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00:02:36.000When it came to policy, however, things were not quite so glowing.
00:02:40.000The president gave a bunch of mixed signals about what he would be willing to sign or what he would not be willing to sign in terms of DACA.
00:02:45.000Now, to review, if you recall, back in 2012, Barack Obama passed into law sort of
00:02:52.000through executive order, the executive amnesty.
00:02:54.000This is the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
00:02:56.000It suggested that anyone between the ages of 16 and 30, at the time that he signed this into law, that those people would be able to stay if they were brought into the country as children and had been there for a certain amount of time.
00:03:08.000All those people would eventually be legal citizens of the United States was sort of the unspoken promise that Obama was making.
00:03:14.000So Trump comes into office and several months into his term, he decides that he is going to overturn DACA.
00:03:19.000But at the time, he says, DACA no longer applies.
00:03:22.000But if Congress doesn't pass some version of DACA to keep the so-called dreamers in the United States, then come March, maybe I'll just reinstate it.
00:03:29.000Which is a weird statement to make because the whole reason for striking down DACA in the first place was based on constitutional grounds.
00:03:35.000He said it's unconstitutional for the President of the United States to simply say that a bunch of people are now going to get green cards to stay in the United States or papers that suggest that they can be here legally without the approval of Congress.
00:03:47.000So it'd be weird to reverse himself and then say, well, you know what, I decided the constitutional question doesn't matter.
00:03:52.000Now I want this policy back in place and therefore it will be back in place.
00:03:55.000That'd be a weird argument for Trump to make.
00:03:57.000So yesterday Trump is at the White House and he leads off with his actual proposal.
00:04:01.000His actual proposal is that he will sign into law an enshrinement of DACA, basically legalizing the presence of the so-called dreamers, maybe giving them a pathway to citizenship, maybe not.
00:04:13.000Maybe allowing them to stay in the country permanently without the ability to vote, for example.
00:04:16.000It's not clear what exactly he's talking about here, but he says there won't be any staying in the country for the Dreamers unless I get the funding for my border wall.
00:04:23.000Now, this is a fairly unremarkable position that Republicans have been taking.
00:04:27.000There's some hardliners like Ann Coulter who have been suggesting that under no circumstances should Trump reinstate DACA.
00:04:35.000Independent funding of the border wall and said he should just push for an end to chain migration.
00:04:39.000Chain migration is the process by which you come here, you drop a baby, the baby's a citizen, and now the baby brings you in as the parent, as a citizen.
00:04:49.000In fact, the last terrorist attack that occurred in New York City was by somebody who'd been brought in essentially through chain migration.
00:04:56.000Started off as a person who got in through the visa lottery.
00:04:59.000That person brought their family over through chain migration.
00:05:02.000Trump wants to end chain migration, as well he should.
00:05:05.000The idea that you get to bring your entire family over just because you're here.
00:05:09.000How about we determine whether you bringing your family over is good for the United States, rather than just simply assuming it.
00:05:14.000Especially when you're talking not about immediate family, you're talking about cousins, and uncles, and aunts, and grandmothers, and all the rest.
00:05:19.000In any case, the Ann Coulters say, no DACA at all.
00:05:24.000Now, that is what I would prefer, too.
00:05:25.000I would prefer a system where we look at all of these people on a one-to-one basis.
00:05:30.000Where we look at these folks at a one-to-one level, we decide whether they ought to stay or whether they ought to go, and then they go in the back of the line.
00:05:35.000They can stay here while they are waiting for their actual papers, but they have to go to the back of the line because it's not fair to privilege them.
00:05:42.000over people who have been waiting diligently in line for years to get their green card and get their citizenship.
00:05:48.000But President Trump thinks differently.
00:05:51.000The reason for that is he doesn't want the ugly pictures of ICE coming in and deporting people, just ripping children out of their mother's arms and then putting them on a plane to El Salvador.
00:05:59.000This is not something that Trump really wants to do.
00:06:02.000Or the opposite, getting rid of the taking mothers and the baby was born here so the baby is a citizen, taking the mothers and deporting the mothers and leaving the babies here.
00:06:09.000Trump doesn't want any of those pictures.
00:06:13.000But we're also going to get my priorities done.
00:06:15.000So in order for Democrats to sign off on this, Democrats want what is called a clean DACA bill.
00:06:19.000Whenever they say clean, clean just means without any riders.
00:06:22.000So what they want is DACA re-enshrined without any wall funding, without any curbs on chain migration, without any curbs on the diversity visa lottery.
00:06:30.000Trump would like, if DACA is going to get done, all of the above.
00:06:46.000If he ends up basically retaining status quo with regard to the Dreamers, who, by the way, were never really going to be deported, if he ends up retaining status quo but getting all of his policy priorities, that's a win for the president.
00:06:57.000He knows it, and that's why that was what his position was yesterday.
00:07:12.000I'd love not to build the wall, but you need the wall.
00:07:14.000And I will tell you this, the ICE officers and the Border Patrol agents, I had them just recently, they say, if you don't have the wall, you know, in certain areas, obviously, that aren't protected by nature, if you don't have the wall, you cannot have security.
00:07:34.000No, I think a clean DACA bill to me is a DACA bill where we take care of the 800,000 people.
00:07:41.000They're actually not necessarily young people.
00:07:43.000Everyone talks about young, you know, they could be 40 years old, 41 years old, but they're also 16 years old.
00:07:48.000But I think to me, a clean bill is a bill of DACA.
00:07:52.000We take care of them and we also take care of security.
00:07:55.000OK, so the reason that he's reshifting at the end there is for a reason that I will show you in just a moment, because the fact is that President Trump doesn't know what clean bill means, and so now he's recapitulating what clean bill means.
00:08:05.000Now clean bill is supposed to mean including security, which is not what clean bill means typically.
00:08:12.000There are a lot of mixed messages in this press conference.
00:08:14.000Now, does he look like he is in control?
00:08:16.000Yes, and that's what he wanted, right?
00:08:18.000So this gives lie to the idea that Trump doesn't know what he's doing or that he has no capacity to function in this office.
00:08:24.000This is the problem with Democrats setting the bar so low.
00:08:26.000When you suggest that somebody legitimately does not have the IQ points to function,
00:08:30.000In a given job, and then the person seems to be functional, then it is a visual rebuke to all of the lines that have been used by Democrats over the past year, couple of years, about Trump being so crazy that he can't be allowed anywhere near the Oval Office.
00:08:44.000Here is Trump continuing, but the bigger story, I think, for conservatives is the mixed messages.
00:08:49.000So Trump, for example, dropped a full-on Jeb Bush line.
00:08:52.000He suggested that he wanted a bill of love.
00:08:54.000I remember when Jeb Bush said that trying to legalize illegal immigrants was an act of love, and he was ripped up and down for the privilege, right?
00:09:02.000One of the people ripping him was Donald Trump.
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00:11:34.000And Jeb Bush somewhere just is crying and crying.
00:11:37.000Because if only he had been Donald Trump and said Bill of Love, everything would have been fine.
00:11:40.000But he said Act of Love, and Trump ripped him up and down a fort.
00:11:43.000So here is where the confusion sets in.
00:11:45.000So it looks like Trump has a relatively clear position so far, right?
00:11:47.000We're going to get DACA, but we're also going to get border wall funding, and we're also going to get the end of chain migration, and we're also going to get the end of the diversity visa lottery again.
00:11:56.000Would I prefer that he not do DACA and get all of those things?
00:11:59.000If you're going to make a trade, though, that's not a bad trade, right?
00:12:01.000That's about as good a trade as you're going to get.
00:12:03.000I was advising a couple of Republican senators last night on this, and I was saying push as hard as you can.
00:12:08.000The reason I was saying push as hard as you can is because Trump actually is not going to take a leadership role.
00:12:12.000The great lie of the last campaign is that Trump was going to take a leadership role when it came to actual policy prescriptions, such as on immigration, that he was going to be the great leader here.
00:12:21.000He is not, and he made that pretty clear yesterday.
00:12:23.000So here is Trump debating with Democrats, and you will see that Trump legitimately does not actually know what he's talking about when it comes to the terminology on DACA.
00:12:30.000He actually has to be corrected by Representative Kevin McCarthy, the House Majority Whip, on his position, because for a moment here, he actually signals support for the Democratic position that DACA should be passed without any sort of strings attached.
00:12:44.000So here's Dianne Feinstein saying something, and then her being absolutely stunned when Trump agrees with her.
00:12:49.000What about a clean DACA bill now, and with a commitment that we go into a comprehensive immigration reform procedure like... Can you pause it for one second?
00:12:59.000Okay, before we get to Trump's answer, what she's saying, just to clarify, is that she wants deferred action for childhood rivals.
00:13:05.000Obama's executive amnesty made law now, and then afterward, we'll negotiate about diversity visa programs, and we'll negotiate about curbing chain migration.
00:13:15.000If Trump were to do that, he loses all leverage.
00:13:17.000The only leverage he has to get Democrats to vote for this thing is that they want DACA, and if they want DACA, maybe they'll give him some of the things he wants.
00:13:23.000If he gives them what they want, you think they're going to stick around for a discussion about comprehensive immigration reform?
00:14:29.000So this is the problem with the idea that Trump is going to lead the way on this because Trump legitimately doesn't know what he's talking about.
00:14:42.000And he has to step in and inform the president this is not how negotiations work.
00:14:46.000And then Trump basically starts giving away the store.
00:14:48.000So this is the problem with the meeting.
00:14:50.000You know, Mr. President, just, just, please, pipe down, let Congress do its work, sign what comes across your desk.
00:14:59.000You can hear when Trump starts to negotiate, his opening negotiation position for a guy who's supposed to be this master negotiator, his opening negotiation position is, let me give you everything you want.
00:15:08.000That was also his opening negotiation position, if you recall, on the budget, where he told the Democrats, here, have everything you want.
00:15:14.000And he stunned Paul Ryan, and he stunned Mitch McConnell, and both of them walked out of Trump's office going, what the hell just happened?
00:15:19.000That's what happened yesterday, too, on immigration, briefly.
00:15:22.000Now, Trump, I think, is going to back down now and let Congress do its work, but you can see why Republicans are a little bit discomfited with the idea that Captain Immigration Hawk over here is giving away the entire store, right?
00:15:33.000Halfway through this meeting, Trump actually says, we don't need a wall.
00:16:11.000OK, so this is a change from what he said during the campaign because people were saying to him exactly this, and he was saying, no, no, no, no, no.
00:16:33.000He actually, this came out of his mouth.
00:16:35.000So as I say, the meeting was good for him on an image level, because it made him look as though he actually wants to deal, and he can speak full sentences, and he's capable of carrying on a conversation, and he's capable of listening to McCarthy when McCarthy says, Mr. President, whoa there, hold your horses.
00:16:49.000But watch Trump say, listen, you send me something, not gonna veto it, comes across my desk, I'll sign it.
00:16:55.000This is an astonishing, again, an astonishing negotiation position.
00:16:59.000When this group comes back, hopefully with an agreement, this group and others, from the Senate, from the House, comes back with an agreement, I'm signing it.
00:17:22.000If you're not threatening to use the veto pen, what in the world are you doing in this office?
00:17:27.000At a certain point, you are going to have to threaten to use the veto pen.
00:17:30.000Now, if all of Trump's most ardent supporters, the people who are the in-Trump-we-trust-Ann Coulter types are looking at this, they're going crazy.
00:17:37.000And Ann Coulter was, to her credit, going insane yesterday.
00:17:40.000Ann Coulter was losing her mind over this press conference, basically saying that it is a
00:18:26.000So, she is just ripping him up and down, suggesting that he has completely failed his own base.
00:18:34.000That, you know, she called it the lowest day of his presidency.
00:18:38.000She says, as he considers the utility of walls and promises, Trump should consider that never Trump was toothless, but former Trump will bite.
00:18:47.000She's going on and on here about Trump's big statement yesterday.
00:19:03.000There are a lot of people who are very, very critical of Trump here from his right, and Trump should notice that.
00:19:11.000Now, in reality, is Trump going to be the one who's defining policy?
00:19:14.000He is not going to be the one defining policy.
00:19:15.000And Trump basically just throws things out there.
00:19:25.000So yesterday, in the middle of the meeting, he just throws out there, what if we brought back earmarks?
00:19:29.000So if you recall, a few years ago, Congress banned earmarks.
00:19:31.000Earmarks are the process by which you add pork to bills.
00:19:35.000The case in favor of earmarks is that you can't get anything done without them because you have to pay off all the members of Congress to vote for your bill.
00:19:41.000That's the case in favor of earmarks, is what they call pork barrel rolling, that basically you hand somebody pork and then they vote for your bill.
00:19:49.000That was banned because people said, why are we wasting all this money on the Robert Byrd Memorial Highway in West Virginia in order to pass a defense bill?
00:20:48.000You know, is obviously Republicans and Democrats have very different visions of this.
00:20:51.000One of the things that's been kind of hysterical and funny about all of this is the fact that the media were sort of taken aback by Trump speaking in full sentences like a human.
00:21:01.000And so they started saying, well, everyone agrees on this.
00:21:05.000First of all, I think it is important to point out that Jeff Flake is not wrong.
00:21:08.000The senator from Arizona, when he says that he was surprised at Trump's flexibility at the meeting, I think everyone was on the right, on the left, because this is the thing.
00:21:16.000Trump doesn't actually have a lot of policy beliefs.
00:21:19.000This is one of the dangers in Republicans losing Congress.
00:21:21.000For all of the Republicans who say Trump is the party, Trump is the entire party, if Trump loses Congress, if the Democrats take over the House, and if they take over the Senate, I'm going to talk about the Senate in a few minutes here, because Joe Arpaio announced his candidacy
00:22:00.000And it doesn't matter if it's a Democrat bill, I think, or a Republican bill.
00:22:02.000He's not somebody who's going to go to war with Democrats when they run the Congress.
00:22:06.000It's easy for him to go to war with them when they're in the minority.
00:22:09.000It's a lot harder when they're passing bills and putting them on his desk.
00:22:12.000In any case, here's Jeff Flake saying that he was surprised at Trump's flexibility.
00:22:15.000Frankly, I went in with pretty low expectations.
00:22:18.000You don't put 22 people around the table and expect to really negotiate, and we're at a point now where we really need to negotiate.
00:22:27.000But I was surprised at, you know, when the cameras left, at the President's flexibility on the matter, and that he actually went in and explained what he meant by the wall and border security, and that's helpful.
00:23:06.000It may be something very weak, because there are a lot of weak Republicans in the Senate.
00:23:10.000Martha McSally, who's currently running for—she announced yesterday, she's a House member, that she's going to be running for the Senate seat in Arizona to fill Jeff Flake's seat, actually.
00:23:18.000She says, listen, we're not going to give them DACA in return for nothing.
00:23:22.000We're going to have to get something out of this.
00:23:24.000We've been working on this tirelessly for the last four months together, and we expect to be dropping it as early as tomorrow.
00:23:31.000And we believe, again, if you look at on the one side, you see the Democrats are asking for the DREAM Act or nothing.
00:23:38.000I think most Republicans are willing to have a conversation about DACA recipients, but we've got to make sure that we secure our border and that we don't end up in a situation where we have 800,000 more DACA recipients in one, two, five years from now.
00:23:51.000So these are very reasonable requests that are going to be in our bill that are addressing public safety issues like sanctuary cities, strong border security, also the chain migration visa lottery, and some tweaks to asylum reform, unaccompanied minor reform.
00:24:05.000Those types of things are going to be in our bill, and this is again us showing that we're willing to be reasonable and address this issue, but we've got to address the root causes as to why we have this issue in the first place.
00:24:15.000Okay, this is why we need people like McSally actually there.
00:24:19.000This is why it's important that Republicans not lose seats.
00:24:21.000And this is why this story about Arpaio running for Senate in Arizona.
00:26:06.000He tried to charge political opponents, apparently.
00:26:08.000His department at one point burned down a house in search for illegal weapons that weren't found, and killed a dog in the process, and then apparently charged the owner of the home with traffic violations to try and justify it in backwards fashion.
00:26:22.000They wasted hundreds of millions of dollars in various ways.
00:26:25.000There's a reason that Arpaio, during the last election cycle in 2016, actually lost his sheriff's race by something like 10 points in the same election where Trump won the state.
00:26:33.000And also, Arpaio happens to be a birther.
00:26:36.000There are a lot of drawbacks to Joe Arpaio.
00:26:38.000He's currently running neck and neck with Kelly Ward and Martha McSally.
00:26:42.000The big problem here, the biggest problem here, is that when you look at Ward, Ward, who has suggested that John McCain was, quote unquote, directly responsible for the rise of ISIS, and suggested that after McCain was diagnosed with cancer, he should have stepped down in her favor.
00:27:08.000The biggest problem for her, Kelly Ward, is that last month a poll showed her losing to Kyrsten Sinema, who is the Democrat in the state of Arizona, by 7 points.
00:27:16.000So Republicans could lose another Senate seat.
00:27:18.000They lose one more Senate seat, and it's a 50-50 Senate, okay?
00:27:21.000And Mike Pence becomes the tiebreaker, and it's unlikely that Republicans don't lose at least one more Senate seat in the upcoming election, given the numbers right now.
00:27:28.000So figuring all of this, you'd figure that McSally would be running away, but it's McSally 31, Arpaio 29, Ward 25.
00:27:33.000So basically, it's a three-way dead heat.
00:27:36.000Did Republicans learn nothing from Roy Moore?
00:27:38.000Did they learn nothing from the Roy Moore debacle?
00:27:41.000This is one of my big problems with how people perceive politics right now, and particularly with Arpaio.
00:27:45.000Less about Ward, who's actually a state legislator, but certainly with Arpaio, is that when you substitute attitude for any level of political acumen or knowledge, when you substitute attitude for policy, you're going to end up with some of the worst people for the office.
00:27:59.000There's this weird feeling that's now cropped up in the Republican Party, and it was true for Trump.
00:29:07.000President Trump is fighting for an empty symbol rather than smart policy that will actually produce better security at our borders.
00:29:15.000Okay, so there's Schumer saying there won't be any negotiation.
00:29:18.000Mark Warner is saying that the Democrat from West Virginia, he says that the DREAMers are integral to our country and that we therefore cannot even consider anything except for a clean DACA bill.
00:29:28.000Andrea, for a long time we've said as part of major immigration reform or even part of giving this immediate relief to these dreamers, 97% of them by the way, who are either working in school or serving in the military, they're integral to our country, but that we would be open to some level of enhanced border security.
00:29:49.000OK, but they're really not open to any level of enhanced border security.
00:29:51.000They're going to hold Trump's feet to the fire and force him to back down.
00:29:53.000In March, Pat Buchanan said this yesterday.
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00:31:44.000So I do think that there is a little bit of a danger here with regard to people getting too excited about that meeting yesterday with Trump.
00:31:50.000Not just because he botched the policy, but also because if you're hoping that the media are going to lay off of him because he had a bipartisan meeting, you got another thing coming.
00:31:57.000What they're going to do is they're going to praise him for his bipartisanship up till the point where he goes back to the original policy he was espousing, at which point they're going to rip him up.
00:32:08.000In this sort of jab and jab and punch pairing from CNN.
00:32:13.000So here's Dana Bash on CNN praising Trump's meeting yesterday at the White House saying this is what we'd all hope that Trump's presidency could be.
00:32:20.000I'm sure I'm going to get hit for this and I don't really care.
00:32:22.000I think that the bottom line is that this is a year ago.
00:32:26.000This is the presidency that many people thought Donald Trump was capable of.
00:32:30.000We don't know if this is going to be a results driven debate but just the notion of him being
00:32:38.000In command of him wanting the cameras in there and wanting the cameras to see him sitting at a table with Democrats and Republicans playing the role of a dealmaker, whether it sees fruition or not.
00:32:49.000This is what people who had high hopes for the Trump presidency thought it would be.
00:34:15.000Of course Trump can reverse an executive order.
00:34:17.000It is obviously legal for Trump to do that, but the district judge, his name is William Alsup, was appointed by Bill Clinton, and of course he says that it is unconstitutional for the Trump administration to rescind DACA.
00:34:28.000He said, There are a bunch of other courts that have already ruled in favor of Trump on this.
00:34:40.000He says that ALSEP's justification is that this is arbitrary and capricious.
00:34:47.000He says that the federal government can't just renege on all of this, but it's just silly.
00:34:51.000The judicial system is now a tool of the left in cases like this, and it is obvious that if a single federal judge can halt an entire federal program based on that
00:35:00.000That judge being terrible at his job, then we do have a constitutional separation of powers question that must be rectified.
00:35:07.000I've always suggested that judicial review is not a power that should be given to federal district court judges at the very least.
00:35:12.000I mean, it's absurd that the president of the United States enacts a fully constitutional policy and some judge appointed by Bill Clinton says, now you know what?
00:35:26.000If I have not been clear in my feelings about Steve Bannon, then I would suggest it has more to do with your lack of hearing ability than my lack of clarity.
00:35:33.000Because I have been extraordinarily clear that I think Steve Bannon is a snake in the grass, that he is a leech on the ass of power, that Steve Bannon is a barnacle on the wail of others, that he has never built a thing in his life, that he has merely stood on the foundations built by others to glorify himself.
00:35:50.000Rebecca Mercer apparently was the one responsible for capping Bannon and putting him out of work.
00:35:55.000He will now be occupying a cubicle at your local Salvation Army where he can get those clothes that he wears for free.
00:36:01.000And he can hang out with those who dress like he does.
00:36:05.000In any case, Bannon being out, I love this story, that he is now going to be getting foreign funding to lobby for trade with China.
00:36:12.000Or lobby on trade with China, which should just be really entertaining.
00:36:14.000I'll be entertained to see where Bannon goes next.
00:36:17.000It is a good moment for Andrew Breitbart.
00:36:19.000This was not Breitbart.com, it was Bannon.com.
00:36:21.000The great tragedy in all of this is that Andrew Breitbart's memory was smeared by Steve Bannon turning this site into something it was not.
00:36:27.000I wanted to play a clip of Andrew Breitbart.
00:36:28.000I've never done this before because I really hesitate to speak for dead friends.
00:36:33.000I was close friends with Andrew Breitbart.
00:36:34.000Andrew was one of the kindest and one of the most garrulous people that I knew.
00:36:40.000There were a lot of people who met Andrew and felt like they knew him really well, and that's because they did.
00:36:44.000The thing about Andrew that was so unique as a human being...
00:36:47.000Is that I knew Andrew from the time I was 26 until he died in 2012.
00:36:52.000And there were people who had met Andrew once.
00:37:04.000Who felt 90% as close to him as I did, and that's because Andrew was utterly transparent about who he was.
00:37:10.000He was just as outspoken and friendly and fun with people he had just met as people that he was friends with for years and years.
00:37:18.000I want to show you this clip of Andrew from the Nixon Library, this is in 2011, about a year before he died, talking about what he saw as the role for Breitbart News.
00:37:25.000Like, what exactly he thought Breitbart News was going to become.
00:37:30.000And the thing is, we're starting to learn to divorce ourselves from the Democrat media complex.
00:37:37.000We still turn it on and every now and then think that they're telling us the truth as opposed to trying to manipulate us.
00:37:45.000And so we're going to have to start asking those questions and asking the hard questions.
00:37:48.000And I've seen a candidate who was preordained as electable go through three debates
00:37:54.000And now he's sinking because he couldn't do what everybody assumed that he could do.
00:37:59.000Stop looking to the media to determine what electable is.
00:38:04.000And what he's really talking about there with the Democrat media complex was this idea that Democrats in the media were combining to create narratives that they were foisting on the American people.
00:38:12.000And what he saw Breitbart as was a way of debunking those narratives.
00:38:15.000Instead, Bannon turned it into a personal political weapon against his enemies.
00:38:18.000So he would use it against enemies of Trump when he felt that was in his interest.
00:38:21.000He'd use it against Jared Nevonko when he thought that was in his interest.
00:38:27.000Or he would use it against anybody who he saw as impeding his interests.
00:38:30.000And then eventually he ended up using it basically against Trump himself.
00:38:33.000Eventually, he ended up speaking to the media out of line, out of turn, and going after the president's children, and then using Breitbart as sort of a funnel for his viewpoint.
00:38:45.000It's a shame and a tragedy that he was ever put in place.
00:38:48.000I thought that was a terrible idea to begin with, and the fact that Bannon lasted there for so long is a blot.
00:38:54.000I only hope that Breitbart News can go back to its original vision as a culture-centric, media narrative fighting site.
00:39:00.000It'll be hard for them, I think, to go fully back to that because the place has become so ubiquitously known as sort of a Trump fan site that it's going to be difficult for them to back out of that and go back to being a culture site.
00:39:12.000But I think they need to make that transition.
00:39:13.000I think that's something that Andrew would have wanted.
00:39:16.000Andrew never in a million years would have hitched his wagon to one candidate and made that candidate his site.
00:39:28.000I talked about what Andrew would have done.
00:39:30.000In the middle of that campaign, I think Andrew probably would have supported Trump in the end.
00:39:33.000I think Andrew and I probably would have disagreed on that.
00:39:36.000But I think that Andrew never would have stood for his site becoming a propaganda outlet or a bullhorn for his own political aspirations or for any particular candidate and sacrificed whatever journalistic integrity remained in order to do that.
00:39:48.000I think that would have been completely out of bounds.
00:39:54.000I think that we can now have a real debate over which candidates are good and which candidates are bad outside of the personal Darth Vader posturing of a guy who legitimately never built a movement in his life.
00:40:07.000He just stood on top of the corpses of other people's political careers, championing himself as their legacy.
00:40:15.000So good riddance to bad rubbish when it comes to Steve Bannon.
00:40:19.000Okay, time for some things I like, some things I hate, and then we'll do a brief Bible talk.
00:42:27.000So Trump did comment yesterday on Oprah Winfrey's possible candidacy.
00:42:30.000This is the thing that I think everybody likes about Trump is that the guy certainly has no problem speaking out clearly on what he thinks of himself and his qualities.
00:42:40.000Here he is going after Oprah Winfrey yesterday.
00:43:17.000Chelsea Manning is of course the transgender woman who was a traitor to the United States and Barack Obama freed Chelsea Manning because Chelsea Manning was transgender.
00:43:25.000If Chelsea Manning had just been any normal traitor, Chelsea Manning would still be in prison.
00:43:28.000But Chelsea Manning on Law Enforcement Appreciation Day tweeted out,
00:43:35.000Hashtag law enforcement appreciation day.
00:43:37.000And a lot of emojis because Chelsea Manning is legitimately a person with mental illness.
00:43:41.000And Chelsea Manning, again, the fact that this person was freed by the President of the United States to leave prison and then slander law enforcement officers who defend the country as opposed to Chelsea Manning who undermine the country is really despicable.
00:44:22.000And many of the founders knew that that applied to slaves also, including people like Thomas Jefferson, by the way, who essentially said as much at the time, even though he didn't act properly in that way.
00:44:32.000But here is Shannon Sharp from ESPN suggesting that the Constitution was written for white men and all this nonsense.
00:45:26.000So in actuality, they meant all men, all white men.
00:45:30.000OK, so the idea that they wrote the Constitution only for white men is obviously untrue.
00:45:34.000We actually cut a video on this that I think we're going to be releasing in the near future about why this is completely untrue if we haven't released it already, that the Constitution was written for white men.
00:45:45.000The idea that it was written for white men ignores
00:45:47.000All of the Enlightenment philosophy that the Constitution was predicated upon, and the universal principles that the Constitution espouses, just because you are unable to meet your own standards does not mean that the standards don't exist.
00:46:00.000The Constitution was not just written for white people, and there are great black leaders like Martin Luther King, like Frederick Douglass, like Booker T. Washington, who would have agreed with me, not with Shannon Sharp.
00:46:11.000Final thing that I hate here, I just have to comment on this.
00:46:14.000There's this pastor, and he announced at one of his services, I guess his name is Andy Savage, he announced that he had engaged in sexual incidents with a 17-year-old in 1998 when he was a college student working with a Texas church.
00:46:29.000He admitted this to his congregation and said that he had apologized, and then the crowd gave him a standing ovation.
00:48:17.000That's between that person and God and the other person.
00:48:19.000In Jewish philosophy, right before Yom Kippur, you're supposed to go around asking everybody for forgiveness.
00:48:24.000But the idea is that God is not really going to forgive you unless you actually ask the person that you have wronged for forgiveness.
00:48:29.000And you have to ask them for forgiveness at least three times before God has any say in the matter.
00:48:34.000Just from a religious perspective, the idea of giving somebody a standing ovation for confessing a sin in front of an entire congregation, a sin against another human being, I find that disreputable.
00:48:45.000I find it disreputable, and I don't think religious people should be cheering anybody who committed a sin against another human being and then confessed it in front of a third party.