The Ben Shapiro Show - Pardon Me | Ep. 956

00:00:00.000 President Trump's conflict with Attorney General William Barr appears to escalate.

00:00:03.000 Bernie continues to skate on his radicalism.

00:00:06.000 And Pete Buttigieg takes off the moderate mask.

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00:01:48.000 Alrighty, so the big story of the day is that the President appears to be at odds once again with his own Attorney General.

00:01:53.000 And again, this comes from the fact that Trump simply does not understand the value of tact.

00:02:00.000 He does not understand what it means to just be quiet every so often.

00:02:04.000 And this has led to an open conflict between Trump, who continues to sound off like a talk radio caller on virtually everything that he sees around him, as though he's an observer of the political scene and not, you know, the most powerful person on the face of the Yesterday, the Washington Post reported that during President Trump's Senate impeachment trial, Democrats repeatedly asserted he is not above the law.

00:02:25.000 Since his acquittal two weeks ago, the president has taken a series of steps aimed at showing essentially that he is the law.

00:02:30.000 Now, that, of course, is not seriously true.

00:02:33.000 The president has every authority to take people who he believes are militating against him in the White House and move them out of the White House.

00:02:39.000 The executive branch is a unitary branch of government.

00:02:42.000 That means the president is in charge of that branch and he has hiring and firing power inside that branch except for the specified offices that have to be approved by the Senate of the United States.

00:02:50.000 It is also true that the presidency carries along with it the pardon power and the commutation power, which we're going to get to in just one second. 0.95

00:02:57.000 I, for one, have long suggested, Republican or Democrat, that pardon and commutation power is stupid and should not be given to the President of the United States.

00:03:04.000 That the reason it was originally granted was specifically to attempt to foreclose political prosecutions because you never know that the next president might come in and then immediately pardon or commute the sentences of people who are politically prosecuted.

00:03:17.000 With that said, And the idea that the president of the United States, or the governor of a state for that matter, should have the ability to overrule a jury after a long trial simply because that governor knew the person or had feelings about the person? 0.97

00:03:29.000 That seems to me to be a large-scale stupidity that should be rectified immediately. 0.60

00:03:34.000 Again, I've been consistent about this since the Clinton administration, so this is nothing new for me, but that is indeed a power of the presidency. 0.99

00:03:40.000 And President Trump found it yesterday.

00:03:42.000 He found that pardon and commutation button.

00:03:44.000 He just started hitting it.

00:03:45.000 Like baby Groot in Guardians of the Galaxy 2.

00:03:48.000 He just started hitting that pardon and commutation button over and over like he was gonna bring him a Diet Coke.

00:03:52.000 It was fun times for the president yesterday.

00:03:54.000 He decided that he was going to pardon or commute the sentences of a bunch of people.

00:04:00.000 So, for example, yesterday he pardoned seven people, including the so-called junk bond king, Michael Milken.

00:04:08.000 There's actually a fairly solid case for why Michael Milken never should have been prosecuted back in the 1980s, that that actually was an overzealous prosecution.

00:04:14.000 But Bernie Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner with whom Trump is friends, that guy was fairly clearly engaged in bribery and corruption.

00:04:21.000 He also commuted the sentence of Rod Blagojevich, the former governor of Illinois, who is as corrupt as anybody who has been in modern American politics.

00:04:28.000 Blagojevich, of course, he knew from his days on Celebrity Apprentice.

00:04:32.000 There were 11 people who benefited from executive grants of clemency that president issued on Tuesday.

00:04:38.000 Blagojevich, of course, was sentenced to 14 years in prison in 2011 for trying to sell or trade to the highest bidder of the Senate seat.

00:04:44.000 Barack Obama vacated after he was elected president.

00:04:46.000 Apparently, he literally was caught on tape saying to people that he was not going to give up that effing seat for nothing.

00:04:54.000 Amazing. 0.84

00:04:54.000 And the president decided that it was time for him to have his sentence commuted, which is kind of ridiculous. 0.84

00:05:00.000 He also pardoned Eddie DiBartolo Jr.

00:05:02.000 Former owner of the San Francisco 49ers who pled guilty in 1998 to concealing an extortion plot by a former governor of Louisiana.

00:05:09.000 He was prosecuted after he agreed to pay 400 grand to the former governor Edwin Edwards to secure a riverboat gambling license for his gambling consortium.

00:05:17.000 Now again, that one maybe looks a little bit different in the sense that he was actually solicited for a bribe.

00:05:22.000 He wasn't the one who was actually pushing for the bribe apparently.

00:05:25.000 He also pardoned Ariel Friedler, who is a technology entrepreneur who pled guilty in 2014 to conspiracy to access a protected computer without authorization and served two months in prison.

00:05:36.000 He commuted the sentence of Chinese Nicole Hall, who was sentenced in 2006 after being convicted on various drug charges, so that one is more along the lines of his criminal justice reform or his pardon or commutation of sentence for Alice Johnson.

00:05:48.000 He pardoned Bernie Kerrick.

00:05:49.000 Which is pretty controversial.

00:05:50.000 He pardoned Michael Milken, which is pretty controversial, but again, there were a bunch of people, including the prosecutors in his original case, Milken, who suggested that he probably shouldn't have been prosecuted.

00:05:58.000 He commuted the sentence of Crystal Munoz, who was found guilty in 2008 of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute marijuana, and she was sentenced to, apparently, two decades in prison.

00:06:09.000 Again, that one is more along the lines of criminal justice reform.

00:06:13.000 Apparently he commuted the sentence of one Judith Negron, who was sentenced to 35 years in prison in 2011 for her role in orchestrating a Medicare fraud scheme.

00:06:20.000 Again, this is more criminal justice reform type stuff.

00:06:23.000 He apparently pardoned Paul Pogue, the founder and former chief executive of a large construction company in Texas, and David Safavian, a top federal procurement official under President Bush, who was sentenced to a year in prison in 2009 for covering up his ties to Jack Abramoff.

00:06:38.000 So there's a lot of accusation that the president had engaged in Some form of corruption by issuing these pardons, or at the very least, he was misusing the pardon power.

00:06:45.000 That was clearest when it came to Rod Blagojevich, who was guilty as the day is long and really should not have been let out of prison early.

00:06:53.000 With that said, it's the president's sort of inconsistent use of this.

00:06:56.000 I mean, the entire House GOP delegation in Illinois blasted the pardon for Rod Blagojevich.

00:07:00.000 My guess is that President Trump probably thought he was doing something bipartisan because Blagojevich was a Democrat.

00:07:04.000 But the Illinois House GOP delegation, which includes Adam Kinzinger, Darren LaHood, John Shimkus, Mike Boss, and Rodney Davis, issued a statement saying a commutation of Blagojevich's sentence would set a dangerous precedent.

00:07:16.000 President Trump went ahead with it anyway.

00:07:19.000 All of this comes amidst the president fulminating, being very angry at a lot of the Justice Department activities surrounding, for example, Roger Stone.

00:07:29.000 There's a report from the Washington Post yesterday that William Barr has now said that if President Trump continues to tweet about ongoing cases, it's gonna force him to step down.

00:07:38.000 According to the Washington Post, Barr told people close to Trump, inside and outside the White House, he is considering quitting over Trump's tweets about the Justice Department investigations.

00:07:46.000 Foreshadowing a possible confrontation between the president and his AG over the independence of the Justice Department.

00:07:51.000 Yesterday, the president declared that he was the chief law enforcement officer in the country.

00:07:54.000 Of course, that title is officially the AG's, but it is also true that the AG works at the pleasure of the president.

00:08:00.000 And so the president does, in fact, have the constitutional authority to intervene in particular cases.

00:08:04.000 The proper remedy for a president misusing that wouldn't, in fact, be either impeachment or the president losing an election.

00:08:11.000 Suffice it to say that the conflict between Barr and Trump, again, comes down to Trump not acting in his own best interest and people around him giving him good advice and President Trump ignoring it.

00:08:20.000 This is one of the big problems for President Trump is that the president is constantly doing whatever comes into his head and then people around him tell him this is a bad idea and if he is smart he stops and if he is not smart he goes ahead and he does it anyway.

00:08:34.000 It is simply a fact of the matter that the smart move here would be for the president to stop doing these silly things.

00:08:39.000 I mean Trump himself is admitting that he's making life more difficult for Attorney General Barr.

00:08:44.000 Like, Barr is trying to do his job.

00:08:45.000 The idea that Barr is some sort of political hack for the president does not help the president, and it doesn't help Barr, and it also happens not to be particularly true. 0.97

00:08:52.000 Trump sounding off about cases in which Barr has a role is really dumb. 0.98

00:08:56.000 It's dumb politics. 1.00

00:08:58.000 I mean, it's dumb law, it's dumb politics, it's dumb on every level. 0.99

00:09:01.000 Trump, as Barr says, and again, the president's own allies are saying this, he needs to keep his piehole shut on this kind of stuff. 0.98

00:09:07.000 Here's Trump admitting he's making Barr's life more difficult.

00:09:10.000 I do make his job harder.

00:09:11.000 I do agree with that.

00:09:12.000 I think that's true.

00:09:13.000 He's a very straight shooter.

00:09:15.000 We have a great attorney general, and he's working very hard.

00:09:19.000 And he's working against a lot of people that don't want to see good things happen, in my opinion.

00:09:23.000 That's my opinion, not his opinion.

00:09:25.000 That's my opinion.

00:09:26.000 You'll have to ask what his opinion is.

00:09:28.000 But I will say this.

00:09:32.000 Social media, for me, has been very important.

00:09:35.000 Because it gives me a voice.

00:09:37.000 Because I don't get that voice in the press, in the media.

00:09:40.000 I don't get that voice.

00:09:41.000 So I'm allowed to have a voice.

00:09:43.000 Like, he's clearly acknowledging that what he is saying is not helpful to him.

00:09:48.000 And he's like, right, but I like tweeting.

00:09:50.000 And it's useful to me.

00:09:51.000 You're the president.

00:09:52.000 I promise.

00:09:52.000 You have a voice.

00:09:53.000 That podium is incredibly powerful.

00:09:55.000 The president of the United States.

00:09:57.000 Was Barack Obama a not-powerful president because he didn't use social media in the same way as Donald Trump?

00:10:02.000 Now, I know there are a bunch of people on the right who are screaming at their speakers and at their radios right now saying, right, but Obama had the media behind him.

00:10:09.000 Yes, but Donald Trump is the single greatest magnet for cameras in the history of mankind.

00:10:15.000 If Donald Trump were to publicly do anything, if Donald Trump were to publicly go out and blow on a pinwheel, the media would come and they would cover that for three hours. 0.92

00:10:24.000 So don't tell me the president doesn't have a way to funnel his message to the public without using the dumbest possible tactics on Twitter.

00:10:31.000 Okay, with all of that said, the reason all of that is important, of course, is because the President is in the middle of a re-election campaign.

00:10:36.000 Trump is in the middle of a re-election campaign.

00:10:38.000 A re-election campaign in which he is running against possibly the most dangerous Democrat in the history of the Republic to get the nomination.

00:10:45.000 I say that without reservation, actually.

00:10:47.000 I'm not going to say possibly.

00:10:48.000 I think almost certainly.

00:10:51.000 In terms of the modern Democratic Party, let's say post-Woodrow Wilson.

00:10:56.000 Because Woodrow Wilson was actually a dangerous individual, brutally racist and all of that.

00:11:01.000 Bernie Sanders in the modern era is the most dangerous Democratic nominee ever.

00:11:05.000 Ever.

00:11:06.000 And I say he's the nominee because right now, there ain't nobody stopping him.

00:11:09.000 New poll out of South Carolina today has him tied with Joe Biden for the lead in South Carolina, which means he wins.

00:11:16.000 Joe Biden has to show strong second to Nevada or this race is over for Joe Biden.

00:11:20.000 And people are relying on Michael Bloomberg to step into that gap?

00:11:22.000 There's only one problem.

00:11:24.000 Everybody on the Democratic side of the aisle hates Bloomberg more than they hate Sanders.

00:11:28.000 Because they wish to reward a lifelong ward of the taxpayers as opposed to somebody who's actually built a thing.

00:11:35.000 Believe me, I am no Bloomberg defender. 1.00

00:11:36.000 I think that Bloomberg is a paternalistic jerk. 0.99

00:11:39.000 I think he spends his entire life Not only bossing people around in politics, but also using his money to shush people up. 1.00

00:11:46.000 We'll get to that in just a second.

00:11:48.000 But Bloomberg is not dangerous to the heart and soul of the country in the same way that Bernie Sanders is dangerous to the heart and soul of the country, which suggests, of course, that Trump needs to run a good race.

00:11:57.000 It is incumbent on Trump, for the sake of the country, that he not start declaring himself, quote-unquote, the chief law enforcement officer of the country and then acting with all of the constitutional prerogatives available to him in whichever way he sees fit.

00:12:09.000 Like, use just a little bit of common sense.

00:12:12.000 Just, like, this much.

00:12:13.000 I'm not saying water it down from an 11 to a 2.

00:12:15.000 I'm saying water it down from, like, an 11 to an 8.

00:12:17.000 That's it.

00:12:18.000 Okay, but if the president doesn't do that, then he puts the country in serious danger of having a communist as president of the United States.

00:12:26.000 We can get to Bernie in just a second.

00:12:28.000 I will say one thing that is hilarious to me is the fact that Democrats can't understand how President Trump has such a good economy.

00:12:36.000 There's a piece by Jared Bernstein, the chief economist to former VP Joe Biden and senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, lamenting that we have such a good economy with such a terrible leader.

00:12:47.000 And he can't figure it out.

00:12:49.000 And the answer, of course, is that we have a good economy because Trump doesn't bother business.

00:12:54.000 Because Trump is not in the business of stopping business.

00:12:57.000 Trump is not in the business of punishing success.

00:12:59.000 And this is exactly the point.

00:13:01.000 Bernie Sanders is in that business.

00:13:03.000 So if Trump wishes to have a strong America, if he wishes to retain the presidency, he needs to run a smart race, not just a gut-level race.

00:13:10.000 Because the fact is, whoever is the Democratic nominee has at least a 40% shot of being President of the United States.

00:13:15.000 Okay, in a second, we're gonna get to Bernie Sanders, who is indeed the clear frontrunner in the Democratic Party at this point.

00:13:20.000 It scares the living hell out of me.

00:13:22.000 It should scare the living hell out of you.

00:13:24.000 Not because I think Bernie Sanders is likely to beat Trump.

00:13:26.000 I do not think he is likely to beat Trump. 0.93

00:13:28.000 But because the mere possibility of this ideologically garbage candidate being president of the United States should terrify everyone. 0.93

00:13:39.000 Everyone of any semblance of sound mind should look at Bernie Sanders and say to themselves, forget about all of Trump's character flaws, okay? 0.98

00:13:46.000 Forget about Trump.

00:13:47.000 The possibility of Bernie Sanders, an 80-year-old, Socialist, who has never produced a thing, who stumps for the destruction of America's foreign policy, military, and American domestic economic power.

00:14:02.000 That that person could be President of the United States should terrify anyone who has two brain cells to rub together.

00:14:08.000 I mean, I find that terrifying.

00:14:11.000 The big rap on Trump in 2016 was not that he was ideologically terrifying.

00:14:14.000 The big rap on Trump in 2016 is that he was personally terrifying.

00:14:17.000 As it turns out, we have a constitution built to stop personally terrifying.

00:14:21.000 What we don't have is a constitution built to stop ideological extremists with a solid party base behind them.

00:14:28.000 Because parties have now overcome a lot of the gaps in the American constitutional order.

00:14:33.000 We're going to get to Bernie Sanders in just a second, who is not, in fact, a typical social democrat.

00:14:37.000 Bernie Sanders is a communist.

00:14:38.000 We're going to get to this in just one second.

00:14:40.000 First, let us talk about our inability to predict the future.

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00:15:46.000 Okay, so Bernie is clearly the front runner.

00:15:48.000 And Democrats, instead of realizing that this is crisis point, That we have now reached crisis point that Bernie Sanders, who, as I say, is a lifelong ward of the state.

00:15:57.000 I mean, the man has never held an actual job in his entire life, and he is as old as my grandparents would be.

00:16:05.000 Really, it's amazing.

00:16:07.000 He is a welfare queen, Bernie Sanders.

00:16:09.000 Bernie Sanders has been living off the taxpayer dime.

00:16:12.000 By the way, every job his wife has ever held is adjacent to his government service.

00:16:17.000 And as we will see, that has some pretty ugly ramifications.

00:16:20.000 That guy is leading the race right now.

00:16:23.000 He has a clear lead in all of the national polling, all of it.

00:16:25.000 There's another poll today showing him up past 30%, so he is picking up support.

00:16:30.000 As Biden fails, and as it becomes clear to Democrats that Bernie is the most likely nominee, they are convincing themselves that he has the capacity to win.

00:16:38.000 Over 70% of Democrats believe that Bernie Sanders can beat President Trump.

00:16:42.000 He now has in the RealClearPolitics polling average an 11-point lead on the rest of the Democratic field.

00:16:48.000 The polling in Nevada is solidly behind Sanders.

00:16:50.000 In South Carolina, the latest poll has Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders tied, which is a disaster area for Joe Biden because if he loses South Carolina, he is toast at that point.

00:16:59.000 There is a poll in California that shows Bernie Sanders up heavy in California as well.

00:17:05.000 A lot of the polls where Biden is the placeholder, Biden is likely to flail out.

00:17:12.000 There are two late-breaking polls from California.

00:17:14.000 One shows Bernie all the way up at 32%, with the next closest competitor, Biden, all the way down at 14%.

00:17:20.000 Another poll shows Bernie at 25% and Bloomberg at 21%.

00:17:23.000 We'll get to Bloomberg, as I say, in just a second.

00:17:26.000 But Bernie is the frontrunner.

00:17:27.000 Okay, and Bernie is He should.

00:17:32.000 Again, he scares me, not because I think that he is a tremendously capable politician.

00:17:37.000 I don't.

00:17:38.000 But because what's going on right now is such frustration inside the Democratic Party at the reality that Donald Trump is president, that they will vote for a communist to stop Donald Trump.

00:17:47.000 This is where we are.

00:17:49.000 I mean, Sanders, for his part, is going after Bloomberg.

00:17:53.000 But here's the thing about Bernie. 0.95

00:17:54.000 Bernie is supremely dishonest. 0.97

00:17:56.000 In many ways, Bernie is supremely dishonest. 0.83

00:17:58.000 He's honest when he says that he's a socialist who doesn't know how to pay for his plans.

00:18:01.000 That part's real.

00:18:02.000 But he is dishonest when he says that he is clean as the driven snow and pure as the driven snow.

00:18:07.000 I'll give you an example.

00:18:08.000 So I mentioned his wife a moment ago.

00:18:10.000 So there is an ad that is now cropping up about Bernie Sanders from in 501c4 that is led by somebody who was once a staffer for Senator Joe Manchin in West Virginia.

00:18:21.000 And that ad points out that Senator Bernie Sanders supported a compact between Maine, Vermont, and Texas that originally proposed dumping low-level radioactive waste in a small minority community in far West Texas.

00:18:32.000 The waste never made it to a community called Sierra Blanca, which is a low-income, largely Hispanic town in Huntsmouth County.

00:18:39.000 But Sanders's efforts attracted renewed attention online.

00:18:44.000 In 2016, they are cropping up again, those efforts to dump toxic waste.

00:18:47.000 This would be nuclear waste.

00:18:49.000 In this small area of Texas that is heavily Hispanic, the buried lead in all of that is that Sanders' wife, Jane, now serves as an alternative commissioner for the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission.

00:19:03.000 Question, what exactly does Jane Sanders know about the disposal of radioactive waste? 0.99

00:19:08.000 I missed the part where Jane Sanders is an expert in radioactive waste management. 1.00

00:19:12.000 The answer is, of course, she does not have any expertise in that area, but again, she got that job because she happens to be married to Bernie Sanders.

00:19:20.000 Also, it is worthwhile noting that Jane Sanders got her job as the Dean of Burlington College in all likelihood, not in all likelihood, certainly, because her husband is Bernie Sanders and is a ward of the state.

00:19:34.000 As has been widely reported, Jane Sanders, as president of Burlington College, not only cleared a rather large salary for herself, she got a 72% salary increase over six years at Burlington College, she took out a loan, which may have been taken out, there were investigations ongoing, into how she took out a loan to buy a large chunk of land that ended up bankrupting the college entirely.

00:19:55.000 I mean, the college literally had to declare bankruptcy.

00:19:57.000 But she apparently was also funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to her daughter's and trustee's son's businesses. 0.61

00:20:03.000 Privately held businesses.

00:20:05.000 Jane Sanders.

00:20:05.000 Don't worry.

00:20:06.000 Socialism, guys, is all about honest people doing honest things to help the people.

00:20:10.000 How do we know that Bernie is dishonest in this way?

00:20:12.000 I'll give you an example.

00:20:13.000 So yesterday, Bernie does this town hall on CNN.

00:20:16.000 CNN's been doing this series of town halls where everybody gets up there and they are asked very easy questions by a series of increasingly sycophantic CNN reporters.

00:20:24.000 And Bernie has asked about Bloomberg, and he says, I'm offended that Michael Bloomberg is trying to buy the presidency.

00:20:29.000 Before we get to the clip, I just want to point something out.

00:20:31.000 Every Democrat who says that they are offended that Michael Bloomberg, by pouring his own dollars that he earned himself into presidential ads, that that is buying the presidency.

00:20:40.000 Let me just point out that Bernie Sanders has promised voters free college tuition, free healthcare, free housing, free childcare, and a free unicorn.

00:20:49.000 So he's trying to buy voters with my money.

00:20:52.000 At least Bloomberg is trying to appeal to voters with his own money.

00:20:55.000 At least Bloomberg is spending his own cash on why he's such a great guy.

00:20:58.000 Bernie Sanders is pledging to spend my cash to prove to you what a wonderful guy he is. 0.98

00:21:02.000 I have far less tolerance for this whole Stop trying to buy elections from people who literally try to buy elections by promising you free crap.

00:21:11.000 Anyway, here is Bernie Sanders ripping on Michael Bloomberg for, quote unquote, trying to buy the presidency, as opposed to Bernie Sanders, who is apparently spending $50 million a month at this point on advertising.

00:21:20.000 I do think it's a bit obscene that we have somebody who, by the way, chose not to contest in Iowa, in Nevada, in South Carolina, in New Hampshire, where all of the candidates.

00:21:34.000 We did town meetings.

00:21:35.000 We're talking to thousands and thousands of people working on it.

00:21:38.000 He said, I don't have to do that.

00:21:40.000 I'm worth $60 billion.

00:21:42.000 I have more wealth than the bottom 125 million Americans.

00:21:47.000 I'll buy the presidency.

00:21:48.000 That offends me very much.

00:21:50.000 Okay, so he's very upset.

00:21:52.000 He's trying to buy the presidency.

00:21:53.000 And we keep hearing this from people.

00:21:54.000 He's trying to buy the presidency.

00:21:55.000 Advertising is not buying the presidency any more than advertising for Nike is forcing people to buy Nike shoes.

00:22:01.000 If you don't like Bloomberg, you are free not to buy his routine.

00:22:05.000 Again, you may not like that he's buying the ads.

00:22:07.000 Believe me, the amount of publicity he's getting for buying the ads is nearly even with the amount of publicity that he gets from the actual ad buys.

00:22:14.000 But this is not a Bloomberg defense, right?

00:22:16.000 I think that Bloomberg, again, is paternalistic.

00:22:18.000 I think that he thinks he should be president on the basis of virtually nothing.

00:22:22.000 But here's the point.

00:22:23.000 Sanders says he's very offended that Bloomberg is trying to buy the presidency and then he immediately refuses to answer whether he will take Michael Bloomberg's money in the general election.

00:22:30.000 Of course he does.

00:22:30.000 Of course.

00:22:31.000 Of course he does.

00:22:32.000 Because it's all fun and games ripping on billionaires until you need to seize their wealth and use it to control the means of production if you're a commie.

00:22:41.000 If Michael Bloomberg doesn't get it, you get the nomination, would you accept it?

00:22:43.000 If he says, look, I got $500 million left over that I'm going to give to you, would you accept that?

00:22:50.000 Well, we're going to, what I did say is that if Mr. Bloomberg wins, and I certainly hope he does not, I will support the Democratic nominee.

00:22:59.000 As of now, we have not taken, we don't have a super PAC.

00:23:02.000 We're not asking for a super PAC.

00:23:04.000 That is my position right now.

00:23:05.000 So you're not sure if he would take the money or not?

00:23:09.000 Okay, I'll leave it there. 1.00

00:23:11.000 So what that is right there is Bernie being a damn liar, right? 1.00

00:23:15.000 The answer is, of course, I'll take the money. 1.00

00:23:15.000 He knows what the answer is. 1.00

00:23:17.000 Of course, I'll take the money. 1.00

00:23:19.000 Bernie Sanders is very much against billionaires until he needs their money to fund his garbage schemes or his crap campaign. 0.99

00:23:25.000 So spare me that he's trying to buy the election. 1.00

00:23:28.000 He's very rich.

00:23:28.000 I don't like Michael Bloomberg.

00:23:29.000 He's trying to buy the election.

00:23:30.000 Also, if you could hand me that checkbook, I would really appreciate if you could hand me a checkbook. 0.98

00:23:37.000 What a piece of scuz Bernie Sanders is.

00:23:39.000 We're going to get to more of Bernie Sanders and the media's unwillingness, by the way, to answer basic, to ask him basic questions. 0.97

00:23:45.000 It's insane.

00:23:46.000 How has this lifelong communist been able to escape the media's actual hard questioning for decades?

00:23:55.000 I mean, seriously, the only person I've seen ask him a hard question about nationalization of resources, which he was stumping for when he was my age, OK, he was in his mid 30s and into his 40s and he was still doing this routine.

00:24:05.000 He was standing up for Nicaragua.

00:24:07.000 Like the dictatorship in Nicaragua when he was in his mid-40s, he was 10 years older than I am now.

00:24:12.000 He was standing up for Venezuela last year.

00:24:14.000 He was 77.

00:24:15.000 Okay, nobody will ask him a tough question about this.

00:24:18.000 He just says, well, I've said a lot of things over the course of my career.

00:24:20.000 And everybody goes, ah, ha, ha, ha.

00:24:23.000 Well, it's unbelievable.

00:24:26.000 It's unbelievable.

00:24:27.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

00:24:28.000 First, let us talk about what you would do.

00:24:31.000 Let's say that you had an employee, or let's say, in fact, that you were an employee, Who had a duty to show up to work on time.

00:24:39.000 And let's say that you just didn't do it.

00:24:41.000 Like routinely, you just didn't do it.

00:24:42.000 And then you just cast aspersions at everybody around you.

00:24:45.000 Let's say that you actually, you know, you just went around bad-mouthing people.

00:24:48.000 You just talked about like how everyone around you was just, they weren't doing their jobs.

00:24:52.000 And you said it publicly, right?

00:24:53.000 You just humiliated people publicly.

00:24:55.000 Let's say you were that person.

00:24:56.000 And then let's say, you know, you thought, you know, maybe I'm not the best at this.

00:25:00.000 Maybe I need to replace me.

00:25:01.000 You'd check out ZipRecruiter.com.

00:25:03.000 I'm not saying that I do all of these things, that I show up late to work like every single day, and that I then blame all of the employees around me, or that I publicly rip on them for the purposes of advertising.

00:25:11.000 I don't say that I do this, but if I were to do this and then I were going to replace me, I would go check out ZipRecruiter.com to find a suitable replacement for me over at ZipRecruiter.com.

00:25:22.000 When you post on ZipRecruiter, it helps you sort out the candidates, bring the best candidates to you.

00:25:26.000 It's no wonder that four out of five employers who post on ZipRecruiter get a quality candidate within the very first day.

00:25:32.000 If I were going to replace me on this show, I would be checking out ZipRecruiter.com.

00:25:37.000 You can check out ZipRecruiter for free at our web address, ZipRecruiter.com slash DailyWire.

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00:25:45.000 ZipRecruiter is indeed the smartest way to hire. 0.73

00:25:48.000 So again, if I were just going to replace A person who showed up late every day to work and just ripped on his employees like a jackass and did all of that and then cleared the check.

00:25:59.000 If I were going to replace somebody who did that, I would look to replace me over at ZipRecruiter.com slash DailyWire.

00:26:04.000 ZipRecruiter.com slash DailyWire.

00:26:06.000 It'll work for your business as well.

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00:26:10.000 Okay, back to Bernie Sanders.

00:26:11.000 Again, it is just a source of endless Endless insanity to me that the Democratic Party is preparing to nominate this human being. 0.78

00:26:21.000 It's insane.

00:26:22.000 The man is a walking co-exist bumper sticker, as Noah Rothman over at Commentary put it.

00:26:27.000 The man is George McGovern, except more communist.

00:26:31.000 Let me give you a couple of examples.

00:26:33.000 So Bernie Sanders, let's check out his Twitter account.

00:26:36.000 So his Twitter account is basically AOC without the sparkling wit.

00:26:41.000 It really is.

00:26:42.000 Here's something that he tweeted out today.

00:26:44.000 It's incredible.

00:26:45.000 It's incredible that this human being is taken seriously by people.

00:26:49.000 So he tweets out, our military is larger than these countries combined.

00:26:49.000 It's unbelievable.

00:26:54.000 China, 181 billion dollars.

00:26:55.000 He has a bunch of flags.

00:26:57.000 We'll see how many of these flags I can actually identify.

00:26:59.000 China, $181 billion.

00:27:01.000 Saudi Arabia, $78 billion.

00:27:03.000 France, $61 billion.

00:27:05.000 Which one is the vertical versus the horizontal?

00:27:08.000 France is $52 billion, I believe.

00:27:09.000 France is vertical.

00:27:10.000 Japan is $48 billion.

00:27:11.000 Great Britain, $54 billion.

00:27:12.000 Germany, $48 billion.

00:27:12.000 South Korea, $39 billion.

00:27:13.000 Brazil, $27 billion.

00:27:13.000 Germany, $48 billion.

00:27:14.000 South Korea, $39 billion.

00:27:16.000 Brazil, $27 billion.

00:27:18.000 And that would be Italy, $27 billion.

00:27:21.000 Russia is $61 billion.

00:27:24.000 Thank you.

00:27:25.000 I'm missing the Russian flag.

00:27:26.000 I'm not working for Putin.

00:27:26.000 See?

00:27:28.000 What if we invested in human needs to care for one another instead?

00:27:31.000 What if we invested in human needs to care for one another instead?

00:27:34.000 Okay, first of all, on a historical level, I think it's a fairly good thing that the United States military is larger than Germany, Japan, and Italy combined.

00:27:41.000 That seems like that's probably a good idea, like just looking at some history.

00:27:45.000 Like, I'm very happy that the United States military is hegemonic.

00:27:49.000 Like, that's a very good thing.

00:27:50.000 But Bernie is such a flaming communist that he's like, what if we took our entire military budget and we used it to pay for free childcare?

00:27:58.000 And we just, but do we really need a military so large?

00:28:01.000 Do we really need a military?

00:28:02.000 And the answer is yes, to stop people from killing us and attacking us and wrecking our interests.

00:28:09.000 The man is using the song Imagine as a campaign platform Imagine there's no countries.

00:28:17.000 It's not hard if you try.

00:28:18.000 Nothing to live or die for.

00:28:22.000 Above us only sky.

00:28:25.000 How are you taking him seriously?

00:28:27.000 What the hell is wrong with you people?

00:28:29.000 And then he tweets this out. 0.91

00:28:30.000 This is also yesterday.

00:28:32.000 Together we are going to end the greed of the billionaire class.

00:28:35.000 I have just a question about this.

00:28:36.000 Just one question.

00:28:38.000 Which is more greedy?

00:28:39.000 The quote-unquote billionaire class?

00:28:41.000 You know, people who created a business and then sold lots of products and did lots of voluntary transactions and employed tens of thousands of people and provided products to presumably millions of people and made millions of people's lives easier.

00:28:53.000 Or the octogenarian communist who has done zero useful things his entire life except suck off the teat of the state and the billionaire taxpayer.

00:29:01.000 And sponsor his wife for positions for which she is utterly unqualified? 0.90

00:29:05.000 Who is greedier? 0.97

00:29:06.000 I'm so sick of these people suggesting that true altruism lies in sucking off the teats of people who actually earn. 0.98

00:29:15.000 It's insanity. 0.90

00:29:16.000 And this has nothing to do with my income level.

00:29:18.000 I've been saying the same thing since I was making like 50 grand a year, okay?

00:29:20.000 I totally get it. 0.85

00:29:22.000 This is, this is absolute, it's absolute nonsense.

00:29:25.000 And people who buy into this, it turns out that Envy should not be a political platform.

00:29:30.000 That's all this is.

00:29:31.000 The greed of the billionaire.

00:29:32.000 So when do you become greedy?

00:29:33.000 Just a serious question, like Bernie's a millionaire.

00:29:36.000 Did he become more greedy when his net wealth went to a million and one?

00:29:40.000 When that ticker just flipped up, suddenly he became greedy?

00:29:44.000 Or is it the truth?

00:29:45.000 That as the founders understood, all human beings have the capacity for greed.

00:29:48.000 And all human beings have the capacity for altruism.

00:29:51.000 And all human beings have the capacity for sin.

00:29:53.000 And all human beings have the capacity for decency.

00:29:55.000 But according to Bernie, because he's a materialist Marxist, he believes that as you get richer, you get more greedy.

00:30:01.000 And therefore...

00:30:02.000 Actual saintliness lies in being a sponge.

00:30:06.000 Right?

00:30:06.000 If you're Bernie and you've never done a useful thing in your life, you're actually good!

00:30:09.000 You're good because you've never been greedy!

00:30:11.000 Don't you understand?

00:30:11.000 You're taking other people's money for doing nothing, but you're not greedy!

00:30:15.000 Because the only way we measure greed is by your material circumstance.

00:30:17.000 The richer you are, the more greedy you are.

00:30:19.000 Therefore, the poorer you are, the less greedy you are.

00:30:22.000 And your personal activity doesn't come into this at all.

00:30:25.000 Okay, this is the person that you guys want to nominate for president.

00:30:29.000 Alright.

00:30:30.000 Sure.

00:30:32.000 Okay, so Bernie yesterday, while he was on CNN, he also decided to sound off on national rent control.

00:30:38.000 So not only does he want to sink the US economy, he'd also like to destroy the national real estate economy, which is one of the great sources of wealth in America and has been for generations.

00:30:49.000 Let's just be clear about what rent control does. 0.99

00:30:51.000 Rent control says that you cannot rent this thing that you built at the price that you wish to rent it at, at the market price.

00:30:58.000 Instead, Bernie Sanders is going to decide what you should be able to rent your apartments for.

00:31:04.000 Rent control has failed every single place it has tried.

00:31:07.000 Why?

00:31:08.000 Because it turns out that you cannot have some sort of politburo sitting above developers and deciding what they ought to charge, because eventually developers will be like, guess what, I'm not making enough money from that, I'm not going to build.

00:31:18.000 I'm not going to build.

00:31:19.000 And Bernie knows that, which is why we're going to end up with a bunch of federally subsidized housing projects, presumably designed by Bernie in classic East German style.

00:31:28.000 Here is Bernie Sanders talking about national rent control, as though the great solution to a shortage of housing is to create more shortage of housing by disincentivizing development.

00:31:38.000 I spent my entire childhood in a rent-controlled apartment in Brooklyn, New York.

00:31:44.000 And that meant that my family, at least, we didn't have a lot of money, but we didn't have to worry about rents, you know, going up by 10-15%, which many Americans do.

00:31:53.000 We believe that rent control is an appropriate tool nationally to tell landlords that they cannot simply jack up their rents to any rate that they want.

00:32:04.000 Okay, you know what else tells people they can't jack up their rents to any rate that they want?

00:32:08.000 You know what tells them that?

00:32:09.000 The market!

00:32:10.000 Because if I jacked up the rates on my apartment building to rates that people were not willing to pay, you know what happened?

00:32:16.000 It's called vacancy.

00:32:18.000 But he doesn't understand how markets work.

00:32:19.000 He thinks that basically a developer just sits there and then goes, I'd like to rent this place for a million dollars a month and I'll force you to take it.

00:32:27.000 Because Bernie doesn't understand consent.

00:32:28.000 It's amazing.

00:32:28.000 Socialists don't understand consent.

00:32:30.000 One of the things they don't understand. 0.99

00:32:32.000 Other idiocies Bernie spouted last night. 0.60

00:32:33.000 You know, I'm going to save this one for just a moment because this one I'm really going to go off on. 0.95

00:32:37.000 So Bernie's foreign policy is just madness.

00:32:40.000 Absolute sheer madness.

00:32:41.000 We're going to get to that in one second.

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00:33:51.000 All right, in just a second, we're gonna get to more on Bernie Sanders and the unwillingness of the media to ask follow-up questions.

00:33:55.000 Plus, we'll get to Michael Bloomberg and the fact that there really are no moderates in this Democratic race.

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00:34:01.000 You know, there are gradations.

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00:34:05.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:35:09.000 All righty.

00:35:16.000 So Bernie Sanders, as I say, the fact that he's never asked a serious follow up question like and when he is, he has no answers ever.

00:35:22.000 He'll say things like, I want Medicare for all!

00:35:24.000 And people say, how much does that cost?

00:35:25.000 I don't know!

00:35:27.000 I'll say, Michael Bloomberg is a bad man, spending a lot of money.

00:35:30.000 So will you take his money?

00:35:31.000 I don't know!

00:35:33.000 So Bernie, you said that you were going to release all your medical records.

00:35:37.000 Bernie, you said you were going to release all your medical records.

00:35:38.000 Are you going to release all your medical records?

00:35:41.000 Here's Bernie.

00:35:42.000 We received, uh, released two rather detailed letters, uh, from cardiologists, and we received, uh, we released a letter that came from the, uh, head of the U.S.

00:35:55.000 Congress, uh, medical group, the physicians there.

00:35:59.000 So I think we have released a detailed report, and I'm comfortable with what we have done.

00:36:03.000 Just to be clear, you don't plan to release any more records?

00:36:06.000 I don't.

00:36:06.000 I don't think we will, no.

00:36:08.000 Okay, I've decided we're not releasing any more medical records.

00:36:11.000 Yes, I had a heart attack in the middle of this campaign, but I'm not releasing any more medical records, even though before I said I would.

00:36:17.000 By the way, his own campaign secretary is now suggesting that if you ask for his medical records for a near 80-year-old man who had a heart attack in the middle of the campaign, that if you ask for those medical records, this is the equivalent of birtherism, of asking for Barack Obama's birth certificate.

00:36:34.000 Don't worry, these people are totally sane.

00:36:36.000 I think that the American people deserve to know exactly as much as every other candidate has released in this race currently and historically.

00:36:44.000 And what you're seeing right now is really reminiscent of some of the kind of smear, kind of skepticism campaigns that have been run against a lot of different candidates in the past, questioning where they're from, aspects of their lineage, etc, etc.

00:37:00.000 This is, really?

00:37:02.000 Like birtherism?

00:37:03.000 Like birtherism?

00:37:05.000 Lineage?

00:37:06.000 Who's?

00:37:07.000 What?

00:37:08.000 Okay, so.

00:37:09.000 Finally, Bernie Sanders sounded off last night on CNN, on foreign policy, and suggested, as always, that the Israeli government is racist.

00:37:15.000 So Bernie, Who suggests that he is proud to be a Jew, yet is supremely happy to campaign with actual overt anti-Semites, genocidal anti-Semites.

00:37:24.000 I mean, I talked about this on the show yesterday. 0.77

00:37:26.000 People who have overtly called for the destruction of the state of Israel, which implicitly means pushing the Jews into the sea, the murder and expulsion of millions of Jews.

00:37:34.000 That's Bernie Sanders.

00:37:35.000 Yesterday, he found time to call the Israeli government racist.

00:37:38.000 Quick note, the Israeli government represents a population that is 20% Arab.

00:37:44.000 Arabic is an official language in the state of Israel.

00:37:47.000 The only place that is racially discriminatory in Israel, seriously racially discriminatory in Israel, are the areas governed by the Palestinian Authority. 0.95

00:37:55.000 There are large red signs off the road Producer Colton can testify to this because he saw them.

00:38:00.000 There are large red signs off the road in Israel for the areas governed by the Palestinian Authority.

00:38:06.000 Those large red signs say, if you are an Israeli citizen and you drive off this road and you drive into this Palestinian-governed area, we cannot protect you and you are taking your life into your hands. 1.00

00:38:16.000 They mean if you are a Jew.

00:38:17.000 Because if you're an Arab and you make that mistake, you're fine. 1.00

00:38:19.000 You're a Jew? 0.94

00:38:20.000 The great irony is that Bernie Sanders, who spends his days defending Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, If Bernie were not overtly anti-Israel and famous, if you're just an elderly Jewish man from Brooklyn who made the mistake of taking a wrong turn off the road in the West Bank and he ended up in the middle of Ramallah, Or if he ended up in the middle of Nablus, Bernie would be a dead man.

00:38:41.000 Because that's what happens to elderly Jews who end up making a wrong turn off that road. 0.99

00:38:45.000 But here he is suggesting the Israeli government is racist while maintaining, by the way, he has maintained this, that we should send hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars in foreign aid to the Gaza Strip, which means literally handing money to the dictatorship, the terrorist dictatorship, Hamas.

00:38:57.000 Here's Bernie Sanders being a good Jew, guys.

00:39:00.000 It just means, like, he's such a proud Jew, don't you understand?

00:39:03.000 He's never had a good word to say about religious Judaism.

00:39:06.000 Every policy he's ever pushed, including the dissemination of policies that would crack down on churches and synagogues, is directly against religious Americans.

00:39:16.000 He stands against the State of Israel.

00:39:18.000 And when I say against the State of Israel, I mean against it.

00:39:20.000 He's campaigning with people who have overtly called for its destruction.

00:39:23.000 His campaign with Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and Linda Sarsour, all of whom have implicitly called for the destruction of the State of Israel, in some cases explicitly called for that.

00:39:30.000 But Bernie's a proud Jew, guys. 0.95

00:39:32.000 Super proud Jew.

00:39:33.000 And you know how we know he's a Jew?

00:39:34.000 Because he has relatives who died in the Holocaust.

00:39:36.000 Welcome to being a Jew. 1.00

00:39:38.000 Okay, every single Jew that I know, with the exception of some Sephardic Jews who come from, like, Morocco, every Ashkenazic Jew who has lineage in Ashkenazic Jewry has relatives who died in the Holocaust.

00:39:49.000 I mean, just as a statistical matter, there were only like 13.5 million Jews on planet Earth during the Holocaust and six million of them died.

00:39:55.000 Six million of them were murdered.

00:39:57.000 So pretty much everybody has a relative who died in the Holocaust.

00:39:59.000 That is not a bona fide.

00:40:01.000 A bona fide on being a proud Jew would not be hobnobbing with people who want to murder Jews or stand in favor of people who want to murder Jews. 0.99

00:40:08.000 This is just purely disgusting. 1.00

00:40:09.000 Here's Bernie Sanders being a disgusting piece of crap. 1.00

00:40:12.000 I should tell you that I spent some six months of my life as a young man in Israel. 1.00

00:40:17.000 I've got a cousin who lives in Israel.

00:40:20.000 And I will do everything I can to protect the independence and the security of the people of Israel.

00:40:26.000 Israelis have the right to live in a safe and secure nation.

00:40:33.000 But I must tell you this also.

00:40:36.000 That to be for the Israeli people and to be for peace in the Middle East does not mean that we have to support right-wing racist governments that currently exist in Israel.

00:40:47.000 Okay, I just want to point a quick thing out here.

00:40:48.000 By the way, he says that the current... So apparently it's about Bibi Netanyahu.

00:40:51.000 Weird, because Benny Gantz, you know who else embraced the Trump peace plan?

00:40:54.000 Benny Gantz, who's his chief rival.

00:40:57.000 You know how many Israelis actually believe that foreign aid should be given to Hamas?

00:41:02.000 Zero.

00:41:04.000 Bernie can get away with this crap where he says, I stand for the security of Israel, but also, I will do everything in my power to campaign with people who overtly call for Israel's destruction. 0.99

00:41:12.000 Call for yourself, dude. 0.99

00:41:13.000 Seriously.

00:41:15.000 Now, it's not just me saying that Bernie never gets asked tough questions.

00:41:18.000 Chris Matthews and I are on the same page.

00:41:20.000 Chris Matthews over at MSNBC says it's unbelievable.

00:41:24.000 Nobody ever tells Bernie he's just full of it.

00:41:25.000 He is completely full of it.

00:41:26.000 I come in here, I come with a shoe, looking all rumpled.

00:41:29.000 Every so often I hit a nail directly on the head.

00:41:32.000 Here's me hitting a nail directly on the head, Chris Matthews.

00:41:34.000 Go! 0.95

00:41:35.000 Everybody knows half the U.S.

00:41:37.000 Senate is run by Republicans.

00:41:38.000 It'll be half run by Republicans next time.

00:41:41.000 And it takes 60 votes to get any of this stuff through.

00:41:44.000 And yet nobody just says the obvious.

00:41:45.000 Bernie, you're full of it.

00:41:47.000 None of this is going to get passed.

00:41:48.000 You're going to be a miserable president, frustrated for the first day, because you're not going to get Medicare for all.

00:41:53.000 You're not going to get free college tuition for public universities.

00:41:56.000 You're not going to get payoffs of all student loans.

00:41:59.000 None of this is going to happen.

00:42:00.000 And you're just going to sit there and just doing it.

00:42:03.000 So why don't they bring that up?

00:42:04.000 I do not understand why they don't bring that up.

00:42:07.000 So here's what's happening inside the Democrat.

00:42:10.000 And Matthew's completely right about this.

00:42:12.000 Completely.

00:42:12.000 Here's what's happening inside the Democratic Party.

00:42:14.000 All the same people who are suggesting that if you supported Trump to stop Hillary last time, that meant that you bought into all of his, that you bought into all of his worst excesses.

00:42:22.000 You know, all of those people.

00:42:25.000 Now those people are going to back An anti-American communist as their candidate because they don't like Trump.

00:42:31.000 Nicole Wallace, who you'll recall at one point, I believe, was a Bush staffer.

00:42:35.000 She says, no, I will definitely vote for Sanders in order to stop Donald Trump.

00:42:43.000 I'll just overlook all the fact that I won't even ask him a tough question.

00:42:46.000 Welcome to our world.

00:42:47.000 Partisanship is a hell of a drug.

00:42:48.000 Here's Nicole Wallace. 0.51

00:42:51.000 I'm on the record, I will vote for whomever, I will gladly and easily and handily vote for Bernie Sanders if he's the nominee.

00:42:57.000 This is not personal, but my political strategist is like, it's a four alarm fire in my political soul.

00:43:05.000 I mean, how do you as a democratic party tell everyone to get behind someone who is, and I don't know, I have no freaking clue what democratic socialist means, but everyone thinks that's what he is, and it sounds scary.

00:43:17.000 It sounds scary, but I don't have a clue what it means.

00:43:19.000 Let me tell you what it means.

00:43:20.000 Everything he says it means.

00:43:22.000 Everything he says it means.

00:43:24.000 Okay, that's what a democratic socialist means.

00:43:25.000 So, go for it, guys.

00:43:27.000 Go for it.

00:43:28.000 I mean, we're turning ourselves into Europe so quickly, it's scary.

00:43:31.000 It truly is.

00:43:32.000 We've turned a Republican Party that used to be in favor of small governments, limited government, in order to protect individual rights, into a big government party.

00:43:38.000 The Republican Party is a big government party.

00:43:41.000 I mean, this is an unfortunate truth of life.

00:43:43.000 This is what has happened.

00:43:45.000 The Republican Party is moving swiftly in the direction of the British Conservative Party.

00:43:49.000 And meanwhile, the Democratic Party is moving swiftly in the direction of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party.

00:43:55.000 America is different because America understood basic fundamental precepts about America's goodness in the world that Bernie certainly does not accept.

00:44:03.000 About the necessity for individual rights that Bernie certainly does not accept.

00:44:08.000 And the Democratic Party centralizing around this guy is scary.

00:44:10.000 It's the reason why I've been saying, like, forget Trump versus Sanders.

00:44:14.000 Forget about the outcome of the election.

00:44:16.000 It is a horrible thing for the Democratic Party to be centralizing around a radical wing that is overtly anti-American on foreign policy, like truly believes that America is a force for evil in the world, that read Howard Zinn and didn't see it as a counterweight to the rosy history of the United States or as a balanced or as a balancing perspective, but instead read it as the only thing you need to read and then use that as their handbook.

00:44:39.000 The Democratic Party has centralized around a candidate who rejects the basic notions of individual rights that undergirded the country, that rewrites American history to be an unending series of abuses and excesses.

00:44:50.000 It's bad for America.

00:44:51.000 It's bad for America.

00:44:52.000 I want a Democratic Party that disagrees with me on key issues like gun control and abortion.

00:44:58.000 Fine, disagree with me.

00:44:59.000 It's a free country.

00:45:01.000 But I think it's horrible for the country to have a Democratic Party That does not even agree on the basic principles that undergird a free society.

00:45:08.000 That scares the living hell out of me.

00:45:11.000 It truly does.

00:45:13.000 And meanwhile, Michael Bloomberg is now becoming the moderate Democrat's last best hope.

00:45:18.000 President Trump is going at it with Bloomberg on Twitter, and it's basically just two New York billionaires yelling at each other.

00:45:23.000 So President Trump tweeted out, What Mini Mike is doing is nothing less than a large-scale illegal campaign contribution.

00:45:29.000 He is spreading money all over the place, only to have recipients of his cash payments, many former opponents, happily joining or supporting his campaign.

00:45:37.000 Isn't that called the payoff?

00:45:39.000 Mini is illegally buying the Democrat nomination.

00:45:42.000 They are taking it away from Bernie again.

00:45:44.000 Mini Mike, major party nominations are not for sale.

00:45:47.000 Good luck in the debate tomorrow night, and remember, no standing on boxes.

00:45:51.000 Trump, obviously, is very much bothered by Michael Bloomberg.

00:45:54.000 It is also true, by the way, I just want to point this out, that in terms of, what he's saying about Michael Bloomberg spreading around donations to silence people, that's been true for years.

00:46:02.000 I mean, he did this in New York City.

00:46:03.000 He would use his foundations to pay off like Al Sharpton and Al Sharpton would go away.

00:46:07.000 And then he just wouldn't protest against Michael Bloomberg.

00:46:09.000 And he would pay off various different sort of groups that were angry at him to go away.

00:46:16.000 And then they would go away.

00:46:17.000 And he's done this in the Democratic Party, too.

00:46:19.000 He seeded his sort of he seeded his run with his cash.

00:46:23.000 That part is true.

00:46:24.000 As far as that being illegal, I'm old enough to remember when Donald Trump campaigned in 2016 about how he'd bought the Republican Party.

00:46:29.000 He literally said that.

00:46:30.000 He said, I would bring candidates in here, they'd solicit my money, I'd give them my money, and then they would do anything I wanted.

00:46:35.000 And he said that sort of stuff.

00:46:36.000 Anyway, Michael Bloomberg responds, why do you want to run against Bernie so badly?

00:46:41.000 Fair question.

00:46:42.000 I mean, it's pretty obvious that the president would like Bernie as his counter.

00:46:46.000 And then President Trump shot back, meaning like, no, I would rather run against you.

00:46:52.000 Okay, all right, whatever.

00:46:54.000 And then Bloomberg responded, can't trust a word you say, and now you want us to believe you?

00:46:58.000 See you in November.

00:46:58.000 Okay, sure.

00:47:00.000 Anyway, the media have decided that Bloomberg must be cast out.

00:47:04.000 It's amazing.

00:47:04.000 The Democratic Party is centralizing around Bernie.

00:47:06.000 They are.

00:47:07.000 They've decided that they want Bernie.

00:47:09.000 It doesn't matter that Bernie is a radical.

00:47:11.000 It doesn't matter that he is not just a European Social Democrat, that he is in fact a socialist.

00:47:15.000 It doesn't matter.

00:47:16.000 The media have decided that they will not do this thing.

00:47:19.000 They will not acquiesce.

00:47:21.000 Ryan Cooper has a piece over at The Week called, Mike Bloomberg is not the lesser of two evils, suggesting that if Bloomberg is the nominee, he will not show up to vote for Bloomberg against Trump.

00:47:30.000 But presumably he will for Bernie Sanders.

00:47:33.000 He says, as I've written on many occasions, I think Bernie Sanders is the best candidate.

00:47:36.000 But given the abominable Trump presidency, I've also said I'll vote for whoever wins the Democratic nomination.

00:47:41.000 But that was before Michael Bloomberg became a serious presidential contender.

00:47:45.000 Then you have the New York Times.

00:47:46.000 New York Times has a piece today called, Michael Bloomberg has to debate without a net.

00:47:50.000 The former mayor will have to set a stand on his own because he won't be able to just throw out ads.

00:47:56.000 I'm, again, highly amused by the same media that have protected Bernie Sanders from his own explicit anti-Americanism on a variety of issues.

00:48:05.000 I mean, explicit.

00:48:05.000 They've protected Bloomberg for years, I mean, Bernie, for years on this stuff, now being like, well, Michael Bloomberg's gonna have to answer some serious questions.

00:48:12.000 When does Bernie have to answer a serious question?

00:48:14.000 When?

00:48:14.000 Like, Bloomberg should have to answer serious questions.

00:48:16.000 He absolutely should.

00:48:17.000 About his treatment of women in the 1990s, there are lots and lots of allegations about him saying horrific, abusive things to women in his office that are disgusting and disreputable.

00:48:26.000 He should have to answer questions about paying people off for their silence, which apparently was a widespread thing that Bloomberg did.

00:48:33.000 The Huffington Post reports that when Bloomberg's plans for New York City failed to gain popular support, his vast philanthropic network helped to gin up the illusion.

00:48:43.000 He would just sort of pay people to say things.

00:48:47.000 So, you know, all of that should come up for debate.

00:48:50.000 All of that should come up for debate.

00:48:51.000 But the fact that Bernie's not been asked any of these questions is truly astonishing.

00:48:54.000 Meanwhile, there is no other sort of moderate contender here.

00:48:58.000 Now, Pete Buttigieg has gained no sort of national credibility.

00:49:01.000 Amy Klobuchar has gained no sort of actual credibility.

00:49:04.000 The other moderates in the field do not exist.

00:49:06.000 Which means Bernie's cruising here.

00:49:07.000 Bernie's gonna cruise right to the nomination.

00:49:10.000 And the Democrats are gonna have paved their way.

00:49:11.000 And we will find out.

00:49:13.000 Now, the Republicans apparently want him.

00:49:15.000 Everyone except me.

00:49:16.000 I don't want Bernie.

00:49:17.000 I don't want Bernie not because I think he's gonna win, but because I think it's incredibly dangerous even to have him as the nominee.

00:49:22.000 But apparently the Republicans want him, apparently the Democrats want him, and we're gonna get... We're gonna rock him, stock him, robots 2020, man.

00:49:28.000 Trump versus Sanders.

00:49:30.000 My... It's hard to think of something that would be worse for the country than Trump versus Sanders, but...

00:49:35.000 We have earned all the, we bought the ticket, we take the ride, man.

00:49:38.000 This is the world that we have created for ourselves.

00:49:40.000 Alrighty, time for a quick thing I like and then some things that I hate.

00:49:44.000 So things that I like, there's a good book by Ruth Weiss, who is a professor over at Harvard University called Jews and Power.

00:49:50.000 And the book is all about the relationship between Jews and power. 0.90

00:49:52.000 There's sort of this weird notion that Jews were not anywhere close to the centers of power for a long period of history, basically between the destruction of the Second Temple.

00:50:04.000 And the creation of the state of Israel.

00:50:06.000 But Ruth Weiss talks about sort of the survival of Jewish communities and the way that Jewish communities existed in tension with the ruling powers of the time, how they would go out of their way to demonstrate their patriotism and then were crapped on anyway by the ruling powers of the time.

00:50:20.000 Because whenever you are an outsider group living inside a state, you become the quick Subject of animosity and we are seeing this happen again today in Europe you're seeing it happen inside the Democratic Party in the United States where Jews are constantly accused of dual loyalty if they believe in the existence of the state of Israel even though nobody ever asks Italians in the United States if they say we believe in Italy nobody ever says okay well that's because you have dual loyalty to Italy right that's just not a thing that comes up ever in any case the book is is good it's sophisticated it contains a good history of sort of the Jews from

00:50:50.000 Basically, second biblical, second temple era to modern politics.

00:50:55.000 Jews in Power by Ruth Weiss.

00:50:56.000 She has a new foreword about modern politics and antisemitism.

00:50:59.000 You can go check that out right now.

00:51:00.000 now.

00:51:01.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.

00:51:02.000 So, Orrin Cass, who I've had on the program, right?

00:51:10.000 I think Orrin's a really smart guy.

00:51:11.000 He has some interesting solutions to what he sees as systemic problems with trade and manufacturing in the United States.

00:51:18.000 He's announced the formation of American Compass, which is a new organization dedicated to helping American conservatism, what he says, recover from its chronic case of market fundamentalism.

00:51:28.000 Market fundamentalism is the belief that limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty, or free markets and limited effective government, or free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, or individual liberty, limited government, free markets, that these are the sort of nostrums of a past age.

00:51:45.000 And he says, without question, these principles are vital, but an emphasis so monotonal is neither supportive of effective deliberation nor genuinely conservative.

00:51:53.000 Why don't we just look at a policy and ask, does it expand economic freedom?

00:51:56.000 Suggests Heritage Foundation VP Jack Spencer.

00:51:59.000 Because, says Oren Kass, there's more to life than economic freedom.

00:52:02.000 This is where we get into real dicey territory.

00:52:04.000 He says there's more to economic freedom than economic freedom.

00:52:07.000 He's gonna have to explain that one.

00:52:08.000 He says a society that attempts to maximize everyone's freedom at every moment will fail miserably in preserving individual liberty and limiting government over time.

00:52:16.000 What is missing from our public debates is a distinctively conservative approach to economics.

00:52:20.000 The modern right-of-center coalition is the product of the fusionism that joined economic libertarians with social conservatives and Cold War hawks in an era when the defeat of communism was of preeminent importance to all three.

00:52:31.000 Having for decades outsourced their economic thinking to libertarians, conservatives now watch from the sidelines as classical liberals, i.e.

00:52:37.000 libertarians, and modern liberals, i.e.

00:52:39.000 progressives, debate how best to pursue their shared and unquestioned priorities of personal consumption and aggregate economic growth.

00:52:46.000 Okay, first of all, I'm wondering where he is getting the notion that modern progressives are interested in aggregate economic growth.

00:52:54.000 Bernie Sanders is not interested in aggregate economic growth.

00:52:56.000 He's not.

00:52:57.000 He's interested in the forced institution of financial equality, even at the cost of economic growth.

00:53:04.000 Barack Obama made this perfectly clear in 2008.

00:53:07.000 He was asked if you raise the marginal tax rates, and that results In lower tax income because the economy contracts.

00:53:14.000 Is that worthwhile?

00:53:15.000 And Obama said, yes, for purposes of fairness.

00:53:18.000 So I don't know where Orrin Cass is getting this idea that progressives are in favor of aggregate economic growth.

00:53:22.000 They're not.

00:53:23.000 Orrin Cass says, See, this is the part where I don't get it.

00:53:25.000 government programs and less regulation, the other advocates more.

00:53:27.000 Both claim the mantle of buzzwords such as dynamism, opportunity, and mobility.

00:53:31.000 Neither prioritizes the traditional structures of family and community that provide the foundations of a flourishing society or the capacities that a nation must nurture and sustain to remain strong.

00:53:41.000 See, this is the part where I don't get it, because now Oren Kass seems to be conflating government programs with traditional structures like family and community.

00:53:50.000 Like those are not part of government. - Yeah.

00:53:54.000 I've talked consistently throughout my career on the necessity for a social fabric.

00:53:59.000 A social fabric outside of government.

00:54:00.000 And conflating government and social fabric is precisely what the left does.

00:54:03.000 The left says that government and social fabric are one and the same.

00:54:06.000 And now what you are seeing on the so-called common good conservative right is exactly the same sort of conflation.

00:54:11.000 Okay, well we can use government to prop up the social fabric. 0.99

00:54:14.000 As opposed to substitute for the social fabric.

00:54:16.000 But which policy exactly has the government instituted that has propped up the social fabric in a serious way?

00:54:24.000 As opposed to that same government then being captured by the left and being used to destroy that social fabric.

00:54:29.000 See, these common good conservatives who wish to maximize the power of government in order to use it for their own pursuits, pursuits with which I may agree, by the way, seem to be forgetting the lesson of Lord of the Rings, which is that no one can wield this ring.

00:54:44.000 And that the power of the ring not only corrupts, but also can be wielded by your worst enemy one moment from now against you.

00:54:53.000 But, says Oren Kass, consensus views across the political, business, and academic elite have enormous blind spots from the dangers of globalization to the cost of college for all education system to the value of belonging to a particular place.

00:55:05.000 At home, the data on collapsing families, shuttering communities, stagnating wages, and declining life expectancy are well known.

00:55:10.000 Abroad, America's capacity to protect and advance its national interests is likewise waning.

00:55:16.000 The problems animating America's resurgent populism are very real.

00:55:19.000 They'll be solved neither by the ideological alignments that governed us into the crisis, nor by that populism itself.

00:55:24.000 Look carefully though, and green shoots are emerging." And then he quotes Josh Hawley saying that liberty is not about choosing your own ends.

00:55:32.000 He says that we actually want to have, we need to use government basically.

00:55:37.000 And then he quotes Marco Rubio saying, we have neglected the rights of workers to share in the benefits they create for their employer, which is a complete misread of how economics works.

00:55:46.000 And here's Orrin Cass' conclusion.

00:55:47.000 He says, Okay, now we're in Burny Land.

00:55:49.000 Right?

00:55:49.000 Okay, now we're in Bernie land.

00:56:05.000 If the idea is that economic inequality in and of itself is an inherent bad, because some people are richer and some people are poorer, regardless of absolute material living standards, I don't think that that understands the purpose of an economy.

00:56:19.000 Which is to allow people the ability to trade in goods and services they see fit.

00:56:24.000 Thank you.

00:56:25.000 By the way, that's a moral problem in and of itself.

00:56:27.000 I mean, there's an actual commandment in the 10, it's one of the big 10, that you are not allowed to cover thy neighbor's property. 0.99

00:56:34.000 If your living standard is going up and your neighbor's living standard is going up more, and you're jealous of your neighbor, and this creates a social problem, that's not a social problem, that's a problem with you being a jerk. 0.98

00:56:43.000 It is, we used to just call this envy. 0.98

00:56:46.000 It's one of the seven deadly sins, last time I checked, in Christianity. 0.96

00:56:50.000 And in Judaism, again, that violates the Ten Commandments. 0.96

00:56:52.000 But, says Oren Kass, we have to take that seriously.

00:56:54.000 He says, that a new conservative economics will give weight to the value of diffuse and widespread investment, not just the value of agglomeration.

00:57:03.000 It will consider the benefits that locally owned establishments bring to their communities alongside the benefits that hyper-efficient conglomerates can deliver.

00:57:10.000 So, in other words, you'll punish Walmart for entering your community because you want to keep the small mom and pop business alive, even if it means that people don't have the option of shopping more cheaply and then using the extra money for their families.

00:57:20.000 He says it will insist on recognizing the importance of non-market labor performed within the household and community, rather than assuming that higher monetary incomes in a society of two-earner families must indicate progress.

00:57:31.000 Well, again, I think that there's a lot of importance to non-market labor performed within the household.

00:57:36.000 I think that that labor is indeed, in many cases, more important than the labor done outside the household.

00:57:42.000 But that does not mean that it is compensated in terms of money.

00:57:45.000 I mean, the fact is that it does have some sort of economic benefit to keep somebody at home taking care of the kids.

00:57:49.000 I mean, otherwise you got to pay a nanny for the first thing. 0.54

00:57:52.000 But the idea that the government has an involvement in that is sort of bizarre.

00:57:56.000 And then he gets into pure Marxism.

00:57:57.000 He says conservative economics will also accord equal respect to the concerns of capital and labor.

00:58:02.000 As I've discussed on the program many times, the false division between capital and labor is a really interesting one.

00:58:09.000 Because if you are a worker at a company and you also own a 401k, are you capital or are you labor?

00:58:15.000 Because you own stock in some other company, so you're a capitalist when it comes to your 401k, but you're a laborer in terms of your salary.

00:58:21.000 Also, the reason why you are earning a salary, and presumably you're not invested in the company in terms of stock, is because you are interested in short-term gain, which is the salary.

00:58:31.000 You're earning more from the company than most stockholders will earn from the company in that year, because most people don't just get a dividend.

00:58:37.000 And even if they do get a dividend, it probably isn't 50 or 60 or 100 grand, which is the salary that you're earning from the corporation.

00:58:44.000 As a laborer, you are being compensated.

00:58:46.000 As an employee, you are being compensated.

00:58:48.000 This division between capital and labor, as though capital is just there to harm employees, and as though labor is only there without reference to the future of the corporation, that isn't true either.

00:58:58.000 Because if you're a laborer, you do have a stock in the future of the corporation.

00:59:01.000 Because you want your job to be there tomorrow, presumably.

00:59:05.000 He says, conservative economics will accord equal respect to the concerns of capital and labor, rather than claiming that whatever is best for shareholders in the short run will eventually prove best for workers as well.

00:59:15.000 Well, nobody suggests that if you have a management that only looks at the short term, that that management is doing its best for the workers or for the shareholders, by the way.

00:59:25.000 Like how many shareholders are very much in favor of owning stock that they believe will not be there 10 years from now?

00:59:31.000 Nobody buys stock thinking that.

00:59:33.000 Or at least very few.

00:59:34.000 You short sell stock thinking that, but you don't buy the stock thinking that.

00:59:37.000 Says it will favor collective worker representation that affords real influence in terms of setting terms and conditions of employment over the fiction that individual employees enjoy the freedom to each negotiate their own terms.

00:59:47.000 So now he is stumping in favor of a Bernie Sanders plan, it sounds like, in which half the board is made up of worker representation, which means lower rates of investment, lower rates of capital, lower rates of economic Movement inside businesses.

01:00:02.000 You can't be quite as entrepreneurial if you have to consult with people who wish to raise their own salaries, which is what presumably the labor bargaining would do.

01:00:08.000 We did try this in the 1950s and 60s, by the way.

01:00:10.000 It completely destroyed the auto industry in the United States.

01:00:13.000 And the notion we've never tried this before is just not true.

01:00:15.000 Unions were incredibly strong in the auto industry in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

01:00:18.000 By the 80s, virtually all of our major car manufacturers were bankrupt, specifically because of those deals.

01:00:25.000 Well, I mean, not necessarily.

01:00:34.000 It depends on the nature of the supply chain.

01:00:36.000 We have supply chains for t-shirts.

01:00:39.000 Is the idea that we need to make t-shirts in the United States, we can't make them in Vietnam anymore? 1.00

01:00:42.000 Because the price of t-shirts is going to go up.

01:00:44.000 I mean, we are both consumers and producers.

01:00:47.000 Bottom line, he says, our goal for American Compass, this is the new movement, is to reassert ideas like these for a conservative coalition that once understood them intuitively because they are natural outgrowths of conservative principles.

01:00:57.000 Well, no, now you're misdefining conservatism.

01:00:59.000 Conservatism was based on the idea that we are creatures created by God with individual rights that preexist government and a limited government is created in order to preserve those rights.

01:01:08.000 I don't know what conservatism he's talking about.

01:01:10.000 Presumably that conservatism is one that suggests that the be all end all is institutions like family preserved and forwarded by government.

01:01:20.000 But that is kind of different from American.

01:01:22.000 That's more European conservatism than American conservatism.

01:01:26.000 That doesn't mean American conservatism is anti-family, it just sees a different role for the government, and particularly between the state and the local and the federal government.

01:01:32.000 I think that if local governments want to shore up families with social programs, that's their prerogative, and I don't really object to that if you want to live in one of those communities.

01:01:39.000 America must reorient its political focus from growth for its own sake to widely shared economic development that sustains vital social institutions.

01:01:46.000 First of all, I don't understand growth for its own sake.

01:01:49.000 Growth for its own sake has resulted in the greatest prosperity in the history of humanity.

01:01:54.000 Seriously, like that's kind of a good thing.

01:01:55.000 That's not growth for its own sake.

01:01:56.000 That's growth for the sake of the 7 billion people who live on planet Earth.

01:01:59.000 And yes, the 330 million Americans who live in material excess in the United States.

01:02:06.000 He says, we must set a course for a country in which families can achieve self-sufficiency, contribute productively to their communities, and prepare the next generation for the same.

01:02:13.000 That all sounds great, but it has no limiting principle, meaning that this could easily support an Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders agenda.

01:02:19.000 He says, all this requires an economic consensus that emphasizes the importance of family, community, and industry to the nation's liberty and prosperity.

01:02:27.000 Again, that's incredibly vague.

01:02:28.000 And if what we are calling for, in the end, is a movement that puts government at the heart of American conservatism, then that means the destruction of the village in order to save it.

01:02:38.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here a little bit later today with much more content.

01:02:41.000 And stay tuned because tonight, Michael Bloomberg is on stage.

01:02:43.000 He will be the center of attention because every Democrat is determined, apparently, to make Bernie Sanders the nominee.

01:02:47.000 Look, by the way, final comment on the debate tonight?

01:02:50.000 Look for the murder-suicide from Elizabeth Warren directed at Michael Bloomberg.

01:02:55.000 The patented Chris Christie, Marco Rubio presidential debate murder-suicide in which a candidate who will not win the nomination takes out a candidate who could win the nomination and then ends up destroying their own career in the process. 0.98

01:03:05.000 Watch for Elizabeth Warren to do this to Michael Bloomberg tonight while Bernie just sits there going, Hey look, I have stupid ideas, but nobody's gonna stop me. 0.98

01:03:12.000 No one's gonna stop me. 1.00

01:03:13.000 Are you?

01:03:15.000 Oh man.

01:03:16.000 All right.

01:03:16.000 Well, we'll be back here tomorrow to recap all of it.

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01:03:50.000 The left has long blamed President Trump for just about every political problem under the sun.

01:03:55.000 They've blamed him for the sun itself and how much it's heating our planet.

01:03:58.000 That's par for the course.

01:04:00.000 But Trump derangement syndrome has now progressed to so advanced a stage that the American left is blaming President Trump for schoolyard bullying.

01:04:07.000 We will examine who the real bullies are and how they get away with it.

01:04:11.000 Then postmodern Pete Buttigieg declares words have no meaning, everyone comes out as queer, and President Trump pardons a couple of jailbirds. 0.77

The Ben Shapiro Show - February 19, 2020

Pardon Me | Ep. 956

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