Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) is on a book tour promoting his new memoir, Conscience of a Conservative. It s an obvious play on former Sen. Barry Goldwater s (R) conscience of a conservative, which is why Democrats have been quick to praise him for his defense of President Trump. But have they been as supportive of him as they ve been of Ted Kennedy s conscience of the Senate? Or are they just as angry at him for opposing Democratic priorities as they are at Trump? Plus, a special Tisha B'Av tribute to Anthony Scaramucci, who is now out of the White House, and Ben Shapiro asks if this is all a dream or is it real? Plus, the latest on the latest in the North Korean crisis, and a call to arms from the Jewish people on the Tefillah fast. Thanks to our sponsor, MyPatriotSupply! Make sure that you are protected by your office and make sure that your family is protected too. Make sure you are prepared for something terrible that seems like it seems like a good investment, like a bad one, like something that seems terrible now. It s just $99.99 plus free shipping, which means you are now cooking up something like home cooking like a home cooked meal. . Prepare With It's Just $99 plus shipping. Ben Shapiro's Prepared With It s Just 99-141313 - The Daily Mail - Ben Shapiro is a good guy. - And I just can't wait for you to hear about it. Ben Shapiro - and I am hardest hit by it. - And that means you'll be better off than me! - My Patriot Supply is a great place to make sure you have enough food to sustain your family in case something seems like homecooked in case they run bare or they don t have enough to eat it in case it runs bare or it's not enough. - It's a good place to be safe from the elements of your day-to-prepare for a disaster. - and that means they can do it in the best way possible, right there in your office, right at home in your fridge or pantry, right in the fridge or living in the rest of your backseat or back in the backseat, or in your back yard, or your back at home, or back at your back in your kitchen, or the back yard?
00:00:00.000Senator Jeff Flake follows in the footsteps of his maverick Arizona colleague John McCain.
00:00:04.000He's never afraid to piss off Republican voters.
00:00:06.000The latest example, Flake on a book tour for his Conscience of a Conservative, an obvious play on former Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater's Conscience of a Conservative, has been ripping President Trump up and down.
00:00:27.000That unnerving silence in the face of an erratic executive branch is an abdication, and those in positions of leadership bear particular responsibility.
00:00:34.000So, has Flake earned the respect of Democrats for his willingness to go it alone?
00:00:39.000Have Democrats cheered Flake's appearance in trepidaty?
00:00:41.000Have they celebrated Flake for speaking what they perceive to be hard truths about Trump?
00:01:25.000They want Republicans not merely to criticize obvious moral failings within the party, or buck Trump on policy heresies.
00:01:31.000They want Republicans to vote for Democratic priorities in order to fight Trump.
00:01:35.000Which is pretty convenient, since they'd like Republicans to vote for Democratic priorities anyway.
00:01:39.000If Trump were to push single-payer, would they applaud Republicans for voting it down?
00:01:43.000This is one of the big reasons Trump actually won in 2016.
00:01:46.000Republicans got tired of hearing that they must hold themselves to a higher standard when any standard other than complete surrender to Democrats is insufficient to Democrats.
00:01:54.000Democrats could cheer Ted Kennedy and praise him as the conscience of the Senate.
00:01:57.000Democrats could openly state that Bill Clinton's myriad moral monstrosities were just fine and dandy so long as he protected the killing of the unborn.
00:02:04.000But Republicans are expected to condemn immoral behavior and abandon their own principles.
00:02:10.000This should be a lesson for conservatives.
00:02:15.000No matter how intellectually honest you are with regard to your own side, no matter what moral standard you hold them to, you will be castigated alongside those whose behavior you condemn if you share political priorities.
00:02:25.000That's not an excuse to toss morality out the window, but it's certainly a reminder that the leftist priority here is not a more decent country, but a more leftist one.
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00:04:36.000Okay, so, in just a few minutes we're going to be having on Dinesh D'Souza.
00:04:39.000He has a brand new book out that's already climbing the bestseller charts, The Big Lie.
00:04:42.000So we'll have him on in just a minute.
00:04:43.000But first, I would be remiss if I did not pay tribute to my favorite member of the Trump administration so far.
00:04:48.000I'm really angry at the writers on this season of Trump.
00:04:51.000I'm really upset with the writers on this season of Trump because
00:04:53.000I have to say, this season of Trump, like, if you're gonna set up the Fonz, you have to keep him around for a few seasons before you cap him.
00:04:58.000I mean, you can't have the Red Wedding unless you have three seasons of Rob.
00:05:04.000But, you know, in honor of Anthony Scaramucci, I just want to take a moment of silence, in memoriam, Anthony Scaramucci, the mooch, July 21st to 2017, July 31st to 2017, his epitaph, I'm not trying to suck my own bleep.
00:05:17.000Anthony Scaramucci, a moment of silence, folks.
00:05:22.000So, the Mooch is now out, and it's all hilarious and ridiculous.
00:05:28.000I was trying to search for ways that this was done.
00:05:30.000There were stories yesterday that the Mooch was ousted by John Kelly, who's the new chief of staff, that he came in, he was sick of the Mooch, the Mooch wanted direct access to Trump, and John Kelly basically took him out.
00:05:42.000And it looked a little bit like this from Braveheart.
00:05:44.000In this particular scene from Braveheart, you will be seeing
00:05:48.000The part of King Edward Longshanks being played by John Kelly and the part of Anthony Scaramucci being played by random advisor to the prince.
00:05:58.000It does not go well for Anthony Scaramucci.
00:06:03.000Who is this person who speaks to me as though I needed his advice?
00:06:10.000I have declared Philip my High Counselor.
00:08:28.000So, what's hilarious about all this is that the only reason that this happened is the blowback was so strong that eventually Trump felt like he had to do something.
00:08:36.000It is really funny to watch the members of the Trump administration get fired and then the various excuses that are given for their firing.
00:08:41.000So Sarah Huckabee Sanders, she's trying to explain why Scaramucci was ousted yesterday.
00:08:47.000I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you if you believe this explanation for why Anthony Scaramucci was let go.
00:08:54.000Scaramucci said that he had a direct line of communication with the President.
00:08:59.000There's been some speculation that General Kelly may try to tighten up the number of inputs that the President has.
00:09:05.000So was it something about the chain of command, or did it have anything to do with that interview with Scaramucci?
00:09:11.000Look, the President certainly felt that Anthony's comments
00:09:54.000So, you can say that they wanted to bring in Kelly, Kelly wanted a fresh start, and Kelly wanted the guy out because of all of this, but to say that Trump was just offended by his language, I mean, honest to goodness, Trump being offended by his language, that's, that's like saying that George Carlin was offended by his language.
00:10:09.000That's just, no, no, that's just, that's just silly.
00:10:12.000By the way, it's good, in my view, for the administration that Scaramucci is gone.
00:10:18.000Buchanan's a fan of the administration.
00:10:19.000He says that he's glad that they got rid of Scaramucci.
00:10:21.000What happened was the General came in, General Kelly, and he basically was ruined by what Scaramucci said and the way he said it and what he said about his colleagues.
00:10:32.000This is not the kind of operation or individual that the General wants in his operation.
00:10:37.000And he exercised immediate and swift and decisive command and got rid of an individual.
00:10:43.000And it sends a message, I think, out to the country that you have a man in charge who is the Chief of Staff.
00:10:51.000Who does decide on people who are even those close to the President of the United States?
00:10:55.000Right, okay, so this is the new pivot, right?
00:10:57.000Kelly is the new pivot, and Kelly offing Scaramucci is the way that Trump is now going to reestablish control over his administration.
00:11:04.000So I'm going to talk about the ramifications of that in a little bit, because I wonder whether it's true or not, and what Trump is going to actually have to do.
00:11:12.000But before we do any of that, I first want to bring on a friend of the program, obviously best-selling author, the creator of some of the most successful documentaries in American history, author of the number one New York Times bestseller, Hillary's America, and now author of the brand new book, The Big Lie, exposing the Nazi roots of the American left, Dinesh D'Souza.
00:11:29.000Dinesh, thanks so much for joining the show.
00:11:33.000So I just want to jump right into the book, because I think that there's a lot of material in there that's vital for people to know.
00:11:39.000The left is constantly suggesting that folks on the right are Nazis, and we've seen them use this as an excuse for punching people.
00:11:44.000We've seen them use this as an excuse for opposing politicians they don't like.
00:11:47.000But essentially, you make the contention in your book, The Big Lie Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left, that the American left is significantly more tied to Nazism, to National Socialism, than the American right.
00:12:34.000Now, if we go and watch these Antifa guys, the so-called anti-fascists, they wear costumes, they wear masks and hoods, they carry weapons, they not only block people and burn things and use violence,
00:13:01.000This sounds a lot like Hitler's brown shirts or Mussolini's black shirts, with the only difference being that the old fascists admitted who they were, and the new fascists are posing as anti-fascists.
00:13:13.000Dinesh, some of what seems to me to be the problem in terms of the political lexicon is that European politics and American politics are completely dissimilar.
00:13:20.000And so the Nazis may have been right-wing in comparison to the communists, but that doesn't mean that they're right-wing in comparison to American conservatives.
00:13:27.000They're far left in comparison to American conservatives.
00:13:30.000And you would see members of the conservative parties in Germany, people like von Papen,
00:13:35.000People like Hindenburg, all these members of the so-called conservative parties in Germany who were largely in favor of big government opposing the communists and supporting Hitler's regime.
00:13:45.000And so a lot of people have translated that over to say, okay, well, American conservatism and German conservatism circa 1932 are exactly the same.
00:13:51.000But as you make clear in the book, that's not really the case at all.
00:13:55.000Yeah, I think we have to back up a little further because the first fascist regime in the world was not Hitler, it was Mussolini.
00:14:02.000Mussolini, in a sense, was the founder of fascism as a political phenomenon.
00:14:07.000Mussolini was a lifelong Marxist, he was a socialist, and his fascism grew out of that.
00:14:14.000In other words, Mussolini saw that the prophecies of Marx were not coming true.
00:14:19.000And he thought that part of the reason for that is that people's loyalty wasn't just based on class, it was also based on their love of nation.
00:14:27.000And so Mussolini began to marry the concepts of nationalism with socialism, creating, if you will, National Socialism.
00:14:34.000Later, of course, Hitler called himself a National Socialist.
00:14:38.000Now, what's remarkable is that now, when we look back at all that, the left has performed a kind of sleight of hand.
00:14:44.000They've taken the socialism out of national socialism.
00:14:47.000They've forgotten that these phenomena were on the left, and they've sort of moved them into the right-wing column, where they can conveniently use it to bash Republicans, conservatives, and Christians.
00:14:58.000Now, Dinesh, in your book, The Big Lie, obviously the big question the Democrats are going to be asking is a question they asked to Jonah Goldberg when liberal fascism came out, which is, are you really suggesting that today's Democratic Party are genocidal monsters who want to commit holocaust?
00:15:10.000Because there is this sort of rule on the internet, Godwin's Law, that whoever invokes the Nazis first loses the argument.
00:15:16.000Now, there's no question the left has invoked the Nazis first.
00:15:18.000I mean, they keep saying that Donald Trump
00:15:20.000Is some sort of Hitlerian proto-fascist, but you know the the question is going to be when you say that the the Nazi roots of the American left exist Are you suggesting that the left is okay with the Holocaust?
00:15:31.000Are you suggesting that the modern left would be okay with the Holocaust?
00:15:56.000Let's remember that that's not how fascism was perceived in Italy in the 20s or in Germany in the 30s.
00:16:03.000And so part of what I try to do is recover that original meaning of fascism and of Nazism.
00:16:10.000Even the left, when they say that Trump is a Nazi, they're not saying that Trump has started a world war and killed six million Jews.
00:16:16.000What they're saying is that Trump resembles Hitler circa 1933.
00:16:21.000In other words, Hitler was a demagogue who promised the restoration of Germany.
00:16:24.000Trump is promising to make America great again.
00:16:27.000We're really arguing about fascism in its sort of original or germinal phase.
00:16:33.000Now, what I'm saying is that there is a whole history of progressivism and of the Democratic Party being in bed with fascism and even early Nazism that was covered up after World War II, and I bring all that secret history to light in the book.
00:16:47.000And the book, again, is The Big Lie, Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left.
00:16:51.000Dinesh, last question for you, because I know that you have a really busy schedule today.
00:16:56.000So what do you hope to accomplish with the book?
00:16:57.000Because obviously the left is going to claim that you're just trying to pander to the base and that you're trying to sell books by
00:17:02.000By using inflammatory language, but what's your goal here?
00:17:06.000Well, my goal in Hillary's America, the previous book and movie, was to take away the race card from the left, which I felt that they were playing illegitimately against people, us, who are not racist.
00:17:17.000And here I want to take away the fascism card, and not just take it away, but expose a whole facet of American history that has, you may say, been swept under the rug.
00:17:27.000I think if people recognize that fascism is truly a phenomenon of the left and not of the right, my book will have done its work.
00:17:33.000The book, again, is The Big Lie, Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left.
00:17:51.000Before we go any further, I want to discuss the ramifications of the Scaramucci ouster and what's going to happen next with Kelly, and I want to give you the recap on the debate that I did with Cenk Uygur on Sunday, as well as I want to talk about a couple of major stories that are breaking inside the Trump administration.
00:18:06.000Plus, I want to analyze that it's Tisha B'Av, right?
00:18:08.000It's the most tragic day on the Jewish calendar.
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00:21:09.000If that is your job, you are in a catch-22.
00:21:11.000Because if you actually solidify Trump, if you actually get Trump to calm down, if you get him to stop tweeting stupid crap and attacking his Attorney General, if you get him to start pursuing legislation instead of saying random things, then one of two things is going to happen.
00:21:26.000Either Trump is going to settle down, ha ha ha, or you're going to be covered in the media as the guy who got Trump to settle down.
00:23:45.000If Ivanka and Jared decide to walk in the Oval Office, John Kelly is not going to be able to stop them and Trump is not going to stop them.
00:23:50.000So I think that it's important to recognize that when there are gaps in policy, not everything is going to go smoothly.
00:23:55.000So we should just keep that in mind before we start celebrating and thinking that all the chaos is past.
00:24:00.000Okay, meanwhile, some of the chaos, I hope, is passed, because there's another story that came out yesterday that is completely wild from CNN.
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00:24:46.000I will have a chance to watch it a little bit later.
00:25:59.000A self-described email prankster in the UK fooled a number of White House officials into thinking he was other officials, including an episode where he convinced the White House official tasked with cybersecurity that he was Jared Kushner and received that official's private email address unsolicited.
00:26:14.000Tom, we are arranging a bit of a soiree toward the end of August.
00:26:16.000Fake Jared Kushner wrote on an Outlook account to the official White House email address of Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossert, it would be great if you could make it.
00:26:24.000I promise food of at least comparable quality to which we ate in Iraq.
00:26:27.000Bossert wrote back, thanks Jared, with a promise like that I can't refuse.
00:26:30.000Also, if you ever need it, my personal email is... and then he gave his personal email.
00:26:35.000The best thing, however, is that he pretended to be Sean Spicer in an email exchange with Anthony Scaramucci.
00:26:41.000And this is just impressively incredible.
00:26:44.000Masquerading as Ryan's prebis, the prankster emailed Scaramucci's official account using a mail.com account on Saturday, the day after Prebis's resignation was announced.
00:26:56.000Quote, I promised myself I would leave my hands mud-free, wrote fake Prebis, but after reading your tweet today, which stated, how soon we will learn who in the media has class and who hasn't, has pushed me to this.
00:27:06.000That tweet was breathtakingly hypocritical, even for you.
00:27:09.000And then Scaramucci, very real Scaramucci, replied, you know what you did.
00:27:34.000Also, he pretended to be the ambassador to Russia designate John Huntsman, and he wrote to Scaramucci, whose head should roll first, meaning Bannon or Priebus.
00:27:44.000And real Scaramucci wrote back both of them.
00:27:48.000This is all written to just a prankster who used their public government email address and wrote to them pretending to be another government official.
00:28:08.000Also worth noting, when the head of cyber security is handing out his personal email address, I seem to remember, this is not a good idea, I seem to remember like a three year long scandal because a particular lady who ran in the Democratic Party was using a private email address and private email server for political business.
00:28:41.000You don't know who to trust in this sort of thing, the lawsuits all the time.
00:28:44.000But now there is a lawsuit that is suggesting, the plaintiff is Rod Wheeler, who's a Fox News contributor, former homicide investigator, and he is now claiming that President Trump himself worked with Fox News and a wealthy Republican donor to push the Seth Rich murder story.
00:28:59.000I hope that isn't true, because if so, that's really gross.
00:29:01.000But we'll give you more information if more information breaks on that score.
00:29:05.000Okay, so, for those of you who weren't able to actually come out to my debate with Cenk Uygur, I thought it was a great event.
00:29:21.000In the past, debates including Cenk have really been Cenk's army outnumbering whoever the conservative is.
00:29:27.000People like Dinesh, people like Ann Coulter.
00:29:29.000But I thought the debate was actually really substantive.
00:29:31.000I was not expecting it to be substantive.
00:29:32.000To be completely honest with you, I was expecting it to look a lot more like Cenk's debate with Ann or Dinesh, where it turned into a slap fight, where it was really Cenk taking some piece that
00:29:44.000Someone wrote ten years ago, using it out of context, and then turning to the crowd and calling them racist.
00:30:21.000Uh, the- the problem with Keynesian economics is that it doesn't even work in theory because, again, once you go to the logical extreme, which is remove all of the money from the rich people who are saving all their money and give it to all the poor people to buy hamburgers, that doesn't help the economy or spur the economy.
00:30:34.000What spurs the economy is a higher level- What?
00:30:41.000What spurs the economy is the creation of new products and services, and that is only going to be done by people who have expendable capital to actually invest in the new products and services that we all enjoy.
00:30:56.000It's also worth noting that this myth that spending is inherently better for an economy than saving, that's only true if you're talking about somebody who's actually taking the cash and just shoving it into their mattress.
00:31:07.000When they take the money in, they don't just stick it in Al Gore's fake lockbox, they actually lend the money back out to people to actually create new businesses and new products.
00:31:43.000The basic name trickle-down economics is not something that any conservative even proposed.
00:31:47.000It's a leftist revision of what economics actually is, because you're not giving me the money.
00:31:52.000It was my money in the first place, created through voluntary transactions that I had with others.
00:31:56.000I've not stolen money from anyone, neither have you.
00:31:59.000And the idea that money has to be forcibly taken from you and handed to somebody at the bottom end of the economic spectrum to somehow jog the economy that may jog McDonald's but is not going to jog all of the creation of the products and services that make all of our lives much better today than they were 30 years ago in terms of the stuff we have access to.
00:32:17.000So as I say, I think that it was a really substantive, interesting debate.
00:32:20.000I wanted to make a few notes about Medicare because Cenk was talking a lot about Medicare in this debate.
00:32:23.000He talked a lot about the glories of Medicare and how popular it was.
00:32:26.000Just because a program is popular doesn't mean the program is actually good.
00:32:30.000There's a $43 trillion outstanding debt on Medicare.
00:32:34.000That's how much money it's going to cost the United States.
00:32:37.000According to a columnist over at National Review, I want to get his name, Michael Tanner.
00:32:41.000He gives some good statistics on all of this.
00:32:44.000He points out that not only is there $60 billion of fraud and improper payments in Medicare per year, but right now, if somebody pays into Medicare, Chen kept saying you pay into Medicare and you get out of Medicare.
00:32:55.000What you pay into Medicare is not what you get out of Medicare.
00:32:57.000A married couple with two average earners turning 65 in 2020 will have paid about $150,000 in Medicare payroll taxes over their lifetime.
00:33:04.000Given their life expectancy, they can expect to receive almost $500,000 in benefits.
00:33:08.000That means that you're going to spend an enormous amount of money.
00:33:12.000Medicare is not actually doing that great a job because a lot of doctors are not accepting Medicare anymore.
00:33:20.000They won't accept new Medicare patients because Medicare reimbursement rates are simply too low.
00:33:23.000So just because there is Medicare doesn't mean that everybody takes Medicare, which is why a lot of people are forced to pay out-of-pocket.
00:33:29.000It is also true that, according to this column, not only will this force even more physicians out of the program, according to the actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the combination of effects leads to roughly half of hospitals, 70% of skilled nursing facilities, and 90% of home health agencies losing money by 2040, which will lead to widespread closures.
00:33:48.000You pay people too little money, and they're not going to actually succeed.
00:33:52.000Also, the Journal of American Medical Association has found that for 16 of 40 standard indicators, Medicare patients received less
00:33:59.000Recommended less care than two-thirds of the time.
00:34:03.000Less care than recommended two-thirds of the time.
00:34:05.000Other studies have shown that Medicare patients receive a lower quality of care than do similar patients with private health insurance.
00:34:11.000A study in the Journal of Health Services found Medicare coverage at 65 for the previously uninsured is not linked to improvements in overall health status.
00:34:18.000We've seen that with Medicaid as well.
00:34:19.000There is no advantage to actually being on Medicaid in terms of life expectancy and health outcome.
00:34:25.000So for all the talk about Medicare for all,
00:34:27.000It costs a lot of money, and it ain't that effective, and it drives doctors out of the program.
00:34:32.000As I've said before, I don't believe that the government should be involved in healthcare.
00:34:35.000Healthcare is an individual decision that you make, and there should be a social fabric that picks up the pieces for people who can't afford for themselves.
00:34:40.000But, if you were to have some sort of program, the most effective program, in terms of health insurance, is the Swiss program, the Switzerland-mandated program, where you all buy health insurance, just like car insurance, but it's almost entirely privatized.
00:34:53.000The problem there is that the number of people who are not able to get the insurance that they want to get is like 31%.
00:34:59.000Because obviously, as I said in this debate, when it comes to health care, you can only have, when it comes to health insurance and health care, both of these things, well health care really, when it comes to health care, you can only have three things, right?
00:35:09.000You have affordability, universality, quality.
00:35:15.000Obamacare has created more universality, it has not created more quality, and it has not created more affordability.
00:35:20.000And Chen kept saying, no, no, you can have it all.
00:35:21.000You can have it cheap, you can have it effective, you can have it for everybody.
00:35:24.000No, that's not true because there is no area in life where you can make something cheap and effective for everybody unless you have a free market system driving prices down and quality up.
00:35:32.000Anytime you have a mandate, all that does is it drives the quality down and the prices up.
00:35:37.000Which is exactly what's happened with Obamacare.
00:35:39.000Other things from the debate that were fun, uh, there was, uh, Cenk's big thing is he doesn't like money in politics, and I was pointing out to him that money will always be in politics, and that's not a bad thing, considering that we spend lots of money here at the Daily Wire on bringing you political material.
00:35:52.000Cenk spends a lot of money over at TYT bringing people political material.
00:35:55.000Pretending that my $200 donation to a candidate is the same thing as Cenk spending millions of dollars to bring his particular political view to the public, which definitely forwards the agenda of particular politicians.
00:36:09.000We all know this because this is why we wouldn't allow the government to come in and shut down the New York Times on the grounds that, hey, after all, they're just spending money.
00:36:16.000I made this point to Cenk in rather colorful fashion.
00:36:19.000If the government is in the business of regulating business, what would be the problem with the government telling Buddy Romer he is not allowed to invest in your business?
00:36:30.000No, it's... One thing is to say, hey, let's set reasonable limitations on what can happen around elections, which is, again, what most developed Western countries do.
00:36:39.000So... And they have different versions of that rule.
00:36:41.000There's ads you can run... You can't run ads within a certain period of time.
00:36:45.000You have public financing versus private financing.
00:38:11.000Time for some things I like, and then some things I hate, and then I want to talk about Tisha B'Av, which is the Jewish fast day that we are participating in today.
00:39:36.000You're here in a hostile takeover, you grab us for some green meal, but you didn't expect some poison pill was gonna be running around in the building.
00:40:56.000So, the first thing I hate is the Democrats, the left, they just can't stop, they can't stop with the comparisons that are actually insulting.
00:41:05.000So, when I do all of this, it's all in love, it's all in fun, I mean this is all ridiculous.
00:41:36.000With the regularity of the nightly news, President Trump is throwing bodies out of the White House at a rate that matches the Russian Revolution.
00:41:43.000I think all this going around and purging people, just like Kim Jong-un, what is he doing?
00:41:48.000Knocks off all his relatives when he gets scared?
00:41:50.000When you get scared of your position, you start killing people around you.
00:41:57.000My argument is he's a terrible person.
00:41:59.000I get up in the morning, I look at my hair, it's all messed up, get a shoe, brush my hair with the shoe, feel better about myself, and then I start thinking, is he like Kim Jong-un?
00:42:07.000Well, not really, but I'm gonna say it anyway, because come on, it's inflammatory, Mussolini, Hitler, Kim Jong-un, boo!
00:42:15.000So, again, Democrats, you might want to just point out the fact that this is more incompetence than it is malevolence.
00:42:21.000It's not like he brought in the mooch because he wanted to kill the mooch, okay?
00:42:24.000He brought in the mooch because the mooch was wildly entertaining, and again, I am so sad about all of this.
00:42:28.000I mean, you don't get rid of the Fonz before he can become your breakout character.
00:42:38.000Okay, the other thing that I hate, Jeffrey Lord comes out and he says that when it comes to Trump, they're talking about how Trump spoke at this police academy, and he said something about how, you know, if you're putting people in a car and you don't put your hand on top of their head, that's okay, that's okay, they just killed somebody, you know, okay, whatever.
00:42:57.000And people, oh, he's for police brutality.
00:43:00.000I think Jeffrey Lord is right about this, but I want to make a point about what Jeffrey Lord says.
00:43:03.000Jeffrey Lord says this is just Trump being a New Yorker.
00:43:19.000So I was in New York last week, and I was walking along the street, and there was a shirt that said, this is literally what the shirt said, and it was just in a store window.
00:43:54.000Okay, so people from New York talk like this, and that's why nobody from New York takes Trump all that seriously, but in the rest of the country, he uses this inflammatory language, and everybody goes, oh, he must mean it, because around here, when we see F-U-U-F-ing F, you must have, like, punched my sister in the face or something for me to say that.
00:44:07.000No, in New York, that just means that you were standing in line in front of me and you didn't move up quickly enough in the line.
00:44:13.000Right, so that's why it's not worthwhile taking Trump's rhetoric super seriously on the stuff like, ooh, he's calling for police brutality.
00:44:33.000But Tisha B'Av, the reason that it is the most solemn day in the Jewish calendar, a bunch of bad things traditionally happened on Tisha B'Av to the Jewish people.
00:44:42.000So in 1313 BCE, spies returned from the Promised Land and gave a bad report about the Promised Land.
00:44:47.000In 423 BCE, the first temple was destroyed on the Temple Mount.
00:44:51.000In 70 CE, the second temple was destroyed on the Temple Mount.
00:44:55.000In 1492, the Jews were expelled from Spain.
00:44:57.000So this date has some sort of particular cosmic significance, obviously, when it comes to God.
00:45:01.000Now, I want to talk a little bit about what the significance of the day is, aside from bad things happened today to the Jews, so we commemorate that.
00:45:06.000So, the typical lesson from Tisha B'Av, which means the 9th of Av.
00:45:10.000It's the month of Av in the Jewish calendar.
00:45:12.000It's, you know, Jesus would have celebrated the month of Av for Christians out there.
00:45:17.000It's just how the Jewish calendar works.
00:45:26.000Now when bad things happen, when world events happen, we tend not to attribute them to specific causes.
00:45:32.000In the past, that was much more common.
00:45:33.000If you read the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, the author, Gibbon, he goes out of his way to actually try and explain what the causes are for the fall of the Roman Empire.
00:45:42.000We today, something bad happens and we don't go, what was the cause of that?
00:45:47.000In Jewish philosophy, there's a thought which is that the Second Temple fell because of what we call sinat chinam, meaning unrooted hatred.
00:46:02.000There was a banquet in Jerusalem at the time of the Second Temple.
00:46:06.000And there was a very rich, wealthy guy who had an enemy whose name was Bar Kamsa.
00:46:11.000He also had a friend whose name was Kamsa.
00:46:14.000He had this big feast, and he wanted to invite Kamsa, his friend.
00:46:17.000Instead, he invited Barkhamsa by accident.
00:46:19.000His messenger went to the wrong guy, went to Barkhamsa, and Barkhamsa shows up at this feast, thinking, okay, we're going to make nice now.
00:46:26.000Barkhamsa sits down, he starts eating.
00:46:29.000And the guy who's throwing the feast comes up to him and says, what the hell are you doing here?
00:46:42.000What's the, you know, what's the problem?
00:46:44.000And the guy says, no, I want you out of here forthwith.
00:46:47.000Bar Kamsa was so angry about this, and so angry that there were a bunch of rabbis there who didn't actually do anything, that he immediately went to the Romans and apparently gave them security information about the way that the Jewish rebellion, the way that the Jewish rule was working, and then supposedly gave them the impetus to come in and destroy the temple and disperse the Jewish people.
00:47:08.000I mean, there's not a lot of historic evidence that's the way that it happened, but that is the story, the way that it happens in the Talmud.
00:48:37.000The idea the temple can still be pure, even if people who visit the temple, or participate in services at the temple, or give money to the temple, are not.
00:48:45.000And we need to identify individual sins for what they are, rather than attributing to a broader society the motivations of the sin.
00:48:53.000If we don't do that, we are engaging in baseless hatred, not only against one another, but against the society at large, and that's what tears down civilization.
00:48:59.000Okay, so I will spend the rest of the day in fasting and prayer, which is one of the things that we do, and I hope that you have a more enjoyable day than we will.
00:49:08.000And we will be back tomorrow to discuss all the latest in the ongoing circus that is American politics.