The Ben Shapiro Show - Mr. Trump’s Wild Ride | Ep. 949

00:00:00.000 Trump celebrates his own personal festivus with a ceremonial airing of grievances after his acquittal, Bernie gains momentum as Biden panics, and China shows that communism isn't all that great at problem solving.

00:00:10.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:00:24.000 Alrighty, so yesterday was President Trump's big triumphant moment.

00:00:29.000 As we said earlier this week, he gave the State of the Union address, excellent State of the Union address, theatrics, Brilliantly constructed, well-delivered.

00:00:37.000 And I said at the time, you know, if President Trump were like this all the time, he'd win 55% of the vote.

00:00:41.000 And pretty much everybody said that, right?

00:00:42.000 His advisors were saying that, people around Trump were saying that, people in the media who are longtime allies of President Trump were saying that.

00:00:49.000 They were saying, if you could just be contained, Mr. President, if you could just be the guy who focuses in on what it is the American people care about, Mr. President, then you would be near dominant in elections.

00:00:58.000 It would be almost impossible to stop you in elections.

00:01:01.000 And then yesterday, President Trump was celebrating his acquittal, which happened the day before.

00:01:04.000 And he decided that he was just going to down eight Red Bulls, bust through a wall like the Kool-Aid man and just take a giant dump on the Democrats. 0.86

00:01:13.000 And all the Republicans were cheering.

00:01:17.000 And on the one hand, of course, on the one hand, of course, because come on.

00:01:20.000 I mean, President Trump is President Trump.

00:01:22.000 And this was hilarious.

00:01:24.000 It was entertaining.

00:01:25.000 It was Trump doing peak Trump, right?

00:01:27.000 In one way, the State of the Union was peak Trump because it's the best Trump can be, right?

00:01:30.000 It is the best version of Trump and the best version of the best version of Trump.

00:01:33.000 But this was the best version of sort of normal Trump, which is Trump being Trump riffing, doing comedy.

00:01:39.000 And that has its upsides and it has its downsides.

00:01:42.000 The upside is wildly entertaining.

00:01:44.000 The downside is, well, Is this going to win him any additional votes?

00:01:48.000 The downside is do people feel like he's the adult in the room?

00:01:51.000 See, the beauty after the State of the Union is that Nancy Pelosi looked like a child and Trump looked like an adult.

00:01:55.000 Now everybody just looks like children.

00:01:56.000 It's just that Trump is a much more entertaining child.

00:01:58.000 So in any case, President Trump He gave this big presser yesterday and he went off on his opponents.

00:02:04.000 And again, I understand the emotional drive to do so.

00:02:08.000 I understand it.

00:02:08.000 I understand why he'd be angry at Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi.

00:02:11.000 I understand why he'd want to browbeat them.

00:02:13.000 I'd understand why he'd want to go out there and hold up the newspaper and never stop holding up the newspaper that says Trump acquitted.

00:02:17.000 This is a guy who's been put under the gun by the Mueller investigation in Russia for two years.

00:02:22.000 It turns up nothing.

00:02:23.000 And then immediately he gets hit with this Ukraine stuff and then that is not sufficient to oust him.

00:02:28.000 And so he feels like a survivor and he gets to have himself a little party.

00:02:31.000 So he brings out the pinata and he starts beating it up.

00:02:33.000 So President Trump, yesterday, he comes out swinging.

00:02:37.000 He says, the witch hunt started the day I came down the elevator.

00:02:40.000 He was in the East Room of the White House and man, he was letting it rip.

00:02:43.000 It was a word salad.

00:02:43.000 all hang out.

00:02:44.000 I mean, if you had to make a word cloud for this thing, it is cloudy with a chance of meatballs because weird things just flying out of the sky.

00:02:50.000 References to Bobby Richardson, the former New York Yankees second baseman, full on descriptions of Steve Scalise getting shot.

00:02:56.000 I mean, everything that you could possibly want and not want in a Trump presser was here.

00:03:00.000 Here is President Trump, though, beginning by explaining the witch hunt started the day I came down the escalator.

00:03:05.000 But a tremendous thing was done over the last number of months.

00:03:10.000 but really if you go back to it over the last number of years, we had the witch hunt in It started from the day we came down the elevator, myself and our future first lady, who's with us right now.

00:03:26.000 And of course, he's right about this.

00:03:27.000 And this led him into just bashing his opposition.

00:03:31.000 So again, it was really funny.

00:03:32.000 It was really hilarious.

00:03:33.000 Is it a winning strategy for the president of the United States?

00:03:36.000 No, it doesn't have much to do with that.

00:03:38.000 It doesn't have.

00:03:39.000 And in the end, this is why the State of the Union isn't going to mean a lot.

00:03:43.000 And this isn't going to mean a lot.

00:03:43.000 It all washes out.

00:03:44.000 And in the end, what's really going to matter are the underlying facts, which we'll get to in a minute and which do, in fact, favor President Trump.

00:03:50.000 As we'll see, Trump wasn't the only one who decided to air his grievances on Festivus yesterday.

00:03:54.000 Here is President Trump holding up The Washington Post and acknowledging full well that The Washington Post never runs good headlines about him, which, of course, is true.

00:04:13.000 You can take that home, honey.

00:04:15.000 Maybe we'll frame it.

00:04:17.000 It's the only good headline I've ever had in the Washington Post.

00:04:21.000 And of course, as I say, this is Trump freewheeling, unbound, Trump unchained.

00:04:27.000 And that was the upside.

00:04:29.000 So the upside was that Trump was in a good mood.

00:04:31.000 The downside is that when Trump is in a good mood, he sometimes decides to really go for it.

00:04:36.000 So here he was going after the Russia stuff and suggesting that the Russia stuff was bleep.

00:04:41.000 And people are getting upset about this.

00:04:42.000 Again, I'm not going to bother getting upset about this.

00:04:44.000 This is our politics.

00:04:45.000 Get over it. 0.75

00:04:46.000 We live in idiocracy. 0.98

00:04:47.000 Here's President Trump. 0.82

00:04:49.000 And there's nothing, from a legal standpoint, this is a political thing.

00:04:54.000 And every time I say, this is unfair, let's go to court, they say, sir, you can't go to court.

00:04:58.000 This is politics.

00:05:00.000 And we were treated unbelievably unfairly.

00:05:04.000 And you have to understand, we first went through Russia, Russia, Russia. 1.00

00:05:11.000 It was all bullshit. 0.99

00:05:15.000 We then went through the Mueller report. 1.00

00:05:18.000 I've always said they're lousy politicians, but they do two things. 0.96

00:05:20.000 They're vicious and mean. 0.99

00:05:21.000 These people are vicious. 0.99

00:05:21.000 Vicious. 0.99

00:05:22.000 Adam Schiff is a vicious, horrible person. 1.00

00:05:23.000 horrible people, horrible people. 0.99

00:05:25.000 So things are getting better in Washington, D.C., not worse, obviously.

00:05:27.000 I've always said they're lousy politicians, but they do two things. 0.96

00:05:31.000 They're vicious and mean, vicious. 0.99

00:05:34.000 These people are vicious. 1.00

00:05:37.000 Adam Schiff is a vicious, horrible person. 1.00

00:05:40.000 Nancy Pelosi is a horrible person. 1.00

00:05:43.000 And she wanted to impeach a long time ago when she said, I pray for the president. 0.98

00:05:47.000 I pray for the president.

00:05:50.000 She doesn't pray.

00:05:50.000 She may pray, but she prays for the opposite.

00:05:53.000 But I doubt she prays at all.

00:05:55.000 OK, so President Trump was doing the full Trump and the media lost it over this.

00:05:59.000 This is the thing.

00:06:00.000 Well, it is true that President Trump is acting rather unpresidential here.

00:06:04.000 Is that fair?

00:06:04.000 That he's acting unpresidential?

00:06:06.000 I think it's fair, right?

00:06:07.000 I don't feel like Lincoln, Washington, Reagan, like this was really in the wheelhouse.

00:06:12.000 It is the reaction of the left that justifies everything that Trump does, at least in the minds of, I think, most Americans.

00:06:18.000 These most Americans go, okay, yeah, so he's acting childish.

00:06:20.000 But guess what?

00:06:20.000 Everybody's acting childish.

00:06:22.000 And he's just in the middle of a mud fight. 0.67

00:06:23.000 As I've said before, the perception on the left is that President Trump ruined American politics.

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00:06:32.000 The people who actually ruined American politics pre-existed Trump.

00:06:34.000 It turns out that politics existed before Donald Trump became a politician.

00:06:38.000 He only became a politician in 2015.

00:06:39.000 It turns out that politics had been on a really, really sharp downslope for quite a while before that.

00:06:45.000 We're going to get to one of the suspects in the murder of American politics in just a moment.

00:06:50.000 Actually, a couple suspects in the murder of American politics.

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00:08:10.000 Okay, so as I say, President Trump gives this fairly ridiculous presser. 0.67

00:08:14.000 And it was. 0.91

00:08:15.000 I mean, let's just be real about this. 0.88

00:08:16.000 It was hilarious, but can also be ridiculous.

00:08:18.000 Many things can be true at once. 0.77

00:08:19.000 That things can be entertaining and also ridiculous.

00:08:22.000 See every Michael Bay movie, like, ever.

00:08:24.000 Or John Woo's face-off, right?

00:08:26.000 Many things are ridiculous and also wildly entertaining.

00:08:28.000 Okay, but the... 0.91

00:08:31.000 The tut-tutting is what made Trump president and maybe the tut-tutting that keeps Trump president. 0.96

00:08:35.000 What I mean by that is that the wildness perception that American politics in the absence of Trump is a perfectly healthy organism, that American politics without Trump is perfectly great, and that it's just Trump who ruined everything is such myopic bullcrap. 0.95

00:08:48.000 It really is.

00:08:49.000 It's not true at all.

00:08:50.000 If you want to talk about the institutions and the people who ruined American politics long before Trump ever came on the scene, You're going to have to look across the aisle to Nancy Pelosi.

00:08:57.000 So Nancy Pelosi really let the cat out of the bag the other night when she ripped up Trump's State of the Union address because she'd been trying to do this whole, I'm above all of this. 0.70

00:09:05.000 I'm so I'm above all of this.

00:09:07.000 I am a I'm the adult in the room.

00:09:08.000 And then at the end of the State of the Union in pre Pre-ordered fashion, right?

00:09:13.000 I mean, she had planned this.

00:09:15.000 She tore up President Trump's State of the Union address.

00:09:17.000 We know she planned this because there's actual video of her pre-ripping the paper.

00:09:21.000 Because she wanted to make sure that her hands could actually get through the paper.

00:09:24.000 It's why she knew that she wasn't going to try to rip up the entire speech at once.

00:09:27.000 She separated it into several parts.

00:09:28.000 I mean, she practiced this thing.

00:09:30.000 Right, so it was pre-ordained childishness.

00:09:32.000 It was pre-planned childishness.

00:09:34.000 And this has been the nature of American politics for a long time.

00:09:36.000 Trump is not pre-planned, right? 0.61

00:09:37.000 Trump is just, I'm gonna go out there and spew childishness.

00:09:40.000 But, the Democrats, it's been pre-planned, it's been organized, and it's been backed by the media.

00:09:44.000 So the media were going nuts yesterday over President Trump.

00:09:47.000 Let me show you the media before I get to Pelosi, because there are really two suspects, in my view, in the death of American politics.

00:09:53.000 As I say, I think Trump's the coroner, not the murderer.

00:09:55.000 So, who are the actual suspects?

00:09:56.000 There are two real suspects in my view.

00:09:58.000 Suspect number one is the media, and suspect number two are the Democrats who work hand in glove with the media.

00:10:04.000 And the media are suspects because the media have been acting childish since day one.

00:10:08.000 It was the media who were promoting the Bush is Hitler, Bush is awful, Bush is lying about the war in Iraq.

00:10:13.000 Bush is a danger to the community. 1.00

00:10:15.000 He's a chimp. 1.00

00:10:16.000 He's an idiot. 1.00

00:10:17.000 They did the same thing with Ronald Reagan. 1.00

00:10:18.000 They've been doing it for decades.

00:10:20.000 And then it turns out that the American people bridled against that, and they went to other sources of information, and the media just doubled down on all of this.

00:10:27.000 The media lost all of their legitimacy long before Trump came on the scene.

00:10:30.000 Again, it's so funny.

00:10:31.000 The media declared Trump the murderer of the media because he says things like fake news all the time.

00:10:37.000 They say fake news, and they go, oh my God, oh my God, attacks on the press.

00:10:40.000 Guys, we all knew that you were fake news.

00:10:43.000 Trump just said it.

00:10:44.000 Okay, Newt Gingrich said it in 2012 and got a bump in the Republican primaries.

00:10:48.000 This has been a long-going narrative on the right, and it is not untrue.

00:10:52.000 And when we say you're fake news, it doesn't mean everything that you report is fake.

00:10:55.000 It means that all of you who portray yourselves as the journalistic explainers of the world, all of you who portray yourselves as the objective journalists who are attempting to just bring fact and separate it from opinion, Nearly all of you are Democrats, and you filter everything through that Democrat lens.

00:11:10.000 That's what makes you fake news.

00:11:12.000 If you say you're opinion news, you're not fake.

00:11:14.000 Then you're exactly what you say you are, but you don't.

00:11:16.000 And so this is why every time Trump does something, and the media reveal their own bias, and reveal their own predilections, All they are doing is underscoring why Trump is the coroner and not the murderer.

00:11:26.000 So, here is what CNN was doing during Trump's speech yesterday.

00:11:30.000 I mean, this was their chyron, right? 0.99

00:11:32.000 This is their chyron.

00:11:33.000 Their chyron is supposed to be the objective description of what is going on.

00:11:37.000 No editorialization.

00:11:38.000 Instead of, Trump speaks from East Room in acquittal celebration.

00:11:42.000 Their chyron yesterday said, Trump vindictive and vulgar in impeachment acquittal celebration.

00:11:48.000 Okay, that's editorializing.

00:11:49.000 It's clear editorializing.

00:11:51.000 So I'm supposed to think that President Trump ripping on CNN is somehow inappropriate when CNN is ripping on Trump?

00:11:56.000 Now, you may think that it was vindictive and vulgar.

00:11:59.000 I mean, it was pretty vindictive.

00:12:00.000 I think it was far less vulgar.

00:12:02.000 But regardless, that is editorializing.

00:12:05.000 That is not an objective description of reality.

00:12:07.000 At least not in a... Again, you want to give your opinion, that's fine.

00:12:10.000 But don't pretend that that is an objective description of reality.

00:12:13.000 And then you had Gloria Borger and Breonna Keillor going off on Trump on CNN yesterday and really just clutching at their pearls.

00:12:20.000 Not just saying, not just rolling their eyes and saying, okay, that's Trump being Trump and that's what Trump does.

00:12:24.000 Instead, it was just, how could anyone do this kind of thing in American politics?

00:12:27.000 American politics, the home of dignity.

00:12:29.000 How could we do all this?

00:12:30.000 Come on.

00:12:32.000 You have been watching the president of the United States with an unscripted, vindictive, at times profane, angry, rambling response to his impeachment acquittal.

00:12:43.000 This started out with the president coming out into the East Room to ruffles and flourishes.

00:12:49.000 And then immediately turned into an avalanche of grievance against everybody.

00:12:56.000 It was vindictive, as you pointed out.

00:12:58.000 It was full of revenge.

00:12:59.000 It was mean-spirited.

00:13:01.000 It was poisonous.

00:13:02.000 It was spiteful.

00:13:03.000 Wow, can you clutch those pearls in your heart?

00:13:05.000 If you clutch those pearls in your heart, are they gonna turn into diamonds?

00:13:08.000 I mean, seriously, it's pretty astonishing.

00:13:10.000 And again, then when Trump says, you guys hate me, it's like, well, yeah, they do.

00:13:14.000 And they preexisted him.

00:13:15.000 Okay, CNN was around and criticized long before this.

00:13:18.000 I mean, I was on CNN in like 2014, before Donald Trump was running for president, talking explicitly about the fact that during the Gaza war that was happening between Hamas and Israel, that Hamas could not have had better spokespeople than CNN.

00:13:30.000 I mean, CNN has been biased for an extraordinarily long time.

00:13:32.000 So again, the media wished to make it that President Trump's childishness and vindictiveness and thin-skinnedness, that all of that is the death of American politics.

00:13:39.000 And it's like, no, Trump is just the symptom and also the coroner of everything that is going on.

00:13:45.000 CNN's John Harwood doing the same routine.

00:13:46.000 So John Harwood comes out, he says, well, this guy is in psychological distress.

00:13:50.000 Weird, I don't remember them psychoanalyzing Barack Obama when he was literally crying during some press conferences about mass shootings.

00:13:57.000 I don't remember them doing like a deep dive into his psychology.

00:14:00.000 I just remember them celebrating his emotion.

00:14:02.000 I don't remember when Barack Obama was saying things about bringing guns to knife fights politically, them talking about Barack Obama's vindictive nature.

00:14:10.000 Or in 2009, during the financial meltdown, when he suggested that he would let the pitchforks have the bankers.

00:14:15.000 I don't remember people in the media suggesting, well isn't that a bit vindictive and spiteful?

00:14:19.000 No, then they were busy celebrating Barack Obama.

00:14:22.000 But when Donald Trump is Donald Trump, then all of a sudden we're going to go into full psychological analyses by John Harwood, who last I checked is not either a psychologist or a psychiatrist, but in any case, here is Harwood.

00:14:33.000 This was a very disturbing tableau for the country.

00:14:38.000 It was dark because he's made clear that his mind is dark.

00:14:41.000 This is somebody in deep psychological distress right now.

00:14:45.000 Self-pitying, insecure, angry.

00:14:48.000 He said almost plaintively at the end, when he was reading a text from Strzok to Page, where he said, I'm not a bad person.

00:14:58.000 He was sort of imploring people to accept that view of him.

00:15:01.000 I mean, the more that you get from the media on this score, the more Trump dumping all over the media.

00:15:06.000 You're like, OK, fine.

00:15:07.000 OK, fine.

00:15:08.000 I mean, at least Chris Matthews says who he is.

00:15:10.000 But Chris Matthews, you know, lays it out what the media actually thinks.

00:15:14.000 This is where I like Chris Matthews.

00:15:15.000 Chris Matthews didn't hide in the ball, right?

00:15:17.000 I mean, Chris Matthews is of the left.

00:15:18.000 He knows he's of the left.

00:15:19.000 He says he's of the left.

00:15:20.000 It's the people like Andrew Mitchell who are claiming they're not of the left who are the problem.

00:15:23.000 But Chris Matthews yesterday said, he's a cult leader!

00:15:26.000 He's a cult leader!

00:15:27.000 Like Jim Jones, he's gonna feed everybody the Kool-Aid! 0.98

00:15:29.000 Everybody's gonna die!

00:15:30.000 Even though Jim Jones was supported by half the Democrats in Congress. 0.98

00:15:32.000 He's a cult leader!

00:15:33.000 He's calling for a fight to the death!

00:15:35.000 Which, by the way, would be, like, amazing politics.

00:15:37.000 In any case, Chris Matthews, go, go, go!

00:15:39.000 Call me out with a shoe! 1.00

00:15:40.000 Get him in here rumpled!

00:15:41.000 And then I talk, I say things!

00:15:43.000 Banishing, banishing Mitt Romney from the party.

00:15:46.000 That's the language of a cult, banishment.

00:15:49.000 It's not a language of the Constitution or of our American tradition.

00:15:52.000 Banishment for the one guy who dared in the United States Senate to vote to convict.

00:15:56.000 I think it's also an attempt by the president to basically tell his troops, here's the fighting line right now.

00:16:01.000 We're going after everybody who went after us.

00:16:04.000 We're going to fight to the death.

00:16:06.000 We're going to get them.

00:16:07.000 So, suspect number one in the death of the American political scene, the media.

00:16:10.000 Okay, the media have a lot of blame to carry around.

00:16:13.000 Now, I know there are a bunch of people on the left, and they say, well, yeah, polarization of the media is the problem.

00:16:17.000 No, polarization of the media is not the problem.

00:16:19.000 Dishonesty in the media is the problem.

00:16:20.000 There are people out there on the left that are like, well, you have a leftist tears tumbler on your table.

00:16:25.000 Aren't you contributing to the death of American politics?

00:16:27.000 No, I'm honest about who we are over here, right?

00:16:28.000 We don't really like the political left very much, by which I mean not liberals, but people who wish to shut down debate, people who believe that people should be platformed for having a finally, an absolutely mainstream point of view.

00:16:40.000 I'd rather that everybody be honest like Chris Matthews is than dishonest like the folks over at CNN.

00:16:45.000 Okay, so suspect number one, members of the media.

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00:18:21.000 Again, everybody in the media proclaims that it's Trump, but that's a red herring.

00:18:25.000 And the Democrats proclaim that it's Trump, but that's a red herring too.

00:18:27.000 Nancy Pelosi has been around on the scene for quite a while, and Nancy Pelosi has been a deeply polarizing figure for also quite a while.

00:18:34.000 I'm old enough to remember when, just last year, she refused to pass a resolution condemning open anti-Semites like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib inside her own caucus.

00:18:42.000 I'm old enough to remember when Nancy Pelosi declared that boycott-divestment sanctions of Israel were anti-Semitic, and then half of her caucus supported them, and then she was like, oh, okay, I guess it's not anti-Semitic anymore. 0.94

00:18:52.000 Nancy Pelosi is one of the murderers. 0.83

00:18:54.000 Okay, Nancy Pelosi at least is one of the suspects.

00:18:57.000 She pretends to be the detective, right?

00:18:58.000 I'm going to track down Donald Trump and I'm going to pin him to the wall as the adult in the room.

00:19:02.000 In reality, the lady's got some... the blood of American politics, that blood spatter from the corpse of American politics, it's all over her shoes. 1.00

00:19:11.000 Okay, just as it is the shoes of the media.

00:19:12.000 This is Murder on the Orient Express.

00:19:14.000 Okay, there are many suspects here.

00:19:15.000 So Nancy Pelosi, here's the proof.

00:19:16.000 Nancy Pelosi yesterday, she does her own press conference. 0.97

00:19:19.000 And she is also childish and wild. 0.91

00:19:21.000 So yes, Donald Trump's presser. 0.95

00:19:22.000 Not gonna say it wasn't childish and wild.

00:19:24.000 It was childish, wild, and hilarious.

00:19:25.000 Nancy Pelosi gave her own presser.

00:19:27.000 It was childish and wild.

00:19:28.000 Was there any blowback whatsoever?

00:19:30.000 Nancy Pelosi yesterday suggested in her press conference that Donald Trump looked sedated.

00:19:30.000 Of course not.

00:19:35.000 Now imagine if Donald Trump had said that Nancy Pelosi looked sedated. 0.99

00:19:38.000 Or like she was sucking on lemons, which she did. 0.97

00:19:41.000 Imagine if he had said that. 0.98

00:19:42.000 Oh, look, again, he's coming to kill American politics. 0.97

00:19:45.000 There he is, the axe murderer of American politics. 0.70

00:19:48.000 Nancy Pelosi suggests the president is drugged and nobody says a word.

00:19:50.000 I mean, it's unbelievable.

00:19:53.000 I extended a hand of friendship to him, to welcome him as the President of the United States to the People's House.

00:20:00.000 It was also an act of kindness because he looked to me like he was a little sedated.

00:20:06.000 He looked that way last year, too.

00:20:08.000 But he didn't want to shake hands.

00:20:11.000 That meant nothing to me.

00:20:12.000 It had nothing to do with my tearing up.

00:20:14.000 That came much later. 0.99

00:20:17.000 Again, it's so childish and so petty and so stupid, but she's been around a long time, right? 0.99

00:20:21.000 She was the House Majority Leader in 2006. 1.00

00:20:23.000 So she's been around a lot longer than Donald Trump.

00:20:25.000 Pretending that the world started spinning in 2016 is the way for Democrats to avoid their culpability for the fact that Trump got elected in the first place.

00:20:32.000 Pretending that Trump came along and he shattered all of the norms of American politics and broke everything?

00:20:37.000 That's the way to avoid the inevitable conclusion, which is that the Democrats and the media broke American politics and then Trump came and he said, look, American politics is dead.

00:20:45.000 And everybody went, oh, that's true.

00:20:46.000 And then they voted for him. 0.93

00:20:48.000 Okay, so all of this is going to, as much as I don't like the violation of norms by President Trump, as much as I criticize President Trump for being ridiculous and petty and vindictive and thin-skinned, as much as I think that he pursues dumb strategies and going after Mitt Romney after Mitt Romney makes his vote and Trump gets acquitted. 0.92

00:21:05.000 As much as I think all of that is foolish and counterproductive, I also recognize that foolishness and counterproductive action did not begin, nor will they end with President Trump.

00:21:13.000 Which means that in the end, I think the American people are going instead to turn to underlying facts when it comes to the 2020 election.

00:21:19.000 Underlying facts, like the fact that January was a big month for jobs.

00:21:24.000 According to CNBC, an unseasonably mild January helped power the U.S.

00:21:27.000 jobs market to more gains, with non-farm payrolls rising $225,000 for the month, well above Wall Street estimates.

00:21:33.000 The unemployment rate ticked higher to 3.6%, but that's only because the labor force participation rate increased 0.2 percentage points up to 63.4%, which actually matched its highest level since June 2013.

00:21:45.000 So people who have been out of the workforce for years are reentering the workforce looking for jobs.

00:21:50.000 Economists surveyed by Dow Jones We're thinking that the payroll growth would be 158,000.

00:21:53.000 Instead, payroll growth was 225,000.

00:21:57.000 A more encompassing labor market indicator that includes discouraged workers and those holding part-time positions for economic reasons also moved higher, rising 0.2 percentage points to 6.9%.

00:22:06.000 Again, that's because more people are re-entering the workforce.

00:22:10.000 The employment-to-population ratio in the Household Survey rose to 61.2%, that's the highest since November 2008, and 0.5 percentage points higher than a year ago.

00:22:20.000 So basically we are now, only now, starting to reach pre-recession levels of employment in the United States relative to the general American population, because Barack Obama did preside over the slowest job growth in American history in terms of recovery from a recession.

00:22:34.000 So that is very good news for President Trump.

00:22:36.000 Other very good news for President Trump is that wages are again accelerating.

00:22:40.000 So again, this is very good news for President Trump.

00:22:43.000 He's been pointing out the difference between himself and Barack Obama, that as wages accelerate, that was not happening really under President Obama.

00:22:50.000 Payroll gains were broad-based.

00:22:52.000 They topped the median estimate for $165,000.

00:22:53.000 The unexpected job strength also reflects robust gains in weather-sensitive sectors, including construction, which climbed by $44,000 for the strongest growth in a year in an unseasonably warm month.

00:23:06.000 Weekly hours worked held at 34.3 hours for the third month, matching the lowest level for most of the past decade.

00:23:14.000 Economists look to hours worked for early signs of labor market softening, as companies often cut hours before laying off workers.

00:23:20.000 However, by the way, that should give the lie to the idea that people are working nine jobs to keep ends meeting.

00:23:25.000 They're working 60 hours a week because they're working two jobs.

00:23:28.000 The average is 34.3, which is not even like a full-time job, right?

00:23:32.000 A full-time job would be eight hours a day, five days a week.

00:23:34.000 That'd be 40 hours a week.

00:23:37.000 So, very good news for President Trump.

00:23:41.000 The labor force grew by 574,000.

00:23:42.000 This is all very good news for President Trump going into the election cycle.

00:23:47.000 And all of this is leading Democrats to the point of panic.

00:23:50.000 And it shouldn't just be that that leads Democrats to the point of panic.

00:23:53.000 It should be the fact that Bernie Sanders is likely to be their nominee at this point.

00:23:55.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:25:41.000 We're going to get back to the 2020 race, which again is a mess for Democrats, increasingly a mess for Democrats.

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00:26:24.000 Okay, so the Democratic 2020 primaries are a mess for the Democrats.

00:26:28.000 According to FiveThirtyEight, Bernie Sanders is now a one in two odds-on favorite to be the nominee for president of the United States for the Democratic Party and win a majority of the delegates.

00:26:39.000 They are forecasting that he will win above a majority of delegates, about 1,700 delegates.

00:26:45.000 They are forecasting that Joe Biden will come in second and Pete Buttigieg will come in third.

00:26:49.000 They're really forecasting that because they're thinking that Biden is going to win a bunch of delegates in the South, particularly among black voters.

00:26:55.000 See, here's the problem.

00:26:56.000 Pete Buttigieg is indeed surging.

00:26:57.000 There's no question that Pete Buttigieg is surging.

00:26:59.000 The latest polls in New Hampshire show Pete Buttigieg actually challenging Bernie Sanders for primacy.

00:27:04.000 The best news here, by the way, would be for Pete Buttigieg to win New Hampshire outright for Biden.

00:27:09.000 That would be the best news for Biden.

00:27:11.000 Because if Pete Buttigieg wins New Hampshire outright, I know that the conventional wisdom is that then he will go on, he will become the moderate-lane Democrat.

00:27:17.000 I don't think that's correct.

00:27:18.000 I think that if Pete Buttigieg wins New Hampshire, the person that hurts most is Bernie, because Bernie is widely expected to win New Hampshire.

00:27:24.000 If Buttigieg wins Iowa, and he wins New Hampshire, then you will get the candidate of sort of the white upper class versus the candidate who's more popular with minorities.

00:27:35.000 So people are assuming that Buttigieg is cutting into Biden, and there's truth to that in places like Iowa and New Hampshire.

00:27:40.000 But if Buttigieg starts to actually overcome Bernie in state after state, then what you're going to see is people move away from some of these other candidates to counter Buttigieg.

00:27:50.000 And that's why you're going to see Biden go after Buttigieg tonight.

00:27:52.000 In New Hampshire, the latest poll statistics Show that Sanders is only very narrowly leading Buttigieg.

00:27:58.000 The newest Boston Globe-Suffolk poll has them in a dead heat.

00:28:01.000 It has Buttigieg at 23 and Sanders at 24.

00:28:04.000 The Emerson poll that came out the same day, it has Sanders further ahead at 32 with Buttigieg at 23.

00:28:10.000 And Monmouth, which came out the day before, had Sanders within spitting distance of Buttigieg.

00:28:13.000 Sanders at 24 and Buttigieg at 20.

00:28:15.000 Bottom line is that that lead has shrunk dramatically for Bernie Sanders.

00:28:18.000 Buttigieg is getting a big bump from Iowa.

00:28:21.000 Part of that is due to the media coverage.

00:28:22.000 Bernie did win the most votes in Iowa, but He's unlikely to win the most delegates.

00:28:26.000 It's basically a dead heat.

00:28:27.000 And Bernie was expected to do really well in Iowa, while Buttigieg was kind of left for dead a few weeks ago.

00:28:32.000 Well, Buttigieg obviously did really well in Iowa, and now he's doing really well in New Hampshire.

00:28:36.000 Now, these are very, very white states, and neither Bernie nor Buttigieg has a lot of black support, which is why I suggest that if Buttigieg actually overcomes Bernie, Then that's going to leave a pathway for Joe Biden in places like South Carolina, because Buttigieg does not have the national organization that Bernie has.

00:28:52.000 Bernie has been starting to make some inroads into minority communities in ways that Buttigieg simply has not, although Buttigieg is a far more innately talented politician than Bernie Sanders is.

00:29:01.000 Buttigieg has also been able to work this magic where he pretends that he's moderate when he is absolutely not moderate.

00:29:06.000 I mean, super not moderate.

00:29:08.000 By the way, Biden is completely collapsing in New Hampshire as well.

00:29:10.000 Biden is falling apart.

00:29:12.000 Elizabeth Warren is stagnant.

00:29:14.000 I think she is toast.

00:29:15.000 Biden at least can make the case to his people that if he holds on to South Carolina, maybe he'll do okay there.

00:29:20.000 But again, the polls in South Carolina have been tightening fairly a lot as well.

00:29:25.000 Biden is now running at like 11% in the last two polls in New Hampshire, just disastrous stuff for Joe Biden.

00:29:31.000 And he's gonna have to show some signs of life to his supporters or he is going to be toast forthwith Now, with all of that said, the latest East Carolina YouPoll still shows Biden blowing everybody out in South Carolina, right?

00:29:41.000 It shows Biden at 37.

00:29:42.000 This is taken pre-Iowa, though.

00:29:44.000 Biden at 37.

00:29:45.000 Tom Steyer at 19.

00:29:47.000 And that actually is a sign of possibility for Michael Bloomberg, right?

00:29:51.000 Because Michael Bloomberg is just like Tom Steyer, except more so.

00:29:54.000 Tom Steyer has spent like $75 million.

00:29:56.000 Bloomberg has spent $200 million on this race.

00:29:59.000 Particularly in Super Tuesday States.

00:30:01.000 So this race is a complete mess. 1.00

00:30:02.000 The person with the easiest path, by far at this point, is Bernie.

00:30:05.000 Because Bernie is the most well known, he's got a machine, he's got a movement behind him, and he has a lot of small dollar donors that are just throwing off money.

00:30:13.000 All of that shows benefit for him, but the fragmentary nature of the field and the possibility that you could see, let's say that Bernie Well, let's say that Biden falls apart so badly in South Carolina he gets out.

00:30:25.000 Well, that opens the door to either Buttigieg or Bloomberg or somebody else.

00:30:30.000 So...

00:30:31.000 It's a mess out there.

00:30:32.000 Biden, for his part, is panicking.

00:30:34.000 He's prepping for the debate.

00:30:36.000 But what exactly is he going to do that he hasn't done before?

00:30:39.000 Presumably, he's going to have to get aggressive with Bernie.

00:30:41.000 Presumably, he's going to have to get aggressive mostly with Buttigieg and attack Buttigieg.

00:30:45.000 Buttigieg has been fairly smooth on defense.

00:30:48.000 Buttigieg has been able to sort of push off all of the attacks on him.

00:30:51.000 And also, I'm not sure that the experience attack really matters much to Democrats since they elected to the presidency twice a guy who had had five minutes in the United States Senate. 0.99

00:30:59.000 If they really wanted somebody who had done anything in his life, they wouldn't be looking at Bernie, who's been a useless piece of crap for the last six decades.

00:31:05.000 The bottom line is that they're looking for somebody who sort of mirrors vision, makes them feel good about themselves, and Buttigieg is doing that far more so than Biden. 0.96

00:31:12.000 This is the problem for Joe Biden.

00:31:15.000 According to the Washington Post, outside the castle-themed Radisson Hotel where Joe Biden has been staying, his campaign bus was parked and ready for events.

00:31:21.000 But on Thursday, just five days before the crucial primary here, the candidate was nowhere to be found.

00:31:26.000 Biden spent Thursday gathered with his top advisors at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, seeking a reset and perhaps a last-ditch effort to save his candidacy, beginning with a debate on Friday night.

00:31:34.000 He held no public events.

00:31:36.000 He's set to appear on all the Sunday shows on Sunday, because he needs the publicity.

00:31:39.000 Following dismal results in the Iowa caucuses that have rattled many in his orbit, his campaign is now simultaneously trying to lower expectations here, some suggesting they'd consider a finish as low as third place victory, while bracing for a second straight difficult election day.

00:31:51.000 In one troublesome sign for the financially strapped campaign, it canceled nearly $150,000 in TV ads in South Carolina, which votes February 29th, and moved the spending to Nevada, whose February 22nd contest follows New Hampshire's.

00:32:03.000 The move seemed to acknowledge that Biden's campaign cannot sustain a continued run of bad news, which of course is true.

00:32:07.000 He needs to win Nevada outright.

00:32:09.000 Dick Harputtley, a South Carolina state senator, said from a Biden perspective, there's going to be a course correction in all three states before Super Tuesday.

00:32:16.000 He's got to have sharper elbows.

00:32:18.000 He suggested those inside the campaign realize the gravity of the moment and that Biden had to better explain the differences with his opponents.

00:32:24.000 The problem is that his campaign is not exactly built for comeback kid Bill Clinton, New Hampshire type moments, right?

00:32:30.000 It's an old campaign.

00:32:31.000 It's a doddering campaign.

00:32:32.000 He hasn't bothered to do any of the groundwork.

00:32:34.000 He just assumed he was going to sail to the nomination, that he was owed the nomination.

00:32:37.000 And people didn't feel that way about him in the same way that they felt about Hillary Clinton.

00:32:42.000 Our bootlion says history may write the best thing that ever happened to Joe Biden was getting gut punched in Iowa.

00:32:46.000 It woke his campaign up, his supporters up.

00:32:46.000 It woke him up.

00:32:48.000 They were complacent.

00:32:49.000 You've got to talk about the other guy.

00:32:51.000 But at least on Thursday, it was the other guy talking about Biden.

00:32:53.000 Pete Buttigieg was going after Biden.

00:32:55.000 He said, if your focus is on electability, it ain't Biden who's the most electable.

00:32:59.000 It's me.

00:33:00.000 Now, in a second, We're gonna get to Bernie versus Buttigieg because now this is a three candidate race and really one of those candidates is in serious trouble, right?

00:33:07.000 That candidate who's in serious trouble the most, obviously, is Biden.

00:33:10.000 And we'll talk about the radicalism of Pete Buttigieg, which has been completely ignored, right?

00:33:13.000 He's been able to pretend that he's actually a member of the moderate coterie simply because Bernie is an out-and-out socialist and Buttigieg isn't.

00:33:20.000 But Buttigieg is no moderate.

00:33:21.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:37:40.000 So here's the problem for Democrats.

00:37:47.000 They are not moderates.

00:37:49.000 Like, nobody who's running is a moderate with maybe the exception of Biden.

00:37:51.000 Even he is not particularly moderate.

00:37:53.000 Even the ones who are sort of moderate, like Michael Bloomberg, are trying to pretend they're not moderate because if they acknowledge that they are moderate, then they have a problem, which is that the base doesn't like them very much.

00:38:01.000 So instead what you get is one candidate, basically the difference between Buttigieg and Sanders is that Buttigieg pretends he's a moderate and Sanders is not.

00:38:08.000 So Sanders just says the quiet part out loud.

00:38:12.000 Sort of.

00:38:13.000 Sort of.

00:38:13.000 Even he lies a little bit, right?

00:38:14.000 He says he's a socialist, but only like Finland and Denmark.

00:38:17.000 Only like Finland and Denmark, right?

00:38:19.000 This is his routine all the time.

00:38:20.000 Here's Bernie yesterday.

00:38:21.000 He was asked, how would you convince Americans concerned about the socialist label to vote for you?

00:38:25.000 And here's Bernie lying about what he actually thinks.

00:38:28.000 My definition of socialism, needless to say, is a little bit different.

00:38:32.000 And I think if you look at countries around the world, look at countries in Scandinavia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, what do they have?

00:38:41.000 Everybody in those countries has healthcare as a human right.

00:38:44.000 They vary a little bit, but by and large, it is a right.

00:38:47.000 You don't have to take out your wallet.

00:38:49.000 It is available to all people.

00:38:51.000 Okay, again, nationalized healthcare does not mean that you live in a socialist country.

00:38:55.000 It means you want to socialize medicine, which, by the way, is wildly unpopular in the United States because his version of socializing medicine is not the version that you see in Switzerland or that you see in Singapore, where there's an individual mandate and then you buy into a private but not heavily regulated health insurance sector.

00:39:08.000 Instead, Bernie's vision is that you are just taxed and then the government borrows a lot of money and then the government provides you directly healthcare and doctors and nurses and hospitals work directly for the government, which is the worst form of socialized medicine.

00:39:21.000 When Bernie says his brand of socialism is Finland and Denmark, I'm just wondering when it shifted from Cuba and the USSR and Venezuela, which he's praised fulsomely, all of them.

00:39:29.000 Like, what is his... Why?

00:39:30.000 Why?

00:39:30.000 If you actually ask the politicians of Denmark whether they are a socialist country, they will tell you straight up no.

00:39:36.000 In fact, the Prime Minister of Denmark recently spoke at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and somebody asked him about the socialism in Denmark.

00:39:42.000 We're a capitalist country.

00:39:42.000 He said, what socialism?

00:39:44.000 So Bernie's just lying here.

00:39:47.000 Even Bernie lies about how radical he is, but at least Bernie is a little more honest than the other people in his caucus.

00:39:52.000 Bernie says, yeah, sure, my economic plans, yes, I want climate change, and yes, there will be some job loss.

00:39:56.000 I will acknowledge to you, there will be some job loss.

00:39:59.000 Well, yeah, people are not going to be, I mean, he's cutting ads against himself at this point.

00:40:03.000 Trump does not believe in climate change.

00:40:06.000 And in not believing in the reality of climate change, what he is doing is threatening the very well-being of kids and future generations.

00:40:15.000 And that is unacceptable.

00:40:16.000 But from an economic point of view, he's also wrong.

00:40:19.000 We can create, yes, there will be some job loss.

00:40:21.000 I acknowledge that.

00:40:23.000 But what we can do is create a heck of a lot more jobs As we retrofit our older buildings, as we move to wind, solar, geothermal, and other sustainable energies.

00:40:34.000 What he's talking about is nuts.

00:40:36.000 I mean, it's fully nuts.

00:40:37.000 The amount of wind power that is present in the United States powering the electrical grid is de minimis, effectively.

00:40:42.000 Okay, so when he's talking about there will be job loss, welcome to the ads against Bernie Sanders.

00:40:47.000 And here's the inherent problem for the Democrats.

00:40:49.000 Bernie may be the most viable candidate in the primaries because, again, he has the lowest, he has the highest base, right?

00:40:56.000 The floor for him is the highest.

00:40:58.000 It's kind of like Trump in 2016.

00:40:59.000 The floor for him is very high.

00:41:00.000 It's 20, 25%.

00:41:01.000 That may be enough to get him through the primaries because that 20, 25 starts to look like 30 or 35 as the field consolidates.

00:41:08.000 But if Bernie's actually in a general election, The worries about his electability aren't going to go away.

00:41:13.000 They're not.

00:41:14.000 I mean, Bernie himself acknowledged that the voter turnout in Iowa where he's declared massive victory.

00:41:18.000 The voter turnout in Iowa was abysmal.

00:41:20.000 It was like 170,000 people showed up to vote in Iowa.

00:41:22.000 That's the same number that showed up to vote in 2016.

00:41:27.000 And it is about 40,000, 50,000 lower than showed up to vote in 2008.

00:41:32.000 They were hoping it would be 240,000.

00:41:33.000 It was way lower than that.

00:41:34.000 Bernie acknowledges that.

00:41:36.000 He keeps, he was asked about his electability too.

00:41:37.000 I mean, he has literally last night, he was asked about his electability.

00:41:41.000 And his answer was, well, a lot of young people showed up to vote.

00:41:44.000 So we're going to turn out audiences that have never historically voted.

00:41:47.000 That was exactly what Jeremy Corbyn said in Britain.

00:41:49.000 And then nobody showed up to vote.

00:41:49.000 Here's Bernie acknowledging that nobody showed up in Iowa either.

00:41:53.000 Senator, a key part of your argument for the general election, your electability, is that you're going to boost turnout by bringing all these people into the process that haven't been voting.

00:42:02.000 Iowa turnout doesn't look like it was higher than last time.

00:42:06.000 Does that concern you?

00:42:07.000 It does.

00:42:08.000 And I would have liked to have seen a higher turnout.

00:42:10.000 I think I can probably speak for every other candidate.

00:42:13.000 Yeah, except that if you win, then your case has to be, yeah, the turnout was great because people are enthused.

00:42:18.000 Except what if people aren't that enthused?

00:42:21.000 Herein lies the problem.

00:42:22.000 Bernie can't even acknowledge how he's going to get his healthcare plans enacted because he's not going to get them enacted. 1.00

00:42:26.000 Nobody's going to vote for this crap. 0.99

00:42:29.000 Earlier this week, Vice President Biden said, and I quote, the Speaker of the House isn't for it. 1.00

00:42:33.000 Most Democrats in Congress are not for it.

00:42:35.000 So how is it going to pass?

00:42:36.000 Talking about your plan, how is it going to move?

00:42:38.000 How does it get done?

00:42:39.000 Well, actually, most members of Congress, I believe, are I think the majority are on board for Medicare for all in the House, not the Senate.

00:42:47.000 This is how you do it.

00:42:49.000 And this is the answer I'm going to give tonight time and time again.

00:42:53.000 That what our campaign is about, and I admit it, it is a different type of campaign.

00:42:57.000 Because I'm not here to tell you, vote for me and I'm going to do all these great things.

00:43:01.000 Ain't going to happen that way.

00:43:02.000 It never happens that way.

00:43:04.000 Instead, I'm here to tell you that I'm going to say that we should do it.

00:43:07.000 And then magically, a unicorn will arrive and I will be riding on its back, eating a cup of pudding.

00:43:12.000 And that will just happen.

00:43:13.000 Hillary Clinton was criticizing Bernie correctly.

00:43:16.000 She says, listen, he keeps promising the moon he can't deliver.

00:43:18.000 She was on Ellen doing her non-presidential tour.

00:43:21.000 And she gets this right.

00:43:22.000 Now, here's the problem for the Democrats.

00:43:24.000 Democratic party members, the base, they don't really care.

00:43:26.000 They just want to hear the promises.

00:43:27.000 They don't want to hear how they actually get implemented.

00:43:29.000 But here was Hillary making the point that Bernie can't effectuate any of this stuff.

00:43:34.000 You've got to be responsible for what you say and what you say you're going to do.

00:43:40.000 We need to rebuild trust in our fellow Americans and in our institutions.

00:43:46.000 And if you promise the moon and you can't deliver the moon, then that's going to be one more indicator of how, you know, we just can't trust each other.

00:43:53.000 So, it's not good theater, it's not maybe good politics anymore, but I think you should tell people what you mean, mean what you say, and have some sense of responsibility for how you would get anything done that you talk about.

00:44:08.000 I can't believe I'm about to say this, but Hillary Clinton is being more honest than Bernie Sanders.

00:44:11.000 That is a reality, what she is saying right there.

00:44:13.000 Meanwhile, speaking of dishonest people, Pete Buttigieg has been masquerading as the moderate alternative to Bernie Sanders, and he's been able to get away with it because Bernie is so off-the-wall loony left, and because Joe Biden has been collapsing, and he's been almost physically collapsing.

00:44:28.000 But Buttigieg is no moderate either.

00:44:29.000 There is no moderation inside this Democratic Party.

00:44:31.000 Pete Buttigieg was on The View yesterday, and he was asked by Meghan McCain about late-term abortion, like partial birth abortion, and Pete Buttigieg refused to even disassociate from late-term abortion, which is madness.

00:44:44.000 Very few Democrats are into the idea of being able to abort a baby at 8 months in the womb.

00:44:50.000 I don't know who's for this, but it's an evil position that once you hit 35 weeks of pregnancy, you should be looking at the possibility of killing the child? 1.00

00:44:58.000 Are you out of your damned mind? 0.99

00:45:00.000 But Pete Buttigieg thinks that should be perfectly legal. 1.00

00:45:02.000 Here's Meghan McCain incredulously asking him the question. 0.95

00:45:06.000 Does anybody seriously think that's what these cases are about?

00:45:09.000 I think that there are people pushing for that, yes.

00:45:10.000 Think about the situation.

00:45:11.000 If this is a late-term situation, then by definition, it's one where a woman was expecting to carry the pregnancy to term.

00:45:18.000 Then she gets the most perhaps devastating news of her life.

00:45:22.000 We're talking about families that may have picked out a name, may be assembling a crib, and they learn something excruciating, and are faced with this terrible choice.

00:45:32.000 And I don't know what to tell them.

00:45:34.000 morally about what they should do.

00:45:37.000 I just know that I trust her and her decision medically or morally and isn't going to be any better because the government is commanding her to do it.

00:45:45.000 It's absolutely madness.

00:45:45.000 I mean, what he's talking about is eugenics there, right?

00:45:47.000 When somebody gets horrible news that a baby is going to have some sort of terrible disease right before birth, they decide to kill the baby.

00:45:52.000 What about that?

00:45:53.000 That doesn't why should the limiting point be birth at that point?

00:45:55.000 Also, it is simply untrue when he says that all late term abortions by their very nature are people who get bad news.

00:46:03.000 That's just not true.

00:46:04.000 Late-term abortions, as it very often turns out, are done for the same reason that the vast majority of abortions are done out of choice and convenience.

00:46:10.000 So the fact that Pete Buttigieg is overtly defending late-term abortion on a moral level is pretty astonishing stuff.

00:46:16.000 Pete Buttigieg is no moderate.

00:46:18.000 He's not even close to a moderate.

00:46:19.000 And even things that he says that sound moderate are not actually moderate.

00:46:22.000 So let me give you an example.

00:46:23.000 Yesterday, Pete Buttigieg Did the CNN Town Hall, and he was talking about how teachers are paid.

00:46:30.000 And his suggestion is that America would be better if we paid teachers like doctors. 0.62

00:46:33.000 Now, this is ridiculous on a couple of scores.

00:46:35.000 One, teachers do not go to school for as long as doctors, nor do they have as particular a skill set, nor is there a supply and demand problem with teachers.

00:46:42.000 The fact is that if you're a first grade teacher, you are incredibly valuable to first graders.

00:46:46.000 You're not as valuable to first graders as a doctor is to somebody who just had a heart attack.

00:46:51.000 Nor have you had the training.

00:46:53.000 There's a serious supply and demand issue here.

00:46:55.000 It is fairly easy to get trained to be a first grade teacher.

00:46:58.000 It is very, very difficult to be trained as a doctor. 0.94

00:47:00.000 I know this because, once again, my wife is a doctor, which only gives me credibility insofar as I accompanied her on that decade-long journey of crap in order so that she become a doctor. 0.75

00:47:09.000 To suggest that she should be paid the same as a third-grade teacher. 0.91

00:47:12.000 See, in order for this to make sense, what he's saying is teachers should be paid like doctors.

00:47:16.000 What he really means is doctors should be paid like teachers.

00:47:17.000 Because he's not suggesting that teachers get paid $300,000 a year.

00:47:21.000 If he were suggesting that teachers be paid $300,000 a year, he'd be very much in favor of private education and open competition.

00:47:29.000 He'd be anti-teachers unions, which are the reason the teachers don't get paid more.

00:47:32.000 The reason that teachers do not get paid more on an individual level, not on an average level, on an individual level, is because no matter how good a teacher you are, you may be booted out of your job because of seniority rules established by unions in order to protect older teachers who may not be as good and have been in the job longer.

00:47:47.000 But here's Pete Buttigieg saying silly things.

00:47:49.000 I mean, this is, again, Bernie pie in the sky kind of stuff.

00:47:52.000 America would be better if we paid teachers like doctors? 0.96

00:47:54.000 Yeah, America would be better if we paid line cooks like doctors. 0.99

00:47:57.000 But the problem is, it's much easier to nationalize systems and have doctors paid like teachers than to do the hard thing that Pete Buttigieg would never want to do, and that is actually pay teachers like doctors based on skill set, based on the performance of their students, and based on the need for the skill level of a particular teacher.

00:48:13.000 He's not willing to do that.

00:48:14.000 I'd love to hear him explain to Randy Weingarten over at the American Federation of Teachers why he is now in favor of a merit-based pay system for teachers, because he clearly is not.

00:48:24.000 You should have a little more support.

00:48:26.000 In fact, a lot more support.

00:48:28.000 I would argue that if we could honor our teachers a little more like we do our soldiers, and pay our teachers a little more like we do our doctors, this entire country would be a better place.

00:48:38.000 And again, being married to a teacher, I have seen just how much teachers put in and invest in not just having to pick up supplies for your classroom, but emotionally invest in the well-being of kids.

00:48:49.000 Conversations with parents long after hours, late nights, grading papers, and yet look at what you're up against.

00:48:54.000 Yeah, what you're up against is a system that is stacked against you in terms of a government that pays you not all that much based on your merit, but instead pays you based on union contracts that you have signed with the state.

00:49:07.000 You're also stacked up against a governmental system that demands things from you that really ought to be put on the back of parents.

00:49:12.000 I mean, the fact is that if you want to look at school performance, the first thing that you ought to look at is not the teachers.

00:49:16.000 The first thing that you ought to look at is the family structures of the students, because that is what is correlative.

00:49:22.000 I mean, that is not a racial point.

00:49:23.000 That is a simple demographic point across races.

00:49:27.000 That parents who have more time and more energy and more focus on their kids with regard to their schooling are going to do better no matter what school they go to.

00:49:35.000 But again, this is all pie-in-the-sky nonsense.

00:49:37.000 Buttigieg is just as radical as Bernie.

00:49:38.000 He just hides it better.

00:49:39.000 That's all. 0.99

00:49:40.000 I mean, listen, this is ridiculous.

00:49:41.000 Buttigieg says he's going to pay for his health care plan, which of course is Medicaid for all who want it.

00:49:46.000 And he acknowledges that this is basically the first step toward Medicare for all, because once you establish a public option paid for by taxpayers, then employers are now going to have an incentive to not give their employees health care, at which point they can toss people onto the public roles.

00:49:59.000 You're going to have to increase the expenditure on taxpayer dollars.

00:50:01.000 The public plan will be funded by Congress.

00:50:04.000 What is popular for Congress to do is to continue to fund that at exorbitant rates, undercutting insurance companies, and eventually you run the insurance companies out of business and you end up with Medicare for all.

00:50:12.000 That is what the public option is designed to do.

00:50:15.000 Here's Pete Buttigieg saying the way he's going to pay for that is by repealing Trump's tax cuts.

00:50:18.000 Ain't enough money there, my friend.

00:50:20.000 If you think that simply by repealing the Trump tax cuts, which, by the way, disproportionately benefited people in the middle class, then good luck to you. 0.95

00:50:30.000 All we've got to do to pay for it is take two steps.

00:50:33.000 Part of that 1.5 comes from rolling back a Trump corporate tax cut that went to the wealthiest and the biggest corporations, didn't do us any good, and has created a huge deficit.

00:50:42.000 We roll that back, that does most of the work.

00:50:46.000 No, it doesn't do most of the work, and when you do corporate tax increases, corporations lay people off.

00:50:51.000 What do you think they are doing with their money?

00:50:54.000 They're not just paying it out to people, and if they do pay it out to people, you know what those people do?

00:50:57.000 They then pay income tax.

00:51:00.000 The economic either illiteracy or dishonesty here is astonishing.

00:51:04.000 But again, as Biden collapses, Buttigieg is picking up the pieces, which opens the way for Michael Bloomberg, who is writing full-on op-eds in the New York Times about fixing income inequality as the ninth richest person on Earth.

00:51:13.000 So good luck to him in all of this.

00:51:15.000 The Democratic Party may be irrevocably broken at this point, which is why it is vital that President Trump not blow it on the shoals of his own emotionality.

00:51:24.000 Because seriously, seriously, do you want these people running the country?

00:51:27.000 Is that what you would like?

00:51:28.000 Okay, time for a quick thing I like, and then a quick thing that I hate.

00:51:31.000 Things that I like. 0.96

00:51:32.000 I talked about things that are both stupid and entertaining, silly and entertaining, and I mentioned Michael Bay movies. 0.97

00:51:37.000 Well, one of the great Michael Bay movies of all time is, of course, The Rock. 0.99

00:51:40.000 First, Sean Connery.

00:51:41.000 Nicolas Cage.

00:51:42.000 Nicolas Cage being full Nicolas Cage.

00:51:44.000 Sean Connery being the best thing ever, because Sean Connery is tremendous.

00:51:47.000 Ed Harris, who I love, in this movie also.

00:51:50.000 Great action movie, The Rock.

00:51:52.000 Here's a little bit of the preview.

00:51:54.000 There's a hostage situation on Alcatraz.

00:51:57.000 Hostage?

00:51:59.000 Eighty-one tourists.

00:52:01.000 The Rock has become a tourist attraction. 0.98

00:52:06.000 It's just spectacularly wonderful and dumb and entertaining. 0.98

00:52:11.000 And it's great. 0.98

00:52:12.000 And Sean Connery makes everything better.

00:52:13.000 Sean Connery is just the best.

00:52:15.000 So, if you've never seen The Rock, you're missing out.

00:52:17.000 It's great.

00:52:18.000 It is... Nicolas Cage made a series of really cheesy and wonderful action flicks in the 90s, ranging from Face Off, which I've recommended on the show, to Con Air, which I'm sure at some point I will recommend on the show.

00:52:29.000 And The Rock may be the best of them.

00:52:31.000 It really is a great movie.

00:52:33.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.

00:52:40.000 So it turns out that, you know, it's a not great place to live, a communist country.

00:52:43.000 Which is weird, because every time you hear from people like Bernie Sanders, he's talking about the wonderful things that are accomplishable if you have a one-party system run by people who truly care about equality.

00:52:53.000 But here's the reality.

00:52:54.000 China is a horrible place to live. 1.00

00:52:56.000 The latest evidence that China is a horrible place to live, courtesy of the New York Times, the Chinese authorities resorted to increasingly extreme measures in Wuhan on Thursday to try to halt the spread of the deadly coronavirus. 0.95

00:53:05.000 Ordering house-to-house searches, rounding up the sick, and warehousing them in enormous quarantine centers.

00:53:11.000 The urgent, seemingly improvised steps come amid a worsening humanitarian crisis in Wuhan, one exacerbated by tactics that have left the city of 11 million with a death rate from the coronavirus of 4.1% as of Thursday.

00:53:23.000 Staggeringly higher than the rest of the country's rate of 0.17%.

00:53:26.000 With the sick being herded into makeshift quarantine camps with minimal medical care, a growing sense of abandonment and fear has taken hold in Wuhan, fueling the sense that the city and the surrounding province of Hubei are being sacrificed for the greater good of China.

00:53:38.000 They're literally herding people into quarantine centers where they have basically no medical care and assuming that a lot of those people are just going to die because they don't have basic medical care.

00:53:47.000 Well done, communism.

00:53:48.000 Everybody was paying homage in the media to the fact that they built a hospital in 10 days.

00:53:52.000 Look what they can do when they put their minds to it.

00:53:53.000 Yes, and when you activate capitalism in that direction, you can do this stuff much faster and much better.

00:53:58.000 But basically, this entire city has now been turned into a quarantine center because communists Did not pass the information up the chain, because they did not make public the information, because they did not call for help for outside resources, and because they knew that in a pinch, they could always do something like this.

00:54:15.000 The harsh new moves in Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak, clearly signaled the ruling Communist Party's alarm that it had failed to gain control of the coronavirus epidemic, which has overwhelmed the country's healthcare system.

00:54:25.000 And threatened to paralyze China, the world's most populous country and second largest economy.

00:54:29.000 The steps were announced by the top official leading the country's response to the virus, Vice Premier Sun Chunlin, as she visited Wuhan on Thursday.

00:54:36.000 They evoked images of the emergency measures taken to combat the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic that killed tens of millions of people worldwide.

00:54:43.000 Despite the severity of the new measures, however, they offered no guarantee of success.

00:54:48.000 Apparently, this looked like a military campaign as Sun ordered medical workers to mobilize into round-the-clock shifts to visit each home in Wuhan, check the temperature of all residents, and interview close contacts of any infected patients.

00:55:00.000 Word of the new restrictions arrived as the people of Wuhan received an emotional gut punch from the news that a doctor who had warned of the outbreak in December and was silenced by police for it had died from coronavirus infection. 0.96

00:55:09.000 This is the other story that tells you how garbage communism is. 0.80

00:55:12.000 His name is Dr. Li Wenliang. 0.89

00:55:14.000 He issued a warning about the strange new virus back in December.

00:55:17.000 He was called up by the cops.

00:55:19.000 He was arrested.

00:55:20.000 He was silenced.

00:55:22.000 Again, according to the New York Times, he was the doctor who tried to sound a warning that a troubled cluster of viral infections in a Chinese province could grow out of control and was then summoned for a middle-of-the-night reprimand over his candor.

00:55:32.000 Because in China, first rule, protect the party.

00:55:35.000 Never make the party look bad.

00:55:37.000 Disease doesn't exist in China, just as poverty didn't exist in the Soviet Union.

00:55:41.000 Just as everything's working fine in the Soviet Union, bread lines are good. 0.96

00:55:45.000 Everybody gets bread.

00:55:47.000 Because the first priority is the protection of the party, and because the government can never be wrong, because the solution to all problems is the government, that means that if you point out a problem, and you make it public, and you make it public that the government isn't doing anything about the problem, you are the problem.

00:56:02.000 On Friday, this doctor, Li Wenliang, died after contracting the very illness he had told medical school classmates about in an online chatroom, the coronavirus.

00:56:09.000 He joined the more than 600 other Chinese who have died in an outbreak that has now spread across the globe.

00:56:14.000 According to Wuhan Central City Hospital, Dr. Li had the misfortune to be infected during the fight against the novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic, and all-out efforts to save him failed.

00:56:23.000 We express our deep regret and condolences.

00:56:25.000 In early January, he was called in by both medical officials and the cops, and forced to sign a statement denouncing his warning as an unfounded and illegal rumor.

00:56:34.000 Top-down systems of government control.

00:56:36.000 Aren't they wonderful?

00:56:38.000 He points out that there's a problem, and the first reaction is, call him in and have the medical authorities shut him down.

00:56:43.000 But they're scientists, guys.

00:56:44.000 They're bureaucrats.

00:56:45.000 Scientific bureaucrats.

00:56:46.000 And we should always trust them, rather than people who are attempting to alert us to real danger.

00:56:51.000 One commenter posted in reply to the hospital's announcement.

00:56:53.000 We'll not forget the doctor who spoke up about an illness that was called Rumor.

00:56:56.000 What else can we do?

00:56:57.000 The only thing is not to forget.

00:57:00.000 Dr. Li was 34.

00:57:01.000 He was expecting a second child with his wife.

00:57:03.000 He had been a relatively obscure ophthalmologist in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province and the epicenter of the coronavirus.

00:57:09.000 But in recent weeks, he became a potent icon for Chinese people, angry that a viral outbreak had swelled unchecked.

00:57:15.000 into a full-blown crisis and that the doctor who had spoken out was initially punished.

00:57:20.000 His death poses a singularly delicate issue for the Chinese government.

00:57:22.000 Even as officials have battled the epidemic, they've also tried to stifle widespread criticism that they mismanaged their response to the initial outbreak in Wuhan, a city of 11 million.

00:57:31.000 And in recent days, they've stepped up censorship again, which is always good news because lack of information for the general public when a pandemic is in the offing is always good for the world.

00:57:39.000 After a rush of online criticism and investigative reports by emboldened Chinese journalists exposed to missteps by officials who underestimated and underplayed the threat of the coronavirus.

00:57:49.000 Dr. Lee's death has also exposed a troubling aspect of the epidemic that goes unmentioned in official statistics, the number of doctors and nurses and medical workers infected by the virus.

00:57:57.000 Some unverified pictures of what appear to be government data have indicated that hundreds of hospital workers may have been infected in Wuhan.

00:58:03.000 And this would be a particularly grave example of the government failing these doctors and nurses if they knew that this coronavirus was particularly virulent.

00:58:11.000 And if they knew how to protect their doctors and nurses in the first place and they didn't tell anybody, well, then those deaths are on their hands.

00:58:16.000 Earlier in the outbreak, a prominent infectious disease expert said a single patient had infected 14 medical workers at one hospital.

00:58:23.000 The median of patients is between 49 and 56, but Dr. Li was unusually young to be infected by this.

00:58:30.000 He said on December 30th in a chat room that this resembled SARS, not long after his reprimand he was vindicated as thousands of Wuhan residents fell ill with fever and pneumonia symptoms.

00:58:41.000 When the announcement came that he had died, many comments accused the authorities of having sought to prolong Dr. Lee's life until deep into the night to hide the news of his death.

00:58:49.000 Again, China is a horrible country to live in. 1.00

00:58:53.000 We try to pretend that they are not a horrible country because presumably we don't want to acknowledge that they are a nascent Soviet Union, just in a different part of the world.

00:59:02.000 But as much as we try to pretend they will be what they will be, and that country is a one-party dictatorship, The communism, always a failure, always a giant fail.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - February 07, 2020

Mr. Trump’s Wild Ride | Ep. 949

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