The Ben Shapiro Show - Iowatta Show! | Ep. 799

00:00:00.000 President Trump and ol' Joe head to Iowa, New York and California keep working to make their states less livable, and female soccer players push for equal pay. 0.92

00:00:09.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:09.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:10.000 I mean, this time in the calendar, it must be a fun place to be, Iowa.

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00:00:31.000 We'll get to all of that in just one second.

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00:01:48.000 Alrighty, so yesterday in Iowa, President Trump and Vice President, former Vice President Joe Biden, they all descend on Iowa.

00:02:00.000 Now, it comes at a time when the country is unbelievably divided.

00:02:08.000 I don't mean like we're going to have a civil war, we're all going to get out into the streets with our guns.

00:02:12.000 That's not what I'm talking about.

00:02:13.000 I'm talking about politically divided.

00:02:15.000 I mean, we have rarely been politically divided the way that we are politically divided today.

00:02:18.000 According to the New York Times, right now is the first time in more than a century that all but one state legislature is dominated by a single party.

00:02:26.000 Which is incredible.

00:02:27.000 There are 50 states in the Union.

00:02:29.000 And that means that 49 of them have a legislature that is not split.

00:02:33.000 Which is an incredible, incredible number.

00:02:36.000 Most legislative sessions have ended or are scheduled to end in a matter of days in capitals across the nation.

00:02:40.000 Republican-held states have rushed forward with conservative agendas.

00:02:43.000 Those controlled by Democrats have pushed through liberal agendas.

00:02:47.000 Single party control is not exactly easing the tone of political discourse, specifically because everybody also wants the federal government to control everything.

00:02:55.000 This is the biggest problem.

00:02:56.000 It's one thing to have states that are Republican and states that are Democrat and they basically leave each other alone, but that is not the way our modern media culture works.

00:03:03.000 If Alabama passes an abortion law, then the wonderful, ethical bettors in California decide they can't do business in Alabama anymore and declare that the federal government must be involved.

00:03:14.000 The fact that federalism was designed specifically so that states can have different opinions on important issues, this seems to have bypassed everybody's perspective at this point.

00:03:23.000 In Oregon, where Democrats control state government, Republicans boycotted sessions for several days over disagreements about taxes and gun control.

00:03:29.000 In Tennessee, where Republicans are in charge, Democrats staged a walkout during a heated and chaotic budget debate, and Republicans ordered the police to go find them.

00:03:36.000 In New York, the state legislature has passed several laws that had been blocked in previous years by Republicans, who lost control of the Senate earlier this year after a decade in power.

00:03:44.000 Those measures included a law extending the period of time for victims of childhood sexual abuse to file lawsuits, and several others restricting the use of firearms.

00:03:52.000 And in Colorado, where Democrats dominate the Capitol, Republicans were so upset about the stream of new laws being passed, they demanded each bill be read aloud to slow the pace.

00:04:00.000 Democrats responded by having five computers simultaneously read bills.

00:04:04.000 The computers were able to whip through hundreds of pages and minutes.

00:04:06.000 The result, of course, was gibberish. 0.69

00:04:08.000 Colorado Republicans sued and won in court.

00:04:11.000 Democrats then went on to pass legislation, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions and creating a reinsurance program to lower health care costs.

00:04:19.000 So things have gotten incredibly, incredibly Divisive?

00:04:24.000 Basically, the states along the coast, particularly the Northeast, have Democratic control and the states along the West Coast, Washington, Oregon, California, New Mexico, those states have solid Democrat control and every other place is solid Republican control.

00:04:39.000 The only, literally the only legislative control that is split in America is Minnesota.

00:04:47.000 That's the first time since 1914 that that has happened.

00:04:50.000 So the reason that I say this is because this is going to be reflected in our national election.

00:04:54.000 There's a feeling on the left that if Republicans win, then Republicans will exert their control and assert that control and take a dominant political position in America.

00:05:03.000 Now, the fact is that that is not exactly I mean, from a federal level, what Republicans have done basically is lower the amount of regulation on business, they've passed a tax cut, and they've put into place some judges who generally are disposed to leave legislatures to their own devices.

00:05:18.000 Originalists tend to be a lot more friendly to the legislative branch exercising its powers than folks on the left are.

00:05:25.000 The fact is, when conservatives are in control, states have more power.

00:05:27.000 But Democrats in states across the country actually believe that the federal government should be in control of everything.

00:05:33.000 And so they are seeking to seize control of the commanding heights of the government and then use it against conservatives across the country.

00:05:39.000 So against this backdrop, we have what is sure to be an insanely divisive presidential election.

00:05:45.000 And the numbers right now show bad polling for President Trump, unfortunately.

00:05:50.000 So what are those polls worth?

00:05:52.000 We're a year and a half out.

00:05:52.000 We're going to find out.

00:05:54.000 The only thing about the polls that is certain is that President Trump is highly unlikely to break 50% in a national election, which means that he's going to have to hope that a Democrat dramatically underperforms the way that Hillary Clinton dramatically underperformed in 2016.

00:06:08.000 Even then, she won the popular vote by two and a half million votes.

00:06:11.000 So Democrats are going to have to dramatically underperform, and Trump might even need a third party candidate, because the fact is that according to the latest polls, Trump is stuck somewhere between 40 and 42%.

00:06:23.000 Apparently President Trump is fulminating over the polls.

00:06:25.000 According to the New York Times, they say that President Trump is basically instructing his aides to fib about poll numbers.

00:06:33.000 Quinnipiac University conducted national head-to-head polls matching up Trump and some of the leading Democratic presidential hopefuls.

00:06:38.000 None of the matchups are particularly good for President Trump.

00:06:42.000 He holds a he's behind all six of the Democrats who are polled between five and 13 points.

00:06:49.000 Joe Biden up 53 to 40 on him in this national poll.

00:06:52.000 Bernie Sanders up on him, 51 to 42.

00:06:55.000 Even Cory Booker and Pete Buttigieg are up on him, 47 to 42.

00:07:00.000 There's some limited head-to-head polling that we've seen in some key early states, as the Washington Post reports.

00:07:04.000 Trump trails by as much as double digits in both Michigan and Pennsylvania.

00:07:08.000 There's one poll, a Q poll, that had him trailing Biden in Texas, even, by four points.

00:07:13.000 All of this, of course, dependent on the economy remaining strong.

00:07:17.000 If the economy were to take a dump, then President Trump is in serious, serious trouble, of course.

00:07:23.000 The New York Times is reporting that President Trump is quite upset with these poll numbers, despite his sort of outward Antipathy for poll numbers.

00:07:30.000 According to the New York Times, late at night using his old personal cell phone number, President Trump has been calling former advisors who he has not heard from in years, eager to discuss his standing in the polls against the top Democrats in the field, specifically Joe Biden, whom he describes in those conversations as too old and not as popular as people think.

00:07:45.000 Now, I think that those critiques are probably half right.

00:07:48.000 The fact is that Joe Biden will be 97,000 years old, actually, come election day.

00:07:53.000 He'll be 78 come election day 2020.

00:07:57.000 And President Trump does have significantly more energy than Biden does on the campaign trail.

00:08:01.000 Nonetheless, Trump is obviously perturbed by the polls, according to this reporting.

00:08:05.000 After being briefed on a devastating 17-state poll conducted by his own campaign pollster, Tony Fabrizio, Trump told aides to deny that his internal polling showed him trailing Mr. Biden in many of the states he needed to win, even though he's also trailing in public polls from key states like Texas, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

00:08:20.000 Now, that makes sense.

00:08:21.000 President Trump is At least an expert marketer.

00:08:24.000 I mean, this is what he is good at.

00:08:26.000 He is good at being a brander.

00:08:27.000 And being good at branding yourself very often involves fibbing about your brand, which President Trump has been known to do from time to time.

00:08:34.000 See, for example, Trump Steaks.

00:08:37.000 But apparently Trump is instructing his aides to say publicly that there's other data that is showing him doing well.

00:08:43.000 The fact is that whatever public data there is, is not looking particularly great at this point.

00:08:49.000 Trump's own campaign pollster, according to Political Wire, wrote a memo about expanding the map to give President Trump more options for getting to 270 electoral votes.

00:08:58.000 Fabrizio says that New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Nevada, which are all states that Trump lost in 2016, are highly competitive.

00:09:05.000 He says that Minnesota is also highly competitive.

00:09:07.000 But this sounds a lot like Democrats who in 2016 were ignoring Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in favor of exactly those same states.

00:09:15.000 The fact is that if Hillary Clinton had to campaign in Michigan in the late days of the election, she was in serious trouble.

00:09:21.000 If President Trump is spending the late days of the election campaigning in New Hampshire, New Mexico, Nevada, and Minnesota, that is not a good sign.

00:09:29.000 Oregon, of course, if the idea is that he's going to be campaigning in Oregon, my goodness, that is not going to be good news.

00:09:37.000 The fact is that his own internal pollsters are apparently saying, That he is lagging behind in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

00:09:45.000 That those are states that are difficult to win.

00:09:48.000 And when people talk about expanding the map, usually what that means is they're not able to hold the map that they need to hold.

00:09:53.000 Oregon is so blue it hasn't voted for a Republican for president since 1984.

00:09:56.000 CNN has obtained that memo from Fabrizio about ideas for expanding the map.

00:10:02.000 A senior Trump campaign source tells CNN they are considering hiring staff to test the waters in Oregon after hearing from Fabrizio and talking to the National Republican Congressional Committee counterparts.

00:10:13.000 The Trump campaign is not under an illusion that Oregon is winnable at this point, but they know that retaking states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, even Iowa, where Trump has been lagging, those are not exactly sure bets.

00:10:26.000 OK, so they're not obviously giving up on these states, nor should they.

00:10:32.000 But none of these poll numbers are particularly good for the president leading up to this.

00:10:36.000 Now, meanwhile, inside the Democratic Party, Joe Biden continues to maintain a very large lead in most of these polls.

00:10:42.000 There's a morning consult poll from yesterday that shows Biden up at 37 percent.

00:10:46.000 Now, that poll's a bit of an outlier because Biden, in many other polls, has been lagging closer to 30 percent, even dropping in a couple of polls below 30 percent.

00:10:54.000 According to this morning consul poll, it's Biden 37, Bernie Sanders at 19, Elizabeth Warren at 11, and Buttigieg at 7.

00:11:01.000 Kamala Harris also at 7.

00:11:02.000 Those have been consistently the top 5 candidates in virtually all of these polls.

00:11:07.000 Beta! 0.86

00:11:08.000 Lagging all the way down there at 3%.

00:11:10.000 And Spartacus Cory Booker, also lagging way down there.

00:11:13.000 There is a poll that is out that is very bad for Bernie Sanders.

00:11:16.000 I'll give you the numbers on that poll in just a second.

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00:12:28.000 Okay, so back to the polling data.

00:12:30.000 According to a new Democratic poll from The Economist and YouGov, Bernie Sanders has actually now fallen behind Elizabeth Warren.

00:12:37.000 Which is the only poll that I have seen that actually drops Sanders behind Warren.

00:12:40.000 There may be one other where they're basically even, but this is the only one I've seen where Sanders has dropped all the way behind Elizabeth Warren.

00:12:47.000 This poll has Joe Biden at a very low 26% and Elizabeth Warren all the way up to 16%.

00:12:52.000 There's no question that Elizabeth Warren is experiencing a bit of a boomlet that is largely driven by media coverage that keeps talking about how many wonderful ideas Elizabeth Warren has.

00:13:00.000 They keep saying that her campaign slogan is, she's got a plan for that. 1.00

00:13:04.000 Yeah, you know what?

00:13:05.000 It turns out that Stalin had a plan for the economy.

00:13:08.000 Didn't go great.

00:13:09.000 Mao also had a plan.

00:13:11.000 He called it the Great Leap Forward.

00:13:12.000 Plans do not mean that the plans are good.

00:13:15.000 There are lots of bad, bad plans. 0.90

00:13:17.000 Lots of bad people in history, and lots of fools in history, have had plans. 0.96

00:13:22.000 Elizabeth Warren has lots of plans, but the media like to say that she's suuuper intelligent. 1.00

00:13:25.000 She's so smart.

00:13:27.000 She's so charismatic.

00:13:29.000 Anybody who says Elizabeth Warren is charismatic, I have serious doubts as to your judgment of both character and charisma.

00:13:35.000 But nonetheless, because of the media coverage, Elizabeth Warren is picking up ground, and Bernie Sanders is feeling stodgy.

00:13:41.000 He's feeling a little old at this point.

00:13:43.000 It feels as though the Bernie Sanders phenomenon has run its course a little bit, so Elizabeth Warren is picking up ground in those polls. 0.99

00:13:50.000 Right now, if you're Joe Biden, the big threat is that Bernie Sanders starts to bleed support to Elizabeth Warren, and suddenly Elizabeth Warren is riding up there in the mid-twenties and, for example, takes Iowa.

00:14:01.000 And New Hampshire, of course, is right next door to Massachusetts, so presumably she would do well in New Hampshire as well.

00:14:06.000 That could be bad news for Joe Biden.

00:14:10.000 So Joe Biden is finally having to get out there on the campaign trail and work, which is the first time we've seen this with Joe Biden before.

00:14:17.000 Joe Biden has really not had to do any work at this point.

00:14:20.000 He's basically attempted to avoid the limelight because he figures that all the other Democrats are going to club each other to death and he's going to stand over there to the side and grin at them.

00:14:29.000 He's like Cersei Lannister, sort of sitting over there drinking and watching everybody else kill themselves up in the north.

00:14:35.000 That's been his plan, but I think that that plan is beginning to break down.

00:14:38.000 And so Joe Biden finally has to go out on the campaign trail.

00:14:40.000 The problem for Joe Biden is twofold.

00:14:43.000 Joe Biden has a record that is Barack Obama's record, and Joe Biden has a record that is Joe Biden's record.

00:14:48.000 So if you look at Joe Biden, not at Donald Trump, not Elizabeth Warren, not at the alternatives, but if you look directly at Joe Biden, dude's a weak candidate.

00:14:56.000 He's been a weak candidate every time he's run for president, which is why he's done so three times and he's never made any headway.

00:15:01.000 So that means that his focus, when he goes out on the campaign trail, has to be on President Trump.

00:15:06.000 Good news for him is that for Democrats, their passionate hatred for President Trump means that he'll be speaking to them in exactly the sort of language they want to hear.

00:15:15.000 However, all the other Democrats will too.

00:15:17.000 As I've said, I've said this all along, I think that Joe Biden's campaign is a slow bleed.

00:15:21.000 I don't see him consolidating support over the course of this campaign because I don't see a lot of people dropping out and people shifting their votes to Biden.

00:15:28.000 I think there are a lot of people who are going to shift their votes from other candidates to Elizabeth Warren or shift their votes from Pete Buttigieg to Elizabeth Warren or Kamala Harris or something like that.

00:15:37.000 Okay, so Joe Biden goes out on the campaign trail in Iowa and he has to be as extreme as humanly possible about President Trump.

00:15:45.000 So his entire campaign thus far has been gaffes and saying mean things about Trump.

00:15:48.000 That's his entire campaign.

00:15:50.000 Some of those mean things are true.

00:15:52.000 Some of those mean things are false.

00:15:53.000 We'll start with the most bizarre statement that Joe Biden made yesterday while he was in Iowa.

00:15:58.000 This bizarre statement was that President Trump was literally an existential threat to the Republic.

00:16:05.000 I believe that the president is literally an existential threat to America for three reasons.

00:16:11.000 One, He is a genuine threat to our core values.

00:16:17.000 And if you wondered about that, remember what happened in Charlottesville.

00:16:21.000 I never thought I'd see that happen in my lifetime again.

00:16:24.000 And what happened?

00:16:25.000 When he was asked to comment on it, he said, quote, there were very fine people in both groups.

00:16:33.000 No president of the United States, Democrat or Republican, has ever, ever, ever said something like that. - He's looking real heavy on Charlottesville.

00:16:41.000 That stuff is baked into the cake at this point.

00:16:43.000 I criticized President Trump extraordinarily heavily on Charlottesville, and he deserved it.

00:16:48.000 He deserved to be ripped on it.

00:16:49.000 But if the idea is that President Trump is embracing white supremacists, he specifically did condemn white supremacists, He then made the bizarre statement that there were good people, very fine people on both sides, implying there are people who are marching who are not white supremacists about the Robert E. Lee monument.

00:17:04.000 There's been no evidence that those people exist.

00:17:07.000 But with that said, literally an existential threat to the country?

00:17:11.000 Now, I understand this is Biden's pitch.

00:17:12.000 Biden's pitch is Donald Trump is so scary on a personal level.

00:17:16.000 He's so terrible on a personal level that you should vote for me because I'm old Joe and I'm standing right here.

00:17:23.000 I'm standing right here just being Joe Biden.

00:17:26.000 I understand.

00:17:27.000 He's basically, he's performing the Medusa campaign.

00:17:31.000 He turns himself to stone.

00:17:32.000 He stands there and he hopes you'll vote for him.

00:17:34.000 I got it.

00:17:35.000 We all get it.

00:17:36.000 But literally an existential threat to the country?

00:17:40.000 Okay, then Joe Biden makes the pitch that President Trump is rough on farmers.

00:17:40.000 Truly?

00:17:45.000 Now, here is the problem for Joe Biden when it comes to his President Trump is rough on farmers routine.

00:17:50.000 The problem is that in states like Iowa that have a lot of folks who do not share Joe Biden's political values, A lot of those folks are not going to shift over to Joe Biden simply because Joe Biden tells them that that President Trump has been hurting them on trade.

00:18:03.000 Now, again, I think it's a huge mistake that President Trump has been engaging in these tariff battles.

00:18:09.000 They do disproportionately harm his potential voting base.

00:18:12.000 So what Joe Biden says here, this particular line of attack actually does have some merit.

00:18:18.000 If he's going to win votes in Ohio and in Michigan and in Pennsylvania, going after Trump on tariffs is actually not a bad way to do it.

00:18:24.000 Here's Joe Biden attacking Trump on policy.

00:18:26.000 This is more of a rich vein for him.

00:18:29.000 President Trump is in Iowa today, and I hope his presence here will be a clarifying event, because Iowa farmers have been crushed by his tariff war with China, and no one knows better than the folks in Iowa.

00:18:50.000 He thinks that being tough is great.

00:18:53.000 Well, it's really easy to be tough when someone else absorbs the pain.

00:18:58.000 Farmers, manufacturers, the automobile industry.

00:19:01.000 My goodness, he does sound old, doesn't he?

00:19:03.000 I mean, just on an aesthetic level, he sounds old, he sounds wandering, he sounds meandering.

00:19:09.000 I mean, I guess that's the pitch.

00:19:11.000 Again, the pitch is that you know me, I'm old, I'm safe.

00:19:15.000 But he does sound non-energetic.

00:19:17.000 He sounds like he's basically falling asleep at the podium.

00:19:20.000 President Trump is a high energy dude.

00:19:21.000 I mean, that's one thing that you can say for President Trump.

00:19:23.000 President Trump, that is a dude who does not sleep.

00:19:25.000 That is a dude who never stops tweeting.

00:19:27.000 That is a guy who is the energizer bunny.

00:19:30.000 I mean, when it comes to just the amount of energy and electricity he puts off, it's an enormous wattage.

00:19:36.000 Joe Biden is a low wattage guy.

00:19:39.000 That line of attack is not a bad line of attack for him, but that wasn't exactly the most stunning pitch.

00:19:44.000 I mean, play the beginning of that again.

00:19:45.000 He sounds like he's going to keel over in the middle of this statement.

00:19:49.000 President Trump is in Iowa today.

00:19:53.000 I mean, that's like me after I've had seven Valium, guys.

00:19:56.000 I almost have to be comatose to have that low level of energy.

00:20:01.000 And that will tell in a presidential campaign.

00:20:04.000 Then Biden goes back to his original pitch.

00:20:06.000 His original pitch, of course, is not that Trump is bad on policy because the economy is really good, because we don't have any existential crises on the foreign level. 0.90

00:20:13.000 Instead, he goes back to his original pitch, which is that Trump is a very, very bad, mean, very bad man. 0.88

00:20:18.000 He says that President Trump inspires thugs around the world.

00:20:21.000 Now, here's the problem with this particular pitch for Joe Biden, and this is where you get back into every critique that he makes of President Trump, other than the specific volatility of Trump's personality, can be turned around back on Joe Biden, because Joe Biden does have a long record.

00:20:34.000 When Biden says that Trump inspires thugs around the world, just keep in mind, Iran, Vladimir Putin, China, thugs around the world found the Obama administration to be their best friend.

00:20:46.000 They found the Obama administration to be exorbitantly kind.

00:20:50.000 Bashar Assad is still in power because of Barack Obama.

00:20:53.000 The fact is that thugs around the world slept easily at night knowing that Joe Biden was vice president of the United States.

00:20:58.000 How do you think they'll sleep at night knowing that Joe Biden is president of the United States?

00:21:03.000 I've criticized President Trump when it comes to his kid-glove treatment of Kim Jong-un, one of the worst people on planet Earth. 0.98

00:21:07.000 I've criticized President Trump heavily when it came to his ridiculous, asinine, and disgusting statements that the United States has acted similarly to Vladimir Putin. 0.91

00:21:17.000 But if we are talking about folks who have coddled dictators in terms of policy, there is no comparison between the Obama administration and the Trump administration. 0.97

00:21:24.000 So if the idea here is that Trump inspires thugs around the world, Thugs everywhere were waking up knowing that they lived easier because Barack Obama was president of the United States.

00:21:34.000 Here's Joe Biden, though, trying to make the counter case.

00:21:36.000 The news media, all of them back there, they're all fake news, he says.

00:21:40.000 No, everybody thinks that's kind of, you know, it doesn't mean much.

00:21:44.000 But look at the people copying his ways all around the world, whether it's Orban in Hungary, whether it's in the Philippines.

00:21:51.000 There are thugs all over the world using the same kinds of language he's using now.

00:21:57.000 And what are we saying to the world?

00:21:59.000 What are we saying to the world?

00:22:02.000 You don't have to like Viktor Orban, by the way, the head of Hungary, but he is the democratically elected leader of Hungary.

00:22:09.000 And you weren't flying 150 billion dollars in cash to him, you were flying 150 billion dollars in cash, or 100 million dollars in cash, whatever it was, a billion dollars in cash, I'm trying to remember the exact amount.

00:22:18.000 You were flying pallets of cash over to the Iranian regime.

00:22:23.000 So spare me the crocodile tears about President Trump inspiring dictators around the world, Joe Biden.

00:22:28.000 We'll get to Joe Biden's most extreme pitch in just one second.

00:22:31.000 Again, I do not think that this campaign is going to last the test of the Democratic primaries.

00:22:36.000 I really don't.

00:22:36.000 I think these early polls are deceptive.

00:22:38.000 We'll get to that in just a second.

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00:23:56.000 Okay, so.

00:23:57.000 Finally, Joe Biden has to make his most extreme pitch.

00:23:59.000 So, so far you have heard him criticize President Trump over and over.

00:24:02.000 Not an affirmative idea in the bunch.

00:24:04.000 He has never said anything that he would affirmatively do.

00:24:07.000 His speech last night mentioned President Trump by name some 76 times.

00:24:11.000 His entire angle is, don't talk about me, talk about that guy.

00:24:15.000 Which isn't a terrible political angle in a very polarized political time, but It also leaves him open to the Elizabeth Warrens of the world who have a plan.

00:24:24.000 Because can anyone explain why Joe Biden is running other than he doesn't want Donald Trump to be president?

00:24:29.000 He sort of suffers from the Hillary Clinton problem.

00:24:30.000 So Hillary Clinton kept running and running and running because she felt that the world owed it to her. 1.00

00:24:35.000 This is why she had a video in the middle of the campaign in which she said that she couldn't believe she wasn't beating Donald Trump by double digits.

00:24:42.000 The real reason that people didn't like Hillary Clinton is that people don't like candidates whom they do not understand the rationale for.

00:24:50.000 If you see a candidate and you ask that candidate, why are you running?

00:24:53.000 And the person goes, I don't know.

00:24:55.000 The chances you're going to vote for that person are very low.

00:24:58.000 And right now, the only reason Joe Biden is running, presumably, is because he thinks he can win.

00:25:02.000 He did the whole, I have to be talked into this thing.

00:25:05.000 Elizabeth Warren knows why she is running.

00:25:06.000 Bernie Sanders knows why he is running.

00:25:08.000 Kamala Harris knows why she is running. 1.00

00:25:10.000 Joe Biden?

00:25:11.000 I'm not even sure he knows what day it is based on this audio.

00:25:15.000 So, Joe Biden has to come up with some sort of grand vision for things.

00:25:18.000 So what is his grand vision?

00:25:20.000 His grand vision is that he is going to cure cancer.

00:25:22.000 Now listen, all for it.

00:25:25.000 Cancer, horrible.

00:25:26.000 Terrible, terrible disease.

00:25:28.000 I have close relatives who were lost to cancer at very young ages.

00:25:31.000 My dad had a case of skin cancer.

00:25:34.000 Like, I understand.

00:25:36.000 Cancer is just awful.

00:25:39.000 And I know Joe Biden lost a son, Beau, to brain cancer.

00:25:43.000 I get all of that. 1.00

00:25:45.000 Still, the notion that we are five minutes away from a cure to cancer so long as the federal government spends a lot of money on it is just a bunch of crap. 0.99

00:25:51.000 It's just not true. 0.94

00:25:52.000 The fact is that researchers all over the planet are expending billions of dollars on cancer research today.

00:25:58.000 The problem is not that they have insufficient funding.

00:26:02.000 Again, I'm not saying that we shouldn't fund cancer research, although I wonder whether there actually is the constitutional authority to fund a lot of the things that we all find good.

00:26:11.000 But with that said, when Joe Biden says what he's about to say here, you have to just shake your head.

00:26:15.000 Because what he's about to say is that if he is elected, cancer will be cured by the time he leaves office.

00:26:21.000 That is not a thing that Joe Biden can guarantee.

00:26:24.000 Also, if Joe Biden has a cure to cancer in his back pocket, maybe he should, you know, hand that over.

00:26:29.000 I don't know why he'd hold the cure to cancer hostage here based on his presidency.

00:26:33.000 So this is a very bizarre pitch by Vice President Joe Biden.

00:26:38.000 When loss occurs, you know that, you know, people come up to you and tell you, I understand if you lose a husband, a wife, a son, a daughter, a family member, and lots of times you feel like saying, you know, they say, I know how you feel, and if they hadn't, you'd look at them, you know they mean well, but you say, you have no idea how I feel.

00:26:59.000 But when it happens to you, you know, I promise you if I'm elected president, you're going to see the single most important thing that changes America is we're going to cure cancer.

00:27:10.000 What in the world?

00:27:11.000 How can you make that promise?

00:27:13.000 How?

00:27:14.000 Is there a way to make that promise?

00:27:16.000 I mean, that's that is that's an insane statement.

00:27:20.000 I mean, President Trump, I hate it when politicians pander.

00:27:22.000 I really despise it.

00:27:24.000 When President Trump went to Iowa during the primaries in 2016, and he said to all of the farmers that he would expend enormous sums of cash on ethanol, and Ted Cruz at the same time went in there and said, we're not spending any cash on ethanol.

00:27:36.000 And then Cruz won Iowa. 0.71

00:27:37.000 I thought that was a gutsy political move.

00:27:39.000 To go out there and tell people the lie that grandma is going to live because you elect me president? 0.95

00:27:44.000 Joe Biden does not have God-like powers.

00:27:47.000 He cannot lay on the hands and cure cancer if he is elected president.

00:27:50.000 And if he can, maybe he should stop wasting his time running for president, and he should start wandering the land laying on the hands. 0.99

00:27:56.000 These kind of promises are such crap from politicians. 0.96

00:27:58.000 It's why people don't trust politicians. 0.99

00:28:00.000 I understand it's coming from a place, from a father who lost his son to cancer.

00:28:05.000 So he above all should know, you don't raise people's hopes by telling them that if you're elected president, you're going to cure cancer.

00:28:10.000 Also, is he going to cure poverty and all disease?

00:28:13.000 Is he going to be able to alleviate climate change with the snap of a finger?

00:28:17.000 I'm so tired of this kind of stuff. 0.97

00:28:18.000 It really is silly. 0.69

00:28:20.000 So Joe Biden, that was his pitch in Iowa. 1.00

00:28:22.000 Trump sucks. 1.00

00:28:23.000 Trump's mean. 1.00

00:28:24.000 Trump's terrible. 1.00

00:28:25.000 Ignore my record and I'm going to cure cancer. 0.93

00:28:28.000 Not the world's most solid pitch.

00:28:29.000 OK, then there is President Trump.

00:28:31.000 So President Trump yesterday was in Iowa.

00:28:34.000 And he is so much more energetic than Joe Biden, it is not even close.

00:28:38.000 So he let off the day, before he even got to Iowa, he did a little bit of a tete-a-tete with the reporters on the White House lawn.

00:28:43.000 This is his favorite thing to do.

00:28:44.000 He walks through, the reporters are standing there, and Trump sees a camera, and like a moth to the flame, he just moves on over to that flame.

00:28:52.000 And he is asked about Joe Biden, and President Trump does what President Trump does. 1.00

00:28:56.000 He's a loser. 1.00

00:28:57.000 He's a dummy. 1.00

00:28:58.000 He's an idiot. 1.00

00:29:00.000 It's a moron. 1.00

00:29:01.000 President Trump making convincing case against Joe Biden. 1.00

00:29:04.000 Joe Biden thought that China was not a competitor of us. 0.99

00:29:10.000 Joe Biden is a dummy. 1.00

00:29:12.000 Biden, who's a loser. 1.00

00:29:13.000 I mean, look, Joe never got more than 1%, except Obama took him off the trash heap. 0.99

00:29:19.000 And now it looks like he's failing.

00:29:21.000 It looks like his friends from the left are going to overtake him pretty soon.

00:29:26.000 I have to tell you, he's a different guy.

00:29:29.000 He looks different than he used to.

00:29:31.000 He acts different than he used to.

00:29:33.000 He's even slower than he used to be.

00:29:38.000 Again, it is true that he is slower than he used to be.

00:29:41.000 And this is going to be Trump's attack on Biden is that he it's the same attack he used on Hillary Clinton, that she's too slow.

00:29:47.000 She's not energetic enough.

00:29:48.000 He used it on low energy Jeb as well.

00:29:50.000 And Trump does have an inerring instinct, like it or hate it.

00:29:54.000 He has an inerring ability to sink the knife directly in the chink in somebody's armor. 1.00

00:29:59.000 You know, it's very funny.

00:30:01.000 When you have members of your family, one of the things that tells you whether you like somebody or not, when there are members of your family, you know where all of the kind of holes in their armor is and you deliberately avoid those because you don't want to be mean to the person.

00:30:10.000 President Trump has no such compunction when it comes to politics.

00:30:13.000 If there is a way for him to stick the knife in, he will stick that knife in.

00:30:16.000 He is an expert at it.

00:30:18.000 OK, we're going to get to more of President Trump's pitch in Iowa in just a second.

00:30:21.000 Then we'll get to the other Democrats.

00:30:22.000 And then I have to talk about governance in Los Angeles and New York.

00:30:25.000 We have a lot more coming up for you in just a second.

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00:33:02.000 So President Trump in Iowa, his weakness in Iowa is not going after Biden.

00:33:15.000 Going after Biden, President Trump is an expert at.

00:33:18.000 His weakness in Iowa, as it is in many of these other states, I've been saying this for weeks, if you want to see Trump re-elected, his tariff wars are very bad for the economy and they specifically harm a lot of people in the areas that he needs to win.

00:33:29.000 They harm people in Wisconsin.

00:33:31.000 They harm people in Michigan.

00:33:32.000 They harm people in Pennsylvania.

00:33:33.000 They harm people in Iowa.

00:33:35.000 If you are using inputs from foreign industries in your product, as they do in Michigan, it's going to hurt you when we tariff that.

00:33:41.000 If China raises its tariffs on soybeans, that's going to hurt a lot of farmers in Iowa. 0.97

00:33:45.000 That's just the way that all of this works.

00:33:47.000 So President Trump goes to Iowa and he's on the defensive.

00:33:50.000 And so he has to defend his trade platform.

00:33:52.000 So here is President Trump yesterday in Iowa saying that he pledged to fight for farmers and he has done so.

00:33:58.000 As a candidate for president, I pledge to support our ethanol industry and to fight for the American farmer like no president has ever fought before.

00:34:08.000 And we're winning these fights.

00:34:09.000 And you're great patriots, I will tell you.

00:34:12.000 We're winning these fights.

00:34:14.000 OK, well, that may be true that we are winning the fights, but we are going to have to see the results of those fights.

00:34:20.000 The Mexican tariff battle, if he got a win out of that, still sort of unclear, then that is a win.

00:34:25.000 The Chinese trade war, he's going to have to make a strong, forcible case why that needs to happen or what a win looks like.

00:34:31.000 Or he is in serious danger of basically being blamed by everybody who is damaged by the tariffs.

00:34:36.000 If you want people to make sacrifices, you have to explain why they are making the sacrifices.

00:34:40.000 So here's Trump trying to explain that.

00:34:41.000 He says we're reversing decades of failed trade policies.

00:34:45.000 We're reversing decades of failed trade policies, opening up new markets and fighting to give our farmers the fair and level playing field they deserve.

00:34:54.000 You never had a fair playing field for the last 15 to 20 years. 0.99

00:34:58.000 You were taken advantage of by stupidity, by incompetence, by people that don't care. 1.00

00:35:06.000 Who knows? 1.00

00:35:07.000 You were really treated very badly.

00:35:10.000 But you're not being treated badly anymore.

00:35:12.000 You see what's happening.

00:35:14.000 Okay, well, the problem is a lot of these farmers do see what's happening, and what they are seeing happening is trade barriers go up on the other side of the Pacific, with the Chinese government now preventing the importation of tremendous amounts of American agriculture.

00:35:25.000 So, that pitch is only going to go so far.

00:35:30.000 If he can achieve his goals, if he gets the Chinese to lower those trade barriers, then good.

00:35:34.000 And this is where Trump's final pitch comes in on the trade issue.

00:35:37.000 He says, we're knocking down the barriers to the products grown in the United States.

00:35:40.000 If he achieves that, then yes, that will be a win for Iowa.

00:35:43.000 If he does not achieve that, then he's got a problem.

00:35:45.000 My administration is knocking down barriers to products made, grown and raised in the USA, not only on the farm, but all over.

00:35:54.000 Just recently reached an agreement to eliminate restrictions and expand exports of American beef, you saw that, to Japan by up to $200 million a year.

00:36:05.000 You saw that.

00:36:06.000 There's somebody selling beef over there.

00:36:11.000 Okay, so President Trump is a little vulnerable on the trade stuff.

00:36:15.000 Most of his record, he's not particularly vulnerable on.

00:36:17.000 He's mostly vulnerable on the personality stuff.

00:36:19.000 And that's why you're seeing everybody in the Democratic Party claiming that Trump himself is some sort of existential threat.

00:36:25.000 Pete Buttigieg, for example, suggested that climate change is an existential, this is just yesterday.

00:36:29.000 He said that climate change was an existential threat.

00:36:31.000 Joe Biden said that Trump was an existential threat.

00:36:34.000 Jay Inslee released a press release saying that climate change was an existential threat.

00:36:38.000 Apparently everything is an existential threat.

00:36:41.000 So they're saying that everything is an existential threat.

00:36:43.000 OK, so now we move over to the other Democrats.

00:36:45.000 We've seen Trump versus Biden and how that shakes out.

00:36:47.000 Trump will attack Biden on his low energy.

00:36:50.000 He'll attack Biden on his record as Obama's vice president.

00:36:52.000 Biden will attack Trump based on his personality and hope that a return to normalcy campaign prevails.

00:36:58.000 The other Democrats are going to campaign at Trump from the radical left.

00:37:02.000 And this is why they are not running as strongly as Joe Biden is.

00:37:04.000 If any one of them embraced anything remotely resembling moderation, they would be in pretty strong position against President Trump.

00:37:11.000 And probably they'd be in pretty strong position against Joe Biden.

00:37:13.000 It's amazing to me that not one Democrat has the stones to actually run as anything remotely approaching a centrist.

00:37:19.000 And Joe Biden is being pulled to the left as well.

00:37:21.000 The center of gravity in that party is the Michael Moore left.

00:37:24.000 It's insane.

00:37:25.000 It's insane.

00:37:26.000 Elizabeth Warren, who's picking up all sorts of support in the Democratic Party, was asked to explain why she's not a quote-unquote democratic socialist.

00:37:33.000 Now, democratic socialist has a couple of different descriptions.

00:37:37.000 One is actual socialism, as in like Venezuelan, USSR, Cuban socialism.

00:37:41.000 The other is Free markets, but a lot of redistributionism.

00:37:45.000 So that is Norway or Denmark.

00:37:47.000 Now, Elizabeth Warren has run away from the label because she doesn't really like the label Democratic Socialist because she feels like if she caves to it, then she's in Bernie Sanders territory. 0.60

00:37:55.000 But here she is struggling to explain why she is not that.

00:37:58.000 You're a capitalist at a time when Democratic Socialists have become popular.

00:38:03.000 What is the difference between you and the Democratic Socialists?

00:38:06.000 Where do you disagree?

00:38:07.000 So, all I can do is tell you what I believe in.

00:38:10.000 Because I can't tell you about anybody else.

00:38:12.000 Do you think you don't disagree?

00:38:14.000 I don't know.

00:38:15.000 She doesn't know.

00:38:17.000 Wow.

00:38:17.000 Well, where's her plan for that question?

00:38:19.000 So she doesn't know because she is basically just parroting Bernie Sanders.

00:38:24.000 And then you have Kirsten Gillibrand, who, as I said yesterday on the radio show, the problem with Kirsten Gillibrand is that she's basically Vincent D'Onofrio from Men in Black. 0.98

00:38:33.000 Vincent D'Onofrio, that character from Men in Black, do you remember this?

00:38:35.000 He's an alien, he comes down from space, he lands, and then he kills a farmer and takes over his body.

00:38:41.000 He wears the farmer's body like a skin suit. 0.99

00:38:44.000 Kirsten Gillibrand is that in politics.

00:38:46.000 She's mimicking a politician, but she's not actually a good politician, so the skin wears weird. 0.99

00:38:52.000 Her face is not on straight.

00:38:54.000 That's not a critique of her actual face, by the way.

00:38:56.000 That is a metaphor, okay?

00:38:57.000 So, here's Kirsten Gillibrand saying what she thinks Democrats want to hear in the most awkward possible way because she thinks she has to run to the radical left.

00:39:04.000 I think there's some issues that have such moral clarity that we have as a society decided that the other side is not acceptable.

00:39:13.000 Imagine saying that it's okay to appoint a judge who's racist or anti-semitic or homophobic.

00:39:20.000 For all of these issues, they are not issues that there is a fair other side.

00:39:26.000 There is no moral equivalency when you come to racism.

00:39:31.000 And I do not believe there's a moral equivalency when it comes to changing laws that deny women reproductive freedom.

00:39:36.000 What in the actual hell is she talking about?

00:39:38.000 So she is now comparing being a pro-life to being an actual racist who wants to appoint racists to the bench. 0.98

00:39:43.000 This is where she thinks the Democratic Party is.

00:39:46.000 Now, I said in 2016 that President Trump spoke conservatism as a second language, meaning he wasn't all that familiar with it.

00:39:51.000 And so it led him into these weird sort of cul-de-sacs of thought.

00:39:55.000 So there was that point in the campaign in 2016 where he said he wanted to prosecute women for abortion because he thought that's what pro-lifers wanted to hear.

00:40:01.000 That's Kirsten Gillibrand with the left.

00:40:02.000 She thinks that the left believes that abortion is on par with anti-racism.

00:40:08.000 She might be right.

00:40:09.000 Maybe that's what the left actually thinks.

00:40:10.000 That's not what Americans Actually think so.

00:40:14.000 This is the problem for Democrats.

00:40:15.000 Their real attack has to be against President Trump and his character.

00:40:19.000 It has to be on the basis that they are in moderate and non scary, but they can't stop themselves from being scary.

00:40:24.000 Now, speaking of Democrats being unable to stop themselves from being scary, the situation on the border continues to simply metastasize.

00:40:33.000 President Trump has requested border funding.

00:40:35.000 Democrats keep turning down that border funding and then complaining about the results.

00:40:38.000 Dick Durbin, senator from Illinois, has been stalwart and staunch in his unwillingness to provide ICE with the resources that ICE actually requires and that DHS actually requires in order to solidify that border.

00:40:50.000 Here's Dick Durbin then complaining about the results of his own failed policies.

00:40:54.000 We cannot face this crisis effectively with a revolving door policy in the leadership of the Department of Homeland Security.

00:41:03.000 In fact, every position at DHS with responsibility for immigration or border security is now being held by a temporary appointee who has not been confirmed by the Senate.

00:41:14.000 The White House has not even submitted nominations for these positions.

00:41:18.000 Despite all of President Trump's tough talk and meanness, our southern border today, by every measurable standard, is much less secure than when he took office.

00:41:28.000 Okay, so if Dick Durbin's critique is that Trump isn't staffing up fast enough at the top levels of DHS, which is a dumb critique, if you actually want to know why the border is not secure, it's because you won't fund beds for people at the border.

00:41:40.000 It's because you will not fund Border Patrol.

00:41:42.000 The Washington Post reporting today.

00:41:44.000 For weeks, President Trump's request for billions in funding to manage the migration surge at the U.S.-Mexico border has been ignored by Congress.

00:41:51.000 Democrats who control the House have been struggling to reconcile their own internal divisions over the spending request, as some in the party question whether the situation on the southern border is as dire as portrayed by the administration.

00:42:03.000 This has led to a lack of urgency on Capitol Hill to address a problem leaders in both parties agree is worsening and raising the prospect that the funding request could languish.

00:42:12.000 Congress failed to approve a similar proposal by Barack Obama in 2014, but lawmakers in both parties seem less focused on the issue, even though the number of migrants being apprehended at the border is far higher than it was even five years ago.

00:42:24.000 Not until Tuesday was there some apparent progress in Congress, where Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that the Appropriations Committee would begin working on the $4.5 billion package next week.

00:42:33.000 Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus met privately to discuss what language they could accept as part of the administration's spending request, but it is unclear whether any border package endorsed by Democrats will pass muster with the Trump administration, which has repeatedly asked Congress for legal changes to expand detention capacities and tighten asylum policy, but has been rebuffed.

00:42:50.000 Democrats want to leave this border open.

00:42:53.000 This is an area where I really believe that most Americans agree.

00:42:57.000 We want the border secure.

00:42:58.000 We want people who cross the border not to be released into the interior before they have been held for some sort of asylum hearing.

00:43:05.000 We are not interested in giving everybody green cards who crosses the border illegally.

00:43:08.000 I do not think these are particularly controversial issues.

00:43:11.000 The fact that Democrats keep making them controversial and then suggesting that it is the fault of the Trump administration that folks are being held in supposedly inhumane conditions on the border.

00:43:20.000 You guys are the ones who aren't funding this.

00:43:22.000 You guys are the ones who are holding up the funding.

00:43:25.000 Instead, Democrats are focused in on trying to humiliate the administration as opposed to actually solving the problems for the American people.

00:43:31.000 So they bring in the head of the Border Patrol, Kevin McAleenan, and they ask him whether Trump told him to violate the law.

00:43:39.000 Here's Amy Klobuchar, who, is she still running for president? 1.00

00:43:42.000 I think she is.

00:43:43.000 Nobody's heard of her in a while.

00:43:45.000 She's just been gone.

00:43:47.000 But here she is asking Kevin McAleenan whether Trump asked him to violate the law.

00:43:51.000 Has anyone from the White House asked you to violate the law?

00:43:55.000 No.

00:43:55.000 No one has asked me to do anything illegal.

00:43:57.000 Is the President instructing subordinates to violate the law and promising to shield them from legal consequences by pardoning them, consistent with his oath of office and the requirement in the Constitution that he take care that the laws be faithfully executed?

00:44:10.000 I've never been asked to do anything unlawful, nor would I.

00:44:13.000 Democrats are putting all of their focus into tearing down President Trump and none of their focus into actually solving the problems of the country.

00:44:19.000 You know, President Trump now can campaign against a do-nothing Congress.

00:44:22.000 Frankly, I'm shocked that he hasn't done so already.

00:44:25.000 Harry Truman in 1948, when he was running against Thomas Dewey, was running a really uphill campaign.

00:44:30.000 And he campaigned against Congress.

00:44:31.000 He said, this Republican Congress won't give me what I want.

00:44:34.000 He ended up winning a very narrow election victory over Thomas Dewey.

00:44:36.000 This would be a time for President Trump to look at Congress and say, listen, We all know what's going on at the border.

00:44:42.000 You know what's going on at the border, and you won't give me the resources necessary.

00:44:45.000 And it is obvious what Democrats are doing.

00:44:47.000 Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, said, quote, I think that the president, in his actions and in his words, creates an overdramatization that then leads people to think, well, this isn't as significant because he's just throwing out red meat to his base.

00:44:59.000 The other thing is, I think there would have been action already had there been reasonable requests and, you know, a willingness to constrain themselves.

00:45:05.000 I have yet to hear a counterproposal from the Democrats that does anything like lock up the border.

00:45:10.000 Congressional negotiators came close to reaching a deal on the administration's border spending request in time to attach it to a broader disaster aid bill that passed last month but ran out of time.

00:45:18.000 Submitted to Congress on May 1st, the Trump administration's spending request included $3.3 billion for humanitarian assistance and $1.1 billion for border operations.

00:45:27.000 But since then, members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, who want to ensure that the money would go toward genuine humanitarian purposes and not to increase detention of asylum seekers or fund for-profit detention facilities, Well, what exactly would that look like?

00:45:42.000 So in other words, you have an actual sector of Congress that wants people released into the interior as opposed to keeping people detained.

00:45:49.000 All of this could get changed with a simple law from Congress.

00:45:52.000 The Flores Settlement, that ruling from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that says that you have to release people, that could be overturned by a simple act of Congress.

00:45:59.000 Democrats don't want to do any of this stuff because Democrats prefer for this to be a political hot-button issue.

00:46:03.000 There's a lot of talk about Republicans not wanting to solve the immigration problem because it's a political hot-button.

00:46:07.000 It is precisely the opposite.

00:46:09.000 When Democrats had complete control of Congress for two years, they had a near supermajority in the Senate.

00:46:14.000 When they had all of that, they did nothing on immigration.

00:46:17.000 Why?

00:46:17.000 Because they prefer that immigration and illegal immigration remain a festering problem in the United States so that they can then condemn Republicans as heartless and evil and nasty.

00:46:28.000 Many of the Democratic members of Congress are still trying to downplay the situation at the border.

00:46:32.000 Representative Juan Vargas of California says there's definitely an uptick.

00:46:35.000 There's no doubt about that.

00:46:36.000 I mean, is it as gigantic as they say?

00:46:38.000 No.

00:46:38.000 Is it as disruptive as they say?

00:46:40.000 No, it's not.

00:46:41.000 They always say never waste a crisis.

00:46:42.000 Well, this is a small crisis.

00:46:44.000 President Trump is trying to make it into a big one and not waste it.

00:46:48.000 So, when Trump says that Democrats don't take this stuff seriously, how this is not a political ad for Trump already is beyond me.

00:46:54.000 Americans do agree, at least that we have to secure our border.

00:46:57.000 That much they agree on.

00:46:59.000 Alrighty, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:47:01.000 So, things that I like.

00:47:03.000 As I say, my wife and I have been watching a spate of screwball comedies.

00:47:06.000 The best of these screwball comedies is a movie called The Awful Truth with Cary Grant and the insanely talented Irene Dunn, who really could do anything.

00:47:13.000 One of the great underrated actresses in Hollywood history.

00:47:17.000 There can't be any doubt in marriage.

00:47:18.000 The whole thing's built on faith.

00:47:21.000 If you've lost Apple, you've lost everything.

00:47:23.000 Yes, I suppose when that's gone, the marriage is washed up, isn't it?

00:47:25.000 other.

00:47:25.000 And so they basically try to sabotage each other's love interests outside of themselves.

00:47:29.000 The movie is hysterically funny.

00:47:31.000 It really does hold up.

00:47:32.000 Go check out The Awful Truth.

00:47:33.000 Here's a little bit of the trailer.

00:47:34.000 There can't be any doubt in marriage.

00:47:37.000 The whole thing's built on faith.

00:47:39.000 If you've lost that, well, you've lost everything.

00:47:41.000 Yes, I suppose when that's gone, the marriage is washed up, isn't it?

00:47:44.000 Do you mean that?

00:47:45.000 Uh-huh.

00:47:45.000 All right, then, that settles it.

00:47:48.000 I guess it does.

00:47:49.000 I wouldn't go on living with you if you were dipped in platinum. 0.88

00:47:51.000 So go on, divorce me. 0.99

00:47:52.000 Go on, divorce me. 0.88

00:47:53.000 It'll be a pleasure. 0.75

00:47:53.000 Divorce you? 0.75

00:47:54.000 Are you crazy? 1.00

00:47:55.000 Do you think I dragged that music lover into court to show people the man you preferred to me? 1.00

00:47:58.000 All right, then, I'll divorce you. 0.96

00:48:00.000 I believe it's customary, anyhow, for the wife to bring suit. 0.79

00:48:02.000 It has something to do with a husband being a gentleman, if you know what I mean.

00:48:05.000 Oh, never mind that stuff.

00:48:06.000 Just get on with the divorce proceedings. 0.92

00:48:08.000 I can hardly wait.

00:48:08.000 I'll call up our lawyer right now.

00:48:10.000 All right, here.

00:48:12.000 If you don't mind my using him, I don't know anyone else.

00:48:14.000 You get around so much more than I do.

00:48:16.000 Yeah that's all.

00:48:23.000 Hello.

00:48:27.000 Hello, Lucy.

00:48:29.000 What's that?

00:48:30.000 Divorce?

00:48:32.000 You and Jerry?

00:48:34.000 Now, now, Lucy.

00:48:35.000 Don't do anything in haste that you might regret later.

00:48:38.000 Marriage is a beautiful thing... Why can't we call you back after we've finished eating?

00:48:42.000 Please be quiet, will you?

00:48:45.000 No, he's really good.

00:48:46.000 It's worth checking out.

00:48:48.000 And as I say, it really, it really holds up.

00:48:49.000 Irene Dunn is terrific in it.

00:48:50.000 And Cary Grant, of course, is incredibly charming.

00:48:52.000 So check out The Awful Truth.

00:48:54.000 OK, other things that I like today.

00:48:55.000 So there's this Netflix series that has come out called When They See Us, and it's about the Central Park joggers, the Central Park jogger and the Central Park Five.

00:49:03.000 So this has long been a hot point of contention in New York City.

00:49:07.000 Donald Trump famously called for the death penalty to be applied. 0.82

00:49:10.000 That was a group of five black men who were basically accused of rape of a jogger. 0.81

00:49:19.000 And then later, there was DNA evidence. 0.87

00:49:21.000 A person came forward and made an admission that he was the person who committed the rape.

00:49:26.000 Only his DNA was found on the woman.

00:49:29.000 The way that this has been taken by the press is that none of these other five people were involved in anything bad.

00:49:33.000 And all of this was basically black men being railroaded in New York City for no reason.

00:49:38.000 Well, now, Linda Fairstein, who's a prosecutor in the case, has a piece in The Wall Street Journal that is pretty devastating.

00:49:46.000 Here's what she talks about.

00:49:46.000 She says, at about 9 p.m. April 19th, 1989, a large group of young men gathered on the corner of 110th Street and Fifth Avenue for the purpose of robbing and beating innocent people in Central Park.

00:49:55.000 There were more than 30 rioters.

00:49:57.000 The woman, known as the Central Park jogger, Trisha Maley, was not their only victim.

00:50:01.000 Eight others were attacked, including two men who were beaten so savagely that required hospitalization for head injuries.

00:50:06.000 Reporters and filmmakers have explored this story countless times from numerous perspectives, almost always focusing on five attackers and one female jogger.

00:50:14.000 But each has missed the larger picture of what happened at that terrible night, a riot in the dark that resulted in the apprehension of more than 15 teenagers who sat upon multiple victims.

00:50:22.000 That a sociopath named Matthias Reyes confessed in 2002 to the rape of Miss Mele.

00:50:26.000 And that the district attorney consequently vacated the charges against the five after they had served their sentences had led some of these reporters and filmmakers to assume the prosecution had no basis upon which to charge the five suspects in 1989.

00:50:38.000 So it is with filmmaker Anna Deverny and the Netflix miniseries When They See Us, a series so full of distortions and falsehoods as to be an outright fabrication.

00:50:46.000 It shouldn't have been hard for Mr. Vernet to discover the truth.

00:50:48.000 The facts of the original case are documented in a 117-page decision by New York State Supreme Court Justice Thomas Galligan, in sworn testimony given in two trials and affirmed by two appellate courts, and in sworn depositions of more than 95 witnesses, including the five themselves.

00:51:02.000 Instead, she has written an utterly false narrative involving an evil mastermind, me, and the falsely accused, the five.

00:51:07.000 I was one of the supervisors who oversaw the team that prosecuted the teenagers apprehended after that horrific night of violence.

00:51:13.000 Mr. Vernet's film attempts to portray me as an overzealous prosecutor and a bigot, the police as incompetent or worse, and the five suspects as innocent of all charges against them.

00:51:21.000 None of this is true.

00:51:23.000 Consider the film's most egregious falsehoods, writes the prosecutor, when They See Us repeatedly portrays the suspects as being held without food, deprived of their parents' company and advice, and not even allowed to use the bathroom.

00:51:33.000 If that had been true, surely those issues would have been brought up and prevailed in pretrial hearings on the voluntariness of their statements.

00:51:40.000 They didn't, because it never happened.

00:51:42.000 In the first episode, the film portrays me at the precinct station house before dawn on April 20th, the day after the attacks, unethically engineering the police investigation and making racist remarks.

00:51:51.000 In reality, I didn't arrive until 8pm, 22 hours after the police investigation began, did not run the investigation, and never made any of the comments the screenwriter attributes to me.

00:52:00.000 Mr. Vernay depicts suspects Yusuf Salaam and Corey Wise being arrested on the street.

00:52:04.000 In fact, the two detectives went to the door of the Salaam apartment on the night of the 20th because both had been named by other rioters as attackers in multiple assaults.

00:52:12.000 The film claims that when Mr. Salaam's mother arrived and told police her son was only 15, meaning they couldn't question him without a parent in the room, I tried to stop her, demanding to see a birth certificate.

00:52:20.000 The truth is that Salaam himself claimed to be 16 and even had a forged bus pass to prove it.

00:52:25.000 When I heard his mother say he was 15, I immediately halted his questioning.

00:52:28.000 This is all supported by sworn testimony.

00:52:30.000 Mr. Verne would have you believe the only evidence against the suspects was their allegedly forced confessions.

00:52:34.000 That is also not true.

00:52:36.000 There is, for example, the African-American woman who testified at the trial, and again during the 2002 reinvestigation, that when Corey Wise called her brother, he told her he had held the jogger down and felt her breasts while others attacked her.

00:52:47.000 There were bloodstains and dirt on clothing on some of the five.

00:52:49.000 And there are the statements of more than a dozen of the other kids who participated in the park rampage.

00:52:53.000 Although none of the others admitted joining in the rape of Trisha Maylay, they admitted attacking male victims and a couple on a tandem bike.

00:52:59.000 Each of them named some or all of the five as joining them.

00:53:01.000 Nor does the film note that Mr. Salam took the stand at his trial, represented by a lawyer, chosen and paid for by his mother, and testified he had gone into the park carrying a 14-inch metal pipe, the same type of weapon that was used to bludgeon both a male schoolteacher and Ms.

00:53:13.000 Maylay.

00:53:14.000 Mr. Reyes's confession changed none of this.

00:53:16.000 He admitted being the man whose DNA had been left on the jogger's body and on her clothing, but the two juries that heard those facts knew the main assailant in the rape had not been caught.

00:53:24.000 The five were charged as accomplices, as persons acting in concert with each other and with the then-unknown man who raped the jogger, not as those who actually performed the act.

00:53:31.000 In their original confessions, later recanted, they admitted to grabbing her breasts and legs, two of them admitted to climbing on top of her and simulating intercourse.

00:53:38.000 Semen was found on the inside of their clothing, corroborating those confessions.

00:53:42.000 Ms.

00:53:42.000 Reyes's confession, DNA match, and claim that he acted alone require that the rape charges against the five be vacated.

00:53:48.000 I agreed with that decision.

00:53:49.000 I still do.

00:53:50.000 But the other charges for crimes against other victims should not have been vacated.

00:53:53.000 Nothing Reyes said exonerated these five of those attacks.

00:53:56.000 And there is certainly more than enough evidence to support those convictions of first-degree assault, robbery, riot, and other charges.

00:54:03.000 So again, there are these media narratives that are created around particular crimes.

00:54:08.000 Very often they're not telling you the whole story.

00:54:09.000 So go check out that whole story.

00:54:11.000 Okay, time for some things that I hate.

00:54:18.000 So things that I hate today.

00:54:20.000 I talked about this a little bit yesterday on my radio show, which is why you should subscribe because you get all sorts of content that you won't get on the podcast.

00:54:27.000 Okay, here is the new pitch, is that women in the World Cup are being paid less than men, and therefore, tremendous sexism, America's a terrible place, yadda yadda yadda yadda.

00:54:35.000 There's an editorial, an op-ed, in the Washington Post today called, The Biggest Fight Facing U.S.

00:54:40.000 Women's Soccer Field Isn't on the Field. 0.97

00:54:42.000 Despite far greater success than the men's national team, women have had to go to court to try to secure equal pay.

00:54:47.000 There's an op-ed in the New York Times called, Sex, the World Cup, and Breaking Up the Boys Club, by Emily Ryle, teaching philosophy at the University of Gloucester.

00:54:55.000 Gloucestershire.

00:54:57.000 Great sport requires only three things.

00:54:58.000 Excellence of skill, uncertainty of outcome, and a crescendo of drama until the last second.

00:55:02.000 Gender or sex is irrelevant.

00:55:04.000 Well, it's relevant to some of those things, right?

00:55:07.000 Excellence of skill, gender, and sex may in fact be relevant to that, considering that men are generally better at sports than women because they have different musculature than women and different skill sets than women.

00:55:18.000 In the same way that a little league game is not the same as a major league baseball game, Certain sports are not the same.

00:55:24.000 Men and women play them.

00:55:24.000 The WNBA is not the same as the NBA.

00:55:27.000 There's a reason no one is paying to watch women shoot layups. 1.00

00:55:30.000 As opposed to, you know, dunking and shooting three-pointers and all of that.

00:55:34.000 And yet there is this push that is on to suggest that women are being victimized by the World Cup and by the U.S.

00:55:42.000 soccer program because they're not being paid the same as the men. 0.96

00:55:45.000 This is absolutely silly. 0.98

00:55:47.000 It's absolutely silly. 0.95

00:55:48.000 MLS is a successful league in the United States, the soccer league. 0.79

00:55:53.000 The MLS league has been successful for 10 years.

00:55:57.000 It took a while for it to grow, and now it's doing quite well.

00:56:00.000 After every Women's World Cup soccer victory, there is an attempt to start a Women's League.

00:56:04.000 Every single time it fails.

00:56:06.000 Every.

00:56:06.000 Single.

00:56:07.000 Time.

00:56:07.000 That's because there just is not enough of a crowd of people who are willing to watch women play soccer.

00:56:11.000 And the reason that there is not that huge crowd of people, and that we all pretend to love women's soccer every four years, and we pretend that it's super serious sporting and all this, The Olympics always draw a lot of attention.

00:56:21.000 The World Cup always draws a lot of attention.

00:56:23.000 The Women's World Cup always draws a lot of attention.

00:56:25.000 But, how much attention does it actually draw?

00:56:27.000 Well, in 2010 in South Africa, the Men's World Cup earned $4 billion.

00:56:31.000 The Women's World Cup earned $73 million.

00:56:34.000 For those who are not good at math, that means the Men's World Cup earned 54 times what the Women's World Cup earned.

00:56:39.000 The reason for that, again, is because people aren't as interested in women playing soccer as men playing soccer, not because they are sexist, but because women are not as good at soccer as men.

00:56:49.000 The women's World Cup national team lost 5-2 to an under-15 boys club from Dallas a few years ago.

00:56:55.000 The Australian women's national team lost 7-0 to an under-15 boys team in Australia.

00:57:02.000 People say, oh those were just scrimmages.

00:57:03.000 Okay, imagine the men's World Cup team losing to an under-14 boys team.

00:57:08.000 Is that a thing that would happen unless they actually threw the game?

00:57:11.000 Of course not.

00:57:12.000 Men and women are different. 0.91

00:57:13.000 Pretending that men and women are not different ends in stupidities like the idea that women and men have to be the same for performing absolutely differently on the playing field.

00:57:21.000 But this is how you end up with this piece from Emily Rial saying, In a soccer match last year, a ball tumbled aimlessly into the penalty area, almost like a confused pedestrian about 13 yards from the goal.

00:57:30.000 Two players caught off guard by its awkward bounce missed it, but it was seized upon and just as quickly thumped into the top corner of the net by a storming attacker's foot.

00:57:37.000 Hit with such zip, it seemed the goalkeeper couldn't see it, much less stop it.

00:57:41.000 It's the kind of goal you watch again and again, pressing replay on your phone.

00:57:44.000 It's the kind of skill that led the attacker who scored the goal, the American soccer star Lindsey Horan, to be among the first players nominated for the first women's Ballon d'Or prize, the sport's most prestigious annual award for best player, that for 61 years was awarded only to men.

00:57:59.000 There's arguably more excitement to this Women's World Cup than any before it, but the specter of the best player in women's soccer not participating on its biggest stage looms large.

00:58:07.000 A battle being jointly led by the Australian and American teams to equalize the $370 million gap in World Cup prize money is making headlines, too.

00:58:15.000 The American women are also suing separately their National Federation over purposeful gender discrimination based on continued pay gaps.

00:58:21.000 Despite years-long periods they point to in which the women's team appeared to earn more for the National Federation than the men's, the collective effect has been a reigniting of perennial debates over the nature and perception of women's sport.

00:58:33.000 Again, if we cannot acknowledge that there is a difference between the men and the women, then I do not know why we have eyeballs and functioning prefrontal cortexes.

00:58:43.000 But this lady basically, she says, That's completely subjective.

00:58:45.000 I would not tune in specifically for a match between Serena Williams and Justin Hennin.

00:59:02.000 I wouldn't.

00:59:02.000 I would tune in specifically for Federer and Nadal because they are both better players than Serena Williams and Justin Hineen.

00:59:08.000 By the way, Serena Williams will acknowledge this.

00:59:10.000 It's Serena Williams before she sort of got on the woke bandwagon with regard to men and women have exactly the same skill sets.

00:59:16.000 She would openly admit that she couldn't play in the men's league because she is not a man and does not have the same skill set as men.

00:59:21.000 She's the best woman to ever play.

00:59:23.000 She is better than nearly every man who has ever lived except for every active professional men's tennis player.

00:59:29.000 She ranks, by statistics, among second-tier college men's players.

00:59:33.000 That is not a rip on her. 0.76

00:59:35.000 She is, again, the best woman to ever play.

00:59:36.000 But that is not the same thing as saying she is one of the best men to ever play.

00:59:40.000 This is also silly, but I guess it goes part and parcel with the attempt to obliterate sex as a valuable statistic and as a valuable distinction to be made in terms of biology.

00:59:53.000 Okay, final thing that I hate today. 1.00

00:59:55.000 This is so dumb and just ridiculous. 0.98

00:59:57.000 So the New York Times is now reporting on lefties who are trying to go on these birthright trips to Israel and they are complaining about it. 0.99

01:00:03.000 So birthright trips are these free trips to Israel.

01:00:05.000 I have a lot of friends who have gone on birthright.

01:00:06.000 My wife went on birthright at one point.

01:00:08.000 There are a lot of young Jewish kids who go to Israel to visit Israel and they are paid for by birthright. 0.83

01:00:14.000 But now, there are a bunch of young Jewish kids who want to, college kids, who want to go on Birthright, and then ignore the program of Birthright, which is to inculcate a love for the state of Israel, to teach them about what is good about the state of Israel, and they're angry at Birthright because Birthright has not scheduled in visits to the occupied, the so-called occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.

01:00:31.000 Okay, if you want to do that, then why don't you have the Palestinian government pay for you?

01:00:34.000 How about that?

01:00:35.000 When I give money to a charity, and when I sponsor people to do things, I expect them to do the things I sponsor them to do.

01:00:41.000 This whining where you expect to be able to take somebody else's money and then use it exactly as you see fit is pretty unbecoming and astonishing.

01:00:48.000 Birthright never made a promise that you would be able to go and listen to Palestinian propaganda from a terrorist group.

01:00:54.000 If you choose to do that on your own time, enjoy yourself.

01:00:57.000 It's all you.

01:00:58.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of programming, so you should go subscribe.

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01:01:34.000 Hey guys, over on the Matt Wall Show today, Congress wants to give itself a raise, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been at the forefront of this fight, insisting that she needs a raise, because if she doesn't get a raise, then what's going to happen is that congressmen are going to end up being corrupt if they don't get a raise.

01:01:50.000 I want to explain why that argument is insane, and also I have a different idea about what we might do about congressional pay, which I will share with you.

01:02:00.000 Also, Justin Trudeau.

01:02:02.000 There's a video of him babbling nonsensically, and I want to play that for you on the show today just because it's, I mean, really funny, honestly.

01:02:09.000 And finally, 60% of male managers say that they're uncomfortable with women working around women in the workplace and working one-on-one with women.

01:02:18.000 Gee, I wonder why.

The Ben Shapiro Show - June 12, 2019

Iowatta Show! | Ep. 799

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