The Ben Shapiro Show - January 23, 2018


The Day After | Ep. 459

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missing text messages immigration negotiations government shutdown Bodak Yellow lyrics phenomenon
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Donald Trump Chuck Schumer Robert Mueller Jane Fonda Peter Strzok Lisa Page Kellyanne Conway Bodak Yellow Chris Cuomo Ted Cruz Cardi B Hillary Clinton Oprah Winfrey Barack Obama Dune Debbie Wasserman Schultz Sarah Huckabee Sanders Joe Scarborough Mika Brzezinski Lindsey Graham and 49 more
Shutdown Showdown | Ep. 458 The Imploding Russia Probe | Ep. 460

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Ben Shapiro talks about the latest in the ongoing saga of the Mueller investigation, including the revelation that hundreds of text messages between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page have gone missing, and why the DOJ should get a second independent counsel to investigate the matter. He also talks about a potential nuclear disaster, and what would happen if one were to happen in the event of a nuclear attack on the United States, and the NFL makes a big boo-boo leading up to the Super Bowl. Ben Shapiro is the host of the conservative podcast "The Ben Shapiro Show" and is a regular contributor on Fox News Channel's "The Five". He is also the co-host of "The Daily Wire" and hosts the conservative radio show "The View From The Top" on SiriusXM's The View from the Cheap Seats. His latest book, "The Dark Side of Politics," is out now and is available for pre-order on Amazon Prime and Vimeo worldwide. Subscribe to his new podcast, "Prepare With Ben Shapiro" wherever you get your books and other media releases, including "The Weekly Standard" and "Keeping Up With The Right." Subscribe on Apple Podcasts and other podcasting platforms wherever you re listening to the show. Learn more about you can get the latest releases and subscribe to "Preparing With Ben" on the "Righteous Minds" channel on Audible. and wherever else you might be listening to "Right On The Same Thing." - Subscribe and Shoutrocks on the Left's newest podcast on the Right On The Left's "Left On The Right's Guide to the Left On Down" and "The Right On Down's Most Powerful Podcasts on Social Media Strategy and Opinion on the Internet and Social Media Platforms, and much more! Subscribe and shares his latest book recommendations, including his newest novel, "Noah's Notebook: "The Best Podcasts of the Week's Most Influencers of the Left and Right On the Right's Most Successful Podcasts." and much, and so much More! - His new novel "The White House Correspondent's Guide" by Pundit, "Mr. John Does It All," out on Amazon's New York Times bestselling novel "Podcasts and more! " on the New York Magazine's "New York Times Besties" and his new book "The New York Post's "PODCAST " " " and more.

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00:00:00.000 The Mueller investigation into Trump-Russia collusion is taking serious fire.
00:00:03.000 The Democrats are on the ropes after their failed government shutdown, and the NFL makes a giant boo-boo leading up to the Super Bowl.
00:00:09.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:00:10.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:16.000 Well, we have tons to get to today, and tomorrow I will be speaking at University of Connecticut, where, of course, naturally, the administration has decided that I'm a threat to public safety, and they've decided that the general public will not be allowed to attend.
00:00:27.000 It will be students only at University of Connecticut.
00:00:29.000 This is the second school in a row they've done this, or Berkeley they did this, and now they're doing it at University of Connecticut.
00:00:34.000 I think so.
00:00:55.000 We're good.
00:01:13.000 And if that got you thinking, hey, what would happen if, God forbid, there were actually a disaster of that magnitude?
00:01:18.000 First of all, it's important to note, just because, I'm not going to get graphic here, but just because a nuclear weapon would fall on your city does not necessarily mean that you will die.
00:01:26.000 The fact is that nuclear weapons actually do not look like Terminator 2.
00:01:29.000 They don't wipe out entire cities.
00:01:31.000 Instead, nuclear weapons affect a certain area.
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00:02:39.000 So, we begin with today's big news, and that is these bombshell text messages that are now coming out from the FBI.
00:02:47.000 So, the FBI has turned over a bunch of text messages to the Senate Judiciary Committee and the House Judiciary Committee, and these text messages are not looking good for the FBI.
00:02:57.000 So, first off, Bob Goodlatte, who is a Republican from Virginia, and Devin Nunes, a Republican from California, as well as Trey Gowdy, a Republican of South Carolina, issued a statement on text messages they received regarding top FBI
00:03:08.000 We're good to go!
00:03:31.000 The omission of text messages between December 2016 and May 2017, a critical gap encompassing the FBI's Russia investigation, is equally concerning.
00:03:39.000 Rather than clearing up prior FBI and DOJ actions, these recently produced documents cause us to further question the credibility and objectivity of certain officials at the FBI.
00:03:47.000 So, as we mentioned yesterday on the show, there are a couple of big stories that have come out of the FBI.
00:03:51.000 The first is that there are these text messages that were sent between members of the FBI regarding the way the Mueller investigation was run.
00:03:58.000 The second is that
00:03:59.000 Hundreds of text messages apparently have gone missing, among thousands of text messages that have gone missing, hundreds, between Lisa Page, who is working on the Mueller investigation, and her paramour, Peter Strzok, who is also working on the Mueller investigation, was a top counterintelligence guy yesterday on Facebook Live.
00:04:14.000 You should check it out on our Facebook page.
00:04:16.000 We had the opportunity to talk with Representative Jim Jordan, a Republican from Ohio, who's overseeing a lot of this stuff.
00:04:21.000 He's on the Oversight Committee.
00:04:23.000 And Representative Jordan was talking about the fact that they need a second independent counsel to investigate the first independent counsel because this investigation is compromised already.
00:04:33.000 I did ask him a couple of the questions I've asked on the show.
00:04:36.000 Why doesn't the President of the United States simply declassify the FISA warrant that was taken out against Carter Page so that we can find out whether indeed the FBI was using bad intel to target President Obama's and Hillary Clinton's political enemies?
00:04:48.000 He suggested that perhaps Trump didn't want to politicize the issue.
00:04:52.000 I find that unconvincing.
00:04:54.000 Nonetheless,
00:04:55.000 The fact is that there is the release the memo crew.
00:04:58.000 Remember, there was a memo last week that we were talking about that supposedly lays out all of the flaws in FISA, supposedly lays out all of the problems with the FBI.
00:05:05.000 This memo will be released to the public in the next one to two weeks, we are now hearing.
00:05:09.000 So we'll have more information at that point.
00:05:11.000 Meanwhile, according to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, this is reported over at Gateway Pundit, which
00:05:16.000 I don't know.
00:05:35.000 Say something's not true that's not true.
00:05:53.000 I have to say, the number of documents that have gone missing, whether it's Hillary Clinton's email servers or whether it is the FBI suddenly losing tens of thousands of texts, pretty shocking stuff.
00:06:17.000 The FBI servers included over 50,000 texts and apparently the FBI system failed to retain text messages for approximately five months between December 14th, 2017 and May 17th, 2017.
00:06:28.000 As I suggested, these dates are particularly suspicious because May 17th, 2017 is when, is literally the date that Robert Mueller took over the investigation.
00:06:38.000 And then, apparently there's more.
00:06:40.000 So, John Ratcliffe, who is a Republican from Texas, he said after reviewing the text messages that he thinks there is a, quote-unquote, secret society of folks within the DOJ and FBI working against Trump.
00:06:49.000 Here's what the Federalist reports.
00:06:51.000 Quote, Trey Gowdy said the explanation for the missing text may be fishier than the official explanation.
00:06:55.000 He says he saw Strzok and Page discussing getting rid of text in a printout of the messages he and other members of Congress received last week.
00:07:01.000 Quote, lay aside this glaring five-month gap in text that the world's premier agency somehow missed.
00:07:07.000 Gowdy said, Ratcliffe said, And then, Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, he went even further,
00:07:25.000 He said in a radio interview on Tuesday with Jay Weber at WISN in Milwaukee, he read aloud a May 19, 2017 text, right?
00:07:31.000 So this would be two days after they suddenly magically recovered texts.
00:07:36.000 In this text, apparently he wrote, quote, this is to Lisa Page, his mistress.
00:07:40.000 You and I both know the odds are nothing about whether this investigation is going to turn up something.
00:07:44.000 If I thought it was likely, I'd be there, no question.
00:07:47.000 I hesitate in part because of my gut-sensing concern there's no big there there.
00:07:50.000 He said he didn't actually want to join the Mueller investigation because he didn't think there was anything actually going on.
00:07:55.000 Johnson said, I think that's kind of jaw-dropping.
00:07:56.000 He said, in other words, Peter Strzok, who is the FBI Deputy Assistant Director of the Counterintelligence Division, the man who had a plan to do something because he just couldn't abide Donald Trump being president, is saying that his gut sense is that there's no big there there when it comes to the Mueller special counsel investigation.
00:08:10.000 I will say that it does seem like there's a conflict between this text and the implication that Strzok was basically ginning up a fake investigation in order to get Trump.
00:08:18.000 It suggests there was something else going on inside the FBI, but not the Trump collusion investigation, not the Mueller investigation.
00:08:23.000 Because if, indeed, Strzok was texting his paramour, Lisa Page, and suggesting, hey, Lisa, there's nothing here, and I don't want to join the investigation about Trump-Russia collusion because I don't think there's anything there, then that does pose a different
00:08:37.000 Point of view than the suggestion that he was trying to craft out of whole cloth this narrative that Trump was colluding with Russia and then shove that down the throats of people over at the FBI.
00:08:46.000 In other words, there's a lot of confusion going on here.
00:08:49.000 They're certainly going to have to have Strzok testify.
00:08:51.000 They're going to have to have Lisa Page testify. 1.00
00:08:53.000 I do find it highly suspicious that the FBI is saying these messages just went missing.
00:08:58.000 Again, if you are working for the government and messages just go missing, that is really suspicious.
00:09:04.000 You're not allowed to delete government messages this way.
00:09:07.000 I did get a note, by the way, from somebody who's an expert on cybersecurity.
00:09:11.000 We're good to go.
00:09:33.000 I'm not going to buy into the complete
00:09:49.000 Republican narrative that this was all set up from the very beginning and that it was based on bad intel and that it was created out of whole cloth by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in order to get Donald Trump.
00:09:58.000 I don't know if the evidence is there for that.
00:10:00.000 I will say, however, that something smells fishy here with the missing text and with the text about a secret society and all of the rest of this.
00:10:07.000 It's all confusing and it requires a lot of explication.
00:10:10.000 Okay, so in just a second, I want to talk about the fallout from the government shutdown that failed for Democrats.
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00:12:16.000 Meanwhile, while there's all this fallout surrounding the Mueller investigation, there's also fallout surrounding the Democrats completely blowing it on the government shutdown.
00:12:23.000 One of the things that is absolutely hilarious is Joy Reid over at MSNBC said that the government shutdown was actually not a loss for Democrats.
00:12:30.000 She is incorrect.
00:12:31.000 It is, in fact, a very large loss for Democrats. 0.98
00:12:34.000 They got nothing in return and looked like cowards. 0.87
00:12:36.000 They basically, they looked like brave Sir Robin ran away.
00:12:41.000 They stood there and they said that they were going to fight to the end.
00:12:44.000 The end lasted approximately 69 hours.
00:12:46.000 And then out they were.
00:12:47.000 They were done.
00:12:48.000 So Chuck Schumer tried to pretend that he had won a big victory yesterday when he announced the end of the government shutdown.
00:12:54.000 Needless to say, this was untrue.
00:12:57.000 The Republican leader and I have come to an arrangement.
00:13:00.000 We will vote today to reopen the government to continue negotiating a global agreement with the commitment that if an agreement isn't reached by February the 8th, the Senate will immediately proceed
00:13:16.000 Okay, well, only one problem.
00:13:20.000 The White House has immediately announced that they are not going to push for any of the proposals that the Democrats would want here.
00:13:27.000 So, for example, White House spokesperson Hogan Gidley, he said that Graham Durbin, which is the bill that Schumer wants, this is the bill that would give about $2 billion for the border wall, but nothing else, in exchange for keeping 800,000 Dreamers and their parents here.
00:13:39.000 The White House spokesperson said, that's not on the table.
00:13:41.000 So, while Chuck Schumer is saying, we want a big victory here, the answer is, no, they really didn't.
00:13:47.000 Senator Graham and Senator Durbin were completely dishonest when they brought the plan to the president.
00:13:53.000 It did not do anything to address chain migration.
00:13:55.000 In fact, it blew it up and made it bigger.
00:13:58.000 It gave basically amnesty.
00:13:59.000 Those two have been in lockstep on immigration for decades.
00:14:03.000 They want open borders.
00:14:05.000 They want amnesty.
00:14:06.000 That's what Lindsey Graham is about. 1.00
00:14:08.000 I'm from South Carolina.
00:14:09.000 I've known the man for a long time.
00:14:11.000 And it's fine.
00:14:11.000 He can take that position.
00:14:13.000 But to pretend he's anything other than someone who wants open borders and amnesty is just disingenuous.
00:14:19.000 So the White House is taking a very strong stance, at least publicly, on immigration, which means the Democrats gain nothing.
00:14:23.000 They didn't even gain anything here in the bargain.
00:14:26.000 Debbie Wasserman Schultz was asked about this, the former head of the DNC.
00:14:31.000 She was asked by Breonna Keller on CNN, what exactly did you gain through all of this?
00:14:36.000 And Debbie Wasserman Schultz had, I mean, nothing.
00:14:38.000 There's literally nothing.
00:14:40.000 What one thing did he get, you know, from Republicans to justify shutting down the government in the first place?
00:14:46.000 So, so the one thing I would say that he did get is the potential for momentum.
00:14:52.000 Because if, and I'm certainly hopeful that, then maybe he could be in a position to get the House and the President to come on board.
00:14:59.000 I'm still hung up though, and I know Americans are listening, and they heard you say, and it's reverberating, potential for momentum.
00:15:05.000 And they're thinking, potential for momentum.
00:15:07.000 Was that really worth shutting the government down for?
00:15:10.000 The potential for something.
00:15:13.000 I will tell you that Republicans should be asking themselves that question because they shut the government down.
00:15:19.000 Okay, so you can't have it both ways.
00:15:20.000 Either you shut the government down, or they shut the government down.
00:15:22.000 It's not that they shut the government down, and we gain momentum by them shutting the government down.
00:15:26.000 You shut the government down, and then you admitted you shut the government down, and Chuck Schumer admitted you shut the government down.
00:15:30.000 I do love that this is like emanations from Penumbra's.
00:15:33.000 In terms of meaningless phrases, potential for momentum is pretty spectacular.
00:15:37.000 You know what has potential for momentum?
00:15:38.000 This cup, sitting right here.
00:15:40.000 It has potential for momentum.
00:15:42.000 But in order for it to have momentum, I actually have to generate some force into the cup.
00:15:45.000 Right?
00:15:45.000 This is the thing about momentum.
00:15:46.000 It has to be generated by a certain amount of force.
00:15:49.000 Okay?
00:15:49.000 Initially.
00:15:50.000 Momentum doesn't just happen.
00:15:51.000 This is called inertia.
00:15:52.000 Potential for momentum is literally any object.
00:15:54.000 This microphone has potential for momentum if I would take it and throw it right now.
00:15:58.000 Potential for momentum means nothing.
00:16:01.000 OK, it's literally a meaningless phrase.
00:16:03.000 Potential for momentum.
00:16:04.000 So this is what they gained.
00:16:06.000 Other Democrats are ripping Chuck Schumer up and down.
00:16:09.000 There is a gap that is opening wide inside the Democratic Party.
00:16:11.000 It's kind of fascinating.
00:16:12.000 It's reflective of the same gap that opened inside the Republican Party in 2013 after the government shut down there.
00:16:17.000 There were a lot of people on the Republican side who said, you're not fighting Barack Obama hard enough, you need to shut down the government.
00:16:23.000 You need to stop the funding of Obamacare because once it's in place, it's going to be very difficult for us ever to remove it.
00:16:28.000 And there was a gap that opened up.
00:16:30.000 This is really where I think a lot of the anger at Mitch McConnell started was the feeling that he was not fighting hard enough on all of these particular matters.
00:16:37.000 And what that led to was such discontent in the Republican Party that Donald Trump
00:16:41.000 You're seeing the same thing in the Democratic Party.
00:16:46.000 There's a fight now between the so-called establishment wing of the Democratic Party, led by Chuck Schumer, and the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.
00:16:51.000 All the people who want to run in 2020 are now basically doing what Ted Cruz did in 2013.
00:16:56.000 Cruz wanted to run for president in 2016, and so he shut down the government.
00:17:00.000 Now, I like Senator Cruz.
00:17:01.000 I don't think that it was completely a political ploy by Cruz.
00:17:05.000 I think that he felt he was doing what he had to do.
00:17:06.000 But there's no question that he had his eye on the presidential race in 2016.
00:17:10.000 The Democrats are doing the same thing now.
00:17:12.000 Now they're all posturing by saying, we're the ones who really stood tough.
00:17:15.000 Chuck Schumer didn't stand tough.
00:17:17.000 All the people in the Senate who want to run for president are being very clear about what they want to do here.
00:17:21.000 Chris Coons from Delaware, he basically was trying to encourage all these 2020 contenders, guys, simmer down, shut up.
00:17:28.000 Can we actually govern well here or are you guys just going to run for president?
00:17:32.000 What appeals to our base for some primary several years from now is not what I'm worried about.
00:17:36.000 What I'm worried about is how do we solve real problems.
00:17:39.000 And my gut is that at the end of the day, that's what people are looking for in a next national leader as well.
00:17:45.000 So for my colleagues who are hoping that they might be on the ticket in 2020, I don't think simply moving further and further to the left is the best way to accomplish that.
00:17:54.000 I think showing we can solve big problems is the way to encourage people to believe that Democrats belong in control of the Congress and back in the White House.
00:18:02.000 But this is what's so fascinating, is that the Democrats who want to win are now opposed to the Democrats who are radical, right?
00:18:09.000 What we're seeing now is that the Democrats are moving farther and further to the left.
00:18:14.000 This is what's amazing.
00:18:14.000 There have actually been studies on this.
00:18:16.000 Basically, since 2010, Republicans have been stagnant.
00:18:18.000 The Democratic Party, however, continues to move further and further to the left, and Trump has prompted them to move even further to the left, because their hatred of Trump means knee-jerk opposition to anything he does, including funding things like the Children's Health Insurance Program.
00:18:30.000 By the way, funny to note, remember when, like, two days ago, Jimmy Kimmel was complaining that the Republicans wouldn't fund CHIP?
00:18:35.000 Oh, the Republicans are holding CHIP hostage.
00:18:37.000 Oh, the Republicans won't fund the Children's Health Insurance Program. 0.84
00:18:40.000 Oh, they're evil. 0.98
00:18:40.000 Oh, they're terrible. 0.98
00:18:41.000 The Republicans just funded CHIP for another six years.
00:18:44.000 Did Jimmy Kimmel have anything to say about that last night on his show?
00:18:47.000 No, no, there's a giant shock because he's taking all of his cues from Chuck Schumer.
00:18:52.000 But again, the gap in the Democratic Party is open and widening.
00:18:55.000 Nancy Pelosi was trying to prevent it from widening still further. 1.00
00:18:58.000 She came out yesterday and she said, I think that it was a mistake for us not to continue the government shutdown.
00:19:03.000 But then she tried to spin this all as Trump's fault.
00:19:04.000 They're going to try and go back to the well and use Trump as their unifying force.
00:19:08.000 What I think the main obstacle is, if I may, is this.
00:19:12.000 There's a dark cloud hanging over the Capitol.
00:19:17.000 And that dark cloud is the Trump tax scam.
00:19:21.000 That took nearly two trillion dollars and added it to the deficit when you take the cost and the interest on the debt.
00:19:31.000 Two trillion dollars.
00:19:32.000 So therefore, the impact on members on the Republican side voting for more domestic investments is diminished.
00:19:42.000 Oh, like Democrats care at all about deficits.
00:19:44.000 Come on, when's the last time Democrats gave two dams about a deficit? 0.98
00:19:48.000 That's ridiculous. 0.94
00:19:49.000 But, you know, she's trying to shift blame off of Schumer, as well she should.
00:19:52.000 The only person who's honest about this that I saw, completely honest, was Luis Gutierrez, the Democrat from Illinois who is very hardcore on immigration and who is perfectly willing to shut down the government over all of this because this is his lead issue.
00:20:03.000 He says, listen, my Democratic colleagues, they blinked, they lost.
00:20:06.000 I think they caved, they blinked.
00:20:10.000 You know, most of my Democrats are really good at articulating their values and how enthusiastically they support their values.
00:20:18.000 Sometimes they're not as strong and enthusiastic as defending them in the legislative process.
00:20:24.000 So, there we are.
00:20:25.000 The Democrats, I think, are going to be slugging this one out for at least a little while to come.
00:20:29.000 If they win the House in 2018, then it is possible that all of this comes to an end.
00:20:35.000 Victory tends to bring parties together.
00:20:37.000 Loss tends to divide parties.
00:20:39.000 This is obviously the case with the Democrats, who run literally zero branches of government at this point.
00:20:44.000 One of the things that's been fascinating is that not only are Republicans gaining in the polls, but if you look at the way that the districts run, Democrats have a bit of an uphill run.
00:20:51.000 A lot of the districts have become a lot more partisan and polarized, so Democrats would basically have to have a wave in order to take over the House.
00:20:57.000 I've been suggesting for a while I think they probably will take over the House, but I don't think that it's going to be any surefire bet.
00:21:03.000 Especially the way the Democrats are blowing it.
00:21:05.000 This government shutdown does not help them.
00:21:06.000 It gives the impression that they're not competent.
00:21:08.000 And the truth is, they aren't.
00:21:10.000 They decided to blackmail the Republicans.
00:21:12.000 They put a gun to their own head and decided to blackmail the Republicans.
00:21:14.000 It was the scene from Blazing Seattles. 0.99
00:21:17.000 Where the black sheriff puts the gun to his own head and says, they're trying to hang him. 0.95
00:21:21.000 And he says, don't hang me. 0.99
00:21:23.000 He put the gun to his own head. 0.79
00:21:24.000 He says, don't hang me. 0.98
00:21:25.000 Or the bleep gets it.
00:21:26.000 Right?
00:21:26.000 And the town would go, no, no, don't do it.
00:21:28.000 Don't do it.
00:21:29.000 The Democrats thought that strategy was actually going to work here.
00:21:31.000 That strategy obviously did not work here.
00:21:33.000 They blinked.
00:21:33.000 They looked bad.
00:21:34.000 And now we're running up on February 8.
00:21:35.000 There's going to be another government shutdown.
00:21:37.000 But Democrats have no leverage here.
00:21:39.000 And that brings up the question as to what comes next.
00:21:41.000 Because the Republicans have basically said, we're going to try and handle DACA before February 8.
00:21:45.000 That day is quickly approaching.
00:21:47.000 It's already January 23rd, so that means that we're basically two weeks out.
00:21:50.000 But we'll get to that in just a second.
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00:21:55.000 So the holidays might be over, but the winter is in full swing, and that means that you're spending a lot more time indoors.
00:22:00.000 Well, according to studies, the air indoors contains up to 100 times more pollution than the air outside, which can cause illness, allergies, unnecessary wear and tear on your HVAC system,
00:22:08.000 I don't know.
00:22:28.000 We're good to go!
00:22:53.000 We're good to go.
00:23:10.000 What comes next on DACA?
00:23:11.000 That, of course, is the next step.
00:23:13.000 The Democrats suggest that they have the potential for momentum, that they are finally going to be moving forward.
00:23:19.000 And the answer is not so much.
00:23:21.000 Because, as I mentioned, the White House is making clear that they don't want to cave to Democrats, and they honestly have no interest in caving to Democrats.
00:23:27.000 Let's play this out.
00:23:27.000 Let's say no deal gets done.
00:23:29.000 We'll get to February 8th.
00:23:30.000 The Democrats are not going to shut down the government again.
00:23:32.000 So we'll get another funding bill.
00:23:33.000 It won't include DACA.
00:23:35.000 And then we'll get to March.
00:23:36.000 And the Democrats, by the way, have no interest in actually saving Trump from having to back down.
00:23:41.000 But Trump could easily just say, listen, we're not going to fix DACA.
00:23:45.000 We're not going to be issuing any new DACA permits.
00:23:49.000 But we're also not going to start deporting people.
00:23:51.000 We're just going to let people stay here.
00:23:52.000 We'll go after the criminal, illegal aliens first. 1.00
00:23:56.000 If he says that, then nothing really happens.
00:23:58.000 The urgency here—this is the thing about all of this that makes no sense—the urgency here is a little bit overblown.
00:24:05.000 The president of the United States can just continue to waive DACA the same way that the former president of the United States has.
00:24:13.000 The fact that DACA is coming to an end on March 8 doesn't mean that mass deportations are about to happen.
00:24:21.000 The deadline just means that they're not going to be issuing any more new papers for people who have been trying to get papers to stay in the country permanently.
00:24:29.000 Sorry, March 5th is the date that they're looking at, actually.
00:24:32.000 So, the idea that the world ends on March 5th unless they come to some sort of deal obviously is not true.
00:24:39.000 Obviously, it's just not the case.
00:24:40.000 So, that means that there's not a lot of pressure on Trump to come to a deal, and there's not a lot of pressure on Democrats to come to the deal.
00:24:47.000 Here's what we know.
00:24:48.000 The March 5th deadline ends protections for young undocumented immigrants if Congress fails to do anything, but the Homeland Security Secretary is already saying that they're not going to do anything about this.
00:24:59.000 The White House is sort of making hints because they have to, right?
00:25:01.000 They're trying to push Democrats into making a deal.
00:25:03.000 But Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that, you know, maybe they'll start deporting dreamers, probably not.
00:25:08.000 She said, we haven't determined that.
00:25:09.000 We're hopeful we don't have to do that and we don't have to get there.
00:25:11.000 We'd like Democrats to get serious about solving problems.
00:25:13.000 The suggestion being that if we reach this deadline and nothing happens, then Trump could just say, you know what?
00:25:19.000 A little more time for negotiation.
00:25:21.000 I'm not going to deport people.
00:25:23.000 That's the most likely outcome of all of this.
00:25:25.000 Not that he starts mass deportations the way that Ann Coulter would like, but that he actually doesn't do any of that.
00:25:30.000 So, both sides have an interest in reaching a deal, but both sides also have an interest in not reaching a deal, which means that this will probably drag on beyond the deadline.
00:25:39.000 The idea of a quick deadline by February 8th is not going to happen.
00:25:41.000 And the proof is in the pudding.
00:25:42.000 Chuck Schumer is already taking off the table.
00:25:46.000 All right, so Chuck Schumer is taking his big spending boost for the border wall off the table.
00:25:50.000 According to Politico, this happened in the last few minutes.
00:25:52.000 The Senate Minority Leader, through an aide, informed the White House on Monday he was retracting the offer he made last week to give Trump well north of $1.6 billion in wall funding Trump had asked for this year, according to two Democrats.
00:26:02.000 Now they say Trump will simply not get a better deal than that on his signature campaign promise.
00:26:07.000 So, Schumer offered a large increase in border wall spending as a condition for a broader deal to help DREAMers.
00:26:12.000 After that offer was rebuffed, prompting the shutdown, the president has missed the opportunity to get the wall, said one Democratic aide.
00:26:19.000 Senator Jeff Flake had already considered using the promise of border wall funding totaling more than $1.6 billion in order to lure more conservative votes.
00:26:26.000 A dreamer plan written by a bipartisan group of six senators had included Trump's $1.6 billion request as part of a broader $2.7 billion border security package.
00:26:34.000 But the White House had already rejected that deal.
00:26:36.000 So basically, Schumer is withdrawing from a deal that the White House was never going to make.
00:26:40.000 So the Democrats have no interest in coming to the table and offering anything.
00:26:43.000 They would like to see mass deportations.
00:26:45.000 Here's the dirty little secret.
00:26:46.000 Democrats want Trump to do a mass deportation so they can get all the headlines about how mean and cruel Republicans are leading up into the midterms.
00:26:52.000 And Republicans have no interest in surrendering on DACA because they want to get their base out for the midterms.
00:26:57.000 So, my prediction, no deal happens here.
00:26:59.000 So, all the talk about how, you know, we have to reach a deal, we have to reach a deal, it's not going to happen.
00:27:03.000 Tim Kaine, senator from Virginia, former vice presidential candidate, he said, we all want a permanent fix, right?
00:27:09.000 Everyone, Democrats, Republicans, we all want a permanent fix.
00:27:11.000 They're lying.
00:27:12.000 None of them do.
00:27:13.000 All of us in the room felt the same way.
00:27:15.000 So we're sitting around in Susan's office again and again and then we're dispatching and going talking to the leaders and then coming back and doing the same thing, shuttle diplomacy.
00:27:25.000 So we do have a strong degree of trust in each other that we want this outcome of opening the government and finding a permanent protection for DREAMers.
00:27:32.000 Everybody in that room said we've got to find permanent protection for DREAMers and that's really important. 1.00
00:27:39.000 The idea that they're going to actually move forward with something again, I find highly unlikely.
00:27:43.000 They don't have the votes for it in the Senate.
00:27:45.000 Democrats are saying to Trump, you can't just yell about what you want.
00:27:48.000 But the truth is that they basically can't.
00:27:50.000 Ari Melber at MSNBC was trying to pressure Trump.
00:27:53.000 Obviously, this is not going to work.
00:27:55.000 Mr. President, here's the deal right now.
00:27:59.000 You set a deadline for when you'd start deporting children unless Congress acted.
00:28:05.000 Then you said you had a deal with Congress.
00:28:08.000 Then you blew up that deal.
00:28:11.000 If you make a deal and don't stick to it long enough to sign it, you will push people to find other ways to try to force your hand.
00:28:18.000 And since this is a democracy, not a dictatorship or a scripted reality show, you won't always have the final say by yourself, even when you have the top job.
00:28:28.000 You don't get to skip the hard part because you only run a co-equal branch of government, which of course was recently shut down.
00:28:35.000 You can't just yell what you want or go home.
00:28:38.000 Well, actually, that's exactly what he can do, and he just did it, and the Democrats caved.
00:28:42.000 So, the fact is, that's exactly what he will do.
00:28:44.000 And again, I think the chances of reaching a deal here, when Democrats are not bending at all, is extraordinarily low.
00:28:49.000 Right here is Senator Mazie Hirono from Hawaii.
00:28:51.000 She said, listen, the funding for the wall is off the table.
00:28:52.000 We're not going to do that.
00:28:53.000 So, he's saying, Melbourne is saying, Trump can't just shout what he wants and then go home.
00:28:57.000 But that's exactly what Democrats are doing. 0.57
00:28:58.000 Democrats are shouting what they want and then going home.
00:29:01.000 You almost interrupted me when I was talking about Senator Schumer giving the money for the wall to the president.
00:29:08.000 Has that changed?
00:29:09.000 Oh, of course.
00:29:10.000 The wall is no longer something that... Chuck Schumer was willing to put the wall on the tape if we got a full DACA and full DREAMers, and that's not happening, so that's off the table. 0.98
00:29:24.000 What if there's an offer for DACA, but that has to go back on the table?
00:29:27.000 Is the wall funding going to go back on the table at some point?
00:29:30.000 I think we're going to have a full-throated debate on DACA and possibly on a lot of other aspects of comprehensive immigration reform.
00:29:39.000 And I know where I'm coming from, that we need to keep our focus on the urgency of taking care of the DACA dreamers and also comprehensive immigration reform that maintains family unity.
00:29:53.000 They're just going to muddle through this.
00:29:55.000 They're just going to muddle through.
00:29:56.000 Here's the reality.
00:29:57.000 Republicans would like to make a deal on DACA.
00:29:59.000 They would.
00:30:00.000 They'd like to make a deal that also includes border security.
00:30:02.000 Democrats don't want any deal that ends illegal immigration.
00:30:05.000 They don't.
00:30:05.000 They want another wave of illegal immigrants coming through.
00:30:08.000 And that's because, for both humanitarian reasons and also because they believe that these are all future Democratic voters, they would like the border to remain open.
00:30:15.000 Because this is a simple deal.
00:30:16.000 When you ask the common American, just the normal American,
00:30:19.000 There is a deal on the table.
00:30:20.000 Democrats don't want that deal, so there will be no deal.
00:30:38.000 I think that there's a good shot that Republicans should actually try and cut that deal themselves and just invoke the nuclear option if they have to in order to do it, because otherwise Democrats are going to continue using this as a club to beat Republicans with over and over and over again.
00:30:51.000 This issue is not going to get resolved, because no one has an interest in watching this issue get resolved, unfortunately, even though they're all lying about it to you.
00:30:58.000 So, I want to talk a little bit about the school marming media, as well as the NFL blowing itself up right before the Super Bowl in just the most foolish possible fashion.
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00:31:57.000 So, with all of this happening, President Trump's approval ratings continue to be in the dumps, which just shows you that his personal toxicity does not work well for him, even though a lot of his base may like it.
00:32:10.000 The reason I say this is because there's a poll out today that shows Trump matched up against various Democrats, and it does not look particularly good for President Trump.
00:32:18.000 Do these polls mean anything?
00:32:19.000 Not particularly, because in the end, you end up running against a candidate, you know, and when you run against that candidate, you drag them down in the mud.
00:32:26.000 At this time in 2015, or 2013 rather, you were looking at Donald Trump wasn't even on the polls.
00:32:34.000 Right now he's the President of the United States.
00:32:36.000 But if you look at the polls right now, Joe Biden at 57%, Trump at 40.
00:32:39.000 Yeesh!
00:32:41.000 Sanders at 55, Trump at 42.
00:32:44.000 And Oprah Winfrey at 51, Trump 42.
00:32:46.000 That last one is the most fascinating of the three.
00:32:48.000 What it suggests is that the Democratic upswell for Oprah Winfrey, that Oprah Winfrey is going to be the next candidate of the future.
00:32:54.000 She's barely breaking 50%.
00:32:55.000 Joe Biden, of course, is cleaning the floor with Trump.
00:32:57.000 That makes sense.
00:32:58.000 He's an established politician.
00:32:59.000 He's also somebody with blue-collar appeal, apparently.
00:33:04.000 And Bernie Sanders, of course, is highly popular until he actually has to face up with Trump.
00:33:09.000 This doesn't mean, of course, that Trump would actually lose to these people, take all of those statistics with a grain of salt, but the fact is that Trump's personal toxicity is driving down numbers for President Trump and for Republicans.
00:33:19.000 What is providing a lift for Trump and for Republicans is the continued media malfeasance.
00:33:24.000 So the fact is,
00:33:25.000 The economy right now is very good.
00:33:26.000 On foreign policy, the situation is looking a lot better than anyone thought it would a year ago, with ISIS in full-scale retreat.
00:33:32.000 Russia basically boxed in. 0.66
00:33:34.000 And North Korea, for all of the talk about it, is still in a relatively contained position, even though they continue to fire missiles.
00:33:41.000 They have no intention of going to war with anyone, as far as I can tell.
00:33:45.000 The media, however, continue to lie to people.
00:33:47.000 And the more the media do this, the media have basically become Hollywood.
00:33:51.000 Hollywood and the media have basically—they've merged.
00:33:53.000 Whatever the media say, whenever they offer their opinion, whenever they get involved in the kind of schoolmarming of President Trump, people react badly to that.
00:33:59.000 Chris Cuomo was responsible for it yesterday.
00:34:01.000 He had on Kellyanne Conway, and he was slapping Kellyanne Conway for defending President Trump's tweets during the Women's March.
00:34:07.000 During the Women's March, Trump tweeted out that he was happy that these women were marching, and also, by the way, the economy is great, which seemed like a fine tweet to me, but here's Chris Cuomo going after Kellyanne Conway.
00:34:17.000 What are you talking about?
00:34:19.000 I think the people who were marching on Saturday would disagree.
00:34:21.000 Oh, the women's march? 0.60
00:34:23.000 The one where the president was tweeting that all the people are out there marching to say how great he's done?
00:34:28.000 No, no, no.
00:34:28.000 How great the economy is.
00:34:30.000 We have the lowest unemployment rate for women in 17 years.
00:34:32.000 You know that's not why they were marching.
00:34:34.000 Isn't that insulting to all those women out there who are looking for leadership and looking for someone to get behind them? 1.00
00:34:39.000 And instead he makes a joke out of their march?
00:34:42.000 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:34:42.000 It's no joke that the women's unemployment rate is the lowest in 17 years.
00:34:47.000 It is no joke that over a half a million new women enter the workforce on his watch.
00:34:52.000 And it's no joke that they don't get equal pay, and women like you have been forced to do it twice as hard as men to get to the same place. 1.00
00:34:58.000 And it's not right.
00:34:59.000 I certainly have, but not here, and not for this boss.
00:35:01.000 And you know it, and I know it, and you guys are in a position.
00:35:02.000 Why don't you mansplain? 0.99
00:35:04.000 So Chris Cuomo now mansplaining to Kellyanne Conway about the fake gender gap, which is just entertaining as all hell.
00:35:09.000 And then people wonder why Trump continues to win when he just says that the economy is good and Chris Cuomo loses his ever-loving mind.
00:35:15.000 Speaking of media malfeasance, so the NFL has seen its ratings decline dramatically this year.
00:35:20.000 I mean, they've had a serious hit in terms of their public image.
00:35:24.000 People don't like the NFL nearly as much as they used to.
00:35:27.000 I think there are a couple of things behind that.
00:35:29.000 Every time somebody gets hit in the head, we immediately think this guy's going to suffer serious brain damage future—in the future, and that's a problem.
00:35:36.000 But beyond that, it did not help the NFL that their entire image has now been plastered with the people kneeling for the national anthem.
00:35:43.000 It got worse, OK?
00:35:44.000 The American veterans group, this American veterans group, AMVETS,
00:35:47.000 Tried to take out an ad for the Super Bowl.
00:35:50.000 And that ad was an ad featuring service members saluting Old Glory, as well as their response to the take any message, right?
00:35:57.000 So here is what the ad looks like.
00:35:59.000 You can actually, is this a video or it's just a graphic?
00:36:01.000 It's just a graphic.
00:36:02.000 So what you can see is these soldiers standing with the flag, and then it just says, make a $20 tax-deductible donation and help us help veterans by texting veterans to 444-999.
00:36:13.000 And then it just says, hashtag please stand, which is,
00:36:16.000 It seems to be respectful to me.
00:36:17.000 So, they wanted to take out that ad.
00:36:20.000 Instead, the NFL said no.
00:36:23.000 So, the AMVETS national commander, Marion Polk, said, So, this was supposed to be a $30,000 ad.
00:36:43.000 Apparently, the NFL vice president of communications told the Army Times that the league asked them to change the message to, please stand for our veterans.
00:36:52.000 But the group was unable to make changes in time for the deadline.
00:36:55.000 Instead, the NFL is running a similar ad, apparently, from the Veterans of Foreign Wars with the message, we stand for veterans.
00:37:01.000 The NFL has spent two years allowing players to sit, kneel, raise a fist, perform other symbolic acts during the performance of the star-spangled banners.
00:37:09.000 And it's not true, by the way, that the Super Bowl gets rid of politically charged ads.
00:37:12.000 They had a couple of them just last year, of course.
00:37:15.000 I mean, I remember that they did an Audi ad—we made fun of it on the show—titled, Daughter, all about how your daughter is going to be discriminated against, but at least she'll be able to drive an Audi.
00:37:25.000 I remember that from last year.
00:37:26.000 And then there were a couple of ads last year having to do with illegal immigration, also in the middle of the election cycle.
00:37:31.000 So, rejecting an ad that says, please stand, because they want to say, stand for veterans?
00:37:35.000 I don't understand why you can't have an ad that just says, stand for the flag, or stand for the anthem.
00:37:39.000 Like, it's vague.
00:37:40.000 It says, please stand.
00:37:41.000 Obviously, it's referring to the anthem and the flag.
00:37:44.000 The reason you stand for the vets is because the vets stand for the flag and for the anthem.
00:37:49.000 These things are related.
00:37:51.000 But this just demonstrates how the people in the media misunderstand the people they are catering to.
00:37:55.000 The people who actually watch the NFL stand for the flag.
00:37:58.000 And there's a reason that President Trump, when he attended the college football championship game, was actually cheered by the crowd.
00:38:05.000 The fact is that people who watch football are more likely to be in favor of standing for the flag than the average member of the population.
00:38:11.000 People watch football skew male.
00:38:13.000 It skews rural instead of urban.
00:38:15.000 And the fact is, and I'm not talking about black versus white, I'm just talking about population centers on the coast particularly versus the middle of the country.
00:38:22.000 The ratings are higher in the middle of the country from what I understand.
00:38:25.000 All of this being the case,
00:38:27.000 It is absolute foolishness for the NFL to continue alienating its own viewing population, but this is what Hollywood tends to do.
00:38:34.000 Remember, the NFL is part of the entertainment complex, and the entertainment complex is mostly interested in pleasing people who live inside the entertainment complex.
00:38:42.000 They don't want to tick off their own players by running this ad, which I would suggest better to have the audience tick off the players than have the players tick off the audience.
00:38:51.000 I mean, the NFL's got enough hits that it's taking right now that the last thing that it needs is to harm itself further by rejecting ads from veterans that are simply saying, stand for the flag.
00:39:00.000 What absolute silliness.
00:39:01.000 Okay, so I want to do a couple things I like, and then some things I hate, and then we will deconstruct the culture a little bit.
00:39:06.000 So, let's just jump right into things I like.
00:39:09.000 So, things I like.
00:39:11.000 We'll begin with Dune.
00:39:12.000 So we've been doing a little bit of sci-fi and fantasy this week.
00:39:15.000 I had Brandon Sanderson yesterday.
00:39:16.000 This is, of course, one of the great classics of the sci-fi genre, Dune by Frank Herbert.
00:39:20.000 It is a very, very good book.
00:39:22.000 It really reads—the movie is awful, the original movie of Dune.
00:39:25.000 I believe they're making a new version, aren't they?
00:39:27.000 I think they're doing a new version.
00:39:29.000 The whole premise of Dune, if I recall—it's been years since I've read it—but the whole premise of Dune is that there's a planet that
00:39:37.000 Basically has no water on it, and it's a desert planet, and it's the only source of a particular spice, and so the entire commerce of the planet runs off this particular spice.
00:39:52.000 And it's all about the enslavement of particular populations and rebellions and declining empires.
00:39:59.000 It's really interesting.
00:40:01.000 It's a really fascinating book, and it is a world-building book.
00:40:04.000 I don't know.
00:40:27.000 attribute as a journalist, as an interviewer, is that she is willing to take no guff from anyone.
00:40:33.000 I wish she would do that more on NBC. 0.99
00:40:34.000 Whenever she does it on NBC, it's really good.
00:40:36.000 When she does the sort of soft talk, we're going to talk about what we're doing with our nails today stuff, I don't think that's Megan at her best.
00:40:43.000 I think Megan at her best is this, right?
00:40:44.000 Megan really is great at this. 1.00
00:40:46.000 So she had Jane Fonda on the show, and she asked Jane Fonda about plastic surgery, which, again, in a normal interview, I don't see the problem with that.
00:40:54.000 I think it's realistic to ask
00:40:56.000 A woman of Jane Fonda's age, how she looks like that, and what she would do to recommend plastic surgery. 1.00
00:41:00.000 Would she recommend it, would she not?
00:41:01.000 Jane Fonda apparently got very offended by this, so Megyn Kelly just took her to the woodshed. 0.72
00:41:05.000 It's brutal.
00:41:06.000 Look, I gave her the chance to empower other women, young and old, on a subject which she purports to know well, and she rejected it.
00:41:14.000 That's okay.
00:41:16.000 But I have no regrets about that question.
00:41:18.000 Nor am I in the market for a lesson from Jane Fonda on what is and is not appropriate.
00:41:23.000 After all,
00:41:25.000 This is a woman whose name is synonymous with outrage. 1.00
00:41:28.000 Look at her treatment of our military during the Vietnam War.
00:41:30.000 Many of our veterans still call her Hanoi Jane thanks to her radio broadcast which attempted to shame American troops.
00:41:39.000 She posed on an anti-aircraft gun used to shoot down our American pilots. 0.98
00:41:44.000 She called our POWs hypocrites and liars and referred to their torture as understandable. 0.89
00:41:50.000 Even she had to apologize years later for that gun picture, but not for the rest of it. 0.58
00:41:56.000 By the way, she still says she is not proud of America.
00:41:58.000 Okay, boom! 0.81
00:42:00.000 So, I think the message here is do not cross Megyn Kelly when it comes to plastic surgery questions, because, ow-wee! 1.00
00:42:07.000 She basically just takes a brick out of her back pocket and clocks Jane Fonda across the head. 1.00
00:42:11.000 It's been a long time coming.
00:42:12.000 The fact that Jane Fonda has been a well-accepted part of Hollywood for decades after doing what she did during the Vietnam War is insane, and without apology, is even more insane.
00:42:21.000 So, that's pretty amazing.
00:42:23.000 Okay, one more thing that I like.
00:42:25.000 This is an amazing video of a 20-week-old baby in utero.
00:42:29.000 And again, one of the reasons that the pro-life movement is making so much hay right now is because we can actually see inside the womb, right?
00:42:35.000 When you couldn't see inside the womb, then you could pretend that that wasn't a baby in there.
00:42:38.000 Now that you can see inside the womb better and better these days, it is obvious that that is, of course, a child, that you're killing a child when you decide to quote-unquote abort.
00:42:47.000 I mean, if you can't see this, that's a baby right there.
00:42:49.000 There's no way to look at that and not say that's a baby.
00:42:51.000 It's a baby in the womb, obviously.
00:42:52.000 It's a fully formed baby in the womb at 20 weeks.
00:42:54.000 And by the way, the idea that humanity is only based on what we can recognize physically is also silly, but...
00:43:02.000 There's a reason that Planned Parenthood truly objects to 4D ultrasounds and 3D ultrasounds.
00:43:08.000 The idea is that they hate the idea that people are actually going to be forced to look at the child that they're going to kill.
00:43:13.000 I mean, it's an amazing image.
00:43:15.000 Look at that imagery.
00:43:15.000 Just incredible.
00:43:17.000 So that's amazing stuff.
00:43:19.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:43:22.000 Let's do that.
00:43:26.000 We'll really do one thing I hate today, so that is Morning Joe decided to cut an anthem for the Women's March. 0.79
00:43:32.000 So all of the virtue signaling about the Women's March is just ridiculous all the way through. 0.96
00:43:37.000 Morning Joe used to be a quote-unquote fair and balanced show, right, where Joe Scarborough was the Republican and Mika Brzezinski was the Democrat, and now they're married to each other, which is a weird dynamic.
00:43:47.000 But in any case, here was Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski talking about how they had cut an anthem for the Women's March, because we all have to pretend that the Women's March is some
00:43:55.000 We're good to go.
00:44:17.000 We go to break with some of the powerful images from over the weekend as millions of Americans gathered in cities and streets across the nation for the 2018 Women's March.
00:44:38.000 You may get the chance to stand against a column of tanks.
00:44:46.000 What this president is doing is just so wrong.
00:44:49.000 Holding up your hand.
00:44:52.000 You're not standing against tanks, you're standing against Trump, guys.
00:44:56.000 We all in this movement together.
00:44:58.000 You may get the chance to say.
00:45:02.000 We're not stopping.
00:45:04.000 Words like deep within your heart.
00:45:09.000 We cannot have somebody like this in the White House.
00:45:17.000 I mean, just the propaganda, and the propaganda purely about Trump, right?
00:45:20.000 The whole song is just, and they're just showing pictures of Trump and how terrible Trump is, right?
00:45:25.000 I mean, the lyrics, for once in your life you may get a chance to stand against a column of tanks?
00:45:30.000 Like, Trump is a column of tanks?
00:45:32.000 What in the world?
00:45:34.000 Yeah, now MSNBC, there may be just a little bit of bias there.
00:45:37.000 Okay, time for a quick deconstruction of the culture.
00:45:40.000 So one of the things that came up
00:45:41.000 During the Women's March.
00:45:43.000 Apparently, there are some lyrics to a song called Bodak Yellow, which I've never heard of these things, so that's why I analyzed them for you, because if I haven't heard of them, I assume that you haven't either.
00:45:51.000 Maybe I'm just uninformed.
00:45:53.000 In any case, there are a bunch of pictures from the Women's March that have people holding up Bodak Yellow lyrics.
00:46:02.000 Little bleeps, you can't F with me.
00:46:05.000 Right, so that's a picture of one, there's shoes stomping on Trump's head, and then there's another one of shoes stomping on Pence's head, bloody moves, and then it's a picture of, I don't know, is that supposed to be a period?
00:46:18.000 I'm confused as to what this is supposed to be.
00:46:21.000 In any case, these lyrics have apparently become a thing now.
00:46:24.000 So, let's look a little bit at the video for Bodak Yellow and explain why this has become a phenomenon. 0.99
00:46:30.000 You can fuck with me if you wanted to. 0.99
00:46:35.000 These expensive. 1.00
00:46:36.000 These is red bottoms.
00:46:37.000 These is bloody shoes. 0.96
00:46:38.000 Hit the school. 0.92
00:46:39.000 I can get them both. 0.85
00:46:41.000 I don't want to choose.
00:46:42.000 And I'm quick.
00:46:43.000 Cut and roll.
00:46:44.000 So don't get comfortable.
00:46:46.000 Look.
00:46:47.000 I don't dance now.
00:46:49.000 I make money move.
00:46:50.000 Say, I don't got to dance.
00:46:52.000 I make money move. 1.00
00:46:54.000 If I see you now and speak, that means I don't fuck with you. 1.00
00:46:58.000 I'm a boss. 1.00
00:46:59.000 You a worker.
00:47:00.000 Okay, one of the things that I do like about this video is that she's literally riding a camel in the middle of the Arabian desert, presumably.
00:47:07.000 That is not a very empowered place, just noting.
00:47:09.000 That's not a place where strippers make lots of money in Saudi Arabia. 1.00
00:47:13.000 But in any case, Bodak Yellow's, I guess, Cardi B is the name of this human, and Cardi B began stripping at the age of 19.
00:47:22.000 She still says the strip club is her favorite place for dates, and then she was on Love & Hip Hop in New York, and then she does all of the sort of shock tactics that you expect from your normal rapper.
00:47:34.000 But here's what the lyrics actually say, and this is supposed to be empowering for women.
00:47:38.000 If this is empowerment for women, let me suggest that women need to think more of themselves, because this seems rather degrading, actually. 0.96
00:47:47.000 She says, let's find out and see.
00:47:48.000 Cardi B, you know where I'm at, you know where I be.
00:47:51.000 You in the club, just to party.
00:47:52.000 I'm there, I get paid a fee.
00:47:54.000 I be in and out them banks so much, I know they're tired of me.
00:47:56.000 But honestly, I don't give a bleep about who ain't fond of me.
00:47:58.000 Dropped two mixtapes in six months.
00:48:00.000 What bleep working as hard as me?
00:48:03.000 So she has a work ethic, so that's good.
00:48:04.000 She says, I don't bother with these hoes. 1.00
00:48:06.000 Don't let these hoes bother me. 1.00
00:48:07.000 They say pictures, they say goals.
00:48:09.000 B, I'm who they trying to be.
00:48:10.000 Look, I might just chill in some bape.
00:48:12.000 I might just chill with your boo.
00:48:13.000 I might just...
00:48:14.000 Feel on your babe. 1.00
00:48:16.000 My bleep feel like a lake.
00:48:17.000 He want to swim with his face.
00:48:19.000 So now it seems like she's getting aggressive with other women. 1.00
00:48:20.000 So I'm missing the part where this is all female solidarity when she's talking about how she's competing with other women to take their men. 1.00
00:48:26.000 And also she works harder than you.
00:48:28.000 But it's so empowered.
00:48:29.000 It's just so all of this is so empowered.
00:48:32.000 I mean, and by the way, she uses language that if a man used this language, it would be considered sexist, right? 1.00
00:48:36.000 She says, if you are bleep, you get popped.
00:48:38.000 Bleep being a word for the female anatomy. 1.00
00:48:40.000 If men use the word that way, they are considered sexist.
00:48:42.000 If a woman like Cardi B uses the word, then it's empowerment. 1.00
00:48:46.000 My bleep is glitter as gold. 0.98
00:48:49.000 I don't know why—again, I guess if you're obsessed with your own genitalia, then this is empowering to you, but I guess the—I'm not sure what else to expect from a Women's March that thinks it's empowerment to actually wear a hat on your head that is supposedly named after a vagina. 0.95
00:49:05.000 So, just well done, women all over the United States who are really empowering themselves by glorifying stripping and glorifying cheating and glorifying 0.79
00:49:17.000 We'll be back here tomorrow with much, much more.
00:49:23.000 We'll be broadcasting from the great state of Connecticut.
00:49:26.000 So we'll see you then.
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