The Ben Shapiro Show - August 06, 2019


The Second Cold War | Ep. 833

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Ben Shapiro discusses the aftermath of the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings and how the media and the left are trying to delegitimize the idea that the right is responsible for them, and that all conservatives are secretly white supremacists. He also points out that there is no evidence that conservative violence is a problem, and argues that it is actually the opposite of what the left is trying to paint it as. Ben Shapiro is a columnist at The Daily Wire and host of the podcast "The Ben Shapiro Show" and is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and CNN. He is also a regular contributor to The Weekly Standard and has been featured on CNN, NPR, and NPR. He is the author of the book "Conservatism Has A Violence Problem" and the host of "Conspiracy Theories" and "Conspiracies: A Conservative's Guide to the White Supremacist Past." He's also a frequent guest on Fox News and CNN and hosts the conservative radio show "The Weekly Standard" and hosts "The FiveThirtyEight" on Radio Row. and "The View From The Ground" on SiriusXM's "The Situation Room" and The View From Above. The opinions expressed here are our own, not those of our correspondents. Please don't take our words and opinions expressed in this podcast unless they have been obtained by our editors and reviewed by us. We do not endorse the views expressed in the articles we published in the article. We are not affiliated with any of our websites or publications listed below. Thank you for any of the work we have received or provided by our patrons. We thank you for your support and support the work you've submitted to us, and we appreciate the support we've received so far and look forward to all of our supporters and support our efforts to make the work better listening to this work. - Thank you so much for all of the support, support us in the work, support, and support, reviews, and all of your support, review and support in the efforts we've gotten so far in this project, and your support is so much in advance and review and review of our efforts in the coming out on this project. -- Thank you, everyone else's support is much more than we can see and all the support is being received. Thank you all of it's worth it, thank you, thanks for all that's being heard and support is truly appreciated. This is a big thanks to you, and much more.

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00:00:00.000 The stock market plummets as President Trump's trade war with China bites, President Trump cracks down on Venezuela, and America continues to divide over mass shootings.
00:00:08.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:00:08.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:09.000 All right, got a lot to get to today.
00:00:16.000 A lot happening in the news.
00:00:18.000 So we're just going to jump right in.
00:00:20.000 The big controversy in the aftermath of the mass shootings that happened over the weekend, one of course happening in Dayton, Ohio, the other happening in El Paso, Texas.
00:00:28.000 The big controversy has broken out over El Paso and Dayton and politics, obviously, because it would be too much to ask.
00:00:35.000 That we all be on the same page. 0.97
00:00:37.000 White supremacy, evil. 1.00
00:00:39.000 White supremacist terrorism, evil and should be fought like terrorism. 1.00
00:00:42.000 Mass shootings, horrific and we should discuss possible solutions. 0.99
00:00:46.000 Like that would all be too reasonable and too rational. 0.70
00:00:48.000 Instead, there's a narrative and the narrative that's being developed by the media and by a lot of folks on the left is that President Trump is solely responsible for what happened in El Paso and that the right is complicit in this and that all conservatives are secretly white supremacists.
00:01:02.000 I think there are some folks on the left.
00:01:04.000 I don't want to lump the entire left together here.
00:01:06.000 I think there's some folks on the left who are being a little bit more careful about all this.
00:01:09.000 I think there are certain folks on the left who are intellectually honest enough to acknowledge that mainstream conservatives are extraordinarily upset about white supremacist terrorism, that some of us have spent our careers fighting white supremacism, that some of us have incurred hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments that we have to make to security because of our fight against white supremacism.
00:01:27.000 Some people are careful about this.
00:01:29.000 Other people, however, and this includes many in the mainstream media,
00:01:33.000 Are attempting to develop a narrative and when you're attempting to develop a narrative any fact that doesn't fit the narrative can be dealt with in one of two ways either you can incorporate it into a new narrative that is more nuanced and more interesting and more relevant and that follows the world of fact better or you can simply discard the fact and pretend that the fact doesn't exist and it's pretty obvious today that there are a lot of folks in the media who are more interested in the second path who are very upset in fact when the media accidentally stumble into doing journalism.
00:02:01.000 When other members of the media stumble into doing journalism, they get very upset with them because those acts of journalism might undercut the narrative that so many members of the left are trying to build.
00:02:11.000 So as we know, the members of the left are trying to build a narrative.
00:02:14.000 That narrative is that President Trump is responsible for El Paso, that Trump is a white nationalist, that anyone who supports Trump is by default a white nationalist as well or a white nationalist sympathizer.
00:02:25.000 That folks on the right are, broadly speaking, responsible for the evil of what just happened in El Paso, Texas.
00:02:32.000 That is the narrative that folks on the left are attempting to push.
00:02:36.000 And it's a really ugly narrative.
00:02:39.000 It's an extraordinarily ugly narrative.
00:02:40.000 It happens to be an extraordinarily false narrative.
00:02:43.000 And yet, this is increasingly the narrative that is being pushed by the left.
00:02:47.000 And so, what you see is folks like David Leonhardt writing over at the New York Times.
00:02:52.000 Conservatism has a violence problem.
00:02:54.000 The numbers don't lie.
00:02:56.000 He says American conservatism has a violence problem.
00:02:58.000 The current Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry, once publicly suggested that the chairman of the Federal Reserve deserved to be beaten up because of his interest rate policy.
00:03:07.000 Greg Gianforte, a member of Congress from Montana, physically assaulted a reporter who asked him a question he didn't like.
00:03:12.000 President Trump has repeatedly alluded to extrajudicial physical force, including suggesting that his supporters might resort to violence if they didn't get their way.
00:03:20.000 The most extreme version of conservatism violence problem is the most tragic.
00:03:24.000 The pattern of mass shootings by people espousing right-wing views, sometimes encouraged in online forums.
00:03:30.000 OK, that is not part of conservatism's violence problem, because there is not a single conservative living in the United States who believes that the shooting of innocents is a solution to the nation's problems.
00:03:41.000 Nothing about conservatism, which is about government protection of life, liberty and property.
00:03:46.000 Nothing in conservatism, which is about the belief that Western civilization has created a forum for democracy and liberalism and free markets.
00:03:53.000 Nothing there espouses either a race-based view of the world or the idea that you should be able to go out and hurt people whom you dislike, particularly on the basis of race.
00:04:04.000 And yet David Leonhardt is pushing the idea that this is a mere extension of the right-wing tendency toward violence.
00:04:10.000 And this is nonsense, of course.
00:04:12.000 And if we're going to talk about politicians who are espousing violence, all you have to do to find politicians who espouse violence is go on Twitter today where Barbara Boxer was joking about Mitch McConnell falling down and breaking his shoulder. 0.96
00:04:22.000 All you have to do is take a look at Cory Booker suggesting a couple of weeks ago that he'd like to punch Donald Trump in the face.
00:04:29.000 Joe Biden has said very similar things.
00:04:31.000 Politicians on all sides of the aisle have been using this sort of language for decades.
00:04:36.000 So the fact that there are certain Republicans who have done it does not mean this is an exclusively right-wing problem.
00:04:42.000 Also, David Leonhardt then cites a study from the ADL.
00:04:45.000 It's a very skewed study.
00:04:48.000 It says 39 of the 50 killings committed by political extremists, according to the ADL, were carried out by white supremacists.
00:04:53.000 Another eight were committed by killers with anti-government views.
00:04:56.000 Okay, that ADL study does not actually look to the rationale behind the killings.
00:05:00.000 It simply suggests that white supremacists have committed A certain number of killings, and that is true.
00:05:06.000 But as we will see, that is not the standard to which the left holds itself.
00:05:11.000 So here should be the standard for political killings.
00:05:13.000 A political killing is when it is politically motivated, right?
00:05:15.000 That I think is a reasonable standard for a political killing.
00:05:18.000 A political killing is not when somebody commits a killing and then we go and we look into their politics in sort of a backfill fashion and then attribute to their politics what may not have been political.
00:05:29.000 A lot of the killings by white supremacists or family members or other white supremacists, for example.
00:05:34.000 And then to attribute that more broadly to conservatism is a second-order mistake that David Leonhardt makes over at the New York Times. 0.86
00:05:40.000 Jonathan Greenblatt, head of the ADL, says, I may agree that it's our biggest threat, but to associate that with conservatism more generally is despicable.
00:05:52.000 David Leonhardt says, yes, I understand.
00:05:54.000 There are important caveats to add.
00:05:55.000 Conservative America is mostly filled with honorable people who deplore violence and bear no responsibility for right-wing hate killings.
00:06:01.000 Some mass shootings have no evident political motive, like the one in Dayton, Ohio, on Sunday.
00:06:06.000 And liberal America also has violent and deranged people, like the man who shot at Republican members of Congress playing softball in 2017.
00:06:12.000 Some Democratic politicians have also occasionally lapsed into ugly, violent rhetoric and suggested they want to punch their political opponents.
00:06:19.000 But it's folly to pretend that the problem is symmetrical.
00:06:21.000 Mainstream conservative politicians use the rhetoric of physical violence much more often, starting with the current president of the United States.
00:06:28.000 Any stats to prove this, by the way?
00:06:30.000 Can we have a comprehensive statistical analysis of this?
00:06:33.000 I'd be curious to find out whether that is the case or not.
00:06:37.000 In any case, this is the narrative that is being pushed, and that narrative is being tied specifically to President Trump, because Trump uses inflammatory language on a regular basis.
00:06:46.000 He uses language that I think crosses a lot of lines of decency.
00:06:50.000 On a regular basis since the idea is you pin white supremacist killings that Trump is not responsible for on Trump and then you pin Trump on the right and thus the generalized right conservatives across America are responsible for killings that they deplore, hate, have nothing to do with, condemn, believe that the person who did should get the death penalty for.
00:07:09.000 It's a really easy trick, and despicable trick, that the left is playing.
00:07:13.000 As we'll see, when that trick is challenged in any way, the folks on the left can't abide it.
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00:08:28.000 So as I say, it's not just David Leonhardt.
00:08:31.000 It is also another New York Times columnist named Jamel Bouie.
00:08:33.000 Jamel Bouie, writes about race all the time and believes that virtually everything he disagrees with is evidence of racism.
00:08:40.000 So Jamel Bowie attacked me yesterday personally.
00:08:43.000 I tweeted out that I thought it was despicable that so many folks in the press were trying to conflate conservatism more generally with white supremacism that we hate.
00:08:52.000 Some of us, as I say, have had an enormous number of death threats.
00:08:55.000 Some of us have been the victims of white supremacists who are currently going to prison because of those death threats.
00:09:01.000 And so I wrote yesterday about some folks on the left. 0.97
00:09:04.000 Your conflation of all conservatives with white supremacist monsters who despise actual conservative principles, you know, like the universal non-racially based applicability of principles of Western civilization is cynical, deliberate, and disgusting. 0.76
00:09:16.000 So Jamal Bowie jumps right into that hole and immediately does exactly what I accused him of doing. 0.92
00:09:21.000 He says the real point of this tantrum is to go after anyone who might make the connection between white nationalism and Ben's ideological project.
00:09:29.000 You see, my ideological project is connected to white nationalism and forwarding the aspirations of white nationalism, according to Jamal Bowie, never mind the fact that I've been the loudest critic of white nationalism, probably in the United States, for the last four years, and was their number one target in 2016.
00:09:44.000 That doesn't matter.
00:09:45.000 I'm apparently one of them, or at least I'm lending them credibility, or I'm connected to their viewpoint.
00:09:50.000 This is according to a columnist for the New York Times.
00:09:54.000 And more broadly, the left is trying to do this with President Trump.
00:09:58.000 And they're trying to suggest that Trump is the one who is lending credence to white nationalists.
00:10:02.000 Now, I said at the time, in 2015 and 2016, that Trump winged and nodded at the alt-right.
00:10:07.000 That was true.
00:10:08.000 He did do that in 2015 and 2016.
00:10:10.000 It was wrong.
00:10:11.000 It was morally reprehensible.
00:10:13.000 I said it at the time.
00:10:14.000 But since 2017, he has not been doing that stuff.
00:10:17.000 Now, maybe that's reason.
00:10:19.000 But the fact is, so are these shootings.
00:10:21.000 These shootings are recent, too.
00:10:22.000 And to blame them on Trump, who has come out repeatedly and condemned white nationalism, wouldn't you be happy if he condemned white nationalism?
00:10:28.000 Well, he did yesterday.
00:10:30.000 And it turns out he's been doing it repeatedly.
00:10:32.000 In fact, we have this mashup of President Trump over the last two years condemning white nationalism about a thousand times in a row.
00:10:37.000 There must be no tolerance for anti-Semitism in America or for any form of religious or racial hatred.
00:10:46.000 We are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all of its very ugly forms.
00:10:54.000 We want our country to be a place where every child from every background can grow up free from fear, innocent of hatred, and surrounded by love, opportunity, and hope.
00:11:08.000 Racism is evil. 0.95
00:11:10.000 And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans. 0.99
00:11:26.000 Those who spread violence in the name of bigotry strike at the very core of America. 0.99
00:11:33.000 We must never ignore the vile poison of anti-Semitism or those who spread its venomous creed.
00:11:43.000 With one voice, we must confront this hatred anywhere and everywhere it occurs.
00:11:50.000 Okay, Trump has said all this stuff.
00:11:52.000 The left doesn't like that he said all this stuff because it fights against the narrative that they are trying to paint.
00:11:56.000 The narrative being that Trump is the cause of white supremacism in the United States, even though it obviously precedes him.
00:12:01.000 There have been white supremacist shootings in the United States going all the way back to my childhood and beyond.
00:12:06.000 I remember there was a white supremacist shooting in my neighborhood back in 1999.
00:12:11.000 There's a white supremacist who drove right past the place where I was about to go to high school and then proceeded to go to the West Valley JCC and shoot up the West Valley JCC.
00:12:18.000 There were white supremacist shootings during Barack Obama's tenure.
00:12:21.000 So this precedes Trump.
00:12:22.000 Now, you may make the case that it is worse under President Trump.
00:12:26.000 I think statistically, it's unclear whether that is the case, but In my opinion, it is.
00:12:31.000 In my opinion, that is the case.
00:12:32.000 But the attempt to paint Trump as a white nationalist or white supremacist is obviously the goal here.
00:12:37.000 And it is politically motivated, because now Trump is speaking out on the same stuff you want him to speak out on, and you're angry about it.
00:12:43.000 You're mad about it.
00:12:43.000 Shouldn't you be happy that Trump is now swiveling around on this?
00:12:46.000 Shouldn't you be encouraging him to do this?
00:12:49.000 All of the editorials over the weekend where Trump needs to speak out about white nationalism, then he speaks out about white nationalism and white supremacy, and everybody on the left objects.
00:12:56.000 Because it turns out the real agenda isn't to have Trump say the right thing, it's to have Trump say the wrong thing, so that you can then browbeat conservatives with the idea that they are supporters of white supremacy.
00:13:07.000 Every Democratic presidential candidate has been pushing this particular narrative.
00:13:11.000 Joe Biden, yesterday, compared Trump to the KKK.
00:13:15.000 You can say a lot of things about Trump.
00:13:16.000 Trump is not a member of the KKK.
00:13:17.000 That's absurd.
00:13:19.000 This is a president who has said things no other president has said since Andrew Jackson.
00:13:25.000 We went through this before in the 20s with the Ku Klux Klan.
00:13:29.000 50,000 people walking down Pennsylvania Avenue in pointed hats and their robes because they in fact decided they didn't want any Catholics coming into the country.
00:13:37.000 We went through it after the Civil War in terms of the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacy.
00:13:42.000 This is about separating people into good and bad in his mind.
00:13:48.000 It's a trait used by charlatans all over the world.
00:13:50.000 Divide people. 0.89
00:13:51.000 Divide them.
00:13:52.000 Pit them against one another. 0.97
00:13:53.000 I'm sorry, it is unbelievable to hear this coming from Joe Biden, who suggested that Republicans like Mitt Romney, the most milquetoast human being who has ever walked the earth, wanted to put black people back in chains.
00:14:02.000 And then we hear Joe Biden talking about folks who are dividing people along racial lines.
00:14:07.000 And Beto O'Rourke then suggested that President Trump shouldn't come to El Paso, of course, because he is the great adjudicator of who should come to El Paso, including the elected president of the United States, who, by the way, won the state of Texas in 2016.
00:14:19.000 I don't think the president should come here.
00:14:21.000 Why? 1.00
00:14:22.000 He described Mexican immigrants, this is a town of Mexican immigrants, as rapists and criminals. 0.99
00:14:27.000 Repeatedly has warned of an invasion, trying to make us afraid of those who do not look like the majority of this country. 0.99
00:14:34.000 He's described human beings as an infestation.
00:14:37.000 You only have an attack like this when you have a president who gives people permission to act on this hatred and this racism.
00:14:45.000 So that standard, if we're going to hold that standard, then Barack Obama, Dallas police officer shooting, Ferguson riots, Baltimore riots, Bernie Sanders shooting, AOC ice detainment facility attack.
00:14:57.000 I mean, it's very easy to extend the standard that O'Rourke is talking about to encompass pretty much all political rhetoric in the United States.
00:15:05.000 You can see that the media are very unhappy that Trump condemned white supremacy yesterday.
00:15:09.000 They're interested in the division, not in unification.
00:15:11.000 Don Lemon is a great example of this.
00:15:12.000 Don Lemon on CNN.
00:15:13.000 He suggested yesterday that Trump even condemning white supremacy rings hollow.
00:15:18.000 So how would it not ring hollow exactly?
00:15:20.000 I mean, really, you have to ask the counter question, which is, you have to give me, how would it not ring hollow?
00:15:25.000 What would he say that wouldn't ring hollow to Don Lemon?
00:15:27.000 The answer is nothing.
00:15:29.000 And as we'll see, the left is very upset that anybody would point out that Trump actually condemned white supremacy yesterday.
00:15:36.000 We have also called on this president to say the words that he finally said today, but they ring hollow when he coddles white supremacists, or domestic terrorism, or those who perform those acts.
00:15:52.000 So listen, I hope that this makes a difference, but how many times have you and I been sitting here on television saying, well I hope this one changes things, I hope this one changes things, and then nothing happens.
00:16:04.000 Okay, so again, that's not journalism, that is opinion.
00:16:07.000 And Don Lemon is supposed to be journalism-ing.
00:16:09.000 Well, the journalism got all over the place during that particular segment.
00:16:12.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:16:13.000 We'll talk about the agenda.
00:16:15.000 Again, the agenda is to say that Trump is in fact the cause of white supremacist terror attacks across the United States, and then to tie conservatives more generally to Trump, and by extension, to white supremacist terror attacks across the United States.
00:16:28.000 Instead of us unifying, there's a deliberate attempt being made to divide Americans when we all agree on this stuff.
00:16:34.000 That's the dirty secret.
00:16:35.000 We all agree. 0.97
00:16:35.000 White supremacism. 0.97
00:16:37.000 Evil. 0.99
00:16:38.000 Evil. 1.00
00:16:38.000 Disgusting. 1.00
00:16:39.000 Evil. 1.00
00:16:39.000 A cancer. 1.00
00:16:41.000 We're all on the same page.
00:16:43.000 We should all be mourning together today.
00:16:45.000 We should all be coming up with solutions together today.
00:16:47.000 Instead, the left is insistent that the right swallow the white supremacist terror attack as a natural consequence of conservatism.
00:16:55.000 Well, no.
00:16:55.000 The answer is no.
00:16:56.000 I'm not going to do that because it's bullcrap.
00:16:58.000 That's not a thing that's going to happen.
00:16:59.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:18:17.000 OK, so Joe Scarborough made the connection complete yesterday when he suggested on his show that anybody who supports President Trump is by necessity supporting white supremacist terror attacks.
00:18:28.000 For those of you who are funding Donald Trump's reelection campaign, you may want to take note that because you keep writing checks to this president, it's on you.
00:18:38.000 It really is.
00:18:39.000 It's all on you because you are funding this white supremacist campaign CEOs.
00:18:45.000 You really are.
00:18:47.000 Business people, millionaires and billionaires, it's your money that is funding this white supremacy. 0.55
00:18:54.000 Because you won't tell him to stop.
00:18:56.000 Who's not telling him to stop when he said all the bad stuff that he said in the past?
00:19:01.000 I'm pretty sure a lot of people were telling him to stop.
00:19:02.000 And by the way, if you support Trump in his re-election bid because you don't trust Kamala Harris or Elizabeth Warren or Joe Biden to run the country, this does not make you a white supremacist.
00:19:12.000 The attempt to tie politics to this event is a deliberate attempt to elect a Democrat to the White House.
00:19:19.000 That's what this is about.
00:19:20.000 And here's how you can tell.
00:19:21.000 So today, the media actually started to cover this thing the way they should cover it.
00:19:26.000 So the New York Times yesterday ran a ridiculous and bizarre headline.
00:19:29.000 The ridiculous and bizarre headline, which I pointed out yesterday, was something to the effect of, Donald Trump condemns racism, but says nothing about guns. 0.59
00:19:39.000 And as I pointed out, that is not actually, here's the exact headline. 0.91
00:19:43.000 It was, Trump condemns white supremacy, but doesn't propose gun laws after shooting.
00:19:47.000 And as I pointed out, that's not journalism.
00:19:49.000 That is the New York Times saying what they wish he had said, not what he said. 0.97
00:19:53.000 What he actually said was that white supremacy is evil.
00:19:56.000 Wouldn't that be the headline? 1.00
00:19:57.000 Trump, white supremacy is evil. 0.99
00:19:59.000 Very easy headline to write. 0.99
00:20:01.000 Trump condemns white supremacy.
00:20:02.000 That's where the headline ends.
00:20:03.000 Okay, so I pointed that out yesterday.
00:20:05.000 Well, apparently the editors at the New York Times actually got the message.
00:20:10.000 And so their headline on the front page of the New York Times today was, quote, Trump urges unity versus racism.
00:20:17.000 Trump urges unity versus racism.
00:20:20.000 That is a factually true headline.
00:20:22.000 And now, you may think that it's disingenuous.
00:20:24.000 You may think, as Don Lemon does, that it rings hollow.
00:20:26.000 But the actual headline, if you are a news person, is that Trump urges unity versus racism.
00:20:32.000 That's not a biased headline.
00:20:33.000 That is a very straightforward headline.
00:20:35.000 The entire left went insane.
00:20:38.000 Beto O'Rourke came out and said it was disgusting the New York Times had run that headline.
00:20:41.000 Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, as is her want, accused the New York Times of white supremacism. 0.99
00:20:47.000 So I guess it was Nancy Pelosi three weeks ago.
00:20:49.000 Now it's the New York Times pushing white supremacism, apparently.
00:20:53.000 Nate Silver.
00:20:54.000 Who is at 538 and obviously is of the political left, said, not sure Trump urges unity versus racism.
00:21:00.000 Sorry, put that back up for a second.
00:21:01.000 Nate Silver said, not sure Trump urges unity versus racism is how I would have framed the story.
00:21:06.000 And then AOC says, let this front page serve as a reminder of how white supremacy is aided by and often relies upon the cowardice of mainstream institutions.
00:21:17.000 Weird.
00:21:17.000 I remember that time that Trump called the New York Times fake news and everybody was like, oh my god, that right there is an attack on the First Amendment.
00:21:22.000 It's an attack on the press.
00:21:23.000 When AOC says that the New York Times is forwarding white supremacy, I guess that's not an attack on the press.
00:21:29.000 Because it's AOC and we all love AOC, right?
00:21:31.000 I mean, she is the wisest, most benevolent, most beautiful among us, the most brilliant.
00:21:35.000 Thus, when she rips into the New York Times as an institution of white supremacy, Filled with cowardice. 0.94
00:21:42.000 Not a problem at all.
00:21:43.000 So what did the New York Times do?
00:21:45.000 The New York Times switched its front page.
00:21:47.000 Not kidding.
00:21:48.000 Because of blowback from the left.
00:21:50.000 Because many on the left were suggesting they were going to cancel their subscriptions over the headline.
00:21:55.000 The factually accurate headline.
00:21:57.000 The New York Times reversed itself and pulled down that headline and put up a new headline.
00:22:01.000 The headline was assailing hate but not guns.
00:22:05.000 Now.
00:22:06.000 That is not, in fact, it's not actually a factual headline.
00:22:11.000 The president actually called for certain gun regulations, including red flag regulations.
00:22:17.000 That is editorializing, right?
00:22:19.000 But not blank is not a factual reportage decision.
00:22:24.000 That is an editorializing decision.
00:22:26.000 That's the kind of headline that I could write after every Barack Obama speech.
00:22:30.000 Barack Obama endorses X, but not Y. Y being a thing I wanted him to endorse.
00:22:34.000 That's editorializing.
00:22:36.000 So the New York Times, a paper that used to be founded, it used to be their slogan.
00:22:40.000 Their slogan used to be, without fear or favor.
00:22:43.000 It was a statement made by the founder of the New York Times about 100 years ago.
00:22:47.000 Without fear or favor?
00:22:49.000 Well forget that, now it's fear of the left means that we will favor the left.
00:22:53.000 So they're going to switch the headline.
00:22:55.000 Why?
00:22:55.000 Because it would undercut the narrative that the left is attempting to drive if Trump actually did urge unity versus racism.
00:23:02.000 It's amazing.
00:23:03.000 And speaking of upholding the leftist narrative, speaking of upholding that leftist narrative, The CNN ran a piece today, and the piece was about the politics of the Dayton, Ohio shooter.
00:23:16.000 Now, a couple of things can be true.
00:23:18.000 One, the Dayton, Ohio shooter was not overtly political in his shooting, meaning he did not release a manifesto and say, here is why I'm committing this act of evil, as the El Paso shooter did.
00:23:28.000 And that is a valid distinction, because to treat them as equally politically motivated in the absence of evidence that the Dayton shooting was politically motivated would be dishonest. 0.94
00:23:37.000 However, Are we going to pretend that if the El Paso shooting had happened, and there were no manifesto, and then it turns out that the guy's social media postings were littered with white supremacist disgusting trash, or Trump endorsements, that that wouldn't have been first and foremost in the media coverage? 0.88
00:23:53.000 Are we really going to pretend that's how this works? 0.98
00:23:55.000 So CNN runs a piece, and I'll explain in just a second what the piece is, and the left loses its mind.
00:24:00.000 How dare CNN cover actual news?
00:24:02.000 How dare they do it?
00:24:03.000 It undercuts the narrative.
00:24:04.000 We'll get to that in just one second.
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00:25:13.000 Okay, so.
00:25:15.000 The CNN runs this piece and the piece talks about the politics of the person who is responsible of the shooter in Dayton, Ohio.
00:25:24.000 And this apparently is very, very bad.
00:25:27.000 Very bad.
00:25:28.000 You're not allowed to talk about his politics. 0.96
00:25:31.000 The left goes nuts.
00:25:31.000 Why is CNN even running a story about the politics of the Dayton, Ohio shooter?
00:25:36.000 We don't even know that the shooting was politically motivated.
00:25:38.000 Right.
00:25:38.000 Number one, we don't know that it wasn't politically motivated, but also necessary to note that if we're now going to hold to the standard that only politically motivated shootings ought to be covered in a political way, I'm all for that standard.
00:25:50.000 Now you're going to have to go back in time and undo what you did with Gabby Giffords and Sarah Palin, where you attributed the shooting of Gabby Giffords by an insane person to Sarah Palin saying that Gabby Giffords shouldn't be re-elected with a target map of her face.
00:26:04.000 Okay, you guys are gonna have to undo the whole routine where you suggested that the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting was a result of Republican homophobia.
00:26:13.000 You're gonna have to undo all that stuff, because it seems to me that every time somebody does something you don't like, you go and dig up their political profile, and then you attempt to link it to broader right-wing concerns.
00:26:25.000 So if this is the new standard, then have at it, guys.
00:26:27.000 I feel like that's a better standard.
00:26:28.000 But, if the standard right now is that we don't know, number one, whether this was political or not, or number two, we're gonna hold by your usual standard, which is we dig up the politics of a person who did something evil, and then attribute to everybody else who holds any of those political stances the evil of this person, and then you guys are gonna have to deal with the fact that this particular Dayton shooter was an Elizabeth Warren supporter, who was openly socialist, who is a far-left kook.
00:26:55.000 A Twitter account, according to CNN, that appears to belong to Dayton mass shooter, I'm not going to say his name, retweeted extreme left-wing and anti-police posts, as well as tweets supporting Antifa or anti-fascist protesters.
00:27:06.000 The most recent tweet of the account was on August 3rd, the day of the shooting.
00:27:10.000 He retweeted a post saying, Millennials have a message for the Joe Biden generation. 0.95
00:27:13.000 Hurry up and die.
00:27:16.000 Police don't know what motivated this person. 1.00
00:27:18.000 It is also true that his politics are far left.
00:27:20.000 It is obvious that his politics are far left.
00:27:24.000 In the hours before the Dayton shooting, the Twitter account liked several tweets about the shooting in El Paso, including one supporting gun control and others that called the El Paso shooting suspect a terrorist and a white supremacist.
00:27:34.000 The account retweeted messages supporting Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
00:27:38.000 Okay, so apparently it's very bad for CNN to report this.
00:27:40.000 including one that said these people are monsters and multiple posts condemning police and supporting antifa protesters who often use violent tactics.
00:27:47.000 OK, so apparently it's very bad for CNN to report this.
00:27:49.000 Kellyanne Conway tweeted out the CNN piece and she was immediately accused of doing something evil for tweeting out the CNN piece. 1.00
00:27:57.000 Pretty astonishing, pretty.
00:28:01.000 I mean, this is our great journalist.
00:28:04.000 They're telling us not only what we should cover, but what we should not cover.
00:28:07.000 So we shouldn't cover this stuff.
00:28:08.000 Why?
00:28:09.000 Because of the person's political convictions.
00:28:12.000 Now, as I said, two things can be true at once.
00:28:14.000 One, we don't know that his politics drove the shooting, and thus it shouldn't be covered in the same way as El Paso.
00:28:18.000 And two, if this person were on the right, it would be covered exactly the same way as El Paso by the media.
00:28:23.000 Because that is what our media do.
00:28:26.000 The bravest and finest among us.
00:28:29.000 Because, unfortunately, it doesn't back their narrative that violence is associated solely with the right.
00:28:37.000 Anything that doesn't fit with that narrative has to be ignored by the media, which is, of course, why it wasn't a national news story when a person quoting AOC attacked an ICE detainment facility like two weeks ago.
00:28:46.000 It's why the Bernie Sanders congressional baseball shooting, the supporter of Bernie Sanders who did that, it's why that was out in the news inside of a week.
00:28:55.000 And it's why we are still not seeing any coverage today Of, for example, far-left protesters at Mitch McConnell's house who are standing outside shouting, massacre Mitch McConnell.
00:29:07.000 They're really shouting this, massacre Mitch.
00:29:09.000 Here's some of the video from outside Mitch McConnell's house.
00:29:11.000 Mitch McConnell was home, by the way, because he broke his shoulder.
00:29:13.000 It's why nobody on the left will cover the fact that so many members of the left are celebratory about the fact that Rand Paul was injured by his neighbor a year ago.
00:29:21.000 In some sort of dispute.
00:29:22.000 Rand Paul tweeted out recently that he's not able to perform his full congressional duties because he has to have a piece of his lung removed.
00:29:28.000 You should see the replies to the tweet, all from members of the left, talking about why he deserves it.
00:29:32.000 Here's some of the video outside Mitch McConnell's house last night.
00:29:35.000 We're at McConnell's house. 0.94
00:29:37.000 This b**** thinks he's about to get some rest. 1.00
00:29:39.000 Not if the children that you're kidnapping can't get any rest! 0.99
00:29:43.000 Not if families who are getting murdered can't get any rest! 1.00
00:29:48.000 F*** your thoughts and prayers, Mitch. 1.00
00:29:49.000 F*** you. 1.00
00:29:51.000 F*** your wife. 1.00
00:29:52.000 F*** everything you stand for. 1.00
00:29:54.000 We can't even call white men terrorists. 1.00
00:29:56.000 They've been terrorists since the beginning of this godd*** country, b***h. 1.00
00:29:59.000 You a terrorist, Mitch. 1.00
00:30:01.000 Just stab the m***h in the heart, please. 1.00
00:30:04.000 F*** you. 1.00
00:30:05.000 F*** your mama, f*** Mitch. F*** I. 1.00
00:30:08.000 Now again, I'm not going to attribute this to the entire left, because this isn't the entire left, but this is a person of the left and a group of the left who are outside Mitch McConnell's house with signs that say hashtag massacre Mitch. 0.99
00:30:19.000 That trended on Twitter yesterday.
00:30:22.000 Wajahat Ali, who is a CNN commentator and New York Times contributor, he tweeted out, hashtag Massacre Moscow Mitch is trending.
00:30:29.000 I still have faith in America.
00:30:31.000 Then he deleted it, obviously.
00:30:34.000 So it's...
00:30:35.000 Again, this sort of notion that the political rhetoric on one side is driving the great divide in our country is insipid.
00:30:42.000 Yes, Donald Trump makes our political rhetoric worse and has been doing so for several years.
00:30:46.000 And yes, Democrats also have been doing this for a long time.
00:30:50.000 But to attribute white supremacist shootings to the right is no more honest than to attribute the shooting in Dayton, Ohio to the left more broadly.
00:31:00.000 It's a particular narrative, and the fact that the left is now trying to undermine and really underscore the narrative of their choice by cracking down on members of the media who are pointing out facts that do not align with that trend is pretty obvious evidence of what exactly so many folks on the left are trying to do.
00:31:22.000 Now, in just a second, we're going to talk about some of the gun control measures that folks on the left are talking about, and then we want to get to the trade war with China, which is obviously a massive issue and is going to impact your life.
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00:32:17.000 So in the aftermath of this mass shooting, obviously, Democrats are talking about their gun control proposals.
00:32:31.000 It is amazing how so many of the folks in the media are going to members of the left as though it is the responsibility of members of the left Members of the Democratic Party to grant absolution to President Trump for the El Paso shooting, which assumes number one that Trump is responsible for the El Paso shooting, which is not true.
00:32:50.000 And two, assumes that Democrats are in any sort of moral position to grant absolution for Trump's rhetoric.
00:32:58.000 For what happened in El Paso or anything like that.
00:33:00.000 I'll give you an example.
00:33:01.000 Chris Matthews over there.
00:33:02.000 I'm going to be safe.
00:33:03.000 Rolling in here.
00:33:04.000 Got Harold messed up.
00:33:05.000 Looking all weird.
00:33:07.000 Very upset about what happened over the weekend.
00:33:08.000 Talking to Kamala Harris.
00:33:10.000 Kamala Harris, who supports Al Sharpton.
00:33:12.000 Kamala Harris, who thinks Al Sharpton's a wonderful guy.
00:33:14.000 A guy who helped, allegedly, incite two riots in New York City.
00:33:17.000 Here I am.
00:33:18.000 Going to talk to Kamala Harris.
00:33:19.000 And we'll ask Pope Kamala about whether she can exonerate Trump of these charges.
00:33:26.000 He does things that cause bad behaviors, and in this case, his kinds of words encourage the kind of action that we've seen in El Paso.
00:33:34.000 Is he educable?
00:33:37.000 Atypical?
00:33:38.000 Educable.
00:33:39.000 Can he be educated?
00:33:40.000 Will this educate him?
00:33:41.000 He seemed to pull back on Ilhan Omar this week.
00:33:44.000 He seemed to pull back.
00:33:46.000 He's not educable.
00:33:47.000 He can't be corrected.
00:33:49.000 Maya Angelou told us a long time ago, people tell you who they are the first time.
00:33:55.000 Believe it.
00:33:55.000 He has told us who he is.
00:33:58.000 Is he educable?
00:33:59.000 Can we teach him?
00:34:00.000 Does he like vegetables?
00:34:02.000 Educable Vegetables.
00:34:04.000 Chris Matthews of MHD.
00:34:05.000 Tell me about Kamala.
00:34:06.000 Can we teach him?
00:34:07.000 Tell me more about Al Sharpton Kamala.
00:34:10.000 So what exactly are these Democrats going to do with their newfound moral bravado?
00:34:14.000 What are they going to do?
00:34:15.000 Well, according to both Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, they're just going to cram down on the American people what they want on gun control. 1.00
00:34:21.000 Now, if you're on the right and you say, well, I'm never going to vote these people into office because, hey, they're going to cram down gun control on me.
00:34:27.000 According to the left, this makes you a white supremacist because obviously you'd have to support Trump in order to defeat Elizabeth Warren or Kamala Harris.
00:34:33.000 Here's Elizabeth Warren declaring that the Second Amendment no longer applies because tyranny. 1.00
00:34:39.000 We've seen this sort of escalation and horrible shooting after horrible shooting.
00:34:43.000 What would you be able to do as president that's different from the track record that we've seen?
00:34:48.000 On the first day that I'm president, the Republicans want to try to block things, then we get rid of the filibuster.
00:34:53.000 And we go with a majority vote.
00:34:55.000 I will do everything I can by executive order, but I will also lead on the argument of getting rid of the filibuster so that by a majority we can do what the American people have sent us there to do.
00:35:08.000 Okay, so she's not actually going to propose a policy, but she is going to say that she will do it alone from the top of the federal government.
00:35:14.000 Kamala Harris does the exact same thing. 1.00
00:35:16.000 She says she's going to use executive action.
00:35:17.000 They still haven't made an actual proposal, by the way.
00:35:19.000 They're just explaining how they're going to seize power that is not delegated to them under the Constitution.
00:35:24.000 Is there any other action you're considering when you look at these, for example, two most recent mass shootings that unfortunately, tragically, sadly, there have been so many of them in recent years?
00:35:37.000 Right, so under the Harris administration, I will give the United States Congress 100 days to pull their act together on this and put a bill on my desk for signature.
00:35:49.000 And if they do not, I will take executive action as you mentioned.
00:35:52.000 And in particular, put in place a comprehensive background check requirement.
00:35:56.000 I'll also make sure that we give the ATF the resources that it needs to take the licenses of gun dealers who violate the law.
00:36:04.000 Okay, so again, there she is explaining that she is going to just violate the Constitution wholesale. 1.00
00:36:09.000 Right, they have 100 days to do something I want, otherwise I'm just going to do it myself.
00:36:12.000 Which, of course, is what it says in Article 1 of the Constitution when it grants legislative power to the President, so long as the President can't get Congress to do what they want.
00:36:20.000 What do Democrats actually want?
00:36:21.000 Beto O'Rourke really spilled it.
00:36:22.000 He was on with Jon Favreau on Pod Save America, and he explained that what he actually wants is just gun confiscation broad-scale across the nation.
00:36:28.000 I'm sure this is going to go great.
00:36:31.000 The most effective gun control measures have been gun licenses and mandatory buyback programs like they did in Australia.
00:36:37.000 Would you be open to those proposals as president?
00:36:40.000 Yes, and I'm open to them right now as a candidate.
00:36:44.000 Absolutely has to be part of the conversation.
00:36:47.000 And if at the end of the day it's going to save lives, if it's going to prevent the kind of tragedies that we saw in El Paso or Gilroy or Dayton or this weekend in Chicago or all over this country on a daily basis, Then let's move forward and do it.
00:37:04.000 Yeah, there it is.
00:37:04.000 I know.
00:37:05.000 So he's just going to look for an, when he says gun buyback in Australia, it was a mandatory buyback, meaning that it was gun confiscation.
00:37:11.000 By the way, worthy of note, Australia had pretty much no mass shootings before they had the gun confiscation.
00:37:18.000 And in terms of the murder rate, the gun murder rate in Australia declined slower than the United States murder rate from guns at the same exact, over the same exact period.
00:37:28.000 While the number of guns in circulation in the United States rose dramatically.
00:37:31.000 So none of this actually matches up.
00:37:34.000 But you wonder why the right is uncomfortable with left policy prescriptions?
00:37:36.000 Because you guys keep saying you're going to grab our guns, and they're like, no, no, no.
00:37:39.000 Why do you keep saying we're going to?
00:37:40.000 Because you keep saying you're going to grab our guns.
00:37:42.000 That would be the reason.
00:37:43.000 Right there.
00:37:44.000 Okay.
00:37:45.000 In other news, and what will end up being very consequential news for 2020, what we are looking at right now in the stock market, what we are looking at in the markets more broadly, is fairly disastrous.
00:37:57.000 The market seems to have stabilized a little bit today in the aftermath of a massive drop-off over the past week in the stock market.
00:38:05.000 The stock market dropped from about 27,300 about a week ago, all the way down to a low of 25,700, so dropped about 1,600 points over the course of a week.
00:38:17.000 And that was largely due to fears of a trade war between the United States and China.
00:38:23.000 And that's because a bunch of different measures are now being taken both by the United States and by the Chinese as this trade war escalates.
00:38:30.000 Yesterday, the Dow had plunged 760 points.
00:38:33.000 It was the worst day of 2019.
00:38:34.000 The yield curve inverted.
00:38:38.000 The bond yields went all the way down to the very bottom of the deck because everybody started rushing to buy bonds because they were afraid of the upcoming downturn in the economy, possibly.
00:38:49.000 The Nasdaq fell for a sixth straight session.
00:38:52.000 The S&P 500 also posted a long six-day losing streak.
00:38:56.000 Tech stocks were particularly hard hit.
00:38:58.000 That's because China, which has historically controlled its currency, the yuan, allowed it to fall to its lowest level on Monday against the dollar in more than a decade.
00:39:07.000 The onshore yuan broke above seven per U.S.
00:39:10.000 dollar and traded around 7.05.
00:39:12.000 That's been seen typically as an important kind of inflection point.
00:39:17.000 Now, is it really that much higher than 6.95?
00:39:20.000 Not really, but it is seen as a move by China to devalue its currency in order to fight back against the Trumpian tariffs.
00:39:27.000 The idea being if they devalue their currency, it makes it easier for them to export product and harder for them to import product.
00:39:32.000 That is one way of fighting a tariff.
00:39:34.000 President Trump immediately came back and suggested that China was a currency manipulator.
00:39:39.000 He tweeted out, China dropped the price of their currency to an almost historic low.
00:39:42.000 It's called currency manipulation.
00:39:44.000 Are you listening, Federal Reserve?
00:39:45.000 This is a major violation which will greatly weaken China over time.
00:39:48.000 Okay, that last part makes no sense.
00:39:49.000 If you believe that China's devaluation of its currency weakens China, why are you calling on the Federal Reserve to inflate the currency?
00:39:56.000 That would presumably weaken the United States.
00:39:58.000 Trump's understanding of economics is flawed at best.
00:40:02.000 At best.
00:40:03.000 When I say flawed at best, I mean it's really, really terrible.
00:40:06.000 I mean, Trump does not understand international trade.
00:40:08.000 He doesn't really understand inflation.
00:40:10.000 He doesn't understand any of these things.
00:40:12.000 Now, if you want to engage in a trade war with China, you actually do have to make the case for why the United States should be engaging in a trade war with China.
00:40:19.000 Now, there are folks out there like Neal Ferguson, the historian, who have suggested that we should engage in effectively a second Cold War with China.
00:40:25.000 That China is a growing power.
00:40:27.000 They've been expending their resources on military might in the South China Sea.
00:40:31.000 They've been expanding into heretofore unknown areas.
00:40:34.000 They have been cramming down political tyranny on Hong Kong.
00:40:39.000 Yeah, Trump, by the way, that would have been an obvious point where Trump could have said something, right?
00:40:42.000 I mean, the Hong Kong protesters are attempting to resist Chinese intervention in Hong Kong.
00:40:47.000 When Hong Kong was handed over to the Chinese by the British in the 90s, the assumption was that Hong Kong would be self-governing and that China would not actually be in control of every aspect of Hong Kong life.
00:40:57.000 That obviously has turned out not to be true.
00:40:59.000 There are these massive protests, including like one-fifth of the population out in the streets in Hong Kong, and Trump basically repeated the language of the Chinese.
00:41:07.000 It's bewildering to me.
00:41:08.000 If you're going to make the case that China is a powerful international enemy, that they are stealing our technology, that they're building their own 5G networks to compete specifically with American 5G, that they are using tech as a weapon against the United States, that they are building up their military resources, that they are backing some of the world's worst regimes, including North Korea, that they're cracking down on Democrats who would have been our allies if they were independent in Hong Kong.
00:41:31.000 If you want to make that case, you can certainly make that case.
00:41:33.000 And then you have to make the case to the American people that this is a war that we can win, that it will require sacrifice from the American people.
00:41:38.000 You have to be honest with the American people about what this is going to do.
00:41:42.000 Honesty is requisite.
00:41:43.000 Otherwise, here's what Americans see.
00:41:45.000 They see a bunch of fluctuation and randomness.
00:41:48.000 In this trade war?
00:41:49.000 And then they see their prices going up and American businesses shutting down.
00:41:51.000 Because China has now declared, on a governmental level, they're no longer going to buy American agricultural products.
00:41:57.000 You know who that's going to hurt?
00:41:58.000 All the farmers in the rural areas in the states Trump needs to win.
00:42:02.000 It's gonna hurt Trump in Iowa, it's gonna hurt him in Wisconsin, it's gonna hurt him in Ohio, in Michigan, it's gonna hurt him in a lot of the areas that are heavily reliant on trade with China.
00:42:12.000 So if Trump knows what he's doing, he needs to explain it to us.
00:42:15.000 Because otherwise, how do you expect the American people to take the sacrifice you're asking of them?
00:42:21.000 Trump announced last week the United States would impose a 10% tariff on $300 billion worth of Chinese imports.
00:42:26.000 The tariff will take effect on September 1st.
00:42:29.000 Trump's announcement came after Chinese and U.S.
00:42:31.000 officials discussed trade earlier this week as the two countries tried to restart talks.
00:42:35.000 Trump tweeted out this morning that the Chinese are going to come in September and we're going to try to restart those talks and get these tariffs over with.
00:42:42.000 Everybody is deeply fearful that China's devaluation of its currency is the precursor to something else, which is as everybody rushes into the bond market to buy bonds and as the yields go down, that China actually forces the yields back up by selling off American bonds on the open market.
00:42:58.000 Stephen Moore, who's an economic advisor to President Trump.
00:43:02.000 Stephen Moore came out, he said, I think we may have miscalculated here on exactly what the Chinese are willing to do.
00:43:06.000 Well, yes, because they're a dictatorship.
00:43:07.000 They don't care about their own people. 0.99
00:43:09.000 Yes, the living standards have been rising in China, but China has an alternative solution if people start to get too uppity with them, and that is kill them or gulag them. 0.99
00:43:17.000 China is a tyranny, lest we forget. 0.99
00:43:19.000 For all the talk about them being friendly and wonderful, Xi Jinping, the president of China, is a dictator who just reinstalled himself effectively for life.
00:43:28.000 Nonetheless, you know, Trump has declared China a currency manipulator.
00:43:33.000 Again, if you want the Cold War, you got to explain why we're doing it. 0.51
00:43:36.000 You do need to explain it.
00:43:38.000 And you can make that case.
00:43:39.000 China is a nefarious actor, as I've said repeatedly on the world stage. 1.00
00:43:43.000 They are a geopolitical threat to the United States, probably America's top geopolitical threat.
00:43:48.000 But you actually have to make that case.
00:43:50.000 And when you say that they're a currency manipulator, by the way, even that is not particularly unclear.
00:43:54.000 The fact is that they were artificially deflating their currency for years.
00:43:58.000 Now it's pretty obvious that the devaluation that has happened is honestly kind of a result of the tariffs themselves.
00:44:05.000 When you tariff other countries, what you end up doing is immediately increasing the value of your own currency and devaluing other currencies.
00:44:12.000 Why?
00:44:13.000 Well, because there are fewer American dollars in circulation, which means that the value of American dollars goes up because there are fewer of them in general international circulation.
00:44:20.000 So it's not particularly clear that China actually was involved in currency manipulation this time.
00:44:24.000 It is clear that China is willing to fight this trade war.
00:44:27.000 Nonetheless, Trump thinks that being tough on China is going to work because it worked with Mexico.
00:44:31.000 Now, Maybe that's true.
00:44:33.000 Maybe it's not true because the Mexican government is actually an extraordinarily weak government.
00:44:37.000 The Mexican government is so weak that it's in many ways subject to the whims of Mexican drug cartels.
00:44:42.000 The Chinese government is incredibly strong, so strong that it can keep a billion people under the auspices of an absolute tyranny. 0.95
00:44:52.000 According to the Washington Post, Trump is increasingly acting based on his own intuition and analysis, not the advice of aides.
00:44:58.000 In the increasingly fraught trade war with China, five people briefed on the action said, shattering a more cautious process that had yielded few positive results so far.
00:45:06.000 The Treasury Department's formal announcement that it had labeled China a currency manipulator came six hours after Trump did it himself on social media.
00:45:13.000 The people describing the White House process spoke on condition of anonymity, of course.
00:45:16.000 They said White House officials were now expecting a long, drawn-out battle with Chinese leaders Even though Trump is acutely tuned in to stock market fluctuations.
00:45:24.000 But Trump is convinced that the Chinese economy is suffering more than the U.S.
00:45:27.000 economy from the conflict.
00:45:28.000 Now, that's true.
00:45:29.000 The Chinese economy is suffering more than the U.S.
00:45:31.000 economy.
00:45:32.000 The difference is that Trump can get voted out in 2020 if Xi Jinping is going to be there for as long as he's alive.
00:45:38.000 Trump apparently also has felt validated that his hardball threats in other circumstances, including a recent tangle with Mexico over border security, seem to get at least some results, even if they scared investors in the short term.
00:45:49.000 This has left aides, many of whom have preferred for the president to be more patient, to scramble to complete directives issued by President Trump.
00:45:56.000 Stocks have been plunging as Trump and China have escalated the trade war.
00:46:01.000 Some analysts are fearing an escalated U.S.-China currency war as well, not just a trade war, so a two-front war, a currency war of devaluation and a trade war.
00:46:11.000 China allowed the value of its tightly controlled currency, according to the Post, to fall to an 11-year low on Monday, a move that threatens to hurt American producers by making their products more expensive for Chinese customers.
00:46:21.000 The Treasury Department then called China a currency manipulator.
00:46:24.000 They could go to the World Trade Organization, by the way, and file a complaint.
00:46:27.000 You don't only have to do this in a bilateral process.
00:46:30.000 Eswar Prasad, professor of trade at Cornell, said it could get very serious if trade tensions between China and the United States morph into a currency war.
00:46:38.000 This could lead the United States to essentially shut down all imports from China.
00:46:42.000 Some advisors, some economic advisors, a strategist named Masanari Takada over at Nomura, he says we could see a major market sell-off in the wake of all of this.
00:46:54.000 Nomura says that they are warning the next sell-off could resemble a crisis-level plunge like the one that followed the Lehman Brothers collapse.
00:47:00.000 Now, most people are predicting just a stock market correction down 10% and maybe a slight pullback in the stock market.
00:47:06.000 Nomura is basing its view on data showing hedge funds fleeing the market and said more are set to exit when their algorithms are triggered by rising volatility.
00:47:15.000 Remember, we have an election just a year and a half away.
00:47:17.000 China has every interest in creating chaos in the American markets so they can get a Democrat in there. 0.98
00:47:23.000 And the same thing has been true with Iran, which is why they are creating more chaos. 1.00
00:47:27.000 Presumably with the promise that if a Democrat gets in there, then they back off of all of that.
00:47:31.000 This is where a strong communications policy would be a very useful thing.
00:47:37.000 This is where President Trump coming out and giving a speech on exactly what he's doing with China would be useful.
00:47:41.000 The American people deserve to know.
00:47:43.000 Otherwise, it just feels like chaos, and that chaos is gonna come out of people's pockets.
00:47:46.000 Okay, time for a quick thing I like, and then a quick thing that I hate, and we'll get out of here.
00:47:51.000 So, things that I like.
00:47:52.000 Speaking of Cold Wars, both in the United States and outside the United States, there's a new translation of a work that was written under Stalin, and therefore, Repeats a lot of Stalinist tropes, but is really kind of a fascinating window into how the censorship process worked in the USSR.
00:48:08.000 It's called Stalingrad.
00:48:09.000 The author is a man named Vasily Grozman.
00:48:12.000 Grossman was both persecuted and praised by the Stalin regime.
00:48:17.000 He's more famous for another work called Life and Fate, which is quite an amazing work that does concern the Stalin years.
00:48:23.000 It was written after Stalin was dead.
00:48:26.000 But Stalingrad, which just came out in a new translation by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler, is a great window into how the Russians viewed themselves in the middle of the Battle of Stalingrad.
00:48:34.000 It obviously is extraordinarily praiseworthy towards Stalin and toward the Stalinist regime.
00:48:39.000 Which is hard to read if you know the truth about Stalin, but the sort of legacy of Stalingrad was the defining moment in the mentality of a lot of Russians.
00:48:52.000 It continues to be if you read a book called Secondhand Time, which is a fantastic compendium of how Russians think about themselves by a Nobel Prize winner in literature.
00:49:01.000 The kind of mythos, the myth-making is very obvious in this book, Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman.
00:49:06.000 It is a really well-written book.
00:49:07.000 You can go check it out right now.
00:49:09.000 It's a very long book.
00:49:10.000 It's sort of Tolstoy-esque in its approach, but it's worth the read.
00:49:14.000 Okay, let's see.
00:49:16.000 Things that I hate.
00:49:21.000 Well, breaking news, things that I hate.
00:49:23.000 The New York Times has admitted that their original headline was a bad headline.
00:49:27.000 So, Trump urges unity versus racism.
00:49:29.000 Apparently it was a bad headline.
00:49:31.000 The editor of the New York Times has now backed down completely.
00:49:34.000 He acknowledged that his newspaper messed up with the front page headline over its lead story.
00:49:39.000 They say it was a mistake that prompted, this is according to the Daily Beast, it was a mistake that prompted All sorts of consternation, widespread criticism from high-profile Trump detractors once images of the paper's front page surfaced online on Monday night.
00:49:52.000 It also provoked attacks on the Times' political coverage generally, even vows to cancel subscriptions.
00:49:57.000 Baquette texted the Daily Beast it was written on deadline when it was passed along for approval.
00:50:00.000 We all saw it was a bad headline and changed it pretty quickly.
00:50:04.000 Of course, Neera Tanden, the president of the Center for American Progress, which is a leftist think tank, Was typical of the Times' army of critics implying the paper had caved in to Trump's constant attacks on the news media.
00:50:14.000 No, actually, they caved in to your attacks on the news media.
00:50:18.000 So it's very bad for Trump to attack the press.
00:50:20.000 It's very good for the left to attack the press, obviously.
00:50:23.000 And by the way, earns better results, apparently.
00:50:25.000 That's exciting stuff.
00:50:26.000 In case you didn't know, the New York Times hates Trump.
00:50:28.000 In case you didn't know, the New York Times is happy to parrot all of the leftist talking points.
00:50:31.000 All you have to do is take a look at their editorial page.
00:50:34.000 But now, that has infused every aspect of their media coverage to the point where they can be bullied by the left into retracting their own media coverage.
00:50:41.000 Other things that I hate today.
00:50:42.000 It's actually a thing that I like because I like reality.
00:50:45.000 But, as it turns out, raising the minimum wage in New York City leads people to cut hours and jobs.
00:50:49.000 Shocker.
00:50:50.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, more than six months after the $15 minimum wage went into effect in New York City, business leaders and owners say the increased labor costs have forced them to cut staff, eliminate work shifts, and raise prices.
00:51:02.000 Many business owners say these changes were unintended consequences of the new minimum wage, which took effect at the beginning of the year.
00:51:07.000 Yeah, you think?
00:51:09.000 Shocker.
00:51:09.000 It turns out that when you make policy with your gut instead of your brain, it has unintended consequences.
00:51:15.000 I can't believe it.
00:51:16.000 Not that every single study that has ever examined minimum wage has effectively found that there is not some giant bank full of Scrooge McDuck money that employers are swimming around in and holding back from their employees, and that increasing minimum wage inevitably means cutting hours and cutting jobs.
00:51:32.000 Not that that is the most common finding in economics, but it's pretty common.
00:51:36.000 It's a pretty common finding in economics.
00:51:38.000 You mean that if you force me to pay my employees more, I'll force them to work less or fire them?
00:51:42.000 I can't believe it.
00:51:43.000 Shocker.
00:51:44.000 I guess we're all supposed to be surprised by all of this.
00:51:46.000 So, well done once again, City of New York, driving business out there as fast as humanly possible.
00:51:51.000 Just very solid stuff.
00:51:52.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.
00:51:55.000 Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.
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