A fired anti-Trump FBI agent had his hands in EVERYONE'S pie. Nancy Pelosi loses what is left of her addled brain. Plus, Roy Moore is back in Republican good graces. We ll talk about all of it on today's show with Ben Shapiro. Ben Shapiro is the host of The Ben Shapiro Show on Fox News Radio and host of the conservative podcast The Weekly Standard. He is also a regular contributor to the Weekly Standard and hosts the podcast "The Weekly Standard". He can be reached at ben@dailystandard.co.nz and can be heard on the Fox News Channel wherever you get your news and information. If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE so you can receive notifications when new episodes of the show are available. You can also join our FB group, and use the hashtag on the socials to join the conversation and become a Friend of the movement! And don't forget to leave us a rating and review the show on Apple Podcasts! and we'll read out your thoughts and thoughts on what you think of the latest episode on the show! Thank you so much for all the amazing work you've been doing and the support you've all been showing us! Ben and Ben are always looking forward to hearing from you! Thanks for listening and supporting the show, Ben and the team at Ben Shapiro! - Thank you Ben Shapiro and the crew! Your continued support is so appreciated, Ben Shapiro Media. - The Ben and his team at The Daily Wire - Your support is greatly appreciated! -- Thank you for all of your support and support is much appreciated. -- The Shapiro Report -- and we appreciate it greatly appreciated, and we really means a lot to us a lot, Ben, too! -- Your support helps us make this show even more important than you can help us make it easier for us to grow and grow and more! -- Thank You Ben and I can't thank you more than that! -- The Best of Ben and Gelli at The Ben & Gelli. . Thank You, Thank you, Ben Thanks Ben and Sarah and Sarah, Sarah, too much, Sarah & Sarah, Again, Thank You! -- Sarah & Gabbie -- Thanks, Sarah and Gellie, Sarah, and Thank You for your support is appreciated, Sarah
00:00:18.000Well, the news is breaking fast and furious.
00:00:20.000I was just joking to all of my producers before the show that we might have to have a second show today because the news is actually coming too fast to keep up with it.
00:00:27.000In the last 24 hours, we've gotten all sorts of fallout on the Mueller investigation.
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00:01:56.000Okay, so, yesterday there was a lot of fallout from all of the furor surrounding Mike Flynn, the former National Security Advisor, who pled guilty to lying to the FBI.
00:02:08.000And we talked about yesterday whether this entire thing, this entire Mueller investigation, is going to turn out to show nothing with regard to collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians, but could ensnare a bunch of Trump officials
00:02:18.000Who are too naive to know that they weren't actually committing a crime and so lied to the FBI.
00:02:22.000So you could have a series of situations in which people like Mike Flynn or Jared Kushner are caught up in lying to the FBI.
00:02:28.000No indication Kushner's done that yet, but Flynn already has pled guilty.
00:02:31.000And then you could have a bunch of talk about did President Trump encourage them to lie to the FBI?
00:02:44.000People lie to the FBI because they're dumb or because they're incompetent.
00:02:47.000And then it turns out that they were told to lie to the FBI by people who are also dumb slash incompetent or just didn't know what they were doing.
00:02:53.000All of that is a possibility and a very significant possibility.
00:02:56.000And then we find out in actual bombshell.
00:03:32.000Let me explain to you who this FBI agent is.
00:03:34.000This FBI agent was in charge of the Hillary investigation.
00:03:38.000This FBI agent specifically changed the language in former FBI Director James Comey's statement about Hillary Clinton.
00:03:44.000Originally, they were supposed to say that she had actually involved herself in criminal negligence, essentially, and this guy was responsible, along with Comey, for changing the language to extremely careless.
00:03:55.000Which is a non-criminal standard, right?
00:03:57.000You remember, we talked about this at the time that James Comey had changed the actual legal standard.
00:04:01.000The legal standard does not require intent to mistreat classified information.
00:04:05.000James Comey changed it to pretend that it required intent, and then he changed the language to avoid the fact that Hillary Clinton probably should have been prosecuted.
00:04:12.000Well, the guy who actually changed that language was Peter Strzok.
00:04:47.000It turns out that Peter Stroke was also the guy who, based on the Russian dossier, helped decide to launch the Russia collusion investigation in the first place on the FBI level.
00:05:22.000If he's near James Comey, James Comey's at the top of the food chain.
00:05:25.000But it is suspicious when career bureaucrats with actual extreme political biases are having this major an impact on presidential races, on transition teams, on presidential workings.
00:05:36.000The whole thing is, it does stink a little bit.
00:05:40.000This is leading the Wall Street Journal to call for Mueller to step down from his investigation.
00:05:45.000And here's what the Wall Street Journal says.
00:05:47.000There is no justification for withholding all of this from Congress.
00:05:49.000So Congress had subpoenaed all this information from the Mueller team, and the Mueller team had basically stonewalled.
00:05:53.000The Wall Street Journal says there's no justification for withholding all of this from Congress.
00:05:57.000Remember, the Steele dossier was brought to the FBI, and then for some reason the FBI thought it was credible enough to actually pay
00:06:27.000Christopher Steele, the spy behind the Steele dossier, which had all of these allegations about Trump, some of which have already been debunked, the most wild of which have already been debunked.
00:06:34.000All of this reinforces our doubts, says the journal editorial page, about Mr. Mueller's ability to conduct a fair and credible probe of the FBI's considerable part in the Russia-Trump drama.
00:06:43.000Mr. Mueller ran the bureau for 12 years and is fast friends with Mr. Comey, whose firing by Mr. Trump triggered his appointment as special counsel.
00:06:49.000The reluctance to cooperate with a congressional inquiry compounds doubts related to this clear conflict of interest.
00:06:56.000The Wall Street Journal has been calling for Mueller to step down for at least a couple of months based on his relationship to Comey.
00:07:00.000I still think it would be a mistake for President Trump to fire Mueller at this point, especially given the fact that he now has an ongoing excuse, like a constant and ongoing excuse to call into doubt any sort of conclusions reached by the Mueller team, right?
00:07:15.000Now he can say, well, it was all Peter Stroke, or it was James Comey, and these guys were very good friends with Robert Mueller, and they were all working for the same team together.
00:07:22.000He's gonna be able to say to his base, no matter what, that this is unfair.
00:07:26.000His base already believes this is unfair.
00:07:27.000The question is whether if he fires him, it looks like obstruction of justice.
00:07:30.000Now, as far as whether it is technical obstruction of justice, the answer is no.
00:07:34.000He's able to fire the special counsel whenever he wants.
00:07:36.000What he can't do is tell the special counsel how to conduct the investigation.
00:07:39.000He can't tell him, I want you to find this conclusion.
00:07:42.000He also can't destroy documents to prevent the special counsel from finding them.
00:07:45.000So obstruction of justice is possible, but...
00:07:48.000If he were to fire Mueller, that would not be obstruction of justice.
00:07:51.000His firing of James Comey, no matter what the reason, was not obstruction of justice because that is within his constitutional purview.
00:07:58.000This was the point that Alan Dershowitz, one of my professors over at Harvard Law School, was making.
00:08:08.000Do you see a case for obstruction building?
00:08:11.000No, I don't, and I think if Congress ever were to charge him with obstruction of justice for exercising his constitutional authority under Article 2, we'd have a constitutional crisis.
00:08:22.000You cannot charge a president with obstruction of justice for exercising his constitutional power to fire Comey and his constitutional authority to tell the Justice Department who to investigate, who not to investigate.
00:08:34.000That's what Thomas Jefferson did, that's what Lincoln did, that's what Roosevelt
00:08:39.000Okay, all of this is right what Dershowitz is saying.
00:08:53.000Now, the left took this out of context to say that this means the president can never obstruct justice.
00:08:58.000In fact, Trump's own lawyer, John Dowd, who is not a competent lawyer from what I can see, he came out and said the president can never obstruct justice.
00:09:46.000I said, this looks a lot like the president covering his own ass because he's in some sort of trouble here, and I have no evidence that the FBI is out to get him, particularly because James Comey may have won him the election in the last week of the election with that letter that basically reopened the Hillary investigation, which, in an election that close, could have swung those 100,000 votes in the three states that Trump needed in order to win.
00:10:06.000With all of that said, it is now clear that bureaucrats inside the FBI and their political biases do make a difference.
00:10:22.000He did demote him when he found out about this.
00:10:24.000The problem is he didn't tell Congress about it.
00:10:26.000So it looks like he was trying to split the baby.
00:10:28.000He was trying to minimize the impact of bias on his investigation, but he also didn't want the public to know about the level of bias that was implicit in the FBI's conducting of the Hillary investigation, as well as the Trump-Russia investigation.
00:10:40.000So all of that is somewhat disturbing, but it doesn't say to me that Mueller is so biased that he needs to be fired, or that Mueller is running a bad investigation at this point.
00:10:51.000It does look, though, like he's fishing.
00:10:53.000It looks like Mueller is fishing and all the things he's bringing now are very far flung from the original charges.
00:11:00.000Remember, what Democrats were saying is that what originally happened here is that Donald Trump and the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.
00:11:07.000So far, there is zero evidence of that actual collusion that has been brought.
00:11:10.000There's evidence that they wanted to collude.
00:11:12.000There's no evidence of actual collusion.
00:11:15.000Okay, so that means the Democrats are not getting what they want at this point, and they're getting frustrated, and so they're looking for obstruction to kind of get them out of this, and I'm not sure that's going to happen.
00:11:57.000At very high prices in order to subsidize all the sick people who also want to buy individual insurance for themselves.
00:12:02.000If I don't buy, the prices rise on the sick people.
00:12:05.000The federal government is filling in that gap, so the federal government is actually subsidizing the healthcare for poor and ill people at a higher level than they were before the removal of the individual mandate.
00:12:15.000That said, it's a very big move to get rid of the individual mandate in the Senate bill.
00:12:18.000That does not exist, actually, in the House bill.
00:12:21.000That said, we're about to go to conference committee on it.
00:12:23.000They've picked the people for the conference committee.
00:12:25.000This thing is going to pass the House.
00:12:27.000There will be a tax reform bill, which is a major accomplishment for the Trump administration, and the Democrats are going completely nuts over it.
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00:14:22.000The Botox, as I say, has seeped into her prefrontal cortex, and here she is explaining that we actually have reached Armageddon, like Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, full Armageddon.
00:14:55.000They contend that their gift to corporate America of a trillion and a half dollars, could be up to a trillion and a half dollars, will be paid for by the growth it creates.
00:15:06.000And even their own people say, nonsense, not true.
00:15:54.000One of the worst bills to be brought to the floor in the history of the United States, I would love to hear Nancy Pelosi's thoughts on the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, requiring people in the North to take slaves that had escaped their plantations and move them back to the South.
00:16:08.000I'd like to hear her thoughts on Public Law 503, under FDR, that allowed him to intern the Japanese.
00:16:13.000One of the worst bills in the history of the United States?
00:16:21.000One of the things that I find interesting about Nancy Pelosi's take on this is it's the take of a lot of Democrats, which is that if the government gives up control over you, this is the end of everything.
00:16:30.000Now, back during Obamacare days, after the Supreme Court decision that said that it was okay for the federal government to force you to buy things, I said this is a fundamental change in how the government works.
00:16:39.000It was, because it was now the government telling you that they could force you to buy things.
00:16:42.000They could force you to not buy things.
00:16:48.000Nancy Pelosi thinks that it's a major change to the country when I get to keep my own money.
00:16:52.000If this doesn't provide a stark difference in how you think the country ought to run, what your vision for liberty is, I don't know what does.
00:16:59.000But suffice it to say that this sort of nutty polarization is driving some really, really bad politics.
00:17:04.000It's driving some really terrible politics.
00:17:06.000And it's this polarization, I think, that is leading people to
00:17:40.000Right, so the facts right now are that Roy Moore, in all likelihood, credible accusations, that he molested young girls.
00:17:46.000Then he molested a 14-year-old girl, then he molested a 16-year-old girl, then he had a habit of hanging out at the food court and dating younger women.
00:17:51.000When I say dating, you can't really date a 16-year-old when you're 33, which is what Roy Moore is accused of doing.
00:17:57.000There's one story where he legitimately called a girl out of her trigonometry class.
00:18:01.000He called the high school and said, is whatever her name was, Betsy here.
00:18:04.000They called her out of her class to get on the phone, because he was the DA, and he said, what are you up to right now?
00:18:10.000Okay, like, the evidence is pretty solid against Roy Moore here, or at least as solid as it can be without there actually being a court case.
00:19:19.000It's only important because the signature is precisely the same as the signature in the yearbook for the accuser who said that he tried to rape her when she was 16 years old.
00:19:26.000Now there are a bunch of people online who are saying this is a forgery too.
00:19:31.000Okay, if you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
00:19:34.000And I have a hard time believing that you think that Al Franken is guilty, or Harvey Weinstein is guilty, or Bill Clinton is guilty of Juanita Broderick.
00:19:42.000There's more evidence about Roy Moore here than there was about Juanita Broderick.
00:19:46.000And all the right believes Juanita Broderick, and most of the right does not believe the accusers in the Roy Moore case.
00:19:50.000That's because people cannot stand cognitive dissonance.
00:20:01.000So the RNC withdrew its support last month, right, in light of the ongoing accusations.
00:20:06.000And now Breitbart, of course, gets the note from the RNC that they now, quote, stand with the president and that they are going to openly back Roy Moore in this election cycle.
00:20:17.000As you say, the president apparently called up Roy Moore's office and he said, go get him, Roy.
00:20:21.000I only hope that he specified who the um was in that sentence because otherwise that's super awkward.
00:20:25.000Go get him is not something you want to say to a prospective child molester.
00:20:28.000In any case, the RNC came out and now they are saying that they are backing Trump's decision to endorse Moore.
00:20:36.000He said Trump had no choice but to support Moore.
00:20:38.000Now, if you want to make the case again that you have to support him to stop the Democrats because of the polarization, because Nancy Pelosi is a kook, because the Democrats have gone so far off the road,
00:20:48.000That we just have to oppose them no matter what?
00:20:50.000If that's the case you want to make, then make that case.
00:21:28.000I agree, because I have a thing called long-term interests.
00:21:30.000I don't think it's good for the long-term interests of the Republican Party to have an accused, credibly accused child molester sitting in the United States Senate being used as a club to beat every Republican into submission.
00:21:39.000You think Trump was a club used to beat Republicans into submission in 2016?
00:21:44.000Okay, wait till they actually have a credibly accused child molester in the United States Senate, and you're a guy who's running for a contested seat in a contested purple state, like Virginia or Ohio or Florida, and suddenly they ask you, do you think Roy Moore should sit in the Senate?
00:21:58.000No matter how you answer, it's in a campaign ad.
00:22:23.000There are majorities, there are votes that we have to lose our honor for.
00:22:27.000If it requires us to side with a bad guy in order to prevent a million abortions from occurring a year, then maybe you side with the bad guy.
00:22:33.000Now, I don't think that's the case with Roy Moore.
00:22:35.000I still have not heard the credible case that Roy Moore is going to be the vote that eliminates Roe v. Wade.
00:22:41.000I really have not heard a specific case.
00:22:44.000There's no loss of honor or integrity to backing a child molester.
00:23:03.000So, Roy Moore responded in exactly kind.
00:23:05.000I'll show you Roy Moore's response to this in just a second.
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00:24:45.000Okay, so here's how Roy Moore responded to Mitt Romney.
00:24:48.000I do get the feeling there are a number of Republicans who, whenever you say a thing like, you are compromising your morality to support a child molester, they can't stand the cognitive dissonance.
00:24:56.000They can't say, you know what, you're right.
00:25:52.000The appeal to Trump is the idea that you have to embrace all that is bad about Donald Trump in order to embrace the policies of Donald Trump, or to embrace the fact that there are Republicans who are willing to fight back.
00:26:03.000I've always said that I like that Trump is willing to punch back.
00:26:05.000My problem is that sometimes he punches a baby.
00:26:07.000That's always been my problem with Trump.
00:26:09.000Sometimes he punches the bad guys, and sometimes he punches a puppy.
00:26:12.000You just don't know which it's going to be.
00:26:13.000But the idea that Mitt Romney stands up and says, let's not vote for a child molester, and Roy Moore goes, well you're irrelevant because Trump.
00:26:20.000If I were Trump, I'd be insulted by this.
00:26:24.000I mean, I don't think Trump would be, because I think Trump likes praise, but the idea that America's reawakening was led by Trump, not you, Mitt, and that that reawakening means vote for the child molester, even if you make the case that Trump did something Mitt didn't, which I agree, okay?
00:27:10.000Poppy, we need to make it clear that there's a group of non-accusers that have not accused the judge of any sexual misconduct or anything illegal.
00:27:17.000But when we're talking about Lee Korfman, even her own mother said that her report to the Washington Post that her life spiraled out of control after this alleged incident.
00:27:26.000Well, actually, the court records say differently.
00:27:28.000Okay, so she starts doubting all the accusers.
00:27:30.000She also said here that they're basically criminals.
00:28:08.000So, I mean, but this is the argument that's being laid out, right?
00:28:11.000Again, notice the cognitive dissonance.
00:28:12.000You like Judge Moore's position on life.
00:28:14.000I also like Judge Moore's position on life.
00:28:16.000You don't like Judge Moore taking a sexual position on 14-year-old girls.
00:28:20.000But, you can't square those two things.
00:28:22.000So what you end up doing is you end up going into whatever this lady's name is, Jane Porterland, and you end up saying crazy things.
00:28:28.000So now, I'm watching this online in real time, and again, you know, I see it happen on a regular basis, and it drives me up a freaking wall, okay?
00:28:40.000I'll host other shows, and we're calling their possible, and the entire board of calls will be, you're getting more wrong, more is totally innocent.
00:28:48.000I want to see the evidence that more like, what's your evidence?
00:29:01.000Because I remember back in the last election cycle when Corey Lewandowski grabbed Michelle Fields by the arm hard enough to bruise her.
00:29:06.000And then people suggested that there was some evil conspiracy hatched by Michelle Fields
00:29:10.000And me, in order to get President Trump.
00:29:12.000And what we had done is we had secretly planted Michelle Fields near President Trump so Corey Lewandowski would grab her arm and bruise it hard enough so then we could claim abuse.
00:29:19.000And then we could claim that Corey Lewandowski should step down from the campaign.
00:29:54.000But to pretend that you're not making any moral compromise whatsoever in voting for a credibly accused child molester that the RNC has to sink dollars in and pretend like nothing is wrong here is just gross.
00:31:24.000If you stood up your whole life to stand up for the rights of people, and both of them have, is it not a moment now where you apply some standards to yourself that you— Also, we'll just—we'll ask you to be a nice guy, right?
00:31:40.000Yeah, this worked well for McConnell, who said that he wanted more to step down and then turned around and said he'll back more.
00:31:46.000Okay, so we'll put all of that nasty news aside and the fact that no one has any moral scruples and everybody's garbage.
00:31:50.000We'll put all of that aside for a moment and let's talk about some good news.
00:31:53.000So the Trump administration is doing a couple of things that are really, really quite good.
00:31:57.000So the first thing that they are doing that is quite good is that President Trump announced yesterday that he was going to change policy on public lands.
00:32:04.000So first I want to show you a map of what public lands look like in the United States.
00:32:30.000Basically, the federal government controls huge swaths of land.
00:32:33.000This was never meant to be for public monuments.
00:32:35.000The whole point of a public monument is that you were supposed to be able to go see it, not that they were going to fence it off and leave it.
00:32:40.000So they fenced off the entire state of Nevada.
00:32:41.000So President Trump came out yesterday, I think he was talking about the Bears Ears?
00:32:49.000Bears Ears Memorial in Utah, and he said that they are going to restrict the amount of land the federal government is gobbling up, which is exactly right.
00:32:56.000Okay, what Trump says here is exactly right, and it is good policy.
00:33:00.000I will sign two presidential proclamations.
00:33:05.000These actions will modify the National Monuments designations of both Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante.
00:33:18.000As many of you know, past administrations have severely abused the purpose, spirit, and intent of a century-old law known as the Antiquities Act.
00:33:31.000Okay, and he's totally right about this.
00:33:32.000Okay, so what Trump is doing here is totally necessary.
00:33:35.000Now, the left will say, oh, he's opening all this up to exploration and drilling and mining.
00:33:40.000Again, look at that map again, and what you will see is that the federal government... If you think they need that much land in order to prevent mining, then you are out of your mind.
00:33:48.000The federal government, under President Obama particularly, did all of these land grabs.
00:33:52.000It's one of the reasons why you had all of these conflicts with local ranchers and farmers who want to graze their cattle, and there's some tortoise that the federal government wants to protect by restricting the entire state.
00:34:01.000This is a lot of the conflicts with the Bundy family in Nevada, for example.
00:34:04.000The fact is that all of this land, a huge portion of this land, should be privatized.
00:34:08.000It should not be left in public hands.
00:34:09.000This was not the purpose of the federal government, protecting antiquities.
00:34:12.000Okay, so that's good piece of news number one.
00:34:14.000Good piece of news number two is a really huge piece of news, and that is it appears that the Trump administration is going to move the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
00:34:41.000Now, you have the terrorist regimes, the Palestinian terrorist regimes, who have been voted for.
00:34:45.000Literally the only people that Palestinians have ever voted for are all terrorists.
00:34:48.000I mean, there haven't been that many votes, but every group they've ever voted for is a terrorist group.
00:34:52.000Islamic Jihad, the Palestinian Authority, Fatah, which is the military wing of the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip, they're now saying, oh, well, if you do that, we'll commit terrorist attacks.
00:35:23.000Once that fantasy is off the table, a lot of the terrorism simply goes away.
00:35:27.000Really, because all of the... Terrorism is driven by hope, not by fear.
00:35:30.000Palestinians don't bomb things because they're fearful that they are going to lose.
00:35:34.000They bomb things because they're hopeful they're going to win.
00:35:36.000They're hopeful they're going to pressure the United States into doing things.
00:35:38.000The next step is for Congress, if terrorist attacks occur, to pass the Taylor Force Act and withdraw funding from the Palestinian Authority.
00:35:44.000We give them somewhere from $300-400 million American taxpayer dollars every year.
00:35:48.000A huge swath of that goes to either terrorism or the pockets of the evil, murderous dictators who run that place.
00:36:04.000If this materializes, I'm sure we'll talk about this a lot more tomorrow because I want to lay out the full history of Jerusalem tomorrow in a little bit more fulsome way so that you understand that
00:36:14.000All of the claims to the contrary about Jerusalem are just nonsense.
00:36:17.000Serious changes are taking place across the Middle East.
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00:38:09.000Alrighty, time for some things I like and some things that I despise.
00:38:12.000So, we shall begin with things I like.
00:38:14.000So, there's a book by Ursula Le Guin that I read recently called The Lathe of Heaven.
00:38:18.000I don't think I recommended this on the show, did I?
00:38:36.000I don't like a lot of science fiction that is heavy on the jargon, and this book really is not.
00:38:42.000The basic concept of the book is that there is a main character whose dreams are impacting reality.
00:38:49.000Every time he dreams, the reality shapes around him.
00:38:52.000I mean, the entire world shapes around him.
00:38:53.000And then he has a psychiatrist, and the psychiatrist starts realizing that if he can control this guy's dreams, then he can shape the reality to
00:40:06.000ABC News reporter Brian Ross released a story claiming that when Trump was a candidate, he told Michael Flynn to contact the Russians.
00:40:13.000Ross later corrected himself, saying it was actually when Trump was president-elect.
00:40:18.000Now, Brian has been suspended for a month.
00:40:21.000Okay, so I may have to take that back.
00:40:23.000Anytime you hear Joy Behar make a sexual joke, then you immediately have to take back whatever praise you were going to aim at Joy Behar, because that's just horrifying.
00:40:30.000But at least she is correcting the record, so good for Joy Behar for doing that.
00:40:36.000I have to admit, there's part of me that hopes that because I have now given just the merest of de minimis
00:40:43.000Niceties to Joy Behar that now I'm invited on the show.
00:40:45.000This is one of my lifelong dreams is to appear on The View.
00:40:53.000If I were on The View, who would not watch that?
00:40:56.000Maybe no one would watch it, but I would be on The View, and it would be so much fun, and the clips would be incredible.
00:41:01.000Yes, I would ask Whoopi Goldberg about rape rape.
00:41:03.000I would ask so many great questions to all the members of The View.
00:41:05.000Okay, I'm not gonna make my pitch for being on The View anymore.
00:41:07.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:41:13.000So as I mentioned yesterday, today in the Supreme Court, there was a big hearing over what they call the Masterpiece Cake Shop case.
00:41:18.000The Masterpiece Cake Shop case is basically a gay couple went into the cake shop of a religious Christian.
00:41:24.000The religious Christian said, sure, I'll give you a cake for your gay wedding, but I'm not going to put a cake top with two dudes on top of it, nor am I going to put any messaging about congratulations to Bob and Steve Aru on their wedding, because that's not in line with my religious feelings.
00:41:37.000He also refuses to do the same thing for divorce parties.
00:42:18.000Now, this happens on a regular basis, and sometimes it's good and sometimes it's bad, but it's never the narrative the media wants to tell.
00:42:23.000So, in the case of Rosa Parks, which is a good case, right?
00:42:25.000Rosa Parks had planned in advance to not sit at the back of the bus so that there could be a civil rights movement behind her, right?
00:42:32.000It's something she coordinated with the NAACP in advance.
00:42:38.000Here is the gay couple, the vindictive, vitriolic, nasty gay couple who decided that it was absolutely necessary to force this Christian baker to violate his own religious beliefs so they could have a cake topper that made them feel better about themselves.
00:42:49.000I mean, as opposed to, you know, being on national television holding hands because you're gay.
00:42:52.000I mean, clearly these people don't get enough attention and respect.
00:42:55.000What they really need is a random religious baker to bake them a cake.
00:43:01.000Here they are on MSNBC talking about what wonderful, kindly gentlemen they are, even as they destroy this guy's business.
00:43:06.000The guy lost 40% of his business, the state tried to force him to retrain family members in sensitivity, all because he just wanted to exercise his business as a religious person exercises his business.
00:43:18.000Anyway, here are these jackasses on national TV.
00:43:21.000When a business decides to open its doors to the public, they need to serve the public equally.
00:43:28.000And, you know, this whole time that's what we've been asking for, is just to be treated equally in the public.
00:43:36.000And the reason why we're here today is because we've heard so many stories of discrimination nationwide over the past five years.
00:43:45.000And, you know, we're standing up for ourselves in this, but we're also standing up for all these other people.
00:43:51.000Okay, so first of all, at the time that they did this, at the time that they did this, Colorado did not recognize same-sex marriages.
00:43:58.000You understand what they're saying here?
00:43:59.000What they're saying here is that the state of Colorado, at the time that they did this, did not recognize same-sex marriage, but the baker is supposed to recognize their same-sex marriage by law.
00:44:07.000He's supposed to not only recognize it, but celebrate it by law at a time when the state of Colorado did not even recognize same-sex marriage.
00:44:13.000Do you understand how insipid and insane this is?
00:44:15.000First, I don't know what these guys do for a living.
00:44:17.000I don't know what they do for a living.
00:44:19.000But let's assume for a second that these douchebags, Charlie Craig and David Mellons, let's assume that they are speechwriters for a Democrat.
00:45:34.000My sympathy and the moral impetus always lies with the person who wants to be left alone.
00:45:40.000In the United States, when it comes to government action, the moral impetus always lies with the person who wants to be left alone so long as they are not harming anyone else or removing their rights.
00:45:48.000These people do not have a right to the services of a religious baker.
00:45:50.000They don't have the right to anyone's services.
00:45:52.000You do not have the right to my services.
00:45:54.000I don't have the right to your services.
00:45:56.000If we don't respect the fact that we cannot demand crap from each other just because we want it, then what are we, three?
00:46:18.000Okay, time for a brief deconstructing of the culture.
00:46:21.000I'm not sure that we actually grabbed the trailer for this, but there's a new movie coming out called The Post.
00:46:26.000This movie looks absolutely insufferable.
00:46:29.000It is with Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, so it's got the greatest of the great actors.
00:46:34.000By the way, I'm unpopular in my opinion here, just like most of my opinions, but Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, I believe, are both wildly overrated as actors.
00:46:45.000The famous quote, I think it's from Katharine Hepburn about Meryl Streep, is the problem with Meryl Streep is you can always see the gears turning.
00:47:52.000presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalists and government.
00:48:00.000Okay, like, do we need any more self-congratulatory tomes from Hollywood?
00:48:03.000Do we need them, like, the journalists celebrate Hollywood, Hollywood celebrates the journalists, blah blah blah.
00:48:07.000I haven't seen the movie yet, so I'm not going to critique the historical veracity of it.
00:48:10.000All I will say is that there are two types of bias in Hollywood and the media.
00:48:14.000One is bias with regard to the material that they portray, right?
00:48:43.000Department of State, who is partially responsible for the garbage Yalta agreement between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Stalin and Churchill, that that guy, Alger Hiss, was actually a Soviet spy.
00:48:53.000And it turns out not only was he a Soviet spy, but Whitaker Chambers actually got microfilm that was supposed to be passed to Alger Hiss.
00:49:15.000So some of the other movies that are Oscar bait this year, there's the Army Hammer flick about homosexuality and some 26-year-old guy sleeping with a 17-year-old boy, which I guess is wonderful.
00:49:25.000That's winning the LA Film Choice Award.
00:49:45.000I feel like The Post is going to lose out to something about victimized black people or victimized gay people.
00:49:50.000That's usually the way that it works in Hollywood.
00:49:52.000Unless they're on a rotating system, in which case it might be The Journalist again.
00:49:55.000Okay, well we'll be back here tomorrow and we'll talk about whether this big move on Jerusalem happens or whether it does not and what that means.