The Ben Shapiro Show - Trump Goes Full CAPSLOCK | Ep. 586

00:00:00.000 President Trump threatens Iran with fire and fury, the long-awaited FISA warrant application against Carter Page is released, sort of, and President Trump's poll numbers still look solid.

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00:01:31.000 Okay, so, today everyone is in a sheer state of panic.

00:01:35.000 We're all going to die.

00:01:38.000 Well, it is true.

00:01:39.000 We will all eventually die.

00:01:40.000 What everyone is apparently very afraid of is that we are going to get into a nuclear exchange with the Iranians, who we were told, by the way, don't have nuclear weapons.

00:01:47.000 Why is everyone so worried today?

00:01:48.000 Well, because Iranian dictator Hassan Rouhani, who really is just a stand-in for the mullahs,

00:01:54.000 He said over the weekend that if the United States got into a shooting war with the Iranians, then it would be the quote unquote, mother of all wars.

00:02:01.000 Now, this is something that the Iranians have been saying frequently since 1979, the mother of all wars. 0.83

00:02:06.000 We're going to take on the great Satan and all the rest of it.

00:02:09.000 Well, President Trump was in kind of a bad mood over the weekend.

00:02:12.000 You can just tell, like from his Twitter feed, you can tell that he was in a bad mood.

00:02:15.000 One of the nice things about the president, it's so funny, everybody is always doing this sort of Kremlinology on the administration.

00:02:20.000 Kremlinology is what people used to do in the 1980s, 1970s, where you were trying to figure out by the public statements of the Russian administration, the Soviet Union, you were trying to figure out what it was they were thinking.

00:02:31.000 So it was all this kind of puzzling out, what exactly are they doing behind the scenes?

00:02:35.000 With President Trump, ain't no Kremlinology.

00:02:37.000 Okay, it's just what the guy says on Twitter.

00:02:39.000 So President Trump goes on Twitter and he tweets out this.

00:02:42.000 To Iranian President Rouhani.

00:02:43.000 And then this is all in capitals.

00:02:45.000 All in capitals.

00:02:46.000 Be cautious!

00:02:58.000 And it's all in capital letters.

00:03:00.000 This is apparently the sort of DEFCON 2 of Twitter.

00:03:09.000 If Twitter actually had a bold or italics function, then we'd presumably be in the middle of a nuclear exchange already.

00:03:15.000 Now, people on the left take this tweet and they say, well, this means that the president of the United States is going to start a war with Iran.

00:03:21.000 He's going to go into Iran to distract from his domestic scandals.

00:03:25.000 First of all, why would he possibly want to distract from the fact that his poll numbers are pretty good, as we're going to get to in just one second?

00:03:31.000 But second of all,

00:03:32.000 I think that we need to take a little bit of a deep breath when it comes to President Trump's tweeting.

00:03:37.000 I have been saying this consistently for more than two years, that just because the president tweets something doesn't mean that it means anything.

00:03:43.000 I'm old enough to remember when the president of the United States said about North Korea that there would be fire and fury and fury and fire and fire fury fire fur fury.

00:03:53.000 I remember that.

00:03:53.000 And everyone was like, oh my God, we're going to war with North Korea.

00:03:56.000 We're all going to die.

00:03:57.000 And then there was a missile alert, a fake missile alert over Hawaii.

00:04:00.000 And everybody said, oh, we're on the brink of massive thermonuclear war.

00:04:06.000 And then it turns out that President Trump, all he really wanted was to go to South Korea and play golf with Kim Jong-un.

00:04:10.000 That's really all he wanted out of the thing.

00:04:11.000 And then he came back and he said that Kim Jong-un had been disarmed, which he hadn't.

00:04:15.000 And that was pretty much the end of it.

00:04:17.000 We went back to what we were doing before, which was waiting around. 0.86

00:04:20.000 The idea that Trump is about to go to war with the Iranians because the Iranians said something is so ridiculous that it is beyond compare.

00:04:27.000 All of the people out there who are doing the panic attack stuff, oh, he's got his finger on the nuclear button. 0.98

00:04:32.000 We're all going to die.

00:04:35.000 He's been in office for a year and a half.

00:04:36.000 We have never been close to any sort of serious military activity.

00:04:40.000 We haven't.

00:04:41.000 And all of the talk about how we're five seconds away from the nukes flying?

00:04:45.000 First of all, I think that's an implicit rebuke to the Obama administration, which has said that the Iranians are definitely trying to moderate.

00:04:51.000 You remember, Obama said this.

00:04:53.000 They're definitely trying to moderate.

00:04:54.000 They don't want nuclear weapons.

00:04:55.000 All they want is nuclear power.

00:04:58.000 All they really want is to be brought into the family of nations.

00:05:00.000 All we have to do is drop billions of dollars in cash at their front door on pallets, and everything will be hunky-dory.

00:05:05.000 Well, so much for that idea.

00:05:06.000 It turns out that if you're going to talk about failed administration policies with regard to Iran, you might want to start with the prior administration, not with the current administration.

00:05:15.000 If you want to talk about Trump's rhetoric, you may want to talk more about the fact that President Obama handed actual cash to terrorists.

00:05:22.000 With the suggestion that this was somehow going to turn them into a bunch of moderates.

00:05:26.000 And now here they are talking about the mother of all wars.

00:05:28.000 Okay, so President Trump says all of this and everybody goes nuts over all this.

00:05:31.000 Now, is all of this really good?

00:05:33.000 Should the president be tweeting all of this stuff?

00:05:36.000 I don't think it makes much of a difference, except that...

00:05:39.000 American credibility when it comes to military action is not at an all-time high.

00:05:44.000 The president of the United States, he was the one who said during the campaign, you don't want to telegraph your intentions all the time.

00:05:49.000 You sort of want to surprise people with what you're going to do.

00:05:52.000 You want to be unpredictable.

00:05:53.000 Well, the president is predictably unpredictable.

00:05:57.000 What that means is when he says stuff like this, he can fairly guarantee there's no war coming.

00:06:01.000 The president has the opposite approach of Teddy Roosevelt.

00:06:03.000 Teddy Roosevelt famously said that you have to speak softly and carry a big stit.

00:06:07.000 For President Trump, it's tweet loudly and then get together with some FaceTime and pat each other on the back.

00:06:12.000 So I think the chances are much better that there is some sort of summit in Dubai between Trump and Rouhani within the next year and a half than any sort of serious military activity happens between Iran and the United States in the next year and a half.

00:06:22.000 But it just goes to show you the tenterhooks that Democrats are on.

00:06:26.000 Democrats are so concerned.

00:06:27.000 Everybody is so concerned.

00:06:29.000 And here's the thing.

00:06:30.000 I don't think that that's true.

00:06:31.000 I don't even think that the Democrats are all that concerned about this stuff.

00:06:33.000 I really don't think the Democrats think that the missiles are a fly and that we're this far away from nuclear war.

00:06:38.000 I think they are just trying to promote a notion that we are very close to some sort of destabilizing event, even though things are relatively stable.

00:06:45.000 And here's the thing.

00:06:45.000 The American people are not buying this.

00:06:47.000 The American people aren't buying this in any real way.

00:06:50.000 And the way you can tell this is you can look at the president's poll approval numbers.

00:06:53.000 So.

00:06:54.000 According to a brand new Rasmussen poll, President Trump's approval numbers have now climbed back to 46%, which is near the highest of his presidency.

00:07:01.000 All the other polls have reflected that bump as well.

00:07:04.000 The NBC Wall Street Journal poll over the weekend showed Trump at an all-time high of 45%.

00:07:07.000 Now, it is important to note that 45% is not 50%.

00:07:11.000 But it is also important to note that the President of the United States won his election when his approval rating was about 42-43%.

00:07:16.000 So you don't have to have really high approval ratings in order to win a presidential election.

00:07:21.000 And all of this despite the fact that President Trump's moves with Vladimir Putin last week at a Helsinki conference were not wildly popular with anybody except for Republicans.

00:07:30.000 The poll showed 53% of Republicans approved of Trump's behavior at his meeting with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, which isn't a good number among Republicans.

00:07:37.000 Only 6% of Democrats did.

00:07:39.000 But none of that mattered much to the overall approval for President Trump.

00:07:43.000 The overall approval among Republicans for President Trump currently stands at 88%.

00:07:48.000 That is the highest intraparty approval ever polled.

00:07:51.000 Ever polled.

00:07:52.000 So among Republicans, no president has ever been more popular than President Trump is right now.

00:07:57.000 And that has something to do with President Trump.

00:07:59.000 It has a lot more to do with President Trump's opponents, as we'll talk about in a little while.

00:08:03.000 So what exactly is bolstering Trump's high approval rating?

00:08:05.000 Or at least decent approval rating right now?

00:08:07.000 Well, the NBC Wall Street Journal poll suggests that Trump is very, very reliant on the economy.

00:08:11.000 So 50% of Americans like the way he is handling the economy, as opposed to only 36% of Americans who don't.

00:08:17.000 So all the Democratic talk about how the economy is going to collapse because of the tax cuts

00:08:22.000 Around the verge of an economic breakdown.

00:08:24.000 Most Americans don't believe that.

00:08:25.000 They believe the economy is strong and President Trump is feeling the effects of that.

00:08:30.000 51% of Americans dislike the way that Trump has handled Putin overall.

00:08:33.000 58% disapprove of his immigration policy.

00:08:35.000 53% approve of his tariff policy.

00:08:38.000 What this adds up to is about 45% of Americans overall approve of President Trump, which for President Trump is a very good number. 0.99

00:08:45.000 45, 46%.

00:08:46.000 And here's the thing.

00:08:47.000 Those poll numbers have really not budged much for the President of the United States in the last two and a half years.

00:08:53.000 Trump's approval rating has been remarkably stable since long before he was president of the United States.

00:08:58.000 He began his presidency at about 44 percent.

00:09:00.000 He is now at 45 percent.

00:09:02.000 After a year and a half, not a lot of volatility in those polls.

00:09:06.000 News coverage simply doesn't touch Trump.

00:09:09.000 It doesn't touch him, because pretty much everything is baked in.

00:09:12.000 People have an image of particular people, and they jump to that image whenever they are in doubt.

00:09:18.000 So Republicans have an image of President Trump as a fighter who's willing to take on the media and who's being wrongly maligned by a bunch of people on the left.

00:09:25.000 And so whenever anything bad happens to Trump, they jump right into that framework. 0.54

00:09:28.000 And Democrats have a framework of Trump where everything he's doing is simultaneously buffoonish and evil. 0.99

00:09:34.000 It's manipulative and clownish. 0.99

00:09:36.000 Those are the two things that Trump is according to the left.

00:09:38.000 And so anything that Trump does has to fall into one of those two categories.

00:09:41.000 But the bottom line is that Trump is basically the Super Bowl of public opinion.

00:09:45.000 Everybody has an opinion about the Super Bowl.

00:09:47.000 Everybody watches the Super Bowl.

00:09:48.000 Everybody watches the commercial.

00:09:50.000 President Trump is the center of the universe, of the political universe right now.

00:09:53.000 He's the thing everybody is watching and everybody is talking about.

00:09:56.000 And so that means that everyone already has an opinion on him.

00:10:00.000 I mean, there are no undecideds when it comes to President Trump.

00:10:03.000 You can't find one.

00:10:04.000 Seriously.

00:10:05.000 Can you name anyone in your own personal life who doesn't have an opinion about President Trump?

00:10:08.000 Of course not.

00:10:09.000 And that means that his approval ratings are going to be relatively stable.

00:10:12.000 Now, is that good for Republicans or bad for Republicans?

00:10:15.000 Well, it's good for presidential elections.

00:10:17.000 It's good for presidential elections because it means that the presidential election won't actually be a referendum on President Trump.

00:10:23.000 It'll be a referendum on who the Democrats pick.

00:10:27.000 And this was true in 2016.

00:10:29.000 If you look at 2016, the media got it completely wrong about who the referendum was about.

00:10:33.000 Now, I got the election result wrong, just like every other pollster, but...

00:10:37.000 What I did get right is I said this was not going to be a referendum on President Trump.

00:10:41.000 It was going to be a referendum on Hillary Clinton because Trump was very stable, but Hillary was bouncing around all over the place. 0.99

00:10:46.000 The truth is that Trump, his election, his electioneering played a lot more like an incumbent.

00:10:51.000 Incumbent presidents usually win.

00:10:54.000 And the reason they usually win, when I say usually, I mean that only one president has ever been defeated after one term without a serious third party challenger since 1932.

00:11:01.000 It's been nearly a century.

00:11:04.000 Since somebody lost without a third party challenger, the only exception being Jimmy Carter in 1980.

00:11:11.000 The reason for that is incumbents are well-known.

00:11:13.000 We know them.

00:11:14.000 We have opinions about them.

00:11:15.000 And that means that we are really more thinking about, would the other guy be better than this person?

00:11:19.000 Would you take the devil you know over the devil you don't?

00:11:22.000 And so for President Trump, that's how the 2016 election acted, right?

00:11:25.000 People already were saying, OK, we know who Trump is.

00:11:27.000 We just don't know who Hillary is. 1.00

00:11:28.000 And people eventually decided we don't like her enough to elevate her above Trump in the Electoral College. 1.00

00:11:33.000 Well, the same thing is going to happen in 2020.

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00:12:55.000 Okay, so, President Trump's approval ratings continue to be fine no matter what he does.

00:12:59.000 There is one area, however, where his approval ratings do actually tend to go.

00:13:04.000 So I think politics is sort of like a balloon.

00:13:07.000 If you squeeze one area of the balloon, the pressure is going to emerge in another area of the balloon.

00:13:12.000 And right now, the pressure with regard to President Trump is tremendous, which means there's no air in that part of the balloon.

00:13:18.000 Trump has squeezed all the air out of this part of the balloon.

00:13:20.000 So where is all that air pressure going?

00:13:22.000 It's going into the congressional races.

00:13:23.000 So every time Trump does something that is not great,

00:13:28.000 What happens is not that it affects President Trump.

00:13:30.000 It actually doesn't.

00:13:30.000 It instead affects congressional elections.

00:13:32.000 And I'm saying that because I don't think that it's unique about Trump.

00:13:35.000 I think it's true for virtually every president.

00:13:37.000 Virtually every president is baked in.

00:13:40.000 So George W. Bush was baked in, which is why he won re-election.

00:13:43.000 Barack Obama was baked in, which is why he won re-election.

00:13:45.000 Well, I mean, baked in.

00:13:46.000 I mean, people already have their opinions, and those opinions are remarkably stable about who the president of the United States is.

00:13:51.000 That means that when things go wrong, it doesn't actually reflect on the president of the United States.

00:13:56.000 Instead, it tends to reflect on the congressional races.

00:13:59.000 And you can see that.

00:14:00.000 So in the last month and a half,

00:14:03.000 Trump's approval rating has basically been the same or higher.

00:14:06.000 But the congressional generic ballot has changed radically in favor of Democrats.

00:14:10.000 So at the beginning of June, Democrats led Republicans in the generic ballot by three percentage points.

00:14:15.000 Now that number is 7.4% according to RealClearPolitics.

00:14:18.000 So looking at President Trump's approval numbers and saying that he is successful or unsuccessful based on those approval numbers, I think is a bit of a misdirect.

00:14:26.000 You know, President Obama also had remarkably stable poll approval numbers.

00:14:29.000 They were always around 50%.

00:14:30.000 They never sank lower than about 47%.

00:14:32.000 And they never went higher than about 53%, right?

00:14:35.000 Obama's ratings were stable.

00:14:37.000 But because the presidency is not where we put our energies, because we are already invested in the presidency,

00:14:44.000 Our feelings tend to come out in congressional races a lot more.

00:14:47.000 So Barack Obama wins reelection relatively easily over Mitt Romney, and he loses congressional seats in virtually every election, right?

00:14:53.000 He gets blown out in 2010.

00:14:55.000 Democrats have not held the House since 2010.

00:14:57.000 They proceeded to lose the Senate.

00:14:58.000 They proceeded to lose another 12 governorships.

00:15:00.000 They proceeded to lose a bunch of state houses.

00:15:03.000 In other words, the presidency of the United States is not the best indicator of whether a president is successful in his political agenda or not.

00:15:10.000 I think that the polls that actually matter and the results that actually matter are some of those congressional down-ballot races.

00:15:16.000 Now, the good news is Democrats are absolutely blowing it on every front.

00:15:20.000 So, if this isn't a referendum about Trump, and it is a referendum on Democrats, then perhaps Democrats ought to get their act together, but they're not getting their act together.

00:15:28.000 And here's the thing.

00:15:29.000 When President Trump does something unpopular, when he does something that isn't good, it's not going to reflect on President Trump.

00:15:35.000 It isn't going to reflect on Congress. 0.98

00:15:36.000 Unless Democrats decide to make fools of themselves. 0.93

00:15:39.000 So, for example, President Trump does this meeting with Vladimir Putin, and it doesn't go particularly well. 0.97

00:15:45.000 And when I say it doesn't go particularly well, he said some things that I think were quite egregious.

00:15:48.000 There are a lot of Republicans who are not supremely happy with President Trump's performance with Vladimir Putin last week in Helsinki.

00:15:54.000 One of those Republicans was, for example, Representative Trey Gowdy, Republican from South Carolina.

00:15:59.000 He slammed President Trump over his Russia equivocation.

00:16:02.000 This is clip 9.

00:16:03.000 And here's what Trey Gowdy had to say.

00:16:06.000 There was this equivocation during the press conference that, I'm glad he corrected it, but when you're the leader of the free world, every syllable matters.

00:16:14.000 And you really shouldn't be having to correct it when you're the leader of the free world.

00:16:20.000 So this would be an opening for Democrats, right?

00:16:22.000 You would assume that there are a bunch of Republicans who aren't super happy with what Trump did in Helsinki, and so they would be kind of warm to a Democratic message that said, you know, the president really shouldn't have acted like that.

00:16:32.000 But Democrats are so reactionary at this point.

00:16:35.000 We are in the midst of a velocity increase in politics.

00:16:41.000 What I mean by that is that when you heat up a gas,

00:16:44.000 Then one of the things that happens when you heat up a solid, one of the things that happens, the reason that ice melts, for example, is that the molecules start moving faster.

00:16:52.000 They bounce off of each other.

00:16:53.000 They expand.

00:16:53.000 This is what makes air expand as you heat it up.

00:16:55.000 And that means the velocity of the molecules is increasing, if I'm not screwing up my basic physics.

00:17:00.000 The same thing is happening in politics.

00:17:01.000 As we have increased the temperature in politics, everybody's ping-ponging off of each other harder and harder.

00:17:06.000 So instead of people reacting,

00:17:08.000 With statesmanship and some level of decency or some level of moderation to other people's screw-ups, instead, we get people reacting as wildly as possible, which means that, again, not screwing up my physics here, every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

00:17:24.000 What that means is that if the Democrats are ping-ponging off Republicans incredibly hard, Republicans are going to recoil in the exact opposite direction.

00:17:31.000 So, Trey Gowdy criticizes the president in somewhat measured tones,

00:17:35.000 And then Democrats lose their minds and suggest that Trump is actually in the pay of the Russians.

00:17:38.000 So Susan Rice, who you will recall is the lady who went on national television and lied repeatedly about Benghazi.

00:17:44.000 She was the lady who said that it was actually a YouTube video responsible for a terrorist attack that ended with the murder of four Americans.

00:17:50.000 She lied to the American people about Iran.

00:17:52.000 She lied to the American people repeatedly.

00:17:54.000 She was back on national television, this time suggesting that Trump was in the pay of the Russians.

00:17:58.000 He's taken a series of steps that, had Vladimir Putin dictated them, he couldn't have mirrored more effectively.

00:18:05.000 What his motivations are, I think, is a legitimate question, one that I trust that the special counsel is investigating.

00:18:13.000 But the policies that this president has pursued globally have served Vladimir Putin's interests in dividing the West, undermining democracy.

00:18:23.000 increasing fissures within NATO and has done very little to advance U.S.

00:18:27.000 interests.

00:18:27.000 Okay, do you really think that any Republican, any moderate is going to respond to that sort of language?

00:18:32.000 And he's doing the interests of Russia and that there's something nefarious going on.

00:18:35.000 You think that's really going to help?

00:18:36.000 Especially from the administration that essentially did the bidding of Iran.

00:18:39.000 Not essentially, did the bidding of Iran.

00:18:41.000 They did the bidding of Iran. 1.00

00:18:43.000 That administration, the Obama administration, became the PR outlet for the Iranian mullahs. 0.84

00:18:47.000 And here they are criticizing Trump over this and suggesting that it's because something deeply corrupt is going on.

00:18:52.000 Maxine Waters, anti-Maxine, the beloved face of the New Democratic Party. 0.91

00:18:57.000 She goes around saying that Trump is Putin's apprentice.

00:19:00.000 You think that this is going to somehow cool down the temperature and make me believe the Democrats are reliable?

00:19:05.000 You gotta be kidding me.

00:19:06.000 I'm not surprised about this president standing up for Putin.

00:19:12.000 As a matter of fact, I think he is Putin's apprentice.

00:19:15.000 He's been under his toolage for a long time now.

00:19:19.000 Under his toolage.

00:19:19.000 And he intends to get it done.

00:19:21.000 And the American people are sitting idly by.

00:19:24.000 Okay, so Maxine Waters says that Trump is basically like Mickey Mouse and the Sorcerer's Apprentice, that he puts on the wizard's hat and then proceeds to break up all the brooms.

00:19:32.000 But in any case, if you think that this is not going to drive Republicans more into the arms of President Trump, you're out of your mind.

00:19:38.000 When Michelle Wolf, supposed comedian, alleged comedian, when she suggests that ICE is like ISIS, you really think that Republicans are going to respond the way you think they are?

00:19:48.000 I really don't think so.

00:19:50.000 Here's Michelle Wolf doing just that. 1.00

00:19:52.000 Do you believe your way of life is under attack?

00:19:55.000 And are you ready to finally do something about it?

00:19:59.000 Then apply now to join ICE.

00:20:01.000 ICE is rooting out the foreign enemy.

00:20:04.000 ICE is terrorizing the invaders.

00:20:07.000 ICE is attacking when they least expect.

00:20:10.000 ICE is blowing up the status quo.

00:20:13.000 I'm Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.

00:20:17.000 It's popular nowadays to say ISIS is bad, but there's no better representation of American values right now than ISIS.

00:20:26.000 And as an equal opportunity employer, we accept all levels of experience and education, from low to very low, and actively welcome those with diagnosed— Okay, and then they create an ICE flag that's black, and all these people are wearing masks, so it looks like ISIS, right?

00:20:41.000 ICE is—get it?

00:20:43.000 Yeah, that is definitely not going to repel Republicans.

00:20:45.000 Good job, guys.

00:20:46.000 Just really well done, Michelle Wolf.

00:20:48.000 Okay, in just a second, I want to talk about the moderates in the Democratic Party who are struggling and trying to figure out exactly how to prevent their party from being taken over by exactly the sort of sentiment that leads to Republicans retaining their majority.

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00:21:51.000 So,

00:22:20.000 Even Democrats are beginning to realize that their radicalism is wearing thin.

00:22:25.000 And this was, I think, the funniest thing that happened all weekend.

00:22:27.000 James Comey tweeted out a plea to Democrats.

00:22:30.000 Please don't move to the left.

00:22:32.000 Please.

00:22:32.000 So James Comey, the most self-serving FBI director and former FBI director in American history, he tweets out, Democrats, please, please don't lose your minds and rush to the socialist left.

00:22:41.000 This president and his Republican Party are counting on you to do exactly that.

00:22:44.000 America's great middle wants sensible, balanced, ethical leadership.

00:22:47.000 Well, when Comey runs for president on the Democratic side in 2020, it's gonna be lit, as the kids say.

00:22:52.000 But the fact that he is actually saying something true here is pretty amazing.

00:22:58.000 It's the first time he's said something true in a while, actually, but that's pretty amazing stuff.

00:23:02.000 People are beginning to realize that the Democratic rush to the left is actually going to hurt them.

00:23:06.000 And so Democrats have been struggling to push a third-way message.

00:23:10.000 So over the weekend, the Democrats held a big conference in Columbus, Ohio, where they were attempting to force back against the sort of

00:23:17.000 Okay, so here's what the Miami Herald and McClatchy say.

00:23:20.000 In other words, everything the empowered liberal base has spent a year and a half mobilizing against.

00:23:37.000 Democrats gathered here in Ohio's capital city on Thursday and Friday in what was an opening salvo of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, part of a conference organized by the center-left think tank Third Way.

00:23:48.000 The longtime Washington-based group was unveiling the findings of a year-long assessment launched after 2016, hoping to convince potential presidential contenders that they don't have to adopt the hard-left agenda and style of a Bernie Sanders progressive, included in the report.

00:24:02.000 This is a giant fail.

00:24:03.000 No major Democrat showed up for this thing.

00:24:04.000 Zero.

00:24:20.000 Because they are all afraid of the base.

00:24:24.000 And let's be real about this.

00:24:25.000 Politics has become a referendum on culture.

00:24:27.000 It is not a referendum on actual policy anymore.

00:24:29.000 And so there are too many people in the Democratic Party who resonate to the cultural critique posed by the intersectional left, by the Ocasio-Cortezes and Bernie Sanderses of the party. 0.97

00:24:39.000 It's become a bumper sticker party that is mainly focused not on it's the economy stupid or the Clintonian third way. 0.92

00:24:46.000 Instead, it is heavily focused on this virtue signaling I go to Whole Foods and I put an anti-Trump bumper sticker on my car feeling. 0.98

00:24:52.000 That's why the entire Democratic Party has been hijacked by this radical left that has better bumper stickers.

00:24:57.000 Because let's face it, who had better bumper stickers?

00:24:59.000 Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton?

00:25:01.000 No question.

00:25:02.000 What's sexier?

00:25:03.000 Talking about a third way in which capitalism is good, but we need better unemployment insurance?

00:25:08.000 Or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaking truth to power about males in the legislature? 0.92

00:25:14.000 Here she is, the new face of the Democratic Party in those in those 0.92

00:25:18.000 Crazy eyes.

00:25:19.000 I'm allowed to say crazy eyes about her because the Democrats did about Michelle Bachmann, so turnabout is fair play.

00:25:23.000 Here's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:25:25.000 I've gotten her name right, I think, four straight times on this show today, so good for me.

00:25:28.000 And here she is on Face the Nation, or Eyes the Nation as the case may be, talking about the male legislatures that are hurting women.

00:25:35.000 Congress right now is 80% male and that creates blind spots in our legislation. 0.99

00:25:40.000 It means we don't have family leave.

00:25:41.000 We don't have paid maternal and parental leave.

00:25:45.000 It means that we don't get the equal pay that we want.

00:25:47.000 So I think those issues certainly were important.

00:25:51.000 OK, if you think that the reason that there aren't enough giveaways is because males run the government, you're out of your mind.

00:25:57.000 You're out of your mind.

00:25:58.000 It has nothing to do with that.

00:25:59.000 It's not that men are sitting around going, you know what?

00:26:01.000 I would really like my wife to be paid less when she goes on maternity leave. 1.00

00:26:06.000 I would really like for women to be paid nothing when they go on maternity leave. 1.00

00:26:09.000 It's just there are some of us who believe that the market is not designed to actually force businesses to pay for people not to work, that that's not what companies do.

00:26:18.000 Like, I believe we have a maternity leave policy at this company, I'm not sure, but that is only because we want to retain our employees, not because we think that it's actually great policy to pay people not to work.

00:26:28.000 But according to this sector of the Democratic Party, it's all about evil males, and this makes certain people feel good.

00:26:34.000 It makes you feel better to target other people in politics than it does to maybe acknowledge that there are forces in the market that don't benefit you.

00:26:42.000 But it's going to be very difficult for Democrats to overturn this sort of cultural feeling of the Democratic Party.

00:26:49.000 Here's the proof.

00:26:49.000 OK, so there's a guy named Tim Ryan.

00:26:50.000 Tim Ryan is a Democratic representative from Ohio.

00:26:53.000 He's served in Congress since 2002 as a rep from the 13th District, which covers Youngstown and the surrounding area.

00:26:59.000 And he poses himself as sort of the moderate Democratic responder to all of these radical left party members.

00:27:07.000 But how is he planning on?

00:27:09.000 Apparently, according to The Intercept, he's planning on running for president.

00:27:12.000 But how exactly is he going to run for president?

00:27:14.000 Is he going to run as a rust belt, blue collar guy who's going to bring opportunity back to Ohio through unemployment insurance?

00:27:21.000 No, he says that he wants to run with the yoga vote.

00:27:25.000 Not kidding.

00:27:26.000 Here's what he says.

00:27:27.000 He says Ryan's district, this is according to The Intercept, is one of the few poor majority-white districts that is represented by a Democrat.

00:27:33.000 But he won't be running on a stereotypical working-class persona.

00:27:36.000 Instead, he believes his path to the White House runs through the yoga vote. 0.70

00:27:40.000 This is a downward-facing tactic.

00:27:43.000 Ryan has long been a champion of mindfulness, meditation, and similar pursuits, and has even created a quiet-time caucus in the House of Representatives.

00:27:52.000 Yeah, it's going well.

00:27:53.000 James Gimian, publisher of The Mindful Magazine, who knows Ryan, said he isn't sure whether Ryan will run for president, but that the yoga vote has gone mainstream in recent years.

00:28:00.000 The so-called yoga voters are the kind of folks who realize that while they grew up with their mom saying, pay attention, nobody trained them in how to pay attention and used their mind to focus on what's important.

00:28:09.000 That's a growing population.

00:28:10.000 It's no longer just lululemon yoga women.

00:28:13.000 He said anyone who's negotiating the emotional landmine of modern day living could be someone Ryan's message would resonate with.

00:28:19.000 Yes, definitely.

00:28:20.000 This is going to cut against the perception that Democrats are a bunch of pansies who engage in yoga and mindfulness meditation in their spare time.

00:28:26.000 I can't imagine why they would possibly lose.

00:28:28.000 I don't know, like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania.

00:28:32.000 Remember, Hillary Clinton said that those 30,000 deleted emails were all about yoga.

00:28:36.000 OK, so so yoga and Democrat.

00:28:38.000 But this is the thing.

00:28:39.000 The Democrats, whenever you have a party that appeals to a particular base, you have to think, who is sort of the person you're appealing to?

00:28:46.000 When you make a TV show, if you're in Hollywood,

00:28:49.000 There's somebody that the creator of the TV show has in mind, right?

00:28:52.000 Who is the ideal audience for this TV show?

00:28:55.000 So ESPN, the ideal audience is probably a minority male, okay?

00:28:58.000 Because minority males tend to watch more sports than non-minority males, so that is their target audience.

00:29:03.000 The same thing is true with regard to, you know, the hunting and fishing network.

00:29:07.000 If there is one, that is targeting white males disproportionately.

00:29:11.000 Lifetime is targeting a middle-aged woman who's probably at home during the daytime to watch Lifetime, right?

00:29:17.000 Everyone has the target audience.

00:29:18.000 So is your target audience—do the Democrats really think their target audience is going to be women who go to yoga classes?

00:29:24.000 It seems to me they already know that they won those people.

00:29:26.000 What they actually need to target is that blue-collar guy living in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, because if Hillary Clinton had spent any time doing that, she wins the election.

00:29:34.000 But she didn't.

00:29:35.000 And so Democrats are now going to double down on this cultural gap between the yoga folks and the pipefitters. 0.93

00:29:42.000 Yeah, real bright, real bright.

00:29:43.000 I can't imagine why they're losing election after election.

00:29:45.000 I just can't imagine why that's happening.

00:29:46.000 OK, in just a second, I want to talk about the other big news of the weekend, which is this released FISA warrant application regarding Carter Page.

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00:31:19.000 Alrighty, so let's talk a little bit about the release of this FISA warrant application against former Trump foreign policy advisor Carter Page.

00:31:26.000 So over the weekend, the DOJ, the FBI, they released via a FOIA request, a Freedom of Information Act request from Judicial Watch, they released the application for the FISA warrants against Carter Page.

00:31:37.000 Now, if you haven't been following the Mueller investigation and all the collusion stuff for a long time, quick reminder, Carter Page was a foreign policy advisor for President Trump.

00:31:46.000 The FBI and the intel community thought that Carter Page was actually acting as a go-between for maybe, maybe the Trump campaign and the Russians.

00:31:55.000 At the very least, they thought that he was working with the Russians to do their work as some sort of foreign bidder, basically.

00:31:59.000 That he was an advisor to the Kremlin and they were paying him.

00:32:02.000 That was the suspicion.

00:32:03.000 Of the foreign policy intelligentsia, of the intelligence community.

00:32:08.000 And that had been their opinion since 2012-2013.

00:32:10.000 Well, they took out a warrant application against Carter Page in October 2016.

00:32:14.000 The suggestion by some on the right is that the reason that they went after Carter Page is because Carter Page was attached to the Trump campaign and because they were attempting to drum up some sort of evidence against Trump in advance of the election.

00:32:26.000 I've always been more than slightly skeptical of this particular allegation, simply because it turns out that the Russia investigation, according to Devin Nunes, not according to me, according to Devin Nunes of the House Intelligence Committee, was launched on the back of the George Papadopoulos investigation.

00:32:40.000 That was another low-level advisor to the Trump campaign who supposedly was meeting with a London professor who actually was a Kremlin cutout, and then was trying to coordinate with the Trump campaign, right?

00:32:50.000 And Papadopoulos has pled guilty to lying to the FBI, and he'll spend a little bit of time in jail.

00:32:54.000 So, everyone is focused in on this FISA warrants application because the suggestion is that this is good evidence the intelligence community was trying to get Trump.

00:33:02.000 Well, over the weekend, they released a very, very redacted version of this Carter Page FISA warrant.

00:33:07.000 The argument is that the Carter Page FISA warrant was basically gotten on the back of the so-called Steele dossier.

00:33:12.000 You'll recall that the Steele dossier was a dossier compiled by Hillary Clinton and the firm Fusion GPS.

00:33:17.000 It was an OPPO research file, and then eventually it was supplied to the FBI, and that was used to go after Carter Page.

00:33:23.000 So this was a way to sort of officialize

00:33:28.000 Now, the suggestion by Republicans was that all of this was trumped up in order to make Trump look bad.

00:33:38.000 Now, the information was not released before the election.

00:33:40.000 We didn't actually see any of this stuff before the election.

00:33:43.000 However, the suggestion is that the intelligence operatives were politicized in some way.

00:33:47.000 Now, is there some credibility to the idea the intelligence operatives were politicized in some way?

00:33:52.000 Well, sure.

00:33:53.000 Lisa Page, Peter Strzok, top members of the FBI, were in fact anti-Trump.

00:33:58.000 Is it possible that they went above and beyond the call of duty?

00:34:01.000 toward personal bias in targeting people like Carter Page.

00:34:04.000 That's certainly possible.

00:34:05.000 But we don't know that from this application.

00:34:07.000 So you're going to hear a lot today on the radio and in the media from people on the right that this FISA warrant application is clear evidence that the FBI was attempting to target Trump members of the campaign in order to get Trump.

00:34:21.000 That's not really what this application shows.

00:34:22.000 Maybe the application will show that when we get at the whole thing, but what this application really shows is a few things.

00:34:27.000 So let's go through it.

00:34:27.000 First of all, it does show that the FBI relied heavily on the so-called Steele dossier in taking out this application for a surveillance warrant against Carter Page.

00:34:35.000 The dossier was compiled by Christopher Steele, as you recall, at the behest of Hillary Clinton and Fusion GPS.

00:34:41.000 It was allegedly handed over to the FBI in September 2016 and served as a key component of the FISA warrants application.

00:34:47.000 It played a major role, okay?

00:34:48.000 It was not a minor role, it was the key component.

00:34:50.000 With that said, most of the Steele dossier had to do with Trump and Paul Manafort, and none of that stuff made it into this warrants application, but it didn't, but the part about Carter Page did, which suggests that the FBI took it seriously.

00:35:02.000 We don't know how much of the Steele dossier was corroborated.

00:35:05.000 So what you're hearing from a lot of folks on the right is that the entire Steele dossier was absolute tripe, and that none of it was corroborated.

00:35:12.000 We don't know the answer to that. 0.99

00:35:13.000 We know certain parts have obviously not been corroborated, the most inflammatory parts about Trump being peed on by Russian whores and all that. 0.86

00:35:20.000 None of that's been corroborated, but we don't know what's been corroborated because all of the corroborating evidence was redacted in this FISA warrants application. 0.83

00:35:28.000 And they're just pages and pages of blacked out material, so we don't actually know what the FBI was doing there.

00:35:34.000 OK, one thing we do know is that when when Devin Nunes suggested that the application didn't warn the FISA court that this was based on an OPPO research file from Hillary Clinton,

00:35:45.000 I don't think that's true.

00:35:46.000 Because here is what it actually said in the Pfizer warrants application.

00:35:50.000 Quote, It's pretty obvious what they are saying is that a U.S.

00:35:59.000 based law firm, this would be Fusion GPS, had hired the identified U.S.

00:36:03.000 person, that would be Christopher Steele, to conduct research regarding candidate one's ties to Russia.

00:36:08.000 That would be Trump.

00:36:09.000 The identified U.S.

00:36:09.000 person hired Source One to conduct this research.

00:36:12.000 That would actually be Christopher Steele.

00:36:13.000 The identified U.S.

00:36:14.000 person to conduct research was Fusion GPS.

00:36:16.000 The U.S.-based law firm was Perkins Coie.

00:36:17.000 The identified U.S.

00:36:18.000 person never advised Source One as to the motivation behind the research into Candidate One's ties to Russia.

00:36:24.000 And this is the key sentence.

00:36:26.000 The FBI speculates that the identified U.S.

00:36:28.000 person was likely looking for information that could be used to discredit Candidate One's campaign.

00:36:33.000 So it says clearly in the application that this was an OPPO research file.

00:36:37.000 So the talk about it was a big lie, the intelligence community lied in order to get the application through.

00:36:42.000 I don't see the evidence of that.

00:36:45.000 The FBI did suspect Carter Page being a Russian agent.

00:36:48.000 And here's the part where it starts to get dicey.

00:36:49.000 The FBI, the intelligence community, they've been all over Carter Page since 2012.

00:36:53.000 Has he been prosecuted?

00:36:55.000 They surveilled him.

00:36:55.000 Have they come up with anything?

00:36:57.000 We've seen no evidence that they did.

00:36:59.000 Now, does that mean that the original investigation was bad?

00:37:01.000 No.

00:37:01.000 I mean, the police and the detectives, they investigate stuff all the time.

00:37:04.000 The FBI investigates stuff all the time.

00:37:05.000 It doesn't pan out.

00:37:06.000 But the fact they were never able to get anything on Carter Page

00:37:09.000 Suggest that maybe this was a case of overzealousness.

00:37:12.000 A final myth that has to be put to bed, the FBI warrants application here did not use a Yahoo News file in order to go after Carter Page.

00:37:21.000 They used the Yahoo News story that was leaked by Christopher Steele.

00:37:25.000 Not in order to corroborate Christopher Steele's story, but in order to talk about what exactly Cairo Page's response to the actual dossier was.

00:37:33.000 So, that's what you need to know.

00:37:34.000 The answer, really, is that we don't know enough to suggest whether this FISA warrant was real or not.

00:37:41.000 We just don't know enough.

00:37:42.000 At this point, you can see that this has broken out into a conversation between Republicans over all of this.

00:37:48.000 House Republicans asked for these redactions to be removed.

00:37:50.000 The truth is the president of the United States ought to simply remove all redactions and release the file.

00:37:54.000 That's what really ought to happen here.

00:37:56.000 OK. 0.89

00:37:57.000 Meanwhile, and this is, I think, a bit ridiculous. 0.94

00:38:01.000 So there are some reports over the weekend that President Trump had engaged in womanizing behavior over the course of his life. 0.86

00:38:09.000 Why anyone would be shocked by this is beyond me.

00:38:11.000 Of course, the president did that.

00:38:12.000 We all know that already.

00:38:13.000 That is not any shock at all.

00:38:15.000 However, Robert Jeffress, who is a pastor, he came out and he then threw Ronald Reagan under the bus, suggesting that if you're worried about Donald Trump's womanizing, perhaps you should be worried about Ronald Reagan's womanizing.

00:38:27.000 Back in 1980, evangelicals chose to support a twice-married Hollywood actor who was a known womanizer in Hollywood.

00:38:36.000 His name was Ronald Reagan.

00:38:37.000 They chose to support him over Jimmy Carter, a born-again Baptist Sunday school teacher who had been married faithfully to one woman.

00:38:45.000 The reason we supported President Reagan was not because we supported womanizing or divorce.

00:38:53.000 We supported his policies.

00:38:55.000 OK, so this is a stretch. 0.87

00:38:57.000 OK, to compare Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump is rather insane.

00:39:01.000 The fact is that Ronald Reagan was divorced by Jane Wyman, not the other way around.

00:39:04.000 And then he was shortly thereafter married to Nancy Reagan.

00:39:07.000 So the idea that he was, you know, a womanizer in the same league as President Trump is a slander on President Reagan.

00:39:12.000 And it's unnecessary in the first place.

00:39:14.000 To go after Reagan in order to protect Trump seems unnecessary in the first place.

00:39:18.000 Meanwhile, the president of the United States is targeting Amazon.com again.

00:39:22.000 So he is going after Amazon.com.

00:39:23.000 This is one of his favorite things.

00:39:24.000 To do again.

00:39:26.000 I don't know why the president is really all that concerned right now.

00:39:31.000 Like, really, he seems he seems worried about a lot of things.

00:39:34.000 And I'm not saying why he's so worried right now.

00:39:35.000 I mean, to be frank with you, there's no bad situation on the horizon.

00:39:38.000 There's nothing terrible happening right now.

00:39:41.000 And if you were not on Twitter, everybody would have a certain sense of stability that they lack right now.

00:39:45.000 But he tweeted out this morning, the Amazon Washington Post has gone crazy against me ever since they lost the Internet tax case in the US Supreme Court two months ago.

00:39:53.000 Next up is the U.S. 0.94

00:39:54.000 Post Office, which they use at a fraction of real cost as their delivery boy for a big percentage of their packages.

00:40:00.000 In my opinion, the Washington Post is nothing more than an expensive lobbyist for Amazon.

00:40:05.000 Is it used as protection against antitrust claims, which many feel should be brought?

00:40:10.000 The president of the United States should not be going after Amazon.com this way.

00:40:13.000 First of all, Amazon.com, OK, you want to call me a lackey for Amazon?

00:40:17.000 Fine, do it.

00:40:17.000 OK, Amazon is the best company in America.

00:40:19.000 Amazon makes everybody's life better.

00:40:20.000 Amazon is awesome.

00:40:22.000 Amazon is a fantastic company.

00:40:24.000 They allow you to get anything you want at any time.

00:40:26.000 And the idea that they're somehow 0.97

00:40:27.000 Operating off the back of the Postal Service is just ridiculous.

00:40:30.000 First, Amazon does pay state taxes in 45 states plus the District of Columbia.

00:40:35.000 The law does not require companies without a physical nexus in a state to pay taxes in that state.

00:40:39.000 Amazon does anyway.

00:40:40.000 They also pay property taxes on their facilities in all of these states.

00:40:44.000 Also, when Trump talks about the Post Office, this is... I don't understand why you would think that Amazon is hurting the Post Office.

00:40:50.000 Amazon may be the only company in America keeping the U.S.

00:40:53.000 Postal Service afloat.

00:40:54.000 Most companies now ship via FedEx, and eventually Amazon will stop using the U.S.

00:40:58.000 Post Office, at which point the U.S.

00:41:00.000 Post Office will simply go bankrupt.

00:41:02.000 Finally, Trump may be right about Amazon competing other businesses out of the market, but this idea that the Washington Post is a lobbying outfit for Amazon is absurd.

00:41:10.000 The Washington Post was the anti-Republican going back decades.

00:41:14.000 I just don't understand.

00:41:15.000 Here's what I think.

00:41:17.000 I think the president ought to calm down.

00:41:19.000 He ought to calm down.

00:41:20.000 The reason he ought to calm down is because right now the biggest obstacle to President Trump's success is President Trump

00:41:28.000 Giving a feeling, a strong feeling of chaos.

00:41:30.000 There is no chaos going on.

00:41:32.000 There may be chaos inside the administration, but there is no serious chaos going on in the United States right now.

00:41:37.000 The economy is solid.

00:41:38.000 We're not in the middle of any foreign crisis.

00:41:40.000 Everything is basically okay.

00:41:43.000 The biggest obstacle to Trump's success is this feeling that everything is variable, that everything is volatile, that everything is changing at all times.

00:41:49.000 But things aren't actually changing all that much.

00:41:51.000 It's incredibly tiring.

00:41:53.000 And there's no reason for us to be tired.

00:41:55.000 There's no reason.

00:41:56.000 When things are this good, the level of panic in the country should not be this high.

00:42:01.000 And President Trump is contributing to that with these tweets.

00:42:04.000 The president has done a fairly good job of governing.

00:42:07.000 The stuff he says and the stuff he does are two very different things.

00:42:10.000 When it comes to policy, the president's policy has been overall quite conservative.

00:42:14.000 And the results can be seen in the strength of the United States right now.

00:42:19.000 If we could just dispense with the feeling of chaos, I think everybody, honestly, I think he'd waltz to re-election.

00:42:23.000 I think Republicans would be in much better shape in the Congress.

00:42:26.000 I really think it's almost, it's almost that simple.

00:42:28.000 Okay, time for a Thing I Like, and then we'll do a couple of things that I hate.

00:42:32.000 So, Thing I Like, we're gonna do some jazz this week.

00:42:34.000 The reason we're going to do some jazz this week is because I'm annoyed.

00:42:37.000 And one of the reasons that I'm annoyed is because there was this whole hubbub last week in which a bunch of people on the left suggested that I was a racist.

00:42:44.000 Why did they suggest that I was a racist?

00:42:45.000 Well, they couldn't actually come up with any evidence that I was a racist.

00:42:47.000 The reason I was a racist was supposedly because I don't like rap.

00:42:51.000 Guilty.

00:42:52.000 Guilty.

00:42:53.000 I hate rap.

00:42:54.000 I think rap is garbaggio.

00:42:55.000 I've thought rap is garbaggio since I was a small child, because it sounds to me like rhythm and talking with no actual melody or harmony.

00:43:02.000 The small elements of melody and harmony that exist do not make up for the actual bulk of rap, which is somebody speaking rhythmically to a beat.

00:43:11.000 That's what distinguishes rap from other forms of music.

00:43:14.000 I've said I don't think it's a form of music, and this got me in all sorts of... So people say, how dare Shapiro not like rap?

00:43:19.000 If you don't like rap, it means you don't like black people. 0.96

00:43:22.000 Which is really weird, because there are a lot of people who don't like classical music. 0.85

00:43:25.000 I wouldn't suggest they don't like white people.

00:43:27.000 What a weird argument.

00:43:29.000 If you don't like mariachi music, do you not like Latino people? 0.99

00:43:32.000 What is this nonsense?

00:43:33.000 You don't like Klezmer? 0.98

00:43:34.000 Do you hate Jews?

00:43:35.000 What? 0.87

00:43:36.000 What?

00:43:37.000 Also, if I don't like black people, why do I like jazz so much? 0.98

00:43:40.000 So it's time to do some jazz this week.

00:43:41.000 And this is not an attempt to prove I'm not racist.

00:43:42.000 I don't have to prove anything to you people.

00:43:43.000 I'm not a racist.

00:43:45.000 It is to prove that there is an actual great form of black music, right? 0.99

00:43:49.000 Jazz was historically a black art form, and it's actually awesome.

00:43:53.000 Okay, like, you want to listen to some good music made by black folks? 0.98

00:43:56.000 Don't listen to some of the crappy rap that's out there that dehumanizes women and treats drugs as something good. 0.98

00:44:02.000 Instead, why don't you listen to some awesome classical jazz? 0.96

00:44:04.000 Okay, so here is the Oscar Peterson Trio.

00:44:07.000 Love the Oscar Peterson Trio.

00:44:09.000 This is a cut called Blue's Etude from the Oscar Peterson Trio, and it's just awesome stuff.

00:44:15.000 Thank you very much.

00:44:46.000 The man can play. 0.95

00:44:50.000 His left hand here is ridiculous. 0.95

00:45:01.000 So my dad is a jazz pianist. 0.87

00:45:03.000 He's actually really terrific, my dad, as a jazz pianist.

00:45:06.000 You can go find a couple of cuts of him on YouTube.

00:45:08.000 We have a couple of cuts that we put up that are really great.

00:45:11.000 But Oscar Peterson is just fantastic.

00:45:13.000 If you want more kind of user-friendly jazz from Oscar Peterson, go listen to his West Side Story album, which is really terrific.

00:45:19.000 So go check that out.

00:45:20.000 OK, time for a couple of things that I hate.

00:45:26.000 All righty, so a bunch of people from the movie Fantastic Beasts got up at Comic-Con and started lecturing about how it's time to impeach Trump.

00:45:34.000 Because that's just what I need to hear.

00:45:35.000 What I need to hear is Zoe Kravitz, who plays Leta Lestrange, say that she would impeach Trump. 1.00

00:45:41.000 And apparently they came up with their own impeachment spell.

00:45:43.000 I am not kidding.

00:45:44.000 It was impeachius maximus.

00:45:48.000 Okay, number one, read another book.

00:45:52.000 Read another book. 0.96

00:45:53.000 Okay, the reason that everybody was doing this was apparently Johnny Depp, who appears as Grindewald in the movie, made a surprise appearance after the panel in full makeup and character as Grindewald and delivered a fascist speech that borrowed from President Trump, because of course Trump is a fascist, with a magical supremacy twist.

00:46:08.000 He said, we who live for freedom or truth, the moment has come to rise up and take our rightful place in the world.

00:46:12.000 And then the star of the film, Eddie Renmayne, who plays the magizoologist Newt Scamander,

00:46:18.000 What's happened is Grindelwald's belief that pure blood should reign over the non-magical beings. 0.67

00:46:21.000 It's a political thing.

00:46:22.000 He's rallying more and more people and it causes divisions across families.

00:46:25.000 He's pretty hypnotic.

00:46:39.000 It's all about Trump, is by Emily Zanotti over at Daily Wire.

00:46:42.000 Okay, if you wonder why people on the right are annoyed by the folks in the culture who insist on inserting themselves into politics, and then suggest that they're not actually political, they're just speaking out on behalf of human rights, well, this is why.

00:46:54.000 If you've decided to make a metaphor about how President Trump is actually Hitlerian, and then you create a spell called Impetuous Maximus, and then you go in front of Comic-Con and you brag about it,

00:47:03.000 We're going to make fun of you.

00:47:05.000 We're going to.

00:47:05.000 It's just, it's just a thing that's going to happen.

00:47:08.000 It's really... Okay, and then here's, as I've said before, the left wants to claim the commanding heights in the culture, the right wants to claim the commanding heights in politics, and both of them are getting their wish.

00:47:19.000 Okay, other things that I hate.

00:47:20.000 So apparently people are touting Elizabeth Warren as the, as the next kind of great hope.

00:47:26.000 For the Democratic Party.

00:47:28.000 And there's an article in New York Magazine with a picture of her fist at the top.

00:47:32.000 I mean, she's looking pretty gaunt there.

00:47:34.000 And the whole idea here is that Elizabeth Warren is the new populist leftist. 1.00

00:47:38.000 That she's going to make all of this happen and she's going to run for president.

00:47:42.000 That's exactly what you need.

00:47:44.000 That's really what you need.

00:47:44.000 You don't need Elizabeth Warren

00:47:47.000 You know, sort of moderate as she was back when I was at Harvard Law School.

00:47:50.000 She was sort of a moderate Democrat back when I was at Harvard Law School.

00:47:52.000 What you actually need is Elizabeth Warren, the radical leftist, who will be how old? 1.00

00:47:58.000 How old is she right now? 0.99

00:47:59.000 I'm going to look this up.

00:48:00.000 Elizabeth Warren is currently

00:48:04.000 69 years old.

00:48:05.000 So what you actually need, they ran last time a, what, 70-year-old woman? 0.90

00:48:09.000 Held was Hillary Clinton in the last election cycle.

00:48:12.000 I believe she was 70 years old or approaching 70 years old.

00:48:14.000 I think she was 69, right.

00:48:15.000 She was 69 years old.

00:48:16.000 She was 68 years old.

00:48:17.000 What we actually need next time is we need a 72-year-old woman who sounds a lot like Hillary Clinton and acts a lot like Hillary Clinton and is just about as sincere as Hillary Clinton but also thinks she's a Native American. 1.00

00:48:27.000 That's what we need.

00:48:28.000 Yeah, that's definitely gonna beat Trump.

00:48:30.000 Go for it, guys.

00:48:30.000 Just enjoy yourselves.

00:48:31.000 Go full-scale Elizabeth Warren. 1.00

00:48:33.000 Let's see how that goes for you.

00:48:34.000 Okay, now let's do a quick Federalist Paper.

00:48:36.000 So we are all the way up to Federalist 38, moving steadily through those Federalist Papers.

00:48:39.000 Every week we do one so that you have a little bit more knowledge about the foundations of the country and the background of the Constitution.

00:48:44.000 Federalist 38 is by James Madison, the so-called father of the Constitution, and he writes about the difficulty of coming together regarding a Constitution, and then he says that critics of the Constitution aren't being consistent in their critiques.

00:48:55.000 He explains that if you were looking for doctors to diagnose you with an illness and then act upon it, and they created a diagnosis, and then a bunch of new doctors came in and they said, no, no, no, that diagnosis is all wrong, but they offered no actual diagnosis, that you might say, well, okay, so what's your diagnosis?

00:49:10.000 This is his complaint, that all the people who are criticizing the proposed constitution have come up with no serious workable alternatives.

00:49:17.000 He says, It is a matter of both wonder and regret that those who raise so many objections against the new Constitution should never call to mind the defects of that which it is to be exchanged for.

00:49:26.000 It is not necessary that the former should be perfect, it is sufficient that the latter is more imperfect.

00:49:31.000 In other words, the Articles of Confederation are worse than the Constitution, so we should have the Constitution.

00:49:36.000 And then he says, You can't say that the functions of a government are necessary and then not give them the power to enact it.

00:49:41.000 Now, I actually find this Federalist paper a little bit unfair.

00:49:44.000 If you read the Anti-Federalist paper, there's some very... The Anti-Federalist papers were put together by people who are on the other side of the Constitution, and a lot of their critiques are really solid and really well taken.

00:49:53.000 A lot of them talk about the possible growth of the federal government, the idea that the government was being given too much centralized power, and a lot of those things have come true today.

00:50:01.000 Now, it is important to remember the historical context.

00:50:03.000 The historical context is that no one thought that the federal government would grow in this way.

00:50:07.000 No one in America thought that the federal government would be what the federal government currently is.

00:50:11.000 It was unthinkable at the time.

00:50:13.000 So in that way, Madison, Hamilton, John Jay, the founders, the creators of the Federalist Papers, they were right about the fact that the Constitution was better than the Articles because they never could have conceived that the Constitution would eventually grow to encompass nearly all of American life.

00:50:27.000 But the Anti-Federalists were right in that they saw where the slippery slope was going to go.

00:50:31.000 And I think it's important to read both the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers.

00:50:34.000 Maybe when we're done going through the Federalist Papers after another 50 weeks, maybe we'll start going through the Anti-Federalist Papers so you can see the responses to the Constitution at the time.

00:50:43.000 Always better to know more than you did yesterday.

00:50:45.000 That's what we tried to do here.

00:50:46.000 So, we'll be back here tomorrow with all the latest.

00:50:48.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - July 23, 2018

Trump Goes Full CAPSLOCK | Ep. 586

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