The Ben Shapiro Show - Hillary’s Back | Ep. 494

00:00:00.000 Hillary Clinton is back, and she is worse than ever.

00:00:03.000 Plus, Rex Tillerson is out.

00:00:05.000 It's time for Rexit.

00:00:07.000 As well, Republicans in the House are about to try to vindicate Trump on the Russian collusion stuff.

00:00:12.000 We'll talk about all of these things and much, much more.

00:00:14.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:15.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:21.000 Rex Mortuus Est.

00:00:22.000 It means the king is dead, but it also means that Rex Tillerson is out.

00:00:25.000 So he's the Secretary of State, but not anymore.

00:00:27.000 He's no longer the Secretary of State.

00:00:28.000 He was fired this morning via tweet in perfectly Trumpian fashion.

00:00:32.000 We'll get to all of that.

00:00:34.000 So many things to talk about today.

00:00:35.000 So many great things.

00:00:36.000 Trump is also visiting California and he's visiting the wall prototypes because this is something that we do now.

00:00:41.000 All right.

00:00:41.000 I mean, sure.

00:00:43.000 It's funny.

00:00:43.000 I'll talk about all those things.

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00:01:51.000 All right, so we begin today.

00:01:53.000 With the ouster of Rex Tillerson.

00:01:55.000 As I say, the Oedipus Rex, Tyrannosaurus Rex, the Rexit, he's gone. 0.96

00:02:01.000 Okay, so, Rex Tillerson was always a crappy Secretary of State. 0.63

00:02:04.000 He was on a complete disconnect with the President of the United States. 0.89

00:02:07.000 The President did not care in the slightest what Rex Tillerson had to say about anything.

00:02:11.000 Like anything.

00:02:12.000 If Rex Tillerson ordered a steak for dinner, then President Trump would send it back and get a hamburger.

00:02:18.000 I mean, this is just the way it went with him and Rex Tillerson.

00:02:20.000 They never got along.

00:02:21.000 Tillerson always wanted to run foreign policy.

00:02:23.000 Trump didn't want any part of that.

00:02:24.000 You recall that President Trump actually tweeted out in the middle of Rex Tillerson talking with the North Koreans that Rex Tillerson should not talk with the North Koreans.

00:02:32.000 See, the nice thing about Trump and, you know, one of the great fears that Trump was going to run a secret agenda when he was president.

00:02:37.000 They weren't going to know what he was thinking.

00:02:39.000 And then there's this thing called Twitter.

00:02:40.000 Where it's legitimately just him vomiting his thoughts out of Twitter.

00:02:44.000 So it's not like there's a big secret about Rex Tillerson.

00:02:46.000 He doesn't like the guy. 0.99

00:02:46.000 He thinks that Rex Tillerson's a schmuck, which is true. 0.99

00:02:49.000 Rex Tillerson was basically marginalized inside his own State Department. 0.99

00:02:52.000 No one cared what he had to say.

00:02:53.000 Well, on Tuesday morning, the president tweeted out his firing of Rex Tillerson, because this is the way you should totally get rid of cabinet-level officers, is by tweeting out that they're gone.

00:03:03.000 And then they look around and go, wait, what?

00:03:04.000 Now?

00:03:05.000 Huh?

00:03:06.000 So this is also how he got rid of James Comey as you recall.

00:03:08.000 He had him fired in the middle of an event for the FBI out on the West Coast.

00:03:13.000 The President of the United States running government by Twitter.

00:03:15.000 Listen, I'm happy with the move.

00:03:16.000 I didn't like Rex Tillerson.

00:03:17.000 I think he's a terrible Secretary of State. 0.99

00:03:18.000 I think he's been utterly, utterly useless. 0.96

00:03:21.000 All of the good moves the Trump administration has made have been made in spite of Tillerson's opinion. 0.87

00:03:25.000 Tillerson has been marginalized in the process for a very long time.

00:03:29.000 So Trump tweeted this out.

00:03:30.000 This is 18, right?

00:03:31.000 So what he tweeted out was this.

00:03:35.000 Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State.

00:03:38.000 He will do a fantastic job.

00:03:39.000 Thank you to Rex Tillerson for his service.

00:03:41.000 Gina Haspel will become the new director of the CIA and the first woman so chosen.

00:03:44.000 Congratulations to all.

00:03:46.000 Well, I mean, not all, right?

00:03:47.000 Congratulations to everybody except for Rex Tillerson, who's now out of a job.

00:03:51.000 So, apparently Tillerson had no idea that he was actually going to be fired.

00:03:55.000 Apparently, so the Washington Post reported that Rex Tillerson was told that he was on the ropes as of last Friday.

00:04:01.000 Now, the reason that's important is because yesterday Rex Tillerson did a whole press campaign about how terrible Russia was.

00:04:07.000 He was talking specifically about how the Russian government had killed apparently

00:04:12.000 We're good to go.

00:04:33.000 As soon as we get the facts straight, and we're going to be speaking with the British today, we're speaking with Theresa May today, and as soon as we get the facts straight, if we agree with them, we will condemn Russia or whoever it may be.

00:04:47.000 But I have not spoken to her.

00:04:48.000 I'll speak to her sometime today.

00:04:52.000 Okay, so again, that seems pretty soft on Russia, but what people were assuming is that because Tillerson was harsh on Russia yesterday, and Trump didn't want to be harsh on Russia, he fired Tillerson.

00:05:02.000 That's total nonsense.

00:05:03.000 That's not why he axed Tillerson.

00:05:04.000 Tillerson's been on the chopping block for a long time.

00:05:06.000 John Bolton was in the Oval Office like last week.

00:05:08.000 People have been expecting Tillerson to be gone for literally months, and then Trump would tweet out every so often, no, I love Rex, he's staying.

00:05:14.000 Which is always code for, we're gonna get rid of him as soon as we possibly can.

00:05:17.000 So, here was Trump actually explaining why he got rid of Rex Tillerson, and this ring is sort of true.

00:05:21.000 This is clip 19.

00:05:22.000 Rex and I have been talking about this for a long time.

00:05:25.000 We got along actually quite well, but we disagreed on things.

00:05:30.000 When you look at the Iran deal, I think it's terrible.

00:05:34.000 I guess it was okay.

00:05:36.000 I wanted to either break it or do something, and he felt a little bit differently.

00:05:41.000 So we were not really thinking the same.

00:05:44.000 Rex is a very good man.

00:05:46.000 I like Rex a lot.

00:05:48.000 I really appreciate his commitment to this service, and I'll be speaking to Rex over a long period of time.

00:05:54.000 Okay, so what that really means is, I will never talk to Rex again. 0.76

00:05:57.000 I hate that guy's gut. 0.99

00:05:58.000 He's the worst. 0.98

00:05:59.000 Also, I sent him away because I don't agree with him about anything.

00:06:02.000 That's the actual read-on from when he says, I'll be speaking to Rex for a very long period of time.

00:06:06.000 You didn't speak for him for a full year after you appointed him your Secretary of State.

00:06:09.000 So I'm gonna go no on that.

00:06:10.000 Rex Tillerson, now Mike Pompeo is in.

00:06:12.000 That's actually a very good move for the administration.

00:06:14.000 Mike Pompeo is much more pro-Israel.

00:06:16.000 He's much more anti-Iran.

00:06:17.000 He's one of the leading voices during the Obama administration criticizing Obama for not using the phrase radical Islamic terrorism.

00:06:23.000 He and Trump seem to be very much on the same page on foreign policy, which is good.

00:06:26.000 The President of the United States and the Secretary of State should be on the same page with regard to foreign policy.

00:06:32.000 Now, Trump says that he's getting close to the cabinet he wants, which is kind of hilarious since the president picks his own cabinet, right?

00:06:38.000 This is sort of like saying that you ordered at a restaurant and you're getting very close to the order that you want.

00:06:43.000 Well, no, that's like, what?

00:06:46.000 You made the cabinet, dude.

00:06:47.000 But here's Trump saying that he's getting close, to which Jeff Sessions said, close, but no cigars.

00:06:51.000 I mean, there are a bunch of people who are still on Trump's hit list inside the cabinet.

00:06:55.000 Here was Trump talking about how he is now perfecting his cabinet, which is true, okay?

00:06:59.000 Pompeo is better than Tillerson.

00:07:00.000 I've gotten to know a lot of people very well over the last year, and I'm really at a point where we're getting very close to having the cabinet and other things that I want.

00:07:11.000 I don't know what the other things are.

00:07:12.000 Is it like a horse or what?

00:07:13.000 But I like that he is making his cabinet better.

00:07:16.000 OK, Tillerson being gone is a good thing.

00:07:19.000 Again, the president was also running over Tillerson's head with regard to North Korean policy.

00:07:23.000 He was running over his head with regard to Russian policy.

00:07:25.000 It doesn't make sense to have a Secretary of State who is not doing what you want him to do.

00:07:29.000 The president is the Secretary of State's boss.

00:07:31.000 He can get rid of him.

00:07:31.000 Although, again, it's kind of a gutless move to get rid of him on Twitter, as opposed to calling him up and saying, listen, Rex, thanks for your service.

00:07:36.000 You're out.

00:07:38.000 The dirty little secret about Trump is that he actually doesn't like firing people.

00:07:40.000 He likes to make his underlings fire people.

00:07:41.000 He got famous for going on TV and saying you fired, but he doesn't actually like doing that.

00:07:46.000 That was just for the cameras.

00:07:47.000 In reality, Trump is very hesitant about firing people.

00:07:50.000 He tends to make them resign, or he tries to pressure them to resign, like Jeff Sessions, or he will fire them through Twitter, or all this other stuff.

00:07:57.000 The reason that matters is because a feeling of chaos within the Trump administration does not quiet the worries of the American people.

00:08:03.000 If you just looked at the policy coming out of the Trump administration, as I've been saying for a long time, I like a lot of the policy, but the American people feel uneasy with President Trump.

00:08:11.000 They feel uneasy because they feel like he is a whirlwind of chaos.

00:08:15.000 Mainly because he is a whirlwind of chaos.

00:08:16.000 I mean, the same day that he gets rid of Rex Tillerson, John McEntee, who's the longtime personal assistant to Trump, was abruptly escorted out of the White House in another dramatic staff change.

00:08:25.000 He was the trip director for Trump's campaign.

00:08:26.000 He'd be like the guy who brought Trump a Sharpie when it was time to sign something.

00:08:29.000 He was his body man.

00:08:30.000 Apparently, he was fired, according to CNN, because he was under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security for serious financial crimes, a source told the network.

00:08:39.000 A source familiar with his firing told the network the circumstances were not related to Trump.

00:08:43.000 He was actually removed so quickly that he left without his jacket and somebody had to go back in for his jacket.

00:08:48.000 So he was ejected from the White House.

00:08:50.000 And then, and then, the most hilarious thing is that he was immediately hired by the Trump campaign.

00:08:55.000 So as soon as the story comes out that he might be dirty and there's a problem with him, then all of a sudden he is immediately hired by the Trump campaign.

00:09:01.000 Other people joining the Trump campaign, I love this, Katrina Pearson.

00:09:05.000 Yeah, she's back and she's joining the Trump campaign once again, the greatest spokesperson of all time, which means that we'll have many more hours of analyzing funny video to come in future episodes of The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:09:15.000 So we're very excited about the rehiring of Katrina Pearson.

00:09:18.000 Very, very solid stuff.

00:09:21.000 There's been a lot of turnover, apparently, inside the Trump staff.

00:09:25.000 John Kelly obviously removing the security clearances for a lot of folks inside Trump's staff.

00:09:30.000 The reason all this is a problem, again, is when there's a perception of chaos that actually has consequences politically.

00:09:36.000 The president always loses seats in off-year elections.

00:09:39.000 It's very rare that doesn't happen.

00:09:40.000 The last time that it happened was 2002.

00:09:42.000 So presidents always lose seats in off-year elections.

00:09:45.000 The question is how many seats the Republicans are actually going to lose in 2018.

00:09:49.000 They right now have a 23-seat majority in the House.

00:09:53.000 If they lose any more than that, they lose the majority.

00:09:54.000 There are apparently 37 open Republican seats.

00:09:57.000 Republicans who have either retired, resigned, or moved on to other positions.

00:10:01.000 There are, I think, 12 to 14 Democratic seats that are available in the same way.

00:10:06.000 One of the bellwethers is supposed to happen tonight.

00:10:08.000 So one of the hot pieces of news is that tonight there's an election in Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district.

00:10:13.000 Now, this thing is an interim election.

00:10:14.000 It's only going to last for, like, the next couple of months.

00:10:17.000 But the contest is happening in a district that Trump won by 20 points, and it pits GOP candidate Rick Saccone, a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, against a much younger Democrat named Conor Lamb, who's a former federal prosecutor and a Marine.

00:10:30.000 Again, Trump won this district going away, and no Democrat has run a competitive race in this district in two decades.

00:10:35.000 The closest selection of the last eight races was 15 points, separating the Republican from the Democrat.

00:10:39.000 But Tim Murphy, who is the Republican, resigned from his seat after news broke that he'd impregnated his then-mistress and allegedly told her to get an abortion.

00:10:47.000 So he resigned, and that left the seat open.

00:10:49.000 Well, right now, the Democrat is slightly favored to win the seat, and you can tell there's a lot of

00:10:53.000 Heartache and heartburn inside the Republican halls of power.

00:10:57.000 The president of the United States threw Saccone under the bus the other day.

00:11:00.000 He said he's a bad candidate.

00:11:01.000 I mean, he's not a great candidate, but he's not like a Roy Moore-type disaster candidate, Rick Saccone.

00:11:07.000 But it doesn't matter.

00:11:08.000 Saccone will probably lose, or at the very least, it will be a very competitive race in a district that shouldn't have a competitive race.

00:11:14.000 And here's the problem.

00:11:15.000 This is being used as an indicator for future results in 2018.

00:11:19.000 Democrats have done really well in special elections across the country.

00:11:21.000 So Trump has said, listen,

00:11:23.000 We're winning districts all over the country.

00:11:24.000 All these special elections have still gone to Republicans.

00:11:27.000 Right, but that's not the question.

00:11:28.000 The question is how much the vote has shifted since 2016, between 2016 and 2017, or 2016 and 2018.

00:11:34.000 And the answer is quite a lot.

00:11:36.000 So in just a second, I'm going to give you the statistical breakdown on exactly how all of this goes down.

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00:13:12.000 All right, so here's how the statistics break down and how Democrats have been doing in districts across the country in these special elections.

00:13:20.000 So the answer is they've been doing quite well.

00:13:23.000 So in 2017,

00:13:25.000 There were 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

00:13:26.000 There were 7 special elections in 2017.

00:13:29.000 OK, the partisan lean in these districts went something like this.

00:13:34.000 California 34th was a D plus 69 district, meaning that it's a huge gap between Republicans and Democrats.

00:13:40.000 The Kansas 4th was R plus 29.

00:13:42.000 Montana at large was R plus 21.

00:13:44.000 Georgia 6th was R plus 9.

00:13:45.000 South Carolina 5th was R plus 19.

00:13:47.000 Utah 3rd was R plus 35.

00:13:49.000 And Alabama U.S.

00:13:49.000 Senate was R plus 29.

00:13:52.000 How did it actually swing?

00:13:53.000 So Republicans won all of the seats they were supposed to win, but the swing was enormous.

00:13:57.000 So, Kansas 4th, as I say, it's an R-plus-29 district normally.

00:14:01.000 That race was only won by the Republican by 6 points.

00:14:04.000 That's a 23-point swing in favor of Democrats.

00:14:06.000 Montana, 16-point swing.

00:14:08.000 Georgia 6, 6-point swing.

00:14:10.000 South Carolina 5th, 16-point swing.

00:14:13.000 Utah third.

00:14:13.000 Three-point swing.

00:14:14.000 Alabama U.S.

00:14:15.000 Senate, of course, was won by the actual Democrat, and that was a 31-point swing.

00:14:19.000 So that means, on average, you are talking about a 16-point swing in favor of Democrats.

00:14:23.000 If that holds true, there's no question Republicans lose the House.

00:14:26.000 If that sort of turnout holds true, Democrats are energized.

00:14:29.000 Republicans are, frankly, not.

00:14:31.000 And in Pennsylvania, the candidate there has stopped campaigning on the tax cuts because, apparently, that's not actually getting anybody out to vote.

00:14:38.000 Instead, the candidate is campaigning on cultural issues, which makes a lot of sense and gives the lie to the idea that Republicans are going to win based on the state of the economy or based on policy victories.

00:14:47.000 People do not win elections based on policy victories.

00:14:50.000 Not in today's day and age.

00:14:51.000 Unfortunately, they win based on culture war.

00:14:53.000 Issues and culture war issues are where Republicans do have an advantage because the Democrats are so off the reservation when it comes to the culture war.

00:15:00.000 The Democrats are the ones pushing intersectional politics. 1.00

00:15:02.000 The Democrats are the ones suggesting that Republicans and Republican voters are stupid and nasty and poor. 1.00

00:15:09.000 We'll get to Hillary Clinton in just a second because it really is incredible what Democrats are saying about Republicans. 1.00

00:15:13.000 But again,

00:15:15.000 This is why a lot of the chaos inside the Trump administration matters.

00:15:21.000 The more you worry about the president of the United States, the more you want to check on the president of the United States.

00:15:28.000 Trump, again, already blaming Saccone for preemptive laws.

00:15:32.000 There's no reason to think any generic Republican should have lost the seat in any case.

00:15:36.000 So we'll keep our eyes, obviously, on the Pennsylvania 18th and give you all of the updates.

00:15:41.000 There, but that said, again, this breaks down along two lines.

00:15:44.000 The Trump administration is improving.

00:15:46.000 There is better news coming out of the Trump administration.

00:15:49.000 The staffing is better over there.

00:15:51.000 They are cleaning house.

00:15:52.000 But that that propensity toward a feeling of chaos continues.

00:15:56.000 Speaking of the culture war.

00:15:58.000 Vice President Mike Pence is an emissary of the culture war, and I'm telling you, Mike Pence, what he has to say about Joy Behar from The View is much more important to voters, believe it or not, than even the tax cuts.

00:16:09.000 So Joy Behar, of course, went on national television and said that Mike Pence is a crazy person for saying that God speaks to him, and then she had to apologize.

00:16:14.000 Here's what Pence had to say about it on Hannity's show last night on Fox News. 0.76

00:16:19.000 When I heard that ABC had a program where my Christian faith had been described as a mental illness,

00:16:27.000 I thought it was important for me to speak out, not on my own behalf.

00:16:30.000 You and I know that criticism comes with public life.

00:16:33.000 But I felt it was important that I defend the faith of tens of millions of Americans against that kind of slander.

00:16:41.000 Okay, he is right.

00:16:42.000 And it's one of the reasons why Democrats have been losing in the culture wars.

00:16:45.000 It's also one of the reasons why President Trump is out in California visiting the border wall.

00:16:49.000 So in just a second, I'm going to show you the actual President Trump pictures at the border wall.

00:16:54.000 He got on the helicopter, and now he's getting on Air Force One.

00:16:58.000 He's flying all the way out to California so that he can come to a photo op with a bunch of concrete.

00:17:02.000 And we have some pictures, actually.

00:17:04.000 We have some video of the Trump wall prototypes that President Trump will be visiting today in California.

00:17:09.000 Again, 1, 2, 3, 4, he declares a culture war.

00:17:13.000 Again, the idea here is that when you declare a culture war, you're more likely to be successful than if you campaign on policy because people vote on the basis of character, not on the basis of policy.

00:17:21.000 Here is what the border wall prototypes look like that President Trump will be visiting when he comes out to Los Angeles.

00:17:28.000 Now, what it does seem like for people who can't see, there's a bunch of different border wall prototypes.

00:17:32.000 It looks sort of like if you were going to shop for linoleum at your local furniture, your local furniture emporium.

00:17:37.000 It's like Home Depot.

00:17:39.000 But I will say there's a major problem with these border wall prototypes.

00:17:42.000 There are giant holes between them.

00:17:44.000 It looks like the illegal immigrants can just run right through them. 1.00

00:17:46.000 And frankly, it looks like they can just drive a bus right between there.

00:17:49.000 So I hope that they fix that before they actually implement.

00:17:51.000 I hope the president comes and makes clear that the border walls actually should be pushed together.

00:17:55.000 I don't know who did this, but whoever did it should be fired.

00:17:57.000 I mean, it's just terrible.

00:17:58.000 Okay, I'm joking, people.

00:17:59.000 I know, I know.

00:18:00.000 These are just prototypes.

00:18:01.000 Okay, so the president is going to come out here.

00:18:04.000 He's going to show that he likes the border wall.

00:18:06.000 You all know that.

00:18:07.000 He's hoping to get the Republican base ginned up.

00:18:09.000 In that way, he will probably do so, because Democrats will respond to this by saying, it's just terrible.

00:18:14.000 How could Trump visit a bunch of concrete?

00:18:15.000 Look at this photo op. 0.82

00:18:16.000 He hates immigrants. 1.00

00:18:17.000 Racist, racist, racist. 1.00

00:18:18.000 And then Democrats will shoot themselves in the foot. 1.00

00:18:20.000 Now, speaking of shooting themselves in the foot,

00:18:23.000 Hillary Clinton was tripping all over herself yesterday. 1.00

00:18:27.000 I mean, not just verbally, like actually physically.

00:18:31.000 In clip 14 yesterday, she was actually coming down the stairs.

00:18:33.000 She was in India, and she slipped not once, but twice, coming down the stairs.

00:18:37.000 She obviously, I mean, she is less stable on her feet than my grandmother. 1.00

00:18:40.000 My grandmother has 20 years on her. 0.94

00:18:42.000 Here is Hillary Clinton, dressed in a muumuu, coming down the stairs in India.

00:18:49.000 What is she wearing?

00:18:50.000 She looks like a hospital patient. 0.89

00:18:52.000 Here she comes down the stairs. 1.00

00:18:54.000 And up.

00:18:56.000 And down goes Hillary. 1.00

00:18:57.000 Down goes Hillary. 1.00

00:19:00.000 Howard Cosell impersonation.

00:19:01.000 All right, here she up, and down goes Hillary again! 1.00

00:19:03.000 It's like the Joe Frazier foreman.

00:19:06.000 Up, and there goes her shoe. 1.00

00:19:07.000 Both shoes are gone.

00:19:08.000 Now she's walking barefoot.

00:19:10.000 Now she's going, and she's got two people supporting her.

00:19:12.000 My favorite part of that video, if you're running back, is that I believe it's Huma Abedin behind her.

00:19:16.000 And Huma Abedin does not even react.

00:19:18.000 Huma's like, oh yeah, Hillary does this all the time. 1.00

00:19:21.000 Remember when we were told that Hillary was perfectly healthy and all was well?

00:19:25.000 For people who are saying that the stairs were slippery, first of all, Slippery Stairs is a great Japanese show, but has nothing to do with this, but I just felt like making the reference.

00:19:32.000 But second of all, I think that it is worth noting that no one else who is walking down these stairs is slipping, except for Hillary, who slips twice and then kicks off her shoes.

00:19:40.000 Yeah, but everybody who asked about her health was totally crazy in the last election cycle.

00:19:43.000 That wasn't the worst slipping down the stairs for Hillary. 0.96

00:19:45.000 The worst slipping down the stairs for Hillary came yesterday during an interview on India Today.

00:19:51.000 In which she slandered poor people and people in red states as well as other women. 1.00

00:19:57.000 Now, for those who can't see, Hillary is actually apparently wearing Steve Urkel's pants in this interview. 1.00

00:20:03.000 So she's sitting there talking about why she lost and going, did I lose that?

00:20:09.000 So here's Hillary Clinton talking about why people voted for Trump instead of for Her Majesty.

00:20:17.000 If you look at the map of the United States, there's all that red in the middle where Trump won.

00:20:22.000 I win the coast, I win, you know, Illinois and Minnesota, places like that.

00:20:26.000 But what the map doesn't show you

00:20:30.000 Okay, pause it there for a second before we go further. 0.98

00:20:37.000 So, first of all, that is the stupidest argument ever, right? 0.97

00:20:39.000 She's now arguing that basically there should be a per capita GDP rating on whether your votes count. 0.99

00:20:44.000 So, not on earning.

00:20:46.000 Because the fact is that if you're a higher earner, you voted Republican.

00:20:49.000 On average, Trump voters were slightly wealthier than Hillary voters.

00:20:52.000 But she's saying if you're from a high-earning area,

00:20:56.000 Then we should vote for you.

00:20:57.000 So this is the difference between Trump voters and Hillary voters.

00:20:59.000 There are a lot of rich Trump voters, but they live out in the hinterlands.

00:21:01.000 They live in Texas.

00:21:03.000 They live in Montana.

00:21:04.000 They live out in a bunch of places that are not particularly high-earning as a generality.

00:21:07.000 A lot of Hillary voters are people who are not necessarily rich, but they do live in high-earning areas like Manhattan or Los Angeles or Seattle, big cities, because Hillary's voting base tends to be more urban.

00:21:17.000 Urban there is not a euphemism for black, by the way.

00:21:20.000 Her voting base tends to be

00:21:22.000 Okay, so, before I go further, it actually gets worse for Hillary. 1.00

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00:23:05.000 So, that was not the worst thing that Hillary said.

00:23:08.000 So, Hillary starts off by saying, listen,

00:23:26.000 The places I won are the more important places, right?

00:23:28.000 I won the places where all the money is.

00:23:30.000 And then people wondered why people thought that she was a tool of, like, Goldman Sachs and Wall Street.

00:23:34.000 Maybe it's because she's openly saying she's a tool of Goldman Sachs and Wall Street.

00:23:38.000 Then it gets even worse.

00:23:40.000 She starts labeling the people.

00:23:41.000 She says the people who live in high-income areas, these are better people than the people who voted for Trump.

00:23:46.000 People who voted for me are better human beings than people who voted for Trump.

00:23:50.000 Sort of an amazing contention, but here she goes.

00:23:54.000 So I won the places that

00:23:57.000 Our optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward, and his whole campaign, Make America Great Again, was looking backwards.

00:24:08.000 You know, you didn't like black people getting rights, you don't like women getting jobs, you don't want to see that Indian American succeeding more than you are. 0.99

00:24:16.000 Whatever your problem is, 0.94

00:24:19.000 I'm gonna solve it.

00:24:20.000 So Hillary, you see, Hillary's voters were just superior humans. 1.00

00:24:24.000 Now, this is one of the reasons she lost the election. 1.00

00:24:26.000 When you call half the voting American public deplorable, turns out they think that you're kind of a jerk. 1.00

00:24:32.000 Hillary was the worst candidate in American history and she proves it every single day. 1.00

00:24:35.000 I just hope that Hillary continues to be on the public stage and Democrats are forced to defend her.

00:24:39.000 I'd love to see Tom Perez, the head of the DNC, be forced to answer questions about Hillary's perspective on the American voter. 0.99

00:24:45.000 But that's an amazing contrast she's drawn.

00:24:47.000 And here's why Democrats, if they take this to heart, are gonna lose.

00:24:49.000 Because their view is that the people who voted for Hillary Clinton are superior, better humans, than the people who voted for Donald Trump.

00:24:56.000 They actually believe that the folks who pulled the trigger for Hillary are more optimistic and diverse and dynamic and moving forward.

00:25:02.000 Even though there's no evidence that they're more optimistic, right?

00:25:05.000 Maybe more racially diverse.

00:25:06.000 I mean, her coalition was more racially diverse than Trump's, but so what?

00:25:09.000 And dynamic, moving forward?

00:25:11.000 What does that even mean?

00:25:11.000 That they wanted more socialistic government?

00:25:14.000 One of the places that are more optimistic, but the people from the other side, those terrible, terrible people, they're just garbage. 0.99

00:25:19.000 When Democrats say this, when they believe this, what it means is they're going to double down on the good people, right? 0.98

00:25:24.000 They're going to double down on the optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward people, which means the intersectional coalition.

00:25:30.000 They're going to keep ignoring the people who voted in Ohio and Michigan and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

00:25:34.000 They're going to keep just saying that those people are bad people, which is why they voted for Trump.

00:25:38.000 And maybe if you insult them enough, they'll vote for you, Hillary. 1.00

00:25:40.000 Maybe if you insult them enough, Democrats, they'll vote for you.

00:25:43.000 Maybe if you tell them that they're beneficiaries of white privilege who are looking backwards, then suddenly they will resonate to your cause.

00:25:49.000 But somehow, I doubt it.

00:25:50.000 That last line that Trump's whole pitch, and it worked with these people, was, you don't like black people getting rights?

00:25:56.000 Name anything Trump said during the campaign or ever, as far as I'm aware, in which he said he wanted black people's rights removed.

00:26:04.000 And don't give me voter ID.

00:26:05.000 That's not a right, okay?

00:26:06.000 Everyone uses voter ID in states all over the country.

00:26:09.000 We use ID to buy alcohol.

00:26:10.000 We use ID for lots of stuff.

00:26:11.000 That's not a racist policy.

00:26:14.000 You don't like women getting jobs? 1.00

00:26:15.000 When did Trump ever say he didn't like women getting jobs? 0.67

00:26:17.000 He said, I don't want this woman getting this job. 1.00

00:26:19.000 He doesn't want Hillary Clinton becoming president.

00:26:20.000 But women getting jobs, I mean, Trump's relatively famous for his daughter being a pretty successful businesswoman, right? 0.97

00:26:26.000 Ivanka is a very successful businesswoman.

00:26:29.000 He doesn't seem to have a lot of trouble with that.

00:26:31.000 I have a lot of problems with Trump, but these are not the problems.

00:26:33.000 Black people getting rights is a problem for Trump?

00:26:35.000 You don't like women getting jobs? 1.00

00:26:37.000 You don't want to see that Indian American succeeding more than you are?

00:26:39.000 Who does she think is the United Nations ambassador? 0.96

00:26:44.000 The ambassador to the UN from the United States is Nikki Haley, an Indian-American.

00:26:50.000 The two states that have had Indian-American governors are North Carolina, Nikki Haley, and Louisiana, with Bobby Jindal.

00:26:57.000 Both of them voted for Trump in the last election cycle.

00:27:00.000 I mean, it was Joe Biden, not Donald Trump, who was making jokes about Apu-style Indian people at 7-Eleven.

00:27:09.000 This is all nonsense, and it's very helpful for Democrats because, again, they want to portray themselves as the better people than the rest of us.

00:27:16.000 Over at FiveThirtyEight, actually it was Vox.com, they had a whole article about how Trump voters are more racist than Hillary voters, ignoring, of course, the fact that a lot of Hillary voters are racist in a reversed fashion, that when you spend an entire campaign talking about white privilege and how America is terrible and how white people have victimized black people all across America and continue to do so, when you do that, that tends to veer into racism very, very quickly. 0.99

00:27:38.000 And it tends to veer into a sneering, snide, nasty, looking-down-your-nose at all of these Americans, a sort of paternalistic view of these stupid people who live in the middle of the country. 0.99

00:27:50.000 This is why Hillary Clinton lost. 1.00

00:27:52.000 And then she continued along these lines.

00:27:54.000 Again, she's looking for everyone to blame.

00:27:56.000 She's now blamed pretty much everyone on earth except for herself for her election loss. 1.00

00:27:59.000 She said that she blames women because married women voted for Trump.

00:28:02.000 But why did married women vote for Trump? 1.00

00:28:04.000 Well, they voted for Trump, of course, because they're little Tammy Wynette types, right, who stand by their man.

00:28:09.000 The reason that married women voted for Trump is because married women voted like their husbands, and their husbands basically, the old Bob comes down from his job at the beer factory, and he comes in and gets his whoopin' stick, and he says to his wife, honey, you better get out there and vote Trump! 0.91

00:28:23.000 I'm gonna hit you with the whoopin' stick! 0.99

00:28:25.000 This is Hillary's actual vision of how married women in the United States vote. 1.00

00:28:29.000 Here's Hillary Clinton explaining. 0.97

00:28:31.000 What happened in my election is I was on the way to winning white women until former director of the FBI, Jim Comey, dropped that very ill-advised letter on October the 28th, and my numbers just went down.

00:28:47.000 And I heard a lot of anecdotal evidence about this.

00:28:50.000 People have written about it.

00:28:51.000 All of a sudden, white women who were going to vote for me, and frankly, standing up to the men in their lives and the men in their workplaces,

00:28:59.000 We're being told she's going to jail.

00:29:00.000 You know, you don't want to vote for her.

00:29:02.000 You know, it's gonna be terrible.

00:29:04.000 You can't vote for that.

00:29:05.000 So it just, it stopped my momentum and it decreased my vote enough because I was, I was

00:29:14.000 I had, I was winning, and I thought I had fought my way back in the ten days from that letter until the election.

00:29:23.000 I fell a little bit short.

00:29:25.000 And so I think that it was part of a historical trend that I was bucking, and then it collapsed on me.

00:29:31.000 Okay, that is not true.

00:29:33.000 In the slightest, Hillary Clinton, with regard to married women, won almost precisely the same percentage of the vote as Barack Obama or John McCain. 0.99

00:29:39.000 Married women always vote Republican. 1.00

00:29:41.000 Donald Trump won 53% of white married women in the United States. 0.98

00:29:43.000 Mitt Romney won 52% and John McCain won 51%.

00:29:43.000 So they won exactly the same percentage.

00:29:51.000 Meaning, it has very little to do with Hillary Clinton.

00:29:54.000 Hillary is providing a rather flattering account of her own election.

00:29:58.000 But there's some more here that I want to discuss.

00:29:59.000 Something about married versus unmarried that I think is going under the radar.

00:30:02.000 A piece of data I think you should know.

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00:33:00.000 So you heard Hillary blaming all of these married women who apparently listen to old Bob with the hickory stick when he comes home from work and says, get you out and go vote for Trump. 1.00

00:33:09.000 That's how Hillary pictures all these people in the backwoods of Kentucky.

00:33:12.000 Right.

00:33:12.000 That's that's that's America breaks down into two groups of people.

00:33:16.000 It breaks down to the Clintons and the Obamas.

00:33:17.000 And then it breaks down into old Bob with the hickory stick.

00:33:20.000 Out in the middle of Louisiana, right?

00:33:22.000 That's that's Hillary's view of America. 1.00

00:33:24.000 It's it's very much the New Yorker view of America.

00:33:26.000 There's a very famous cover of the New Yorker that shows what America looks like from the perspective of a New Yorker.

00:33:32.000 And Hillary is basically a New Yorker. 1.00

00:33:33.000 You know, whether she grew up in Chicago is irrelevant.

00:33:37.000 Yeah, she's got the attitude of a lot of folks from New York. 1.00

00:33:39.000 And that attitude is that America looks something like this.

00:33:42.000 They chose a map of the United States from the New Yorker's perspective.

00:33:45.000 And so what the map shows is here's New York, a lot of big buildings.

00:33:48.000 And then it shows like nothing for about three inches.

00:33:51.000 And then there's L.A.

00:33:52.000 and up here is Chicago and down here is Dallas.

00:33:54.000 And that's it, right?

00:33:55.000 The rest of the country just doesn't exist.

00:33:57.000 The entirety of the country is New York, and then the other coast, right?

00:34:00.000 There's nothing between the coasts.

00:34:02.000 And that's how Hillary views America. 1.00

00:34:04.000 If you are anywhere in the middle of the country, if you're in flyover country, then this means that you are a bad person, you are an irresponsible person, or you're a woman who's being bullied by her husband.

00:34:12.000 Now, I do find it ironic that Hillary Clinton, a woman who stood by her husband while he was being credibly accused of rape, as well as multiple other sexual assaults and misconduct, that she's claiming that women are subject to the whims of their husbands.

00:34:25.000 OK, no one was more subject to the whims of their husband than Hillary Clinton, who rode her husband's coattail to near glory before collapsing right on the precipice and falling down the stairs. 0.83

00:34:34.000 But it's important to mention something.

00:34:36.000 There's a lot of talk about why do married women shift into Republicans when they get married? 0.99

00:34:40.000 Well, some people say that it's because they're listening to their husbands now, and this means that they are going to, you know, listen to the whims of their husbands, and men tend to vote Republican more often than women, but this is neglecting another fact.

00:34:51.000 Okay, here's the other fact.

00:34:52.000 Unmarried men vote Democrat more often than married men.

00:34:56.000 If you look at the marital status by gender, okay, these are the exit polls from the last election cycle.

00:35:01.000 Among married men, Trump won married men 57% to 38%.

00:35:04.000 Among unmarried men,

00:35:09.000 Unmarried men voted for Hillary Clinton 46% to 44%.

00:35:11.000 So in other words, unmarried men voted much more like unmarried women than unmarried men voted like married men.

00:35:20.000 That's kind of an amazing statistic, that unmarried men voted Democrat and married men voted Republican, and there was a pretty significant gap there.

00:35:28.000 You're looking at at least a 10-point gap, looks like an 11-point gap, between unmarried men and married men.

00:35:33.000 Among unmarried women versus married women, married women voted 49% to 47% for Hillary Clinton. 0.76

00:35:38.000 White married women voted overwhelmingly for Trump.

00:35:41.000 Unmarried women voted 63% for Hillary Clinton and 32% for Trump.

00:35:47.000 So there was a 14 point shift for married women and about 11 point shift for married men. 0.81

00:35:53.000 Which suggests that it's something that has to do with marriage, not just male and female.

00:35:56.000 There's something that has to do with marriage that makes people vote more Republican.

00:36:00.000 That is not a shock.

00:36:01.000 That is not a shock.

00:36:03.000 Part of it is because marriage is a self-selecting group, so the people who choose to get married tend to be more traditional than the people who choose not to get married.

00:36:09.000 If you choose not to get married, much better shot that you are on the left just generally, particularly if you stay single for a long period of time.

00:36:15.000 But there is something to the idea that marriage actually does change human beings.

00:36:19.000 Marriage makes people more committed to the future.

00:36:21.000 Marriage makes people think about somebody beyond themselves.

00:36:24.000 Marriage makes you feel dependent not on the government anymore, but on the person to whom you're married.

00:36:28.000 Your first line of defense is no longer the guy who works at the local office, but instead, it is the guy who lives in your house, or the woman who lives in your house.

00:36:36.000 Marriage does change human beings, and I think marriage makes people a lot better.

00:36:39.000 I think this is why marriage as an institution has been the bedrock of Western civilization.

00:36:43.000 Marriage is vital. 0.76

00:36:44.000 The gap is not that women are getting married and then they listen to their evil, terrible, redneck husbands. 0.99

00:36:49.000 It's that men are voting Democrat and women are voting Democrat. 0.56

00:36:53.000 And then they decide, you know what?

00:36:54.000 I'm going to make something of myself.

00:36:55.000 I'm going to make something of my life.

00:36:56.000 I'm going to build a future here.

00:36:57.000 And that requires me to, for example, keep more of my own money.

00:37:00.000 It also is going to require me to carve out a certain private space in which government cannot intervene.

00:37:06.000 It's going to require me to have a certain area where I am capable of raising my family in peace and quiet.

00:37:13.000 It's going to require me to have religious freedom so I can raise my family in principles that I think are important.

00:37:19.000 Marriage makes people better.

00:37:20.000 Plus, women make men better and men make women better. 1.00

00:37:24.000 I don't think that all human beings make each other better, but I do think that as a general level, on a general level, what it says in the Bible about a woman completing a man and a man completing a woman, I think this is right.

00:37:31.000 I think one of the most important messages in the beginning of Genesis is, thus a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife.

00:37:40.000 That's the whole point of marriage, that you become an independent human being when you get married.

00:37:44.000 You break off from your parents.

00:37:46.000 You break off from your paternal figure, which in some cases is the government.

00:37:49.000 You break off from people who make you dependent, and instead you stand up on your own feet alongside somebody that you love, and now you forge a life together.

00:37:56.000 And that has political ramifications.

00:37:58.000 This is not to say that marriage is automatically going to shift everybody into a Republican, but it is to say that Hillary Clinton's simplistic account of why women vote differently when they're single than when they're married, naturally, evil men, toxic masculinity, is just not true.

00:38:11.000 Men themselves shift on politics once they get married. 0.98

00:38:16.000 Also, I think the general notion, by the way, that Hillary's voters are nicer people or better people than people who voted for Trump is just absolute sheer crap. 0.98

00:38:22.000 I travel all around the country. 0.96

00:38:24.000 I've spent most of my life living in blue areas.

00:38:26.000 Virtually all of my life, actually, living in blue areas.

00:38:29.000 Strike that.

00:38:30.000 All of my life, living in blue areas.

00:38:32.000 I've lived all of my 34 years, either in Los Angeles or Cambridge, Massachusetts, some of the most liberal areas in the country.

00:38:38.000 And that there's no correlation between the politics of the areas and the niceness of the people.

00:38:44.000 In fact, the nicest people that I've met are generally not in those big cities.

00:38:48.000 There's a reason people don't like people from New York or people from Los Angeles as much as they like people from Oklahoma. 0.59

00:38:53.000 Midwestern people tend to be a little bit nicer, a lot more cordial.

00:38:56.000 I remember the first time I was in Oklahoma,

00:38:58.000 I was I was walking around Oklahoma's.

00:39:00.000 I must have been maybe 2021.

00:39:01.000 I was guest hosting a radio show and I was walking on the street and I caught eyes with some lady.

00:39:08.000 And if you do this in a big city, if you if you're from a big city, you know exactly what I'm talking about.

00:39:11.000 If you're from L.A., Chicago, New York, if you ever catch eyes with somebody on the street.

00:39:15.000 Mathis, what's the natural response to catching eyes with somebody on the street in Los Angeles?

00:39:19.000 You look away, right?

00:39:20.000 That's what you do.

00:39:20.000 You look away because it's super awkward and it's really, you don't want to talk to that person.

00:39:24.000 You don't know whether that person is going to pull a knife on you and stab you in the face.

00:39:26.000 You don't know whether the person is going to scream at you.

00:39:28.000 You don't know what it's going to be, right?

00:39:30.000 But in the Midwest, it's a little different.

00:39:32.000 So I remember I was in Oklahoma and I was walking down the street.

00:39:34.000 This lady's walking the other way. 1.00

00:39:35.000 We catch eyes.

00:39:35.000 She goes, well, hi there.

00:39:38.000 And I legitimately pulled out my cell phone.

00:39:40.000 I called my father.

00:39:40.000 I said, where am I?

00:39:42.000 What's going on?

00:39:43.000 Why are people doing this?

00:39:45.000 There is a certain level of niceness that exists in the middle of the country that Hillary Clinton apparently does not appreciate or care about. 0.99

00:39:51.000 All the people in the middle of the country are terrible people who are backwards looking and racist, even though, again, these statistics by poll data

00:39:58.000 Showing that people in the South are supposedly more racist than people from the North.

00:40:01.000 Those data are really weak.

00:40:03.000 They really don't exist.

00:40:04.000 According to Gallup, racism exists just as much in big cities like Boston as it does in cities like Atlanta.

00:40:09.000 Probably more in Boston than in Atlanta.

00:40:10.000 I've been to both places.

00:40:11.000 There's a lot more racism in Boston than there is in Atlanta, actually.

00:40:14.000 There's a lot more integration in parts of the South than in parts of the North.

00:40:17.000 Some of the most highly segregated cities in the United States are cities that exist outside the traditional Southern Corridor, north of the Mason-Dixon line.

00:40:25.000 So again, Hillary's generalized take here is just wrong.

00:40:29.000 And as long as Democrats continue to follow that take, they're going to continue losing the strength of the American people and the willingness of the American people to follow them.

00:40:38.000 Okay, meanwhile, the President of the United States is declaring himself vindicated on collusion.

00:40:45.000 So yesterday, top Republicans of the House Intelligence Committee came out and they said, we're about to issue our report.

00:40:50.000 Our report says no evidence of collusion.

00:40:51.000 Yay! 0.99

00:40:53.000 OK, so this is where we're all supposed to pretend that Republicans were ever going to sort of condemn Trump, right?

00:40:57.000 We're all going to pretend for a second that President Trump was right.

00:41:01.000 He was on the ropes, that Devin Nunes was going to come forth and say, you know what?

00:41:04.000 Trump turns out the evidence just was it was against him.

00:41:07.000 You know, we're just going to.

00:41:08.000 Partisan investigations tend not to come up with particularly reliable results.

00:41:13.000 I'm not going to blame Democrats for saying, why would I believe them and Nunes? 0.99

00:41:17.000 If it were a Democrat in office, and it were a Democrat investigating Obama, and it were a Democrat saying, Obama has been cleared, I would say that's a bunch of crap. 1.00

00:41:24.000 I would say that because it is a bunch of crap. 0.99

00:41:26.000 OK, in any case, Trump tweeted out there is no collusion. 0.99

00:41:29.000 Right.

00:41:29.000 And he all caps.

00:41:31.000 He grabbed his caps lock and he really went to town.

00:41:33.000 He said the House Intelligence Committee has, after a 14 month long in-depth investigation, found no evidence of collusion or coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election.

00:41:44.000 I'm only yelling because he is.

00:41:45.000 It's all caps.

00:41:46.000 So that's true, for what it's worth.

00:41:49.000 By the way, I've been saying for pretty much a year, I don't think that there's any collusion.

00:41:53.000 I don't think the Trump campaign could collude with itself, let alone with Russia.

00:41:56.000 I think President Trump was not even in touch with his own campaign advisors. 0.99

00:42:00.000 That place was a chaotic crap show. 0.98

00:42:02.000 I mean, I know all the people who were involved in the campaign. 0.99

00:42:04.000 That was not a well-run organization.

00:42:06.000 All of that said, he's not wrong about this, but the tendency to credit the House Intelligence Committee with letting him off, I think is a little bit premature.

00:42:15.000 You can see the panic on the Democratic side, though.

00:42:17.000 So Maxine Waters, who is indeed a low-IQ human being, she said that she is depending on Robert Mueller to prove collusion.

00:42:23.000 Well, she may be waiting for a while, because I don't think Mueller has the evidence of it either.

00:42:26.000 All I know is this, if he thinks he can stop me from talking about Impeach 45, he's got another thought coming.

00:42:34.000 I am not intimidated by him.

00:42:36.000 I'm going to keep saying that we need to impeach him.

00:42:40.000 And I am so depending on our special counsel, Robert Mueller, to connect the dots so that he can prove the collusion.

00:42:49.000 And of course, we've seen obstruction of justice just playing out before our very eyes.

00:42:54.000 Okay, so again, I think that if Democrats are relying on Robert Mueller to save them from their own incompetence, good luck with that.

00:43:01.000 Adam Schiff, of course, representative Democrat, CNN.

00:43:04.000 He's not even from California anymore.

00:43:06.000 He's actually established residency at CNN's remote location.

00:43:10.000 He just sits there.

00:43:11.000 All day.

00:43:11.000 And he takes actual constituent calls from the Green Room at CNN.

00:43:14.000 Anyway, he tweeted out that this was a tragic milestone.

00:43:16.000 He said, So they're going to issue another report suggesting there was collusion.

00:43:20.000 In the absence of actual evidence, it's just a bunch of allegations.

00:43:22.000 Again, I agree with the president that this has been wildly overblown.

00:43:24.000 I have yet to see the evidence that suggests otherwise.

00:43:40.000 I really am not seeing it.

00:43:42.000 So, yeah, I think that if Democrats are relying on the deus ex machina, if they're expecting that there's going to be some sort of intervention from above by Robert Mueller's office, I don't really see that happening.

00:43:52.000 But the Republicans are not doing themselves any favor by looking hackish.

00:43:55.000 So the House Intel Committee also concluded that the Russians were not interested in seeing Trump win.

00:44:01.000 That's a fine, credible conclusion.

00:44:03.000 That's that's quite possible.

00:44:04.000 Again, it's possible that the Democrats that the Russians just wanted to intervene in the election make trouble because they do this a lot. 0.80

00:44:10.000 But it's not a good look when the House Intel Republicans are saying the CIA just got it wrong.

00:44:15.000 So here is one of the House Intel Republicans saying just that.

00:44:18.000 And when we release that report, we're going to be able to show, you know what, the CIA just got it wrong.

00:44:23.000 Just like they did, by the way, in the Gulf War, where they said there was weapons of mass destruction that we didn't find.

00:44:28.000 The CIA is not perfect.

00:44:30.000 They often, or at least from time to time, will make mistakes, as do I, as do you, as do any agency.

00:44:37.000 And we're just going to have to show people they were wrong on this.

00:44:40.000 OK, good luck with this.

00:44:41.000 This doesn't look hackish at all.

00:44:42.000 What he really should have said is he should have said there is a wide disparity of opinion among intelligence agencies about whether the Russians actually wanted Trump to win.

00:44:48.000 That, as far as the evidence shows, is actually true.

00:44:51.000 Instead, he's going directly after the CIA.

00:44:53.000 Not a good look.

00:44:55.000 I just I think that.

00:44:57.000 If you're going to tout this House Intelligence report as kind of the be-all end-all, I think that you're going to end up on the wrong side of everything.

00:45:05.000 I think that we should wait for Mueller to come down with his evidence.

00:45:07.000 We'll evaluate the evidence when it comes down.

00:45:09.000 Otherwise, it's just hearsay.

00:45:10.000 Otherwise, it's he said, she said nonsense.

00:45:13.000 Even some GOP representatives are essentially saying this.

00:45:16.000 One of the GOP representatives is a guy named Tom Rooney.

00:45:20.000 He's a Florida Republican.

00:45:21.000 And here's what he had to say about the House GOP Intel Committee's announcement.

00:45:24.000 They found no evidence of collusion.

00:45:25.000 Senate hasn't ended theirs.

00:45:26.000 Bob Mueller hasn't ended theirs.

00:45:28.000 Why are you all ending it?

00:45:29.000 Well, two things.

00:45:30.000 For what I said last week, that we've gone completely off the rails and now we're just basically a political forum for people to leak information to drive the day's news.

00:45:39.000 So we've, as you alluded to, we've lost all credibility and we're going to issue probably two different reports, unfortunately.

00:45:47.000 So in that regard, that's why I called for the investigation to end.

00:45:52.000 OK, so again, I think that, you know, this is this is actually right, that the the House Intel Republicans, the Intel Committee generally has been corrupted.

00:46:00.000 There's no purpose to the process.

00:46:01.000 It's just Adam Schiff and Devin Nunes slapping each other.

00:46:03.000 It's kind of pointless.

00:46:04.000 So we will wait for the other information to come out from the Mueller investigation.

00:46:08.000 If Democrats are expecting that that's going to save them again, I think that that's a sadly mistaken

00:46:12.000 State of affairs.

00:46:13.000 I do not think that this is going to save them in any serious way.

00:46:15.000 I think they're in serious trouble if they continue to follow the path of Hillary Clinton.

00:46:20.000 And I think that if they're hoping that Mueller is going to somehow eject Trump from office, that's not happening.

00:46:25.000 OK, time for some things I like and then some things I hate.

00:46:28.000 And we'll deconstruct the culture for a minute.

00:46:29.000 OK, so.

00:46:30.000 Things that I like.

00:46:31.000 So we've been doing books on socialism.

00:46:33.000 One of the most famous books on socialism is, of course, The Roads of Serfdom by Frederick Hayek.

00:46:37.000 This is, of course, the classic on why state-run economies are a giant fail.

00:46:42.000 We're talking about this in the aftermath, of course, of Elizabeth Broding, the columnist for The Washington Post, calling for a revivification of socialism.

00:46:48.000 She says state-run industries are just great because they're done for the benefit of the workers.

00:46:52.000 Listen, there can be a state-run industry that is productive or that is run well, but not for an inordinate period of time because competition is what weeds everything out.

00:47:01.000 The government itself has no incentive to be profitable and eventually you will end up cannibalizing your profits in order to please political constituencies.

00:47:10.000 It's a really fascinating book.

00:47:12.000 One of the fascinating things about The Road to Serfdom is that John Maynard Keynes, who of course was not a fan of free market capitalism in the extreme, he said that this was a grand book and he said,

00:47:28.000 A really fascinating take.

00:47:30.000 It is well worth the read.

00:47:31.000 It's actually not a particularly hard read.

00:47:32.000 The Road to Serfdom by Frederick Hayek, totally worth the read.

00:47:36.000 Published in 1944, when there were a bunch of folks on the left who were openly embracing the socialist program.

00:47:43.000 It has a historic role in the revitalization of the capitalist movement, which led to the rise of the modern conservative movement as well.

00:47:50.000 Okay, time for

00:47:52.000 You know, we'll do one more thing that I like.

00:47:53.000 I mistakenly labeled this a thing I hate, but I do not hate this.

00:47:55.000 In fact, I love it.

00:47:56.000 Tommy Wiseau, the guy from The Room, has now done an audition tape for The Joker.

00:48:02.000 And I will say that it is not bad.

00:48:05.000 Like, shockingly, it is not bad.

00:48:06.000 Here is Tommy Wiseau, the weirdest human being ever, playing the weirdest character ever, The Joker.

00:48:11.000 What doesn't kill you make you stranger.

00:48:23.000 It's simple. 1.00

00:48:24.000 We kill the Batman. 1.00

00:48:29.000 Have you ever danced with a devil in the pale moonlight? 1.00

00:48:34.000 Did you?

00:48:35.000 No, but I did.

00:48:38.000 And I did like a devil.

00:48:39.000 I am not the monster.

00:48:42.000 No, I'm just the head of the crew.

00:48:45.000 Okay, so here's the thing.

00:48:47.000 I think this kind of works.

00:48:48.000 Now, the reason is because Tommy Wiseau is actually an insane person playing an insane person, so it's actually typecasting, to a certain extent.

00:48:55.000 It all works.

00:48:56.000 You put the makeup on him, you get rid of the accents a little bit, and it's not terrible.

00:49:00.000 So, he's better than Jared Leto, and I don't know what to tell you about that.

00:49:03.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.

00:49:09.000 So Betsy DeVos is, of course, the Secretary of Education.

00:49:13.000 She was on 60 Minutes, and Betsy DeVos made herself look not particularly good. 1.00

00:49:19.000 She was discussing education, the state of education in Michigan, where she was heavily involved in the education system, and it was not a good look for the Secretary of Education.

00:49:27.000 I hesitate to talk about all schools in general, because schools are made up of individual students attending them.

00:49:35.000 The public schools here,

00:49:38.000 Are doing worse than they did.

00:49:40.000 Michigan schools need to do better.

00:49:42.000 There is no doubt about it.

00:49:43.000 Have you seen the really bad schools?

00:49:45.000 Maybe try to figure out what they're doing?

00:49:48.000 I have not.

00:49:49.000 I have not.

00:49:50.000 I have not intentionally visited schools that are underperforming.

00:49:54.000 Maybe you should.

00:49:55.000 Maybe I should.

00:49:56.000 Yes.

00:49:57.000 OK, so she was ripped up and down for this particular interview. 0.68

00:50:00.000 Again, if members of the press, if members of the administration are not capable of doing interviews properly, they probably shouldn't be doing the interviews.

00:50:06.000 She didn't know much about the state of education in the state of Michigan.

00:50:09.000 Some of that was a little bit of gotcha because she's the secretary of education for the whole country, not just for the state of Michigan.

00:50:14.000 But again, you should be prepped for this sort of stuff.

00:50:17.000 And it was not a particularly good look.

00:50:19.000 OK.

00:50:19.000 A quick episode of Deconstructing the Culture.

00:50:21.000 So, we haven't done it in a while, but it's fun to take pieces of pop culture and look at them and see how pop culture shifts Americans' opinions on particular issues.

00:50:29.000 Well, one of the fans of The Ben Shapiro Show sent us a recommendation, so we will do it.

00:50:34.000 Keith Urban is one of the big country stars on planet Earth right now, and he has a new song called Female.

00:50:40.000 He actually sang it, I believe, at the Country Music Awards, if I'm not mistaken.

00:50:45.000 And this is his performance of the song Female.

00:50:47.000 This is, how do we put this, propaganda.

00:50:50.000 And now, if you want to be patted on the back by the critics, if you want to ensure that you are not seen as a bad, mean person, then you are supposed to do songs like this.

00:51:00.000 Unfortunately, it's not a good song.

00:51:01.000 Here's Keith Urban.

00:51:05.000 We're good to go.

00:51:34.000 So, number one, I'm not a big fan of songs that have one note, just as a general rule.

00:51:39.000 But beyond that, the other lyrics are, when you hear somebody say somebody hits like a girl, how does that hit you?

00:51:44.000 Is that such a bad thing?

00:51:45.000 When you hear a song they play saying you run the world, do you believe it?

00:51:47.000 Will you live to see it?

00:51:49.000 Okay, I'm so tired of this nonsense.

00:51:51.000 This is the part that's nonsense. 0.97

00:51:52.000 First of all, women do not rule the world. 1.00

00:51:55.000 People rule the world. 1.00

00:51:56.000 Some of those people are women and some of those people are men, but the idea that you inherently rule the world just because you're a woman is really stupid, just like it's a really stupid thing if it's the opposite, that men rule the world. 1.00

00:52:06.000 This kind of stuff is dumb. 1.00

00:52:07.000 When you hear somebody say somebody hits like a girl, how does that hit you? 0.98

00:52:12.000 Well, there is a difference between how women hit and how men hit, which is why we have separate weight divisions for men and women. 1.00

00:52:18.000 That's why men who are transgender and are trying to become women should not be able to compete in UFC with women, because they will legitimately shatter their faces. 1.00

00:52:26.000 Men have enormously heavier upper bodies. 1.00

00:52:29.000 It's just ridiculous. 0.97

00:52:30.000 And then he says, there's more of this kind of stuff. 0.98

00:52:33.000 When somebody laughs, it implies that she asked for it just because she was wearing a skirt.

00:52:37.000 Oh, is that how it works?

00:52:38.000 When somebody talks about how it was Adam first, does that make you second best?

00:52:41.000 Or did he save the best for last?

00:52:44.000 Oh, all the pandering.

00:52:46.000 All the pandering.

00:52:46.000 It's just painful.

00:52:48.000 I don't know who says she's asking for it when she walks around with a short skirt. 1.00

00:52:52.000 Is that like a thing?

00:52:53.000 Who's been saying that?

00:52:54.000 Because I haven't seen a lot of people saying that.

00:52:56.000 And again, this complete misread of the Bible where it says that Adam was first and then Eve was created from his rib and therefore women is inferior.

00:53:03.000 That's not the point of the story.

00:53:06.000 The point of the story is that men and women are the same and came from the same source.

00:53:10.000 And that man requires women to complete him and that woman requires man to complete her. 0.93

00:53:14.000 Okay?

00:53:14.000 That's the point of the story.

00:53:15.000 It's not that she was created second and therefore she was worse.

00:53:17.000 If that were the case, you know who was created last?

00:53:20.000 Humans.

00:53:21.000 Right?

00:53:22.000 Animals were created before man.

00:53:23.000 Does that mean that men are secondary on planet Earth according to the Bible? 1.00

00:53:25.000 The answer of course is no because that's an idiotic argument. 1.00

00:53:28.000 It's stupid. 1.00

00:53:29.000 God created bees before he created people according to the Bible. 1.00

00:53:33.000 That doesn't mean that people who came after are suddenly worse off or inferior.

00:53:38.000 And this sort of pandering, as I understand, you see it in novels now.

00:53:41.000 You see it in TV.

00:53:43.000 There's the pandering moment, where you just need that moment in the movie in order to get the critics on your side.

00:53:48.000 Infusing pop culture with all this stuff just because critics are left, I think, is really gross.

00:53:52.000 OK, we'll be back here tomorrow.

00:53:54.000 And we will be back here.

00:53:56.000 We will be back tomorrow with all the latest news.

00:53:59.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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