Willie J. Parker used to oppose abortion, but now he s for it. Why? The answer isn t really clear, but we re supposed to sympathize with him because he clearly wants to help women. Here s the amazing thing: Parker admits that abortion is a life-ending process, which means that it should have quasi-human rights. But by that logic, no? Not according to Dr. Parker. He thinks so long as you re not fully human, by his vague definition, you have no rights whatsoever. And you can be killed for the sake of convenience. And that s pretty gross. Plus, is Trump trying to use the power of the White House to make people buy Ivanka s stuff? We ll get to that in a second, but first we ve got to give you a taste of what s to come. Ben Shapiro: Is Trump Fighting for the Power of The White House or Is He Focuses On His Own Supreme Court Nominee? Guests: Dr. Willy Parker: Life's Work: The Joy of Being An Abortionist? Dr. Joe Parker: My Journey From Pro Life to Pro-Life: How I Became Pro-Abortionist, And How I Learned to Love My Baby: The Story of a Pro Life Doctor Who Lost It All, by The New York Times Opinions on Abortion and Became Pro Life, by Dr. J.J. Parker: How to Talk About It in a Positive Way Thanks to Our Sponsors Wink Inc. for Sponsoring the Show: Wink Inc. & The Chockwinc Inc. Thanks To Effie & Wylie Johnson for Their Support Of The Showing It's A Good Mess, By Effie Willy J Parker & The Effie Johnson, by Ben Shapiro, Jr. & Ben Shapiro Sr. by The Vayner Sr. And The Good Work, by Ms. Condon, Jr., and & is a Good Workmanship, Thanks Willy Willy Jr. And Can I Say It's Better Than That's Gave Me A Good Thing? by Is This Is It's Gotta Say It So Much More Than That And This Is That And That's Not That And I Can Do It And That Willie Willie Can Help Me Say It And I'm Gotta Have It And This Willie & I Can Say It, Too Say It Better?
00:00:13.000The answer isn't really clear, but we're supposed to sympathize with him because he clearly wants to help women.
00:00:19.000Here is Parker's explanation for his shift from pro-life to pro-abortion.
00:00:22.000Quote, I had come to a crisis moment regarding a religious understanding that left me unable to help women when I felt deeply
00:00:29.000I needed to convert from a religious understanding that left me paralyzed to act on my deepest sense of connection to one that empowered me to do what I felt to be the right thing.
00:00:40.000This is actually kind of disgusting to compare the ideological movement from not killing babies to killing babies to a religious conversion and the notion that this guy felt bad because he couldn't help women who wanted abortions and thus abortion had to be correct.
00:00:52.000That's license to commit all sorts of moral atrocities.
00:00:54.000You feel bad for the woman whose husband's kind of a jerk, so you go and kill him?
00:02:21.000They judge each other for rejecting that primary identity.
00:02:24.000So if you think that the most essential role for a woman is to procreate, and humanity doesn't go on unless you do that, then anything to interrupt that process is to be counterintuitive or immoral.
00:02:33.000The biggest insult to the notion that there's such a thing as black genocide is that the people who care about abortion really care about black women and black babies.
00:02:41.000Well, people who don't want to kill black babies in the womb care more about black babies by definition than Dr. Parker, but when you're talking with the New York Times, it's always convenient to pull the race card.
00:02:51.000It's also worth noting here that women are not acquiescing to some sort of arbitrarily defined societal role when they talk about the value of motherhood.
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00:05:32.000And we'll get to Elizabeth Warren and all of the sexist nonsense coming out of the media in just a second, but it's been a bad 24 hours for Trump because he just can't control himself.
00:05:42.000And you knew sooner or later this was going to get him in trouble.
00:05:44.000Turns out it's sooner rather than later, because at the beginning you can sort of mask his personal deficiencies with the fact that on policy, Trump's been pretty good, right?
00:05:53.000Picked Gorsuch, he puts out these executive orders that conservatives like, and you think, okay, is it really that big a deal that he mouths off a lot?
00:06:02.000And then you get a week like this one, where he really hasn't done anything.
00:06:04.000There haven't been any major executive orders this week.
00:06:07.000There haven't been any major policy moves this week.
00:06:09.000It's basically just been Trump talking.
00:06:11.000And that's most weeks for the president.
00:06:12.000Most weeks for the president are not replete with action.
00:06:15.000Most weeks for the president are not filled with executive orders changing the nature of government.
00:06:20.000Most weeks for the president are the president going back and forth with Congress and the judiciary and making policy behind the scenes and talking a lot.
00:06:28.000And the talking part of the job is actually kind of important.
00:06:30.000Unfortunately, this is the part that Trump is not that good at.
00:06:33.000So we start today with this hubbub that has broken out over Nordstrom.
00:06:37.000So Nordstrom has decided they're no longer going to carry Ivanka Trump's clothing line.
00:06:44.000I think companies that are dumping Ivanka Trump's clothing line are really kind of gross.
00:06:47.000I don't see why you wouldn't carry a clothing line just because you don't like the politics of a person's father.
00:06:52.000Even if you don't like the politics of the person, I have kind of problems with the idea that you're not going to stock their clothing line.
00:06:58.000Nordstrom said that they made this decision based on performance.
00:07:01.000They said that the sales of Ivanka Trump products slid in the last half of the year.
00:07:30.000TJ Maxx has taken all the Ivanka Trump labels off of the racks, and they're now stocking Ivanka Trump's stuff kind of alongside all their other stuff.
00:08:00.000And he starts tweeting about Nordstrom's.
00:08:02.000Now, it's not unprecedented for the president to get angry at people for being mad at his daughter.
00:08:07.000The people were passing around a Harry Truman letter where he went after a critic because Margaret Truman was a performer and somebody didn't like one of her performances and so he savaged the critic.
00:08:15.000That's not quite the same thing as what Trump is doing here because here it actually has an impact on a business.
00:08:19.000He says, And then, which is odd, the President of the United States' Twitter account actually retweeted that.
00:08:34.000Trump's personal Twitter account was going to be for Trumpian nonsense and the president account was going to be for presidential stuff and not anymore.
00:08:41.000Now he's retweeting that sort of stuff.
00:09:01.000And I think for people to take out their concern about his actions or his executive orders on members of his family, he has every right to stand up for his family and applaud their business activities, their success.
00:09:16.000So, look, when it comes to his family, I think he's been very clear how proud he is of what they do and what they've accomplished.
00:09:23.000And for someone to take out their concern with his policies on a family member of his is just not acceptable.
00:09:30.000And the president has every right as a father to stand up for them.
00:09:34.000Okay, he has every right as a father to stand up for them.
00:09:39.000As a president, the question is, do you have the right to go out there and start railing on companies because they're not doing business with your daughter anymore?
00:09:46.000Kellyanne Conway then goes on national television this morning, and she says openly, I'm gonna basically do an advertisement for Ivanka Trump's product, and she says, go buy Ivanka Trump's stuff, is what I would tell you.
00:09:57.000I hate shopping, but I'm gonna go get some for myself today.
00:10:00.000Hey look, there are plenty of us out here who would say that Nordstrom is doing the wrong thing.
00:10:04.000There are plenty of us out here who would say go buy Ivanka's stuff.
00:10:10.000The point is this is not something that the White House ought to be doing because this is conflict of interest.
00:10:15.000You're not supposed to be using the Press Secretary of the United States
00:10:19.000Or Kellyanne Conway, the Senior Communications Advisor.
00:10:21.000You're not supposed to be using these people in order to propagate business for your daughter, or for your siblings, or for yourself.
00:10:28.000This is self-dealing, and it isn't good.
00:10:31.000Under federal law, she may have violated federal law, under federal law, federal employees are not supposed to use public office for endorsement of any product, service, or enterprise, or for the private gain of friends and relatives.
00:11:01.000Second of all, if she then came out and she said, I want everyone in the country to give money to my foundation, to Chelsea's foundation.
00:11:08.000I think people would be a little upset, and they'd have a right to be upset.
00:11:11.000In fact, we spent most of the last election cycle talking about conflicts of interest between the Secretary of State and the Clinton Foundation.
00:11:17.000To pretend that this doesn't exist when you stick a T by the name is just silly.
00:11:21.000So this is ridiculous, and Trump shouldn't have engaged himself in this, but that wasn't the only silly thing that happened, okay?
00:11:27.000The other silly thing that happened is that Neil Gorsuch, who is Trump's pick, his excellent pick for the Supreme Court, which I have praised up to wazoo at this point, I've thanked Trump multiple times for it,
00:11:38.000Gorsuch was asked about Trump attacking the Seattle judge, this district court judge in Washington who put a stay on his executive order.
00:11:47.000And Gorsuch, according to multiple sources, ranging from Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, to Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska, who is a Republican,
00:11:55.000Tore into Trump's attacks on the judiciary.
00:11:57.000So apparently Gorsuch said that he didn't like what Trump was doing.
00:12:00.000This is what Sass told Morning Joe this morning.
00:12:20.000According to Blumenthal, Gorsuch called Trump's attacks disheartening and demoralizing.
00:12:25.000And then Kelly Ayotte, who's the spokesperson for Neil Gorsuch, she said he said that he finds any criticism of a judge's integrity and independence disheartening and demoralizing.
00:12:33.000Okay, so we now have three separate sources, including Gorsuch's spokesperson, who said that Gorsuch said he didn't like Trump's attacks on the judiciary.
00:13:28.000I miss the part where there's a provision in Article 3 of the Constitution that says you're not allowed to disagree with the President.
00:13:34.000In fact, it seems to me one of the chief qualifications for being on the Supreme Court is the capacity to disagree with the President when you think that he's wrong or violating his duty.
00:13:45.000And then Trump, because he can't help himself, the problem is not that Trump attacks, the problem is Trump attacks like an idiot.
00:13:51.000So Trump then goes on Twitter, and he starts tweeting, Senator Richard Blumenthal, who never fought in Vietnam, when he said for years he had MAJOR LIE, now represents what Judge Gorsuch told him?
00:14:02.000Chris Cuomo, in his interview with Senator Blumenthal, never asked him about his long-term lie about his brave service in Vietnam.
00:14:19.000Second of all, when Trump goes after, he went after Chris Cuomo.
00:14:22.000Now listen, I'm normally fine with going after Chris Cuomo.
00:14:24.000I think Chris Cuomo has the IQ of a kumquat, but that doesn't change the fact that Chris Cuomo did actually ask Richard Blumenthal about the military service lie.
00:14:33.000In fact, that was the very first thing he asked him in the interview.
00:14:36.000So Trump is just making a fool of himself.
00:14:40.000If you want the policy to be good, and if you want the policy to be followed up by excellent rhetoric and verbiage, and if you don't want the policy undermined by stupidity, then you should be upset about this.
00:14:54.000And if he doesn't do better, he's going to be undermining his own cause.
00:14:57.000We're going to talk a little bit more about all of that, plus the sort of trust me mentality, and we're going to get to the mailbag.
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00:15:59.000So final note before we have to leave you on YouTube and Facebook.
00:16:05.000All of this is a problem for Trump, mainly because a lot of what Trump is doing now is reliant
00:16:11.000On the trust me phenomenon, the trust me philosophy, this idea that if we just trust him, it'll be okay.
00:16:16.000So Sean Spicer was basically confronted at the White House press conference with the fact that Matt Drudge was saying, what are you guys doing about Obamacare?
00:16:24.000Because the Republicans haven't touched Obamacare yet.
00:16:42.000It got jammed through, and it was very sweeping.
00:16:45.000We're talking about one-fifth of our economy.
00:16:48.000We can either do it quickly, as the Democrats did, and end up with a monstrosity, where premiums go up, access is limited, or we can do it right.
00:16:56.000And I think the president, while he wants to get this done as soon as possible and understand what's at stake, he wants to do it right.
00:17:02.000He understands how important health care is to American families and individuals.
00:17:06.000And so his goal is to get it done right and have an outcome that achieves the goals that it sets out to do.
00:17:14.000Okay, so all of that sounds fine, but it is really a lot of trust me.
00:17:19.000People are happy to trust Trump if they feel like he's in control.
00:17:21.000If he's doing silly things like fighting with his own Supreme Court pick, if he's doing silly things like using the White House in order to promote Ivanka's business, it makes it harder to do the trust me routine.
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