The Ben Shapiro Show - The Saudi Conundrum | Ep. 640

00:00:00.000 President Trump struggles to deal with the fallout from the alleged Saudi murder of a dissident.

00:00:04.000 President Trump battles it out with Stormy Daniels in the great battle of our time.

00:00:08.000 And we're going to talk about some fundamental conservative principles today.

00:00:11.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:12.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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00:00:38.000 There is news to get to today and philosophy to get to today.

00:00:41.000 Many, many things to talk about, but first,

00:00:43.000 Let us talk about the upcoming election.

00:00:45.000 If you look at the rhetoric from the leftist news outlets on the heels of Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation, they are trying to solidify the left for the midterms.

00:00:52.000 It is going to be a battle for the House.

00:00:53.000 Right now, chances are the Democrats win the House.

00:00:55.000 Here's what's at stake if the Democrats do take the House.

00:00:58.000 The positive policies Republicans have enacted over the past two years, everything to help the economy, regulatory reform, tax cuts, judicial appointments, withdrawal from the Iran deal, all of it could be stymied if the Dems take control of either House.

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00:02:15.000 All right, so we begin today with the President of the United States suggesting that if the Democrats win the House, it's not his fault.

00:02:23.000 That's not a big shock.

00:02:23.000 I mean, you wouldn't expect President Trump.

00:02:25.000 He's not really a the buck stops here guy.

00:02:28.000 That's not his motto.

00:02:30.000 He tends to operate more in the the buck stops wherever I'm not.

00:02:34.000 And therefore, if the Republicans were to lose the House, it has nothing to do with President Trump.

00:02:38.000 Now, let's be real about this.

00:02:40.000 With a soaring economy, the Republicans should be doing better in polling than they are.

00:02:44.000 Democrats are highly motivated to get out and vote, partially because of President Trump.

00:02:47.000 Do I think it's extra because of Trump?

00:02:50.000 Not really, believe it or not.

00:02:51.000 I think that Democrats are motivated to vote because the Republican is in the White House, and it would be the same thing if it had been Jeb Bush.

00:02:56.000 I think they would have been motivated to vote.

00:02:58.000 Midterm elections are really bad for sitting presidents, and this election cycle is no different.

00:03:04.000 If it turns into a raucous blowout, if it turns into Democrats winning 40, 50 seats, then you might start talking about the impact President Trump has had.

00:03:11.000 Obviously, President Trump has a unique gift.

00:03:13.000 If they don't go out and vote,

00:03:35.000 Then they have themselves to blame because they'll lose wealth.

00:03:37.000 Tremendous amount.

00:03:38.000 I built up $11.7 trillion in wealth.

00:03:42.000 You report on it.

00:03:43.000 Okay, so, you know, when he suggests that it's not his fault because we have, you know, a great economy, he's right, that we do have a terrific economy right now.

00:03:53.000 There's a study out today, and it shows that the United States is now number one in competitiveness for the first time in 2008, after it made the second highest overall gain from the previous year's ranking from the World Economic Forum, according to Ryan Saavedra over at Daily Wire.

00:04:06.000 The top five countries were the US, Singapore, Germany, Switzerland, and Japan, all of which saw their scores increase in 2017, according to the Wall Street Journal.

00:04:15.000 Economic recovery is well underway, with the global economy projected to grow almost 4% in 2018 and 2019.

00:04:21.000 The report stated, adding that the recovery remains vulnerable to a range of risks and potential shocks.

00:04:26.000 That's just a way for economists to hedge their bets.

00:04:28.000 The journal noted that the warning cited, quote, a brewing trade war between the U.S.

00:04:31.000 and China as a possible hindrance to growth that could potentially derail the recovery and deter investment.

00:04:37.000 The report scores countries on how closely they match up to the competitive ideal.

00:04:40.000 The U.S.

00:04:41.000 scored an 86% out of a possible 100.

00:04:43.000 America's vibrant entrepreneurial culture and its dominance in producing a competitive labor market and nimble financial system are among the several factors that contribute to making the United States' innovation ecosystem one of the best in the world.

00:04:55.000 This prompted President Trump to tweet out all of the good economic news.

00:04:59.000 He tweeted out an incredible number just out.

00:05:01.000 Over 7 million job openings.

00:05:02.000 Astonishing.

00:05:03.000 It's all working.

00:05:04.000 Stock market up big on tremendous potential of USA.

00:05:06.000 Also strong profits.

00:05:08.000 We are number one in the world by far, which is true.

00:05:10.000 He says that we now have eight times more new manufacturing jobs than we did under President Obama.

00:05:14.000 Also true.

00:05:15.000 The fact is that the economy has been going gangbusters under President Trump.

00:05:19.000 And a large part of that is not only the regulatory reform and the tax cuts, but a feeling of

00:05:24.000 Consistency and certainty in economics.

00:05:27.000 See, it's very important to have a level of consistency and certainty if you're running a business.

00:05:32.000 If you're living in the state of California, where we are, and you run a business, one of the problems is you are not sure what insane regulation is going to come down the pike at any given moment.

00:05:40.000 And on a federal level,

00:05:41.000 If you don't know what crazy regulation is going to come down the pike at any given moment, you're more likely to hold out your money.

00:05:46.000 You're more likely to say, you know what?

00:05:47.000 I'm going to leave that money in the bank.

00:05:48.000 I'm not going to invest in a new employee I may have to fire.

00:05:51.000 I'm not going to invest in new infrastructure that may have to go unused.

00:05:56.000 Instead, I'm just going to hold this money out and I'm going to wait for a better economic time.

00:06:00.000 President Trump and Republican Congress mean that there is a level of solidity in Americans' perceptions of which way the economy is going to move, namely in the direction of businesses having more freedom to pursue the causes that they wish to pursue.

00:06:16.000 Now, President Trump is signaling that the great danger to this is the Federal Reserve.

00:06:22.000 The Federal Reserve has been tightening interest rates.

00:06:24.000 The reason they're tightening interest rates is because they don't want a bubble.

00:06:26.000 They don't want a lot of folks taking out cheap credit from the Federal Reserve banks, lending out at cheap rates, and then

00:06:33.000 All of those assets being overvalued and then the economy collapsing again like it did in 2007-2008.

00:06:37.000 So the Federal Reserve actually isn't doing the worst thing.

00:06:40.000 The fact that the economy continues to grow at extraordinary rates with the Federal Reserve tightening credit is actually quite a good thing.

00:06:48.000 But here is President Trump suggesting that the economy might be a little bit more fragile than we think it is by going after the Federal Reserve.

00:06:55.000 The biggest threat is the Fed, because the Fed is raising rates too fast, and it's independent, so I don't speak to him, but I'm not happy with what he's doing, because it's going too fast, because you looked at the last inflation numbers, they're very low.

00:07:11.000 You know, debatable as to whether the Fed should even exist, but if the Fed is going to exist, then raising interest rates in a time of economic boom is not the world's worst idea.

00:07:21.000 However, there is a problem.

00:07:23.000 We do have this booming economy, right?

00:07:24.000 7 million unfilled jobs.

00:07:26.000 It's an amazing statistic.

00:07:27.000 For all the talk about the hollowing out of the American middle class and the people who are living in despair in small town communities,

00:07:35.000 7 million unfilled jobs is a lot of unfilled jobs.

00:07:38.000 That is a lot of unfilled jobs.

00:07:40.000 And we are a country originally of pioneers and entrepreneurs.

00:07:44.000 People who are willing to venture out of the spaces from which they were born in order to find new economic opportunities and new jobs.

00:07:52.000 The problem is that an economy that's booming like this, but that also may require you to add new skills and move out of your hometown, it's deeply at odds with some of President Trump's campaign promises.

00:08:03.000 It's deeply at odds with a certain perception of the economy that's pushed by the so-called populist right.

00:08:08.000 Now, when I talk about the populist right, I'm talking about folks who I think say a lot of true things on a lot of subjects, but not on this particular subject.

00:08:17.000 And in this particular camp, I count a bunch of folks who have made big names for themselves,

00:08:25.000 Based on the idea that America's economy is bound to fail, that there's too much income inequality.

00:08:30.000 This is from the right.

00:08:31.000 These are people supposedly from the right.

00:08:33.000 Claiming there's too much income inequality, that manufacturing jobs are dying, that small towns are dying, and therefore the government has to step in and regulate.

00:08:40.000 We need tariffs.

00:08:41.000 We need regulations.

00:08:42.000 We need redistributions. 0.80

00:08:43.000 We need heavier unionization.

00:08:45.000 And this comes from a value system that doesn't actually see the morality in the free markets per se.

00:08:51.000 Now, listen, there's nothing that is necessarily moral in how people use free markets, but the basis of a free market system, private property ownership and control of your own labor, that is a deep moral good.

00:09:02.000 There is something moral about free markets that is not moral about restricted markets.

00:09:07.000 That can only hold true when there's no exploitation.

00:09:10.000 That can only hold true when the government prevents forced use of labor, for example.

00:09:16.000 But when the government steps in and starts tromping on free market principles, on individual property rights and individual use of labor, then you get into trouble.

00:09:26.000 And the problem is that there is a widespread perception among a lot of people on the populist right that America's economy, even when it's going great guns, is still unfair.

00:09:34.000 This is where the Trumpian right meets the Bernie Sanders left. 0.98

00:09:37.000 Tucker Carlson has a new book out called Ship of Fools. 0.95

00:09:38.000 We're going to have Tucker on the Sunday special sometime in the near future. 0.93

00:09:42.000 And Tucker is sort of an economic populist.

00:09:44.000 Very talented guy, obviously.

00:09:46.000 And Tucker's economic populism borders on sort of a Bernie Sanders perspective on how the economy ought to work.

00:09:53.000 He talks a lot in his book about this sort of suffering middle class that was left behind.

00:09:57.000 And one of the things he says in the book is that, I was reading it last night, and it's really well written.

00:10:01.000 It's, again, Tucker's a deeply talented guy.

00:10:04.000 One of the things that it says is it says that while the rich have gotten richer in the United States, the poor have gotten poorer.

00:10:10.000 Now, he acknowledges that the poor getting poorer in the United States is not actually a thing that's happening, that the poor in the United States are still extraordinarily rich by any sort of global standard.

00:10:18.000 They are richer than they were in 1979 by any standard.

00:10:21.000 They have better stuff.

00:10:23.000 But that's not enough because he says that there's still envy between the rich and the poor.

00:10:26.000 And as long as that exists, the government has to step in to help prevent that envy from overtaking the political system.

00:10:33.000 That's a perspective that probably Bernie Sanders supporters hold.

00:10:36.000 And you saw some of this during the election cycle when President Trump was trying to appeal to Bernie Sanders supporters with the same sort of language.

00:10:41.000 The free markets were flawed.

00:10:43.000 That globalization was a bad thing.

00:10:45.000 This is the stand-in, by the way, for free markets.

00:10:47.000 The dirty word that people use instead of free markets these days is globalization.

00:10:51.000 Now, there are significant

00:10:54.000 Problems with globalization on the local level in certain areas.

00:10:57.000 So, for example, you're getting outcompeted by a business in China and your business goes out of business, that hurts for you.

00:11:02.000 But globalization is just another word for free markets, because if you were getting outcompeted by a firm in California and you're in Ohio, that wouldn't be globalization, that would just be the free market at work.

00:11:12.000 There are moral questions as to whether we should be doing free market stuff with dictatorships like China.

00:11:17.000 But there's no economic question that it is beneficial economically to consumers in the United States and to producers who use inputs in the United States to have free trade.

00:11:26.000 And yet, by suggesting that capitalism and free markets are not enough, suggesting that globalization is a bad thing, what we need is economic nationalism, more government intervention.

00:11:35.000 President Trump is actually undercutting the cause of his own economy, which is not based on anti-globalization.

00:11:40.000 It's actually based deeply on a global free market and on less regulation.

00:11:45.000 President Trump's economic system is based on less government intervention in the economy, but President Trump has been preaching more economic intervention in the economy by suggesting that the economy is leaving people behind.

00:11:56.000 Well, that is a talking point that can be used against him.

00:11:59.000 It's a talking point that can be used against him in elections.

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00:13:21.000 Okay, so.

00:13:22.000 It's not just Tucker.

00:13:23.000 I don't want to pick on Tucker.

00:13:24.000 There are a bunch of folks, again, who I really admire intellectually.

00:13:27.000 I think Tucker is one of them.

00:13:29.000 Another person who I admire intellectually is a guy named Oren Kass, who has a book out that I've recommended on the show called The Once and Future Worker.

00:13:35.000 And in that book, Oren talks about this kind of new populist economics.

00:13:39.000 What he says is basically capitalism is designed to provide you the cheapest products and the best products at the most available opportunity.

00:13:49.000 And there's no question that this is what capitalism has achieved.

00:13:51.000 This is what globalization has achieved.

00:13:53.000 We live in times that would astound any human being from even 50 years ago.

00:13:58.000 We live in a time, economically, where, legitimately, you can have any product on planet Earth delivered to you within days.

00:14:05.000 Made in 10 different countries.

00:14:07.000 Assembled in a factory overseas.

00:14:10.000 Shipped directly to your house.

00:14:11.000 You don't even have to leave your house.

00:14:12.000 All you do is push a button and these things arrive.

00:14:14.000 There's a very famous economic essay called iPencil.

00:14:18.000 All about how no one on planet Earth actually knows how to make a pencil beginning to end.

00:14:23.000 Why?

00:14:23.000 Because there's a graphite factory, and then there's a wood factory, and then there's a paint factory, there's a metal factory, there's a rubber factory.

00:14:29.000 All of those places have to generate small pieces of the pencil, and then it is all assembled, and then it is brought to you for pennies.

00:14:35.000 That's the magic of capitalism.

00:14:37.000 That's the magic of globalization and free markets.

00:14:39.000 Now, when people say globalization, again, because people think that globalization means that we are giving up control to people who are outside America,

00:14:47.000 They don't understand that globalization really just means free markets.

00:14:51.000 If we just had free markets, folks would be on board.

00:14:54.000 But globalization is an easy way to... It's kind of a left-liberal term for free markets that's been used, just like trickle-down economics is a left-liberal term that has been used instead of supply-side economics.

00:15:05.000 Well, Oren Kass, in his book, he talks about how capitalism is great at generating all sorts of consumer goods.

00:15:10.000 That capitalism is consumer-focused, which obviously is true.

00:15:14.000 It's consumed capitalism with making sure that you can not only dispense with your own labor at the price that you see fit, but also that you provide products and services to somebody else that they want.

00:15:25.000 What he says is that we may be living in a time very soon where people can't find fulfillment in consumerism.

00:15:31.000 Instead, they find fulfillment in jobs.

00:15:33.000 They find fulfillment in work.

00:15:35.000 Now, there's no question that a guy making $20,000 a year and working is probably happier than a guy making $20,000 a year from welfare and not working.

00:15:43.000 But the real question is, how much economic wherewithal do you have to sacrifice?

00:15:47.000 How much free market do you have to sacrifice to give that guy a job at $20,000 as opposed to just redistributing?

00:15:52.000 And this is really a fascinating economic debate that is breaking out.

00:15:56.000 I think it's premature, but it's fascinating.

00:15:58.000 I'll explain in just one second.

00:15:59.000 So, here is the new debate on the right in economics.

00:16:03.000 And it sort of crosses political boundaries.

00:16:05.000 It's really quite interesting.

00:16:07.000 On the one hand, you have folks who say globalization and redistribution.

00:16:09.000 What do we do with the people who are left behind, who are working jobs that get eliminated, who can't change jobs, who don't want to leave their hometown?

00:16:17.000 Now, the normal answer in the past was get up, get a new skill, leave town.

00:16:22.000 That was the actual American answer.

00:16:24.000 That's why America spans from coast to coast and isn't just relegated to the eastern seaboard.

00:16:29.000 Because people legitimately gave up plots of land in New York and decided, I'm going to go out to the middle of nowhere, I'm going to cross territory where people want to kill me, and I'm going to go out to the middle of nowhere, set up a claim, and then I'm going to work on that claim by myself, at risk of death, in order so that I can make something more of myself.

00:16:45.000 That is the American ideal.

00:16:46.000 The pioneer, the cowboy, is still the American ideal.

00:16:49.000 But that sort of has gone by the wayside because we now believe that everybody is entitled to things.

00:16:53.000 We're an entitlement culture.

00:16:54.000 And so what's broken down is two separate views of where the economy should go from here.

00:16:59.000 View number one is globalization and redistribution.

00:17:02.000 Free markets everywhere.

00:17:03.000 And if people are left behind, then we have a basic income, a universal basic income, or we have a social welfare net, a safety net.

00:17:12.000 And that's how we pick up for the folks who get left behind.

00:17:16.000 Those people, we just give them money, basically.

00:17:18.000 So globalization raises everybody's living standard, and then everybody who is left behind a little bit, we give them a little bit of extra money to make them feel better and so that they can live better.

00:17:25.000 That is model number one.

00:17:27.000 And a lot of folks in sort of the Trump camp say that's not right.

00:17:30.000 And the Bernie camp say that's not right.

00:17:32.000 They say instead, what we really need is a new model of how to think.

00:17:36.000 And the model of how to think is about jobs.

00:17:38.000 How do we provide jobs for people?

00:17:39.000 Because jobs provide meaning.

00:17:41.000 And if you don't have a job, you have less meaning.

00:17:44.000 So, what if we just restricted the free market itself?

00:17:47.000 What if we put barriers on the free market?

00:17:49.000 Now, to Orrin's credit, Orrin Kass, he doesn't really recommend tons of restrictions on the free market.

00:17:55.000 He talks about different ways that we could shape public policy in order to make the markets freer, actually, relieve regulations to make it easier to generate jobs.

00:18:02.000 But, President Trump has suggested restrictions on the free market.

00:18:05.000 He has suggested

00:18:07.000 Restrictions on global trade, for example.

00:18:10.000 And there's a real push by some on the Trumpian populist right to restore union power, even though it is Americans voluntarily moving out of private unions, not companies breaking unions that has led to the dearth of unions in the United States.

00:18:25.000 So that's model number two, is you restrict the free market economy in order so that everybody has a job.

00:18:30.000 And that, again, is more of a left-leaning version.

00:18:33.000 So it's kind of fascinating because you have liberals who are for globalization and redistribution, and you have conservatives who are for globalization and redistribution, and you have liberals who are for workers

00:18:44.000 And not free markets.

00:18:46.000 And you have conservatives who are for workers and not free markets.

00:18:49.000 Now, the actual answer to this problem is look at what free markets do.

00:18:53.000 Look at what free markets do.

00:18:55.000 And if President Trump were really a free market minded guy, that's what he would be saying right now.

00:19:00.000 All he would do is just point at his economy.

00:19:02.000 He would say, you know, you're all worried about technological developments.

00:19:04.000 You're all worried about automated cars and trucks and all the rest of this.

00:19:08.000 Well, guess what?

00:19:09.000 There's no question that capitalism has a process of creative destruction attached to it.

00:19:15.000 Joseph Schumpeter, the famous economist, coined this term, creative destruction.

00:19:18.000 That every time a new industry is created, old industries are destroyed.

00:19:21.000 The car industry destroyed the horse and buggy industry.

00:19:24.000 Wheelwrights went out of business.

00:19:25.000 There were literally people whose job it was to make wooden wheels, and they went out of business when cars came around.

00:19:31.000 But guess what?

00:19:31.000 That created new jobs in the car industry and new jobs in making parts for those cars.

00:19:36.000 In other words, certain jobs get destroyed so that we can all live a better lifestyle and people have to learn to adapt and adjust.

00:19:42.000 And that's the history of humanity.

00:19:43.000 Forget capitalism.

00:19:44.000 The history of humankind is adapting and adjusting to the environment around you.

00:19:49.000 This idea that we can't adapt and adjust to new technologies seems to me completely wrong-headed.

00:19:54.000 All of the talk about how all of these jobs are simply going to disappear thanks to technology and how we have to restore manufacturing jobs by restricting the free market.

00:20:03.000 It's a big mistake.

00:20:04.000 The reason that we live the most prosperous lives any human beings have ever lived in the history of time is because of these free markets.

00:20:12.000 All of the talk, we talked about this last week, all of the talk

00:20:15.000 About how wages are the same between 1979 and 2018 neglects the fact that you can get stuff for one-third the price you could in 1979.

00:20:23.000 If I'm making the same amount of money in 1979 as I am now, but now my money goes three times further, I'm making three times what I was making in 1979.

00:20:31.000 Effectively speaking.

00:20:32.000 Because the value of money is what you can get for the money.

00:20:36.000 So, I think that this debate is not only premature, I think it's wrong-headed.

00:20:40.000 And I think it's going to lead to bad public policy.

00:20:41.000 I think this debate is going to lead to restrictions, regulations, crackdowns on free markets, all in the name of an unknowable evil that has yet to manifest itself.

00:20:53.000 There's under 4% unemployment in the United States right now.

00:20:56.000 It's about 4% unemployment.

00:20:57.000 That's basically full employment.

00:20:59.000 There's 7 million unfilled jobs.

00:21:02.000 Before we destroy a system that creates this sort of prosperity, we might want to think twice.

00:21:05.000 We might want to think twice.

00:21:06.000 Okay, meanwhile, the Trump administration is undergoing some severe difficulty with regard to foreign policy, specifically thanks to Mohammed bin Sultan, the Saudi crown prince, allegedly deploying a security team to Istanbul in Turkey, and they murdered a Saudi dissident.

00:21:23.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:22:32.000 Okay, so, as we say, the President of the United States is in hot water specifically because

00:22:39.000 The Saudi government has basically put him in a very rough position.

00:22:43.000 Here's the rough position they put him in.

00:22:44.000 Mohammed bin Sultan was considered the new reformer in Saudi Arabia.

00:22:47.000 And indeed, Mohammed bin Sultan looked as though he was a guy who was going to help lead this anti-Iranian coalition.

00:22:53.000 That continues to be his value.

00:22:55.000 All of the talk about the Saudi regime modernizing and moving toward liberalism, like classical liberalism,

00:23:02.000 All of that was overstated.

00:23:03.000 It is an Islamic dictatorship in which people still have their hands chopped off for theft. 1.00

00:23:08.000 It is not exactly a modern country.

00:23:11.000 But we are all very shocked and appalled, as we should be, when Saudi operatives decide they're going to murder a dissident at a Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

00:23:19.000 So here's the Wall Street Journal with the latest reporting.

00:23:22.000 Saudi operatives beat, drugged, killed, and dismembered.

00:23:25.000 A dissident Saudi journalist in the presence of the kingdom's top diplomat in Istanbul, Turkish officials said Tuesday, as Washington urged Riyadh to provide answers, President Trump cautioned that Saudi Arabia should be considered innocent until proven guilty.

00:23:38.000 His Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on a visit to the kingdom said Saudi leaders had strongly denied involvement and were conducting a serious, credible investigation, but

00:23:47.000 Turkey is now suggesting that they have tape of the entire thing happening, at least audio tape of the entire thing happening, which can't be very pleasant.

00:23:54.000 I mean, that sort of audio would be almost as hard to listen to as a Lady Gaga recording.

00:24:00.000 In an interview with the Associated Press Tuesday, Mr. Trump compared the allegations that Saudi agents had killed Mr. Khashoggi to the accusations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

00:24:11.000 This is where President Trump gets himself in trouble.

00:24:14.000 This is not particularly smart.

00:24:16.000 Now, there are several possible responses to the Saudi situation.

00:24:20.000 Response number one.

00:24:22.000 This is really bad.

00:24:22.000 We should put some sanctions on Saudi Arabia, at least temporarily, until they provide some sort of answers on all of this, and until they punish the people responsible, and until they reform their conduct.

00:24:32.000 That's possibility number one.

00:24:34.000 Possibility number two is you say, yes, this is really bad. 0.94

00:24:37.000 Also, every country in that region is basically a garbage heap, or is run like a garbage heap.

00:24:43.000 The countries themselves, the people are, I'm sure, wonderful in many of these countries, but the administrations of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, certainly Syria, certainly Lebanon, Jordan, none of these administrations are great Western democracies. 0.98

00:24:59.000 These are all garbage administrations. 0.89

00:25:02.000 So, what we could say is, yes, this is really bad. 0.99

00:25:04.000 Also, for geopolitical, realist reasons, like Henry Kissinger, we still need to work with the Saudis to contain the Iranians. 0.95

00:25:11.000 Right?

00:25:11.000 That's possibility number two.

00:25:12.000 And then there's possibility number three, which is Trump telling the Associated Press, quote,

00:25:25.000 Somewhere, Justice Kavanaugh screams in silent agony as he is compared to Saudi dictators who murder people in consulates and then liquefy their bodies.

00:25:33.000 That is just, it's like when Trump said during the Kavanaugh hearings that he'd been accused of things too, and Kavanaugh just must have been smacking himself on the forehead, Jean-Luc Picard style, double face palm.

00:25:44.000 It just, it makes, because the president sees things in black and white terms on every score,

00:25:52.000 He says this sort of stuff, but equating Brett Kavanaugh, where there was no evidence other than the allegation alone against him, with the Saudis murdering a human who has disappeared, and where there is apparently audio evidence, an audio recording shared with both the U.S.

00:26:06.000 and Saudi Arabia.

00:26:08.000 Comparing that to Brett Kavanaugh, Brett Kavanaugh can't be a happy camper right now, come the hell on.

00:26:12.000 I mean, really.

00:26:14.000 Apparently on the recording, a voice can be heard inviting the consul to leave the room.

00:26:18.000 The voice of a man Turkish authorities identified as Saudi forensic specialist Salah al-Tabiki can be heard recommending other people present listen to some music while he dismembers Mr. Khashoggi's body.

00:26:29.000 According to the tape, Khashoggi was not interrogated.

00:26:32.000 Instead, he was beaten up, drugged, and killed by Saudi operatives who had flown in from Riyadh.

00:26:37.000 Apparently, he was dismembered while he was still alive.

00:26:39.000 So, things went real well over there.

00:26:42.000 All of this, again, is deeply, deeply ugly, of course.

00:26:46.000 That doesn't actually answer the question as to what President Trump should do, however.

00:26:51.000 And this is where President Trump's best claim is that he's basically just a realist trying to make deals as far as possible.

00:26:59.000 And while he appreciates the human rights violations are bad, he is not going to stay up nights worrying about the Saudi government.

00:27:06.000 committing human rights violations that we all know they've been committing for years on end.

00:27:09.000 I mean, this is the same Saudi administration that has been quite friendly with radical Muslims for decades on end.

00:27:18.000 The vast majority of the 9-11 hijackers were Saudi.

00:27:22.000 So, suffice it to say, the Saudi regime is not exactly a wonderful, wonderful regime, but that doesn't mean the United States doesn't have interest with regard to Saudi Arabia.

00:27:31.000 As an example of President Trump saying this sort of thing repeatedly, he was asked about Helsinki.

00:27:36.000 You remember he had that meeting in Helsinki with Vladimir Putin, where he was very complimentary of Putin.

00:27:41.000 It was not his finest hour.

00:27:42.000 Trish Regan, who has a brand new show on Fox Business, which is well worth watching, she pressed President Trump on Helsinki.

00:27:48.000 Here's what Trump had to say.

00:27:49.000 With Putin, they want me to go up and have a boxing match with him on stage?

00:27:53.000 That was nice to him.

00:27:55.000 I was nice to him.

00:27:57.000 But what happened is when I walked off the stage, everyone said, oh, that was great.

00:28:00.000 We're on the plane.

00:28:01.000 All of a sudden, the fake news starts saying, oh, Trump wasn't tough enough.

00:28:05.000 And let me tell you, if I was too tough, they'd say Trump was too tough.

00:28:08.000 I could have a very good relationship with Russia.

00:28:11.000 Having a good relationship with Russia would be a good thing, not a bad thing.

00:28:14.000 Okay, so there was that, right?

00:28:17.000 So when he says that about Russia, he said the same sort of thing about Kim Jong-un, right?

00:28:20.000 This is how Trump acts with regard to bad dictators.

00:28:23.000 He basically determines whether he needs them or not.

00:28:25.000 And then he tends to treat them nicely if he needs them.

00:28:27.000 Because this is how Trump is personally with all the people he deals with.

00:28:31.000 If he needs you, he's very nice to you.

00:28:32.000 If he doesn't need you, then he calls you a horse face.

00:28:34.000 And that's what President Trump does.

00:28:36.000 And so when people are confused that President Trump isn't calling Mohammed bin Sultan a horse face, that's because that's not how President Trump operates.

00:28:43.000 That does not mean, however, that what the left says about Trump's relationship with Saudi Arabia is true.

00:28:47.000 So Ben Rhodes, who is just the worst.

00:28:49.000 Ben Rhodes is a former national security advisor to President Trump. 0.96

00:28:54.000 He's just awful. 0.98

00:28:55.000 He's just awful. 0.99

00:28:56.000 He was the guy who lied to the American people about the Iran deal. 0.94

00:28:59.000 He was the leader of the Iranian regime outreach effort on the part of the Obama administration, an actual outreach effort to an evil dictatorship, the lead sponsor of terror on planet Earth, attacking President Trump, suggesting Trump is somehow responsible for Saudi Arabia acting like Saudi Arabia. 0.53

00:29:13.000 Journalists everywhere are less safe.

00:29:16.000 And let's face it, we have a President of the United States who says journalists are the enemy of the state.

00:29:19.000 So values like freedom of speech and dissent suddenly are very endangered around the world.

00:29:25.000 And that's a trend line that I think is getting much worse.

00:29:28.000 And so this vacuum of any advocacy for democratic values I think is putting people at risk.

00:29:35.000 And there's nobody else who's going to fill that vacuum if the President of the United States and the United States of America is not doing that.

00:29:39.000 OK, this is why Trump supporters are not going to resonate to anything the media are saying these days.

00:29:43.000 The media covered for an administration that did outreach to actual terrorists for years upon years upon years.

00:29:50.000 So when Trump says, listen, I'm not going to go crazy over the Saudi thing, most Americans are basically going to say, OK, well, all right.

00:29:57.000 Now, is that the proper action?

00:29:58.000 No, the proper action is probably the sanctions at the very least and insistence on some sort of change in Saudi Arabia. 0.95

00:30:03.000 But we do have leverage over the Saudis to pretend we don't is foolish. 0.86

00:30:08.000 President Trump is much more of a foreign policy realist than some of his predecessors. 0.64

00:30:13.000 And as a foreign policy realist, I think that it is not

00:30:18.000 Okay, in just a second, I want to talk about the great battle of our time, which is not Saudi Arabia versus Iran, or even Republicans versus Democrats.

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00:34:19.000 Maths, you knew you weren't gonna get off that easy, dude.

00:34:21.000 He's been in here for several days and he didn't get smacked yet, so that was just a requirement of the job.

00:34:25.000 In any case, the other big story on everybody's radar today is a story about Tiny and Hard Space, the great romance of our time.

00:34:33.000 So, President Trump let it off yesterday, you'll recall, when he decided that he was very, very happy that Stormy Daniels had

00:34:42.000 had been forced to pay attorney's fees in the state of Texas on a ridiculous defamation lawsuit that she filed against him.

00:34:50.000 And he tweeted out yesterday, Now I can go after Horseface and her third-rate lawyer in the great state of Texas. 0.90

00:34:56.000 She'll confirm the letter she signed.

00:34:58.000 She knows nothing about me.

00:34:59.000 A total con. 0.94

00:35:00.000 And everybody went nuts because he called her Horseface.

00:35:03.000 Now, there was a theory online that he's, we know President Trump is just bad at spelling, so there was a theory online that he didn't mean to write Horseface, he meant to write Whoresface.

00:35:11.000 Uh, and

00:35:12.000 You know, unkind, but fact check, harsh but true.

00:35:17.000 In any case, it is not good policy for the President of the United States to be doing any of those things, let alone to be saying that a woman he once shagged is a horse face.

00:35:28.000 It's a weird kind of self-own. 0.99

00:35:32.000 That woman that I had sex with was so terrible and ugly. 1.00

00:35:38.000 Okay. 1.00

00:35:39.000 That's a way to do it.

00:35:40.000 In any case, Stormy Daniels then replies in the typical classic fashion for which she is known.

00:35:44.000 She's a classy lady. 1.00

00:35:45.000 You know, the kind of woman who's featured in New York Magazine. 0.98

00:35:48.000 Not kidding. 0.98

00:35:48.000 There's a full photo spread of Stormy Daniels as the new feminist leader because she gets paid to have sex on camera and then had sex with a married man and then refused to shut up about it after being paid $130,000 to shut up about it. 0.98

00:36:00.000 She is a feminist heroine. 0.98

00:36:01.000 She is Susan B. Anthony.

00:36:03.000 My goodness.

00:36:04.000 So here's what she tweeted.

00:36:05.000 She tweeted,

00:36:07.000 Ladies and gentlemen, may I present your president.

00:36:09.000 In addition to his, um, shortcomings, he has demonstrated his incompetence, hatred of women, and lack of self-control on Twitter.

00:36:15.000 Again! 0.91

00:36:16.000 And perhaps a penchant for bestiality.

00:36:18.000 Game on, Tiny! 0.82

00:36:21.000 So this is weird, because now she's suggesting that she is an actual horse.

00:36:24.000 Right?

00:36:25.000 Because he has a penchant for bestiality.

00:36:28.000 Well, the only thing he said about horses was that she's a horse face. 1.00

00:36:31.000 Which, I gotta say, I don't think is really true.

00:36:32.000 I don't think that Stormy Daniels is a horse face, just by any objective measure.

00:36:35.000 But, in any case, she says that he has a penchant for bestiality, which is weird.

00:36:40.000 And then she says, Game on, Tiny.

00:36:42.000 So, the romance of Tiny and Horse Face, I mean, is this how it went back when they first met?

00:36:48.000 Where Trump walked up and said, you have a horse face.

00:36:50.000 And she went, well, you're tiny.

00:36:52.000 And then they just passionately made out.

00:36:54.000 Is that basically how that went?

00:36:55.000 Well, that wasn't the end of the story.

00:36:57.000 The end of the story was that Michael Avenatti felt the need to jump in.

00:37:00.000 So Michael Avenatti, who I, I adore Michael Avenatti.

00:37:03.000 I will be honest with you.

00:37:04.000 I have been saying for months now that I want Michael Avenatti not only to run for president, but to win the nomination for the Democrats because I root for entertainment value around here.

00:37:12.000 If we are going to live this news cycle, let's live it.

00:37:15.000 I mean, come on, let's paint the town red.

00:37:17.000 If we are going to sin such that God has decided his vengeance upon us shall be this news cycle, then let us revel in our sin.

00:37:25.000 So Michael Avenatti desperately wants to run for president and in the last three weeks has destroyed his own party's credibility on Brett Kavanaugh.

00:37:35.000 Lost a lawsuit against President Trump.

00:37:37.000 Now he jumps into the Stormy Daniels Donald Trump fight with a video so good that I want to make it my permanent ringtone.

00:37:43.000 Here is Michael Avenatti sounding off.

00:37:46.000 For those who can't see, Michael Avenatti, you know, this is really high style.

00:37:50.000 He has taken his phone, turned it into selfie mode, and now he is filming himself speaking very seriously into camera about horse face.

00:37:59.000 Here we go.

00:38:01.000 It's a sad day in America when the president of the United States calls a woman a horse face.

00:38:08.000 Donald Trump should be ashamed of himself.

00:38:10.000 I don't care if you're on the right, the left, or the center.

00:38:14.000 No man should call a woman a horse face, especially the president of the United States.

00:38:21.000 I have two daughters.

00:38:23.000 I think it's a disgrace.

00:38:25.000 I don't care what your political persuasion is.

00:38:28.000 You should condemn it as well.

00:38:30.000 It's wrong.

00:38:31.000 It's so wrong.

00:38:31.000 It's the wrongest thing.

00:38:33.000 He paid his client off.

00:38:35.000 Trump paid his client off $130,000 to shut up about nailing her 10 years before while he was running for president.

00:38:41.000 But the real problem is he called her a horse face.

00:38:44.000 No one in this country should be called a horse face under Amendment 87 of the Constitution.

00:38:49.000 It should be illegal.

00:38:50.000 When the President of the United States calls a woman a horse face,

00:39:18.000 Oh, I've laughed more in the last week and a half thanks to this news cycle than I think the previous time. 1.00

00:39:29.000 And Democrats love this idiot. 1.00

00:39:31.000 Oh, it's the best. 1.00

00:39:33.000 It's the best.

00:39:34.000 Who thought that was a great idea?

00:39:35.000 He was like, you know what?

00:39:36.000 I'm going to jump into this campaign because I'm going to flip this camera around.

00:39:39.000 The president should never call anyone a horse face.

00:39:42.000 That's like the ninth worst thing Trump did yesterday.

00:39:46.000 Like Trump said that Brett Kavanaugh was equivalent to the Saudi government who just killed a man, dismembered him, and liquefied him.

00:39:52.000 And Michael Avenatti is deeply, deeply concerned about the horse face comments.

00:39:56.000 Woman, a horse face. 0.80

00:40:01.000 I promise you, by the way, that Bill Clinton called women far worse than a horse face. 0.97

00:40:05.000 Way worse than a horse face.

00:40:07.000 LBJ was not famous for his gentility around women.

00:40:11.000 Really.

00:40:12.000 Okay, but we'll get to the media's response to all of this because it was just as hysterical and just as over the top.

00:40:16.000 President Trump has a unique gift.

00:40:19.000 He can make his enemies do pretty much anything, and they do and they will.

00:40:22.000 So here is how the media responded to all of this.

00:40:24.000 So the media said it is very, very bad, very, very bad for President Trump to have called Stormy Daniels a horse face. 0.99

00:40:30.000 This is after weeks of them reveling in her calling his penis a Mario Kart character. 0.99

00:40:34.000 I mean, really. 0.99

00:40:36.000 They reveled in this.

00:40:36.000 CNN covered it endlessly.

00:40:38.000 She went on Jimmy Kimmel, and she actually picked out mushrooms that she says his genitalia looked like.

00:40:44.000 Here's Don Lemon trying to suggest how bad it is that Donald Trump would insult someone's physical appearance by insulting President Trump's physical appearance.

00:40:51.000 So well done here, Don Lemon.

00:40:54.000 Does he own a mirror?

00:40:56.000 He keeps talking about people gaining weight and how people look.

00:41:01.000 Does he own a mirror that doesn't have Vaseline over it or a cloth?

00:41:05.000 I mean, all he has to do is look in the mirror.

00:41:07.000 Donald Trump is no prize.

00:41:09.000 And if I were him, not that I'm one either, I would keep my thoughts about other people's looks to myself.

00:41:15.000 You just didn't.

00:41:17.000 Literally, you just didn't. 1.00

00:41:18.000 Because if I were him, I would keep people's— He's ugly, and he's fat. 0.98

00:41:22.000 And if I were him, I'd keep my thoughts about other people's looks to myself. 0.98

00:41:25.000 I love that this is a serious news segment on CNN.

00:41:27.000 First of all, Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon in the same room, or at least on the same split screen.

00:41:31.000 The amount of brain wattage on that screen right now, if translated into electricity, might be able to lightly toast a piece of bread.

00:41:40.000 My goodness. 0.97

00:41:41.000 But that is, yeah, so yeah, the American people are definitely going to take seriously your admonitions about name-calling when you say that the president is a fat orange toad. 0.96

00:41:51.000 Good job, guys. 0.92

00:41:52.000 Really, really well done.

00:41:53.000 Then you have April Ryan, who showed up on CNN to do the same routine. 1.00

00:41:56.000 So April Ryan is Urban Radio Network reporter.

00:41:59.000 You'll recall April Ryan from such hits as Kanye West's wife's former sex tape lover doesn't approve of Kanye West. 0.88

00:42:08.000 That happened last week.

00:42:10.000 But April Ryan is now the great adjudicator of class and decency in the media. 1.00

00:42:14.000 Very exciting stuff from April Ryan.

00:42:15.000 What is he doing here?

00:42:16.000 He's the President of the United States.

00:42:17.000 This is street.

00:42:18.000 It's gutter.

00:42:19.000 It's going into the gutter.

00:42:20.000 No, it's not going.

00:42:21.000 It's there.

00:42:23.000 So it was one thing when she was quoting Ray J to critique Kanye West.

00:42:28.000 It is another thing when the President of the United States goes after a woman who was insulting his genitals on national television to the shortling and laughed at.

00:42:35.000 Now listen, none of this is justification for Trump's behavior.

00:42:38.000 But I think we already know who President Trump is with regard to women.

00:42:41.000 Are we supposed to pretend?

00:42:43.000 Is this our thing?

00:42:44.000 Are we supposed to pretend that the President of the United States is some sort of gentility?

00:42:50.000 That he's the king of chivalry?

00:42:52.000 Yeah, calling a man a horse face.

00:42:54.000 I understand, Michael Avenatti.

00:42:55.000 Calm yourself.

00:42:57.000 All of this is just absurd.

00:42:59.000 It's just absurd.

00:43:01.000 The absurdity didn't stop there.

00:43:02.000 President Trump continues to attack Elizabeth Warren, but not in the most effective way.

00:43:05.000 How many times do I have to tell you?

00:43:06.000 He needs to sign a check to Elizabeth Warren for $976.56, 1 1,024th of a million dollars.

00:43:13.000 That's what he needs to do now.

00:43:15.000 Instead, he's tweeting about her.

00:43:16.000 So he tweeted, Elizabeth Warren is being hammered, even by the left. 1.00

00:43:19.000 Her false claim of Indian heritage is only selling to very low IQ individuals. 0.92

00:43:24.000 Now, President Trump on the attack.

00:43:25.000 Again, he's a hammer in search of a nail.

00:43:27.000 Sometimes he hits a nail, sometimes he hits a baby.

00:43:29.000 In this case, he hit a nail.

00:43:30.000 So, at least there's that.

00:43:32.000 At least there's that.

00:43:32.000 The left continues to defend, continues to defend Elizabeth Warren, by the way.

00:43:37.000 I just, this news cycle this week is too much.

00:43:39.000 I'm not sure I can handle it.

00:43:40.000 My brain is exploding.

00:43:41.000 Joan Walsh, the resident feminist in chief over at The Nation, which is to say, a crazy person, she has a piece today called, Donald, Elizabeth Warren will not let Donald Trump define her. 1.00

00:43:53.000 Because that's what she's doing.

00:43:54.000 When she says she's Native American, in fact, she won't even let biology define her.

00:43:58.000 It's pretty amazing.

00:43:59.000 She won't let objective reality define her.

00:44:01.000 It's really, really an impressive feat.

00:44:03.000 According to Joan Walsh, Elizabeth Warren releasing her DNA test was a way of preventing Donald Trump from defining her. 0.99

00:44:09.000 So instead, she defined herself as a fool. 0.99

00:44:12.000 So that was great. 0.99

00:44:13.000 That was really exciting stuff.

00:44:17.000 Do you remember Rachel Dolezal?

00:44:18.000 Remember there was that white lady who said she was black so that she could be like the head of the Spokane NAACP? 0.97

00:44:24.000 And then people found out that she had just been basically tanning her skin and doing her hair out in frizzy hairdo. 1.00

00:44:31.000 And everyone was like, well, that's a white lady and that's a racial hoax. 1.00

00:44:34.000 I would bet money that if you took a racial DNA test of Rachel Dolezal, she has more African background than Elizabeth Warren has Native American background. 1.00

00:44:44.000 And now I'm desperate to make that happen.

00:44:46.000 So Rachel, if you're listening right now, I will pay for your 23andMe test, because I want to know whether you are more black than Elizabeth Warren is Native American, so that we can laugh endlessly as the media, which ripped you to shreds, has to say that you are more black than Elizabeth Warren is Native American.

00:45:00.000 I just think that would be absolutely delicious.

00:45:02.000 Okay.

00:45:03.000 Time for a couple of things that I like and then a couple of things that I hate.

00:45:06.000 So, things I like today.

00:45:08.000 Lindsey Graham 2.0 is the best version of Lindsey Graham.

00:45:10.000 He emerged during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings.

00:45:13.000 He's sort of like Demi vs. Pute Lovato.

00:45:16.000 Lindsey Graham 2.0.

00:45:20.000 I'm going to take a DNA test, all of you have.

00:45:32.000 I've been told that my grandmother was part Cherokee and Indian.

00:45:36.000 It may all be just talk, but you're going to find out in a couple of weeks because I'm going to take this test.

00:45:41.000 You are going to take it?

00:45:42.000 I'm taking it and the results are going to be revealed here.

00:45:45.000 This is my Trump moment.

00:45:46.000 This is reality TV.

00:45:51.000 Okay, well, good stuff from Lindsey Graham 2.0.

00:45:53.000 Other things that I like.

00:45:54.000 So, Hillary Clinton was in a van.

00:45:57.000 Not the van that she collapsed into on 9-11, 2016.

00:46:00.000 A different van.

00:46:01.000 And she was at an event, I guess raising money for Senator Bob Menendez in New Jersey, because he's suddenly found himself in a bit of a firefight for his Senate seat.

00:46:08.000 And the van crashed.

00:46:11.000 Here is what that looked like.

00:46:28.000 And there's Hillary like, well, I hope she wasn't driving.

00:46:33.000 But that is, I mean, let's be honest, that is not the first time that Hillary Clinton has been stopped by the polls.

00:46:38.000 So that was, oh, I know you loved it.

00:46:42.000 Come on, guys.

00:46:42.000 Come on.

00:46:43.000 You love the punning.

00:46:44.000 It's there.

00:46:45.000 Hillary Clinton.

00:46:47.000 I have such a good joke that I could say right now, but I've pledged not to make any more van driver jokes.

00:46:54.000 I won't.

00:46:55.000 That's solid stuff from Hillary Clinton.

00:47:01.000 I don't know who this week decided that they would go to the punchline asylum and let out all the patients, but all the punchlines are running free.

00:47:09.000 And there's no way for me to catch them all.

00:47:11.000 I'm only one man with one butterfly net.

00:47:13.000 I can't keep up with the chaos.

00:47:15.000 There is no way for me to catch every punchline that has now escaped the asylum.

00:47:19.000 So stop it, people.

00:47:21.000 Put the punchlines back where they belong.

00:47:24.000 Solace.

00:47:24.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.

00:47:30.000 So, thing number one I hate.

00:47:31.000 Two GOP candidates have now been assaulted in Minnesota.

00:47:34.000 According to Bill McMorris over at the Washington Free Beacon, the Minnesota Democratic Party has suspended a spokesman for calling for violence against Republicans, even as two GOP candidates have been assaulted and suspected politically motivated attacks.

00:47:45.000 The Democratic Farmer-Labor Party has suspended communications staffer William Davis for a week because he said Democrats should bring Republicans to the guillotine.

00:47:53.000 And also, two different Republicans have now been assaulted.

00:47:58.000 Minnesota State Representative Sarah Anderson was punched in the arm after spotting a man destroying Republican yard signs.

00:48:03.000 She said the attack left her scared, and her attacker only desisted when she fled to her car and threw it in reverse.

00:48:08.000 And then there was another GOP candidate who was also attacked.

00:48:11.000 His name is Shane Meckland.

00:48:13.000 He suffered a concussion after getting sucker-punched while speaking with constituents at a restaurant in Benton County.

00:48:19.000 He says that he has suffered memory loss.

00:48:21.000 And doctors told him he'll have a four to six week recovery time ahead of him.

00:48:23.000 He said he was cold cocked while sitting at a high top table at a local eatery and he hit his head on the floor.

00:48:28.000 So, well done mob politics.

00:48:31.000 Everything is going great.

00:48:32.000 Hey, other things that I hate today.

00:48:34.000 There's a story from the Agence France-Presse, the AFP, saying that there's a new reality TV in France, and here is how it goes.

00:48:40.000 It's a new dating show, helping time-pressed millennials save on the unnecessary preliminaries by cutting straight to the chase. 0.90

00:48:46.000 The show is called Making Love, and it has jaws dropping at Mipcom, the world's biggest TV market in Cannes, by having contestants have sex first before deciding if they like each other.

00:48:56.000 Its French producers, WeMake, says it has brought together scientifically matched singles to ask the essential question, could making love make you fall in love?

00:49:04.000 The answer is no. 1.00

00:49:05.000 You idiots. 1.00

00:49:06.000 We've been trying this in western societies for the last 40 years since the rise of the radical feminist movement and the sexual revolution. 1.00

00:49:13.000 It is a giant fail.

00:49:14.000 Having sex with people first does not make them fall in love.

00:49:17.000 It makes a man satisfied that he has had sex first. 1.00

00:49:20.000 Okay, this is so stupid, I cannot even tell you, but I guess the idea here is that if we rut like animals, suddenly love will be the outcome. 1.00

00:49:29.000 If you have that little love in your life, that you think that sex with a random stranger is suddenly going to usher in an era of nuptial bliss, you're out of your damn mind. 1.00

00:49:36.000 You're out of your mind. 1.00

00:49:37.000 And ladies, if you think that this is how you're going to hook a man, is by having sex with him, you're crazy. 1.00

00:49:41.000 That's not what hooks a man. 1.00

00:49:42.000 That really isn't.

00:49:44.000 Any man will have sex with any mildly attractive woman at any time. 0.56

00:49:47.000 That's how men operate. 0.95

00:49:49.000 If you think that you offering sex to a guy is somehow going to get him to stick, that is just not true.

00:49:54.000 That is just not true.

00:49:56.000 To get men to commit requires you to actually not do that.

00:50:00.000 It requires you to actually

00:50:02.000 Suggests to a man that perhaps a relationship is necessary in order for physical lovemaking to be part of the process here.

00:50:09.000 That is why marriage was built in the first place. 0.97

00:50:11.000 It was a great institution for women. 0.99

00:50:13.000 Too bad radical feminists decided to throw it all away. 1.00

00:50:15.000 Okay.

00:50:15.000 Well, we will be back here tomorrow with all of the latest and craziest news.

00:50:18.000 I don't, I can't even predict what's going to happen by tomorrow.

00:50:20.000 I just, I've run out of predictions.

00:50:22.000 So we'll tell you then.

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