The Ben Shapiro Show - They Dreamed A Dream | Ep. 716

00:00:00.000 California kills its high-speed rail, the 2020 Democrats face some campaign troubles, and Ilhan Omar escapes culpability once again.

00:00:07.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:07.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:09.000 All righty, so a lot of news to get to today.

00:00:17.000 We are going to get into, in detail, a bunch of Democratic proposals that even they do not take seriously.

00:00:23.000 It's the reason why President Trump's approval rating has risen seven points over the last month, even according to the sort of real clear politics poll average.

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00:01:54.000 Alrighty, so here is the latest on the government shutdown.

00:01:58.000 It apparently has been averted.

00:01:59.000 President Trump is expected today to sign into law a bipartisan accord to avert another U.S.

00:02:05.000 government shutdown, according to Reuters.

00:02:06.000 It's a bad deal.

00:02:07.000 It's a bad deal.

00:02:08.000 This deal basically gives the president something like $1.375 billion for border security.

00:02:13.000 It allows him to build another 55 miles of fence, maybe.

00:02:17.000 It's not what he was looking for.

00:02:19.000 It's actually less money allocated to border security than was allocated to border security in the original budget that was proposed by Democrats back in November that President Trump turned down.

00:02:28.000 Now, the saving grace is that President Trump is likely to declare under 10 U.S.C.

00:02:33.000 284 that drug corridors must have additional fencing built, which he can do.

00:02:36.000 He can have the Defense Department mobilize and redirect funds for that purpose.

00:02:40.000 He's likely to do some of that.

00:02:42.000 He's also illustrated that Democrats are full-scale crazy on the subject of a border wall when he did his big event On Monday night in El Paso, he was talking about the necessity for a border wall standing about a thousand feet maybe from the border fencing between El Paso and Mexico.

00:02:57.000 And meanwhile, Beto O'Rourke was standing a thousand feet from him and was saying that walls are terrible.

00:03:02.000 There was a wall at Beto O'Rourke's rally, by the way, to prevent people Again, is it a bad deal?

00:03:06.000 onto the territory of Beto O'Rourke's rally, even as he was proclaiming that walls were really, really bad.

00:03:11.000 On Wednesday, CNN, The Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal all reported that Trump intended to sign the measure into law if it passes Congress.

00:03:17.000 Representatives for the White House could not be reached immediately for comment.

00:03:20.000 Trump on Tuesday did not rule out vetoing the legislation.

00:03:22.000 He said he was not happy with the deal, but he's not going to get into another shutdown here.

00:03:27.000 Again, is it a bad deal?

00:03:29.000 Did President Trump do a bad job of negotiating this thing?

00:03:32.000 Yeah, he did.

00:03:33.000 I mean, he went into a poker hand, and he was bluffing from the very outset.

00:03:36.000 Democrats knew that he was bluffing.

00:03:38.000 They kept upping the ante, and President Trump was not willing to try to buy the pot, basically.

00:03:42.000 He was not willing to carry the bluff all the way to the final contingency.

00:03:46.000 He was not willing to allow the government to remain shut down.

00:03:49.000 Democrats knew that, and so they were able to basically win the hand with a pair of twos.

00:03:54.000 That's essentially what happened in this particular poker game.

00:03:57.000 Now, again, the president does have another card that has yet to drop here, and that is the possibility of declaring some sort of national emergency.

00:04:05.000 Zero Hedge is reporting that the president is considering exactly that.

00:04:08.000 According to Zero Hedge, which is Sort of a little bit of a sketchy website when it comes to reporting.

00:04:12.000 They say, in an interesting twist, it looks like Trump has decided on a middle path that will allow him to keep the government open while getting more of his border wall built than Congress had initially authorized.

00:04:21.000 According to Washington Post, Trump will use an executive order to reallocate federal funds to finance the wall or at least something more than the 55 miles that the compromise bill would finance.

00:04:30.000 A White House official told The Post this morning that the president sees signing the border deal if passed by Congress as the way to avoid another shutdown.

00:04:37.000 This is according to Robert Costa.

00:04:38.000 But he would also likely pursue an executive order to reallocate federal funds to barrier projects, the official said.

00:04:44.000 So, that...

00:04:46.000 Is the solution that probably makes the most political sense?

00:04:48.000 Once again, President Trump, his big success here is illustrating once and for all that Democrats do not care about border security, or at least they don't care enough about border security.

00:04:56.000 Remember, it was a point of negotiation.

00:04:59.000 During this actual border negotiation, Democrats wanted to lower the amount of funding available just for beds to house criminal illegal aliens.

00:05:07.000 And President Trump did not want to lower those numbers because he was saying, well, if we can't house these people, we have to release them into general society.

00:05:13.000 And Democrats were stumping for that.

00:05:15.000 They were stumping for Trump to just release criminal, illegal aliens into American society.

00:05:19.000 It's a pretty good talking point for President Trump come 2020.

00:05:23.000 Again, all President Trump has to do in 2020 is just point at the Democrats because they are exposing their radicalism every single day.

00:05:29.000 How radical are the Democrats?

00:05:31.000 Even they, even they are scared by their own radicalism.

00:05:34.000 Senator Mitch McConnell, cocaine Mitch, He really demonstrated that full scale yesterday.

00:05:38.000 So the Democrats have been going crazy over the Green New Deal.

00:05:41.000 Everybody loves the Green New Deal.

00:05:42.000 The media.

00:05:43.000 They love the Green New Deal. 0.50

00:05:44.000 It's ambitious.

00:05:45.000 And audacious.

00:05:47.000 And hopeful.

00:05:48.000 And bold.

00:05:49.000 The Green New Deal. 0.60

00:05:50.000 It's so wonderful.

00:05:51.000 So wonderful that even the people who sponsored it will not vote for it.

00:05:54.000 That's what Mitch McConnell showed yesterday.

00:05:56.000 So turtley Mitch.

00:05:57.000 He popped his head out of the shell.

00:05:59.000 Snorted some coke, and then he said, you know what we're gonna do?

00:06:02.000 You love this Green New Deal so much?

00:06:03.000 Yeah, I love it too.

00:06:04.000 Because it shows who you folks are.

00:06:07.000 So, how about we do this?

00:06:08.000 How about you come out, and we force you Democrats to vote for it?

00:06:12.000 After all, you keep talking about how great and ambitious it is, but you don't want to vote for it.

00:06:15.000 Remember, in the House, which is controlled by Democrats, the Green New Deal resolution did not come up for a vote.

00:06:20.000 Republicans don't control the House.

00:06:22.000 That means that Nancy Dentures Pelosi said she was not going to bring it up for a vote, despite mouthing all sorts of platitudes about how wonderful and excellent and hopeful and ambitious the thing was.

00:06:34.000 By the way, when politicians say that something is a bold new idea, it's bold in the same way that my son trying to plug a toaster into the wall is bold.

00:06:43.000 It's a bold move, Cotton.

00:06:44.000 Let's see how they do with it.

00:06:46.000 Here's Mitch McConnell putting Democrats to the test, saying, listen, you guys proposed this thing.

00:06:49.000 How about we just vote on it?

00:06:50.000 You know, let's see if you like it that much.

00:06:52.000 Mitch McConnell, go.

00:06:54.000 I've noted with great interest the Green New Deal.

00:06:59.000 And we're going to be voting on that in the Senate.

00:07:01.000 We'll give everybody an opportunity to go on record and see how they feel about the Green New Deal.

00:07:12.000 Man, he is so low-key.

00:07:13.000 He's like Ben Stein of the U.S.

00:07:15.000 Senate.

00:07:16.000 And he cannot hide his glee at this.

00:07:18.000 I mean, you have to actually see his face.

00:07:20.000 This is why, if you don't subscribe to the program over at Daily Wire, you really should.

00:07:24.000 Because if you can't see Mitch McConnell's face for clips like this, what is video made for?

00:07:29.000 I mean, it's just fantastic.

00:07:30.000 So Mitch McConnell, who smiles once every 70 years, he's like Haley's Comet. 1.00

00:07:36.000 He cannot hold back a smile at the fact that Democrats were this stupid. 1.00

00:07:39.000 So how stupid were the Democrats with this? 1.00

00:07:42.000 It's so great. 1.00

00:07:43.000 It's just so great.

00:07:44.000 So Senator Edward Markey of Massachusetts, you'll recall, is the Senate co-sponsor of this Green New Deal resolution.

00:07:50.000 It was sponsored in the House by the venerable and intelligent and brilliant young fresh face AOC, so fresh, so face.

00:07:58.000 Ed Markey, who is not a fresh face, is in the Senate, in Massachusetts, and he co-sponsored it on the Senate side.

00:08:03.000 And this bill was endorsed by all the Democratic heavyweights.

00:08:06.000 Spartacus Cory Booker.

00:08:08.000 Kamala Nark Harris.

00:08:09.000 It was co-sponsored by Elizabeth.

00:08:12.000 Focahontas Warren.

00:08:13.000 I mean, like, all of the Democrats running.

00:08:15.000 Kirsten.

00:08:15.000 I take every side of every issue.

00:08:16.000 Gillibrand.

00:08:17.000 All of them endorsed the Green New Deal.

00:08:20.000 So Ed Markey is very concerned, though.

00:08:23.000 So why?

00:08:24.000 Now, let's say that you wanted to pass a piece of legislation.

00:08:26.000 Let's say that you thought that climate change was the most important issue on America's dial.

00:08:31.000 That Americans needed to be made aware that this Green New Deal thing had to be passed as a resolution to demonstrate to Americans that we need to take this crisis seriously. 0.72

00:08:39.000 Wouldn't you want it to come up for a vote?

00:08:41.000 I mean, if you wrote the resolution?

00:08:43.000 Senator Ed Markey tweeted this out today.

00:08:44.000 It's so fantastic.

00:08:46.000 He tweeted out, "Don't let Mitch McConnell fool you.

00:08:49.000 This is nothing but an attempt to sabotage the movement we are building.

00:08:52.000 He wants to silence your voice so Republicans don't have to explain why they are climate change deniers.

00:08:58.000 McConnell wants this to be the end.

00:08:59.000 This is just the beginning." So let's try to unpack this logic.

00:09:04.000 You propose a bill.

00:09:06.000 It is supported by every major Democratic heavyweight.

00:09:09.000 Mitch McConnell says, let's vote on it.

00:09:11.000 And that's sabotage.

00:09:13.000 So if Mitch McConnell didn't bring it up for a vote, then you would say he obviously doesn't care enough about climate change.

00:09:17.000 He's sabotaging us.

00:09:18.000 And if he does bring it up for a vote, then he's sabotaging your movement.

00:09:22.000 If your proposal is so toxic that the mere fact of bringing it up for a vote would expose it as toxic, I'm pretty sure you're the one who just sabotaged your own vote.

00:09:31.000 Now, Ed Markey is in the back of the ship drilling a hole directly through the hull, and Mitch McConnell's like, Sir, if you would prefer, I will bring you a stick of dynamite.

00:09:41.000 And then Markie's like, well, Mitch McConnell's trying to sabotage this thing.

00:09:44.000 It's your bill, dude.

00:09:46.000 You wrote the thing.

00:09:48.000 You don't get to claim it's sabotage when Mitch McConnell brings it up for a vote. 0.59

00:09:51.000 That's Mitch McConnell being ultimate troll master. 0.61

00:09:54.000 Mitch McConnell, cocaine Mitch. 0.92

00:09:55.000 Power move by cocaine Mitch.

00:09:57.000 I do love it.

00:09:58.000 Again, it is hilarious to me.

00:10:00.000 The Democrats are now claiming it is sabotage for Mitch McConnell to bring up for a vote.

00:10:04.000 A proposal, they say, is so popular and so powerful that every American needs to be made aware of it.

00:10:09.000 Mitch McConnell's like, fine, let's make every American aware of it.

00:10:11.000 And the co-sponsor of the bill in the Senate's like, no, no, no.

00:10:14.000 No, no, no.

00:10:15.000 We can't vote on that.

00:10:15.000 I didn't mean it.

00:10:17.000 I didn't really mean it.

00:10:18.000 It's... It really is amazing.

00:10:21.000 I mean, it's a situation where you got in a fight with your spouse, and you just kept upping the ante, and then finally, your spouse is like, fine, go for it.

00:10:27.000 And you're like, uh-oh.

00:10:29.000 That's pretty much what happened here.

00:10:30.000 The Democrats kept upping the ante on how important climate change is to the point where they're like, let's ban cars. 0.99

00:10:35.000 Let's kill the farting cows. 1.00

00:10:37.000 Let's get rid of airplanes. 1.00

00:10:38.000 Let's do all those things.

00:10:39.000 And Mitch McConnell's like, all right, that's what you want.

00:10:43.000 Let's do this thing.

00:10:43.000 Let's make it public.

00:10:44.000 And Democrats are like, oh, no.

00:10:49.000 Uh, Ownership of the Libs with Fact and Logic by Mitch McConnell.

00:10:53.000 You gotta love that.

00:10:54.000 He's an underrated politician, is Mitch McConnell. 0.98

00:10:56.000 And for all the crap we give him for his negotiations on border measures, Power move! 0.99

00:11:02.000 Power move. 1.00

00:11:02.000 Now, one of the things that's hilarious about the new wave of Democrats is that all of their proposals are similarly ambitious and similarly stupid and similarly undoable. 1.00

00:11:11.000 And we are finding this out day after day when they run screaming from their own proposals. 0.99

00:11:15.000 Like, legitimately, they run screaming from their own proposals.

00:11:17.000 I'll give you a couple of examples in just one second.

00:11:20.000 From across the country, Democrats propose audacious, ambitious, bold things, like my son with the toaster.

00:11:26.000 They propose bold things.

00:11:27.000 And then?

00:11:28.000 They're the dog that catches the car, and then they realize that by catching the car, they've now put themselves in direct proximity to the back wheels, and if that thing is in reverse, they're gonna get smushed.

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00:13:15.000 Okay, so how unrealistic, how unrealistic are democratic plans?

00:13:19.000 Democratic plans are so unrealistic that, first, here's usually how this math works. 1.00

00:13:23.000 Usually, some Democrat proposes something insane and stupid. 1.00

00:13:27.000 Then, the saner Democrats in the room go, oh, that's a bad idea. 1.00

00:13:31.000 But then, the crazy Democrats gain the momentum, and then the sane Democrats start to embrace the crazy. 0.97

00:13:36.000 They start to embrace the crazy. 0.98

00:13:38.000 And then, they realize, after trying this thing for a couple of years, it's totally crazy and they abandon it.

00:13:43.000 This is how a lot of democratic plans end. 0.82

00:13:45.000 So, for example, in the state of California, we have a governor.

00:13:48.000 His name is Gavin Newsom.

00:13:49.000 He's basically a living Ken doll with all the brains that come along with it.

00:13:52.000 And Gavin Newsom was Lieutenant Governor.

00:13:54.000 Well, back in 2014, I had Gavin Newsom on my radio show, and I specifically asked him about a proposal that Californians had voted in favor of for a high-speed rail between San Francisco and Los Angeles.

00:14:05.000 It would have stops in places like Sacramento.

00:14:07.000 It would have stops in Bakersfield, for whatever reason.

00:14:10.000 And this was going to cost us legitimately billions and billions of dollars, like billions of dollars, this high-speed rail.

00:14:16.000 Now, those of us who live in California, we're sitting around going, but isn't there a giant highway called the I-5 that also connects Los Angeles with San Francisco?

00:14:26.000 And the answer was yes, there is a giant highway called the I-5 that connects all of these various cities.

00:14:31.000 But it was very important that we build a high-speed bullet train in one of the most sparsely populated areas of California, that giant corridor where no one lives except for Bakersfield and Fresno, between Sacramento and Los Angeles.

00:14:43.000 Deeply, deeply important to spend billions of dollars on that monstrosity.

00:14:46.000 Well, I asked Gavin Newsom about this all the way back in 2014. 0.95

00:14:48.000 So now, five years ago, I asked him about this, and he said at the time, yeah, this is a really dumb idea.

00:14:53.000 We shouldn't do it.

00:14:54.000 Are you pro or against the train, especially given the fact that the Californian public, which approved the train in the first place, now has reneged and no longer likes the train?

00:15:02.000 Yeah, I think I'm where the public was and is.

00:15:05.000 I would take the dollars and redirect it to other more pressing infrastructure needs.

00:15:11.000 And I am not the only Democrat that feels this way.

00:15:14.000 And I gotta tell you, I am one of the few that just said it publicly.

00:15:17.000 Most are now saying it privately.

00:15:19.000 Right, he said it publicly, and then he immediately backtracked, because the train was already off and running.

00:15:24.000 We were already gonna do the train, man.

00:15:25.000 Jerry Brown was... Jerry Brown, our governor, who is 1,000 years old, he's actually... I think he passed away, sadly, about 10 years ago, and they've just been wheeling him around ever since, and then playing a tape of Jerry Brown from behind his head.

00:15:36.000 And so every so often, he sort of nods off in the middle of press conferences, like, I love the train.

00:15:42.000 It's a great train.

00:15:44.000 Well, Jerry Brown made the train super popular among Democrats, but... And then Gavin Newsom embraced it.

00:15:51.000 He was like, yeah, the train's great, I love the train now, and he completely flipped on it.

00:15:54.000 It was a big story back when he was running for governor that he flipped on the train. 0.99

00:15:58.000 Well, now Gavin Newsom has flipped back on the train, because it now turns out that this was a stupid idea in the first place. 0.98

00:16:05.000 In a second, I'm going to get to that. 0.98

00:16:07.000 Gavin Newsom, the new governor of California, said this during his first State of the State speech.

00:16:12.000 He surprised listeners by announcing he would put the quest for high-speed rail connecting San Francisco and LA, championed by his predecessor, far on the back burner.

00:16:19.000 Instead, Newsom offered a consolation prize, high-speed rail between Bakersfield and Merced.

00:16:24.000 Oh yeah!

00:16:26.000 Glamour!

00:16:27.000 Get on that high-speed rail, and with your cocktail, the love train.

00:16:31.000 That's what I'm going to do.

00:16:31.000 I'm going to drive my wife over to Bakersfield, and I'm going to say, you know what, honey?

00:16:35.000 Let's take a romantic trip to Merced.

00:16:37.000 That's what we're going to do.

00:16:39.000 We're going to spend billions of dollars for a high-speed rail between two cities that, unless you live there, these are not tourist destinations.

00:16:47.000 Nobody in New York is like, you know what?

00:16:50.000 Summer vacation.

00:16:50.000 What do you say we go to Merced?

00:16:52.000 These are not places where people, they're not even destinations in California.

00:16:56.000 Bakersfield is a city.

00:16:58.000 It's fine.

00:16:59.000 I've been there.

00:17:00.000 Merced, also a city.

00:17:02.000 Great.

00:17:02.000 Do we need a high-speed rail connecting these two cities?

00:17:05.000 Of course we don't!

00:17:06.000 But he's using this as now a consolation prize because we're not actually going to build A high-speed rail between San Francisco and L.A. 0.99

00:17:13.000 Which, by the way, was always an idiotic idea. 0.85

00:17:15.000 We were talking about spending literally billions of public dollars building a high-speed rail between San Francisco and Los Angeles. 0.99

00:17:20.000 You know how much it costs you for a plane ticket between L.A.

00:17:22.000 and San Francisco one way?

00:17:24.000 It's like 80 bucks.

00:17:25.000 It's legitimately, like, Southwest puts on deals for under $100.

00:17:29.000 You could make that, you could make that travel happen.

00:17:31.000 And it would take you less time going to the airport than it would to get on that bullet train.

00:17:36.000 And yet we were going to spend billions of dollars.

00:17:38.000 Now even Democrats have to back off of this.

00:17:40.000 Newsom said, Let's level about the high-speed rail.

00:17:42.000 Let's be real, the current project as planned would cost too much and respectfully take too long.

00:17:46.000 Right now there simply isn't a path to get from San Francisco to San Diego, let alone from San Francisco to LA.

00:17:52.000 I wish there were.

00:17:54.000 Fortunately, there is.

00:17:55.000 It is called the I-5.

00:17:57.000 I drive it all the time.

00:17:59.000 So does everyone else in the state of California.

00:18:01.000 Not only that, we have these things.

00:18:03.000 I know, controversial though they are.

00:18:05.000 They were invented in the early 20th century.

00:18:07.000 And if you... It's a vehicle.

00:18:09.000 And if you drive it fast enough, and you have enough thrust behind the vehicle, and the wings are actually directed at the proper angle to the ground, these things fly.

00:18:19.000 I know, it's wild.

00:18:21.000 These giant machines, they fly and they will take you from LA to San Francisco through the air.

00:18:27.000 I mean, that's high tech right there.

00:18:29.000 Maybe we should invest in those.

00:18:31.000 Recent estimates assess Governor Jerry Brown's plan would cost $77 billion.

00:18:40.000 $77 billion.

00:18:40.000 I kid you not.

00:18:41.000 So I'm just going to do a quick back of the envelope calculation right now.

00:18:45.000 OK, $77 billion.

00:18:48.000 Divided by the price of a one-way ticket, like 80 bucks to Sacramento or San Francisco.

00:18:53.000 That would pay for, the state of California could legitimately, for that same price, pay for 962,500,000 tickets.

00:19:03.000 Really?

00:19:04.000 They could pay 962,500,000 tickets.

00:19:09.000 Okay?

00:19:10.000 Which there are about 50 million residents in the state of California.

00:19:14.000 So let's divide that.

00:19:16.000 So that means that we could pay for 19.25 one-way tickets for every person living in the state of California. 0.96

00:19:23.000 Every single person living in the state of California, right this very instant, we could pay for 20 tickets between LA and San Francisco via plane for the price that it would take to build this stupid high-speed rail. 0.94

00:19:37.000 Honestly, Jerry Brown, the Democrats in California, they're just the guy from The Simpsons. 0.97

00:19:40.000 They're just the monorail guy from The Simpsons.

00:19:42.000 It's truly amazing.

00:19:43.000 So, you know, well done. 1.00

00:19:44.000 It was always an idiotic plan. 1.00

00:19:46.000 Everybody already knew it was an idiotic plan. 1.00

00:19:49.000 And yet we were supposed to pretend it was not an idiotic plan. 0.99

00:19:51.000 By the way, it's actually more tickets than that because they're not 40 million, they're not 50 million residents in the state of California, there are 40 million residents in the state of California, so we could pay for 24 tickets for every resident in the state of California to go from L.A. 0.97

00:20:02.000 to San Francisco.

00:20:05.000 And yet we were going to spend all this money. 1.00

00:20:06.000 The point here is the Democrats say dumb things. 0.99

00:20:08.000 Like, it's a moon shot. 0.99

00:20:10.000 You know what's the cool thing about the moon shot?

00:20:12.000 We got to the moon.

00:20:13.000 You know what's the bad news about a high-speed rail between Merced and Bakersfield?

00:20:17.000 You end up in either Merced or Bakersfield.

00:20:22.000 And they're fine.

00:20:23.000 Again, they're fine.

00:20:24.000 It's not exactly the moon.

00:20:25.000 Also, you know how much it would cost me to drive from Merced to Bakersfield?

00:20:28.000 Like, a tank of gas?

00:20:30.000 Like, 20 bucks?

00:20:31.000 Maybe?

00:20:31.000 30 bucks?

00:20:32.000 Maybe?

00:20:33.000 Oh my goodness.

00:20:34.000 So, this is one of the things you gotta love about Democrats.

00:20:36.000 They make these proposals, and then they have to back off their own proposals.

00:20:38.000 It's just like the state of California.

00:20:40.000 At one point had considered universal health care, and then they were like, oh yeah, we can't pay for that.

00:20:43.000 And it was like, well, you are the most left-leaning state in America.

00:20:48.000 The most left-leaning state in America.

00:20:50.000 And your own Democratic Senate would not even vote on it.

00:20:53.000 Why?

00:20:54.000 Because universal health care in California would cost $17 billion per year.

00:20:59.000 $17 billion per year.

00:21:01.000 And the budget of the state of California, last I checked, is $200 billion.

00:21:06.000 $200 billion.

00:21:07.000 So it would cost an additional $20 billion per year minimum.

00:21:12.000 That is not a thing that is going to happen. 0.98

00:21:14.000 And you're seeing it play out in New York, too, where New York has pursued every idiotic policy they can possibly think of, and now they're shocked. 1.00

00:21:21.000 Shocked! 0.99

00:21:23.000 That none of their policies are working out. 1.00

00:21:25.000 So Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is, as we have said, in a running gun battle with his brother to be the stupider Cuomo brother. 0.94

00:21:31.000 We have a block of wood on CNN, and then we have the governor of New York, who is a block of slightly more brittle wood, a little bit older, sort of petrified stone. 0.97

00:21:40.000 Well, he is now complaining about Florida.

00:21:43.000 Why is New York complaining about Florida?

00:21:45.000 Because it turns out anyone with money is trying to get out of New York and into Florida.

00:21:49.000 So here is what CBS Miami reports.

00:21:52.000 He said this week the governor of New York blamed budget shortfalls on the state of Florida.

00:21:57.000 So he's blaming his own inability to take in tax dollars in New York on Florida.

00:22:02.000 Why?

00:22:02.000 He said New Yorkers were fleeing to the Sunshine State to save big time on taxes.

00:22:06.000 It all goes back to the tax reform passed by Congress.

00:22:09.000 The changes increased the incentive to move to the Sunshine State dramatically.

00:22:12.000 Well, why?

00:22:13.000 Because one of the things that the tax bill did is it did not exempt state taxes from federal income tax.

00:22:19.000 So people who are high income in states like California and New York, where you're already paying an inordinate state tax, they couldn't take that as a discount on their federal taxes.

00:22:27.000 So you're basically getting double taxed in states like California and New York.

00:22:30.000 The point being that there shouldn't be a federal incentive for states to raise their taxes. 0.74

00:22:36.000 So what he's really complaining about is that Florida isn't governed like complete garbage, and New York is governed like complete garbage, and when you raise taxes inordinately, you end up driving people out of the state. 0.82

00:22:44.000 You'll recall that just a week ago, Andrew Cuomo basically admitted they can't tax people in New York anymore because if they keep taxing people, all the billionaires leave, all the millionaires leave. 0.96

00:22:53.000 No one wants to be in these badly governed states.

00:22:56.000 Bad democratic ideas will not even be embraced by bad Democrats at this point.

00:23:01.000 And yet we're supposed to let them govern based on their high hopes and their commitment, their commitment to the future, their ambitious and bold plans? 1.00

00:23:12.000 Yeah, let's hand over governance to these schmucks. 1.00

00:23:14.000 We'll get to a little bit more of this in just a second. 0.99

00:23:16.000 Let's talk about the presidential race.

00:23:17.000 So, a lot of these Democrats are having a very, very difficult time in the presidential race because they have what Sarah Jessica Parker might call failure to launch.

00:23:28.000 One of those candidates is Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, who has been described as Minnesota nice, which I guess is just a euphemism for I throw binders at my staffers.

00:23:38.000 That was a report that came out in the last couple of weeks, is that she is apparently, allegedly, routinely abusive to her staffers, up to and including throwing objects at her staffers. 1.00

00:23:48.000 I have to say, there are a lot of people who work at this company, and when I abuse them, I do it publicly on air.

00:23:53.000 Behind the scenes, I'm actually much nicer than I am to folks on air.

00:23:57.000 They won't confirm this, and if they don't, I'll fire them.

00:23:59.000 I mean, this is the reality of how things work here.

00:24:02.000 It has never even crossed my mind to throw objects at the people who work here.

00:24:06.000 Number one, it's a lawsuit.

00:24:08.000 And number two, you shouldn't throw objects at people.

00:24:11.000 I don't even let my kids throw objects at each other.

00:24:13.000 Amy Klobuchar reportedly took binders and threw them at people. 1.00

00:24:17.000 So, Mitt Romney, not fit to be president because he had a binder full of women he thought about hiring. 1.00

00:24:22.000 Amy Klobuchar, a woman who throws binders, now being considered for president.

00:24:28.000 Now, the best part of this is a great story.

00:24:31.000 According to Mediaite, in a potentially embarrassing AP report for Senator Amy Klobuchar, more than a dozen current and former staffers describe her as an abusive boss who often tried to have job offers rescinded when they tried to jump ship. 0.98

00:24:45.000 Interviews with some of Klobuchar's Capitol Hill staffers portray a hostile work environment run on fear, abuse, and humiliation.

00:24:52.000 According to staffers, the overly critical senator will sometimes turn a single mistake into a multi-day affair of shaming and demeaning, followed by post-work angry late-night phone calls and all-caps emails.

00:25:02.000 The way she treats staff is disqualifying, said a former female staffer. 0.99

00:25:06.000 And one of the staffers says, I will not vote for her because she's a bad person.

00:25:10.000 Three former Klobuchar staffers told the Huffington Post their boss made them or their co-workers run personal errands for her, such as picking up her dry cleaning, packing her suitcases for travel, and even cleaning and washing her dishes at home.

00:25:21.000 And frankly, I want to be a senator.

00:25:22.000 This sounds great.

00:25:24.000 If I can make my staffers do this sort of stuff, are you kidding me?

00:25:27.000 Like on the public dime?

00:25:28.000 Like make people wash my dishes on the public dime?

00:25:30.000 That sounds amazing!

00:25:33.000 She has one of the highest rates of staff turnover in Congress.

00:25:35.000 So how widely has Klobuchar's mistreatment of her staff been rumored?

00:25:41.000 It's been rumored so widely that SNL, actually a Veep writer confirmed, a writer for the show Veep, confirmed That they had a joke on the show about a staffer shaving Amy Klobuchar's legs, and that joke was inspired by reality.

00:25:57.000 That they had heard a rumor that the staffers were so abused that they were like shaving the senator's legs, and so they made a similar joke on Veep.

00:26:04.000 That's how bad the rumors have been about Amy Klobuchar.

00:26:06.000 So, Minnesota Nice, when they say Minnesota Nice, they don't actually mean the Francis McDormand character in Fargo.

00:26:13.000 They mean the guy who throws people into a wood chipper on Fargo.

00:26:19.000 Amy Klobuchar having a tough time. 0.96

00:26:20.000 Meanwhile, Kamala Harris having a tough time because she's a narc. 0.97

00:26:23.000 So one of the most beautiful things is watching as far left Democratic candidates are not far left enough for the Democratic base.

00:26:30.000 Kamala Harris was a prosecutor.

00:26:31.000 This is nearly disqualifying for a lot of people on the far left in the Democratic Party.

00:26:35.000 They look at Kamala Harris, And they say, well, this lady prosecuted people and put them in jail. 1.00

00:26:40.000 This means that she is a narc.

00:26:42.000 And so we can't let her anywhere near the halls of power. 0.50

00:26:45.000 We need the people who say they want to disband ICE, who say they want to defund the Department of Homeland Security.

00:26:50.000 Meanwhile, Trump is back there just twiddling his thumbs going, this is great.

00:26:53.000 Keep going.

00:26:54.000 Please.

00:26:54.000 More.

00:26:55.000 Do it.

00:26:57.000 I won't say what other contexts Trump may have said such things in.

00:26:59.000 In any case, Kamala Harris, this is a bad story for her.

00:27:03.000 Now, this would be a good story for somebody in any normal time.

00:27:05.000 In any normal time, this story about Kamala Harris would be a non-story.

00:27:09.000 It would be, actually, a point in her favor for moderates.

00:27:13.000 But, in the modern Democratic Party, it is a point against her.

00:27:17.000 According to CNN, Kamala Harris supported a 2008 San Francisco policy that reported arrested undocumented juveniles to ICE.

00:27:25.000 Oh no!

00:27:27.000 She's a... Law and order? 1.00

00:27:29.000 Kamala Harris?

00:27:31.000 Supported?

00:27:32.000 If a 17-year-old illegal immigrant killed someone, reporting them to ICE?

00:27:36.000 I'm sorry, she's too moderate for the modern-day Democratic Party. 0.99

00:27:40.000 According to CNN, as District Attorney of San Francisco, Kamala Harris supported a city policy that required law enforcement to turn over undocumented juvenile immigrants to federal immigration authorities if they were arrested and suspected of committing a felony, regardless of whether they were actually convicted of a crime.

00:27:56.000 Harris sided with then-Mayor Gavin Newsom in a political fight over San Francisco's status as a sanctuary city that split the city's municipal government, with the mayor's office supporting the policy and the city's elected board of supervisors opposing it.

00:28:08.000 Kamala Harris is too much of an arc for the Democratic base. 1.00

00:28:11.000 Her past position, according to CNN, could open her up to attacks from immigration activists, as well as the more progressive wing of the party as she seeks the Democratic nomination in 2020.

00:28:21.000 The fight over the San Francisco policy was covered extensively at the time, but Harris' role has not been closely examined since she entered the national spotlight.

00:28:28.000 In a statement to CNN, Harris' campaign spokesman, Ian Sams, said the policy was intended to protect the sanctuary status of San Francisco and to ensure local police, who needed to have strong relationships with the communities they serve regardless of immigration status, were not forced to operate as immigration agents, which is the responsibility of the federal government.

00:28:46.000 Looking back, this policy could have been applied more fairly.

00:28:49.000 Oh, that last line is a killer for Kamala Harris.

00:28:53.000 Because that means she is going to be accused of anti-immigrant racism!

00:28:58.000 So Democrats being hoisted on their own petards here. 0.72

00:29:02.000 They're now in a serious problem because it turns out that the Democratic base is too crazy for the candidates.

00:29:08.000 Legitimately too crazy for the candidates.

00:29:10.000 How crazy are segments of the Democratic base? 0.97

00:29:13.000 Segments of the Democratic base are angry at Kamala Harris because she's married to a white person. 0.99

00:29:17.000 Really.

00:29:18.000 She was asked specifically in an interview why she was married to a white man.

00:29:23.000 And she answered it.

00:29:24.000 She actually answered the question because this was considered a legitimate question.

00:29:28.000 She was asked in an interview on Monday why she married a white man and how she could do so while defending her black heritage.

00:29:36.000 And she said, look, I love my husband.

00:29:38.000 He happened to be the one that I chose to marry because I love him.

00:29:40.000 And that was that moment in time.

00:29:42.000 And that's it.

00:29:43.000 And he loves me.

00:29:45.000 But I love the fact that this is I love the fact that this is controversial.

00:29:48.000 Here is Kamala Harris giving an answer, like legitimately answering a question that should never have been asked.

00:29:52.000 And I don't think it's fair, because I don't even think the person or life should matter, but they do mention your husband a lot.

00:29:58.000 And they say, how is she so black, but she married white? 0.96

00:30:02.000 Look, I love my husband, and he happened to be the one that I chose to marry because I love him, and that was that moment in time, and I'm... That's it.

00:30:11.000 Alright.

00:30:11.000 That's it.

00:30:13.000 That's it.

00:30:13.000 And he loves me.

00:30:14.000 Alright.

00:30:15.000 The proper answer there, the proper answer is, what the hell kind of question is that? 0.99

00:30:18.000 I mean, imagine there was a white candidate who had married a black woman. 0.98

00:30:21.000 Or the opposite, a white woman who had married a black man.

00:30:23.000 And let's say that that person had been asked, you know, there are a lot of people asking about you marrying cross-racially.

00:30:28.000 Wouldn't the answer be, what a racist question?

00:30:31.000 We live in a free country where I can marry whomever I damn well please and color shouldn't matter?

00:30:34.000 Wouldn't that be the proper answer?

00:30:36.000 The fact that Kamala Harris has to take that question seriously is a demonstration that our politics is full-scale broken. 1.00

00:30:41.000 That intersectional politics is evil.

00:30:43.000 That question itself is an evil question. 0.89

00:30:46.000 Why did you marry a white guy? 1.00

00:30:47.000 How disgusting. 1.00

00:30:48.000 Truly.

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00:32:46.000 As we say, the Democrats, the Democrat candidates for 2020 are being outflanked by their own base.

00:32:56.000 And so virtually every Democratic candidate is now being dragged through the mud for saying some quasi-moderate things.

00:33:03.000 So, for example, Cory Booker the other day, who, you know, Spartacus, A very, very brave person, Spartacus.

00:33:09.000 He said something not terrible on race, and he is just being ripped up and down over it.

00:33:14.000 He was in Des Moines, and he was specifically asked about the Virginia situation with people who had dressed up as Michael Jackson or rappers back in 1980.

00:33:22.000 And here was Booker's answer, which, by the way, for the record, is actually a pretty good answer.

00:33:26.000 How do we get to a point where we can start having the conversation without people falling into a defensive crouch?

00:33:31.000 Because sometimes when folk want to tell the truth about something, they fear.

00:33:36.000 Speaking the truth or talking to people about what they don't understand.

00:33:39.000 We've got to tell the truth, but we, all of us, black, white, gay, straight, we've got to start extending grace to each other so we can have honest conversations and leave room for growth.

00:33:50.000 And people are angry at him for saying this.

00:33:52.000 For him saying we need to have grace with each other and maybe acknowledge that some people have been ignorant in the past about their activities.

00:33:57.000 And maybe we extend forgiveness.

00:33:59.000 People are angry at him about this.

00:34:00.000 The Democratic base is too radical, even for the most radical members of the Democratic Party.

00:34:05.000 But that's only part of the Democratic base.

00:34:06.000 And this is why you have a split.

00:34:07.000 This is why you end up with a situation where every Democratic candidate is endorsing the Green New Deal that Democrats are scared to death will be brought to the floor of the Senate for a vote.

00:34:17.000 That is why. 0.60

00:34:19.000 And it's also why you're seeing some of the most pandering, ridiculous moves by Democratic candidates. 0.86

00:34:22.000 So, Elizabeth Warren, the non-Native American senator from Massachusetts, she actually showed up on Tuesday to do her professional pandering. 1.00

00:34:31.000 According to CNN, she showed up on Tuesday, she made an unannounced appearance at a lunch on the sidelines of a major Native American conference in Washington.

00:34:40.000 Which again, bad form.

00:34:42.000 You know, white people taking over Native American territory.

00:34:44.000 That is not a good thing, Elizabeth Warren.

00:34:46.000 Her remarks came amidst continued scrutiny of the Massachusetts Senator's past claims to Native ancestry.

00:34:51.000 According to details provided by a campaign aide, after Warren's appearance at the National Indian Women's Lunch Honor Luncheon, she introduced Wampanoag tribe of gay head Aquena Chairwoman Cheryl Andrews Maltais, a tribal leader and former senior advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs during the Obama administration.

00:35:09.000 The senator was introduced by New Mexico Representative Deb Haaland, who is one of the first two Native American women elected to Congress last year.

00:35:15.000 Warren did not address or make any mention of the controversy surrounding her past claims to Native American heritage, an aide told CNN, including an attempt to prove her ancestry with a DNA test last year.

00:35:26.000 Apparently, in her introduction, she said, whether it's building coalitions among allies or reaching across the aisle to bridge divides, Cheryl is masterful at persuading public policymakers to do what's right for Native communities.

00:35:35.000 So, Elizabeth Warren, because she has to keep pandering to the intersectional crowd, she cannot stop herself from putting her hand directly on the stove.

00:35:42.000 She is just going to keep going back to that abscessed tooth and sticking her tongue in it over and over and over. 1.00

00:35:48.000 Nothing she does is going to change the fact that she lied about her Native American status for years.

00:35:53.000 Nothing is going to change that fact.

00:35:55.000 And yet she keeps going back to it.

00:35:57.000 I mean, she's very bad at this game, and she's not going to be forgiven to it, because forgiveness is not an aspect of the Democratic left.

00:36:02.000 There is no forgiveness for the Democratic left.

00:36:04.000 There's convenience.

00:36:06.000 Ralph Northam will be left as governor of Virginia out of convenience.

00:36:09.000 Justin Fairfax may survive as lieutenant governor of Virginia out of mere convenience.

00:36:14.000 But there is no forgiveness if you actually cross a line for Democrats.

00:36:17.000 Elizabeth Warren crossed the line.

00:36:19.000 That means no forgiveness is available.

00:36:21.000 The Democratic base is radical and they are vicious.

00:36:23.000 And Howard Schultz is finding that out too.

00:36:25.000 The former Starbucks CEO, he's doing his national campaign and he got himself in all sorts of trouble yesterday because, again, he said some stuff that the Democratic base does not want to hear.

00:36:36.000 One of the things he said is that he does not actually see color.

00:36:40.000 Right?

00:36:40.000 And you're not allowed to say this.

00:36:41.000 You're not allowed to say that you don't see color in the modern United States to the Democratic base.

00:36:45.000 You're supposed to say, I see color because I'm a white person and white people see color and white people are racist.

00:36:50.000 That's what you're supposed to say.

00:36:50.000 Here's Howard Schultz saying the opposite.

00:36:52.000 This is going to alienate the Democratic base.

00:36:55.000 It was a terrible moment for the company.

00:36:58.000 It's not something that we're going to forget, and it's something that we learned a great deal from, and we're still learning it about.

00:37:04.000 And I would just say, as somebody who grew up in a very diverse background as a young boy in the projects, I didn't see color as a young boy.

00:37:13.000 And I honestly don't see color now.

00:37:15.000 Oh, you're not allowed to say that.

00:37:17.000 Everybody sees color, Howard Schultz.

00:37:19.000 How terrible for Howard Schultz to say this.

00:37:21.000 He's got an enormous blowback from the left for saying that he is colorblind and tries not to see color.

00:37:26.000 He's getting ripped up and down for it.

00:37:27.000 By the way, the fact that he even acknowledges that something bad happened in Philadelphia is in and of itself a joke.

00:37:33.000 I've talked to people who went down to that Philadelphia Starbucks.

00:37:36.000 Not only are there cameras in the Philadelphia Starbucks that could have shed light on the situation, And then Starbucks did not release the tape because they'd already jumped on the PC bandwagon.

00:37:44.000 But the woman, if you recall the Starbucks situation from several months ago, what happened is that two black men went into a Starbucks, they were asked repeatedly to buy something if they wanted to use the restroom, they apparently sat there for hours, and then, when the police were called, they refused to leave the restaurant.

00:37:58.000 They just stood there and basically asked to be arrested, as though this were a civil rights sit-in at a Starbucks in Philadelphia, a city which is plurality black.

00:38:06.000 As though no one's ever seen a black person in Philadelphia before.

00:38:09.000 It turns out that the woman behind the counter who is slandered as a racist is, according to people who know her, a far-left LGBTQ activist.

00:38:18.000 And she was slandered as a racist for all of this.

00:38:21.000 So Howard Schultz not only is not wrong about any of this stuff, Howard Schultz Are you surprised by the blowback?

00:38:27.000 Some of it hostile?

00:38:28.000 Did that take you by surprise?

00:38:29.000 And we were not surprised by it.

00:38:30.000 I think the extent of it has taken us back a bit.

00:38:32.000 reasonable things from time to time makes him completely unpalatable to Democrats and puts him directly in their crosshairs.

00:38:37.000 Were you surprised by the blowback, some of it hostile?

00:38:41.000 Did that take you by surprise?

00:38:42.000 And we were not surprised by it.

00:38:45.000 I think the extent of it has taken us back a bit.

00:38:49.000 But I think any time you try and go against the grain and take the road less traveled and challenge the status quo, and actually that's something I've been doing my whole life, but not at this level, Clinton.

00:39:01.000 Clearly we're going to have some resistance.

00:39:03.000 So we expected it, perhaps not as acute as it has become.

00:39:07.000 Well, I mean, frankly, I'm shocked that Howard Schultz finds himself taken aback at the radicalism of his own political side of the aisle.

00:39:13.000 They've been radical for a long time.

00:39:14.000 Now, I said earlier that Democrats have no forgiveness for people who have violated their standards.

00:39:19.000 But this is exactly the point.

00:39:21.000 You can always tell what violates Democratic standards by the standard of forgiveness they use.

00:39:25.000 So Democrats have no standard of forgiveness.

00:39:27.000 When it comes to things that they perceive of as anti-black, even if they're not in fact anti-black, they have no forgiveness for stuff that is perceived as anti-gay, like, you know, Christian churches.

00:39:38.000 No forgiveness there.

00:39:39.000 No grace there.

00:39:40.000 But you can always tell what their standards are by where they are willing to apply forgiveness.

00:39:44.000 And this brings us to Ilhan Omar.

00:39:46.000 So Ilhan Omar, for the 1,000th time over the weekend, said something anti-Semitic.

00:39:51.000 She has a long history of being an anti-Semite, okay? 0.97

00:39:54.000 This is not her making a mistake.

00:39:55.000 She has a history of anti-Semitism.

00:39:57.000 Not only that, her anti-Semitism continues.

00:39:59.000 She is slated still to speak February 23rd next to an actual advocate of anti-Jewish terror.

00:40:05.000 Ilhan Omar has a long history of this sort of stuff.

00:40:10.000 And yet, Democrats are willing to forgive her pretty much anything.

00:40:13.000 They're willing to forgive her.

00:40:14.000 Why?

00:40:14.000 Because this did not violate their standards.

00:40:16.000 End of story.

00:40:17.000 The New Democratic Party is okay with generalized anti-Semitism.

00:40:21.000 So long as you can couch it in anti-Zionist, anti-Israel terms. 0.97

00:40:24.000 So long as you can hide your anti-Semitism behind outdated, silly notions about Israel as a fascist state. 0.96

00:40:31.000 So long as you can do that, you can get away with it. 0.96

00:40:33.000 Ilhan Omar's only boo-boo is that she came out front and said something openly anti-Semitic. 0.66

00:40:37.000 But if you can even mildly pretend you're not anti-Semitic while being completely anti-Semitic, then you get away with it. 0.58

00:40:43.000 Case in point is AOC, who just a week ago tweeted out that she had a conversation with Jeremy Corbyn, who is an open, vicious, pro-terrorist anti-Semite, the head of the Labour Party in Britain.

00:40:54.000 And AOC tweeted that out.

00:40:55.000 And people were like, oh, you know, he's an anti-Semite.

00:40:57.000 She's like, oh, I'll check into it.

00:40:59.000 No follow up.

00:41:00.000 None.

00:41:00.000 The media have not asked her a single question since about any of that.

00:41:03.000 AOC came out yesterday and actually defended Ilhan Omar.

00:41:06.000 So Ilhan Omar, you'll recall over the weekend, suggested that Jew money was behind the American support for Israel, which, of course, is not true.

00:41:14.000 And then Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez came out and defended her. 1.00

00:41:19.000 Well, first, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez came out and tweeted something from Peter Beinart, who is a self-hating Jew of the highest order, a Hamas defender of the highest order. 0.72

00:41:27.000 He wrote a piece for the very left-leaning, often anti-Semitic Forward magazine, a Jewish magazine that really is willing to defend any level of anti-Semitism, including, in many cases, open anti-Semitism.

00:41:38.000 Peter Beinart had said, if you denounce Ilhan Omar but support Donald Trump, you don't really oppose bigotry, you don't even really oppose anti-Semitism, what you oppose is criticism of Israel.

00:41:47.000 Except that Trump is not anti-Semitic, there's no evidence of his anti-Semitism.

00:41:50.000 And Ilhan Omar is an open anti-Semite, who has called for the full-scale destruction of the state of Israel, basically.

00:41:56.000 Okay, which is in and of itself anti-Semitic. 0.56

00:41:59.000 AOC then tweeted out the Peter Beinart piece, and she tweeted, unlike this president, because the fallback position for every Democrat is, don't pay attention to how evil I am, Trump.

00:42:09.000 That's always the fallback position.

00:42:11.000 So AOC tweeted out in support of Ilhan Omar, unlike this president, Representative Ilhan Omar demonstrated a capacity to acknowledge pain and apologize, use the opportunity to learn about history of anti-Semitism and grow from it while clarifying her stance.

00:42:25.000 That is a lie. 0.77

00:42:25.000 She has not learned a damn thing about antisemitism. 0.77

00:42:28.000 She doesn't care about antisemitism. 0.98

00:42:29.000 She's a longtime antisemite.

00:42:32.000 In fact, there was a story that came out yesterday that for years, the Jewish community in the Twin Cities has been trying to have normal conversations with Ilhan Omar, and they have been absolutely shocked by her attitude about antisemitism.

00:42:45.000 So this notion that she is somehow doing something out of the box and that she's not really an anti-Semite, that is betrayed by her entire record.

00:42:53.000 This is a piece from TwinCities.com.

00:42:56.000 Ilhan Omar has been talked to about this before.

00:42:58.000 Last year, before she was elected to the House of Representatives, before she emerged from a crowded Democratic field in Minnesota's liberal 5th congressional district, leaders of Minneapolis' Jewish community fashioned what could be described as an anti-Semitic intervention of Omar, a rising star of the left whose remarks had made many fellow Democrats in the Jewish community uncomfortable.

00:43:15.000 This is relevant because Omar, a freshman member of Congress, has come under fire this week after suggesting on Twitter that supporters of Israel in Congress are bought and paid for by a bipartisan pro-Israel lobbying group.

00:43:25.000 To many, the remark went beyond a critique of money's influence in politics and evoked the anti-Semitic myth that Jews seek to control the world via money.

00:43:33.000 The response by some, ranging from Chelsea Clinton to fellow U.S.

00:43:36.000 Representative Dean Phillips of Minnesota, is to engage her in a type of educational discussion.

00:43:41.000 Apparently, this has already been tried.

00:43:44.000 Last year, State Senator Ron Latz, a St.

00:43:46.000 Louis Park Democrat, who has served in the legislature since 2002, invited Omar to his house, where a number of Jewish leaders had gathered.

00:43:52.000 It wasn't an ambush.

00:43:53.000 Omar knew the group was there, and their purpose was to enlighten her.

00:43:55.000 Maybe Omar, who spent four years from age 8 to 12 in a Kenyan camp for Somali refugees, just didn't understand.

00:44:01.000 Latz recalled some wondering at the time.

00:44:03.000 The apex or nadir of antisemitism, the Holocaust, would be a matter of European history for a then 36-year-old Muslim native of Somalia.

00:44:09.000 Did she know it?

00:44:10.000 The trappings of antisemitism in Minneapolis, restricted hospitals, country clubs, property covenants, were American manifestations that vanished decades before Omar came to America.

00:44:19.000 The subtleties of language, the code words used to marginalize Jews.

00:44:21.000 Did she understand the nuance?

00:44:23.000 Latz recalled, we wanted to reach out to her.

00:44:25.000 We were a bit troubled about several things she had said.

00:44:28.000 Among those things was a 2012 tweet in which Omar wrote, As of Tuesday morning, Omar had still not deleted the tweet, even after supposedly apologizing for it.

00:44:43.000 Apparently, Lattes emphasized the problem wasn't the policy dispute with Addiction and the tone they had a two-hour gathering with Ilhan Omar.

00:44:50.000 He declined to recall the exact statements made by him or others, but here is his summary.

00:44:55.000 Over the course of two hours, we shared with her our concerns for things, including language that has references and meanings beyond just the meanings of words.

00:45:01.000 Tropes, dog whistles, call them what you will. 0.99

00:45:03.000 We explained to her how hurtful and how factually inaccurate they were.

00:45:06.000 Most of us came out of that conversation very troubled by the answers we received.

00:45:10.000 Remember, this is four years ago.

00:45:12.000 I was not convinced she was going to give a balanced approach to policy in the Middle East, and I was not convinced where her heart is on these things.

00:45:19.000 Okay, so the bottom line is that Omar has been a longtime anti-Semite, she continues to traffic in anti-Semitism, and Democrats don't care.

00:45:27.000 They don't.

00:45:28.000 They forced a fake apology out of her.

00:45:30.000 They're not removing her from any committee assignments.

00:45:32.000 She's had to apologize for anti-Semitism two times in the last four weeks.

00:45:38.000 When Steve King said a thing that was construed as openly racist, he was removed of all committee assignments by a Republican Congress. 0.97

00:45:45.000 Ilhan Omar has twice in four weeks apologized for open antisemitism, and we're going to treat her like she's a five-year-old, as though she doesn't know what she's saying, when she's been saying openly antisemitic garbage for years on end. 0.96

00:45:57.000 Why? 0.66

00:45:57.000 Because, as I say, the Democrats brook no forgiveness for people who violate the standards they care about, but they don't actually care about anti-Semitism. 0.66

00:46:05.000 Their forgiveness is readily available.

00:46:07.000 Their Ilhan Omar maintains her status as a fresh face of the Democratic Party.

00:46:11.000 AOC maintains her status as a fresh face.

00:46:13.000 Rashida Tlaib, another anti-Semite, retains her status as a fresh face.

00:46:17.000 Because anti-Semitism in the Democratic Party is not a violation of standards.

00:46:21.000 It is, in fact, the new standard.

00:46:23.000 The new standard is anti-Israel, anti-Zionism that borders and crosses over into anti-Semitism all too frequently.

00:46:30.000 Alrighty, time for some things I like and some things that I hate.

00:46:33.000 So, things that I like... 0.98

00:46:35.000 Bill Gates is apparently fed up with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as well he should be, because her proposals are silly, they are backwards, they are asinine, they are counterproductive. 0.96

00:46:45.000 Even Bill Gates, who's a very left-leaning dude, a career Democrat, he says that AOC is missing the big picture, that she just doesn't get it. 0.93

00:46:53.000 What do you make of the notion that our government should work harder?

00:46:57.000 That the idea that we should just tax folks like you at a 70% marginal tax rate, and that that money should be used to build infrastructure and services like this?

00:47:04.000 Certainly the idea of the government being more effective in terms of how it runs education or social programs, you know, there's a lot of opportunity for improvement there.

00:47:13.000 We can be more progressive, the estate tax and the tax on capital, the way the FICA Social Security tax worked, we can be more progressive without really threatening the income generation.

00:47:24.000 So you're not like in a modern monetary theory that says, don't worry about the deficit, we'll just print the money and do it.

00:47:30.000 That is some crazy talk.

00:47:33.000 I mean, it's certainly out there.

00:47:35.000 It's gaining currency.

00:47:36.000 Well, that's crazy.

00:47:37.000 It will come and bite you.

00:47:39.000 That is, the people you owe the money to, you will have a problem.

00:47:43.000 Well, Bill Gates, who knows something about money generation and generating jobs, and is a career Democrat, is coming out and saying the New Democratic Party is out of its mind.

00:47:51.000 He will be cast out with scorn and hatred within the next five years.

00:47:54.000 The Democratic Party has just moved too far to the left.

00:47:57.000 Now, if we're going to become the Soviet Union, if AOC were to receive fruition, we would nationalize all industry, we would abolish capitalism and all the rest.

00:48:04.000 People would die.

00:48:04.000 It would be a pretty terrible place.

00:48:06.000 It would be pretty awful for the economy of the world. 0.85

00:48:09.000 The Soviet Union, an awful, evil, terrible, no good, very bad place. 1.00

00:48:12.000 The one thing, the one upside, they had a great national anthem.

00:48:15.000 I mean, I know, awkward, but they did.

00:48:18.000 In fact, the National Anthem for the Soviet Union was so good that Vladimir Putin recently brought it back and changed the words, because the National Anthem for the Soviets is pretty great.

00:48:25.000 Here's a little bit of the Soviet National Anthem.

00:48:26.000 and we may as well just get used to it since presumably this will be played at the 2024 Democratic National Convention when AOC is nominated.

00:48:33.000 AOC is nominated.

00:49:03.000 AOC is nominated.

00:49:12.000 Unbelievably evil country, fantastic National Anthem.

00:49:15.000 So, there's that.

00:49:16.000 I mean, if we're gonna go down this path, maybe we can... I mean, it's a better National Anthem than our National Anthem, just on a musical level.

00:49:22.000 Not on a freedom level, obviously, but on a musical level, I've been a long-time believer that we should actually substitute America the Beautiful for our National Anthem. 0.96

00:49:30.000 I think the Star-Spangled Banner is just musical garbage. 0.86

00:49:33.000 It actually was an old British drinking song. 0.98

00:49:35.000 Did you know that?

00:49:36.000 Interesting.

00:49:36.000 Anyway, so...

00:49:38.000 That is that.

00:49:38.000 Also, if you enjoy that, you can watch the Hunt for Red October, where people actually sing the Soviet National Anthem to let the Americans find the Soviet defectors, which is pretty great.

00:49:46.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.

00:49:48.000 Okay, so, over the last couple of days, President Trump held this rally in El Paso.

00:49:57.000 It was a big story because a cameraman was attacked at the Trump rally.

00:50:00.000 There's a little bit of tape of what that actually looked like.

00:50:03.000 Like, here was President Trump speaking, and then you will see what happened to this camera person.

00:50:06.000 Okay, it's a little bit hard to see, but basically there's a cameraman, a guy in a MAGA hat pushed the but basically there's a cameraman, a guy in a MAGA hat pushed Now, what the media are not reporting is that the crowd started booing the guy who pushed over the reporter, and he was being held back by another guy in a MAGA hat.

00:50:32.000 So, you know, that seems to me a bad person doing a bad thing.

00:50:37.000 And other people there stopping him.

00:50:38.000 The White House Correspondents Association then tried to blame it on Trump.

00:50:41.000 The White House Correspondents Association put out a statement saying that they condemn the physical attack on our colleague at the President's rally in El Paso, Texas.

00:50:47.000 We're relieved that this time no one was seriously hurt.

00:50:49.000 The President of the United States should make absolutely clear to his supporters that violence against reporters is unacceptable.

00:50:55.000 Well, honestly, like the administration has said that multiple times.

00:50:59.000 And they repeated that this morning with Sarah Huckabee Sanders going on TV and saying, of course, we condemn this violence.

00:51:04.000 We don't want violence against reporters.

00:51:05.000 We just think that they should stop fibbing.

00:51:07.000 But those those are completely separable.

00:51:08.000 Reporters should actually report the news and be better at their jobs.

00:51:10.000 And also, separately, no one should attack anybody else in a civilized country.

00:51:15.000 You condemn any sort of attacks on anybody, right?

00:51:18.000 Absolutely.

00:51:20.000 And the idea that the president or anybody on his team or in his administration would encourage violence is absolutely absurd.

00:51:29.000 The president stopped, asked, and made sure everyone was okay before continuing on with the event.

00:51:35.000 Certainly, we condemn violence in any form against anyone, and that certainly includes the press.

00:51:42.000 Of course that's true.

00:51:43.000 There's this weird relationship the press has to free speech where they say that certain speech causes violence but not if it's leftist speech.

00:51:49.000 So Bernie Sanders' supporter shoots a bunch of Congress people on a baseball field?

00:51:52.000 Nothing to do with Bernie Sanders.

00:51:53.000 Which, by the way, I generally agree with.

00:51:56.000 A Trump supporter assaults a journalist at a Trump rally?

00:51:59.000 Obviously Trump's fault.

00:52:00.000 You can't have it both ways.

00:52:02.000 Okay, either words only cause violence when you're actively encouraging violence, or words cause violence if a cracked person could take them to heart.

00:52:10.000 You're gonna have to choose. 0.91

00:52:11.000 And if that's the case, then Beto O'Rourke should preemptively condemn violence, because at his rally, there were people who were beating the living crap out of a Donald Trump piñata.

00:52:19.000 So the pinata is not a person, but I think it's fair to say this is a somewhat violent activity, obviously.

00:52:25.000 So good times over there at the Beto rally.

00:52:41.000 Again, the tenor of politics in our country does have to change pretty radically, but I think that if the media are going to try and blame Trump for violence, then they're going to have to hold an equal standard.

00:52:49.000 I'm a big fan of objective standards.

00:52:51.000 I like a country of rules, not arbitrarily applied standards.

00:52:55.000 I like to know what the rules are before we get into the political game in the first place.

00:52:59.000 Okay, we'll be back a little bit later today with two more hours, which is why you should subscribe at dailywire.com.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - February 13, 2019

They Dreamed A Dream | Ep. 716

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