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00:00:00.000President Trump's ambassador to Ukraine turns on him, Trump says he's the victim of a lynching, and the media prove their leftist bona fides once again.
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00:00:24.000OK, we have a lot of news to get to here today.
00:00:27.000You know, you miss half a week and suddenly the world is new and there are all sorts of brand new news stories that you come back and you're really excited to talk about.
00:00:35.000Or alternatively, everything is terrible and we have to talk about all the terrible things that happened in my absence.
00:00:41.000So let us begin with impeachment, Gabe.
00:00:46.000We begin with the latest polling on impeachment.
00:00:48.000According to Nate Cohen over at the New York Times, they did some polling on impeachment in six swing states, and what they found is that there are a lot of people who are sort of interested in impeaching President Trump, but not particularly interested in removing President Trump.
00:00:59.000In other words, they kind of want to censure his behavior.
00:01:02.000But by the same token, they don't actually want to see him removed from office.
00:01:07.000According to Cohen at the New York Times, voters in the states likeliest to decide the 2020 presidential election support the impeachment inquiry.
00:01:14.000House Democrats began last month, but a majority still opposes impeaching President Trump and removing him from office, according to a New York Times Siena College survey.
00:01:22.000In the six closest states carried by the president in 2016, registered voters support the impeachment inquiry by a five-point margin, 50% to 45%.
00:01:30.000But the same voters oppose impeaching Mr. Trump and removing him from office, 53% to 43%.
00:01:36.000In other words, they are saying we have not yet seen enough evidence to suggest that Trump has done something so wildly out-of-the-box criminal that he deserves to be removed from office.
00:01:45.000And as I've said before on the program, there are a few questions that have to be asked about impeachment.
00:01:49.000One, was an impeachable offense committed?
00:01:52.000Two, is that impeachable offense beyond that sort of offense that other candidates, other presidents have actually committed in the past?
00:02:01.000Because to impeach, virtually every president commits at some point an impeachable offense because presidents routinely violate their oaths of office.
00:02:08.000Presidents routinely overstep their boundaries according to the Constitution.
00:02:11.000I mean, to take just a quick example, George W. Bush overtly stated when he signed campaign finance reform that he didn't think it was constitutional.
00:02:18.000Well, he took an oath to preserve and uphold the Constitution of the United States.
00:02:23.000It seems like a violation of that oath to then sign a bill you say is overtly unconstitutional.
00:02:29.000Not really, it was just a bad political move by President Bush.
00:02:31.000You know, the fact is that presidents do things all the time that violate The powers delegated to them in Article 2 of the Constitution of the United States.
00:02:41.000Barack Obama was droning American citizens overseas.
00:02:46.000With all of that said, that brings us to the actual allegations of offense against President Trump.
00:02:53.000And it seems like the American public at this point are saying, listen, we don't see allegations so damning that he ought to be removed from office.
00:03:01.000Yes, they go to whether President Trump is a good president or whether he's good at his job.
00:03:05.000But overall, in today's political landscape, the American public tend to believe that everybody is corrupt and terrible.
00:03:11.000And if everybody is corrupt and terrible, then by the logic of The Incredibles, nobody is corrupt and terrible.
00:03:16.000The idea here is that if everybody is at sort of an equal plane of stupidity, corruption, and ineptitude, well then that means that no one should be singled out for stupidity, corruption, and ineptitude.
00:03:27.000I really think that's where the American public are on this, and I think they've been here on this for quite a while, actually.
00:03:33.000According to the New York Times, the survey depicts a deeply divided electorate in battleground states a year from the election, with the president's core supporters and opponents exceptionally energized and unified.
00:03:41.000Yet at the same time, a crucial sliver of relatively moderate voters, 7% of the electorate, support the inquiry without backing Trump's impeachment and removal from office.
00:03:50.000The findings suggest that public opinion has actually stabilized since shifting quickly against the president in late September.
00:03:56.000It leaves American politics where it was for some time, deadlocked, with neither side likely to face severe political costs for its position on the president.
00:04:46.000And thus he must be removed from office.
00:04:47.000And people in the middle seem to be kind of like, well, Everything both of you guys are saying are true, and so we have an election in like a year.
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00:07:03.000Today was a statement by Ambassador William Taylor.
00:07:07.000Ambassador Taylor was the interim ambassador to Ukraine.
00:07:10.000And we know about him because we saw him involved in text message exchanges with other members of the Trump administration, including Gordon Sondland, who is Trump's ambassador to the United Nations, and Kurt Volker, who is the special envoy to Ukraine.
00:07:23.000And there are all these text messages in which Taylor kept saying, guys, This looks an awful lot like President Trump is withholding military aid to Ukraine in order to get Joe Biden.
00:07:31.000Well, as we will see from his testimony, he basically is sort of reiterating and clarifying what everybody already knew, which is that Trump was very concerned about 2016 election interference by Ukrainian sources, which Again, if he believes that that is what was happening, it would be a legitimate thing to try to get to the bottom of it after Democrats spent two years trying to investigate Russian election interference in the 2016 election.
00:07:53.000And as part of that, Trump claims, that has to do with Burisma, it has to do with this natural oil and gas company that put Hunter Biden on its board, and he wanted all of this investigated as an investigation into corruption more broadly.
00:08:08.000Taylor is going to claim that all of this was really sort of a get Joe Biden effort.
00:08:12.000Now, that distinction is crucial, because if it was a get Joe Biden effort, if it was really just Trump trying to trump up charges against an American citizen in order to knock him out of a presidential race by using foreign military aid, then that would be impeachable, pretty obviously.
00:08:25.000If, however, this was all just Trump saying, I want to fight corruption in Ukraine.
00:08:29.000And by corruption, I mean A, B, C, D, Burisma, E, F, G. That's a little bit of a different story.
00:08:35.000And it seems more like the latter than the former, but Taylor's testimony is damaging to Trump and damaging to other members of the administration.
00:08:44.000So in his testimony, he talks about a wide variety of members of the administration who seem to be going along with Trump's kind of weird ideas about Ukraine.
00:08:52.000I say weird because there wasn't a lot of evidence to back the idea that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election via crowd strike.
00:08:58.000There's good evidence to suggest that the Ukrainian government was working with Hillary Clinton to dig up dirt on Trump.
00:09:04.000That was reported by Politico in 2017.
00:09:07.000I mean, that's stuff we already know publicly.
00:09:09.000But if we're talking about Hunter Biden and Joe Biden and Burisma, there are not a lot of evidentiary suggestions that Joe Biden was specifically manipulating Ukrainian policy in order to benefit his son Hunter.
00:09:20.000It looks more like Hunter has been spending his life riding daddy's coattails.
00:09:23.000Which, as it turns out, is a frequent practice in politics.
00:09:26.000Children of famous politicians riding their coattails to glory.
00:09:31.000Some in more corrupt ways, and some in less corrupt ways.
00:09:34.000Just because you're a kid of a politician doesn't mean that your success is due to the politician.
00:09:38.000At the same time, if you're Hunter Biden and you've got no qualifications for anything, and you're being paid 50 grand a month to sit on the board of a company because your last name is Biden, it doesn't smack of exact honesty from Hunter Biden in any case.
00:09:51.000Bill Taylor testified in front of Congress today.
00:09:54.000He says, ambassador to Ukraine from 2006 to 2009, having been nominated by George W. Bush.
00:10:19.000And he said that he had remained engaged in Ukraine, frequently visiting since 2013.
00:10:25.000He's obviously very pro-Ukraine versus Russian aggression outside.
00:10:29.000He supported stronger American sanctions against Russia.
00:11:10.000He was the interim ambassador to Ukraine.
00:11:13.000So he returns to Kiev and he says as soon as he got there, he, quote, discovered a weird combination of encouraging, confusing and ultimately alarming circumstances.
00:11:22.000So he talks about how he was hopeful about President Zelensky fighting corruption.
00:11:26.000He said, He said, He He said this is the regular channel.
00:11:46.000At the same time, there was an irregular, informal channel of U.S.
00:11:49.000policymaking with regard to Ukraine, one which included then-Special Envoy Kurt Volker, Ambassador Sundlund, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, and as I subsequently learned, Rudy Giuliani.
00:11:59.000I was clearly in the regular channel, but I was also included in the irregular channel.
00:12:04.000He says the irregular channel began when Ambassador Volker, Ambassador Sundlund, Perry, and Senator Ron Johnson briefed Trump on May 23rd upon their return from Zelensky's inauguration.
00:12:13.000The delegation returned to Washington enthusiastic about the new Ukrainian president, but President Trump did not share their enthusiasm for a meeting with Mr. Zelensky.
00:12:23.000He says, "When I first arrived in Kiev in June and July, the actions of both the regular and the irregular channels of foreign policy served the same goal: a U.S.-Ukraine partnership.
00:12:30.000But by August, all of this was diverging." He says that, "On June 27th, Ambassador Sumblin told me during a phone conversation that President Zelensky needed to make clear to President Trump that he, President Zelensky, was not standing in the way of investigations." And he didn't know, Taylor didn't know, what exactly this was supposed to mean.
00:12:51.000He didn't understand what exactly were the investigations that he was supposed to get to the bottom of.
00:12:56.000He said it was not clear to me on that call what this meant.
00:12:58.000But Ambassador Volcker noted he would relay that President Trump wanted to see rule of law, transparency, but also specifically cooperation on investigations to, quote, get to the bottom of things.
00:13:07.000He says he reported on this call to Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent, who had responsibility for Ukraine.
00:13:13.000He said, By mid-July, it was becoming clear to me that the meeting President Zelensky wanted with Trump was conditioned on the investigations of Burisma and alleged Ukrainian interference in the 2016 US elections.
00:13:24.000It was also clear that this condition was driven by the irregular policy channel I had come to understand was guided by Giuliani.
00:13:29.000Now, Trump's defense to this is going to be, Right, I want all of the corruption in Ukraine investigated, including Burisma.
00:13:35.000I don't want the Burisma investigation dropped because that's a good indicator of corruption in Ukraine.
00:13:41.000The left, Democrats, are going to claim, no, the reason that he was so all-fired concerned with Burisma specifically is because he wanted to go after Joe Biden.
00:13:50.000So Taylor says that he had a series of meetings in which it was clear that everybody in state and defense wanted to resume aid to Ukraine, but Ukraine was being held up specifically by Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, and the Chief of Staff maintained a skeptical view toward Ukraine.
00:14:11.000He said, needless to say, the Ukrainians in the meetings were confused.
00:14:13.000Ambassador Bolton in the regular Ukraine policy decision-making channel wanted to talk about security, energy, and reform.
00:14:18.000Ambassador Sondland, a participant in the irregular channel, wanted to talk about the connection between a White House meeting and Ukrainian investigations.
00:14:26.000He said he had a July 19th call in which it was discussed that Rudy Giuliani ought to be involved in this process.
00:14:34.000And then he talks about the text messages that he held with other members of the Trump administration in which he suggested that there might be a quid pro quo going on.
00:14:43.000He says, later on July 20th, I had a phone conversation with Ambassador Sondland while he was on a train from Paris to London.
00:14:48.000Ambassador Sondland told me he had recommended to Zelensky, he used the phrase, I will leave no stone unturned with regard to investigations when President Zelensky spoke with President Trump.
00:14:58.000And then on July 25th, they had this conversation.
00:15:01.000He says, After our meeting with President Zelensky the next day, Ambassador Volker and I traveled to the front line in northern Donbass to receive a briefing from the commander of the forces on the line of contact.
00:15:11.000Arriving for the briefing in military headquarters, the commander thanked us for security assistance, but I was aware this assistance was on hold, which made me uncomfortable.
00:15:18.000And they looked over all the damage that had been done by Russian-led forces.
00:15:22.000Over 13,000 Ukrainians had been killed in the war, one or two a week.
00:15:27.000He says on August 16th I exchanged text messages with Ambassador Volker in which I learned that Andrei Yermak had asked the United States to submit an official request for an investigation into Burisma's alleged violations of Ukrainian law if that's what the U.S.
00:15:40.000A formal request to the Ukrainians to conduct an investigation based on violations of their own law struck me as improper.
00:15:45.000I recommended to Ambassador Volker that we stay clear.
00:15:49.000By mid-August, because the security assistance had been held for over a month for no reason I could discern, I was beginning to fear that the long-standing U.S.
00:15:55.000policy of support for Ukraine was shifting.
00:15:58.000He told Pompeo that he'd have to resign if the aid was not restored.
00:16:02.000Ambassador Bolton encouraged him to keep informing Pompeo of this.
00:16:06.000So Bolton, obviously, who was Trump's national security advisor, did not actually want any of this going on.
00:16:14.000He said on September 1st, three days after he cabled Pompeo, Zelensky met Vice President Pence at a bilateral meeting in Warsaw.
00:16:20.000President Trump had planned to travel to Warsaw, but at the last minute had canceled because of Hurricane Dorian.
00:16:25.000And he said that he had contacted the ambassador from Ukraine to let him know that the delay of U.S.
00:16:30.000security assistance was an all or nothing proposition in the sense that if the White House did not lift the hold prior to the end of the fiscal year, the funds would expire and Ukraine would receive nothing.
00:16:38.000He was hoping that his pressure would sort of restore the aid.
00:16:41.000Politico then reported on the missing aid and the aid was quickly restored.
00:16:44.000So bottom line here is that Taylor is just reiterating a lot of the claims that he was making in those text messages, which we have already seen, which is that he believes that the Burisma affair was at the center of this.
00:16:58.000He says before the text messages that he had with Ambassador Sondland about the quid pro quo, he says during our call on September 8th, Ambassador Sondland tried to explain to me that President Trump is a businessman.
00:17:08.000When a businessman is about to sign a check to someone who owes him something, he said, the businessman asks that person to pay up before signing the check.
00:17:14.000Ambassador Volcker used the same terms several days later while we were together at Yalta European Strategy Conference.
00:17:20.000I argued to both that the explanation made no sense.
00:17:22.000So that is Taylor's testimony and Democrats are jumping all over it.
00:17:25.000Holding up security assistance for domestic political gain was crazy.
00:17:27.000As I had said in my text message to Ambassador Sumlin and Volcker on September 9th, on September 11th, the hold was lifted.
00:17:33.000The security assistance would be provided.
00:17:35.000So that is Taylor's testimony, and Democrats are jumping all over it.
00:17:38.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:19:05.000It seems to me that the same thing is basically It seems to me the same thing is basically being reiterated here, that if you perceive this as Trump trying to hold up aid to get Biden, it looks like that.
00:19:16.000And if you perceive it as Trump very upset about a wide variety of corruption angles that affect him personally, as well as affecting the country and Rudy Giuliani feeding him bad information, Trump is reacting to all of that.
00:19:27.000And so what you have is basically the continuation of this Rorschach test that has existed ever since the transcript of the Trump-Zelensky phone call came out a few weeks ago.
00:19:37.000President Trump, for his part, is of course deeply, deeply upset about all of this.
00:19:42.000And he is more upset about all of this because he looks at the behavior of the Democrats and he says, these people are not acting in honest fashion.
00:19:49.000Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona has a piece in the Washington Examiner talking about the process being used in the House.
00:19:57.000He says, earlier this week, Representative Denny Heck, a Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee, who told reporters that Republicans are darn lucky these hearings and depositions weren't public, The implication was the information coming out is horrifically damaging to Trump.
00:20:10.000The reality is if the information was damaging to Trump, Democrats would hold open hearings.
00:20:14.000They would have already released transcript of the testimonies.
00:20:17.000Trump didn't ask the Ukrainian president to investigate a political opponent.
00:20:21.000The Trump administration has released the transcript of the telephone conversation between Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky.
00:20:27.000The Trump administration will provide additional evidence and witnesses in an open and transparent process.
00:20:32.000But why should they cooperate when the fix is in?
00:20:34.000Adam Schiff keeps holding these closed-door meetings in the top security room in the basement of the Capitol.
00:20:39.000He's doing this to keep the public and the president in the dark.
00:20:42.000Nonetheless, leftist media outlets report on the substance of what has been testified to and what documents have been produced in the hearings.
00:20:49.000He says that Pelosi, Schiff, Democrats in Congress are ignoring historical norms and processes in order to try to remove Trump from office.
00:20:58.000He says we usually have a process in which an impeachment investigation is commenced by a formal vote by members of the House of Representatives.
00:21:05.000The investigation is then conducted by the Judiciary Committee or a special select committee.
00:21:09.000At the same time that the formal resolution to investigate the president is voted on, the House establishes rules of the investigation, sets the committee that will investigate, and any other particular instructions necessary for the committee to do its work.
00:21:22.000Instead, they're doing this on an ad hoc basis, and so Trump feels like he's being screwed.
00:21:26.000Meanwhile, Molly Hemingway over at The Federalist is pointing out that Adam Schiff is flip-flopping on the public nature of whistleblower testimony after reports that he was coordinating with the whistleblower.
00:21:37.000Hemingway says, at first, Schiff insisted an anti-Trump bureaucrat sharing allegations against the president must share his story with the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
00:21:46.000But after news broke that Schiff's staff had secretly worked with the whistleblower prior to the complaint being lodged, discussions that the whistleblower failed to mention when specifically asked about them as part of the official whistleblower process, Schiff moved to prevent the testimony.
00:22:00.000The move appears designed to prevent Republican lawmakers from asking the individual under oath about his discussions with House Democrats, media, and others involved in the impeachment effort.
00:22:09.000So, as she points out, Schiff has now shifted his position on exactly what should happen with the whistleblower.
00:22:19.000By Sunday, Schiff was claiming that the testimony was not even needed.
00:22:24.000So, of course Trump is going to be suspicious of all of this.
00:22:28.000I mean, Trump has reason to be suspicious of the Democrats.
00:22:30.000The Democrats obviously want to impeach him.
00:22:32.000They've wanted to impeach him since the day he was elected.
00:22:35.000And he also feels as though he has been targeted, and correctly so, he feels that he is being targeted by people inside his own administration to the cheers of the media.
00:22:45.000He is being targeted by people in his own administration to the cheers of the media.
00:22:48.000The evidence of this is that the anonymous author of a Trump resistance op-ed is now going to publish a tell-all book and remain anonymous while doing so, and claims that he is a top-ranking member of the Trump administration, who's presumably being paid a hefty sum by a publisher to write a book about how terrible Trump is while serving in the Trump administration.
00:23:08.000Well, if he doesn't like it, he has a very simple solution.
00:23:10.000He can resign and then reveal publicly who he is.
00:23:22.000What is deeply dishonest is a person who is an anonymous, non-whistleblower, right?
00:23:27.000Not going through formal channels, writing a book for money in which they discuss ongoing events inside the Trump administration to the wild cheers of the media.
00:23:37.000That's not good for the presidency, it's not good for the country, and of course it's going to underscore how suspicious Trump is of people inside his administration, and it's going to encourage Trump to set up exactly the sort of irregular channels that Bill Taylor was talking about, right?
00:23:49.000Why would you set up an irregular channel?
00:23:51.000The only reason to set up an irregular channel is because you don't trust the regular channel.
00:23:55.000One of the reasons you might not trust the regular channel is it feels like the regular channel is being used as a method of hurting you.
00:24:03.000It feels like members of the intelligence community are going after you.
00:24:09.000It feels as though members of the State Department on lower levels are attempting to skew your foreign policy.
00:24:14.000It appears that members of the quote-unquote deep state are going after you.
00:24:18.000It's hard to argue with Trump about why Trump should feel, should feel differently when you have articles like this from Philip Rucker in the New York times quote, the author of an anonymous column in the New York times in 2018, who was identified as a senior Trump administration official acting as part of the resistance inside the government has written a tell all book to be published next month.
00:24:37.000The book titled a warning is being promoted as an unprecedented behind the scenes portrait of the Trump presidency that expands upon the times column, which ricocheted around the world and stoked the president's rage because of its devastating portrayal of Trump in office.
00:24:49.000And just a second, I'm going to give you more information on this anonymous book that again is underscoring the president's distrusting government, which leads him to set up irregular channels, which leads them to make mistakes, which leads him into traps, which leads the Democrats to seem to believe that they have material to impeach.
00:25:05.000This is all part of a big, big picture.
00:25:08.000And if you don't see the big picture, you can't understand anybody's perspective right, left, or center.
00:26:30.000Like, to just get in the man's head for a second.
00:26:32.000Let's say that you're President Trump, and every day in the White House you see a story from your administration leaking.
00:26:37.000Something that nobody is supposed to know outside the administration, because this is the center of foreign policymaking in the United States.
00:26:44.000And then let's say that there are a series of op-eds that keep coming out from members of your administration, lower-down members of your administration, either quitting or anonymously ripping into you.
00:26:54.000And let's say that you feel like your policy is being thwarted.
00:26:57.000And let's add to that, you believe that the media hate you, because they do.
00:27:00.000And let's add to that, that it feels like major companies, big tech companies, are biased against you, which in many cases, they are.
00:27:07.000Wouldn't you start to get a bit of a persecution complex?
00:27:09.000Wouldn't you start to think, okay, well, whatever power I do have, I'm going to use to investigate this sort of corruption, because forget me.
00:27:16.000The power of the presidency is under attack.
00:27:18.000No one should have to operate this way.
00:27:20.000And there is this ridiculous double standard where if you're a Democrat and you're in power, the entire quote-unquote apparatus works for you.
00:27:26.000But if you're Republican, half the apparatus is working against you.
00:27:32.000Again, this anonymous book is really case in point of this.
00:27:36.000As I mentioned, the New York Times is reporting that there is an anonymous anti-Trump book that's going to be published from inside the administration.
00:27:43.000The author of a column in the New York Times, which was titled, I am part of the resistance inside the Trump administration, which by the way is wildly unconstitutional.
00:27:50.000I mean, to be part of a resistance to an administration inside the administration?
00:27:56.000You know, the other thing you can do, you can work through official legal channels.
00:27:59.000You know what you're really not supposed to do?
00:28:00.000Is go leaking confidential information on the workings of administration to the media.
00:28:04.000That's not something you're supposed to do.
00:28:07.000Trump lashed out at the anonymous author after the column's publication.
00:28:11.000The president questioned both whether the author existed and whether the author had committed treason, and he demanded on Twitter the Times turn over the gutless anonymous person to the government at once, which the Times, of course, did not.
00:28:21.000The forthcoming book will list the author as anonymous.
00:28:23.000Although the person does not reveal their identity in the book, they will discuss the reasons for their anonymity, according to people involved in the project.
00:28:30.000The book is set to be published November 19th, and the media are really excited about all of this.
00:28:35.000The author is being represented by Matt Latimer and Keith Urban of Javelin.
00:28:38.000They're the same literary agents who represented both fired FBI director James Comey and former White House aide Cliff Sims for their memoirs.
00:28:46.000People involved in the project say that both Twelve and Javelin have verified the book's author is the same person who wrote the Times column, but they will not share the author's identity with the Washington Post.
00:28:55.000There is no modern historical precedent for a first-hand account of a sitting president written in book form by an anonymous author.
00:29:02.000Many senior government officials have written books under their own name, but this is something completely different.
00:29:09.000The author could have received a seven-figure advance for writing this book, said Latimer, but a warning was not written for financial reasons.
00:29:14.000The author sees this as an act of conscience, which is why the author refused any advance and is donating a substantial portion of any royalties to charities that protect those seeking the truth around the world.
00:29:23.000Well, I wonder what that substantial portion is.
00:29:25.000How exactly is this supposed to be working?
00:29:28.000I mean, beyond that, there is something deeply disturbing about members of an administration writing anonymous books about the administration.
00:29:34.000You want to come out, you want to bash the administration, quit your job.
00:29:37.000You don't get to take taxpayer dollars while bashing the administration you're supposed to be working for.
00:29:41.000And all this is leading Trump to rant and rave, obviously.
00:29:45.000Just a day ago, the Los Angeles Times reported, That President Trump had a cabinet meeting in which he spent some 71 minutes ripping into the media, ripping into people who are criticizing him.
00:29:59.000He says the Democrats went crazy about the report that he was planning on holding in the next G7 summit at Doral, the Florida golf resort that Trump owns.
00:30:07.000That wasn't just Democrats who were going crazy.
00:30:09.000Last week I pointed out that this certainly gives the appearance of corruption.
00:30:12.000But, with that said, he said, you don't think I get enough promotion?
00:30:14.000I get more promotion than every human being who has ever lived.
00:30:37.000And the president also obviously feels that he is under assault, mainly because he is in fact under assault.
00:30:42.000And so he is, I mean, right now he is busily investigating the intelligence community's actions in 2016.
00:30:48.000His own attorney general, Bill Barr, has been investigating the origins of the Trump-Russia probe that ended up being a big nothing during the Mueller report, right?
00:30:56.000The Trump-Russia stuff ended up basically amounting to nothing.
00:30:59.000It was the obstruction stuff that was damaging to President Trump.
00:31:02.000According to Politico, William Barr has been meeting with the U.S.' 's closest foreign intelligence allies in recent months, making repeated trips overseas as part of an investigation he is overseeing into the origins of the Russia probe and whether any inappropriate spying occurred on the Trump campaign.
00:31:16.000As part of that investigation, Barr and John Durham, the federal prosecutor he appointed to conduct it, have been probing a conspiracy theory for which there is little evidence, according to several people with knowledge of the matter, that a key player in the Russia probe, a professor named Joseph Mifsud, was actually a Western intelligence asset sent to discredit the Trump campaign, and that the CIA under John Brennan was somehow involved.
00:31:35.000Trump, meanwhile, has been quote-unquote obsessed with Brennan, who frequently gets under the president's skin by publicly questioning his mental acuity and fitness for office.
00:31:43.000Trump has repeatedly attacked Brennan.
00:31:45.000Well, Brennan has repeatedly attacked Trump publicly.
00:31:47.000I mean, Brennan has come out and claimed that there was information waiting in the wings that suggested that Trump was going to be impeached over the Russia stuff, and that turned out not to be true.
00:31:56.000Brennan, of course, also allegedly lied in front of Congress.
00:32:00.000With all of this miasma of corruption and ugliness and partisanship floating around, you can see why everybody has retreated to their partisan corners, because nobody believes that any single standard is being held on any of this stuff.
00:32:11.000If you're a Republican, even if you think Trump's behavior is questionable, you're saying to yourself, Would Democrats impeach if this were a Democrat?
00:32:16.000And the answer you come to is absolutely not.
00:32:19.000And if you're a Democrat looking at Republicans, you're like, would Republicans have impeached if this were a Democrat?
00:32:24.000So we're going to impeach here, right?
00:32:25.000I mean, that's exactly where all of this is.
00:32:27.000And if you're Trump sitting here, you're going, listen, I always thought American politics was corrupt.
00:32:32.000And so I acted like I think American politics is, which is to say corrupt, right?
00:32:35.000I acted in a way that I thought was beneficial for the United States in a way I think politics works.
00:32:41.000In a certain way, governance is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
00:32:44.000If you believe governance is an honest business of back and forth, you're more likely to govern that way.
00:32:48.000If you think that politics is basically a business of greased palms and people slapping each other on the back in cigar smoke-filled rooms, that is likely the way that you're going to operate.
00:32:58.000And the fact is that American politics these days may be more like the latter than like the former.
00:33:03.000We'll get to President Trump's response to all of this, and then he got himself in trouble because he used a word.
00:33:12.000First, let us talk about the amount of money that you spend on mail.
00:33:16.000I'm not even talking about the postage.
00:33:17.000Like, the post office does a good job.
00:33:18.000I'm talking about the amount of money you have to spend schlepping your packages down to the post office, the amount of time you have to spend doing all of that.
00:33:25.000Instead, wouldn't it be nice if you could just do all of this from your computer?
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00:35:40.000Okay, so just to complete the reasons why President Trump feels unfairly under attack.
00:35:48.000And that doesn't necessarily mean that his activity is justified.
00:35:52.000It's just to get straight why everybody is acting the way that they are.
00:35:55.000I mean, if we're going to explain why Trump is acting the way that he is, why Democrats are acting the way that they are, why Republicans are acting the way that they are, and why independents are just kind of going like, Guys, can we just wait for more information?
00:36:04.000Which I think, by the way, is almost always the proper response to nearly anything.
00:36:08.000You have to understand that if you're Trump, you feel like this array of forces is aligned against you.
00:36:14.000You have people inside your own administration writing anonymous accounts for for Penguin or whatever it is for Hachette about exactly why you are so terrible without quitting while still taking taxpayer money and being hailed as heroes for doing so.
00:36:29.000You have John Brennan running around running that Trump Russia investigation while at the same time for several years claiming information that he did not have and being a dishonest human being and being a dishonest human being.
00:36:41.000And then, you also have the media, which is always going to treat you unfairly.
00:36:46.000When Trump says the media treats Republicans unfairly, of course, 100% that is true.
00:36:52.000There's this astonishing story about Representative Katie Hill, Democrat from California.
00:36:56.000She's Vice Chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
00:37:00.000And she is an open bisexual, which is of no relevance except that it's very relevant to this particular story.
00:37:06.000Photographs and text messages obtained by Red State show that Representative Hill was involved in a long-term sexual relationship with a female campaign staffer.
00:37:13.000The woman, whose name is not being released, was hired by Hill in late 2017 and quickly became involved in a thrupple relationship with Hill and her estranged husband, Kenny Heslip.
00:37:23.000Hezlip and the staffer, according to text messages provided to Red State, believe the polyamorous arrangement to be a long-term committed relationship.
00:37:29.000The trio took multiple vacations together, including to Alaska, where the photograph was taken.
00:37:34.000She was being paid, presumably, on the campaign or taxpayer dime at the time.
00:37:38.000Red State has obtained Intimate photographs of the women, which they've chosen not to publish.
00:37:43.000According to a source close to the Stafford, the Thruple agreed to continue their committed relationship when Hill moved to Washington, D.C.
00:37:50.000But, Heslop and the Stafford quickly noticed a difference in Hill's demeanor.
00:37:53.000By late May, Hill broke off her relationships with both Heslop and the Stafford, claiming she wanted to focus on this important work and it wasn't unfair to be involved in the relationship.
00:38:02.000The staffer, as the text messages show, was distraught, trying to figure out how to move on with her life.
00:38:09.000Well, because she's on the Oversight and Ethics Reform Committee, okay?
00:38:13.000Like, that stuff actually... Like, this is an ethics complaint.
00:38:16.000If you are having sex with a staffer, that is an ethics complaint.
00:38:21.000Her response, by the way, is interesting.
00:38:25.000Her response on Twitter was that she reached out to Speaker Pelosi and Leader Hoyer personally to deny improper relationship with her staffer, which is a pretty astonishing denial considering there are actual pictures of the two of them going at it.
00:38:36.000I mean, like, one of the pictures Red State released is a picture of Hill stark naked sitting behind her own staffer combing her hair.
00:38:42.000Like, I don't know about your work relationships, but that is not something that I do with my staffers, because that would be sexual and weird.
00:38:50.000In a statement, Hill says she's going through a divorce from an abusive husband who is determined to try to humiliate me.
00:38:55.000She says, I've notified Capitol Police who are investigating the situation and potential legal violations of those who posted and distributed the photos.
00:39:03.000So, um, yeah, so she's trying to turn her ethics violation into her being the victim of an anti-feminist attack, which is, which is interesting.
00:39:12.000Ryan Saavedra over at Daily Wire is reporting that the woman is now suggesting that she was involved in the relationship in sort of an abusive way.
00:39:22.000There's a new report from Red State which raises questions about the possible abuse by Hill toward the young female candidate staffer, campaign staffer, with whom she was allegedly having a sexual relationship.
00:39:33.000The new report also raises questions about the staffer's ability to give consent in the relationship.
00:39:39.000In the red states, Jennifer Van Laar exclusively reported on Friday on all of this.
00:39:45.000The young female campaign staffer described the relationship as being toxic.
00:39:48.000She wrote Hill a message in June 2019 saying, I'm terrified of pushing back against you or upsetting you.
00:40:23.000The answer, of course, and that is not even the biggest story with regard to sort of institutional bias against Republicans today.
00:40:29.000My friend Stephen Crowder, the comedian, He has a new report out claiming that YouTube actually tried to suppress Democratic Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard's videos following her feud with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
00:40:41.000In other words, he's claiming that YouTube does the dirty work of the Democratic establishment.
00:40:45.000Now, I know for a fact that for a while there, if you searched my name on YouTube, no result from the Daily Wire or Ben Shapiro channel would pop up.
00:40:57.000Okay, well now, Crowder has revealed that if you use a VPN from Spain, the results that return on Tulsi Gabbard are wildly different from the results that return if you do not use that VPN from Spain.
00:41:09.000Crowder tweeted a video, according to the Washington Examiner, showing two separate YouTube searches for content related to Gabbard, whom Clinton called a Russian asset.
00:41:16.000The first attempt was a standard search on October 18th using an American device, which yielded several videos related to Clinton's claim that Gabbard was being groomed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, but none of the campaign's videos.
00:41:28.000The second search was conducted using a VPN, which made the search appear as though it were being conducted in Spain.
00:41:32.000The search results for Spain offered completely different results.
00:41:35.000Instead, the search showed Gabbard's own content along with other videos.
00:41:40.000Crowder ran his test again on October 20th, using the same search method after the Clinton controversy died down.
00:41:45.000This time, the search results for the two countries aligned to include Gabbard's videos.
00:41:50.000Crowder alleges that YouTube is intentionally suppressing other content about Gabbard during her spat with Clinton to influence the 2020 election.
00:41:56.000Gabbard, of course, already has an outstanding lawsuit with Google.
00:41:59.000She claims that Google intentionally blocked her campaign ads following a presidential debate where she was the most searched candidate.
00:42:07.000They said that they hadn't provided incomplete data with regard to payment for the ads, and that's why there was this holdup.
00:42:14.000Bottom line is, the allegations themselves are deeply disturbing.
00:42:17.000If Big Tech actually has somebody with a button who's actually pushing the button and saying, we are now going to silence content from particular candidates, doesn't that scare you?
00:42:26.000Much more, by the way, than the Russians posting memes.
00:42:28.000If you got somebody in Big Tech who's sitting there, at any of these Big Tech companies, at YouTube, sitting there, and during the campaign debates, like between Trump and Elizabeth Warren, or Trump and Biden, Sitting there and pushing a button and demoting Trump's content?
00:42:43.000I mean, no wonder Trump is feeling under assault.
00:42:46.000Okay, so President Trump himself said many a thing about this whole impeachment gate 2019 situation.
00:42:52.000He started off yesterday by saying, we have an obligation to investigate corruption in Ukraine.
00:42:56.000Again, the two dueling narratives are going to be from Bill Taylor, which is that Trump wasn't interested in corruption in Ukraine.
00:43:02.000He was interested in going after Joe Biden with American foreign aid directed at Ukraine.
00:43:07.000And then Trump's story is, I'm interested in fighting corruption in Ukraine, and that corruption includes corruption that was directed against me in 2016, and it includes Burisma, it includes all of these things.
00:43:17.000So why exactly wouldn't we investigate all of that stuff?
00:43:20.000We have an obligation to investigate corruption.
00:44:02.000So he went on Twitter and he said, so someday if a Democrat becomes president and the Republicans win the House, even by a tiny margin, they can impeach the president without due process or fairness or any legal rights.
00:44:11.000All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here, a lynching.
00:44:17.000Okay, so, the word lynching obviously has connotations that I think everybody jumps to these days with regard to racist lynchings of America's past, which are one of the most horrifying aspects of American history.
00:44:28.000Do I think that's what Trump was referring to here?
00:44:30.000I do not think that Trump was referring to the racist lynching by the KKK of black people in Alabama in 1920.
00:44:35.000I do not think that's what was going on here.
00:44:37.000I think that Trump is referring to the typical use of lynching in politics to mean, you know, anytime a mob rule jury is sort of rounded up and then people are unfairly hanged.
00:44:47.000I mean, a bunch of people in America who are not black for non-racial reasons We're lynched in the United States for decades in the United States.
00:44:53.000So lynching does not only have the racial connotation.
00:45:41.000Al Green said that Trump should be impeached.
00:45:43.000The Democratic representative said Trump should be impeached just for saying the word lynching.
00:45:48.000Al Green also said that President Trump should be impeached because he said bleephole countries about particular countries.
00:45:53.000Like, Al Green, basically, he is, he's just proving the old sort of logical truism that the last half of the sentence does not have to have anything to do with the first half of the sentence, right?
00:46:05.000You can, if you have an if-then statement, The then part of the statement can be true, even if the if part is not true.
00:46:11.000Meaning, if I say the sky is blue, if that's the conclusion of my statement, I can say, if the grass is yellow, the sky is blue.
00:46:18.000Well, that does not mean that only on the condition that if the grass is yellow, the sky is always going to be blue.
00:46:23.000Well, for Al Green, the conclusion of the sentence is, if blank, Trump should be impeached.
00:46:29.000In this case, it's Trump used the word lynching.
00:46:31.000How dare the president compare Lynching to impeachment.
00:47:03.000Okay, so, raise your hand, really, if you believe that Trump, when he threw out lynching, he's like, I'm just like a black person in the South being lynched by the KKK.
00:47:22.000But, again, everything becomes a controversy these days because Here's the reality.
00:47:27.000Democrats in 2020 are looking at their field and they are starting to panic.
00:47:30.000There's an entire article in the New York Times today titled, Anxious Democratic Establishment Asks, Is There Anybody Else?
00:47:36.000Quote, When a half dozen Democratic donors gathered at the Whitby Hotel in Manhattan last week, the dinner began with a discussion of which presidential candidates the contributors liked.
00:47:44.000But as conversations among influential Democrats often go these days, the meeting quickly evolved into a discussion of who is not in the race but could be lured in.
00:48:34.000And Hillary's obviously tempted to jump.
00:48:36.000I mean, she's commenting more and more often.
00:48:38.000So she went after Tulsi Gabbard in the weirdest way while I was on break here.
00:48:42.000She suggested that Tulsi Gabbard was a Russian agent, which is a pretty incredible allegation to make about a woman who served in the United States military.
00:48:49.000I mean, last I checked, this isn't Kevin Costner in No Way Out.
00:48:52.000In any case, Hillary called Tulsi a Russian asset, which was odd.
00:48:56.000I'm not making any predictions, but I think they've got their eye on somebody who's currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate.
00:49:46.000Personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long has finally come out from behind the curtain.
00:49:52.000From the day I announced my candidacy, there has been a concerted campaign to destroy my reputation.
00:49:56.000We wondered who was behind it and why.
00:49:58.000Now we know it was always you, through your proxies.
00:50:01.000and powerful allies in the corporate media and war machine afraid of the threat I pose, it's now clear that this primary is between you and me.
00:50:07.000Don't cowardly hide behind your proxies.
00:50:17.000She released her educational plan yesterday.
00:50:19.000She used to be an advocate for charter schools.
00:50:21.000Her educational plan now includes a complete ban on any federal funding of charter schools, plus a mandate that charter schools are supposed to follow a bevy of regulations.
00:50:29.000And then she says that charter schools are uncompetitive, which is nonsense!
00:50:33.000Charter schools are the only places where parents can voluntarily enroll or disenroll their children in the public school system.
00:50:45.000And if you're Hillary, you gotta be thinking, maybe I ought to jump back in.
00:50:48.000Okay, time for a quick thing I like, and then we'll get to a bevy of things that I hate, a veritable cornucopia of things I despise.
00:50:55.000Let's start with a quick thing I like.
00:50:56.000So, over the holiday weekend, so on Sunday, it was a day called Hoshana Rabbah, which is sort of the second to last day of the Feast of, the Festival of Booths.
00:51:09.000So that was the, it's, Kind of the day that is a special day for prayer in Judaism.
00:51:15.000There's talk about Yom Kippur as the day when you kind of absolve all of your sins, and then the gates of heaven are closed.
00:51:20.000And then there's more Jewish thinking that says that Hoshana Rabbah is sort of the final day where God sort of figures out whether you have repented or not.
00:51:34.000You are allowed to visit the Temple Mount if you are Jewish.
00:51:36.000There is a long-standing myth that you are not allowed to visit the Temple Mount if you are Jewish.
00:51:40.000The rules allegedly specify that you are not allowed to pray on the Temple Mount if you are Jewish.
00:51:44.000Now, that's kind of controversial in Israel because the fact is Muslims can pray up there, Christians can pray up there, but there is an apartheid-like law that suggests that Jews are not allowed to pray up there.
00:51:54.000The Supreme Court has basically already gutted that a little bit, so went up to the Temple Mount with security and with a group of other people and First of all, the Temple Mount is enormous.
00:52:05.000I mean, it's an enormous, enormous site.
00:52:08.000And there's something to be said about the fact that the holiest site in Judaism now has a mosque sitting directly on top of it.
00:52:13.000But let's just say that the behavior of the Islamic Waqf is bizarre.
00:52:17.000So the Islamic Waqf are the guardians of the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
00:52:23.000We sort of walk around the very, very outside of the Temple Mount.
00:52:26.000Producer Colton can attest to this, he was there with me.
00:52:29.000And as we were walking around, we stopped in what is sort of the direct line of sight to what would be the Holy of Holies if the Jewish Temple were still standing, or if the Third Temple were to be rebuilt at some point.
00:52:40.000And so you're looking up into sort of the Kodosh Kedoshim, into that area.
00:52:46.000Until we stopped and we took out our phones and we were doing a little bit of praying.
00:52:49.000Now, if you really believe that it is incredibly deeply offensive for somebody to pray, not out loud, right?
00:52:56.000I mean, pray silently, off their phone, on a Jewish, the holiest site in Judaism.
00:53:01.000Then I would suggest you have something wrong with you.
00:53:03.000While the Islamic Waqf immediately comes over and tries to shut this down, the police up top start to move us along.
00:53:10.000At that point, it appears that the member of the Islamic Waqf decided to radio some of the people who were nearby, and a bunch of people came over and started shouting Allahu Akbar at the group, which was really delightful.
00:53:23.000One of the members of our group was carrying Again, I didn't run the group.
00:53:43.000The police then let him go because people in the group said, listen, let him go, we'll leave, it's fine.
00:53:48.000And as we were moving, A bunch of people came over and started chanting Allahu Akbar, because it's deeply insulting for people to pray silently on the holiest site in Judaism.
00:53:55.000It's another thing to shout insults at people as they're walking along the holiest site in Judaism.
00:53:59.000So they start shouting Allahu Akbar at people in an attempt to obviously sort of, I don't want to say insult, because they're shouting God is great in Arabic, which is not quite an insult, but it's obviously an attempt to provoke.
00:54:11.000And some members of the group, some of the more enthusiastic members of the group, started singing back Songs from the Book of Psalms, which of course is deeply offensive, right?
00:54:18.000Singing psalms from the Book of Psalms.
00:54:22.000And at that point, the police, not wanting a confrontation, rightly so, decide that they're going to push the entire group off the Temple Mount.
00:54:35.000It is allegedly the third holiest site in Islam.
00:54:38.000I'm only saying allegedly because I'm not an Islamic scholar, so I'm really not sure, but I think they say it's the third holiest site in Islam.
00:54:44.000And if you want to see where Jesus walked, this is obviously one of the places where Jesus walked.
00:54:51.000Second thing is, it is absurd that Jews are not allowed to openly pray up there.
00:54:54.000They should obviously be allowed to openly pray up there.
00:54:56.000Muslims not only are allowed to openly pray up there, they have a Dome of the Rock and a mosque up there.
00:55:01.000In fact, I think there's a strong case to be made that Jews should be building a... if they can't build the temple, because there's the Dome of the Rock right there, they should at least build a synagogue up there so you can have regularized prayers.
00:55:10.000If Muslims are able to build a school on one end, which they have done, it seems to me that Jews should be able to build a synagogue in a space that is roughly the size of three football fields.
00:55:18.000But it was definitely a pretty incredible experience, and The Kotel, the Western Wall, which everybody always says is the holiest site in Judaism, that's because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.
00:55:56.000And people should remember that when they talk about partitioning the Holy Land, because it turns out that places where the Palestinian Authority governs, Jews are not allowed in, and they're not allowed to pray in any of these holy sites.
00:56:06.000And by the way, they also deface Christian holy sites as well, so that's something to keep in mind when you talk about the so-called peace process.
00:56:12.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:56:40.000This information is the crux of the information.
00:56:42.000If there are no other issues that we don't know about, then this is one of the worst stories of government child abuse I've ever heard of.
00:56:48.000If there's more information, then there's more information.
00:56:50.000And again, I'm gonna pose it that way because I haven't read all the trial transcripts, and I think that, and I'd like to have all the information before I jump, because when you make a statement as strong as this is one of the worst cases of government child abuse you've ever seen, you want all the information?
00:57:05.000So I'm just gonna put that in a conditional form.
00:57:07.000Here is the story according to Amanda Prestigiacomo of Daily Wire.
00:57:11.000On Monday, a jury ruled against a Texas father named Jeffrey Younger attempting to stop his seven-year-old son from a gender transition being facilitated by Dr. Ann Georgilis, the boys' mother and Younger's ex-wife.
00:57:22.000With a consensus of 11 of the 12 jurors, the jury decided not to grant Mr. Younger sole managing conservatorship over his two twin boys, according to LifeSite News.
00:57:32.000They voted that the current joint managing conservatorship should be replaced by a sole managing conservatorship, but that Mr. Younger should not be that person.
00:57:39.000Apparently, according to LifeSite News, Georgalis has been granted authority to move forward with puberty blockers, which can cause chemical castration and potentially hormones, if the mother so chooses.
00:57:49.000According to reporting from the Texan, this happened in, where was it, Plano?
00:57:55.000George Gillis' lawyer, Jessica Janicek and Laura Hayes, said the mother does not plan on giving James hormone blockers at this time, but no one has stated that she would not be open to using them when James begins puberty, which would be around 11 and a half for the boy.
00:58:08.000With the jury's decision, Mr. Younger will likely be forced to affirm his new son's gender identity, a girl named Luna.
00:58:14.000So Younger did an interview with a host named Luke Macias, and he said that basically his claim is that his ex-wife is indoctrinating his child into transgenderism, is basically his claim.
00:58:26.000He is saying that when the kid is with him, the kid has no problem being called by a boy's name, acts like a boy, doesn't want to dress up as a girl, and as soon as he goes back to mommy, mommy is pressuring him.
00:58:35.000In fact, the father claims that the mother is actually My ex-wife claims that James is a transgendered girl.
00:58:41.000And she has, to date, actually socially transitioned him.
00:58:42.000Meaning that he wears a dress at her home.
00:58:46.000what the father had to say. - My ex-wife claims that James is a transgender girl, and she has, to date, actually socially transitioned him, meaning that he wears a dress at her home, he has a new made-up name, Luna, appears in the court filings, he goes to school, the teachers call him Luna, he uses the girls' bathroom at school,
00:59:12.000All of his authority figures, his mother, his teacher, the librarian at school, the police officer at school, the principals at school say he's a girl.
00:59:21.000I'm the only authority figure in his life that tells him the truth, that he's actually a boy.
00:59:26.000Okay, and for that crime, according to the father, the child is now being removed from his home.
00:59:31.000According to court documents, they show the younger son only dresses as a girl when he is with his mother, who calls the boy by his trans name and has even enrolled James as Luna in school.
00:59:39.000According to Younger, James consistently chooses to wear boys' clothes, violently refuses to wear girls' clothes at my home, and identifies as a boy whenever he is around him.
00:59:48.000According to Younger, the boy has already been quote-unquote fully socially transitioned.
00:59:53.000The father noted in his opinion he witnessed his wife was only giving James love and affection when he was acting like a girl.
00:59:58.000She used to lock James in his room and tell him monsters only eat boys, Younger added.
01:00:03.000He said, every single day you have to see your son sexually abused and you have to maintain your calm because the courts are not going to be fair to you.
01:00:08.000The only way you can survive this and get your son through this alive is to calmly allow your son to be tortured right before your eyes and outlast the opposition.
01:00:17.000If what the father is saying is true, this is one of the worst cases of child abuse I've ever heard of, is the court and the state mandating that a father treat a seven-year-old child who's not capable of deciding his own gender.
01:00:32.000To suggest that a seven-year-old who doesn't know anything, kids are dumb, to know, I have a five-year-old, she doesn't know anything.
01:00:38.000You're saying that a seven-year-old knows the difference between male and female to the extent they're going to be able to choose their own gender for life and that puberty blockers should be applied based on the opinion of psychologists who can't even define gender or the difference between men and women?
01:00:54.000So if what we are hearing right here is the state mandating that the father give up custody of his child because he wishes to treat his boy as a boy, and that the mother, because of her virtue in pushing a young boy to be treated as a girl, That that is what the state now approves, that it is considered quote-unquote child abuse in some way for you to treat your boy as a boy and refuse to treat him as a girl even though a seven-year-old says he is a girl.
01:01:21.000And apparently, according to the dad, the seven-year-old doesn't even say he's a girl.
01:01:40.000If, however, what we are hearing from James Younger, the father, if what we are hearing from the father is the whole story, It's egregious, it's horrifying, and the people of Texas should be ashamed that this is happening, frankly.
01:01:53.000Okay, well, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours, or we'll catch you here tomorrow with all the latest updates.
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