The Ben Shapiro Show - It’s A Trumpnato! | Ep. 579

00:00:00.000 Stormy Daniels is arrested.

00:00:01.000 What happens when a political tornado hits President Trump at NATO?

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00:02:43.000 Okay, so let's get into the news.

00:02:47.000 So, in other bizarre and strange news, Stormy Daniels has now been arrested.

00:02:52.000 And it's hilarious.

00:02:53.000 OK, so Stormy Daniels was arrested last night.

00:02:56.000 Why?

00:02:56.000 Well, it's sad when, you know, the new Democratic leader is arrested.

00:03:00.000 You know, everybody during the rallies in 2016 was shouting, lock her up about Hillary Clinton.

00:03:04.000 And then Hillary Clinton became irrelevant. 1.00

00:03:06.000 And now it turns out we're going to lock up the new Democratic leader, their leading 2020 candidate, Stormy Daniels.

00:03:12.000 So here is the actual statement of fact in support of probable cause for the arrest of Stormy Daniels.

00:03:42.000 Which is a thing to do, I guess. 0.78

00:04:00.000 Miss Clifford leaned over, grabbed Detective Keckley's head, and began smacking her face with her bare breasts and holding her face between her breasts against her chest. 1.00

00:04:08.000 America is already great. 0.99

00:04:09.000 Miss Clifford then began making her way over to Detective Lancaster and performed the same acts on him, forcing his face into her chest between her breasts and began smacking his face with her bare breasts. 1.00

00:04:18.000 It's like it's a mason chain or something. 0.93

00:04:19.000 So, Detective Rosser was the least lucky officer assigned that evening.

00:04:43.000 I'm not sure who the three suspects are.

00:04:44.000 Is that Clifford and her breasts? 0.99

00:04:58.000 I'm confused.

00:05:00.000 This is the aforementioned three suspects.

00:05:02.000 This is poorly written.

00:05:02.000 I'm not sure who the other people who are arrested are.

00:05:06.000 All I can say here is that clearly the Democrats have chosen wisely in their decision to make Stephanie Clifford the leading edge of their attack on President Trump.

00:05:13.000 She is nothing but class.

00:05:15.000 Why would we ever suspect that she might, I don't know, do things for money? 0.78

00:05:19.000 When she spent her entire career doing things for money. 0.97

00:05:22.000 Why might we ever suspect that maybe this whole, I'm a victim of the president and I will stop the president, I'm on Saturday Night Live to stop the president, that maybe that's all just a way to raise her profile because she's pretty much willing to smack people in the face with her boobs for cash. 1.00

00:05:36.000 Like, just, and that is not an exaggeration, that is literally her arrest record now, is that she smacked people in the face with her boobs for cash. 1.00

00:05:44.000 And we are supposed to believe that she and her and her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, are going to save America.

00:05:50.000 Well, you know, I know that there are a lot of people on the right who believe that Trump is King David, so I guess that this would make her, like, female King David, according to the left, that, like, God anointed her breasts so that she can save the country from President Trump. 1.00

00:06:02.000 Yes, everything is deeply stupid. 1.00

00:06:04.000 Indeed, all of the things are stupid. 1.00

00:06:06.000 And they're not just stupid with regard to Stormy Daniels' latest arrest 1.00

00:06:10.000 For apparently bringing people face to face with the crevasse. 0.98

00:06:14.000 Apparently also, Peter Strzok was interviewed by the House Judiciary and Oversight Committee today, and he's now returned to a congressional hearing room just down the hall.

00:06:22.000 And he says that he was not biased against President Trump in any way.

00:06:26.000 He did not bias his case against President Trump in any way, which is only belied by every fact we know about Peter Strzok at this time.

00:06:31.000 He was the FBI agent, of course.

00:06:32.000 He suggested that he was going to stop Trump from becoming president.

00:06:35.000 He was texting with his lover, Lisa Page.

00:06:37.000 She's a delight.

00:06:37.000 So is Lisa Page.

00:06:38.000 Both of them married, having an affair with each other, and texting about how Trump was the worst thing in the world.

00:06:43.000 Clearly, President Trump didn't have the moral standards of Peter Strzok and Lisa Page while they were cheating on their spouses with one another and then using their professional positions in order to accelerate an investigation into a political enemy.

00:06:53.000 Clearly, Trump is the major problem here.

00:06:55.000 Here is what Peter Strzok said in his testimony, quote,

00:07:05.000 So all those texts about how you were going to stop President Trump using the best of your abilities, that was all just, like, weird nonsense, exactly?

00:07:14.000 He says, the fact is, after months of investigations, there is simply no evidence of bias in my professional actions.

00:07:18.000 That is not what the Inspector General Michael Horowitz said in his report.

00:07:21.000 He said there's actually pretty good evidence of Peter Strzok's bias in his professional actions.

00:07:24.000 According to that Investigator General report, if you, the Inspector General report, if you recall,

00:07:30.000 He made the case that Peter Strzok, who was in charge of both the Hillary Clinton email investigation and the Russia investigation, had basically delayed the Hillary email investigation because he thought the Russia investigation was more important.

00:07:41.000 Horowitz himself suggested that he could not find that Strzok was free of bias.

00:07:46.000 A Thursday's hearing is poised to be one of the most contentious in Congress so far, tied to the Russia investigation, according to CNN.

00:07:52.000 Trey Gowdy says the moment special counsel Bob Mueller found out about Peter Strzok's text and emails, he kicked him off the investigation.

00:07:57.000 That was a year and a half too late.

00:07:59.000 The text and emails may have been discovered in May of 2017, but the bias existed.

00:08:03.000 And was manifest a year and a half before that, all the way back to late 2015 and early 2016.

00:08:08.000 So it wasn't the discovery of the text that got him fired, it was the bias manifest in those texts.

00:08:12.000 Strzok instead said quote, Now as I pointed out,

00:08:29.000 I think this is a somewhat decent defense that if Strzok was really out to get Trump, why didn't he just reveal to the world that Trump was under investigation in this collusion investigation?

00:08:37.000 But the counter argument, which I think is not uncredible, is that Strzok didn't want to break the law.

00:08:44.000 He would have, by leaking, he would have been breaking the law.

00:08:45.000 He'd want to put his own career at risk.

00:08:47.000 He just figured if I accelerate the investigation, then eventually Trump is going to be found guilty before the election and we will be fine, right?

00:08:53.000 And then Trump will be stopped from being president.

00:08:56.000 Trump, of course, has tweeted consistently about Strzok.

00:08:59.000 There's a good shot that Strzok is going to be held in contempt of Congress because he isn't answering questions now, and that would not be any sort of giant shock at this point.

00:09:08.000 Okay, so while all of these scandals are a-brewin', while Stormy Daniels faces time behind bars where she will, I'm sure, film her latest lesbian pornography act, and where President Trump is fighting off Peter Strzok, meanwhile, 0.90

00:09:23.000 And President Trump is over at NATO.

00:09:25.000 And controversy has broken out over at NATO because the president has been very harsh with our NATO allies.

00:09:29.000 So as I discussed yesterday, he made two specific claims, neither of which was completely unfounded.

00:09:34.000 Specific claim number one is that all of these countries in NATO pledged in 2014 that they were going to increase the percentage of GDP that they spent on their national defense all the way up to 2%.

00:09:43.000 And only four countries have done so as of 2017.

00:09:45.000 Out of the 26 NATO countries, only four have done so at this juncture.

00:09:49.000 Now, many more will do so in the coming years.

00:09:51.000 And it's not that we are picking up the bill for them.

00:09:53.000 It's not as though we have raised our own defense spending to make up for European lack of defense spending.

00:09:58.000 We have our defense spending.

00:09:59.000 They have their defense spending.

00:10:00.000 It's really their problem.

00:10:01.000 But Trump isn't wrong when he says, you guys made a promise.

00:10:03.000 You ought to spend more on your defense.

00:10:05.000 And if you're spending nothing on your defense and then you expect us to come to your rescue if you're attacked,

00:10:10.000 You know, we are gonna come to your rescue if you're attacked, but you need to raise your defense spending.

00:10:14.000 You are inviting the Russians to basically walk across your borders if you're spending 1% of your GDP on defense instead of 2% of your GDP on defense. 0.95

00:10:21.000 So that I thought was well-founded by President Trump.

00:10:24.000 And then President Trump also suggested that the Germans had basically been selling out their foreign policy to the Russians because former Prime Minister, former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who was the Chancellor of Germany up until Merkel took over, I believe,

00:10:39.000 He has now become basically a Russian agent in Europe.

00:10:42.000 He's been going around signing pipeline deals on behalf of Russian Gazprom, which is their giant Rosneft, which is their giant Russian oil company.

00:10:53.000 And apparently, he has been going around taking money for this, and some 70% of all natural gas imported into Germany is now coming via Russia, thanks to these pipelines, the Novo Streams, that have been coming into Germany from Russia.

00:11:05.000 So Trump smacked them for that.

00:11:06.000 He says, listen, you guys are yelling at me about colluding with Russia.

00:11:08.000 You're the ones taking 70% of your natural gas from Russia, thanks to a former chancellor here, who's signing all sorts of contracts with the Russians to sit on the board of their state-owned gas companies.

00:11:17.000 Hey, that's founded, too.

00:11:19.000 So both of those criticisms, I think, were well-founded by President Trump.

00:11:22.000 What is not particularly well founded by President Trump is the idea that he is sort of anti-NATO.

00:11:28.000 So, there's an argument that's now going on over what President Trump said over at NATO.

00:11:33.000 So, according to Politico, quote,

00:11:44.000 Officials inside the room for the formal session of the North Atlantic Council, the alliance's top political decision-making body, said Trump arrived late and apparently furious, and quickly hijacked a meeting that was already in progress with the presidents of Ukraine and Georgia.

00:11:56.000 Taking the floor, Trump unleashed what one official called a prolonged rant on spending.

00:12:00.000 He warned of grave consequences if allies do not quickly ramp up their spending, sending the gathering into chaos.

00:12:05.000 Trump also demanded that allies demonstrate how they would ramp up spending and warned that the U.S.

00:12:09.000 could go our own way if they do not meet his demands.

00:12:11.000 While some officials, including French President Emmanuel Macron, said Trump never overtly threatened to abandon NATO, others said they interpreted it as a clear threat.

00:12:18.000 So Trump went in there, he used some vague language about how if they didn't do what they were supposed to do, bad things were going to happen.

00:12:23.000 And people interpreted this as Trump saying that he was going to pull out of NATO entirely and leave the Europeans to their own devices, which would not be good, by the way.

00:12:30.000 Because you do want the EU acting as one as a defense unit against Russia.

00:12:35.000 One of the great developments has been NATO.

00:12:38.000 You do want NATO to continue to be a vital player in world affairs.

00:12:42.000 The last thing you want is a return to pre-NATO politics when Germany and France were going to war every 20 years or so.

00:12:48.000 When Britain, Germany, France, 0.81

00:12:51.000 Poland, Spain, Czechoslovakia, all these various countries were going to war with one another on a regular basis.

00:12:58.000 You would not prefer that to be the case.

00:13:00.000 NATO helps prevent all of that because it aims the entire bloc basically against Russia.

00:13:04.000 You don't want that to collapse in on itself.

00:13:06.000 It's foolish for the president to be attempting to pull out of NATO if in fact that's something he did, although it's kind of unclear at this point that's what he did.

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00:14:31.000 So, President Trump also apparently demanded that allies demonstrate how they'd ramp up spending.

00:14:36.000 And Macron, Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, he said,

00:14:46.000 Now, there was a lot of mixed signals being sent, obviously.

00:14:48.000 There were a lot of people at NATO who thought that Trump was threatening to withdraw from NATO, so I don't think this is entirely a rumor.

00:14:53.000 Trump later sidestepped a question about the threat at a press conference.

00:14:56.000 He said he believed he had the authority to withdraw from NATO without congressional approval, which is highly doubtful.

00:15:01.000 And he boasted that he had secured agreement for far larger spending commitment by allies, and all the other countries said, well, that's not true either.

00:15:08.000 Macron said there's a communiqué that was published yesterday.

00:15:10.000 It's very detailed.

00:15:11.000 It confirms the goal of 2% by 2024.

00:15:12.000 That's all.

00:15:14.000 One NATO official said Trump wants a plan from alliance members by January on how to reach the spending target.

00:15:19.000 Another senior NATO official said that Trump specifically demanded written spending plans from roughly 10 allies who have not yet submitted them.

00:15:26.000 Even the mere suggestion of the U.S.

00:15:27.000 pulling out of NATO raises the worst fears that some allies have harbored since Trump was elected after he declared during his presidential campaign that NATO is obsolete.

00:15:34.000 So as I said yesterday, I think Trump's critiques of NATO are not wrong, but I do think that Trump saying that he wants to pull out of NATO is real foolishness.

00:15:42.000 One of the things that has allowed the stability of the Western world to create this growth of the last 70-odd years in the West has been the guarantee that NATO members are basically allies, that we're all going to come to each other's defense, that we're not going to allow each other to be overrun.

00:15:57.000 And yet, NATO has basically allowed various countries that are not quite NATO members, but are on the borders of NATO, to be overrun.

00:16:04.000 This obviously happened in Crimea.

00:16:05.000 It happened in Georgia when the Russians made a move in Georgia.

00:16:09.000 And there's a real question as to whether Vladimir Putin thinks he can push his luck here.

00:16:12.000 There are a bunch of NATO countries like Estonia and Latvia and Lithuania that are right on the border of Russia.

00:16:17.000 Putin obviously has territorial ambitions in this place.

00:16:21.000 If NATO were not to respond to Russian aggression in these places, it'd be a serious problem.

00:16:25.000 And the question is whether Trump is using his desire for higher spending by these NATO countries as a sort of way to avoid responsibility for NATO at all.

00:16:36.000 Is it all a giant excuse?

00:16:38.000 If so, then we've got a real problem in our hands.

00:16:39.000 In a second, I'm going to show you the blowback that's been happening over all of this.

00:16:43.000 I will point out as well the irony in all the folks on the left who are critiquing Trump over his NATO

00:16:49.000 Miss misinformation over his NATO belief system that is wrongful.

00:16:55.000 So leading the charge here is Chris Matthews.

00:16:56.000 So Chris Matthews, as you can see, says, Trump and a Putin gift in Brussels.

00:17:01.000 Get up in the morning, put on a shoe, run in here, looking all drunk and weird.

00:17:06.000 And I start talking about NATO and Brussels, like Brussels sprouts.

00:17:09.000 So Kathleen makes me at home sometimes. 0.95

00:17:11.000 I don't eat them, I feed them to the dog.

00:17:13.000 Ah!

00:17:13.000 Go, Chris Matthews, go!

00:17:15.000 On his first full day in Europe, President Trump handed Vladimir Putin a big gift.

00:17:20.000 The only beneficiary of Trump's havoc is Vladimir Putin, who's been rooting for the collapse of NATO since the days of the Cold War.

00:17:27.000 Okay, so we don't know that yet.

00:17:29.000 We do know that if NATO were to collapse, it would be a serious problem for the West.

00:17:33.000 It would also be a serious boon for Putin.

00:17:35.000 It is unclear, however, whether any of this means anything.

00:17:37.000 This is one of the problems with President Trump and how he speaks generally.

00:17:40.000 You don't know what means something and what doesn't.

00:17:42.000 As I've said before, 1.00

00:17:43.000 On President Trump's epitaph, it's going to say, Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States, he said a lot of crap. 0.99

00:17:50.000 Because he does, he says a lot of stuff. 0.99

00:17:51.000 And some of that stuff is good, and some of that stuff is not good.

00:17:54.000 And so it's difficult to know what to pay attention to.

00:17:57.000 Do I really think the United States is going to pull out of NATO?

00:17:59.000 No, I don't.

00:17:59.000 Do I think that anything he says to Putin is going to lead to serious aggression by Putin?

00:18:03.000 Not really, because I don't think that Putin actually believes that Trump is not volatile.

00:18:07.000 Trump is very unpredictable.

00:18:08.000 The same Trump who was making overtures to Putin during the election cycle was the same guy who was

00:18:13.000 Throwing missiles into Syria against the Assad regime.

00:18:16.000 The same guy who authorized U.S.

00:18:17.000 military action in Syria that ended with the death of 200 Russian mercenaries.

00:18:20.000 So he, I mean, he's armed the Ukrainian, the Ukrainian resistance to Russian rule with deadly weaponry.

00:18:26.000 So I don't think that Putin has tremendous faith that the United States is going to abandon NATO if you were to walk across the border.

00:18:31.000 But with that said, is it good that Trump is making these sorts of implications?

00:18:35.000 No, obviously it's not.

00:18:36.000 Although I don't think we should quite jump the gun.

00:18:38.000 And the level of panic that's being expressed here, I think, is overwrought given the fact that

00:18:42.000 I think a lot of people in the world don't take Trump's pronouncements on these issues particularly seriously.

00:18:46.000 Shep Smith over on Fox News, he says that Trump could turn the clock back centuries.

00:18:50.000 I think this is a bit of an exaggeration.

00:18:53.000 President Trump upended world order in a way no American president has in modern history.

00:18:58.000 President Trump's utterances not only opened the door for a new system overseas, they could also turn back the global clock centuries.

00:19:06.000 Okay, well, I don't think we're going back to before the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648.

00:19:10.000 I really don't think that's a thing that's going to happen.

00:19:13.000 With that said, do I think that Trump should be more careful about his words?

00:19:16.000 Yes.

00:19:16.000 But do I think that anybody is taking him supremely seriously?

00:19:19.000 No, I will also say that for members of the prior administration, members of the Obama administration, who created this situation in the first place, right?

00:19:27.000 It was the Obama administration that allowed Vladimir Putin to run roughshod over Ukraine.

00:19:32.000 It was the Obama administration that did like nothing when Putin simply annexed Crimea.

00:19:38.000 It was the Obama administration that allowed Syria to become a proxy state for the Russians.

00:19:43.000 And now you got members of the Obama administration coming out and ripping Trump over NATO as though Obama was a wonderful NATO ally. 0.99

00:19:50.000 Obama was a garbage NATO ally. 0.96

00:19:51.000 It's just he wasn't loud about it. 0.99

00:19:53.000 And so here's John Brennan, former head of the CIA, saying that Trump's remarks on NATO are dangerously naive.

00:19:59.000 It says, in the interest of America's security, if NATO leaders push back against the reckless behavior of Donald Trump, who is dangerously naive and grossly ignorant of how the world works, history inevitably will regard Trump as one of the most disastrous figures of the 21st century.

00:20:11.000 Says John O'Brien, a guy who worked for Barack Obama, who presided over the collapse of the international order. 0.62

00:20:16.000 Ben Rhodes, who presided over the Iran deal and lied to the American people about it for years on end.

00:20:21.000 He says that this is the biggest danger, that Trump is the biggest danger.

00:20:25.000 He's blowing up all the international architecture.

00:20:27.000 The biggest danger to the national security of the United States is the President of the United States, who is single-handedly, before our eyes, blowing up the international architecture that the United States has relied upon for our own security for 70 years.

00:20:40.000 Okay, and then Ben Rhodes went back to his small apartment and wrote a bunch of short stories no one will ever read.

00:20:44.000 Now, Ben Rhodes, when he does this routine where Trump is blowing up the international architecture, the international architecture has not been blown up.

00:20:50.000 I actually believe Macron more than I believe a lot of members of the media.

00:20:54.000 He understands that when Trump says stuff about NATO, it's not going to come to fruition.

00:20:57.000 He does understand that.

00:20:59.000 There's something to say about international architecture.

00:21:01.000 There are a lot of people who believe in the sort of facade of international architecture.

00:21:05.000 And then there are people who believe that the international architecture actually has to work, that these groups actually have to be worth something.

00:21:11.000 So NATO is worth something only if it's capable of acting in the face of threats to NATO.

00:21:17.000 NATO is not worth anything if the United States makes all sorts of nice noises about backing NATO and then doesn't do anything.

00:21:23.000 I think that if Vladimir Putin had walked into Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, I wonder if the Obama administration actually would have done anything.

00:21:30.000 I do.

00:21:31.000 I think Trump is more likely to do something if Putin does something than Obama was.

00:21:34.000 Now, maybe I'm wrong on that.

00:21:36.000 We'll find out.

00:21:36.000 But I think that the sort of panic over the possibility of Trump pulling out of NATO at this point is a little exaggerated, even though I think Trump shouldn't be making those implications in the first place.

00:21:46.000 Okay, so in just a second, I want to get to the continuing fallout over Brett Kavanaugh, because the left continues to try and figure out how to sink him, and let's just say that their case is not particularly good.

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00:23:12.000 Okay, so.

00:23:13.000 The left continues to panic over the possibility of Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court.

00:23:17.000 It is not a possibility, it is a probability. 1.00

00:23:19.000 And the levels of stupid, it's like peeling an onion. 1.00

00:23:23.000 Beneath each level of stupid is a new level of stupid. 1.00

00:23:26.000 It's like Russian nesting dolls. 1.00

00:23:27.000 And when you finally get to the center of those Russian nesting dolls, all you find is just President Trump, a little statue of President Trump mooning you. 0.85

00:23:37.000 That's pretty much all that's happening here, because the left is in a state of sheer and utter panic over Brett Kavanaugh, who is, by all measures, a very well-stated, solid judge on the D.C.

00:23:49.000 Circuit Court of Appeals, who's worked across the aisle on a number of occasions.

00:23:52.000 The fact they're going nuts on Kavanaugh shows you how nuts they would have gone on Amy Coney Barrett.

00:23:54.000 I mean, I think they would have lit themselves on fire if it had been Amy Coney Barrett. 0.72

00:23:58.000 They would have gone out there, and they would have legitimately gone full anti-papist.

00:24:01.000 They would have said, oh, she's an evil Catholic, and they would have gotten mock-ups of Daniel Day-Lewis from Gangs of New York, and started trotting out the All-American Club to throw the Catholics out of the country if it had been Amy Coney Barrett. 1.00

00:24:14.000 In any case, 0.88

00:24:16.000 Kavanaugh is still too Catholic for them. 0.79

00:24:18.000 And I have to say, the left's takes on Kavanaugh are really — talk about hot takes, they're incredible.

00:24:22.000 So, here's the best one.

00:24:24.000 So, Chris Chaliza tweeted out, Why should Brett Kavanaugh call his office?

00:24:28.000 Because there's an article in the Washington Post, and here's what it says.

00:24:31.000 White House says,

00:24:37.000 Ooh! 0.96

00:24:39.000 Oh no!

00:24:41.000 He spent money on his credit cards on baseball games.

00:24:45.000 He's an American judge who likes baseball.

00:24:47.000 Ooh! 0.96

00:24:49.000 Okay, this is the best part of it.

00:24:50.000 So they say, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh incurred tens of thousands of dollars of credit card debt buying baseball tickets over the past decade, and at times reported liabilities that could have exceeded the value of his cash accounts and investment assets, according to review of Kavanaugh's financial disclosures.

00:25:03.000 In 2016,

00:25:04.000 Kavanaugh reported having between $60,000 and $200,000 in debt accrued over three credit cards and a loan.

00:25:10.000 Each credit card held between $15,000 and $50,000 in debt, and a thrift savings plan loan was between $15,000 and $50,000.

00:25:16.000 Now, here's the important part.

00:25:18.000 This is buried in paragraph 1, 2, 3, 4 of the article.

00:25:22.000 The credit card debts and loan were either paid off or fell below the reporting requirements in 2017, according to the filings, which do not require details on the nature or source of such payments.

00:25:32.000 So in other words, he doesn't have massive debt.

00:25:34.000 He's not carrying massive debt.

00:25:35.000 He used his credit card to buy things and then paid off his credit card.

00:25:39.000 Like a normal human.

00:25:40.000 But this apparently is enough for Brett Kavanaugh to be forced to call his office.

00:25:44.000 I love this.

00:25:45.000 Raj Shah over at the White House, he told the Washington Post that Kavanaugh's friends reimbursed him for their share of the baseball tickets and that the judge has stopped purchasing the season tickets.

00:25:52.000 So why did he rack up all those baseball debts?

00:25:54.000 Because he bought season tickets for a bunch of people on his credit card and then they reimbursed him.

00:25:59.000 Really, that's it.

00:26:00.000 I do this with my father all the time.

00:26:02.000 Like, my dad and I are going to a ballgame pretty soon.

00:26:04.000 We're sitting there, and he's like, should I buy tickets?

00:26:05.000 I was like, yeah!

00:26:06.000 And I'll reimburse you later.

00:26:07.000 Because this is what you do with people who you're friends with.

00:26:10.000 But people at the Washington Post apparently have no friends, so... With reporting like this, I can't imagine why.

00:26:15.000 I love this.

00:26:16.000 They say, Shaw adds that Kavanaugh has a government retirement account worth nearly half a million dollars that was also not required to be disclosed.

00:26:37.000 Ooh, he can't sit on the Supreme Court.

00:26:42.000 Dude went to Nationals games.

00:26:43.000 He cannot sit on the Supreme Court, clearly. 0.99

00:26:45.000 Okay, that was not the stupidest take of the day. 1.00

00:26:47.000 Legitimately, the stupidest take of the day, month, year, decade, century, millennia. 1.00

00:26:53.000 Chris, Andrew Cuomo, who is, I was always under the impression that Chris Cuomo was the stupider of the Cuomo brothers, but apparently, Andrew has now surpassed him. 1.00

00:27:01.000 I mean, when Chris Cuomo, when God made Chris Cuomo, he, he, when God made Andrew Cuomo, he just forgot to take the brains off the shelf. 0.92

00:27:09.000 I mean, he just, he just did not implant one, because this is incredible.

00:27:12.000 Andrew Cuomo comes out and he says, listen, if Brett Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade, you know what I'm gonna do?

00:27:18.000 I'm gonna sue them.

00:27:20.000 I'm going to sue them.

00:27:21.000 You seriously said this.

00:27:23.000 Here's Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, who wants to run for president.

00:27:26.000 But frankly, I don't know how he can even have bipedal locomotion, given his lack of brainpower.

00:27:30.000 Here is Andrew Cuomo.

00:27:32.000 We now need to codify Roe v. Wade, which will actually increase the protections in New York.

00:27:40.000 God forbid they do what they intend to do, which is overturn Roe v. Wade.

00:27:44.000 I want to get it done before the Supreme Court does that, because I don't want any gap in a woman's right to protection, and we have a better legal case when the Supreme Court acts, because I will sue when the Supreme Court acts. 0.99

00:27:59.000 I love all the idiots there. 0.99

00:28:00.000 I'll sue! 1.00

00:28:01.000 Yeah!

00:28:01.000 Woo!

00:28:02.000 Okay, so just just to make clear for those who don't know like basic law, okay? 1.00

00:28:06.000 Like basic law, like you're a complete moron who hit your head on a tree stump when you were three. 1.00

00:28:10.000 Alright, you can't sue the Supreme Court, you idiot. 1.00

00:28:14.000 Okay, so how would that work exactly? 0.99

00:28:16.000 The Supreme Court rules to overturn Roe v. Wade, and then Andrew Cuomo goes, hey guys, they overturned Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court.

00:28:23.000 I'm gonna sue them!

00:28:24.000 In court!

00:28:25.000 Then it goes to court, and then the court rules against him.

00:28:27.000 He says, I'm gonna appeal it!

00:28:28.000 To the higher court!

00:28:29.000 And then it goes to the appellate court.

00:28:31.000 And then he says, I'm gonna appeal it to the highest court in the land!

00:28:34.000 The Supreme Court!

00:28:35.000 Who I'm suing!

00:28:36.000 For the decision!

00:28:38.000 So the Supreme Court, according to Andrew Cuomo, is going to rule against the Supreme Court on the Supreme Court's ability to overrule Roe v. Wade because Andrew Cuomo sued the Supreme Court in the Supreme Court.

00:28:49.000 Yes.

00:28:50.000 Yes.

00:28:51.000 This is one of your frontrunners for 2020, Democrats.

00:28:53.000 Mm-hmm.

00:28:54.000 Okay. 1.00

00:28:55.000 Okay, that was the stupidest take of the day. 1.00

00:28:57.000 Running a very close second was MSNBC's Katie Turrer. 0.99

00:29:00.000 So Katie Turrer comes out, and she says that she doesn't understand why all of these people want to interpret the Constitution, you know, like a law.

00:29:08.000 Like, why don't they just interpret it like poetry?

00:29:10.000 Why don't they, like, just read it and see a Maya Angelou poem?

00:29:13.000 Or Emily Dickinson.

00:29:15.000 Like, why can't we just look and see what we want in the law? 0.99

00:29:18.000 And she proceeds to make a series of ridiculously stupid errors, which is why when people on the left talk about the courts and jurisprudence and judicial philosophy, it just makes you want to slam your head on a desk until you are bleeding profusely. 0.98

00:29:31.000 Here is Katie Tour from MSNBC. 0.98

00:29:33.000 Based on where Americans stand on the issues, and Americans have really moved in a much more progressive direction over the years, do you think it's appropriate to continue to take such a strict, originalist view of the Constitution, given it's 2018 and not 1776?

00:29:51.000 Okay, there are 83 problems with the thing she just said.

00:29:55.000 Number one, 1776 was a solid decade and a half before the Constitution was written.

00:30:01.000 So, actually, you wouldn't want to go back to 1776 to interpret the Constitution because it hadn't yet been written.

00:30:07.000 In fact, America was not yet, it had not yet defeated Great Britain in its war for independence yet, so there's that.

00:30:13.000 And then, there's the problem of, it's 2018, do you really want to interpret a document written in 1789, you know, like it was written in 1789 when it's 2018?

00:30:21.000 The answer to which is, yes, because it was written in 1789.

00:30:24.000 This is like saying that you're reading a piece of literature from 1830 and you're applying modern day standards to it.

00:30:32.000 So every time it says in a piece of 18th century literature the word gay, right?

00:30:35.000 It says that she was a gay young woman, right?

00:30:38.000 And it's an 1830s book.

00:30:39.000 And you go, that means she was a lesbian. 1.00

00:30:41.000 No!

00:30:42.000 The word gay in 1830 did not mean homosexual.

00:30:44.000 The word gay in 1830 meant lively and happy, right?

00:30:48.000 Okay, the case for reinterpreting the Constitution is basically that the words of the Constitution magically change over time because people have changed their views.

00:30:57.000 But you can't interpret text that way, and no one with half a brain would want to interpret text that way, because it makes zero sense whatsoever.

00:31:04.000 And then finally, there's this idea that, you know, people have changed.

00:31:07.000 We live in a much more progressive time, in a progressive country.

00:31:10.000 That means we should reinterpret the Constitution to match.

00:31:12.000 Well, if you think that the country has moved in a progressive way, if you think that the country is filled with progressives, you know what's a thing you could do?

00:31:18.000 You could get those progressives to vote for your policy, as opposed to trying to impose them from above by deliberately misinterpreting a piece of legislative text from 1789.

00:31:27.000 You could do that.

00:31:28.000 But no, but no. 1.00

00:31:30.000 We're all supposed to pretend that this is intelligent political discourse because everything is stupid. 1.00

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00:32:58.000 In other stupid stories. 0.98

00:33:00.000 So I think I told you earlier this week the story of a woman named Daniela Greenbaum who wrote a piece for Business Insider. 0.99

00:33:05.000 Did I tell this story earlier this week?

00:33:07.000 I did not tell this story earlier this week.

00:33:08.000 Okay, so this one is an oldie but goodie, but it's not that old.

00:33:11.000 So in any case, there's a woman named Daniela Greenbaum.

00:33:14.000 Daniela Greenbaum, with whom I am friendly, used to write for Commentary magazine.

00:33:18.000 And it turns out that she wrote a piece for Business Insider, which is a left-wing

00:33:22.000 Outlet.

00:33:22.000 And that piece said that Scarlett Johansson should be allowed to act as a transgender man in a new movie.

00:33:29.000 Now, I've talked about the Scarlett Johansson issue before.

00:33:32.000 OK, the basic Scarlett Johansson issue is that Scarlett Johansson is indeed a woman, in case you didn't know.

00:33:37.000 And she's playing a transgender man, which is to say a biological woman on screen in a movie called Rub and Tug.

00:33:45.000 It's gonna be awesome.

00:33:46.000 And everybody got very, very upset, because why should a woman, you know, like a real woman, play a transgender man? 0.94

00:33:54.000 The answer to which is because all transgender men are biological women.

00:33:58.000 But, and also she's an actress, because she acts things like that's what she does for a living. 1.00

00:34:04.000 And this is not the equivalent of a white person putting on blackface and acting like a black person, because a white person is not biologically a black person. 0.61

00:34:10.000 However, a transgender man is biologically a woman.

00:34:13.000 In fact, if Scarlett Johansson were to come out tomorrow and say, I am a man, according to the left, she's a man now.

00:34:18.000 So the only difference between Scarlett Johansson being a transgender man and acting as a transgender man is that we know she's acting. 0.67

00:34:25.000 That's literally the only difference.

00:34:27.000 If we didn't know she was acting, then we would assume she was an actual transgender man. 0.84

00:34:30.000 In any case, Daniella Greenbaum writes a piece for Business Insider.

00:34:34.000 And here's what the piece says.

00:34:35.000 She has been cast in a movie in which she will play someone different than herself.

00:34:38.000 For this great crime, which seems to essentially define the career path she has chosen, she is being castigated for being insufficiently sensitive to the transgender community.

00:34:46.000 Stealing narratives, or more charitably, playing parts, is precisely what actors are hired to do.

00:34:51.000 But that reality seems to have been forgotten.

00:34:53.000 Johansson's identity off the screen is irrelevant to the identity she plays on the screen.

00:34:57.000 That's what she's paid for.

00:34:58.000 And if she does her job, she'll make everyone forget about the controversy in the first place.

00:35:02.000 But this, that seems pretty commonsensical, right?

00:35:04.000 Well, it turns out that she is actually Daniela Greenbaum, history's greatest monster.

00:35:09.000 She's up there with Stalin, she's up there with Hitler, and so Business Insider pulled the piece.

00:35:13.000 They pulled that piece.

00:35:14.000 That extraordinarily mild piece.

00:35:16.000 Why?

00:35:17.000 Well, according to the Daily Beast, Business Insider removed a post about portrayals of trans individuals in Hollywood after staff complained internally about the column, saying the article did not meet the publication standards.

00:35:27.000 Several Business Insider staff told the Daily Beast that some employees were offended by the column.

00:35:32.000 The publication took down the piece on Friday and appended an editor's note to the page on Tuesday, saying that Business Insider removed the column because, upon further review, we decided it did not meet our editorial standards.

00:35:42.000 So the new standard over at Business Insider is that if employees were offended by a piece, the piece can't run.

00:35:47.000 Which is weird because I edit a website and it's my decision as to what goes up and what comes down.

00:35:51.000 And if a piece goes up that I didn't see and I didn't like, I can take it down.

00:35:55.000 But I don't take a poll of the newsroom.

00:35:57.000 I don't walk around the office going, guys, what do you think?

00:36:00.000 And if someone comes to me and says, I found that piece deeply offensive,

00:36:02.000 I don't know. 0.99

00:36:20.000 When it comes to Business Insider, but we've become so stupid that the person who screams the loudest immediately gets all of the grease. 0.63

00:36:28.000 So, Danielle Greenbaum has now resigned from Business Insider, and she wrote this letter, which is exactly right.

00:36:34.000 She said, This is the question I wanted to weigh in on when I saw the brouhaha about Scarlett Johansson's role in the upcoming movie Rub & Tug.

00:36:43.000 Again, great movie.

00:36:53.000 By the way, I think there's a good case to make that a woman should not play a man and a man should not play a woman, but that a woman can play a trans man because that's a biological man, right?

00:37:02.000 Like a woman playing a man. 0.99

00:37:03.000 We've actually had movies like this.

00:37:04.000 Cate Blanchett played Bob Dylan in a movie recently, and nobody seemed to care.

00:37:08.000 In fact, it was a sign of female empowerment that this was the case. 1.00

00:37:11.000 It's pretty rare to have a man play a woman. 1.00

00:37:13.000 I don't know that that's happened anytime since, like, Shakespeare's day, basically.

00:37:16.000 But, it's... Yeah, I think there's a case to be made that biological likes should play biological likes, but trans men are biological women. 0.56

00:37:24.000 In any case, here's what Greenbaum... Greenbaum's not even as radical as I am.

00:37:27.000 Okay, so here's what she says.

00:37:28.000 She says, Apparently, that radical view, that actors should be free to act, is beyond the pale of acceptable opinion, as just a few hours after it went up, the piece was erased from the site following a campaign against me.

00:37:37.000 I have other views some might consider controversial.

00:37:39.000 I believe, for example, safe spaces are an inane concept that belong nowhere near our institutions of higher learning.

00:37:45.000 I believe that people should be admitted to universities on the basis of merit, not depending on the color of their skin.

00:37:49.000 I believe that Hamas, not Israel, is the worst enemy the Palestinian people have. 0.94

00:37:53.000 I believe that members of the gang MS-13 are animals, and there's nothing wrong with saying so. 0.68

00:37:56.000 I believe that accusations of cultural appropriation encourage divisions instead of bridging them.

00:38:00.000 I had hoped to be able to write about these and other issues as a columnist here, and for a while I did.

00:38:05.000 I have enjoyed the past few months.

00:38:06.000 I have worked here.

00:38:07.000 I am really disheartened about what has transpired in the past few days.

00:38:09.000 I wish I could say I am surprised." 0.97

00:38:11.000 And she says that she is now resigning from her position as a columnist.

00:38:15.000 The level of insanity that has now taken over our editorial pages is obviously beyond the pale.

00:38:22.000 Good for her for standing up to it.

00:38:23.000 But it's just indicative of the level of intolerance to which the left will stoop based on really non-offensive stuff.

00:38:29.000 Really, really non-offensive stuff.

00:38:31.000 But I'll tell you what they are offended by.

00:38:32.000 So what the left are offended by, they are deeply offended, obviously, by Donald Trump.

00:38:36.000 So much so that George Lopez decided it was worthwhile to go over to Trump's Hollywood star and then fake pee on the Hollywood star.

00:38:44.000 Here is what it sounded like.

00:38:50.000 So this guy, who's been irrelevant for a while, right?

00:38:52.000 He's pretend peeing on Donald Trump's Hollywood star for TMZ.

00:38:58.000 With, like, a water bottle.

00:39:00.000 And everybody cheering, uh, what bravery, uh, good news!

00:39:04.000 But guys, Trump isn't president anymore, because George Lopez peed on his Hollywood star.

00:39:07.000 Now, Trump's Hollywood star has already been vandalized.

00:39:11.000 Remember that there was somebody who came with a hammer and started chiseling out the Hollywood star because they hate Donald Trump that much.

00:39:18.000 Yeah, that sort of insanity, if you really think that is going to drive anybody to vote for Democrats in the upcoming elections, you gotta be crazy to actually believe that.

00:39:27.000 It's pretty astonishing that Hollywood continues to act as though they have any sort of moral credibility on political issues, and they think that's going to win them elections.

00:39:36.000 Hillary Clinton tried this. 1.00

00:39:37.000 The entire election cycle, she tried this. 0.53

00:39:38.000 She trotted out Lena Dunham, who's an awful human being, and she trotted out a bunch of other celebrities, and she had them all perform at the DNC, and it was a giant fail.

00:39:48.000 But Hollywood is not going to stop this, because in the end, for Hollywood, it really is not

00:39:53.000 In any way about winning the political battle, it's about virtue signaling to all their friends and showing what wonderful people they are because they hate Trump so much that they're going to pretend pee by pouring a water bottle on Trump's Hollywood star or some such.

00:40:04.000 Okay, speaking of overwrought nonsense, the continued attempt to get Jim Jordan, the representative from Ohio,

00:40:11.000 Seems to me wildly misplaced.

00:40:12.000 So I spoke about this a couple of days ago, and I'm still waiting for additional evidence to come out that Jim Jordan was specifically informed that the team doctor at Ohio State University, when he was a young wrestling coach there, was actually molesting the players and that he refused to do anything about it.

00:40:26.000 I've seen none of that evidence.

00:40:27.000 So far, all I've heard is a bunch of testimony from people saying, well, Jim had to have known.

00:40:31.000 Had to have known and did know and was informed and was warned and then obstructed.

00:40:35.000 Those are not the same thing at all.

00:40:37.000 They're not the same thing at all.

00:40:38.000 In fact, it could create legal liability in any company.

00:40:42.000 If there are just rumors floating about that one of the people in the company was, say, sexually harassing somebody else at the company.

00:40:47.000 It was just rumors at the company.

00:40:48.000 It wasn't an actual complaint.

00:40:50.000 If you go to that person and you start talking about the rumors, that person could theoretically sue you.

00:40:55.000 It actually creates legal liability if you start believing rumors and you go around talking to people or you fire the guy based on that.

00:41:00.000 Let's say you take it to the extreme and you fire the guy.

00:41:02.000 The guy could sue you for wrongful termination if you fire him based on just rumors floating around that the guy's a sexual harasser or abuser.

00:41:09.000 You would actually have to see an actual complaint. 0.98

00:41:13.000 And while I think the same thing applies to Jim Jordan, from what I understand, because I've talked to some people who are on the Ohio State wrestling team at the time, from what I understand, everybody knew the doctor was a creep, but none of them were actually filing complaints, because they're all strapping 20-year-old men, and they figure if the guy goes too far, I'll just sock him in the head.

00:41:27.000 Which seems not completely wild to me, just as a theory of how this thing is working.

00:41:33.000 Nonetheless, people continue to go after Jim Jordan.

00:41:35.000 Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House, came out and defended Jim Jordan.

00:41:38.000 He said that he believes Jim Jordan's side of the story.

00:41:40.000 So do I, until I see some other evidence, guys.

00:41:43.000 Jim Jordan is a friend of mine.

00:41:45.000 We haven't always agreed with each other over the years, but I've always known Jim Jordan to be a man of honesty and a man of integrity.

00:41:53.000 Okay, the fact that Paul Ryan is willing to stake himself on that demonstrates how weak this case is.

00:41:57.000 Because in Washington, D.C., the easiest thing to do is just to keep silent about it.

00:42:01.000 Or to say, I'm waiting until all the evidence comes in.

00:42:03.000 But to actually have Ryan out there defending Jim Jordan shows that this is a gotcha operation.

00:42:07.000 And the more we see these gotcha operations, the more we see these, we're gonna go back 30 years and try and drum up support for the idea that you covered up sex abuse when you didn't, against Jim Jordan. 0.96

00:42:16.000 Or the more we see Stormy Daniels as a hero of the resistance, until she starts slapping cops with her breasts. 0.99

00:42:23.000 Or the more that we see all of this talk about Brett Kavanaugh's credit card receipts and how this means he can no longer sit on the court, the more we realize that our politics is basically just a slap fight.

00:42:35.000 It's just a Stormy Daniels-style booby slap fight.

00:42:37.000 That's all it is.

00:42:38.000 And it's not accomplishing anything.

00:42:40.000 It's not bringing America forward in any real way.

00:42:43.000 It's just become this partisan bickering over essentially nothing from people on the left.

00:42:47.000 Because if you want to argue over Trump's policy, go for it.

00:42:49.000 But if you want to argue about Jim Jordan in 1987 based on no evidence, or you want to argue about Brett Kavanaugh buying Nationals tickets,

00:42:57.000 You're going to have to do better than that if you want to be part of an actual political conversation.

00:43:00.000 I don't think the left does.

00:43:01.000 I think they're much more interested right now in signaling that they are very, very, very angry.

00:43:05.000 And the more very, very, very angry they can act, the more they hope they're going to win votes, which is, of course, why they like people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, because she acts very, very angry.

00:43:13.000 The angrier you are, the more we're supposed to respect you.

00:43:15.000 Well, you're not earning my respect with your anger. 1.00

00:43:17.000 In fact, you're just showing how dumb you are very frequently. 0.99

00:43:19.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate. 0.98

00:43:21.000 So, things I like.

00:43:23.000 So, I mentioned the movie Lincoln yesterday.

00:43:25.000 So, the great song of the Civil War was, of course, the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

00:43:31.000 It's really a terrific piece of music.

00:43:33.000 And this is what men marched into war singing.

00:43:36.000 It's a magnificent piece.

00:43:38.000 Here is a little bit of the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

00:43:49.000 We're good to go.

00:44:17.000 Okay, it's great.

00:44:19.000 When people say that religion doesn't have a part in American life, you can't listen to that song and not hear the religion that's written all over it.

00:44:24.000 It was religion that drove the Civil War. 0.91

00:44:26.000 It really was.

00:44:27.000 The attempt to abolish slavery was driven in large measure by a Puritan ethos that said that slavery was wrong and that people needed to march into battle to stop it.

00:44:38.000 The attempt to separate religion out from the Civil War, and particularly the Union's cause, is really absurd.

00:44:44.000 The other things that I like, so this is pretty great.

00:44:46.000 There's a new study out, and what it shows is that universal IQ screening boosts the number of poor and minority students in gifted education.

00:44:53.000 So, there's been a lot of talk from folks on the left for years.

00:44:56.000 We're good to go.

00:45:15.000 First of all, that seems a little bit racist to me.

00:45:17.000 Isn't that an acknowledgement of the idea that certain races are inferior to others intellectually?

00:45:22.000 I thought that was the entire argument here.

00:45:24.000 The entire argument on the part of the left is that there is no such thing as group differences in IQ, or that if there are group differences in IQ, that those are only manifest because of social differentiation, not because of actual IQ.

00:45:36.000 But what the study shows is the opposite.

00:45:38.000 What it's showing is that if you actually want to get students in poor minority neighborhoods into gifted programs, what you really should do is not use affirmative action, which is subjective.

00:45:46.000 You should actually use IQ tests.

00:45:47.000 Here's what the study says.

00:45:51.000 The screening program led to large increases in the fractions of economically disadvantaged and minority students placed in gifted programs.

00:45:58.000 Comparisons of the newly gifted students with those who would have been placed in the absence of screening show that blacks and Hispanics, free reduced-price lunch participants, English language learners, and girls were all systematically under-referred in the traditional parent-teacher referral system.

00:46:12.000 In other words, objective tests are not showing that these group differentiations in IQ are reflected in only white students or only Jewish students or only Asian students in gifted programs.

00:46:24.000 Instead, it turns out that when you actually apply an equal standard to everybody, that there are a lot of blacks and a lot more Hispanics who are getting in than when it was just this kind of biased referral system.

00:46:34.000 That's good.

00:46:34.000 That's not bad.

00:46:35.000 And yet it'll be the left that tries to argue against these IQ tests. 0.63

00:46:38.000 Now, one of the reasons that I think it's foolish for the left to argue in favor of affirmative action and against objective standards, objective metrics, is because then what you're doing is you're putting a stigma on everybody who gets into the gifted program who's black.

00:46:50.000 So let's say that you have a gifted program that is barred IQ tests, specifically because you have said you don't think enough black students are going to get in.

00:46:56.000 Well, then the assumption of a lot of people when they see a black student in the gifted program is that the student wasn't normally gifted enough to get into the gifted program, but now through affirmative action is.

00:47:04.000 It creates this massive stigma for black students who are in gifted programs. 1.00

00:47:08.000 But that's stupid. 1.00

00:47:09.000 According to the study, there will be more black kids who get in if you use these tests. 1.00

00:47:14.000 So that's pretty, it's pretty great.

00:47:15.000 This is an actual statistic from the Atlantic.

00:47:20.000 And the statistic shows that there was a massive increase, a massive decrease in the number of whites in the program post-universal screening.

00:47:27.000 So 60, I guess there were 61 white students in this one school.

00:47:31.000 61 white students who got into the gifted program before the universal screening.

00:47:35.000 That was reduced to 43.

00:47:37.000 And what you saw among black students was an increase of five.

00:47:39.000 Among Hispanic students, an increase of 11.

00:47:41.000 Asian students, there were eight in both.

00:47:46.000 Objective metrics are helpful.

00:47:48.000 Non-objective metrics are counterproductive.

00:47:50.000 And we ought to be pursuing objective metrics as much as we can, so at least we have the data.

00:47:54.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.

00:48:00.000 Okay, Cory Booker is the worst. 0.92

00:48:02.000 Okay, the senator from New Jersey, you know, good friend to his imaginary gangster T-Bone.

00:48:07.000 Cory Booker, he says that it's time to stop the BS partisanship.

00:48:11.000 This from the guy who has claimed that every religious judge in the country ought to basically be disbarred.

00:48:18.000 This from the guy who suggested that Christian Nielsen was the great monster in American history.

00:48:24.000 This from a guy who has suggested that Kavanaugh is being placed on the bench specifically because he's gonna let Trump off the hook in an impeachment trial.

00:48:32.000 And here's Cory Booker saying, you know, bipartisanship needs to start.

00:48:35.000 We need to stop with the partisanship, guys.

00:48:37.000 We really do.

00:48:38.000 We need to stop the partisanship in this country.

00:48:42.000 We really do.

00:48:45.000 We have more common ground.

00:48:47.000 We have more common ground than we care to admit.

00:48:51.000 And we're letting political opportunists on both sides of the aisle try to undermine the truth of this nation, that the ties that bind us are so much stronger than the lines that divide us.

00:49:01.000 Okay, except for how he spends every day in Congress trying to run as far as he can to the left so he can win a primary.

00:49:06.000 That's right.

00:49:07.000 When Booker was in New Jersey, when he was mayor of Newark, he was known as the guy who crossed the aisle, right?

00:49:10.000 He was known as the guy who was trying to build consensus, at least publicly.

00:49:14.000 But now that he's a senator, he's much more interested in running for president.

00:49:17.000 That means being as partisan as humanly possible while still proclaiming that he is trying to bring the country together while wearing his Mr. Potato Head angry eyes.

00:49:24.000 So that is Cory Booker's spiel right now.

00:49:27.000 Okay, other things that I hate.

00:49:28.000 So, this is actually something I like.

00:49:30.000 I think it's actually kind of funny.

00:49:31.000 So, apparently,

00:49:33.000 Who thought that that was a great idea?

00:49:35.000 That someone would want to buy a bottle of wine that said on it, Of Glenn.

00:49:38.000 Of Fred.

00:49:57.000 Who was, like, into that?

00:49:59.000 It just shows how crazy people are that they think, oh, I guess people are such big fans of the Handmaid's Tale, they want to buy branded Handmaid's Tale wine.

00:50:06.000 Yeah, it's great.

00:50:07.000 By the way, Michael Avenatti, this is also hilarious, he's now accusing Ohio law enforcement of foul play after Stormy Daniels was arrested.

00:50:14.000 MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle spoke to Avenatti about his view that the arrest was a politically motivated setup against his client.

00:50:20.000 Daniels was charged with three misdemeanor sex offenses for touching undercover police officers during her routine.

00:50:24.000 Her attorney had some interesting insight into their investigation of his client.

00:50:27.000 He says she was there for her performance and unbeknownst to her, the police set up a sting operation within the strip club with multiple officers.

00:50:33.000 During her performance, they asked if they could place their face in between her breasts while she was performing on stage. 1.00

00:50:38.000 Avenatti continued to call the incident ridiculous and an absurd use of law enforcement resources.

00:50:43.000 He said if Daniels is briefly postponing her national tour and will plead not guilty to the charges, he says it seems absurd to me.

00:50:48.000 This is something that would require this amount of resources and would result in the arrest of my client.

00:50:52.000 I've been in touch with prosecutors this morning.

00:50:54.000 We've been up all night dealing with the situation.

00:50:55.000 I think they're going to be reasonable about this.

00:50:57.000 I think they're going to be diligent and appear to be incredibly professional and we thank them for that.

00:51:01.000 I like that Avenatti really is upset with law enforcement resources being expended on his client slapping people with her breasts and shoving their face into her cleavage, but he is not concerned with the millions and millions and millions of dollars that are being spent in resources all across the country to deal with the fact that one time his client had sex with a married man.

00:51:21.000 Which is the extent of Stormy Daniels' story.

00:51:23.000 That is literally her entire story.

00:51:25.000 Okay, so, there we are. 1.00

00:51:27.000 Everything's stupid. 1.00

00:51:27.000 We'll be back here tomorrow with more stupidity. 1.00

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The Ben Shapiro Show - July 12, 2018

It’s A Trumpnato! | Ep. 579

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