The Ben Shapiro Show - January 08, 2019


Trump’s Biggest Moment | Ep. 690

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Donald Trump Barack Obama Ruth Bader Ginsburg Ed Buck Sarah Huckabee Sanders Nancy Pelosi King David Mitch McConnell Brad Meltzer Gemma Moore Adam Kill George Washington George W. Bush Border Patrol Chuck Schumer Chris Wallace Seth Meyers De Blasio Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Alison Camerata and 42 more
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Trump prepares to assume the bully pulpit to push for his border wall. Democrats declare President Trump an unprecedented threat to the Constitution. And Whoopi Goldberg has some pooping advice for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Welcome back to another episode of The Ben Shapiro Show! Today's episode features: - President Trump's plans for tonight's Oval Office address - Why you should be worried about losing your hair - Why the government shutdown is making you look like your father - And much, much more! Thanks to our sponsor, Keeps, you re not gonna have to worry about hair loss again. Keeps is the easiest and affordable way to keep the hair you have, and then you get your first month of treatment for getting to keep it! Go check it out right now! Ben Shapiro is a writer, comedian, podcaster, and podcaster. His work has appeared on Comedy Central, HBO, and the New York Times, and many other media outlets. His music has also been heard on radio and radio stations across the country, including Sirius XM, CBS Radio, NPR, and NPR. and is available on most major podcast directories, including the Electric City Network and NPR Radio. He is a frequent guest on the radio host and radio show on the Morning Mashup. on the Breakfast Club on WFMU in New York City, and he is a regular contributor on the Tonight Show with Alex Blanchor on WYCD in the morning and radio station in Los Angeles. - and WAC in the late night edition of the Morning Drive with Rachel Maddie on KWYX. in the afternoon on SiriusXM in the early hours of KWJU in the evening, and on the Late Night and WMMU in Boston, Boston, MA. after nightfall on the weekends, and in the mornings at 7/7 in the evenings at 7 PM and 7/5 in the East Side in the West Coast, Boston at 7PM in the Southside of Boston. You can catch Ben Shapiro on The Late Night with Rachel Goodman on The Morning Drive, on The Breakfast Club and WYTF in Boston on 7/11 on AMAC on AMR in the Evening Drive, and WVU & WYTC in the Late Afternoons on AMAZING in the Afterdame on AMALIE on AMPC in the Midland, MA!

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00:00:00.000 President Trump prepares to assume the bully pulpit to push for his border wall.
00:00:04.000 Democrats declare President Trump an unprecedented threat to the Constitution.
00:00:08.000 And Whoopi Goldberg has some pooping advice for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:00:11.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:00:12.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:18.000 I 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.
00:00:26.000 We have a lot of good stuff coming up for you here today.
00:00:28.000 A lot of bad stuff, too.
00:00:29.000 So basically, just a lot of stuff.
00:00:30.000 And we'll get to all of it in just one second.
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00:01:38.000 Okay, so the big news today, of course, is that the president of the United States is going to give an Oval Office address tonight.
00:01:43.000 As I recommended last week on this show.
00:01:46.000 You remember?
00:01:47.000 Go back.
00:01:48.000 Listen to the rewind.
00:01:48.000 Last 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.
00:01:55.000 Because everything has been filtered through the lens of a highly partisan, brutal media that sees everything President Trump does as deeply and inevitably awful.
00:02:03.000 Trump needs to go directly to the American people and force Democrats to defend their position that walls are inherently bad.
00:02:09.000 According to the Associated Press, that's exactly what President Trump is slated to do tonight.
00:02:13.000 With 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.
00:02:24.000 Hundreds of thousands of federal workers face missed paychecks on Friday as the shutdown drags through a third week.
00:02:29.000 Worth 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.
00:02:34.000 Trump'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.
00:02:41.000 White 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.
00:02:48.000 Again, optics does matter.
00:02:49.000 The 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.
00:02:59.000 If 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.
00:03:06.000 The 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.
00:03:15.000 Vice President Mike Pence said that the White House Counsel's Office is looking at the idea.
00:03:19.000 Now, this is where I part ways with the president.
00:03:21.000 I think this is a very, very bad idea.
00:03:23.000 I think it's an immoral idea from a constitutional perspective.
00:03:26.000 The 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.
00:03:37.000 This is a really bad precedent and it's a really bad policy.
00:03:40.000 The 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.
00:03:55.000 And then say, well, I'm going to use it for a border wall now.
00:03:58.000 The 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.
00:04:05.000 The 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. 0.99
00:04:13.000 And 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.
00:04:20.000 We have a national emergency, and that necessitates us taking the entire Defense Department budget and plunging it into windmills.
00:04:26.000 Are we all going to sit by and say, you know what?
00:04:28.000 National emergency requires that the president has this sort of power.
00:04:31.000 The answer, of course, is no.
00:04:33.000 The president does not have this sort of power.
00:04:35.000 That 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.
00:04:48.000 The president could just go ahead and do it if he needed to do it.
00:04:50.000 It was meant to atom break.
00:04:52.000 It was meant to make better and make greater the president's war powers as commander-in-chief.
00:04:57.000 It was not meant to allow the president to run roughshod over the desires of Congress.
00:05:02.000 Now, 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.
00:05:09.000 They've relied heavily on a media that hates President Trump, just really, really despises President Trump.
00:05:15.000 The 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.
00:05:22.000 Last night I was asking on Twitter whether Republicans had had that opportunity when Obama was president.
00:05:26.000 I was answered by Dave Weigel over at the Washington Post that yes, Republicans did have that opportunity in 2011.
00:05:31.000 President Obama at that point spoke about deficit reduction, and then John Boehner was given a five-minute response time to respond.
00:05:38.000 In 2009, apparently Republicans were given the same.
00:05:40.000 So this isn't completely unusual.
00:05:42.000 Pelosi and Schumer want equal airtime.
00:05:45.000 Now, equal airtime is not exactly the same thing.
00:05:47.000 If Trump speaks for 45 minutes, I don't think that we have to hear Chuck Schumer speak for 45 minutes in response.
00:05:53.000 That's not what the networks gave.
00:05:54.000 But having Democrats issue their own response, fine.
00:05:57.000 I 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.
00:06:06.000 That seems like a win for the President of the United States.
00:06:09.000 And frankly, it seems like a clarification of the controversy in the country.
00:06:14.000 So, 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.
00:06:19.000 have decided to air the president's address, which if his past statements are any indication will be full of malice and misinformation.
00:06:26.000 Democrats must immediately be given equal airtime. 0.93
00:06:29.000 Okay, again, the demand for equal airtime is silly.
00:06:31.000 Republicans were not given that, at least as best I can recall, during the Obama administration, but being put on the air seems fully fitting.
00:06:38.000 And then they say, the facts are clear.
00:06:40.000 President Trump has the power to stop hurting the country by reopening the government and ending the Trump shutdown.
00:06:44.000 Democrats 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.
00:06:54.000 Unfortunately, President Trump keeps rejecting the bipartisan House-passed bills, which have already received strong bipartisan support in the Senate, to reopen the government.
00:07:01.000 Instead, 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.
00:07:10.000 Now that the TV networks have decided to air the president's address, Democrats must be given equal airtime.
00:07:16.000 Okay, well, here is the thing.
00:07:18.000 The 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.
00:07:28.000 Now, this is something they didn't do for Obama, I remember, because I was there.
00:07:31.000 When 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.
00:07:45.000 Or President Obama lies, he wants to lower the deficit.
00:07:49.000 I don't remember any of those fact-checkers.
00:07:51.000 I 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. 0.95
00:07:57.000 But 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. 0.93
00:08:05.000 Now, do I think that this is because they really believe that Trump is so much more of a liar than Obama? 0.94
00:08:10.000 No, I think this has a lot more to do with the fact they disagree with President Trump.
00:08:13.000 If President Trump were on the left, then I think they would be fine with President Trump fibbing.
00:08:19.000 Take, for example, Alison Camerota over at CNN.
00:08:21.000 So she says, basically, that the fact-checkers at the networks should spend their nights fact-checking everything President Trump says.
00:08:30.000 I 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.
00:08:37.000 Here'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.
00:08:46.000 Now, 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.
00:08:54.000 We'll talk about that in just a second.
00:08:55.000 But here's Camerata setting up the combat, which is not going to be between Trump and the Democrats.
00:08:59.000 It's going to be between Trump and the media.
00:09:01.000 This 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.
00:09:11.000 I mean, listen to that kind of media coverage.
00:09:13.000 That's objective media coverage.
00:09:14.000 The fact-checkers are getting ready for President Trump to tell a bevy of lies.
00:09:17.000 How about this?
00:09:18.000 How about you just fact-check him?
00:09:19.000 How about you just fact-check him?
00:09:20.000 But the hysteria over your own journalistic virtue for preparing to fact-check.
00:09:26.000 I'm glad they finally woke up after eight years of Obama.
00:09:29.000 I'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.
00:09:39.000 You can listen to the way that the media are patting themselves on the back for all of this.
00:09:43.000 Brian Stelter, who's the non-objective objective journalist at CNN.
00:09:46.000 He's their so-called media watchdog.
00:09:48.000 He quoted a guy named Brian Lowry, who's a senior editor over there.
00:09:50.000 He says this.
00:09:52.000 Two cents worth of analysis on this issue.
00:09:54.000 Trump seldom experiences clear admonition for regularly spouting falsehoods.
00:09:58.000 Really?
00:09:59.000 He doesn't?
00:10:00.000 I'm unaware of any Democrat for the last several years who hasn't said that President Trump lies a lot.
00:10:04.000 And by the way, President Trump does fib a lot.
00:10:07.000 Denying him live unfiltered access as Brian Lowry without some sort of screening or vetting.
00:10:12.000 Doesn't seem like an unreasonable condition to impose under the circumstances, even if that means facing his Twitter rap for it.
00:10:17.000 So, CNN's Brian Lowry doesn't even want CNN to air this speech unless they have a CNN-Chiron fact-checker underneath Trump's speech. 0.97
00:10:24.000 That's asinine. 0.99
00:10:25.000 It's insane. 0.99
00:10:26.000 You can do a retrospective fact-check.
00:10:28.000 I think that's fine.
00:10:30.000 Although, again, I will acknowledge that I don't think they did this during Obama's tenure.
00:10:33.000 But better they should do it for Trump and Obama than they should not do it for either.
00:10:38.000 But 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.
00:10:47.000 First of all, that assumes objectivity on the part of the real-time fact-checker.
00:10:50.000 That is not the case.
00:10:52.000 Second, when was this ever applied to anyone on the other side of the aisle?
00:10:57.000 I 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?
00:11:02.000 That's the real problem for them.
00:11:03.000 They 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.
00:11:12.000 That is a humanitarian crisis.
00:11:13.000 We have terrorists who are crossing that southern border.
00:11:15.000 That's a crisis.
00:11:16.000 We have criminals who are crossing that southern border.
00:11:18.000 That's a crisis.
00:11:19.000 And we need a barrier.
00:11:20.000 And the Democrats won't pay for it.
00:11:21.000 That 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.
00:11:29.000 Stelter continues by saying, keep in mind, most Americans see right through the president's tricks.
00:11:33.000 Poll after poll shows that most Americans do not trust him.
00:11:36.000 That's why I'm skeptical any primetime speech will have a serious effect.
00:11:39.000 But worth noting, polls also show that the American people do not trust the media.
00:11:43.000 OK, we're going to get to what Trump should say tonight in just one second.
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00:12:49.000 Okay, 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.
00:13:00.000 Now, remember, this is President Trump's first address to the nation of his entire tenure.
00:13:05.000 And he gave the State of the Union, but he hasn't had a direct to the people Oval Office address ever.
00:13:09.000 This is his first time, which is why it's important.
00:13:12.000 Obama 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.
00:13:17.000 He did one in January 2011 on Egypt.
00:13:20.000 He did one in April 2011 announcing the government shutdown deal.
00:13:22.000 He did one in May of 2011 announcing the death of Bin Laden.
00:13:25.000 Michelle Malkin has an entire list of these.
00:13:27.000 June 11 announcing a troop drawdown in Afghanistan.
00:13:29.000 May 2012 announcing a troop withdrawal in Afghanistan.
00:13:32.000 April 2013, Boston Marathon bombing remarks.
00:13:34.000 September 2013, an address on Syria.
00:13:36.000 October 2013, August 2014, September 2014, And there are more.
00:13:41.000 He did like five of them in 2009 alone.
00:13:43.000 He did one in February, one in March, one in April, one in July, one in December.
00:13:47.000 Right?
00:13:47.000 So he was doing it just all the time.
00:13:50.000 And the media constantly covered it and they said, well, it's not a problem.
00:13:54.000 He's the president.
00:13:55.000 We ought to give him the airtime.
00:13:56.000 I 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.
00:14:03.000 That's really what's going on here.
00:14:04.000 The 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.
00:14:12.000 Now, with that said, that means that the Trump administration, his speech writing team, should really lock down every stat they put in his mouth.
00:14:19.000 He's going to be speaking not off the cuff tonight, he's going to be speaking from teleprompter.
00:14:23.000 That means that everything they do should be extraordinarily buttoned down, defensible, with footnotes, just take the wind out of the sails of the Democrats.
00:14:30.000 The Democrats would like to argue Trump's honesty rather than arguing Trump's policy.
00:14:35.000 That's the reality.
00:14:36.000 And so President Trump ought to provide them nothing but honesty tonight.
00:14:40.000 Now, here's why this makes a difference.
00:14:42.000 The facts themselves are strong enough that you don't actually have to exaggerate.
00:14:47.000 So the reason this came up is because Members of the administration made some unsupportable claims about the terror threat on the southern border.
00:14:55.000 So, 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.
00:15:13.000 And you can see Huckabee Sanders struggling to give an answer.
00:15:16.000 We know that roughly nearly 4,000 known or suspected terrorists come into our country illegally.
00:15:20.000 It's by air, it's by land, and it's by sea.
00:15:22.000 across the border from Mexico.
00:15:24.000 We know that roughly nearly 4,000 known or suspected terrorists come into our country illegally.
00:15:31.000 The State Department says there hasn't been any terrorists that they found coming across the southern border from Mexico.
00:15:37.000 It's by air, it's by land, and it's by sea.
00:15:38.000 It's all of the above.
00:15:39.000 But 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.
00:15:46.000 Okay, so when he says, when you say there are 4,000 terrorists crossing in, they're all coming in through airports.
00:15:51.000 They're not coming in through the southern border.
00:15:53.000 That's right.
00:15:53.000 Now, here's the problem.
00:15:55.000 All the administration had to do was tell the truth about how many terrorists were coming across the southern border.
00:16:00.000 Because all they have to name is one, right?
00:16:01.000 All they have to say is the proper role of the United States government on immigration is to prevent any terrorists from entering.
00:16:10.000 And here's what NBC News reports, right?
00:16:11.000 They say, U.S.
00:16:12.000 Customs 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.
00:16:24.000 Now, listen to the phraseology there.
00:16:26.000 Customs and Border Protection encountered just six immigrants on U.S.-Mexico border in the first half of fiscal year 2018.
00:16:32.000 So, in other words, one terrorist a month, basically, was trying to cross On the US-Mexico border.
00:16:38.000 One terrorist a month.
00:16:40.000 That sounds like a lot of terrorists to me, I'll be honest with you.
00:16:42.000 That sounds like... I mean, again, they're saying in just the first half of 2018, six terrorists attempted to do this.
00:16:47.000 And those were known terrorists.
00:16:48.000 Not unknown terrorists, and the number is probably larger.
00:16:50.000 It's probably ten or twelve.
00:16:52.000 Well, it only took five illegal immigrant terrorists to actually commit 9-11. 0.62
00:16:57.000 All the others were here on actual legal visas.
00:17:00.000 So, why exactly would we not take that seriously?
00:17:04.000 NBC News explains.
00:17:05.000 So, in other words, this is the point that I'm making with regard to the media.
00:17:08.000 including 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.
00:17:18.000 So in other words, this is the point that I'm making with regard to the media.
00:17:21.000 The media would rather argue over whether the Trump administration is telling the truth than they would argue over the issue itself.
00:17:28.000 The issue itself.
00:17:29.000 And by the way, it's totally appropriate for them to fact check the Trump administration.
00:17:33.000 In the same way, it's totally appropriate for the media to fact check any politician.
00:17:37.000 All politicians should be fact checked.
00:17:38.000 Which demonstrates the necessity of the Trump administration really, really, really tonight sticking to the facts.
00:17:45.000 I've said this all along about President Trump.
00:17:46.000 President Trump lies a lot and it's bad.
00:17:48.000 He should stop doing it because his agenda does not require lies to support it.
00:17:52.000 If your agenda requires a lie to support it, your agenda is bad.
00:17:55.000 If your agenda can be based solely on truth and fact, then your agenda is fine.
00:17:59.000 The Trump agenda is not a problem on the border.
00:18:02.000 He should just tell the truth about it.
00:18:04.000 Alyssa 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.
00:18:15.000 And that's a good statistic!
00:18:18.000 17,000 adults with a criminal record arrested at the border?
00:18:21.000 How many people are not being arrested at the border with a criminal record?
00:18:24.000 And we know that basically a terrorist a month was caught at the border by Border Patrol.
00:18:30.000 That those are numbers that matter.
00:18:32.000 But 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.
00:18:38.000 That's all.
00:18:39.000 Because the case is really strong.
00:18:41.000 I 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.
00:18:48.000 This is Thomas Holman, the former U.S.
00:18:50.000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director.
00:18:52.000 He 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.
00:19:00.000 Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi, you need to love your country a little more than you hate this president.
00:19:04.000 I mean, your number one responsibility is to protect the Americans and secure our border.
00:19:09.000 We've already shown how a wall, a barrier can be effective.
00:19:13.000 So put politics aside.
00:19:15.000 Look, this is all politics.
00:19:16.000 They don't want this president to have a win on the border.
00:19:19.000 But what they don't understand is if the president wins on this border issue, America wins.
00:19:23.000 America is more secure.
00:19:25.000 This is the only issue that Republicans should be hammering over and over and over again.
00:19:29.000 This is what President Trump should hammer tonight.
00:19:31.000 And this is why Democrats are actually afraid of this Oval Office address.
00:19:35.000 You think they'd be screaming like a stuck pig if they weren't afraid of the Oval Office address?
00:19:39.000 You think that they would be making a fuss over fact-checking if they thought this was a big nothing?
00:19:43.000 By 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.
00:19:49.000 Dude's talking again.
00:19:51.000 And 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.
00:19:56.000 Well, 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.
00:20:11.000 The president can do some real heavy lifting tonight.
00:20:13.000 All he has to do is make sure he doesn't undercut himself by saying things that are factually dubious.
00:20:20.000 When 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.
00:20:27.000 The media wants to live in that space.
00:20:29.000 The 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.
00:20:35.000 Trump ought not give them that opportunity.
00:20:37.000 This is why a president with discipline would be fantastic.
00:20:40.000 Any sort of discipline, please.
00:20:42.000 So tonight, stick to the teleprompter, Mr. President.
00:20:44.000 No exaggeration.
00:20:45.000 Just say what's true.
00:20:47.000 And if you say what's true, the American people will hear you.
00:20:50.000 Now, with all of that said, Democrats are seeking to come up with some sort of response, and their response is pretty weak tea.
00:20:56.000 I'll explain what exactly their response is in just a second.
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00:22:22.000 OK, so what are Democrats going to do to respond to President Trump's big address this evening?
00:22:27.000 Well, they're saying that they should go back.
00:22:30.000 You watch.
00:22:30.000 The 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.
00:22:39.000 Now, 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.
00:22:50.000 Democrats, however, are trying to revive that bill.
00:22:52.000 Why?
00:22:52.000 Because it got 68 votes in the Senate and it was stopped by a Republican House.
00:22:55.000 14 Republicans voted in favor of that 2013 Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill.
00:23:00.000 Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, he was out there saying that this is what Republicans should do.
00:23:04.000 They should bring back up that bill because that bill at least had some money for border security.
00:23:09.000 All it'll take is, you know, amnesty for 11 million illegal immigrants.
00:23:12.000 We're going to have to secure the border.
00:23:14.000 We've always said that.
00:23:15.000 You 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.
00:23:25.000 I think it was 68 votes.
00:23:26.000 It was a tremendous piece of legislation.
00:23:28.000 If the president would say this, Chris, We're going to bring that 2013 immigration reform bill back up within the 30-day trial period.
00:23:36.000 Within 30 days.
00:23:37.000 It has to be voted on.
00:23:39.000 Cannot be filibustered.
00:23:40.000 Cannot be blocked out.
00:23:42.000 We're going to have to take a vote on the floor.
00:23:44.000 If he would do that, he would get what he needs.
00:23:46.000 OK, Jeff Merkley making the same point.
00:23:48.000 Democrat from Oregon.
00:23:49.000 He also wants the 2013 bill.
00:23:50.000 This is going to be the new Democratic talking point.
00:23:52.000 It's going to be, well, if Trump really wants border security, let's just do a comprehensive solution.
00:23:56.000 Now, Democrats constantly want to talk comprehensive solution because they don't like the idea of bifurcating the issue.
00:24:02.000 The issue should be bifurcated.
00:24:04.000 What we do with the people here has nothing to do with securing the border. 0.68
00:24:07.000 Nothing.
00:24:08.000 OK, 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. 0.97
00:24:15.000 I mean, honestly, it's like somebody breaks into your house, and you have two things to do.
00:24:20.000 One, deal with the person in your house, and two, make sure that the lock on your front door works from now on.
00:24:25.000 These are two separate issues.
00:24:26.000 You wouldn't say, you know what?
00:24:28.000 Can't deal with the lock on the front door until we deal with this person in our house.
00:24:31.000 Can't do it.
00:24:31.000 We got to deal with both of these at the same time.
00:24:33.000 You actually have to deal with each one individually.
00:24:36.000 Right?
00:24:36.000 You 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.
00:24:41.000 These are both problems, but they are not related problems.
00:24:43.000 And the fact that everyone keeps trying to tie them together is demonstrative of why the government fails.
00:24:48.000 The 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.
00:24:56.000 They tried this back in the 1980s.
00:24:58.000 They declared amnesty.
00:24:58.000 They said it would be the last amnesty.
00:25:00.000 Obviously, it was not.
00:25:01.000 But here is Jeff Merkley claiming that the Republicans should bring back up that terrible 2013 bill.
00:25:06.000 Well, in 2013 we had a comprehensive immigration bill.
00:25:09.000 A number of folks have tried to say to the administration, we have a broken immigration system, let's fix it.
00:25:14.000 Let'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.
00:25:22.000 But as time has evolved, we are happy to provide money for border security.
00:25:26.000 That isn't the issue.
00:25:28.000 So this is going to be their new talking point.
00:25:30.000 Let's go back to that 2013 bill.
00:25:31.000 You know, when Democrats ran the government.
00:25:34.000 Let's go back to that bill.
00:25:36.000 When it was not Mitch McConnell in charge.
00:25:39.000 Let's do that.
00:25:39.000 By the way, Mitch McConnell opposed that bill.
00:25:42.000 Mitch McConnell and the Republican leadership opposed that 2013 border bill.
00:25:46.000 Why?
00:25:47.000 Because that border bill was filled with amnesty for 11.5 million illegal immigrants as of January 2011.
00:25:53.000 It's actually a low number.
00:25:55.000 It would have created a registered provisional immigrant status that would grant travel and work authorization, similar to the temporary resident status of 1986.
00:26:02.000 It would have streamlined the naturalization process for unlawful immigrants.
00:26:06.000 It would have said that anyone who is present in the U.S.
00:26:08.000 on or before December 31, 2011 would qualify for amnesty, which would create a massive opportunity for fraud.
00:26:14.000 And how about that border security, right?
00:26:15.000 You hear the Democrats here saying, if we go back to that 2013 bill, there was border security in it.
00:26:20.000 Except for not.
00:26:21.000 Except for not.
00:26:22.000 Okay, 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.
00:26:37.000 Okay, do you think under a Democrat that would last for five minutes?
00:26:39.000 All that would happen is that the Democrats would just declare that the border is secure.
00:26:43.000 Look, we have a new strategy.
00:26:45.000 Our strategy is the border is secure.
00:26:46.000 Go ahead and process all the amnesty.
00:26:48.000 This is why the only thing that matters when it comes to President Trump's overall immigration policy is the stuff that cannot be undone.
00:26:56.000 The president can do a better job of deporting folks, that's fine. 1.00
00:26:58.000 The president can change the status with regard to E-Verify, for example.
00:27:02.000 He can push harder in certain areas of immigration enforcement.
00:27:05.000 But Democrats can undo all that stuff. 0.98
00:27:07.000 What 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.
00:27:13.000 It's one of the reasons why, when the Trump administration declared that it was moving the U.S.
00:27:16.000 embassy 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.
00:27:26.000 And the same thing is true of the wall.
00:27:28.000 The 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.
00:27:37.000 It really is amazing.
00:27:38.000 So what is the other angle the Democrats are taking?
00:27:40.000 So angle number one is they should take border security without a wall.
00:27:43.000 We don't want a wall.
00:27:44.000 That'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.
00:27:54.000 By 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.
00:28:03.000 It demonstrates that No one can actually defend the Democrats' program on this.
00:28:08.000 No one can actually defend the Democrats' program that a border wall or border security doesn't matter.
00:28:12.000 No one.
00:28:13.000 Seth Meyers tried to do it.
00:28:14.000 Seth 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.
00:28:25.000 He shouldn't get to address the nation just to repeat his lies.
00:28:30.000 If he calls up the networks asking for airtime, they should pick up the phone and say...
00:28:36.000 Okay, first of all, I don't know what happened to comedy.
00:28:39.000 That's not even close to comedy from Seth Meyers, but this is what the Democrats are afraid of having to defend their positions.
00:28:44.000 It is that simple.
00:28:45.000 So force them to defend their positions.
00:28:47.000 Instead, the Democrats are swiveling.
00:28:49.000 So 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.
00:28:57.000 I'll explain why they're saying that, and I'll also explain How President Trump should respond to that in just a second.
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00:31:40.000 So 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.
00:31:53.000 We need a physical barrier to prevent people from crossing that border illegally.
00:31:56.000 This is not really a very tough issue.
00:31:58.000 The Democrats are claiming that President Trump is an unprecedented threat to national security.
00:32:02.000 Why?
00:32:02.000 Because they say he is going to use national emergency powers.
00:32:05.000 Now, 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.
00:32:11.000 This is not the role of the President of the United States.
00:32:14.000 It is not a national emergency under any interpretation of that of that statute.
00:32:19.000 Furthermore, it relieves pressure on the Democrats to do the right thing.
00:32:22.000 Now, 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.
00:32:43.000 That would be a grave mistake by the President.
00:32:45.000 It would be a serious mistake by the President.
00:32:47.000 It would be an overreach.
00:32:48.000 It would provide the precedent for Democrats to do the same thing with national emergency powers.
00:32:52.000 Again, 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.
00:33:12.000 Congressional Republicans should be fighting tooth and nail to get him the funding that he needs to build that border wall.
00:33:17.000 But 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.
00:33:30.000 The Trump administration should play straight down the middle.
00:33:32.000 They should just say, here, we want a wall.
00:33:34.000 Democrats won't give it to us. 0.73
00:33:35.000 That's their problem.
00:33:36.000 Ted Lieu, you can see where Democrats are going with this.
00:33:37.000 Ted Lieu, the horrible congressperson from California, he says that President Trump can't use national emergency powers.
00:33:44.000 That would be unprecedented.
00:33:45.000 It 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.
00:33:53.000 It would violate the Posse Comitatus Act.
00:33:55.000 The military members would be following an illegal order subjecting them to being at risk of violating federal crime.
00:34:02.000 This is a very big deal.
00:34:03.000 I hope the president does not declare a national emergency to build a wall.
00:34:06.000 Okay, well, the Democrats want to focus on this as opposed to the wall itself.
00:34:10.000 Again, because the wall argument is not cutting in their favor.
00:34:14.000 You can see, this is the pitch the Democrats want to make.
00:34:16.000 Trump's an unprecedented threat to national security.
00:34:18.000 Just look at him trying to expand executive power.
00:34:20.000 Now, notice that none of these Democrats were whining about President Obama expanding executive power.
00:34:26.000 They're fine with that.
00:34:27.000 This is one of the things that bugs me about partisan politics.
00:34:29.000 Democrats are fine with expanding executive power so long as they're boys in the White House.
00:34:33.000 And then Republicans are fine with expanding executive power so long as they're boys in the White House.
00:34:38.000 As long as you're boys in the White House, you're cool.
00:34:40.000 As long as you're boys in the White House, you're fine with the White House expanding its powers.
00:34:43.000 That's, that's absurd.
00:34:45.000 Okay, and it's a problem.
00:34:46.000 People who care about the Constitution should care about the checks and balances of American government.
00:34:50.000 With that said, Democrats are suddenly proclaiming that they're very afraid of the centralization of governmental powers in the executive.
00:34:57.000 They don't have a lot of leg to stand on here.
00:34:58.000 Angus King, the senator from Maine, he came out and he said, Trump is what the founders were afraid of.
00:35:04.000 You go back to 1787, the Federalist Papers, the Constitution, this is what they were afraid of.
00:35:10.000 What?
00:35:10.000 What were the framers afraid of that we're seeing right now?
00:35:13.000 A monarchical president.
00:35:14.000 They took such care to divide power and to allocate powers between the Congress, the President, the courts.
00:35:21.000 And here we are with a president that's trying to end-run the constitutional process, or at least is thinking about it.
00:35:27.000 If he wants to enact some kind of policy, it's got to be through the Congress.
00:35:31.000 He doesn't seem to get that.
00:35:33.000 Okay, I agree with that, but where were all these people when Obama was president?
00:35:36.000 Where were all these people?
00:35:37.000 They weren't anywhere.
00:35:38.000 Every time Democrats take power, then we start worrying about the legislative overreach and the terrorists in Congress.
00:35:44.000 Remember, they were calling them the Tea Party terrorists in Congress?
00:35:47.000 And every time a Republican's president, then we worry about centralization of power in the executive branch.
00:35:51.000 You hear Nancy Pelosi doing the same thing, the Speaker of the House.
00:35:54.000 She comes out and she says, you know, President Trump wants to abolish Congress.
00:35:58.000 That's what he really wants, to abolish Congress.
00:35:59.000 She 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.
00:36:14.000 But here's Nancy Pelosi declaring that Trump is obviously the threat to Congress.
00:36:18.000 Our purpose in the meeting at the White House was to open up government.
00:36:22.000 The impression you get from the president that he would like to not only close government, build a wall, but also abolish Congress.
00:36:30.000 So the only voice that mattered was his own.
00:36:33.000 Okay, 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.
00:36:38.000 Again, Nancy Pelosi was utterly silent when Barack Obama exacerbated the problem of the executive branch.
00:36:45.000 It's really maddening.
00:36:46.000 Just as a person who cares about constitutional government, it is maddening to watch as the political parties completely abdicate their responsibility under the Constitution.
00:36:53.000 The 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.
00:37:03.000 In the early 20th century, President Woodrow Wilson declared that we would have an administrative government, a government that was administered by the experts.
00:37:10.000 And that administration, the administration of government by experts, that would make the country better.
00:37:14.000 All you had to do as a Congress was pass a vague law kicking the power over to the executive and all would be well.
00:37:19.000 And people have cheered that sort of nonsense ever since.
00:37:21.000 It undermines the very fundamental basis of freedom in the country.
00:37:25.000 And whether it's coming from Republicans or Democrats, it's a problem.
00:37:27.000 The hypocrisy of members of Congress who only care about it when it's a member of the other party. 0.77
00:37:32.000 That's untenable and really quite gross.
00:37:34.000 OK, meanwhile, the Democrats continue to push forward their own radical agenda.
00:37:39.000 The latest radical agenda push is coming courtesy of Mayor Bill de Blasio in New York City.
00:37:44.000 So Democrats are already looking at nationalized health care.
00:37:46.000 They're already looking at single payer.
00:37:48.000 In 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.
00:37:57.000 All of us who were claiming that Obamacare was simply the first step toward nationalized healthcare.
00:38:02.000 Turns 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.
00:38:08.000 Bill de Blasio is leading the charge.
00:38:10.000 I do love it when Democrats make promises that they obviously cannot keep, and then the media just parrot those promises.
00:38:16.000 Notice 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.
00:38:27.000 So 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.
00:38:34.000 To 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.
00:38:45.000 It's not health insurance, his spokesman clarified after the surprise announcement on MSNBC on Tuesday morning.
00:38:50.000 This 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.
00:39:02.000 De 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.
00:39:11.000 He said the city already has a foundation for such a plan, a public health insurance option that helps get direct care to undocumented residents.
00:39:18.000 But that option will be expanded and supported with the addition of a new program called New York City Cares.
00:39:23.000 That plan will roll out in 2019 and build out over the next few years.
00:39:26.000 He said it will cost about $100 million.
00:39:28.000 Not per year, total, about $100 million.
00:39:30.000 New Yorkers will be able to access the program through the city's website or simply by calling 311.
00:39:35.000 And there will be no tax hikes to fund it, said the mayor.
00:39:36.000 It's magic.
00:39:38.000 It's magic.
00:39:38.000 We'll just be able to pay for 600,000 uninsured people with $100 million total.
00:39:46.000 And no one will have to pay for it.
00:39:49.000 De Blasio said, we'll put the money in to make it work.
00:39:50.000 It's going to save us money down the line.
00:39:52.000 I love whenever Democrats say something's going to save you money down the line.
00:39:55.000 It's like when someone sells you a timeshare.
00:39:56.000 Honest to God.
00:39:57.000 Democrats selling you government programs is somebody selling you a timeshare.
00:40:00.000 Have you ever been to one of those timeshare presentations?
00:40:02.000 So 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.
00:40:09.000 And 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?
00:40:15.000 Do you care about your family?
00:40:16.000 Do you care about vacation?
00:40:17.000 Are you a person who prioritizes the time you spend with your family on vacation?
00:40:22.000 Because if you do, you have to carve that out of your budget every year, right?
00:40:25.000 And maybe the best way to carve that out of your budget is to dedicate yourself.
00:40:28.000 Commit right now that you are going to have the best vacations of your life every year at this hotel for X number of dollars.
00:40:35.000 They're like, yeah.
00:40:36.000 Yeah, it'll pay for itself.
00:40:38.000 And that's what they say.
00:40:39.000 It'll pay for itself.
00:40:39.000 They say, don't worry.
00:40:40.000 It'll pay for itself.
00:40:41.000 Because 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.
00:40:47.000 So it'll pay for itself in like 10 years.
00:40:49.000 In like 10 years, it'll pay for itself.
00:40:50.000 Now, there are a very small number of people who are very happy with their timeshares.
00:40:53.000 Most people buy it and then they're like, oh my God, what did I do?
00:40:55.000 How do I get out of this thing?
00:40:56.000 Okay, that's democratic spending programs.
00:40:59.000 Don't worry.
00:40:59.000 We'll nationalize healthcare.
00:41:00.000 It'll pay for itself.
00:41:03.000 Really, how?
00:41:04.000 How will it pay for itself?
00:41:05.000 Somebody's going to have to pay for it, and it's not the people who are going to be using the healthcare, presumably.
00:41:09.000 It won't be the health insurance companies, which will be bankrupted by nationalized healthcare.
00:41:13.000 The 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.
00:41:29.000 De Blasio says, this has never been done in the country in a comprehensive way.
00:41:33.000 Healthcare isn't just a right in theory, it must be a right in practice.
00:41:35.000 And we're doing that here in the city.
00:41:36.000 So here's my favorite part of this.
00:41:38.000 That's the entire media report, right?
00:41:40.000 Where's the fact-checking?
00:41:41.000 Like a simple bit of fact-checking.
00:41:43.000 Say, like a simple division problem.
00:41:45.000 So he says it'll cost $100 million.
00:41:47.000 There's 600,000 uninsured people in the city of New York.
00:41:50.000 $100 million divided by 600,000 people is about $160 per person.
00:41:54.000 So he's now telling you that you're going to be able to provide comprehensive health care for 600,000 people at the cost of $160 a head.
00:42:03.000 Yeah.
00:42:04.000 Uh-huh.
00:42:07.000 That's going to happen.
00:42:09.000 Yeah, I mean, how much do you pay in health insurance?
00:42:11.000 A month.
00:42:12.000 Is it $160?
00:42:13.000 I really doubt it.
00:42:14.000 It's probably $1,000 a month.
00:42:15.000 It's probably $500 a month, right?
00:42:17.000 It's something more than $160 forever.
00:42:21.000 But he's claiming that for $160, it's going to take care of all the problems in New York City.
00:42:25.000 It'll be comprehensive, universal health coverage.
00:42:28.000 Amazing.
00:42:29.000 I mean, this is the equivalent of Michael Scott in the office when he's told that he has to declare bankruptcy.
00:42:33.000 He just gets up in the middle of the office and shouts, I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!
00:42:38.000 That's exactly what Bill de Blasio just did.
00:42:40.000 He just got up in the middle of NBC and he says, I DECLARE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE!
00:42:45.000 And you're like, well, how?
00:42:45.000 And he goes, with magic.
00:42:48.000 With magic.
00:42:49.000 Poof! 0.99
00:42:50.000 It's an illusion, Michael.
00:42:53.000 That's all he has to do.
00:42:54.000 And the media eat it up.
00:42:55.000 Where's the fact checking?
00:42:56.000 Where are the fact checkers to say, is that really universal health care?
00:42:59.000 Maybe it's a supplemental health coverage.
00:43:01.000 You get one preventative health care visit.
00:43:03.000 And we're going to pay for it with $100 million.
00:43:07.000 Everyone gets to go to the doctor one time to tell them if they have the flu.
00:43:10.000 That's an actual proposal.
00:43:12.000 It's a bad proposal, but it's an actual proposal.
00:43:15.000 But 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.
00:43:24.000 It really is incredible.
00:43:26.000 So, well done, once again, media, who say that only Trump lies. 0.98
00:43:30.000 Trump's the only liar. 1.00
00:43:31.000 Republicans are the only liars. 1.00
00:43:32.000 Those are the only people who have ever lied. 0.98
00:43:34.000 Truly amazing.
00:43:35.000 But Bill de Blasio is a real truth-teller.
00:43:37.000 We 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.
00:43:46.000 Uh-huh.
00:43:47.000 Sure.
00:43:47.000 Okay.
00:43:48.000 Meanwhile, Democrats are now looking for a 33% corporate income tax rate increase.
00:43:53.000 They want to hike the rate from 21% to 28%, which would place us once again among the highest OECD nations in terms of corporate tax rate.
00:44:01.000 I love that Democrats come into office and their first move is let's raise all the taxes.
00:44:04.000 Yeah, you go for that.
00:44:05.000 It worked well for Walter Mondale in 1984 when he campaigned on raising taxes.
00:44:09.000 Try it again.
00:44:09.000 Let's see how well it works for you now.
00:44:11.000 Okay, time for some things that I like and then we'll get to some things that I hate.
00:44:15.000 So, things that I like today.
00:44:18.000 There's a great new book out by Brad Meltzer.
00:44:20.000 As you know, I'm a big Brad Meltzer fan.
00:44:21.000 He's a terrific thriller writer.
00:44:23.000 He's written this with Josh Mench.
00:44:24.000 This one is an actual non-fiction book.
00:44:26.000 It's called The First Conspiracy, The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington.
00:44:30.000 Which is all about kind of the first assassination attempt against George Washington.
00:44:35.000 Really a fascinating book.
00:44:36.000 Meltzer is a really interesting guy, and a real patriot.
00:44:39.000 He actually emailed me recently about an experience that he had with George H.W.
00:44:43.000 Bush.
00:44:43.000 When George H.W.
00:44:44.000 Bush was ailing, Meltzer went to visit him, and Meltzer read him from one of his books about the Founding Fathers.
00:44:51.000 And George H.W.
00:44:52.000 Bush just sat there, like literally for an hour, just sat there, enraptured by the Greatness of the Founding Fathers.
00:44:59.000 Meltzer is somebody who really respects that.
00:45:01.000 If you read his children's books as well, which I've recommended on the program before, those are well worth it.
00:45:05.000 I believe this book comes out today, so go check it out right now.
00:45:07.000 The First Conspiracy, The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington.
00:45:10.000 Go check that out right now.
00:45:12.000 It's, again, really fascinating.
00:45:15.000 It's about in 1776.
00:45:18.000 An elite group of soldiers who are trained to serve as Washington's bodyguards.
00:45:21.000 But some of the men were part of a treasonous plan, and it's a secret plot and how it was revealed.
00:45:26.000 Again, well worth it.
00:45:27.000 Okay, time for, let's see, one more thing I like.
00:45:30.000 So I just have to tell you this story because it's fantastic.
00:45:33.000 I do love it when life provides you with karmic justice, and this is one of those cases.
00:45:37.000 There's a woman who is standing on her own waiting for an Uber in Rio de Janeiro. 0.63
00:45:41.000 And, you know, pretty young woman named Pollyanna Vianna, nicknamed the Iron Lady, as it turns out. 1.00
00:45:46.000 She's a mixed martial artist fighter. 1.00
00:45:49.000 And 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.
00:45:57.000 She said, when he saw him, when he saw I saw him, he sat next to me.
00:46:01.000 He asked me the time, I said it.
00:46:03.000 And I saw he wasn't going to leave.
00:46:04.000 So I immediately moved to put my cell phone in my waist.
00:46:06.000 And then he said, give me the phone.
00:46:07.000 Don't try to react because I'm armed.
00:46:08.000 Then he put his hand over a gun, but I realized that it was too soft to be a gun.
00:46:12.000 It was just like a cardboard gun.
00:46:14.000 She said, I sat him down in the same place we were before and I said, now we'll wait for the police.
00:46:18.000 Because she just subdued him. 0.99
00:46:20.000 She just grabbed him around the neck and beat the crap out of him. 1.00
00:46:24.000 She said, I was fine because he didn't even react after. 0.96
00:46:26.000 Since he took the punches very quickly, I think he was scared so he didn't react anymore.
00:46:30.000 I said I wouldn't let go and that I was going to call the police.
00:46:31.000 He said, call the police then because he was scared I was going to beat him up some more.
00:46:35.000 He had to be taken to a medical facility to treat his wounds and then to the police station where she filed a report.
00:46:39.000 Which is just awesome.
00:46:42.000 Just well done by this young lady.
00:46:45.000 That's great stuff.
00:46:46.000 Gotta love that.
00:46:47.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:46:53.000 So how many people have to die in your apartment before it's too many people dying in your apartment?
00:46:57.000 This is the question of the day. 0.81
00:46:59.000 A young black man, I mean, I really shouldn't laugh because it really is quite horrifying. 1.00
00:47:02.000 A 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.
00:47:11.000 This 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?
00:47:18.000 Allegedly.
00:47:19.000 According 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.
00:47:28.000 The name of the dead man has yet to be released, but the outlet suggests this is something of a pattern.
00:47:32.000 On July 27, 2017, 26-year-old Gemma Moore was discovered dead at Buck's apartment.
00:47:37.000 The L.A.
00:47:37.000 County Coroner's Office ruled Moore's death an overdose caused by meth.
00:47:41.000 A 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.
00:47:47.000 The L.A.
00:47:47.000 County District Attorney's Office declined to prosecute Buck, saying the evidence was insufficient to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Buck was responsible.
00:47:55.000 For the death.
00:47:56.000 And then Buck's attorney said that Buck didn't have any involvement in that death.
00:48:00.000 And then there's another problem, which is that a second dead guy showed up in his apartment.
00:48:04.000 Whenever it says another dead man shows up in your apartment, the another is the dead giveaway that you've got a real problem.
00:48:10.000 In 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.
00:48:17.000 In 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.
00:48:23.000 According 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.
00:48:31.000 He also ran for elected office.
00:48:32.000 He supported a lot of various progressive causes throughout the year.
00:48:36.000 This 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.
00:48:54.000 Which I can fairly guarantee that it will not be.
00:48:56.000 Okay, other things that I hate today.
00:48:58.000 So I just have to point out the idolatry.
00:49:00.000 that the Democrats have for Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
00:49:02.000 It really is something astonishing.
00:49:04.000 Roger 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?
00:49:17.000 If just 10,000 people did this, it would add 27 productive years to her life." I don't even, what?
00:49:24.000 I don't even know, is that a brainstorm?
00:49:27.000 Like, does he think that we have that life-sucking machine from the Princess Bride that we're gonna strap Wesley to the table?
00:49:32.000 Or take 50 years off his life and then donate it to Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
00:49:36.000 Or 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? 1.00
00:49:42.000 I tweeted out, maybe we should all give a year to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and then she can live forever. 0.94
00:49:46.000 Presumably handing down pro-abortion rulings from now until the end of time.
00:49:49.000 That'll be really exciting.
00:49:50.000 Imagine that.
00:49:51.000 Do you have that kind of idolatry for anyone?
00:49:54.000 For anyone?
00:49:55.000 It'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.
00:50:05.000 And Adam lived till he was 930 years old, according to the Bible.
00:50:10.000 And he was supposed to live to be 1,000, as the midrash says. 0.52
00:50:13.000 And he was shown King David.
00:50:15.000 And God said, this guy is going to die in youth.
00:50:20.000 And Adam saw that King David could become something great.
00:50:22.000 He said, well, I will donate 70 years of my life to King David.
00:50:24.000 Well, 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.
00:50:35.000 Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a human being.
00:50:37.000 She's not a saint. 0.94
00:50:38.000 And if you're willing to do that for anyone, like, of all the people on earth that you'd do that for, that would be it?
00:50:43.000 If I were going to give a day of my life to anybody, wouldn't it be some kid with cancer or something?
00:50:47.000 Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
00:50:49.000 Yeah, okay.
00:50:50.000 It just... Alright, I mean, I guess your priorities are your priorities.
00:50:53.000 Okay, final thing that I hate.
00:50:55.000 So I discussed this a little bit on my radio show yesterday, but there is a new APA report out.
00:51:03.000 American Psychological Association report out. 0.97
00:51:05.000 The APA is just a pathetic organization. 0.99
00:51:07.000 I mean, that organization is a political hackery organization par excellence. 0.99
00:51:12.000 They've already declared that things that are mental disorders are not mental disorders, specifically out of political pressure with no evidence to back them.
00:51:17.000 Now they have declared that masculinity itself, traditional masculinity itself, is unhealthy to people.
00:51:23.000 Which does raise a question.
00:51:24.000 If 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. 0.61
00:51:36.000 So if you're a transgender woman or transgender man, mental disorder isn't wanting to change your genitals or anything. 0.75
00:51:43.000 The actual mental disorder would be you wanting to be traditionally masculine, obviously. 0.98
00:51:46.000 The real problem is that you want to break rocks with a sledgehammer or something.
00:51:50.000 According 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.
00:51:58.000 shows that traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful and that socializing boys to suppress their emotions causes damage that echoes both inwardly and outwardly.
00:52:06.000 Well, it depends on which emotions we're telling you to be stoic about.
00:52:09.000 If 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. 0.95
00:52:17.000 If 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. 0.88
00:52:23.000 They say that stoicism is bad, aggressiveness is bad, all these things are bad. 0.87
00:52:27.000 How do you know that this is unscientific?
00:52:28.000 Because this team says, it says in the APA report, are you ready for this?
00:52:32.000 It's an actual sentence in a scientific report.
00:52:34.000 Indeed, when researchers strip away stereotypes and expectations, there isn't much difference in the basic behaviors of men and women.
00:52:42.000 That's patently insane.
00:52:43.000 There's not only no evidence to back that, all the evidence is on the other side.
00:52:45.000 Of course there are differences in basic behaviors between men and women.
00:52:48.000 There are different behaviors with regard to sex.
00:52:50.000 There are different behaviors with regard to marriage.
00:52:51.000 There are different behaviors with regard to child rearing and job prioritization.
00:52:55.000 There are different behaviors with regard to spatial awareness, right?
00:52:58.000 There's just different behaviors and activities associated with men and women, because men and women are different.
00:53:03.000 But according to the APA, if you train your son to be masculine, then this is really bad.
00:53:08.000 So me telling my son, That he ought to be competitive?
00:53:11.000 That it's good to be competitive, so long as that is properly channeled toward productivity?
00:53:15.000 That's bad.
00:53:16.000 It's bad.
00:53:17.000 What we really need is to feminize our boys. 1.00
00:53:18.000 We need to castrate boys. 1.00
00:53:19.000 That's the only way. 1.00
00:53:20.000 The best world is a world without boys.
00:53:22.000 But we'll see how that world lasts in the face of a world that is unfriendly and chaotic.
00:53:26.000 Masculinity is what tames an unfriendly, chaotic world.
00:53:29.000 It's necessary.
00:53:30.000 It's useful.
00:53:31.000 Not only is it necessary and useful, trying to destroy it is an act of evil.
00:53:35.000 Trying to channel masculinity toward being a gentleman is the task of a civilization.
00:53:40.000 But 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.
00:53:46.000 The 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. 0.98
00:53:53.000 They've undermined all of their own scientific credibility with garbage like this. 0.96
00:53:56.000 Alrighty. 0.97
00:53:57.000 Well, we will be back here tomorrow.
00:53:58.000 Actually, we'll be back here a little bit later today.
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