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00:02:33.000He was close to the Republican National Committee.
00:02:35.000He was very close to a lot of people in Republican halls of power.
00:02:38.000I know because I had heard of him sort of in those circles.
00:02:42.000But Manafort had also been widely known since really 2012 to sort of be a dirty character who was in with the Ukrainian government, who's basically doing lobbying work allegedly on behalf of the Ukrainian government, which is a Russian front puppet state basically run by a guy named Viktor Yanukovych.
00:02:58.000So the allegations in the indictment, the left was hoping that the indictment would say Paul Manafort traded money, the Russians paid him in order so that he would
00:03:08.000set up collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
00:03:10.000This is what the Democrats and the media wanted.
00:03:12.000They wanted Paul Manafort to be the go-between for the supposed Russian collusion that would show that Hillary Clinton actually won the election except for those scheming evil Russians.
00:03:21.000Okay, that's not what the indictment says.
00:03:22.000So the indictment is 12 counts and basically the entire thing is about how Paul Manafort is a corrupt creep who was taking money from this Ukrainian party that was basically a front group for Russia and then laundering it.
00:04:29.000And that sort of chaos inside the Trump administration also, in my opinion, could easily explain the George Papadopoulos
00:04:36.000Routine that we're going to talk about in just a little while.
00:04:38.000So to finish up with Manafort, basically the indictment alleges that Manafort and Richard Gates III, his right hand, worked as quote unregistered agents of the government of Ukraine, generated tens of millions of dollars in income as a result of the Ukraine work.
00:04:51.000They then laundered the money through scores of US and foreign corporations, partnerships, and bank accounts.
00:04:56.000Manafort and Gates allegedly did not register as foreign agents, which they apparently were, and then Manafort used his hidden overseas wealth to enjoy a lavish lifestyle in the United States without paying taxes on income.
00:05:06.000So basically they're getting him for all the financial impropriety.
00:05:09.000Between in or around 2008 and 2017, both dates being approximate and inclusive according to the indictment,
00:05:15.000Manafort and Gates devised and intended to devise and executed and attempted to execute a scheme and artifice to defraud to obtain money and property by means of false and fraudulent pretenses, representations and promises from the United States Bank and other financial institutions.
00:05:28.000Allegedly Manafort wired millions through other companies for purposes of laundering.
00:05:32.000So if you saw Ozark, basically he was Jason Bateman in Ozark, right?
00:05:35.000I mean, essentially he was just cleaning money, except he was cleaning it for himself.
00:05:39.000Apparently he cleaned about 18 million dollars and 75 million bucks passed through his bank accounts.
00:05:44.000Now, a lot of the press is focused on this charge of conspiracy against the United States, right, and the indictment.
00:05:50.000Conspiracy against the United States is not what it sounds like.
00:05:54.000It's not that he was treasonably committing offenses against the United States to bring down the government or to skew the election or anything like that.
00:06:00.000All conspiracy against the United States means is there was a conspiracy to break the laws of the United States.
00:06:05.000It's a financial charge based on defrauding the U.S.
00:06:08.000and covering it up through alleged obstruction of justice.
00:06:11.000So, the Manafort thing is a big nothing as far as Trump is concerned.
00:06:15.000Unless, of course, the idea here is to flip Manafort against Trump, right?
00:06:35.000It just shows you that Trump would be better off being quiet and just letting this stuff play out, because if he's really innocent, then that will be revealed in time.
00:06:42.000And in fact, it is largely being revealed that nothing much is happening here.
00:06:46.000We'll get to, as I say, this other plea deal in just a second.
00:06:49.000But Trump decides that it was absolutely necessary to go on Twitter.
00:06:52.000And so he tweets out, never seen such Republican anger and unity as I have concerning the lack of investigation on Clinton-made fake dossier.
00:07:14.000The Dems are using this terrible and bad-for-our-country witch hunt for evil politics, but the Rs, meaning Republicans, are now fighting back like never before.
00:07:23.000There is so much guilt by Democrats-Clinton, and now the facts are pouring out.
00:07:41.000I'm not sure what exactly DO SOMETHING is supposed to mean or why Trump is saying it.
00:07:47.000He's the President of the United States.
00:07:48.000If he wants to tell his DOJ to set up an investigation into Hillary Clinton and her supposed collusion with the Russians, he can full well do it.
00:07:58.000And obviously, the DOJ works hand-in-glove with Obama, so that would not be outside his purview.
00:08:02.000Trump isn't doing that, and so this sort of, like, broad stroke, do something, I just don't know what that means, do something, in all capital letters, not useful, and makes Trump look more panicked than he ought to be, given the fact that there really is no evidence of collusion, at least from the Manafort indictment.
00:08:17.000Susan Collins, who's no ally to Trump, right, Republican from Maine, she says she's seen no evidence of collusion.
00:08:22.000I have not yet seen any definitive evidence of collusion.
00:08:27.000I've seen lots of evidence that the Russians were very active in trying to influence the election.
00:08:34.000Okay, so again, this is not really, you know, the idea that Trump should be panicked at this point seems to me a little bit ridiculous.
00:08:41.000Okay, so that was the piece of news number one.
00:08:43.000Piece of news number two is this guy that I have been referring to.
00:08:47.000His name, of course, is George Papadopoulos.
00:09:10.000So this one is a little more troubling for President Trump.
00:09:13.000The reason that it is more troubling for President Trump is not because it proves collusion between Trump and Russia, but because it tends toward the idea that Trump and Team Trump were willing to collude with Russia in order to do something.
00:09:24.000Donald Trump Jr., months ago now, released emails showing that he was warm toward the idea of receiving information about Hillary Clinton from the Russian government as, quote, part of their effort to aid Trump in the election.
00:09:35.000Right, so this is nothing new, but the media are going to run with it anyway.
00:09:38.000The media are over-reading the Papadopoulos plea agreement.
00:09:41.000Now, number one, it's important to note, this is a plea agreement with the FBI.
00:09:45.000The reason that the plea agreement with the FBI matters is presumably this guy is ready to testify and maybe he's going to flip on other members of the campaign.
00:09:52.000So this one should be more troubling to Trump because it's more likely to bleed over into actual elements of the campaign.
00:09:57.000So I want to go through this entire statement of offense, what they call statement of the offense, which is basically what Papadopoulos is admitting to in order to avoid going to jail for a long period of time.
00:10:09.000So here is what is alleged in this statement of the offense.
00:10:15.000Okay, so the defendant, George Papadopoulos, who served as a foreign policy advisor for the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump, made material false statements and material omissions during an interview with the FBI that took place on January 27, 2017.
00:10:27.000At the time of the interview, the FBI had an open investigation into the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
00:10:37.000of making material false statements and material omissions to the FBI.
00:10:40.000Basically, what they accuse is that, so here's what it says.
00:10:43.000It says, Defendant Papadopoulos claimed that his interactions with an overseas professor, who Defendant Papadopoulos understood to have substantial connections to Russian government officials, occurred before Defendant Papadopoulos became a foreign policy advisor to campaign.
00:10:56.000He acknowledged that the professor had told him about the Russians possessing dirt on then-candidate Hillary Clinton in the form of thousands of emails, but said many times he learned the information prior to joining the campaign.
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00:12:53.000Okay, so, let's go through the timeline of Papadopoulos.
00:12:56.000And the reason we're going to go through this timeline is what we're going to show here is that something we already knew.
00:13:00.000Basically, we knew that there was willingness from Team Trump to reach out to Russia for dirt on Hillary Clinton.
00:13:06.000Now, on the other side, which we'll get to in a second, Hillary Clinton's team, apparently, the people who are working with Fusion GPS, were perfectly fine getting information from the Russians about Trump.
00:13:14.000So, there's a bit of a mirror image going on here.
00:13:18.000So, Papadopoulos learns in early March 2016, when it's becoming clear that Trump is probably going to win the nomination, that he would be a foreign policy advisor for the campaign.
00:13:42.000Professor Moriarty seemed uninterested in the defendant, Papadopoulos, until he found out that Papadopoulos worked for the campaign, at which point suddenly he was very interested in Papadopoulos, and Papadopoulos was interested in the professor because the professor claimed to have substantial connections with Russian government officials, and Papadopoulos thought that this could increase his importance as a policy advisor to the campaign.
00:14:03.000So, here is one of the defenses that Trump can use on the Papadopoulos stuff from the very beginning.
00:14:08.000It's pretty clear that a lot of people in the Trump campaign knew that Trump wanted to be warm toward the Russians.
00:14:13.000To be fair, Trump was very clear about this.
00:14:15.000Trump went on the campaign trail and talked about how he liked Vladimir Putin, and Putin was a good guy, and we've killed people too, and we should have a better relationship with the Russians, would that be the end of the world?
00:14:24.000It wasn't like Trump was hiding the ball here.
00:14:26.000He was saying all this stuff publicly.
00:14:27.000And so just as when President Obama said, wouldn't it be great if someone cracked down on these conservative 501c3s, and then his IRS went and cracked down on the conservative 501c3s, it is quite possible to believe that Trump was going out there saying, we should have a warm relationship with the Russians, and also Hillary Clinton is the devil, and a bunch of his lower-down people thought, hey, we can kill two birds with one stone.
00:14:46.000If we work with the Russian government, maybe they'll provide us information on Hillary, and we'll be close with the Russians.
00:14:53.000But it's quite possible that Trump never instructed anybody to do any of this, so even if
00:14:57.000It turns out that low-level members of the Trump campaign or high-level members of the Trump campaign were trying to collude.
00:15:03.000It's possible that doesn't go all the way to the top.
00:15:05.000In fact, as I've been now claiming for a year and a half, I think that's very unlikely that Trump knew about any sort of collusion, especially because if you were going to collude with Russia in an illegal fashion, would you tell the man with the biggest mouth on planet Earth?
00:15:21.000Around March 21st, the campaign told the Washington Post that Papadopoulos was one of five named foreign policy advisors for the campaign.
00:15:28.000He then met with the professor in London.
00:15:30.000The professor brought with him a female Russian national.
00:15:33.000The female Russian national, as she is known in this document, introduced defendant Papadopoulos as a relative of Vladimir Putin with connections to senior Russian government officials.
00:15:41.000So, ooh-hoo-hoo, they're meeting with the Russians.
00:16:06.000This is why Papadopoulos is important, because after he flips, it's quite possible we're going to find out who campaign supervisor is, right?
00:16:12.000Who was supervising him at the campaign, and that may take us further up the Trump chain.
00:16:16.000And several members of the campaign's foreign policy team had said he'd met with his good friend, the professor, who had introduced him to the female Russian national, who is described as Putin's niece by Papadopoulos.
00:16:27.000As well as the Russian ambassador in London.
00:16:28.000Papadopoulos said the topic of their discussion was to arrange a meeting between us and the Russian leadership to discuss U.S.-Russia ties under President Trump.
00:16:35.000So again, this is not necessarily illegal.
00:16:38.000As everyone has acknowledged, campaigns meet with foreign policy advisors from other regimes all the time.
00:16:44.000Because you do want to start figuring out what the relationship's going to be like if, in fact, your person is elected.
00:16:51.000Later, apparently, Papadopoulos learned the female Russian national was not a relative of President Putin, and he never actually met the Russian ambassador in London.
00:16:59.000He attended a national security meeting in Washington, D.C.
00:17:02.000with Trump and other foreign policy advisors for the campaign.
00:17:05.000When he introduced himself to the group, he said that he had connections that he could help arrange a meeting between Trump and Putin.
00:17:13.000After that trip, Papadopoulos worked with the professor and female Russian national to arrange a meeting between the campaign and the Russian government.
00:17:20.000I keep saying that because people are trying to suggest that every meeting attempted to be brokered between Trump and the Russian government must have been about Hillary Clinton.
00:17:31.000Even if Papadopoulos was told by the Russians that they wanted to funnel information to the campaign, it is not clear from this document that the Trump campaign took him up on that or even really suggested a desire to take him up on that.
00:17:43.000In April 2016, Papadopoulos sent multiple emails to other members of the campaign's foreign policy team regarding his contacts with the Russians and his outreach to Russia, so we'll find out who those people are, I am sure.
00:17:53.000And then, the key provision here happens on April 24th.
00:18:02.000On or about April 26th, Papadopoulos met the professor for breakfast at a London hotel.
00:18:08.000Up till now, they'd only been talking about Trump meeting with the Russians or Trump people meeting with the Russians, but nothing about actually passing dirt on Hillary Clinton.
00:18:16.000On or about April 26th, 2016, defendant Papadopoulos met the professor for breakfast at a London hotel.
00:18:22.000During this meeting, the professor told defendant Papadopoulos he had just returned from a trip to Moscow.
00:18:26.000So, it is unclear, number one, so people are saying, well this happened in late April, March is when WikiLeaks or whomever
00:18:51.000Attacked the DNC and got all the emails out of the DNC.
00:18:55.000It is not clear that the emails they were describing here are those emails.
00:18:58.000It's quite possible they're talking about the 33,000 emails that Hillary had deleted and maybe the Russian government had hacked into her server when she had a private server in her bathroom.
00:19:07.000All of that being the case, now we know the Russian government is trying to funnel information to the Trump campaign.
00:19:14.000Following the conversation, Papadopoulos continued to correspond with campaign officials, continued to communicate with the professor and the Russian MFA connection in an effort to arrange a meeting between the campaign and the Russian government.
00:19:25.000Again, it is not clear, it is not clear that these meetings necessarily had to do with passing Hillary information.
00:20:11.000Okay, so there's two ways to read that.
00:20:16.000One is Trump wants to coordinate with the Russians and he wants to send someone low-level to do it so it doesn't reach Trump.
00:20:21.000The other way to read that is that they're just trying to brush Papadopoulos off, right?
00:20:25.000They're saying to Papadopoulos, you have no power, get out of here, we don't care about you.
00:20:28.000And someone low-level in the campaign should tell him that Trump is not doing these trips so as not to send any signal that Trump himself doesn't want to do the trips to the Russians, but just, you know, basically brush Papadopoulos off.
00:20:41.000In any case, what comes out from all of this?
00:20:44.000The final point from all of the Papadopoulos stuff is that basically the situation shows that the Trump campaign, as we already knew, was willing to work with the Russians, or at least members of the Trump campaign were willing to work with the Russians to take down Hillary Clinton.
00:21:07.000The media are blowing this out of proportion.
00:21:09.000We're gonna have to wait to see where this goes from here.
00:21:12.000But there's no question that the Papadopoulos stuff is much more damaging to the Trump campaign than it is to the, than is the Manafort stuff.
00:21:37.000But I'm going to explain all that in just a second.
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00:22:50.000The Clinton dossier stuff continues to blow up.
00:22:52.000So, one of the sort of accusations here is that if things get too bad for Trump on the Trump-Russia stuff, that eventually he's just gonna order his DOJ to look into, investigate Hillary Clinton and the Trump-Oppo research project.
00:23:05.000So here's what we know, again, about, to recap, about the Trump-Oppo research project from the Clinton...
00:23:53.000He goes over to Russia, he talks to a bunch of Russian officials, and he comes back with a dossier.
00:23:57.000Some of the things in the dossier have been debunked, some of the things in the dossier have not been debunked.
00:24:01.000For people who say that it's been debunked, that is not true.
00:24:03.000Some things have been debunked, some things have not been debunked.
00:24:06.000The big question here is, did Hillary Clinton and her team know that the Steele dossier was filled with Russian intel?
00:24:12.000Did they know that the Steele dossier was filled with references to direct government officials in Russia?
00:24:19.000Now, there are people on the left who say, well, there's a difference between Hillary digging up dirt on Trump's dealings with Russia and Trump digging up dirt from Russia about Hillary's dealings not with Russia.
00:24:29.000I think there may be something to that, but I don't think that it fixes the generalized problem, which is if Hillary Clinton is complaining about Russian interference in the election and about Trump coordination with the Russians,
00:24:39.000Then, going to the Russians for help against Trump both undercuts that narrative and demonstrates that your own team was willing to work with the Russian government if they could dig something up about then-candidate Trump.
00:24:49.000So, Jeanine Pirro is leading the charge.
00:24:51.000A lot of Republicans are already in sort of defensive mode, despite the fact that the Mueller investigation hasn't come up with anything really serious yet.
00:24:58.000They're already in defensive mode and they're suggesting that Trump go on offense against Hillary Clinton.
00:25:03.000I think Hillary Clinton should be fully investigated.
00:25:04.000I think all of this should have a full investigation.
00:25:07.000But to suggest that, you know, the main line of attack right now should be about Hillary Clinton, and when nothing really bad is happening from the Mueller investigation, seems to me like revving up the engine while you're still in neutral.
00:25:18.000So here's Jeanine Pirro saying it's time to lock Hillary up.
00:25:21.000It's time to shut it down, turn the tables, and lock her up.
00:26:00.000Both of them seem to have been willing to engage in something, right?
00:26:05.000It looks like the Clinton campaign actually engaged in something, right?
00:26:08.000The idea that the Clinton team didn't know the millions of dollars were being funneled for a dossier, and what the dossier included, I find highly suspicious.
00:26:15.000So what we have here, I said this online and people on the right went nuts.
00:26:18.000Okay, what I said was, basically, what we have in the last election cycle were two teams of people who were willing to collude with the other side, meaning Russia, in order to get their opponent.
00:26:36.000But just because both sides were willing to conclude and only one side was capable of finishing the collusion, that does not actually mean that both sides are good or that one side is good.
00:26:45.000Now, people can say Trump is better than Clinton.
00:26:48.000Maybe, in the same way that I guess attempted murder is better than actual murder if we're talking about crimes here.
00:26:53.000But I still don't think that that really meets the standard of decency.
00:26:57.000This, I guess, goes back to the last election cycle when I said that both candidates can suck.
00:27:02.000But the reality is that what we're seeing from Team Trump, while we don't see criminal activity yet from Team Trump with regard to Russia collusion, the idea that they're willing to collude with Russia has been known since the Donald Trump Jr.
00:27:30.000Well, the Democrats are still trying to focus in on this dossier, too, and trying to say the dossier contains damning material about Trump.
00:27:37.000Adam Schiff, who's this representative Democrat from California, he says that the dossier has still not been debunked, and there's still crazy eyes.
00:27:45.000Adam Schiff says that it's most important is to determine what is true in the dossier.
00:27:50.000I certainly would have liked to know who paid for it earlier, but nonetheless, that's just one factor to be considered.
00:27:57.000It doesn't answer the ultimate question, which is, how much of the work is accurate?
00:28:04.000And my colleagues don't seem particularly interested in that question, but that is really the most important question for the American people, and that is,
00:28:10.000How much of this allegation that Christopher Steele makes and the reports that he hears are true about the Russian government wanting to help the Trump campaign?
00:28:29.000Okay, so I do want to talk about Kevin Spacey at length because this is an amazing story and it demonstrates the full-on politically correct insanity of the left.
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00:29:58.000In any case, okay, let's talk about Kevin Spacey for just a second, because this is an amazing story.
00:30:04.000So over the weekend, these allegations come out from BuzzFeed that an actor named Anthony Rapp, who was on Broadway at the time, was 14 years old.
00:30:52.000But if I did behave then as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior, and I am sorry for the feelings he describes having carried with him all these years.
00:31:02.000This story has encouraged me to address other things about my life.
00:31:05.000I know there are stories out there about me, and that some have been fueled by the fact that I have been so protective of my privacy.
00:31:09.000As those closest to me know, in my life I have had relationships with both men and women.
00:31:13.000I have loved and had romantic encounters with men throughout my life, and I choose now to live as a gay man.
00:31:17.000I want to deal with this honestly and openly, and that starts with examining my own behavior.
00:31:21.000So, this is what we call the Jim McGreevy defense.
00:31:24.000I don't know if you remember all the way back to 2004, for those who are younger in our audience, in 2004 there was a New Jersey governor, his name was Jim McGreevy.
00:31:31.000Jim McGreevy was a Democrat, and his chief of staff, or security chief, accused Jim McGreevy of sexually harassing him.
00:32:03.000In much the same way that the media have totally overlooked the traffic accident that killed somebody that Caitlyn Jenner was involved in, because Caitlyn Jenner is a hero, because Caitlyn Jenner is transgender.
00:32:12.000This is the routine that we do now in America, is that if you are involved in an alleged crime,
00:32:19.000If you come out as gay, or if you show your proper lefty bona fides, then we sort of ignore it.
00:32:24.000The only reason that Harvey—that's why Harvey Weinstein, his initial response to the sexual assault, the rape charges that were being made about him, was, I'm going to target the NRA.
00:32:33.000He was hoping to buy off the left media.
00:32:35.000So the question that I had last night reading this was, was this going to work?
00:32:37.000Because there are a couple problems for Kevin Spacey here.
00:32:40.000One is, everyone's known that he's gay for at least 20 years.
00:32:43.000I mean, I remember growing up, there were open jokes in Hollywood about Kevin Spacey being gay.
00:32:46.000In fact, there were open jokes about Kevin Spacey molesting children.
00:32:49.000A family guy famously made fun of Kevin Spacey like 10 years ago, in a scene in which Stewie, the baby, is running naked through a mall and shouting, I just escaped from Kevin Spacey's basement.
00:33:00.000So these allegations have been made about Kevin Spacey for years and years and years behind closed doors.
00:33:05.000That's problem number one for Kevin Spacey.
00:33:07.000Problem number two is that the gay community has tried very, very hard to separate off the allegations that homosexuality is associated with pedophilia.
00:33:15.000And they spent years trying to say homosexuality is not pedophilia, pedophilia is unacceptable.
00:33:20.000And molestation of children is unacceptable, and trying to suggest that being gay is associated with pedophilia is a form of homophobia, right?
00:33:26.000This is a claim that the left has made for years, and that the LGBT community has made for years.
00:33:31.000This pretty much undermines that case, at least from Spacey's point of view, right?
00:33:36.000Because the shorter defense here is, sure, I may have tried to molest a 14-year-old boy, but I'm gay.
00:33:45.000That is not a good line of defense, either morally or for the gay community, which is attempting to say, it is not appropriate to do this, right?
00:33:50.000The gay community was angry when Milo Yiannopoulos suggested that it was fine that he was molested as a child by a priest.
00:33:56.000And when all of this stuff comes out in the gay community, people tend to say, well, those are isolated incidents.
00:34:03.000Well, this does not help that particular case, right?
00:34:06.000So Kevin Spacey undermining the legitimacy of the homosexual community that is not involved in pedophilia by basically linking what he did to Anthony Rapp with being gay.
00:34:16.000The main part of the Anthony Rapp story that people found disturbing was not the gay stuff.
00:34:20.000It was the fact that Kevin Spacey was attempting to molest a child.
00:34:28.000So, the question is, how do the media respond?
00:34:29.000So I asked this last night, would the media buy into the idea that Kevin Spacey was a hero and let him off easy because he now says he's gay?
00:34:36.000So, this is the intersectional politics of the left.
00:34:38.000If you are gay, or you are black, or you are Hispanic, or you are a woman, if you make the claim that whatever you did wrong is based on your victimization as a member of that community, can you get away with it?
00:34:48.000This is always the intersectional question.
00:34:51.000And so I asked this last night, and a bunch of people on the left said, no, no way he gets away with this.
00:36:14.000And again, this is not good for the LGBT community, for people who are saying, well, you know, we have to be protective of his rights as a gay man.
00:36:20.000No, you have to be protective of the rights of children, and gay people understand this.
00:36:23.000I mean, that's been the response that I've seen from the LGBT folks that I know online.
00:36:27.000Right, the gay people I'm seeing online are saying, this is insane.
00:36:29.000How could Kevin Spacey say such a thing?
00:36:32.000How could Kevin Spacey undercut our entire case like this?
00:36:35.000The media cheering Spacey is just another indicator that the media are really disgusting and their leftism overcomes even their most basic sort of moral stances.
00:36:43.000Okay, time for some things I like and some things I hate.
00:36:45.000And then I've decided to initiate something new on Mondays.
00:36:49.000On Mondays I think that we're going to start going through some founding documents because I think it's important for people to really understand founding philosophy.
00:36:57.000But I think what I want to do is go through one of the Federalist Papers every week.
00:37:00.000So that by the end of a year and a half or two, we will have gone through the entirety of the Federalist Papers, and you will know what exactly our founding fathers had to say about our system of government, which I think is super important.
00:37:10.000So, time for things I like and things I hate.
00:39:51.000No one knows more about life with Down syndrome than I do.
00:40:00.000Whatever you learn today, please remember this.
00:40:08.000I am a man with Down syndrome and my life is worth living.
00:40:20.000Okay, and the left doesn't seem to acknowledge this is why they say things like, well, if you have a Down syndrome baby, wouldn't it be better for the kid not to live?
00:40:26.000No, it would not be better for the kid not to live.
00:40:49.000Kasich wants to run for president again after his dramatic fail of a run in 2016 when he stayed in just long enough to ensure that President Trump would actually become the nominee in the first place.
00:40:59.000Kasich is one of the more insufferable people in the political scene.
00:41:02.000He portrays himself as this high and mighty guy.
00:41:04.000Basically, he just thinks the government should be used for his own personal predilections, which is quite despicable.
00:41:09.000And Kasich running is just another vanity campaign.
00:41:13.000No, I would not vote for John Kasich in a primary.
00:41:26.000Because the DOJ has basically suggested that it is not going to crack down hard on private companies that discriminate against LGBT people or LGBT behavior.
00:41:39.000So she did a dinner at the Human Rights Campaign and she said that Attorney General Sessions stands on the side of discrimination against equality.
00:41:52.000Under attack by a Justice Department that now stands on the side of discrimination instead of equality.
00:42:01.000Under attack by a Senate nominee who thinks homosexuality should be illegal and a judicial nominee who says transgender children are proof of Satan's plan.
00:42:37.000I cut an entire video about it, actually, that you can view over at YouTube, about why the government needs to be involved in preventing private discrimination.
00:42:44.000So should Kamala Harris, because if she wants any Christian to be able to go into any gay bake shop and have them make an anti-gay cake, then she should continue along these lines, because that's exactly where she is going.
00:42:55.000Now, as far as Roy Moore, right, he's the Senate candidate from Alabama, Roy Moore says really nutty things.
00:42:59.000There are some things about Roy Moore that I've liked.
00:43:02.000For example, I actually don't object to Roy Moore bucking against the federal judiciary as the sort of final authority on the Constitution.
00:43:10.000What Roy Moore has said about Muslims not being allowed to serve in Congress is absurd.
00:43:13.000What Roy Moore has said about homosexuality being illegal is absurd.
00:43:28.000When Kamala Harris does this routine, like LGBT people are under assault from the Trump administration, that is just not true.
00:43:34.000And when she says, you know, transgenders serving in the military, you know, there's no case for those people not being able to serve in the military.
00:43:40.000Actually, it's a pretty strong case for people who suffer from severe mental illness not to serve in the military.
00:43:45.000There are lots of people who don't get to serve in the military.
00:43:47.000Serving in the military is not a right.
00:43:48.000Serving in the military is a privilege.
00:43:51.000And the fact that people want to, now that you can volunteer for the military and it's not a draft,
00:43:56.000The fact that, you know, people want to serve but can't is nothing new.
00:43:59.000There are lots of people who want to serve but can't.
00:44:02.000And again, it creates all sorts of issues.
00:44:03.000I've been talking with people in the military who've been telling me about the education that they're being forced to go through with regard to transgender troops.
00:44:10.000It openly says in those transgender training sessions that a man who identifies as a woman should be allowed to shower with the woman in the barracks.
00:44:17.000I mean, this is not good or easy stuff.
00:44:45.000Is it any wonder we got rid of Boehner?
00:44:47.000Is it any wonder that we got Donald Trump?
00:44:49.000That people looked at the establishment and said they are so much more willing to attack people on their own side than they are willing to attack the left?
00:45:30.000And these guys, I used to talk to them all the time.
00:45:32.000And suddenly they're beating the living bleep out of me.
00:45:34.000I wasn't going to be a right-wing idiot.
00:45:36.000Can you imagine why, perhaps, the conservative base might have been unhappy with John Boehner who repeatedly cut deals with President Obama?
00:46:25.000I'm not going to impugn them because that would not help me convince them.
00:46:28.000He says, were there not even these inducements to moderation, nothing could be more ill-judged, nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at times, characterized political parties.
00:46:39.000For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword.
00:46:44.000Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
00:46:47.000There he is making the case for religious toleration and also political toleration.
00:46:51.000Understand that your political opponent may not have bad intent.
00:47:20.000Okay, so you see all these minority children who are running around, and then there's a minority kid who's running from a truck that has a Confederate flag on the back.
00:47:33.000Right, some white guy, some evil white guy, with a Confederate truck on the back, a Confederate flag on the back,
00:47:40.000Okay, it looks like a Hispanic kid, and then there's an Asian kid, and they both start running for their lives.
00:47:47.000And on the back of the truck, it says Gillespie for governor.
00:47:51.000And now there's a Muslim kid, and there's a black kid, and they all start running from this truck.
00:47:55.000Clearly, this truck with the Ed Gillespie sticker and the Confederate flag wants to run them down and murder them because it's a white supremacist with the don't tread on me flag on the front of the car, chasing after them.
00:48:07.000They've all run to the fence, and then the truck is going to crush them.
00:48:10.000And all these kids wake up from the nightmare.
00:48:12.000Is this what Donald Trump and Ed Gillespie mean by the American Dream?
00:48:38.000History will teach us that, he basically says, we should make the case for reasoned government based on what government will work best, rather than shouting about rights of the people, right?
00:48:47.000We have this rights talk that now predominates in American government, where people on the right say, all of our rights are gonna be violated, we're all gonna be murdered.
00:48:53.000And people on the left saying all of your rights are going to be violated, you're going to be starved without big government.
00:48:56.000He says history will teach us that the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction of despotism than the latter, meaning broad appeals to the rights of the people, and that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.
00:49:16.000They begin as demagogues, they end as tyrants.