Trump goes to the College Football National Championship game, Lena Dunham breaks up with her boyfriend, and President Trump is called crazy by everyone, but is the 25th Amendment really a thing? Ben Shapiro explains why President Trump should have been at the National Championship Game and why it was a good idea for him to go to it. He also explains why it s a smart move for President Trump to attend the game, and why he should have gone to the Super Bowl or the MLB All-Star Game, too, if only he wasn t so distracted by the controversy surrounding the National Anthem and the way he walked into the stadium with the ROTC units from the University of Alabama and University of Georgia, and the boos and jeers from the media. And finally, he explains why this is a smart political move, even though he didn t watch a single second of the game and is not a big college football fan of college football at all, and what it means for the country and the country at large college football fans who were there to cheer him on last night in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and in College Station, Georgia, for his appearance at the game and why you should be mad at him for going to the game at all of that even if you don t actually care about college football or don t even care about it if you re not a sports fan of that sort of thing What s going on in your life right now? and what s going to do with it? What are you doing with your time in Atlanta, Alabama, Georgia and Alabama? And what s your thoughts on it, and who are you going to be watching the game next week? Is it a good move by President Trump at the CHAMPIONSHIP? or not? Do you care about the national championship game, or are you just watching it, or do you care more about the game or not what you re watching it and not watching it in any other way? Or are you watching it because it s gonna be watching it or watching it on social media or watching to watch it on the internet or watching other people s social media, or listening to it on your phone or something else, or just watching the news and not listening to the actual game on the airwaves or whatever you re doing it on TV or social media and not caring about what s happening in real time you re just watching anyway?
00:00:20.000Oh yeah, so last night was apparently an amazing national championship football game.
00:00:24.000I will admit that I did not watch one single second of it.
00:00:26.000Number one, because I'm not a big college football fan.
00:00:28.000Number two, because I cut the cord a while ago and I don't have any of the alternatives to actually watch the game.
00:00:34.000But, there was a lot to talk about because of a lot of virtue signaling by some folks on the left and President Trump goes down and sings the national anthem and the whole deal.
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00:02:32.000We begin with last night's national championship game.
00:02:35.000Apparently the Georgia Bulldogs lost the game in overtime to Alabama, the Crimson Tide.
00:02:43.000And it was apparently a classic game, but I'm not going to talk about the game because I didn't watch a minute of the game.
00:02:48.000What I did see was all of the hubbub surrounding President Trump.
00:02:51.000So President Trump arrives at the game.
00:02:53.000And I think it's important to note something.
00:02:55.000For all the media coverage, which is 95% negative about President Trump, for all the hatred of President Trump among Democrats, for this widespread sentiment that President Trump is deeply unpopular and no one likes him, in places like Alabama, in places like Georgia, Trump is still a deeply popular figure.
00:03:10.000And that was in evidence last night at the Alabama-Georgia game, where, of course, fans of both teams were there, and both of those states are very red states.
00:03:18.000So Trump walks into the stadium, and the way the media covered this, the press pool said there was a mixture of cheers and boos.
00:03:25.000What I heard and what I saw from a number of different accounts that were posted was that it was almost entirely cheers with a few scattered boos mixed in.
00:03:32.000Here is what it looked like when President Trump walked into the stadium.
00:03:36.000Rise and welcome members of the ROTC units from the University of Georgia and the University of Alabama, joined by our president, Donald J. Trump.
00:03:57.000Okay, so people were pretty enthusiastic about Trump arriving.
00:04:00.000It's a good move for Trump to go to the national championship game.
00:04:03.000Politically speaking, Barack Obama used to do this to every sporting event he could find.
00:04:06.000He went to the baseball all-star game where he threw out the first pitch like a girl.
00:04:09.000He went to the, I believe went to the NCAA championships at one point, or at least he used to go on ESPN every year and talk about the NCAA championships.
00:04:18.000He used to appear before the Super Bowl every year.
00:04:20.000He was in front of every camera he could find.
00:04:22.000So for all the people saying, what is Trump doing at the national championship game?
00:04:25.000The answer is that Obama did a lot of these exact same things.
00:04:29.000It's also, again, smart of Trump to go, considering that the teams that were involved are going to draw fans who are fans of his.
00:04:34.000And it wasn't just Trump showing up and walking with ROTC.
00:04:37.000It was also that he stood for the national anthem.
00:04:39.000So obviously, this has been a major controversy for a long time in the United States, whether he should kneel or stand for the national anthem.
00:04:45.000President Trump has stoked that controversy for political gain for about the last six months.
00:04:50.000And President Trump shows up and he stands for the national anthem.
00:04:53.000If you think that these imagistics don't matter, if you think the image doesn't matter when Trump does that, you're sorely mistaken.
00:04:59.000People care much more about the president signaling patriotism than they do about the latest regulatory policy.
00:05:05.000It's one of the reasons Trump was elected president.
00:05:07.000One of the reasons that Trump was elected is because people perceived that Barack Obama was uncomfortable with the trappings of patriotism.
00:05:13.000Obama was the kind of guy who'd go abroad and talk about how all countries had their patriotism.
00:05:17.000He was a guy who originally, you recall, was ripped for not wearing a flag pin enough until he decided to reverse himself.
00:05:22.000You know, Trump, for all the talk about, you know, the problems with his perspective on America, and I've talked a lot about some of the problems I think his perspective on America holds, Trump has a gut-level patriotism or at least a gut-level nationalism that resonates with people.
00:05:34.000Him standing there for the national anthem on the field with the members of ROTC is smart politics and it plays with a lot of his base.
00:05:52.000And that reminds me of another image of Trump.
00:05:55.000You remember there was an image where one of the members of his honor guard at the helicopter, the helicopter Air Force One, I'm not sure, I can't remember what they call it, and the guy's hat blew off.
00:06:05.000And you remember that Trump went and grabbed the guy's hat and put the guy's hat back on his head.
00:06:09.000There's a feeling that Trump, at a root level, likes the country.
00:06:13.000And that Trump at a root level doesn't feel scorned for the country.
00:06:16.000And that's the reason for his popularity.
00:06:18.000So Trump actually stands there and he sings along with the National Anthem.
00:06:20.000Now, naturally, the left has to find a way to mock Trump.
00:06:22.000So what they do instead is they suggest he doesn't know the words to the National Anthem.
00:06:26.000This is all part and parcel of their new pitch that Trump is not just stupid, he's actually crazy.
00:06:30.000He doesn't know the words to the National Anthem because he's mouthing along to the National Anthem.
00:06:34.000Huffington Post made a big deal out of this.
00:06:36.000They suggested that he didn't know the words and that he's a fool, of course.
00:06:40.000Here is video of Trump singing the National Anthem.
00:07:09.000Okay, so this idea that Trump doesn't know the words is just silly.
00:07:12.000Obviously, he's singing the correct words.
00:07:14.000The reason we showed a fair bit of that clip is because one of the things that's been happening is people are taking this out of context and they are suggesting that he is hearing the same music you are hearing.
00:07:24.000That's not the way that it works in arenas like this.
00:07:27.000He's hearing the echo of the music, right?
00:07:28.000He's actually hearing the music on the field, and you, the audience, are hearing the echo that is played through the loudspeakers.
00:07:34.000I know this because I've spoken in enough big venues that very often when you say something, what the audience hears is actually being heard a second later.
00:07:42.000And that's what's happening here with Trump.
00:08:09.000We're going to talk in a second about President Trump and the 25th Amendment.
00:08:12.000But this attempt by the media to paint Trump as fully crazy, all it does is it makes people in that stadium, the people from Alabama and Georgia, think the media are out to get Trump.
00:08:21.000The reason being the media are out to get Trump.
00:08:23.000And do you think that it's good for Trump or bad for Trump when Alabama's star running back, Bo Scarborough, no relation to Joe Scarborough, is walking out to the field and very much like Joe Scarborough starts screaming F Trump at the top of his lungs as he walks out onto the field.
00:08:46.000Right, so you can hear it sort of there.
00:08:48.000He shouts, F Trump, in the middle of walking out on the field while ESPN cameras are rolling.
00:08:53.000One thing that I think Trump did quite brilliantly last night, apparently, according to Clay Travis, Trump was asked to interview with ESPN on the sidelines, and he turned them down.
00:09:02.000Instead, he did a local interview with some local Georgia channel.
00:09:06.000There's some local Georgia radio channel, and he did the interview with them instead of doing the ESPN interview.
00:09:11.000This is where Trump's populism works, right?
00:09:13.000Where Trump's populism works is the feeling that he cares about blue-collar people, that he cares about people who have been traditionally ignored or degraded by the press.
00:09:24.000Trump does have a connection to these folks.
00:09:26.000He has a feel of somebody who cares about people, like the people in that stadium, and that's going to benefit him in the 2020 election.
00:09:33.000It's one of the reasons why Democrats would be fools to run anybody who has a white-collar feel as opposed to a blue-collar feel.
00:09:38.000Joe Biden would be a much better pick than, for example, Kirsten Gillibrand.
00:09:41.000Trump still has a solid connection with a lot of people who live in the Rust Belt as well as in the South.
00:09:46.000Well, in one second, I want to discuss with you
00:09:49.000The real media push here, which is that Team Trump is hiding the fact that Trump is legitimately crazy.
00:09:54.000We're going to show you the extent of the media bias because it truly is astonishing and demonstrative of just why Trump's base is not going to desert him in 2020.
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00:11:42.000They were in love with Oprah yesterday, but they're back to Michael Wolff's book today.
00:11:45.000Michael Wolff, of course, is this pseudo-journalist who basically tells anecdotal stories without fact-checking them in any way, shape, or form.
00:11:52.000And he has this book, Fire and Fury, which is no better than an Ed Klein book.
00:11:56.000You know, Ed Klein has written all of these books about Hillary and about Barack Obama.
00:12:00.000Mostly about Hillary has been his sort of focal point.
00:12:02.000And a lot of people on the right will quote Ed Klein or attempt to give credence to rumors that Ed Klein is passing around.
00:12:07.000And people on the left say, well, he's not a real journalist because he's not double sourcing.
00:12:10.000And then they'll go and they'll pass around Michael Wolff's book.
00:12:12.000They'll pretend that Michael Wolff's book is well substantiated, that it's detailed, that it really contains the truth.
00:12:17.000And you can see from how the media is treating this just how much they're lying about it.
00:12:21.000So I want to start here by showing you Katie Turr's interview with Michael Wolff.
00:12:25.000So Katie Turr, of course, over at NBC News.
00:12:27.000And Katie Turr, she demonstrates full-fledged, and so does Wolff, that the media are engaged in complete and total confirmation bias.
00:12:36.000Confirmation bias is the phenomenon where you buy information that already confirms the feelings that you already had.
00:12:43.000So you didn't like Trump, and so you're going to buy the story that Trump actually watches The Gorilla Channel.
00:12:46.000This is a thing that happened last week.
00:12:48.000There was a guy on Twitter who calls himself Pixelated Boat.
00:12:53.000And he tweeted out a fake portion of Michael Wolff's book in which he suggested that the White House staff had been told by President Trump that he wanted to watch gorillas all day.
00:13:01.000And so the White House staff went and produced a gorilla channel, which they then had locally streamed into his TV alone.
00:13:07.000And then Trump suggested that he didn't want to watch the gorillas eating and mating.
00:13:11.000He only wanted to watch them fighting.
00:13:12.000So they cut out all the non-fighting parts.
00:13:44.000But the idea that this could pass around, it could only pass around really because there were so many people who wanted it to be true.
00:13:51.000They wanted to believe that there was a guerrilla channel that President Trump had mandated and that he sat scratching his head and beating his chest and whooping to the sounds of the guerrillas fighting.
00:14:00.000Well, this is what the entire media are now engaged in, this vast-scale confirmation bias.
00:14:05.000So watch this interview with Katie Turr on NBC, because this is just an exercise in confirmation bias and how the media are exacerbating it.
00:14:13.000Because that's not what—I'm not in your business.
00:14:34.000Okay, so a couple of things there that are just insane.
00:14:36.000First of all, when he says, if it rings true, it is true, that is the definition of bad journalism.
00:14:42.000The definition of bad journalism is, if it rings true, it is true.
00:14:45.000When President Trump, when he was then not even candidate Trump, was talking about how Barack Obama was born in Kenya, and a lot of people said, you know what, that rings true, because Barack Obama, kind of a weird guy, doesn't seem to hold a lot of American principles.
00:14:56.000If Trump had just said, if it rings true, if it rings true, it is true.
00:15:00.000You know what the media would have said?
00:15:01.000They would have said alternative facts.
00:17:06.000By the way, you don't have to go to Michael Wolff's book to find stories that have been confirmed by more than two sources about President Trump acting crazy sometimes.
00:17:14.000You can use your eyes, your eyeballs that are in your head.
00:17:18.000You don't require Michael Wolff's ridiculous anecdotes, courtesy of Steve Bannon.
00:17:22.000I mean, the whole book is basically as told to Steve Bannon, as told by Steve Bannon.
00:17:27.000So Brian Stelter gets hammered by Jake Tapper.
00:17:29.000This is one of the reasons why I respect Tapper as a journalist a lot of the time.
00:17:33.000So here is Tapper yesterday, suggesting that this book is basically just nonsense.
00:17:38.000Wolf's reporting should be met with skepticism.
00:17:40.000The book is riddled with errors and rumors.
00:17:43.000And in his marketing of the book, Wolf made the unbelievable assertion that 100% of the president's family members and top advisors have concerns about his mental fitness for the job.
00:17:56.000Three errors in just this one paragraph on page 78, a misspelling of Democratic strategist Hillary Rosen's name.
00:18:02.000Wilbur Ross is identified as the Labor Secretary when he's actually the Commerce Secretary, and Wolf has reporter Mark Berman at a restaurant which Berman says he's never been to.
00:18:11.000OK, so good for Tapper for going through this.
00:18:15.000This is why I have more respect for Tapper than I do for some of the other CNN journalists.
00:18:18.000Speaking of bias at CNN, CNN announced today that Jim Acosta, the grandstanding, ridiculous White House correspondent who spends all of his time asking asinine questions of the president's
00:19:03.000And again, you can tell the media bias from exactly how Michael Wolff is pitching this, right?
00:19:08.000Michael Wolff is pitching this as the book that's going to end Trump's presidency.
00:19:10.000And the left is buying into that because they want to see Trump's presidency end.
00:19:13.000They are interested in seeing Wolff's book take down Trump.
00:19:16.000They're suggesting this is like a bomb went off in the White House.
00:19:18.000It's like a bomb went off in the White House.
00:19:19.000The book doesn't say anything new except Steve Bannon mentally masturbating about how he doesn't like Jared and Ivanka and how Trump doesn't fulfill his purposes as a grand nationalist populist.
00:19:29.000Here's Michael Wolff, though, fulfilling all leftist fantasies that this book is going to somehow result in a 29th amendment.
00:19:34.000There are not 29 amendments to the Constitution.
00:19:36.000A 29th amendment removal of the president due to literary wounds.
00:19:41.000Here's Michael Wolff going after Trump.
00:19:43.000You know, I think one of the interesting effects of the book so far is a very clear emperor has no clothes effect.
00:19:55.000That the story that I've told seems to present this presidency in such a way that it says he can't do this job.
00:20:18.000They've been talking about the 25th Amendment.
00:20:20.000So in a minute, I'm going to explain to you what the 25th Amendment says and why people who are talking about removing Trump through the 25th Amendment process are totally crazy.
00:21:08.000And my son is about as good a test as you're going to get for watches under pressure.
00:21:12.000MVMT watches are really fantastic, and they're less expensive than their equivalents in department stores, because they're cutting out the middleman.
00:22:44.000You know, people have been overusing the term coup.
00:22:46.000When they say that there are leaks inside the White House, that that's a coup.
00:22:49.000Or when they suggest that there's a bad news story, that's a coup.
00:22:52.000No, a coup is when somebody is illegitimately removed from office through nefarious means.
00:22:58.000To declare the President of the United States crazy without an actual diagnosis that he has severe Alzheimer's or something is ridiculous.
00:23:05.000The 25th Amendment was put in place after the assassination of JFK because people were worried, what do you do if the President's in a coma or something?
00:23:12.000And also, with regard to Woodrow Wilson, because Woodrow Wilson was basically in a coma for the last nine months of his administration, and his wife was essentially president.
00:23:19.000So, I guess you could have President Melania, but people didn't want to do that, so they changed the Constitution.
00:23:24.000So instead, they went to the 25th Amendment.
00:23:39.000And the speaker of the House of Representatives, their written declaration that the president is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the vice president shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as acting president.
00:23:49.000So basically, the VP and the cabinet have to go to the speaker of the House and the Senate president pro tempore, and they have to tell him, they have to tell those guys, fellas, president's out of it, I'm taking over.
00:24:00.000So Pence would have to go with the rest of the cabinet.
00:24:25.000Unless the VP and a majority of either of the principal officers of the Executive Department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide transmit within four days to the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.
00:24:41.000So Trump writes a letter back and he says I'm not crazy I'm taking back the office.
00:24:44.000He gets back the office unless the VP and a majority of the executive department, so the VP and the cabinet, or the VP and some other body set up by Congress, go back to the president pro tempore and the Speaker of the House and says, no, the president really is crazy, don't give him back the power.
00:25:01.000Now you have a battle between the VP and the president.
00:25:03.000So, thereupon, Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within 48 hours for that purpose, if not in session.
00:25:08.000If the Congress, within 21 days after the sheet of the latter written declaration, or if Congress is not in session within 21 days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both houses that the president is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the VP shall continue to discharge the same as the acting president.
00:25:25.000Otherwise, the president shall resume his duties.
00:25:30.000They're saying that you would have to have two-thirds of both the House and the Senate.
00:25:35.000Okay, two-thirds of both the House and the Senate.
00:25:38.000Okay, that is actually stricter than the impeachment process.
00:25:41.000Okay, the impeachment process, under the Constitution of the United States, the House of Representatives passes by simple majority the articles of impeachment.
00:26:11.000The process is, and I'm just checking my work here, that yes, that's right, two-thirds of the members present have to vote for conviction in the Senate.
00:26:19.000So, under the 25th Amendment, two-thirds of both houses have to vote to get rid of Trump.
00:26:23.000Under the impeachment process, only two-thirds of one house and a majority of the other have to vote to get rid of Trump.
00:26:28.000So, everyone who's talking about the 25th Amendment is totally crazy.
00:26:31.000The only way that it would ever happen is if Trump were legitimately in a coma, had a heart attack or something, God forbid, and then he were in a long-term situation where he could not actually discharge his duties.
00:26:42.000That's legitimately the only way this happens.
00:26:44.000So for all those people who are fantasizing about the 25th Amendment, try reading the Constitution for a change.
00:26:48.000It may throw some cold water on your stupid, because it's really absurd.
00:26:53.000Okay, so meanwhile, speaking of really absurd, President Trump has been successful in passing a lot of Republican priorities in his first year.
00:27:02.000But looking forward to 2018, the polls look pretty terrible for Republicans in 2018.
00:27:08.000If you look at the generic congressional ballot, the last time that I checked the generic congressional ballot, we'll check RealClearPolitics right now, the average on the generic congressional vote on RealClearPolitics is D plus 11.
00:29:29.000You're talking right there about 13 House Republicans who have resigned or will resign, and you're talking about two sitting Republican senators who are already stepping down.
00:29:40.000And then if you look at the House Republicans running for another office, so they leave their seat vacant, which puts them up for grabs, it's another five.
00:29:46.000So you're already talking about 18 House Republicans who are leaving their seats, either just leaving them absolutely, or leaving them to run for another office.
00:29:54.000That does not spell anything good for Republicans.
00:29:56.000That is not a good opening gambit for Republicans in 2018.
00:30:00.000If they lose 23 seats, they lose the House of Representatives outright.
00:30:03.000That may look like a soft, it may look a little bit like
00:30:09.000Okay, so we're going to continue in just a second with a big announcement from the Arizona Senate race.
00:30:20.000I just suggested that Jeff Flake in Arizona is not running for re-election.
00:30:24.000Someone else, though, wants to fill his seat.
00:31:41.000Okay, if you also want to just check out the show later and listen, go over to SoundCloud or iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, subscribe to our channel over at YouTube, and please leave a comment.
00:32:36.000There are a lot of people who suggested that that was politically motivated.
00:32:39.000But Arpaio's office in the past had targeted
00:32:41.000Publications in Arizona that reported on his corruption inside the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.
00:32:46.000He gained popularity among some immigration hardliners and anti-criminal hardliners.
00:32:51.000I remember the first time I heard of Sheriff Joe was when there were all those stories about how he was making his inmates wear pink uniforms.
00:33:57.000Hey, if you want to lose another Senate seat and put the Senate in jeopardy, if you want to ensure that if another justice steps down, Trump is not able to fill that seat with a good justice, then you can always make sure that that seat goes Democrat.
00:34:09.000Remember, Republicans only have a 51-seat majority right now.
00:34:12.000If they lose two more seats, they are toast in the Senate.
00:34:16.000And then you have a fully Democratic Congress and President Trump, a dangerous prescription for conservatives.
00:34:21.000Not just because Democrats in Congress are extreme, but also because President Trump wants to win, and by win, Trump means that he wants to get things done.
00:34:29.000Not necessarily conservative things, but anything.
00:34:31.000So we've been lucky so far that he has basically signed whatever comes across his desk.
00:34:34.000He hasn't used his veto pen at all, so far as I'm aware.
00:34:38.000It would be questionable as to whether he would actually use his veto pen if Democrats started passing legislation, or if he would do what Bill Clinton did in his second term and start working with Republicans.
00:34:47.000Remember, after Bill Clinton lost his midterm election in 1994, he started working with Republicans on welfare reform and then won re-election.
00:34:53.000You could see a similar move from the right to the left.
00:34:55.000by President Trump if Democrats were to actually win control of Congress.
00:34:59.000Right now, the woman who's running on the Democratic side is a woman named Kirsten Sinema, and she is the heavy favorite in the Democratic primary.
00:35:05.000She's also relatively popular in state.
00:35:07.000So, you know, Republicans have to be very careful in Arizona, which means that McSally is probably their best candidate there.
00:35:15.000One of the major issues that's going to occupy the Trump administration in the very near future is, of course, the issue of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
00:35:22.000So, to recapitulate what has happened so far, if you recall, in 2016, President Obama announced that he would be essentially commuting the Dreamers.
00:35:37.000Sorry, it was during the election cycle, of course.
00:35:41.000Obama did it to pander to Hispanic voters.
00:35:43.000So Obama signed an executive amnesty that essentially allowed everyone who arrived between 1981 and 2010 to stay in the country if they came in as children.
00:35:53.000And so they would get to stay forever was the basic idea here.
00:37:02.000That's a deal that I would make, by the way, if there were a deal for border wall and ending chain migration in exchange for re-enshrining DACA.
00:37:13.000I would not be thrilled with that deal.
00:37:14.000But that is definitely a deal that you would make because the reality is that the vast majority of these dreamers are going to end up staying no matter what.
00:37:20.000And according to Trump, all of them are going to end up staying no matter what.
00:37:23.000So you may as well get the wall and get chain migration ended.
00:37:25.000Chain migration is much more of a danger to America's immigration program than keeping people who have already been here for 15, 20 years.
00:37:33.000I mean, they've already been here for 15 or 20 years and the country is operating just fine.
00:37:37.000In any case, the Democrats are refusing to allow that sort of deal because they know that they've got Trump over a barrel a little bit here.
00:37:43.000Julian Castro, the Democratic representative from Texas, he comes out and he says the Democrats will vote down a border fix if it contains wall funding.
00:37:50.000I think that Democrats should withhold votes from a bill to help DREAMers if it includes funding for the wall.
00:37:58.000I will certainly vote against it, and I know most Democrats will vote against it.
00:38:02.000I can only speak for the House of Representatives, of course.
00:38:05.000In the Senate, they have different rules and it's a different matter.
00:38:08.000But I would suspect that you will have the overwhelming majority of Democrats vote against it, yes.
00:38:14.000OK, so if Democrats vote that down, that means it's going to be hard for Republicans to pass it, because there are a lot of Republicans who don't actually want to pass anything that enshrines DACA in law.
00:38:24.000So it would be hard to pass it in the House.
00:38:25.000It would be particularly hard to pass in the Senate.
00:38:27.000You lose one or two votes, and you're basically done.
00:38:29.000You could certainly see some of the hardliners in the Senate taking this stance, that they're not going to vote for any of these deals.
00:38:37.000The answer is yes, of course they should.
00:38:39.000If Republicans have a majority, they should just vote this thing through with no Democratic support, and then they'll be seen as fixing DACA and fixing the illegal immigration system.
00:38:46.000It'll be interesting to see what a vote count looks like, what a whip count looks like.
00:38:49.000Pat Buchanan, however, who is the most anti-immigration, legal and illegal, advocate in maybe the United States, he suggested on the McLaughlin group, which I didn't even know still existed,
00:39:00.000Pat, will and should President Trump agree to a DACA deal with Democrats?
00:39:22.000I think he'll get a security fence on the border and other things, protections like that.
00:39:27.000And I think the pressure from the public elsewhere on the DACA thing, because it is publicly popular, I think ultimately Trump will concede on that and he will be charged with amnesty.
00:39:38.000OK, so, you know, I think that Pat Buchanan is likely right.
00:39:42.000He has his ear to the ground on these immigration issues.
00:39:44.000One of the things that's worth noting is that Trump's break with Jeff Sessions, his attorney general, is not just about DOJ.
00:39:50.000That break actually has implications for immigration, because the reality is that the
00:39:55.000Immigration plans that Trump espoused during his run were very much connected to Jeff Sessions' immigration plans.
00:40:01.000Jeff Sessions' immigration plans were very strict.
00:40:04.000Those were the ones that were mirrored.
00:40:06.000Stephen Miller was Jeff Sessions' chief of staff.
00:40:08.000So, that's where all of this information was coming from.
00:40:10.000The fact that Trump and Sessions are at odds is not good for those of us on the right who would like to see illegal immigration curbed, even if we would like to see some sort of process
00:40:19.000Okay, time for some things I like and some things I hate, and then we'll deconstruct the culture briefly because I have some more notes about the Golden Globes.
00:40:45.000I think it's gotten more plaudits than it deserves.
00:40:48.000The basic notion of the movie is that Chris Evans is essentially the uncle of a little girl who is a genius genius in math.
00:40:57.000Her mom was also a genius in math, but the mom committed suicide after solving a famous equation.
00:41:04.000And the mom's mother, so this little girl's grandmother, was the one who had been sort of steamrolling the daughter who committed suicide into being in math.
00:41:12.000And so the uncle essentially took the kid away and doesn't want her to shine.
00:41:17.000And so that's sort of the conflict of the film, that he wants her to live a regular life, but he also has taken her away from a lot of the resources that would be necessary for her to be the most educated that she can be in terms of math.
00:41:27.000That's the central conflict of the film.
00:44:21.000That's the thing about the commercial that's really funny, is that you look at this, you're like, this is how you act around black friends if you're a white person, or how you act around white friends if you're a black person.
00:44:37.000In other news, I do want to issue a hearty congratulations to Jack Antonoff.
00:44:41.000Jack Antonoff, of course, is the fellow who was dating Lena Dunham for five years, and he finally broke up with her, which means that either he awoke from his coma and realized that he was in bed next to Lena Dunham, or it took him five years to chew through his own arm and escape the basement.
00:44:54.000But congratulations to Jack Antonoff for escaping a lifetime of that horror show.
00:45:01.000All I can think of when I think of Jack Antonoff is that shot of Tim Robbins at the end of Shawshank Redemption with his hands up in the air as the rain pours down on him after crawling through a mile of stinking sewage, three football fields.
00:45:54.000He's an American singer, songwriter, and dancer.
00:45:56.000Whenever I do a pop culture reference like this, I immediately have to check Wikipedia, because I have no idea who these people are.
00:46:01.000But he apparently did a show in Australia where he was seated next to a transgender woman, meaning a man who says that he is a woman, and this ridiculousness ensued.
00:46:13.000You know, guys have chatted me up not knowing my past, but then as soon as they find out, whoa.
00:46:37.000Okay, so he was getting all sorts of flack for this because he wouldn't date a transgender woman and then she asked for, and then he asked for a kiss, right?
00:47:50.000Okay, quick deconstruction of the culture.
00:47:51.000So, a couple of things worth noting about the Golden Globes that have not really been noted enough so far.
00:47:58.000Okay, this comes courtesy of the New York Post for all of the talk about Me Too and Time's Up, and now we're standing up against sexual harassment and abuse in Hollywood.
00:48:41.000It's great they're doing it, and we will too.
00:48:43.000Well, no, actually, it's not great that they're a bunch of hypocrites who won't even invite the victims.
00:48:47.000It just shows you that all of this is for show.
00:48:49.000And speaking of for show, all these people virtue signaling after doing pretty much nothing on politics for their entire careers, but they have to show how wonderful they are.
00:48:57.000So all of these women decided they were going to bring female activists to the Golden Globes as their partners.
00:49:02.000So Rosa Clemente joined Susan Sarandon.
00:49:10.000Yeah, that's not virtue signaling to bring that lady to the Golden Globes, and then, like, the only way you hear about this is because there's a piece at Huffington Post.
00:49:23.000I mean, you want to talk about tokenism?