The Ben Shapiro Show - January 31, 2018


Trump Drives Democrats Up A Wall | Ep. 465

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tax cuts and economy MS-13 murders
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Ben Shapiro
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Donald Trump Joe Kennedy III Barack Obama Bernie Sanders Ronald Reagan Cory Booker Ryan Holetz Nisa Mickens MS-13 Bach Felix Mendelssohn Luis Gutierrez Kayla Cuevas Trey Gowdy Valentine Preston George W. Bush Elizabeth Alvarado Hillary Clinton Robert Mickens and 24 more
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Trump's first official State of the Union address was, shall we say, huge. We'll go through all of it, including the boos, the blowback, the Democratic response, and the media's total inability to cover it. Plus, a call-in from the Daily Wire's own Ben Shapiro on what he thought of the speech, and why he doesn't think it was a good one at all. Plus, we'll talk about why Bernie Sanders' response to Trump's speech was a complete disaster and why the media can't seem to get on board with the whole idea of a Democratic response to the president's first SOTU. And, of course, Ben will talk about how great Trump is at getting people to clap for him, and how the media is totally unimpressed with what he did, which is why it's so important that they don't even give him a chance to get a proper response from the other side. The Daily Wire is a place where Ben and I talk about anything and everything going on in the world, so you won't want to miss it! Subscribe to The Ben Shapiro Show on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe, Like, and Share! Ben Shapiro's new book, "The Devil Next Door" is out now! If you haven't already, you'll get 20% off your first month with the discount code: BONUS! at TheBenShaw. at checkout. That means 20% OFF the entire month of January through February, plus a 30 Day Money Back guarantee, plus an additional $5 off your next month's shipping discount when you sign up for a new month, and a FREE shipping offer when you buy $50 or more, you get a Surface Pro 3 membership! and get an extra $50 off the first month of the course gets you an ad-free version of the newbie gets an ad discount, and you get an additional 20% discount, plus they also get a FREE 7 days of the ad discount when they begin shipping that starts shipping free, they get the ad starts shipping starts starting on 7/online only they ship the deal starts in 7/27/27, they'll get $99, and they get an ad starts on the first two months they receive $29/month, they can choose that deal starts after they start shipping the deal, they also receive $99 or they get $49/month they get your first MBPROMO.

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00:00:00.000 So last night, the President of the United States gave his very first official State of the Union address.
00:00:05.000 And it was, shall we say, huge.
00:00:08.000 We'll go through all of it.
00:00:09.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:00:10.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:15.000 Well, we had a lot of fun last night here at The Daily Wire.
00:00:18.000 We did a full-on State of the Union watch party, and Trump gave a pretty good speech, and we all had a lot of fun.
00:00:24.000 Well, I had less fun than the others because they were all smoking cigars.
00:00:26.000 I'm not a cigar-smoking smoker, and so I got to inhale their secondhand smoke all evening long.
00:00:32.000 Yet, nonetheless, a good time was had by all.
00:00:34.000 You can go and view that entire thing over at Facebook.
00:00:38.000 I believe we did it at YouTube as well.
00:00:41.000 You can check that out, or you can download it, because I think that it's available on our podcast stream as well.
00:00:45.000 So we'll get to everything Trump-related.
00:00:47.000 We'll get to the State of the Union, what happened, the blowback, the responses from Joe Kennedy III, you know, that great scion of the Kennedy family, as well as Bernie Sanders' response, the media losing their mind.
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00:02:18.000 Okay, so last night, President Trump gives his big first official State of the Union address.
00:02:25.000 And when I say big, I mean it was huge.
00:02:27.000 And when I say it was huge, I mean it was long.
00:02:29.000 Like, super long.
00:02:30.000 Like, it just ended five minutes before the show.
00:02:32.000 It was really, really long.
00:02:34.000 It was an hour and 20 minutes or so.
00:02:36.000 It was the third longest State of the Union address ever recorded.
00:02:40.000 In terms of number of words, it wasn't quite that long, but Trump's cadence is relatively slow.
00:02:44.000 It was also quite successful.
00:02:45.000 So the poll numbers show, according to CBS News poll, 75% of Americans thought that this speech was good.
00:02:51.000 75% of Americans thought this speech was unifying.
00:02:54.000 Fully 43% of Democrats thought the speech was good.
00:02:58.000 According to the CBS News poll, 91% favored what they heard on infrastructure.
00:03:03.000 81% said that the president was uniting the country.
00:03:05.000 75% approved of the speech.
00:03:06.000 75% favored what they heard on national security.
00:03:08.000 And 72% favored what they heard on immigration.
00:03:11.000 That, by any measure, is a massive success for the president of the United States.
00:03:15.000 So we're going to go through this, because there are really two aspects to the—three aspects, I think, to the Trump speech that are noteworthy.
00:03:20.000 The good, one is the bad, and one is the ugly.
00:03:23.000 The good is a lot of what Trump did here.
00:03:26.000 He did some great storytelling.
00:03:28.000 Whoever wrote the speech did a great job of getting sympathetic victims in the stands.
00:03:32.000 Everybody does the Ronald Reagan shtick, where you get a bunch of people who sit up there in their rafters, and then you say, and there's Bob.
00:03:38.000 Bob's a great American.
00:03:39.000 Hand for Bob!
00:03:40.000 And everybody claps.
00:03:41.000 Well, that's been misused for years and years.
00:03:43.000 Trump did it right last night.
00:03:44.000 We'll talk about all the things Trump did right. 0.99
00:03:46.000 We'll also talk about the Democrats' response, because the Democrats apparently had superglue attached to their asses. 0.98
00:03:51.000 They literally did not get up for the entire speech. 0.99
00:03:54.000 I mean, even on things where they agree, even on things like black unemployment is down and everybody's cheering, and then you look over and the Congressional Black Caucus is sitting.
00:04:02.000 It's like, what are you, against black people working?
00:04:04.000 What's your problem?
00:04:05.000 There were times during the speech where Trump was saying things like, we all stand for the American flag.
00:04:10.000 And you look over, all the Democrats are sitting.
00:04:12.000 And Nancy Pelosi is chewing on her dentures. 0.94
00:04:14.000 And you're thinking, is this really your strategy?
00:04:17.000 So we'll talk about the Democratic strategy here, because it doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense.
00:04:20.000 They basically define themselves as the anti-Trump party, as opposed to even the progressive party at this point.
00:04:26.000 Even things they agree with, they will boycott if Trump is involved with them.
00:04:29.000 So that was the ugly.
00:04:32.000 And then there was the bad.
00:04:33.000 Trump didn't say word one.
00:04:35.000 It really was stuff Trump didn't say.
00:04:36.000 So Trump did not talk at all about fiscal responsibility in the speech.
00:04:40.000 Because Trump is not a fiscally responsible guy.
00:04:42.000 Trump doesn't care about deficits.
00:04:43.000 He doesn't care about debts.
00:04:44.000 He's more like George W. Bush than he is like Ronald Reagan on that score.
00:04:48.000 He's certainly more like either of those than he is like Calvin Coolidge.
00:04:51.000 He's not somebody who deeply cares about entitlements running out of control.
00:04:54.000 He said this during the campaign, so he's been pretty obvious about the idea he doesn't mean to tamp down spending.
00:04:58.000 He said in the speech that Obamacare is basically dead, which it isn't.
00:05:03.000 He suggested in the speech that he wanted to blow out the spending on infrastructure to the tune of $1.5 trillion, which is not a conservative policy.
00:05:10.000 He said he wanted paid parental and family leave.
00:05:12.000 That is not a conservative policy, either.
00:05:14.000 He didn't say one word about reducing the federal deficit or the federal debt.
00:05:17.000 That's because that's tough political stuff, and Trump doesn't want to touch all that stuff.
00:05:21.000 So that's the bad stuff.
00:05:22.000 But we'll go through it a little bit more in detail.
00:05:24.000 So, last night Trump walks out, and pretty much everybody stands and claps.
00:05:29.000 There are some Democrats, particularly members of the CBC, who will stand and clap for Louis Farrakhan, but they won't stand and clap for the elected president of the United States.
00:05:37.000 Trump walks out and he takes the stage.
00:05:39.000 And the first thing he does is he lays out the fact that he's had a very good economic first year.
00:05:43.000 Here's what he had to say.
00:05:45.000 Since the election, we have created 2.4 million new jobs, including 200,000 new jobs in manufacturing alone.
00:05:55.000 After years and years of wage stagnation, we are finally seeing rising wages.
00:06:02.000 Unemployment claims have hit a 45-year low.
00:06:07.000 African American unemployment stands at the lowest rate ever recorded.
00:06:15.000 Now look at the Democrats.
00:06:18.000 And there they are, right?
00:06:19.000 Every Democrat is sitting.
00:06:21.000 Black people working? 0.99
00:06:22.000 No! 1.00
00:06:23.000 Trump's evil!
00:06:24.000 And then Trump continues, and he's talking about the economy a little bit more. 0.53
00:06:28.000 One of the things that I think was really fascinating about what he said here is he actually makes a case that was not made during the tax cut debate.
00:06:34.000 This is why the polls were bad on the tax cuts.
00:06:36.000 If you look at the actual poll numbers on the tax cuts, the poll numbers suggested that most Americans thought they were losing money on the tax cuts, which of course was not true.
00:06:44.000 Nearly everybody gets money back thanks to the tax cuts.
00:06:48.000 That's because the Republicans had failed to actually talk about what the tax bill would do for the average American family.
00:06:54.000 They're talking in broad terms about what tax cuts do generally.
00:06:57.000 Trump did a good job, I think, of summing that up last night.
00:06:59.000 Typical family of four making $75,000 will see their tax bill reduced by $2,000, slashing their tax bill in half.
00:07:11.000 In April, this will be the last time you will ever file under the old and very broken system, and millions of Americans will have more take-home pay starting next month.
00:07:25.000 We eliminated an especially cruel tax
00:07:29.000 That fell mostly on Americans, making less than $50,000 a year, forcing them to pay tremendous penalties simply because they couldn't afford government-ordered health plans.
00:07:43.000 We repealed the core of the disastrous Obamacare.
00:07:48.000 The individual mandate is now gone.
00:07:52.000 Right, so this is all good stuff that the American people have to hear because the media have been making—
00:07:57.000 A corrupt and untrue case that tax cuts hurt the American economy and that repeal of Obamacare's individual mandate is going to kill millions of Americans and all the rest of all of this.
00:08:05.000 And Trump, I think, forcefully spoke back against this.
00:08:07.000 Now the bad side of this is when Trump says the core of the disastrous Obamacare is gone.
00:08:12.000 What that suggests is he's not going to do anything else on Obamacare, that basically he thinks his work is done here.
00:08:16.000 That, of course, is untrue.
00:08:17.000 But this is good stuff from the president.
00:08:19.000 And then the president says something that I think a lot of Republicans have not been saying, which is, when you lower the corporate tax rate, you are going to make more money.
00:08:26.000 And the proof is in the pudding.
00:08:27.000 When we lower the corporate tax rate, jobs come back to the United States.
00:08:31.000 And not only do jobs come back, you're probably going to get a raise.
00:08:33.000 So here's what Trump had to say about that.
00:08:35.000 We slashed the business tax rate from 35% all the way down to 21% so American companies can compete and win against anyone else anywhere in the world.
00:08:49.000 These changes alone are estimated to increase average family income by more than $4,000.
00:08:58.000 That last statistic is the one that Republicans really should have been focusing on during the entire tax debate, is why is it that when you lower corporate tax rates, people's income goes up?
00:09:06.000 Instead, they focused on the individual tax rates dropping.
00:09:09.000 They should have been focusing on the really major change to the law, which was that major reduction in corporate tax rates.
00:09:14.000 I don't think so.
00:09:32.000 You know, the economy was already improving under President Obama, obviously.
00:09:35.000 The stock market was up under President Obama.
00:09:36.000 Job growth in 2016 was better than job growth in 2017 by a couple hundred thousand jobs.
00:09:42.000 But the reason that wages are rising, the reason why businesses are hiring, the reason people feel a sense of optimism is because there's a sense of trust that the Republicans and Trump are not going to clock businesses in the back of the head.
00:09:53.000 There's always the feeling with Democrats and with Obama that, from some angle,
00:09:57.000 He was going to find a way to hit businesses because he didn't like businesses.
00:10:00.000 You don't get that feeling with Trump, and that came out last night.
00:10:02.000 OK, so I want to talk in a minute about some of the more dramatic moments of the Trump speech, because there were some really—there were some moments of tremendous drama in the Trump speech.
00:10:12.000 We'll continue going through the State of the Union in just a second.
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00:11:35.000 Okay, so back to President Trump's State of the Union address, which went over like gangbusters.
00:11:38.000 So one of the things that Trump does, and he's always talked about doing this, and he actually did it well last night, is he always said that America needs a cheerleader.
00:11:46.000 When people said, what does the president need to do?
00:11:48.000 He'd say, America needs a cheerleader. 1.00
00:12:03.000 Listen, the president has to do more than that, obviously.
00:12:05.000 But one of the things that I think Trump does have the capacity to unify on is he does have a gut-level sense of nationalistic patriotism.
00:12:12.000 The guy does like the flag.
00:12:13.000 He does like the military.
00:12:14.000 He does like the country.
00:12:16.000 He doesn't feel bad about America.
00:12:17.000 You always got the sense from President Obama that he was more concerned with the flaws in America's thought patterns and in the American people than in the glories of them.
00:12:26.000 Trump didn't spend any time lecturing Americans about the better angels of their nature, about this is not who we are, this kind of stuff.
00:12:31.000 Instead, President Trump talked about the wonderful things about—it was a much more optimistic speech than Obama's.
00:12:36.000 This is one of the great things about how the media has covered this.
00:12:38.000 The media said it was a dark speech.
00:12:40.000 This speech was significantly more optimistic about the state of the United States than anything Obama ever said.
00:12:45.000 Obama would always say the state of our union is strong, and then he would proceed to list off all of the racial problems that we had in the United States, and discrimination against women, and how America was still a backwards, racist, bigoted, homophobic country, and how we all had to fix that.
00:12:58.000 Trump last night got up there, he said, listen, America's pretty awesome.
00:13:01.000 It's pretty awesome.
00:13:02.000 And now's the time for you to make something of yourself.
00:13:04.000 This is clip four, so Trump really cheerleading America, and of course, Democrats sitting.
00:13:08.000 This, in fact, is our new American moment.
00:13:12.000 There has never been a better time to start living the American dream.
00:13:17.000 So, to every citizen watching at home tonight, no matter where you've been or where you've come from, this is your time.
00:13:27.000 If you work hard, if you believe in yourself, if you believe in America, then you can dream anything.
00:13:35.000 You can be anything.
00:13:37.000 And together, we can achieve absolutely anything.
00:13:42.000 OK, and everybody cheers except for the Democrats, right?
00:13:44.000 The Democrats won't cheer for you can achieve anything in America because they hate Trump so much.
00:13:48.000 And it went even further than that.
00:13:50.000 So Trump calls on this young kid, Preston, who's sitting in the family box for Trump's speech.
00:13:56.000 And this kid apparently has helped plant, helped put down something like 40,000 American flags on the graves of fallen service members.
00:14:06.000 And Trump says this, and watch as the Democrats sit.
00:14:09.000 Young patriots like Preston teach all of us about our civic duty as Americans.
00:14:15.000 Preston's reverence for those who have served our nation reminds us of why we salute our flag, why we put our hands on our hearts for the Pledge of Allegiance, and why we proudly stand for the national anthem.
00:14:33.000 Okay, and he looks over kind of concertedly at the Democrats as they sit there.
00:14:38.000 The Democrats have painted themselves into a box.
00:14:40.000 This is the problem with being both intersectional and anti-Trump.
00:14:43.000 So, the Democrats have a couple of problems.
00:14:45.000 Problem number one is that they've decided to define their entire—the personality of their party.
00:14:50.000 They've decided to define that as, we hate Trump.
00:14:53.000 That's not enough.
00:14:55.000 You can dislike Trump.
00:14:56.000 That's all well and good.
00:14:58.000 But that's only going to matter every four years.
00:14:59.000 The real question is, do people have a good sense of your party?
00:15:02.000 Do they feel like yours is a party that cares about the United States?
00:15:05.000 And when you see Democrats sitting, when you see Democrats sitting for, we proudly stand for the National Anthem, because they've boxed themselves into this idea that it's bad to say that we should stand for the National Anthem, most Americans don't buy that.
00:15:17.000 Most Americans don't like that. 0.99
00:15:18.000 Most Americans think that that's stupid. 0.98
00:15:21.000 The fact is that the Democrats are doing this now because they've engaged in this intersectional politics of hate, in which they suggest that if you're a member of a minority group in the United States, then you rightly are sitting for the National Anthem or kneeling for the National Anthem. 0.99
00:15:35.000 Democrats could have taken a middle position.
00:15:37.000 The middle position would have been, we like to stand for the National Anthem.
00:15:40.000 We think it's dumb not to stand for the National Anthem, but of course you have the right to disagree and not stand for the National Anthem.
00:15:44.000 That's what they should have said about Colin Kaepernick.
00:15:46.000 Instead, people, including Barack Obama,
00:15:48.000 Most Americans don't think America is cruel and terrible.
00:15:56.000 Most Americans think America is pretty damn great.
00:15:59.000 You know why?
00:16:00.000 Because America is pretty damn great.
00:16:01.000 America is pretty spectacular.
00:16:03.000 I have a piece out at National Review today talking about all of the wonderful things that we benefit from here in the United States that even our grandparents didn't have.
00:16:10.000 Like, things that you never think about.
00:16:13.000 Your cell phone, that didn't exist 10 years ago, the form of cell phone that you have.
00:16:16.000 The fact that you're listening to a podcast.
00:16:17.000 Podcasting didn't exist 10 to 15 years ago.
00:16:20.000 The fact that you may be watching this on a computer, using streaming.
00:16:24.000 Streaming that didn't exist 15 or 20 years ago.
00:16:26.000 That's because America is in a magnificent place.
00:16:28.000 The Western civilization is a magnificent place.
00:16:30.000 And that's true for people of all colors, and all sexual orientations, and all backgrounds.
00:16:34.000 But Democrats don't believe that, because that undermines their case against Western civilization.
00:16:38.000 Trump took full advantage of that.
00:16:39.000 He knew they weren't going to stand for the national anthem.
00:16:41.000 It makes them look bad, as well it should.
00:16:44.000 OK, so that's one of the good things that I think Trump did last night, was tweaking the Democrats on some of their intersectional extremism, and watching Cory Booker sit there and make nasty faces.
00:16:55.000 Nancy Pelosi chewing her cud while he talks about the glories of the national anthem, Trump.
00:17:00.000 Pretty amazing and telling visuals.
00:17:03.000 So, then we get into one of Trump's boo-boos of the night.
00:17:07.000 I think that Trump's big boo-boo of the night was he was attempting to do his populist shtick by talking about how he was going to spend tons of money on infrastructure.
00:17:13.000 Again, the more telling point is not that Trump talked about infrastructure.
00:17:16.000 We've had infrastructure week, at last calculation, seven times, I guess, during this administration.
00:17:21.000 Tonight I'm calling on Congress to produce a bill that generates at least $1.5 trillion for the new infrastructure investment that our country so desperately needs.
00:17:47.000 OK, so the Democrats don't even stand for that.
00:17:49.000 So now he's talking about Democratic priorities, and they won't stand.
00:17:53.000 Again, Trump is drawing a contrast, and the contrast is really telling.
00:17:56.000 The most effective portion of the speech, the portion where Democrats do not understand this, they refuse to understand this, they are angry that they are being forced to reckon with it, is that most Americans are not in favor of illegal immigration.
00:18:08.000 We may think that a lot of illegal immigrants came here for the right reasons. 0.99
00:18:10.000 We may have sympathy for illegal immigrants. 1.00
00:18:12.000 But most of us want to know who's coming into the country.
00:18:14.000 And every person who is killed by an illegal immigrant is a person who should not have been killed in the United States because it is the job of the federal government to prevent people from entering here illegally. 0.97
00:18:23.000 There are a lot of people, I'm sure, who enter gated communities not to do harm, but because they wander in or because they just want to go for a walk.
00:18:30.000 But the reality is, if you live in a gated community, and your security doesn't do its job, and someone gets killed in your gated community, you're going to blame the people in charge of the gated community.
00:18:38.000 America is still a gated community, as it has to be, because we have a welfare system.
00:18:42.000 And because we have to protect the integrity of our voting process, too.
00:18:46.000 Well, last night, President Trump did something, and he got booed by the Democrats for doing it.
00:18:49.000 He pointed out that there are, in fact, people who have been victimized by illegal immigrants in the United States.
00:18:53.000 And the Democrats were saying, well, this is because he's a racist.
00:18:57.000 In the same speech, he made a proposal to Democrats that we should let in 1.8 million illegal immigrants, allow them to become citizens.
00:19:03.000 Democrats sat for that.
00:19:05.000 Here is Donald Trump making a particular point, which is that there are victims of criminals who come into the United States illegally.
00:19:12.000 Here tonight are two fathers and two mothers, Evelyn Rodriguez, Freddy Cuevas, Elizabeth Alvarado, and Robert Mickens.
00:19:23.000 Their two teenage daughters, Kayla Cuevas,
00:19:26.000 And Nisa Mickens were close friends on Long Island.
00:19:31.000 But in September 2016, on the eve of Nisa's 16th birthday — such a happy time it should have been — neither of them came home.
00:19:45.000 These two precious girls were brutally murdered while walking together in their hometown.
00:19:53.000 Six members of the savage MS-13 gang have been charged with Kayla and Nisa's murders.
00:20:03.000 Many of these gang members took advantage of glaring loopholes in our laws to enter the country as illegal, unaccompanied, alien minors and wound up in Kayla and Nisa's high school.
00:20:23.000 Elizabeth, Freddie, and Robert, tonight everyone in this chamber is praying for you.
00:20:30.000 Everyone in America is grieving for you.
00:20:33.000 I want you to know that 320 million hearts are right now breaking for you.
00:20:39.000 But we cannot imagine the depths of that kind of sorrow.
00:20:44.000 We can make sure that other families never have to endure this kind of pain.
00:20:51.000 And Democrats, of course, were very unhappy with all this.
00:20:53.000 This was Trump doing the storytelling routine that Reagan did better than anybody, I think, since Reagan, actually.
00:20:58.000 I think that what Trump did here by pointing out people in the audience, not just a guy who started a business, but people who have actually been victimized by bad policy,
00:21:06.000 I think it was tremendously effective.
00:21:07.000 If you watched this and you weren't moved by the plight of these families, if you watched them in their heartbreak and you didn't think, well, maybe we should be able to do something about this, then I don't think that you were watching with an open mind or an open heart.
00:21:20.000 So Trump, I think, did exactly the right thing.
00:21:23.000 on this.
00:21:23.000 Now, in just a second, we're going to continue by talking about a little bit more on illegal immigration, a couple more stories that Trump told.
00:21:29.000 Again, I think he used the storytelling art at levels that we have not seen, actually, since Reagan in American politics, which is an amazing thing for me to say, because I don't think that Trump's a particularly good speaker.
00:21:38.000 But we'll get to all of that in just a second.
00:21:40.000 First, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at MyPatriotSupply.
00:21:43.000 So we are only a couple of weeks into 2018.
00:21:46.000 Look what we have already dealt with.
00:21:47.000 A false alert
00:21:48.000 OK, that is in Hawaii.
00:21:50.000 Well, that is why you need an emergency plan, right?
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00:22:05.000 Let's do it!
00:22:22.000 Okay, so the President of the United States,
00:22:47.000 Using his storytelling capacity to do some serious damage to the Democratic agenda.
00:22:54.000 I think that the most polarizing and also the most successful line of his speech last night came when he was talking again about illegal immigration.
00:23:00.000 And what he suggested is, listen, I have a lot of sympathy for illegal immigrants, right?
00:23:04.000 People who are trying to come to this country to make a better life for themselves and cross the border illegally. 0.98
00:23:08.000 I'm happy to legalize 1.8 million of them, like today, if Democrats will make a deal, but
00:23:12.000 But we have to protect American citizens first.
00:23:15.000 And it's this sort of baseline root logic that Republicans see, I think, most independents see.
00:23:20.000 I think even some Democrats see.
00:23:22.000 But the Democratic Party refuses to see. 0.77
00:23:24.000 We'll talk about that when we get to Joe Kennedy's response, because it really is quite insipid and insane.
00:23:29.000 But here last night was President Trump using language that ticked off the media, but I think most Americans heard.
00:23:35.000 So tonight, I am extending an open hand to work with members of both parties
00:23:41.000 Democrats and Republicans, to protect our citizens of every background, color, religion, and creed.
00:23:49.000 My duty and the sacred duty of every elected official in this chamber is to defend Americans, to protect their safety, their families, their communities, and their right to the American dream.
00:24:06.000 Because Americans are dreamers, too.
00:24:09.000 Okay, and that line got big applause from Republicans.
00:24:12.000 Independents liked it.
00:24:13.000 Democrats didn't like it.
00:24:15.000 And because Democrats didn't like it, it's a problem for them.
00:24:17.000 Most Americans still think that Americans ought to be taken care of before we talk about how we take care of foreign citizens, which makes sense. 1.00
00:24:25.000 This is still America.
00:24:26.000 Now, one of the things that was really incredible about how Trump used storytelling last night, you know, Bush did it, Obama did it.
00:24:32.000 They all do the Reagan routine, as I say, of putting people up in the rafters and then pointing at them and saying, look at this wonderful person, let's clap.
00:24:40.000 Trump, you know, he's been using the slogan, the forgotten men and women of the country, throughout the entire campaign.
00:24:45.000 And I thought that he misused it when he talked about people who are living in small towns, and they've lost their jobs, and these are the forgotten men and women.
00:24:51.000 I'll tell you who have been forgotten.
00:24:52.000 People who believe in American values, like sort of traditional American values.
00:24:57.000 The belief that America is a place of liberty.
00:25:00.000 The people who make small sacrifices that don't show up on the national scale, but who are doing the everyday work of making America a better place.
00:25:07.000 And some of the stories that were being told last night were so eloquent in what they said that they said more than even what Trump said.
00:25:15.000 So one example of that last night was he talked about the Hollettes family.
00:25:17.000 I thought this was just magnificent.
00:25:19.000 It's this young family.
00:25:20.000 Where a guy who's an officer with the Albuquerque Police Department, he tells their story.
00:25:25.000 This is the most pro-life story that you'll ever hear without mentioning the word abortion.
00:25:28.000 Just this week, Democrats voted down a filibuster, a bill that would protect babies in the womb after 20 weeks.
00:25:34.000 They voted that down.
00:25:36.000 Donald Trump, without ever mentioning the word abortion, without ever suggesting pro-life, without talking about termination of a pregnancy, makes an eloquent case for life by telling the story of the Halletts family, who are true American heroes.
00:25:48.000 We see a vivid expression of this truth in the story of the Holetz family of New Mexico.
00:25:57.000 Ryan Holetz is 27 years old, an officer with the Albuquerque Police Department.
00:26:04.000 He's here tonight with his wife, Rebecca.
00:26:08.000 Last year, Ryan was on duty when he saw a pregnant, homeless woman preparing to inject heroin.
00:26:16.000 When Ryan told her she was going to harm her unborn child, she began to weep.
00:26:23.000 She told him she didn't know where to turn, but badly wanted a safe home for her baby.
00:26:32.000 In that moment, Ryan said he felt God speak to him.
00:26:36.000 You will do it, because you can.
00:26:39.000 He took out a picture of his wife and their four kids.
00:26:44.000 Then he went home.
00:26:46.000 To tell his wife, Rebecca.
00:26:49.000 In an instant, she agreed to adopt.
00:26:54.000 The Hollettes named their new daughter Hope.
00:26:58.000 Ryan and Rebecca, you embody the goodness of our nation.
00:27:04.000 Thank you.
00:27:06.000 OK, I mean, that is a fantastic story.
00:27:08.000 It's a fantastic pro-life story.
00:27:09.000 It's a fantastic American story.
00:27:11.000 It's the sort of story that President Obama never would have told.
00:27:14.000 And when I see that as a pro-life person, it reminds me that my priorities still matter.
00:27:19.000 It reminds me that my values still matter.
00:27:20.000 And Trump, I think, did that.
00:27:21.000 And this was a rare moment of subtlety for the president.
00:27:24.000 I thought it was a great story.
00:27:25.000 I thought that him bringing those folks to the State of the Union was terrific.
00:27:29.000 And that, of course, was not the limit of it.
00:27:31.000 He then went on to talk about North Korea.
00:27:32.000 And a lot of people were saying, well, what's the point of him talking about North Korea?
00:27:37.000 Well, not necessarily.
00:27:38.000 It's quite possible that he was drawing a contrast between North Korea and the United States, particularly in light of the fact that Democrats keep saying over and over that Trump is a sort of Kim Jong-un figure or that America is driving toward a North Korean solution, which of course is absolute nonsense.
00:27:50.000 So Trump brought the family of Otto Warmbier, you remember.
00:27:54.000 Warmbier was a University of Virginia student who was tortured and murdered by the North Korean regime.
00:27:58.000 He brought their family.
00:27:59.000 But the clip of the night, the one that actually made all the headlines, was him talking about a North Korean refugee, this is clip 11, who was attempting to escape North Korea and what he had to go through in order to reach freedom.
00:28:11.000 Sung Ho traveled thousands of miles on crutches all across China and Southeast Asia to freedom.
00:28:21.000 Most of his family followed.
00:28:22.000 His father was caught
00:28:24.000 trying to escape and was tortured to death.
00:28:29.000 Today, he lives in Seoul, where he rescues other defectors and broadcasts into North Korea what the regime fears most, the truth.
00:28:43.000 Today, he has a new leg, but Sung Ho, I understand you still keep those old crutches as a reminder
00:28:53.000 Thank you.
00:29:09.000 To the yearning of every human soul to live in freedom.
00:29:27.000 of this young North Korean lifting his crutches, the ones that he used to walk thousands of miles out of North Korea, is an amazing, amazing image.
00:29:36.000 And it's a reminder of what America is.
00:29:38.000 Now, that's what this speech really was last night.
00:29:40.000 That's not the way that the Democrats and the media treated it.
00:29:42.000 The way the Democrats and the media treated it was as though it was the worst thing that they had ever seen.
00:29:46.000 It was just terrible, terrible.
00:29:48.000 So you can see, the Democrats, for example, booed President Trump when he started talking about the dangers of chain migration.
00:29:54.000 Under the current broken system, a single immigrant can bring in virtually unlimited numbers of distant relatives.
00:30:03.000 Under our plan, we focus on the immediate family by limiting sponsorships to spouses and minor children.
00:30:14.000 OK, you can hear them booing there.
00:30:15.000 The worst moment, of course, is Luis Gutierrez, the representative who actually fled the State of the Union when people started chanting USA.
00:30:21.000 You can see that here.
00:30:23.000 This capital, this living monument, this is the monument to the American people.
00:30:41.000 You can see there's Gutierrez and he's out.
00:30:46.000 So, Luis Gutierrez can't deal with people chanting USA and he leaves.
00:30:49.000 Yeah, good look for the Democrats there. 1.00
00:30:51.000 This is what the Democrats refuse to acknowledge, is that Trump can use unifying language.
00:30:55.000 And when he uses unifying language, you should cheer.
00:30:57.000 And when he doesn't, you should boo.
00:30:59.000 But instead, they just decided to boo him all the way through.
00:31:01.000 In a second.
00:31:02.000 We're going to get to all the Democratic responses.
00:31:04.000 We're going to get to Joe Kennedy III.
00:31:05.000 We're going to get to Bernie Sanders.
00:31:06.000 We're going to get to the media fallout, which is just insipid and insane.
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00:32:36.000 Okay, so let's go to the media response first, and then we'll get to the actual Democratic responses to the State of the Union.
00:32:41.000 So, number one, you can see how insane this made the Democrats.
00:32:44.000 So Cory Booker, Democratic senator who cried tears of rage, tears of ragely rage, so much rage from Cory Booker, oh!
00:32:53.000 So he was asked specifically about the State of the Union, and he says that it was ugly and fear-mongering.
00:32:57.000 And I just want to ask a question.
00:32:59.000 I showed you a lot of clips.
00:33:00.000 Did you see anything there that smacked of ugly fear-mongering to you?
00:33:04.000 Ugly fear-mongering?
00:33:05.000 Because that's not what I saw last night.
00:33:06.000 I'm not sure what speech Cory Booker was watching, except that he has on his Tears of Rage glasses, and so all he could see was through those tears of rage, evil and horror.
00:33:15.000 Here's Senator Booker.
00:33:16.000 All right.
00:33:36.000 are using MS-13 as a way to cast a shadow around millions of Americans who are looking for full recognition of their citizenship rights.
00:33:49.000 There are so many examples of this that were just painful.
00:33:52.000 Okay, so again, you know, Cory Booker saying all this stuff is just nonsense.
00:33:56.000 There's really no excuse for him to say this because I just didn't see it last night.
00:34:01.000 Maybe I missed it, but that's not what I saw.
00:34:03.000 Chris Matthews did the same thing on MSNBC.
00:34:05.000 He gets up on MSNBC, he comes out of the show, and then, that Save the Union was so terrible.
00:34:11.000 It was worse than when I yelled at my interns.
00:34:12.000 It's worse than when I sexually harassed the help. 1.00
00:34:14.000 It's just garbage. 1.00
00:34:15.000 Get up. 1.00
00:34:16.000 Come in here, don't even shower, and I have to watch this nonsense? 0.99
00:34:20.000 Just awful. 0.92
00:34:21.000 Chris Matthews, I mean, go!
00:34:23.000 It had a lot of particular things that weren't rough, and then it took a turn halfway through it.
00:34:28.000 It almost got ugly. 0.99
00:34:30.000 Very tough about saying immigrants are basically killers. 0.99
00:34:33.000 MS-13. 0.85
00:34:36.000 Beginning a discussion about immigration in a country of immigrants with crime. 1.00
00:34:40.000 And that was his way of opening up the discussion, like, I'm protecting us from criminal elements.
00:34:45.000 I thought that got very ugly about that point.
00:34:48.000 I'm very ugly that he mentions MS-13 as though it's not a problem in the United States.
00:34:51.000 Again, Trump did not label all immigrants MS-13.
00:34:53.000 He said he wanted to let 1.8 million illegal immigrants remain in the country as a whole.
00:34:59.000 So, we're going to get to more media response.
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00:35:58.000 So it was just what you would expect from the media, suggesting that this was the worst speech ever.
00:36:01.000 I thought the most hilarious thing was, Democracy Dies in Darkness, The Washington Post.
00:36:07.000 They ran an original headline, and the original headline said, A Call for Bipartisanship, right?
00:36:12.000 It was a picture of Trump speaking.
00:36:14.000 And then they got ratioed.
00:36:16.000 So being ratioed on Twitter means that you have more comments on your tweet than you have retweets on your tweet.
00:36:21.000 So it's something like 3,000 comments, because a bunch of Democrats said, no, that's terrible.
00:36:24.000 Trump didn't deliver a message of unity.
00:36:27.000 It wasn't a call for bipartisanship.
00:36:28.000 It was mean.
00:36:28.000 It was cruel.
00:36:29.000 It was ugly.
00:36:30.000 So what did they do?
00:36:31.000 Well, those brave people, the Democracy Dies in Darkness, they switched the headline.
00:36:36.000 So now it says, a new American moment.
00:36:39.000 Trump adopts a gentler approach.
00:36:40.000 So rallies fiery barbs give way to traditional formality in speech.
00:36:45.000 Gritted realities of governing and politics await after high-minded talk.
00:36:49.000 All those headlines change.
00:36:50.000 Go back to the original page for just a second.
00:36:51.000 The original headlines say, look at that.
00:36:54.000 A call for bipartisan.
00:36:55.000 Trump delivers message of unity.
00:36:57.000 President highlights military economy.
00:36:59.000 And then, below that, it says, a chance to act presidentially, at least for a night.
00:37:03.000 So they just shifted every headline so that it's nasty.
00:37:06.000 Every single headline changed because people ratioed them on Twitter.
00:37:09.000 And then we're supposed to believe the media don't have a bias?
00:37:12.000 Of course the media have a bias.
00:37:13.000 The good news is that when it comes to the State of the Union Address, so many more people watch it than read about it the next day that it doesn't really matter very much.
00:37:19.000 But it just shows you the insane level of bias.
00:37:21.000 Now, the Democrats tried to respond.
00:37:23.000 The response to the State of the Union is almost invariably terrible.
00:37:27.000 There has never been a very good response to the State of the Union.
00:37:30.000 Democrats trotted out Joe Kennedy III, who, of course, is famous for being a Kennedy, not for actually accomplishing anything.
00:37:36.000 First of all, very, very bad move to have a Kennedy speak in front of a broken car, right?
00:37:41.000 Just a car with the hood open.
00:37:42.000 That's just a bad way to start a speech by a Kennedy descendant.
00:37:46.000 They have a bad history with cars that have been submerged in water, for example.
00:37:51.000 Other things to point out, you'll see, as Joe Kennedy speaks, that he was supposedly drooling, but he used, actually, like a vat of ChapStick, and so his mouth is shiny while he gives this speech.
00:38:01.000 Unfortunately, he didn't have the full-on Kennedy-Mayor Quimby from The Simpsons accent, because that would have made it much more amusing.
00:38:07.000 But he was as radical leftist as possible to be.
00:38:09.000 He decided to respond to Trump not by saying,
00:38:12.000 You know, President Trump said a lot of nice things.
00:38:14.000 Like, these people write their speeches before they actually see Trump's.
00:38:16.000 So what they should have said is they should have said, listen, if I were a Democrat, here's what I would say.
00:38:20.000 President Trump said a lot of nice things about the economy.
00:38:23.000 Oh, that's wonderful.
00:38:23.000 We all want to see the economy grow.
00:38:25.000 He has not put us on a path to sustainable growth.
00:38:27.000 Here are the reasons why.
00:38:29.000 Also, the president talked a lot about unity and bringing the country together.
00:38:32.000 But no one has been more divisive than this president.
00:38:34.000 And then I would go down the list of all the terrible, divisive things that President Trump has supposedly done and said.
00:38:39.000 And I'd point out that there is a character flaw in the modern Republican Party that allows for this sort of thing, right?
00:38:43.000 You want to make the argument on character grounds, because people vote on character grounds.
00:38:47.000 Instead, Democrats are trapped in this intersectionality nonsense.
00:38:51.000 And so, instead of going after Trump for all the things he said, they decide that they have to stand up for all these intersectional groups.
00:38:56.000 So here is Joe Kennedy pandering to the Me Too movement and the Pussyhat crowd and pandering to Black Lives Matter, a group that is extraordinarily radical.
00:39:08.000 Here he is.
00:39:11.000 America, we carry that story on our shoulders.
00:39:18.000 He's such a bad speaker, wow.
00:39:20.000 You swarmed Washington last year to ensure that no parent has to worry if they can afford to save their child's life.
00:39:30.000 You proudly marched together last weekend, thousands deep, on the streets of Las Vegas and Philadelphia and Nashville.
00:39:38.000 You sat high atop your mom's shoulders and held a sign that read, build a wall and my generation will tear it down.
00:39:59.000 You bravely say, me too.
00:40:03.000 You steadfastly say,
00:40:05.000 Black lives matter.
00:40:06.000 I mean, this is deeply radical stuff.
00:40:08.000 He's not a good speaker, first of all, so the idea that this guy can speak is just not true.
00:40:11.000 Every phrase is punctuated by a short gap to demonstrate
00:40:17.000 Emotion.
00:40:18.000 But it just doesn't work.
00:40:19.000 It's not good in any real sense.
00:40:22.000 That line, build a wall and my generation will tear it down, is an insane line.
00:40:26.000 That's an insane line.
00:40:26.000 I mean, Dennis Prager pointed this out last night during our watch party.
00:40:30.000 He said, that's basically Democrats saying we don't want borders at all.
00:40:33.000 Right?
00:40:33.000 No walls at all.
00:40:35.000 Transnationalism at its finest. 0.62
00:40:37.000 Try that in America and see how long that lasts.
00:40:40.000 You know how quickly America will be swamped by people who want to come here and may not share our values? 0.98
00:40:43.000 Pretty damn quickly.
00:40:44.000 We're a very wealthy country.
00:40:46.000 It's a pretty astonishing statement.
00:40:48.000 Build a wall and our generation will tear it down.
00:40:49.000 I certainly hope not.
00:40:52.000 If that's true, then I'd like to know whether the Kennedy family compound has walls around it, whether those ought to be torn down, too.
00:40:57.000 When he says, you bravely say Me Too, you steadfastly say Black Lives Matter, these are just slogans. 0.99
00:41:02.000 They're just slogans.
00:41:02.000 Because he doesn't explain how these movements are good, or what they're doing, or why he would support them.
00:41:08.000 And then he launched into his character attack on Trump.
00:41:11.000 But it was really weak stuff.
00:41:14.000 It would be easy to dismiss
00:41:16.000 This past year is chaos.
00:41:19.000 Partisanship as politics.
00:41:24.000 But it's far, far bigger than that.
00:41:27.000 This administration isn't just targeting the laws that protect us.
00:41:34.000 They're targeting the very idea that we are all worthy of protection.
00:41:39.000 OK, again, no, he's not.
00:41:41.000 In fact, Trump was the one who was saying that Americans are worthy of protection.
00:41:45.000 It's you who are saying that we're going to tear down the walls that prevent people from entering the country illegally.
00:41:49.000 And then, of course, Kennedy addressed DREAMers directly in Spanish.
00:41:52.000 And then he said, you're part of our story, we'll fight for you, and we will not walk away.
00:41:55.000 Trump was saying in his speech, we will fight for Americans, and Kennedy was saying in his speech, we'll fight for everyone who's outside the country, basically.
00:42:02.000 That is not a good look.
00:42:03.000 We're gonna fight also for the most radical elements of American society.
00:42:06.000 Pretty astonishing that this is what Democrats choose to trot forward with.
00:42:10.000 If they think that they can defeat Trump with this sort of radicalism, I'm not sure that that's the case.
00:42:14.000 I think that they are much better off running somebody who at least purports to unify the country, as opposed to continuing the polarization of intersectional politics that Barack Obama pursued.
00:42:22.000 This is why Bernie Sanders' response
00:42:24.000 Was probably better. 0.98
00:42:25.000 I mean, it was filled with usual stupidities, but it's—this is—I think even Bernie Sanders looked tired last night. 0.92
00:42:32.000 I mean, Sanders gave a response, and Sanders always looks tired because he's a thousand years old and did not have his proper share of pudding last night before he gave his State of the Union response address. 0.96
00:42:41.000 He should have been focusing, as I say, on character issues and also on the 1% and sustainable growth and all the rest of this.
00:42:47.000 But he has to just go down the progressive talking points list instead.
00:42:51.000 I mean, it was Trump's night, and it was pretty obvious it was Trump's night from Sanders' response.
00:42:55.000 Sanders spends time ripping on Trump for not talking about climate change.
00:42:58.000 When you look at the polls, climate change is like number 11, number 13 on Americans' list of concerns.
00:43:03.000 But that's where Bernie Sanders chooses to go.
00:43:06.000 Now I don't understand how a President of the United States can give a State of the Union speech and not mention climate change.
00:43:17.000 No, Mr. Trump, climate change is not a hoax.
00:43:22.000 It is a reality which is causing devastating harm all over our country and all over the world.
00:43:29.000 And you are dead wrong.
00:43:31.000 Oh yeah, good luck with this.
00:43:32.000 I mean, first of all, him looking like he's appearing on a C-SPAN call
00:43:47.000 We're good to go.
00:44:03.000 There's no question it was a good night for Trump.
00:44:04.000 It was a bad night for Democrats, and we'll see if they continue to shoot themselves in the foot.
00:44:07.000 Democrats really shot themselves in the foot last night, even more than Trump won himself a victory.
00:44:11.000 OK, we're going to get to things I like and things I hate, so let's just jump right in there.
00:44:16.000 So, time for a quick thing I like.
00:44:18.000 So we've been doing Bach this week.
00:44:20.000 So we did Brahms a couple of weeks ago.
00:44:21.000 This week is Bach.
00:44:22.000 This is, of course, a very famous piece that you will all know.
00:44:24.000 This is Bach's Toccata and Fugue, which you will remember from Fantasia as well as every horror movie ever.
00:44:33.000 I don't know.
00:45:04.000 We're good to go.
00:45:18.000 So this is a pretty fantastic piece, obviously.
00:45:20.000 It was written maybe as early as 1704, when Bach was still in his teens.
00:45:24.000 There's some people who say that it maybe was dated in the 1740s.
00:45:29.000 In any case, it was only really rediscovered in the 1800s.
00:45:33.000 And Felix Mendelssohn, a great composer in his own right, will have to do a week of Mendelssohn music, because I love Mendelssohn's music.
00:45:40.000 It was rediscovered in the 1800s and recaptured.
00:45:43.000 So much of Western thought is involved in rediscovery of old ideas and renewal of those old ideas.
00:45:48.000 And that is true in politics as well as in music.
00:45:50.000 One of the problems with modern music is that we've essentially abandoned all the old ideas about tonality and form and the developed natural ear and all the rest of this.
00:46:01.000 Instead, we've decided to focus in on what is most convenient.
00:46:05.000 We've focused in on energy in the pop sphere, or we've focused in on abstruse nonsense in the classical sphere.
00:46:10.000 And when you listen to great classical music of the past, there's a reason it has driving power, and that's because it resonates with the human soul in a way that modern music simply doesn't.
00:46:17.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:46:23.000 So, number one thing I hate, Trey Gowdy is apparently leaving the House.
00:46:25.000 That was announced just minutes ago.
00:46:27.000 The representative from South Carolina says that he is leaving Congress.
00:46:30.000 This would make another House chair who is leaving his committee.
00:46:33.000 It looks like Republicans in the House are foreseeing a Democratic wave in 2018.
00:46:38.000 We will see if they are right or if they are not.
00:46:40.000 Gowdy was one of the best prosecutors in Congress.
00:46:42.000 He was a terrific questioner when it came to the Oversight Committee.
00:46:46.000 It's a sad thing to see him go.
00:46:48.000 He says he's going to go back to his practice of law.
00:46:51.000 A good public servant is Trey Gowdy, and that's too bad to see him go.
00:46:54.000 In other news, Hillary Clinton, last night—I mean, talk about just a document dump—in the middle of the State of the Union address, or right before it, she dumped a giant Facebook post essentially apologizing for protecting a campaign subordinate who is sexually preying on young women.
00:47:08.000 So she waited until the middle of the State of the Union to dump it.
00:47:10.000 I wonder why she was so unpopular and lost to President Trump. 0.56
00:47:12.000 I just can't believe it.
00:47:13.000 She actually launched into a 1,500-word Facebook post just minutes
00:47:18.000 Before Trump's State of the Union address, she said he needed to be punished.
00:47:21.000 This is talking about a guy named Burns Strider, her faith advisor.
00:47:24.000 She says, he needed to be punished, change his behavior, and understand why his actions were wrong.
00:47:28.000 The young woman needed to be able to thrive and feel safe.
00:47:31.000 I thought both could happen without losing his job.
00:47:33.000 But then she suggested that she made a mistake doing that.
00:47:35.000 She says, I've been given second chances.
00:47:37.000 I've given them to others.
00:47:38.000 I want to continue to believe in them.
00:47:39.000 But she says the second chance was squandered.
00:47:42.000 And she says she was dismayed by the allegations of sexual harassment.
00:47:45.000 Again, she is just 0.93
00:47:47.000 Awful. 0.73
00:47:48.000 I mean, Hillary Clinton is just awful at everything, and her awfulness extends to launching complete disavowals, essentially, of her Me Too moment in the middle of the State of the Union Address in an attempt to bury it under Trump's big, shining hour. 1.00
00:48:02.000 So, we'll be back here tomorrow with all of the fallout.
00:48:05.000 We'll see if the memo is released.
00:48:07.000 The famous House Intelligence memo is released.
00:48:08.000 That's apparently on the brink of release, so we'll talk about that.
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