The Ben Shapiro Show - When Is OK Just Not Okay? | Ep. 917

00:00:00.000 The military investigates cadets for flashing an OK symbol on national television, a Democrat switches parties over impeachment, and President Trump goes after Nancy Pelosi's teeth.

00:00:09.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:00:25.000 So over the weekend, I was reading this great book by Amity Shlaes called Great Society, all about the growth of government under Lyndon Baines Johnson.

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00:00:50.000 They'll take gold out of the market.

00:00:52.000 LBJ actually set it up so that you could only exchange gold at the window, at the so-called federal window, if you were a foreign country.

00:00:59.000 But at the same time, on the private market, gold was more expensive than if you were a foreign country trying to exchange for gold in the American markets.

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00:02:01.000 Okay, so we'll get to everything impeachment related.

00:02:04.000 This week is a big week.

00:02:05.000 We're gonna get to all of that in just a moment.

00:02:07.000 But frankly, it's a foregone conclusion.

00:02:08.000 I don't think anything has changed.

00:02:09.000 It feels like a put-up job.

00:02:10.000 Most independents in the country are not fond of this.

00:02:12.000 Congress suggesting that President Trump is guilty of bribery, even though they're not actually charging him with bribery.

00:02:16.000 We're going to get to all of that in just a moment.

00:02:18.000 But frankly, it's a foregone conclusion.

00:02:20.000 I don't think anything has changed.

00:02:21.000 It feels like a put up job.

00:02:23.000 Most independents in the country are not fond of this.

00:02:26.000 There is a late breaking poll over the weekend showing that while 85 percent of Democrats support impeachment, first of all, it's a low number, right?

00:02:33.000 You would expect it to be like 98% of Democrats support impeachment.

00:02:35.000 It's only about 85%.

00:02:37.000 Only 7% of Republicans support impeachment.

00:02:40.000 And then in the middle, the independents, only 43% support impeachment.

00:02:44.000 So this thing is not breaking in favor of the Democrats.

00:02:46.000 So that means that for me, frankly, this is a sort of secondary issue.

00:02:50.000 I know, it's weird to say the impeachment of the president in the House of Representatives for the third time in American history would actually represent a nothing burger.

00:02:58.000 But in fact, it sort of does, because the fact is that the Senate is not going anywhere with all of this. 0.98

00:03:02.000 So believe it or not, the bigger story over the weekend is the continuing degradation of our culture, the continuing stupidity of the media.

00:03:08.000 I'm speaking, of course, of the attempt to Covington Catholic members of the military cadets at the Army-Navy So, according to the Huffington Post, military officials have launched an investigation after the OK hand symbol that has become known as a symbol for white power was flashed amid a crowd of cadets before the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia on Saturday. 0.82

00:03:30.000 So, there is the Army-Navy game, President Trump shows up to this every year, and a bunch of the cadets are giving the OK symbol.

00:03:35.000 Now, you may be saying to yourself, What the hell how is this in any way racist like how many times have you said your friend?

00:03:41.000 Okay, right?

00:03:42.000 How many times have you done?

00:03:43.000 There's actually an okay emoji on On text on Twitter is that because it's white power. 0.85

00:03:48.000 So here's what happened 4chan, which is this Message board.

00:03:53.000 Many of the message boards on 4chan are not racist or white supremacist.

00:03:56.000 Some of them absolutely are. 1.00

00:03:58.000 And idiots on 4chan decided that what would be a great prank to play on the media, because the media are gullible, is to suggest that every time somebody flashed an OK symbol, what they were actually doing was flashing a white power symbol. 1.00

00:04:10.000 How would this work? 0.99

00:04:11.000 Well, because if you hold up your hands in an OK, then you get a W.

00:04:15.000 and a P. 0.67

00:04:16.000 Uh-huh.

00:04:17.000 It's like white power. 0.90

00:04:18.000 You get...

00:04:18.000 So clever.

00:04:20.000 Okay, now everybody has flashed the OK symbol at some point.

00:04:23.000 In fact, in the NBA, many NBA players who are black are flashing the OK, not because they're actually saying OK, but because they give a three-pointer, right? 0.89

00:04:31.000 Yeah, there's lots of graphics of Steph Curry doing the three-pointer sign after he hits a three-pointer.

00:04:35.000 Okay, one of the other aspects of OK is that people have been using the OK symbol for decades to play something known as the circle game.

00:04:45.000 The circle game is where you hold up the okay symbol below your waist, and if somebody looks at it, you punch them in the shoulder. 0.96

00:04:51.000 It's the dumbest game ever, okay? 0.97

00:04:52.000 But people have been doing this. 1.00

00:04:53.000 I remember people did this even in my middle school.

00:04:55.000 This is like an actual thing.

00:04:57.000 So, cadets at the Army-Navy game were doing this.

00:05:00.000 It's pretty obvious that that's what they're doing, that they're not giving the white power symbol at the Army-Navy game.

00:05:06.000 That that's not what's happening here.

00:05:07.000 Because three separate cadets do it!

00:05:09.000 You think they're all these white supremacists who just happen to be in camera view?

00:05:12.000 Or are they playing this back-and-forth circle game where if you see the OK symbol, then you get punched in the shoulder?

00:05:19.000 And everybody I know who's in the military knows exactly what this is.

00:05:22.000 I have friends who've served in the military.

00:05:24.000 David French, who served in the military, served in Iraq. 0.96

00:05:26.000 He immediately was like, uh, guys, what are you, crazy? 1.00

00:05:29.000 And David has no interest, none of us have any interest in protecting white supremacists and their stupid hijacking of a hand symbol. 1.00

00:05:36.000 None of us have any interest in that. 1.00

00:05:37.000 I haven't personally targeted by white supremacists.

00:05:39.000 David's been targeted more than I have.

00:05:40.000 He has an adopted black daughter. 0.71

00:05:41.000 Like, this is all insanity. 0.99

00:05:43.000 So, here is the tape.

00:05:44.000 You can see that behind this particular Sportscaster Rhys Davis.

00:05:50.000 You can see there's a kid who puts his hands out, he's wearing a glove, and he puts out his hand in the circle game.

00:05:56.000 And then another kid puts out his hand in the circle game.

00:05:58.000 So is it just that Rhys Davis happens to be in the center of the KKK?

00:06:03.000 The KKK contingent of West Point? 0.84

00:06:06.000 This is where he was?

00:06:08.000 Or is it that everybody is just playing the circle game?

00:06:10.000 The media decide that it's that everybody, including apparently the kid who's obviously of color standing next to Rhys Davis, and has no prob- I assume he's not like fightin' fist fightin' the kids who are right behind him, that all of these kids who are flashing the circle game, that is why- First of all, it doesn't make any sense.

00:06:25.000 Okay, if you're gonna do the okay symbol as a quote-unquote white power symbol, you can't hold it down Okay, then it's not a W anymore. 0.99

00:06:31.000 This whole thing is idiotic. 0.99

00:06:33.000 The military is now investigating this. 1.00

00:06:35.000 The military is doing a full-scale investigation into this.

00:06:39.000 A full-scale investigation.

00:06:41.000 Because everyone has lost their mind. 1.00

00:06:42.000 Because everyone is stupid. 1.00

00:06:43.000 And everyone has to take offense at everything. 1.00

00:06:45.000 And if you don't take offense, it's because you're insensitive to the needs of people.

00:06:48.000 Alternatively, these kids are playing the circle game.

00:06:52.000 And that's it!

00:06:53.000 So Huffington Post reports, military, this was their headline yesterday, big flashing headline, military investigating after cadets flashed apparent white power signs before Army-Navy game.

00:07:02.000 This is not a white power sign, guys.

00:07:05.000 It's not.

00:07:05.000 There are pictures of Barack Obama doing it.

00:07:07.000 There are pictures of NBA players doing it.

00:07:08.000 There's pictures of everybody doing it. 1.00

00:07:10.000 Are you insane? 0.99

00:07:12.000 How have you bought into this? 0.99

00:07:13.000 The Anti-Defamation League even put out a statement about a year and a half ago about the so-called white power sign saying, this is not an actual white power sign, this is just There's just trolls over at 4chan trying to make it appear that white supremacists are hiding under your bed.

00:07:28.000 Even the ADL was smart enough to recognize this, but not our media.

00:07:31.000 Mary Papanfus writing for the Huffington Post.

00:07:34.000 She says military officials have launched an investigation.

00:07:37.000 Hey, this is not Abu Ghraib. 1.00

00:07:39.000 This is kids playing the circle game, you idiots. 1.00

00:07:42.000 Military officials have launched an investigation after the OK hand symbol that has become known as a symbol for white power hasn't become known as that. 1.00

00:07:48.000 Like, if you weren't on Twitter, let's say you didn't spend your entire life being an idiot on Twitter, and you spent your entire life, I don't know, going to sports games. 0.98

00:07:54.000 Or engaging with your children? 1.00

00:07:56.000 Or going to the mall?

00:07:59.000 Having a job?

00:08:00.000 Being a useful human being?

00:08:02.000 How many people in the United States would be sitting around going, oh my god, I just saw this kid go like that?

00:08:05.000 For sure that kid is in his off hours, he goes over to Bed Bath & Beyond, picks up a sheet, and flounces around West Point.

00:08:13.000 The gestures were captured on national TV during a pregame broadcast in a crowd that included black cadets. 0.64

00:08:18.000 Well, obviously the black cadets were very upset by it.

00:08:20.000 They appear to be flashed by both West Point cadets and Annapolis Midshipmen.

00:08:23.000 Ooh, it's an interior military KKK branch.

00:08:27.000 It's just like the new HBO series Watchmen.

00:08:29.000 They've taken over all of the auspices of law enforcement.

00:08:32.000 We're looking into it, West Point Representative Lieutenant Colonel Chris O'Part told the Wall Street Journal.

00:08:36.000 We don't know what their intention is.

00:08:37.000 Annapolis Spokeswoman Commander Alana Garris told the newspaper, we're aware and we'll be looking into it.

00:08:43.000 The signs were flashed during a spot by ESPN's Reece Davis before the game.

00:08:47.000 At one point, one of the cadets in the stands around Davis stood laughing and showed a banner reading, Go Army, Beat Navy.

00:08:51.000 Then someone behind him, whose face was out of the shot, and wearing a black glove.

00:08:55.000 Oh! 0.60

00:08:56.000 A black glove!

00:08:57.000 You mean because it's cold outside?

00:08:59.000 He's wearing a black glove!

00:09:01.000 Made the hand sign.

00:09:02.000 At least two other signs were also flashed!

00:09:04.000 One next to Davis' head.

00:09:06.000 Oh! 0.60

00:09:07.000 Obviously, the Groipers have taken over West Point! 1.00

00:09:11.000 The story quickly blew up on social media because social media is a place for idiots. 1.00

00:09:14.000 The Anti-Defamation League this year added the symbol to its list of hate signs. 0.99

00:09:17.000 Yes, but that's only after they recognized it was not actually a hate sign and the whole thing was being promoted by all of these groups in order to make it appear as though there were vast scores of people all across the country who were routinely engaged in secret white supremacist hand symbols.

00:09:30.000 The symbol began as a trolling hoax by members of the website 4chan saying the hand gesture formed a W and a P for white power, but the gesture is now being used in some circles as a sincere expression of white supremacy according to the ADL.

00:09:42.000 I mean, they tried this with Stephen Miller very on in the administration when he gave an OK symbol to the camera.

00:09:46.000 And it was like, oh, well, that's because he's signaling to his white supremacist friends, guys.

00:09:52.000 And we had a story like this not that long ago.

00:09:54.000 It was last year, actually.

00:09:56.000 The U.S.

00:09:57.000 Coast Guard said it had removed a member from its Hurricane Florence response team on Friday after he made an okay hand gesture on live TV that the service branch deemed offensive.

00:10:05.000 The unidentified team member was caught looking into the camera and then swiftly making the hand gesture, prompting a backlash on social media.

00:10:11.000 The hand signal was seen in the background of MSNBC's live interview with Section Charleston Commanding Officer Captain John Reid, this is last year, who was providing an update on actions taken by the Coast Guard.

00:10:20.000 Many social media users called for the firing of the individual, throw a guy out of the Coast Guard, because he made a so-called white power hate symbol.

00:10:26.000 Alternatively, he was playing the circle game on national TV, and this has become a thing.

00:10:31.000 It's not actually a bunch of secret white supremacists hiding in plain sight. 1.00

00:10:35.000 This is so unbelievably stupid. 1.00

00:10:38.000 It's so dumb. 1.00

00:10:40.000 But it doesn't matter, the media's gonna play this thing up anyway. 1.00

00:10:42.000 This became a national scandal.

00:10:44.000 Malcolm Nance on MSNBC, he said, this is now a national- it's a national scandal, guys, because they've taken over, they've taken over everywhere.

00:10:51.000 People with their OK hand symbols, everywhere!

00:10:53.000 And also, their words in my Cheerios!

00:10:55.000 They all say, oooooh!

00:10:57.000 Here is Malcolm Nance at MSNBC.

00:11:01.000 There is a very large hammer coming down from the Commandant's office and the Commander's office at the Naval Academy, because again, this is now a national scandal, even though it might not be a scandal.

00:11:12.000 But, you know what?

00:11:14.000 We're going to find out, and all of their senior non-commissioned officers, senior ranking officers, are going to be coming down on top of them like a ton of bricks, because they have disgraced the armed forces, whether they were just As we say, lollygagging and playing around, or whether they actually had the intent to make that symbol in front of a national audience.

00:11:33.000 You've got to be kidding me.

00:11:34.000 Lollygagging isn't even the proper word there.

00:11:36.000 But in any case, well done, Malcolm Nance.

00:11:39.000 Well done.

00:11:40.000 Right on top of it.

00:11:41.000 The media's attempts to Covington Catholic people is just insane.

00:11:44.000 I know that's become a verb now.

00:11:45.000 The reason it's become a verb is because the media have an interest in taking situations out of context and then determining that these are secret symbols of white supremacy.

00:11:52.000 So kids wearing MAGA hats standing there while they're abused by black Hebrew Israelites and a Native American guy who's getting all in their face and they're just standing there. 1.00

00:11:59.000 Those kids are the real problem. 0.99

00:12:01.000 These kids who are playing the circle game and serving in the military, which by the way, nobody in the media, including me, is doing.

00:12:07.000 Those kids are the problem, according to the media.

00:12:08.000 Un-be-lievable.

00:12:09.000 Okay, in just a second, we're gonna get to the latest SOP to the social justice warrior left. 0.97

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00:13:23.000 Well, speaking of the sort of surrender to social justice warrior mindset.

00:13:29.000 College campuses are now seeking, apparently, according to the Associated Press, to set up slavery reparations at college campuses.

00:13:36.000 Now, last I checked, slavery was ended.

00:13:40.000 Juneteenth happened in 1863, so it's been approximately 156 years since the official end of slavery in the North.

00:13:48.000 It's been a long time since slavery ended.

00:13:51.000 That is not to say that there are no Vestiges of slavery, just like there's vestiges of any piece of history in American history.

00:13:56.000 There are more vestiges of Jim Crow.

00:13:59.000 Wealth holdovers from generation to generation. 0.87

00:14:00.000 These are things that occur.

00:14:01.000 But the idea that you are going to pay slavery reparations from a university to people who are now, what, five generations removed from slavery?

00:14:09.000 At least.

00:14:11.000 Maybe six or seven generations removed, depending on how fast people have kids.

00:14:11.000 At least.

00:14:15.000 The measurement of a generation.

00:14:17.000 If you say it's 20 years, for example, then you are talking about nearly 10 generations removed.

00:14:21.000 Well, nearly 15 gen...

00:14:23.000 About eight, nine generations removed from slavery.

00:14:25.000 Okay, so the Associated Press says, the promise of reparations to atone for historical ties to slavery has opened up new territory in a reckoning at U.S.

00:14:33.000 colleges, which until now have responded with monuments, building name changes, and public apologies.

00:14:38.000 Georgetown University and two theological seminaries have announced funding commitments to benefit descendants of the enslaved people who were sold or toiled to benefit the institutions.

00:14:47.000 Again, you're now talking about the great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great,

00:15:15.000 what, 20, 20, you have a bunch of various great, great, great grandparents, right?

00:15:19.000 Because everybody has to, for every parent you've had, there are two grandparents.

00:15:23.000 So that means for every two grandparents you've had, there are four grandparents.

00:15:26.000 So how exactly are you going to figure out who deserves these reparations?

00:15:29.000 How about people from a mixed race background?

00:15:31.000 How about people who have 19 out of 20 grandparents who are great, great, great, great, great, great grandparents who are not reparations?

00:15:40.000 We're not enslaved?

00:15:41.000 How exactly are you going to measure all of this?

00:15:43.000 None of this matters.

00:15:44.000 It's all social justice warrior signaling.

00:15:45.000 While no other schools have gone so far, the advantages that institutions receive from slavery, from the slavery economy, are receiving new attention as Democratic presidential candidates talk about tax credits and other subsidies that nudge the idea of reparations toward the mainstream.

00:15:59.000 University of Buffalo senior Jeffrey Clinton says he thinks campuses should acknowledge historical ties to slavery, that the federal government should take the lead on an issue that reaches well beyond higher education.

00:16:08.000 He's a descendant of slaves, is this Jeffrey Clinton kid.

00:16:10.000 He says, it doesn't have to be trillions of dollars, but at least address the inequities and attack the racial wealth gap between African-Americans and white Americans and really everybody else, because this is an American-made institution.

00:16:19.000 We didn't immigrate here.

00:16:21.000 That's true.

00:16:21.000 You did not immigrate here.

00:16:23.000 It is also true that we are now 153 years removed from the end of the Civil War.

00:16:29.000 So at some point here, we are going to have to recognize that the best thing that we can do is guarantee equal rights, not start signing people checks.

00:16:37.000 But these universities obviously are enthralled to the same to the same SJW mindset that says that if you sign a check, that suddenly this is going to fix everything, which of course it is not.

00:16:45.000 It is not. 0.98

00:16:47.000 Reckoning with American history does not mean Idiotic programs that actually do not rectify the wrongs that they seek to rectify. 0.97

00:16:54.000 It turns out it's very difficult to have a time machine where you can go back in time and rectify this stuff. 0.96

00:16:57.000 By the way, if you want to talk about actual reparations, how about the victims of Jim Crow?

00:17:00.000 Instead of talking about slavery reparations, you actually should be talking about Jim Crow reparations. 0.53

00:17:04.000 They should have institutions that benefited from Jim Crow, if there were any. 0.99

00:17:08.000 And when I say if there were any, there are certainly institutions that benefited from Jim Crow.

00:17:12.000 What I mean is that Jim Crow in and of itself was not economically beneficial, it was economically backward, which is why after the end of Jim Crow, what you saw is economic Jumps in exactly the areas that ended Jim Crow. 0.67

00:17:23.000 But these policies are not designed to actually help people.

00:17:25.000 They are designed to virtue signal.

00:17:27.000 They're not designed to unite the country.

00:17:29.000 They're designed to divide the country because they're impractical and impracticable.

00:17:33.000 In just a second, we're going to get to everything impeachment related.

00:17:36.000 Speaking of impractical, impracticable, and divisive.

00:17:37.000 We'll get to all that in just one second first.

00:17:40.000 Let us talk about the fact that the First Amendment is under assault in the United States.

00:17:44.000 There's a whole group of people on the left who are interested in curbing the First Amendment because they don't want hate speech promulgated.

00:17:50.000 Now, they won't define hate speech.

00:17:51.000 They won't tell you what hate speech constitutes, but they would like to rewrite the First Amendment to make everybody feel better.

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00:18:03.000 This is something that the Founders were very much into.

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00:19:08.000 So now on to impeachment gate.

00:19:10.000 So this is supposed to be a very big week.

00:19:11.000 As I said before, I didn't lead off the show with it because frankly, I don't think it's a very big week.

00:19:15.000 I think the Democrats impeaching the president has been a foregone conclusion since Nancy Pelosi announced an impeachment inquiry.

00:19:21.000 I don't think that anything groundbreaking is going to happen here.

00:19:24.000 And no matter how many white papers the Democrats put out there, they do not have the goods.

00:19:28.000 The proof that they do not have the goods is the fact that they did not charge the President with bribery.

00:19:33.000 There is no criminal charge anywhere in the actual charges.

00:19:36.000 They charged him with abuse of power, which is not in fact a crime.

00:19:39.000 It's a political crime.

00:19:40.000 And they charged him with obstruction of Congress, which isn't only not a crime, It isn't even a thing that is wrong.

00:19:46.000 Very often that is called checks and balances.

00:19:48.000 There's never been an obstruction of Congress charge in an impeachment that was not brought alongside an obstruction of justice charge, which would mean defying the judicial branch, not justifying Congress.

00:19:57.000 The executive defying Congress is called checks and balances.

00:20:00.000 In some political reports, President Trump committed criminal bribery and wire fraud.

00:20:04.000 The House Judiciary Committee alleges in a report that will accompany articles of impeachment this week.

00:20:09.000 Now, you may notice, those are not actually charged in the impeachment articles.

00:20:13.000 Those are actual crimes.

00:20:15.000 Wire fraud and bribery are actual crimes.

00:20:17.000 You could be charged with bribery.

00:20:18.000 I could be charged with wire fraud.

00:20:19.000 These are actual criminal offenses.

00:20:21.000 Neither of them were included in the Articles of Impeachment.

00:20:24.000 Why?

00:20:24.000 The answer is because the Democrats do not actually have the supporting evidence that would effectuate those charges.

00:20:31.000 They do not.

00:20:32.000 That is why they charge something much broader.

00:20:33.000 And they acknowledge this in the report.

00:20:36.000 The report is a 169 page assessment of the case for Trump's removal from office.

00:20:41.000 And it contends that Trump committed multiple federal crimes, ones that Democrats addressed under the broad umbrella of abuse of power.

00:20:48.000 The first article of impeachment against the president.

00:20:50.000 The panel's Democrats say, quote, Which again, begs a question.

00:20:53.000 Why don't you charge him with these things?

00:20:54.000 to the level of a criminal violation to justify impeachment, his conduct here was criminal.

00:20:57.000 They labeled Trump's behavior both constitutional and criminal in character and contended that the president betrayed the people of this nation and should be removed from office.

00:21:06.000 Which again, begs a question.

00:21:08.000 Why don't you charge him with these things?

00:21:10.000 If you are so confident of your ability to charge and impeach a president, convict him in the Senate.

00:21:16.000 Why not bring forth actual charges?

00:21:18.000 Why bring forth weak charges, like abuse of power?

00:21:21.000 And once again, the answer is, you don't have the goods.

00:21:24.000 And it really is not about the charges.

00:21:26.000 It really is about getting Trump out of office because Democrats keep saying over and over that if Trump is allowed to stand for re-election, he might win.

00:21:32.000 And if he wins, they're not going to respect the results of the elections.

00:21:35.000 They are already setting up a counter-narrative, which is that Trump stole an election that has not yet taken place.

00:21:40.000 Which is pretty incredible!

00:21:41.000 The staff report according to Politico, which was filed to the House Rules Committee just after midnight on Monday, argues that President Trump directed a months-long scheme to solicit foreign interference in the 2020 election, the allegation that forms the core of the two articles of impeachment, abusive power, and obstruction of Congress approved by the Judiciary Committee last week.

00:22:00.000 Democrats continued to maintain over and over and over again that they don't actually have to prove a criminal violation, which of course is true, they don't.

00:22:07.000 But it would help that the report says the framers were not fools, which, by the way, is the first time that the Democrats have ever acknowledged the framers were not fools.

00:22:14.000 Usually you get that the framers, they were operating in a different time and a different place.

00:22:18.000 The Second Amendment is a load of bunk.

00:22:20.000 The First Amendment needs to be curbed. 0.76

00:22:22.000 Campaign finance reform, hate speech laws. 0.93

00:22:25.000 It's Democrats who are usually characterizing the Founders as rich white slave owners, so it's fun to hear them come around to the idea the Framers were not fools. 0.97

00:22:31.000 They say the Framers were not fools. 0.72

00:22:33.000 They authorized impeachment for a reason, and that reason would have been gutted if impeachment were limited to crimes.

00:22:39.000 Well, again, it's not limited to crimes, but typically, if you want some sort of bipartisan support, you would want to prove a crime.

00:22:45.000 The Judiciary Committee's report, according to Politico, presents the panel's most thorough analysis yet of why Democrats believe the accusations against Trump are worthy of immediate impeachment.

00:22:53.000 It comes a day before the Rules Committee formally considers the articles of impeachment ahead of a likely Wednesday vote on the House floor.

00:22:59.000 It is obvious they are going to vote to impeach him on Wednesday, and all of the rest of this is just window dressing.

00:23:05.000 Democrats argue that Trump crossed the threshold into criminal behavior with his posture toward Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, writing in the report that his request for the announcement of politically motivated investigations constituted the solicitation of a bribe under federal law, except for the fact that you have to exchange a thing of value and you have to prove intent for bribery, neither of which the Democrats have actually proved.

00:23:25.000 A thing of value typically is not information.

00:23:28.000 And if you're going to say that a thing of value is the announcement of the investigation, the only testimony that suggests that he only wanted the announcement and not the investigation itself is that of Gordon Sondland.

00:23:37.000 And even that is supposition by Sondland.

00:23:40.000 The committee also alleges that Trump violated the Honest Services Wire Fraud statute during his July 25th phone call, which is a real stretch.

00:23:46.000 They can't even show there was a quid pro quo on the call.

00:23:49.000 The call itself does not demonstrate the quid pro quo.

00:23:52.000 They're saying that it's a wire fraud request because he said in front of a bevy of witnesses that the United States would like a favor from the Ukrainians, namely investigate everything that went on in 2016, including Hunter and Joe Biden.

00:24:03.000 In the accompanying 18-page dissent, Judiciary Committee Republicans led by Representative Doug Collins of Georgia assailed Democrats' evidence as paltry and an affront to the constitutional process of impeachment.

00:24:13.000 Colin said, if President Nixon's impeachment proceedings are the gold standard for presidential impeachment inquiries, these proceedings, in stark contrast, will go down in history as the quintessential example of how such proceedings should not be conducted.

00:24:25.000 He blasted the articles of impeachment as vague, hyperbolic, and misleading, particularly as they described fear of future presidential misconduct.

00:24:32.000 And he says, guys, if you keep saying criminality, then why aren't you alleging criminality?

00:24:36.000 He says no president has been impeached solely on non-criminal allegations.

00:24:40.000 That, of course, is absolutely true.

00:24:42.000 And again, the motivating factor here is to delegitimize the 2020 election, to say that if Trump is not impeached in the here and now, that he is going to seal the election with the help of foreign powers. 0.98

00:24:51.000 This, again, underscores the Democrats' claims that Hillary Clinton in 2016 only lost because of the interference of foreign powers, not because she was the world's most garbage candidate. 0.97

00:24:59.000 Which is false. 1.00

00:25:00.000 She lost because she was indeed the world's most garbage candidate. 1.00

00:25:02.000 You know what would have happened if WikiLeaks had never hacked into the DNC emails? 0.99

00:25:07.000 You know what would have happened?

00:25:08.000 Hillary would have lost. 1.00

00:25:10.000 Really.

00:25:10.000 Because the reason that those emails even matter is because Hillary Clinton had hid 33,000 emails on her private server.

00:25:17.000 That's what Trump kept hammering home.

00:25:19.000 The WikiLeaks stuff didn't really do much except keep things in the news.

00:25:23.000 Sort of.

00:25:23.000 There was nothing extraordinarily damning in the WikiLeaks cables.

00:25:27.000 That were uncovered from the DNC?

00:25:29.000 Really?

00:25:30.000 Now, I know there's a lot of dissent on this.

00:25:32.000 I know there are a lot of people on the left saying, no, if it weren't for WikiLeaks Hillary Clinton would be president right now.

00:25:35.000 It's such a narrow election.

00:25:37.000 You can make the case.

00:25:38.000 It is my contention that Hillary Clinton was such a bad candidate that people's views of her had been formed basically from the beginning.

00:25:44.000 The national polling since the beginning was pretty good and had her winning.

00:25:47.000 The national polling was accurate.

00:25:48.000 She did win nationally in the popular vote.

00:25:50.000 In the swing states, she lost because people did not show up to vote for her because she was a bad candidate. 1.00

00:25:55.000 So what's the real rationale behind this impeachment?

00:25:56.000 As I say, it really is not about what Trump did.

00:25:59.000 It's really about Democrats fearing he's going to win.

00:26:01.000 Senator Chris Coons of Delaware, he says he is gravely concerned what Trump might do if not impeached.

00:26:05.000 It's a preemptive impeachment.

00:26:07.000 It's like preemptive war in Iraq.

00:26:08.000 It's a preemptive impeachment.

00:26:10.000 The only reason that Speaker Pelosi changed her position and supported moving ahead with an impeachment inquiry was because what Donald Trump is alleged to have done, and all evidence points to him having done it, which is to invite foreign interference in our next election.

00:26:25.000 That undermines the very core of our democracy, which is free and fair elections where foreign parties aren't influencing the outcome. 0.98

00:26:33.000 If he is ultimately exonerated in the Senate, if the Senate Republican majority refuses to discipline him through impeachment, he will be unbounded.

00:26:43.000 And I am gravely concerned about what else he might do between now and the 2020 election when there are no restrictions on his behavior.

00:26:51.000 Well, I mean, there are restrictions on his behavior.

00:26:53.000 The criminal law does not cease to apply between you impeaching him in the House and him being acquitted in the Senate.

00:26:58.000 If it turns out that tomorrow he goes over to the Ukrainians and says to them, in exchange for this particular military aid, I want you to arrest Joe Biden with no charges whatsoever, You can impeach him again tomorrow.

00:27:10.000 You can.

00:27:11.000 There are still checks and balances.

00:27:12.000 It's just that you guys have not proved your case.

00:27:15.000 All of this led to the bizarre spectacle over the weekend of the President of the United States insulting Nancy Pelosi's teeth.

00:27:19.000 Now, let me just say, I'm always up for a good Nancy Pelosi teeth joke.

00:27:23.000 In fact, I'm the originator of many Nancy Pelosi teeth jokes.

00:27:26.000 Every time I do my Nancy Pelosi impersonation, it's basically about her denture slipping around in that mouth.

00:27:30.000 Nancy Pelosi, very concerned.

00:27:32.000 Why are you insulting me as a Catholic?

00:27:35.000 I'm such a good Catholic.

00:27:36.000 Okay, so Donald Trump—the difference is that Trump's the president.

00:27:40.000 I'm just a guy who's doing a podcast.

00:27:42.000 In any case, here is Donald Trump.

00:27:45.000 He says, because Nancy's teeth—so Mark Meadows had tweeted out about a Nancy Pelosi statement that it wasn't true, and then Trump said, because Nancy's teeth were falling out of her mouth and she didn't have time to think.

00:27:57.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:27:59.000 So that's a look for the president.

00:28:01.000 Now, are we all going to get hot and bothered about this?

00:28:03.000 One of the constant sources of amusement to me is when people in the media act outraged at Trump being Trump.

00:28:08.000 He's Trump.

00:28:09.000 Get over it.

00:28:10.000 He's been Trump for a long time.

00:28:12.000 I remember I had a bit of a tiff online with Bill Kristol, formerly the Weekly Standard, now over at the Bulwark.

00:28:18.000 I'm going to have a tiff with Bill Kristol over this sort of thing.

00:28:20.000 Trump did something that was very Trumpy and pretty funny on his Twitter account and Bill Kristol was like, this disgraces the office of the presidency!

00:28:27.000 And I tweeted back to him like, Bill lighten up.

00:28:29.000 Are we going to act with fresh outrage every time Trump does what Trump does?

00:28:34.000 Of all the things to be outraged about, are we really going to be outraged because he insulted Nancy Pelosi's dentures?

00:28:39.000 Come on! 0.61

00:28:41.000 Come on, that doesn't even rank in his list of top 100 insults.

00:28:44.000 That's not even close to his most insulting or vulgar statement, probably of the day.

00:28:51.000 Absurd.

00:28:52.000 But here's CNN being very, very upset about all this.

00:28:55.000 And then a House Republican defended Trump's tweet saying that, you know, he's upset about things.

00:29:00.000 Yeah, he's upset about things.

00:29:01.000 He's being impeached on the basis of thin evidence.

00:29:02.000 I'd be upset about that, too.

00:29:04.000 Does that mean that I would be tweeting from the Oval Office where great presidents, where Ronald Reagan once sat, being like, teeth, man.

00:29:11.000 Look at that.

00:29:12.000 She needs a little bit more, a little bit more Pepsodent. 0.99

00:29:12.000 Look at that. 0.99

00:29:15.000 Look at that.

00:29:15.000 Oh, my gosh.

00:29:16.000 Look at those teeth. 0.56

00:29:19.000 No, but also the look of high dodging from the people at CNN is getting rather tiresome.

00:29:24.000 I think most Americans are kind of bored of it, frankly.

00:29:28.000 The president has a very unorthodox style of messaging.

00:29:30.000 It's not the way that I talk or that I would tweet.

00:29:33.000 But look, the president's very frustrated about how he's been treated.

00:29:37.000 He lashes out sometimes.

00:29:38.000 And I think a lot of the American people understand that.

00:29:41.000 It was mentioned just a moment ago in your discussion that he really hadn't gotten due process.

00:29:46.000 He didn't get a fair trial in the House.

00:29:48.000 And that's very bothersome to him because there's going to be an asterisk by his presidency in the history books.

00:29:54.000 That he was the third president to be impeached by the House.

00:29:56.000 And it's really not fair the way it's been done.

00:29:58.000 So he's frustrated about that.

00:30:00.000 So, and CNN's like, how could he say this?

00:30:03.000 And this was featured all over the media.

00:30:05.000 House Republican says he's frustrated?

00:30:06.000 No.

00:30:07.000 But let's be real about this.

00:30:09.000 Everybody who believes there is insufficient evidence thinks this whole process is a sham.

00:30:12.000 Lindsey Graham 2.0 among them.

00:30:14.000 Senator Graham says, I'm not going to pretend that I'm an unbiased source on this. 1.00

00:30:18.000 I have nothing but disdain for this entire idiotic process. 0.99

00:30:21.000 I have nothing but disdain for this. 0.99

00:30:23.000 I'm trying to make myself clear.

00:30:26.000 What you're doing in the House is bad for the presidency.

00:30:29.000 You're impeaching the President of the United States in a matter of weeks, not months.

00:30:34.000 You had a two-year investigation.

00:30:36.000 That wasn't enough.

00:30:37.000 I think this whole thing is a crock.

00:30:39.000 You're shutting the president out.

00:30:41.000 The process in the House, any partisan group could do this in the future.

00:30:45.000 You're weaponizing impeachment.

00:30:47.000 And I want to end it.

00:30:49.000 I don't want to legitimize it.

00:30:50.000 I hate what they're doing.

00:30:52.000 Well, in a second, I want to get to the Democrats attempting to make it seem bipartisan.

00:30:57.000 And a pretty good giveaway that Democrats were in purple districts and Trump districts who won in the last election cycle are very nervous about this impeachment process.

00:31:05.000 Pretty solid piece of evidence on that coming up in one second.

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00:33:30.000 The Democrats are now attempting to pretend that this thing is a little bit bipartisan, So the reason they're doing this, they're going to try.

00:33:44.000 Apparently, freshman Democrats are trying to push for Justin Amash as the impeachment manager in the House.

00:33:51.000 Amash has been a rogue congressperson.

00:33:53.000 He's elected as a Republican.

00:33:54.000 Now he's registered as an independent.

00:33:56.000 He's a very small government guy, sort of a Ron Paul Libertarian, in a lot of ways.

00:34:01.000 A group of 30 freshman Democrats, led by Representative Dean Phillips of Minnesota, has asked House leaders to consider the Libertarian, who left the Republican Party earlier this year, for the small group tasked with arguing its case for removing Trump in the upper chamber, according to several Democratic officials.

00:34:14.000 The thinking, is the Washington Post reporting, according to these people, is that Amash would reach conservative voters in a way Democrats can't, potentially bolstering their case to the public, which of course is untrue given the fact that Amash had to leave the Republican Party and may, in fact, lose his seat.

00:34:28.000 He would also provide Democrats cover from GOP accusations they're pursuing a partisan impeachment.

00:34:32.000 Amash is one of the most conservative members of the House and a vocal Trump critic.

00:34:36.000 Phillips said, to the extent that this can be bipartisan, it should.

00:34:39.000 I think including Representative Amash amongst the impeachment managers is a smart move for both the country, for the substance, and for the optics.

00:34:46.000 I love the newfound respect that Amash is receiving.

00:34:49.000 This is what we, in the conservative movement, call the strange new respect.

00:34:54.000 Every so often, if you criticize the right, if something on the right goes wrong and you point it out, you get strange new respect.

00:35:01.000 Well, Justin Amash has been receiving that ever since he decided that he'd come out in favor of impeachment.

00:35:06.000 Is he actually going to be given that?

00:35:07.000 No.

00:35:08.000 The Democratic leadership does not trust Amash with that because they never know what he might say.

00:35:11.000 Amash is enough of a rogue that he might start going off on the Democrats' spending habits and invasions of government.

00:35:17.000 Meanwhile, Representative Jeff Van Drew, who's an anti-impeachment Democrat, is now going to switch parties.

00:35:22.000 This demonstrates, again, that these Democrats are not quite as popular on this thing among independents as they say they are.

00:35:29.000 According to the New York Times, Representative Jeff Vandrew of New Jersey, a moderate Democrat who is among the party's staunchest opponents of impeaching Trump, told aides on Saturday, He plans to switch parties and declare himself a Republican as soon as next week, just as the House is casting its historic votes on articles of impeachment.

00:35:45.000 At a White House meeting on Friday, Van Drew sought Trump's blessing for the move, which could be critical to his ability to avoid a primary challenge next year.

00:35:51.000 The president urged him to make the jump, according to two Democrats and one Republican, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the talks were intended to be private.

00:35:59.000 Andrew has spoken with senior advisors to Trump about announcing his switch at an event at the White House either immediately before or just after the House votes on two articles of impeachment, which is expected to happen on Wednesday, according to Republicans and Democrats.

00:36:10.000 Now, typically, when a member of a big political party has switched, that's been big news.

00:36:15.000 We can go all the way back to Jim Jeffords switching parties and thus switching control of the Senate of the United States back in the early 2000s.

00:36:22.000 But this is obviously big news in the middle of an impeachment hearing.

00:36:25.000 You have a guy who is a blue vote in a in a red district in New Jersey switching parties because he believes that he's not going to be able to win reelection if he supports the impeachment.

00:36:37.000 The move would provide a silver lining for Trump as he becomes the third president ever to be impeached, according to the New York Times.

00:36:42.000 The decision by Van Drew reflects the heavy political consequences hanging over next week's impeachment vote, particularly for moderate Democrats in districts that supported Trump in 2016.

00:36:50.000 There are about 30 Democrats who are sitting in districts that supported Trump.

00:36:53.000 Republicans are targeting those districts heavily.

00:36:55.000 The impeachment vote could come back to haunt all of those people.

00:36:59.000 Jerry Nadler, for his part, leading the House Judiciary Committee, ripped into Van Drew, saying that the real reason he's not doing this, the real reason he's switching, is not out of principle, it's out of political fear.

00:37:10.000 What he's reacting to is a public polling that shows he can't get re-nominated.

00:37:15.000 His electorate in his district is 24% to re-nominate him and 60% to nominate somebody else.

00:37:21.000 But more to the point, this is not political.

00:37:24.000 We should not be looking at those things.

00:37:26.000 This is the defense of our democracy.

00:37:28.000 Do we stay a democratic republic?

00:37:30.000 Or do we turn into a tyranny?

00:37:32.000 And what is fascinating here is that members of Van Drew's own constituency, Michael Suleman, the Atlantic County Democratic chairman, actually wrote a letter to Van Drew.

00:37:41.000 He said, I'm imploring you to vote in favor of impeachment.

00:37:43.000 A no vote on impeachment will suppress Democratic turnout down ballot, which my organization cannot sustain.

00:37:48.000 In other words, if they try this impeachment and it turns out to come to nothing, that could actually suppress the Democratic efforts to get out the vote.

00:37:53.000 Everybody's so depressed.

00:37:54.000 And it is interesting that Democrats Are this early playing the card that they almost expect Trump to win if he's not impeached?

00:38:02.000 That's the only reason that you put out there the preventative message that if Trump is elected, it's illegitimate because you actually expect that he's going to win.

00:38:10.000 Meanwhile, in the Senate, Chuck Schumer is attempting to military, but he has no power in the Senate, so it doesn't really matter.

00:38:15.000 Just as this House thing has been run as a sham, the Senate thing will be run as a sham also.

00:38:20.000 The Senate Republicans are going to rush this thing through.

00:38:23.000 Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader, he has no interest in dragging this thing out, and he does not think that the Democrats proved their case in the House.

00:38:29.000 So, Chuck Schumer is now trying to force Mitch McConnell to call a bunch of witnesses from the White House.

00:38:35.000 Those witnesses from the White House already said they are not testifying in front of Congress.

00:38:39.000 And the Democrats could have called them in the House. 0.85

00:38:41.000 All they had to do was wait this thing out, but they refused to wait this thing out because they know they're not going to get it.

00:38:44.000 So instead, Schumer is going to pretend that McConnell is engaging in a cover-up by not calling the same witnesses Democrats refused to wait for over on the House side.

00:38:53.000 According to Axios.com, Schumer has now sent a letter to McConnell in which he asks the Republican leader to call four witnesses who refused to testify before the House impeachment committees.

00:39:02.000 The witnesses Schumer has asked for all have direct knowledge of Trump administration decisions, He wants the Senate to call Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House Chief of Staff, John Bolton, the former NSA, Michael Duffy, the Associate Director for National Security, Office of Management and Budget, and Robert Blair, Senior Advisor to Mulvaney.

00:39:21.000 The Senate Democratic leader's request may appeal to some moderate Republicans, but that obviously is going nowhere.

00:39:27.000 And the reason that it is going nowhere, obviously, is because why exactly would McConnell call people that, again, the Democrats could have called but would not wait for?

00:39:34.000 Let's not pretend here that Democrats had no authority to call these people.

00:39:37.000 Some of them, they didn't even issue legal subpoenas to.

00:39:39.000 Some of them, they were just like, here's a request to show up at the House.

00:39:42.000 And these people are like, no, don't think so.

00:39:44.000 And he's like, obstruction of Congress!

00:39:47.000 That's the way that this thing has gone so far.

00:39:50.000 So, it's a sham.

00:39:52.000 The House will vote to impeach.

00:39:53.000 By mid-January, this thing will be over in the Senate.

00:39:55.000 It'll all be in the past.

00:39:57.000 And people have already taken their stances.

00:40:00.000 There are some varying poll statistics on how popular this is.

00:40:02.000 There's a Fox News poll that said 54% of Americans support the impeachment at this point.

00:40:07.000 But there are other polls suggesting that it's well under 50%.

00:40:10.000 The Fox News poll is actually a little bit of an outlier.

00:40:13.000 Suffice it to say that after it fails in the Senate, I do not think that it does any damage to President Trump long term.

00:40:18.000 It didn't do any damage to Bill Clinton long term, obviously.

00:40:21.000 He was impeached in the House and then acquitted in the Senate.

00:40:24.000 Meanwhile, the fight over the FBI and the Intelligence Committee continues.

00:40:29.000 Over the weekend, James Comey found himself on the hot seat, the former head of the FBI, who had declared himself the wisest and fairest person.

00:40:36.000 The kind of guy who, in his off hours, just goes out into nature, and stares at trees, and takes upward-angled pictures of himself, hero shots, backlit.

00:40:47.000 That guy who's appearing on national TV with Chris Wallace and he acknowledged, yeah, you know, that whole FISA process that I oversaw going after Carter Page.

00:40:55.000 Maybe I was like a little overconfident on that whole thing.

00:40:58.000 Also, he's wearing the world's ugliest jacket.

00:41:01.000 I know it's beside the point.

00:41:01.000 I just felt like I needed to point it out.

00:41:03.000 Here's James Comey.

00:41:04.000 He's right.

00:41:05.000 I was wrong.

00:41:05.000 I was overconfident in the procedures that the FBI and Justice had built over 20 years.

00:41:11.000 I thought they were robust enough.

00:41:13.000 It's incredibly hard to get a FISA.

00:41:15.000 I was overconfident in those because he's right.

00:41:17.000 There was real sloppiness.

00:41:18.000 17 things that either should have been in the applications or at least discussed and characterized differently.

00:41:23.000 It was not acceptable.

00:41:25.000 And so he's right.

00:41:26.000 I was wrong.

00:41:26.000 But you make it sound like you're a bystander, an eyewitness.

00:41:30.000 You were the director of the FBI.

00:41:31.000 Well, a lot of this was going on, sir.

00:41:33.000 Sure.

00:41:33.000 I'm responsible for that.

00:41:34.000 That's what I'm telling you.

00:41:35.000 I was wrong.

00:41:36.000 I was overconfident as director.

00:41:40.000 Yeah, yeah, I love that.

00:41:42.000 I love the comic.

00:41:43.000 Man, he's become just, wow.

00:41:45.000 Remember when that guy was the image of the lawman?

00:41:48.000 Showed up like Gary Cooper in High Noon.

00:41:51.000 I'm here to do some frontier justice.

00:41:54.000 And now it's, well, I guess the mistake's made.

00:41:57.000 And Chris Wallace is like, well, yeah, you were in charge of the agents.

00:41:59.000 Right, I was overconfident.

00:42:01.000 The overconfidence wasn't the problem.

00:42:03.000 Maybe.

00:42:04.000 Maybe is that there was a system of bias in which the people who are investigating this thing thought that they were going to come down on one side or the other.

00:42:10.000 And by the way, if you notice the treatment of the Hillary Clinton case next to the treatment of the Donald Trump case, what you see is that top members of the FBI were firmly convinced that Hillary had done nothing wrong.

00:42:20.000 James Comey rewrote the law in order to make it that Hillary Clinton had done nothing wrong.

00:42:24.000 Meanwhile, his FBI was pursuing a FISA warrant against Carter Page that, according to the IG, was rife with 17 errors on four separate applications.

00:42:32.000 There were people working on this thing over and over.

00:42:36.000 Error after error after error. 0.50

00:42:38.000 The continued involvement of the crap steel dossier in the entire investigation.

00:42:44.000 Chris Wallace asks the relevant question.

00:42:45.000 He says, why is it that every single mistake was made in the same direction?

00:42:49.000 How exactly are you claiming there was no bias here?

00:42:53.000 Hey, this is exactly right!

00:42:54.000 This is exactly right!

00:42:54.000 Horowitz says there was no political bias in opening the investigation.

00:42:58.000 He talks about problems with the five big problems with the FISA process.

00:43:03.000 But isn't it harder to argue that there was no political bias overall when you see 17 mistakes made by three teams on four separate FISA applications?

00:43:14.000 And this is exactly right.

00:43:16.000 This is exactly right.

00:43:18.000 If you read the actual IG report, the claim is that he has to overcome a very low standard in order to find that there was no bias.

00:43:25.000 All he has to do...

00:43:27.000 is overcome the presumption that there was bias, meaning all he has to do is say, OK, they give a plausible excuse that that bias is not the explanation.

00:43:36.000 I'll just accept that.

00:43:37.000 But the fact is that if you looked at this many errors, it's like the arguments about bias in the media.

00:43:42.000 People on the right, they look at social medias, Twitter, how Twitter runs its business, how Google runs its business.

00:43:45.000 They say, OK, why is that every single error committed by these businesses cuts against the right?

00:43:50.000 They look at the media, they look at The New York Times and The Washington Post.

00:43:53.000 When was the last time that the New York Times or the Washington Post had to correct a story because it was too biased in favor of the right or against somebody on the left?

00:43:59.000 And the answer is pretty much never.

00:44:01.000 And so we say, right, when all the errors line up in one direction, this is no longer just people making mistakes.

00:44:06.000 This is people making mistakes in a particular direction.

00:44:08.000 And that's exactly what happened over at the FBI.

00:44:12.000 Meanwhile, Adam Schiff, it turns out, was lying pretty much openly to the American people.

00:44:16.000 There were these dueling memos that went out.

00:44:17.000 We reviewed them at the time, one from Devin Nunes and one from Adam Schiff, about the nature of the FISA warrant.

00:44:23.000 Devin Nunes had suggested that the FISA warrant was completely botched, that it was based on the Steele dossier, that the judge had not been properly informed of the bias inside the Steele dossier.

00:44:34.000 And Schiff had said, no, no, no, the FISA warrant was perfectly fine.

00:44:36.000 Here's Chris Wallace pointing out to Adam Schiff, dude, you seem to have lied to the American people.

00:44:40.000 At that time, in 2018, you said the FBI and Department of Justice did not, quote, omit material information.

00:44:50.000 Apparently, you did not know at the time that, in fact, Steele's main Russian sources had told the FBI that he had misrepresented what that Russian source had said, and that the FBI knew at the time that Carter Page, in fact, was acting as a contact, as an unofficial source for the CIA.

00:45:07.000 Given what you know now, we talked earlier to Director Comey and he basically said I was wrong in what I represented back in 2018.

00:45:17.000 Are you willing to admit that you were wrong in your defense of the FBI's FISA process?

00:45:23.000 I'm certainly willing to admit that the Inspector General found serious abuses of FISA that I was unaware of.

00:45:30.000 Oh, that he was unaware of.

00:45:31.000 He was unaware of them.

00:45:33.000 He kept claiming over and over and over that he had insider information that Trump was going to be unmasked as a Russian cat's paw.

00:45:38.000 And now it's like, oh, well, I just didn't have the information.

00:45:40.000 Oh, is that what it is? 0.91

00:45:41.000 Or is that you're a congenital liar and that you spend a lot of your time lying, Adam Schiff, who led the impeachment process against Trump? 0.89

00:45:47.000 It is impossible to separate out all these strands. 0.79

00:45:50.000 And for the American people, I think it's very difficult to separate out all these strands.

00:45:53.000 You got Comey and the FBI committing a series of, at best, errors that harmed the president, leading to a two-year investigation that ends up finding nothing in the way of actual Trump-Russia collusion.

00:46:02.000 And then that's followed by a Ukraine process that's led by Adam Schiff, the same guy who was leading up the Trump-Mueller investigation in the House and apparently lying repeatedly to the American public.

00:46:14.000 All that's going to come out from this is that the American people don't have time to watch all this.

00:46:18.000 They don't.

00:46:18.000 They don't have time to separate out all the strands.

00:46:20.000 And the reason they don't have time to separate out all the strands is because everyone here is a politically motivated actor.

00:46:24.000 There is not even a shred of honesty apparently on any side.

00:46:28.000 And so most Americans are going to go, either I like Trump or I don't like Trump.

00:46:30.000 Either the economy is good or the economy isn't.

00:46:32.000 And that's how I'm going to vote.

00:46:33.000 That's how this thing comes down in the end.

00:46:35.000 And that's why you're starting to see the Democrats panic.

00:46:38.000 And it really is panic.

00:46:39.000 There are two separate articles in the New York Times today.

00:46:42.000 Trying to talk down the economy.

00:46:43.000 When I say talk down the economy, I don't mean like they're saying that the economy is going to downturn.

00:46:48.000 Everybody always says that.

00:46:49.000 I remember saying it during the Obama years.

00:46:51.000 Oh sure, you know, the economy is not as strong as Trump says, as Obama says it is.

00:46:56.000 There are two separate articles in the New York Times today talking about why GDP numbers are false and also why Trump is not succeeding in the swing states.

00:47:06.000 Okay, there's only one problem.

00:47:07.000 He is succeeding in the swing states and the economy is incredibly, incredibly strong right now.

00:47:11.000 There is an article in the New York Times by Ben Castleman and Carl Russell.

00:47:15.000 It says there are economic warning signs for Trump in the Midwest.

00:47:18.000 And then it shows a graphic.

00:47:19.000 And the graphic shows percentage change in total employment.

00:47:22.000 Every single state in the United States has seen an increase in change in total employment between December 2016 and October 2019.

00:47:31.000 Since Trump took office.

00:47:32.000 Every.

00:47:32.000 Single.

00:47:33.000 State.

00:47:33.000 By the way, the states that are doing the best?

00:47:36.000 Unsurprisingly happen to be the states that are the least regulated and have the highest access to human capital.

00:47:43.000 States in the South tend to be doing particularly well.

00:47:45.000 Nevada has seen a 9.1% increase in employment.

00:47:46.000 Texas has seen a 6.6% increase in employment.

00:47:52.000 Colorado has seen a 6.4% increase in employment.

00:47:56.000 Utah, 9.6%.

00:47:57.000 I mean, these are big, big numbers.

00:47:59.000 Florida, 6.9%.

00:48:00.000 What are the areas that have not been growing as fast?

00:48:02.000 Naturally, the areas that you would expect, right?

00:48:05.000 The areas with manufacturing areas that have been downturning for a while because of technological increases.

00:48:11.000 But still, Minnesota is up 2.2%.

00:48:12.000 Wisconsin is up 1.6%.

00:48:13.000 Michigan is up 1.8%.

00:48:13.000 Ohio is up 1.6%.

00:48:13.000 Michigan is up 1.8%.

00:48:16.000 Ohio is up 1.6%.

00:48:17.000 Pennsylvania is up 2.6%.

00:48:19.000 It's interesting to note that there are some lefty states, liberal states that have really been lagging as well.

00:48:26.000 Ohio's up 1.6% as well.

00:48:29.000 According to the New York Times, though, job growth has been slow in key states.

00:48:32.000 Yes, but it's called job growth.

00:48:34.000 Job growth.

00:48:36.000 Apart from agriculture and manufacturing, everything is going okay, said Ernie Gross, an economist at Creighton University in Omaha, who publishes an economic index that tracks nine states from Minnesota to Arkansas.

00:48:45.000 In this part of the country, that's not comforting.

00:48:47.000 Those are two industries we depend on.

00:48:49.000 Yes, but those industries were never going to be held up absent massive subsidies from the federal government.

00:48:54.000 But I love that the New York Times is trying to claim that this is a problem for Trump.

00:48:59.000 Again, economic growth across the board is not a problem for Trump.

00:49:02.000 It is a very good thing for President Trump.

00:49:04.000 There's another article in the New York Times today from David Leonhardt called, Why You Shouldn't Believe These GDP Numbers.

00:49:09.000 Funny, you seem to believe them when Barack Obama was president.

00:49:11.000 Now, all of a sudden, you don't believe the GDP numbers.

00:49:14.000 Instead, it's that Americans are dissatisfied.

00:49:17.000 They're dissatisfied.

00:49:18.000 Because GDP keeps on rising, but it no longer tracks the well-being of most Americans.

00:49:22.000 Well, actually, it does track the well-being of most Americans in terms of the products and services available to them.

00:49:28.000 In terms of living standards in the United States, it does track that fairly well.

00:49:31.000 The GDP undervalues the growth of the American economy, because the GDP has always been about what is spent on products and services.

00:49:37.000 So, services that are free, like for example, every time you use Google Maps, you just added value to your life.

00:49:42.000 That did not add to the GDP in any way.

00:49:44.000 But, so many of the things that we take advantage of on a daily basis are things that don't add to GDP.

00:49:49.000 America's growth has been far more explosive than GDP numbers have shown over the past few decades because information technology is particularly hard to value inside GDP.

00:49:57.000 But according to David Leonhardt, GDP is overestimating the amount of growth happening in the economy and that's why you should vote Trump.

00:50:04.000 The desperation here, you can feel it, it's getting strong.

00:50:06.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then things I hate. 0.99

00:50:09.000 So, would you like to watch an incredibly stupid movie that is also fun? 0.99

00:50:13.000 So, I'm into incredibly stupid movies that are fun. 1.00

00:50:16.000 My wife particularly likes them. 0.99

00:50:18.000 I have Once Upon a Time in Hollywood on rental, but I know that I can't watch that with my wife.

00:50:23.000 She's not a Tarantino person.

00:50:25.000 I'm not either, but at least I can take the blood and gore. 0.92

00:50:28.000 What she is into is dumb action movies, which is one of the reasons I love my wife. 1.00

00:50:31.000 Dr. Shapiro is very into dumb action movies, and this is a completely stupid action movie that has some great action sequences and is also very dumb, as I say. 0.99

00:50:39.000 Hobbes and Shaw. 0.99

00:50:40.000 So, first of all, let's just say this. 0.99

00:50:42.000 Dwayne The Rock Johnson is a national treasure, and everything that he is in is wonderful, and I don't care how stupid it is. 0.99

00:50:47.000 Rampage is wonderful, no matter how dumb it is. 0.98

00:50:49.000 I will go and I will watch Jumanji 2. 0.95

00:50:51.000 I will do it.

00:50:53.000 Don't make me turn this bus around.

00:50:54.000 It will happen.

00:50:56.000 This movie is a spin-off of the Fast and Furious franchise, and it features Jason Statham, another one of my personal favorites.

00:51:02.000 If you've never seen him in The Transporter, he's great.

00:51:05.000 He's great in The Italian Job.

00:51:06.000 Also, they make a kind of cute reference to it in this movie.

00:51:08.000 Hobbs & Shaw. 0.99

00:51:09.000 It's at least half an hour too long, but it is dramatically stupid and wonderful at the same time. 0.98

00:51:14.000 Here is a little bit of the preview for Hobbs & Shaw. 0.98

00:51:19.000 - Serious trouble.

00:51:20.000 - That's an understatement.

00:51:22.000 - Let's get old school. 1.00

00:51:23.000 - It's so dumb. 0.99

00:51:29.000 - Well, all right. 1.00

00:51:32.000 - Okay, this movie is so publish and so ridiculous. 0.87

00:51:42.000 And yet, it is fun. 0.59

00:51:43.000 Idris Elba plays the villain.

00:51:45.000 I'm a big Idris Elba fan.

00:51:46.000 I have said that Idris Elba would make a good James Bond, which he would.

00:51:50.000 But this movie, I can't say it enough. 0.99

00:51:53.000 Dumb action movies are America. 0.96

00:51:55.000 And if you love America, then this is the kind of movie that you're probably into. 0.61

00:51:59.000 So check it out, Hobbs & Shaw, available on rental for like $4.99 on Amazon.

00:52:03.000 So that was definitely a good deal.

00:52:04.000 If you've got a big screen at home, Totally worth it.

00:52:07.000 Okay. 0.94

00:52:10.000 It's so silly. 0.94

00:52:11.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate. 0.93

00:52:14.000 So the House Democrats and President Trump have been ushering in an era of goodwill, believe it or not, when it comes to passing legislation.

00:52:27.000 So over the weekend, the House Democrats passed a National Defense Authorization Act budget by a 377 to 48 vote.

00:52:34.000 Basically, everybody wants to clear the tables for 2020.

00:52:37.000 We will be spending $738 billion on a defense bill.

00:52:42.000 It has some good stuff.

00:52:42.000 It funds the U.S.-Mexico border wall.

00:52:44.000 The space force and continued U.S.

00:52:46.000 support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen.

00:52:48.000 It hands Trump a big win, according to Business Insider, as Democrats are simultaneously on the brink of impeaching him.

00:52:53.000 It also does raise spending.

00:52:54.000 We're blowing out spending at insane, insane rates.

00:52:58.000 Also, the Democrats are working on passing the USMCA, which is the replacement for NAFTA, which does have some enormous giveaways to the unions.

00:53:08.000 It basically restricts the amount of a car that has to be manufactured in the United States in order to avoid tariffs.

00:53:13.000 It restricts The the wages that can be paid in other countries in order to avoid tariffs.

00:53:18.000 So that's good for American car manufacturing.

00:53:21.000 It is not good at all for the for the American consumer.

00:53:26.000 It's good for unions.

00:53:27.000 But again, as we saw in the 1940s, 50s and 60s in the United States car industry, what is good for American unions?

00:53:34.000 When it comes to the car industry, it's not particularly good for the car industry in the long run because eventually those tariffs come down and everybody else is more competitive.

00:53:40.000 Pat Toomey is very critical of the new NAFTA deal.

00:53:44.000 Here he is explaining.

00:53:46.000 We've had trade deficits with the rest of the world for over 40 consecutive years.

00:53:51.000 And what country has the biggest economy, the highest standard of living, the strongest growth, and the best prospects going forward?

00:53:58.000 We do.

00:53:58.000 And that's because trade deficits don't matter.

00:54:00.000 That money gets reinvested back in the United States.

00:54:03.000 So unfortunately, USMCA is an exercise through all kinds of new provisions to diminish trade and that's why I hope Republicans will reconsider this.

00:54:13.000 We've historically recognized that we're all better off with more open markets.

00:54:18.000 Why do you think the administration thought Pelosi had more leverage than they did?

00:54:22.000 I don't have an explanation for that, Chuck, but in the end there's no question it's a complete capitulation to Pelosi.

00:54:28.000 Now there's a lot of talk about how this is going to help auto companies in the United States.

00:54:31.000 It may help domestically based auto companies, but a lot of auto companies that are based in foreign nations have built factories in the United States.

00:54:39.000 The increase in labor costs in places like Mexico and the United States means that maybe those cars get built overseas instead and then shipped into the United States if they're not going to be able to meet those requirements of being manufactured in the United States anyway.

00:54:51.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, what is actually in the USMCA is US labor unions and Democrats have tried to unionize Mexican workers to drive up wages in the Mexican auto industry, which of course means that cars are going to cost more for American consumers.

00:55:06.000 All fun and games for many of the members of the unions, like the UAW.

00:55:09.000 Not necessarily fun and games for the American consumer, who eventually is going to opt for the cheaper car anyway, because that is what has historically happened.

00:55:17.000 USMCA, according to the Wall Street Journal, also significantly tightens the rules that the auto industry has to follow in order to trade vehicles duty-free in the United States, in North America.

00:55:25.000 A certain proportion of a car will have to be produced by workers with higher wages.

00:55:28.000 A greater proportion of components will have to originate in North America.

00:55:31.000 Again, that hurts consumers.

00:55:33.000 A deal to pass USMCA means farmers of major crops don't have to worry about President Trump potentially pulling out of the existing NAFTA.

00:55:39.000 It leaves them fewer major export markets.

00:55:42.000 This is the good side of the USMCA.

00:55:46.000 Big drug makers are likely to be disappointed because the Democrats did push the Trump administration to remove language that would have protected expensive biologic drugs from generic imitators for 10 years.

00:55:55.000 The existing NAFTA treaty has no such drug protections.

00:55:58.000 So there are some upsides and some downsides here.

00:56:00.000 Bottom line is we are blowing out spending.

00:56:02.000 Nancy Pelosi got a lot of wins for the unions inside the new NAFTA. 0.98

00:56:06.000 And a lot of this is happening in the run-up to the election, specifically because Trump wants the tables cleared.

00:56:11.000 This is also why he has signed a partial trade deal with the Chinese in order to clear the decks for 2020.

00:56:15.000 Again, politically smart.

00:56:16.000 Good for the United States long run?

00:56:18.000 Probably not.

00:56:18.000 There should be bipartisan understanding that China is in fact a geopolitical enemy of the United States.

00:56:23.000 But absent that understanding, Trump signing this thing, it makes political sense.

00:56:28.000 He doesn't want the Chinese sinking the economy a month before the election.

00:56:32.000 Meanwhile, Democrats are working on even more legislation.

00:56:35.000 According to the Washington Examiner, the House will vote on legislation to fund the government for the fiscal year, which will dodge a government shutdown, and lawmakers will also likely vote on a long-awaited major trade deal between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada this week.

00:56:47.000 Pelosi, a California Democrat, has won passage of several major bills in December, including prescription drug legislation, a defense spending authorization measure, and a bill that overhauls the immigrant guest worker program.

00:56:58.000 In a clear signal that Pelosi wants to shift the focus away from impeachment, she designated Representative Kim Schreier, a Washington Democrat who represents a swing district, to deliver the party's swing address.

00:57:07.000 Weekly address, rather.

00:57:08.000 Schreier downplayed the impeachment vote.

00:57:10.000 vote.

00:57:10.000 She said, in my district, it's not impeachment.

00:57:11.000 It's not what is on the front page of the newspapers in Washington, D.C.

00:57:14.000 It's what are you going to do to bring down the cost of prescription drugs?

00:57:17.000 Republicans who oppose the impeachment have repeatedly criticized House Democrats for focusing on impeachment.

00:57:23.000 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced the trade deal, the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement.

00:57:28.000 He said it would not get a full vote until after the Senate takes up a trial to consider the articles of impeachment.

00:57:33.000 So Democrats are trying to force this through, again, demonstrating they don't actually have a lot of faith in the impeachment effort.

00:57:38.000 They believe that in the end, this is going to harm them, which is why they're trying to ram through a bunch of legislation.

00:57:43.000 Trump also wants a bunch of legislation rammed through so he can add to his list of accomplishments, even if those accomplishments are not particularly conservative.

00:57:50.000 And I am starting to hear kickback from certain conservative members of the Senate and the House of Representatives saying that these deals that he's cutting with Pelosi have been like every other deal he's cut with Pelosi, rife with enormous amounts of government spending and giveaways to Nancy Pelosi's key constituencies.

00:58:04.000 Getting things done at the federal level was never the goal of the Founding Fathers, but since we now live in a world where it's considered a complete catastrophe if any sort of gridlock takes place, of course Trump is going to do this in the lead up to 2020.

00:58:17.000 That's not a justification for signing bad bills.

00:58:19.000 It is an explanation of what exactly Trump is doing.

00:58:22.000 So impeachment means nothing?

00:58:24.000 It's not going to accomplish anything.

00:58:26.000 The only thing in the end that is going to continue to result is America blowing out the spending, and that's on Republicans and it's on Democrats.

00:58:32.000 Okay, we'll be here a little bit later for two additional hours of content.

00:58:35.000 Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.

00:58:36.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - December 16, 2019

When Is OK Just Not Okay? | Ep. 917

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