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00:01:37.000Alrighty, so the big story of the day and really the big story of the last several months is the fact that the United States is effectively in a trade war with China.
00:01:46.000I know people don't want to talk about trade policy.
00:01:48.000They don't really want to talk about the economy when the economy seems to be booming.
00:01:51.000But the fact is that if there is one factor that is going to impact the 2020 election that nobody is talking about.
00:01:58.000It is the possibility of a trade war with China.
00:02:00.000Now, as I've said, there are two ways of viewing this trade war with China.
00:02:03.000Way number one, President Trump is playing chicken with the Chinese.
00:02:06.000He is trying to emphasize over and over and over that tariffs are wonderful, tariffs are fine, because he's trying to get China to crumble.
00:02:13.000He's trying to put a brick on the accelerator in this game of chicken and demonstrate that he has pre-committed to doing whatever he has to do to get them to cave.
00:02:23.000Possibility number two is that President Trump actually kind of likes tariffs.
00:02:27.000Now, the reason that possibility number two is probably more probable is because over the course of Trump's career, he's been very clear that he likes tariffs.
00:02:34.000He likes the idea of using trade barriers.
00:02:36.000He thinks that economies are stronger when you put up protective barriers around domestic industry.
00:02:43.000Economics 101 teaches you that if you are to prevent the importation of cheaper products and cheaper inputs from other places, you're actually taxing your own consumers.
00:02:51.000Think about this in your own daily life.
00:02:53.000Let's say that you run a carpentry shop, and let's say that there's a grocery in town, and you spend a lot of money at the grocery every month, but they are not buying your goods.
00:03:01.000Now, theoretically, you could say to the grocery, listen, I'm not going to shop at your grocery until you start buying The kind of shelves that I build.
00:03:09.000In which case, that was a good use of tariffs.
00:03:11.000Maybe instead, or it is possible that if they are not going to buy your carpentry anyway, or if they have no intention of doing so or being pressured into it, all you are doing by refusing to buy from the grocery is making sure that you're going to spend more money on groceries.
00:03:28.000You've hurt them a little bit, you've hurt yourself a lot more because in terms of relative cost, depriving your consumers of cheaper products and better products is a way of damaging your tax-paying base.
00:03:38.000That's exactly what happens when you tariff a country.
00:03:40.000So there better be another reason that you are actually using the tariff.
00:03:43.000It can't just be for the purpose of strengthening the economy.
00:03:46.000Now, the problem that I have with President Trump's talk about tariffs is that it fails to acknowledge the reality.
00:03:51.000The reality is that every tariff must be a game of chicken or it is just damaging to domestic industry.
00:03:57.000If you're just tariffing other countries, all you are doing is forcing your taxpayers to pay higher prices for products that are imported or for competitive goods produced in the United States that no longer have to lower their price to compete with those foreign imports.
00:04:11.000So, for example, President Trump, he says, listen, we're in a very good position.
00:05:01.000"We placed a 25% tariff on dumped steel "from China and other countries, "and we now have a big and growing industry.
00:05:07.000"We had to save steel for our defense and auto industries, "both of which are coming back strong." So first of all, steel tariffs actually harm the auto industry because the auto industry prefers to have cheaper steel rather than more expensive steel.
00:05:18.000As for the idea that we have to have steel capacity for our defense, we do have steel capacity.
00:05:23.000We had steel capacity before the tariffs, and it was plenty for our defense.
00:05:27.000Finally, as far as the notion that the tariffs placed on the steel industry of China have somehow benefited American domestic producers in steel, there's not a lot of evidence to support that.
00:05:37.000According to the New York Times as of January, in the 10 months since the Trump administration imposed 25% steel tariffs on steel imports, prices in the United States have fallen back to levels last seen before the tariffs were announced on March 1st.
00:05:49.000Hiring in the steel sector remains stagnant, in part because new mills have become reliant on automation.
00:05:54.000Even with the opening and restarting of several mills last year, direct steel industry employment was 146,000 people as of November, 4% lower than it was four years ago, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute.
00:06:05.000Industry analysts estimate that steel companies made 50 announcements of plans for new mills and investments last year, and that three dozen plants were built or restarted.
00:06:15.000But investors are increasingly wary of the industry's long-term strength because stock prices are, in fact, dropping.
00:06:22.000They dropped by as much as 47% in 2018 amid fears of slowing global economic growth.
00:06:27.000Doesn't matter if you're protecting a domestic industry if there's nobody who has the money to buy your stuff.
00:06:32.000Trade wars, in fact, are generally not good or easy to win.
00:06:35.000And Beijing has more of an interest, frankly, in demonstrating strength than the United States does.
00:06:42.000Because the fact is that it is a Communist Party regime that requires the fear of its people in order to move forward.
00:06:48.000That means that, at the very least, if they're going to make concessions, they have to save face.
00:06:52.000If they were just to surrender to President Trump, they're going to look bad in front of their own folks.
00:07:00.000trade war continues to heat up, with Beijing calling for a people's war against Washington and President Trump threatening to impose tariffs on another $300 billion worth of Chinese goods.
00:07:08.000In a series of editorials and op-ed articles published on Monday, Chinese state media slammed what it labeled the Trump administration's greed and arrogance and called for a people's war against it.
00:07:17.000Beijing's state-run media effectively serves as a mouthpiece for the Communist Party.
00:07:21.000The important thing is that in the U.S.-China trade war, the U.S.
00:07:23.000sides with greed, greed and arrogance, and morale will break at any point.
00:07:27.000The Chinese side is fighting back to protect its legitimate interests, according to the nationalistic Global Times tabloid, which is effectively a government newspaper, over there.
00:07:46.000Now, maybe the idea is that this war is worthwhile, and that there will be domestic costs, but we should understand that China is, in fact, an international threat.
00:07:55.000That's an argument that I sort of agree with.
00:07:58.000And that is also an argument that is being made by Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who's at least being honest with the American people about what's going on.
00:08:04.000Tariffs are not good for the American economy.
00:08:06.000They're not good for American domestic producers.
00:08:08.000This is particularly true in the farming industry.
00:08:11.000American farmers are feeling it right on the chin because our chief export to China is indeed farming stuffs.
00:08:31.000So these tariffs are going to end up hurting both Chinese and some Americans, I'll grant you that.
00:08:36.000I think they'll ultimately hurt the Chinese more than they will Americans, in part because Chinese companies and their government have been cheating the United States for so long.
00:08:43.000There will be some sacrifice on the part of Americans, I grant you that.
00:08:47.000But I also would say that that sacrifice is pretty minimal compared to the sacrifices that our soldiers make overseas, that our fallen heroes who are laid to rest in Arlington make.
00:08:58.000I think that if you are going to talk about China and tariffing them, you need to talk about the threat that China actually presents on a global scale.
00:09:04.000That's something that Trump has not yet sold to the American people.
00:09:07.000So if there is an economic downturn due to the tariffs, Trump is going to feel it on the chin politically.
00:09:11.000He's endangering his own presidency without making a very solid case for why these tariffs are necessary.
00:09:16.000And if they are necessary, then just make the case.
00:09:19.000Trump continues to promote the idea that tariffs are good.
00:09:45.000Well, again, tariffs are a way of raiding the piggy bank on behalf of certain protected industries in the United States, unless you are making the case that we are in a fact in a de facto foreign conflict with China, in which case sacrifices must be made.
00:10:20.000This should have been done by our leaders many years ago in joy.
00:10:22.000Now it is worthwhile pointing out here That if you actually want to create a trade cordon around China, there was something that was called the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
00:10:29.000There were flaws in it as negotiated by the Obama administration, but simply ducking out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which was a trade bloc designed to foil China.
00:10:38.000There's a bunch of countries near China, but not including China.
00:10:41.000Dumping that actually gave China a regional advantage in making one-on-one deals with countries that surround it.
00:10:47.000Trump says when the time is right we will make a deal with China.
00:10:49.000My respect and friendship with President Xi is unlimited, but as I have told him many times before, this must be a great deal for the United States or it just doesn't make any sense.
00:10:57.000We have to be allowed to make up some of the tremendous ground we have lost to China on trade since the ridiculous one-sided formation of the WTO.
00:11:03.000It will all happen and much faster than people think.
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00:12:28.000All right, so President Trump's most ridiculous statement about this trade war.
00:12:32.000Again, a case can be made for the trade war, but you first have to explain why we are effectively at war with China and then why the American people must make sacrifices.
00:12:41.000Instead, President Trump keeps promoting the idea that everything is fine.
00:12:44.000And that's whistling past the economic grave here.
00:12:46.000Trump says our great patriot farmers will be one of the biggest beneficiaries of what is happening now.
00:12:51.000Hopefully, China will do us the honor of continuing to buy our great farm products the best.
00:12:55.000But if not, your country will be making up the difference based on a very high China buy.
00:12:59.000This money will come from the massive tariffs being paid to the United States for allowing China and others to do business with us.
00:13:05.000The farmers have been forgotten for many years.
00:13:13.000Use American taxpayer dollars to pay subsidies to farmers?
00:13:17.000According to the Associated Press, China's announcement on Monday of higher tariffs on $60 billion of American exports hit particularly hard in the farm belt.
00:13:24.000These are the areas specifically that President Trump does need to win in 2020 if he hopes to retain the presidency.
00:13:31.000and China negotiators called a truce to tariffs and began signaling an agreement might be reached, soybean farmers had been holding out hope that sales to China would resume.
00:13:39.000The farmers had been storing a record stockpile of nearly one billion bushels.
00:13:43.000The latest round of new tariffs spooked the financial markets and some farmers who had been tentatively optimistic.
00:13:48.000In a statement on Monday, the American Soybean Association said, quote, that they said that They reacted with frustration edged with anxiety.
00:13:57.000John Heisdorfer, a soybean farmer in Iowa, who's chairman of the ASA, said, quote, The sentiment out in the farm country is getting grimmer by the day.
00:14:03.000Our patience is waning, our finances are suffering, and the stress from months of living with the consequences of these tariffs is mounting.
00:14:10.000The fifth year of low prices basically for crops, according to many of these farmers.
00:14:15.000So, President Trump, if you're going to make the case that Americans ought to sacrifice, you have to explain what exactly they are sacrificing for.
00:14:22.000Otherwise, President Trump runs into the danger of seeming enthusiastic about a policy that is actually harming Americans in a very serious way.
00:14:31.000If you want Americans to make a sacrifice, explain why they are making the sacrifice.
00:14:34.000If not, then expect to feel the political brunt of all of this.
00:14:39.000With all of that said, the Democratic Party continues to push forward with its own radicalism.
00:14:46.000Their latest evidence of radicalism is the defense of Rashida Tlaib.
00:14:49.000So the Democratic Party is quickly becoming the Jeremy Corbyn party in Great Britain.
00:14:54.000They're quickly becoming a Labour party.
00:14:55.000They are willing to defend anything so long as it is said by an intersectional, woke personality.
00:15:01.000Today's example is not Representative Ilhan Omar, who continues to say anti-Semitic things every five minutes and 37 seconds or so, but Rashida Tlaib, who way back in December, November of last year, suggested that all supporters of Israel suffered from dual loyalty and were actually loyal to Israel, not to the United States.
00:15:17.000And then over the weekend, she was on a Yahoo News podcast where she explained that she is very proud of Palestinian behavior during the Holocaust and that Israel only exists because of the Holocaust.
00:15:28.000A lot of people are saying that this is not anti-semitic, it's just ahistorical.
00:15:31.000That's the case being made by Michael Oren, the former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations.
00:15:40.000Here's Rashida Tlaib and here's what she says.
00:15:42.000There's, you know, there's a kind of a calming feeling I always tell folks when I think of the Holocaust and the tragedy of the Holocaust and the fact that it was my ancestors, Palestinians, who lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood, the human dignity.
00:15:59.000Their existence in many ways have been wiped out and some people's passport.
00:16:03.000I mean just all of it was in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews post the Holocaust, post the tragedy and horrific persecution of Jews across the world at that time.
00:16:18.000And I love the fact that it was my ancestors that provided that, right?
00:16:29.000And in its ahistoricity, it supports an anti-Semitic narrative that is being pushed by Rashida Tlaib and others.
00:16:35.000The anti-Semitic narrative goes something like this.
00:16:37.000The Jews have no inherent connection to the land of Israel.
00:16:39.000The Jews are in fact basically a group of parasites who were given this place in the Middle East on the backs of Palestinians who suffered specifically because of the mass murder of Jews in Germany.
00:16:51.000And the Palestinians are the true victims when it comes to world history because the world cared about the Jews enough to give them a place in the middle of Palestinian land.
00:17:00.000Jews could have been put anywhere, but they were put there specifically because the world didn't care about the Palestinians, right?
00:17:05.000This is the narrative that she is attempting to push, and the Palestinians were kind-hearted, and then Israel abused them.
00:17:11.000That's an anti-Semitic narrative because it is not, not only is it not true, it is designed at the extermination of the state of Israel, a cause that Rashida Tlaib supports.
00:17:18.000She is in favor of a so-called one-state solution in which all the Palestinians, as well as any quote-unquote Palestinian refugees from abroad, Go back to the land of Israel and then are given full citizenship rights to vote.
00:17:33.000Many of these people have never set foot in the state of Israel.
00:17:55.000It was not created in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
00:17:58.000Not only that, but it was Palestinian Arab intransigence that led to the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Jews who were attempting to escape Europe.
00:18:04.000Palestinian Arabs tried to force the British mandate to refuse the acceptance of Jewish refugees from Europe into British mandate Palestine.
00:18:15.000Leading the way was Mohammed al-Husseini.
00:18:20.000This would be the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.
00:18:24.000The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was a Nazi ally.
00:18:29.000In the middle of the Holocaust, a letter was written by Heinrich Himmler, the SS commander who was responsible for the implementation of the Holocaust.
00:18:40.000The National Socialist Movement of the Greater German Reich has since its inception upheld the fight against world Jewry.
00:18:46.000It is for this reason that it closely follows the struggle of the freedom-seeking Arabs, and particularly in Palestine, against the Jewish invaders.
00:18:53.000The common recognition of the enemy and the joint struggle against it is what creates the firm foundation between Germany and freedom-seeking Muslims around the world.
00:19:00.000In this spirit, I am pleased to convey to you on the anniversary of the Excrable Balfour Declaration, which is a recognition, That's Haj Amin al-Husseini.
00:19:21.000If you're watching the video, you can actually see pictures of him sitting with Hitler, standing and saluting all the German troops, giving the Heil Hitler hand salute.
00:19:30.000This was the leader of the Palestinian population in the middle of World War Two and long before World War Two.
00:19:37.000Because in April 1920, as is written by E.D.
00:19:40.000Cohen over at thetower.org, in April 1920, the victorious Allied powers convened in San Remo, Italy, to negotiate a peace treaty with Turkey.
00:19:48.000As a direct result, Britain was handed the mandate for Palestine, previously domain of the Ottoman Empire, with the understanding that London would now make good on its commitment to a Jewish national home, as underlined by the Balfour Declaration in November of 1917.
00:19:59.000In 1919, Haj Amin al-Husseini, a prominent scion of the al-Husseini clan, which was agitating for violent conflict against the Jews and the British, began organizing small groups of terrorists to harass and attack Palestine's Jews.
00:20:13.000One year later, as the Allies were debating at San Remo, al-Husseini instigated anti-Jewish riots in Jerusalem.
00:20:18.000During the intermediate days of the Passover festival, six Jews murdered, more than 200 wounded during an orgy of destruction.
00:20:25.000The British arrested him, but a year later, the newly installed British High Commissioner, Herbert Samuel, eager to dampen tensions, pardoned al-Husseini and appointed him to the post of Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.
00:20:35.000Samuel could not have been more wrong.
00:20:36.000As a direct consequence of Britain's empowerment of him as Mufti, al-Husseini was emboldened in pursuing the aim of violently removing the Jewish presence in Palestine over the following two decades.
00:20:45.000Al-Husseini's hardened anti-Semitic worldview, together with his determination to extinguish any prospect of the Balfour Declaration's promise from being realized, made him a natural Middle Eastern ally of Germany's Nazi regime once it launched its war of conquest and genocide in 1939.
00:21:01.000Within three weeks of his first meeting with Samuel, Al-Husseini orchestrated riots in Petach Tikva and Jaffa, which resulted in the murders of 43 Jews.
00:21:11.000And because of his because of his stumping against the Jews, the British colonial secretary Malcolm McDonald issued an infamous white paper in May 1939 that set Britain's policy on the course of appeasing Arab desires.
00:21:25.000Denounced in the House of Commons by Winston Churchill as a moral blow, the white paper limited Jewish entry into British Palestine to 75,000 over the next five years on the eve of the Holocaust.
00:21:34.000And then al-Husseini pledged support for the Nazis.
00:21:37.000And pledged support effectively for the Holocaust and encouraged Hitler to actually engage in a Holocaust in the Middle East if Hitler were to conquer British Palestine.
00:21:47.000Al Husseini was an evil piece of human debris, an evil, evil man.
00:21:51.000And he was also instrumental in the launch of an Arab war of extermination against the nascent Jewish state in 1947 and 1948.
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00:23:30.000Okay, let's imagine that there is an American politician, and they were talking about the institution of slavery in the United States.
00:23:37.000And what they actually said is, I'm just so grateful to the slaveholders of the South.
00:23:43.000Because if it weren't for the slaveholders of the South, then black people in America never would have gained their freedom.
00:23:48.000If it weren't for brutal slaveholders in the South, you know, whipping slaves, separating families, treating people as property, then blacks never would have been able to gain their freedom.
00:23:57.000You would say, OK, that's not just a historical.
00:23:59.000You are now whitewashing some of the most evil people to have lived in the United States.
00:24:20.000The Balfour Declaration in 1917 pledged a Jewish state that, by the way, included Jordan originally.
00:24:26.000So that preexisted, the Holocaust, by a solid three decades.
00:24:30.000Nonetheless, that push is to delegitimize the state of Israel and claim that the real owners of the land are the Palestinians, who never had a state in the region.
00:24:39.000There was never an independent state of Palestine, an independent Arab state of Palestine.
00:24:43.000It was always dominated by the Ottoman Empire.
00:24:45.000There was no idea of quote-unquote Palestinian identity, Palestinian Arab identity.
00:24:49.000Palestinians, historically speaking, were actually known as Jews.
00:24:52.000The Palestine Post was the original name for the Jerusalem Post.
00:24:56.000So that's not to say there weren't inhabitants of the land of Israel who were Arabs.
00:25:00.000There were, but there were also inhabitants of the land of Israel who were Jews.
00:25:03.000And when it came time for the divvying of the land, the land of Jordan was given to the Arabs, the West Bank and Gaza Strip were originally given to the Arabs.
00:25:13.000It was rejected by the Arabs and several wars of extermination have been launched by the Arab states surrounding Israel ever since.
00:25:19.000So when she attempts to wipe out the Jewish nature of the state of Israel, Understand that this is part of a broader agenda that Rashida Tlaib has been pursuing in coordination with her boycott divestment sanction support.
00:25:30.000Okay, now, you have to know that because we have to parse what she said that's anti-Semitic from what she said that is not anti-Semitic.
00:25:35.000So people are jumping on some of the language that she uses in that quote.
00:25:39.000People are jumping, I think, incorrectly on the language that she uses with regard to, quote-unquote, she feels a calming aspect with regard to the Holocaust.
00:25:45.000Now, I don't think, honestly speaking, that she was saying that the Holocaust calms her.
00:25:49.000I don't think that's what she is saying there.
00:25:50.000I think it's pretty obvious from her verbiage that what she is actually saying is that she feels a calming So her false sense of history allows her to believe that she and her ancestors were the good guys in this particular narrative, and that's calming to her.
00:26:03.000I don't think that she's saying that the Holocaust is calming, but the narrative is itself supportive of an anti-Semitic narrative, and she knows that.
00:26:57.000So President Trump's tweet is more accurate.
00:26:59.000Liz Cheney's tweet is taking Tlaib out of context.
00:27:02.000That doesn't change the fact that what Tlaib said is anti-Semitic, but that is pointing out anti-Semitism where it doesn't exist in the quote and ignoring anti-Semitism where it does exist in the quote.
00:27:12.000But overall, is Rashida Tlaib an anti-Semite?
00:27:18.000Very early on in her tenure, she posted a picture from her office of a post-it note on a map that pointed to the entire land of Israel and said Palestine.
00:27:27.000She invited people who are for the complete destruction of the state of Israel to her inauguration, to her swearing in.
00:27:36.000There's a bunch of articles online about all of her immediate friends and what they have to say about the state of Israel.
00:27:41.000This is certainly somebody who is extraordinarily comfortable in the context of antisemitism.
00:27:46.000And you can see how comfortable she is.
00:28:36.000He actually denounced them at that famous Charlottesville press conference.
00:28:39.000My criticism of President Trump on Charlottesville is that he was not clear in his original statement.
00:28:45.000And then in his follow-up statement, he himself created a historical fiction where there were these wonderful people who were marching with the white supremacists at Charlottesville.
00:28:53.000But he did not, in fact, praise neo-Nazis.
00:28:55.000But Ilhan Omar's statement, even if we take it at face value, does not prove her point.
00:28:59.000Trump is saying, imagine what would happen if I said something similar.
00:29:02.000And she says, we don't have to imagine.
00:29:19.000So if you quote, Rashida Tlaib accurately, and you accurately characterize her statements, then this is a form of Islamophobia.
00:29:25.000She says, this is another transparent attempt to sow division between minority communities and distract from your own criminal behavior by smearing a Muslim woman.
00:29:33.000Okay, again, if we are talking about sowing division between minority communities, namely Muslims and Jews, which I assume she's talking about here, the person sowing divisions would be anti-Semites like Ilhan Omar and people like Rashida Tlaib and the Democratic leadership.
00:29:46.000So Nancy Pelosi comes out in defense of all of this.
00:30:00.000Basically, they are picking on the Republicans who went too far by focusing on the calming aspect of the quote from Rashida Tlaib.
00:30:07.000And they are ignoring the fact that Rashida Tlaib actually did say something that is so ahistorical as to amount to part of an anti-Semitic narrative, which is accurate.
00:30:15.000Speaker Pelosi said, Republicans' desperate attempts to smear Representative Rashida and misrepresent her comments are outrageous.
00:30:21.000President Trump should apologize to Representative Tlaib.
00:30:24.000So it's pretty obvious that the Democrats have decided to completely fall for the ruse here.
00:30:31.000They're now in for a penny and they're in for a pound.
00:30:32.000That means that no matter what Tlaib says, no matter what Omar says, I mean, they bought a ticket and they're going to take the ride.
00:30:37.000And they ought to take the ride because they are backing anti-Semites, open anti-Semites at this point.
00:30:43.000Now, if American Jews choose not to see that, that says more about their commitment to Judaism than it does about the health of the Democratic Party.
00:30:51.000If you are a member of a party that is consistently rooting for and covering for people who call for the extermination of the largest group identity that is possible inside your group, right?
00:31:03.000The state of Israel is the Jewish state.
00:31:05.000It is the greatest collective of Jews on planet Earth right now.
00:31:09.000If you are okay with that, then that says more about you than it does about the Democratic Party.
00:31:13.000So don't quote to me, oh, well, many Jews are going to continue to vote for the Democratic Party.
00:32:32.000So let's talk for a second about the media coverage of Rashida Tlaib.
00:32:36.000So it's pretty obvious where the media in the United States stand.
00:32:39.000Where they stand is on the side of Democrats, even if those Democrats are endorsing anti-Semitism.
00:32:45.000The Washington Post, here's their headline.
00:32:51.000Every time Democrats say something terrible, the media cover it as Republicans respond to X. Every time Democrats do something really bad, it's Republicans pounce.
00:33:01.000This is a point of high irritation for most Republicans, as well it should be.
00:33:05.000The fact that so many members of the media are more focused on Republican responses to bad things that are said than they are focused on the comments themselves is demonstrative of exactly where the media stand.
00:33:15.000I don't remember a single headline that said Democrats pounce on Representative Steve King after comments on race.
00:33:21.000I don't remember a single headline like that.
00:33:23.000It was all Steve King says something insane and ridiculous and disgusting about white nationalism, right?
00:33:29.000So they're accurate when it comes to Republicans.
00:33:31.000They're wildly inaccurate when it comes to Democrats.
00:33:34.000Has a Democrat ever said something that is worthy of its own headline?
00:33:37.000Or is the only thing that matters attacking Republicans for attacking Democrats?
00:33:40.000The fact the media continue to play this game, it makes their game absolutely clear.
00:33:45.000It's all gotcha politics designed to come after one side of the political aisle, which, unfortunately, is all too common in the left media.
00:33:51.000It's not honest conversation about what people have actually said and what they are actually attempting to say.
00:33:55.000Instead, it is an attempt, all too often, to cast aspersions at the conservative side of the aisle.
00:34:02.000And it's not just the Washington Post, it's Seth Meyers.
00:34:05.000So Seth Meyers, just a week ago, had on Meghan McCain.
00:34:10.000He called her an Islamophobe for quoting Ilhan Omar.
00:34:12.000He suggested that she was responsible for incitement against Ilhan Omar.
00:34:15.000Now, I have some personal stake in this sort of thing.
00:34:17.000I had a rough couple of weeks, particularly because of this FBI arrest of a person who was threatening to shoot me and my family in the head.
00:34:24.000I don't remember a single article or question about quote-unquote incitement against me.
00:34:28.000And as I said, and have been saying, I don't think that you can charge someone with quote-unquote incitement against me even if they're saying nasty things about me unless they are openly calling for violence or implying that people should do me violence.
00:34:39.000And yet I don't remember anybody on the left saying any of those things.
00:34:43.000The left will say that Ilhan Omar says she's getting threats, therefore it's Donald Trump's fault, therefore Islamophobia.
00:34:48.000Meghan McCain, why can't you behave better?
00:34:53.000Seth Meyers has become a full-time Democratic Party hack.
00:34:56.000I remember when he was supposed to be a comedian.
00:34:59.000Now, he is hosting Rashida Tlaib on her worldwide anti-Semitism defense tour.
00:35:04.000Here's Rashida Tlaib explaining that, in reality, she has to just speak to people as though they're really stupid so people, so racists understand her.
00:35:30.000You know, I got a text message from a friend who's like, hey, next time, you know, really clarify, maybe talk like a fourth, fourth grader, because maybe the racist idiots would understand you better.
00:35:39.000Oh yeah, next time you have to clarify, speak like a child so that the racist... Here's the thing.
00:35:44.000Every fourth grader understands what Rashida Tlaib is doing.
00:35:52.000The fact that Seth Meyers has her on and then defends her and talks about how she's the victim, tells you what you need to know about Seth Meyers, about late night TV, about Stephen Colbert, about Jimmy Kimmel.
00:36:03.000The media are so stacked in favor of the Democratic Party that they cannot root out anyone in their midst.
00:36:21.000But she is constantly talking about how the Republican Party does a bad job of rooting out its own.
00:36:26.000The Republican Party can always do a better job of finding people who are saying bad things and then forcing them to back down or rooting them out.
00:36:34.000But has the Democratic Party ever done that?
00:36:38.000When's the last time the Democratic Party said that someone had said something so vile they had to go?
00:36:43.000The only example I can think of really is Cynthia McKinney.
00:36:46.000And that was way back in the early 2000s.
00:36:47.000So it's been about 20 years since the Democratic Party Actually cared about taking people who said terrible things and then casting them out.
00:36:56.000Now they're more interested in embracing those people for the sake of intersectional identity politics than they are in making sure that their party actually represents fundamentally good principles.
00:37:05.000That's why the Democratic Party is defending Rashida Tlaib.
00:37:07.000And that's why Seth Meyers and his claptor routine is not even laughter anymore.
00:37:12.000People clapping for him with few laughs.
00:37:15.000That's why his routine is becoming increasingly popular.
00:37:17.000It's a woke off on late night television.
00:37:19.000And that's why you have Seth Meyers attacking Meghan McCain, who does a good job, and praising Rashida Tlaib, who is an anti-Semite.
00:37:25.000OK, meanwhile, the Democratic Party continues to push more and more radical proposals.
00:37:30.000Their best hope at the White House in 2020 is again an implosion by President Trump, not that the American people are ready to embrace these ideas.
00:37:37.000Bernie Sanders is desperately flailing for attention.
00:37:40.000Since Joe Biden jumped into the race, he has been sinking in the polling numbers.
00:37:44.000There's a new poll out today that shows that young support for Bernie Sanders is beginning to wane, which is why Elizabeth Warren is starting to think about the possibility of gaining the nomination, or at least a VP nomination.
00:37:59.000According to a New Morning Consult poll, Sanders' support among people between the ages of 18 and 29 has dropped from 45% in March all the way down to 33% in May.
00:38:27.000All he has to do is shut up and wait for the other Democrats to kill each other.
00:38:30.000And that seems to be what is happening at this point.
00:38:33.000I'm surprised that other Democrats aren't attacking Biden already, but Biden is right now the frontrunner.
00:38:39.000So Bernie, flailing for attention, he continues to say things like he wants to get rid of the private insurance industry entirely in healthcare.
00:38:46.000You're talking about Medicare for all.
00:38:48.000You're in the second largest insurance capital in the country here in Des Moines and a lot of people, there are people who would like to keep their private insurance.
00:38:58.000No, I think right now what we should appreciate is that every year many many millions of people lose their health insurance because they Leave their jobs or because their employer changes their insurance policies.
00:39:16.000I think what most Americans feel is that Medicare currently, which applies to people 65 years of age or older, is a very strong program.
00:39:27.000Okay, so he continues to push an agenda that most Americans are simply not going to embrace.
00:39:31.000Also, he is now pushing for a credit card interest rate cap limit, which makes no economic sense.
00:39:37.000I understand that it's pandering, and I understand that free stuff for everybody is basically his agenda, but the fact that both he and AOC are now pushing for the idea that you are going to cap credit card interest rates, it's a disastrously stupid idea.
00:39:54.000Diego Zuluaga is a policy analyst at Cato Institute, so he's a conservative, but he's writing for CNN Business.
00:39:59.000He says, back in the early 1900s, progressives helped drive loan sharks out of business by lobbying to lift state usury caps.
00:40:05.000Those caps had barred lenders from charging interest rates above 6 to 10 percent a year, forcing low-income Americans to seek credit in the illegal market.
00:40:13.000Now, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders want to bring back a similar usury law, and that's exactly what will happen.
00:40:18.000All that will happen is that low-income people who have bad credit will not be able to get any credit.
00:40:22.000The reason you charge a high interest rate is because you believe there will be default.
00:40:26.000If you don't believe there will be default, then I can shop around for the lowest interest rate.
00:40:30.000You want to destroy the credit markets, this is a pretty easy way to do so.
00:40:35.000All this stuff, most democratic policy at this point, is popular on the surface, and then if you scratch it with a thumbnail, then it is unpopular underneath.
00:40:43.000The same thing is true with regard to Joe Biden and his new push for environmental revolution.
00:40:49.000According to the New York Times, Joe Biden defended his record on climate change on Monday and called for a green revolution that is rational and affordable.
00:40:56.000He also talked about breaking up big companies like Facebook.
00:41:00.000And he derided President Trump's tariffs.
00:41:01.000He said he was speaking at a New Hampshire pizza restaurant.
00:41:04.000He pledged to deliver a major speech in detail by the end of May, outlining his environmental policies.
00:41:09.000He says there's a need for an environmental revolution.
00:41:13.000And then he talked about how he had been mischaracterized because he had said at one point that he was seeking a middle ground in the fight against the planet's warming.
00:41:20.000Now, if he had actually been seeking a middle ground, that'd be something I think that most people agree with.
00:41:35.000Cut a video for John Oliver, because again, everything is about claptor at this point.
00:41:39.000There's no such thing as laughter on late-night television anymore.
00:41:41.000Now it is all about, I agree with the cause, and so I will pretend this is funny.
00:41:45.000Bill Nye the Science Guy, looking kind of peaked over here.
00:41:48.000He did a routine in which he set a globe on fire and cursed a lot, and this was supposed to convince us that we need to quote-unquote, DO SOMETHING!
00:42:46.000And the fact is that if the United States were to cut out all emissions today, if the United States were simply to stop emitting, according to the IPCC report, If we cut our emissions to net zero and the sensitivity of the climate is 4.5, which is the highest estimate by the IPCC report, we would cut global warming by 0.062 degrees Celsius by 2050 and 0.173 degrees Celsius by 2100.
00:43:31.000If you actually wanted to do something to stop emissions this moment, you have to focus on China and India, neither of whom is inclined to cut any of its emissions at the moment.
00:43:41.000This is really, you know, nonetheless, the Democrats want to make your life worse in order to pursue policies that they have not made even clear.
00:43:50.000This is, I'm saying now, the flip of what I said about Trump and tariffs earlier.
00:43:53.000What I said about tariffs for Trump is, at least be honest with the American people, what they are fighting for.
00:43:57.000If Democrats want to make the case for a policy, you have to explain what the policy does, what the costs are, and be honest with us about it.
00:44:04.000And then we can assess whether these are good ideas or not.
00:44:06.000Instead, you just run around shouting about the world on fire, Blowing things up, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez talking about the world ending in 12 years and then claiming yesterday that she wasn't being literal about that.
00:44:17.000You know, none of that is going to get the job done.
00:44:19.000You actually want to come to solutions?
00:44:20.000How about proposing some actual solutions rather than sloganeering nonsense?
00:44:24.000Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:44:26.000So, this weekend, John Wick 3 is coming out.
00:44:28.000So I will, I will freely say, I've been wrong about a great many things in my career.
00:45:18.000Okay, so it's pretty great, and it's pretty worth watching.
00:45:22.000So, go check out John Wick 1, check out John Wick 2, and I'm gonna go see it this weekend.
00:45:26.000Also, Keanu Reeves seems like sort of a charming fellow in his interviews.
00:45:29.000He seems like actually a thoughtful dude, which is kind of shocking.
00:45:31.000Okay, so, I really enjoy it, and I think you will too.
00:45:35.000Take it for what it's worth, which is it starts off really dark and serious, and then it kind of turns into comic book territory, and that's when it gets fun.
00:45:41.000OK, time for another thing that I like.
00:45:42.000So another thing that I like today, Bill de Blasio wants to run for president and he went to Trump Tower for some sort of speech and he got heckled by the left.
00:45:50.000And it was hilarious because he is just bad at running his.
00:45:57.000And people in his own city are yelling at him.
00:46:00.000One of the things I think could be a grounds for compromise is physically limiting the speed of e-bikes and making them similar to the pedal.
00:46:25.000So he just got heckled continuously over and over and over again.
00:46:29.000So, you know, that is exactly what Bill de Blasio deserves.
00:46:32.000He's a terrible mayor of New York, and the fact that he has national aspirations is hilarious.
00:46:51.000Meghan McCain has a rough job pretty much every day.
00:46:53.000She has to go in on The View and deal with people who do not understand the points that she makes, think that she's a lesser person for making them.
00:47:00.000So she was defending Georgia's heartbeat law, the heartbeat bill.
00:47:03.000The heartbeat bill basically says once a baby has a heartbeat, week six, you can't kill it.
00:47:09.000It does not criminalize miscarriage, as some lying journalists might say.
00:47:13.000It doesn't, it is not barbaric, it is not dark ages, it is none of those things.
00:47:16.000The bill does not criminalize for women abortion even, meaning that it criminalizes abortion for abortion doctors.
00:47:22.000Women don't go to jail under this law.
00:47:25.000But here's Meghan McCain defending it in The View, losing their ever-loving minds over all of this, when again, all the law is recognizing is the personhood, the human life that is in the womb and that it should be protected, and this is simply too much for the ladies of The View.
00:47:38.000I always feel like pro-life women are just completely left out of conversations like this in one way or another.
00:47:43.000And it doesn't even occur to her that there are women like me out there that don't have a problem with this bill.
00:47:47.000But let's talk about the men instead of the women.
00:48:18.000They just want to put women back in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant.
00:48:22.000The fact that these sorts of slogans are persuasive on the left, the fact that what Meghan McCain says there is eminently correct, this is a difference on the worth of human life, the assessment of the worth of human life when it begins.
00:48:33.000At least have an objective debate on that, at least have some sort of discussion on that rather than just levering charges, levying charges at people that their position is based on barbarism and bigotry.
00:48:44.000And yet the fact that Joy Behar is considered some sort of intellectual shining light for many of the people who watch The View is pretty astonishing.
00:48:51.000Honestly, Meghan McCain has a rough job.
00:48:52.000Good for her for going into the lion's den every day.
00:48:55.000And it is just another indicator that there are badly motivated people on the left who are more interested in the slogans associated with their political positions than they are in actual discussions about the issues themselves.
00:49:05.000They'd rather just shout, They'd rather just shout about how a law is bad than explain why the law is bad or face up to the arguments as to why the law is good in the first place.
00:49:15.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of show.