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00:00:02.000Elizabeth 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.
00:00:32.000You'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.
00:00:40.000We'll go through all of the preview for that.
00:00:43.000Plus, Democrats are now pushing this new method of gun control.
00:00:46.000It's called, let's violate the First Amendment repeatedly by not passing any laws, but pressuring private companies not to do legal things.
00:00:53.000We'll get into all of that in just one second.
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00:02:15.000All 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.
00:02:22.000Now, 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.
00:02:35.000But Elizabeth Warren has basically been shielded from any serious criticism of her on any of the debate stages so far.
00:02:42.000Well, tonight, she's the one who enters with a lot of the momentum.
00:02:45.000So there are two separate polls that show Elizabeth Warren gaining ground.
00:02:48.000There's one poll from The Economist YouGov that shows Joe Biden with 26% support among registered voters.
00:02:54.000The same poll shows Elizabeth Warren at 26%.
00:02:58.000So they are tied at 26% in this Economist YouGov poll.
00:03:03.000Now, that Economist YouGov poll has had Elizabeth Warren polling a lot stronger than the other polls have been in the last several months.
00:03:10.000They've shown Elizabeth Warren within three to four points in a solid second place over Bernie Sanders for a very long time.
00:03:41.000That's slightly up from 15 percent last month.
00:03:43.000So in other words, Biden looks to be bleeding.
00:03:46.000In a lot of these polls, while Elizabeth Warren looks to be gaining, and Bernie Sanders actually looks to be gaining just a little bit.
00:03:52.000In the RealClearPolitics poll average, Biden is still up fairly substantially.
00:03:56.000He's got about a 10-point lead on the rest of the field.
00:03:59.000He's got about 27% in the RealClearPolitics poll average, with Sanders at 17 and Warren at 17 as well.
00:04:05.000There'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%.
00:04:13.000It 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.
00:04:22.000Now, the Hill-Harris poll also has Biden at about 27%, with Sanders at 15 and Warren at 12.
00:04:29.000So there's significant differences in these polls as to whether Warren is in second or whether Sanders is in second.
00:04:35.000But Biden appears to be receding back to the field, just like his hairline once did before he fixed that.
00:04:41.000The fact is that Joe Biden seems to be on the downturn here, and that is because he's sort of gaffing along.
00:04:49.000Everybody sort of assumed that he was going to waltz to the nomination, at least in the conventional media.
00:04:54.000Some of us suggested that his best day would be his first day and maintain that for months at a time.
00:04:58.000Now, 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.
00:05:05.000Remember when Jeb Bush jumped into the 2016 race, he was leading in the polls.
00:05:36.000I mean, he literally doesn't know which town he is in half the time.
00:05:38.000But Joe Biden is not nearly as moderate as he makes himself out to be.
00:05:41.000McClatchy 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.
00:05:50.000According to McClatchy, the 2020 Democratic frontrunner's emerging policy agenda is anything but moderate, at least compared to the party's last presidential nominee.
00:05:58.000From 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.
00:06:07.000The entire party has moved to the left, but Biden's supposed to be the moderate.
00:06:11.000Taken as a whole, Biden's policy platform represents a significant shift from Clinton's.
00:06:16.000According 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.
00:06:28.000The 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.
00:06:44.000If it appears that Biden is moving substantially to the left, he loses his reason for being in this race.
00:06:49.000If he is too moderate, he doesn't excite the base enough to actually win the primaries.
00:06:53.000So he's stuck between a rock and a hard place.
00:06:55.000Exactly the same thing that would allow him to win a general election kills him in the primaries.
00:06:59.000And if he moves left during the primaries, it undercuts his case that he would be super electable in a general election.
00:07:04.000So 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.
00:07:15.000Now, Biden's been able to sort of bridge that gap so far by just being old.
00:07:34.000Joe Biden, the age thing cuts in his favor in a general election, but in a primary, it ain't exciting anybody.
00:07:41.000And now he's moving to the left, as McClatchy points out.
00:07:45.000Biden's current set of policy prescriptions would likely be considered radical if they had been proposed in any previous Democratic presidential primary.
00:07:52.000On healthcare, Hillary Clinton proposed offering a public insurance plan for Americans enrolled in healthcare exchanges.
00:07:58.000She wanted to let adults older than 55 buy into Medicare.
00:08:02.000He 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.
00:08:12.000Clinton proposed spending $60 billion on a clean energy fund.
00:08:15.000Biden wants to spend $1.7 trillion in federal money to make the country emit a net of zero-carbon emissions by 2050.
00:08:23.000Biden 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.
00:08:32.000Clinton wanted to maintain capital punishment in certain situations.
00:08:36.000Biden is pushing a $20 billion initiative that encourages states to reduce their prison population, which of course cuts directly against his old policy.
00:08:48.000But 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.
00:08:59.000Warren is going to suggest that Biden is ideologically muddled, that Biden is not coherent in his ideology.
00:09:07.000But 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.
00:09:18.000She used to be in favor of school vouchers.
00:09:20.000She used to be against taxpayer subsidized tuition.
00:09:22.000She used to be kind of lukewarm on taxpayer funded daycare.
00:09:27.000Now she's in favor of all of those things.
00:09:28.000And every day she comes out with a new proposal to spend your money and raise taxes every single day.
00:09:34.000So which Elizabeth Warren is the real Elizabeth Warren?
00:09:37.000That is going to be up for debate tonight.
00:09:39.000And that apparently is the angle that Joe Biden is going to take.
00:09:43.000Now, 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.
00:09:52.000Now, all the stuff that sounds great to primary voters doesn't sound great to the vast bulk of Americans.
00:09:55.000So yesterday, there was a big headline about Elizabeth Warren and Jim Cramer.
00:10:00.000So 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.
00:10:11.000But 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?
00:10:21.000Like, it sounds great until your 401k takes a massive stock market dump.
00:10:25.000Here's Jim Cramer talking about Elizabeth Warren.
00:10:27.000How is it possible that this company cannot find a CEO?
00:10:30.000I mean, are they worried about Elizabeth Warren attacking them?
00:11:07.000You know who runs the companies that hire everybody?
00:11:09.000You know who's actually responsible for your market investments and your retirement fund?
00:11:13.000It would be exactly the people who are scared bleepless of Elizabeth Warren.
00:11:16.000Now, that's not going to be an attack on her in the primaries.
00:11:19.000That's an attack on her in the general election.
00:11:20.000In the primaries, the attack on her is going to be that she's a hypocrite.
00:11:24.000And there are legs to this attack, because she is a hypocrite.
00:11:26.000Elizabeth Warren used to be a rational, reasonable liberal.
00:11:31.000Now, she's gone off the path in dramatic and insane ways.
00:11:36.000And 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.
00:12:10.000In 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.
00:12:18.000Shortly after announcing her candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination in February, says Ed Rendell, Warren said she would shun high dollar fundraising events.
00:12:27.000That means no fancy receptions or big money fundraisers, only with people who can write the big checks, Warren wrote in an email to supporters.
00:12:33.000Now, Warren has every right to make that pledge, even if she had obtained significant contributions from donors in the past.
00:12:39.000Doing that doesn't make her a hypocrite.
00:12:40.000But there are two other reasons why the description applies.
00:12:43.000First, because she transferred $10.4 million from her Senate re-election campaign to her presidential campaign fund.
00:12:50.000More than $6 million came in contributions of $1,000 and up, as the New York Times recently noted.
00:12:55.000The 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.
00:13:07.000That $10.4 million gave Warren a substantial head start in building a presidential campaign staff and doing other things for which money is essential.
00:13:14.000If 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.
00:13:22.000Warren 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.
00:13:32.000Well, 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.
00:13:45.000Warren didn't seem to have any trouble taking our money in 2018, but suddenly we were power brokers and influence peddlers in 2019.
00:13:53.000I co-chaired one of the events for the senator and received a glowing handwritten thank you letter from her for my hard work.
00:13:59.000It seemed odd to some of us who gave her money that Warren was experiencing an epiphany less than 12 months later.
00:14:04.000It'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.
00:14:16.000He says Warren isn't the only person to have been hypocritical about fundraising.
00:14:19.000Barack Obama did the same thing, he says.
00:14:21.000He 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.
00:14:29.000But 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.
00:14:40.000Politics can make people do peculiar things.
00:14:42.000Funny that Ed Randall had nothing to say about this in 2008, so far as I recall.
00:14:46.000He 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.
00:15:02.000Hey, by the way, Ed Rendell, welcome to the anti-campaign finance reform side of this argument.
00:15:08.000If 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.
00:15:19.000Most 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.
00:15:25.000Randell 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.
00:15:36.000He says that are there some people who give or raise money in presidential campaigns with ulterior motives?
00:15:41.000Sure, but I'm confident the crowd at the Biden fundraiser gave money to him for the same reason that I did.
00:15:46.000So despite my feelings, Elizabeth, if you're reading this and you win the Democratic nomination, I'll be happy to support you.
00:15:50.000We'll campaign for you with all my heart.
00:15:52.000And by the way, Philadelphia has a lot more swanky restaurants you haven't seen yet.
00:15:57.000And 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.
00:16:09.000And then she took that and she has now flipped to, I'm the most progressive senator in the world.
00:16:13.000By 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.
00:16:21.000Donald Trump is somebody who will fight you and fight you hard.
00:16:25.000So we'll get to that in just one second.
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00:17:20.000Again, I have Ring devices because I want to keep my home safe.
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00:17:44.000Bloomberg 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.
00:17:54.000That, of course, is directed at Elizabeth Warren.
00:17:57.000Well, because Elizabeth Warren has done a fair bit of corporate consulting over the years.
00:18:00.000The lady who likes to rip on CEOs and corporations.
00:18:04.000She's gotten paid by CEOs and corporations to consult with their firms before.
00:18:07.000The Biden adviser said voters deserve visibility into candidates' finances, especially from those who are facing questions about their activities before taking office.
00:18:15.000The adviser declined to confirm whether Warren would be Biden's explicit target.
00:18:18.000With her polling in second place in many state and national polls, the former VP's team is paying close attention to her.
00:18:24.000While 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.
00:18:31.000That was the year that she was appointed to the Congressional Oversight Panel that examined government response to the financial crisis.
00:18:38.000Warren, 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.
00:18:46.000In 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.
00:18:55.000Biden may be an imperfect messenger for the argument because obviously Biden has some corporate concerns of his own.
00:19:01.000People raising questions about his associations with his son Hunter and business dealings between Hunter and foreign countries while Biden was vice president.
00:19:08.000But The real key here is undermining Warren's image as a candidate of progressive integrity.
00:19:14.000Because all Biden really has to do is knock Warren down one peg.
00:19:18.000He doesn't have to knock her out of the race.
00:19:19.000He has to knock her down one peg behind Sanders and he wins the nomination.
00:19:26.000Bernie 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.
00:19:36.000Because 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.
00:19:46.000So Sanders is the real true believer here, and he's been avoiding attacking Warren because he doesn't want to look mean.
00:19:52.000He 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.
00:20:12.000And that's why every day she comes out with a new plan.
00:20:14.000She has a new plan today to give social security beneficiaries a raise.
00:20:42.000Because 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.
00:20:49.000I 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.
00:20:54.000That does not put you in the midst of wealth.
00:20:58.000Okay, 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.
00:21:14.000I mean, even in the cases where the top tax bracket was like 91%, it applied to very few people.
00:21:20.000It 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.
00:21:26.000Elizabeth 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.
00:21:34.000So once again, she's just making more promises to people that she can't keep.
00:21:39.000Well, Bernie Sanders, all he has to do is sort of lay off Warren.
00:21:42.000And he's basically pledged to do this.
00:21:43.000So last week he was on The View and he was asked about Elizabeth Warren.
00:21:47.000And people have been wondering, why isn't Sanders going at Warren?
00:21:49.000Because he knows that Biden's going to go at Warren.
00:21:51.000He 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.
00:22:17.000But he doesn't want to have to say Warren's name.
00:22:19.000He made that pretty clear on The View last week.
00:22:21.000Let'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.
00:22:30.000She's saying Medicare for all, free public college, the Green New Deal.
00:22:35.000Is there enough room in the party for both of you?
00:22:37.000Because are you now in danger of splitting the vote and giving Joe Biden a clear path to the nomination?
00:22:43.000Well, Sonny, Elizabeth is a friend of mine.
00:22:45.000She and I have known each other for well over 20 years.
00:22:48.000And she's going to run her campaign, and I will run my campaign.
00:22:51.000Okay, 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.
00:22:58.000He's going to try the same strategy with Elizabeth Warren and hope that Biden really does damage to Elizabeth Warren.
00:23:04.000So that's the dynamic on the stage tonight.
00:23:05.000Then 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.
00:23:38.000The main fight tonight is going to be between Biden and Warren.
00:23:41.000And Biden does have to take Warren down a peg because she is picking up a lot of support and the media love her.
00:23:47.000Because 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.
00:23:54.000And all the people in the media want to view themselves as intelligent.
00:23:57.000They think that Warren is intelligent and thus they support Elizabeth Warren.
00:23:59.000They 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
00:26:57.000The 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.
00:27:21.000I'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.
00:27:38.000Like some people lose an election and they go on to have a life like Mitt Romney.
00:27:40.000And he lost an election and then he went on and he had a life.
00:27:43.000He got elected to Senate and he was doing some charity work.
00:27:47.000Al 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.
00:28:01.000John Kerry went on to be Secretary of State.
00:28:03.000Hillary Clinton loses an election and she is basically Stacey Abrams-ing this thing.
00:28:10.000She's going to just claim that she won.
00:28:15.000I almost want to have it framed and signed by Donald Trump.
00:28:18.000I think I can make that happen for myself, really.
00:28:21.000This 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.
00:28:27.000And it would be the ultimate in wall art.
00:28:31.000Hillary Clinton sitting behind the fake Resolute desk, never having accepted that she lost the election.
00:28:37.000In 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.
00:28:43.000Well, now we're going to do the same thing, but with Elizabeth Warren.
00:28:47.000She is a Peabody Award-winning former public radio host, voice coach, and communications expert.
00:28:52.000She has a piece today in the Washington Post titled, That Grating Noise?
00:28:55.000It's People Criticizing Female Voices on the Debate Stage.
00:28:59.000She 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.
00:30:07.000The 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.
00:30:27.000And 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.
00:30:42.000I always used to make fun of Ted Cruz's sincere voice.
00:30:45.000When Ted would get real sincere, he'd go down here.
00:30:48.000And that's when you knew he was being sincere.
00:30:50.000And I hate when politicians of any stripe do that.
00:30:52.000But according to Veronica Rueckert, it's all about the fact that Elizabeth Warren is a woman.
00:31:59.000If 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.
00:32:31.000And then they start coming forth with their policies, and you can see it on the state level, and it is ugly.
00:32:36.000And it is, in many cases, unconstitutional, and it's a real problem.
00:32:40.000We'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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00:33:57.000All 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.
00:34:13.000Now, they may not understand the consequences of these things yet, but...
00:34:18.000So let's talk about one policy that was undertaken by Governor Philip Murphy, Democrat of New Jersey, yesterday.
00:34:24.000According 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.
00:34:42.000So you should understand what this means.
00:34:44.000It is not illegal for any of these companies to do what they are doing.
00:34:48.000There's no accusation of discrimination.
00:34:51.000There's no accusation that would make state cooperation with these entities or contracting with these entities violative of federal law.
00:34:57.000There are federal statutes, for example, that prevent the federal government from contracting with discriminatory companies on the basis of race.
00:35:04.000There's nothing like that with regard to, here's a company that sells guns, because that's not illegal, nor should it be illegal.
00:35:11.000In fact, the Second Amendment protects precisely that sort of thing.
00:35:14.000Yeah, 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.
00:35:23.000So they're not saying you have to comply with New Jersey law.
00:35:26.000They're saying you have to go beyond New Jersey law.
00:35:29.000And if you don't go beyond New Jersey law, we're not going to contract with you.
00:35:32.000Now, this seems to me a First Amendment violation.
00:35:35.000There's something called viewpoint discrimination.
00:35:37.000The federal and state governments, they are not allowed to discriminate against any contractor or any person on the basis simply of viewpoint.
00:35:59.000You have no excuse to discriminate against my business.
00:36:02.000And 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.
00:36:19.000Sure, we can't legislate you out of existence, but we can certainly make your business a little tougher, can't we?
00:36:24.000So we're just going to sit over here and we're going to play with our own gun.
00:36:29.000We're just kind of waving it around the room.
00:36:30.000If it happens to stop on you, that's something that might happen.
00:36:32.000But, 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.
00:36:38.000The 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.
00:36:44.000Because the American system of checks and balances requires tremendous consensus on a particular issue before legislation gets done.
00:36:51.000And this is true even at the state level for the most part, even in blue states like New Jersey.
00:36:55.000So 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.
00:37:09.000And you're seeing this from the woke blue check marks on Twitter as well.
00:37:13.000There was not a grand upswell of anti-Walmart activity among the consuming public.
00:37:18.000The 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?
00:37:29.000Now, 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.
00:37:38.000Well, 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.
00:37:47.000And you saw the same thing sort of happen in the 1930s with regard to the car companies.
00:37:51.000A bunch of the car companies became very dependent on the FDR administration.
00:37:54.000Henry Ford refused to go along with that, and Ford was significantly damaged by the FDR administration.
00:38:01.000There's a lot of talk about crony capitalism.
00:38:03.000This right here is a form of crony capitalism.
00:38:05.000It is a governor of a state explicitly benefiting certain types of companies that back his agenda politically without the force of law behind him.
00:38:13.000But with the threat looming in the wings that he's going to do something to lead a crusade against a private business.
00:38:18.000The 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.
00:38:28.000Here's Governor Phil Murphy doing this ridiculous and I believe unconstitutional routine.
00:38:32.000Couple of days ago, I signed an executive order which essentially puts our money where our mouth is.
00:38:38.000Number 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.
00:38:48.000Secondly, 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.
00:39:00.000And thirdly, we're going to review and ultimately, I think, ban certain types of insurance that leads to irresponsible gun behavior.
00:39:09.000So they're going to ban insurance so you can't insure yourself against losses from guns going off or something.
00:39:40.000Viewpoint discrimination overtly on its face.
00:39:42.000Then 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.
00:39:50.000And this is the next step for the radical left.
00:39:53.000What 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.
00:40:19.000Now, 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?
00:40:29.000We'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.
00:40:38.000So there is a way out, which is why this is not quite government compulsion.
00:40:41.000But 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.
00:40:50.000The state doing that is a form of viewpoint discrimination, and it's disgusting.
00:41:03.000So, all the same people who whine about CEOs and corporations and crony capitalism, the Elizabeth Warren crowd, all CEOs are evil, they're bad.
00:41:11.000They've got a Scrooge McDuck money bin back there, and they swim around in their gold, and then they screw their workers.
00:41:16.000Those evil, evil CEOs, well they also, we need their help to pass gun control.
00:41:20.000So 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.
00:41:27.000According 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.
00:41:36.000Now, 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.
00:41:47.000The media would be talking about how dare they throw their corporate power around like this.
00:41:51.000You think their workers are in favor of this?
00:41:53.000You think their workers back this and their customers?
00:41:56.000You 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.
00:42:07.000And by the way, a lot of these companies are like Forever 21.
00:42:09.000I don't think Forever 21 is on the list, but it's like Uber, Levi Strauss, Gap.
00:42:13.000Like, who cares what the Gap has to say about gun control?
00:42:21.000These are just companies that are attempting to get in the good graces of the left by establishing their own capital account with the left.
00:42:27.000Remember that time, guys, when we backed gun control and we were all best buddies?
00:42:39.000It's so wildly hypocritical and ridiculous in every possible way.
00:42:43.000But it is an easier way than actually passing public policy.
00:42:47.000You 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.
00:42:54.000And 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.
00:43:07.000And it was exaggerated because it turned out that a lot of people were still individuals.
00:43:10.000They just wore similar suits to the office.
00:43:12.000Well, 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.
00:43:25.000Well, 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.
00:43:36.000If you politicize everything, the right will have to politicize back.
00:43:39.000Now that's not the world that I prefer.
00:43:41.000The 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.
00:43:57.000But that's not the world that the left has allowed or created.
00:44:00.000And so things are gonna get a lot worse before they get better.
00:44:02.000Now, speaking of bad democratic policy, Yesterday, the Democrats were pushing again on immigration.
00:44:09.000AOC, the illustrious, brilliant AOC, she was talking about deporting migrants with disabilities.
00:44:16.000So 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.
00:44:22.000She says this is a form of killing them.
00:44:38.000Is 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?
00:44:55.000So 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.
00:45:04.000And so we are not going to allow asylum simply based on we have better medical care here.
00:45:10.000According 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.
00:45:18.000In fact, AOC apologized to migrants on behalf of the United States.
00:45:22.000There's nothing more galling than when people apologize on behalf of other people.
00:45:36.000But here's AOC apologizing on behalf of the Trump administration's dehumanizing policies, apologizing to the world and migrants at large.
00:45:43.000I'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.
00:45:57.000I'd like to apologize to you on behalf of the United States of America for the dehumanizing policies that they are pursuing.
00:46:06.000Okay, so again, if this is the Democratic platform, good luck with this.
00:46:10.000Thomas Homan, who is the head of ICE, he went after AOC pretty hard.
00:46:16.000Basically, just the way that Ted Cruz owns Deadspin, Thomas Homan apparently owns AOC, just repeatedly he owns her.
00:46:21.000So here he was yesterday going after AOC saying, listen, if you want to regulate, regulate.
00:46:25.000But if you want to sit here and bitch about ICE doing its job, then that is not actually accomplishing anything.
00:46:29.000ICE 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.
00:46:38.000They've arrested thousands of sexual predators that preyed on children.
00:46:43.000They rescued thousands of children who were victims of predators.
00:46:47.000They arrested hundreds of women who were victims of sex trafficking.
00:46:52.000In 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.
00:47:20.000The 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.
00:47:26.000And these radical policies are across the board, across the country.
00:47:30.000There is a California bill that is now going to basically put Uber or Lyft out of business.
00:47:35.000Because they are going to force these companies to treat independent contractors who work for Uber and Lyft as employees.
00:47:42.000How do you think that's going to work?
00:47:43.000You 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?
00:47:48.000Do you think they're going to employ people the same way?
00:47:50.000Do you think maybe there will have to be a new screening process?
00:47:53.000Do you think that maybe prices will rise on consumers, costing them more money out of their pockets?
00:47:58.000And the answer to all of those questions is yes.
00:48:00.000But California doesn't care because California can just throw them out on the streets where they can be homeless.
00:48:05.000And then we can pretend that they have a right to live out on the streets like California does.
00:48:08.000California, 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.
00:48:20.000Rent 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.
00:48:28.000Without earning the same profit you would have been able to when you could upcharge people.
00:48:34.000You're gonna end up with less housing because of your dumb rent control policies.
00:48:38.000Look 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.
00:48:47.000So 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.
00:48:54.000Alrighty, time for a quick thing I like, and then a quick thing that I hate, and we will be out of here.
00:49:08.000Okay, 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.
00:49:18.000He opens by going after Michelle Obama, which is, we can't do that.
00:51:50.000Okay, so, I've wanted to be on The View for years.
00:51:53.000I have very few life aspirations that I have left to really accomplish, right?
00:51:59.000I have a beautiful family, I have a nice house, I get to do what I want for a living, right?
00:52:03.000All sorts of great things happen to me.
00:52:04.000There'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.
00:52:10.000Now, I don't think this will ever happen, because I think the folks at The View know why this would never happen.
00:52:15.000I 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.
00:52:20.000That 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.
00:52:31.000That's a- I desperately need his opinions on migration.
00:52:35.000I try to keep my politics separate from the stuff that I write, the stories, because I think people like story.
00:52:43.000People 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.
00:53:00.000And as I was rewriting this book all at once, I find out we're locking little kids up in cages on the border.
00:53:07.000And I'm thinking to myself, this is like my book. - Okay, nope, nope.
00:53:15.000I love that Stephen King really believes his books are apolitical.
00:53:18.000Under the dome, basically all of his books have basically just turned into a riff on Footloose.
00:53:23.000There's the small-minded sheriff who's secretly a sexual abuser but is going to church every day and he's a religious hypocrite.
00:53:32.000It'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.