The Ben Shapiro Show - Fight Night 2, Round 2: Harris KO'ed | Ep. 830

00:00:00.000 Old Joe makes his comeback, Kamala Harris gets whittled down to size, and Barack Obama has a rotten evening.

00:00:06.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:06.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:08.000 Oh man, what a debate last night.

00:00:15.000 The spills, the thrills, the chills, the radicalism.

00:00:18.000 I know, it was actually incredibly boring, but when you break it all down, it's not quite as boring as it seems.

00:00:22.000 And the good news for you is that if you missed the entire debate, you saved yourself three hours, and now you're gonna get everything you need to know in the next 45 minutes or so.

00:00:30.000 It's just gonna be great, you're gonna love it.

00:00:32.000 Okay, so let's just jump right in.

00:00:33.000 The big themes of the night, right off the top. 1.00

00:00:36.000 Barack Obama was a loser. 0.99

00:00:37.000 This is not according to Republicans, this is according to Democrats. 1.00

00:00:40.000 Barack Obama must have been sitting home going, Why me?

00:00:43.000 What?

00:00:45.000 He is the most popular Democrat in America.

00:00:47.000 He has been for well over a decade.

00:00:49.000 And the Democrats on stage, except for Joe Biden, because they were attacking Joe Biden, decided it was necessary to take Barack Obama and then drive over him with a bus and then put the bus in reverse and then drive over him in reverse.

00:01:00.000 It was really amazing.

00:01:02.000 So the Democrats, because they have to differentiate themselves from the past and they have to look forward to the future, they've decided that Barack Obama has to be left behind.

00:01:09.000 That was theme of the night number one.

00:01:10.000 Theme of the night number two, All Joe Biden has to do is survive.

00:01:14.000 Now, that is a difficult task for him.

00:01:17.000 He was stumbling a little bit last night.

00:01:19.000 He looked more energetic.

00:01:20.000 He looked better than he had in the past.

00:01:21.000 But he didn't look as energetic as he did even five or ten years ago, obviously.

00:01:26.000 He looks old up there.

00:01:28.000 That's going to be a problem against Donald Trump.

00:01:29.000 But all he had to do was not make a big boo-boo and acquit himself fairly decently.

00:01:34.000 He did that last night.

00:01:35.000 So that means that Biden looks a lot more durable today than he did yesterday.

00:01:38.000 Because he is the most electable Democrat out there.

00:01:41.000 Everybody knows this.

00:01:42.000 It is true from the national polling.

00:01:43.000 It is true from the state polling.

00:01:44.000 Joe Biden's positions are closer to the mainstream than any of the other Democrats on that stage.

00:01:49.000 And also, it turns out that his old boss, Barack Obama, still kind of a popular dude.

00:01:53.000 So Joe Biden, all he had to do was survive.

00:01:55.000 He did.

00:01:56.000 And then the third theme of the night was that Kamala Harris had a giant fail. 1.00

00:02:00.000 Now, Kamala Harris was always a bit of a paper tiger, meaning she is good on the attack, but she has no defense. 1.00

00:02:07.000 She, as a boxer, she lets her hands down way too much. 1.00

00:02:10.000 And because she does not actually have any core principles in which she believes, that means that she makes herself vulnerable to anybody who does have core principles.

00:02:19.000 She moves around a lot.

00:02:20.000 And Nate Silver, the pollster over at FiveThirtyEight, he has suggested in the past that Kamala Harris looks a lot like Mitt Romney did for the Republicans, where she's sort of shifting on her positions. 0.63

00:02:29.000 On paper, she looks pretty good, but in reality, not nearly as good as a candidate.

00:02:33.000 Kamala Harris was exposed last night. 0.93

00:02:34.000 She was exposed in a very bad way, and this means that this race looks like more and more it's going to boil down to a two-person race between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren.

00:02:43.000 If it boils down to Joe Biden versus Elizabeth Warren, Biden is the nominee, and we get a Trump-Biden race, because that dynamic looks a lot like Hillary versus Bernie circa 2016.

00:02:52.000 Why?

00:02:53.000 Well, when you look at Hillary versus Bernie, what really differentiated the two was their voting base. 1.00

00:02:57.000 Hillary's voting base was a lot more minority than Bernie Sanders's was. 1.00

00:03:01.000 This is also true of Joe Biden.

00:03:03.000 And if it comes down to a Biden versus Warren race, there's a significant likelihood that at some point in there, Barack Obama does weigh in on the side of Joe Biden, particularly if it becomes clear that Joe Biden is going to sweep all the southern states and Elizabeth Warren is going to do nothing in those states.

00:03:18.000 Kamala Harris's collapse last night was actually the big story of the night.

00:03:21.000 Joe Biden survives.

00:03:22.000 Kamala Harris basically gets KO'd, but not by Joe Biden.

00:03:25.000 Now, all of that is just sort of the introduction to what was a fascinating debate in many ways.

00:03:30.000 Again, it was Democrats running directly to the left, right off the cliff, except for Joe Biden, who's standing there going, guys, what are you doing?

00:03:38.000 Why?

00:03:39.000 But virtually every other Democrat on the stage, maybe Senator Michael Bennett, who nobody's ever heard of, all the other Democrats were racing to the left, racing to the left.

00:03:47.000 And again, this means that Barack Obama, by contrast, looks like a Republican.

00:03:51.000 If you were just listening to that debate and you had no idea which party Barack Obama belonged to, you would assume that Barack Obama was the preceding Republican president.

00:03:59.000 That's what you would assume.

00:04:01.000 It was incredible.

00:04:02.000 And what made it more incredible is that this whole thing led off with Tom Perez, who is sort of the rah-rah guy.

00:04:08.000 Both nights he gets up there beforehand, he warms up the crowd like a bad comic, kind of straightens his tie and goes out there like Rodney Dangerfield.

00:04:14.000 And he says, he starts off by saying, "Who else misses Obama?

00:04:17.000 Who else misses Obama?" Big cheer.

00:04:19.000 And then when the debate starts, it's like, "Nobody misses Obama, man.

00:04:21.000 We hate that guy." Here is Tom Perez leading it off. - Am I the only one who misses Barack Obama in this room? - Well, when you contrast him with Trump, yes, When you contrast him with the other Democrats, it turns out a lot of Democrats in the primary base, not in love with Barack Obama.

00:04:37.000 Now, after the debate, you could see that the Democratic commentators couldn't believe it.

00:04:41.000 They couldn't believe it.

00:04:42.000 They were saying, why are these Democrats attacking Barack Obama?

00:04:45.000 Joy Reid and Joe Scarborough on MSNBC?

00:04:47.000 They're beside themselves.

00:04:49.000 What are the Democrats doing?

00:04:49.000 They're disassociating themselves from the most popular politician of the last 35 years.

00:04:54.000 What in the world?

00:04:55.000 Here is MSNBC.

00:04:56.000 They couldn't believe what Democrats had just done.

00:04:59.000 It was weird for me to watch almost 40 minutes of primarily attacks on the Obama administration's policies.

00:05:07.000 It was odd.

00:05:08.000 I mean, de Blasio made a full-on attack of Obamacare.

00:05:13.000 Essentially said, we have no working healthcare system in America.

00:05:16.000 But hello, we have Obamacare. 1.00

00:05:18.000 It's almost as if the debate forgot who's president.

00:05:21.000 Because the attacks on Donald Trump, I don't remember his name being mentioned that much.

00:05:25.000 And so it was odd for me for these candidates to debate changes in healthcare and their different policies on immigration as if Trump doesn't exist.

00:05:33.000 And all of this, of course, is being driven by the fact that Joe Biden is, in fact, the frontrunner.

00:05:37.000 So if you want to go after Biden, you have to go after Obama.

00:05:39.000 There's just no way to do it otherwise, because you can't separate off Biden from Obama.

00:05:43.000 Biden's entire record is wrapped up with a bow with Obamaism.

00:05:47.000 So very, very fascinating kind of stuff.

00:05:49.000 OK, so the debate leads off right before the debate.

00:05:51.000 Everybody is focusing in on it's going to be Biden versus Harris.

00:05:54.000 And those are going to be the fights that really matter.

00:05:56.000 As it turns out, those were not the fights that really mattered all that much.

00:05:59.000 Biden acquitted himself well against Harris, as we'll see.

00:06:02.000 But the person who actually took out Kamala Harris was not Joe Biden.

00:06:07.000 It was Tulsi Gabbard, who came in from the top rope, from left field, pile driver, knee to the skull. 0.99

00:06:14.000 It was brutal.

00:06:15.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

00:06:17.000 It started off, by the way, before the debate starts off, it starts off with Joe Biden greeting Harris and on a hot mic saying, take it easy on me, kid.

00:06:24.000 Here's a little bit of what that sounded like.

00:06:26.000 It's clip 50.

00:06:29.000 How you doing?

00:06:31.000 You good?

00:06:34.000 And she says, oh, okay, okay.

00:06:35.000 Well, again, everyone was sort of expecting her to go hard after Biden.

00:06:38.000 Everyone took their shot at Biden and they all missed.

00:06:41.000 And they all missed.

00:06:41.000 Okay, so we'll get to all that in just one second.

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00:08:02.000 Okay, so.

00:08:03.000 You can see the Democrats begin to run to the left.

00:08:06.000 We're gonna run through some of their opening statements.

00:08:08.000 There are a bunch of candidates on the stage.

00:08:10.000 So, Bill de Blasio is the most radical candidate on the stage, and he was going directly after Joe Biden, and he was going directly after Barack Obama.

00:08:17.000 It was amazing to watch. 0.71

00:08:18.000 So, here is Bill de Blasio, the most annoying serial groundhog murderer. 0.99

00:08:23.000 Bill de Blasio, giant weirdo. 0.98

00:08:26.000 He's basically like John Kasich. 0.99

00:08:28.000 If John Kasich were simultaneously a giant, A communist and a serial groundhog murderer. 0.70

00:08:34.000 That's Bill de Blasio in a nutshell. 0.79

00:08:35.000 So here is Mayor Bill de Blasio leading off by smacking Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in a bid for attention.

00:08:42.000 Joe Biden told wealthy donors that nothing fundamentally would change if he were president.

00:08:48.000 Kamala Harris said she's not trying to restructure society.

00:08:53.000 Well, I am.

00:08:55.000 When I'm president, we will even up the score and we will tax the hell out of the wealthy to make this a fairer country and to make sure it's a country that puts working people first.

00:09:07.000 Okay, and then people in the back start chanting at de Blasio because de Blasio hasn't arrested a police officer who was involved in the death of Eric Garner.

00:09:14.000 So it was a mess.

00:09:15.000 I mean, right from the outset, it was a mess.

00:09:17.000 And de Blasio kept doubling down on this.

00:09:19.000 In his conclusion, in his concluding statement, he comes right back to where he was, saying that he's basically a socialist and he wants more socialism.

00:09:27.000 If he thinks this is a winning campaign, not Barack Obama, socialism, go for it, Mayor Bill.

00:09:33.000 If we're going to beat Donald Trump, this has to be a party that stands for something.

00:09:37.000 This has to be the party of labor unions.

00:09:40.000 This has to be the party of universal health care.

00:09:43.000 This has to be the party that's not afraid to say out loud, we're going to tax the hell out of the wealthy.

00:09:52.000 And when we do that, Donald Trump, right on cue, will call us socialists.

00:09:58.000 Well, here's what I'll say to him.

00:10:00.000 Donald, you're the real socialist.

00:10:03.000 The problem is, it's socialism for the rich.

00:10:08.000 Nobody understands what the hell he's talking about.

00:10:13.000 I love that he says that and he's waiting for the claps and nothing happens, right?

00:10:17.000 He's waiting for the applause.

00:10:18.000 He's like, we'll say, Donald, you're the real socialist.

00:10:21.000 Everybody's like, um...

00:10:24.000 What now?

00:10:25.000 Is socialism bad or is it good?

00:10:27.000 Okay, so that was Bill de Blasio's opening pitch.

00:10:27.000 Confused.

00:10:29.000 Then you had the exorable Kirsten Gillibrand, who's just awful.

00:10:33.000 Awful, awful, awful. 0.99

00:10:34.000 She leads off trying to be inspirational by saying something very, very silly. 0.97

00:10:39.000 My grandmother taught me that nothing's impossible.

00:10:43.000 She spent two generations organizing women in upstate New York. 0.98

00:10:47.000 My mother taught me nothing's impossible.

00:10:49.000 If you want to get something done, just tell me it's impossible.

00:10:54.000 Okay, here's something that's impossible.

00:10:57.000 You ever being president.

00:10:58.000 There it is, right there.

00:10:59.000 That's the impossible thing.

00:11:00.000 Gillibrand was on her high horse the entire debate.

00:11:03.000 I'm going to talk in a little bit about Kamala Harris getting destroyed on the stage.

00:11:06.000 Gillibrand actually really got destroyed on the stage as well.

00:11:09.000 So we may as well go through Kirsten Gillibrand because this is probably the last we're going to hear of her.

00:11:13.000 She's not going to make the final round of debates. 1.00

00:11:15.000 So we're going to bid a fond farewell to Kirsten Gillibrand.

00:11:17.000 You know why Kirsten Gillibrand is going nowhere?

00:11:19.000 Because she's the worst.

00:11:20.000 Let me give you an example. 0.85

00:11:21.000 So Kirsten, this is clip 35, Kirsten Gillibrand is talking about race in the United States and she suggests that she is going to be fantastic talking to white people about race because mommy is going to lecture all the whiteies about what it means to be woke.

00:11:36.000 I mean, this is really her case.

00:11:38.000 It's unbelievable.

00:11:39.000 She's so bad at this. 1.00

00:11:40.000 So bad.

00:11:41.000 I think as a white woman of privilege who is a U.S.

00:11:44.000 Senator running for President of the United States, it is also my responsibility to lift up those voices that aren't being listened to.

00:11:52.000 And I can talk to those white women in the suburbs that voted for Trump and explain to them what white privilege actually is. 1.00

00:11:57.000 That when their son is walking down a street with a bag of M&Ms in his pocket, wearing a hoodie, his whiteness is what protects him from not being shot. 0.81

00:12:06.000 Well, I mean, also not getting into a confrontation in which you're beating a man's head against the pavement is a great way of not getting shot as well, it turns out.

00:12:12.000 But in any case, there's Kirsten Gillibrand.

00:12:14.000 She's going to convince—that's going to be her pitch to Trump voters. 0.96

00:12:17.000 She'll win them over by going into their house and lecturing them on their white privilege and that their sons should be shot on behalf of not having white privilege. 1.00

00:12:24.000 Smart stuff from Kirsten Gillibrand. 0.98

00:12:25.000 Joe Biden actually put her through a wall.

00:12:27.000 It was one of the more delicious moments of the debate.

00:12:29.000 This is clip 43.

00:12:30.000 Gillibrand tried to attack Joe Biden on women, citing an old op-ed, and then Biden responded by finishing her off in brutal fashion.

00:12:37.000 So under Vice President Biden's analysis, am I serving in Congress, resulting in the deterioration of the family because I had access to quality, affordable daycare?

00:12:48.000 I just want to know what he meant when he said that.

00:12:51.000 That was a long time ago, and here's what it was about.

00:12:54.000 It would have given people making today $100,000 a year a tax break for childcare.

00:13:00.000 I did not want that.

00:13:01.000 I wanted the childcare to go to people making less than $100,000, and that's what it was about.

00:13:07.000 As a single father who, in fact, raised three children for five years by myself, I have some idea what it cost.

00:13:15.000 In the very beginning, my deceased wife worked, but we had children.

00:13:18.000 My present wife has worked all the way through raising our children. 1.00

00:13:21.000 I was deeply involved in all these things.

00:13:23.000 I came up with the It's On Us proposal to see to it that women were treated more decently on college campuses. 1.00

00:13:29.000 You came to Syracuse University with me and said it was wonderful.

00:13:33.000 I'm passionate about the concern making sure women are treated equally.

00:13:37.000 I don't know what's happened except that you're now running for president.

00:13:41.000 And the crowd loses it.

00:13:42.000 Kirsten Gillibrand.

00:13:44.000 Goodbye, see you later, Kirsten Gilbert.

00:13:46.000 Okay, so we're getting rid of some of the less important candidates, and then we'll get to the actual red meat of this debate.

00:13:53.000 So when things began to get hot, okay, when things began to get hot, it was really all about Biden.

00:13:59.000 So everybody decided to level their guns at Biden.

00:14:01.000 I'm giving you sort of an intro to the various candidates.

00:14:03.000 We have to introduce the players before we get to the fisticuffs. 1.00

00:14:06.000 So Tulsi Gabbard, who ended up being a major player in this particular debate, she let off With a differentiating factor.

00:14:12.000 She has military experience. 0.99

00:14:14.000 Now, her foreign policy may be garbage. 1.00

00:14:15.000 And when I say maybe, I mean, it really is. 0.99

00:14:17.000 She has a very isolationist foreign policy.

00:14:20.000 She ran cover for Bashar Assad in Syria in the midst of him murdering his own citizens. 0.62

00:14:24.000 But Tulsi Gabbard does have a different pitch.

00:14:26.000 If she didn't have such a crazy foreign policy, she'd be a major threat to Trump. 1.00

00:14:29.000 She really would.

00:14:30.000 She would be.

00:14:30.000 If she weren't a nut on Syria, then Tulsi Gabbard would really be a dangerous candidate.

00:14:36.000 Here is Tulsi Gabbard talking about her military experience.

00:14:40.000 This is her pitch.

00:14:41.000 I love our country.

00:14:43.000 It's why I enlisted after 9-11.

00:14:45.000 I've served as a soldier for over 16 years, deployed twice to the Middle East, and serve in Congress now for almost seven years.

00:14:53.000 I know what patriotism is, and I've known many great patriots throughout my life.

00:14:58.000 And let me tell you this, Donald Trump is not behaving like a patriot.

00:15:03.000 Gabbard would be a real threat to Trump, as we'll see.

00:15:05.000 She's very good at what she does. 0.99

00:15:07.000 There's one point here, the most critical moment of the debate, where she basically ends Kamala Harris on the stage again.

00:15:12.000 Then there's Andrew Yang.

00:15:13.000 So Andrew Yang didn't get any sort of attention in the last debate.

00:15:16.000 He showed up to this debate, and he actually did get some attention for good reason.

00:15:20.000 Now, because there's so many candidates, differentiating factors matter.

00:15:23.000 So he didn't wear a tie in the last debate, he didn't wear a tie in this debate.

00:15:26.000 And the fact is that because he didn't wear a tie, it actually gave him a very solid pitch.

00:15:31.000 First of all, I like Andrew Yang.

00:15:32.000 I know Andrew Yang personally.

00:15:32.000 I will admit it.

00:15:34.000 He came on the Sunday special.

00:15:35.000 We had a really good conversation about his universal basic income proposal, with which I disagree, but I think that he is a technocrat who wants to improve the workings of government.

00:15:44.000 I think that his ideas are not ideas that I agree with, but he certainly has a more interesting take than most of the Democrats on the stage.

00:15:51.000 This is Yang's clip too.

00:15:53.000 What he said at the end of the debate was really his key moment.

00:15:57.000 I wouldn't be surprised if he picks up a couple of points here.

00:15:59.000 You know what the talking heads couldn't stop talking about after the last debate?

00:16:03.000 It's not the fact that I'm somehow number four on this stage in national polling.

00:16:07.000 It was the fact that I wasn't wearing a tie.

00:16:10.000 Instead of talking about automation and our future, including the fact that we automated away four million manufacturing jobs, hundreds of thousands right here in Michigan, we're up here with makeup on our faces and our rehearsed attack lines, playing roles in this reality TV show.

00:16:25.000 It's one reason why we elected a reality TV star as our president.

00:16:29.000 And he is not wrong about any of this.

00:16:31.000 It's why the Yang Gang may actually start to become more of a thing. 0.98

00:16:36.000 In one second, we're going to get to the candidates that everyone actually cared about last night.

00:16:40.000 That'd be Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, and Joe Biden.

00:16:42.000 We'll get to their intro statements, and then we'll get to the fisticuffs, right?

00:16:45.000 This is all the setup for the big, round-robin, WWE Nitro!

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00:18:04.000 Okay, so Cory Booker.

00:18:05.000 Then introduces himself.

00:18:06.000 And Booker is desperate for attention.

00:18:08.000 He made sure that Rosario Dawson packed him his angry eyes last night.

00:18:12.000 Mr. Potato Head.

00:18:13.000 He always makes sure that he brings his angry eyes.

00:18:16.000 Last night he brought his angry eyes and he talked about how President Trump was very, very bad for insulting Baltimore.

00:18:21.000 Dude, you ran away from being mayor of Newark and Newark was no better off than when you were, before you were mayor.

00:18:27.000 And you're gonna talk about the failures in our inner city?

00:18:28.000 Like, you are part of the failure in the inner city. 0.96

00:18:32.000 Last week, the president of the United States attacked an American city, calling it a disgusting, rat-infested, rodent mess. 0.96

00:18:45.000 Donald Trump, from Charleston to Baltimore to even the border, is using the tired, old language of demagogues, of fear mongers, of racists, to try to divide our country against itself. 0.96

00:19:01.000 We know who Donald Trump is.

00:19:03.000 But in this election, the question is, who are we as a people?

00:19:09.000 Okay, Booker has nothing.

00:19:10.000 Now, it's really funny because the press afterward was saying, what a great job, Booker.

00:19:14.000 I didn't see it.

00:19:15.000 I didn't see it.

00:19:16.000 I think the conventional wisdom on Harris was right.

00:19:17.000 I think the conventional wisdom on Biden was right.

00:19:19.000 I think the conventional wisdom on Booker is totally wrong.

00:19:22.000 Booker's got nothing.

00:19:23.000 He's going nowhere.

00:19:23.000 He's rehearsed.

00:19:24.000 He's annoying.

00:19:25.000 Forget it.

00:19:26.000 Done.

00:19:26.000 OK, then there is Kamala Harris.

00:19:27.000 So Kamala Harris, this was supposed to be her second big push, right?

00:19:30.000 She had her big push in the first debate.

00:19:32.000 And in that first debate, she smacked Biden around on federal forced busing, even though she actually opposes forced busing.

00:19:39.000 And then she smacked Biden around on health care, and then she doesn't actually have a health care plan. 1.00

00:19:43.000 Well, it turns out that this was a bad night for Kamala Harris. 0.98

00:19:47.000 It didn't start off all that great.

00:19:48.000 She started off by botching her opening line. 1.00

00:19:50.000 Here she was.

00:19:51.000 And I am prepared to march with you, to fight with you for the best of who we are and to successfully prosecute the case of four more years of Donald Trump.

00:20:02.000 And against him.

00:20:04.000 I like that she realizes halfway through that statement that she's just talked about why she was going to argue for four more years for President Trump.

00:20:11.000 It's a weird moment.

00:20:12.000 She was botching things all over the place. 1.00

00:20:14.000 And then there was Joe Biden.

00:20:15.000 So Joe Biden is the front runner, the clear front runner at this point.

00:20:18.000 He's doubling up everybody else's numbers and he's doubling up everybody else's numbers because people have a genuine level of sort of comfort with Joe Biden.

00:20:25.000 They feel like they know him.

00:20:27.000 He's old Joe, old, reliable Joe.

00:20:30.000 Well, all he had to do was survive last night.

00:20:32.000 He did it kind of barely.

00:20:34.000 So he started off strong.

00:20:36.000 By the end of the night, he was fading in terms of energy.

00:20:38.000 So we will play you the beginning of the debate and the end of the debate, and you will see the benefit of Joe Biden and the drawback of Joe Biden.

00:20:44.000 So here's the benefit.

00:20:45.000 Joe Biden makes people feel comfortable for whatever reason, mostly because they know him already.

00:20:48.000 Here was Joe Biden at the beginning.

00:20:50.000 So, Mr. President, let's get something straight.

00:20:53.000 We love it.

00:20:55.000 We are not leaving it.

00:20:57.000 We are here to stay, and we're certainly not going to leave it to you.

00:21:00.000 So this is Joe Biden looking a little bit more energetic, and the crowd responds because they think Joe Biden can beat Donald Trump.

00:21:06.000 By the end, Joe Biden is grandpa who doesn't understand the internet and is still using dial-up for AOL.

00:21:10.000 I mean, really, this is how Joe Biden concluded.

00:21:13.000 So if the rip on Joe Biden is that he is too old and too weak and too feeble to go up against Trump, You can make the case based on some of his performance last night.

00:21:20.000 That's the case.

00:21:21.000 He was stumbling over his words.

00:21:22.000 Here was Joe Biden at the very end. 1.00

00:21:23.000 So everyone pitches their website at the end of the debates, which is stupid. 0.99

00:21:26.000 Okay. 0.79

00:21:26.000 Everyone who uses the internet knows how to Google somebody's name. 0.79

00:21:29.000 If you want to Google Tulsi Gabbard, you're going to find her website.

00:21:31.000 You want to Google Joe Biden, you can find his website.

00:21:33.000 Joe Biden, what he's trying to do here is say that you should text his name to a number.

00:21:38.000 And instead he just completely botches it because he doesn't know what the interwebs are.

00:21:43.000 This is the United States of America.

00:21:46.000 We've acted together.

00:21:47.000 We have never, never, never been unable to overcome whatever the problem was.

00:21:52.000 If you agree with me, go to Joe 30330 and help me in this fight.

00:22:00.000 Thank you very much.

00:22:03.000 Go to Joe 3-3-0 Joe 3-0-3-3-0-3-0.

00:22:08.000 People immediately went online, bought those websites and start redirecting them to like Mayor Pete.

00:22:13.000 So well done, Joe Biden.

00:22:15.000 That did sort of underscore the rap on Joe Biden, which is that he's still old and doddering.

00:22:19.000 But again, it wasn't a bad night for Joe Biden overall.

00:22:22.000 All he has to do is survive because this Democratic field is a very weak field.

00:22:27.000 That is just the fact.

00:22:28.000 Now, maybe it is the case that when you have big fields like in 2016 with the Republicans, the field looks strong until it begins to coalesce and then you're like, wow.

00:22:36.000 This field isn't nearly as strong as I thought it was, but I think that inherently this is a very weak field.

00:22:41.000 It really is.

00:22:43.000 Kamala Harris doesn't have any experience and she's bad at her job. 1.00

00:22:46.000 Bernie Sanders hasn't accomplished anything since the time of the dinosaurs, when he first wrote a brontosaurus into Congress.

00:22:55.000 The fact is that this field is so weak that Joe Biden, who has run unsuccessfully for president three separate times, is going to jet set into the middle of this field.

00:23:04.000 And right now, best indicators will probably pick up the nomination.

00:23:10.000 It was a good night for Joe Biden.

00:23:11.000 It was a bad night for Kamala Harris. 0.62

00:23:12.000 So now we're going to get to the fisticuffs.

00:23:13.000 Now we get to the fun part.

00:23:15.000 Here is Joe Biden, Kamala Harris.

00:23:17.000 Harris had the bad night.

00:23:19.000 So here was Harris being asked right off the bat, what the hell are you talking about in your health care plan?

00:23:24.000 She's asked by Jake Tapper.

00:23:26.000 No one understands your health care plan.

00:23:28.000 And her initial response is so weak and so poor.

00:23:31.000 Here's what Kamala Harris has to say.

00:23:33.000 Well, they're probably confused because they've not read it.

00:23:36.000 But the reality is that I have been spending time in this campaign listening to American families, listening to experts, listening to health care providers.

00:23:45.000 And she obfuscates, right? 0.99

00:23:46.000 Then she just goes on, and she obfuscates.

00:23:47.000 She's got nothing.

00:23:48.000 No.

00:23:49.000 The reason no one gets your plan is not because they haven't read it.

00:23:51.000 First of all, no one reads campaign plans on websites.

00:23:53.000 The reason that no one understands your plan is because you don't understand your plan.

00:23:57.000 You made it up in the last five minutes.

00:23:58.000 Five minutes ago.

00:24:00.000 This is where Joe Biden really launches into Kamala Harris and the and the veneer of Kamala Harris begins to crack.

00:24:06.000 By the end of this night, Kamala Harris is lying in shreds on the floor. 0.99

00:24:09.000 It is a very, very bad night for Kamala Harris.

00:24:12.000 So Joe Biden goes after Kamala Harris on her health care plan.

00:24:15.000 It's brutal.

00:24:17.000 The response is that the senators had several plans so far.

00:24:21.000 And anytime someone tells you you're going to get something good in 10 years, you should wonder why it takes 10 years.

00:24:27.000 If you notice, there's no talk about the fact that the plan in 10 years will cost $3 trillion.

00:24:32.000 You will lose your employer-based insurance.

00:24:35.000 And in fact, you know, this is the single most important issue facing the public.

00:24:39.000 And to be very blunt and to be very straightforward, you can't beat President Trump with double talk on this plan.

00:24:47.000 Brutal.

00:24:48.000 Brutal moment.

00:24:48.000 You can see she cannot take the heat.

00:24:51.000 And then Michael Bennett, the senator from Colorado, who apparently only on stage for this moment, he went after Harris as well.

00:24:58.000 He says, listen, what you're talking about is not math.

00:25:01.000 It doesn't make any sense.

00:25:02.000 Senator Harris is my friend as well, but I have to say if we can't admit, if we can't admit tonight what's in the plan, which is banning employer-based insurance, we're not going to be able to admit that when Donald Trump is accusing Democrats of doing that as well.

00:25:18.000 We need to be honest about what's in this plan.

00:25:20.000 It bans employer-based insurance and taxes the middle class to the tune of $30 trillion.

00:25:27.000 Do you know how much that is?

00:25:29.000 That is 70% of what the government will collect in taxes over the next 10 years!

00:25:36.000 Okay, and she's got nothing, right?

00:25:38.000 So what does Harris come back to after all that, after she gets blasted on her own plan, which is a completely unworkable plan? 0.78

00:25:44.000 Harris comes back to the same point that Democrats tried to make last night, which is that anybody who asks a question of Democrats is repeating a Republican talking point.

00:25:51.000 This is such a weak line.

00:25:53.000 It's the equivalent of Hillary Clinton suggesting that when people ask questions about her husband's morality, it was a vast right-wing conspiracy.

00:26:00.000 Here is the fact.

00:26:01.000 The criticisms of healthcare, her plan, are coming from other Democrats on the stage.

00:26:05.000 It's coming from Joe Biden and Michael Bennett.

00:26:08.000 Because those other Democrats recognize reality and Kamala Harris simply does not.

00:26:12.000 You'll see Kamala Harris respond, it was a very bad evening for her. 1.00

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00:27:42.000 Okay, so Kamala Harris comes back and she suggests that any criticism of her crap plan is a Republican talking point. 1.00

00:27:49.000 Well, the one thing she has right is that if she were ever to make it to a general election, it certainly would be a Republican talking point because the American people hate her plan. 0.99

00:27:57.000 By polling data, Americans want to keep their employer-based health insurance.

00:28:01.000 Most people are pretty happy with their health insurance.

00:28:03.000 Here's Kamala Harris weekly responding to Michael Bennett.

00:28:06.000 We cannot keep with the Republican talking points on this.

00:28:10.000 You've got to stop.

00:28:11.000 The reality is that under my Medicare for All plan, yes, employers are not going to be able to dictate the kind of health care that their employees get.

00:28:21.000 They will be able to make that decision.

00:28:23.000 Okay, no, they won't be able to make that decision, is what you're saying.

00:28:26.000 And then Joe Biden finishes Harris off on all of this and harkens back to, guys, like, you're standing up here ripping on a seminal piece of legislation that Democrats used to celebrate as a big effing deal in Joe Biden's words, Obamacare.

00:28:38.000 Here's Biden responding to Harris and really clocking her.

00:28:41.000 This is not a Republican talking point.

00:28:43.000 The Republicans are trying to kill Obamacare.

00:28:46.000 $30 trillion has to ultimately be paid.

00:28:50.000 And I don't know what math you do in New York.

00:28:52.000 I don't know what math you do in California.

00:28:55.000 But I tell you, that's a lot of money.

00:28:57.000 And there will be a deductible.

00:28:58.000 The deductible will be out of your paycheck.

00:29:00.000 Because that's what will be required.

00:29:02.000 Okay, and he is, of course, exactly right about this.

00:29:05.000 Bad moment for Kamala Harris, who doesn't actually have a plan on all this. 1.00

00:29:08.000 Okay, then, the debate moves on to immigration.

00:29:11.000 I should note here, Cory Booker kept trying to interject.

00:29:13.000 He's such an irritating human being.

00:29:15.000 Cory Booker, Spartacus, Mr. Potato Head, he kept trying to interject in here to do this, why are we arguing with each other routine?

00:29:22.000 Because it's a debate!

00:29:23.000 Because this is what you're supposed to do.

00:29:25.000 And Cory Booker is the most vicious person on that stage.

00:29:27.000 I mean, truly a vicious politician who goes after everyone.

00:29:31.000 And then in the debate, he's just like Chris Christie.

00:29:33.000 Chris Christie did the exact same thing in 2016.

00:29:35.000 He would go out there and savage everyone.

00:29:37.000 And then he would get on stage and be like, why are we all talking about each other?

00:29:40.000 Why can't we talk about Hillary?

00:29:42.000 Cory Booker does that same obnoxious routine last night.

00:29:45.000 Here he is on health care.

00:29:47.000 Well, first of all, let me just say that the person who's enjoying this debate most right now is Donald Trump, as we pit Democrats against each other while he is working right now to take away Americans' health care.

00:29:59.000 Again, it's a debate.

00:30:01.000 Pitting Democrats against you, because it's a debate!

00:30:05.000 Nobody.

00:30:06.000 Cory Booker is done.

00:30:07.000 OK, he's not a thing.

00:30:08.000 Stop trying to make Fetcher thing.

00:30:10.000 He is not a thing, Cory Booker.

00:30:11.000 OK, meanwhile, the Democrats move on to immigration.

00:30:14.000 Once again, the Democrats are very radical, except for Biden.

00:30:17.000 So Julian Castro leads this thing off.

00:30:19.000 And again, he's going to this has become a Democratic meme.

00:30:22.000 Basically, whenever a Democrat says right wing talking points, that is code for a question I don't have an answer to.

00:30:30.000 So Jake Tapper quotes Jay Johnson, the Homeland Security secretary under Barack Obama, not a Republican, we should note.

00:30:37.000 Again, the transformation of Barack Obama into a Republican.

00:30:40.000 The Affordable Care Act is a giveaway and a boom for the pharmaceutical and insurance companies.

00:30:45.000 And immigration enforcement is really bad.

00:30:48.000 It's always been bad.

00:30:49.000 And Jay Johnson was really bad.

00:30:50.000 So Julian Castro, who was the HUD Secretary under Barack Obama, He decides that he's going to go after Jay Johnson, the Homeland Security Secretary, under Barack Obama.

00:30:58.000 They're part of the same administration, right?

00:30:59.000 Serving in the same administration.

00:31:02.000 And Jay Johnson has said, if you decriminalize border crossing, you're going to increase the number of people crossing the border illegally.

00:31:08.000 Here's Julian Castro calling that a Republican talking point from Jay Johnson.

00:31:12.000 Open borders is a right-wing talking point.

00:31:15.000 And frankly, I'm disappointed that some folks, including some folks on this stage, have taken the bait.

00:31:23.000 The only way that we're going to guarantee that we don't have family separations in this country again Okay, you know who else did that?

00:31:31.000 It was Barack Obama.

00:31:32.000 Immigration Nationality Act.

00:31:34.000 That is the law that this president, this administration is using to incarcerate migrant parents and then physically separate them from their children.

00:31:43.000 Okay, you know who else did that?

00:31:44.000 It was Barack Obama.

00:31:45.000 You actually don't need section 1325 if you want to detain people and then the Flores settlement obtains and then you have to separate parents from the kids.

00:31:51.000 That is not, you don't need section 1325 to do that. 0.99

00:31:54.000 This is just, it's a stupid talking point. 0.88

00:31:56.000 People who suggest that repealing 1325 wouldn't in any way end the family separations. 0.99

00:32:01.000 If Trump wants family separations, they will happen.

00:32:03.000 If he wants to detain people, the detentions will happen.

00:32:05.000 People who cross the border.

00:32:07.000 Even legally, applying for asylum are usually detained for a period of time because we have to process them.

00:32:13.000 And under the Florida settlement, you can't detain people for longer than 20 days with their children in custody.

00:32:18.000 That means you have to separate the kids from the parents.

00:32:20.000 The system is backlogged.

00:32:21.000 Democrats know this. 0.99

00:32:22.000 It's a dumb talking point. 1.00

00:32:23.000 Joe Biden points out that this is a dumb talking point. 0.99

00:32:26.000 And Julian Castro goes back at him. 0.96

00:32:28.000 This was, I thought, the only moment that was bad for Joe Biden.

00:32:32.000 But even there, it wasn't particularly bad for Joe Biden because of the fact is that Julián Castro is a nobody and he was a member of the same administration.

00:32:38.000 It just doesn't work.

00:32:39.000 Most Americans are on Biden's side of this argument.

00:32:42.000 I found that Julian, excuse me, the secretary, we sat together in many meetings.

00:32:48.000 I never heard him talk about any of this when he was the secretary.

00:32:51.000 In addition to that, we're in a circumstance where if in fact you say you can just cross the border, what do you say to all those people around the world who in fact want the same thing to come to the United States and make their case that they don't, that they have to wait in line?

00:33:07.000 The fact of the matter is, you should be able to, if you cross the border illegally, you should be able to be sent back.

00:33:14.000 It's a crime.

00:33:15.000 First of all, Mr. Vice President, it looks like one of us has learned the lessons of the past, and one of us hasn't.

00:33:21.000 I have guts enough to say his plan doesn't make sense.

00:33:24.000 Here's the deal.

00:33:25.000 The fact of the matter is that, in fact, when people cross the border illegally, it is illegal to do it unless they're seeking asylum.

00:33:34.000 People should have to get in line.

00:33:36.000 That's the problem.

00:33:37.000 All right, Joe Biden sounds a lot more reasonable than Julian Castro here.

00:33:41.000 So Julian Castro obviously running to the left of the party on immigration.

00:33:44.000 But Biden sounded now he's still stumbling.

00:33:47.000 He's still fumbling.

00:33:48.000 So all of this is true about Biden, right? 0.73

00:33:49.000 He is a stumbler. 0.98

00:33:50.000 He is a fumbler. 0.97

00:33:51.000 He is going to stutter. 0.97

00:33:53.000 He is going to.

00:33:54.000 He's going to get choppy in his wording, but what he's saying sounds so much more reasonable to the vast bulk of Americans than anything the other Democrats are saying, that he survives last night, and he does so looking pretty good.

00:34:04.000 Now we're going to get to Bill de Blasio, who was the weapon of choice against the Obama administration in this debate.

00:34:09.000 We'll get back to him in just one second.

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00:36:21.000 Okay, so Bill de Blasio, again, was the lead attack dog against Biden and Obama because he's a communist.

00:36:35.000 And so de Blasio really went after Biden on immigration.

00:36:39.000 And he pointed out that Obama deported a lot of people, which, of course, is exactly true. 1.00

00:36:43.000 And it's fun to watch Democrats realize that Barack Obama deported many... Barack Obama deported like three million people by statistics.

00:36:49.000 Donald Trump has deported like 250,000 people.

00:36:52.000 So it's not even close.

00:36:53.000 Here is Bill de Blasio going after Biden and Obama.

00:36:56.000 Seven million people here, and everyone in theory has broken the law, but they're part of our communities now.

00:37:02.000 They're part of our economy.

00:37:03.000 They're our neighbors.

00:37:05.000 Why are we even discussing on one level whether it's a civil penalty or a criminal penalty when it's an American reality?

00:37:11.000 And what we need is comprehensive immigration reform once and for all to fix it.

00:37:16.000 Second, Vice President Biden.

00:37:19.000 I didn't hear your response when the issue came up of all those deportations.

00:37:22.000 You were vice president of the United States.

00:37:23.000 I didn't hear whether you tried to stop them or not using your power, your influence in the White House.

00:37:29.000 Did you think it was a good idea or do you think it was something that needed to be stopped?

00:37:32.000 Okay, and Biden says, well, I gave him advice, but I'm not going to explain to you what the advice was because I was VP when we were in the White House at the time.

00:37:38.000 Weak answer.

00:37:39.000 This was Cory Booker's one effective moment.

00:37:42.000 Booker then ripped into Biden and said, listen, you can't associate with Obama when it's convenient and then disassociate when it's inconvenient.

00:37:47.000 First of all, Mr. Vice President, you can't have it both ways.

00:37:50.000 You invoke President Obama more than anybody in this campaign.

00:37:53.000 You can't do it when it's convenient and then dodge it when it's not.

00:37:57.000 Because that point is fine.

00:37:58.000 It's where Booker goes next that's insane.

00:38:00.000 So every Democrat on the stage would attack Joe Biden and then they would move on to a point that was patently crazy.

00:38:06.000 So you'd have Julian Castro attack Joe Biden on immigration, and then say we should decriminalize and basically create open borders.

00:38:13.000 You would have people attack Joe Biden on Obamacare, and then move on to, but we need Medicare for all.

00:38:17.000 So Booker does that right now.

00:38:19.000 He attacks Joe Biden, he says you can't associate with Obama when it's beneficial, and then say you don't like the deportations.

00:38:24.000 But then Cory Booker goes to, merit-based immigration is inherently bad, because Biden had said we should bring in PhDs, we should bring in people who are qualified.

00:38:32.000 And Booker's like, no, we should bring in everybody.

00:38:34.000 Okay, you just blew all your credibility because you're now saying something totally crazy.

00:38:39.000 And the second thing, and this really irks me, because I heard the vice president say that, if you've got a PhD, you can come right into this country.

00:38:45.000 Well, that's playing into what the Republicans want, to pit some immigrants against other immigrants.

00:38:50.000 Some are from small countries.

00:38:51.000 OK, this is crazy.

00:38:52.000 OK, now this is the point.

00:38:53.000 Every time they attack Biden, they then start pushing a further left agenda that makes Biden look decent.

00:38:58.000 OK, this was true on crime as well.

00:39:00.000 So Cory Booker attacked Joe Biden on his criminal justice record.

00:39:03.000 This is an area where Democrats think they're going to make a lot of hay, particularly with black audiences in the United States.

00:39:08.000 They've been saying for years, Democrats have, that the criminal justice system is racially biased and terrible, mass incarceration, police officers randomly arresting black people.

00:39:16.000 That's all, by statistics, a lie.

00:39:18.000 But Democrats have been pushing it.

00:39:19.000 So here's Cory Booker pushing that agenda.

00:39:22.000 And again, it doesn't end all that great for Cory Booker, but this is the attack line.

00:39:25.000 Mr. Vice President has said that since the 1970s, every major crime bill, every crime bill, major and minor, has had his name on it.

00:39:35.000 And sir, those are your words, not mine.

00:39:38.000 And this is one of those instances where the House was set on fire, and you claimed responsibility for those laws.

00:39:46.000 And you can't just now come out with a plan to put out that fire.

00:39:50.000 We have got to have far more bold action on criminal justice reform.

00:39:55.000 Now here's where Biden is stuck between a bit of a rock and a hard place.

00:39:58.000 Here's the fact.

00:39:59.000 What Joe Biden should say is in 1994 we were at the very tail end of the worst crime wave in American history.

00:40:04.000 From 1960 to 1994 crime skyrocketed in this country.

00:40:07.000 Violent crime particularly in the inner cities targeting black folks.

00:40:10.000 That is simply a data-driven fact.

00:40:13.000 And by 1994, everyone, right, left, and center, was in favor of harsher policing and harsher sentencing.

00:40:19.000 54 out of 56 Democrats in the United States Senate voted in favor of the 1994 crime bill.

00:40:24.000 Everyone voted for the 1994 crime bill.

00:40:26.000 Cory Booker would have voted for the 1994 crime bill.

00:40:28.000 And it brought down crime.

00:40:30.000 And what Biden should say is, and that created space for us to now loosen the laws, right?

00:40:33.000 That's where Biden should go.

00:40:35.000 He has another line of attack. 1.00

00:40:36.000 His other line of attack is that Cory Booker is a freaking hypocrite. 1.00

00:40:39.000 He drops that one and Booker is just blown away. 0.99

00:40:42.000 In 2007, you became mayor.

00:40:44.000 You had a police department that was, you went out and you hired Rudy Giuliani's guy.

00:40:48.000 You engaged in stop and frisk.

00:40:51.000 You had 75% of those stops were viewed as illegal.

00:40:55.000 You found yourself in a situation where three times as many African American kids were caught in that chain and caught up.

00:41:01.000 The Justice Department came after you for saying you were engaging in behavior that was inappropriate.

00:41:07.000 And then, in fact, nothing happened.

00:41:09.000 The entire time you were mayor.

00:41:10.000 OK, all of that is true.

00:41:12.000 All of that is true.

00:41:12.000 And Biden stumbles over the attack.

00:41:14.000 And this, again, underscores the fact that there are weaknesses to Biden as a candidate.

00:41:18.000 He's not a terrific debater.

00:41:19.000 He's not a great candidate.

00:41:20.000 But again, Cory Booker going to let's free all the prisoners is a bad place to go.

00:41:25.000 OK, then.

00:41:27.000 Finally, we get to the moment when Harris gets destroyed.

00:41:31.000 So, Harris has sort of been sitting in the background.

00:41:33.000 She starts off the debate, she basically gets clocked on healthcare, and then things really go wrong for her.

00:41:38.000 So, Harris jumps into the middle of the racial fray, and she's urged to do so by the CNN moderators. 0.57

00:41:42.000 They say, you know, you had this whole thing last time around about federal busing, and Kamala Harris jumps in and she attacks Biden on busing again.

00:41:49.000 And you're about to see things go so wrong for Harris.

00:41:52.000 This is like watching a car wreck in real time.

00:41:55.000 And it was pretty delicious because Kamala Harris deserves every bit of what she's about to receive from both Biden and Tulsi Gabbard. 0.89

00:42:00.000 It's brutal.

00:42:01.000 Here is Kamala Harris leading it off. 0.84

00:42:03.000 Remember, she started it.

00:42:05.000 When you start a fight, you got to finish the fight.

00:42:05.000 She did not.

00:42:07.000 She started the fight. 1.00

00:42:08.000 She did not finish this fight.

00:42:09.000 Here was Harris going after Biden.

00:42:11.000 When Vice President Biden was in the United States Senate working with segregationists to oppose busing, which was the vehicle by which we would integrate America's public schools, had I been in the United States Senate at that time, I would have been completely on the other side of the aisle.

00:42:28.000 And let's be clear about this.

00:42:29.000 Had those segregationists their way, I would not be a member of the United States Senate.

00:42:34.000 Cory Booker would not be a member of the United States Senate.

00:42:36.000 And Barack Obama would not have been in a position to nominate him to the title he now holds.

00:42:41.000 Okay, so without federal busing, Barack Obama wouldn't have been president?

00:42:45.000 Sure.

00:42:46.000 Sure. 0.99

00:42:46.000 Okay, so here, and then Biden comes right back at her, and he points out, um, lady, you support the exact same busing policy that I do, and you're a hypocrite. 0.99

00:42:55.000 When Senator Harris was the Attorney General for eight years in the state of California, there were two of the most segregated school districts in the country, in Los Angeles and in San Francisco. 0.88

00:43:07.000 And she did not, I didn't see a single solitary time she brought a case against them to desegregate them.

00:43:13.000 Secondly, she also was in a situation where she had a police department when she was there that in fact was abusing people's rights. 0.64

00:43:21.000 Okay, so Biden sounds a little slow on the attack, right?

00:43:23.000 So, this is a damaging moment for Harris.

00:43:26.000 But then, apparently he deputizes Tulsi Gabbard.

00:43:29.000 They went in the back room somewhere, he swore her in.

00:43:31.000 And suddenly, this turned into the entire revenge montage from Tombstone.

00:43:37.000 Because Tulsi Gabbard...

00:43:39.000 My God.

00:43:40.000 Tulsi Gabbard brings the hammer about as hard as I've seen someone bring a hammer in a presidential debate since Chris Christie went after Marco Rubio.

00:43:47.000 This is brutal.

00:43:48.000 She takes a chainsaw to Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:43:50.000 Rhetorically speaking, obviously. 0.97

00:43:52.000 She just viciously murders her. 1.00

00:43:55.000 This is the meme from The Simpsons.

00:43:57.000 Stop it.

00:43:58.000 He's already dead.

00:43:58.000 Stop it.

00:43:59.000 I mean, that's what this is.

00:44:00.000 Watch Tulsi Gabbard go after Kamala Harris and Kamala Harris collapse into dust like the end of the first part of The Avengers.

00:44:08.000 It's unreal.

00:44:09.000 I want to bring the conversation back to the broken criminal justice system that is disproportionately negatively impacting black and brown people all across this country today.

00:44:20.000 Senator Harris says she's proud of her record as a prosecutor and that she'll be a prosecutor president, but I'm deeply concerned about this record.

00:44:28.000 There are too many examples to cite, but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana. 1.00

00:44:37.000 She blocked evidence.

00:44:39.000 She blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so.

00:44:46.000 She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California. 1.00

00:44:52.000 And she fought to keep the cash bail system in place. 1.00

00:44:56.000 That impacts poor people in the worst kind of way.

00:44:59.000 The bottom line is, Senator Harris, when you were in a position To make a difference and an impact in these people's lives, you did not.

00:45:06.000 And worse yet, in the case of those who were on death row, innocent people, you actually blocked evidence from being revealed that would have freed them until you were forced to do so.

00:45:17.000 There is no excuse for that.

00:45:18.000 And the people who suffered under your reign as prosecutor, you owe them an apology.

00:45:24.000 Oh, no.

00:45:28.000 - No. - And Kamala Harris is, she has the same tick as Hillary Clinton does, which is that when she gets caught out, she starts to laugh. 1.00

00:45:37.000 And you can see her starting to laugh right there.

00:45:39.000 It gets awkward, she starts to smile, she starts to laugh.

00:45:43.000 Ow-wee! 1.00

00:45:45.000 I don't know.

00:45:46.000 Have you guys seen that series on Amazon called Patriot?

00:45:49.000 One of the opening scenes is one of the characters standing next to another character on an empty street and then a truck starts to pass by and he just puts his hand behind the other characters back and throws him in front of the bus.

00:45:59.000 Throws him right in front of the truck.

00:46:01.000 Tulsi Gabbard to Kamala Harris.

00:46:04.000 Ow-wee! 1.00

00:46:05.000 Brutal.

00:46:06.000 And Kamala Harris has no comeback.

00:46:08.000 And that was really the story of this debate, right?

00:46:10.000 Joe Biden survives.

00:46:11.000 Not a lot of damage done to him.

00:46:12.000 I think he did some damage to himself in a couple of different areas, for example.

00:46:17.000 So I will say that there was one point where Joe Biden suggested that he was going to eliminate coal and fossil fuels and fracking in the United States, which that's not going to play in Pennsylvania, where this is still a major industry, both coal and fracking.

00:46:32.000 Here was Joe Biden saying that.

00:46:34.000 Thank you, Mr. Vice President.

00:46:35.000 Just to clarify, would there be any place for fossil fuels, including coal and fracking, in a Biden administration?

00:46:43.000 No.

00:46:44.000 We would work it out.

00:46:46.000 We would make sure it's eliminated and no more subsidies for either one of those.

00:46:51.000 Any fossil fuel.

00:46:52.000 Okay, so again, that may come back to haunt him.

00:46:55.000 But overall, not a horrible night for Joe Biden.

00:46:58.000 Horrible night.

00:46:59.000 For Kamala Harris.

00:47:00.000 Horrible night for Kamala Harris.

00:47:01.000 And also, a lot of rich veins of attack opened against Barack Obama and against Joe Biden by Democrats that would be better prosecuted, frankly, by Republicans than by Democrats.

00:47:10.000 So, bottom line is by the end of this debate, Kamala Harris is in serious trouble.

00:47:15.000 Kamala Harris's candidacy, I think, is about over.

00:47:17.000 I think that moment that she was having after the first debate is basically done.

00:47:20.000 And we've seen this in debates before.

00:47:22.000 And Carly Fiorina had a moment in the Republican primaries in 2016, where she sort of vaulted to the top, and then she receded back to the back.

00:47:28.000 And you're seeing the same thing happen with Kamala Harris, who had vaulted near the top, and then she receded all the way back down to 10%.

00:47:35.000 Last night was a very bad night for her.

00:47:37.000 Even CNN was pointing out what a bad night it was for Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:47:40.000 The CNN panel just shredded her. 0.92

00:47:41.000 This is clip 48 talking about Kamala Harris's performance last night.

00:47:46.000 She, I thought when she was attacked, I don't think she performed well.

00:47:51.000 And she was on the defensive quite a bit tonight, and it didn't help her.

00:47:57.000 Did anyone think she did a good job?

00:48:00.000 No.

00:48:00.000 What do you think about the job she did?

00:48:04.000 I think she spent a lot of her time attacking Joe Biden tonight and just being very just mean spirited almost in the way she was just constantly going after him. 0.98

00:48:18.000 Not that I mean.

00:48:20.000 So that turns you off a little bit.

00:48:22.000 Yes.

00:48:22.000 Just brutal.

00:48:24.000 I mean, the CNN panel ripping Kamala Harris apart. 0.93

00:48:27.000 And you can see Kamala Harris knew exactly what had happened.

00:48:29.000 After the debate, she was asked about Tulsi Gabbard, and she got incredibly defensive.

00:48:34.000 Incredibly defensive.

00:48:35.000 Here is Kamala Harris getting so defensive that it is extraordinarily off-putting.

00:48:39.000 The Kamala moment is over.

00:48:41.000 This is now becoming a Joe Biden versus Elizabeth Warren race, and it's doing so pretty quickly.

00:48:45.000 Here was Kamala Harris to Anderson Cooper trying to go after Tulsi Gabbard and instead punching herself in the face. 0.75

00:48:50.000 Did you expect that from Tulsi Gabbard?

00:48:54.000 Had you had interaction about that in the past?

00:48:57.000 And how do you think it went?

00:48:59.000 Well, I mean, listen, I This is going to sound immodest, but I'm obviously a top-tier candidate, and so I did expect that I would be on the stage and take hits tonight, because there are a lot of people that are trying to make the stage for the next debate.

00:49:12.000 Yeah, for a lot of them it's do or die.

00:49:14.000 Well, yeah, and especially when people are at zero or one percent or whatever she might be at.

00:49:18.000 Ow. 0.99

00:49:19.000 Okay, so that is not going to be good for Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:49:21.000 It makes her look like a jerk because, frankly, she's kind of a jerk. 1.00

00:49:23.000 So bad, bad night for Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:49:26.000 Bad night for Barack Obama.

00:49:27.000 Fairly good night for a Joe Biden who survives and moves on to our next elimination round.

00:49:32.000 So that is where we currently stand in the Democratic race.

00:49:36.000 Again, I think this is now shaping up pretty clearly as a Joe Biden versus Elizabeth Warren race.

00:49:40.000 As Elizabeth Warren, I think, continues to gain momentum.

00:49:43.000 The media keep propping her up.

00:49:44.000 They're tired of Bernie Sanders.

00:49:46.000 If the Bernie bros hold on, then Biden runs away with the nomination.

00:49:49.000 If the Bernie Bros hold on and Bernie continues to carry 20%, 15 to 20%, then Elizabeth Warren can't break free and even compete with Joe Biden. 0.98

00:49:56.000 They split the vote.

00:49:57.000 Biden runs up the middle, takes the nomination.

00:49:59.000 He's a dangerous candidate for Trump.

00:50:01.000 He's a dangerous candidate because he is not nearly as crazy as the other Democrats, because the American people have a generalized comfort level with old Joe.

00:50:09.000 He's not as energetic as Trump, but he's also not as controversial as Trump.

00:50:12.000 I've been saying for Literally since before the 2016 election that if the Democrats had run Biden, he probably would have won.

00:50:18.000 I think that Biden remains the most dangerous candidate for President Trump.

00:50:21.000 I think the Trump administration knows that as well.

00:50:24.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.

00:50:26.000 No things I like today.

00:50:27.000 We'll just do a quick thing that I hate and then we'll be out of here.

00:50:33.000 Okay, quick thing that I hate.

00:50:34.000 So I commented on this on the radio show yesterday, but didn't have a chance to on the podcast.

00:50:38.000 So Mario Lopez has now been canceled.

00:50:40.000 He's been ripped into by the left.

00:50:41.000 Why?

00:50:42.000 Because Mario Lopez, he engaged in a grave sin.

00:50:45.000 He suggested that three-year-olds can't choose their own gender.

00:50:48.000 Oh no!

00:50:49.000 Okay, my three-year-old cannot choose his food.

00:50:52.000 He cannot choose his underwear.

00:50:53.000 He cannot choose anything.

00:50:54.000 You know why?

00:50:55.000 Because he's three.

00:50:56.000 He is three years old.

00:50:58.000 And if you think that three-year-olds are capable of choosing their gender, That they are capable of deciding whether they are a male or a female when they are a biological male, for example? 0.99

00:51:05.000 You are out of your freaking mind and you should not be a parent. 0.99

00:51:08.000 It is that simple. 0.99

00:51:10.000 Now maybe that kid has problems that are going to, has gender dysphoria, or gender identity disorder, and maybe those are going to exacerbate as the kid gets older.

00:51:17.000 At three years old, the answer is no, you're a parent and your job is to provide a solid, innocent background for a child. 0.99

00:51:22.000 This is what Mario Lopez says, and then he's ripped, and then he's forced to sort of back off of it if he wants to keep his job, because we live in this idiotic cancel culture, where if you say something wrong, if you make a boo-boo, we throw you in the boo box from Hook. 0.98

00:51:35.000 We just throw you in there and we toss scorpions and snakes. 0.99

00:51:37.000 Mario Lopez said this.

00:51:38.000 You ready for this?

00:51:38.000 Here is his deeply offensive comment that had him trending number one on Twitter.

00:51:41.000 Quote, I'm trying to understand it myself.

00:51:44.000 Please don't lump me into that whole group.

00:51:45.000 I'm kind of blown away too.

00:51:46.000 Look, I'm never one to tell anyone how to parent their kid, obviously.

00:51:49.000 And I think if you come from a place of love, you really can't go wrong.

00:51:52.000 But at the same time, my God, if you're three years old and you're saying you're feeling a certain way or you think you're a boy or a girl or whatever the case may be, I think it's dangerous as a parent to make this determination then.

00:52:01.000 Well, okay, you're going to be a boy or a girl, whatever the case may be.

00:52:04.000 It's sort of alarming, and my gosh, I just think about the repercussions later on.

00:52:08.000 When you're a kid, you don't know anything about sexuality yet, you're just a kid.

00:52:11.000 Now people are saying, well that's conflate- Look at him, he doesn't understand gender theory.

00:52:14.000 He's conflating sexuality and gender identity.

00:52:17.000 No, he is saying that as you get older, one of the major components of your life is going to be how you treat your sexuality.

00:52:24.000 That has something to do with your biology and, for example, your hormonal development in your genitals. 0.56

00:52:28.000 You might want to know something about that before you make a decision. 0.99

00:52:31.000 Again, I won't let my three-year-old make decisions because he's smart for a three-year-old, which means he's dumb for an adult. 0.98

00:52:36.000 Because he's three. 0.97

00:52:38.000 One day he will be a smart adult.

00:52:40.000 Not today, man.

00:52:41.000 He's gonna try and jump in the pool without any sort of flotation device.

00:52:45.000 I'm not going to let it- If I left my son alone for two hours, he would be dead.

00:52:50.000 I'm not going to let him choose his gender. 0.97

00:52:52.000 Blair White, who is a transgender woman, meaning a biological male, who has gender identity disorder.

00:52:57.000 I've talked with Blair, we've had hour-long conversations on this particular issue.

00:53:02.000 Blair White tweeted out that if you have a three-year-old who you say is non-gender conforming, then that's like having a cat that is vegan.

00:53:10.000 We all know who's actually making the real decision there.

00:53:13.000 Okay, it is not the cat and it is not the three-year-old because three-year-olds are not capable of making decisions along these lines or basically any decisions at all. 0.99

00:53:20.000 Mario Lopez forced to apologize, of course, because this is the stupid world in which we live. 0.97

00:53:24.000 And people lied about what he said. 1.00

00:53:25.000 They said that he was saying you can't support transgender kids.

00:53:28.000 That's not what he said.

00:53:29.000 That's not what he said.

00:53:30.000 He said kids at three don't make decisions.

00:53:32.000 Duh.

00:53:33.000 Obviously true.

00:53:34.000 And by the way, if you let your kid at three make those sorts of decisions, you're a bad parent.

00:53:36.000 End of story.

00:53:37.000 Because kids at three do not make any... You wouldn't let your kid decide what to eat.

00:53:40.000 You wouldn't let your kid decide whether to go to school.

00:53:43.000 You wouldn't let your kid decide his bedtime hours.

00:53:45.000 You wouldn't let your kid decide his gender. 0.90

00:53:47.000 What nonsense. 1.00

00:53:48.000 What absolute sheer garbage and silliness. 0.98

00:53:50.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content. 0.88

00:53:53.000 Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.

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00:54:29.000 Well, the second round of the second Democrat debate is over, and our choice is clear.

00:54:34.000 Are we going to stick with mean, mean Mr. Donald Trump, who has restored the economy, kept the peace, and restored the Constitution, too?

00:54:42.000 Or are we going to go with a nice, compassionate, good-hearted Democrat who will destroy everything? 0.54

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The Ben Shapiro Show - August 01, 2019

Fight Night 2, Round 2: Harris KO'ed | Ep. 830

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