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00:00:28.000Okay, so we have now reached the point where impeachment might at some point be given to the Senate.
00:00:34.000I mean, I can't say that it's actually gonna happen, that, you know, the impeachment charges will be handed by Nancy Pelosi to the Senate, because she's still playing this idiotic game where she's like, maybe I'll hand it to them, but maybe I won't, but maybe I will, but maybe I won't.
00:01:23.000Eggshells, baby poop, custard, like everything is in the cake, okay?
00:01:26.000And everybody knows that it's in the cake.
00:01:28.000So, Nancy Pelosi thought, well, Probably they will dig something up.
00:01:31.000It turns out they didn't dig up anything that was supremely to the point of impeachment damning.
00:01:35.000They dug up some stuff that probably could have gotten him censured in the House, maybe even censured in the Senate, but nothing that merited impeachment.
00:01:42.000And so now Nancy Pelosi is stuck with this conundrum.
00:01:45.000If she submits these articles of impeachment to the Senate and the Senate just dismisses them immediately, then this thing is over.
00:01:50.000And she was a giant failure because she has declared herself a very important person for having pursued this nonsense.
00:01:56.000If, however, she holds this thing back and doesn't submit it to the Senate, then I guess in her own mind, she looks stubborn.
00:02:02.000I guess in her own mind, she looks like she's trying to play brinksmanship with Mitch McConnell, but she doesn't have any leverage.
00:02:15.000She's been too busy to go to San Francisco 49ers games.
00:02:18.000By the way, not too busy to go to fundraisers, not too busy to mouth off about how her home city of San Francisco is being run beautifully despite feces and needles on the street.
00:02:25.000But she's saving the country, is Nancy Pelosi.
00:02:28.000So here is Nancy Pelosi explaining yesterday that her gambit of not handing the impeachment charges to the Senate is somehow saving America.
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00:02:51.000I have, unfortunately, responsibilities to save our country this weekend, so I'm wearing my Democratic hat of political leader this weekend.
00:03:08.000She has responsibilities to save the country this weekend.
00:03:14.000The same members of the media who term Ruth Bader Ginsburg the notorious RBG suggest that Nancy Pelosi is somehow saving the country with this idiotic gambit.
00:03:23.000We'll get to more of Nancy Pelosi in just one second.
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00:04:48.000Okay, so Nancy Pelosi says that she will, at some point, send the impeachment charges over, but not right now because, like, right now's bad because it's just bad, guys.
00:04:57.000And when asked about her strategy, she's like, I have a strategy.
00:05:16.000I don't, you know, he said, if you don't send him over, I'm going to pass the Mexico-U.S. Canada trade agreement.
00:05:22.000OK, but we want to see what they're willing to do.
00:05:28.000OK, and you can see her with her hands.
00:05:30.000She's fumbling with things on the podium.
00:05:31.000She knows, she knows that she has put herself in this idiotic strategic box.
00:05:37.000And so the only tool that she has left is clubbing her Democratic colleagues into submission.
00:05:40.000So yesterday, there's a Democratic representative who made the crucial error, his name was Adam Smith, of suggesting on live television that the Speaker of the House should move along the charges.
00:05:52.000And then, within hours, he was walking that thing back because Nancy Pelosi called him up and said, you can't do that.
00:05:59.000I do believe we should do everything we can to force the Senate to have a fair trial.
00:06:03.000If the Speaker believes that holding onto the articles for a longer time will help force a fair trial in the Senate, then I wholeheartedly support that decision.
00:06:10.000I'm concerned that Senator McConnell won't have a fair trial.
00:06:13.000I'm with the Speaker that we should do everything we can to ensure he does.
00:06:16.000Ultimately, says Representative Adam Smith, I do want the article sent to the Senate for the very simple reason that I want the impeachment process to go forward.
00:06:22.000So reiterating his original position, but bending over backwards in order to please Nancy Pelosi.
00:07:12.000Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell signed on to Senator Josh Howley's resolution yesterday to change the Senate rules, which would allow the Senate to vote to dismiss the Democrats' articles of impeachment if Nancy Pelosi has not submitted the articles of impeachment within the next 25 days, according to Ryan Saavedra over at Daily Wire.
00:07:25.000New York Times reporter Nicholas Fandos reported on Thursday that McConnell had signed on to the resolution as a co-sponsor to change the Senate impeachment rules to allow the chamber to dismiss the House's articles if they are not sent over within 25 days.
00:07:37.000Now, one of the reasons that's important is because there's been a lot of speculation.
00:07:40.000Could Nancy Pelosi just hold the impeachment charges for like three years until Democrats eventually gain control of the Senate and then they impeach Trump if he's re-elected?
00:08:02.000The Equal Rights Amendment, which did not pass back in the late 1970s.
00:08:05.000Well now, Democrats have tried to revive in a few states the Equal Rights Amendment, and then suggested that they have the supermajority of states approving the Equal Rights Amendment.
00:08:14.000It's been a 40-year delay, and the original Equal Rights Amendment proposal by the United States Senate contained within it an expiration date.
00:08:21.000But this is something the Democrats actually have done in the past.
00:08:23.000They've tried to bring up old legislation and then pass it as though it were new.
00:08:26.000So McConnell is saying about impeachment, here, we'll just dismiss it, okay?
00:08:29.000If you're not going to do this, we'll dismiss it.
00:08:31.000We'll take up your bill as though you had submitted it to us, and then we'll just dismiss it, and we'll change the Senate rules.
00:08:36.000In order to do so, McConnell slammed Pelosi for spending, quote, 12 weeks undermining the institution of the presidency with a historically unfair and subjective impeachment.
00:08:43.000And now for the sequel, they've come after the institution of the Senate as well.
00:08:47.000When you step back from the political noise and the pundits discussing leverage that never existed, what have House Democrats actually done?
00:08:52.000He said this is what they've actually done.
00:08:54.000They initiated one of the most grave and unsettling processes in our Constitution and then refused to allow a resolution.
00:09:00.000The speaker began something she herself predicted would be so divisive to the country, and now she's unilaterally saying it cannot move forward toward resolution, which of course is true.
00:09:07.000Now, this is not going to stop the media from proclaiming Nancy Pelosi a full-scale Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein-style genius.
00:09:14.000Time magazine has a cover story with a glowing picture of Nancy Pelosi.
00:09:31.000And the entire piece is just this boring, annoying pandering to Nancy Pelosi.
00:09:36.000Everything that she does is brilliant and wonderful.
00:09:39.000Everything she does is draped in genius.
00:09:42.000According to Molly Ball, Pelosi has spent decades at the highest levels of politics, but the past 12 months have arguably been her most consequential.
00:09:50.000Returning to the speakership after eight years running the House Democratic minority, she established herself as a counterweight and constrainer of this divisive president.
00:10:00.000Which, by the way, were mostly overturned by the Supreme Court.
00:10:02.000And she was the tactician behind the investigation that resulted in Trump's impeachment on December 18th.
00:10:06.000She oversaw an unprecedented litigation effort against the executive branch, racking up landmark court victories, which, by the way, were mostly overturned by the Supreme Court.
00:10:13.000And she was the tactician behind the investigation that resulted in Trump's impeachment on December 18th.
00:10:19.000Can you imagine the tactical genius that it requires in order for you to get your own caucus to vote to impeach a president of the opposite party?
00:10:27.000I mean, it must just be tactical genius.
00:10:28.000I mean, this person, she's like the George Patton of politics.
00:10:59.000Nancy Pelosi understands it's going nowhere, which is why she's not pushing this to the Senate.
00:11:03.000Because the moment it's taken up by the Senate, we are one week away from this whole thing being over, and then the attention turns back to the Democrats and the fact that they have a bunch of garbage candidates running for president, and the economy is strong, and President Trump has taken out the two top terrorists on planet Earth in the last four months.
00:11:19.000They want the impeachment in the news, but they don't want it in the news so much that people actually look at the fact that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats do not have a proper case.
00:11:26.000In just one second, we're going to get to the latest Democrat and media spin about President Trump and Soleimani because, of course, everything that Trump does, no matter how good, must be portrayed as bad and evil.
00:11:37.000We'll get to all of that in just one second.
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00:13:00.000Okay, so, in the effort to turn the Soleimani killing, which ended with the Iranians backing down, into a loss for President Trump, The Democrats and the media will seize on literally anything in the most disgusting, despicable fashion.
00:13:13.000I mean, this really is disgusting and despicable.
00:13:16.000So yesterday, it turned out that there was a Ukrainian jetliner that crashed near Tehran on Tuesday, right, in the middle of these missile attacks that were being made by the Iranian government on Iraqi air bases.
00:13:28.000And the American government has now declared that it was likely that these were shot down by Iran.
00:13:34.000It's pretty obvious from the fuselage that it was shot down by Iran.
00:13:47.000Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose country lost at least 63 citizens in the downing, said in Ottawa, we have intelligence from multiple sources, including our allies and our own intelligence.
00:13:55.000The evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile.
00:13:59.000Likewise, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison offered similar statements.
00:14:04.000Morrison also said it appeared to be a mistake.
00:14:06.000All of the intelligence as presented to us today does not suggest an intentional act, which of course makes perfect sense.
00:14:10.000Why would you shoot down a plane originating from your own territory?
00:14:13.000This was somebody got trigger happy on the Iranian side while they were firing missiles, and they thought maybe that there was some something coming the other way, and they decided that they were going to shoot down a civilian airliner.
00:14:44.000That's Iran being a horrible dictatorship that was in the middle of firing missiles into a foreign country and decided, or somebody got trigger happy and shot down a civilian airliner.
00:15:54.000They didn't purposely shoot down the airliner, but their evil in attempting to retaliate for the killing of their terror leader led to them accidentally shooting down a civilian airliner and murdering a bunch of civilians.
00:16:04.000Members of the left are trying to blame President Trump for this.
00:16:08.000The headline at Huffington Post today is Collateral Damage, Scores of Civilians.
00:16:14.000The United States didn't do anything here.
00:16:16.000The United States didn't blow up the civilian airliner.
00:16:18.000The United States wasn't even firing anything into Iran.
00:16:21.000This happened over Iranian airspace, not even over Iraqi airspace.
00:16:25.000But according to the Huffington Post, the downed plane, which is solely the fault of the Iranians, is apparently Trump's fault.
00:16:31.000The Associated Press did the same thing.
00:16:34.000The Associated Press tweeted out, This is insane, sickening.
00:16:36.000Imagine having a family member on that plane.
00:16:38.000What began with a drone attack on a top Iranian general rippled outward until dozens of Iranian Canadians and dozens of Iranian students studying in Canada were dead.
00:16:46.000So in other words, if Trump had never hit Soleimani, then the airliner never gets downed.
00:16:51.000Alternatively, if Iran weren't a garbage terror regime that was intent on spreading terror across the region, none of this would have been a problem.
00:16:58.000Because guess where civilian airliners aren't getting downed by members of their own government?
00:17:39.000Every so often he sort of masquerades as a moderate, but that ain't who Pete Buttigieg is on the inside.
00:17:44.000Pete Buttigieg tweeted out, Innocent civilians are now dead because they were caught in the middle of an unnecessary and unwanted military tit-for-tat.
00:17:52.000The United States didn't fire any ordnance into Iran.
00:17:55.000We took out a terrorist bad guy in Iraq, Iran shoots down an airliner of its own airspace originating from Iranian airports, and that's the United States' fault?
00:18:06.000That is legitimately like saying that somebody comes and robs your house, you call the police, the police arrive at that other person's house, and when the police arrive, the person inside the house in an attempt to shoot the police shoots their own wife.
00:18:25.000Then Booty Judge says, my thoughts are with the families and loved ones of all 176 souls lost aboard this flight.
00:18:29.000Well, if your thoughts are with them, then maybe you should think about the fact that the regime that shot them down is the regime that is to blame for all of this.
00:18:41.000On the left, because Trump won a victory against Iran, because Iran backed down, because their terror leader is dead, they have to find something they can pin on Trump.
00:18:48.000They were trying to pin World War III on Trump.
00:18:50.000That was never going to materialize because the Iranians, more than anybody else, the Ayatollahs, did not want to go to full-scale war with President Trump.
00:18:56.000He had just vaporized their terror leader.
00:18:58.000The Ayatollahs did not want to end up in the same number of pieces that Soleimani ended up.
00:19:42.000The Wall Street Journal reports today that Trump was saying to people that he hit Soleimani in order to get wavering senators on his side for impeachment.
00:19:58.000Everything Trump does has to be turned into an L. It doesn't matter.
00:20:01.000If it's a big W, it has to be turned into an L by the media and by the Democrats, and so they'll come up with this strained logic where Iran shoots down an air—again, it was an Iranian-originating flight in Iranian airspace two minutes after takeoff, and it was accidental.
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00:21:58.000So as I say, the attempt to turn this win for Trump into a loss is pretty astonishing.
00:22:03.000I had on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the radio show.
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00:22:07.000I had Secretary of State Pompeo on the show yesterday and rightly he is bewildered by the media coverage of this because the media coverage of this is just egregious and so is the Democratic response.
00:22:17.000Representative Jackie Speier of California who really, I mean, has the intelligence of a potato.
00:22:22.000She was on with Wolf Blitzer explaining that it was Trump's fault that Iran shot down a passenger plane again originating from its own airport in its own airspace.
00:22:32.000If what is being projected is true, this is yet another example of collateral damage from the actions that have been taken in a provocative way by the president of the United States.
00:22:44.000OK, so the United States is normally when you say collateral damage, what you mean is that the United States didn't airstrike on a terror target.
00:23:15.000And yet the media are covering this as though this is Trump's fault because they got to find something to blame Trump for, even if it's just the Iranian government being a garbage terror regime.
00:23:22.000Sarah Rao, who once ran for Congress as a Democrat, she's the author of some books that nobody cares about, she tweeted out every single one of the 176 passengers on the Ukrainian plane that went down was murdered by Donald Trump.
00:23:36.000Because it seems like the piece of anti-aircraft ordnance that went through the plane had Iranian markings on it, happened on Iranian territory, in Iranian airspace, and there was nothing coming from the United States at all.
00:23:48.000She says, we have to start calling a thing a thing and stop pretending that this man and America are not the biggest terrorists in the world.
00:23:53.000America is the biggest terrorist in the world?
00:23:57.000Okay, you want a one-way ticket to Iran?
00:23:59.000I mean, I wouldn't take it, because it doesn't seem like they treat their airliners all that well, but there is a cadre of Americans who really, really blame America first for nearly everything, and it's disgusting.
00:24:31.000I mean, that was the fault of the terrorists.
00:24:34.000And that's especially not Obama's fault if you were fighting ISIS harder.
00:24:37.000The claim that Trump was too harsh on Iran, so Iran shot down accidentally its own airliner, so this is Trump's fault, is just patently insane.
00:24:44.000But again, the Democrats will do anything in order to blame Trump for what is obviously a win and suggest that everything was hunky-dory until this very moment, and then everything that goes wrong from the point at which Trump does a thing, that's all on Trump.
00:24:56.000The Democrats tend to read current events the same way they read history.
00:24:59.000So, Democrats, members of the media, what they do when they look at American history, for example, is they point to all of the bad things that have happened in American history.
00:25:36.000So it's always thrown into, for Democrats, for the media, it's always that everything can be blamed on America because they hone in on everything America does wrong.
00:25:44.000They never ever contrast what America does right with the rest of the world.
00:25:48.000So it becomes America's fault whenever anything goes wrong.
00:25:52.000That's a very convenient way of looking at the world if you wish to suggest that America needs to withdraw, that America's power in the world needs to be minimized, that America's history is egregious and bad all the way through.
00:26:02.000That myopic view is ugly and wrong and stupid, but it is pursued by a huge number of people these days, including former Secretary of State John Kerry, who has to insist that the world began spinning when Donald Trump became president.
00:26:14.000Until Trump became president, Everything was sort of Rousseau-ian paradise.
00:26:40.000Because I seem to remember a vast outbreak of Iranian terrorism all across the region, plus additional development of ballistic missile technology under the Iran nuclear deal that you promoted and lied to the American people about.
00:26:51.000But John Kerry says, President Trump says that on his watch, Iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.
00:26:57.000But if he had wanted to keep that promise, he should have left the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement in place.
00:27:03.000Instead, he pulled the United States out of the deal.
00:27:06.000That deal, at best, at best, had Iran voluntarily agreeing not to develop further its nuclear program until like 2023, 2025, somewhere in that period.
00:27:18.000And then, they could turn the spigots right back on, form those nuclear weapons, and they could be part of the world economy while doing it, and have expanded their terrorist regional power.
00:27:25.000The Iran nuclear deal was not even a band-aid.
00:27:28.000It was a misdirection from the key problem, which is that the Iranian regime is cancerous.
00:27:32.000But according to John Kerry, it's all about Trump.
00:27:35.000He says, after Mr. Trump authorized the killing of Major General Qasem Soleimani last week, Iran announced it was no longer obligated to follow the agreement.
00:27:45.000Though Mr. Trump has since walked back from the brink of war, I can't explain the chaos of his presidency as it lurches from crisis to crisis, real or manufactured.
00:27:56.000The president has said he doesn't do exit strategies, clearly.
00:28:21.000Let's get one straw man out of the way.
00:28:23.000General Soleimani was a sworn unapologetic enemy of the United States.
00:28:28.000A cagey field marshal who oversaw Iran's long strategy to extend the country's influence through sectarian proxies in the region.
00:28:36.000He won't be mourned or missed by anyone in the West.
00:28:39.000Occasionally, when American and Iranian interests aligned, we were certain to be disbeneficiaries of his relationships, but this was a rare exception.
00:28:49.000This underscores the tragic irony of Mr. Trump's decision to abrogate the nuclear agreement it played into General Soleimani's hardline strategy by weakening voices for diplomacy within the Tehran regime.
00:29:01.000So he's just going to keep going with this lie.
00:29:02.000This was the lie promoted by the Obama administration that there were hardliners and moderates and Obama had empowered the moderates.
00:29:20.000The moderates I see are the ones getting shot in the streets by the Iranian regime, propped up by the money that John Kerry and Barack Obama handed to them.
00:29:28.000It's all just a disastrous attempt to back Bill Obama's crap foreign policy.
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00:31:22.000So Politico reports the mostly party line vote on a symbolic non-binding resolution came days after Trump ordered the killing of top Iranian General Qasem Soleimani.
00:31:35.000Now, you want to hear how hypocritical and ridiculous the Democrats are on this point?
00:31:39.000I'm just going to play you a couple of clips of Nancy Pelosi.
00:31:41.000So yesterday, Nancy Pelosi said that this was an assassination and an assault on Iran.
00:31:45.000It was an assault on Iran to kill the terror leader who's been spreading terror, like literal death against American troops for years, who's been spreading terror across the region.
00:31:55.000His killing was an assassination, which means it was in violation of American law.
00:31:59.000The word assassination has actual legal ramifications because there are executive orders in place to prevent assassination of foreign officials.
00:32:05.000And she says it was an assault on Iran.
00:32:08.000Here's Nancy Pelosi saying we have to curtail Trump's war powers because Trump is the bad guy, despite the fact that Iran has been consistently pursuing terrorism across the region from administration to administration without cease.
00:32:19.000The United States had a high level, maybe the second most important person in the country, assassinated wherever the United States might consider that assault on our country, right?
00:32:36.000And the Iranians might as well, even though this took place at the Iraqi airport.
00:33:08.000And on that basis, she says we need a war powers resolution to restrain power.
00:33:12.000Now, as I said yesterday, if you're Senator Mike Lee, and it is your shtick, and it is, that the Constitution grants war-making power to Congress, and you have, across administrations, wanted that power brought back to Congress, I get it.
00:33:25.000I may disagree with his application of the rules, but he's a consistent person.
00:33:28.000Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats are just full of crap.
00:33:30.000Here's Nancy Pelosi flashback, like a couple of years, saying that Barack Obama not only did not need authorization to kill terrorists, he did not need congressional authorization to enter a full-scale air war in Libya.
00:33:41.000Forget about killing a terrorist, which is fully legal.
00:33:45.000Barack Obama did not need congressional authorization to conduct a full-scale war in Libya.
00:33:51.000This is Nancy Pelosi like five minutes ago.
00:33:54.000They are so full of bleep, it's unreal.
00:33:57.000Madam Speaker, Madam Leader, you're saying that the president did not need authorization initially and still does not need any authorization from Congress on Libya?
00:34:31.000The Democratic message is they are doing PR for the Iranian regime, which of course is not a surprise because the Obama administration routinely did PR for the Iranian regime.
00:34:39.000The Iran nuclear deal was predicated on the Obama administration lying to the American people that now all problems with Iran were solved, up to and including when they put American sailors on their knees, forced them to hold their hands behind their head as they took an American ship hostage.
00:34:53.000Okay, the fact is that Iranian terrorism around the region never ceased.
00:34:56.000And I'm sick to death of this notion that everything began when Trump became president, or when Trump did X, Y, or Z. Read a damned book, you idiots!
00:35:06.000Then you have- I mean, they're really doing- It's amazing.
00:35:09.000They're doing full- They should be paid.
00:35:11.000Honestly, if you're gonna do this, at least take the money.
00:35:13.000Elizabeth Warren, yesterday, who had to be bullied into admitting that Soleimani was a terrorist by Meghan McCain because nobody in the media will ask her a straight question because she's- She's Elizabeth Warren.
00:35:22.000She's got a plan for that, and she's the worst dancer in human history.
00:35:25.000She was doing an interview with that unbelievable journalistic outlet Cosmopolitan Magazine.
00:35:30.000So Cosmopolitan Magazine's cover was like, Elizabeth Warren speaks about Iran and also nine new sex positions that'll blow his mind.
00:35:37.000Here was Elizabeth Warren last night explaining that Soleimani was a bad guy, but he He was a high-ranking Iranian official and therefore we probably shouldn't have done this.
00:35:45.000It's not that he was a bad guy, it's that he was a terrorist.
00:36:13.000murdering hundreds of American troops.
00:36:14.000Here's Elizabeth Warren downplaying how bad Soleimani was in order to claim that he was just sort of a normal, bad, antagonistic official.
00:36:20.000No, Vladimir Putin is a bad guy who's a foreign official.
00:36:23.000This guy was pursuing terror building across the entire region.
00:36:27.000The principal job of the president of the United States is to keep America safe.
00:36:36.000And ordering the killing of Soleimani, who was a bad guy, but a high-ranking Iranian government official, has not made America safer.
00:36:51.000He was a bad guy, yeah, but he was a high-ranking government official.
00:36:54.000Who was the leader of their terrorist operation?
00:36:57.000Now, there are still a few sane Democrats out there.
00:36:59.000Democrat Max Rose from New York, for example.
00:37:01.000And he says, listen, I don't think that we need to limit presidential war powers here just because the President of the United States killed a terrorist.
00:37:10.000When it comes to congressional power, much of this power is found in appropriations.
00:37:15.000If Congress disagrees with a protracted and extensive war, and that's not what we see today with Iran, well, it has the power of the purse.
00:37:24.000And that's where Congress should exert itself.
00:37:27.000We should not be passaging resolutions like we just did today, which sends the message to the American people that we're on the brink of war.
00:37:51.000Even Jay Johnson, the Homeland Security Secretary under Barack Obama.
00:37:54.000Barack Obama, who used to do a drone war, killing terrorists routinely.
00:37:57.000Jay Johnson was like, yeah, of course it's legal for Trump to kill Soleimani.
00:37:59.000What is this nonsense where it's illegal, or it's an assassination, or it's an act of war for Trump to kill a terrorist?
00:38:05.000under existing office of legal counsel opinions on the president's constitutional authority to to engage the armed forces without a congressional authorization if you read those opinions he had ample constitutional authority to take out general solomoni if you regard that as an isolated uh... what these all well see opinions say is that the president can
00:38:31.000Take lethal force, so long as it's short of war, if it's in the important national interest.
00:38:42.000Even Jay Johnson, who's an Obama guy, is like, yeah, no, pretty fine, pretty fine.
00:38:47.000It's only the people who are defending Obama's overall strategy who have a problem with this, including all of the idiots in the media, Chris Cuomo.
00:38:53.000A living human log was on CNN last night explaining that every single person, if they were a patriot, should have voted for the War Powers Resolution.
00:39:00.000I remember him being super-exercised about the war in Libya.
00:39:03.000I remember him being super-exercised about Obama's drone war.
00:39:05.000I remember him saying, you know what we need?
00:39:08.000We need a rebalancing of legislative and executive power.
00:39:10.000Again, I'm fine with the principle of rebalancing legislative and executive power, although I think it would be very difficult to draw a standard under any circumstances.
00:39:19.000Under which the Constitution of the United States does not give the commander-in-chief the ability to make a quick strike against a terrorist.
00:39:24.000I think George Washington would have done it.
00:39:26.000Okay, but Chris Cuomo trying to suggest that he's just a constitutionalist.
00:39:30.000Why won't anyone stand up to this president for doing what is fully within his legal authority?
00:39:34.000And by the way, backing down the mullahs.
00:40:54.000Last word from the media goes, of course, to our friends, Chris Matthews.
00:40:58.000I was gonna say, so last night, he was very mad at Joaquin Castro to talk about this, had on some other lady I don't recognize, and come out here, sit on a rumpel, come out here to the show.
00:41:10.000I'm very upset about Soleimani's death.
00:41:12.000Soleimani, he was a very popular man, Soleimani.
00:41:16.000Let me tell you about Soleimani, how popular he was, why it's a bad idea because Soleimani was such a popular guy, so popular, probably held concerts with like millions of screaming women who are fainting in the aisles.
00:41:25.000You know, when some people die, we, you know, you don't know what the impact's going to be.
00:41:30.000When Princess Diana died, for example, there was a huge emotional outpouring.
00:41:35.000These kinds of... Elvis Presley in our culture.
00:41:38.000It turns out that this generally killed was a beloved hero of the Iranian people to the point where look at the people we've got pictures of now.
00:41:56.000He's like a beautiful, glamorous woman who died in a car crash, except for like an Iranian terrorist who murdered hundreds of people, but exactly the same otherwise.
00:42:20.000Then you wonder why America's like, when Trump rips on the media, yeah, okay, fine, fine.
00:42:25.000I never, I'm not an enemy of the people kind of guy.
00:42:28.000I've never liked that commentary from President Trump.
00:42:30.000I don't think that the members of the media are enemies of the people, but I think that in a lot of cases they are enemies of the truth and enemies of decency and enemies of morality.
00:42:37.000And when you're parroting democratic narratives because your nose is so far up Barack Obama's ass that it's coming out his mouth, I think at that point you've lost a lot of credibility, haven't you?
00:42:47.000Okay, President Trump did a rally last night.
00:42:53.000He says, it's a good thing for Iran, nobody was hurt, because if somebody had gotten hurt, this is actually before the rallies at the White House, he says, if somebody had gotten hurt, then this story would have been very different, which is why, by the way, so I interviewed Secretary Pompeo last night on the radio show.
00:43:08.000And Secretary Pompeo, I asked him directly whether the Iranian government had issued pre-warnings to the Iraqi government to get everybody out of the way.
00:43:16.000And then he said, well, I'll go with what the defense secretary has said, which is that they were aiming to kill people.
00:43:21.000Okay, well, with all due respect to members of the administration, they're saying what they have to say, because if you wish to ratchet down tensions with the Iranians, you let them save face by saying, yeah, they aimed at us, but they just missed, they were just really bad at it.
00:43:32.000But, there have been multiple reports, these are reports that I tend to believe, that the Iranians called up the Iraqis, they said, we're gonna fire a few missiles into your territory, you're gonna let it go, and then we'll all go home happy.
00:43:41.000Here's Donald Trump saying, fortunately for them, nobody was hurt, because if somebody had been hurt, then they would be in a world of hurt.
00:43:48.000If you look at what happened with Ukraine, that's a hoax.
00:44:12.000So, President Trump then did a rally last night in which he got a little more fired up, and he said, you know, all you whiners in the media, it was amazing.
00:44:20.000So, there's a congressperson, Well, Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut, and he was tweeting out the day that the U.S.
00:44:27.000Embassy was burning in Baghdad that this was just proof that Trump was weak.
00:44:31.000Okay, then Trump kills Soleimani and Chris Murphy turns around, he's like, I can't believe that he would be so mean and so terrible.
00:44:36.000Trump was like, okay, you guys let Benghazi happen.
00:44:40.000Not only did you let Benghazi happen, you then lied about it to the American people for months on end.
00:44:43.000And then members of the media would mock anybody who had questions about the lying by the Obama administration and whether they had taken proper precautions in the first place.
00:44:50.000Don't you remember all of those Twitter memes where people would use the letters Benghazi and they would tweet them vertically with silly words in the middle because it was all a myth.
00:44:59.000Why would we possibly be worried about Benghazi?
00:45:01.000And then the minute that the embassy was burning in Baghdad, it was like, oh, this is Trump's Benghazi.
00:45:05.000Here was Trump saying, no, it wasn't my Benghazi because the difference is I'm not a pansy.
00:45:09.000He ordered the violent assault on the American embassy in Baghdad.
00:45:13.000And you saw this was the anti-Benghazi.
00:45:25.000We did it exactly the opposite of Benghazi, where they got there so late.
00:45:31.000All they saw when they got there days later were burning embers from days before.
00:45:38.000Okay, President Trump is correct about this.
00:45:39.000And then President Trump goes after Bernie Sanders and Nancy Pelosi, both of whom have been suggesting that Trump is the aggressor in the region.
00:45:45.000And he's like, you know, you guys are whining an awful lot for, you could just say thank you for me taking out Soleimani and us not going to war.
00:46:40.000There were several examples of the Obama administration Well, I don't think that the gang of eight was then going to go and talk to the New York Times or the Washington Post if he was going to hit Soleimani.
00:46:59.000I can't help but think that there is an itch at the back of my mind that says that was in fact a very, very slight possibility.
00:47:06.000President Trump then gives the real excuse, which is, listen, when Soleimani comes up, and this happens like an hour out, I don't have time to call up all of the Democrats and be like, what do you think I should do about Soleimani?
00:48:00.000The Democrats right now are defending that they're defending the Iranian regime against the president of the United States taking out their top terrorist.
00:48:08.000That is in effect what they are doing, because we already know they're still operating from this ridiculous position they had four days ago, where World War Three was imminent.
00:48:18.000And yet they're still operating from that position.
00:48:20.000And so they're just going to keep lying about it, and the American people are going to have to make a decision.
00:48:23.000Do you want a president who's going to back Iran off its marks, or do you want a president who's going to sign them checks?
00:48:28.000Those are your two choices, because the Democrats have made very clear what their choice should be.
00:48:33.000I mean, the key Democrat here would be, in the end, Ilhan Omar, who was explaining yesterday that sanctions on Iran are an act of war, but sanctions against Israel are very good.
00:48:41.000This lady sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee and was praised by Nancy Pelosi.
00:48:45.000The PDS movement is a movement that is driven by the people.
00:48:53.000The sanctions on Iran are sanctions that are being placed to create maximum pressure by a government.
00:49:05.000Those would be governmental sanctions.
00:49:07.000Institutional sanctions being pressed for by members like Ilhan Omar.
00:49:10.000She doesn't care about the distinction between popular movements and the... You think she'd be sad if the United States placed sanctions on Israel tomorrow?
00:49:17.000You really think that she'd be like, oh, the poor Jews.
00:51:23.000I'm not a sexist, I'd never make fun of a woman dancing as though she's been hit with some sort of galvanizing frog electricity and spasming.
00:51:33.000How dare you make fun of this incredible dancer?
00:51:36.000How dare you make fun of a woman going... How dare you?
00:51:59.000It is called One Child Nation, and it is a deep look inside China's evil policy from the 1970s to 2015 that mandated That Chinese couples only have one baby.
00:52:09.000This resulted in something like 350 million forced abortions inside the country of China.
00:52:15.000It resulted in families abandoning their female children to death.
00:52:24.000Taking the babies, throwing them in garbage pits.
00:52:26.000Taking the babies, taking them to the market, leaving them there, and then letting them die.
00:52:29.000The person who created this documentary had direct relatives.
00:52:33.000She had an aunt on one side and an uncle on the other side.
00:52:36.000Her uncle actually abandoned a female child at the market.
00:52:38.000The child died two days later of exposure and lack of nutrition because not a single person in the village would take the female child because of the one-child policy in China.
00:52:48.000And what's amazing about the documentary, and what remains true, is that by pulling data, if it were to be taken, these policies remain pretty popular in China.
00:52:56.000Because it turns out that human beings are incredibly malleable when it comes to their morality.
00:53:00.000And when people are informed, through propaganda, for decades on end, that infanticide is just a necessary part of heightening the collective, people will go along even with that.
00:53:09.000It's why you see similar polls in Russia talking about the popularity of Stalin, who's only responsible for the deaths of 20 million minimum.
00:53:22.000Also, if you are a pro-choice person, if you are a pro-abortion person, this is the only documentary I've ever seen where people will actually show what fetuses look like.
00:53:29.000Because, according to the leftist western way of morality, abortion is only bad if it's forced.
00:53:37.000At no point does the left actually come face-to-face with what it is that they are aborting.
00:53:40.000In this documentary, there are actual videos of babies, fetuses that were recovered from dump sites.
00:53:47.000There's an artist in China who recovered these babies, these living human beings who were murdered, and preserved them in formaldehydes that he could show people what these babies look like.
00:54:22.000And when people pretend that the Chinese regime is somehow a lot more benign than the USSR, absolutely untrue, remains untrue to this day.
00:54:29.000Here's the trailer from the documentary.
00:54:30.000It's disturbing, it's heartbreaking, and it's a reminder that you are so lucky to live in the West, and most of all, your children are so lucky to live in the West, and you have the same duty to protect life in a free country that you would in a non-free country.
00:54:44.000I was born in China in 1985, a time when China's population crisis was making headlines around the world.
00:54:52.000In an effort to protect its people from starvation, China has enacted a policy limiting families to just one child.
00:55:01.000I never thought much about what the policy meant for me or anyone until I learned that I was going to be a mom.
00:55:14.000None of my family questioned the policy or how it was implemented.
00:55:21.000This documentary has effectively been banned in China.
00:55:23.000They're not covering the fact that it was shortlisted for the Oscar.
00:55:25.000There's no question it should win the best Oscar for documentaries.
00:55:29.000I would be surprised if it does simply because it is incredibly pro-life.
00:55:33.000And it has to be pro-life because the Chinese government was anti-life and remains anti-life.
00:55:38.000The evils of collectivism, the evils that human beings will allow in the name of collectivism, truly, truly disturbing.
00:55:47.000You should get everybody you know to watch it.
00:56:33.000And it is the very end of the book of Genesis when Jacob blesses his kids.
00:56:37.000And it's sort of fascinating because when Jacob blesses his kids, if you're going to bless your kids, You would think, first and foremost, what advice would I give them?
00:56:44.000What would I tell them that I think they should know in order to succeed in life?
00:56:48.000What are the things that I would impart to my kids that give them the best shot at success?
00:56:54.000If you read the blessings, what Jacob does is he does bless them with specific blessings, but he begins by describing each of the kids.
00:57:01.000And he doesn't describe them in glowing terms.
00:57:03.000He talks about Simon and Levi, he talks about Shimon and Levi, and he talks about how vindictive they are and how likely they are to be angry.
00:57:11.000He talks about how Ephraim and Manasseh, the kids of Joseph, he talks about how the younger will be greater than the older.
00:57:47.000He talks about Ephraim and Manasseh, and he brings them into the family, or he takes his grandkids and he makes them equivalent to his sons, and then he suggests that Manasseh will be greater than Ephraim and all the rest.
00:57:58.000It really is, sort of, he crosses his hands in order to bless one with his right hand as opposed to his left hand.
00:58:15.000Some people can't even hit a 10-foot jump shot, right?
00:58:17.000The fact is that we all have different qualities.
00:58:20.000And the cause that has unified so many people across the world for a lot of time is to rectify these cosmic imbalances, what Thomas Sowell called the quest for cosmic justice, trying to suggest that with the heavy hand of collectivism, with the heavy hand of government, we can reestablish a baseline equality, not of rights, not that we all have equal we can reestablish a baseline equality, not of rights, not that we all have equal access to use our rights, but a baseline And what this means is that if there is any disparate outcome for any people at all, some injustice has been done somewhere.
00:58:51.000John Rawls famously suggested the morality was to be placed behind the quote unquote veil of ignorance, that we should design a human system where you didn't know if you were going to be smart or whether you're going to be stupid, whether you didn't know whether you're going to be rich or whether you're going to be poor, that the best way to design a moral system was to operate from a morality where you didn't know where you were going to be in the that the best way to design a moral system was to operate from a morality where you didn't know Well, that does tend toward a collectivism and a mentality of collectivism, because if you don't know if you're poor or rich, then you're going to suggest, well, you know, it'd be great if everybody made the same.
00:59:20.000Then it doesn't matter if I'm born stupid or if I'm born smart.
00:59:27.000Jacob is saying, if you want to succeed in life, this is so true.
00:59:31.000If you want to succeed in life, know your own qualities, know your own shortcomings, deal with the fact that you have these shortcomings and that you have these qualities, and then operate in the universe on the basis of what it is that you are capable of doing and what you are not capable of doing.
00:59:44.000And don't try to invade the rights of people who may have more in one area or less in a different area.
00:59:49.000Instead, recognize that one of the beauties of human existence is the diversity between all of these various categories.
00:59:55.000And one of the things that the free market does, through comparative advantage, beautifully, is it enacts the ability for people who have variant qualities to provide to each other.
01:00:05.000This is one of the beautiful things about comparative advantage that people don't tend to understand.
01:00:09.000If you are great, let's say you're very high IQ, and you're great at a lot of things.
01:00:17.000Well, what comparative advantage says is, sure, you could probably be a better plumber than the guy who's slightly lower IQ, but is that the best use of your time?
01:00:24.000Rather, you should specialize in the thing that you are best at, and he will specialize in the thing that he is best at, and therefore, you only have to trade a small chunk of your time for plumbing, and he can trade a large chunk of his time for plumbing, and you're both better off.
01:00:36.000Comparative advantage takes into account the fact that human beings are created diverse by nature or by God, depending on how you believe.
01:00:44.000This is the way to run a system because once you start assuming that the root of all evil is baseline natural inequality of human beings in terms of their actual qualities, not in terms of rights, in terms of their actual qualities.
01:00:55.000Once you assume that that is inherently a bad thing and must be cured by some overarching authority that God did it wrong and that the best way for us to cure this is to construct a system that makes up for certain deficiencies among all human beings.
01:01:07.000Because again, we are all created different with different qualities.
01:01:09.000That's how you end up with China's one-child policy.
01:01:12.000That's how you end up with full-scale tyranny.
01:01:15.000And the way that you end up with diversity is by acknowledging that people are different.
01:01:19.000And yes, that means that some people will be more successful than others.
01:01:22.000And yes, that means that some people are going to have an easier time in life than others.
01:01:25.000But what it also means is that if you are one of the people who is born without, people will appreciate you for what it is that you are capable of doing rather than seeing you as a leech on their own efforts.
01:01:35.000It is the equality of rights that guarantees that we treat each other equally.
01:01:40.000As human beings, in society, because if I feel like the government is just taking away my stuff to give it to you because they're trying to correct for something that I can't control and you can't control, then the society basically is divided between the people who are living off people and the people who are providing to those people.
01:01:57.000The basic Marxist notion, from each according to his ability to each according to his need, is unworkable in terms of having a friendly, decent society.
01:02:05.000It is just not workable without enormous amounts of coercion.
01:02:08.000Because what you're essentially saying is that there's a group of people who are leeching off another group of people.
01:02:11.000But, if you recognize that in the diversity of humankind, you know, barring the people who we must take care of, people who are, of course, cannot take care of themselves, people who are ill, people who have mental illness or serious deficiencies such that they cannot contribute in an economy, if you actually Want to construct a society where we all have respect for one another?
01:02:29.000We have to respect each other for our strengths, and yes, for our shortcomings.
01:02:32.000We have to understand that we don't have an unlimited amount of time on this planet.
01:02:40.000But I'm not going to pretend that all of you are equal in all of your capacities because you're not.
01:02:44.000Instead, I'm going to describe to you what you are, and if you want to be successful in life, you need to take a hard look at who you are as a human being, and then you need to try and correct for your own flaws, and then you need to try and maximize your own possibilities, and you need to respect your brothers for doing the same.