The Ben Shapiro Show - July 26, 2018


Good Trump, Bad Trump | Ep. 589

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Donald Trump Rod Rosenstein Barack Obama Jessica Valenti Vladimir Putin Errol Garner Neil Monroe Caitlin Collins Eric Holder Joe Crowley Good Trump Bad Trump Phil Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Jordan Peterson Mark Meadows Blue Apron Sarah Huckabee Sanders Jean-Claude Juncker Mike Pompeo and 42 more
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00:00:00.000 President Trump declares his trade war on hold, the White House cracks down on CNN, and Republicans go after Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
00:00:07.000 We'll talk about it.
00:00:08.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:00:08.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:15.000 Many a new piece of news will meet my eye.
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00:02:09.000 Okay, so yesterday was an epic day of Good Trump, Bad Trump, which is a great excuse for us to bring back our Good Trump, Bad Trump jingle.
00:02:16.000 We haven't done this in a long time, guys.
00:02:18.000 I'm excited.
00:02:19.000 Let's bring it back.
00:02:19.000 Good Trump, Bad Trump, guys.
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00:02:27.000 Every day is a mystery on Good Trump, Bad Trump.
00:02:29.000 You never know what you're going to find behind door number one or door number two.
00:02:33.000 Well, I've been talking for several weeks about the silliness of trade wars, about why you don't rally tariffs, why you don't increase tariffs in order to increase prices on your own citizens and increase prices on inputs and sink your own economy simply to punish other countries.
00:02:47.000 The president, however, likes tariffs a lot.
00:02:49.000 But yesterday,
00:02:50.000 He went weapons down with the EU.
00:02:52.000 So he tweeted out yesterday that he had made a deal with the EU.
00:02:55.000 He said, great meeting on trade today with Juncker EU.
00:02:58.000 Juncker, of course, is the head of the EU.
00:03:00.000 He says, we have come to a very strong understanding in all believers and are all believers in no tariffs, no barriers and no subsidies.
00:03:07.000 That would be Jean-Claude Juncker, by the way.
00:03:09.000 He says, work on documents has already started and the process is moving.
00:03:13.000 Along quickly.
00:03:14.000 European Union nations will be open to the United States and at the same time benefiting by everything we are doing for them.
00:03:19.000 There is great warmth and feeling in the room.
00:03:21.000 A breakthrough has been quickly made that nobody thought possible.
00:03:24.000 Actually, I mean, to be a little fair, pretty much everybody thought that was possible, so long as we just said, we're not going to raise our tariffs and you're not going to raise your tariffs and then we get to be friends again.
00:03:31.000 He says, great to be back on track with the European Union.
00:03:33.000 This was a big day for free and fair trade.
00:03:36.000 Now, it was a good day for free and fair trade.
00:03:39.000 One of the big questions here is whether it was Trump's tough talk with the EU that caused them to lower some of their tariffs on American products.
00:03:45.000 That is, I would say, unclear at best, just to be completely honest.
00:03:48.000 Now, I'm fine with the president
00:03:50.000 Leveraging and threatening if he gets them to lower their tariffs.
00:03:53.000 That is fine with me.
00:03:54.000 And then we lower our tariffs and everything's all better.
00:03:56.000 So I don't care.
00:03:57.000 That's fine.
00:03:57.000 I'm very pleased that the president has moved in this direction.
00:04:00.000 It was unclear this is the direction the president was going to move because on the one hand, he likes tariffs a lot.
00:04:04.000 He thinks tariffs are inherently good.
00:04:06.000 And on the other hand, he was saying, well, what we should all aim for is no tariffs.
00:04:10.000 So which was it?
00:04:11.000 Was this just a negotiating ploy or was this the president speaking his true feelings on tariffs and then his administration sort of fixing it in the back room?
00:04:19.000 Either way, the outcome is the same and the outcome is good.
00:04:21.000 The Wall Street Journal editorial board was very excited about this this morning.
00:04:24.000 They said the meeting on Trade Wednesday between President Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker had all the makings of a potential crackup, but in the event it provided the best economic news in weeks, financial markets were clearly pleased as stocks rose across the board before the closing bell on the statements by the two presidents after their White House session.
00:04:40.000 Call it a relief rally.
00:04:42.000 The two sides essentially declared a tariff truce, pending negotiations on a larger trade deal between the 28-nation European Union and the U.S.
00:04:49.000 Mr. Trump agreed to step back from his threat of 25% tariffs on European car imports, while the two sides pledged to resolve the current U.S.
00:04:55.000 steel and aluminum tariffs and Europe's retaliatory levies on U.S.
00:04:58.000 goods.
00:04:59.000 Europe also agreed to buy more soybeans immediately and much more liquefied natural gas from the United States in the future as its import capacity expands.
00:05:07.000 Particularly is a good thing that the EU is now going to import a bunch of American liquefied natural gas.
00:05:12.000 It cuts off the market for the Russians who are increasing their power and their influence in the European Union by shipping all sorts of natural gas to that area.
00:05:21.000 LNG export capacity is expected to nearly triple by 2020 to 9.6 billion cubic feet a day as more export terminals come online and the fracking boom continues.
00:05:31.000 Well, I wish that he would extend it to auto industrial goods.
00:05:34.000 I don't think that we should maintain all of these trade barriers with regard to autos and motorcycles.
00:05:48.000 But it is good that everybody is back at the table.
00:05:51.000 The Wall Street Journal points out that Europe has a 10% tariff on U.S.
00:05:54.000 made cars.
00:05:54.000 The U.S.
00:05:55.000 charges only 2.5% on cars made in Europe, but we charge a 25% tariff on imported trucks and Europe will want the United States to take that to zero, which won't please Ford and U.S.
00:06:04.000 companies.
00:06:05.000 Let's all hope that this is all honest and everybody wants to get to zero tariffs and zero subsidies and that we all want to get to a perfectly free trade scenario.
00:06:12.000 Now,
00:06:13.000 Was it President Trump that caused all this?
00:06:14.000 A lot of his champions today are saying that this was Trump at his very best.
00:06:18.000 This was Trump making a deal by raising tariffs, threatening the EU, and then the EU backing down.
00:06:22.000 Trump seems to believe the same thing.
00:06:23.000 Here's what he had to say yesterday in a hastily called press conference at the Rose Garden.
00:06:28.000 We've never done like we're doing, I can say from the standpoint of the United States.
00:06:33.000 We've never done this well, but we're going to do a lot better after we do this deal and other deals that we're currently working on.
00:06:41.000 I had the intention to make a deal today.
00:06:44.000 And we made a deal today.
00:06:47.000 So Trump is very, very happy, of course, because anytime somebody says that a deal was made, he's a happy camper.
00:06:51.000 President Trump, of course, is a dealmaker.
00:06:54.000 This is how he pictures himself.
00:06:55.000 And if a deal got made, the president gets credit for it, no matter what tactics he used in order to engage in it.
00:07:01.000 Now, did we actually have to threaten the EU with all these really high tariffs in order to get them to lower some of their barriers on soybeans?
00:07:07.000 Probably not.
00:07:08.000 The reality is that the EU just signed a massive trade deal with Japan, the United States could have been a part of.
00:07:13.000 There's a piece over at National Review by Matthew Rooney from just a couple of days ago talking about the deal between the EU and Japan.
00:07:18.000 He says this, How do we know that?
00:07:20.000 It was America's own strategy with the general post-war agreement on tariffs and trade.
00:07:23.000 That's GATT, NAFTA,
00:07:35.000 So why was the U.S.
00:07:35.000 missing from the table?
00:07:36.000 First, because we abandoned the Trans-Pacific Partnership, that'd be TPP.
00:07:39.000 There are problems with TPP, as negotiated by Barack Obama, but
00:07:57.000 I think it was a mistake, I said so at the time, to scrap TPP.
00:08:00.000 I think that instead, President Trump should have gone in and opened up some of those provisions to congressional approval, obviously.
00:08:06.000 Also, President Trump continues to muck about with NAFTA, and he's unclear on whether we are going to allow NAFTA to move forward or not.
00:08:14.000 Everybody else is creating these great trade blocs, and the United States is sort of picking and choosing trade deals, some of which are beneficial and some of which seem relatively minimal.
00:08:22.000 Nonetheless, this is good Trump, OK?
00:08:24.000 Bottom line is tariffs come down, trade barriers go away.
00:08:27.000 That is good Trump.
00:08:28.000 And President Trump gets credit for the EU lowering its trade barriers, even if I think that this sort of threatening language with regard to tariffs is unnecessary.
00:08:35.000 We'll also have to see the final product.
00:08:36.000 We will have to see the final product of the agreement.
00:08:38.000 We'll have to see the text.
00:08:39.000 Of the agreement.
00:08:40.000 We'll have to see whether the tariffs actually do come down.
00:08:42.000 So that, indeed, is good Trump.
00:08:44.000 More good Trump was the Trump administration, officials from the Trump administration, coming forward and making clear that American policy on Russia is not going to weaken anytime soon.
00:08:54.000 So we've been hearing ever since the Helsinki conference last week between President Trump and Vladimir Putin, we've been hearing that the president of the United States is weak on Russia.
00:09:02.000 He's in the pay of the Russians. 0.99
00:09:03.000 We hear this from Adam Schiff.
00:09:04.000 We hear this from various members of the Democratic caucus, that Trump
00:09:11.000 Well, that actually is not true, as evidenced by the policy of the administration.
00:09:15.000 Now, I suggested in the last couple of weeks that there is this massive gap between President Trump's rhetoric and the actions of his administration.
00:09:21.000 And it's one of the reasons, I think, that the left can't understand why so many conservatives support President Trump.
00:09:26.000 They say, well, President Trump says crazy things you'd never accept from Barack Obama.
00:09:30.000 And the answer is, right.
00:09:32.000 But then none of that stuff happens.
00:09:34.000 So when President Trump says a lot of nice things to Vladimir Putin,
00:09:37.000 None of it actually materializes.
00:09:39.000 Also, I do have to acknowledge that this is hilarious.
00:09:42.000 You know, when Vladimir Putin, the dictator of Russia, actually, you remember, he handed Donald Trump a soccer ball.
00:09:47.000 Do you remember this?
00:09:47.000 He handed him a soccer ball as a sort of memento that he was going to keep from this conference.
00:09:52.000 It turns out the soccer ball did indeed have embedded inside it a chip that allowed it to broadcast to cell phones in the area.
00:09:59.000 So it actually was a spy device, apparently.
00:10:01.000 There's a report that it was actually a spy device that was handed from Vladimir Putin.
00:10:05.000 To Donald Trump, but Donald Trump did not fall for it because Donald Trump knows soccer.
00:10:10.000 That's a man who knows his football right there.
00:10:11.000 So, does any of this, does any of Trump's rhetoric actually make a difference?
00:10:15.000 It's a serious question that we have to, that we have to answer with regard to all of these policies.
00:10:19.000 He talks tough on the EU, but then he signs a trade deal with them, which is good.
00:10:22.000 He talks weak on Russia, but then his administration is pretty harsh on Russia.
00:10:26.000 Mike Pompeo, who's the new Secretary of State, the new, the new and improved Secretary of State, he was testifying before Congress.
00:10:32.000 He says, listen,
00:10:33.000 We haven't changed our policy on the Russians invading Crimea and the Ukraine.
00:10:37.000 They need to get out.
00:10:38.000 Well, what about all the talk that this administration was the Manchurian candidate, that it was in the pay of Vladimir Putin?
00:10:44.000 Well, not so much.
00:10:44.000 Here's Mike Pompeo.
00:10:46.000 Today, the Trump administration is releasing what we're calling the Crimea Declaration.
00:10:50.000 One part reads as follows, quote, the United States calls on Russia to respect the principles to which it has long claimed to adhere and to end its occupation of Crimea.
00:10:58.000 OK, so all of that is good.
00:11:00.000 And then Pompeo continues to say, listen, we're not weak on Russia.
00:11:03.000 And he keeps saying we're weak on Russia.
00:11:05.000 We're not the Obama administration, guys.
00:11:06.000 Like, the president may say some stuff, but him saying stuff doesn't necessarily mean that's the stuff that's actually implemented.
00:11:12.000 It's important, Senator.
00:11:13.000 Comparison matters here, because there is a narrative that has developed that somehow President Trump is weak on Russia, when in fact the converse is true.
00:11:22.000 OK, and then Bob Menendez, the terrible senator from New Jersey,
00:11:27.000 He starts trying to go after Pompeo, suggesting, of course, that President Trump is indeed soft on Russia, and Pompeo just destroys him.
00:11:33.000 Senator, I'm telling you what he had a conversation with Vladimir Putin about, and I'm telling you what U.S.
00:11:39.000 policy is today.
00:11:40.000 I understand, Senator, I understand the game that you're playing.
00:11:42.000 No, no, you know, Mr. Secretary, with all due respect, I don't appreciate you characterizing my questions.
00:11:50.000 Okay, but I don't appreciate the questions characterizing the Trump administration as some sort of lackey institution for the Russians.
00:11:56.000 It's just a bunch of nonsense.
00:11:58.000 And in just a second, I'm going to explain why Trump's slight disconnect from his administration actually sometimes is a good thing.
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00:12:17.000 So, I have two kids under five.
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00:13:27.000 Okay, so.
00:13:28.000 President Trump's policies continue to be quite good, even if his rhetoric continues to be not so good.
00:13:33.000 Now, all we need is for his rhetoric to actually mirror his policies.
00:13:36.000 If President Trump's rhetoric mirrored his policies, he'd be in a lot better shape right now.
00:13:40.000 And I say this as somebody who wants the president of the United States to succeed, because I like a lot of the policies his administration is putting in place.
00:13:47.000 One of the problems, however, that I'm seeing is, and this is where the bad Trump comes in,
00:13:53.000 The president's rhetoric does matter when it comes to some of the polling data.
00:13:56.000 There was a poll yesterday that shows Democrats are now plus 12 in the congressional generic ballot.
00:14:01.000 That is not a good number.
00:14:02.000 There were two separate polls having Democrats up 12.
00:14:04.000 That means the Democrats not only take the House, there's a good shot they take the Senate as well.
00:14:07.000 There are Republicans who are now running behind in Arizona, which is insane.
00:14:10.000 They should not be running behind in Arizona where there's a very, very good candidate running, Martha McSally. 0.77
00:14:15.000 They should not be running behind in some of these other states.
00:14:18.000 They shouldn't be running behind Joe Manchin in West Virginia, the reddest state in America by Trump vote.
00:14:22.000 There's just no way this should be happening.
00:14:24.000 Trump's approval ratings are still where they were, but when you dig down, what you see is some trouble for President Trump.
00:14:31.000 There's a poll from NBC News today.
00:14:33.000 In Michigan, only 28% of voters say Donald Trump deserves re-election.
00:14:35.000 62% of voters say he does not deserve re-election, that someone else deserves a chance.
00:14:39.000 Those numbers are 30% pro, 60% con in Minnesota, 31% pro, 63% con in Wisconsin.
00:14:56.000 All of that—these are dangerous numbers for the president.
00:14:58.000 Now, the president can still win the next presidential election without winning Wisconsin, Minnesota, or Minnesota.
00:15:03.000 If he wins Pennsylvania and Ohio and Florida, he's okay.
00:15:05.000 But suffice it to say that if the president's policies were actually mirrored in his rhetoric, he'd be a lot more popular.
00:15:10.000 So I know a lot of his base thinks that his policies can only happen because of his rhetoric.
00:15:15.000 I hear.
00:15:16.000 I hear.
00:15:16.000 Listen, I hear the argument.
00:15:18.000 I just don't think that the argument happens to be particularly compelling.
00:15:20.000 I think that this president could get his policy done simply by saying what his policy is.
00:15:25.000 If he went to the EU and he said, listen, you guys are our friends.
00:15:27.000 Let's lower the tariffs. 0.63
00:15:28.000 And then they said no.
00:15:29.000 And then he said, OK, well, then we're going to have to ratchet up the pressure.
00:15:33.000 I think that would be a lot better.
00:15:34.000 Instead, he sort of preemptively ratchets up pressure because he likes tariffs, for example.
00:15:37.000 And then when the tariffs come down, it's unclear whether it was because of Trump's action or because we could have gotten this deal in the first place when it comes to Russia.
00:15:44.000 The president could say, listen, Russia meddled with the 2016 election.
00:15:47.000 It did not have an impact on the final outcome.
00:15:49.000 But we are going to stop all that because we are tougher on Russia than the prior administration was, no matter what the media have to say.
00:15:55.000 He could say all of those things.
00:15:56.000 The fact that he doesn't create suspicion in the mind of voters, that is unnecessary.
00:16:00.000 That is unnecessary and counterproductive and a waste of time.
00:16:04.000 So the president is doing himself no service with his rhetoric.
00:16:06.000 That's the bad Trump.
00:16:07.000 The good Trump is good things are getting done.
00:16:09.000 The bad Trump is he's saying bad things.
00:16:10.000 I know Trump supporters say, well, why do you care what he says?
00:16:13.000 Here's what he does instead.
00:16:14.000 If you care about him being re-elected, if you care about Republicans maintaining Congress, what he says matters too.
00:16:19.000 Okay, speaking of which...
00:16:21.000 Let's talk about some actual bad Trump yesterday.
00:16:24.000 So there's a big news story yesterday where a woman named Caitlin Collins, who works for CNN, she formerly worked for the Daily Caller, she was essentially barred from the White House. 0.55
00:16:33.000 She was denied access to an open press event in the Rose Garden.
00:16:36.000 Why?
00:16:36.000 Because she was the pool reporter earlier in the day and she asked President Trump some questions that apparently he didn't like.
00:16:42.000 According to CNN, they said, we demand better.
00:16:44.000 The network said Collins was told by Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications Bill Shine and Press Secretary Sarah Sanders that her questions were inappropriate.
00:16:51.000 Now, she was representing the White House press pool at the time.
00:16:53.000 The way this works, for folks who don't understand, is that it's not like a bevy of reporters just get to follow President Trump around.
00:16:59.000 There's usually one reporter who's assigned for part of the day to ask the president questions in sort of smaller areas, and that person's questions are then distributed with the answers to the entire press pool.
00:17:11.000 That's very, very common.
00:17:12.000 It happens at rallies all the time because all the networks basically agree that they're going to cooperate in asking these questions and then distributing the answers.
00:17:19.000 CNN says,
00:17:26.000 Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that Collins, quote, "...sorted questions and refused to leave, despite being asked repeatedly to do so."
00:17:32.000 Subsequently, our staff informed her she was not welcome to participate in the next event, but made clear that any other journalist from her network could attend.
00:17:39.000 She said it didn't matter to her because she hadn't planned to be there anyway.
00:17:41.000 To be clear, we support a free press and ask that everyone be respectful of the presidency and guests at the White House.
00:17:46.000 Here is Caitlin Collins talking about this yesterday on CNN.
00:17:50.000 This, of course, turned into a big blow up.
00:17:52.000 So I was blocked from attending an open press event here at the White House because the White House did not like the questions I posed to President Trump earlier in the day during an event in the Oval Office with the President of the European Commission.
00:18:04.000 Did Michael Cohen betray you?
00:18:07.000 Okay, so it was an open press event, and she was calling out some questions on behalf of the press pool, and then Trump basically booted her from a future White House press conference at the Rose Garden.
00:18:19.000 And this became a huge story, because the idea was, she asked tough questions, Trump didn't like it, and now they're going to prevent her from entering.
00:18:24.000 Now, Trump says it was because she was rude.
00:18:26.000 Well, if that were the case, then Jim Acosta should be barred for life from the White House.
00:18:29.000 I mean, the guy's rude every single day.
00:18:31.000 But that's not the way any of this should work.
00:18:33.000 Now, in the name of consistency, I think the press should be aggressive with the executive branch.
00:18:37.000 I like it when the press is aggressive with the executive branch.
00:18:40.000 I think that's their job.
00:18:42.000 And I think they should have been much more aggressive with Obama.
00:18:43.000 My critique is the double standard, that they weren't aggressive with Obama, and they were aggressive with President Bush, and they are aggressive with President Trump.
00:18:51.000 As a member of the White House press pool, Fox stands firmly with CNN on this issue of access.
00:18:54.000 So far, no response from the White House. 0.70
00:19:19.000 Okay, Brett Baier got all sorts of crap for this, but again, you should want a press asking questions.
00:19:24.000 Your real critique of the press should be that they didn't ask questions to Democrats, not that Republicans should be able to boot people. 0.87
00:19:29.000 Now, I'll show you an example of the double standard here with regard to the press coverage.
00:19:34.000 So, this was an event at the White House, and this person was called a heckler.
00:19:38.000 He's a transgender quote-unquote heckler who is present at some
00:19:43.000 Press conference that Obama was doing with Joe Biden, and this transgender reporter started asking questions about the deportation of LGBT immigrants, and Obama tossed the person to the cheers of members of the press. 0.94
00:19:55.000 Hold on a second.
00:20:00.000 OK, you know what?
00:20:02.000 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:20:05.000 Hey! 0.99
00:20:11.000 Listen, you're in my house.
00:20:14.000 Can we escort this person out?
00:20:16.000 Okay, and he had the person tossed.
00:20:18.000 Now, this was characterized as a heckler.
00:20:21.000 The same thing happened to Neil Munro.
00:20:22.000 You remember Neil Munro was a reporter for the Daily Caller, and at a White House press conference in the Rose Garden, Neil Munro called out a question to President Obama.
00:20:29.000 The entire press sided against Neil Munro, and Neil Munro was asked to apologize to the President of the United States.
00:20:35.000 My feeling is that the press should be as abrasive with the president as they feel like being.
00:20:38.000 I like the back and forth of politics.
00:20:40.000 I think that this sort of abrasiveness from the press is good, not bad.
00:20:43.000 I held that standard when Obama was president.
00:20:46.000 I hold that standard when President Trump is president.
00:20:48.000 This is a bad look for the White House, and it's something that they probably should not have done.
00:20:51.000 So that is some bad Trump right there.
00:20:54.000 I think it's easily fixable, but it creates a perception that Trump is not pro-free press, which I think is at least somewhat inaccurate.
00:21:02.000 Okay, in just a second,
00:21:04.000 I want to talk about some bad GOP because I think that some of my friends in the house, people I like, people who I know, are making a bad move in the House of Representatives.
00:21:11.000 I'll explain that in just a second.
00:21:12.000 And then I want to get to the craziest editorial of the day from the New York Times.
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00:22:25.000 Okay, meanwhile...
00:22:27.000 The GOP has decided to file articles of impeachment against Rod Rosenstein.
00:22:32.000 So Rod Rosenstein, who is the Deputy Attorney General, he's in hot water because a lot of the members of the House, the Republicans, are very upset that the Deputy Attorney General is not fast enough to turn over records from the DOJ with regard to, for example, the FISA application for Carter Page, as well as records of the Trump-Russia collusion investigation.
00:22:52.000 And they're very unhappy with the DOJ for all of this.
00:22:54.000 So yesterday, House Freedom Caucus leaders Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan, both of whom I'm friendly with, both of whom I like, escalated their fight with the Justice Department, introducing a resolution to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
00:23:05.000 The resolution is not a sign the House is about to vote to impeach Rosenstein, as House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte and House Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy, who have been pushing for documents from the DOJ, did not sign on.
00:23:17.000 The House is leaving for a month-long recess after Thursday.
00:23:19.000 This is the part where you start to say,
00:23:21.000 This looks like a publicity ploy.
00:23:22.000 And I say that with all due respect to representatives who I like and I'm friendly with.
00:23:26.000 It looks like a publicity ploy if you can't get an actual vote on the impeachment, if it just looks like, we're going to file for impeachment and then we won't hold a vote.
00:23:34.000 You know, if you're actually going to try and impeach somebody, you got to try and impeach them.
00:23:37.000 By the way, very few people have ever been impeached in the United States.
00:23:41.000 Like 19 people in the entire course of the history of the country have been actually impeached by the House.
00:23:46.000 And I think only eight have been convicted by the Senate and removed from office.
00:23:49.000 The resolution is the strongest step that conservative allies of President Trump have taken in their feud with Rosenstein and the Justice Department.
00:23:55.000 In a statement, Meadows said Rosenstein should be impeached because of the Justice Department's stonewalling of congressional subpoenas and hiding information from Congress and for signing one of the FISA Act
00:24:05.000 Well, that last excuse, right, that Rosenstein signed on to the FISA warrant renewal application, I find that uncompelling given that we don't actually know what's in that warrant application right now, right?
00:24:22.000 We've only seen the hundreds of pages of redactions, so we don't actually know what was in there.
00:24:26.000 So before you impeach a guy over signing a warrant renewal that may in fact not be bad, you may want to see what's behind the redactions.
00:24:32.000 There's also a bigger problem for the Republicans here.
00:24:35.000 And that bigger problem is pretty simple.
00:24:37.000 It turns out that Rod Rosenstein can be trumped.
00:24:40.000 Literally trumped.
00:24:41.000 President Trump can simply release all these documents tomorrow.
00:24:44.000 Rod Rosenstein is a member of the executive branch.
00:24:46.000 The DOJ is a department of the executive branch.
00:24:48.000 All Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan have to do is walk across the street to the White House, go into the Oval Office, and say, Mr. President, tell Rod Rosenstein that it's his job to release these documents or declassify them yourself.
00:25:00.000 Just go do that. 0.90
00:25:02.000 Trump hasn't done that, which suggests to me that there is something weird going on.
00:25:06.000 I've asked members of the House about this, like, why is it that President Trump doesn't just release this information?
00:25:10.000 And then members of the House, people like Devin Nunes will tell me, they will say, well, because President Trump doesn't want to interfere in the investigation.
00:25:17.000 So let me get this straight.
00:25:18.000 Congress is going to interfere in the investigation by going after members of the Trump cabinet, right, going after members of the Trump team, but Trump can't interfere in the investigation by releasing documents into public view?
00:25:29.000 That doesn't wash for me.
00:25:30.000 And I think that it's, I think it's, even Andrew McCarthy over at National Review, who's been a legal booster of the president in the Mueller investigation, he says basically the same thing.
00:25:38.000 He says, you know, going after Rosenstein is obviously of secondary consideration.
00:25:43.000 Plus, how's this going to go?
00:25:44.000 You impeach Rosenstein.
00:25:45.000 Let's say you get what you want.
00:25:46.000 Not going to happen.
00:25:46.000 Let's say you get what you want.
00:25:47.000 Rosenstein goes away.
00:25:48.000 And then President Trump nominates somebody new to fill that slot.
00:25:51.000 And then the Republicans approve that somebody new.
00:25:53.000 And that person walks through the front door and fires Bob Mueller.
00:25:56.000 You think the blowback's not going to be on Trump?
00:25:58.000 What do you think is going to cause more blowback?
00:25:59.000 Republicans impeaching Rosenstein, replacing him and having that person fire Mueller, or the President of the United States just declassifying documents so that the entire public can see them?
00:26:07.000 The answer, of course, is that the first is going to be significantly more burdensome to the future of a Trump presidency than the President just releasing all of these documents himself.
00:26:16.000 Also, it's worth noting, you know how many impeachment articles were filed against members of the Obama administration when Republicans were in charge of Congress?
00:26:23.000 Giant zero.
00:26:24.000 Giant zero.
00:26:25.000 Eric Holder was held in contempt by Congress, and theoretically, Congress could hold Rod Rosenstein in contempt.
00:26:30.000 Theoretically, they could hold him in jail beneath the House.
00:26:32.000 There actually is a jail beneath the House for holding people in contempt.
00:26:35.000 Really.
00:26:36.000 But if you're only going to file for contempt against Eric Holder, who is a lot worse than Rod Rosenstein, I'm not sure why Rosenstein gets impeached under a Republican president you can talk to, but Eric Holder, who considered himself Barack Obama's wingman, and on behalf of whom Barack Obama declared executive privilege, does not get impeached.
00:26:53.000 So Eric Holder, no impeachment.
00:26:55.000 Rod Rosenstein, impeachment.
00:26:57.000 I don't buy it.
00:26:58.000 I just don't.
00:26:59.000 Maybe there's a good excuse.
00:27:00.000 I have yet to hear it.
00:27:02.000 I haven't seen enough on this that makes me feel comfortable with what the Republicans are doing here. 0.98
00:27:06.000 Now, speaking of stupid moves, there's an article in the New York Times today from the excorable Jessica Valenti. 0.98
00:27:12.000 I know it's a word I use too much, excorable, but so many people are just full of it. 0.99
00:27:16.000 Jessica Valenti is the author of six books on feminism, which makes her just a drag at parties, gotta tell you. 1.00
00:27:21.000 But she is the author most recently of the memoir, Sex Object,
00:27:26.000 Which is weird.
00:27:27.000 And she has a piece in the New York Times today called, What Feminists Can Do for Boys. 0.59
00:27:31.000 Now, this could actually be a three-word editorial.
00:27:33.000 What feminists could do for boys. 1.00
00:27:35.000 Leave them alone.
00:27:36.000 Right?
00:27:36.000 And then we could actually just all move on with our lives, but that's not what Jessica Valenti wants us to do.
00:27:40.000 Jessica Valenti thinks that we should not leave the boys alone.
00:27:44.000 Feminists must teach boys to be feminists. 1.00
00:27:47.000 Teach boys not to rape. 0.97
00:27:49.000 Teach boys to be little girls, basically. 0.57
00:27:51.000 I mean, that's really what this editorial says.
00:27:53.000 So, she writes this.
00:27:55.000 One of the many political ironies of our time is that feminism's most powerful cultural moment has coincided with the rise of extreme misogyny. 1.00
00:28:02.000 While women protest, run for office, and embrace the movement for gender equality in record numbers, a generation of young, mostly white men are being radicalized into believing that their problems stem from women's progress.
00:28:12.000 Well, no.
00:28:14.000 I don't think that men believe that women in the workplace is a real problem or women being able to choose what they want to do with their sex lives.
00:28:22.000 I don't think there are a lot of young men who object to that, frankly.
00:28:24.000 I don't think there are a lot of men who are sitting around thinking, man, these women, I wish they'd go back to the kitchen. 0.99
00:28:30.000 This is a feminist canard that all of us are sitting here going, yeah, you know what? 1.00
00:28:33.000 I wish my wife were barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. 1.00
00:28:35.000 It turns out that my wife can be barefoot, pregnant in the kitchen and work a full-time job as a doctor. 1.00
00:28:39.000 Wow, lots of things happening right there.
00:28:41.000 It turns out she doesn't like wearing slippers. 0.94
00:28:42.000 That's not my fault.
00:28:43.000 She wants to wear slippers in the kitchen while cooking. 1.00
00:28:45.000 And then I'll help her cook.
00:28:46.000 And then she goes and she is a doctor saving people's lives.
00:28:48.000 That's fine.
00:28:49.000 That's fine.
00:28:50.000 But there's this idea from the feminist left that young men who feel emasculated by the feminist movement, they feel emasculated because they fear women's empowerment.
00:28:59.000 I don't fear women's empowerment. 0.95
00:29:00.000 I fear emasculation.
00:29:02.000 Like a lot of people fear emasculation.
00:29:03.000 I fear the idea that feminists actually want men not to protect women. 1.00
00:29:07.000 They want men not to be masculine.
00:29:08.000 They want men not to be men and have responsibilities for taking care of women and children.
00:29:13.000 They want to read masculinity out of the world.
00:29:16.000 And then they are surprised when men object to this.
00:29:19.000 And I'm going to talk a little bit more about this in just one second.
00:29:21.000 We'll continue with Jessica Valenti's horrible op-ed in the New York Times in just a second.
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00:32:36.000 Alrighty, so continuing on with our good friend Jessica Valenti.
00:32:39.000 She says, Whether it's misogynist terrorism, the rash of young men feeling sexually entitled to women, or the persistent stereotype of real men as powerful and violent, it's never been clearer that American boys are in desperate need of intervention.
00:32:51.000 They are in desperate need of intervention because you have robbed them of purpose.
00:32:53.000 As I've said many times, when feminists say things like, teach boys not to rape, 1.00
00:32:58.000 You know, I'm, I think, a pretty good guy.
00:33:00.000 When I say a pretty good guy, I don't mean I'm nice to people because, come on, I'm not nice to people.
00:33:03.000 But I'm... The reality is that I was a virgin until I was married.
00:33:08.000 I have very high sexual standards for myself, and I did all the way up until the time that I was married.
00:33:14.000 I am a... I've been married for 10 years already.
00:33:18.000 I have two children under the age of five.
00:33:20.000 I spend an awful lot of time with them.
00:33:21.000 Every single day, I take care of them.
00:33:22.000 I provide for them.
00:33:23.000 I protect them.
00:33:24.000 I make sure I know how to protect them.
00:33:26.000 Right?
00:33:26.000 This is the stuff a man should do.
00:33:28.000 When my father was bringing me up, my father never sat me down and said, Ben, don't rape.
00:33:33.000 Because no one has ever said that in the history of humanity.
00:33:36.000 It's like saying to someone, son, don't murder.
00:33:39.000 No one says that.
00:33:40.000 What your father teaches you, what your parents teach you, is to be a good person.
00:33:43.000 And what that means is taking responsibility for others.
00:33:46.000 It's answering the question that is asked by Cain in the book of Genesis.
00:33:49.000 Am I my brother's keeper?
00:33:50.000 And the answer is, you are your brother's keeper, and you are your sister's keeper, and you are taught that you are to protect yourself, and your family, and your civilization, right?
00:33:57.000 These are the things that make good men.
00:33:59.000 Men who are robbed of purpose become destructive.
00:34:01.000 Men who are robbed of purpose turn that aggression outward.
00:34:04.000 Men who are robbed of purpose tend to hurt others in ways that they are not even thinking about.
00:34:08.000 They tend to treat other people as objects.
00:34:11.000 You want to know why men are treating young women as objects? 0.88
00:34:13.000 Because they've not been taught that they are supposed to have responsibility for those women.
00:34:17.000 I don't mean they're supposed to own them.
00:34:19.000 I don't mean they're supposed to control them.
00:34:21.000 I mean, they're taught that they're supposed to protect women.
00:34:23.000 If you're not taught to protect women, if you have a bunch of young men who are never taught that their job is to protect women, and they are taught that instead, women are just these things out there, and you treat them as you would treat other things, then you shouldn't be surprised when men treat women as objects, which is a great, great evil.
00:34:37.000 But feminists get this all wrong. 1.00
00:34:39.000 So Valenti says, though feminists have always recognized the anguish that boys face in a patriarchal system.
00:34:44.000 Anguish?
00:34:45.000 We haven't built the same structures of support for boys that we have for girls.
00:34:48.000 If we want to stop young men from being taken in by sexism, that has to change.
00:34:52.000 Well, first you have to define sexism.
00:34:53.000 The feminist left has an unfortunate tendency to define sexism as treating women nicely, like opening a door for a woman, picking up the tab, saying that a woman looks pretty today. 0.71
00:35:03.000 These are terrible, terrible sins.
00:35:05.000 One of feminism's biggest successes, according to Valenti, was creating an alternative culture for girls and women seeking respite from mainstream constraints. 1.00
00:35:12.000 Girls worried about unrealistic beauty standards, for example, can turn to the body positivity movement. 1.00
00:35:17.000 Those of us who find traditional media's treatment of women unappealing can read feminist blogs and magazines.
00:35:21.000 Female college students who have critical questions about how gender shapes their lives can take women's studies classes. 1.00
00:35:26.000 All of these things make women less happy. 1.00
00:35:29.000 I mean, I'm just...
00:35:31.000 All of these things.
00:35:32.000 The idea that women get happier by taking women's studies classes.
00:35:34.000 I've never seen unhappier groups of people than women who takes women's studies classes. 0.84
00:35:40.000 Seriously, that is not a happy group of people.
00:35:41.000 It's a general rule.
00:35:44.000 Just saying.
00:35:45.000 Okay?
00:35:45.000 Also...
00:35:46.000 Let's be clear about the unrealistic body image standards.
00:35:49.000 You know who buys women's magazines? 1.00
00:35:51.000 Women. 0.81
00:35:52.000 Not men. 0.69
00:35:53.000 Men are not making those magazines.
00:35:54.000 Men are not buying those magazines.
00:35:55.000 You know who runs the makeup industry?
00:35:58.000 Billions and billions of dollars?
00:35:59.000 It ain't men.
00:36:00.000 Men don't care. 1.00
00:36:01.000 Ask your boyfriend or your husband.
00:36:03.000 Ladies, ask your boyfriend or your husband next time you spend a hundred bucks on getting your nails done. 1.00
00:36:07.000 They will not even notice.
00:36:09.000 Men don't even care. 1.00
00:36:10.000 Men don't notice. 0.90
00:36:11.000 Okay, this is women judging other women. 1.00
00:36:13.000 Dirty little secret.
00:36:13.000 Women judge other women a lot more than men judge women.
00:36:16.000 Really?
00:36:17.000 From social media campaigns to after-school equality clubs, feminism has birthed dozens of online and real-life spaces where girls can find alternatives to the sexist status quo. 1.00
00:36:27.000 But boys and young men who are struggling have no equivalent culture.
00:36:31.000 As Sarah Rich recently wrote in The Atlantic, while society is chipping away at giving girls broader access to life possibilities, it isn't presenting boys with a full continuum of how they can be in the world.
00:36:41.000 This gap has made boys susceptible
00:36:42.000 To misogynist hucksters peddling get-manly-quick platitudes in dangerous online extremist communities.
00:36:46.000 Who does she use as her example? 1.00
00:36:48.000 Jordan Peterson, of course.
00:36:50.000 My friend Jordan Peterson.
00:36:51.000 He's the example of toxic masculinity.
00:36:53.000 A guy who is married, who has kids, who doesn't regularly get into fights or rape people.
00:36:57.000 He is the great... A guy whose main takeaway, his literal main takeaway to boys is clean up your room.
00:37:04.000 That's literally his takeaway.
00:37:05.000 He's toxic masculinity.
00:37:07.000 Why?
00:37:08.000 Well, because he does not call students by their preferred pronouns.
00:37:11.000 And he says that men are in charge because they're better suited for it.
00:37:13.000 OK, he has never said that.
00:37:14.000 What he has said is that there are hierarchies of competence in virtually every area of life and that in a free system, those hierarchies are not going to be evenly distributed in any area.
00:37:23.000 In some areas, women will do better. 1.00
00:37:24.000 In some areas, men will do better.
00:37:25.000 This is absolutely true on every level.
00:37:27.000 It's always been true in a free country.
00:37:29.000 There will be hierarchies of competence because there are in every area of life.
00:37:33.000 There are hierarchies of competence in basketball.
00:37:35.000 I fail at that hierarchy of competence.
00:37:37.000 That is not because of racism or sexism.
00:37:39.000 Some of Mr. Peterson's other claims, Valenti says, include the idea that sexual harassment wouldn't be such a problem if women didn't wear makeup to work.
00:37:46.000 He has never said that.
00:37:47.000 And that enforced monogamy would stop young men from committing mass murder.
00:37:50.000 He has never said that either.
00:37:51.000 Again, we covered this on the show a few weeks ago. 1.00
00:37:54.000 Absolutely idiotic. 0.99
00:37:56.000 What he actually said is that a system that encourages monogamy is going to end up with a more evenly distributed sexual distribution of partners than a system where a few men get a lot of women, for example. 1.00
00:38:07.000 But he doesn't say the government should force women to get married to a man and men should... Like, he doesn't say any of that stuff.
00:38:12.000 It's just made up.
00:38:13.000 Online misogynist communities offer similarly dangerous advice to young men distressed over sexual rejection.
00:38:18.000 Instead of teaching them, says Jessica Valenti, that their value has nothing to do with their sexual experience or that they are simply not entitled to sexual attention no matter how badly they want it, incel forums tell boys that the real problem is women's freedom.
00:38:29.000 If women didn't have a choice, they say, any man could have sex with whomever he liked. 1.00
00:38:32.000 Okay, well, I myself have critiqued the incel community exactly this way, saying that if you actually want to get a woman, perhaps you ought to act better. 0.91
00:38:39.000 Perhaps you ought to aim for marriage and commitment and responsibility, rather than just aiming for random sex.
00:38:44.000 But the feminist movement doesn't agree with that, because they think that marriage and responsibility are impediments to freedom. 1.00
00:38:49.000 I think that they are the greatest indicator that you have a societal basis for freedom.
00:38:54.000 And Jessica Valenti continues, she says Instead, what we need is
00:39:09.000 is a new sort of system, a new support system.
00:39:12.000 It says white male leaders in government corporations and institutions vastly outnumber women. 1.00
00:39:15.000 Men have more cultural and economic power than women. 0.99
00:39:18.000 But until we grapple with how to stop misogynists themselves, starting with ensuring boys don't grow up to be one, women will never be free. 1.00
00:39:23.000 And then she offers no actual solutions except for we should have women's studies classes that teach men not to be men. 0.96
00:39:28.000 So solid solution there.
00:39:30.000 I can't imagine why men are running screaming away from away from the feminist movement. 0.64
00:39:34.000 Just I can't imagine it.
00:39:36.000 Now, speaking of men running screaming away from the feminist movement, I gotta tell you about this insane paper. 0.92
00:39:41.000 It's really funny.
00:39:42.000 This insane paper from an author named Helen Wilson.
00:39:46.000 It's a peer-reviewed journal.
00:39:48.000 Okay, it's a peer-reviewed journal in an actual feminist academic journal. 1.00
00:39:53.000 And the article is titled, I kid you not, Human Reactions to Rape Culture and Queer Performativity at Urban Dog Parks in Portland, Oregon. 0.51
00:40:05.000 Let me read that again. 1.00
00:40:06.000 I can't even get it out, it's so stupid. 1.00
00:40:08.000 So the dogs are sexist. 1.00
00:40:25.000 According to Wilson, this is not a joke.
00:40:27.000 According to Cassie Dillon over at Daily Wire, dog parks are just the place to observe toxic masculinity and heterosexuality. 0.91
00:40:43.000 According to Wilson, dog parks are oppressive spaces that lock both human and animals into hegemonic patterns of gender conformity, adding oppressive patriarchal norms reach their zenith in dog parks.
00:40:55.000 And then it gets even where nobody can actually say whether this woman has a Ph.D.
00:40:59.000 She says she has a Ph.D.
00:41:00.000 in feminist studies and is the lead researcher for the Portland Ungendering Research Initiative. 0.98
00:41:06.000 So, the academic journal is called the Journal of Feminist Geography. 0.54
00:41:09.000 I can't believe this is real.
00:41:10.000 I mean, if this is real, it's just unbelievable. 0.96
00:41:13.000 Maybe one of the reasons that heterosexuality is the norm in dog parks is because dogs, in order to reproduce, have to have sex with other dogs of different sex.
00:41:21.000 I'm not sure how these dogs actually self-identify, but I don't think it matters at the dog park because everything is terrible and weird.
00:41:29.000 So, just well done, everyone.
00:41:31.000 Why don't we take women's studies more seriously, folks? 1.00
00:41:34.000 Why don't we take feminism more seriously? 1.00
00:41:35.000 Nobody knows. 1.00
00:41:36.000 Speaking of idiotic ideas from the left, Israel is under a lot of flack lately. 0.99
00:41:42.000 The state of Israel is under a lot of flack because they pushed through a new law calling Israel the nation-state of the Jewish people. 0.99
00:41:47.000 Now, I was unaware that Israel was not the nation-state of the Jewish people.
00:41:50.000 In the Declaration of Independence of the state of Israel, it says it's the nation-state for the Jewish people.
00:41:54.000 It is called the Jewish state.
00:41:55.000 There's a reason that it was called that.
00:41:57.000 The reason that the parliament actually passed this law is because the courts in Israel are even more leftist than they are in the United States, and there were a bunch of attempts by the Supreme Court of the State of Israel to essentially rewrite all of the basic laws in Israel to not make Israel a Jewish state.
00:42:11.000 Now, there have been a lot of people who say Israel is ethnocentrist because it's a Jewish state.
00:42:15.000 Israel is not ethnocentrist unless you consider Latvia ethnocentrist, unless you consider France ethnocentrist. 0.66
00:42:21.000 There are lots of countries that are made for the people who are in them.
00:42:24.000 America is a land for Americans.
00:42:25.000 Now what's great about America is you can become an American.
00:42:27.000 What's great about Israel is that you can become a citizen and become a Jew. 0.98
00:42:32.000 Judaism is not something that you are only born with.
00:42:34.000 You can actually convert into becoming a Jew. 0.79
00:42:36.000 I also noticed that all the people who are very upset with the idea of a Jewish state have no problem whatsoever with a Palestinian state that will be run under Islamic law and will have zero Jews living in it, whereas 20% of all people living in the state of Israel are actually Arab.
00:42:48.000 And 20% of people living in Israel are Arab, and the vast majority of those people are Muslim.
00:42:53.000 And in fact, when asked, Israeli Arabs do not want to leave Israel and move into the non-existent state of Palestine.
00:42:58.000 They don't want to leave and move into a Muslim country because they have it better in Israel. 1.00
00:43:01.000 But an article in the New York Times says Israel is terrible because democracy and Judaism cannot coexist.
00:43:07.000 Weird how you're allowed to say that in the pages of the New York Times, but you can't say that Islam and democracy can't coexist.
00:43:12.000 So just to get this straight, according to the left, Christianity and democracy can't coexist, even though they have coexisted and democracy was basically born inside Christian countries.
00:43:21.000 Judaism and democracy can't coexist, even though Israel is in fact a Jewish and democratic state. 0.96
00:43:25.000 But Islam and democracy can coexist, even though there are precisely zero actual major Islamic democracies.
00:43:32.000 Like serious Islamic democracies. 0.96
00:43:33.000 The closest thing that you might have is something like Indonesia, even though there are significant restrictions on democracy.
00:43:39.000 But according to the New York Times, it's very, very bad that Israel says that it is now a nation state of the Jewish people.
00:43:45.000 Israel also made Hebrew its official language, which originally it was, I guess, Hebrew and Arabic and English, but that was a holdover from British Palestine mandate.
00:43:54.000 So they have said that Hebrew is the official language, but these other two languages are given quasi-official status. 0.90
00:44:00.000 So now Israel is apparently evil, evil, evil, evil. 0.99
00:44:02.000 It's really amazing. 0.86
00:44:04.000 This editorial in the New York Times suggests that the nation-state law is terrible.
00:44:10.000 They say that Judaism cannot coexist because the minute that Judaism and democracy are attempting to coexist, then you are writing non-Jews out of the Declaration of Israel's Independence and the State of Israel.
00:44:20.000 That is simply not true.
00:44:21.000 Arab parties sit in Israeli's parliament.
00:44:23.000 The only thing that this really does, in reality, is prevent the Supreme Court of the State of Israel from cramming down a bunch of leftism that would undermine the identity of the State of Israel in order to promote a leftist view of what the State of Israel ought to be.
00:44:35.000 OK, so we're going to get to now some things I like and then we'll do some things I hate and then we'll get out of here.
00:44:40.000 So things I like.
00:44:40.000 We've been doing jazz all week.
00:44:42.000 One of the great jazz pianists of all time is a guy named Errol Garner.
00:44:45.000 You probably don't know Errol Garner's stuff because much older pianist, but terrific, terrific jazz pianist.
00:44:52.000 This is from a cut.
00:44:54.000 They can't take that away from me.
00:44:55.000 And it really is fantastic.
00:44:56.000 The album is Concert by the Sea and Errol Garner is the pianist.
00:45:23.000 So it really swings.
00:45:27.000 He was also famous for the fact that he was very short in stature.
00:45:31.000 He was five foot two.
00:45:32.000 He used to perform sitting on multiple telephone directories.
00:45:34.000 I have sympathy.
00:45:35.000 So Errol Garner, go listen to that.
00:45:38.000 That album's great.
00:45:38.000 Concert by the Sea, Errol Garner, it really is terrific.
00:45:41.000 Other things that I like, you know, good news never gets enough attention, and this I thought was a great story.
00:45:45.000 So a police officer was confronted with a homeless man who wanted to go in for a job interview.
00:45:52.000 The man was named Phil.
00:45:53.000 He reportedly went to a McDonald's in Tallahassee to apply for a job, but he was told he couldn't be hired unless he shaved his beard.
00:45:58.000 Phil started shaving his thick beard in a gas station parking lot without a mirror, and then Officer Tony Carlson came up.
00:46:04.000 He saw the man struggling, so he came by.
00:46:06.000 He tightened the screw on Phil's razor and then proceeded to shave Phil's face for him, and somebody captured this video and it went viral.
00:46:12.000 Here's what it looked like.
00:46:15.000 Yeah, you can't really hear it, but what you can see is this police officer who's actually shaving this homeless man so he can go in and apply for a job.
00:46:21.000 And the officer said, if he's wanting to help himself, I need to be more careful, more than careful, and try to help him out the best that I can.
00:46:29.000 Just a great story of human beings helping other human beings.
00:46:32.000 You only see the stories about the police when the police are shooting somebody.
00:46:35.000 You never see the stories about how often the police actually help people.
00:46:38.000 A lot of great police officers out there doing a lot of wonderful things.
00:46:41.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:46:46.000 So, Representative Joe Crowley, not long for Congress because he was defeated in a primary by everybody's favorite socialist, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:46:54.000 I am getting better at saying her name.
00:46:55.000 Joe Crowley came out yesterday and he said that he has an idea.
00:46:58.000 You know, where Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez merely says that ICE should be abolished, Joe Crowley says we should pay the families of illegal immigrants.
00:47:07.000 Yes, really, this is a thing that happened in real life.
00:47:10.000 I suggest they need to be compensated for what this administration did to them.
00:47:15.000 The first form of compensation needs to be the full reunification of these families.
00:47:22.000 Okay, so reunify the families, fine, but then we should pay them?
00:47:25.000 They crossed the border illegally and then cost us a lot of money.
00:47:29.000 How?
00:47:30.000 What?
00:47:31.000 Why?
00:47:31.000 Where?
00:47:31.000 When?
00:47:32.000 How?
00:47:32.000 Who?
00:47:32.000 I mean, none of this makes any sense, but it is obvious right now that members of both parties, but particularly Democrats, are really catering to a hardcore radical base.
00:47:41.000 And the more radical you are, the more popular you are, which is why Maxine Waters, who is a full-fledged nutjob, is now anti-Maxine inside the Democratic Party.
00:47:49.000 This is why, you know, when I said earlier in the show that I think President Obama, President Trump rather, needs to do better with the rhetoric, because Democrats cannot be allowed to win Congress.
00:47:57.000 If Democrats win Congress, if they win the Senate, there won't be any judges, there won't be anything good that gets done, it'll be a bunch of radical proposals and investigations for the next two years.
00:48:05.000 And if Trump loses re-election on the back of that, and you have a Democratic president with Democrats in the House and Senate, look for things to get wild and terrible as fast as humanly possible.
00:48:13.000 The pendulum swings in this country, and it swung to the right for a bit.
00:48:16.000 And we've got to be very careful it doesn't swing back to the left, because when it does, it's going to swing back to people like Joe Crowley and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her democratic socialism.
00:48:24.000 So we've got to be very, very careful here.
00:48:26.000 OK, we'll be back here tomorrow with all the latest news updates.
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