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00:00:18.000So it's gonna be a whirlwind day, which is why we are doing the show a little bit early today, because I'm gonna be flying to University of Utah, where I have been guaranteed that Students for a Democratic Society will try to shut me down.
00:00:27.000In fact, they wrote an entire letter, an open letter, suggesting that they would do so, and bragging that they would do so, and saying they were right to do so.
00:00:34.000Apparently, there are also rumors that violence may be in the works.
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00:02:15.000Okay, so, I'll explain a little bit more about what's happening at University of Utah later, but the big story of the evening last night is that Roy Moore, Judge Roy Moore, won his race against Luther Strange in Alabama.
00:02:27.000Now, this was seen as sort of a proxy battle over the future of Trumpism.
00:02:36.000So, what does it mean that Trump spent an enormous amount of time and effort campaigning for Luther Strange, who is the incumbent senator in Alabama,
00:02:44.000And that Luther Strange was defeated pretty soundly by Roy Moore.
00:02:56.000The reality is that Roy Moore has been an extraordinarily popular figure in Alabama for a very long time.
00:03:01.000I knew who Roy Moore was years ago because Roy Moore was the judge who refused to abide by the Supreme Court's decision that he had to remove a Ten Commandments memorial from his courtroom.
00:03:10.000Roy Moore was the guy who had told his court clerks not to issue same-sex marriage licenses because he thought that the Obergefell decision was unconstitutional.
00:03:18.000So, Roy Moore's been a very famous player for a very long time.
00:03:20.000It's not like the Dave Bratt race, where Breitbart really was instrumental in helping push Dave Bratt over the finish line against Eric Cantor.
00:03:27.000No one had ever heard of Dave Bratt, and now Dave Bratt sits in Congress and is a good guy.
00:03:30.000Roy Moore was a very famous figure in Alabama for a long time.
00:03:33.000He was always considered a popular figure in Alabama right-wing politics.
00:03:37.000Luther Strange was more anonymous than his primary opponent.
00:03:40.000So that's thing number one that we have to remember.
00:03:42.000Thing number two that we have to remember is that Roy Moore reflects kind of the guts of a lot of the Republican Party better than Luther Strange.
00:03:51.000Not because his perspectives on, for example, homosexuality are reflective of the entire Republican Party.
00:03:57.000It's been very hard for my wife and myself to either
00:04:22.000Two, nearly three months of negative ads that we couldn't answer with money because we didn't have it.
00:06:19.000The great and glorious movement existed long before Trump.
00:06:23.000It started with the Tea Party in 2009, 2010.
00:06:26.000Republicans rode that to victory with 63 seats in the House.
00:06:29.000In 2012, Republicans picked up the Senate.
00:06:32.000And they did that by electing people like Ted Cruz.
00:06:34.000I was involved in that election working at Breitbart at the time.
00:06:37.000I was very much in favor of Ted Cruz against a guy named David Dewhurst, who was the Lieutenant Governor of Texas and considered a more establishment candidate.
00:06:50.000Trump was just the latest iteration of that movement.
00:06:53.000Remember, we've had these battles going on for a long time.
00:06:55.000Dave Brat and Eric Cantor, Christine O'Donnell and Mike Castle in Delaware.
00:06:58.000These sorts of swings against the establishment have been going on since 2009-2010.
00:07:05.000And Trump was just a cork bobbing on the waves of that movement.
00:07:08.000He was not the leader of that movement.
00:07:09.000And last night's election showed that.
00:07:11.000Because it showed that Trump doesn't have coattails.
00:07:13.000Trump tried to pull Luther Strange over the finish line, so much so that this morning, Trump, who had tweeted a bunch of times about Big Luther, he actually went back and deleted the tweets.
00:07:22.000Which, I mean, President Trump, that's not how Twitter works.
00:07:24.000Deleting the tweets actually draws more attention to your old tweets.
00:09:20.000It's a much more fractious caucus than the House Republicans, mainly because the House Republicans have such a big majority, a 23-seat majority, that they can afford to lose a few people and still get stuff passed.
00:09:30.000McConnell has 52 seats, which means that he loses three and he's done.
00:09:35.000Roy Moore's not going to make that easier on McConnell.
00:09:37.000He's going to join the right wing of the party, and that means that McConnell is going to be more beholden to that wing of the party, which is a good thing.
00:10:30.000Two-thirds of the Senate for treaties.
00:10:32.000So it would require a huge number of votes in order for approval.
00:10:35.000Bob Corker passed a bill in the Senate that would have forced Congress to vote 51 against in order to shut down the Iran deal, which is an asinine, asinine thing.
00:10:51.000Elizabeth and I have decided that I will leave the United States Senate when my term expires at the end of 2018.
00:10:56.000When I ran for the Senate in 2006, I told people I couldn't imagine serving for more than two terms.
00:11:00.000Understandably, as we have gained influence, that decision has become more difficult.
00:11:03.000But I've always been drawn to the citizen-legislator model, and while I realize it is not for everyone, I believe with the kind of service I provide, it is the right one for me.
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00:12:59.000So yeah, the last time there was a Democrat in the Senate was 1994, because that's when Bill Frist was elected in 1994, and so was Fred Thompson.
00:13:10.000So Gore was the last Senator from Tennessee, Al Gore, before he became Vice President under Bill Clinton.
00:13:16.000So I don't think that that's a seat in danger of being lost to Democrats.
00:13:20.000Which is a good thing, because I think that it's important that if the Republican caucus is going to be more unified on issues like Obamacare, we need people who are less pro-establishment, less pro-McConnell in there.
00:13:31.000A lot of the Tea Party candidates have been very good on this.
00:13:41.000So, the more of these people we get in place, the better it's going to be.
00:13:44.000I'd like to see somebody in the Tennessee Senate who really has the capacity to stand up to Mitch McConnell when Mitch McConnell decides to be a squish.
00:13:52.000And that is the continuation of this movement.
00:13:54.000The biggest problem is that Trump was never a good representative of this movement.
00:13:59.000Trump rode this movement to victory, but he was never a good anti-establishment candidate.
00:14:02.000The man's cutting deals with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.
00:14:04.000I mean, Ann Coulter is pointing this out today.
00:14:06.000She's pointing out that Luther Strange was running neck and neck with Roy Moore until the point where Trump made a deal with Schumer and Pelosi, at which point people said, okay, Trump doesn't even understand this movement, so what does it matter if he endorses Luther Strange?
00:14:18.000So it's quite a fascinating dynamic and an important dynamic.
00:14:22.000Republicans are going to have to get their act together or transform from the inside with a new set of senators who are going to be more anti-establishment and more traditionally conservative if they hope to actually be able to legislate.
00:14:33.000Because Trump is good at one thing and one thing only, and that is starting culture wars and winning culture wars.
00:14:51.000So according to James Barrett over at Daily Wire, if you look at this issue specifically, this issue shows that he's doing really well.
00:15:01.000So there's a Reuters-Ipsos poll, and the Reuters poll shows that on the NFL issue, Trump is winning dramatically.
00:15:09.000A majority of adults agree that players should not kneel, according to Reuters-Ipsos.
00:15:16.000They disagree that players should be fired.
00:15:18.000So as I've been saying all along, I've been saying this all along, there's a wide consensus.
00:15:22.000You shouldn't kneel for the anthem, you shouldn't be fired if you do.
00:15:24.000Right, so the September 25th, 26th poll found 57% of adults do not think the NFL should fire players who kneel, but the results were split along party lines.
00:15:32.00082% of Democrats and only 29% of Republicans agreed, disagreed with the president's comments about firing football players.
00:15:40.000So, the firing of the football players is one issue, but the other issue is how many people think that it's good to kneel for the anthem.
00:15:50.00085% of adults said they almost always stand in silence when the National Anthem is played in an event they are attending.
00:15:55.00074% said they always put their hand over their heart.
00:15:57.00058% of, I mean, this poll doesn't even make any sense.
00:16:02.00058% of adults said professional athletes should be required to stand during the National Anthem at sporting events.
00:18:13.000About taking a knee for the national anthem, I said in this speech tonight, if people in this country take a knee and the National Football League players want to take a knee, they should take a knee at night.
00:18:40.000Mitch McConnell wouldn't be Majority Leader if Donald Trump didn't drag a half a dozen senators across the goal line in November.
00:18:48.000There are so many things here that are false.
00:18:50.000First, the notion that Trump dragged senators over the finish line is 100% false.
00:18:55.000Senators dragged Trump over the finish line, if anything.
00:18:57.000Senators across the country outperformed Trump.
00:19:00.000But beyond that, the idea that NFL players, you want to polarize this along political lines?
00:19:04.000What Trump is doing is actually more unifying than what Bannon is doing here, right?
00:19:07.000Trump is actually saying that we should stand with all of the people who have lost limbs for our country, and Bannon is saying that these players should kneel before Trump.
00:19:15.000He's literally doing the kneel before Zod routine.
00:19:24.000You overreach a little bit, and then you overreach a little bit more, and the other side reacts, and then you play this game where everyone is divided on an issue where we all should be united.
00:19:33.000And what's happened is because it's become a partisan political issue, and because it's become divided, people who are not staunch enough in their language condemning people who kneel for the anthem, they're now considered squishes.
00:19:43.000So even if you say that you think the players shouldn't kneel for the anthem, but they have the right to do so if they want to, it's America.
00:19:49.000If you say that, but you aren't condemnatory enough of the people who kneel for the anthem, you're now considered a squish.
00:19:54.000So, Steve Bannon is considered hardcore, but Paul Ryan is a squish.
00:19:59.000People are clearly within their rights to express themselves how they see fit.
00:20:03.000My own view, though, is we shouldn't do it on the anthem.
00:20:06.000The national anthem, our flag, and the people who defend it and represent it, that should be celebrated everywhere and always, and that's my opinion.
00:20:14.000Okay, so, you know, that, but he's not considered hardcore enough because Bannon's super hardcore, right?
00:20:18.000Bannon doesn't want people kneeling, and they should kneel if they're gonna kneel to Trump.
00:20:23.000So how do you think Democrats are gonna respond?
00:20:25.000Well, they're gonna respond in the stupidest possible way, because we've seen all week long, it's just a vortex of dumb.
00:20:30.000So, Sheila Jackson Lee, the radical left congressperson from, I believe she's from Texas, here she is kneeling on the floor of the United States Congress yesterday in solidarity with the people who are protesting Trump.
00:20:45.000You tell me which of those children's mothers are a son of a bee.
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00:23:15.000The clerk doesn't know the difference between any of the products.
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00:24:28.000If you thought the Democrats hadn't gone far enough by universally kneeling for the anthem like a bunch of morons, Hillary Clinton is now saying that she hopes that Trump hasn't ordered the killing of journalists.
00:24:37.000So I'm old enough to remember when Donald Trump was the conspiratorial one.
00:24:40.000Now we have this crazy old loon bat running around talking about how she hopes that Trump isn't murdering journalists.
00:24:49.000Okay, so I'm one of the people who was saying for years, people would say things like that.
00:24:54.000When I was on Joe Rogan's show, Joe Rogan would say, do you think that Hillary Clinton had, the Clintons had lots of people killed?
00:24:58.000And I would say, no, I don't think the Clintons had lots of people killed.
00:25:00.000I think Bill Clinton could even pull out his schlong and hide it properly, right?
00:25:04.000So no, I don't think that they had lots of people killed and somehow got away with it.
00:25:07.000But Hillary Clinton is now doing the same routine to Trump.
00:25:10.000She's saying maybe Trump is ordering the killing of journalists behind closed doors.
00:25:41.000Again, every time I see Hillary Clinton, I feel compelled to comment on her sartorial choices.
00:25:46.000She got this one from Violet Beauregard, this particular outfit.
00:25:49.000And by the end of the episode, she actually turned into a large blueberry and she had to be taken into the back room by the Oompa Loompas and squeezed.
00:25:55.000But in any case, the Democrats continue to just overreact and trip over their own feet.
00:26:01.000What I'm telling you on the show today, folks, is the world doesn't revolve around Trump.
00:26:05.000That Senate race in Alabama didn't revolve around Trump.
00:26:07.000Bob Corker stepping down doesn't revolve around Trump.
00:26:10.000The NFL stuff, it shouldn't revolve around Trump.
00:26:14.000By shifting the polarity of politics from actual issues and policies and political differences to Donald Trump, all we're doing is confusing issues because it makes no sense.
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00:29:56.000And the local authorities wouldn't let Bush in, and then Bush got blamed for it.
00:29:59.000So it wasn't even Bush's Katrina, but now this is gonna be Trump's Katrina.
00:30:02.000This is their new talking point, because all they care about is Trump.
00:30:05.000What is amazing to me, what I do love, is that yesterday, I think it was Don Lemon on CNN, whose show I enjoy doing, Don Lemon on CNN actually did this routine where somebody asked him at one point about President Trump and Puerto Rico, and he said, well, President Trump keeps talking about the NFL, so, you know, how are we supposed to cover Puerto Rico?
00:30:26.000Do you not have the capacity to, I don't know, ignore stupid commentary about the NFL and instead focus on the humanitarian crisis currently taking place in Puerto Rico, where, by the way, everybody's an American citizen?
00:30:38.000Like, why can't you just cover it like normal people?
00:30:44.000But again, the universe now revolves around the orange-haired man.
00:30:48.000So that's what we all have to deal with now.
00:30:50.000So much so that in response, no one cares whether good policy is being made.
00:30:55.000All that matters is that Trump is being stopped.
00:30:56.000So Jimmy Kimmel was out there last night celebrating that he had stopped this new Obamacare repeal effort and suggesting that he was the moving force behind it.
00:31:04.000Right, it was Jimmy Kimmel who convinced John McCain not to vote for it.
00:31:07.000It wasn't John McCain being John McCain.
00:31:09.000It was that he watched Jimmy Kimmel's show the other night.
00:31:12.000But you know what, it would be easy for me to dismiss this as some kind of right-wing hysteria, but he does have a point.
00:31:17.000I'd like to make a confession tonight.
00:32:04.000There's a book that I'm in the middle of by Alistair McIntyre, who's a professor over at Notre Dame, called After Virtue.
00:32:10.000It is an excellent study of why it is that it seems like more Americans are having these sort of pitched political battles these days without any common language.
00:32:21.000And he traces that back to Enlightenment thinking, where he says that it used to be that we had common frames of reference for things like
00:32:27.000What human beings' aspirations were, and those frames of reference have now been left behind, and so we have these varying definitions of what is good for human beings, and so we can't even have decent political conversations because we're not starting from the same premises.
00:32:49.000So, thank you to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who yesterday spoke at Georgetown, and he was talking about
00:32:54.000In advance, the school offered counseling.
00:32:56.000In advance of this speech, they offered counseling to any students or faculty whose sense of safety or belonging was threatened by a speech.
00:33:18.000From Ben Shapiro, a 33-year-old Harvard-trained lawyer who has frequently been targeted by anti-Semites for his Jewish faith and who vigorously condemns hate speech from the left or the right.
00:33:37.000Well, in the end, Mr. Shapiro spoke to a packed house, and to my knowledge, no one fainted, no one was unsafe, no one needed counseling, I hope.
00:33:51.000Okay, thank you, Attorney General Sessions, for getting that exactly right.
00:33:54.000And that's a pretty cool thing, so thank you, again, Attorney General.
00:34:32.000So they're tweeting out about Kylie Jenner being pregnant.
00:34:34.000So it says, Kylie Jenner is reportedly pregnant with a baby.
00:34:39.000Okay, so there are a few things that I find just hysterically funny about this particular tweet.
00:34:45.000First of all, MTV News, where, you know, they use, like, the rainbow flag as their actual logo at MTV News, so you can see where they are coming from politically.
00:34:54.000What was she supposed to be pregnant with?
00:35:23.000These are the same people who have no problem whatsoever saying Caitlyn Jenner's a woman.
00:35:27.000So I find it significantly less shocking that a biological woman like Kylie Jenner was capable of getting pregnant than Caitlyn Jenner being a woman because Caitlyn Jenner's not a woman.
00:35:35.000So, good job MTV News, you suck at everything, and that is really funny.
00:36:11.000This is not a decision we came to based on youthful emotions or out of some desire for the world to be one big safe space.
00:36:16.000This decision was arrived at based on a real, material understanding of the political environment of Utah and the material effects of an emboldened far right.
00:36:27.000Says, as an example, Utah is already a state with a homelessness and suicide crisis amongst LGBTQ youth.
00:36:33.000Okay, that's true of virtually every state and place on earth.
00:36:37.000Okay, LGBTQ youth have a disproportionate homelessness and suicide rate.
00:36:42.000That is not all due to discrimination.
00:36:43.000Says, Ben Shapiro has openly called transgender people mentally ill.
00:36:47.000Yes, because they suffer from a mental illness.
00:36:49.000Gender dysphoria, gender identity disorder, whatever you'd like to call it.
00:36:52.000He portrays the gay rights movement as a conspiracy to root out God-based institutions.
00:36:57.000Well, no, I portray the militant gay rights movement that suggests that you're able to come into my synagogue and tell me what to do, or into my business and tell me what to do, as a conspiracy to root out God-based institutions, because that's what you're doing.
00:37:22.000I remember doing that because I don't think conversion therapy works, so that's kind of weird.
00:37:28.000I've defended the right of parents to utilize conversion therapy in terms of, like, have their kid see a psychiatrist, because I think that parents should be allowed to do whatever they see fit in terms of the mental and physical health of their child.
00:37:42.000But that's not the same thing as saying that I think conversion therapy is effective.
00:37:45.000I don't see the evidence that it's effective.
00:37:47.000He says, these are all positions he has stated in naked terms in articles he has written himself.
00:37:52.000He says, to pretend that Shapiro does not spew racist and transphobic pseudoscience with the desire to justify and encourage violence is idealistic, ahistorical, and wrong.
00:38:11.000Like, again, these people just make things up out of thin air, and then accuse me of being a purveyor of pseudoscience.
00:38:18.000Also, again, I think that the pseudoscience is that Caitlyn Jenner is a woman, not that Caitlyn Jenner is suffering from a mental disorder.
00:38:25.000It seems to me like that one's pretty clear-cut.
00:38:27.000It says, we intend on shutting down Ben Shapiro precisely because we don't live in a fantasy world where hate speech has no consequences.
00:38:32.000We believe his hate speech can and will have a material consequence for vulnerable people.
00:38:37.000Well, if it's not violent, then have at it, gang.
00:38:53.000Like, if it's not violent, and you're not interfering with my free speech rights, go outside and yell and scream as much as you want, make asses of yourself.
00:39:04.000But, if you are going to get violent, or if you're going to invade the place where I'm speaking tonight and try and shut down the speech, then the police should quickly and easily arrest you because you're a bunch of fools who don't understand what the First Amendment is for.
00:39:16.000Okay, so, before we part on this day, I will do a quick Bible talk here.
00:40:58.000If you go to any Orthodox community, there are these prayers.
00:41:01.000It's like a full prayer book, 700 pages of written out prayers, some of which people can't really understand because it's in ancient Hebrew, and you have to read the translation.
00:41:09.000So what's the purpose of formalized prayer like this?
00:41:12.000And what's the purpose of prayer in general?
00:41:16.000The idea here is that there's two things that you need to be fulfilled in life.
00:41:21.000There are two things that make you fulfilled in life, in terms of psychology.
00:41:25.000One is what we call habit, and one is what we call flow.
00:41:28.000So flow is this concept where the happiest you ever are in life, according to many psychologists, one whose name I can't pronounce, Mikhail Tselzheny or something like that, he basically says,
00:42:18.000And then, once you have the expertise in doing it, because we repeat the same prayers every day, then you can invest it with your own creative powers.
00:42:25.000So it's not enough to say, okay, we're going to pray and start from scratch, make up your own prayers.
00:42:28.000You're supposed to use the formalized prayers as a conduit for conveying the thoughts that you want to convey to God, because now you have the habit of praying, and you also have the expertise and the mastery of this particular set of prayers, so that you can use them to creatively express your emotions to God.
00:42:42.000That's the purpose of prayer, and it's all about changing you, not about changing God, because God is unchangeable.
00:42:46.000But you are changeable, and in fact it is your task on this earth to change yourself in a better direction.
00:42:51.000And people who believe that, people who really believe that it's their job to change themselves instead of changing the world, changing society, changing God.
00:42:58.000If you believe that your task is to change yourself so you can live a better life, you'll live a happier life than if you're constantly at war with the wind like King Lear on the moors.
00:43:07.000Okay, we'll be back here tomorrow and I will explain you everything that happens at University of Utah tonight.