The Ben Shapiro Show - Where The Shameless Win The Day | Ep. 752

00:00:00.000 Joe Biden apologizes for his tactile politics.

00:00:03.000 Democrats pay homage to Al Sharpton.

00:00:05.000 And the Mueller report?

00:00:06.000 It could be worse for Trump than we thought.

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00:01:24.000 Okay, so we begin today with a couple of supposed bombshell reports.

00:01:28.000 One from the New York Times, one from the Washington Post.

00:01:30.000 Both about the Mueller Report.

00:01:32.000 So as we know, the Democrats have been pushing the narrative that Attorney General William Barr engaged in a cover-up when he released a four-page letter, which we read word-for-word on the air, in which he talked about the bottom-line findings of the Mueller Report.

00:01:44.000 And what he said in that letter, effectively, is that the Mueller Report found that there was no collusion.

00:01:48.000 There was no collusion between either Trump or the Trump campaign and the Russian government to affect the 2016 election.

00:01:54.000 And also that Mueller had not actually made a determination on obstruction of justice.

00:01:58.000 He had presented evidence on both sides and Barr had decided not to prosecute.

00:02:02.000 That was the only thing, right?

00:02:03.000 That was basically the entirety of the letter.

00:02:05.000 And then he said, you know, in the next couple of weeks, I'm going to release as much as I legally can.

00:02:10.000 Under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 6E, I'm not allowed to release information that wrongly implicates people or that creates the perception of implication without any sort of evidentiary support.

00:02:22.000 I'm not allowed to release that sort of stuff, for example, unverified witness testimony, because all that does is slanders people without us having any intent to prosecute.

00:02:30.000 Well, the Democrats have seized upon that to say that this is a big cover-up.

00:02:34.000 That in reality, the Mueller Report, which is about 400 pages, and should apparently be released sometime in the next couple of weeks, that the Mueller Report, in truth, secretly, is actually a damning indictment of the Trump campaign and the Trump administration, and that it really is going to put out in public view all sorts of stuff we didn't know.

00:02:51.000 Now, I have been doubtful for a very long time that this is the case.

00:02:54.000 Simply because we know a lot already.

00:02:57.000 A lot of material was leaking out.

00:02:59.000 So we knew about the Trump Tower meeting because Don Jr.

00:03:01.000 actually tweeted that out.

00:03:03.000 He just tweeted out the Trump Tower meeting.

00:03:05.000 We know about President Trump telling people that he would like to fire Robert Mueller repeatedly because Trump sort of said this stuff openly.

00:03:12.000 Trump is not a good secret keeper.

00:03:14.000 And there were lots of stories about him going to Don McGahn, who's the White House counsel, and saying to him, I would like to end this investigation.

00:03:20.000 McGahn saying, no, that's a bad idea.

00:03:22.000 And Trump going, oh, OK.

00:03:23.000 And that's the end of it.

00:03:24.000 So what additional material will there be that changes the nature of that narrative?

00:03:29.000 I am not sure there'll be much.

00:03:31.000 Nonetheless, the media are now ferreting out information, supposedly from Team Mueller, about how William Barr is not properly representing the results of the Mueller report.

00:03:42.000 In other words, the Mueller report is really, really bad for Trump, and Barr has downplayed how bad it is for Trump.

00:03:47.000 By the way, we'll know all of this in the next two weeks, because Barr has said he's going to release a lot of this stuff, and Congress could just change the law.

00:03:53.000 If Congress really cared about this, all they could do is just change the law and say that we do not require redactions when we are talking about a secret report handed over to the Judiciary Committee.

00:04:04.000 They could do that, like, right now.

00:04:06.000 According to the New York Times, however, there is a cover-up in place.

00:04:09.000 They say some on Mueller's team say a report was more damaging than Barr revealed.

00:04:13.000 Well, it would be hard for it to be more damaging than Barr revealed because Barr didn't reveal very much.

00:04:16.000 Again, Barr said no evidence of collusion.

00:04:20.000 Also, we were provided evidence on both sides of the obstruction question.

00:04:23.000 We didn't have enough evidence to prosecute.

00:04:25.000 That's what the letter actually said, so not sure how it's going to be significantly more damning than that, but here is the New York Times reporting.

00:04:32.000 Some of Robert Mueller's investigators have told associates that Attorney General William Barr failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry and that they were more troubling for President Trump than Mr. Barr indicated, according to government officials and others familiar with their simmering frustrations.

00:04:47.000 Okay, so let's break down that paragraph just in terms of where the sourcing is coming from.

00:04:51.000 It is not coming direct from Mueller.

00:04:52.000 It is not coming direct from Mueller's team.

00:04:54.000 It is coming from people who talked, supposedly, to members of Mueller's team.

00:04:58.000 So this is now a second-hand account being reported to the New York Times, which makes it a third-hand account.

00:05:03.000 Because it's government officials and others familiar with simmering frustrations.

00:05:08.000 At stake in the dispute, the first evidence of tension between Mr. Barr and the special counsel's office is who shapes the public's initial understanding of one of the most consequential government investigations in American history.

00:05:18.000 Some members of Mr. Mueller's team are concerned that because Mr. Barr created the first narrative of the special counsel's findings, Americans' views will have hardened before the investigation's conclusions become public.

00:05:28.000 But the investigation's conclusions are already public.

00:05:31.000 They were made public in the Barr report.

00:05:33.000 What Democrats are talking about are not the conclusions.

00:05:36.000 I mean, this is pretty bad media coverage, honestly.

00:05:38.000 What the Democrats are talking about is not the conclusions of the Mueller team, but the underlying evidence that the Mueller team provided to William Barr.

00:05:47.000 We already know the conclusions.

00:05:49.000 And as far as our perceptions having hardened, what the polls actually show is that people's perceptions were hardened long before the Barr report actually came out.

00:05:57.000 In fact, the vast majority of Republicans thought this was a witch hunt.

00:06:00.000 Most Americans thought this was overblown.

00:06:03.000 Still, a plurality of Americans think that the Trump team was guilty of something, even if they can't say what.

00:06:08.000 So, opinions have basically been shaped already, and not universally in favor of President Trump.

00:06:13.000 Nonetheless, the New York Times is trying to push the theory that the media didn't blow this entire story from top to bottom, that really, secretly, there will be some sort of magical elixir in the Mueller report that will allow them to claim that they did a great job covering this thing, even though it didn't result the way they wanted it to.

00:06:29.000 According to the New York Times, Mr. Barr has said he will move quickly to release the nearly 400-page report But needs time to scrub out confidential information.

00:06:36.000 The special counsel's investigators had already written multiple summaries of the report.

00:06:40.000 Some team members believe that Mr. Barr should have included more of their material in the four-page letter he wrote on March 24th laying out their main conclusions according to government officials familiar with the investigation.

00:06:49.000 Again, this is third-hand reporting because it is not actually people who are on Mueller's team.

00:06:55.000 It is people who are familiar with people who are on Mueller's team being reported by the New York Times.

00:07:00.000 And if the complaint is that Barr should have cited more stuff in the original letter, well, again, the American public, I'm sure, is going to be curious about what exactly is in that Mueller report.

00:07:08.000 I mean, we've spent $25 million on it.

00:07:10.000 I feel like we should know.

00:07:12.000 And that's all going to be coming out in the next couple of weeks.

00:07:15.000 The special counsel's office never asked Mr. Barr to release the summaries.

00:07:18.000 Soon after he received the report, a person familiar with the investigation said, So what?

00:07:25.000 So what?

00:07:26.000 Do they understand how chain of command works over at the New York Times?

00:07:29.000 The Justice Department is underneath the auspices of the Attorney General.

00:07:32.000 What are they talking about?

00:07:33.000 Who cares what the Justice Department asked Barr to release?

00:07:35.000 Barr gets to release what he wants.

00:07:36.000 He's the head of the Justice Department.

00:07:38.000 That's like somebody saying that my producer wants me to say something on the air.

00:07:42.000 That's nice.

00:07:43.000 Okay.

00:07:44.000 Whatever.

00:07:46.000 The Justice Department quickly determined that the summaries contained sensitive information, like classified material, secret grand jury testimony, and information related to current federal investigations that must remain confidential, according to two government officials.

00:07:58.000 Barr was also wary of departing from Justice Department practice not to disclose derogatory details in closing an investigation, according to two government officials familiar with Barr's thinking.

00:08:07.000 They pointed to the decision by James Comey, the former FBI director, to harshly criticize Hillary Clinton in 2016.

00:08:13.000 Well, announcing that he was recommending no charges in the inquiry into her email practices.

00:08:17.000 And this is right, by the way.

00:08:19.000 James Comey never should have given that press conference in which he laid out all of the Hillary flaws and why she should be indicted, and then reached the conclusion that she shouldn't have been indicted.

00:08:28.000 If he had reached the conclusion, no indictment, he should have just said, no indictment, I didn't find evidence necessary to prosecute here.

00:08:35.000 He didn't do that.

00:08:36.000 And he ended up really hurting Hillary Clinton pretty badly in that campaign because of it.

00:08:40.000 The officials and others interviewed declined to flesh out why some of the special counsel's investigators viewed their findings as potentially more damaging for the president than Mr. Barr explained, although the report is believed to examine Mr. Trump's efforts to thwart the investigation.

00:08:52.000 So I love this.

00:08:53.000 So now what do we have?

00:08:55.000 Buried down in paragraph number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, all the way down in paragraph 6, we find out that even the sources for the New York Times are not explaining what material exactly they think Barr is hiding.

00:09:09.000 So all they're saying is that Barr hasn't revealed all the material, which we know, since Barr already said so.

00:09:15.000 But those officials are not saying what is the completely damaging material they are afraid that Barr is going to cover up.

00:09:21.000 It was unclear, according to the New York Times, how much discussion Mueller and his investigators had with senior Justice Department officials about how their findings would be made public.

00:09:29.000 It was also unclear how widespread the vexation is among the special counsel team, which included 19 lawyers, about 40 FBI agents, and other personnel.

00:09:36.000 So in other words, here is the real story, right?

00:09:38.000 When you boil it down, there is one dude who is part of Mueller's team who talked to a person, supposedly, and that person talked to the New York Times.

00:09:45.000 That's what this amounts to.

00:09:46.000 And there's a front-page story in the New York Times.

00:09:48.000 Not sure that that is particularly solid journalism, particularly given the fact that we are going to know all of this stuff in the next week and a half.

00:09:56.000 Legitimately, it is already April 4th.

00:09:58.000 This is supposed to be released by the middle of April.

00:10:01.000 It's like a week and a half before we find out.

00:10:03.000 So, why is the media pre-writing the narrative?

00:10:06.000 It's funny, they're accusing Trump of pre-writing the narrative by having Barr release the findings.

00:10:11.000 But then they are pre-writing the narrative, which is the cover-up, without any evidence of an actual cover-up at this point.

00:10:16.000 And it's not just the New York Times.

00:10:18.000 The Washington Post is doing the same thing.

00:10:21.000 According to the Washington Post, limited information Barr has shared about Russia investigation frustrated some on Mueller's team.

00:10:28.000 This is according to Ellen Nakashima, Carol Lennig, and Rosalind Helderman.

00:10:32.000 Members of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team have told associates that they are frustrated with the limited information Attorney General William Barr has provided about their nearly two-year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether President Trump sought to obstruct justice.

00:10:46.000 According to people familiar with the matter.

00:10:48.000 Again, very, very vague sourcing.

00:10:50.000 People familiar with the matter.

00:10:51.000 Well, hell, I'm familiar with the matter.

00:10:52.000 I mean, what level of familiarity are you talking about here?

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00:12:04.000 Okay, so the Washington Post continues here.

00:12:06.000 And they say that the displeasure among some who worked on a closely held inquiry has quietly begun to surface in the days since Barr released a four-page letter to Congress.

00:12:15.000 In his letter, Barr said the special counsel did not establish a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia.

00:12:20.000 And he said that Mueller did not reach a conclusion one way or the other as to whether Trump's conduct in office constituted obstruction of justice.

00:12:26.000 Absent that, Barr told lawmakers he concluded the evidence was not sufficient to prove that the president obstructed justice.

00:12:32.000 But members of the Mueller team have complained to close associates that the evidence that they gathered on obstruction was alarming and significant.

00:12:38.000 It was much more acute than Barr suggested, said one person, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the subject's sensitivity.

00:12:45.000 So again, this is third-hand reporting.

00:12:48.000 I don't know why they would imply that Barr was trying to cover something up.

00:12:52.000 Again, I'm confused about this.

00:12:54.000 Barr didn't suggest anything.

00:12:56.000 He just said, I don't have evidence to prosecute.

00:12:58.000 That is a binary question.

00:12:59.000 Do I have evidence to prosecute?

00:13:01.000 Do I not have evidence to prosecute?

00:13:03.000 There was nothing in the letter that said there is no evidence that could possibly be construed as obstruction.

00:13:09.000 Like this is a deliberate misread of the text of Barr's letter to suggest that he was deliberately downplaying the obstruction situation.

00:13:18.000 But that simply is not the case.

00:13:19.000 I mean, I'm looking directly at the bar letter right now.

00:13:23.000 Here's what the bar letter said.

00:13:25.000 Quote, The special counsel's decision to describe the facts of his obstruction investigation without reaching any legal conclusions leaves it to the Attorney General to determine whether the conduct described in the report constitutes a crime.

00:13:38.000 Over the course of the investigation, the special counsel's office engaged in discussions with certain department officials regarding many of the legal and factual matters at issue in the special counsel's obstruction investigation.

00:13:48.000 After reviewing the Special Counsel's final report on these issues, consulting with department officials, including the Office of Legal Counsel, and applying the principles of federal prosecution that guide our charging decisions, Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein and I have concluded that the evidence developed during the Special Counsel's investigation is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction of justice offense.

00:14:08.000 That's all he says.

00:14:10.000 We don't have enough evidence to prosecute.

00:14:12.000 That's it.

00:14:13.000 But there is no actual implication that there's no evidence that could be construed as obstruction of justice that's not present in the bar letter.

00:14:19.000 So ripping the bar letter as itself a form of obstruction is really over-the-top and inaccurate.

00:14:26.000 According to the Washington Post, some members of the office were particularly disappointed that Bard did not release summary information the special counsel team had prepared, according to two people familiar with their reactions.

00:14:35.000 There was immediate displeasure from the team when they saw how the attorney general had characterized their work instead.

00:14:40.000 According to one U.S.

00:14:40.000 official briefed on the matter, summaries were prepared for different sections of the report.

00:14:45.000 With the view that they could be made public, the official said, But, so what?

00:14:50.000 The report was prepared, said the front matter from each section could have been released immediately or very quickly, the official said.

00:14:55.000 It was done in a way that minimum redactions, if any, would have been necessary, and the work would have spoken for itself.

00:15:00.000 Yes, but Attorney General Barr does not have to do that.

00:15:03.000 And again, I want transparency.

00:15:05.000 I don't want Mueller's summary and I don't really want Barr's summary other than the bottom line charges.

00:15:09.000 And that last part on obstruction is his decision.

00:15:13.000 The DOJ doesn't get to decide.

00:15:15.000 Those FBI lawyers don't get to decide whether obstruction is charged.

00:15:18.000 Barr gets to decide whether obstruction is charged.

00:15:20.000 So why would he release their report when he's the one making the call as to whether obstruction is going to be charged or not?

00:15:25.000 None of this makes any sense.

00:15:26.000 Now, again, if people are unhappy and they want more information out there, congratulations to them.

00:15:31.000 We're going to be finding out in the next couple of weeks what exactly was in there.

00:15:34.000 But the preemptive move to suggest that obstruction is taking place or a giant cover-up is taking place, I just don't see the evidence of it yet.

00:15:40.000 Now, again, maybe it will turn out that there's evidence that Barr covered something up.

00:15:43.000 But as I've been saying all along, every step of the way, how about we just wait?

00:15:49.000 I know everybody's impatient.

00:15:49.000 How about we just wait?

00:15:50.000 In two weeks, we're gonna know.

00:15:53.000 Meanwhile, Vice President Joe Biden basically doused himself in gasoline and lit a match yesterday politically.

00:15:59.000 There are a lot of people who think that this is going to get Joe Biden off the hook.

00:16:01.000 Joe Biden, of course, has been accused by multiple women who are coming out basically from the woodwork to proclaim that he makes them uncomfortable, which, of course, he does.

00:16:11.000 I mean, like, yeah, that's what Joe Biden does.

00:16:13.000 He makes people feel weird and uncomfortable.

00:16:15.000 That's pretty much a description of his career.

00:16:17.000 Three more women, according to the New York Post, have come forward with accounts of inappropriate touching.

00:16:22.000 No touching!

00:16:23.000 Involving former Vice President Joe Biden, according to a report in the Washington Post.

00:16:28.000 The women, Sophie Karasek, Vail Conner-Yount, and Allie Cole, told the Washington Post stories similar to those of four other women who have already described unwanted touching by Vice President Joe Biden.

00:16:41.000 These accounts are somewhat varied, but they carry a similar tang.

00:16:45.000 Bail Conor Yount said she was a White House intern in the spring of 2013 and one day tried to exit the basement of the West Wing when she was asked to step aside so Biden could enter.

00:16:52.000 After she moved out of the way, she said, Biden approached her to introduce himself and shake her hand.

00:16:56.000 He then put his hand on the back of my head and pressed his forehead to my forehead while he talked to me.

00:17:00.000 I was so shocked that it was hard to focus on what he was saying.

00:17:03.000 I remember he told me I was a pretty girl, Conor Yount said in a statement to the Post.

00:17:08.000 She described feeling uncomfortable and embarrassed that Biden had commented on her appearance in a professional setting, even though it was intended as a compliment.

00:17:14.000 I do not consider my experience to have been sexual assault or harassment, she stated, adding she believes Biden's intentions were good, but it was the kind of inappropriate behavior that makes many women feel uncomfortable and unequal in the workplace.

00:17:26.000 Now, again, is this sexual harassment or assault?

00:17:28.000 No, it's not.

00:17:29.000 It's not, okay?

00:17:30.000 He did it in front of an entire team of people. 0.99

00:17:32.000 Al Franken was surreptitiously grabbing women's asses, not the same thing. 0.98

00:17:37.000 And I will point out to a lot of Republicans who are pretending to be upset about Joe Biden's behavior, there's a difference between pointing out the wild inconsistencies in the Democratic position about touching and sexual assault and standards of evidence and suggesting that Joe Biden is guilty of a deep, dark crime here. 0.98

00:17:54.000 Remember, President Trump has admitted to behavior significantly worse than anything That Joe Biden is accused of doing here.

00:18:02.000 So before we go off on the well, you know, Biden is really he's not fit to be president. 0.72

00:18:06.000 If you're a Republican and you're like, well, he's not fit to be president because he's a creeper.

00:18:10.000 I urge you to go back and look at all the allegations against President Trump and All the rest and stuff that President Trump has said publicly on Howard Stern about peeking at the women in his Miss USA contest and what he said in the Billy Bush tape.

00:18:23.000 Like, let's not get over our skis, guys.

00:18:25.000 I mean, let's be real about this.

00:18:26.000 Now, does that mean that Joe Biden isn't in trouble in the primaries?

00:18:29.000 No, he is very much in trouble in the Democratic primaries.

00:18:33.000 In response to Joe Biden issuing a video, Conor Young emailed, Now, Joe Biden's a weirdo.

00:18:37.000 I know a lot of people Joe Biden's age.

00:18:38.000 I'm friendly with many people Joe Biden's age.

00:18:39.000 This is not mainly about whether Joe Biden has adequate respect for personal space.

00:18:42.000 It's about women deserving equal respect in the workplace. 0.99

00:18:45.000 And this is what the narrative is going to become, is that Joe Biden is an emissary of a broader problem with men.

00:18:51.000 Men like Joe Biden. 0.96

00:18:53.000 Now, Joe Biden's a weirdo.

00:18:54.000 I know a lot of people Joe Biden's age.

00:18:56.000 I'm friendly with many people Joe Biden's age.

00:18:59.000 They're people who are a little bit, you know, maybe 10, 15 years older than my parents.

00:19:02.000 This is not super duper common.

00:19:06.000 There are guys who are like this, but it's not super-duper common.

00:19:08.000 It's not common that older men randomly grab women by the back of the head and kiss them, or that they grab them and put their foreheads to their own, or rub noses with people.

00:19:16.000 I mean, this is weird behavior.

00:19:17.000 He's a creepy dude.

00:19:19.000 Is that sexual harassment or assault? 0.93

00:19:20.000 No, it really is not.

00:19:22.000 There are two other allegations that have come forward as well.

00:19:26.000 The Democratic mayor of Atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms, on Wednesday evening tweeted a photo of herself and Biden standing forehead to forehead.

00:19:33.000 She says everyone experiences their own.

00:19:35.000 As for mine, I found my introduction and interaction with Joe Biden to be genuine and endearing.

00:19:39.000 Six other women have shared stories similar to Flores's.

00:19:42.000 DJ Hill and Kaitlyn Caruso told the New York Times on Tuesday Biden had made them feel uncomfortable during their encounters with him.

00:19:50.000 Sophie Karasek was part of a group of 51 sexual assault victims who appeared on stage at the Oscars with Lady Gaga that year Biden had introduced at the singer's performance.

00:19:58.000 Karasek said as she met Biden after the ceremony, she was thinking about a college student who'd been sexually assaulted and recently died by suicide.

00:20:04.000 She decided to share the story with the VP, and Biden responded by clasping her hands and leaning down to place his forehead against hers, a moment captured in a widely circulated photograph.

00:20:13.000 Karasek said she appreciated Biden's support, but also felt awkward and uncomfortable that his gesture had left their faces suddenly inches apart.

00:20:19.000 She didn't know how to respond to Biden crossing the boundary into her personal space at a sensitive moment.

00:20:24.000 Now, I love this.

00:20:25.000 Someone printed her the photo of the moment.

00:20:28.000 What did Karasek do with it?

00:20:28.000 She framed it and put it on a shelf.

00:20:31.000 And now she's complaining that it was something terrible.

00:20:34.000 Now she's complaining that it's something terrible.

00:20:36.000 The wildly differing standards that are obviously based on a political attempt to nail Joe Biden to the wall I have to say, from a Republican perspective, it's amusing.

00:20:45.000 From an honest American perspective, it's really nasty.

00:20:48.000 It really is.

00:20:48.000 Like, if someone takes a picture of you in an uncomfortable position, if you were really that uncomfortable, would you print it out, frame it, and put it on your shelf?

00:20:56.000 I don't remember that ever being the case, where I was in a really uncomfortable situation, someone snapped a photo, and I was like, you know what?

00:21:00.000 I'm gonna go get that framed.

00:21:02.000 What a weird response.

00:21:05.000 Ali Cole said she was a young Democratic staffer helping run a reception of about 50 people when Biden entered the room.

00:21:10.000 She said she was then introduced to Biden, who she said leaned in, squeezed her shoulders, and delivered a compliment about her smile, holding her for a beat too long.

00:21:17.000 She said she felt that his alleged behavior was out of place and inappropriate in the context of a work situation.

00:21:23.000 She said there's been a lack of understanding about the way that power can turn something that might seem innocuous into something that can make somebody feel uncomfortable.

00:21:30.000 Honestly, if we are now in the realm of not the reasonable person standard, but the fully subjective standard, there is no way for anyone to know if their behavior crosses the line, legitimately.

00:21:39.000 I think that on an objective level, without us having to know how these women felt, Joe Biden crosses lines of personal space.

00:21:45.000 It's what he does.

00:21:46.000 It's been true for years. 0.97

00:21:47.000 I didn't need to hear these women's accounts to say that from a reasonable perspective, going up to random women and putting your forehead to theirs is a weird thing to do. 0.92

00:21:55.000 But we were told that that was endearing by the press.

00:21:58.000 We were told that that was endearing by Democrats.

00:22:00.000 We were told that that was merely tactile politics.

00:22:03.000 That's how the Washington Post described it.

00:22:04.000 Okay, fine.

00:22:05.000 Well, if, in your view, that is not an objective breach of space, then it becomes purely subjective.

00:22:10.000 And if it's purely subjective, then any conduct can be taken as insulting or terrible.

00:22:16.000 Legitimately, any conduct.

00:22:18.000 I am extraordinarily, extraordinarily The word in Talmudic Hebrew is medakdek.

00:22:25.000 I'm extremely careful not to invade others' personal space, because I really don't like having my own personal space invaded.

00:22:32.000 It's not a thing for me.

00:22:34.000 But can I guarantee that there's no time that anybody in history has ever felt uncomfortable even shaking my hand?

00:22:39.000 Of course not, because I don't know these people.

00:22:40.000 I don't know any of these folks.

00:22:41.000 I mean, chances are much larger that I've felt uncomfortable shaking somebody else's hand than the opposite. 0.78

00:22:47.000 And there are famously photos of me doing a hover hand, because I don't want to put my hand on somebody's shoulder.

00:22:51.000 But still, this sort of subjectivity, which is politically driven, where one moment you feel like, I'm going to print this photo out and put it on my shelf, and the next moment you feel like, you know what?

00:23:02.000 That was some sort of brutal assault on my individual space.

00:23:06.000 Yeah, I'm not buying it.

00:23:07.000 Now, still, Joe Biden has not handled this the proper way.

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00:24:38.000 Alright, so Joe Biden is facing down these accusations.

00:24:40.000 Now, he has a couple of options.

00:24:42.000 Option number one is he can simply say, listen, I don't think I ever did anything wrong.

00:24:48.000 If these women feel a particular way, I'm sorry they feel that way, but all of these actions were done in public. 1.00

00:24:52.000 There's never been an allegation of sexual assault or harassment against me, nor should there be because I have never done any of those things.

00:24:59.000 I'm a hugger.

00:25:00.000 If I invade people's personal space, that is not unique to women.

00:25:02.000 I do it all the time with everybody.

00:25:04.000 And that's just me.

00:25:06.000 And I'm sorry about that.

00:25:07.000 But that's about it.

00:25:09.000 That's what Joe Biden could do.

00:25:10.000 Instead, Joe Biden decides that he is going to kowtow to the radical feminist left, and he is going to explain that he's sorry.

00:25:17.000 So sorry.

00:25:18.000 I just don't know who he thinks he's winning over by doing this.

00:25:22.000 The coming month, I expect to be talking to you about a whole lot of issues, and I'll always be direct with you.

00:25:27.000 But today I want to talk about Just as a support and encouragement that I've made to women and some men, and I've made them uncomfortable.

00:25:35.000 And I always tried to be, in my career, I've always tried to make a human connection.

00:25:40.000 That's my responsibility, I think.

00:25:42.000 I shake hands, I hug people, I grab men and women by the shoulders and say, you can do this.

00:25:48.000 And whether they're women, men, young, old, it's the way I've always been.

00:25:53.000 It's the way I've tried to show I care about them and I'm listening.

00:25:56.000 And over the years, knowing what I've been through, the things that I've faced, I've found that scores, if not hundreds of people have come up to me and reached out for solace and comfort.

00:26:08.000 Something, anything that may help them get through the tragedy they're going through.

00:26:13.000 And so it's just who I am.

00:26:17.000 And I've never thought of politics as cold and antiseptic.

00:26:20.000 I've always thought about connecting with people.

00:26:23.000 As I said, shaking hands, Hands on the shoulder, a hug, encouragement.

00:26:28.000 And now it's all about taking selfies together.

00:26:32.000 You know, social norms have begun to change.

00:26:35.000 They've shifted.

00:26:36.000 And the boundaries of protecting personal space have been reset.

00:26:40.000 Okay, pause it there for one second.

00:26:42.000 Here is where Joe Biden gets into dicey territory.

00:26:44.000 Right, so before, what he said up to now is basically everything I said he should say, right?

00:26:48.000 This is who I am.

00:26:49.000 I've tried to care for people.

00:26:50.000 I've tried to help people.

00:26:51.000 If people felt uncomfortable, I'm sorry about that.

00:26:53.000 But here is where he gets into dicey territory, because now what he is saying is that the boundaries have changed, and I'm an old man, and now I recognize that my entire life I violated the boundaries.

00:27:03.000 Well, which is it?

00:27:05.000 Did you violate the boundaries or did you not violate the boundaries?

00:27:07.000 Did you do something wrong or did you not do something wrong?

00:27:09.000 And what you are really acknowledging in this video is that you are Pastor Prime, right?

00:27:13.000 This is the problem for Joe Biden.

00:27:14.000 The theme against him is that he is old and that he is behind the times and that he has to constantly be racing to adjust to the new woke left and that he is out of touch.

00:27:23.000 And here's where he's going to make himself seem out of touch.

00:27:25.000 Instead of just doubling down and saying, listen, this is how I am.

00:27:28.000 Sorry if people felt offended by that.

00:27:31.000 I will try to do better in the future.

00:27:32.000 Instead, now he is saying, well, you know, the times have changed and we have to listen to all stories and I'm an old man.

00:27:39.000 And this is where it starts to get dicey for him.

00:27:43.000 And I get it.

00:27:45.000 I get it.

00:27:46.000 I hear what they're saying.

00:27:47.000 I understand it.

00:27:49.000 And I'll be much more mindful.

00:27:50.000 That's my responsibility.

00:27:52.000 My responsibility, and I'll meet it.

00:27:55.000 But I'll always believe governing, quite frankly, life for that matter, is about connecting.

00:28:01.000 About connecting with people.

00:28:03.000 That won't change.

00:28:04.000 But I will be more mindful and respectful of people's personal space.

00:28:08.000 And that's a good thing.

00:28:09.000 That's a good thing.

00:28:11.000 I've worked my whole life to empower women. 1.00

00:28:14.000 I've worked my whole life to prevent abuse.

00:28:17.000 I've written... So the idea that I can't adjust to the fact that Personal space is important, more important than it's ever been.

00:28:27.000 It's just not thinkable.

00:28:28.000 I will.

00:28:29.000 I will.

00:28:30.000 I'll change.

00:28:31.000 I'll adjust.

00:28:32.000 I'll change.

00:28:32.000 It's up to me.

00:28:33.000 I hear you.

00:28:35.000 Now, maybe this works.

00:28:36.000 I have a feeling it really is not going to.

00:28:38.000 I don't think that any of the accusations are going to stop.

00:28:41.000 I think that Biden has basically just thrown gasoline on a fire that was already raging.

00:28:44.000 I think that when Vice President Biden says things like, I'll change because I have to, And we all have to change.

00:28:50.000 Instead of just saying, listen, I am who I am.

00:28:52.000 Take it or leave it.

00:28:53.000 If you feel like you don't want me to do that sort of stuff, just tell me and I won't do it.

00:28:57.000 But like, come on, I'm not sexually assaulting or harassing anybody.

00:28:59.000 Everybody needs to lighten up.

00:29:00.000 Right?

00:29:01.000 That would be what, honestly, could somebody just say that once in a while?

00:29:04.000 Can people just say, listen, I don't want to invade anybody's... Here's the problem for Joe Biden.

00:29:09.000 Either it was a problem or it wasn't a problem.

00:29:11.000 Either it was a problem or it was not a problem.

00:29:13.000 You don't get to subjectively change the standard and then determine that everything retroactively was very, very bad.

00:29:20.000 Yet that is what his Democratic rivals are doing.

00:29:22.000 They're doing it on the fly, and it really is unpleasant to watch, just on an objective level.

00:29:28.000 Beto O'Rourke, for example, saying, listen, what we need to do, we need to listen to all the stories.

00:29:32.000 How about if Joe Biden said, listen, if you felt uncomfortable, I'm sorry.

00:29:37.000 That's it.

00:29:38.000 If you felt uncomfortable, I'm sorry.

00:29:40.000 End of story.

00:29:42.000 You didn't accuse me of sexual assault or harassment.

00:29:44.000 That's it.

00:29:45.000 That's the whole thing.

00:29:46.000 Instead, it's, we have to listen to their stories.

00:29:48.000 We have to talk about how women are made to feel uncomfortable. 1.00

00:29:50.000 Why do we have to talk about women generally being made to feel uncomfortable? 0.98

00:29:53.000 Really, I don't understand why everything turns into a generalized conversation about women being made to feel uncomfortable when this was a specific conversation about a specific guy doing specifically weird things.

00:30:03.000 Like, I'm not doing any of these things.

00:30:05.000 And there's this tendency in the media, whenever a Democrat does something bad, it requires us to do a generalized conversation that reinforces their narrative.

00:30:13.000 Notice which incidents require a generalized conversation.

00:30:18.000 It's all the incidents that reinforce a particular Democratic narrative, a particular left-leaning progressive narrative.

00:30:24.000 If we were talking about something that didn't reinforce that narrative, we wouldn't be pushing it very hard.

00:30:28.000 Here's Beto O'Rourke reinforcing the narrative in the hopes of winning over suburban women in the primaries. 1.00

00:30:33.000 I think we need to listen to those who are raising their stories, who have the courage to come forward, to share their experience, and also to be part of the conversation about either his candidacy or how he fares as a contender for the nomination if he jumps in.

00:30:53.000 So I think ultimately that's going to be a decision for him to make.

00:30:57.000 Okay, um, yeah, the idea that we're gonna push him out of the race because we have to listen to everybody's stories.

00:31:04.000 Okay, how about if we listen to somebody's story and then we go, yeah, I think that you're not really suffering very much.

00:31:08.000 Like, are we allowed to say that?

00:31:10.000 Because if you printed out a photo of a person doing something so terrible to you and then framed it and put it on your desk, I'm gonna go with you didn't suffer all that much.

00:31:18.000 Can we not pretend that this is some sort of sexual assault survival story?

00:31:21.000 Because it isn't.

00:31:24.000 It's irritating.

00:31:25.000 Now, the person who could save Joe Biden from all of this is, of course, standing over here in the wings.

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00:34:06.000 So there's one person who could save Joe Biden from himself here.

00:34:15.000 Could step in and just say, guys, calm it down.

00:34:17.000 We all know Joe Biden's not a sexual harasser.

00:34:19.000 He's not a sexual assaulter. 0.99

00:34:21.000 We all know Joe is huggy. 0.98

00:34:22.000 But can we just like cool your jets for a second here?

00:34:25.000 He's sorry if he offended anybody, but let's be real about this.

00:34:28.000 That person is former President Barack Obama, who's been utterly silent throughout all of this.

00:34:33.000 Other 2020 presidential candidates have spoken about it.

00:34:36.000 So has Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

00:34:38.000 However, Obama hasn't been quoted in a single report.

00:34:41.000 He's tweeted no expression of support for Biden.

00:34:44.000 Why?

00:34:44.000 Because the truth is that Barack Obama is out to protect Barack Obama.

00:34:47.000 He's not out there to protect his former VP.

00:34:51.000 The hits against the 76-year-old are designed to make him seem past his prime and done.

00:34:56.000 The only person who could save him at this point is Obama.

00:34:59.000 Obama saluted Biden as a brother in his farewell address, as the Washington Free Beacon points out, but it's more like, see you later, brother, than, oh look, my brother is running for president of the United States.

00:35:09.000 So Barack Obama is sitting this one out as honestly I sort of expected he would.

00:35:14.000 And I think most observers expected him to do.

00:35:16.000 Meanwhile, Democrats like I have such trouble with the Democratic Party that finds it significantly more troubling and offensive that Joe Biden publicly was was putting his forehead to other women's and men's foreheads.

00:35:30.000 They find that more troubling than the fact that every single major Democrat showed up to pay homage to one of the worst racial hoaxers in American history. 0.96

00:35:37.000 I'm speaking, of course, about Al Sharpton, who is just a bag of human debris. 0.96

00:35:42.000 I mean, he's just a terrible person, Al Sharpton. 0.98

00:35:44.000 Al Sharpton, in 1987, completely fabricated a rape hoax about Tawana Browley.

00:35:50.000 It was significantly worse, by the way, than Jussie Smollett. 0.99

00:35:54.000 He actually fingered an individual human being named Stephen Pagones.

00:35:59.000 Stephen Pagones was the prosecutor. 0.94

00:36:01.000 He suggested that he was responsible for raping, kidnapping, writing racial slurs in feces on the body of a 15-year-old black girl.

00:36:09.000 Pagones ended up winning a slander lawsuit against Sharpton, Sharpton, Sharpton never paid what he owed. 0.92

00:36:17.000 Pagonis said, quote, I view Al Sharpton as being nothing more than an opportunist and a race baiter.

00:36:21.000 What I hope the networks and advertisers would push for would be for Sharpton to admit that he now knows that Pagonis and other individuals he lied about had nothing to do with whatever happened to Braly.

00:36:29.000 Braly, it turns out, had not actually been raped or kidnapped or anything like that.

00:36:33.000 It had all been staged.

00:36:34.000 Al Sharpton is the guy who helped initiate the Crown Heights riots in 1991. 0.55

00:36:39.000 There's a Hasidic Jew who accidentally killed a young black kid in a car accident.

00:36:43.000 So Sharpton headed on over to Crown Heights, a heavily Jewish neighborhood, where he spoke at the funeral.

00:36:47.000 And there, he said that diamond merchants had the blood of innocent babies on their hands and said, quote, if the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin back their yarmulkes and come over to my house.

00:36:56.000 Then there were riots that ended with the death of Yonkel Rosenbaum, an Orthodox Jewish student.

00:37:01.000 Rosenbaum's brother said he has never apologized, he has never offered any sincere remorse for the atrocious things he has done by way of terrible racist behavior and lies for inciting racial events.

00:37:11.000 In 1995, Al Sharpton helped initiate an actual arson attack at Freddy's Fashion Mart.

00:37:18.000 Freddie's Fashion Mart had raised its own rent on a black-owned music store that was in the Fashion Mart because it had had its own rent raised by a black landlord in Harlem.

00:37:29.000 That did not stop Sharpton from blaming Freddie's Fashion Mart and accusing them of racism.

00:37:33.000 He said, quote, we will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business. 0.95

00:37:39.000 Protesters at that particular event were shouting, burn down the Jew store. 0.96

00:37:43.000 One of the protesters then shot four employees of Freddie's Fashion Mart and set the store on fire.

00:37:49.000 And then, of course, you'll recall that after the Duke Lacrosse players were accused of raping a stripper named Crystal Mangum, Sharpton showed up ready to battle.

00:37:57.000 He said, I think when you look at the racial atmosphere, when you look at the fact that there again were the allegations of racial statements, when you look at a lot of the people feeling they have been treated differently, where this girl has basically had a character charged in the media, there's a lot of racism that's in the air.

00:38:10.000 Mangum was not only lying, she was later convicted of murdering her boyfriend.

00:38:15.000 I mean, Sharpton is one of the worst racial actors in America and all he does is shake down companies. 1.00

00:38:20.000 He accuses them of racism and then if they give a donation to the National Action Network, from which he pays himself a nice salary, then he says, oh look, they've been cured of racism.

00:38:28.000 Magical. 1.00

00:38:29.000 So Democrats naturally show up to pay homage to this bag of garbage. 1.00

00:38:33.000 He's just a bad person, Al Sharpton. 1.00

00:38:34.000 I mean, really a bad guy.

00:38:36.000 And Al Sharpton I guess his National Action Network has become a way station for all these Democratic nominees.

00:38:42.000 So let's get this straight.

00:38:43.000 They wouldn't show up at AIPAC.

00:38:44.000 They wouldn't show up at the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee.

00:38:47.000 Because if they did, if they showed up at that public affairs conference and spoke in front of the Jews, then too many members of the progressive base would be upset. 0.94

00:38:55.000 But if they show up and speak in front of Al Sharpton, as they have been doing every year for years, then this is seen as some sort of woke intersectionality off.

00:39:03.000 A dozen Democratic candidates for president showed up at the National Action Network, where the smartest of these folks pandered directly to Al Sharpton with race-based appeals.

00:39:15.000 This is why I think Beto O'Rourke is still a sleeper, guys.

00:39:17.000 You know, I keep dismissing Beto because, I mean, he's a joke.

00:39:20.000 I mean, Beto rides around on a skateboard with the bangs in his eyes and is all weird and eats New Mexican dirt and all that.

00:39:26.000 But the truth is that O'Rourke is more astute a politician, at least in terms of straightforward Retail politics than a lot of his associates.

00:39:35.000 Here's Beto O'Rourke yesterday at the National Action Network standing alongside Al Sharpton and explaining he wants a commission on reparations.

00:39:42.000 Your fellow Texan, Sheila Jackson Lee, has proposed a commission to study reparations.

00:39:53.000 If that passes and you are President of the United States, would you sign that Yes.

00:40:04.000 Foundational to reparations is the word repair.

00:40:06.000 Foundational to repair is the truth.

00:40:09.000 And until all Americans understand that civil rights are not just those victories that I began with at the outset of my comments, but the injustices that have been visited and continue to be visited on people, we will never get the change that we need to live up to the promise of this country.

00:40:25.000 So absolutely, I would sign that in the law.

00:40:26.000 He's such a middle school debater, Beto O'Rourke.

00:40:30.000 Did you know that the foundation of reparations is repair?

00:40:34.000 Wow, thank you, Beto O'Rourke, for that insightful etymology of the word reparations.

00:40:38.000 That is clear from the actual word reparations.

00:40:41.000 And the foundation of repairing is the truth.

00:40:43.000 Wow.

00:40:43.000 I mean, the depth of this person.

00:40:45.000 But obviously he is there because he's hoping to win an outside share of the black vote, particularly as Joe Biden goes down.

00:40:50.000 Right now, Joe Biden is the person who's carrying the plurality of the black vote.

00:40:54.000 Beto O'Rourke didn't stop there.

00:40:55.000 He also suggested that mass incarceration was a huge problem in the United States.

00:41:00.000 Now, I'm not a big fan of the mass incarceration argument because I keep wondering who are the guilty, who are the innocent people who have been jailed for no reason at all?

00:41:08.000 Now, you can say that you want to change the drug laws, but And very frankly, I'm in favor of changing a lot of the drug laws.

00:41:14.000 But the vast majority of people in prison are not in prison for mere possession of marijuana.

00:41:18.000 This mass incarceration argument that the police are going around willy nilly arresting innocent people is just nonsense.

00:41:24.000 Beto O'Rourke says it at the National Action Network, though, because, you know, that's what he's doing.

00:41:28.000 In a kindergarten classroom where those children are five years old, a child of color is five times as likely to be disciplined, suspended or expelled as a white child in the same classroom in front of the same teacher.

00:41:43.000 So this schoolhouse to jailhouse pipeline and this problem of mass incarceration is much deeper than police, than our courts.

00:41:53.000 It is our country and we absolutely must face it.

00:41:57.000 So I don't even know what that means.

00:41:59.000 It's not a problem of our police or our courts.

00:42:01.000 It's not even the criminal justice system or the cops, according to Beto O'Rourke.

00:42:03.000 It's all of us.

00:42:04.000 It's in our hearts.

00:42:05.000 I'm telling you, Beto O'Rourke, that guy is going to appeal on the basest level to every member of the progressive coalition.

00:42:12.000 He's still dangerous.

00:42:13.000 I'll tell you who's going to have trouble, though.

00:42:14.000 The person who's going to have a little more trouble than she thinks she's going to have is Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:42:18.000 Andrew Krasinski at CNN has been doing really solid work digging up material on some of these Democratic candidates because it's actually newsworthy.

00:42:26.000 He has a piece today about Kamala Harris.

00:42:27.000 It says, Kamala Harris as district attorney fought public defenders in push for higher bails for gun crimes. 0.85

00:42:33.000 The problem for Kamala Harris is that, in the perspective of many in the progressive woke base, she's too much of a narc to win. 1.00

00:42:40.000 As District Attorney of San Francisco, Kamala Harris supported higher bail amounts on gun-related charges, sparking a fight with the city's public defender and defense attorneys who argued that the measures would disproportionately affect the poor.

00:42:51.000 But in her career on the national level, Harris has sought to address the disproportionate impact of cash bail on poor defendants.

00:42:58.000 She has made reducing the burden of bail a part of her 2020 Democratic presidential campaign and Senate tenure.

00:43:04.000 In July 2017, she introduced legislation with Rand Paul to encourage changes or replacement of the cash bail system.

00:43:11.000 She said it was long past time to address bail reform across the country, but that was not the case when she was actually a district attorney.

00:43:18.000 She says that she once viewed higher bail amounts as a way to fight what she said was a public safety issue.

00:43:23.000 She argued that San Francisco's low bail meant that criminals traveled to the city to commit crime because the punishment there was cheaper than the surrounding counties.

00:43:31.000 Harris's presidential campaign spokesperson, Ian Sams, told K-File that Harris was responding to an increase in gun homicides and illegal guns in the city, and that her efforts today still take into account the threat a defendant poses when considering bail.

00:43:44.000 Well, if that's the case, if the idea is that when crime accelerates that Kamala Harris is going to step in and raise cash bail, that she's in favor of actual law and order, that isn't going to play. 1.00

00:43:53.000 That isn't going to play all that well.

00:43:56.000 This is why I think that Kamala Harris may be in trouble as a candidate, too. 1.00

00:43:59.000 A lot of talk early on about Kamala Harris being the sort of de facto Democratic frontrunner.

00:44:04.000 I'm not sure that's going to play out the way that Kamala Harris thinks it is.

00:44:07.000 She doesn't have that same progressive support that Beto O'Rourke does.

00:44:11.000 And she's not raising the kind of money, frankly, that Beto O'Rourke is.

00:44:13.000 I mean, Kamala Harris has raised something like $12 million so far.

00:44:16.000 Beto O'Rourke raised that in about one-third the time.

00:44:18.000 He raised $9.4 million in about one-third the time.

00:44:23.000 So I'm not sure that this is going to play out exactly how Kamala Harris wants it to play out.

00:44:29.000 Suffice it to say, one of the uglier aspects of our electioneering is the sort of pandering that you are seeing at the National Action Network, where you can say things that are patently untrue so long as they please the audience.

00:44:40.000 This, by the way, is not unique to the National Action Network, of course.

00:44:43.000 This is true for virtually every political crowd.

00:44:45.000 You go there and you pander to them.

00:44:47.000 The bravest politicians are the ones who actually go to places and then say things that are unpopular to the crowd.

00:44:52.000 Well Stacey Abrams wasn't doing that yesterday. 1.00

00:44:54.000 She continues to maintain that she might run for president herself on the basis of her losing a Georgia gubernatorial race.

00:45:00.000 Beto O'Rourke has never held an office higher than House of Representatives.

00:45:04.000 That's a step higher than Stacey Abrams who's never held an office outside the Georgia House of Representatives. 0.99

00:45:09.000 Now she says she might run for president over at the National Action Network and she is still claiming that she won her election in Georgia despite losing by 50,000 votes in Georgia.

00:45:17.000 I know you've heard from a lot of folks.

00:45:20.000 And I think some of you know what I'm going to say.

00:45:24.000 We had this little election back in 2018.

00:45:28.000 And despite the final tally and the inauguration and the situation we find ourselves in, I do have one very affirmative statement to make.

00:45:39.000 We won!

00:45:40.000 No, you didn't.

00:45:41.000 No, you, in fact, did not.

00:45:43.000 Again, it's very convenient to go to two different places around the country to your supporters and just say what they want to hear.

00:45:49.000 The fact that people are doing that for Al Sharpton is pretty astonishing.

00:45:52.000 I think that the there is something humorous about some of these fringe candidates trying to do this routine.

00:45:56.000 Bill de Blasio continues to pretend that people want him to run for president, despite the fact that legitimately no one wants him to run for president.

00:46:02.000 There's something perverse about the mayor of New York standing in front of Al Sharpton while talking about redistributing wealth.

00:46:10.000 I mean, it's... Oh boy.

00:46:12.000 Here is Bill de Blasio, the communist mayor of New York. 0.74

00:46:15.000 We have a chance to talk about the fact that our country, for so many people, is going in the wrong direction.

00:46:21.000 But don't let people tell you we can't afford to fix these problems.

00:46:25.000 Don't let people tell you we cannot afford to take care of working families.

00:46:29.000 It's not for lack of money.

00:46:32.000 There is plenty of money in this world.

00:46:34.000 There is plenty of money in this nation.

00:46:36.000 It's just in the wrong hands.

00:46:39.000 Okay, that's really the problem.

00:46:40.000 If we could just give the money to Al Sharpton, you know, through payoffs, if we could just ensure that Al Sharpton got more money at the National Action Network, if we could just make sure that the city government of New York was leveraged to investigate every allegation made by Al Sharpton, but never to investigate Al Sharpton himself, that would probably be the best way to do all of this.

00:46:59.000 Our politics are getting uglier.

00:47:01.000 They are not fact-based.

00:47:02.000 The fact that Al Sharpton is still considered a mainstream figure is perfect evidence of that.

00:47:06.000 If Al Sharpton were a white guy who pulled the same kind of crap that Al Sharpton has pulled over his career, there's a high likelihood that not only would he not be in politics, he would be facing significant criminal liability for all the stuff that he's done over the course of his career. 0.59

00:47:19.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate. 0.95

00:47:22.000 So, things that I like.

00:47:23.000 So there's a movie that I recommended earlier this week called The Highwaymen.

00:47:26.000 It's really good.

00:47:27.000 It's with Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson.

00:47:29.000 And it's about the cops, the Texas Rangers, who hunted down and killed Bonnie and Clyde.

00:47:35.000 And the movie is really great, specifically because it shows that Bonnie and Clyde were actually evil sociopaths, which they were.

00:47:42.000 And there are a lot of critics who are angry at The Highwaymen.

00:47:45.000 They were angry because it blew up the mythos of Bonnie and Clyde that was created By a film that was made back in the 1970s, 1960s, I believe, 1970s, early 70s, which was called Bonnie and Clyde with Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, in which crime was romanticized as a sort of redistributionist socialism.

00:48:03.000 I mean, the tagline for the film was, they're young, they're in love, they rob banks.

00:48:08.000 And there were these young, beautiful people in love, happy, and society was sort of just harming them.

00:48:14.000 And so they decided to randomly murder people and shoot cops and rob banks.

00:48:18.000 The movie is, it's a great movie.

00:48:20.000 It really is a good movie.

00:48:21.000 It also features the first performances of both Gene Hackman, I believe, as well as Gene Wilder.

00:48:30.000 Gene Wilder shows up for a little while and is very funny.

00:48:32.000 Here's a little bit of the preview.

00:48:33.000 Their paths crossed like two hot wires.

00:48:36.000 They roared off on what might easily have been a wild, romantic lark.

00:48:42.000 Oh! 0.60

00:48:45.000 But almost before they knew it, with the giggles still in their ears, they had bloodied up poor state.

00:48:53.000 Where you going?

00:49:02.000 Get away! 1.00

00:49:04.000 Honey! 0.98

00:49:05.000 Go home!

00:49:05.000 Honey?

00:49:06.000 Please, honey, don't ever leave me without saying nothing.

00:49:11.000 So this came out in 1967.

00:49:13.000 The movie was deeply effective in romanticizing crime and suggesting that crime was actually just a romantic socialist redistributionist scheme.

00:49:23.000 And so there are a lot of critics who are very angry at The Highwaymen because The Highwaymen disabuses people of this notion and points out, I mean, it really just...

00:49:31.000 I mean, it really destroys the narrative of Bonnie and Clyde.

00:49:34.000 There's a line where this gas station attendant says something to Kevin Costner about how Bonnie and Clyde are just robbing banks, and banks are the ones who have hurt me.

00:49:44.000 And Kevin Costner says, they shot a gas station attendant over $4 in the face.

00:49:50.000 So, that's really who Bonnie and Clyde were, but it's an important movie in sort of the history of cinema.

00:49:55.000 Also, the use of violence is romanticized and made, and it's slow motion and very graphic.

00:50:00.000 At the time, it was extraordinarily controversial.

00:50:03.000 It did lead to this wave of new movies that made crime into something glorious in the late 60s and early 70s.

00:50:08.000 It was part of the cultural zeitgeist.

00:50:09.000 And so for that reason, it's sort of an important film, even though it is a pack of lies about who Bonnie and Clyde actually were.

00:50:14.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.

00:50:21.000 So Chelsea Clinton is now explaining how she explains global warming to her five-year-old.

00:50:26.000 She was on The View.

00:50:27.000 Why does everyone get booked on The View except me?

00:50:28.000 I mean, I guess it's just jealousy that I don't get booked on The View at this point, but my goodness, guys.

00:50:32.000 I mean, what do I have to do?

00:50:33.000 I had the number one New York Times bestselling book last week.

00:50:37.000 It's still the number three New York Times bestselling book this week.

00:50:42.000 We have a pretty popular podcast.

00:50:43.000 Guys, is it too much to ask?

00:50:45.000 In any case, I don't have to openly appeal for your sympathy.

00:50:47.000 In any case, Chelsea Clinton was on The View, and there she explained that she's already teaching her small children about global warming.

00:50:54.000 Kids are still very young.

00:50:55.000 At what age do you start talking to them about serious issues like climate change?

00:51:00.000 So we're already talking about it.

00:51:01.000 We talk about climate change, and we talk about why we make the choices we make at home to recycle.

00:51:08.000 Our kids help take out the recycling.

00:51:10.000 They're two and four, but they can carry cardboard boxes to the recycling bin.

00:51:13.000 Our daughter now helps us when we're changing the light bulbs, and we talk about why we're using energy-conscious light bulbs.

00:51:18.000 and they may not understand all those words megan but i hope that by talking about these kind of big issues in a way they hopefully do understand excuse me at home early on they'll not only appreciate why we're making those choices but make those choices themselves like as they grow up okay so here's here's my only problem with all of this does this shade over like this this what What she's actually saying here is not terrible, right?

00:51:44.000 I mean, the idea that we make certain choices at home, we have to explain to our kids why we're doing that, don't really have a problem with that.

00:51:50.000 My problem is when the media shades stuff like that over into something broader, which is we have to indoctrinate five-year-olds in the Green New Deal, and then those kids show up in Dianne Feinstein's office and harass them. 0.73

00:52:00.000 So my problem is not with Chelsea Clinton, who it seems, by the way, Chelsea Clinton seems like a perfectly reasonable and somewhat charming young person. 0.98

00:52:07.000 I know this is an unpopular point of view, but I mean, she will speak truth sometimes to people in her own party, which is something that I admire.

00:52:14.000 With that said, the kind of push that we are supposed to indoctrinate our children in political matters that really have no relevance to home life, That's something I'm uncomfortable with, even if I think Chelsea Clinton is not doing anything particularly wrong right there.

00:52:26.000 Okay, we'll be back a little bit later today with two more hours of The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:52:30.000 One quick correction from yesterday.

00:52:31.000 I mentioned in the Roadmap to 2020 episode yesterday that Donald Trump had to win two of the following three states, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, or Michigan, plus all the states he won last time in order for him to win the election.

00:52:43.000 That's not true.

00:52:43.000 He has to win one of those three states.

00:52:45.000 He has to maintain Florida, he has to maintain Ohio, and all of the other states he needs to win to get to 270.

00:52:50.000 Either Wisconsin or Michigan or Pennsylvania, which means he does have a path.

00:52:55.000 Democrats in the over the overarching critique, however, is correct.

00:52:59.000 The Democrats, by moving far to the left, are coming much closer to handing Trump the election.

00:53:04.000 All right.

00:53:04.000 We'll be back here later today or we'll see you here tomorrow.

00:53:06.000 Make sure go pick up a copy of my new book.

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00:53:13.000 It was number one last week.

00:53:15.000 So go check that out right now at Amazon.

00:53:16.000 Check out my interview that I did with Joe Rogan as well if you have some extra time on the internet today.

00:53:20.000 It was a lot of fun.

00:53:20.000 Joe's awesome.

00:53:21.000 And we'll see you a little bit later.

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00:53:49.000 Hey, it's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.

00:53:52.000 The Democrat press is at it again, trying to make a scandal where no scandal exists.

00:53:57.000 But is a holy Democrat press actually good for the Democrats?

00:54:00.000 We'll talk about it on The Andrew Klavan Show.

The Ben Shapiro Show - April 04, 2019

Where The Shameless Win The Day | Ep. 752

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