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00:00:40.000Plus, I want to get to Jeff Sessions on the Hill, should there be a special counsel for Hillary.
00:00:43.000Shep Smith went after some folks on the right for talking about Uranium One, so I want to let you know what's true and what's false about Uranium One.
00:02:20.000And she, in an interview yesterday on MSNBC, she said there are two members of the House who have been hit with serious sexual harassment allegations.
00:02:27.000She says the House, over the past several years, has paid out $15 million in sexual harassment claims.
00:02:33.000That's your taxpayer dollars and mine paying off
00:02:36.000Now, we do know that there's about $15 million that has been paid out by the House on behalf of harassers in the last 10 to 15 years.
00:02:54.000$15 million has been paid out over sexual harassment claims, so obviously more than one member of Congress.
00:03:01.000Do you know how many over time that is?
00:03:03.000I know that some of them are former members now.
00:03:10.000And if we're all going to go nuts over Bill O'Reilly's alleged $32 million settlement on sexual harassment, $15 million is a lot of money.
00:03:17.000This is why Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House, has now come out and said that we need to have mandatory harassment training in Congress.
00:03:22.000First of all, I'm shocked that they didn't have mandatory harassment training before.
00:03:26.000Like, pretty much every major company that I've worked at
00:03:29.000Has had to have some sort of form of HR training, including you watch a sexual harassment tape, one of these dumb tapes from the 80s where they show you that you're not allowed to grab a woman's butt, which you should have known since you're not a jerk.
00:03:40.000But in any case, Paul Ryan comes out, he says, we need mandatory harassment training.
00:03:44.000It is, today's hearing was another important step in our efforts to combat sexual harassment and ensure a safe workplace.
00:03:49.000I want to especially thank my colleagues who shared their stories.
00:03:51.000Going forward, the House will adopt a policy of mandatory anti-harassment and anti-discrimination training for all members and staff.
00:03:56.000Our goal is not only to raise awareness, but also make abundantly clear that harassment in any form has no place in this institution.
00:04:02.000So, I'm not a general fan of anti-harassment training.
00:04:05.000I don't think that harassers stop harassing because of this.
00:04:09.000Harassers stop harassing when they feel there are consequences.
00:04:11.000Mark Levin has suggested that Speaker Ryan and Senator Mitch McConnell should step down from their positions if they've been covering up sexual harassment.
00:04:22.000But I do think that they should be coming forward with names.
00:04:26.000And naming and shaming sexual harassers, if the allegations are credible, seems to me the best way of going about alleviating this particular problem rather than paying out my money and yours from our wallets so that some sexually predatorial
00:05:06.000You know, you give your friends a benefit of the doubt.
00:05:10.000I tried to think of it in terms of, you know, I've had friends who have compulsions and who have done things, gambling or drinking or drugs, and we've lost some of them.
00:05:27.000And in this situation, I think we all could have.
00:05:32.000We all could have is a way of saying, I couldn't have, you could have.
00:05:34.000The answer is yes, Jon Stewart, you probably could have, considering that you were asked this specific question in 2016 and shied away from answering it.
00:05:41.000Meanwhile, there are certain harassers in Hollywood who are continuing to get away with it.
00:05:44.000George Takei, as you recall, he made a statement on Howard Stern's show in which he openly admitted to grabbing men by their penises, men who were skittish.
00:05:53.000to encourage them in their proclivities.
00:07:32.000What they say is, Arianna Huffington's history with a former managing editor whose transfer to launch HuffPost India was later revealed to be the result of an HR investigation into whether he had sexually harassed multiple young women in the New York office shows that Huffington wasn't overly concerned with sexual harassment in the office.
00:07:48.000Ismodo recently revisited those allegations.
00:07:51.000They not only independently confirmed that the investigation was indeed the reason for that managing editor's transfer, but that Huffington knew about his actions before they were reported to HR, according to a former employee.
00:08:02.000Erin Kranz, the woman who wrote this piece called Melanie, Erin Kranz, she says,
00:08:10.000According to the report, Huffington cheered the elevation of a guy named Jimmy Soni, who was then managing editor of the website.
00:08:15.000And it was common knowledge around the newsroom, and Huffington knew about it, that he was sexually harassing the help.
00:08:21.000Vice, there's a story about Vice today being hit with serious allegations of sexual harassment.
00:08:25.000So this is to say, sexual harassment apparently is out of control.
00:08:29.000And the question is, why are we just noticing this now?
00:08:31.000So there are two theories as to why we are just noticing this now.
00:08:34.000Theory number one is the David Frum theory.
00:08:37.000This is the optimistic theory of human nature, which is,
00:08:40.000Everyone's been sexually harassing for decades, and only now do we care because we're better than they were a decade ago.
00:08:52.000Theory number two is that bad men have always sexually harassed women, but that people only care about it now, particularly on the left, because they're trying to get Donald Trump and Roy Moore.
00:09:02.000I think that this is the correct theory.
00:09:03.000I don't think that the left really cares very much about sexual harassment.
00:09:06.000I think the left has been covering up their lack of care about sexual harassment for years.
00:09:12.000They use a changing sexual standard to basically allow them to let people off the hook they want to let off the hook, and to put on the hook people they want to put on the hook.
00:09:21.000So right now they want to put Roy Moore and Donald Trump on the hook, and therefore they're going to pretend to take sexual harassment super seriously.
00:09:27.000When it's Anthony Weiner or Bill Clinton, then it's a completely different story.
00:09:33.000is because there's a piece in Vox.com from an ex-Gribble columnist named Matt Iglesias.
00:09:39.000He wrote about a 2,000-word essay about why Bill Clinton should have resigned from office in 1998.
00:09:43.000Now, I checked my calendar this morning.
00:09:46.000It's 2017, so he's 19 years late to the party.
00:09:49.000Iglesias admits that at the time he wanted Clinton to stay, he said he was glad to see Clinton prevail and regarded the whole sordid matter as primarily the fault of congressional Republicans' excessive scandal-mongering.
00:10:00.000But he admits, I think we got it wrong.
00:10:02.000What we should have talked about was men abusing their social and economic power over younger and less powerful women.
00:10:06.000So he doesn't talk about Wanya Broderick.
00:10:07.000He doesn't talk about Kathleen Willey.
00:10:09.000He talks specifically about Monica Lewinsky.
00:10:16.000It was far from the most egregious case of workplace sexual misconduct in American history.
00:10:20.000But it was unusually high profile, the facts were not in dispute, the perpetrator had a lot of nominal feminist ideological commitments, and political leaders who shared those commitments had the power to force him from office.
00:10:30.000Had he resigned in shame, we all might have made a collective cultural and political decision that a person caught leveraging power over women in inappropriate ways ought to be fired.
00:11:15.000I was there in 1998, and I recall that at the time, the left was suggesting that Monica Lewinsky was a slut who was propositioning Bill, not a victimized innocent pressured by the most powerful man on Earth.
00:11:25.000If the right had suggested that she was an innocent proposition by the most powerful man on Earth and this was sexual harassment, the left would then accuse the right of depriving Monica Lewinsky of her agency and being sexist.
00:11:34.000This is the beautiful thing about being part of the left.
00:11:36.000You can always find an excuse to attack the people you want to attack.
00:11:40.000And the proof is in the pudding, because Iglesias says the real reason that Clinton should have been dumped in 1998 is because Al Gore was vice president and nothing would have changed.
00:11:49.000And he says now it's worthwhile dumping Bill over, but it wouldn't have been worthwhile last year.
00:11:53.000He says now that Hillary is out of electoral politics and has emerged as a bigger, drawing, more important political force than her husband, there's no excuse for Democrats not to look back on these events with more objectivity.
00:12:04.000You wonder why so many Republicans are backing Roy Moore?
00:12:06.000It's because they're using precisely the mirror negative of this, the Polaroid negative of this particular argument.
00:12:13.000Matt Iglesias is basically saying that Bob Menendez shouldn't step down because the current governor is Chris Christie.
00:12:18.000If he waits a few months and he steps down, then the governor will be a Democrat and then everything will be great.
00:12:23.000He says that Bill Clinton should have stepped down because Al Gore was the vice president.
00:12:26.000So, in other words, he doesn't really care about sexual harassment.
00:12:29.000Or at least, he cares about sexual harassment up to the point it means political sacrifice.
00:12:35.000And then he wonders why people in Alabama are backing Roy Moore, why there are so many Republicans who are willing to back Roy Moore, even thinking that these allegations are correct, or at least credible.
00:12:45.000So I want to talk a little bit more about this, but first,
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00:13:56.000Okay, so, with this as background, the fact that sexual harassment is now obviously commonplace all over the place, and the fact the media are paying attention for political motivations, we have to ask ourselves a question.
00:14:06.000Okay, we as conservatives have to ask ourselves a question.
00:14:12.000Now, we've been asking this question for the last several days.
00:14:14.000I've suggested that it absolutely should matter whether Roy Moore was molesting 14 or 16-year-olds or whether there are credible allegations that he is doing so.
00:14:22.000But there are a lot of people who are saying, listen, the left is politically motivated.
00:14:25.000If this were a leftist, they wouldn't be doing the same thing.
00:14:27.000The Washington Post might not have even reported this story if it were about Doug Jones as opposed to Roy Moore.
00:14:33.000So why should we deprive ourselves of a Senate seat in order to show the world what gentlemen we are?
00:14:51.000That is, Moore stays on the ballot and splits votes, and Doug Jones ends up in the Senate.
00:14:58.000That is, politically speaking, for the Republicans, the worst, because when they have 51 votes in the Senate, it's very difficult for them to pass legislation with 52, let alone 51.
00:15:05.000It means that Lisa Murkowski and John McCain, or Susan Collins and John McCain, two senators, can basically stymie the rest of the Republican agenda for the next couple of years, at the very least.
00:15:35.000And he's looking at the polls and saying, why should I leave?
00:15:37.000I'm raising more money than I ever had.
00:15:38.000He raised like $250,000 yesterday, which is sort of a sad commentary on the nature of our reactionary politics that Roy Moore is raising way more money in the aftermath of child sex allegations than he was before that.
00:15:50.000But people hate the media just that much, and they think it's a political hit just that much.
00:16:05.000He won 96% of the vote in the last Alabama Senate race.
00:16:07.000You put Luther Strange in the write-in, it's not gonna help.
00:16:10.000Put Luther Strange in the write-in, and that's going to be a serious problem, because Luther Strange couldn't even win a primary against Roy Moore.
00:16:17.000There have been people suggesting that Richard Burr, who is the current senator of Alabama, should step down and then run for the open seat as a write-in candidate, and then his seat will come up for the first special election.
00:16:30.000In other words, using some sort of machination to prevent Moore from being elected.
00:16:32.000That would be the best, but the most plausible solution, the most plausible outcome here is that Moore actually gets elected, that Moore stays in, Moore wins the election,
00:16:40.000And then Republicans in Congress have to decide, they have to make a decision.
00:16:45.000Are they going to seat him or are they not?
00:16:47.000The case for seating him is the people of Alabama have spoken, they heard the allegations, they didn't trust them, not our problem.
00:16:53.000The case for not seating him is credible allegations of child molestation.
00:16:56.000I am in the camp that says that if he is elected, you should not seat him.
00:16:59.000The reason I say this is because like the founders, I am not a Democrat, I am a Republican.
00:17:03.000That means with small d and small r. I'm not somebody who believes that the will of the people in its purest form must always be done.
00:17:10.000I think that the exercise of independent judgment by legislators is important, which is why I think character is important in legislators.
00:17:16.000I'm a believer that the Electoral College was created specifically to prevent dictatorship.
00:17:21.000I'm a believer that the institutions of our government were created with the knowledge that there should be people who, every once in a while, have to do the right thing, even in spite of their constituents.
00:17:33.000This to me seems like a pretty clear-cut case of that, especially because in the Matt Iglesias math, the governor of Alabama is a Republican who will then appoint a Republican to fill the seat, at least until the next special election.
00:17:43.000So, it's interesting to see where everybody is coming down on all of this, and it's also interesting to see just how much dirty tricks are being used in Alabama.
00:17:53.000You know, quote-unquote, dirty tricks against Roy Moore.
00:17:55.000You know, a credible allegation is a credible allegation.
00:17:58.000But by people who are associated, presumably, with Moore.
00:18:00.000So, we don't know who sent this fake robocall.
00:18:03.000But there was a fake robocall that was going around Alabama.
00:18:07.000And this fake robocall was from a guy who characterizes himself as Lenny Bernstein.
00:18:13.000From the Washington Post, offering money to people to make false allegations against Roy Moore.
00:18:18.000The suspicion is, of course, that this is someone who's associated with the Roy Moore campaign, and that this is somebody who's attempting to convince people that all of the allegations are false and that the Washington Post paid people off.
00:18:34.000I'm a reporter for the Washington Post.
00:18:35.000I'm calling to find out if anyone at this address is a female between the ages of 54 to 57 years old willing to make damaging remarks about Candidate Roy Moore for a reward of between $5,000 and $7,000.
00:18:47.000We will not be fully investigating these claims.
00:18:52.000However, we will make a written report.
00:18:53.000I can be reached by email lbernstein at washingtonpost.com.
00:19:15.000So, as all of this happens, even the conservatives and media have broken down into two groups.
00:19:20.000Sean Hannity, who's obviously signaling from the White House, last night on his program, you know, Sean talks regularly with President Trump.
00:19:26.000Apparently, they speak nearly every night.
00:19:28.000And Sean basically laid the wood to Moore.
00:19:30.000He said, listen, you have 24 hours to figure out a good way to rebut these allegations, or you should get out of the race.
00:19:36.000Between this interview that I did and the inconsistent answers, between him saying, I never knew this girl, and then that yearbook comes out,
00:19:59.000If you can't do this, then Judge Moore needs to get out of this race.
00:20:03.000Okay, so that was seen as an ultimatum from the White House.
00:20:05.000Trump, of course, has remained utterly immovable and silent on this issue, which is amazing.
00:20:09.000It's amazing, because Trump is the person who could help solve all of this.
00:20:12.000If Trump jumped in with both feet and said, more needs to get out, and then all of a sudden the polls showed that Moore's base was completely eroding, then you might actually get a write-in candidacy that would be worthwhile, because write-in candidacies are tough.
00:20:22.000But Trump staying out of this race is a real problem.
00:20:25.000Trump has continued to maintain silence.
00:20:31.000Tucker Carlson, who... I didn't watch his show earlier this week, so I don't know if he was inclined to doubt the allegations, but whatever he was doing earlier this week, now Tucker says that Moore, who's been hiding behind Christianity, he's been hiding behind his faith, saying, you know, they're out to get me, just like Jesus, kind of thing.
00:20:50.000Roy Moore has every right to protest his innocence, and maybe he is innocent.
00:20:54.000What he's not allowed to do is drag God into all of this.
00:20:58.000God is not accused of trolling for teenagers in shopping malls.
00:21:01.000This is not about Christianity, it's about Roy Moore, and it discredits Christianity when Christians allow Moore to use his faith as a shield.
00:21:35.000I had not said that you should not vote for Roy Moore.
00:21:37.000I was very uncomfortable with Roy Moore.
00:21:40.000I had criticized Roy Moore, but I had not openly stated—I think I said that if I were in Alabama, I wouldn't vote for him, but I also said very similar to what—before any of these allegations came out—very similar to what I had said about Donald Trump, which is, you know, I certainly understand voting for Roy Moore to prevent a Democrat from taking the seat.
00:21:55.000But after these allegations, the idea that this is really about McConnell anymore, that it's all people of bad faith who are seeking to take down Roy Moore, it doesn't really hold.
00:22:03.000But Russia's trying to—Russia was trying to push that yesterday.
00:22:06.000Annan has been very upfront about the objective he has, and that's to get Mitch McConnell out of the Senate.
00:22:12.000And so I don't think—even if all we had was one allegation against Judge Moore, this was going to be it for Judge Moore.
00:22:23.000Didn't matter because this is now being used to send a message to Bannon and his group that you think you're going to get rid of me.
00:22:36.000Well, take a look at what's going to happen every time you try.
00:22:40.000So, Bannon wants to make it about that.
00:22:42.000Bannon wants to make it about it's me versus McConnell.
00:22:45.000But it really is not about him versus McConnell at all.
00:22:46.000At this point, it's just about the truth or falsity of the allegations.
00:22:49.000Bannon, by the way, continues to stick by Moore.
00:22:52.000The reason he continues to stick by Moore is because he stapled himself to Moore's leg as Moore won the primaries and then tried to claim credit.
00:22:58.000He was the dog that had stapled himself to the chicken's leg to cross the road and then claimed credit for giving the chicken a ride.
00:23:06.000That's not actually what happened in this particular case, but it's a seductive way of moving attention off of the actual allegations and toward the politics of the situation.
00:23:16.000Okay, so before I go any further and talk about people in Alabama who are continuing to support Roy Moore, including Mo Brooks, the representative from Alabama,
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00:25:14.000Binary terms in terms of personality are not good.
00:25:16.000So, it's not a binary choice between Steve Bannon and Mitch McConnell.
00:25:20.000It's not a binary choice between Roy Moore and Doug Jones, especially not now.
00:25:24.000If you went through support from Roy Moore, you could easily get a writing candidate and you could fix this problem in a much more smooth way.
00:25:35.000But people don't want to make the binary moral choice, so instead they've swiveled to binary personality choices.
00:25:40.000You know, do I like Doug Jones or do I like Roy Moore?
00:25:42.000Do I like Steve Bannon or do I like Mitch McConnell?
00:25:46.000Do you think it is important enough not to have an alleged child molester sitting in the Senate to not vote for him and vote for someone else?
00:25:52.000And I'm not talking about voting for Doug Jones.
00:25:53.000I'm talking about voting for a write-in candidate.
00:25:55.000Or do you hate the media so much, and you suspect the media so much, and you think the whole thing's rigged, that you're willing to take the risk that you're putting somebody in the Senate who is an utter piece of human debris?
00:26:05.000So, you know, these are questions that I think we all ought to ask ourselves in all honesty.
00:26:09.000Well, that's not even close to all the news that we have to get to today.
00:26:12.000We're also going to get to Jeff Sessions on the Hill in just a moment.
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00:27:10.000So, meanwhile, Jeff Sessions was on the Hill.
00:27:11.000The Attorney General was on the Hill yesterday to answer questions about a variety of issues ranging from leaks inside the Trump administration to the possibility of setting up a special counsel for Hillary Clinton.
00:27:21.000Now, I want to start this discussion about the special counsel for Hillary Clinton by discussing what exactly the special counsel will be for.
00:27:28.000So there are two separate questions that have really come up in the context of why we might need a special counsel.
00:27:33.000And it really is more why we need an investigation, not necessarily a special counsel.
00:27:36.000So those are two separate questions, too.
00:27:48.000So, why would you need an investigation?
00:27:50.000So the reason that you would need an investigation into Hillary Clinton is because Hillary Clinton hired Fusion GPS, a Russian connected firm, in order to dig up dirt on Donald Trump.
00:27:58.000And then it appears that that material was used as the basis for a FISA request from the FBI.
00:28:06.000There are questions as to whether the FBI actually continued to pay for this dossier, some of which has been discredited.
00:28:11.000And so the question is really whether Hillary Clinton did anything illegal in using a Russian-connected source in order to promote a hit on Donald Trump.
00:28:23.000I think there's some unfilled gaps in that suspicion.
00:28:26.000I think that we'd have to figure out that Hillary, number one, knew that she was getting information directly from the Russian government, or that she paid the Russian government for that information.
00:28:34.000There was some exchange that actually took place, or didn't take place, some sort of favor that was being done.
00:28:38.000We'd have to find out what the story is there.
00:28:45.000Why are we even talking about Uranium One?
00:28:47.000So, one of the people who spent some time, quote-unquote, debunking the Uranium One scandal yesterday was Shep Smith.
00:28:52.000Shep Smith, of course, is a left-leaning host on Fox News, and he spent a significant amount of time on his show yesterday debunking what he thought was the foolishness of looking at the Uranium One scandal to begin with.
00:29:04.000Uranium One is the name of a South Africa-based mining company.
00:29:08.000Back in 2007, it merged with Eurasia Energy, based in Canada.
00:29:13.000And in 2010, the mining arm of the Russian nuclear agency Rosatom bought controlling interest in the company.
00:29:20.000Among other places, that mining company had operations in Wyoming that amounted to what the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's, or the NRC, said was at the time about 20% of uranium production capacity in the U.S.
00:29:54.000Okay, and then Shepard Smith would go on to debunk this, right?
00:29:57.000Shepard Smith would say, well, she didn't approve the sale to the Russians, it was approved by a bunch of agencies, and it wasn't $140 million, and one of the people who was accused of giving all this money to Hillary Clinton had left Rosatom by the time this happened.
00:30:30.000Giustra says he divested his personal stake in the company at that time, but his shareholders owned 60% of the company, and there's no way to confirm the truth of his claim.
00:30:37.000In 2010, Rosatom tried to buy 51% of the company.
00:30:40.000This rose to the level of the government because this looked like a security problem, not because they were going to ship all of the uranium from the United States to Russia and make nukes, but because it actually deprived the United States of a strategic nuclear asset that was required for our military because we had a uranium shortage.
00:30:56.000In 2013, Russia bought the entirety of Uranium One with the approval of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, CFIUS, as well as the U.S.
00:31:03.000Nuclear Regulatory Commissions and Utah agencies.
00:31:06.000The State Department had to sign off because the State Department was part of the CFIUS.
00:31:09.000Hillary claims she had nothing to do with green-lighting this.
00:31:12.000She didn't stop it from going through.
00:31:14.000So, again, the accusation that Justra had divested himself at this point, so all of his donations to the Clinton Foundation had nothing to do with Uranium One, and in reality, it was just about $4 million that was donated to the Clinton Foundation from people associated with Uranium One.
00:31:31.000This is courtesy of the New York Times in a 2015 piece.
00:31:34.000They report that Uranium One, its acquisition actually sort of began in 2005 when Justra still owned the company, quote, with Mr. Clinton at his side.
00:31:43.000According to the Times, the two men had flown aboard Mr. Justra's private jet to Almaty, Kazakhstan, where they dined with the authoritarian president Nursultan Nazarbayev.
00:31:52.000Mr. Clinton handed the Kazakh president a propaganda coup when he expressed support for Nazarbayev's bid to head an international elections monitoring group undercutting American foreign policy and criticism of Kazakhstan's poor human rights record by, among others, his wife, who was then a senator.
00:32:05.000Within days of the visit, Justra's fledgling company, Eurasia Energy, signed a preliminary deal giving it stakes in three uranium mines controlled by the state-run uranium agency Kazatomprom.
00:32:14.000Okay, so now Eurasia, which is Justra's company, owns a bunch of assets in Kazakhstan.
00:32:19.000This, by the way, is one of the reasons the Russians wanted to buy the company, this U.S.-based company.
00:32:23.000They wanted to buy the company because they didn't just want the holdings in the United States, they really more wanted the holdings in Kazakhstan.
00:32:30.000Eurasia, this company in 2007, merged with Uranium One.
00:32:34.000At that point, that was when Justra says that he divested himself, but the new company was controlled by Eurasia investors, including a guy named Ian Telfer, a Canadian who became chairman.
00:32:44.000Juster made about 45 million bucks off the deal, and he sold his stake, but he had given a bunch of money to the Clintons.
00:32:50.000So that in itself is an element of corruption, although Hillary's not yet Secretary of State.
00:32:55.000Uranium One, this is all according to the New York Times, right?
00:32:58.000Uranium One began to snap up companies with the assets in the United States.
00:33:01.000In April 2007, it bought uranium mills in Utah, it bought in Wyoming, it bought in Texas.
00:33:06.000And then the Times published an article showing the 2005 trips linked to the Kazakhstan mining deal between the Clintons and Uranium One and JSTRA.
00:33:15.000JSTRA had donated $31.3 million to Clinton's foundation.
00:33:19.000Okay, and the Clintons were still involved after JSTRA dropped out.
00:33:23.000So the idea here from Shep Smith and some people on the left is once JSTRA was gone, what are you whining about?
00:33:28.000Mr. Telfer, right, who's the new head of Uranium One, gave undisclosed donations of somewhere between $1.3 million and $5.6 million in contributions.
00:33:37.000They were reported from a constellation of people with ties to Uranium One or Eurasia.
00:33:41.000Without those assets, the Russians would have had no interest in the deal, the Kazakh assets, they would have had no interest in the deals.
00:33:48.000Apparently, early on in the Obama administration, it looked like Uranium One was not going to be able to get what they needed from Kazakhstan.
00:33:54.000And so they went to the Clintons and said, can you help?
00:33:57.000And whether Hillary had anything to do with it or not, the State Department intervened.
00:34:01.000Amid this influx of Uranium One connected money, Bill Clinton was invited to speak in Moscow in June 2010, the same month Rosatom struck its deal for a majority stake in Uranium One.
00:34:11.000It was a half a million dollar fee for Bill Clinton, paid by Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment bank with ties to the Kremlin.
00:34:17.000Okay, so it is not at all clear that Hillary had nothing to do with this.
00:34:21.000It is not at all clear that Uranium One was completely clean.
00:34:24.000You know, I think that the most stretched allegation is the idea that Uranium One was greenlit by Hillary Clinton personally, but the idea that they intervened in 2009-2010, the State Department intervened a little bit to help with Kazakh issues for Uranium One, that's not out of bounds.
00:34:40.000It's weird that the entire Obama administration would sign off on all of this knowing that Uranium One donations were going to the Clinton Foundation.
00:34:45.000All of this is worthy of investigation.
00:34:57.000Special counsel suggests that the people who are in charge of investigating, namely Jeff Sessions, he's not capable of doing a full investigation.
00:35:19.000And so he recused himself in the Russia investigation.
00:35:22.000The reason Rod Rosenstein recused himself and appointed a special counsel is because Trump tried to use Rod Rosenstein as a rationale for firing James Comey.
00:35:31.000That forced Rosenstein to appoint a special counsel.
00:35:33.000So now you're saying that on the Hillary stuff, Sessions isn't capable of investigating.
00:35:56.000And then, the people on the right are bashing him about for not appointing a special counsel, as Donald Trump obviously wants to quote-unquote, lock her up.
00:36:04.000My sympathies are largely with Jeff Sessions here.
00:36:06.000So we'll start with Jeff Sessions talking to Ted Lieu, the egregiously bad California congressperson.
00:36:13.000He's currently running against a guy that I have endorsed in his race.
00:36:18.000And Ted Lieu went after Sessions and said that he was basically a liar about Russia.
00:36:21.000Here was Sessions' response yesterday on the Hill.
00:36:27.000But I hope the Congressman knows, and I hope all of you know, that my answer to that question, I did not meet with the Russians, was explicitly responding to the shocking suggestion that I, as a surrogate, was meeting on a continuing basis with Russian officials, and the implication was to impact the campaign in some sort of nefarious way.
00:36:52.000And all I did was meet in my office with the ambassador, which we didn't discuss anything like that.
00:36:58.000So I just want to say I appreciate the congressman's right.
00:37:12.000So basically, there's Sessions saying, you know, if I could sue you, I would, but there is a parliamentary immunity, so you can sue whatever you want on the floor of Congress.
00:37:19.000Sessions then was asked by Trey Gowdy and Jim Jordan from Ohio why he was not setting up a Hillary special counsel.
00:37:27.000Again, I don't think Sessions is doing the wrong thing here.
00:37:30.000Just because Eric Holder politicized the Department of Justice and used it as a political weapon on behalf of Barack Obama, just because he called himself Obama's wingman and then went out and acted like it, doesn't mean that the DOJ can afford to have every Attorney General be used as a baton by the administration.
00:37:44.000And I think Sessions is saying something true here.
00:37:46.000Here he was asked why he's not setting up a special counsel for Hillary, and here was his answer.
00:37:50.000Well, Mr. Comey is no longer the director of the FBI.
00:37:54.000We have an excellent man of integrity and ability in Chris Wray, and I think he's going to do an outstanding job, and I'm very happy about that.
00:38:02.000He's not here today, Attorney General, especially if you are, and I'm asking for a special counsel.
00:38:05.000The time of the gentleman has expired.
00:38:06.000And I would say looks like there's not enough basis to appoint a special counsel.
00:38:12.000Okay, and that is the proper legal standard.
00:38:14.000He takes an enormous amount of crap for it.
00:38:16.000But Sessions on this particular issue, while the Democrats are ripping him for being unfair, Sessions is the one who basically appointed the special counsel, you know, to investigate the 2016 election.
00:38:25.000And it was Sessions who right now is saying, listen, I need a legal standard in order for me to meet that legal standard.
00:38:30.000By the way, it's not like Sessions isn't doing his job.
00:38:32.000I mean, Sessions said yesterday that they are in full investigation mode against 27 separate leaks outside of the Trump administration.
00:39:12.000We should remove the ability for Trump to launch nuclear weapons.
00:39:15.000Outside of what Trump says, and the fact that no major legislation has been passed, when Trump leaves his department heads alone,
00:39:23.000What they do is within, not only within the normal bounds of political conduct, it is typically quite good.
00:39:29.000Jeff Sessions has been fine as the Attorney General, and all the crap he's had to take in order to do that is, I think, a foolish mistake on the part of people on the right and the left.
00:39:39.000Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:39:42.000So things that I like this week, I've been encouraged by Andrew Klavan and by Michael Knowles, the ex-Gribble Michael Knowles,
00:39:53.000It is a supremely pretentious book, but it does have a lot of interesting things to say about what it is that makes poetry reach us and how human language has changed over time and really how human
00:40:08.000understanding of the world has changed over time and has simultaneously enriched the variety of language while undercutting the innate richness of each word.
00:40:18.000So the sort of idea, the sort of thesis behind poetic diction is that a long time ago, when you look at words like ruach in the Bible, ruach means both wind and spirit.
00:40:29.000And so we have two words for that, right?
00:40:35.000And you read the word ruach, it has a different sense, right?
00:40:37.000A sense of richness to it that neither wind nor spirit really does justice to because it includes both.
00:40:42.000The reason for that, says Barfield, is because people perceived more meaning to be associated with the physical world than they necessarily perceived to be associated with the physical world today.
00:40:51.000And so we've been more specific with our language, but that also, that specificity means that when we read the word
00:40:58.000It doesn't have the same impact as when we read older poetry.
00:41:00.000When you read Homer, it feels replete with a certain meaning that modern poetry just can't match, and that's because the language itself of the time was richer in content, if not in variety.
00:41:22.000All right, so thing that I hate, number one.
00:41:23.000So Joe Biden obviously wants to run for president again.
00:41:27.000I will be curious to see if there's any widespread media investigation of allegations that have been made by former Secret Service agents that he mistreated female Secret Service agents.
00:41:36.000Those have been alleged in a couple of places that I've seen.
00:41:40.000All of these allegations, I believe, should be hunted down and researched to the fullest extent.
00:41:45.000But Biden obviously wants to run for president again.
00:41:47.000He thinks he would have won last time.
00:41:49.000There's a poll out today that shows that Biden would beat Donald Trump if the election were held today 46 to 34, something along those lines.
00:41:55.000In a sort of normal Democrat versus Trump election, it would be something like 48 to 34.
00:42:01.000In any case, Biden is making the rounds.
00:42:03.000And he was asked specifically about the shooting in Texas, that recent church shooting in Texas.
00:42:07.000And he was asked, why would you want to remove the gun from the hands of the guy who stopped the church shooter, right?
00:42:13.000The Stephen Williford, the NRA former gun instructor hero, who shot the bad guy.
00:42:19.000And here was Biden's response, which is truly insane.
00:42:22.000Well, first of all, the kind of gun being carried, it shouldn't be carried.
00:42:27.000Assault weapons are... I wrote the first, the last serious gun control law that was written, it was law for ten years, and it outlawed assault weapons, and it outlawed weapons with magazines that had a whole lot of bullets, and so you could kill a whole lot of people a lot more quickly, number one.
00:42:45.000Number two, it's just rational to say certain people shouldn't have guns.
00:42:50.000Now the fact that some people with guns
00:43:07.000Well, including presumably the guy who shot the bad guy.
00:43:10.000So Joe Biden knows less about guns than virtually anyone else.
00:43:12.000I mean, this is a guy who said that you should shoot through the front door of your house with a shotgun, or you should go out on your balcony and you should blow a couple rounds.
00:43:37.000So, Shannon Sharp, who has become a frequent contributor to Things I Hate, so I appreciate his presence, over on Fox Sports 1, he says he's praising Colin Kaepernick.
00:43:46.000So, Colin Kaepernick was named the GQ Person of the Year, or Citizen of the Year, which makes perfect sense, since he didn't vote, he doesn't speak publicly, he doesn't have much to say.
00:43:54.000Maybe Colin Kaepernick will never get the respect
00:44:12.000But I believe, when it's all said and done, and history is written 30, 40 years from now, Colin Kaepernick will be looked upon as some of these mythical figures of the Dr. Kings, the Muhammad Ali's, and the Rosa Parks.
00:44:26.000Okay, first of all, to compare Colin Kaepernick to Martin Luther King is utterly, abjectly insane.
00:44:31.000Martin Luther King not only provided a message that inspired millions of people, it was a uniting message.
00:44:36.000To compare him to Rosa Parks is also insane.
00:44:38.000Rosa Parks helped organize with the NAACP the legal pretext for ending legalized segregation in the United States.
00:44:46.000To compare to Muhammad Ali, however, is a little bit different.
00:44:48.000Comparing him to Muhammad Ali actually is not too far off, because if you go back and you look at what Muhammad Ali was saying during the 60s and the early 70s, a lot of it was quite extreme, a lot of it was quite anti-American, and there's been a rewriting of Muhammad Ali's history.
00:45:00.000So is it possible that 30 years from now the left will have rewritten Colin Kaepernick into some sort of gentleman hero?
00:45:05.000It's certainly a possibility, but that would just demonstrate that history can be rewritten in a myriad of false ways.
00:45:10.000Okay, so I was going to do some Bible talk this week, but I actually did some extra Bible talk in last week's mailbag.
00:45:15.000So if you want Bible talk, go back and listen to that.
00:45:18.000But we have to break so that I can get on a plane and come back home and do my show from the studio tomorrow.
00:45:22.000Thanks again to the folks over at Fox News for allowing me to use the studio.