The Ben Shapiro Show - February 25, 2021


The Cancel Culture War Is Here | Ep. 1203

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Ben Shapiro explains the difference between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to the biggest problems facing the United States, and which are the biggest threats to the country. According to a new poll, Democrats and leaning Democrats are more concerned about Donald Trump supporters than they are about any other problem facing the country, including white nationalism, gun control, and immigration. Ben also explains why the culture war is going the way it is, and why we cannot have a country if half the country sees the other half of the country as a true and ever-present threat to their liberties. Ben Shapiro is the host of the Ben Shapiro Show on the Fox Business Network. He is a regular contributor to the Financial Times and the Financial Post, and is one of the most influential men in American politics. He has been featured in the New York Times, USA Today, CNN, CBS, and NPR. Ben is a frequent contributor to The Weekly Standard and the Wall Street Journal, and has a regular column on Fox News. His newest book, How to Succeed in the 21st Century, is out now. See linktr.ee/TheBenShapiroShow Subscribe to Ben Shapiro on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Rate, review, and subscribe to our other podcast episodes. The opinions expressed in this podcast are our own at The Ben Shapiro's blog post on The FiveThirtyEight.org. Subscribe and review our new book, "FiveThirtyEight's New Year's Resolutions: A Year in Review: What's Trending in the American Dreamers Are You're Gonna Have It All That's Not Good Enough? by clicking here to get 10% off your first purchase of a copy of the new book on Amazon Prime Day's newest issue, "The Real Dealers Guide to Everything You'll Never Get a Dealers Can't Say That by Meghan s New Book About It? by Ben Shapiro, My Thoughts on That's Good Enough, I'll Figure It Out How to Read It Out on Amazon's New Book on It's Good, Too Good, I'm Gonna Read It, Too Bad or I'll Find It Out in the Amazon Prime Video Set? by Rachel Maddows, or Watch It on Amazon s Guide to It's Not Just Like That by Rachel Crow Does It, I Can't Wait To Read It by Meals on It, My Story on the Internet? by She's Good at It's Better Than That?

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00:01:35.000 Okay, so I want to begin today.
00:01:39.000 With a poll that came out via our friends over at Echelon Insights.
00:01:42.000 That's Kristen Soltis Anderson, the pollster.
00:01:44.000 And this is kind of a fascinating poll because it asks Republicans and Democrats what they think are the biggest problems facing the United States.
00:01:53.000 What are the biggest problems of all the problems facing the United States?
00:01:56.000 Which ones are the biggest?
00:01:58.000 And this explains.
00:01:59.000 where the future of the culture war is going.
00:02:02.000 Because the reality is that we cannot have a country together if half of the country would like for the other half of the country to just go away.
00:02:09.000 Or if half of the country sees the other half of the country as a true and ever-present threat to their liberties.
00:02:14.000 Or if it turns out that some people actually are a true and ever-present threat to their liberties.
00:02:18.000 So, let's look at the differences between how Republicans and Democrats view the world when it comes to the biggest threats to the country.
00:02:25.000 So, we begin with our friends on the left.
00:02:27.000 So the question was, how concerned are you, if at all, that the following are a problem for the country?
00:02:33.000 And this was asked of Democrats and leaning Democratic voters.
00:02:36.000 Here were their top priorities.
00:02:37.000 Here are their top priorities, okay?
00:02:39.000 Number one. 0.99
00:02:40.000 Number one, with a bullet. 0.99
00:02:42.000 Donald Trump supporters. 0.81
00:02:43.000 Donald Trump supporters were the number one top worry of Democrats.
00:02:47.000 Okay, not COVID-19.
00:02:50.000 Not healthcare.
00:02:52.000 Not the economy.
00:02:54.000 Donald Trump supporters.
00:02:55.000 That was the number one worry.
00:02:56.000 So, by the way, a bigger worry than white nationalism, or gun violence, or discrimination, the biggest worry was Donald Trump supporters. 0.84
00:03:05.000 Because those people are the enemy.
00:03:08.000 According to this poll, 82% of Democrats and lean Democrats say that they are extremely concerned or very concerned about Donald Trump supporters.
00:03:18.000 It is the single most popular view among Democrats in terms of what is your big concern with the country.
00:03:25.000 Donald Trump supporters.
00:03:27.000 Another 10%, by the way, are somewhat concerned.
00:03:29.000 Only 7% say they are not very or not at all concerned.
00:03:32.000 That means 92% of Democrats say they are concerned about the fact that anybody supported Donald Trump.
00:03:38.000 Remember, 75 million people voted for Donald Trump.
00:03:42.000 A huge number of those people voted for Donald Trump because they didn't want to vote for the radical policies of the left.
00:03:46.000 Okay, number two on the list for Democrats was white nationalism.
00:03:50.000 Now, let's be real about this.
00:03:51.000 The actual number of white nationalists in America is very, very small.
00:03:55.000 White nationalism is the belief that America should be a whites-only country, that it should be an ethnostate, and that there is no place for minorities in American life.
00:04:02.000 The number of those people in American society is exceedingly low.
00:04:06.000 I mean, we are talking maybe tens of thousands of people, maybe, at the upper end.
00:04:10.000 Okay?
00:04:10.000 We are not talking hundreds of thousands of people.
00:04:11.000 We are certainly not talking millions of people.
00:04:13.000 We're certainly not talking tens of millions of people.
00:04:15.000 That is the number two worry of Democrats, according to this Echelon Insights poll.
00:04:21.000 79% of Democrats say they're extremely or very concerned about white nationalism.
00:04:25.000 Another 11% say they are somewhat concerned about white nationalism.
00:04:30.000 So the top two priorities are Trump supporters and white nationalism.
00:04:32.000 So this tells you a couple of things right off the bat.
00:04:34.000 One, the media narrative is exceedingly strong with these folks. 0.82
00:04:37.000 People at CNN and MSNBC who keep saying over and over and over that Donald Trump is evil and that his supporters are also evil.
00:04:45.000 And who keep saying that white nationalism is a true threat to American democracy, which by the way, It is ideologically a threat because everything can be ideologically a threat, but practically speaking, suggesting that maybe, maybe 10,000 people are a true threat to American democracy across the land is just an exaggeration of the nature of the threat. 0.76
00:05:05.000 If you want to say that you're worried about people committing acts of violence and people committing acts of terror in the name of white supremacy, I would say that that is a fear that is not entirely unjustified because we have seen those sorts of acts of terror we've seen against the Jewish community.
00:05:18.000 I've personally, the FBI has personally arrested a white supremacist for targeting my family.
00:05:23.000 So I totally get that.
00:05:24.000 But the number two worry in the country overall is white nationalism.
00:05:29.000 Three is systemic racism.
00:05:32.000 Which is a term that most people can't even define.
00:05:34.000 They don't even know what systemic racism means.
00:05:36.000 They just think systemic racism means racism.
00:05:39.000 So they are asked in a poll, is racism a concern?
00:05:42.000 And they know that the answer is supposed to be yes.
00:05:44.000 Because if you say no, then Democrats immediately say, and members of the media immediately say, well, that's because you don't take racism seriously.
00:05:49.000 So the way that you show the pollsters that you take racism seriously is to say that systemic racism is a serious problem for the country.
00:05:56.000 But most people don't understand that when they say systemic racism, the people who They mean that the institutions of American life are rife with racism, that they are built in order to achieve racism, and that if you stand in favor of any of those systems, then you are part of the problem.
00:06:14.000 The way you can tell people don't understand this, by the way, is that, according to this poll, some 77% of Democrats and lean Democrats say that they are extremely or very concerned about systemic racism, but only 39% say they are extremely or very concerned about capitalism.
00:06:29.000 People on the left, who actually understand what the term systemic racism means, 100% of them believe that capitalism and systemic racism are intertwined.
00:06:36.000 So you can see, because most Democrats don't actually believe that, that they don't even understand what they're saying when they say that they believe that systemic racism is a serious problem for the country.
00:06:46.000 Okay, here are their other top priorities.
00:06:47.000 Gun violence.
00:06:48.000 Americans lacking health coverage.
00:06:50.000 Domestic terrorism.
00:06:51.000 Police brutality. 0.94
00:06:53.000 Discrimination against gay Americans.
00:06:54.000 59% say they are deeply worried about that.
00:06:56.000 Another 27% say they're somewhat worried.
00:06:59.000 Sexism.
00:07:00.000 Student debt and capitalism.
00:07:00.000 Voter suppression.
00:07:02.000 Okay, so the good news here is that even among Democrats, they're not super concerned about capitalism.
00:07:06.000 So sort of the Bernie Sanders take, which is that we are all socialists now, is not true.
00:07:10.000 Most Democrats are not deeply worried about capitalism.
00:07:13.000 What most Democrats really are worried about is castigation of their neighbors as white nationalist evildoers.
00:07:19.000 And that is the narrative that is promoted. 0.78
00:07:20.000 It has been promoted for years now, which is that if people disagree with Democrats, it is probably because they are quote unquote Donald Trump supporters or white nationalists.
00:07:29.000 So, those are the top concerns for Democrats.
00:07:31.000 Now we get to the top concerns for Republicans.
00:07:34.000 And what you'll see is that Democrats' top concerns have to do with how much they hate fellow Americans who don't vote like they do, and how they castigate many of those people with terms that do not apply, and how they castigate a system with a term they don't even understand.
00:07:49.000 Here are the top concerns for Republicans.
00:07:51.000 Okay, illegal immigration is the top concern for Republicans.
00:07:56.000 81% of Republicans say that they are extremely or very concerned about illegal immigration.
00:08:02.000 79% say they are extremely or very concerned about lack of support for the police.
00:08:07.000 77% say that they are very concerned about high taxes.
00:08:10.000 Notice.
00:08:11.000 The top three, none of them have to do with castigation of the other side.
00:08:16.000 They're actual policy preferences.
00:08:18.000 Go back to the Democrat side for a second.
00:08:20.000 If you go back to the Democrat side, what you will see is that the Democrat side Their top three are castigation of people on the other side of the aisle.
00:08:29.000 Donald Trump supporters, white nationalism, which again, people don't understand that white nationalism is an actual specific ideology, not just a term that you throw at people you don't like.
00:08:37.000 And systemic racism, which is an attempt to label people on the other side advocates of racism.
00:08:43.000 Right?
00:08:43.000 The top three are really one on the Democratic side, which is people I don't like are Donald Trump supporters slash white nationalists slash advocates for systemic racism.
00:08:51.000 The top things that Republicans are worried about are actual policies, like illegal immigration, or lack of support for the police, or high taxes.
00:08:57.000 Liberal bias in the mainstream media, 75%.
00:08:59.000 75% of Republicans say that they are deeply concerned about that.
00:09:04.000 General moral decline of the country, 74%.
00:09:06.000 Socialism, 73%.
00:09:06.000 Antifa violence, 71%.
00:09:07.000 Socialism, 73%.
00:09:09.000 Antifa violence, 71%.
00:09:11.000 China, 70%. 0.98
00:09:13.000 Legal abortion in the third trimester, 65%.
00:09:16.000 Election fraud, 64%.
00:09:18.000 Tech company censorship, 64%.
00:09:21.000 And discrimination against Christians, 57%.
00:09:24.000 So here is the thing.
00:09:26.000 Republicans are mostly worried about policy.
00:09:28.000 And Democrats are mostly worried about Republicans.
00:09:30.000 That is what you come away with when you look at this polling data.
00:09:30.000 Right?
00:09:34.000 And one of the things that's kind of fascinating about the poll is that the poll also shows how concerned Republicans are about cancel culture.
00:09:42.000 Okay, when it comes to the number of Republicans who are concerned about cancel culture, there's a vast gap between Democrats and Republicans.
00:09:48.000 So according to this polling data, Republicans, about 48% of Republicans say that they are extremely or very concerned about cancel culture.
00:09:56.000 They're very concerned that they're going to be canceled, that people are going to come after them.
00:10:00.000 This is why liberal bias in the mainstream media clocks in at number four on that Republican worries chart, right?
00:10:05.000 75% of Republicans say they are deeply worried about liberal bias in the mainstream media.
00:10:10.000 How many Democrats are worried about cancel culture?
00:10:14.000 Why?
00:10:15.000 Because they know they're not the ones who are going to get canceled.
00:10:18.000 You cannot have a country when half the country believes that the other half of the country is inherently evil.
00:10:24.000 Not that they're wrong.
00:10:26.000 Not that they back bad policies.
00:10:27.000 Not that they disagree with you about illegal immigration or the police or high taxes.
00:10:32.000 Not that they disagree with you about economics.
00:10:34.000 But they are actually, the people themselves are the worry.
00:10:37.000 I mean, that's insanity.
00:10:40.000 And it's not just insanity, it's dangerous.
00:10:43.000 Because once you start to see the people who vote differently from you as the actual problem, I don't know how you see those people as friends and neighbors anymore.
00:10:51.000 As we break down in terms of community and as we see the people next door, not as people who may differ with us on some important fundamental policy considerations, but people who are utterly unlike you in any way because they support a different candidate.
00:11:04.000 How do you share a church with those people?
00:11:06.000 How do you go to school with them?
00:11:08.000 How do your kids become friends?
00:11:09.000 How does any of that work?
00:11:11.000 How do you share society with people that you actually believe are the worst of the worst?
00:11:16.000 That poll stat showing that Democrats are of all the priorities, the one that unifies the most is hatred for Donald Trump supporters and fear of Donald Trump supporters is insanity.
00:11:26.000 It's absolute crazy towns.
00:11:28.000 But it is promulgated by a media that is firmly fixed on trying to get rid of people that they disagree with.
00:11:36.000 What we have right now is an advocacy media that exists on the left masquerading as an objective media.
00:11:40.000 And we have millions and millions and millions of people who watch that and take it seriously.
00:11:43.000 And it has an impact on a wide variety of behaviors.
00:11:47.000 And when you change the moral code of a country, when you renormalize an entire moral code of a country, you end up with some pretty wild behaviors.
00:11:56.000 And the media continue to foster this every single day.
00:11:58.000 Republicans are correctly fearful of cancel culture because the left does want them canceled.
00:12:02.000 They are worried that they even exist.
00:12:06.000 Notice something that is not on the GOP list at all, at all, Joe Biden supporters.
00:12:12.000 It's not on the list.
00:12:14.000 Donald Trump supporters is number one on the Democratic list, and white nationalism is number two. 0.96
00:12:19.000 White nationalism, again, evil.
00:12:21.000 Also, a tiny percentage of the population. 0.95
00:12:25.000 The reason that the people on the left believe that white nationalism is a deep and abiding threat to the nature of the country is because they conflate the first two.
00:12:31.000 They think that Donald Trump supporters are white nationalists, and they think that because every single time the Democrat media complex has mentioned the January 6th riots, they have said a white nationalist uprising at the behest of Donald Trump.
00:12:43.000 Every single time, essentially.
00:12:45.000 That has an impact on how people think.
00:12:48.000 The polarization that is happening in this country right now, and it is happening with extraordinary rapidity.
00:12:53.000 That polarization is almost entirely the creation of a media elite who believe themselves to be part of a new ruling class who get to dictate to you how to live.
00:13:02.000 They know better than you how to live.
00:13:03.000 And if you agree with them, then you are one of the elect. 0.57
00:13:05.000 And if you disagree with them, then you are a member of the damned.
00:13:09.000 This starts, by the way, at our universities. 0.77
00:13:12.000 There's an article in the New York Times called Inside a Battle Over Race, Class, and Power at Smith College.
00:13:16.000 And this is just indicative of how our society really works.
00:13:20.000 Because colleges are basically just a microcosm, a slightly more extreme microcosm of what's happening in corporate America, of what is happening even in the scientific community, the shutdown of science that is currently happening in the publishing community.
00:13:34.000 The war on openness of ideas is ongoing and dangerous.
00:13:38.000 So, according to the New York Times, in mid-summer of 2018, Oumou Kanout, a black student at Smith College, and I apologize if I'm mispronouncing the name, recounted a distressing American tale.
00:13:47.000 She was eating lunch in a dorm lounge when a janitor and a campus police officer walked over and asked her what she was doing there.
00:13:53.000 The officer, who could have been carrying a lethal weapon, left her near meltdown, Ms. 0.94
00:13:56.000 Knute wrote on Facebook, saying that this encounter continued a year-long pattern of harassment at Smith.
00:14:02.000 All I did was be black, Ms.
00:14:03.000 Knute wrote.
00:14:03.000 It's outrageous that some people question my being at Smith College and my existence overall as a woman of color.
00:14:09.000 The college's president, Kathleen McCartney, offered profuse apologies and put the janitor on paid leave.
00:14:14.000 The janitor.
00:14:15.000 This painful incident reminds us of the ongoing legacy of racism and bias, the president wrote, in which people of color are targeted simply while going about the business of their ordinary lives.
00:14:24.000 The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN picked up the story of a young female student harassed by white workers.
00:14:29.000 The ACLU, which took the student's case, said she was profiled for eating while black.
00:14:34.000 Less attention was paid three months later, when a law firm hired by Smith College to investigate the episode found no persuasive evidence of bias.
00:14:42.000 Oh, interesting.
00:14:42.000 Less attention was paid.
00:14:44.000 This is in the New York Times.
00:14:45.000 Note, this happened again in mid-summer of 2018.
00:14:47.000 The date?
00:14:49.000 Of this article, the one I'm reading right now, is February 24th, 2021.
00:14:53.000 And yet we knew three months later that the story was bullcrap.
00:14:56.000 Did the New York Times print a retraction?
00:14:57.000 Of course not.
00:14:58.000 Did the New York Times go back and report the story?
00:15:00.000 Of course not.
00:15:01.000 Did CNN do that?
00:15:02.000 Did the Washington Post do that?
00:15:03.000 No, because they are dedicated to the narrative that America is a place of deep and abiding racism.
00:15:08.000 And that anybody who opposes that narrative is in fact, opposing the narrative is itself a sign that you are racist.
00:15:15.000 Opposing the narrative, suggesting that America is not systemically racist, that America is a land of liberty, filled with decent people, that that is a sign that you are a bigot.
00:15:23.000 You're probably one of those Trump supporters.
00:15:26.000 According to the New York Times, less attention was paid three months later when a law firm hired by Smith College to investigate the episode found no persuasive evidence of bias.
00:15:34.000 Miss Canute was determined to have eaten in a deserted dorm that had been closed for the summer. 0.99
00:15:39.000 The janitor had been encouraged to notify security if he saw unauthorized people there.
00:15:42.000 The officer, like all campus police, was unarmed.
00:15:45.000 So every single element of the story was a lie.
00:15:47.000 Every single one.
00:15:49.000 This person insisted in eating in a deserted dorm hall that was supposed to be closed.
00:15:53.000 The janitor had been instructed to tell people if somebody tried to eat in there and the officer was unarmed.
00:15:58.000 And according to this woman's story, she went to eat in like a normal dorm hall.
00:16:03.000 The janitor profiled her for being black and an armed officer came and threatened her.
00:16:06.000 So every element was a lie.
00:16:09.000 Smith College officials emphasized reconciliation and healing after the incident.
00:16:13.000 In the months to come, they announced a raft of anti-bias training for all staff, a revamped and more sensitive campus police force, and the creation of dormitories, as demanded by Ms.
00:16:21.000 Canute and her ACLU lawyer, set aside for black students and other students of color.
00:16:25.000 By the way, if you want just a case study in the perversion of liberalism into hardcore leftists, just take a look at the ACLU.
00:16:30.000 The ACLU used to be the people.
00:16:32.000 Who suggested that, yes, we hate the KKK, but they have a right to march through the Jewish areas of Skokie. 0.95
00:16:38.000 Now the ACLU are the people who are like, you know what?
00:16:40.000 We should separate dorm rooms for the sensitivity of black students and make sure that we have segregated dorm facilities. 0.99
00:16:46.000 The ACLU are the people who say that they will not defend, they literally say this, they will not defend civil liberties if those civil liberties come into conflict with higher priorities of sensitivity.
00:16:55.000 They're literally the opposite of a civil liberties union at this point.
00:16:58.000 It demonstrates the shift from liberalism to leftism and how you leave behind all of the priorities you used to hold so long as you are in the search for utopia.
00:17:07.000 According to the New York Times, they did not offer any public apology or amends to the workers whose lives were gravely disrupted by the student's accusation.
00:17:14.000 This is a tale of how race, class, and power collided at the elite 145-year-old Liberal Arts College, where tuition, room, and board top $78,000 a year, and where the employees who keep the school running often come from working-class enclaves beyond the school's elegant wrought-iron gates.
00:17:27.000 The story highlights the tensions between a student's deeply felt sense of personal truth and the facts that are at odds with it.
00:17:32.000 My God, the way that the New York Times phrases that.
00:17:34.000 The story highlights the tension between a deeply felt sense of personal truth and facts that are at odds with it?
00:17:41.000 Okay, translate that over to the QAnon folks, and see if the New York Times goes along with that.
00:17:45.000 You know, there are people who have a deeply felt sense of personal truth about the QAnon conspiracy theory, but there are facts at odds with it, and there's tension there. 0.99
00:17:52.000 Or, is it that you're completely wrong and lying, and you believe a bunch of horse crap, and there are facts that disprove this, which makes you a liar! 1.00
00:18:00.000 A liar! 0.99
00:18:01.000 Because facts exist in real life, and the New York Times reported the lie for years, and only three years later are they coming back around like, well, you know, I guess that, you know, there is a tension between your personal truth and actual facts.
00:18:12.000 These tensions, says the New York Times, come at a time when few in the Smith community feel comfortable publicly questioning liberal orthodoxy on race and identity.
00:18:19.000 And some professors worry the administration is too deferential, so it's increasingly emboldened students.
00:18:25.000 Right, because why would you question liberal orthodoxy?
00:18:28.000 If you question liberal orthodoxy, then you become one of the people with a target on your back.
00:18:33.000 James Miller, econ professor at Smith, says, my perception is if you're on the wrong side of issues of identity politics, you're not just mistaken, you're evil.
00:18:40.000 Correct.
00:18:41.000 Correct.
00:18:42.000 And that perception has spread throughout the liberal community, which is why you see that stat that the highest percentage of any percentage of Democrats who believe that there is a problem believe that the problem is Trump supporters and white nationalism.
00:18:53.000 In an interview, Ms.
00:18:54.000 McCartney said that Ms.
00:18:55.000 Knute's encounter with the campus staff was part of a spate of cases of living while black harassment across the nation.
00:19:00.000 There was, she noted, great pressure to act.
00:19:02.000 We always try to show compassion for everyone involved.
00:19:04.000 Not, um, not the janitor.
00:19:06.000 The janitor who's probably making 20 grand a year.
00:19:08.000 That guy got in serious trouble for doing nothing wrong.
00:19:12.000 Faculty members pointed to a pattern they say reflects the college's growing timidity in the face of allegations from students, especially around the issue of race and ethnicity.
00:19:20.000 In 2016, students denounced faculty at Smith's social work program as racist, after some professors questioned whether admission standards for the program had been lowered, and this was affecting the quality of the fieldwork.
00:19:30.000 Dennis Mills, one of the professors they decried, left the school long after because you're not even allowed to point out that when you put in place affirmative action programs, it lowers the standards of admission.
00:19:37.000 That is what affirmative action programs are deliberately designed to do. 0.91
00:19:41.000 If people had to meet the exact same standard, you wouldn't have to have affirmative action programs.
00:19:45.000 Affirmative action programs are deliberately designed to lower standards through the soft bigotry of low expectations in order to achieve the proper racial balance.
00:19:54.000 But if you point that out, probably you should be forced to leave because looking truth directly in the face is not allowed.
00:20:00.000 Then, in the autumn of 2019, the Religious Studies Department proposed a class on Native American religion and spirituality.
00:20:05.000 A full complement of students registered, but well before classes began, a small contingent of Native American students and allies pasted bright red posters on buildings on campus reviling the course as harmful, intrusive, and disrespectful, and attacking the instructor who was young, white, and not on a tenure track.
00:20:20.000 He had an academic background in this field and has modeled his course on that of his mentor, who is a well-known professor and member of the Choctaw Nation.
00:20:26.000 All of this is disgusting and terrible, but it does not matter.
00:20:28.000 had the instructor submit to sessions of radical listening with the protesters, and the religious studies department dropped the class. 0.64
00:20:35.000 All of this is disgusting and terrible, but it does not matter. 0.95
00:20:40.000 The New York Times still treats the original story as worthwhile of respect, which it turned out to be crap, by the way. 0.98
00:20:47.000 The janitor is the one who's the actual victim in this story.
00:20:51.000 The janitor, who was in his 60s and poor of sight, was emptying garbage cans when he noticed someone in a closed lounge.
00:20:56.000 All involved with the summer camp were required to have state background checks and campus police had advised staff it was wisest to call security rather than confront strangers on its own.
00:21:04.000 The janitor dialed security.
00:21:07.000 The janitor did not notice, did not note, the lady's race.
00:21:12.000 Miss Canute was in the shadows. 0.79
00:21:13.000 He was not sure if he was looking at a man or a woman.
00:21:15.000 Later, Canute would accuse the janitor of misgendering her.
00:21:20.000 A well-known older campus security officer drove over to the dorm, recognized Knut as a student, they had a brief and polite conversation, which she recorded, he apologized for bothering her, she spoke to him of her discomfort, that night she wrote a Facebook post, and the college took it so seriously that they basically decided they were gonna can everybody involved.
00:21:35.000 I mean, all of this is just indicative of where we are as a society.
00:21:39.000 It's indicative of how our society works.
00:21:43.000 And it's terrible.
00:21:46.000 Again, it's just insanity.
00:21:49.000 Okay, the treatment of the story as anything remotely approaching realistic is insanity.
00:21:55.000 Three weeks after the incident at Tyler House, Ms. 0.99
00:21:57.000 Blair, a cafeteria worker, received an email from a reporter at the Boston Globe asking her to comment on why she called security for Ms.
00:22:03.000 Knute for eating while black. 0.93
00:22:04.000 This puzzled her.
00:22:04.000 What did she have to do with anything?
00:22:06.000 The next morning, the food services director called.
00:22:09.000 Jackie, he said, you're on Facebook.
00:22:11.000 Knute had posted her name, photograph, and email along with the janitor's name, photograph, and email.
00:22:18.000 Canute said that Blair was the racist and said that the janitor was also a racist.
00:22:23.000 Blair has lupus. 0.84
00:22:25.000 She felt faint.
00:22:26.000 She lives with her husband, a mechanic, and makes $40,000 a year.
00:22:30.000 Smith put out a short statement noting that Blair had not placed the phone call to security but did not absolve her of broader responsibility.
00:22:38.000 Somebody at the administration called the ca- Again, this is like an unrelated cafeteria worker who's now getting death threats because of all of this.
00:22:43.000 But don't worry, this is just about the tension between some people's version of truth and, you know, the truth.
00:22:48.000 Okay, so here's the thing.
00:22:49.000 This has now bled over into every element of our society because the narrative matters more than the fact.
00:22:53.000 Which is why Amazon has now put in place an actual digital book burning policy.
00:22:59.000 According to Emily Zanotti over at dailywire.com, internet mega-retailer Amazon appears to have quietly updated an internal rule, just the news reports, eliminating an exemption for books and periodicals from its site-wide policy against selling items that contain or promote hate speech.
00:23:13.000 The rule change might have gone unnoticed, except that a conservative author posted on social media that Amazon had ended its own sales of his book on transgenderism and barred third parties from even selling the work on Amazon.
00:23:24.000 This, of course, would be our friend Ryan Anderson.
00:23:26.000 Ryan was on the show yesterday talking about his book, When Harry Became Sally, which is a very thoughtful examination of gender dysphoria and the mental problems associated therewith.
00:23:36.000 The book calls for tolerance for people who suffer from gender dysphoria, which, of course, is the humane, decent, and just thing to do.
00:23:42.000 Does not matter.
00:23:42.000 The book has been pulled down.
00:23:44.000 Why?
00:23:44.000 Because Amazon now has the same sort of policies as Smith.
00:23:47.000 It doesn't matter if the book is true.
00:23:48.000 It matters if the book offends someone.
00:23:50.000 They have a hate speech policy now.
00:23:52.000 And that hate speech policy from the largest retailer of ideas on planet Earth.
00:23:56.000 Because that's what Amazon is.
00:23:58.000 When you're talking about the largest bookseller on planet Earth, that is the largest retailer of ideas on the planet.
00:24:04.000 People like me, my last couple of books have sold literally hundreds of thousands of copies on Amazon.
00:24:10.000 And they make many of the same claims that Ryan Anderson makes.
00:24:13.000 So, Amazon, if you want to come after me, note that I make many of the same claims that Ryan Anderson makes because that is what the science says.
00:24:20.000 That there is such a thing as a dichotomous sexual difference between male and female in the human mammal.
00:24:28.000 That is just a reality of science.
00:24:30.000 Amazon pulled down the book.
00:24:32.000 Just the news notes, sometime before this week, when it removed from its digital shelves a book critical of transgender ideology, Amazon altered its content policy to explicitly forbid books that promote hate speech, a major rule change that could be used to rationalize actions against a broad range of books sold by the digital retail giant.
00:24:49.000 Amazon yanked When Harry Became Sally from its main web store, its Kindle servers, and its audiobook lineup, with no explanation.
00:24:55.000 The policy under which When Harry Became Sally was booted now reads, we don't sell certain contents, including content we determine is hate speech.
00:25:04.000 The Washington Free Beacon notes that the rule change appears inconsistent across Amazon seller guidelines, suggesting the change was recent and that Amazon has yet to bring the full site into compliance.
00:25:14.000 According to the Free Beacon, the company's content guidelines previously contained no mention of hate speech.
00:25:18.000 In an apparent contradiction, Amazon's Seller Central page, on offensive and controversial materials, currently exempts books because they don't want to appear to be, you know, burning books.
00:25:27.000 But now, they've changed it.
00:25:29.000 And so, they are essentially engaging in digital book bannings, which is the same thing as a digital book burning.
00:25:36.000 By the way, this is now extending to other corporations.
00:25:40.000 According to the Twitter account, Woke All Distance, Target has now removed The End of Gender by Dr. Deborah So, who is not a conservative.
00:25:48.000 That is a book again about gender ideology and its lies.
00:25:51.000 They've removed Irreversible Damage by Abigail Schreier again.
00:25:54.000 You remember Target did this a few months ago and then decided to walk it back.
00:26:00.000 Okay, so Target backed down last time.
00:26:03.000 But again, this is the fact.
00:26:06.000 Okay, we are now in a world where publishing companies are canceling people preemptively.
00:26:11.000 We are now in a world where booksellers are banning books.
00:26:15.000 All based on this notion that the people who live next door to you are your enemy.
00:26:19.000 They are your enemy! 0.98
00:26:20.000 Because the only reason that you would stand up to the liberal agenda is, of course, because you're racist.
00:26:24.000 Now, I believe politically, this really began under the Obama administration.
00:26:27.000 You can see the polling data on this.
00:26:28.000 The polling data is that Americans thought race relations were getting significantly better all the way up until Barack Obama took office, and then they started to plummet.
00:26:35.000 By the way, that includes the first few months of the Obama administration, when Americans were, I think, justly excited about the fact that we had a black president.
00:26:44.000 Like, I think it's very good that America has had a black president. 0.53
00:26:47.000 Because, again, it demonstrates that Americans... It does. 0.55
00:26:50.000 It is evidence that Americans are not super racist.
00:26:53.000 To have a black president is a sign that you are not systematically objecting to the idea of black people in power, right? 0.60
00:27:00.000 Which would be a racist idea. 0.76
00:27:02.000 I was not excited that the black person who happened to be in power was Barack Obama, who is a radical leftist, but I understand why Americans were excited about that, of course.
00:27:10.000 But, Barack Obama then proceeded to polarize Americans along political lines because he didn't come along and say, he didn't actually repeat the messages that he gave in 2004 at that famous DNC speech.
00:27:20.000 Right?
00:27:20.000 We're all Americans.
00:27:22.000 Black Americans.
00:27:23.000 White Americans. 0.51
00:27:24.000 Red and blue.
00:27:25.000 We're all the same.
00:27:25.000 He didn't do that.
00:27:26.000 That's not what he did.
00:27:28.000 Instead, Barack Obama very quickly transmuted into a president who suggested that anybody who opposed any element of his agenda was doing so because they were a covert racist.
00:27:38.000 Maybe a white nationalist.
00:27:39.000 You never know.
00:27:40.000 So Barack Obama, on with Bruce Springsteen.
00:27:42.000 Remember that time Bruce Springsteen cut an ad that was supposed to be about coming to the center of the country?
00:27:46.000 And we were going to find moderation.
00:27:48.000 And all of us on the right laughed at the ad because Bruce Springsteen is a partisan Democrat.
00:27:51.000 Yeah, now he's doing a podcast with Barack Obama.
00:27:54.000 So yeah, I think probably we're right on that.
00:27:56.000 Anyway, Barack Obama does a podcast with Bruce Springsteen.
00:27:58.000 Don't worry, guys.
00:27:59.000 Also, Barack Obama is a very serious human being.
00:28:02.000 He isn't in any way just a celebrity hound.
00:28:06.000 He's not somebody who's ever pursued the spotlight, Barack Obama.
00:28:08.000 He's just a humble public servant, Barack Obama, who does podcasts with Bruce Springsteen, one of the great minds of our time.
00:28:13.000 Here is Barack Obama explaining to Bruce Springsteen on their joint podcast that the only reason that people opposed his agenda was basically because they were racist.
00:28:24.000 What I saw during my presidency was that the politics of White resistance and resentment made the prospect of actually proposing any kind of coherent, meaningful reparations program struck me as politically not only a non-starter,
00:28:53.000 but potentially counterproductive. 0.82
00:28:57.000 Okay, so there's Barack Obama saying, I would have done slavery and racial reparations, except for those evil white supremacists who are on the other side of the aisle. 0.94
00:29:05.000 Right, he literally says it's about white resistance.
00:29:07.000 It's not about many Americans are unhappy with the idea that you are going to be giving benefits solely on the basis of race, because that's violative of not only the 14th amendments of the constitution, but in fact, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, legally speaking.
00:29:19.000 You are not allowed to give benefits on the basis of race.
00:29:21.000 That is banned by federal law.
00:29:22.000 That is discrimination.
00:29:23.000 Okay, but that's not the problem for Barack Obama.
00:29:26.000 The problem is all of his enemies were people who actually were just secretly a little white supremacist, right?
00:29:31.000 It was white resistance. 0.67
00:29:32.000 It was all about white resistance, which is why you see in that poll Democrats. 0.64
00:29:36.000 What is their second priority?
00:29:37.000 Fighting white nationalism.
00:29:39.000 Again, they don't know that white nationalism has a very specific meaning.
00:29:42.000 When they hear white nationalism, they just think white resistance in the way that Barack Obama just suggested.
00:29:46.000 And that means Donald Trump supporters.
00:29:48.000 Okay, all of which has led to the sort of reactionary polarization that you've seen on the right side of the aisle.
00:29:53.000 Because Donald Trump came along and he said, I'm not going to listen to any of these narratives.
00:29:56.000 I don't believe any of these narratives that you're saying.
00:29:59.000 And the left immediately labeled him a white nationalist after spending decades pumping him up as a major figure in American life. 0.93
00:30:04.000 Suddenly he became a vicious racist. 0.82
00:30:07.000 They put him on NBC. 0.93
00:30:08.000 He was The Apprentice Guy.
00:30:09.000 He was appearing at the Emmy Awards. 0.96
00:30:12.000 And suddenly, he was a vicious racist the moment he came down that elevator. 0.98
00:30:15.000 And everybody associated with him was a vicious racist. 0.95
00:30:18.000 And therefore, what that drove the right to was, okay, the reason that you hate him is because you hate us. 0.89
00:30:26.000 Which is kind of true.
00:30:28.000 Notice, Democrats are not worried about Donald Trump.
00:30:31.000 They're worried about Donald Trump supporters.
00:30:33.000 You.
00:30:35.000 Right?
00:30:35.000 Or even if you didn't vote for Donald Trump, people who oppose them, more broadly speaking.
00:30:39.000 We're going to get to that in just one second because that leads to an interesting political analysis from Cook Political about the future of the Republican Party and what kind of Trump support represents.
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00:32:03.000 Alrighty, in just a second, we're gonna get to the Republican Party and what the continued support for Trump actually means in real terms.
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00:33:25.000 So, here is the thing.
00:33:29.000 When you have one side of the political aisle that deems everybody else on the other side of the political aisle a white supremacist and the real problem with America, it should not be a surprise when people resonate to whoever is the figurehead that you have chosen as the font of all evil.
00:33:42.000 Right?
00:33:42.000 As the figurehead of all evil.
00:33:44.000 And this is what Cook Political Report says today.
00:33:46.000 Amy Walter has a good piece about this.
00:33:47.000 She says the degree to which folks continue to view American politics through the Trump prism is both understandable and frustrating. On the one hand, despite losing the election, the former president has remained an omnipresent figure in our daily lives.
00:33:57.000 He spends almost every day from November 3rd until January 20th attacking the integrity of the election, etc, etc, etc. Trump will take the stage on Sunday in Orlando at the annual CPAC conference.
00:34:07.000 Once again, the political conversation will revolve around GOP infighting and the challenge for Republican leaders like Mitch McConnell to put Trump in the rearview mirror.
00:34:14.000 In an attempt to prebut that narrative, the National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Rick Scott sent out a memo on Tuesday declaring that while, quote, a parade of pundits and even Republican voices suggest we should have a GOP civil war, this does not need to be true, should not be true, and will not be true.
00:34:28.000 But, says Amy Walter of Cook Political Report, again not a Republican, it's important to remember we are only one month into Biden's first term.
00:34:34.000 We are more than 20 months away from the midterm elections.
00:34:37.000 Trump's role in 2022 could be a definitive issue in the next election, or it may not be.
00:34:43.000 We need some perspective.
00:34:44.000 History tells us Democrats will have a tough time holding on to their already narrow House majority next year.
00:34:48.000 Only once in more than 80 years has the party in the White House not lost seats in a first-term midterm election.
00:34:54.000 A midterm election is not a contest between two different visions for America.
00:34:58.000 It is a referendum on the sitting president and his party.
00:35:01.000 The party out of power is not unified in what they are for, but what they are against.
00:35:05.000 Namely, the other side's policies.
00:35:06.000 And here is the thing.
00:35:07.000 The Democratic Party is performing like an opposition party right now.
00:35:11.000 They're in power, but they're performing like an opposition party.
00:35:13.000 They're not unified by actual ideology, as you can see by how they're attacking Joe Manchin, a moderate on the Democrat side.
00:35:18.000 They are unified as though Donald Trump were still in power.
00:35:22.000 And Republicans right now, in large scale, are being unified as also though Trump was still in power.
00:35:28.000 But that's not the reality.
00:35:29.000 The reality is that Trump is not in power.
00:35:31.000 And what is going to unify Republicans is going to be eventually the recognition That the Democratic Party has decided to other the Republican Party.
00:35:39.000 That the Democratic Party has decided to see them as the enemy worthy of cancellation and worthy of destruction.
00:35:44.000 That is what's going to unify the Republican Party.
00:35:46.000 Trump was a figurehead for that because he was the person most targeted by that sort of material.
00:35:51.000 But as time goes on, and he no longer is that, it's not going to be about Trump.
00:35:55.000 But right now it is about Trump.
00:35:56.000 And that's why it is such a mistake when you hear people like Liz Cheney say, you know, Trump shouldn't be the head of the party.
00:36:01.000 It's all about... Here's the thing.
00:36:03.000 Trump was really never about Trump, okay?
00:36:05.000 Like, I understand why people loved him.
00:36:06.000 I understand why people didn't like him.
00:36:08.000 I have many ambivalent feelings about President Trump as a human, right?
00:36:13.000 I've not been unclear about this.
00:36:15.000 I've said over and over again that I think the man has significant character flaws.
00:36:18.000 I criticized him when I thought that he deserved it.
00:36:19.000 I liked a lot of his policies.
00:36:21.000 It didn't mean that his character flaws didn't exist.
00:36:23.000 But the reality is that the high levels of support for Trump are really about Republican solidarity in the face of a movement that seeks their utter and complete destruction and wiping away an American life.
00:36:33.000 It would not matter, by the way, in that Democratic poll, if it said Donald Trump supporters or if it said Liz Cheney supporters.
00:36:40.000 For the Democratic Party, if you oppose their agenda, you are the opponent.
00:36:44.000 You are the enemy.
00:36:45.000 This is why Liz Cheney falling directly into this particular trap, talking about Trump as though Trump is still somehow a deeply important figure, as opposed to just the name of the guy who is the most recent president of the United States and who had the most Republican support.
00:37:00.000 You're missing the point.
00:37:01.000 It is not about Trump.
00:37:02.000 Because for a lot of Republicans, it was never about Trump.
00:37:04.000 It was about them.
00:37:06.000 That's why Trump had such high levels of support inside the Republican Party in the first place.
00:37:10.000 It's because, again, the attacks on Trump were perceived by Republicans, in large measure, and in many cases, truthfully, as an attack on them.
00:37:17.000 Trump was just the guy who was standing in the line of fire.
00:37:20.000 So when Liz Cheney does this... I don't blame people for being angry at Liz Cheney.
00:37:23.000 When she says, yeah, you know what, Trump shouldn't be the head of the... You're just falling for the Democratic narrative.
00:37:27.000 That's all you're doing.
00:37:28.000 You're falling for the Democratic narrative that Trump is the seminal figure in the Republican Party and everything is about Trump personally.
00:37:33.000 The universe never revolved around Trump.
00:37:35.000 I understand the media wanted to make everything in the world about Trump.
00:37:38.000 It wasn't.
00:37:39.000 All of American politics did not begin and end with Donald Trump.
00:37:41.000 It still doesn't.
00:37:43.000 Right now, the fight of our time, in terms of American politics, is will you lose your job?
00:37:48.000 Not for, quote-unquote, supporting Trump, but for anything that crosses the left.
00:37:51.000 It's an ever-shifting standard of moral vacuity.
00:37:57.000 Will you cross them accidentally?
00:38:00.000 And then they'll hit you the same way they hit Trump.
00:38:02.000 So here was this clip yesterday.
00:38:03.000 This is, of course, the one that the media loved the most.
00:38:05.000 This is the conflict inside the Republican Party.
00:38:07.000 Liz Cheney saying that Trump shouldn't be the head of the party.
00:38:09.000 Kevin McCarthy sort of suggesting that Trump is still a powerful figure inside the Republican Party.
00:38:14.000 I don't know if Liz Cheney here is going for the strange new respect. 0.98
00:38:19.000 What exactly is the point here?
00:38:20.000 But here's the clip.
00:38:21.000 Do you believe President Trump should be speaking or former President Trump should be speaking at CPAC this weekend?
00:38:27.000 Yes, he should.
00:38:28.000 Congresswoman Cheney?
00:38:31.000 That's up to CPAC.
00:38:32.000 I've been clear in my views about President Trump and the extent to which following January 6th, I don't believe that he should be playing a role in the future of the party or the country.
00:38:47.000 On that high note, thank you all very much.
00:38:50.000 McCarthy's like, I can't believe she just did that.
00:38:52.000 Like, by the way, her sentence could have just stopped right after that.
00:38:54.000 It's up to CPAC.
00:38:57.000 The basic idea from Liz Cheney, buying into the narrative that everything is about Trump, it's the narrative the media want.
00:39:03.000 That's what the media want.
00:39:04.000 They want to make it all about Trump.
00:39:06.000 Because they see in Trump a great orange villain.
00:39:08.000 Because Trump also has a habit of stepping on rakes.
00:39:11.000 But let's be real about this.
00:39:12.000 Again, it is not about Trump.
00:39:13.000 It is about you.
00:39:15.000 Okay?
00:39:15.000 It is about who you work for.
00:39:16.000 It is about your corporation coming after you.
00:39:18.000 It is about whether they take your book down on Amazon.
00:39:20.000 It's about whether you're a janitor at a college and you do your job and the college decides to fire you anyway.
00:39:25.000 It's about whether your neighbor thinks that you're evil and a white nationalist because you voted for the guy who isn't Joe Biden.
00:39:30.000 That's the conflict in American life.
00:39:31.000 It was never about Trump and it's not about Trump right now.
00:39:35.000 Okay, meanwhile, Andrew Cuomo's career finally seems to be falling apart. 0.99
00:39:39.000 It is amazing that all it took was Donald Trump losing an election for people to recognize that Andrew Cuomo is a bag of garbage. 1.00
00:39:45.000 Some of us have been saying he's a bag of garbage for a year. 1.00
00:39:47.000 Longer than that, actually. 0.99
00:39:48.000 But, Lindsey Boylan, who's a former progressive sort of icon in New York, She has a long piece out over at Medium.com talking about how Andrew Cuomo apparently routinely sexually harassed her.
00:40:02.000 You know, I'm glad that she came out with this.
00:40:04.000 Now it would have been much more useful had she... apparently this has been happening for years.
00:40:07.000 It would have been much more useful if she had come out about this earlier.
00:40:11.000 And when I say useful, I mean if you want to stop people who engage in alleged sexual predation.
00:40:15.000 It would be great if you would come out when they first engage in that.
00:40:17.000 Again, I'm glad she's doing it now.
00:40:19.000 But...
00:40:21.000 If you want to stop people from doing bad things, you should probably say so when they do the bad things.
00:40:25.000 In any case, Lindsey Boylan says, here's what she writes.
00:40:27.000 My story of working with Governor Cuomo.
00:40:29.000 Let's play strip poker.
00:40:31.000 I should have been shocked by the governor's crude comment, but I wasn't.
00:40:33.000 We were flying home from an October 2017 event in Western New York on his taxpayer-funded jet.
00:40:37.000 He was seated facing me, so close our knees almost touched.
00:40:40.000 His press aide was to my right and a state trooper behind us.
00:40:43.000 That's exactly what I was thinking.
00:40:44.000 I responded sarcastically and awkwardly.
00:40:46.000 I tried to play it cool, but in that moment, I realized just how acquiescent I had become.
00:40:50.000 Governor Andrew Cuomo had created a culture within his administration where sexual harassment and bullying is so pervasive that it is not only condoned, but expected.
00:40:58.000 His inappropriate behavior toward women was an affirmation that he liked you, that you must be doing something right.
00:41:02.000 He used intimidation to silence his critics.
00:41:04.000 And if you dared speak up, you would face consequences.
00:41:06.000 That's why I panicked on the morning of December 13th.
00:41:09.000 While enjoying a weekend with my husband and six-year-old daughter, I spontaneously decided to share a small part of the truth I had hidden for so long in shame and never planned to disclose.
00:41:16.000 The night before, a former Cuomo staffer confided to me that she, too, had been the subject of the governor's workplace harassment.
00:41:22.000 Her story mirrored my own.
00:41:24.000 Seeing his name floated as a potential candidate for U.S.
00:41:26.000 Attorney General set me off.
00:41:28.000 In the next few tweets, I told the world what a few close friends, family members, and my therapist had known for years.
00:41:33.000 Andrew Cuomo abused his power as governor to sexually harass me, just as he had done with so many other women.
00:41:39.000 So, what exactly did he do?
00:41:41.000 Well, apparently, she joined the state government in 2015 as VP at Empire State Development.
00:41:46.000 She was quickly promoted to Chief of Staff.
00:41:48.000 The news of her appointment prompted a warning from a friend.
00:41:50.000 Be careful around the governor.
00:41:52.000 She says, my first encounter with the governor came at a January 6, 2016 event at Madison Square Garden to promote the new Pennsylvania Station Farley Complex project.
00:42:00.000 After his speech, he stopped to talk to me. I was new on the job, surprised by how much attention he paid.
00:42:04.000 My boss soon informed me the governor had a crush on me. It was an uncomfortable but all too familiar feeling.
00:42:09.000 The struggle to be taken seriously by a powerful man who tied my worth to my body and my appearance.
00:42:13.000 Stephanie Benton, director of the governor's office, told me in an email on December 14, 2016, the governor suggested I look up images of Lisa Shields, his rumored former girlfriend, because, quote, we could be sisters, and I was the better looking sister.
00:42:25.000 The governor began calling me Lisa in front of colleagues.
00:42:27.000 It was degrading.
00:42:29.000 I complained to friends the governor would go out of his way to touch me on my lower back, arms, and legs.
00:42:33.000 His senior staff began keeping tabs on my whereabouts. 0.99
00:42:35.000 He's a sexist pig, you should avoid being alone with him, my mother texted me. 0.99
00:42:39.000 The governor's behavior made me nervous. 1.00
00:42:41.000 I didn't fear him until December 2016.
00:42:42.000 Senior state employees gathered at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany to celebrate the holidays and our year's work.
00:42:49.000 After his remarks, the governor spotted me in a room filled with hundreds of people waiting to shake my hand.
00:42:53.000 As he began to approach me, I excused myself from co-workers and moved upstairs to a more distant area of the party.
00:42:58.000 Minutes later, I received a call from an unlisted number.
00:43:01.000 It was the governor's body person.
00:43:02.000 He told me to come to the Capitol because the governor wanted to see me.
00:43:06.000 I made my way through the underground connection that linked the plaza to the Capitol.
00:43:10.000 As the black wrought iron elevator took me to the second floor, I called my husband.
00:43:13.000 I told him I was afraid of what might happen.
00:43:15.000 I exited the elevator.
00:43:17.000 Cuomo walked me down the hall of governors.
00:43:18.000 Are there cameras here?
00:43:19.000 I asked him.
00:43:20.000 I remembered my mother's text warning the month before.
00:43:23.000 I worried I would be left alone with the governor.
00:43:24.000 I didn't know why I was there or how it would end.
00:43:27.000 He brought her into the governor's office, apparently.
00:43:29.000 Closed the door.
00:43:31.000 He paused at one point and smirked as he showed off his cigar box.
00:43:33.000 He told me President Clinton had given it to him.
00:43:36.000 The governor must have sensed my fear because he finally let me out of the office.
00:43:40.000 At least he didn't try to touch her, but in 2018, she was promoted to Deputy Secretary for Economic Development and Special Advisor to the governor.
00:43:48.000 And apparently, at one point, they were in his New York City office, and as she got up to leave and walked toward an open door, he stepped in front of me and kissed me on the lips.
00:43:56.000 I was in shock, but I kept walking.
00:43:59.000 She started to get nauseous at work every day.
00:44:01.000 Okay, so here's the bottom line.
00:44:03.000 This is the kind of account that would finish a Republican politician, right?
00:44:06.000 Well, Cuomo has denied it.
00:44:08.000 And I hope that Andrew Cuomo receives all of the due process of law when these sorts of allegations come up, as he has been so richly in favor of giving to Republicans like Brett Kavanaugh.
00:44:19.000 I hope he receives all due process of law here.
00:44:21.000 We deserve to hear Andrew Cuomo's side of the story, because facts do matter.
00:44:25.000 I'll just note that I believe all women would suggest that at this point, Andrew Cuomo should be Out of a job.
00:44:32.000 And more and more, it seems like that may actually happen because he has outlived his usefulness to the Democratic Party.
00:44:38.000 All right.
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