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00:01:52.000He would like to see it fall from the inside, and that involves containment, and yes, the credible threat of military force to prevent Iran from getting too aggressive.
00:02:00.000But it's pretty obvious that Trump doesn't want war.
00:02:02.000Trump is, by nature, more of an isolationist on foreign policy.
00:02:05.000He does not like being involved in different areas of the world.
00:02:09.000Nonetheless, President Trump threatened Iran with destruction as tensions flared after a rocket almost hit the U.S.
00:02:13.000embassy in Baghdad, according to The Sun in the UK.
00:02:17.000Apparently, a rocket landed less than a mile from the U.S.
00:02:20.000Embassy in Baghdad's Green Zone, further stoking hostility in the region.
00:02:23.000Tensions between the United States and Iran have escalated in recent weeks after American warships and bombers were ordered to the Middle East to counter an unexplained threat.
00:02:31.000Embassy in Baghdad and its consulate in the northern city of Erbil evacuated non-essential staff this week following the escalating tensions with Iran.
00:02:39.000Trump has also tightened economic sanctions.
00:02:41.000Originally, a brigadier general in the British Army said that he did not see the reason why the United States was getting uptight with Iran, and then it turns out that the Secretary of State, over the Foreign Secretary rather, in Britain, came forward and said, no, the info's pretty good, Iran is getting a lot more militant.
00:02:57.000So President Trump tweeted out in his own inimitable fashion, quote, If Iran wants to fight, that would be the official end of Iran.
00:03:04.000Never threaten the United States again!
00:03:11.000I also will note that President Trump used exactly the same sort of language with regard to North Korea before he then had as much ballyhooed summit with Kim Jong-un, which resulted in approximately nothing.
00:03:20.000It resulted in the North Koreans continuing to develop their technology.
00:03:24.000It resulted in the North Koreans being elevated on the world stage.
00:03:27.000So taking President Trump's Twitter account at face value is always a mistake.
00:03:32.000President Trump fulminates on his Twitter account.
00:03:33.000He says bloviating things on his Twitter account.
00:03:37.000I think it would be good if the Iranian regime understands that if they cross the line, we will end them.
00:03:42.000They could do us damage because they have terror cells all around the world.
00:03:45.000They could do us damage because there are American allies within striking distance of Iranian missiles.
00:03:50.000But if they were to go to full-scale war with the United States, that war lasts not particularly long, because the fact is the U.S.
00:03:56.000military is the greatest fighting force ever assembled in the history of mankind, and Iran is a second-rate military force despite the large size of the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps.
00:04:05.000Nonetheless, it is obvious that President Trump does not want war with Iran General David Petraeus, who's not exactly a friend of the administration.
00:05:09.000John Bolton is not in favor of war with Iran.
00:05:12.000I don't know a single person in conservative circles who's interested in war with Iran at this point, including the most quote-unquote neocon forces inside the conservative movement.
00:05:21.000So I don't know where this narrative is coming from that Trump is desperate for a war with Iran.
00:05:25.000In reality, Iran is desperate for some sort of military conflict short of of complete war with the United States, because they're trying to shore up their flailing economy.
00:05:33.000They're trying to create a rally around the flag effect in Iran.
00:05:37.000There have been running protests for months there, thanks to economic shortages.
00:05:40.000That's been largely ignored by the world media, mainly because the media do not have great access to what is going on in Iran.
00:05:45.000But the media in the West are creating this narrative that Trump is desperate for war, that Trump is trying to do a George W. Bush circa 2003 with regard to Iraq.
00:05:54.000Again, there is no evidence of that whatsoever.
00:05:56.000Meanwhile, over the weekend, a lot of controversy broke out because Justin Amash, who is a congressperson from Michigan, Republican congressperson, very libertarian.
00:06:27.000Barr gave the bottom line conclusions in the Mueller report.
00:06:30.000Mueller's people themselves acknowledged that those conclusions were accurate.
00:06:33.000They just didn't like the characterization.
00:06:35.000They thought that Barr should have originally laid out all of the evidence in his original letter when Barr basically just said, look, my job as attorney general is not to make a case against somebody we are not prosecuting.
00:06:45.000My job as the attorney general is to say whether or not the person is being prosecuted.
00:06:49.000Justin Amash also claimed that President Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct.
00:06:53.000He then does not name what exactly the impeachable conduct is.
00:06:55.000Now, here's the truth about impeachment.
00:06:57.000Impeachment is, of course, a political standard.
00:07:01.000So you can impeach anybody for virtually any reason.
00:07:03.000High crimes and misdemeanors does not have any legal definition.
00:07:08.000In other words, if Congress were to impeach the president, he can't then appeal to the Supreme Court and say, well, Congress deliberately misinterpreted high crimes and misdemeanors.
00:07:17.000Congress can do whatever it wants right there.
00:07:19.000So numbers one and two, he has four points that he makes in this tweet that got all sorts of attention because he's a Republican saying that Trump is impeachable.
00:07:26.000So point number one that he makes is that Barr deliberately misrepresented Mueller's report.
00:07:31.000Point number two, Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct.
00:07:34.000Well, it depends on your definition of impeachable conduct, I suppose, but I don't see anything that he did that is quote-unquote impeachable.
00:08:14.000Partisanship has, of course, eroded our system of checks and balances.
00:08:17.000Congress no longer holds the president to account if he's a member of their own party.
00:08:20.000And if the president is not a member of their own party, then people are interested in endless investigations, even if those investigations result in nothing.
00:08:29.000And finally, Amash says few members of Congress have read the report.
00:08:34.000The media ran with this because Amash is, of course, a libertarian-leaning Republican in Michigan.
00:08:38.000He's in a very tightly contested race in Michigan.
00:08:41.000He's the most likely Republican to be ousted into primary at this point.
00:08:45.000As a general rule, I really like Justin Amash.
00:08:47.000Representative Amash, his perspective on the role of government, I think, is quite correct.
00:08:52.000He and I have similar views on the role of government and the libertarian nature of government.
00:08:56.000With that said, Amash, I think, is off base here.
00:08:58.000He then completes his tweets by suggesting, contrary to Barr's portrayal, Mueller's report reveals that President Trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment.
00:09:08.000But that's not what Barr ruled, right?
00:09:09.000Barr didn't say anything about impeachment.
00:09:10.000Barr just said that there is nothing that is criminally prosecutable.
00:09:14.000Barr's letter and his statements go to that.
00:09:16.000The AG's job is not to determine whether something is impeachable or not.
00:09:21.000Well, the press have had a field day with Amash's tweets.
00:09:25.000Politico ran a long article about the bravery of Justin Amash for coming out and saying this.
00:09:30.000Again, if I thought that Amash were correct, I would think that it's brave.
00:09:34.000It's certainly brave to the extent that he's running against the prevailing winds inside his own party.
00:09:38.000But brave is not the same thing as correct.
00:09:41.000And in this particular case, I don't see that he is exactly correct here.
00:09:46.000According to Politico, in recent days, more rank-and-file Democrats have said they support initiating impeachment proceedings against the president.
00:09:52.000Speaker Nancy Pelosi and most Democratic leaders and committee chairs have resisted those calls, citing their ongoing investigations into the president's alleged conduct.
00:10:00.000The House Judiciary Committee, for example, is investigating Trump for allegations of obstruction of justice and abuses of power.
00:10:10.000The Democrats are really not all that interested in impeaching President Trump because they don't believe they have solid enough grounds with the American public to push for impeachment.
00:10:17.000They are afraid of the backlash should that happen.
00:10:19.000So when Amash says that Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct, the Democrats don't think so.
00:10:26.000And because the Democrats don't think so, it's interesting that Amash is arguing that extreme partisanship is undercutting the case for impeachment.
00:10:34.000I think that if extreme partisanship were to cut in favor of anything, it would cut in favor of impeachment.
00:10:39.000In a statement on Saturday, Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel slammed Amash for, quote, parroting the Democrats' talking points on Russia.
00:10:47.000McDaniel didn't explicitly endorse a GOP primary challenge to Amash in 2020, but noted that voters in Amash's district strongly support this president.
00:10:56.000Now, Amash does have a rival who is running in the primary and is campaigning in front of giant Trump flags.
00:11:04.000So it's pretty obvious this person knows where his bread is buttered with regard to the Republican base.
00:11:10.000President Trump himself fired back on Amash.
00:12:20.000So, President Trump lashed back at Amash via Twitter.
00:12:23.000He said, never a fan of Justin Amash, a total lightweight, who opposes me and some of our great Republican ideas and policies just for the sake of getting his name out there through controversy.
00:12:33.000If he actually read the biased Mueller report, composed by 18 angry Dems who hated Trump, he would see it was nevertheless strong on no collusion and, ultimately, no obstruction.
00:12:45.000Anyway, how do you obstruct when there's no crime, and in fact the crimes are committed by the other side?
00:12:50.000Justin is a loser who sadly plays right into our opponent's hands.
00:12:55.000So obviously President Trump is taking it personally.
00:12:57.000When President Trump uses a couple of key terms, you know he's taking it personally.
00:13:03.000That means the president is taking it personally.
00:13:06.000And by the way, I don't blame the president for taking it personally.
00:13:09.000Do I think it's good strategy to attack Amash here?
00:13:12.000No, I should just say, Justin Amash is entitled to his opinion.
00:13:15.000Obviously, I think he is misreading the report.
00:13:17.000And then if you want to encourage a primary challenge, you quietly do that.
00:13:20.000Nonetheless, the fact that Trump is angry about this.
00:13:24.000President Trump is feeling the pressure.
00:13:25.000There's just no question that President Trump is feeling the pressure.
00:13:28.000And it's not helping that there are people like Mitt Romney.
00:13:31.000Romney is out there saying Amash is brave.
00:13:33.000He disagrees with Amash, but Amash is brave.
00:13:35.000A statement with which I generally agree, but there's a general perception that Romney himself is much more comfortable attacking people on the right than people on the left.
00:15:31.000And the fact is that the Democratic Party is increasingly a radical party.
00:15:35.000Representative Pramila Jayapal, she came out over the weekend and she described the Democratic Party.
00:15:40.000And the fact is that the Democratic Party's policies are well to the left of mainstream America.
00:15:46.000I think the party's response is going to be strong, and hopefully you've seen that it's strong across the board.
00:15:52.000Personally, I do think that there should be a set of core democratic ideals that we all agree to, and that you can't say you're a Democrat if you're against immigrants, if you're against abortion, if you're against gay marriage and LGBTQ rights.
00:16:08.000I'm not sure what it means to be a Democrat if all of those things are true.
00:16:12.000Okay, so basically Jayapal, who's a congresswoman from Washington, all Democrats are pro-illegal immigration, all of them are pro-abortion, all of them are pro-gay marriage, all of them are pro-LGBT rights, which I assume would include the so-called Equality Act, which has passed the Democratic House and is an act so radical that many advocates of things like same-sex marriage are still looking at this and saying this violates core constitutional freedoms.
00:16:33.000It basically Forces everyone in the country who is religious to knuckle under to the social left.
00:16:39.000The Democratic program is well to the left of the general public.
00:16:42.000So the Democrats instead are seeking to present the most palatable face.
00:16:46.000And that really looks like Joe Biden right now, because Joe Biden is widely considered the not only most known Democrat, but also the guy that most Americans are kind of comfortable with.
00:16:56.000It's hard to find a lot of Americans who have tremendous amounts of ire or disdain for Joe Biden.
00:17:01.000At worst, they think that he's kind of a dunderhead.
00:17:03.000But there are not a lot of Republicans who are motivated by Joe Biden to go out there in the same way that they were motivated by Hillary Clinton, who they saw as a really nefarious character.
00:17:12.000Biden, thus, is making a pretty generic Democratic argument for why he ought to be president right now.
00:17:19.000I mean, this is a guy who, again, back in 2012 suggested that black people were going to be put back in chains by Mitt Romney, of all humans.
00:17:26.000But over the weekend, he was out there campaigning and he's doing the moderate thing.
00:17:29.000He says, listen, we don't need to be angry.
00:17:33.000I will remind you that last week at a rally, a woman got up and said to him that she believes that Donald Trump stole the election and effectively was a tool of Russia.
00:17:40.000And Biden said, maybe you should be my running mate.
00:18:02.000If Democrats, I believe Democrats want to unify this nation.
00:18:06.000That's what our party's always been about.
00:18:08.000If American people want a president to add to our division, lead with a clenched fist, a closed hand, a hard heart, To demonize your opponents, to spew hatred.
00:19:01.000Now, there is some truth to that in the sense that the stock market did grow consistently from 2009 to 2016.
00:19:08.000There is a bit of lack of truth in the sense that the economy of the United States was growing in the slowest recovery in the history of the United States, and then Trump took office.
00:19:17.000And correlation does not always equal causation, but the economy has dramatically accelerated under President Trump in terms of quarter-to-quarter GDP growth.
00:19:25.000Here is Joe Biden, though, saying that Donald Trump inherited all the good stuff.
00:19:30.000President Trump likes to take credit for the economy and the economic growth and the low unemployment numbers.
00:19:36.000But just look at the facts, not the alternative facts.
00:19:41.000President Trump inherited an economy from Obama-Biden administration that was given to him, just like he inherited everything else in his life.
00:19:52.000So this is the case that Joe Biden is obviously going to be making.
00:19:55.000Now, as I say, the Democratic Party platform is way out to the left.
00:20:00.000Joe Biden simply puts a palatable face on that Democratic Party platform.
00:20:03.000And it's interesting because President Trump is really trying desperately not to be drawn into some of the most politically polarizing fights.
00:20:10.000So over the weekend, President Trump was asked, for example, about Pete Buttigieg and his gay marriage.
00:20:16.000And Trump said, there are a lot of people in my own party who oppose same-sex marriage.
00:20:26.000Over the weekend, President Trump suggested that Alabama's abortion law was effectively too strict.
00:20:32.000The president tweeted out that he was strategically against it.
00:20:35.000And I think, as I said last week, that there's a case to be made that the Alabama abortion law, while morally correct, is a strategic mistake in the sense that it is highly, highly unlikely that the Supreme Court is ready to strike down Roe versus Wade.
00:20:47.000Still, the fact that President Trump is attempting to kind of elide the issue shows that President Trump is also trying to run for that moderate middle.
00:21:27.000of the controversy over abortion laws.
00:21:29.000So President Trump is trying to run for the middle.
00:21:33.000And the truth is, his policies are a lot closer to the middle than Joe Biden's.
00:21:36.000Now, in a second, I will provide proof that the Democratic Party is basically just trying to put a palatable face on radical leftism, while Trump is actually much more moderate on policy than, I think, the typical Republican.
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00:23:07.000The reason that Pete Buttigieg has risen in the polls is because Pete Buttigieg puts out a moderate face on radical policy.
00:23:13.000Unlike Elizabeth Warren, who seems like a radical, and Bernie Sanders, who is openly a radical, and Kamala Harris, who is openly a radical, Pete Buttigieg has attempted to kind of play it both ways.
00:23:23.000He's the best politician in this race on the Democratic side, including Joe Biden.
00:23:27.000I mean, he's coming out of nowhere in South Bend, Indiana, with effectively no real record to run on.
00:23:35.000I mean, honestly, because if you look at the polling in South Bend, according to a report that just came out recently, the City of South Bend Community Survey from 2018, 65% of South Bend residents are dissatisfied with the maintenance of city streets, sidewalks, and infrastructure.
00:23:52.00051% don't agree they have an overall feeling of safety in their neighborhood.
00:23:55.00064% disagree that the city has a safe community for everyone.
00:23:59.00070% don't agree the city has a vibrant, welcoming neighborhood.
00:24:02.00071% don't agree the city has a strong, inclusive economy.
00:24:05.000And 72% don't agree that all residents are empowered with education, mobility, and technology.
00:24:12.000There's been an uptick in violence as well in the city of South Bend.
00:24:14.000Nonetheless, Pete Buttigieg is running a successful campaign for, I think, probably the vice presidency.
00:26:12.000And I get where that's coming from, especially when you see what goes on with some of the opinion hosts on this network.
00:26:17.000I mean, when you've got Tucker Carlson saying that immigrants make America dirty, when you've got Laura Ingraham comparing detention centers with children in cages to summer camps, summer camps, then there is a reason why anybody has to swallow hard and think twice before participating in this media ecosystem.
00:26:36.000Okay, so again, this is his way of pandering to the left.
00:26:39.000Now, the reality is that what Tucker Carlson actually said is he said that if you bring in a lot of people from countries that don't have the same culture regarding keeping the streets clean, the streets will be a little more dirty.
00:26:50.000That's my recollection of Tucker Carlson's comments.
00:26:52.000I don't think they're wonderful comments, but I also don't think that Buttigieg is being accurate in his characterization.
00:26:57.000And as far as Laura Ingraham, again, I don't think they're wonderful comments when she is comparing detention centers to summer camps, but My recollection of that is that what she is discussing is that people actually are being treated pretty humanely in detention centers, which is generally a true story.
00:27:11.000OK, nonetheless, Buttigieg wins some points with the left for saying all of that sort of stuff.
00:27:17.000And because he is coming off as moderate, because of the way he expresses himself as a moderate, he's able to get away with pushing very extreme policies.
00:28:51.000If it's that late in your pregnancy, that means almost by definition you've been expecting to carry it to term.
00:28:58.000We're talking about women who have perhaps chosen a name, women who have purchased a crib, families that then get the most devastating medical news of their lifetime.
00:29:09.000If you look at the rationales that are generally given for late-term abortion, it is not health problems in the vast majority of cases, according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, according to people who have surveyed women who have late-term abortions.
00:29:20.000He sounds moderate, and Buttigieg is really good at this, but because Wallace was not asking serious follow-up questions there, I mean, he started to, right?
00:29:28.000He says there are 6,000 pregnancies, and Buttigieg goes, well, it's just 1% of cases.
00:29:31.000Why are we even worried about those 1% of cases?
00:29:34.000More people are killed every year In late-term abortions, 1% of all cases in America, it's about a million abortions a year, so that means that 1% of a million is what, 10,000 cases a year?
00:29:48.00010,000 people about somewhere in that neighborhood are killed with guns in the United States, not in suicides but in homicides.
00:29:54.000That's that number of late-term abortions.
00:29:56.000I don't see Pete Buttigieg talking about why shootings in the United States are not a huge problem.
00:30:01.000Nonetheless, Nonetheless, he does come off as more moderate.
00:30:04.000And this is the pitch of the Democratic Party.
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00:32:52.000So Buttigieg has a big night, and that big night is predicated on him expressing very radical ideas in the most moderate possible fashions.
00:33:06.000So here's Buttigieg pitching tax hikes openly three times in about a minute on Fox News last night.
00:33:12.000When candidates, Democrats, go out promising, as I think we should, that we're going to have major increases in investment in things like education, health, and infrastructure, we've also got to be willing to say where the revenue is going to come from.
00:33:24.000And it's why we really do need to entertain ideas like, I would say, a fairer, which means higher, marginal income tax rate on those earning the most, a reasonable wealth tax, or something like that, to make sure that people are giving back when they become enormously wealthy.
00:33:40.000Okay, these are massive tax hikes that he's talking about.
00:34:05.000I have paid virtually every tax rate in the system over the course of my career.
00:34:09.000I promise you, the percentage that I'm paying now is so much higher than the percentage that I paid five years ago, it would make your head swim.
00:34:15.000The people who are at the top of the income brackets are paying for virtually everything in this country on a net basis.
00:34:21.000Nonetheless, because Buttigieg comes off as moderate, he comes off as moderate.
00:34:25.000He also tries to downplay his lack of moderation.
00:34:27.000So, Buttigieg was on Hugh Hewitt's radio show, and Hugh Hewitt asked him about Jefferson-Jackson dinners.
00:34:32.000These are these historic Democrat dinners where people go around, they do fundraising, and they've been named after Thomas Jefferson as well as Andrew Jackson.
00:34:39.000And Buttigieg basically disowns Jefferson a little bit.
00:34:41.000People, I think, are exaggerating this, but here's what Buttigieg had to say about Thomas Jefferson.
00:34:46.000Could Jefferson, Jackson, Dinners be renamed everywhere because both were holders of slaves?
00:35:08.000You know, there's a lot to, of course, admire in his thinking and his philosophy.
00:35:13.000If you plunge into his writings, especially the notes on the state of Virginia, you know that he knew that slavery was wrong, and yet he did it.
00:35:23.000Okay, and then he continued by suggesting that they maybe ought to rename all of these things.
00:35:27.000He says, over time you develop and evolve on the things you choose to honor.
00:35:30.000Naming something after someone confers a lot of honor.
00:35:32.000Buttigieg tried to walk that back on Fox News because he realizes how radical it sounds to the vast majority of Americans to rename things not after Thomas Jefferson.
00:36:11.000Next thing you know, you would have thought I had proposed blowing up the Jefferson Memorial in D.C.
00:36:15.000And folks from Laura Ingram on this network to a columnist actually in the New York Times, so it's not just a Fox thing, just jumped on that.
00:36:23.000Well, yeah, they jumped on it because you suggested that maybe we should actually rename things, right?
00:36:29.000Now, I'm glad that Buttigieg is clarifying all of that, but he did... I mean, we played the comments for you, so you can make your own decision.
00:36:37.000President Trump was very angry, frankly, that Buttigieg was even getting this attention.
00:36:41.000It's a problem that the president sees Fox News as his specific preserve.
00:36:44.000Fox News is not, in fact, the president's preserve, as Brit Hume pointed out.
00:36:47.000It is a news network, and they do, if they can, have an obligation to have on Democrats to interview them.
00:36:52.000I will point out that Buttigieg has expressed interest in coming on our Sunday special, and then, as soon as the left hit him, he ran away.
00:37:01.000He did the same thing to my friend Dave Rubin.
00:37:03.000He was willing to go on Fox News because Fox News is traditional television, but he's not willing to go on with anybody who might have a longer form conversation with him in the absence of a crowd, I think.
00:37:15.000In any case, President Trump tweeted out, Hard to believe that Fox News is wasting airtime on Mayor Pete, as Chris Wallace likes to call him.
00:37:20.000Fox is moving more and more to the losing, wrong side in covering the Dems.
00:37:24.000They got dumped from the Democrats' boring debates, and they just won in.
00:37:26.000They forgot the people who got them there.
00:37:29.000Chris Wallace actually said, I actually think whether you like his opinions or not, Mayor Pete has a lot of substance.
00:37:57.000Because this is all going to play out.
00:37:59.000Democrats are going to savage each other.
00:38:00.000All you have to do is sit off to the side.
00:38:01.000You don't need to comment every time you see somebody on the TV who's ripping into you.
00:38:05.000All you're doing is elevating Pete Buttigieg.
00:38:07.000Now, as I've been saying, Buttigieg presents an attractive face for Democratic radicalism.
00:38:12.000In those clips, you heard him Effectively argue in favor of late-term abortion, including up to point of birth, in favor of massive wealth tax increases, him attacking other news networks, which is, last I heard when President Trump did it, all of a sudden it was an attack on the press.
00:38:26.000When Buttigieg does it, then it's just him being brave.
00:38:29.000But when you strip away the nice face, what you end up with here is Bernie Sanders.
00:38:33.000Bernie Sanders makes exactly the same points that Pete Buttigieg does on most of these topics.
00:38:37.000Here's Bernie Sanders over the weekend talking about abortion on NBC News with Chuck Todd.
00:38:44.000Do you believe there should be any restrictions on abortion in in law?
00:38:50.000I think that that is a decision that is being made that should be made by the woman and her physician and I think many of you know what what people are doing is sadly is creating a political issue out of a medical issue so the decision about women should be able to control their own body and those decisions are made by a doctor.
00:39:12.000So, again, this is Bernie Sanders repeating the same rote talking points, but they don't sound as attractive coming from Bernie Sanders because he's not as attractive a candidate.
00:39:19.000Bernie Sanders, by the way, over the weekend also suggested that baseball players make too much money.
00:39:24.000You know, when folks on the right say that folks on the left sound like economic fascists, like they want to control every aspect of your economic life, this would be the reason why.
00:39:32.000Listen to how Bernie Sanders describes baseball players being paid.
00:39:38.000So if we are a nation that can provide contracts to baseball players for hundreds of millions of dollars, don't tell me we cannot pay teachers in this country the kind of wages and salaries they deserve.
00:39:52.000The government does not pay baseball players.
00:40:04.000There are lots and lots of teachers who are capable of teaching third grade.
00:40:07.000There are only a couple of people on planet Earth who are capable of hitting a 100 mile per hour baseball and entertaining millions of people.
00:40:14.000That doesn't mean that on a social level, what is more valuable are baseball players than teachers.
00:40:18.000It means that there is a market for baseball players in a way there is not for teachers, and that if you want to get paid like a baseball player, you have to be one of the couple hundred most elite people on planet Earth at this particular job.
00:40:28.000I mean, I guess maybe teachers should just go write a book like Bernie Sanders, right?
00:40:31.000Bernie Sanders says that he's written a best-selling book, and this means that he deserves the wealth that he has earned from his books.
00:40:36.000I guess those teachers maybe should just go write a book.
00:40:40.000Again, when you strip away the attractive facade of the Pete Buttigiegs, what you end up with is Bernie Sanders.
00:40:46.000Now, Bernie Sanders also did an interview over the weekend about his foreign policy that is extraordinarily radical and frightening and reminds us why Democrats should not be in charge of foreign policy.
00:40:55.000That when Barack Obama left office, the world was on fire in a lot of ways.
00:41:00.000That the Arab Spring was a giant fail.
00:41:02.000That the former president of the United States shipped pallets of cash to Iran.
00:41:06.000The former president of the United States let Russia walk all over him.
00:41:09.000And now Bernie Sanders is promoting that exact same sort of foreign policy.
00:41:13.000He said, I plead guilty to, throughout my adult life, doing everything that I can to prevent war and destruction.
00:41:28.000I'm pretty sure he didn't do everything he could to avoid war and destruction.
00:41:33.000He said, I am very proud that in my small city we established two sister city programs, which I believe honestly are still going on today.
00:41:38.000One with Yaroslavl, a city in Russia, the other with the city Puerto Cabezas in Nicaragua.
00:41:43.000And I happen to believe cultural exchanges and student exchanges are a very important tool to try to bring people together and avoid wars.
00:41:49.000And also I help lead the opposition to the war in Iraq, etc, etc, etc.
00:41:54.000And he says that he was asked by the New York Times that that Bernie attended a rally in Managua and a wire report at the time said there were anti-American chants from the crowd.
00:42:04.000And Bernie answered, the United States was actively supporting the Contras to overthrow the government.
00:42:11.000He said they were fighting against American.
00:42:13.000He said, are you shocked to learn there was anti-American sentiment?
00:42:16.000In other words, he sided with the communist government of Nicaragua and was not upset when people were chanting anti-American things.
00:42:23.000That is the foreign policy of Bernie Sanders.
00:42:25.000Unfortunately, that's the foreign policy of a large swath of the Democratic Party today.
00:42:29.000There's been a lot of talk about quote-unquote nut picking, meaning finding nuts in the Democratic Party and talking about them.
00:42:35.000The fact is the mainstream Democratic Party has moved significantly to the left over time.
00:42:41.000Bernie Sanders is now considered a thought leader in the Democratic Party, where he was considered a kook back in the 1980s.
00:42:46.000Even mainstream Democrats are pushing radical policies.
00:42:48.000Amy Klobuchar, who is considered a more moderate-to-right-leaning Democrat, was asked about abortion over the weekend by Chris Wallace, and she said she didn't want any abortion restrictions.
00:42:58.000Are you okay with abortions after 24 weeks?
00:43:04.000To protect the life and the health of the mother.
00:43:07.000That is exactly what the Supreme Court ruling says.
00:43:29.000And the Democratic Party is trying to shield their own radicalism by putting out Joe Biden, who's just sort of seen as this doddering old nice guy and Pete Buttigieg, who's seen as a moderate because he wears a tie, but he doesn't wear a jacket and because he's a friendly face.
00:43:45.000But Kirsten Gillibrand is, again, a mainstream Democrat.
00:43:48.000Here she is saying she would not detain anyone ever.
00:43:51.000then support something like Senator Graham has proposed, which would, you mentioned family separation, to stop what the administration has used as a justification for that.
00:44:02.000They have said, look, legally we're restricted to only keeping people in detention together for 20 days.
00:44:08.000You can't move them through the process that fast.
00:44:10.000I wouldn't keep them in detention at all.
00:44:11.000But you oppose even what the Obama administration did in terms of keeping families together or keeping him together for a longer period of time in detention?
00:44:21.000I wouldn't, as President of the United States, I wouldn't use the detention system at all.
00:44:32.000Came out and said that she wants to find companies that pay men more than women.
00:44:36.000Not on the basis of experience, not on the basis of different jobs.
00:44:39.000If, just plainly, on average, men are paid more than women, even if women take time off from the workforce, have different jobs, work fewer hours, she wants to find those companies.
00:44:48.000That's the heart and soul of the Democratic Party at this point.
00:44:51.000It's going to be up to President Trump to, number one, provide a more palatable face for his policies, and number two, to point out that no matter how friendly these Democrats may appear, the Pete Buttigiegs and the Joe Bidens, Behind the smiling facade lurks the same agenda as Kirsten Gillibrand and Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders.
00:45:09.000That is the task for the President of the United States if he wishes to win re-election.
00:45:22.000By fun, I mean that it's an easy read.
00:45:25.000It tells you a lot about the history of the press in the United States.
00:45:27.000It's already number one at Amazon, blowing up on the charts.
00:45:30.000So go check out Mark Levin's new book.
00:45:32.000I think it only comes out in a couple of days, but you can preorder it right now on Freedom of the Press.
00:45:35.000Mark's a good friend and a wonderful dude and a great thinker.
00:45:38.000Go check out on Freedom of the Press right now.
00:45:40.000Other things that I like, so I have to say congratulations to not only everybody who graduated over the weekend and is graduating over the coming few weeks, because we have a lot of college students, law students who listen to the program.
00:45:51.000My brother-in-law graduated from University of Virginia Law School yesterday.
00:46:01.000So Jim Carrey put out a cartoon that I think is actually quite wonderful.
00:46:05.000He put out a cartoon and it said, I think if you're going to terminate a pregnancy, it should be done sometime before the fetus becomes governor of Alabama.
00:46:12.000His painting is of what appears to be a late term abortion of Governor Kay Ivey.
00:46:16.000It's her face and her brains are being sucked into some sort of tube.
00:46:22.000Now, the reason that I put this in Things I Like is because it does demonstrate, full scale, how many pro-abortion activists feel.
00:46:29.000They are fine with the procedure of abortion.
00:46:31.000This is a pretty accurate depiction of what a DNE looks like, a dilation and extraction, or a DNC, actually.
00:46:41.000Basically, the tube here is sucking out the brains of Governor Kay Ivey.
00:46:48.000Really, social media is not cracking down on this at all.
00:46:52.000It has, by the way, almost 100,000 likes at this point.
00:46:55.000The murder of Kay Ivey, the sitting governor of the state of Alabama.
00:46:59.000So, number one, many Democrats, not all, many Democrats don't care about the brutality of the procedure, even if they fully understand it, as this painting seems to.
00:47:07.000And number two, If they could, they would murder everyone who they disagree with, which is a pretty amazing, amazing thing from Jim Carrey.
00:47:14.000So thanks to Jim Carrey for at least his honesty.
00:47:19.000So this could be both in things I like and things I hate.
00:47:21.000The time has come for our Game of Thrones finale review.
00:47:25.000So if you have not yet seen the Game of Thrones finale, then you're going to want to skip the next few minutes of the program because I am going to go into great detail.
00:47:33.000And that means that we are going to have to, we are going to have to spoil some things.
00:47:39.000Okay, so, let's talk about what just happened.
00:47:43.000The episode starts, Jon is watching as Grey Worm basically executes people, and then Jon is told by, so Tyrion gets imprisoned, and Jon does nothing.
00:47:54.000The biggest problem with this season of Game of Thrones, and the last season actually, is that Jon becomes a non-factor.
00:47:59.000Jon is basically an extra in this season.
00:48:49.000Well, because you are the one true heir.
00:48:51.000And now, the entire series has been set up to this point, that Jon is the true heir, and it should matter that he is the true heir.
00:48:56.000And not only that, Jon has to be active because he is the hero of the story.
00:49:01.000So, Jon goes, he sees Dany, all this is fine, Dany is going crazy, and she gives the full-on fascist-slash-communist answer, which is, in the pursuit of utopia, I get to kill whoever I want, which is something that fascists have said Many, many times, right?
00:49:16.000This is the Milton Friedman description, the Frederick Hayek description of fascism and socialism.
00:49:22.000And John's like, OK, well, you're hot and you're my aunt, but enough.
00:51:23.000Instead, he's getting negotiated over by Grey Worm, who is at best a secondary character and Sansa Stark.
00:51:31.000Okay, so, we'll get to what should have happened, as I say, in a second.
00:51:36.000So, there's this council, and the council's all sitting there, and they're like, oh, who should we make the king?
00:51:41.000And the only funny moment of this, by the way, is when Sam proposes a democracy, and then all of the Lord's like, ha ha ha, we have an electoral college here.
00:51:48.000That was pretty great, I will admit, because my great fear was that it was gonna be like, let all the people vote.
00:51:53.000Listen, in real life, I'm a big fan of all the people voting.
00:51:56.000In fantasy fiction, how anticlimactic would it be if they're like, we have to let all the people vote, and then all the people vote for like, whoever's the reality TV star of the day.
00:52:20.000If Jon is not the king, who is the legitimate heir to Jon?
00:52:23.000Well, she, presumably, as Queen of the North would be, because Bran has declared himself unavailable for this job.
00:52:28.000Right, Bran goes back to Winterfell at some point earlier, and he's the rightful heir, and he's like, I don't want it, I'm not interested in it.
00:55:04.000What should have happened, you could even have Bran be king.
00:55:06.000What should have happened is that after Jon kills Daenerys, before the dragon picks up Dany's body and leaves, Jon should have hopped onto the back of the dragon.
00:55:14.000The Unsullied come charging up through the door.
00:55:17.000They're about to kill Jon, except that Jon is now on top of the greatest killing machine in the history of Westeros.
00:55:23.000And he says, and then you fade to black because it is obvious that Jon is now the king.
00:55:29.000Or Jon is on top of the dragon, and then you hear a horn from outside because, remember, Varys sent his little birds all over to let everyone know that Jon is the actual heir to the throne.
00:55:38.000Everyone is supposed to know this already.
00:57:09.000He's like, I'm gonna take these two people, my two friends here, we're gonna go north of the wall because I'm having these weird visions.
00:57:14.000Okay, he goes north of the wall, he gets dragged around on a sled, gets one of them killed, gets Hodor killed, and then treats the woman who's carrying him around, I can't even remember her name, Mira?
00:57:24.000He treats her like garbage, to the point where she's like, why are you treating me badly?
00:59:05.000He let the Night King do what he wanted to do for several seasons so that the Night King would take out two dragons, making it possible for him to take the crown after the third dragon couldn't burn Jon.
00:59:17.000Again, all of it would have been okay if they had let Jon be the character that he was the first few seasons, which is a guy who reluctantly is forced into a position of leadership.
00:59:24.000But having Jon be imprisoned by people is so dumb.
00:59:29.000I guess Tyrion gets what he deserves, sort of.
00:59:33.000Sansa is the only person who really... By the way, at the end of the... If there were another season of Game of Thrones, you know who becomes the queen of all Westeros, right?
01:00:04.000I'm just angry that in the end they rob the only hero who is left of his agency in the show.
01:00:11.000The only thing that he does that is worthwhile is he kills Danny.
01:00:15.000Which is sad, but then he proceeds to become a loser who is sent back north of the wall the way that he was when he was a kid, which is irritating.
01:00:23.000Okay, so that counts as, I think, both things I like and things I hate.
01:00:25.000I think we'll skip the rest because that was about a one-hour recapitulation of Game of Thrones.
01:00:30.000We'll be back here later today with two additional hours.
01:00:32.000I plan on spending all of them talking Game of Thrones.
01:00:34.000In fact, this week, nothing but Game of Thrones talk.
01:01:13.000Hey guys, over on the Matt Wall Show today, the Democrats have once again proven that they are a radical, anti-science cult, which we already knew, but now we have more evidence of that, with the passage of a bill that would, if it became law, among other things, force women's sports teams to allow men.