The Ben Shapiro Show - The Kavanaugh Comeback | Ep. 629

00:00:00.000 Brett Kavanaugh fights back with alacrity.

00:00:02.000 Lindsey Graham shows his teeth, and Republicans push forward with Kavanaugh's nomination.

00:00:06.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:06.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:12.000 Well, unless we left our story on our podcast yesterday, I was very downbeat on the possibility of Brett Kavanaugh getting on the court, because we recorded the podcast directly after Ford's testimony, but before Kavanaugh actually got to testify.

00:00:23.000 Today, we'll get into Kavanaugh's testimony, the overall effect of yesterday, and what comes next.

00:00:28.000 We'll get into all of that.

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00:01:36.000 The big news, obviously, the continuing fallout from the Brett Kavanaugh hearings.

00:01:39.000 The Senate Judiciary Committee today voting on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination.

00:01:42.000 Senator Jeff Flake has said that he will vote in favor of Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court.

00:01:47.000 It looks all but assured that Kavanaugh will enter the court.

00:01:50.000 It looks also like some Democrats are going to be peeled along with some Republicans that mean Joe Manchin of West Virginia, maybe Heidi Heitkamp from North Dakota.

00:01:58.000 It looks like Brett Kavanaugh probably ends up on the Supreme Court by early next week, which is as it should be.

00:02:05.000 Because yesterday, Christine Blasey Ford gave testimony about what allegedly happened to her 36 years ago at a party.

00:02:11.000 Not a single witness she has named has verified her story from the party.

00:02:14.000 Brett Kavanaugh denied it entirely, and Kavanaugh is extraordinarily fiery.

00:02:19.000 In his denunciation of how the committee had handled its business, which is perfectly appropriate. 1.00

00:02:24.000 Remember, these accusations first came about July 30th.

00:02:27.000 Senator Dianne Feinstein of California saw them.

00:02:29.000 She did nothing.

00:02:30.000 She didn't report them to the FBI.

00:02:31.000 She didn't start an investigation.

00:02:33.000 She didn't do anything.

00:02:33.000 She didn't ask Brett Kavanaugh a question.

00:02:35.000 Nothing.

00:02:36.000 Instead, she just sat on this stuff for weeks and weeks and weeks and at the very last minute launched the allegation in an attempt to push this entire sham hearing beyond the election. 0.97

00:02:44.000 That's all the Democrats want here.

00:02:46.000 When Democrats say that they want an FBI hearing, they want an FBI investigation, what they really mean is they want a months-long FBI investigation that pushes them beyond the Senate election in the desperate hope

00:02:56.000 That was their big plan here.

00:02:57.000 It didn't happen yesterday, and it mostly didn't happen because Brett Kavanaugh fought back.

00:03:00.000 He fought back by really coming out strong.

00:03:14.000 And we'll get to the media response to all of this, the Democratic response, which is just egregious and disgusting.

00:03:18.000 But we begin with Brett Kavanaugh's actual comments yesterday.

00:03:22.000 Brett Kavanaugh started by saying that his life has been destroyed by the committee, has been destroyed by allegations without a scintilla or iota of corroborative evidence.

00:03:31.000 As was predictable, and as I predicted, my family and my name have been totally and permanently destroyed.

00:03:41.000 By vicious and false additional accusations.

00:03:45.000 The 10-day delay has been harmful to me and my family, to the Supreme Court, and to the country.

00:03:55.000 Okay, so he is exactly right about all of that, and this hearing was turned into a farce, as he made clear.

00:04:00.000 He said, you guys have replaced advice and consent, which would be all about the political views of my judicial philosophy, and you've replaced that with search and destroy, an attempt to destroy my life, destroy my family, and Brett Kavanaugh is exactly right about this.

00:04:11.000 The reason this resonated with so many conservatives is for, there are really a couple reasons.

00:04:17.000 The Me Too movement has been militarized into, an allegation is made, we destroy your life.

00:04:23.000 Not proof of an allegation, not multiple allegations, not credibility of an allegation, none of that.

00:04:28.000 An allegation is made, we destroy your life.

00:04:30.000 A mildly credible allegation is made, your life is over.

00:04:33.000 And there are a lot of people, conservatives and non-conservatives, who are looking around and saying, that could happen to literally anyone.

00:04:39.000 I was talking to a female friend last night, somebody who's led a pretty rough life actually, and she was talking to me,

00:04:46.000 About the fact that such accusations could be leveraged against anyone.

00:04:50.000 Literally anyone.

00:04:51.000 I'm, as I've said before, the cleanest person in American public life when it comes to matters sexual.

00:04:56.000 But at one point I went over to this woman's house with her husband for dinner.

00:05:01.000 She said, you know, what I could say theoretically is that my husband left the room for a minute and you tried to make a move on me.

00:05:07.000 Anybody can say anything about anyone at any time.

00:05:09.000 I'm not saying that Christine Blasey Ford, the accuser in this case, is completely making up the story.

00:05:14.000 I don't think that she's completely making up the story.

00:05:16.000 I do think that it's quite possible that her memory is wrong.

00:05:19.000 But regardless, you need some sort of corroborative evidence.

00:05:22.000 And in just a few minutes, I'm going to discuss why it's so necessary to have corroborative evidence for these sorts of allegations.

00:05:27.000 That's reason number one why so many people are uncomfortable with what's happening here. 0.71

00:05:30.000 Reason number two why so many people are uncomfortable with everything that is happening here is because for years and years and years, Republicans have been ripped as racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes.

00:05:40.000 They have been ripped as everything that is wrong with society, everything that is wrong with the world.

00:05:45.000 And Brett Kavanaugh seems like, and his record shows him to be, a fundamentally decent person.

00:05:50.000 There is not a hint, not a, not,

00:05:53.000 The mildest reference to any sort of serious misbehavior over the course of his life until two minutes before he was supposed to be confirmed for the Supreme Court.

00:06:02.000 And a lot of conservatives went, somebody has to stand up in the face of this.

00:06:05.000 Somebody has to say no to this sort of character assassination.

00:06:08.000 And Brett Kavanaugh did that yesterday and it resonated with people.

00:06:11.000 It also resonated because Brett Kavanaugh wasn't just angry and righteously indignant.

00:06:15.000 Brett Kavanaugh demonstrated a fundamental decency even in the midst of his anger.

00:06:19.000 So here was some of his anger talking about replacing advice and consent with search and destroy.

00:06:24.000 This confirmation process has become a national disgrace.

00:06:28.000 The Constitution gives the Senate an important role in the confirmation process.

00:06:36.000 But you have replaced advice and consent with search and destroy.

00:06:41.000 And of course, he's exactly right about that.

00:06:43.000 The moment that really made this happen for Kavanaugh, that really saved his nomination, I don't even think, was him coming out so strongly against the committee, which was perfectly appropriate.

00:06:52.000 It was when he talked about his own family and he talked about his daughter.

00:06:55.000 Because this was the moment when I think a lot of people looked at Brett Kavanaugh and they said, okay, the anger is not fake.

00:07:01.000 The hurt and the pain and the

00:07:05.000 rage that he must feel are enormous and yet this is a guy who has the decency to talk about with his daughter what was going on and his daughter has the decency to pray for the woman who's accusing her father in his view wrongly and and falsely of attempting to rape her 36 years ago.

00:07:22.000 I intend no ill will to Dr. Ford and her family.

00:07:26.000 The other night Ashley and my daughter Liza said their prayers and little Liza all of 10 years old

00:07:40.000 Said to Ashley, we should pray for the woman.

00:07:42.000 That's a lot of wisdom from a ten-year-old.

00:07:51.000 All of this really did save Brett Kavanaugh's nomination.

00:07:53.000 Now, what happened next is that Lindsey Graham came into the room. 0.99

00:07:57.000 And to understand how monumental this was, you have to understand who Lindsey Graham is.

00:08:00.000 The senator from South Carolina is not exactly known for being a firebrand.

00:08:04.000 That is putting it mildly.

00:08:05.000 Lindsey Graham is about as milquetoast a human being as it is possible to find on planet Earth. 1.00

00:08:09.000 It's one of the reasons why the Republican base has never been fond of Lindsey Graham. 0.98

00:08:13.000 They've always thought of Lindsey Graham as the very soft-spoken gentleman from South Carolina who sort of wanted to go along to get along with the other side of the aisle.

00:08:20.000 He voted in favor of the nominations of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court.

00:08:23.000 He voted in favor of the nomination of Justice Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court.

00:08:26.000 This is a guy who has a reputation for bipartisan work.

00:08:29.000 Well, he came into the hearing room, the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room yesterday, and he launched into what is going to be seen as one of the great all-time Senate speeches, really.

00:08:36.000 I mean, this is one that people are going to remember for quite a while.

00:08:39.000 He launched into Democrats, and he said they have destroyed the entire process here, and it is disgusting what they have done to this man.

00:08:45.000 What you want to do is destroy this guy's life, hold this seat open, and hope you win in 2020.

00:08:51.000 You've said that.

00:08:53.000 Not me.

00:08:55.000 You've got nothing to apologize for.

00:08:57.000 This is the most unethical sham.

00:09:02.000 Since I've been in politics, boy, y'all want power.

00:09:05.000 God, I hope you never get it.

00:09:07.000 I hope the American people can see through this sham, that you knew about it and you held it.

00:09:12.000 You had no intention of protecting Dr. Ford.

00:09:15.000 None.

00:09:16.000 She's as much of a victim as you are.

00:09:20.000 Okay, and this was a moment.

00:09:22.000 I mean, it certainly was a moment, because the fact is that this was mob justice being brought to bear against Brett Kavanaugh, and Lindsey Graham stood up and said, no, there has to be some sort of process here.

00:09:30.000 There has to be some sort of corroborative evidence.

00:09:32.000 President Trump tweeted yesterday, and this was clearly, I think, written by staff, and it was a good tweet.

00:09:36.000 He said,

00:09:50.000 Okay, he's exactly right about all this.

00:09:52.000 Now, how will the Senate vote in the end?

00:09:54.000 How will the Senate vote when it comes down to it?

00:09:58.000 There are some rumors today that Joe Donnelly from Indiana, who is a Democrat, is going to vote against it.

00:10:05.000 There were rumors yesterday that Donnelly was going to vote the same way as Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, and Manchin of West Virginia.

00:10:11.000 But none of that is clear at this time.

00:10:15.000 So it is just not clear at this time.

00:10:17.000 What is clear is that the Democratic outrage over all of this is just insane.

00:10:22.000 It is just insane.

00:10:23.000 Jill Filipovich, who is a feminist, she wrote a book called The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness. 0.97

00:10:31.000 She literally wrote a tweet this morning that says, 0.54

00:10:34.000 Divorce your Republican husbands. 1.00

00:10:36.000 This is where the Democrats are going. 0.99

00:10:37.000 Their actual implication here is that if you want corroborative evidence, it's because you hate women, you don't care about the accounts of women, and you're fine watching a rapist enter the Supreme Court.

00:10:46.000 No one is fine watching a rapist enter the Supreme Court.

00:10:49.000 But we must have corroborative evidence for allegations.

00:10:51.000 We can't just say that an allegation on its own is enough to destroy a man, particularly when he gives credible evidence on the other side.

00:10:57.000 It's not that this woman, it's not that Christine Blasey Ford has evidence and then he has evidence.

00:11:01.000 It's that she has no evidence and then he has evidence.

00:11:05.000 She has no evidence.

00:11:06.000 Every witness she says was at the party denies that it ever happened, denies remembering, says, we don't remember this ever happening.

00:11:13.000 Her best friend, Leland Kaiser, came forward and said that she doesn't even know Brett Kavanaugh.

00:11:19.000 And when asked about this, Christine Blasey Ford basically impeached her own best friend, as a witness, basically said, my own best friend doesn't know what she's talking about. 0.98

00:11:28.000 She has a health problem.

00:11:30.000 I mean, that's pretty amazing stuff, and we're just going to ignore all that.

00:11:32.000 I also want to talk in just a second about why corroborative evidence is necessary and why the Democratic line that you must believe all women is basically a load of tripe. 0.95

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00:12:47.000 So, the left is basically saying that if you don't quote-unquote believe all women, this means that you're a bad person.

00:12:53.000 They don't believe all women. 0.92

00:12:54.000 No one should believe all women because women are not inherently more credible than men. 0.96

00:12:58.000 They are not.

00:12:59.000 And victims, by the way, are not always remembering things properly.

00:13:02.000 So even if Christine Blasey Ford is telling the truth, we need corroborative evidence because there's just no way to tell.

00:13:10.000 There's no way to tell.

00:13:12.000 She made some statements yesterday about the way the brain chemistry works and the way the memory works that are just flat-out wrong and it's actually important to note these things because this is why we need corroborative evidence.

00:13:21.000 This is why we need some sort of detail.

00:13:24.000 We need something that we can latch on to because witness testimony or victim testimony alone is not enough.

00:13:29.000 It just isn't.

00:13:30.000 Why?

00:13:31.000 Because the data don't back that.

00:13:32.000 Alan Dershowitz pointed this out yesterday, said there is no empirical evidence supporting the gender-based political view that women who claim to have been sexually assaulted in alleged acquaintance rape situations tell the entire truth more often than men who are accused and deny the accusation.

00:13:45.000 One report from the U.S.

00:13:47.000 National Research Council explains eyewitnesses are notoriously unreliable, quote, Unknown to the individual, memories are forgotten, reconstructed, updated, and distorted.

00:13:55.000 Elizabeth Loftus, who's a psychologist at University of Washington, says memories are, quote, more easily modified, for instance, when the passage of time allows the original memory to fade.

00:14:04.000 It's 36 years later.

00:14:06.000 False memories are, quote, constructed by combining actual memories with the content of suggestions received from others.

00:14:11.000 In a small-scale study the Loftus performed, fully 25% of respondents remembered false events constructed for them.

00:14:18.000 What about the notion that Ford was promoting?

00:14:20.000 That indelible impressions are left when you experience a trauma?

00:14:24.000 Research doesn't back that idea.

00:14:25.000 According to a well-cited paper in Nature, findings from basic psychological research and neuroscience studies indicate memory is a reconstructive process that is susceptible to distortion.

00:14:34.000 Furthermore, the commonly held belief among the general public that an eyewitness's confidence in the accuracy of his or her memory is a strong indicator in the actual accuracy of the memory is a myth.

00:14:45.000 It's just not true.

00:14:46.000 It's not true that because you believe that you're remembering something accurately, you are actually believing something you're remembering something accurately.

00:14:53.000 Now, again, maybe Ford is remembering this accurately.

00:14:55.000 I don't know, but you don't know either.

00:14:57.000 And to simply say that Christine Blasey Ford's memory is enough to impeach and get rid of and destroy the life of Judge Kavanaugh requires you to throw out due process entirely.

00:15:07.000 That's what it requires.

00:15:07.000 It requires an end to due process.

00:15:09.000 And listen, Democrats were never interested in due process from the very start of this.

00:15:13.000 They were not interested.

00:15:14.000 At any point, at any point in due process.

00:15:18.000 And you can, the proof was in the pudding.

00:15:21.000 So Democrats in the committee hearing yesterday were just abysmal.

00:15:25.000 First of all, if you thought this wasn't a circus, if you thought that this was folks taking things seriously, why was Alyssa Milano there?

00:15:32.000 There were only about 35 seats in the audience, apparently.

00:15:35.000 And yet right behind Brett Kavanaugh, there was actress Alyssa Milano from Charmed.

00:15:38.000 There she was sitting right behind Brett Kavanaugh.

00:15:40.000 Look at her.

00:15:41.000 And she was sitting there making faces the entire time on camera behind Brett Kavanaugh.

00:15:45.000 Why was she there?

00:15:46.000 Because Dianne Feinstein invited her, the same woman who quote-unquote did not leak Christine Blasey Ford's testimony and her letter to the media, the same woman who held that letter for six weeks without actually asking any serious questions about it, invited a famous actress to sit in at the hearing specifically for publicity purposes.

00:16:05.000 No, this wasn't political at all.

00:16:06.000 It wasn't partisan hackery at all.

00:16:08.000 Speaking of partisan hackery, Sheldon Whitehouse, making a complete ass of himself, he's a Democrat senator from Rhode Island.

00:16:15.000 He starts asking Judge Brett Kavanaugh yesterday about his yearbook, because this is what we need to know. 0.96

00:16:20.000 We need to know whether there's evidence from a yearbook that Judge Brett Kavanaugh was a serial rapist back when he was in high school.

00:16:26.000 What is Sheldon Whitehouse's evidence? 0.93

00:16:28.000 That Judge Brett Kavanaugh, in his yearbook, used the word boof, which means to fart, apparently.

00:16:35.000 This is what has become of the world's greatest deliberative body. 0.98

00:16:38.000 Sheldon Whitehouse making a complete fool of himself. 0.98

00:16:40.000 One is... Senator, what do you like? 0.99

00:16:42.000 Judge, have you... I don't know if it's buffed or boofed.

00:16:46.000 How do you pronounce that? 0.64

00:16:48.000 That refers to flatulence.

00:16:50.000 We were 16.

00:16:50.000 Okay.

00:16:54.000 And so when your friend Mark Judge put the same thing in his yearbook page back to you, he had the same meaning.

00:17:02.000 It was flatulence.

00:17:03.000 I don't know what he did, but that's my recollection.

00:17:05.000 When we talk about flatulence at age 16 on a yearbook page, I'm game.

00:17:13.000 You mentioned, I think, the Renate or Renate, Renata, I don't know how you pronounce that.

00:17:18.000 That's a proper name of an individual, you know?

00:17:20.000 Renata?

00:17:21.000 Renata. 1.00

00:17:23.000 Okay, and then you just continue with this line of questioning, making a complete idiot of himself. 1.00

00:17:27.000 But it didn't stop there. 0.99

00:17:28.000 Dianne Feinstein yesterday was put on the defensive by Kavanaugh. 1.00

00:17:31.000 It was one of the great moments I've seen in American political life.

00:17:34.000 Feinstein, who's been slandering Kavanaugh, basically, from the bench.

00:17:37.000 I don't mean in the legal sense, but she's been saying things about Kavanaugh that are unbased, with vindictive force.

00:17:44.000 And what you're saying, if I understand it,

00:18:05.000 Is that the allegations by Dr. Ford, Ms.

00:18:08.000 Ramirez, and Ms.

00:18:11.000 Swetnick are wrong? 1.00

00:18:15.000 That is emphatically what I'm saying.

00:18:18.000 Emphatically.

00:18:21.000 The Swetnick thing is a joke. 0.99

00:18:24.000 That is a farce.

00:18:27.000 Would you like to say more about it?

00:18:29.000 No.

00:18:33.000 And good for Brett Kavanaugh.

00:18:34.000 If Einstein came out today and she said, I've never seen a nominee for any position behave in that manner, Judge Kavanaugh used as much political rhetoric as my Republican colleagues.

00:18:42.000 Because you are all political hacks who tried to destroy his life.

00:18:44.000 That's why.

00:18:45.000 It is perfectly appropriate for him to fight back in preservation of his family and his life.

00:18:50.000 Feinstein, by the way, ended up dumping her own witness under the bus. 0.71

00:18:53.000 She ended up dumping Ford under the bus. 0.98

00:18:55.000 She was asked yesterday about how did all of these letters end up in the possession of the FBI and the media?

00:19:01.000 How did the media get a hold of these letters?

00:19:03.000 Because remember, originally, Christine Blasey Ford sent a letter to Dianne Feinstein and said, I want you to keep this anonymous.

00:19:09.000 And Dianne Feinstein, then somehow, magically, disappears in the media.

00:19:13.000 And Dianne Feinstein says, it wasn't me.

00:19:15.000 It wasn't me.

00:19:15.000 So who was it?

00:19:16.000 If it wasn't Feinstein, there were only two other parties that had it.

00:19:18.000 Anne Eshoo of California, a representative, and Christine Blasey Ford herself.

00:19:21.000 But Ford has said that she didn't leak this to the media.

00:19:24.000 So here is Feinstein dumping Ford under the bus.

00:19:28.000 Oh, I don't believe my staff would leak it.

00:19:30.000 I have not asked that question directly, but I do not believe they would.

00:19:34.000 Do you know that?

00:19:35.000 I mean, how in the world could that get in the hands of the press?

00:19:38.000 The answer is no.

00:19:40.000 The staff.

00:19:41.000 Have you asked your staff?

00:19:44.000 Or other staff members on the Judiciary Committee?

00:19:47.000 Pardon me?

00:19:48.000 Well, Jennifer reminds me I've asked her before about it.

00:19:53.000 And that's true.

00:19:54.000 Well, somebody leaked it, if it wasn't you.

00:19:56.000 Well, it was, I'm telling you, it was not, I did not.

00:20:01.000 I mean, I was asked to keep it confidential.

00:20:04.000 Okay, so she says that it wasn't her, which means that it was somebody on Ford's team.

00:20:09.000 So there she is dumping her own witness under the bus as a politically motivated actor who wanted to get this stuff into the media.

00:20:14.000 Amazing, amazing stuff.

00:20:16.000 Well, in just a second, we're going to talk about the rest of the Democratic response, which it just got worse from there.

00:20:20.000 It just got worse from there. 0.99

00:20:20.000 This is a political crap show of the highest order. 0.99

00:20:23.000 I'm going to talk about the rest of it, why it's a sham, why they should hold the vote yesterday, why they should be done already. 0.95

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00:21:43.000 I've never seen a spectacle quite like what we are seeing today.

00:21:46.000 We've seen protesters inhabit the halls of the Senate.

00:21:49.000 We saw protesters screaming at Jeff Flake.

00:21:52.000 Jeff Flake is one of the most moderate members of the United States Senate.

00:21:54.000 He said that he's going to vote for Brett Kavanaugh specifically because there's no corroborative evidence to rule Brett Kavanaugh out. 0.99

00:22:01.000 He was confronted in elevators and told that he hates women, doesn't care about women, doesn't care if women get raped. 1.00

00:22:07.000 Absolutely a lie. 1.00

00:22:08.000 Absolutely a sham. 0.99

00:22:10.000 Really disgusting. 0.94

00:22:11.000 And you can see the Democratic rhetoric escalating.

00:22:13.000 Now, you can see it happened yesterday when the Democrats, it turned out, had nothing.

00:22:17.000 It turns out they had no actual facts to back the allegations made by Christine Blasey Ford.

00:22:21.000 They had no specific questions that they asked Brent Kavanaugh.

00:22:24.000 None of that.

00:22:24.000 Instead, they just kept begging Kavanaugh over and over to call for an FBI investigation into himself.

00:22:30.000 The real reason that he won't do that is because he understands, as does everyone else, the only reason Democrats are calling for an FBI investigation is because it will take, minimum, a couple of months, which brings us beyond the election, which is all the Democrats want.

00:22:43.000 They just want this pushed off beyond the election so that there can be a new Senate that is impaneled, at which point Kavanaugh doesn't get approved even if he's innocent, and then they just hold the seat open until after Trump is president.

00:22:54.000 That is their entire goal here, as Lindsey Graham said, but here is Kamala Harris and Dick Durbin

00:22:58.000 Pretending that it was really all just about, why won't you ask for an FBI investigation? 1.00

00:23:02.000 Here's why this is so stupid. 0.99

00:23:03.000 Here's what an FBI investigation does. 1.00

00:23:05.000 They ask a bunch of witnesses a bunch of questions.

00:23:07.000 Those are sworn oaths, right, under a 302.

00:23:10.000 You know who else can do that?

00:23:11.000 Members of the Senate.

00:23:13.000 They can get people to testify.

00:23:15.000 And they don't need majority help.

00:23:17.000 Kamala Harris can ask for the testimony of Mark Judge now.

00:23:20.000 In fact, they were lying yesterday.

00:23:22.000 Democrats said Republicans haven't talked to Mark Judge.

00:23:24.000 Lies. 0.99

00:23:25.000 Republicans did talk to Mark Judge.

00:23:27.000 Democrats boycotted the actual hearing with Mark Judge.

00:23:30.000 Not a hearing, but the actual interview with Mark Judge because they didn't want to lend credibility to the actual interview with Mark Judge.

00:23:35.000 This is all political gamesmanship of the most disgusting magnitude.

00:23:40.000 Here's Kamala Harris, though, who wants to run for president in 2020. 1.00

00:23:43.000 She walked out of the Judiciary Committee vote this morning.

00:23:46.000 And she held hands with Maisie Hirono because women unite.

00:23:50.000 Here was Harris yesterday pressing on the FBI investigation point.

00:23:54.000 The FBI would gather witness statements.

00:23:56.000 You have witness statements.

00:23:59.000 I don't want to debate with you how they do their business.

00:24:01.000 I'm just asking, are you willing to ask the White House to conduct such an investigation?

00:24:07.000 The witness testimony is before you.

00:24:09.000 No witness who was there supports that I was there.

00:24:14.000 Okay, I'm going to take that as a no and we can move on.

00:24:16.000 Okay, I'm going to take that as a no that you're not going to call for an FBI investigation.

00:24:19.000 He doesn't have the power to initiate an FBI investigation.

00:24:22.000 The Senate has investigative powers.

00:24:24.000 The Senate Judiciary Committee has the power to investigate.

00:24:26.000 That's why Ford was there yesterday.

00:24:29.000 Under oath. 0.98

00:24:30.000 This whole thing is ridiculous. 0.99

00:24:31.000 It got even more ridiculous, though, because it didn't stop there. 0.99

00:24:33.000 Brett Kavanaugh responded angrily when he was accused of rape. 0.99

00:24:37.000 Ooh, that's bad.

00:24:38.000 He can't respond angrily when he is accused of rape. 0.94

00:24:41.000 Instead, he's supposed to respond with a completely placid demeanor, at which point Democrats call him robotic and a fake.

00:24:46.000 That's how this is supposed to work.

00:24:47.000 If Brett Kavanaugh gets angry, it's because he's guilty.

00:24:50.000 And if he doesn't get angry, it's also because he's guilty.

00:24:53.000 Ted Lieu essentially tweeted that out yesterday, our ex-Gribble congressperson from here in California.

00:24:57.000 He tweeted out, 0.73

00:25:03.000 So, in other words, I accuse you of rape.

00:25:06.000 You get angry. 0.99

00:25:07.000 That means you're probably an angry drunk. 1.00

00:25:09.000 That probably means 36 years ago you raped a girl. 1.00

00:25:11.000 That's the chain of logic there. 0.97

00:25:13.000 That is the chain of logic being used by a sitting congressperson.

00:25:16.000 And it wasn't just Ted Lieu. 0.86

00:25:18.000 It was ridiculous disgrace Brian Schatz, the senator from Hawaii. 0.82

00:25:21.000 He tweeted out, 0.91

00:25:25.000 Is it, though?

00:25:26.000 You spent years on the D.C.

00:25:27.000 Circuit Court of Appeals.

00:25:28.000 Is it possible you might be pissed if I accused you of rape? 0.90

00:25:31.000 Is it possible you might not appear objective and fair if I accused you of rape and you came back at me and you said you're a bleep?

00:25:37.000 What, but you're not being objective and fair to me?

00:25:39.000 Right, because you just accused me of rape. 0.92

00:25:41.000 It's probably that.

00:25:43.000 And it wasn't just those.

00:25:44.000 Senator Jeff Merkley is 26.

00:25:47.000 Jeff Merkley tweeted something similar out.

00:25:50.000 He said,

00:26:01.000 A partisan hack in a robe?

00:26:03.000 Again, you'd have something in his actual record to support that if you cared to look.

00:26:08.000 But instead, you're just going to call him a partisan hack after it.

00:26:11.000 I mean, this is this is gaslighting at its finest.

00:26:14.000 This is when you have a younger sibling and you take your younger sibling's hand and you hit your younger sibling in the face.

00:26:19.000 They go, stop hitting yourself.

00:26:20.000 Stop hitting yourself.

00:26:21.000 Stop hitting yourself.

00:26:22.000 This is exactly what Democrats are doing here. 1.00

00:26:24.000 Democrats are saying, you are a gang rapist. 1.00

00:26:27.000 You are an alleged rapist of a 15-year-old girl 36 years ago at an unnamed party, an unnamed location, an unnamed date. 1.00

00:26:35.000 That's you. 0.99

00:26:36.000 And then if you get mad, that just shows you're a partisan hack.

00:26:39.000 If you say that I'm only doing that for partisan purposes, well, that shows that you, sir, are the real partisan. 0.64

00:26:46.000 You wonder why people are going nuts? 0.74

00:26:47.000 Because you're gaslighting them, which is deliberately designed to make people go nuts.

00:26:51.000 That's what gaslighting is.

00:26:52.000 Gaslighting is where you tell somebody something not true, and then when they respond to the untruth, you blame them for responding to the untruth.

00:26:59.000 That's what's going on here.

00:27:02.000 Honest to God, Democrats stoop pretty low sometimes.

00:27:06.000 But to protect abortion, which is what this is really about, this is as low as I've ever seen anyone stoop.

00:27:11.000 Anyone.

00:27:13.000 Kristen Gillibrand comes forward.

00:27:15.000 Who, as you will recall, said that if Brett Kavanaugh doesn't call for an FBI investigation of himself, that means he's guilty.

00:27:21.000 She came forward and she says she was offended how Kavanaugh spoke to senators. 0.99

00:27:24.000 So she proclaims that he is basically a rapist. 0.96

00:27:26.000 And then she comes forward and says she's offended by his response. 0.97

00:27:30.000 Honest to God, if I'd been Brett Kavanaugh yesterday, I would've come in birds flying.

00:27:33.000 I mean, I would've just flipped off the entire... I would've walked in there and flipped them off.

00:27:38.000 I would've dropped 80,000 F-bombs. 0.82

00:27:40.000 I would've been so much more colorful than Brett Kavanaugh was yesterday.

00:27:44.000 The fact that Brett Kavanaugh is as contained as he was is a shock.

00:27:47.000 It's a shock.

00:27:49.000 But Kirsten Gillibrand says, no one should treat senators this way.

00:27:52.000 And I hide behind that senator title after slandering him, man.

00:27:54.000 Amazing stuff.

00:27:56.000 The way he talked, he was so arrogant in how he spoke to senators and dismissive.

00:28:03.000 I was I was really offended by how he behaved at the hearing.

00:28:07.000 Oh, no, we're not offended by Kristen Gillibrand.

00:28:09.000 We're not offended by Dianne Feinstein hiding a story of rape for six weeks so that she could get away with pushing Brett Kavanaugh off the court.

00:28:19.000 Just absurd, just absurd. 0.99

00:28:24.000 The most absurd, of course, is from ex-Senator Barbara Boxer, who used to be, officially, the stupidest woman in the United States Senate. 0.99

00:28:32.000 Now she's no longer in the United States Senate. 1.00

00:28:33.000 She's been replaced by Kamala Harris, and so now there's a running gun battle for stupidest woman in the United States Senate, who may not in fact be stupidest person in the United States Senate. 1.00

00:28:41.000 Sheldon Whitehouse is definitely up for that honor. 0.99

00:28:42.000 But in any case, Barbara Boxer, who used to be the stupidest woman in the United States Senate, she says that Brett Kavanaugh, you could actually see him attacking a woman because he was sitting there getting angry that people were accusing him of attacking a woman. 0.97

00:28:56.000 All of a sudden, we see a man transformed from a choir boy who, up to now, has said, after hours in front of the committee, he lived this very perfect life. 0.98

00:29:10.000 All of a sudden, his anger is triggered.

00:29:13.000 And what we saw today is someone who you could now see attacking a woman.

00:29:20.000 It's very frightening.

00:29:23.000 Yes, that was clearly what happened there. 0.95

00:29:25.000 If I accuse you of rape and you get mad, then clearly you're the kind of person who would attack a woman.

00:29:29.000 I mean, this is legitimately a witch hunt kind of thing.

00:29:31.000 This is legitimately a... If we throw you in the river and you sink, that means you were innocent.

00:29:36.000 And if you float, that means you're guilty and we burn you at the stake. 0.99

00:29:39.000 That's what this is.

00:29:39.000 If he gets mad, it's because he's guilty.

00:29:41.000 If he doesn't get mad, it's because he's insincere.

00:29:44.000 What's even worse than the Democrats, you can expect to do all this sort of nonsense, are the members of the media.

00:29:48.000 I mean, the media coverage of this was just egregious. 0.77

00:29:50.000 They are so partisan.

00:29:51.000 They are so open in their partisanship.

00:29:53.000 It is truly an astonishing, astonishing thing to watch.

00:29:56.000 And the mask is off.

00:29:57.000 I mean, you wonder why...

00:29:59.000 I hope Republican turnout is amazing in six weeks.

00:30:02.000 I hope Republican turnout is just unending.

00:30:04.000 I hope you bring all your friends to vote because these folks cannot have power.

00:30:08.000 These folks cannot be given power.

00:30:10.000 If these folks have power, they will use it to run you and your rights off the ground. 0.99

00:30:15.000 That is what they are doing here.

00:30:18.000 They were willing to destroy a man's life and family based on an unverifiable allegation.

00:30:24.000 What do you think they're willing to do to you for political gain?

00:30:27.000 What do you think they're willing to do to your rights for political gain? 0.91

00:30:29.000 This is the most cynical, partisan, disgusting hackery I've ever seen in my entire life. 0.91

00:30:33.000 It's just abysmal.

00:30:34.000 And the media, complicit in it at every step of the way, because the media have demonstrated that they are, in fact, democratic outlets.

00:30:41.000 I'm a guy who's criticized President Trump for saying that the media are fake news, but this week they proved that they were partisan hacks in objective news journalist sheep's clothing.

00:30:51.000 They showed it over and over again.

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00:31:33.000 I'm going to show you some of the media treatment of all of this.

00:31:35.000 Now, we're going to start with some of the quote-unquote objective media, and then we'll get to the non-objective media, because the non-objective media are Democrat hacks, are basically Democrat hacks, and I want to discuss their point of view.

00:31:45.000 But let's start with the folks who are supposed to be objective.

00:31:47.000 So we begin with John King of CNN.

00:31:49.000 So John King of CNN yesterday, he comes out and he says, Brett Kavanaugh went full Trump, which is the worst thing you can say about anyone on CNN.

00:31:56.000 He went full Trump.

00:31:59.000 Or alternatively, Brett Kavanaugh was legitimately defending himself against charges that he believes are false against him.

00:32:05.000 But if you're angry at any point, then you're Trumpian.

00:32:08.000 And if you're not angry, it's because you're not authentic.

00:32:11.000 Authentic emotion.

00:32:13.000 My favorite meme today was Maggie Haberman over at the New York Times.

00:32:16.000 Maggie Haberman at the New York Times tweeted something out like,

00:32:29.000 Really?

00:32:29.000 I remember someone named Hillary Clinton who went in front of the Senate committee on Benghazi and said that she didn't really matter, right?

00:32:38.000 What difference does it make how things went down in Benghazi?

00:32:40.000 What difference does it make why the protests happened in the first place?

00:32:43.000 Yelling at senators, being as militant and nasty as humanly possible, and the Democrats cheered her. 0.73

00:32:48.000 Still, she persisted. 0.98

00:32:51.000 It's just nonsense.

00:32:52.000 But here's John King doing the same routine.

00:32:54.000 Brett Kavanaugh is obviously just like Donald Trump.

00:32:56.000 The implication being, of course, that he's just as guilty as Donald Trump on matters sexual.

00:33:00.000 Brett Kavanaugh went full Trump today.

00:33:02.000 Does that appeal to them or does it repulse them?

00:33:05.000 Because they don't like Trump.

00:33:06.000 Of those four key senators, they are repulsed not only by this president, by how he conducts himself, by his history.

00:33:13.000 So does Kavanaugh's embrace of Trump help him? 0.95

00:33:17.000 Just insane.

00:33:19.000 John Bresnahan of Politico, a supposedly objective journalist over at Politico, he tweets out, this indignant, angry attitude is not good for Kavanaugh.

00:33:27.000 Really?

00:33:27.000 Isn't it?

00:33:28.000 And then we had the Washington, Brian Stelter, right?

00:33:31.000 A supposedly objective journalist on CNN.

00:33:33.000 He quotes a piece from the Washington Post.

00:33:35.000 Today in America, this was men against women, right against left, a cascade of recrimination, explosions of anger, hours of tears and sobs.

00:33:41.000 Was it men against women?

00:33:43.000 Or is that the narrative the media wants to portray?

00:33:45.000 My producer, Senya, turns out she is a woman. 0.97

00:33:48.000 Okay?

00:33:49.000 And my producer, Senya, was miffed yesterday.

00:33:52.000 I mean, angry yesterday over the treatment of Brett Kavanaugh.

00:33:55.000 And, honestly, I've rarely seen so many Republican women angry at the treatment of anyone. 0.76

00:33:59.000 We have a lot of women who work in this office. 1.00

00:34:01.000 A lot of women who work in this office. 1.00

00:34:03.000 They were glued to the screen and they were indignant at the way Brett Kavanaugh was treated yesterday.

00:34:07.000 Because it turns out a lot of these women have husbands, have sons. 0.99

00:34:10.000 A lot of them are looking at the way men are being treated by the militant feminists and the radical members of the Me Too movement.

00:34:17.000 And they're saying, I can't live in a country like this.

00:34:20.000 I want people protected.

00:34:21.000 Yes, I like men and I want men protected too. 0.99

00:34:23.000 They are still American citizens, even if they have penises. 0.98

00:34:26.000 It turns out there are a lot of women who still believe in due process and the rights of the accused. 0.98

00:34:31.000 There's still a lot of women who don't like to watch partisan hackery substituted for any sort of knowledge. 1.00

00:34:37.000 It's just, it's an amazing thing.

00:34:39.000 The Washington Post had this headline, Kavanaugh's sexual assault hearing turns partisan as Republican senators lash out at treatment of Supreme Court nominee.

00:34:46.000 It wasn't partisan before that.

00:34:48.000 It wasn't partisan when Dianne Feinstein held up an actual accusation of alleged rape back in 1982. 0.63

00:34:55.000 For six weeks, for her own purposes, now it's partisan.

00:34:58.000 Only now it got partisan.

00:34:59.000 You know, this is the famous Republicans pounce meme that you see from the media all the time.

00:35:03.000 Every time Democrats do something bad, when Republicans respond, it's Republicans pounce.

00:35:08.000 And NBC News tweeted this.

00:35:10.000 This was their headline.

00:35:11.000 How is that even a headline?

00:35:17.000 30 million people watched the hearing yesterday.

00:35:19.000 Everyone dedicated blanket coverage to Ford Hearing.

00:35:22.000 I, for example, was watching some of the coverage on MSNBC.

00:35:26.000 It turns out everyone dedicated blanket coverage to the Ford Hearing.

00:35:29.000 These are the objective news media. 0.97

00:35:31.000 And then we get to the complete fools in the quote-unquote non-objective news media. 0.97

00:35:35.000 There's people like Luke Russert. 0.99

00:35:38.000 Luke Russert tweeted this out. 0.95

00:35:40.000 So he tweeted out, Oh boy, Kavanaugh is going full angry, belittled, marginalized white man. 0.94

00:35:45.000 Tough sell for today. 0.98

00:35:47.000 Or alternatively, he believes he was falsely accused of an attempted rape and he was mad about it. 0.84

00:35:53.000 But no, he's white, so he can't talk. 0.99

00:35:54.000 He's a man, so he can't talk.

00:35:56.000 Basically, he's supposed to sit there and take all this.

00:35:58.000 I can't wait to show you what Jennifer Rubin had to say.

00:36:00.000 We'll get to that in just a second.

00:36:02.000 So Jennifer Rubin.

00:36:03.000 is the quote-unquote conservative columnist over at the Washington Post, which is just absurd.

00:36:07.000 I think they recently finally changed that because it is obvious that Jennifer Rubin is the hack of all hacks.

00:36:12.000 If you go back and look at what she wrote about Mitt Romney in 2012 versus what she has written about Mitt Romney today, she's reversed herself on virtually every position because Trump legitimately drove her out of her mind.

00:36:22.000 And she proved that with this tweet yesterday.

00:36:24.000 Quote, with him screaming and interrupting senators, I could imagine him putting his hand over someone's mouth. 0.99

00:36:31.000 Yes, you see, he was mean to senators calling him a rapist, and that means that you can imagine him putting his hand over a woman's mouth while attempting to rape her. 0.78

00:36:40.000 Well, weird, because after reading that tweet, I can imagine Jennifer Rubin ranting in an insane asylum as someone tries to catch her with a butterfly net as she runs around in a straitjacket. 0.96

00:36:48.000 Doesn't take much of a leap for me to get there, actually.

00:36:52.000 But this was the entire shtick up and down yesterday, over and over yesterday.

00:36:58.000 And then you finally get to the real nub of the matter.

00:36:59.000 And the nub of the matter, I think, was brought forth by Stephen Colbert.

00:37:02.000 So Stephen Colbert.

00:37:04.000 Has given up comedy.

00:37:05.000 Now he just does unfunny political commentary.

00:37:08.000 I am a political commentator who is, at moments, funny.

00:37:12.000 Stephen Colbert basically is now in my lane.

00:37:15.000 He used to be a comedian who was sometimes political.

00:37:17.000 Now he's a political commentator who's occasionally funny.

00:37:19.000 Here he was yesterday being completely unfunny about the Kavanaugh hearings, but spilling the beans on what the real agenda here is for Democrats.

00:37:26.000 And the wind was sown when Donald Trump had 19 credible allegations of sexual assault against him, bragged about sexual assault on tape, and your Republican buddies up on that committee said, yeah, but we want our guy on the Supreme Court.

00:37:42.000 And that's you, Brett.

00:37:44.000 That doesn't mean you're guilty, but please save your indignation that finally someone is taking one woman's accusation of sexual assault serious.

00:37:54.000 Okay, so I mean, that's an amazing statement.

00:37:56.000 So Brett Kavanaugh has no right to be outraged.

00:37:59.000 None.

00:38:00.000 No right to be outraged because people didn't take the allegations against Trump seriously.

00:38:05.000 So in other words, Republicans voted for Trump despite the allegations.

00:38:09.000 That means that if we leverage completely baseless charges, evidence-free charges except for the allegation itself,

00:38:15.000 If we leverage those allegations against Kavanaugh, he has no right to be mad.

00:38:18.000 Because Republicans weren't mad when actual charges were leveraged against Trump.

00:38:25.000 You understand?

00:38:25.000 So Trump was guilty, therefore Kavanaugh shouldn't be mad that he's being railroaded.

00:38:29.000 What in the f- How is that- How is that even remotely logical?

00:38:33.000 It isn't.

00:38:34.000 And he got cheers for it.

00:38:35.000 He got cheers for it.

00:38:36.000 All this is a petty revenge play.

00:38:38.000 People are angry that Trump is president.

00:38:39.000 People are angry that Merrick Garland isn't on the court.

00:38:41.000 People are angry that there will be five Republican people who- Republican appointed conservatives on the court.

00:38:47.000 They're upset about that.

00:38:48.000 And therefore, they are fine with anything that gets thrown at these guys.

00:38:51.000 Anything.

00:38:53.000 This is a show trial.

00:38:55.000 This is a Dreyfus Affair type thing.

00:38:57.000 For folks who don't know the Dreyfus Affair, back in 1892, France, there was an attempt by French nationalists to railroad a member of the French military named Alfred Dreyfus, a Jew.

00:39:06.000 It was an anti-Semitic attempt to suggest that he was funneling documents to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

00:39:11.000 He was not, but it turned into a cause celeb anyway.

00:39:16.000 Political purposes infect, infect situations like this.

00:39:20.000 And it is obvious that for Democrats, it has infected situations like this.

00:39:25.000 It's just, it's maddening.

00:39:26.000 It's maddening.

00:39:27.000 And that's why Republicans are saying, just vote on this thing.

00:39:29.000 You know what?

00:39:29.000 Done.

00:39:29.000 Let's vote on this.

00:39:30.000 Let's be done with this.

00:39:31.000 I'm sick of it.

00:39:32.000 It doesn't matter what you do.

00:39:33.000 You can have an FBI hearing tomorrow.

00:39:34.000 Everybody could testify to exactly the same thing they have already testified to.

00:39:38.000 Everybody could already come forward and say that Kavanaugh is completely innocent.

00:39:41.000 We can do all of that.

00:39:42.000 Any of it and all of it we can do. 0.62

00:39:44.000 And it wouldn't matter one damn for these Democrats. 0.60

00:39:47.000 Wouldn't matter one 0.97

00:39:49.000 One iota, one atom for these Democrats.

00:39:52.000 Nothing.

00:39:53.000 They would not care.

00:39:54.000 All this is about is petty revenge, and if they have to tear down a man based on a bunch of fraudulent allegations and a credible allegation with no corroborative evidence, they will do it.

00:40:03.000 They will do it, and they will do it to anyone.

00:40:06.000 If they'll do it to Brett Kavanaugh, they'll do it to you.

00:40:08.000 They'll do it to me.

00:40:09.000 They will do it to anyone.

00:40:12.000 It's amazing.

00:40:12.000 There are so many people out there who are saying, we need a new unity in this country.

00:40:16.000 You can't have unity when you don't have basic agreement on standards of due process.

00:40:19.000 I mean, these are the basics of Western civilization.

00:40:21.000 And we are seeing them thrown out in favor of sheer partisan brutality on the part of the left.

00:40:27.000 I've ripped it when I've seen it from the right.

00:40:29.000 I ripped it when I saw the associations with the alt-right of the Trump campaign.

00:40:33.000 And I will rip it when I see it from the left.

00:40:35.000 And today what you're seeing is the mainstream Democratic Party embracing their worst instincts, embracing the worst angels of their nature, the devils of their nature, in order to get what they want. 0.88

00:40:45.000 And it is disgusting and awe-inspiring to watch. 0.82

00:40:49.000 It is, it is just incredible.

00:40:52.000 No wonder so many people are angry.

00:40:53.000 Vote on Kavanaugh, put him on the Supreme Court, and let's be done with this sham.

00:40:56.000 Let's do it now.

00:40:58.000 Alrighty.

00:40:58.000 So, we'll do a few questions from the mailbag, since we sort of ran out of time on the mailbag, but we'll do a few questions for our subscribers anyway.

00:41:05.000 So, Alexander asks, Shalom, is the intellectual dark web, you, Rogan, Rubin, Harris, Hoffsommers, Brothers, Weinstein, sufficient to develop a well-rounded worldview?

00:41:13.000 Thanks for everything you do.

00:41:33.000 You know, this is an interesting question because there are a bunch of people on the intellectual dark web, particularly Sam Harris and Eric Weinstein, who disagree with me sharply on Kavanaugh.

00:41:41.000 I actually had an exchange with Sam Harris on Twitter yesterday about Kavanaugh.

00:41:45.000 What the intellectual dark web is good for is the idea that we can actually have conversations about difficult topics, but it does not mean we agree on things.

00:41:52.000 It does not mean we agree on things.

00:41:54.000 Not by a long shot.

00:41:54.000 I have significant disagreements with Sam Harris.

00:41:57.000 I have significant disagreements with Eric Weinstein.

00:41:59.000 That's fine.

00:41:59.000 All of that is good.

00:42:01.000 All of that is okay.

00:42:02.000 The purpose of the Intellectual Dark Web is to provide a forum for well-reasoned and argued conversations, and that, I think, is useful.

00:42:09.000 Does that mean that partisan differences go away?

00:42:11.000 No.

00:42:11.000 But the difference between the partisans of the IDW, I hope, and people who are outside the IDW is that people inside the IDW are trying not to make intellectually incoherent arguments.

00:42:21.000 With that said, if you're looking for a coherent worldview from the IDW, I don't think that's... I think that's asking too much.

00:42:27.000 I don't think that's what this is.

00:42:28.000 I think that the dark web is like any other forum.

00:42:31.000 I think it is more of a forum with a few values in common, like belief in free speech and a huge variety of differences on matter substantive.

00:42:39.000 And I think people ought to keep that in mind.

00:42:41.000 It's not like we all get together and we agree on everything or even close to it.

00:42:45.000 Nicole says, Please enlighten me as to how you keep your emotions in check during this despicable circus.

00:42:49.000 My blood is boiling, but I try to stay quiet because I know if I speak up, I will probably blow with anger.

00:42:53.000 Thank you, Nicole.

00:42:53.000 Listen, I'm having a tough time.

00:42:55.000 I'll be honest with you.

00:42:55.000 I mean, this is the most emotional I've felt about politics in a long time.

00:42:59.000 And that is just because it is exactly as you call it, a despicable circus.

00:43:04.000 I think that

00:43:05.000 Keeping your emotions in check is mostly a matter of being at a remove.

00:43:10.000 It's harder to be at a remove when you watch people make not only intellectually incoherent arguments, but morally despicable arguments.

00:43:17.000 Jill Filipovich, divorce your Republican husband. 1.00

00:43:22.000 Honestly, gentlemen, don't marry radical feminists in the first place. 0.99

00:43:26.000 That is the proper response to that.

00:43:28.000 I mean, how do you keep your emotions in check?

00:43:30.000 That's why, listen, I'm a human being just like anybody else.

00:43:34.000 I try to present as many facts as I can.

00:43:36.000 I hope that those facts are convincing to you.

00:43:38.000 I'm not going to pretend I don't get emotional about subjects, but I hope that those emotions are not dispositive because I don't think that emotions should be dispositive.

00:43:45.000 Yeah, I know.

00:43:47.000 I got a lot of play off of that story about my wife losing her phone.

00:43:52.000 That is definitely one of them.

00:43:55.000 The truth is that most pet peeves are my own fault, I think.

00:43:59.000 It's mostly stuff where I have expectations of people and the expectations are unjustified.

00:44:04.000 My wife losing her phone is probably the biggest one. 0.57

00:44:07.000 Honestly, I'm trying to think of other pet peeves.

00:44:10.000 I mean, obviously, like they're moral pet peeves that I've just pet peeves with politics in general.

00:44:13.000 I have pet peeves with Twitter.

00:44:14.000 I have pet peeves with social media.

00:44:17.000 But in terms of kind of interpersonal relations, OK, so a couple of them.

00:44:22.000 When people say, can I just have a minute of your time and I'm in the middle of work, that's a pet peeve, because the answer is no, you can't, because it's not actually a minute.

00:44:28.000 It's more like 15.

00:44:29.000 I've said this before.

00:44:30.000 It takes me seven minutes to get out of what I'm doing.

00:44:32.000 Seven minutes to get back into what I'm doing.

00:44:34.000 And it's a problem.

00:44:36.000 So that one is not great.

00:44:37.000 The, let's see, other ones, interpersonally, if I, so there are times where I will ask my wife, I need like 15 minutes to do something. 1.00

00:44:48.000 Can you watch the kids?

00:44:50.000 And she'll be doing her best and she'll be watching one and then my two and a half year old son comes busting through the door.

00:44:54.000 Now Colton is sitting in the room.

00:44:55.000 Colton has seen my two and a half year old son. 0.86

00:44:57.000 My two and a half year old son is a nut. 0.84

00:44:59.000 Okay, my two-and-a-half-year-old son, he's the most charming, beautiful, wonderful kid, and he is totally crazy. 1.00

00:45:04.000 He is totally a crazy person.

00:45:05.000 Colton was on a flight from Sacramento to L.A. 0.70

00:45:08.000 with me and my two kids and my wife, because we just ended up on the same flight, back the other day. 0.99

00:45:13.000 And he watched as my son lost his bleep for a full 35 minutes on the descent into Los Angeles because he wouldn't sit his little ass down in the buckle. 0.98

00:45:22.000 He just wouldn't. 0.93

00:45:23.000 He stood up, he was trying to stand because he was obsessed with the lights above the seats, and he actually would take down the tray table, and then he would stand on the tray table, and then hit all the buttons, and then he'd get mad if you took him down, and he would scream like a banshee, and my wife would try to appease him by giving him chocolate.

00:45:41.000 So now he's covered in chocolate, and he's got his hands all full of chocolate, and he's

00:45:46.000 Struggling against me. 0.98

00:45:47.000 And this little sucker's strong, and he's like a ball of muscle. 0.98

00:45:50.000 And you're trying to muscle him into his seat as he is screaming so that he doesn't... And I'm like, kid! 1.00

00:45:55.000 You're gonna... Like, if we crash, you're gonna die.

00:45:57.000 Like, just sit down! 0.99

00:45:58.000 Just sit down!

00:45:59.000 You can't reason with a two-and-a-half-year-old.

00:46:00.000 In any case, sometimes my wife loses containment of the children. 0.87

00:46:04.000 The quarantine ends, and I'm sitting in the library working, and suddenly the kid busts through the door and just jumps on my back.

00:46:09.000 And it's too cute for my wife to do anything about it, but I actually need her to do something about it, and it doesn't happen. 1.00

00:46:13.000 So that is a pet peeve, but...

00:46:15.000 That's honestly not her fault.

00:46:17.000 It happens sometimes.

00:46:18.000 Again, most disappointments and pet peeves come from you having expectations of other people that are unfulfilled.

00:46:23.000 One solution is to not have expectations of other people that are unjustified.

00:46:26.000 No, they'll murder her. 0.99

00:46:28.000 They'll murder her. 1.00

00:46:38.000 They will send her to the murder hole. 1.00

00:46:40.000 That's what will happen. 0.90

00:46:41.000 Everybody knew this going in.

00:46:42.000 Which is why I said he should nominate a Coney Barrett.

00:46:44.000 She was the most right-wing choice that I could see. 0.95

00:46:46.000 The most constitutionalist choice that I could see.

00:46:48.000 And I wanted to see them attack a woman for her Catholic beliefs. 0.99

00:46:51.000 A mother of seven who sits on a federal circuit court.

00:46:53.000 I thought that would have been a lot better optics.

00:46:55.000 That said, should Kavanaugh be seated?

00:46:57.000 Of course he should be seated.

00:46:58.000 It's hard not to feel like the timeline is sped up, right?

00:47:01.000 I mean, it looks like now, like, would you be surprised if tomorrow a senator gets shot in the Dirksen building?

00:47:13.000 Would that be completely surprising to you in the aftermath of all these protesters who are showing up and screaming at people and getting in their face and throwing Ted Cruz out of restaurants?

00:47:20.000 Would it be totally shocking?

00:47:21.000 I mean, we had baseball.

00:47:22.000 We had a bunch of Congress people shot last year.

00:47:25.000 Would it be all that shocking if somebody shot a senator?

00:47:30.000 Or tried to take a pot shot at President Trump?

00:47:32.000 Would that be completely shocking?

00:47:33.000 I don't think so.

00:47:34.000 The real question is whether there are massive leftists who are actually willing to get violent.

00:47:37.000 Like a real massive leftist willing to get violent.

00:47:40.000 My inclination so far is no, that it's a lot of talk.

00:47:42.000 But that sort of thing can change over time.

00:47:45.000 And it can certainly change from the other point of view.

00:47:47.000 If Democrats ever get in charge of power and they start trying to, say, take away guns in Texas, things could get violent very quickly in this country.

00:47:53.000 If they start telling religious people that religious people have to shut down their schools, shut down their churches because they won't abide by social strictures promulgated by the left, things could get really bad really fast.

00:48:02.000 So, yeah, I mean, it's hard not to watch this week and feel like we're five seconds from chaos.

00:48:07.000 Not really.

00:48:07.000 I mean, I don't know what a more thorough investigation looks like.

00:48:10.000 He's had six FBI background checks at this point.

00:48:13.000 All the people who have been questioned have been questioned.

00:48:16.000 I don't mind a more thorough investigation, but if time were not a consideration, would I have, like, significant objections to an FBI investigation?

00:48:36.000 Probably not, but it's also, at this point, a balancing act between the fact I don't think an FBI investigation is likely to do anything and the fact that the reason Democrats are calling for it is specifically so it doesn't do anything.

00:48:46.000 Okay, final question here.

00:48:47.000 Okay, here's what it would look like.

00:48:49.000 It would look like, she says there were four boys and one other girl there.

00:48:52.000 It would look like any of those four people saying this happened.

00:49:02.000 That's what corroborating evidence would look like.

00:49:04.000 It would look like somebody saying, yeah, I picked her up from a party, she was crying and hysterical.

00:49:08.000 It would look like somebody saying, I dropped her off at the party.

00:49:11.000 It would look like somebody saying, yeah, she told me about it the next day.

00:49:15.000 It was really awful.

00:49:16.000 It would look like her saying anything for 30 years.

00:49:19.000 Any shred of corroborating evidence.

00:49:21.000 I heard about a party that happened and something really went wrong and I heard Ford was there, I heard Kavanaugh was there.

00:49:24.000 Like, anything.

00:49:25.000 There is not one shred of corroborative evidence.

00:49:29.000 Nothing.

00:49:30.000 We don't even know the house where this took place.

00:49:32.000 I mean, this is...

00:49:34.000 That's what I mean by corroborative evidence.

00:49:35.000 I don't think any of those things are too much to ask, by the way.

00:49:37.000 Every single allegation made about Kavanaugh to this point, supposedly happening in public.

00:49:42.000 Right?

00:49:43.000 Supposedly happened in a public setting with other witnesses.

00:49:45.000 Not one witness has come forward and said they saw this stuff happen.

00:49:48.000 Not one.

00:49:49.000 That's kind of telling.

00:49:51.000 Alrighty, so time for a quick thing I like, and then a thing I hate, and then we will break for the weekend.

00:49:56.000 Now, I gotta warn you guys.

00:49:58.000 Next week, final Jewish holidays, I promise, I promise. 1.00

00:50:01.000 God's calendar finally coming to an end.

00:50:04.000 So, I'm off Monday and Tuesday for the last time this year.

00:50:08.000 Until Christmas break.

00:50:10.000 So just the warning now.

00:50:11.000 So listen to this episode three times, because basically, I don't know that much is going to change, except I think Kavanaugh will probably get confirmed.

00:50:17.000 But we'll be back here next Wednesday.

00:50:19.000 But let's do some things I like and some things... Oh yeah, and also, you can check out what I think on Sunday, because we're doing the Ben Shapiro election special on Fox News.

00:50:27.000 So if you miss me that much, we have a Sunday special on Sunday and the Ben Shapiro election special on Sunday on Fox News.

00:50:32.000 So you won't miss me that much.

00:50:33.000 I'll only be gone for a couple of days.

00:50:34.000 But let's do a thing I like and a thing that I hate.

00:50:36.000 So here's the thing that I like today.

00:50:38.000 It's not a great movie, but it's a fun movie.

00:50:43.000 The movie is Sensible Woman with Al Pacino.

00:50:45.000 It is Al Pacino at his Pacino-iest.

00:50:49.000 So Al Pacino started off as a good actor, and then he just became Al Pacino.

00:50:52.000 So if you watch him in The Godfather, he's actually subtle.

00:50:54.000 And then about halfway through his career, he was like, you know what?

00:50:56.000 Screw subtle.

00:50:57.000 This is just not a thing I'm interested in.

00:50:59.000 It happens with a lot of actors where they fall in love with the actor-iness of them.

00:51:03.000 Or suddenly they turn into John Lovitz.

00:51:04.000 Acting!

00:51:06.000 And Al Pacino definitely does that. 0.87

00:51:07.000 He won an Oscar for this, which is kind of ridiculous.

00:51:10.000 But the movie itself is kind of fun. 0.99

00:51:12.000 It's really stupid, but it's kind of fun. 0.97

00:51:14.000 The basic premise is that Chris O'Donnell plays a kid in a prep school and a couple of his classmates play a prank on the headmaster. 0.99

00:51:20.000 And he's asked about it.

00:51:21.000 He won't rat on them.

00:51:22.000 And he is tasked with driving around this blind general. 0.98

00:51:27.000 to kind of his final wishes before this blind general is going to commit suicide. 0.95

00:51:31.000 That's basically the plot of the movie.

00:51:34.000 And there's only one scene that comes to mind this week, and that is there's a scene near the end of the movie where Al Pacino is testifying on behalf of this kid.

00:51:41.000 They basically have a hearing into the prank, and Al Pacino basically goes off on the school, and it's pretty reminiscent of kind of what happened in court yesterday in the Judiciary Committee with Kavanaugh.

00:51:51.000 Anyway, here's a little bit of the preview.

00:51:53.000 Hi, Mrs. Rossi.

00:51:54.000 I'm here about the weekend job.

00:51:56.000 Come on in.

00:51:59.000 They put him in a veteran's home, but he hated it.

00:52:02.000 Colonel's a gentleman.

00:52:03.000 A real hero.

00:52:04.000 This is some guy. 0.95

00:52:05.000 Down deep, the man is a lump of sugar. 1.00

00:52:08.000 Get in here, you idiot! 1.00

00:52:10.000 What do you want? 1.00

00:52:13.000 You mean what I want?

00:52:14.000 What do you want here?

00:52:16.000 I want... I want a job.

00:52:21.000 A job?

00:52:23.000 I promise an easy sandwich.

00:52:25.000 Al Pacino-y Al Pacino.

00:52:27.000 The movie is fun, it's worth watching.

00:52:28.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate, because I hate everything this week.

00:52:37.000 Hillary Clinton is irrelevant. 0.83

00:52:40.000 No one cares about her. 0.84

00:52:41.000 She was a terrible candidate. 0.91

00:52:44.000 She is not a good human, in my opinion. 0.97

00:52:46.000 And Hillary Clinton is being brought back by the folks at NBC for a cameo on a show that never should have been remade.

00:52:53.000 Namely, is this on CBS or NBC?

00:52:55.000 It's CBS.

00:52:56.000 CBS.

00:52:57.000 The show is Murphy Brown.

00:52:58.000 I don't know why we are bringing back Murphy Brown.

00:53:01.000 We've run out of all ideas.

00:53:02.000 So Candace Bergen, who is now approximately 97 years old, is back in the starring role as Murphy Brown, when in reality, this would never happen, because let's be real about the news industry and CBS and NBC.

00:53:13.000 They'd fire every woman at 60, except for Barbara Walters. 1.00

00:53:15.000 I mean, this is... First problem, I'm having a tough time with the believability.

00:53:21.000 In any case, Murphy Brown is there, and suddenly, Hillary Clinton shows up to interview as her secretary.

00:53:28.000 This is maybe the most spine-chillingly boring segment of television you have ever seen.

00:53:35.000 And it reminds you why Hillary Clinton is not president, because my God, woman, as somebody who has no capacity to act, I mean, I'm an awful actor.

00:53:44.000 It's a joke around the office.

00:53:46.000 Every time we cut a promo, every time we do a bit, we have to cut around me.

00:53:51.000 I'm like a child actor.

00:53:52.000 We take like seven takes of me, and then we cut it in, so that, oh, look, it's a reaction shot.

00:53:58.000 It really is that bad. 0.88

00:53:59.000 I'm an awful, awful actor.

00:54:00.000 So I speak from experience. 0.51

00:54:01.000 Hillary Clinton makes me look like Laurence Olivier.

00:54:04.000 I mean, she is just... I'm like Daniel Day-Lewis compared to this lady. 0.94

00:54:07.000 She is just astonishingly awful.

00:54:10.000 Here she is doing... 0.94

00:54:11.000 Alleged comedy.

00:54:13.000 Alleged comedy.

00:54:14.000 With Candace Bergen and Murphy.

00:54:17.000 My goodness.

00:54:19.000 I guess you've heard this is a pretty demanding job.

00:54:22.000 I have.

00:54:22.000 Your reputation precedes you.

00:54:24.000 But I want you to know I'm not afraid of hard work.

00:54:27.000 I'm qualified and ready on day one.

00:54:31.000 And I also assume you've had previous secretarial experience?

00:54:34.000 Absolutely.

00:54:35.000 For four years I was the secretary of a very large organization.

00:54:42.000 And you have all the requisite skills, computer, email... Emails.

00:54:48.000 I do have some experience with emails.

00:54:51.000 Let me give you my card.

00:54:52.000 Thank you.

00:54:53.000 Thank you.

00:54:55.000 Hillary at youcouldahadme.com 0.59

00:55:01.000 Okay, worst cameo I have ever seen in my life.

00:55:05.000 She has no sense of timing.

00:55:07.000 It's not that the dialogue is bad, because if she actually had a sense of timing, then it might be funny.

00:55:12.000 But her sense of timing is basically she just says a line.

00:55:16.000 She's the most mechanical candidate. 1.00

00:55:18.000 She's a mechanical actor.

00:55:19.000 It reminds us why she's not president, which I'm very thankful for.

00:55:24.000 I can't say our country is in good shape, but I can still say at least she's not president, right?

00:55:28.000 I mean, aye-yi-yi. 0.98

00:55:30.000 Okay, well we will be back here on Wednesday.

00:55:33.000 Again, watch the Fox News Sunday special, our Fox News Sunday special, which is the Ben Shapiro election special on Fox.

00:55:40.000 It's at 5 p.m.

00:55:41.000 Pacific, 8 p.m.

00:55:41.000 Eastern.

00:55:43.000 Go check that out on Sunday in case you're going to miss me too much over the weekend.

00:55:47.000 Otherwise, we'll see you back here on Wednesday.

00:55:49.000 We'll see you then.

00:55:50.000 Try not to ruin things further.

00:55:51.000 I mean, God, if I come back after the holiday and the world is just on fire, well, I guess that would be like a normal Wednesday around here.

00:55:57.000 We'll be back there then.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - September 28, 2018

The Kavanaugh Comeback | Ep. 629

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