Roy Moore loses in a shocking upset, and Alabama turns blue for Doug Jones. We ll explain just why and whom ought to be blamed. (1:00) Roy Moore arrives to vote on horseback (3:40) Doug Jones defeats Roy Moore (14:00). (18:30) Is there a line beyond which Americans won t vote for a candidate? (23:15) Does homosexuality should be illegal in the United States? (27:00 ) Is Doug Jones a better candidate than Roy Moore? (31:00 ) (38:00), How did Roy Moore lose? (39:30), Was this really a close race? (41:10) (42:10), Who's to blame for Roy Moore's loss? (45:00, What's next for the Republican Party in Alabama? ) (46:10, What should we learn from this election and what should we do in the future?) (47:15), Should we be worried about the future of Roy Moore s chances of winning the primary election in Alabama in 2020? And who s to blame if Roy Moore doesn t win the primary race in the next election? What s next for him in the U.S. Senate race in Alabama, and who s going to be the next president of Alabama in the midterms? Can he run for President in the 2020 election in 2020, and what will he run against Doug Jones run against in the primary? Is he a good candidate or not a bad candidate, and is he a cro bad candidate? Or is he just not a crook, or is he really a cro crook? ? And is Doug Jones really a better than we thought he is a bad guy? All of these questions answered in this episode of The Daily Wire's breakdown of the Alabama Senate race. (48:30, How will Doug Jones win in Alabama?? Can Doug Jones be a good guy in the upcoming midterms, and can he be a serious contender in the Democratic primary race? ) And much, much more! (49:15, and a special thanks to Ben Shapiro for his reporting on the Alabama election results, and much more. ) And a special shoutout to our sponsor, ZipRecruiter for helping us break down the results of the election and why it matters.
00:00:19.000Another shocking, shocking election result, this time out of Alabama, where Roy Moore, the frontrunner, the Republican in a state that went 97% for Jeff Sessions in the last Senate election, has now gone blue.
00:00:31.000Doug Jones is your new senator from Alabama.
00:00:33.000He is a hardcore Democrat who will caucus with Chuck Schumer.
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00:02:25.000Even Laura Ingraham, who's been backing Moore in this race so far as I can tell, even Laura Ingraham said this was not exactly the smartest political move.
00:02:31.000The funniest thing I saw was this video of Roy Moore arriving to vote on horseback and somebody cut under it the music to Blazing Saddles.
00:03:38.000If this has been a dog catcher election, no one shows up to vote for Roy Moore.
00:03:41.000It's a Senate election, so 600,000 people show up to vote for Roy Moore.
00:03:45.000If it's a presidential election, then you can be Donald Trump and you can win, because the stakes are so high at that point that people are going to show up regardless, because they feel like they must show up out of necessity.
00:04:01.000He was an unpalatable candidate from the beginning, before there were any of these allegations about the sexual molestation of underage women, before there were any of those allegations that had even broken.
00:04:13.000It was known that Roy Moore was not a popular candidate in the state of Alabama.
00:04:16.000He'd already lost, I believe, a Senate primary to somebody.
00:04:19.000He'd been tossed out of the Supreme Court twice.
00:04:21.000He had been running a narrow race with Doug Jones before all of those revelations broke.
00:04:28.000And every two days, he would say something utterly insipid, or there would be a clip of him coming out from four or five years ago in which he said something utterly insipid.
00:04:34.000Yesterday, his spokespeople did not do him any favors.
00:04:36.000In their final pitch, they were making comments like this.
00:04:38.000Here is one of Roy Moore's spokespeople, asked whether he thinks homosexuality should be illegal.
00:04:43.000Does he think that homosexual conduct should be illegal?
00:05:07.000Okay, so again, I agree, by the way, as a biblical Jew, I believe that homosexual conduct is a sin.
00:05:12.000I also believe breaking Sabbath is a sin.
00:05:14.000I don't think the government should be involved in enforcing either of those things.
00:05:17.000That was not the moment that everybody was going nuts about yesterday in the lead up to this election.
00:05:21.000Here was Roy Moore's spokesperson who was talking about Roy Moore's position that Muslims should not sit in Congress or be able to hold elected office.
00:05:31.000I mean, just, like, if this was the best that Alabama had to offer on the Republican side, it's no wonder that Roy Moore is not sitting in the Senate.
00:05:38.000Judge Moore has also said that he doesn't think a Muslim member of Congress should be allowed to be in Congress.
00:07:13.00049% of the votes Donald Trump won in Alabama went to Roy Moore, meaning that a lot of Republicans stayed home because they just didn't like Roy Moore, they didn't like what he represented, they didn't like all the allegations about him, and they were not wrong to do so, okay?
00:07:25.000You present crappy candidates and they're gonna lose.
00:07:27.000It turns out that the quality of your candidates still matters, and railing against the wind, suggesting that
00:07:32.000It's the fault of people who stayed home, rather than the fault of the candidate, or the people who supported that candidate, is just ridiculous.
00:07:37.000And it's tiring to me, this backstabbing legend that you're getting, the dochstochlegen, the nonsense that you get from Steve Bannon and company, that, oh, it was just that Roy Moore was stabbed in the back and that's why he lost.
00:07:49.000Maybe Roy Moore lost because there were credible allegations that he was molesting underage women and trying to date people at the food court.
00:07:54.000Maybe he lost because he was really bad at this.
00:07:56.000Maybe he lost because he couldn't win an election to save his life on a statewide level before this, basically.
00:08:02.000The idea that this was all because there were a bunch of people who were just out to get Roy Moore is insane.
00:08:07.000You think I wanted to lose a seat in Alabama?
00:08:09.000You think anyone who's a Republican in Alabama wanted to lose that seat to Doug Jones?
00:08:23.000Don't follow Steve Bannon down the primrose path like Steve Bannon knows what the hell he's talking about.
00:08:27.000I've never seen someone botch an election as badly as Steve Bannon over at Breitbart News just botched this sucker.
00:08:32.000And not just botched this, he's basically waving a frying pan around and all of us were saying, dude, don't wave that frying pan around, you're gonna smack Trump in the face.
00:08:38.000Then he smacked Trump in the face with a frying pan and then he goes, well if you were just more pro-Trump, this never would have happened.
00:08:43.000I was like, well, maybe you shouldn't wave a frying pan around in the form of Roy Moore, you dunderhead.
00:08:48.000Roy Moore was being very heavily pushed by Bannon in the last days.
00:08:51.000Bannon was going to Alabama and saying things like, Mitt Romney's family has less honor in all of its DNA than Roy Moore has in his little finger.
00:08:59.000He was going to Alabama and suggesting that elitists from the outside, Steve Bannon's from New York and Goldman Sachs and Harvard Business School in LA, and he's showing up in Alabama wearing his homeless man coat, suggesting that he was the great avatar of the people, who's going to speak now on behalf of the Republicans against the establishment.
00:09:15.000And Roy Moore was on Steve Bannon yesterday, his show on Breitbart News that no one listens to.
00:09:19.000He'll have more listenership to his Breitbart News.
00:09:22.000Radio show being played on mine than he will actually having his own show.
00:09:27.000Here is Roy Moore on Bannon's show yesterday.
00:09:30.000Before I let you go, what was this campaign about?
00:09:32.000Well, this campaign was about truth, about right, about what this nation was founded upon, what we must return to to have the nation again be whole.
00:09:43.000And I think it's it's we've got to get away from this politics by party and go put principle over party.
00:09:50.000Yeah, if there's somebody who puts principle above everything, I'm sure that it's Roy Moore, and I'm sure that if someone puts principle above everything, it's certainly Steve Bannon, who's the greatest charlatan, political charlatan and conman and leech I've ever seen in my life.
00:10:01.000The media have turned Steve Bannon into some sort of great avatar of the people, some face of Trumpism without Trump.
00:10:47.000Steve Bannon somehow must have convinced you to jump back in with both feet and then get the RNC to jump back in, meaning that you smear yourself with mud.
00:10:53.000You get it all over yourself and all over the RNC, and then you lose the Senate seat anyway.
00:10:59.000Stop pretending that Steve Bannon knows what the hell he's talking about.
00:11:02.000Steve Bannon leeched onto Sarah Palin, then he leeched onto Andrew Breitbart until Andrew died, then he took over Andrew Breitbart's power position at Breitbart, used that to leech onto Donald Trump, and has now ridden that to this perception of power that he does not hold, all the while writing checks with his mouth that are paid for by the Mercer family.
00:11:20.000Steve Bannon does not have the ear of the American people.
00:12:42.000I also thought Mo Brooks was the proper guy in the primaries.
00:12:45.000But then he said back Roy Moore over Luther Strange in the runoff.
00:12:49.000And then, after Roy Moore was hit with allegations, he encouraged Moore to stay in the race.
00:12:52.000And then he convinced the president to put his own credibility on the line on behalf of a guy who was running a neck-and-neck race in 66% Republican Alabama.
00:13:03.000And by the way, helping to drive up Democratic numbers up the wazoo.
00:13:08.000I mean, the numbers last night are really scary for Republicans, and I'm going to discuss that in just a second, what the fallout means for all of this and a couple of other lessons.
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00:16:30.000Trump is not a popular president, but that's not unique to Trump.
00:16:32.000Obama didn't have coattails, and he was a popular president.
00:16:35.000While Obama was riding in the 50s, his party was losing 1,000 seats across the country.
00:16:39.000Trump is riding in the 30s with a good economy and a soaring stock market, and he's made very good political moves over the last couple of weeks in terms of policy.
00:16:47.000I don't really see how tying yourself to Trump is necessarily a winning strategy if you're a Republican in a general election.
00:16:52.000I just don't see that it's going to matter a whole hell of a lot.
00:16:55.000So Republicans should take that to heart, and Trump should understand that this is not about ego at this point.
00:16:59.000If he wants to retain Congress, if he wants to retain the Senate, he's going to have to actually work hard to ensure
00:17:06.000That other Republicans win, whether they endorse him or not.
00:17:08.000Republicans now are on the verge of losing the Senate.
00:17:16.000That means that if they lose Dean Heller in Nevada, which is a significant possibility, all they have to do is lose one more seat and they lose control of the Senate.
00:17:21.000And you don't know where that seat's going to occur.
00:17:23.000You don't know where a candidate's going to blow up.
00:17:25.000Democrats have 10 seats that are up in red states this year.
00:17:29.000It's going to be interesting to see if they're able to hold any of those, or if they hold all of them.
00:17:33.000But the momentum is clearly with the Democrats going into 2018, and Republicans should know that.
00:18:10.000He shouldn't be the Senator from Alabama.
00:18:12.000The only reason he is is because of this fluke where Roy Moore, one of the worst candidates in the history of modern politics, was running for a Senate seat in a deep red state.
00:18:20.000That was not the only thing that Trump tweeted.
00:18:21.000He came out this morning, he tweeted again, and he suggested that it was all about the write-in votes.
00:18:26.000It was really not all about the write-in votes.
00:19:18.000We're not going to see any more of Roy Moore.
00:19:20.000He is done in national politics, as well he should be.
00:19:22.000One of the other takeaways in terms of the blowout among Democrats, I mean Democrats really showed up to vote in major numbers here, is that the black vote in Alabama was extraordinarily high.
00:19:31.000So one of the reasons that Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 is because black folks did not show up to vote for Hillary Clinton.
00:19:36.000If they'd showed up to vote for Hillary at the same rates they voted for Obama, she would have won in a walk.
00:19:41.000They did show up in Alabama last night.
00:19:44.00030% of the electorate in Alabama last night was black.
00:19:45.000That is an extraordinarily high percentage.
00:19:48.000A lot of that is driven by the politics of race.
00:19:51.000It's driven by the alienation a lot of black voters feel with the current Republican Party.
00:19:56.000Young people, if you look at the votes in Alabama among young people, they won heavily for Doug Jones.
00:20:00.000This is a serious problem for Republicans.
00:20:01.000They're going to have to win over new people.
00:20:03.000This was one of the questions in 2016.
00:20:04.000In 2016, can you get enough of the base out to defeat Hillary Clinton?
00:20:08.000And the answer was, yes, but barely, and you lost the popular vote.
00:20:11.000If you are going to win in 2020, you're going to have to pick up somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 million additional votes just to be competitive in the next presidential election.
00:20:18.000In 2018, you're going to have to pick up new audiences.
00:20:33.000They can't assume every election is going to be won just because President Trump pulled a rabbit out of the hat and somehow defeated Hillary Clinton.
00:20:54.000Now, what you're going to see today is a bunch of people trying to spin away from blaming Steve Bannon, trying to spin away from blaming the people in the primaries who voted for Roy Moore.
00:21:04.000Sean Hannity is trying to blame Mitch McConnell, of course.
00:21:06.000This is going to be the convenient answer.
00:21:08.000This is also Bannon's play to try and blame Mitch McConnell, as though if McConnell had come out more strongly in favor of Moore, Moore would have won, as opposed to Moore as a crappy candidate.
00:21:18.000I don't want to get on Sean's case here, but I've been on Sean's case about this for a few weeks, or at least I mentioned it a few weeks ago.
00:21:24.000Sean said that if Roy Moore did not show him that he was innocent, or any evidence that he was innocent, that he would tell Roy Moore to step out of the race within 24 hours.
00:21:32.000Roy Moore provided no such evidence, and Sean instead backed off of that and did not pressure Moore to step out of the race at all.
00:21:41.000But meanwhile, what this last election was about in 2016 is the forgotten men and forgotten women that need jobs, that are on food stamps, in poverty, and they want a shot at the American dream also.
00:21:54.000So if that is the Republican strategy,
00:21:57.000I mean, it almost takes my breath away.
00:22:00.000And it also goes, I think Mitch McConnell has a lot of culpability in all of this.
00:22:05.000I was a Mo Brooks supporter from day one.
00:22:10.000He used to fill in in my radio show when I had a show in Huntsville, Alabama.
00:22:14.000And I thought he would have been a great candidate.
00:22:16.000The person that came out strongest against Mo Brooks, Matt,
00:22:20.000Okay, so Mitch McConnell, let me be clear.
00:22:22.000Mitch McConnell does bear some responsibility for supporting Luther Strange in the primary and killing Mo Brooks in order because he thought that in the runoff, Luther Strange would do better against Roy Moore.
00:22:30.000Obviously a bad miscalculation on the part of Mitch McConnell.
00:22:40.000Republicans are going to have to understand that just because we want something to be true does not make it true.
00:22:44.000Just because we want it to be true, that Trumpism is a strategy and not just an accomplishment, it doesn't mean that it's true.
00:22:52.000And just because we want it to be true that we are going to be able to pull a rabbit out of every hat, that's not true either.
00:22:56.000There's going to have to be an actual change in how we look at things.
00:23:00.000New voters are going to have to be brought into the fold.
00:23:02.000I think President Trump is capable of that if he can keep himself under control, if he stops calling Steve Bannon, if the Republicans actually pass some legislation, for God's sake.
00:23:10.000If any of that happens, then I think that the blowout can be averted.
00:23:14.000I still think Republicans will lose seats in 2018, but it doesn't have to be a blowout.
00:23:17.000I'll talk a little bit about the stats in just a second.
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00:24:54.000In off-year elections since World War II, the party in power loses, on average, 25 seats.
00:24:58.000Republicans currently have a 23-seat majority.
00:25:01.000In 2006, 2010, 2014, the last three midterm elections, the swings have been incredibly large.
00:25:06.000At this moment, the generic ballot shows Democrats with a 10.3% lead in the RealClearPolitics average.
00:25:11.000At this time in 2009, Republicans led the generic ballot by 3% to 4%, and they ended up blowing that out to a 7% advantage in the 2010 elections, and they ended up picking up 60 seats.
00:25:24.000Now there are a couple factors that are militating against Democrats having a blowout year.
00:25:33.000One is, as I say, the bad cycle for Senate elections.
00:25:35.000The chances that the Democrats win the Senate, even in this environment, are relatively low.
00:25:40.000I would say probably 20 to 30 percent.
00:25:42.000I would have said before about 2 percent.
00:25:43.000Now I think it's about 20 to 30 percent.
00:25:45.000If you look at, but I'm ballparking it, if you look at the House elections,
00:25:48.000There are 23 seats right now that are Republican seats in Clinton districts.
00:25:52.000The chances are that a lot of those swing away from the Republicans, but Democrats also have 12 seats in Republican districts, so it's very possible that those swing away from Democrats.
00:26:00.000It's not clear-cut that Democrats have as easy a road to winning the House as Republicans did in 2010 or as they had an increase in 2014.
00:26:09.000The reason being a lot of these districts have gotten both redder and bluer, meaning that the districts are more polarized.
00:26:14.000But Republicans are going to need to make some moves here.
00:26:16.000That means passing this tax reform plan now.
00:26:40.000These are all political battles that can be fought and won.
00:26:43.000But they cannot be fought and won if there's a distraction every time.
00:26:46.000Now, President Trump can get away with being a distracting guy.
00:26:49.000He can get away with tweeting stuff about the NFL.
00:26:51.000But when it comes to other elections, people don't take crap the way they do in a presidential.
00:26:56.000In a presidential, the stakes are so high that people's threshold for taking crap from their own side is incredibly high, too.
00:27:02.000The same does not hold true of Senate elections or congressional elections.
00:27:05.000We need to recognize this reality if Republicans hope to retain any semblance of control in Washington, D.C.
00:27:12.000So, Alabama should be a wake-up call to a lot of people.
00:27:15.000By the way, it should also be a wake-up call for Democrats that they need a particular set of voters, particularly Obama voters, if they want to win.
00:28:14.000But this is a wake-up call for Democrats to do better for black people and poor white people.
00:28:19.000Okay, so Charles Barkley letting the Democrats know that black votes are not always on the table for Democrats just because they want them to be.
00:28:27.000So there are some realities that are setting in for both sides.
00:28:29.000If the sides are willing to look at them, I doubt that either side will.
00:28:32.000I think Democrats are going to continue to run radicals in races where they should be running moderates.
00:28:36.000And I think that Republicans are going to continue to run bad candidates just because anti-establishment and all the rest of this, because if people actually learned their lessons, maybe our politics would get better.
00:28:46.000But I highly doubt that that's actually going to happen.
00:28:49.000OK, in other news, there's a massive piece of breaking news that I don't know how Robert Mueller spins this away with regard to his investigation.
00:28:56.000I mean, this is truly an incredible piece of news.
00:28:58.000So there's a series of text messages that were exchanged between top FBI employees referring to presidential candidate Donald Trump as an idiot and a douche, while fearing his potential victory is terrifying.
00:29:08.000This was from Peter Strzok, the guy who was removed in, I believe it was August of this year, from the Russian counterintelligence investigation by the FBI because of his bias.
00:29:19.000He was also involved in initiating the Russian counterintelligence investigation.
00:29:23.000And him calling Trump an idiot or a douche, I don't think any of that makes a difference as far as whether he can do his job or not.
00:29:28.000I think a lot of people have called the president those names, including his own Secretary of State.
00:29:31.000But I don't think that one of these messages is capable of explanation.
00:29:36.000And I think that it's going to be very difficult to explain away why Straszak was involved in this
00:29:42.000In this investigation, to begin with, why he was allowed to initiate this investigation, to begin with, if this stuff was true.
00:29:47.000So, on March 16th, 2016, he texted his paramour, Linda Page, and she texted him, And he wrote back, And then, this is the big one, August 15th, 2016, Strzok tells his girlfriend, Page, quote,
00:30:06.000I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy's office, that'd be Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who has significant connections to Democrats, that there's no way he gets elected, but I'm afraid we can't take that risk.
00:30:17.000It's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you're 40.
00:30:22.000What that sounds very much like is that Strzok and his girlfriend, his mistress, that basically they were initiating investigations into Trump as an insurance policy in case Trump would win.
00:30:33.000Okay, that's much more of a smoking gun than anything I've seen in the Trump investigation to target President Trump.
00:30:39.000According to CNN, as the former number two official in counterintelligence, Strzok helped lead the FBI's investigation of Hillary Clinton's private email server and was involved in opening the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S.
00:30:50.000Page was also briefly on Mueller's team before returning to the FBI, but she completed her detail before the special counsel's office was made aware of the texts.
00:30:58.000So, in other words, two of the people who were involved in key ways in both the Hillary investigation and the Trump investigation were not only biased against Trump, they were openly talking about setting up an insurance policy with the FBI deputy director in case Trump were to be elected.
00:31:11.000I mean, that is shocking, shocking stuff.
00:31:14.000That's the sort of stuff that kills an investigation.
00:31:17.000Yesterday, I was sort of mocking the idea of a special investigation of the special investigation, not mocking it anymore.
00:31:22.000OK, based on that text, it seems to me that there should be some sort of real investigation that goes on into exactly how the special investigation is conducting its business.
00:31:31.000All of this could be setting up Trump to fire the members of Mueller's team or to fire Mueller himself.
00:31:36.000On the basis of this, I can't say that would be completely illegitimate.
00:31:39.000I think it would be a bad political move.
00:31:41.000I think it would be unwise for the president to do that, but it would not be completely illegitimate.
00:31:45.000This does not look like a team that was designed to get to the bottom of things.
00:31:49.000It looks like a team that was designed to dig and dig and dig until they find something that they can use politically against the president of the United States, or at least that's what some people on the team were looking for.
00:31:57.000Now, Mueller got rid of Strzok when he found out about these texts, but the damage is already done.
00:32:00.000In evidence, there's something called, in legal evidence, there's something called Fruit of the Poisonous Tree doctrine.
00:32:05.000The idea is that if I don't have a warrant to search inside your house, and I just break into your house, I'm a cop, I break into your house and I find a murder weapon, that murder weapon is not admissible in court because it's quote-unquote Fruit of the Poisonous Tree.
00:32:16.000I broke the law in order to go into your house, and now I can't admit that evidence in court, even though it would help convict you.
00:32:25.000Even if this investigation were to come up with something, it's difficult to tell whether we came up with it through bias or whether it was come up with through actual investigation.
00:32:33.000And right now, I haven't seen any evidence at all that's been presented that Trump was involved in Russia collusion.
00:32:38.000Apparently, the period that's being focused on now in the investigation is the period after Trump was elected.
00:32:43.000Which doesn't sound like election collusion with the Russians to me.
00:32:46.000This investigation is spiraling out of control.
00:32:48.000I think President Trump knows it, and it's frustrating him, and I think rightly so.
00:32:52.000Also, the media's continual focus on President Trump and trying to nitpick him, it is galling.
00:32:58.00090% of all of the coverage on TV of President Trump has been negative so far.
00:33:01.000That probably contrasts with 90% that was positive so far in Obama's presidency.
00:33:06.000And as evidence of just how bad the media are, I need to talk a little bit about this blow-up that happened with Kirsten Gillibrand yesterday.
00:33:11.000I mentioned it yesterday that President Trump knocked Kirsten Gillibrand, the senator from New York, after Gillibrand suggested that President Trump should step down from his position because of sexual harassment or abuse allegations.
00:33:21.000And Trump tweeted back at her, and he said something like, you know, she would come into your office on her knees to beg for things, right?
00:33:27.000This is a woman who'd do anything to beg.
00:33:30.000Were you offended by the apparent insinuations in the president's tweets this morning?
00:33:51.000It was a sexist smear attempting to silence my voice, and I will not be silenced on this issue.
00:33:57.000Neither will the women who stood up to the President yesterday, and neither will the millions of women who have been marching since the Women's March to stand up against policies they do not agree with.
00:34:06.000And if you'll permit me a follow-up, do you see this as sexual harassment by tweet?
00:34:22.000They may not lose congressional elections, but Kirsten Gillibrand is not going to win against Donald Trump on the basis that this is a sexist smear, because it was not a sexist smear.
00:34:29.000I think that the White House was exactly right when Sarah Huckabee Sanders got mocked yesterday for saying this.
00:34:41.000She said, get your minds out of the gutter.
00:34:42.000Gillibrand owed an apology for the misunderstanding of the president's tweet this morning, because many, including the senator, think that it's about sexual innuendos.
00:34:56.000I think only if your mind is in the gutter would you have read it that way.
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00:37:00.000Okay, so, meanwhile, the Republicans are trying to rush this tax bill through.
00:37:05.000The details on the tax bill are not particularly clear at this point.
00:37:09.000They say that they have a deal, so I guess this thing is going to get passed.
00:37:12.000According to the New York Times, the deal is already on the table.
00:37:16.000The Republicans are going to be making the corporate tax rate 21%, I guess, is the final deal here.
00:37:23.000They say that the details on the deal were not immediately available on Tuesday.
00:37:28.000The Republicans said they were close to agreement on a package that included a cut in the corporate tax rate to 21% from a high of 35% and reducing the top income tax rate for individuals to 37% from 39.6%.
00:38:28.000It may alleviate some financial need for people with kids, which I guess is good, but I don't think the government should be picking and choosing which behaviors to push with tax policy.
00:38:38.000I think there should be basically a flat tax rate without the government trying to make these sorts of considerations.
00:38:43.000The Senate bill narrowly passed 51-49 with Bob Corker voting against the legislation.
00:38:48.000The agreement was finalized Wednesday morning, hours before the first and only scheduled public meeting of the Congressional Conference Committee formed to work out the differences between the House and Senate-passed versions of the bill.
00:38:58.000So, we will see what the final bill looks like.
00:39:01.000It is a bill that moves the ball in the right direction.
00:39:05.000I believe that they are set to keep the removal of the individual mandate in Obamacare, which is good policy because nobody should be forced to buy health insurance.
00:39:14.000It will increase the price of health insurance for sick people in the individual market across the country.
00:39:19.000That's why the Republicans are seeking to backfill that by basically funding all of those health insurance programs directly, which may or may not be good policy.
00:39:28.000Bottom line is it will be a major victory for President Trump.
00:39:30.000President Trump will deserve kudos for it.
00:39:32.000Republicans will deserve kudos for it.
00:39:34.000They need to get another couple of victories under their belt if they really want to succeed in 2018 and not get blown out.
00:39:40.000Okay, time for some things I like, things I hate, and then a quick Bible talk.
00:39:44.000First, I've been doing Beethoven all week.
00:39:46.000So people have heard this music, but they don't know what it is from.
00:39:49.000It is from the Pathetique Sonata, the piano sonata by Beethoven.
00:39:52.000This is the second movement of the Pathetique Sonata by Beethoven.
00:39:57.000I actually prefer the Appassionata to the Pathetique, but if we are doing sort of well-known Beethoven that you don't know what it's from, this is what it is from.
00:40:44.000One of the things about Beethoven that's really fascinating is that he's underrated as a melodic composer because his development sections are so good.
00:40:51.000In classical music, very often classical music is structured like you play a melody and then there's a development section and then there's a recapitulation.
00:40:58.000Meaning that you go back to the melody at the end.
00:41:01.000His development sections are always very complex and very interesting, and very tight, usually, even though he writes much longer music than a lot of other classical composers.
00:41:09.000If you look at a typical Beethoven symphony beyond the third, the Eroica, which really revolutionized symphonies, the first movement of the Eroica is longer than entire Mozart symphonies.
00:41:16.000But his melodic gift is still very much in evidence.
00:41:21.000I won't say that Beethoven's melodies are as memorable as Mozart's, as a general rule.
00:42:18.000I think that if you're going to look to the reasons for people having body dysmorphia and body image issues, it has very little to do with Barbie and a lot more to do with popular advertising and or parental failures.
00:42:30.000Now they've decided to turn Barbie into a social justice warrior.
00:42:33.000So, writer Elizabeth Segrin wrote an article for Fast Company in which she said, Barbie is a doll.
00:43:14.000Because I think that it is better for young girls to be thinking along the lines of eventual marriage to men than it is for them to think that they can marry anyone.
00:43:29.000I don't really have a problem with that.
00:43:31.000What I do have a problem with is the idea that society is going to suggest that all sexual orientations have equal impact on children, or that all children should be taught about a variety of sexual orientations before they even have sexual feelings or are confused about sexual feelings.
00:43:44.000Confusing children is a form of sin in my mind, and adults are fond of doing it, and now they're using children's toys to do it.
00:43:51.000In one pair, in one of these pictures, the pair is sitting cozily in Barbie's walk-in closet, stroking a dog and staring into each other's eyes.
00:43:57.000In another, they're eating avocado toast at their favorite Silver Lake Cafe.
00:44:00.000So, good news, Barbie's now a lesbian, which I'm sure makes more men than women happy, actually.
00:44:06.000In September, a Barbie-style Instagram account featured Barbie wearing a People Are People t-shirt designed by Christian Serrano to protest President Trump's immigration ban.
00:44:14.000So now Barbie's an immigration activist.
00:44:16.000Which, again, it's an inanimate object.
00:44:19.000Why should my three-and-a-half-year-old be taught about immigration policy?
00:44:24.000Protecting children and the innocence of children means protecting them from having to think about issues where they've not been informed about any of the background and they have no capacity to make decent decisions on these things.
00:44:36.000Why we don't allow five-year-olds to vote?
00:44:39.000If the target audience for your product is not capable of making a rational decision about a topic, don't present them the information on the topic.
00:44:47.000Don't present them the illusion that they're capable of making a rational decision about this.
00:44:51.000You're setting a bias in the background.
00:45:33.000And I think this should be of some comfort.
00:45:35.000This is a situation which I've talked about a couple times on the program, in which Isaiah was urging the king of Israel, Hezekiah, not to side with the Egyptians against the Assyrians, to basically allow events to take their course.
00:45:52.000Because you have rejected this message, relied on oppression, depended on deceit, this sin will become for you like a high wall, cracked and bulging, that collapses suddenly in an instant.
00:45:59.000It will break in pieces like pottery, shattered so mercilessly that among its pieces not a fragment will be found for taking coals from a hearth or scooping water out of a cistern.
00:46:08.000This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says, In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it.
00:46:36.000This doesn't mean that God's going to make all your decisions for you.
00:46:39.000What it does mean is that when you hold true to godly values, and what I mean by this is not lying to yourself, not pretending away moral conflicts.
00:46:49.000When you hold true to godly values, no matter what decision you make, when you have that foremost in your mind,
00:46:54.000You are abandoning God when you suggest that you're going to put your faith in men, that you're going to put your faith in bad men, that you think that the only thing that you can do now is a choice between a bad man and another bad man, as opposed to waiting it out.
00:47:08.000We're only going to have a better day in this country when we all realize that there are better people on the horizon so long as we can wait for them.
00:47:13.000And more than that, more importantly than that, that if we abide by the values that God instills in us, if we abide by biblical values in terms of how we treat our fellow man and how we vote for our fellow man, then perhaps God will bring about a better day when the candidates that we vote for are actually worthy of our votes.
00:47:30.000OK, we'll be back here tomorrow with more fallout, I'm sure.