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00:00:18.000I mean, if me pitching Whoopi Goldberg talking about bowel movements with Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez isn't enough to hook you in today's show, I just don't know what is.
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00:01:48.000Last week, I said to President Trump that he should give an Oval Office address and he should explain to the American people exactly why the government is shut down.
00:01:55.000Because everything has been filtered through the lens of a highly partisan, brutal media that sees everything President Trump does as deeply and inevitably awful.
00:02:03.000Trump needs to go directly to the American people and force Democrats to defend their position that walls are inherently bad.
00:02:09.000According to the Associated Press, that's exactly what President Trump is slated to do tonight.
00:02:13.000With no breakthrough in sight, President Donald Trump will argue his case to the nation on Tuesday that a crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border requires the long and invulnerable wall he's demanding before ending the partial government shutdown.
00:02:24.000Hundreds of thousands of federal workers face missed paychecks on Friday as the shutdown drags through a third week.
00:02:29.000Worth remembering, all those people will be paid back pay as soon as the shutdown ends, which inevitably it will in the next couple of weeks.
00:02:34.000Trump's Oval Office speech, his first as president, will be followed by a visit Thursday to the southern border to highlight his demand For a barrier.
00:02:41.000White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted that he will use the visit to meet with those on the front lines of the national security and humanitarian crisis.
00:02:49.000The president going and meeting with Border Patrol agents who want to see a wall down there is a ringing rebuke to Democrats who keep claiming that Border Patrol doesn't actually need a wall, that the wall is Border Patrol.
00:02:59.000If border patrol agents are telling the president that they need more resources, and the president says, we need more resources, that is a pretty good argument.
00:03:06.000The administration is also talking about the idea of declaring a national emergency to allow Trump to move forward on the wall without Congress approving the $5.6 billion that he wants.
00:03:15.000Vice President Mike Pence said that the White House Counsel's Office is looking at the idea.
00:03:19.000Now, this is where I part ways with the president.
00:03:21.000I think this is a very, very bad idea.
00:03:23.000I think it's an immoral idea from a constitutional perspective.
00:03:26.000The President of the United States is not given unilateral power to just start going around siphoning money from one area of legislatively delegated cash to another area of non-legislatively delegated cash.
00:03:37.000This is a really bad precedent and it's a really bad policy.
00:03:40.000The president of the United States should not be declaring a national emergency on the southern border akin to a military emergency, like a military invasion that requires him to go to the Defense Department coffers, open them up and then take money that has been delegated for the building of a base somewhere else.
00:03:55.000And then say, well, I'm going to use it for a border wall now.
00:03:58.000The reason this is a bad idea is not just because this is a congressional issue and Trump should be forcing the Democrats feet to the fire on this thing.
00:04:05.000The reason this is a bad idea is because if Elizabeth Warren, God forbid, becomes president or at some point in the future in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez becomes president.
00:04:13.000And then she declares that we have a national climate emergency that we ought to mobilize in the same way that we've mobilized for wars in the past.
00:04:20.000We have a national emergency, and that necessitates us taking the entire Defense Department budget and plunging it into windmills.
00:04:26.000Are we all going to sit by and say, you know what?
00:04:28.000National emergency requires that the president has this sort of power.
00:04:33.000The president does not have this sort of power.
00:04:35.000That national emergency power was granted to the president in a time of basically foreign invasion specifically so that if Congress did not have the ability to Approve the building of a base somewhere in the middle of a war zone.
00:04:48.000The president could just go ahead and do it if he needed to do it.
00:04:52.000It was meant to make better and make greater the president's war powers as commander-in-chief.
00:04:57.000It was not meant to allow the president to run roughshod over the desires of Congress.
00:05:02.000Now, Democrats themselves are having a tough time defending exactly why they feel about the wall the way they feel about the wall, and they're struggling for an answer.
00:05:09.000They've relied heavily on a media that hates President Trump, just really, really despises President Trump.
00:05:15.000The way this is going to work tonight is that President Trump is going to give his address, and then that will immediately be followed by some Democrat giving a response address.
00:05:22.000Last night I was asking on Twitter whether Republicans had had that opportunity when Obama was president.
00:05:26.000I was answered by Dave Weigel over at the Washington Post that yes, Republicans did have that opportunity in 2011.
00:05:31.000President Obama at that point spoke about deficit reduction, and then John Boehner was given a five-minute response time to respond.
00:05:38.000In 2009, apparently Republicans were given the same.
00:05:54.000But having Democrats issue their own response, fine.
00:05:57.000I mean, honestly, I am fine with the idea of having Democrats have to spend 10 minutes explaining why their position on the border is exactly the same as MS-13's.
00:06:06.000That seems like a win for the President of the United States.
00:06:09.000And frankly, it seems like a clarification of the controversy in the country.
00:06:14.000So, according to Pelosi and Schumer, they put out a letter right now, and this letter says, Okay, again, the demand for equal airtime is silly.
00:06:19.000have decided to air the president's address, which if his past statements are any indication will be full of malice and misinformation.
00:06:26.000Democrats must immediately be given equal airtime.
00:06:29.000Okay, again, the demand for equal airtime is silly.
00:06:31.000Republicans were not given that, at least as best I can recall, during the Obama administration, but being put on the air seems fully fitting.
00:06:38.000And then they say, the facts are clear.
00:06:40.000President Trump has the power to stop hurting the country by reopening the government and ending the Trump shutdown.
00:06:44.000Democrats and an increasing number of Republicans in Congress have repeatedly urged the president and leader McConnell to end the Trump shutdown and reopen the government while Congress debates the president's expensive and ineffective wall.
00:06:54.000Unfortunately, President Trump keeps rejecting the bipartisan House-passed bills, which have already received strong bipartisan support in the Senate, to reopen the government.
00:07:01.000Instead, he's still demanding that American taxpayers pay at least $5.7 billion for his wall, which can't pass either chamber of Congress and, of course, Mexico is not paying for.
00:07:10.000Now that the TV networks have decided to air the president's address, Democrats must be given equal airtime.
00:07:18.000The networks, because the networks are far to the left, basically have agreed with the Democrats, not on giving them equal airtime, but on the notion that President Trump must be fact-checked in real time.
00:07:28.000Now, this is something they didn't do for Obama, I remember, because I was there.
00:07:31.000When Obama gave his speeches on Obamacare, which were chock-full of absolute falsehoods, like, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, there were never any chyrons on the bottom of the screen at CNN saying, President Obama lies, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
00:07:45.000Or President Obama lies, he wants to lower the deficit.
00:07:49.000I don't remember any of those fact-checkers.
00:07:51.000I remember there were fact-checks afterward from organizations that do political fact-checks, but there was no real-time fact-checking by the TV networks.
00:07:57.000But now, there's a lot of talk about how we need this sort of real-time fact-checking specifically for President Trump, because President Trump is such a liar.
00:08:05.000Now, do I think that this is because they really believe that Trump is so much more of a liar than Obama?
00:08:10.000No, I think this has a lot more to do with the fact they disagree with President Trump.
00:08:13.000If President Trump were on the left, then I think they would be fine with President Trump fibbing.
00:08:19.000Take, for example, Alison Camerota over at CNN.
00:08:21.000So she says, basically, that the fact-checkers at the networks should spend their nights fact-checking everything President Trump says.
00:08:30.000I do not remember this sort of talk in any lead-up to any Obama lie told about Obamacare or about the border or about any other issue.
00:08:37.000Here's Alison Camerota, though, prepping the groundwork for the media to claim that President Trump is a vast liar, therefore trying to make his speech ineffective tonight.
00:08:46.000Now, the best thing that the White House can do, by the way, as I'll explain in just a second, the best thing that the White House can do is to tell the truth as openly as possible.
00:08:54.000We'll talk about that in just a second.
00:08:55.000But here's Camerata setting up the combat, which is not going to be between Trump and the Democrats.
00:08:59.000It's going to be between Trump and the media.
00:09:01.000This morning, the fact-checkers are eating their Wheaties and getting extra rest since they will be working overtime tonight to separate fact from fiction on this border situation.
00:09:11.000I mean, listen to that kind of media coverage.
00:09:20.000But the hysteria over your own journalistic virtue for preparing to fact-check.
00:09:26.000I'm glad they finally woke up after eight years of Obama.
00:09:29.000I'm glad the fact-checkers ate their Wheaties and woke up like Rip Van Winkle after eight years of going into a complete coma when it came to fact-checking.
00:09:39.000You can listen to the way that the media are patting themselves on the back for all of this.
00:09:43.000Brian Stelter, who's the non-objective objective journalist at CNN.
00:10:30.000Although, again, I will acknowledge that I don't think they did this during Obama's tenure.
00:10:33.000But better they should do it for Trump and Obama than they should not do it for either.
00:10:38.000But the fact is that when they say things like, we should not air the president's speech unless we have a real-time fact-checker on a split screen explaining what President Trump is saying that is wrong.
00:10:47.000First of all, that assumes objectivity on the part of the real-time fact-checker.
00:10:52.000Second, when was this ever applied to anyone on the other side of the aisle?
00:10:57.000I love that the media are preemptively trying to take the teeth out of President Trump's speech because they know it'll be effective, right?
00:11:03.000They know that when the president gets on national TV and he says, listen, we have 60 to 80 percent of the women who are crossing the southern border have been sexually assaulted, according to studies.
00:11:21.000That that's a losing position for the Democrats, and so they're going to try and undercut what the president has to say with all this talk of real-time fact-checking.
00:11:29.000Stelter continues by saying, keep in mind, most Americans see right through the president's tricks.
00:11:33.000Poll after poll shows that most Americans do not trust him.
00:11:36.000That's why I'm skeptical any primetime speech will have a serious effect.
00:11:39.000But worth noting, polls also show that the American people do not trust the media.
00:11:43.000OK, we're going to get to what Trump should say tonight in just one second.
00:11:46.000First, let's talk about how you maintain your online privacy and security.
00:11:50.000As a public figure, I am constantly worried about being hacked or spied on.
00:11:53.000I don't want my emails compromised or my credit card number or online banking password stolen.
00:11:57.000That happens to hundreds of millions of people every year, so how can you protect yourself?
00:12:49.000Okay, so the networks actually debated, because they don't like Trump this much, the networks actually debated whether or not to even air this thing.
00:13:00.000Now, remember, this is President Trump's first address to the nation of his entire tenure.
00:13:05.000And he gave the State of the Union, but he hasn't had a direct to the people Oval Office address ever.
00:13:09.000This is his first time, which is why it's important.
00:13:12.000Obama used to do it all the time, and the networks aired it all the time until they realized they weren't getting any ratings off of it.
00:13:56.000I love that the media actually had to debate whether to give the president airtime because they are that afraid that the president is going to say something effective.
00:14:04.000The media are afraid the President of the United States is going to say something that actually works on the American people, and thus, they're preemptively preparing their fact checks.
00:14:12.000Now, with that said, that means that the Trump administration, his speech writing team, should really lock down every stat they put in his mouth.
00:14:19.000He's going to be speaking not off the cuff tonight, he's going to be speaking from teleprompter.
00:14:23.000That means that everything they do should be extraordinarily buttoned down, defensible, with footnotes, just take the wind out of the sails of the Democrats.
00:14:30.000The Democrats would like to argue Trump's honesty rather than arguing Trump's policy.
00:14:36.000And so President Trump ought to provide them nothing but honesty tonight.
00:14:40.000Now, here's why this makes a difference.
00:14:42.000The facts themselves are strong enough that you don't actually have to exaggerate.
00:14:47.000So the reason this came up is because Members of the administration made some unsupportable claims about the terror threat on the southern border.
00:14:55.000So, Chris Wallace was on Fox News on Sunday with Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders had claimed something like 40,000 people on criminal and terror watch lists had crossed the southern border or something, and Chris Wallace basically shellacked her over it and said, this is an unsupportable claim.
00:15:13.000And you can see Huckabee Sanders struggling to give an answer.
00:15:16.000We know that roughly nearly 4,000 known or suspected terrorists come into our country illegally.
00:15:20.000It's by air, it's by land, and it's by sea.
00:15:39.000But one thing that you're forgetting is that the most vulnerable point of entry that we have into this country is our southern border, and we have to protect it.
00:15:46.000Okay, so when he says, when you say there are 4,000 terrorists crossing in, they're all coming in through airports.
00:15:51.000They're not coming in through the southern border.
00:16:12.000Customs and Border Protection encountered just six immigrants on U.S.-Mexico border in first half of fiscal year 2018, whose names were on a federal government list of known or suspected terrorists, according to Border Patrol data obtained by NBC News.
00:17:05.000So, in other words, this is the point that I'm making with regard to the media.
00:17:08.000including White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who said on Friday that CBP stopped nearly 4,000 known or suspected terrorists from crossing the southern border in fiscal year 2018.
00:17:18.000So in other words, this is the point that I'm making with regard to the media.
00:17:21.000The media would rather argue over whether the Trump administration is telling the truth than they would argue over the issue itself.
00:17:29.000And by the way, it's totally appropriate for them to fact check the Trump administration.
00:17:33.000In the same way, it's totally appropriate for the media to fact check any politician.
00:17:37.000All politicians should be fact checked.
00:17:38.000Which demonstrates the necessity of the Trump administration really, really, really tonight sticking to the facts.
00:17:45.000I've said this all along about President Trump.
00:17:46.000President Trump lies a lot and it's bad.
00:17:48.000He should stop doing it because his agenda does not require lies to support it.
00:17:52.000If your agenda requires a lie to support it, your agenda is bad.
00:17:55.000If your agenda can be based solely on truth and fact, then your agenda is fine.
00:17:59.000The Trump agenda is not a problem on the border.
00:18:02.000He should just tell the truth about it.
00:18:04.000Alyssa Farrah, for example, over at the VP's office said it is 100% correct that 17,000 adults with a criminal record were arrested in fiscal year 2018 at the southern border as per Border Patrol.
00:18:32.000But this is why it's important that the Trump administration really stick to the fact, not as much as humanly possible, just stick to the facts.
00:18:41.000I take, for example, there is a former ICE director on Fox News, and he was saying, listen, we need some sort of barrier on the wall.
00:18:48.000This is Thomas Holman, the former U.S.
00:18:50.000Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director.
00:18:52.000He implored Nancy Pelosi to consider taking a federal funding deal that includes money for a border wall because it's her job to keep Americans safe as well.
00:19:00.000Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi, you need to love your country a little more than you hate this president.
00:19:04.000I mean, your number one responsibility is to protect the Americans and secure our border.
00:19:09.000We've already shown how a wall, a barrier can be effective.
00:19:25.000This is the only issue that Republicans should be hammering over and over and over again.
00:19:29.000This is what President Trump should hammer tonight.
00:19:31.000And this is why Democrats are actually afraid of this Oval Office address.
00:19:35.000You think they'd be screaming like a stuck pig if they weren't afraid of the Oval Office address?
00:19:39.000You think that they would be making a fuss over fact-checking if they thought this was a big nothing?
00:19:43.000By the end of the Obama administration, every time the man appeared on national TV, everybody just sort of sighed and went, and just went, okay, fine, whatever.
00:19:51.000And then Obama would get on, and he'd talk, and talk, and he'd talk, and he'd just say things, a lot of things, and no one would pay attention.
00:19:56.000Well, people know that tonight lots of folks are going to pay attention to what President Trump has to say, and suddenly Democrats are going to be forced to explain why they will not give the president 11 hours worth of federal funding to pay for a permanent border solution along our southern border.
00:20:11.000The president can do some real heavy lifting tonight.
00:20:13.000All he has to do is make sure he doesn't undercut himself by saying things that are factually dubious.
00:20:20.000When the president went out this week and he said that former presidents have said they want a wall too, and then we couldn't find a former president who said they wanted a wall.
00:20:27.000The media wants to live in that space.
00:20:29.000The media wants to live in the space where they can spend all the time not talking about the agenda, but talking about how dishonest President Trump is.
00:20:35.000Trump ought not give them that opportunity.
00:20:37.000This is why a president with discipline would be fantastic.
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00:22:30.000The new wave of Democratic talking points is going to be that President Trump should just go back and sign the 2013 immigration Gang of Eight bill.
00:22:39.000Now, that bill was so bad that Marco Rubio, Senator Rubio, who was one of the original sponsors of that bill, backed away from it in 2016 when he was running for president and a little bit before, saying it was a mistake to have ever signed on to that bill.
00:22:50.000Democrats, however, are trying to revive that bill.
00:23:15.000You go clear back to the 2013 immigration reform bill that we did in the Senate, and we passed it with a majority of Democrats and Republicans.
00:24:08.000OK, why we are tying citizenship for the people who are already here to securing the border to prevent new people from coming in is beyond me.
00:24:15.000I mean, honestly, it's like somebody breaks into your house, and you have two things to do.
00:24:20.000One, deal with the person in your house, and two, make sure that the lock on your front door works from now on.
00:24:36.000You have to fix the lock on the front door, which is one problem, and you have to deal with the person in your house, which is a second problem.
00:24:41.000These are both problems, but they are not related problems.
00:24:43.000And the fact that everyone keeps trying to tie them together is demonstrative of why the government fails.
00:24:48.000The government likes passing thousand-page bills that are packed with crap and then suggesting they've solved the problem, when indeed they've solved nothing.
00:25:01.000But here is Jeff Merkley claiming that the Republicans should bring back up that terrible 2013 bill.
00:25:06.000Well, in 2013 we had a comprehensive immigration bill.
00:25:09.000A number of folks have tried to say to the administration, we have a broken immigration system, let's fix it.
00:25:14.000Let's have a bipartisan bill like the one that passed the Senate and would have passed the House if it had been put on the floor, but it was Republicans who blocked it.
00:25:22.000But as time has evolved, we are happy to provide money for border security.
00:25:55.000It would have created a registered provisional immigrant status that would grant travel and work authorization, similar to the temporary resident status of 1986.
00:26:02.000It would have streamlined the naturalization process for unlawful immigrants.
00:26:06.000It would have said that anyone who is present in the U.S.
00:26:08.000on or before December 31, 2011 would qualify for amnesty, which would create a massive opportunity for fraud.
00:26:14.000And how about that border security, right?
00:26:15.000You hear the Democrats here saying, if we go back to that 2013 bill, there was border security in it.
00:26:22.000Okay, what this bill did was it suggested that the Department of Homeland Security would have to commence the implementation of a southern border security strategy and fencing strategy before the Secretary could begin processing applications for amnesty.
00:26:37.000Okay, do you think under a Democrat that would last for five minutes?
00:26:39.000All that would happen is that the Democrats would just declare that the border is secure.
00:26:48.000This is why the only thing that matters when it comes to President Trump's overall immigration policy is the stuff that cannot be undone.
00:26:56.000The president can do a better job of deporting folks, that's fine.
00:26:58.000The president can change the status with regard to E-Verify, for example.
00:27:02.000He can push harder in certain areas of immigration enforcement.
00:27:05.000But Democrats can undo all that stuff.
00:27:07.000What Democrats will not undo, they're not going to go to the desert and start digging up steel slats that have already been placed down.
00:27:13.000It's one of the reasons why, when the Trump administration declared that it was moving the U.S.
00:27:16.000embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, You know, there are folks like me saying to the Trump administration, get that sucker built now before the Democrats simply recant the statement.
00:27:26.000And the same thing is true of the wall.
00:27:28.000The wall cannot be undone once it is done, which is one of the reasons Democrats are fighting it so hard and why they're pushing for the 2013 bill, which would not have included a wall either.
00:27:44.000That's going to be a hard, honestly, it's going to be an uphill climb for Democrats because most Americans understand on a gut level that walls do exactly what walls have always been designed to do.
00:27:54.000By the way, it is pretty incredible to watch as members of the comedic, the so-called comedic community, try to weigh in on all of this.
00:28:03.000It demonstrates that No one can actually defend the Democrats' program on this.
00:28:08.000No one can actually defend the Democrats' program that a border wall or border security doesn't matter.
00:28:14.000Seth Meyers, last night, again, he spends all of his time going after the supposed factlessness of the Trump administration rather than talking about the fact that a wall would actually be a useful thing.
00:28:25.000He shouldn't get to address the nation just to repeat his lies.
00:28:30.000If he calls up the networks asking for airtime, they should pick up the phone and say...
00:28:36.000Okay, first of all, I don't know what happened to comedy.
00:28:39.000That's not even close to comedy from Seth Meyers, but this is what the Democrats are afraid of having to defend their positions.
00:28:49.000So they've swiveled to the 2013 immigration bill, and now they're swiveling to the argument that President Trump is an unprecedented threat to national security.
00:28:57.000I'll explain why they're saying that, and I'll also explain How President Trump should respond to that in just a second.
00:29:03.000Plus, Bill de Blasio now claiming that he wants nationalized healthcare in New York City, but he doesn't know what he's talking about as per our usual arrangement.
00:29:12.000We'll get to all of that in just one second.
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00:30:20.000Okay, we're gonna get to the Democrats' claim that President Trump is an unprecedented threat to national security because he wants to build a wall.
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00:31:40.000So even as President Trump rightly claims that we do need some border protection on that southern border, we need fencing, steel slats or whatever it is.
00:31:53.000We need a physical barrier to prevent people from crossing that border illegally.
00:31:56.000This is not really a very tough issue.
00:31:58.000The Democrats are claiming that President Trump is an unprecedented threat to national security.
00:32:02.000Because they say he is going to use national emergency powers.
00:32:05.000Now, as I said earlier on the show, it would be a grave mistake for President Trump to declare a national emergency and then use the military to build the wall.
00:32:11.000This is not the role of the President of the United States.
00:32:14.000It is not a national emergency under any interpretation of that of that statute.
00:32:19.000Furthermore, it relieves pressure on the Democrats to do the right thing.
00:32:22.000Now, the cynical, the cynical politicos out there will tell you that what President Trump is going to do is he's going to declare a national emergency, he's going to authorize the military to build the wall, somebody will challenge it in court, it'll get struck down, and then Trump will go on Twitter and fulminate against the courts and Democrats and then sign a bill that just funds the government and we all move forward with nothing having gotten done.
00:32:43.000That would be a grave mistake by the President.
00:32:45.000It would be a serious mistake by the President.
00:32:48.000It would provide the precedent for Democrats to do the same thing with national emergency powers.
00:32:52.000Again, as somebody who believes in the structural constitution, as somebody who believes that the President of the United States was not invested with these vast, overarching powers, It disturbs me that the president used national emergency powers to declare tariffs on various nations around the world, and it disturbs me that he would do the same thing to build a border wall, and congressional Republicans should not allow him to.
00:33:12.000Congressional Republicans should be fighting tooth and nail to get him the funding that he needs to build that border wall.
00:33:17.000But you can see, again, The big mistake here for the Trump administration would be allowing Democrats to misdirect either to falsehoods told by the Trump administration or to the national emergency powers question, both of which the Trump administration is not correct on.
00:33:30.000The Trump administration should play straight down the middle.
00:33:32.000They should just say, here, we want a wall.
00:33:45.000It is my opinion that it would be illegal for the president to use the military to go build a wall simply by declaring a national emergency.
00:33:53.000It would violate the Posse Comitatus Act.
00:33:55.000The military members would be following an illegal order subjecting them to being at risk of violating federal crime.
00:35:38.000Every time Democrats take power, then we start worrying about the legislative overreach and the terrorists in Congress.
00:35:44.000Remember, they were calling them the Tea Party terrorists in Congress?
00:35:47.000And every time a Republican's president, then we worry about centralization of power in the executive branch.
00:35:51.000You hear Nancy Pelosi doing the same thing, the Speaker of the House.
00:35:54.000She comes out and she says, you know, President Trump wants to abolish Congress.
00:35:58.000That's what he really wants, to abolish Congress.
00:35:59.000She says this literally three years after Barack Obama declared he could unilaterally suspend immigration law to legalize millions of illegal immigrants in the United States, explicitly at the time saying he did not have the executive authority under the Constitution to do it.
00:36:14.000But here's Nancy Pelosi declaring that Trump is obviously the threat to Congress.
00:36:18.000Our purpose in the meeting at the White House was to open up government.
00:36:22.000The impression you get from the president that he would like to not only close government, build a wall, but also abolish Congress.
00:36:30.000So the only voice that mattered was his own.
00:36:33.000Okay, every president wants to believe the only voice that matters is their own, but that doesn't mean that is the only voice that matters.
00:36:38.000Again, Nancy Pelosi was utterly silent when Barack Obama exacerbated the problem of the executive branch.
00:36:46.000Just as a person who cares about constitutional government, it is maddening to watch as the political parties completely abdicate their responsibility under the Constitution.
00:36:53.000The gravest threat to the American Republic on a governmental level has been the legislature abdicating its responsibility to the executive branch since the advent of administrative government in the early 20th century.
00:37:03.000In the early 20th century, President Woodrow Wilson declared that we would have an administrative government, a government that was administered by the experts.
00:37:10.000And that administration, the administration of government by experts, that would make the country better.
00:37:14.000All you had to do as a Congress was pass a vague law kicking the power over to the executive and all would be well.
00:37:19.000And people have cheered that sort of nonsense ever since.
00:37:21.000It undermines the very fundamental basis of freedom in the country.
00:37:25.000And whether it's coming from Republicans or Democrats, it's a problem.
00:37:27.000The hypocrisy of members of Congress who only care about it when it's a member of the other party.
00:37:32.000That's untenable and really quite gross.
00:37:34.000OK, meanwhile, the Democrats continue to push forward their own radical agenda.
00:37:39.000The latest radical agenda push is coming courtesy of Mayor Bill de Blasio in New York City.
00:37:44.000So Democrats are already looking at nationalized health care.
00:37:46.000They're already looking at single payer.
00:37:48.000In fact, the House Budget Committee chairman who came forward today, Democrat, came forward today and asked the Congressional Budget Office to score the possibility of a nationalized health care system.
00:37:57.000All of us who were claiming that Obamacare was simply the first step toward nationalized healthcare.
00:38:02.000Turns out we were all right at the time, and Obama was lying at the time, and Democrats were lying at the time when they said no.
00:38:10.000I do love it when Democrats make promises that they obviously cannot keep, and then the media just parrot those promises.
00:38:16.000Notice the, let's juxtapose the media's claim that President Trump lies a lot about immigration with the way that they cover Bill de Blasio saying that he is now going to provide universal health care in New York City.
00:38:27.000So Mayor Bill de Blasio came forward yesterday, according to NBC New York, and he said that New York City will begin guaranteeing comprehensive health care.
00:38:34.000To every single resident, regardless of someone's ability to pay or immigration status, an unprecedented plan that will protect the more than half a million New Yorkers currently using the ER as a primary provider, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
00:38:45.000It's not health insurance, his spokesman clarified after the surprise announcement on MSNBC on Tuesday morning.
00:38:50.000This is the city paying for direct comprehensive care, not just ERs for people who can't afford it or can't get comprehensive Medicaid, including 300,000 undocumented New Yorkers, according to his spokesman, Eric Phillips.
00:39:02.000De Blasio said the plan will provide primary and specialty care from pediatrics to OBGYN, geriatric, mental health and other services to the city's roughly 600,000 uninsured.
00:39:11.000He said the city already has a foundation for such a plan, a public health insurance option that helps get direct care to undocumented residents.
00:39:18.000But that option will be expanded and supported with the addition of a new program called New York City Cares.
00:39:23.000That plan will roll out in 2019 and build out over the next few years.
00:39:26.000He said it will cost about $100 million.
00:39:28.000Not per year, total, about $100 million.
00:39:30.000New Yorkers will be able to access the program through the city's website or simply by calling 311.
00:39:35.000And there will be no tax hikes to fund it, said the mayor.
00:39:57.000Democrats selling you government programs is somebody selling you a timeshare.
00:40:00.000Have you ever been to one of those timeshare presentations?
00:40:02.000So my wife and I, when we were on our honeymoon and we couldn't afford to go and do all the activities in Hawaii, we went on a timeshare presentation.
00:40:09.000And what they do is they sit you down and they say, Do you care about the children that you're going to have one day?
00:40:41.000Because if you spend a bunch of money on the timeshare, imagine, I mean, if you had to shift that vacation every year, it'll be even more expensive.
00:40:47.000So it'll pay for itself in like 10 years.
00:40:49.000In like 10 years, it'll pay for itself.
00:40:50.000Now, there are a very small number of people who are very happy with their timeshares.
00:40:53.000Most people buy it and then they're like, oh my God, what did I do?
00:41:05.000Somebody's going to have to pay for it, and it's not the people who are going to be using the healthcare, presumably.
00:41:09.000It won't be the health insurance companies, which will be bankrupted by nationalized healthcare.
00:41:13.000The people who are going to pay for it are going to be the people who are no longer allowed to use private health insurance, or if they are allowed to use private health insurance, it's because they're buying over-the-top private health insurance, supplemental health insurance, and doctors who are being forced to take government cram downs, and all the rest.
00:41:29.000De Blasio says, this has never been done in the country in a comprehensive way.
00:41:33.000Healthcare isn't just a right in theory, it must be a right in practice.
00:41:35.000And we're doing that here in the city.
00:43:12.000It's a bad proposal, but it's an actual proposal.
00:43:15.000But I love that everybody just sort of repeats out loud that this is a comprehensive healthcare program, a universal healthcare program provided to you by Bill de Blasio.
00:43:35.000But Bill de Blasio is a real truth-teller.
00:43:37.000We should definitely give policy-making power to people who say that they can provide you comprehensive healthcare universally for $100 million for 600,000 people.
00:45:49.000And a guy who tried, a guy tried to use a fake gun to steal her mobile phone while she waited outside her apartment block on Saturday night.
00:45:57.000She said, when he saw him, when he saw I saw him, he sat next to me.
00:46:59.000A young black man, I mean, I really shouldn't laugh because it really is quite horrifying.
00:47:02.000A young black man was found dead in the home of Ed Buck, who's a 65-year-old white man and prominent donor to the Democratic Party, with an alleged history of supplying drugs to young African-American men.
00:47:11.000This raises the question, if everybody knew that he was doing this for years, then why exactly was he killing a second young black man in his apartment?
00:47:19.000According to West Hollywoodville News, an unidentified black man was discovered at Buck's Laurel Canyon apartment Monday morning in West Hollywood, dead from a presumed overdose.
00:47:28.000The name of the dead man has yet to be released, but the outlet suggests this is something of a pattern.
00:47:32.000On July 27, 2017, 26-year-old Gemma Moore was discovered dead at Buck's apartment.
00:47:37.000County Coroner's Office ruled Moore's death an overdose caused by meth.
00:47:41.000A coroner's report said drug paraphernalia was found in the home along with sex toys and clear plastic bags containing what was suspected to be meth.
00:47:47.000County District Attorney's Office declined to prosecute Buck, saying the evidence was insufficient to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Buck was responsible.
00:47:56.000And then Buck's attorney said that Buck didn't have any involvement in that death.
00:48:00.000And then there's another problem, which is that a second dead guy showed up in his apartment.
00:48:04.000Whenever it says another dead man shows up in your apartment, the another is the dead giveaway that you've got a real problem.
00:48:10.000In August 2018, excerpts from Moore's journal were publicized in order to bolster a push for prosecuting Buck, led by Moore's mother, Latasha Nixon.
00:48:17.000In one such excerpt from December 2016, Moore wrote that he has become addicted to drugs, and the worst one at that, Ed Buck, is the one to thank.
00:48:23.000According to Open Secrets, Buck has donated tens of thousands of dollars to multiple Democratic Party candidates over the past few election cycles, including Hillary Clinton.
00:48:32.000He supported a lot of various progressive causes throughout the year.
00:48:36.000This is not to suggest that only Democrats are engaged in this sort of activity, because obviously that's not true, but it is worthy of note that This guy is a major Democratic donor and we will see if the media coverage continues to be as long and comprehensive with regard to Ed Buck as it would be if the guy were Republican.
00:48:54.000Which I can fairly guarantee that it will not be.
00:49:04.000Roger Simon, who's a writer over at Politico, he tweeted out a picture of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who is apparently ailing, and he said, "If it were possible, would you subtract one day off your life and add it to Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life for one extra day of good health?
00:49:17.000If just 10,000 people did this, it would add 27 productive years to her life." I don't even, what?
00:49:24.000I don't even know, is that a brainstorm?
00:49:27.000Like, does he think that we have that life-sucking machine from the Princess Bride that we're gonna strap Wesley to the table?
00:49:32.000Or take 50 years off his life and then donate it to Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
00:49:36.000Or does Ruth Bader Ginsburg have like a room of young virgins in the other room and she just sort of drains them of their life force?
00:49:42.000I tweeted out, maybe we should all give a year to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and then she can live forever.
00:49:46.000Presumably handing down pro-abortion rulings from now until the end of time.
00:49:55.000It's funny, there's a midrash, which is kind of like an apocryphal Jewish tale, about apparently Adam and Adam being shown King David by God.
00:50:05.000And Adam lived till he was 930 years old, according to the Bible.
00:50:10.000And he was supposed to live to be 1,000, as the midrash says.
00:50:15.000And God said, this guy is going to die in youth.
00:50:20.000And Adam saw that King David could become something great.
00:50:22.000He said, well, I will donate 70 years of my life to King David.
00:50:24.000Well, Ruth Bader Ginsburg isn't King David, and this deal is not on the table, and if it were on the table, and you were willing to sacrifice 24 hours of your life for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, then I would suggest that you probably have your priorities not in order.
00:50:55.000So I discussed this a little bit on my radio show yesterday, but there is a new APA report out.
00:51:03.000American Psychological Association report out.
00:51:05.000The APA is just a pathetic organization.
00:51:07.000I mean, that organization is a political hackery organization par excellence.
00:51:12.000They've already declared that things that are mental disorders are not mental disorders, specifically out of political pressure with no evidence to back them.
00:51:17.000Now they have declared that masculinity itself, traditional masculinity itself, is unhealthy to people.
00:51:24.000If you're a woman and you think that you are a traditionally masculine man, maybe you're not mentally disordered for thinking you're a man, but if you want to be a traditionally masculine man, now you're mentally disordered.
00:51:36.000So if you're a transgender woman or transgender man, mental disorder isn't wanting to change your genitals or anything.
00:51:43.000The actual mental disorder would be you wanting to be traditionally masculine, obviously.
00:51:46.000The real problem is that you want to break rocks with a sledgehammer or something.
00:51:50.000According to the APA, they are telling people that something is amiss for men, and they say that Well, it depends on which emotions we're telling you to be stoic about.
00:51:58.000shows that traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful and that socializing boys to suppress their emotions causes damage that echoes both inwardly and outwardly.
00:52:06.000Well, it depends on which emotions we're telling you to be stoic about.
00:52:09.000If we're telling you to stop whining, in the words of Arnold Schwarzenegger in Kindergarten Cop, better advice never given, then that seems not terrible.
00:52:17.000If we are telling you that you should never express your feelings, then obviously that's stupid, but I'm not sure that there are that many people who truly believe that.
00:52:23.000They say that stoicism is bad, aggressiveness is bad, all these things are bad.
00:52:27.000How do you know that this is unscientific?
00:52:28.000Because this team says, it says in the APA report, are you ready for this?
00:52:32.000It's an actual sentence in a scientific report.
00:52:34.000Indeed, when researchers strip away stereotypes and expectations, there isn't much difference in the basic behaviors of men and women.
00:53:31.000Not only is it necessary and useful, trying to destroy it is an act of evil.
00:53:35.000Trying to channel masculinity toward being a gentleman is the task of a civilization.
00:53:40.000But trying to destroy masculinity in the name of femininity is an act of evil, and it's an act of prejudice and bigotry as well.
00:53:46.000The fact the APA is saying this sort of stuff is demonstrative of the fact that you should not listen to the APA's anything but a political body.
00:53:53.000They've undermined all of their own scientific credibility with garbage like this.
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