The Ben Shapiro Show - March 25, 2019


The Trumpiest Day | Ep. 744

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00:00:00.000 The Mueller report exonerates President Trump on collusion, lets him off the hook on obstruction, and generally melts down the entire media.
00:00:06.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:00:07.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:08.000 Oh, day of days.
00:00:14.000 It finally arrived over the weekend.
00:00:16.000 The summary from Attorney General Barr about the Mueller Report.
00:00:20.000 We'll get into all of that in just one second.
00:00:22.000 First, let's talk about how you stay fit.
00:00:24.000 So, I'll tell you this.
00:00:26.000 My wife does not have time to go to the gym. 1.00
00:00:28.000 I mean, she's working incredibly long hours because, as you know, she is a doctor. 0.99
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00:02:00.000 OK, so last Friday after my show, the Mueller report essentially broke in the media, at least the top line of the Mueller report broke in the media.
00:02:09.000 No new indictments.
00:02:11.000 And then over the weekend, we found out from Attorney General Barr, William Barr, That not only would there be no indictments, there was no evidence of collusion, and that President Trump was not going to be indicted on obstruction, that there was no clear evidence of obstruction.
00:02:26.000 We're going to get to Barr's report in just one second.
00:02:29.000 But first, I need to remind you where we came from, how we got here, because it's been two long years.
00:02:35.000 I feel like the old lady at the end of Titanic. 0.85
00:02:38.000 It's been 84 years.
00:02:39.000 It's been two long years since we started this whole debacle with the claim that President Trump was in cahoots with the Russians, was working hand in glove with Vladimir Putin in order to skew the results of the 2016 election, that he and his campaign had been working with Putin in order to hack the DNC, reveal the emails, come after Hillary Clinton, and generally destroy electoral democracy in the United States.
00:03:03.000 And this was the constantly repeated refrain.
00:03:05.000 For two years, CNN ran with this.
00:03:08.000 For two years, MSNBC ran with this.
00:03:11.000 For two years, the Washington Post and the New York Times and everybody ran with this.
00:03:16.000 The Democrats made it their talking point.
00:03:18.000 It was their chief talking point that President Trump was not actually the legitimate president of the United States.
00:03:23.000 Instead, he had been installed by Russian fiat.
00:03:25.000 Through nefarious means, Hillary Clinton was the actual real president of the United States. 1.00
00:03:31.000 So here is just a quick montage of some of the members of the media and Democrats claiming that President Trump was guilty of the gravest sort of treason.
00:03:40.000 There are indictments in this president's future.
00:03:44.000 That's a bombshell.
00:03:45.000 The bombshell.
00:03:46.000 This bombshell.
00:03:46.000 Drop the bombshell.
00:03:47.000 Bombshell accusation.
00:03:49.000 Bombshell accusation.
00:03:50.000 And at that point we are in high crimes and misdemeanor and we are in impeachment.
00:03:54.000 Right.
00:03:54.000 This president needs to be impeached.
00:03:57.000 Impeachment is the remedy.
00:03:58.000 I mean the president can't... It's the only remedy.
00:04:01.000 There's outright treason.
00:04:02.000 I mean there is no question.
00:04:04.000 I think he's feeling the noose around his neck.
00:04:06.000 The noose is tightening.
00:04:07.000 And I think they're shocked that the noose is tightening.
00:04:10.000 He may be the first president in quite some time to face the real prospect of jail time.
00:04:14.000 Well, I think they're all going to end up together in prison, and maybe that's a good thing.
00:04:17.000 Okay, that's legitimately virtually every major member of MSNBC and CNN.
00:04:23.000 That was Adam Schiff, of course.
00:04:24.000 You heard Joy Behar at the very end.
00:04:26.000 And this was The Conventional Wisdom.
00:04:29.000 The conventional wisdom was that President Trump was going to do jail time, at the very least he would be impeached, that the evidence would come out.
00:04:34.000 People were going nuts over all of this stuff.
00:04:36.000 I mean, for goodness sake, people were selling votive candles of Robert Mueller online, on Etsy.
00:04:45.000 Like worship candles of Robert Mueller.
00:04:47.000 SNL did an entire number where they say at Christmas time called, all I want for Christmas is you.
00:04:52.000 And it was a picture of Bob Mueller in the background.
00:04:55.000 Bob Mueller was the deus ex machina.
00:04:57.000 Bob Mueller was the apocalypse come to earth.
00:04:59.000 Bob Mueller was final justice come for president Trump.
00:05:03.000 That was their case.
00:05:05.000 This is where they were going.
00:05:06.000 And you had high ranking members of US intelligence.
00:05:09.000 People like John Brennan, the former head of the CIA.
00:05:13.000 Under Obama, who was there while all of this was going on in 2016.
00:05:16.000 You had John Brennan on MSNBC two weeks ago, suggesting that President Trump was headed for jail.
00:05:23.000 Friday is the day that the grand jury indictments come down.
00:05:25.000 And also, this Friday is better than next Friday, because next Friday is the 15th of March, which is the Ides of March.
00:05:32.000 And I don't think Robert Mueller will want to have that dramatic flare of the Ides of March when he is going to be delivering what I think are going to be his indictments, the final indictments, as well as the report that he gives the Attorney General.
00:05:43.000 So if anybody from the Trump family, an extended family, is going to be indicted, it would be in the final act of Mueller's investigation.
00:05:52.000 Okay, so this was John Brennan, okay?
00:05:54.000 Remember, the former head of the CIA.
00:05:56.000 And it was a mess of former intelligence heads saying this sort of stuff.
00:06:00.000 It was Andrew McCabe, the ousted former acting FBI director who was fired for lying to the FBI, you'll recall.
00:06:06.000 He lost his pension because he was lying to the FBI about leaking to the media.
00:06:10.000 And just in the last few weeks, he suggested that President Trump, it was quite possible that President Trump was a Russian asset, an active Russian asset.
00:06:18.000 This is Andrew McCabe.
00:06:19.000 Again, this was the former acting FBI director.
00:06:21.000 These are not low-ranking people.
00:06:23.000 These are the heads of our intelligence agencies.
00:06:25.000 These are our talking heads in the media, the people we are supposed to trust the most.
00:06:30.000 Matt Taibbi, who I generally disagree with over at Rolling Stone.
00:06:33.000 He once wrote one of the worst profiles of Andrew Breitbart ever.
00:06:35.000 He wrote a terrible, terrible eulogy of Andrew after he died.
00:06:37.000 But Matt Taibbi has a piece today talking about how this is the media's WMD.
00:06:43.000 I think that's an understatement.
00:06:45.000 The media humiliated themselves.
00:06:47.000 Our intelligence agencies, at least the leaders of them, people like James Comey, as we'll see, and Andrew McCabe, humiliated themselves.
00:06:54.000 Here's Andrew McCabe explaining that President Trump may indeed have been a Russian asset.
00:06:58.000 I did my job.
00:06:59.000 I stood up to the obligations of my office.
00:07:03.000 When we were presented with facts, we made hard decisions.
00:07:06.000 Decisions that we knew would be tough on the organization, would be tough on us personally.
00:07:11.000 Look what I've gone through as a result of those decisions.
00:07:15.000 But we did them anyway because we were committed to our responsibilities and serving this country.
00:07:20.000 Do you still believe the president could be a Russian asset?
00:07:24.000 I think it's possible.
00:07:25.000 I think that's why we started our investigation, and I'm really anxious to see where Director Mueller concludes that.
00:07:31.000 What the actual F?
00:07:33.000 And I remember when he said this on the air.
00:07:35.000 I played it on the show the next day, and I said to myself, what?
00:07:37.000 I mean, I said it openly.
00:07:38.000 What is he talking about?
00:07:40.000 How exactly is he upholding any standard of intelligence behavior here?
00:07:45.000 Isn't the proper response, I haven't seen any evidence of that?
00:07:49.000 How is it it's possible?
00:07:50.000 Yes, it's possible that he descended from the moon.
00:07:53.000 It's possible that President Trump is actually the minion of the Martian, the little Martian from the Warner Brothers cartoons.
00:07:59.000 There are lots of things that are possible.
00:08:01.000 But it is your job as the former head of the FBI to maintain the integrity of your institution.
00:08:05.000 That's not what any of these people did.
00:08:07.000 And of course, then there were the people who had a vested interest in this.
00:08:10.000 Then there were the Democrats.
00:08:11.000 You have Hillary Clinton, who legitimately said that President Trump guided the Russians.
00:08:15.000 He provided them a roadmap.
00:08:16.000 The Russians never could have figured out something like Facebook without President Trump, who has never used a computer, basically, guiding them around the interwebs. 0.54
00:08:26.000 The Russians, in my opinion, and based on the intel and counter-intel people I've talked to, could not have known how best to weaponize that information unless they had been guided.
00:08:39.000 Guided by Americans. 0.54
00:08:40.000 Guided by Americans and guided by people who had, you know, polling and data information.
00:08:45.000 Who is that?
00:08:45.000 Mitchell-leaning Trump.
00:08:47.000 Yes.
00:08:49.000 Yes, I'm leaning Trump.
00:08:50.000 I think it's pretty hard not to.
00:08:52.000 Oh yeah, of course it was Trump.
00:08:53.000 It was Trump who stole the election from her. 1.00
00:08:54.000 It wasn't that she was a garbage candidate who lost because she ran a garbage campaign to the worst candidate in American history, Donald Trump. 1.00
00:09:02.000 I mean, I know that we've created this magical world in which Trump was this world-beating candidate. 1.00
00:09:07.000 President Trump had a tape released on him a month before the election in which he said that he was grabbing women by the genitals and then he beat Hillary Clinton. 0.91
00:09:15.000 That's how bad a candidate she was. 1.00
00:09:16.000 That's why she lost, not because of the Russkies, and not because President Trump was working with Vladimir Putin hand in glove.
00:09:21.000 And then this has dripped down to legitimately every level of the Democratic Party.
00:09:27.000 This myth-making has dripped down to every, it's become the conventional wisdom.
00:09:30.000 Beto O'Rourke, yesterday, who will jump on any object he could possibly find, And somebody needs to start an account on Twitter called BetoJumpsOnObjects because that's pretty much what he does at this point.
00:09:40.000 He just goes up to tables, he jumps on them, he goes up to small children, he jumps on them.
00:09:44.000 Well yesterday he jumped on an object and then he suggests in front of a crowd that President Trump sought to collude with the Russians beyond the shadow of a doubt.
00:09:52.000 He said this like legitimately about two hours before William Barr dropped his letter.
00:09:57.000 We have a president who, in my opinion, beyond the shadow of a doubt, sought to, however ham-handedly, collude with the Russian government of foreign power to undermine and influence our elections.
00:10:11.000 Okay, so he says all this, and every Democrat has basically echoed this.
00:10:16.000 Maybe President Trump will be impeached on this.
00:10:18.000 Maybe President Trump committed treason.
00:10:20.000 Maybe President Trump was guilty.
00:10:21.000 The entire goal of this was to create a massive shadow over the first couple of years of President Trump's presidency at a very minimum.
00:10:29.000 Time Magazine, you'll recall, ran a full cover in which it showed the White House shading into the Kremlin.
00:10:35.000 So halfway across the Time Magazine cover, the White House suddenly becomes the Kremlin because the Kremlin is owning and operating the White House. 0.61
00:10:42.000 Now, here's the reality.
00:10:43.000 The Kremlin owned and operated the media in the sense that the media did exactly what Vladimir Putin wanted.
00:10:49.000 What Vladimir Putin wanted was to interfere in the election and then have the media Run with whatever narrative they felt was most conducive to their point of view and tear the country apart.
00:10:59.000 And they did it.
00:11:00.000 They did it with ease.
00:11:02.000 Now, here's the thing.
00:11:03.000 It wasn't that hard to avoid this error.
00:11:05.000 Forget about taking a strong stand in favor of the idea that this was all a mockery or that this is all nonsense.
00:11:13.000 There was a very easy position available to everyone, right, left, and center.
00:11:16.000 The easy position was, I don't know.
00:11:18.000 That was the easy position because nobody knew.
00:11:22.000 I didn't know.
00:11:23.000 Mueller may have come down yesterday or Friday.
00:11:26.000 He could have come down with a report that said precisely the reverse.
00:11:28.000 I didn't know.
00:11:29.000 You didn't know.
00:11:30.000 Nobody knew.
00:11:31.000 Now, there were indicators that this report was not going to be a bombshell.
00:11:34.000 There were indicators that there were members of the intelligence community who hated President Trump.
00:11:38.000 There were indicators That nobody had seriously been indicted in the collusion scandal for collusion.
00:11:45.000 They'd been indicted for lying to the FBI.
00:11:47.000 But you didn't even have to leap to the conclusion that this was all some sort of giant setup to simply say, listen, we can wait for the evidence to come out.
00:11:54.000 Bob Mueller has a record as being a good prosecutor and a decent man.
00:11:59.000 And there's no reason to suspect that he is going to come out and destroy President Trump.
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00:13:16.000 Okay, so as I say, it was not difficult to take a reasonable position on this particular issue. - No.
00:13:21.000 Now, I understand President Trump was out there saying that Bob Mueller was corrupt, that the entire investigation was corrupt, that it was a witch hunt and all of the rest.
00:13:28.000 And you didn't have to believe that.
00:13:29.000 You also didn't have to believe that the media, that their narrative, that President Trump was a Russian asset like Kevin Costner in No Way Out.
00:13:36.000 You didn't have to believe that either.
00:13:38.000 You know what you could have said?
00:13:40.000 Why don't we just wait?
00:13:41.000 And then the evidence will come out.
00:13:42.000 Now, not to brag or anything, but this was the only reasonable position in all of this.
00:13:47.000 Okay, the truly reasonable position was, I don't know.
00:13:50.000 I said this to Bill Maher, and Bill Maher couldn't believe it.
00:13:53.000 Do you actually think that Donald Trump colluded with Vladimir Putin?
00:13:56.000 Yes.
00:13:56.000 Do you?
00:13:57.000 You don't?
00:13:57.000 Here's my follow-up.
00:13:58.000 How can you not?
00:14:00.000 Well, I don't think he did it, but his, you know, his son did it.
00:14:03.000 His, his, the people who are, who Mueller is indicting.
00:14:06.000 And when the evidence comes out, I'm happy to go for the indictments.
00:14:08.000 I'm fine with the indictments.
00:14:09.000 Okay, great.
00:14:09.000 Okay, criminal activity is criminal activity.
00:14:11.000 That's fine.
00:14:11.000 But you see what, you see that... I'm not going to attribute to Trump something he didn't do when he's too ignorant to have done it.
00:14:16.000 I'm happy to wait for the Mueller indictments. 0.97
00:14:17.000 If they come down and they target Trump, I'm happy to see him impeached.
00:14:20.000 But I need to see evidence.
00:14:21.000 Where's the evidence?
00:14:22.000 Mueller is the one who matters here.
00:14:24.000 Not Rosenstein.
00:14:24.000 Not Sessions.
00:14:25.000 Mueller's report goes to the Deputy Attorney General.
00:14:28.000 And if Trump puts Scott Baio in that position... 0.81
00:14:33.000 He can just throw it in the trash.
00:14:36.000 And if he throws it in the trash or quashes the Mueller investigation, then yes, impeachment should be on the table.
00:14:42.000 Okay, so I said all of this stuff, and this was a reasonable position that the left could have taken, but instead they decided to get way out over their skis.
00:14:50.000 Trump was definitely a Russian asset.
00:14:51.000 You heard, you heard Bill Maher say that.
00:14:54.000 And on Friday night, he said the same thing.
00:14:55.000 I don't care what the Russian, I don't care what the report says, this is the way it's going to go. 0.97
00:14:59.000 I don't care what the report says, in the end, What matters is that I believe my narrative, and my narrative suggests that President Trump is guilty.
00:15:07.000 Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty.
00:15:08.000 Okay.
00:15:09.000 All of this brings us to the actual Bar Report.
00:15:12.000 So, I'm going to read you the entirety of the Bar Report.
00:15:14.000 Why?
00:15:15.000 Because you should have access to all of the information before us.
00:15:18.000 You shouldn't be reading the media headlines.
00:15:20.000 You shouldn't be listening to any of the pundits.
00:15:23.000 What you should be doing is listening to the actual words of the Bar Report.
00:15:26.000 And I will stop, and I will explain what exactly the Bar Report says, so you know everything.
00:15:30.000 Okay, we are still awaiting the full bar release of as much of the Mueller report as he can, but here is the letter that he sent to the heads of the Judiciary Committee in the Senate and in the House.
00:15:39.000 Dear Chairman Graham, Chairman Nadler, Ranking Member Feinstein, and Ranking Member Collins, As a supplement to the notification provided on Friday, March 22, 2019, I am writing today to advise you of the principal conclusions reached by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III and to inform you about the status of my initial review of the report he has prepared.
00:15:58.000 Section 1, the Special Counsel's Report.
00:16:01.000 On Friday, the Special Counsel submitted to me a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions he has reached, as required by 28 CFR section 600.8c.
00:16:13.000 This report is entitled, Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election.
00:16:18.000 Although my review is ongoing, I believe that it is in the public interest to describe the report and to summarize the principal conclusions reached by the Special Counsel and the results of his investigation.
00:16:28.000 The report explains that the special counsel and his staff thoroughly investigated allegations that members of the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump and others associated with it conspired with the Russian government in its efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S.
00:16:41.000 presidential election or sought to obstruct the related federal investigations.
00:16:46.000 In the report, the special counsel noted that in completing his investigation, he employed 19 lawyers who were assisted by a team of approximately 40 FBI agents, intelligence analysts, forensic accountants, and other professional staff.
00:16:57.000 The special counsel issued more than 2,800 subpoenas, executed nearly 500 search warrants, obtained more than 230 orders for communications records, issued almost 50 orders authorizing use of pen registers, made 13 requests to foreign governments for evidence, and interviewed approximately 500 witnesses.
00:17:13.000 That's pretty damn thorough, guys.
00:17:15.000 So you're hearing, one of the arguments you're hearing from left is, you know what?
00:17:18.000 We need more investigations.
00:17:19.000 We need the House to look into this.
00:17:20.000 The House Judiciary Committee.
00:17:22.000 They can be trusted.
00:17:23.000 Mueller was bought and paid for, guys.
00:17:25.000 Probably this is just William Barr and Trump secretly manipulating behind the scenes.
00:17:31.000 2,800 subpoenas and 500 witnesses.
00:17:34.000 Pretty sure they talked to everybody.
00:17:36.000 The special counsel obtained a number of indictments and convictions of individuals and entities in connection with this investigation, all of which have been publicly disclosed.
00:17:43.000 During the course of his investigation, the special counsel also referred several matters to other offices for further action.
00:17:50.000 The report does not recommend any further indictments, nor did the special counsel obtain any sealed indictments that have yet to be made public.
00:17:56.000 Below, I summarize the principal conclusion set out in the special counsel's report.
00:18:01.000 Drumroll, please.
00:18:02.000 Section 2.
00:18:04.000 Russian interference in the 2016 U.S.
00:18:06.000 presidential election.
00:18:08.000 The Special Counsel's report is divided into two parts, writes William Barr, the Attorney General.
00:18:12.000 The first describes the results of the Special Counsel's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S.
00:18:17.000 presidential election.
00:18:19.000 The report outlines the Russian effort to influence the election and documents crimes committed by persons associated with the Russian government in connection with those efforts.
00:18:27.000 The report further explains that a primary consideration for the special counsel's investigation was whether any Americans, including individuals associated with the Trump campaign, joined the Russian conspiracies to influence the election, which would be a federal crime.
00:18:40.000 The special counsel's investigation did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 US presidential election.
00:18:53.000 Period.
00:18:54.000 End of paragraph.
00:18:56.000 Guys, that's a no on the collusion.
00:19:00.000 That's a clear statement of no.
00:19:03.000 Now, are the media accepting this?
00:19:04.000 No, of course not.
00:19:05.000 The media are suggesting that maybe Barr is shading the results here.
00:19:09.000 Maybe there's something nefarious going on.
00:19:11.000 That's one of my favorite arguments, is that Barr is somehow lying about what Mueller actually turned into him.
00:19:16.000 I will remind you, I will remind you that Robert Mueller Forcefully came out and denounced a Buzzfeed story that lied about what the investigation was going to find.
00:19:24.000 So he is not shy.
00:19:26.000 If it turns out that Barr is lying, we would have known that already.
00:19:29.000 The report continues.
00:19:30.000 As the report states, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.
00:19:40.000 Now, the way that the left is reading this is they're saying that if the investigation did not establish it, then maybe there were some indicators that maybe they were trying or something like that.
00:19:50.000 Okay, here's the reality.
00:19:52.000 If Bob Mueller had been unsure about this conclusion, if he had thought that there was evidence that could have gone either way sufficient to sustain a prosecution, then Bob Mueller would have written that because that is what he wrote about obstruction of justice.
00:20:06.000 That is not what he wrote when it came to Russian collusion.
00:20:09.000 The special counsel's investigation determined that there were two main Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election.
00:20:14.000 The first involved attempts by a Russian organization, the Internet Research Agency, the IRA, to conduct disinformation and social media operations in the United States designed to sow social discord, eventually with the aim of interfering with the election.
00:20:26.000 As noted above, the special counsel did not find that any U.S.
00:20:29.000 person or Trump campaign official or associate conspired or knowingly coordinated with the IRA in its efforts, although the special counsel brought criminal charges against a number of Russian nationals and entities in connection with these activities.
00:20:42.000 The second element involved in the Russian government's efforts to conduct computer hacking operations designed to gather and disseminate information to influence the election.
00:20:49.000 This is the hack on John Podesta and the DNC.
00:20:52.000 The Special Counsel found that Russian government actors successfully hacked into computers and obtained emails from persons affiliated with the Clinton campaign and Democratic Party organizations, and publicly disseminated those materials through various intermediaries, including WikiLeaks.
00:21:06.000 Based on these activities, the Special Counsel brought criminal charges against a number of Russian military officers for conspiring to hack into computers in the United States for purposes of influencing the election.
00:21:16.000 But, as noted above, the Special Counsel did not find that the Trump campaign, or anyone associated with it, Conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in these efforts despite multiple offers from Russian affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign.
00:21:31.000 That presumably would be a reference to the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting.
00:21:35.000 There's a footnote here.
00:21:36.000 It says, In other words, there was no secret deal.
00:21:37.000 No secret deal.
00:21:38.000 Headline number one.
00:21:38.000 Special counsel also considered whether members of the Trump campaign coordinated with Russian election interference activities.
00:21:43.000 The special counsel defined coordination as an agreement tacit or express between the Trump campaign and the Russian government on election interference.
00:21:51.000 In other words, there was no secret deal.
00:21:53.000 No secret deal.
00:21:54.000 Headline number one, no collusion.
00:21:57.000 Just didn't exist.
00:22:00.000 No collusion.
00:22:00.000 Okay.
00:22:01.000 In one second, we're going to get to the second issue.
00:22:03.000 Obstruction of justice.
00:22:04.000 And I'll explain how the media are even now trying to fib about this one because they simply can't accept the L. Take the L, guys.
00:22:11.000 It's pretty obvious what you did here.
00:22:13.000 Hey, in a second we'll get to that.
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00:23:42.000 The report from William Barr continues on obstruction of justice.
00:23:45.000 The report's second part addresses a number of actions by the president, most of which have been the subject of public reporting, that the special counsel investigated as potentially raising obstruction of justice concerns.
00:23:55.000 After making a thorough factual investigation into these matters, the special counsel considered whether to evaluate the conduct under department standards governing prosecution and declination decisions, but ultimately determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment.
00:24:08.000 The special counsel therefore did not draw a conclusion one way or the other as to whether the examined conduct constituted obstruction.
00:24:14.000 So the special counsel did not say we declined to prosecute or he should be prosecuted.
00:24:18.000 Instead, he said, listen, I don't know.
00:24:20.000 I don't know.
00:24:21.000 It's all public.
00:24:22.000 If this is impeachable stuff, go for it.
00:24:23.000 If not, then not.
00:24:24.000 But it's hard to imagine there's an impeachment for obstruction when there's no underlying crime.
00:24:29.000 What exactly would Trump have been trying to obstruct?
00:24:31.000 Again, one of my contentions the entire time is that Bob Mueller was not obstructed by President Trump.
00:24:36.000 James Comey admitted that the investigation was not obstructed by President Trump. 0.95
00:24:40.000 Trump tweeting random crap out there does not constitute obstruction. 0.87
00:24:43.000 We have covered this at length on the show. 0.96
00:24:46.000 Instead, says Barr, for each of the relevant actions investigated, the report sets out evidence on both sides of the question and leaves unresolved what the special counsel views as difficult issues of law and fact concerning whether the president's actions and intent could be viewed as obstruction.
00:25:01.000 The special counsel states that, quote, while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.
00:25:07.000 And this is the line that the media have been focusing in on.
00:25:09.000 Ooh, it doesn't exonerate him.
00:25:11.000 It doesn't exonerate him.
00:25:12.000 So that means that even if he didn't commit a crime, Maybe he's guilty of something.
00:25:17.000 Okay, now here's the reality.
00:25:19.000 We all know what President Trump did here.
00:25:21.000 President Trump put pressure publicly on the Mueller investigation, but behind closed doors, he didn't actually stop anything having to do with the Mueller investigation.
00:25:28.000 Him fulminating on Twitter does not amount to obstruction.
00:25:31.000 Him telling people internally that he'd like to fire Bob Mueller does not amount to obstruction.
00:25:36.000 Him talking about how he'd like this investigation to end.
00:25:39.000 Him talking about how he fired James Comey because he was ticked off with the whole thing.
00:25:43.000 None of that amounts to obstruction.
00:25:45.000 So that is controversial, but it is not controversial from a legal point of view.
00:25:50.000 If Mueller thought that this was an open and shut obstruction case, then he would presumably have recommended charging for obstruction.
00:25:56.000 And a bunch of people on the left saying, well, you can't charge a president with obstruction.
00:25:58.000 That's what he's really saying, that if he weren't president, he'd be charging him with obstruction.
00:26:02.000 That's not what Barr says.
00:26:04.000 What Barr says is that the report does not conclude that the president committed a crime.
00:26:09.000 It doesn't exonerate him because you can't exonerate in a case of sort of public view.
00:26:15.000 What's hilarious about all of this is people saying, well, you know, the president shouldn't be exonerated because obstruction of justice, I mean, that even amounts to the president not wanting to talk to Mueller.
00:26:23.000 No, that's called like a normal legal defense.
00:26:25.000 As a lawyer, the first rule is shut your client up.
00:26:28.000 I've been saying this about Rudy Giuliani since the very beginning. 0.77
00:26:30.000 Dude, get your guy to shut up. 0.95
00:26:33.000 The special counsel's decision to describe the facts of his obstruction investigation without reaching any legal conclusions leaves it to the Attorney General to determine whether the conduct described in the report constitutes a crime.
00:26:43.000 This is the normal way things work.
00:26:44.000 Now, people are saying, oh, well, William Barr stepped in and shut down the possibility of an investigation, shut down the possibility of a charge here.
00:26:52.000 You know why?
00:26:53.000 Because that's the DOJ's job.
00:26:54.000 You know what you're not supposed to do?
00:26:55.000 Is what James Comey did with Hillary Clinton.
00:26:57.000 What he should have done is what Mueller did here.
00:26:59.000 He should have said, here are all the facts.
00:27:01.000 Laying them out.
00:27:02.000 Now it's up to you, Loretta Lynch.
00:27:03.000 And if you want to shut this thing down, then it's on your head.
00:27:05.000 Well, the same thing happened here for Mueller.
00:27:08.000 Over the course of the investigation, the Special Counsel's Office engaged in discussions with certain department officials regarding many of the legal and factual matters at issue in the Special Counsel's obstruction investigation.
00:27:18.000 After reviewing the Special Counsel's final report on these issues, consulting with department officials, including the Office of Legal Counsel, and applying the principles of federal prosecution that guide our charging decisions, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and I have concluded that the evidence developed during the special counsel's investigation is not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction of justice offense.
00:27:38.000 Now remember, this is Rosenstein going along with the sue.
00:27:41.000 President Trump's been ripping on Rosenstein.
00:27:43.000 So is the implication here that both Barr and Rosenstein are compromised?
00:27:46.000 As you'll see, the media say yes.
00:27:49.000 Our determination was made without regard to and is not based on the constitutional considerations that surround the indictment and criminal prosecution of a sitting president.
00:27:56.000 In other words, it has nothing to do with he's the president, so he can't obstruct justice.
00:28:00.000 This is just not obstruction of justice, is what Barr is saying.
00:28:03.000 In making this determination, we noted that the special counsel recognized that the evidence does not establish that the president was involved in an underlying crime related to Russian election interference, so hard to obstruct an investigation into a crime that doesn't exist.
00:28:16.000 And that while not determinative, the absence of such evidence bears upon the President's intent with respect to obstruction.
00:28:21.000 Generally speaking, to obtain and sustain an obstruction conviction, the government would need to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a person acting with corrupt intent—intent is an element of the crime and obstruction—engaged in obstructive conduct with a sufficient nexus to a pending or contemplated proceeding.
00:28:36.000 That is the state of the law.
00:28:38.000 I've described it multiple times on the show.
00:28:40.000 In cataloging the president's actions, many of which took place in public view, the report identifies no actions that, in our judgment, constitute obstructive conduct, had a nexus to a pending or contemplated proceeding, and were done with corrupt intent, each of which, under the department's principles of federal prosecution, guiding charging decisions, would need to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt to establish an obstruction of justice offense. 0.99
00:29:00.000 In other words, President Trump says a lot of crap. 0.98
00:29:02.000 That's the short version. 1.00
00:29:04.000 Trump says a lot of crap. 1.00
00:29:05.000 And because he says a lot of crap, we can't just say he's exonerated on this, but we also are not gonna charge him for saying a lot of crap, because saying a lot of crap, it ain't a crime. 1.00
00:29:14.000 Okay, final section of this report from William Barr. 0.98
00:29:17.000 The status of the department's review.
00:29:19.000 The relevant regulations contemplate that the special counsel's report will be a confidential report to the attorney general.
00:29:24.000 As I have previously stated, however, I am mindful of the public interest in this matter.
00:29:28.000 For that reason, my goal and intent is to release as much of the special counsel's report As I can, consistent with applicable law, regulations, and departmental policies.
00:29:36.000 Based on my discussions with the special counsel and my initial review, it is apparent that the report contains material that is or could be subject to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6E, which imposes restrictions on the use and disclosure of information relating to matters occurring before a grand jury.
00:29:51.000 Rule 6e generally limits disclosure of certain grand jury information in a criminal investigation and prosecution.
00:29:56.000 Disclosure of 6e material beyond the strict limits set forth in the rule is a crime in certain circumstances.
00:30:01.000 In other words, I can't just PDF the whole report and put it online.
00:30:04.000 That's a violation of the basic rules of criminal procedure.
00:30:07.000 This restriction protects the integrity of grand jury proceedings and ensures that the unique and invaluable investigative powers of a grand jury are used strictly for their intended criminal justice function.
00:30:16.000 Given these restrictions, the schedule for processing the report depends in part on how quickly the department can identify the 6E material that by law cannot be made public.
00:30:24.000 I have requested the assistance of the special counsel in identifying all 6E information contained in the report as quickly as possible.
00:30:30.000 In other words, he's going to ask Bob Mueller what he's allowed to reveal.
00:30:33.000 So, again, this is not Barr trying to redact crap he can't redact.
00:30:37.000 Separately, I also must identify any information that could impact other ongoing matters, including those that the special counsel has referred to other offices.
00:30:44.000 As soon as that process is complete, I will be in a position to move forward expeditiously in determining what can be released in light of applicable law, regulations, and departmental policies as I observed in my initial notification.
00:30:55.000 The special counsel regulations provide that the Attorney General may determine that public release of notifications to your respective committees would be in the public interest.
00:31:02.000 I have so determined, and I will disclose this letter to the public after delivering it to you.
00:31:05.000 Sincerely, William Barr, Attorney General.
00:31:07.000 Okay, that's the entirety of the letter.
00:31:09.000 So you have now heard it from beginning to end.
00:31:11.000 So now you can make up your own mind on what the media are telling you about all of this.
00:31:15.000 Suffice it to say, my belief is that the media are deliberately attempting to shade this report because they humiliated themselves.
00:31:22.000 There's not just egg on their face.
00:31:24.000 They went to a chicken farm.
00:31:26.000 They took every egg in the chicken farm.
00:31:28.000 They shattered it over their own head.
00:31:30.000 The egg covers them to the extent that they are now up to their nose in egg.
00:31:35.000 And yet the media are going to continue to pretend that this was all done on the up and up, that they handled this exactly right.
00:31:40.000 We're going to get to President Trump's reaction to all of this in just a second. 0.97
00:31:42.000 Plus, I do want to discuss the blowback that should take place, not just in the media, not just people who should sit down for a while and have a big think on what exactly they did here, but also there should be blowback in terms of, presumably, members of the government, if sufficient evidence can be shown that this was done with bad faith, that it wasn't just stupidity and confirmation bias. 0.99
00:32:02.000 Now, my tendency is to believe That members of the government, like everyone else, is just dumb. 1.00
00:32:06.000 That stupidity governs. 1.00
00:32:08.000 And that everybody who was involved in this thing got caught up in the wave of emotion. 1.00
00:32:13.000 They didn't like President Trump.
00:32:15.000 And then they let that confirmation bias shape the nature of this investigation.
00:32:19.000 Is that criminal?
00:32:20.000 Doubt it.
00:32:21.000 But does it demonstrate once again that our intelligence agents are humans, made up of humans, and subject to the same flaws and failings as other humans?
00:32:29.000 You bet.
00:32:31.000 But here's the deal.
00:32:32.000 The same people who were complaining yesterday about Bob Mueller being a corrupt guy, I don't think you can trust them on these issues either.
00:32:38.000 I mean, Bob Mueller did what he was supposed to do.
00:32:41.000 Here's who you can't trust.
00:32:42.000 The media, who said that it was a foregone conclusion that President Trump was going to jail, and the people who were saying for years that Bob Mueller was a corrupt person who was simply going to get President Trump using the powers of his office.
00:32:54.000 Both of those things have proved not to be true.
00:32:56.000 OK, we're going to get to President Trump's reaction to all this, which was indeed hysterically funny.
00:33:01.000 We'll get to all that in just a second.
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00:34:29.000 So President Trump reacts to all of this.
00:34:31.000 And I have to say, this was the best Trump ever.
00:34:34.000 I mean, this is grade A++ Trump.
00:34:37.000 So yesterday, yesterday morning, I wake up and I notice that President Trump has tweeted, and he hasn't tweeted for a couple of days.
00:34:44.000 And I thought, oh, here we go.
00:34:45.000 What had he tweeted?
00:34:46.000 He tweeted, good morning, have a great day.
00:34:49.000 That's what he tweeted.
00:34:51.000 And the media lost their poop. 0.71
00:34:52.000 They went totally crazy.
00:34:54.000 And you're like, oh, what does this mean? 0.99
00:34:56.000 Well, this means if he's a cruel, evil man, people will die.
00:35:00.000 Cory Booker started running around screaming about how children were going to die. 0.87
00:35:04.000 I mean, it was just great.
00:35:06.000 And everybody's going crazy over him saying, good morning, have a great day.
00:35:09.000 It was just, I mean, that is some high level trollery.
00:35:13.000 It's spectacular.
00:35:15.000 Then later in the day, he tweeted this out.
00:35:17.000 He tweeted, make America great again.
00:35:20.000 He tweeted that out.
00:35:21.000 It was like one minute later.
00:35:22.000 So have a great day and make America great again.
00:35:25.000 Everybody's like, The Krasenstein brothers, their heads are exploding.
00:35:31.000 The Pod Bros, like, oh my god, this is the worst.
00:35:33.000 He said, America's gonna be great, and also have a great day.
00:35:36.000 Obviously nefarious things are afoot.
00:35:39.000 And then later in the day, after the Bar Report drops, he writes, Now technically, he is correct, of course, about no collusion.
00:35:44.000 exoneration.
00:35:45.000 Keep America great.
00:35:46.000 Now, technically, he is correct, of course, about no collusion on no obstruction.
00:35:49.000 He is correct as well.
00:35:51.000 Complete and total exoneration, not totally correct simply because the Mueller report didn't say that they would exonerate on obstruction.
00:35:57.000 But it is very difficult to exonerate on obstruction in a case where the president has publicly talked about how You know, you can't really exonerate on that basis, but you can say not enough material to charge, which is a difference in American law.
00:36:11.000 So President Trump does all that, and then President Trump finally speaks to the press late yesterday afternoon, and he says, you know what?
00:36:17.000 I love America.
00:36:18.000 This place, unbelievable.
00:36:21.000 I just want to tell you that America is the greatest place on earth.
00:36:28.000 The greatest place on earth.
00:36:29.000 Thank you very much.
00:36:32.000 And look, the dude's been put under the knife for two years on this nonsense.
00:36:38.000 Two years.
00:36:39.000 And I know, listen, I know people in the Trump administration who were interviewed by the Mueller folks.
00:36:45.000 I know people who had to have a lawyer up on the basis of this, who were put through long, long hearings on all of this. 0.99
00:36:51.000 And it turned out to be nothing and stupidity for the most part. 1.00
00:36:55.000 And not for the most part, just ultimately just stupidity. 1.00
00:36:58.000 Yes, they get to take a victory lap today. 1.00
00:37:00.000 Now Politico, it's just amazing.
00:37:02.000 Politico responds to this with this headline.
00:37:04.000 You ready?
00:37:04.000 Really?
00:37:05.000 So if I accuse you of being a traitor for two years, and then it turns out that you are not a traitor, the headline's gonna be that you're mad about it?
00:37:10.000 That's the headline?
00:37:10.000 in healing or national unity really so if i accuse you of being a traitor for two years and then it turns out that you are not a traitor the headline is going to be that you're mad about it that's the headline really but president trump wasn't done He said, listen, this is an illegal takedown that failed.
00:37:30.000 Now, here's where we get into the question of what happens next.
00:37:32.000 There's been some talk on the right about we should go after and prosecute people who are members of the FBI.
00:37:37.000 Well, then we have to look at the criminal standards the same way we did for President Trump.
00:37:40.000 Did they commit a crime?
00:37:41.000 Was it a crime for the FBI to get out over its skis?
00:37:44.000 Was it a crime for them to investigate without convicting people for not committing crimes?
00:37:50.000 In other words, was an investigation that was founded on flimsy rumors Is that criminal in and of itself?
00:37:56.000 Should people go to jail for that sort of thing? 0.99
00:37:58.000 Or was it an investigation that was founded on rumors that had to be taken seriously, at least at the time, and then it sort of grew based on the stupidity and confirmation bias of people who didn't like President Trump? 0.99
00:38:09.000 Is any of that criminal? 0.96
00:38:10.000 And if it's not criminal, then maybe this speaks to what kind of power the intelligence agencies should have overall, because they are staffed with human beings.
00:38:17.000 Confirmation bias.
00:38:18.000 Very dangerous drug.
00:38:19.000 And that is particularly true when the government has enormous power.
00:38:21.000 Here's President Trump, though, saying that the investigation was an illegal takedown that failed.
00:38:26.000 It was a complete and total exoneration.
00:38:30.000 It's a shame that our country had to go through this.
00:38:35.000 To be honest, it's a shame that your president has had to go through this before I even got elected it began.
00:38:45.000 Okay, so we will find out whether it was an illegal takedown that failed.
00:38:48.000 He's gonna look at the other side.
00:38:50.000 This was an illegal takedown that failed. - Okay, so we will find out whether it was an illegal takedown that failed.
00:38:58.000 Again, I think it's easy to jump the track here and suggest that what needs to happen now is an investigation into Fusion GPS, that maybe Fusion GPS should be prosecuted for leaking material to the FBI.
00:39:09.000 It's the FBI's job to check out the material.
00:39:11.000 If you make a police report, and that police report is based on evidence that is not put out there necessarily falsely, but is just rumor mongering, it's the police's job to differentiate between false and truthfulness.
00:39:24.000 The people who obviously blew this are the members of the FBI and the members of the media.
00:39:30.000 Yeah, again, I think OPPO research being turned over to the FBI and the DOJ.
00:39:35.000 I'm not sure that's quite the same thing.
00:39:36.000 But again, I'd like to investigate the legal issues and take a look at that before I make a final conclusion.
00:39:40.000 I will withhold judgment.
00:39:41.000 Meanwhile, the leftist reaction to this is absolute disbelief.
00:39:44.000 I mean, legitimate disbelief.
00:39:45.000 They cannot believe they thought for sure this was Robert Mueller was the second coming.
00:39:50.000 He was going to descend from heaven and he was going to tap President Trump on the shoulder and President Trump was going to disappear as though Thanos had snapped his fingers.
00:39:58.000 Do you believe Robert Mueller when he writes that there was no collusion?
00:40:01.000 And the Democrats were having none of it.
00:40:03.000 Here was Sheila Jackson Lee saying that she simply doesn't accept the findings.
00:40:06.000 So, I mean, that's important because obviously we need Sheila Jackson Lee to accept the findings because nothing. 0.98
00:40:11.000 I mean, do you believe Robert Mueller when he writes that there was no collusion?
00:40:17.000 I mean, do you accept that conclusion?
00:40:21.000 I think what I accept is that Robert Mueller did a very thorough job and he has made the assessment that there was no collusion against.
00:40:32.000 Again, that is not a legal term.
00:40:34.000 It's a conspiracy.
00:40:36.000 But his decision was based on a whole number of factors and investigations.
00:40:42.000 And what I am saying is, we in the Judiciary Committee want to review those documents.
00:40:48.000 OK, so this is going to be the Democratic take is we don't believe Barr.
00:40:52.000 Barr is now the obstacle.
00:40:53.000 So Mueller probably said there was collusion, but Barr is the one who shut it down.
00:40:57.000 Now, obviously, that is untrue.
00:40:59.000 Obviously, if Mueller felt that he was being bigfooted here, he would say something about it.
00:41:04.000 He did when BuzzFeed tried to do the same thing.
00:41:05.000 But this is the new going theory.
00:41:07.000 So the Democrats are now shifting the goalposts.
00:41:09.000 The goalposts are now that it is not necessary that he was involved in collusion.
00:41:14.000 Maybe it was obstruction.
00:41:15.000 And also, we're not going to go with the findings of the Mueller report.
00:41:18.000 Now we want to see the underlying materials.
00:41:19.000 So Tom Perez, the head of the DNC, he says the real question is, is he compromised?
00:41:24.000 We know he's not.
00:41:25.000 We just got the report, dude.
00:41:26.000 But I guess they're still going to run with this nonsense.
00:41:29.000 We know, in addition to the fact that the Russians tried to meddle, they did meddle in our investigation, we know that his campaign manager, his deputy campaign manager, his lawyer, Papadopoulos, Stone, all of these people were having contact.
00:41:45.000 And so, the question...
00:41:47.000 For me, that remains is, was he compromised?
00:41:51.000 Why did he say that he believes Putin over the intelligence community?
00:41:54.000 Why did he talk about leaving NATO?
00:41:56.000 Things that put our national security at jeopardy.
00:41:59.000 Why doesn't he release his tax returns?
00:42:02.000 Why were they so hell-bent on getting that Trump Tower in Moscow? 0.75
00:42:07.000 Okay, all of this conspiracy theory garbage is just that. 0.99
00:42:10.000 Conspiracy theory garbage. 0.99
00:42:11.000 You want to know why President Trump said what he said about Vladimir Putin? 0.99
00:42:13.000 Two things.
00:42:14.000 He was offended by the entire Russian investigation.
00:42:16.000 And also, he likes anybody who compliments him.
00:42:18.000 End of story.
00:42:19.000 I've been saying that for legitimately years at this point.
00:42:21.000 This is not a giant secret.
00:42:23.000 But the media are not going to let go of this.
00:42:24.000 The Democrats are not going to let go of this.
00:42:26.000 They're going to suggest that now Mueller must have been compromised or maybe they would have drawn a different conclusion if they saw the underlying materials.
00:42:33.000 Here's Maxine Waters. 1.00
00:42:35.000 Who is just not a smart human being, suggesting on Joy Reid's show that it's not over.
00:42:39.000 It's not over, guys.
00:42:40.000 It's not over.
00:42:41.000 I mean, she's basically doing the routine from Dreamgirls.
00:42:44.000 I'm telling you, I'm not going.
00:42:46.000 No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:42:48.000 They're going to drag her away screaming. 1.00
00:42:49.000 Here is Maxine Waters.
00:42:51.000 This is not the end of anything.
00:42:54.000 This is the, well, it's the end of the report and the investigation by Mueller.
00:42:59.000 But those of us who chair these committees have a responsibility to continue with our oversight because there's so much that needs to be, you know, taken a look at at this point.
00:43:12.000 And so it's not the end of everything.
00:43:15.000 Oh, it's not the end of everything.
00:43:17.000 Oh, good.
00:43:17.000 OK, so I'm glad you guys are going to keep doing this for the next couple of years because you lied to your base.
00:43:21.000 That's the problem here.
00:43:22.000 You guys went over your skis and you lied to your base.
00:43:24.000 You said your base that he was going to leave.
00:43:26.000 He was going to be impeached based on the Russian collusion stuff.
00:43:29.000 They were out there worshiping Mueller.
00:43:32.000 And it turns out that Mueller did not give them what they wanted. 0.64
00:43:34.000 And now Mueller will be thrown in the garbage can.
00:43:36.000 So the leftist reaction again has been that maybe there's a cover up.
00:43:39.000 My favorite, the best response came courtesy of James Comey.
00:43:42.000 You'll recall That self-aggrandizing twerp, Comey, the former head of the FBI, who was just incompetent at his job in every possible way, and then President Trump fired him, and then he suggested without evidence that President Trump was somehow basically responsible for Russian collusion.
00:43:58.000 He took a picture of himself, I kid you not, in the woods.
00:44:02.000 He went to the woods and took a picture of himself, I guess on the moon of Endor, and just staring up into the trees with the caption, so many questions.
00:44:13.000 Yeah, you know what?
00:44:13.000 We do have some questions, James.
00:44:15.000 We do have some questions.
00:44:16.000 Like, why was this investigation initiated in the first place?
00:44:19.000 Was it done so on a solid basis?
00:44:21.000 Was it continued on the basis of new additional evidence that was corroborating?
00:44:25.000 Or was this whole thing basically just a bunch of people who didn't like Trump who decided that they were going to continue an investigation into a nonsense charge from the very beginning?
00:44:34.000 Is that really what was going on here?
00:44:35.000 And we'll find all of that out.
00:44:36.000 We'll find out whether it's criminal.
00:44:38.000 There are going to be questions asked about this, as well there should be.
00:44:40.000 There should be questions asked about this.
00:44:42.000 Are there criminal charges?
00:44:43.000 I say, I don't know.
00:44:44.000 I'll withhold evidence on that.
00:44:45.000 But, come on.
00:44:47.000 Come on.
00:44:48.000 The leftist reaction has been utter hysteria.
00:44:52.000 Joy Reid on MSNBC, she said, well, you know, maybe it's a cover-up.
00:44:55.000 Maybe it's a cover-up.
00:44:56.000 Maybe Barr is just covering it up.
00:44:59.000 The fact that this investigation takes place within the Justice Department, which Donald Trump essentially controls, and that he got rid of the problem, Jeff Sessions, who the one decent thing that he did was just recuse himself.
00:45:10.000 This guy is not recused.
00:45:12.000 It feels like the seeds of a cover-up are here.
00:45:15.000 Oh, without any... You know, more speculation will probably fix it, media.
00:45:18.000 Keep going with this. 0.99
00:45:19.000 More rampant, stupid speculation will probably shore up your reputations now that they are in absolute flames. 1.00
00:45:25.000 You doused yourself in gasoline and lit a match. 1.00
00:45:27.000 That's what you did.
00:45:28.000 My favorite are the tweets from the people in Hollywood, who again, know nothing about politics, and so are more hysterical than anyone.
00:45:35.000 These are the people in the Jim Jones media cult who are legitimately drinking the Kool-Aid.
00:45:40.000 People like Bette Midler, who tweeted this out.
00:45:42.000 Miller's report finds no evidence showing Trump's team collusion with Russia, but stops short of exonerating Trump on obstruction of justice.
00:45:48.000 Knowing Trump, he probably tried to do exactly that.
00:45:50.000 Two more years of chaos, race baiting, grifters, con artists, shame and fear. 0.97
00:45:53.000 Sad.
00:45:55.000 Knowing Trump, he probably tried to do exactly that, really.
00:45:57.000 Do you know Trump?
00:45:58.000 Or were you saying for years that he colluded with the Russians?
00:46:01.000 How about Rob Reiner, whose last good movie was Princess Bride?
00:46:04.000 The fight for our democracy is about to intensify.
00:46:06.000 The GOP cult is lining up behind a criminal autocrat.
00:46:10.000 Is there any implication?
00:46:12.000 Like, where's the criminality here?
00:46:14.000 Have you shown some proof yet?
00:46:15.000 Like, that'd be good.
00:46:16.000 How about some of that?
00:46:17.000 You got John Cryer from Two and a Half Men who is tweeting out, this is why Trump appointed Barack is to cover And then there's George Takei.
00:46:27.000 Oh my! 0.58
00:46:28.000 If William Barr summarized Romeo and Juliet, he'd probably say that Romeo murdered Juliet's cousin, was banished for it, and is now dead.
00:46:34.000 Let's wait to hear the full story.
00:46:35.000 Yeah, it's probably that Barr is just blowing the findings, even though he's gonna release the vast majority of this stuff.
00:46:41.000 The best reaction, though, was reserved for media watchdog Brian Stelter over at CNN.
00:46:46.000 Now, I've been on Brian's show.
00:46:48.000 Seems like a nice guy, but this is crazy stuff.
00:46:50.000 Here's Brian Stelter suggesting, you know what?
00:46:52.000 Maybe we shouldn't have done so much speculation, but speculation has value too, guys.
00:46:56.000 It really does.
00:46:58.000 There is a big difference.
00:46:59.000 There is a big difference between news and opinion.
00:47:02.000 And I realize it can be hard to tune out all the noise and just tune into the news these days.
00:47:08.000 But if I had to pick speculation or solid reporting, I would pick solid reporting in a second.
00:47:12.000 I bet you would too.
00:47:14.000 Reporting is what adds the most value.
00:47:16.000 Finding out something new, putting out new information into the world, is the best feeling in journalism.
00:47:21.000 It's the greatest value add.
00:47:23.000 That's what hundreds of journalists have been doing.
00:47:26.000 Trying to solve pieces of this Trump-Russia puzzle.
00:47:31.000 But here's the thing.
00:47:32.000 Speculation actually has value too.
00:47:34.000 It helps open our eyes, helps open our minds to what's possible.
00:47:38.000 Okay, so speculation helps us.
00:47:40.000 That's what it is.
00:47:41.000 It's just mind expanding, guys.
00:47:42.000 That's all we were trying to do was expand minds.
00:47:43.000 When we were on chyrons for two years about how Trump was lying about Russian collusion, and then Trump would say, no collusion, in parentheses, hasn't been proved.
00:47:54.000 Now I'd like to see CNN run a chyron that says, CNN for two years ran with collusion.
00:47:59.000 It never happened, in parentheses.
00:48:02.000 Man, they humiliated themselves and they deserve every bit of the blowback they are going to get from the American public and from other members of the media.
00:48:10.000 I mean, it's just what a botched job.
00:48:13.000 What a botched job for two years.
00:48:16.000 Full craziness.
00:48:17.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:48:20.000 So, things that I like.
00:48:22.000 There's a movie that was nominated for... Was it nominated for Best Picture?
00:48:25.000 I don't think so.
00:48:25.000 I think it was nominated for Best Screenplay.
00:48:27.000 It won Best Foreign Picture.
00:48:29.000 The movie's called Cold War.
00:48:31.000 It's basically about a love affair in Cold War Poland.
00:48:36.000 It is a good movie.
00:48:38.000 The basic notion of the movie is that there is this guy who is the head of the music program in Poland.
00:48:43.000 He falls in love with one of the women who is part of his act.
00:48:47.000 He defects to the West.
00:48:49.000 She follows him.
00:48:50.000 And then it's about their romance in the middle of the Cold War.
00:48:53.000 The underlying unease with the film, of course, is really not about their relationship.
00:48:58.000 It's about the fact that whenever they're in the West, Their relationship seems to fall apart whenever they are in the East, meaning in Poland, when they're on the other side of the Berlin Wall, then their relationship seems to solidify, but that is simply because of the pressures on them.
00:49:12.000 So it's kind of fascinating that way.
00:49:14.000 Here is a little bit of the preview.
00:49:15.000 It is a foreign language film, so I'm not going to play too much of it.
00:49:18.000 So she's a jazz singer. 0.97
00:49:26.000 He is a jazz arranger.
00:49:28.000 And it is, it's an effective movie.
00:49:32.000 It's an effective film.
00:49:33.000 It has some things to say about the nature of communism, and it also has something to say about the nature of human relationships, and whether a relationship is really solid if it can't maintain itself when there aren't outside pressures on it.
00:49:44.000 Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:49:50.000 So many things that I hate today.
00:49:51.000 Many a thing that I hate.
00:49:52.000 So, thing number one that I hate.
00:49:54.000 In the aftermath of the New Zealand shootings, as we already know, there was a move to ban guns, essentially, in New Zealand.
00:50:01.000 There was going to be a full-scale attempt to seize semi-automatic weapons.
00:50:05.000 But that was not the only violation of freedoms in New Zealand.
00:50:08.000 This is why knee-jerk responses to tragedy are usually a bad idea.
00:50:12.000 According to USA Today, The chief censor of New Zealand.
00:50:15.000 Now, first of all, why do they have a chief censor in New Zealand?
00:50:18.000 Does that seem like a free speech thing to you?
00:50:21.000 How would you like to have a chief censor in the United States?
00:50:25.000 That sound like a good idea or a bad idea?
00:50:28.000 It's funny, I'm not seeing members of the left going, in New Zealand, they can just ban speech.
00:50:32.000 Why can't we do that here?
00:50:33.000 I mean, they take shooting seriously over there.
00:50:35.000 They just ban things.
00:50:36.000 It's so funny, the same people on the left who say, you know, when it comes to the Second Amendment, look at New Zealand, it's just great.
00:50:42.000 They can summarily ban guns.
00:50:43.000 Not seeing the same sort of reaction when it comes to banning speech. 0.99
00:50:46.000 Their chief censor has banned the 74-page manifesto written and released by the evil piece of crap who slaughtered 50 people at two mosques in the city of Christchurch. 0.97
00:50:54.000 The ban was issued on Saturday. 0.76
00:50:55.000 It means that anyone caught with the document on their computer could face up to 10 years in prison.
00:51:03.000 Anyone caught sending it could face 14 years in prison.
00:51:09.000 Now, I've encouraged people not to read the manifesto because I don't think that this guy's evil ideas should spread.
00:51:14.000 And I've encouraged people not to use his name.
00:51:16.000 Do I think somebody should go to jail for 10 years for having the document on their computer?
00:51:21.000 I mean, hell, I've got the document on my computer because I had to read it to cover it for the show.
00:51:24.000 I have the document on my computer because I had to actually read it so that I knew what exactly the media were saying about it and whether it was true or not.
00:51:32.000 10 years in prison for having a document on your computer?
00:51:36.000 How in the world is that a proper response to an act of evil?
00:51:41.000 Amazing, amazing stuff.
00:51:43.000 I mean, my goodness.
00:51:44.000 Turns out the same people who want to ban guns in some cases are fine with banning speech.
00:51:47.000 That is insane.
00:51:49.000 That is insane.
00:51:50.000 It's an evil manifesto filled with evil.
00:51:52.000 Should you ban it?
00:51:53.000 Of course you shouldn't ban it.
00:51:54.000 That's crazy.
00:51:56.000 Okay, other things that I hate.
00:51:57.000 So, I would just like to point out that our moral betters in Hollywood are not actually our moral betters. 0.99
00:52:02.000 A lot of them are kind of garbage people. 0.99
00:52:04.000 One of these garbage people is Barbra Streisand. 1.00
00:52:07.000 So, Barbra Streisand was talking with a British newspaper, The Times of London, and she was asked about Wade Robeson and James Safechuck, who are the two main subjects of the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland about Michael Jackson allegedly molesting children. 0.98
00:52:23.000 She said, quote, that they were thrilled to be there as children, and whatever happened to them, quote-unquote, didn't kill them.
00:52:29.000 She said she believes the victim's claims, but felt bad for both them and Jackson, adding, quote, that Jackson's sexual needs were his sexual needs, and that the blame should lie with the boys' parents.
00:52:39.000 Now, I do not disagree that the boys' parents carry a hell of a lot of blame, but what the actual... Really?
00:52:48.000 That they were happy to be there?
00:52:50.000 They were thrilled to be there, and his sexual needs were his sexual needs?
00:52:54.000 Now, she was good friends with Michael Jackson.
00:52:56.000 This just goes to show you, once again, confirmation bias.
00:52:59.000 Wow, what a hell of a drug.
00:53:00.000 You start to just... You start to basically slough off actual child molestation.
00:53:07.000 She said, you can say molested, but those children, as you heard, they were thrilled to be there.
00:53:11.000 They both married, they both have children, so it didn't kill them.
00:53:15.000 She said, I feel bad for the children, I feel bad for him, I guess, I blame the parents who would allow their children to sleep with him.
00:53:21.000 Why would Michael need those little children dressed like him and in the shoes and in the dancing and the hats?
00:53:25.000 Man, how she continues to have a job after that. 1.00
00:53:28.000 Now, as I've said, I'm not in favor of people losing their jobs for old things they say, old things that they say, but if you're buying a Barbra Streisand album after she says something like that, I gotta say, I'm not sure what's going through your head.
00:53:42.000 Pretty wild.
00:53:42.000 But don't worry, the people in Hollywood, those are the people who should trust with deciding our morals.
00:53:47.000 These are the folks who we really, I think, ought to lean on heavily when it comes to making our moral decisions.
00:53:53.000 Final thing that I hate.
00:53:54.000 So, Ilhan Omar.
00:53:56.000 spoke at a CARE event, an event sponsored by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror trial.
00:54:03.000 And at this event, again sponsored by a group that has connections to terrorism, she suggested that she didn't care about the pro-Israel protesters outside.
00:54:12.000 She didn't care what they had to say.
00:54:13.000 What they really had to say is stop being an anti-Semite.
00:54:15.000 Of course she doesn't care what they have to say because she's an anti-Semite. 1.00
00:54:18.000 I know, I know many of them drove miles to get here.
00:54:25.000 Spent a lot of energy and resources and money to purchase the signs that they have.
00:54:32.000 But I don't think any of them realize that people like myself and many of the people in this room can care less about what they have to say.
00:54:45.000 Yeah, we know that.
00:54:46.000 We know you don't care.
00:54:47.000 When it comes to anti-Semitism, you don't care. 0.97
00:54:49.000 And the Democratic Party went along with that.
00:54:51.000 So that is not a shock in any way, shape or form.
00:54:53.000 OK, well, normally we'd be back for two hours later today.
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00:55:50.000 Well, Robert Mueller and Donald Trump agree, there is no collusion.
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