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00:00:00.000The White House Correspondents Dinner goes off the rails, Joy Reid apologizes, sort of, and Kanye meets with Candace Owen, Charlie Kirk, and issues a new rap about Trump.
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00:00:35.000With everything, we're going to get to all of this, all of the news, because there's a lot of news and all of it is intensely stupid.
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00:00:46.000So, earlier this month, the agency director over at FEMA said FEMA is not a first responder.
00:02:06.000It has been for probably 10 years running.
00:02:08.000I say that it's just ridiculous to have all of these journalists sitting there in tuxes, feeding each other and talking about how wonderful they are, and then patting each other on the back.
00:02:18.000There's one event every year that is made to order to make Americans feel as though they are out of the loop and scorned by the media elite.
00:02:24.000It is the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
00:02:26.000We were actually invited to the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
00:02:39.000cocktail parties, this is exactly the sort of thing they are talking about.
00:02:43.000Everything was going sort of as planned, as per the usual arrangement at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
00:02:47.000A bunch of rich people, famous people, patting each other on the back and talking about how wonderful they are and making some sort of light jokes about one another.
00:03:27.000And we're not going to play for you this 19-minute monologue, because I watched it, and it probably took four years off my life, just in terms of sheer boredom.
00:03:34.000And I was just watching it, and I could feel my hair turning gray.
00:03:37.000It was like the end of Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail.
00:03:41.000It was like I'd drunk from the wrong cup.
00:03:43.000By the end of the monologue, I'd added several gray hairs and several wrinkles to my forehead.
00:03:47.000But Michelle Wolf did this monologue, and it's been much ballyhooed.
00:03:51.000People on the left, many of them defending it, some people on the left,
00:04:21.000Seth Meyers and crew were making these—it was great.
00:04:24.000I mean, if you're a Republican president, you could be attacked when you were the president, like Bush, or you could be attacked when you were not the president, like Bush, when Obama was president.
00:04:31.000So the White House Correspondence Center has always become a roast of the right, which of course has justified the right-wing's hatred of the media.
00:04:37.000One of the great lies the media have put out over the past several years is that President Trump is the one who ginned up all of this dislike of the media.
00:07:24.000You're not allowed to attack Sarah Huckabee Sanders on these grounds because, presumably, there was some sort of covert joke there about Aunt Lydia being played by a not very attractive woman in the series, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders looks like that woman.
00:07:35.000Again, I'm not hearing the evidence that Sarah Huckabee Sanders was ripped on account of her looks.
00:07:39.000I am hearing a lot of very mean and stupid jokes about Sarah Huckabee Sanders, but I'm not sure that it's that much wildly beyond the pale of anything else Michelle Wolf said.
00:07:47.000Like, for example, I think her rip on Mike Pence was just as bad as her rip on Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
00:07:51.000Here's what she said about Mike Pence.
00:07:53.000A lot of people want Trump to be impeached.
00:08:24.000In any case, you know, again, making the Handmaid's Tale reference about Mike Pence, she would do that several times throughout the evening.
00:08:31.000And it's just, you know, again, I think bad comedy.
00:08:34.000I don't think this is wildly egregious.
00:08:36.000Here's what I do think was wildly egregious.
00:08:37.000So here is the point where she is demonstrative of what the left thinks, right?
00:08:40.000You can hear the entire crowd laughing at all of this, laughing along.
00:08:47.000And everybody in the audience who's laughing, understand that you just undermined your credibility for the next 10 years with the entire right-wing audience.
00:08:54.000You guys are trying to prove that Trump hates the media because he's disrespectful of the truth?
00:08:59.000Well, you guys are disrespectful of a very basic truth.
00:09:22.000But here's the joke that got a laugh from some members of the media that just demonstrates full scale where the media's heads are at, the level of bias in the media.
00:11:22.000Now, there was one joke that did fall flat for Michelle Wolf among the people in the audience, and that was her rip on the media.
00:11:27.000So in just a second, I'm going to play that for you, because this actually was the one point in her little monologue that I thought was worthwhile.
00:11:34.000And then we'll get to all the reactions to this and the demonstration that the media, in all of their quote-unquote unbiased glory, or anything but unbiased,
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00:12:50.000Okay, so, finally, Michelle Wolf tells a joke that the media don't like.
00:13:00.000So the media liked the jokes about Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
00:13:02.000They liked a bunch of jokes about Mike Pence.
00:13:04.000She did a really ridiculous routine where she just talked about how Trump is not all that wealthy, which I think is probably true.
00:13:10.000I don't think Trump is as wealthy as he says he is.
00:13:13.000She actually started telling a series of jokes saying, Donald Trump isn't as wealthy as he thinks he is.
00:13:18.000He's so poor that, and then she'd have the audience say, how poor is he?
00:13:21.000And then she'd give a little joke at the end.
00:13:24.000In any case, here was the only thing the media did not laugh at, her rip at the media, which is the only true thing she said the entire night.
00:13:29.000So here's Michelle Wolf again at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
00:13:53.000Okay, but then she went on to rip into the media.
00:13:55.000She suggested that the media had made a bunch of money off of Trump and that they had promoted him for their own pocketbook, which I think is certainly true.
00:14:02.000Jeff Zucker has essentially said as much, Les Moonves at CBS said as much.
00:14:53.000I think that there is something weird about the White House complaining about people being gross and disrespectful when President Trump spent the entire 2016 campaign ripping into every one of his opponents as ugly and stupid.
00:15:03.000But in any case, here is Ed Henry talking about it.
00:15:05.000What happened to Sarah Sanders last night was disgusting, and I say that as a former president of the White House Correspondent Association.
00:15:12.000By the briefing tomorrow, I hope that the White House Correspondent Association, which I am a card-carrying paid member of still, you guys should put out at least a statement, an apology to Sarah Sanders, who you work with professionally to go after her physical appearance, to say some of the things that happened.
00:15:28.000It obviously is so far beyond the line that I hope and pray the association apologizes to Sarah Sanders.
00:15:33.000So, again, I'm going to try and be fair-minded about this.
00:15:35.000I don't think that Sarah Huckabee Sanders' physical appearance was clearly attacked.
00:15:39.000I think that everyone took all of the lines as an attack on her physical appearance, but I'm not sure that that's actually what happened.
00:15:44.000I think there are a lot of awful things Michelle Wolf said that are just as bad and worse about other people.
00:15:50.000But we're going to talk about the media's response to all of this in just a second.
00:15:53.000Because, as I say, the White House responding by claiming offense, I think, is a little bit snowflakey.
00:15:58.000But I think that the media's response, by the same token, is just as snowflakey in a different way.
00:16:05.000So, the way that the left responded to the White House criticizing Michelle Wolfe was by saying Michelle Wolfe was some sort of great hero.
00:16:11.000There's a whole article over at Vulture.com talking about how Michelle Wolfe spoke truth to power.
00:16:15.000Michelle Wolfe did not speak truth to power.
00:16:18.000Michelle Wolfe just made herself a quick buck.
00:16:21.000Stephen Colbert made his name at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in 2005 when he went out of his way to bash President Bush, and now the dude has David Letterman's show.
00:16:29.000And so she knows that 10 years from now, she's going to be sitting pretty on some late night show because she had this speak-truth-to-power moment.
00:16:35.000So the person who took the least risk in the room, actually, was Michelle Wolf, because we're all talking about Michelle Wolf on Monday.
00:16:42.000But speaking of hypocrites, again, I think it's hypocrisy for the White House to complain about people being mean to Trump and his associates.
00:16:49.000Trump himself has been quite mean about an enormous number of people.
00:16:52.000He called Ted Cruz's wife ugly in the middle of the campaign.
00:16:55.000He said that Megyn Kelly was bleeding from her whatever.
00:16:58.000We don't have to go through the entire campaign again, but the thing about President Trump that I think is interesting is that the guy can give it, but he can also take it, right?
00:17:06.000When Trump gets hit with a lot of these insults, he sort of smiles and he takes it.
00:17:10.000Well, I think the White House should probably do the same here, but here's what the media can't do.
00:17:13.000The media demonstrates hypocrisy of its own when they don't condemn Michelle Wolf.
00:17:17.000Because they say it's terrible what Trump says.
00:17:18.000Okay, well, if it's terrible what Trump says, you don't get to do it back to him, do you?
00:17:23.000You don't get to say Trump is awful for saying all of these things, but Michelle Wolf is so brave for saying all of these same sorts of things about members of the Trump administration.
00:17:31.000Well, Donna Brazile, the former head of the DNC, that's exactly what she does.
00:17:34.000She defends Michelle Wolf, and she says, well, listen, it's okay for Michelle Wolf to do it, because obviously Trump says gross things, too.
00:18:20.000Kathy Griffin, of course, who traffics in exactly this sort of nonsense, she said the same thing.
00:18:24.000She tweeted out, quote, I have some thoughts on Michelle Wolf's act and the reaction to it from members of the press and other DC insiders.
00:18:30.000For the record, I was in the room last night.
00:18:44.000The question is whether they're good at their job.
00:18:45.000Anyway, Kathy Griffin continues, you know, a woman famous for holding up a severed head model of President Trump.
00:18:51.000The calls for the White House Correspondents Association, Michelle Wolf, to apologize are absurd.
00:18:55.000They're coming from reporters and many Trumpers.
00:18:57.000Trump himself has famously never apologized because he thinks it makes him look weak.
00:19:01.000And then she concludes by saying, so journalists are willing to demand that a comic hired to roast people apologize, but they aren't willing to demand that Trump or his staff apologize to people?
00:19:17.000So your excuse is that now the left gets to do it as well?
00:19:20.000This is why I don't like the whataboutitism tack on this sort of thing.
00:19:24.000Because eventually, you just end up in the pit.
00:19:26.000Eventually, everybody's just slapping each other in the mud.
00:19:29.000And then if you say, well, that's gross, they say, well, yeah, but you do it too.
00:19:32.000Well, the media, what's funny about this is the media has finally picked up on the fact that they actually have to be above the fray here.
00:19:37.000And so five years ago, they probably would have been okay with this sort of thing.
00:19:40.000But because Trump has been so harsh on the media, because he's gone after them for all of their fake news nonsense, even the media was forced to disassociate from Michelle Wolf's routine, even the ones who were laughing at it in the room.
00:19:51.000She said, listen, Sarah Huckabee Sanders was grossly insulted and deserves an apology.
00:19:55.000She says, apology is owed to press secretary and others grossly insulted New York Michelle Wolf at White House Correspondents Association dinner, which started with uplifting heartfelt speech by Margaret Taleb, comedian who was worse since Imus insulted Clinton.
00:20:08.000Okay, and then Mika Brzezinski did the same thing.
00:20:10.000She also defended Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
00:20:12.000She says, So, folks on the left are obviously aware of the double standard that they have set up for themselves if they were to greenlight what Michelle Wolf is doing.
00:20:50.000But the idea that this is some sort of big national story, the only person who makes off like a bandit in this whole situation is the grossest person in the room, Michelle Wolf.
00:20:56.000And again, the grossest thing she said was not about a politician.
00:20:59.000It was about human babies in the womb, whom she said ought to be killed anytime you feel like it, because some men's mistresses have paid for abortions.
00:22:20.000As if the media hadn't reacted badly enough at the White House Correspondents Association dinner, then there are some pretty great examples of media bias over the weekend that are just astonishing.
00:22:29.000And once again, I repeat, we hated the media before Trump.
00:22:33.000Let's not pretend this is about Trump.
00:22:43.000One of the reasons we think they're a dumpster fire is stuff like this.
00:22:45.000So Joy Reid over at MSNBC, she's a commentator over there, and Joy Reid, it came out in the last couple of weeks, had a bunch of old posts on her blog that were quote-unquote homophobic or Islamophobic.
00:22:55.000The ones that I saw, maybe there's some other ones I haven't seen, seemed
00:24:18.000I've had to issue apologies just like that in the past.
00:24:21.000Because I've done things that are wrong, and I've apologized for them, which is what good people do.
00:24:24.000What I didn't say was, I genuinely never belie- It was a magic fairy that came down from the sky, like in Pinocchio, and wrote that stuff on my blog about how I don't like watching two dudes kiss in Brokeback Mountain, which is what she had on her blog.
00:24:37.000The entire left said that this was a great apology.
00:24:43.000Now, do you recall, like, a month ago, one month ago, when Laura Ingraham apologized publicly for making fun of David Hogg, saying that he was whiny about his college admissions?
00:25:46.00060 women in the industry signed a letter trying to defend Tom Brokaw.
00:25:51.000Hey, Rachel Maddow, Andrea Mitchell, Maria Shriver,
00:25:54.000They're among a group of 65 women in the U.S.
00:25:56.000television industry who circulated a letter in support of Tom Brokaw.
00:26:00.000Kelly O'Donnell, Anne Thompson, Kristen Welker also put their names to the group letter, in which the women say Brokaw, 78, has treated all of them with fairness and respect, giving them opportunities for advancement and championing successes in their careers.
00:26:11.000Brokaw, the letter says, is a man of tremendous decency and integrity.
00:26:14.000The letter was first reported in The Hollywood Reporter and confirmed by the AP.
00:26:19.000Brokaw said that Linda Vester failed in her pursuit of stardom and was given media space to vent her grievances.
00:26:24.000Vester said that Brokaw groped her and tried to forcibly kiss her in the 1990s.
00:26:28.000Brokaw wrote that he was angry, hurt, and unmoored from what I thought I would be the final passage of my life and career.
00:26:42.000And yet here are all these female icons.
00:26:44.000Rachel Maddow, Andrea Mitchell, Maria Shriver signing a letter saying Tom Brokaw's a good guy and we don't believe Linda Vester.
00:26:51.000So, unless you have some evidence to disbelieve Linda Vester, why does this help?
00:26:55.000Harvey Weinstein, you'll recall, actually tried to do this in the early days of the Harvey Weinstein scandal.
00:26:59.000He got a bunch of women who were friendly with Harvey Weinstein to come forward and say, well, Harvey's actually a good guy, right?
00:27:04.000I mean, he's actually given me a lot of opportunities.
00:27:06.000You saw the same thing with, there have been a bunch of media figures who have done the same thing.
00:27:10.000Well, let's just point out that if Tom Brokaw were a right-wing media figure, and that right-wing media figure had a bunch of people sign a letter saying, no, no, no, this is all nonsense, everyone would say, wait a second, how does Maria Shriver know what happened to Linda Vester?
00:27:21.000How does Andrea Mitchell know what happened to Linda Vester?
00:27:23.000But, again, Tom Brokaw is going to get off because a bunch of people on the left say that it's okay for him to get off.
00:27:33.000So, my friend Jordan Peterson, who has become something of a phenomenon, obviously, over the past several months, and who is now a best-selling author, has been for weeks and weeks and weeks.
00:27:41.000Now, NBC News on 60 Minutes did an absolute hit job on Jordan Peterson.
00:27:47.000They apparently did a 90-minute interview with Jordan.
00:27:49.000Jordan is not only not alt-right, Jordan has forcibly condemned the alt-right in no uncertain terms over and over and over.
00:28:01.000He takes direct aim at the far left and its effects on young men, whom he says have been hurt by a society that overvalues political correctness and pushes them away from traditional male roles.
00:28:12.000His new self-help book, 12 Rules for Life, is already a bestseller.
00:28:17.000Hundreds of thousands subscribe to his online lectures, his speeches regularly attract protests, and his new speaking tour is selling out.
00:28:26.000It feels like a movement, and I'm excited to be a part of it.
00:28:29.000I think he's dangerous because of the sorts of people that he enables.
00:28:32.000Journalist John Semley has criticized Peterson.
00:28:34.000Is there an ideological similarity between Jordan Peterson and Donald Trump and his followers?
00:28:41.000They both believe in this basic split of winners and losers, of hierarchies, of hierarchies being natural.
00:28:47.000Peterson doesn't apologize for his mostly male audience and tells them not to apologize for their privilege, describing himself as a kind of father figure.
00:28:54.000Get your bloody act together, but I'm on your side.
00:28:58.000Using psychology, religion, and biology to justify the same inequality the left opposes.
00:29:03.000What you're saying, it just sounds a bit grim, doesn't it?
00:29:27.000Have you read, like, anything by Jordan Peterson?
00:29:29.000Have you ever listened to anything by Jordan Peterson?
00:29:30.000Okay, what Jordan says is that before you declare that inequality is therefore inequitable, you have to determine whether there are natural hierarchies in achievement.
00:29:39.000Okay, what he says is there are certain people who achieve more and certain people who achieve less.
00:29:43.000The question is whether they violated someone else's rights in achieving more or less.
00:29:47.000And if not, then inequality exists, but that doesn't mean some inequity has happened, right?
00:29:58.000And then they wonder why we don't trust them?
00:30:00.000And then they wonder why it is that we think that they are completely full of crap in the media?
00:30:04.000Because they do 90-minute interviews with Jordan Peterson, and then they release 30 seconds of Jordan Peterson talking, and 90 seconds of one of his critics talking about how terrible he is, and how he's just like Donald Trump.
00:30:16.000Jordan Peterson is just like Donald Trump.
00:30:17.000The dude was an associate professor of psychology at Harvard University.
00:30:22.000He wrote a 500-page book on the deep maps of meaning undergirding philosophy and myth, not only in Western civilization, but in comparative religion across the world.
00:30:38.000And then again, the only reason that we hate the media, though, is apparently because we're all rubes, and Donald Trump suckered us into it.
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00:33:18.000If I did not make clear last week, I think all of this is ridiculous and stupid.
00:33:21.000I think that what Kanye is doing insofar as he is speaking up on behalf of individualism is a good thing, but I think that the worship of celebrity in general is hilarious and stupid.
00:33:29.000I think the worship of Kanye in specific is really stupid, but
00:33:34.000Kanye is doing something that I think is deeply necessary because the closed-mindedness of the left is so crazy, they're calling Jordan Peterson an alt-right-nic, and they are suggesting that Joy Reid gave a good apology the other day.
00:33:47.000They've closed the window of acceptable discourse so tightly that anyone who is even slightly outside that window of acceptable discourse now must be banned.
00:33:55.000So Kanye West came out last week, of course, in The Greatest Story in Human History, and suggested that not all black folks have to vote Democrat.
00:34:03.000Chance the Rapper, by the way, tweeted the same thing and then backed off of it.
00:34:06.000Then Chance the Rapper said, I understand.
00:34:08.000It's true that not all black people have to vote Democrat, but I shouldn't be saying that at this important time when Trump is president, which is like, what the hell?
00:34:18.000If you're going to say that black people don't have to vote Democrat, that is true.
00:34:21.000No matter who is the president, you can say, I don't like Trump, but black people don't have to vote Democrat.
00:34:25.000This is true, but in any case, Kanye made a big splash when he said that he's thinking for himself now, and then obviously meeting with Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk is just more evidence that he is thinking for himself.
00:34:35.000It's pretty fascinating and hilarious.
00:34:36.000Well, now President Trump is touting Kanye, so he did a speech on Saturday night combating the White House Correspondents Association dinner, and here is President Trump louting Kanye West.
00:34:46.000And by the way, in all fairness, Kanye West gets it.
00:36:02.000I mean, this is something that we've tried to do at The Daily Wire.
00:36:04.000Like, we used to have John Nolte right over here.
00:36:06.000John Nolte is a very, very pro-Trump guy.
00:36:08.000And I disagreed with him about a lot of things.
00:36:09.000But what I said is, listen, it's a point of view I think is worth clarifying.
00:36:13.000And in our conflict, you can see the clarification.
00:36:16.000So Kanye is actually hosting a debate here.
00:36:18.000Kanye is saying, come on into my house, and we're going to have a rap battle with each other about an issue that matters, which is kind of a cool thing.
00:36:25.000I will acknowledge this is kind of a neat thing.
00:36:26.000Now, I think the song sucks, but I'm no connoisseur of rap.
00:36:29.000I think all rap songs suck, basically.
00:38:10.000Like, this is an actual good use of rap for opening up minds and opening up debate.
00:38:16.000And again, it's not just about him saying that he likes Trump.
00:38:17.000It's about actually opening up a debate, which is really kind of a neat thing.
00:38:20.000So in just a second, I want to talk a little bit about a more serious topic.
00:38:26.000But first, I need to finish up this Kanye stuff.
00:38:28.000So Kanye, for people, I think you can, let's put it this way.
00:38:32.000You can appreciate what Kanye did in that song and what he's been doing by saying to black folks, think for yourself, have individual ideas, stop thinking about identity, stop thinking about group identity.
00:38:42.000Don't think of yourself as black guy and therefore you have to have this opinion.
00:38:45.000Think of yourself as your name here and now you have to have any opinion that you want to have.
00:38:50.000And that's a really good thing that Kanye has just done.
00:38:53.000It is also incumbent on people on the right to recognize that just because Kanye is doing a good thing doesn't mean he's right-wing.
00:38:57.000Kanye is not a conservative and as pure demonstration of this, Kanye tweeted out this the other day.
00:39:03.000He tweeted out that his hero is Emma Gonzalez.
00:39:06.000And Emma Gonzalez is, of course, the Parkland survivor who has made a big issue of saying that everyone who disagrees with her is a bad person, just like a lot of the other Parkland survivors.
00:39:27.000And again, I'm glad that he's opening his mind up, and I'm glad he's encouraging other people to do this.
00:39:30.000This is a direct result, by the way, of the left's incapacity to let people think for themselves.
00:39:35.000What's happening right now is that the left is so intolerant that even people who were purportedly on the left before are saying, you know, I can't deal with these people.
00:40:53.000What happened to the cultural appropriation, Jeremy?
00:40:56.000But the left is so insane that they're deeply worried about a white girl wearing a Chinese dress because it's beautiful, not meant in any way to disparage Chinese people.
00:41:05.000There's a difference between somebody walking around in blackface, which is disparaging, inherently disparaging, and mocking black people, and somebody who is spending their day
00:41:40.000There's also a story today about, I'm not kidding you, a vegan who's ripping on another vegan because this vegan had given non-vegan ice cream to a child.
00:41:51.000Okay, this is how intolerant and crazy the left is.
00:41:54.000There's a woman named Avocado Ho, okay, pulled up to my driveway to find a little girl crying.
00:41:59.000She didn't have money for the ice cream van like her friends did, so I gave her enough money to get herself a nice big ice cream with sauce, sprinkles, and a flake.
00:42:06.000She was so happy and soon had ice cream around her mouth.
00:42:11.000Dagger read the tweet above and then decided to private message his fellow vegan to chastise her.
00:42:16.000And when somebody said, lighten the f up, he posted the private messages to Twitter to call her out.
00:42:20.000So Anthony Dagger wrote, I usually do not do this, but I feel like this is appropriate to post since this person is claiming to be a vegan, even though she admitted to buying non-vegan ice cream for someone else, defended what she did when I spoke with her privately, hoping that would make her less likely.
00:42:34.000To be defensive, though I should have not had to worry about that, even though I was respectful and blocked me rather than admitting I was right and that she should not have bought the non-vegan ice cream for that child.
00:42:42.000Okay, so I guess that it's cultural appropriation, some sort of evil, for a vegan to buy a non-vegan child ice cream.
00:42:50.000If I saw a poor kid on the street, I would give that kid money to buy food, regardless of whether that kid bought kosher food, because I'm not an idiot.
00:42:57.000Okay, but the left is so intolerant that even if you buy food for children, you buy food for a child, it has to be vegan.
00:43:02.000It has to be SJW-approved food for the child, or you have somehow violated the compact of nations.
00:43:08.000And then they wonder why people like Kanye are looking at scams and saying, uh, guys, I can't hang out with you anymore.
00:43:16.000Meanwhile, in major world news, North Korea continues to be in the news.
00:43:21.000There's this peace summit that's been going on with Kim Jong-un arriving in South Korea, and they've been having peace talks, and the South Korean prime minister, or president, he's come out and he's said that they are in the midst of peace talks that are going to unify the Korean peninsula.
00:43:35.000Now, there is a piece of information I'd like to add to this talk, and that is that while Kim Jong-un says that he is going to dismantle his nuclear sites, the reality is that North Korea's nuclear test site collapsed and may be out of action.
00:43:46.000That was reported four days before the actual summit began.
00:43:49.000So they're saying right now that they gave up the North Korean test site, but in reality, the North Korean test site collapsed on its own, which is a pretty good reason to say that you're going to give it up.
00:43:57.000So according to The Guardian, North Korea's main nuclear test site has partially collapsed under the stress of multiple explosions, possibly rendering it unsafe for further testing and leaving it vulnerable to radiation leaks, a study by Chinese geologists has shown.
00:44:08.000The findings could cast doubt on North Korea's sincerity in announcing last weekend it would stop nuclear weapons at the site ahead of Friday's summit between the country's leaders, Kim Jong-un and the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in.
00:44:18.000Now, I think that it is important to note this because everybody is so all fired, excited about everything having to do with the North Korean
00:44:46.000A bunch of information showing that Iran has been cheating on its nuclear deal.
00:44:49.000So while the Obama bros continue to go around talking about how the Iran nuclear deal was a great savior of Western civilization, it turns out the Iranians have been cheating and pursuing nuclear weapons.
00:44:56.000There was great excitement in the press about the historic nature of the Obama-Iran deal.
00:45:01.000It turns out that that was a complete disaster.
00:45:03.000The same thing could easily happen with regard to North Korea.
00:45:06.000OK, time for some things I like, some things I hate, and then we'll do a quick Federalist paper.
00:45:11.000I'm going to have to do Avengers tomorrow, because I have a few words on Avengers, and I want to give people an extra day to see it before I spoil it.
00:45:16.000But the thing I like today is a book called Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
00:45:23.000The book is a sequel to The Black Swan, which is all about sort of weird events that happen that you can't expect.
00:45:29.000Skin in the Game is about the idea that if you're in the business of making predictions,
00:45:33.000Trust the people who actually are betting something of themselves on that prediction, right?
00:45:38.000If you are trying to follow somebody's market advice and then you can actually have a clear view into their portfolio, it is better to look at their portfolio than follow their market advice because they're gonna put skin in the game.
00:45:50.000They're gonna put their money where their mouth is.
00:45:52.000Anybody who's willing to put their money where their mouth is is obviously more trustworthy in their predictions because they obviously believe their own predictions.
00:45:58.000One of the big problems in the prediction business is that there are very few effects to making a wrong prediction.
00:46:03.000Like, I actually put my money where my mouth was in 2016 to my everlasting regret, considering I lost a bunch of money on the 2016 election, but you knew at least it was genuine, right?
00:46:13.000I at least put my money where my mouth was.
00:46:15.000And the same thing is true in your life.
00:46:17.000The people who you should trust are the people who are willing to sacrifice for their position, not the people who are not willing to sacrifice for their position.
00:46:23.000Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:46:29.000Okay, so thing that I hate, number one, Pope Francis came out and tweeted something really, really dumb.
00:46:33.000Somebody asked me in the mailbag a couple of weeks ago about Pope Francis and what I thought of him, and I said I thought that he was more of a liberation theologist than anything else.
00:48:09.000Say, listen, I was gonna tell this story one way or another.
00:48:12.000I may as well, am I gonna pretend that I'm not making some money off this book?
00:48:15.000Of course I'm not gonna pretend that, but I think it's important to get it out there.
00:48:18.000But the whole, I am just so far above the fray routine, not effective.
00:48:23.000Okay, time for a quick Federalist Paper.
00:48:24.000So as I say, every week we do a Federalist Paper.
00:48:26.000We are all the way up to Federalist 26, so making steady progress through the Federalist Papers.
00:48:30.000Been doing it now for six months, obviously.
00:48:32.000So, Alexander Hamilton wrote Federalist 26, and in this Federalist paper, he talks about the possibility that's being posed by a lot of the states that maybe the national legislature should not be able to exercise war-making authority.
00:48:43.000Which raises the question, okay, who should be able to exercise war-making authority?
00:48:50.000Well, if it's not the legislature, who else would it be?
00:48:53.000So Alexander Hamilton says the legislature is the proper place for funding and maintaining a standing army, and that's been true in Britain since the Glorious Revolution.
00:49:00.000And then he adds, the legislature of the United States will be obliged by this provision once at least in every two years to deliberate upon the propriety of keeping a military force on foot
00:49:08.000He's saying that the legislature has to remain in control so we can argue about whether to grow or shrink the military.
00:49:12.000Obviously, in reality, the military has continuously grown since
00:49:33.000Barack Obama tried to cut it back somewhat.
00:49:35.000Bill Clinton tried to cut it back somewhat, but for different reasons.
00:49:37.000Simply because they believe the United States should not be as muscular on the world stage.
00:49:41.000The legislature has not, in fact, been a good check on the executive's war-making authority.
00:49:45.000The founders believed that the legislature should be a check on that because they believed that the executive branch was always going to have an impetus toward growth of the military and growth of interventionism.
00:49:54.000It's time for the legislature to take a lot of that authority back, which they have not done, and I hope that at some point they will.
00:49:59.000Alrighty, so we'll be back here tomorrow with much, much more.
00:50:01.000As I say, Benjamin Netanyahu from Israel is supposed to make a big statement tonight about the Iran deal, and we will cover all of it tomorrow.