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00:01:59.000Basically, railroaded back during the Obama administration.
00:02:03.000He was in the middle of making an anti-Obama documentary, and it was revealed that Dinesh D'Souza had engaged in the process of straw donations.
00:02:12.000So basically, there's a woman named Wendy Long who was running for Senate, and Dinesh wanted to give $20,000 to her.
00:02:26.000And he was sentenced to a certain amount of prison time.
00:02:28.000Now, the reason that this isn't just a case of somebody doing something wrong and going to jail is because the vast majority of cases like this end with a fine.
00:02:35.000The vast majority of cases like this do not end with actual prosecution to the point where somebody goes to jail.
00:02:40.000And it seems a little coincidental that Dinesh D'Souza
00:03:03.000I think it's very silly that the Constitution has pardon power for the president, that governors have pardon power.
00:03:08.000I think it's really dumb, specifically because either you believe the criminal justice system works, or you believe it doesn't.
00:03:13.000And having one guy who is sort of like a cottie sitting under a tree, ruling as to whether people ought to be spared the penalties of their crimes, that seems to me rather dictatorial and monarchic.
00:03:23.000It doesn't have a lot to do with the balance of powers, checks and balances of a functioning republic.
00:03:28.000I don't like the power generally, but if you're going to use the power, you have to use it very sparingly and you ought to use the power.
00:03:34.000In this particular case, I would have thought that it would be more of a commutation situation.
00:03:39.000So there's a difference in pardon power between pardoning someone and commuting their sentence.
00:03:43.000If you pardon somebody, then their crime goes away.
00:03:49.000Then, if they were about to serve time, they no longer have to serve time.
00:03:52.000So right now, there's a serious call to give commutation to this guy who spent 21 years in prison, and then was allowed out of prison, and then it turns out that the system got it wrong, and he's already rebuilt his life, and they're going to send him back to prison.
00:04:04.000There's a strong call by some people, like friends of mine, like Dana Perino, that this guy should have his sentence commuted.
00:04:23.000Dinesh obviously cannot get loans very easily.
00:04:27.000It's hard for him to get credit cards.
00:04:28.000There are certain penalties that attach to being a felon, and Dinesh is a convicted felon, which means that he couldn't have done any of those things.
00:04:35.000Well, Trump is wiping all of that off the books.
00:04:37.000Again, do I think the pardon would have been the best
00:04:39.000Solution here, I think commutation would have if the timing had been right.
00:04:42.000But do I find this to be a wild miscarriage of justice?
00:05:01.000There are a lot of people who receive pardons and clemency specifically because of their politics.
00:05:05.000Chelsea Manning would still be in prison if it were not for the fact that Chelsea Manning is a wild leftist who is transgender.
00:05:11.000Barack Obama let Chelsea Manning out of prison specifically because of those factors.
00:05:14.000So to pretend that the pardon power has not already been used for innately political purposes would be to ignore the truth of the situation.
00:05:20.000So while you hear the left complaining a lot about the Dinesh pardon today, I just, I don't buy the outrage.
00:05:42.000There's a lot of talk about Trump was not going to enter into a trade war.
00:05:45.000And he decided that, I guess, it was worthwhile doing so.
00:05:48.000So he has decided to extend tariffs to the EU on a number of products.
00:05:53.000And those products include steel and aluminum.
00:05:57.000According to The Guardian, a full-scale trade war between Washington and Brussels is looming after the U.S.
00:06:01.000announced it was imposing tariffs on imported steel and aluminum from the European Union.
00:06:05.000The president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, promised swift retaliation after the U.S.
00:06:10.000Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said EU companies would face a 25 percent duty on steel and a 10 percent duty on aluminum from midnight on Thursday.
00:06:17.000So, right now we are talking about a serious trade war that could impact the economy.
00:06:22.000The reality is that tariffs are not good for the economy.
00:06:23.000All they are is a tax on American citizens.
00:06:39.000Remember, when you artificially boost the price of products that Americans have to buy, that is a de facto tax on American citizens.
00:06:45.000They can no longer spend their money where they choose to spend their money.
00:06:48.000Plus, a lot of these companies that are going to end up being tariffed actually hire a lot of people in the United States.
00:06:53.000Like, half of a Mercedes-Benz is produced in the United States.
00:06:56.000At plants based in the United States, some of those cars, luxury items, will be hit with some of these tariffs.
00:07:01.000Also, the President of the United States has started a trade war with Mexico, so now Mexico is threatening its own tariffs against some of America's products, so a lot of American exporters are very unhappy.
00:07:12.000So, today, I guess Mexico has announced that it will put its own tariffs on products including pork bellies, grapes, apples, and flat steel, which sounds like some sort of weird dish, but in any case, Mexico is going to be announcing its own trade barriers.
00:07:59.000However, on the other side of the ledger,
00:08:00.000I mean, if we're going to do some good Trump, bad Trump, there's some bad Trump, here's some good Trump.
00:08:03.000So the president signed what he called right to try legislation.
00:08:06.000So right to try legislation has been considered by conservatives for many, many years.
00:08:11.000Basically, the FDA, it takes enormous quantities of time and money to get FDA approval for a drug.
00:08:17.000One of the reasons drugs are so expensive in the United States is you have to run through years of FDA approval processes before you can bring a drug to market.
00:08:24.000Literally millions and millions of dollars it takes to actually get to market.
00:08:27.000Well, what happens if you're a terminally ill person and you want to try an experimental drug?
00:08:31.000Well, so far, the Democrats have, up till now, opposed the idea that you should be allowed to try those drugs.
00:08:35.000They say the FDA has to license every product that is used in the United States.
00:08:40.000But what about people who are going to die anyway?
00:08:42.000Why exactly can't they try what they want?
00:08:43.000I mean, if they want to try some snake oil and it happens to work for them, why shouldn't they be given the option of doing that?
00:08:48.000That's what the right-to-try legislation was.
00:08:50.000So President Trump signed that right-to-try legislation yesterday.
00:09:26.000Today, I'm proud to keep another promise to the American people as I sign the right to try legislation into law.
00:09:36.000So this got no press yesterday, but it is a very, very good move by the Trump administration
00:09:40.000Again, there's good and there's bad to the Trump administration, but it's foolish to ignore the good or to ignore the bad, right?
00:09:45.000We have to point out whenever any of this stuff is happening.
00:09:48.000Also, it is worthwhile noting that while the press continue to suggest that President Trump and his administration are replete with people who do not care about human beings, this particular piece of legislation is obviously an attempt to alleviate the suffering of an enormous number of people who are
00:10:03.000Who have no choice when it comes to what sort of treatment they wish to see.
00:10:07.000It's also a good argument for libertarianism, even in areas that the FDA covers, that if somebody wants to try a drug, why shouldn't they be able to try that drug?
00:10:15.000Speaking of people with heart inside the Trump administration, Trump actually had a pretty good day yesterday insofar as demonstrating a certain amount of heart and compassion inside the Trump administration.
00:11:00.000And then that wasn't the only sign of compassion from the Trump administration yesterday.
00:11:04.000Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked at a White House press conference about school shootings.
00:11:08.000And you can see, this is not the response of somebody who doesn't care about dead kids, as so many people who are anti-Trump have suggested.
00:11:14.000One thing that affects mine and other students' mental health is the worry about the fact that we or our friends could get shot at school.
00:11:22.000Specifically, can you tell me what the administration has done and will do to prevent these senseless tragedies?
00:11:28.000I think that as a kid and certainly as a parent there is nothing that could be more terrifying
00:11:35.000For a kid to go to school and not feel safe.
00:11:40.000This administration takes it seriously and the School Safety Commission that the President convened is meeting this week again, an official meeting, to discuss the best ways forward and how we can do every single thing within our power to protect kids in our schools and to make them feel safe and make their parents feel good about dropping them off.
00:12:00.000So clearly it's an administration filled with heartless cretins, you know, evil, evil people.
00:12:04.000So this is not to say that the Trump administration doesn't do things that I find terrible at times, right?
00:12:09.000Or says things that I find gross at times.
00:12:12.000I mean, obviously I've been outspoken about all of that.
00:12:15.000And we'll talk in a little bit about the president's response to the Roseanne situation.
00:12:18.000But this this image that is put out by so many folks on the left that the Trump administration is just filled with awful, terrible people who don't care about kids is just stupid.
00:12:26.000In a second, I'm going to show you the media's response to all of this yesterday, because it truly is astonishing.
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00:14:29.000The case in point over the last 24 hours is Samantha Bee.
00:14:31.000So Samantha Bee, as I've said, has been in a running gun battle with Trevor Noah and Amy Schumer and a bunch of other leftist comedians for most unfunny human in the world.
00:14:41.000But I think that she clearly takes the cake here.
00:14:43.000I've always been leaning towards Samantha Bee, I'll be honest with you.
00:14:45.000In these sweepstakes, I've always thought that Samantha Bee was the front runner.
00:14:48.000I always thought that she led by at least a head.
00:14:51.000And it seems that she has drawn full, like, she's drawing lengths away.
00:14:54.000This is now like Secretariat in the unfunny horse race.
00:14:59.000Here she is yesterday going after Ivanka Trump.
00:15:01.000Ivanka Trump, you'll recall, had the temerity, the audacity to tweet out a picture of herself and one of her children over the weekend because it was Memorial Day weekend.
00:15:10.000And the left said, how dare she take a picture with her kid?
00:15:12.000Because there are people being separated from their kids on the border right now.
00:15:15.000Now, as we discussed earlier this week, this critique makes no sense whatsoever, like no sense.
00:15:22.000So Samantha Bee says that not only is Ivanka wrong to take that picture, she is a bleep.
00:15:27.000Ivanka Trump, who works at the White House, chose to post the second most oblivious tweet we've seen this week.
00:15:34.000You know, Ivanka, that's a beautiful photo of you and your child, but let me just say, one mother to another, do something about your dad's immigration practices, you feckless c**t!
00:16:12.000What Ivanka Trump taking a picture with her baby has to do with being called a feckless C-word is beyond me.
00:16:19.000And how Samantha Bee keeps her job after that is beyond me as well.
00:16:22.000It seems to me that there's certain language that is so outside the bounds of normal discourse that you can get fired for it.
00:16:28.000Like Roseanne calling Valerie Jarrett an ape.
00:16:30.000It seems to me like that was a fireable offense.
00:16:32.000And it seems to me like Samantha Bee calling Ivanka Trump a feckless c-word for no reason other than she is in Trump's orbit and has a child is insane.
00:16:41.000And then she goes on from there obviously to suggest that Trump wants to have sex with his own daughter and therefore if Ivanka wears something tight fit that she can change immigration policy.
00:16:50.000The rage of the left, the utter insane response of the left to everything that Trump does, is driving more people into President Trump's arms.
00:16:59.000Like, Trump may not have to actually do anything to win re-election if the left continues to pursue this sort of nonsense, this sort of vile nonsense.
00:17:07.000As another example, Michaela Angela Davis is a race commentator on MSNBC, and she says that, in response to the whole Roseanne thing, she says, all Trump voters are racist.
00:17:59.000And we have learned that if you voted for President Trump, even if you decried some of the things that he was saying, this makes you a racist.
00:18:05.000And then they wonder why so many people are rushing to the arms of President Trump.
00:18:28.000But now you're going to hear a commentator suggest that Trump shouldn't hold it because he's fat.
00:18:31.000The President is having this event here at the White House today, highlighting health and fitness, while questions are being raised about the President's own health and fitness.
00:18:39.000As you'll recall, back in January, the President's doctor came out to the briefing room, and while he told reporters he believed the President was in good health, he did say that he was 6'3 and 239 pounds, and had set a weight loss goal of 10 to 15 pounds over the coming year.
00:18:54.000So questions are of how he was going to do that through diet and exercise.
00:18:57.000A great deal of irony here today, John, as the president is holding this event, these questions about his own weight loss battle that are still going on in the White House.
00:19:25.000Here's Jim Acosta at the White House complaining about Sarah Huckabee Sanders, because Sarah Huckabee Sanders made a point over the last couple of days.
00:19:32.000Her point about Roseanne was, you guys were very, very upset about Roseanne, and you were happy for her to be fired, and maybe she should have been fired, but you don't seem quite as happy to talk about Joy Reid, for example.
00:19:42.000CNN's Jim Acosta, he got very angry at this, because he has to stand up for the reputation of the media.
00:19:46.000When the media starts standing for the media, and they're no longer standing for the truth, it turns out that most Americans tune them out.
00:19:51.000Jim Acosta is the reason most Americans are starting to tune out the media.
00:19:54.000Here's Acosta going after Huckabee Sanders for saying something that is obviously true.
00:19:59.000It's a bit much, I think, for the White House press secretary from the podium to come out here and try to shame the media and say it's somehow our fault that Roseanne Barr put out this tweet.
00:20:10.000Oh, that's not exactly what Huckabee Sanders said.
00:20:12.000That's bad news coverage by Jim Acosta.
00:20:14.000Shouldn't say it's the media's fault that Roseanne Barr put out the tweet.
00:20:17.000She said it's the media's fault that there's this double standard where Joy Reid gets to keep her job, but Roseanne Barr loses her job.
00:20:22.000And Joy Reid gets to keep her job because she is on the left.
00:20:24.000And Roseanne loses her job because she was pro-Trump.
00:20:55.000So he's just obviously out there with Thor's hammer hitting people.
00:20:57.000In a second, I want to talk a little bit about the scheudenfreude that obviously comes from President Obama having lost, because there's an amazing story in the New York Times and a piece of audio I just have to play for you that's incredible.
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00:22:52.000One of the things that's been, I think, really delicious to watch is the left had this perception of itself as beyond, sort of beyond decent.
00:23:02.000The right was indecent, and the left was so decent, and the left was so good, and the left was so kind, and they just cannot understand how President Trump won.
00:23:09.000And it's their lack of understanding as to why President Trump won that basically guarantees that he'll have a serious shot at re-election in 2020, despite his extraordinarily low approval ratings.
00:23:18.000The left doesn't understand how he won.
00:23:19.000And they don't understand how he won because they don't understand themselves.
00:23:22.000One of the ways that you change your own life, just speaking personally, one of the ways that you change your own life is looking at your own flaws and then determining how to fix those flaws.
00:23:31.000So, you know, for me, I've had to try to get beyond my own confirmation bias.
00:23:35.000It's a difficult thing to do, to try and look at the stuff that you want to believe and determine whether you are right in believing those things.
00:23:42.000For people like me, you know, sometimes I get condescending.
00:23:45.000There are certain things about me as a human being that I have to try to work on.
00:23:48.000Well, the same thing is true of parties.
00:23:49.000Parties have to look internally and say, what is it that we have to work on?
00:23:52.000The Democrats never felt they had to work on anything because they had made, basically Trump's case against the Democrats, they'd made against Republicans for years.
00:24:00.000The case that Trump makes against the Democrats, that they're all bad and they like MS-13 and they're mean and they're cruel and they're nasty and they're stupid and all this kind of stuff.
00:24:09.000The Democrats have been claiming this for years.
00:24:11.000In 2013, I wrote a book called Bullies, a New York Times bestseller, talking specifically about this character tactic that has been used by Democrats for years.
00:24:17.000Well, when Trump won, suddenly it dawned on the Democrats, or it should have dawned on the Democrats, that maybe they shouldn't have been so quick about dismissing half the American public.
00:24:25.000Maybe they shouldn't have been so quick about assuming that they were the bringers of light and truth and that everyone who disagreed with them was ill-motivated.
00:24:34.000And so there's something delicious about watching members of the Obama administration trying to cope with the fact that Hillary Clinton lost an election to Donald Trump, which is, again, that was a nearly impossible, miraculous occurrence.
00:25:59.000And then just the incapacity to speak by a former novelist from his Brooklyn apartment elevated to a position of unprecedented power for a guy who knows nothing about anything.
00:26:11.000The fact that the Democrats don't understand this is why they have a serious shot at continuing to lose.
00:26:14.000It's one of the reasons why the generic ballot gap between Republicans and Democrats has now shrunk to near nothingness.
00:26:19.000There's a piece in the New York Times that is from a report by Peter Baker about the emotional stages of adjusting to President Trump's victory.
00:26:39.000He asked aides riding with him in the armored presidential limousine.
00:26:43.000He had read a column asserting that liberals had forgotten how important identity was to people and had promoted an empty cosmopolitan globalism that made many people feel left behind.
00:26:51.000Maybe we pushed too far, Mr. Obama said.
00:26:53.000Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.
00:26:55.000His aides reassured him that he still would have wanted he'd been able to run for another term and that the next generation had more in common with him than with Mr. Trump.
00:27:01.000Mr. Obama, the first black man elected president, did not seem convinced.
00:27:05.000Sometimes I wonder whether I was 10 or 20 years too early, he said.
00:28:10.000Not only did he fail to do it, he deliberately decided not to do it and instead to focus on tribalizing people by polar patterns, right, by trying to move people back into their tribes so he could then
00:28:21.000Agglomerate them all together, wrap them into a ball, and in this Democratic ball that was going to roll downhill and crush Republicans.
00:28:27.000That was his entire electoral strategy, and he still doesn't get it.
00:28:30.000But it's really delicious to watch him not getting it.
00:28:33.000He was out of touch, President Obama, and so were the Democrats, which is why they lost.
00:28:36.000In the weeks after Mr. Trump's election, the New York Times continues, Mr. Obama went through multiple emotional stages, according to a new book by his longtime advisor, Benjamin Rhodes, right?
00:28:44.000That was the same guy you watched there trying to struggle with the idea that Trump had won, and it was wonderful, just delicious.
00:28:50.000At times, the departing president took the long view.
00:29:00.000It is also true that Barack Obama cared a lot more about his crowd sizes than any particular policy, which is why he went around Europe immediately after his election, speaking to throngs of people and saying nearly nothing of substance.
00:29:10.000He expressed rare self-doubt, wondering whether he had misjudged his own influence on American history.
00:29:15.000Set to be published next week by Random House, Mr. Rhodes' memoir, The World As It Is, by the way, the fact that Ben Rhodes called his memoir, The World As It Is, is just unbelievable.
00:29:25.000Ben Rhodes is a guy who legitimately believed that Iran was going to moderate if we gave them hundreds of billions of dollars.
00:29:32.000And then he's writing a book called The World As It Is.
00:29:34.000But don't worry, they're not out of touch.
00:29:37.000But apparently his book offers a peek into Mr. Obama's tightly sealed inner sanctum from the perspective of one of the few people who saw him up close through all eight years of his presidency.
00:29:46.000Few moments shook Mr. Obama more than the decision by voters to replace him with a candidate who has questioned his very birth.
00:29:52.000I love, even the wording is just so good.
00:29:55.000Mr. Rhodes served as Mr. Obama's deputy national security advisor through some of the most consequential points of his presidency, including decisions to authorize the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
00:30:03.000I love, by the way, the Democrats are still hanging their hat on that one.
00:30:06.000Every president would have said, go do it.
00:30:08.000Jimmy Carter would have said, go do it.
00:30:09.000Send more troops to Afghanistan, pull most troops out of Iraq, restore diplomatic relations with Cuba, seal a nuclear agreement with Iran, intervene militarily in Libya, and refuse to intervene militarily in Syria.
00:31:04.000It doesn't mean that President Trump does everything right, but the fact that Barack Obama was so deeply out of touch, and that he didn't understand the American people, and that he really believed that by polarizing the American people, he could bring us all together again,
00:31:15.000And then he felt the impact of President Trump following him is just great, and well-deserved, and certainly well-deserved for Ben Rhodes as well.
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00:34:32.000I said right after the election, there's one picture that really got me right after the election.
00:34:35.000It was a picture of Donald Trump visiting the White House, sitting next to Barack Obama.
00:34:40.000And you recall that Barack Obama had said on national television that Trump would never be president in a series of mean tweets with Jimmy Kimmel.
00:34:46.000And there's Obama, looking like he wants to die.
00:34:49.000And Trump's sitting next to him, giving the Trump finger to the camera, and behind them is a bust of Abraham Lincoln, looking down.
00:34:58.000I love that Trump, because here's the thing, as I've said many times, Trump is Obama unmasked.
00:35:03.000Deep down, Obama's ego is Trump's ego.
00:35:05.000All the talk about crowd size, Barack Obama did his original DNC acceptance speech in 2008 on a stage with Greek columns and mist coming off the floor in a stadium filled with 40,000 people.
00:35:19.000You think Obama didn't care about his crowd size?
00:36:02.000By the way, talking of people who pedal bull, Barack Obama was in the Senate for five minutes before he ran for president, and he gave the most BS speech at the DNC in 2004 I had heard at that time, right?
00:36:13.000The whole, we're not red states and blue states, we're the United States, right?
00:36:17.000I just, I love that Trump is the bizarro, he's like Bizarro Superman.
00:36:20.000Like, Obama sees himself as Superman, and Trump is just Bizarro Superman, where everything he says is kind of backwards, and he's just the weird version of Obama.
00:36:28.000Like, when Obama looks in a funhouse mirror, he's gotta see Trump, and it must haunt his nightmares, and he deserves every second of that.
00:36:44.000She was going to provide that counter to Hillary Clinton.
00:36:47.000Shortly after the 2016 election, according to the Daily Beast, Jill Stein raised more than $7 million from shell-shocked liberals eager to pursue a swing state recount.
00:37:39.000Now, speaking of when politics is not great, we have to talk about Spygate.
00:37:43.000So, the President of the United States decided to tweet today, because today is a day ending in Y. So, he decided that he was going to tweet about Spygate.
00:37:50.000Spygate, as you recall, is this allegation that the FBI was, at the behest of the Obama administration, looking into
00:37:59.000The only people that they targeted inside the campaign were people
00:38:20.000Who basically have been charged at this point.
00:39:05.000Not that it matters, but I never fired James Comey because of Russia.
00:39:09.000The corrupt mainstream media loves to keep pushing that narrative, but they know it is not true.
00:39:13.000He literally went on Lester Holt's show on national television on NBC and said he fired James Comey because of Russia.
00:39:20.000He then went into a room with the ambassador to Russia, from Russia, Sergey Kislyak, and told him that he fired James Comey because of Russia.
00:39:28.000Now, I don't think that he fired James Comey because Comey was about to uncover Russian collusion.
00:39:32.000I think he fired James Comey because he was frustrated that Comey was not announcing publicly that he didn't have the goods on Trump about Russia.
00:39:39.000When Trump says he didn't fire James Comey because of Russia, he literally said on national television.
00:39:45.000He literally said that on national television that he'd fire James Comey because of Russia.
00:39:51.000By the way, speaking of people who don't buy it, Trey Gowdy, who, it's really funny to me, you know, tribalism is a hell of a drug, and Trey Gowdy, you will recall, was considered
00:40:01.000One of the staunchest, most aggressive Republicans in Congress.
00:40:17.000And he said on Fox News that the FBI was not out to get the quote-unquote Trump campaign in the middle of the election cycle.
00:40:23.000Here's what he had to say, and the backlash was fierce.
00:40:26.000It was President Trump himself who said, number one, I didn't collude with Russia, but if anyone connected with my campaign did, I want the FBI to find that out.
00:40:36.000It looks to me like the FBI was doing what President Trump said I want you to do, find it out.
00:40:43.000So when Schiff and others don't make that clear, they're doing a disservice to our fellow citizens.
00:40:48.000I am even more convinced that the FBI did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got, and that it has nothing to do with Donald Trump.
00:40:58.000Okay, so what he says here is two things.
00:41:01.000One of them is that the FBI was not investigating Donald Trump, and the other is that the FBI was not investigating the Trump campaign.
00:41:08.000Now, there's a case to be made, Andrew McCarthy makes it today, that the Trump campaign was basically under investigation.
00:41:13.000I don't agree with Andrew McCarthy's case, I tend to agree with Trey Gowdy.
00:41:16.000But what's happened, because Trey Gowdy said something you are not allowed to say now, which is that President Trump is overblowing this case,
00:41:23.000A lot of folks have been all over Trey Gowdy.
00:41:24.000Sean Hannity, for example, attacked Trey Gowdy on Fox News and suggested that Trey Gowdy had now been co-opted for some reason.
00:41:31.000There's the suggestion being made that Trey Gowdy has been co-opted by the deep state or that Trey Gowdy is now running interference for Democrats and for the FBI.
00:41:39.000Again, Trey Gowdy, I believe, he might be wrong, but to question his motivations here I think is really beyond the pale.
00:41:45.000When the evidence shows that the FBI was directed by President Obama or even hinted at by President Obama to target the Trump campaign, not just people within the Trump campaign, the Trump campaign itself, when we understand why Trump hasn't declassified the material, when we understand why the FBI didn't release the material, then I'm happy to go with the Spygate stuff.
00:42:01.000Until then, I'm gonna have to withhold judgment.
00:42:03.000Just as a lawyer, I'm gonna have to withhold judgment.
00:42:06.000And I don't know what's wrong with that.
00:42:06.000I think withholding judgment might be the best thing you can do when the evidence is not yet out.
00:42:11.000Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:42:55.000And it's important for everybody to know about these things so that you and your own life can overcome them and so you can educate your children better to overcome them.
00:43:01.000Again, the book is called Just Babies, The Origin of Good and Evil.
00:43:04.000It's a short book and a very easy read.
00:43:07.000It'll give you some information that puts to death the lie that the left has told for literally generations, that human beings are infinitely malleable if only we change our social constructs.
00:43:17.000The idea that boys can become girls and girls can become boys is an outgrowth of the idea that the human brain is intensely plastic, so plastic that it has no actual features.
00:43:27.000In human history, it has not been true.
00:43:29.000And Paul Bloom sort of puts that to bed in Just Babies, The Origins of Good and Evil.
00:43:33.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:43:39.000So yesterday, as I mentioned, President Trump met Kim Kardashian in the Oval Office.
00:43:43.000And I question whether this was a worthwhile thing to do, because I think that linking yourself with celebrities is generally a waste of time and counterproductive.
00:43:50.000I don't think celebrities generally have important things to say on topics outside of their purview.
00:43:54.000That's not to say they can't raise money for charity.
00:43:56.000It's not to say that they can't have their causes.
00:43:58.000But I don't know why politicians should take the word of celebrities
00:44:25.000Now, of course, what's ironic about all of this is that speaking of philosophical consistency, a bunch of people on the right will say, no, no, no, it's good.
00:44:33.000Kim Kardashian coming in, it's great because she's trying to do the right thing.
00:44:36.000Again, I'm not questioning Kim Kardashian's motives.
00:44:38.000I'm questioning the usefulness and whether it is good for the country to have politicians doing these photo ops with celebrities as though the celebrities know what the hell they are talking about in many of these cases.
00:44:48.000And I remember that there was a guy named Donald Trump who used to be sort of upset about this kind of stuff.
00:45:44.000And I can't say the same about a lot of other people on the right who have just said, well, you know, as long as it's Trump doing it, it's totally fine.
00:45:49.000But getting kind of used to that after all these years.
00:45:51.000OK, time for a quick, quick Bible verse.
00:45:54.000So we've been going chapter by chapter through the books following the five books of Moses.
00:46:00.000And this is from the chapter three of the book of Joshua.
00:46:03.000So Joshua is about to invade the land.
00:46:06.000And it says, early in the morning, Joshua and all the Israelites set out from Shittim and went to the Jordan, where they camped before crossing over.
00:46:11.000It's that verse that I want to talk about a little bit.
00:46:33.000The idea that you have to consecrate yourselves because tomorrow the Lord will do amazing things among you.
00:46:36.000If you were told today that God was going to do something amazing for you, would you go out and consecrate yourself?
00:46:42.000Or would you think, well, listen, it's already guaranteed, right?
00:46:45.000So would I go out and consecrate myself?
00:46:48.000Would I go out, clean myself, make sure that I'm as clean as can be?
00:46:51.000Or would I just rely on the mercy of the Lord?
00:46:55.000It's my feeling that this verse has some serious importance because the idea is not that you're trying to buy off God to do things for you.
00:47:01.000Religion is not about buying off God to do things for you.
00:47:25.000It is your job to be grateful for the things that God does give you, including a predictable universe in which, if you apply the rules, then good things happen to you.
00:47:32.000It is our job to consecrate ourselves and not to worry about what God is going to do for us, because what God is going to do for us has almost no... Like, if people had not consecrated themselves, according to Joshua, God still would have done the great thing.
00:47:43.000It is our job to be grateful for those great things, and therefore to spend our time making ourselves more virtuous human beings.
00:47:48.000Okay, we'll be back here tomorrow with The Mailbag.