A huge day in news: President Trump making a gutsy call on Israel and Jerusalem, Al Franken finally looks like he s on his way out the door, and serious controversy still brewing over Roy Moore in Alabama with Steve Bannon getting involved.
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00:02:16.000He's supposed to, the rumor is, not just announce that the United States' view now officially is that Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Israel, but also that he's going to move the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
00:02:27.000This is a great and brave thing to do, and I'm going to give you a multiplicity of reasons why this is a great and brave thing to do by President Trump.
00:02:34.000And not something, frankly, that I expected from President Trump.
00:02:37.000Maybe the statement about Jerusalem being Israel's capital, because lots of presidents have said similar stuff, but not the statement about moving the embassy.
00:02:44.000Because that's always been politically dicey.
00:02:46.000So the law is, and it has been since 1995, Congress passed a law, and they passed it overwhelmingly, that said that Israel's capital was Jerusalem and that it should remain undivided.
00:02:56.000That law was passed 93 to 5 in the Senate and 374 to 37 in the House in 1995.
00:02:59.000For years, the President has been waiving that law.
00:03:07.000None of them would actually build the embassy because they supposedly didn't want to undercut the peace process, but really what it was about is they wanted to cater to and surrender to the whims of the Palestinian Authority, a terrorist group, as well as other Muslim nations that were propping up that terrorist group.
00:03:29.000The only reason you've heard of it, the only reason anyone cares about it, is because the Jews made it important.
00:03:34.000Okay, that is literally the only reason.
00:03:36.000Otherwise, it's just another city in the Middle East.
00:03:38.000It was both the capital of the Kingdom of Israel and the site of the Temple.
00:03:41.000It was the wellspring of Judaic thought for literally millennia.
00:03:45.000Okay, when I pray three times a day, Jerusalem is mentioned frequently in those prayers.
00:03:49.000Both Christianity and Islam value Jerusalem because Judaism did first.
00:03:52.000The dream of Jerusalem has animated the Jewish people for its entire existence, the most famous case being in Psalms 137 where it says, If I forget the Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill.
00:04:02.000Jerusalem is mentioned literally hundreds of times in what we call Tanakh, that'd be the Old Testament, so that includes the Torah, as well as the prophets and the writings.
00:04:09.000The only reason that it's not mentioned specifically in the five books of Moses is because at that time it was actually two cities, one called Yeru and the other called Shalem, and then it was put together into Yerushalayim, right?
00:04:17.000It became one city, sort of like Buddha and Pesht became Budapest.
00:04:22.000It's always been the center of Judaic thinking.
00:04:24.000It's always been the holiest spot in Judaism.
00:04:27.000Jerusalem, by contrast, is not mentioned one single time anywhere in the Quran.
00:04:30.000If Jews don't have a claim to Jerusalem, and this is the root of why Muslims want to declare that Jews don't have a claim.
00:04:35.000Also, it's the root of why the papacy has been really split on Jerusalem.
00:04:40.000There have been popes who have been pro the idea of Jewish sovereignty in Jerusalem, and then the current pope says that it should be internationalized, which is just insipid, because if you have Muslim rule over Jerusalem, that means nobody else gets to come in.
00:04:52.000And again, Jewish sovereignty over a Jewish holy site seems like the basic notion is just moral, especially since Jews have maintained the holy sites of both Muslims and Christians in Jerusalem.
00:05:05.000If Jews don't have a claim to Jerusalem, they don't have a claim to anything.
00:05:50.000Israel gets to negotiate on its own behalf.
00:05:52.000It's not up to the United States or any other foreign nation to negotiate on Israel's behalf with regard to its own capital.
00:06:07.000To understand how important this is, imagine that foreign bodies came in and told the United States that we had to give up Washington, D.C.
00:06:43.000The Palestinian Authority is, was, and always will be a terrorist entity.
00:06:46.000Hamas is, was, will be a terrorist entity.
00:06:48.000Islamic Jihad is, was, will be a terrorist entity.
00:06:50.000All of the people threatening violence today were anti-Semites yesterday, they will be anti-Semites tomorrow, they were terrorists yesterday, and they will be terrorists tomorrow.
00:06:58.000If it's a day ending in Y, the Palestinian Authority is interested in murdering Jews in terror attacks.
00:07:02.000The same is true, of course, of Hamas.
00:07:04.000The idea that Jerusalem is the sticking point in negotiations is just not true.
00:07:08.000One thing that will happen by recognizing Israel's sovereignty over Jerusalem is that the Palestinians may lose hope that they can pry Jerusalem from Israel by pressuring the United States or pressuring the West through terror attack.
00:07:19.000Maybe they'll finally recognize reality and they'll recognize this is just not going to be part of the negotiations.
00:07:25.000Fifth, the United States should not be bullied by terrorists, period, anywhere, all over the world.
00:07:29.000The idea that the United States ever signed off on the Oslo Accords is ridiculous.
00:07:34.000The idea that you're going to be blackmailed by people, that they were going to say to you, you know, if you just give us land, then we'll stop murdering your children.
00:07:42.000Blackmail used to be a violation of both domestic and international law.
00:07:46.000Then it was made into the centerpiece of American foreign policy in the Middle East for 20 years and the centerpiece of Israel-Palestinian policy for 25 years.
00:07:55.000Oslo is a full-scale disaster because it turns out the person who's trying to blackmail you wants the money.
00:08:00.000Okay, they don't want to turn back over the degrading material.
00:08:04.000If somebody steals the porn off your computer, and then they want to blackmail you because they have the porn on your computer, their goal is not to give you back the porn on your computer.
00:08:11.000Their goal is to continue getting money out of you.
00:08:13.000Okay, Oslo was always a blackmail deal.
00:08:16.000Ending that blackmail deal is good for the United States.
00:08:20.000Also, as I say, recognizing reality makes peace more possible.
00:08:23.000So a big, underdeveloped piece of news that came out last week is that the Saudi monarchy reportedly summoned Palestinian leadership and told them to support a peace deal with the Israelis.
00:08:32.000Not only that, that deal would retain major Israeli settlement blocks, prevent the establishment of a standing Palestinian army, and leave the PA without Jerusalem as a Palestinian capital.
00:08:40.000In other words, the Saudis know about this already.
00:08:42.000Everybody is claiming, oh, the Saudis are so mad.
00:08:48.000Jared Kushner over at the White House, I'm sure, was talking to Saudi Arabia.
00:08:51.000You know, two weeks ago, people were saying, he's kowtowing to the Saudis.
00:08:54.000Now they're saying, he's stabbing the Saudis in the back.
00:08:56.000Is it possible that maybe he was talking with the Saudis?
00:08:59.000Is it possible that the new anti-Iranian alliance, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Israel, that that alliance is strengthened by this status being clarified?
00:09:09.000That we can finally get this issue off the table?
00:09:11.000That now that this is clear, that the United States recognizes the truth that Jerusalem is Israel's capital, that Saudi Arabia and Jordan and Egypt are just going to have to accept it if they want this alliance against the Iranians?
00:09:23.000As I say, this also means continuing the anti-Iranian alliance and forwarding the anti-Iranian alliance.
00:09:30.000In 1991, during the Gulf War, George H.W.
00:09:55.000He could have forced a peace through mutual assurance.
00:09:58.000He could have forced a peace through mutual recognition of common interests, and that's exactly what's happening in the aftermath of Iran.
00:10:05.000Okay, so I wanted to lay out all of those reasons to show you that what Trump is doing here is not just moral, it is also smart.
00:10:12.000Also want to point out here that all of the talk about how this recognition is going to cause violence, violence in Jerusalem has long predated any of these negotiations.
00:10:21.000I'm gonna give you a brief history of Jerusalem here, so you have more information today than you did yesterday, okay?
00:10:26.000In 1929, before there was an Israel, before there was Jewish sovereignty over Jerusalem, before there was Arab sovereignty over Jerusalem, it was British Mandate Palestine, right?
00:10:33.000It was the British running Jerusalem, and there were riots in Jerusalem.
00:10:36.000By Arabs, against Jews, 17 people were killed.
00:10:40.000Because Jews had the temerity to bring chairs to the Wailing Wall, to the Western Wall, the second holiest site in Judaism.
00:10:45.000The holiest site in Judaism is the Temple Mount.
00:10:47.000Jews are still not allowed up on the Temple Mount because the Dome of the Rock is up there and the Muslims run it.
00:10:52.000So Jews will allow Muslims into Jewish areas, but Muslims will never allow Jews into Jewish areas, which is why Jews should run the place and not Muslims.
00:11:00.000But in 1929, before any of this was an issue, before any of it existed, at that time, the Jews just wanted to bring chairs for the elderly and infirm to the Western Wall.
00:11:38.000Instead, the Arabs blockaded Jerusalem, cut off all the roads, and tried to basically put the Jews in Jerusalem, the largest, most Jewish city in Israel, under siege.
00:11:46.000The Israelis, at the cost of thousands of lives, finally broke through, but East Jerusalem remained in Arab hands, in Muslim hands.
00:11:53.000And not only that, so did the Western Wall, so did the Temple Mount.
00:11:57.000Was everything fine when the Arabs were running it?
00:11:59.000The answer was no, of course, because in 1964, while the Arabs were still running East Jerusalem and Jordan had sovereignty over East Jerusalem, the Palestine Liberation Organization was formed.
00:12:08.000That would later become the Palestinian Authority.
00:12:19.000Okay, that was while they were running Jerusalem.
00:12:21.000So anyone who says that Jerusalem is the sticking point, Jerusalem is not the sticking point.
00:12:25.000In 1967, Israel finally takes over East Jerusalem and frees East Jerusalem.
00:12:29.000By the way, when I say freeze, I mean that the Arab parts of East Jerusalem are still run like an Arab dictatorship, even though Israel has sovereignty.
00:13:14.000Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak of the Israeli Labor Party offered Palestinian terrorist Yasser Arafat control over East Jerusalem and the Temple Mount itself, according to Bill Clinton.
00:13:24.000Arafat didn't even submit a counteroffer.
00:13:25.000He left the table and he started the second intifada, resulting in the murder of over 700 Jews.
00:13:30.000I was in Israel when the Sparrow Pizzeria was bombed, and I remember walking past the ruins of the pizzeria in the center of Jerusalem.
00:13:35.000All of that after Israel had offered East Jerusalem to the Palestinians.
00:13:39.000In 2008, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered a new Palestinian terrorist dictator, Mahmoud Abbas, international control of Jerusalem's Old City, which would include the Holy Sites.
00:13:49.000Not only that, he also offered some of Israeli land to make up for the Israeli settlements that had been built, and an Israeli land strip that would connect the Gaza Strip to Judea and Samaria.
00:13:58.000Abbas turned it down without a counteroffer, and then launched another round of violence in coordination with Hamas in Gaza.
00:14:04.000So all of this talk about how it's just Jerusalem, that if we were to solidify the status of Jerusalem, this would cause violence.
00:14:10.000No, Jerusalem is an excuse for violence, and if Jerusalem were in Arab hands, there would still be violence, because there was when it was in Arab hands.
00:14:16.000Okay, so now you have all the background that you need on this particular topic.
00:14:20.000So don't believe any of the mythology.
00:14:21.000Trump is making a moral move, and a politically smart move, and a politically valuable move for American policy in the Middle East.
00:14:27.000Okay, so now I want to move to another topic.
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00:16:24.000So, Kirsten Gillibrand today says Al Franken has to go.
00:17:46.000For the record, for those who may not have understood or heard what you said, is that you're very confident in your legacy.
00:17:54.000You are today, at this time, at this moment, in this period, preparing for your retirement, a date in which you are not prepared to announce.
00:18:04.000Yes, I thank you for helping me get this into focus, putting my retirement plans together, and I will have more about that very soon.
00:18:16.000And I want everyone to know how much I appreciate the support, the undiminished support I've received across the years.
00:18:36.000But he also says that he wants his son to fill in for him.
00:18:39.000So let me tell you a little bit about his son.
00:18:41.000This just shows you the political fiefdoms that exist.
00:18:44.000So when Democrats say, oh, we're punishing Conyers, or we're punishing Franken, listen, again, it's moral that these guys should go.
00:18:49.000I don't think Roy Moore should sit in the Senate.
00:18:51.000This is not a matter of, I'm using this as whataboutism.
00:18:55.000I think Moore should go, I think Franken should go, I think Conyers should go.
00:18:58.000But you do have to recognize the political motivations that are at play here.
00:19:01.000John Conyers is leaving, but he's leaving his son in charge, okay?
00:19:06.000John Conyers III is a 27-year-old guy who has literally done nothing.
00:19:11.000Like, I literally don't know what he does for a living.
00:19:12.000No one knows what he does for a living.
00:19:14.000Also, he came out, he's a big defender of his dad, saying that his dad, originally he said that his father was completely clean.
00:19:20.000He said, it's unfortunate to see him fight so long for so many people and to automatically have the allegations assumed to be true.
00:19:25.000Unfortunately, there's also this tape of John Conyers III, who will be your new congressperson from the city of Detroit, rapping about how his father was a player.
00:19:32.000Isn't that cultural appropriation, him wearing that hat?
00:19:34.000In any case, John Conyers III, your new congressperson, and this just shows you that politics for so many Americans has become a fiefdom.
00:19:58.000It's not a punishment for John Conyers to step down, Henry II to step down, and hand his crown over to his son Richard the Lionheart.
00:20:07.000And what I love about this is that there's actually an internecine battle that's happening right now.
00:20:11.000So Conyers III wants to take over the seat, but so does John Conyers' grandnephew.
00:20:17.000So Conyers III wants to fight his own nephew for the seat.
00:20:22.000I assume that, given the way that history works, John Conyers III will eventually take his nephew, throw him in the Tower of London, and have him killed, a la Richard III.
00:20:29.000But that's the way these fiefdoms work.
00:20:31.000John Conyers sat in the House for years because there's this tendency to believe, and it's very disturbing, there's this tendency to believe
00:20:41.000that our politicians are not our representatives.
00:20:50.000In 2006, he was investigated by the House for telling three staffers to basically be his personal servants and babysitters and then forcing them to work on state and local campaigns.
00:21:01.000He won 85% of the vote in his district that year.
00:21:05.000A couple of years later, his wife, Queen Monica, King Conyers and Queen Monica, she served on the Detroit City Council.
00:21:31.000So this is how we think of our politicians.
00:21:33.000They don't represent us, so we don't have to worry about whether they provide a good face for our politics.
00:21:39.000All they do is what we want them to do.
00:21:41.000And as long as they protect us, as long as they protect us from invading nobles,
00:21:45.000Then we are happy to pay them an extra share of our harvest.
00:21:48.000That's basically the way we see people like John Conyers, and this holds true on both sides of the aisle.
00:21:52.000This is why I think that so many people seem untroubled by all the Roy Moore stuff.
00:21:56.000They've decided in their heads that Roy Moore is a fine guy, not because they actually think he's a fine guy, but they feel like, well, he's the lord of the manor.
00:22:04.000So, you know, he was taking his droid to Signore with a bunch of 16-year-old girls.
00:22:09.000But, you know, so long as he protects my values, so long as he protects what I want, is that really a big deal?
00:22:14.000Democrats, as I say, are using this logic in order to tear down Republicans, and they're doing it quite successfully.
00:22:20.000Republicans, by the way, are tearing themselves down pretty successfully on this one.
00:22:24.000They took the worst possible position.
00:22:25.000They abandoned Moore, and then they rushed back to Moore just in time for this election cycle after Trump endorsed him.
00:22:31.000And in doing so, they re-embraced all of the worst things about Roy Moore.
00:22:35.000And so you can see the Democrats are trying to run a We Are the Great Clean Party campaign.
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00:23:59.000It's his entire campaign, because he can't win based on his politics.
00:24:02.000He's a Democrat in a state that's 66% Republican.
00:24:05.000Here is Doug Jones, the Democratic candidate in Alabama.
00:24:07.000I believe women are every bit as capable as men, that they deserve to be elected to public office.
00:24:17.000I believe they deserve equal pay for equal work, and I damn sure believe that I have done my part to ensure that men who hurt little girls should go to jail and not the United States Senate.
00:24:33.000Okay, so this is gonna be his campaign.
00:24:34.000In order for them to make this campaign credible, they had to get rid of Franken.
00:24:37.000It appears that's now their move, to get rid of Franken in the days leading up to Moore.
00:24:40.000And then if the Republicans elect Moore, they say, well, that's because Republicans are sleazebags.
00:24:44.000Unfortunately, Republicans are falling right into the teeth of this by actually being sleazebags, so that's not helpful.
00:24:50.000And by sleazebags, I don't mean people who are going to vote for Moore.
00:24:52.000As I've said, I think there are a lot of people voting for Moore because they think he's the second worst choice.
00:24:56.000I think there are a lot of people voting for Moore because they think he'll be expelled in the Senate.
00:24:59.000But if you are saying that Roy Moore is an honorable, decent human being in the aftermath of these allegations,
00:25:06.000All I would say is that there's not a lot of evidence to prove any of that.
00:25:45.000But Republicans feel the necessity in order to alleviate their own sense of cognitive dissonance and guilt, as I mentioned yesterday, they feel the necessity to fully embrace Roy Moore.
00:25:55.000And leading the way is the avatar of Republican Satanism.
00:26:20.000Yesterday, at a rally, he decided to slam Mitt Romney.
00:26:22.000So, as we discussed yesterday, Mitt Romney may be one of the most honorable people ever to run for President of the United States.
00:26:44.000Romney came out and said, you shouldn't back Moore.
00:26:46.000Moore's an alleged child molester, a credibly alleged child molester.
00:26:49.000Steve Bannon took the opportunity to bash Mitt Romney and say that Roy Moore is a better human than Mitt Romney.
00:26:56.000Right, a guy who was trolling food courts, allegedly, for 15-year-olds when he was 33.
00:27:00.000He's a better person than Mitt Romney, a guy who's been married to his high school sweetheart, has led the cleanest life of anyone imaginable in the history of American politics, and that guy's a bad guy because we have to back Roy Moore.
00:27:13.000He's like in the image, in the cartoon, you know, where you have the cartoon character and you have the devil on one shoulder and the angel on the other.
00:27:21.000I'm not sure who the angel on the shoulder is for Republicans, but I know who the devil on the shoulder is, and that guy's Steve Bannon.
00:27:26.000So the devil on the shoulder, Steve Bannon, starts ripping into Mitt Romney while dressed like a derelict homeless person who just got his clothes from the Salvation Army, talking about how Roy Moore is a quality human being as opposed to Romney, who's a leech, a Mormon leech.
00:28:27.000The idea that you have to serve in the military in order to be honorable, if that's the case, Donald Trump had five separate deferments from Vietnam, including four for college and one for bad feet.
00:28:37.000But I don't see Bannon ripping on him that way.
00:28:40.000I seem to recall Bannon being totally fine with Trump smacking around John McCain on his war service.
00:28:46.000I don't remember Bannon being particularly upset about that.
00:28:49.000Then Bannon decides to say that Moore has more honor than the entire Romney family.
00:29:16.000First of all, Bannon is just a terrible speaker, but beyond that, what he said there, it's hard to hear, is that Roy Moore has more honor and integrity in his little finger than Mitt Romney's family has in their entire DNA.
00:29:32.000I'll tell you one thing Mitt Romney has not been credibly accused of.
00:29:34.000Taking a 14-year-old girl home and trying to get him inside her panties.
00:29:39.000That's something that Mitt Romney has never been credibly accused of.
00:29:42.000Or taking a 16-year-old girl into his car when he was in his 30s and attempting to grope her breasts and grab her by the genitals.
00:29:48.000But this is, you know, if the Republicans want to embrace the dark side, there's no better way to do this than that.
00:29:54.000So as I say, it is a Democratic manipulation for them to suggest that they are clean in all of this, but they are grabbing the moral high ground because it's almost impossible for them to grab the moral low ground away from a Republican party that is doing the Bannon routine.
00:30:05.000Again, you can vote for Moore and not do the Bannon routine, but there are too many Republicans who are doing the Bannon routine.
00:30:10.000That is going to have some serious blowback.
00:30:12.000There's the reluctantly supporting Moore crowd, and then there's the Bannon crowd.
00:30:15.000And the Bannon crowd is going to do severe damage to the Republican brand, but Bannon doesn't care, because all Bannon cares about is his own image as a populist firebrand, even though he's been an irrelevant conman for most of his career until he leeched on to Donald Trump, and after leeching on to Andrew Breitbart and Breitbart's death.
00:30:30.000Okay, so now I want to talk a little bit about the Trump investigation and the latest on the Trump investigation.
00:30:38.000Right now, there was a report yesterday that bank records had been subpoenaed from Donald Trump.
00:30:43.000It turns out this was another false report from the media, so you always have to wait for 24 hours to find out what the media is reporting is true and what they're reporting is false about President Trump.
00:30:52.000White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday disputed reports that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had subpoenaed President Trump's bank records.
00:31:00.000She said, I think this is another example of the media going too far and too fast, and we don't see it going in that direction.
00:31:16.000So all of the talk about how Trump was being subpoenaed and his financial records were on the line, that turns out not to be true.
00:31:22.000So that's a part of the investigation that has not yet developed.
00:31:25.000Meanwhile, there's the rumor out there from CNN that Vice President Pence is going to be brought in to talk with the FBI.
00:31:33.000According to CNN, new revelations about Michael Flynn's lies to the FBI are laying bare Vice President Mike Pence's in-the-dark strategy when it comes to Russia's election meddling, raising new questions about whether he could have been left in the dark as he has argued for nearly a year.
00:31:45.000Advisors have long insisted that Pence was unaware Flynn spoke to then-Russian Ambassador to the U.S.
00:31:49.000Sergey Kislyak about a new set of U.S.
00:31:51.000sanctions on the day they were announced last December.
00:31:54.000Well, Pence was not even in town when any of this happened.
00:31:56.000I mean, there was a political report talking about where Pence was at the time.
00:31:59.000Pence was apparently back in Indiana this entire time.
00:32:01.000So the idea that Pence was sitting on top of Mike Flynn for these phone calls, there's not a lot of evidence to support that.
00:32:24.000The reason that the media want to get Pence is because now they have to get an active member of the administration.
00:32:29.000Vice President Pence is one of the more powerful vice presidents in recent memory in terms of helping direct policy inside the White House.
00:32:34.000And if they get Pence, the suggestion is going to be, how could Pence know and Trump not?
00:32:38.000So they're trying to make the case that moves up the chain.
00:32:40.000There's not a lot of evidence to support that as of yet.
00:32:43.000Most of this looks a lot like speculation.
00:33:28.000So is that supposed to be some sort of veiled remark at Trump?
00:33:30.000Because President Obama does not get to make those sorts of veiled remarks with regard to President Trump after enabling the most Nazi-like regime on planet Earth, the Iranian regime.
00:33:39.000And yet that seems like exactly what Obama is doing.
00:33:41.000This sort of political polarization and the attempts to apparently
00:33:46.000Throw Trump out of power via an investigation that really has uncovered no underlying crime thus far.
00:33:51.000You want to destabilize the United States, that's the best way to destabilize the United States.
00:33:54.000As everyone knows, I have tried to be as objective as I can about President Trump.
00:33:58.000When I think the evidence is bad for Trump, I'll say so.
00:34:00.000When I think the evidence is not bad for President Trump, I'll say so.
00:34:03.000What I will not do is humor this notion from the left that President Trump must be deposed simply because he is President Trump.
00:34:12.000He was elected to the presidency of the United States.
00:34:15.000And all of these dire warnings about Hitler's rise ignores the fact Hitler's rise occurred because there was a feeling in Germany that there was a complete unworkability of the chancellorship and the government in Germany.
00:34:27.000The dictatorship actually pre-existed Hitler because people were so dissatisfied they kept handing more power to a centralized government.
00:34:33.000In Germany, Hitler just grabbed the reins of that power.
00:34:36.000That is a long process, not a short process.
00:34:38.000And so for Obama to suggest that we're right on the verge of that and then not look in the mirror at all is somewhat shocking.
00:34:45.000So, with all of that said, final piece of news here before we have to break, and that is that there is an Islamist suicide plot that was foiled to assassinate Prime Minister Theresa May.
00:34:56.000According to Sky's crime correspondent, it's the latest in a number of terror plots that police and MI5 believe they've foiled this year.
00:35:01.000I understand the head of MI5, Andrew Parker, briefed cabinet ministers Tuesday, such is the seriousness of what they believe they have uncovered.
00:35:07.000In essence, there's an extreme Islamist suicide plot against Downing Street,
00:35:10.000Police believe the plan was to launch some sort of improvised explosive device at Downing Street, and in the ensuing chaos, attack and kill Theresa May.
00:35:18.000Naamir Zakaria Rahman, 20, from North London, and Mohammed Aqib Imran, 21, from Southeast Birmingham, are due to appear at Westminster Magistrate's Court on terrorist charges on Wednesday morning.
00:35:30.000So, if President Obama is going to worry about the rise of Nazism, I would suggest that he start by worrying about the rise of radical Islam, which he radically helped all the way through his presidency, particularly among the Iranian popul- with regard to the Iranian government.
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00:37:08.000Plus, the Shapiro store will be launching, I think it's post-Christmas now, it just keeps getting pushed back.
00:37:14.000But no, it'll actually be happening in the near future.
00:37:16.000I know I've been promising it for a long time, but just like the embassy, it's delayed, but soon, but we will be gratified at a certain point.
00:38:00.000Oh, so you're one episode ahead of me, so your opinion is of no consequence to me.
00:38:04.000In any case, the first episode is quite good.
00:38:07.000Jeff Daniels is very frightening as the bad guy.
00:38:10.000Basically, the idea is that there was this mining town where all the men were killed in a mining accident, and now there's a bad guy coming to town with his crew, and they're searching for a guy who has robbed them, and the danger is that they may come in and kill everyone.
00:38:21.000So how's this town of women going to defend itself?
00:38:23.000And the answer, of course, is they will all wear pussy hats.
00:38:25.000So, I have not gotten to the part where they whip out the pussy hats yet, but I don't think that's right.
00:38:29.000I think they'll actually show up with guns to defend themselves, making the case for the NRA.
00:38:33.000The series is Godless, so check that out on Netflix.
00:38:36.000It is rated R, as are most of the Netflix series that I actually recommend.
00:38:40.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:38:46.000So thing I hate, number one, as I mentioned, is that this movie, The Post, is coming out.
00:38:53.000I watched Murder on the Orient Express, which I quite liked, actually.
00:38:56.000There were some things I didn't like about it, but I liked it overall.
00:38:59.000And they showed a preview for The Post.
00:39:01.000We're at some point going to actually have to grab the video of The Post, but that would be up to me to tell my producers to do that.
00:39:05.000In any case, the actual trailer is insufferable.
00:39:10.000Insufferable, as I discussed yesterday on the show.
00:39:13.000But now, Meryl Streep and Steven Spielberg are doing joint interviews and they're talking about all of the similarities between the Nixon administration and the Trump administration.
00:39:20.000Now note, there have been zero crackdowns, none, on media under the Trump administration.
00:39:26.000There's not a paper that's been put out of business.
00:39:28.000There's not a journalist that's been sued.
00:39:39.000The difference is that Obama actually prosecuted members of the press.
00:39:43.000But here, Steven Spielberg said, quote, I could not believe the similarities between today and what happened with the Nixon administration.
00:39:48.000I realized this was the only year to make this film.
00:39:51.000Well, what you realize is that you hadn't made a film that virtue signaled for at least a couple of years, so it was time to make a new one.
00:39:56.000Meryl Streep talked about what she reads.
00:39:58.000She says, in my political reading, I read the New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian.
00:40:55.000Yeah, well, you didn't trust the women enough to actually stand up against Harvey Weinstein when you had the chance.
00:41:00.000So now there's a new report out about how everyone knew what Weinstein was doing, including, apparently, he was injecting his wing-wang with chemicals in order to make it perform certain magical tasks.
00:41:20.000So, speaking of virtue signaling, it seems like all of these pop stars now are coming out and saying that they want their children to be screwed up for life.
00:41:26.000Like, it's their actual goal in life to screw up their kids.
00:41:28.000So, pop superstar Pink has two kids, Willow, who's her six-year-old daughter, and Jameson, her 11-month-old son, who's named after some sort of alcohol, I guess.
00:41:37.000She has big dreams for them, that they don't subscribe to the idea that Willow is a girl and Jameson is a boy.
00:41:43.000Hank said, quote, I was in a school and the bathroom outside the kindergarten said gender neutral, anybody.
00:41:52.000I love that kids are having this conversation.
00:41:54.000Yes, there's nothing better for small children than being confused as to whether they're a boy or a girl and they can switch randomly and arbitrarily between them.
00:41:59.000That's not linked with higher suicide attempt rates.
00:42:10.000If you're insane, part of what your job is to do as parents is to look at what your kids are and then attempt to make their life easier by having them develop in psychologically healthy ways.
00:42:20.000You have the same people who will say that we need to teach men not to rape.
00:42:23.000And that men inherently have a tendency toward rape will say that manhood doesn't even exist and a man can be a woman.
00:42:29.000Okay, the whole point is that if you want men to be good, you have to acknowledge the nature of men and then you have to teach men to be gentlemen.
00:42:35.000That comes along with a positive masculinity.
00:43:47.000And it is worth noting, as Hank Barian does over at Daily Wire, that after spending her prepubescent years using ecstasy crystal methane acid, she came close to overdosing this pink in a club when she was 15.
00:43:57.000She apparently thinks she was screwed up then, but she's much better now, saying, I went off the rails before all of this.
00:44:01.000I got my bleep out of the way early before anyone knew who I was.
00:44:04.000Well, why weren't you just exploring your boundaries?
00:44:42.000They believe that you should be able to do whatever you want in terms of children.
00:44:45.000Like, children should be able to do whatever they want.
00:44:47.000We don't have any role in cultivating them.
00:44:48.000And then they're surprised when uncultivated human beings end up doing bad things when they grow up or end up being troubled when they grow up.
00:44:55.000So this week I felt that it was useful to go through the actual portion of Genesis where Jerusalem is first referenced according to Jewish tradition.
00:45:11.000Jacob left Beersheba and he set out for Haran.
00:45:14.000When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set.
00:45:17.000He took out one of the stones there and he put it under his head and he lay down to sleep.
00:45:21.000He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of the Lord were ascending and descending on it.
00:45:27.000There above it stood the Lord, and he said, I am the Lord thy God, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac, your forefathers.
00:45:34.000I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are standing.
00:45:36.000Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south.
00:45:41.000All the peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.
00:45:44.000I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go.
00:45:51.000For 3,000 years, the Jewish people wanted to go back to the land.
00:45:55.000For 3,000 years, the Jewish religion was inextricably intertwined with the very place where Jacob was laying his head.
00:46:00.000For 3,000 years, the Jewish people have had the same dream as Jacob, that there would be a footstool for God in Jerusalem, and the Jewish people would be able to live there in peace.
00:46:29.000No one cares about Jerusalem except for the Jews, and that is why Jewish sovereignty over Jerusalem is important.
00:46:34.000It's also the same Jews that brought Jerusalem forth, brought forth the basis of Western civilization, and we would not have the civilization we have without those words in the book of Genesis, and it's great to acknowledge the legitimacy of those words from the White House.
00:46:47.000We'll have much more to discuss tomorrow.