Ben Shapiro talks about a woman who threw a drink at conservative commentator Tomi Lahren at a brunch and why it's a good thing she's not a fan of hers. He also talks about President Trump's latest tweet storm, the deep state, and why the city of Seattle is bankrupting itself. He also discusses why the polls are beginning to point in favor of President Trump in the midterms and why Hillary Clinton supporters should be embarrassed by the amount of violence that went on at Trump rallies in 2016. And he asks the question, why is there so much anger directed at people who disagree with the president and his policies? And why is it that the left is so desperate to delegitimize the Trump administration and its efforts to elect a conservative president in 2020? Ben Shapiro is the host of the Daily Wire podcast "The Ben Shapiro Show" and host of "The Daily Wire Radio Show" on SiriusXM Radio's "Politics with Ben Shapiro" and "The Weekly Standard" on Fox News Channel's "The Situation Room" with Alex Castellanos. He's also a regular contributor on CNN and CNN's "ACOS" and hosts "The FiveThirtyEight" and is a frequent guest on "The Tonight Show with John Dickerson and Alex Blumberg on CBS Radio's Hard Knocks." and "MSNBC's Morning Show with Rachel Maddow on CBS News. and is the author of the new book, "The White House Correspondent's Guide to America's Most Influencer, "America's Most Powerful Person." and hosts of "America s Most Powerful People." He can be found on social media accounts on Insta-style social media and blogs, and he is a regular on the internet, and on the radio show, and radio show on the airwaves, and so much more! Click here to connect with him on all of that and more. on his new show on his website and on his newest podcast, on the social medias and social media platforms, including his new podcast, The Daily Wire and his new book "The Sixets." , The FiveThirtyFiveThirtyEight is a new podcast is now on the FourThirtyEight. . His new book is out now on Amazon's newest podcast is out on Tuesday, July 31st, and is available for purchase on Amazon Prime and Vimeo on Wednesday, August 8th, 2019, and October 9th, 2020.
00:00:14.000Oh, it's a tweet storm day for President Trump.
00:00:16.000Category 5 tweet storm from the President, so we'll get into that in just a second.
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00:02:03.000There's no question that's an outlier.
00:02:05.000The poll average still has Republicans down about four points.
00:02:07.000That said, there has been a slow but incremental increase in Republican vote share in the congressional ballot for the last several months.
00:02:26.000And I think that the answer lies in the fact that so many on the left have decided to just treat people with whom they disagree in deplorable fashion.
00:02:33.000The latest example of this is Tomi Lahren, okay?
00:02:36.000So Tomi Lahren goes out to brunch with her mom, and a bunch of people decide to scream at Tomi Lahren and then throw drinks on her.
00:02:54.000So there's a person who's tossing a drink at Tomi Lahren for no reason, because you're so cool, because you tossed a drink at Tomi Lahren for the great sin of going to brunch with her mother.
00:03:03.000Now, you don't have to be a Tomi Lahren fan to understand that this is awful behavior.
00:03:37.000But if you're talking about widespread violence, wide-scale violence, I believe there was a rally in San Jose where violence broke out.
00:03:43.000There was the rally in Chicago that had to be canceled because of violence outside.
00:03:47.000The Democrats have decided to go full-scale 1968, and this sort of behavior is not going to help their cause.
00:03:53.000Now, maybe this person feels they're gonna be cheered on social media for having thrown a glass of water at Tomi Lahren, but I just don't know what you gain through all of this.
00:04:01.000Same thing is happening over at Harvard.
00:04:06.000They used their alumni notes to attack Jared Kushner.
00:04:09.000So according to Mediaite, once every five years, this has been done since the 19th century, Harvard alumni write class notes, informally referred to as the Red Book, to keep in touch with one another.
00:04:18.000The Red Book consists of big life updates such as work, marriages, and children.
00:04:21.000In this year's Red Book for the class of 2003, 15 years after graduation, these updates are interspersed with attacks on Kushner, according to the Boston Globe.
00:05:21.000Why would Jared Kushner sit around wondering how some girl he probably never met when he was at Harvard cares about the movement of the embassy to Jerusalem?
00:05:28.000As people were being massacred, he is a person who is doing horrible things as a black woman and a Jewish woman.
00:05:35.000He's not alone in doing these disgusting things, but he's certainly one of the active participants.
00:05:38.000I think it's emblematic of Harvard culture that people didn't want to call him out.
00:05:41.000I think people thought it was rude and didn't want to be rude.
00:05:43.000But I think genocide is rude, and I was happy to be rude.
00:05:45.000So, first of all, what happened, obviously, on the Gaza border was not genocide.
00:05:49.000It was Hamas tossing up a bunch of terrorists to get killed and putting them behind civilians in order to get civilians killed.
00:05:53.000But, again, it demonstrates the utter scorn and hatred that so many folks on the left seem to have for anybody on the right.
00:06:02.000By virtually any measure, Jared Kushner is one of the more moderate members of the Trump administration.
00:06:05.000The attempt to turn Jared Kushner into some sort of fascist crazy person and then to call him out in the Harvard Red Book, which is supposed to be for, like, sending each other nice notes,
00:06:15.000Demonstrative of the fact that the left has become so nasty toward people with whom it disagrees that they are actually alienating people into the moderate center or to the right.
00:06:24.000That's the reason that Trump is gaining in the polls.
00:06:27.000And the Democrats just keep campaigning further and further to the left.
00:06:30.000And Meghan McCain, she came out yesterday and she's on The View, and she said, you know, on The View, I'm so sick of people on the left
00:06:36.000Submitting that Planned Parenthood is the number one issue for all women.
00:06:39.000Why are you playing this identity politics game?
00:06:41.000Or if I disagree with you, it's because I must disagree with all women because all women deeply care about abortion.
00:06:46.000We've talked about this many times on the show.
00:06:47.000For me, my women's issues, foreign policy, number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
00:06:51.000And the idea that Planned Parenthood is the number one issue for women in America, all women.
00:06:55.000No, not the number one, but there are issues that are specific to women.
00:07:00.000I'm sick of the idea that all women's issues...
00:07:03.000There are issues that are specific to women, and women legislators are more likely to introduce legislation that specifically benefit women, and that's just a stat.
00:07:11.000If you go into midterm elections with that message, it is not going to be the blue wave you think it will be.
00:07:17.000Okay, Meghan McCain is exactly right here.
00:07:18.000The blue wave that was supposed to crest in November is actually petering out pretty far from shore here.
00:07:24.000And again, the reason for that is the antipathy that so many folks on the left hold for people on the right.
00:07:29.000It's also thanks to the cultural hegemony that is experienced by folks on the left.
00:07:36.000Throwing glasses of water at Tomi Lahren, Harvard alumni trying to shame Jared Kushner, and folks on the left implying that everybody on the right hates women and all this kind of stuff.
00:07:43.000At the same time, you have this nice warm cocoon of culture that has been created specifically for folks on the left.
00:07:50.000So it was revealed over the last couple of days that Barack and Michelle Obama will work both in front of and behind the camera in a multi-year production deal with Netflix.
00:08:16.000There's a reason that YouTube helped sponsor The Young Turks, but YouTube will demonetize Dave Rubin.
00:08:22.000There's a reason that all of these major media companies are happy to side with the left while excising the right.
00:08:28.000According to CNN.com, the unique pack was announced on Monday.
00:08:32.000The first content from the Obamas will appear in 2019 at the earliest, according to a person involved in the deal.
00:08:36.000Netflix did not specify a timeline, but the company's announcement of the deal said the Obamas will produce a diverse mix of content, including the potential for scripted series, unscripted series, docuseries, documentaries and features.
00:08:48.000Now, you might ask, what does Barack Obama or Michelle, what do these people know about producing film?
00:08:52.000The answer is, of course, they know nothing.
00:08:54.000What do these people know about great narrative art?
00:08:57.000The answer, of course, is they don't know anything.
00:09:00.000But because the people at Netflix are so blown away by the celebrity of the Obama, the Obama clan, they've decided that it's time to give them a multi-picture deal.
00:09:08.000You know how many people struggle in Hollywood to ever get one picture from Netflix?
00:09:11.000And Netflix is giving this entire broad-spectrum deal to the Obamas for no reason other than Barack Obama was a Democratic president that they admire and love.
00:09:19.000That warm cocoon is what's driving away so many Americans.
00:10:01.000is that when you feel ensconced in a cultural ivory tower where everyone loves you, everyone thinks like you, it is very easy to look down on the people outside the ivory tower and say, look at those rubes, look at those charlatans, look at those people like Tommy Lahren, look at these people who like Donald Trump.
00:10:26.000Barack Obama said, Yeah, because if there's one thing I think when I think the Obamas, I think empathy for their political opponents, whom they slandered routinely and repeatedly throughout their political career.
00:11:06.000When you don't see each other as brothers and sisters, when you see each other instead as enemies, it's pretty easy to make a case that the other person should be treated like garbage.
00:11:14.000It's easy to make the case that Jared Kushner is a fascist when you haven't spent any time with Jared Kushner or even looked at what he's done.
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00:12:50.000Who seem to hate you just because of your political points of view.
00:12:53.000It's no wonder so many people are resonating to President Trump, because now, if people are enemies, you want the biggest hammer you can find.
00:12:59.000And that's what President Trump has been doing.
00:13:00.000So President Trump comes out yesterday.
00:13:45.000We're not going to release violent criminals into our country.
00:13:51.000Now, as I've been saying for a long time, the most effective tactic to take in politics is not necessarily the best tactic to take for the country.
00:13:57.000So, I wrote an entire book called Bullies in 2013.
00:13:59.000The entire premise, right, it was a long time ago, the entire premise is that the Democrats were spending all of their time engaged in character assassination against Republicans, and if Republicans continued to play this game where they talked policy alone without rebutting the character assassination by attacking character of Democrats, then they would lose.
00:14:18.000President Trump understands character assassination better than pretty much anyone else in American public life.
00:14:24.000He's been both the victim of it and the perpetrator of it for virtually his entire career, and that's why so many people have flocked to his banner.
00:14:31.000The reason a lot of people are supporting President Trump right now is because you see a lot of people on the left, and you look at them, and they're yelling at people in MAGA hats, or they are trying to crash the party at particular Trump events, or they're throwing water at conservative commentators, and people go, okay, well at least Trump is fighting back.
00:14:46.000I promise you, that's the number one phrase you get from Trump supporters.
00:14:51.000And that is the perception, that he's fighting back.
00:14:53.000And this isn't to say that Democrats have to surrender their political principles, but if they actually want to be successful, they might want to think about treating the American public as potential friends, rather than as current enemies.
00:15:03.000If they continue to treat them as enemies, those enemies will go look for the best fighter they can find.
00:15:08.000The perspective of a lot of conservatives is the perspective of a lot of Americans, who don't like what the left are doing right now.
00:15:13.000Is the same perspective that was attributed apocryphally to Abraham Lincoln about Ulysses S. Grant.
00:15:21.000So long as the dude is slapping the right folks.
00:15:23.000Well, I mean, what are you going to do?
00:15:25.000Bend over for all these folks who are throwing water at you and yelling at you and taking out ads in the Harvard alumni newspaper to target you and calling you a rube and an idiot and signing deals with the Obamas at Netflix?
00:15:36.000Better to have somebody who fights than somebody who's not going to fight properly at all.
00:15:40.000And that's one of the reasons why I think the Trump investigation, the Trump-Russia investigation, is actually not redounding to Democrats' benefit.
00:15:45.000So, let's talk about that for a second.
00:15:47.000Democrats are very, very upset that President Trump appears to be pushing the DOJ to investigate the so-called FBI spying into his campaign.
00:15:56.000Now, as I say, I am very skeptical that the FBI launched
00:16:38.000Well, apparently the guy who was the quote-unquote spy was a professor who'd written a couple of books, none of them very good.
00:16:43.000He was actually, the professor who was the apparent spy, it is worth noting, was actually considered by Peter Navarro, a current Trump administration member, for a position inside the Trump administration after Trump's actual election.
00:16:53.000He was paid, he was offered like $3,000 for a piece of writing, to write an essay or something.
00:16:59.000Not sure why that is a giant, a giant overpay.
00:17:31.000And then President Trump continues along these lines.
00:17:33.000Look how things have turned around on the criminal deep state, all caps.
00:17:36.000They go after phony collusion with Russia, a made up scam, and end up getting caught in a major spy scandal, the likes of which the country may never have seen before.
00:17:45.000Now, as I say, if it turns out that the Obama administration was sicking informants on the Trump campaign in order to crush the Trump campaign,
00:18:34.000Which, as soon as he says witch hunt, I just think of duck hunt, and I'm seven years old again playing in my grandmother's basement, and shooting the ducks with the gun right up to the TV.
00:18:57.000Yeah, look, does President Trump have solid backing for these accusations?
00:19:11.000No, but we're going to find out in this investigation, you would hope.
00:19:14.000But the point is this, Democrats have decided that President Trump has no authority to do any of this, and so they've decided that he is a dictator.
00:19:23.000Trump may not have support for this position that he was spied on by the Deep State in any serious fashion, and by the same token, or at least not in an unjustified fashion, and by the same token, when Democrats say things like Trump is a dictator, it's really stupid.
00:19:35.000So when you have Mazie Hirono, who is the Democratic senator from Hawaii, saying that Trump is like a dictator, how is he like a dictator?
00:19:41.000We have a system of checks and—what?
00:20:16.000See, this is the part where Donald Trump has a gift that just keeps on giving, and that is that everybody on the left will always overreact to everything he does.
00:20:24.000So, what they should say is, President Trump has no support for any of the things that he is tweeting, and it's a slander on our intelligence community to suggest that they were politically motivated in their investigations into George Papadopoulos and Carter Page.
00:20:36.000And they should just stick with that, that this guy's talking nonsense.
00:20:39.000Instead, they go to, he's a dictator, he's like Duterte in the Philippines, who kills drug dealers.
00:20:44.000He's like Erdogan, who imprisons and murders his political opponents.
00:20:48.000He's like Putin, who's done exactly the same.
00:22:13.000So they've spent all of their time ripping on President Trump and suggesting that President Trump is on the verge of being taken down, and their favorite story now is that Michael Cohen's business partner named Evgeny Friedman has agreed to cooperate as part of a plea deal.
00:22:27.000It is not clear that this is going to have any ramifications for Trump in any serious way.
00:22:30.000According to CNBC, Evgeny Friedman has agreed to cooperate.
00:22:33.000The cooperation by the taxi king Friedman could spell very bad news for Cohen,
00:23:43.000It has three major companies, more than that, actually, that are located there.
00:23:46.000It has Microsoft, Amazon, and Starbucks, all of which are located in the city of Seattle, and Boeing, which is located just outside the city of Seattle, Tacoma, Seattle area.
00:24:07.000The head tax was a couple hundred bucks per employee for companies that make over $20 million a year.
00:24:13.000And this money was supposed to go to alleviate the homeless problem.
00:24:16.000It will not alleviate the homeless problem, because the homeless problem is created by the fact that if you won't arrest people who are sleeping on the streets, and if you won't allow people to build more housing because of building regulations, then you're going to end up with more homeless people on the streets.
00:24:30.000And that's especially true if you implement maybe like a $15 minimum wage, which Seattle did a couple of years ago, and in doing so, helped crush a lot of small businesses and force a lot of people out of jobs.
00:24:40.000Well now, they've decided, Seattle City Council, they've decided to go even further.
00:24:45.000Now they're considering an enormous property tax on all of these people.
00:24:48.000So according to Q13Fox, King County homeowners, which is where Seattle is located, they saw a bump of 17% in their property taxes in 2017.
00:24:56.000But now, city council members want to see property taxes increased even more.
00:24:59.000Council members Lorena Gonzalez and Rob Johnson are sponsoring the measure, which states the council wants to lift the limit on regular property taxes in order to levy additional taxes.
00:25:08.000In 2014, Seattle voters approved a $58 million dollar levy allowing low-income kids to go to preschool for free.
00:25:13.000Since 2015, the city says the program has allowed affordable or free preschool to 850 families.
00:25:19.000So, just to do that quick calculation, okay?
00:25:22.000That means that there are $58 million dollars.
00:25:25.000That means that they have spent to put each of these preschool families in preschool.
00:25:29.000And I assume that's about one child per family?
00:25:42.000You could have just signed them a check, gang.
00:25:48.000Now the city wants to send hundreds more to preschool, and Mayor Jenny Durkan's office is pushing to send high school graduates to community college for free.
00:25:54.000So they're going to establish their socialist utopia on the back of — or redistributionist, at the very least, utopia — on the back of major businesses they will tax out of business.
00:26:03.000The property tax would amount to, on average, more than another $250 per year for homeowners.
00:26:09.000Now, has any of this alleviated living conditions in Seattle?
00:26:20.000Their residential building code is another 685 pages.
00:26:24.000So it's impossible to build anything in Seattle.
00:26:27.000The Seattle City Council has focused far more on road diets, far more on road diets, narrowing roads via bike lanes, than on the quality of traffic.
00:26:35.000King County spent billions of dollars on useless light rail.
00:26:37.000They allotted something like $50 billion for a stupid light rail that nobody cares about.
00:26:43.000But now they want to bust a homeowner's wallet again after instituting a $15 minimum wage.
00:26:47.000This is how you empty out major American cities.
00:26:49.000First, you create building codes because you want to maintain the pristine aura of the area.
00:26:54.000Then, you raise rents because there's less housing and more demand and less supply.
00:26:58.000Then, you increase minimum wage to compensate, which drives out small business.
00:27:02.000Then you tax the big businesses to compensate.
00:27:08.000This is how you empty out a major American city.
00:27:10.000Detroit used to be a booming city, and then Democrats got a hold of it and they turned it to crap.
00:27:14.000That's not a great shock, because this is what Democrats do with policy.
00:27:18.000This is what Democrats do with policy.
00:27:20.000And no wonder they're relying on President Trump's supposed
00:27:25.000Supposed out-of-the-box ridiculousness as president to try and drive them to victory, their policies are not attractive.
00:27:31.000Nothing they are doing right now is attractive policy.
00:27:34.000And by the way, Barack Obama's agenda is completely collapsing.
00:27:37.000I mean, Donald Trump is erasing the Obama agenda one bill at a time, basically.
00:27:43.000The Dodd-Frank bill is now being dismantled piece by piece.
00:27:46.000So according to NBC News, the House voted late on Tuesday to pass a bill that will change significant aspects of Dodd-Frank, which is the banking reform bill introduced
00:27:53.000After loose lending and risky measures by financial institutions led to the country's worst recession since the Great Depression, since it passed in 2010, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Consumer Protection Act has been the target of animosity by many conservatives and the banking industry.
00:28:33.000It included the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has not been used for consumer financial protection, but instead has been used for cronyism by Democrats in an attempt to shut down businesses they don't like.
00:28:44.000It has led to increased bank reporting requirements, as well as the so-called Volcker Rule in an attempt to separate hedge funds from—they've tried to reestablish Glass-Steagall, separating hedge funds from investment banks and all of the rest.
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00:31:08.000All righty, so, back to the Dodd-Frank bill.
00:31:11.000So, according to NBC News, the proposed changes, to be called systemically important and subject to more regulations, banks would need assets of $250 billion rather than the current $50 billion.
00:31:22.000That significantly reduces the number considered too big to fail.
00:31:25.000As I said, Dodd-Frank, one of the worst things that it did is it enshrined a certain amount of risk-taking by these banks.
00:31:30.000Basically what they said is that in the aftermath of the financial collapse,
00:31:37.000The reason they undertook great risk is because of something we call moral hazard in economics.
00:31:41.000Moral hazard is the idea that if I pay you to do something stupid, or if you know they're going to pick you up and brush you off when you do something stupid, you're more likely to do something stupid.
00:31:49.000So, moral hazard is me saving my son from falling off the back of a chair.
00:31:53.000Okay, moral, it creates a certain, I should do it because he's my kid, but it creates a certain amount of moral hazard because now he thinks that he can stand on the back of the chair with no real ramifications.
00:32:01.000Well, the bank was standing on the back of the chair and the government picked them up and brushed them off.
00:32:05.000And Dodd-Frank, instead of saying, listen, from now on, we're not doing this anymore.
00:32:09.000You go bankrupt, you go bankrupt, that's the end of it.
00:32:12.000Instead, Dodd-Frank enshrined all of these banks and said, if you have $50 billion in assets, well, then we will enshrine you as too big to fail and we will pay you off.
00:32:20.000And then they said, in order to prevent you from taking these risks, we are now going to regulate you from taking the risks.
00:32:25.000So you get the downside of too big to fail, and you also get the downsides of banks that are not willing to undertake loans that they may not have taken before.
00:33:44.000I mean, it's been used to crack down on businesses.
00:33:47.000It's been used to crack down on particular actors that members of the government don't like.
00:33:54.000According to Diane Katz over at the Heritage Foundation, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created by Dodd-Frank is living up to its billing as one of the most powerful and unaccountable federal agencies ever created after just 18 months.
00:34:06.000She wrote this shortly after its creation in 2012.
00:34:08.000And with the staff exceeding 1,000 and funding of $600 million, the Bureau is restructuring the mortgage market, devising restrictions on credit bureaus, education loans, overdraft policies, payday lenders, credit card plans, and prepaid cards, amassing unverified complaints
00:34:22.000With which to assail creditors and bankers.
00:34:25.000And they're basically unelected, the folks over at the CFPB.
00:34:28.000You remember that earlier this year there was a big fight over the CFPB because President Trump wanted to restaff it using Mick Mulvaney to clean the place out, and Democrats cried foul.
00:35:24.000It would look a lot more like America's abortion laws in a lot of states.
00:35:28.000All you're required to have an abortion in Ireland is two physicians saying the pregnancy would harm the mental or physical health of the woman in any way, which is a pretty low bar to clear.
00:35:37.000So this means that babies who have not been killed up to this point would obviously be killed in much larger numbers.
00:35:42.000The pro-abortion side is being incredibly disingenuous in Ireland.
00:35:45.000So there have been a bunch of ads that were taken out featuring Down syndrome babies because abortion in Western countries has been used as basically a eugenic sterilization measure to prevent the birth of Down syndrome babies.
00:35:56.000Well, the folks in Ireland were very upset about this.
00:35:59.000The Irish Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar, condemned pro-lifers.
00:36:24.000Social media have taken their lead from the Irish Prime Minister, from the Irish President.
00:36:30.000The Life News reports that the Washington Post says that Facebook announced that it would stop accepting related advertisements from groups based outside Ireland.
00:36:38.000So if you're a pro-life group based outside Ireland, there would be no new ads that were allowed to go up during this Irish referendum.
00:36:44.000The restriction testifies to the depth of concern that foreign advertising could skew the outcome.
00:36:49.000This, by the way, is a great indicator of just how the left is going to use worries about Russian collusion and Russian interference in order to shut down messages they don't like.
00:36:57.000Pro-life groups including the Pro-life Campaign, the Save the 8th group and the Iona Institute say that they are being censored by Facebook and by Google.
00:37:03.000According to the UK Spectator, posters of unborn children have been torn down around Ireland as well.
00:37:11.000Right now the polls show that the attempt to repeal protection for the unborn in Ireland is likely to pass.
00:37:17.000That babies will again be allowed to be killed in Ireland in large numbers.
00:37:21.000It's a real tragedy that so many folks who grew up in a civilization that was predicated on the individual worth of each human life are now rejecting that in favor of this bizarre notion of autonomy that included killing the unborn in the womb.
00:37:37.000It really is tragic, by the way, that the Catholic Church has not taken a stronger hand in this debate.
00:37:41.000The Catholic Church obviously still has an enormous amount of sway in Ireland, but they've stayed out of the debate for the most part.
00:37:46.000You know, we can all hope and pray that the folks in Ireland do the right thing and kick back against this leftist attempt to re-enshrine abortion as some sort of fundamental right for people who want to kill babies in the womb.
00:38:22.000I don't think we should have music talking about n****s and b****s. It had no impact.
00:38:28.000I've said it, I've repeated it, I still repeat it, to me that's more damaging than a statue of Robert E. Lee.
00:38:38.000That statue of Robert E. Lee took me, I saw the statue, my great uncle hated it, I talked about it, but try to talk somewhere in front of a group of black folks about turning that off.
00:38:52.000If you are not a black person and you say that the rap culture is not good for people of any stripe, that rap culture focuses on mistreatment of women, use of drugs, materialistic nonsense, then this is considered racist in some sort of way.
00:39:06.000It is not racist to point out that any cultural totem that glorifies the vile is not going to be good for a large number of people.
00:39:14.000And it seems to me that there should be more folks across the political aisle who point out that when there are rap songs that glorify disgusting things, that this actually has a cultural impact.
00:39:25.000And more of a cultural impact, by the way, as Wynton Marsalis says, than these Confederate statues.
00:39:30.000I'm not a huge fan of Confederate statues because I think that honoring people who were slaveholders or fighting to uphold slavery is not a good thing.
00:39:36.000I'm also not in favor of ripping down those Confederate statues.
00:39:38.000I have the same opinion as Condoleezza Rice on this.
00:39:40.000I think that it is valuable to have those statues in place specifically so we can have hard conversations about America's history, how America has changed, whether the statues ought to be up should be an ongoing conversation.
00:39:51.000You know, wiping away history I don't think is worthwhile.
00:39:54.000But if you're talking about what's more damaging to black children, rap culture, or that statue of Robert E. Lee they've never seen in a park four miles away, I don't think that that's much of a comparison.
00:40:04.000It seems to me that's not much of a comparison.
00:40:06.000And it turns out that culture has a relatively large impact on how people think.
00:40:09.000Which is, of course, one of the reasons why people are so intent on preventing the right from seizing the cultural high ground.
00:40:17.000It's why Obama gets a deal with Netflix.
00:40:19.000It's also why there's a controversy that's broken out over Ed Sheeran.
00:40:23.000So Ed Sheeran has a song called Small Bump.
00:40:25.000It came out a few years ago, and it's been used by pro-lifers.
00:40:28.000The reason it's been used by pro-lifers is because it is obviously a pro-life song.
00:40:31.000He wrote it about a woman he knew who'd had a miscarriage, and here is what the song sounds like.
00:41:10.000We were just a small bump unborn For four months then torn from life
00:41:18.000Okay, so if you missed those lyrics, he's talking about how this small bump is a person, basically, right?
00:41:28.000Okay, so a bunch of pro-life groups started using this.
00:41:49.000So Ed Sheeran says, he says, you shouldn't use my video to push a pro-life message because there are a bunch of people who, based on the Irish referendum, were using this for the no campaign in the Irish referendum.
00:42:15.000And when people in politics say culture is upstream from politics, this holds true whether it is bad culture.
00:42:20.000I'm not saying every rap song is equivalently bad or all rap is by necessity bad.
00:42:24.000I'm saying that too much of rap culture is about brutalization of women, use of drugs, glorification of crime.
00:42:30.000You know, that has a cultural impact, and so do songs like Ed Sheeran's, which is why his art is beyond him, okay?
00:42:37.000What happens in that song is beyond his capacity to hold that in, because it does promulgate what I think is a pretty important message.
00:42:43.000Okay, time for a couple of things I like, and then maybe we'll do a thing I hate.
00:42:47.000So the thing I like today, there's a good book by William Lane Craig.
00:42:50.000William Lane Craig is a Christian theologian.
00:42:53.000He's written this massive tome, along with, I'm trying to remember the name of the guy who co-wrote it with him, about Christian apologetics and arguments on behalf of God.
00:43:01.000A much shorter version of that is a book called En Garde, Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision, with a foreword by Lee Strobel.
00:43:07.000It's a pretty good, I would say, guide to sort of how to argue faith.
00:43:12.000The last third of the book is great for Christians in terms of trying to argue the veracity of their faith.
00:43:16.000I don't buy a lot of the arguments, but that's because I'm Jewish.
00:43:19.000The first two thirds of the book is really about sort of the generic defense of God.
00:43:22.000Why it is not unreasonable to believe that God exists from a rational point of view.
00:43:26.000Why it is not unreasonable to believe that you need God in order to create a moral system.
00:43:32.000He's a good debater, William Lane Craig, and if you ever watch a debate that he did with Sam Harris, it's pretty fascinating to watch.
00:43:46.000On the show, I did a... This is so stupid.
00:43:50.000I did the lyrics to Kendrick Lamar's Mad City because there was a big story about how Kendrick Lamar had brought up a white woman on stage to sing Mad City, and then when she sang his exact lyrics, then he got mad at her because he's the idiot who wrote a bunch of N-words in the lyrics.
00:44:03.000And then when she spoke to him, he was like, no, you can't say that.
00:44:05.000Well, so yesterday I did the lyrics without the N-word to demonstrate that it is unlistenable.
00:44:10.000And somebody promptly, we have lots of listeners, somebody promptly took my read of the lyrics and inserted it into the song.
00:44:16.000As you can see, this may not be where my talent lies.
00:44:49.000OK, so this is unbelievable and it just demonstrates Democrats got nothing.
00:44:53.000I mean, lately, the Democratic left has nothing, no ideas, nothing.
00:44:57.000The mayor of West Hollywood, California, will join city officials on Wednesday to present adult film star Stormy Daniels with a key to the city.
00:45:05.000And a city proclamation, according to a media advisory.
00:45:08.000In the press release, city officials recognized Daniels for her leadership in the resist movement and noted that the city has previously passed resolutions calling for articles of impeachment to be introduced against President Trump.
00:45:17.000Right, because Trump cares deeply that the city of West Hollywood thinks he ought to be impeached.
00:45:23.000The city of West Hollywood thinks he ought to be impeached.
00:45:24.000For people who don't know, the city of West Hollywood very, very much to the left.
00:45:28.000They actually fly the rainbow flag above the city hall in West Hollywood.
00:45:30.000So they are very, very much to the left.
00:45:33.000Daniels, according to the press release, has proven herself to be a profile encouraged by speaking truth to power, even under threats to her safety and extreme intimidation.
00:45:43.000Seems to me she took $130,000 from the President of the United States and then has been making a lot more money and a lot more hay by talking about how one time she had sex with him.