The Ben Shapiro Show - The Great Reversal | Ep. 565

00:00:00.000 I have for you the worst example of media bias I have seen in recent memory.

00:00:03.000 President Trump signs an executive order that may or may not end family separation at the border, and President Trump rallies in Minnesota.

00:00:09.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:00:31.000 I'm going to get to the news in just a second.

00:00:33.000 First, I want to talk to you about why you should have some of your money in precious metals.

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00:02:15.000 So we have heard nonstop over the last two weeks that President Trump is Hitler! 0.80

00:02:21.000 Right? 1.00

00:02:21.000 President Trump is a Nazi. 1.00

00:02:22.000 And the reason President Trump is a Nazi is because of his policy of separating children from their parents at the border. 0.98

00:02:27.000 When people enter illegally into the United States, not at ports of entry, when they enter across the border in Arizona, for example, or Texas, and they're picked up by ICE, then they are immediately criminally prosecuted.

00:02:38.000 And that means that by law, their kids have to be separated from them.

00:02:41.000 And this means that Trump is evil.

00:02:43.000 Right? 1.00

00:02:43.000 Trump is totally evil. 1.00

00:02:45.000 Now, 0.99

00:02:46.000 You might ask yourself, did this policy begin with Trump?

00:02:49.000 And as I've been saying for well on two weeks now, no, this policy did not begin with Trump.

00:02:53.000 This policy began with Barack Obama, whose policy in 2014-2015 was that he would arrest entire families and keep the kids unified with the parents.

00:03:01.000 And as I have said also,

00:03:02.000 That there was a 2016 ruling, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, that says you're not allowed to do that anymore, you have to release the kids.

00:03:08.000 That's what leads to the parental separation. 0.76

00:03:10.000 I've also been saying that if Trump backed down on this, that if Trump said we're going to reunify the families but keep them in custody, immediately there would be a bunch of Democrats who signaled that this was unacceptable as well.

00:03:20.000 So separating families was like the Nazis. 0.59

00:03:22.000 And keeping families together in custody is also like the Nazis. 0.81

00:03:25.000 The only solution left, of course, is to release everybody into the general population. 0.95

00:03:29.000 And that's exactly what Democrats have been pushing for.

00:03:31.000 Well, one of the things that is truly maddening about this entire situation is the lack of intellectual honesty on virtually all sides on it, but particularly from the left.

00:03:39.000 Tammy Baldwin is a senator from, I believe, Wisconsin. 1.00

00:03:43.000 Is that correct?

00:03:44.000 And Tammy Baldwin was on CNN yesterday, and she was specifically asked about whether

00:03:49.000 She felt the same way when young migrant children were being imprisoned by Barack Obama.

00:03:54.000 Brooke Baldwin actually asked her a solid question on CNN, so good for Brooke Baldwin.

00:03:57.000 Watch Tammy Baldwin's struggle to come up with an answer as to why she wasn't angry when Barack Obama was imprisoning children.

00:04:03.000 Did you raise your voice under the Obama administration?

00:04:07.000 You know, in numbers of cases, usually I remember a constituent who was in detention at the border, arguably very inappropriately, and we, you know, we raised our voice in that instance and many others, but that's, we've got to do this now in unison.

00:04:28.000 It's not enough to do it case by case or senator or house member by house member.

00:04:34.000 We've got to resolve to fix this issue.

00:04:36.000 Okay, so, that's a no.

00:04:38.000 Okay, that's a no, I didn't care when Obama was president.

00:04:40.000 Yes, I do care when Donald Trump is president.

00:04:42.000 The best evidence that the media seriously don't care about this issue until Trump is president comes today, courtesy of the Associated Press.

00:04:48.000 So, there's a story from the Associated Press.

00:04:50.000 Here's the title.

00:04:54.000 Now, you can imagine, just from reading that title, that the allegations of abuse are taking place because of stuff that is happening today.

00:04:59.000 Right?

00:04:59.000 Allegations of abuse that are happening today in the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center.

00:05:04.000 It's all about Trump.

00:05:05.000 Now, this story mentions Donald Trump seven separate times in the course of this very long story from the Associated Press.

00:05:11.000 It mentions Barack Obama zero times in this very long story about abuses at detention centers of illegal immigrant minors.

00:05:19.000 And now, there's only one problem.

00:05:20.000 All of the abuses alleged in the story happened under Barack Obama's watch.

00:05:25.000 All of them happened in 2015, 2016.

00:05:26.000 That is buried in paragraph 19 of this story.

00:05:30.000 Paragraph 19.

00:05:31.000 So paragraph 19, they finally mention, oh, by the way, all these illegal immigrant minors who were abused or allegedly abused, they were abused under Obama.

00:05:38.000 They mentioned that in paragraph 19, and they mentioned Donald Trump seven times, and they mentioned Barack Obama by name zero times.

00:05:44.000 And then you wonder why when Donald Trump goes to his rallies and he shouts about fake news and people cheer and chant fake news, you wonder why people take Donald Trump seriously when he says fake news?

00:05:53.000 Because you bury the lead, and then you don't report that Obama had anything to do with it.

00:05:57.000 And how bad were these abuses?

00:05:58.000 The answer is pretty damn bad.

00:05:59.000 Here's the Associated Press.

00:06:00.000 Immigrant children as young as 14 housed at a juvenile detention center in Virginia say they were beaten while handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells.

00:06:11.000 The abuse claims against the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center near Stoughton, Virginia are detailed in federal court filings that include a half dozen sworn statements from Latino teens jailed there for months or years.

00:06:20.000 Multiple detainees say the guards stripped them of their clothes and strapped them to chairs with bags placed over their heads.

00:06:25.000 Whenever they used to restrain me and put me in the chair, they would handcuff me, said a Honduran immigrant who was sent to the facility when he was 15.

00:06:31.000 Strapped me down all the way from your feet all the way to your chest.

00:06:33.000 You couldn't really move.

00:06:34.000 They have total control over you.

00:06:35.000 They also put a bag over your head.

00:06:37.000 It has little holes you can see through, but you feel suffocated with the bag on.

00:06:40.000 In addition to the children's firsthand translated accounts and court filings, a former child development specialist who worked inside the facility independently told the AP this week she saw kids there with bruises and broken bones they blamed on guards.

00:06:51.000 She spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to publicly discuss the children's cases.

00:06:55.000 Now, normally, when I lead a story and when I write a story, I usually say on Wednesday or in 2015.

00:07:02.000 The date is the first thing you say because it sort of matters to the story.

00:07:05.000 You don't get any dates here until paragraph 19.

00:07:08.000 First, you get this paragraph.

00:07:09.000 Many of the children were sent there after U.S.

00:07:11.000 immigration authorities accused them of belonging to violent gangs, including MS-13.

00:07:15.000 President Donald Trump has repeatedly cited gang activity as justification for his crackdown on illegal immigration.

00:07:21.000 So that sounds like Donald Trump has been saying everybody's MS-13, so ICE is out there arresting a bunch of innocent kids, throwing them in prison and torturing them because they say they're MS-13, right?

00:07:28.000 That's what you would get from that AP story.

00:07:31.000 And the AP continues like this, right?

00:07:32.000 Trump said Wednesday that our Border Patrol agents and our ICE agents have done one great job cracking down on MS-13 measures, on MS-13 gang members.

00:07:40.000 We're throwing them out by the thousands, he said.

00:07:43.000 But a top manager at the Shenandoah Center said during a recent congressional hearing that the children did not appear to be gang members and were suffering from mental health issues resulting from trauma that happened in their home countries, problems the detention facility is ill-equipped to treat.

00:07:56.000 And then this is the best part.

00:07:57.000 Okay, so finally.

00:07:58.000 This is now in, let's see, paragraph 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, paragraph 10.

00:08:04.000 Okay, paragraph 10, we finally get to a point here.

00:08:21.000 Okay, so in other words, this has nothing to do with the current issues that are being debated about family separation.

00:08:26.000 And then, all the way down in paragraph 19, all the way down in paragraph 19, we get this.

00:08:32.000 The complaint, filed by the non-profit Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, recounts the story of an unnamed 17-year-old Mexican citizen apprehended at the southern border.

00:08:41.000 The teen fled an abusive father and violence fueled by drug cartels to seek asylum in the United States in 2015.

00:08:47.000 Let me recall, when was the election of 2016?

00:08:49.000 Oh, that's right, it was after 2015, it turns out.

00:08:51.000 It turns out 2016, after 2015.

00:08:55.000 After stops at facilities in Texas and New York, he was transferred to Shenandoah in April 2016.

00:09:00.000 But wait, Donald Trump wasn't president then, right?

00:09:03.000 If I recall, he wasn't even the nominee for the Republicans at that point in April 2016.

00:09:06.000 But you don't find that out until paragraph 20.

00:09:09.000 Of a 1,000 word article.

00:09:10.000 I mean, this article is not 1,000 words, this article is probably 3,000 words.

00:09:13.000 Yeah, I love this.

00:09:13.000 Wait a second, there was a separate 2016 lawsuit?

00:09:14.000 Meaning it was publicly available in 2016?

00:09:16.000 What year is it now?

00:09:17.000 Oh yeah, it's 2018.

00:09:17.000 What happened in the intervening two years?

00:09:18.000 Did somebody, was there a presidential change?

00:09:35.000 That's right!

00:09:36.000 Donald Trump became president, and only then did the media start reporting on lawsuits alleging horrible abuses happening under Barack Obama.

00:09:43.000 But remember, Obama's administration was scandal-free.

00:09:45.000 Barack Obama says so, and that means that it's true.

00:09:47.000 We also know that there was an ACLU report in 2015 talking about detaining abuses between 2009 and 2014.

00:09:53.000 Did you ever hear about that?

00:09:55.000 Of course you didn't hear about that.

00:09:56.000 Because nobody cared.

00:09:57.000 Because Barack Obama was president.

00:09:58.000 And Barack Obama was the bringer of light.

00:10:01.000 Barack Obama loved immigrants.

00:10:02.000 How do we know?

00:10:03.000 We know because he said so.

00:10:04.000 And the media said so.

00:10:06.000 Hey, here's a story, another story like this.

00:10:09.000 From the Drudge Report, the tragic case of Roberto Aguilar Batista, 38, whose family sued Barack Obama and multiple federal agencies after Batista died from complications of diabetes while being held in one of the administration's ill-equipped detention centers.

00:10:21.000 In a report published August 29, 2014, CBS2 Los Angeles says, quote, at a news conference Friday attended by CBS2's Amy Johnson, Nancy Luna said her husband had type 2 diabetes and his care was neglected.

00:10:31.000 He was held at the Metropolitan Detention Center, among other places.

00:10:34.000 Last March, 2014, Roberto Aguilar Batista died from complications of diabetes at the Dalby Correctional Facility.

00:10:42.000 In other words, there were lots and lots and lots of detaining abuses.

00:10:45.000 It was considered a detaining abuse to keep children together with their parents.

00:10:49.000 And yet the media are only interested in a crime.

00:10:51.000 Rachel Maddow is crying openly on air about the separation of children from parents. 0.99

00:10:55.000 Now, in a second, I'm going to show you why the Trump administration's response to this has been so foolish. 0.95

00:11:00.000 Because the reality is Trump should have stuck to his guns here. 0.96

00:11:02.000 He should have said, listen, we have a zero tolerance policy.

00:11:03.000 You cross the border, you're getting arrested.

00:11:05.000 And it is not up to me to change the law.

00:11:07.000 I cannot unilaterally change the law.

00:11:09.000 The job of the executive branch is to execute the law.

00:11:12.000 The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has already ruled that a settlement between the Clinton administration government in 1997 and illegal immigrants in 1997, the Flores Settlement,

00:11:22.000 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rules that settlement means I cannot keep children together with parents, but I am not going to release everybody into the interior of the country. 0.88

00:11:29.000 Trump should have maintained that line because that is the correct legal line. 0.75

00:11:32.000 Instead, President Trump decided that he was going to announce an executive order under pressure.

00:11:36.000 That's because the polling numbers were really not good on this stuff.

00:11:39.000 The media attention on it, obviously, has been incredibly biased.

00:11:42.000 But here was President Trump yesterday announcing that he was going to sign an executive order, and then we'll go through the text of the executive order in just a second.

00:11:50.000 We want to keep families together.

00:11:52.000 It's very important.

00:11:53.000 I'll be signing something in a little while that's going to do that.

00:11:57.000 And the people in this room want to do that.

00:11:59.000 And they're working on various pieces of legislation to get it done.

00:12:03.000 But I'll be doing something that's somewhat preemptive, but ultimately will be matched by legislation, I'm sure.

00:12:10.000 Okay, so he says that he's going to sign an executive agreement.

00:12:13.000 Now, we have the executive order. 0.99

00:12:14.000 Now, I have the text of the executive order, and all I can say is that it's either really stupid or it is really clever. 0.99

00:12:23.000 One of the two. 0.96

00:12:23.000 And I'll explain what I mean by that in just a second. 0.96

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00:13:44.000 Okay, so let's go through President Trump's executive order.

00:13:47.000 As I have said,

00:14:01.000 The Trump administration does not have the legal ability to keep children together with their parents in detention.

00:14:07.000 That is a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling based on the Obama administration's policy of keeping children together with parents in detention.

00:14:14.000 At the time, this was considered inhumane.

00:14:17.000 Folks on the left suggested that it was inhumane to keep children in detention with their parents.

00:14:21.000 Now they are suggesting it is inhumane to separate children from their parents in detention.

00:14:25.000 So here is what Trump actually put in the executive order.

00:14:28.000 The executive order is one of two things, just as a preliminary note.

00:14:31.000 Either it reinstates catch and release, meaning that all of these parents have to be released into the general population, or it does nothing.

00:14:36.000 Those are the only two choices.

00:14:37.000 It doesn't actually say that kids can now be kept with their parents in facilities.

00:14:41.000 Instead, what it basically says is, to the fullest extent of law, parents should be kept together with their kids.

00:14:46.000 It's kind of meaningless.

00:14:47.000 So here's what it says.

00:14:47.000 It says, By the authority vested in me as President of the United States, and by the laws of the United States of America, including the Immigration and Nationality Act, it is hereby ordered as follows.

00:14:58.000 It is the policy of this administration to rigorously enforce our immigration laws.

00:15:03.000 Under our laws, the only legal way for an alien to enter this country is it is at a designated port of entry at an appropriate time. 0.99

00:15:09.000 When an alien enters or attempts to enter the country anywhere else, that alien has committed at least the crime of improper entry and is subject to a fine or imprisonment under Section 1325A of Title VIII United States Code.

00:15:19.000 This administration will initiate proceedings to enforce this and other criminal provisions of the INA until and unless Congress directs otherwise.

00:15:26.000 Okay, so...

00:15:42.000 So far, this has not said anything.

00:15:44.000 So far, this has just reinstated the Trump administration's policy, which is, we're going to arrest everybody, and we'd like to keep the families together, but we can't, legally speaking.

00:15:52.000 Okay, then, they get into the actual operative portion of this.

00:15:55.000 Okay.

00:15:56.000 Temporary detention policy for families entering the country illegally.

00:15:59.000 The Secretary of Homeland Security shall, to the extent permitted by law, and subject to the availability of appropriations, maintain custody of alien families during the pendency of any criminally improper entry or immigration proceedings involving their members.

00:16:11.000 The Secretary shall not, however, detain an alien family together when there is a concern that detention of an alien family with each child's alien parent would pose a risk to the child's welfare.

00:16:19.000 The Secretary of Defense shall take all legally available means to provide for the Secretary any existing facilities available for housing or care of alien families.

00:16:26.000 Now, as you'll note, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall, to the extent permitted by law, the law does not permit them to keep these kids together with their parents in the facilities.

00:16:34.000 That means that they're either going to have to release the parents or they're going to have to separate the parents.

00:16:37.000 So either nothing changed or everything changed.

00:16:40.000 OK, this executive order doesn't actually do much.

00:16:42.000 Nonetheless, we're going to talk about the media response to it because the media response to it is so bifurcated.

00:16:47.000 It's so crazy.

00:16:48.000 So let's talk a little bit about about the media response to this.

00:16:51.000 Actually, you know, first, let me point something out.

00:16:53.000 Here's a chart on catch and release.

00:16:55.000 OK, so catch and release is the policy that preexisted Trump, where instead of arresting everybody across the border illegally, instead they would just arrest a bunch of people and then they would release them into the society and then they would hope that they showed back up in court for their day in court.

00:17:09.000 Well, in absentia rates for released aliens, initial case completions, fiscal year 2016,

00:17:15.000 39% of people in 2016 who were arrested and then released, 39% of them never showed up again.

00:17:22.000 So nearly 40%, 4 in 10.

00:17:24.000 Frankly, I'm shocked that it's only 4 in 10.

00:17:26.000 I'm shocked it's not 7 in 10.

00:17:27.000 That's a huge number of people.

00:17:30.000 That means that there were 9,722 in absentia orders that were declared in 2016.

00:17:36.000 So there were almost 10,000 people who went missing, basically, in 2016 alone, after they were arrested and then released into society.

00:17:43.000 That's the reason why Trump wants to keep them in custody, because the idea is if you release them, they're just going to run away, which is, of course, perfectly right.

00:17:49.000 Well, President Trump signs this executive order.

00:17:51.000 And as I say, legally speaking, because he cannot keep the families together, he has two choices.

00:17:56.000 He can separate the families, or he can release the entire family.

00:17:59.000 So either the executive order reinstates catch and release, or the executive order does nothing.

00:18:03.000 And now my inclination is going to be the executive order does a lot of nothing, but...

00:18:09.000 Here's the problem with what Trump just did.

00:18:10.000 Trump has maintained for two weeks that he can't actually do anything by executive order.

00:18:14.000 And then he actually didn't do much by this executive order.

00:18:16.000 The executive order doesn't actually do anything.

00:18:18.000 So why did he do it?

00:18:19.000 And the answer is he didn't like the headline.

00:18:21.000 President Trump has a bad habit of he gets himself into hot water and then all of the people around him stand up and defend what he's done.

00:18:28.000 They defend at least the policy.

00:18:29.000 They say this is legally defensible.

00:18:31.000 And then President Trump doesn't like the blowback.

00:18:33.000 And then he undercuts his own side by going and saying, you know what?

00:18:35.000 I'm gonna sign an executive order and fix all of this.

00:18:37.000 And well, you can't sign this executive order.

00:18:39.000 This executive order doesn't do anything, right?

00:18:41.000 It is ineffective.

00:18:42.000 But it does hand a headline to the left, which is Trump folded, Trump caves.

00:18:45.000 So Stephen Colbert last night on his ex-Gribble show, he said that President Trump folded by issuing this executive order.

00:18:52.000 Make no mistake, Trump folded.

00:18:54.000 He folded like an origami Trump casino.

00:18:57.000 This is the first time I have seen President Trump fold, right?

00:19:01.000 He's never done this before.

00:19:02.000 He folded for the first time.

00:19:03.000 So how did we get here?

00:19:04.000 Okay, and then he talks about, we got here through public pressure.

00:19:07.000 We got here because you spoke out, right?

00:19:09.000 Trump folded like a house of cheap cards, right?

00:19:11.000 That's what he did.

00:19:13.000 Here's the problem.

00:19:14.000 The same media that is saying that he folded.

00:19:15.000 So that should mean problem over, right?

00:19:17.000 I mean, if he folded, then the problem is over.

00:19:18.000 Except for that was never the agenda.

00:19:20.000 The actual agenda of the left is full release of anyone coming across the border.

00:19:24.000 There's a feeling on the left that ICE itself is inappropriate, that there is something deeply wrong with even arresting people at the border.

00:19:31.000 So, Samantha Bee.

00:19:32.000 The least funny person in America.

00:19:34.000 She won that title a couple of weeks ago outright.

00:19:36.000 She'd been in a running gun battle with Trevor Noah and Amy Schumer and Lena Dunham.

00:19:39.000 But she actually took the cake after her rant against Ivanka Trump.

00:19:42.000 She actually took the gold medal.

00:19:44.000 She ran away like Secretariat. 0.85

00:19:45.000 It was pretty amazing.

00:19:46.000 Well, now she comes forward and she says, listen, Trump retreats on separating families and then he signs an order to detain them together.

00:19:52.000 But for Samantha Bee, this is not enough.

00:19:54.000 Why?

00:19:54.000 Because she wants them all released into general society.

00:19:56.000 That's the whole point.

00:19:58.000 Yay! 0.99

00:19:58.000 No more baby internment camps, just regular internment camps. 0.99

00:20:04.000 Cool!

00:20:04.000 That's what we call a win in 2018.

00:20:07.000 To be clear, I am happy that at least these kids are theoretically going to stay with their parents, but mommy and me jails are not a solution.

00:20:15.000 They're not new, and they're also not legal.

00:20:18.000 Man, is she unfunny. 0.99

00:20:19.000 My goodness.

00:20:20.000 I mean, being in her audience must be like being in a comedy internment camp.

00:20:24.000 My goodness.

00:20:24.000 That's just, she is the worst.

00:20:26.000 Wow.

00:20:27.000 But, the point that she's making is the point that Democrats were always going to make.

00:20:30.000 And I have been saying this for weeks.

00:20:32.000 For weeks, for weeks, for weeks.

00:20:33.000 Not to say I told you so, but I, period, told, period, you, period, so.

00:20:36.000 I told you so.

00:20:37.000 I told you that as soon as Trump said he's going to hold the families together, Democrats were immediately going to claim that something egregious had gone on.

00:20:45.000 Something egregious was now going on.

00:20:46.000 We're back to the policy that Obama embraced, but that was bad enough.

00:20:49.000 All we want is full release.

00:20:50.000 So, you have Bernie Sanders saying, that's it, here's Bernie Sanders saying that President Trump's executive order, it did not go far enough.

00:20:57.000 It did not include pudding funding for me and my friends, and also, I will not share my pudding with actual illegal immigrants, but I will rant about it until I get my pudding from one of my aides. 1.00

00:21:07.000 So, please, talk Anderson Cooper to Bernie Sanders, and then later, Bernie Sanders will eat his pudding.

00:21:12.000 The idea of tearing little children from the arms of their parents, putting them into detention cages, and then making a big deal about an executive order, which may do absolutely nothing.

00:21:26.000 It was a crisis that he created and attempted to address today, but he didn't go anywhere near far enough.

00:21:33.000 OK, the only way the Democrats are going to feel that President Trump went far enough is if he does an en masse release.

00:21:39.000 He gets an en masse release of all of these people.

00:21:41.000 And that, of course, is the whole point here.

00:21:43.000 That's what the media is pushing for, as well as what the media are pushing for.

00:21:45.000 Here was Time magazine's new cover.

00:21:47.000 Time magazine has a brand new cover out.

00:21:49.000 And what exactly is their cover?

00:21:50.000 Well, it's this obnoxious thing.

00:21:52.000 So it's a cover of a crying child.

00:21:55.000 I don't remember this sort of cover with Barack Obama and his giant camps full of children who are wrapped in aluminum foil, but I am seeing this cover.

00:22:12.000 The whole point here is that no matter what Trump does, he loses according to the media.

00:22:15.000 So if that's the case, why not just enforce the law and then put it back on Congress?

00:22:18.000 Well, in just a second, I'm going to explain to you why it is that the Democrats are pushing all of this and what they think that the policy actually should be.

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00:23:48.000 Okay, so.

00:23:50.000 This has become very obvious.

00:23:52.000 The Democrats never cared about the policy of separation.

00:23:55.000 They never cared about it.

00:23:56.000 This was all a ruse.

00:23:57.000 The Democrats were fully concerned only and explicitly with destroying Donald Trump.

00:24:02.000 How do we know this?

00:24:03.000 Number one, Chuck Schumer refused the opportunity to put a legislative fix on this boo-boo. 0.94

00:24:07.000 Ted Cruz wanted a legislative fix.

00:24:09.000 Chuck Schumer said, no, we're going to put Trump's feet to the fire instead.

00:24:12.000 You cannot simultaneously argue that the policy is Nazi-esque and then turn down the opportunity to change the policy.

00:24:18.000 That's not how this works.

00:24:19.000 Hell else do we know?

00:24:20.000 Well, now Trump has supposedly changed the policy.

00:24:22.000 Now, as I explained, I don't think the policy actually changed, legally speaking, but supposedly Trump changed the policy.

00:24:28.000 And how did Democrats respond?

00:24:29.000 Did they respond by saying, well, good for President Trump.

00:24:31.000 It's about time that we change this.

00:24:32.000 Or, you know, we pressured Trump into this.

00:24:34.000 Good for us.

00:24:34.000 We finally did it.

00:24:35.000 We've won a big victory.

00:24:37.000 Yay! 0.99

00:24:37.000 That is not how they responded. 0.99

00:24:39.000 How did they respond?

00:24:40.000 Well, they responded by saying, We need more.

00:24:43.000 Release everyone!

00:24:44.000 Here's Kamala Harris' tweet.

00:24:45.000 So Kamala Harris, my awful, awful senator from the state of California, she tweeted out, So again, 0.96

00:24:57.000 If you separate the kids from the families, that's inhumane.

00:25:00.000 But if you keep the kids with the parents, that's also inhumane.

00:25:04.000 So the only solution left, by process of elimination, is to release everyone.

00:25:08.000 Which, of course, is the entire goal.

00:25:09.000 And, by the way, justifies everything Trump has been saying about Democrats who don't like borders.

00:25:13.000 That Democrats just want illegal immigrants released into the general population. 0.83

00:25:16.000 That that actually is their priority.

00:25:18.000 If that's not their priority, they need to propose a policy solution that allows us to arrest illegal immigrants who come in here with kids. 1.00

00:25:23.000 Otherwise, they're not providing us a policy solution.

00:25:25.000 They just want people released generally.

00:25:27.000 This could lead to family internment camps, Wolf, and that is what we do not want to see.

00:25:30.000 And the way to avoid that is to still follow that Flores decision, which is a humane decision that does not want people in camps like this indefinitely.

00:25:50.000 Okay, this is my favorite part.

00:25:52.000 Okay, so my favorite part of this is that that was the policy.

00:25:54.000 Okay, the new Trump policy, keeping these kids together with their parents, that was the Trump policy, the stated Trump policy, the Obama policy, the government policy, up till 2015-2016.

00:26:04.000 Okay, Obama implemented that policy.

00:26:07.000 So, Luis Gutierrez,

00:26:08.000 Who is a radical leftist from Illinois.

00:26:11.000 He was asked about this.

00:26:13.000 He said, well, hold on.

00:26:14.000 Hold up a second.

00:26:15.000 You're ripping on Trump now saying that he's going to keep the families together.

00:26:18.000 But that's what Obama did.

00:26:19.000 Why didn't you complain about Obama on any of this?

00:26:21.000 Here's Luis Gutierrez answering that question.

00:26:23.000 We did challenge Obama, but you know what?

00:26:25.000 Obama had a heart.

00:26:26.000 He had a soul.

00:26:27.000 He had a heart.

00:26:28.000 He had a center.

00:26:29.000 He had convictions, and we could speak to those. 1.00

00:26:32.000 Okay, so in other words, we challenged him, but really we massaged his ass. 0.99

00:26:35.000 Really, our challenge was really mostly us getting out the massage oils and just really going to work on President Obama. 0.99

00:26:42.000 That's basically how we challenged him, because he had a heart.

00:26:45.000 He had a soul.

00:26:46.000 I looked into his eyes, and it was romantic.

00:26:48.000 We had that long-lingering awkward moment before we kissed.

00:26:51.000 I mean, like, really?

00:26:52.000 That was the way that you challenged Barack Obama, whose policy was exactly the same as the current reinstated policy of Donald Trump?

00:26:57.000 The only difference between Trump's policy and Obama's policy is that Trump is doing it more often.

00:27:01.000 That is literally the only difference.

00:27:03.000 The only difference is that Trump is actually attempting to strictly enforce border crossings.

00:27:06.000 He's using criminal court instead of civil convictions in order to enforce the border.

00:27:10.000 And Obama did that, but not as much.

00:27:12.000 That's the only difference.

00:27:13.000 And yet we are told that Obama had a heart.

00:27:15.000 He had a soul.

00:27:15.000 How do we know he had a heart and he had a soul?

00:27:16.000 Because he had a D by his name.

00:27:18.000 That's the real answer.

00:27:19.000 We had a D by his name, and that means that he had a heart and he had a soul.

00:27:21.000 By the way, the Democrats' proposed legislation on border separation would let nearly all parents who commit federal crimes get off scot-free.

00:27:29.000 Gabriel Malar has an entire column on this where he went through the Senate Democrat co-sponsored bill written carelessly.

00:27:35.000 It doesn't distinguish between migrant children at the border and U.S.

00:27:38.000 citizen children already within the United States.

00:27:40.000 The bill further does not distinguish between federal officers handling the border crisis and federal law enforcement pursuing the ordinary course of their duties.

00:27:47.000 The bill provides that an agent or officer of a designated agency shall be prohibited from removing a child from his or her parents or legal guardian at or near the port of entry or within 100 miles of the border of the United States.

00:27:58.000 Okay, well, this is a serious problem, because if you can't remove the kids from the parents, then you can't arrest the parents, according to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

00:28:05.000 So their bill actually just releases all illegal immigrants who come across the border with kids.

00:28:09.000 But of course, that's their entire policy.

00:28:10.000 Now, here's the hilarious part.

00:28:11.000 Jay Johnson, who you'll recall was the Secretary of Homeland Security under Barack Obama, the exorable DHS Secretary under Barack Obama from 2013 to 2017, who presided over this Obama-era policy.

00:28:24.000 You know, the Obama-era policy of keeping kids together with parents in detention centers?

00:28:27.000 He has an entire piece in the Washington Post virtue signaling.

00:28:30.000 So he did the exact same thing Trump is now saying that he's gonna do, and he has a long piece in the Washington Post talking about what a good dude he is, just like Luis Gutierrez says.

00:28:38.000 He has a soul.

00:28:39.000 He has a heart.

00:28:40.000 And he has really nice calves.

00:28:42.000 Anyway, here's what he says.

00:28:43.000 My wife and I spent Mother's Day in 2014 at a U.S.

00:28:45.000 Border Patrol center in McAllen, Texas.

00:28:48.000 The facility had been built for single adults, but it looked like a crude daycare center flooded with children.

00:28:52.000 In the midst of that flood, my eyes were drawn to one little girl sitting alone at a desk and being processed by a border patrol agent.

00:28:59.000 I was struck by her long black hair, which was beautiful despite the hot and dirty journey from Central America she had just completed. 0.84

00:29:04.000 I asked her, why did you come here?

00:29:05.000 She replied, I'm looking for my mother in the United States.

00:29:08.000 She began to try, cry.

00:29:09.000 The translator began to cry.

00:29:11.000 I began to cry.

00:29:14.000 Yeah, really.

00:29:14.000 This is what he's writing, okay?

00:29:16.000 This is the guy who's responsible for actual families being held in detention centers in 2014, 2015, and who said openly that this was a deterrent policy.

00:29:24.000 Designed to keep little girls with beautiful black hair from journeying from Central America.

00:29:29.000 He says, as I witnessed the Trump administration's current practice of separating children from their parents at the border with Mexico, the image of that little girl and hundreds of other migrant women and children is fixed in my mind.

00:29:38.000 Not the images of those kids who you're keeping in detention centers, you know, Jay Johnson.

00:29:42.000 The images, of course, that have to do with Trump.

00:29:45.000 Now, here's the whole point here.

00:29:46.000 Democrats don't actually have to act sympathetic.

00:29:48.000 All they have to do is act as though they are sympathetic.

00:29:52.000 They don't actually have to pursue policies that are sympathetic to American citizens.

00:29:55.000 They don't have to pursue good legal policies.

00:29:57.000 All they have to do is talk about how much they cry, and we're all supposed to pretend that that means that they have the best of intentions.

00:30:02.000 He says,

00:30:12.000 Yeah, he hesitates in the pages of the Washington Post.

00:30:15.000 He says he doesn't like the zero-tolerance deterrence policy.

00:30:17.000 He doesn't like that everybody who's coming across the border illegally is arrested.

00:30:30.000 Now, he doesn't have anything to say about the actual separation policy because he engaged in it.

00:30:34.000 And he doesn't actually have anything to say about keeping families together because he engaged in it.

00:30:39.000 Instead, he just says that we should get rid of the zero-tolerance policy, which essentially means that we should release all of these people into the center of the United States. 0.97

00:30:46.000 He says the answer to the underlying problem is twofold.

00:30:48.000 First,

00:30:49.000 Send more aid to Central America.

00:30:50.000 In 2016, Congress started down this road by appropriating $750 million in assistance for Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.

00:30:57.000 In subsequent years, that level of support has fallen off, so we're supposed to pay off these countries.

00:31:00.000 Second, encourage the neighboring countries in the region—Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Belize—to develop their own systems for accepting Central American refugees and asylum seekers.

00:31:09.000 OK, this is the hilarious part.

00:31:09.000 So his two solutions don't involve separation or keeping kids together with their parents.

00:31:15.000 The only solutions he's actually suggesting, Jeh Johnson, the former DHS secretary under kind, caring, generous Barack Obama, is cut a check to Honduras and try to ask the Mexicans to take care of the problem.

00:31:24.000 Those are really his only two solutions.

00:31:25.000 That's it.

00:31:26.000 Nothing about parental separation.

00:31:28.000 Nothing about keeping kids together with their parents. 0.99

00:31:30.000 All of which suggests this is just politically driven crap. 0.99

00:31:32.000 It's just politically driven nonsense. 0.99

00:31:34.000 Which, of course it is.

00:31:35.000 I mean, that's all this is. 1.00

00:31:36.000 It's just deliberately stupid. 0.99

00:31:40.000 It's so irritating to watch as the media falls prey to this, and they're doing it on purpose. 0.99

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00:32:59.000 Alrighty, so the stupidest of all possible responses to this whole border scenario, which feels ginned up. 0.97

00:33:04.000 It's not to say that there's not a problem with the policy. 0.99

00:33:06.000 There is a problem with the policy.

00:33:07.000 There has been a problem with the policy.

00:33:09.000 There will continue to be a problem with the policy until Congress does something about it.

00:33:12.000 Congress is not going to do anything about it because Democrats are far more interested in yelling and screaming and doing stompy foot than they are in actually solving things.

00:33:19.000 The proof of this comes courtesy of Joe Kennedy III.

00:33:22.000 Nothing I like better than a guy who's only famous because he had a grandpa who was president.

00:33:26.000 That's my favorite thing.

00:33:28.000 As you know, I'm big into the nepotism.

00:33:30.000 I just, I love it.

00:33:31.000 And Joe Kennedy III, a man who dumped his face into a vat of chapstick before speaking in his response to the State of the Union address, is now tweeting.

00:33:38.000 And we're supposed to take him seriously because his grandpa was president of the United States and also banged around a lot.

00:33:44.000 Here's Representative Joe Kennedy III.

00:33:45.000 He said, you might not know this about me, but I'm a white guy.

00:33:48.000 No, we knew, dude.

00:33:49.000 He says,

00:33:59.000 Oh.

00:33:59.000 My.

00:34:01.000 God.

00:34:02.000 It's worth noting here that 50% of all INS agents, 50% of all ICE agents are Hispanic, are non-white.

00:34:07.000 So it might be worth noting that.

00:34:09.000 So if you consult the people over at ICE, my guess is that they have some ideas, but they might not actually agree with Joe Kennedy.

00:34:13.000 I love the assumption that all black people and brown people agree with Joe Kennedy on his preferred policy of releasing all illegal immigrants into the United States en masse. 1.00

00:34:21.000 It's really just because of whiteness. 0.98

00:34:22.000 It's just because of toxic whiteness. 0.94

00:34:24.000 I'm surprised they haven't gone with that yet. 0.93

00:34:26.000 We've got white supremacy, we have white power, we have all these terms of art. 0.87

00:34:31.000 I'm surprised they haven't gone with toxic whiteness. 1.00

00:34:33.000 Our whiteness is making us toxic. 0.93

00:34:35.000 I love that Joe Kennedy, a white man, is lecturing other people on all this stuff. 0.64

00:34:39.000 I'm less white than Joe Kennedy, presumably, because it depends.

00:34:41.000 I'm Jewish, so I guess that Jewish is less white, maybe?

00:34:44.000 Depends.

00:34:45.000 Then he tweeted out,

00:34:47.000 Might be my cautious side.

00:34:48.000 But it seems like there could be unforeseen consequences, like entire families being indefinitely locked in cages.

00:34:53.000 Just my two cents.

00:34:54.000 Again, the Democrats are unified in their approach here.

00:34:57.000 They're going to bash Trump for separating families, and then they're going to bash Trump for bringing families back together.

00:35:01.000 They don't want anyone arrested.

00:35:02.000 They want everyone released into the interior of the United States. 0.87

00:35:06.000 This is their end goal.

00:35:07.000 It's really, it's astonishing that they're this clear about it and that the media seem not to care at all.

00:35:12.000 But, you know,

00:35:13.000 Shocker.

00:35:14.000 That's what the media do. 0.80

00:35:15.000 Now, meanwhile, this is an amazing, amazing story about the ACLU.

00:35:19.000 It turns out that the ACLU is now about to change its policies.

00:35:23.000 For a long time, the ACLU was a free speech organization, right?

00:35:26.000 They were the kind of people who would defend Nazis marching in Skokie, right? 0.79

00:35:29.000 They famously defended a Nazi march in Skokie because the idea was that they had to.

00:35:34.000 It was deeply important that they defend the free speech rights of people with whom they disagree.

00:35:38.000 And for that, I give the ACLU credit.

00:35:39.000 Well, now there's an internal memo from the American Civil Liberties Union, and they say that they are going to weigh their interest in protecting the First Amendment against other commitments to social justice, racial equality, and women's rights, given the possibility that offensive speech might undermine ACLU goals.

00:35:53.000 In other words, the ACLU, which was supposed to be the premier civil liberties union in the United States, is now changing its policy.

00:36:00.000 They're going to balance free speech concerns, like you should be able to say what you want in the United States of America, like the First Amendment, they're going to balance that with, does it offend black people?

00:36:09.000 That's really what this is.

00:36:10.000 Does it offend LGBT people?

00:36:12.000 So in other words, if, for example, the state of California cracks down on this show, because I broadcast from the state of California, and I say that a man is a man and a woman is a woman, and you can't magically change from one to the other.

00:36:22.000 If the state of California were to crack down on me and attempt to fine me, and I went to the ACLU and I said, listen guys, you may disagree with me, but this is a basic First Amendment issue.

00:36:29.000 The ACLU, you would have 20 years ago defended me.

00:36:32.000 Now the ACLU says, listen,

00:36:34.000 We may agree with you on First Amendment grounds, but that's really offensive to transgender people. 0.76

00:36:38.000 So we're not going to defend you anymore.

00:36:40.000 So here is the confidential memo obtained by a former board member.

00:36:43.000 It's amazing.

00:36:43.000 They say,

00:36:50.000 So they're now going to do a balancing act.

00:36:52.000 And they're now going to do a balancing act.

00:36:54.000 They say, Well, no, it shouldn't, because you're talking about government policy, right?

00:37:13.000 When you're talking about government policy, your dislike of a particular Nazi statement does not mean that you think that the government should be able to ban that Nazi statement.

00:37:21.000 Two things can be true at once. 0.95

00:37:22.000 I hate Nazis.

00:37:23.000 I also think Nazis have a right to speak in the United States of America. 0.95

00:37:27.000 Bottom line, free speech applies to people with whom I disagree.

00:37:30.000 And then, their internal memo says,

00:37:45.000 At the same time, work to advance equality may create tensions with speech and religious liberty.

00:37:49.000 Privacy safeguards may create tensions with protections for women in the domestic sphere.

00:37:53.000 As a multi-issue organization, these conflicts are inevitable.

00:37:56.000 We cannot eliminate them, but we can ensure that we consider them carefully and thoroughly.

00:38:00.000 Why is this coming up?

00:38:02.000 They say the ACLU's involvement in the protests and subsequent tragedy in Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017 brought these issues to the floor once again and prompted these guidelines, first proposed on a nationwide call of the ACLU's affiliate legal directors.

00:38:13.000 These guidelines are designed to assist in consideration of the competing interests that may arise when such conflicts arise.

00:38:18.000 In other words, they defended the right of the Charlottesville protesters, who are white supremacists, to do their rally, and then they didn't like what emerged, and now they don't want to defend those rights anymore.

00:38:27.000 This is the death of the First Amendment.

00:38:29.000 This is the end of the First Amendment.

00:38:31.000 So this is a full, this is a full surrender to the forces of intersectionality.

00:38:37.000 So, in the Wall Street Journal, this former board member talks about this entire situation.

00:38:41.000 The former board member who revealed this memo was a person named Wendy Kaminer.

00:38:44.000 I'm going to go through her op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in just a second.

00:38:47.000 So here's what she says.

00:38:48.000 What she says is, the speech case guidelines reflect a demotion of free speech in the ACLU's hierarchy of values.

00:38:54.000 Their vague references to the serious harm to marginalized people occasioned by speech can easily include the presumed psychological effects of racist or otherwise hateful speech,

00:39:03.000 We're good to go.

00:39:18.000 And this is exactly right, of course.

00:39:20.000 This is why there are a lot of folks on the right who are deeply concerned that all of the hate speech legislation that you see in Canada is going to come to the United States forthwith.

00:39:27.000 That very soon what you're going to see is legislation pursued by Democrats and upheld by courts that says that you cannot say things that offend other people.

00:39:35.000 And if you offend other people, then you will be fully responsible in a court of law for offending other people.

00:39:41.000 The end of the First Amendment is at hand.

00:39:43.000 What we are watching right now is deeply scary and deeply troubling, and the fact the ACLU is caving to it is demonstrative of the collapse of liberalism into leftism.

00:39:51.000 I've always said there's a difference between people who are liberal and people who are of the left.

00:39:54.000 People who are liberal are people who may disagree with me on policies like the amount of government involvement in the economy, but they believe I have a right to speak.

00:40:02.000 They believe that I have a right to live my life as I see fit, for the most part, with certain government regulations that would restrict interactions between people in the business sphere, right?

00:40:10.000 Or they believe in redistributive economics, but they believe that I should be able to talk as I see fit.

00:40:15.000 Leftists, by contrast, believe that my very speech is a threat to their safety.

00:40:20.000 It's a destruction of the... It's a bolstering of institutions of privilege.

00:40:27.000 And therefore, my speech has to be shut down.

00:40:29.000 Well, leftists are the people who are protesting me on campus.

00:40:31.000 Leftists are the ones who are protesting me.

00:40:33.000 Liberals are the ones who are debating me.

00:40:34.000 Leftists are the ones who are protesting me and asking that I be shut down on campus.

00:40:38.000 These leftists used to be at odds with the ACLU.

00:40:41.000 The ACLU used to say, people on the left who are trying to shut down free speech, these are part of the problem.

00:40:45.000 These are the bad guys. 0.85

00:40:47.000 But instead, they've decided that they are going to collapse full scale into the foolishness of the hard left.

00:40:55.000 That now they are going to give up on free speech entirely, and instead they are going to just jump full scale into an embrace of intersectional politics in which race and gender matter a lot more than basic principles like freedom of speech.

00:41:07.000 Now, with all that said, you wonder why Trump is drawing big numbers at rallies?

00:41:10.000 It's because of stuff like this.

00:41:11.000 It's because of the ACLU, it's because of media malfeasance.

00:41:13.000 So Trump yesterday was in northern Minnesota.

00:41:15.000 Minnesota went very narrowly for Hillary Clinton in the last election cycle.

00:41:18.000 She only won it by, I think it was under 2%.

00:41:20.000 And so Trump actually has some momentum in Minnesota.

00:41:23.000 And he is not wrong when he says that Democrats are putting illegal immigrants before American citizens. 0.99

00:41:27.000 I can't say that he's wrong when he says this, when Democrats are openly saying that all illegal immigrants who cross the border with kids should be released into the center of the country.

00:41:34.000 Democrats put illegal immigrants before they put American citizens.

00:41:39.000 What the hell is going on?

00:41:43.000 Okay, so I can't argue with him.

00:41:45.000 I'd like to say that he's wrong, but I'm having a problem saying that he's wrong when, again, Democrats are making very clear that this is how they feel about this stuff.

00:41:54.000 And by the way, the media malfeasance continues full scale.

00:41:56.000 Here's President Trump yesterday saying that he wanted to send MS-13 back.

00:42:00.000 He said that it was necessary to send MS-13 back.

00:42:02.000 And ABC News said that he said all illegal immigrants, including children.

00:42:06.000 We have liberated towns out in Long Island.

00:42:10.000 MS-13.

00:42:12.000 Gangs.

00:42:13.000 We have taken them out of our country by the thousands. 1.00

00:42:17.000 They're not sending their finest, that I can tell you. 0.99

00:42:21.000 And we're sending them to hell back.

00:42:23.000 He's specifically talking about MS-13. 0.99

00:42:25.000 ABC News headlined that he was talking about all illegal immigrants.

00:42:28.000 I love it.

00:42:29.000 I love it.

00:42:29.000 It's just it's just spectacular.

00:42:31.000 So this is you wonder why President Trump continues to gain momentum.

00:42:34.000 It's because the left cannot just make factual critiques of President Trump.

00:42:37.000 They gin up false narratives and use them against him.

00:42:40.000 And then they use those false narratives in order to push liberal organizations like the ACLU into hard leftism by saying the priority here has to be fighting the bad guy.

00:42:48.000 And the bad guy is the Hitlerian Trump. 0.87

00:42:50.000 And if we can fight Trump, if we can fight the Hitlerian right by violating First Amendment principles, by violating the Constitution, well, then we will have made the world a much, much better place.

00:42:58.000 The left's drive for utopia means that they're going to run roughshod over your right.

00:43:04.000 And this is driving people to a reactionary support of anyone who promises to be anti-left.

00:43:09.000 That's what's happening in the country right now.

00:43:11.000 And that's a dangerous phenomenon because now we have reactionary politics on both sides and very little principled opposition to specific violations of liberty.

00:43:18.000 OK, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:43:20.000 So, things I like.

00:43:22.000 Well, I think we need some relaxing music after all this because it's been a frustrating day.

00:43:25.000 So, Dvořák's Piano Quintet No.

00:43:27.000 2.

00:43:27.000 So, Dvořák is a Czech composer and he lived about the time of Brahms.

00:43:31.000 Brahms was a big fan of Dvořák.

00:43:34.000 If you know Dvořák's music, it's because you've heard his music from the New World Symphony.

00:43:38.000 The New World Symphony was written when he traveled through the United States.

00:43:41.000 It's his ninth symphony, I believe.

00:43:43.000 And the New World is used very frequently in film, particularly the second movement of the New World Symphony.

00:43:48.000 Which is used in Clear and Present Danger.

00:43:51.000 They use it at military funerals sometimes.

00:43:53.000 But this is his piano quintet.

00:43:56.000 I'm very into the piano quintet as a form.

00:43:58.000 So there are lots of different forms of chamber music.

00:44:01.000 A piano quintet is quite wonderful because instead of the full booming sound of the orchestra, piano quintet is two violins, violist, cellist, and pianist.

00:44:09.000 And so you get a wide variety of sound in sort of the minimal number of people.

00:44:13.000 Here's the beginning of Dvorak's Quintet in A Major, Op. 81.

00:44:26.000 We're good to go.

00:44:59.000 Okay, I think we've relaxed enough.

00:45:00.000 So that's good stuff from Dvorak.

00:45:02.000 Go check that out.

00:45:03.000 This is also great writing music, okay?

00:45:05.000 It's great writing and great study music.

00:45:07.000 Chamber music is great for that.

00:45:08.000 And it's a hell of a lot better than Ape Bleep, okay? 0.86

00:45:10.000 I mean, like that terrible new Beyonce song.

00:45:13.000 First of all, kudos to the multiple people who have now taken my lyric read of Ape Bleep and put it on YouTube to the actual soundtrack from Ape Poop.

00:45:23.000 By Beyonce and Jay-Z.

00:45:24.000 Kudos to you.

00:45:25.000 You've made great art.

00:45:26.000 Apparently, my version... First of all, you've never heard me spit fire.

00:45:30.000 Is that how we say it?

00:45:31.000 Spit fire? 0.88

00:45:32.000 Okay, you've never heard me spit fire.

00:45:33.000 But if I chose to do so, let me tell you, I would rap like Cardi B. Okay?

00:45:38.000 Maybe?

00:45:39.000 Who's Cardi B?

00:45:40.000 I don't know.

00:45:40.000 Anyway!

00:45:41.000 Okay, time for a thing I hate.

00:45:45.000 Okay, so this is a great piece from Jesse Daniels, an opinion columnist for the Huffington Post.

00:45:49.000 So you know this is going to be awesome, right?

00:45:51.000 It's from the Huffington Post, so you just know it's going to be great.

00:45:54.000 Here is the piece.

00:45:55.000 The piece is titled, Why the Face of Family Separation is a White Woman. 0.89

00:45:59.000 Wow.

00:46:00.000 The face of family separation is a white woman. 1.00

00:46:02.000 Again, it's race that drives family separation because you see, white people are the worst. 1.00

00:46:06.000 They're just the worst. 1.00

00:46:07.000 Who's writing this?

00:46:08.000 Why?

00:46:08.000 A white lady!

00:46:09.000 Indeed.

00:46:10.000 But here's what she writes. 0.99

00:46:22.000 Well, again, he was talking about MS-13, people whose literal slogan is, what is it, shoot, rape, kill? 0.94

00:46:30.000 It's something like that. 0.99

00:46:31.000 It's insane.

00:46:31.000 That's not the zero-tolerance policy.

00:46:33.000 The zero-tolerance policy is arresting everyone who crosses the border.

00:46:36.000 The separation is a necessary legal byproduct of the arrest.

00:46:44.000 A family separation has been portrayed as a women's issue in the media, with all four former living First Ladies opposing it.

00:46:50.000 The administration has deployed Nielsen, along with White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, to defend it.

00:46:54.000 Both women appeared at a press briefing on Monday and performed that job with gusto. 0.84

00:46:59.000 White women, like Nielsen and Sanders, have always been part of making white supremacy seem more palatable and less like the brutal, repressive ideology it is. 1.00

00:47:06.000 Historical examples abound, from white women who worked alongside male colonizers to the wives of slaveholders.

00:47:12.000 We're good.

00:47:24.000 And then she says, their counterparts today are women like Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter.

00:47:27.000 Right.

00:47:27.000 Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter are both women who I'm sure would have involved themselves in lynching of black people for no reason and taking pictures of it.

00:47:34.000 I just I love the idea that race and sex define the evil. 1.00

00:47:38.000 And the woman who's writing is of that race and sex. 1.00

00:47:39.000 But this is the point of intersectionality.

00:47:41.000 Intersectionality is the suggestion that we can define you purely by the various groups to which you belong unless you do penance, unless you come forward and achieve the grace of the left.

00:47:50.000 By claiming that you have moved beyond your own parochial interests as a white woman writing for the Huffington Post.

00:47:56.000 Now you have given up all of your own opinions and you have embraced the collective because you no longer are an individual, obviously.

00:48:03.000 You've moved beyond your whiteness and your woman-ness and instead you are going to say exactly what the left wants you to say. 0.62

00:48:10.000 This sort of silliness obviously leads the country to become a much worse place. 0.98

00:48:14.000 Christian Nielsen and Sarah Huckabee Sanders are not doing what they're doing because they're white women. 1.00

00:48:18.000 They're doing what they're doing because they are conservatives and work for the Trump administration.

00:48:21.000 And that is why they're doing what they're doing.

00:48:23.000 End of story.

00:48:24.000 But I guess if we're going to reduce everybody down to racial categories, you can't be particularly surprised when the country tears itself apart.

00:48:29.000 OK, we'll be back here tomorrow with all the latest, plus the mailbag, because tomorrow's a Friday.

00:48:33.000 Wow, we've made it to the end of the week.

00:48:35.000 Almost.

00:48:35.000 We're almost there, guys.

00:48:36.000 See you here then.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - June 21, 2018

The Great Reversal | Ep. 565

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