The Ben Shapiro Show - How Late Night Went Left | Ep. 485

00:00:00.000 Kimmel, Fallon, Colbert, all of them go after the NRA.

00:00:03.000 Americans are not buying what the media is selling.

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00:00:09.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:10.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:15.000 Oh, we have so many things to get to today.

00:00:17.000 I'm speaking tonight in Omaha.

00:00:18.000 We are sold out.

00:00:20.000 1,500-seat theater.

00:00:21.000 I'm doing a full-on exposition on the Second Amendment, what its meaning is, where it comes from, and what it protects tonight.

00:00:27.000 So look for that online or if you're there in person.

00:00:29.000 I look forward to seeing you there.

00:00:31.000 We have a lot to get to on the show as well.

00:00:32.000 We're going to talk about the

00:00:34.000 Security clearance status for Jared Kushner.

00:00:37.000 We're going to talk about the confirmation bias that has now overrun the media.

00:00:41.000 We'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.

00:00:48.000 But 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.

00:00:54.000 So every day there are more facts that are coming out about the shooting.

00:00:56.000 Now, we sort of know what we know at this point until a full investigation is undergone.

00:01:00.000 But here is a fact that should matter to you.

00:01:02.000 When it comes to how Americans feel

00:01:04.000 about what happened in Parkland and who they blame about what happened in Parkland.

00:01:09.000 It is not the NRA.

00:01:10.000 It is not law-abiding gun owners.

00:01:11.000 So 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.

00:01:20.000 Here's what Rasmussen reports, quote,

00:01:23.000 54% 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.

00:01:30.000 Only 33% attribute the deaths more to a lack of adequate gun control.

00:01:35.000 11% opt for something else.

00:01:36.000 Among Americans who have elementary children, elementary school children, or secondary school aged children, 61% think the government is more to blame.

00:01:43.000 Just 23% of those adults felt a lack of adequate gun control.

00:01:48.000 41% of respondents, by the way, say that they opt for stricter gun control.

00:01:52.000 40% say more action is needed to treat mental health issues.

00:01:55.000 Only 50% of Democrats, actually, said that a lack of gun control was the real problem here.

00:02:01.000 All 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.

00:02:07.000 You need to take all of that with a grain of salt.

00:02:08.000 Because that's like asking Americans, as I've said in the past, it's like asking Americans, are you for less government spending?

00:02:14.000 The answer is always yes.

00:02:15.000 But then you say, OK, what do you want to see cut?

00:02:17.000 And suddenly Americans run for the hills.

00:02:19.000 Well, the same thing is true with regard to gun control.

00:02:21.000 People say, are you for more gun control?

00:02:23.000 Most people go, yeah, sounds good.

00:02:24.000 Why not?

00:02:25.000 Keeps guns out of the hands of bad people.

00:02:28.000 And then when you say, OK, well, that's going to mean we're going to have to ban all the rifles.

00:02:30.000 Then all the Americans say, well, no, we're not going to do that.

00:02:33.000 Then the polls suddenly shift.

00:02:34.000 So specifics are very different from general propositions that are put forward in these polling numbers.

00:02:39.000 All of which goes to show you that the media's attempt to paint this as the shifting point on gun control, it's just not true.

00:02:46.000 It's just not correct.

00:02:47.000 And the fact is that even Democrats are split on this.

00:02:49.000 They don't want to talk about it, but they are.

00:02:51.000 And that news is obvious since the Huffington Post reported yesterday morning

00:02:56.000 That 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.

00:03:05.000 He wrote, quote,

00:03:17.000 Now, Lukaski was right.

00:03:18.000 Politicizing shootings in the aftermath of shootings is bad form, and it's gotten even worse over the past week and a half.

00:03:24.000 All 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.

00:03:32.000 on March 24th, at which

00:03:33.000 Some 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.

00:03:41.000 It's being backed by Black Lives Matter.

00:03:42.000 It's being backed by MoveOn.org.

00:03:44.000 It's being backed by Everytown for gun safety.

00:03:46.000 So all of these organized leftist

00:03:50.000 We're good.

00:04:08.000 North Texas Sheriff put out a notice that got him wide acclaim.

00:04:11.000 The 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.

00:04:21.000 All commission deputies, if you respond to an active shooter, you are expected to take immediate action.

00:04:25.000 We do not stage and wait for SWAT.

00:04:27.000 We do not cover in a parking lot.

00:04:28.000 We do not wait for another agency.

00:04:30.000 We go in and do our duty.

00:04:31.000 We go in to engage and stop the shooter and save lives.

00:04:33.000 If for any reason you feel you cannot follow this directive, please inform your supervisor and we will work to get you

00:04:38.000 Reassigned.

00:04:39.000 This 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.

00:04:47.000 The left would prefer to jump into the debate on this moralistic level.

00:04:51.000 The 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.

00:04:59.000 And that, of course, is not true.

00:05:00.000 Marco Rubio is one of the people who's been hit hardest from that.

00:05:03.000 Senator Rubio from Florida.

00:05:04.000 You remember he was at that town hall, two minutes hate on CNN, and he was shellacked by a bunch of the students.

00:05:10.000 One of the students even comparing him to the mass shooter himself.

00:05:14.000 Rubio put out a tweet today that I think sums up the state of our gun control debate.

00:05:17.000 He said, quote,

00:05:30.000 Now, he's getting ratioed, right?

00:05:31.000 There are a bunch of people on the left who didn't like that he said this.

00:05:34.000 There are a bunch of people who thought, oh, it's just terrible that he would say something like this, but he is 100% correct.

00:05:39.000 The 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.

00:05:46.000 Most Americans are not interested in castigating their fellow Americans as murderers and murderer supporters, which is why it's really fascinating.

00:05:53.000 There have been a bunch of corporations that have disassociated from the NRA over the last week.

00:05:57.000 There 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.

00:06:16.000 And the reason Republicans feel like they're under attack is because they are under attack.

00:06:20.000 The left, they say they're not for removing Second Amendment rights, they only want rational, reasonable gun controls.

00:06:25.000 That's just not true.

00:06:27.000 They want to remove semi-automatic weapons from every person in the United States if they could have their way.

00:06:31.000 That is the end goal.

00:06:32.000 They won't be honest about it, many members of the left, but this is actually what they want.

00:06:36.000 And you can see it in the arguments that they're making.

00:06:38.000 So today, the New York Times has a full piece about how the AR-15 is essentially military technology in the hands of civilians.

00:06:45.000 Well, that's true of any semi-automatic rifle.

00:06:47.000 They say, well, look at the AR-15.

00:06:48.000 Look at its muzzle velocity.

00:06:49.000 It has 3,000 feet per second muzzle velocity.

00:06:52.000 This is true of any .223 or 5.56 millimeter ammo-firing rifle.

00:06:57.000 The muzzle velocity on those rifles is very high.

00:07:00.000 It always has been.

00:07:01.000 It will continue to be.

00:07:03.000 The notion that it's just military technology in the hands of civilians

00:07:07.000 Again, 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.

00:07:14.000 Even bolt action rifles were military technology in the hands of civilians.

00:07:18.000 This argument is akin to saying that the engine in your car is just like the engines in the cars of people in the military.

00:07:23.000 Okay, that's true, but it doesn't take you very far.

00:07:26.000 And 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.

00:07:32.000 There are a thousand types of the AR-15.

00:07:34.000 There are many, many different types of semi-automatic rifle that fire at similar velocity with similar caliber ammunition.

00:07:41.000 Banning 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.

00:07:51.000 By the way, there's a study out today showing that school shootings have actually been declining in recent years.

00:07:56.000 Not increasing, declining.

00:07:57.000 We'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.

00:08:05.000 But 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.

00:08:14.000 That doesn't mean that what happened in Parkland isn't tragic and horrible and an act of evil.

00:08:18.000 It 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.

00:08:27.000 And what rights are we attempting to infringe?

00:08:29.000 Well, the answer is all semi-automatic rifles.

00:08:32.000 So Ari Melber made this case on MSNBC. 0.76

00:08:36.000 He's given a lot of credit for the left from this, because Ari Melber is a lawyer.

00:08:40.000 But he does really bad legal analysis here, and I will explain why.

00:08:43.000 He explains the Second Amendment, in his view, does not protect AR-15s.

00:08:46.000 His logic here makes no sense.

00:08:48.000 The Second Amendment does not apply to AR-15s. 0.99

00:08:50.000 It does not apply to assault-style weapons.

00:08:53.000 It never has.

00:08:55.000 Congress may legally ban those weapons without touching the Second Amendment.

00:09:00.000 That's a legal fact.

00:09:03.000 Okay, that is not a legal fact.

00:09:05.000 That is not a legal fact.

00:09:07.000 Okay, 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.

00:09:17.000 Well, that does not mean that there is no right to an AR-15.

00:09:20.000 The Supreme Court has never actually ruled on whether Twitter is protected by the First Amendment.

00:09:25.000 Because that's never come up before the Supreme Court.

00:09:27.000 The Supreme Court rejects certiorari on cases all the time.

00:09:30.000 Doesn't mean that the right doesn't exist.

00:09:32.000 The case is legally illiterate.

00:09:33.000 I'll explain why it's even more legally illiterate in just a second. 0.76

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00:10:53.000 Okay, 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

00:11:01.000 You 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.

00:11:10.000 What 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.

00:11:16.000 Now the Supreme Court will reject writs of certiorari for a variety of reasons.

00:11:19.000 Some of those reasons include the fact they agree with the court of appeals.

00:11:23.000 Sometimes they say the case isn't ripe.

00:11:25.000 It'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.

00:11:32.000 There are cases where they say that it's not just an issue of law they want to take up.

00:11:35.000 There are a million reasons to reject writs of certiorari.

00:11:39.000 And 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.

00:11:48.000 Even in California, there was only recently an attempt to quasi-ban AR-15s, but even that ban is not supremely clear.

00:11:55.000 And certainly, confiscation of AR-15s has never been tried.

00:11:58.000 And if it were to go up to the Supreme Court, there's a very good shot that it would be shot down.

00:12:02.000 But 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.

00:12:11.000 So 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.

00:12:18.000 Now, you see, Melba would never agree to the same logic with regard to, say, same-sex marriage before Obergefell, right?

00:12:23.000 So 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?

00:12:33.000 No, of course he wouldn't have said that.

00:12:34.000 He 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.

00:12:43.000 The 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.

00:12:55.000 In other words, the Bill of Rights is not meant to be a comprehensive charter of rights.

00:12:59.000 It'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.

00:13:05.000 All other rights don't exist.

00:13:06.000 Beyond which, the Second Amendment is pretty clear about what it means.

00:13:09.000 It says a well-regulated militia being necessary to the preservation of a free state.

00:13:14.000 The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

00:13:16.000 It's specifically talking about civilians having access to guns that they can then use when they go into the militia.

00:13:21.000 At the time, these were military light weapons, right?

00:13:23.000 I mean, these were rifles, these were muskets.

00:13:26.000 And that same principle carries forward.

00:13:28.000 So what Melber is saying here makes no sense on a legal level.

00:13:31.000 But here's the more important point.

00:13:33.000 When 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.

00:13:40.000 Because there is no serious distinction between a Bushmaster 223 and an AR-15.

00:13:45.000 There is no significant distinction between a Springfield rifle and an AR-15.

00:13:53.000 There are a thousand types of rifle.

00:13:55.000 All 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.

00:14:06.000 Of course you don't fire it at something you're not willing to destroy.

00:14:10.000 Rifles are meant to do damage.

00:14:12.000 Rifles are meant to kill things.

00:14:13.000 Rifles are meant to destroy things.

00:14:15.000 They are meant to kill people, presumably people who are bad who come into your home.

00:14:19.000 But 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.

00:14:28.000 This 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.

00:14:36.000 And that's particularly true for rifles.

00:14:38.000 More people are killed by hands and fists every year in the United States than are killed by rifles in the United States.

00:14:44.000 And gun ownership, you know, owned by a civilian population generally, is not a good proxy for crime rate.

00:14:49.000 Gun ownership rates in places like Vermont are extraordinarily high.

00:14:51.000 Vermont has an extraordinarily low crime rate.

00:14:53.000 The same thing is true in New Hampshire.

00:14:55.000 And if you go to other states, some places, Louisiana, there's a very high gun ownership rate, there's a very high crime rate.

00:15:00.000 Now, important to note, most of that crime is not taking place in the boonies.

00:15:03.000 Most 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.

00:15:11.000 All 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.

00:15:25.000 It 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.

00:15:33.000 So, the statistics just do not hold for any of this.

00:15:37.000 Now, 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.

00:15:43.000 And that begins, of course...

00:15:45.000 With our late-night hosts.

00:15:46.000 Now, 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.

00:16:00.000 Johnny Carson was studiously anti-political, meaning that he was a Democrat, apparently.

00:16:06.000 He was not a Reagan fan, although he got to know Reagan and ended up liking him.

00:16:09.000 Johnny Carson was a Democrat.

00:16:10.000 But you wouldn't have known that from watching Johnny Carson.

00:16:12.000 Jay Leno was a sort of halfway Republican.

00:16:15.000 You wouldn't have known that from watching him because Jay Leno was studiously nonpolitical.

00:16:19.000 Now all of our late night hosts have basically become political hacks.

00:16:22.000 And you can see that at work.

00:16:23.000 So last night Colbert, Kimmel, Fallon, all of them are ardent leftists and all of them have decided

00:16:28.000 With the Olympics, over 90 countries have departed South Korea.

00:16:31.000 Yep, 90 groups waving goodbye, or as the NRA calls those, sponsors.

00:16:48.000 Although, gun owners, if you go into almost any business and show them your gun, you get stuff for free.

00:16:53.000 It's really... Here in reality, there was an armed sheriff's deputy on site and it made no difference.

00:16:58.000 But Trump even has an explanation for that.

00:17:01.000 The reason a teacher with a handgun would be able to neutralize a shooter with an automatic weapon is because teachers love the kids more.

00:17:09.000 See, this is what happens when we elect a president who thought Paul Blart Malkoff was a documentary. 0.89

00:17:15.000 It would be ridiculous coming from anyone, but especially from Trump.

00:17:20.000 He's gonna run in?

00:17:21.000 Yo, when Trump ran for president, that was the first time he ran in his entire life.

00:17:26.000 Come on, man. 0.99

00:17:29.000 And 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. 1.00

00:17:35.000 Of course, this is idiocy. 1.00

00:17:36.000 Kimmel's point particularly is incredibly stupid. 1.00

00:17:38.000 First of all, he says that the shooter had an automatic weapon. 1.00

00:17:39.000 The shooter did not have an automatic weapon. 1.00

00:17:41.000 People on the left who are talking about this stuff should at least learn basic terminology so they don't sound like complete morons. 0.99

00:17:47.000 But they're not bothering to do that. 0.99

00:17:50.000 And it's evident.

00:17:51.000 And 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.

00:18:14.000 Legitimately, there's armed security guards.

00:18:16.000 I think over 50% of schools have some form of armed security.

00:18:19.000 And those armed security guards, metal detectors, there are a lot of weapons that are stopped every year going through those metal detectors.

00:18:25.000 Apparently, Jimmy Kimmel opposes those as well, simply because he thinks that a generalized regime of gun control is better.

00:18:31.000 And 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.

00:18:40.000 There are 300 million weapons in the country and 100 million rifles.

00:18:43.000 But when you say it when they suggest that if you oppose them, this means that you are a bad person.

00:18:48.000 And what's amazing is that they felt no blowback in the ratings.

00:18:50.000 Now, part of this, I think, is the universality of leftist feeling and late night means that you have no alternative.

00:18:56.000 What are you going to switch from Kimmel to Fallon so you can hear the same gun control messaging?

00:19:00.000 But part of it is also that the ratings are so far down on all of these shows overall that the audience is fragmented.

00:19:07.000 OK, Jimmy Kimmel's ratings are not anything like what Johnny Carson's ratings used to be, because there are lots of networks.

00:19:11.000 Very few people are actually watching these late-night shows in comparison to the number of people who were watching late-night shows before.

00:19:16.000 So they're really not broadcast.

00:19:18.000 They're narrowcast, even though they are on the networks.

00:19:20.000 And so Jimmy Kimmel can say, in full honesty, that there's no way to go too far in bashing President Trump or the GOP.

00:19:27.000 Not at all.

00:19:28.000 I don't think he can go too far.

00:19:30.000 I 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.

00:19:50.000 Okay, it's almost necessary now for late-night hosts to talk about political subjects?

00:19:53.000 Well, 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.

00:20:08.000 And it's not just Jimmy Kimmel, unfortunately.

00:20:10.000 The entire media have shown themselves, virtually the entire media have shown themselves to be activists on gun control issues rather than objective journalists.

00:20:17.000 So today's examples come courtesy of CNN.

00:20:20.000 So CNN has been the worst on this.

00:20:23.000 It's so funny.

00:20:23.000 There 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.

00:20:30.000 How dare we rip on the media?

00:20:32.000 Or that Trump, more importantly, Trump rips on the media and therefore Americans don't like the media.

00:20:37.000 No, as I said in my speech at CPAC, we didn't like you before.

00:20:39.000 We 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.

00:20:46.000 When you are clearly not objective.

00:20:48.000 Okay, 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.

00:21:04.000 After Sandy Hook, they'd already stopped the sale of assault-style weapons, which is a meaningless term, meaning essentially rifles that look scary.

00:21:10.000 They'd done that after Sandy Hook.

00:21:12.000 They're reiterating that today and extending it to a few more of their stores.

00:21:15.000 The chairman and CEO said on Good Morning America, In other words, there was an emotional appeal.

00:21:18.000 They responded to the emotional appeal.

00:21:26.000 Now, who cares?

00:21:27.000 I 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.

00:21:35.000 They haven't been able to for years.

00:21:37.000 If they want to raise their age of buying to 21, that's fine.

00:21:39.000 It 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

00:21:46.000 We're good to go.

00:22:08.000 If 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.

00:22:17.000 In 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.

00:22:25.000 Okay, so is anything that they're doing?

00:22:28.000 Apparently, 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.

00:22:35.000 Okay, so he waits until he's 21 and he buys a gun at a Dick's store.

00:22:38.000 Like, if they actually think the shotgun is the threat, not the person, then they should be banning the sale of all guns.

00:22:43.000 They should just stop selling guns, Dick's sporting goods.

00:22:45.000 And 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.

00:22:52.000 The anchors over at CNN have made mockeries of themselves as, quote-unquote, objective journalists.

00:22:56.000 I mean, true mockeries of themselves.

00:22:57.000 So Erin Burnett, right, is now—she's supposed to be an objective journalist, right?

00:23:02.000 She's an anchor.

00:23:03.000 She's not an opinion host. 0.97

00:23:05.000 She tweeted this out, quote,

00:23:15.000 Is that journalism or is that advocacy?

00:23:17.000 Obviously, that's advocacy.

00:23:19.000 Chris Cuomo had on the CEO, and the big headline in the back said, Dix takes a stand.

00:23:25.000 Wow.

00:23:25.000 That's not advocacy at all, that's journalism.

00:23:27.000 Dix takes a stand.

00:23:28.000 Now, the NRA is also taking a stand, it's just that

00:23:31.000 Chris Cuomo doesn't like that stand.

00:23:32.000 So you'd never have Andean, Alash, and then the background say, NRA takes a stand.

00:23:37.000 Of course not.

00:23:38.000 Because there are only certain stands that CNN actually likes.

00:23:40.000 And CNN has been doing this for weeks now, from that awful town hall event to botching basic reporting about weapons.

00:23:47.000 There was a CNN host yesterday who talked about a full semi-automatic, which doesn't even make any sense.

00:23:53.000 What the hell is a full semi-automatic supposed to mean?

00:23:55.000 A semi-automatic just means you pull the trigger once and a bullet comes out.

00:23:58.000 But 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.

00:24:11.000 And my wife fires an AR better than he fires an AR. 1.00

00:24:14.000 And 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.

00:24:25.000 One 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, 0.99

00:24:45.000 Where are you going to hide that gun during the day?

00:24:47.000 You can't put it in your desk drawer.

00:24:48.000 Somebody might steal it and you can't get to it.

00:24:50.000 You're not going to have it in a safe in the principal's office.

00:24:53.000 You can't get to it.

00:24:54.000 On 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?

00:25:04.000 It's not a real practical solution, even for a variety of reasons. 0.99

00:25:08.000 OK, look how stupid this anchor is. 1.00

00:25:10.000 Or it's the anchor. 1.00

00:25:11.000 I don't even know who that anchor is.

00:25:12.000 She's sitting there nodding through this whole thing.

00:25:14.000 Women wear pants. 1.00

00:25:15.000 I 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. 0.75

00:25:28.000 There are lots of Muslim women who wear pants. 1.00

00:25:30.000 Outside of places where women are forced to do that, in a free society like the United States, lots of women wear pants. 1.00

00:25:35.000 My wife wears pants. 1.00

00:25:35.000 My mom wears pants. 1.00

00:25:36.000 All my sisters wear pants, okay? 1.00

00:25:38.000 I understand that that may be mildly controversial in some Orthodox Jewish circles, but it is not rare in a free country.

00:25:43.000 Lots of women wear pants. 1.00

00:25:44.000 And if you're wearing a skirt, there are lots of women who wear skirts who know how to conceal carry. 1.00

00:25:48.000 Ooh, they might have to wear a jacket.

00:25:50.000 Ooh, jackets, because women never wear jackets. 1.00

00:25:52.000 What in the world?

00:25:54.000 This is being trotted out as a normal talking point.

00:25:56.000 By the way, women also have purses. 1.00

00:25:57.000 Many women carry their guns in their purses. 1.00

00:25:59.000 Unlike men, who actually have to conceal and carry on their person, women carrying around their purses is a thing. 1.00

00:26:05.000 Women carry guns in their purses. 1.00

00:26:06.000 This is how they defend themselves very often.

00:26:07.000 I mean, how sexist is that? 0.60

00:26:09.000 But that just goes right by the wayside because the media are attempting to portray all of this as foolishness.

00:26:15.000 Now, I do want to point out something that I think is worth pointing out.

00:26:19.000 Because 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

00:26:34.000 The 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.

00:26:43.000 It now turns out that one of the Parkland shooting survivors' father has admitted to altering his evidence that CNN scripted his town hall question.

00:26:51.000 I think it's important to point that out in the nature of intellectual honesty.

00:26:54.000 There's a big confirmation bias that's happening right now, a really strong confirmation bias.

00:26:57.000 If you like what Jimmy Kimmel is saying, you pretend that he knows what he's talking about. 0.98

00:27:00.000 And if you think that CNN sucks,

00:27:02.000 Then you're willing to overlook false statements about CNN? 0.57

00:27:05.000 I'm going to go out of my way here to point out that that was a false report.

00:27:09.000 So it's not true that CNN rigged the town hall by scripting questions for the students.

00:27:13.000 It is true, obviously, that there is a selection bias in play in terms of the audience.

00:27:17.000 When 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

00:27:27.000 We're good.

00:27:46.000 The White House Chief of Staff John Kelly temporarily stripped all White House staffers with interim top-level security clearance of that clearance.

00:27:53.000 Instead, downgraded everyone to quote-unquote secret security clearance.

00:27:56.000 So this means that top-secret material can no longer be seen by Jared.

00:27:59.000 Jared had interim top-secret clearance so he could see all this material.

00:28:03.000 And so Jared has basically been downgraded for at least what they say is a short period of time.

00:28:08.000 Now he's 15 months in, and the FBI has still not fully cleared him.

00:28:11.000 One of the reasons the FBI has not fully cleared him is because he's involved in the Mueller investigation.

00:28:15.000 The Mueller investigation hasn't cleared anyone yet, so the FBI has not cleared anyone yet.

00:28:18.000 So 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.

00:28:26.000 We're good to go.

00:28:46.000 Not 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.

00:29:00.000 So this was a response by Kelly to the Rob Porter thing, and Kushner got caught up in the center.

00:29:06.000 Does that mean that Jared is completely clean?

00:29:07.000 I have no idea.

00:29:08.000 I don't know whether Jared is completely clean.

00:29:09.000 The investigation hasn't taken its full course yet.

00:29:12.000 I assume that it will.

00:29:13.000 But 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.

00:29:22.000 Now listen.

00:29:22.000 I've said over and over on the program, is it nepotism that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump in the White House are having such large roles?

00:29:29.000 Of course that's nepotism. 0.96

00:29:30.000 I mean, you'd be foolish to not recognize that. 0.81

00:29:32.000 Nepotism exists, unfortunately, on both sides of the aisle.

00:29:34.000 I don't like it wherever I see it.

00:29:35.000 It was nepotistic when Chelsea Clinton was 1.00

00:29:38.000 We're good to go.

00:29:54.000 If 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.

00:30:09.000 That, of course, would be Obama White House Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes.

00:30:12.000 Now, 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.

00:30:23.000 And then he was cleared by the Obama administration under vague circumstances.

00:30:26.000 They just went around the FBI and Obama granted him clearance.

00:30:29.000 Nobody said boo.

00:30:30.000 Nobody cared.

00:30:31.000 Ben Rhodes is one of the architects of the awful, horrible, terrible, immoral Iran deal, and nobody said a word about any of this.

00:30:37.000 Again, the media didn't seem to care very much about that.

00:30:38.000 But Kushner, end of the world.

00:30:40.000 It obviously means he's corrupted. 0.96

00:30:40.000 It obviously means he's terrible. 0.96

00:30:42.000 That seems ridiculous to me.

00:30:44.000 Also 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.

00:30:56.000 I'm sure that they were looking for ways to manipulate members of the Obama administration as well.

00:30:59.000 The question isn't, do foreign governments try to manipulate American government members?

00:31:03.000 The question is, are they successful in doing so, or do they actually have real leverage?

00:31:08.000 We don't know the answer to that yet.

00:31:09.000 So 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.

00:31:17.000 Wait for more evidence.

00:31:18.000 As always, wait for more evidence.

00:31:20.000 Don't jump to the conclusion that the media would like for you to jump to.

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00:32:02.000 All 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.

00:32:09.000 One of these particularly is really, really, really funny.

00:32:12.000 So Rachel Maddow, you know, she, over on MSNBC, she says that the Trump administration is a cautionary tale about nepotism.

00:32:18.000 So here's what Rachel Maddow had to say.

00:32:20.000 In the future.

00:32:22.000 The textbook explanation, the textbook case studies about nepotism, about a friends-and-family approach to governance, right?

00:32:31.000 In 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.

00:32:43.000 No ambiguity.

00:32:44.000 Because of what we're living through now.

00:32:46.000 And thereby, maybe future generations will figure out how to avoid this particular kind of mess.

00:32:52.000 We must avoid nepotism at all costs.

00:32:53.000 Also, Hillary Clinton was just the best. 1.00

00:32:56.000 Just amazing. 0.97

00:32:57.000 She deserved a Senate seat because she once had sex with Bill. 1.00

00:33:00.000 Just very, very important that we fight nepotism on every level.

00:33:03.000 Also, Joe Kennedy III will be giving the response to the State of the Union Address.

00:33:07.000 But that was not even the funny one.

00:33:08.000 I want to show you this one clip because it is so freaking funny.

00:33:11.000 Okay, so Mika Brzezinski over on MSNBC of Morning Joe fame. 0.78

00:33:15.000 Here she is talking about Ivanka and Jared and they're a joke and they've been given fake jobs and it's all nepotism.

00:33:19.000 Here's what she has to say.

00:33:21.000 She came in there to fight for women and she can't handle a question like that. 1.00

00:33:26.000 The whole thing clearly is a joke.

00:33:30.000 An utter joke, just like Melania's role on cyber, you know, bullying. 1.00

00:33:36.000 Which I think is an insult to women. 1.00

00:33:38.000 Completely.

00:33:39.000 And expect today John Kelly to be forced to put out a nice statement about Ivanka.

00:33:43.000 And how effective she is.

00:33:45.000 Well, I mean, Melania... Which will add to the joke. 0.97

00:33:47.000 Furthermore, insulting to women, these women have been given fake jobs. 1.00

00:33:52.000 Okay, so meanwhile, there's a lot of talk about DACA.

00:33:53.000 So DACA is about to come up

00:34:18.000 Before 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.

00:34:25.000 DACA only legalized 700,000 illegal immigrants.

00:34:48.000 President 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.

00:34:59.000 In 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.

00:35:07.000 But he did not get those.

00:35:09.000 The Democrats didn't give them to him.

00:35:10.000 And Sarah Huckabee Sanders is exactly right when she says that Trump did go above and beyond on DACA.

00:35:15.000 He did a lot more than Obama ever did.

00:35:17.000 He's encouraging them to get something done.

00:35:18.000 That'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.

00:35:30.000 The president went above and beyond what previous administrations have done and offered on that program.

00:35:36.000 It's really sad that Democrats are not willing to come to the table, get something done, and actually fix problems and do their job.

00:35:42.000 And of course, that is 100% true, what Sarah Huckabee Sanders is saying there.

00:35:46.000 But Democrats are not coming to the table, and they're not coming to the table for one very specific reason.

00:35:50.000 And that is, they think that Republicans lose this issue no matter what.

00:35:53.000 They 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.

00:36:05.000 That's probably not what's going to happen here, by the way, because Lindsey Graham, who is really soft on immigration, 1.00

00:36:10.000 He gives some political analysis here that is not completely wrong.

00:36:13.000 He says that if DACA ends, and if all these DACA recipients are deported, that it's going to be bad politically for Republicans.

00:36:18.000 This is probably correct, even if you disagree with him on the policy of it.

00:36:21.000 We 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.

00:36:31.000 So I don't think that's even a viable option.

00:36:34.000 Now, Trump knows that, which is why the chances that he is going to start deporting millions of people are really, really low.

00:36:40.000 It's the reason why Trump is not going to do this.

00:36:42.000 DACA is not going to be reinstated in all likelihood, but Trump is just not going to deport these folks.

00:36:47.000 And that means they won't be able to get work permits.

00:36:49.000 It means that, theoretically, they could be subject to future deportation.

00:36:51.000 But we all know that it's only a matter of time until somebody gives them amnesty.

00:36:54.000 It'll probably be Trump.

00:36:55.000 It could be somebody after Trump.

00:36:57.000 These 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.

00:37:05.000 Now, do I think they should actually be deported?

00:37:07.000 I think that we should analyze on a one-to-one basis whether people ought to be in the country.

00:37:11.000 If 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.

00:37:20.000 You don't have a right to be here just because you were brought here through no fault of your own.

00:37:23.000 If somebody illegally sneaked you into Disneyland, Disneyland would not have to then give you a day pass.

00:37:27.000 That's not the way that this works.

00:37:28.000 Disneyland would have to determine whether it's in their interest for you to stay.

00:37:31.000 Well, the United States, it's the same sort of deal.

00:37:34.000 That said, I think this all ends with basically nothing happening.

00:37:38.000 But it doesn't matter that Trump has offered the most

00:37:42.000 The most generous immigration package that I've seen in 10 years, really since, in 12 years, since the Bush immigration package in 2006.

00:37:49.000 It's not enough for Democrats.

00:37:53.000 Trump is a white supremacist, so it does not matter that President Trump just offered to amnesty two million people right off the bat. 0.95

00:37:59.000 Luis Gutierrez came out and he says that Trump is an ethnocentric, pro-European, pro-white agenda. 0.99

00:38:05.000 The GOP is a racist party. 0.88

00:38:06.000 This is the way that Democrats are going to campaign.

00:38:08.000 The president set us on this course.

00:38:11.000 He 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. 0.61

00:38:22.000 But 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.

00:38:32.000 Okay, so this is the attack Democrats are going to take. 0.67

00:38:35.000 Good luck with this, okay?

00:38:36.000 There was an attempt to paint Trump as a deep racist.

00:38:39.000 In the last campaign, it failed.

00:38:40.000 If they continue to push this line that Trump is a deep racist, it's not going to work.

00:38:45.000 Not because Trump hasn't said things that are racist before.

00:38:47.000 I think he probably has.

00:38:49.000 In fact, I know he has.

00:38:51.000 Because people do not perceive Trump as a racist.

00:38:53.000 They perceive him as, like, Grandpa from 1960 who says some stuff that you wouldn't want said outside your kitchen.

00:38:58.000 That's basically how people perceive Trump.

00:39:00.000 Is it right to perceive him that way?

00:39:01.000 Probably not.

00:39:02.000 Is that the way people do perceive him?

00:39:03.000 Yes.

00:39:04.000 Is his policy racist?

00:39:05.000 I mean, when we get down to the policy, is it racist?

00:39:07.000 Of course not.

00:39:08.000 The policy prescriptions that he's put forward are not racist.

00:39:11.000 They may not be things you agree with, but it's very difficult to label them racist.

00:39:15.000 It doesn't matter.

00:39:16.000 Democrats are going to continue to go radical on this. 0.98

00:39:18.000 Joy 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. 0.95

00:39:28.000 But here's Joy Behar making that case on The View. 0.97

00:39:30.000 The CPAC group invited this woman from France named Marine Le Pen, whose father was a Holocaust denier and a total fascist and a Nazi.

00:39:39.000 And Marine Le Pen, the daughter, thinks her father was very good and right and everything else.

00:39:43.000 And they invited her.

00:39:44.000 There's this, like, penchant for Nazis now.

00:39:47.000 You know, with Charlottesville and the Neos, and they're good guys on both sides, and now Marine Le Pen. 0.71

00:39:52.000 It's like a lot of the people in the Republican Party that I remember, Bill Buckley, who fought in World War II.

00:39:58.000 You know, Bill Kristol, those people who are so anti-Nazi are appalled by what's going on right now within this party.

00:40:06.000 So I don't think that Marian LePen should have been invited to CPAC.

00:40:09.000 I said so publicly.

00:40:10.000 That said, if we're going to talk about, you know, branding the entire Republican Party Nazi because Marian LePen showed up at CPAC invited,

00:40:17.000 Then 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.

00:40:27.000 Louis Farrakhan is every bit the Nazi that Marion Le Pen is and much more openly.

00:40:32.000 Again, they're bad apples, and this is not a whataboutism thing.

00:40:35.000 Marian LePen should not have been invited to CPAC.

00:40:37.000 Republicans should not have been embracing Marian LePen.

00:40:41.000 Republicans should not have embraced the alt-right.

00:40:42.000 I was very loud and proud about this for years.

00:40:45.000 But to suggest that the Republicans are the sole repository of racism and anti-Semitism is just inaccurate.

00:40:51.000 OK, 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.

00:41:00.000 OK, time for a quick thing I like and then a quick thing that I hate.

00:41:19.000 So, things that I like today.

00:41:20.000 I just started at the recommendation of my sister watching the Frankenstein Chronicles with one of my favorite actors, Sean Bean.

00:41:25.000 Sean Bean is wonderful, and I've only watched the first episode and a half.

00:41:29.000 It is really creepy.

00:41:30.000 Okay, this is not for kids, and it's not for the faint of heart.

00:41:32.000 But 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.

00:41:44.000 And, 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.

00:41:53.000 Here's a little bit of the preview.

00:42:04.000 This thing is a composite.

00:42:06.000 Parts of at least seven children reassembled.

00:42:14.000 Okay, so as you can see, it's a period piece.

00:42:17.000 I'm a sucker for period pieces.

00:42:18.000 I like them.

00:42:19.000 It's really creepy.

00:42:20.000 It's well acted.

00:42:21.000 It's well written so far.

00:42:22.000 Check it out on Netflix if this is the sort of thing that appeals to you.

00:42:25.000 Okay, a quick thing that I hate.

00:42:31.000 Okay, so today's thing I hate comes courtesy of Chuck Schumer. 0.98

00:42:33.000 Chuck Schumer apparently does not know how either Netflix or sex work. 0.96

00:42:37.000 I don't—I really mean that.

00:42:40.000 Here's what Chuck Schumer tweeted.

00:42:41.000 He was tweeting about net neutrality.

00:42:42.000 The entire Democratic Party decided they were going to tweet about net neutrality yesterday.

00:42:46.000 They don't know anything about net neutrality.

00:42:48.000 And it's pretty obvious from their tweet.

00:42:49.000 So 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?

00:42:57.000 Um, no one uses Netflix for foreplay, dude.

00:43:00.000 That's weird.

00:43:01.000 In 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.

00:43:14.000 I love that Chuck Schumer thinks that streaming is what makes sex happen.

00:43:18.000 This is not true.

00:43:19.000 Streaming may make

00:43:20.000 Other things happen through pornography, but streaming does not make sex happen.

00:43:25.000 The people who are watching Netflix are the ones least likely to be having sex.

00:43:29.000 If you're busy watching the Frankenstein Chronicles, you're not using that as foreplay on Netflix.

00:43:33.000 But the Democrats were tweeting about this incessantly yesterday.

00:43:36.000 They were tweeting out that if net neutrality happens, then the Internet will be brought to you one word at a time.

00:43:40.000 I don't even know what the hell that means.

00:43:42.000 And then they double-spaced it to annoy everybody.

00:43:44.000 If you're going to make arguments, people in the Democratic Party, you're going to have to do better.

00:43:48.000 You'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.

00:43:57.000 How about some people who don't actually get cable?

00:43:59.000 Most of the people my age at this point are not getting cable, they're getting Netflix or Amazon.

00:44:04.000 Or Hulu or something.

00:44:05.000 I wonder how many members of the Democratic Party have cut the cable yet.

00:44:08.000 My guess is very few.

00:44:09.000 The same is true in the Republican Party, by the way.

00:44:11.000 All of our political parties are out of touch with modern technology, and it definitely shows.

00:44:14.000 OK.

00:44:15.000 So tonight, I will be speaking in Omaha.

00:44:17.000 And as I say, I will be making a full defense of the Second Amendment.

00:44:20.000 I will talk about the history of it.

00:44:21.000 I will talk about the legality of it.

00:44:22.000 I will talk about which guns are protected and what types of folks are protected.

00:44:25.000 I will talk about all of those things.

00:44:27.000 I look forward to seeing you there.

00:44:28.000 And we'll be back here tomorrow, back from our haunts in Los Angeles.

00:44:31.000 I will see you then.

00:44:31.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - February 28, 2018

How Late Night Went Left | Ep. 485

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