Nancy Pelosi finally throws Rep. John Conyers under the bus. Conyers, 88, doesn't know where he is, shows up to meetings in his PJs, and sometimes dresses down in his office. Plus, Matt Lauer is accused of groping a woman at a press conference, and Al Franken is facing new sexual assault allegations from a woman who says he groped her at a party in 2006. Plus, President Trump is set to get a big win with tax reform, and all of the breaking news on sexual harassment and all the sexual allegations. Plus I tell you all the allegations against Al Franken. And I talk about how the Democrats handled this last week when the allegations first broke and how they should have handled it better. All of this and much more on this episode of The Ben Shapiro Show with Ben Shapiro! Ben Shapiro is a writer, comedian, and podcaster. He is the host of the podcast and is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, NPR, CBS Radio, and other media outlets. He is a regular contributor to NPR and CBS Radio. His work has been featured in the Hollywood Reporter, CNN, CBS Evening News, and The Hollywood Reporter. He has been profiled in the New Yorker, and many other publications, including Playboy, Rolling Stone, People Magazine, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Times, and has a new book out now in paperback. . He is also has an upcoming book out in paperback, The Devil Next Door, which you can read here on Amazon, and on the streets of New York, and is available on bestseller, The Huffington Post, and elsewhere. The New York Magazine, and you can get a copy of his book, . You can find Ben Shapiro s new book on Amazon. and on Audible here on the Podchaser, here is his new podcast on his website, here s the link to his podcast on the podcast, here is a free copy of the book, here also on my website, , here is the link here. I hope you enjoy this episode, here, and if you like it if you're interested in the book I'm looking for a glass of wine, I'm listening to it, here's my podcast, here it is it, and I'm giving you a review of it, you can find it on my social media account
00:00:03.000Plus, rumors that the Trump administration is going to move the embassy to Jerusalem in Israel, which I think is excellent news, and all of the breaking news on sexual harassment and all these sexual allegations.
00:00:14.000There's one very big piece of breaking news I will tell you in just a moment.
00:02:19.000The breaking news is that John Conyers looks like he's on his way out.
00:02:22.000John Conyers is, at last count, 1,363 years old.
00:02:26.000He was actually present not only for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, but he was present for the signing of the Magna Carta.
00:02:32.000But he doesn't remember any of that because he's senile.
00:02:34.000So John Conyers has been hit with allegations of sexual harassment.
00:02:38.000He had to make settlements with congressional money, meaning our money.
00:02:42.000And earlier in the week, you recall Nancy Pelosi defended John Conyers.
00:03:16.000The brave women who came forward are owed justice.
00:03:20.000I pray for Congressman Conyers and his family and wish them well.
00:03:25.000However, Congressman Conyers should resign.
00:03:30.000As Dean, Congressman Conyers has served our Congress for more than five decades and shaped some of the most consequential legislation of the last half century.
00:03:40.000However, zero tolerance means consequences for everyone.
00:03:45.000No matter how great the legacy, it's no license to harass or discriminate.
00:03:55.000That was John Conyers just going right under that bus.
00:03:57.000James Clyburn, who's the head of the Congressional Black Caucus, he came out today and said that Conyers should go, but only after spending a week saying that John Conyers had been elected.
00:04:05.000So the Democrats handled this in about the worst possible way.
00:04:08.000They should have said all of this last week when the allegations first broke, if they wanted to hold the moral high ground.
00:04:12.000I said earlier this week, the Democrats had basically given up the moral high ground, and that was a serious problem for them.
00:04:18.000That if you give up the moral high ground, then it's very hard for you to argue that the Republicans should somehow take that moral high ground for Roy Moore, for example, or Donald Trump.
00:04:27.000The Democrats are trying to set up a new standard, which I think is a good standard, that sexual harassment and assault will not be tolerated, but they're still allowing Al Franken to stay.
00:04:34.000So that's going to be the next shoe to drop.
00:04:35.000There's a sixth allegation against Al Franken today.
00:04:47.000We here at The Daily Wire have been hearing rumors that there is yet another woman who is going to come forward in the near future talking about a couple of decades ago, Al Franken acting in sexually inappropriate ways.
00:04:58.000In any case, Al Franken's allegations are credible.
00:05:07.000It's difficult to imagine a rationale other than Conyers was in the job when he did this stuff, and Al Franken was not in the job when he did this stuff.
00:05:14.000But bottom line is that I think Franken will end up going, too.
00:05:18.000I think when Franken does go, then it's, you know, I think if and when he does go, that's going to put a lot of pressure on Republicans to dump over Roy Moore, or at least not to seat him in the Senate.
00:06:42.000It was a situation in which he was separated from his wife, and he was sleeping with another woman, and texted a picture of his ding-dong to this lady, and then she revealed it in public.
00:06:52.000So now he's saying he's not going to seek re-election.
00:06:58.000And it's not just restricted to Congress, of course.
00:07:02.000Now we are finding out all the specific allegations about Matt Lauer.
00:07:09.000So Matt Lauer, who was basically fired from Today yesterday, this is according to Variety.com, he once gave a colleague a sex toy as a present.
00:07:17.000It included an explicit note about how he wanted to use it on her, which left her mortified.
00:07:22.000Okay, if she never reported that and the company never did anything about it, that's insane.
00:07:28.000I mean, you know how brazen you have to be to do that to a colleague?
00:07:31.000Give somebody a sex toy and write a... Like, first of all, my guess is that what he told her to do with the sex toy, she probably told him to do to himself.
00:07:39.000On another day, according to Variety, he summoned a different female employee to his office and then dropped his pants, showing her his wing-wing.
00:07:45.000After the employee decided to decline to do anything, visibly shaken, he reprimanded her for not engaging in a sexual act.
00:07:51.000He would sometimes quiz female producers about who they'd slept with, offering to trade names.
00:07:55.000And he loved to engage in a crass quiz game with men and women in the office, F. Marry or Kill, in which he would identify the female co-host that he'd most like to sleep with.
00:08:02.000So this is a two-month investigation from Variety.
00:08:04.000There's also an allegation that while he was married, he asked an intern into his office and then forced her to have sex with him.
00:08:30.000According to one of the former producers, they say, there are a lot of consensual relationships, but that's still a problem because of the power he held.
00:08:35.000He couldn't sleep around town with celebrities or on the road with random people because he's Matt Lauer and he's married, so he'd have to do it within his stable where he exerted power and he knew people would never complain.
00:08:43.000Apparently, he even had, his office was in a secluded space, this is amazing, and he had a button under his desk that allowed him to lock his door from the inside without getting up.
00:08:53.000This afforded him the assurance of privacy.
00:08:55.000It allowed him to welcome female employees and initiate inappropriate contact while knowing nobody could walk in on him, according to two women who were sexually harassed by Lauer.
00:09:04.000According to sources, it extended to when Lauer traveled on assignment for NBC.
00:09:07.000Apparently, he paid intense attention to a young woman on his staff he found attractive, focusing intently on her career ambitions.
00:09:12.000He asked the same producer to his hotel room to deliver him a pillow.
00:09:39.000I will admit that here at the Daily Wire offices, I also have a button under my desk that locks the door, but that's mainly to keep Michael Moles out.
00:10:42.000And there should be a writing campaign.
00:10:43.000I know it's a little bit late for that in Alabama, but that's just because the Republicans didn't do the right thing the first time.
00:10:48.000They should have moved Roy Moore out of this position in the first place.
00:10:51.000Okay, so I want to talk to you about some of the good things that the Trump administration is doing, because they are doing some good things, believe it or not.
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00:12:14.000He'd have a $20 million a year salary at ExxonMobil to go over to the White House and be badgered by President Trump.
00:12:19.000So, you gotta give him credit for that one.
00:12:21.000He's been at odds with Trump over foreign policy because Trump is moving to the right on foreign policy, and Tillerson seems to be center-left on foreign policy.
00:12:29.000He has apparently described the president as a quote-unquote moron.
00:12:32.000They differ in their approach to North Korea's missile testing and Iran's nuclear program.
00:12:35.000Tillerson wants to uphold the Iran nuclear deal.
00:13:36.000Just a few weeks ago, on October 1st, Trump tweeted, quote, I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man.
00:13:46.000So, this is all a staff shakeup overseen by the Chief of Staff, John Kelly.
00:13:53.000I think that somebody who doesn't like Trump, obviously the State Department is leaking this, Tillerson allies probably leaking this, but this would definitely be an upgrade.
00:14:02.000And it's pretty obvious that Tillerson doesn't want the job.
00:14:05.000He said earlier this year, quote, I didn't want this job.
00:15:00.000That's something that definitely needs to be done.
00:15:01.000All the focus on individual tax rates is for political gain, but the reality is that individual tax rates are not killing business investments in the country right now.
00:15:09.000Individual tax rates are too high, for sure, by a long shot.
00:15:12.000But it's the corporate tax rates at 35% that are driving people not to hire.
00:15:17.000It's driving people to minimize their business investment because they don't want to be taxed at 35%.
00:15:23.000So Trump is out making the case yesterday.
00:15:25.000He was making the case on the road in St.
00:16:18.000I mean, if you are somebody who is, you know, wealthy, if you're doing well, and you live in New York, then you're not going to do well under this tax plan.
00:16:25.000I wish it were an across-the-board tax cut, and not just, you know, tax cuts for people who earn below a certain amount, but it is better than nothing, for sure.
00:16:33.000And the main tax cut is not on the individual side, it's on the corporate side.
00:16:36.000The Republicans should have been making this case all along.
00:16:39.000It's why the tax cut is unpopular, because it was pitched as an individual tax cut, and it really isn't an individual tax cut.
00:17:09.000So this basically, he shows that the real numbers show that your taxes would be reduced by
00:17:18.000A not insignificant amount, particularly if you're in the middle class.
00:17:21.000Proportionally speaking, you are going to see a drop in your taxes much more if you're in the middle class than you are if you are at the upper end of the tax bracket.
00:17:34.000So right now, if you look at various scenarios, I'm looking at a chart right now that talks about the impacts of the Senate's amended version of the Tax Cut and Tax Job Act from the Tax Foundation.
00:17:43.000If you look at, for example, let's take
00:17:46.000Sophia and Chad, $165,000 combined, married, two earners, two kids.
00:17:57.000Under the current law, they pay about $30,000 in taxes.
00:18:00.000Under the proposed law, they pay about $27,000 in taxes, so they have an 8% reduction in their tax burden.
00:18:05.000Every tax bracket basically sees a reduction in their tax burden of more or less
00:18:11.000One of the things that was pretty spectacular and hilarious about the way the Democrats are treating this is that they are lying about whether this is a tax cut or not.
00:18:21.000And then they're suggesting that it's not good for the middle class.
00:18:24.000But what they actually want to do is raise taxes on the middle class, right?
00:18:26.000Ted Cruz had a debate with Bernie Sanders the other night on CNN about tax cuts.
00:18:30.000And he points out that Bernie Sanders likes to talk about how he doesn't want to hurt the middle class.
00:18:35.000Everything Bernie Sanders wants to pay for, he's going to have to pay for with massive tax hikes.
00:18:38.000And Cruz points this out quite correctly.
00:18:41.000So you're a single mom working and he says you're going to pay some more.
00:18:44.000You're a small business owner, he says you're going to pay some more.
00:18:47.000And the reason is there aren't enough millionaires and billionaires to pay for all the socialism that Bernie and the Democrats want to give away.
00:19:50.000Even if people say they don't like it right now, that's because of the media coverage and bad PR done
00:19:54.000By the administration and by Congress, but once it takes effect and your check is bigger in the mail, then it's going to be of benefit to you.
00:20:00.000So, the tax cut is good policy and good for President Trump for not botching it, right?
00:20:04.000Thank you, Mr. President, for not botching this up.
00:20:07.000There are some problems inside the tax reform bill.
00:20:10.000I wish that Trump would work to fix them, but this is a lot better than nothing.
00:20:14.000No question, this is better than nothing.
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00:21:50.000The Democrats, the real reason, I mentioned earlier a little bit, that Nancy Pelosi had thrown John Conyers under the bus.
00:21:58.000The real reason that Nancy Pelosi threw John Conyers under the bus was not just because of Roy Moore and they're going to pretend they have a standard on sexual harassment.
00:22:05.000It's because Nancy Pelosi is in danger of losing her speakership to a woman named Kathleen Rice.
00:22:09.000Kathleen Rice is a Democrat from New York.
00:22:27.000Kathleen Rice, the Democrats would be very smart if they were to move Kathleen Rice into the top slot and demote Nancy Pelosi.
00:22:32.000Let's talk about the big elephant in the room.
00:22:34.000And that's why I was done with the meeting.
00:22:37.000I don't have time for conversations that are not real.
00:22:40.000And I, for one, I'm not going to stand silent even in the face of pressure from leadership not to.
00:22:44.000Yep, and the reason that she's doing that is because she's running for the top slot.
00:22:48.000Pelosi's afraid of her, and that's why she is running away from John Conyers now.
00:22:53.000So basically, don't give the credit to Pelosi for Conyers falling.
00:22:55.000Give the credit to Kathleen Rice, who's putting all sorts of pressure on the Democrats to do this.
00:23:00.000Maybe it's for political reasons, but whatever the reason, that's the right thing to do.
00:23:04.000Meanwhile, if you have any sort of bets down as to who is going to be next in the sexual harassment fallout, I think that
00:23:11.000You know, let's just say that Geraldo Rivera might not be your worst bet.
00:23:16.000The reason for that is because yesterday after the Garrison Keillor allegations and after Matt Lauer was forced out at NBC, Geraldo had a bunch of tweets in which he basically defended all of this.
00:26:37.000And David and I were talking, and we talked at length about Roy Moore.
00:26:41.000And he said that he was annoyed by the number of people who were basically saying that it was morally inconceivable to vote for Moore.
00:26:47.000Again, he made the same argument that he made during 2016, it's a binary call, you gotta vote for one or the other, it's either Doug Jones or Roy Moore, and Doug Jones is pro-abortion, Roy Moore isn't, you may think that Roy Moore is a scuzzbag, but, you know, acknowledge that it's a bad choice and you have to make it.
00:27:01.000I've always said I thought that was the strongest argument in favor of Moore, although I think that, you know, points for honesty, although I think that...
00:27:07.000It doesn't wash for me because I think that you can't treat every election in isolation.
00:27:11.000If we keep saying that every election is the only election that matters, then pretty soon very few elections matter because we're just selecting bad guys in every election.
00:27:18.000The whole point of this is that you preserve your character so you can fight another day.
00:27:21.000You preserve your character so you can have the moral high ground, and that's important.
00:27:47.000I think that it is highly unlikely, let me put it that way, very, very unlikely that Moore didn't do anything, given the fact that there are nine women who have made allegations about Roy Moore.
00:27:54.000Yesterday, Roy Moore was trotting out his latest conspiracy theory, and this is what drives me nuts about the partisan hackery of all of this, is that if you
00:28:02.000Wildly allege things then people on your own side will buy into it so long as it serves their political purposes Here's what Roy Moore had to say about how these allegations came to it came to fruition
00:28:27.000They're socialists who want to change our way of life, putting man above God, and that government is our government.
00:28:37.000They're the Washington establishment that simply wants to keep their jobs, do the same thing, keep everything the same, so they don't lose their position, their power, their prestige.
00:28:50.000Okay, so there he goes, essentially saying that the people who are trying to stop him are all liberals.
00:28:54.000They're lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgenders who want to change our culture.
00:28:57.000The socialists are behind these allegations.
00:28:59.000Okay, the two women who are behind the allegations are apparently, who are behind the main allegations.
00:29:03.000One says that she was 16 when Roy Moore took her out into his car and essentially tried to rape her.
00:29:19.000So no, this is not just about the quote-unquote liberal agenda.
00:29:22.000It is about whether Roy Moore did this stuff or not for a lot of these people.
00:29:27.000But as long as you're willing to put everything in the box of conspiratorialism, you're able to get away with everything.
00:29:32.000And you're seeing that now, Moore's best supporters are moving in this direction.
00:29:36.000They can't deal with the cognitive dissonance of just saying, Roy Moore may have done some really bad stuff years ago.
00:29:41.000There are only two that have asserted that Roy Moore engaged in unlawful conduct
00:30:10.000One of those is clearly a liar because that one forged the love Roy Moore part of a yearbook in order to try to, for whatever reason, get at Roy Moore and win this seat for the Democrats.
00:30:27.000There's a lot more to it as to why I believe that the evidence is almost uncontrovertible about whether the yearbook was forged.
00:30:38.000And you look at the preponderance of the evidence, and then you add Roy Moore's denial in it, you add his long, deeply held Christian beliefs, and I just don't think there's anywhere in the world that a jury would agree
00:30:52.000with the assertions of the Washington Post.
00:31:13.000Own that argument, but do not recast evidence.
00:31:16.000Do not pretend bad things didn't happen because it's uncomfortable for you to admit that you're voting for a guy who's done some pretty terrible things, or who has allegedly done some pretty terrible things.
00:31:24.000Okay, so, meanwhile, President Trump, who I praised before on policy, I was asked by a member of the administration very recently how I thought that the administration was doing.
00:31:36.000I said if I had to grade them, I'd give them an A on executive policy, I'd give them a C on negotiations with Congress, and I'd give them a D on communication.
00:31:42.000And that seems to be the pattern, right?
00:31:43.000And that's sort of how today's show is.
00:31:45.000On policy, the Trump administration's about to get tax reform done.
00:31:49.000They are about to make some good moves with regard to Jerusalem.
00:31:52.000There's a strong rumor coming out of the White House that the administration is about to move the embassy, if not move the embassy, to Jerusalem in Israel to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel.
00:32:03.000Who is born in Jerusalem and her passport just says Jerusalem.
00:32:05.000It doesn't say Jerusalem, Israel because the State Department refused to recognize that Jerusalem is a part of Israel even though it has been the eternal and will be the eternal capital of Israel for all of time.
00:32:15.000In any case, all of this is very good policy.
00:32:19.000In terms of negotiation with Congress, again, the administration is not totally to blame because Congress has been very fractious, but they haven't been able to get major policy stuff done, but they're trying, and I think tax reform will get through.
00:32:29.000So C on that, and then D on communication.
00:32:32.000And I'm gonna give you why it's a D on communication in just a second.
00:32:35.000I'm gonna show you just another example of bad communication from the White House and why this matters.
00:32:39.000What's the argument the White House could make that would actually be, what's the way the White House needs to position itself if they actually hope to win re-election in 2020?
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00:34:54.000In politics, if you want to get young people particularly to vote for you, it can't just be you saying the other guy is bad.
00:34:59.000It has to be you saying the other guy is bad, and this is why he's bad, and this is why I'm good.
00:35:03.000You actually need to make an affirmative case for yourself.
00:35:06.000Trump never makes an affirmative case for the administration.
00:35:09.000Instead, he only makes negative cases.
00:35:10.000The problem is, now he looks like a villain attacking other villains.
00:35:13.000And young people have this sort of faux cynicism about politics where everyone's a bad guy except Bernie Sanders.
00:35:18.000Everyone's a bad guy except Rand Paul, right?
00:35:20.000Whoever is the most kind of out-of-the-box candidate who is perceived to be pure as the driven snow, those are the candidates that young people like.
00:35:28.000And that's because they perceive them as the heroes of these particular morality plays.
00:35:31.000Everyone who votes sees politics as a morality play.
00:35:34.000Even people who are 60 who voted for Trump in the last election cycle see politics as a morality play.
00:35:39.000They just see it as a deeply immoral morality play in which Hillary Clinton is the devil and Trump is the devil you know in order to defeat the devil you don't.
00:35:48.000I think that was the majority of people who voted in the last election cycle.
00:35:51.000The people who love Trump were able to somehow fit Trump into the hero box, which I don't understand how you could do that in the last election cycle.
00:35:57.000Maybe it was just because he was hitting Hillary Clinton that alone gave him the title hero as opposed to sort of anti-hero.
00:36:04.000What Trump needs to do, if he wishes to win the 10 million additional votes that he's going to need between now and the next election cycle to win re-election, is he needs to show people that he is not just anti-media, but that he is pro-truth.
00:36:14.000He needs to show people that he is not just anti-radical Islam, but that he is pro-truth about Islam.
00:36:19.000He needs to show people that he is not just anti-big government, but that he is pro-a limited government view of the future.
00:36:28.000That's what President Trump needs to do.
00:36:29.000And if he won't do it, then the Vice President needs to do it, and if the Vice President won't do it, then other members of the administration need to do it.
00:36:34.000The bottom line is that you cannot constantly project your most nasty, negative face and hope that you're going to win over young people who are idealistic enough that they will just stay home or vote third party.
00:36:45.000This holds true for the other side, too.
00:36:46.000Hillary Clinton thought that she could win just by bashing Trump.
00:36:57.000If he wants to win over people who are under the age of 50, then he's going to have to actually start making an affirmative case for himself.
00:37:03.000Unfortunately, he's uncomfortable doing that, I think.
00:37:05.000He's uncomfortable sort of putting himself out there, because it does take a little bit of vulnerability to put out your own views.
00:37:12.000It takes a little bit of vulnerability not to play the villain, but to try and be sincere about the views that you hold.
00:37:19.000When you go out there, I know because I speak on a regular basis.
00:37:26.000You're not very vulnerable because the other person is on the defensive.
00:37:29.000But when you put out your own viewpoint, when you put out your deeply held beliefs, and you subject those to attack and assault, that takes some real strength.
00:37:39.000And I think that it's also what wins you the most points in the end.
00:37:41.000If you can do both, if you can attack where it's necessary to attack, and you can prop up a vision, build a vision for the country, at the same time, that's how you win.
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00:39:03.000So yesterday, President Trump tweets out a bunch—he retweets a bunch of random tweets from this white supremacist account, basically, in the UK.
00:39:14.000And it was a bunch of videos of Muslims doing bad stuff.
00:39:18.000And it's not smart, and it's not good politics, and it's really dumb.
00:39:21.000A lot of people on the right will go, oh, look, it's just—it's secret genius.
00:39:24.000As I heard yesterday from no less than our own Andrew Klavan through the grapevine and Michael Mowles through the grapevine, that this was just, it was a work of magnificent unparalleled genius.
00:39:33.000Guys, you are this close to being fired.
00:39:36.000The reason that this is so stupid is because what their suggestion was that Trump had tweeted out all of these idiotic videos because Trump was trying to distract from the tax reform debate.
00:39:46.000Number one, why would you want to distract from the tax reform debate when you're about to win?
00:39:50.000And two, if you actually want to distract with something, why would you use these videos from this woman who I guess has been jailed, but she's been jailed because she was supposedly engaged in hate speech?
00:40:03.000So, Nolz and Clement were like, well, he was trying to stand up for free speech in Britain.
00:40:06.000Yes, I'm sure that's Donald Trump's top priority at the moment, is standing up for free speech in Britain.
00:40:11.000Or, alternatively, here's what happened.
00:40:12.000There are a bunch of people who tweet at him, at his username, and he sits in the Oval Office, and when he sees something he likes, he retweets it.
00:40:42.000And I will do it specifically because I will kill two birds with one stone.
00:40:45.000I will fight for free speech rights of some rando in Britain, and I will also distract from this ongoing tax reform debate which isn't hurting me in any way.
00:41:38.000And that's what the President is talking about, is the need for national security, the need for military spending, and those are very real things.
00:42:22.000Thank you, Mr Speaker, for exceptionally taking this.
00:42:24.000You may not be aware, Mr Speaker, nor others in the House, but it appears that the President of the United States has, in recent moments, been retweeting comments from far-right organisation Britain First.
00:42:36.000Highly inflammatory videos, including some posted by an individual who I believe has recently been arrested and charged relating to certain serious offences.
00:42:45.000And I wondered whether you have noticed, Mr Speaker, of any intended statement by the Home Secretary or the Foreign Secretary on this very serious matter.
00:42:52.000I confess I have no advance notice of this matter.
00:42:57.000I am not myself one who tends to follow what is said on Twitter.
00:43:05.000Okay, so there is a point of order in the House of Commons, and Trump fires back.
00:43:08.000He goes after Theresa May, the Prime Minister of Britain, and he tweets this.
00:44:34.000The basis of the show is these two guys from the FBI who, they've never done any serial killer profiling, so they decided to go around interviewing serial killers to determine what exactly makes serial killers tick so they can help profile and identify them before they kill again.
00:45:34.000We should be using every resource we can, talking to the smartest people we find from the broadest possible... Okay, so the series is actually quite good, and very compelling.
00:45:43.000The two main characters in the series are a guy who's kind of a nerdy guy who's very into the vagary of all of this, and a kind of hard-charging cop type.
00:45:53.000So far, I'll say the first three and a half episodes are very good.
00:45:55.000All of the compelling scenes, virtually all of the compelling scenes are the interviews with the actual serial killers.
00:46:38.000This is an actual ad that is actually on the internet and is actually running and is real and this is real life and what the hell is happening.
00:46:45.000If the last few weeks has taught us anything, it's that we need more women in positions of power, not less.
00:46:52.000So, when you're choosing Michigan's next Attorney General, ask yourself this.
00:46:57.000Who can you trust most not to show you their penis in a professional setting?
00:47:03.000Is it the candidate who doesn't have a penis?
00:47:08.000Some people will tell you I can't be the Democratic nominee for Attorney General here in Michigan because we can't have an all-female ticket for statewide office in 2018.
00:47:16.000Pundits and insiders are asking, can we afford to have a female governor, a female attorney general, and a female secretary of state?
00:47:27.000Well, I read the news, and I bet you do too.
00:47:30.000And it has me wondering, can we afford not to?
00:47:35.000Now, if you want to know more about what I'll do as Michigan Attorney General, head to Dana2018.com.
00:48:02.000I guess that the way this is going to work is that men are the evil gender, females are the great gender, we never have to worry about women being corrupt in office or doing anything bad in office or covering up for sexual harassment like Nancy Pelosi for years.
00:48:11.000We won't have to worry about any of those things because women don't have penises and penises are bad.
00:48:18.000Which is an amazing thing, that penises make you terrible, because I have been reliably informed that there are many women who have penises.
00:49:03.000And they live next to somebody who doesn't work at all.
00:49:06.000And the person who's not working at all and has no intention of working at all is making more money and doing better than the person that's working his and her ass off.
00:49:34.000urban, this comes courtesy of the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., circa 2014.
00:49:39.000This talks about tax and transfer benefits for universally available and additional programs for a single adult with two children in 2015.
00:49:46.000What you see is that if you earn nothing, if your wage is zero,
00:49:49.000If your wage is zero, you will make almost $30,000 in tax and transfer benefits for universally available and additional programs.
00:49:57.000And then you see that it sort of goes down, and then it hits a cliff at about a little under $30,000.
00:50:01.000When you hit that cliff, the total amount drops, suddenly it's $12,000.
00:50:04.000Right, so you're making a little under $30,000, suddenly it's $12,000 of benefits that you're making.
00:50:11.000So what you end up with, and this sometimes happens, is that it is actually beneficial for you to work less.
00:50:17.000You'd prefer to make $26,000 as opposed to $27,000 on this chart.
00:50:19.000If you make $26,000 or $25,000, you're still pulling in $17,000 in benefits.
00:50:20.000So let's say you're making $26,000 and you pull in $17,000 in benefits, so you're making $43,000 total.
00:50:22.000If you earn $30,000 or you earn $28,000 or $27,000 and you pull in $12,000, $27,000 and $12,000 is $39,000.
00:50:25.000So you're actually going to make about the same amount of money for working less, and in some cases, significantly less money for working more.
00:50:46.000These programs are difficult to administer.
00:50:49.000It's difficult to find the balancing point.
00:50:51.000And it is certainly true that the work requirements that are on welfare need to be strengthened by Congress.
00:50:57.000They should be strengthened because otherwise you have these income cliffs in which we are encouraging people not to work.