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00:01:38.000Alrighty, so, The big news of the day.
00:01:41.000Michael Cohen is now headed to the Hill.
00:01:43.000And this has been expected for a couple of weeks.
00:01:45.000He said he was going to testify on the Hill.
00:01:47.000Republicans are going to take the tack that Michael Cohen is a congenital liar who has been, in fact, convicted of lying.
00:01:55.000And so whatever he says cannot be taken with great seriousness.
00:01:58.000And Democrats will say, well, maybe that's true, but also your guy, Donald Trump, he lies a lot as well.
00:02:05.000So if you have a liar's paradox where both people are lying, how do you know which one is lying about any given issue?
00:02:11.000Well, here's what he is supposed to testify today, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:02:15.000Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's personal former lawyer, will for the first time publicly accuse the president of criminal conduct while in office.
00:02:23.000related to a hush money payment to a porn star, a person familiar with his planned testimony before Congress said.
00:02:28.000Appearing on Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee, Mr. Cohen will also make public some of Mr. Trump's private financial statements and allege that Mr. Trump at times inflated or deflated his net worth for business and personal purposes, including avoiding paying property taxes, the person said.
00:02:43.000The financial statements were developed by Mr. Trump's accountant.
00:02:45.000The person also said the Wall Street Journal has not yet seen those statements.
00:02:49.000So the implication is going to be the reason that President Trump did not want to turn over his tax returns is because he has been futzing with the numbers in his tax returns for years to avoid paying property tax.
00:02:59.000Cohen's testimony is expected to focus on his behind-the-scenes accounts of working for Mr. Trump over a decade, a period during which Mr. Cohen will say he witnessed lies, racism, and cheating by Mr. Trump, according to this person.
00:03:10.000Cohen is expected to recount racist remarks Trump allegedly made to him, including instances in which Trump allegedly questioned the intelligence of African Americans and criticized their lifestyle choices, the person said.
00:03:23.000Is Michael Cohen now speaking out of school?
00:03:27.000If we were to go through everybody's conversations at any time in the United States that they had privately and then blast those out for all the world to see, I have a feeling most people would have something they've said in the past that is embarrassing to them.
00:03:40.000But again, Cohen has every interest at this point in making Trump look as bad as possible.
00:03:44.000After all, how's he going to get that book deal after he gets out of prison?
00:03:47.000Mr. Cohen's planned testimony comes 13 months after the Wall Street Journal first reported that Cohen paid $130,000 in October 2016 to former adult film star Stephanie Clifford, that would be Stormy Daniels, to buy her silence after she alleged having a sexual encounter with Trump.
00:04:01.000In the wake of the Journal's revelations, you'll remember that federal prosecutors investigated Cohen, raided his home, his hotel room, and his office, and began probing the Trump Organization.
00:04:10.000And the Trump Organization has been spearheaded, not by the Mueller investigation, but by the U.S.
00:04:15.000That investigation will continue, I've said for a long time.
00:04:18.000The grave threat to Trump's presidency on the legal front is not the Mueller investigation alleging collusion with the Russian government.
00:04:24.000The grave threat has always been the SDNY.
00:04:26.000Because the allegation, if you recall, was that Michael Cohen basically served as a cutout for Stormy Daniels in order to avoid campaign finance law.
00:04:34.000The idea being that he made an illegal campaign contribution to President Trump by paying Stormy Daniels $130,000 and that Trump later reimbursed him for that so that he wouldn't have to report that to the FEC.
00:04:47.000That if Trump had personally paid Stormy Daniels, it wouldn't have been a violation of law.
00:04:50.000If Michael Cohen had paid Stormy Daniels and not been reimbursed by Trump, then Cohen would have violated the law, but Trump wouldn't have.
00:04:56.000But if Trump told Cohen to go and pay her off and then paid him through a back channel to avoid FEC disclosures, then that would be a violation of campaign finance law.
00:05:05.000Now, that's a controversial proposition.
00:05:07.000There are former FEC commissioners who say that's not actually a violation of campaign finance law because even if Cohen spends $130,000 shutting up Stormy Daniels, that's not a campaign expenditure.
00:05:17.000You can't say that that is directly related to and exclusively related to the campaign.
00:05:21.000Maybe Michael Cohen made a habit over the period of years paying off women on behalf of Trump, which is likely and probably true.
00:05:29.000The White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement that Mr. Cohen was a disgraced felon and noted he had previously pled guilty for lying to Congress and making other false statements, which is a pretty good comeback.
00:05:39.000Why should we believe you today when you testify before Congress?
00:05:45.000Now, presumably, Cohen's response will be, right, I lied to Congress last time, I got caught last time, and if I lie this time, they're going to revoke whatever plea bargain I have arranged and they're going to send me to jail for longer, so my incentives are not quite the same as they were even a year ago.
00:05:59.000Sarah Sanders says, Sadly, he will go before Congress this week, and we can expect more of the same.
00:06:03.000It's laughable that anyone would take a convicted liar like Cohen at his word, and pathetic to see him given yet another opportunity to spread his lies.
00:06:10.000Cohen agreed to testify before the committee at the behest of its Democratic chairman, Maryland Representative Elijah Cummings, after postponing his scheduled hearing last month, citing public statements by Trump that he saw as threats toward members of his family.
00:06:22.000In August, Mr. Cohen implicated the president in two federal crimes when he told prosecutors that Trump directed those hush money payments to Stormy Daniels as well as Karen McDougal.
00:06:34.000All of that supposed criminal activity happened before the election.
00:06:38.000Apparently Cohen is going to testify that Trump committed criminal activity after the election.
00:06:42.000So according to the person familiar with Cohen's anticipated testimony, whenever the Wall Street Journal says things like the person familiar with Mr. Cohen's anticipated testimony, you can fairly bet that Mr. Cohen is the person most familiar with Mr. Cohen's anticipated testimony.
00:06:55.000In other words, By the way, here's a check.
00:06:57.000the wall street journal and said here's what i'm going to testify to the person familiar with cohen's anticipated testimony said cohen would provide evidence of criminal conduct since trump became president but other than saying that involved the stormy daniels payment he wouldn't offer more specifics so presumably he's going to say that the criminal conduct was trump saying to him by the way here's a check it's for all that good work you did with stormy daniels and he did that while he was already president of the united states
00:07:21.000Trump has previously described the Stormy Daniels payment as a simple private transaction and he said if the payments were illegal, well then that's Cohen's mistake because Cohen's the lawyer.
00:07:29.000It's not my job to know campaign finance law.
00:08:12.000He was the guy who was his sort of consigliere, supposedly.
00:08:15.000At least that's how Cohen portrayed it.
00:08:17.000In a letter last week to the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Jim Jordan of Ohio and Mark Meadows of North Carolina accused the panel under Elijah Cummings of being out to attack the president for partisan gain, noting that Cohen had already lied to Congress in 2017.
00:08:29.000They said they intended to question Cohen about his conduct throughout his professional life and any other financial dealings he has had.
00:08:34.000Including with his father-in-law, because there were accusations that his father-in-law was corrupt and that Cohen had engaged in criminal activity with his father-in-law as well.
00:08:44.000According to NBC News, Cohen is going to focus on his allegations of the president's lies, racism, and cheating.
00:08:50.000And again, he's going to turn over financial statements to the committee that he somehow got hold of.
00:08:56.000Which is a violation, if I'm not mistaken, of attorney-client privilege.
00:09:00.000I don't think the attorney just gets to breach attorney-client privilege.
00:09:03.000So I assume that Cohen, as Trump's personal attorney, got a hold of all of the financial records.
00:09:09.000I'm not sure what provision of law allows him to then spill that in front of Congress.
00:09:16.000I mean, the whole point of attorney-client privilege is that communications between a client and an attorney are indeed shielded by law from discovery.
00:09:24.000So I'm not sure exactly how this would work.
00:09:27.000Nonetheless, it will be a highly dramatic day on the Hill, something that we can all look forward to with great trepidation and vometriciousness.
00:09:34.000Because honestly, Here's my honest take on this.
00:09:39.000Do I think some of the stuff that Michael Cohen says is going to be true?
00:10:05.000So when you have two people who lie a lot, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to believe and what I'm not supposed to believe.
00:10:09.000Am I supposed to only believe the stuff that confirms my priors?
00:10:13.000So if Cohen says that Trump is a wonderful guy, am I supposed to believe that because I'm a Republican?
00:10:17.000And if Cohen says that Trump is a vicious racist, am I supposed to believe that because I'm a Democrat?
00:10:22.000I mean, is that the way this is supposed to work now?
00:10:24.000This is the problem with having deeply untrustworthy people on the Hill and then having them testify.
00:10:29.000We don't know what to believe and what not to believe.
00:10:31.000And when people say, what is Cohen's incentive to lie?
00:10:33.000Cohen's incentive to lie is that this is the only way that he can find any measure of grace with the press.
00:10:38.000It is the only way that he can have a best-selling book after he leaves jail.
00:10:41.000It is the only way for him to fix his reputation.
00:10:44.000Right now, he's just the rat who President Trump sent scurrying around to do errands for him and then flipped when the federal government pressed him.
00:10:51.000That's not a great rap, but if he can become the hero who unmasked President Trump, then Cohen will live forever in the annals of joy among Democrats.
00:10:59.000We've seen that over and over and over.
00:11:01.000You'll recall when James Comey was an enemy to the left because he released a letter a week before the election that severely hampered Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
00:11:08.000And then Trump fired Comey, and now Comey's a leftist hero.
00:11:12.000You'll recall that the same thing has happened with Jeff Sessions, even, and Rod Rosenstein, and a bunch of other government actors who are perceived to be anti-Trump, or at least obstruction to President Trump's agenda.
00:11:23.000All those people have become suddenly heroes of the resistance.
00:11:25.000Omarosa Manigault became, for a time, a hero of the anti-Trump resistance.
00:11:29.000So that's Michael Cohen's only play here.
00:11:31.000So is this going to have any real impact on President Trump's presidency from here on out?
00:11:35.000Probably not, but I'll explain why it will have some impact politically in just a second.
00:11:39.000First, let's talk about that watch that you are wearing.
00:12:17.000And you know I'm all about supporting ground-up entrepreneurs who work hard for what they want.
00:12:21.000Well, Movement was built ground-up by a couple of guys who figured they could undercut the existing watch market by cutting out the middleman.
00:14:19.000Well, Cohen obviously allows the media the opportunity to shift the conversation back onto President Trump, because the last thing they actually want to do is talk about the Democratic Party.
00:14:27.000Which makes perfect sense, because the Democratic Party has gotten so unbelievably extreme that they did something almost unthinkable yesterday.
00:14:37.000Yesterday, brought up for a vote was the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.
00:14:42.000It was offered by Senator Ben Sasse, who was on the program a couple of weeks ago, talking about all this in the midst of the Ralph Northam controversy in Virginia.
00:14:49.000You'll recall that Ralph Northam went on a radio show where he suggested that babies that were born alive in botched abortions, maybe they should be kept comfortable while the mother and the doctor decided what to do with the babies.
00:14:59.000He said that he was talking about normal end-of-life care.
00:15:03.000But in the interview, he said, If a baby is born alive, maybe the baby has a viability issue or maybe the baby just has a severe deformity.
00:15:13.000Then we'll keep the baby comfortable until we decide what to do with it.
00:15:17.000His statements were a little broader than just end-of-life care.
00:15:21.000In any case, Kathy Tran was even clearer about it on the floor of the Virginia House of Delegates when she said a baby should be aborted basically in the birth canal is totally fine.
00:15:31.000And then the state of New York passed a law and the state of New York's law was so wildly extreme that it actually got rid of an already existing point of law in New York that protected infants that were born alive during botched abortions.
00:15:47.000Well, last night there was a vote in the Senate, and by a vote of 53 to 44, the Senate failed to pass the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.
00:15:55.000That was 53 votes in favor, 44 votes against.
00:15:59.000You need 60 votes to clear the filibuster.
00:16:04.000Just three Democratic senators crossed the aisle to vote with Republicans in favor of legislation that was specifically designed to protect infants that were born alive during abortions.
00:16:12.000To get rid of any distinction in law between infants born alive for any reason and infants born alive during abortion.
00:16:20.000Mitch McConnell has a column talking about exactly why this was necessary in a piece for the Kentucky Courier-Journal, the Louisville Courier-Journal.
00:16:27.000He said, I announced as Senate Majority Leader that we would vote on the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.
00:16:32.000The bill, on which I'm proud to be an original co-sponsor with nearly 40 of my colleagues, would direct any physician present when a baby survives an abortion to provide medical assistance the same way they would for any other child who's born alive at that stage.
00:16:44.000In short, it requires that doctors treat these babies with the attention and care they deserve.
00:16:49.000Apparently, Ben Sasse tried to seek an agreement to expedite the passage of the legislation, and Democrats held that up.
00:17:06.000Again, the state of New York obliterated a provision of law that provided additional protections for babies that were born during botched abortions.
00:17:13.000The case that Democrats are making against this thing doesn't make any sense.
00:17:16.000I've been trying literally all night and this morning.
00:17:19.000I've been trying to find why exactly Democrats object to this bill.
00:17:23.000Why exactly is there anything wrong with this bill?
00:17:25.000They say, well, there's already a bill on the books, 2002, the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, that says that if a child is born alive, then it is to be treated as any other baby would be.
00:17:34.000So why exactly is this bill necessary?
00:18:01.000The answer was it wasn't really necessary in practical terms, but it was a morally good thing to do, and so it passed with flying colors, I believe a unanimous vote, in the United States Senate.
00:18:09.000Suddenly, Democrats have decided they don't like extraneous and unnecessary legislation?
00:18:18.000Sass said in a speech in the Senate on February 4th that Ralph Northam had endorsed infanticide.
00:18:24.000He said the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act prohibits exactly the kind of infanticide Northam was addressing.
00:18:29.000The bill requires that a baby that is born alive must then be transferred to a hospital and away from an abortion clinic because we don't actually trust abortion doctors not to do a Kermit Gosnell and just kill babies that are already born.
00:18:40.000The case the Democrats are making against this makes no sense.
00:18:43.000So Leanna Nguyen is the president of Planned Parenthood.
00:18:45.000She said, this legislation is based on lies and a misinformation campaign aimed at shaming women and criminalizing doctors for a practice that doesn't exist in medicine or reality.
00:18:58.000If this never happens, then what are you worried about?
00:19:00.000What are you worried is the actual practical ramification of this legislation?
00:19:04.000Why do you need 44 Democrats to vote against a piece of legislation saying if a baby is born alive during a botched abortion, then you can't kill it?
00:19:12.000Really, like, if you say that never happens, okay, fine, so it never happens, so what's the downside?
00:19:55.000We're not talking about abortion here.
00:19:57.000We're talking about babies that were born alive.
00:20:00.000I mean, I'm looking at the text of the bill right now.
00:20:02.000It was originally introduced in the House as H.R.
00:20:05.0004712 by Representative Marsha Blackburn.
00:20:08.000That was the version, or close to the version, that was voted on last night.
00:20:14.000The Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.
00:20:16.000All it says is that if an abortion results in the live birth of an infant, the infant is a legal person for all purposes under the laws of the United States and entitled to all the protection of such laws, and then adds, any infant born alive after an abortion or within a hospital, clinic, or other facility has the same claim to the protection of the law notarized for any newborn or for any person who comes to a hospital, clinic, or other facility for screening and treatment or otherwise becomes a patient within its care.
00:20:42.000It says, any health practitioner present at the time the child is born alive shall exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child as a reasonably diligent and conscientious health care practitioner would render to any other child born alive at the same gestational age.
00:20:56.000In other words, you treat victims of botched abortions the same way that you would treat any baby that's born, and they would have to ensure that the child born alive is immediately transported and admitted to a hospital because they don't have postnatal care available at abortions.
00:21:09.000That's not what abortion clinics are for.
00:21:11.000There's also a mandatory reporting of violations requirement saying that a health care practitioner whose knowledge of a failure to comply must report this to state or federal law enforcement.
00:21:20.000And whoever violates subsection A will be fined under the title or imprisoned for not more than five years or both.
00:21:27.000Or if you try to kill a born alive baby, then this will be treated as murder.
00:21:31.000And the law explicitly says that the mother of a child born alive under the subsection may not be prosecuted under the section.
00:21:37.000So this is not about even prosecuting mothers.
00:21:39.000What is objectionable about this bill?
00:21:41.000Literally nothing is objectionable about this bill.
00:21:57.000And this is why I'm a big believer in calling a convention of states where we the people, bipartisan fashion, can propose amendments.
00:22:03.000Amendments that could force term limits on Congress, for example, or make them balance the budget.
00:22:07.000We have to hem in The power of Congress and, in many cases, the power of the executive before it is too late.
00:22:13.000Can you imagine the look on the faces of politicians when they realize that they are now legally barred from controlling your life in ways that they would love to?
00:22:20.000And that now they can't just live in those offices forever?
00:22:23.000Calling Convention of States is the only way to get the job done.
00:22:26.000There are already 3.8 million people with us on this, more every day.
00:22:30.000Go to conventionofstates.com slash ben to sign the petition today.
00:22:33.000That is conventionofstates.com slash ben.
00:22:35.000I know there are people who worry about things like a runaway convention.
00:22:38.000That's not going to happen because, again, every piece of constitutional legislation that is created by an Article 5 convention has to be submitted to that Article 5 convention for approval.
00:22:48.000So that's simply not going to be, you know, some lefty amendment that gets passed.
00:22:52.000There's going to have to be significant bipartisan support for any amendment that comes through the Convention of States.
00:23:05.000So again, I don't see any rationale for actually voting against this.
00:23:12.000I'm still waiting to hear a rationale by Democrats other than just the simple propaganda of Democrats suggesting that this is a violation of women's health or women's rights.
00:23:28.000Now, folks who say that it's unnecessary, it is important to note that the New York state law that recently passed that basically made abortion a guaranteed right, it repealed section 4164 of New York's public health law.
00:23:40.000That section had provided that abortions after the 12th week of pregnancy had to be performed in a hospital, and that abortions after 20 weeks A separate physician had to be on hand to provide medical care.
00:23:52.000It also specified, this section did, that a child born alive during an abortion procedure immediately enjoyed the protection of New York's laws.
00:24:00.000It required medical records to be kept of efforts to care for the infant.
00:24:03.000Without section 4164, this is according to America magazine, Catholic magazine, the public health law is now silent on the status of an infant born alive during an abortion.
00:24:14.000All the federal law would have done is obliterate distinctions between infants born alive, period, and infants born alive during abortions.
00:24:22.000They voted against it, again, without any excuse.
00:24:26.000I mean, I legitimately do not understand this.
00:24:28.000Maisie Hirono tried to provide that excuse.
00:24:30.000This is the horrible senator from Hawaii trying to make the case for why you shouldn't vote in favor of protecting infants born during botched abortions.
00:24:37.000We're indulging the majority's use of a false premise to inflame the public, shame women, and intimidate healthcare providers.
00:24:46.000Conservative politicians should not be telling doctors how they should care for their patients.
00:24:52.000Instead, women, in consultation with their families and doctors, are in the best position to determine their best course of care.
00:25:13.000If you are so extreme that you could not vote for this bill, you're too extreme for the American people.
00:25:18.000And that means every single Democratic senator who is running for president, all six of them, they've all said that they voted, all of them voted against this bill.
00:25:26.000How extreme have the Democrats become?
00:25:28.000In 2002, the Born Alive Infant Protection Act passed.
00:25:31.000We passed with unanimous Democratic support.
00:25:34.000Every single Democrat voted in favor of it.
00:25:38.000Now, I don't know who's doing the PR for the Democrats, but this is incredibly stupid.
00:25:41.000The reason it's incredibly stupid is because the polls have shown that in the last two months, abortion opinion in the United States has shifted dramatically in favor of the pro-life movement.
00:25:49.000The reason it has shifted dramatically in favor of the pro-life movement is because there's been a lot of talk about late-term abortion, and people are not in favor of late-term abortion.
00:25:58.000Well, Democrats are now embracing after-term abortion, They're at least saying that we shouldn't have additional protections for babies that are born after birth.
00:26:16.000They used to be called the National Abortion Rights Action League, but then they called themselves NARAL because they realized people don't like abortion.
00:26:22.000They tweeted, The Senate has voted down Senator Sasse's extremist anti-science bill.
00:26:28.000What's anti-science about saying you need to provide the same level of hospital protection for an infant born during an abortion that you would for an infant born not during an abortion?
00:26:37.000They attempted to inflict medically unnecessary restrictions on clinics.
00:26:42.000I read you the restrictions on clinics.
00:26:44.000The restrictions on clinics were you need to provide a baby the same care you would provide any other baby and you need to transfer that baby to a hospital ASAP.
00:26:52.000You can't keep the baby at an abortion clinic because abortion clinics generally are not created to take care of babies that are alive.
00:27:20.000And you're saying that's spreading a lie?
00:27:23.000Okay, well, then you're gonna have to show me, then you're gonna have to show me, if it never occurs, why you worry so much about voting in favor of this bill.
00:27:32.000And as far as threatening health care providers with jail time, it threatens them with jail time if they kill a baby after it's born.
00:27:38.000Now, notice the media coverage of this issue.
00:29:45.000We're the largest, fastest growing conservative podcast and radio show in the nation.
00:29:49.000So Bernie Sanders is a front runner for the Democratic nomination.
00:29:57.000If you remove Joe Biden from the polls, Bernie Sanders is the guy who is most likely to win the Democratic nomination, which means we have to play his theme music.
00:30:41.000Because, of course, he wants America to be socialist.
00:30:43.000Now, the best part about Bernie Sanders is he says all the quiet parts out loud.
00:30:47.000So for a long time, he's been trying to maintain that socialism is really just Norway.
00:30:51.000Even though he used to hang out with the Chavistas, and even though he's a big fan of the Castros, and even though he loved the USSR, Bernie's new thing for the last 10 years has been, you know what's a great place?
00:31:02.000Forget about all those other communist socialist places.
00:31:07.000By the way, hilarious, the former prime minister of Sweden tweeted out about Bernie Sanders that Bernie Sanders knows nothing about our country and really doesn't know anything about politics.
00:31:16.000Bernie loves Sweden, Sweden don't love Bernie.
00:31:18.000In any case, Bernie was on CNN last night and he was asked, will America become socialist if you're elected?
00:33:34.000My favorite thing is when you have socialists and they say things like, they get so offended when you ask them how you're going to pay for things.
00:34:44.000The good news is that Bernie wants to do universal preschool education so he can make sure that your kids are indoctrinated by Head Start programs.
00:34:49.000If you become president, will you support efforts to offer high quality, optional, publicly funded preschool for all Americans?
00:36:11.000There's never been a downside to any massive government bureaucracy.
00:36:14.000We don't have to spend additionally, we can just tax people.
00:36:16.000We don't have to tax additionally, we can just go after the rich people.
00:36:19.000We don't have to worry about bureaucracy, we'll have the best bureaucrats you've ever heard of.
00:36:23.000We don't have to worry about the history of socialism bankrupting countries and burdening economies and creating massive tax rates and And really undercutting the power of entrepreneurship.
00:36:34.000We don't have to worry about any of those things.
00:36:36.000So here's Bernie doing that routine on Medicare for All.
00:36:40.000Will these people be able to keep their health insurance plans, their private plans through their employers if there is a Medicare for All program that you endorse?
00:36:50.000What they will, what will change in their plans is the color of their card.
00:36:55.000So instead of having a Blue Cross Blue Shield card, instead of having a United Health Insurance card, they're going to have a Medicare card.
00:37:03.000That Medicare card will allow them to go to any doctor that they want.
00:37:07.000If they're going to the doctor, they're happy.
00:37:17.000If Medicare for All were a thing and you abolished private insurance, you would not be able to walk into any hospital you want and get any care you want.
00:37:26.000This is true in the NHS in Great Britain, for example, which is the best example of a nationalized healthcare system.
00:37:31.000All of the things that people like about Medicare, generally they like about Medicare Advantage, which is a program where you're buying supplemental insurance on top of your Medicare.
00:37:39.000People on Medicare right now are being cut out from their doctors right now because reimbursement rates are too low.
00:37:47.000It's on the order of if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
00:37:49.000When Bernie Sanders says, nothing will change except the color of your card, Well, that and you won't be able to go to the doctor you want to go to.
00:37:55.000You won't be able to get a surgery on demand.
00:37:57.000You won't be able to go to the doctor you've normally attended.
00:38:31.000The frontrunner for the Democratic Party refused on national television last night to call Nicolás Maduro, the dictator of Venezuela, a dictator.
00:38:38.000Because Bernie has a long... Again, he said the quiet part out loud, which is that Democrats kind of like socialism in Venezuela.
00:38:45.000A lot of Democrats were cheering for Hugo Chávez like ten years ago.
00:39:23.000So here's Bernie Sanders forgetting for a second and going back to, Venezuela's kind of great, except for the death and destruction and despair and starvation.
00:39:32.000Why have you stopped short of calling Maduro of Venezuela a dictator?
00:39:37.000I think it's fair to say that the last election was undemocratic.
00:39:44.000But there are still democratic operations taking place in that country.
00:39:48.000The point is, what I am calling for right now is internationally supervised free elections.
00:39:57.000And I do find it interesting that Trump is very concerned about what goes on in Venezuela.
00:40:04.000My record is to be concerned about democracy all over the world.
00:40:08.000Okay, well, no, your record is not that, actually.
00:40:11.000You were in favor of the USSR and Cuba, so no, that's actually not your record, being in favor of democracy all over the world.
00:40:16.000As far as why we don't support democracy in Saudi Arabia, it's for the same reason that supporting democracy in Hamasistan was a bad idea.
00:40:22.000The worry in Saudi Arabia is that if you actually were to have a vote, that the Muslim Brotherhood would then be in charge of Saudi Arabia and their oil supplies.
00:40:30.000Democracy is not always consonant with liberalism, but in Venezuela, it certainly is.
00:40:36.000And so you get, theoretically, the best of both worlds.
00:40:38.000A democracy in which a socialist dictator is overturned.
00:40:56.000I just gave you the geopolitical reason why there's an actual rationale for the Saudi royal family remaining a dictatorship.
00:41:02.000And that's a very hardcore political reason.
00:41:05.000It's not a neocon position that every country needs to be immediately democratized because there are consequences to democratization.
00:41:12.000When they tried to hold a vote in Gaza Strip in 2005, Hamas was elected, an actual terrorist group.
00:41:17.000Elections do not necessarily guarantee liberalism.
00:41:20.000But, in Venezuela, the good news is they kind of would.
00:41:23.000Like, actual open elections in Venezuela would certainly be preferable to a socialist dictatorship.
00:41:28.000But apparently not according to Bernie.
00:41:30.000There is a pretty stark contrast, by the way, between the Bernie Sanders perspective on Venezuela and the perspective of the senator from Connecticut for the Democrats who said yesterday that he was very afraid of Trump when it came to Venezuela, but not so much Maduro.
00:41:47.000There's a big contrast between that and the position of the administration.
00:41:50.000Here is Vice President Mike Pence yesterday saying that Maduro has to go.
00:41:53.000What brings us together today is the recognition by all the nations gathered here That Nicolas Maduro is a usurper with no legitimate claim to power.
00:42:07.000Okay, so that's a very different position.
00:42:09.000By the way, worth noting, yesterday there were journalists who were arrested and harassed by the Venezuelan governor, Jorge Ramos, who you'll recall once yelled at President Trump when President Trump was first elected.
00:42:20.000He yelled at him and then President Trump said, I'm not going to answer your questions.
00:42:23.000He refused to listen and then he was removed from the tent.
00:42:35.000They were legally detained in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, after asking Nicolas Maduro questions he did not like and showing him a video of people eating from the trash.
00:42:43.000They were actually arrested and put in jail.
00:42:50.000And the press treated as though being a member of the press in the United States is a great risk.
00:42:54.000The great heroes of the journalism-ing press here in the United States.
00:42:58.000It actually takes some guts to be in Venezuela right now.
00:43:00.000If you want to talk about the actual oppression of journalists, you might want to look to some of the socialist dictatorships that you love so much here on the left.
00:43:08.000Turns out that those places are very likely to crack down on journalists in a way that Donald Trump never has and never is going to.
00:43:42.000And the only question is, would the alternative be worse?
00:43:44.000In Venezuela, there's no question the alternative would be better.
00:43:47.000And yet there are members of the hardcore left in the Democratic Party who are still trying to manipulate so that Maduro has a chance to remain in power undemocratically.
00:44:01.000And meanwhile, I do have to make a quick note here.
00:44:02.000President Trump is in Vietnam right now, and he is meeting with Kim Jong Un.
00:44:07.000And he's doing some PR that I think is not only unnecessary, but really morally ugly.
00:44:13.000He was looking to flatter Kim Jong Un today, according to CNN.
00:44:17.000Trump told Kim Jong-un that he had known plenty of people who had grown up wealthy and whose families were powerful, is what he told Kim Jong-un.
00:44:24.000And then he said many of them emerged messed up, but Kim wasn't one of them.
00:44:30.000Mr. President, I understand that you are trying to...
00:44:33.000Make nice with a dictator because you think you're going to get something from him?
00:44:36.000Can you please not say evil things in the process?
00:44:39.000Kim Jong-un literally kills his relatives and keeps millions of people in a giant gulag.
00:44:44.000I'm fairly certain messed up would be the least of the descriptors to apply to him.
00:44:51.000If Barack Obama had said that, we'd all be up in arms.
00:44:53.000So I think we should be similarly up in arms that the President of the United States is telling one of the worst dictators on planet Earth that he did not emerge, he emerged better than many families, many kids of rich families in the United States.
00:45:43.000No matter all the worthless words that can be said.
00:45:46.000Though they themselves never had a chance to speak.
00:45:50.000Somewhere before this life, unspoken sentences of tenderness were formed.
00:45:55.000And then cut off before they could be said.
00:45:58.000Cut off in ceremonies of lifeless latex hands and disembodied masks that float in blind bright auras of white rooms with antiseptic smells.
00:46:07.000It's a really brutal and affecting poem.
00:46:13.000You can go check it out at Daily Wire.
00:46:36.000He said, we were the first to assert that the more complicated the forms assumed by civilization, the more restricted the freedom of the individual must become.
00:46:44.000And the reason that he was tweeting that out is because he was saying that many Democrats, many people on the left, are happy to restrict strict freedom of the individual on behalf of a more complex and complicated state.
00:46:56.000AOC, being a historical ignoramus and not knowing things, then tweeted out, in case you missed it, while the GOP is calling paying a living wage socialism, a Republican senator full-on quoted National Fascist Party leader and Hitler ally Benito Mussolini like it's a Hallmark card.
00:47:11.000Okay, there's a meme on Twitter that shows a person and then a joke going over their head and it says, you, the joke, going over your head.
00:47:20.000Hey, that is AOC nearly every day of the week.
00:47:25.000He literally quoted this to say that Democrats are centralizing power and limiting freedom because they keep saying the world is complicated.
00:47:31.000And then she's like, you quoted Mussolini, though, didn't you?
00:47:35.000Because he's saying that you guys are kind of akin to Mussolini, because it turns out the Democratic Party was a big fan of Italian fascism in the 1920s and 1930s.
00:47:44.000But AOC, and what's amazing is that people are so stupid that her dumb tweet, which completely misses the point in every conceivable fashion, that that idiotic tweet received 45,000 likes because everyone and everything is stupid.
00:48:33.000It's actually a really funny video, so you can go check that out.
00:48:36.000I wouldn't put it in things I like because the popcorn wasn't that great, and especially with the dog hair on it after that and everything.
00:49:09.000and in many places abroad, transgender athletes are breaking barriers in high school, college, and pro sports and being embraced by teammates and fans.
00:49:16.000Right, like if a man goes into MMA, if Fallon Fox goes into MMA and beats the living bleep out of a bunch of women, that is called cheating.
00:49:31.000If a man calls himself a woman and then has a couple of surgeries to make himself feel better about that, that does not mean his athletic prowess has radically changed.
00:50:06.000Elizabeth Warren yesterday tweeted out that she loves science immediately after she said that mother's health determines what to do with the baby after it's born.
00:50:14.000Which apparently is scientific or something.