The Ben Shapiro Show - The Real Fight Night: Preview | Ep. 859

00:00:00.000 Tonight is fight night!

00:00:02.000 Elizabeth Warren prepares to take on Joe Biden, Democrats try somewhat unconstitutional methods to push gun control, and President Trump's asylum policy receives a reprieve from the Supreme Court.

00:00:11.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:13.000 Are you pumped, brother?

00:00:19.000 Because tonight is the real fight night.

00:00:22.000 Get ready for it.

00:00:23.000 Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden on the same stage.

00:00:26.000 Two old people going at each other with tennis balls on the bottom of their walkers. 0.83

00:00:30.000 It's going to be unbelievable.

00:00:32.000 You're going to love every moment of Elizabeth Warren yelling at you like she's an annoying member of your HOA and Joe Biden walking into things.

00:00:39.000 It's going to be incredible.

00:00:40.000 We'll go through all of the preview for that.

00:00:43.000 Plus, Democrats are now pushing this new method of gun control.

00:00:46.000 It's called, let's violate the First Amendment repeatedly by not passing any laws, but pressuring private companies not to do legal things.

00:00:53.000 We'll get into all of that in just one second.

00:00:55.000 First, let's talk about the economic volatility that we've been seeing.

00:00:59.000 So we've been seeing enormous economic volatility of late.

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00:02:15.000 All right, so tonight, tonight, the debate that we've all been waiting for with bated breath, Because it's Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren on the same stage.

00:02:22.000 Now, remember, we've had two other debates, and randomly, Elizabeth Warren ended up in the debate with all of the people who don't matter, and Joe Biden ended up in the other debate, right, with Kamala Harris, who was attacking him, and he ended up on a debate stage with Bernie Sanders at one point.

00:02:35.000 But Elizabeth Warren has basically been shielded from any serious criticism of her on any of the debate stages so far.

00:02:42.000 Well, tonight, she's the one who enters with a lot of the momentum.

00:02:45.000 So there are two separate polls that show Elizabeth Warren gaining ground. 0.71

00:02:48.000 There's one poll from The Economist YouGov that shows Joe Biden with 26% support among registered voters.

00:02:54.000 The same poll shows Elizabeth Warren at 26%.

00:02:58.000 So they are tied at 26% in this Economist YouGov poll.

00:03:03.000 Now, that Economist YouGov poll has had Elizabeth Warren polling a lot stronger than the other polls have been in the last several months. 0.93

00:03:10.000 They've shown Elizabeth Warren within three to four points in a solid second place over Bernie Sanders for a very long time.

00:03:16.000 That poll is a bit of an outlier.

00:03:17.000 But there's another poll from CNN that seems to confirm some of this.

00:03:20.000 There's a new CNN SSRS poll, and it shows that Joe Biden continues to lead the Democratic primaries with 24 percent.

00:03:28.000 But that is down five points from mid-August.

00:03:30.000 So in about a month, he's down five points in that CNN poll.

00:03:34.000 Meanwhile, Elizabeth Warren is now edging out Bernie Sanders for second.

00:03:37.000 She's at 18 percent from 14 percent.

00:03:39.000 Bernie Sanders is at 17 percent.

00:03:41.000 That's slightly up from 15 percent last month.

00:03:43.000 So in other words, Biden looks to be bleeding.

00:03:46.000 In a lot of these polls, while Elizabeth Warren looks to be gaining, and Bernie Sanders actually looks to be gaining just a little bit.

00:03:52.000 In the RealClearPolitics poll average, Biden is still up fairly substantially.

00:03:56.000 He's got about a 10-point lead on the rest of the field.

00:03:59.000 He's got about 27% in the RealClearPolitics poll average, with Sanders at 17 and Warren at 17 as well.

00:04:05.000 There's a Reuters-Ipsos poll that came out today, which is a little bit more typical of sort of polling data of late, but it has Biden all the way down at 22%.

00:04:13.000 It has Biden at 22, Sanders at 16, Warren at 11, meaning that Biden isn't riding in the 30% range he needs to be riding if he wishes to walk away with this nomination.

00:04:22.000 Now, the Hill-Harris poll also has Biden at about 27%, with Sanders at 15 and Warren at 12.

00:04:29.000 So there's significant differences in these polls as to whether Warren is in second or whether Sanders is in second.

00:04:35.000 But Biden appears to be receding back to the field, just like his hairline once did before he fixed that.

00:04:41.000 The fact is that Joe Biden seems to be on the downturn here, and that is because he's sort of gaffing along.

00:04:47.000 Nobody's super enthused about him.

00:04:49.000 Everybody sort of assumed that he was going to waltz to the nomination, at least in the conventional media.

00:04:54.000 Some of us suggested that his best day would be his first day and maintain that for months at a time.

00:04:58.000 Now, Joe Biden still has solid support in the black community, but if he starts to lose, if the aura of inevitability is gone, he's basically toast.

00:05:05.000 Remember when Jeb Bush jumped into the 2016 race, he was leading in the polls.

00:05:09.000 He had an established name.

00:05:10.000 He was popular.

00:05:11.000 And then he began receding to the field quite quickly.

00:05:14.000 And then he didn't win a single primary.

00:05:15.000 So you could see that happening with Joe Biden as time goes on right here.

00:05:19.000 Now, there's another problem for Joe Biden, and that's not and that he is not nearly as moderate as he makes himself out to be.

00:05:26.000 Now, he could run as a solid moderate in the Democratic Party, but what we have seen from Joe Biden is Biden vacillating on his positions.

00:05:33.000 Now, maybe that's because he forgot his positions.

00:05:35.000 Quite possible.

00:05:36.000 I mean, he literally doesn't know which town he is in half the time.

00:05:38.000 But Joe Biden is not nearly as moderate as he makes himself out to be.

00:05:41.000 McClatchy has a long article about this today, talking about how Joe Biden's platform is actually a lot more to the left than Hillary Clinton's was in 2016.

00:05:50.000 According to McClatchy, the 2020 Democratic frontrunner's emerging policy agenda is anything but moderate, at least compared to the party's last presidential nominee.

00:05:58.000 From health care to climate change to criminal justice, Biden has proposed ideas more ambitious and liberal than policies supported by Hillary Clinton in the 2016 campaign.

00:06:07.000 Now, that's not a shock.

00:06:07.000 The entire party has moved to the left, but Biden's supposed to be the moderate.

00:06:11.000 Taken as a whole, Biden's policy platform represents a significant shift from Clinton's.

00:06:16.000 According to McClatchy, on nearly every major issue, Biden has either exponentially increased the scope of what Clinton proposed or advocated for new ideas that most Democrats would have, up until now, recently considered fringe.

00:06:28.000 The former VP's embrace of an unabashedly liberal agenda cuts against some perceptions of him, both from progressives who criticize Biden as insufficiently bold and center-left allies who argue he can appeal to voters in the middle in an election against Donald Trump.

00:06:41.000 Now, this is an important point.

00:06:44.000 If it appears that Biden is moving substantially to the left, he loses his reason for being in this race.

00:06:49.000 If he is too moderate, he doesn't excite the base enough to actually win the primaries.

00:06:53.000 So he's stuck between a rock and a hard place.

00:06:55.000 Exactly the same thing that would allow him to win a general election kills him in the primaries.

00:06:59.000 And if he moves left during the primaries, it undercuts his case that he would be super electable in a general election.

00:07:04.000 So he is now trapped between the progressive woke base of the Democratic Party and the bulk of Americans who are looking for some sort of return to normalcy, something that is relatively inoffensive.

00:07:15.000 Now, Biden's been able to sort of bridge that gap so far by just being old.

00:07:19.000 I really mean that.

00:07:19.000 It actually cuts in his favor.

00:07:21.000 See, if Biden wants to appear the safe pick, what could be safer than Grandpa Joe wandering around, bumping into the furniture?

00:07:28.000 He's not threatening in any way.

00:07:30.000 He's not going to take your savings account.

00:07:31.000 He doesn't even know what a savings account is anymore.

00:07:33.000 He's half senile.

00:07:34.000 Joe Biden, the age thing cuts in his favor in a general election, but in a primary, it ain't exciting anybody.

00:07:41.000 And now he's moving to the left, as McClatchy points out.

00:07:45.000 Biden's current set of policy prescriptions would likely be considered radical if they had been proposed in any previous Democratic presidential primary.

00:07:52.000 On healthcare, Hillary Clinton proposed offering a public insurance plan for Americans enrolled in healthcare exchanges.

00:07:58.000 She wanted to let adults older than 55 buy into Medicare.

00:08:00.000 But Biden goes much further.

00:08:02.000 He wants to allow all Americans to buy into a public-based plan, a government-backed insurance plan, a shift some progressives have said would represent an enormous change to Obamacare.

00:08:12.000 Clinton proposed spending $60 billion on a clean energy fund.

00:08:15.000 Biden wants to spend $1.7 trillion in federal money to make the country emit a net of zero-carbon emissions by 2050.

00:08:23.000 Biden is also pushing to triple Title I funding for schools that educate low-income students and to abolish the federal death penalty while encouraging states to do the same.

00:08:32.000 Clinton wanted to maintain capital punishment in certain situations.

00:08:36.000 Biden is pushing a $20 billion initiative that encourages states to reduce their prison population, which of course cuts directly against his old policy.

00:08:43.000 So where is Joe Biden?

00:08:45.000 That remains the question of the day.

00:08:48.000 But Biden is going to be attacking Elizabeth Warren on the same grounds, and that will be the interesting part of tonight's debate, is that both Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren have shifted substantially in their positions over time.

00:08:59.000 Warren is going to suggest that Biden is ideologically muddled, that Biden is not coherent in his ideology.

00:09:07.000 But the fact is that Hillary Clinton, that Elizabeth Warren, forgive me, Hillary 2.0, is not Particularly non-modeled in her past political positions, as we've talked about on this program.

00:09:18.000 She used to be in favor of school vouchers. 1.00

00:09:20.000 She used to be against taxpayer subsidized tuition.

00:09:22.000 She used to be kind of lukewarm on taxpayer funded daycare. 0.99

00:09:27.000 Now she's in favor of all of those things.

00:09:28.000 And every day she comes out with a new proposal to spend your money and raise taxes every single day. 1.00

00:09:34.000 So which Elizabeth Warren is the real Elizabeth Warren?

00:09:37.000 That is going to be up for debate tonight.

00:09:39.000 And that apparently is the angle that Joe Biden is going to take.

00:09:43.000 Now, it is true that the Bernie Sanders-esque Elizabeth Warren will do better in primaries, but she is less likely to do well in a general election, of course. 0.91

00:09:52.000 Now, all the stuff that sounds great to primary voters doesn't sound great to the vast bulk of Americans.

00:09:55.000 So yesterday, there was a big headline about Elizabeth Warren and Jim Cramer.

00:10:00.000 So Jim Cramer, of course, the commentator on CNBC, he does mad money, and Jim Cramer suggested that Wall Street executives are panicked about Elizabeth Warren, which is a narrative that cuts very much in her favor in a primary.

00:10:11.000 But when it comes to a general election, do Americans really want somebody as president who is panicking all the CEOs on Wall Street who are responsible for your 401k?

00:10:21.000 Like, it sounds great until your 401k takes a massive stock market dump.

00:10:25.000 Here's Jim Cramer talking about Elizabeth Warren.

00:10:27.000 How is it possible that this company cannot find a CEO?

00:10:30.000 I mean, are they worried about Elizabeth Warren attacking them?

00:10:33.000 She or he would be.

00:10:35.000 Of course they are.

00:10:36.000 And of course that person is.

00:10:37.000 Why wouldn't they be?

00:10:40.000 I don't know.

00:10:40.000 If she becomes president, what do you think is going to happen to the banks?

00:10:44.000 I don't know what's going to happen.

00:10:45.000 Look, I've got to tell you, when you get off the desk and you talk to executives, they're more fearful of her winning.

00:10:50.000 I mean, I've never heard anybody say, look, she's got to be stopped.

00:10:56.000 OK, well, the point that Kramer is making here, again, this is a point supposedly in Warren's favor.

00:11:02.000 Oh, she's anti-corporate. 1.00

00:11:03.000 Oh, she's going to hold the CEOs to the fire. 1.00

00:11:05.000 There's only one problem.

00:11:07.000 You know who runs the companies that hire everybody?

00:11:09.000 You know who's actually responsible for your market investments and your retirement fund?

00:11:13.000 It would be exactly the people who are scared bleepless of Elizabeth Warren.

00:11:16.000 Now, that's not going to be an attack on her in the primaries. 1.00

00:11:19.000 That's an attack on her in the general election. 1.00

00:11:20.000 In the primaries, the attack on her is going to be that she's a hypocrite. 1.00

00:11:24.000 And there are legs to this attack, because she is a hypocrite. 1.00

00:11:26.000 Elizabeth Warren used to be a rational, reasonable liberal. 1.00

00:11:31.000 Now, she's gone off the path in dramatic and insane ways. 1.00

00:11:36.000 And she's being ripped, I think rightfully so, by a lot of folks in the Joe Biden crowd who are saying, you know, this new sort of, I am the truest, bluest Elizabeth Warren is not real.

00:11:46.000 Ed Rendell.

00:11:47.000 He's the former governor of Pennsylvania.

00:11:48.000 He's in the Biden camp.

00:11:49.000 He has an editorial in the Washington Post today going after Elizabeth Warren.

00:11:53.000 And here's what he says.

00:11:53.000 He says, I like Elizabeth Warren.

00:11:55.000 I like her a lot. 1.00

00:11:56.000 Too bad she's a hypocrite. 1.00

00:11:58.000 He says, I think Warren has been a great senator and her work in setting up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was terrific. 0.99

00:12:03.000 Okay, fact check, false.

00:12:05.000 The CFPB is the best protection ordinary Americans have from financial institutions that prey on them.

00:12:09.000 Fact check, false.

00:12:10.000 In fact, I like her so much, when she ran for Senate in 2018, I co-chaired a couple of fundraisers for her and donated a combined $4,500 to her campaign.

00:12:18.000 Shortly after announcing her candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination in February, says Ed Rendell, Warren said she would shun high dollar fundraising events.

00:12:27.000 That means no fancy receptions or big money fundraisers, only with people who can write the big checks, Warren wrote in an email to supporters.

00:12:33.000 Now, Warren has every right to make that pledge, even if she had obtained significant contributions from donors in the past.

00:12:39.000 Doing that doesn't make her a hypocrite.

00:12:40.000 But there are two other reasons why the description applies.

00:12:43.000 First, because she transferred $10.4 million from her Senate re-election campaign to her presidential campaign fund. 0.99

00:12:50.000 More than $6 million came in contributions of $1,000 and up, as the New York Times recently noted.

00:12:55.000 The senator appears to be trying to have it both ways, get the political upside from eschewing donations from higher-level donors and running a grassroots campaign, while at the same time using money obtained from those donors in 2018.

00:13:07.000 That $10.4 million gave Warren a substantial head start in building a presidential campaign staff and doing other things for which money is essential.

00:13:14.000 If she wasn't being hypocritical, she would have taken only the dollars raised in smaller increments from her Senate race and transferred those into her presidential account. 0.72

00:13:22.000 Warren attacked former VP Joe Biden for holding a kickoff fundraiser in Philadelphia in April, which she criticized as, quote, a swanky private fundraiser for wealthy donors, in an email to supporters the next day.

00:13:32.000 Well, says Ed Rendell, I helped organize that affair, and I thought her attack was extremely hypocritical because nearly 20 of us who attended the Biden fundraiser had also given her $2,000 or more in 2018 at closed door fundraisers in swanky locations.

00:13:45.000 Warren didn't seem to have any trouble taking our money in 2018, but suddenly we were power brokers and influence peddlers in 2019.

00:13:51.000 The year before, we were wonderful.

00:13:53.000 I co-chaired one of the events for the senator and received a glowing handwritten thank you letter from her for my hard work.

00:13:59.000 It seemed odd to some of us who gave her money that Warren was experiencing an epiphany less than 12 months later.

00:14:04.000 It's one thing to fashion a campaign that relies on grassroots fundraising, says Ed Rendell, but it's another to go out of your way to characterize as power brokers and influence peddlers the very people whose support you have previously courted.

00:14:16.000 He says Warren isn't the only person to have been hypocritical about fundraising.

00:14:19.000 Barack Obama did the same thing, he says.

00:14:21.000 He vowed not to take any money from the political action committees of Wall Street firms in his 2008 campaign, but his campaign took in millions of dollars from individuals who worked for Wall Street firms.

00:14:29.000 But the news media basically gave Obama a free ride and didn't point out the blatant hypocrisy of trying to win credit for shunning contributions from Wall Street firms while taking tons of money from people who worked for the same Wall Street firms.

00:14:40.000 Politics can make people do peculiar things.

00:14:42.000 Funny that Ed Randall had nothing to say about this in 2008, so far as I recall.

00:14:46.000 He says I also take issue with the notion, raised by Warren in her criticism of the Biden fundraiser in April, that people who give the maximum allowable individual donation of $2,800 to a presidential candidate are doing so because they believe it will get them a federal job, win their business a federal contract, or even gain special access.

00:15:02.000 Hey, by the way, Ed Rendell, welcome to the anti-campaign finance reform side of this argument.

00:15:07.000 I'm making this argument for years.

00:15:08.000 If you really believe that rich donors are given $3,000 to buy special access to a politician, as opposed to because they want to see the politician win, I'm not sure which donors you're talking to.

00:15:19.000 Most of the donors I know who can afford to give $2,800 don't consider that to be a massive donation in any way, shape, or form.

00:15:25.000 Randell says donors who give $2,800, for the most part, are doing so because they believe strongly that the candidate would make a great leader, or maybe they believe in the candidate's values or policies on the important issues challenging the country.

00:15:36.000 He says that are there some people who give or raise money in presidential campaigns with ulterior motives?

00:15:41.000 Sure, but I'm confident the crowd at the Biden fundraiser gave money to him for the same reason that I did.

00:15:46.000 So despite my feelings, Elizabeth, if you're reading this and you win the Democratic nomination, I'll be happy to support you.

00:15:50.000 We'll campaign for you with all my heart.

00:15:52.000 And by the way, Philadelphia has a lot more swanky restaurants you haven't seen yet.

00:15:56.000 Pretty harsh words from Ed Rondell.

00:15:57.000 And this will be the line of attack by Joe Biden on Elizabeth Warren tonight, is that she has refashioned herself in Bernie Sanders' mold, but she has only done that for the sake of convenience after running for Senate in 2018. 0.99

00:16:09.000 And then she took that and she has now flipped to, I'm the most progressive senator in the world.

00:16:13.000 By the way, all of these are lines of attack that Donald Trump is going to use against her and will use to good effect because Donald Trump is a brawler.

00:16:21.000 Donald Trump is somebody who will fight you and fight you hard.

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00:17:44.000 Bloomberg is reporting that Joe Biden plans to argue at this week's debate that all presidential candidates, including the incumbent, must be transparent about their finances and any business dealings in their past.

00:17:54.000 That, of course, is directed at Elizabeth Warren.

00:17:56.000 Why?

00:17:57.000 Well, because Elizabeth Warren has done a fair bit of corporate consulting over the years. 1.00

00:18:00.000 The lady who likes to rip on CEOs and corporations. 1.00

00:18:04.000 She's gotten paid by CEOs and corporations to consult with their firms before.

00:18:07.000 The Biden adviser said voters deserve visibility into candidates' finances, especially from those who are facing questions about their activities before taking office.

00:18:15.000 The adviser declined to confirm whether Warren would be Biden's explicit target.

00:18:18.000 With her polling in second place in many state and national polls, the former VP's team is paying close attention to her.

00:18:24.000 While Warren has posted tax returns dating back to 2008 on her campaign website, the Biden camp appears to be calling for greater scrutiny of the years before 2008.

00:18:31.000 That was the year that she was appointed to the Congressional Oversight Panel that examined government response to the financial crisis.

00:18:38.000 Warren, whose presidential effort is styled around fighting corporate America, has taken on corporate clients as an advisor or expert witness on bankruptcy in the last 20 years.

00:18:46.000 In May, her campaign posted brief descriptions of her roles in those cases, and some of that work has been questioned during her two Senate campaigns in Massachusetts.

00:18:55.000 Biden may be an imperfect messenger for the argument because obviously Biden has some corporate concerns of his own.

00:19:01.000 People raising questions about his associations with his son Hunter and business dealings between Hunter and foreign countries while Biden was vice president.

00:19:08.000 But The real key here is undermining Warren's image as a candidate of progressive integrity.

00:19:14.000 Because all Biden really has to do is knock Warren down one peg.

00:19:18.000 He doesn't have to knock her out of the race.

00:19:19.000 He has to knock her down one peg behind Sanders and he wins the nomination.

00:19:22.000 That is his goal.

00:19:23.000 And you know who knows this?

00:19:25.000 It's Bernie Sanders.

00:19:26.000 Bernie Sanders is very well aware that his best angle here is to let Biden and Warren fight it out, hope that Biden knocks Warren down, and then he gets to pick up that progressive vote.

00:19:36.000 Because there's one thing that you can say about Sanders you can't say about Warren, and that is he has been entirely consistent in his communistic agenda since day one, since he was mayor of Burlington, Vermont.

00:19:46.000 So Sanders is the real true believer here, and he's been avoiding attacking Warren because he doesn't want to look mean.

00:19:52.000 He wants to look as though Warren is an ally, that he's sort of her ideological forebear, which is really weird, because again, Elizabeth Warren as a human, I mean, I know Elizabeth Warren a little bit, much smarter than Bernie Sanders, just as a human being, much smarter, much more nuanced, much more interesting, and I think her deep down views, she's abandoned all of that to run as sort of Bernie Light, who is more articulate and has more plans.

00:20:12.000 And that's why every day she comes out with a new plan.

00:20:14.000 She has a new plan today to give social security beneficiaries a raise. 1.00

00:20:18.000 Social security is already bankrupt.

00:20:20.000 Social security is not paying for itself.

00:20:22.000 It is already running in the red.

00:20:23.000 The government is taking in less money for social security year on year than it is handing out.

00:20:27.000 Elizabeth Warren wants to spend more money on social security. 1.00

00:20:30.000 Where's that money going to come from?

00:20:31.000 She's going to raise your taxes, of course.

00:20:33.000 She wants to raise taxes on people who make more than $250,000 a year.

00:20:38.000 Now, I'm not sure if that's household or people.

00:20:40.000 That makes a fairly large difference.

00:20:42.000 Because if you have two members of your household, one making $150,000, one making $100,000, that does not necessarily mean that you are just raking in the dough.

00:20:49.000 I mean, if you're living in a major city like Los Angeles or New York, that puts you in, like, the low end of rich.

00:20:54.000 That does not put you in the midst of wealth.

00:20:58.000 Okay, but regardless, Elizabeth Warren seems to think that people who are wealthy are the cash cow in the United States and can be milked and milked and milked, despite the fact that the United States has taken in about the same percentage of GDP for government revenue For the last 60 or 70 years.

00:21:14.000 I mean, even in the cases where the top tax bracket was like 91%, it applied to very few people.

00:21:20.000 It applied to people at the very, very, very top, and most of those people avoided those tax brackets because the effective tax rate ended up being significantly lower.

00:21:26.000 Elizabeth Warren wants to correct all that and grab an enormous amount of revenue from people at the top, supposedly, assuming that they won't avoid all of that. 1.00

00:21:34.000 So once again, she's just making more promises to people that she can't keep.

00:21:39.000 Well, Bernie Sanders, all he has to do is sort of lay off Warren.

00:21:42.000 And he's basically pledged to do this.

00:21:43.000 So last week he was on The View and he was asked about Elizabeth Warren.

00:21:47.000 And people have been wondering, why isn't Sanders going at Warren?

00:21:49.000 Because he knows that Biden's going to go at Warren.

00:21:51.000 He knows that Biden has no interest in going after Bernie Sanders because Biden looks at Bernie Sanders and realizes that Sanders isn't a direct threat to him.

00:21:58.000 Warren is a direct threat.

00:22:00.000 So Sanders' hope tonight is that he can stand off to the side and shout at the clouds like, like Grandpa Simpson.

00:22:06.000 And that Warren and Biden will go at it and he'll just stand over here going, I'm the true.

00:22:10.000 You wanted a true socialist?

00:22:12.000 I have never taken money from corporate interests, unlike my good friend, Elizabeth Warren.

00:22:16.000 Right.

00:22:17.000 That's what he wants.

00:22:17.000 But he doesn't want to have to say Warren's name.

00:22:19.000 He made that pretty clear on The View last week.

00:22:21.000 Let's talk about, then, Senator Elizabeth Warren, because not only is she a friend of yours, she shares a lot of the same ideas that you came out with first.

00:22:30.000 She's saying Medicare for all, free public college, the Green New Deal.

00:22:35.000 Is there enough room in the party for both of you?

00:22:37.000 Because are you now in danger of splitting the vote and giving Joe Biden a clear path to the nomination?

00:22:43.000 Well, Sonny, Elizabeth is a friend of mine.

00:22:45.000 She and I have known each other for well over 20 years.

00:22:48.000 And she's going to run her campaign, and I will run my campaign.

00:22:51.000 Okay, so Sanders is going to avoid her like the plague, the same way he avoided Hillary Clinton until it became inevitable he had to attack Hillary Clinton.

00:22:58.000 He's going to try the same strategy with Elizabeth Warren and hope that Biden really does damage to Elizabeth Warren.

00:23:04.000 So that's the dynamic on the stage tonight.

00:23:05.000 Then you're going to have all of the sort of peons on the stage, the Beto O'Rourkes, who's going to be shouting about gun control endlessly, and Cory Booker, who's going to be desperately seeking attention with his angry voice.

00:23:17.000 Mr. Potato Head with his angry eyes.

00:23:19.000 You can have Kamala Harris who will switch her positions repeatedly on stage while trying to arrest everybody. 1.00

00:23:25.000 That'll be exciting.

00:23:26.000 Pete Buttigieg will give you a little bit of biblical exegesis based on the idea that Jesus was super into abortion.

00:23:33.000 So that should be exciting.

00:23:35.000 But everybody knows that the main fight, right?

00:23:37.000 All this stuff is undercard stuff.

00:23:38.000 The main fight tonight is going to be between Biden and Warren.

00:23:41.000 And Biden does have to take Warren down a peg because she is picking up a lot of support and the media love her.

00:23:47.000 Because as I've said before, when it comes to support in the media, people tend to support the candidate that makes them feel better about themselves.

00:23:54.000 And all the people in the media want to view themselves as intelligent.

00:23:57.000 They think that Warren is intelligent and thus they support Elizabeth Warren.

00:23:59.000 They don't want to view themselves as back to normalcy, non-visionary, Regular old Joe voters and so they don't support Joe Biden in any real way now in just one second I want to get to the the Attempt by the media to paint this race as the female race They have to distinguish Elizabeth Warren from Bernie Sanders on one hand and Joe Biden on the other and so naturally the media are going exactly where you would think they are going which is to Elizabeth Warren is a female and the reason people don't like her is because she's a woman because she's a

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00:25:54.000 OK, so the media, of course, are trying to paint this race as stop being mean to the females. 1.00

00:25:59.000 Stop being mean to the women.

00:26:02.000 And this is where we get a wonderful, this is where we get the picture of the day, the best picture of the day.

00:26:08.000 Because they tried this with another candidate in 2016, you'll recall.

00:26:12.000 Americans were sexist if they didn't vote for Hillary Clinton. 0.98

00:26:14.000 Well, Americans did vote for Hillary Clinton by popular vote, but they didn't by electoral vote.

00:26:18.000 And now Hillary Clinton wanders the earth. 1.00

00:26:20.000 Sadly, looking for relevance.

00:26:23.000 This is just... I don't know if this is the saddest picture I've ever seen, or the happiest picture I've ever seen.

00:26:28.000 I'm having a tough time deciding.

00:26:29.000 So, if you can't... This is why you should subscribe, folks, to Daily Wire, because then you can actually see this picture.

00:26:33.000 It is a picture of Hillary Clinton at some sort of book signing, sitting behind a fake Resolute desk.

00:26:40.000 Because she's not behind the real Resolute Desk because she was not elected president.

00:26:44.000 She's sitting behind the fake Resolute Desk grinning with a bunch of papers in front of her.

00:26:50.000 Hillary Clinton has literally become Miss Havisham from Charles Dickens.

00:26:54.000 Remember Miss Havisham?

00:26:57.000 The old spinster who was once engaged and jolted at the altar and now she's 60 and she runs around her decaying mansion wearing her wedding dress from 40 years beforehand. 0.98

00:27:09.000 That is Hillary Clinton now. 1.00

00:27:10.000 Hillary Clinton is like, you know what?

00:27:12.000 I don't know about you guys.

00:27:14.000 I need to get behind this desk and pretend just for a little while.

00:27:18.000 That I'm president of the United States.

00:27:20.000 I need to pretend.

00:27:21.000 I'm gonna get behind this Resolute Desk and I'm gonna pretend just for a little while that my best memory of this Resolute Desk is not Monica Lewinsky beneath it, but actually just me sitting behind it as though I were president of the United States.

00:27:33.000 I mean, wow.

00:27:34.000 That is a sad human being.

00:27:37.000 That is a very sad human being.

00:27:38.000 Like some people lose an election and they go on to have a life like Mitt Romney.

00:27:40.000 And he lost an election and then he went on and he had a life.

00:27:43.000 He got elected to Senate and he was doing some charity work.

00:27:47.000 Al Gore lost an election, won the popular vote, lost the election, spent the next couple of decades fibbing about the effects of climate change and making billions of dollars off of it and leading himself a life, winning an Oscar.

00:28:01.000 John Kerry went on to be Secretary of State.

00:28:03.000 Hillary Clinton loses an election and she is basically Stacey Abrams-ing this thing.

00:28:10.000 She's going to just claim that she won. 1.00

00:28:13.000 I have to say, I love this picture.

00:28:15.000 I almost want to have it framed and signed by Donald Trump.

00:28:18.000 I think I can make that happen for myself, really.

00:28:21.000 This now occurs to me, that I know enough people close to President Trump that I feel like I could probably get this picture signed by President Trump.

00:28:27.000 And it would be the ultimate in wall art.

00:28:31.000 Hillary Clinton sitting behind the fake Resolute desk, never having accepted that she lost the election.

00:28:37.000 In any case, you recall back to the 2016 election when America was informed that you were sexist if you didn't vote for Hillary Clinton.

00:28:43.000 Well, now we're going to do the same thing, but with Elizabeth Warren.

00:28:45.000 Veronica Rueckert has a piece.

00:28:47.000 She is a Peabody Award-winning former public radio host, voice coach, and communications expert.

00:28:52.000 She has a piece today in the Washington Post titled, That Grating Noise?

00:28:55.000 It's People Criticizing Female Voices on the Debate Stage. 0.99

00:28:59.000 She says, at the televised Democratic presidential debate primary on Thursday, three voices will issue from the Houston stage to convince voters that the next president of the United States can do something no one in the history of the office has ever done.

00:29:11.000 Sound like a woman. 1.00

00:29:13.000 Well, Bill Clinton sometimes sounded like a woman. 1.00

00:29:16.000 But in any case, she says, if this doesn't seem revolutionary, it should.

00:29:20.000 Remember the continuous spray of adjectives, metaphors, and punditry applied to the subject of Hillary Clinton's voice?

00:29:25.000 Glenn Beck likened it to an ice pick in the ear.

00:29:28.000 Glenn is technically correct.

00:29:30.000 Shrill was another popular choice, along with the implication.

00:29:32.000 Imagine listening to that for four years.

00:29:34.000 I believe I actually said that exact phrase.

00:29:36.000 Imagine listening to that for four years.

00:29:39.000 Meanwhile, the voices of Senator Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump battered and nasal, skated past unnoticed.

00:29:43.000 Now, I'm pretty sure that I make fun of Bernie Sanders on a regular basis.

00:29:47.000 Bernie Sanders?

00:29:48.000 Talking about pudding?

00:29:49.000 With his funny Brooklyn accent?

00:29:51.000 And it sounds like he swallowed some sort of hippopotamus?

00:29:54.000 Like, I make fun of his voice all the time, but I do love that we now have to paint this picture of Elizabeth Warren as victim.

00:30:01.000 You don't understand the glowing media coverage she has received heretofore.

00:30:05.000 The glowing media coverage.

00:30:07.000 The Washington Post theater critic wrote an entire piece, we went through it, an entire piece about how she was like Shakespearean level actor, how she drew you beyond yourself.

00:30:16.000 Oh! 0.60

00:30:17.000 Oh! 0.60

00:30:18.000 And the guy basically did a Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally.

00:30:23.000 And he basically orgasmed while he was writing the piece.

00:30:25.000 He brought himself all the way.

00:30:27.000 And yet we're supposed to believe that Elizabeth Warren is victimized by people pointing out that actually her voice is a little bit wobbly, and that she goes down into this register a lot, which is something I hate in all politicians, including politicians I like. 0.99

00:30:42.000 I always used to make fun of Ted Cruz's sincere voice.

00:30:45.000 When Ted would get real sincere, he'd go down here.

00:30:48.000 And that's when you knew he was being sincere.

00:30:50.000 And I hate when politicians of any stripe do that.

00:30:52.000 But according to Veronica Rueckert, it's all about the fact that Elizabeth Warren is a woman.

00:30:57.000 She's a woman. 0.82

00:30:58.000 And that is why we have to be nice to her and not make fun of her voice, as opposed to everybody else.

00:31:03.000 Veronica Rueckert says, Women have been given a famously narrow road to walk. 1.00

00:31:06.000 Step to one side, and they are strident, hysterical, and grating.

00:31:10.000 Step to the other, and they are uninvested, passionless robots. 0.89

00:31:13.000 Well, no, sometimes women are strident, hysterical, and grating. 1.00

00:31:16.000 And sometimes they're uninvested, passionless robots.

00:31:18.000 And sometimes they're actually fine.

00:31:21.000 Right?

00:31:21.000 Sometimes Nikki Haley is great.

00:31:24.000 Sometimes, on the Democratic side, I don't find Amy Klobuchar to be grating. 0.88

00:31:29.000 Maybe we judge each individual pretty harshly because they're in politics.

00:31:32.000 You know how many people make fun of my voice and my cadence?

00:31:35.000 There are literal TV episodes dedicated to my voice and cadence.

00:31:39.000 So, like, get over it, gang.

00:31:41.000 I don't think they're making fun of me because I'm a Jewish man.

00:31:43.000 I think they're making fun of me because I have a funny voice and a funny cadence.

00:31:46.000 Like, whatever.

00:31:47.000 Deal with it. 0.98

00:31:49.000 But this is the new narrative, is that if anyone attacks Elizabeth Warren's cadence or her performance, it's because you hate women. 0.95

00:31:56.000 It's cuz of that.

00:31:57.000 Yeah, good luck with that agenda. 0.74

00:31:59.000 If that's the best Elizabeth Warren can do when Donald Trump comes for her on the basis of the fact that she is a habitual liar in both her policy and with regard to her own past as a Native American princess wandering the prairies, If the best they can do is he's a sexist, then they better prepare a fake Resolute Desk for her, too. 1.00

00:32:17.000 Because it ain't going to go great.

00:32:19.000 In just a second, we're going to get to the Democratic agenda.

00:32:22.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:32:23.000 The entire debate right now is based on not Donald Trump, right?

00:32:27.000 That's really the Democratic pitch, is not Donald Trump.

00:32:30.000 And that's a fairly solid pitch.

00:32:31.000 And then they start coming forth with their policies, and you can see it on the state level, and it is ugly.

00:32:36.000 And it is, in many cases, unconstitutional, and it's a real problem.

00:32:40.000 We'll get to some of these bad policies in democratic states, which we'll filter up to the feds in just one second.

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00:33:57.000 All right, so let's get to some of the democratic policies on the federal and state level that Americans are going to run screaming from on a broad level.

00:34:13.000 Now, they may not understand the consequences of these things yet, but...

00:34:17.000 They should.

00:34:18.000 They should.

00:34:18.000 So let's talk about one policy that was undertaken by Governor Philip Murphy, Democrat of New Jersey, yesterday.

00:34:24.000 According to Nick Corrasiniti over at the New York Times, New Jersey will stop doing business with gun manufacturers and retailers that fail to adopt policies that go beyond federal laws, like conducting expanded background checks to stop guns from falling into the wrong hands, becoming the first state to take such stringent action against the firearms industry.

00:34:42.000 So you should understand what this means.

00:34:44.000 It is not illegal for any of these companies to do what they are doing.

00:34:47.000 There is no violation of federal law.

00:34:48.000 There's no accusation of discrimination.

00:34:51.000 There's no accusation that would make state cooperation with these entities or contracting with these entities violative of federal law.

00:34:57.000 There are federal statutes, for example, that prevent the federal government from contracting with discriminatory companies on the basis of race.

00:35:04.000 There's nothing like that with regard to, here's a company that sells guns, because that's not illegal, nor should it be illegal.

00:35:11.000 In fact, the Second Amendment protects precisely that sort of thing.

00:35:14.000 Yeah, the state of New Jersey is now saying they will not contract with a company like Walmart unless Walmart does what New Jersey wants to do, but cannot even legislate on guns.

00:35:23.000 So they're not saying you have to comply with New Jersey law.

00:35:26.000 They're saying you have to go beyond New Jersey law.

00:35:29.000 And if you don't go beyond New Jersey law, we're not going to contract with you.

00:35:32.000 Now, this seems to me a First Amendment violation.

00:35:35.000 There's something called viewpoint discrimination.

00:35:37.000 The federal and state governments, they are not allowed to discriminate against any contractor or any person on the basis simply of viewpoint.

00:35:44.000 I disagree with you.

00:35:46.000 I'm not discriminating in violation of anti-discrimination law or anything.

00:35:49.000 I just disagree with you about gun control.

00:35:50.000 And the state says, you know what?

00:35:51.000 I can't contract with that guy because he disagrees with me about gun control because he's a gun seller.

00:35:57.000 So I'm not doing business with him.

00:35:58.000 I've done nothing illegal.

00:35:59.000 You have no excuse to discriminate against my business.

00:36:02.000 And yet that's exactly what New Jersey is seeking to do because the left has discovered that it is far easier to pressure companies into doing their bidding With the government threatening them and with the government using the power of the gun to kind of subtly say, well, you know, it'd be a shame if something happened to your business there.

00:36:19.000 Sure, we can't legislate you out of existence, but we can certainly make your business a little tougher, can't we?

00:36:24.000 So we're just going to sit over here and we're going to play with our own gun.

00:36:27.000 Not aiming at you, per se.

00:36:29.000 We're just kind of waving it around the room.

00:36:30.000 If it happens to stop on you, that's something that might happen.

00:36:32.000 But, you know, if you comply with us, then I'll just put this thing right back in my pocket and then we can be friends again.

00:36:38.000 The left has found that it is much easier to pressure corporate in America into doing their bidding than it is to get people to vote for their policies.

00:36:44.000 Because the American system of checks and balances requires tremendous consensus on a particular issue before legislation gets done.

00:36:51.000 And this is true even at the state level for the most part, even in blue states like New Jersey.

00:36:55.000 So instead, governors, executive branches in the federal and the state governments, they are now attempting To usurp power by effectively pushing businesses to go beyond the letter of the law in ways that the governor of New Jersey likes.

00:37:09.000 And you're seeing this from the woke blue check marks on Twitter as well.

00:37:12.000 Pressuring Walmart, right?

00:37:13.000 There was not a grand upswell of anti-Walmart activity among the consuming public.

00:37:18.000 The media decided they were gonna make it an issue and Walmart felt, okay, do we really want to receive a billion dollars of damaging press at the hands of a nasty media or do we just ban the ammo?

00:37:27.000 I guess we'll ban the ammo.

00:37:29.000 Now, the truth is, what corporations should do is they should all collectively tell all of these actors, blue check marks, Governor Phil Murphy, to shove it.

00:37:36.000 That's what they should do.

00:37:37.000 But they won't.

00:37:38.000 Why?

00:37:38.000 Well, because you have a serious collective action problem, which is much easier to work hand-in-glove with the government than it is to stand up to the government.

00:37:47.000 And you saw the same thing sort of happen in the 1930s with regard to the car companies.

00:37:51.000 A bunch of the car companies became very dependent on the FDR administration.

00:37:54.000 Henry Ford refused to go along with that, and Ford was significantly damaged by the FDR administration.

00:38:00.000 In effect, it's funny.

00:38:01.000 There's a lot of talk about crony capitalism.

00:38:03.000 This right here is a form of crony capitalism.

00:38:05.000 It is a governor of a state explicitly benefiting certain types of companies that back his agenda politically without the force of law behind him.

00:38:13.000 But with the threat looming in the wings that he's going to do something to lead a crusade against a private business.

00:38:18.000 The same people who are ripping on Donald Trump for going after companies, and I said rightly so because Donald Trump should not be going after private companies, are doing the exact same thing so long as those companies don't agree with them on gun control.

00:38:28.000 Here's Governor Phil Murphy doing this ridiculous and I believe unconstitutional routine.

00:38:32.000 Couple of days ago, I signed an executive order which essentially puts our money where our mouth is.

00:38:37.000 It has three parts.

00:38:38.000 Number one, if you're a vendor and you're selling guns or ammunition or related equipment to New Jersey, you've got to abide by a set of principles as it relates to gun safety.

00:38:48.000 Secondly, if you're a financial institution and you are lending or investing in those vendors, manufacturers, retailers, you also will have to abide by a set of principles as it relates to gun safety.

00:39:00.000 And thirdly, we're going to review and ultimately, I think, ban certain types of insurance that leads to irresponsible gun behavior.

00:39:09.000 So they're going to ban insurance so you can't insure yourself against losses from guns going off or something.

00:39:14.000 Liability insurance.

00:39:15.000 I mean, this is full-scale insanity.

00:39:19.000 This is soft tyranny in action.

00:39:21.000 He doesn't even have legislative approval for this in New Jersey because he couldn't get this through the legislature.

00:39:26.000 He's just doing it from the executive branch.

00:39:28.000 And again, none of these companies are violating the law.

00:39:31.000 The second step of what he is talking about is particularly dangerous.

00:39:34.000 He's saying, we won't do business with a vendor that doesn't abide by a set of principles that is not established by law.

00:39:38.000 It's just what I want them to do.

00:39:40.000 Viewpoint discrimination overtly on its face.

00:39:42.000 Then you get to the second thing he is saying, which is that if a bank does business with those businesses, then we won't do business with them.

00:39:50.000 And this is the next step for the radical left.

00:39:53.000 What they would like to do is make it so that you cannot use your credit card to purchase things the left doesn't want you to purchase.

00:39:57.000 Right now, it's guns.

00:39:59.000 Soon it will be a subscription to the Daily Wire.

00:40:01.000 Soon it will be a subscription to anything that they don't like.

00:40:05.000 You're giving money to your church, and your church discriminates against same-sex couples by only performing traditional marriages?

00:40:13.000 Well, sorry, you can't use Visa for that, or MasterCard, or American Express.

00:40:17.000 That is where this is going.

00:40:19.000 Now, as I said, with regard to the original Walmart action on all of this, this will inevitably lead to the rise of other forms of credit, right?

00:40:26.000 I mean, I'll start a credit card.

00:40:27.000 It'll be the Shapiro credit card.

00:40:29.000 We'll go out and we'll find people who are startup investors to back that, and then you'll just use our credit card for the conservative causes that you want to use it for.

00:40:38.000 So there is a way out, which is why this is not quite government compulsion.

00:40:41.000 But when you have the governor of New Jersey pushing it, it starts to look a lot more like government compulsion and targeting financial institutions for participating in fully legal activity.

00:40:50.000 The state doing that is a form of viewpoint discrimination, and it's disgusting.

00:40:54.000 And I hope that everyone sues.

00:40:55.000 I hope this thing ends up in court because it is absurd.

00:40:59.000 It's absurd.

00:41:01.000 Furthermore, you can see the game. 0.98

00:41:03.000 So, all the same people who whine about CEOs and corporations and crony capitalism, the Elizabeth Warren crowd, all CEOs are evil, they're bad.

00:41:11.000 They've got a Scrooge McDuck money bin back there, and they swim around in their gold, and then they screw their workers. 0.84

00:41:16.000 Those evil, evil CEOs, well they also, we need their help to pass gun control. 0.86

00:41:20.000 So we are going to simply threaten them, and then we're gonna give them additional pat you on the head points if they do what we want.

00:41:27.000 According to Amelia Lucas over at CNBC, Leaders of 145 companies wrote a letter to the Senate on Thursday urging the governmental body to take action on gun safety.

00:41:36.000 Now, let me just point out, if 145 companies wrote a letter to the Senate cutting against financial regulation by Elizabeth Warren and her fellow senators, the media would be talking about how evil these CEOs are.

00:41:47.000 The media would be talking about how dare they throw their corporate power around like this.

00:41:51.000 You think their workers are in favor of this?

00:41:53.000 You think their workers back this and their customers?

00:41:56.000 You got 145 CEOs to send a letter talking about why Forever 21 wants gun control, and suddenly it's, oh wow, look at them, social warriors right there.

00:42:07.000 And by the way, a lot of these companies are like Forever 21.

00:42:09.000 I don't think Forever 21 is on the list, but it's like Uber, Levi Strauss, Gap.

00:42:13.000 Like, who cares what the Gap has to say about gun control?

00:42:16.000 Do you buy a gun at the Gap?

00:42:18.000 Does the Gap make holsters I am unaware of? 0.99

00:42:21.000 Of course not.

00:42:21.000 These are just companies that are attempting to get in the good graces of the left by establishing their own capital account with the left.

00:42:27.000 Remember that time, guys, when we backed gun control and we were all best buddies?

00:42:31.000 Remember that?

00:42:32.000 Well, if you could just see your way clear to, like, not looking at foreign labor laws, that'd be awesome.

00:42:37.000 That'd be great. 0.98

00:42:39.000 It's so wildly hypocritical and ridiculous in every possible way. 0.98

00:42:43.000 But it is an easier way than actually passing public policy. 0.95

00:42:47.000 You can't pass a bill, so you just push corporations to do this stuff for you, because they're risk-averse, and they're looking for an anodyne corporate culture where everybody agrees.

00:42:54.000 And there was talk in the 1950s, and Marxists used to criticize the so-called corporate man, the idea that corporations were interested in churning out basically widget human beings, human beings that all look the same, the man in the gray flannel suit.

00:43:07.000 And it was exaggerated because it turned out that a lot of people were still individuals.

00:43:10.000 They just wore similar suits to the office.

00:43:12.000 Well, now corporations, more than ever because of social pressure, are trying to turn out good little liberals who abide by all of the various policy preferences of big city Democrats because they don't want the risk.

00:43:24.000 because they don't want the risk.

00:43:25.000 Well, eventually the right is going to wake up to this and the risk is going to be countered because every time a corporation does this sort of thing, there will be blowback from the right and competitors from the right who start up and take a portion of the business.

00:43:36.000 If you politicize everything, the right will have to politicize back.

00:43:39.000 Now that's not the world that I prefer.

00:43:41.000 The world that I prefer is a world where Gap can sell whatever it wants so long as it's legal and Dick's Sporting Goods and Walmart can sell whatever they want so long as they're legal and you don't have Rahm Emanuel threatening to ban Chick-fil-A just because he doesn't like the CEO.

00:43:54.000 All that stuff is gross and ugly.

00:43:57.000 But that's not the world that the left has allowed or created.

00:44:00.000 And so things are gonna get a lot worse before they get better.

00:44:02.000 Now, speaking of bad democratic policy, Yesterday, the Democrats were pushing again on immigration.

00:44:09.000 AOC, the illustrious, brilliant AOC, she was talking about deporting migrants with disabilities. 0.93

00:44:16.000 So the idea, I guess, is that if you have a disability and you come into the country and you falsely claim asylum, we can't deport you anymore. 0.95

00:44:22.000 She says this is a form of killing them. 0.94

00:44:24.000 She's a delight, AOC. 0.73

00:44:26.000 Folks and people like Mr. Sanchez and Ms.

00:44:28.000 Bueso are not collateral damage to this administration's policy.

00:44:32.000 They are the target, correct?

00:44:34.000 Correct.

00:44:38.000 Is targeting and changing policy to specifically target people with life-threatening diseases for deportation, essentially killing them through deportation, would you characterize that as cruel?

00:44:54.000 Killing them through deportation.

00:44:55.000 So in other words, if you show up on America's doorstep, not claiming asylum, but because you want us to pay your medical bills, and we say, well, we can't take in everybody in the world who has a bad disease. 0.74

00:45:04.000 And so we are not going to allow asylum simply based on we have better medical care here.

00:45:09.000 Is that killing people?

00:45:10.000 According to AOC, yes, of course, this is the same AOC who is attempting to destroy ICE and suggest that ICE is a horrible, horrible thing.

00:45:18.000 In fact, AOC apologized to migrants on behalf of the United States.

00:45:22.000 There's nothing more galling than when people apologize on behalf of other people.

00:45:26.000 It's really irritating.

00:45:27.000 AOC doesn't get to apologize on my behalf because I'm not apologizing on her behalf. 1.00

00:45:31.000 I don't apologize to the world on behalf of her stupidity. 1.00

00:45:33.000 She doesn't represent me. 1.00

00:45:34.000 Her views don't represent me.

00:45:36.000 But here's AOC apologizing on behalf of the Trump administration's dehumanizing policies, apologizing to the world and migrants at large.

00:45:43.000 I'd also like to apologize to you both for the behavior of some of the members of this committee, where they are speaking in profoundly dehumanizing terms to you, and you don't deserve that.

00:45:57.000 I'd like to apologize to you on behalf of the United States of America for the dehumanizing policies that they are pursuing.

00:46:06.000 Okay, so again, if this is the Democratic platform, good luck with this.

00:46:10.000 Good luck with this.

00:46:10.000 Thomas Homan, who is the head of ICE, he went after AOC pretty hard.

00:46:16.000 Basically, just the way that Ted Cruz owns Deadspin, Thomas Homan apparently owns AOC, just repeatedly he owns her.

00:46:21.000 So here he was yesterday going after AOC saying, listen, if you want to regulate, regulate.

00:46:25.000 But if you want to sit here and bitch about ICE doing its job, then that is not actually accomplishing anything.

00:46:29.000 ICE last year took a season of opioids off the streets of this country that could have killed every man, woman, and child in the United States twice. 0.92

00:46:38.000 They've arrested thousands of sexual predators that preyed on children.

00:46:43.000 They rescued thousands of children who were victims of predators.

00:46:47.000 They arrested hundreds of women who were victims of sex trafficking.

00:46:50.000 I am proud of the agency and ICE.

00:46:52.000 In my 34 years, I've never seen such hate toward a law enforcement agency in my life that you want to abolish them rather than doing your job and legislate.

00:47:01.000 If they don't like it, legislate!

00:47:03.000 Okay.

00:47:03.000 Homan, of course, is exactly correct.

00:47:05.000 And AOC can't legislate because even her own party doesn't back her radical agenda. 1.00

00:47:08.000 The Democratic Party would not abolish ICE, because then you just have to establish another enforcement agency called MICE.

00:47:13.000 Right?

00:47:13.000 I mean, it would just be something that would be exactly the same thing, but with a different name.

00:47:18.000 So Democratic policy again.

00:47:20.000 The Democratic primaries matter, but once we get to the general election, if Democrats insist on pushing radical policies, things are going to get really ugly.

00:47:26.000 And these radical policies are across the board, across the country.

00:47:30.000 There is a California bill that is now going to basically put Uber or Lyft out of business.

00:47:35.000 Why?

00:47:35.000 Because they are going to force these companies to treat independent contractors who work for Uber and Lyft as employees.

00:47:42.000 How do you think that's going to work?

00:47:43.000 You think that Uber and Lyft are just going to continue business as normal now that they have to pay for the health insurance of all of their drivers?

00:47:48.000 Do you think they're going to employ people the same way?

00:47:50.000 Do you think maybe there will have to be a new screening process?

00:47:53.000 Do you think that maybe prices will rise on consumers, costing them more money out of their pockets?

00:47:58.000 And the answer to all of those questions is yes.

00:48:00.000 But California doesn't care because California can just throw them out on the streets where they can be homeless. 0.85

00:48:05.000 And then we can pretend that they have a right to live out on the streets like California does. 0.97

00:48:08.000 California, by the way, also in an attempt to curb the homeless problem, they've now approved statewide rent control, which of course is going to result in more homelessness because rent control is the stupidest economic policy ever devised by man.

00:48:20.000 Rent control is the idea that if I force you to rent at a lower price, you will continue to build new homes and new apartment buildings Just for the fun of it.

00:48:28.000 Without earning the same profit you would have been able to when you could upcharge people.

00:48:33.000 What they were willing to spend. 0.95

00:48:34.000 You're gonna end up with less housing because of your dumb rent control policies. 0.90

00:48:38.000 Look at New York, where when rent control was really at a tight, people were burning down their own apartment buildings for the insurance money because it was so unprofitable to run apartment buildings. 0.80

00:48:47.000 So yeah, it turns out democratic policy is a giant fail, and that is what Trump is gonna have to run on if Trump can avoid his own foibles.

00:48:54.000 Alrighty, time for a quick thing I like, and then a quick thing that I hate, and we will be out of here.

00:48:58.000 So, things that I like.

00:49:00.000 I don't know if you've ever seen Bill Burr's routine.

00:49:02.000 Bill Burr is extraordinarily funny.

00:49:03.000 He has a new routine called Paper Tiger on Netflix.

00:49:07.000 And it is astonishing.

00:49:08.000 Okay, whatever you thought of Dave Chappelle waking up to the woke left, Paper Tiger is about as politically incorrect as any comedy special I have ever seen.

00:49:18.000 He opens by going after Michelle Obama, which is, we can't do that.

00:49:22.000 I mean, she's actually been sainted.

00:49:24.000 She's in line to be canonized by the Pope.

00:49:26.000 So, he starts with that, and then it goes downhill from there, or uphill, depending on if this is your sort of thing.

00:49:30.000 Here's Bill Burr's Paper Tiger a little bit.

00:49:33.000 I'm a married man with a kid, but I'll tell you this right now.

00:49:36.000 If I've learned anything in five years of being married, it's we're always working on me.

00:49:42.000 I just think to myself, like, what could my wife complain about?

00:49:45.000 I crush everything.

00:49:47.000 I pick up after myself.

00:49:48.000 I like to think I'm a good dad.

00:49:49.000 I work my ass off to make a great living.

00:49:52.000 Crush all of that!

00:49:55.000 All she has on me is who I am as a person.

00:50:00.000 My daughter has yet to meet the real me.

00:50:02.000 She's seen glimpses of it.

00:50:04.000 Like, whoa!

00:50:04.000 Daddy almost snapped his phone in half!

00:50:10.000 Okay, so this particular preview does not give you the full spectrum of what the Bill Burr special is.

00:50:15.000 So it focuses on all the stuff that's apolitical.

00:50:18.000 Yeah, it gets kind of political.

00:50:20.000 And frankly, I can't believe this guy is still working.

00:50:23.000 And I don't think that the woke skulls will let him work for very much longer. 1.00

00:50:26.000 Because all fun things, all criticism of the left must be silenced.

00:50:30.000 Paper Tiger, Bill Burr, go check it out.

00:50:32.000 It's pretty astonishing.

00:50:33.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.

00:50:39.000 So I have this thing about people staying in their lanes.

00:50:41.000 If you're an expert on something, stay in that lane, right?

00:50:43.000 You're a climate change expert over at MIT, stay in that lane.

00:50:46.000 If you're a horror novelist, maybe you should stay in that lane and not try to play political pundit.

00:50:51.000 Stephen King, who used to be an excellent horror novelist, you read his early stuff, his early stuff is much better than his later stuff.

00:50:57.000 His later stuff is basically great premise, 800 pages of futzing around, everything explodes.

00:51:04.000 That's pretty, really, that's like literally every one of his books for the last 15 years.

00:51:07.000 He doesn't know how to end it.

00:51:09.000 This is my criticism of a lot of Alfred Hitchcock movies as well.

00:51:12.000 Great premise, develops okay, ending is terrible.

00:51:15.000 Well, in this particular case, this happens to be true of Stephen King, who hasn't written a truly great book for probably 15 or 20 years.

00:51:22.000 Again, I've read a lot of Stephen King, I really enjoy a lot of his work.

00:51:26.000 But that model that I talked about is basically it, right?

00:51:28.000 He ends Under the Dome the same way he ends The Stand, the same way that he ends most of his other books.

00:51:34.000 Great premise, really fascinating.

00:51:36.000 Everybody blows up at the end.

00:51:38.000 The end.

00:51:39.000 Maybe a couple people survive.

00:51:40.000 In any case, Stephen King went on The View.

00:51:43.000 Now again, I'm just gonna put this out there.

00:51:45.000 I have never lobbied.

00:51:47.000 I'm not gonna sit here and lobby to be on The View.

00:51:49.000 But you should put me on The View!

00:51:50.000 Okay, so, I've wanted to be on The View for years.

00:51:53.000 I have very few life aspirations that I have left to really accomplish, right?

00:51:59.000 I have a beautiful family, I have a nice house, I get to do what I want for a living, right?

00:52:03.000 All sorts of great things happen to me.

00:52:04.000 There's one thing on that bucket list that I would really like to check off before I go, and that is being on The View.

00:52:10.000 Now, I don't think this will ever happen, because I think the folks at The View know why this would never happen.

00:52:15.000 I think this is an unspoken assumption between me and the producers at The View, why this is a thing that is never going to happen.

00:52:20.000 That said, Stephen King was on The View, and of course we had to solicit his political opinions, because if there's someone whose political opinions you want, it's somebody who wrote graphic child gang sex scenes in it.

00:52:31.000 That's a- I desperately need his opinions on migration.

00:52:33.000 Go for it, Stephen King.

00:52:35.000 I try to keep my politics separate from the stuff that I write, the stories, because I think people like story.

00:52:43.000 People want story and, you know, if they want the news, they want, you know, the stuff they can go on and get on MSNBC or they can go on Fox or whatever, but sometimes life comes along and imitates art instead of the other way around.

00:53:00.000 And as I was rewriting this book all at once, I find out we're locking little kids up in cages on the border.

00:53:07.000 And I'm thinking to myself, this is like my book. - Okay, nope, nope.

00:53:15.000 I love that Stephen King really believes his books are apolitical.

00:53:18.000 Under the dome, basically all of his books have basically just turned into a riff on Footloose. 0.99

00:53:23.000 There's the small-minded sheriff who's secretly a sexual abuser but is going to church every day and he's a religious hypocrite. 0.97

00:53:32.000 It's all so rote and it's all so boring and I'm sorry, having Stephen King talk about politics is like having me write a horror novel. 0.99

00:53:39.000 Not in my lane.

00:53:41.000 I can criticize it as a reader.

00:53:43.000 But even there, you know, that's not my area of expertise.

00:53:46.000 I'd rather have Andrew Clavin stake on it.

00:53:47.000 He's an actual novelist.

00:53:49.000 Stephen King on politics.

00:53:50.000 It's like a three-year-old finger painting.

00:53:51.000 You know, we can pretend that it's good and, like, pretend that it's relevant and put it on the fridge, but it ain't good.

00:53:57.000 It ain't good.

00:53:58.000 All righty.

00:53:58.000 We'll be back here later today for two additional hours of content.

00:54:01.000 Plus, tonight, the big, knock-down, drag-out, democratic fight between the octogenarians and the septogenarians.

00:54:07.000 Very, very exciting.

00:54:08.000 All the baby boomers go at it tonight. 1.00

00:54:09.000 We'll be here tomorrow to cover all of that.

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