The Ben Shapiro Show - The Democrats Move From Moore To Trump | Ep. 434

00:00:00.000 An attempted terror attack in New York City.

00:00:02.000 Roy Moore is on the ballot tomorrow.

00:00:04.000 And President Trump is now in the crosshairs of Democrats focused on sexual harassment.

00:00:09.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:09.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:15.000 I hope you had a wonderful and relaxing weekend.

00:00:17.000 We certainly did in the Shapiro household. 0.66

00:00:19.000 But now we're back and there's a lot of news, as always.

00:00:21.000 So it turns out that the Senate Republicans can't write a tax bill.

00:00:24.000 There are certain rates in the tax bill that are above 100%.

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00:00:28.000 And there was an attempted suicide bombing in New York.

00:00:31.000 Plus, a bunch of the old Donald Trump accusers are back and better than ever.

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00:01:54.000 Okay, so we begin today with this attempted terror attack in New York City.

00:01:57.000 So here is the latest.

00:01:58.000 There's a guy who basically was intending apparently on carrying a pipe bomb onto a bus.

00:02:18.000 Instead, his crudely put together pipe bomb burst in his pants.

00:02:21.000 So that's about as well as these things can end.

00:02:24.000 Hopefully he lost his ability to copulate.

00:02:28.000 You know, that'd be the best that I hope would happen to him.

00:02:30.000 But he did.

00:02:31.000 He lost it.

00:02:31.000 Oh, that's good.

00:02:32.000 So he has removed himself from Darwin's pool.

00:02:36.000 So that is excellent.

00:02:37.000 According to CBS New York, a suspect carrying a crudely assembled improvised bomb is now in custody.

00:02:43.000 Following 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.

00:02:51.000 during morning rush hour.

00:02:52.000 Three other people suffered minor injuries that are not considered life-threatening.

00:02:55.000 The other three transported themselves to area hospitals, so that means they're not too badly off if they can transport themselves.

00:03:01.000 They had symptoms like ringing ears.

00:03:03.000 The suspect has now been identified as Akayed Ullah, 27.

00:03:06.000 He was wearing an improvised explosive device, according to Police Commissioner James O'Neill.

00:03:10.000 I'm shocked.

00:03:10.000 I thought for sure it was going to be Bob Smith, Mormon, out of Utah.

00:03:13.000 But it turns out it was Akayed Ullah from Bangladesh.

00:03:15.000 He'd been living in Brooklyn since 2011.

00:03:18.000 He had a visa.

00:03:19.000 He 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.

00:03:25.000 resident.

00:03:25.000 So, making sure that all of President Trump's points about the freedom of our immigration system are proved in one story.

00:03:32.000 And this fellow decided to join up with ISIS, apparently.

00:03:36.000 He made statements that he was inspired by ISIS.

00:03:39.000 The pictures do not look good for this guy.

00:03:41.000 He's a youngster, 27, and again, he has lost his manhood, so that's exciting.

00:03:47.000 He was rushed to Bellevue Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

00:03:49.000 He suffered burns to his hands and abdomen.

00:03:52.000 The device was affixed to his body with Velcro and zip ties, according to O'Neill.

00:03:55.000 It had wires protruding from it.

00:03:57.000 The poor construction caused a flash of the explosive component, but there were no serious shrapnel injuries consistent with a traditional pipe bomb.

00:04:02.000 So this guy was going to be a suicide bomber.

00:04:04.000 The first suicide bomber in the United States, really, since 9-11.

00:04:08.000 Federal law enforcement officials said the device malfunctioned.

00:04:11.000 It did not fully detonate.

00:04:12.000 There was a second device found on him.

00:04:14.000 According 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.

00:04:21.000 It could turn out this is part of a larger plot.

00:04:23.000 We don't know at this point.

00:04:25.000 Well, 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.

00:04:36.000 So that one ends about as well as that one can end.

00:04:38.000 President Trump has not tweeted about it yet.

00:04:40.000 I'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.

00:04:48.000 We 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.

00:04:55.000 Okay, well, all of that is happening.

00:04:57.000 President Trump is going at it with the media, and rightly so.

00:05:01.000 So, 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.

00:05:16.000 Which would have been a shocking story, right?

00:05:17.000 It would have looked like actual collusion.

00:05:18.000 Like 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.

00:05:26.000 Shocking story.

00:05:27.000 Except it turns out, number one, it's not clear that this is a real email.

00:05:31.000 Number two, it's not clear anyone from the Trump administration know about it.

00:05:33.000 And number three, and most importantly, the date of the email was not September 4th, it was September 14th.

00:05:37.000 The emails were actually released between those two dates.

00:05:40.000 So now it was an encrypted key sent to emails that had already been released publicly.

00:05:44.000 So the media ran with this.

00:05:45.000 It was the head of CNN.

00:05:46.000 It was on top of all the media outlets.

00:05:49.000 It was all over the place.

00:05:50.000 And 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.

00:06:02.000 And it was a picture of basically an empty setting.

00:06:05.000 And he was suggesting that no one showed up for Trump.

00:06:07.000 Turns out that was false.

00:06:08.000 The entire stadium was full.

00:06:10.000 And so Trump began tweeting about it.

00:06:11.000 Here is what President Trump tweeted about the media.

00:06:15.000 I'm trying to remember who made this point, but it's a good point.

00:06:17.000 It wasn't me.

00:06:18.000 But the point is a good one.

00:06:19.000 And that is that all of the errors are in one direction.

00:06:38.000 There's never an error in journalism that actually has an impact on Democrats, right?

00:06:42.000 The errors in journalism always hurt the Republicans.

00:06:45.000 And so you have to think that this has something to do with the bias in the media, right?

00:06:49.000 Weigel, 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.

00:06:54.000 I mean, he was part of the so-called journalists on which

00:06:57.000 Several 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.

00:07:06.000 Trump, 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.

00:07:12.000 He said, things are going really well for our economy.

00:07:14.000 He tweeted this out.

00:07:15.000 The subject, the fake news, spends as little time as possible discussing.

00:07:18.000 Stock market hit another record high.

00:07:19.000 Unemployment is now at a 17-year low.

00:07:21.000 Companies are coming back into the USA.

00:07:23.000 Really good news, and much more to come.

00:07:25.000 All of this is true, right?

00:07:27.000 Unemployment 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.

00:07:38.000 One of the reasons money sits on the sidelines is uncertainty.

00:07:41.000 Anyone in economics will tell you, uncertainty is not good for the economy.

00:07:43.000 Trump 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.

00:07:50.000 The same was not true for President Obama.

00:07:53.000 So Trump is right.

00:07:54.000 The media have spent very little time talking about the economy.

00:07:56.000 Now, 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.

00:08:06.000 And 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.

00:08:17.000 Here is Weigel apologizing.

00:08:18.000 Sure thing.

00:08:19.000 I apologize.

00:08:19.000 I deleted the photo after David Martosko told me I'd gotten it wrong.

00:08:23.000 Was confused by the image of you walking in the bottom right-hand corner.

00:08:26.000 It was a bad tweet on my personal account, not a story for the Washington Post.

00:08:29.000 I deleted it after like 20 minutes.

00:08:30.000 Very fair to call me out.

00:08:31.000 Everything I say on Twitter is a joke, except what I say about Swin24, which is I think another reporter.

00:08:37.000 In any case,

00:08:39.000 Weigel handles that like a man, and that's the way you should handle it when you make a mistake.

00:08:42.000 So, 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.

00:08:56.000 And that means that they are less likely to believe outlets that are not on their side.

00:09:00.000 It 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.

00:09:07.000 And this is not good.

00:09:09.000 It's not good for the media.

00:09:10.000 It's not good for politics.

00:09:12.000 It's not good for the soul of the American people.

00:09:14.000 Trump is not wrong, again, to attack the media on a routine basis.

00:09:17.000 The media have attacked Trump on a routine basis.

00:09:19.000 However,

00:09:21.000 The Trump's attacks on the media are just polarizing politics even more.

00:09:26.000 I wish that Trump would restrict his attacks on the media to things like the CNN thing.

00:09:30.000 I think that when Trump attacks the media fairly, I'm on his side.

00:09:32.000 When he attacks it unfairly, I am not on his side.

00:09:35.000 But the bottom line is this is the backdrop to the entire political conversation we're having.

00:09:38.000 And the reason this is important

00:09:41.000 Because 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.

00:09:51.000 I would suggest that if you ask a couple of poll questions, poll question number one, how many people think that Roy Moore is innocent?

00:09:59.000 And poll question number two, how many people trust the media?

00:10:01.000 I would suggest that exactly the same people who say they have no trust in the media think Roy Moore is innocent.

00:10:05.000 Meaning that it's not really about Roy Moore being innocent.

00:10:07.000 It's about distrust in the media, distrust of the narrative, the suggestion that Roy Moore is being unfairly targeted.

00:10:13.000 And 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.

00:10:21.000 They're going to say that anyone who sides against Moore is now part of the media establishment, part of the media elite.

00:10:26.000 So one of those people is Richard Shelby.

00:10:28.000 Richard Shelby is the senior Republican in Alabama in the Senate.

00:10:31.000 And he says that he did not vote for Roy Moore.

00:10:33.000 He already voted.

00:10:34.000 He voted right in.

00:10:36.000 Well, 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.

00:10:44.000 Which one would you rather deal with on a professional level?

00:10:48.000 Well, I don't have to answer that question today.

00:10:51.000 I had rather see another Republican in there, and I'm going to stay with that story.

00:10:56.000 I'm not going to vote for the Democrat.

00:10:58.000 I didn't vote for the Democrat, or advocate for the Democrat, but I couldn't vote for Roy Moore.

00:11:03.000 The state of Alabama deserves better.

00:11:06.000 I think we've got a lot of great Republicans that could have won and carried the state beautifully and served in the Senate honorably.

00:11:15.000 And I think that there's a lot of truth to what Richard Shelby is saying here.

00:11:17.000 The 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.

00:11:23.000 So there are two polls out today on Alabama.

00:11:26.000 Poll number one from Fox News says that Doug Jones is up 10 points in Alabama.

00:11:30.000 Poll number two, I believe it's a Marist poll, suggests that Doug Jones is down nine points in Alabama.

00:11:35.000 It's very difficult for the pollsters to actually gauge what exactly the election tomorrow is going to look like.

00:11:41.000 It could really go either way.

00:11:42.000 The reason for that is you can't model turnout in a special election.

00:11:46.000 Number two, this issue has really polarized the electorate, and it's not clear who exactly is going to show up to vote.

00:11:52.000 And number three, the media attention on the race means that different people may show up to vote.

00:11:55.000 So the pollsters are having a very difficult time figuring out exactly how this race is going to go.

00:12:00.000 Bottom line is it could go either way at this point.

00:12:02.000 It's not clear that Jones is going to win.

00:12:04.000 It's not clear that Moore is going to lose.

00:12:07.000 All 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.

00:12:14.000 Every attack by the media on Roy Moore is seen by Roy Moore supporters as a media attack, not as an element of truth.

00:12:21.000 And that's exacerbated by the fact that Barack Obama now cut a robocall ad in favor of Doug Jones in Alabama.

00:12:25.000 That is not smart.

00:12:26.000 Barack Obama should have stayed out.

00:12:27.000 This is a state that is two-thirds Republican.

00:12:30.000 Attacking Roy Moore by Barack Obama is not going to be helpful.

00:12:33.000 It may drive up Democrats.

00:12:34.000 It may drive out Democrats a little bit.

00:12:36.000 But it's going to drive out Republicans far more, you would think.

00:12:39.000 President Trump is also issuing robocalls in the Moore race.

00:12:41.000 He's getting very active in the Moore race.

00:12:43.000 I think there's another reason why, by the way, that is happening.

00:12:46.000 I think there's another reason why Trump is pushing Moore in this race.

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00:14:40.000 OK, so President Trump is now pushing Roy Moore in the robocall.

00:14:42.000 Now, I think this has to do with Moore than just the Alabama race.

00:14:46.000 And I'll explain that in just a few minutes here.

00:14:49.000 But first, I think that it's clear.

00:14:52.000 First, let's play Trump's robocall for Moore.

00:14:54.000 So here's his robocall for Moore that's now playing in Alabama.

00:14:56.000 President Donald Trump and I need Alabama to go vote for Roy Moore.

00:15:00.000 It is so important.

00:15:02.000 We're already making America great again.

00:15:05.000 I'm going to make America safer and stronger and better than ever before.

00:15:10.000 But we need that seat.

00:15:12.000 We need Roy voting for us.

00:15:15.000 OK, so Trump is, of course, making it about the extra vote.

00:15:17.000 And it's true, this seat is important for Republicans.

00:15:20.000 But there's something else that's going on more than this, OK?

00:15:23.000 And I'll tell you what that is in just a second.

00:15:24.000 But first, Roy Moore, see, he's now changing his story again.

00:15:27.000 Now he says he never molested anyone.

00:15:29.000 He 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.

00:15:35.000 So now he's saying he never molested anyone and he didn't know any of the accusers.

00:15:38.000 So if this had been his original story, it would've been a lot better.

00:15:41.000 One 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.

00:15:48.000 That sort of said to a lot of folks, well, he's guilty of something.

00:15:51.000 Well, now Moore is changing his story, and he's saying he's completely innocent.

00:15:55.000 You have said that you did not know them or had no encounter with them.

00:16:00.000 That's my understanding.

00:16:01.000 I do not know them.

00:16:02.000 I had no encounter with them.

00:16:03.000 I never molested anyone.

00:16:06.000 And for them to say that, I don't know why they're saying it, but it's not true.

00:16:11.000 OK, and that's going to be his line, right?

00:16:13.000 His line is going to be that none of it's true.

00:16:15.000 He did not hit her.

00:16:16.000 He did not.

00:16:16.000 I did not.

00:16:17.000 Oh, hi, Mark.

00:16:20.000 Sorry, you'll understand that reference when we get to things I like a little bit later in the show.

00:16:24.000 But it's just...

00:16:26.000 This is his new line, and he's going to play it for all that it is worth.

00:16:30.000 Now, why is Trump so focused on this?

00:16:32.000 The 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?

00:16:39.000 That's what they would have done normally.

00:16:40.000 If 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.

00:16:47.000 They 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.

00:16:54.000 There's something else going on here.

00:16:55.000 Everyone knows that this is the first step in the move against Trump himself on charges like those used against Roy Moore.

00:17:02.000 On sexual assault, sexual harassment charges.

00:17:04.000 It's the reason why Al Franken was thrown under the bus last week.

00:17:07.000 The 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.

00:17:17.000 This is perfectly obvious.

00:17:18.000 Even Roy Moore's strategy people are saying this.

00:17:21.000 They're trying to drive the vote out, so they're saying that you have to vote for Moore in order to vote for Trump.

00:17:25.000 That's their line.

00:17:25.000 Dean Young is the chief political strategist for the Moore campaign.

00:17:27.000 Here's what he had to say.

00:17:29.000 You see, this is President Trump's agenda, and that's why it's so important that Judge Moore win this race.

00:17:35.000 Last night, we had Doug Jones, the liberal Democrat, with one of his Senate buddies, Cory Booker, who said that the president should resign.

00:17:44.000 This is Donald Trump.

00:17:46.000 All right.

00:18:05.000 And you can see this is the direction, he's right, this is the direction Democrats are moving.

00:18:11.000 Chuck Todd, right over on MSNBC, he says that after Al Franken resigns, we have a new standard now.

00:18:18.000 Funny how the new standard didn't apply when Bill Clinton was in office.

00:18:21.000 Funny how the new standard didn't apply.

00:18:23.000 When Teddy Kennedy was the line of the Senate.

00:18:24.000 Funny how the new standard didn't apply while Hillary Clinton was running. 1.00

00:18:26.000 But boom, Hillary Clinton's done. 1.00

00:18:28.000 And now we're back to a new standard.

00:18:30.000 It's a brand new standard.

00:18:31.000 It's just amazing how that works, right?

00:18:32.000 The new standard is, if you sexually assault or sexually harass people, you should resign.

00:18:36.000 I'm old enough to remember when that was the Republican line.

00:18:38.000 But now, this is the Democrat line.

00:18:40.000 So here's Chuck Todd basically saying, we sacrificed Al Franken on the altar of sexual goodness.

00:18:46.000 And now there must be others who sacrifice themselves.

00:18:50.000 You can see which direction this is going.

00:18:51.000 Here's Chuck Todd.

00:18:52.000 Back now with Endgame, I want to talk, Peggy, about the Franken-standard.

00:18:55.000 Because we now have a new standard for resignation, you could argue, when it comes to Al Franken.

00:18:59.000 Ruth Marcus, a familiar face to many here of the Washington Post, wrote this.

00:19:17.000 Fair enough, but we had, you know, this is a country trying to establish, it's certainly a U.S.

00:19:24.000 Senate trying to establish new standards for acceptable behavior.

00:19:29.000 And again, funny how the new standards only apply as soon as Trump enters office.

00:19:32.000 Here's Bernie Sanders, two weeks ago, wouldn't get rid of Al Franken.

00:19:36.000 Now, who should leave?

00:19:37.000 It's Trump, of course.

00:19:39.000 He wasn't being forced?

00:19:39.000 Well, I don't know that you know what was in Al Franken's mind.

00:19:41.000 Fair enough.

00:19:42.000 But 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.

00:19:56.000 And he has not apologized for that.

00:19:59.000 And he has, you know, not offered his resignation.

00:20:02.000 The U.S.

00:20:02.000 Congress... No, what I just said, what I just... Chuck, Chuck, what I just said

00:20:07.000 And you can see that this is the direction that all the Democrats are moving now.

00:20:12.000 Now, to be fair to President Trump, the P-word tape is not

00:20:28.000 It's not supremely clear on the idea that Trump himself admitted to grabbing women by the bleep.

00:20:34.000 He talks about how he moved very heavily on one married woman. 0.81

00:20:38.000 He talked about how he likes to kiss women. 0.88

00:20:39.000 He just can't stop himself from kissing women.

00:20:41.000 But 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.

00:20:48.000 That's him saying I could do that.

00:20:51.000 It doesn't really matter, because in the end, there were a bunch of accusers who came out and accused him of doing exactly that.

00:20:55.000 I said this when this actually happened last year.

00:20:57.000 I 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.

00:21:02.000 And this puts Republicans in a tough spot, right?

00:21:04.000 Because 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.

00:21:10.000 You can see this already starting to turn last week.

00:21:12.000 I talked about this with Newt Gingrich and Laura Ingraham, both of whom were saying maybe Al Franken should stay.

00:21:16.000 That wasn't because they think Al Franken should stay.

00:21:18.000 It's because they think Trump should stay, right?

00:21:19.000 So, this is all broken down into perfectly partisan lines.

00:21:23.000 As 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.

00:21:32.000 But meanwhile, Republicans are stuck in this difficult position.

00:21:35.000 Nikki Haley, who's the U.N. 1.00

00:21:36.000 ambassador to the Trump administration, she specifically says that all of these women who accused President Trump should be heard.

00:21:44.000 So now Republicans are boxed in a little bit.

00:21:46.000 Given that consciousness, how do you think people should assess the accusers of the president?

00:21:51.000 Well, I mean, you know, the same thing as women who accuse anyone should be heard. 0.97

00:21:56.000 They should be heard and they should be dealt with.

00:21:58.000 And I think we heard from them prior to the election.

00:22:01.000 And I think any woman who has felt violated or felt mistreated in any way, they have every right to speak up.

00:22:08.000 And does the election mean that's a settled issue?

00:22:11.000 You know, that's for the people to decide.

00:22:13.000 I 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.

00:22:20.000 Okay, well, that obviously doesn't answer the question.

00:22:23.000 And this is the typical take that you've heard about Roy Moore.

00:22:27.000 Once you apply any standard to Roy Moore, do you also have to apply it to Donald Trump?

00:22:29.000 That's going to be the question.

00:22:30.000 Here's the reality.

00:22:31.000 Trump ain't going anywhere, right?

00:22:32.000 Trump's not going to resign because Trump denies all this stuff.

00:22:34.000 And also because even if Trump did this stuff, he's not somebody who's really governed by shame.

00:22:38.000 That'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.

00:22:48.000 But one of the things that I think that

00:22:51.000 One 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.

00:23:01.000 Again, it's why they made the blood sacrifice of Al Franken and John Conyers, not because they actually care about the women.

00:23:06.000 Now, 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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00:24:35.000 Okay, so the media, we get back to the media here because the media are now forwarding this narrative.

00:24:40.000 So you can see Trump attacks the media because the media attack him.

00:24:43.000 People respond to the media's attacks by legitimizing Roy Moore.

00:24:48.000 Trump legitimizes Roy Moore because of the media attacks.

00:24:50.000 The 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.

00:24:59.000 That's the cycle of life here.

00:25:00.000 The media unfairly attacked Trump.

00:25:03.000 Trump attacks the media.

00:25:04.000 People perceive the media as being unfair.

00:25:06.000 The media report

00:25:08.000 In my opinion, correctly, on a bad Republican.

00:25:10.000 Republicans rally to that bad Republican side because they don't trust the media.

00:25:13.000 The media then make a second move by extending the Roy Moore stuff out to President Trump in what I think is a politically driven way.

00:25:21.000 And then the Republicans disown that.

00:25:23.000 And so the spiral continues ever downward.

00:25:25.000 You can see this today.

00:25:26.000 Megyn Kelly had three of Donald Trump's accusers on the Today Show today, on Megyn Kelly Today. 1.00

00:25:33.000 She brought on Samantha Holvey, Jessica Leeds, and Rachel Crooks.

00:25:37.000 All of them say that at some point they were on the receiving end of behavior from Trump, ranging from forcible kissing to groping.

00:25:42.000 All these women showed up in the middle of the campaign. 1.00

00:25:45.000 If you recall, we begin with a flashback to Jessica Leeds.

00:25:49.000 Here is Jessica Leeds, one of the accusers.

00:25:51.000 She suggested that Trump groped her without permission.

00:25:52.000 This is back in 2016.

00:25:55.000 I was sitting with him on an airplane.

00:25:59.000 And he went after me on the plane.

00:26:00.000 Yeah, I'm gonna go after him.

00:26:02.000 Believe me, she would not be my first choice, that I can tell you.

00:26:10.000 I find that just ludicrous because he didn't pick me.

00:26:15.000 I was there.

00:26:17.000 I was available and he was bored.

00:26:22.000 That's all it was?

00:26:22.000 That's all it was.

00:26:24.000 The other women who are beautiful and beauty pageant types, and most of them have long blonde hair, which is something he seems to like. 0.97

00:26:37.000 He picked them, but I was just there.

00:26:40.000 Okay, so she is one of the accusers.

00:26:42.000 That was one of the accusers Kelly had on today. 0.99

00:26:44.000 Second accuser is a woman named Samantha Holvey. 0.52

00:26:46.000 She says that Trump used to walk through the Miss USA pageant and then inspect the contestants.

00:26:52.000 As I understand, you have an experience of something that happened the night before the pageant?

00:26:58.000 Well, 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.

00:27:15.000 And 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.

00:27:28.000 I was just checking everybody out.

00:27:32.000 And you thought, you felt?

00:27:35.000 I felt very dirty.

00:27:38.000 It was very creepy.

00:27:39.000 It's kind of like when you're at a bar and a creepy guy is checking you out.

00:27:43.000 That was the experience for me.

00:27:47.000 Okay, so number one, that is not actually sexual assault, okay?

00:27:50.000 And 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.

00:27:57.000 Was anybody under the impression that this was a class contest?

00:28:00.000 Like, really?

00:28:01.000 But this is one of the things the media are doing.

00:28:03.000 They've lumped together everything from Harvey Weinstein all the way down to Samantha Holvey.

00:28:07.000 They did that in order to get rid of Donald Trump.

00:28:09.000 One of the reasons they started taking the Weinstein stuff seriously is because this is always going to wheel on President Trump.

00:28:14.000 Now, should President Trump have

00:28:16.000 I think the answer is yes, but that should have happened during the primaries.

00:28:19.000 I 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

00:28:41.000 In celebration of the allegations.

00:28:43.000 I don't think it's fair to say that everyone who voted for Trump was doing so in celebration of these allegations.

00:28:46.000 They were doing so because they didn't want to vote for Hillary Clinton.

00:28:48.000 A lot of the people who vote for Moore are going to do so because they don't want Roy Jones in there.

00:28:52.000 Or Doug Jones in there, rather.

00:28:54.000 But the bottom line is that the media always had an agenda here.

00:28:58.000 Now, listen.

00:28:59.000 Should President Trump step down?

00:29:01.000 Should President Trump step down because of the sexual assault, sexual harassment allegations?

00:29:04.000 Sure, why not?

00:29:05.000 I mean, like, honestly, all these people should.

00:29:06.000 Like, I'm gonna say something controversial now, okay?

00:29:08.000 My 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.

00:29:19.000 It was our job to be the gatekeepers.

00:29:21.000 We didn't do it.

00:29:22.000 But if we lived in an honorable politics, would we do it?

00:29:25.000 Sure, we would do it.

00:29:26.000 Is it going to happen?

00:29:27.000 No, of course it's not going to happen.

00:29:29.000 It's not going to happen.

00:29:29.000 So 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.

00:29:36.000 That was always going to happen anyway, by the way, because the bottom line is that Republicans

00:29:40.000 We'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.

00:29:46.000 And the allegations, the list is very long, but that's not to suggest that the media bias isn't very real.

00:29:51.000 The media bias certainly is real.

00:29:53.000 Again, I wish everyone in politics were good, and I wish that voters held everyone to a standard, but obviously we don't.

00:29:59.000 Okay, so as we continue, I want to talk a little bit about what's going on in Jerusalem.

00:30:05.000 What'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

00:30:13.000 It's actually pretty amazing.

00:30:15.000 It's pretty incredible that so few acts of terror have been committed in Israel.

00:30:20.000 It seems like everybody is sort of distracted, to tell the truth.

00:30:23.000 There have been a few rallies here and there.

00:30:24.000 There have been a little bit of violence here and there.

00:30:28.000 But what's really fascinating is the violence has not been against Israelis.

00:30:33.000 The violence has been against Jews.

00:30:35.000 And 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.

00:30:47.000 And the way you can tell this is, for example, what happened in Malmo, Sweden.

00:30:50.000 So Malmo in Sweden has become a city that's largely been populated by Muslims from the Middle East.

00:30:56.000 in disproportionate fashion.

00:30:57.000 And a lot of those people are anti-Semites. 0.99

00:31:01.000 And so here is a rally in Malmo where hundreds of people were literally chanting, kill the Jews. 0.98

00:31:07.000 It says, arm me, make me of service. 1.00

00:31:12.000 It says, down with the house of Saud, strike them with knives. 0.99

00:31:24.000 Strike, strike, do not be afraid. 1.00

00:31:39.000 As we die, Palestine lives. 1.00

00:31:41.000 These charmers are in the West, by the way. 0.99

00:31:44.000 These charmers are in the middle of Sweden, and they started chanting in the middle of this thing about how Jews should be killed. 1.00

00:31:50.000 We want to go shoot Jews. 1.00

00:31:52.000 So just really nice. 0.99

00:31:53.000 There 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.

00:32:00.000 And more importantly, they identify Israel with Jews, which is the reason they hate Israel in the first place. 0.90

00:32:05.000 According to New York Daily News, three people were arrested after a synagogue in Sweden was attacked with molotov cocktails on Saturday night.

00:32:10.000 About 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.

00:32:19.000 The kids inside took refuge in the basement.

00:32:21.000 According to a mother who spoke to Expressen, her daughter was in the building and texted her during the incident.

00:32:25.000 Mom, I'm getting scared, she wrote.

00:32:27.000 Authorities arrived at the scene around 10 p.m., put out a fire in the parking lot.

00:32:30.000 The building didn't catch on fire.

00:32:31.000 No one was injured.

00:32:32.000 But, again, another attack on a synagogue, having nothing to do with Israel, but, you know, Jews are the targets. 1.00

00:32:39.000 In 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?

00:32:46.000 Like, nothing at all?

00:32:53.000 Palestinian Authority!

00:32:54.000 You have to stop all kinds of peace process!

00:33:00.000 No peace process!

00:33:01.000 Negotiation with occupation in Palestine!

00:33:06.000 Also has to be stopped and to be finished!

00:33:12.000 We have to start a new Intifada!

00:33:15.000 Intifada!

00:33:16.000 Intifada!

00:33:19.000 Intifada!

00:33:23.000 And we should be just as angry that they have an embassy in Tel Aviv or Yemen as we are! 0.72

00:33:31.000 Because 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 0.79

00:33:48.000 Happening right in the middle of Times Square.

00:33:50.000 But don't worry, folks.

00:33:51.000 It has nothing to do with anti-Semitism.

00:33:52.000 Clearly, the only reason that the Muslim world is upset is because of Trump in Jerusalem.

00:33:57.000 They weren't upset before that.

00:33:58.000 You know, everything was hunky-dory before that.

00:33:59.000 You 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.

00:34:10.000 Like, all that was happening before Trump said any of this, but really it was all Trump's fault.

00:34:14.000 You 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.

00:34:20.000 And 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.

00:34:28.000 That's clearly what's going on here. 1.00

00:34:30.000 It does give the lie to the ridiculous, stupid, asinine idea that the movement against Jews in Israel is not a movement against Jews. 1.00

00:34:39.000 It's just a movement against Israel. 1.00

00:34:40.000 And the real reason they're upset is because of Trump.

00:34:42.000 They're not upset about Trump.

00:34:43.000 Trump, 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.

00:34:54.000 This is the right move by President Trump.

00:34:56.000 It was a good move by President Trump.

00:34:58.000 And again, anti-Semitism is going to exist across the world and target Israel because there are a lot of Jews there.

00:35:05.000 People hate Israel because they hate the Jews.

00:35:07.000 They don't hate the Jews because they hate Israel. 0.90

00:35:09.000 They've hated the Jews for thousands of years before the modern state of Israel. 0.93

00:35:13.000 It'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. 0.73

00:35:20.000 Jerusalem was divided from 1948 to 1967. 0.93

00:35:24.000 That did not stop terror.

00:35:25.000 It did not stop the Arab armies from attempting war in 1956, as well as 1967.

00:35:30.000 And so all of this is sheer nonsense of the highest order.

00:35:34.000 OK, in other crazy news, it turns out that the Senate Republicans are bad at pretty much everything.

00:35:40.000 According to Richard Rubin,

00:35:41.000 Some high-income business owners could face marginal tax rates exceeding 100% under the Senate tax bill.

00:35:48.000 Really?

00:35:48.000 100% under the Senate tax bill?

00:35:51.000 Far beyond the listed rates in the Republican plan.

00:35:53.000 That means a business owner's next 100% in earnings under certain circumstances would require paying more than $100 in additional federal and state taxes.

00:36:01.000 As 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.

00:36:21.000 So well done drawing this bill, guys.

00:36:22.000 You did a spectacular job.

00:36:25.000 As typical Republicans, just doing yeoman's work on behalf of their own ideas.

00:36:29.000 OK, well, we're going to talk a little bit about things I like and things I hate in Federalist Papers.

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00:37:58.000 Alrighty, so I'm going to leave some time for some things I like and things I hate in the Federalist paper of the day.

00:38:03.000 Every Monday we go through a Federalist paper.

00:38:04.000 We are now up to Federalist number seven, so we'll get to that.

00:38:06.000 Okay, so we begin with things I like.

00:38:09.000 So, I will admit, I have not seen this entire movie yet.

00:38:13.000 Mathis, my producer, has been highly recommending The Room.

00:38:18.000 for at least a week to me.

00:38:20.000 Ever since I learned of this movie, The Disaster Artist, with James Franco, I was like, what is that about?

00:38:23.000 He said, well, there's this movie, The Room, and it is a so-bad-it's-good classic.

00:38:27.000 It's just an amazing film.

00:38:28.000 Mathis owns a copy of it that he forgot at home.

00:38:30.000 You cannot stream this.

00:38:31.000 Apparently, you have to get it on DVD.

00:38:34.000 But you got, that's right, Mathis says you have to commit.

00:38:39.000 But you can watch the best scenes of it on YouTube.

00:38:42.000 And I will say this,

00:38:44.000 You know, Matthew says you have to watch the whole thing.

00:38:47.000 To get the humor of The Room, you don't actually have to watch the whole thing.

00:38:50.000 You just have to watch some of the scenes because they are incredible.

00:38:54.000 So I, for you, have brought together a couple of the scenes from The Room.

00:38:59.000 It's a masterpiece of bad cinema. 0.94

00:39:00.000 Basically, the story here is a guy named Tommy Wiseau is the producer, writer, and director of this piece of hot garbage. 0.94

00:39:06.000 He's an Eastern European guy who no one knows where he came from. 0.79

00:39:09.000 He won't say how old he is.

00:39:10.000 Somehow, he came up with $6 million.

00:39:12.000 So I assume that he robbed a bank somewhere.

00:39:15.000 And he came to the United States and decided to make what easily is the worst movie of all time.

00:39:21.000 It's true, but he meant it to be good.

00:39:23.000 He didn't mean it to be parodic.

00:39:25.000 I mean, he meant it to actually be a good movie.

00:39:27.000 He stars in it.

00:39:28.000 He's supposed to be an all-American guy.

00:39:30.000 He sounds like a Transylvanian vampire.

00:39:32.000 Apparently, there was originally a scene where he would turn into a vampire in the film.

00:39:36.000 That was cut, unfortunately.

00:39:37.000 That would have made it even greater.

00:39:38.000 It might have killed it, because it might have actually broken the realism of the terribleness.

00:39:42.000 But here are a few scenes from The Room.

00:39:45.000 Again, this is in the news because James Franco made a movie called The Disaster Artist about the making of this terrible, terrible film.

00:39:50.000 This is America, man. 0.98

00:39:51.000 You can make a garbage film, get rich off of it, and then a big star will make a film about your garbage film and the making of it. 0.99

00:39:56.000 Incredible. 0.96

00:39:57.000 Here are some actual scenes from The Room.

00:39:58.000 You'll see the charm of it in just a few seconds.

00:40:02.000 Hi.

00:40:03.000 Can I help you?

00:40:04.000 Yeah, can I have a dozen red roses, please?

00:40:06.000 Oh, hi, Johnny.

00:40:07.000 I didn't know it was you.

00:40:09.000 Here you go.

00:40:10.000 That's me.

00:40:12.000 How much is it?

00:40:12.000 It'll be $18.

00:40:13.000 Here you go.

00:40:14.000 Keep the change.

00:40:15.000 Hi, doggie. 0.76

00:40:15.000 You're my favorite customer. 0.76

00:40:16.000 Thanks a lot.

00:40:17.000 Bye.

00:40:18.000 Bye-bye!

00:40:18.000 I did not hit her.

00:40:19.000 It's not true. 0.99

00:40:20.000 It's bulls**t. I did not hit her. 0.98

00:40:22.000 I did not. 0.99

00:40:24.000 Oh, hi, Mark.

00:40:25.000 People are very strange these days.

00:40:27.000 I used to know a girl. 0.95

00:40:29.000 She had a dozen guys. 0.97

00:40:32.000 One of them found out about it, beat her up so bad she ended up in a hospital on Guerrero Street.

00:40:37.000 What a story, Mark.

00:40:39.000 You are lying!

00:40:39.000 I never hit you!

00:40:40.000 You are tearing me apart, Lisa!

00:40:46.000 Okay, it's amazing.

00:40:47.000 It's amazing!

00:40:48.000 I mean, what more is there to say about it?

00:40:49.000 If 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.

00:41:01.000 But this thing has become now a cult classic, and for good reason.

00:41:06.000 I did not, that was my reference earlier to, I did not hit her, I did not.

00:41:10.000 Oh, hi Mark.

00:41:12.000 Amazing.

00:41:13.000 I 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.

00:41:19.000 Ha ha ha, what a story, Mark.

00:41:22.000 That was his takeaway.

00:41:23.000 Incredible. 0.93

00:41:24.000 Okay, so from the ridiculous to the sublime.

00:41:26.000 Over the weekend I had the opportunity to read a biography about Beethoven by a guy named John Suchet.

00:41:31.000 He is the BBC commentator on Beethoven.

00:41:34.000 It's not

00:41:35.000 Kind of the most in-depth biography of Beethoven.

00:41:37.000 It gives you the broad strokes of his life.

00:41:39.000 There's a little bit too much speculation for my taste, but the biography is very readable and it's a very quick read.

00:41:45.000 So 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.

00:41:56.000 I think that has very little to do with his art.

00:41:58.000 Beethoven's art was all about his level of skill, his mastery of music.

00:42:05.000 I think so.

00:42:29.000 Instead of spending time just listening to uplifting music, I was spending time on other things, and that was a mistake.

00:42:35.000 And so I had some chances to listen to some great music over the weekend, and it really lifted my spirits, which I think is important.

00:42:40.000 So this is a good place to start.

00:42:41.000 You can pick up the book Beethoven the Man Revealed by John Suchet.

00:42:44.000 Worth reading.

00:42:44.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.

00:42:51.000 Alright, so we begin with this video that's now gone viral of a student, I guess he's in Tennessee, who was bullied at school.

00:42:58.000 And he was talking on video, his mom took a tape of him, went viral, all these celebrities pledged their support.

00:43:01.000 I want to talk a little bit about what's happening here.

00:43:04.000 Why do they bully?

00:43:05.000 What's the point of it?

00:43:07.000 Why do you find joy in taking innocent people and finding a way to be mean to them?

00:43:14.000 It's not okay.

00:43:16.000 What do they say to you?

00:43:18.000 They make fun of my nose. 0.82

00:43:19.000 They call me ugly. 0.76

00:43:21.000 They say I have no friends.

00:43:24.000 What'd they do to you at lunch?

00:43:25.000 Pour milk on me and put ham down my clothes.

00:43:28.000 Threw bread at me.

00:43:30.000 Is it just you?

00:43:31.000 Yep.

00:43:32.000 Or is it other kids too that feel that way?

00:43:35.000 Say it's other kids too.

00:43:38.000 How's that make you feel?

00:43:39.000 I like that they do it to me and I for sure don't like that they do it to other people because it's not okay.

00:43:47.000 Okay, so there are a couple things about this.

00:43:48.000 So, number one, as someone who is viciously bullied in school, I can say that what this kid's experiencing is not just real.

00:43:57.000 If you've actually been through this experience, you know what this feels like.

00:44:00.000 You've been exactly where this kid is.

00:44:02.000 I have to say, I don't like that the mom took this tape and put it online.

00:44:05.000 I don't like that.

00:44:06.000 I think that this is a situation where the mom needs to march herself into the principal's office and take care of business. 1.00

00:44:11.000 Or she needs to walk over to the kids' houses and take care of business. 1.00

00:44:13.000 This is something I intend on doing with my own kid if this ever becomes an issue.

00:44:16.000 If my kid bullies, I'm not big on spanking. 1.00

00:44:19.000 It's not a thing in my house.

00:44:21.000 But if my kid became a bully, that would be a time for spanking. 1.00

00:44:24.000 It really would.

00:44:25.000 But my father was the person who went in and took care of business when it came to bullying.

00:44:30.000 I think I've told the stories on the show before.

00:44:33.000 I don't like embarrassing this kid.

00:44:35.000 This kid forever is now going to be associated with being the kid who's crying over being bullied.

00:44:39.000 And 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.

00:44:44.000 It is just awful.

00:44:48.000 The only way that we're actually going to solve this problem is not on a national level with celebrities saying things.

00:44:52.000 It's going to be on a parental level with parents going out and doing something about it.

00:44:55.000 So 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. 0.96

00:45:06.000 I wish that she had gotten this kid fighting lessons so the kid could kick the crap out of his bullies. 1.00

00:45:10.000 I think that's a better short-term solution and long-term solution, actually. 0.93

00:45:15.000 Okay.

00:45:15.000 Other things that I hate.

00:45:16.000 So there was a fellow named Daniel Shaver.

00:45:45.000 He's a white guy who was apparently pointing a BB gun out of his window, and a bunch of hotel guests saw it, and they called the cops. 0.93

00:45:55.000 The cops show up, and they shoot him to death.

00:45:57.000 Here's a little bit of the tape.

00:45:59.000 I didn't say there's a conversation.

00:46:01.000 Put your hand up in the air!

00:46:02.000 Hand up in the air! 0.99

00:46:03.000 You do that again, we're shooting you. 0.98

00:46:06.000 Do you understand? 1.00

00:46:07.000 Please do not shoot me.

00:46:07.000 Then listen to my instructions.

00:46:10.000 I'm trying to do what you... Don't talk! 0.99

00:46:13.000 Listen!

00:46:15.000 Hands straight up in the air!

00:46:17.000 Do not put your hands down for any reason!

00:46:20.000 You think you're gonna fall?

00:46:21.000 You better fall on your face! 0.55

00:46:22.000 Your hands go back into the small of your back or down! 1.00

00:46:25.000 We are going to shoot you! 1.00

00:46:26.000 Do you understand me? 1.00

00:46:27.000 Yes, sir!

00:46:28.000 Crawl towards me! 0.95

00:46:31.000 CRAWL TOWARDS ME! 0.95

00:46:32.000 Yes, sir! 1.00

00:46:44.000 Okay, so they murder, they kill this guy.

00:46:45.000 I mean, it looks a lot like murder, right?

00:46:47.000 You can see that his hand moves sort of toward his waistband, and this is the excuse that they're using, as they reach behind him.

00:46:52.000 But this video is like seven minutes long.

00:46:54.000 They brought him out in the hallway, they shouted all sorts of contradictory commands.

00:46:57.000 They told him to put his hands behind his head and then crawl toward them.

00:47:01.000 And then the minute that he, like, puts his, they actually told him to put his hands kind of

00:47:07.000 I guess behind his head and crawl toward him.

00:47:09.000 Like, you can't actually do all these things. 1.00

00:47:10.000 So you have one idiot supervisor who is yelling all these commands at this guy. 1.00

00:47:14.000 The guy's name was Daniel Shaver. 1.00

00:47:18.000 He was 26 years old.

00:47:18.000 He'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.

00:47:23.000 The 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.

00:47:31.000 He puts his hands in the air.

00:47:32.000 He lies down on the ground while informing the officer that no one else was in the hotel room.

00:47:36.000 And 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.

00:47:43.000 He says, I'm not here to be tactful and diplomatic with you.

00:47:45.000 You listen.

00:47:45.000 You obey.

00:47:46.000 And then he gives him orders for five solid minutes.

00:47:49.000 Five solid minutes.

00:47:50.000 He's playing.

00:47:52.000 You know, put your right foot in, put your right foot out.

00:47:54.000 He's playing the hokey pokey with him.

00:47:55.000 He's playing Simon Says.

00:47:56.000 He tells Shaver to put both his hands on top of his head.

00:47:59.000 Then he instructs him to cross his left foot over his right foot.

00:48:01.000 The guy's completely drunk.

00:48:02.000 And then he says, if you move, we're going to consider that a threat.

00:48:05.000 And then he says, crawl down the hallway.

00:48:08.000 And 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.

00:48:15.000 And then he puts his hand near his waist, prompting another round of screaming. 0.99

00:48:19.000 And he said, you do that again, I'm going to shoot you. 0.97

00:48:21.000 And he says, please don't shoot me. 0.99

00:48:23.000 And then he crawls down the hallway.

00:48:25.000 And at one point, because he's been lying face down, his shorts are falling down, and he's drunk.

00:48:30.000 He moves to pull up his shorts, and then they shoot him to death. 0.87

00:48:34.000 And the rifle that he was carrying, this cop, was etched with the phrase, you're F'd.

00:48:38.000 Just fantastic, guys.

00:48:40.000 Just fantastic.

00:48:41.000 Now, a couple of things worth pointing out here.

00:48:43.000 One, bad trading matters.

00:48:46.000 Number two, juries almost always give the benefit of the doubt to the cop.

00:48:50.000 So 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.

00:48:55.000 They 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.

00:49:00.000 So the officer was acquitted in this case.

00:49:02.000 But number three, the level of national outrage over this case is not even, there have been no riots, there have been no protests, nothing.

00:49:09.000 And the reason for that is because the guy who was shot is white.

00:49:12.000 Let's be perfectly frank about this.

00:49:13.000 It's because we are more concerned with racial conflagrations in this nation than we are really about police brutality.

00:49:17.000 This is a pretty clear-cut case of police brutality and police misaction.

00:49:21.000 And 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.

00:49:30.000 So it's just a horrifying video right there.

00:49:34.000 And it goes to show you that cops in bad situations sometimes make bad choices.

00:49:40.000 This looks like manslaughter to me, at the very least.

00:49:42.000 Okay, we're gonna go through Federalist 7 really fast.

00:49:44.000 So, every week we go through a Federalist paper.

00:49:46.000 We are making our way all the way through the Federalist papers.

00:49:48.000 Federalist number 7.

00:49:49.000 This is Alexander Hamilton again.

00:49:50.000 And here, he discusses possible sources of discord between the states.

00:49:53.000 If we weren't to form a national government, and we were just to have a bunch of states with their own governments,

00:49:59.000 Why would that bring us to conflict?

00:50:00.000 And 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.

00:50:09.000 Constitution.

00:50:10.000 So he begins by talking about territorial disputes.

00:50:12.000 He says,

00:50:21.000 In other words,

00:50:42.000 There's a whole western area of the United States.

00:50:44.000 None of it's settled.

00:50:45.000 The state of South Carolina wants to claim it.

00:50:47.000 The state of New York wants to claim it.

00:50:48.000 They get into a war over it.

00:50:49.000 This is actually what happened, right?

00:50:50.000 It 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.

00:51:03.000 And 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.

00:51:09.000 There were massacres of Americans by Americans.

00:51:11.000 It was basically a small civil war in Kansas called Bleeding Kansas.

00:51:15.000 So Hamilton was not wrong about this, even in the presence of a federal government.

00:51:19.000 Then he says there would be trade disputes between these various states.

00:51:22.000 He says each state or separate confederacy would pursue a system of commercial policy peculiar to itself.

00:51:27.000 This was actually not healed by the federal government either.

00:51:29.000 There was very nearly a civil war in the 1830s over the so-called tariff of abominations.

00:51:33.000 That was when the North decided to put tariffs on goods coming in that were to be used by the South.

00:51:39.000 And the South was very upset about this and threatened nullification.

00:51:43.000 This is the nullification crisis that Andrew Jackson swore to basically break the South over.

00:51:49.000 So we very nearly came to blows over trade.

00:51:51.000 This is public debt.

00:51:52.000 He's talking about the public debt accrued by the war.

00:51:54.000 It'd be very difficult to apportion that without a national government to actually collect.

00:51:58.000 And finally, laws in violation of private contracts.

00:52:01.000 The idea being you sign a contract with somebody from another state and that other state then just nullifies the contract.

00:52:05.000 This could cause severe conflict.

00:52:07.000 This in fact did cause severe conflict because the Fugitive Slave Act was designed to enforce

00:52:13.000 Property holdings in people, in human beings, that were evil in the South.

00:52:17.000 That was what the Fugitive Slave Act was designed to do.

00:52:19.000 It helped exacerbate division.

00:52:20.000 So 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.

00:52:31.000 The federal government was not sufficient to prevent those wars from breaking out over exactly the reasons Hamilton saw them breaking out.

00:52:37.000 Okay, so we'll be back here tomorrow with all of the latest fallout in politics and pop culture.

00:52:41.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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