The Ben Shapiro Show - The Call Is Coming From Inside The House | Ep. 919

00:00:00.000 The Democrats move forward with the House impeachment vote, President Trump sends a wild letter to Nancy Pelosi, and Mitch McConnell plots his next steps.

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00:01:41.000 All right, so today is the day.

00:01:44.000 Today is the big historic... Oh, so everybody's very up for this impeachment thing.

00:01:53.000 Very exciting.

00:01:53.000 It's a historic day.

00:01:54.000 So much history making.

00:01:55.000 History, history, history.

00:01:57.000 Let me just explain something.

00:01:59.000 History will care.

00:02:02.000 I don't.

00:02:02.000 And the reason I don't is because it's like going to a movie where you already know the ending.

00:02:07.000 It's the most predictable movie in the world.

00:02:09.000 The Democrats are going to impeach.

00:02:10.000 The Republicans are going to acquit in the Senate.

00:02:12.000 It's not going to have any massive impact on the election.

00:02:14.000 Everything in the world is baked into this cake.

00:02:16.000 Old shoes, human feces, everything is in the cake.

00:02:19.000 And when it comes to 2020, the only factor that is not baked into the cake is who the Democrats will nominate.

00:02:24.000 We'll get to that a little bit later on in the show.

00:02:26.000 When it comes to Trump, everything is baked into the cake.

00:02:29.000 And I realized this morning, I was thinking about this with regard to how people view President Trump, because really how you view the impeachment is a referendum on how you view President Trump, and even more than President Trump, how you feel about the broader political situation in the United States.

00:02:43.000 I don't think that many people are actually looking at the charges in this case and reading the Democrats' 659-page report and then reading the Republicans' 200-page response and being like, well, after considering all of the transcripts and all of the facts, here's where I come down on the legal metal of this case, on the evidentiary burden.

00:03:00.000 Has it been met or has it not been met?

00:03:02.000 I don't think that most Americans are thinking that way.

00:03:03.000 I think most Americans are thinking to themselves, is this impeachment appropriate or is this impeachment not?

00:03:09.000 Are the people trying to impeach Trump politically motivated or are they motivated by just concern for the Constitution and preventing foreign countries from interfering in America's elections?

00:03:19.000 I feel like we've been speaking past each other for quite a while here.

00:03:23.000 And so there are a couple issues on which this is a referendum on Trump, and then there are a couple issues where this is a referendum on American politics as a whole.

00:03:30.000 And it's all wrapped up together in a ball, and that's what people's opinions on impeachment are.

00:03:34.000 But it comes down to this, I think.

00:03:37.000 Do you think that President Trump is a murderer or is he a coroner? 0.83

00:03:41.000 Is he a political murderer or is he a political coroner? 0.97

00:03:44.000 So if you are on the left, you look at President Trump and you say, look at this wild dude. 0.85

00:03:49.000 Look at this person.

00:03:50.000 He lies frequently.

00:03:51.000 He says things that are dishonest.

00:03:53.000 He breaks every rule of the presidency.

00:03:57.000 He says things out loud that should never be said.

00:03:59.000 He gets on phone calls and he just jabbers to the President of Ukraine about his political opponents.

00:04:03.000 He's the kind of guy who will say or do anything.

00:04:06.000 He'll insult people on Twitter.

00:04:08.000 He rips the media and then he degrades the view of people of the media because he sees them as his enemy.

00:04:14.000 He calls them the enemy of the people.

00:04:16.000 This is somebody who cannot be normalized.

00:04:18.000 And this is why you've heard Democrats say, and people in the media say, since literally the day he was elected, and really since the day he was nominated, we cannot accept this as the new normal.

00:04:26.000 We cannot accept this as the new normal.

00:04:28.000 In other words, Trump murdered all of these conventions, right?

00:04:30.000 There were all of these conventions.

00:04:32.000 That the media were trustworthy and Trump murdered it. 0.65

00:04:34.000 He took it out back with a pickaxe and buried it in the eye like Leon Trotsky.

00:04:39.000 That Trump has murdered civility.

00:04:40.000 Before this, we were a republic of comedy.

00:04:43.000 And you see this in the rewriting of Barack Obama's history by the media. 0.99

00:04:47.000 It has now been an accepted part of the media's history that Barack Obama was actually a politician of comedy and unity and spent his days trying to cut bipartisan deals, which for any of us who have a memory longer than that of the fish dory in Finding Nemo, We have recognized that that's a bunch of crap.

00:05:01.000 But for folks on the left, it's like, well, you know, Barack Obama, that was a man of honor and civility.

00:05:06.000 Civility!

00:05:08.000 I don't remember a lot of civility from Barack, but they do.

00:05:10.000 They do.

00:05:11.000 Don't you remember those days when there was a consensus that politics stopped at water's edge?

00:05:16.000 That you never militarized foreign policy on behalf of your own political viewpoint?

00:05:20.000 And now Donald Trump has wrecked that.

00:05:22.000 He's the murderer of that political consensus.

00:05:25.000 The idea that we were all in it together.

00:05:27.000 And it's true domestically too.

00:05:29.000 Trump has polarized us along domestic political lines.

00:05:31.000 Whereas once we were unified, it is Trump who has wrecked everything.

00:05:35.000 It is the view of the left and the view of the media.

00:05:37.000 When it comes to impeachment, they say, well, if we don't impeach now, then we've broken impeachment forever.

00:05:42.000 If we don't impeach now, then the very conventions of impeachment will have been destroyed for all time.

00:05:48.000 Trump will have murdered them.

00:05:49.000 It will just be another casualty of his evil. 1.00

00:05:52.000 So the view of the left is that Donald Trump is the political murderer.

00:05:55.000 That he is Michael Myers, and that he is stalking Jamie Lee Curtis, and that Jamie Lee Curtis is all that is good and right with the American Republic.

00:06:04.000 And then there is the view of the people who are, I would say, probably on the middle or on the right.

00:06:10.000 And that view is that Trump is not actually a political murderer.

00:06:13.000 Yes, he exacerbates a lot of the problems that the country has already been experiencing.

00:06:16.000 No, he's not militating against any of those. 0.96

00:06:19.000 But Trump is much more a coroner than he is a murderer.

00:06:23.000 That his election represents the recognition by the American people that all these things were already dead.

00:06:28.000 Trump came upon the still warm corpse of American politics, and then he declared it dead.

00:06:35.000 And so Democrats, seeing a man standing over the body, are going, oh, that guy probably killed him, right?

00:06:39.000 That guy's the murderer.

00:06:41.000 And Republicans, conservatives, independents, they're looking at Trump and they're going, nope, that body was dead.

00:06:48.000 And Trump didn't exactly, like, get down on his hands and knees and perform CPR on the guy, but he ain't the murderer, he's the coroner.

00:06:54.000 He's the person who came along and declared all of these things dead.

00:06:57.000 So the media, the media's credibility was gone.

00:07:00.000 It was already gone.

00:07:00.000 Newt Gingrich was attacking it in 2012 to wild acclaim.

00:07:03.000 The media had already made clear that they were nothing but sort of drool carriers for Barack Obama.

00:07:12.000 So Donald Trump coming along and ripping the media, that was nothing new.

00:07:14.000 That was just him declaring something dead that we all knew was dead.

00:07:18.000 Then when it comes to civility, Barack Obama was going around insulting everybody who didn't agree with him as a bitter clinger. 0.95

00:07:25.000 Joe Biden was going around saying that Mitt Romney was going to put black people back in chains, that he was an evil person who put dogs on top of his car and all of this. 0.86

00:07:33.000 It was interest groups in favor of Barack Obama, super PACs, running ads suggesting that Mitt Romney had fired people so their wives would get cancer and die.

00:07:42.000 So don't tell me that civility died because Donald Trump put a stake through its heart.

00:07:45.000 Donald Trump is the coroner.

00:07:46.000 He came along and he said, look, there's civility.

00:07:48.000 It's dead.

00:07:49.000 So I'm not gonna pretend it's alive.

00:07:51.000 No zombie civility here.

00:07:53.000 The same thing when it comes to this quote-unquote consensus.

00:07:56.000 There was no consensus on American foreign policy.

00:07:58.000 Politics did not stop at water's edge.

00:08:00.000 Most of us are old enough to remember when mainstream members of the left were suggesting that George W. Bush was a war criminal and should be tried in The Hague.

00:08:08.000 We remember when the Democrats were undermining the Iraq war.

00:08:13.000 We remember when the Democrats were pulling precipitously out of Iraq and leaving room for ISIS.

00:08:18.000 So let's not pretend that there was some sort of broad foreign policy consensus when Barack Obama and Ben Rhodes were lying to the faces of the American people about the supposed moderation of the regime in Iran.

00:08:28.000 We remember all of that.

00:08:29.000 And so Donald Trump came along and again acted as the coroner.

00:08:32.000 And he looks at time of death, 1120.

00:08:36.000 And he's just the coroner, he ain't the murderer.

00:08:38.000 And then finally, when it comes to impeachment, and that's today's news, people on the left are like, well, if we don't impeach over this, then we won't be able to impeach over anything.

00:08:48.000 And you know what?

00:08:49.000 There is truth to the notion that whenever Congress slides on its impeachable responsibilities, that the ability to impeach is degraded.

00:08:59.000 There's no question that that is true.

00:09:00.000 That the less you use a particular... Impeachment is like any other muscle of the political body politic.

00:09:06.000 The less you use it, the more it atrophies.

00:09:08.000 It's only been used four times in American history.

00:09:11.000 One of those times it ended in the resignation of President Nixon.

00:09:13.000 Somebody said to me today, somebody on the right said to me today, who's a fan of the impeachment effort, said to me, well, you know, if President Nixon were around today, he wouldn't be impeached, right?

00:09:21.000 He would stick around.

00:09:23.000 And the answer is that's probably true.

00:09:24.000 If President Nixon were in office today, if Watergate had happened, it's probably true that he would have stuck around.

00:09:29.000 It is also true that he was impeached for actual crimes.

00:09:33.000 This impeachment effort, to distinguish it and to be completely fair, this impeachment effort has no crimes attached to it, which is why the Democrats did not charge bribery, it's why they did not charge wire fraud, it is why they did not charge obstruction of justice.

00:09:43.000 Instead, they crafted these political crimes to avoid having to prove the element of an actual crime, so it's pretty obvious what they're trying to do here.

00:09:50.000 But, if you want to say that bad activity by the President of the United States is impeachable, Well, guess what?

00:09:56.000 Even there, President Trump is acting as a coroner.

00:09:58.000 He is not acting as the murderer.

00:10:00.000 So he's not making the problem any better.

00:10:02.000 He ain't reviving the honor and coherence of the presidency.

00:10:06.000 But I'm old enough to remember when Barack Obama's IRS was targeting conservatives, was finding keywords in IRS applications, and then nixing those IRS applications for nonprofit status if those nonprofits happened to be conservative.

00:10:19.000 I remember when that happened, and the Republicans didn't impeach him over it.

00:10:22.000 The fact is, impeachment was atrophied the moment that Bill Clinton was not thrown out of the White House.

00:10:28.000 The man obviously committed perjury and obstruction of justice.

00:10:31.000 He was not ousted.

00:10:32.000 At that point, the political body politic, it was atrophied.

00:10:35.000 And so for Democrats to come around now and be like, well, this is completely partisan.

00:10:38.000 Yeah, and it was completely partisan in 1998 when the Democrats decided that despite open crimes by the President of the United States, he was not going to be impeachable.

00:10:45.000 So Trump declared this thing dead.

00:10:47.000 Now on a broad level, on a broad level, should the president be impeached?

00:10:52.000 On a broad level, most presidents should probably have been impeached.

00:10:55.000 Or at least many presidents should have been impeached.

00:10:58.000 When Barack Obama was launching wars in Libya without the express permission of Congress, When Barack Obama was droning American citizens overseas.

00:11:08.000 And if you're on the left, when George W. Bush was exceeding his mandate with the war in Iraq, using the authorization to use military force for Afghanistan and Iraq.

00:11:18.000 All of these things in any sort of vacuum would appear as quote-unquote impeachable offenses.

00:11:23.000 But the fact is this.

00:11:24.000 Impeachment has been a dead letter for a long time.

00:11:26.000 Civility has been a dead letter for a long time.

00:11:28.000 Consensus has been a dead letter for a long time.

00:11:30.000 The media's credibility has been a dead letter for a long time.

00:11:34.000 And so this is why I think that Democrats look at Trump and they see every outrage as a new outrage, a fresh outrage, because they believe that none of this is true.

00:11:43.000 They believe that everything was hunky-dory under Barack Obama, that everything was wonderful and civil and delightful and cheerful and happy.

00:11:51.000 They pretend the Bush years didn't exist, that Bush was just one of those wild outliers.

00:11:54.000 It's weird how in the Democratic view every Republican is an outlier.

00:11:58.000 But the fact is that Donald Trump was the new normal before Donald Trump was the new normal.

00:12:01.000 Donald Trump was the coroner of America's politics.

00:12:05.000 He was not, in fact, the murderer of America's politics.

00:12:07.000 Now, that does raise the question as to how we rebuild an American politics in this arena with all of our institutions mistrusted.

00:12:14.000 And as I say, I don't think that Donald Trump is rebuilding those institutions.

00:12:17.000 I don't think that President Trump is restoring the integrity of the White House or the media.

00:12:21.000 I don't think that he's restoring civility.

00:12:23.000 I don't think he's restoring consensus.

00:12:25.000 I don't think he's doing a lot of those things.

00:12:27.000 But that does not mean that Donald Trump is the person who broke them.

00:12:31.000 He came upon the warm, but dead body of American politics.

00:12:35.000 And here is the proof of this.

00:12:37.000 The Democrats are about to nominate Bernie Sanders.

00:12:40.000 Can you imagine an election between Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders?

00:12:42.000 I mean, last time around, if you didn't think that was the death of American politics, Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton, one of the most widely despised, hated politicians of the last 30 years, against a man who arrived on the political scene five seconds ago and had the lowest approval ratings for any candidate in American history, I don't know what to tell you.

00:12:59.000 Our politics was broken before Trump.

00:13:00.000 Trump was just the person who made it obvious that the politics were broken.

00:13:03.000 And that's not impeachable.

00:13:05.000 You wanna put that up for an election?

00:13:07.000 In November?

00:13:08.000 You can do that.

00:13:09.000 But the real reason Democrats want to impeach Trump is because they want to assume that if it were not for Trump, the American body politic would be alive and well.

00:13:18.000 And that ain't the case.

00:13:19.000 That simply is not the case.

00:13:21.000 Okay, so today, the impeachment vote is happening.

00:13:24.000 The Democrats are going to impeach President Trump.

00:13:26.000 The media will declare this a historic moment, and then this thing will move on to the Senate.

00:13:32.000 It's not going to pay off for the Democrats, politically speaking.

00:13:35.000 It's going to be pretty ugly for the Democrats, actually, politically speaking.

00:13:38.000 Jim McGovern, Democrat of Massachusetts, Chairman of the House Rules Committee, he says, Guys, impeachment was broken quite a while ago.

00:13:42.000 security and using the federal government for his own selfish personal gain is not impeachable conduct, then Madam Speaker, I don't know what is.

00:13:50.000 Again, the Democrats speaking the language of if we don't impeach, then impeachment itself has been broken.

00:13:54.000 Guys, impeachment was broken quite a while ago.

00:13:56.000 Now, if you want to ask about whether you think this particular set of facts is impeachable, my answer for a long time has been no, because I don't think that you've actually fulfilled.

00:14:04.000 I don't think that you have actually fulfilled the standard here.

00:14:08.000 I'm I don't think that you have actually fulfilled the criminal standard necessary to drive bipartisan approval.

00:14:16.000 But with that said, again, impeachment's been broken for a very long time.

00:14:19.000 To say that this is what breaks the mold.

00:14:22.000 There's never going to be a legitimate impeachment again in American history, barring some sort of resurgent American unity.

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00:16:15.000 The Democrat narrative is that if we don't impeach over this, impeachment is broken.

00:16:19.000 The Republican narrative is you're cherry-picking the evidence.

00:16:21.000 Tom Cole of Oklahoma, the ranking Republican on the House Rules Committee, said the Democrats were being partisan and using cherry-picked evidence to fit their narrative.

00:16:27.000 He says, if we're really being honest, Democrats have been searching to impeach Trump since the day he was elected.

00:16:31.000 And that, of course, is true.

00:16:32.000 They've been looking to impeach Trump because they believe that Trump is the aberration.

00:16:37.000 The American body politic was healthy, and Trump murdered it.

00:16:40.000 And if we can withdraw Trump and withdraw the knife, everything goes back to normal.

00:16:43.000 There wasn't a normal.

00:16:44.000 There wasn't the normal in the first place.

00:16:46.000 And I think most Americans understand this, which is why the impeachment stuff is not going anywhere.

00:16:50.000 People feel like Democrats are partisan.

00:16:52.000 People feel like this has nothing to do with healing the body politic and everything to do with exacerbating the divides inside the body politic.

00:16:59.000 This is how the American people feel.

00:17:02.000 So, the way you can tell this most easily is the fact that Democrats are not even running ads on impeachment.

00:17:07.000 Republicans are.

00:17:08.000 Nick Corosaniti, writing for the New York Times.

00:17:10.000 For the past two months, television ads across central Virginia have sounded a lot like President Trump's Twitter feed.

00:17:15.000 A rigged process...

00:17:17.000 A sham impeachment.

00:17:18.000 No quid pro quo.

00:17:19.000 But Pelosi's witch hunt continues.

00:17:21.000 An ad from the Republican non-profit group America First Policies cried as images of Abigail Spanberger, who represents the region in Congress, flickered on screen.

00:17:27.000 Spanberger, of course, is a blue Democrat in a red district or purple district.

00:17:33.000 During the roughly two months the impeachment inquiry has been underway, Trump and his Republican allies have flooded the airwaves, spending more than $16.7 million on ads critical of the impeachment effort.

00:17:42.000 A vast majority of those ads attack House Democrats rather than defending the president, according to advertising analytics and ad tracking firm.

00:17:49.000 Democratic groups are not fighting back directly, are choosing to instead focus mainly on other issues like health care.

00:17:54.000 Which shows you what they think, right?

00:17:55.000 If they thought that a referendum on Trump would win them re-election, if they think that just shouting that Trump is going to skew the election unless you get out and vote is going to win the election for them, even they don't think that.

00:18:05.000 Instead, they're running ads on healthcare.

00:18:07.000 They're spending just $5.4 million on television ads specific to impeachment.

00:18:11.000 Instead, the most prominent democratically funded message on TV is Mike Bloomberg for president.

00:18:17.000 So the Democrats are not spending on pushing the impeachment effort.

00:18:20.000 Why?

00:18:20.000 Because they know the American people do not agree with them that Donald Trump, the elected president of the United States, remember 63 million people voted for him.

00:18:27.000 And right now he's favored in the polls to win reelection.

00:18:31.000 And according to the latest polls out, the only Democrat who's capable of beating him is Joe Biden.

00:18:35.000 And Biden is fading in the polls against Trump.

00:18:38.000 And he's lost ground to Trump over the past couple of months.

00:18:41.000 And so the American people are just not buying the argument that if you don't get rid of Trump, the American people will not be heard.

00:18:47.000 Now, Trump himself, and honestly, Trump himself makes the case for Democrats that he is out of the box, but the American people still see through that and they say, yeah, no, politics was out of the box.

00:18:59.000 You are just, this is just the latest episode in Arkham Asylum over here.

00:19:04.000 So President Trump has sent a letter to Nancy Pelosi.

00:19:08.000 It's something that his base enjoys because the letter is full on Trump.

00:19:12.000 I mean, it's Trumpy, Trumpy, Trumpy.

00:19:14.000 It's something that the middle of the country kind of shrugs at because they figure, okay, well, independents are like, yeah, that's Trump.

00:19:20.000 That's my Trump.

00:19:20.000 Like, we know him.

00:19:21.000 We got it.

00:19:22.000 And Democrats are infuriated by it. 0.92

00:19:24.000 Because again, to Democrats, he's the murderer.

00:19:26.000 He is not the coroner.

00:19:27.000 His very presence is the knife wound in the body.

00:19:31.000 As opposed to everybody else is like, yeah, no, he, you know, he's just a symptom.

00:19:35.000 He ain't the cancer.

00:19:36.000 He's the symptom.

00:19:38.000 Right?

00:19:38.000 Just like most other things in American politics are symptoms of a broader ill.

00:19:43.000 So here is President Trump's letter to Nancy Pelosi, and it is wild, okay?

00:19:46.000 It's a wild letter.

00:19:47.000 It makes some points.

00:19:49.000 It is colorful.

00:19:50.000 And it is just an indicator that if the American people want to get rid of this guy, guess what?

00:19:55.000 A year from now, 11 months from now, they will have every opportunity to do so, and the Democrats don't want to give you the opportunity to do so.

00:20:01.000 They get to make their case that Trump should not be the new normal.

00:20:04.000 They get to make their case that Trump is everything wrong with the body politic.

00:20:07.000 And you may not buy that case, and that's what they're afraid of.

00:20:11.000 Because here's the thing.

00:20:12.000 Democrats... I asked this to Bill Maher once.

00:20:14.000 We were talking about the Russia-Trump stuff.

00:20:17.000 And I said at the time, I don't think there's evidence that Donald Trump worked with the Russians to skew the 2016 election.

00:20:23.000 And Maher was like, really, you don't?

00:20:26.000 It was on Realtime.

00:20:27.000 It was about two years ago, maybe.

00:20:29.000 I said, I don't think there's evidence for that.

00:20:31.000 And if evidence does emerge, then I will rethink my position.

00:20:33.000 But I don't think the evidence is there for that.

00:20:35.000 And he's like, really, you don't think that? 1.00

00:20:37.000 And at the same time, he was maintaining that Trump was an idiot. 1.00

00:20:39.000 I said, well, you're going to have to pick. 1.00

00:20:40.000 Either he's an idiot, or he's a mastermind, or he's a criminal mastermind. 1.00

00:20:43.000 Which is it? 1.00

00:20:44.000 Well, Democrats are sort of stuck in the same position with regard to this Trump-Ukraine stuff.

00:20:48.000 On the one hand, he's a criminal mastermind, deviously seeking to skew the results of the 2020 election by using a Ukrainian foreign policy to interfere with American politics. 1.00

00:20:59.000 On the other hand, he's a dundering moron who stumbles from place to place. 1.00

00:21:03.000 Now, the reality is Trump is just Trump. 1.00

00:21:06.000 He's a set of responses to stimuli.

00:21:10.000 Donald Trump is a galvanized frog of politics.

00:21:13.000 And sometimes it's great.

00:21:15.000 He's a contained nuclear facility.

00:21:17.000 Every so often the nuclear facility becomes uncontained and you have run over.

00:21:23.000 Every so often, you have a near meltdown.

00:21:26.000 But the fact is that the walls of American constitutional systems are very thick.

00:21:30.000 Those cement walls are very thick.

00:21:31.000 They basically contain him.

00:21:33.000 And so, when we get glimpses of the nuclear power underneath, it's like, oh man.

00:21:38.000 But, do we feel that he's basically contained?

00:21:40.000 I think the American people basically feel this is contained.

00:21:43.000 Now, whenever he issues these letters, people on the left are like, this is why he should be impeached.

00:21:47.000 And guess what?

00:21:47.000 Because you think he should be impeached over this letter, this is why we don't trust you.

00:21:51.000 Really, because this letter ain't impeachable.

00:21:53.000 Now, you've seen Democrats being like, this is the very reason why Donald Trump should be impeached.

00:21:58.000 The letter is basically just a six-page long restatement of his main thesis, which is that the impeachment is a disgrace, something that he said yesterday in a press conference.

00:22:05.000 Here's President Trump explaining that the vote itself is a disgrace.

00:22:08.000 To impeach the President of the United States for that is a disgrace and it's a mark on our country.

00:22:14.000 And I'll tell you what, other presidents in the future, unless they do something about this, other presidents are going to have to live with this.

00:22:22.000 And every time they do something that's a little bit unpopular, a little bit strong, even if they're 100% right, because I've done a great job.

00:22:30.000 Okay, so Trump then sends a letter to this effect and Nancy Pelosi's response to the letter is that the letter is sick and just another reason why he should be impeached.

00:22:38.000 Okay, well that is a referendum again on is he the murderer or is he the coroner?

00:22:42.000 The letter to her is evidence that he's the murderer.

00:22:44.000 The response from the American people basically has been, nope, you were part of this, Nancy.

00:22:48.000 You've been here for years.

00:22:49.000 Donald Trump's been here for like three years. 0.94

00:22:51.000 You were one of the murderers of American politics. 0.69

00:22:54.000 We were there. 0.85

00:22:55.000 We remember.

00:22:56.000 Here's Nancy Pelosi calling the letter sick. 0.99

00:22:58.000 No reaction. 0.99

00:22:59.000 It's ridiculous. 0.98

00:23:01.000 You have no reaction? 0.99

00:23:02.000 Why not?

00:23:03.000 No, I mean, I haven't really fully read it.

00:23:05.000 We've been working.

00:23:06.000 I've seen the essence of it, though, and it's really sick.

00:23:10.000 It's really sick, guys.

00:23:11.000 It's sick.

00:23:12.000 And every Republican goes, yeah, you know what's sick?

00:23:15.000 You leaping to an impeachment inquiry without evidence of an actual crime.

00:23:20.000 That's what's really sick.

00:23:21.000 In just a second, we'll get to the actual text of President Trump's Last, his pre-impeachment letter, the last letter that he will write as a non-impeached president in the House.

00:23:31.000 We'll get to that in one second because it is entertaining.

00:23:34.000 It is all you have come to expect from President Trump.

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00:25:15.000 Okay, so, here is Donald Trump's incredible, wild letter to Nancy Pelosi.

00:25:21.000 All of the good, all of the bad, wrapped up into a ball from the President of the United States.

00:25:25.000 So, Here he is.

00:25:26.000 Dear Madam Speaker, I write to express my strongest and most powerful protest against the partisan impeachment crusade being pursued by the Democrats in the House of Representatives.

00:25:35.000 This impeachment represents an unprecedented and unconstitutional abuse of power by Democrat lawmakers unequaled in nearly two and a half centuries of American legislative history.

00:25:44.000 Hey, now you know that Trump is writing this because he is capitalizing bizarre words.

00:25:47.000 So Democrat and like lawmakers is capitalized.

00:25:50.000 For no reason.

00:25:51.000 Not really sure why.

00:25:53.000 To be fair, it is not an unconstitutional abuse of power.

00:25:55.000 He couldn't appeal his impeachment.

00:25:58.000 The articles of impeachment introduced by the House Judiciary Committee are not recognizable under any standard of constitutional theory, interpretation, or jurisprudence.

00:26:06.000 They include no crimes, no misdemeanors, and no offenses whatsoever.

00:26:09.000 You have cheapened the importance of the very ugly word impeachment.

00:26:13.000 This happens to be true.

00:26:15.000 They do not include a crime, and this is a point that I have made.

00:26:18.000 Yes, it is true that if Richard Nixon came up for impeachment today, probably he would not be impeached.

00:26:22.000 It is also true that at least that impeachment effort had crimes attached to it.

00:26:26.000 The same thing happened to be true with Bill Clinton, who had perjury and obstruction of justice attached to it.

00:26:30.000 The Democrats specifically crafted these charges to avoid including criminal conduct.

00:26:35.000 They said abuse of power, which is not a crime, And obstruction of Congress, which is not a crime.

00:26:42.000 The second charge, by the way, obstruction of Congress is so unbelievably weak because again, all they had to do was wait for a judiciary to force Trump's officials to turn over documents.

00:26:52.000 Trump would have done it.

00:26:52.000 And then there's no obstruction of justice.

00:26:55.000 And so that is just, it's an utter outright lie.

00:26:57.000 And he's correct when he says that these charges include no crimes.

00:27:01.000 Trump continues, by proceeding with your invalid impeachment, you are violating your oaths of office.

00:27:05.000 You are breaking your allegiance to the Constitution, and you are declaring open war on American democracy.

00:27:10.000 And, you know, this last statement that they're declaring open war on American democracy, listen, they're using constitutional means.

00:27:16.000 But I think that the vast majority of the American people, in the end, if given the choice between impeachment and we get to vote on this guy in 2020, I'm like, let's vote on the guy.

00:27:25.000 The Democrats are treating this as though this is the final referendum on Trump, which is a bizarre take, by the way.

00:27:29.000 They keep saying over and over, if Trump isn't impeached, well, then he could cheat and steal the election.

00:27:34.000 And so now you are delegitimizing every election from here on in.

00:27:38.000 Which Democrats have been wont to do in 2016 with Stacey Abrams in Georgia in 2018.

00:27:43.000 Trump says, you dare to invoke the Founding Fathers in pursuit of this election nullification scheme, yet your spiteful actions display unfettered contempt for America's founding and your egregious conduct threatens to destroy that which our founders pledged their very lives to build.

00:27:55.000 I'm not going to say that every sentence here was written by Trump.

00:27:57.000 He says, even worse than offending the Founding Fathers, you are offending Americans of faith by continually saying, I pray for the president, when you know this statement is not true, unless it is meant in a negative sense.

00:28:07.000 It is a terrible thing you are doing, but you will have to live with it.

00:28:09.000 Not I!

00:28:10.000 Not I!

00:28:13.000 At this point, I've slipped from mild consternation to enjoyment.

00:28:17.000 Because if we're going to have a circus, bring out the elephants, man.

00:28:20.000 I want to see the clowns.

00:28:21.000 I want to see the bearded lady. 0.81

00:28:22.000 I want to see the acrobats.

00:28:24.000 I want to see the whole thing.

00:28:25.000 I'm going to break out this popcorn right now.

00:28:26.000 Because, let's be real, I've not been entertained by this impeachment.

00:28:29.000 And I've been rooting for entertainment.

00:28:31.000 Because when all hope is lost, at least we can all enjoy the entertainment, correct?

00:28:34.000 But the fact is, It has not been enjoyable because you know the end of the movie.

00:28:38.000 So, if we can at least have some pyrotechnics, that's good.

00:28:40.000 And Trump is here to provide the pyrotechnics.

00:28:42.000 He says, Your first claim, abuse of power, is a completely disingenuous, meritless, and baseless invention of your imagination.

00:28:48.000 You know that I had a totally innocent conversation with the President of Ukraine.

00:28:51.000 I then had a second conversation that has been misquoted, mischaracterized, and fraudulently misrepresented.

00:28:56.000 Fortunately, there was a transcript of the conversation taken, and you know from the transcript, which was made immediately made available, well, it was made available upon This becoming a national issue.

00:29:06.000 That the paragraph in question was perfect!

00:29:10.000 I said to President Zelensky, I would like you to do us a favor, though, because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it.

00:29:15.000 Okay, here, this is true.

00:29:17.000 Democrats keep saying that Trump said to Zelensky, do me a favor.

00:29:20.000 It's not true.

00:29:20.000 He said, do us a favor.

00:29:21.000 He said, do America a favor.

00:29:23.000 And this has been my claim since the beginning, is that Trump perceived his interest to be America's interest.

00:29:28.000 And he was concerned, not about 2020, but about 2016, because Trump is very much concerned about his vindictive 2016 concerns.

00:29:36.000 The Democrats spent two years investigating 2016 and whether it had been skewed.

00:29:40.000 It does not seem out of the realm of possibility that the American people have a right to know what happened in 2016 up to and including what happened in Ukraine.

00:29:47.000 Now, was that founded on serious grounds by Rudy Giuliani?

00:29:51.000 We don't know yet.

00:29:52.000 I have serious doubts that it was.

00:29:53.000 But for the president to believe a batch of false information presented by Rudy Giuliani and then to ask the Ukrainians to investigate that false information, believing it to be suspicious or true about the 2016 election is not a high crime.

00:30:07.000 It is not a misdemeanor.

00:30:09.000 It really isn't even doing anything wrong.

00:30:10.000 The only thing that it's doing wrong is believing your personal attorney who has very little credibility on matters Ukraine-related.

00:30:20.000 It's believing what is beneficial for you to believe.

00:30:21.000 That's why I've said, you know, if Democrats were smart, they would have gone for censure here, not impeachment.

00:30:27.000 By going for impeachment, they've basically unified the Republican Party.

00:30:30.000 We'll get to more of President Trump's very pyrotechnic letter in just one moment.

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00:31:43.000 Okay, we're gonna get back to President Trump's letter and to Mitch McConnell's response in the Senate to where all of this is going.

00:31:49.000 Everything impeachment related coming up first.

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00:32:40.000 Okay, so President Trump continues with this letter to Nancy Pelosi that leads up to the impeachment vote today.

00:32:51.000 He says that in this call with Zelensky, I mentioned the Attorney General of the United States.

00:32:56.000 Every time I talk with a foreign leader, I put America's interests first, just as I did with President Zelensky.

00:33:00.000 You're turning a policy disagreement between two branches of government into an impeachable offense.

00:33:05.000 It is no more legitimate than the executive branch charging members of Congress with crimes for the lawful exercise of legislative power.

00:33:11.000 Now, here, Trump is actually making a pretty good point, right?

00:33:14.000 The point that he is making is that Democrats keep complaining that they think that his Ukraine policy was flawed.

00:33:19.000 Well, guess what?

00:33:19.000 I think his Ukraine policy was flawed.

00:33:21.000 But he was elected.

00:33:22.000 I was not.

00:33:23.000 The Democrats in Congress do not get to control Ukraine policy, at least insofar as President Trump going through the motions of military aid, President Trump meeting with foreign leaders, he's the commander-in-chief, he does have Extraordinary power on the foreign policy front.

00:33:37.000 And just because you disagree with him, and just because Maria Bonovitch disagrees with him, and just because Gordon Sondland disagrees with him, and just because Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman disagrees with him, that does not make it a criminal impeachable offense.

00:33:50.000 Trump continues with regard to Biden.

00:33:51.000 He says, you know full well that Vice President Biden used his office and $1 billion of U.S.

00:33:55.000 aid money to coerce Ukraine into firing the prosecutor who is digging into the company paying his son millions of dollars.

00:34:01.000 You know this because Biden bragged about it on video.

00:34:03.000 Biden openly stated, quote, I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting the billion dollars.

00:34:07.000 I looked at them and said, I'm leaving in six hours.

00:34:09.000 If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money. 1.00

00:34:11.000 Well, son of a bitch, he got fired. 0.99

00:34:13.000 Even Joe Biden admitted just days ago in an interview with NPR that it looked bad. 1.00

00:34:17.000 Now you're trying to impeach me by falsely accusing me of doing what Joe Biden has admitted he actually did.

00:34:23.000 Again, that's probably an over-read of what Biden is admitting to. 0.98

00:34:26.000 There's suspicion by Republicans that Joe Biden was militating against a prosecutor who was looking into Burisma, which had hired his son Hunter for $50,000 a month to be on its board of directors, which is an extraordinary amount of money for a useless, incompetent buffoon. 0.94

00:34:40.000 But with that said, Biden wouldn't admit to that, but Trump was suspicious of that. 0.82

00:34:44.000 Is that completely wrong?

00:34:46.000 Hard to see why.

00:34:47.000 President Zelensky has repeatedly declared I did nothing wrong, and that there was no pressure.

00:34:52.000 He further emphasized that it was a good phone call, that I don't feel pressure, and explicitly stressed that nobody pushed me.

00:34:56.000 The Ukrainian foreign minister stated very clearly, I've never seen a direct link between investigations and security assistance.

00:35:02.000 He also said there was no pressure.

00:35:03.000 Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, A supporter of Ukraine who met privately with President Zelensky has said, at no time during this meeting was there any mention by Zelensky or any Ukrainian that they were feeling pressured to do anything in return for the military aid.

00:35:16.000 Many meetings have been held between representatives of Ukraine and our country.

00:35:19.000 Never once did Ukraine complain about pressure being applied.

00:35:21.000 Not once.

00:35:22.000 Ambassador Sullivan testified that I told him, no quid pro quo, I want nothing, I want nothing, I want Zelensky to do the right thing, do what he ran on.

00:35:31.000 Okay, well, that is certainly what Trump told Sondland.

00:35:34.000 Sondland then testified that he thought there was a quid pro quo, but that's exactly the point, is that there isn't enough for impeachment, even if you are suspicious that Trump is not telling the truth here.

00:35:42.000 The second claim, so-called obstruction of Congress, is preposterous and dangerous.

00:35:46.000 House Democrats, says Trump, are trying to impeach the duly elected president of the United States for asserting constitutionally based privileges that have been asserted on a bipartisan basis by administrations of both political parties throughout our nation's history.

00:35:57.000 So as I say, I don't think Trump wrote this whole letter.

00:35:59.000 There are parts of this that are actually quite true and quite good and well spoken.

00:36:02.000 Because under that standard, every American president would have been impeached many times over.

00:36:06.000 As liberal law professor Jonathan Turley warned when addressing congressional Democrats, quote, I can't emphasize this enough.

00:36:12.000 If you impeach a president, if you make a high crime and misdemeanor out of going to the courts, it's an abuse of power.

00:36:16.000 It's your abuse of power.

00:36:17.000 You're doing precisely what you're criticizing the president for doing.

00:36:21.000 And here's where we get very Trumpy.

00:36:22.000 Okay, so now he's made his legal points.

00:36:24.000 And here we get the full Trump.

00:36:26.000 Yeah, man.

00:36:27.000 He says everyone you know, everyone, you included, knows what is really happening.

00:36:32.000 Your chosen candidate lost the election in 2016 in an Electoral College landslide, 306 to 227.

00:36:39.000 He actually won 304 to 227, but no problem.

00:36:42.000 And you and your party have never recovered from this defeat.

00:36:45.000 You have developed a full-fledged case of what many in the media call Trump Derangement Syndrome, and sadly, you will never get over it.

00:36:51.000 You are unwilling and unable to accept the verdict issued at the ballot box during the great election of 2016.

00:36:58.000 So you have spent three straight years attempting to overturn the will of the American people and nullify their votes.

00:37:03.000 You view democracy as your enemy.

00:37:06.000 Speaker Pelosi, you admitted just last week in a public forum that your party's impeachment effort has been going on for two and a half years, long before you ever heard about a phone call with Ukraine.

00:37:15.000 Nineteen minutes after I took the oath of office, the Washington Post published a story headline, the campaign to impeach President Trump has begun.

00:37:22.000 Less than three months after my inauguration, Representative Maxine Waters stated, I'm going to fight every day until he's impeached.

00:37:27.000 House Democrats introduced the first impeachment resolution against me within months of my inauguration.

00:37:33.000 For what will be regarded as one of our country's best decisions, the firing of James Comey.

00:37:37.000 See Inspector General Reports.

00:37:39.000 Who the world now knows is one of the dirtiest cops our nation has ever seen. 0.88

00:37:43.000 By the way, Comey was wildly incompetent.

00:37:45.000 Should have been fired by the Obama administration, actually. 0.77

00:37:48.000 A ranting and raving congresswoman, Rashida Tlaib, declared just hours after she was sworn into office, we're going to go in there and we're going to impeach the mother effer. 1.00

00:37:55.000 Representative Al Green said in May, I'm concerned that if we don't impeach this president, he will get reelected.

00:37:59.000 Again, you and your allies said and did all of these things long before ever you heard of President Zelensky or anything related to Ukraine.

00:38:07.000 See, here's the thing about Trump, right?

00:38:09.000 And this is what you're getting from the letter.

00:38:10.000 A lot of what he's saying is absolutely true.

00:38:12.000 And thus, the referendum on Trump is really a referendum on broader American politics and the belief that the Democrats are not going after Trump on solid grounds, that this is just the latest hook upon which they are hanging their hat.

00:38:24.000 And Trump is putting his finger there.

00:38:26.000 And he is correct about that.

00:38:28.000 He's doing it in colorful fashion, but he's right.

00:38:29.000 He says, as you know very well, this impeachment drive has nothing to do with Ukraine or the totally appropriate conversation I had with its new president.

00:38:36.000 It only has to do with your attempt to undo the election of 2016 and steal the election of 2020.

00:38:42.000 Congressman Adam Schiff cheated and lied all the way up to the present day, even going so far as to fraudulently make up out of thin air my conversation with President Zelensky of Ukraine and read this fantasy language to Congress as though it were said by me.

00:38:53.000 And he is specifically referring to this incident where Adam Schiff Basically did make up a conversation about how Trump was shaking down Ukraine instead of just reading the transcript.

00:39:04.000 His shameless lies and deceptions dating all the way back to the Russia hoax is one of the main reasons we are here today.

00:39:08.000 You and your party, says Trump, are desperate to distract from America's extraordinary economy, incredible jobs boom, record stock market, soaring confidence, and flourishing citizens.

00:39:16.000 By the way, this is Trump's entire 2020 ad campaign and it's gonna work.

00:39:19.000 He says your party simply cannot compete with our record 7 million new jobs.

00:39:23.000 The lowest ever unemployment for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans, a rebuilt military, a completely reformed VA with choice and accountability for our great veterans, more than 170 new federal judges and two Supreme Court justices, historic tax and regulation cuts, the elimination of the individual mandate, the first decline in prescription drug prices in half a century, the first new branch of the U.S.

00:39:42.000 military since 1947, the Space Force, strong protection of the Second Amendment, criminal justice reform, a defeated ISIS caliphate, the killing of the world's number one terrorist leader, al-Baghdadi, The replacement of the disastrous NAFTA trade deal with the wonderful USMCA, which is definitely an exaggeration.

00:39:58.000 I mean, NAFTA was not disastrous, and also USMCA mostly mirrors NAFTA.

00:40:03.000 A breakthrough phase one trade deal with China, massive new trade deals with Japan and South Korea, Withdrawal from the terrible Iran nuclear deal, cancellation of the unfair and costly Paris climate accords, becoming the world's top energy producer, recognition of Israel's capital, opening the American embassy in Jerusalem, and recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, a colossal reduction in illegal border crossings, the ending of catch and release, and the building of the southern border wall.

00:40:24.000 And that is just the beginning.

00:40:25.000 There is so much more.

00:40:26.000 You cannot defend your extreme policies.

00:40:28.000 Open borders, mass migration, high crime, crippling taxes, socialized healthcare, destruction of American energy, late-term taxpayer-funded abortion, elimination of the Second Amendment, radical far-left theories of law and justice, and constant partisan obstruction of both common sense and common good.

00:40:41.000 This paragraph is Trump's re-election campaign in a nutshell, and it is very likely to work.

00:40:46.000 Because it is simply true that Trump's record on the actual issues has been pretty good for Americans.

00:40:54.000 In the end, that is true. 0.80

00:40:55.000 And Democrats are hoping that this election becomes a referendum on Trump.

00:40:59.000 By making this impeachment effort, it starts to become an election referendum on Democrats.

00:41:04.000 And who's the candidate who can avoid that?

00:41:06.000 Who's the candidate on the Democratic side who can avoid this thing becoming a referendum on the Democrats' own extremism and their willingness to push impeachment above political priorities?

00:41:15.000 Who can do that?

00:41:16.000 Bernie?

00:41:18.000 Bernie right now is leading in New Hampshire.

00:41:20.000 He may be leading in Iowa.

00:41:22.000 There are not enough polls in Nevada, no.

00:41:24.000 Bernie is in solid shape to at least be competitive for the Democratic nomination.

00:41:29.000 Joe Biden is durable, but he ain't blowing anybody away in that nomination race.

00:41:34.000 So that's a weak field.

00:41:35.000 And Trump knows it.

00:41:36.000 And he's putting his finger on it.

00:41:37.000 Trump says, there is nothing I would rather do than stop referring to your party as the do-nothing Democrats.

00:41:41.000 Unfortunately, I don't know you'll ever give me a chance to do so.

00:41:44.000 After three years of unfair and unwarranted investigations, $45 million spent, 18 angry Democrat prosecutors, the entire force of the FBI headed by leadership now proven to be totally incompetent and corrupt.

00:41:54.000 You have found nothing.

00:41:55.000 Few people in high position could have endured or passed this test.

00:41:59.000 You do not know, nor do you care, the great damage it hurt.

00:42:01.000 You have inflicted upon wonderful and loving members of my family, says Trump.

00:42:04.000 You conducted a fake investigation upon the democratically elected President of the United States, and you are doing it yet again.

00:42:11.000 There are not yet many people who would have taken the punishment inflicted during this period of time and yet done so, so much for the success of America and its citizens.

00:42:18.000 Now you can tell that sentence is written by Trump because it's, it's, it's, his arm is barely long enough to pat himself on the back there.

00:42:23.000 So instead of putting our country first, you have decided to disgrace our country still further.

00:42:27.000 You completely failed with the Mueller report because there was nothing to find.

00:42:30.000 So you decided to take the next hoax that came along, the phone call with Ukraine, even though it was a perfect call. 1.00

00:42:34.000 And by the way, when I speak to foreign countries, there are many people with permission listening to the call on both sides of the conversation.

00:42:39.000 You are the ones interfering in America's elections.

00:42:41.000 You are the ones subverting America's democracy.

00:42:43.000 You are the ones obstructing justice.

00:42:45.000 You are the ones bringing pain and suffering to our republic for your own personal, selfish, political, and partisan gain.

00:42:50.000 Before the impeachment hoax, it was the Russian witch hunt, against all evidence, and regardless of the truth, you and your deputies claimed that my campaign colluded with the Russians, a grave, malicious, slanderous lie, a falsehood like no other.

00:43:01.000 Now, listen, I get enjoyment from the fact that President Trump has these sort of key phrases that he comes back to, like no other.

00:43:08.000 It's, there is a tsunami like no, a hurricane like no other.

00:43:12.000 Because you can sort of see Trump just reading this out loud before a fire, a sort of soft fire going in the background.

00:43:19.000 He's got that Christmas log out, just reading this out loud.

00:43:22.000 You forced our nation through turmoil and torment over a wholly fabricated story, illegally purchased from a foreign spy by Hillary Clinton and the DNC in order to assault our democracy.

00:43:31.000 Yet, when the monstrous lie was debunked, and this Democrat conspiracy dissolved into dust, you did not apologize, you did not recant, you did not ask to be forgiven.

00:43:38.000 You showed no remorse, no capacity for self-reflection.

00:43:41.000 Instead, says Trump, you pursued your next libelous and vicious crusade.

00:43:44.000 You engineered an attempt to frame and defame an innocent person.

00:43:47.000 All of this was motivated by personal political calculation.

00:43:49.000 Your speakership and your party are held hostage by your most deranged and radical representatives of the far left.

00:43:55.000 Each one of your members lives in fear of a socialist primary challenger.

00:43:59.000 This is what is driving impeachment.

00:44:01.000 Look at Congressman Nadler's challenger.

00:44:03.000 Look at yourself and others.

00:44:04.000 Do not take our country down with your party.

00:44:05.000 If you truly cared about freedom and liberty for our nation, says Trump, you would be devoting your vast investigative resources to exposing the full truth concerning the FBI's horrifying abuses of power during and after the 2016 election, including the use of spies against my campaign, the submission of false evidence to a FISA court, the concealment of exculpatory evidence in order to frame the innocent. 0.63

00:44:24.000 The FBI has a great and honorable people, but the leadership was inept and corrupt.

00:44:27.000 I would think that you would be personally appalled by these revelations, because in your press conference, the day you announced impeachment, you tied the impeachment effort directly to the completely discredited Russia hoax, declaring twice that all roads led to Putin, when you know that as an abject lie, I've been far tougher on Russia than President Obama ever even thought to be.

00:44:42.000 That part's true.

00:44:43.000 He says, any member of Congress who votes support of impeachment against every shred of truth, fact, evidence, and legal principle is showing how deeply they revile the voters and how truly they detest America's constitutional order.

00:44:53.000 Our founders feared the tribalization of partisan politics, who are bringing their worst fears to life.

00:44:58.000 And here is where President Trump goes the full Trump.

00:45:01.000 He says, worse still, I've been deprived of basic constitutional due process from the beginning of this impeachment scam right up to the present.

00:45:07.000 I have been denied the most fundamental rights afforded by the Constitution, including the right to present evidence, to have my own counsel present, to confront accusers, to call and cross-examine witnesses.

00:45:16.000 Now, again, he does have the ability to do all of that in a Senate trial, which he probably will forego.

00:45:21.000 That's not so true.

00:45:22.000 So-called whistleblower who started this entire hoax with a false report of the phone call that bears no relationship to the actual phone call that was made.

00:45:27.000 That's not so true.

00:45:29.000 The whistleblower's report on the phone call was basically accurate.

00:45:32.000 He says, once I presented the transcribed call, which surprised and shocked the fraudsters.

00:45:35.000 They never thought that such evidence would be presented.

00:45:37.000 The so-called whistleblower and the second whistleblower disappeared because they got caught.

00:45:42.000 The report was a fraud.

00:45:43.000 They were no longer going to be made available to us.

00:45:45.000 In other words, once the phone call was made public, your whole plot blew up, but that didn't stop you from continuing.

00:45:49.000 More due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials.

00:45:54.000 Well... Well, not that... Well... I mean... They did, like, hang.

00:46:07.000 20 women as witches in the Salem witch trials.

00:46:10.000 And the due process involves some tests that weren't exactly like super due processing.

00:46:16.000 So...

00:46:18.000 No.

00:46:19.000 You and others on your committees have long said impeachment must be bipartisan.

00:46:21.000 It is not.

00:46:22.000 You said it was very divisive.

00:46:23.000 It certainly is.

00:46:24.000 Even far more than you ever thought possible.

00:46:26.000 It will only get worse.

00:46:27.000 There is nothing more.

00:46:27.000 This is nothing more than an illegal partisan coup that will, based on recent sentiment, badly fail at the voting booth, says Trump.

00:46:33.000 You are not just after me as president.

00:46:35.000 You're after the entire Republican Party.

00:46:37.000 This is the part where Trump is now he's back on track, right?

00:46:39.000 He says, because of this colossal injustice, our party is more united than it has ever been. 0.51

00:46:43.000 Because again, people see this not just as a referendum on Trump, but as a referendum on the state of American politics and as a referendum on the Democrats who are happy to say the same crap about Trump that they said about Mitt Romney on a wide variety of other issues.

00:46:56.000 History will judge you harshly as you proceed with this impeachment charade.

00:46:59.000 Your legacy will be that of turning the House of Representatives from a revered legislative body into a star chamber of partisan persecution.

00:47:06.000 Perhaps most insulting of all is your false delay of solemnity.

00:47:09.000 Now this part, this may be the best part of the letter.

00:47:10.000 He says you apparently have so little respect for the American people that you expect them to believe you are approaching this impeachment somberly, reservedly, and reluctantly.

00:47:17.000 No intelligent person believes what you are saying.

00:47:20.000 Fact check.

00:47:21.000 True.

00:47:21.000 Since the moment I won the election, the Democratic Party has been possessed by impeachment fever.

00:47:25.000 There is no reticence.

00:47:26.000 This is not a somber affair.

00:47:27.000 You're making a mockery of impeachment.

00:47:29.000 You're scarcely concealing your hatred of me, of the Republican Party, and tens of millions of patriotic Americans.

00:47:34.000 The voters are wise.

00:47:35.000 They are seeing straight through this empty, hollow, dangerous game you're playing.

00:47:38.000 I have no doubt the American people will hold you and the Democrats fully responsible in the upcoming 2020 election.

00:47:43.000 They will not soon forgive your perversion of justice and abuse of power.

00:47:46.000 And Trump concludes, There is far too much that needs to be done to improve the lives of our citizens.

00:47:50.000 It is time for you and the highly partisan Democrats in Congress to immediately cease this impeachment fantasy and get back to work for the American people.

00:47:57.000 While I have no expectation that you will do so, I write this letter to you for the purpose of history and to put my thoughts on a permanent and indelible record.

00:48:03.000 100 years from now, when people look back at this affair, I want them to understand it and learn from it so it can never happen to another president again.

00:48:10.000 Sincerely yours, Donald J. Trump, President of the United States.

00:48:14.000 So, there you have President Trump's final signing-off missive as the House of Representatives votes to impeach him.

00:48:21.000 Okay, well, I promise you we have like two hours of additional commentary on this later on the radio show, so I should subscribe because as things develop over the course of the day, we'll be updating, we'll get to Mitch McConnell's plans and all the rest, but I thought that since this is going to be what goes down in the history books, the vote and Trump's letter, you ought to have heard Trump's final thoughts before the actual impeachment happens.

00:48:40.000 Okay, time for A quick thing that I like, and then a quick thing that I hate.

00:48:45.000 So, quick thing that I like.

00:48:47.000 I may as well make an impeachment-related thing that I like.

00:48:49.000 I'm amused by the Democrats in the Senate trying to proclaim that Mitch McConnell is the real holdup here.

00:48:57.000 Again, the members of the House of Representatives had the ability to call all of these witnesses.

00:49:00.000 They had the ability to call Mick Mulvaney.

00:49:02.000 They had the ability to call Mike Pompeo.

00:49:04.000 They had the ability to call Mike Pence.

00:49:05.000 They had the ability to call John Bolton.

00:49:07.000 They had the ability to do all these things.

00:49:08.000 All they had to do was simply wait for the judiciary to adjudicate all of this.

00:49:13.000 Instead, they didn't.

00:49:14.000 They rushed ahead because they knew they didn't have the goods, so you may as well move this thing fast.

00:49:17.000 Chuck Schumer now is trying to put this all in Mitch McConnell's lap.

00:49:20.000 He says McConnell wants to use the Senate to help Trump with his cover-up. 0.98

00:49:24.000 Okay, well, Democrats did a crap job with their investigation, and now they're looking for McConnell to clean up their diarrhea. 0.98

00:49:29.000 That ain't happening. 0.98

00:49:30.000 Here is Chuck Schumer trying to pressure McConnell.

00:49:34.000 It appears Leader McConnell, after going on Fox News, Has already made up his mind about the Senate impeachment trial.

00:49:44.000 It's clear that Senator McConnell wants to use the Senate to help participate in a cover-up.

00:49:50.000 Do you want someone who proudly says they are not impartial?

00:49:55.000 To be on a jury, judging high crimes and misdemeanors, serious charges against the President of the United States.

00:50:02.000 Okay, McConnell's response to all of this is, are you high?

00:50:06.000 In what sense am I supposed to be impartial?

00:50:08.000 I'm a senator.

00:50:09.000 This is a political process.

00:50:10.000 This is not a jury process. 0.94

00:50:11.000 What the hell are you talking about?

00:50:13.000 You're the ones who have said all along, you don't need to show a crime because it's political. 0.88

00:50:17.000 It isn't an actual criminal process.

00:50:19.000 Here's Mitch McConnell going, guys, I'm not a juror and this is not an actual I'm not an impartial juror.

00:50:24.000 This is a political process.

00:50:24.000 There's not anything judicial about it.

00:50:25.000 Impeachment is a political decision.

00:50:27.000 The House made a partisan political decision to impeach.

00:50:29.000 I would anticipate we will have a largely partisan outcome in the Senate.

00:50:33.000 Not an impartial juror.

00:50:34.000 This is a political process.

00:50:35.000 There's not anything judicial about it.

00:50:37.000 Impeachment is a political decision.

00:50:40.000 The House made a partisan political decision to impeach.

00:50:44.000 I would anticipate we will have a largely partisan outcome in the Senate.

00:50:49.000 I'm not impartial about this at all.

00:50:51.000 You've got to love that.

00:50:52.000 Mitch McConnell, he may be ramming through all sorts of garbage packages that President Trump approves of, spending packages like $1.4 trillion in spending, which we'll get to in just a second. 0.98

00:51:02.000 But when it comes to this sort of stuff, he is a cut-to-the-bone, stone-cold-cocaine Mitch killer. 0.98

00:51:08.000 Here's Mitch McConnell also adding, by the way, I'm not going to save your garbage investigation. 0.95

00:51:11.000 If you think I'm going to call a bunch of witnesses that you guys wouldn't even wait for, yeah, that ain't happening.

00:51:15.000 Stuff it.

00:51:16.000 The Senate is meant to act as judge and jury.

00:51:19.000 To hear a trial, not to rerun the entire fact-finding investigation because angry partisans rushed sloppily through it.

00:51:29.000 If the Senate volunteers ourselves to do House Democrats' homework for them, we will only incentivize an endless stream of dubious partisan impeachments in the future.

00:51:39.000 We don't create impeachments over here, Mr. President.

00:51:44.000 We judge them.

00:51:45.000 And then Jackie Speier from California, who apparently has but passing knowledge of the legal process, suggests that Mitch McConnell should recuse himself.

00:51:55.000 Because he's political, because he's a Republican, he should recuse.

00:51:57.000 You're right.

00:51:58.000 All the Republicans should recuse themselves.

00:51:59.000 And the Democrats, those impartial arbiters of fact and law, they should be the ones who vote.

00:52:03.000 By Jackie Speier's logic, the only people who should be allowed to vote on the impeachment of a president are members of the opposing party.

00:52:09.000 Can't imagine how that would end. 0.99

00:52:10.000 Here's Jackie Speier being a dolt. 0.99

00:52:13.000 I think, you know, we're going to have to call for a mistrial before it ever gets over to the Senate. 0.95

00:52:18.000 My understanding is that each of the senators is going to have to take an oath that they will independently evaluate the evidence for impeachment and for conviction.

00:52:28.000 It sounds like there's no interest in doing that whatsoever.

00:52:31.000 And I would think Mitch McConnell should recuse himself.

00:52:35.000 He should recuse himself?

00:52:36.000 Recuse himself?

00:52:37.000 What does she think this is?

00:52:39.000 It's a political process.

00:52:41.000 And if it weren't a political process, again, you have not even charged him with a crime.

00:52:46.000 Time for a quick thing that I hate.

00:52:48.000 So the House has now passed a $1.4 trillion spending bill because this is what we do these days.

00:52:58.000 We argue about impeachment, we argue about Colin Kaepernick on Nike commercials, we argue about all culture war issues, and then we just continue to spend to bankrupt our children and grandchildren.

00:53:06.000 Here is the House acknowledging the passage of a $1.4 trillion spending bill that will blow out the budget yet again.

00:53:13.000 Seventy-five years ago this week, American forces were under siege from 200,000 German soldiers, over 1,000 panzers, as Hitler mounted a counteroffensive in the middle of the freezing cold winter at Christmas.

00:53:24.000 Our boys no doubt wanted to get home.

00:53:26.000 Yet this Congress surrenders, it surrenders to the swamp, mortgaging the future, the very future those men fought for.

00:53:32.000 The president last spring, about a massive omnibus, said, I will never sign another bill like this again.

00:53:37.000 I'm not going to do it again.

00:53:38.000 Nobody read it.

00:53:39.000 It's only hours old.

00:53:41.000 Some people don't even know what's in it.

00:53:42.000 It's 1.3 trillion dollars, the second largest ever.

00:53:45.000 Mr. President, I look forward to your veto.

00:53:48.000 That's Representative Chip Roy.

00:53:49.000 He's 100% correct.

00:53:50.000 $1.4 trillion.

00:53:51.000 The Republicans are spending more than the Democrats ever did.

00:53:56.000 People have made the case before that there should be a split government between Democrats and Republicans because if you actually look at the spending during those periods, it tends to go down.

00:54:03.000 That's largely due to the Clinton-Gingrich era.

00:54:06.000 It is true that this thing is a boondoggle.

00:54:08.000 I mean, there's a bunch of stuff in here.

00:54:09.000 And by the way, major issues that are just sort of passed into law.

00:54:12.000 This bill has an actual provision that raises the federal law regarding smoking from 18 to 21.

00:54:19.000 So you have to be 21 years old to smoke a cigarette.

00:54:21.000 So you can serve in the military, you can't smoke a cigarette.

00:54:23.000 Wouldn't you think that that would, you know, occasion maybe some actual national debate?

00:54:27.000 Now, I'm not a fan of smoking, but that seems like something that you should maybe have a separate debate on that shouldn't be in an omnibus package.

00:54:34.000 Also, this package includes $25 million for federal research into gun violence. 0.99

00:54:38.000 Which, again, is so stupid. 0.97

00:54:40.000 Like, they're doing it under the auspices of the, I believe, Health and Human Services Department. 0.99

00:54:47.000 At the NIH, the National Institute of Health, and the CDC, the Center for Disease Control.

00:54:51.000 What does gun violence have to do with disease or the National Institute for Health?

00:54:54.000 It doesn't.

00:54:54.000 If you're going to do gun research, do it under the auspices of the DOJ.

00:54:58.000 Do it under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security.

00:55:01.000 Doing it under the auspices of health is a way to suggest that you should be able to regulate guns in the same way that you regulate disease, which of course is completely insanity.

00:55:09.000 Blaze Media's Daniel Horowitz has a long piece today blasting the budget deal.

00:55:13.000 He says there's no reason why Trump can't demand a clean continuing resolution for six weeks while the nation debates and even discovers the provisions of these bills.

00:55:21.000 He should use the bully pulpit, threaten the veto pen to build a case for better immigration enforcement, punishing rebellious sanctuary states, and actually fulfilling a fraction of his promises on spending levels.

00:55:31.000 That ain't gonna happen.

00:55:32.000 Trump is moving forward full steam to 2020, and if that means blowing out the budget, Republicans will go along with him.

00:55:37.000 All right, we'll be back here later today with a continuing update on all of the impeachment-related activities.

00:55:42.000 Today, a historic day.

00:55:44.000 The House makes the call to impeach the President of the United States.

00:55:47.000 Historic?

00:55:48.000 But non-important is sort of the way that this will play out historically, as well as in our current 2020 election debate.

00:55:56.000 But we'll be back here later today to recap it all for you.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - December 18, 2019

The Call Is Coming From Inside The House | Ep. 919

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