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00:00:14.000People, I gotta tell you, I wish you could see and hear the pre-show sometimes, because it's just better than the show by an awful lot, and it is a crime against humanity that you'll never see what I just saw, but wow.
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00:04:00.000Miss 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.
00:04:09.000Miss 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.
00:04:18.000It's like it's a mason chain or something.
00:04:19.000So, Detective Rosser was the least lucky officer assigned that evening.
00:04:43.000I'm not sure who the three suspects are.
00:05:02.000I'm not sure who the other people who are arrested are.
00:05:06.000All 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.
00:05:15.000Why would we ever suspect that she might, I don't know, do things for money?
00:05:19.000When she spent her entire career doing things for money.
00:05:22.000Why 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.
00:05:36.000Like, 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.
00:05:44.000And we are supposed to believe that she and her and her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, are going to save America.
00:05:50.000Well, 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.
00:06:06.000And they're not just stupid with regard to Stormy Daniels' latest arrest
00:06:10.000For apparently bringing people face to face with the crevasse.
00:06:14.000Apparently 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.
00:06:22.000And he says that he was not biased against President Trump in any way.
00:06:26.000He 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.
00:06:38.000Both of them married, having an affair with each other, and texting about how Trump was the worst thing in the world.
00:06:43.000Clearly, 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.
00:06:53.000Clearly, Trump is the major problem here.
00:06:55.000Here is what Peter Strzok said in his testimony, quote,
00:07:05.000So 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?
00:07:14.000He says, the fact is, after months of investigations, there is simply no evidence of bias in my professional actions.
00:07:18.000That is not what the Inspector General Michael Horowitz said in his report.
00:07:21.000He said there's actually pretty good evidence of Peter Strzok's bias in his professional actions.
00:07:24.000According to that Investigator General report, if you, the Inspector General report, if you recall,
00:07:30.000He 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.
00:07:41.000Horowitz himself suggested that he could not find that Strzok was free of bias.
00:07:46.000A Thursday's hearing is poised to be one of the most contentious in Congress so far, tied to the Russia investigation, according to CNN.
00:07:52.000Trey Gowdy says the moment special counsel Bob Mueller found out about Peter Strzok's text and emails, he kicked him off the investigation.
00:07:59.000The text and emails may have been discovered in May of 2017, but the bias existed.
00:08:03.000And was manifest a year and a half before that, all the way back to late 2015 and early 2016.
00:08:08.000So it wasn't the discovery of the text that got him fired, it was the bias manifest in those texts.
00:08:12.000Strzok instead said quote, Now as I pointed out,
00:08:29.000I 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?
00:08:37.000But the counter argument, which I think is not uncredible, is that Strzok didn't want to break the law.
00:08:44.000He would have, by leaking, he would have been breaking the law.
00:08:45.000He'd want to put his own career at risk.
00:08:47.000He 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?
00:08:53.000And then Trump will be stopped from being president.
00:08:56.000Trump, of course, has tweeted consistently about Strzok.
00:08:59.000There'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.
00:09:08.000Okay, 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,
00:09:25.000And controversy has broken out over at NATO because the president has been very harsh with our NATO allies.
00:09:29.000So as I discussed yesterday, he made two specific claims, neither of which was completely unfounded.
00:09:34.000Specific 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%.
00:09:43.000And only four countries have done so as of 2017.
00:09:45.000Out of the 26 NATO countries, only four have done so at this juncture.
00:09:49.000Now, many more will do so in the coming years.
00:09:51.000And it's not that we are picking up the bill for them.
00:09:53.000It's not as though we have raised our own defense spending to make up for European lack of defense spending.
00:10:01.000But Trump isn't wrong when he says, you guys made a promise.
00:10:03.000You ought to spend more on your defense.
00:10:05.000And if you're spending nothing on your defense and then you expect us to come to your rescue if you're attacked,
00:10:10.000You know, we are gonna come to your rescue if you're attacked, but you need to raise your defense spending.
00:10:14.000You 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.
00:10:21.000So that I thought was well-founded by President Trump.
00:10:24.000And 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,
00:10:39.000He has now become basically a Russian agent in Europe.
00:10:42.000He's been going around signing pipeline deals on behalf of Russian Gazprom, which is their giant Rosneft, which is their giant Russian oil company.
00:10:53.000And 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.
00:11:06.000He says, listen, you guys are yelling at me about colluding with Russia.
00:11:08.000You'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.
00:11:44.000Officials 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.
00:11:56.000Taking the floor, Trump unleashed what one official called a prolonged rant on spending.
00:12:00.000He warned of grave consequences if allies do not quickly ramp up their spending, sending the gathering into chaos.
00:12:05.000Trump also demanded that allies demonstrate how they would ramp up spending and warned that the U.S.
00:12:09.000could go our own way if they do not meet his demands.
00:12:11.000While some officials, including French President Emmanuel Macron, said Trump never overtly threatened to abandon NATO, others said they interpreted it as a clear threat.
00:12:18.000So 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.
00:12:23.000And 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.
00:12:30.000Because you do want the EU acting as one as a defense unit against Russia.
00:12:35.000One of the great developments has been NATO.
00:12:38.000You do want NATO to continue to be a vital player in world affairs.
00:12:42.000The last thing you want is a return to pre-NATO politics when Germany and France were going to war every 20 years or so.
00:12:51.000Poland, Spain, Czechoslovakia, all these various countries were going to war with one another on a regular basis.
00:12:58.000You would not prefer that to be the case.
00:13:00.000NATO helps prevent all of that because it aims the entire bloc basically against Russia.
00:13:04.000You don't want that to collapse in on itself.
00:13:06.000It'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.
00:13:12.000So I'm going to give you the rest of the story in just a second.
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00:14:31.000So, President Trump also apparently demanded that allies demonstrate how they'd ramp up spending.
00:14:36.000And Macron, Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, he said,
00:14:46.000Now, there was a lot of mixed signals being sent, obviously.
00:14:48.000There 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.
00:14:53.000Trump later sidestepped a question about the threat at a press conference.
00:14:56.000He said he believed he had the authority to withdraw from NATO without congressional approval, which is highly doubtful.
00:15:01.000And 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.
00:15:14.000One NATO official said Trump wants a plan from alliance members by January on how to reach the spending target.
00:15:19.000Another senior NATO official said that Trump specifically demanded written spending plans from roughly 10 allies who have not yet submitted them.
00:15:27.000pulling 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.
00:15:34.000So 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.
00:15:42.000One 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.
00:15:57.000And yet, NATO has basically allowed various countries that are not quite NATO members, but are on the borders of NATO, to be overrun.
00:16:05.000It happened in Georgia when the Russians made a move in Georgia.
00:16:09.000And there's a real question as to whether Vladimir Putin thinks he can push his luck here.
00:16:12.000There are a bunch of NATO countries like Estonia and Latvia and Lithuania that are right on the border of Russia.
00:16:17.000Putin obviously has territorial ambitions in this place.
00:16:21.000If NATO were not to respond to Russian aggression in these places, it'd be a serious problem.
00:16:25.000And 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.
00:19:16.000But do I think that anybody is taking him supremely seriously?
00:19:19.000No, 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?
00:19:27.000It was the Obama administration that allowed Vladimir Putin to run roughshod over Ukraine.
00:19:32.000It was the Obama administration that did like nothing when Putin simply annexed Crimea.
00:19:38.000It was the Obama administration that allowed Syria to become a proxy state for the Russians.
00:19:43.000And now you got members of the Obama administration coming out and ripping Trump over NATO as though Obama was a wonderful NATO ally.
00:19:53.000And so here's John Brennan, former head of the CIA, saying that Trump's remarks on NATO are dangerously naive.
00:19:59.000It 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.
00:20:11.000Says John O'Brien, a guy who worked for Barack Obama, who presided over the collapse of the international order.
00:20:16.000Ben Rhodes, who presided over the Iran deal and lied to the American people about it for years on end.
00:20:21.000He says that this is the biggest danger, that Trump is the biggest danger.
00:20:25.000He's blowing up all the international architecture.
00:20:27.000The 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.
00:20:40.000Okay, and then Ben Rhodes went back to his small apartment and wrote a bunch of short stories no one will ever read.
00:20:44.000Now, Ben Rhodes, when he does this routine where Trump is blowing up the international architecture, the international architecture has not been blown up.
00:20:50.000I actually believe Macron more than I believe a lot of members of the media.
00:20:54.000He understands that when Trump says stuff about NATO, it's not going to come to fruition.
00:20:59.000There's something to say about international architecture.
00:21:01.000There are a lot of people who believe in the sort of facade of international architecture.
00:21:05.000And then there are people who believe that the international architecture actually has to work, that these groups actually have to be worth something.
00:21:11.000So NATO is worth something only if it's capable of acting in the face of threats to NATO.
00:21:17.000NATO is not worth anything if the United States makes all sorts of nice noises about backing NATO and then doesn't do anything.
00:21:23.000I think that if Vladimir Putin had walked into Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, I wonder if the Obama administration actually would have done anything.
00:21:36.000But 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.
00:21:46.000Okay, 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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00:21:59.000So, you're a fan of the Second Amendment, you like the Second Amendment, and if you like the Second Amendment, you should own a gun.
00:22:04.000Because the fact is, you want to protect your family, you're a law-abiding citizen, you want to protect your community, protect your church, protect your country.
00:22:09.000Well, if you're in the market for a new gun,
00:22:11.000You could be one of them, only if you act fast.
00:22:13.000Which gun is at the top of that bucket list?
00:23:27.000And 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.
00:23:37.000That'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.
00:23:49.000Circuit Court of Appeals, who's worked across the aisle on a number of occasions.
00:23:52.000The fact they're going nuts on Kavanaugh shows you how nuts they would have gone on Amy Coney Barrett.
00:23:54.000I mean, I think they would have lit themselves on fire if it had been Amy Coney Barrett.
00:23:58.000They would have gone out there, and they would have legitimately gone full anti-papist.
00:24:01.000They 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.
00:24:50.000So 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.
00:25:18.000This is buried in paragraph 1, 2, 3, 4 of the article.
00:25:22.000The 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.
00:25:32.000So in other words, he doesn't have massive debt.
00:25:45.000Raj 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.
00:25:52.000So why did he rack up all those baseball debts?
00:25:54.000Because he bought season tickets for a bunch of people on his credit card and then they reimbursed him.
00:26:16.000They say, Shaw adds that Kavanaugh has a government retirement account worth nearly half a million dollars that was also not required to be disclosed.
00:26:37.000Ooh, he can't sit on the Supreme Court.
00:26:43.000He cannot sit on the Supreme Court, clearly.
00:26:45.000Okay, that was not the stupidest take of the day.
00:26:47.000Legitimately, the stupidest take of the day, month, year, decade, century, millennia.
00:26:53.000Chris, 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.
00:27:01.000I 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.
00:27:09.000I mean, he just, he just did not implant one, because this is incredible.
00:27:12.000Andrew 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?
00:27:32.000We now need to codify Roe v. Wade, which will actually increase the protections in New York.
00:27:40.000God forbid they do what they intend to do, which is overturn Roe v. Wade.
00:27:44.000I 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.
00:28:38.000So 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.
00:28:55.000Okay, that was the stupidest take of the day.
00:28:57.000Running a very close second was MSNBC's Katie Turrer.
00:29:00.000So 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.
00:29:08.000Like, why don't they just interpret it like poetry?
00:29:10.000Why don't they, like, just read it and see a Maya Angelou poem?
00:29:15.000Like, why can't we just look and see what we want in the law?
00:29:18.000And 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.
00:29:33.000Based 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?
00:29:51.000Okay, there are 83 problems with the thing she just said.
00:29:55.000Number one, 1776 was a solid decade and a half before the Constitution was written.
00:30:01.000So, actually, you wouldn't want to go back to 1776 to interpret the Constitution because it hadn't yet been written.
00:30:07.000In fact, America was not yet, it had not yet defeated Great Britain in its war for independence yet, so there's that.
00:30:13.000And 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?
00:30:21.000The answer to which is, yes, because it was written in 1789.
00:30:24.000This is like saying that you're reading a piece of literature from 1830 and you're applying modern day standards to it.
00:30:32.000So every time it says in a piece of 18th century literature the word gay, right?
00:30:35.000It says that she was a gay young woman, right?
00:30:42.000The word gay in 1830 did not mean homosexual.
00:30:44.000The word gay in 1830 meant lively and happy, right?
00:30:48.000Okay, the case for reinterpreting the Constitution is basically that the words of the Constitution magically change over time because people have changed their views.
00:30:57.000But 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.
00:31:04.000And then finally, there's this idea that, you know, people have changed.
00:31:07.000We live in a much more progressive time, in a progressive country.
00:31:10.000That means we should reinterpret the Constitution to match.
00:31:12.000Well, 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?
00:31:18.000You 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.
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00:33:46.000And everybody got very, very upset, because why should a woman, you know, like a real woman, play a transgender man?
00:33:54.000The answer to which is because all transgender men are biological women.
00:33:58.000But, and also she's an actress, because she acts things like that's what she does for a living.
00:34:04.000And 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.
00:34:10.000However, a transgender man is biologically a woman.
00:34:13.000In fact, if Scarlett Johansson were to come out tomorrow and say, I am a man, according to the left, she's a man now.
00:34:18.000So the only difference between Scarlett Johansson being a transgender man and acting as a transgender man is that we know she's acting.
00:34:35.000She has been cast in a movie in which she will play someone different than herself.
00:34:38.000For 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.
00:34:46.000Stealing narratives, or more charitably, playing parts, is precisely what actors are hired to do.
00:34:51.000But that reality seems to have been forgotten.
00:34:53.000Johansson's identity off the screen is irrelevant to the identity she plays on the screen.
00:35:17.000Well, 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.
00:35:27.000Several Business Insider staff told the Daily Beast that some employees were offended by the column.
00:35:32.000The 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.
00:35:42.000So the new standard over at Business Insider is that if employees were offended by a piece, the piece can't run.
00:35:47.000Which is weird because I edit a website and it's my decision as to what goes up and what comes down.
00:35:51.000And if a piece goes up that I didn't see and I didn't like, I can take it down.
00:35:55.000But I don't take a poll of the newsroom.
00:35:57.000I don't walk around the office going, guys, what do you think?
00:36:00.000And if someone comes to me and says, I found that piece deeply offensive,
00:36:20.000When it comes to Business Insider, but we've become so stupid that the person who screams the loudest immediately gets all of the grease.
00:36:28.000So, Danielle Greenbaum has now resigned from Business Insider, and she wrote this letter, which is exactly right.
00:36:34.000She 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.
00:36:53.000By 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?
00:37:16.000But, 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.
00:37:24.000In any case, here's what Greenbaum... Greenbaum's not even as radical as I am.
00:37:28.000She 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.
00:37:37.000I have other views some might consider controversial.
00:37:39.000I believe, for example, safe spaces are an inane concept that belong nowhere near our institutions of higher learning.
00:37:45.000I believe that people should be admitted to universities on the basis of merit, not depending on the color of their skin.
00:37:49.000I believe that Hamas, not Israel, is the worst enemy the Palestinian people have.
00:37:53.000I believe that members of the gang MS-13 are animals, and there's nothing wrong with saying so.
00:37:56.000I believe that accusations of cultural appropriation encourage divisions instead of bridging them.
00:38:00.000I had hoped to be able to write about these and other issues as a columnist here, and for a while I did.
00:39:00.000And everybody cheering, uh, what bravery, uh, good news!
00:39:04.000But guys, Trump isn't president anymore, because George Lopez peed on his Hollywood star.
00:39:07.000Now, Trump's Hollywood star has already been vandalized.
00:39:11.000Remember that there was somebody who came with a hammer and started chiseling out the Hollywood star because they hate Donald Trump that much.
00:39:18.000Yeah, 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.
00:39:27.000It'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.
00:39:37.000The entire election cycle, she tried this.
00:39:38.000She 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.
00:39:48.000But Hollywood is not going to stop this, because in the end, for Hollywood, it really is not
00:39:53.000In 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.
00:40:04.000Okay, speaking of overwrought nonsense, the continued attempt to get Jim Jordan, the representative from Ohio,
00:40:12.000So 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.
00:40:50.000If you go to that person and you start talking about the rumors, that person could theoretically sue you.
00:40:55.000It actually creates legal liability if you start believing rumors and you go around talking to people or you fire the guy based on that.
00:41:00.000Let's say you take it to the extreme and you fire the guy.
00:41:02.000The 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.
00:41:09.000You would actually have to see an actual complaint.
00:41:13.000And 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.
00:41:27.000Which seems not completely wild to me, just as a theory of how this thing is working.
00:41:33.000Nonetheless, people continue to go after Jim Jordan.
00:41:35.000Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House, came out and defended Jim Jordan.
00:41:38.000He said that he believes Jim Jordan's side of the story.
00:41:40.000So do I, until I see some other evidence, guys.
00:41:45.000We 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.
00:41:53.000Okay, the fact that Paul Ryan is willing to stake himself on that demonstrates how weak this case is.
00:41:57.000Because in Washington, D.C., the easiest thing to do is just to keep silent about it.
00:42:01.000Or to say, I'm waiting until all the evidence comes in.
00:42:03.000But to actually have Ryan out there defending Jim Jordan shows that this is a gotcha operation.
00:42:07.000And 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.
00:42:16.000Or the more we see Stormy Daniels as a hero of the resistance, until she starts slapping cops with her breasts.
00:42:23.000Or 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.
00:42:35.000It's just a Stormy Daniels-style booby slap fight.
00:42:40.000It's not bringing America forward in any real way.
00:42:43.000It's just become this partisan bickering over essentially nothing from people on the left.
00:42:47.000Because if you want to argue over Trump's policy, go for it.
00:42:49.000But 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,
00:42:57.000You're going to have to do better than that if you want to be part of an actual political conversation.
00:43:01.000I think they're much more interested right now in signaling that they are very, very, very angry.
00:43:05.000And 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.
00:43:13.000The angrier you are, the more we're supposed to respect you.
00:43:15.000Well, you're not earning my respect with your anger.
00:43:17.000In fact, you're just showing how dumb you are very frequently.
00:43:19.000Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:44:19.000When 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.
00:44:24.000It was religion that drove the Civil War.
00:44:27.000The 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.
00:44:38.000The attempt to separate religion out from the Civil War, and particularly the Union's cause, is really absurd.
00:44:44.000The other things that I like, so this is pretty great.
00:44:46.000There'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.
00:44:53.000So, there's been a lot of talk from folks on the left for years.
00:45:15.000First of all, that seems a little bit racist to me.
00:45:17.000Isn't that an acknowledgement of the idea that certain races are inferior to others intellectually?
00:45:22.000I thought that was the entire argument here.
00:45:24.000The 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.
00:45:36.000But what the study shows is the opposite.
00:45:38.000What 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.
00:45:51.000The screening program led to large increases in the fractions of economically disadvantaged and minority students placed in gifted programs.
00:45:58.000Comparisons 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.
00:46:12.000In 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.
00:46:24.000Instead, 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.
00:46:35.000And yet it'll be the left that tries to argue against these IQ tests.
00:46:38.000Now, 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.
00:46:50.000So 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.
00:46:56.000Well, 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.
00:47:04.000It creates this massive stigma for black students who are in gifted programs.
00:47:15.000This is an actual statistic from the Atlantic.
00:47:20.000And the statistic shows that there was a massive increase, a massive decrease in the number of whites in the program post-universal screening.
00:47:27.000So 60, I guess there were 61 white students in this one school.
00:47:31.00061 white students who got into the gifted program before the universal screening.
00:48:02.000Okay, the senator from New Jersey, you know, good friend to his imaginary gangster T-Bone.
00:48:07.000Cory Booker, he says that it's time to stop the BS partisanship.
00:48:11.000This from the guy who has claimed that every religious judge in the country ought to basically be disbarred.
00:48:18.000This from the guy who suggested that Christian Nielsen was the great monster in American history.
00:48:24.000This 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.
00:48:32.000And here's Cory Booker saying, you know, bipartisanship needs to start.
00:48:35.000We need to stop with the partisanship, guys.
00:48:47.000We have more common ground than we care to admit.
00:48:51.000And 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.
00:49:01.000Okay, 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.
00:49:07.000When Booker was in New Jersey, when he was mayor of Newark, he was known as the guy who crossed the aisle, right?
00:49:10.000He was known as the guy who was trying to build consensus, at least publicly.
00:49:14.000But now that he's a senator, he's much more interested in running for president.
00:49:17.000That 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.
00:49:24.000So that is Cory Booker's spiel right now.
00:49:59.000It 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.
00:50:07.000By the way, Michael Avenatti, this is also hilarious, he's now accusing Ohio law enforcement of foul play after Stormy Daniels was arrested.
00:50:14.000MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle spoke to Avenatti about his view that the arrest was a politically motivated setup against his client.
00:50:20.000Daniels was charged with three misdemeanor sex offenses for touching undercover police officers during her routine.
00:50:24.000Her attorney had some interesting insight into their investigation of his client.
00:50:27.000He 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.
00:50:33.000During her performance, they asked if they could place their face in between her breasts while she was performing on stage.
00:50:38.000Avenatti continued to call the incident ridiculous and an absurd use of law enforcement resources.
00:50:43.000He said if Daniels is briefly postponing her national tour and will plead not guilty to the charges, he says it seems absurd to me.
00:50:48.000This is something that would require this amount of resources and would result in the arrest of my client.
00:50:52.000I've been in touch with prosecutors this morning.
00:50:54.000We've been up all night dealing with the situation.
00:50:55.000I think they're going to be reasonable about this.
00:50:57.000I think they're going to be diligent and appear to be incredibly professional and we thank them for that.
00:51:01.000I 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.
00:51:21.000Which is the extent of Stormy Daniels' story.