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00:00:00.000A breaking piece of news with regard to Roy Moore allegations, Al Franken fallout, plus CNN does its best to go after Trump on Russia and falls directly on its face, as does the entire media.
00:00:30.000Sam's a really good guy, and while we disagree strenuously on issues regarding religion, we have a lot of agreement about how arguments are to be approached, and so it was a really entertaining and good time.
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00:00:44.000I want to get to all the latest news, particularly a piece of breaking news with regard to Roy Moore's chief accuser.
00:00:50.000There are really two chief accusers in the Roy Moore case.
00:00:52.000One is a woman named Lee Corfman, who says when she was 14 years old that Roy Moore attempted to molest her, and a woman named Beverly Young Nelson, who accused Roy Moore of basically putting her in a car and almost attempting to rape her when she was 16 years old.
00:01:04.000She's the one, of course, who came out with the yearbook, the signed yearbook.
00:01:06.000We'll talk about a breaking piece of news in that case that really throws Beverly Young Nelson into credibility crisis.
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00:03:05.000The breaking piece of news this morning is that Beverly Young Nelson, you remember her, we played significant portions of her audio when she first broke news, was sitting next to the excorable Gloria Allred that she was allegedly molested by Roy Moore, the Senate Republican candidate in Alabama, when she was 16 years old.
00:03:21.000So all the way back in 1977, she claimed that Roy Moore had met her at a restaurant, was hitting on her, wrote her a note in her yearbook, and then one night when she
00:03:29.000When she didn't have a ride home, he offered to give her a ride, brought her around the back, in the car, locked the door, and then proceeded to try to molest her.
00:03:47.000And actually, Gloria Allred went even further.
00:03:49.000Gloria Allred said, the entire thing, the entire thing is genuine, and the entire thing was written by Roy Moore.
00:03:55.000Well, a very bad thing happened on the way to Beverly Young Nelson's credibility.
00:04:00.000And that is that Beverly Young Nelson admitted in an interview with ABC News that she wrote part of the inscription.
00:04:07.000Now, she didn't write, according to her, the actual note.
00:04:09.000She didn't write Roy Moore's actual signature.
00:04:11.000But she did write the date and the place underneath.
00:04:14.000Right, now the reason that this is a problem, I'll show you, I'll show you what she had to say.
00:04:18.000The reason this is a problem is because if they had just come out at the very beginning and they had said, Roy Moore wrote this note, and then to remind myself of where this was, I wrote the date and the place underneath, right, just like you would on the back of a photo, everybody would have gone, oh, okay.
00:04:30.000Especially because there's now a second note that Roy Moore wrote a graduation card to a 17-year-old that looks very much like this note, right?
00:04:36.000The signatures look pretty much the same.
00:04:38.000But, because people were automatically saying this was a forgery, and because Gloria Allred refused to turn it over to any sort of impartial third-hand source, or second-hand source, or refused to turn over to any sort of handwriting expert, because of all that, this now throws the entire story in jeopardy.
00:04:52.000Here's Beverly Young Nelson talking about this and admitting that she wrote the little inscription under the note.
00:04:58.000Young's proof that she knew Moore, her yearbook with this inscription.
00:05:02.000But Moore and his supporters have called into question that inscription, noting the writing under the signature appears to be different.
00:06:43.000But it's also true that she didn't admit to forging the entire note.
00:06:47.000She specifically says she didn't forge the entire note in this particular element.
00:06:50.000So I don't know why people have to lie about what... I really don't know why people have to lie about what exactly she admitted in order to throw this woman's credibility into crisis.
00:07:00.000I don't really understand how that's the case.
00:07:06.000But, again, it does have a real credibility problem, and there are going to be a lot of people who hang their hats on this peg.
00:07:11.000Now, again, she's not the only accuser against Roy Moore.
00:07:13.000There's another accuser who says she was molested when she was 14.
00:07:16.000That was the one that was tracked down by the Washington Post.
00:07:18.000There are a bunch of other women who say that Roy Moore was dating them and trying to kiss them and hit on them when they were under the age of 18.
00:07:25.000There are reports that he was banned from the local food court at the mall.
00:07:29.000All of that said, is this a problem for Beverly Young Nelson?
00:07:32.000It is, but it shows the dishonesty of our politics, number one, that Gloria Allred didn't admit this stuff up front, and number two, that GMA didn't bother to press the questions, and number three, that people are now saying that this discredits the entirety of the signature and the note, because it doesn't.
00:07:45.000Okay, so all of those things can be true at once.
00:07:47.000It can also be true that this doesn't really change some of the underlying other allegations.
00:07:53.000People are using this to dismiss all the allegations.
00:07:55.000All the other allegations are now dismissed because there is this problem with Beverly Young Nelson's credibility.
00:08:05.000So with all that said, I'm trying to give you the most intellectually honest take I can.
00:08:08.000It's a serious problem for her credibility.
00:08:10.000It's a serious problem for Gloria Allred, who once again demonstrates to the world that she is terrible at her job and is a hack lawyer and a troll.
00:08:36.000These charges had started to fade in the public memory, and not only in the public memory, but in the minds of a lot of conservatives, because conservatives have made the concerted effort now, the concerted move, that they have decided that when the initial attack on somebody like Roy Moore is initially over an issue where they agree with Roy Moore, then all further attacks will be attributed to malice, bad motivations, and fraud.
00:08:59.000When the initial attacks on Donald Trump were suggestions that his right-wing views made him unpalatable, then when there were later suggestions that were of a more personal nature, everybody just chalked that up to media animus for Donald Trump.
00:09:24.000He'd obviously have an upper hand in the primaries, specifically because of all the media attacks on him, because he had to be pardoned by President Trump.
00:09:32.000And that means that a lot of people on the right think that he's a martyr to the cause.
00:09:35.000That he's somebody who is anti-illegal immigration.
00:09:38.000He is somebody who used to dress up his prisoners in pink outfits.
00:09:41.000We like that sort of stuff since we don't like crime and we don't like illegal immigration.
00:09:44.000And the initial media attacks were on that stuff, not on corruption in the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, which apparently did exist.
00:09:49.000They paid a $3.5 million settlement to a local newspaper after trying to arrest newspaper reporters for reporting on a subpoena.
00:09:58.000Put to the side, one of the things that unites the sort of feeling for Trump and Roy Moore and Joe Arpaio is this feeling like if the initial attack on them was over their conservatism or over their right-wing views, then all further attacks must be discredited based on the malice of the media.
00:10:16.000And the media doesn't help its own case when it doesn't press Beverly Young Nelson for a better explanation of why they didn't come out with this fact earlier, why it was weeks before they came out with the fact that the last two lines of this thing, at the very least, according to Beverly Young Nelson, were written by Beverly Young Nelson.
00:10:31.000So, yeah, I think that Republicans are being a little disingenuous if they say that all allegations against Joe Arpaio are false because the initial attack on Joe Arpaio was wrong, or all the allegations against Roy Moore are false because the initial attack on Roy Moore was wrong over the Ten Commandments stuff.
00:10:47.000Look, the fact is that Roy Moore says a lot of stuff that is inappropriate.
00:10:52.000But because, again, I think that you basically have ten seconds in the public eye to make people's minds up about what exactly you are, that once their minds have been made up, it's almost impossible to change them.
00:11:02.000And this is actually what the social science data tends to suggest.
00:11:05.000That when you walk down the street, you make a decision within the first ten seconds of meeting someone whether you like them or not.
00:11:10.000And it's very difficult to change your opinion.
00:11:12.000The first impression is the lasting impression that people have about you with regard to politics.
00:11:16.000The first impression about Roy Moore is that he was a very religious guy who took the Ten Commandments seriously and wasn't going to bow to judicial supremacy.
00:11:22.000And that image has basically carried him through all of the credibility questions about him.
00:12:18.000Maybe he's more akin to me than I know.
00:12:22.000Okay, so if any Democrat said that, right, that America is the focus of modern evil in this world, and then they cited, say, not same-sex marriage, but low taxes, and then they said maybe Putin is right, we'd lose our minds.
00:12:35.000But Roy Moore says that it's totally fine, again, because people have made up their mind about Roy Moore already.
00:12:39.000The same is true, there's a quote apparently, and I don't want to put too much stake in this quote, I'll read it to you and then I'll tell you why.
00:12:48.000Roy Moore in September was asked about when he last thought America was great, because he's run very much on the Make America Great Again kind of bandwagon.
00:12:55.000And Moore apparently acknowledged the nation's ugly history vis-a-vis race and racism, and then he said,
00:13:08.000So the way the media has run with this is saying that Roy Moore says the last time America was great is when there was slavery.
00:13:13.000I don't think that's what Roy Moore is saying, but it's certainly badly articulated.
00:13:17.000It's another one of these cases where, because we distrust the media on the right, we want the entire context.
00:13:23.000We don't trust them to tell the truth, and this is just another example of why that is.
00:13:27.000So that distrust of the media allows people to take a molehill and make it into a mountain, in the case of Beverly Young Nelson and all the rest of the accusers.
00:13:34.000It allows them the ability to hang their hat on pegs that are not
00:15:11.000While the Republicans are having all of this hubbub over Moore and whether Moore is guilty or innocent, and Joe Arpaio and Trent Franks.
00:15:19.000So Trent Franks stepped down yesterday.
00:15:21.000He says he's going to step down from Congress because two former female staffers are now complaining of sexual harassment.
00:15:26.000Apparently, Franks said that he and his wife have been struggling to get pregnant and that he had discussed surrogacy with two women in the workplace and it caused them distress.
00:15:35.000I'm confused as to why that exactly would be sexual harassment unless he said, I want to put a baby in you.
00:15:40.000In which case, it is sexual harassment.
00:15:41.000But if it was, you work here, I trust you, you seem like a nice gal, have you ever considered surrogacy?
00:15:46.000I'm not sure why that's sexual harassment per se.
00:15:48.000Like, I just, maybe the power imbalance?
00:15:51.000But that doesn't seem like typical sexual harassment to me, so I'm not sure we're getting the entire story on that.
00:15:55.000Well, all that breaks down on the Republican side.
00:16:07.000This is the new shtick that Democrats have been trying out on a regular basis.
00:16:11.000Yesterday, Al Franken did a bad job with it, right?
00:16:13.000He tried to grab the moral high ground, but
00:16:16.000That failed because Al Franken wasn't really willing to acknowledge that he'd done anything wrong.
00:16:20.000Here's what Al Franken said yesterday in saying that he was going to resign.
00:16:23.000Not that he did resign yesterday, but that he would resign in short order.
00:16:26.000If Moore gets elected and is not thrown out of the Senate, I think there's a significant possibility that Franken actually retracts his retirement and says, you know what?
00:16:43.000That in the coming weeks, I will be resigning as a member of the United States Senate.
00:16:51.000I, of all people, am aware that there is some irony in the fact that I am leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the Oval Office, and a man who has repeatedly preyed on young girls
00:17:21.000He also called himself a champion for women and said that the women who were accusing him had gotten it all wrong, but he's stepping down anyway.
00:17:26.000It's hard for you to claim the moral high ground when you're blaming the women, right?
00:17:28.000I thought the whole shtick here is that women always have to be believed, unless you're Al Franken.
00:18:50.000And you see Chris Matthews did the clearest and dumbest version of this.
00:18:53.000So last night on his show, he got up, got on my show, got on my stage, and he talks about Democrats are the greatest people in the entire world.
00:19:43.000And you can see how cynical this is, right?
00:19:44.000Democratic Representative Kathleen Rice, she comes out and she says, you know, really, the guy who should resign here is, of course, Trump.
00:19:51.000Trump is the one who should really go.
00:19:52.000Now, although Democrats, you know, came, our leadership came to this issue a little late.
00:19:57.000They did call on the resignations that have happened and we need the Republicans to do the same thing.
00:20:03.000We need Paul Ryan to stand up and be the leader of his party.
00:20:07.000I know it's difficult for him to do that when the standard-bearer of the Republican Party for right now is the President of the United States and we know his history with this issue of harassment.
00:20:17.000So my hope and my call is for Paul Ryan and the Republican leadership to get with the program.
00:20:23.000Right, that's the cynical move the Democrats are making, but they're claiming that they have the moral high ground while they're doing it.
00:20:40.000Again, two things can be true, that Franken probably should go, and also the Democrats are using this for cynical reasons, but the preening is a little much, right?
00:20:48.000I mean, the Democrats proclaiming themselves on loan from God is pretty astonishing.
00:20:52.000Nancy Pelosi did that as well yesterday.
00:20:55.000Not only are they, Nancy Pelosi was defending Al Franken until five seconds ago, and John Conyers until five seconds ago.
00:21:00.000Not only does it turn out that the Democrats have a direct pipeline to God when it comes to sexual harassment, they also have a direct pipeline to God when it comes to legitimizing
00:21:09.000We're not going to turn this country into a reign of terror of domestic enforcement and have the DACA, the DREAMers, pay that price.
00:21:37.000Don't you see the holiness that they have in getting rid of Al Franken has now translated over to everything, including DACA and the killing of human babies in the womb until the ninth month.
00:21:45.000It's just amazing how this has happened.
00:21:47.000So, before everybody jumps on their high horse and talks about how the Democrats, they're holy and now they're all wonderful and they're too pure, as Chris Matthews says, yeah, not so much.
00:21:57.000Okay, so, I want to talk a little bit about media malfeasance.
00:22:03.000Reported this apparent bombshell and they got it totally wrong.
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00:24:04.000And so when you ask, when the left looks at us and they say on the right, how could you possibly, how could you possibly not just credit the media with great reporting when they report something?
00:24:16.000It's because within three hours, half of this stuff gets discredited.
00:24:20.000Half is a little much, but a certain percentage of the stuff gets discredited.
00:24:23.000So, for example, there was a report from CNN, and the report from CNN said that on September 4th, there was an email that was sent to the Trump administration, to Donald J. Trump, to Donald Trump Jr., to other members of the administration,
00:24:39.000And that this email had a key code, a decryption key, for WikiLeaks that had not yet been released publicly.
00:24:47.000If it turns out, then that's one step removed from actual collusion, right?
00:24:50.000If it turns out that the WikiLeaks people, at the behest of the Russian government, sent a decryption key to the Trump administration and the Trump campaign,
00:24:57.000And that the Trump campaign used it in order to go in and spy on Hillary Clinton's emails before those things were released publicly, that would look a lot like collusion, would it not?
00:25:06.000It turns out every element of the story is bullcrap.
00:25:24.000There's no evidence that the email itself is legit, that it didn't just come from some spammer.
00:25:28.000So the way that this originally was run, the way the original headline was run, was something like, and I want to find if I can the actual headline, CNN report, Trump and Trump Jr.
00:25:39.000got September 2016 email with decryption key.
00:25:42.000Right, here's what David Wright from CNN tweeted, he tweeted,
00:25:45.000Candidate Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and others in the Trump Org received email in September 2016 offering a decryption key and website address for hacked WikiLeaks documents according to email provided to congressional investigators.
00:25:58.000Before any of this was public, they were being offered a special in by WikiLeaks, aka the Russian government.
00:26:03.000Except again, it turns out it may not have come from the Russian government, there's no evidence Trump looked at it, and the email came 10 days after the initial CNN report said, which means that the email came out after all the information was public.
00:26:14.000I mean, this is a Brian Ross-level screw-up.
00:26:20.000Somebody needs to get suspended for it, at the very least, because to misreport in that dramatic a fashion does a disservice to the Trump administration.
00:26:27.000Then you wonder why Trump runs around shouting fake news.
00:26:29.000You wonder why Republicans distrust reporting from places like the Washington Post.
00:26:33.000You wonder why Republicans have now come to the conclusion that nothing can be trusted.
00:26:37.000Part of it is because they're taking the message too far, but part of it is because there is a grain of truth, which is that a lot of the media are willing to jump on stories that have not been vetted and are not true in order to promulgate a particular narrative.
00:26:48.000And this is just the best example of that.
00:26:51.000Representative Julian Castro, who has presidential aspirations, he comes out and he says that, don't worry, even though there really is no hard information connecting Trump and Russia at this point, disturbing things will definitely come out.
00:27:03.000Well, as you know, I can't discuss most of that stuff now, but, you know, I told you months ago, and when I said it back then, I think it was considered a little bit brash, but I said, I think in April, that I thought that there would be people who would end up in jail.
00:27:19.000And as I stand here now, I think that there are going to be some things that come out that will be very surprising and disturbing.
00:27:26.000Pause it right there because I just want to read the chyron, right?
00:27:28.000This was earlier yesterday and it says CNN exclusive.
00:27:32.000Undisclosed emails show follow-up after Don Jr.
00:28:15.000He says he's gonna move the embassy to Jerusalem, acknowledges Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, as I've said, a move of moral bravery and courage.
00:28:23.000And he released this tweet, which is, I have to say, pretty funny.
00:28:26.000He tweeted out above this, I fulfilled my campaign promise.
00:28:44.000One Palestinian protester has been shot dead.
00:28:45.000But to be frank with you, the levels of terrorism that I've seen so far, the levels of violence that I've seen so far have been relatively innocuous.
00:28:54.000So they say that there are rallies in Malaysia, Indonesia, Iran, Syria, and even America.
00:29:47.000I do want to point out how the media have exacerbated the situation.
00:29:50.000So Richard Engel, the media like to embed in the Middle East in places like Gaza, and then they just stand around with cameras and watch people burn their own towns.
00:29:58.000And then they treat it as though something heroic is taking place.
00:30:09.000As you can probably see, clashes and civil unrest have broken out here in the West Bank.
00:30:14.000We are on the outskirts of the Palestinian city of Ramallah.
00:30:17.000These protesters have begun setting fires, they're burning tires to create a smoke screen, and they are throwing stones and other debris.
00:30:25.000It's difficult to see, but behind this smoke are Israeli troops.
00:30:29.000And they have been firing volleys of tear gas occasionally to drive the demonstrators back.
00:30:34.000All these protesters say they are here for one reason.
00:30:37.000Because Palestinians, they say, will not give up on their right to Jerusalem, no matter what President Trump says.
00:30:44.000Okay, well, look at the excitement from Richard Engel.
00:30:47.000You can see the media are really turned on about all of this.
00:30:49.000What would happen, let me just pose something.
00:30:51.000What would happen if the media minimized the coverage?
00:30:53.000In the same way that the media minimized the coverage of serial killers, but this seems to me very much like the coverage of the riots in Ferguson or the riots in Baltimore.
00:31:01.000The media love this stuff and they egg it on and then they're surprised when violence breaks out.
00:31:42.000More than 150 students and faculty filled Berry Auditorium for an hour-long discussion leading up to the vote that nullified a previous decision to have me.
00:31:50.000And the SGA sent an executive email that said, SGA's first goal is to listen to, represent, and act on the feedback of its students, and there will be a motion put forward to rescind the funding.
00:31:58.000You are welcome to add to the discussion during the meeting.
00:32:01.000Some Concordia students, according to the motion to rescind funding, have asserted that Shapiro's harmful messages targeting LGBTQQYALZ communities and other marginalized identities is in direct opposition to the dedication of Concordia and SGA to support diversity, equity, and inclusion of all persons from all backgrounds and identities.
00:32:21.000It's pretty astonishing and pretty obvious.
00:32:24.000Young Americans for Freedom at Concordia, they said bringing Ben Shapiro to campus would be a sign from Concordia College that they value intellectual and political diversity and that they care about the marginalized and underrepresented conservative voices on campus.
00:32:39.000They've decided that it's not about diversity.
00:32:42.000Instead, it's mostly about shutting down people who you don't like.
00:32:46.000It's shutting down folks that you don't like, which of course we already knew from my experiences on college campuses before.
00:32:50.000Speaking of free speech concerns, this isn't a formal free speech concern because I believe Concordia is a private college, they can do whatever they want.
00:32:56.000It does demonstrate that their supposed commitment to free speech, however, is a joke.
00:33:00.000But, you know, in terms of social censure for unpopular opinions that are true,
00:33:07.000So there's a woman who's a porn star or was a porn star.
00:33:10.000Her name was August Ames and she's 23.
00:33:13.000She was found dead from an apparent suicide after she was bullied and branded a homophobe for refusing to shoot with a man who has sex with men on camera.
00:33:22.000She made it clear she was not homophobic, apparently she's bisexual, or was bisexual, but she said that she wasn't going to do it for safety reasons.
00:33:28.000So law enforcement sources said that Ames was found early Tuesday morning in Camarillo.
00:33:33.000We're told there's no indication of foul play or any other crime occurring.
00:33:36.000Toxicology tests are being conducted while the death is investigated.
00:33:39.000Close friends say she had suffered from long-term depression, and they believe a recent incident with online harassment may have contributed to her death.
00:33:45.000The backlash was fierce when she took to Twitter on Sunday to warn women who had been tapped to replace her at EroticaX that the man she'd be working with has filmed with other men.
00:33:54.000She said, whichever lady performer is replacing me tomorrow for Erotica X News, you're shooting with a guy who has shot gay porn just to let you know.
00:35:31.000The rates are higher because they're higher.
00:35:34.000I mean, there's nothing else to say about that.
00:35:36.000And so the idea that this woman was basically run off Twitter and then she committed suicide over this, it demonstrates the insanity of the social censoring that goes on on social media like Twitter.
00:35:45.000People digging up tweets that are 10 years old or finding a tweet that you said yesterday that's completely innocuous and then taking it out of context in order to hurt you.
00:36:18.000Next Tuesday, we are having an episode of The Conversation, which means that you get to ask me your questions, but only if you are a subscriber.
00:36:23.000Everyone gets to watch on Facebook, YouTube, but only if you're a subscriber do you actually get to ask questions yourself and have them answered to make your life better.
00:37:35.000It's Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson, Edie Adams, very good cast.
00:37:40.000The movie was written by Gore Vidal, so it is a left-leaning movie.
00:37:44.000But the basic plot of it is that Henry Fonda is a former Secretary of State based on Adlai Stevenson, who's supposed to be running for president.
00:37:51.000And Cliff Robertson is supposed to be based on Richard Nixon.
00:38:57.000And a strong man takes it and he uses it.
00:39:00.000To get here, some men will stop at nothing.
00:39:05.000So the film itself is very entertaining and it's all about sort of the manipulations behind the scenes.
00:39:10.000It's definitely a strained movie in the sense that a bunch of sort of wild coincidences happen at the same time and there's a lot of scandal going on.
00:39:18.000It's an exaggeration of reality but it's a fun movie to watch and the acting is quite good.
00:39:22.000Cliff Robertson particularly gives a very good performance in it.
00:39:25.000So, believe it or not, DeRay McKesson tweeted something out that I like yesterday.
00:39:29.000It was not anything of content or significance, but it was very funny.
00:39:32.000Back in 1996, Patti LaBelle sang for Christmas, and Patti LaBelle was singing some song that I don't know.
00:39:42.000She didn't know the song either, is the bigger problem.
00:39:44.000So here's a little bit of the video of Patti LaBelle singing, and she realizes that she actually does not know any of the words that she's about to sing.
00:41:32.000So, just to be clear, no means no, but yes also means no, so everything means no.
00:41:41.000Unless yes means yes, but it probably means no, cause you're scared.
00:41:46.000If you're wondering why men may be slightly confused about what the standards of behavior ought to be, it's folks like Mrs. Claus who are not making things any easier here.
00:42:03.000The reason that you should have mandatory drug testing for welfare recipients is because there should be some strings attached.
00:42:08.000If the idea on welfare is to get you back to work, we don't want you drugging out in your free time and then going and getting my taxpayer dollars to sponsor your drug habit.
00:42:17.000Matthew says, Hey Ben, knowing that Trump has declared Jerusalem to be Israel's capital and promised to move the embassy, do you regret not voting for him last year?
00:42:23.000Will you consider voting for him for re-election?
00:42:25.000I personally feel I would switch my vote to him.
00:42:27.000So, as far as regretting my vote, I could only base my vote on the evidence that was in evidence at the time.
00:42:32.000So, I've said where I think that I was wrong about Trump, right?
00:42:35.000I thought that I was wrong about him on Gorsuch.
00:42:37.000I think he's governed much more conservative than the evidence suggested that he was going to, to that point.
00:42:41.000I didn't think he was gonna do what he just did on Jerusalem.
00:42:43.000He did it, and I've given him, I think, more than full points on that.
00:42:46.000As far as would I consider voting for him next time?
00:42:48.000Sure, I'd consider voting for him next time.
00:42:49.000I'll look at the options that come up, and we'll see where we are in three years.
00:42:52.000But yeah, of course I'd consider voting for him next time.
00:42:54.000I considered voting for him last time.
00:42:55.000So, you know, I think that you can only make your decision based on the evidence that was at hand at the time, but he has exceeded my expectations in a variety of ways.
00:43:02.000In some areas he has not, and I've been clear on that as well.
00:43:42.000So, the longest lasting group of people, it's more like a native reservation than it would be like anything else, in the sense that Jews were always there and maintained a presence there.
00:43:52.000And again, if you look at the original Native American treaties in the United States, before the Trail of Tears and the attempt to force Indians off their land, Native Americans off their land, I think there's a good case that those people should have been allowed to stay on their land.
00:44:20.000You have to decide whether what you're looking for is a community experience or you're just looking for comforting religious thought, or deep religious thought.
00:44:26.000I think that good beginning religious thought is C.S.
00:45:21.000So, this definitely was the initial draw, but in the first date, I dated a lot of women one time and decided I didn't want to date anymore because they were not either intellectually stimulating or have the same values.
00:45:37.000Not only... there's more than just a spark there, is what I'm saying.
00:45:40.000It's easy to find, I think, a certain level of chemistry, particularly sexual chemistry with people.
00:45:44.000I don't think that's the hardest thing in the world to find.
00:45:46.000What is hard to find is somebody who shares your values.
00:45:48.000And my wife and I, on our first date, for three hours discussed free will and determinism and how many kids we each wanted to have.
00:45:59.000I'm not saying sit there with a checklist, but you do have to have a group of things in your head that you want out of a spouse, and I don't mean like they're going to shine your shoes or make dinner for you.
00:46:08.000I mean things like what kind of life do they want to build and what kind of values do they hold dear, because that's the stuff you're going to be able to build a future on.
00:46:14.000Jonathan Haidt has a chapter in the Happiness Hypothesis about love, and one of the things he points out is that when you first meet your potential mate, then the level of passion, passionate love is, I think he calls it passionate love and companionate love.
00:46:51.000Fiery need that you have for your spouse at the very beginning is not the same burning need that you have for your spouse throughout your life.
00:46:59.000And the companionate love tends to rise.
00:47:02.000So passionate love declines, companionate love rises.
00:47:04.000That's the way it should happen because companionate love is more important when you're building a life and building a family.
00:47:08.000Who you want to have sex with is a pretty arbitrary decision to a certain extent.
00:47:12.000Okay, so Tanner says, Hi Ben, I have a quick question.
00:47:15.000My older brother got a girl pregnant, he has only been dating for maybe a month and a half, does not know what to do.
00:47:19.000He wants to settle down and get married with the girl, take responsibility for the kid.
00:47:21.000She's unwilling to get married and take responsibility for the kid.
00:47:24.000She wants to put the kid up for adoption, which my brother does not want to do.
00:47:27.000I want to give him some helpful advice.
00:47:32.000If she's not going to take care of the kid, and he is not going to get married and adopt the kid, and have his spouse adopt the kid, or if your parents are not available to adopt the children, children need a mother and a father.
00:47:46.000A single father is not a good solution.
00:47:48.000A single mother is not a good solution.
00:47:50.000If those are the only two solutions on the table, put the kid up for adoption, put them in a loving two-parent family.
00:48:04.000But it is more important that the child grow up in a two-parent family, a solid two-parent family, than that your brother be with his own child.
00:48:10.000It would be an act of tremendous self-sacrifice by your brother, actually, I think, to put the child in the best living scenario, unless your parents are willing to adopt the kids.
00:48:19.000It's hard for me to say whether Trump himself has become more conservative.
00:48:25.000I'll say that his policy has become more conservative.
00:48:28.000His policy in the last week and a half, the last two weeks, has been as conservative as anything I've ever seen.
00:48:32.000More conservative than I would say the Reagan administration in the last couple of weeks.
00:48:35.000But as far as him personally, I never get into the business of reading what's going on in Donald Trump's head because I think that that's a risky business.
00:48:52.000Well, I mean, it differs based on your skill level.
00:48:55.000So when you become as good as I am, when you've been playing for 15 years, and you better be good at that point or quit.
00:49:01.000When you've played, I've been playing since I was five years old.
00:49:05.000So what you're thinking about then is making sure that there's musicality to what you're playing, that you're actually thinking about what you want things to sound like.
00:49:12.000When you're at beginning stages, it is really practice, practice, practice.
00:49:15.000Make sure that all the muscle memory is in place.
00:49:53.000There are a number of demagogues who I think have driven public opinion in the wrong direction.
00:49:56.000It's hard to name one person, but I would say that the legacy of slavery continues to cruelly divide our politics, even though we all agree that slavery is bad now.
00:50:24.000So, the halakhic opinion is that Christians, the kind of Jewish law opinion, is that Christians shouldn't celebrate these things.
00:50:29.000I will, you know, add a bit of heresy here.
00:50:31.000I think that it's fine for Christians to celebrate these things.
00:50:33.000I think anything that connects you to the God of the Judeo-Christian religion is a good thing.
00:50:38.000And Jesus celebrated Passover, so I don't really see the problem with this, per se.
00:50:44.000So, in fact, my family has invited non-Jews over to Passover for years, and for Hanukkah parties.
00:50:52.000So if you want to go for it, go for it.
00:50:54.000Whatever makes you feel closer to God.
00:50:56.000Christoph says, Ben, I believe your understanding of abortion to be somewhat flawed, or at least there's one part of your position you've not been clear about.
00:51:02.000This pertains to when you define life to begin.
00:51:03.000To introduce what I mean, let me pose a very practical question and one very applicable to good-hearted couples that want to have children, but are having difficulty doing so.
00:51:09.000Do you support in vitro fertilization?
00:51:11.000This procedure always results in the destruction of several embryos.
00:51:14.000Are couples that pursue this method of fertility killing humans in the process?
00:51:17.000So they are ending a human, a potential incipient human life.
00:51:20.000IVF, I have always said that if you have the money to use every fertilized egg that's how IVF should be performed and in fact I've said this and there's a member of my synagogue who his wife had gotten in vitro and she had frozen the leftover egg and they were gonna throw it away and his wife said I don't think that that's moral.
00:51:39.000They implanted the egg and they had a baby and this baby is now their child.
00:51:43.000I think that every fertilized egg ought to be treated with the respect due to, at the very least, potential human life.
00:51:52.000And so, if you're going to treat in vitro in the most moral possible way, you don't create fertilized eggs just for destruction.
00:52:00.000Instead, you implant the number of fertilized eggs that you're willing to bear to fruition.
00:52:04.000Michael says, Ben, what is your thought on the amount of money we spend on the military?
00:52:59.000Phillip says, as a small limited government proponent, what suggestions would you have to rationalize my desire to fund NASA to historic highs and literally shoot for the stars on outer space science exploration?
00:53:07.000I get that low Earth orbit launches and deliveries to the ISS are best suited to private entities, but there seems to be very little motivation or reward for a private entity like SpaceX to explore for the sake of exploration.
00:53:16.000Well, I think you'd have to talk to Elon Musk about that, because I believe that Elon Musk has actually talked about doing deep space exploration.
00:53:23.000If it's privately fundable, I think that'd be great.
00:53:24.000The only purpose for actual government funding of deep space exploration would be for defense purposes, or for the possibility of creating new cures to disease or something, creating new inventions.
00:53:41.000As a general rule, I think that NASA funding non-connected to defense is a mistake and should be best left in private hands.
00:53:46.000I do think private funding will fill in the gaps there, as SpaceX is showing.
00:53:51.000Okay, so we'll be back here on Monday.