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00:00:00.000On Monday, actor Chris Hemsworth, better known as Thor, explained that the role of James Bond should be redone, this time with Charlize Theron playing the part.
00:00:07.000Theron is the star of the soon-to-be-released Atomic Blonde, a Bond-adjacent-born female knockoff.
00:00:12.000She embodies every ounce of strength and nobility and dignity and integrity the character should have, Hemsworth explained.
00:00:19.000You know, watching her in those fight scenes in Snow White and the Huntsman—doing it in high heels, by the way, and an eight-foot-long gown—was even more impressive.
00:01:09.000As David Schmidt, PhD, writes at Psychology Today, quote, Over the last few decades, almost all research studies have found that men are much more eager for casual sex than women are.
00:01:21.000This is especially true when it comes to desires for short-term mating with many different sexual partners.
00:01:26.000And it's even more true for wanting to have sex with complete and total strangers.
00:01:29.000In a classic social experiment from the 1980s, Clark and Hatfield put the idea of sex differences in consenting to sex with strangers to a real-life test.
00:01:37.000They had experimental confederates approach college students around various campuses and ask, quote, I've been noticing you around campus.
00:02:03.000Furthermore, there is always going to be a necessary suspension of disbelief while watching Charlize Theron, who might be 120 pounds soaking wet, beat up guys twice her size.
00:02:10.000Watching Daniel Craig, who's probably 170, do the same isn't quite the same thing.
00:02:14.000There are plenty of great female action parts.
00:02:16.000Theron might well play one in Atomic Blonde, but hijacking classic characters and having them switch genders and or sexuality destroys the characters.
00:02:23.000There's a decent case for Idris Elba as Bond.
00:02:25.000Color doesn't change the math for Bond's character.
00:02:28.000There is no case for Theron or any other woman to be James Bond.
00:03:00.000Before we get to all of the breakdown from Trumpcare and the fallout, and who's to blame, and is Trump going to pay a price, or is Congress going to pay a price, we'll talk about all of those things.
00:03:11.000Plus, I want to get to Jake Tapper taking on Linda Sarsour, which is really quite wonderful.
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00:05:03.000According to Jodi Allard, so I said that I would offer her son an internship to help him escape the clutches of evil mom.
00:05:10.000And last night, Independent Journal Review, a friend of ours named Pardis Sela, who used to work over at Daily Wire, she did a story about this.
00:05:17.000She actually contacted Jodi Allard's son and found out that he was interested.
00:05:21.000In a natural internship with us and so he sent a resume to her she forwarded on to us last night Jodi Allard obviously out of the loop tweeted at me and said is this internship stunt just a stunt?
00:05:32.000We haven't heard anything from you to which I replied well obviously you don't talk to your son who you call a prospective rapist all that much because he sent us a resume and I have it right here on my desk so
00:05:42.000Uh, hopefully we'll be talking to, uh, to Jared, which is the name of her son, sometime in the next 24, 48 hours.
00:05:47.000We're seeing if we can work out that phone call right now.
00:05:49.000We'd love to work something out with him.
00:05:50.000Obviously, the skill set has to match, but, uh, if it is even a remote match, we'll find some way to work with him, because anything to, to get some money so that he can escape that house, because, horrifying, horrifying.
00:06:28.000It is not fair to blame Mike Lee or Rand Paul.
00:06:31.000You know, Rand Paul, there's been suggestion that Rand Paul never votes for things because that's just his shtick.
00:06:37.000Even that is quasi-fair, but it is not fair to blame Mike Lee.
00:06:40.000The reason that it is not fair to blame Mike Lee is because there are a bunch of people today who are saying that Mike Lee preserved Obamacare.
00:06:46.000Brit Hume says this, Hugh Hewitt says this, that Obamacare has been preserved by Mike Lee and Rand Paul.
00:06:52.000Obamacare was preserved by the bill itself.
00:06:54.000The bill itself kept all of the regulations under Obamacare.
00:06:58.000It added some subsidies and got rid of some of the taxes and it restructured Medicaid.
00:07:02.000Now, if the Republicans had come along, I've been saying this legitimately for months, if the Republicans had come along and said, listen, we're just going to fix Obamacare for the time being.
00:07:10.000We're going to try and fix it and make some changes that move us in the right direction.
00:07:58.000And then he walked away from that when it turned out that people couldn't agree on what the replacement would look like and actually didn't want to do full-scale repeal.
00:08:04.000So Trump was out there trying to claim this as a victory yesterday, even though it was a loss.
00:08:25.000Now we might have had another one somewhere in there, but essentially the vote would have been pretty close to, if you look at it, 48 to 4.
00:08:33.000That's a pretty impressive vote by any standard.
00:08:37.000And yet you have a vote of 48 to 4 or something like that, and you need more.
00:08:53.000First of all, not even clear there were 48 out of 52.
00:08:54.000It's just clear that four would not vote for it, not that 48 would.
00:08:58.000But you can't spin this as a victory when it is not a victory.
00:09:02.000And as I said yesterday, there was a vacuum of leadership from the top.
00:09:04.000Trump doesn't know what's in this bill.
00:09:05.000He doesn't really care what's in this bill.
00:09:07.000He didn't use the bully pulpit in any way.
00:09:09.000He didn't threaten moderates to get on board.
00:09:11.000He didn't threaten conservatives to get on board.
00:09:13.000He thinks that his Twitter basically alleviates him of the necessity of learning things, and so he can just tweet things out and that will fix it.
00:09:20.000Today he's supposed to have a bunch of senators to the White House where he's going to talk to them about these things.
00:09:24.000We'll see if that moves the ball at all, but unless he is actually actively going to use the power that he has to threaten senators who refuse to go along with him, then he's not doing anything.
00:09:45.000That means he has the capacity to threaten them with funding cuts.
00:09:48.000He has the capacity to threaten them with primary challengers.
00:09:51.000He hasn't done any of those things yet.
00:09:52.000He's sort of sitting back and letting it happen.
00:09:54.000And the reason he's sitting back and letting it happen is because he thinks that, and it's an interesting strategy, he thinks that if he just says that he's going to let Obamacare fail,
00:10:11.000I mean, he said this openly yesterday.
00:10:13.000And I think you'll also agree that I've been saying for a long time, let Obamacare fail and then everybody's going to have to come together and fix it and come up with a new plan and a plan that's really good for the people with much lower premiums, much lower costs.
00:11:21.000The only way this is getting solved is with a bipartisan solution.
00:11:24.000So, I want to call to the White House Chuck Schumer, and Mitch McConnell, and Nancy Pelosi, and Paul Ryan, and I want to have a series of meetings to set up a framework for a bipartisan fix on Obamacare.
00:11:34.000And then, when things collapse, you say, oh, look at those Democrats.
00:12:31.000And it's a bit of a mistake, because Democrats are jumping on this to say, okay, well, now he acknowledges that Obamacare is failing, he acknowledges that the healthcare system has problems, and he's not going to fix it.
00:12:48.000This is what Democrats are going to claim.
00:12:50.000If you had elected us, if you'd made us, if you'd made Hillary the president, and you'd put us in Congress, we would have fixed the thing.
00:12:55.000We would have removed the sword from the stone ourselves.
00:12:59.000But, you elected Trump instead, and so he's just going to bitch and complain about what exactly, why the sword is there in the first place.
00:13:06.000So Trump is continuing to make this case.
00:13:08.000He says, you know, we need to elect more Republicans.
00:13:50.000I think we're going to do very well, actually, in 18.
00:13:51.000I would be not surprised if something were done long before that.
00:13:56.000But in any event, because the margin is so small, the majority margin is so small, we're going to have to go out and get more Republicans elected in 18, and I'll be working very hard for that to happen, okay?
00:14:08.000Okay, so this has been the consistent Republican pitch for years, right?
00:14:10.000Give us the House, we'll repeal Obamacare.
00:14:12.000Give us the Senate, we'll repeal Obamacare.
00:14:14.000Give us the presidency, we'll repeal Obamacare.
00:14:15.000I don't know how much longer you can run this scam when you run the majority in both houses and you're still not repealing Obamacare and have no intention of passing a full repeal.
00:14:23.000Mitch McConnell is supposedly going to put the full repeal to a vote on Monday.
00:14:47.000And now would be a great time to put more Republicans in the Senate, considering that you've got, I think, ten Democratic seats in red states that are up in this next election cycle.
00:14:57.000So if Republicans were to pick up even four of those, then they'd have a really solid majority going into the second half of Trump's term.
00:15:03.000But he is going to need to do a better job of making the case.
00:15:05.000Again, if you're going to put blame on Democrats, you have to explain why the blame is on Democrats.
00:15:09.000Yesterday, Sarah Huckabee Sanders came out and she said that it was Democrats' fault that this had all happened.
00:15:18.000It's hard to make the case it's Democrats' fault when you never reached out to Democrats in the first place.
00:15:21.000So this is a botch, basically, from the beginning.
00:15:24.000And I'm not sure that Trump is going to get out of it that easily.
00:15:30.000So if you look at the generic congressional ballot right now, a generic congressional ballot has Democrats up 10.
00:15:34.000That is wipeout territory for Republicans.
00:15:36.000If Democrats are up 10, then Republicans, if that were real, right, Democrats would win, probably back the majority in the House.
00:15:44.000Unclear what would happen in the Senate, because Senate races are different, but they'd be in good shape to win back the majority in the House.
00:15:49.000There's one poll statistic that's great for Trump in this, which says that
00:16:08.000So I think what you're going to see is President Trump go back to bashing the media because if legislation is hard, bashing the media is easy.
00:16:17.000He's going to run against the media in 2018, even if there is nothing else for him to run on.
00:16:22.000Meanwhile, the Democrats are going to say, listen, Republicans refuse to even make basic fixes.
00:16:26.000There's talk that Trump is going to remove some of the subsidies for the Obamacare exchanges and exacerbate the death spiral in order to bring Democrats to the table.
00:16:34.000Democrats are saying, well, that's mean and that's cruel.
00:16:37.000So their case is going to be, listen, we all know the thing is flawed, but only one party here wants to actually fix it, and it's not the Republicans, who won't even repeal and replace.
00:16:44.000That's exactly what Bernie Sanders is saying.
00:16:46.000He's saying Trump wants millions of people to suffer.
00:16:49.000Well, my response is, last I heard, Trump was the President of the United States, the leader of our country.
00:16:55.000Republicans control the House and the Senate.
00:16:59.000And it is beyond comprehension, all I know it's...
00:17:03.000You know, we keep saying this about Donald Trump, but it is beyond comprehension that you have a president who basically wants millions of people to suffer, so he thinks that he can win some political points.
00:17:14.000Okay, the problem is that what Trump is saying runs directly into the teeth of this.
00:17:18.000Okay, when Trump says, let Obamacare fail, and then the Democrat, and then Sanders goes out and says, when he says let Obamacare fail, what he means is he wants millions of people to die.
00:17:27.000Right, when he says that, it has a little more credibility than it normally would, because
00:17:33.000He's not offering any alternative, right?
00:17:44.000If the Republicans had just repealed this thing, we'd go back to status quo ante, which was no Obamacare when 92% of Americans had health insurance.
00:17:53.000So the fact is that the vast majority of Americans always had health insurance.
00:17:57.000It's not that Obamacare saved millions of people or anything, but that's the case Schumer is trying to make.
00:18:01.000In fact, passing repeal and having it go into effect two years later is in many ways worse than the Republican health care bill that was just rejected by my Republican colleagues.
00:18:15.000It's like if our health care system was a patient who came in and needed some medicine.
00:18:44.000As evidenced, Chuck Schumer is a liar.
00:18:45.000Yesterday, he tweeted out that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism.
00:18:48.000This is a guy who endorsed, for the leadership of the Democratic National Committee, Keith Ellison, a devotee of Louis Farrakhan, who has said multiple anti-Semitic things in the past and hung out with anti-Semites.
00:19:00.000Yeah, Chuck Schumer is a pathological liar on politics, but this is a game, and you have to know how to play the game, and the Democrats right now are outplaying the Republicans, even from a minority position.
00:19:10.000It is amazing to watch how incompetent the Republicans are about all of this.
00:19:13.000Well, before we get to some more news about Trump, there's some polls out that show how Trump is going to run in 2020.
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00:20:28.000With the Democrats claiming that Republicans are waiting in the wings to murder people, you would think that not only would the Republicans be in trouble in Congress, they'd be in trouble in the presidential polls.
00:20:39.000And indeed, if you look at the latest poll from Public Policy Polling, yes, it's a Democratic polling firm, and yes, these polls don't mean a lot when they're far out, but it's kind of interesting to look at it.
00:20:49.000The fact is that right now, if Trump ran against most of the major Democratic candidates, he would lose.
00:20:56.000So, they talked to 836 registered voters.
00:20:59.000They said that a majority wished that Obama were president versus Trump, and a minority wished that Hillary were president instead of Trump, although she has worse approval ratings than Trump does.
00:21:09.000But, the ones that matter is that against Joe Biden,
00:21:13.000In a hypothetical matchup against Joe Biden, he would supposedly lose 54 to 39 against Bernie Sanders, 52 to 39.
00:21:19.000So before everybody says, well, polling is just terrible.
00:21:54.000Now, this should be a tip to Democrats.
00:21:56.000This is what's truly fascinating about where the Democrats are.
00:21:59.000So I keep talking about the problems Republicans are having, which makes sense, since they're the governing party, and they're not good at it.
00:22:05.000But, the problems the Democrats are having are so much worse.
00:22:08.000They're so much worse than the problems Republicans are having.
00:22:10.000Yes, Republicans are bad at everything except for increasing military spending and tax cuts.
00:22:14.000Those are the only two things that Republicans are good at because they have no consensus on anything else, but...
00:22:19.000The Democrats have not figured out what exactly their party is about.
00:22:24.000Is their party about big government socialism?
00:22:27.000The sort of cross-cultural socialism of Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders?
00:22:32.000Or are they still so in love with the memory of Barack Obama that they're going to pursue intersectionality down to its root?
00:22:38.000Look at those poll numbers again, because this is what's fascinating.
00:22:41.000Not that Trump's going to lose to all these people, because, you know, it doesn't mean anything.
00:23:11.000And this means that she has checked two of the intersectional boxes.
00:23:14.000For people who don't understand what intersectionality is, basically intersectionality suggests that all of American society was designed to privilege white males and that there is an intersectional hierarchy of people who have been victimized by American society
00:23:26.000Whose credibility cannot be challenged when they talk about how America needs to change.
00:23:30.000So, at the very top, you have LGBT folks, and then you have black women, and then you have black men, and then you have Hispanic women, and then you have Hispanic men, and then you have Asians, and then you have Jews, and then finally, way down at the bottom, you have white males, right?
00:23:41.000Sorry, Muslims rank somewhere between blacks and LGBT folks.
00:23:44.000So, this is the intersectional hierarchy.
00:23:47.000The Democrats have decided that it is more important for them to cobble together a coalition of the dispossessed, right, a coalition of the angry, than it is to actually come up with a message that appeals to a broad swath of Americans, which is why they ally with people like Linda Sarsour.
00:24:00.000It's why they push people like Keith Ellison.
00:24:02.000They've doubled down on identity politics because they believe that the demographics of the country are moving in their direction, and if they continue to alienate white voters, it won't make a difference.
00:24:11.000This failed them in 2016 because white voters, white blue-collar voters for the first time voted as a racial bloc, an almost racial bloc.
00:24:18.000More white blue-collar voters voted for President Trump than Hispanics voted for Hillary Clinton in the last election cycle.
00:24:24.000White voters voted as an intersectional hierarchy group.
00:24:30.000And so when you look at the actual... There should be a hint to Democrats, but they're too stupid to take it.
00:24:35.000When you look at the candidates who are most likely to succeed against Trump, it is candidates like Joe Biden, a white male, Bernie Sanders, a white male, Elizabeth Warren, a white woman, and then you go down the list and you get to black man Cory Booker and black woman Kamala Harris.
00:24:48.000So precisely the opposite of what the intersectional hierarchy would suggest would be a successful strategy.
00:24:54.000Is what would work and that's what Democrats are rejecting.
00:24:57.000Democrats are much more interested in focusing in full scale on which person can we pick who is going to please minority communities even if they have no broad-based appeal like Kamala Harris.
00:25:09.000Pretty amazing stuff, but Democrats are not going to take that advice, and we're going to talk about that in just a second.
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00:26:40.000Meanwhile, while all this is going on, while the Democrats are struggling to come up with an identity, they keep centering around people like Linda Sarsour.
00:26:49.000So yesterday, I thought this was just amazing.
00:26:52.000The Democrats, the Women's March, we talked about this two days ago.
00:26:56.000The Women's March had paid tribute to Assata Shakur, who's an actual terrorist, like an actual terrorist human being, who shot a cop in New Jersey back in the 1970s, in the 79, and then fled to Cuba.
00:27:07.000They paid tribute to her, and they did this whole shtick about how they don't believe in her violence, but they appreciate that she fought sexism within the Black Panther Party.
00:27:16.000Which is like saying, I don't appreciate what Osama Bin Laden does with American buildings, but I do appreciate him fighting Islamophobia around the world.
00:29:58.000That was held by Angela Merkel over at the G20.
00:30:02.000And apparently during the dinner, President Trump, who was not seated next to Vladimir Putin, but Melania was, he got up and he walked away from where he was sitting.
00:30:11.000He walked around to Vladimir Putin, pulled up a chair, and proceeded to have a full hour conversation with no other American official present.
00:30:20.000The only person who was there was Putin's translator, which is not great because you never know if Putin's translator is telling Trump lies, right?
00:30:28.000Putin could be saying, look at this American schmuck.
00:30:31.000And then the translator says, he says you're a wonderful guy.
00:30:35.000That's exactly what could be happening.
00:30:40.000If you are in Trump's cabinet, the last thing you want is a meeting where you don't have anyone in there who's able to at least monitor what's being said.
00:30:47.000Last time Trump was in a room alone with Russians.
00:30:49.000He ended up spilling Israeli national security information that put in danger an Israeli spy who was trying to spy on ISIS.
00:30:54.000So, you have this meeting, and the media goes crazy.
00:30:57.000They say, oh, this is obviously something nefarious going on.
00:31:00.000Now, listen, do I think that when you have a meeting that's an hour long at one of these things that we should know what's happening?
00:31:06.000Yes, because I am for full-scale transparency from any president, and I don't think that that's really appropriate.
00:31:12.000I do want to know from the media, and I just don't know the answer to this.
00:31:14.000Is it that Trump has lots of meetings with Russians and then doesn't disclose it?
00:31:18.000Or is it that Trump has lots of meetings with everyone and then doesn't disclose it?
00:31:21.000I mean, I've seen reports that he had meetings with various other governmental actors over the last six months, and then it was reported like four days later, but no one cared because it wasn't Russia.
00:31:30.000So, it's hard to tell how much of this is real and how much of this is just the media thinking that every time Trump eats something with Russian dressing on it, he's spying with Vladimir Putin.
00:31:41.000In any case, Putin continues to speak highly of Trump.
00:31:43.000Here's what Vladimir Putin had to say about him.
00:31:47.000You met with Donald Trump recently, this guy questioning Putin.
00:31:49.000Could be interesting to hear your impression of him as a person.
00:31:56.000I did not expect this, and I believe it is very important for a person who has a public profile, a politician.
00:32:04.000At least this is what our conversation was like.
00:32:07.000I do not know what he's like with other people he talks to, but during our conversation, I listened to him with attention as well.
00:32:12.000When he set out his ideas and proposals on developing cooperation, and he did the same.
00:32:18.000You know, this is something that does not happen all the time.
00:32:22.000For a person who works with people who is involved in politics, I reiterate, this is a vitally important ability to be able to listen and to respond and communicate promptly.
00:32:31.000You have substantial experience, I believe.
00:32:38.000There are some people who only hear themselves.
00:32:39.000Whatever you tell them, it is like a buzz in the background for them.
00:32:46.000You're talking to them, but they're not listening at all.
00:33:21.000Well, to be fair, the press wasn't saying that the meeting itself, this dinner, was secret.
00:33:26.000They were saying that he never disclosed that he talked with Putin for an hour.
00:33:29.000The White House released a statement saying it was a brief meet-and-greet.
00:33:32.000People in the room say it was an hour.
00:33:34.000So there's still details to come out, but the media is going to continue jumping all over the Russia thing and playing up every little thing, which means that Trump should be careful here, because, you know, if you want to win, then you might want to just be careful about how you conduct yourself.
00:33:48.000There's no reason to give the other side this much material on a day-in, day-out basis.
00:33:54.000Final conclusion here with regard to Obamacare and where it is going.
00:33:58.000I don't think that what happened with Obamacare is going to damage Trump.
00:34:02.000It is very obvious that the Republican press are not interested in going after Trump in any way because the constituency for Republicans is still much more enamored of Trump.
00:34:12.000Republican Congress people are still much more unpopular than Trump, so you're seeing a motivated attempt by the media on the right to guard Trump from the blowback.
00:34:20.000That means that Trump has the power to push something through.
00:34:23.000I think what's more likely to happen is Trump is likely to continue shilly-shallying around, not really taking a solid position on Obamacare.
00:34:29.000Nothing gets passed, Republicans get blamed in the Congress, Trump separates himself off, and then he works with Democrats.
00:34:34.000I think that is the most likely thing, but you never know, right?
00:34:46.000We're gonna get some things I like and some things I hate.
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00:38:34.000He made his first major film appearance, you'll remember, in North by Northwest, who was the right-hand man of James Mason, who was the major criminal in that.
00:38:41.000He was also in Cleopatra and The Greatest Story Ever Told.
00:38:45.000And you'll remember that he was also in Rounders, right?
00:39:15.000Yesterday, Chris Christie, the rotund governor of New Jersey, who everyone hates at this point, went to a Mets game.
00:39:21.000And if you're Chris Christie, probably the worst thing you could do right now is go into a highly public setting, and a ball is hit, and you'll see Chris Christie catch it, and watch what the crowd does.
00:40:08.000Time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:40:15.000So the first thing that I hate is that late on Monday, the Trump administration certified to Congress that Iran has been meeting its necessary requirements under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
00:40:54.000But they say that Iran is violating the spirit of the agreement, but they're not violating the text of the agreement, and then you have the State Department saying that Iran remains one of the most dangerous threats to U.S.
00:41:14.000He said in front of AIPAC that it was catastrophic.
00:41:17.000Hey, either kill the deal or don't kill the deal, but this routine where you split the baby is getting very irritating and repeatedly, repeatedly, you get this routine from the Trump administration where they say that they are going to stand by some conservative position and they don't do it.
00:41:36.000So the Trump administration just brought in 15, they just issued 15,000 new travel visas for people who are coming into work.
00:41:57.000That I'm missing here, that they've done in the last couple of days that are not good, the Cuba policy, for example.
00:42:03.000They said that they were going to reject Obama's Cuba policy.
00:42:05.000They've kept most of Obama's Cuba policy in place.
00:42:07.000Again, don't pee on our leg and tell us it's raining.
00:42:10.000Okay, if you don't actually want to do anything about something, don't promise you're going to do it.
00:42:13.000Don't make promises you can't fulfill, especially when your entire schtick is, politicians are all dirty, politicians are all liars, I'm not one of them.
00:43:30.000A sitting congressperson in the United States suggested that there was a civilization on Mars thousands of years ago because they'd said that there was changes on the surface of Mars billions of years ago.
00:44:02.000So yesterday, Tucker Carlson, who I thought he had a debate with Max Boot, which I refrained from commenting on because I just didn't see the point.
00:44:10.000I thought it was quite an awful exchange with Max Boot actually.
00:44:12.000I thought that Max Boot was largely correct.
00:44:14.000I thought Tucker was wildly disingenuous in the interview.
00:44:17.000I think Tucker's really good at his job.
00:45:09.000He's an ethnic Jew, but he has absolutely nothing to do with Judaism.
00:45:12.000He wrote a book called Goliath that's been widely panned, in which he repeatedly compares Israel to the Nazis, which is about the most insulting thing that you can do to both Israel and Jews generally.
00:45:46.000It's subsumed all of the progressive grassroots movements I believed in, and it's basically buried the left.
00:45:53.000In a militaristic narrative that ambitious figures like Jamie Raskin are advancing.
00:45:59.000Mark my words Tucker, when Trump is gone, this narrative, this Russia hysteria will be repurposed by the political establishment to attack the left and anyone on the left.
00:46:09.000Bernie Sanders like politician who steps out of line on the issues of permanent war.
00:46:14.000Or, uh, corporate free trade, things like that, will be painted as Russia puppets.
00:46:19.000So this is very dangerous, and people who are progressive, who are falling into it, need to know what the long-term consequences of this cynical narrative are.
00:46:27.000It seems virtually everyone on the left in Washington, with some exceptions, you're one, I know a couple others, but I know people who I think of as reasonable, I don't agree with them, but who seem to really believe that Vladimir Putin was in control of the last election.
00:46:49.000But there's definitely a political class in Washington that sees Russia's scandal mongering as a silver bullet to take out Trump.
00:46:56.000And then you have the Democrats who are basically... In other words, Tucker is so eager to get somebody who is purportedly of the left, not purportedly, of the hard left.
00:47:05.000to talk about why the Trump-Russia stuff isn't a thing that he brings on somebody like Max Blumenthal.
00:47:09.000This is the same thing as when Sean has on Julian Assange to talk about how Trump-Russia isn't a thing and then touts him as a hero.
00:47:16.000The right is making all sorts of new friends.
00:47:18.000If your allegiance to a particular political figure is forcing you into alignment with people like Max Blumenthal and Julian Assange and you are now welcoming them as friends and treating them with anything but disdain, let me recommend to you that you've made some mistakes in your life.
00:47:32.000You shouldn't be part of a movement that is now making common cause with people like Julian Assange, who's put American lives in danger, or Max Blumenthal, one of the scummiest people on earth.
00:47:42.000I mean, remember, Sidney Blumenthal was Hillary Clinton's hatchet man.
00:47:45.000So we're now at the point, politics is so topsy-turvy and so circular, that at this point, Sidney Blumenthal, who used Max Blumenthal as an advisor on Israel to Hillary Clinton, is appearing on Tucker Carlson's show to defend Donald Trump because Tucker Carlson wants to defend Trump.
00:47:58.000I mean, that's how crazy all of this has gotten.
00:48:01.000The rules have changed and there are no rules anymore.
00:48:04.000It's catch-as-catch-can, but people with principles should think twice before they start making way for people like Max Blumenthal just because he's saying some things you'll like.