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00:00:00.000There's a story nobody is talking about, but we will talk about it.
00:00:03.000Plus, we'll talk about President Obama lying repeatedly to the American public and President Trump's most patriotic event ever in history of humanity.
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00:02:15.000from the media that President Trump is the worst liar in history.
00:02:19.000His administration just lies and lies and lies and lies.
00:02:22.000And we here on the Ben Shapiro show have called balls and strikes when President Trump says something that I don't think is true.
00:02:28.000I will tell you that I think that he said something that is not true and I will hammer him if I think that he did something wrong.
00:02:33.000I'm happy to do that because he's the president of the United States and it is our job to call the president of the United States when he does something wrong.
00:02:40.000One of the things that conservatives find so incredibly galling about the media coverage of President Trump is that the media are so eager to use the word lie about President Trump in every possible context, but they will refrain in every possible context from using the word lie about President Obama, and they did for years.
00:02:55.000Well, it turns out today, a stunning report from the Associated Press, the Obama administration, shock of shocks, was lying to the American people for years on end about helping out the Iranian mullahs.
00:03:06.000So when we talk about President Trump lying, when the media talk about it, usually what they are talking about is President Trump is fibbing about his inauguration crowd, or President Trump is fibbing about a note that he wrote about Donald Trump Jr.
00:03:16.000in a Trump Tower meeting, something like that.
00:03:18.000Something that really has very little to do with governance per se.
00:03:21.000President Obama lied about key areas of American governance in a way that President Trump never has.
00:03:26.000President Obama lied repeatedly about Obamacare.
00:03:28.000He said, if you liked your doctor, you could keep your doctor.
00:03:31.000That was a complete lie, and he kept lying about it over and over and over.
00:03:34.000And what's hilarious is that the media covered for him at the time.
00:03:37.000I believe it was PolitiFact that originally said that that statement was half true.
00:03:41.000And then three years later, when it turns out that it was a lie all along, they called it their lie of the year, which is just incredible and demonstrates how biased all of these sources are.
00:03:49.000President Obama lied repeatedly about his treatment of illegal immigration.
00:03:53.000He said 22 times he did not have the executive authority
00:04:29.000The Obama administration lied on issues of serious national policy.
00:04:34.000Trump lies because that's what Trump does about silly things on a lot of issues, right?
00:04:38.000Trump will fib, for example, about the Philadelphia Eagles kneeling for the national anthem.
00:04:42.000And I'll smack him on it, as I did on yesterday's show.
00:04:44.000But, typically the stuff that Trump lies about
00:04:47.000It tends to be rather small potatoes when you compare it to the actual central policy ramifications of the stuff that President Obama lied about.
00:04:53.000Today's story from the Associated Press is the most obvious example.
00:04:57.000So, according to the Associated Press, the Obama administration attempted to end around its own sanctions in order to give cash to the worst terror sponsor on the planet.
00:05:05.000So while the Obama administration was pitching the Iran deal, while they were suggesting the Iran deal was going to be some sort of great savior of the moderates inside Iran, and at the same time saying that Iran was not pursuing terrorism,
00:05:18.000But the Obama administration was attempting to end around those sanctions, and they were lying to the American people about it at the time.
00:05:24.000According to the AP, quote, The report by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations revealed that under President Barack Obama, the Treasury Department issued a license in February 2016, never previously disclosed, that would have allowed Iran to convert $5.7 billion it held at a bank in Oman from Omani rials into euros.
00:05:43.000If the Omani bank had allowed the exchange without such a license, it would have violated sanctions that bar Iran from transactions that touch the U.S.
00:05:49.000So in other words, Iran, in order to use its capital, has to transform it into Omani rials.
00:05:56.000These are very difficult to then transfer into American dollars, unless there's a waiver.
00:06:00.000And President Obama was secretly pursuing just that sort of waiver.
00:06:03.000So basically what happened is that the Obama administration went to a bunch of American banks and tried to get American banks to go along with violations of American sanctions, to issue them a waiver.
00:06:21.000banks did not want to violate American law prevented Iran from getting its hands on $5.7 billion more in American dollars.
00:06:28.000Senator Rob Portman from Ohio, he says, quote,
00:06:35.000So at the same time that Obama was pursuing this Iranian deal, which was a garbage deal from the very beginning, they were lying to the American people saying the sanctions were fully in force and that they had no intention of becoming money launderers essentially for the Iranian regime at the very time they were attempting essentially money laundering for the Iranian regime.
00:06:50.000The Obama administration repeatedly lied over and over again about their supposed unwillingness to allow Iran access to the U.S.
00:06:57.000Obama Treasury Secretary Jack Lew even testified before Congress to that effect, which could amount to perjury.
00:07:02.000So, what does Team Obama have to say about the fact that they were trying to help out Iran so Iran could avoid sanctions passed by the United States Congress, held globally?
00:07:12.000Well, they were saying that they weren't doing it, and now what are they saying?
00:07:15.000Unnamed Obama officials, according to the EAP, said they were acting, quote,
00:07:21.000So they weren't acting in line with the letter of the law, they were acting in line with the spirit of the deal, which is apparently to give away the store and bend over backwards for the worst terror regime on the planet.
00:07:28.000They said the lies were justified because they were attempting to debunk arguments that Team Obama wanted to give even more concessions to the Iranians.
00:07:35.000So in other words, people were saying, you're bending over backward from Iran for Iran.
00:07:38.000And so Team Obama lied about bending over backward for Iran to prove that they weren't bending over backward for Iran.
00:07:45.000It's somewhat like arguing that Bill Clinton didn't lie about sex with Monica Lewinsky, he just wanted to debunk rumors that he had sex with an intern.
00:07:51.000And it turns out the Obama administration activity on behalf of Iran went even further.
00:07:56.000In March 2016, this is all according to the AP, okay?
00:07:59.000According to the Associated Press, in March 2016, Obama officials, including the exorable Secretary of State John Kerry, quote, fanned out across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, trying to convince banks and businesses they could do business with Iran without violating sanctions and facing steep fines.
00:08:15.000So the Iranians were complaining, listen, you guys want us to sign a deal with you, and we have signed a deal with you, but we're not seeing the benefits of this deal, so why don't you go out there and act as our PR agents?
00:08:23.000And Team Obama said, sure, let's do it.
00:08:30.000And so the Obama administration was the foreign ministry for the Iranian government.
00:08:34.000They talk about collusion with Russia by the Trump administration, the same Trump administration that has killed some hundreds of Russians in Syria, the same Trump administration that has armed Ukrainian resistance with lethal weaponry.
00:08:45.000They talk about Trump collusion with Russia.
00:09:01.000The same week, the AP reported that the Treasury had prepared a draft of a license that would have given Iran much broader permission to convert its assets from foreign currencies into easier-to-spend currencies like euros, yen, or rupees by first exchanging them for dollars at offshore financial institutions.
00:09:15.000The draft involved a general license, a blanket go-ahead that allows all transactions of a certain type, rather than a specific license like the one given to Oman's bank Muscat,
00:09:23.000Which only covers specific transactions and institutions.
00:09:26.000The proposal would have allowed dollars to be used in currency exchanges provided that no Iranian banks, no Iranian rials, and no sanctioned Iranian individuals or businesses were involved, and that the transaction did not begin or end in U.S.
00:09:37.000In other words, they're going to cover this up as far as it could possibly go, but it was the American government helping out the Iranian government.
00:09:42.000Obama administration officials at the time assured concerned lawmakers that a general license would not be coming.
00:09:48.000But the report from the Republican members of the Senate panel showed that a draft of the license was indeed prepared, though it was never published.
00:09:54.000So in other words, they were pursuing it at the same time they were lying and saying they weren't pursuing it.
00:09:58.000When questioned by lawmakers about the possibility of granting Iran any kind of access to the U.S.
00:10:02.000financial system, Obama-era officials never volunteered that the specific license for Bank Muscat in Oman had been issued two months earlier.
00:10:20.000And by the way, this is the second deal this week demonstrating that Team Obama lied to Americans about the Iran deal.
00:10:25.000That Iran deal that Obama treasured so dearly.
00:10:26.000President Obama believed that Iran should become a regional power, and by granting it more power, it would moderate Iran.
00:10:31.000An insane proposal, but tied into President Obama's misconceptions about the nature of Shia Islam and the Muslim world in particular.
00:10:40.000And so, here is the second story that is a serious problem for the Obama administration, if anyone cared, in the media.
00:10:47.000On Tuesday, and by the way, I should mention, of course, the AP is reporting this, so it's not everybody in the media ignoring this, but why is it that the media were so happy to go along with all of these lies for eight long years, and only two years after Obama leaves office we find out about this?
00:11:00.000Well, on Tuesday, the Iranian government announced they'd completed a new centrifuge assembly at their Natanz facility.
00:11:05.000That's just a month after President Trump killed the Iran nuclear deal, which is sort of suspicious.
00:11:09.000Since we were assured that the Iranians had dismantled all of their nuclear capacities.
00:11:13.000That the Iranians were going to dismantle those nuclear capacities for the next 10 years.
00:11:17.000And they weren't going to be able to reconstitute their nuclear program so quickly.
00:11:20.000So here's how the Obama fanboys of the New York Times reported this odd development, quote, While Iran said it would keep enrichment within limits set by the 2015 nuclear accord, the center's opening seemed to signal that it could swing to industrial-level enrichment if that agreement, which the United States withdrew from last month, should further unravel.
00:11:37.000Under the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran stopped enriching uranium to the 20% limit that would allow for rapid development of a nuclear weapon and agreed to a limit of under 5%.
00:11:44.000It will adhere to that limit, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei said in a speech on Monday.
00:11:50.000Yes, surely the mullahs, who have been lying for literally decades about this stuff, would not have lied to the Obama administration.
00:11:55.000I do love how the New York Times tries to twist this into, well, it's really Trump's fault.
00:11:59.000If Trump hadn't pulled out of the Iran deal, they wouldn't have fired up those centrifuge facilities again.
00:12:03.000The real question is, why is it that in a month they were able to redevelop their centrifuges?
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00:13:47.000Well, that guy spent most of the Obama administration publicly lying about Iran, saying that Iran had now moderated, there was a new Iranian regime in place that was eager to reach out to the American people and make a deal with the world.
00:14:00.000He went around bragging to the New Yorker magazine that he had created an echo chamber strategy to anybody who would listen.
00:14:06.000That he had used people like Jeffrey Goldberg, the new editor over at The Atlantic, who I believe was a pawn and a lackey for the Obama administration.
00:14:14.000Rhodes basically suggested the same thing.
00:14:16.000Rhodes said that we were lying to everybody about what was going on with the Iran deal.
00:15:17.000The media never said that Obama lied about things.
00:15:19.000They said that maybe he made a mistake, or maybe he exaggerated.
00:15:22.000I mean, even this AP report, this really, really damning AP report, at the very beginning of the report, they try to soft-pedal the nature of the report itself.
00:15:55.000They would never use that kind of language with regard to President Trump because this is how the media treat Democrats versus how they treat Republicans.
00:16:00.000Obama gets to run around saying he had a clean administration when he absolutely did not.
00:16:04.000Now, speaking of this sort of stupidity, last night, Stephen Colbert had on Bill Clinton.
00:16:09.000Now, as you'll recall, Bill Clinton is the worst.
00:16:12.000So Bill Clinton is not only a human being who has sexually harassed half of the women in the United States, he's just as bad about women as any allegations about Trump ever have been.
00:16:22.000Bill Clinton, some of the allegations are worse.
00:16:24.000I mean, there are allegations of rape, a credible allegation of rape against him by Juanita Broderick.
00:16:28.000Bill Clinton went on NBC's Today Show and then he got all mad at the interviewer yesterday.
00:16:34.000He got very upset with the interviewer and started waving his bony finger at the guy and saying, how dare you ask me these questions?
00:16:39.000I apologize to the entire American people.
00:16:42.000Well now, Stephen Colbert is asking Bill Clinton about all of this.
00:16:46.000But, Stephen Colbert, remember a guy who said that President Trump had been used by Vladimir Putin as his bleep holster, as his genital holster.
00:16:54.000You remember, he said this on national TV.
00:16:56.000I guess that Stephen Colbert's idea of a strong interview is to act as precisely that for Bill Clinton.
00:17:02.000I noticed she didn't enjoy that entire interview.
00:17:19.000I want you to enjoy this one, but I do want to ask you something, which is, when I got home last night, on the CNN, they had a lower third banner that said something about William Clinton's tone-deaf response to the question from the Today Show.
00:17:35.000My question is, would you like a do-over
00:17:38.000Okay, why don't you just stick your hand up his ass and use his face as a meat puppet?
00:17:55.000I mean, as long as you're going to just feed him the answer, you may as well just be a full ventriloquist.
00:18:00.000Like, Stephen Colbert could have done an interview with Stephen Colbert dressed as Bill Clinton with that question.
00:18:04.000I mean, that's as bad as any leading question that was asked by anybody during the election cycle on Fox News to Donald Trump.
00:18:10.000Okay, that leading question is astonishing.
00:18:12.000The last part of that question, do you understand why some people thought that was a tone-deaf response to his question on the MeToo movement?
00:18:17.000Here's the part where he feeds in the answer, I love it.
00:18:19.000And how might you reflect on your behavior 20 years ago?
00:18:21.000And how that reflection may change based on what you've learned from the MeToo movement?
00:18:25.000Why don't you just give him the answer?
00:18:29.000Imagine that Donald Trump were to come on the show right now, and Stephen Colbert, and Donald Trump just did an interview about the sexual harassment allegations, and he'd gotten really grumpy about it, and Stephen Colbert, you think Colbert would lead off with, you know, Mr. President, would you like a do-over?
00:18:42.000Would you like to reflect on how the MeToo movement has changed your perspective on these things over the years?
00:18:46.000Or do you think that Colbert would have said, you know, Mr. President,
00:18:49.000Looks like you weren't too happy with that sexual harassment question.
00:18:52.000Maybe because you sexually harassed people.
00:18:54.000Don't you think that's what Colbert probably would have said to lead off that interview?
00:18:57.000And then, of course, here's Bill Clinton's answer, because he gets thrown a softball right over the middle of the plate, and he hits about a single.
00:19:02.000I mean, he barely clears the second baseman's head.
00:19:05.000It wasn't my finest hour, but the important thing is that was a very painful thing that happened 20 years ago, and
00:19:17.000I apologize to my family, to Monica once again, her family, to the American people.
00:19:43.000And then you wonder why people on the right aren't willing to watch Stephen Colbert.
00:19:47.000Why people on the right are looking at people like Colbert and saying, this is endemic to the media.
00:19:52.000You wonder why we don't take the media seriously?
00:19:55.000President Trump, when he says fake news, I've said this a thousand times, I'll say it again, when President Trump says fake news and people resonate to that, it's not because they're just blindly following President Trump.
00:20:04.000They're doing that because they didn't like the media in the first place.
00:20:06.000They figured the media was lying to them because the media does lie to them.
00:20:09.000The media plays defense for Democrats on a regular basis all the time.
00:20:14.000And then we are supposed to believe them when suddenly they turn on one politician in particular?
00:20:18.000At the very least, we're going to say it's disproportionate.
00:20:20.000As I said yesterday, the same media who are complaining about coverage of Hillary Clinton's health issues was spending the last week suggesting that maybe Melania Trump had been abducted and anally probed by aliens or something.
00:20:34.000Okay, so in just a second, I want to get to more fallout from the disinvitation to the White House by President Trump of the Philadelphia Eagles, and President Trump holding a rather hilarious event, a patriotic event, on the lawn at the White House to compensate.
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00:22:12.000Alright, so, President Trump, in the most bizarre and strangely hilarious and yet dispiriting controversy of the week, this would be President Trump's decision to disinvite the Philadelphia Eagles.
00:22:27.000So, the White House has an alternative story as to why President Trump disinvited the Philadelphia Eagles.
00:22:32.000So the going story is that the Eagles weren't going to show up with enough players, Trump got mad and he cancelled it.
00:22:36.000The White House story is that the Eagles were basically jacking them around, that it was a setup.
00:22:40.000I've been hearing this from a lot of conservatives.
00:22:43.000If you think that President Trump is constantly being set up by people, there's a way for him to avoid the setup, and that is to just not fall for it.
00:22:51.000I'm getting kind of tired of the constant excuse-making.
00:22:54.000Trump makes a mistake, and then it's, well, he was set up to make that mistake.
00:22:57.000OK, guess what every test you ever had in school was set up to do?
00:23:12.000The owner, Jeffrey Luria, is a wildly left guy.
00:23:15.000But, President Trump could have handled this better, no question.
00:23:18.000But here is Sarah Huckabee Sanders suggesting that the Eagles were planning a political stunt.
00:23:22.000Now, I will explain in a second what exactly the White House should have done about it.
00:23:25.000Look, if this wasn't a political stunt by the Eagles franchise, then they wouldn't have planned to attend the event and then backed out at the last minute.
00:23:33.000And if it wasn't a political stunt, then they wouldn't have attempted to reschedule the visit when they knew that the president was going to be overseas.
00:23:40.000And if this wasn't a political stunt, they wouldn't have waited until Monday, well after a thousand of their fans had traveled and taken time out of their schedules
00:23:49.000Okay, so apparently, so the idea here is that they had originally said they were going to bring 100 people, and then they said they were only going to bring like 10 people, and then at the very end it was only like Nick Folk, who is the quarterback for the team.
00:24:04.000So Trump should have hosted Nick Folk, on behalf of your team, and the media would have made fun of it, and then he should have said, listen,
00:24:11.000I understand if people don't want to visit the White House, that's their prerogative.
00:24:14.000Again, there was a member of the Boston Bruins back in 2012 who didn't visit the White House.
00:24:19.000I mean, speaking of media bias, the media ripped that player up and down.
00:24:22.000Tim Thomas, who was the goalie for the Boston Bruins, they said, how dare he not visit the White House?
00:24:26.000It just demonstrates what a bad faith guy he is.
00:24:28.000Now the entire Eagles team doesn't really want to visit and the media is like, fine, but
00:24:32.000How should the White House have handled it?
00:24:33.000What they should have done is they should have said, listen, the White House is always open to any of these players who want to visit.
00:24:37.000And if they don't want to visit, you know, that's really them missing out because the White House is an amazing place and we would really love to see them here.
00:24:44.000But, you know, we can have our political differences.
00:24:46.000I just wish they didn't extend to the sporting world.
00:25:04.000We'll cancel the Eagles, but we'll have a patriotic event, a deeply patriotic event, at which we'll get the Marine Corps band out here to play God Bless America.
00:25:12.000And I will talk about how much we respect our flag.
00:25:15.000The problem I have with this, of course, is that
00:25:16.000A lot of the Eagles aren't showing up because they don't like Trump personally and don't like his politics, not necessarily because of the kneeling for the national anthem controversy at all.
00:25:24.000Trump, as I said yesterday, lied when he said that Philadelphia Eagles members were kneeling for the anthem.
00:25:29.000Not one Philadelphia Eagles member kneeled the entire year for the national anthem.
00:25:32.000But here was President Trump yesterday doing his event, saying that he respects the flag.
00:25:36.000The suggestion, of course, being that his political opponents do not respect the flag.
00:26:29.000And then, of course, it leads to awkward moments like this.
00:26:31.000So if the idea was to avoid an awkward moment, such as Trump's there just with the quarterback of the Super Bowl winning team, then
00:26:38.000You could avoid, then you shouldn't have awkward moments like this where Trump is standing there and he's got the Marine Corps choir standing next to him flanking him and singing God Bless America and then it appears he doesn't know the words.
00:27:06.000We had the same in controversy when he visited a football game.
00:27:10.000It was a college football national championship, and he supposedly didn't know the words to the Star Spangled Banner and all the rest of it.
00:27:22.000It is not a place where you summon people to meet you, and they are required to meet you.
00:27:25.000It is not a place where if you don't come to meet the president, then he gets to bring out the Marine Corps band and imply you're not a patriot.
00:27:30.000I just, I find this sort of stuff distasteful.
00:27:33.000And you should put the shoe on the other foot if you disagree.
00:27:35.000If you think it would have been good if Hillary Clinton had, like, did you like it when President Obama shined the rainbow flag on the White House?
00:27:42.000I thought the idea that you're using the people's house to push your own personal politics, suggesting that all of America endorses your view of same-sex marriage, it was gross.
00:27:53.000It was counterproductive, and it increased the cultural divides.
00:27:56.000That's why President Trump was elected, because of those cultural divides.
00:27:58.000Well, by the same token, even if I agree with President Trump's message about patriotism, I don't like the use of patriotism as a club to wield against political enemies, particularly when I don't agree with the idea that everyone who refuses to visit the White House is unpatriotic.
00:28:11.000Maybe they just don't like President Trump.
00:28:12.000Just as Tim Thomas was a patriot, maybe he just didn't like President Obama.
00:28:16.000All of these things are quite possible.
00:28:18.000Now, with that said, do I think that it's foolish that all these athletes keep saying they're not going to visit the White House?
00:28:55.000On the other side, people on the left think they're winning because they think whenever they get in a culture war with President Trump, what they are doing is winning people over to their side because President Trump is personally unpopular.
00:29:04.000So in just a second, I'm going to show you how the NBA and the NFL, how all these people are responding to President Trump in an attempt to win more leftist fans.
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00:30:16.000Okay, so we're going to talk a little bit more about the NFL, plus the story that nobody actually wants to talk about, but probably is the biggest story of the year.
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00:32:41.000So the NFL controversy, of course, has bled over to the NBA, where a bunch of players hate President Trump with a passion, and they are looking for an excuse to make a headline about how much they dislike President Trump.
00:32:49.000So LeBron James has decided to comment.
00:32:51.000Now, LeBron has a long history of disliking President Trump.
00:32:54.000He said that President Trump had revivified rage in the country and hate in the country and all this stuff.
00:32:57.000Here is LeBron James saying that if we win the NBA Finals, we will not go to the White House.
00:33:02.000And then Steph Curry says the same thing.
00:33:03.000I mean, I know no matter who wins this series, no one's
00:33:07.000No one wants to invite anyway so it won't be Golden State or Cleveland going.
00:33:11.000We have a lot of freedom in our country and guys, men or female, have the right to do what they want to do, you know, in a very respectful manner and I think if they decided they don't want to go then
00:33:48.000But Seth Curry is saying the same thing.
00:33:50.000I don't think, I think I agree with Bron.
00:33:53.000I'm pretty sure the way we handled things last year,
00:34:05.000Okay, again, I can't really disagree with the idea that people have a prerogative not to go to the White House.
00:34:16.000I think the best way for Trump to have handled this was, as president, just to say, listen, now I'm the president, we're not gonna do all of this showmanship, we're not gonna do all this reality TV stuff.
00:34:25.000I know Trump would probably be not a guy to embrace that particularly.
00:34:28.000That particularly muted line, but I still think that that's the way the presidency ought to operate.
00:34:42.000I've hated it since the Obama administration, and I continue to hate it today.
00:34:46.000Now, meanwhile, the President of the United States is preparing for his big meetup in Singapore with North Korea, and apparently Dennis Rodman is going to show up.
00:34:56.000No, I'm not actually kidding about this.
00:34:57.000Apparently, he is Kim Jong-un's dear friend, and sources tell the New York Post that not only will Dennis Rodman be in Singapore at the time of the meeting, but he could take part in the negotiations.
00:35:06.000One source told The Post, So Rodman, of course, has visited North Korea some five times.
00:35:21.000And he believes that he was responsible for the North Korean's dictator understanding Trump in April.
00:35:25.000He told TMZ that he gave Kim Jong-un a copy of Trump's book, The Art of the Deal, for the dictator's birthday in 2017.
00:35:30.000He said, quote, I think Kim didn't realize who Trump was at that time, I guess, until he started to read the book and started to get to understand him.
00:35:37.000Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un are pretty much the same.
00:35:41.000I don't think that's true, number one.
00:35:42.000And number two, if you have to use Dennis Rodman as your ambassador of goodwill, if you're trying not to look—like, you better come away with something material.
00:35:49.000Here's all I'm going to say about this North Korean summit.
00:35:52.000You better come away with something real.
00:35:54.000If you go in, and you have no plan, and all that comes out of it is a second summit at Mar-a-Lago, where Kim Jong-un comes to the United States.
00:36:01.000First of all, I think that if Kim Jong-un comes to the United States, we ought to strangle him.
00:36:04.000He's the worst dictator on planet Earth.
00:36:06.000I think the first opportunity we have to assassinate him and the leadership of his regime, we should.
00:36:11.000I'm not in agreement with the Carter administration policy that we can't kill foreign officials.
00:36:15.000It seems to me that people who are keeping millions of people in a giant gulag slave state probably deserve to die.
00:36:20.000Kim Jong-un has killed enough of his own family members to know exactly what I mean.
00:36:23.000So I'm not a big fan of this whole thing.
00:36:28.000Unless you actually have a serious plan.
00:36:30.000I'm not getting the idea that they have a really serious plan, but maybe I'm wrong.
00:36:34.000Maybe Kim Jong-un actually wants to come to the table, but it better be worth it because otherwise it's just going to be a bunch of photo ops.
00:36:39.000You know, President Trump doesn't like bad photo ops.
00:36:40.000It's just going to be a bunch of photo ops of Dennis Rodman alongside Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un and people mocking that from here until the end of time if they don't come away with anything material here.
00:36:50.000It's legitimately like the equivalent of Ronald Reagan bringing Mark the Bird Fidrich to negotiations with Gorbachev.
00:36:57.000If this is important enough, I'm not sure that it ought to be a photo op for Dennis Rodman.
00:37:01.000Rodman added modestly, I don't want to take all the credit.
00:37:03.000I don't want to sit there and say, I did this, I did that.
00:37:30.000I've always been skeptical of the idea that we got together with the North Koreans in the first place.
00:37:34.000This seems like a low level diplomacy issue.
00:37:37.000I've never thought that summits themselves are a diplomatic win.
00:37:40.000I think diplomatic wins are a diplomatic win.
00:37:42.000I don't think that meeting with Hassan Rouhani by John Kerry is a useful thing.
00:37:46.000I don't think that the Donald Trump meeting with Kim Jong-un is inherently a useful thing.
00:37:50.000I don't think meetings between Reagan and Gorbachev were inherently useful unless something good came out of those meetings in the first place.
00:37:55.000The difference is that at least you could say that Gorbachev was the leader of a world power with nuclear weapons who was threatening the entire security of the world.
00:38:02.000And so the meeting was a meeting between two superpowers.
00:38:05.000You can't say the same thing about this, which obviously grants additional legitimacy to the Kim regime in North Korea.
00:38:12.000So, granting the sort of legitimacy I find a little bit off-putting.
00:38:16.000Now, meanwhile, we are hearing some rumors that perhaps there will be an agenda here.
00:38:20.000Perhaps the Trump administration knows what they're doing.
00:38:22.000I'm willing to withhold judgment because we don't know what they're doing quite yet, but apparently...
00:38:27.000Well, the idea here is they're looking for some sort of timeline on disarmament.
00:38:30.000That's the idea, is that there will be a timeline on disarmament.
00:38:33.000General Mattis, Secretary of Defense, is not going to this.
00:38:36.000John Bolton apparently is going to this.
00:38:39.000And they are also looking forward to the possibility, as I say, of a second summit.
00:38:43.000The White House wants Kim to commit to a timetable.
00:38:46.000And I guess that they're looking for the possibility of a second summit at Mar-a-Lago.
00:38:51.000Committing Kim to a disarmament timetable is not useful unless there are significant
00:38:55.000Okay, so now, I've been promising it all show, the most important story of the day.
00:39:10.000Okay, and the story that the media will largely ignore.
00:39:12.000Yesterday, the Associated Press reported that Medicare will become insolvent in 2026.
00:39:47.000It was also the line of the left during the last administration that, you know, the way to cut spending was to look at waste, fraud and abuse.
00:39:58.000Those are what are driving our deficit.
00:40:00.000Medicare and Social Security, as with Medicaid, represent a majority of the federal budget every year, and they are mandatory spending.
00:40:06.000Okay, that means you can't change them unless you actively go and change the law.
00:40:10.000Even in a government shutdown, people get their social security checks.
00:40:12.000And social security has been running a negative cash flow for years.
00:40:15.000If we were actually to take into account the amount of unfunded liability we have in Medicare and social security, some estimates say that our national debt is not $20 trillion, it is $90 trillion.
00:40:27.000Because we are not taxing to the necessity necessary to pay for all of this stuff.
00:40:31.000My grandmother was paying like 50 bucks into social security 40 years ago, 50 years ago.
00:40:35.000Now she's taking out thousands of dollars.
00:40:37.000That's not because they invested in the stock market.
00:40:39.000That's because they're taxing me thousands of dollars for my grandmother.
00:40:42.000If I want to help out grandma, that's my responsibility.
00:40:45.000But it shouldn't be my responsibility to help out your grandma.
00:40:48.000One of the things that Social Security has done is that it has shifted the burden of responsibility from individuals and families to the government.
00:40:56.000It's meant that people feel less necessity to take care of their parents, they figure the government is going to do it, and really the government isn't doing it because the government doesn't have its own money supply.
00:41:04.000The government is just taxing my kids in order to pay for their great-grandmother, and not just their great-grandmother, somebody else's great-grandmother as well.
00:41:11.000The original ratio with regard to social security, like the number of people who are taking out of social security, compared to the number of people paying in, it was like one person's social security taxes were paying for 12 to 15 people.
00:41:27.000Soon it will be a direct monetary transfer from my kids to old people, to old baby boomers, who, by the way, are the wealthiest cohort in the United States.
00:41:41.000As you get older, you have more money, you have more assets, you have a house, you've been earning for 50 years.
00:41:45.000And yet the idea is you're going to tax people who are not yet born in order to pay for all of this.
00:41:49.000And yet politicians of both parties are unwilling to look this right in the face.
00:41:52.000The only politician who really talks about entitlement reform over the last several decades has been Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, but he's basically been shellacked for it.
00:42:00.000Donald Trump ran promising not to touch entitlements, and so he has not.
00:42:04.000Republicans are in control right now if they do nothing about entitlements.
00:42:08.000That is a giant fail on the part of Republicans because we're going to feel the brunt of this.
00:42:11.000And then it will come down to Democrats saying, do you want to raise taxes?
00:42:15.000And Republicans saying, do you want to cut benefits?
00:42:17.000The estimate is that if we do not actually raise taxes dramatically, then when the Social Security fund goes insolvent, when Medicare goes insolvent, you're going to have to cut benefits by 20 percent.
00:42:27.000My feeling to that is, okay, well I guess that's the way it's going to have to be.
00:42:30.000Because I don't see why my kids should be put behind the economic 8-ball so that my parents won't have to get as much money out of Social Security.
00:42:44.000So again, there are a few solutions here.
00:42:46.000We could increase the payroll tax right now from whatever it is, 11.7% to something like 14 or 15%, or we'll have to cut cost of living adjustments, or we might have to confiscate cash from people.
00:42:56.000You know, people who paid into Social Security, but they're more wealthy, they just won't get anything out of Social Security.
00:43:00.000Or we could raise the retirement age, which is really what we ought to do, right?
00:43:02.000We ought to raise the retirement age, because the reality is that retirement, I don't think, is actually particularly good for people.
00:43:08.000And retiring at 65 made sense in an era when the average age of death was 63.
00:43:12.000It doesn't make a lot of sense in a day when the average age of death in the United States is now over 80 for women and just about 80 for men.
00:43:19.000That's 15 years that Social Security is supposed to pay for you.
00:43:21.000Delaying retirement and moving the retirement age up seems like it would make more sense than all this, but we're not going to focus on any of these problems.
00:43:28.000We're just going to fight useless, stupid culture wars because that's what we do now.
00:43:32.000That's what we are more involved with.
00:43:34.000But this is what we should be paying attention to.
00:43:36.000If the government was designed for anything, it's to solve problems exactly like this.
00:43:40.000And yet, because of the gridlock in our system, which is usually a good thing, in this case it's a bad thing, it means that we're probably going to do nothing, kick the can down the road until that can ends up exploding in our face.
00:43:50.000Okay, time for some things that I like and then some things that I hate.
00:44:12.000They fed the caterpillar, and they let it spin its cocoon, and then it turned into a butterfly, and finally they were ready to release it into the wild.
00:44:19.000And then something unexpected happened.
00:44:26.000Okay, if you can't see it, they released the butterfly.
00:44:29.000The butterfly took about three flaps of its wings, and the family dog ate the thing.
00:44:36.000I tweeted out that this basically was the narrative of the 2016 election, that the media fed Hillary Clinton, and they bathed Hillary Clinton, and they wove a cocoon for Hillary Clinton, and they ensured that Hillary Clinton would never be challenged, and then just as she began to spread her wings,
00:44:50.000Along galumphed the family dog, Donald Trump, and ate Hillary Clinton.
00:44:54.000And that is basically the story of the 2016 election in one hysterically funny nature video.
00:45:00.000Also, this demonstrates, again, everybody has this romantic view of nature.
00:47:59.000Unfortunately, the Democrats have moved into their own populist mode, where they have embraced the left-most perspective on everything, which is why Chris Matthews is upset with the elitism in the Democratic Party.
00:48:08.000He thinks that they need more grassroots, down-home feel.
00:48:11.000They need more Bernie Sanders in the Democratic Party.
00:48:13.000Chris Matthews, get up in the morning!
00:48:33.000And when the party regains that with white, black, Hispanic people, everybody, starts to think of themselves as one of them, instead of being better than them, they'll get back to the party of the people.
00:48:44.000Okay, and then the music rises in the background as he makes this populist speech, and there's the upshot with the light right behind him so you get him in heroic profile, Chris Matthews.
00:48:52.000When we start to realize that we're the party of the people,
00:48:55.000I hate the party of the people nonsense.
00:49:22.000Because being elite at something is actually a good thing.
00:49:25.000If you are elite in the business of economics, you know what economics looks like.
00:49:29.000If you are elite in the perspective-giving business, it's because you're entertaining and hopefully knowledgeable and have a perspective to contribute.
00:49:36.000If you are elite in politics, presumably, you are good at it.
00:49:47.000That's not what Chris Matthews is saying.
00:49:48.000He's saying that if you think that your perspective is better, and that perspective entails, for example, more freedom, not less, then maybe you're an elitist.
00:50:05.000So for the second time in just two weeks, there is a black woman screaming at somebody on the subway that has made news.
00:50:11.000So this is a crazy video uploaded to YouTube last week, and it shows an encounter between two passengers on the New York City subway system.
00:50:23.000So this woman gets on the subway and this unidentified black woman can be seen verbally abusing an Asian passenger, according to LawAndCrime.com, who she claims stole her kid's seat.
00:50:34.000This is the same exact setup as a video.
00:50:36.000The reason I'm getting confused is there was a setup last week I talked about in which a black woman got on the subway and
00:50:41.000People didn't stand up for another black woman and this first black woman started ripping into the Jews.
00:50:46.000In this particular case, this black woman gets angry and starts ripping into the Asians because this unidentified mother starts verbally abusing an Asian passenger who she claims stole her kid's seat.
00:50:55.000The mother proceeded to curse her out, push her on the ground and accuse her of not giving up the seat because her daughter is black.
00:51:00.000Two children could be seen seated next to the Asian woman.
00:51:03.000So in other words, this Asian woman is sitting there with her kids, which you are supposed to do when you have kids because you're trying to keep track of your kids.
00:51:09.000And here's what the video sounds like.
00:52:28.000It actually is a tendency in us from when we are children, this tribal tendency that says my tribe is more important than your tribe.
00:52:34.000Using purported victimization as an excuse to be a nasty human being to other people on the basis of group identity makes you a nasty person.
00:52:44.000Suggesting that this is not an Asian woman's America because I'm a member of one group and you're a member of another group is really gross.
00:52:51.000And pretending that it's not racism because it comes from one group as opposed to another group is also really gross.
00:52:56.000Bad behavior is not unique to any one group, racial or ethnic, in the United States.