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00:00:08.000All right, so we have a lot coming up for you on today's show.
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00:00:32.000I want to get to all the news of the day, and there is a lot of news.
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00:02:46.000These things are like traditional morality about sex.
00:02:48.000Which is really bad because, as we all know, the only type of sex that is bad, the only type of sex that is bad is the one that is not physically pleasing.
00:02:58.000But traditional Christians don't think that.
00:02:59.000They actually think that certain types of sex are sinful.
00:03:02.000And Christians think a lot of other weird things, too, about, like, this weird sky god and all that kind of stuff.
00:03:08.000Well, the reason that I bring this up is that CNN reporters are now discovering that these Christians exist, and it's opened up a whole new lens on the world for them.
00:03:16.000It's like they're walking around every day, and it's like, oh my God, they suddenly realize that half the population is vampires.
00:03:23.000CNN reporter Kate Bennett describes herself as on the FLOTUS beat, meaning that she covers the First Lady of the United States.
00:04:14.000The second lady of the United States has chosen to work at a school that openly discriminates against LGBT adults and children.
00:04:21.000What this makes it sound like is that Karen Pence is like heading on over to the local Sharia law school and there she is teaching about the evils of homosexuality.
00:04:31.000She's an art teacher and she's teaching at a traditional Christian school.
00:04:35.000This Christian school is very bad though.
00:04:36.000It's called the Emanuel Christian School.
00:04:38.000It enrolls kindergartners through eighth graders at its campus in Springfield, Virginia.
00:04:42.000And if you want to go to the school, You know, voluntarily, like, it's a Christian school that teaches Christian principles.
00:04:47.000And if you're a Christian who wants to voluntarily attend this Christian school, then you have to sign an agreement that you're going to abide by Christian standards of conduct.
00:04:55.000Now, as a religious person, as a religious Jew, we have exactly the same thing in the Jewish community, right?
00:05:34.000This is brand new stuff to folks in the media.
00:05:36.000And it also adds that certain moral misconduct would be disqualifying for both students and teachers.
00:05:41.000Such as heterosexual activity outside of marriage, like premarital sex, cohabitation, extramarital sex, homosexual or lesbian sexual activity, polygamy, transgender identity, any other violation of the unique roles of male and female.
00:05:57.000Because how could the non-elected vice president's wife go and teach at a Christian school that preaches actual, like, long-lasting traditional Christian values?
00:06:09.000It's just insane that she would actually go teach at a Christian school.
00:06:12.000Now, this is called a Christian being a Christian and doing Christian things in their Christian life.
00:06:16.000This is just how Christians operate in the daily world, traditional Christians.
00:06:19.000It's how traditional Jews operate in the daily world.
00:06:21.000By the way, it's how traditional Muslims operate in the daily world, right?
00:06:24.000If you are a religious person of any of the three Abrahamic faiths, and you are really traditional in your religious observance, then all the things that I just listed, you also believe.
00:06:34.000But this is really bad, according to Kate Bennett.
00:06:37.000So she's a reporter, but she's never heard of a religious person before.
00:06:40.000She's a White House reporter for CNN who has never heard of a Christian.
00:06:46.000Mike Pence's wife, who is a Christian, is working at a Christian school that believes in Christian principles that people can voluntarily associate with.
00:06:55.000Who's the really discriminatory person here?
00:06:57.000Mike Pence's wife, who is joining a private school that is privately funded and not publicly funded, And engaging in voluntary association that has nothing to do with public policy, or a CNN reporter saying that Mike Pence's wife is disgracing the country by doing this.
00:07:15.000This is all objective news journalisming over at CNN.
00:07:19.000But this goes to a really difficult issue for a lot of folks on the left, and that is a lot of folks on the left actually believe that religion itself, traditional religion itself in the United States, must be quashed in order for freedom to reign.
00:07:31.000Not just on a legal level, but on a cultural level as well.
00:07:33.000People must be shamed for associating with traditional religious organizations.
00:07:38.000So the New York Times, which of course was also shocked to learn about religious people, They quoted a woman named Elizabeth Shackman Hurd, a professor of politics and religion at Northwestern University.
00:07:48.000She said that the school's requirements appeared more extreme than other religious schools, and noted that not all Christians would agree with them.
00:07:55.000I mean, of course not all Christians would agree with them, but some Christians agree with them, namely the Christians who are going to the school, and who fund the school, and who pay to go to the school.
00:08:03.000And as far as these requirements being more extreme than other religious schools, I'd like to see some poll data on that.
00:08:09.000I would bet you money that virtually every Catholic school in the country has extraordinarily similar requirements.
00:08:14.000Every Orthodox school that I know of has similar requirements.
00:08:17.000And then this professor says that Mrs. Pence's choice of employment was not surprising because the school's values appeared to mirror those of the Trump administration.
00:08:25.000And this is where they're really going, right?
00:08:27.000The vice president's wife, who is not elected, is teaching at a Christian school that she taught at for a dozen years before.
00:08:33.000But now, this is a reflection on the Trump administration's evil.
00:08:37.000So Professor Hurd says, given the exclusionary nationalism in this administration, clearly she is a clear-eyed, objective viewer of this administration, and sorts of politics taken on various things, it would not be at all surprising for the second lady to associate herself with some prominent fashion with an institution like this.
00:08:52.000It raises important issues about education and diversity, and what kind of forward-facing public officials we want representing our country at home and abroad.
00:09:01.000Again, the application clearly states that certain things are necessary if you want to join, which is not a problem.
00:09:13.000What they want is that any time a public figure is a member of a church, unless you're Barack Obama and you go to Jeremiah Wright's church for 20 years, where he preaches outright hatred of the United States, hatred of Jews, the 9-11 was the chickens coming home to roost, right?
00:09:24.000Then, if you mention that, by the way, that you're a racist, right?
00:09:26.000If you mention Jeremiah Wright, A pastor so close to Barack Obama that Barack Obama literally named his second book, The Audacity of Hope, after a speech called The Audacity of Hope, given by Jeremiah Wright.
00:09:37.000If you mention that, and you say, well, maybe his ideas are linked to Jeremiah Wright and so on, they go, no, that's his private religious belief.
00:10:11.000That's part of the political back and forth and the religious back and forth that we go through every day in this country.
00:10:16.000It's part of what makes the country good is that we can have these conversations.
00:10:19.000But to shame somebody as though they've done something uniquely terrible by going and teaching at a Christian school is nothing but a cultural attempt to quash religion itself.
00:10:28.000And that cultural attempt is not going to stay cultural.
00:10:34.000It is just wrong on every level for Karen Pence to associate with a church like this.
00:10:39.000Now what's funny is that Bennett, this reporter from CNN, then tweeted back at me, And she said, well, listen, you know, I'm really not all that upset about religious freedom.
00:10:49.000She says, I have absolutely nothing against religious people or our freedom to practice faith.
00:10:54.000First of all, both of those statements are lies.
00:10:55.000Obviously, she doesn't like religious people, because if a religious person believes something she doesn't like, she doesn't like what they're doing.
00:11:01.000And she says, she has nothing against freedom to practice faith.
00:11:05.000She literally said that she found it appalling that somebody was practicing their religious faith, because that's exactly what she's talking about.
00:11:13.000But then she continues, Okay, quick correction.
00:11:17.000Karen Pence is not a representative of the country.
00:11:48.000But in any case, this idea that Karen Pence is representative of the country and therefore she's doing something deeply wrong, Great, great reporting there from CNN.
00:12:00.000Okay, in just a second, in just a second, I want to talk a little bit about how this is not going to stay a cultural issue.
00:12:05.000This is going to turn into a legal issue quite quickly.
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00:13:52.000But in my synagogue, it's a different story.
00:13:55.000If the idea is that my synagogue has to hire people who are homosexual, Or that my synagogue has to perform same-sex marriages, or that it's going to lose its non-profit status or its tax-exempt status, then you have the state impinging on religious freedom.
00:14:07.000And that is where all of this is going to go.
00:14:09.000It's going to start with the schools, because the case is going to be made, and it already is being made in the state of California, the idiotic state from which I hail, it's already being made there, that if you teach your children traditional morality, you're damaging your children.
00:14:20.000You're doing something deeply wrong by teaching your children traditional morality.
00:14:24.000In fact, there's a guy named Angelo Corazon, who's the head of Media Matters for America, Most famous for leading boycotts nonsensically against various hosts.
00:14:35.000And then he suggested that Karen Pence and Christian parents are basically indoctrinating their kids into bigotry.
00:14:40.000This is the case that's going to be made by a lot of folks on the left.
00:14:43.000That if you bring up your kid in traditional religious fashion, then what you're actually doing is damaging your own child.
00:14:48.000Now, he also was very angry that we at Daily Wire had covered the story where a 10-year-old boy was being dressed in drag and then taking photographs next to naked drag queens.
00:14:56.000He said we shouldn't have covered that.
00:14:57.000That was really That was really impinging on the rights of the parents.
00:15:00.000So, to get this straight, in his view, dangerous is pointing out that it's bad for parents to dress their 10-year-old boys in drag and let them take pictures next to naked men.
00:15:09.000But what is really, really dangerous is that if you have your kid go to a Bible class.
00:15:27.000So they pitch the good parts of the law, but they don't pitch the entire law.
00:15:30.000So the good parts of the law is when they say that they ban gay conversion therapy, this is basically a discredited, evidence-free version of you're going to turn a homosexual person straight or something by talking to them.
00:15:42.000There's not a lot of evidence that any of that works.
00:15:44.000With that said, in a free country, if I decide that I want to take my 13-year-old boy to see a therapist and the therapist wants to talk about the kid's sexual orientation and whether the kid might be confused about sexual orientation, I don't see why that should be illegal.
00:15:56.000I think that's a vast overstep just from a libertarian perspective, not even from a traditionalist perspective.
00:16:01.000But let's say that you think that that should be illegal.
00:16:06.000The state legally declared that being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender is not a disease, disorder, illness, deficiency, or shortcoming.
00:16:15.000I'm not sure how you can by law declare that being transgender is not a disorder.
00:16:18.000It is literally called gender identity disorder.
00:16:24.000We talked about this yesterday on the radio show.
00:16:28.000It bans people who are therapists from discussing gender dysphoria with people in any honest way.
00:16:33.000So if you have a 10-year-old kid who comes in and says, I know I'm a biological boy, but I'm actually a girl on the inside.
00:16:38.000And you as a therapist say, well, you know, let's think this one through.
00:16:40.000You could be guilty of violating the law in New York state.
00:16:44.000The same agenda is going to be pressed down on these various schools.
00:16:47.000So take this law and see how it applies to Emanuel Christian School, the school where Karen Pence is teaching.
00:16:53.000The law prevents you from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, It also prevents you from suggesting in any way that a biological male is a biological male and a biological female is a biological female because transgenderism is just the natural state of the world.
00:17:09.000The way this is going to be used is, number one, they will remove the tax-exempt status for all religious organizations across the country.
00:17:16.000And they will use as their sort of test case the Bob Jones University case from 1981.
00:17:20.000So there's a very famous Supreme Court case, Bob Jones University, in which the IRS decided that they were going to remove the tax-exempt status for Bob Jones University.
00:17:28.000Bob Jones University had a very stupid policy that banned interracial dating.
00:17:32.000And the IRS said that's really bad, we're going to end their tax-exempt status.
00:17:37.000And maybe you need Congress to rewrite the statutes.
00:17:39.000But the IRS didn't have the statutory authority to just say that things that are bad no longer get tax-exempt status.
00:17:45.000But the Supreme Court ruled that because Bob Jones was discriminatory, therefore the tax-exempt status could be removed.
00:17:51.000Once these non-discrimination bills are passed in states across the country, the next move will be to go to all these religious institutions and say to them that you must accept same-sex marriages being performed from your pulpit, you must accept Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender teachers at your religious school.
00:18:06.000And if you don't, then you will lose not only your non-profit status, but your accreditation.
00:18:10.000And once you lose your non-profit status and your accreditation, your kids are going to have to go to the local public school.
00:18:15.000And if you decide to homeschool them, then we are not going to allow you to homeschool them unless you fulfill our certain basic educational requirements.
00:18:22.000This is the direction in which the left is moving, and it is open discrimination.
00:18:25.000And to pretend that it is not is foolish.
00:18:28.000The people who are cramming down their values at this point are not religious theocrats.
00:18:32.000Religious theocrats are not cramming down their values.
00:18:34.000Mike Pence is not attempting to make homosexual activity illegal.
00:18:37.000I can't name a Republican across the country who is.
00:18:46.000The people who are trying to impinge on the rights and freedoms of others are the people in the secular left world who have decided that religion itself is discriminatory and infringes freedom.
00:18:56.000This has always been, by the way, the way that religious minorities are persecuted.
00:19:00.000The way that religious minorities are persecuted in countries across the world is that they run up against the prevailing social order and that social order is allowed to step on the minorities that are infringing what the social order is attempting to do.
00:19:14.000Whether that discrimination is coming from Islamic tyrannies in the Middle East or whether that discrimination is coming from European states that are attempting to crush Christianity, it does not matter.
00:19:23.000If you're attempting to crush private religious practice that has no impact on public policy because you don't like that religious practice, you are a bigot and you are a tyrant.
00:19:31.000And that is the direction that the modern American left is moving.
00:19:38.000There's a reason, by the way, that Christianity around the world is suffering a huge increase in persecution.
00:19:44.000You've seen that the Chinese government has been particularly active in trying to quash religious freedom in China because tyrannies recognize that the rebellion that exists within those tyrannical societies generally comes from religious people who believe in individual rights and families.
00:19:58.000And thus, you have to have China cracking down.
00:20:00.000What's been amazing is to watch Western secular companies basically be okay with that.
00:20:26.000There's an actual op-ed in the Washington Post today by David Perry and Matthew Gabriel suggesting that the term Western civilization is itself racist.
00:20:35.000So they say that because Steve King once used the term Western Civilization, Western Civilization, like the term, is racist.
00:20:41.000Which means that we have to ban the term Western Civilization or at least pretend that Western Civilization no longer holds.
00:20:46.000The truth is that a lot of the objections to Christianity and Judeo-Christian values and Western Civilization are built on a Marxist premise that America and Western civilized countries are inherently racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic, and must be torn out by the roots.
00:20:59.000So Christianity has to go because it's bigoted.
00:21:01.000Even though Christianity, by the way, the Christian world is the basis for all the rights and freedoms that you enjoy today.
00:21:08.000I don't care whether you are religious.
00:21:10.000We live in a world defined by the Judeo-Christian ethic.
00:21:14.000That's what made the West different from every other place on planet Earth.
00:21:17.000And to pretend that that ethic was completely thrown out with the Enlightenment, that what the Enlightenment was about was saying, churches are wrong.
00:21:23.000We're just not going to do church anymore.
00:21:24.000That is to ignore the fact that virtually every value that we hold dear is rooted in Judeo-Christian tradition.
00:21:31.000The most important sentence ever written in the history of humanity is that man is made in God's image.
00:21:34.000It is the beginning and end point of virtually all moral arguments.
00:21:38.000That is an argument that is made by the Judeo-Christian religion.
00:21:41.000The argument for personal liberty, that you have inherent rights.
00:21:44.000The argument that virtue matters, so that we can have freedom.
00:21:47.000All of this arises in a Western civilization defined by these values.
00:21:50.000So, if you wanted to do away with those values, if you wanted the collective to be more important than the individual, the best way to do it would be to attack Christianity and Judaism at their roots.
00:21:59.000Would be to attack religion and tear those away.
00:22:02.000And again, the ironic part of this is that this is the least threatening time for theocracy in world history, at least from the Judeo-Christian side.
00:22:10.000We're being treated as though Karen Pence is the true threat to liberty.
00:22:14.000Not the Democrats who are attempting to stop judges from being appointed to the bench based on their membership in the Knights of Columbus.
00:22:20.000Okay, in just a second, I want to talk a little bit about the latest from Rudy Giuliani.
00:22:24.000But first, I need to talk to you about the watch that you're wearing.
00:23:56.000As a lawyer, there are certain clients that you just dread, and Donald Trump is that client.
00:24:00.000Because the first rule of lawyering is you tell your client to shut up.
00:24:02.000That legitimately is like the first, no matter what the situation, the first rule of lawyering is cut off all communications between you and the other side.
00:24:09.000I don't care whether we're talking transactional law or criminal law, but particularly when you are in the midst of a massive counterintelligence slash criminal investigation into Russian collusion.
00:24:18.000First rule, tell your client to shut up.
00:24:21.000Second rule, your client actually has to tell you the truth so that you can Form a legal strategy around it.
00:24:26.000Third rule is don't say stupid stuff on TV.
00:24:28.000All three of these rules are routinely violated by President Trump's legal team.
00:24:32.000So Rudy Giuliani was on CNN yesterday with Chris Cuomo, a physical block of wood, and he was explaining to Chris Cuomo that President Trump personally did not collude with Russia, but maybe somebody did, which is like, dude.
00:25:03.000I said the President of the United States.
00:25:05.000There is not a single bit of evidence the President of the United States committed the only crime you could commit here, conspired with the Russians to hack the DNC.
00:25:47.000This is a guy who said he didn't sleep with Stormy Daniels.
00:25:51.000I'm sorry, the President of the United States does not make good legal defenses of himself because he just says whatever comes into his head at any given moment.
00:25:59.000But the part where Rudy has a defensible truth—it's ugly, but it's defensible—is, I think, the case he's going to make.
00:26:06.000And this sort of looks forward to the Mueller report.
00:26:08.000The case that he's probably going to make is that the President of the United States Didn't personally know about anything.
00:26:15.000The people in his campaign who were doing bad stuff were acting outside the scope of agency.
00:26:18.000In other words, they were just kind of acting out on their own.
00:26:21.000So Manafort was freelancing when he was talking with the Russians?
00:26:30.000So even as Rudy Giuliani stumbles out the gate when talking about the Mueller investigation, the good news is for the Republicans that the Democrats are not doing themselves any favor.
00:26:38.000Beto O'Rourke Today, I will say the Democrats have been totally taken over by the social media wing of their party.
00:26:44.000Now, as a big user of social media, I'm fond of social media, but social media isn't necessarily the best way to weed out deep thinkers.
00:26:51.000There's a reason that Alexander Ocasio-Cortez is about to teach, I kid you not, a session to older lawmakers on how to tweet.
00:27:01.000The House Democratic Policy and Communications Committee is hosting a session Thursday morning with Ocasio-Cortez on the most effective ways to engage constituents on Twitter and the importance of digital storytelling.
00:27:12.000Rule number one, be a pretty young woman.
00:27:14.000I mean, and then when, if you can't fulfill rule number one, then you're basically, you're screwed at that point.
00:27:19.000I mean, if you're a Democrat and you are 70 years old, you're not gonna get good at social media anytime soon.
00:27:24.000What's made her popular on social media is the fact that she is likable on social media, she is sassy on social media, and of course she's pretty.
00:27:32.000But she is teaching Democrats the most important things in life, how to be good on social media.
00:27:36.000Beto O'Rourke, meanwhile, is running for president.
00:27:39.000He's polling number two in a lot of these polls.
00:27:41.000It's showing Biden and then Beto O'Rourke.
00:27:43.000And Biden seems to be dropping by the day because he's old and boring.
00:27:46.000Beto O'Rourke is the hot new thing because he rides a skateboard and because he has like a big, he has bangs on his face and he just kind of flicks his hair back because he's cool.
00:27:56.000So he has a piece today in Medium.com.
00:28:00.000I love that this guy's one of the front runners.
00:29:29.000It's been more than 20 years since I was last not working.
00:29:33.000Maybe if I get moving on the road, meet people, learn about what's going on where they live, have some adventure, go where I don't know and I'm not known, it'll clear my head.
00:30:45.000Really astonishing stuff from Beto O'Rourke.
00:30:48.000I mean, when he's not, when he's not actually taping his, when he's not busy taping his dental appointments, apparently he is busy running around and writing about his experiences in Texas.
00:31:00.000He must have been the worst in high school, right?
00:31:01.000I mean, like, he's the worst now, so he must be the worst in high school also.
00:31:04.000Okay, in a second, I want to talk a little bit more about the various Democratic candidates who are being upheld by the media.
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00:32:42.000We have Lieutenant Colonel Alan West on at YouTube.
00:35:25.000Okay, I want to give you a quick update on the Steve King story because I want to get to the State of the Union stuff in a second, but the Steve King story is pretty telling.
00:35:36.000The Steve King story, as you all know, Representative Steve King from Iowa, he was asked, he actually asked in a New York Times interview how the terms white nationalist and white supremacist became offensive, according to the New York Times.
00:35:49.000And a bunch of Republicans and Democrats looked to censor Steve King.
00:35:52.000A bunch of them looked to censure him for his racial comments.
00:36:12.000Well, it turns out what they are afraid of is that if they censure Steve King, they are also going to have to start censuring their members of their own caucus for saying racist stuff.
00:36:24.000Clyburn, who's the House Majority Whip, he noted that King made his statements to the news media, not during House proceedings.
00:36:29.000He said, I don't know it's a good thing for us to talk about censure for things that are done outside the business of the House of Representatives.
00:36:36.000He said we should be very, very careful about doing anything that constrains or seems to constrain speech.
00:36:40.000Democrats are deeply concerned about doing anything that might constrain speech.
00:36:44.000It's one of their chief concerns in life, which is why they promote hate speech laws and why they talk about microaggressions and intersectionality endlessly.
00:36:53.000And then Bobby Rush ripped into, ripped into Clyburn.
00:36:57.000He said that Clyburn's disapproval resolution was almost meaningless.
00:36:59.000But Clyburn says, listen, here's the problem.
00:37:02.000If we censure Steve King, how many of you have been saying nice things about Louis Farrakhan for years?
00:37:06.000How many of you have been saying bad things about Jews?
00:37:08.000Like today, Representative Ilhan Omar, who's an anti-Semite, went on CNN.
00:37:12.000And not only did she double down on her anti-Semitism, she also suggested in an open national interview, she became the second Democratic representative to do this in the last day, that Lindsey Graham was being blackmailed by President Trump because Lindsey Graham is gay.
00:37:48.000But Democrats are now allowed to do this.
00:37:50.000But what Clyburn is afraid of is that he might actually have to censure his own members because they say crazy stuff too.
00:37:57.000Turns out that when you have a group of 435 people, there are a bunch of people who say crazy stuff in there.
00:38:02.000But I love the cynicism of Democrats so angry at Steve King that they will not censure him because they might have to censure members of their own caucus for being terrible.
00:38:12.000But at the same time, we are told by people like Nicole Wallace at MSNBC that really the racism problem only exists on the Republican side of the aisle.
00:38:19.000The Democrats are clean as the driven snow.
00:38:30.000Okay, well, latest on the government shutdown, it continues, of course, and this means that the Democrats now have an excuse to cancel the State of the Union Address.
00:38:38.000As I pointed out yesterday, I could not be happier with this, frankly.
00:38:41.000Like, I am so excited I don't have to cover the State of the Union Address.
00:38:54.000You have the president walk in as though he's the crown prince of England.
00:38:58.000And then everybody pats him on the back and they take selfies with him, and then they'll stand and cheer, oh, you're the president.
00:39:03.000Okay, when the Constitution was written, it was the legislature that was supposed to be the predominant branch of government, not the executive.
00:39:08.000Yet we treat the executive as though it is the predominant branch of government, and the State of the Union was made into a giant speech by Woodrow Wilson because Woodrow Wilson was, in fact, a quasi-fascist who liked that sort of spectacle.
00:39:19.000Okay, well, if we get rid of the State of the Union, I'm gonna be super happy.
00:39:22.000I think President Trump should just do it directly from the border.
00:39:26.000But the Democrats, the real reason they don't want to do the State of the Union, it's amazing how they even lie about this.
00:39:41.000The real reason they don't want to do the State of the Union has nothing to do with inability to do it.
00:39:46.000It's because they don't want the imagery of President Trump lecturing them about keeping the government shut.
00:39:51.000So Nancy Pelosi just lied about it yesterday.
00:39:53.000The Speaker of the House, she said, The reason that we can't do the State of the Union is because it won't be safe.
00:39:59.000Here's the Speaker of the House explaining that one yesterday.
00:40:04.000And I, having been in the leadership a long time, have been, maybe before you were all here, where they have, we have so prepared in advance for something happening in that chamber.
00:40:48.000It's obviously an excuse so that Nancy Pelosi does not have to sit there while Trump points to angel moms in the crowd and says, why don't you defend this angel mom?
00:40:56.000Why don't you defend this wounded person?
00:40:58.000Why don't you defend this victim of illegal immigration?
00:41:00.000They're attempting to avoid the consequences of their own position on the government shutdown.
00:41:05.000It is indicative of how people in the Democratic Party treat national security and security issues generally.
00:41:11.000So what they say is that there doesn't need to be a wall.
00:41:13.000Border Patrol is saying, yeah, guys, there does.
00:41:16.000And then they're like, well, you know what?
00:41:17.000Homeland Security probably can't do the State of the Union.
00:41:19.000And Homeland Security's like, no, actually, we kind of can.
00:41:22.000And they say things like, well, the military doesn't need X, Y, and Z. And members of the military say, well, no, actually, we could probably use those things.
00:41:29.000And then they expect us to believe that they take security seriously?
00:41:34.000The real reason that Pelosi is not doing the State of the Union is because she doesn't want to be humiliated on a public stage, which is the same reason why she's refusing to meet with the Angel Moms.
00:41:43.000Yesterday, a bunch of Angel Moms went to Nancy Pelosi's office, and she refused to come out or speak with them because, why would she?
00:41:49.000I mean, she understands how optics work.
00:41:51.000You care about your fellow Americans more than you care about illegal aliens crossing our borders.
00:42:06.000My son's life is worth more than $1, and that's an insult to all of us.
00:42:12.000Okay, there's a reason Nancy Pelosi doesn't want to show up, because obviously she understands how optics works.
00:42:16.000And I will point out, the amount of media coverage for the angel moms who went to Nancy Pelosi's office was not nearly the amount of media coverage for the four Democratic Congress people who went in search for Mitch McConnell yesterday.
00:42:25.000So there were four Democratic Congress people, they went to Mitch McConnell's office, and they showed up and they're like, where's Mitch McConnell?
00:42:56.000Ilhan Omar would start yelling at him, and he would just stand there and take it, and it would be really amusing.
00:43:01.000He'd just be like, well, you guys could just fund the border, you know.
00:43:04.000And in his turtle voice, and it would be great.
00:43:06.000Like, I actually think that more confrontation with Democrats on this issue is necessary, but McConnell is not famous for being confrontational.
00:43:13.000With that said, the State of the Union excuses that are being made right now are obviously horrendous excuses and do not reflect reality in any serious way.
00:43:21.000It's just another way for Democrats to try and get out of this.
00:43:24.000And this is the benefit of being able to run on the media's love.
00:43:28.000The polls show right now that the media, that basically most Americans think that Congress is doing a bad job, think Obama, think that Trump is doing a bad job.
00:43:38.000That plurality of Americans, a slight minority of Americans rather, are in support of the wall and that Trump's approval ratings are really low.
00:43:45.000So all Democrats have to do is stay out of the limelight and just keep shouting Trump.
00:43:49.000What Trump has to do is shift the narrative that's very difficult to do in the face of a Democratic Party overwhelmingly united by their hatred of him.
00:43:56.000What was so terrible about border fencing six years ago?
00:44:13.000So on the one side, you have Trump saying, we need border security so that we can ensure that people don't get killed.
00:44:19.000And on the other side, Bernie Sanders legitimately, legitimately went outside the EPA.
00:44:24.000He stood outside the EPA and he said, we need the government shut down to end because of climate change.
00:44:30.000Like, of all the government services that are urgent to provide, the EPA administrators are the ones, they're not even the ones doing the climate change research, they're the regulators.
00:44:39.000Like, if they're gone for a week, nobody notices.
00:44:41.000In fact, if they're gone forever, nobody's going to notice, except they'll be able to actually build things on their own property.
00:44:46.000But Bernie thinks that that's the real priority.
00:44:47.000The difference in priorities is what Democrats are deeply afraid of, it's what President Trump has to keep hammering, and it's what the media will refuse to cover.
00:44:55.000So that's the real reason why Democrats are trying to run away desperately from the State of the Union address.
00:45:00.000They don't actually want Trump to have a public opportunity to show them up.
00:45:03.000Okay, time for a couple of things I like, and then we'll do some things that I hate.
00:45:26.000James Gandolfini is terrific in the show.
00:45:28.000And there's a shockingly moral undercurrent to the show, which is that if you are an evil person who justifies evil acts to yourselves, there are serious consequences to that.
00:45:37.000Here's a little bit of the trailer for the original Sopranos.
00:45:39.000By the time I was a kid, I knew I'd run a family business.
00:46:13.000We'd run around at strip clubs and blow things up, which is why you actually do need a moral society.
00:46:20.000Subversive undercurrent of this show is that the guys in The Godfather are actually bad guys, and that the guys in The Sopranos are actually bad guys.
00:46:28.000So it's worth a watch if you've never seen it, and if you can handle, you know, graphic violence and nudity, but you're an American, so you probably can't.
00:46:35.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:46:41.000Okay, so, thing I hate, number one, Stephen Colbert is just a hack.
00:48:07.000Somewhere, Somewhere, all the clowns weep.
00:48:11.000Somewhere, all the comedians roll over in their graves.
00:48:14.000Somewhere, comedy shrieks its final cry to the sky and dies as Stephen Colbert beats it to death with an axe and buries it in a cornfield in Iowa.
00:48:34.000Speaking of people who are out of their mind, and I'm not sure whether they're trying comedy or not.
00:48:39.000So, people for the ethical treatment of animals.
00:48:42.000As somebody who actually is sort of friendly to animal, I won't say animal rights, but to humane treatment of animals, I'm very friendly to humane treatment of animals arguments.
00:48:49.000I've said before, I think there's actually a not indecent case for vegetarianism or even veganism, especially as we develop alternative sources of food, especially as we develop ways to get the protein that we need without killing animals.
00:49:01.000Like, I'm actually kind of friendly to that argument.
00:49:05.000The people for the ethical treatment of animals, if I could construct a group that would make people want to eat meat, it would be people for the ethical treatment of animals.
00:49:15.000All they do full time, full time, is just shoot themselves in both feet.
00:49:19.000And then they look down, and if there are any toes left, they continue to pull the trigger until all toes have been obliterated.
00:49:24.000So PETA put out an ad yesterday based on the toxic masculinity nonsense that's going around the internet.
00:49:30.000In which, I even hesitate to show this because it's just that bad.
00:49:34.000In which, I kid you not, they strapped certain vegetables to the genital area of unattractive men, and then say that veganism makes men more virile.
00:49:45.000So, with that introduction, you've been warned.
00:49:49.000So if you want to close your eyes now, if you're a subscriber, or if you wish to fast forward beyond this, you have my permission.
00:51:07.000If PETA, again, it just goes to show you that we now live in a world where trolling is everything.
00:51:13.000So PETA is not going to convince anyone.
00:51:15.000I have to imagine they know they're not going to convince anyone with this.
00:51:17.000That nobody was sitting around going, you know what?
00:51:19.000I wanted to eat chicken tonight, but now that I've seen this beta soy boy walking around with a giant carrot strapped to his pants, from now on, it's salads for me.
00:51:28.000Like, PETA knows that that's not what's happening, right?
00:51:42.000Now, listen, I'm in a business where fanservice matters.
00:51:44.000But if you are a decent person, then you might want to spend a little bit more time thinking less about fanservice and more about how you convince people.
00:51:52.000Like, if your actual mission as PETA is to get people to stop eating meat, Then maybe the best way to get people to stop eating meat is to make the case that people should just be more humane.
00:52:00.000And that doesn't mean saying that eating chicken is a holocaust on your plate, which is something that PETA said.
00:52:06.000And then they had pictures of like chickens in cages as though a chicken is a Jew.
00:52:13.000But when nobody's focused on convincing anymore, right now everybody is focused very much on pointing fingers at each other and yelling as loudly as possible.
00:52:20.000That's really the only thing that matters in the world right now.
00:52:23.000Okay, one other thing that I hate and I would be remiss to skip it today.
00:52:29.000There's a story about Michael Cohen that I don't know whether to love it or hate it because it's pretty glorious, I will admit.
00:52:34.000Michael Cohen, the president's former personal attorney, so his new one is Rudy Giuliani.
00:52:37.000As I've said, this is the worst job in the world.
00:52:39.000Michael Cohen also had one of the worst jobs in the world.
00:52:42.000He was the president's personal attorney, but when the president was not president, so that meant he was basically his payoff man, apparently he hired an IT firm to rig early drudge polls and CNBC polls to favor President Trump.
00:52:53.000But that's not the only thing that he hired the IT firm to do.
00:52:57.000Michael Cohen also hired the IT firm to set up a Women for Cohen page.
00:53:02.000I kid you not, a Women for Cohen page that portrayed him as a sexy, sexy man.
00:53:12.000Okay, so it says that Michael Cohen hired an IT firm to rig online polls in favor of President Trump, and he instructed the company to create the at Women for Cohen Twitter account to loud how sexually attractive he is, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:53:25.000Trump's then-attorney promised to pay 50 grand to a small tech firm run by a Liberty University staffer To help distort online polls at CNBC and Drudge Report.
00:53:34.000Cohen has confirmed the bombshell report, but the only really interesting part of the report is that he felt the need to create a Women for Cohen Twitter account in May 2016.
00:53:46.000The Twitter account heralded Cohen as a sex symbol.