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00:02:01.000Good Trump, Bad Trump, which one will we get today?
00:02:06.000And now, because the President of the United States means that the news cycle is approximately 32 seconds long, we get plenty of both on any given day.
00:02:15.000Now, we used to have these little stick figure heads, and I'd put up the happy face for Trump, and I'd put up the sad face for Trump, but I didn't tell my producers to get that together, so that's not their fault.
00:02:23.000That one is on me, and we had a super late night.
00:02:25.000In any case, we begin with good Trump, because nobody is talking about the good Trump.
00:02:30.000The good Trump, as usual, is when it comes to policy.
00:02:33.000So as I have said since President Trump was elected, He has wildly surpassed my expectations in terms of policy.
00:02:39.000And the president actually has done some good policy things over the last 48, 72 hours.
00:02:44.000Now, all of that has been obscured, as we will see, by bad Trump.
00:02:47.000Because people pay a lot more attention to bad Trump than good Trump, because bad Trump is a lot louder.
00:02:53.000When your kids are good, you don't really notice them.
00:02:55.000When your kids are good, yeah, they're doing their homework, and they're reading books in their room, and they're not slamming their fingers into doors.
00:03:01.000You know, when they're doing that, you don't really notice them too much.
00:03:04.000But then when they're bad, then you really notice them a lot.
00:03:06.000Well, the same thing is true of presidents.
00:03:08.000So, let's talk about some of the good stuff that President Trump has been doing.
00:03:11.000So, finally, at long last, the Trump administration on Wednesday unveiled the regulation to allow it to indefinitely detain migrant families who illegally cross the border.
00:03:20.000I'm not saying it is wonderful to detain people who cross the border.
00:03:23.000I'm saying it is wonderful that we are changing the rules that created the necessity for family separation.
00:03:28.000So basically, the choice that was provided under law to the Trump administration, thanks to the so-called Flores Settlement in 1997 as amended by Obama administration regulations in 2015.
00:03:39.000The rules stated that if somebody came across the border with a family member, with a young child, the child could not be kept in custody with the parents for more than 20 days, which meant that you would have to separate the child from the parents if you wished to arrest the parents, or you would have to catch and release everybody.
00:03:56.000And this is why you've seen a dramatic skyrocketing number of families crossing the border, because if you're a parent and you want to be released into the general population, You should bring your child.
00:04:07.000You figure, okay, my kid will stay with my cousin.
00:04:10.000And then, after like two weeks, they will probably release me so that I can be with my kid because they don't want the bad optics of separating children from parents.
00:04:18.000Well, the Trump administration was dealing with that by saying, we're going to arrest everybody and if family separations occur, well, guess what?
00:04:25.000Everybody else in the United States, when they get arrested, They are separated from their kids.
00:04:30.000No different when it comes to illegal immigration and people illegally trying to claim, for example, asylum without being properly processed or trying to claim asylum when they are not actually eligible for asylum.
00:04:41.000Well, there was something that the Trump administration could always have done.
00:04:44.000It was under consideration for no good reason.
00:04:47.000It was delayed by the Department of Homeland Security.
00:04:49.000Now the Trump administration has come forward with a policy and the policy basically says they're going to create humane living conditions, which You need it, right?
00:05:02.000And they can do this by a shift in regulation.
00:05:04.000The rule replaces a decades-old court agreement that mandates a level of care for migrant children and limits how long the government can hold them in custody.
00:05:11.000For more than a year, the White House has pressed the Department of Homeland Security to find a way to eliminate the agreement, known as the Flores Settlement, which limits the time children can spend in detention and establishes minimum standards for holding facilities for families and children, according to The New York Times.
00:05:26.000Immigration hardliners inside the administration say the move is crucial to halting the flow of migrants across the southwestern border, which makes perfect sense.
00:05:34.000If it were not true that this were incentivizing families to cross the border, you would have not seen a skyrocketing number of families crossing the border.
00:05:40.000It would have been the same general population of illegal immigrants coming before, largely non-married men.
00:05:47.000That's who was crossing the border for a very long time in the United States.
00:05:50.000And then suddenly in the last few years, after the Obama administration put in place its regulatory response to Flores, the nature of the immigration shifted.
00:05:58.000And even the mainstream media were acknowledging that they were seeing a wild and crazy upswing in the number of families crossing the border.
00:06:16.000Critics say it is the latest in a series of policies by President Trump meant to close off the United States from the rest of the world.
00:06:21.000No, this is the latest in a series of policies by President Trump to enforce our immigration laws.
00:06:27.000If you cross the border, you should be held in detention until you are processed, and we should provide the proper methods to keep you in humane conditions.
00:06:34.000We should provide the proper resources to the courts so that we can process you quickly, and we can deport you if you need deportation, and so that you can be admitted if you deserve asylum.
00:06:43.000This entire process should be wildly expedited, and resources must be devoted to the border along these grounds.
00:06:50.000President Trump said on Wednesday, one of the things that will happen when they realize the borders are closing, the wall is being built, we are building tremendous numbers of miles of wall right now in different locations, it all comes together like a beautiful puzzle.
00:07:01.000Like a thousand piece beautiful puzzle of a rhinoceros.
00:07:05.000Speaking to reporters at the White House, President Trump asserted, the new rule would make it almost impossible for people to come into our country illegally.
00:07:13.000Well, it would certainly make it more difficult for people to be released into the country illegally.
00:07:17.000The catch and release programs that the Democrats have been pushing for basically allow people to be released into the country.
00:07:22.000They show up for their first court hearing and then a second court hearing is set.
00:07:26.000If they are not processed within a certain amount of time, they actually get an automatic visa.
00:07:30.000And then people just overstay the visa.
00:07:31.000And that's how you end up with folks in the United States for 10, 15 years overstaying a visa that they received because the system was too slow.
00:07:39.000The new regulation does require approval from a federal judge as well.
00:07:43.000Administration officials said they expected it to be immediately challenged in court once in effect, it would specifically abolish a 20 day limit on detaining families in immigration jails.
00:07:52.000A cap that President Trump has repeatedly complained has led to the catch and release of families, which, of course, is also true.
00:07:57.000Also, as I say, the other half of this regulation, which is good and necessary, is it establishes minimum necessities at detention centers because we don't need more stories of detainee children being kept under aluminum foil wrapping.
00:08:13.000People who come here should be treated humanely.
00:08:16.000Many of those people are going to end up becoming American citizens.
00:08:19.000Even if they weren't, they should be treated humanely, obviously.
00:08:22.000Kevin McAleenan said what this will do is substantially increase our ability to end the catch-and-release challenges that have fueled the crisis.
00:08:27.000He's the acting Secretary of Homeland Security.
00:08:29.000He said the regulation restores integrity to our immigration system, but provide high standards for the care of children.
00:08:36.000Naturally, people at the ACLU are calling this an attack on children.
00:08:39.000So just to get this straight, the ACLU believes it's an attack on children to separate them from their parents, but it's also an attack on children to not separate them from their parents.
00:08:47.000So the only solution, according to the ACLU, is, in fact, catch and release.
00:08:51.000Combine catch and release with the Democrats' proposal to get rid of criminal penalties for crossing the border illegally, and combine that in turn with the stated Democratic position by most of the major presidential candidates that they would not deport anyone in the United States illegally Who does not have a separate crime on record except for illegal immigration?
00:09:11.000And suddenly you're talking a full-on open borders regime.
00:09:13.000I mean that is what the ACLU and so many folks on the left are talking about when they say we're not pro open borders.
00:09:18.000Then they're going to have to explain how they can simultaneously hold that catch and release should be the generalized policy, that there should be no criminality attached to illegally crossing the border, and that nobody should be deported except If they commit a crime that is not illegally crossing the border.
00:09:40.000Former Homeland Security Secretary under Barack Obama, Jeh Johnson, said the same thing.
00:09:44.000So this is a good piece of policy from the Trump administration.
00:09:47.000And it's not getting a lot of coverage, specifically because it does cut against a lot of the media's narrative when it comes to illegal immigration.
00:09:54.000The New York Times obviously is covering it, but you haven't seen it too much on CNN or MSNBC.
00:09:59.000Because these regulations do include provisions about treating everybody humanely.
00:10:05.000So we'll have to see how the regulations are drawn.
00:10:08.000But if they do what they are supposed to do here, this is a good piece of policy by the Trump administration.
00:10:13.000Another good piece of policy by the Trump administration.
00:10:16.000So the Trump administration has now promulgated regulations surrounding Title 10 funding.
00:10:21.000And those regulations surrounding Title X funding say that if we give you money for a family planning program, that it can't be used for abortion.
00:10:28.000And that means that you have to have a separate facility where you're not providing abortions, and we will fund those.
00:10:33.000We're not going to provide the facilities where the abortions are happening.
00:10:37.000And we are not going to allow you to use the money fungibly.
00:10:40.000This has been one of the major critiques of Title 10.
00:10:43.000If you sign a giant check to Planned Parenthood and say, we want you to use this for birth control.
00:10:48.000And then Planned Parenthood says, we'll use it for birth control.
00:10:51.000And then they just use it to paint their building.
00:10:54.000Or they use it to pay their secretaries.
00:10:55.000That they are actually using the money to pay expenses that alleviate the cost of providing abortions.
00:11:03.000The taxpayer funding is in fact being used to pay abortions.
00:11:06.000I mean, the argument is basically that if you and your wife have a joint bank account, and you put all your money in the joint bank account, and your wife goes shopping, you are paying for her shopping.
00:11:15.000And vice versa, if your wife is the one who's the main breadwinner in your house.
00:11:19.000Well, if you are putting money into a slush fund for Planned Parenthood, and Planned Parenthood is performing lots of abortions, you are funding Planned Parenthood's abortions.
00:11:31.000The federal government cannot legally pay for most abortions, according to The Atlantic, but it does give money to abortion providers like Planned Parenthood for all sorts of other reproductive health services, especially for low-income women.
00:11:41.000For years, conservatives have been arguing that money is fungible, and if you cut a check to Planned Parenthood, it will be used for abortion.
00:11:47.000That's why the Trump administration took aim at Title X, a decades-old family planning program that provides money for low-income women to access birth control, cancer, and STD screenings, breast exams, and more.
00:11:58.000Under the new rule, Title X recipients are no longer allowed to provide women with information about where and how they can get an abortion, and they cannot encourage women to seek out the procedure.
00:12:07.000So if a woman comes in and she says, I want an abortion, they're not allowed to say, well, great idea, you should have one.
00:12:17.000They're not allowed to encourage abortion, and that's what Planned Parenthood has been doing.
00:12:20.000Planned Parenthood routinely encourages abortion, as opposed to providing a fulsome view of the choices available to a woman legally.
00:12:28.000That's why Planned Parenthood has long opposed the mandatory use of ultrasound before an abortion takes place, because it turns out that once women tend to see the living baby inside of them, they're much less apt to kill the living baby inside of them.
00:12:42.000A frequently asked question on the HHS website says that the rule permits, but does not require, non-directive counseling on abortion.
00:12:48.000Meaning that it doesn't say you have to tell women where they can get an abortion, but it allows you to counsel on abortion.
00:12:54.000It allows doctors to provide patients with complete factual information about all medical options, but Title X recipients may not encourage a patient to seek an abortion.
00:13:04.000It does not reduce family planning funding by a single dollar, it's just that basically Planned Parenthood is now withdrawn from Title X funding because they say we're not going to open a separate facility, we are not going to not direct people to have abortions, so we just won't take the $60 million of federal funding that was normally coming our way.
00:13:21.000On the HHS website, the administration directly calls out Planned Parenthood, which claims to serve 40% of all Title X recipients in the country.
00:13:28.000The website says, to the extent that Planned Parenthood claims that it must make burdensome changes to comply with the final rule, it is actually choosing to place a higher priority on the ability to refer for abortion instead of continuing to receive federal funds.
00:14:25.000The president's done a lot of really good things on policy.
00:14:27.000He's running his re-election campaign, at least in part, on this record.
00:14:30.000I wish he were running his whole re-election campaign on that record.
00:14:32.000But he's still chasing after one of his goals, which is to bring down the cost of prescription drug prices.
00:14:36.000A lot of folks on the left, the press, yes, even some big governments are making that kind of hard for President Trump to actually bring down those prices.
00:14:43.000The result is that, amazingly, some people in the Trump administration, in the name of claiming victory, want to adopt some of the left's socialistic top-down price control plans, which is not a good idea.
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00:14:58.000A lot of people have been talking price controls on drugs through Medicare.
00:16:45.000Trump does not help himself when he creates a feeling of chaos in a time when there should not be great feelings of chaos.
00:16:52.000We do not have a chaotic foreign policy situation on the horizon right now.
00:16:57.000We do not have a chaotic domestic economic situation right now.
00:17:01.000And yet there is this palpable feeling of chaos and it is forwarded by President Trump feeling the necessity every five minutes to sound off on whatever random thing he sees on the news that day.
00:17:41.000Well, apparently he's angry at Ford Motor Company because Ford Motor has backed a deal with California for stricter fuel economy standards.
00:17:51.000The state of California is creating its own state efficiency standards with regard to cars that can drive in California and are licensed to drive in California.
00:18:01.000And this means that Ford is figuring, OK, well, it is cheaper for us to produce those cars because California is a huge market.
00:18:08.000Well, Trump got really mad at this, and he started tweeting out about it.
00:18:24.000Trump tweeted out, Henry Ford would be very disappointed if he saw his modern-day descendants wanting to build a much more expensive car that is far less safe and doesn't work as well because execs don't want to fight California regulators.
00:18:36.000Car companies should know that when this administration's alternative is no longer available, California will squeeze them to a point of business ruin.
00:18:45.000Only reason California is now talking to them is because the feds are giving a far better alternative, which is much better for consumers.
00:18:52.000Now, I may not like California's fuel efficiency standards, but I understand why Ford Motor Company is saying to itself, we can't rely on President Trump loosening fuel efficiency standards for the next 18 months to build out our entire business line.
00:19:06.000It's possible he won't be president in 18 months.
00:19:09.000It is also quite possible that even if he is president in 18 months, he has a Democratic Congress or he changes his mind on fuel efficiency.
00:19:16.000Whatever the truth is on this, the chances that fuel efficiency standards are going to remain low in the United States are extremely low.
00:19:23.000So if you're the business person over at Ford, This is not a political thing.
00:19:28.000If you're the business person over at Ford and you have to put in place the technologies to develop new cars, why would you follow the temporarily loosened standards and fight the state of California when you understand that the long-range goals of the government, more generally speaking, are to crack down on your industry and make fuel efficiency higher rather than lower?
00:19:48.000Ford is one of four automakers, along with Honda, BMW, and Volkswagen, that reached a voluntary agreement with California on fuel efficiency rules, defying President Trump and his administration's effort to strip the state of the right to fight climate change by setting its own standards.
00:20:01.000The rules under the California plan are looser than the Obama-era regulations, but stricter than what Trump has proposed.
00:20:06.000And again, this is because if you're a business, you're going to hedge your bets.
00:20:09.000When government is this big, you hedge your bets.
00:20:12.000Trump said that the company founder, Henry Ford, would be very disappointed, Ford said in a statement it is focused on acting to protect the environment while also protecting the affordability of vehicles.
00:20:22.000Obviously there are a lot of new consumers who actually are sort of concerned about carbon emissions and they are looking for fuel efficiency as well.
00:20:27.000Turns out it is cheaper many times to get a fuel efficient car over the course of time.
00:20:32.000They said this agreement with California provides regulatory stability while reducing carbon emissions more than complying with two different standards.
00:20:41.000The business case is, why would we have a standard for California and a standard for the rest of the country, and design our factories to comply with both standards, as opposed to having one uniform standard?
00:20:51.000There's no evidence that existing fuel economy rules would degrade vehicle performance, as President Trump suggests.
00:20:56.000It is true that the cars will be lighter.
00:20:59.000I mean, that is sort of how this works.
00:21:00.000If you want a more fuel-efficient vehicle, the car can't be quite as heavy.
00:21:03.000But as we move to lighter cars on the road, pretty much all the cars on the road are lighter.
00:21:08.000This is why if you have a car from 1970, it looks like a tank right now.
00:21:12.000Whatever the case may be, is it beneficial for the president to be tweeting out about Henry Ford and creating a news cycle in which he's at war with one of America's iconic motor companies?
00:21:20.000Is this a great idea in the run-up to an election where he needs to win, hmm, like Michigan?
00:22:21.000Populations there like what are we talking about doing with Greenland that makes it so all fired important that we're now canceling state visits to Denmark.
00:22:29.000So President Trump is now in a personal spat with the Prime Minister of Denmark, which is just that's what we needed, right?
00:22:36.000I mean, I just talked about all the good policy Trump is pursuing.
00:22:38.000But certainly what makes the American people feel more safe and secure and solid is when the president is in a pissing match with the prime minister of Denmark because of all the cruel, inhumane states on planet Earth that we need to face down and look directly in the eye.
00:23:04.000President Trump on Wednesday lashed out at the Danish Prime Minister, met Frederiksen, saying the leader of the U.S.
00:23:09.000ally had made nasty comments about his interest in having the United States purchase Greenland.
00:23:13.000Trump announced on Tuesday night he was calling off a planned two-day visit to Copenhagen early next month over Frederiksen's refusal to entertain the sale of Greenland.
00:23:53.000In a second, we'll talk a little bit more about the bad Trump aspect of bad Trump, and then we'll get to the media treatment, which of course is bizarre and insane and should be an entire line of attack for President Trump going into 2020.
00:27:26.000So President Trump yesterday was talking about the economy.
00:27:28.000And there are, in fact, some economic reports that are not good for the president.
00:27:32.000There is a report that came out yesterday that said that the United States created half a million fewer jobs since 2018 than previously reported, according to new figures.
00:27:40.000So we dramatically overestimated the number of jobs that were created.
00:27:44.000As of 2018 and early 2019, the newly revised figures, according to Market Watch, indicate the economy didn't get a huge boost last year from the Trump tax cuts and higher federal spending.
00:27:55.000They also signaled that the economy is a bit weaker than previously believed and could give the Federal Reserve even greater reason to cut interest rates in September.
00:28:02.000I mean, really what it indicates, considering that wages have been going up, is that we may have maxed out the employment market just generally.
00:28:09.000We didn't create all that many new jobs because innovation remains kind of low, but the jobs that are there, there are a lot of people who, the employers are looking for people to fill those jobs.
00:28:19.000With that said, the revised numbers downward are really not good for Trump.
00:28:24.000It's the biggest revision downward since 2009.
00:28:28.000The annual benchmark revision is much larger, about three times larger than is typically the case.
00:28:32.000So President Trump is facing that headwind.
00:28:35.000It is also true that Trump is struggling to figure out exactly how to combat the possibility of an economic slowdown.
00:28:41.000He says there will be no more payroll tax cuts.
00:28:44.000So that had been floated by the White House, then unfloated by the White House, then floated by the White House again, apparently.
00:28:49.000He said the nation already had a strong economy.
00:28:51.000Trump's been sending mixed signals on all of this.
00:28:56.000President Trump has fought all of this by blaming the Federal Reserve.
00:29:00.000And so President Trump says, you know, the Federal Reserve is to blame.
00:29:02.000We need to lower the the interest rates.
00:29:05.000Again, this is not a message of solidity.
00:29:08.000You want a message that everything's fine, right?
00:29:10.000That is because everything is basically fine, right?
00:29:12.000But instead, President Trump is out there saying everything is fine.
00:29:15.000Also, the Federal Reserve should act like this is a crisis and cut the and cut the interest rates by 100 basis points, which is basically an emergency size Fed rate cut.
00:29:59.000They shouldn't have done the tightening, and they shouldn't have raised them to the extent — we could have had some raises, but nothing like they did.
00:30:39.000The United States is doing phenomenally well.
00:30:42.000But one thing I have to do is economically take on China.
00:30:46.000Because China has been ripping us off for many years.
00:30:49.000President Clinton, President Bush, and President Obama and others should have done this long before me.
00:30:56.000Okay, so Trump is not wrong that they're talking down the economy.
00:30:59.000By the way, the media are treating it like a great revelation when a president suggests that his political opposition is talking down the economy.
00:31:05.000Barack Obama said the same thing in 2012.
00:31:07.000He said that Republicans were talking down the economy when we were in the middle of this very, very weak recovery.
00:31:28.000Last time I went to the post office, I got a giant ticket because Los Angeles is governed like the garbage city that it's turned into.
00:31:33.000It's a city where if I were to sit outside the post office shooting heroin into my veins and crapping on the sidewalk, the cops would do nothing.
00:31:40.000But if I park outside in the red zone for more than five minutes, then I get a $120 ticket.
00:31:45.000That's what happened last time I was at the post office.
00:31:47.000Not me crapping on the sidewalk and doing heroin, me getting a parking ticket.
00:31:50.000Well, I'm no longer going to the post office.
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00:32:48.000We're going to get to why Trump is correct that Democrats are talking down the economy, why that's not a new narrative from a president, and then we'll get to how the media are really pushing hard for the Democratic narrative.
00:32:59.000You know, my friend Andrew Breitbart used to call it the Democrat media complex.
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00:33:45.000And if you've never seen a life-sized Leftist Tears Hot or Cold Tumbler, and when I say life-sized, I mean like the size of a human being, you should have come to our event last night.
00:33:52.000Where one of our producers was forced by us to don the costume of a Leftist Hears Hot or Cold Tumblr and go to war with a Louder With Crowder life-size mug.
00:34:03.000It was amusing to us, but not to the audience.
00:35:44.000Not trying to talk down the American economy.
00:35:49.000What we have done has made a difference.
00:35:52.000And that there's a huge gap between the rhetoric that's going on out there and the reality of success.
00:35:57.000Okay, so Obama's doing exactly the same thing circa 2012 that Donald Trump is doing today, but it's very, very bad when Donald Trump does it, according to the media.
00:36:20.000But right now, the fundamentals of the American economy remain pretty strong despite the downgrading of growth rates from last year.
00:36:27.000And the fact is that probably sometime in the next four years, there will be a recession because every 10 to 12 years in the United States, we have a recession.
00:36:50.000So you would expect that sometime in the next few years, there will be a recession.
00:36:54.000But the notion that we are on the verge of it because of Trump or something like that is just silly.
00:36:59.000But that's what the media are pushing at this point.
00:37:01.000They're pushing that narrative and they're pushing the Trump is wild man narrative.
00:37:05.000And so, when Trump gets angry at the media, he's not wrong.
00:37:08.000Now, pushing the Trump is a wild man narrative, the New York Times has an editorial today, and this is so rich, it is beyond believing.
00:37:14.000The New York Times has an editorial today called, Mr. Trump, stop questioning the loyalty of American Jews.
00:37:19.000This, of course, follows on the heels of President Trump suggesting that Jews who vote Democrat are disloyal.
00:37:25.000And as I explained yesterday, there are a couple of ways to read that that are a real problem, and then there's one way to read it that really is not a problem.
00:37:31.000And the way to read it that's not a problem is that Judaism is a philosophy and a religion and that that philosophy and religion has certain tenets that do not match up with the Democratic Party.
00:37:40.000I will continue to say that myself because it happens to be 100% true.
00:37:43.000Nonetheless, the New York Times suggesting that Trump is the great anti-Semite, the New York Times has spent the last several months defending At peril of its own credibility, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar.
00:37:56.000When Ilhan Omar said openly anti-Semitic things, the headline from the New York Times was, Ilhan Omar's criticism raises the question, is AIPAC too powerful?
00:38:05.000So just to get this straight, they're accusing Trump of engaging in dual loyalty smears in order to harm Jews because he's a brutal, vicious anti-Semite who happens to be the most pro-Israel president in American history.
00:38:17.000And also, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar are wonderful.
00:38:21.000This is gaslighting of the highest order.
00:38:23.000If you want to boil down the last 48 hours of Trump controversy, it goes on the Jewish thing.
00:38:47.000So spare me, New York Times, spare me.
00:38:50.000And by the way, spare me all of your talk about purity when it comes to your own publication.
00:38:57.000Breitbart has a big report today about a New York Times political editor with a years-long history of anti-Semitic and racist comments on his Twitter page.
00:39:06.000He's been a senior staff editor at the New York Times for more than five years, according to his LinkedIn page, and his Twitter page oversees the newspaper's political coverage.
00:39:14.000There are a bunch of tweets that he has sent out over the years.
00:39:16.000In 2010, he sent one out that said, I was going to say crappy Jew year, but one of my resolutions is to be less anti-Semitic.
00:39:56.000I've said it on the right side of the aisle about a bevy of figures.
00:39:59.000I don't think that it's a good tactic.
00:40:00.000However, the New York Times standard is not my standard.
00:40:03.000Their standard is that anybody should be able to be destroyed based on older material.
00:40:07.000So as a matter of mutually assured destruction, I don't think that it's inappropriate for the right to point this out.
00:40:12.000I would also say that the New York Times I'm going to take it with a large grain of salt when they start sounding off about anti-Semitism.
00:40:20.000Anderson Cooper was doing the same thing last night, again, pushing the narrative that everything is crazy inside the administration and Trump's an anti-Semite and it's all too wild.
00:40:28.000Here is Anderson Cooper blowing up at President Trump and Ivanka Trump in a way he never would have blown up at Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar and in fact did not.
00:40:35.000Nevertheless, the theme of disloyal American Jews from this president continues.
00:40:39.000Ivanka Trump must be very proud of her dad tonight, and you could probably just watch for an Ivanka leak in the coming days about how she tried to talk her father, you know, to change that kind of language.
00:41:03.000It's a move rarely seen because it might make voters think the person doing it is either A, unstable, B, not a genius, or C, truly has no idea what they are saying at any given moment or D, all of the above.
00:41:17.000Now, I think that this narrative is largely unfair when it comes to policy, but Trump cannot play directly into the teeth of that narrative and hope to win a victory.
00:41:27.000The whole goal of politics is to make it very hard to vote for your opponent and very easy to vote for you.
00:43:03.000For eight years, President Obama and Vice President Biden were an administration America could be proud of, our allies could trust, and our kids could look up to.
00:43:12.000Together, they worked to save the American economy It goes on like this, right?
00:43:16.000This is a smart tactic from Joe Biden.
00:43:17.000He's stapling himself to Obama's pate leg.
00:43:19.000Now, most Republicans, most conservatives are looking at this and going, this is a pretty sepia toned image of the Obama years.
00:43:26.000I'm not seeing a lot of pictures of Ferguson burning or Baltimore burning, not seeing a lot of pictures of what happened in Dallas with police officers, not seeing the slowest recovery in American history, not seeing us basically in open warfare with many of our key allies, including both Britain as well as Israel.
00:44:49.000And you're starting to see some of the Democrats actually understand this.
00:44:53.000Senator Bernie Sanders, even today, changed how his Medicare for All plan would work.
00:44:58.000He's now trying to appeal to union workers so that he can overcome Elizabeth Warren's challenge.
00:45:03.000He announced a key change to his Medicare for All insurance plan on Wednesday, a move meant to assuage fears on the part of organized labor, whose support is being heatedly sought by all of the candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination.
00:45:13.000Labor representatives had told Sanders his Medicare for All plan was killing their Cadillac plans.
00:45:17.000So naturally, Bernie is now going to exempt those plans.
00:45:20.000The change would effectively give organized labor more negotiating power than other consumers who would have under his plans.
00:45:25.000They get special treatment by forcing employers to pay out any money they save to union members and other benefits.
00:45:31.000So in other words, if companies have a union and taxpayer dollars now cover Medicare for all, the money over and above that which they are paying in taxes that would have gone to the union members in Cadillac benefits now must be paid through other forms to the union members.
00:45:44.000So he's going to give special goodies to the union members.
00:45:48.000And Democrats are now starting to make compromises with their key principles in order to be seen as the safe choice.
00:46:11.000They're promoting an abortion-on-demand, open borders agenda.
00:46:15.000They're promoting an agenda that would slash America's military to the bone again.
00:46:19.000They're proposing an agenda that would significantly hamper the growth of America's economy in the name of a non-negotiated climate deal that would not effectively lower the possibility of climate change over the course of the next century, because America's only responsible about 15% of the world's global carbon emissions.
00:47:13.000He has dropped out of the 2020 presidential race.
00:47:15.000He's going to run for governor of Washington again.
00:47:19.000His immediate family were the first to know, and also the only people to know, because nobody knew that Jay Inslee was running in the first place.
00:47:24.000He just kept showing up and shouting about climate change over and over.
00:47:28.000Jay Inslee is one of America's key heroes.
00:47:31.000We bid him a fond farewell by playing his theme music.
00:47:40.000Goodbye, Jay Inslee, who never pulled above 1%.
00:47:43.000But I love how the New York Times covers this.
00:47:45.000Governor Jay Inslee of Washington, who mounted a dogged presidential candidacy, raised the alarm about climate change, dropped out of the 2020 race Wednesday after struggling to earn a place in the next Democratic primary debate.
00:47:56.000Only the New York Times would describe a campaign that failed to garner 1% approval rating.
00:48:08.000Mr. Inslee plans to compete for a different office instead.
00:48:11.000He's already running for a third term as governor in 2020 in Washington state, even as Seattle declines into horror and irrelevance.
00:48:20.000While his presidential campaign had advanced the dialogue on climate change, Mr. Inslee said, he had concluded that the electoral obstacles before him were insurmountable.
00:48:28.000Inslee said in an interview Wednesday night on MSNBC, I'm not going to be the president, so I'm withdrawing tonight from the race.
00:48:37.000He said he's not going to endorse any other Democrat.
00:48:39.000Yeah, I'm sure that the Democrats are just clamoring for the Jay Inslee endorsement.
00:48:43.000Basically, he wants to be Secretary of the Interior.
00:48:45.000The announcement came only hours after Inslee released the sixth and final part of a climate plan that ballooned to about 200 pages.
00:48:51.000Can't imagine why he didn't pick up support.
00:48:54.000I'm going to help all the other candidates raise their level of ambition on this, Inslee said, adding, we need all of them to raise their game.
00:50:05.000Stephanie Oyen has dressed up as Elizabeth Warren for Halloween.
00:50:09.000So when she got ready to attend Warren's Minnesota rally... I thought I would just put on the blazer and go to the rally and get a couple little giggles.
00:50:16.000But instead of giggles... People just started turning, oh my God, it's Warren, it's Warren.
00:50:22.000It was really touching to see the number of people who had tears in their eyes.
00:50:25.000They had said things like, you're my hero.
00:50:27.000I felt terrible having to tell them that I wasn't the real Elizabeth Warren.
00:50:31.000Well, I mean, we don't need more than one.
00:50:33.000In fact, we don't even need one in the presidential race.
00:50:42.000If all of Iowa becomes Elizabeth Warren's, That you can only stand so many women in the local HOA meeting, scolding you about painting your front window sill.
00:50:54.000There are only so many people like that you can stand in a particular radius.
00:50:58.000And Elizabeth Warren is, every one of those people is Elizabeth Warren.
00:51:01.000Elizabeth Warren is the scold from your HOA.
00:51:04.000We can only have so many of those people in a particular radius before the entire earth implodes.
00:51:08.000That was, that was, this is basically turning into a horror story.
00:52:24.000We get down close to Los Angeles on the I-5, just getting off the Grapevine, and suddenly the traffic comes to a dead halt.
00:52:30.000And I mean a dead stop for an hour and a half.
00:52:32.000Everybody in the car is asleep, really enjoying themselves.
00:52:35.000I'm sitting behind the wheel, white knuckling it, moving six inches forward every 15 minutes or so.
00:52:40.000It's really a wonderful, wonderful experience.
00:52:42.000And after about an hour and a half of this, finally the traffic starts to move again.
00:52:46.000And as we move forward in the traffic, I look to see what is the crucial piece of work that had to be done at 1.30 in the morning that prevented me from getting to sleep until 3.30.
00:52:57.000And we start moving and I see that they've blocked off three of the four lanes and nothing is happening.
00:53:06.000They blocked it off presumably so that they could check a box and then tell people they'd been doing work because no work had been done.
00:53:12.000By this point, I was so frustrated and tired and angry that I rolled down my window and as we rolled forward, I reached out of the car and I picked up a traffic cone and I dumped it in my wife's lap.
00:53:23.000And my wife wakes up with a giant orange traffic cone in her lap.
00:53:27.000And she turns to me and she says, what the hell is this?
00:53:29.000And I said, I paid taxes in this state and I get nothing back except I get to sit in traffic for an hour and a half.
00:54:25.000Now, I will admit, as a man, I don't care about weddings.
00:54:29.000Like, I would have been fine marrying my wife civilly and religiously and doing it in, like, a small room and then having, like, a cake and going home and watching TV.
00:54:40.000And so, gentlemen in the audience, if you're getting married, stop trying to negotiate with your wife what the wedding is going to be like.
00:54:53.000I generally agree with the idea that you shouldn't spend $75,000, $100,000 on a wedding.
00:54:57.000Take that, put it on a down payment for a house, spend $10,000 on a wedding, do something perfectly serviceable at the local Holiday Inn Express, and it'll be fine.
00:55:07.000But, Matthew Iglesias has a different take.
00:55:09.000Because, again, he's the Ralph Wiggum of the internet.
00:55:12.000He says the government should try to do something.
00:55:14.000The government should try to do something to discourage expensive weddings and wedding related activities, which seems to cause a lot of stress in people's finances and interpersonal relationships and probably discourage people from getting married.
00:55:25.000We'd be way better off with the norm of cheaper weddings and the money repurposed for family vacations down the road.
00:55:32.000And I may agree that you put the money on a down payment.
00:55:35.000But I love that Matt Iglesias' first move always is the government should do something about it.
00:55:39.000You know, women who want to have nice weddings, the government should jail you probably.
00:55:43.000I feel like the government should punish you if you want to spend money on a nice wedding.
00:55:48.000Because the government knows better than you how you should get married.
00:55:51.000After all, isn't the government famous for promoting marriage by completely destroying the institution over the last 50 years?
00:55:58.000Man, this is the problem with so many folks on the left.
00:56:00.000They see something and they get angry at it and they're like, you know what would be an awesome thing?
00:56:03.000If we had a giant group of people paid for with tax dollars who could point a gun at somebody and make them do what I want.
00:56:09.000If you don't think that this is a sort of fascistic mindset that the government is supposed to cram down particular understandings of how you do weddings, I don't know what to tell you.
00:56:17.000If you want the government dictating how you ought to do your wedding, Man, don't live in America because that is not what this country was built for.