The Ben Shapiro Show - The Day After | Ep. 656

00:00:00.000 President Trump enters into wild battle with the media, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is out, and the left's intersectional rage cannot be stifled.

00:00:07.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:08.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:14.000 Too much news!

00:00:15.000 Too much news!

00:00:16.000 Okay, there's no way to cover all the news, but we will do it.

00:00:18.000 And we will do it with aplomb, alacrity, and finesse.

00:00:22.000 Wash us.

00:00:22.000 But first, we first have to talk about the fact that the Democrats have retaken the House, which means that a lot of the positive policies Republicans have enacted over the past two years could be stymied.

00:00:32.000 The Democrats start to obstruct.

00:00:33.000 What effect would that have on the dollar, on stocks and other unknowns that could impact your savings?

00:00:37.000 What is your plan?

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00:01:07.000 So we begin today

00:01:37.000 With a couple of news updates from around the nation, a couple of stories that are deeply upsetting.

00:01:44.000 The first story is obviously this mass shooting that has now happened in Thousand Oaks, California.

00:01:51.000 So this is

00:01:52.000 Pretty close to where we are.

00:01:53.000 Obviously, you know, mass shooting anywhere in the United States is horrifying, but a mass shooting that is close to you feels a little bit more immediate.

00:02:00.000 In this particular case, the gunman who massacred 12 people at a country music bar in SoCal on Wednesday night has been identified as an ex-Marine.

00:02:08.000 We have a policy here on the show that we do not actually identify the name of the shooter, but we'll give you details so that you know motive.

00:02:13.000 He opened fire on the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks at 11.20pm.

00:02:18.000 This person had been cleared by mental health experts after an incident in his home in April.

00:02:23.000 Sheriffs revealed on Thursday morning.

00:02:24.000 So once again, somebody had a brush with the law and the brush with the law was not enough to end with this person being prohibited from firearms ownership or gun ownership.

00:02:34.000 California does have an A rating from the Brady Center for Gun Control.

00:02:38.000 It is considered the most gun-controlled state in the United States.

00:02:41.000 We've had a multiplicity of mass shootings in California in the past few years.

00:02:45.000 We had one in Santa Barbara.

00:02:47.000 We have this one.

00:02:48.000 We had the one in San Bernardino.

00:02:50.000 We've had a bunch of mass shootings in the past five years alone.

00:02:54.000 The killer killed 11 people inside the bar.

00:02:56.000 One of the first cops on the scene he shot also before taking his own life.

00:03:00.000 Survivors from the shooting said he looked like he knew what he was doing as he repeatedly fired his legally purchased Glock 45 handgun.

00:03:06.000 It's also worth noting is that he was using a handgun.

00:03:08.000 He was not using a so-called assault rifle.

00:03:10.000 So all the talk about banning assault rifles would have done nothing to stop this shooting either.

00:03:16.000 We're good.

00:03:38.000 Later died in the hospital.

00:03:39.000 He was Ron Helus, a 29-year veteran.

00:03:41.000 In total, 13 dead, 11 killed in the bar, the sheriff, sergeant, and the gunman.

00:03:45.000 And again, this guy is a former Marine who lived in nearby Newbury Park, who apparently had mental health issues.

00:03:51.000 In April this year, deputies were called to his home amid reports of a disturbance.

00:03:55.000 He was acting irrationally and was irate, so police called in their mental health specialist.

00:03:58.000 They cleared him, decided against having him committed, and left him at the home.

00:04:02.000 It is unclear when he bought this.

00:04:05.000 He had no criminal history except for a minor traffic infraction.

00:04:09.000 A neighbor told ABC he was known to suffer from PTSD.

00:04:13.000 The woman, who did not want to be named, said she had no idea what he was doing with a gun.

00:04:17.000 He had apparently modified his weapon to hold more rounds.

00:04:21.000 So again, gun laws in the state of California not being effective.

00:04:25.000 The handgun was designed to hold 10 rounds and one in the chamber.

00:04:27.000 The weapon did have an extended magazine on it that he'd either obtained illegally or he had modified illegally so that he was able to hold more rounds in the magazine.

00:04:36.000 Obviously a terrible story.

00:04:37.000 It will drive more conversation about gun control, even though, as I say, California is extraordinarily heavily gun controlled.

00:04:44.000 And the notion that more gun control prevents mass shootings like this is simply not true in a country where there are already something like 400 million guns in circulation in the United States.

00:04:53.000 In other news, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who is 85, broke three ribs in a fall.

00:04:59.000 She apparently fell in her office at the Supreme Court.

00:05:02.000 Tests showed she fractured three ribs on her left side.

00:05:04.000 She was admitted for observation and treatment.

00:05:06.000 Broken ribs are incredibly painful.

00:05:08.000 Obviously, we pray for her recovery and that she should be in good health.

00:05:13.000 But her health obviously has significant ramifications for the future of the Supreme Court.

00:05:18.000 Were she to retire from the court, for example, then that would have a massive impact on the future. 0.99

00:05:22.000 President Trump would still have the ability to appoint a replacement who presumably would be frontrunner Amy Coney Barrett. 0.99

00:05:27.000 It's a little bit early to say that, but she's going to be okay, according to medical reports right now.

00:05:32.000 Obviously, when older people fall, there's obviously a lot of speculation about what happens after that, because very often declining health begins with a fall sort of like this.

00:05:41.000 This is not the first time, though, that Ginsburg has fractured her ribs.

00:05:43.000 In June 2012, she fractured two ribs in a fall.

00:05:45.000 She didn't disclose the injury to the public.

00:05:47.000 Until months later, she hasn't missed a day on the court despite a couple of rounds of cancer as well as a fall in the past.

00:05:54.000 She says that she wants to serve on the bench until she is 90.

00:05:57.000 She is now 85, so she's hoping to outlive or at least stay on the court past President Trump's tenure in the White House.

00:06:05.000 So that is your quick

00:06:08.000 News update quick.

00:06:09.000 One more note I should add just about the gun laws and state homicide rates.

00:06:14.000 There is no correlation between mass shootings and gun laws.

00:06:16.000 There is no correlation between state homicide rate and state gun laws.

00:06:19.000 People who have tried to draw this sort of correlation are doing are doing so in statistical error.

00:06:24.000 That is important to note at the outset.

00:06:25.000 Okay, so the big news yesterday, and still this morning, continues to be President Trump's press conference that he held yesterday.

00:06:32.000 It was a wild and crazy press conference.

00:06:34.000 He took something like 60 questions from various members of the press, and he had a fair number of things to say about the midterms.

00:06:42.000 What he had to say about the midterms is kind of fascinating.

00:06:44.000 So here's what he had tweeted out directly after the midterms, President Trump.

00:06:47.000 He tweeted out,

00:06:48.000 So Trump was ready and raring to go immediately upon the outcome of the midterms.

00:06:50.000 Now,

00:07:01.000 Giving President Trump credit for some key Senate victories in swing states, I think, is appropriate.

00:07:06.000 He also gets the blame for Republicans alienating an enormous swath of the suburban vote, which ended with the Democrats taking districts like the Georgia 6th District.

00:07:15.000 You remember that there was a special election in the Georgia 6th District just a few months back when John Ossoff ran against Karen Handel.

00:07:22.000 Ossoff lost despite a lot of money pouring in while Karen Handel lost the seat. 0.92

00:07:25.000 A couple of nights ago.

00:07:26.000 So obviously suburban Republicans got just walloped.

00:07:30.000 In large part because of the unpopularity of President Trump.

00:07:33.000 President Trump then sounded off about what Democrats are gonna do in the future here.

00:07:37.000 He said, Obviously,

00:07:53.000 Everyone knows that the Democrats are going to investigate the president as far as they possibly can.

00:07:57.000 President Trump kind of levying threats that the Senate is going to investigate or that he's going to use the executive branch to investigate.

00:08:05.000 Not ideal, but expected.

00:08:07.000 And then President Trump said this, and in all fairness, Nancy Pelosi deserves to be chosen Speaker of the House by the Democrats.

00:08:12.000 If they give her a hard time, perhaps we will add some Republican votes. 1.00

00:08:14.000 She has earned this great honor.

00:08:16.000 Which is high levels of trollery from the president.

00:08:18.000 Well, then he did his press conference.

00:08:20.000 And his press conference yesterday was basically, there are a few themes.

00:08:24.000 Theme number one was, I'm awesome.

00:08:26.000 I love me.

00:08:28.000 Fantastic.

00:08:29.000 So here's President Trump yesterday talking about how awesome he was in the election.

00:08:33.000 And again, this is somewhat justified by the Senate results.

00:08:37.000 It is certainly not justified by the House results.

00:08:39.000 But here was the president praising himself.

00:08:41.000 It was a big day yesterday, an incredible day.

00:08:46.000 And last night, the Republican Party defied history to expand our Senate majority while significantly beating expectations in the House for the midterm and midterm year.

00:09:01.000 OK, so part of that is true.

00:09:03.000 Part of that is not.

00:09:04.000 It is true that the Republican Party defied history and expanded their Senate majority.

00:09:08.000 That was expected based on the polling data and based on the fact that Democrats were running a lot of vulnerable seats in purple to red states.

00:09:16.000 The Republicans did not significantly beat expectations in the House.

00:09:19.000 You know how I know that?

00:09:20.000 Because I predicted, to the number, how many seats the Republicans were going to lose in the House.

00:09:24.000 And that was based largely on the data that were available.

00:09:26.000 So, Republicans did not beat expectations in the House.

00:09:29.000 It was a bad election for Republicans in the House.

00:09:31.000 It was a good election for Republicans in the Senate.

00:09:33.000 And that has to do with various constituencies.

00:09:35.000 It has to do with the red states getting redder and the blue states getting bluer.

00:09:39.000 But according to President Trump, it's all about President Trump.

00:09:41.000 Now, yesterday I advanced a theory.

00:09:43.000 And my theory is maybe the most controversial theory of all.

00:09:46.000 And that is that President Trump, while he is not a generic Republican, the electorate treats him like a generic Republican.

00:09:54.000 He gets precisely the vote percentages you would expect from a generic Republican.

00:09:58.000 He is treated by the press as they would treat a generic Republican, except more so.

00:10:02.000 The president may act like he's out of the box because he is out of the box, but that does not mean that the response to him is out of the box.

00:10:08.000 In fact, it is very much in line with Republican-Democrat breakdown all the way up till Barack Obama.

00:10:14.000 Barack Obama is the sort of statistical outlier, not President Trump.

00:10:18.000 President Trump has a vested interest, obviously, and so do the media, in suggesting that all of politics revolves around President Trump, a fact which I do not actually think is borne out statistically.

00:10:28.000 But this leads President Trump to suggest that every candidate can be adjudicated, the quality of that candidate can be adjudicated based on how close they were to President Trump.

00:10:36.000 So yesterday, in what can only be described as a pretty classless move,

00:10:40.000 The president gets up at this press conference, and he rips into a bunch of Republicans in swing districts, and he says that if they'd only embraced him more closely, then they would have won their seats.

00:10:49.000 Here he was, literally mocking other Republicans who lost their seats, who he could have used, you know, in places like the House.

00:10:55.000 Here he was doing that.

00:10:56.000 So on the other hand, you had some that decided to, let's stay away.

00:11:01.000 Let's stay away.

00:11:02.000 They did very poorly.

00:11:05.000 I'm not sure that I should be happy or sad, but I feel just fine about it.

00:11:10.000 Carlos Kubella.

00:11:14.000 Mike Kaufman.

00:11:16.000 Too bad, Mike.

00:11:19.000 Mia Love.

00:11:20.000 I saw Mia Love.

00:11:22.000 She called me all the time to help her with a hostage situation.

00:11:29.000 Being held hostage in Venezuela.

00:11:35.000 But Mia Love gave me no love.

00:11:38.000 And she lost.

00:11:40.000 Too bad.

00:11:40.000 Sorry about that, Mia.

00:11:43.000 And Barbara Comstock was another one. 0.96

00:11:45.000 I mean, I think she could have won that race, but she didn't want to have any embrace. 0.80

00:11:52.000 For that, I don't blame her.

00:11:54.000 But she lost, substantially lost.

00:11:59.000 Peter Roskam.

00:12:01.000 Didn't want the embrace.

00:12:02.000 Eric Paulson didn't want the embrace.

00:12:05.000 And in New Jersey, I think he could have done well, but it didn't work out too good.

00:12:10.000 Bob Yugin, I feel badly because I think that's something that could have been won.

00:12:15.000 Okay, I mean, it just goes on like this, right?

00:12:16.000 We don't have to listen to the whole thing.

00:12:17.000 It just goes on and on.

00:12:18.000 President Trump ripping into his own party members who didn't want to associate with him because they were in purple districts or in blue areas.

00:12:27.000 Does he really believe that the solution there was more cowbell?

00:12:31.000 That if Barbara Comstock had brought in Trump, she would have won that race?

00:12:34.000 That if Mia Love had brought in Trump to a blue district in Utah, that that would have shifted the race? 0.94

00:12:40.000 Of course that's untrue, but this is sort of the myth of Trump that's been created in the aftermath of the myth of Obama.

00:12:45.000 The myth of Obama was that Obama had radically shifted American politics permanently.

00:12:48.000 The myth of Trump is that he broke that radical shift.

00:12:51.000 The reality is that Obama was a statistical outlier because he was a uniquely amazing candidate in many ways.

00:12:56.000 Bad president, good candidate.

00:12:58.000 President Trump

00:13:00.000 All he did was sort of allow the reversal back to status quo ante, which is good.

00:13:05.000 I mean, that's great.

00:13:06.000 But but the idea that Trump is some sort of magician with electoral votes is is just not supported by the evidence.

00:13:12.000 I want to talk some more about President Trump's press conference, and then we'll get to the big the big hubbub of the day, which is, of course,

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00:14:35.000 I'm awesome.

00:14:35.000 And everyone who did not sufficiently embrace me loses because I am a magic, magic man.

00:14:51.000 And that was that was the number one.

00:14:52.000 The number two was Democrats.

00:14:55.000 If you start going after me and you start trying to leverage me, then I'm just not going to make deals with you.

00:15:00.000 And this, I think, is relatively fair.

00:15:02.000 Like, I don't think that Trump has any obligation to make deals with Democrats.

00:15:06.000 I think, in fact, that Democrats

00:15:09.000 Antipathy for President Trump will prevent any deal-making from taking place, which, as a conservative, is a comfort to me.

00:15:14.000 I don't want the president making deals with the Democrats.

00:15:16.000 Bipartisan deals tend to be very bad for the country.

00:15:19.000 There's a general rule.

00:15:20.000 So, President Trump says that basically he doesn't want to work with Democrats if Democrats don't want to work with him.

00:15:27.000 If they do want to work with him, then he's happy to work with them, but he is not going to make deals with them while they decide that they are going to crack down on his tax returns, for example.

00:15:36.000 So here's President Trump talking about that.

00:15:38.000 They want to do things.

00:15:39.000 You know, I keep hearing about investigations, fatigue, like from the time almost from the time I announced I was going to run.

00:15:49.000 They've been giving us this investigation fatigue.

00:15:53.000 It's been a long time.

00:15:56.000 They got nothing.

00:15:57.000 Zero.

00:15:58.000 You know why?

00:15:58.000 Because there is nothing.

00:16:00.000 But they can play that game, but we can play it better because we have a thing called the United States Senate. 0.99

00:16:07.000 And a lot of very questionable things were done between leaks of classified information and many other elements that should not have taken place.

00:16:19.000 Now people are very upset about President Trump for saying that partisan investigations will take place on a responsive basis.

00:16:26.000 I'm not sure why they're upset about that.

00:16:27.000 It's pretty obvious that partisan investigations are going to take place on a partisan basis.

00:16:31.000 That's what Democrats have been doing.

00:16:33.000 Okay, then Trump moves to his... Let's get to the actual meat of the matter.

00:16:38.000 So the meat of the matter, all of this went by the wayside because President Trump is in this knock-down, drag-out fight with CNN.

00:16:45.000 And this has been going on since legitimately he was campaigning.

00:16:48.000 And CNN has acted awfully.

00:16:51.000 The worst reporter on the CNN team by a fairly long shot is Jim Acosta.

00:16:55.000 As I said yesterday, find you somebody who loves you, like Jim Acosta loves Jim Acosta.

00:17:01.000 I mean, that dude loves Jim Acosta.

00:17:03.000 Every possible arena in which Jim Acosta can show how much he loves Jim Acosta, he does.

00:17:09.000 I mean, dude buys himself flowers, takes himself out for dates.

00:17:12.000 I mean, the other day, he bought himself an engagement ring, and then he told himself that he couldn't get engaged to himself because that's still illegal, but someday in the future, love will be known as love.

00:17:20.000 I mean, Jim Acosta,

00:17:21.000 Loves Jim Acosta.

00:17:22.000 In any case, Jim Acosta decided to use the president's first press conference since the midterms to grandstand.

00:17:27.000 Because it's a day ending in Y. And Jim Acosta has a microphone.

00:17:31.000 And things went sideways.

00:17:32.000 So here is the exchange that is making the rounds between President Trump and Jim Acosta.

00:17:36.000 I will explain where it got controversial visually if you can't see this.

00:17:40.000 No, not at all.

00:17:43.000 No, not at all.

00:17:44.000 I want them to come into the country, but they have to come in legally. 1.00

00:17:47.000 You know, they have to come in, Jim, through a process.

00:17:49.000 I want it to be a process.

00:17:51.000 And I want people to come in.

00:17:52.000 And we need the people.

00:17:55.000 You know why we need the people?

00:17:57.000 Because we have hundreds of companies moving in.

00:17:59.000 We need the people.

00:18:00.000 But your campaign had an ad showing migrants climbing over walls and so on.

00:18:04.000 Well, that's true.

00:18:05.000 But they weren't actors.

00:18:06.000 They're not going to be doing that.

00:18:07.000 They weren't actors.

00:18:08.000 Well, no, it's true.

00:18:09.000 Do you think they were actors?

00:18:10.000 They weren't actors.

00:18:11.000 They didn't come from Hollywood.

00:18:13.000 These were people, this was an actual...

00:18:16.000 You know, it happened a few days ago.

00:18:19.000 There are hundreds of miles away though.

00:18:21.000 There are hundreds and hundreds of miles away.

00:18:23.000 That's not an invasion.

00:18:24.000 Honestly, I think you should let me run the country.

00:18:27.000 You run CNN.

00:18:28.000 And if you did it well, your ratings would be much better.

00:18:31.000 If I may ask one other question.

00:18:32.000 Mr. President, if I may ask one other question.

00:18:34.000 That's enough.

00:18:35.000 What you're seeing now, and what you're about to see, is a white-out intern kind of pops up, and she goes to grab the microphone from Acosta.

00:18:41.000 She tries to get the microphone from Acosta by reaching over his left arm twice, and then she reaches under his left arm, and his left arm either falls or pushes down.

00:18:51.000 People are suggesting that Acosta is trying to force her away.

00:18:53.000 I don't see that here.

00:18:55.000 What I see is that they come into contact.

00:18:57.000 But it doesn't look to me as though he's, like, trying to actively push her arm away or anything like that.

00:19:01.000 And he says, excuse me, miss, as he does it.

00:19:03.000 So I don't think that's the controversy.

00:19:06.000 It goes like this.

00:19:06.000 He kind of, she sits down again.

00:19:09.000 The exchange continues. 0.63

00:19:11.000 And then Trump continues to go off on Acosta, calling him a rude and terrible person.

00:19:15.000 Because it's a hoax.

00:19:16.000 That's enough.

00:19:16.000 Put down the mic.

00:19:17.000 Mr. President, are you worried about indictments coming down in this investigation?

00:19:23.000 Mr. President.

00:19:24.000 I'll tell you what, CNN should be ashamed of itself having you working for them. 1.00

00:19:29.000 You are a rude, terrible person. 0.99

00:19:31.000 You shouldn't be working for CNN. 1.00

00:19:33.000 Go ahead.

00:19:35.000 I think that's unbearable. 0.97

00:19:36.000 You're a very rude person. 0.99

00:19:37.000 The way you treat Sarah Huckabee is horrible. 1.00

00:19:40.000 And the way you treat other people are horrible.

00:19:42.000 You shouldn't treat people that way.

00:19:44.000 Go ahead.

00:19:45.000 Go ahead, Peter, go ahead.

00:19:46.000 In Jim's defense, I've traveled with him and watched him. 0.97

00:19:47.000 He's a diligent reporter who busts his butt like the rest of us.

00:19:49.000 Well, I'm not a big fan of yours either, so... I understand. 0.95

00:19:51.000 To be honest.

00:19:52.000 So let me ask you a question if I can.

00:19:54.000 You repeatedly said... You are the best.

00:19:56.000 Mr. President, you repeatedly, over the course of... Okay, just sit down, please.

00:20:01.000 Well, when you report fake news, no, when you report fake news, which CNN does a lot, you are the enemy of the people.

00:20:09.000 Go ahead.

00:20:09.000 Mr. President, over the course- Okay, so a couple of things can be true.

00:20:14.000 As you know, I do not like it when the President says that CNN, even when they report fake news, are the enemy of the people.

00:20:19.000 That's not language that ought to be used about people in the United States, enemy of the people, unless they're actual terrorists.

00:20:24.000 But, with that said, when the President is ripping on Jim Acosta, Jim Acosta deserves every rip that he receives there.

00:20:30.000 Everything the president says about Jim Acosta, about how he is rude to people and how he is grandstanding and about how he is attempting to push himself at the expense of all the other reporters in the room, all of that's right.

00:20:39.000 Well, this broke into the open because the White House then denied Jim Acosta his hard pass.

00:20:44.000 Well, a hard pass is basically a security clearance.

00:20:46.000 It says that you don't have to get checked for security every time you walk onto White House grounds.

00:20:51.000 So last night, about 8 o'clock, Jim Acosta tried to go to the White House to do his report from outside the White House.

00:20:55.000 They said, we've revoked your hard pass.

00:20:57.000 You can't come in here.

00:20:59.000 Is that completely inappropriate?

00:21:00.000 No, I think Jim Acosta is a bad reporter.

00:21:02.000 Not only is he a bad reporter, I think what they should have done is they should have said, listen, there are certain procedures in this room.

00:21:06.000 The procedure is that once you ask your question and the president answers your question, we are done.

00:21:11.000 And if he doesn't want to answer more questions from you, he is under no obligation to do so.

00:21:14.000 Nor is he under an obligation to hold up the entire show while you sit there and rant at him.

00:21:19.000 That's not a thing that has to be done.

00:21:21.000 So I think the best possible solution, by the way, would not be to ban Jim Acosta.

00:21:24.000 It would be to just not allow Jim Acosta to ask a question in the White House press room anymore.

00:21:29.000 First of all, I think a lot of these press conferences are a waste of time.

00:21:31.000 I think the amount of new information received at these press conferences is nearly nil.

00:21:35.000 It is basically grandstanding and TV nonsense. 0.88

00:21:38.000 But with that said, Jim Acosta can be both a disgrace. 0.90

00:21:41.000 Two things can be true at once.

00:21:43.000 One, Trump

00:21:44.000 His language on the press can be wrong.

00:21:46.000 Two, Jim Acosta can be a disgrace to his profession who should be immediately replaced forthwith by CNN.

00:21:50.000 Both of those things can absolutely be true.

00:21:53.000 Well, in a second, we're going to get to CNN's response to all of this, plus the overblown response of the White House a little bit, a little bit.

00:22:00.000 I mean, they're right that Acosta's terrible, but they're wrong in another aspect.

00:22:03.000 I will explain why in just a second.

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00:23:12.000 So Jim Acosta is then banned, basically, from the press room, at least for the moment.

00:23:19.000 And Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweets out about his ban from the press room.

00:23:24.000 And she says that, she said, we stand by, let me find all of her tweets.

00:23:31.000 She said, we stand by our decision to revoke this individual's hard pass.

00:23:34.000 We will not tolerate the inappropriate behavior clearly documented in this video.

00:23:38.000 Okay, well, that's fine.

00:23:41.000 I mean, okay, but she also said this.

00:23:43.000 She said, this conduct is, she said, President Trump believes in a free press and expects and welcomes tough questions of him and his administration.

00:23:50.000 We will, however, never tolerate a reporter placing his hands on a young woman just trying to do her job as a White House intern.

00:23:55.000 This conduct is absolutely unacceptable.

00:23:57.000 It is also completely disrespectful to the reporter's colleagues not to allow them an opportunity to ask a question.

00:24:03.000 President Trump has given the press more access than any president in history.

00:24:08.000 Here's the part that I think you don't need to do.

00:24:10.000 And the idea again, watching the video, the phrase put his hands on a young woman suggested he sort of grabbed her.

00:24:17.000 And that's that is not what happened.

00:24:19.000 The suggestion is that he is legitimately like pushing her away, fending her off or any of that.

00:24:23.000 I don't see that. 0.86

00:24:24.000 But what I do see is Jim Acosta being a douche. 0.75

00:24:28.000 Because guess what? 0.99

00:24:28.000 Jim Acosta is a douche. 0.99

00:24:30.000 And that means that Jim Acosta, they have fair reason to say, listen, you're wasting everybody's time. 0.98

00:24:35.000 You're stealing everybody else's time.

00:24:37.000 You don't get to act like this and still ask questions.

00:24:40.000 So we're just not going to allow Jim Acosta to ask any more questions because he's a grandstander and we're not going to do that.

00:24:45.000 And I was asked yesterday by somebody at The Wrap,

00:24:48.000 Who are some good White House correspondents?

00:24:50.000 There are plenty of them.

00:24:50.000 Jonathan Karl, I think, is a good White House correspondent.

00:24:53.000 Major Garrett from CBS is a very good White House correspondent.

00:24:55.000 Jim Acosta is the bottom of the barrel. 0.99

00:24:57.000 He just stinks. 0.96

00:24:58.000 Anyway, CNN responded to all of this with their usual outrage and ire. 0.71

00:25:04.000 This president's ongoing attacks on the press have gone too far.

00:25:07.000 Ooh, America is in danger because Jim Acosta can no longer grandstand.

00:25:11.000 They're not only dangerous, they're disturbingly un-American. 1.00

00:25:13.000 While President Trump has made it clear he does not respect a free press, he has a sworn obligation to protect it, a free press is vital to democracy, and we stand behind Jim Acosta and his fellow journalists everywhere.

00:25:23.000 Hey, Jim Acosta didn't go to jail.

00:25:25.000 Jim Acosta doesn't have a right to a White House press credential.

00:25:29.000 CNN has plenty of other credentialed reporters, including Caitlin Collins over at the White House.

00:25:33.000 CNN is not being rejected from access to the White House.

00:25:35.000 Jim Acosta is being rejected for the moment because Jim Acosta is terrible at his job.

00:25:40.000 And then Chris Wallace ripped into Jim Acosta and he said,

00:25:45.000 Appropriate.

00:25:45.000 He said he embarrassed himself, which is true.

00:25:46.000 He did embarrass himself.

00:25:48.000 So a reporter from CNN said, Hey Chris, at least Jim Acosta doesn't work for state TV.

00:25:53.000 Must be hard to sleep at night.

00:25:55.000 Also curious, I can't find your comments about how shameful it was when your colleagues campaigned for Donald Trump the other night.

00:26:00.000 That apparently is a reference to Sean Hannity campaigning with President Trump.

00:26:04.000 Right, because Sean Hannity is an opinion host who clearly supports President Trump.

00:26:07.000 Jim Acosta is supposedly an objective journalist whose job it is to elicit the truth.

00:26:11.000 Okay.

00:26:12.000 Lindsey Graham responded in the best possible way.

00:26:16.000 Lindsey Graham 2.0.

00:26:16.000 So he tweeted out, Which is obviously true.

00:26:27.000 Jim, Lindsey Graham's take on this?

00:26:29.000 Correct.

00:26:30.000 He scolds the media.

00:26:32.000 Again, a few things can be true at once.

00:26:34.000 It can be true that Jim Acosta is terrible at his job.

00:26:37.000 It can be true that President Trump thrives on this sort of conflict.

00:26:40.000 And how do you know that he thrives on this sort of conflict?

00:26:42.000 Because the biggest story of the day, we're now like half an hour into our show, okay?

00:26:46.000 And the biggest story of the day has not even been touched.

00:26:48.000 So what was the biggest story of the day?

00:26:50.000 The President of the United States fired his Attorney General yesterday.

00:26:54.000 All anyone is talking about is Jim Acosta.

00:26:56.000 Because President Trump knows that all he has to do is ding the egos of a couple of people in the press, and then they will just spin off into the outer darkness for the rest of time, forgetting to ask actual questions about actual things that are going on.

00:27:11.000 Also, I would point out, let's look at the disparity in coverage today between President Trump and Jim Acosta on CNN.

00:27:17.000 People are dying by the hands of the police.

00:27:19.000 So... 0.51

00:27:45.000 Trans women being murdered in the streets? 0.95

00:27:49.000 No policies? 0.91

00:27:52.000 Okay, they're chanting, we know where you sleep at night.

00:27:58.000 They're chanting, we know where you sleep at night.

00:28:01.000 Yeah, that's not, that's not dangerous at all.

00:28:04.000 That's not scary at all.

00:28:05.000 Just fantastic.

00:28:17.000 Carlson told the Washington Post quote,

00:28:48.000 I mean, that is ugly, ugly stuff. 1.00

00:28:49.000 And of course, there are apologists, including the ridiculously stupid Matt Iglesias over at Vox.com, the repository of all stupidity. 1.00

00:28:58.000 And again, there are some people at Vox who are not stupid. 1.00

00:29:00.000 I have friends who work for Vox, but if you are looking for a stupid take, Vox is a good place to start. 0.99

00:29:05.000 Matt Iglesias wrote, I think the idea behind terrorizing his family, like it or not, is strategy, is to make them feel some of the fear that the victims of MAGA-inspired violence feel, thanks to the nonstop racial incitement coming from Tucker. 0.91

00:29:17.000 And then he said, I think this is probably not tactically sound, but if your instinct is to empathize with the fear of the Carlson family rather than with the fear of his victims, then you should take a moment to reflect on why that is.

00:29:28.000 Um, because they tried to break into his house last night?

00:29:31.000 Maybe that's why that is?

00:29:33.000 Just ugly, ugly stuff from the media, but we'll see how they cover things today.

00:29:38.000 I have my doubts that they will cover it in an honest way, or cover it at all.

00:29:41.000 We'll get a lot more about how President Trump is an ever-present threat to the press, but, you know, the, but, but protesters showing up at Tucker Carlson's house trying to break down his front door, not actually a threat to the press.

00:29:52.000 Solid stuff.

00:29:52.000 Okay, I want to get to the firing of Just Sessions, what it means, what it doesn't mean, in just one second.

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00:31:16.000 OK, so I do want to talk about Jeff Sessions, his firing.

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00:32:23.000 So the actual big news of the day is that the Attorney General is gone.

00:32:28.000 So there was a lot of talk about how Attorney General Sessions was in serious trouble.

00:32:34.000 He'd been in serious trouble for a long time.

00:32:36.000 President Trump spent an awful lot of time ripping on him on Twitter.

00:32:39.000 And people like me would be like, dude, you picked him.

00:32:41.000 And Trump, every couple of weeks, would be like, And he was very angry at Jeff Sessions because Sessions, very early on, recused himself from the Trump-Russia investigation because he was involved in the campaign.

00:32:59.000 And that meant that Rod Rosenstein was overseeing the Mueller investigation.

00:33:02.000 Well, the Mueller investigation is getting about ready to wrap.

00:33:04.000 We're going to find out in the next few weeks what is in there.

00:33:07.000 They are apparently putting the final touches on their report, which will, I am sure, be a grenade thrown into the midst of our already chaotic politics.

00:33:15.000 So that'll just be spectacular.

00:33:17.000 I'm happy to wait to see what's in there because I don't know what's in there.

00:33:20.000 You don't know what's in there.

00:33:21.000 Trump doesn't know what's in there.

00:33:22.000 Nobody knows what's in there.

00:33:23.000 But the firing of Jeff Sessions is leading a lot of people to be very worried.

00:33:28.000 They think that now the new Attorney General is going to crack down on all this.

00:33:33.000 So Jeff Sessions was fired.

00:33:34.000 He did not resign.

00:33:36.000 Donald Trump tweeted out, we are pleased to announce that Matthew G. Whitaker, Chief of Staff to Attorney General Jeff Sessions at the DOJ, will become our new acting Attorney General of the United States.

00:33:45.000 We thank Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his service and wish him well.

00:33:48.000 A permanent replacement will be nominated at a later date.

00:33:50.000 Jeff Sessions put out a letter in which he began by saying, at your request, I am submitting my resignation, which means that Trump fired him.

00:33:57.000 And he talked about how he tried to abide by the law.

00:33:59.000 I agree with this.

00:34:00.000 I always thought Jeff Sessions was unfairly maligned.

00:34:03.000 You may disagree with him on a number of issues.

00:34:05.000 I do with regard to, for example, drug prosecutions.

00:34:08.000 But that does not actually change the fact that unlike his predecessors under the Obama administration, he actually did attempt

00:34:15.000 He was not using the DOJ as a political weapon of the White House, nor was he acting as rearguard for the President of the United States, which I think is good.

00:34:25.000 I mean, he's the chief law enforcement officer of the United States.

00:34:29.000 Sessions' ouster has created all sorts of consternation because the acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker is a little bit more on record with regard to a wide variety of issues.

00:34:38.000 So, in 2016, he argued that Hillary Clinton should have been criminally charged for her use of a private email server, which, again, I don't see why that's disqualifying.

00:34:47.000 I think virtually everyone in law enforcement who is not a Clinton devotee believes this.

00:34:52.000 But more importantly, he also commented back in 2017 that he thinks that the Mueller investigation was overreaching.

00:34:59.000 In August 2017, he said, Mueller has come up to a red line in the Russia 2016 election meddling investigation he is dangerously close to crossing.

00:35:06.000 It does not take a lawyer or even a former federal prosecutor like me to conclude that investigating Donald Trump's finances or his family's finances falls completely outside the realm of his 2016 campaign and allegations that the campaign coordinated with the Russian government or anyone else.

00:35:21.000 So this has led a lot of folks on the Democratic side of the aisle to be deeply fearful that Trump is installing Whitaker specifically to hamstring whatever ancillary investigations spring from the Mueller investigation.

00:35:32.000 Now, we haven't been talking about that because we've been talking about midterms.

00:35:35.000 We've been talking about fights with Jim Acosta.

00:35:36.000 The media are easily distractible.

00:35:38.000 But this is more of a major issue.

00:35:40.000 Now, I will say there is pretty solid bipartisan support for the idea that the Mueller investigation should simply come to its terminus.

00:35:46.000 It should come to its natural conclusion.

00:35:48.000 Even inside the White House, people just want to let this thing go.

00:35:51.000 Like, the idea that Trump is trying to shut down the Mueller investigation is just... I see no evidence of that.

00:35:56.000 Seriously, like, none.

00:35:57.000 Because Mueller himself has not implied such a thing.

00:36:00.000 Even James Comey said that Trump didn't really try to shut down the investigation.

00:36:03.000 He didn't really do anything.

00:36:04.000 He said some stuff.

00:36:05.000 But Trump says a lot of stuff.

00:36:07.000 Nonetheless, Democrats are treating this as red flag number one.

00:36:10.000 They're on the lookout for bad behavior.

00:36:12.000 So here is Tom Perez, head of the DNC, saying that this is worse than Watergate already.

00:36:17.000 Fact check.

00:36:18.000 It is not worse than Watergate. 0.68

00:36:19.000 Watergate was the Saturday Night Massacre, which was about the firing of Archibald Cox, who's a special prosecutor.

00:36:27.000 That was an active attempt to undermine and derail an investigation.

00:36:31.000 That is not happening here.

00:36:32.000 Trump doesn't like Sessions.

00:36:34.000 There's no indicator that there's been any sort of boundaries put on the Mueller investigation at all by Sessions or Whitaker.

00:36:41.000 When that starts to happen, then I think that we can fairly ask whether the president is trying to put the kibosh on it.

00:36:45.000 But up till now, I've seen no evidence of that.

00:36:48.000 Not going to stop the Democrats from alarmism, of course.

00:36:50.000 On a certain level, this is worse than Watergate, because the Saturday Night Massacre, he kept firing Senate-confirmed people until he found Bork, who was a Senate-confirmed person, to do this.

00:37:02.000 Okay, no, it is not worse than Watergate and that's a wild exaggeration.

00:37:05.000 Chuck Schumer says the timing is suspect because obviously this is the day after midterms and now Trump gets rid of Sessions.

00:37:11.000 The idea here is that by getting rid of Sessions with a Republican larger majority in the Senate, now Trump has the capacity to put in a person of his choosing.

00:37:20.000 The rumor today, the rumor today, is that it will be Chris Christie as his Attorney General, which just...

00:37:33.000 Okay.

00:37:34.000 I actually like the fact that Jeff Sessions was the earliest supporter of President Trump.

00:37:38.000 Not about support for President Trump.

00:37:39.000 I have a feeling that it will be more about Chris Christie fetching President Trump's hamburgers.

00:37:50.000 I am not a fan of the Attorney General being the wingman for the President as Eric Holder was for President Obama.

00:37:56.000 I think that's dishonest.

00:37:57.000 I thought it was dishonest when Obama did it.

00:37:58.000 I would think it were dishonest if it were Chris Christie doing it.

00:38:00.000 I'm suspicious of Chris Christie.

00:38:02.000 It seems to me that the President should put into place somebody with a serious legal background and the capacity to actually treat the DOJ as the chief law enforcement tool of the United States, which it basically is.

00:38:15.000 Here's Chuck Schumer saying the timing is suspect.

00:38:18.000 I'm not gonna say much.

00:38:19.000 I'm not gonna say much until I read what they said and why.

00:38:22.000 I find the timing very suspect, number one.

00:38:25.000 Okay, so, uh, meanwhile, Eric Holder. 0.83

00:38:29.000 This just shows the hypocrisy of the Democrats. 0.93

00:38:30.000 Eric Holder tweeted this out, which is just insane. 0.97

00:38:32.000 He tweeted out, Mm-hmm.

00:38:34.000 Eric Holder?

00:38:34.000 Mm-hmm.

00:38:47.000 You?

00:38:48.000 That guy?

00:38:49.000 With the face?

00:38:50.000 Over there?

00:38:51.000 You?

00:38:51.000 Yeah.

00:38:52.000 Mr. I was held in contempt of Congress for covering up my involvement in Fast and Furious, and then the president asserted executive privilege to shield me from prosecution?

00:39:00.000 That guy?

00:39:02.000 And you wonder, honestly, it is stuff like that from Eric Holder that makes people go, fine, Chris Christie, fine, who cares?

00:39:08.000 Let Trump appoint Melania. 0.98

00:39:09.000 Like, no one cares.

00:39:11.000 It's because of that. 0.99

00:39:12.000 The radical dishonesty of Democrats leads Republicans to embrace the suck, as Nancy Pelosi was once fond of saying. 0.98

00:39:18.000 Okay, meanwhile, 0.96

00:39:20.000 The Democrats cannot get over the fact that they did not sweep in these latest midterm elections.

00:39:25.000 They did well in the House, but for them that wasn't enough.

00:39:27.000 There was this weird idea going around among Democrats that they were going to sweep everything.

00:39:31.000 They were going to take back the Senate.

00:39:32.000 They were going to take back the House.

00:39:33.000 They were going to win every close race.

00:39:34.000 That obviously was not true.

00:39:36.000 The reason they thought that is because they thought that Obama had created a new normal.

00:39:40.000 The new normal was Democrats win all the time.

00:39:42.000 They never lose.

00:39:43.000 And there was this new, durable coalition that was extendable across time and space with growing demographic groups.

00:39:50.000 And it turns out that the only person who was able to put together that coalition was Barack Obama.

00:39:55.000 And then once Obama was off the ballot, then American politics basically went back to American politics as it was before.

00:40:00.000 Republicans vote for Republicans, Democrats vote for Democrats.

00:40:03.000 People don't like voting for radicals.

00:40:05.000 In fact, there was a Sean McElwee, who is, I think he's over at Salon, maybe?

00:40:11.000 He's a very left-wing, he's at The Nation.

00:40:13.000 He's a very left-wing analyst.

00:40:16.000 He had created a list of the eight most progressive Democrats running, and all eight of them lost in the midterms.

00:40:22.000 So, the Democrats are upset because they had this mythical version of what the United States was that was

00:40:28.000 Pretty roundly refuted during the midterm elections.

00:40:31.000 This has led to an outsized amount of rage on the left.

00:40:33.000 So the chief target of such ire has been white women. 1.00

00:40:38.000 So this was the next intersectional group to go.

00:40:40.000 As I've always said, there's an intersectional hierarchy of victimhood.

00:40:43.000 If you are at the top of that intersectional hierarchy, then your opinion means everything.

00:40:47.000 If you are at the bottom of that intersectional hierarchy, your opinion means nothing and you must shut up. 0.60

00:40:51.000 At the bottom are white men, followed by white women. 0.98

00:40:54.000 So the Women's March, which is filled with anti-Semites at the top level. 0.97

00:40:57.000 And by the way, I have to stop here and give credit to Alyssa Milano, who did the right thing.

00:41:01.000 Alyssa Milano came out and said she is no longer going to associate with the Women's March so long as Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory remain a part of the leadership and refuse to condemn Louis Farrakhan.

00:41:10.000 Good for Alyssa Milano. 1.00

00:41:12.000 And really, a little intellectual honesty from somebody with whom I disagree.

00:41:14.000 So seriously, real clap for Alyssa Milano.

00:41:17.000 The Women's March tweeted this out.

00:41:19.000 There needs to be accountability and an honest reckoning.

00:41:22.000 There's a lot of work to do, white women. 1.00

00:41:24.000 A lot of learning.

00:41:25.000 A lot of growing.

00:41:26.000 We want to do it with you.

00:41:27.000 Stay tuned.

00:41:28.000 Hey, what the Women's March actually means is, white women, why don't you think like we tell you to think? 1.00

00:41:33.000 Because true feminism is telling women how to think. 1.00

00:41:35.000 That's what feminism is really about. 1.00

00:41:37.000 Not women having their own opinions, with which you may agree or disagree, but women voting as you tell them to vote. 0.94

00:41:43.000 Jemele Hill used to work over at ESPN.

00:41:46.000 She tweeted out 59% of white women voted for Ted Cruz.

00:41:49.000 53% of white women voted for Donald Trump.

00:41:51.000 So given these numbers, who is the real face of feminism? 1.00

00:41:54.000 Well, clearly the real face of feminism is Jemele Hill, who tells women that they need to vote how she wants them to vote. 1.00

00:41:59.000 That's what real feminism looks like. 1.00

00:42:01.000 And then Mona Eltaoui, I think that's her name, this far left progressive commentator, she did the same thing.

00:42:08.000 She said, look at these bigoted white women who voted 59% for Ted Cruz. 1.00

00:42:13.000 So let's get this straight.

00:42:14.000 Let's get this straight.

00:42:16.000 95% of black women voted for Beto O'Rourke in Texas. 0.99

00:42:19.000 59% of white women voted for Ted Cruz.

00:42:22.000 But white women are indoctrinated to vote along intersectionally racist lines. 1.00

00:42:26.000 Black women are just voting their conscience. 1.00

00:42:29.000 Why don't we just suggest that everyone is kind of voting for whom they want to vote for, and it's a free country, so who cares?

00:42:34.000 But that's not how the left thinks.

00:42:35.000 So, the next target of their intersectional rage will be white women, which means that the gender gap may actually come down. 0.99

00:42:41.000 Like, good strategy here, Democrats.

00:42:42.000 Go for that.

00:42:43.000 Do that.

00:42:44.000 Make sure that you attack one of the major demographic groups in the United States. 0.99

00:42:48.000 Attack white men, attack white women, the total of which comprises 68% of the American population. 1.00

00:42:54.000 Attack those people. 1.00

00:42:55.000 See how that goes for you. 0.99

00:42:56.000 See if that's going to work out well for you.

00:42:58.000 It's amazing.

00:42:59.000 It's like both sides want to lose the suburbs.

00:43:01.000 Seriously, like Donald Trump will not spend five minutes reaching out to the suburbs.

00:43:05.000 And so he gets swamped in the suburbs. 0.98

00:43:06.000 And meanwhile, the far left progressive Democrats are telling white women that they're a bunch of gender traitors. 1.00

00:43:12.000 So it's like everyone is just slapping around the suburbs and the suburbs have to decide whether they're going to move with the progressive left or they're going to move with Donald Trump. 0.59

00:43:20.000 I swear, if somebody were to just shake hands with anyone in the suburbs, they would win the suburbs.

00:43:25.000 Now, you know who gets this?

00:43:26.000 Cocaine Mitch gets this.

00:43:28.000 So Cocaine Mitch, who has proved himself to be one of the most apt political operators of our time, he sent a majority leader talking to Dana Perino yesterday.

00:43:34.000 He says, listen, we got to reach out to the suburbs.

00:43:37.000 This is what I was saying yesterday.

00:43:38.000 If Republicans want to win, suburbia is where they're going to do it.

00:43:41.000 And that means they need to remake those connections.

00:43:44.000 Well, we definitely need to stop the slide.

00:43:46.000 We used to do much better in the suburbs across America than we're doing now.

00:43:50.000 We're happy about the gains that we've made in rural America, which didn't used to be totally Republican like it seems to be now.

00:43:56.000 Right.

00:43:57.000 But we ought to be able to do both.

00:43:58.000 We ought to be able to appeal to our rural and small town constituents.

00:44:02.000 And do a better job than we did Tuesday in the suburb.

00:44:06.000 OK, so Mitch McConnell gets it.

00:44:08.000 If Republicans want to win, then they will listen to Mitch McConnell, because Mitch McConnell, if he's proved anything, that dude is a survivor.

00:44:15.000 And his Senate majority grew last the other night.

00:44:18.000 So again, I think that let's not be distracted by all of the battles

00:44:24.000 Between the media and Trump, let's not be distracted even by all of the Mueller stuff.

00:44:29.000 Let's focus on what really matters, and that is the lives of people across the United States.

00:44:33.000 If the Republicans focus on that, I think that they win big in 2020.

00:44:35.000 If they don't, I think they lose big in 2020.

00:44:37.000 It is pretty much that simple.

00:44:38.000 Okay, time for things I like and then things that I hate.

00:44:40.000 So, things that I like.

00:44:42.000 I have to admit that I always enjoy Michael Moore's political analysis.

00:44:46.000 He came out yesterday and he said that President Trump is an evil genius.

00:44:49.000 It's always fun to watch Michael Moore pump up President Trump. 0.97

00:44:53.000 Okay, so he's an evil genius, President Trump. 1.00

00:44:56.000 I do love that this is—the Democrats can't decide whether he's an evil genius or whether he's a dunce. 0.97

00:45:14.000 The real answer, as I've said before, is that President Trump is a stand-in for generic Republican, and people don't like Democrats right now.

00:45:20.000 That's pretty much what's happening here.

00:45:22.000 The only area in which President Trump... He's good at two things.

00:45:24.000 He's good at driving out the base.

00:45:26.000 He gets full credit for that.

00:45:27.000 And he's good at driving out the opposition's base.

00:45:29.000 He gets full credit for that, too.

00:45:30.000 Those are the two things that he is really good at.

00:45:32.000 Okay, other things that I like...

00:45:35.000 I'm never going to be on The View.

00:45:35.000 I've given up on that dream in life.

00:45:39.000 There are not many dreams in my life that I've had to give up on, but that one I've had to give up on.

00:45:43.000 Well, I wish that I were on The View because I would like to ask questions.

00:45:47.000 I have so many questions about The View.

00:45:48.000 So Joy Behar over on ABC, she said that Republicans won the Senate because of gerrymandering.

00:46:00.000 She is a quote-unquote political analyst on a mainstream television show, and she thought that Senate seats could be gerrymandered.

00:46:11.000 That's not how the Senate works. 0.94

00:46:14.000 They're just states.

00:46:16.000 You can't gerrymander a state.

00:46:17.000 It's not like the state of Iowa just gerrymanders into Chicago to pick up a few extra votes.

00:46:22.000 That's not how this works.

00:46:24.000 So, well done everyone on failing basic civics.

00:46:27.000 Everyone seems to be doing a fantastic job.

00:46:29.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.

00:46:34.000 So I wasn't sure whether to put this in Things I Like or Things I Hate, but it is a hilarious story.

00:46:38.000 So this is according to the UK Telegraph.

00:46:40.000 A pensioner in... This looks like a pensioner in Denmark. 0.57

00:46:45.000 He has begun a legal battle to be recognized as being 20 years younger than his actual age, so he can go back to work and achieve greater success with women on Tinder.

00:46:54.000 His name is Emil Rattleband.

00:46:55.000 He is 69.

00:46:57.000 He argues that if transgender people are allowed to change sex, he should be allowed to change his date of birth because doctors said he has the body of a 45-year-old.

00:47:08.000 This guy, not all heroes wear capes.

00:47:11.000 I mean, just spectacular.

00:47:14.000 So, the entrepreneur and self-help guru is suing his local authority after they refused to amend his age-unofficial documents.

00:47:20.000 His case has now gone to a court in the city of Arnhem, in the eastern Dutch province of Gelderland.

00:47:26.000 The case has caused controversy in his homeland, where the Dutch edition of Vice, a news website, asked, is Emile Ratelband disturbed or accidentally extremely woke?

00:47:36.000 And that would be the question, right?

00:47:38.000 Because they are the same thing, being extremely woke and being disturbed.

00:47:42.000 Now the crossover, like, if you had a Venn diagram of extremely woke and disturbed, the Venn diagram is just a circle.

00:47:49.000 Okay, Mr. Rattlebun was born on March 11, 1949.

00:47:53.000 He says he feels at least 20 years younger.

00:47:55.000 He wants to change his birth date to March 11, 1969.

00:47:58.000 He says, I've done a checkup.

00:47:59.000 What does it show?

00:48:00.000 My biological age is 45 years.

00:48:02.000 When I'm 69, I'm limited.

00:48:03.000 If I'm 49, I can buy a new house, drive a different car.

00:48:05.000 I can take up more work.

00:48:07.000 When I'm on Tinder and I say I'm 69, I don't get an answer.

00:48:09.000 When I'm 49, with the face I have, I will be in a luxurious position.

00:48:13.000 Transgenders can now have their gender changed on their birth certificate.

00:48:16.000 In the same spirit, there should be room for an age change.

00:48:20.000 Okay, there are some of us, there are some of us who actually made this, used this as an example, used this as an example of why transgenderism is bad logic. 0.99

00:48:31.000 In fact, there are videos that some of us have cut.

00:48:33.000 With, like, 70 million views, in which we ask this exact question.

00:48:38.000 So, good for this guy, because I love it.

00:48:41.000 The court said there would be practical problems.

00:48:43.000 This is so good.

00:48:44.000 Okay, so the judge said he had some sympathy with Mr. Rattleband, as people could now change their gender, which would have once been unthinkable.

00:48:49.000 But the court said there'd be practical problems in allowing people to change their birth date, as it would mean legally deleting part of their lives.

00:48:56.000 Oh, you mean like legally deleting the part of your life where you are biologically male, as in your entire life, if you're a transgender female? 0.89

00:49:04.000 Or legally deleting even the part of your life where you identified as a member of the other gender?

00:49:08.000 The judge asked Mr. Rattleband about the status of his early years from 1949 to 1969, if his official birthday was put back.

00:49:14.000 He said, for whom did your parents care in those years?

00:49:16.000 Who was that little boy back then?

00:49:18.000 The judge asked.

00:49:18.000 The court is going to deliver a ruling on it.

00:49:22.000 And the answer is,

00:49:23.000 Who cares?

00:49:25.000 Shouldn't that be the woke answer?

00:49:26.000 The woke answer is, who cares?

00:49:27.000 Your parents cared for it.

00:49:28.000 We're just rewriting history now.

00:49:30.000 So if you were a little boy growing up and now you think that you are a woman, were your parents caring for a little boy?

00:49:35.000 No, because we can change your birth certificate.

00:49:36.000 So they were apparently caring for a little girl.

00:49:38.000 You were always a little girl.

00:49:39.000 So if you say that you are actually 20 years younger than you are, then your parents were caring for nothing.

00:49:45.000 You didn't exist.

00:49:46.000 It was all a figment of the imagination.

00:49:48.000 I love this story so much.

00:49:49.000 I should have put it in Things I Like.

00:49:50.000 It's just, I've decided.

00:49:52.000 It is too wonderful in every possible respect.

00:49:55.000 Just spectacular stuff.

00:49:57.000 So, good on that Dutch man for being so woke.

00:50:02.000 Okay, well, we will be back here tomorrow with all of the latest.

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