The Ben Shapiro Show - November 06, 2019


Here Comes The Sondland | Ep. 891

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00:00:00.000 Trump, EU Ambassador Gordon Sumlin revises his testimony in a big way, Republicans play defense, and we analyze the results of last night's off-year elections.
00:00:09.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:09.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
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00:00:21.000 Okay, we have a lot to get to on today's show.
00:00:23.000 We'll get to the Amazing, incredible revelation surrounding the Trump-EU ambassador, Gordon Sondland, in just a moment.
00:00:29.000 First, we have to give you all of the updates with regard to the off-year elections that happened last night.
00:00:34.000 So Democrats are in a very celebrative mood, celebratory mood, and they should be.
00:00:39.000 I mean, last night was a good night for Democrats. 0.91
00:00:41.000 And Republicans can spin it, as though it wasn't a terrible night for Republicans.
00:00:41.000 It was.
00:00:45.000 And in certain ways, it was, I guess, okay.
00:00:48.000 If you look at Kentucky, for example, the Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin, who is always an unpopular figure in Kentucky.
00:00:54.000 Remember, he ran against Mitch McConnell in the Senate primary and just got destroyed by McConnell a few years back.
00:00:59.000 I think it was 2016.
00:00:59.000 And then he ran for Kentucky Governor and he won.
00:01:04.000 Well, he was a really, really unpopular governor and he lost very, very narrowly to Andy Beshear.
00:01:09.000 That's not a huge surprise.
00:01:10.000 A bit of a surprise.
00:01:11.000 It's not an enormous surprise.
00:01:13.000 But it is a bad thing for Republicans.
00:01:15.000 Virginia was much worse for Republicans.
00:01:17.000 Virginia, the entire state has now turned blue.
00:01:19.000 The state legislature in Virginia is now completely run by Democrats.
00:01:22.000 It had narrowly divided between Republicans and Democrats before.
00:01:26.000 All of this should have Republicans feeling quite nervous because if you're going to take away one message from the election results last night, it is that Republicans continue to do fine in rural areas.
00:01:36.000 But if they underperform at all in those rural areas, they are toast.
00:01:40.000 In the suburbs, they're experiencing significant Losses.
00:01:43.000 And those losses are in large part due to a perception of the Republican Party that is censored on President Trump.
00:01:49.000 And it's just an unfortunate truth.
00:01:50.000 And I'll prove this to you with some numbers in just a second.
00:01:53.000 First, let me explain what exactly happened last night.
00:01:55.000 Well, according to the Washington Post, Democrats gained control of both houses of the Virginia General Assembly on Tuesday, tapping strength in the suburbs to consolidate power for the first time in a generation and deliver a rebuke to President Trump.
00:02:07.000 Several results were still close after polls closed on the most expensive and most watched Virginia legislative races in years.
00:02:13.000 But Democrats flipped at least two seats in the State Senate and at least five in the House of Delegates to take majorities in both of those houses.
00:02:19.000 Officials reported unusually high turnout in an election that served as an opening salvo in next year's presidential showdown, a test of Democratic defiance and Republican resolve in the era of Trump.
00:02:27.000 Now remember, this should have been a bad year for Democrats.
00:02:30.000 It should have been.
00:02:31.000 And the economy is good.
00:02:33.000 The governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, was caught up in a scandal in which he was apparently either wearing blackface or a KKK outfit, one of the two, in his medical school yearbook from the 1980s, and had been caught on tape talking about the killing of babies after they are born.
00:02:46.000 And then the lieutenant governor had been caught up in a sexual assault scandal.
00:02:50.000 And then the third in line, in the Virginia chain of command, had been caught up in his own blackface issue.
00:02:57.000 This was supposed to be a bad year for Democrats.
00:02:58.000 It was not a bad year for Democrats.
00:02:59.000 It was a very bad year for Republicans in Virginia.
00:03:03.000 The sweep completed a dramatic political conversion from red to blue of a southern state on Washington's doorstep.
00:03:07.000 I'm old enough to remember when Virginia was the very least a purple state.
00:03:10.000 Now it has moved blue.
00:03:11.000 Both of Virginia's U.S. 0.85
00:03:12.000 Senators, a majority of its congressional delegation, all three statewide office holders are now Democrats.
00:03:17.000 The state was carried by Democrats in the past three presidential elections.
00:03:20.000 Republicans have not won a statewide contest in Virginia since 2009.
00:03:24.000 The last Republican in the Northern Virginia delegation, Delegate Tim Hugo, lost to Democrat Dan Helmer.
00:03:30.000 National Democratic organizations and interest groups, according to the Washington Post, carpeted the state with money, boosting suburban legislative races to the spending level of congressional elections.
00:03:39.000 They've been spending out the wazoo, particularly with regard to the suburbs.
00:03:43.000 And of course, Democratic Governor Ralph Northam is fine.
00:03:47.000 He is poised to be one of the most consequential Virginia governors in recent times, according to the Washington Post.
00:03:52.000 He promises to work with the new Democratic majority to enact gun control, push forward LGBTQ agenda, and fight climate change.
00:04:02.000 Northam said, Virginia is officially blue.
00:04:05.000 Which is interesting because his face is officially white, but apparently it depends on sort of how he decides to dress that day.
00:04:10.000 Republicans, who when Trump was elected had a seemingly insurmountable majority in the House of Delegates, lost footholds in several suburban districts.
00:04:16.000 They struggled to separate themselves from the unpopular president and to take moderate positions on gun control and a Medicaid expansion after years of voting against them in the General Assembly.
00:04:24.000 Terry McAuliffe said they're not only losing Virginia, they're losing America.
00:04:27.000 He said, I think Donald Trump was humiliated tonight.
00:04:28.000 Trump wasn't on the ballot this year.
00:04:30.000 However, his policy, his lunacy was on the ballot.
00:04:32.000 I think it energized Democrats.
00:04:34.000 Well, it clearly didn't get Republicans out to the polls.
00:04:36.000 Now, to be fair...
00:04:38.000 To be fair to Trump, to give the full story, the fact is that many of the legislators in Virginia didn't want Trump anywhere nearby.
00:04:44.000 Because they said, listen, we don't want Trump here.
00:04:45.000 He's just gonna drive out the Democratic base.
00:04:48.000 We don't have enough of a Trump base in Virginia to drive our base out.
00:04:50.000 So Trump can correctly say, well, I didn't actually bring my weight to bear in Virginia.
00:04:55.000 And that's one of the reasons why they had a problem there.
00:04:58.000 Now, I think that is unlikely.
00:05:00.000 I don't think that if Trump had set foot in Northern Virginia, suddenly Republicans would be winning sweeping victories in the suburbs of Virginia.
00:05:06.000 With that said, Trump at least has that defense to offer, right?
00:05:09.000 I wasn't called upon, I didn't enter, so how are you going to blame me about all this?
00:05:12.000 But it is true that Trump's suburban numbers have been consistently bad since 2016.
00:05:16.000 2018 was a wipeout in the suburbs for Republicans.
00:05:19.000 We'll give you more on the results of the election in Virginia plus the election in Kentucky.
00:05:24.000 And some good news, some sort of bright spots for Republicans, even though this was in fact a very blue night for Democrats nearly across the board.
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00:06:43.000 Now, as I say, Virginia shifts in a significantly blue direction.
00:06:46.000 It was supposed to be a bad year for Democrats.
00:06:48.000 Here's Governor Ralph Northam of Virginia explaining that none of his scandals ended up mattering because presumably Trump.
00:06:54.000 Race and equity is something that I have fought for since I've been in public office.
00:06:58.000 Even practicing as a pediatrician, you know, I've always been inclusive.
00:07:03.000 And we've moved forward from that.
00:07:05.000 Certainly race and equity will continue to be a top priority of mine.
00:07:09.000 But this was about a bigger picture yesterday.
00:07:13.000 And I would also take the opportunity to thank Virginians.
00:07:16.000 They stuck with me.
00:07:17.000 They elected me to be their governor, their 73rd governor.
00:07:20.000 They didn't turn their backs on me.
00:07:22.000 They've supported me.
00:07:23.000 They appreciate what we've done, what our leadership has done, and I think they look forward to me continuing to do some good work.
00:07:30.000 Well, it does show how cynical the sort of cancel culture of the left is, because if it's one of them, they don't get canceled.
00:07:34.000 If it is a Republican, of course, that person's career is basically over.
00:07:37.000 Meanwhile...
00:07:39.000 A cyclist who was fired after flipping the bird at President Trump's motorcade has now been elected to local office in Virginia.
00:07:45.000 It was a bad night in Virginia for Republicans.
00:07:47.000 Julie Briskman, whose one-handed salute, according to the AFP, was captured in an AFP photograph that went viral, beat the Republican incumbent to a seat on the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors in state elections that saw Trump's Republican Party suffer a series of stinging defeats.
00:07:59.000 The single mother of two teens lost her job as a marketing analyst for a U.S. 0.97
00:08:02.000 government and military subcontractor after the snapshot of her gesture spread across media and the internet in 2017, but she then ran for office.
00:08:09.000 She ran for local office on the Democratic ticket, and she celebrated her victory in a tweet that linked to a copy of the image.
00:08:15.000 And she said, so proud that we were able to hashtag Flip Loudon.
00:08:18.000 So, exciting stuff for the Democrats over in Virginia.
00:08:22.000 Meanwhile, over in Kentucky, it was a bad night for Matt Bevin, as I mentioned early on.
00:08:27.000 So, Matt Bevin, lost his gubernatorial seat.
00:08:30.000 Now, again, that's really not on Trump.
00:08:32.000 Okay, this one, like in Virginia, you can say that's sort of on Trump because the suburbs didn't come in for Trump and then they weren't going to come in for Trump.
00:08:39.000 In Kentucky, a large part of this was on Matt Bevin himself.
00:08:42.000 Matt Bevin was running a 20-point personal popularity deficit as of like three weeks ago.
00:08:47.000 He was 20 points underwater.
00:08:48.000 For most of his tenure, he has been literally the most unpopular governor in America.
00:08:52.000 So him losing is really more on him than it is on Trump.
00:08:54.000 Trump came in, rallied the base, and this actually became a much closer election than a lot of people expected it to be maybe three or four weeks ago.
00:09:01.000 By the time of the election, because of Trump's intervention, Bevin was favored in the odds to win by like two to one odds, but he ended up losing anyway.
00:09:08.000 Is that on Trump?
00:09:10.000 So the question is sort of split, honestly.
00:09:13.000 On the one hand, it's not on Trump, right?
00:09:14.000 Trump got out the base.
00:09:15.000 He did what he is supposed to do.
00:09:16.000 And down ballot, Republicans did fine.
00:09:19.000 So it really was more about Matt Bevin than it was about Republicans generally.
00:09:21.000 On the other hand, Bevin was the most Trumpy of all the candidates who were on the ballot in Kentucky.
00:09:25.000 He was the guy who was the loudest.
00:09:26.000 He was the guy who was the brashest.
00:09:27.000 He was the guy who really hugged Trump the tightest.
00:09:29.000 And it didn't pay off for him in the way that it was supposed to.
00:09:33.000 So is that Trump's fault?
00:09:34.000 Or was it Trump trying to save him?
00:09:35.000 That data is just unclear.
00:09:37.000 According to the New York Times, Democrats in Kentucky, Governor Matt Bevin, a deeply unpopular Republican, refused to concede the election to his Democratic challenger, Attorney General Andy Beshear.
00:09:47.000 With 100% of the precincts counted, Beshear was ahead by approximately 5,100 votes.
00:09:51.000 Beshear presented himself as the winner, telling supporters he expected Bevin to, quote, honor the election that was held tonight, which is funny.
00:09:57.000 Probably Bevin should just walk around for the next several years claiming that he's the actual legitimate governor of Kentucky.
00:10:02.000 You know, like Stacey Abrams in Georgia. 0.75
00:10:04.000 Bashir said tonight, voters in Kentucky sent a message loud and clear for everyone to hear.
00:10:08.000 It's a message that says our elections don't have to be about right versus left.
00:10:11.000 They're still about right versus wrong.
00:10:12.000 Now, Bashir did run on a moderate platform.
00:10:15.000 Many of the Democrats in Virginia were running on a more moderate platform.
00:10:18.000 So, this should be a lesson to Democrats.
00:10:19.000 Don't run as hard left as you can.
00:10:21.000 Just run against Trump and be moderate, and you'll probably do okay, particularly in the suburbs.
00:10:25.000 Democrats at the national level are taking the wrong lesson.
00:10:27.000 So everybody is taking the wrong lesson, I think, as per our usual arrangement.
00:10:31.000 Republicans are going to take from this, we need more cowbell, right, more Trump.
00:10:34.000 And Democrats are going to take away from this, we need more progressive leftism that is anti-Trump, as opposed to more moderate candidates like Beshear in Kentucky, who was not campaigning as a radical in the same way that the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are.
00:10:48.000 Bevin's troubles, however, were not a drag on other Republicans.
00:10:51.000 They captured every other statewide race in Kentucky.
00:10:54.000 So Kentucky voters were not really rejecting the Republican Party, per se.
00:10:58.000 They were rejecting Bevin personally.
00:11:00.000 Daniel Cameron, in a historic win, handily won the Attorney General's race.
00:11:04.000 He became the first black Black Americans who claim the office and the first Republican to do so in over 70 years.
00:11:11.000 So it's a major victory for Republicans there.
00:11:13.000 Republicans also captured the governor's mansion in Mississippi as Lieutenant Governor Tate Reeves defeated Attorney General Jim Hood by about five percentage points in an open seat race that illustrated the enduring conservatism of the Deep South according to the New York Times.
00:11:24.000 I do love that they talk about the quote-unquote enduring conservatism of the Deep South.
00:11:27.000 Deep South voted Democrat routinely up until maybe the past 25 years.
00:11:31.000 The final governorship Up for grabs in these off-year elections is in Louisiana, Governor John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, is facing re-election a week from Saturday.
00:11:39.000 In New Jersey, Republicans were actually on the cusp of their first legislative gains in nearly a decade.
00:11:43.000 With final results still being tallied late on Tuesday, Republicans looked likely to pick up two seats in the Assembly and one in the Senate, powered largely by a surge along the southern part of the state where Trump won easily in 2016 despite Democrats' local advantage.
00:11:57.000 In Pennsylvania, The news is worse for Republicans.
00:12:00.000 Democrats are poised to gain control of local government in a bunch of suburban Philadelphia counties that were Republican strongholds.
00:12:05.000 In other words, the red areas are getting redder, the blue areas are getting bluer, and the purple areas are getting bluer.
00:12:11.000 That is sort of the short answer.
00:12:14.000 So, what does that mean?
00:12:17.000 Well, again, a little bit of information here suggests that this may be more about President Trump's personality than anything else.
00:12:24.000 Right?
00:12:25.000 That if you're hoping to win back the suburbs as a Republican, what you really need to be focused in on is more policy, more the Democrats are radical, more their agenda stinks.
00:12:33.000 And less on personal loyalty to Trump, for example.
00:12:37.000 It doesn't mean that you shouldn't back the president, right?
00:12:39.000 It does mean that Trump is not popular in the suburbs and hanging on his coattails on the suburbs was a fail in 2018.
00:12:45.000 It's likely to be a fail in 2020 as well.
00:12:48.000 Steve Kornacki.
00:12:50.000 Who does the national political correspondence for NBC News and MSNBC.
00:12:54.000 He was analyzing some of the numbers in Kentucky and what it showed is that Trump in 2016 won about 68% of Boone County, 60% of Kenton County, and 59% of Campbell County.
00:13:07.000 Those were Cincinnati suburb counties.
00:13:10.000 How exactly did these various candidates fare in those districts?
00:13:13.000 Bevin underperformed Trump dramatically in every one of those districts.
00:13:17.000 underperformed him in radical terms.
00:13:19.000 The other Republicans actually performed basically the same as Trump.
00:13:23.000 Some of them even outperformed Trump in those in those districts.
00:13:27.000 So it's also worthwhile noting that in even more liberal suburban areas, there were some moves to curb the extraordinarily leftward slant of the Democratic Party.
00:13:37.000 Daniel Horowitz points out a conservative review That suburban voters electing Democrats aren't actually all that radical.
00:13:44.000 And he points to what just happened in Tucson.
00:13:46.000 Tucson had a Proposition 205, which was an effort to make the city a sanctuary for illegal aliens.
00:13:50.000 It went down in flames last night by a margin of 71% to 29%, despite backing from the ACLU and other special interest groups.
00:13:58.000 Horowitz says despite Republicans facing increasing problems in the suburbs, a trend highlighted last night by the GOP slaughter in Virginia's state and local elections, it's clear much of it is a backlash against Trump's personality, the GOP's dysfunction and lack of vision, and the absence of a bold contrast highlighting the radical nature of Democrats.
00:14:13.000 It's not Trump's perceived policies that are getting rejected.
00:14:17.000 I mean, Tucson is a perfect example.
00:14:18.000 That is a very, very blue area.
00:14:20.000 It voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton, yet even in that area, more than 70% of voters said they did not want police prevented from inquiring about immigration status so the criminals can be turned over to ICE.
00:14:32.000 Corwood says this is the same reason why Montgomery County, Maryland, after much scrutiny of its sanctuary policies, is beginning to change its tune and reverse sanctuary policies despite being a county Hillary won by 55 points.
00:14:42.000 Corwood says the moral of the story is that the GOP brand is tarnished for reasons that have nothing to do with the core agenda Democrats are seeking to implement.
00:14:48.000 For example, a radical sheriff and prosecutor who opposed ICE won their respective races in Prince William County, Virginia.
00:14:54.000 But did they really win because of those views?
00:14:56.000 Or did they win despite those views because the GOP brand is so incredibly damaged?
00:15:03.000 And that seems correct.
00:15:05.000 That seems correct.
00:15:06.000 I mean, he points out that there are areas where Republicans are not Seen as off-putting and they're wildly popular.
00:15:14.000 For example, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who has governed in very conservative fashion, has a 72% voter approval rating today.
00:15:21.000 And that number is 82% among Hispanics, despite the fact that he has aggressively pushed anti-sanctuary legislation and is pushing mandatory e-verify as well.
00:15:31.000 Washington state voters last night rejected affirmative action.
00:15:34.000 Washington state is about as dark blue as it gets.
00:15:37.000 So, this is... Meanwhile, in Texas, by a margin of 75 to 25, Horowitz points out, voters passed a constitutional amendment banning a state income tax, a measure that will now require two-thirds support in both houses of the legislature to even levy a 1% income tax.
00:15:53.000 So, is that really about the Republican agenda, or the Democratic agenda, or is it about personality foibles?
00:15:59.000 I mean, it seems that it's much more about personality foibles.
00:16:03.000 Again, a perfect example, Daniel Cameron, the guy who historically just won the Attorney General slot, the black Attorney General Republican of the state of Kentucky.
00:16:11.000 He said that he was willing to work across the lines.
00:16:13.000 He said that he has pledged his support to conservative policies, but he does not appear to be a radical.
00:16:20.000 He's only 33 years old, so he is a rising star for sure.
00:16:24.000 You know, the fact that he wins in very handy fashion suggests that, again, personality matters an awful lot.
00:16:31.000 Matters an awful lot when it comes to politics.
00:16:34.000 And it suggests that President Trump is gonna have to minimize the Trumpiness of his campaign if he wishes to win a sweeping victory come 2020.
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00:18:20.000 Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, again, bad night for the Republicans.
00:18:24.000 According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Outside Pennsylvania, voter unrest with President Trump and the Republican Party he has taken over helped deliver victories for Democrats in Kentucky, where they narrowly took governorship, and Virginia, where they seized complete control of the state.
00:18:36.000 The political forces that shaped last year's midterm elections showed no signs of abating Tuesday.
00:18:40.000 Voters turned on Republicans and establishment Democrats alike in races from Philadelphia and Scranton to the suburbs of Delaware and Chester counties.
00:18:47.000 Locally, Democrats will now hold all five seats on the Delaware County Council, a Republican stronghold since the Civil War.
00:18:53.000 They also assumed a majority on the legislative body in Chester County.
00:18:56.000 In Bucks County, Democrats captured the Board of Commissioners for the first time since 1983.
00:18:59.000 Now, again, to be fair to President Trump, it is possible that because his name is not on the ballot, a lot of his voters didn't get out.
00:19:06.000 I said it's a local election.
00:19:07.000 He's not on the ballot.
00:19:08.000 I'm not showing up.
00:19:09.000 And Democrats continue to be extremely excited about voting because Trump isn't on the ballot until he's on the ballot and the only way they can take their revenge is to get out and vote today.
00:19:18.000 So maybe these numbers uptick once Trump is on the ballot.
00:19:21.000 However, we've been, we, I mean conservatives, Republicans, have been significantly underperforming in the suburbs since 2018.
00:19:29.000 And that should be scary.
00:19:30.000 It should be scary for Republicans going into the 2020 election, which means less cowbell, guys.
00:19:35.000 I know this is an unpopular view in the Republican Party.
00:19:38.000 The fact is, less cowbell is the answer here.
00:19:41.000 The shouting, the tweeting, we may love it in the base.
00:19:44.000 People in the base may enjoy it.
00:19:46.000 And every so often, President Trump really hits the nail on the head and it's fantastic.
00:19:50.000 I've praised him when he's done that.
00:19:52.000 But overall, Trump is alienating the very voters he needs to bring him victory in the suburbs And he needs to help revive state-level support for him.
00:20:00.000 Now, again, a lot of people are going to say, well, you know, Barack Obama lost a bunch of state seats also during his election campaign, right?
00:20:08.000 In 2010, Republicans swamped him.
00:20:09.000 In 2014, again, bad year for Democrats.
00:20:12.000 And that's true.
00:20:13.000 Off-year elections are usually bad for the party in power.
00:20:16.000 The problem is that these may be permanent.
00:20:21.000 We're not going to know the answers to whether these are permanent shifts, if this is shifting the country in a permanent direction, until President Trump is actually on the ballot again.
00:20:30.000 In 2012, the forecast was that Barack Obama was in some trouble, given how many seats he had lost across the country.
00:20:36.000 And then he won in 2012, in large part because he ran a very strong and a very concerted campaign.
00:20:43.000 He had media support behind him.
00:20:45.000 He was running against Mitt Romney, who refused to attack him in a variety of ways.
00:20:49.000 Trump is not going to benefit from any of those systemic advantages.
00:20:52.000 Plus, Barack Obama had won an overwhelming victory in 2008, and he actually lost votes from 2008 to 2012, right?
00:20:56.000 His margin of victory was much smaller in 2012 than it was in 2008.
00:21:01.000 Trump can't afford to lose even one vote anywhere in the country.
00:21:04.000 So he can't afford to... This did have a drag effect on Barack Obama in 2012.
00:21:09.000 It's just that he was so far ahead in 2008 that the drag effect didn't drag him underwater.
00:21:13.000 Trump loses like five votes and he's out of office.
00:21:16.000 So that means that something has to fundamentally change for Republicans.
00:21:19.000 It really does.
00:21:21.000 Well, speaking of all of that, this brings us to impeachment gate 2019.
00:21:25.000 So the great benefit that President Trump has in 2020 that doesn't appear on the ballot in any of these off-year elections is the fact that Democrats are going to be On the ballot, and those Democrats are insanely radical.
00:21:39.000 These Democrats are not popular.
00:21:40.000 Again, I think Democrats can easily take the wrong lesson from the elections of 2018-2019.
00:21:44.000 They can easily veer off into a radical direction, and that's going to be a major, major mistake.
00:21:49.000 You know who's actually saying that today is Joe Biden, which makes sense because he's the one who's saying, listen, I'm default Democrat.
00:21:55.000 Just do it for me, right?
00:21:57.000 I am default Democrat and pretending that you can elect some sort of radical and that that person is going to sweep to victory is insane.
00:22:03.000 Joe Biden put out a statement yesterday about this attacking Elizabeth Warren directly.
00:22:07.000 He says, the other day, I was accused by one of my opponents of running in the wrong primary.
00:22:11.000 Pretty amazing.
00:22:12.000 On one level, it's kind of funny.
00:22:13.000 I fought for the Democratic Party my whole career.
00:22:15.000 I know what we stand for, who we stand with, what we believe, and it's not just policies or issues.
00:22:19.000 It's in my bones.
00:22:20.000 That's not something everyone in this primary can say.
00:22:23.000 But at another level, these kind of attacks are a serious problem.
00:22:25.000 They reflect an angry, unyielding viewpoint that has crept into our politics.
00:22:29.000 If someone doesn't agree with you, it's not just that you disagree. 0.98
00:22:31.000 That person must be a coward, or corrupt, or a small thinker. 0.86
00:22:34.000 Okay, there's a direct attack on Elizabeth Warren, who has been saying that you have to dream big, and campaign big. 0.98
00:22:41.000 Biden says, some call it the my way or the highway approach to politics, but it's worse than that.
00:22:44.000 It's condescending to millions of Democrats who have a different view.
00:22:47.000 It's representative of an elitism that working and middle-class people do not share.
00:22:51.000 We know best, you know nothing.
00:22:52.000 If only you were as smart as I am, you would agree with me.
00:22:55.000 This is no way to get anything done.
00:22:56.000 This is no way to bring the country together.
00:22:58.000 This is no way for this party to beat Donald Trump.
00:23:00.000 He says, there are a lot of ways to fix our healthcare system and to make our tax system fair, to address the challenge of climate change.
00:23:05.000 I believe I've proposed the most progressive transformational ideas in the campaign and I can get them done.
00:23:10.000 And he talks about all of his various plans.
00:23:13.000 He says, I learned a long time ago, if you question someone's motivations rather than your judgment, you get than their judgment, you get nowhere.
00:23:19.000 It's hard to get past go if you start off by saying the other person is in the pocket of special interests or is corrupt.
00:23:23.000 That's the way democracy works.
00:23:25.000 He says he stands with the Democratic Party of Barack Obama and the Democratic Party of Nancy Pelosi.
00:23:31.000 And he basically attacks Elizabeth Warren is too radical.
00:23:34.000 And he is correct about that.
00:23:35.000 He is correct about that.
00:23:36.000 And that's Trump's big advantage, is that if Democrats take the wrong lesson and run a radical campaign, Trump could easily win.
00:23:42.000 But Trump would actually have to make a campaign about the Democrats' radicalism.
00:23:45.000 Now, as we'll see, the Democrats are incredibly vulnerable on the score, which is why they're focusing in, as I've been saying now for weeks, on impeachment centrally.
00:23:52.000 Make Trump the issue, Trump loses.
00:23:53.000 Make Democratic policies the issues, Democrats lose.
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00:25:08.000 Okay, so, speaking of the radicalism of Elizabeth Warren, I just have to bring you this hilarious and ironic and wonderful story about Senator Warren.
00:25:15.000 So, Elizabeth Warren is now very, very angry at Twitter. 0.97
00:25:19.000 I mean, weren't we told five seconds ago that she's very happy with Twitter because Twitter banned political ads, right?
00:25:19.000 Why?
00:25:23.000 The entire left was celebrating Jack Dorsey, hero of the republic, because Jack Dorsey had banned political ads.
00:25:30.000 He said, we don't have the power to fact check political ads, so we're just not going to have political ads.
00:25:33.000 We're just going to ban them.
00:25:35.000 And I said at the time, that's a crackdown on basic free speech notions. 1.00
00:25:38.000 Anybody should be able to run any ad that they want, and then we can fact-check those ads, and we can point out that they're wrong and that they're stupid.
00:25:44.000 In fact, if you had the policy that every ad had to be fact-checked, half of the most effective political ads in American history would never have run. 0.94
00:25:52.000 The Daisy ad of 1964, which is complete crap, that Barry Goldwater was going to get us into the nuclear war, never would have run.
00:25:58.000 Hey, the ad that came from the anti-Mitt Romney super PAC in 2012, all about how Romney gave some lady cancer, right? 0.71
00:26:08.000 That ad never would have run.
00:26:09.000 It got fact-checked anyway, right?
00:26:10.000 All of these ads.
00:26:11.000 It's good to have more speech.
00:26:13.000 But Elizabeth Warren doesn't believe that, so she wanted Twitter to shut this all down, until it turns out it hit her speech. 0.98
00:26:13.000 More speech is better speech. 0.98
00:26:19.000 So this is a perfect, hilarious, wonderful example of Elizabeth Warren learning the lesson of the monkey's paw.
00:26:25.000 If you've ever read that short story, it's about a guy who gets three wishes, and then every one of his wishes ends up with precisely the opposite result of what he wanted, because he did not specifically say what he wanted.
00:26:37.000 Really took a shot in the grill here from Twitter.
00:26:39.000 Elizabeth Warren is proving to be an equal opportunist when it comes to taking on social media companies, says CNBC. 0.99
00:26:44.000 I love that spin.
00:26:45.000 So Elizabeth Warren calls for Twitter to ban political ads, and then they do. 0.51
00:26:48.000 And then she's like, but they banned the ads I like!
00:26:50.000 And then CNBC says, she's an equal opportunist. 1.00
00:26:53.000 She's willing to attack anyone. 1.00
00:26:55.000 Mm-hmm. 1.00
00:26:56.000 Or she's just a flaming hot hypocrite. 1.00
00:26:58.000 On Tuesday, Warren, who's running for president, slammed Twitter's new ad policy that bans political ads, which is weird since she's been ripping on Facebook, suggesting they should ban political ads. 0.96
00:27:07.000 In a series of tweets on Tuesday, the Massachusetts Democrat attacked the company for blocking organizations that are fighting climate change from running ads on the social network, while allowing ads from companies like Exxon on the same topic.
00:27:18.000 Oh, you mean that when you ban political ads, you end up banning ads that you like, Elizabeth Warren?
00:27:22.000 Who could have predicted such a thing?
00:27:23.000 Aside from every sentient human being with a working prefrontal cortex, who could have possibly imagined that something like this would happen?
00:27:30.000 Her criticism comes a week after Twitter said it would no longer allow ads on its service, a policy that blocks ads from politicians, ads that refer to an election or candidate, or ads related to politically sensitive issues.
00:27:40.000 Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey then responded to Warren with a tweet, basically kowtowing to her.
00:27:45.000 He said, we haven't announced our new rules yet.
00:27:47.000 They come out November 15th.
00:27:48.000 Taking all this into consideration.
00:27:50.000 He's like, please leave me alone!
00:27:52.000 Stop! 1.00
00:27:52.000 More beatings, sir! 1.00
00:27:53.000 Please, more beatings! 1.00
00:27:55.000 The media is playing this as Elizabeth Warren being mad at big tech. 0.95
00:27:58.000 No, this is Elizabeth Warren wanting a different standard for her and her favorite causes than she wants for everybody else. 0.95
00:28:04.000 In other words, she doesn't want Trump to be able to run ads, but she wants to be able to run ads.
00:28:07.000 She doesn't want Exxon to be able to run ads, but she does want her favorite climate change activists to be able to run ads.
00:28:13.000 It's pretty hilarious and pretty wonderful, and she deserves every bit of the blowback that she is going to get over all of this.
00:28:19.000 Okay, so with the Democrats, and by the way, Pete Buttigieg is slamming Warren.
00:28:24.000 It is good for him.
00:28:26.000 He's campaigning as a moderate.
00:28:27.000 People think he's cutting into Biden's numbers.
00:28:29.000 That's not really obvious.
00:28:30.000 It seems more that he's actually cutting into Warren's and Sanders's numbers because Biden is not actually fading in the national polling.
00:28:36.000 Buttigieg is just rising in the national polling.
00:28:39.000 Pete Buttigieg went after Elizabeth Warren yesterday again.
00:28:41.000 It's not the only issue, but it's certainly a major issue.
00:28:44.000 I get questions about it everywhere I go.
00:28:46.000 And what I'm hearing from Iowans and from voters across the country is there really is a desire to do much more to build way past what we were able to do with the Affordable Care Act.
00:28:55.000 But people also want to be able to make their own decision on whether to leave their private plan or not.
00:29:01.000 Okay, so Buttigieg, again, getting a bit of a boost from attacking Elizabeth Warren.
00:29:05.000 And look, the entire American business Establishment is afraid of Elizabeth Warren for good reason, because she does demonize success, because she does see America's successful businesses as targets for her rapacious tax schemes. 1.00
00:29:17.000 So Jamie Dimon, who is the JP Morgan chairman and CEO, he launched into Elizabeth Warren yesterday saying that she vilifies successful people, which of course is true. 0.83
00:29:26.000 She uses some pretty harsh words.
00:29:28.000 You know, some would say vilifies successful people.
00:29:32.000 I don't like vilifying anybody.
00:29:34.000 You know, I think we should applaud successful people.
00:29:36.000 You know, a lot of people come to this company for opportunity and choice and success.
00:29:40.000 We want that for everybody.
00:29:42.000 Now, that's a little bit different than paying your fair share and how the taxation system should work.
00:29:46.000 That I completely understand.
00:29:47.000 You know, successful companies have lifted up society.
00:29:50.000 It doesn't mean they can't do more.
00:29:52.000 It doesn't mean they didn't make mistakes.
00:29:54.000 So, I think we should applaud that.
00:29:56.000 And if people have very specific things that we should do different, then we should think about doing them different.
00:30:00.000 Okay, so again, these Democratic candidates are vulnerable on a variety of scores because they've taken too much away from these state and local elections over the past few years.
00:30:09.000 They think that Animus for Trump means that people are willing to embrace the most radical policies at the national level, and that simply isn't true.
00:30:15.000 But!
00:30:16.000 The smarter Democrats are saying, OK, well, that means that what we really should be doing is not focusing on our policies, which kind of suck and nobody likes. 0.97
00:30:22.000 Instead, we should focus in on Trump.
00:30:23.000 And that's why impeachment gate matters to the Democrats.
00:30:25.000 That's the real reason why impeachment gate is a thing. 0.96
00:30:28.000 Now, what that means is that impeachment gate is going to be front and center for months here at a time.
00:30:32.000 OK, this thing is not going to stop.
00:30:33.000 The Democrats are not going to do this fast and dirty.
00:30:36.000 They're not.
00:30:37.000 Everybody keeps saying the Democrats are going to speed this thing through.
00:30:39.000 There is no reason for them to speed this thing through.
00:30:41.000 Instead, they are now going to drag this out.
00:30:43.000 They're going to subpoena everybody.
00:30:45.000 Originally, they said they were going to get this done by late October was the original estimate.
00:30:49.000 Now there's estimates they may get it done by Thanksgiving.
00:30:51.000 Unlikely.
00:30:52.000 Unlikely.
00:30:53.000 My guess is that they probably bring it over into the new year.
00:30:55.000 Why?
00:30:55.000 Because they think that the publicity is bad for Trump.
00:30:58.000 And that is exacerbated by the fact that Team Trump doesn't have any good defenses, right? 0.97
00:31:01.000 Their defenses that they've put out there so far are really Kind of garbage-y.
00:31:07.000 Because they refuse to embrace the only defense that actually makes any sense.
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00:33:13.000 Okay, so let's get to the latest breaking news in impeachment gate 2019 and the Republican defenses to it.
00:33:25.000 So, as I say, this 2020 race, Democrats think that Trump is vulnerable because Trump is Trump.
00:33:31.000 And that is the truth.
00:33:33.000 But if they run on their own platform, they're going to lose.
00:33:36.000 So instead, what they're going to do is they're going to run on Trump is the worst.
00:33:39.000 And that's why Impeachmentgate is really more about election 2020 than it is about impeaching Trump right now, right?
00:33:43.000 The chances that the Senate is going to actually get rid of Trump are incredibly, incredibly low.
00:33:47.000 Mitch McConnell basically said this yesterday.
00:33:49.000 He said, listen, the Democrats are not getting the process right.
00:33:51.000 Nobody's going to vote for this thing.
00:33:52.000 This whole effort is going nowhere.
00:33:54.000 I'm not going to start commenting on all of these episodes that occur on a daily basis that are unfolding over in the House, but to say that it seems to me they still are not providing the same kind of basic due process rights that were provided both Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton.
00:34:13.000 They can't even get the process right.
00:34:16.000 So beyond that, we'll wait until we get it here.
00:34:21.000 It looks to me like they're hell-bent to do it and that we will end up in an impeachment trial at some point.
00:34:27.000 Okay, so, you know, again, I think that the Democrats are doing this for political reasons, but every bad headline is another brick in the wall they're building against President Trump.
00:34:35.000 So, the latest bad headline for the Trump team is Gordon Sondland, who is Trump's EU ambassador, who basically, look, the ambassador positions are basically Kush patronage jobs that you get for being an ally with the president.
00:34:46.000 That's not unique to Trump.
00:34:47.000 It was true for Obama, too.
00:34:48.000 Basically, you give a lot of money, and you end up as, like, ambassador to Morocco, right?
00:34:51.000 You get to kind of sort of pick which country you wish to live in for the next four years and hang out in for the next four years.
00:34:57.000 They actually put real political experts in some of these positions, but in a lot of them, it's like, you're the ambassador to the EU.
00:35:03.000 You get to live in Brussels and hang out in Europe all the time.
00:35:05.000 Seems kind of awesome.
00:35:06.000 That's what happened with Gordon Sondland.
00:35:07.000 Give a bunch of money to the Trump campaign, and then he ends up with no experience being the EU ambassador and gets roped into this thing Where he is now worried about having committed perjury in front of Congress.
00:35:17.000 So yesterday, he revised his testimony.
00:35:20.000 He had testified before that he did not think there was a quid pro quo that went on between the Trump administration and the Ukrainian government for Ukraine to pursue investigations into a variety of topics, including the 2016 elections, Burisma, and Hunter and Joe Biden.
00:35:33.000 Well, Gordon Sondland came back yesterday and he revised his testimony.
00:35:36.000 So according to the Washington Post, in a significant revision to his testimony, the U.S.
00:35:40.000 ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, now says he told a Ukrainian official that security assistance to the country would be likely to resume only if the authorities in Kiev opened investigations requested by President Trump that could be damaging to former Vice President Joe Biden.
00:35:54.000 In a supplemental declaration, Sunlin wrote, I now recall speaking individually with a Ukrainian individual and in that conversation saying that resumption of U.S.
00:36:01.000 aid would likely not occur until Ukraine provided the public anti-corruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks.
00:36:07.000 So he suddenly remembers all of this happening.
00:36:10.000 Sunlin's new statement adds to testimony by other national security officials that described an effort directed by Trump No, that was just me quoting Trump.
00:36:17.000 He said that was just me quoting Trump.
00:36:18.000 nearly $400 million in security assistance to investigations that could politically benefit President Trump.
00:36:23.000 Sondland, a Trump donor turned diplomat, had been seen as a loyalist, and he had said originally that Trump was just trying to combat corruption.
00:36:30.000 He had asserted in a previously released text message that Trump didn't seek quid pro quos of any kind.
00:36:34.000 Sondland said, well, no, that was just me quoting Trump.
00:36:36.000 And he said, that was just me quoting Trump.
00:36:39.000 Really, I think it was kind of a quid pro quo.
00:36:41.000 Now, the White House released a statement on this They said that the transcripts of Sondland's new testimony show there's even less evidence for this illegitimate impeachment sham than previously thought.
00:36:50.000 White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham says, quote, Ambassador Sondland squarely states he did not know and still does not know when, why, or by whom the aid was suspended.
00:36:58.000 He said he presumed there was a link to the aid, but cannot identify any solid source for that assumption.
00:37:03.000 So the White House continues to trot out a defense saying there was no quid pro quo.
00:37:08.000 The problem is, saying there was no quid pro quo is now in direct contravention of testimony from Ambassador Sondland, Kurt Volker, the special envoy, Bill Taylor, the charge d'affaires in Ukraine.
00:37:19.000 Marie Yovanovitch the ambassador to Ukraine and there's a widespread perception inside the State Department and virtually throughout the diplomatic corps that there was a quid pro quo that happened between the White House and Ukraine and Trump keeps saying there was no there was no Quid pro quo, you know I could say there was a quid pro quo and the quid pro quo is fine but I'm going to say there's no quid pro quo.
00:37:39.000 The problem is that's a bad defense tactic because the fact is it's pretty obvious from the transcript and it's also pretty obvious now from everybody's testimony that there was in fact some sort of quid pro quo going on.
00:37:47.000 The question as always was going to be was the quid pro quo illegal?
00:37:52.000 Now, it could be based on false information, the quid pro quo.
00:37:55.000 It could be based on the president receiving bad information from Rudy Giuliani and people feeding bad information to Rudy Giuliani. 0.98
00:38:01.000 And it could still be not impeachable, or it could be dumb. 0.92
00:38:04.000 It could be bad policy. 0.72
00:38:06.000 That is not the same thing as he committed a crime.
00:38:08.000 This is the president's final defense.
00:38:09.000 I've been saying this for literally weeks.
00:38:11.000 I'm not the only one.
00:38:12.000 Andy McCarthy, who's been very pro-Trump throughout the administration.
00:38:15.000 Andy McCarthy, the lawyer who writes over at National Review, former prosecutor at the Southern District of New York. 0.86
00:38:22.000 He said also, you know, relying on this no-quid-pro-quo defense is a fool's errand.
00:38:26.000 What Trump should just say is, okay, yes, of course, I was pressuring Ukraine.
00:38:30.000 I was pressuring Ukraine for legitimate investigations into what happened in 2016, and that includes any sort of corruption that occurred in Ukraine with regard to Hunter Biden.
00:38:40.000 And frankly, that would be a basically fine argument.
00:38:43.000 It's hard.
00:38:44.000 It's very, very difficult to prove intent.
00:38:46.000 The fact is that then the Democrats would have to prove not that a quid pro quo happened, but that the intent for the quid pro quo was to get Biden looking forward to 2020 as opposed to looking into everything Trump associated with corruption circa 2016.
00:38:46.000 Right.
00:38:59.000 That's hard to prove.
00:39:00.000 It really is difficult to prove.
00:39:02.000 And the fact that the White House refuses to rely on that defense is supremely bizarre.
00:39:09.000 It's really, really weird.
00:39:11.000 Instead, you end up with weird defenses like this from Lindsey Graham.
00:39:13.000 I mean, Lindsey Graham just looks like a shill now because he won't say the obvious, right?
00:39:16.000 Lindsey Graham, the senator from South Carolina.
00:39:18.000 Here he is yesterday saying, I'm not even going to read the transcript, right?
00:39:22.000 Apparently, there's a reporter who tweeted out Reporter, do you plan on reading these transcripts that were released?
00:39:28.000 Graham, no.
00:39:30.000 And the reporter asked why.
00:39:31.000 I said because it's a sham process.
00:39:33.000 Okay, that just sounds like you have no defense.
00:39:35.000 That sounds like you are covering your eyes and your ears and pretending that you don't know what's going on, but we all know sort of what was going on.
00:39:35.000 Right?
00:39:43.000 The fact is, again, that there is an actual response to all of this.
00:39:47.000 It is the response that I have been laying out for weeks at this point.
00:39:50.000 And, by the way, there's also a good response that says, yeah, of course we asked Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden because there's some pretty good information that Hunter Biden was involved in something nefarious.
00:39:59.000 Ed Morrissey reporting over at Hot Air.
00:40:01.000 Does the appearance of Hunter Biden's name in State Department email traffic show corrupt influence on U.S.
00:40:06.000 policy?
00:40:06.000 Emails dug up by John Solomon in his reporting on influence peddling then and now suggest that the timing of Joe Biden's infamous intervention in Ukraine might be even more suspect than in his look before.
00:40:16.000 Biden insists, nay brag, that he threatened to withhold a billion dollars in aid in March 2016 unless Petro Poroshenko fired Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.
00:40:24.000 Biden claims he did that because Shokin had not aggressively prosecuted corruption, including that at Burisma.
00:40:29.000 However, the new emails show that Hunter's name was being tossed around the State Department a month earlier as the firm pled that Shokin was being too tough.
00:40:37.000 According to Solomon's reporting, during that February 2016 contact, a U.S.
00:40:40.000 Representative for Burisma Holdings sought a meeting with Undersecretary of State Catherine Novelli to discuss ending the corruption allegations against the Ukrainian firm where Hunter Biden worked as a board member, according to memos obtained under a FOIA lawsuit.
00:40:52.000 Just three weeks before Burisma's overture to state, Ukrainian authorities raided the home of the oligarch who owned the gas firm and employed Hunter Biden, a signal the long-running corruption probe was escalating in the middle of the U.S.
00:41:02.000 presidential election.
00:41:03.000 Hunter Biden's name, in fact, was specifically invoked by the Burisma representative as a reason the State Department should help, according to a series of email exchanges among U.S.
00:41:11.000 officials trying to arrange the meeting.
00:41:13.000 The subject line for the email exchanges read simply, Burisma.
00:41:17.000 According to Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, the email shows that the meeting was for the purpose of getting Ukraine to back off on its corruption probe of Burisma.
00:41:23.000 The email argued that Burisma had been unfairly targeted by Shokin without evidence and outside of due process.
00:41:28.000 It also noted very pointedly that two high-profile U.S.
00:41:30.000 citizens worked with Burisma and named Hunter Biden explicitly.
00:41:35.000 As Morrissey points out, he says that last sentence sounds like the meeting was a fait accompli, as well it might since it concerned the VP's son.
00:41:41.000 However, whether and when the meeting took place has not been established, but clearly State was informed that Hunter's name was in play and that Burisma was unhappy with Shoken.
00:41:49.000 This was no low-level contact either, the people involved were senior officials in the Obama administration.
00:41:54.000 That discussion took place February 24, 2016.
00:41:57.000 Exactly one week later, Hunter Biden's business partner and fellow Burisma board member Devon Archer dropped by to see Secretary of State John Kerry at the State Department's C Street offices.
00:42:06.000 Archer was a college roommate of Kerry's stepson, so it could have been a coincidence, but it's never been explored.
00:42:12.000 Less than a month later, Biden went to Ukraine and demanded Shokin's firing.
00:42:16.000 So, that looks kind of bad, right?
00:42:18.000 right?
00:42:19.000 I mean, this is what Ed Morrissey is saying.
00:42:20.000 He says, that certainly looks like the kind of corruption of which the House Democrats are accusing Donald Trump.
00:42:24.000 Does it not?
00:42:24.000 At the very least, these emails undermine the idea that Shokin wasn't being tough enough on Burisma and that no one in the Obama administration connected the dots between Hunter Biden, his dad, and Burisma.
00:42:33.000 It stinks of corruption and interference for personal or familial gain, although one didn't need to go to Ukraine to find evidence for it.
00:42:40.000 Okay, so in other words, Trump has a pretty solid defense here.
00:42:44.000 I I was targeting corruption.
00:42:45.000 I was suspicious of corruption.
00:42:47.000 The reason I was suspicious of corruption is because there might have been corruption.
00:42:51.000 And that's why I asked them to investigate corruption and said that they're not doing a good job of investigating corruption.
00:42:55.000 So Trump keeps putting out the worst defense.
00:42:57.000 There was no quid pro quo instead of the best defense.
00:42:59.000 Of course there was a quid pro quo, right?
00:43:00.000 This was Mulvaney, right?
00:43:01.000 Mulvaney actually tried to put out this defense.
00:43:03.000 He said, yes, quid pro quos happen in foreign policy all the time.
00:43:05.000 And this wasn't a bad quid pro quo.
00:43:07.000 And people went nuts.
00:43:08.000 And then Trump backtracked it.
00:43:09.000 And now people just keep saying, no quid pro quo. 1.00
00:43:11.000 It's a dumb defense. 1.00
00:43:12.000 It's a very dumb defense. 1.00
00:43:14.000 And there's no reason to focus in on a bad defense when an actual good defense and probably a true defense is actually available. 0.98
00:43:22.000 Meanwhile, controversy has broken out as Republicans are trying to out the whistleblower.
00:43:27.000 Now, the Democrats are claiming that the whistleblower is irrelevant, that at this point we've moved beyond the whistleblower's complaint.
00:43:32.000 There's truth to that.
00:43:34.000 There is.
00:43:34.000 I mean, the fact is that we now know what the whistleblower had to say.
00:43:36.000 We have the transcript of the call.
00:43:38.000 The whistleblower complaint really didn't add anything.
00:43:40.000 Now, I'm being consistent on this.
00:43:42.000 I said that the whistleblower complaint originally was less important than the transcript of the call.
00:43:46.000 So, but that's not what Democrats said.
00:43:47.000 Democrats were like, we need the entire whistleblower complaint or its obstruction of justice and a cover-up.
00:43:52.000 Like, we need to interview the whistleblower.
00:43:53.000 We need his thoughts.
00:43:54.000 And then as soon as it became clear that the whistleblower was probably a partisan hack on behalf of Joe Biden, then it was, oh, we don't need to hear from the whistleblower anymore.
00:44:01.000 So I'm of the opinion that the whistleblower is basically irrelevant once the claims of his complaint are made public.
00:44:08.000 But, is it fair for Republicans to point out Democratic hypocrisy right here?
00:44:12.000 Yeah, that's totally fair.
00:44:13.000 And as far as the idea that it is a violation of law to release the name of the whistleblower?
00:44:18.000 Whistleblower laws are designed to prevent the firing of a whistleblower.
00:44:18.000 No, it isn't.
00:44:23.000 Keeping a whistleblower's name confidential is usually designed to prevent their firing in the private sector.
00:44:29.000 Or a private contractor with the United States government.
00:44:33.000 There are regulations in place that prevent the firing of a whistleblower.
00:44:36.000 The Inspector General of a particular department is prevented from speaking the name aloud of the whistleblower, but there's nothing that prevents Rand Paul from doing it.
00:44:43.000 This is the point that Rand Paul, who's been pushing to out the whistleblower, made yesterday when he was in a tête-à-tête with the media.
00:44:48.000 I know it's illegal to out a whistleblower.
00:44:50.000 Actually, you see, you got that wrong too.
00:44:52.000 You should work on the facts.
00:44:52.000 No, we don't.
00:44:53.000 Here's the thing is, the whistleblower statute protects the whistleblower from having his name revealed by the Inspector General.
00:45:00.000 Even the New York Times admits that no one else is under any legal obligation.
00:45:04.000 The other point, and you need to be very careful if you really are interested in the news, is that the whistleblower actually is a material witness Completely separate from being the whistleblower because he worked for Joe Biden.
00:45:17.000 He worked for Joe Biden at the same time Hunter Biden was receiving $50,000 a month.
00:45:21.000 Okay, so Rand Paul is actually making...
00:45:24.000 A pretty solid case as to why we ought to know who the whistleblower is, which is why I covered it on the show.
00:45:28.000 I mean, that is newsworthy stuff.
00:45:29.000 The fact is that if the situation were reversed and this were a Republican whistleblower in a Democratic administration, this would have been plastered all over the front pages of every newspaper immediately if it turned out that the person was a partisan hack on behalf of the Republicans.
00:45:44.000 I mean, the media are so invested in Trump being pushed out of office.
00:45:48.000 They're so invested in hatred of Trump.
00:45:49.000 It's pretty astonishing.
00:45:50.000 The best example today is that the Washington Post came out with a full Illustrated Mueller Report.
00:45:56.000 It's embarrassing.
00:45:57.000 I mean, it really is. 0.91
00:45:58.000 Democracy dies in crappy cartoons.
00:46:00.000 They drew all of these pictures, like Paul Manafort and James Comey, with thought bubbles. 0.95
00:46:05.000 It's absurd.
00:46:06.000 They're publishing a graphic, non-fiction book centered on special counsel Robert Mueller's obstruction of justice inquiry.
00:46:11.000 I mean, I suppose they couldn't do it on the Kenneth Starr Report, because then it just would have been pornography.
00:46:15.000 The Mueller Report illustrated is drawn directly from Volume 2 of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report.
00:46:19.000 Of course, they're not going to do it on Volume 1 because Volume 1 didn't uncover anything.
00:46:23.000 Volume 1 was about the Trump-Russia collusion nonsense.
00:46:27.000 Volume 2 is about the so-called obstruction of justice.
00:46:30.000 According to the Washington Post pumping this thing, the book provides a unique graphic depiction of the report's most scrutinized passages and pivotal moments, all contextualized with the Post's original reporting.
00:46:40.000 The Mueller Report Illustrated offers a fly-on-the-wall account of life in the White House, told through the accounts of men and women who at one time served the president.
00:46:47.000 Wow, just how magical.
00:46:49.000 So we need a graphic novel of an incredibly boring report.
00:46:52.000 The media.
00:46:53.000 Mediating all over the place.
00:46:55.000 The journalism is just getting everywhere!
00:46:55.000 So much journalism.
00:46:58.000 It's everywhere!
00:47:00.000 By the way, I'm not sure which is more journalism-ing.
00:47:03.000 The Washington Post printing this insane cartoon version of all of this?
00:47:08.000 Or a piece by Frank Bruni in the New York Times called, Why Donald Trump Hates Your Dog.
00:47:12.000 I'm not kidding. 0.84
00:47:14.000 Because Donald Trump is constantly saying that people died like a dog. 0.93
00:47:17.000 Or acted like a dog. 0.73
00:47:19.000 So apparently, according to Frank Bruni of the New York Times, Trump hates dogs.
00:47:23.000 And according to a columnist named Gia Corliss, Sean Spicer, the former White House press secretary, dances in militaristic fashion. 0.93
00:47:32.000 And his body is dishonest.
00:47:35.000 Yes, I certainly trust the media with all of this.
00:47:37.000 We'll get to more of... I have to read you some of that piece in just one second.
00:47:41.000 First, a thing I like, and then a thing I hate.
00:47:43.000 So, things I like today.
00:47:45.000 I was on a 16-hour flight from Israel to the United States over the weekend.
00:47:49.000 That meant that I watched one million movies because, I mean, what else am I going to do?
00:47:52.000 My kids are kicking me.
00:47:54.000 And you're stuck in one place for a very long time.
00:47:56.000 And I got to see a movie that I really enjoyed.
00:47:58.000 I thought it's actually pretty fantastic.
00:48:00.000 It's called In the Heart of the Sea.
00:48:01.000 It's a Ron Howard film.
00:48:02.000 Now, I tend to think that Ron Howard's a bit of a paint-by-numbers director.
00:48:05.000 I've never seen anything of his where I thought this is just overwhelmingly good.
00:48:08.000 But that's fine.
00:48:10.000 I mean, it's very straightforward.
00:48:11.000 It's sort of classic cinema.
00:48:12.000 It's called In the Heart of the Sea with Chris Hemsworth and Benjamin Walker and Cillian Murphy, who is fantastic, and Tom Holland.
00:48:19.000 Big, big cast.
00:48:20.000 Brendan Gleeson.
00:48:21.000 And the movie is about the sort of source material for Moby Dick.
00:48:26.000 It starts off with Herman Melville meeting with this sailor about what happened at sea on this boat called the Essex.
00:48:32.000 And it's a true story.
00:48:33.000 And it is a pretty astonishing story.
00:48:35.000 I mean, what didn't make it into Moby Dick is actually creepier and more terrifying than what did make it into Moby Dick.
00:48:41.000 It's, for example, after the Essex was, it was, in fact, stoven by a white whale, a giant white whale, that's the basis of Moby Dick, but then the men were basically stranded at sea for like three months, and they had to resort to, as you would think, some pretty awful, awful things.
00:48:57.000 It's a good movie.
00:48:58.000 It's worth seeing.
00:48:59.000 Check it out.
00:49:00.000 Didn't get the kind of press that it should have.
00:49:01.000 The reviewers didn't like it because it was too straightforward.
00:49:04.000 Because how dare you make a straightforward film?
00:49:05.000 It didn't have any gender identity politics.
00:49:07.000 We don't know the gender of the whale in the film.
00:49:09.000 But the movie is really good.
00:49:10.000 It's called In the Heart of the Sea.
00:49:11.000 Again, wildly underrated by critics and well worth watching.
00:49:13.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:49:18.000 So YouTube, a lot of the big tech companies are now censoring content, and it's pretty obvious that they're censoring content on the basis of political persuasion.
00:49:25.000 The latest and creepiest example is that YouTube has now banned a video from Dr. Michelle Critella, a pediatrician with many years of experience, the executive director of the American College of Pediatricians.
00:49:36.000 There was a video that Daily Signal published in 2017, so it's two years old.
00:49:39.000 It was up for like two years.
00:49:41.000 And now, YouTube has pulled the video.
00:49:44.000 The video has been removed from YouTube.
00:49:46.000 In its place, YouTube has displayed the message, the video has been removed for violating YouTube's policy on hate speech.
00:49:50.000 So what exactly was so hateful?
00:49:52.000 What was the hate speech that this evil doctor had to say?
00:49:55.000 And here's what she had to say that got it banned from YouTube. 0.99
00:49:59.000 According to most mainstream medical organizations, if you want to cut off a healthy arm or a healthy leg, you're mentally ill. 1.00
00:50:07.000 But, if you want to cut off healthy breasts or a penis, you're transgender. 1.00
00:50:14.000 Okay, well, sorry, that happens to be a true statement. 0.99
00:50:19.000 Okay, now it may be stated in a way that's very blunt, but that happens to be a true statement.
00:50:24.000 Okay, if you if you according to most mainstream medical organizations again It's the text of what she says according to most mainstream medical Organizations if you want to cut off a healthy arm or a healthy leg You're mentally ill if you want to cut off healthy breasts or penis is what she says you are transgender And they don't classify transgender as a mental illness which is what the juxtaposition means this is Again, I fail to see what is non-factual about this statement.
00:50:47.000 Now, you may not like that statement. 0.97
00:50:48.000 You may think that there is a moral difference between cutting off your genitals and cutting off your arm. 0.51
00:50:52.000 You're gonna have to explain why that is, but the statement itself is not non-factual. 0.96
00:50:57.000 But apparently, this is now hate speech.
00:50:59.000 So, according to the Daily Signal, which is a Heritage Foundation outlet, over the past few months, the Daily Signal worked with YouTube to try to reach a resolution.
00:51:05.000 Ultimately, we were told the only way we could get the video back on YouTube was to delete the previously mentioned sentence.
00:51:11.000 In other words, we had two choices.
00:51:12.000 Censor the doctor's words or have no video on the world's biggest video platform.
00:51:16.000 This should horrify every YouTube user and anyone who values the importance of a public square featuring a variety of perspectives.
00:51:22.000 Critella's words are no doubt controversial, says the Daily Signal.
00:51:24.000 She's no stranger to criticism, neither is the Daily Signal.
00:51:27.000 We welcome debate, but we don't want to be censored.
00:51:31.000 They say, we believe transgender individuals, any individuals struggling with gender identity issues, should be treated with love and respect, but we also believe that on a topic where medical treatments have such serious ramifications, from infertility to permanent alteration of body parts, it's worth having a robust, fact-driven discussion.
00:51:45.000 She's making a point in that sentence that may be not popular, but remains true.
00:51:48.000 There is no society-wide push right now to allow patients suffering from body integrity identity disorder to amputate limbs.
00:51:55.000 Furthermore, just this May, the World Health Organization removed transgenderism from its list of mental disorders, moving it to a section about sexual health.
00:52:03.000 But as of July, Critella's sentence, amputation of body parts is different depending on the body parts in question, is apparently so outrageous YouTube can't even allow it on the platform.
00:52:13.000 That's pretty astonishing.
00:52:14.000 Like, if YouTube doesn't like it, then you know what?
00:52:16.000 There are a thousand videos on YouTube of people trying to explain why it is more beneficial to people to cut off their genitals than it is for them to cut off a different body part.
00:52:24.000 I mean, there are lots of videos from the left about this sort of thing.
00:52:26.000 The fact that YouTube is banning it outright demonstrates that they're putting their thumb On the scales when it comes to contentious social issues that are very much open for debate.
00:52:36.000 And by the way, where the science tends not to favor the left very much.
00:52:39.000 Okay, we'll be back here a little bit later today with two additional hours of content.
00:52:41.000 So we will see you then.
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00:53:21.000 We will examine the left's cult of self-love.
00:53:23.000 Then, Kentucky goes blue, kind of.
00:53:26.000 The real election results are more complicated, so don't expect to hear about that in the mainstream media.
00:53:31.000 We will examine what they mean for 2020.
00:53:33.000 Rand Paul sheds light on impeachment.
00:53:35.000 A new study shows politicized scholarship makes bad politics.
00:53:40.000 And ABC News covers up its cover-up Of the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein, who definitely didn't kill himself.