An attempted terror attack in New York City, Roy Moore is on the ballot tomorrow, and President Trump is now in the crosshairs of Democrats focused on sexual harassment. Plus, a bunch of the old Donald Trump accusers are back and better than ever. We ll talk about all of these things, but first, I want to say thank you to our sponsors, over at Texture. In the era of digital journalism, where attention spans can last approximately 0.73 seconds, what you actually want is in depth journalism that lasts a lot of the time, and the only folks doing that are some of the folks in the magazine business. Well, that s what Texture is for. You get unlimited access to 200 premium magazines, including Time, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Wired. And right now, you can try Texture for free. All you have to do is go to texture.app/ben and start your free trial there. If you choose to continue, then my podcast listeners will actually get Texture for just $9.99 a month which is 30% off their listed price so you never have to be bored again. Use that free trial and then keep on keeping up to date with what you ve learned all the time. Ben Shapiro, The Ben Shapiro Show - Episode 004: An Attempted Terror Attack in NYC - Ben Shapiro's Take on the Bombing of New York - The New York Times - The Daily Mail's Peter Bergen's New York Post's A.K. O'Brien's Story of the Attack in the Aftermath of a Bombing in Times Square - And How It's Better Than That? - And Why It Matters More Than That! - And Much More! - by Ben Shapiro . by , and & (feat. ) by is , and , by & His Other Podcasts in on , & , And And , " AND can be found so much more! ! Thank you, or + -- etc., ) # ... Can you help me spread the word about it? | @ ? ~ : // Thanks, & Other at ; !! ' Also
00:00:35.000But first, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at Texture.
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00:02:37.000According to CBS New York, a suspect carrying a crudely assembled improvised bomb is now in custody.
00:02:43.000Following a blast in the underground walkway between Times Square and the Port Authority bus terminal on Monday morning, the blast happened around 7.20 a.m.
00:03:19.000He came in with his parents and three to four siblings, so yay chain migration, and subsequently obtained a green card and became a permanent U.S.
00:03:57.000The poor construction caused a flash of the explosive component, but there were no serious shrapnel injuries consistent with a traditional pipe bomb.
00:04:02.000So this guy was going to be a suicide bomber.
00:04:04.000The first suicide bomber in the United States, really, since 9-11.
00:04:08.000Federal law enforcement officials said the device malfunctioned.
00:04:12.000There was a second device found on him.
00:04:14.000According to Representative Peter King, he may have been inspired by ISIS, he could have been inspired by Al Qaeda, that he was at the very least inspired by Islamist terrorism.
00:04:21.000It could turn out this is part of a larger plot.
00:04:25.000Well, what the full story is, they had to shut down the Times Square entrance to the subway because of the terror attack, but they will be reopening it, I believe, momentarily.
00:04:36.000So that one ends about as well as that one can end.
00:04:38.000President Trump has not tweeted about it yet.
00:04:40.000I'm certain that it will be all about immigration, which makes perfect sense, because again, this guy came in from Bangladesh with his family, and then he was allowed to get a green card.
00:04:48.000We don't know why his parents were allowed in the country, what connections they had, if any, what their story is, but clearly our vetting system is somewhat flawed.
00:04:57.000President Trump is going at it with the media, and rightly so.
00:05:01.000So, last week we talked about this crazy story out of CNN, where CNN reported that there had been an email that was sent to the Trump campaign, September 4th, I believe it was, and the email supposedly contained an encrypted key to WikiLeaks documents.
00:05:16.000Which would have been a shocking story, right?
00:05:17.000It would have looked like actual collusion.
00:05:18.000Like the WikiLeaks people were working with the Trump campaign, showing them documents that they had stolen from the DNC, and then turned them over to the Trump campaign for use in the campaign.
00:05:50.000And then there was a story over the weekend where Dave Weigel, who is a reporter over at the Washington Post, he put out a tweet that was a picture of Trump's rally in Tuscaloosa, Florida.
00:06:02.000And it was a picture of basically an empty setting.
00:06:05.000And he was suggesting that no one showed up for Trump.
00:06:19.000And that is that all of the errors are in one direction.
00:06:38.000There's never an error in journalism that actually has an impact on Democrats, right?
00:06:42.000The errors in journalism always hurt the Republicans.
00:06:45.000And so you have to think that this has something to do with the bias in the media, right?
00:06:49.000Weigel, who is, from what I can tell, a nice guy, I've dealt with him a little bit, but he's certainly of the left.
00:06:54.000I mean, he was part of the so-called journalists on which
00:06:57.000Several years ago, this would have been like 2012, 2011, in which Weigel was part of this list of journalists who were kind of talking about stories, all of them from a left-wing perspective.
00:07:06.000Trump, at his rally, talked about the fake news, and he said that they are not spending any time talking about the economy, which is also true.
00:07:12.000He said, things are going really well for our economy.
00:07:27.000Unemployment is at a 17-year low, the stock market is at another record high, and a lot of that is due to the feeling, not that President Trump is necessarily getting huge things done, but that President Trump is not going to threaten the economy.
00:07:38.000One of the reasons money sits on the sidelines is uncertainty.
00:07:41.000Anyone in economics will tell you, uncertainty is not good for the economy.
00:07:43.000Trump does not actually create economic uncertainty, because again, if Trump is gonna do anything, it's very likely to benefit business, not to harm business.
00:07:50.000The same was not true for President Obama.
00:07:54.000The media have spent very little time talking about the economy.
00:07:56.000Now, to be fair to the media a little bit, President Trump doesn't spend a ton of time talking about the economy either, but it is also true that the media go out of their way to pick stories that are not good for President Trump.
00:08:06.000And Dave Weigel, by the way, came out and apologized for having sent all of this, for having sent this tweet with the empty stadium after Trump came out and criticized him personally and suggested that he might be fired.
00:08:39.000Weigel handles that like a man, and that's the way you should handle it when you make a mistake.
00:08:42.000So, good for Weigel, but the bottom line is that no matter how much the media now attempt to walk it back, the overwhelming feeling that the media are out to get Trump has a pretty significant effect on how people see politics.
00:08:56.000And that means that they are less likely to believe outlets that are not on their side.
00:09:00.000It means that even if there are outlets on their side, they may believe that those outlets are quote-unquote out to get politicians if the politicians have been victimized by the media before.
00:09:41.000Because now we are involved in a knock-down, drag-out race in Alabama, and how people are voting in Alabama is impacted largely by their view of the media.
00:09:51.000I would suggest that if you ask a couple of poll questions, poll question number one, how many people think that Roy Moore is innocent?
00:09:59.000And poll question number two, how many people trust the media?
00:10:01.000I would suggest that exactly the same people who say they have no trust in the media think Roy Moore is innocent.
00:10:05.000Meaning that it's not really about Roy Moore being innocent.
00:10:07.000It's about distrust in the media, distrust of the narrative, the suggestion that Roy Moore is being unfairly targeted.
00:10:13.000And the problem is that any resistance to Moore by anyone is now going to be linked up by the same people who attribute this to the media.
00:10:21.000They're going to say that anyone who sides against Moore is now part of the media establishment, part of the media elite.
00:10:26.000So one of those people is Richard Shelby.
00:10:28.000Richard Shelby is the senior Republican in Alabama in the Senate.
00:10:31.000And he says that he did not vote for Roy Moore.
00:10:36.000Well, you're going to wake up on Wednesday and one of these two men, Roy Moore or Doug Jones, is going to be your fellow senator from Alabama.
00:10:44.000Which one would you rather deal with on a professional level?
00:10:48.000Well, I don't have to answer that question today.
00:10:51.000I had rather see another Republican in there, and I'm going to stay with that story.
00:10:56.000I'm not going to vote for the Democrat.
00:10:58.000I didn't vote for the Democrat, or advocate for the Democrat, but I couldn't vote for Roy Moore.
00:11:06.000I think we've got a lot of great Republicans that could have won and carried the state beautifully and served in the Senate honorably.
00:11:15.000And I think that there's a lot of truth to what Richard Shelby is saying here.
00:11:17.000The problem is, once again, people have bought into the narrative fight, and once they've bought into the narrative fight, they're not going to snap out of it.
00:11:23.000So there are two polls out today on Alabama.
00:11:26.000Poll number one from Fox News says that Doug Jones is up 10 points in Alabama.
00:11:30.000Poll number two, I believe it's a Marist poll, suggests that Doug Jones is down nine points in Alabama.
00:11:35.000It's very difficult for the pollsters to actually gauge what exactly the election tomorrow is going to look like.
00:11:42.000The reason for that is you can't model turnout in a special election.
00:11:46.000Number two, this issue has really polarized the electorate, and it's not clear who exactly is going to show up to vote.
00:11:52.000And number three, the media attention on the race means that different people may show up to vote.
00:11:55.000So the pollsters are having a very difficult time figuring out exactly how this race is going to go.
00:12:00.000Bottom line is it could go either way at this point.
00:12:02.000It's not clear that Jones is going to win.
00:12:04.000It's not clear that Moore is going to lose.
00:12:07.000All of that said, it would not surprise me in the slightest if Moore were to win, especially given, again, that polarization that I'm talking about.
00:12:14.000Every attack by the media on Roy Moore is seen by Roy Moore supporters as a media attack, not as an element of truth.
00:12:21.000And that's exacerbated by the fact that Barack Obama now cut a robocall ad in favor of Doug Jones in Alabama.
00:15:29.000He had said always that he never molested anyone, but he had said that he never knew any of the... He'd said that he knew some of the women, then he said he didn't know any of the women.
00:15:35.000So now he's saying he never molested anyone and he didn't know any of the accusers.
00:15:38.000So if this had been his original story, it would've been a lot better.
00:15:41.000One of the things that lit him on fire was his interview with Sean Hannity, where he said he generally didn't date women who were underage, and he always asked their parents first.
00:15:48.000That sort of said to a lot of folks, well, he's guilty of something.
00:15:51.000Well, now Moore is changing his story, and he's saying he's completely innocent.
00:15:55.000You have said that you did not know them or had no encounter with them.
00:16:32.000The reason that Trump is focused on this is because the entire media has blown this up now, not into just, is this race an endorsement of Trump?
00:16:39.000That's what they would have done normally.
00:16:40.000If you were just a normal Republican candidate, they would have turned this race into, a Democrat is challenging in Alabama, that means that Trump is unpopular.
00:16:47.000They did that in Virginia, when Adam Gillespie lost his gubernatorial race over there, and when there was a big sweep in Virginia, they turned it into, this was a referendum on Trump.
00:16:55.000Everyone knows that this is the first step in the move against Trump himself on charges like those used against Roy Moore.
00:17:02.000On sexual assault, sexual harassment charges.
00:17:04.000It's the reason why Al Franken was thrown under the bus last week.
00:17:07.000The reason Al Franken had to go under the bus, the reason that Al Franken had to be thrown out of the Senate, and he's still sitting there by the way, is because the entire Democratic Party now wants to wheel and hit Trump.
00:17:29.000You see, this is President Trump's agenda, and that's why it's so important that Judge Moore win this race.
00:17:35.000Last night, we had Doug Jones, the liberal Democrat, with one of his Senate buddies, Cory Booker, who said that the president should resign.
00:19:42.000But the point is, the point is that we have the absurdity now of a president of the United States who basically says on a tape that everybody in this country has seen his pride, in a sense, in assaulting women.
00:20:02.000Congress... No, what I just said, what I just... Chuck, Chuck, what I just said
00:20:07.000And you can see that this is the direction that all the Democrats are moving now.
00:20:12.000Now, to be fair to President Trump, the P-word tape is not
00:20:28.000It's not supremely clear on the idea that Trump himself admitted to grabbing women by the bleep.
00:20:34.000He talks about how he moved very heavily on one married woman.
00:20:38.000He talked about how he likes to kiss women.
00:20:39.000He just can't stop himself from kissing women.
00:20:41.000But when he gets to the part where he says you can grab them by the bleep when you're famous, they'll let you do anything, that's not actually an admission of guilt.
00:20:51.000It doesn't really matter, because in the end, there were a bunch of accusers who came out and accused him of doing exactly that.
00:20:55.000I said this when this actually happened last year.
00:20:57.000I said, as soon as Trump says he's never done this, there will be a bevy of women who come forward to say that he has done this.
00:21:02.000And this puts Republicans in a tough spot, right?
00:21:04.000Because all the Republicans who are trying to say that Al Franken should leave are now being cudgeled into the, what do we do about Trump corner.
00:21:10.000You can see this already starting to turn last week.
00:21:12.000I talked about this with Newt Gingrich and Laura Ingraham, both of whom were saying maybe Al Franken should stay.
00:21:16.000That wasn't because they think Al Franken should stay.
00:21:18.000It's because they think Trump should stay, right?
00:21:19.000So, this is all broken down into perfectly partisan lines.
00:21:23.000As soon as a Democrat is powerful enough that Democrats have to keep them around, then they will drop the standard and it'll be very clear where their hypocrisy lies.
00:21:32.000But meanwhile, Republicans are stuck in this difficult position.
00:21:36.000ambassador to the Trump administration, she specifically says that all of these women who accused President Trump should be heard.
00:21:44.000So now Republicans are boxed in a little bit.
00:21:46.000Given that consciousness, how do you think people should assess the accusers of the president?
00:21:51.000Well, I mean, you know, the same thing as women who accuse anyone should be heard.
00:21:56.000They should be heard and they should be dealt with.
00:21:58.000And I think we heard from them prior to the election.
00:22:01.000And I think any woman who has felt violated or felt mistreated in any way, they have every right to speak up.
00:22:08.000And does the election mean that's a settled issue?
00:22:11.000You know, that's for the people to decide.
00:22:13.000I know that he was elected, but, you know, women should always feel comfortable coming forward, and we should all be willing to listen to them.
00:22:20.000Okay, well, that obviously doesn't answer the question.
00:22:23.000And this is the typical take that you've heard about Roy Moore.
00:22:27.000Once you apply any standard to Roy Moore, do you also have to apply it to Donald Trump?
00:22:32.000Trump's not going to resign because Trump denies all this stuff.
00:22:34.000And also because even if Trump did this stuff, he's not somebody who's really governed by shame.
00:22:38.000That's not something that the president of the United States has in ample supply is a capacity for guilt or shame to his benefit politically and to his detriment morally in many cases.
00:22:48.000But one of the things that I think that
00:22:51.000One of the reasons the Moore thing has become a microcosm is because everybody knows what the next step is, and the next step was always coming, and that was the Democrats deciding to use the club of Roy Moore and turn it against Trump.
00:23:01.000Again, it's why they made the blood sacrifice of Al Franken and John Conyers, not because they actually care about the women.
00:23:06.000Now, I'm going to talk about what the media are doing to advance this entire narrative in just a second, but first, I want to say thanks to our sponsors over at USCCA.
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00:24:35.000Okay, so the media, we get back to the media here because the media are now forwarding this narrative.
00:24:40.000So you can see Trump attacks the media because the media attack him.
00:24:43.000People respond to the media's attacks by legitimizing Roy Moore.
00:24:48.000Trump legitimizes Roy Moore because of the media attacks.
00:24:50.000The media take the Roy Moore attack and shift it to Trump, which in a certain perverse way actually justifies Trump's distrust of the media in the first place.
00:26:42.000That was one of the accusers Kelly had on today.
00:26:44.000Second accuser is a woman named Samantha Holvey.
00:26:46.000She says that Trump used to walk through the Miss USA pageant and then inspect the contestants.
00:26:52.000As I understand, you have an experience of something that happened the night before the pageant?
00:26:58.000Well, not the night before the pageant, but when we were in New York City on the media tour, they were doing a book launch at Trump Towers for the Universal Beauty book, and they had a bunch of former Miss USAs and Miss Universes and all 51 of us, and we did the red carpet, and that was tons of fun.
00:27:15.000And then they lined us all up, and Trump went down the line, and he shook your hand and, you know, looked you over, looked you up and down, head to toe.
00:27:47.000Okay, so number one, that is not actually sexual assault, okay?
00:27:50.000And if it's sexual harassment, you are in the Miss USA contest, like where people gaze upon you in your bathing suit, like Donald Trump runs it.
00:27:57.000Was anybody under the impression that this was a class contest?
00:28:16.000I think the answer is yes, but that should have happened during the primaries.
00:28:19.000I think a lot of people did do that, but I think it's unfair to suggest, just the same way it's unfair to suggest everyone who's voting for Moore is doing so
00:29:05.000I mean, like, honestly, all these people should.
00:29:06.000Like, I'm gonna say something controversial now, okay?
00:29:08.000My controversial thing is that everyone who is involved in grabbing women by the bleep, or forcibly kissing women like Al Franken, or raping women like allegedly Bill Clinton, all these people should not be in politics.
00:29:29.000So all this really amounts to, in the end, is the media bringing back up an old topic in an attempt to shame Republicans for the upcoming election.
00:29:36.000That was always going to happen anyway, by the way, because the bottom line is that Republicans
00:29:40.000We're always going to have to embrace the consequences of a man in high office who is alleged to have done all of these things.
00:29:46.000And the allegations, the list is very long, but that's not to suggest that the media bias isn't very real.
00:29:53.000Again, I wish everyone in politics were good, and I wish that voters held everyone to a standard, but obviously we don't.
00:29:59.000Okay, so as we continue, I want to talk a little bit about what's going on in Jerusalem.
00:30:05.000What's been amazing, actually, is that the lack of terror surrounding Trump's announcement that Jerusalem was now going to be recognized as the official capital of Israel
00:30:35.000And this is the way that it works, because all of the people who pretend that anti-Israel sentiment, anti-Zionism is really just about you dislike what the state of Israel is doing, in the end, it almost universally ends up being you don't like Jews very much.
00:30:47.000And the way you can tell this is, for example, what happened in Malmo, Sweden.
00:30:50.000So Malmo in Sweden has become a city that's largely been populated by Muslims from the Middle East.
00:31:53.000There was a Molotov cocktail that was thrown at a Swedish synagogue over the weekend, because obviously every synagogue is Israel, because everybody identifies Jews with Israel.
00:32:00.000And more importantly, they identify Israel with Jews, which is the reason they hate Israel in the first place.
00:32:05.000According to New York Daily News, three people were arrested after a synagogue in Sweden was attacked with molotov cocktails on Saturday night.
00:32:10.000About two dozen people were attending a youth party inside the synagogue in Gothenburg when suspects threw burning bottles against the building, police told Goetborg's Posten.
00:32:19.000The kids inside took refuge in the basement.
00:32:21.000According to a mother who spoke to Expressen, her daughter was in the building and texted her during the incident.
00:32:32.000But, again, another attack on a synagogue, having nothing to do with Israel, but, you know, Jews are the targets.
00:32:39.000In the middle of Times Square, anti-Semitic chants, calls for a new synagogue, in Times Square, in the middle of New York over all of this, and yet all these folks say that this has nothing to do with anti-Semitism?
00:33:23.000And we should be just as angry that they have an embassy in Tel Aviv or Yemen as we are!
00:33:31.000Because every inch of Palestine, this Palestinian land, is up to all of us here, including everyone in the club, to keep this momentum going if we want to see Israel
00:33:48.000Happening right in the middle of Times Square.
00:33:58.000You know, everything was hunky-dory before that.
00:33:59.000You know, all the Palestinian knife attacks in the middle of Jerusalem, and ramming vehicles into toddlers and strollers in the middle of the Jerusalem train station, and the shootings of people in the middle of the street in Jerusalem.
00:34:10.000Like, all that was happening before Trump said any of this, but really it was all Trump's fault.
00:34:14.000You see, what happened is that Trump, all the Palestinians and their allies, they went back in time and they knew already that Trump was going to say this.
00:34:20.000And so they went back, like, to 1929 and started slaughtering Jews in Hebron because they felt like Trump was eventually going to say something about Jerusalem.
00:34:43.000Trump, honestly, they're less upset about Trump than I've seen them about anything in a while because they're distracted with Iran, at least a lot of the Sunni Muslims who normally would be up in arms about this sort of thing.
00:34:54.000This is the right move by President Trump.
00:34:56.000It was a good move by President Trump.
00:34:58.000And again, anti-Semitism is going to exist across the world and target Israel because there are a lot of Jews there.
00:35:05.000People hate Israel because they hate the Jews.
00:35:07.000They don't hate the Jews because they hate Israel.
00:35:09.000They've hated the Jews for thousands of years before the modern state of Israel.
00:35:13.000It's just one of the dumber arguments I've heard in the recent past is that if Israel were just kinder, if Israel had divided Jerusalem, then all of this would have gone away.
00:35:20.000Jerusalem was divided from 1948 to 1967.
00:35:51.000Far beyond the listed rates in the Republican plan.
00:35:53.000That means a business owner's next 100% in earnings under certain circumstances would require paying more than $100 in additional federal and state taxes.
00:36:01.000As lawmakers rush to write the final tax bill over the next week, they're already looking at changes to prevent this from happening, so they rush this thing through, and it actually includes the idea that if you were a married, self-employed New Jersey lawyer with three kids and earnings of about $615,000, then you would actually pay $105 in taxes for every $100 more in business income.
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00:40:48.000I mean, what more is there to say about it?
00:40:49.000If you wanna see something really funny, watch the compiled scenes, the compilation, and then go over to the Honest Trailers version of The Room, because it's very, very funny.
00:41:01.000But this thing has become now a cult classic, and for good reason.
00:41:06.000I did not, that was my reference earlier to, I did not hit her, I did not.
00:41:13.000I have to say, my single favorite thing there is the story about the woman who's beaten so badly she ends up in a hospital and Tommy Musso laughs.
00:41:35.000Kind of the most in-depth biography of Beethoven.
00:41:37.000It gives you the broad strokes of his life.
00:41:39.000There's a little bit too much speculation for my taste, but the biography is very readable and it's a very quick read.
00:41:45.000So if you want sort of the background on who Beethoven was and all of his trouble, the biggest problem that I have with people's kind of takes on Beethoven is they put a lot of focus on his love life and the immortal beloved letter and all this kind of stuff.
00:41:56.000I think that has very little to do with his art.
00:41:58.000Beethoven's art was all about his level of skill, his mastery of music.
00:44:35.000This kid forever is now going to be associated with being the kid who's crying over being bullied.
00:44:39.000And yes, that brings you some national sympathy, and yes, a lot of celebrities will come out of the woodwork to talk about how terrible bullying is, because it is.
00:44:48.000The only way that we're actually going to solve this problem is not on a national level with celebrities saying things.
00:44:52.000It's going to be on a parental level with parents going out and doing something about it.
00:44:55.000So I wish that mom had, instead of taking this tape, I wish that mom had marched herself over to the principal's office and threatened some consequences, or went over to the parents' houses and threatened some consequences, and made sure that this did not happen again.
00:45:06.000I wish that she had gotten this kid fighting lessons so the kid could kick the crap out of his bullies.
00:45:10.000I think that's a better short-term solution and long-term solution, actually.
00:47:18.000He'd been doing rum shots at the woman he'd met earlier in the day, showing off a pellet gun he used in his job in pest control.
00:47:23.000The graphic video was recorded by Brailsford's body camera, and it showed Shaver and the woman exiting the hotel room, immediately complying with commands from multiple officers.
00:47:32.000He lies down on the ground while informing the officer that no one else was in the hotel room.
00:47:36.000And one of the officers, a guy named Charles Langley, says, if you make a mistake, another mistake, there's a very severe possibility you're both going to get shot.
00:47:43.000He says, I'm not here to be tactful and diplomatic with you.
00:48:02.000And then he says, if you move, we're going to consider that a threat.
00:48:05.000And then he says, crawl down the hallway.
00:48:08.000And he tells him to keep his legs crossed, push himself up into a kneeling position, and then his legs come uncrossed, prompting the officer to scream at him.
00:48:15.000And then he puts his hand near his waist, prompting another round of screaming.
00:48:19.000And he said, you do that again, I'm going to shoot you.
00:48:46.000Number two, juries almost always give the benefit of the doubt to the cop.
00:48:50.000So a lot of the evidence that was presented talked about the sort of threat that had been reported by people in the next door room.
00:48:55.000They were afraid that if they walked over to the guy, there might be someone behind the door who was gonna pop out and shoot them.
00:49:00.000So the officer was acquitted in this case.
00:49:02.000But number three, the level of national outrage over this case is not even, there have been no riots, there have been no protests, nothing.
00:49:09.000And the reason for that is because the guy who was shot is white.
00:49:13.000It's because we are more concerned with racial conflagrations in this nation than we are really about police brutality.
00:49:17.000This is a pretty clear-cut case of police brutality and police misaction.
00:49:21.000And the level of outrage over it is not even close to the level of outrage over Michael Brown, who was justifiably shot by witness testimony and by circumstantial evidence.
00:49:30.000So it's just a horrifying video right there.
00:49:34.000And it goes to show you that cops in bad situations sometimes make bad choices.
00:49:40.000This looks like manslaughter to me, at the very least.
00:49:42.000Okay, we're gonna go through Federalist 7 really fast.
00:49:44.000So, every week we go through a Federalist paper.
00:49:46.000We are making our way all the way through the Federalist papers.
00:50:00.000And it's actually very prescient, because he talks about all of these reasons why states could get into a war, and all of them are reasons that the states eventually get into the Civil War, despite the presence of the U.S.
00:50:49.000This is actually what happened, right?
00:50:50.000It was called Bleeding Kansas, and there was a piece of legislation that said that when the state of Kansas was admitted to the union, when Kansas Territory was admitted to the union, the people of Kansas would be able to vote on whether it was a slave state or a free state.
00:51:03.000And so you had slave owners rushing to the state, and then you had freeholders rushing to the state, and going to war literally with each other.
00:51:09.000There were massacres of Americans by Americans.
00:51:11.000It was basically a small civil war in Kansas called Bleeding Kansas.
00:51:15.000So Hamilton was not wrong about this, even in the presence of a federal government.
00:51:19.000Then he says there would be trade disputes between these various states.
00:51:22.000He says each state or separate confederacy would pursue a system of commercial policy peculiar to itself.
00:51:27.000This was actually not healed by the federal government either.
00:51:29.000There was very nearly a civil war in the 1830s over the so-called tariff of abominations.
00:51:33.000That was when the North decided to put tariffs on goods coming in that were to be used by the South.
00:51:39.000And the South was very upset about this and threatened nullification.
00:51:43.000This is the nullification crisis that Andrew Jackson swore to basically break the South over.
00:51:49.000So we very nearly came to blows over trade.
00:52:20.000So the point that I'm making here is that Hamilton was right about the fact that if you don't have a strong federal government, or at least a federal government strong enough that we all have national allegiance to it, you end up getting in wars with each other.
00:52:31.000The federal government was not sufficient to prevent those wars from breaking out over exactly the reasons Hamilton saw them breaking out.
00:52:37.000Okay, so we'll be back here tomorrow with all of the latest fallout in politics and pop culture.