The Ben Shapiro Show - May 22, 2019


Three Cheers For Abortion! | Ep. 786

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Donald Trump Joe Biden Tommy John Sam Harris Bob Marley Eric Swalwell Gavin Newsom Julianna Margulies Kirsten Gillibrand Aretha Franklin Gloria Allred Andrew Kolvet James Clyburn Morally Good Jackie Speier Nancy Pelosi Jerry Brown Skid Row Maisie Hirono Tyler Kepner and 35 more
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00:00:00.000 The left moves to embrace abortion as a moral good, the culture wars heat up, and Democrats mull over impeachment.
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00:00:07.000 A lot to get to today here on the show, everyone.
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00:01:28.000 Well, as the battle over abortion law in Georgia heats up, it is amazing to watch as many on the left have shifted their perspective on abortion itself.
00:01:37.000 They've moved away from the 1990s formulation, safe, legal, and rare, toward a new formulation, good, plentiful, and happy.
00:01:46.000 And the idea here is that abortion is, in fact, a moral good.
00:01:49.000 In fact, there's an article in The New Yorker today that is titled, Abortion is Morally Good.
00:01:55.000 Which is a fairly amazing statement.
00:01:58.000 It's by a woman named Sarah Jones.
00:02:00.000 And the article, Abortion is Morally Good. 0.96
00:02:02.000 What is the argument for why abortion is morally good?
00:02:06.000 The argument is basically that it helps women. 0.91
00:02:09.000 That those who are interested in stopping abortion are interested in maximizing female pain.
00:02:17.000 Well, that's true, but why would that make abortion morally good?
00:02:18.000 Well, you might have had a say in it.
00:02:19.000 unborn quote, weigh the suffering of women against the prospective life of the fetus and favor the fetus in the end.
00:02:25.000 Well, that's true, but why would that make abortion morally good?
00:02:30.000 Well, writes this writer, I've never needed an abortion, but I've been in an abusive relationship and I think still of all the ways it could have been worse for me.
00:02:36.000 I could have gotten pregnant and I think that would have killed me. 0.92
00:02:39.000 Well, you might have had a say in it.
00:02:41.000 You weren't in the relationship, were you not?
00:02:44.000 And your creation of a new human life would not, the killing of that life would not be justified by the fact that you made a choice to be in a bad relationship.
00:02:52.000 This writer says, What's amazing is that this woman admits she was in an abusive relationship, but she's very angry at the Christian university that is trying to uphold the standard that says you should not be in abusive relationships.
00:03:08.000 It's just, I was suicidally depressed.
00:03:10.000 When I look back at myself across the valley of a decade, I'm still surprised to be alive.
00:03:14.000 I think of the people I knew then and how so many of them would have told me to carry a baby to term, even if it destroyed me.
00:03:19.000 Well, yes.
00:03:21.000 I mean, I think that a lot of people would have suggested that you should carry the baby to term because, again, the life of the baby Means something here.
00:03:29.000 And if you were going to commit suicide, right, if you were actually suicidal, then the vast majority of people who are pro-life would suggest that that is a case in which the mother's life is in danger.
00:03:37.000 Just pregnancy would have been a punishment, not a miracle. 1.00
00:03:39.000 Nothing I lived through will convince an Alabama Republican to change his mind.
00:03:42.000 To them, nothing I've done in my 31 years on earth, none of my accomplishments, none of my happiness, elevates my worth above that of an embryo.
00:03:49.000 Well, no.
00:03:50.000 Your worth As a human being, as if in your life were being endangered versus that of the embryo, your life would take precedence.
00:03:57.000 But your worth, your feelings, your accomplishments, your subjective feeling of happiness, yes, that does not take precedence over a human life.
00:04:06.000 Correct.
00:04:07.000 That is true.
00:04:08.000 But she says abortion is a moral good.
00:04:10.000 And unfortunately, this is a line that has been picked up by the left.
00:04:14.000 And if it's such a mistake by the left, honestly, like as a matter of politics, it's a mistake.
00:04:19.000 Safe, legal and rare was a formulation that at least most Americans could feel OK about.
00:04:25.000 I mean, pro-life Americans were going to oppose it anyway, but people who are on the fence could at least feel like, yeah, abortion, it's not great, but I still want it to be there.
00:04:34.000 It at least made them feel a little bit more sanguine about legalizing abortion because the suggestion was that no one would take abortion so frivolously as to simply have an abortion out of convenience.
00:04:47.000 And thus, because people were weighing abortion as a moral quandary, then their final decision shouldn't be left up to the state, it should be left up to them.
00:04:54.000 Now, I think that's wrong, obviously, but that argument has at least a little bit more moral tether to it than the argument that is being made now.
00:05:02.000 The argument being made now by the radical left is that abortion is fundamentally good.
00:05:06.000 That depriving people of abortion is depriving them not only of a right, but of something that benefits them and has no consequences, has no downside.
00:05:14.000 Now, the truth is that this is a line that's been pushed by radical feminists for a very long time. 1.00
00:05:18.000 Gloria Allred was speaking at a rally yesterday in New York City.
00:05:23.000 And she described pre-Roe America as women's Vietnam, which is an unbelievable statement. 1.00
00:05:29.000 I mean, it's an unbelievable statement.
00:05:31.000 Tens of thousands of Americans died in Vietnam.
00:05:33.000 Hundreds of thousands of Americans were wounded in Vietnam.
00:05:37.000 How in the world was saying that women should bear children in their body?
00:05:42.000 How is that exactly a Vietnam-like situation? 0.71
00:05:46.000 Here's Gloria Allred making that radical argument. 0.99
00:05:49.000 The victims are the women and the girls who have to get a back alley abortion and who are going to be left to die.
00:05:58.000 It was our women's Vietnam. 0.99
00:06:00.000 More women died or were maimed before Roe v. Wade by illegal abortions than men ever died in Vietnam.
00:06:07.000 We thank our brave men for their sacrifices.
00:06:10.000 We can never thank them enough.
00:06:12.000 But we also were hurt by these laws which forced us into no-win situations.
00:06:21.000 Okay, that is just a lie.
00:06:22.000 The lie that tens of thousands of women were dying in back alley abortions, it is in fact a lie.
00:06:27.000 There are CDC statistics that exist from that time period, and they were suggesting the number of women who were dying in illegal abortions, it was in the hundreds at most, not the tens of thousands.
00:06:37.000 And even so, the fact is that any law is going to have consequences for people who break the law, and attempting to violate that law is going to be more difficult and more dangerous than if the law did not exist in the first place.
00:06:48.000 I also want to point out here that an argument that is constantly made by feminists is that abortion, legalizing abortion, is what allowed women to live productive, healthy lives and be part of the workforce in all of this. 0.84
00:06:58.000 This is a chart from the government, it's from the Department of Labor, and it shows the civilian labor force in the United States by sex.
00:07:05.000 The second half of the chart, if you can see it, shows the share of the civilian labor force by sex.
00:07:12.000 And what you see here is that that green line on the bottom chart is the share of the female workforce. 1.00
00:07:19.000 Okay, so what percentage of the workforce is female? 1.00
00:07:21.000 And what you see is that in 1960, there's about 25% and then it rises continuously and steadily.
00:07:27.000 That's actually 1950, rather.
00:07:29.000 It rises continuously and steadily until about 1980, and then it ceases to grow, and women represent slightly, slightly under 50% of the workforce as of right now.
00:07:41.000 Basically, women have achieved near parity with men in terms of the workforce.
00:07:45.000 By the way, the male share of the workforce has been declining steadily since 1950.
00:07:49.000 What you do not see here is a massive escalation in females in the workforce circa 1973, 1975, with the legalization of abortion.
00:07:57.000 In fact, you see that the rate of women in the workforce begins to slow after that point.
00:08:01.000 So the notion that it was abortion that allowed women to get out of the house and go get a job, it's just not true.
00:08:08.000 It's just not true.
00:08:10.000 Now, abortion may mean that some women are able to not have to support a baby while going to work. 1.00
00:08:18.000 But that does not change the overall impact of abortion law, which has not been to stymie women from getting into the workforce.
00:08:26.000 Obviously, this chart demonstrates that full scale.
00:08:29.000 Nonetheless, the argument again is being made by the left that abortion is not just something that is an unfortunate part of life, which is an argument that the left used to make, now it is an affirmative good.
00:08:40.000 It is something that is affirmatively good, and we can judge you morally based on how you feel about abortion.
00:08:45.000 If you are willing to say that a woman should be able to kill a baby in her womb at any time, this means that you are properly woke and properly feminist. 0.91
00:08:53.000 Eric Swalwell, who's running a bizarre campaign for the presidency, In which, I guess he needs to keep the support of his immediate family in this race.
00:09:01.000 Maybe his wife, I believe, is his only voter.
00:09:03.000 Eric Swalwell, he was speaking at a pro-abortion rally outside the Supreme Court.
00:09:08.000 And I'm not going to say it's pro-choice, because this is legitimately pro-abortion. 0.78
00:09:11.000 I mean, these are people who are saying that abortion is a moral good.
00:09:14.000 Abortion is a positive. 1.00
00:09:16.000 It is not just a decision that somebody has to make.
00:09:19.000 It is a moral good.
00:09:20.000 Here's Eric Swalwell saying that, sure, he has kids, but if his wife had decided to kill his kids in the womb, well, he would have had no say about that.
00:09:26.000 I am a proud male feminist, and I am proud to be here with you tomorrow's day.
00:09:33.000 My wife, Brittany, also wants you to know we've got two beautiful children, Nelson and Cricket.
00:09:42.000 But the decision to have children was her choice.
00:09:45.000 So here's what we're going to do.
00:09:51.000 We're going to walk with our brothers and sisters down in the south.
00:09:55.000 That's an amazing statement, right? 0.99
00:10:03.000 That he has two beautiful children with his wife, but if she had decided to kill those babies in the womb, well then, that would have been fine with him because he is a male feminist. 0.99
00:10:10.000 Can you imagine him telling that to his kids?
00:10:13.000 He has a daughter, I think, and he mentions her there.
00:10:17.000 Does he think that that is going to make her proud to be a feminist?
00:10:20.000 He's like, yeah, you know, honey, I hope that you have beautiful dreams. 0.71
00:10:24.000 Also, if your mother had murdered you in the womb, that would have been her choice. 0.99
00:10:27.000 And whoa, dad, what the hell? 0.99
00:10:30.000 And then it got even worse.
00:10:31.000 Jackie Spier, who's a Congresswoman from California, Democrat, she got up at that exact same rally and she bragged about having an abortion and the crowd cheered her. 0.82
00:10:39.000 This was a sign of moral development.
00:10:40.000 This is like when Lena Dunham, the actress from Girls, when she came out and she said she wished she had had an abortion.
00:10:45.000 It's a rite of passage in American life at this point.
00:10:48.000 I mean, this is barbarity.
00:10:50.000 This is paganistic barbarity. 0.98
00:10:51.000 Here is Jackie Spier talking about how she had an abortion and women clapping for her and cheering for her bravery.
00:10:57.000 Stunning bravery in killing a child in the womb. 1.00
00:11:01.000 Pro-choice advocates, men and women alike.
00:11:04.000 Today I'm here to say, you know me.
00:11:09.000 I am one of the one in four women in this country who have had an abortion.
00:11:13.000 We are not strangers.
00:11:18.000 We are wives. 0.98
00:11:20.000 We are mothers.
00:11:21.000 We are sisters.
00:11:22.000 And we will not be stigmatized.
00:11:25.000 Woo! 0.99
00:11:26.000 I had an abortion.
00:11:27.000 Woo! 0.99
00:11:28.000 I mean, huge crowds of people cheering for I had an abortion.
00:11:32.000 Can you imagine any other crime?
00:11:35.000 I hit a person and then ran.
00:11:37.000 It was great.
00:11:38.000 It was a hit and run.
00:11:39.000 Woo! 0.99
00:11:41.000 What in the world?
00:11:42.000 But if this is the moral conflict the Democrats choose, that it's not merely that abortion is an unfortunate choice some people have to make, but it's an affirmative good, I think the vast majority of Americans are not interested in this particular version of morality.
00:11:56.000 We'll get to more of this in just a second.
00:11:58.000 Again, these are mainstream Democratic figures, and I'll show you some more mainstream Democratic figures doing the same thing and saying that you should pay for abortion, by the way.
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00:13:22.000 All righty, so Mazie Hirono, the senator from Hawaii, very much following in Jackie Spire's footsteps.
00:13:29.000 She is speaking at the same insane rally outside the Supreme Court, and she's bragging about the fact that she told eighth graders, meaning 11-year-old girls, that their abortion rights were under attack.
00:13:38.000 Pre-pubescent girls, she is telling that it is deeply important that they be able to have an abortion if a child is conceived with someone that they are having sex with. 0.99
00:13:49.000 They should be able to kill that child. 0.99
00:13:51.000 Maisie Hirono is bragging about that to 8th grade girls. 0.99
00:13:54.000 I told them I was coming to a rally in front of the Supreme Court and they said, why?
00:14:00.000 And I told them I was coming to a rally in front of the Supreme Court.
00:14:04.000 And they said, why?
00:14:06.000 And I said, it's because we have to fight for abortion rights.
00:14:11.000 And they knew all about it.
00:14:13.000 And I asked the girls in that group of eight graders, how many of you - Do girls think the government should be telling us, women, when and if we want to have babies, not a single one of them raise their hand. - Okay, it's just, it's amazing.
00:14:27.000 It's amazing.
00:14:28.000 So Democrats are now promoting as an affirmative good the ability to get an abortion.
00:14:31.000 Not just that.
00:14:32.000 They want you to pay for it.
00:14:33.000 So this is the next step.
00:14:35.000 Now, Joe Biden is, as a guy running for president, trying to shake his non-woke credentials.
00:14:41.000 The fact is that Joe Biden has held a series of positions over the years that are not in line with the radical segments of his base, which for the money is the reason why he is a front runner in the Democratic nomination process right now.
00:14:52.000 It's amazing to watch.
00:14:54.000 Joe Biden is only a frontrunner right now because he appears moderate.
00:14:57.000 And people in the Democratic Party are looking at Biden.
00:14:59.000 They're saying, what if we just ran a moderate who doesn't look completely crazy against Donald Trump to win?
00:15:07.000 And that's a plurality of the Democratic base by leaps and bounds.
00:15:11.000 And yet Biden, in an effort to stave off opposition from his radical left compatriots, he is now shifting on positions that he has held for years.
00:15:18.000 So for years, Joe Biden said that he was against public funding for abortion.
00:15:21.000 He was in favor of the so-called Hyde Amendment that banned public funding for abortions.
00:15:24.000 If you want to have an abortion, that would be a you issue. 1.00
00:15:27.000 This is what Joe Biden used to say.
00:15:28.000 Then we'll show you Joe Biden reversing himself in the last 48 hours.
00:15:32.000 Are you still opposed to public funding for abortion?
00:15:34.000 I still am opposed to public funding for abortion, and the reason I am is, again, it goes to the question of whether or not you are going to impose a view to support something that is not a guaranteed right, but an affirmative action to promote.
00:15:49.000 OK, again, this is Joe Biden's old position.
00:15:51.000 Then he was asked specifically by the ACLU whether as president he would lift the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal insurance coverage of abortion.
00:15:59.000 And he said yes.
00:16:00.000 And then he came out with a video talking about how wonderful Roe versus Wade is and how it is imperative that Roe v. Wade be enshrined in law forever.
00:16:09.000 The law of the land is Roe v. Wade.
00:16:10.000 It lays out a constitutional guarantee that women can in fact make a choice between she and her doctor in circumstances laid out in Roe.
00:16:18.000 It's guaranteed constitutionally now.
00:16:21.000 And what this is all about is trying to get an appeal to the Supreme Court in the hope that the conservative justice the president has in fact put on the court, two of them, will vote to overrule the Roe v. Wade, the law of the land.
00:16:36.000 It's wrong.
00:16:37.000 It must be stopped.
00:16:38.000 This is a choice on the road between a woman and her doctor. 1.00
00:16:43.000 Well, between a woman and her doctor and taxpayers who have to pay for it, according to the new version of Joe Biden.
00:16:48.000 It's not just Joe Biden who is saying this.
00:16:49.000 Kirsten Gillibrand, who again has more positions on the issues than the Kama Sutra has.
00:16:55.000 Kirsten Gillibrand, the senator from New York, she was asked, well, why exactly should we pay for your abortion, for example?
00:17:01.000 And she says, it's not your decision whether to fund abortion.
00:17:04.000 The government should fund abortion. 0.95
00:17:06.000 So this is the new Democratic Party position on this thing.
00:17:08.000 What would you say to taxpayers out there who say, look, I support everyone having their own freedoms, but that when it comes to my tax dollars, abortion isn't something that I want to support?
00:17:17.000 I do not believe that that is a valid argument.
00:17:19.000 I think that the Hyde Amendment should be repealed and that we actually need to make sure that women, regardless of their income level, have a basic right to reproductive care.
00:17:29.000 It's about our humanity and it's about our basic civil rights.
00:17:32.000 And so I will work I mean, this is an amazing move by the Democratic Party.
00:17:49.000 They used to understand that the best solution for the Democratic Party was some level of moderation on this particular issue.
00:17:55.000 Not anymore.
00:17:56.000 Now it's such an affirmative good that you and I are supposed to fund abortions ourselves.
00:18:00.000 That it is a basic right in America.
00:18:02.000 Owning a gun, not a basic right.
00:18:04.000 Paying for somebody else's abortion is something that you must do. 0.72
00:18:07.000 They have a right to your money to pay for the killing of their unborn child. 0.91
00:18:11.000 I mean, it's an amazing statement.
00:18:12.000 Cory Booker is saying the same thing.
00:18:13.000 The senator from New Jersey running for president.
00:18:15.000 This is not nut picking, okay?
00:18:16.000 This is not us finding nuts in the Democratic Party saying crazy things.
00:18:19.000 These are all mainstream elected members of the Democratic Party saying this stuff.
00:18:24.000 But our generation now can't simply lay back and luxuriate in the blessings of their struggles.
00:18:32.000 Because freedom, liberty, and democracy must be re-earned in every generation.
00:18:39.000 And the only way to secure them is with sacrifice and struggle.
00:18:44.000 We have work to do so that we codify Roe v. Wade as the law of the land.
00:18:53.000 We have work to do until we get rid of the Hyde Amendment once and for all! 0.88
00:18:59.000 Yeah, public taxpayer funding of abortion! 0.81
00:19:01.000 I love that he describes the killing of the unborn, that he describes snuffing out human life as luxuriating in the blessings of other's struggle.
00:19:10.000 I'm glad you get to... I mean, that is the definition of abortion, is that you are luxuriating in the blessings of the struggle of the unborn.
00:19:19.000 That you are reaping the benefits, presumably, of killing something that is not you.
00:19:25.000 It's an amazing statement.
00:19:27.000 It's three cheers for abortion in the Democratic Party. 0.97
00:19:29.000 Maybe four cheers for abortion, if that's even possible. 0.95
00:19:32.000 And then you get the insane radical wing of the Democratic Party.
00:19:35.000 They go so far as to suggest This is Planned Parenthood. 0.92
00:19:39.000 Planned Parenthood representative in New York City doing a rally yesterday suggesting that the people who pay the most when it comes to pro-life policy are transgender men.
00:19:49.000 You can't forget transgender men in this equation. 0.99
00:19:50.000 We have to make sure that women who believe they are men are included in all of the abortion talk. 0.60
00:19:56.000 Yeah, this is all a winning recipe, I think, for Democrats.
00:20:00.000 This is a coordinated attack in order to drive care underground, but also to force a national showdown in our Supreme Court about access to our constitutional and human rights.
00:20:16.000 And it's not just an attack on women, it's an attack on anyone who can or might get pregnant, including transgender men and gender non-conforming people! 0.87
00:20:28.000 Oh, it's an attack on all of those people too?
00:20:30.000 It seems to me abortion is a pretty obvious attack on, you know, the person who's getting killed.
00:20:30.000 My goodness!
00:20:35.000 That seems like probably the attack we might want to focus on here.
00:20:38.000 Now I want to talk about a couple of bad faith arguments that are being put out there naturally by the op-ed pages over at the New York Times and the Washington Post.
00:20:45.000 There's an article by a guy named Dr. Warren Hearn, who's a physician and epidemiologist who specializes in late-term abortion services.
00:20:53.000 Naturally, he's defending that by saying, this is the title of the article, again, abortion is affirmative good. 0.70
00:20:58.000 Pregnancy kills. 0.96
00:20:59.000 Abortion saves lives.
00:21:01.000 The idea here is that it is more dangerous to be pregnant than not to be pregnant. 0.89
00:21:05.000 That is true.
00:21:06.000 You know what's the most dangerous to the baby?
00:21:07.000 The killing of the baby.
00:21:08.000 And you know what also makes women safe, late term, would be giving birth to the baby and then they are also not pregnant anymore except that they have not killed the baby.
00:21:17.000 But according to this New York Times headline, pregnancy kills. 0.99
00:21:20.000 Abortion doesn't kill. 1.00
00:21:22.000 Pregnancy kills. 0.96
00:21:23.000 Also, I love this perspective from the Washington Post.
00:21:26.000 Men who impregnate women don't face any consequences in the new abortion laws.
00:21:29.000 I mean, now you're making a case that men should support women after they knock them up. 1.00
00:21:34.000 A case of which I fully agree.
00:21:36.000 This is sort of like the argument you see from the left.
00:21:37.000 Well, if you care so much about babies, then why aren't you in favor of adoption?
00:21:41.000 Quick note, Alabama, the state that just banned abortion across the board, They are number one. 1.00
00:21:48.000 They set their number one record this year as a record for adopting foster children, Alabama families.
00:21:54.000 So they are, in fact, caring about children after they are born in Alabama, as far as things like foster care.
00:21:59.000 In a second, I want to get to Democratic governance and the real priorities here, because it really is somewhat telling.
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00:23:22.000 If you are a median voter, let's say you're a moderate voter, living in, say, a suburban area, and you look at the Democratic Party right now, and the Democratic Party is focused intensely on taxpayer funding for abortion.
00:23:36.000 This is their thing. 0.96
00:23:37.000 Taxpayer funding for abortion, and also Trump is evil. 0.58
00:23:41.000 This is their two-pronged pitch.
00:23:43.000 I have to say, that is not a very strong pitch.
00:23:46.000 And that is the pitch right now. 0.86
00:23:47.000 The pitch is, abortion is an affirmative good, and Donald Trump is an affirmative evil.
00:23:53.000 And then they send out their cultural elites to appeal to us on this basis.
00:23:58.000 Late night television has basically become a psychiatrist's couch for Hollywood stars who can't sleep because of Trump, you know, on their beds of money.
00:24:06.000 In the Hollywood Hills, far away from all the problems of regular life.
00:24:10.000 Here's Julianna Margulies, who's the star of, what, she was on The Good Wife? 0.99
00:24:15.000 And here she is explaining that she has problems sleeping because of Trump, you know, in her giant mansion on top of her pile of money, overlooking a city that she doesn't even have to engage in.
00:24:25.000 Here is Julianna Margulies whining to Stephen Colbert about this, another extraordinarily wealthy Hollywood star who doesn't have to deal with any of the problems of everyday life, but Donald Trump keeps them awake at night. 1.00
00:24:37.000 One of the things I stopped doing was I do not read the news at night.
00:24:43.000 Because I was waking up in the middle of the night from nightmares of just screaming.
00:24:48.000 I had one dream.
00:24:50.000 You've read my dream diary.
00:24:53.000 Well, I was in a boardroom, there was a long board, there was a long table and it was just the guy who's in the Oval Office right now sitting there and I walked in and I was screaming, screaming, don't you care about the next show!
00:25:07.000 I mean, I was going crazy and screaming at him and yelling and that was 2016 and I woke up in a sweat and I went, oh my god, I've gone insane and I have to stop reading the news at night.
00:25:17.000 Okay, so this is the pitch.
00:25:19.000 The pitch is that Donald Trump wakes up Hollywood actresses in the middle of the night because he's a bad orange man with weird hair.
00:25:25.000 That's the pitch.
00:25:26.000 And also, abortion is a moral good.
00:25:28.000 That's a hell of a pitch.
00:25:29.000 That is one hell of a pitch.
00:25:31.000 Because let's be real about this.
00:25:32.000 I live in a democratic-governed state.
00:25:34.000 I live in a democratic-governed city. 0.93
00:25:36.000 And it has turned into a trash heap. 0.99
00:25:38.000 It has turned into a trash heap. 0.98
00:25:39.000 If you want to look at democratic governance right now, if you want to look at people who are living in the suburbs and worrying about what their life is going to look like, I guarantee you they care far less about Julianna Margulis's sleep patterns and far more about the fact that their cities have turned into hot garbage. 0.57
00:25:53.000 This is a clip from NBC Los Angeles today talking about the homeless problem in Los Angeles.
00:25:58.000 We've got 65,000 homeless people living on the streets of Los Angeles, which has been Democratic governed for nigh on two decades at this point in a state that has Democratic majorities in both houses and a Democratic governor.
00:26:11.000 And the city has turned into a garbage pit.
00:26:13.000 I've lived here my entire life. 0.77
00:26:14.000 I've lived here my entire life.
00:26:16.000 And I can tell you, from personal experience, that the problems of the cities turning into trash heaps is not a mild problem.
00:26:24.000 It started off in places like Skid Row, where at least it was relatively contained, and now it has spread out into suburban areas.
00:26:29.000 I live in a suburban area.
00:26:32.000 In the last four years, we have found several open needles on the street.
00:26:36.000 Maybe three weeks ago, there was an obvious heroin addict who was lying face down in the gutter in the middle of a residential area.
00:26:42.000 Thought the guy was Edgar Allan Poe.
00:26:44.000 I mean, he was lying face down in the gutter in a residential area.
00:26:48.000 And the city can do nothing about it.
00:26:50.000 Why?
00:26:50.000 Because Democrats who govern the city have refused to do anything about it in the name of the freedom of people to apparently pollute public areas.
00:26:58.000 But don't worry.
00:26:59.000 My taxpayer dollars aren't going to fund, you know, my neighborhood being livable and my children being able to walk outside without fear of stepping on an open needle.
00:27:07.000 They're going toward taxpayer funding of abortions. 1.00
00:27:08.000 That's where Democratic priorities are.
00:27:10.000 Here's a clip from NBC Los Angeles talking about the problem in L.A.
00:27:13.000 But of course, nobody in L.A.
00:27:14.000 will ever consider maybe it's the people in charge who are the problem. 0.74
00:27:18.000 We're getting a bird's eye view of L.A.' 's most notorious trash pile.
00:27:22.000 It's in downtown on Saris Avenue, right between the fashion and produce districts.
00:27:28.000 Day and night, this spot and countless others are magnets for rats that could carry fleas infected with typhus and other diseases.
00:27:37.000 This national survey now ranks LA as the second most rat-infested city in the nation.
00:27:43.000 One reason, experts say, heaps of uncollected trash at hundreds of homeless encampments, where people are literally living in piles of garbage.
00:27:53.000 They're literally living in piles of garbage.
00:27:55.000 This is NBC, okay? 0.66
00:27:56.000 NBC is not a right-wing source. 0.99
00:27:57.000 People are living in piles of garbage. 0.95
00:27:59.000 You know why they're living in piles of garbage?
00:28:00.000 Because I have a lot of friends on the police force in LAPD.
00:28:03.000 And when they get a call that somebody is loitering, they are basically told by the higher-ups that they need to ignore this.
00:28:10.000 They're not allowed to rouse people.
00:28:11.000 They're not allowed to move people.
00:28:12.000 They're not allowed to arrest people.
00:28:13.000 They're not even, because of an ACLU lawsuit, they're not even allowed to remove shopping carts full of garbage that attract fleas and rats.
00:28:21.000 They're not allowed to remove those.
00:28:22.000 Those are considered the personal property of homeless people.
00:28:25.000 Who are living on public property, right this very instant.
00:28:29.000 This is not a lack of sympathy for homeless folks.
00:28:33.000 This is a lack of sympathy for politicians who refuse to do anything to make their cities livable.
00:28:38.000 I have a right to the sidewalk that I pay for.
00:28:41.000 You do not have a right to sleep on the sidewalk outside of my front door.
00:28:47.000 Two years ago, I recall this vividly.
00:28:52.000 I used to do a morning show here in Los Angeles.
00:28:55.000 And me and Ty had to get up, you know, inordinately early in order to do so.
00:28:58.000 It's like 5.15 in the morning.
00:28:59.000 I have to get up and I have to go do the morning show.
00:29:02.000 And I look outside, and right outside of our front door, there is a homeless person who is riding a bicycle, and he has two shopping carts full of trash behind him.
00:29:11.000 And the front wheel has come off of his bicycle.
00:29:15.000 And so he's right outside our front door.
00:29:17.000 And so I am concerned.
00:29:18.000 I have a wife.
00:29:19.000 I have a couple of little kids.
00:29:20.000 I'm concerned about leaving my house with this person right outside.
00:29:24.000 I don't know who the guy is.
00:29:25.000 This is one of the big issues. 0.92
00:29:26.000 With a lot of homeless folks, a lot of them are drug addicts and a lot of them are mentally ill.
00:29:29.000 A heavy percentage.
00:29:30.000 According to Eve Fuller-Torrey, who's written extensively about mental illness, at least a plurality, maybe a majority of the homeless people in major cities are suffering from some form of severe mental illness.
00:29:42.000 So, I call the police, and the police take 35-40 minutes to respond.
00:29:46.000 This is not a priority call.
00:29:47.000 And the reason it's not a priority call is because they have been told, basically, that they are not to do anything about these problems.
00:29:53.000 So, I sit there, waiting inside my door for this homeless person to move on, because I don't want to get into a confrontation with the person.
00:30:00.000 And this person then gets angry, proceeds to take a crowbar out of one of the shopping carts, and starts beating the hell out of his bike in front of our front door.
00:30:09.000 Eventually, the police arrive and move him along.
00:30:12.000 But this is what major cities are becoming, okay?
00:30:15.000 And I'm living in a fairly nice residential area.
00:30:18.000 Skid Row in Los Angeles is actually a breeding ground for actual disease.
00:30:22.000 It's a breeding ground for disease.
00:30:23.000 We are seeing third world diseases return to the United States in major cities because politicians have made it a priority not to do anything about these problems. 0.97
00:30:32.000 And it is not just in Los Angeles.
00:30:33.000 It is in San Francisco.
00:30:34.000 It is in Washington, D.C.
00:30:36.000 It's in New York City.
00:30:37.000 It's in Seattle.
00:30:38.000 I used to do a show up in Seattle, local show up in Seattle.
00:30:41.000 Seattle is a beautiful city, except it has been made into a homeless encampment by a series of Democratic mayors who have decided that they can do nothing about people living out in the open.
00:30:52.000 I'll talk in a second about what some actual solutions would look like to this problem.
00:30:56.000 But if Democrats are going to make the case that they ought to run things, then how about we look at where they run things and see how things are going?
00:31:02.000 Because it turns out they've turned my city into a rat-infested craphole. 1.00
00:31:06.000 They've turned Los Angeles into... I mean, the quality of life in Los Angeles for taxpayers has declined markedly, and that is due to Mayor Garcetti and Mayor Villaraigosa.
00:31:15.000 It is due to Governor Gavin Newsom and Governor Jerry Brown.
00:31:18.000 It is due to Democratic governance in this city and in this state.
00:31:22.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:34:29.000 Okay, so as I'm talking about, democratic governance has been a disaster area, a full-on disaster area in America's major cities.
00:34:46.000 From Detroit to New York to Washington, D.C.
00:34:49.000 to Los Angeles.
00:34:50.000 And what's their solution?
00:34:51.000 What's the solution to making life unlivable for taxpayers?
00:34:54.000 Raising taxes, but making the streets less safe?
00:34:57.000 Raising taxes, but not fixing the potholes, and then stumping to pay for abortions? 0.58
00:35:03.000 What has been the response by Governor Gavin Newsom, our forward-thinking governor here in the state of California?
00:35:09.000 Well, he says, you know, homelessness is a problem in California.
00:35:11.000 He's got a solution.
00:35:12.000 You know what it is?
00:35:13.000 A task force.
00:35:14.000 You know, if we just have a bunch of people, Blue Ribbon Task Force, like they'll sit around, they'll talk about things, then they'll issue a white paper that they'll do nothing about. 0.81
00:35:21.000 Gavin Newsom used to be the mayor of San Francisco.
00:35:23.000 You know what he did when he was mayor of San Francisco?
00:35:26.000 He pledged to end homelessness in San Francisco.
00:35:28.000 Has homelessness been ended in San Francisco?
00:35:30.000 Well, there's an article in the Washington Post today called How San Francisco Broke America's Heart.
00:35:36.000 No, he did not end homelessness in San Francisco.
00:35:38.000 It multiplied rapidly under him.
00:35:40.000 Now he's the governor of the state, but he's got an idea.
00:35:42.000 It's a task force, guys.
00:35:44.000 Last count, we had 24% of the nation's homeless.
00:35:47.000 As Mayor Schaaf said, the number that are unsheltered is substantially higher than that.
00:35:53.000 It's a state challenge that manifests in cities and counties, large and small.
00:35:57.000 And as a consequence, it requires leadership at all levels.
00:36:01.000 This task force, this work group of leaders, will organize a framework of specific and prescriptive goals at all levels.
00:36:11.000 And with those goals, we will advance our efforts at the state level to help fund and access the resources to achieve those goals.
00:36:20.000 We got work to do.
00:36:21.000 This is a national disgrace. 0.98
00:36:23.000 You are a national disgrace, sir. 0.84
00:36:25.000 I'm sorry, you and democratic governance in this state are a national disgrace. 0.86
00:36:29.000 The homelessness problem in San Francisco, in Los Angeles, increasingly in San Diego, across democratic areas, in big cities, is a national disgrace.
00:36:40.000 Again, I talk to people who are on the neighborhood councils.
00:36:43.000 I talk to the LAPD.
00:36:46.000 Every major park in the Los Angeles area has been overrun with homeless encampments.
00:36:51.000 Every single one.
00:36:52.000 You cannot let your kids play in a major park unsupervised in Los Angeles.
00:36:56.000 You just cannot.
00:36:58.000 It's insane.
00:36:59.000 And that is a result of Democrats who have decided to go along to get along with the ACLU and have declared that you have a right to sleep in your car, you have a right to sleep on the street, you have a right to do all this stuff.
00:37:09.000 Now, how would you actually solve the homelessness problem?
00:37:12.000 Well, the homeless break down into a bunch of separate categories.
00:37:16.000 By the way, I just want to point out, the New York Times has a piece today.
00:37:19.000 Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York.
00:37:20.000 I'll get to the solutions when it comes to homelessness in just one second.
00:37:23.000 First, I just want to mention this.
00:37:25.000 Bill de Blasio wants to run for president of the United States.
00:37:28.000 Here's an article from the New York Times today.
00:37:30.000 Rats are taking over New York City.
00:37:33.000 The city that he runs. 0.98
00:37:34.000 Because just like in LA, nobody's collecting the garbage.
00:37:34.000 Why?
00:37:38.000 That is the reason that rats are taking over the city of New York.
00:37:43.000 In New York, says the New York Times, rats once scurried in the shadows, but now they frolic brazenly in broad daylight.
00:37:49.000 Mr. de Blasio, calling for more rat corpses, unveiled a $32 million assault on rats in 2017, which included increased litter basket pickups, deployment of solar-powered trash-compacting bins, and rat-resistant steel cans.
00:38:02.000 The city has also used dry ice to smother rats where they live.
00:38:06.000 But rat sightings are on the upswing anyway.
00:38:08.000 Why?
00:38:09.000 Because nobody is still picking up the trash.
00:38:11.000 City health inspections found 31,000 instances of active rat signs, including sightings and droppings, at buildings and properties last year, nearly double the instances in 2014.
00:38:22.000 A major contributing factor, according to the New York Times, is how the city collects trash.
00:38:25.000 Bags are left outside on the curb for hours before pickup the next morning.
00:38:29.000 It's just an all-night buffet for the rats, says Jason Munchie-South, a biology professor at Fordham University, who has led rat safaris to observe the vermin in Columbus Park in Chinatown.
00:38:39.000 Michael Deutsch, an entomologist with the Arrow Exterminating on Long Island, said there's no magic bullets reducing rats.
00:38:44.000 You can't just go in and order an airstrike and then leave.
00:38:46.000 Rat populations can rebound unless you are always pressing them.
00:38:50.000 And by the way, one thing that contributes to this is open trash, is people living in trash.
00:38:57.000 All of this is a good indicator that maybe if you are concerned about the future of your community, if you're concerned about Times Square not turning back into what it was during the 1970s and 80s, under people like Ed Koch and David Dinkins, if instead maybe you'd like, I don't know, a cleaned up area of New York, If you would like a Los Angeles that looks, at least in terms of clean streets, more like it did a couple of decades ago and less like homeless people on every bench.
00:39:22.000 I mean, it's basically.
00:39:24.000 There was an old political slogan, a chicken in every pot.
00:39:27.000 Okay, Los Angeles can promise you, Los Angeles can promise you that there will be a homeless person on every bench.
00:39:34.000 That was the Herbert Hoover campaign slogan in 1928, a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage.
00:39:40.000 In Los Angeles, the promise is if you pay enough taxpayer dollars, there'll be a homeless person on every bench and open needles on every street corner.
00:39:46.000 In San Francisco, it's poop on every street corner, human poop on every street corner.
00:39:50.000 By the way, it's funny, I was talking with Newt Gingrich the other day, and the former speaker pointed out that in San Francisco, you get a $300 fine if your dog craps on the corner and you don't pick it up. 0.95
00:39:59.000 If you're a human, you crap on the corner, you get nothing.
00:40:01.000 So, if you own a dog, your best solution is to let your dog crap on the corner and then just claim it was you. 0.99
00:40:05.000 If the police stop by to find you or something.
00:40:08.000 Okay, so what exactly could be done with regard to the homeless problem if people actually had the stones to do it?
00:40:14.000 First of all, you have to break down the homeless problem into several categories.
00:40:18.000 Who are the homeless?
00:40:19.000 Okay, now the reason there are two problems here and you want to solve both of them.
00:40:24.000 OK, but what's funny is that the left wants to ignore one of them completely.
00:40:27.000 So the two problems are this.
00:40:28.000 The actual problems of the homeless.
00:40:29.000 How do you help homeless people in a sympathetic way?
00:40:32.000 How do you help them?
00:40:33.000 People who are heroin addicts, people who are severely mentally ill, people who are suffering from temporary economic downturns.
00:40:39.000 How do you help those people?
00:40:40.000 That is problem one.
00:40:41.000 And then there is a second problem, which is not irrelevant.
00:40:44.000 And the people who pointed out are not bad people.
00:40:46.000 There are good people who would like to see their taxpayer dollars used in a proper way and who'd like to live in safe communities.
00:40:52.000 The second problem is the impact of homeless people on every park bench, on every street corner, shooting up in doorways, leaving open needles on the street, pooping on street corners.
00:41:01.000 It is not irrelevant that there are externalities to homelessness.
00:41:04.000 And one of the things that many members of the political left have done is they have said that if you call the cops on a homeless person who's outside your front door beating the crap out of his bicycle with a crowbar, that you're part of the problem now.
00:41:15.000 Because now you've called in the authorities.
00:41:16.000 And don't you have sympathy for these homeless people?
00:41:19.000 I can have sympathy for someone and still recognize That when you are infringing on the public space that I paid for, you do not have a right to do that, and you are making my community worse.
00:41:29.000 It is a community in which I live, and I pay taxes, and I raise my children, and you do not have a right to make that community worse.
00:41:36.000 Both of these problems can be handled, but it means getting serious.
00:41:39.000 And yes, it means some consequences for a certain group, particularly of homeless people.
00:41:43.000 So let's take the homeless problem as an example in terms of governance.
00:41:46.000 As I say, there are four types, I think, four types of homeless people.
00:41:50.000 One, they're the severely mentally ill.
00:41:52.000 Those people do not have a right to live on the street. 0.97
00:41:54.000 Those people need to be institutionalized.
00:41:56.000 If you are a schizophrenic who is living on the streets and storing, I mean, there's an article in the New York Times today, or actually it's in the Huffington Post, rather, a couple of years ago, I think. 0.88
00:42:06.000 About the homelessness issue. 0.91
00:42:07.000 If you are a severely schizophrenic person who takes your unemployment or welfare check and you stash wads of cash around the city because you're schizophrenic and mentally ill, we are not doing you any good by allowing you to do that. 0.68
00:42:22.000 We need to make it easier to institutionalize people who are severely mentally ill. 0.96
00:42:27.000 You are doing mentally ill people no favors by allowing them to live in their own filth on city streets. 1.00
00:42:32.000 I don't know when this became sympathy. 0.98
00:42:33.000 It's insane.
00:42:34.000 And if that means more public funding of mental health facilities, that's what it means.
00:42:37.000 Good.
00:42:37.000 Fine.
00:42:38.000 I've been calling for that for years, by the way.
00:42:40.000 And I'm a libertarian.
00:42:42.000 So, there's that. 0.99
00:42:43.000 That's the severely mentally ill. 0.69
00:42:44.000 Then you have the problem of people who are addicted.
00:42:47.000 Heroin addicts.
00:42:48.000 And here, the answer is that if you're a heroin addict, you do not have a right to live on the street.
00:42:52.000 So, you will be arrested for loitering, and you will be arrested for trespassing, and then, instead of being jailed, you will be put into a clean-out program.
00:43:01.000 And we will fund those clean-out programs.
00:43:03.000 We will make sure that you can go to a clean-out.
00:43:04.000 And if you refuse to abide by that, if you go back to living on the street, then you will be jailed.
00:43:08.000 There are consequences to doing this sort of thing.
00:43:11.000 Then there are people who just want to live on the street, no matter what.
00:43:14.000 They just feel like they have a right to live on the street in Los Angeles.
00:43:17.000 Many of those people claim that their jobs won't pay for rent, they won't pay for an apartment.
00:43:21.000 And the answer to that is, here's money for a bus ticket.
00:43:25.000 If you live on the street, you're going to be arrested.
00:43:26.000 And if not, here's a bus ticket and you can leave.
00:43:29.000 Because if the question is, I can't afford to live here, then you should not be living here. 0.97
00:43:32.000 We're not talking about mentally ill people.
00:43:33.000 We're not talking about addicts.
00:43:34.000 We're talking about sane people.
00:43:36.000 We've decided they would rather live in their car in Los Angeles than go get a job somewhere else and live in an apartment.
00:43:41.000 You don't have a right to do that.
00:43:43.000 So we'll pay for your bus ticket, so you can leave.
00:43:46.000 Because if you can't afford to live here, you should not be living here.
00:43:48.000 And then finally, there are the chronically homeless, who are kind of in-betweeners.
00:43:53.000 You know, people who may have mental issues, but are not significantly a danger to themselves or others.
00:44:00.000 People who are incapable of holding down a job. 0.98
00:44:02.000 And there, if you have to build more public housing facilities, you build more public housing facilities.
00:44:06.000 If you have to open more shelters, you open more shelters.
00:44:08.000 This is the way that you would handle the problem.
00:44:09.000 But yes, you do have to give police the ability to move people.
00:44:13.000 You do have to give police the ability to take people's crap that is in a stolen shopping cart away from them.
00:44:19.000 You have to pay attention to quality of life issues. 0.57
00:44:21.000 And that doesn't mean shuffling them over into the poorer areas of Los Angeles and leaving them there.
00:44:26.000 It means that every area of Los Angeles should be free of people who are living on the streets. 0.99
00:44:32.000 You do not have a right to live on the streets.
00:44:35.000 And if people choose to live outside the borders of Los Angeles, in homeless encampments, then that becomes the local authority's issue there.
00:44:43.000 But instead what we've gotten from the left is, it's unsympathetic.
00:44:47.000 It's NIMBYism to say I don't want a homeless person shooting up heroin outside my front gate.
00:44:52.000 Okay, then call me a NIMBY.
00:44:53.000 Fine.
00:44:54.000 And call most Americans that way.
00:44:55.000 Because it turns out, you know what we'd like?
00:44:56.000 We'd like clean neighborhoods.
00:44:57.000 We'd like neighborhoods where our kids can walk.
00:44:59.000 We'd like neighborhoods where there isn't open crap and open needles on the street.
00:45:03.000 And if Democrats won't do that, and they're too focused on weeping over Donald Trump being president, and they're too focused on what Alabama chooses to do to protect human life, and if their great governing suggestion is that we have to make sure the taxpayer dollars are used not to clean up city streets, but to ensure that a woman who has sex with a guy and then gets pregnant can pay for the killing of that unborn child, that's where my taxpayer dollars are supposed to go, then, you know what? 0.91
00:45:31.000 Run on that.
00:45:32.000 Run on that and see how you do. 0.99
00:45:34.000 By the way, Republicans are fools if they do not run on these public safety issues. 1.00
00:45:37.000 They are fools. 1.00
00:45:37.000 Absolute fools. 1.00
00:45:39.000 Remember, there's a gubernatorial candidate in California. 1.00
00:45:41.000 He was running as a Republican several years ago.
00:45:43.000 And the homelessness problem was already an issue.
00:45:45.000 There was also something called prison realignment that was pursued by Governor Jerry Brown, in which he basically released criminals into the public square by reclassifying felonies as misdemeanors and then sending misdemeanor prisoners over to local jails that would not hold them.
00:46:00.000 And I said to this Republican candidate, I do not understand for the life of me why you are not running on quality of life and safety issues.
00:46:05.000 No, I'm going to run on education. 1.00
00:46:07.000 So then you're an idiot. 1.00
00:46:08.000 Of course you should be running on quality of life and safety issues. 1.00
00:46:14.000 By the way, Donald Trump should as well.
00:46:15.000 Donald Trump should be running on this problem.
00:46:17.000 He should be pointing out that Seattle, which is a gem of a city, is being turned into a giant Hooverville.
00:46:23.000 You should point out that San Francisco is being turned into a stratified society where if you can afford to, you live on the penthouse level and you never have to deal with the homeless encampments.
00:46:30.000 And then, if you can't, then you're homeless.
00:46:32.000 It should be Republicans pointing this stuff out and proposing solutions.
00:46:36.000 And yes, that obviously is going to involve the ability of the police to at least move people.
00:46:41.000 That doesn't mean that police have to be trained in how to deal with mentally ill people.
00:46:45.000 They have a rough job, the police do.
00:46:47.000 We have to take that into account.
00:46:48.000 Or we have to form new forces of people who are specifically designed to deal with mentally ill people or addicts.
00:46:54.000 And they have to have the authority to move people.
00:46:56.000 And they have to have the authority to call in the police to arrest someone if they are violating the law.
00:47:01.000 But Democrats don't want to handle any of these issues.
00:47:03.000 They want to throw up their hands and declare that it's unsympathetic to handle any of these issues.
00:47:06.000 Well, guess what?
00:47:07.000 Most Americans don't consider themselves unsympathetic if they wish to live in a place where their kids can run around free.
00:47:15.000 Tell me more about how you're crying over Donald Trump's election, though, Democrats.
00:47:18.000 Make sure that you focus in on that.
00:47:20.000 OK, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:47:23.000 So, things that I like.
00:47:25.000 As you know, I am a huge baseball fan, and there's a great baseball book that came out a couple of weeks ago by Tyler Kepner, who's a baseball writer over at The New York Times.
00:47:32.000 It's called K. A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches.
00:47:36.000 K, obviously, is the scorecard sign for a strikeout.
00:47:40.000 It's got all sorts of anecdotal stories, wonderful little tidbits, data about 10 pitches, everything from the forkball to the split-finger fastball.
00:47:40.000 And it's just great.
00:47:53.000 It's just great.
00:47:55.000 If you're a baseball fan, it's really one of the better baseball books that I've read recently.
00:47:58.000 Tyler Koepner's K. A History of Baseball in 10 Pitches.
00:48:02.000 Go check that out right now.
00:48:04.000 Okay, now time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:48:11.000 Okay.
00:48:11.000 Thing that I hate, number one, I kind of love it.
00:48:16.000 I'll be honest, I kind of love this.
00:48:17.000 Kamala Harris is being asked softball questions by CNN, because this is how it goes if you're a Democrat. 1.00
00:48:21.000 You never get asked by CNN if you're a Republican what your favorite song is, or how you thought of the Game of Thrones finale.
00:48:27.000 But if you're a Democrat, you get asked these questions all the time.
00:48:29.000 Watch as Senator Kamala Harris, who I don't know. 1.00
00:48:33.000 When God distributed the awkward from his jar of awkward in the creation of human beings, he used a heavy dose on Hillary Clinton and he used what was left over on Kamala Harris. 0.97
00:48:41.000 Here's Kamala Harris being incredibly awkward about a pretty simple question.
00:48:45.000 Do you have a favorite band or a favorite musician?
00:48:48.000 I'd say one of my favorites is Bob Marley.
00:48:52.000 Good choice.
00:48:53.000 You can't go wrong with that.
00:48:54.000 That's a crowd pleaser.
00:48:56.000 On your mixtape, what would be like your favorite three songs?
00:49:01.000 Oh, okay, let's see.
00:49:04.000 Aretha Franklin, anything Aretha Franklin.
00:49:11.000 I would say Bob Marley and then, I don't know, I love Cardi B. As she says.
00:49:20.000 Awkward laugh.
00:49:21.000 And I love that the anchor there is like, I asked you for your favorite songs and you just gave me.
00:49:25.000 So who's your favorite singer slash artist?
00:49:28.000 Bob Marley, who's your favorite song?
00:49:30.000 Bob Marley.
00:49:32.000 Strong answer there from Senator Harris, who, by the way, has just been a dud as a candidate.
00:49:36.000 You would have expected her to be growing by leaps and bounds, right?
00:49:39.000 She's the most intersectional candidate in the field. 0.98
00:49:41.000 Nope!
00:49:41.000 She has been a giant fail from launch, effectively.
00:49:44.000 Now, maybe that changes, but she is not nearly the talented politician a lot of people thought that she was going to be. 1.00
00:49:49.000 I mean, she's had her thunder stolen by Pete Buttigieg.
00:49:51.000 What does that say about her?
00:49:53.000 And meanwhile, Democrats are calling for impeachment, but they are split on it.
00:49:56.000 So this is kind of humorous.
00:49:57.000 So Democrats don't know whether they want to impeach President Trump or whether they don't want to impeach President Trump.
00:50:02.000 And this is leading to a split in the Democratic soul.
00:50:04.000 You end up with James Clyburn, the House majority whip, saying that a majority of Democrats are actually no on impeachment.
00:50:13.000 If you did a secret ballot among the Democratic caucus, yes or no on impeachment, what would the majority likely be?
00:50:22.000 Oh, the majority would be no.
00:50:24.000 Do you believe that?
00:50:26.000 Yes, I do.
00:50:28.000 It's not as big a majority today, or yesterday, as today.
00:50:33.000 But a majority will be for staying steady, staying focused, staying on what we're doing, because this thing is moving in our direction.
00:50:45.000 Okay, so it's pretty amazing.
00:50:48.000 Even the House leadership, Pelosi, Clyburn, like, no, we're not going to do that.
00:50:51.000 And then you have AOC, who's like, yeah, we should totally impeach him because what does she care? 0.95
00:50:55.000 She's from a heavy blue district.
00:50:57.000 I trust the Speaker is taking a measured approach to ensure that we're moving everyone forward.
00:51:03.000 I know that, you know, being a Speaker is hard.
00:51:06.000 Holding this party together is a difficult task, but I think that we know what we need to do.
00:51:10.000 I personally believe that I think we have to move forward.
00:51:13.000 We have to move forward, according to AOC, and of course, according to Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, who also says she's yes on impeachment.
00:51:18.000 So prepare for the battle inside the Democratic Party.
00:51:20.000 This should be fun to watch.
00:51:22.000 Today, in the next 48 hours, I'll be introducing a resolution of investigation.
00:51:29.000 The opening comments in that resolution says that the Judiciary Committee will investigate whether sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise the power Okay, so I'm gonna have to ask her, what exactly is the ground?
00:51:55.000 Is there a charge on the impeachment?
00:51:57.000 Like, what exactly is the grounds other than you hate Trump?
00:52:00.000 It'll be amusing to watch Democrats run in 2020 on Trump should be impeached and we don't know why, and also abortion is awesome.
00:52:08.000 Make that your platform.
00:52:09.000 Please.
00:52:09.000 I dare you.
00:52:10.000 Go for it.
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00:52:45.000 Hey everybody, it's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show. 1.00
00:52:47.000 Donald Trump is doing everything he can to force the Democrats to play out their impeachment fantasies right here in reality, where they'll make them look like idiots. 0.99
00:52:57.000 Nancy Pelosi knows it, can't do a damn thing about it. 1.00
00:52:59.000 Sad Nancy, smart Trump. 1.00
00:53:01.000 We'll talk about it on The Andrew Klavan Show, plus The Mailbag.