The Supreme Court gives the go-ahead for sleeping on the streets, the Democrats have the votes for impeachment, and Rudy claims he s got the goods on Joe and Hunter Biden. We re going to get to everything impeachment related momentarily, but a far bigger issue is the fact that America s major cities are now collapsing in on themselves like dying stars. And that s because major cities around the U.S. have refused to do what is necessary in arresting people and ensure that they actually have a place to go with regard to housing and drug and alcohol abuse. And that means that it s going to cost more to house somebody for a year than to do pretty much anything else with them in the state of California and the city of Los Angeles. Ben Shapiro explains why this is a bad idea, and why we need to have a stick and a carrot approach to dealing with the problem of homeless people in America's major cities. The Ben Shapiro Show is sponsored by ExpressVPN, Stand Up For Your Digital Rights. Visit ExpressVPN.org/TheBenShapiroShow to get 20% off your first month with discount code: "ExpressVPN" at checkout. You can also get 10% off the entire site with promo code "BENSHAPPEARANCE" when you sign up for the ExpressVPN membership trial, which expires on Nov. 18th! You get free 3-months of unlimited access to all premium memberships, and a FREE stock like Apple, Ford, Best Fiends, and Vaydeo! Subscribe to the show on Audible, VaynerMediaverse, and all future ad sales, and access all the best deals on the App Store and Google Play, and other major podcasting and podcasting platforms! Subscribe and subscribe to the Ben Shapiro Podcasts! Learn more about Ben Shapiro's new book: and more! Watch the full video version of the show: Ben's newest book: "Ben Shapiro's New York Times bestselling book, "The Devil on the Street" out there! out now! coming soon on Amazon Prime Video, coming soon! FREE Mentioned in the next episode of The FiveThirtyEight Podcast? Subscribe to Ben's new podcast? Subscribe on Podchaser? Watch this episode on Apple Podcasts? Subscribe on Prime Video and subscribe on iTunes? FREE FASTEST REVIEW? Download the podcast on Podcoin? and other podcast recommendations?
00:00:00.000The Supreme Court gives the go-ahead to sleeping on the streets, Democrats have the votes for impeachment, and Rudy claims he's got the goods on Joe and Hunter Biden.
00:00:27.000This is all just a dog and pony show at this point.
00:00:30.000But there are some wrinkles to the dog and pony show.
00:00:31.000We'll bring those to you momentarily in a much bigger issue that will have more long lasting ramifications for Americans than this impeachment debacle.
00:00:38.000Because the impeachment A far bigger issue is the fact that America's major cities are now collapsing in on themselves like dying stars.
00:00:43.000move forward to 2020 and whoever wins will win and whoever loses will lose.
00:00:48.000A far bigger issue is the fact that America's major cities are now collapsing in on themselves like dying stars.
00:00:53.000America's major cities are becoming worse and worse in terms of living standards for the people who live there.
00:00:59.000And that's not true for every city, but it's certainly true for cities like Los Angeles I'm old enough to remember one Los Angeles where I've lived nearly my entire life, with the exception of three years in Massachusetts when I was in law school.
00:01:10.000Every w- It has gone from a very livable, nice city, particularly in the suburbs, to an incredibly dirty city where there are insane amounts of litter, trash on the streets, open needles in suburban areas and near schools.
00:01:24.000We've got homeless people on nearly every corner.
00:01:26.000There is not an embankment in Los Angeles that is not occupied by homeless people all over the city.
00:01:33.000And that is because major cities around the United States have refused to do what is necessary in arresting people and ensuring that they actually have a place to go with regard to not just housing, but in terms of mental illness, in terms of drug abuse.
00:01:46.000One of the obvious facts about homelessness in major cities is that it is largely driven by mental illness, severe mental illness, and drug abuse and alcohol abuse.
00:01:55.000And that means that you have to approach this thing with both a carrot and a stick.
00:01:59.000So what the left would like to do is approach this thing with just the carrot.
00:02:03.000Here's some housing that we've built for you.
00:02:05.000And we've seen this in Los Angeles where it's costing like half a million dollars to build a unit of housing thanks to building regulations because the government is insane.
00:02:12.000And that means that it'll cost you more to house somebody for a year than to do pretty much anything else with them in the state of California and in the city of Los Angeles.
00:02:22.000You've seen this approach taken also in Seattle, where they've set up what they literally have started, it's called drunk dorms, where there are no restrictions on who can live in these areas.
00:02:29.000And as it turns out, a lot of homeless people don't actually want to live under the same roof with a bunch of other homeless people who may in fact be violent alcoholics.
00:02:39.000You have to combine this with a stick approach.
00:02:41.000Yes, you have to have the carrot of a place for people to go, but you also have to have the stick approach, which is if you violate the law, we will send you to jail.
00:02:48.000And if you keep violating the law, we will keep sending you to jail.
00:02:51.000And also, if we want paranoid schizophrenics off the streets, they will require some mandatory treatment.
00:02:56.000And that does not mean that you get to simply walk out of the treatment facility when you feel like you are cured, and then go right back to the streets where you are not taking your proper medication.
00:03:07.000This comes as somebody From somebody who has, my grandfather was a schizophrenic.
00:03:12.000His life was saved by the fact that he was taking medication at a mental facility.
00:03:18.000He was actually put away in a mental facility for like a year, and, or eight months, a year, and it saved his life.
00:03:26.000You have to have the legal ability to take people who cannot care for themselves and put them in a position where they receive the care that they need.
00:03:33.000And the whole point of severe mental illness is that you are unable to control yourself.
00:03:37.000The same thing is true of severe drug addiction.
00:03:39.000If you cannot arrest people for living on the street and then put them in mandatory drug rehab, it's going to be very difficult to ever move them off the street.
00:03:46.000And the housing-only approach has failed pretty much everywhere that it's tried.
00:03:49.000The only place where it supposedly succeeded was Salt Lake City, and that turned into such a money pit That Salt Lake City had to cut its own expenditures on housing.
00:03:56.000Also, it happens that Salt Lake City is supported in huge amounts by the social fabric of the Mormon Church, which is there to provide all sorts of social support for people who are homeless, provides all sorts of services there.
00:04:09.000Those sorts of services don't exist in major cities around the country, and when government does provide those sorts of social services, it actually acts as a magnet for homelessness.
00:04:18.000And in fact, even in Salt Lake City, after a 91% decrease in homelessness over a decade, they saw, for two straight years, each year, a doubling of the homeless population after it became widely publicized that they were giving away all sorts of goodies to homeless people because, as it turns out, that is an incentive structure.
00:04:33.000Well, part of the issue here has to be part of the solution has to be the threat of law enforcement taking your stuff, arresting you, putting you in into mandatory drug rehabilitation, placing you into a mental facility, a mental health facility where you receive mandatory drugs that will that will help care for your severe mental illness.
00:04:54.000All of these things need to be on the table.
00:04:56.000And now the Supreme Court Really, this is what the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found.
00:04:59.000Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that suggests that it is a violation of the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution to fine people for living out in public on the streets.
00:05:09.000Really, this is what the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found.
00:05:11.000The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals a few months ago found that it was a violation of the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the Constitution of the United States to give people a $25 ticket for living on a sidewalk, which is pure By the way, you want to destroy a city, this is the way you do it.
00:05:29.000Not just because the living conditions go down, but also because you destroy the ability of businesses to do business.
00:05:35.000In the city of Los Angeles, I have many, many friends who are police officers in the city of Los Angeles, and one of their big problems is that a business owner will call them up and say, I've got a homeless person who is sitting on my stoop and peeing.
00:07:23.000So now the Supreme Court has ruled, again, that you have a right to sleep on the streets.
00:07:28.000They did so, not by ruling that out right, but by refusing to overrule this Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling.
00:07:32.000Now, this has some predictable effects.
00:07:34.000So, for example, in San Francisco, this picture was going around yesterday.
00:07:37.000It is a picture of a homeless man who was being described by other people in the... This was taken by a journalist.
00:07:44.000The journalist said that this person was clearly a drug addict.
00:07:47.000This person literally went into a supermarket in San Francisco and proceeded to defecate on the floor.
00:07:51.000The good news is that they found the toilet paper aisle, so at least they have the toilet paper to deal with it.
00:07:55.000The bad news is there was an open bathroom with no one occupying it in the same store, and this person just decided to go poop right on the floor of the supermarket.
00:08:05.000We had a colleague, Cassie Dillon, she went over to San Francisco and took tape on, uh, took videotape of all of the street corners in San Francisco, and San Francisco has become a feces fest.
00:08:16.000The entire city has turned into a trash heap.
00:08:18.000It's one of the most beautiful cities in America.
00:08:20.000The same thing has happened in Seattle, where a gem of a city... I used to do a local show up in Seattle.
00:08:25.000A gem of a city has been turned into a homeless encampment, and the past several mayors have refused to do anything about it, citing the right to live on the streets.
00:08:33.000Well, I shouldn't say they're doing nothing about it.
00:08:34.000Over in Seattle, Seattle's homeless agency actually hired a transgender performer named Beyonce Black St.
00:08:43.000James to their all-home conference in South Seattle for a group of homeless advocates.
00:08:48.000This person is a transgender stripper.
00:11:10.000So the Supreme Court has declared, by refusing to rule on this Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, that there is now a right to sleep on the streets.
00:11:26.000It's like using the rack on somebody to write them a $25 ticket if they don't move their crap from out in front of a business.
00:11:32.000It violates the 8th Amendment insofar as it imposes criminal sanctions against homeless individuals for sleeping outdoors on public property when no alternative shelter is available to them.
00:11:40.000So you've seen these kinds of court rulings.
00:11:41.000I mean, this is judicial supremacy at its finest.
00:11:43.000Judicial supremacy is when the judiciary simply usurps the role of legislatures.
00:11:47.000And this is what has been going on in terms of, for example, union states.
00:11:51.000You will see the judiciary simply say that the state must sign a contract with the unions that meet the following criteria.
00:11:59.000You've seen this with regard to some states on education.
00:12:01.000Some states will say, you know, the state constitution suggests that you have to properly fund education.
00:12:07.000Properly fund means you have to spend X percentage of the budget on education.
00:12:10.000Okay, that is the judiciary now playing the legislature.
00:12:13.000Well, this is what the judiciary here is doing.
00:12:15.000To say when no alternative shelter is available to them you can't write somebody a ticket means that basically the Ninth Circuit is saying it's your brains or your signature on this piece of paper.
00:12:25.000Either you have to let these people sleep on the street and defecate on the street because that is one of the things that goes along with sleeping on the streets as it turns out.
00:12:32.000You don't have to let them destroy the safety and security of a city unless you build them the kind of shelter we believe is appropriate.
00:12:42.000That is blackmailing the taxpayers from the judicial branch.
00:12:47.000That's the judiciary deciding what it thinks is best policy without having any responsibility for implementing that policy.
00:12:54.000Even Los Angeles County was like, what is this stuff?
00:12:57.000Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, who is no right-winger, he said that they had joined the lawsuit against these homeless advocacy organizations.
00:13:08.000He said that they were looking For a clear framework, a legal framework in comparison to the status quo that is ambiguous and confusing.
00:13:17.000He said, letting the current law stand handicapped cities and counties from acting nimbly to aid those perishing on the streets, exacerbating unsafe and unhealthy conditions that negatively affect our most vulnerable residents.
00:13:26.000LA Mayor Eric Garcetti, who is just awful, he said in a statement that quote, Homelessness won't be solved by moving people from one street to another.
00:13:33.000Our focus will remain on providing services to save lives, keeping our neighborhoods clean and healthy, opening shelters to help get people indoors more quickly, and building permanent units to keep them under a roof for good.
00:13:43.000None of those things have happened in LA.
00:13:49.000There are over 60,000 homeless people living in the county of Los Angeles.
00:13:54.000And now the Supreme Court has allowed the Ninth Circuit to cram down its own vision of how to fight homelessness on every other major city, and that does not include the ability to even rouse people, move their stuff.
00:14:06.000What this means is mass homelessness is going to continue to be the rule, not the exception, when it comes to America's major cities, thanks to the judiciary.
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00:16:06.000Okay, so meanwhile, on impeachment, this is the week.
00:16:09.000This is the week because Democrats are going to lay out the case for a Wednesday Trump impeachment vote according to the Associated Press.
00:16:16.000So tomorrow, the historic day, when Democrats declare impeachment, yeah!
00:16:21.000The reason, by the way, they're doing it on Wednesday is because Thursday is the next big Democratic presidential debate, and so they don't want to detract from attention on debate day.
00:16:28.000So they're gonna do impeachment on Wednesday, and then the Democrats can spend the first half of the debate on Thursday talking about how much they hate President Trump.
00:16:36.000But don't worry, this isn't political at all.
00:16:37.000It's not political, it's just they love the Constitution so, so, so much.
00:16:42.000According to the AP, House Democrats laid out their impeachment case against President Trump on Monday, a sweeping report accusing him of betraying the nation and deserving to be ousted as key lawmakers began to signal Where they stand ahead of this week's landmark votes.
00:16:55.000What Democrats once hoped would be a bipartisan act, only the third time in U.S.
00:16:58.000history the House will be voting to impeach a president, is now on track to be a starkly partisan roll call on Wednesday.
00:17:03.000No Republicans are breaking with the president.
00:17:05.000Almost all Democrats are expected to approve the charges against him.
00:17:08.000A raucous town hall Monday in the Detroit suburbs put on display the nation's wrenching debate over the unconventional president and the prospect of removing him from office.
00:17:15.000Freshman Democratic Representative Elisa Slotkin was both heckled and celebrated as she announced her support for impeachment.
00:17:21.000She said, there's certainly a lot of controversy about this, but there just has to be a moment where you use the letter of the law for what it's intended.
00:17:28.000Because what was intended was definitely charging a president with no crimes and giving him very, very vague charges of abuse of power and one that makes no sense, obstruction of Congress.
00:17:36.000Because again, there is no obstruction of Congress.
00:17:39.000Obstruction of Congress has to be connected with obstruction of justice.
00:17:42.000It is not obstruction of Congress for the executive branch to refuse to comply with subpoenas and then appeal to the judicial branch to back them up.
00:17:50.000According to the 650 page report from the House Judiciary Committee, which I've read some of it, I gotta tell you, it feels like that.
00:17:58.000That report feels like back when you were in middle school and your teacher was like, I need a five paragraph essay.
00:18:04.000And so one of your paragraphs, and it needs to be 450 words.
00:18:07.000And so your essay said things like, it was a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very good time.
00:18:18.000That report, there ain't enough there to support 650 pages of reading.
00:18:22.000Trump has been tweeting, and he insisted he has done nothing wrong.
00:18:24.000He's also promoting Rudy Giuliani's investigation of Joe and Hunter Biden.
00:18:26.000and corrupting democratic elections, says the 650 page report from the House Judiciary Committee.
00:18:31.000Trump has been tweeting and he insisted he has done nothing wrong.
00:18:35.000He's also promoting Rudy Giuliani's investigation of Joe and Hunter Biden.
00:18:39.000He said of Rudy Giuliani, he knows what he is doing.
00:18:43.000Rudy Giuliani, for his part, is going around in media saying that he has uncovered money laundering in Ukraine.
00:18:49.000And if he's got the goods, now would be an excellent time to spill them.
00:18:53.000I mean, Rudy, like, any time now, dude.
00:18:55.000The people that he's quoting, by the way, in most of his reports are prosecutors who have been widely derided for their possible corruption and who appear to have conflicting motivations.
00:19:04.000So I don't take everything that Rudy Giuliani is saying at face value.
00:19:07.000I think there is reason to be suspicious of how Hunter Biden ended up in a position being paid $50,000 a month when he was competent to not hold a job.
00:19:17.000That is quite suspicious, and there's no question he was using daddy's name.
00:19:19.000The question is whether Joe knew about it or what Joe was doing about it.
00:19:22.000There's certainly the appearance of impropriety, but that doesn't mean that Joe Biden was actually facilitating this or getting people fired in order to back up his son or anything like that.
00:19:31.000With that said, if Rudy's got some hard evidence, and the hard evidence goes beyond, here are a couple of Ukrainian prosecutors ousted for corruption talking about it.
00:19:40.000Here was Rudy on Laura Ingraham's show last night talking about it.
00:19:43.000What I uncovered there are two major schemes, one for $7.5 billion, the other for $5 billion, in money laundering that went on all through the Obama administration.
00:19:54.000Part of it involves Joe Biden, the bribery part.
00:19:58.000It's a disgrace that he's not under investigation for it in America, maybe because our law enforcement is too afraid.
00:20:06.000But the reality is it's a complete defense for the president.
00:20:09.000OK, so the idea here is that if there was corruption in Ukraine and Trump was interested in it, then that is a complete defense for the president.
00:20:17.000The fact is that Trump was suspicious of corruption in Ukraine.
00:20:23.000Because so long as this is about corruption in Ukraine or corruption in 2016 and not about going after Joe Biden for 2020, then he has an offense to the charges.
00:20:32.000And Democrats have not been able to establish the requisite level of intent for bribery, which of course is why it is not included in any of the impeachment charges.
00:20:39.000Does that mean that Rudy Giuliani has to prove his case in order for Trump to get off on impeachment?
00:20:45.000So the Democrats are going to move this thing forward on Wednesday.
00:20:49.000Their on-the-fence members are now backing impeachment because party loyalty is extraordinarily solid at this point in time for both Republicans and Democrats.
00:20:57.000You're not seeing any crossover votes at this point.
00:20:59.000It's going to hurt those Democrats in the swing districts far more than it hurts the Republicans.
00:21:03.000There are very few Republicans who are existing in blue districts at this point.
00:21:07.000Those blue districts, purple districts, have basically been wiped out for Republicans, unfortunately.
00:21:11.000That means there are a lot of Democrats that are sitting in Trump districts.
00:21:14.000A lot of them are going to lose their seats over this.
00:21:16.000According to the Wall Street Journal, more Democrats from competitive House districts said they will back the impeachment of President Trump, putting the effort on track to pass this week, despite some fears their position could put their seats at risk.
00:21:27.000Representative Joe Cunningham of South Carolina said he would support impeachment.
00:21:30.000He said, if I wanted to do what was easy politically, I would just vote no and move on.
00:21:35.000There is no easy answer for some of these Democrats existing in purple districts.
00:21:39.000Two Democrats have said they are opposed, including one, Representative Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey, who said he's actually going to switch parties.
00:21:44.000Representative Colin Peterson of Minnesota said he will vote against impeachment as well.
00:21:49.000Bottom line is, this thing in the end is not really going to go anywhere, and everybody knows it.
00:21:55.000Now, there was this sort of funny tête-à -tête between Chuck Schumer and a reporter yesterday.
00:22:00.000So Chuck Schumer appeared in front of the press and he was explaining that he's very angry that the Senate procedures aren't going to be fulsome and allow the Democrats to explain their case.
00:22:16.000And a reporter says to him, um, your House colleagues were supposed to call those witnesses, so why didn't they?
00:22:21.000They could have just waited for the judiciary to sound off on the subpoenas, and they could have called all these people, and Schumer has no good answer, because there is no good answer.
00:22:30.000Some of the Republicans have suggested that it's not the Senate's job to get these witnesses.
00:22:36.000That was work being done by the House Democrats, and the House Democrats decided not to go to court to get these witnesses.
00:22:45.000Should the Democrats in the House Well, look, I'm not going to second-guess the House.
00:22:51.000There is virtually no argument, no good argument, if you're interested in the facts and not having these witnesses come forward now.
00:22:58.000And remember, the standard at a trial is different than the standard when a prosecutor, in this case the House Impeachment Authority, puts together a case.
00:23:11.000Oh, a trial is a place for witnesses, as opposed to a House Judiciary Committee hearing, which is also a place for witnesses, and the House Intelligence Committee hearing, which was also a place for witnesses.
00:23:18.000He's gotten a good answer on this, because the real answer, Democrats know they're not going to get what they want from these witnesses, and now we're all going to pretend, and the media are going to pretend, that because Mitch McConnell won't call Mick Mulvaney, that's the real reason why this impeachment effort isn't moving forward?
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00:25:15.000According to Suffolk University USA Today, President Trump in head-to-head matchups against Democrats now leads Joe Biden 44 to 41, leads Bernie Sanders 44 to 39, leads Elizabeth Warren 45 to 37, leads Michael Bloomberg 43 to 34, and leads Pete Buttigieg 43 to 33. leads Michael Bloomberg 43 to 34, and leads Pete Buttigieg
00:25:36.000So unless you believe that all of the outlying votes are going to go to the Democrats, that the 15 or 20 percent that are left over in those polls are all going to swing to the That's real bad news for the Democrats right there.
00:25:49.000Now, it is true that Trump is stuck at 43, 44, 45.
00:25:52.000He was for the entirety of the 2016 election, too, and he ends it up at 46.
00:25:57.000So, the fact is that the President of the United States is not in bad re-election territory despite, or maybe because of, impeachment.
00:26:05.000That's not the only poll trending in this direction.
00:26:08.000Okay, there's an Investor Business Daily TIPP poll that just came out this morning.
00:26:20.000The others have Trump up 48-47 over Sanders, 47-46 over Bloomberg, 46-44 over Buttigieg, and 49-44 over Warren.
00:26:22.000Sanders, 47-46 over Bloomberg, 46-44 over Buttigieg, and 49-44 over Warren.
00:26:28.000Warren not showing strong in these particular polls.
00:26:32.000According to that poll, the IBDTIPP poll, that's a five-point shift toward Trump versus Biden in the last month, a 13-point shift towards Trump versus Warren in the last month, and an eight-point shift towards Trump versus Sanders.
00:26:48.000These are horrible numbers for the Democrats.
00:26:50.000And part of that is everybody's irritation with this impeachment stuff.
00:26:52.000Part of this is the fact that the economy is going well.
00:26:55.000Part of this is the fact that Trump has made some moves to solidify his re-election here.
00:26:59.000He's moving to get the China trade issue off the table.
00:27:02.000He is moving to get NAFTA 2.0 off the table.
00:27:05.000He is signing huge budget, busting numbered budgets.
00:27:09.000But at least he's getting it off the table.
00:27:11.000He's doing a lot of the things that would be necessary in order to win re-election.
00:27:14.000He looks a lot stronger today than he did even six months ago.
00:27:19.000This impeachment effort is not going well for the Democrats, and the Democrats are starting to realize that Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow at Brookings Institution.
00:27:25.000He has a piece today called Impeachment Could End Badly.
00:27:29.000He says, I don't have the courage of my conviction.
00:27:30.000President Donald Trump deserves to be impeached for trying to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political opponents.
00:27:36.000With every week he says or does something worse than what he already said or did, but to say Trump deserves impeachment is different from saying that impeachment is good for the country.
00:27:43.000In fact, it might turn out quite badly.
00:27:46.000Most of the people whom I'd like to trust or believe, or believe rather strongly, that what President Trump has done rises to a crime, for them the analysis of whether Trump should be impeached can't help but be informed by their view that Trump represents an existential threat to the country.
00:28:00.000Yet, if you do believe, as I do, that Trump is bad, but also that his badness falls somewhat short of an existential threat, then impeachment, however justified in theory, becomes less straightforward.
00:28:07.000The process does not unfold in a political vacuum.
00:28:10.000Democrats should not let the certainty of their legal reasoning push them toward impeachment without regard for its real-world consequences, which are uncertain and could prove costly.
00:28:18.000Now, even this narrative is suggestive of the idea that Democrats are just pursuing Trump for impeachment because they feel the constitutional necessity to do so, that there was no political calculation that went into it.
00:28:28.000No, what happened here is that Nancy Pelosi made a political calculation a few months back.
00:28:33.000Her political calculation was quite simple.
00:28:35.000It was, what are the costs and what are the benefits of impeaching Trump?
00:28:38.000The costs of impeaching Trump would be maybe some blowback, but most people don't like Trump.
00:28:44.000The benefits of impeaching Trump, if more evidence came forward, would be that he is made more unpopular, drives him down for 2020, or it ousts him completely, finishing Republican hopes for 2020.
00:29:19.000And so they are relegated to relying on their base, which is not where they wanted to be in an impeachment move.
00:29:23.000They are relegated to relying on the strong blue sentiments of people like Michelle Goldberg, the opinion columnist for the New York Times, who has a piece today titled, On Tuesday, March for Impeachment.
00:29:35.000The anti-Trump majority needs to make itself seen.
00:29:40.000I am sure that a big march, like the Women's March, or maybe the March for Our Lives, like big marches, On hot button political issues have definitely achieved what they sought to achieve in precisely 0% of cases over the last 10, 15 years.
00:29:54.000I'm sure that's gonna go really, really well for you.
00:29:58.000She says, demonstrations aren't just about pressuring Republicans.
00:30:01.000Despite cable and social media, local TV news is still many people's primary news source.
00:30:05.000Because there are going to be demonstrations everywhere, there are eight planned for Montana alone, local TV will likely cover them.
00:30:12.000And therefore, there's going to be an upsurge in impeachment-heavy opinion.
00:30:26.000And they're not good because I think everybody understands the underlying animus that so many people hold for Trump and for Trump supporters.
00:30:32.000Because that really, not even just Trump supporters, conservatives generally, What the media do not understand is that every poll on Trump is not actually a poll on Trump.
00:30:39.000It is a poll on what people think the media think of them.
00:30:42.000Every poll about whether you like Trump or not is not a poll of whether you like Trump.
00:30:47.000When you ask a conservative or a Republican, do you like Trump?
00:30:49.000And you get a call from one of these pollsters, most Republicans are thinking, do I like you?
00:30:57.000They don't trust the left to make these decisions.
00:30:59.000There is no solid unity that suggests that People you disagree with are acting in the name of the Constitution because nobody actually believes that.
00:33:00.000More on why this thing is not going well for Democrats and why the country is too polarized for any impeachment effort, really, to go particularly well for the Democrats.
00:34:06.000We are the largest, fastest growing conservative podcast and radio show in the nation.
00:34:09.000Okay, so looking at the PR attempts to mobilize support behind this impeachment effort, the fact is the reason you're not going to get PR support is because the people who are behind the impeachment effort are widely perceived to be partisan hacks the fact is the reason you're not going to get PR support is because Adam Schiff is a partisan hack.
00:35:19.000Meghan McCain, who is not a Trump defender, is on The View, and she's explaining why impeachment politically is going bad for Democrats, or at least she is trying to.
00:35:26.000But it doesn't go well, because Whoopi Goldberg isn't having any of it.
00:35:29.000It is moments like this that make people go, you know what?
00:36:51.000And then she goes to break because Whoopi Goldberg, and first of all, putting Whoopi Goldberg in charge of that show is such a joke on its face.
00:36:57.000But beyond that, Whoopi Goldberg going after Meghan McCain for simply trying to say that impeachment is a bad political idea.
00:37:04.000Shut up, girl, which is basically what she's saying.
00:37:05.000First of all, if any dude ever said that to any woman on national television, they lose their job.
00:37:10.000If any man said to any woman, stop talking right now, it's the most sexist, patriarchal thing ever.
00:37:14.000Whoopi Goldberg, though, is intersectional.
00:37:25.000And it's that dynamic that leads people to go, Middle finger man leads them to say Trump all the way.
00:37:31.000Because if Trump is just a way to rebut that kind of garbage, if Trump is basically a giant F you to that entire class of people, and I mean the hardcore left that wants to silence debate, then fine, Trump.
00:37:44.000Impeachment is more about that than it is about what's in the impeachment report.
00:37:48.000Just like elections are more about that than they are about differential ideas on Medicare for all.
00:37:53.000Elections are far more in today's day and age about the feeling that people have about one another in the United States, the feeling they have about the media in the United States.
00:38:02.000Trump has an innate gut feel for this.
00:38:03.000It's why he won the election last time.
00:38:05.000It's why he's in good shape this time.
00:38:06.000Yes, he's going to have to tout his accomplishments.
00:38:08.000Yes, he should let the accomplishments speak for themselves.
00:38:11.000And I am the person who's been saying for years that he needs to tone down the tweeting.
00:38:14.000But I've never said he should tone down the tweeting when it comes to him ripping the media.
00:38:18.000I think he should be accurate about it.
00:38:19.000I don't think he should call everything fake news when it's not.
00:38:22.000But him going after members of the left and pointing out that this is a culture, this is a cultural battle is not wrong.
00:38:31.000People elected him for this and people are, the more you get a whoopee, this is how you got Trump and you're going to get more Trump this way.
00:38:37.000You're going to get more Trump when you bring Robert De Niro on The View to explain that Donald Trump is worse than any character he has ever played, including Travis Bickle, who's a person who is planning to murder a politician.
00:38:48.000Or I guess then his characters in a wide variety of films who are gangsters who shoot people in the face.
00:38:54.000First of all, why Robert De Niro is a political authority on anything is absolutely beyond me.
00:40:08.000And then, Robert De Niro, in an attempt to really heal the nation and close those wounds, he says that if his family, meaning like Ivanka and Jared and Eric and Donald Trump Jr., if his family were like the Trump family, he would disown them.
00:40:22.000This is him healing the wounds of the nation, Robert De Niro.
00:40:24.000Perfect example of a man healing the wounds of the nation.
00:40:27.000You also talk about his children, and you say that they're like a gangster family too.
00:40:34.000I don't want my kids to take this the wrong way, but if my kids did what these kids did, I wouldn't want to be related to them.
00:41:42.000And so now you're like, okay, we want to impeach Trump.
00:41:44.000Yeah, I definitely believe that it's not motivated by animus.
00:41:47.000I'm watching the high dungeon of people like Chris Cuomo.
00:41:49.000Why won't Republicans call Trump out over his words about Pelosi's teeth, Chris Cuomo?
00:41:54.000Chris Cuomo is one of the worst actors in the media when it comes to using insulting and ridiculous language about people.
00:42:01.000Here's not Fredo explaining to Sean Duffy that it's just awful.
00:42:06.000It's just awful, awful for the president to insult Nancy Pelosi's teeth.
00:42:10.000Everybody who's in the center of the country, let's be real, everybody in the center of the country doesn't care.
00:42:14.000I mean, independents, they don't deeply care about Donald Trump insulting Nancy Pelosi's teeth.
00:42:18.000In fact, they probably think that it's kind of funny because it is kind of funny because it rips the mask off the political, we're all best friends routine.
00:42:25.000Everybody on the right cheers and everybody on the left is mad because it's Trump and Trump could, Trump could drop his hat and everybody would lose their mind on the left.
00:42:33.000Here's Chris Cuomo though saying, how can we last as a country if people are making jokes about each other's teeth?
00:42:39.000The president is the biggest man in the room.
00:42:41.000The biggest man in the room does not behave like the people who are coming at him, right?
00:42:46.000You ever hear the expression, the lion is not concerned by the complaints of the sheep.
00:42:51.000The second thing is, Sean, you guys will say, well, we don't like everything he says.
00:42:55.000No, you never say that you don't like what he says.
00:42:58.000None of you will say he should not have said that about Nancy Pelosi.
00:43:02.000It was an ugly remark that is beneath the presidency.
00:43:07.000But Chris, I think what you don't recognize is the fact that many Republicans feel like this is a one-sided conversation and frankly the median Democrats are the lion and they're going after the president non-stop.
00:43:20.000So why don't you say Nancy Pelosi's teeth are falling out?
00:43:24.000Well, again, it's not right to say that Nancy Pelosi's teeth are falling out as a politician, but nobody is gonna be like, oh my god, that's the worst thing that anybody ever said.
00:43:32.000No, of course he shouldn't have said it.
00:43:34.000Does that make a huge difference in our political debate?
00:43:36.000Is that wor- Chris Cuomo labeled Donald Trump Dirty Donald years ago.
00:43:41.000I don't see anybody complaining about that.
00:43:42.000Meanwhile, my favorite ridiculous attempt of the day to push impeachment comes courtesy of George Conway, Steve Schmidt, John Weaver, and Rick Wilson.
00:43:50.000So they have a piece today titled, We Are Republicans, and We Want Trump Defeated.
00:43:54.000Okay, let me just first make a quick point.
00:43:57.000Several of these people have openly called for voting for Democrats in elections that do not involve Donald Trump.
00:44:01.000John Weaver, there's an article from 2015 about John Weaver, who is this political activist.
00:44:10.000Weaver actually advised Democratic candidate John Kerry in 2004.
00:44:15.000Now, as far as I'm aware, George W. Bush is not named Donald Trump, nor is he related to Donald Trump, nor does he even like Donald Trump.
00:44:23.000That did not stop John Weaver from attempting to reach out to John Kerry.
00:44:28.000Also, he worked with John Kasich, but not until after he had actually urged, wait for it, wait for it, Donald Trump to run for President of the United States.
00:44:36.000According to this political article from 2015, Weaver reached out to Trump to congratulate him on a Washington Post story announcing he might run.
00:44:46.000And then he encouraged Trump to run, beginning what he and another person close to Trump saw as Weaver's backstage courtship.
00:44:54.000So Weaver, one of the authors of this piece, has both backed Democrats in the past and also urged Trump to run.
00:45:51.000He says the GOP is corrupt, indecent, and immoral, with the exception of a few governors like Baker, Hogan, and Kasich, which are all the moderate Republican governors.
00:45:58.000He doesn't mention DeSantis or Abbott.
00:46:02.000And then he suggested that he was going to vote for Democrats basically from here on out.
00:46:08.000He says that the GOP is a danger to our democracy and values.
00:46:13.000He says he is calling on people to reject Trump and his quote-unquote vile enablers in the 2018 election by electing Democratic majorities.
00:46:20.000Well, now they have a piece today, these people.
00:46:22.000And George Conway, of course, who has spent the last several years ripping on his wife's boss.
00:46:26.000And insulting his wife, apparently, in public media.
00:46:29.000They have a piece today, published by the New York Times, called, We Are Republicans and We Want Trump Defeated.
00:46:33.000Well, I noticed that there were no Republicans named Trump on the 2018 ballot.
00:46:54.000There's no serious Republican primary threat, nor would there be.
00:46:56.000Donald Trump has 90% approval rating inside the Republican Party, in large part because of the media.
00:47:02.000In large part because even people who don't particularly like Trump personally feel like he is mostly punching the right targets, and they are mostly punching him.
00:47:09.000They feel like referenda on Trump are actually referenda on them.
00:47:13.000Trump has done a good job of stapling himself to the conservative movement and to Republicans and saying, listen, what they think of me is what they think of you.
00:47:20.000And most conservatives basically agree with that because we understand that what they think of Trump may be more based on the reality of who Trump is, but what they think of us is not.
00:47:30.000And what they think of conservatives is the same thing as what they think of Trump.
00:47:34.000And then they claim that it's all about Trump.
00:48:01.000That when they say, oh, it's really just about Trump, and if you guys would just abandon Trump, then we would definitely treat you as nice human beings.
00:48:07.000We'd grant you the strange new respect.
00:48:11.000And so when I hear this group of lobbyists, Rick Wilson, Steve Schmidt, John Weaver, George Conway, talk about the Lincoln Project, an effort to highlight our country's story and values and its people's sacrifices and obligations, An effort to transcend partisanship, dedicated to nothing less than the preservation of our principles.
00:48:28.000They say, over the next 11 months, our efforts will be dedicated to defeating President Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box, and to elect those patriots who will hold the line, which I assume means voting for Democrats.
00:48:38.000Hey, you're gonna have to explain how making Elizabeth Warren President of the United States heals our national divide.
00:48:42.000How making Bernie Sanders President heals our national divide.
00:48:45.000Or yes, even how electing Joe Biden President is going to heal our national divide, because I'm missing it.
00:48:53.000I also love the Washington Post pushing a letter from 700 scholars urging the House to impeach Trump.
00:48:57.000Well, since none of them are elected officials, I'd rather have the opinions, as William F. Buckley once said, of 700 people from the LA phone book than I would 700 historians, legal scholars, and others.
00:49:09.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I like, and then we'll get to a thing that I hate.
00:49:26.000There is a really interesting piece in The Atlantic called The Miseducation of the American Now, she gets the diagnosis completely wrong. she gets the diagnosis completely wrong.
00:49:51.000She suggests that it's because men have been abandoned economically, She suggests that it is because men have reacted to the rise of feminism poorly.
00:50:03.000You want to know what happened to the traditional American male?
00:50:06.000What happened to the traditional American male is that there are not enough fathers in the home to actually teach traditional masculinity.
00:50:12.000Not just because boys need male role models, but also because in order to be a male role model requires you to be a responsible human being who treats your spouse well, for example.
00:50:23.000And that has happened in large part because the government has played the role of father, and it has also happened because of the collapse of religious observance in the United States.
00:50:31.000The kind of gentlemanliness that Peggy Orenstein sets out as a model used to be promulgated by church.
00:50:38.000It used to be promulgated by synagogues.
00:50:40.000It used to be promulgated by social institutions that were vital to American life.
00:50:44.000Those have disappeared, and so it's no surprise that boys are filling that gap with Their sort of most root instincts, boys are aggressive.
00:50:55.000That's just a thing that is true of boys.
00:50:57.000Okay, and you're gonna see more of that when boys are not civilized.
00:50:59.000The whole point of civilization is to civilize people.
00:51:02.000When the main institutions of civilization disappear, and when manhood is boiled down to, I can write a check that fills the role of daddy, you shouldn't be surprised when men revert to their caveman instincts.
00:51:16.000According to Peggy Orenstein, she has a different explanation for what happened to boys.
00:51:21.000She says, They considered their female classmates to be smart and competent, entitled to their place on the athletic field and in school leadership, deserving of their admission to college and of professional opportunities.
00:52:26.000Talking in bad ways about the same girls who, if they were in the presence of, would say that woman could lead a corporation.
00:52:32.000According to this writer for the Atlantic, this was a huge shift from what you might have seen 40, 50, maybe even 20 years ago.
00:52:38.000They could also easily reel off the excesses of masculinity.
00:52:40.000They'd seen the headlines about mass shootings, domestic violence, sexual harassment, campus rape, presidential Twitter tantrums, and Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
00:52:47.000A Big Ten football player I interviewed bandied about the term toxic masculinity.
00:52:51.000Everyone knows what that is, he said when I seemed surprised.
00:52:53.000Yet when asked to describe the attributes of the ideal guy, those same boys appear to be harking back to 1955.
00:53:35.000She says, it's not that all these qualities properly channeled are bad, but while a 2018 national survey of more than 1,000 10- to 19-year-olds, conducted by the polling firm Peri-Undum, found that young women believed there were many ways to be a girl.
00:53:46.000They could shine in math, sports, music, leadership, the big caveat being that they still felt valued primarily for their appearance.
00:53:52.000That's a large caveat, and also notes something that is true of human evolutionary biology, which is how people look actually matters to people.
00:54:00.000Girls want to look good for boys and boys want to look good for girls?
00:54:04.000For the vast majority of the population?
00:54:06.000Young men, however, described just one narrow route to successful masculinity.
00:54:10.000One-third said they felt compelled to suppress their feelings, to suck it up, or be a man when they were sad or scared.
00:54:14.000More than 40% said that when they were angry, society expected them to be combative.
00:54:18.000First of all, those are both minority statistics.
00:54:20.000Second of all, The notion that you feel compelled to suppress your feelings or suck it up or be a man?
00:54:26.000What is wrong with the idea that you ought to be a man in trying circumstances?
00:54:30.000Being a man in trying circumstances is one of the tests of being a man.
00:54:33.000Manhood does mean sucking it up when things get rough.
00:54:36.000It doesn't mean you can't express your feelings to immediate family.
00:54:38.000It doesn't mean you can't feel those things.
00:54:40.000It does mean that being a man means duty and it does mean responsibility.
00:54:44.000In another survey, which compared young men from the US, the UK, and Mexico, Americans reported more social pressure to be ever ready for sex, and to get with as many women as possible.
00:54:52.000They also acknowledged more stigma against homosexuality, and they received more messages, they should control their female partners, as in, men deserve to know the whereabouts of their girlfriends or wives at all times.
00:55:01.000Wait a second, you mean that as religious observance in America declined, that as the left destroyed traditional notions of sexual morality, men reverted to an evolutionary instinct to get with as many women as possible and then brag about it?
00:55:13.000Who could have predicted that when you get rid of the institutions of civilization, that might be replaced by simple, individual, aggressive, testosterone-driven instinct?
00:55:22.000Who could have predicted such a thing, except for the entire history of human civilization?
00:55:27.000Feminism may have provided girls, says this writer Julie Oppenheimer, with a powerful alternative to conventional femininity, and a language with which to express the myriad problems that have no name.
00:55:36.000But there have been no credible equivalents for boys, quite the contrary.
00:55:39.000The definition of masculinity seems to be in some respects contracting.
00:55:42.000When asked what traits society values most in boys, only 2% of male respondents in the periundum survey said honesty and morality, only 8% said leadership skills.
00:55:50.000When I asked my subjects as I always did what they liked about being a boy, most of them drew a blank.
00:55:54.000Hum used Josh, a college sophomore at Washington State.
00:55:57.000That's interesting, I never really thought about that.
00:55:58.000You hear a lot more about what is wrong with guys.
00:56:01.000So, if you are going to spend several decades telling boys and men that everything that is wrong with society is what's wrong with them, And then you ask them, a woman particularly asks them, what's good about being a boy?
00:56:11.000They don't know what to answer, because they're afraid that what they answer will be seen as sexist.
00:56:15.000If a boy said, you know what I like about being a boy?
00:56:17.000That I'm expected to be in a leadership role.
00:56:18.000Be like, women don't have leadership roles too?
00:56:22.000Or if they said, you know what I like about being a boy?
00:56:42.000According to this writer for the Atlantic, it wasn't always thus.
00:56:45.000According to Andrew Smiler, a psychologist who has studied the history of Western masculinity, the ideal late 19th century man was compassionate, a caretaker, but such qualities lost favor as paid labor moved from homes to factories during industrialization.
00:56:59.000I'd just like to note, if the ideal late 19th century man, so this would be like 1890, was a caretaker and compassionate, that antedates the Industrial Revolution by about half a century.
00:57:10.000So it really is not the Industrial Revolution that changed everything, it is the decline of religion in the West.
00:57:17.000The Boy Scouts, whose creed urges its members to be loyal, friendly, courteous, and kind, was founded in 1910 in part to counter the dehumanizing trend Smiler attributes further distortions in masculinity to a century-long backlash against women's rights.
00:57:31.000Ah, so again, it's what's wrong with men.
00:57:34.000During World War I, women proved they could keep the economy humming on their own.
00:57:37.000Soon afterward, they secured the vote.
00:57:39.000Instead of embracing gender equality, says this scholar, the country's leaders doubled down on the inalienable male right to power, emphasizing men's supposedly more logical and less emotional nature as a prerequisite for leadership.
00:57:50.000Well, I'm confused as to the evidence for this proposition.
00:57:54.000First of all, the notion that men are generally less emotional than women.
00:57:58.000There have been some fairly good studies on this that suggest that women do have different emotional traits than men.
00:58:05.000That does not mean that women can't be great leaders.
00:58:07.000I can name Margaret Thatcher as a great leader.
00:58:08.000I mean, there have been a lot of female great... I'm a huge Nikki Haley fan.
00:58:12.000That's to suggest there are no differences between men and women in any of these categories, and then be like, but why don't men take a special role?
00:58:18.000And when you destroy what men believe to be the traditional role of masculinity, and a special role for masculinity, what are they left with?
00:58:29.000According to this article, during the second half of the 20th century, traditional paths to manhood, early marriage, and breadwinning began to close, along with the positive traits associated with them.
00:58:37.000Today, many parents are unsure how to raise a boy.
00:58:39.000What sort of masculinity to encourage in their sons?
00:58:44.000They're not unsure, because they understand that it is the job of a male to protect and defend the happiness, health, and innocence of his wife and children.
00:58:56.000That's what it's called to be a good man.
00:58:58.000That doesn't mean that women don't have a role in doing those things too.
00:59:01.000But men certainly have a role in doing all these things.
00:59:04.000And when the feminist movement robbed men of this role and cast men into this bobbing sea, this weird sea of nothing is expected of you, why would you then expect anything of men?
00:59:17.000Either something's expected or it isn't.
00:59:20.000This woman says, Yes, the void left by the destruction of exactly the perspective on masculinity that the left destroyed.
00:59:36.000And then boys don't have any place to go.
00:59:37.000And then everybody's like, why are men acting terribly?
00:59:39.000Because when you don't expect anything of boys, they don't become men.
00:59:43.000When you don't expect anything of boys, they don't become men.
00:59:45.000When you refuse to teach them that men have something special to do, they lose a cause, they lose a purpose, and they revert back to, again, that teenage-dominant, aggressive, testosterone-driven instinct.
00:59:55.000Okay, we ran out of time for things I hate, so we'll have to save that for something else, but we'll be here later today with two additional hours of content, or we'll see you here tomorrow.
01:00:36.000Barack Obama is convinced that women are better than men.
01:00:40.000At an event in Singapore, he declared women are indisputably better than men, and everything would be much better if women were in charge.
01:00:48.000Meanwhile, in Washington, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez complained that she couldn't figure out how to enroll in any of the 66 taxpayer-subsidized health insurance plans that she's eligible for.
01:01:00.000We will examine how little Barack Obama understands.