongdoing by other people in the campaign that I know about, which I know of none, if there is, I'd certainly testify honestly.

00:45:56.000 So we'll see if there are any more shoes to drop on the Roger Stone indictment, as I said last week.

00:46:00.000 What that indictment says to me, mostly, is that there was willingness by members of the Trump campaign to get information from Wikileaks, but no evidence of actual quid pro quos happening between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.

00:46:14.000 And if you're using Roger Stone as a go-between...

00:46:17.000 These are not high-level contacts.

00:46:18.000 It's not Steve Bannon or Jared Kushner calling up Vladimir Putin and saying, what can you do for us today?

00:46:23.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:46:26.000 So, things I like.

00:46:27.000 I've been on a sports book kick lately.

00:46:28.000 I just need some relaxation over the weekends.

00:46:30.000 So I've been reading Jeff Pearlman's books.

00:46:31.000 I really enjoy them.

00:46:32.000 He's a good sports writer, former Sports Illustrated guy.

00:46:35.000 He has a book called The Bad Guys Won about the 1986 Mets.

00:46:38.000 Now, I am a primary White Sox fan, but I'm a secondary Red Sox fan.

00:46:41.000 I picked up all of my father's sports allegiances.

00:46:43.000 He was a White Sox fan for his entire life, then he moved to Boston for college and he became a bit of a Red Sox fan.

00:46:48.000 So, 86 is still painful for people who are Red Sox fans, but this book is great.

00:46:53.000 It really paints an interesting picture of the New York Mets, and it doesn't pull any punches. 0.99

00:46:57.000 I mean, they're a bunch of jerks, basically. 0.98

00:47:00.000 And the book is really colorful and fun. 0.99

00:47:01.000 It's very gossipy, so if you're into sports books, go check out The Bad Guys 1 by Jeff Pearlman.

00:47:06.000 Really been enjoying it, and it is worth the read.

00:47:09.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.

00:47:15.000 So Tom Brokaw was, you know, the old guy from NBC.

00:47:19.000 He was on Meet the Press, and he started talking about immigration.

00:47:23.000 And in the middle of talking about immigration, he simply labeled all Trump supporters racists who don't like racial intermarriage.

00:47:28.000 It got very weird very quickly.

00:47:29.000 Here was Tom Brokaw's statement.

00:47:31.000 Yeah, I hear when I push people a little harder.

00:47:33.000 I don't know whether I want brown grandbabies. 1.00

00:47:35.000 I mean, that's also a part of it.

00:47:38.000 It's the intermarriage that is going on and the cultures that are conflicting with each other. 0.89

00:47:42.000 I also happen to believe that the Hispanics should work harder at assimilation.

00:47:45.000 That's one of the things I've been saying for a long time, you know, that they ought not to be just codified in their communities, but make sure that all their kids are learning to speak English and that they feel comfortable in the communities.

00:47:57.000 And that's going to take outreach on both sides, frankly.

00:48:00.000 Okay, so he was ripped up and down for this.

00:48:01.000 Now, he said two things.

00:48:02.000 One of them was really bad, right? 0.83

00:48:04.000 He said that Trump supporters don't want brown grandchildren, which, come on, that's just absurd.

00:48:08.000 No one, really, most people don't care what color their grandkids are, so long as they have grandkids, honestly.

00:48:14.000 As far as his statement that Hispanics are not learning English fast enough, there's some mixed...

00:48:18.000 Mixed stuff on this, okay?

00:48:19.000 So, there's one study that came up in 2013, and it suggested that the children of immigrants are learning English as fast as the children of immigrants have learned English in the past.

00:48:29.000 According to the Washington Post, as of 2013, first-generation Mexican immigrants still lag behind on learning English, but second-generation Americans, including those who live with their first-generation parents, acquire English just as fast as do Asian or European immigrants by the third generation.

00:48:43.000 Virtually all Hispanics in the United States speak English.

00:48:46.000 And this is reflected, actually, in support for English as the official language by racial group.

00:48:51.000 74% of Americans as of 2013 were supportive of English as the official language.

00:48:57.000 So were 71% of blacks, 70% of Asians, and 68% of third-generation Hispanics.

00:49:03.000 So, you know, people are, according to that data, learning English quickly, having...

00:49:07.000 However, there's other research that sort of suggests differently.

00:49:10.000 According to NPR, there's a study conducted by the Philadelphia Education Research Consortium.

00:49:14.000 It looked at English learners who entered the district as kindergartners in 2008 and their progress through the end of the third grade.

00:49:21.000 And what it found is that students whose home language was Spanish were considerably less likely to reach proficiency than any other subgroup.

00:49:27.000 Spanish speakers were almost half as likely as Chinese speakers to cross the proficiency threshold.

00:49:32.000 So what this suggests is that this isn't necessarily a, this isn't really a Hispanic problem.

00:49:36.000 What this really is, is an American problem where we are not encouraging people to assimilate.

00:49:42.000 And in places like California, we are engaging in bilingual education, right?

00:49:45.000 You should not be engaging in bilingual education. 1.00

00:49:47.000 When my ancestors got here, they did not go to schools where they were taught Yiddish and English.

00:49:50.000 They went to schools where they were taught English, even if they spoke Yiddish at home.

00:49:54.000 The multicultural attempt to break people down into separate communities is really a problem. 1.00

00:49:58.000 And pretending that there are not cultural differences between people who have assimilated and people who have not assimilated is, of course, very silly.

00:50:05.000 So, I think some of the ire for Tom Brokaw is earned.

00:50:08.000 I think some of the ire is an attempt to avoid some real questions about how particular education system in the United States works.

00:50:14.000 Okay, other things that I hate.

00:50:17.000 Dan Savage was just a sleazeball.

00:50:19.000 Dan Savage was on Bill Maher's show.

00:50:21.000 You'll remember him from such things as he leads some sort of anti-bullying crusade, even though he is a massive bully, Dan Savage.

00:50:28.000 This is a guy who wrote for, I believe it was Salon back in 2000, that he hated Gary Bauer so much that he volunteered for Gary Bauer's presidential campaign and then had the flu and licked doorknobs around the office.

00:50:39.000 In order to give other people on the campaign the flu. 0.96

00:50:41.000 I mean, Dan Savage is a vile, hateful person. 0.99

00:50:43.000 Here is Dan Savage, though, suggesting that all Trump supporters are racist, white bleeps. 0.99

00:50:48.000 They're good at demagoguery, they're good at racism, they're good at stoking fear. 0.97

00:50:52.000 Everybody's like, oh, it's economic anxiety, oh, it's the working class. 1.00

00:50:55.000 All those first reactions to Trump's wins, all the research, all the social science research and data sense have proven it's racist, white, dumb f***s in our anti-democratic system. 0.99

00:51:07.000 Okay, if this is how Democrats want to see it, they will lose. 1.00

00:51:09.000 I mean, if they really want to alienate everybody in the middle of the country by calling them racist, white, dumb bleeps... 0.99

00:51:15.000 Keep going with that. 1.00

00:51:16.000 That'll get you a lot of applause in places like Los Angeles, but it ain't gonna get you a lot of applause in places that you need to win in the middle of the country.

00:51:23.000 If you want to have a shot in Georgia, you probably shouldn't be calling people racist white bleeds for considering the possibility of voting for Donald Trump.

00:51:29.000 Now maybe, look, the worst case scenario here is that Trump has been so off-putting in his years in office that he actually alienates the American people into voting for an open radical, an open socialist.

00:51:39.000 That would be a disaster.

00:51:40.000 But if Democrats continue With this theme that everybody who doesn't think like them is a racist, evil person?

00:51:48.000 Then America is not only irrevocably broken, but Democrats, I think, will have a worse shot at winning election.

00:51:55.000 You can't just insult Americans.

00:51:56.000 You can't insult your way into the White House.

00:51:58.000 You can insult other candidates into the White House.

00:52:00.000 Donald Trump did that.

00:52:00.000 You can't insult the American people into the White House.

00:52:02.000 It just doesn't work that way.

00:52:04.000 All right, we will be back here later today.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - January 28, 2019

Everybody In The Pool! | Ep. 704

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