Ben Shapiro talks about Bill Nye's climate change theories, the latest on UC Berkeley, and the latest in President Trump's interview with the New York Times. He also gives an update on his appearance at YAF, and explains why he's being denied a September 14th appearance at UC Berkeley by Dean Joseph Greenwell and the student organization representing him, the Greenwell Foundation. Finally, he talks about why he thinks the left doesn't care about the aging demographics of the country, and why it's a good thing there aren't many more babies coming out of the old, white, non-college generation. And he explains why you should be worried about the fact that there are still a lot of people who were born and bred into the old white culture, and that they just have to die off in order to achieve the leftist fantasy of "demographics." Ben Shapiro is the host of the conservative podcast "The Weekly Standard" and host of "The Ben Shapiro Show" on Fox News Radio. See linktr.ee/TheBenShapiroShow Subscribe and comment below to get immediate access to all of his newest videos and listen to his newest episodes. He's on all of the social medias, including Apple Podcasts, if you're looking for the latest viral videos, subscribe to his new podcast, The Weekly Standard, and watch his new show "The Dark Side Of" wherever you get your favorite shows. You can also become a supporter of his work: bit.ly/TheWeeklyScientist Subscribe to "TheBen Shapiro's newest podcast, "Shark Tank" wherever he posts his work is available. Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about him on socials, listen to him on the airwaves, and subscribe on your favorite podcasting platform, wherever he is listening to his latest podcast, subscribe on the latest podcast on the internet, and much more! Enjoys this episode? Thank you for listening to The Ben Shapiro's latest podcast? Subscribe to his work and review his work on his latest episode on his podcast "Sharkspires and his reviews on The Dark Side of the world's best vlogs on The Hilltop podcast "Mr. Hilltop Podcasts" on his new book "The View From The Hill" on the Hilltop? on Amazon Prime Video and on Podcharts? Subscribe and review it on iTunes or wherever else he listens to his podcast is available?
00:00:00.000One of the great fantasies of the left is that if the older generation simply dies off, all their policy goals will be achieved.
00:00:06.000In 2013, Oprah Winfrey mused, after two elections of President Obama, that it might require older white Americans to die for America to achieve racial progress.
00:00:13.000She said, there are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism, and they just have to die.
00:00:23.000Now Bill Nye, the purported science guy, is thinking along the same track.
00:00:27.000He told the LA Times on Wednesday, quote,
00:00:41.000So these musings are not only pathetically immoral, they are anti-democratic.
00:00:44.000The notion behind a representative republic is that people can be convinced on the issues.
00:00:48.000If Nye hasn't convinced people that global warming is a catastrophic threat requiring massively burdensome government interference, that would be his fault.
00:00:56.000Perhaps he's too busy producing songs about my sex chunk.
00:00:59.000Or cartoons with polysexual ice cream scoops.
00:01:01.000But the fantasy of the left is that the demographics of the country will move in their direction if they can just get rid of undesirable populations.
00:01:15.000While conservatives sometimes joke about leftists having fewer babies and then losing the argument through demographics,
00:01:20.000We're not actually rooting for that to happen, nor do we think that lack of kids from leftists would be a necessity for political victory.
00:01:26.000But on the left, the hatred for those old white Americans is pretty real, and it's one of the driving factors behind that constituency's hard turn toward candidates like President Trump.
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00:03:31.000So, yesterday, I am sitting around minding my own business, as I am apt to do, and I get a notice from Young America's foundation that UC Berkeley is now attempting to quash my appearance on September 14th.
00:03:45.000So they have gotten back to YAF, and they are now saying that they are not going to allow me to speak there on September 14th.
00:03:54.000They always have to come up with an excuse.
00:03:56.000They can't just say, he's conservative, we're not going to have him.
00:03:59.000Instead, what they do is they make an excuse.
00:04:00.000So, according to YAF, in an email to the Berkeley College Republicans, Dean of Students Joseph Greenwell and Student Organization Coordinator Millicent Morris Cheney denied the student's request for a venue for September 14, 2017, despite what Morris Cheney called extensive effort.
00:04:15.000Berkeley has explained earlier that I was welcome on their campus, and they were committed to supporting my right to free speech.
00:04:21.000The administrator said that Berkeley can only host me, quote, when events are held at a time and location that allow for the provision of any required security measures.
00:04:30.000They did not provide alternative dates, nor did they provide alternative venues.
00:04:34.000When YAF asked for excuses, meaning like, can you give us all of the people who are speaking in the venues that have over 500 seats that night,
00:04:42.000Berkeley apparently didn't even provide that so right now what it looks like is Berkeley making an excuse for not hosting me on September 14th and offering no alternative dates.
00:04:49.000Now Berkeley says they're going to accommodate.
00:04:51.000They say that they are going to offer alternative dates or they're going to allow us maybe to rent a different room but they're gonna have to do that otherwise they're gonna be hit with another lawsuit because the fact is that the Bruin College Republicans, Yath, I, we all have a right to speak on the campus.
00:05:15.000I spoke there in April 2016, no problem.
00:05:17.000We had a packed room, about 300 students, no protesters, nothing.
00:05:21.000So, if Berkeley doesn't actually get out of the way here, or provide the security necessary to quash their Antifa insane people, then they would be in violation of the First Amendment.
00:05:30.000This is one of the excuses the left is fond of using now.
00:05:33.000Don't openly say that they won't have conservative speakers.
00:05:36.000Instead, what they do is they use the heckler's veto.
00:05:38.000So they say, okay, well, if there's going to be a bunch of violent people who show up and make trouble, then we have to ensure safety.
00:05:45.000And so we have to cancel the event outright, which gives the veto to the worst people on earth.
00:05:49.000It gives the veto to those Antifa thugs.
00:05:52.000What it really incentivizes is a bunch of people on the right to do the same thing to left-wing speakers, right?
00:06:01.000Now, I thought something was really funny.
00:06:02.000There was somebody who tweeted me yesterday and they said, well, now that Berkeley's trying to quash you, aren't you upset with yourself that you didn't support the people who stormed the stage at Shakespeare in the Park?
00:06:12.000And I said, no, I'm happy I did not support those people since they have the exact same rights that I do.
00:06:17.000I mean, this is a very, very easy one.
00:06:20.000If I have the right to speak in a public place like Berkeley, then they have the right to perform at a stage that they have the due ability to perform at.
00:06:28.000But I think these principles have to be held consistently.
00:06:30.000Again, I'm hopeful that Berkeley will work it out.
00:06:33.000I'm hopeful that Berkeley will hear the hue and cry that has arisen from the masses and that they will back down off of this and they will not allow themselves to be intimidated by the Antifa people.
00:06:43.000But there are measures available in case Berkeley does not do what Berkeley is supposed to do.
00:06:47.000And if they want to read that as a legal threat, they certainly should because there will be legal action.
00:06:52.000If they do not do what they are necessitated to do under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
00:06:57.000Also, Governor Brown, Governor Jerry Brown of this used to be great state of California, I would appreciate if you would get control of your own campuses.
00:07:05.000University of California is under the auspices of the California state government.
00:07:08.000When the when Berkeley was filled with riots in the 1960s Ronald Reagan sent in the National Guard if Jerry Brown allows Berkeley to continue being a place where free speech is shut down He's just demonstrating that he is wildly incompetent at his job and or helping out the worst form of Anti-speech fascism in America that is happening on today's college campuses
00:07:28.000So I'll continue to bring you updates as all this develops.
00:07:31.000I mean, honestly, Berkeley's so stupid for doing this.
00:07:33.000I'm supposed to testify in front of Congress next week, next week, about government shutdowns of free speech on college campuses.
00:07:39.000So, I guess thanks to Berkeley for providing me material.
00:07:44.000But we will bring you updates as those arise.
00:07:46.000Okay, in other news, President Trump yesterday had an interview with the New York Times.
00:07:53.000President Trump should not do these interviews with the New York Times.
00:07:55.000It's really funny because for all of the talk about how Trump destroys the media, no one gives the media more fodder than President Trump, right?
00:08:00.000He goes and he does these interviews with Maggie Haberman of the New York Times.
00:08:03.000I think Maggie Haberman is quite a good reporter, but Trump obviously desires the love of Maggie Haberman and the New York Times because he does interviews with her regularly, routinely.
00:08:12.000He does interviews with the New York Times because he reads the New York Times because he grew up in New York and he subscribed, I'm sure, to the New York Times.
00:08:27.000I don't know that he's a stupid man, but I will say that he is a guy who really does not listen to what he says.
00:08:35.000If the Trump family is sort of the Bluth family in Arrested Development, then he's played all of the different Bluth parts at one point or another.
00:08:46.000The Democrats think that he is George Sr.
00:08:49.000I may have committed a little light treason, that's what the Democrats think of him.
00:09:32.000You know, Trump says things that are honest and says some things that are true, and he says whatever comes to his mind first.
00:09:40.000And so, you know, that's not a good thing.
00:09:43.000Today, actually, is a perfect day for Good Trump, Bad Trump.
00:09:45.000Do we have access to Good Trump, Bad Trump?
00:09:54.000Alrighty, so, we'll get to good Trump in a little bit, but we'll start with bad Trump.
00:09:57.000So, Trump does this interview with the New York Times, and he starts off by saying that he would never have picked Jeff Sessions for Attorney General if he had known that Sessions was going to recuse himself.
00:10:05.000The reason that this is intensely stupid is because if you want to suggest to people that you are trying to cover up some sort of crime with Russia, what you don't do is say, I really wish I had an Attorney General who hadn't recused himself so he could protect me from the investigation into Russia.
00:10:19.000This would be the thing that you wouldn't say.
00:10:21.000So naturally, Trump, being Tobias Fuenke, just says it and doesn't even really understand what he's saying.
00:10:26.000So here he is, Donald Trump, analyst, therapist.
00:11:25.000Okay, so clearly Trump is very upset about him recusing himself over the Russia thing.
00:11:28.000So, to be fair to Trump, the fact is that Barack Obama used Eric Holder as his shield and sword the entirety of his administration.
00:11:34.000Holder called Barack Obama his wingman.
00:11:37.000They said they were best buddies, they used to hang out, and obviously anytime Holder needed to be protected when he was in contempt of Congress, Obama stepped in and asserted executive privilege to protect him.
00:11:47.000It's not unwarranted that Trump thinks the AG is supposed to be sort of his protector, but it's not good, right?
00:11:53.000You're now suggesting that there's something that is really terrible that's going to happen because AG Sessions recused himself on Russia.
00:12:00.000And by the way, AG Sessions is a very active Attorney General.
00:12:03.000He's really ratcheted up prosecutions on illegal immigration.
00:12:07.000He's done some things that are not so good either, like yesterday he came out and he really ratcheted up the idea of asset forfeiture.
00:12:12.000Asset forfeiture is this unconstitutional notion that if you arrest somebody and you don't even charge them, then you can just seize their property, which is really quite awful.
00:12:51.000He shouldn't look into my family's finances, okay?
00:12:54.000This is just, again, remember, Robert Mueller was only appointed not because AG Sessions recused himself, but Sessions recused himself, and then Trump fired Comey.
00:13:02.000In order to fire Comey, if you remember the former FBI director, in order to fire Comey, he requested a letter from Rod Rosenstein, who is the Deputy Attorney General,
00:13:10.000Sessions couldn't write the letter supposedly because he was recused on the Russia stuff.
00:13:13.000So you had Rod Rosenstein write the letter.
00:13:15.000Now Rod Rosenstein is involved in the firing of Comey and so now when Comey comes back at Trump and he says, you fired me as basically part of a cover-up on the Russia stuff, now Rosenstein has to recuse himself and that's how you get the special prosecutor, Robert Mueller, who Rosenstein appointed.
00:13:30.000Trump is now angry at Rosenstein because he says Rosenstein is a Democrat.
00:14:02.000By the way, I would say, I don't, I don't, I mean, it's possible that it's condo or something, so, you know, I sell a lot of condo units and somebody, somebody from Russia buys a condo, who knows.
00:14:31.000Over the years I've looked at maybe doing a deal in Russia, but I never did one.
00:14:37.000Okay, so he continued by saying that it was a violation of a red line, and then he said, at the very end he said, they said, would you fire Mueller if he crosses that red line?
00:14:46.000He said, I can't, I can't answer that question because I don't think that it's going to happen.
00:14:49.000Okay, so first of all, here's the thing you shouldn't say.
00:14:52.000You can investigate everything, but whatever you do, don't look in that safe.
00:14:57.000Right, this is not the way that you're supposed to, if you want to avoid an investigation, unless you're Lex Luthor, and you actually hid the kryptonite inside the lead encased box, and you're actually trying to get Superman to open the box,
00:15:11.000You don't actually want to say this, right?
00:16:11.000So I want to discuss what Trump is right about here and what he's wrong about, because he's not entirely wrong.
00:16:19.000I think that this is going to end with Trump firing Mueller.
00:16:21.000I think this is going to get to the point where Trump gets so annoyed that he just fires Mueller, and it will be really fascinating to see what happens next, but
00:16:30.000I don't think he's entirely wrong to be suspicious of what Mueller is doing.
00:16:35.000I'll explain that in just a second, but before I do that, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at MyPatriotSupply.
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00:16:58.000They recommend that you're supposed to have food on hand, water on hand, your flashlight, all these things you're supposed to have.
00:18:18.000Here's where Trump is right about Robert Mueller, and the entire left is suggesting, how dare Trump?
00:18:24.000How dare he even suggest all these things?
00:18:28.000Okay, so, Andy McCarthy has a really good piece today over at the Journal of American Greatness, which is basically the Trump defense journal.
00:18:34.000But Andy McCarthy is an honest thinker, so this is not just a knee-jerk Trump defense piece.
00:18:39.000And he says that the problem with the special counsel, he's been saying this all along, is that the investigation that Mueller is now engaging in is too broad-ranging to actually pick up on the original mandate.
00:18:50.000You remember, the original mandate was to investigate whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians in cyber-hacking the DNC and then releasing emails.
00:18:59.000It is now expanded to include Trump's finances, Trump's associates,
00:19:04.000You could see a case, certainly, where Mueller investigates and he goes into Trump's finances and he finds something totally unrelated to Russia that's criminal or a problem, and that ends up being the scandal that takes down Trump.
00:19:14.000Once you have a special counsel, these sorts of things happen.
00:19:16.000This is exactly what happened with Kenneth Starr.
00:19:18.000Remember, Monica Lewinsky never claimed sexual harassment.
00:19:21.000Monica Lewinsky never claimed sexual assault.
00:19:23.000Monica Lewinsky was a consensual affair, but that was uncovered by Kenneth Starr in the process of investigating the Paula Jones allegations, and that in turn necessitated that Bill Clinton, when he committed perjury,
00:19:34.000So this is the problem with special counsels and this is something that Andy McCarthy points out.
00:19:39.000He suggests that in criminal law our sites are trained on conspiracy, which makes things easy.
00:19:43.000A conspiracy is an agreement to commit a violation of law.
00:19:46.000To speak in terms of collusion rather than conspiracy only confuses matters.
00:19:50.000Contrary to what you may have heard from strategists and analysts, collusion is not a crime nor a term that has a legally consequential meaning.
00:19:57.000So that's where we are with respect to the Trump-Taller meeting, but
00:20:00.000If there's an ordinary federal criminal case, which is what Mueller would theoretically be investigating, if there's no felony, there's no cause to investigate.
00:20:09.000Because once you get into a special counsel investigation, it broadens and broadens.
00:20:12.000Now, I was in favor of appointing the special counsel originally simply because I felt that Trump had no choice at a certain point because
00:20:20.000So many people in his administration have been dirtied by the Russia allegations.
00:20:22.000Sessions, and then Rosenstein, and the firing of Comey, and it felt like his administration was losing enough faith that at a certain point a special counsel was going to be appointed whether he liked it or not.
00:20:34.000But now Trump is legitimately scared that something will be dug up on any grounds.
00:20:39.000And if I were him, I'd be scared too, even if I were completely open and honest about the Russia stuff, because once people start digging, they dig until they hit bedrock.
00:20:45.000They're gonna dig until they find something, anything, at all.
00:20:49.000And so that is probably why Trump is so upset about the special counsel stuff and probably why in the end he's gonna end up firing the special counsel which could precipitate, it's not a constitutional crisis, he has the authority to do it, but it could precipitate a major political scandal whereby Trump didn't even do anything and ends up in the crosshairs of the Democrats for impeachment
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00:22:13.000It says upon it, leftist tears, hot or cold.
00:23:05.000And then, it could be read in, like, the most awful of possible ways.
00:23:09.000So, Trump, last night, he's asked about this second Putin meeting.
00:23:13.000So the media's been making a big deal out of the fact that at this big dinner, there was this big dinner with all of the G20 leaders and their spouses, and Trump, halfway through the dinner, his wife is sitting, apparently, next to, Melania is sitting next to Putin,
00:23:25.000He is sitting next to the first lady of Japan and he gets bored and he walks over and he sits down next to Melania and Putin and proceeds to engage with them.
00:26:32.000So his suggestion is that Jim, that Comey basically was trying to, was trying to coerce him into doing something, but doesn't make clear what it is that Comey wanted.
00:26:49.000And as we know, he has said any number of choice words about James Comey for some time.
00:26:54.000But he was very specific that he believed that Comey was trying to essentially get leverage over him with that dossier, making all sorts of wild allegations about President Trump and his appearance in Russia in 2013.
00:27:12.000You know, as we know, he was not happy with Comey for quite some time, long before he actually fired him.
00:27:19.000There had been some belief that he might even fire him immediately upon taking office.
00:27:24.000He believes Comey did that in order to get leverage over him to keep his job?
00:27:29.000Essentially, that Comey wanted to keep his job, and that was the point in showing it to him.
00:27:33.000You know, again, the president feels sort of vindicated, as I think you have seen him say publicly.
00:27:41.000Uh, that, uh, Comey had to acknowledge under oath that he had told the president three times that he was under investigation.
00:27:48.000He said he would not say that publicly because it might change.
00:27:51.000Uh, the president just doesn't, uh, uh, accept that as an answer.
00:27:55.000Now listen, Comey is a political actor, no question, but when he says that Comey was trying to blackmail him with the dossier, we have to go back in history.
00:28:00.000Originally, what Comey said is, I presented this dossier, you remember BuzzFeed released the dossier, which was full of false information about Russian pee tapes and stuff, and about Trump being peed on by prostitutes and all that sort of nonsense.
00:28:11.000And Comey said, I presented that to the president because it was going around Capitol Hill.
00:28:27.000And what it more looks like is, again, that he's in some sort of poop fight with Comey than that he's actually rightly trying to defend himself.
00:28:33.000There's two things that are happening here.
00:28:35.000Trump can be completely innocent in all of this, but he has to stop saying things that make him sound guilty and make him sound like he is getting involved in things he shouldn't be involved in.
00:28:44.000So, okay, this is all under the heading, Bad Trump.
00:28:53.000Okay, now, it's time for some good Trump.
00:28:55.000At long last, it's time for some good Trump.
00:28:56.000So, I criticized President Trump yesterday and the day before, and I have for weeks.
00:29:00.000That he has been completely hands-off on this health care thing.
00:29:03.000He's been very hands-off on health care policy.
00:29:05.000And it makes sense that he's hands-off on the health care policy because the truth is he doesn't know what he's talking about when it comes to health insurance policy.
00:29:10.000If you ask him what's in the health insurance bill, there's no one in America who thinks that Donald Trump is an expert on what is in Trump Care Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, what's in Obamacare, what all these things do.
00:29:19.000In fact, there's a poll out today that shows that nearly two-thirds of Americans, 62%, now think that the federal government's job is to ensure that all Americans have health care coverage.
00:29:28.000Okay, so they all agree with Bernie Sanders.
00:30:14.000Yesterday, he had a bunch of senators to the White House, and he started getting rough with them on camera, and here's what it looked like.
00:30:20.000We can repeal, but we should repeal and replace, and we shouldn't leave town until this is complete, until this bill is on my desk, and until we all go over to the Oval Office, I'll sign it and we can celebrate for the American people.
00:31:55.000Except that a bunch of Republicans voted in the House in favor of TrumpCare Part 1, and Trump had a big celebratory meeting at the White House.
00:32:04.000And then three days later, he came out and said that the bill was mean, mean, mean.
00:32:09.000Why would you put yourself on the line with your own constituents to vote for an unpopular bill that has a 20% approval rating?
00:32:15.000Under the auspices, the president's gonna pressure you if you know that he's going to stab you in the back the minute everything goes south.
00:32:21.000So the president, in order for threat to work, right, if I threaten, if I were to threaten Mathis, if I were to say, Mathis, if you do something, if you do X, I'm going to fire you.
00:32:29.000I have to define what X is, right, so that Mathis knows not to do it.
00:32:33.000If I were to say, Mathis, you have to make me look good on this show or I'm gonna fire you, then it's Mathis's job to make me look good on the show, and there's only so much he can do, but he does the best that he can.
00:32:41.000If I were to say to, if I were to say to Mathis, however, Mathis,
00:33:59.000I don't think there are 40 votes to repeal and say to the American people, well, trust us to come up with something in the next couple of years.
00:34:06.000I don't think that's a very good idea.
00:34:53.000The problem is, the Obamacare regulations don't actually impact the budget directly.
00:34:57.000So it's kind of hard to use reconciliation in order to get rid of all of Obamacare.
00:35:01.000You end up keeping a lot of the regulations, but getting rid of the subsidies and the taxes.
00:35:06.000That inevitably will kill the Obamacare exchanges, but these insurance companies are still required to cover pre-existing conditions, which is going to drive premiums up.
00:35:13.000That's what Republicans are afraid of.
00:35:15.000That's why a lot of them don't want to vote for pure repeal.
00:35:17.000The case in favor of voting for pure repeal like this is that once you do that, then you're going to be forced into a position where either you pass a bunch of regulatory reform and do away with a lot of these regulations, or all the prices go up.
00:35:29.000It applies a certain amount of pressure.
00:35:33.000And a lot of people don't want to take that gamble because if premiums go up and people are tossed off of Medicaid, then the number of uninsured go up and people who are still trying to get insurance might be in a fair bit of trouble.
00:35:42.000So that's why there's a case against plain repeal in the 2015 sense.
00:35:45.000Now what they could do is they could actually try to repeal Obamacare wholesale and then try to leverage the Senate Rules Committee.
00:35:53.000There's actually a person who's like the rules expert who rules on this stuff.
00:35:56.000Try to pressure her to actually allow that to go through.
00:35:59.000That would be the best available move.
00:36:01.000But the Republicans are now stuck between a bit of a rock and a hard place.
00:36:04.000But when they say repeal and replace, that's not clear what they mean.
00:36:07.000It's like when people say immigration reform.
00:36:28.000So when Trump tries to apply pressure,
00:36:30.000As I announced last evening, after consulting with both the White House and our members, we've decided to hold the vote to open debate on Obamacare repeal to early next week.
00:36:58.000The Obamacare repeal legislation will ensure a stable two-year transition period, which will allow us to wipe the slate clean and start over with real patient-centered health care reform.
00:37:12.000Okay, so we'll see if that actually happens, if that vote actually takes place.
00:37:15.000If it does, then it's at least in part an attempt by Mitch McConnell to simply get the Republican caucus off his back, saying, okay, we tried to pass it, and then we weren't actually able to pass it, so that is what it is.
00:37:26.000Again, this is because the Republican Party does not agree on what to do.
00:37:29.000It doesn't agree on the means that it has available to do it, and it can't even make the argument.
00:37:32.000Again, this entire thing could have been avoided in two ways.
00:37:35.000One, if you were going to leave Obamacare in place, you should have called the Democrats in from day one,
00:37:55.000Right, but to do this sort of repeal and replace routine where it's all bollocksed up and you don't know what your goals are, you end up in a bad position.
00:38:01.000And instead what you're going to end up with is Democrats claiming that you are the scourge of the world, which is what Democrats like Cory Booker are doing.
00:38:07.000The senator from New Jersey says it's all sinister and evil.
00:38:10.000It's just terrible, terrible, terrible.
00:38:12.000I mean, that's not just cynical, it's actually sinister.
00:38:16.000Here's a guy that promised consistently that he was, hey, only I can fix this, that I'm taking, I'm the guy, that I'm going to make healthcare for everybody, I'm going to make it affordable, oh, it's going to be, I think the word he used was terrific.
00:38:28.000Well, he's completely abdicated that responsibility, completely broken that promise.
00:38:34.000He outsourced this healthcare process to people like Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan, and didn't even try to reach out to one Democrat in the Senate.
00:39:17.000Okay, so this is the case that Democrats are going to make, and Republican incompetent, it's going to be a little bit of a hard case, but we will see how it works.
00:39:23.000Daniel Horwitz has a piece today in which he talks about how to defang Obamacare even without full repeal, and it's pretty good.
00:39:32.000You should check it out over at Conservative Review.
00:39:33.000He talks about cost-sharing associations and
00:39:38.000Forcing people to post their prices on particular costs so we can actually have some open competition.
00:39:45.000There are lots of good ideas that can be brought to bear, but Republicans have to decide what they want to do, and Trump has to decide what he wants to push.
00:40:45.000It's always been my problem, is that when I work out, I get bored.
00:40:47.000It's why I can't get on a treadmill and just run for eight miles.
00:40:50.000I need a new workout all the time, and that's why Beachbody On Demand is so fantastic, because they have legitimately hundreds of different options for you to use, and it's just great.
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00:41:43.000Whether you need to lose weight, or whether you just want to tone, whether you're a big fatso and you just want to make sure that you don't die in the next year, then texting Shapiro to 30-30-30 is the way to do it.
00:41:52.000You get Beachbody on demand and check it out.
00:41:55.000And that also lets them know that we sent you.
00:41:57.000Okay, time for some things I like, some things I hate, and then the big idea.
00:42:02.000So John McCain was diagnosed really tragically with brain cancer and a lot of scummy, disgusting human beings are today tweeting out things like they're happy that he got brain cancer because they disagree with him politically.
00:42:13.000Okay, first of all, let it be said, John McCain is not a terrorist supporter.
00:43:43.000It's really more about his military career and his family's military career.
00:43:46.000It's actually a really good book, Faith of My Fathers, John McCain, an honorable man, okay, for all of the talk about his politics, an honorable man who did amazing service for the United States.
00:43:58.000He deserves our respect and our prayers.
00:44:01.000Okay, speaking of POWs, there's a movie, if you don't want to watch, if you don't want to read the book, there's a, they did make a movie version on A&E, I think, but I've never actually seen it, so I can't recommend it.
00:44:11.000If you want to watch a great movie about what it was like to be a Vietnam POW, like an actual Vietnam POW, Werner Herzog made a very good film called Rescue Dawn with Christian Bale.
00:44:20.000One of Christian Bale's lesser-known parts.
00:44:22.000Didn't do great business at the box office, but is a very hard-nosed good film about what exactly happened and about an escape from Vietnam POW camp.
00:46:53.000So it's basically Man in the High Castle alternative history, where America is divided, not by the Germans and the Japanese.
00:46:59.000By the North and the South, which is an interesting premise, except for it's going to be really, really annoying.
00:47:05.000I'll bet it's a pretty good show, but it's going to be very, very annoying to read all the hot takes from the left about how the South in this show is really like the South of today, how all of the white Southerners of today are really neo-Confederates who want to enslave black folks.
00:47:18.000Okay, polls show, I've talked about this on the show before, polls show that white folks across the country have basically about the same level of racism regardless of party, regardless of location.
00:47:27.000There's no evidence to suggest that Southerners are more hostile to black folks than Northerners are at this point in time.
00:47:54.000What would have happened if the South had won the Civil War?
00:47:56.000And it is my belief that within 20 to 25 years, the South would have moved beyond slavery anyway, because that's the direction the entire Western world was moving.
00:48:05.000And by the 1880s, slavery was outlawed in the vast majority of the Western world.
00:48:09.000It would have moved to probably a South African type apartheid system, more than likely, which is basically what they had anyway under Jim Crow.
00:48:16.000You know, thank God for the Civil War and the freeing of the slaves.
00:48:19.000The great tragedy in the aftermath of the Civil War was not the Civil War itself.
00:48:22.000It was that in 1876, the Federals pulled out and allowed the South to reimpose all these Jim Crow sanctions on black folks.
00:48:29.000That's a real tragedy that has yet to be told historically.
00:48:31.000Well, that would be a fascinating thing.
00:48:33.000It's about the loss of the Civil War after the winning of the Civil War in a particular way.
00:48:37.000But I'm already just warning you about the hot takes that are sure to come and that will be super annoying when you have a bunch of leftists who live in Beverly Hills and see a black person only if they cast a black person, talking about how everybody down south is racist.
00:48:51.000By the way, the South is actually significantly more integrated than cities like Boston in the North.
00:49:07.000Chris Kobach is the secretary of, he's the Kansas Secretary of State, and he works closely with the White House, and he was asked about, he's leading up Trump's voter fraud panel, and here is what he had to say.
00:49:23.000He was asked, did Trump actually lose the popular vote?
00:49:35.000We will probably never know the answer to that question because even if you could prove that a certain number of votes were cast by ineligible voters, for example, you wouldn't know how they voted.
00:50:07.000Okay, if you're going to do this routine where you don't know who voted for what, then maybe Trump lost.
00:50:12.000If you're going to say that there was voter fraud and you don't know who voted for what, Trump's margin of victory in the three states that he won, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, his margin of victory there was like 100,000 votes.
00:50:21.000It's a lot easier to make the claim that voter fraud swung 100,000 votes than that it swung 3 million votes.
00:50:26.000But again, I'm all in favor of a voter fraud commission that looks into registration of people who are dead and people who are registered in more than one state.
00:50:35.000I think that is a worthwhile thing to do.
00:50:36.000What I do not think is a worthwhile thing to do
00:50:38.000Is to place that on the tentative grounds, and when I say tentative, I mean baseless grounds, that Trump actually won the popular vote.
00:50:44.000That's just silly, and there's no reason to do it.