The Ben Shapiro Show - The Easter Massacre | Ep. 764

00:00:00.000 Devastating bombings by radical Islamists kill hundreds on Easter in Sri Lanka, fallout from the Mueller report continues, and Democrats open fire on each other for the 2020 nomination.

00:00:09.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:00:11.000 A lot of news, most of it horrific over the weekend.

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00:01:39.000 So the big news over the weekend, obviously, are these devastating bombings in Sri Lanka.

00:01:44.000 A According to the Agence France-Presse, the AFP, Sri Lanka said on Monday it believed a local Islamist extremist group was behind deadly suicide bomb blasts that killed nearly 300 people as it ordered a national state of emergency beginning on midnight.

00:01:58.000 Government spokesman Rajitha Senaratne said investigators were looking at whether the national Falkeeth Jamaat, NTJ group, had international support for the deadly Easter Sunday attacks on churches and luxury hotels So far, 24 people have been arrested in connection with the attack.

00:02:13.000 So this is a large, coordinated attack.

00:02:16.000 Apparently, there were seven suicide bombers who detonated near simultaneously in different spots.

00:02:20.000 No details were given about the people who were actually arrested yet.

00:02:23.000 Little is known about this particular group, but documents seen by the AFP show Sri Lanka's police chief issued a warning on April 11th, so not very long ago at all within the last couple of weeks, saying a foreign intelligence agency had reported that the group was planning attacking churches and the Indian High Commission.

00:02:38.000 The group had previously only been linked to vandalizing Buddhist statues, so all sorts of tolerance and wonder from the radical Muslim world.

00:02:45.000 Again, Sinarotini said of the deadly attacks, we don't see that only a small organization in this country can do all that.

00:02:51.000 They think that this was created by outside support as well.

00:02:54.000 They say we are now investigating the international support for them and their other links, how they produced the suicide bombers here, how they produced bombs like this.

00:03:03.000 The death toll from Sunday's attacks rose dramatically on Monday to 290, including dozens of foreigners.

00:03:09.000 It's the worst atrocity since the country's civil war ended a decade ago.

00:03:12.000 More than 500 people were injured in the assault that saw suicide bombers hit three high-end hotels popular with foreign tourists and three churches, unleashing a carnage in Colombo and beyond.

00:03:21.000 Two additional blasts were triggered as security forces carried out raids, searching for the suspects.

00:03:25.000 Presumably, these places had been booby-trapped as well.

00:03:28.000 When folks look at the casualty statistics in areas like this, what they tend to often do is look at the deaths and not at the injured.

00:03:37.000 Well, knowing some people who have been injured in terrorist attacks, the injuries are often devastating and life-demolishing in nearly the same way that a KIA would be, in nearly the same way that being killed 0.97

00:03:50.000 On-scene would be I mean people lose limbs people are mentally crippled from from these attacks if they're hit in the head People lose years off their lifespan I mean it's so so pretend that this is just about the 290 dead obviously the 500 injured plays into this as well Police also found 87 bomb detonators at a Colombo bus station as well.

00:04:11.000 So obviously all of this is extraordinarily scary and devastating The government has announced that the victims' families and the injured will receive some government compensation.

00:04:21.000 They say that they'll compensate all the people who died, which is about 100,000 rupees for their funeral expenses.

00:04:27.000 So 100,000 rupees is not all that much money, unfortunately.

00:04:30.000 But, you know, the government is going to do what they're going to do.

00:04:33.000 It's about $1,000, $1,400 in American currency.

00:04:37.000 The health minister has said that authorities were warned full two weeks before the attacks.

00:04:40.000 They had the names of the attackers, but that information was not shared with the prime minister.

00:04:44.000 The president has the portfolio of defense.

00:04:48.000 This is the only country where when the prime minister summons the security council, they don't assemble.

00:04:52.000 Minister Sarinatne said, we're not trying to evade responsibility, but these are the facts.

00:04:55.000 We were surprised to see these reports.

00:04:57.000 So it looks a lot sort of like the Chinese wall that was created between the FBI and CIA in the United States prior to 9-11.

00:05:03.000 It looks like the health ministry apparently not only knew about the attacks, they knew the names of the potential attackers, but the prime minister didn't actually have that information.

00:05:12.000 And the president and the prime minister weren't talking to one another.

00:05:15.000 So obviously internal government issues there.

00:05:18.000 Now, there is something odd about the reaction to these attacks.

00:05:21.000 There's something very odd about the reaction to these attacks.

00:05:23.000 So in the aftermath of the Christchurch attacks in New Zealand, everyone came forth, And they said, it's time to re-examine, and it's time to examine, the relationship between white supremacy and Islamophobia, between the slaughter of innocents at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, and the evils of white supremacy.

00:05:39.000 And that was perfectly appropriate. 0.97

00:05:40.000 The evils of white supremacy are indeed evil. 0.98

00:05:43.000 And looking at white supremacist groups, and looking at the evil they perpetrate, is well worth looking into. 0.91

00:05:48.000 I don't know a good-hearted person who avoided this conversation.

00:05:51.000 We did, I think, two or three full episodes on exactly this issue after Christchurch.

00:05:57.000 And yet, oddly and strangely, folks on the left seem unwilling or unable to acknowledge that what happened here was a radical Islamist terror attack.

00:06:04.000 So Hillary Clinton tweeted this out, quote, This was in the aftermath of Christchurch.

00:06:09.000 In the aftermath of Christchurch, I want you to contrast, compare and contrast Hillary Clinton's tweets on Christchurch and what just happened in Sri Lanka.

00:06:15.000 And Christchurch was awful, and it was evil, and 50 Muslims were killed.

00:06:20.000 About six times as many people were killed in Sri Lanka on Sunday during Easter, which is in fact a holy day.

00:06:26.000 So this is a pretty apples-to-apples comparison.

00:06:29.000 Hillary Clinton tweeted this in the aftermath of the Christchurch attacks.

00:06:33.000 Quote, my heart breaks for New Zealand and the global Muslim community. 1.00

00:06:37.000 We must continue to fight the perpetuation and normalization of Islamophobia and racism in all its forms. 0.94

00:06:42.000 White supremacist terrorists must be condemned by leaders everywhere. 0.98

00:06:44.000 Their murderous hatred must be stopped. 0.98

00:06:47.000 In contrast to that, which is a very strong statement about the victims, right?

00:06:51.000 It states who the victims are, it states who the perpetrators are, and it states that their ideology must be fought.

00:06:56.000 Contrast that with Hillary Clinton's comments after nearly 300 people are murdered while going to church during Easter in Sri Lanka.

00:07:03.000 So here's what she said about Sri Lanka.

00:07:05.000 Quote, on this holy weekend for many faiths, we must stand united against hatred and violence.

00:07:10.000 I'm praying for everyone affected by today's horrific attack on Easter worshipers and travelers in Sri Lanka.

00:07:15.000 Okay, so do you notice the difference?

00:07:18.000 No clear explanation of who was targeted.

00:07:21.000 Easter worshipers, not Christians. 0.99

00:07:23.000 Easter worshipers.

00:07:25.000 Also, a holy weekend for many faiths.

00:07:27.000 Well, I would be the other faith for which this is a holy weekend, right? 0.98

00:07:30.000 This is Passover, so this is Pesach for me.

00:07:32.000 I would be the other faith for which this is a holy weekend.

00:07:35.000 It's Easter, and it's Passover also.

00:07:37.000 We weren't targeted this weekend.

00:07:39.000 There are lots of other weekends on which Jews are targeted.

00:07:41.000 There are lots of days on which Jews are targeted that are not holy days.

00:07:45.000 This was not one of those days.

00:07:46.000 This was a day in which Christians were targeted in Sri Lanka.

00:07:48.000 This was an attack specifically on Christians, not about a holy weekend for many faiths.

00:07:53.000 It was specifically about Easter.

00:07:55.000 It was not about Pesach.

00:07:56.000 It was not about Passover.

00:07:58.000 When she said, we must stand united against hatred and violence.

00:08:01.000 So now it's just broad scale hatred and violence.

00:08:03.000 It's so funny.

00:08:04.000 When Ilhan Omar says something anti-Semitic, then the Democrats condemn racism fully across the spectrum.

00:08:10.000 When a white supremacist does something evil, we condemn white supremacy.

00:08:13.000 So, if it's a form of evil, if it's an evil ideology... 0.96

00:08:17.000 That kills lots of people but is not white supremacy, then we just condemn evil generally.

00:08:21.000 But when it's white supremacy, we condemn white supremacy specifically. 0.97

00:08:24.000 We should condemn white supremacy specifically.

00:08:26.000 This is not an argument to whitewash white supremacy or water down criticism of white supremacy.

00:08:31.000 The opposite.

00:08:32.000 It is an argument to continue to focus in on that and also to focus in at least a little on radical Islam, which is responsible for exponentially more deaths worldwide than white supremacy is.

00:08:43.000 I'll give you the statistics in just a second.

00:08:45.000 I mean, that tweet from Hillary, that contrast is really stunning.

00:08:51.000 What kind of hatred?

00:08:53.000 Any clues?

00:08:53.000 Do we have any clues?

00:08:54.000 Well, it turns out one of the bombers, one of the guys arrested, one of the planners of this, his name is Mohammed Mohammed.

00:08:59.000 Do we have any clues as to who this may have been?

00:09:01.000 It turns out that there was an Islamist group that the government knew about and has already taken credit for this.

00:09:08.000 Any clues?

00:09:09.000 At all, guys?

00:09:09.000 Or is it just generalized hatred and violence?

00:09:11.000 The same sort of hatred and violence as when my son pushes down my daughter?

00:09:14.000 Like, what kind of hatred and violence are we talking about?

00:09:16.000 Any specifics?

00:09:18.000 Okay, Barack Obama did the same thing.

00:09:20.000 Here's what he did in the aftermath of Christchurch.

00:09:22.000 Michelle and I send our condolences to the people of New Zealand.

00:09:25.000 We grieve with you and the Muslim community.

00:09:27.000 All of us must stand against hatred in all of its forms.

00:09:30.000 So he grieves with the people of Christchurch and the Muslim community more generally.

00:09:34.000 Here's Barack Obama in the aftermath of what just happened in Sri Lanka.

00:09:38.000 He tweeted out, the attacks on tourists and Easter worshipers in Sri Lanka are an attack on humanity.

00:09:43.000 Not on Muslims everywhere, on humanity, generally.

00:09:46.000 On a day devoted to love, redemption, and renewal, we pray for the victims and stand with the people of Sri Lanka.

00:09:50.000 Is it forbidden to say Christians?

00:09:52.000 Are we not allowed to say the words Christians?

00:09:54.000 Obama's is not as bad as Hillary's, by the way. 0.88

00:09:55.000 Hillary's is much worse. 0.99

00:09:56.000 Hillary comes forth and she says, we have to fight Islamophobia in all of its forms, and white supremacy in all of its forms, and then radical Muslims go and kill a bunch of Christians at church on Easter Sunday, and it's, hatred and violence are really bad, guys. 0.98

00:10:08.000 Can't really get more specific than that. 0.95

00:10:09.000 Don't know how to get more specific.

00:10:11.000 Yeah, Obama, you can at least make the argument that by Easter worshipers like I don't think the Easter worshipers part of this silliness is the worst part of it. 0.58

00:10:19.000 I think that it is indicative of a failure on the part of many people on the left to single out Christians as victims because that does not fit within the intersectional hierarchy in the United States.

00:10:28.000 The intersectional hierarchy for the left is the suggestion that we know just Based on our own experiences, based on anecdotal evidence, we know who are the most victimized groups in America.

00:10:37.000 Those victimized groups are transgender people and black people and Muslims.

00:10:40.000 Those are the people who are most victimized in America. 0.92

00:10:42.000 Never mind the hate crime statistics that say that on a per capita basis in the United States, Jews are the most victimized.

00:10:47.000 And never mind the global statistics that say on a global basis, Christians are the most victimized group on planet Earth.

00:10:54.000 There's a Pew report from June of 2018 that specifically says this.

00:10:58.000 This is not me just making up that Christians are the most victimized religious group on planet Earth. 0.82

00:11:02.000 They are.

00:11:03.000 According to Pew Research Center, the center's report on religious harassment in 2016 found that Christians were harassed in 144 countries, up from 128 the year before, while Muslims were harassed in 142 countries, up from 125 in 2015.

00:11:17.000 By the way, that's kind of astonishing considering that there are many, many more officially Muslim countries than there are officially Christian countries on planet Earth.

00:11:25.000 There's 50-odd officially Muslim countries on the planet.

00:11:29.000 And there are... How many officially Christian countries are there?

00:11:32.000 A couple in Eastern Europe that I believe are officially Christian?

00:11:35.000 They say there's a state religion?

00:11:37.000 In any case, the report says Christians and Muslims have typically been harassed in the largest numbers of countries around the world.

00:11:42.000 Those two groups are the largest religious groups in the world.

00:11:45.000 They have substantial populations in more countries than other smaller and less geographically dispersed religious groups.

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00:13:20.000 So as we say, the Pew Research Center found that Christians are in fact the most persecuted religious group on planet Earth, not on a per capita basis, but on a generalized basis.

00:13:31.000 It is also true that while we have spent enormous attention focusing on white supremacy here in the West, and again, I think every iota of that is deserved, If you are going to compare the deaths and the carnage attributable to white supremacy to the deaths and carnage attributable to radical Islam, the numbers are not even remotely close. 0.95

00:13:52.000 They're not remotely close.

00:13:53.000 The only way that you can get to close to parity in any sense is if you look specifically and only within the West.

00:13:59.000 If you look specifically and only within the West, then it looks like white supremacist terror attacks Are somewhere near on par since 2003 with Islamist terrorist attacks in the West.

00:14:08.000 Although Islamist terrorist attacks in the West have been responsible for vastly more deaths, there are a lot of white supremacist terror attacks that don't end in as many mass casualty incidents.

00:14:17.000 So you have white supremacist terrorist attacks in places like the Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue where I believe 11 people were killed or Christchurch where 50 people were killed.

00:14:25.000 Every year we have a couple of Islamic incidents where 50 people are killed at a Christmas market in Berlin.

00:14:32.000 And this sort of stuff happens on a fairly regular basis.

00:14:34.000 But if you look worldwide, and Sri Lanka is not in the West, Sri Lanka is not a European country.

00:14:39.000 If you look worldwide, radical Islamic terrorism is a significantly greater threat than white supremacy.

00:14:44.000 It is not close.

00:14:46.000 It is not even remotely close.

00:14:48.000 Okay, I'll give you an example and it does demonstrate how the media coverage here is extraordinarily skewed and almost darkly funny because of how extraordinarily skewed it is.

00:14:58.000 There's an article in US News and World Report Called Globally, Terrorism Deaths Are On The Decline.

00:15:04.000 This is from December of 2018, so just a few months ago.

00:15:07.000 And it talks about the 6th Global Terrorism Index, which was published by the Institute for Economics and Peace, an independent non-profit think tank based in Australia.

00:15:16.000 And it looked at the number of terrorist deaths across the world.

00:15:19.000 It found that in 2017, there were 18,814 deaths globally, according to the study.

00:15:25.000 That was a 27% drop, according to the study.

00:15:28.000 Now, in just a second, I'm going to give you the actual breakdown in how many of those were white supremacist deaths.

00:15:32.000 So as we say, the deaths attributable to terrorism in 2017, 18,814 globally, according to the Institute for Economics and Peace.

00:15:43.000 How many of those were due to white supremacy?

00:15:47.000 So listen to how the media covered this.

00:15:49.000 This is in U.S. News & World Report.

00:15:50.000 The threat of far-right political terrorism is a growing concern in North America and Western Europe, according to the findings.

00:15:55.000 While the U.K., Spain, Finland, Sweden, and Austria were the only countries to experience increases in deaths from terrorism in Western Europe, both Canada and the United States experienced increases in total deaths in North America.

00:16:05.000 Far-right groups and individuals caused 66 deaths and launched 127 attacks in the regions between 2013 and 2017.

00:16:16.000 So, they spend several full paragraphs discussing the threat of far-right political terrorism in the West.

00:16:22.000 Again, that's fine.

00:16:24.000 This report says that in 2017 alone, globally, there were nearly 19,000 deaths from terrorism.

00:16:27.000 19,000!

00:16:27.000 19,000 deaths from terrorism, 19,000.

00:16:29.000 Between 2013 and 2017, there were 66 deaths from white supremacist terrorism in the West compared to 19,000 in 2017 alone globally.

00:16:41.000 And yet the media will spend vastly more time talking about white supremacist terrorism than they will spend talking about radical Islamic terrorism, which is a very important Why is that?

00:16:50.000 It's not because of the numbers.

00:16:51.000 It's because it reinforces a narrative. 0.93

00:16:53.000 The narrative is that the true threat to the West and the true threat across the world really is white supremacist evil. 0.94

00:16:59.000 And in the West particularly, if we're going to look at white supremacy, white supremacy is a threat. 0.69

00:17:04.000 Again, this is me for the 90th time this show saying that we should take white supremacy seriously as a person who has full-time security thanks to threats from white supremacists, as a person who has security at their shul basically thanks to threats from white supremacists.

00:17:17.000 Let me suggest that we should focus on white supremacy, but the media's unwillingness to even say radical Islamic terrorism when an obvious radical Islamic terror attack occurs somewhere else in the world or at home on American soil is pretty astonishing and indicative of a worldview that is perverse.

00:17:34.000 If you cannot label specific evil by the specific type when it happens because you are afraid of the consequences, you're part of enshrining that evil.

00:17:43.000 The left says this all the time.

00:17:44.000 If you can't label Christchurch a white supremacist terror attack, then you are lending cover to people who commit those sorts of terror attacks?

00:17:50.000 I think, on a philosophical level, there is some truth to this.

00:17:53.000 If that is true, I think that on a philosophical level, if you refuse to acknowledge that the Orlando Pulse attack or the San Bernardino terrorist attack were radical Islamic terror attacks, if you say that what happened in Sri Lanka was due to generalized racism and violence, generalized hatred and violence, Then you are providing cover to some pretty terrible people.

00:18:10.000 You ought to be able to name evil for what it is.

00:18:13.000 You ought to be able to label evil for what it is, so then we can determine how we ought to distribute our resources in fighting that evil.

00:18:20.000 And we also ought to be able to suggest that two threats are present at the same time and not in equal numbers.

00:18:28.000 This is why when people were criticizing Ilhan Omar for not taking terrorism seriously, they were correct. 1.00

00:18:32.000 Ilhan Omar does not take terrorism seriously.

00:18:34.000 Representative Omar had suggested in a column in 2017, which I think is worse than any other thing that she's written other than a letter in 2016, where she tried to have a judge let ISIS recruits off early because they were victims of what she called American marginalization.

00:18:48.000 In 2017, she wrote a piece suggesting that America was founded in genocide and slavery.

00:18:52.000 And in order to misdirect away from our foundations in genocide and slavery, We therefore focused on international terrorism.

00:18:59.000 That provides cover for a radical ideology that does create violence.

00:19:04.000 Why can't we walk and chew gum at the same time?

00:19:06.000 It's one thing to say we don't pay enough attention to white supremacy.

00:19:08.000 I would argue that is certainly not the case now.

00:19:10.000 It is another to argue that we should ignore one type of terrorism in favor of another type of terrorism. 0.78

00:19:16.000 And those tweets from from Hillary Clinton are pretty damned telling.

00:19:21.000 You should be able to label this stuff for what it is.

00:19:24.000 And if you cannot, you should be able to explain why it is that you cannot label these things for what they are.

00:19:30.000 Turns out there are lots of different types of victims and lots of different types of perpetrators.

00:19:33.000 And those perpetrators commit crimes at wildly variant rates.

00:19:36.000 And particularly when you are talking about problems abroad and violence abroad, radical Islam has bloody borders. 1.00

00:19:42.000 Radical Islam does create the vast majority of terrorism worldwide. 1.00

00:19:46.000 It is not even close.

00:19:48.000 It is simply not close.

00:19:50.000 All righty, meanwhile, the other big story over the weekend was, of course, all the fallout from the Mueller report.

00:19:54.000 So, last week, you want to listen to my total take on the Mueller report, listen to our shows on Thursday and Friday, because I had read the entire report by the time we did the show on Thursday, and I broke it down on Thursday, and then I broke it down in eight specific ways from eight angles on Friday.

00:20:09.000 My bottom line in the Mueller report is that there's no collusion, obviously.

00:20:13.000 The report itself, the first half of the report is basically an empty vessel.

00:20:16.000 There's not much there other than a lot of smoke, With various members of the Trump campaign who are sort of hobnobbing with Russians in incompetent ways, but that never getting passed up the chain.

00:20:25.000 The Trump Tower meeting turns out to be a big nothing.

00:20:27.000 It turns out that virtually all of the smoke turned into no fire.

00:20:31.000 It was a waste of time.

00:20:32.000 It was a giant waste of time in the original theory of the Mueller Report and of James Comey and of Andrew McCabe and of and of James Clapper and of John Brennan.

00:20:41.000 The original theory that Donald Trump was somehow in cahoots with Putin in 2016, that was a bunch of nonsense.

00:20:47.000 That was finding number one.

00:20:48.000 Finding number two is that there was no proof sufficient to prove obstruction of justice because President Trump was basically walking around the White House and fulminating and fuming.

00:20:58.000 over all of the wrongs done to him by the Mueller report and so he's walking around telling people to fire people and send letters and lie to the press and none of that is good stuff but none of that is obstruction of justice.

00:21:08.000 He could have fired any of those people and it wouldn't be obstruction of justice in a technical criminal sense.

00:21:12.000 Maybe it was impeachable but it wouldn't have been obstruction of justice in any criminal sense.

00:21:17.000 Now the Trump administration continues to come out and suggest that the Mueller report got it wrong.

00:21:23.000 Now at this point if you're the Trump administration what you'd probably want to do is just say Look, Mueller found what he found.

00:21:29.000 No prosecution is taking place.

00:21:30.000 The American people are ready to move on.

00:21:32.000 Rudy Giuliani, however, is challenging some aspects of the report.

00:21:35.000 So Rudy Giuliani is the president's lawyer, and he says, yeah, you know, some of the things in the report are plain false.

00:21:42.000 This is a prosecutor's document.

00:21:44.000 400 pages, the prosecutor's view.

00:21:47.000 And then a prosecutor, which I think people would grant, had a lot of people that were somewhat biased against the president.

00:21:53.000 I don't know that everybody would grant that, but okay, that's your opinion.

00:21:56.000 But in any event, A lot of things are left out.

00:21:59.000 A lot of things are false.

00:22:01.000 I shouldn't say a lot of things.

00:22:02.000 Some things are false.

00:22:03.000 A lot of things are questionable.

00:22:05.000 It's clear that they tried very, very hard to create a case that the president was involved in Russian whatever.

00:22:13.000 Couldn't do it.

00:22:14.000 They tried a hundred different ways.

00:22:16.000 Okay, and that was also true of obstruction of justice.

00:22:18.000 The most exonerating part of this report is how when you read that second half of the report, it is obvious that Mueller and Mueller's prosecutors really do not like Trump.

00:22:26.000 It is really obvious that they are trying to draw the worst possible conclusions from what is, by all available evidence, just evidence of a volatile and shallow personality problem the president has.

00:22:38.000 I mean, his volatile behavior is well known to everyone.

00:22:43.000 This is not anything new.

00:22:44.000 The attempt to draw some sort of nefarious conclusion about him obstructing justice or shutting down the Mueller report when the Mueller report, as we know, reached a terminus.

00:22:52.000 It reached a conclusion is a pretty absurd thing.

00:22:55.000 Well, the left is now saying, well, we have the material to impeach.

00:22:58.000 We'll talk about that in just one second.

00:23:00.000 So what they're saying is that while Trump did not testify and members of his administration were declaring that they didn't know things, The idea was that, presumably, if they had all talked, if we had been able to get to the bottom of this, there would have been something criminal and impeachable.

00:23:17.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:24:24.000 Meanwhile, as we say, the left is focusing in on the Mueller report as the basis, not for criminality, but for impeachment.

00:24:33.000 And they are clinging to a couple of different lines of argument.

00:24:36.000 Line of argument number one is that while the report found no collusion, there's still collusion. 0.95

00:24:41.000 This is so empty and so foolish, but listen, Adam Schiff still has to defend himself.

00:24:46.000 I mean, Representative Schiff from California has spent the last two years claiming that he has secret knowledge that Mueller would get Trump, that in the end, Mueller would uncover the secret meeting. 0.99

00:24:56.000 In a Russian hotel, in which prostitutes peed all over the President of the United States as he shouted, I hate Hillary! 0.95

00:25:03.000 And then, he went in the other room, cleaned himself off, and signed an agreement with Vladimir Putin to build Trump Tower Moscow in return for, in return for, giving some sort of favors to Vlad. 0.97

00:25:14.000 That's what Adam Schiff has sort of been suggesting all along.

00:25:16.000 And the Steele dossier is probably true. 0.95

00:25:18.000 Everything, all this stuff is true.

00:25:19.000 And if it's not, there's other information that's definitely going to come out.

00:25:22.000 We kept hearing this.

00:25:23.000 And we kept hearing over and over, Mueller has information, you do not.

00:25:25.000 And I thought, well, that's true.

00:25:27.000 Mueller does have information that I do not.

00:25:28.000 But it turns out he didn't have that much information.

00:25:30.000 I did not.

00:25:32.000 Which is kind of a problem for him.

00:25:34.000 Adam Schiff continues to maintain, however, that there is still evidence of collusion.

00:25:38.000 What a joke this guy is, the fact that he's still being treated with seriousness.

00:25:42.000 It speaks to the same media that treated Michael Avenatti with seriousness for years and started promoting him as a potential 2020 candidate. 0.97

00:25:49.000 Here's Adam Schiff still making excuses for the fact that he's a liar.

00:25:53.000 When I talked about evidence of collusion in plain sight, I used those words in plain sight.

00:25:58.000 And I pointed to the meetings in Trump Tower that Don Jr.

00:26:02.000 and Kushner and Manafort took.

00:26:04.000 And what more clear intent to collude could you have than the Russians offering dirt on Hillary Clinton as part of what was described as an effort to help Mr. Trump in the campaign?

00:26:14.000 And Don Jr.

00:26:15.000 saying, if it's what you say, I would love it.

00:26:18.000 Now, I don't know how you find more abundant evidence of an intent to collude than that.

00:26:23.000 Okay, well, I mean, the intent to collude, you'd actually have to, I don't know, have intent to collude.

00:26:29.000 And all of the plain sight evidence that he was, like, calling on Wikileaks to release stuff, or that Don Jr.

00:26:34.000 met with a lawyer to get OPPO, that is not collusion.

00:26:37.000 That is accepting OPPO.

00:26:38.000 You know who else accepted OPPO about their opponent from foreign sources during the campaign?

00:26:41.000 That'd be Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:26:43.000 That'd be Fusion GPS, which accepted OPPO from a foreign source, namely from Christopher Steele.

00:26:48.000 Who it turns out was not some high-ranking spy.

00:26:50.000 He was a hack who put together, cobbled together, a terrible piece of OPPO research that the FBI then accepted as the basis for things like a FISA warrant.

00:27:00.000 Ash Scow over at Daily Wire, my site, she has a great piece today talking about how the New York Times has finally acknowledged that the Steele dossier might actually not be all that great.

00:27:09.000 She says the salacious and uncorroborated dossier compiled by ex-British intelligence officer Christopher Steele was used by the media to justify its endless attacks on President Trump and accuse him of treason.

00:27:19.000 The dossier was never anything more than oppo research paid for by Fusion GPS, and not even good oppo research at that.

00:27:25.000 Steele reported rumors and gossip, including some internet comments to bolster his report.

00:27:29.000 What wasn't corroborated was downright debunked by special counsel Robert Mueller's report, including the allegations that Trump's attorney, former attorney Michael Cohen, went to Prague to meet with the Russians.

00:27:38.000 Now, after two years of using the dossier to perpetuate the collusion narrative, the New York Times has finally acknowledged what those of us not parroting the collusion delusion have known for years.

00:27:47.000 The dossier was Garbaggio.

00:27:49.000 The Times reported, quote, Mr. Mueller's report contained over a dozen passing references to the document's claims, but no overall assessment of why so much did not check out.

00:27:54.000 underscored what had grown clearer for months, that while many Trump aides had welcomed contact with the Russians, some of the most sensational claims in the dossier appeared to be false, and others were impossible to prove.

00:28:03.000 Mr. Mueller's report contained over a dozen passing references to the document's claims, but no overall assessment of why so much did not check out.

00:28:11.000 Now the dossier is going to be subjected to two inquiries, one from the DOJ's inspector general and one from congressional Republicans.

00:28:18.000 The FBI, according to the Times, appears to have been suspicious of the dossier That was right around the time that media outlets reported on the existence of the dossier, and BuzzFeed published the unverified document in a breach of journalistic ethics without checking out any of it.

00:28:32.000 And so the fact that the FBI doubted the dossier's credibility was never part of the story.

00:28:36.000 Instead, media outlets like the Times spent years talking to sources claiming Mueller had evidence supporting claims in the dossier.

00:28:44.000 So pretty funny that the New York Times has finally acknowledged, but Democrats will not.

00:28:48.000 And so they continue to say that impeachment is on the table.

00:28:50.000 Now this puts them in a box because the American people are not interested in impeachment.

00:28:54.000 By polling data, a majority of Americans want to move beyond this.

00:28:56.000 Only 39% of Americans say that they want further investigation on all this.

00:29:01.000 That would be the hardcore anti-Trump base.

00:29:03.000 The vast majority of Americans not interested in more of this.

00:29:06.000 We've spent $25 million and two years and billions of dollars in free media coverage on a nonsense issue that never had any verifiability to it.

00:29:15.000 Aren't we done already?

00:29:16.000 Like at a certain point, don't you cut your losses?

00:29:18.000 But according to Democrats, the answer is never.

00:29:20.000 We will never cut our losses.

00:29:21.000 So Jerry Nadler, Democrat from New York, he says, listen, all of this stuff is impeachable.

00:29:25.000 Maybe we'll think about impeachment.

00:29:28.000 Do you think this is impeachable?

00:29:34.000 Yeah, I do.

00:29:35.000 I do think that this, if proven, if proven, which hasn't been proven yet, some of this, if proven, some of this would be impeachable, yes.

00:29:46.000 Obstruction of justice, if proven, would be impeachable.

00:29:48.000 And you're going to go about to see if you can prove it?

00:29:51.000 Well, we're going to see where the facts lead us.

00:29:54.000 It was not provable.

00:29:55.000 It was not proved.

00:29:56.000 And we'll see where the facts lead us.

00:29:58.000 You guys were buying votive candles of Mueller five minutes ago.

00:30:01.000 And then when he didn't recommend prosecution, you say, well, maybe he's wrong.

00:30:05.000 Maybe it turns out that he's wrong all along.

00:30:07.000 Amazing, amazing stuff.

00:30:08.000 And then, of course, you have nutty Maxine Waters, who says, yeah, you know, let's impeach. 1.00

00:30:11.000 Of course, she was saying let's impeach, even if he wasn't guilty of collusion, just because she doesn't like him.

00:30:15.000 Now, if we're going to talk about public officials who should have been impeached long ago, Maxine Waters, who is one of the most corrupt members of Congress, allegations that when she was on the House Financial Services Committee a dozen years ago, she was funneling money to a bank in which her husband was an investor.

00:30:29.000 Maxine Waters says that Trump should be impeached.

00:30:31.000 Why?

00:30:31.000 Because Auntie Maxine doesn't like him.

00:30:33.000 She does, however, like the L.A. 0.99

00:30:34.000 uprising, not the L.A.

00:30:36.000 riots.

00:30:36.000 She calls it the L.A.

00:30:37.000 uprising.

00:30:37.000 She should delight Maxine Waters.

00:30:40.000 I have been calling for his impeachment for a long time because I understood very clearly who this man is, how he conducted himself during his campaign, and the kind of information that we learned about him even before Mueller came on board.

00:30:57.000 The fact of the matter is, I think that when you look at this report, you can see that there's enough information there, not only on obstruction of justice, but also on collusion or conspiracy, whatever you want to call it, to move forward with impeachment on this president.

00:31:15.000 Okay, they're just going to continue with this over and over.

00:31:17.000 They are not going to stop.

00:31:19.000 And so all of these impeachment-minded folks are going to continue to push.

00:31:23.000 They're going to suggest over and over that impeachment is still on the table.

00:31:26.000 Go for it, guys.

00:31:27.000 You want this?

00:31:28.000 All of you.

00:31:29.000 Because the revelation of the report is not that President Trump is a volatile human.

00:31:34.000 Did you not know that President Trump was a volatile human?

00:31:36.000 Do you have eyes and ears?

00:31:37.000 Do you have sensory organs?

00:31:39.000 Are you unaware that President Trump is a volatile human who does volatile things and says silly things and yells at people and treats his employees badly?

00:31:46.000 Where have you been?

00:31:47.000 He became famous on a show where he fired people.

00:31:50.000 He became famous by posing for the cover of Playboy magazine.

00:31:55.000 Donald Trump He basically bankrupted the USFL.

00:32:01.000 He bankrupted his own casino in Atlantic City.

00:32:05.000 What exactly are you suggesting?

00:32:07.000 We did not know about Donald Trump at this point.

00:32:09.000 That's, I think, why so many people are off-put by tweets like Senator Mitt Romney.

00:32:12.000 So Romney, who everyone felt did not fight Barack Obama with the alacrity that President Trump fought Hillary Clinton, that he left some of the ammo in the closet, He tweeted out in the aftermath of the Mueller report, Senator Romney, quote, It is good news that there is insufficient evidence to charge the president of the United States with having conspired with a foreign adversary or with having obstructed justice.

00:32:31.000 The alternative would have taken us through a wrenching process with the potential for constitutional crisis.

00:32:35.000 The business of government can move on.

00:32:36.000 Even so, I am sickened at the extent and pervasiveness of dishonesty and misdirection by individuals in the highest office of the land, including the president.

00:32:44.000 I am also appalled that, among other things, fellow citizens worked in a campaign for president welcoming help from Russia, including information that had been illegally obtained, that none of them acted to inform American law enforcement, and that the campaign chairman was actively promoting Russian interests in Ukraine.

00:32:57.000 Reading the report is a sobering revelation of how far we have strayed from the aspirations and principles of the founders.

00:33:03.000 On an ideological level, I don't really disagree with much that Romney says there, but the angle is totally wrong.

00:33:10.000 We knew all this stuff.

00:33:11.000 These criticisms were perfectly appropriate for two years when we found out about George Papadopoulos, when we found out about the Trump Tower meeting.

00:33:17.000 And when we found out about Paul Manafort, all of these things were perfectly appropriate then.

00:33:21.000 But that was not the breaking news.

00:33:23.000 The breaking news of the report is not all the stuff we already knew, it's all the stuff that we didn't.

00:33:27.000 And all the stuff that we didn't know basically just suggests that the president is volatile, and the president is mean to people, and the president yells a lot, and that his advisors stop him from doing dumb things, and also, most importantly, that there was no obstruction of justice.

00:33:39.000 That's where this lies.

00:33:40.000 And so the story was not Trump being Trump.

00:33:43.000 The story was the media were proved to be what they are.

00:33:45.000 The story was Democrats were proved to be what they are.

00:33:48.000 That was the revelation.

00:33:49.000 The Democrats were lying when they said they had extra information.

00:33:52.000 That the media were lying when they suggested that there was far more to come.

00:33:56.000 That the media proclaiming that Robert Mueller is going to end Trump's presidency, that that was a bunch of nonsense for two years and that they are motivated players in this space.

00:34:05.000 That was the revelation.

00:34:05.000 So Romney can make those criticisms.

00:34:08.000 I think a lot of those criticisms are fair.

00:34:10.000 I've made those criticisms for the past two years, but that was not the story when the Mueller report came out.

00:34:14.000 The story when the Mueller report came out was indeed no collusion and no evidence sufficient to establish obstruction of justice.

00:34:19.000 In fact, I think that the Mueller report's attempted definition of obstruction of justice, as I talked about last week, was far too broad.

00:34:25.000 Okay, in just a second, We're going to jump into the 2020 race because it is starting to heat up.

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00:35:43.000 So in just a second, we're going to get to the 2020 campaign, which is heating up Elizabeth Warren, throwing random ideas at the wall to see what sticks.

00:35:50.000 Most of them are exactly what that phrase would suggest. 1.00

00:35:53.000 They're crap. 1.00

00:35:54.000 And she'll see what crap sticks to the wall. 1.00

00:35:55.000 We'll get to her latest brilliant proposal from the Native American princess in just one second. 0.99

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00:37:02.000 All righty, so the 2020 race is heating up.

00:37:11.000 Democrats are getting ready to attack each other.

00:37:13.000 So we are about to enter the most juicy portion of the 2020 race.

00:37:16.000 Are you excited?

00:37:17.000 I am, because so far they've been laying off of each other.

00:37:19.000 And it started off like this in 2016.

00:37:21.000 If you can go back in your Wayback Machine, all the way back to mid-2015, all the Republicans said were nice things about each other.

00:37:29.000 Oh, how much Rubio loved Cruz, and how much Cruz loved Rubio, and how much both of them kind of liked Trump.

00:37:33.000 I mean, he was a populist, sure, and he didn't really know a lot of things.

00:37:35.000 But he was a shot in the arm, was Trump.

00:37:38.000 And then, as the months went on, the long knives came out and the carving began.

00:37:43.000 And by the end of it, everybody looked like Riff and Bernardo after the fight scene in West Side Story.

00:37:49.000 And it was just, it was brutal.

00:37:51.000 It was brutal.

00:37:51.000 Well, get ready, because it's going to be fun this time among the Democrats.

00:37:55.000 There are 20 candidates fighting for scraps and apparently another candidate just joined a guy named Seth Moulton from Massachusetts.

00:38:01.000 He's probably gonna he was looking to lose his primary race in Massachusetts.

00:38:04.000 He's considered a slightly more moderate Democrat, but it's hilarious.

00:38:08.000 I mean there are 1 million candidates.

00:38:09.000 They're all struggling for attention and a lot of the people who are supposed to be top tier simply have had failure to launch.

00:38:15.000 Top among those has of course been Senator Elizabeth Warren, our Native American princess, who once wrote a recipe for pow wow chow to demonstrate her Native American bona fides.

00:38:23.000 That pow wow chow recipe was apparently a New York chef-based recipe for crab bisque, a traditional Cherokee dish about crabs roaming the fruited plains of Oklahoma.

00:38:33.000 In any case, Elizabeth Warren is trying to jump out to the radical left. 1.00

00:38:37.000 She's trying to out Bernie Bernie, so good luck with that.

00:38:40.000 Here she was over the weekend suggesting that President Trump must be impeached.

00:38:44.000 The report is absolutely clear that a foreign government attacked our electoral system to help Donald Trump.

00:38:53.000 He welcomed that help.

00:38:55.000 And then, when it was investigated by our own federal authorities, Donald Trump took multiple steps to try to obstruct justice.

00:39:03.000 Equal justice under law.

00:39:05.000 No one is above the law, and that includes the President of the United States.

00:39:10.000 It is the constitutional responsibility of Congress to follow through on that.

00:39:15.000 I mean, it's the responsibility of Congress?

00:39:18.000 Like, she knows she's never gonna have to vote on this.

00:39:19.000 This is one of the beautiful things about being a Democrat in the Senate running for president.

00:39:22.000 There are 90 of you, and you have a minority in the Senate.

00:39:25.000 So no matter what you do, you can vote for Trump's impeachment, get all the credit, and never have to actually live with the consequences, politically speaking.

00:39:33.000 So, Elizabeth Warren pushing for impeachment.

00:39:36.000 She's trying to push to the left of Bernie Sanders. 1.00

00:39:38.000 Sanders has not actually commented formally on impeachment at this point, so far as I'm aware.

00:39:42.000 And now she's rolling out another proposal.

00:39:44.000 She rolls out a proposal every day because she figures, okay, at some point, some of these have got to make some headlines.

00:39:49.000 I mean, come on guys, what do I have to do here to get some attention?

00:39:53.000 I mean, I already did a DNA test and you just made fun of me.

00:39:55.000 So now I'm just going to roll out a proposal every single day.

00:39:59.000 Every single day.

00:40:00.000 It's like when my son... Her campaign is like when my son wants a sweet from the closet but doesn't want to tell me.

00:40:06.000 So we have a pantry in our house.

00:40:08.000 And what he will do is he will stand directly outside the pantry.

00:40:11.000 And then he will say, Daddy, open pantry.

00:40:14.000 And I'll say, No.

00:40:15.000 What do you want in there?

00:40:17.000 And he'll say, Something.

00:40:18.000 And I'll say, what is the something?

00:40:19.000 He'll say, something.

00:40:20.000 And I'll say, what is it?

00:40:21.000 And he'll say, crackers.

00:40:23.000 And I'll say, you don't want crackers.

00:40:25.000 And he'll say, squeezy.

00:40:26.000 And I'll say, you don't want squeezy.

00:40:28.000 And then finally he will admit that it is candy that he wants.

00:40:30.000 Well, that's Elizabeth Warren. 0.87

00:40:31.000 And Elizabeth Warren stands out there and she says, I am progressive!

00:40:33.000 I'm like, okay, what do you mean?

00:40:35.000 And she says, progressive!

00:40:36.000 I'm like, okay, what do you mean?

00:40:37.000 And she's like, free stuff!

00:40:38.000 Free stuff for everybody!

00:40:39.000 That's what I mean!

00:40:41.000 Like all of the reasonable nature of Elizabeth Warren that existed in 2001, 2002.

00:40:44.000 She wrote a pretty good book called The Two-Income Trap about the struggles of families to get by and all this stuff.

00:40:50.000 She used to be for school vouchers. 1.00

00:40:52.000 All that has gone out the window.

00:40:53.000 All she's in favor of now is free stuff.

00:40:55.000 She's gonna out-free Bernie Sanders. 0.54

00:40:56.000 So Bernie Sanders has suggested free college tuition.

00:41:00.000 Elizabeth Warren is gonna go even further than Bernie Sanders. 1.00

00:41:02.000 It's gonna be amazing, guys.

00:41:04.000 In a second, I'll tell you what.

00:41:05.000 So, Elizabeth Warren Is now proposing the Senator to try and get attention. 1.00

00:41:10.000 She is now proposing to wipe out Americans college debt completely.

00:41:15.000 College debt forgiveness.

00:41:17.000 Okay, which would actually be a violation of the Constitution of the United States.

00:41:21.000 That would be a full-on violation of the Takings Clause. 0.93

00:41:24.000 The Takings Clause suggests that I cannot simply, as the government, declare all private debt to be null and void. 0.58

00:41:30.000 That would be me taking something of value from you without just compensation.

00:41:34.000 Not even for public use.

00:41:35.000 That's for private use, right?

00:41:36.000 You get to keep the benefits and it's not going to the government.

00:41:39.000 The benefit doesn't go to the government.

00:41:40.000 Eminent domain is the government needs your house because they're building a highway and so they compensate you for the house.

00:41:45.000 Eminent domain really was not supposed to be the government takes my house and hands it to you because you are more capable of paying higher taxes because you're adding a second story onto the house.

00:41:54.000 And certainly it's not the government just feels like bulldozing the house because the government feels like bulldozing it for no reason.

00:42:00.000 Well, that's what she is talking about right here.

00:42:02.000 She's talking about a violation of the Takings Clause, simply forgiving all college debt. 1.00

00:42:06.000 Now, this is stupid in 1,000 ways. 1.00

00:42:08.000 In 1,000 ways. 1.00

00:42:09.000 Let me read you what her proposal is, and then I'll explain why this is so incredibly dumb and counterproductive, and doesn't fulfill even what it is attempting to do. 0.73

00:42:17.000 So she has proposed to wipe out student debt and tuition at public colleges. 0.68

00:42:22.000 She unveiled on Monday her proposal for easing access to higher education.

00:42:25.000 It would spend $1.25 trillion over 10 years to eliminate up to $50,000 in student debt with household incomes under $100,000.

00:42:34.000 Okay, first of all, I will note, this is already a wealth redistribution that actually favors people who are middle class or wealthier.

00:42:40.000 Because who do you think is going to college?

00:42:41.000 It's mostly people who are middle class or wealthier people who have higher income potentials and higher income trajectories.

00:42:47.000 So you're talking effectively about taxing low-income people in favor of middle and high-income people.

00:42:52.000 She says she would allow states to make public colleges tuition-free.

00:42:54.000 There are already states that do this, like University of Tennessee.

00:42:57.000 And she wants to spend $100 billion on expended Pell Grants to defray more non-tuition expenses. 1.00

00:43:03.000 So she wants to simply wipe out all of this college debt.

00:43:08.000 Her plan would scale back relief for people with incomes above $100,000 and would end it entirely at the $250,000 level.

00:43:14.000 She said her proposal would benefit 95% of the 45 million Americans carrying a student debt and wipe it out for 75% of them.

00:43:21.000 She said that this would stimulate the economy by improving credit scores.

00:43:25.000 That's so funny.

00:43:25.000 I love that.

00:43:26.000 So we're going to eliminate debt that you're unable to pay to improve your credit score.

00:43:30.000 In other words, we're going to game the credit score system.

00:43:32.000 The credit score system is, I took out a debt.

00:43:35.000 Now I have to pay back that debt.

00:43:36.000 Every time I pay back that debt, my credit score goes up.

00:43:39.000 Every time a debt collector is called, my credit score goes down.

00:43:41.000 Her solution?

00:43:42.000 What if we just forgive the debt, and then that increases your credit score?

00:43:45.000 This is the equivalent of when the city of Los Angeles decided that South Central Los Angeles had too much crime, and if they just called it South Los Angeles, that would fix the problem.

00:43:54.000 No, the problem is you're not paying your debts.

00:43:57.000 The problem is not that your credit worthiness goes up if we simply forgive your debts.

00:44:02.000 It's insane.

00:44:03.000 And then she says this would increase home buying.

00:44:06.000 Great.

00:44:06.000 So the people who are incapable of paying back their college debts, we should definitely make it super easy for them to take out home loans.

00:44:12.000 Maybe we could call them...

00:44:13.000 Like, I know these aren't prime borrowers.

00:44:15.000 Maybe what we should do is probably call them subprime borrowers.

00:44:18.000 What we could do is have the government subsidize subprime home loans to people who are incapable of paying off their debts in other ways.

00:44:25.000 And then we could grant them these subprime home loans with government subsidies.

00:44:29.000 And we could incentivize private businesses by saying that if those subprime home loans are not paid back, then the government will bail you out.

00:44:35.000 It'll be totally fine.

00:44:37.000 I feel like this would be a really good plan for fixing the mortgage system.

00:44:40.000 Subprime home loans Provided by the government for people who are not creditworthy.

00:44:44.000 What could go wrong?

00:44:45.000 Nothing.

00:44:46.000 Probably everything will be fine, guys.

00:44:47.000 Everything will be fine.

00:44:48.000 And then she says this will ease small business formation.

00:44:51.000 If you want to ease small business formation, let me make you a recommendation.

00:44:54.000 Instead of incentivizing lenders to give money to people to go to college, to major in lesbian dance theory, instead, we should be incentivizing lenders to lend money to people who are starting businesses.

00:45:04.000 You know one way to do this.

00:45:06.000 Stop insisting that everyone who is smart has to go to college.

00:45:09.000 Stop insisting that the pathway to success in the United States is to go major In Maya Angelou's poetry at JUCO.

00:45:16.000 That is not correct.

00:45:19.000 She also wants to cut off federal money from for-profit colleges. 0.66

00:45:22.000 She says those enrich themselves while targeting lower-income students.

00:45:25.000 Targeting lower-income students?

00:45:27.000 You know how hard Harvard is trying to get low-income students in?

00:45:30.000 They're kicking Asians out for no reason to get low-income students in Harvard. 0.93

00:45:34.000 She says that private colleges are the problem.

00:45:37.000 No, you want to know why the cost of tuition is so high?

00:45:39.000 Because of publicly sponsored tuition.

00:45:41.000 That's why the cost is high.

00:45:43.000 Every area where the government subsidizes, prices go up.

00:45:46.000 This is true in healthcare.

00:45:47.000 It is true in tuition.

00:45:48.000 Every time the government gives you free money, people increase the prices on the thing that you are now buying.

00:45:53.000 Why?

00:45:53.000 Because there's more money in circulation?

00:45:55.000 Ya dolt. 1.00

00:45:56.000 Okay, so her proposal makes no sense. 0.84

00:45:58.000 If you actually wanted to fix all of this, you actually eliminate federal involvement in student loans, and fewer people go to college.

00:46:04.000 And that would be a good thing, because not everyone needs to go to college.

00:46:07.000 Instead, we would have apprenticeships, people who are skipping college to apprentice themselves in a business where they get to learn a skill set.

00:46:14.000 What colleges are good for, I've said this for years, what colleges are good for is two things.

00:46:17.000 They're fundamentally a sorting mechanism.

00:46:19.000 So if you went to Harvard, we assume you're smarter than someone who went to JUCO.

00:46:22.000 And two, they create a social fabric of friends with whom you can correspond and get jobs.

00:46:27.000 That's what college is for.

00:46:29.000 Well, by vastly broadening the number of people going to college and creating affirmative action programs that skew the system, And what you're actually doing is eliminating both of the actual effective methods of increasing income mobility inside colleges.

00:46:44.000 You're getting rid of the sorting factor on the one hand, and on the other hand, you're also getting rid of the AirSat social fabric.

00:46:50.000 Because you don't create a social fabric at JUCO.

00:46:52.000 Those are not people you associate with the rest of your life.

00:46:55.000 This really only applies to elite colleges.

00:46:57.000 That doesn't exist.

00:46:58.000 Sending somebody to a low-level state school with free tuition to major in whatever they please is not going to materially better their lives.

00:47:04.000 That's silly talk.

00:47:06.000 So Elizabeth Warren is proposing all of this stuff.

00:47:08.000 Kevin Williamson laid this out a while back in a piece that he wrote for National Review, a three-step plan.

00:47:14.000 Actually, he wrote this a couple of days ago.

00:47:15.000 He said, here's a three-part plan for doing something practical.

00:47:19.000 One, the federal government should stop making college loans itself and cease guaranteeing any such loans.

00:47:23.000 Why?

00:47:24.000 Because that would force banks to actually try to determine whether a loan was going to be paid back based on the major.

00:47:28.000 I could take a loan for law school.

00:47:30.000 Why?

00:47:30.000 Because I was going to be a lawyer, which meant I was a good bet.

00:47:34.000 The collateral was me.

00:47:35.000 Two, step two, it should prohibit educational lending by federally regulated financial institutions or require the application of ordinary credit standards in any private educational lending, treating the student as the main credit risk in the same way that you would a mortgage.

00:47:51.000 And three, it should make student loan debt dischargeable in ordinary bankruptcy procedures.

00:47:55.000 So this would put the risk on the banks.

00:47:57.000 The banks would have to make an actual decision as to whether people should get a loan or should not get a loan based on whether they think the person is going to be able to pay the thing back or not.

00:48:05.000 This makes sense.

00:48:06.000 What Elizabeth Warren is talking about makes no sense.

00:48:09.000 Fortunately, being in the 2020 Democratic Party means never having to say anything sensical.

00:48:14.000 You don't have to say anything.

00:48:15.000 You just have to promise a lot of free stuff.

00:48:16.000 So Elizabeth Warren going to trot this out and hope that this sticks as well.

00:48:20.000 Unlikely.

00:48:22.000 Unlikely, but who the hell knows.

00:48:23.000 Alrighty, time for some things I like, and then some things that I hate.

00:48:27.000 So, things that I like.

00:48:28.000 Over the holiday, I re-read a book by Gerald Schroeder, who is an MIT physicist, MIT-educated physicist, called The Science of God, The Conversions of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom.

00:48:37.000 It's really interesting stuff.

00:48:38.000 Perfectly appropriate for both Easter and Passover.

00:48:41.000 It's really good.

00:48:41.000 It's all about how the book of Genesis can be read in a way that makes room for science, which is something that I am very much in favor of.

00:48:50.000 And his take particularly on how the six days of creation match up with the timeline for creation that is expressed via science is really fascinating.

00:48:59.000 The essential thesis is that there is a universal background clock of the universe that is being used up until the creation of man.

00:49:06.000 And that 24 Earth hours correspond to a certain number of background radiation wavelengths in the universe.

00:49:13.000 Blackbody radiation wavelengths in the universe.

00:49:16.000 For 24 hours within the creation time frame.

00:49:18.000 Within the Big Bang time frame.

00:49:20.000 So, to get a little bit more complex on that, and simplify actually, you have to read the book.

00:49:25.000 Go check it out.

00:49:25.000 The Science of God by Gerald Schroeder.

00:49:27.000 Great religious and scientific reading.

00:49:29.000 It really is pretty cool stuff.

00:49:31.000 Okay, time for a bevy of things that I hate.

00:49:33.000 A cornucopia of things that I hate.

00:49:39.000 All right, so thing that I hate, number one.

00:49:43.000 There is a story in, what is this?

00:49:46.000 The UK Daily Mail.

00:49:49.000 Gay transgender man tells story of giving birth.

00:49:52.000 Okay, so it says, not only women feel broody, transgender man reveals he was desperate to have a child before he went through a total loss of self as he became pregnant with his baby. 0.85

00:50:02.000 Okay, let me explain.

00:50:04.000 This person is not female.

00:50:06.000 I mean, this person is not male.

00:50:07.000 This is not a male giving birth.

00:50:10.000 If a male gave birth, do you have any idea how bad that would hurt? 0.80

00:50:13.000 We have a urethra.

00:50:15.000 We do not have a birth canal. 0.80

00:50:17.000 You try pushing a 10-pound baby through a urethra, you will die. 0.99

00:50:21.000 Hey, this is not, where's that baby coming from? 0.95

00:50:23.000 If you are a male, like a genetic biological male, you can't poop out the baby and you can't pee out the baby.

00:50:30.000 There's no way to get the baby out.

00:50:31.000 Also, you have no uterus, so there's no place for the baby to grow. 0.97

00:50:33.000 So, biology suggests that this is in fact not a gay male who had a baby, because that's silly. 0.96

00:50:40.000 This is actually a genetic female who had a baby. 0.98

00:50:44.000 I love this.

00:50:44.000 Freddie McConnell, 30, is a gay transgender man who gave birth to a baby boy.

00:50:47.000 No, Freddie McConnell is a woman. 0.76

00:50:51.000 A woman who had a surgery.

00:50:53.000 Who gave birth to a baby.

00:50:53.000 I like that he said that she, because this is a genetic female, she is now a gay transgender man, which means a woman who is attracted to men, but had a surgery.

00:51:05.000 That makes more sense than whatever the hell this mishmash word salad that you've created here.

00:51:10.000 A film of his experience of pregnancy will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.

00:51:14.000 His mother described her fears for her son as he embarked on the pregnancy.

00:51:17.000 He spent most of the nine months he was pregnant with his son in Diehl, Kent.

00:51:20.000 Wow, spectacular stuff.

00:51:21.000 Here's a little bit of this magical film about a female having a baby, but this female has a beard because of hormone treatment and because of breast removal. 0.85

00:51:30.000 So, wonderful stuff.

00:51:32.000 So, hormone treatment, breast removal, genetic female. 1.00

00:51:35.000 This is not shocking.

00:51:36.000 This is just a person who did something to her body.

00:51:40.000 When I took the first vial of testosterone, Quite quickly I was being read as male all the time.

00:51:45.000 It's not about more male because more valid.

00:51:50.000 It's just, this is me.

00:51:52.000 I've always wanted to have kids one day.

00:51:54.000 Not only women feel broody. 0.98

00:51:56.000 I'm going to have my own baby when I will be a dad.

00:51:59.000 I love being pregnant.

00:52:00.000 Everyone should experience it, shouldn't they?

00:52:02.000 Especially men.

00:52:05.000 This is not a man!

00:52:07.000 Everyone should experience being pregnant, especially men. 0.98

00:52:09.000 This is not a man, this is a woman.

00:52:11.000 Okay, and you can make the woman look like the man, but that is still a woman. 1.00

00:52:16.000 It's not only women who feel broody, you are a woman.

00:52:18.000 No one is suggesting only women feel broody, but you happen to be one.

00:52:21.000 You happen to be a woman. 1.00

00:52:23.000 The unbelievable stupidity of a media that refuses to objectively cover facts of biology is insane. 1.00

00:52:30.000 And biology is certainly implicated when we are talking about, you know, biological things like giving birth, like the biological organs necessary to the birth giving. 0.99

00:52:40.000 How do you suggest that gender is the thing on the table when what we are really talking about here is a pure biological process?

00:52:47.000 We'd all be shocked if we read a story about a man having a period, because that's impossible.

00:52:51.000 A man does not have a period, by definition. 0.99

00:52:53.000 But the media will repeat this crap like no problem. 0.99

00:52:56.000 It's just insane. 0.98

00:52:57.000 So why do I get upset about this?

00:52:58.000 Because I don't like being lied to?

00:52:59.000 Because I think that this is a direct attempt to undermine both science and objective truth?

00:53:05.000 And I don't care what your interior feelings are.

00:53:08.000 Your body tells the story. 0.99

00:53:09.000 Your uterus developed a baby, and then you pushed that baby through a birth canal, ending in a vagina. 1.00

00:53:15.000 That is what happened here. 0.97

00:53:16.000 That means that you are a genetic female. 1.00

00:53:18.000 My goodness.

00:53:19.000 So that's Crazy Towns.

00:53:21.000 Okay, other stuff that I... The media coverage is crazy.

00:53:25.000 Okay, the...

00:53:26.000 Other stuff that I hate today.

00:53:29.000 So apparently there's a story that Mexican troops actually drew weapons on American soldiers on the U.S.

00:53:34.000 side of the American border.

00:53:36.000 According to the Washington Examiner, armed Mexican troops disarmed two U.S.

00:53:40.000 soldiers while they were on the American side of the border, U.S.

00:53:42.000 defense officials have said.

00:53:44.000 U.S.

00:53:44.000 Northern Command said in a statement that five to six million Mexican, sorry, five to six Mexican military personnel questioned two U.S.

00:53:51.000 Army soldiers.

00:53:52.000 If it were five to six million, we'd have an invasion on our hands.

00:53:54.000 Five to six Mexican military personnel questioned two U.S.

00:53:57.000 Army soldiers who were conducting border support operations this month.

00:54:00.000 The U.S.

00:54:00.000 soldiers were in an unmarked Customs and Border Protection vehicle near the southwest border near Clint, Texas.

00:54:05.000 Officials confirmed the Mexican troops were armed with what seemed to be rifles.

00:54:08.000 They raised their weapons when they saw the two U.S.

00:54:10.000 soldiers and then took a pistol from one and put it on the CPB vehicle.

00:54:13.000 According to officials talking to CNN, the two Americans obliged in an attempt to de-escalate a potentially volatile situation.

00:54:20.000 Throughout the incident, U.S.

00:54:21.000 soldiers followed all established procedures and protocols, the statement said.

00:54:24.000 The two U.S. 0.88

00:54:25.000 troops were on the south side of the security perimeter.

00:54:28.000 But North of the Rio Grande and elsewhere in the United States on the American side of the border, Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security officials demanded an explanation from the Mexican government.

00:54:38.000 An inquiry by CPB and DOD revealed that the Mexican military members believed that the U.S.

00:54:42.000 Army soldiers were South of the border.

00:54:44.000 Though they were South of the border fence, U.S.

00:54:46.000 soldiers remained in U.S.

00:54:46.000 territory North of the actual border.

00:54:48.000 So this looks like confusion more than anything else, but the fact that This confusion almost led to a violent incident is definitely on the Mexican government, which should be spending a lot more of its resources prohibiting people from moving across the American border en masse.

00:55:03.000 We have hundreds of thousands of people descending on the American border now every month.

00:55:07.000 That's a disaster area the Mexican government should obviously be helping more with. 1.00

00:55:10.000 The fact that we have a failed state on our southern border is a disaster area nobody seems to want to face up to because it would actually there's a better case for American intervention in Mexico, frankly.

00:55:20.000 Maybe a wall solves that.

00:55:20.000 for American intervention in Syria.

00:55:21.000 One's on our border and is creating a human catastrophe in which the drug cartels are in control of large swaths of the territory is leading to not only humanitarian problems, but actual direct impact on America's southern border.

00:55:33.000 Maybe a wall solves that, maybe a wall doesn't.

00:55:35.000 But what we're watching in Mexico is really a continuing problem.

00:55:41.000 OK, we'll be back here tomorrow.

00:55:42.000 As I say, there's two more hours of the show, but I'm not hosting them later today because it's Passover and I want to take a little bit of time off. 0.84

00:55:48.000 And damn it, I deserve it. 0.96

00:55:50.000 Come on. 0.99

00:55:50.000 OK, so we're going to do that. 0.99

00:55:51.000 We'll see you here tomorrow.

00:55:53.000 So enjoy the rest of your day.

00:55:55.000 And if you can enjoy Michael Moll's, I know it's difficult.

00:55:57.000 We'll see you here tomorrow.

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00:56:25.000 Islamic terrorists in Sri Lanka murdered 290 Catholics on Easter Sunday.

00:56:29.000 Around the world, churches have become the number one target for attacks.

00:56:33.000 We will explore lies and ignorance in our post-Christian society, fellow Easter worshipers. 1.00

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