Ben Shapiro talks about his visit to Berkeley, a terror attack in London, and Chelsea Manning being unfellowed at Harvard. Plus, he talks about Chelsea Manning's unellowed speech at Harvard, and President Trump's response to the London terror attack and the Chelsea Manning unfellowing at Berkeley. Ben Shapiro is a writer and host of the Daily Wire's "The Ben Shapiro Show" podcast. He is a regular contributor to CNN and the New York Times, and is a frequent guest on Fox News and CNN Worldwide. His new book "The Dark Side Of" is out now and is available for pre-order on Amazon Prime and Vimeo worldwide. If you haven't already, you can get a copy of the book for only $99.99, including shipping, handling, and handling fees, by becoming a patron patron of The Ben Shapiro Foundation. Don't miss it! It's free and well worth the price of admission. Thanks to our sponsor, Quip. Quip is a new company that revolutionizes the way people brush their teeth and cares for their teeth. Quip's toothbrushing is the new toothbrush that packs premium vibrating and timer features I don't know what else. We're good to go! Qip's website: Quip, the toothbrushes, the electric toothbrush you need to brush your teeth, but you don't have to wait for them to make sure you're brushing your teeth. The Quip website: Qip is your toothbrush of the future. Qips, you won't want to miss it? Quips is a company that makes your teeth brushing, you don t care about brushing them. You don't even have to be sick of brushing them? Qips is the same way I do it? Qip, you're not sick of it? Quips, I don t know what you're going to get any more of it, I'm not sick, I'll tell you what you can do it, right here? QIP, you'll get it, but I'm good to have them in your toothpaste, I can tell you, I know you'll like it, so you're gonna love it, it's not going to make you'll be better than that, right? QIP is a good thing, right?! Qipps, quips, and I'm going to tell you how to brush my teeth, too!
00:00:00.000Today we'll recap my big visit to Berkeley, we'll talk about a terror attack in London, and we'll talk about Chelsea Manning being unfellowed, again, at Harvard this time.
00:00:10.000I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:18.000If I look a little bit tired it's because I'm a little bit tired.
00:00:29.000I also want to talk to you about this new London terror attack.
00:00:33.000Thank God nobody's been killed but 22 people were injured when
00:00:37.000Some terrorists, we don't have an identity yet, but it looks like a member of a possible terrorist cell, put basically a bomb in a bucket, which is inside a bag, and then it blew up inside a train, but it malfunctioned, thank God, and injured a bunch of people, but didn't kill anybody.
00:00:50.000We'll give you all the background on that, but before we get to any of those things, first I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at Quip.
00:00:58.000Yeah, one of the things that a lot of people don't consider when they think about brushing their teeth is that brushing your teeth actually affects your entire body health.
00:01:05.000There have been studies that show high correlation between brushing your teeth, making sure that your teeth are properly cared for, and things like heart disease.
00:02:50.000And as I say, if it's wrong, I'm happy to correct it.
00:02:53.000But the fact is that we've had situations like this in the past in London.
00:02:57.000Just back in late October, I believe, there was a situation like this in which somebody tried to bomb the subway and it ended up being a guy who was a new convert to radical Islam.
00:03:06.000According to The Sun, terror cops probing the Parsons Green attack have no idea who detonated the bucket bomb that injured 29, so they've raised the number.
00:03:13.000On a rush hour tube train today, the Met police denied earlier reports that a suspect for the cowardly terror act had been identified using CC...
00:03:59.000It's that second sentence that's a problem for some of the folks in London saying, why are you giving away classified information on Twitter?
00:04:06.000How do you know that they were in the sights of Scotland Yard?
00:04:07.000He says, loser terrorists must be dealt with in a much tougher manner.
00:04:11.000The internet is their main recruitment tool, which we must cut off and use better.
00:04:15.000Well, I don't know what that means, but sure.
00:04:18.000And then he finishes by saying, the travel ban into the United States should be far larger, tougher, and more specific.
00:04:23.000But stupidly, that would not be politically correct.
00:04:27.000Maybe he should talk to the President of the United States about that.
00:04:29.000You know, somebody who could actually promulgate an order like that.
00:04:31.000Look, none of this is to rip on Trump, really, because I think that Trump's general sentiment, which is that the West needs to get tougher on terror, is obviously true.
00:04:38.000And I've seen the left go nuts over these tweets.
00:04:40.000Again, I think the critiques I just gave of the tweets are measured, but real.
00:04:44.000But they have not gone nuts over Sadiq Khan, who's the London mayor, who continues to go out there and say things like, terrorists will not divide our community.
00:04:51.000Terrorists will not ruin our multicultural city.
00:04:55.000Again, if that's your top priority in the aftermath of people nearly being murdered on your subway, then I would suggest your priorities are not in order.
00:05:02.000The fact is the reason that a lot of people trust Trump on terror is because it seems like his priorities are straight.
00:05:06.000He's much less worried about the sensitivities of the multicultural crowd than he is in finding, killing, imprisoning terrorists.
00:05:15.000And that's what the government is there to do.
00:05:16.000The government is not there to foster multiculturalism.
00:05:19.000The government is there to protect your right to life, and if they're not doing that, they're not fulfilling their most basic duty.
00:05:24.000So, for all of the talk about how Trump is the bad guy today, all I would say is that London has seen this is now the fifth major terror attack in London over the past nine months, the last ten months.
00:05:35.000Four of those five were Islamic terror attacks, and Tariq and the head of the, and the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, has done a pretty terrible job of tamping all of that down insofar as he has the power to do so.
00:05:49.000Okay, so, now I want to talk about the speech at Berkeley last night.
00:05:52.000So, to lead off, I think that it's important to note a few things.
00:05:55.000First of all, there's a temptation on some parts of the left, on some parts of the more radical left, to immediately label everybody on the right a white supremacist Nazi to justify violence.
00:06:05.000Last night, the city of Berkeley and UC Berkeley spent $600,000 on security for this event.
00:06:23.000They basically showed up with a small army.
00:06:25.000And the reason they did that is not because of me.
00:06:27.000I'm not a particularly threatening fellow.
00:06:29.000I haven't been in a fight since I was like 15 years old, 16 years old.
00:06:33.000The idea that I was going to show up at Berkeley and start shattering windows is utterly insane.
00:06:36.000But in order for some members of the radical left to justify the sort of activity that they've been pursuing for the last year, they have to declare that everyone who shows up in Berkeley who's slightly to the right of Glenn Greenwald must therefore be a terrorist Nazi sympathizer.
00:06:51.000So, one of the people who said this yesterday on Twitter was a guy named Tariq Nasheed, who considers himself an anti-racism activist.
00:06:56.000Tariq Nasheed is also the dolt who put out an anti-racism, it was an anti-racism organization with a logo that looked exactly like a swastika.
00:07:04.000And everybody on Twitter started laughing at him and then he got sad and took it down.
00:07:40.000Man, what a long con I have going here.
00:07:42.000I really played the part, you know, going home and not turning on my phone on Sabbath and keeping kosher and all that kind of like, boy, I really, I'm very sophisticated in this con because the best way to mask your white supremacy is to wear a yarmulke and keep kosher for virtually your entire adult life.
00:08:17.000Here's some pictures from the idiot left students who wanted to portray me as such yesterday.
00:08:26.000So they put up a giant sign in the student union across the way from the building where I was speaking, Zellerbach Hall, and here's what it says.
00:08:33.000It says, we say no to your white supremacist BS.
00:08:36.000We say no to your white supremacist BS, which is weird since I don't really spout white supremacist BS and also I oppose white supremacist BS, but it doesn't matter.
00:09:10.000People were putting out F Ben Shapiro, of course, which is, I mean, frankly, I hear that at the office all the time, so it's not that impressive.
00:11:12.000So, because of all of this, as I said in my speech yesterday, the fact is that the speech is violence crowd are the people who lend all the gas for the tank of Antifa.
00:11:23.000Because Antifa says speech is violence, therefore they get to show up and burn things when people come and talk.
00:11:55.000They're a bunch of liberals who tried to claim tickets and then didn't show up.
00:11:57.000And instead of handing those out to a standby line of 150 or 200 people, the police instead seized the tickets.
00:12:02.000So the room, which would have easily fit 2,000, and we had 3,000 people who wanted to come, it ended up being about 800 people instead, which is the fault of the UC Berkeley administration.
00:12:11.000But the security was really amazing, and I'll show you some pictures in just a second.
00:12:29.000Well, not so much, because when the police arrive, they don't shake your hand.
00:12:33.000They put you in the police car, they take you away, they have to interview you, interrogate you, they may arrest you, even if you did the right thing.
00:12:39.000And that's why you need to know exactly what you should and should not say to the police.
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00:13:00.000And it goes through all the things you need to know about what to tell the police, about what you are likely to experience with the police, the six things you didn't know would happen when the police arrive.
00:13:29.000I can tell you, I was speaking to one of the police officers yesterday, and the police officers were basically saying, we have been waiting to be unshackled by the politicians for well over a year.
00:13:38.000We have been waiting for years to truly be told that we're allowed to do our jobs.
00:15:11.000I'll have to show you at some point the clips, the pictures of these people.
00:15:14.000They're definitely from Among Life's winners.
00:15:17.000They are some of the saddest-looking human beings that you have ever seen.
00:15:20.000So the security was top-notch, and it needs to be top-notch because this is what happens.
00:15:26.000If you don't nip violence in the bud, it grows.
00:15:29.000And I hope that the security is just as good next week when the so-called free speech week shows up, when folks like Milo and Bannon and Coulter show up.
00:15:39.000I think Milo, as I've said many times, is a blot on the conservative movement because he's not particularly conservative and also because he's a provocateur and says some pretty terrible things.
00:15:48.000But, does he have free speech rights in Berkeley?
00:16:15.000They hide among civilians, and then, when the time is ripe, they pull a mask over their face, rush out, do violence, and rush back into the crowd.
00:16:21.000And then they take off the mask, and they take off their jacket, and then it's hard to identify them.
00:16:25.000The police were told right away, if there's a problem, you grab them.
00:16:35.000I'll show you a couple of clips from the speech.
00:16:36.000You can go to our YouTube page, where we've posted it, and you can watch the entire thing.
00:16:41.000There were over 100,000 people watching it in live time last night, simultaneously.
00:16:46.000It already has well over half a million views.
00:16:48.000Here is a little bit of the beginning of the speech where I talk explicitly about Antifa.
00:16:52.000Thanks to Antifa and the supposed anti-fascist brigade for exposing what the radical left truly is.
00:16:57.000All of America is watching because you guys are so stupid.
00:17:02.000It's horrifying, I am grateful, and you can all go to hell, you pathetic, lying, stupid jackasses.
00:17:09.000So yeah, I didn't hold back on them particularly much.
00:17:13.000I also went after the alt-right a little bit later in the speech, so the media is funny.
00:17:16.000There's some folks on the left who continue to maintain that I'm alt-right, which again, you have to be an insane person to believe this.
00:17:22.000You have to be functionally illiterate to believe this.
00:17:24.000But I did spend some time going after the alt-right because that's the right thing to do, because alt-right white supremacism is idiotic and evil.
00:17:32.000But I think the clip that is the most popular today is this clip
00:17:37.000Of me debating abortion with one of the students.
00:17:54.000It's a good reason to subscribe to our YouTube channel.
00:17:55.000Go over and subscribe to our YouTube channel and you can go see that particular clip.
00:17:59.000How frustrated were the folks at Antifa?
00:18:02.000Well, this video is going around, I hope it's real, maybe it's fake, but if it's not, I hope it's real, of a black block guy trying to lift up a trash can because he wants to hurl it through a window.
00:18:12.000He neglects to see that the thing is bolted down to the cement.
00:18:54.000Yeah, unfortunately that's how it goes at Berkeley, but I think that it was a really valuable event.
00:18:58.000I think it showed the country that we can have civilized discourse, that we can all come out against violence, that we can all rip white supremacy together, that there are still points of unity in this country, and that you do have to let the police do their jobs if you wish to have a civilized society.
00:19:11.000You can't let violent people run around and then praise them as though they're doing, as though they're the heroes of Normandy, when the fact is that they are nothing but a bunch of street thug morons.
00:19:22.000I hope it was an optimistic point for people.
00:19:25.000It was an optimistic point for me, and I think it was an optimistic point for a lot of folks right, left, and center who may disagree with a lot of the things that I say, but recognize that there are still rights to say things with which I disagree, even on places like Berkeley campus.
00:20:29.000And then they said, but we're not going to say that this person should be a fellow because it's too much of an honorific and there's been some blowback on it.
00:20:39.000The dean, his name is Elmendorf, the dean of the Harvard Kennedy School, had to say about it.
00:20:43.000He said, We invited Chelsea Manning to spend a day at Kennedy School.
00:20:45.000Specifically, we invited her to meet with students and others who are interested in talking with her and then to give remarks in the forum where the audience would have ample opportunity, as with all of our speakers, to ask hard questions and challenge what she has said or done.
00:21:29.000And Chelsea Manning is just a guy who came to speak who is proclaimed a woman by the media.
00:21:34.000Chelsea Manning was very upset about this and tweeted in all emojis.
00:21:38.000I mean, if you watch Chelsea Manning's Twitter feed, one of the amazing things is when you see somebody who's that gifted with the use of emojis,
00:21:43.000I know the first thing you think is, I wish I could take a class from that person at Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
00:21:49.000I really wish that that person would educate me in the use of hieroglyphics because clearly this is a person who's got it all together.
00:21:55.000But I'll read you Chelsea Manning's tweets in just a moment.
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00:23:44.000was very, very, very upset about this.
00:23:46.000I mean, Chelsea Manning tweeted out, first of all, I'm just, I'm always confused by Chelsea Manning's Twitter handle.
00:23:51.000Like, if you're saying that you're a woman, then why is your Twitter handle XYChelsea?
00:23:55.000Which technically means that you're a man.
00:23:57.000At one point, I'm gonna have to go through a full explanation for why biological men are biological men and why biological women are biological women, but I assumed everyone had taken fifth grade biology.
00:24:06.000In any case, Chelsea Manning tweeted out, honored to be first disinvited trans woman visiting Harvard fellow,
00:24:12.000And then it's a weird sad slash happy emoji.
00:24:16.000They chill marginalized voices under CIA pressure.
00:24:26.000As a graduate of Harvard Law School, who went there because I got 176 on my LSAT out of 180, and graduated summa cum laude from UCLA, I know that when I think intellectual caliber, when I think heavy-duty intellectual caliber, I think Chelsea Manning.
00:24:44.000And then Chelsea Manning tweeted, so Harvard says Sean Spicer and Corey Lewandowski bring something to the table and add something to the conversation and not me.
00:24:51.000And then the sunglass emoji, rainbow emoji, heart emoji, hashtag we got this.
00:24:57.000I don't understand what we got this is supposed to mean.
00:25:00.000And I don't understand what all those emojis are supposed to mean.
00:25:02.000Maybe Chelsea Manning is just too sophisticated.
00:25:04.000This is why I need a class with Chelsea Manning and emoji use.
00:25:07.000Okay, so am I a big fan of Sean Spicer or Corey Lewandowski particularly?
00:25:10.000No, but they do bring something to the table.
00:25:14.000They're not traitors to the United States.
00:25:17.000I don't like Corey Lewandowski, but Corey Lewandowski didn't leak American military secrets to WikiLeaks, which was then apparently utilized by terror groups.
00:25:31.000Chelsea Manning would still be in prison if it were not for the fact that Chelsea Manning is trans.
00:25:35.000That is legitimately the only reason that Chelsea Manning is out of prison right now.
00:25:38.000The opposition to Chelsea Manning, then Bradley Manning, began long before Bradley Manning identified as a woman.
00:25:44.000It began with the fact that Bradley Manning was leaking American military secrets, thousands of pages of American military secrets, to the Russian front group WikiLeaks.
00:26:21.000If you think that the nonsense propaganda about transgenderism does not dominate at Harvard, you're out of your mind.
00:26:29.000Of course it dominates at Harvard, but apparently Harvard is now some retrograde conservative bastion.
00:26:35.000Incredible to me since I spent three years there, not one day.
00:26:38.000And I guess I just don't understand because I don't understand why there's a rainbow emoji and a sunglass emoji and a hashtag, we got this.
00:26:48.000In other news, President Trump continues to receive blowback from the right over his DACA deal.
00:26:55.000Apparently, one of the things that's happening here is that John Kelly, Trump's chief of staff, is basically limiting his access to the news, treating him like a small child, not allowing him to view opposing points of view because it puts Trump in a bad mood, and then he changes his opinion.
00:27:08.000So he hasn't seen that Ann Coulter is really going after him.
00:27:11.000I mean, Ann is just on a rampage against President Trump.
00:27:15.000She's saying now that she wasn't conned.
00:27:18.000She says that Trump is a horse who didn't win place or show.
00:27:22.000She said yesterday that maybe he ought to be impeached.
00:28:33.000We were going to have the Rolls-Royce of a big, beautiful wall.
00:28:37.000The first section of that is inspiring to me to hear that, Aaron.
00:28:40.000The second part kind of says that the Rolls-Royce is now going to be an overhauled jalopy.
00:28:45.000Yeah, it's pretty brutal from Steve King there.
00:28:48.000Tucker Carlson said the same thing he said.
00:28:50.000First of all, points to anybody who uses the word jalopy.
00:28:53.000Tucker says that he has no reason to be optimistic about President Trump on this deal, so Tucker doesn't trust him either.
00:28:59.000The president seems confident it'll all work out in the end, but there's no reason to be optimistic.
00:29:04.000The fate of DACA recipients is by far the best piece of leverage he has or ever will have.
00:29:09.000If he gives it away for free, none of his other immigration priorities, the priorities he ran on and won the presidency with, will even be considered.
00:29:17.000All those border security measures you keep hearing about?
00:30:24.000I really don't think that President Trump is going to lose his base over this.
00:30:26.000And the reason I don't think that he's going to lose his base over this is because I think that there are a lot of people who follow the leader when it comes to President Trump.
00:30:33.000There's a study, very interesting study, that came out recently by a couple of people named Michael Barber and Jeremy Pope at Brigham Young University.
00:30:40.000They said, there are a large number of party loyalists in the United States.
00:30:44.000Their claims to being a self-defined conservative are suspect.
00:30:47.000Group loyalty is the much more profound motivator of opinion than are any ideological principles.
00:30:52.000They found that liberal cues from Trump moved Republicans in a liberal direction more so than conservative cues from Trump moved Republicans in a conservative direction.
00:30:59.000How big was the effect when Trump went to the left?
00:31:02.000More than 15% in a liberal direction due to a Trump cue.
00:31:06.000That means that when Trump goes lefty on immigration, a bunch of his base will follow him.
00:31:11.000In fact, they've measured how flexible the base was on various issues.
00:31:16.000The base was least flexible on guns and abortion.
00:31:19.000Those were the two issues where they were least flexible.
00:31:21.000They were the most flexible on immigration and climate change.
00:31:25.000And those are the issues, and immigration particularly, is the area where Trump is now moving.
00:32:21.000One of the cool things about the tracker program is that if you hit the tracker button and you don't know where your phone is and your phone is on silent, we've all had this problem, the tracker program overrides that and rings anyway.
00:32:31.000It rings your phone even if your phone is on silent, which is just terrific because how many times have you lost your phone and then you can't find it and you're trying to ring it with somebody else's phone and you can't- that- that's what the ring- that- that's what, uh, sorry, Tracker is for.
00:34:11.000The single favorite shot, which we didn't show in this preview, is there's the shot where she's wearing her torn dress, because the stepsisters and the stepmother have torn up her dress.
00:34:17.000And then the fairy godmother shows up.
00:34:20.000And you see the magical bolt come from her wand.
00:34:22.000And it goes all the way up and around her dress.
00:35:03.000It makes you think that Lamarckian evolution versus Darwinian evolution is real, that one day he saw a tree outside his house, wanted to eat from it, and just stretched.
00:35:09.000But here is Tucker Carlson going up against an Antifa professor.
00:35:17.000No, my position is that communities have the right to defend themselves against groups that actively seek to eliminate members of that community.
00:36:02.000Okay, so does he have a right to speak in public?
00:36:09.000I don't think he has a right to speak in public unopposed, and that is ultimately what the purpose of Antifa is, is to show up and oppose him.
00:36:15.000But it's not opposition, you shut people down, you prevent them from speaking, and you commit violence against them.
00:36:20.000I know a number of people, don't tell me it's untrue, I know people who have been knocked down and beaten by people from Antifa.
00:36:26.000So that is true, it does happen, we have it on tape, we just rolled the tape.
00:36:51.000If I have not raised my hand to strike you, you have no right to strike me.
00:36:55.000But in order to raise your hand to strike me, you have to think that you're going to strike me.
00:36:58.000And when you are going out in public as a protester, explicitly saying that you want to eliminate most of the people from this country, I believe most of the people in this country have the right to say, no, that's not okay.
00:37:11.000Okay, but it's, you absolutely have a right to say it's not okay.
00:37:14.000What you don't have a right is to prevent me from saying what I think, even if you disagree.
00:37:19.000And you definitely don't have a right to commit violence against me.
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00:39:16.000He goes around to various places and tastes their food and talks about how wonderful their culture is and generally their food is garbage and so is their culture.
00:39:23.000In any case, here is Anthony Bourdain and he was talking in some weird way about what he would feed to President Trump.
00:39:42.000If Trump and Kim Jong-un were going to have a bit of a summit to try and mend relations, and they wanted you to cater, what would you serve?
00:40:42.000Okay, so I think that we should all be concerned when Floyd Mayweather is complimenting the President of the United States on his manliness.
00:40:48.000Floyd Mayweather, in a five-month span in 2001-2002, pled guilty to two counts of battery domestic violence.
00:40:55.000In November 2003, he was arrested and charged with two counts of battery for allegedly fighting with two women at a Las Vegas nightclub.
00:41:00.000He was later convicted of misdemeanor battery, ordered to serve 100 hours of community service.
00:41:05.000According to the AP, one of the accusers testified that Mayweather punched her on the cheek and then punched another woman on the back of her head as she tried to help.
00:41:13.000In December 2011, he pled guilty to one count of misdemeanor battery, domestic violence, no contest to two counts of harassment for hitting the mother of three of his children.
00:41:20.000I don't know how many kids he has or how many mothers they have.
00:41:23.000He was sentenced to 90 days in jail and released after 60.
00:41:25.000When Floyd Mayweather is complimenting you on your manliness, let me suggest that you're doing something wrong.
00:42:01.000This is not to say that morality has not—the way people see morality has not evolved, obviously.
00:42:06.000I mean, slavery was a thing in virtually every society up until the last 200 years.
00:42:11.000That's one way in which morality evolved.
00:42:13.000But to say that all morality is outdated, you need to explain—if you're going to change a moral, you need to explain why the moral needs to be changed.
00:42:20.000And really, what is the inherent value in the morality itself?
00:42:22.000So as I've said before, I think that the G.K.
00:42:24.000Chesterton line here about morality is pretty much right.
00:42:28.000The difference between the right and the left is that when it comes to changing morals, for example, think of a fence that you find in the middle of a field.
00:42:35.000The person from the left says, this fence has no reason to be there.
00:42:40.000The person on the right says, listen, I'm not going to let you get rid of it until you explain to me why it's there in the first place.
00:42:45.000Think why an institution is there in the first place, and then think whether you should get rid of it.
00:42:49.000You need to understand why something is there in the first place.
00:42:52.000I don't think that conservatives have quote-unquote outdated morals.
00:42:55.000I do think that that is an excuse for the most part by people not to evolve morality, but to get rid of it entirely in favor of what they think is moral.
00:43:03.000As a religious person, I couldn't think otherwise.
00:43:04.000I mean, I think there is such a thing as an eternal God who creates an eternal moral code for human beings.
00:43:12.000With all that's going on in the debt ceiling debate, would you please clear this up for my friends and me?
00:43:16.000Does the debt ceiling give the government permission to spend money or does it give the government permission to pay back money it has already borrowed?
00:43:48.000You go find a 0% APR credit card, you transfer the balance from your first credit card to the 0% APR credit card, and then you try and make a living and then pay it back.
00:43:56.000That's what the debt ceiling really is.
00:43:57.000So does the debt ceiling have to get raised?
00:44:00.000It has to get raised unless you're going to immediately cut expenditures.
00:44:03.000But is it also something that should be used as a leverage point in order to cut future government spending?
00:44:17.000You know, when it comes to filling voids in the Constitution, my general view is that you have to rely on the people of the United States to fill those voids, as opposed to trying to rewrite the Constitution in the name of your own personal values.
00:44:30.000Like Jacob suggests, Griswold v. Connecticut and Bowers v. Hardwick and Roe v. Wade.
00:44:35.000Griswold v. Connecticut, which is a ruling that says that contraceptive use is a private thing, and therefore it's protected by the Constitution.
00:44:44.000One is a constitutional question, and one is a question about how I feel personally about privacy versus security.
00:44:50.000I don't think the state has a role in regulating what you do inside your bedroom.
00:44:55.000That's not the same question as whether the Constitution prohibits a state from invading that space.
00:45:00.000And the answer to that is that the Constitution is silent about whether a state can ban contraceptives for unmarried couples, for example.
00:45:06.000So that means that the state can do that under the Constitution.
00:45:09.000Now, you may have a state constitution that says differently, but this is why in a republic you have a legislature.
00:45:14.000If you don't like that policy, elect people to overturn that policy.
00:45:17.000Nathan says, Hey Ben, my wife and I have been trying to have a baby for some time.
00:45:20.000It looks like we'll need to go the route of IVF.
00:45:22.000My concern is that part of the IVF process is fertilizing a significant number of eggs, which means we'll either need to have many babies, or eventually destroy the excess fertilized eggs.
00:45:30.000I'm not sure what the moral thing to do here is.
00:45:31.000I'm extremely pro-life, but also pro-a-happy-wife.
00:45:35.000You know, IVF is morally complex because the obvious intent is to create a child, not kill one.
00:45:40.000But, if you believe that life begins at conception, then that means that you are better off, from a moral point of view, using in vitro to fertilize, say, as many babies as you're willing to have at one time.
00:45:51.000And then some of them will implant, some of them won't.
00:45:54.000But what you shouldn't do is fertilize a certain number of eggs and then kill some off purposely because you don't want to use those eggs.
00:46:01.000That seems to me to be a serious moral quandary.
00:46:04.000Well no, they don't all fail to exist for the same reason, but reality basically hits
00:46:18.000And depending on how the civilization is constructed, it hits the civilization in a different way.
00:46:23.000If America ceases to exist, I think the primary factor in the downfall would probably be the overreaching government, the overreaching federal government that sees fit to invade all of our lives and all of our money and all of our property ownership and all of how we run our businesses.
00:46:37.000I think that will cause the collapse because people will simply not want to abide by those rules.
00:46:41.000Joshua would say, hey Ben, I'm in nerve.
00:46:44.000How do you feel about asking for the father's permission before proposing?
00:46:50.000I feel, I have to say, this is one area where I may have changed my opinion because I am, I'm now a father.
00:46:56.000So, it is, that sort of changed things.
00:46:57.000I remember my wife really wanted me to ask her dad's permission as a traditional thing, because her dad is Moroccan-Israeli.
00:47:04.000And she thought it would mean a lot to him, and I really was annoyed with it, because it was like, you're old enough to get married, what happens if he says no?
00:47:09.000Like, if he says no, I'm still marrying you, so what's the point of this little charade?
00:47:12.000But as a sign of respect, I think it's probably a good idea, so you should probably do it.
00:47:16.000Daniel says, hey Ben, if you had to choose a country to live in that wasn't the USA or Israel, where would you choose to live?
00:47:22.000Well, I mean, I really only want to live in the United States.
00:47:26.000I think that Australia, I like English-speaking countries, to be honest with you.
00:48:15.000The whole point of religion is to help promulgate values.
00:48:18.000Politics have a values intersect very often, and if you are hiding politics in religion in order to not alienate some of your group, that's because you're doing a bad job as a religious leader.
00:48:27.000Listen, I've always felt that private or homeschooling is the way to go if you can afford it, or if you can spend the time.
00:48:45.000There are many good public schools, by the way.
00:48:46.000I went to a public school that was really great called Edison Elementary School in Burbank.
00:48:50.000I went to one that was not as great called Walter Reed in North Hollywood.
00:48:54.000But I'm not saying that all public schools are equally bad, but I would obviously be worried about the way that the public school system is run with respect to the values it promulgates.
00:49:04.000Yes, don't attack general symbols with which we all agree.
00:49:13.000There are plenty of ways for sports figures to come out and say, listen, I think that this is an injustice.
00:49:22.000But when you kneel for the national anthem, that is a symbol of unity for the United States.
00:49:26.000When you kneel at the side of the flag, that's a symbol of unity.
00:49:28.000And that has nothing to do with sports or not sports.
00:49:30.000I would suggest, however, that if you are a sports figure and you want to get political, you should know that comes with a cost, because you are stepping outside your area of expertise.
00:49:39.000Just as if I were to step into the sporting world, I wouldn't expect that Kobe Bryant would allow me to sink jumper after jumper without blocking me.
00:50:16.000But, we'll be back here on Monday with much, much more.
00:50:20.000I believe I'm off the end of next week, because the end of next week is Rosh Hashanah, so it'll be a bit of a truncated week for me on that end, so make sure you're here on Monday to get all of the news.