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00:02:21.000He did this in the name of ISIS, according to John Miller, the NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence and Counterterrorism.
00:02:26.000Saipov had been planning the attack for a number of weeks, according to Miller, and appeared to have followed ISIS instructions as to how to carry out such attacks.
00:02:33.000As soon as a truck ran into a bunch of people, he had to figure that this was an Islamic terror attack, simply because that's been the mode of operation for, it's been modus operandi for
00:02:50.000So ramming trucks into groups of civilians has been an ISIS staple for a while now.
00:02:56.000He said that a handwritten note in Arabic found near the scene had both symbols and words, but the gist was that the Islamic State would endure forever.
00:03:01.000This, of course, is not true, since the Islamic State no longer really even endures.
00:03:05.000So this is the deadliest terror attack in New York City since 9-11.
00:03:09.000One of the guys is 29 and he plowed into bicyclists and pedestrians just blocks away from the World Trade Center on Tuesday afternoon.
00:03:49.000Bill de Blasio, of course, came out and said this was an act of terror.
00:03:52.000And he said it was a particularly cowardly act of terror aimed at innocent civilians, aimed at people going about their lives who had no idea what was about to hit them.
00:03:59.000Here is some video of the suspect, actually, who is... Well, actually, we can play de Blasio.
00:04:04.000Here's what de Blasio had to say about it.
00:04:12.000Let me be clear, based on the information we have at this moment, this was an act of terror, and a particularly cowardly act of terror, aimed at innocent civilians.
00:04:25.000Aimed at people going about their lives who had no idea what was about to hit them.
00:04:40.000And he was carrying, I guess, a paintball gun.
00:04:42.000The idea here is that he was attempting to provoke death by cop.
00:04:44.000He wanted to make the police think that he was going to shoot them, and so he was carrying around these guns.
00:04:50.000Obviously, he did not have more weapons on him, which is definitely a good thing.
00:04:54.000There are people like Nick Kristof yesterday saying, well, that's because of gun control in New York City.
00:05:00.000If you're willing to get in a car and run over people, the idea that you can't drive upstate, grab some guns, drive back downstate, and run around New York City shooting people seems kind of ridiculous.
00:05:08.000In any case, here's some video of the suspect yesterday.
00:05:10.000He sprinted towards the group of kids.
00:05:21.000I was watching him for about maybe 20 seconds before I had to just run back in just for my own safety.
00:05:29.000Right, and you say they looked real, but could you tell, could you hear if any kind of rounds of ammunition were coming out of his gun or you couldn't tell?
00:05:38.000I did not hear any shots and I didn't see him fire at anybody.
00:05:55.000This has obviously provoked a bunch of media firestorm, and it's provoked some response from the President of the United States.
00:06:02.000I want to talk about the response from the media and the response from the President of the United States, and I think that we ought to be as objective as we possibly can in looking at these responses.
00:06:11.000Objectively speaking, the response from the media is always quite awful on all of this, and I think that we ought to start there.
00:06:17.000Here are some of the headlines that you saw yesterday.
00:06:19.000So you're going to see a couple of headlines.
00:06:21.000One is from Fox News, and the other is from CNN, and you'll see the difference immediately.
00:07:19.000Saying God is great in Arabic is toning down a little bit exactly what Allahu Akbar is.
00:07:24.000It is the typical kind of thing that is screamed by terrorists as they are in the midst of terror attacks.
00:07:30.000And there are a lot of people who are obviously upset about that particular Khairon, because the idea here that God is great is the exact equivalent to Allahu Akbar is not true, considering that there's significant... I mean, even in the Islamic community, the idea that the God that is worshipped by Islamic terrorists is the same as the God that is worshipped in Judeo-Christian societies, that's a pretty dicey proposition at best, and so CNN was getting a lot of flack over this, especially since everyone in the Western world knows what Allahu Akbar means now, and they know that it means a radical Islamic terrorist
00:07:59.000So, you know, this prompted some thoughts from me yesterday about why it is that the media treat this particular terror attack, Islamic terror attacks, in a different way than they treat, for example, white supremacist terror attacks.
00:08:19.000So we saw a white supremacist terrorist attack in Charlottesville.
00:08:25.000We saw a guy run a truck exactly like this.
00:08:27.000Run a truck into a civilian and kill a civilian in Charlottesville.
00:08:31.000We've also seen a white supremacist terror attack in South Carolina.
00:08:44.000Dylan Storm Roof murdering a bunch of black folks who are simply attending church because they were black.
00:08:49.000And the reaction from the media is completely, completely at odds.
00:08:54.000So let's go through this for just a second.
00:08:56.000Imagine for a second that a white supremacist had actually driven a truck onto a bike path filled with minority innocents, right?
00:09:01.000He went down to Harlem and he was running down black folks in the middle of Harlem, killing eight of them.
00:09:06.000And imagine the white supremacist had emerged from his truck wearing a Confederate flag t-shirt.
00:09:11.000Now imagine that the media had leapt to the defense of people flying the Confederate flag
00:09:16.000Explaining that only a tiny minority of people who actually fly the confederate flag or like the confederate flag engage in any sort of racist violence, which is true.
00:09:23.000Imagine that all of America's political leaders leapt to the microphones to say the same thing.
00:09:27.000Confederate flag does not mean terrorist.
00:09:29.000Confederate flag does not mean white supremacist.
00:09:31.000Imagine that CNN ran a chyron reading not witnesses suspect was yelling God is great in Arabic, but witnesses suspect was carrying southern version of American flag.
00:09:42.000Which is what a lot of people consider the confederate flag to be.
00:09:45.000And let's assume they then hosted panels, assuring audiences that the Confederate flag was not a symbol of racism or bigotry, it was simply a symbol of Southern pride.
00:09:54.000Can you imagine the media doing any of those things?
00:09:56.000Because when a white supremacist terror attack occurs, the media's immediate response is to jump to, let's have a national conversation about the Confederate flag.
00:10:05.000A white supremacist terror attack is obviously an offshoot.
00:10:08.000It's obviously springing from a broader ideology that can be traced to identity with the Confederate flag.
00:10:16.000After the Charlottesville terror attack, we had a month-long discussion, months-long discussion, it's still ongoing, about whether to remove Confederate statues.
00:10:23.000As though anyone who doesn't want to remove Confederate statues is in league with people who are running down innocents in the middle of Charlottesville.
00:10:30.000So, whenever it's a white supremacist who does this, we immediately link the white supremacist with the ideology of millions of other people who have nothing to do with the ideology, and with symbols that are used by millions of other people in completely different ways.
00:10:42.000But when it comes to radical Islam, we don't do that at all.
00:10:45.000When it comes to radical Islam, instead, we jump to something else, right?
00:10:49.000We jump to defending Muslims from any association with radical Islam.
00:10:53.000I know Jake Tapper, with whom I'm friendly on CNN,
00:10:57.000Jake was being criticized last night, and I think partly unfairly, but partly fairly.
00:11:02.000He was being criticized last night because he had said something along the lines of, Allahu Akbar was yelled when this guy jumped out, sometimes said at kind of celebratory occasions, but now said on a terrible occasion.
00:11:14.000And people were saying, well, would you say the same thing about the Confederate flag?
00:11:16.000Like, did you say the Confederate flag is sometimes flown at NASCAR stadiums, but now being used as a symbol of hate?
00:11:22.000And I think that's not a completely unfair critique.
00:11:25.000I think people are taking it out of context when they said that Tapper said Allahu Akbar is a beautiful phrase.
00:11:30.000But the idea that he was trying to provide context for Allahu Akbar, and people never in the media try to provide context for, for example, the Confederate flag, or for Confederate statues, it demonstrates the lack of honesty in the media.
00:11:42.000And it says something deeper about the leftist point of view on America and what America is.
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00:13:21.000Okay, so what exactly is driving this disparity between how the media treat Islamic terror attacks and how the media treat white supremacist terror attacks?
00:13:28.000The answer is the media believe that white supremacist terror attacks are more representative of America at large than they believe, or at least southern Americans or conservative Americans, than they believe that radical Islamic terror attacks are representative of Muslims across the world.
00:13:43.000This is factually and statistically, it's just mistaken.
00:13:48.000I mean, the fact is there are more people who have died in white supremacist terror attacks since 9-11 than have died in Islamic terror attacks since 9-11.
00:13:56.000But that's leaving out 9-11, number one.
00:13:58.000And that also leaves out the calculation of politically motivated killings on the other side, meaning people from the left who are committing politically motivated killings like you saw in the attempted congressional baseball shooting.
00:14:10.000The idea that white supremacism is more closely tied to conservative ideology than radical Islam is tied to Islam itself is bizarre and groundless.
00:14:20.000And this is what the left believes, right?
00:14:21.000I mean, this is why they ran an ad two days ago, excuse me, in Virginia, the Latino Victory Fund, ran an ad two days ago in Virginia showing an Ed Gillespie supporter flying a Confederate flag, running down minority children, right?
00:14:32.000We just saw yesterday what actually is happening.
00:14:34.000What actually is happening is that a radical Muslim just ran down a bunch of people in New York.
00:14:39.000But the ad that we saw from Democrats was an ad in which a Gillespie supporter was running down a bunch of minority children with a truck.
00:14:45.000Because Ed Gillespie supporters are in league with the KKK and white supremacists because they're conservative.
00:14:52.000We have to be very careful about attributing terrorist ideologies to broader movements.
00:14:57.000And we're going to have to be pretty careful about that across the board, and we're going to have to be as statistically accurate as possible.
00:15:02.000I cut a video several years ago in which I talked about how representative is terrorist ideology of broader Islamic ideology, and I used polls to sort of suss out the idea that there are tens of millions of Muslims who believe the same things that a lot of the terrorists believe.
00:15:15.000Many more Muslims, as a percentage, believe Islamist ideology than conservatives believe white supremacist ideology.
00:15:22.000And yet, the media treat it as precisely the opposite, and that's why.
00:15:25.000That also explains the media's reaction to these attacks being an immediate leap to, we have to prevent Islamophobia.
00:15:30.000Because remember, the bad guys in this scenario are not Muslims, right?
00:15:34.000They're not Muslims, and they're not radical.
00:15:35.000Radical Islamists may be the bad guys, but they're a tiny offshoot, right?
00:15:43.000White supremacists do represent something broader, the evil, cruel, conservative white America.
00:15:48.000And those are the people we constantly have to be on guard against.
00:15:51.000That's why the media are constantly jumping to prevent Islamophobia after there is an Islamic terror attack, even though no mosques are being burned down, there haven't been any riots in the streets, people are not going crazy and beating Muslims up on the streets.
00:16:03.000The rate of hate crimes against particular religions remains far higher against Jews than it is against Muslims as a general matter across the United States, according to the FBI.
00:16:11.000But we always have to worry about these hate crimes and we have to worry about Islamophobia after a terror attack because the bad guys that we have to worry about are us.
00:16:20.000This is the media's perspective on this, which is just wrong and immoral.
00:16:23.000And the disparity between the treatment of white supremacist terror attacks and Islamist terror attacks is quite telling and shows you where the media's heads are at.
00:16:31.000Now, meanwhile, President Trump and a lot of the right have been immediately jumping to policy prescriptions that have to do with immigration, because it turns out that this guy was a green card holder from Uzbekistan.
00:16:42.000He came in under the diversity visa program seven years ago.
00:16:44.000Apparently, there was no real sign that he'd been radicalized.
00:17:31.000And then he tweeted also along those lines.
00:17:33.000So, there are people making fun of not in the USA.
00:17:35.000Obviously, this is Trump making an appeal for his immigration ban on particular Muslim countries.
00:17:48.000And here is what he tweeted this morning.
00:17:50.000He tweeted this morning, And then he said, And then he was tweeting at Fox & Friends,
00:18:13.000Now, it's the sentiment here that I want to talk about for just a second.
00:18:16.000So, I want to be both intellectually honest and, I think, factually honest about all of this.
00:18:19.000A couple things have to be pointed out.
00:18:32.000First of all, I am against the diversity visa program.
00:18:35.000I think the diversity visa program is stupid.
00:18:36.000I agree with President Trump that a merit-based system on immigration is the best system and the only system we should be using.
00:18:42.000We have the capacity as a citizenry to pick the people who we want to join our citizenry.
00:18:46.000You do not have a right to immigrate to the United States just because you are from Uzbekistan or just because you are from any other country on planet Earth.
00:18:53.000We get to pick and choose the people who come into the country.
00:18:55.000That said, there are some people on the left who are saying, and Chuck Schumer is among them, saying, you know, Trump immediately jumping to politicize this is bad faith.
00:19:03.000Here is Chuck Schumer saying exactly that.
00:19:05.000After September 11th, the first thing that President Bush did was invite Senator Clinton and me to the White House, where he pledged to do what was ever in his power to help our city.
00:20:02.000Instead of politicizing and dividing America, which he always seems to do at times of national tragedy, should be bringing us together... Okay, so we can stop it there.
00:20:13.000Okay, Chuck Schumer is a giant hypocrite, obviously, because he's politicized every tragedy that he can get his grubby mitts on.
00:20:47.000Hillary Clinton chimed in with regard to the NRA.
00:20:50.000You know, it was a bunch of people on the right who scolded the left, as Alaa Pandit points out over at Hot Air, for leaping to half-baked policy fixes.
00:20:59.000I said, this is not the time to talk about this for a couple of reasons.
00:21:02.000One, I don't think that in the aftermath of tragedy is the best time to talk policy.
00:21:06.000The reason being that passions are high and passions don't necessarily make for the best policy.
00:21:10.000Number two, Las Vegas was actually a unique situation.
00:21:12.000We didn't know what gun the guy had used, we didn't know how he obtained the gun, we didn't know what his motivations were, we didn't know what fixes would actually have stopped this thing.
00:21:19.000In this particular case, we knew right away, right within 24 hours, we know who the guy is, we know why he did it, we know how he got in the country, and we know how he obtained his weapon, which is a truck, right?
00:22:06.000I totally agree that the idea that we have to have an affirmative action program for particular countries is quite foolish, but if you think that ending the diversity lottery program would have stopped this guy from getting in the country, or that extreme vetting would have stopped this guy from getting in the country, that is not certain at all, especially because this happened in 2010.
00:22:23.000And if you're going to blame Chuck Schumer for it, that doesn't work either, because as part of the Gang of Eight bill that Chuck Schumer was trying to push in 2013, it would have gotten rid of the diversity visa program.
00:22:34.000So, you know, Chuck Schumer is a giant hypocrite, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the policy that's being proposed by President Trump as a fix is actually a fix.
00:22:42.000And I want to talk a little bit more about that.
00:22:44.000Again, I agree with Trump's policy, but I think that we should be careful when we propose a policy that it actually fixes the thing that we say that it's going to fix.
00:22:52.000The reason that you don't want the diversity visa program is not because we think that it's going to lessen the risk in any tremendous way of terrorists like this one.
00:23:01.000Because the fact is, this guy could have come through France.
00:23:03.000I mean, there are Muslims who come through each of those countries.
00:23:06.000The real issue here is the cultural melting pot and whether people should come into the country at all from particular countries if they don't imbibe American culture.
00:23:17.000The left has a particular idea about immigration, that you should have a right to immigrate.
00:23:20.000This is sort of the basis for all of these judicial decisions against the Trump travel ban.
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00:25:09.000Okay, so Ed Morrissey has a very good piece over at Hot Air talking about the manipulation of the agenda in order to push a particular political outcome.
00:25:20.000So, as Ed mentioned, it's true that Saipov gained entry to the United States through the lottery process.
00:25:26.000However, Saipov got here in 2010, long before the refugee crisis began in Europe.
00:25:30.000So, in 2010, no one was talking about refugees from the Middle East because that wasn't a major issue yet.
00:25:36.000He says, furthermore, these refugees aren't coming from Uzbekistan, a country in Central Asia, but mainly from Syria and North Africa, mainly Libya, right?
00:25:42.000Trump has proposed his travel ban on a set of countries that does not include Uzbekistan.
00:25:46.000Uzbekistan does have a terror problem, but extreme vetting probably wouldn't have stopped this guy, and Uzbekistan is not on Trump's travel ban list.
00:25:54.000Which would suggest that if he actually wants to stop the importation of people who are potential terrorists or who do not jive with American culture, then we ought to have more broad-based travel restrictions, more broad-based immigration restrictions.
00:26:07.000But again, you know, what Trump is proposing here, it's sort of like when Democrats propose that we should have an assault weapons ban after an assault weapon is not used, a so-called assault weapon is not used at a mass shooting.
00:26:17.000They ban some sort of unrelated policy, right?
00:26:20.000We're gonna ban certain magazine sizes that have nothing to do with the efficacy of a mass shooting.
00:26:25.000If you're going to say that your policy solves a problem, it ought to solve the problem.
00:26:29.000And as Morrissey points out, the lottery program still requires the normal visa application process.
00:26:34.000Trump suspended visa and foreign refugee applications from eight countries earlier this year, but Uzbekistan was not on that list.
00:26:40.000And there's no evidence that Saipov was radicalized in Uzbekistan, then waited seven years and decided to conduct a truck attack
00:26:47.000of a sleeper agent, but more of a recently radicalized impulse attacker.
00:26:50.000And then as far as Schumer, and again, I want to be objective as possible and bring out as many facts as possible here.
00:26:56.000The lottery system in question was part of the Immigration Act of 1990 signed by George H.W.
00:27:00.000Bush in 1990, 20 years before Saipov entered the U.S.
00:27:03.000That wasn't introduced by Chuck Schumer.
00:27:05.000It was introduced by Ted Kennedy, who's really to blame for all of this.
00:27:09.000Schumer didn't join the Senate until 1999.
00:27:11.000Again, this was a bipartisan move in 1990 to create this Diversity Visa Lottery program.
00:27:16.000In fact, the Diversity Visa Lottery program was originally designed to make it easier for European immigrants to get in because the Diversity Visa Lottery program was designed to allow countries that didn't have tons of immigration, right, that had under, I think, 50,000 immigrants a year or 60,000 immigrants a year,
00:27:32.000to the United States to add people who are immigrating.
00:27:35.000That was designed for places like France, places like Italy.
00:27:38.000It wasn't really designed for Uzbekistan.
00:27:40.000And finally, you know, statistically speaking, the diversity visa program admits about 50,000 people a year to the United States and has for almost 30 years, which means that more than a million visas over that period of time have been issued.
00:27:52.000And Saipov appears to be the only person who's entered through the diversity visa lottery program who's committed a terror act.
00:27:58.000So the idea that this problem was caused by the diversity visa lottery seems to me wrong.
00:28:05.000That said, I'm against the diversity visa lottery.
00:28:07.000And this is why I think that it's important to have these policy discussions, not in the aftermath of terrorist attacks when everybody is jazzed up, because then we devolve into this particular political battle.
00:28:16.000One side says, we need to get rid of diversity visa lottery in order to save American lives.
00:28:21.000This wouldn't have saved American lives.
00:28:23.000And the first side says, you don't care enough about saving American lives.
00:28:26.000And then the second side says, well, you don't care enough about immigrants.
00:28:30.000That seems to me the same reverse of what we do on gun control after a mass shooting.
00:28:35.000People on the right say, that's not good policy and it's not going to help.
00:28:38.000And the left says, you don't care enough about the people who were shot.
00:28:40.000I don't like this argument on either side.
00:28:42.000Again, there is a strong case, for the fifth time, there's a strong case that everything Trump is saying about immigration is true in a generalized sense, but suggesting that this would solve the terrorist problem is, I think, setting up an expectation that is not accurate.
00:28:55.000You know, the sort of Fortress America mentality with regard to protecting the United States
00:29:01.000There's some truth to it, but I don't think there's a complete truth to it.
00:29:04.000And again, when you're talking about radicalization of people who are already in the United States, it seems to me that the best way that you can actually fight this is by crushing ISIS overseas and destroying the motivation for people to become terrorists.
00:29:15.000See, I think this is really the biggest problem.
00:29:17.000We're constantly looking for ending the means.
00:29:20.000We're not looking for stopping bad people from becoming bad people.
00:29:24.000I'm not sure that that is necessarily going to work.
00:29:27.000So, we can kill as many terrorists as possible over there, and we should do that.
00:29:30.000We should prevent as many terrorists as possible from entering the country.
00:29:32.000That's why you should have a vetting program and...
00:29:35.000A lot of these visa programs, you know, just on a cultural level.
00:29:38.000But, what's really going to stop terrorists, the reason terrorists commit terrorist attacks, people think they do it out of despair, right?
00:30:09.000And talking about how it was just great.
00:30:12.000Because he's a disgusting human being.
00:30:13.000Well, the reason that you didn't have this level of terror attack, you know, before ISIS's rise is because there was no hope that ISIS was going to win.
00:30:21.000Crushing ISIS overseas, demonstrating that the might of Islamic terrorism doesn't win you battles, it gets you killed,
00:30:29.000That seems to me the best way to defeat this particular scourge.
00:30:32.000Now, is that going to end all terror attacks?
00:30:33.000No, it's not going to end all terror attacks.
00:30:34.000And we should be taking defensive measures.
00:30:36.000I mean, one of the obvious ones is, and I don't know why they don't have this, they should have bike paths that are basically restricted by these cement medians, right?
00:30:45.000Israel has that and has had it for a long time.
00:30:47.000It prevents these trucks from driving into areas where people are running.
00:30:51.000That seems to me like a relatively smart thing to do.
00:30:55.000I know there are parts of New York City, like Times Square actually has these.
00:30:58.000That seems to me like that's something that might be worthwhile.
00:31:01.000But again, I just want to recommend that we look at this in the cold light of day.
00:31:05.000If we're going to make a decision about the Diversity Visa Lottery program, it shouldn't be on the back of this terror attack, which again, is an isolated incident specifically with regard to that program.
00:31:15.000We should look at it and say, is this good policy or is it bad policy?
00:31:20.000If we're going to talk about extreme vetting, is that good policy or bad policy?
00:31:23.000It's good policy, I think that we should do it.
00:31:25.000I can agree with all of Trump's policies without suggesting that this terror attack be a leverage point for those policies.
00:31:31.000Trump can win that battle on the merits without getting into the nasty business of trying to suggest that a particular terror attack could have been prevented by this specific policy fix, which I really don't think is accurate.
00:31:43.000Okay, well, we're going to continue and talk about this.
00:31:45.000We're also going to do some things I like and some things I hate and some Bible talk.
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00:33:01.000Now with all of that said about why I think it's a mistake to use this terror attack as a leverage point for immigration, I think it is also important to note that because Trump does talk about things like culture, because he does talk about things like immigration generally, this is why he is popular.
00:33:16.000And the Democrats are falling into a trap if they decide to fight him on this.
00:33:19.000The Democrats think that they're going to win a battle every time there's a mass shooting and they talk about gun control.
00:33:23.000They think they've won a public relations battle.
00:33:24.000Trump thinks he's going to win an immigration battle on this score.
00:33:42.000You know, Trump is sort of reference level, gut response to all of this stuff.
00:33:50.000And I think that that is, and I think that that's why he's popular, right?
00:33:54.000He's popular because people feel like it's only political
00:33:57.000It's only political correctness that prevents people from speaking about the cultural problems inherent in all of this, right?
00:34:01.000There's something that unites the two conversations we've had today.
00:34:04.000The conversation about radical Islam and its relationship to normal Islam and the conversation about immigration.
00:34:11.000And that is, these are topics that people are afraid to talk about because they are afraid that they are going to be undercut by the general media atmosphere.
00:34:53.000The reason why Trump won, the reason why Trump is going to continue to be popular is because instead of the left responding as I have and saying, listen, you know, the policy prescriptions that you're talking about, we can have a good debate about that, but I don't think that this is either the time or the matter upon which to use that rhetoric, which is what I said about gun control.
00:35:08.000Instead, they've decided to say we can never discuss this.
00:35:10.000The only reason you discuss this is because you're Islamophobic.
00:35:13.000The only reason you discuss this is because you hate Muslims.
00:35:16.000The response to that is what drove Trump.
00:35:17.000That Cato Institute poll shows, in living color, why Trump won.
00:35:21.00071% of Americans, according to the poll, believe that political correctness has done more to silence important discussions our society needs to have.
00:35:27.000That's why Trump explicitly referenced political correctness in his series of tweets.
00:35:31.000Only 28% of Americans think political correctness has bettered society.
00:35:35.000And that shows why the left is losing.
00:35:38.00073% of Americans, of Republicans rather, say that they are more likely to keep their views to themselves.
00:35:45.00058% of independents say the same thing.
00:35:48.000So even when Trump is using his voice in ways that I don't particularly think are appropriate, he's still doing something that the left refuses to do.
00:35:55.000Because the left doesn't see any time when we should have this discussion.
00:35:57.000I'm happy to have a gun control discussion anytime the left wants to, except right after a national tragedy, when they're exploiting that for political gain.
00:36:05.000I think we should have those discussions.
00:36:06.000But what I really object to is I've said, I said it during the gun control debate and I'm saying it now.
00:36:10.000I don't like the association between tragedy and policy.
00:36:13.000I think it makes for bad policy, right?
00:36:14.000I think the Department of Homeland Security, which is a bad policy decision, was formed in the aftermath of 9-11 and has done very little to keep the country safer.
00:36:21.000I think that if we had had one less agency, one less department, we would just be, if it had been part of the Department of Defense, for example,
00:36:30.000There are a lot of bad policy decisions that are made on the basis of emotional response to bad things happening.
00:36:35.000I just don't like that as a general matter.
00:36:37.000But Trump is willing to talk about these things, and he's constantly willing to talk about these things, and it's the left's willingness to shut down the debate that is driving support for President Trump.
00:37:38.000So, Bernie Sanders, shockingly, said something that I like yesterday.
00:37:41.000So, a lot of people over the last couple of days have been spending an awful lot of time and effort, particularly in the media, talking about Russian collusion, right?
00:37:49.000We have to talk about whether Trump was colluding with Russia.
00:37:53.000Bernie Sanders has a better handle on what Americans want to hear about than most of the Democratic Party, which is why if Bernie actually runs in 2020, he will present a serious threat to both the Democratic Party and to President Trump in his re-election effort.
00:38:12.000Bernie Sanders has a better handle on what the American people care about than most of the mainstream media.
00:38:16.000Look how upset Seth Meyers is asking Bernie Sanders about the Russia stuff and having Bernie basically shoot it down.
00:38:21.000I mean, I think we've got to work in two ways.
00:38:24.000Number one, we have got to take on Trump's attacks against the environment, against women, against Latinos and blacks and people in the gay community.
00:38:37.000We've got to fight back every day on those issues.
00:38:41.000But equally important, or more important, we have got to focus on the bread-and-butter issues that mean so much to ordinary Americans.
00:38:50.000Americans are not staying up every day worrying about Russia's interference in our elections.
00:38:55.000They're wondering how they're going to be able to send their kids to college.
00:38:58.000They're worried about how they're going to be able to pay the rent.
00:39:00.000They're worrying about whether they can afford health care.
00:39:03.000They're worried about whether their income they make is enough to put food on the table.
00:39:09.000Okay, so, you know, I think that this is—the beginning of what he's saying, of course, is stupid, but the very end, when he says that people aren't that concerned about Russia, he's correct about this.
00:39:17.000And this is why he is more likely to resonate with more Americans than the Democratic Party, which is constantly focused on Russia, mostly because they are focused on—mostly because they want to justify why Hillary Clinton could possibly have lost this election.
00:39:31.000Okay, in other things that I like, this is just breaking now, and I think this is pretty spectacular.
00:39:35.000Trump is trying to create a name for the tax cut acts that he's trying to pass.
00:40:10.000Listen, Trump has a better idea for branding than the Republican Party.
00:40:13.000I mean, they'll call it something like the Revitalize the Economy in a Great Way Act, right?
00:40:18.000Then it'll be some sort of crazy acronym that'll end up being, you know, revitalized.
00:40:23.000But every one of those letters will have its own word.
00:40:26.000It'll be the Revitalize the Economy in Virulent
00:40:31.000And I'm not going to do the entire word of revitalize, it's too long a word, but that's what they would do.
00:40:34.000So I sort of like the Cut Cut Cut Act, although I do think it does sound like a rabid director trying desperately to prevent a scene from going off the rails, the Cut Cut Cut Act.
00:41:10.000So Kelly said a couple of things in an interview with Laura Ingram that were controversial.
00:41:13.000First, he said that the Civil War was fought because there was lack of compromise, and he said that there were a lot of people on the southern side who were honorable people.
00:41:21.000And second, he said some things about China.
00:41:23.000Now what's amazing to me is that the stuff he said about China, for me, is way worse than the stuff he said about the Civil War.
00:41:28.000What he said about China is that China seems to be a regime that represents what its people want, which is just insane.
00:41:33.000I mean, it's a communist regime that represses and oppresses its people.
00:41:36.000But the thing that the left jumps on—the left agrees with that.
00:41:40.000So instead, the left jumps on the Civil War stuff.
00:41:42.000So now you've got CNN's Chris Cuomo basically saying that, you know, Kelly ignored and rationalized bigotry by saying that the Civil War wasn't about slavery.
00:42:42.000The attacks on Kelly, of course, are now growing in size and scope because the Democrats know and the media know that Kelly is an effective spokesperson for sort of Trumpian philosophy.
00:42:52.000It is insane to suggest that Kelly is a racist because he said that lack of ability to compromise led to the Civil War.
00:42:59.000First of all, he didn't even say on which side, right?
00:43:01.000It was the South's refusal to compromise that led to the Civil War.
00:43:04.000There are multiple attempts to compromise.
00:43:07.000There was an attempt, there's the Fugitive Slave Act.
00:43:09.000There are a bunch of attempts to compromise on the part of Congress, all of which would be compromised with the incredible evil of slavery.
00:43:17.000I will say that in historical context, I think that it's important to note that, you know, there's this sort of binary view that has now prevailed among people of today, because we all know slavery is evil.
00:43:27.000There's sort of this binary view that says that anyone who wanted to try and compromise with the South wanted to uphold slavery.
00:43:32.000There were a lot of people who wanted to try and create compromise with the South, hoping that slavery would eventually die out.
00:43:38.000The real reason the Civil War happened is because the United States was expanding to the West and there were serious concerns about whether slavery was going to expand into the Western states.
00:43:45.000The Civil War, in the end, turned out to be about abolishing slavery south of the Mason-Dixon line as well.
00:43:51.000But originally, remember, the Civil War was not about abolishing slavery in South Carolina.
00:43:54.000It was really about abolishing slavery in places like Kansas and Nebraska.
00:43:59.000John Brown was fighting wars out in Kansas to try and stop slavery from entering Kansas.
00:44:05.000So I think there's a little more complexity to the Civil War than boiling it down to simply pro-slavery, anti-slavery.
00:44:11.000Although that is a good shorthand, I don't think that's the entirety of the matters to discuss in the Civil War.
00:44:17.000States' rights versus national prerogatives was definitely on the table.
00:44:22.000To pretend that wasn't on the table is to be ignorant, even if the states' rights were being used in defense of something evil like slavery.
00:44:28.000Okay, time for a little bit of Bible talk since it is Wednesday.
00:44:30.000So, I've sort of been picking and choosing from the biblical canon to talk about.
00:44:34.000So, last week I did sort of the creation of the universe and the Adam and Eve story.
00:44:39.000Today I'm going to do the Cain and Abel story.
00:44:41.000So, I thought this was perfectly appropriate for Halloween.
00:44:44.000So, believe it or not, the Cain and Abel story is about cultural appropriation.
00:45:22.000Or, he can get angry that Abel's sacrifice was accepted and his was not.
00:45:25.000He can justify to himself that God is unfair, that the universe is unfair.
00:45:29.000And it can anger him so much that he ends up killing Abel because how dare Abel hold a different standard?
00:45:35.000The reason this is cultural appropriation is because the whole idea behind most cultural appropriation is not about mocking the culture that you are attempting to appropriate.
00:45:43.000It's about looking at the cool things that other cultures do and saying, this is a good thing and I want to imitate it.
00:45:51.000When you have a three-year-old, the way that your three-year-old, your two-year-old learns is by imitating your behavior.
00:45:56.000That's why you have to model good behavior.
00:45:58.000We as adults should be doing the same thing.
00:46:00.000And so the idea that cultural appropriation is a great evil because I like, you know, your girl and you like hoop earrings and you think they're cool and pretty and so you wear them.
00:46:21.000What destroys civilizations is the refusal to acknowledge that somebody did something in a way that was better than your way, and instead you get angry at it and you attempt to destroy that way.
00:46:30.000And that's really what the Cain and Abel story is about.
00:46:35.000In any case, we'll be back here tomorrow with much, much more, and we'll bring you the latest updates on this horrific terror attack in New York City.