The Ben Shapiro Show - September 05, 2017


Trump Dumps Obama’s Executive Amnesty | Ep. 376

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00:00:00.000 President Trump gets rid of President Obama's executive amnesty, sort of.
00:00:04.000 We'll discuss all the ramifications.
00:00:06.000 North Korea drops a hydrogen bomb, and we'll talk about what that means.
00:00:09.000 Plus, President Trump visits Louisiana and Texas, and the media lose their minds, of course.
00:00:14.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:00:14.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:21.000 Alrighty, so I'm going to explain everything you need to know about President Trump's big move this morning to curb the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
00:00:28.000 This is President Obama's executive amnesty, and President Trump moves to sort of get rid of it, but sort of not, and we'll explain why this plan really doesn't please anyone.
00:00:37.000 There's a better way to do it.
00:00:38.000 There are a couple better ways to do it, especially if you would like to see immigration law enforced, as I would like to see immigration law enforced.
00:00:45.000 My long-standing policy on illegal immigration has always been
00:00:48.000 That the federal government should be working to remove people, not only criminals, but people who are not of benefit to American society, while leaving the people who are of benefit for American society to the back of the line.
00:00:59.000 This has always been my policy on immigration.
00:01:00.000 I've never seen why a blanket policy with regard to entire classes of people should be adopted.
00:01:05.000 It's never occurred to me why it should be.
00:01:07.000 That everyone of a particular age from a particular country should get in or none should be. 1.00
00:01:11.000 That doesn't make any sense to me.
00:01:12.000 But I'm going to explain why it is that what President Trump did today is not likely to please anyone on any side of the aisle or to finish President Obama's executive amnesty.
00:01:20.000 Before I get to any of that, and I think Trump is trying, but before I get to any of that...
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00:03:13.000 Okay so
00:03:14.000 I don't
00:03:30.000 desperately wanted to win the election and so what he decided to do was give a sop to the hispanic community as he viewed it by basically granting blanket amnesty to so-called dreamers. 0.66
00:03:40.000 These would be children of illegal immigrants who arrived as children.
00:03:43.000 They weren't born in the United States, if they'd been born here they would be citizens, but they were brought to the United States afterward and they were like three or four years old or ten years old when they came here.
00:03:52.000 The restrictions were people
00:03:54.000 Who were under the age of 16 when they were brought to the United States and below the age of 31, brought into the country by their parents before 2012, granted new legal status.
00:04:05.000 Presumably you had to be brought into the country, I guess by, I guess you wouldn't get a permit unless you'd been in the country since 2007 for some continuous period.
00:04:15.000 That was the basic rule under the so-called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and then there was DAPA, which was a program for their parents, Deferred Action for Parents of Childhood Arrivals.
00:04:25.000 Okay, so all of that was put in place by Obama through an executive order.
00:04:29.000 It never
00:04:30.000 This was challenged in court and it was basically struck down because the idea was it's one thing for you to say you're not going to prosecute folks.
00:04:35.000 It's another thing for you to give them papers.
00:04:56.000 If you give them papers, it's no longer a question of executive branch power.
00:05:00.000 Now we're talking about something different.
00:05:02.000 We're talking about an affirmative action by the executive branch without legislative approval.
00:05:06.000 That's illegal.
00:05:07.000 So DACA had basically been held up by the courts, but none of the people who had applied through the DACA program were being deported.
00:05:15.000 And one of the things that happened because of all of this is a lot of people who are illegal immigrants went to the government, registered all their information because they were guaranteed a shot at essentially amnesty if they gave the information.
00:05:25.000 The problem was always that if there was a situation where the next president was a Republican and decided to walk this back, now the government knew exactly where to find you if you were an illegal immigrant.
00:05:34.000 Okay, so here is what Trump did.
00:05:36.000 He had a bunch of choices to what he could do on DACA.
00:05:39.000 I'll explain what I think was the best choice in just a few minutes.
00:05:42.000 But here's what he actually did.
00:05:43.000 He announced that the administration would stop consideration of new applications for legal status beginning tomorrow.
00:05:52.000 So if you were going to apply under DACA for legal status and a work permit, then you can no longer do that starting tomorrow.
00:05:58.000 Those whose current permits expire between now and March 5th, 2018, which is next March, can apply for a new two-year permit.
00:06:05.000 They must do so before October 5th, so they have to come along, reapply in the next month or so.
00:06:10.000 Some so-called dreamers will be granted new legal status, others will not.
00:06:13.000 But even after March 5th, which is the deadline for enforcement of DACA, that's the deadline where Trump says, okay, it's the drop-dead date, now we're going to start enforcing the law.
00:06:23.000 He really says we're not going to start enforcing the law.
00:06:25.000 He says we're not going to hand out new work permits or anything, but the Trump White House says it will not start deporting dreamers in serious numbers, but will continue to follow the Obama administration's focus on criminals.
00:06:35.000 So basically nothing changed, except for we're not going to give paperwork to people.
00:06:40.000 And there's a little bit more uncertainty if you're a Dreamer.
00:06:42.000 Maybe Trump will deport you, maybe he won't.
00:06:44.000 In all likelihood, he will not.
00:06:47.000 A lot of this springs from a key ambiguity in how the right wing feels about illegal immigration and Dreamers in particular.
00:06:55.000 And this is a key ambiguity.
00:06:56.000 Trump campaigned loudly and proudly on the idea that we have to have rule of law and these people have to go.
00:07:01.000 It doesn't matter if you were brought here as a child.
00:07:03.000 It's sad, but we as a country have a responsibility to fulfill the needs of our citizens before we start fulfilling the needs of other citizens.
00:07:09.000 You shouldn't have come here illegally.
00:07:10.000 Your parents shouldn't have.
00:07:11.000 And we don't have an obligation as a country to take in anyone, right? 0.99
00:07:14.000 That's not our responsibility.
00:07:15.000 That was what Trump said repeatedly during the campaign.
00:07:17.000 At the same time, Trump was saying during the campaign, and particularly afterward, that he wants to keep the Dreamers here. 0.89
00:07:23.000 So he had this sort of split message.
00:07:25.000 Here was Trump just a few weeks ago talking about how he loves the Dreamers.
00:07:34.000 Sometime today or over the weekend, we'll have a decision.
00:07:40.000 We love the dreamers.
00:07:42.000 We love everybody.
00:07:43.000 Thank you very much.
00:07:45.000 Thank you.
00:07:45.000 Okay, we love the dreamers.
00:07:46.000 We love everybody.
00:07:47.000 So he's got these conflicting messages.
00:07:48.000 One is I want to enforce the law.
00:07:50.000 Two is we love the dreamers.
00:07:52.000 So here is the split in the Republican Party over Obama's executive amnesty.
00:07:55.000 Everyone sort of wants the executive amnesty gone, but for two different reasons.
00:08:00.000 Reason number one, it's illegal for the executive branch to usurp legislative authority this way.
00:08:04.000 This is the position of Speaker Paul Ryan.
00:08:06.000 This is the position of a lot of the sort of leftists in the Republican Party on illegal immigration.
00:08:12.000 A lot of them say, you know, we sort of like what Obama did, but we don't like that Obama did it, right?
00:08:16.000 Obama should have gone through Congress.
00:08:17.000 We should have passed legislation.
00:08:19.000 This is not something the executive branch gets to do on its own.
00:08:21.000 Fair enough.
00:08:22.000 I agree.
00:08:22.000 It's unconstitutional.
00:08:24.000 And the courts have largely agreed with that as well.
00:08:26.000 The second reason that people disliked Obama's executive amnesty is because they actually didn't like the executive amnesty.
00:08:32.000 Not because it was illegally done, not because it was done in piss-poor manner by the executive branch, but because they don't actually want amnesty for DREAMers. 0.95
00:08:40.000 This is Trump's most vocal base.
00:08:42.000 This is people like Ann Coulter.
00:08:44.000 This is people like Steve Bannon.
00:08:45.000 This is people who were really on the Trump train from the earliest point, right?
00:08:49.000 People like Jeff Sessions, the current Attorney General.
00:08:51.000 These are people who actually would like to see a lot of Dreamers deported. 1.00
00:08:55.000 And this is crystal clear that there is this split in the Republican Party.
00:08:58.000 So, Trump now has to make a choice.
00:09:01.000 Is he going to revoke DACA on the first grounds or on the second grounds?
00:09:04.000 In other words, does he really agree with his own base?
00:09:06.000 Does he really want to get rid of DACA and start deporting DREAMers? 1.00
00:09:10.000 It's pretty clear that he does not.
00:09:12.000 It's pretty clear that he does not.
00:09:13.000 And it's pretty clear from his policy that he doesn't.
00:09:16.000 Because what it really looks like he's doing right now is he is saying that he's going to get rid of DACA in order to push Congress in order to actually enshrine DACA and then maybe as a stop to his base give him funding for the Trump wall.
00:09:26.000 So this is the trade that Trump is looking for.
00:09:28.000 Trump is looking for this trade.
00:09:29.000 He wants
00:09:31.000 DACA to be replaced.
00:09:33.000 Okay, not actually gotten rid of.
00:09:34.000 He wants to see it encoded.
00:09:36.000 He wants to see it enshrined.
00:09:37.000 He wants to see Congress actually make Obama's executive amnesty the law of the land, not through the executive branch.
00:09:43.000 He wants to sign into law the executive amnesty so it's just amnesty.
00:09:48.000 Right?
00:09:48.000 Trump actually wants that.
00:09:50.000 But in return, he also wants the Trump wall.
00:09:53.000 And he's hoping that that will be enough of a stop to his base.
00:09:56.000 This is a serious problem.
00:09:57.000 This plan is not going to please anyone.
00:10:00.000 The only people it might please are some of the people who opposed DACA because of the manner in which it was implemented, but they're lefties on immigration.
00:10:05.000 People like Paul Ryan.
00:10:05.000 Paul Ryan might be happy with this particular plan.
00:10:08.000 And in fact, Paul Ryan basically came forward and said, yeah, I think we're going to try and pass something now.
00:10:12.000 But if Trump's legacy in the first year of his presidency is no Obamacare appeal, no tax cuts,
00:10:18.000 No getting rid of the Iran deal. 0.88
00:10:21.000 And we will pass a piece of amnesty legislation that is actually stronger than what Obama did.
00:10:27.000 I think a lot of people in his base are going to be pissed and they have good reason to be pissed off.
00:10:32.000 So here's why everybody is going to be angry from all sides on this particular policy.
00:10:36.000 For the people who are advocates of getting rid of DACA because they actually don't want DACA, because they want the DREAMers deported, Trump clearly doesn't want to deport the DREAMers.
00:10:44.000 And the problem is that Trump has already signaled he doesn't want to deport the DREAMers.
00:10:47.000 So imagine you're a member of Congress, and Trump is coming to you and he's saying, listen, I'm going to get rid of DACA.
00:10:52.000 I'm getting rid of the executive amnesty, and then I'm going to start deporting people.
00:10:56.000 But if you want those people to stay, all you have to do, people, is give me the Trump ball.
00:11:00.000 That's all you got to do.
00:11:01.000 Just do it.
00:11:02.000 The Trump ball.
00:11:03.000 Imagine you're a Republican member of Congress now.
00:11:06.000 You are in serious trouble because you are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
00:11:09.000 If you vote to give Trump what he wants, your own base will crucify you for having caved on DACA.
00:11:14.000 Your own base will probably primary you for having said that you're going to enshrine DACA.
00:11:19.000 And if you don't give Trump what he wants, then your own base could go after you because you're not giving Trump what he wants.
00:11:25.000 So Trump has put them all in an awkward position, right?
00:11:28.000 And this is a serious problem for the people in the Republican Party.
00:11:32.000 So what's their easiest solution?
00:11:34.000 Their easiest solution is to do nothing, because they know that in the end, Trump actually isn't going to implement his new ban.
00:11:39.000 Trump isn't actually going to deport all these people.
00:11:41.000 So all these Republicans can just sit tight, stay out of the fight, vote for nothing, and then six months pass, and then Trump basically does nothing, and everything goes back to normal, and whatever.
00:11:51.000 That's the easiest solution.
00:11:52.000 No Trump wall, no nothing.
00:11:54.000 No legislation.
00:11:55.000 Republicans don't want to have to affirmatively own the executive amnesty.
00:11:59.000 They don't want to have to do that.
00:12:01.000 But Trump wants them to do that so that they'll give him the Trump wall and also because then it's not on him.
00:12:06.000 Then it's not Trump's responsibility for not getting rid of the executive amnesty.
00:12:09.000 It's all Congress's responsibility for not getting rid of the executive amnesty.
00:12:12.000 So basically Trump is kicking the can down the road because he doesn't want to take responsibility for getting rid of the executive amnesty in the first place.
00:12:18.000 Trump wants to make a deal.
00:12:20.000 And Trump's deal is not something his base is going to be happy with.
00:12:23.000 And then there are the people who love DACA.
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00:14:01.000 Okay, so I've already discussed the people who want to get rid of DACA, like really want to get rid of it.
00:14:05.000 They're gonna be upset because Trump doesn't actually want to get rid of DACA.
00:14:08.000 He just wants to make Congress re-enshrine DACA and then give him the Trump wall as some sort of SOP.
00:14:13.000 People like Ann Coulter are not gonna be happy with this.
00:14:16.000 And they shouldn't be happy with this.
00:14:17.000 If they are, they're being disingenuous.
00:14:18.000 Because Trump is basically saying that he is not going to deport DREAMers.
00:14:22.000 Okay, that was not what he ran on.
00:14:23.000 Okay, then there are a bunch of people who love DACA.
00:14:26.000 These are people like John McCain.
00:14:28.000 They're not going to be happy because they're going to suggest, okay, well, if you're just going to reinstall DACA in the first place, why not just leave Obama's policies in place?
00:14:36.000 Why are we going through this whole rigmarole?
00:14:38.000 Why are we putting uncertainty in the heads of all these dreamers who are going to get to stay in the first place?
00:14:42.000 Why are you destroying the credibility of the party on this question?
00:14:45.000 You're not going to get rid of these folks.
00:14:46.000 So what exactly is the political move here?
00:14:48.000 That's what people like John McCain are saying. 0.90
00:14:50.000 And on the left, of course, the left is always going to claim that Trump is a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, even if Trump didn't actually change anything here. 0.94
00:14:56.000 And by the way, Trump didn't really change much here. 0.84
00:14:58.000 Okay, DREAMers are not being deported.
00:15:00.000 The White House says that they are only going after what they call criminals.
00:15:03.000 Not illegal immigrants. 0.88
00:15:05.000 Criminal illegal immigrants. 1.00
00:15:06.000 People who have committed an additional crime besides being here illegally. 0.95
00:15:09.000 Not what Trump ran on.
00:15:11.000 Okay, so Trump is not actually getting rid of DACA.
00:15:13.000 This is very much like the healthcare debate.
00:15:15.000 It's very much like Trumpcare.
00:15:16.000 Trump was basically saying, I'm getting rid of Obamacare.
00:15:19.000 He wasn't getting rid of Obamacare.
00:15:20.000 And then, no Republican wanted to go on record as having re-enshrined Obamacare, and so Trumpcare failed.
00:15:25.000 This is almost the exact same thing.
00:15:27.000 You can see the exact same math playing out.
00:15:29.000 Again, because Trump won't take ownership of this.
00:15:31.000 Trump was not willing to take a hard position here.
00:15:33.000 He wasn't either willing to come out and say, full scale, listen.
00:15:37.000 I like the dream.
00:15:38.000 I like DACA.
00:15:38.000 DACA's good.
00:15:40.000 So here's the deal.
00:15:40.000 Let's just pass DACA.
00:15:42.000 He's not willing to say that because he knows his base will go after him.
00:15:45.000 And he's also not willing to own his own hardline immigration position, the one that he sold during the campaign, that we're going to deport everybody who's not here illegally.
00:15:53.000 Who is not here legally. 0.82
00:15:54.000 He's not actually willing to take that stand.
00:15:57.000 So, how exactly does all this play out?
00:16:00.000 Well, it plays out with nothing happening, basically.
00:16:03.000 Because Republicans are split on DACA.
00:16:05.000 The chances that a piece of legislation passes here, a big piece of amnesty legislation passes, with solely Republican support is low.
00:16:13.000 Democrats have no incentive to actually pass anything.
00:16:15.000 Democrats want to run on this.
00:16:17.000 There's a lot of optimistic thinking from people like my friend Hugh Hewitt.
00:16:20.000 The Democrats may jump on board and pass a piece of bipartisan legislation with Trump re-enshrining DACA.
00:16:26.000 They're not going to.
00:16:28.000 Democrats want to run on this in 2018.
00:16:30.000 They love the vice that Republicans are now caught in.
00:16:33.000 Republicans are caught between their base and the general public.
00:16:35.000 The general public is basically okay with the Dreamers.
00:16:38.000 The base really is not.
00:16:40.000 That means that all of these Republicans are now going to be forced to go on record with either a very unpopular position with their base or a very unpopular position with the general public.
00:16:49.000 This is bad politics.
00:16:50.000 Now, the reason it's particularly bad politics is because there is a better solution.
00:16:54.000 There's a far easier solution.
00:16:56.000 This one was suggested by Byron York of the Washington Examiner, who's a big Trump fan.
00:16:59.000 Byron York suggests there's a very simple solution here, and he is totally right.
00:17:03.000 That is, instead of Trump coming out and having Jeff Sessions make a statement about getting rid of Obama's executive amnesty,
00:17:09.000 Instead, Trump simply could have used the same strategy that Obama used on same-sex marriage.
00:17:13.000 If you recall, Obama's strategy on same-sex marriage was not to come out personally and endorse some sort of executive action, right?
00:17:20.000 That's not what Obama actually did.
00:17:23.000 What Obama actually did was something very different.
00:17:25.000 What he did was he waited for a bunch of states to sue, and then he said, we're not going to defend traditional marriage.
00:17:32.000 We're not going to defend it in court.
00:17:33.000 I'm not going to make Eric Holder defend traditional marriage in court.
00:17:36.000 And then the Supreme Court said, oh well, there's nobody who's actually defending traditional marriage, so we'll strike down traditional marriage.
00:17:41.000 This is what Obama did with same-sex marriage.
00:17:45.000 Trump could have done exactly the same thing with the executive amnesty.
00:17:48.000 Like, beat for beat.
00:17:49.000 Note for note, he could have done the exact same thing.
00:17:52.000 All Trump had to do was just wait for all of these lawsuits against DACA to go forward, wait for DACA to be struck down, and then say, listen guys, if you want DACA back, just pass a piece of legislation that includes funding for the Trump wall.
00:18:05.000 That would have been his smartest move.
00:18:07.000 He could have waited for DACA to be struck down, say nothing, keep his mouth shut, and then he could have gone forward, DACA would have been dead, and now it's up to Congress to fix the problem.
00:18:17.000 Instead, Trump has taken this weird position where he struck down DACA on procedural grounds, but not on substantive grounds, and his fans want him to strike it down on substantive grounds.
00:18:26.000 Trump would have all the leverage.
00:18:27.000 Once the courts got rid of Obama's executive amnesty, Trump would have every bit of leverage, all the leverage, not some of it, all of it.
00:18:34.000 Because then we'd go back to the system beforehand and Trump wouldn't have even said anything yet.
00:18:37.000 Right?
00:18:38.000 Trump could have had a credible threat.
00:18:39.000 Listen, there's no law on the books preventing me from doing this.
00:18:42.000 I don't have to get rid of executive amnesty.
00:18:43.000 Executive amnesty was illegal.
00:18:45.000 And listen, we have to enforce the law.
00:18:46.000 That's what the law is on the books.
00:18:47.000 So guys, either fix it or go home.
00:18:50.000 Fix it and give me my wall.
00:18:52.000 Right?
00:18:52.000 That's not what Trump did here.
00:18:53.000 So this is actually really bad strategy.
00:18:55.000 It's actually very poor strategy, particularly going into a midterm.
00:18:58.000 And what it comes from is, for President Trump,
00:19:01.000 I think a deep and abiding need not to be the bad guy.
00:19:05.000 I mean, this is actually one of the things that's sort of fascinating about President Trump as a person, is that Trump does not want to be the bad guy in any given scenario.
00:19:12.000 He doesn't actually like firing people.
00:19:13.000 For a guy who likes firing people and plays the bad guy on TV a lot, he doesn't actually like doing the dirty work of punching someone.
00:19:20.000 He doesn't actually like doing it.
00:19:21.000 When he got rid of James Comey, he tried to put it on his Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein.
00:19:26.000 When he got rid of Mike Flynn, he tried to make it look like Flynn was resigning.
00:19:30.000 When he got rid of Steve Bannon, he tried to make it look like Bannon was resigning.
00:19:34.000 Like, every move that Trump makes is designed to shift responsibility to someone else.
00:19:38.000 On this one, he's trying to shift responsibility to Congress.
00:19:40.000 Well, he could have done that without even getting his hands dirty.
00:19:43.000 But what he's doing by doing this so obviously is he's trying to posture for his base, saying, listen, I'd get rid of DACA, but this Congress, you know, it's up to them now.
00:19:51.000 I can't, I don't know.
00:19:52.000 Right, by shifting responsibility to Congress, he's avoiding the responsibility of having to take a position.
00:19:58.000 That's not good.
00:19:59.000 Because without that presidential leadership, DACA will be enshrined.
00:20:03.000 Okay?
00:20:04.000 Congress will try to pass something.
00:20:05.000 And you can see a situation very easily where Speaker Ryan, Mitch McConnell, they actually decide to put forward bills with Democrat support, enshrining DACA, or they decide to let this thing go all the way for six months, and then Trump has the situation back on his hands.
00:20:18.000 You can see Congress kick the ball right back to Trump, and then Trump says, well, you know,
00:20:22.000 And then we just go on the way we were before.
00:20:24.000 If you're Trump's base, I don't know that you can be happy with this.
00:20:27.000 Like, if you're gonna be intellectually honest, I don't think that you can be particularly happy with this.
00:20:30.000 And again, I'm the guy who wrote the headline a week and a half ago when Trump was talking about getting rid of executive amnesty.
00:20:35.000 I'm the guy who a week and a half ago said that that was a good thing worth doing.
00:20:39.000 But it's only good and worth doing if you're willing to enforce the law or replace it with a better law.
00:20:44.000 It's not worth doing if your entire goal here is just to sort of posture about it and then go right back to the same enforcement policy that Obama had.
00:20:52.000 That's not good and it's certainly not a good policy if you want Congress to enshrine executive amnesty as the law.
00:20:58.000 It's not good on Trump.
00:20:59.000 It's not good on Ryan.
00:21:00.000 It's not good on McConnell.
00:21:00.000 It's laid out about as poorly as you can.
00:21:04.000 I wish I could say that Trump was doing a beautiful job with this, but I just don't think he is.
00:21:08.000 I think that he's unwilling to face up to the conflict inside the Republican Party and take a hard position, so he split the baby.
00:21:13.000 Splitting the baby in politics is basically the worst possible strategy, and I want to explain about that in a second, why Republicans have a tendency to split the baby while Democrats really don't.
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00:23:44.000 Okay, so, here is the problem for Republicans.
00:23:47.000 What Obama did, and he did a lot of it while he was President of the United States, is he shifted the ground.
00:23:51.000 He shifted the ground.
00:23:52.000 That's what Obama did.
00:23:53.000 That's what Obamacare was.
00:23:54.000 This is what Democrats understand that Republicans don't.
00:23:56.000 Democrats understand that when you have power, you have to use it now, and even if it means that you're going to lose it for a little while, you change the nature of the playing field.
00:24:05.000 So, when's the last time Republicans had unilateral control of Congress and the presidency, and they passed a major piece of legislation that shifted the groundwork, making it nearly impossible for Democrats to roll back?
00:24:15.000 When's the last time?
00:24:16.000 Republicans had control of all three branches of government from 2002 to 2006.
00:24:21.000 Nothing major passed.
00:24:22.000 Nothing.
00:24:23.000 They didn't shift the groundwork in any substantial way.
00:24:25.000 Democrats had control of the House, the Senate, and the Presidency from 2008 to 2010, or 2009 to 2011.
00:24:30.000 And in that time, they passed Obamacare, which dramatically shifted the groundwork.
00:24:35.000 Now, Democrats lost a thousand seats across the country.
00:24:38.000 They lost the House, Senate, and Presidency on the back of Obamacare.
00:24:41.000 They didn't care.
00:24:43.000 The reason they didn't care is because they now understand that they've shifted the way Americans think about health care.
00:24:47.000 We now think it is government's job to provide you health care.
00:24:50.000 Once we're in that world, Democrats have now won.
00:24:53.000 They've now taken another area of territory off the board.
00:24:56.000 They just took Casterly Rock.
00:24:58.000 They may have lost a lot of troops to do it.
00:25:00.000 They may have put themselves in a bad political position.
00:25:03.000 That bad political position is temporary.
00:25:05.000 The change they made is permanent.
00:25:07.000 Democrats understand this.
00:25:08.000 Same thing is true of executive amnesty.
00:25:10.000 By Obama moving forward on executive amnesty, he lost Congress in 2014 based on his executive amnesty.
00:25:16.000 There's a huge backlash to the executive amnesty, but...
00:25:20.000 Because he knew that it was going to shift the groundwork, that it was going to make people feel like there were 800,000 people who had basically been given legal amnesty in the United States.
00:25:30.000 He knew that walking that back was going to be damaging for Republicans.
00:25:33.000 He shifted the groundwork.
00:25:34.000 Republicans are never willing to make those same sorts of sacrifices.
00:25:38.000 Republicans could have gone for broke on Obamacare, on repealing it.
00:25:41.000 They could have changed the circumstances on a fundamental level.
00:25:44.000 They didn't.
00:25:45.000 They could do it on taxes.
00:25:47.000 They're not going to.
00:25:48.000 They could do it right now on amnesty.
00:25:49.000 They're not going to.
00:25:50.000 Instead, Republicans are always fearful of losing power because when you're a conservative, your typical job is to stop Democrats from doing insane things.
00:25:58.000 But the problem is that if you think your only job is to stop Democrats from doing insane things, you can only do that so long as you have power.
00:26:04.000 Well, you're never going to have power indefinitely.
00:26:06.000 That means that if Democrats have power for five minutes, boom, they shift the game.
00:26:10.000 The playing field has now been tilted.
00:26:12.000 And now you're fighting an even more uphill battle.
00:26:14.000 And so you say, OK, well, the playing field's already uphill.
00:26:17.000 We can't lose power.
00:26:18.000 We can't afford to lose power.
00:26:19.000 They'll shift the playing field some more.
00:26:20.000 So they don't do anything.
00:26:21.000 They don't try to shift it back to level.
00:26:22.000 They don't try to shift the playing field back to level.
00:26:24.000 Instead, they stand right here, and they say, OK, we'll fight the uphill battle.
00:26:28.000 We'll try to stop that snowball from rolling down the hill.
00:26:31.000 Then they don't do anything.
00:26:32.000 They lose power.
00:26:33.000 And Democrats, boom.
00:26:34.000 They moved the entire hill, right?
00:26:36.000 The hill again shifts.
00:26:38.000 Okay, so this is why Republicans are failing at this.
00:26:40.000 Imagine if President Trump had come out and he had said, listen, we are now going to enforce immigration law.
00:26:45.000 The rule of law is back in force.
00:26:47.000 It's back in force.
00:26:48.000 And the new immigration law that we are going to enforce is that if you are not here and of benefit to the United States, you're gone. 0.67
00:26:55.000 That'd be a very difficult policy for Democrats to fight because most people in the United States believe that on a fundamental level.
00:27:01.000 But Trump isn't willing to do that because he's afraid of the bad headlines.
00:27:04.000 And he doesn't want to be the bad guy.
00:27:06.000 And the same thing is true of Republicans in Congress. 0.89
00:27:07.000 Basically, Republicans are a bunch of cowards on this issue, just like they are cowards on a number of issues, and they are not willing to take a hard and fast political position because they're afraid of the blowback if they do, which will give Democrats back power, and then Democrats will move faster. 0.87
00:27:20.000 What they fail to see is that if you do not expend political capital, you can never shift the playing field back in your direction in any serious way. 0.91
00:27:28.000 So this is a serious problem, and I'm not sure that Republicans know how to fix it.
00:27:34.000 I want to talk about North Korea as well, because over the weekend, this DACA news, this executive amnesty news, has obviously shifted the political discussion, but the actual biggest news over the weekend was that North Korea tested out a hydrogen bomb, which is pretty shocking.
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00:29:15.000 So what's odd about what Trump is doing with the executive amnesty is that Trump actually has some serious political capital now.
00:29:22.000 In the aftermath of the hurricane, Trump has real political capital.
00:29:26.000 Here's some video of President Trump in Louisiana over the weekend.
00:29:29.000 And here he is.
00:29:30.000 He decided to make a second trip down to the storm-torn region and hand out supplies and do some photo ops, which is stuff that is good for him, obviously.
00:29:39.000 Here's some video of Trump in Louisiana.
00:29:42.000 You can see this enormous crowd that showed up for Trump.
00:29:46.000 And here he is in one of the trucks, shaking hands with people.
00:29:52.000 With the happy dappy music.
00:29:57.000 Trump shaking hands with some more folks.
00:29:59.000 And then here is some video of Trump at the Houston, let's do the Houston shelter tape.
00:30:03.000 So here he is at the Houston shelter talking to a bunch of the victims of Hurricane Harvey.
00:30:08.000 Talking about how bad all this was.
00:30:11.000 I'm happy.
00:30:12.000 I'm sure a lot of happiness.
00:30:14.000 It's been really nice.
00:30:15.000 It's been a wonderful thing.
00:30:17.000 As tough as this was, it's been a wonderful thing.
00:30:21.000 I think even for the country to watch and for the world to watch.
00:30:23.000 It's been beautiful.
00:30:26.000 Have a good time, everybody.
00:30:27.000 I'm going to be doing a little help over here.
00:30:31.000 They're really happy with what's going on.
00:30:34.000 It's been something, it's been very well received.
00:30:38.000 Even by you guys it's been well received.
00:30:44.000 No, I didn't see.
00:30:45.000 You mean the flooding?
00:30:46.000 Yeah.
00:30:46.000 Oh yeah, yeah.
00:30:47.000 There was, there's a lot of water.
00:30:49.000 But it's, it's leaving pretty quick, pretty quickly.
00:30:52.000 But there's a lot of water.
00:30:54.000 A lot of water.
00:30:55.000 But it's moving out.
00:30:57.000 But I think most importantly, the governor, the relationship with the governor and the mayor and everybody, it's been fantastic.
00:31:03.000 And with, and with the federal government, it's been really great.
00:31:06.000 And we're signing a lot of documents now to get money.
00:31:09.000 Okay, so all of this is fine, right?
00:31:11.000 All of this tape for Trump is very good.
00:31:13.000 And you can see that the left are losing their mind because anytime Trump does something that's good for Trump, the left think that this is the end of the world.
00:31:19.000 So Joy Reid over on MSNBC, she was very angry because Trump says he's going to give a million dollars to Hurricane Harvey relief. 0.98
00:31:25.000 And here she is whining that it's not enough money. 0.99
00:31:28.000 His million-dollar pledge is also dwarfed by the efforts of celebrities like Beyonce and J.J.
00:31:33.000 Watt, who have launched their own fundraising campaigns, with Watt raising $16 million and counting.
00:31:40.000 Okay, so, uh, you know, there she is ripping him. 1.00
00:31:42.000 And then Gabe Sherman, uh, from New York Magazine, he comes out and says, the big problem here is that Trump is really trying just to avoid responsibility for the Mueller investigation.
00:31:50.000 That as the Mueller-Russia investigation goes on, he doesn't want focus on that, so he's going over to Hurricane Harvey land.
00:31:55.000 This is just, again, this shows how crazy the left is. 0.89
00:31:57.000 When the left is this crazy, folks, that's an indication that Trump is winning. 0.90
00:32:01.000 That's always a good indicator. 0.96
00:32:02.000 When the left goes nuts, it's for one of two reasons.
00:32:05.000 One, Trump actually did something completely illegitimate.
00:32:07.000 Or two,
00:32:08.000 It's not that illegitimate and they're just going crazy because he's winning.
00:32:11.000 That's this, right?
00:32:11.000 Trump did something that's not illegitimate.
00:32:13.000 It's actually quite good.
00:32:14.000 He went down to Louisiana and Texas and did some photo-opping and the left is trying to suggest why this is bad and having a tough time of it.
00:32:22.000 This is a desperate effort by this White House to come up with a new storyline because the story that Donald Trump doesn't want the world focused on is the Robert Mueller investigation, which we know from new reporting this week that is moving ahead at rapid-fire speed.
00:32:37.000 He's teamed up with New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
00:32:40.000 I mean, this is a perilous time for this president.
00:32:42.000 So having any kind of visual or optics where he's in Texas is his effort to turn that corner.
00:32:48.000 Okay, so this idea that the left is going after Trump for stuff that is completely unobjectionable, it demonstrates that Trump had political capital.
00:32:55.000 Now, you would assume that Trump might use that political capital to do something big or politically popular, and instead, he decided to do this sort of milquetoast move on the executive amnesty.
00:33:05.000 Which is actually designed to, again, re-enshrine the executive amnesty, to make the executive amnesty law.
00:33:10.000 That's what Trump's move is explicitly designed to do.
00:33:13.000 He's saying it.
00:33:14.000 It's not me saying it.
00:33:14.000 People in the White House are saying it.
00:33:16.000 That seems to me a really foolish move. 0.97
00:33:18.000 He has all this political capital. 0.97
00:33:20.000 Use it, Mr. President.
00:33:21.000 Use it for something good.
00:33:22.000 You said last week you wanted to do the tax cuts.
00:33:25.000 Use it for the tax cuts, if that's how you want to use this.
00:33:27.000 You want to say that we need to jog the economy after a big disaster?
00:33:30.000 Now would be a good time to do that.
00:33:31.000 Listen, I don't agree with his trillion-dollar infrastructure plans.
00:33:34.000 But if Trump wanted to do that, would there be a better time than right after a hurricane?
00:33:38.000 He could even tie it to the Hurricane Harvey relief funds.
00:33:41.000 Instead, it looks like Trump is making minor moves because I really don't get the feeling that he has strong convictions on a lot of these policies.
00:33:49.000 You know, Steve Mnuchin was suggesting that Congress should tie the Hurricane Harvey relief fund to a debt ceiling increase.
00:33:56.000 I mean, again, this president came into office complaining that the government spent too much money, and now they're going to go out and they're going to borrow some more money.
00:34:03.000 Here's Steve Mnuchin as his Secretary of the Treasury.
00:34:06.000 Mark Meadows says he does not want to see that disaster aid tied to a bill to raise the debt limit.
00:34:12.000 Can you guarantee him and others that that won't happen?
00:34:18.000 No, I can't.
00:34:18.000 Quite the contrary.
00:34:20.000 The President and I believe that it should be tied to the Harvey funding.
00:34:25.000 That our first priority is to make sure that the state gets money.
00:34:29.000 It is critical.
00:34:30.000 And to do that, we need to make sure we raise the debt limit.
00:34:33.000 So if Congress appropriates the money, but I don't have the ability to borrow more money and pay for it, we're not going to be able to get that money to the state.
00:34:41.000 So we need to put politics aside and we're going to be urging Congress to get both of those things done as quickly as they can.
00:34:49.000 So this is what's driving me crazy.
00:34:51.000 You know, there's a whole very partisan feel to the United States right now.
00:34:54.000 Never have the parties been closer in actual policy.
00:34:57.000 Obama would have pushed the same thing.
00:34:58.000 Tie hurricane funding to a debt ceiling increase.
00:35:01.000 That's exactly what Obama would have pushed.
00:35:03.000 Obama would have pushed making his executive amnesty law, not just executive amnesty.
00:35:08.000 These are all things Obama would have pushed.
00:35:10.000 And yet, we're beating each other's brains in over everyone agreeing on policy.
00:35:13.000 It's quite insane.
00:35:14.000 Meanwhile, on the international scene, the North Koreans did a nuclear test that actually created a 6.3 earthquake.
00:35:23.000 That's how large this hydrogen bomb was.
00:35:25.000 So they now have an H-bomb and they are suggesting that they can affix it to the tip of these ICBMs that they've been test firing and that are capable of reaching the United States. 0.66
00:35:33.000 President Trump had a series of tweets on this over the weekend.
00:35:35.000 Here's a tweet.
00:35:36.000 He tweeted,
00:35:44.000 And he continued, And then he finished by saying,
00:35:58.000 Again, I don't want to criticize Trump too much because I don't think that this was, it's not a problem of his making, it's a problem of Clinton's making, it's a problem of every president since Truman's making is North Korea.
00:36:10.000 But when he says things like South Korea is finding that their appeasement doesn't work, only one thing works, what's the one thing?
00:36:17.000 Force?
00:36:18.000 Threats of force?
00:36:19.000 How's that going to work exactly?
00:36:21.000 How's that gonna work?
00:36:22.000 So Trump was suggesting over the weekend that he's going to actually lead sanctions on any country that does business with North Korea.
00:36:27.000 The problem is that I'm not sure that he's actually willing to implement that because it would cause a pretty significant financial strain.
00:36:32.000 It may actually be smart policy.
00:36:34.000 It may actually be best policy.
00:36:35.000 Mark Levin was suggesting on his show the best thing the United States could do would be to station nuclear weapons.
00:36:40.000 In Japan, pointed at North Korea.
00:36:42.000 In South Korea, pointed at North Korea.
00:36:44.000 Basically, use the anti-Soviet strategy in order to get North Korea to calm down. 0.66
00:36:50.000 Let them know that if you were to nuke any of these places, they have the immediate backlash.
00:36:55.000 Capacity that it's not a question of whether they would nuke they would I think that's right He also suggested that we take financial measures against China. 1.00
00:37:02.000 I think that's right as well But when Trump is going after South Korea, I don't really see that as being particularly a smart move Also, Trump is threatening to end a trade agreement with the South Koreans in the middle of a conflict with the North Koreans I don't understand how alienating the South Korean government is a really smart strategy at this point
00:37:21.000 Trump is talking about withdrawing from a trade deal.
00:37:23.000 Again, one of the reasons South Korea is working with us and not China is because we have a trade relationship with them.
00:37:28.000 If we don't, then presumably South Korea could start working with China, and China's sphere of influence could grow under the North Korean nuclear umbrella.
00:37:35.000 None of that makes a whole hell of a lot of sense.
00:37:39.000 Again, I think that President Trump, he says this is a big week.
00:37:42.000 I agree this is a big week.
00:37:43.000 So far, I'm not liking what I'm seeing.
00:37:45.000 He needs to take a stronger stance.
00:37:47.000 He needs to lay out an actual policy, not just vague talk on Twitter, an actual policy on North Korea, if he has one.
00:37:52.000 And when it comes to executive amnesty,
00:37:55.000 Does he believe what he said during the campaign or was he fibbing?
00:37:58.000 Does he want Congress to make sure the Dreamers aren't deported?
00:38:01.000 And if so, then he ought to take the leading position on that and protect his own people from being primaried.
00:38:05.000 Otherwise, he's dooming his own party, which seems to me like a bad move.
00:38:09.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:38:11.000 So...
00:38:12.000 Things I like.
00:38:13.000 I was reading this book over the weekend after my father recommended it to me.
00:38:16.000 It's quite good.
00:38:17.000 It's called The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
00:38:23.000 It's all about why we spend all of our lives trying to discern the systems behind predictable events, but the events that actually change our lives in major ways are highly improbable and unpredictable events.
00:38:35.000 And that's why we have to plan for those as well.
00:38:37.000 So how do you plan for the unpredictable?
00:38:39.000 Well, one of the ways is you have a certain amount of your assets, for example, in the financial market, you have a certain amount of your assets in really, really predictable, safe assets, and then you take a certain percentage and you put them in high-risk things because one of those risks could come up green and all of a sudden you're making a billion dollars.
00:38:56.000 That's sort of his investment strategy.
00:38:57.000 When it comes to planning for foreign policy, the same thing.
00:39:00.000 You should try and think of every possible contingency, because the fact is that there are going to be some things that happen that you don't know about.
00:39:05.000 Like I think, for example, that the risk of North Korea nuking us is actually much lower than the risk of Pakistan initiating a nuclear war at this point, because I think North Korea knows that they don't want to be destroyed.
00:39:15.000 Right now, there's a better chance that the Pakistani government follows to 0.98
00:39:19.000 Falls to the Taliban, for example, and suddenly you have the Taliban in charge of nuclear weapons and they don't care. 0.74
00:39:23.000 Right?
00:39:23.000 Same thing with Iran.
00:39:25.000 So, you know, the black swan is a really interesting way of looking at the world that most people don't think about.
00:39:29.000 Talks about sort of what happens if all of life's events are identifiable on a bell curve.
00:39:36.000 And most of those events happen in the center of the bell curve.
00:39:38.000 The black swan is about why the events that happen all the way out here, on the ends of the bell curve, those are the ones that really determine the fate of countries and the fate of individual lives.
00:39:45.000 Okay, other things that I like.
00:39:47.000 So I have to, I have to laugh.
00:39:48.000 I thought this was funny what Trump did.
00:39:50.000 So Hillary Clinton, her new book is called What Happened.
00:39:54.000 And so Trump tweeted out, or retweeted, a meme that was going around.
00:39:59.000 So it says, What Happened Hillary Rodham Clinton?
00:40:01.000 And then the response is, I happened, and it's just a picture of Trump.
00:40:05.000 So I do think that that's funny.
00:40:07.000 You know, it's typical Trump.
00:40:09.000 It's people who love this, love this about Trump.
00:40:11.000 People who hate this, hate this about Trump.
00:40:13.000 But there's some truth to it, obviously.
00:40:15.000 And Trump did fight Hillary in a way that a lot of other candidates would not have.
00:40:18.000 So when people say, oh well, if Trump hadn't won, then Rubio would have won, I'm not sure that that's the case.
00:40:23.000 I'm not sure that campaign runs even close to the same way.
00:40:28.000 Okay, time for a couple of quick things I hate. 0.89
00:40:30.000 So, thing I hate number one, Jesse Jackson, literally one of the world's worst human beings.
00:40:35.000 He came out over the weekend and said, President Trump is definitely not gonna make it into the kingdom of heaven.
00:40:42.000 Trump says you must be able to speak English, qualified, and have a job skill.
00:40:48.000 Jesus would not qualify to come in Trump's country.
00:40:51.000 He would not qualify to get in Jesus' kingdom.
00:40:54.000 Okay, so why is it that Jesse Jackson gets to be the spokesperson for God's kingdom?
00:40:59.000 Now calm down there, Augustine.
00:41:01.000 This routine where a guy who is known to have had affairs as a reverend, who's been involved in alleged criminal activity for many years, you know, this is...
00:41:13.000 Him being the great judge of who goes into heaven or not, it seems to me a little bit of a stretch.
00:41:17.000 I have my criticisms of Trump on a personal level, but whether he goes to heaven or not seems to me much more of a God decision than a Jesse Jackson decision.
00:41:24.000 Okay, final thing that I hate.
00:41:26.000 There's this tape that's going around, and these are going around now all the time on the internet.
00:41:30.000 These parents who are looking for attention, and a media willing to grant it to them, they've decided to destroy the lives of their children.
00:41:36.000 These parents took an 8-year-old boy and made him into a drag queen. 1.00
00:41:40.000 And then all of the media decided to trumpet this as just the bravery of the parents.
00:41:44.000 The kid's 8, okay?
00:41:45.000 The kid doesn't have hormones yet.
00:41:46.000 It's not like you're talking about a 15-year-old boy.
00:41:49.000 You're talking about an 8-year-old who's not even hit puberty yet, and you're destroying his life because guess what his school's gonna be like next year?
00:41:55.000 Guess what it's gonna be like when all the kids at school say, like, is he actually a girl?
00:42:00.000 No, he's just a boy who likes dressing as a girl.
00:42:02.000 This kid could grow out of this stage.
00:42:05.000 I mean, why would you—like, I think that it's actually nasty for parents to post stuff of their kids on the internet at pretty much any point, because kids deserve privacy.
00:42:12.000 They're still figuring out who they are.
00:42:13.000 And here you are making your kid into a mockery in order for you to feel good about yourself as though you're some sort of tolerant parent because your eight-year-old wanted to do something.
00:42:21.000 Guess what? 1.00
00:42:21.000 My kids want to do stupid crap all the time, and I tell them no, because I'm the parent. 1.00
00:42:25.000 It's my job to guard them from their own stupidity. 1.00
00:42:28.000 It's my job to guard them. 1.00
00:42:29.000 Listen, if you decide as a parent that you want your kid to do this, do it in the privacy of your own home.
00:42:33.000 But exposing this to public view to millions of viewers?
00:42:35.000 What's this kid's life gonna be like? 0.99
00:42:36.000 Do you even give a crap about your kid? 0.98
00:42:38.000 I mean, really. 0.99
00:42:39.000 But the media, of course, is happy to run with this.
00:42:42.000 Lactation's the devious diva you could ever think of.
00:42:51.000 Says who transforms into a young queen named Lactation. 0.54
00:42:53.000 I've been wearing, like, my sister's tutus since I was, like, threes and fours, even, like, twos.
00:42:58.000 And I've been dancing around in, like, little pink dresses and stuff.
00:43:01.000 So, yeah, I think I've had Lactation inside of me since I was born.
00:43:04.000 And that's why I love that song, Born This Way.
00:43:06.000 We just want our kids to express themselves however they should.
00:43:09.000 As long as it's respectful and there's people.
00:43:11.000 There's Jessica.
00:43:11.000 Mom.
00:43:12.000 We really don't care.
00:43:13.000 I like dancing.
00:43:15.000 And I like performing.
00:43:16.000 And I love, not only do you like, I love dressing up.
00:43:21.000 It makes me feel very happy, like I am accepted.
00:43:24.000 The red dress.
00:43:25.000 We put the red dress, and then the blonde wave with this dress. 1.00
00:43:29.000 When he was about two, he came to me with Mr. Potato Head earrings and asked me to put makeup on him.
00:43:34.000 So we did a little, like, drag photo shoot, and he duck-faced. 0.76
00:43:37.000 It was very sweet.
00:43:38.000 And yeah, any time he wanted makeup, I just put some on him.
00:43:41.000 A little bit of dark and a little bit of swoon.
00:43:42.000 When he was two.
00:43:43.000 When he was two.
00:43:44.000 And then a little bit of power couple.
00:43:47.000 I want... Okay, I have a question.
00:43:49.000 Where's Dad?
00:43:50.000 You see Dad anywhere in here?
00:43:51.000 I'm not seeing Dad anywhere in here.
00:43:52.000 You know why?
00:43:52.000 Because I don't think Dad's here.
00:43:54.000 I think that this is... I think this is a mom who is very screwed up, screwing up her kid from the time the kid is two, because she wants attention. 0.98
00:44:00.000 And how do I know she wants attention? 0.98
00:44:02.000 Because now I'm going to say something that is stereotypical but true.
00:44:05.000 Okay, if you wear giant... If you wear giant nose rings, and you have tattoos across your chest, and you wear low-cut things to demonstrate the tattoos across your chest, I'm going to go out on a limb here.
00:44:15.000 You want attention.
00:44:16.000 Okay, just go out on a limb here.
00:44:18.000 You're not somebody who is an introvert.
00:44:21.000 Taking an eight-year-old and suggesting that an eight-year-old is capable of making decisions about the rest of his life before he's even had a sexual feeling is just... It's just devastating.
00:44:31.000 It's just devastating.
00:44:32.000 And she's been doing this to this kid since the kid was two.
00:44:35.000 Well done, parent.
00:44:36.000 I mean, child endangerment should have picked this kid up from his parents a long time ago. 1.00
00:44:39.000 Really, just garbage parenting. 0.99
00:44:40.000 Your job as a parent is to guide your child not to indulge a two-year-old's fantasies. 1.00
00:44:44.000 What stupidity and what horror. 1.00
00:44:46.000 The moment a society decides parents are not to be parents but children are to be adults and adults should act like children, this society is done. 1.00
00:44:53.000 Okay, so we'll be back tomorrow.
00:44:55.000 I'd like to see what President Trump has to say.
00:44:57.000 I'm sure there will be more fallout from his decision about executive amnesty and we'll see whether the right wing is willing to go along with him or whether they are going to make a more honest assessment of what this policy actually is.
00:45:07.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:45:07.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.