The Ben Shapiro Show - Nancy And The Giant Impeachment | Ep. 929

00:00:00.000 Nancy Pelosi is hailed as a genius while pursuing an idiotic impeachment gambit. 1.00

00:00:04.000 Members of the media blame Trump for Iran accidentally shooting down a civilian airliner. 0.99

00:00:09.000 And Congressional Democrats suddenly object to executive war-making power.

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00:00:28.000 Okay, so we have now reached the point where impeachment might at some point be given to the Senate.

00:00:34.000 I 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.

00:00:45.000 Make up your mind, lady. 0.85

00:00:47.000 Which is it?

00:00:47.000 Even members of Nancy Pelosi's own party are starting to look at her like, is there a strategy to any of this?

00:00:51.000 Or are you just kind of winging it?

00:00:53.000 Like, what was this?

00:00:54.000 Here's the problem for Nancy Pelosi. 0.96

00:00:56.000 Originally, when she launched this impeachment effort, she figured that it was a low-risk High reward gambit.

00:01:03.000 That basically, no matter what happened, she was gonna be on good terms with her own base.

00:01:07.000 Because something super damaging would come out about Trump.

00:01:09.000 Something damaging enough that would really hurt him for 2020.

00:01:12.000 So even if they impeached him in the House and he was acquitted in the Senate, it would hurt Trump going forward.

00:01:16.000 There's only one problem.

00:01:17.000 Trump's poll numbers have been absolutely stable.

00:01:19.000 Everything in the world is baked into this cake when it comes to Trump.

00:01:22.000 Everything. 0.63

00:01:23.000 Eggshells, baby poop, custard, like everything is in the cake, okay?

00:01:26.000 And everybody knows that it's in the cake.

00:01:28.000 So, Nancy Pelosi thought, well, Probably they will dig something up.

00:01:31.000 It turns out they didn't dig up anything that was supremely to the point of impeachment damning.

00:01:35.000 They 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.

00:01:42.000 And so now Nancy Pelosi is stuck with this conundrum.

00:01:45.000 If she submits these articles of impeachment to the Senate and the Senate just dismisses them immediately, then this thing is over.

00:01:50.000 And she was a giant failure because she has declared herself a very important person for having pursued this nonsense.

00:01:56.000 If, however, she holds this thing back and doesn't submit it to the Senate, then I guess in her own mind, she looks stubborn.

00:02:02.000 I guess in her own mind, she looks like she's trying to play brinksmanship with Mitch McConnell, but she doesn't have any leverage. 1.00

00:02:08.000 The whole thing is idiotic. 0.99

00:02:09.000 So here was Nancy Pelosi yesterday explaining that she was actually saving the country with this impeachment effort. 1.00

00:02:14.000 She's been busy.

00:02:15.000 She's been too busy to go to San Francisco 49ers games.

00:02:18.000 By 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.

00:02:25.000 But she's saving the country, is Nancy Pelosi.

00:02:28.000 So here is Nancy Pelosi explaining yesterday that her gambit of not handing the impeachment charges to the Senate is somehow saving America.

00:02:37.000 You're going to the Niners game?

00:02:40.000 It would be my intention to go.

00:02:42.000 I went to one game in San Francisco.

00:02:45.000 We watched all together the second game in Seattle.

00:02:51.000 I have, unfortunately, responsibilities to save our country this weekend, so I'm wearing my Democratic hat of political leader this weekend.

00:03:08.000 She has responsibilities to save the country this weekend.

00:03:11.000 Oh, the superhero! 1.00

00:03:14.000 The 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. 0.99

00:03:23.000 We'll get to more of Nancy Pelosi in just one second. 0.98

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00:04:48.000 Okay, 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.

00:04:57.000 And when asked about her strategy, she's like, I have a strategy.

00:04:59.000 It's in my head.

00:05:00.000 It's the most brilliant strategy you ever heard.

00:05:02.000 No, I'm not holding them indefinitely.

00:05:03.000 I'll send them over when I'm ready.

00:05:04.000 playing there, because it sounds like Trump.

00:05:05.000 Here's Nancy Pelosi doing her routine. 0.98

00:05:08.000 No, I'm not holding indefinitely.

00:05:12.000 I'll send him over when I'm ready.

00:05:14.000 And that will probably be soon.

00:05:16.000 I 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.

00:05:22.000 OK, but we want to see what they're willing to do.

00:05:28.000 OK, and you can see her with her hands. 0.90

00:05:30.000 She's fumbling with things on the podium. 1.00

00:05:31.000 She knows, she knows that she has put herself in this idiotic strategic box. 1.00

00:05:37.000 And so the only tool that she has left is clubbing her Democratic colleagues into submission. 1.00

00:05:40.000 So 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.

00:05:52.000 And then, within hours, he was walking that thing back because Nancy Pelosi called him up and said, you can't do that.

00:05:57.000 So he wrote a tweet.

00:05:58.000 He said, I misspoke this morning.

00:05:59.000 I do believe we should do everything we can to force the Senate to have a fair trial.

00:06:03.000 If 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.

00:06:10.000 I'm concerned that Senator McConnell won't have a fair trial.

00:06:13.000 I'm with the Speaker that we should do everything we can to ensure he does.

00:06:16.000 Ultimately, 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.

00:06:22.000 So reiterating his original position, but bending over backwards in order to please Nancy Pelosi.

00:06:28.000 All of this is a mess.

00:06:29.000 It's a mess.

00:06:30.000 CNN's Don Lemon even was puzzled last night saying, I'm confused.

00:06:33.000 So if she hands over the charges, is she caving?

00:06:35.000 If she doesn't hand over the charges, is she somehow doing something strongly?

00:06:38.000 What is going on here?

00:06:39.000 Leader McConnell, he's not giving in to Nancy Pelosi's demands.

00:06:43.000 So if she sends the articles without knowing what's happening in the trial, isn't he getting exactly what he wants?

00:06:50.000 For now, it sure seems like that.

00:06:51.000 And I think if you were making a prediction, you would say this is going to be an impeachment trial, probably without witnesses.

00:06:57.000 OK, so again, this puts Pelosi in a position where she has now set up a standard for herself she can't meet.

00:07:03.000 Because if she doesn't submit the impeachment charges, then McConnell just moves on with his day.

00:07:07.000 And if she does submit the impeachment charges, then McConnell moves on with his day.

00:07:10.000 So she has no leverage whatsoever.

00:07:12.000 Senate 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.

00:07:25.000 New 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.

00:07:37.000 Now, one of the reasons that's important is because there's been a lot of speculation.

00:07:40.000 Could 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? 1.00

00:07:48.000 Could they just do that?

00:07:50.000 Like, let's say the Democrats lose the House but gain the Senate.

00:07:52.000 Could they actually act on old impeachment charges?

00:07:55.000 There are all these kind of weird vagaries in American law this way.

00:07:57.000 Right now, there's a big debate that's about to happen over the Equal Rights Amendment.

00:08:01.000 Yes, you heard that right.

00:08:02.000 The Equal Rights Amendment, which did not pass back in the late 1970s.

00:08:05.000 Well 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.

00:08:13.000 There's only one problem.

00:08:14.000 It's been a 40-year delay, and the original Equal Rights Amendment proposal by the United States Senate contained within it an expiration date.

00:08:21.000 But this is something the Democrats actually have done in the past.

00:08:23.000 They've tried to bring up old legislation and then pass it as though it were new.

00:08:26.000 So McConnell is saying about impeachment, here, we'll just dismiss it, okay?

00:08:29.000 If you're not going to do this, we'll dismiss it.

00:08:31.000 We'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.

00:08:36.000 In 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.

00:08:43.000 And now for the sequel, they've come after the institution of the Senate as well.

00:08:47.000 When you step back from the political noise and the pundits discussing leverage that never existed, what have House Democrats actually done?

00:08:52.000 He said this is what they've actually done.

00:08:54.000 They initiated one of the most grave and unsettling processes in our Constitution and then refused to allow a resolution.

00:09:00.000 The 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.

00:09:07.000 Now, this is not going to stop the media from proclaiming Nancy Pelosi a full-scale Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein-style genius. 0.97

00:09:14.000 Time magazine has a cover story with a glowing picture of Nancy Pelosi.

00:09:17.000 I mean, it's so beautiful.

00:09:20.000 The picture online is a picture of her backlit a little bit so you get the halo around her head.

00:09:25.000 It's just gorgeous.

00:09:26.000 And it's called, We've Upped the Ante.

00:09:28.000 Why, Nancy Pelosi is going all in against Trump. 1.00

00:09:30.000 Molly Ball writing.

00:09:31.000 And the entire piece is just this boring, annoying pandering to Nancy Pelosi.

00:09:36.000 Everything that she does is brilliant and wonderful.

00:09:39.000 Everything she does is draped in genius.

00:09:42.000 According to Molly Ball, Pelosi has spent decades at the highest levels of politics, but the past 12 months have arguably been her most consequential.

00:09:50.000 Returning to the speakership after eight years running the House Democratic minority, she established herself as a counterweight and constrainer of this divisive president.

00:09:58.000 Like, that's called being a Democrat.

00:09:58.000 Yeah, she's a Democrat.

00:10:00.000 Which, by the way, were mostly overturned by the Supreme Court.

00:10:02.000 And she was the tactician behind the investigation that resulted in Trump's impeachment on December 18th.

00:10:06.000 She 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.

00:10:13.000 And she was the tactician behind the investigation that resulted in Trump's impeachment on December 18th.

00:10:18.000 Wow, the tactician.

00:10:19.000 Can 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?

00:10:27.000 I mean, it must just be tactical genius.

00:10:28.000 I mean, this person, she's like the George Patton of politics.

00:10:32.000 I mean, it's just amazing.

00:10:34.000 It's like Robert E. Lee during his great forays into Northern Virginia.

00:10:38.000 Like, what are you talking about?

00:10:40.000 This is just nonsense. 0.97

00:10:41.000 It's just pure nonsense. 0.59

00:10:43.000 But again, the media will always portray Democrats as brilliant, At worst, Democrats are misunderstood. 0.99

00:10:48.000 They're never just dumb. 0.97

00:10:49.000 They never just did a dumb thing. 0.99

00:10:51.000 Instead, it's, no, Democrats are geniuses and you don't all understand their genius. 0.84

00:10:54.000 That's the big problem.

00:10:55.000 You don't all understand their genius.

00:10:56.000 So, is this impeachment effort going anywhere?

00:10:58.000 The answer, of course, is no.

00:10:59.000 Nancy Pelosi understands it's going nowhere, which is why she's not pushing this to the Senate. 0.85

00:11:03.000 Because 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.

00:11:18.000 Okay, they don't want that.

00:11:19.000 They 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.

00:11:26.000 In 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.

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00:13:00.000 Okay, 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. 0.71

00:13:13.000 I mean, this really is disgusting and despicable.

00:13:16.000 So 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.

00:13:28.000 And the American government has now declared that it was likely that these were shot down by Iran.

00:13:34.000 It's pretty obvious from the fuselage that it was shot down by Iran.

00:13:37.000 There was no actual emergency call.

00:13:39.000 The black box will not be turned over by Iran to Boeing because it's a Boeing jet.

00:13:43.000 So it was not mechanical failure.

00:13:44.000 Iran almost certainly did this. 0.98

00:13:47.000 Canadian 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.

00:13:55.000 The evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile.

00:13:59.000 Likewise, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison offered similar statements.

00:14:04.000 Morrison also said it appeared to be a mistake.

00:14:06.000 All of the intelligence as presented to us today does not suggest an intentional act, which of course makes perfect sense.

00:14:10.000 Why would you shoot down a plane originating from your own territory?

00:14:13.000 This 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.

00:14:23.000 So it was likely a mistake.

00:14:25.000 It shows How horribly run the Iranian administration is. 1.00

00:14:28.000 This was not caught in the crossfire.

00:14:29.000 There was no crossfire. 0.69

00:14:31.000 This was just the Iranians sucking at their jobs and the deaths of 180 people resulting therefrom. 1.00

00:14:37.000 Again, this thing took off from Tehran's airport. 0.92

00:14:39.000 It was in the air for less than two minutes, and then it was shot down.

00:14:42.000 So that's Iran's fault. 1.00

00:14:44.000 That'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. 0.87

00:14:55.000 So that was the story.

00:14:56.000 The media tried to blame Trump for this.

00:14:58.000 Somehow it's Trump's fault that Iran accidentally shot down a civilian airliner in its own airspace originating from its own airport.

00:15:05.000 Somehow this is President Trump's fault.

00:15:06.000 It doesn't matter that the United States had issued a no-flight order over Iran and Iraq hours before the Ukrainian plane was down.

00:15:12.000 The FAA had stopped U.S.

00:15:13.000 commercial traffic over the region, understanding that Iran was likely to do something bad.

00:15:19.000 The no-fly orders were published roughly three hours before the accident, according to an FAA spokesperson.

00:15:25.000 The no-fly order outlined flight restrictions that prohibited U.S.

00:15:28.000 civil aviation operators from operating in the airspace over Iraq, Iran, and the waters of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.

00:15:34.000 Doesn't matter.

00:15:35.000 Many in the media and the Democrats tried to blame Trump for this.

00:15:38.000 So in other words, the Iranians would never have shot down an airliner accidentally over their own airspace.

00:15:44.000 They didn't do it on purpose.

00:15:45.000 They didn't do it in retaliation for the United States doing a thing. 0.99

00:15:47.000 They accidentally shot down their own airliner because they're incompetent and because they're evil.

00:15:51.000 And those two things are combined, okay? 0.76

00:15:53.000 Because it was not just evil, right?

00:15:54.000 They 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.

00:16:04.000 Members of the left are trying to blame President Trump for this.

00:16:08.000 The headline at Huffington Post today is Collateral Damage, Scores of Civilians.

00:16:13.000 Collateral damage?

00:16:14.000 The United States didn't do anything here.

00:16:16.000 The United States didn't blow up the civilian airliner.

00:16:18.000 The United States wasn't even firing anything into Iran.

00:16:21.000 This happened over Iranian airspace, not even over Iraqi airspace.

00:16:25.000 But according to the Huffington Post, the downed plane, which is solely the fault of the Iranians, is apparently Trump's fault.

00:16:31.000 The Associated Press did the same thing.

00:16:34.000 The Associated Press tweeted out, This is insane, sickening.

00:16:36.000 Imagine having a family member on that plane.

00:16:38.000 What 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.

00:16:46.000 So in other words, if Trump had never hit Soleimani, then the airliner never gets downed. 0.95

00:16:51.000 Alternatively, 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. 0.93

00:16:58.000 Because guess where civilian airliners aren't getting downed by members of their own government? 0.98

00:17:03.000 Any Western country.

00:17:05.000 That's not a thing.

00:17:06.000 And in times when the United States has accidentally downed an airliner, like back in the 1980s, there was actual crossfire.

00:17:11.000 There was actual crossfire happening.

00:17:13.000 This is much more reminiscent of the Russian government.

00:17:16.000 The Russian government purposely shot down a Malaysian airliner, probably.

00:17:19.000 This one was accidental because it doesn't benefit Iran in any way.

00:17:23.000 They obviously didn't want to do it.

00:17:24.000 It wasn't like Iran was like, you know what?

00:17:26.000 We got to do something to hurt those Americans. 1.00

00:17:27.000 We're shooting down our own airliner. 0.98

00:17:29.000 That's what we're doing today.

00:17:30.000 That's not what happened.

00:17:31.000 But the attempt to blame Trump for this is full-scale crazy towns.

00:17:34.000 I mean, it's nuts.

00:17:36.000 Pete Buttigieg being Pete Buttigieg.

00:17:39.000 Every so often he sort of masquerades as a moderate, but that ain't who Pete Buttigieg is on the inside.

00:17:44.000 Pete Buttigieg tweeted out, Innocent civilians are now dead because they were caught in the middle of an unnecessary and unwanted military tit-for-tat.

00:17:51.000 Caught in the middle?

00:17:52.000 The United States didn't fire any ordnance into Iran.

00:17:55.000 We 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?

00:18:06.000 That 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.

00:18:19.000 Is that your fault?

00:18:20.000 Or is that the fault of the person who shot their wife accidentally? 1.00

00:18:22.000 Like, this is ridiculous. 0.66

00:18:25.000 Then Booty Judge says, my thoughts are with the families and loved ones of all 176 souls lost aboard this flight.

00:18:29.000 Well, 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.

00:18:37.000 It wasn't just Buttigieg, either.

00:18:39.000 This has become the talking point.

00:18:41.000 On 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.

00:18:48.000 They were trying to pin World War III on Trump.

00:18:50.000 That 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.

00:18:56.000 He had just vaporized their terror leader.

00:18:58.000 The Ayatollahs did not want to end up in the same number of pieces that Soleimani ended up.

00:19:03.000 So Trump gets the win.

00:19:05.000 They won't give him the win.

00:19:06.000 Instead, Iran doing a bad thing to people originating from its own country, in its own airspace, now that's Trump's fault.

00:19:12.000 So I suppose that if Iran starts shooting dissenters in the streets, that's also Trump's fault. 0.51

00:19:17.000 Because Trump is opposing Iran too strongly.

00:19:20.000 What is even the logic here?

00:19:21.000 How is this logic even followable?

00:19:23.000 It doesn't matter.

00:19:24.000 People have to find something to blame Trump for here and turn a win into a loss.

00:19:28.000 There's another report from the Wall Street Journal today doing the same thing.

00:19:30.000 There's a report from the Wall Street Journal... By the way, people should know, the Wall Street Journal editorial page is conservative.

00:19:35.000 The Wall Street Journal news page is actually more liberal than the New York Times.

00:19:38.000 There have been studies that have shown this.

00:19:39.000 Okay, so, the Wall Street Journal...

00:19:42.000 The 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.

00:19:49.000 What wavering senators?

00:19:50.000 There's literally no evidence that a single Republican senator was ready to vote for impeachment.

00:19:54.000 So this is just pure fantasy.

00:19:55.000 It's just pure nonsense.

00:19:57.000 It doesn't matter.

00:19:58.000 Everything Trump does has to be turned into an L. It doesn't matter.

00:20:01.000 If 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.

00:20:15.000 The Iranians didn't want to do this.

00:20:17.000 Ben Rhodes, that piece of— Oh yeah, tell it to your boss after the Libyan debacle. 0.98

00:20:30.000 I'm sorry, this is all ridiculous. 0.99

00:20:31.000 It's ridiculous and it's purely politically driven. 0.90

00:20:33.000 Okay, we'll get to more of this in just one second. 0.67

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00:21:58.000 So as I say, the attempt to turn this win for Trump into a loss is pretty astonishing.

00:22:03.000 I had on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the radio show.

00:22:05.000 This is why you should subscribe over at DailyWire.com.

00:22:07.000 I 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.

00:22:17.000 Representative Jackie Speier of California who really, I mean, has the intelligence of a potato.

00:22:22.000 She 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.

00:22:32.000 If 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.

00:22:44.000 OK, 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.

00:22:51.000 And there were civilians nearby.

00:22:52.000 And those civilians were hurt or killed.

00:22:54.000 That's what collateral damage is.

00:22:55.000 It's where we do something that ends with civilian casualties, but we're actually not aiming at those people.

00:23:01.000 We're aiming at the bad guys.

00:23:02.000 What relationship does that have to Iran shooting down a civilian airliner in its own airspace?

00:23:07.000 What relationship?

00:23:08.000 No crossfire, by the way.

00:23:09.000 Again, no confusion here.

00:23:10.000 The United States did not launch a single piece of ordinance that night.

00:23:14.000 Not one. 0.99

00:23:15.000 And 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. 0.92

00:23:22.000 Sarah 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. 0.97

00:23:34.000 Murdered by Donald Trump?

00:23:35.000 Weird.

00:23:36.000 Because 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.

00:23:48.000 She 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.

00:23:53.000 America is the biggest terrorist in the world?

00:23:55.000 America. 0.98

00:23:57.000 Okay, you want a one-way ticket to Iran? 0.82

00:23:59.000 I 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. 0.96

00:24:07.000 It's disgusting. 0.90

00:24:08.000 Okay, Barack Obama's policy was truly awful. 0.98

00:24:12.000 It was truly awful, and it lacked.

00:24:14.000 And you could point to his policy as the rationale for strengthening bad guys around the world.

00:24:19.000 But when a terrorist commits a terror act, that's not Barack Obama's specific fault.

00:24:24.000 When the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting happened under Obama's administration.

00:24:29.000 That was not Obama's fault.

00:24:31.000 I mean, that was the fault of the terrorists.

00:24:34.000 And that's especially not Obama's fault if you were fighting ISIS harder. 0.96

00:24:37.000 The 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. 0.96

00:24:43.000 It's patently insane.

00:24:44.000 But 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.

00:24:55.000 It's amazing.

00:24:56.000 The Democrats tend to read current events the same way they read history.

00:24:59.000 So, 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.

00:25:05.000 And yes, there are plenty of them.

00:25:06.000 The mistreatment of Native Americans, the centuries-long issue of slavery, the century of Jim Crow.

00:25:13.000 They point to all the bad things in American history.

00:25:16.000 And then they say, because America is uniquely bad.

00:25:18.000 And they never ever take a broader view and say, OK, well, it's true.

00:25:22.000 America did all of these terrible, horrible, no good, very bad things.

00:25:24.000 But most of human history is replete with all of these terrible, horrible, very good, very bad, no good things all over the globe.

00:25:30.000 The question is, why did America do things right?

00:25:32.000 Not why did America do things wrong?

00:25:34.000 Why did America do things right?

00:25:36.000 So 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.

00:25:44.000 They never ever contrast what America does right with the rest of the world.

00:25:48.000 So it becomes America's fault whenever anything goes wrong.

00:25:52.000 That'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. 0.96

00:26:02.000 That 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. 0.94

00:26:14.000 Until Trump became president, Everything was sort of Rousseau-ian paradise. 0.99

00:26:17.000 It was an Edenic place, the world.

00:26:19.000 And then Donald Trump came along, and then things started to go bad.

00:26:21.000 Now, this happens to be a complete lie, but that's what John Kerry is best at.

00:26:24.000 The worst secretary of state in American history, John Kerry. 0.96

00:26:27.000 Also an awful senator. 0.97

00:26:29.000 Also a liar about his fellow troops in Vietnam. 0.71

00:26:31.000 John Kerry, he has a piece in the New York Times today called, Really, was it?

00:26:39.000 Was it working?

00:26:40.000 Because 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.

00:26:51.000 But John Kerry says, President Trump says that on his watch, Iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.

00:26:57.000 But if he had wanted to keep that promise, he should have left the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement in place.

00:27:03.000 Instead, he pulled the United States out of the deal.

00:27:06.000 That deal, at best, at best, had Iran voluntarily agreeing not to develop further its nuclear program until like 2023, 2025, somewhere in that period.

00:27:16.000 That was it.

00:27:17.000 That's all the deal did.

00:27:18.000 And 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. 0.80

00:27:25.000 The Iran nuclear deal was not even a band-aid. 0.81

00:27:28.000 It was a misdirection from the key problem, which is that the Iranian regime is cancerous. 0.98

00:27:32.000 But according to John Kerry, it's all about Trump.

00:27:35.000 He 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.

00:27:45.000 Though 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.

00:27:56.000 The president has said he doesn't do exit strategies, clearly.

00:27:59.000 He doesn't do strategies, period.

00:28:02.000 John Kerry.

00:28:03.000 Hey, look.

00:28:04.000 Okay.

00:28:05.000 Let's just point out that the Obama administration's strategy was to sign checks to these people.

00:28:10.000 Was to give money to Soleimani.

00:28:11.000 That was their actual strategy.

00:28:13.000 But according to John Kerry, everything bad that has happened is the fault of Trump.

00:28:19.000 This is amazing.

00:28:20.000 Here's John Kerry.

00:28:21.000 Let's get one straw man out of the way. 0.99

00:28:23.000 General Soleimani was a sworn unapologetic enemy of the United States.

00:28:28.000 A cagey field marshal who oversaw Iran's long strategy to extend the country's influence through sectarian proxies in the region.

00:28:36.000 He won't be mourned or missed by anyone in the West.

00:28:39.000 Occasionally, when American and Iranian interests aligned, we were certain to be disbeneficiaries of his relationships, but this was a rare exception.

00:28:49.000 This 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.

00:29:01.000 So he's just going to keep going with this lie.

00:29:02.000 This was the lie promoted by the Obama administration that there were hardliners and moderates and Obama had empowered the moderates.

00:29:09.000 I need you to show me the moderates.

00:29:09.000 Really?

00:29:11.000 Point to them.

00:29:13.000 Is it Hassan Rouhani?

00:29:15.000 Really?

00:29:15.000 Is it Hassan Rouhani?

00:29:16.000 Was it Ahmadinejad?

00:29:17.000 Who are the moderates inside Iran?

00:29:19.000 In the Iranian government?

00:29:20.000 The 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. 0.98

00:29:28.000 It's all just a disastrous attempt to back Bill Obama's crap foreign policy. 0.98

00:29:31.000 That's all this is. 0.95

00:29:32.000 Okay, meanwhile, the House voted on a resolution to curtail Trump's war powers yesterday.

00:29:37.000 It's a non-binding measure, so it means absolutely nothing.

00:29:39.000 According to Politico, the House voted on Thursday to halt further U.S.

00:29:42.000 military action against Iran in a powerful rebuke of Donald Trump's use of force overseas without congressional approval.

00:29:49.000 Really, was it a powerful rebuke, or was it a bunch of Democrats with virtually no Republican support saying that they don't like Trump?

00:29:55.000 Is that what that is?

00:29:56.000 Because I'm missing the powerful, and I'm missing the rebuke, and also, I'm missing how this means anything.

00:30:01.000 The answer is, of course, it doesn't.

00:30:02.000 Democrats are just mad that Trump got a W here, and so, of course, they're trying to turn it into an L with the help of the media. 0.94

00:30:07.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second, because the behavior of the Democrats on this score has been utterly ridiculous. 0.98

00:30:13.000 Utterly ridiculous. 0.95

00:30:14.000 We'll get to more of it in a second. 0.87

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00:30:41.000 He was a bad, bad, evil, very bad man. 0.84

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00:31:22.000 So 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. 0.98

00:31:35.000 Now, you want to hear how hypocritical and ridiculous the Democrats are on this point? 0.98

00:31:39.000 I'm just going to play you a couple of clips of Nancy Pelosi. 0.99

00:31:41.000 So yesterday, Nancy Pelosi said that this was an assassination and an assault on Iran.

00:31:45.000 It 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. 0.77

00:31:55.000 His killing was an assassination, which means it was in violation of American law.

00:31:59.000 The word assassination has actual legal ramifications because there are executive orders in place to prevent assassination of foreign officials.

00:32:05.000 And she says it was an assault on Iran.

00:32:07.000 So Trump is the bad guy.

00:32:08.000 Here'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.

00:32:19.000 The 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?

00:32:36.000 And the Iranians might as well, even though this took place at the Iraqi airport. 0.93

00:32:42.000 And so it's foggy.

00:32:45.000 There are those who think, well, it was in Iraq, so it counts. 0.99

00:32:49.000 But it was an assault on Iran, so it shouldn't count. 0.58

00:32:53.000 She's literally defending the Iranian regime now. 0.76

00:32:55.000 From their perspective, it was very bad.

00:32:58.000 I mean, she is defending the Iranian regime.

00:33:00.000 That's not defending Soleimani as a human, but she's defending the Iranian regime.

00:33:03.000 She's saying that America was the aggressor in killing an Iranian terrorist on Iraqi territory.

00:33:07.000 It's unbelievable.

00:33:08.000 And on that basis, she says we need a war powers resolution to restrain power.

00:33:12.000 Now, 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.

00:33:24.000 Mike Lee is consistent.

00:33:25.000 I may disagree with his application of the rules, but he's a consistent person. 1.00

00:33:28.000 Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats are just full of crap. 0.97

00:33:30.000 Here'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. 1.00

00:33:41.000 Forget about killing a terrorist, which is fully legal.

00:33:45.000 Barack Obama did not need congressional authorization to conduct a full-scale war in Libya.

00:33:51.000 This is Nancy Pelosi like five minutes ago.

00:33:54.000 They are so full of bleep, it's unreal. 1.00

00:33:57.000 Madam 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?

00:34:09.000 Yes.

00:34:10.000 Yes!

00:34:10.000 Just straight up yes!

00:34:12.000 No authorization!

00:34:13.000 This by the way was weeks after the invasion of Libya.

00:34:17.000 So are we supposed to take this complaint by Nancy Pelosi seriously?

00:34:22.000 Super seriously?

00:34:23.000 She cares about the constitutional limits and the prerogatives of Congress.

00:34:28.000 Sure, sure she does.

00:34:29.000 And this is the Democratic message.

00:34:31.000 The 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.

00:34:38.000 That in fact was part of the bargain.

00:34:39.000 The 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.

00:34:53.000 Okay, the fact is that Iranian terrorism around the region never ceased.

00:34:56.000 And 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! 1.00

00:35:06.000 Then you have- I mean, they're really doing- It's amazing. 1.00

00:35:09.000 They're doing full- They should be paid.

00:35:11.000 Honestly, if you're gonna do this, at least take the money.

00:35:13.000 Elizabeth 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.

00:35:22.000 She's got a plan for that, and she's the worst dancer in human history. 1.00

00:35:25.000 She was doing an interview with that unbelievable journalistic outlet Cosmopolitan Magazine. 0.91

00:35:30.000 So Cosmopolitan Magazine's cover was like, Elizabeth Warren speaks about Iran and also nine new sex positions that'll blow his mind.

00:35:37.000 Here 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. 0.96

00:35:45.000 It's not that he was a bad guy, it's that he was a terrorist.

00:35:48.000 This is a legal standard.

00:35:50.000 He'd been labeled a terrorist by the American government.

00:35:52.000 He was in a car with another terrorist.

00:35:55.000 But she won't say that, right?

00:35:56.000 Unless Meghan McCain is there basically browbeating her. 1.00

00:36:00.000 Here's Elizabeth Warren getting away with her... Yeah, he was a mean... Like, how bad was he, Nancy?

00:36:04.000 I mean, Elizabeth.

00:36:05.000 How bad was he?

00:36:06.000 Was he, like, bad as in, like, The Bachelor?

00:36:09.000 Like, a mean guy on The Bachelor?

00:36:10.000 Or was he bad as in, like... 0.60

00:36:13.000 murdering hundreds of American troops.

00:36:14.000 Here's Elizabeth Warren downplaying how bad Soleimani was in order to claim that he was just sort of a normal, bad, antagonistic official.

00:36:20.000 No, Vladimir Putin is a bad guy who's a foreign official.

00:36:23.000 This guy was pursuing terror building across the entire region.

00:36:27.000 The principal job of the president of the United States is to keep America safe.

00:36:36.000 And ordering the killing of Soleimani, who was a bad guy, but a high-ranking Iranian government official, has not made America safer.

00:36:51.000 He was a bad guy, yeah, but he was a high-ranking government official.

00:36:54.000 Who was the leader of their terrorist operation?

00:36:57.000 Now, there are still a few sane Democrats out there.

00:36:59.000 Democrat Max Rose from New York, for example.

00:37:01.000 And 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.

00:37:09.000 Like, that's absurd.

00:37:10.000 When it comes to congressional power, much of this power is found in appropriations.

00:37:15.000 If 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. 0.84

00:37:24.000 And that's where Congress should exert itself.

00:37:27.000 We 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.

00:37:35.000 I don't believe that we are.

00:37:37.000 Qasem Soleimani was a terrorist who should have been killed, and no one should mourn his loss.

00:37:44.000 Good for Max Rose.

00:37:45.000 How about that guy in the Democratic primaries?

00:37:46.000 How about Max Rose?

00:37:47.000 How about, like, a reasonable human being in the Democratic primaries?

00:37:50.000 No?

00:37:50.000 We can't do that?

00:37:51.000 Even Jay Johnson, the Homeland Security Secretary under Barack Obama.

00:37:54.000 Barack Obama, who used to do a drone war, killing terrorists routinely.

00:37:57.000 Jay Johnson was like, yeah, of course it's legal for Trump to kill Soleimani.

00:37:59.000 What 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?

00:38:05.000 under 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

00:38:31.000 Take lethal force, so long as it's short of war, if it's in the important national interest. 0.57

00:38:39.000 And this operation was.

00:38:42.000 Even Jay Johnson, who's an Obama guy, is like, yeah, no, pretty fine, pretty fine. 0.99

00:38:47.000 It'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. 0.93

00:38:53.000 A 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. 0.98

00:39:00.000 I remember him being super-exercised about the war in Libya.

00:39:03.000 I remember him being super-exercised about Obama's drone war.

00:39:05.000 I remember him saying, you know what we need?

00:39:08.000 We need a rebalancing of legislative and executive power.

00:39:10.000 Again, 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.

00:39:19.000 Under which the Constitution of the United States does not give the commander-in-chief the ability to make a quick strike against a terrorist.

00:39:24.000 I think George Washington would have done it.

00:39:26.000 Okay, but Chris Cuomo trying to suggest that he's just a constitutionalist.

00:39:30.000 Why won't anyone stand up to this president for doing what is fully within his legal authority?

00:39:34.000 And by the way, backing down the mullahs. 0.99

00:39:37.000 It was so mean.

00:39:37.000 It was so bad.

00:39:38.000 Why isn't everyone on board?

00:39:39.000 Here's Chris Cuomo, human block of wood.

00:39:41.000 That's what is in the Constitution.

00:39:44.000 My argument.

00:39:45.000 I can't believe it wasn't unanimous.

00:39:47.000 And no, this is not about the GOP just choosing Trump over the truth.

00:39:52.000 There's some of that.

00:39:53.000 But Democrats have been anxious to give more power to presidents as well.

00:39:57.000 This has been going on for a long time and it's gotten worse.

00:40:02.000 And it is the worst example of congressional cowardice.

00:40:06.000 Shame on you and every Trumper and never Trumper who voted against this.

00:40:12.000 Unbelievable.

00:40:13.000 I mean, truly, this is where you're drawing the line?

00:40:16.000 In what is clearly a decent kill?

00:40:18.000 A correct kill?

00:40:19.000 Killing a terrorist?

00:40:20.000 This is where you draw the line?

00:40:20.000 This is where you're like, we gotta- we gotta seize back that congressional war-making power.

00:40:23.000 Barack Obama conducted a full- I remember.

00:40:26.000 Okay, don't gaslight me.

00:40:26.000 I was there.

00:40:27.000 Libya was a thing that happened.

00:40:29.000 It ended with the murder of our ambassador in Benghazi.

00:40:32.000 It ended with the legitimate government of Libya trying to govern from offshore in an oil tanker.

00:40:37.000 I re- I was there.

00:40:38.000 It's amazing.

00:40:39.000 If you ask the American people, were we ever at war in Libya?

00:40:42.000 It's only been like six years or eight years.

00:40:44.000 Everybody's like, what?

00:40:46.000 No.

00:40:46.000 Who?

00:40:47.000 What?

00:40:47.000 Barack Obama was the most peaceful president who ever was.

00:40:50.000 And Iran was our friend.

00:40:53.000 Unbelievable.

00:40:54.000 Last word from the media goes, of course, to our friends, Chris Matthews.

00:40:58.000 I 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.

00:41:10.000 I'm very upset about Soleimani's death.

00:41:12.000 Soleimani, he was a very popular man, Soleimani.

00:41:16.000 Let 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.

00:41:23.000 Go, Chris Matthews, go!

00:41:25.000 You know, when some people die, we, you know, you don't know what the impact's going to be.

00:41:30.000 When Princess Diana died, for example, there was a huge emotional outpouring.

00:41:35.000 These kinds of... Elvis Presley in our culture.

00:41:38.000 It 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.

00:41:44.000 These enormous crowds coming out.

00:41:47.000 There's no American emotion in this case, but there's a hell of a lot of emotion on the other side.

00:41:51.000 Should our leaders know what they're doing when they kill somebody?

00:41:54.000 He's like Elvis.

00:41:55.000 He's like Princess Diana.

00:41:56.000 He'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. 0.93

00:42:03.000 He's like Elvis. 0.93

00:42:04.000 And we thought he was a devil in disguise, nothing but a hound dog.

00:42:06.000 He was actually a pocket full of rainbows.

00:42:08.000 I just wanted him to be my teddy bear, but now he's just a hunk of burning love.

00:42:12.000 I'm feeling a visit to the Heartbreak Hotel.

00:42:14.000 Soleimani, always on my mind.

00:42:16.000 I'm feeling all shook up.

00:42:20.000 Then you wonder why America's like, when Trump rips on the media, yeah, okay, fine, fine.

00:42:25.000 I never, I'm not an enemy of the people kind of guy.

00:42:28.000 I've never liked that commentary from President Trump.

00:42:30.000 I 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. 0.86

00:42:37.000 And 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? 0.92

00:42:47.000 Okay, President Trump did a rally last night. 0.99

00:42:48.000 He responded to all of this and...

00:42:52.000 What he said is basically correct.

00:42:53.000 He 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.

00:43:08.000 And 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.

00:43:15.000 And he said, he kind of hesitated.

00:43:16.000 And then he said, well, I'll go with what the defense secretary has said, which is that they were aiming to kill people.

00:43:21.000 Okay, 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. 0.95

00:43:32.000 But, 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.

00:43:41.000 Here'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.

00:43:48.000 If you look at what happened with Ukraine, that's a hoax. 1.00

00:43:50.000 Well, this is a hoax, too.

00:43:52.000 Iran went in, and they hit us with missiles. 0.87

00:43:56.000 Shouldn't have done that, but they hit us.

00:43:58.000 Fortunately for them, Nobody was hurt.

00:44:02.000 Nobody was killed.

00:44:04.000 Nothing happened.

00:44:04.000 They landed.

00:44:06.000 Very little damage, even, to the base.

00:44:08.000 Okay, and this is correct.

00:44:08.000 They landed.

00:44:10.000 This is correct.

00:44:12.000 So, 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.

00:44:20.000 So, there's a congressperson, Well, Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut, and he was tweeting out the day that the U.S.

00:44:27.000 Embassy was burning in Baghdad that this was just proof that Trump was weak.

00:44:31.000 Okay, 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.

00:44:36.000 Trump was like, okay, you guys let Benghazi happen.

00:44:40.000 Not only did you let Benghazi happen, you then lied about it to the American people for months on end.

00:44:43.000 And 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.

00:44:50.000 Don'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.

00:44:59.000 Why would we possibly be worried about Benghazi?

00:45:01.000 And then the minute that the embassy was burning in Baghdad, it was like, oh, this is Trump's Benghazi.

00:45:05.000 Here was Trump saying, no, it wasn't my Benghazi because the difference is I'm not a pansy. 0.98

00:45:09.000 He ordered the violent assault on the American embassy in Baghdad.

00:45:13.000 And you saw this was the anti-Benghazi.

00:45:17.000 We got there very quickly.

00:45:21.000 We got there very quickly.

00:45:22.000 This is the exact opposite.

00:45:25.000 We did it exactly the opposite of Benghazi, where they got there so late.

00:45:31.000 All they saw when they got there days later were burning embers from days before.

00:45:38.000 Okay, President Trump is correct about this.

00:45:39.000 And then President Trump goes after Bernie Sanders and Nancy Pelosi, both of whom have been suggesting that Trump is the aggressor in the region.

00:45:45.000 And 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.

00:45:51.000 You could just do that.

00:45:52.000 But here's a guy who slaughtered and butchered civilians all over and military, whoever was in his way.

00:46:00.000 And we have Bernie and Nancy Pelosi.

00:46:02.000 We have them all.

00:46:03.000 They're all trying to say, how dare you take him out that way?

00:46:07.000 You should get permission from Congress.

00:46:10.000 You should come in and tell us what you want to do.

00:46:15.000 You should come in and tell us so that we can call up the fake news that's back there and we can leak it.

00:46:22.000 Okay, so a lot of people are very upset with President Trump for suggesting that people like Pelosi or Bernie would leak it.

00:46:27.000 And listen, do I think that the Democrats were going to get on the horn and then immediately leak the stuff?

00:46:31.000 No, I don't.

00:46:32.000 Is there precedent for the President, for Democrats leaking national security information of other nations that prevent attacks on Iran?

00:46:39.000 Absolutely.

00:46:40.000 There 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.

00:46:59.000 I 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.

00:47:06.000 President 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?

00:47:17.000 So they want me.

00:47:18.000 So, you know, these are split second decisions.

00:47:20.000 You have to make a decision.

00:47:22.000 So they don't want me to make that decision.

00:47:25.000 They want me to call up, maybe go over there.

00:47:28.000 Let me go over to Congress.

00:47:29.000 So come on over to the White House.

00:47:31.000 Let's talk about it.

00:47:32.000 When can you make it?

00:47:34.000 Well, I won't be able to make it today, sir.

00:47:35.000 How about let's say in a couple of days?

00:47:38.000 Oh, sure.

00:47:39.000 Come on over.

00:47:42.000 No, we got a call.

00:47:44.000 We heard where he was.

00:47:46.000 We knew the way he was getting there.

00:47:49.000 And we had to make a decision.

00:47:51.000 We didn't have time to call up Nancy, who is not operating with a full deck. 0.78

00:47:58.000 And here's the bottom line.

00:47:59.000 Here's the bottom line takeaway.

00:48:00.000 The Democrats right now are defending that they're defending the Iranian regime against the president of the United States taking out their top terrorist.

00:48:08.000 That 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.

00:48:16.000 It didn't happen.

00:48:17.000 It wasn't close to happening.

00:48:18.000 And yet they're still operating from that position.

00:48:20.000 And so they're just going to keep lying about it, and the American people are going to have to make a decision.

00:48:23.000 Do 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? 0.87

00:48:28.000 Those are your two choices, because the Democrats have made very clear what their choice should be.

00:48:33.000 I 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. 0.58

00:48:41.000 This lady sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee and was praised by Nancy Pelosi.

00:48:45.000 The PDS movement is a movement that is driven by the people.

00:48:53.000 The sanctions on Iran are sanctions that are being placed to create maximum pressure by a government.

00:49:00.000 That's very different.

00:49:01.000 Okay, except for the sanctions in BDS.

00:49:04.000 S. S. Sanctions.

00:49:05.000 Those would be governmental sanctions.

00:49:07.000 Institutional sanctions being pressed for by members like Ilhan Omar.

00:49:10.000 She 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? 0.61

00:49:17.000 You really think that she'd be like, oh, the poor Jews. 1.00

00:49:19.000 Or she'd be like, oh, the Jews! 1.00

00:49:23.000 That's not a lady who likes Jews very much. 0.84

00:49:24.000 Okay, but she definitely wants to protect Iran against the sanctions. 0.95

00:49:27.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I like and then a quick thing that I hate.

00:49:32.000 First of all, any video of Elizabeth Warren dancing is a good video.

00:49:32.000 So, things that I like.

00:49:36.000 What is an even funnier video is Elizabeth Warren dancing than Cory Booker defending it.

00:49:39.000 So, Elizabeth Warren is legitimately the worst dancer on planet Earth and I speak as somebody who is an awful dancer. 0.91

00:49:44.000 I have a lot of authority when I say I know bad dancing when I see it because I own a mirror. 0.82

00:49:49.000 Elizabeth Warren puts me to shame.

00:49:51.000 Oh my goodness.

00:49:53.000 Oh, it's so awkward.

00:49:54.000 And you can see everybody awkwardly, oh, Grandma's dancing again.

00:49:57.000 There's the crazy lady from the HOA wearing her black jumpsuit and her latest blue sweater. 1.00

00:50:04.000 And she just won't stop the dancing. 1.00

00:50:05.000 You can't stop, won't stop.

00:50:08.000 And then you got Joaquin Castro standing next to her, awkwardly clapping.

00:50:11.000 And she won't stop dancing! 1.00

00:50:12.000 Everybody's like, stop dancing!

00:50:13.000 So Cory Booker comes in and says, why are you making fun of her dancing?

00:50:16.000 Why?

00:50:17.000 Why?

00:50:17.000 I'm putting my angry eyes.

00:50:21.000 Why?

00:50:22.000 Why are you stopping the dancing?

00:50:23.000 Can't stop the beat.

00:50:25.000 By the way, Cory, I just want to note, Cory Booker needs to stop sending me creepy notes.

00:50:25.000 Can't stop it.

00:50:30.000 So Cory Booker, his campaign keeps sending over very odd messages.

00:50:35.000 Very odd messages.

00:50:36.000 So he sent one out.

00:50:38.000 Like, two days ago, they said, I'm asking you to dinner, Ben.

00:50:41.000 First of all, I don't know what Rosario would think, Cory.

00:50:44.000 I mean, really, I think it's awkward.

00:50:46.000 And then he sent up a follow-up from one of his campaign people saying, did you see Cory's note about dinner, Ben?

00:50:51.000 Stop stalking, dude.

00:50:52.000 It's creepy.

00:50:53.000 Nobody wants you as a candidate.

00:50:55.000 And no, I'm not interested in dinner with Cory Booker.

00:50:58.000 Anyway, he tweets out about Elizabeth Warren.

00:51:00.000 Raise your hand if you know why people are trolling Elizabeth's stance moves and not my dad jokes.

00:51:05.000 Because your dad jokes are not nearly as funny as Elizabeth's dance moves, that's why.

00:51:09.000 Because dad jokes are not as funny as people dancing awkwardly.

00:51:12.000 But it's gotta be sexism. 0.97

00:51:14.000 I love that Cory Booker is still doing the, I'm the only black person left in the race, vote for me.

00:51:19.000 I like women! 1.00

00:51:20.000 I like women like Elizabeth Warren! 1.00

00:51:23.000 I'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.

00:51:33.000 How dare you make fun of this incredible dancer?

00:51:36.000 How dare you make fun of a woman going... How dare you? 0.92

00:51:40.000 I can't believe it.

00:51:41.000 I can't.

00:51:42.000 Angry eyes out.

00:51:43.000 So there is Cory Booker.

00:51:44.000 I do enjoy that.

00:51:46.000 Yeah, okay, now for... This is a thing that I both like and hate, so we'll count it as a thing that I like.

00:51:51.000 What I hate is the underlying reality.

00:51:54.000 What I like is this documentary.

00:51:55.000 This is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen in my life.

00:51:57.000 It is available on Amazon Prime.

00:51:59.000 It 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. 0.60

00:52:09.000 This resulted in something like 350 million forced abortions inside the country of China.

00:52:15.000 It resulted in families abandoning their female children to death. 0.99

00:52:18.000 Spartan fashion.

00:52:19.000 Like literally taking, if they would have a baby, the baby would be fully born.

00:52:23.000 Just full-scale infanticide. 0.88

00:52:24.000 Taking the babies, throwing them in garbage pits. 0.68

00:52:26.000 Taking the babies, taking them to the market, leaving them there, and then letting them die.

00:52:29.000 The person who created this documentary had direct relatives.

00:52:33.000 She had an aunt on one side and an uncle on the other side.

00:52:36.000 Her uncle actually abandoned a female child at the market.

00:52:38.000 The 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.

00:52:48.000 And 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.

00:52:56.000 Because it turns out that human beings are incredibly malleable when it comes to their morality.

00:52:56.000 Why?

00:53:00.000 And 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.

00:53:09.000 It'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.

00:53:16.000 Members of the USSR population.

00:53:19.000 So, the documentary is disturbing.

00:53:22.000 Also, 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.

00:53:29.000 Because, according to the leftist western way of morality, abortion is only bad if it's forced.

00:53:35.000 But if it's voluntary, it's okay.

00:53:37.000 At no point does the left actually come face-to-face with what it is that they are aborting.

00:53:40.000 In this documentary, there are actual videos of babies, fetuses that were recovered from dump sites.

00:53:47.000 There'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.

00:53:58.000 And these are not embryos, right?

00:54:00.000 These are not zygotes.

00:54:02.000 These are fully formed seven-month-old, eight-month-old, nine-month-old babies.

00:54:07.000 China used to post messages on the wall in China up to like three years ago, four years ago.

00:54:11.000 They post messages on the wall saying better to abort, better to never get pregnant than to have a second child.

00:54:17.000 The evil of collectivism cannot be overstated.

00:54:20.000 It is a full-scale evil.

00:54:22.000 And when people pretend that the Chinese regime is somehow a lot more benign than the USSR, absolutely untrue, remains untrue to this day.

00:54:29.000 Here's the trailer from the documentary.

00:54:30.000 It'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.

00:54:44.000 I was born in China in 1985, a time when China's population crisis was making headlines around the world.

00:54:52.000 In an effort to protect its people from starvation, China has enacted a policy limiting families to just one child.

00:55:01.000 I never thought much about what the policy meant for me or anyone until I learned that I was going to be a mom.

00:55:14.000 None of my family questioned the policy or how it was implemented.

00:55:21.000 This documentary has effectively been banned in China.

00:55:23.000 They're not covering the fact that it was shortlisted for the Oscar.

00:55:25.000 There's no question it should win the best Oscar for documentaries.

00:55:29.000 I would be surprised if it does simply because it is incredibly pro-life.

00:55:33.000 And it has to be pro-life because the Chinese government was anti-life and remains anti-life.

00:55:38.000 The evils of collectivism, the evils that human beings will allow in the name of collectivism, truly, truly disturbing.

00:55:47.000 You should get everybody you know to watch it.

00:55:47.000 You should watch it.

00:55:49.000 It's a phenomenal documentary.

00:55:51.000 Again, this stuff was happening in our lifetimes until four years ago.

00:55:54.000 And the Chinese government is not our friend.

00:55:57.000 The Chinese government He's not a friend of freedom.

00:55:59.000 It is not a friend to development. 0.99

00:56:00.000 The Chinese government is a horrible, horrific, tyrannical, fascist regime. 0.95

00:56:05.000 OK, time for a quick let's end the week on a bit of a higher note. 0.98

00:56:10.000 So quick Bible talk.

00:56:11.000 Very quick Bible talk.

00:56:13.000 So this week's Parsha.

00:56:14.000 So in the Jewish religion, as I explain every few weeks, I've been doing this.

00:56:17.000 I should have been more consistent about it every few weeks.

00:56:20.000 We will talk about a portion of the Bible that the Jews read every week.

00:56:23.000 So the Jews have this cycle over the course of the entire year. 0.99

00:56:26.000 The Jews read the entire Bible.

00:56:28.000 So this week's Parsha is the very end of the book of Genesis.

00:56:32.000 In Hebrew it's called Vayechi.

00:56:33.000 And it is the very end of the book of Genesis when Jacob blesses his kids.

00:56:37.000 And 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?

00:56:44.000 What would I tell them that I think they should know in order to succeed in life?

00:56:48.000 What are the things that I would impart to my kids that give them the best shot at success?

00:56:53.000 That's not what Jacob does.

00:56:54.000 If you read the blessings, what Jacob does is he does bless them with specific blessings, but he begins by describing each of the kids.

00:57:01.000 And he doesn't describe them in glowing terms.

00:57:03.000 He 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.

00:57:11.000 He talks about how Ephraim and Manasseh, the kids of Joseph, he talks about how the younger will be greater than the older.

00:57:20.000 I mean, this is harsh stuff.

00:57:22.000 It's a really weird way to bless your kids.

00:57:25.000 If you look at all of the blessings, he describes Everything in very specific fashion to all of his kids.

00:57:36.000 And so why does he do that?

00:57:37.000 Why does he do that?

00:57:38.000 The answer is, I think, a real rejection of one way that people in the United States think about the world.

00:57:45.000 Like, take this for example.

00:57:47.000 He 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.

00:57:58.000 It really is, sort of, he crosses his hands in order to bless one with his right hand as opposed to his left hand.

00:58:03.000 So why does he do all of this?

00:58:05.000 In the West, we have this perception, which is people are born with unequal qualities.

00:58:09.000 And that, of course, is true.

00:58:10.000 People are born with unequal qualities. 1.00

00:58:12.000 Some people are dumber. 1.00

00:58:12.000 Some people are smarter. 1.00

00:58:13.000 Some people are taller.

00:58:13.000 Some people are like me.

00:58:14.000 Some people can dunk.

00:58:15.000 Some people can't even hit a 10-foot jump shot, right?

00:58:17.000 The fact is that we all have different qualities.

00:58:20.000 And 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.

00:58:50.000 It's sort of Rawlsian morality.

00:58:51.000 John 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.

00:59:20.000 Then it doesn't matter if I'm born stupid or if I'm born smart. 0.96

00:59:23.000 There's one problem with this. 0.99

00:59:24.000 It does not accord with human nature.

00:59:25.000 And this is what Jacob is doing.

00:59:27.000 Jacob is saying, if you want to succeed in life, this is so true.

00:59:31.000 If 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.

00:59:44.000 And don't try to invade the rights of people who may have more in one area or less in a different area.

00:59:49.000 Instead, recognize that one of the beauties of human existence is the diversity between all of these various categories.

00:59:55.000 And 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.

01:00:05.000 This is one of the beautiful things about comparative advantage that people don't tend to understand.

01:00:09.000 If you are great, let's say you're very high IQ, and you're great at a lot of things.

01:00:13.000 You could be a great plumber.

01:00:14.000 You could be a great writer.

01:00:15.000 You could be a great business person.

01:00:17.000 Well, 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?

01:00:24.000 Rather, 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.

01:00:36.000 Comparative advantage takes into account the fact that human beings are created diverse by nature or by God, depending on how you believe.

01:00:44.000 This 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.

01:00:55.000 Once 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.

01:01:07.000 Because again, we are all created different with different qualities.

01:01:09.000 That's how you end up with China's one-child policy.

01:01:12.000 That's how you end up with full-scale tyranny.

01:01:15.000 And the way that you end up with diversity is by acknowledging that people are different.

01:01:19.000 And yes, that means that some people will be more successful than others.

01:01:22.000 And yes, that means that some people are going to have an easier time in life than others.

01:01:25.000 But 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.

01:01:35.000 It is the equality of rights that guarantees that we treat each other equally.

01:01:40.000 As 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.

01:01:57.000 The 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.

01:02:05.000 It is just not workable without enormous amounts of coercion.

01:02:08.000 Because what you're essentially saying is that there's a group of people who are leeching off another group of people.

01:02:11.000 But, 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?

01:02:29.000 We have to respect each other for our strengths, and yes, for our shortcomings.

01:02:32.000 We have to understand that we don't have an unlimited amount of time on this planet.

01:02:35.000 And that's what Jacob is saying.

01:02:36.000 He's saying, listen, you guys want to be successful.

01:02:38.000 You tribes, you're all brothers, right?

01:02:39.000 You love each other.

01:02:40.000 But I'm not going to pretend that all of you are equal in all of your capacities because you're not.

01:02:44.000 Instead, 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.

01:02:59.000 That's the way to bless somebody.

01:03:00.000 Jacob does it right at the end of the book of Genesis.

01:03:01.000 We should all take that lesson forward into politics and into our personal lives as well.

01:03:05.000 Okay, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - January 10, 2020

Nancy And The Giant Impeachment | Ep. 929

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