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00:00:34.000Security clearance status for Jared Kushner.
00:00:37.000We're going to talk about the confirmation bias that has now overrun the media.
00:00:41.000We're going to talk about Dick's Sporting Goods supposedly banning their sale of quote-unquote assault weapons, which they actually did five years ago and now they're just re-upping.
00:00:48.000But before we get to any of that, I first want to talk a little bit about more facts that are now coming out about the shooting.
00:00:54.000So every day there are more facts that are coming out about the shooting.
00:00:56.000Now, we sort of know what we know at this point until a full investigation is undergone.
00:01:00.000But here is a fact that should matter to you.
00:01:11.000So Rasmussen had a poll yesterday, a new survey, and it suggests, and this is after the CNN propaganda town hall, the two minutes hate on CNN.
00:01:23.00054% of American adults believe the failure of government agencies to respond to numerous warning signs from the prospective killer is more to blame for the mass shooting.
00:01:30.000Only 33% attribute the deaths more to a lack of adequate gun control.
00:01:36.000Among Americans who have elementary children, elementary school children, or secondary school aged children, 61% think the government is more to blame.
00:01:43.000Just 23% of those adults felt a lack of adequate gun control.
00:01:48.00041% of respondents, by the way, say that they opt for stricter gun control.
00:01:52.00040% say more action is needed to treat mental health issues.
00:01:55.000Only 50% of Democrats, actually, said that a lack of gun control was the real problem here.
00:02:01.000All of which is to say, whenever you see polls, there's some polls out today suggesting that even among Republicans, support for gun control is rising.
00:02:07.000You need to take all of that with a grain of salt.
00:02:08.000Because that's like asking Americans, as I've said in the past, it's like asking Americans, are you for less government spending?
00:02:47.000And the fact is that even Democrats are split on this.
00:02:49.000They don't want to talk about it, but they are.
00:02:51.000And that news is obvious since the Huffington Post reported yesterday morning
00:02:56.000That after the Las Vegas massacre, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's regional press secretary, Evan Lukasky, actually wrote to candidates in the Northeast not to politicize the shooting.
00:03:18.000Politicizing shootings in the aftermath of shootings is bad form, and it's gotten even worse over the past week and a half.
00:03:24.000All the media reported this was just a grassroots movement that was happening on gun control, and now it turns out that the so-called March for Our Lives that's happening in Washington, D.C.
00:03:33.000Some of the student witnesses and student survivors at Parkland are going to be the featured speakers that this is now being backed by Planned Parenthood.
00:03:41.000It's being backed by Black Lives Matter.
00:04:08.000North Texas Sheriff put out a notice that got him wide acclaim.
00:04:11.000The Denton County Sheriff Tracy Murphy told his deputies, quote, with the recent tragedy in Florida, I wanted to make clear my policy on responding to an active shooter.
00:04:21.000All commission deputies, if you respond to an active shooter, you are expected to take immediate action.
00:04:39.000This is the way that most Americans feel about what the authorities ought to be doing, even though the left wants to suggest that this was not a failure of authority.
00:04:47.000The left would prefer to jump into the debate on this moralistic level.
00:04:51.000The left would prefer to suggest that there's a moral failure that's taking part on the place of those who do not support widespread gun control.
00:05:31.000There are a bunch of people on the left who didn't like that he said this.
00:05:34.000There are a bunch of people who thought, oh, it's just terrible that he would say something like this, but he is 100% correct.
00:05:39.000The fact is that the left has turned this into a referendum on the moral character of people who disagree with them, and most Americans are not up for that.
00:05:46.000Most Americans are not interested in castigating their fellow Americans as murderers and murderer supporters, which is why it's really fascinating.
00:05:53.000There have been a bunch of corporations that have disassociated from the NRA over the last week.
00:05:57.000There was a pullout today from Morning Consult that showed every single corporation, every single corporation that disassociated from the NRA in the aftermath of this gun control debate has been losing, losing public support because they'll gain four or five points in public support from Democrats, but lose 60% of public support from Republicans who feel like they're under attack.
00:06:16.000And the reason Republicans feel like they're under attack is because they are under attack.
00:06:20.000The left, they say they're not for removing Second Amendment rights, they only want rational, reasonable gun controls.
00:07:03.000The notion that it's just military technology in the hands of civilians
00:07:07.000Again, every rifle then is military technology in the hands of civilians because every rifle was at some point military technology in the hands of civilians.
00:07:14.000Even bolt action rifles were military technology in the hands of civilians.
00:07:18.000This argument is akin to saying that the engine in your car is just like the engines in the cars of people in the military.
00:07:23.000Okay, that's true, but it doesn't take you very far.
00:07:26.000And when people on the left rip on the AR-15 and suggest the AR-15 is the root of all evil, this just demonstrates complete lack of gun knowledge.
00:07:32.000There are a thousand types of the AR-15.
00:07:34.000There are many, many different types of semi-automatic rifle that fire at similar velocity with similar caliber ammunition.
00:07:41.000Banning the AR-15 or the branded AR-15 would do nothing to stop the spread of rifles and it would do nothing to stop the the actual problem of school shootings.
00:07:51.000By the way, there's a study out today showing that school shootings have actually been declining in recent years.
00:07:57.000We're not allowed to talk about these statistics, of course, because to do so is seen as somehow undermining the case in favor of pushing against school shootings.
00:08:05.000But the reality is that just as gun violence in the United States has declined markedly from its highs in 1992-1993, school shootings have been declining in recent years pretty rapidly.
00:08:14.000That doesn't mean that what happened in Parkland isn't tragic and horrible and an act of evil.
00:08:18.000It does mean that we ought to take a look at the measures that we are purporting to push and compare those to the rights that we are attempting to infringe.
00:08:27.000And what rights are we attempting to infringe?
00:08:29.000Well, the answer is all semi-automatic rifles.
00:08:32.000So Ari Melber made this case on MSNBC.
00:08:36.000He's given a lot of credit for the left from this, because Ari Melber is a lawyer.
00:08:40.000But he does really bad legal analysis here, and I will explain why.
00:08:43.000He explains the Second Amendment, in his view, does not protect AR-15s.
00:09:07.000Okay, what he says there, if you go back to the screen where he puts up some text on the screen, the screen that he says there, what he says is that the Supreme Court has never ruled that AR-15s are protected by the Second Amendment.
00:09:17.000Well, that does not mean that there is no right to an AR-15.
00:09:20.000The Supreme Court has never actually ruled on whether Twitter is protected by the First Amendment.
00:09:25.000Because that's never come up before the Supreme Court.
00:09:27.000The Supreme Court rejects certiorari on cases all the time.
00:09:30.000Doesn't mean that the right doesn't exist.
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00:10:53.000Okay, so, Melbourne makes the case, makes this argument, that because the Supreme Court has rejected certiorari, certiorari is an appeal, so the way it works is that
00:11:01.000You have a case, it goes to a district court judge, that is then appealed up to a circuit court judge, it goes to the circuit court of appeals, and then finally it's appealed all the way up to the Supreme Court.
00:11:10.000What is sent to the Supreme Court is something called a writ of certiorari, which is essentially a petition asking that the Supreme Court take up the case.
00:11:16.000Now the Supreme Court will reject writs of certiorari for a variety of reasons.
00:11:19.000Some of those reasons include the fact they agree with the court of appeals.
00:11:23.000Sometimes they say the case isn't ripe.
00:11:25.000It's a very common claim that a case has not actually reached ripeness because there are a bunch of other circuit courts that have not ruled on the case.
00:11:32.000There are cases where they say that it's not just an issue of law they want to take up.
00:11:35.000There are a million reasons to reject writs of certiorari.
00:11:39.000And it is also true that none of the cases that have been brought before the Supreme Court specifically deal with AR-15s because there's not a state in the country that has attempted to actually ban AR-15s.
00:11:48.000Even in California, there was only recently an attempt to quasi-ban AR-15s, but even that ban is not supremely clear.
00:11:55.000And certainly, confiscation of AR-15s has never been tried.
00:11:58.000And if it were to go up to the Supreme Court, there's a very good shot that it would be shot down.
00:12:02.000But Melber suggests, and this is actually a really dangerous constitutional point that Melber is making, because it essentially says that if the Supreme Court has not ruled on an issue, you don't have a right to it.
00:12:11.000So if the Supreme Court hasn't ruled on whether Twitter is protected free speech, then that means that you don't have a right to it.
00:12:18.000Now, you see, Melba would never agree to the same logic with regard to, say, same-sex marriage before Obergefell, right?
00:12:23.000So before Obergefell, the Supreme Court rejected same-sex marriage cases over and over and over, rejected a bunch of writs of certiorari, and would Ari Melba have said, there is no right to same-sex marriage at that time?
00:12:33.000No, of course he wouldn't have said that.
00:12:34.000He would have said, in my view, there's a right to same-sex marriage, it's inherent in the text of the Constitution, and just because the Supreme Court has not accepted the case yet, doesn't mean the right doesn't exist.
00:12:43.000The reality is that under the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, the Constitution explicitly states that rights that are not overtly stated in the Constitution of the United States itself are still rights that are held by the people.
00:12:55.000In other words, the Bill of Rights is not meant to be a comprehensive charter of rights.
00:12:59.000It's meant to point out some of the most specific rights that it wants protected from the federal government, but that does not mean that there are other rights that don't exist.
00:13:33.000When Ari Melber says he wants to ban an AR-15, when the New York Times points out the AR-15, that means they want to ban every semi-automatic rifle in the United States.
00:13:40.000Because there is no serious distinction between a Bushmaster 223 and an AR-15.
00:13:45.000There is no significant distinction between a Springfield rifle and an AR-15.
00:13:55.000All of which fire the same sort of caliber ammunition, and just because some look scarier than others doesn't mean that they are less scary than others, which is why when you take a course in guns the very first thing they say is that of course you don't fire it anywhere near a person.
00:14:06.000Of course you don't fire it at something you're not willing to destroy.
00:14:15.000They are meant to kill people, presumably people who are bad who come into your home.
00:14:19.000But a rifle, as a tool of killing, that does not mean that a rifle itself is so inherently dangerous that we have to ban all of them.
00:14:28.000This one-to-one correlation the left attempts to draw between the number of guns in a particular society and the level of murder in a particular society just does not hold.
00:14:36.000And that's particularly true for rifles.
00:14:38.000More people are killed by hands and fists every year in the United States than are killed by rifles in the United States.
00:14:44.000And gun ownership, you know, owned by a civilian population generally, is not a good proxy for crime rate.
00:14:49.000Gun ownership rates in places like Vermont are extraordinarily high.
00:14:51.000Vermont has an extraordinarily low crime rate.
00:14:53.000The same thing is true in New Hampshire.
00:14:55.000And if you go to other states, some places, Louisiana, there's a very high gun ownership rate, there's a very high crime rate.
00:15:00.000Now, important to note, most of that crime is not taking place in the boonies.
00:15:03.000Most of that crime is taking place in the major cities, most of which have actual gun control regulations on the books, and most of which are governed by Democrats.
00:15:11.000All of which is to say that the simplistic attempt to draw a point of concurrence between a cross-point of data, between gun ownership and murder, that doesn't really hold.
00:15:25.000It doesn't even hold in Europe, by the way, where Norway has many more guns per civilian than Britain does, and Britain has twice as bad a murder rate.
00:15:33.000So, the statistics just do not hold for any of this.
00:15:37.000Now, in a second, I'm going to show you how it is that there are so many folks on the left who ignore all of this in favor of the virtue signaling.
00:15:46.000Now, one of the great irritants, I think, one of the things that's helping to destroy comedy in the country is the feeling that there are certain areas of American life that used to be off-limits for politics, where we didn't feel like we were going to be assaulted based on our politics when we turned on our TV and we watched Johnny Carson.
00:16:00.000Johnny Carson was studiously anti-political, meaning that he was a Democrat, apparently.
00:16:06.000He was not a Reagan fan, although he got to know Reagan and ended up liking him.
00:17:29.000And so all of the late night hosts universally talking about how stupid it is to talk about why good people with guns can stop bad people with guns.
00:17:51.000And all of this is really quite terrible for the level of political discourse in the country, because when you have laughing audiences scoffing at the idea that an armed teacher can save anyone, and you suggest that maybe we ought to arm more security guards in schools, and Jimmy Kimmel just laughs that off by suggesting that an armed security guard did nothing at this school, even though there are many schools all over the country where armed security guards every day are stopping people with weapons.
00:18:16.000I think over 50% of schools have some form of armed security.
00:18:19.000And those armed security guards, metal detectors, there are a lot of weapons that are stopped every year going through those metal detectors.
00:18:25.000Apparently, Jimmy Kimmel opposes those as well, simply because he thinks that a generalized regime of gun control is better.
00:18:31.000And then he and Colbert and Fallon, all of them suggest that if you oppose their agenda, which they've not made clear, they haven't exactly said what they want other than mass banning of guns, which is never going to happen.
00:18:40.000There are 300 million weapons in the country and 100 million rifles.
00:18:43.000But when you say it when they suggest that if you oppose them, this means that you are a bad person.
00:18:48.000And what's amazing is that they felt no blowback in the ratings.
00:18:50.000Now, part of this, I think, is the universality of leftist feeling and late night means that you have no alternative.
00:18:56.000What are you going to switch from Kimmel to Fallon so you can hear the same gun control messaging?
00:19:00.000But part of it is also that the ratings are so far down on all of these shows overall that the audience is fragmented.
00:19:07.000OK, Jimmy Kimmel's ratings are not anything like what Johnny Carson's ratings used to be, because there are lots of networks.
00:19:11.000Very few people are actually watching these late-night shows in comparison to the number of people who were watching late-night shows before.
00:19:30.000I think that, you know, I'm still doing a comedy show, and I need to be funny and entertain my audience, but I also think that we've matured enough to the point where we can accept late-night talk show hosts speaking about a serious subject, and I think that it's almost necessary now.
00:19:50.000Okay, it's almost necessary now for late-night hosts to talk about political subjects?
00:19:53.000Well, actually, what Jimmy Kimmel has shown is it's necessary for our late-night hosts to study the subjects before they talk about them, because literally every day he says something that's stupid about politics, including in that clip, a very short clip, him talking about automatic weapons being used in the shooting, which, of course, they were not.
00:20:08.000And it's not just Jimmy Kimmel, unfortunately.
00:20:10.000The entire media have shown themselves, virtually the entire media have shown themselves to be activists on gun control issues rather than objective journalists.
00:20:17.000So today's examples come courtesy of CNN.
00:20:23.000There are all these folks in the media who are constantly complaining that people like President Trump are ripping on the media, that people like me are ripping on the media.
00:20:32.000Or that Trump, more importantly, Trump rips on the media and therefore Americans don't like the media.
00:20:37.000No, as I said in my speech at CPAC, we didn't like you before.
00:20:39.000We had serious problems with the media before, because we feel like you're lying to us when you claim that you're objective, when you are clearly not objective.
00:20:48.000Okay, now, as an example of CNN not being objective, today, Dick's Sporting Goods announced that they were going to immediately halt sales of assault-style rifles and high-capacity magazines at all of their stores, including their Field & Stream stores, I guess they have these things, and ban the sales of all guns to anyone under 21.
00:21:04.000After Sandy Hook, they'd already stopped the sale of assault-style weapons, which is a meaningless term, meaning essentially rifles that look scary.
00:21:27.000I mean, the reality is who cares, because most people who are buying from Dick's Sporting Goods were not actually buying assault-style rifles from Dick's Sporting Goods.
00:21:37.000If they want to raise their age of buying to 21, that's fine.
00:21:39.000It just means the person who's 19 and wants to buy a handgun is simply going to walk across the street to the local gun store and buy a handgun in accordance
00:22:08.000If you believe that the problem in front of us is that all guns are the threat, and that the sale of legal weapons to law-abiding citizens is the real threat, then maybe you should stop selling all guns.
00:22:17.000In fact, Stack revealed that the shooter in this case had purchased a shotgun at a store, at a Dick's store, within the past four months.
00:22:25.000Okay, so is anything that they're doing?
00:22:28.000Apparently, I guess, you know, their new rules that they won't sell to anybody under 21 would have stopped him from getting a gun at a Dick's store.
00:22:35.000Okay, so he waits until he's 21 and he buys a gun at a Dick's store.
00:22:38.000Like, if they actually think the shotgun is the threat, not the person, then they should be banning the sale of all guns.
00:22:43.000They should just stop selling guns, Dick's sporting goods.
00:22:45.000And I'm amazed, sort of, that the media have fallen for this PR trap from Dick's, but this is what they have fallen for.
00:22:52.000The anchors over at CNN have made mockeries of themselves as, quote-unquote, objective journalists.
00:23:38.000Because there are only certain stands that CNN actually likes.
00:23:40.000And CNN has been doing this for weeks now, from that awful town hall event to botching basic reporting about weapons.
00:23:47.000There was a CNN host yesterday who talked about a full semi-automatic, which doesn't even make any sense.
00:23:53.000What the hell is a full semi-automatic supposed to mean?
00:23:55.000A semi-automatic just means you pull the trigger once and a bullet comes out.
00:23:58.000But it's a full semi-automatic, and then there's a really funny video of him trying to fire a semi-automatic weapon, and the gun jumping in his hands because he doesn't know how to fire a weapon, doesn't know how to lock it into his shoulder.
00:24:11.000And my wife fires an AR better than he fires an AR.
00:24:14.000And then, you know, botching basic facts about the weapons, allowing these students to go on national television and make unquestioned assertions about the evils of the people with whom they are talking.
00:24:25.000One of the things that people don't talk about a lot of these schools, Sandy Hook had an all-female faculty, from principal to teachers, and for a woman,
00:24:45.000Where are you going to hide that gun during the day?
00:24:54.000On your person, if you wear a dress, if you wear a skirt, are you going to have to wear a jacket every day with a belt and a holster the way a detective, you know, on duty would do?
00:25:04.000It's not a real practical solution, even for a variety of reasons.
00:25:15.000I mean, I hate to break it to CNN, but, you know, outside of hijab land, you know, outside of, like, places where women are forced to wear skirts, you know, and forced to wear dresses all over the world, I'm not talking all Muslim communities.
00:25:28.000There are lots of Muslim women who wear pants.
00:25:30.000Outside of places where women are forced to do that, in a free society like the United States, lots of women wear pants.
00:26:09.000But that just goes right by the wayside because the media are attempting to portray all of this as foolishness.
00:26:15.000Now, I do want to point out something that I think is worth pointing out.
00:26:19.000Because there are so many people on the right who are willing to jump to conclusions about the media because the media are clearly biased in these situations, and they did jump to conclusions and we had a piece over at the Daily Wire, well actually it was more of a tweet from one of our writers over at the Daily Wire, who jumped to a conclusion about
00:26:34.000The notion that the town hall was rigged, that certain students were told that they couldn't come because they wanted to ask certain questions, and so CNN banned them from the proceedings.
00:26:43.000It now turns out that one of the Parkland shooting survivors' father has admitted to altering his evidence that CNN scripted his town hall question.
00:26:51.000I think it's important to point that out in the nature of intellectual honesty.
00:26:54.000There's a big confirmation bias that's happening right now, a really strong confirmation bias.
00:26:57.000If you like what Jimmy Kimmel is saying, you pretend that he knows what he's talking about.
00:27:02.000Then you're willing to overlook false statements about CNN?
00:27:05.000I'm going to go out of my way here to point out that that was a false report.
00:27:09.000So it's not true that CNN rigged the town hall by scripting questions for the students.
00:27:13.000It is true, obviously, that there is a selection bias in play in terms of the audience.
00:27:17.000When you go to Broward County, to a place where it's pro-gun control anyway, that voted for Hillary Clinton, and you talk to a bunch of students who are pro-gun control, you're going to end up with a gun control show trial, which is exactly what
00:27:46.000The White House Chief of Staff John Kelly temporarily stripped all White House staffers with interim top-level security clearance of that clearance.
00:27:53.000Instead, downgraded everyone to quote-unquote secret security clearance.
00:27:56.000So this means that top-secret material can no longer be seen by Jared.
00:27:59.000Jared had interim top-secret clearance so he could see all this material.
00:28:03.000And so Jared has basically been downgraded for at least what they say is a short period of time.
00:28:08.000Now he's 15 months in, and the FBI has still not fully cleared him.
00:28:11.000One of the reasons the FBI has not fully cleared him is because he's involved in the Mueller investigation.
00:28:15.000The Mueller investigation hasn't cleared anyone yet, so the FBI has not cleared anyone yet.
00:28:18.000So anyone who's even tangentially being investigated in the Mueller investigation, anyone who's been called in for questioning, has not yet received full security clearance.
00:28:46.000Not really, because John Kelly did it to everyone, including Jared Kushner, who had an interim security clearance, mainly because of the blowback that he was receiving after Rob Porter, who had interim security clearance, was found to have not been granted security clearance by the FBI because of the allegations of wife beating.
00:29:00.000So this was a response by Kelly to the Rob Porter thing, and Kushner got caught up in the center.
00:29:06.000Does that mean that Jared is completely clean?
00:29:13.000But the media are working overtime to suggest that the rejection of top-secret security clearance for Jared is an indication of his guilt or his corruption.
00:29:54.000If we are now going to suggest that anyone who was once rejected for FBI top-secret security clearance, not just put on interim hold, as Jared is, but rejected for top-secret security clearance, is out of bounds and corrupt, then we ought to start with someone who actually was rejected by the FBI for top-secret security clearance.
00:30:09.000That, of course, would be Obama White House Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes.
00:30:12.000Now, what's amazing is back in January, so not very long ago, in January 2017, the Washington Free Beacon reported that Ben Rhodes was openly rejected by the FBI for his clearance.
00:30:23.000And then he was cleared by the Obama administration under vague circumstances.
00:30:26.000They just went around the FBI and Obama granted him clearance.
00:30:44.000Also worth noting that when it comes to this other report, that there are four different countries that were looking to manipulate Jared, Mexico, Israel, China, and the UAE.
00:30:56.000I'm sure that they were looking for ways to manipulate members of the Obama administration as well.
00:30:59.000The question isn't, do foreign governments try to manipulate American government members?
00:31:03.000The question is, are they successful in doing so, or do they actually have real leverage?
00:31:09.000So the media jumping to conclusion about Kushner and suggesting that this just demonstrates that there's infighting in the White House, there's chaos, and in the end of the... Okay, don't buy any of that.
00:31:20.000Don't jump to the conclusion that the media would like for you to jump to.
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00:32:02.000All right, so just to show you how biased the media have been on the Jared and Ivanka matter, let me show you a couple clips from the media.
00:32:09.000One of these particularly is really, really, really funny.
00:32:12.000So Rachel Maddow, you know, she, over on MSNBC, she says that the Trump administration is a cautionary tale about nepotism.
00:32:18.000So here's what Rachel Maddow had to say.
00:32:22.000The textbook explanation, the textbook case studies about nepotism, about a friends-and-family approach to governance, right?
00:32:31.000In the future, when there are after-school specials about the Uzbekistanization of the American government, and what's wrong with that, and why it doesn't work, and what could possibly go wrong, those stories will all be crystal clear.
00:34:18.000Before you read any of those headlines, I would like to point out that Trump's proposal on DACA was significantly more generous than Barack Obama's proposal on DACA.
00:34:25.000DACA only legalized 700,000 illegal immigrants.
00:34:48.000President Trump's proposal would have legalized 1.8 million illegal immigrants and let another 4 million legal immigrants come in through chain migration over the next 15 years, as the Center for Immigration Studies proposes.
00:34:59.000In return, all he wanted was $25 billion to build that Trump wall and some additional funding for border security, as well as some curbs on chain migration.
00:35:09.000The Democrats didn't give them to him.
00:35:10.000And Sarah Huckabee Sanders is exactly right when she says that Trump did go above and beyond on DACA.
00:35:15.000He did a lot more than Obama ever did.
00:35:17.000He's encouraging them to get something done.
00:35:18.000That's why he laid out exactly what he expected to see in a proposal that would not only help solve the DACA problem, but also provide border security.
00:35:30.000The president went above and beyond what previous administrations have done and offered on that program.
00:35:36.000It's really sad that Democrats are not willing to come to the table, get something done, and actually fix problems and do their job.
00:35:42.000And of course, that is 100% true, what Sarah Huckabee Sanders is saying there.
00:35:46.000But Democrats are not coming to the table, and they're not coming to the table for one very specific reason.
00:35:50.000And that is, they think that Republicans lose this issue no matter what.
00:35:53.000They feel like either Trump reinstates DACA illegally and overthrows his own promise, gets blowback from his base, or he leaves DACA dead and he starts deporting people.
00:36:05.000That's probably not what's going to happen here, by the way, because Lindsey Graham, who is really soft on immigration,
00:36:10.000He gives some political analysis here that is not completely wrong.
00:36:13.000He says that if DACA ends, and if all these DACA recipients are deported, that it's going to be bad politically for Republicans.
00:36:18.000This is probably correct, even if you disagree with him on the policy of it.
00:36:21.000We did nothing, and just ended DACA, and did nothing else, and a lot of these young people start getting deported, then that would destroy the party.
00:36:31.000So I don't think that's even a viable option.
00:36:34.000Now, Trump knows that, which is why the chances that he is going to start deporting millions of people are really, really low.
00:36:40.000It's the reason why Trump is not going to do this.
00:36:42.000DACA is not going to be reinstated in all likelihood, but Trump is just not going to deport these folks.
00:36:47.000And that means they won't be able to get work permits.
00:36:49.000It means that, theoretically, they could be subject to future deportation.
00:36:51.000But we all know that it's only a matter of time until somebody gives them amnesty.
00:36:57.000These folks will be given amnesty because no one has the political stones to actually say that people who are here illegally and came in as children should be deported.
00:37:05.000Now, do I think they should actually be deported?
00:37:07.000I think that we should analyze on a one-to-one basis whether people ought to be in the country.
00:37:11.000If we have the ability as a country to decide who ought to be here and who ought not to be here, then we should determine which of these dreamers are actually people who are of benefit to the United States and which ones are not.
00:37:20.000You don't have a right to be here just because you were brought here through no fault of your own.
00:37:23.000If somebody illegally sneaked you into Disneyland, Disneyland would not have to then give you a day pass.
00:38:11.000He pulled the legal rug from underneath the dreamers and then cloaked his position on immigration in an ethnocentric, pro-European, pro-white agenda that will hurt America.
00:38:22.000But it must start with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle saying, yes, we want to solve the problem and we want to rise above the racism emanating from the White House.
00:38:32.000Okay, so this is the attack Democrats are going to take.
00:39:16.000Democrats are going to continue to go radical on this.
00:39:18.000Joy Behar says, Republicans have a penchant for Nazis, which comes as a shock to me since I've been a lifelong Republican and I freaking hate Nazis since they come after me all the time and they are evil.
00:39:28.000But here's Joy Behar making that case on The View.
00:39:30.000The CPAC group invited this woman from France named Marine Le Pen, whose father was a Holocaust denier and a total fascist and a Nazi.
00:39:39.000And Marine Le Pen, the daughter, thinks her father was very good and right and everything else.
00:40:10.000That said, if we're going to talk about, you know, branding the entire Republican Party Nazi because Marian LePen showed up at CPAC invited,
00:40:17.000Then we're going to also have to talk about Louis Farrakhan being invited to all the top halls of power and the deputy chair of the DNC spending time with Louis Farrakhan and the entire Congressional Black Caucus spending time with Louis Farrakhan.
00:40:27.000Louis Farrakhan is every bit the Nazi that Marion Le Pen is and much more openly.
00:40:32.000Again, they're bad apples, and this is not a whataboutism thing.
00:40:35.000Marian LePen should not have been invited to CPAC.
00:40:37.000Republicans should not have been embracing Marian LePen.
00:40:41.000Republicans should not have embraced the alt-right.
00:40:42.000I was very loud and proud about this for years.
00:40:45.000But to suggest that the Republicans are the sole repository of racism and anti-Semitism is just inaccurate.
00:40:51.000OK, both parties have some problems with this, and both parties need to do something about it, but only one party has policies that reflect anti-Semitism, and that party is not the party of Donald Trump, unfortunately.
00:41:00.000OK, time for a quick thing I like and then a quick thing that I hate.
00:41:30.000Okay, this is not for kids, and it's not for the faint of heart.
00:41:32.000But basically, the premise is that he is a cop in early 19th century Britain, I believe, is the time period that this is taking place in.
00:41:44.000And, like, Dickens is London, basically, and he is checking out a murder when he comes across a body that's been stitched together of a variety of different bodies.
00:42:42.000The entire Democratic Party decided they were going to tweet about net neutrality yesterday.
00:42:46.000They don't know anything about net neutrality.
00:42:48.000And it's pretty obvious from their tweet.
00:42:49.000So Chuck Schumer tweeted, without net neutrality, when a couple is streaming their favorite Netflix show but it keeps lagging and killing the mood, who will be to blame?
00:42:57.000Um, no one uses Netflix for foreplay, dude.
00:43:01.000In fact, Netflix, there are actually a fair number of studies that suggest that streaming television has actually lowered the number of times people have sex in a given month because too many people are watching Netflix and then it's too late and they're tired and they go to bed instead of having sex with one another.
00:43:14.000I love that Chuck Schumer thinks that streaming is what makes sex happen.
00:43:20.000Other things happen through pornography, but streaming does not make sex happen.
00:43:25.000The people who are watching Netflix are the ones least likely to be having sex.
00:43:29.000If you're busy watching the Frankenstein Chronicles, you're not using that as foreplay on Netflix.
00:43:33.000But the Democrats were tweeting about this incessantly yesterday.
00:43:36.000They were tweeting out that if net neutrality happens, then the Internet will be brought to you one word at a time.
00:43:40.000I don't even know what the hell that means.
00:43:42.000And then they double-spaced it to annoy everybody.
00:43:44.000If you're going to make arguments, people in the Democratic Party, you're going to have to do better.
00:43:48.000You're going to have to have some people who are younger to make these arguments on net neutrality, who know what the internet is, and what a computer is, and what bandwidth is, and what streaming looks like, who have ever watched a show on Netflix.
00:43:57.000How about some people who don't actually get cable?
00:43:59.000Most of the people my age at this point are not getting cable, they're getting Netflix or Amazon.