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00:00:00.000Rudy Giuliani flubs his landing, we examine the midterm races, and the President of the United States goes after 3D gun printing and the Koch brothers.
00:00:12.000One of the beautiful things about living in the Donald Trump news cycle is that every morning, the president begins the news cycle anew.
00:00:17.000So, I do show prep a lot the night before, and then I wake up in the morning and it's an entirely new show prep, which is really exciting because that means there's a lot to talk about and a lot to do.
00:00:25.000We'll get to all of that in just a second.
00:00:27.000First, let's talk about your Second Amendment rights.
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00:01:33.000Also, I just want to remind you, you've heard, I know, that we're taking the Ben Shapiro Show live this August to audiences in Dallas and Phoenix, but you should know we are now two weeks away from those events and we are almost entirely sold out.
00:01:43.000So if you haven't gotten your tickets yet, you pretty much have to do it now or you're going to miss it entirely.
00:01:46.000And then you're just going to be sad, right?
00:01:47.000You're going to be sitting around weeping to yourself thinking, why, God, why?
00:02:07.000Has now come out with a bizarre tweet in which he attacks 3D gun printing.
00:02:12.000Now, listen, the president does a lot of very good things on policy.
00:02:16.000And then he says a lot of stuff on Twitter.
00:02:17.000As I've said before, the president is fond of the saying of the things.
00:02:20.000Well, the president decided to go on Twitter and sounds off about 3D gun printing this morning based on essentially no knowledge of 3D gun printing.
00:02:35.000That's not what 3D gun printing is, okay?
00:02:38.000Seriously, if you think that 3D gun printing is John Malkovich in In the Line of Fire, making plastic guns in his basement, that's not what 3D gun printing actually is.
00:02:48.000Steven Gutowski of the Washington Free Beacon points out that it is easy and legal to find gun blueprints online, and it should be, because otherwise, you have to crack down on the internet.
00:02:56.000You have to crack down on people's use of the internet to put out blueprints for guns.
00:03:01.000That's silly, it's ineffective, it doesn't work.
00:03:03.000And Gutowsky also points out the vast majority of 3D printed gun designs are not undetectable to metal detectors because that's actually illegal.
00:03:11.000The ban on the creation of such weapons was extended to 2023 under the Undetectable Firearms Act, so you're not allowed to actually manufacture a plastic gun that can move through a metal detector.
00:03:22.000Also, 3D printed guns are made of metal.
00:03:24.000Okay, they're actually made of metal, the vast majority of them.
00:03:28.000It's just a 3D printer that uses metal in order to carve out the parts, and the vast majority of people who are using gun blueprints online to build their guns are buying the constituent parts from gun manufacturers in the first place.
00:03:38.000It's not like they're sitting around and spending $100,000 on a 3D printer, which is what a good 3D printer costs.
00:03:44.000Why in the world would you go and get all the materials for a 3D printer to make an AR-15 in your basement
00:03:58.000The media put out all this misinformation on the threat of 3D guns.
00:04:01.000People sitting in their basements putting together these guns by getting their HP laser jet printer from 1997 and then printing out a bunch of guns they put together and go assassinate people.
00:04:18.000They're not nearly as accurate as manufactured weapons.
00:04:20.000You can't fire them all that many times before they start to fall apart.
00:04:24.000Laws attempting to crack down on this stuff are foolhardy.
00:04:26.000But this is why the president shouldn't be tweeting about these issues, because all it does is create blood in the water for gun control Democrats.
00:04:33.000Speaking of which, talking of blood in the water for Democrats, the president has attacked now the Koch brothers.
00:04:39.000The reason he's attacking the Koch brothers is because the Koch brothers do not like his tariffs.
00:04:43.000So the Koch brothers, for those who don't know, are these brothers who run Koch Industries, which is essentially, I believe, a natural gas and oil industry.
00:04:52.000And the Koch brothers are worth something on the order of $80 billion.
00:04:56.000They're worth some enormous amount of money.
00:04:58.000And they've used a lot of this money to promote various causes, political and non-political.
00:05:02.000They've given money to a variety of charities.
00:06:41.000I was on Laura Ingraham's show last night,
00:06:43.000And Laura is much more of a trade restrictionist than I am.
00:06:46.000She brought this up, and she was suggesting that it's Trump's trade policy that makes him so popular in places like Michigan and Ohio and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
00:06:53.000I don't actually think that's the case.
00:06:55.000I think that President Trump sounding off about tariffs sounds like he's pro-manufacturing, and so a lot of people resonate to that.
00:07:01.000On a sort of emotional level, but the truth is that Trump's tariff policy has actually hurt a lot of these manufacturing centers a lot more than it's helped these manufacturing centers because a lot of the companies that manufacture things have to use imports as inputs.
00:07:13.000They're importing steel from the EU or from Canada, and then they're using that in their production of trucks.
00:07:19.000Or they have parts that are coming in from China and they're using that in the production of their final product and tariffs hurt those companies.
00:07:25.000What the president is very good at is expressing sympathy for these folks who are losing their jobs.
00:07:29.000I do think there's a cultural battle that the president has engaged in, in which
00:07:34.000I think he has an innate sympathy for people who do blue-collar work in the Rust Belt in a way that Democrats do not.
00:07:39.000The Democrats, as I talked about on the show a few weeks ago, have a lot of innate sympathy for the New York Daily News reporters who are being laid off.
00:07:45.000They think those jobs are deeply, deeply important.
00:07:48.000But the factory worker in Ohio, they don't really care too much about that guy.
00:08:17.000Millions of dollars that they've placed into job retraining programs in order to create skill sets for people who are moving out of industries that are falling apart and being out-competed.
00:08:25.000I don't think tariff policy is the best solution for that.
00:08:28.000The president's attacking the Koch brothers.
00:08:30.000I'm not sure how that is politically effective.
00:08:32.000And this is why the sort of circular firing squad that the president sometimes engages in is not particularly a bright move.
00:08:39.000I just don't think that's particularly smart.
00:08:40.000Speaking of not particularly smart, the president on Twitter, like really, if the president just didn't tweet, you know how popular he'd be right now?
00:08:46.000I know there are a lot of people in Trump's support base who believe that what makes Trump popular is his Twitter.
00:08:51.000And I think with some folks in the base, that's true.
00:09:13.000Tendency to run on at the tweet is not going to hurt him with people in the middle if he stops doing it so much, right?
00:09:19.000The diarrhea of the Twitter is not helpful to him with people who are in the middle of the country or in the middle of the political spectrum.
00:09:27.000So the president this morning, not only does he go off on 3D guns, again, wrong, or go off on the Koch brothers, again, I think overstated and wrong, even if I disagree with the Koch brothers on some of their immigration policy,
00:09:38.000Not only that, the president sounds it off on collusion.
00:09:41.000Now, as we mentioned yesterday on the show, Rudy Giuliani
00:09:46.000But Rudy Giuliani, yesterday, he was speaking on CNN, and he talked about how collusion was not a crime.
00:09:52.000And I said yesterday, this is not a smart legal strategy.
00:09:55.000It is just not smart to go out there talking about how collusion is not a crime in the middle of you making the case that the president didn't engage in collusion in the first place.
00:10:03.000And then Giuliani botched it even worse yesterday.
00:10:06.000He went on Fox News to try and explain himself, and he made things significantly worse by hinting at the possibility of a second meeting
00:10:13.000Within the Trump campaign, about the meeting between Donald Trump Jr.
00:10:16.000and Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian-connected lawyer who is supposedly going to present Clinton-Oppo research to the Trump campaign, Giuliani called in to Fox News, and then he proceeded to just bosh things dramatically.
00:10:28.000Here was Giuliani talking to the ladies of Outnumbered.
00:10:34.000One of which has leaked out, the other of which has been given to three reporters, and Jay Sekul and I have been successful, I think, in beating it back.
00:10:42.000There wasn't another meeting that has been leaked that hasn't been public yet.
00:10:48.000That was a meeting, an alleged meeting, three days before.
00:10:52.000According to Cohen, or according to the leak, maybe Cohen will withdraw this.
00:10:59.000And the two publications are not going to publish it.
00:11:01.000I think they've found independent contradiction.
00:11:04.000OK, so here's what Giuliani, I think, is trying to say, is that there is the meeting in Trump Tower between Donald Trump Jr.
00:11:10.000and Jared Kushner and a bunch of members of the Trump campaign and this Russian-connected lawyer.
00:11:15.000And now, that was meeting number one, and now Giuliani is sort of letting it slip on Fox News that there's an accusation that there was a second meeting three days before about this primary meeting.
00:11:24.000Well, we didn't know about that until Giuliani went on national TV and talked about it.
00:11:28.000And then he said, well, that meeting didn't happen.
00:11:30.000So then why are you talking about that meeting?
00:11:31.000Like, we didn't know about it until you just said it one second ago.
00:11:34.000So I don't know why Rudy Giuliani is doing this.
00:11:37.000I don't know whether he's just confused about the issues.
00:11:40.000I don't know whether he has coined his own version of law.
00:13:26.000I thank John for all the cooperation he gave them because he puts us in a position where we don't have to cooperate.
00:13:32.000Given some of the revelations in the last three or four weeks, we've been driven further away from the idea of answering any questions from them.
00:13:38.000We don't think they have a legitimate investigation.
00:13:41.000OK, so we're not going to answer any questions now.
00:13:43.000If you want to look innocent, this is probably not the smartest way to do it.
00:13:47.000And then Trump decides to double down on Giuliani's strategy.
00:14:08.000If it turns out that the Trump campaign was coordinating with the Russians to affect the election, that's probably a campaign finance violation.
00:14:35.000And I think that this is just not good PR.
00:14:36.000Listen, I actually sort of believe Trump, at least so far, because I don't see the evidence that he was involved in any sort of campaign collusion, that he knew about coordination with the Russians, or that he himself was coordinating with the Russians, or even that the campaign actively coordinated with the Russians, other than, you know, wanting to.
00:14:52.000I don't see the actual evidence that they did so.
00:14:54.000But for Trump to say this sort of stuff is not great.
00:14:56.000And then for him to finish up that tweet with, Hillary colluded, but you just said collusion isn't a crime.
00:16:18.000Well, if Rudy Giuliani were doing his job right now, he would be saying to the president, Mr. President, stop, just stop.
00:16:23.000Like, I'm going to make sure that you're OK here, but you really need to stop with the tweeting because that's what any lawyer worth his salt would be doing.
00:16:31.000I'm sort of surprised that Giuliani hasn't done more of that, frankly.
00:16:34.000Okay, so how is this having any impact on the midterm elections?
00:16:38.000Let's talk about where we stand just a few weeks away from the midterm elections.
00:17:00.000I understand that polls were not accurate with regard to President Trump.
00:17:03.000That does not mean you shouldn't look at the warning signs and think maybe the Republicans need to do something a little bit better leading up to the elections.
00:17:10.000According to the New York Times, they have this comprehensive look at the battleground seats.
00:17:15.000He says, the battleground in the fight for control of the House is starting to come into focus with 99 days to go until the November election.
00:17:21.000It's not exactly the battleground that analysts expected.
00:17:23.000It's not dominated by well-educated suburban districts that voted for Hillary Clinton.
00:17:27.000Instead, the battleground is broad, and it includes a long list of working class and rural districts that voted for President Trump in 2016.
00:17:34.000The broader battleground is a positive development for Democrats.
00:17:37.000It's a reflection of how much the Republicans' structural advantage in the House has eroded over the last year, while remains of it isn't helping the Republicans as much as analysts assumed it would be, at least not yet.
00:17:47.000So they looked at the various districts that are assumed to be competitive by Cook Political Report, and what they are finding is that white districts are heavily Republican, obviously.
00:17:56.000Black districts are very heavily Democrat.
00:17:58.000Hispanic districts are very heavily Democrat.
00:18:01.000Districts with college graduates are very heavily Democrat.
00:18:04.000Rural districts are very heavily Democrat.
00:18:06.000Suburban districts are heavily Republican.
00:18:08.000So there is this really interesting divide.
00:18:11.000The broader battleground has also opened up a gap between two common ways of thinking about the midterms, says Nate Cohn.
00:18:15.000National polls and historical voting patterns suggest that Democrats are only slight favorites to take the House.
00:18:20.000Well, early polls of individual districts, special election results, and the ratings of expert prognosticators suggest that the Democrats are in a stronger position.
00:18:28.000To this point, we've mainly seen polls of the generic congressional ballot, which asks voters whether they intend to vote Democrat or Republican.
00:18:34.000Democrats have generally led on this ballot by six to eight percentage points over the last few months, which is around what analysts believe Democrats need to have an even shot of retaking the chamber.
00:18:42.000The Republicans still have structural advantages, but there have been a flurry of Republican retirements, which has led to 42 open seats.
00:18:48.000Many of them the sort of well-trenched and entrenched incumbents in competitive districts whose retirements are most valuable for Democrats.
00:18:55.000On paper, the Republicans still have a big geographic advantage.
00:18:58.000There are only nine Republican-held districts that voted more favorably for Democrats in the last two presidential elections than the rest of the country did.
00:19:05.000But that advantage doesn't seem to be helping the Republicans as much as it has been in past presidential cycles.
00:19:11.000Democrats are putting conservative districts into play because the overall national political environment is more favorable to Democrats than the generic ballot polls imply.
00:19:19.000It's also possible that the district's presidential vote choice will play a smaller-than-expected role in determining how a district will vote for the House, which makes sense.
00:19:26.000There's been a very broad gap in 2010 and 2014 between the presidential year ballots and the off-year election ballots.
00:19:33.000A lot of that has to do with enthusiasm.
00:19:35.000Trump voters aren't going to show up when Trump isn't on the ballot.
00:19:37.000There's a lot of enthusiasm among Republicans for Trump himself.
00:19:40.000Is there as much enthusiasm for their local congresspeople?
00:19:44.000And the same thing is obviously true for Democrats.
00:19:46.000All the places where people were really enthusiastic to get out there for Hillary Clinton, they're not showing up either.
00:19:51.000What that means is that the vote totals are reverting to a sort of norm that you see in off-year elections.
00:19:56.000Now, when Democrats are in charge, that means that Republicans are more fired up to go out and vote.
00:20:00.000When Republicans are in charge, Democrats, presumably, are more fired up to vote.
00:20:05.000So, the most vulnerable Republican-held districts are only somewhat better educated and somewhat more suburban than the country as a whole.
00:20:11.000They are broadly representative of non-urban America.
00:20:14.000About 31% of residents have a college degree, slightly more than the national average.
00:20:19.000But the sheer number of competitive districts is important in its own right.
00:20:23.000On paper, it would be enough to make Democrats fairly clear favorites if one assumes Democrats do well in each category, as the party out of power has done in recent wave elections.
00:20:31.000This is what I've been suggesting is that the president's, you know, kind of hot button approach to issues, it could actually fire up the Democrats.
00:20:41.000It could be that the Democrats are so upset with President Trump that they go out and they vote in large numbers in these congressional elections.
00:20:47.000And that could be a serious problem for Republicans in these election races.
00:20:52.000Now, again, maybe all the polls are wrong.
00:20:55.000Maybe it doesn't end up being as bad as it looks like it's going to be right now.
00:20:59.000But to sort of ignore the data, I think would be a fairly large mistake at this point in time.
00:21:04.000Okay, meanwhile, we're going to talk about the President of the United States and what he has to say about the government shutdown, because this is part of his election strategy in just a second.
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00:22:12.000I mean, that's essentially the way that they save their money.
00:22:40.000Meanwhile, the president is trying to gin up the base with a lot of the immigration talk.
00:22:43.000The problem is that it's not clear the president is supremely credible when it comes to the idea that he is going to hold fast on the immigration issue.
00:22:51.000So the president yesterday said that he is willing to do a government shutdown over the immigration issue, over wall funding, but he has no red line, which means that he really isn't willing to shut down the government, but he's sort of signaling that he is.
00:23:03.000So what exactly is this supposed to mean?
00:23:26.000If you don't have a red line, if there's no point at which you're willing to say no, then you don't mean that you're going to veto a bill that comes down that doesn't have the border wall funding.
00:23:34.000There are folks like Ann Coulter who have been stumping for the wall.
00:23:36.000This has been her chief goal in life, is to get President Trump to build this wall.
00:23:39.000This wall has not been built, and the President does have to hold Congress's feet to the fire.
00:23:43.000The President does actually have to say to Congress, listen, you send me a bill I don't like, I will veto it.
00:23:57.000The Hill is reporting right now that President Trump has privately agreed with congressional Republicans to delay the fight over funding for his border wall until after the November midterm elections, despite his public statements expressing a willingness to shut down the government over the issue, an administration official is telling the Wall Street Journal.
00:24:11.000So in other words, Trump is saying that he's willing to do a government shutdown, but he's not really willing to do a government shutdown.
00:24:19.000Now, this is where Trump is at odds with some congressional Republicans like Mitch McConnell.
00:24:23.000McConnell thinks government shutdowns are always bad for Republicans.
00:24:43.000I thought you were the party of limited government.
00:24:44.000I thought you were the party that said that the government was not the be-all end-all.
00:24:48.000And yet, here we are, suggesting that it is the be-all end-all, and if the government shuts down, everyone is going to die, and it's going to be the worst thing that ever happened.
00:24:56.000This is how you end up with Republicans spending insane, insane amounts of money.
00:25:01.000Right now, the Republicans have essentially racked up more debt than the Democrats did at the same time.
00:25:22.000If you're going to shut down the government, now's the time to do it because you're not going to have the Republican votes later.
00:25:27.000If things keep going the way they are going, the Republicans lose the House and they may lose the Senate, then you think you're going to have the ability to get Democrats to play ball on this?
00:25:34.000You think you're going to get wall funding from the Democrats?
00:25:36.000You think the Democrats are actually going to come forward with wall funding?
00:25:38.000They have a solid interest in preventing anything from happening so that they can defeat President Trump in 2020.
00:25:55.000Which means that you better make hay while the sun shines.
00:25:57.000This is the reason why Mitch McConnell is saying, let's confirm as many judges as humanly possible right now, because if we lose the Senate, we're basically toast.
00:26:04.000Anyone who's watching this stuff knows the Democrats are not going to work with Trump on any of this stuff, but McConnell is deeply afraid of the blowback.
00:26:10.000Anytime there's any sort of government shutdown, he thinks that the American people simply can't stomach it.
00:26:15.000I think the American people are a little tougher than this.
00:26:39.000Okay, so McConnell just assuring that it'll never happen, and Trump obviously doesn't have the willingness to actually go all the way to the wall for his own preferred border policy.
00:26:48.000If you're a Trump voter who voted based on his immigration policy, you've got to be disappointed with the president not pushing Republicans hard enough.
00:28:10.000Barack Obama had to manufacture crises during a government shutdown in order for people to even care.
00:28:15.000Nobody would have even noticed, except that Barack Obama decided he was going to ban people from open park memorials.
00:28:20.000He was going to somehow shut down the World War II monuments in Washington, D.C.
00:28:23.000so that veterans couldn't visit it, just so that people would feel the pain.
00:28:26.000He was going to shut down national parks, for example.
00:28:29.000There's no reason that... I think it would be a good example to the American public, once in a while, for there to be a government shutdown which doesn't result in the end of the world.
00:28:37.000And the fact that Republicans are running away from this is just beyond me.
00:28:41.000I don't understand why they would do this.
00:28:42.000I don't understand why they think it's going to energize the base to continue passing trillion-dollar budget packages that suck and are filled with pork.
00:28:49.000The Republican Party, when they do this sort of stuff, they look like Democrats lite.
00:28:52.000They look like Democrats lite, except more gutless.
00:28:59.000In breaking news, the first trial of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe got underway on Tuesday with Paul Manafort, a former chairman of U.S.
00:29:05.000President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, facing charges that he had tens of millions of dollars earned in Ukraine in offshore accounts and defrauded banks for loans, this is according to Reuters.
00:29:14.000The tax and bank fraud trial in a Virginia federal court represents the first test of Mueller's ability to win a conviction of a former Trump aide.
00:29:20.000Now, recognize the Manafort indictment has nothing to do with campaign 2016.
00:29:27.000Prosecuted for his various and sundry illegalities, alleged illegalities, with regard to Ukraine years ago.
00:29:32.000Three other aides, including Manafort's longtime business partner Rick Gates, have already pled guilty and are cooperating with Mueller's probe.
00:29:39.000Prosecutors are seeking to provide details of Manafort's work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine, raising the possibility that new information about his Russian connections could, in fact, emerge.
00:29:48.000Manafort has filed a motion to have the details of that work excluded from the trial.
00:29:52.000Again, not clear that anything has to do with President Trump.
00:29:56.000Protesters are showing up trying to suggest that Manafort is going down and that will bring Trump down with him.
00:30:00.000But there's no evidence that that is actually the case.
00:30:02.000Manafort worked for Trump for something like four months.
00:30:05.000Honestly, I don't think that Trump really knew Manafort.
00:30:07.000I think that what happened here is that no one who had a great reputation was working for Team Trump.
00:30:24.000Manafort ends up being corruptifierism.
00:30:26.000I don't know why Manafort has to be tied to Trump per se, but the Democrats are fully on board with the idea that Manafort is going to bring down Trump again.
00:30:33.000I think that that is a lot of wishful thinking on the part of the Democrats.
00:30:36.000OK, I want to talk about President Trump and Iran.
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00:31:18.000We're going to try and have on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:31:21.000I think we have a bit of a preview of that, actually.
00:31:23.000I think my strength is that I am honest and I am authentic.
00:31:29.000And I think that even Republicans write letters to our campaign saying, thank you.
00:31:35.000If corporations paid, if we reversed the tax bill but raised our corporate tax rate to 28%, which is not even as high as it was before, that's $2 trillion right there.
00:31:48.000And then the last key, which is extremely, extremely important, is reprioritization.
00:31:58.000Okay, just a quick note to all of the folks on the left who didn't understand that Ali Stuckey's parody of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was in fact a satire.
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00:32:32.000We need to have a t-shirt that says, everything is stupid, Ben Shapiro.
00:32:36.000That's really, we need that t-shirt in the Shapiro store ASAP over at Amazon.
00:32:41.000Okay, so meanwhile, speaking of everything is stupid, yesterday the president, again, speaking out of turn on a topic of which he knows very little, he was asked about meeting with Iran with no preconditions.
00:32:49.000I recall literally a week ago, one week ago, the President of the United States went on Twitter and he threatened Iran with all-out nuclear war, in all caps, which was basically DEFCON 2.
00:32:59.000Yesterday, he was asked whether he would meet with the Iranian leadership, and here's what he had to say.
00:33:02.000I'm ready to meet anytime they want to, and I don't do that from strength or from weakness.
00:33:08.000I think it's an appropriate thing to do.
00:33:33.000It turns out not to have actually accomplished anything.
00:33:35.000According to the Washington Post, multiple intelligence officers have been monitoring ongoing activity recently from North Korea's nuclear and missile testing facilities.
00:33:42.000And what they find is that North Korea is building new possible intercontinental ballistic missiles despite Kim Jong-un's denuclearization agreement from his summit with President Trump.
00:33:51.000Now, I know that it's the Amazon Washington Post.
00:33:55.000I don't actually believe that North Korea is going to disarm because Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump are best friends who are gonna go golfing now.
00:34:01.000I don't think that's how diplomacy works.
00:34:03.000I think Trump is wrong when he thinks that you just get into a room with a bad guy, and then you become friends, and you have cigars together, and you go to a strip club, and then everybody's friends, and then they give up their nuclear weapons.
00:34:52.000That the Soviets could not continue their defense buildup, and so they had to loosen the reins on the various satellite states that made up the USSR.
00:34:58.000Those satellite states then quickly broke off as fast as possible, and it was too late to stop the momentum.
00:35:02.000There's nothing that he could do about it.
00:35:04.000If you read the Russian internal documents, it is very clear that's exactly what happened.
00:35:07.000It was not that Ronald Reagan got into a room and he and Mikhail Gorbachev had a cup of coffee together and suddenly they're best friends and Mikhail Gorbachev was like, you know what?
00:35:19.000So this idea that Trump is going to sit down with Hassan Rouhani, who is a terrorist-supporting piece of crap, and that Rouhani is suddenly going to decide that he's going to give up his terroristic program, that's not what's going to happen.
00:35:29.000I don't like ideological inconsistency.
00:35:31.000And the fact that there are so many people who are willing to bend over backwards to make excuses for this sort of stuff, I find completely ridiculous.
00:35:40.000Now, I've been very critical of the Trump administration today because President Trump was very busy in saying things, but then there's what they actually do.
00:35:48.000And this is the part that's really hard for folks to wrap their brains around.
00:35:51.000They'll say, Shapiro, you say so many things about the president saying things that you don't like, but you're very supportive of the administration.
00:35:57.000Right, because what they do and what they say are two completely different things.
00:36:00.000So, for example, they have now launched a religious liberty task force over at the Department of Justice.
00:36:04.000Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that they would provide religious liberty guidance central to the new task force rooted in President Trump's executive order from last year directing agencies to respect and protect religious liberty and political speech.
00:36:16.000The task force is going to be co-chaired by Associate Attorney General Jesse Panuccio, according to Sessions.
00:36:21.000So he said that there have been a lot of examples recently of religious Americans being targeted.
00:36:35.000OK, we have a civil rights task force inside the DOJ.
00:36:38.000It was used by the Obama administration for various and sundry political activities that were actually not good.
00:36:44.000Protecting religious Americans from the predations of local government is a worthwhile thing.
00:36:48.000Protecting religious Americans from discrimination is a good thing.
00:36:51.000So the Trump administration continues to do a lot of good things at the same time that President Trump continues to say a lot of chaotic things.
00:36:57.000And this is why, if the president could just become a spokesperson for his own policies, I don't think I'm asking too much here.
00:37:03.000If he could just become a spokesperson for his administration's own policy, for the freedoms that are being promoted by this administration, for the economic record of this administration,
00:37:12.000Republicans would actually have a better shot in 2018.
00:37:15.000This Religious Liberty Task Force is a very good thing and it's an area where Democrats are extraordinarily extreme.
00:37:20.000It's an area where Democrats have been proclaiming that you have to force religious bakers to bake that cake.
00:37:24.000It's an area where they have been suggesting that religious people are bigots and terrible folks.
00:37:28.000President Trump has fought back against that, tooth and nail.
00:37:36.000He's now in a position to tweet about his great record, not just tweet about things that don't really matter, like the Mueller investigation, which I don't know is actually going to end up being a thing anyway.
00:37:46.000You know, the president has a good story to tell if he is just willing to tell it.
00:37:51.000Now, speaking of people who don't have a good story to tell, I have to comment on a guy named Cenk Aygar.
00:38:18.000Like, that's literally their job is to be indecent.
00:38:22.000Their literal job is to take off their clothes and have sex with people for money on camera.
00:38:25.000So I'm not seeing the decent part of that.
00:38:28.000Tucker Carlson said it was indecent for Democrats to portray Stormy Daniels as a heroine when she had a one-night stand with a married man and got paid 130 grand to shut up about it and then decided to become a political figure.
00:38:39.000I don't think Tucker Carlson's wrong about that.
00:38:40.000Does that make Trump's behavior with Stormy Daniels decent?
00:39:33.000I'm also confused by this idea that Tucker Carlson is not allowed to say that porn is indecent if he has ever seen any porn at all.
00:39:41.000This is like saying that you think drug use is indecent, but if you've ever used drugs, you can't say that.
00:39:46.000I'm super confused by this argument, but it's an argument frequently used on the left.
00:39:50.000I will also say that the only pornography I need is the film of Cenk Aiger,
00:39:55.000Mourning the election loss like that's the only pornography I need is actually just Cenk sitting there Weeping over the election loss the night of the election because it's so it's so good.
00:40:04.000It's still hilarious So well done Cenk really doing credit to to the agenda of the left by talking about Republicans watching pornography.
00:41:16.000I remember sports dividing people long before President Trump was actually in the Oval Office.
00:41:20.000I remember canceling my subscription to Sports Illustrated when they put Caitlyn Jenner on the cover.
00:41:25.000Because I said, this is not an athletically relevant person, has not been for 30 years, but now I'm going to get transgender propaganda in my sports magazine?
00:41:34.000In fact, I remember sports being so politicized that I was threatened on national television and grabbed by the back of the neck on national television talking about sports on national television before President Trump was ever a candidate.
00:41:44.000Talking about the Caitlyn Jenner issue, where I suggested that Caitlyn Jenner was in fact a biological man because
00:41:49.000Caitlyn Jenner happens to be a biological man.
00:41:51.000I'm old enough to remember when, during Ferguson, a bunch of football players were running out on the field in the hands-up-don't-shoot pose, which was completely fictitious.
00:41:58.000Michael Brown had never said hands-up-don't-shoot.
00:42:01.000The idea that politics and sports have been politicized by President Trump is just ignorant, okay?
00:42:06.000Colin Kaepernick was kneeling on the field before Trump was even running for president, so none of this makes any sense.
00:42:12.000But I guess we're now in the space where we can blame President Trump for anything and for everything and anything.
00:42:18.000It doesn't, it doesn't wash, but I guess it's a convenient, it's a convenient scapegoat for all this stuff.
00:42:23.000Okay, time for some stuff I like and then a thing that I hate.
00:42:55.000The highlight of the film, honestly, is Michael Peña, who is just an underrated actor in every sense.
00:43:00.000He did the best thing in the original Ant-Man.
00:43:01.000If you didn't see the original Ant-Man, it is actually one of my favorite Marvel movies, specifically because it is what it purports to be, which is a cotton candy
00:43:12.000There's nothing of real weight or substance to it, but it has one of the best sight gags ever, and it also has this little riff that Michael Peña does where he is explaining how he got to where he is.
00:43:57.000And if you're just looking for something to kind of entertain you over the weekend, this is the first time in a while there have been actually like three or four movies in the theater that I actually want to see.
00:44:05.000So I haven't seen the Mission Impossible movie yet.
00:44:06.000I've heard that it's fun, and I've heard that the action sequences are amazing.
00:44:10.000And I will let you know after I see it.
00:44:11.000Also, I've heard Incredibles 2 is really good.
00:44:13.000Over the weekend, I showed my daughter Incredibles 1, because she's never actually been to the theater.
00:44:16.000So I want to take her to see her first movie.
00:44:19.000And I've heard that Incredibles 2 is a good start.
00:44:40.000She railed against white privilege and she questioned how decent white people really are after this 18-year-old woman named Naya Wilson died when she and her sister Latifah, 26, were attacked by a white male on a subway train in Oakland on Sunday night, July 22nd.
00:44:53.000Naya died from her injuries after she was stabbed in the neck by a guy named John Lee Cowell, and Anne Hathaway put this out on Instagram.
00:44:59.000She said, the murder of Naya Wilson, may she rest in the power and peace she was denied here, is unspeakable and must not be met with silence.
00:45:05.000She is not a hashtag, she was a black woman,
00:45:47.000Also, the idea that black people in America are fearing for their lives every single day is such an overgeneralization, I can't even speak to it.
00:45:53.000I mean, maybe there are some black people in America who are fearful for their lives every single day, but we'd have to ask whether that fear is justified based on circumstance.
00:46:01.000I'm sure that there are some black people for whom that is, I'm sure there are some white people for whom that is true as well, depending on where they are living, the levels of violence.
00:46:08.000You know, there are a lot of black people in the United States who are living kind of middle class lives and who are not threatened with violence on a daily basis.
00:46:15.000I don't think they're walking around thinking that they're in Fallujah.
00:46:18.000This idea that simply because of skin color in the United States, you're walking around in daily fear for your life is such a misnomer.
00:46:24.000And it really is her talking down for virtue signaling points.
00:46:28.000Like Anne Hathaway knows that she is going to be met with all sorts of kudos from people on the left for simply saying this stuff.
00:46:33.000Okay, so what is Anne Hathaway going to do about any of this stuff?
00:46:36.000Really, if Anne Hathaway wants to make all these problems better, what is she gonna do other than sound off on Instagram about it?
00:47:04.000And again, that broad overgeneralization about black people in America fearing for their lives, it's hilarious to me that if I say that there's a free country where effort is rewarded, that that is considered racist.
00:47:15.000And if Anne Hathaway says all black people are living in fear, then that is not considered a racial judgment.
00:47:21.000So I say something completely nonracial and it's considered racial, and she says something completely racial and it is considered nonracial because the left approves of it.
00:47:31.000So, Twitter has now hired academics to monitor hate speech, which is very exciting.
00:47:35.000That's just what we need, a bunch of leftist academics determining what exactly is hate speech.
00:47:39.000According to the UK Telegraph, Twitter has hired academics from institutions including Oxford University to help it combat intolerant discourse and monitor the health
00:47:49.000The firm is working with social psychology professor Miles Houston and John Gallagher along with Dr. Mark Herding from the University of Amsterdam to study the spread of hate speech.
00:47:58.000The move is part of Twitter's aim to create algorithms that better distinguish between hate speech and conversations that break the norms of politeness.
00:48:04.000I don't know why any of this is necessary, frankly.
00:48:06.000If you don't want to see hate speech on Twitter, don't subscribe to somebody's Twitter feed or just mute somebody.
00:48:11.000The nice thing about Twitter is they have all of these features you can use to not listen to folks, but I guess that we are not allowed to point that out at any point.
00:48:18.000We just have to assume that we're too stupid to actually gauge the level of conversations that we wish to participate in.
00:48:25.000And so we have to have these overlords, these academic overlords, who tell us what's good and what's not.
00:48:29.000All of this is highly foolish, and it undercuts, I think, the claims of Twitter to a sort of neutrality that they have not actually put into practice.
00:48:37.000OK, we'll be back here tomorrow with all of the latest.