The Glenn Beck Program - 12⧸21⧸17 - Ben Shapiro in for Glenn Beck

00:00:00.000 Love. Courage. Truth.

00:00:30.000 Republican tax cut. The Democrats have been saying for a while here that everyone would die. Now, I have to admit, I didn't take the warning all that seriously. I mean, they'd said that we were all going to die because President Obama pulled out of the Paris Accords. We had been informed that we were all going to die because of net neutrality repeal. And then they said that we were all going to die because of the tax reform. And I thought, that must be crazy. There's just no way. I mean, come on, really? They're going to put some more money back in my pocket and we're all going to die because of that? That seems a little bit extreme.

00:00:57.460 And then I woke up and the world was empty. There's no one on the roads. Everyone, it appeared, was dead. Actually, no, it was just like 530 L.A. time. Everybody's alive. Everybody's fine. Nobody is dead. But the Democrats are protesting nonetheless.

00:01:12.300 And what's really fascinating is to watch the ideological breakdown with regard to these protests. Because the Democrats are having a tough time coming up with the rationale for why they are so all fired angry at this particular tax cut. Are they angry because of the deficits? Because that's a new one.

00:01:30.660 Are folks on the left angry because of the deficits after President Obama doubled the deficit? Doubled the national debt, rather. That seems a little bit weird to me.

00:01:40.240 Are they angry because they think it's going to screw the middle class? We keep hearing that. It's going to hurt the middle class.

00:01:45.740 Well, if that's the case, if that's the case that it's going to hurt the middle class, they have to explain why it is that pretty much everybody in the middle class gets a tax cut and why a series of companies came out yesterday and announced that they were going to give their employees pretty significant Christmas bonuses because of the tax cut.

00:02:02.600 Well, Ted Lieu, the Democratic Congress, tweeted something out this morning that I think is really quite telling, really explains what it is that is driving so many of these of these talking points from the Democrats.

00:02:21.640 Here's what he tweeted out, and it shows that there is a moral conflict that undergirds everything here.

00:02:28.000 He tweeted out, GOP underestimates how people feel when they know others got a better deal.

00:02:33.620 If Sally gets a tax cut of $380, but others get $200,000, she will be upset and wait until Joe finds out he's getting a tax increase for residing in California.

00:02:43.880 That's why tax bill is so unpopular. Human nature.

00:02:46.880 It's kind of a deep tweet when you think about it.

00:02:50.660 Not because Ted Lieu is saying anything that we didn't know, but because he's admitting that what actually drives Democratic policy is a pure violation of the Ten Commandments.

00:03:01.420 There is a commandment not to covet thy neighbor's property.

00:03:06.140 What makes you a good person is not looking at your neighbor's stuff and saying, God, that's my stuff.

00:03:12.960 How dare he have stuff?

00:03:14.260 You know, in Jewish law, I'm an Orthodox Jew. In Jewish law, you're allowed to look at your neighbor's stuff and say, I really wish I had a car like that.

00:03:20.340 Maybe if I work really hard, one day I will have a car like that.

00:03:23.140 What you're not allowed to do under Jewish law is look at your neighbor's stuff and say, that's my stuff.

00:03:28.840 Why does he have stuff and I don't have stuff?

00:03:30.640 That should be my stuff.

00:03:32.320 That's a violation of the Ten Commandments.

00:03:36.020 And yet, the Democrats use that motivation to drive policy.

00:03:39.620 People on the left use that motivation to drive policy.

00:03:41.460 They're right that human nature is rooted in jealousy.

00:03:45.060 The founders knew that, too.

00:03:46.580 The difference is that the founding fathers said, you know what?

00:03:49.120 Why don't we have this set of checks and balances?

00:03:51.720 And why don't we actually stop each other from allowing our jealousy to run roughshod over each other?

00:03:56.560 Why don't we just prevent that?

00:03:58.520 Instead, the Democrats say, no, no, no, more of that.

00:04:00.640 We need more jealousy.

00:04:01.560 We need to oppose tax cuts because, you understand, the rich guy getting more of his money back than the poor guy, not in percentage terms, but in absolute terms, that means that the poor guy is going to be jealous.

00:04:12.600 You see, if the rich guy pays hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes and gets back $10,000, and the poor guy pays $100 in taxes and gets back $20, of course the poor guy is going to be jealous.

00:04:23.640 Now, the rational response, the moral response is, well, if you don't make as much money, you're not going to get as much of a tax cut.

00:04:31.020 And you don't have a right to somebody else's money just because you're jealous.

00:04:34.460 But what Lou is expressing is this view that the rich don't deserve to have their money.

00:04:39.700 So you have to go from point A to point B.

00:04:41.760 Point A is people are jealous of one another.

00:04:44.460 And we'll all admit that.

00:04:45.640 We'll all agree with that.

00:04:46.340 People are jealous of one another.

00:04:47.980 There's no question.

00:04:48.920 We all covered our neighbor's property.

00:04:50.200 Again, the idea in sort of biblical morality and traditional morality is that God commands you to do things because you don't want to do them.

00:05:00.180 God didn't command you to wake up this morning and breathe because you're going to do that.

00:05:03.980 God doesn't command you to eat because he knows you're going to do that.

00:05:06.960 God does command you not to covet other people's property because he knows that you will do that.

00:05:11.740 He knows that you're going to wake up in the morning and covet other people's property.

00:05:14.660 And so he says, don't do that.

00:05:15.960 Makes you a bad person.

00:05:17.640 Avoid.

00:05:17.920 But Democrats and people on the left, they go from point A, which is you are jealous, to point B, which is your jealousy deserves to be acted upon.

00:05:27.100 Your jealousy deserves some sort of government redress.

00:05:30.280 So now we're not just violating one of the Ten Commandments, the Jealousy Commandment.

00:05:33.920 We're violating at least two others.

00:05:36.560 One, we're turning government into God.

00:05:38.500 We're suggesting that government is some sort of great centralizing power that we should go to for redress of all personal grievances, justified or not.

00:05:46.740 So we're turning government into our idol.

00:05:50.340 And we're actually legalizing thievery.

00:05:52.840 It is theft.

00:05:54.440 If you ran into my house in the middle of the night because you were jealous that I have a thicker wallet than you and you broke into my sock drawer and you just grabbed the cash right out of my wallet, this would make you a thief.

00:06:03.440 If you vote for people to do that, it doesn't make you any less of a thief.

00:06:07.440 But Ted Lute thinks that this is a good justification.

00:06:09.240 And at least he's honest.

00:06:11.240 I'll give him points for honesty because it's so funny to watch the Democrats try to spin away from the reality of what Ted Lute says.

00:06:18.000 What Ted Lute says here is true and it is profound.

00:06:21.220 But Democrats shy away from it because it's a little too honest.

00:06:25.240 It lets us a little bit too much into the heads of the Democratic policies.

00:06:29.900 And it's kind of ugly in there.

00:06:31.220 It's kind of yucky in there.

00:06:32.040 Instead, we have Democrats tweeting out, really, you know, for a middle class family, for a poor family, does 80 bucks a month really mean anything?

00:06:39.620 And people tweeting back at them saying, yeah, it means something.

00:06:41.860 It means I get to take my kids to dinner once a week.

00:06:44.820 It means I can take my kids to a movie.

00:06:47.960 And hell, would I like more money back?

00:06:49.760 Sure.

00:06:50.880 But it's better than nothing.

00:06:53.100 And Democrats have been trying to shy away from the implications of Ted Lute's jealousy argument.

00:06:57.220 Basically arguing that Republicans are trying to hurt the poor in favor of the rich or that this thing is rigged for business and that businesses won't spend the money.

00:07:06.540 They'll instead take the money and invest in stock buybacks.

00:07:08.900 That, by the way, is a weird argument coming from Democrats again.

00:07:12.100 The idea that businesses should not have as much money because they'll invest in stock buybacks.

00:07:15.940 What do they think drove up the stock market during the Obama years?

00:07:19.000 If you look at corporate profit lines, corporate profit margins, Obama was bragging about his healthy recovery, his vast recovery.

00:07:25.080 What was driving that recovery was corporations taking their money and instead of investing it in new technologies and new workers,

00:07:32.600 instead they were taking that money and plowing it back into buying back their own stock.

00:07:36.580 That was their actual goal.

00:07:38.540 And in doing so, drove up the stock prices and then Obama would go out on the campaign trail and talk about how the stock market was doing great.

00:07:44.420 So it's weird to hear Democrats complain about corporations using the money to prop up their own stock price

00:07:49.060 when that was largely the Democratic argument for Hillary Clinton in 2016.

00:07:55.080 In the end, it comes down to a basic group belief.

00:07:58.040 Is your property your own or is your property someone else's?

00:08:01.160 The only way that Democrats can get from point A, jealousy, to point B, I can take your money,

00:08:04.940 is if they believe it's not really your money in the first place, of course.

00:08:08.500 They don't believe like the Founding Fathers did.

00:08:10.680 They don't believe like John Locke did that what makes property yours is that you mix your labor with the land.

00:08:15.860 You mix your labor with the property.

00:08:17.860 You are the one who came up with the way to make the money.

00:08:20.400 You are the one who participated in that lawful legal transaction.

00:08:24.660 You're the one who made somebody's life better, and in return, they made your life better in a market exchange.

00:08:30.540 The left doesn't believe that.

00:08:31.660 They don't believe that government was instituted to protect your right to do that.

00:08:35.300 They believe that every dollar in your pocket is there through the grace of government.

00:08:39.820 They believe, as Hobbes did in Leviathan, they believe that absent any sort of government,

00:08:48.580 that life would be nasty, brutish, and short, and that property rights really don't even exist.

00:08:53.460 They believe in what they call positive law, the idea that government is what institutes rights.

00:08:57.100 Not that rights pre-exist government, and government is instituted to protect those rights.

00:09:00.880 Not that you have inherent value as a human being, and that your labor, therefore, belongs to you.

00:09:05.100 But that your labor really belongs to the government, and the government is kind enough to let you keep some of it.

00:09:10.980 And if the government lets some people keep more than others, even if you pay more in, that means the government is being unfair.

00:09:17.380 This is what undergirds the entire logic that Democrats were using for years with regard to the Elizabeth Warren, Barack Obama notion, you didn't build that.

00:09:26.720 In their belief, government built all of it.

00:09:28.180 Government built that road, and therefore, government owns your store that is built next to the road.

00:09:32.160 Sure, you built the store.

00:09:33.300 Sure, you could have built your store anywhere else, and if there were no road, maybe you would have worked with your neighbors to build one.

00:09:38.300 But in the end, it's government that stands between you and the wolves.

00:09:41.800 And if it weren't for government, you wouldn't have any rights at all.

00:09:45.540 That underlying perspective allows jealousy to creep in the back door, and then take over the mansion.

00:09:51.160 And that's what Democrats are pushing here.

00:09:53.060 And it ain't pretty.

00:09:54.840 As we continue, here on the Glenn Beck program,

00:09:58.440 Chuck Schumer made a very, very big boo-boo,

00:10:00.700 and was immediately called out by reality on it.

00:10:04.940 It's really, really funny.

00:10:06.060 I've got the audio for you.

00:10:07.000 I'll play it.

00:10:07.640 Ben Shapiro in for Glenn Beck.

00:10:12.700 Glenn Beck.

00:10:20.700 Glenn Beck.

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00:10:25.940 Glenn is off for the holidays.

00:10:28.300 Earning a well-earned vacation for Glenn.

00:10:31.580 And it really is a pleasure and an honor to sit behind the microphone for the Glenn Beck program.

00:10:34.900 Okay, so President Trump was celebrating the passage of the Republican tax reform package.

00:10:40.240 There's another bill, by the way, that's on the way that's going to fill in the gap with regard to the children's health insurance program.

00:10:45.180 Democrats have been saying Republicans cut taxes just so that they couldn't pay for children to have health insurance.

00:10:50.800 That program was created by a Republican in 1995, and now Republicans are going to continue funding it.

00:10:57.220 So that's not true.

00:10:59.580 But President Trump gets his day in the sun.

00:11:02.720 This is the only major legislative achievement of his first year.

00:11:06.660 He's had a lot of other achievements, and a little bit later in the program, I want to talk about some of those achievements.

00:11:10.660 I want to give him a grade.

00:11:12.620 I want to go through what he's done this year that's good, what he's done this year that's bad, how he can have a better year next year.

00:11:18.840 But President Trump gets his moment in the sun, and he deserves it.

00:11:22.540 So here's President Trump yesterday explaining that he has now liberated the economy from overreach.

00:11:28.640 We've liberated the American economy from Washington overreach, cutting 22 regulations for every one new regulation, the most in history by far.

00:11:37.500 We've cut hundreds and hundreds of regulations, allowing people to have their businesses, work their businesses, and hire people.

00:11:46.620 And we still have plenty of regulation.

00:11:48.680 Don't worry, we have plenty of regulation.

00:11:50.580 Regulation is not the worst thing, but regulation was stifling in our country.

00:11:55.760 He couldn't do anything.

00:11:57.440 And then he talked about how it's fun to win, which, of course, we know that President Trump is very big on the winning and the winning and the winning.

00:12:03.560 So here he is talking about winning.

00:12:04.780 Paul Ryan and Mitch, it was a little team.

00:12:07.720 We just got together and we would work very hard, didn't we?

00:12:11.760 It seems like it was a lot of fun.

00:12:14.140 It's always a lot of fun when you win.

00:12:16.360 If you work hard and lose, that's not acceptable.

00:12:19.460 Okay, so Trump is big into the winning.

00:12:21.140 And this is always the way that people who stumped for Trump thought this was going to work,

00:12:25.160 is that Trump was basically going to sit in the White House and Congress would shape legislation and then send it to him and he'd sign it.

00:12:30.000 And he wouldn't know what was in it, but he'd be happy.

00:12:32.240 And there's some truth to that, right?

00:12:33.780 There's some truth there.

00:12:34.400 That's basically how this tax cut worked.

00:12:35.840 The truth is it didn't really have tons to do with President Trump as much as it had to do with Mitch McConnell doing the hard work in the Senate.

00:12:41.980 He's the one with the two-vote majority in the Senate.

00:12:45.060 President Trump gets credit because he's the president when this happens.

00:12:47.620 But this was mainly a slog by Congress.

00:12:50.820 What was odd watching yesterday was there's a press conference and they went around the table with President Trump.

00:12:56.560 And everyone feels this weird necessity to just praise the president to the skies.

00:13:02.260 You know, Vice President Pence, a man whom I like, he spent an awful lot of time saying really sycophantic things to President Trump,

00:13:10.680 which is kind of an unattractive personal quality in the president that he needs to be praised by those around him every time something goes right.

00:13:18.320 And even when things go wrong, it does provide a hindrance from time to time.

00:13:22.280 It didn't yesterday.

00:13:23.220 And maybe this is just the way that conservatives have to play it.

00:13:25.540 Maybe the way that conservatives have to play it with President Trump is they understand how the man ticks.

00:13:29.820 President Trump is driven by praise and criticism.

00:13:32.340 And so if you praise him when he does the right thing, then maybe he'll do more of the right things.

00:13:36.200 If that's the case, then a little bit of praise in the end of the world.

00:13:38.900 Okay, so I promised that I had evidence that Chuck Schumer is adult.

00:13:42.280 Well, that evidence came in full-fledged form yesterday.

00:13:45.860 So Chuck Schumer was going out ripping the tax plan, of course, the Senate Minority Leader from New York.

00:13:50.760 And he decided to tear into AT&T.

00:13:53.060 He used AT&T as his example of a company that certainly would not hire more people, pass profits down to the low-level employee.

00:14:03.220 AT&T, he said, had just socked away its corporate profits in years past.

00:14:06.920 They had not expanded.

00:14:07.760 They had not benefited employees.

00:14:09.260 Here's Chuck Schumer ripping into AT&T.

00:14:10.800 Well, if you believe trickle-down economics, he's right.

00:14:15.340 The trouble is no one in America, not the American public, not the economists, believe that trickle-down works.

00:14:24.060 Corporations are flush with cash right now.

00:14:27.720 The stock market's booming.

00:14:29.700 Job creation isn't.

00:14:31.960 Look at all the companies that have already said they're going to use their tax break

00:14:36.080 for stock buybacks, for dividends that don't affect average Americans.

00:14:42.100 And I love the example of AT&T.

00:14:45.320 Over the last 10 years, AT&T has paid an average tax rate of 8% a year.

00:14:52.220 They have 80,000 fewer employees today than they had then.

00:14:57.160 Tax breaks don't lead to job creation.

00:14:59.920 They lead to big CEO salaries and money for the very, very wealthy.

00:15:04.940 Okay, so literally as Chuck Schumer was saying this, like in the moment Chuck Schumer was saying this,

00:15:09.320 AT&T was making an announcement.

00:15:11.140 It's literally at the same time, like on a split screen.

00:15:13.580 What did AT&T announce?

00:15:15.340 They announced that once President Trump signed the bill into law,

00:15:18.460 they would, quote, invest an additional $1 billion in the United States in 2018

00:15:22.180 and pay a special $1,000 bonus to more than 200,000 AT&T U.S. employees.

00:15:28.320 That's a lot of money.

00:15:29.960 Okay, and all of it was given out as Christmas bonuses.

00:15:33.120 So you have to love the irony of Chuck Schumer standing at AT&T,

00:15:36.340 evil company, socking away corporate profits.

00:15:39.020 Nobody will ever see a dollar of that except the CEOs at AT&T.

00:15:43.380 Meanwhile, CEO at AT&T is going, yeah, everybody gets $1,000.

00:15:47.000 Everybody.

00:15:48.420 Just amazing.

00:15:50.060 Just amazing.

00:15:51.480 Also worth noting, just to debunk this idiotic talking point,

00:15:54.540 the reason that AT&T did not increase employment and paid an 8% tax rate

00:15:58.820 is because they weren't experiencing a major growth curve.

00:16:02.680 Okay, the reason that you can pay a lower tax rate as a corporation

00:16:05.260 when the corporate tax rate in the United States prior to this bill was 35%,

00:16:09.620 the highest in the industrialized world,

00:16:11.940 is because AT&T was not running a massive profit.

00:16:15.360 AT&T was having some problems.

00:16:17.020 That's why they had a bunch of tax write-offs from years past.

00:16:21.900 They don't complain about people paying low taxes when the reason they're paying low taxes

00:16:26.040 is because they were not growing at the rate they wanted to grow.

00:16:30.720 I mean, Chuck Schumer has the polarity exactly backwards here.

00:16:33.140 They don't pay the 8% tax rate so that they can pay their CEOs lots of money.

00:16:37.400 They pay the 8% tax rate specifically because they weren't earning as much as they wanted to earn.

00:16:42.720 If they were making more money, they would have been subject to a higher tax rate.

00:16:45.140 That doesn't mean people don't game the system.

00:16:46.420 Of course they game the system.

00:16:48.180 The number of tax write-offs in this country is extraordinarily high.

00:16:50.420 But that doesn't mean that AT&T was somehow screwing its employees for years.

00:16:57.060 By the way, it's not just AT&T that's doing this.

00:16:59.260 A lot of businesses are doing something that I think is quite smart.

00:17:02.600 They're announcing and making clear to their employees that good tax policy is good for their business.

00:17:08.420 That good tax policy helps the bottom line for their employees.

00:17:11.800 This is something I've urged business owners to do for a long time.

00:17:14.060 Make clear to your employees that national policies have an effect on their business,

00:17:19.960 on the business in which they work.

00:17:21.260 Because otherwise you have this massive disconnect between employees and employers.

00:17:24.820 Or employers don't sound off about politics.

00:17:27.060 And employees think, well, my employer must be doing fine.

00:17:29.520 I mean, he's not saying anything.

00:17:31.240 So maybe a higher tax rate on my employer won't do anything.

00:17:34.100 Maybe he's just socking all that money away for the second swimming pool.

00:17:37.820 I think it's actually really important that corporate owners go out and say,

00:17:42.880 listen, this bill is bad for me, as with Obamacare.

00:17:46.580 Or listen, this bill is good for me.

00:17:49.180 Now, here's what I object to.

00:17:50.720 What I would object to is a bunch of businesses coming out and doing this for

00:17:54.520 essentially being bribed by the government.

00:17:57.020 So I was not in favor of, for example, the carrier deal.

00:17:59.740 During the transition period, President Trump announced that he was going to push

00:18:02.680 some sort of tax incentive in the state of Indiana.

00:18:05.060 Vice President Pence was at the time still governor of Indiana

00:18:08.080 because he had not been inaugurated yet.

00:18:10.380 And so he and Trump worked together to give some giveaways to Carrier.

00:18:15.200 And Carrier thanked them.

00:18:16.420 And Trump said, oh, I just saved a bunch of jobs at Carrier.

00:18:18.400 And I thought, this is not good, right?

00:18:19.560 This is crony capitalism.

00:18:21.060 This is corporatism.

00:18:22.200 I don't believe in the term crony capitalism because crony capitalism is not,

00:18:25.700 in fact, capitalism.

00:18:26.580 It is corporatism.

00:18:28.640 I said, I don't like that.

00:18:29.360 It's a special giveaway.

00:18:30.220 It's kind of a boondoggle on behalf of one company.

00:18:32.680 But when you have a policy that affects a broad swath of Americans,

00:18:35.560 it is perfectly fair for people to say, this policy is good for me or this policy is not good for me.

00:18:41.100 And in this case, a lot of companies are coming out and saying it's good for them.

00:18:44.180 It's not just AT&T.

00:18:45.500 Boeing announced an immediate commitment to investing $300 million in corporate giving,

00:18:50.060 workforce development, and investment in workplace of the future facilities and infrastructure enhancement.

00:18:55.920 Fifth Third Bank Corp, a bank headquartered in Ohio,

00:18:58.320 announced they'd raised the minimum wage for their employees to $15 following the tax reform bill.

00:19:03.300 So already positive fallout from the tax reform bill.

00:19:06.560 And I'll explain what's in this thing when we return.

00:19:09.020 I'm Ben Shapiro, in for Glenn Beck.

00:19:15.340 Glenn Beck.

00:19:25.340 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:19:29.220 Ben Shapiro here, in for Glenn Beck, here on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:19:32.320 Hope you're having a wonderful morning.

00:19:34.700 It is a good morning, thanks to the tax reform package that will put a little bit more money back in your pocket.

00:19:40.580 That begins in January.

00:19:42.440 And it does mean that the average American family is going to take home about $2,000, which is great.

00:19:48.620 That's a terrific thing.

00:19:49.600 If you're up at the higher end of the income specter bracket, then you will take home a little bit more money.

00:19:54.520 If you're like me, you'll actually take home less money.

00:19:56.160 I'm in California.

00:19:57.420 California is a terrible state.

00:19:58.480 So out here in California, that means that I now have to pay those state and local tax deductions basically disappear for me.

00:20:05.160 So I may pay actually an additional tax if you're a high income earner in the state of California.

00:20:08.660 But I am perfectly willing to do that if it means that everybody else gets a tax cut because I think that's better policy.

00:20:15.080 And a lot of corporations are coming out and demonstrating to the world that when you free them up to spend their money, it's not that they're altruists.

00:20:24.980 It's not that they're just sitting around waiting to spend the money in ways that benefit other humans.

00:20:28.840 It's that they understand that in order to be competitive in a competitive market, putting a little more money in their pocket allows them to make their workers happier, more productive, invest in better services, invest in better products.

00:20:39.940 That's the idea here.

00:20:41.200 That's the reason why Fifth Third Bank Corp is a bank headquartered in Ohio, and they announced that they would raise the minimum hourly wage for all employees to 15 bucks following the tax reform bill and would give a one-time bonus of $1,000 to more than $13,500 of their employees.

00:20:56.920 I do love that they're raising the minimum wage to $15 because you've heard this from the left for a while.

00:21:01.780 I used to do a show in Seattle, and when I was in Seattle, there was a big push by a socialist councilwoman named Shama Sawant.

00:21:08.660 She was the originator of the Fight for $15, $15 minimum wage, and she had pulled the $15 minimum wage statistic directly from her colon.

00:21:15.680 I mean, it was not as though—I asked her this directly.

00:21:18.300 I said, is $15 minimum wage tethered to anything?

00:21:21.180 Is there a reason for $15 as opposed to, say, $1,000?

00:21:24.140 I mean, you're a socialist, so why not go all the way?

00:21:27.040 And she didn't really have an answer.

00:21:28.200 And the truth has always been that when you push minimum wage regulations, what you end up doing is decreasing employment.

00:21:34.100 You're forcing employers to hire people at a wage they wouldn't normally pay.

00:21:37.940 But when employers are growing, then it's not really a problem getting them to pay more than $15.

00:21:43.180 It's why virtually everyone in the United States is being paid more than minimum wage.

00:21:48.160 The current federal minimum wage is not close to $15.

00:21:51.040 A very small percentage of Americans actually make minimum wage.

00:21:53.860 Really a tiny number of Americans.

00:21:55.160 And that's because the market drives salaries up.

00:21:59.000 If companies could just hire you as slave labor, presumably they would do so.

00:22:02.980 They can't in a competitive free and open market.

00:22:05.860 Wells Fargo also has announced they will increase their minimum hourly pay rate to $15,

00:22:10.100 and they will aim for $400 million in philanthropic donations next year thanks to the newly passed GOP tax bill.

00:22:16.180 It's good that businesses are making clear to everybody that a good tax bill helps them.

00:22:23.520 Because the problem is this.

00:22:24.780 Government makes a habit of telling people how they help people.

00:22:28.760 Government programs, people who are in favor of government programs,

00:22:30.980 they spend an awful lot of time saying,

00:22:32.540 well, you know, Medicaid helps you.

00:22:35.120 Welfare helps you.

00:22:36.540 Food stamps helps you.

00:22:37.320 And here's the evidence.

00:22:38.000 The evidence is you have an EBT card now in your wallet.

00:22:40.580 The evidence is that you have a little bit more in the check that you get from the welfare office this month.

00:22:46.640 The government is very good at making clear to people upon whom those people rely.

00:22:51.720 Government.

00:22:53.180 But when it comes to corporations, they really don't do a good job of this.

00:22:56.120 They don't make clear to people that you are actually reliant on capitalism.

00:22:59.560 You are actually reliant on people going out and building businesses and earning.

00:23:04.120 That's what you're reliant on.

00:23:05.240 If people knew that, they might be a little more warm toward policies that help businesses, whether big or small.

00:23:11.040 I've never understood, frankly, the distinction between big business and small business outside of the realm of lobbying.

00:23:17.860 You know, business is business.

00:23:19.340 A big business is very successful.

00:23:20.720 A small business is somewhat successful.

00:23:23.880 But in the end, a business is comprised of investors and people who are working.

00:23:28.760 And the size of the business, I've never understood this idea that big just means bad.

00:23:33.680 And bad means bad.

00:23:35.240 That we have a word for bad.

00:23:36.360 It's called bad.

00:23:37.260 You don't need another word that means that it's big.

00:23:39.620 Big does not always mean bad.

00:23:41.360 By the way, Comcast has also announced they're going to give $1,000 bonuses to over 100,000 eligible frontline and non-executive employees

00:23:47.860 and invest $50 billion over the next five years in infrastructure based on the passage of the tax reform.

00:23:53.460 FedEx has announced that they're going to ramp up hiring.

00:23:55.460 The Washington Post reports executives at the package delivery company say the passage of the bill, which promises massive cuts to the corporate tax rate,

00:24:04.020 would prompt the company to increase spending on new hiring as well as new equipment and technology.

00:24:08.840 The company also projects the changes amount to a $1.3 billion increase in annual profits, according to calculations by Bloomberg.

00:24:15.860 Frederick Smith is chairman of FedEx.

00:24:18.520 He said, quote,

00:24:19.360 This legislation offers pro-growth, pro-business tax reform solutions that will power the economy.

00:24:25.320 So, I mean, these are not the only ones.

00:24:27.720 CVS actually announced back in October that if the corporate tax rate dropped, it would create 3,000 permanent new jobs.

00:24:33.740 Now, let's talk about what exactly is in the bill, because there's been a lot of broad talk about what's in the bill.

00:24:38.780 But I want to get a little bit more specific about what is in the bill and why it's a win.

00:24:42.580 Why should we care that the corporate tax rates went down?

00:24:44.480 Yes, the individual tax rates went down, but the heart of this bill is the corporate tax rates dropping.

00:24:49.760 That's really what lies at the heart of it.

00:24:52.240 So, here's what's in the bill.

00:24:54.380 First of all, virtually everybody gets a tax cut.

00:24:56.360 The average household receives a tax cut of about $1,600, $1,610 in 2018.

00:25:01.260 Average household earning $1 million or more sees a tax decrease of approximately $70,000.

00:25:07.300 $870 for households making between $50,000 and $75,000.

00:25:10.500 Now, before you get jealous and before you say, that's terrible, understand.

00:25:14.120 The top tax quintile in the United States pays all net taxes in the United States.

00:25:19.500 That's all taxes paid to the federal government, minus all of the benefits that you receive from the federal government.

00:25:26.300 The individual tax increases do sunset in 2025,

00:25:28.600 but that's because they were playing some magic tricks with the statistics.

00:25:32.820 The idea here was that you somehow have to game the CBO, the Congressional Budget Office,

00:25:37.600 into stating that this bill will be deficit neutral, the bill will not be deficit neutral.

00:25:42.600 This is the drawback of the bill.

00:25:43.740 That's why deficit hawks are not happy with it.

00:25:46.620 The drawback is that we're going to be spending a lot of money and we're not paying for that spending.

00:25:50.980 But that seems to me more of a problem of the government spending than it is the problem of the government giving you back more of your own money.

00:25:57.860 Those individual tax decreases are supposed to sunset in 2025, go away in 2025.

00:26:03.440 In reality, they will likely continue.

00:26:05.640 The big part of this bill is that corporate tax rate decrease.

00:26:09.100 Before the bill, the U.S. had the highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world.

00:26:13.080 It was 35%.

00:26:15.000 The average European corporate tax rate, and the left always wants to follow Europe.

00:26:19.200 Oh, the Europeans, their governance is so great.

00:26:21.540 First of all, they should look at Europe's restrictions on abortion.

00:26:24.780 Europe has significant restrictions on abortion, particularly Eastern Europe.

00:26:27.560 But in any case, the average European tax rate, corporate tax rate, is 18%.

00:26:32.300 Before this bill, the corporate tax rate in the United States was 35%.

00:26:36.020 We cut it to 21%.

00:26:37.320 Why is that good?

00:26:38.840 Because every time countries massively cut their corporate tax rates, you see a rather marked increase in GDP.

00:26:45.400 The best example is Ireland.

00:26:47.660 Ireland, in 1995, had a 40% corporate tax rate, right?

00:26:51.220 Even higher than ours.

00:26:52.560 In that year, they cut their corporate tax rate from 40% to 12.5%.

00:26:56.340 Since then, they've seen 23% GDP growth.

00:26:59.540 That's as compared with 7.2% GDP growth from 1960 to 1995.

00:27:05.280 So, major boost.

00:27:06.260 There is a big increase in the child tax credit.

00:27:09.120 So, child tax credit goes up to $2,000 per child.

00:27:12.700 I've got to admit, I'm sort of split on the child tax credit.

00:27:15.480 As a guy with two kids, I'm excited that, presumably, I would receive money back if I were not sort of banned by income.

00:27:23.260 But in any case, there are a lot of people who have kids who need that extra money.

00:27:26.960 It'll certainly come in handy.

00:27:27.860 On the other hand, I'm not a big fan of government picking and choosing which people to benefit with tax cuts and tax credit.

00:27:35.740 Itemization has basically been made a thing of the past for a lot of folks because the standard deduction was doubled.

00:27:41.340 So, that means that if your itemization is less than the standard deduction, you just take the standard deduction.

00:27:46.300 Instead of the itemization, you can fill out your taxes on the back of a postcard, which is a major tax reform.

00:27:50.920 It's a very good thing.

00:27:51.620 Perhaps the second biggest move after the reduction in the corporate tax rate is not the individual tax rate reduction.

00:27:57.660 It's the death of the individual mandate.

00:28:00.280 Now, the death of the individual mandate is an interesting thing.

00:28:03.000 It's interesting because President Trump declared yesterday that now that the individual mandate is gone, Obamacare has been repealed.

00:28:11.760 Here's Trump saying that yesterday.

00:28:13.040 He said, Obamacare has now been repealed because the individual mandate is gone.

00:28:18.600 Do we have that clip?

00:28:21.620 Oh, no, this is Nancy Pelosi.

00:28:28.120 You can hear those dentures moving around.

00:28:29.820 A few clips later.

00:28:30.880 Trump was saying that Obamacare has been repealed.

00:28:34.060 The individual mandate is being repealed.

00:28:38.840 When the individual mandate is being repealed, that means Obamacare is being repealed because they get their money from the individual mandate.

00:28:49.160 Okay, that's not true.

00:28:50.020 We can stop it right there.

00:28:51.120 That's not true.

00:28:51.680 What President Trump is saying there is not true.

00:28:53.420 The individual mandate being repealed is a very good thing.

00:28:55.280 It means you are not going to be forced to buy health insurance if you don't want to buy health insurance.

00:28:58.960 However, it does not repeal Obamacare.

00:29:01.260 The individual mandate just means that you won't be forced to purchase health insurance.

00:29:04.560 Now, the reason that the Republicans stuck this in the bill is because, again, this was a little bit of deficit game playing.

00:29:13.020 The individual mandate, getting rid of the individual mandate lowers the deficit because a lot of people, knowing that they're going to be fined by the government, go and sign up for Medicaid.

00:29:20.840 Fewer people are now going to go sign up for Medicaid.

00:29:22.460 And so that means that the deficit goes down on the federal level.

00:29:25.920 But the individual mandate disappearing doesn't disappear Obamacare.

00:29:30.360 Insurance companies are still required to cover pre-existing conditions.

00:29:34.100 All the regulations on pricing still exist for the insurance companies.

00:29:36.980 And, in fact, it means that the cost on the insurance companies just went up because the individual mandate forced young, healthy people like me to subsidize older, sicker people by paying into the insurance programs.

00:29:48.700 So the individual mandate going does not mean Obamacare is dead.

00:29:51.420 So that is not true what President Trump is saying.

00:29:53.480 And it's actually a bad indicator.

00:29:54.540 If he thinks that's all we're doing on Obamacare, then that's going to be a serious problem.

00:29:58.400 It is because you're going to see prices jump in the individual insurance market.

00:30:02.340 And Republicans will pay a price for that unless they do what they're talking about doing, which is backfill that hole by directly federally funding people who are sick and needy in these states, in the individual market, which basically means a new entitlement program.

00:30:16.660 So you got rid of the individual mandate, but you're instituting a new entitlement program.

00:30:19.860 That is not getting rid of Obamacare.

00:30:21.320 Getting rid of Obamacare means you actually have to get rid of the regulations.

00:30:24.480 It's disappointing that President Trump is not stumping for that.

00:30:27.580 Now, as we continue here on the Glenn Beck Show, I got in a bit of a Glenn Beck program.

00:30:32.400 I got in a bit of a fight with Rosie O'Donnell on Twitter yesterday.

00:30:37.720 When I say a bit of a fight, I mean that it was really insane.

00:30:41.040 I will tell you all about my fight with Rosie O'Donnell as we continue.

00:30:44.940 Ben Shapiro in for Glenn Beck.

00:30:49.420 Glenn Beck.

00:30:57.580 Glenn Beck.

00:31:09.400 Ben Shapiro here for Glenn Beck.

00:31:11.900 Here on the world-famous Glenn Beck program.

00:31:15.000 All right, so this was rather hysterical yesterday.

00:31:18.360 So the left lost its mind over this tax bill.

00:31:20.880 And as I've mentioned, there's a lot to like about the tax bill.

00:31:23.820 There's a lot there that's good.

00:31:25.000 There's some things in there that are not so good.

00:31:26.260 There are a few deductions that went away that hurt specific groups of people.

00:31:30.160 There are deductions that hurt people, particularly in high-tax blue states.

00:31:33.360 That'd be the biggest one.

00:31:34.660 There's a decrease in the mortgage interest deduction, which hurts people in areas that

00:31:39.000 have high real estate prices, which coincidentally also happens to be places like California and

00:31:43.700 New York and Massachusetts.

00:31:45.740 But some people just lost their minds or what was left of those minds.

00:31:49.500 Rosie O'Donnell, who's a highly unpleasant person.

00:31:51.380 She's just a very unpleasant human being.

00:31:52.720 I think one of the reasons that President Trump is president is because he was one of

00:31:57.260 the first to recognize that Rosie O'Donnell is a deeply unpleasant human.

00:32:00.660 So Rosie O'Donnell tweeted out that she wanted to bribe a bunch of senators.

00:32:06.080 And as this thing was being passed, she tweeted out, how about this?

00:32:09.220 I promise to give $2 million to Senator Susan Collins and $2 million to Senator Jeff Flake.

00:32:15.460 If they vote no, no, I will not kill Americans for the super rich.

00:32:18.860 DM me, Susan.

00:32:20.020 DM me, Jeff.

00:32:20.840 No bleep.

00:32:21.700 $2 million.

00:32:22.500 Cash each.

00:32:24.160 Well, that was a problem because that's actually a violation of the law, right?

00:32:28.240 That's a federal felony under 18 Code Section 201B, in which it basically says that if you

00:32:34.640 try to bribe a congressperson for a vote, then you have to pay up to three times the amount

00:32:39.420 of the bribe to the federal government, so that'd be $12 million in this case, or spend

00:32:42.840 15 years in prison, or both.

00:32:45.200 Now, would Rosie ever be convicted of this?

00:32:47.280 Probably not, because you say a lot of things on Twitter.

00:32:49.340 And she'd just say, oh, I was joking.

00:32:50.600 I wasn't really serious.

00:32:51.440 Except that she kept saying over and over on Twitter she was serious.

00:32:54.240 So I jokingly tweeted out yesterday that if President Trump told Attorney General Sessions

00:32:58.980 to initiate prosecution of Rosie O'Donnell, if he told him to begin an investigation into

00:33:05.000 Rosie O'Donnell, then immediately they would begin the carving of President Trump's face

00:33:08.740 on Rushmore.

00:33:11.020 Rosie O'Donnell didn't like that.

00:33:12.740 She got mad.

00:33:13.980 And so she tweeted back at me, suck my bleep, Ben, which is weird for a variety of reasons.

00:33:21.980 And it's really odd.

00:33:25.020 And so I tweeted back, you're already a felon, Rosie.

00:33:28.980 Don't be a homophobic sexual harasser as well.

00:33:32.340 Hashtag, me too.

00:33:34.600 So yes, I was sexually harassed on Twitter by Rosie O'Donnell, which is just a horrifying

00:33:38.240 proposition.

00:33:39.680 And I feel deep down in the cockles of my tiny heart that I've been targeted on the basis

00:33:45.560 of my sex by Rosie O'Donnell.

00:33:47.160 And I don't like her homophobic language that she's using there either.

00:33:50.520 Also, I'm not sure why she's so transphobic to suggest that she has a set of male genitalia

00:33:56.540 when clearly she does not.

00:33:57.700 Or at least supposedly she does not.

00:34:00.200 I mean, I don't know.

00:34:00.720 Maybe she does.

00:34:01.240 And she's just been hiding it from everybody for years.

00:34:03.220 I don't know.

00:34:03.880 She's the one who's saying to do this.

00:34:05.080 I'm not.

00:34:06.280 But this is the level of ire and silly that we have reached from some folks on the left.

00:34:11.080 So Rosie O'Donnell sexually harassing me on Twitter.

00:34:14.280 Yeah, this year has been kind of weird.

00:34:16.700 Kind of weird.

00:34:18.040 Now, speaking of weird, Nancy Pelosi dropped what I thought was the weirdest reference in modern

00:34:23.700 memory.

00:34:24.080 I mean, I want to discuss that in a little while, actually.

00:34:27.840 First, I have to play Bernie Sanders vowing revenge.

00:34:30.020 So Bernie Sanders, speaking from the Marxist grave, and Bernie Sanders, a member of the

00:34:34.460 Socialist Undead, he says that he will have revenge.

00:34:38.500 There will be revenge as well as pudding cups.

00:34:42.600 I would like pudding cups in many flavors and shapes and varieties and also revenge.

00:34:48.080 But the failures of this government, Bernie Sanders speaking, go.

00:34:51.660 He vows revenge.

00:34:52.720 It's based on the fraudulent theory of trickle-down economics.

00:34:57.120 And that is if you give huge tax breaks to large corporations and the wealthy, somehow

00:35:01.660 the middle class and working families benefit.

00:35:04.120 Problem is that theory has never worked.

00:35:07.100 It didn't work under Reagan.

00:35:08.900 It didn't work under George W. Bush.

00:35:10.900 It didn't work recently in the state of Kansas.

00:35:13.360 This is a payback for wealthy campaign contributors.

00:35:19.280 And I think the Republicans will rue the day.

00:35:22.300 They may be celebrating today.

00:35:25.840 Glenn Beck.

00:35:33.200 Love.

00:35:35.100 Courage.

00:35:36.500 Truth.

00:35:37.800 Glenn Beck.

00:35:38.480 Ben Shapiro here in for Glenn Beck on the Glenn Beck program.

00:35:43.100 Always an honor to sit in for the great man himself.

00:35:46.500 So one of the things that's been really hilarious is watching as Democrats try to come up with

00:35:50.280 a victim on the tax reform bill.

00:35:52.580 I mean, really, like, laugh out loud, funny.

00:35:54.900 They've been looking around the United States trying to find someone who's been hurt.

00:35:57.940 And we were told beforehand, as I said earlier, that everyone is going to die.

00:36:00.580 Every single person in the United States will die because of tax reform.

00:36:03.380 People will die.

00:36:05.260 Millions of Americans will just...

00:36:06.940 It'll be like the Book of Revelation.

00:36:10.040 You know, Mitch McConnell will ride in on a pale horse and everyone will just be...

00:36:14.460 Everyone will be zapped to heaven or hell.

00:36:16.860 That's how this is going to go.

00:36:18.300 Instead, it turns out that nobody's been damaged.

00:36:20.880 A lot of people getting a little more money in their paycheck.

00:36:23.000 And that's great.

00:36:24.400 So Democrats have been searching.

00:36:25.940 And what they came up with in their search is something curious.

00:36:29.580 Nancy Pelosi has found the first victim of the Trump tax reform bill.

00:36:34.020 The first victim, it turns out, is a fictional British character first released in London in 1843 by Charles Dickens.

00:36:43.860 Of course, it would be tiny Tim.

00:36:45.560 Here's Nancy Pelosi, dentures a-movin', former Speaker of the House, current minority leader in the House.

00:36:51.540 Here's what she had to say about the Republican tax bill and whom it would hurt.

00:36:55.540 Simon has a rare disease and cerebral palsy.

00:37:01.380 His mother spoke of how their family watches the Muppet version of A Christmas Carol

00:37:05.140 and how Simon sees himself in tiny Tim, another kind boy with braces on his legs.

00:37:11.500 Unfortunately, this story, as of today, does not have the same kind of happy ending as A Christmas Carol.

00:37:19.500 But this story is not over.

00:37:22.420 And like tiny Tim, Simon and his family now find their future in danger because of the greed of those with power.

00:37:30.500 Now, the bill is going to kill tiny Tim.

00:37:32.240 So she came up with somebody who's like tiny Tim.

00:37:34.580 Not sure why he's like tiny Tim.

00:37:37.200 I mean, tiny Tim was in danger of being sent to the workhouse.

00:37:40.100 I'm pretty sure Simon is not in that serious danger of being sent to the workhouse.

00:37:43.920 She's not the only person who's invoking tiny Tim.

00:37:46.020 Jackie Spire, a Democrat from California, she says that this is the most shameful day in the history of Congress.

00:37:52.700 Really? In the history of Congress?

00:37:55.600 Like, has she fugitive?

00:37:57.240 Do you even Fugitive Slave Act, bro?

00:38:01.020 Do you even do you even Japanese internment camp, bro?

00:38:06.920 I mean, like, there are a lot of bad laws in congressional history, like a lot of really, really bad laws in the history of Congress.

00:38:14.380 But Jackie Spire says this was the most shameful day in the history of Congress.

00:38:18.180 And then she, too, invokes tiny Tim.

00:38:20.880 Tiny Tim is going to die.

00:38:22.240 Like, tiny Tim, he might be died from the overload of metaphor from the Democrats.

00:38:26.980 They've piled so much metaphor on top of him that his frail body couldn't handle it anymore, and tiny Tim keeled over.

00:38:31.140 But Jackie Spire trotting out the corpse of tiny Tim anyway.

00:38:34.480 You know, this is the ultimate bad Christmas carol story.

00:38:40.900 This may be the most shameful day in the history of Congress.

00:38:45.840 Today, in the House, we are going to shake down hardworking Americans for a 1.3 or 2.3, depending on how you count it, trillion dollar tax cut.

00:39:01.420 And at the same time, we're going to put 9 million kids in this country at risk.

00:39:10.500 And these 9 million kids aren't eligible for Medicaid, and their families can't afford the Affordable Care Act

00:39:19.800 because they have to pay a certain amount, and the subsidized amount doesn't cover the cost.

00:39:28.040 So they are truly out in the cold.

00:39:31.140 And then she said, Tiny Tim's crutch is being taken away.

00:39:35.900 Tiny Tim's crutch, he's going to fall over.

00:39:38.000 Poor Tiny Tim, just going to kill over there in the street.

00:39:40.800 In fictional London in 1843.

00:39:43.660 And just a quick note on Tiny Tim and Democrats.

00:39:45.940 If Nancy Pelosi and Democrats had their way, remember, Tiny Tim was the son of the Cratchits in the story.

00:39:50.720 If Nancy Pelosi and Klan had their way, Tiny Tim never would have been born.

00:39:55.320 Presumably, he would have been aborted so that the Cratchits could have moved to Paris and indulged in a little body painting.

00:40:01.140 Also worth noting, in the actual story of Christmas Carol, the government does not come in and take Scrooge's money and give it to Tiny Tim.

00:40:09.420 The whole story is about how religious observance and adherence and belief in God and the value of Christ.

00:40:16.520 These are the things that drove Scrooge to give money to the Cratchits.

00:40:21.720 It was Scrooge is a private citizen who chimed in.

00:40:25.760 But again, it's sort of like when Barack Obama was talking about how Trayvon Martin was his fictional son.

00:40:32.340 If you have to resort to fictional characters in order to make up victims for your narrative, you're not doing a good job politically.

00:40:38.020 You're just not doing a real smart job politically.

00:40:40.380 Meanwhile, the press have been doing their best to tear down this tax reform bill as well.

00:40:45.660 There are a couple instances on cable news yesterday that were truly insane.

00:40:48.360 Katie Turr over at MSNBC actually questioned Dave Bratt, I think it was Dave Bratt, from Virginia.

00:40:54.480 And at one point she asked him how much money he made.

00:40:56.800 The suggestion, of course, being the only reason that Dave Bratt would support a tax cut is because Dave Bratt was set to make a lot of money.

00:41:03.020 And Dave Bratt immediately said, well, Katie, how much money do you make?

00:41:06.160 Because Katie Turr must make a lot more money than Dave Bratt.

00:41:09.760 Dave Bratt probably makes $150,000 a year.

00:41:11.980 Katie Turr has got to be making $400,000 to $500,000 a year minimum.

00:41:16.040 But the notion from the media has been throughout that this is some sort of giant boondoggle giveaway to the rich and only rich people support tax cuts.

00:41:23.900 This I find deeply insulting.

00:41:25.240 I supported tax cuts when I was not rich.

00:41:27.360 I support tax cuts now that I make a lot of money.

00:41:29.720 I've supported tax cuts throughout my entire career.

00:41:31.900 I supported tax cuts when I was making no money and I was in law school and I was racking up debt.

00:41:37.480 Support for a particular economic program has very little to do with where you are on the economic scale.

00:41:42.760 And it has a lot more to do with do you think this is going to be effective?

00:41:46.120 Do you think it's good policy?

00:41:47.300 Do you think that it re-enshrines rights or that it invades rights?

00:41:51.380 But for the left, the only reason you could possibly be in favor of a tax cut is because you're selfish and greedy.

00:41:56.240 Now, it's hilarious that the same left will then say it's not selfish or greedy for you to oppose a tax cut and want a redistributionist program if you're poor.

00:42:02.820 So if you're poor and you want somebody else's money or you're low income and you think that the government should take someone's money and give it to you, that's not greedy.

00:42:09.800 That's altruism.

00:42:10.660 But if you're a rich person who wants to keep more of your own money, then that is just sheer greed.

00:42:16.240 It's just sheer absolute greed.

00:42:17.620 And this is one of the reasons why the American people have this very bizarre view of the tax bill.

00:42:21.600 So there have been a couple of polls out that show the tax bill is not wildly popular yet.

00:42:26.560 That number seems to be moving a little bit, as well it should.

00:42:28.860 50% of Americans in a recent poll said that they thought their taxes were going to increase under this bill.

00:42:35.100 50%.

00:42:35.500 That is factually untrue.

00:42:38.060 It is factually untrue.

00:42:39.180 It is just not correct.

00:42:41.080 80% of Americans will see a tax decrease.

00:42:43.260 Only 5% of Americans will see any form of tax increase under this bill.

00:42:47.900 But that's because the media have been pumping out headline after headline trying to make it sound as though this bill is specifically directed at helping the rich and damaging the poor.

00:42:57.080 I mean, if you go over to CNN and you look at their headlines, then, I mean, it's obvious which side they are taking.

00:43:05.700 I mean, look at this, right?

00:43:06.820 So I discussed earlier the fact that a bunch of companies have come out and said they're going to spend new dollars, they're going to give bonuses.

00:43:11.760 Listen to CNN's headline, right?

00:43:13.540 Quote, tax cut prompts promises of bonuses.

00:43:16.820 Sub-headline, banks and Boeing among those pledging to spend more on workers, but there's debate over whether others will.

00:43:23.420 But there's debate over whether other, like, what?

00:43:25.680 Can you imagine that headline about Me Too?

00:43:29.940 Women accuse men of sexual harassment.

00:43:31.940 Prominent women accuse prominent men of sexual harassment and abuse.

00:43:35.020 But there's doubt about whether others will.

00:43:37.500 Why are others, why is that part of the story?

00:43:41.180 Why is that part of the headline?

00:43:42.880 O.J. Simpson allegedly murders ex-wife.

00:43:46.200 But there's doubt whether others have murdered their ex-wives.

00:43:49.160 Like, what is that headline?

00:43:52.380 That's not the only silly headline.

00:43:53.800 Why the AARP doesn't like the tax bill, is what it says.

00:43:58.440 You wonder why the AARP doesn't like the tax bill?

00:44:00.060 Because it's a democratic lobbying program.

00:44:02.180 The AARP is a giant democratic donor base.

00:44:06.700 I love it so much.

00:44:07.800 I mean, the media are so over the top with this stuff.

00:44:10.880 It's absolutely wild.

00:44:11.900 And if you go over to NBCnews.com, you get exactly the same thing.

00:44:14.780 I'm looking this up in real time, so it's not like I've pre-screened these headlines.

00:44:18.660 I can seriously just pick any of these sites and find a bunch of headlines that are not even true.

00:44:26.640 A bunch of headlines about the tax bill that are not actually reality.

00:44:30.220 If you look at the NBC News, the problems with the GOP tax plan began as a 1974 bar napkin doodle.

00:44:43.360 This is an opinion piece about the Laffer curve, presumably.

00:44:47.940 They have a headline that says,

00:44:49.080 With CHIP funds running out, there are no good options, officials says.

00:44:53.220 Well, how about the option of funding it, which is what Congress is about to do.

00:44:56.720 Like, that's about to happen right now.

00:44:58.700 But it's just, it's incredible.

00:45:01.660 So the media have been wildly untruthful over this particular bill.

00:45:07.060 Very, very untruthful over this particular bill.

00:45:09.840 Trump is right.

00:45:10.600 Here's the thing.

00:45:11.620 When Trump hits the media, I've always thought it's a good idea to hit the media when they lie.

00:45:14.680 My problem with President Trump typically on the media has been that he says that the media are fake news when they're not actually reporting fake news.

00:45:21.620 Not everything the media say is fake news.

00:45:24.000 A lot of what they say is true news.

00:45:25.300 But, he's not wrong when he says their coverage of this bill is fake news.

00:45:29.180 Here's President Trump yesterday saying the media are obviously working to make the bill unpopular.

00:45:37.580 It's Trump talking about the media working to make a bill unpopular.

00:45:40.340 You can stay if you want it because you need the prayer more than I do, I think.

00:45:44.220 You may be the only ones.

00:45:46.040 Maybe a good, solid prayer and they'll be honest.

00:45:49.620 Okay, so, you know, I think that he's right.

00:45:52.200 He says that the press needs more prayers than he does at this point.

00:45:55.420 But you can see the media's ire.

00:45:56.580 So, Jim Acosta, one of the worst reporters over at CNN, you can hear the ire dripping from his voice when he says this is the happiest Republicans have been all year.

00:46:04.500 I mean, just listen to his voice.

00:46:07.220 He's with us, our senior White House correspondent.

00:46:09.520 Jim, what was it like to be?

00:46:10.780 You were there in the mix listening to all those different speeches.

00:46:15.280 What was that like?

00:46:16.020 What was your impression?

00:46:18.120 Well, I think this is the happiest the Republican Party has been visibly all year long.

00:46:22.660 I mean, we saw that here on the South Lawn of the White House.

00:46:25.240 You saw every major Republican leader come up and take the microphone and praise this president.

00:46:30.200 You heard the House Speaker, Paul Ryan, praise what he called the exquisite leadership of President Trump.

00:46:35.860 Okay, so just how dare they?

00:46:38.040 How dare they?

00:46:39.120 This kind of coverage has been blanket on the networks.

00:46:42.180 No shock there.

00:46:44.040 But you know what?

00:46:44.900 I think as Americans see more money in their pocket, hopefully, and as corporations come out and say that the bill is helping them.

00:46:49.840 And if President Trump can stay off Twitter and not get in a fight with LeVar Ball, then good things can happen here.

00:46:56.800 And as we continue here, I want to talk about whether it matters, whether in the end President Trump's popularity ratings matter.

00:47:05.220 Because right now we have this real disconnect.

00:47:06.940 Good policy, bad poll numbers.

00:47:08.900 How do we change that?

00:47:10.680 We'll discuss that in just a minute.

00:47:12.220 I'm Ben Shapiro in for Glenn Beck.

00:47:16.640 Glenn Beck.

00:47:19.840 Glenn Beck.

00:47:29.520 So this has been a very good month for President Trump in terms of policy.

00:47:34.120 He's got his tax reform plan complete with the repeal of Obamacare's individual mandate.

00:47:38.440 He announced earlier this month in what I thought was a brave, gutsy move that the U.S. would be there to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

00:47:45.060 We'll talk a little bit more about that in a few minutes because Trump is making some statements that I, he made some statements.

00:47:50.380 Even I, who did not vote at the top of the ticket, I love what he's doing on Jerusalem.

00:47:54.840 I just, I love it.

00:47:55.640 But he has appointed 12 circuit court judges so far, which is more than any other president ever in the first year of an administration.

00:48:03.300 The economy continues to do well.

00:48:05.580 ISIS seems to be in its death throes.

00:48:07.020 A very good month for President Trump.

00:48:09.300 And yet there's a big disconnect between the policies that he is pushing and the popularity thereof and his approval rating.

00:48:15.320 So right now, according to RealClearPolitics, Trump's approval rating is 38%.

00:48:19.380 Congress's job approval rating is 14%.

00:48:22.480 Democrats have an 11-point advantage on the generic congressional ballot.

00:48:26.380 The latest poll from CNN has them with an 18-point advantage.

00:48:29.200 That is wipeout territory for the Republicans on the generic congressional ballot.

00:48:33.340 And when I say wipeout, I don't just mean they lose the House.

00:48:35.120 I mean they lose the Senate if those numbers hold.

00:48:37.380 So where is this disconnect coming from?

00:48:39.980 It's not coming from policy because the policy hasn't really changed particularly much from normal Republican conservative policy.

00:48:46.260 Now, what the left would like to do is attribute the unpopularity to Trump's conservative policy.

00:48:51.800 But that's not what's going on here.

00:48:53.760 What's really going on is that Trump himself is personally unpopular.

00:48:57.760 Unlike Barack Obama where his policies were unpopular but he was popular, he got the reverse with Trump.

00:49:02.320 His policies are relatively popular but he himself is unpopular.

00:49:05.380 Now, there are a lot of folks on our side of the aisle, on my side of the aisle, the conservative side of the aisle,

00:49:10.100 who believe that we should basically ignore what Trump says and just focus on what he does.

00:49:15.600 And we evaluate how he's doing.

00:49:16.960 We should just ignore the stuff that comes out of his face or that comes out on his Twitter feed.

00:49:21.820 And instead, we should focus exclusively on the actions that he takes.

00:49:25.900 And those actions have largely been very good.

00:49:28.060 And I would not argue with the value of the actions.

00:49:31.160 What I would argue, however, is that politics is about a little bit more than the stuff that you do.

00:49:36.380 Particularly the presidency.

00:49:38.080 When we think about presidents in the past, presidents, great presidents of the past,

00:49:42.160 how much of that greatness is wrapped up in their rhetoric?

00:49:45.540 And not just presidents, political figures generally.

00:49:48.560 The reason that Winston Churchill is considered such a heroic political figure is not just because of his policies.

00:49:53.700 Name his economic policy.

00:49:55.020 Quick.

00:49:56.060 Can anybody?

00:49:56.520 The real reason that Winston Churchill is considered a heroic figure is because of his unique capacity

00:50:02.200 for rhetorical motivation in the midst of war.

00:50:06.020 That's really why Winston Churchill was warm up.

00:50:08.600 The same thing is true of Ronald Reagan.

00:50:10.860 And we on the right love Reagan's tax cuts, but those are somewhat controversial on the left.

00:50:15.440 But what can't be doubted is that Reagan's feel of optimism, his belief that America was a shining city on a hill,

00:50:20.860 his understanding that America had to win the Cold War,

00:50:23.760 led to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

00:50:25.340 Bill Clinton is going to be remembered for only a couple of things, very little having to do with policy.

00:50:32.520 One of them is going to be the era of feelings, the I feel your pain, Bill Clinton.

00:50:36.540 And the other is going to be all the rhetoric and hubbub surrounding impeachment and his sexual proclivities.

00:50:42.900 George W. Bush, only going to be remembered for a couple of things by history.

00:50:45.860 The war in Iraq and his response to 9-11.

00:50:47.800 And those are connected.

00:50:48.520 That's really all he's going to be remembered for in history.

00:50:50.560 Because in history, you get boiled down to your essence.

00:50:52.620 And in voting, the truth is you sort of get boiled down to your essence, too.

00:50:56.040 People don't look at policy nearly as much as they look at the character of the person that they are voting for.

00:51:01.420 And right now, people don't like Trump even if they like his policies.

00:51:04.500 And that does make a difference.

00:51:06.120 It's actually deeply important for conservatives, even now more important than it was before Trump was implementing conservative policies,

00:51:12.300 that Trump bring up his approval rating, that he contain himself, that he not get involved in foolish fights on Twitter,

00:51:19.960 that he not get dragged down into the mud or drag himself down into the mud to fight with Colin Kaepernick about kneeling in the NFL,

00:51:26.400 that the president of the United States not start some sort of silly Twitter firefight.

00:51:30.000 One of the reasons things have been good for the last couple of weeks is because Trump has not been active on Twitter.

00:51:35.400 He's not created distractions the media can glom onto to have the character discussion instead of the policy discussion.

00:51:40.780 If Trump went on vacation for the next two weeks, this is what he should do.

00:51:43.400 He should just go on vacation.

00:51:45.140 Mr. President, you've earned a vacation.

00:51:47.040 It's the end of the year.

00:51:48.600 Go to Mar-a-Lago.

00:51:49.960 Golf a lot.

00:51:51.240 Stay off Twitter.

00:51:52.840 Have yourself a Shabbos, right?

00:51:54.080 As an Orthodox view, have yourself a Shabbos.

00:51:56.580 Turn off the phone.

00:51:57.880 Turn off the TV.

00:51:58.940 Don't watch the morning shows.

00:52:01.200 Let your aides bring you the good news.

00:52:02.600 If there's anything really bad, I promise you there are people watching.

00:52:05.380 I know a lot of the folks in the White House, and they're on top of it.

00:52:08.960 They know when something bad is happening.

00:52:11.180 They will bring it to your attention.

00:52:13.840 But the way for Trump to actually win now, not just win in terms of policy, but win,

00:52:19.500 is for him to make himself more popular.

00:52:22.260 That does matter.

00:52:24.000 Those polls do matter.

00:52:24.920 Because if Trump loses the Congress in 2018, if he loses the Congress and the Senate,

00:52:29.520 the Democrats will look to impeach him in the House.

00:52:32.500 His popularity will drop because he won't be able to get anything done.

00:52:36.040 And then in the couple of years after that, if there's anything bad that happens politically,

00:52:41.040 he's going to pay the price for that.

00:52:43.080 And Republicans will pay the price for that, too.

00:52:44.640 And then a lot of the gains that Trump has made as president will be reversed.

00:52:47.820 Remember, the only major legislative gain really is tax reform.

00:52:51.260 There are only a couple of irreversible things that Trump has done.

00:52:53.760 And they're great, right?

00:52:54.560 Justice Gorsuch, the appellate court judges, tax reform.

00:52:57.820 Those are relatively irrevocable.

00:52:59.680 But all of the executive actions he's taking,

00:53:02.200 virtually all of those are changeable at a moment's notice by a Democratic president.

00:53:05.980 So if you like what Trump is doing and want to preserve those accomplishments,

00:53:09.300 it's time to urge President Trump to really focus in on how he can make himself more popular.

00:53:13.920 You know, I've been given more by President Trump on policy than I was led to expect he would provide.

00:53:20.180 In the last election cycle, he campaigned as a sort of independent, non-conservative guy.

00:53:24.820 He's governed very much like Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio would.

00:53:28.280 He really has.

00:53:29.540 When it comes to his rhetoric, it's not been quite as grand.

00:53:32.740 And that does matter.

00:53:34.860 So let's make sure that we don't throw the baby out with the bathwater here

00:53:38.760 and just suggest that because everything has been doing much better in terms of policy,

00:53:42.260 that this heals all the woes, that it heals all the problems.

00:53:45.640 It doesn't.

00:53:47.120 The President of the United States needs to, needs to,

00:53:51.040 go on a public relations campaign on his own behalf,

00:53:53.480 not even on behalf of his policies, on his own behalf.

00:53:55.880 He needs to show the American people that he cares about them.

00:53:58.720 He needs to talk in positive terms about unifying the country.

00:54:01.860 And he needs to avoid the big blunders.

00:54:03.680 If he can do that, then he's ending the year on an up note.

00:54:07.720 No question.

00:54:09.600 As we continue here on the Glenn Beck program,

00:54:11.580 I want to talk about Russian collusion.

00:54:14.820 Because we've been hearing for a year now that it's collusion this and collusion that, right?

00:54:17.820 It's Trump colluding with Russia.

00:54:19.880 I have a couple of stories that throw some severe doubt on this narrative.

00:54:25.000 And one particular story that says that Trump may not have been the president

00:54:28.580 who was colluding with the Russians.

00:54:31.940 Be right back.

00:54:32.820 Ben Shapiro, Glenn Beck Program.

00:54:34.140 This is Ben Shapiro here in Fort Glenn Beck.

00:54:57.540 Honor to be sitting behind the microphone.

00:54:58.740 All right, so the U.N. General Assembly,

00:55:03.780 that scurvy battalion of galactic rogues,

00:55:08.440 it's the most easily of global politics.

00:55:13.100 They're getting together, the U.N. General Assembly today,

00:55:15.160 to vote on a resolution condemning the United States

00:55:17.400 for recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

00:55:20.140 And the entire left is going nuts.

00:55:21.460 Well, doesn't this show that the world is angry?

00:55:24.040 Ooh, so angry.

00:55:25.020 Oh, everyone's going to die.

00:55:27.900 Oh, world on fire, Arab street.

00:55:31.560 Okay, since Trump announced a couple of weeks ago

00:55:34.080 that the United States would move its embassy to Jerusalem,

00:55:36.620 there have been, as far as I'm aware,

00:55:38.260 there's been one death, one.

00:55:40.780 Okay, it was of a rioter,

00:55:42.780 a Palestinian rioter attacking Israeli soldiers.

00:55:45.000 If you haven't seen, by the way,

00:55:46.180 the amount of garbage that Israeli soldiers take,

00:55:48.900 it's just insane.

00:55:49.720 There was a video that was going around a couple of days ago

00:55:52.660 showing Palestinian children who are put up to this

00:55:54.840 by their loving parents and Hamas

00:55:56.920 walking up to Israeli soldiers

00:55:59.240 and slapping them in the face

00:56:00.680 and the Israeli soldiers just standing there and taking it

00:56:02.440 because they've been told and trained

00:56:04.660 not to respond to this sort of thing

00:56:06.620 because what the Palestinians want

00:56:08.240 is the headline that the Israelis are abusing children.

00:56:10.400 That's what they're looking for

00:56:11.480 and they're willing to sacrifice their own children to that effect.

00:56:14.360 This is why the Palestinian Authority,

00:56:15.680 which is a terrorist government

00:56:16.700 and has been working with other terrorist organizations

00:56:19.240 like Hamas and Islamic Jihad,

00:56:20.820 this is why they have been pushing this line

00:56:23.760 that the end of the world is nigh.

00:56:25.240 Now, here's the funny thing about the Jerusalem announcement.

00:56:27.820 The end of the world has not been nigh.

00:56:29.860 Nothing has really happened.

00:56:31.780 Like, really nothing.

00:56:33.220 One of the reasons for that

00:56:34.340 is because all of the countries

00:56:35.720 that used to be deeply allied with the Palestinian Authority,

00:56:38.900 Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia,

00:56:41.820 they don't care.

00:56:43.040 The reason they don't care

00:56:44.060 is because there's an existential threat

00:56:45.520 at their doorstep in the form of Iran.

00:56:47.660 That existential threat was created

00:56:48.920 by the Obama administration,

00:56:50.060 which we'll talk about in a little while.

00:56:53.140 But all of those countries have decided

00:56:55.240 that they need Israel for an ally

00:56:57.360 in this fight against Iran,

00:56:58.560 that they are all going to pose a unified front.

00:57:01.360 And so they basically told the Palestinians,

00:57:02.800 sit down and shut up.

00:57:04.680 And President Trump has done the right thing

00:57:06.200 by saying to this newfangled alliance,

00:57:07.940 guys, in order for this alliance

00:57:09.220 to have any sort of legs,

00:57:10.120 you have to acknowledge a basic reality.

00:57:11.860 Jerusalem is Jewish territory.

00:57:13.580 And by the way, historically, morally,

00:57:16.700 legally, Jerusalem is Jewish territory.

00:57:19.060 The only reason anyone on earth cares about Jerusalem

00:57:22.080 is because the Jews cared about it first.

00:57:24.240 The only reason Christians care about Jerusalem

00:57:26.260 is because Jesus was a Jew.

00:57:28.320 The only reason Muslims care about Jerusalem

00:57:30.300 is because Jerusalem was the holy site

00:57:33.640 for Jews and Christians before Islam existed.

00:57:37.500 Jerusalem was the dream of the Jewish people

00:57:39.280 for 1,500 years minimum

00:57:41.720 before the temple stood,

00:57:44.220 1,500 years before Islam

00:57:46.080 ever came into the brain of Muhammad.

00:57:50.420 So this ridiculous notion

00:57:52.400 that it's not Jewish territory,

00:57:53.360 it's just ahistorical,

00:57:54.660 it's insipid.

00:57:55.960 When Muslims have controlled areas of Jerusalem,

00:57:59.280 those areas have basically become

00:58:00.400 off-limits to Jews.

00:58:02.180 The Islamic waqf controls the Temple Mount,

00:58:04.040 which is the holiest site in Judaism.

00:58:05.200 Contrary to popular opinion,

00:58:06.640 the Western Wall is not

00:58:07.700 the holiest site in Judaism.

00:58:08.960 The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism

00:58:10.660 because it was the mount

00:58:11.560 on which the Temple stood.

00:58:13.640 The Islamic waqf controls the Temple Mount,

00:58:16.960 thanks to Israeli stupidity.

00:58:19.060 And they've barred Jews from going up there.

00:58:20.480 If you go up there as a Jew

00:58:21.660 and you start mouthing words from Psalms,

00:58:24.020 if you start mouthing David's words,

00:58:25.260 King David's words on the Temple Mount,

00:58:27.120 you will be arrested.

00:58:28.260 Really, the Israeli government will arrest you.

00:58:30.420 I know people to whom this has happened.

00:58:33.040 Anyway, the UN General Assembly is very mad

00:58:35.200 that President Trump recognizes reality on the ground

00:58:37.920 that Israel is not giving up Jerusalem,

00:58:39.480 nor should it.

00:58:39.880 And so the UN General Assembly has declared

00:58:41.940 that they are going to pass a resolution.

00:58:44.320 Oh, you betcha.

00:58:45.220 A strongly worded letter.

00:58:47.280 And the media are buying into this whole thing.

00:58:49.060 They're saying a showdown is expected

00:58:50.380 on the floor of the UN on Thursday,

00:58:51.900 according to foxnews.com.

00:58:53.540 As countries prepare to vote

00:58:54.700 on a resolution condemning President Trump's decision

00:58:57.160 to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

00:58:59.920 Trump's decision,

00:59:00.580 which he announced this month during a speech

00:59:02.060 ordering the State Department

00:59:03.420 to begin moving the U.S. Embassy

00:59:04.920 from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,

00:59:06.820 rankled many in the global community.

00:59:08.240 Critics worry.

00:59:08.920 The president's word will inflame tensions.

00:59:12.480 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,

00:59:14.980 that Islamist dictator,

00:59:16.140 said on Thursday,

00:59:17.080 he hopes the U.S. will be taught a lesson

00:59:18.620 during a UN vote on the issue

00:59:19.820 and accuse Trump of seeking countries

00:59:21.600 whose decisions can be bought with dollars.

00:59:23.920 He said,

00:59:24.160 Mr. Trump,

00:59:24.660 you cannot buy Turkey's democratic will

00:59:26.040 with your dollars.

00:59:26.820 Erdogan's one to talk about the democratic will.

00:59:28.480 He's literally arrested hundreds of thousands of people.

00:59:30.900 Erdogan is a dictator.

00:59:32.400 Turkey used to be an Israeli ally.

00:59:33.920 They had significant military cooperation

00:59:36.220 between Turkey and Israel,

00:59:37.980 particularly against Iran.

00:59:39.640 That has died because Islamist Erdogan

00:59:41.720 has basically turned the place

00:59:42.760 into an Islamist dictatorship

00:59:43.920 and purged the military.

00:59:45.360 But he's talking about democratic will.

00:59:47.680 Hanan Ashrawi,

00:59:48.360 the Palestinian spokeswoman,

00:59:50.380 she came out and she said

00:59:51.280 that the United States is engaging in,

00:59:53.640 that they're engaging in blackmail,

00:59:57.000 that we're engaging in blackmail

00:59:58.100 because we have said that

00:59:59.520 we're not going to give foreign aid

01:00:00.420 to countries that oppose us on this one.

01:00:01.860 And then President Trump said this.

01:00:04.580 You got to love the stones on this guy

01:00:06.320 when he says stuff like this.

01:00:07.360 I mean, really,

01:00:08.020 this is this,

01:00:08.680 this takes a pair.

01:00:09.860 Here's President Trump saying,

01:00:11.760 listen,

01:00:11.960 if they oppose this at the UN,

01:00:13.040 good,

01:00:13.300 we'll just cut their funding.

01:00:14.820 They take hundreds of millions of dollars

01:00:16.700 and even billions of dollars

01:00:17.920 and then they vote against us.

01:00:19.160 Well,

01:00:19.280 we're watching those votes.

01:00:20.840 Let them vote against us.

01:00:21.960 We'll save a lot.

01:00:23.480 We don't care.

01:00:24.960 Love,

01:00:25.520 love,

01:00:26.080 love,

01:00:26.620 love,

01:00:27.040 love.

01:00:27.360 Thank you,

01:00:27.720 Mr. President.

01:00:28.860 This is what American leadership looks like.

01:00:30.620 We are right on this

01:00:32.700 and the world is wrong.

01:00:34.500 The world is wrong on this matter

01:00:36.120 and the world is wrong

01:00:36.980 because there's a lot of anti-Semitism

01:00:38.460 that still exists in Europe.

01:00:40.100 There's a lot of Holocaust guilt

01:00:41.020 that still exists in Europe

01:00:41.800 and if somehow

01:00:42.360 you can shift the blame

01:00:43.840 onto the Israelis

01:00:44.500 and suggest that

01:00:45.360 the Jews are the new Nazis,

01:00:47.140 then that sort of alleviates

01:00:48.140 past history.

01:00:50.400 The Muslim world,

01:00:51.360 of course,

01:00:51.580 hates Israel for religious reasons.

01:00:54.980 Prime Minister Netanyahu,

01:00:56.220 he says Jerusalem is Israel's capital

01:00:57.640 regardless of the outcome

01:00:58.780 of Thursday's vote

01:00:59.500 because it is.

01:01:01.360 The Palestinians wanted

01:01:02.280 a General Assembly vote

01:01:03.280 because the U.S. on Monday

01:01:04.680 vetoed a resolution

01:01:05.480 supported by 14 other

01:01:06.620 U.N. Security Council members

01:01:07.860 that would have required

01:01:08.940 Trump to rescind his declaration.

01:01:10.380 Well,

01:01:10.540 what do they have to say

01:01:11.180 about where we put our embassy?

01:01:12.580 Screw them.

01:01:13.120 Who cares?

01:01:15.480 The resolution is being

01:01:16.380 co-sponsored by Turkey,

01:01:17.900 which is chair of the

01:01:18.820 Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

01:01:20.480 Okay,

01:01:20.820 so let me talk now

01:01:21.840 about the U.N.

01:01:22.480 and why the U.N.

01:01:23.060 is a moral hellhole.

01:01:24.780 The U.N.

01:01:25.480 has done nothing

01:01:26.600 about Syria.

01:01:27.320 Nothing.

01:01:27.840 Zero things

01:01:28.440 has the U.N.

01:01:28.920 done about the slaughter

01:01:29.780 of 500,000 Muslims in Syria.

01:01:32.320 The U.N.

01:01:32.900 has done nothing

01:01:33.420 about the Rohingya

01:01:34.080 in Malaysia.

01:01:34.640 Nothing.

01:01:36.200 The U.N.

01:01:36.480 has done nothing

01:01:37.060 about Sudan,

01:01:37.680 which has been

01:01:38.100 a cesspool

01:01:39.440 of human violence

01:01:40.480 and corruption

01:01:40.980 for decades.

01:01:42.480 The U.N.

01:01:42.940 is a toothless,

01:01:44.100 feckless,

01:01:44.920 morally corrupt organization.

01:01:46.680 You know why?

01:01:47.120 Because when you grant

01:01:47.620 an equal vote

01:01:48.440 to countries

01:01:49.320 that are tyrannical dictatorships

01:01:51.140 that espouse

01:01:52.520 anti-Western values,

01:01:54.360 you shouldn't be surprised

01:01:55.200 when they vote that way.

01:01:56.980 Why countries

01:01:57.520 that don't even allow

01:01:58.100 their own citizens

01:01:58.640 to vote

01:01:59.240 should be voting

01:02:00.260 on how we

01:02:01.020 conduct our policy

01:02:02.320 is beyond me.

01:02:04.520 There's a Supreme Court case

01:02:05.900 called Kilo v. New London

01:02:07.080 in which the Supreme Court

01:02:08.420 found that the federal government

01:02:10.260 and state governments

01:02:11.820 can remove land

01:02:12.860 from one private actor

01:02:13.840 and give it to another

01:02:14.420 private actor

01:02:14.980 in the name of eminent domain.

01:02:15.900 It's one of the worst decisions

01:02:16.780 in Supreme Court history.

01:02:18.160 I am willing to make

01:02:18.900 an exception

01:02:19.380 if the federal government

01:02:21.460 uses eminent domain

01:02:22.580 to hand over

01:02:23.580 the U.N.

01:02:24.340 building to the Trump corporation

01:02:26.040 and President Trump

01:02:26.960 bulldozes that place

01:02:28.120 and builds a Trump tower

01:02:29.120 on top of it.

01:02:30.140 I am perfectly willing

01:02:31.060 to do that.

01:02:32.060 In fact,

01:02:32.420 I think we can do

01:02:32.940 one better than that.

01:02:34.220 I think we should empty

01:02:34.900 the U.N.

01:02:35.280 building completely

01:02:35.940 and pay for the cost

01:02:37.380 of all this

01:02:37.740 by finally

01:02:38.680 making all those

01:02:40.240 diplomats

01:02:41.420 pay their parking tickets

01:02:43.180 and pay for their crimes.

01:02:46.300 We should turn that

01:02:47.200 U.N.

01:02:47.580 assembly building,

01:02:48.200 we should turn that GA

01:02:49.120 into a housing space

01:02:51.580 for refugees

01:02:52.680 from those countries.

01:02:54.860 So all these countries

01:02:55.420 that are voting

01:02:55.920 on whether Jerusalem

01:02:56.700 should be Israel's capital,

01:02:58.060 the only free country

01:02:59.200 in that area.

01:03:00.700 They're voting

01:03:01.340 on whether Jerusalem

01:03:01.900 should be Israel's capital,

01:03:02.820 whether it should be

01:03:03.220 handed over

01:03:03.580 to the terrorist

01:03:04.080 Palestinian authority.

01:03:06.060 They have the gall

01:03:06.820 to do that.

01:03:07.960 But this is no shock.

01:03:09.580 Okay,

01:03:09.740 this is no shock.

01:03:11.800 The U.N.

01:03:12.420 has always been

01:03:13.160 wildly anti-Israel

01:03:14.080 since Israel's inception.

01:03:16.360 I'm going to give you

01:03:17.000 some statistics.

01:03:18.200 You wonder about

01:03:19.220 how many times

01:03:20.600 the U.N.

01:03:21.340 has condemned

01:03:21.960 evil countries.

01:03:23.420 For goodness sake,

01:03:24.100 they have countries

01:03:24.540 like Yemen

01:03:24.960 that sit down

01:03:25.380 on their Human Rights Council.

01:03:27.540 A couple years ago,

01:03:28.280 Sudan on the Human Rights Council.

01:03:30.520 Just ridiculous.

01:03:31.660 Let me explain

01:03:32.780 how this has basically

01:03:33.700 just become

01:03:34.120 an anti-American,

01:03:34.900 anti-Israel tool.

01:03:36.280 That's all the U.N.

01:03:37.220 is at this point.

01:03:37.820 The U.N.

01:03:38.020 doesn't do anything.

01:03:38.700 The U.N.

01:03:38.900 is a beyond useless

01:03:40.220 counterproductive organization.

01:03:41.640 It's just gross.

01:03:43.320 Here are some stats.

01:03:44.060 From June 2006

01:03:44.960 through June 2016,

01:03:46.580 the U.N.

01:03:47.480 Human Rights Council

01:03:48.380 adopted 135 resolutions

01:03:51.020 criticizing countries.

01:03:52.320 Now,

01:03:52.700 it's the U.N.

01:03:53.200 Human Rights Council.

01:03:53.860 You'd assume

01:03:54.200 that they would focus in

01:03:54.920 on human rights abuses.

01:03:57.180 Let's say

01:03:57.700 the prosecution

01:03:58.480 of gay people,

01:04:00.540 the forcing of women

01:04:02.020 into sackcloths,

01:04:05.140 the beating of women

01:04:07.680 for sexual activity,

01:04:10.960 the condemnation

01:04:12.640 of Christians

01:04:13.780 who have converted

01:04:14.940 from Islam.

01:04:16.480 Now,

01:04:16.580 you assume

01:04:16.860 the U.N.

01:04:17.220 Human Rights Council

01:04:17.760 might do something about that.

01:04:18.720 No,

01:04:19.100 not so much.

01:04:20.600 From its creation

01:04:21.460 in June 2006

01:04:22.340 through June 2016,

01:04:23.980 the U.N.

01:04:24.280 Human Rights Council

01:04:25.020 adopted 135 resolutions.

01:04:27.940 68 were against Israel,

01:04:29.600 the only democracy

01:04:30.520 in the Middle East.

01:04:31.800 How about

01:04:32.300 the U.N.

01:04:32.540 General Assembly?

01:04:34.240 The Mos Eisley,

01:04:35.460 as I say,

01:04:36.820 of the political world.

01:04:40.040 From 2012

01:04:40.880 through 2015,

01:04:42.660 the UNGA

01:04:43.360 adopted 97 resolutions

01:04:45.200 criticizing countries.

01:04:46.980 83 of the 97

01:04:48.540 were against Israel.

01:04:50.960 You think maybe

01:04:51.400 Israel's just an easy target

01:04:52.600 for an organization

01:04:53.760 that has 193 member countries

01:04:55.480 and 57 of them

01:04:56.680 are members

01:04:57.780 of the Organization

01:04:58.660 of Islamic Cooperation?

01:04:59.720 57?

01:05:02.800 Over a quarter

01:05:03.540 of all countries

01:05:04.140 in the U.N.

01:05:04.980 are Muslim countries

01:05:05.780 that hate Israel's guts?

01:05:07.380 And then you got

01:05:07.940 the European countries?

01:05:11.180 UNESCO,

01:05:12.760 that's the U.N.

01:05:13.920 Educational,

01:05:14.560 Scientific,

01:05:15.000 and Cultural Organization,

01:05:16.480 adopts

01:05:16.860 10 resolutions a year.

01:05:19.440 Okay?

01:05:19.780 They've only criticized Israel.

01:05:21.520 They've never criticized

01:05:22.380 another U.N. member state.

01:05:23.500 Zero.

01:05:24.040 Okay?

01:05:24.220 And UNESCO

01:05:24.640 has been used.

01:05:25.620 UNESCO facilities

01:05:26.440 were used by Hamas

01:05:27.800 during the Gaza War

01:05:28.920 in order to provide

01:05:29.900 launching points

01:05:30.680 for rockets against Jews.

01:05:32.900 Did UN,

01:05:33.560 did UNESCO

01:05:34.340 adopt a single resolution

01:05:36.640 against their own facilities

01:05:38.680 being used

01:05:39.780 as terror sites?

01:05:41.380 Of course not.

01:05:42.580 Of course not.

01:05:44.100 How about the

01:05:44.460 World Health Organization?

01:05:46.480 For one week every year,

01:05:47.400 the UN World Health Assembly

01:05:48.400 meets to formulate

01:05:49.560 global health policy.

01:05:50.960 They adopt resolutions

01:05:52.240 to address global health issues.

01:05:53.920 There's one exception.

01:05:55.320 They have one annual resolution

01:05:56.760 entitled

01:05:57.640 World Health Conditions

01:05:58.340 in the Occupied

01:05:59.080 Palestinian Territory,

01:06:00.140 including East Jerusalem,

01:06:01.580 singling out Israel

01:06:02.300 for condemnation.

01:06:03.380 No other country

01:06:04.320 on planet Earth

01:06:05.060 is condemned

01:06:05.580 by the World Health Organization.

01:06:07.800 So,

01:06:08.340 is the U.S. right

01:06:09.040 to stand with Israel

01:06:09.880 against the UN?

01:06:10.660 Yes.

01:06:11.640 My only,

01:06:12.240 my only qualm

01:06:13.220 is that we shouldn't be

01:06:13.800 signing a single dollar

01:06:15.160 of aid to the UN.

01:06:16.360 We should cut that

01:06:17.280 bastardized organization

01:06:18.880 off at the knees.

01:06:20.200 Let's form a new organization

01:06:21.080 of countries

01:06:21.620 that actually give a crap

01:06:22.540 about human rights.

01:06:23.260 The UN needs to go.

01:06:26.520 I hope that President Trump

01:06:27.400 fulfills his word.

01:06:28.200 I am hoping

01:06:28.640 that all the countries

01:06:29.640 except for the United States

01:06:30.660 vote against Israel

01:06:31.680 on this UNGA resolution

01:06:33.320 and that the United States

01:06:34.440 then cuts off

01:06:34.980 all their foreign aid,

01:06:36.120 starting with the

01:06:36.620 Palestinian Authority

01:06:37.460 to whom we give

01:06:38.000 $400 million,

01:06:39.100 much of which

01:06:39.780 is immediately designated

01:06:41.300 and earmarked

01:06:42.080 for terrorism.

01:06:43.780 As we continue

01:06:44.720 here on the Glenn Beck program,

01:06:47.100 I want to talk about

01:06:47.740 one of the more insane pieces

01:06:49.760 in recent history

01:06:50.540 from a woman

01:06:51.680 who has no business

01:06:52.620 ripping American foreign policy.

01:06:54.660 Susan Rice,

01:06:55.300 she says that Trump

01:06:56.400 has undermined

01:06:56.940 American foreign policy.

01:06:58.180 Yes, Susan Rice.

01:06:59.640 Takes a fair bit

01:07:00.420 of intestinal fortitude

01:07:01.360 to try that one.

01:07:02.800 We'll talk about it.

01:07:03.340 Ben Shapiro in for Glenn Beck.

01:07:07.560 Glenn Beck.

01:07:17.300 Glenn Beck.

01:07:18.620 Truly, there is nothing

01:07:21.160 that I love better

01:07:22.000 than hearing a woman

01:07:23.920 responsible for

01:07:24.820 the worst Syrian policy

01:07:26.320 on planet Earth.

01:07:27.960 A woman responsible

01:07:28.640 for lying repeatedly

01:07:29.440 to the American people

01:07:30.500 about events in Benghazi.

01:07:32.780 A woman responsible

01:07:33.940 for a foreign policy

01:07:35.560 that elevated Iran

01:07:36.640 at the expense

01:07:37.320 of American allies

01:07:38.480 jab Iran

01:07:39.580 about how President Trump

01:07:40.660 is undermining

01:07:41.180 American values

01:07:42.000 in terms of his foreign policy.

01:07:43.820 Susan Rice is back.

01:07:44.860 Yes, it is amazing.

01:07:46.320 Ben Rhodes,

01:07:46.880 who is just

01:07:48.320 an execrable human being,

01:07:49.600 Ben Rhodes,

01:07:50.600 the former national security advisor

01:07:52.080 whose vast foreign policy

01:07:54.220 expertise

01:07:54.720 before joining

01:07:55.520 the administration

01:07:56.220 resided entirely

01:07:58.280 in writing

01:07:59.480 fiction stories

01:08:00.540 from an apartment

01:08:01.100 in Brooklyn.

01:08:01.600 That guy

01:08:03.360 was tweeting out

01:08:04.460 about how

01:08:05.020 the Republicans,

01:08:07.240 their obituaries

01:08:08.200 should have a picture

01:08:08.840 of them standing

01:08:09.460 next to President Trump

01:08:10.360 because Trump is so terrible.

01:08:11.440 Their obituary

01:08:12.180 should have a picture.

01:08:13.020 If Ben Rhodes

01:08:13.640 has an obituary,

01:08:14.640 you know,

01:08:15.100 he should live long.

01:08:16.200 When his obituary

01:08:16.920 is finally written,

01:08:17.660 there should just be

01:08:18.160 a picture of an Iranian

01:08:18.880 missile on it.

01:08:20.200 Because the fact is

01:08:21.060 that the Obama administration

01:08:22.060 not only emboldened Iran

01:08:23.640 but made Iran

01:08:24.640 a regional power.

01:08:26.720 Susan Rice was part of that.

01:08:28.540 Now she has a piece

01:08:29.420 in the New York Times

01:08:30.140 on their op-ed page

01:08:31.700 which is

01:08:33.140 the centralizing point

01:08:34.360 for at least

01:08:35.700 72.3%

01:08:36.980 of all human stupidity.

01:08:39.020 Susan Rice

01:08:39.480 has this piece.

01:08:40.020 Here's what she writes.

01:08:40.800 It is titled

01:08:41.800 I'm not joking.

01:08:43.820 When America

01:08:44.360 no longer

01:08:44.920 is a global force

01:08:45.800 for good.

01:08:47.660 You know,

01:08:48.040 ignoring the whole

01:08:48.820 part where

01:08:49.920 the Obama administration

01:08:51.060 backed Iran

01:08:51.960 and backed

01:08:52.500 the Muslim Brotherhood

01:08:53.280 in Egypt

01:08:53.980 and backed

01:08:54.620 the Palestinian Authority

01:08:55.640 against the Jews.

01:08:57.780 and did nothing

01:08:58.840 about the slaughter

01:08:59.820 in Sudan

01:09:00.760 and did nothing

01:09:01.840 about the slaughter

01:09:02.340 of Christians

01:09:02.760 across the Middle East.

01:09:04.760 Now they're the ones

01:09:05.300 who are going to lecture us

01:09:05.980 about when American

01:09:06.580 foreign policy

01:09:07.220 is not a force for good.

01:09:08.320 So Susan Rice says

01:09:09.100 President Trump's

01:09:10.080 national security strategy

01:09:11.200 marks a dramatic departure

01:09:12.460 from the plans

01:09:13.320 of his Republican

01:09:13.920 and Democratic predecessors

01:09:15.000 painting a dark

01:09:15.920 almost dystopian portrait

01:09:17.180 of an extraordinarily

01:09:18.240 dangerous world

01:09:19.200 characterized by

01:09:19.840 hostile states

01:09:20.460 and lurking threats.

01:09:21.920 That's not dystopian.

01:09:23.780 That's reality.

01:09:26.200 And there are a lot

01:09:26.700 of hostile states

01:09:27.440 and a lot of lurking threats.

01:09:30.140 She says

01:09:30.740 there is scant mention

01:09:31.540 of America's

01:09:32.300 unrivaled political,

01:09:33.260 military,

01:09:33.720 technological,

01:09:34.260 and economical strength

01:09:35.220 or the opportunities

01:09:36.400 to expand prosperity,

01:09:37.540 freedom,

01:09:37.760 and security

01:09:38.160 through principled leadership.

01:09:40.220 I would just like

01:09:40.800 to note at this point,

01:09:41.620 I think it's worthwhile noting,

01:09:42.840 that President Obama

01:09:43.580 is the one who insisted

01:09:44.380 that we cut literally

01:09:45.160 trillions of dollars

01:09:45.980 from the defense budget

01:09:46.900 in order so that

01:09:48.340 we wouldn't raise taxes.

01:09:49.240 That was the sequestration deal.

01:09:50.820 That was President Obama's deal.

01:09:52.660 Trotting out Susan Rice

01:09:53.540 and Ben Rhodes

01:09:54.260 as the moral leaders

01:09:55.440 of the Obama administration

01:09:57.180 demonstrates how hollow

01:09:58.260 everything was.

01:10:00.280 And this may be the area

01:10:01.100 in which Trump

01:10:01.540 has been the strongest.

01:10:02.800 ISIS has basically

01:10:03.680 been defeated.

01:10:04.300 Its territorial holdings

01:10:05.380 are down to nothing.

01:10:07.620 ISIS only grew

01:10:08.360 because of the cowardice

01:10:09.320 of the Obama administration.

01:10:11.220 They only grew

01:10:11.720 because Obama

01:10:12.360 decided to pull out of Iraq.

01:10:13.480 And Susan Rice was there

01:10:14.340 for all of this stuff.

01:10:16.220 And now she's lecturing

01:10:17.040 the Trump administration.

01:10:17.980 She's lecturing Republicans,

01:10:19.980 conservatives,

01:10:20.440 on how foreign policy

01:10:21.200 should be conducted.

01:10:22.340 Absurd.

01:10:22.580 I'll show you how absurd

01:10:23.380 in just a second

01:10:24.120 because it gets even more

01:10:25.460 absurd than that.

01:10:27.460 Really.

01:10:28.360 Ben Shapiro in for Glenn Beck.

01:10:42.460 Glenn Beck.

01:10:43.660 Love.

01:10:51.580 Courage.

01:10:52.940 Truth.

01:10:54.280 Glenn Beck.

01:10:56.940 Well, Nikki Haley

01:10:58.020 doing serious damage

01:10:59.380 over at the UN General Assembly

01:11:00.820 right now.

01:11:02.440 That wretched hive

01:11:03.520 of scum and villainy.

01:11:04.660 Ben Shapiro in for Glenn Beck

01:11:05.720 here on the Glenn Beck program.

01:11:07.300 Right now,

01:11:07.700 as we speak,

01:11:08.240 Nikki Haley speaking

01:11:08.920 to the UN General Assembly,

01:11:10.000 which is considering

01:11:10.660 whether to vote

01:11:12.180 on a resolution

01:11:12.740 condemning the United States

01:11:14.220 for moving its embassy

01:11:16.620 to Jerusalem in Israel

01:11:18.540 and condemning Israel

01:11:19.660 for existing, of course.

01:11:20.860 And she just said,

01:11:21.620 quote,

01:11:21.740 The decision does nothing

01:11:22.900 to harm peace efforts.

01:11:24.220 Rather,

01:11:24.580 the president's decision

01:11:25.340 reflects the will

01:11:25.980 of the American people

01:11:26.740 and our right as a nation

01:11:27.800 to choose the location

01:11:28.940 of our embassy.

01:11:29.900 There's no need

01:11:30.380 to describe it further.

01:11:33.780 Thank you, Nikki Haley.

01:11:34.980 She is just,

01:11:36.040 she's awesome.

01:11:36.800 She's awesome.

01:11:37.620 And one of the best moves

01:11:38.620 of the president

01:11:39.060 making Nikki Haley

01:11:40.200 his UN ambassador.

01:11:41.220 She has been stalwart

01:11:43.160 to say the least.

01:11:44.360 Now,

01:11:44.760 on foreign policy,

01:11:46.240 what we've been hearing

01:11:46.880 for a year and a half

01:11:48.440 is that the Trump-Russia connection

01:11:50.280 is eventually going

01:11:51.080 to amount to collusion, right?

01:11:52.080 That eventually

01:11:52.800 we are going to find out

01:11:53.680 that the Trump campaign

01:11:54.500 colluded with Vladimir Putin,

01:11:56.820 came up with a strategy,

01:11:58.380 an evil nefarious plot

01:11:59.400 to win Trump the presidency.

01:12:01.060 And we know that Putin

01:12:01.800 was warm toward Trump

01:12:02.960 and we know that Trump

01:12:03.540 was warm toward Putin.

01:12:04.700 They like each other.

01:12:05.980 That is not a great thing

01:12:07.140 because Vladimir Putin

01:12:07.860 is one of the worst people

01:12:08.720 on planet Earth.

01:12:09.620 But this has been wildly

01:12:11.360 blown out of proportion

01:12:12.180 to suggest that Trump

01:12:13.020 is somehow in Putin's pocket,

01:12:14.680 that Trump somehow

01:12:15.320 finagled it so that

01:12:16.340 Putin would skew

01:12:17.520 the election toward him,

01:12:18.460 somehow Putin would

01:12:19.640 convince Hillary Clinton

01:12:20.460 never to visit Wisconsin

01:12:21.380 or Michigan.

01:12:22.680 And this has been

01:12:23.440 the Democratic line

01:12:24.200 for well over a year

01:12:25.640 at this point.

01:12:26.300 But when it comes

01:12:26.960 to collusion,

01:12:28.000 it seems like there's

01:12:28.660 a lot more evidence

01:12:29.460 that the Obama administration

01:12:30.820 colluded with Russia

01:12:31.820 than that the Trump

01:12:32.860 administration did.

01:12:34.000 Like,

01:12:34.660 a lot more evidence.

01:12:36.540 So first,

01:12:36.980 some contrary evidence

01:12:37.960 to the idea

01:12:38.480 that Trump

01:12:39.340 is colluding with Russia.

01:12:40.780 So yesterday,

01:12:41.720 this piece of news breaks.

01:12:42.720 The Trump administration

01:12:43.920 on Wednesday

01:12:44.440 approved the sale

01:12:45.180 of lethal arms

01:12:46.280 to Ukraine's government

01:12:47.540 as the country

01:12:48.620 battles pro-Russian

01:12:49.480 separatists

01:12:50.020 in its eastern provinces.

01:12:51.960 The Washington Post

01:12:52.680 reported Wednesday,

01:12:53.820 the administration

01:12:54.280 approved the sale

01:12:55.100 of model M107A1

01:12:57.320 sniper systems

01:12:58.200 and associated equipment

01:12:59.440 to the country

01:12:59.980 at a value

01:13:00.800 of $41.5 million.

01:13:03.140 The administration

01:13:04.160 has not moved

01:13:04.840 to approve heavier arms

01:13:05.820 requested by Ukraine's

01:13:06.760 government,

01:13:07.400 but the move

01:13:07.960 from the White House

01:13:08.560 is a departure

01:13:09.220 from the Obama administration,

01:13:12.200 which frequently

01:13:12.960 condemned Russian aggression

01:13:14.140 in the Ukraine

01:13:14.660 but refused to approve

01:13:15.920 the sale of arms

01:13:16.620 to the country's

01:13:17.460 Western-aligned government.

01:13:19.320 So that raises

01:13:20.500 a weird question.

01:13:21.300 Why, oh why,

01:13:22.980 did the Obama administration

01:13:24.320 not do what Trump

01:13:25.340 just did

01:13:25.940 and allow sales

01:13:27.180 of weapons,

01:13:28.420 lethal weapons,

01:13:29.140 to the Ukrainians?

01:13:30.340 If Trump is such a tool

01:13:31.360 to the Russians,

01:13:32.420 why did he just do that?

01:13:33.840 If Trump is such a tool

01:13:34.600 to the Russians,

01:13:34.980 why has he basically

01:13:35.820 opposed them

01:13:36.420 in many ways in Syria?

01:13:38.700 If Trump is such a tool

01:13:39.860 of the Russians,

01:13:40.620 then why is he doing

01:13:42.080 what he's doing

01:13:42.940 right now against Iran?

01:13:45.500 In fact,

01:13:46.140 the evidence seems

01:13:46.760 to be pretty substantial

01:13:47.740 that if anyone

01:13:48.200 was colluding with Russia,

01:13:49.340 it was President Obama,

01:13:50.720 who back in 2012,

01:13:51.780 you will recall,

01:13:52.800 was caught on a hot microphone

01:13:53.940 saying directly

01:13:54.780 to the then President

01:13:55.680 of Russia,

01:13:56.660 Dmitry Medvedev,

01:13:57.940 that he should inform Vlad

01:13:59.160 that to back off

01:14:02.140 before the election,

01:14:02.780 because after the election,

01:14:04.520 Obama would have

01:14:05.180 some flexibility.

01:14:07.460 There's a shocking story

01:14:08.720 that has received

01:14:09.200 almost zero

01:14:10.040 mainstream media attention.

01:14:11.320 The story is in Politico.

01:14:13.480 But if this had been

01:14:14.460 about Trump,

01:14:15.020 is there any doubt

01:14:15.860 that this would have been

01:14:16.400 leading the newspapers

01:14:17.140 for weeks?

01:14:18.100 Not for days,

01:14:18.800 for weeks,

01:14:19.720 maybe months.

01:14:21.100 Here is the story

01:14:22.000 according to Politico Europe.

01:14:23.760 This is Politico Europe.

01:14:25.940 Basically,

01:14:26.740 it's called The Secret,

01:14:27.480 it's by Josh Meyer,

01:14:28.200 it's the secret backstory

01:14:29.340 of how Obama

01:14:29.980 let Hezbollah off the hook.

01:14:31.480 Now, Ben Rhodes,

01:14:32.160 as we say,

01:14:32.480 the execrable

01:14:33.260 former national security advisor

01:14:35.000 for the Obama administration,

01:14:36.680 a guy who made his name

01:14:38.460 writing bad fiction

01:14:39.300 from an apartment in Brooklyn,

01:14:41.820 that guy says that

01:14:42.840 Politico has an institutional bias

01:14:44.480 against the Obama administration,

01:14:46.000 to which I say,

01:14:47.200 ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

01:14:49.700 Really?

01:14:50.700 You have to be on LSD

01:14:51.740 to believe that.

01:14:53.240 In any case,

01:14:53.520 here's what the article says,

01:14:54.480 quote,

01:14:54.680 In its determination

01:14:56.600 to secure a nuclear deal

01:14:58.160 with Iran,

01:14:58.920 the Obama administration

01:14:59.960 derailed an ambitious

01:15:01.180 law enforcement campaign

01:15:02.580 targeting drug trafficking

01:15:04.080 by the Iranian-backed

01:15:05.060 terrorist group Hezbollah,

01:15:06.360 even as it was funneling cocaine

01:15:07.980 into the United States,

01:15:09.060 according to a Politico investigation.

01:15:10.940 The campaign,

01:15:11.820 dubbed Project Cassandra,

01:15:12.960 was launched in 2008,

01:15:14.660 after the DEA amassed evidence

01:15:16.280 that Hezbollah

01:15:17.020 had transformed itself

01:15:18.040 from a Middle East-focused

01:15:19.140 military and political organization

01:15:20.880 into an international

01:15:22.180 crime syndicate

01:15:23.180 that some investigators

01:15:24.320 believed was collecting

01:15:25.420 $1 billion a year

01:15:27.200 from drug and weapons trafficking,

01:15:29.340 money laundering,

01:15:30.420 and other criminal activities.

01:15:32.300 Over the next eight years,

01:15:33.340 agents working out

01:15:34.140 of a top-secret DEA facility

01:15:35.500 in Chantilly, Virginia,

01:15:37.020 used wiretaps,

01:15:38.180 undercover ops,

01:15:39.040 informants,

01:15:39.800 to map Hezbollah's

01:15:40.680 illicit networks

01:15:41.300 with the help of 30

01:15:42.520 U.S. and foreign

01:15:43.540 security agencies.

01:15:45.300 They followed cocaine shipments,

01:15:46.900 some from Latin America

01:15:47.720 to West Africa

01:15:48.420 and on to Europe

01:15:49.200 and the Middle East,

01:15:50.220 others through Venezuela

01:15:51.140 and Mexico

01:15:51.600 to the United States.

01:15:52.440 They tracked the river

01:15:53.440 of dirty cash.

01:15:54.700 But,

01:15:55.560 as Project Cassandra

01:15:56.900 reached higher

01:15:57.560 into the hierarchy

01:15:58.320 of the conspiracy,

01:15:59.740 Obama administration officials

01:16:01.320 threw an increasingly

01:16:02.960 insurmountable series

01:16:04.400 of roadblocks in its way,

01:16:05.800 according to interviews

01:16:06.520 with dozens of participants

01:16:07.620 who in many cases

01:16:08.560 spoke for the first time

01:16:09.480 about events

01:16:09.940 shrouded in secrecy.

01:16:11.540 When Project Cassandra leaders

01:16:13.120 sought approval

01:16:13.640 for some significant investigation,

01:16:15.480 prosecutions,

01:16:16.260 arrests,

01:16:16.700 and financial sanctions,

01:16:17.940 officials at Justice

01:16:18.820 and the Treasury Department

01:16:19.720 delayed,

01:16:20.760 hindered,

01:16:21.120 or rejected

01:16:22.080 their requests.

01:16:24.080 The Justice Department

01:16:25.240 declined requests

01:16:26.200 by Project Cassandra

01:16:27.480 and other authorities

01:16:28.320 to file criminal charges

01:16:29.560 against major players

01:16:30.820 such as Hezbollah's

01:16:32.000 high-profile envoy to Iran,

01:16:33.640 a Lebanese bank

01:16:34.300 that allegedly laundered

01:16:35.180 billions in alleged drug profits,

01:16:36.860 and a central player

01:16:37.580 in U.S.-based cell

01:16:38.820 of the Iranian paramilitary

01:16:40.300 Quds Force.

01:16:41.700 And the State Department

01:16:42.360 rejected requests

01:16:43.200 to lure high-value targets

01:16:44.600 to countries

01:16:45.040 where they could be arrested.

01:16:46.380 In other words,

01:16:47.680 as David Asher says,

01:16:48.880 the guy who helped

01:16:49.460 establish this Project Cassandra

01:16:50.980 as a Defense Department

01:16:51.960 finance analyst,

01:16:53.120 quote,

01:16:53.520 this was a policy decision.

01:16:55.820 It was a systematic decision.

01:16:58.200 They serially ripped apart

01:16:59.620 this entire effort

01:17:00.440 that was very well supported

01:17:01.580 and resourced,

01:17:02.340 and it was done

01:17:03.040 from the top down.

01:17:06.000 Why?

01:17:06.620 Because Obama wanted

01:17:07.420 his Iran deal.

01:17:08.540 He wanted that deal

01:17:09.400 that supposedly stopped

01:17:10.780 the Iranian nuclear program

01:17:11.780 but did no such thing

01:17:12.940 and merely greenlit

01:17:14.260 the Iranian nuclear program

01:17:15.480 a decade from inception

01:17:16.940 and ensured that Iran

01:17:18.560 would become a regional power

01:17:19.740 through conventional weaponry

01:17:21.420 and terrorism.

01:17:24.880 And not only that,

01:17:26.660 they colluded

01:17:27.180 with the Russians

01:17:28.200 to make this happen.

01:17:30.220 They colluded

01:17:30.680 with the Russians

01:17:31.200 to make this happen.

01:17:33.380 It is amazing stuff.

01:17:35.760 In practice,

01:17:37.060 this is again Politico,

01:17:37.860 it's not me,

01:17:38.360 Politico,

01:17:38.900 a left-wing source.

01:17:40.180 In practice,

01:17:41.140 the administration's

01:17:41.900 willingness to envision

01:17:42.660 a new role for Hezbollah

01:17:43.680 in the Middle East

01:17:44.220 combined with,

01:17:45.300 Hezbollah's a terrorist group

01:17:46.300 by the way, folks.

01:17:46.880 Hezbollah is an evil terrorist group

01:17:48.660 that fires missiles

01:17:49.340 into northern Israel

01:17:50.320 on a routine basis

01:17:51.400 and has turned

01:17:52.300 what was once

01:17:53.340 a flower of the Middle East.

01:17:55.020 Lebanon

01:17:55.280 and Beirut

01:17:57.040 has turned it

01:17:57.820 into an absolute hellhole.

01:18:00.060 Lebanon is not a place

01:18:00.980 you want to be hanging out

01:18:01.740 or visiting.

01:18:03.180 In practice,

01:18:04.040 the administration's

01:18:04.760 willingness to envision

01:18:05.500 a new role for Hezbollah

01:18:06.460 in the Middle East

01:18:06.980 combined with its desire

01:18:08.420 for a negotiated settlement

01:18:09.540 to Iran's nuclear program

01:18:11.000 translated into a reluctance

01:18:12.900 to move aggressively

01:18:13.700 against top Hezbollah operatives.

01:18:15.860 And here's the collusion

01:18:17.600 with Russia.

01:18:18.080 Are you ready?

01:18:18.320 Here we go.

01:18:19.300 Lebanese arms dealer

01:18:20.340 Ali Fayyad,

01:18:21.840 a suspected top Hezbollah operative

01:18:23.700 whom agents believed reported

01:18:25.220 to Russian President

01:18:26.100 Vladimir Putin

01:18:26.900 as a key supplier

01:18:28.240 of weapons

01:18:28.780 to Syria and Iraq,

01:18:30.220 was arrested in Prague

01:18:31.180 in the spring of 2014.

01:18:32.940 Good news.

01:18:33.360 He's arrested, right?

01:18:34.320 They can now extradite him.

01:18:35.960 But for nearly two years,

01:18:38.120 Fayyad was in custody.

01:18:39.440 Top Obama administration officials

01:18:41.120 declined to apply

01:18:42.880 Syrius pressure

01:18:43.740 on the Czech government

01:18:44.700 to extradite him

01:18:45.560 to the United States

01:18:46.400 even as Putin

01:18:47.620 was lobbying aggressively

01:18:49.040 against it.

01:18:51.200 Fayyad,

01:18:51.580 who'd been indicted

01:18:52.060 in the U.S.

01:18:52.460 on counts of charges

01:18:53.440 of planning the murders

01:18:55.080 of U.S. government employees,

01:18:57.020 this guy's a murderer,

01:18:58.220 attempting to provide

01:18:59.020 material support

01:18:59.760 to a terrorist organization,

01:19:01.180 attempting to acquire,

01:19:02.300 transfer,

01:19:02.940 use anti-aircraft missiles,

01:19:04.700 was ultimately sent back

01:19:05.700 to Lebanon.

01:19:06.060 He is now believed

01:19:07.540 by U.S. officials

01:19:08.280 to be back in business,

01:19:09.600 helping to arm militants

01:19:10.680 in Syria and elsewhere

01:19:11.780 with Russian heavy weapons.

01:19:15.700 It sounds a lot like collusion.

01:19:17.920 It sounds a lot like

01:19:18.540 the Obama administration

01:19:20.400 working with the Russians

01:19:21.420 on behalf of a terrorist group,

01:19:24.080 Hezbollah,

01:19:25.300 all so that Obama

01:19:26.760 could pursue

01:19:28.080 his evil, despicable Iran deal,

01:19:32.100 all of which he thought

01:19:33.100 would redound

01:19:33.640 to his benefit politically.

01:19:36.640 That's collusion, folks.

01:19:38.520 That's collusion.

01:19:40.080 Not the nonsense

01:19:41.000 that's being thrown up there

01:19:42.080 as collusion.

01:19:43.400 Again,

01:19:44.040 all of the charges

01:19:45.260 that I've seen so far

01:19:46.100 in the Mueller investigation

01:19:47.100 have been about

01:19:48.480 people lying to the FBI.

01:19:50.020 You shouldn't lie to the FBI.

01:19:51.140 Lying to the FBI is bad

01:19:52.400 in case you missed it.

01:19:53.940 But there's been

01:19:54.760 no evidence whatsoever

01:19:55.700 of active collusion

01:19:56.820 yet between

01:19:58.040 the Trump administration

01:19:59.180 and the Russian government

01:20:01.040 about the election.

01:20:02.780 And in fact,

01:20:03.160 Mike Flynn,

01:20:04.140 who's now been indicted,

01:20:06.060 he's pled guilty

01:20:06.980 to lying to the FBI.

01:20:08.860 What did he lie

01:20:09.340 to the FBI about?

01:20:10.580 Supposedly,

01:20:10.940 he lied to the FBI

01:20:11.900 according to the charges

01:20:13.300 themselves.

01:20:13.980 He lied to the FBI

01:20:14.960 about a call

01:20:16.960 he made

01:20:17.460 to the Russians

01:20:18.200 during the transition period

01:20:19.460 in which he asked them

01:20:20.360 to back off

01:20:21.700 of a resolution

01:20:22.900 that was against Israel.

01:20:24.600 That does not sound

01:20:25.420 like Russian collusion to me.

01:20:26.580 Russia, by the way,

01:20:27.020 did not back off.

01:20:27.980 That does not sound

01:20:28.420 like Russian collusion to me.

01:20:29.540 So, maybe there's

01:20:30.720 further evidence.

01:20:31.280 Maybe it'll come out.

01:20:32.300 Maybe it'll all come out

01:20:33.080 in the wash.

01:20:33.480 Maybe all of the rumors

01:20:34.320 will end up being true.

01:20:35.260 It won't just be smoke.

01:20:36.160 It'll be fire.

01:20:37.420 But one thing is eminently true

01:20:38.700 and obviously true.

01:20:40.340 There was actual evidence

01:20:42.180 of serious criminal collusion

01:20:44.500 between the Obama administration

01:20:46.060 and the Russians

01:20:47.040 because it is criminal

01:20:48.420 to back State Department

01:20:50.380 stated terrorist groups

01:20:53.080 because you want an Iran deal

01:20:55.320 that was with a terrorist government,

01:20:56.980 which is exactly

01:20:57.800 what was happening here.

01:20:58.640 And that's exactly

01:21:00.280 what was happening here.

01:21:01.840 Just astonishing.

01:21:03.280 And speaking of collusion,

01:21:05.400 Attorney General Jeff Sessions

01:21:06.600 is now requesting

01:21:08.100 more information

01:21:08.920 on the Uranium One deal.

01:21:10.080 So, things may be about

01:21:11.180 to get very hot

01:21:12.800 for the old Obama officials.

01:21:15.180 We'll give you all the updates.

01:21:16.380 Ben Shapiro in for Glenn Beck.

01:21:21.680 Glenn Beck.

01:21:28.640 Okay, so this is breaking news.

01:21:34.780 Attorney General Jeff Sessions

01:21:35.900 apparently has ordered

01:21:37.480 investigators at the Justice Department

01:21:39.120 to ask FBI agents

01:21:41.360 to explain

01:21:42.100 all of the evidence

01:21:43.500 they found

01:21:44.020 in the Uranium One investigation.

01:21:46.340 This is a report

01:21:47.240 from Tom Winter,

01:21:48.080 Pete Williams,

01:21:48.900 and Ken Delanion

01:21:50.200 at NBC News.

01:21:52.600 Apparently,

01:21:53.200 the interviews with FBI agents

01:21:54.360 are part

01:21:54.820 of the Justice Department's effort

01:21:56.620 to fulfill a promise

01:21:57.860 to an assistant attorney general

01:21:59.280 made to Congress

01:22:00.160 last month

01:22:01.080 to examine

01:22:01.620 whether a special counsel

01:22:02.960 was warranted

01:22:03.700 to look into

01:22:04.660 what has become known

01:22:05.560 as the Uranium One deal.

01:22:07.380 Now, remember all the details

01:22:08.200 surrounding Uranium One.

01:22:09.880 That issues a 2010 transaction

01:22:11.380 in which the Obama administration

01:22:13.060 allowed the sale

01:22:13.840 of a U.S. uranium mining facility

01:22:16.220 to Russian state

01:22:17.400 atomic energy company.

01:22:19.200 Hillary was Secretary of State

01:22:20.220 at the time.

01:22:21.020 The State Department

01:22:21.600 was one of the nine agencies

01:22:23.120 that agreed

01:22:23.940 to approve the deal.

01:22:25.320 Now, a senior law enforcement official

01:22:27.880 who was briefed

01:22:28.700 on the initial FBI investigation

01:22:30.020 told NBC News

01:22:30.920 there were allegations

01:22:31.920 of corruption

01:22:32.500 surrounding the process

01:22:33.560 under which the U.S. government

01:22:34.940 approved the sale.

01:22:36.560 No charges were filed,

01:22:37.680 but as the New York Times

01:22:38.980 reported in April 2015,

01:22:40.740 some of the people

01:22:41.240 associated with the deal

01:22:42.140 contributed millions of dollars

01:22:43.580 to the Clinton Foundation.

01:22:45.560 And Bill Clinton

01:22:46.120 was paid half a million dollars

01:22:47.620 for one speech in Moscow

01:22:49.440 by Russian investment banks

01:22:51.100 with links to the transaction.

01:22:52.860 Hillary says she had nothing

01:22:53.780 to do with it,

01:22:54.760 of course,

01:22:55.940 that is somewhat doubtful.

01:22:58.540 That is somewhat doubtful.

01:23:00.060 And there were a lot of people

01:23:00.780 a few weeks back

01:23:02.020 who were trying to

01:23:03.140 undermine the suspicions

01:23:04.840 about the Uranium One deal.

01:23:06.920 And I did a bit of a summary

01:23:08.820 over at my website,

01:23:09.740 Daily Wire,

01:23:10.720 talking about what exactly happened

01:23:12.140 in the Uranium One story.

01:23:14.180 So here is what was true

01:23:15.660 about the Uranium One deal.

01:23:17.740 There's a guy named Frank Giustra.

01:23:19.700 Frank Giustra was the original owner

01:23:21.860 of Uranium One.

01:23:24.640 And people said,

01:23:25.740 OK, well, he divested

01:23:26.520 by the time of the sale

01:23:27.880 of Uranium One

01:23:28.880 and its assets

01:23:29.880 to Rosatom,

01:23:30.880 the Russian Atomic Energy Agency.

01:23:32.540 But here's what is true.

01:23:33.420 OK, Giustra owned a company

01:23:34.600 called Eurasia

01:23:35.260 that was sold to Uranium One.

01:23:37.840 Giustra then said

01:23:38.620 he divested his personal stake

01:23:39.960 in the company,

01:23:40.640 but his shareholders

01:23:41.660 still own 60 percent

01:23:42.680 of the company.

01:23:43.240 And there's no way

01:23:43.980 to confirm the truth

01:23:44.540 of his claim.

01:23:45.380 In 2009 and 2010,

01:23:47.240 Rosatom,

01:23:47.780 which is Russia's

01:23:48.340 atomic energy agency,

01:23:49.520 was poised to buy

01:23:50.640 a majority of the company.

01:23:52.180 They were barred by law

01:23:53.020 from exporting

01:23:53.640 American uranium abroad.

01:23:54.680 So it wasn't that Russia

01:23:55.360 was going to buy the uranium,

01:23:56.660 send it back to Russia,

01:23:57.520 and then use it

01:23:58.680 to make bombs

01:23:59.240 to murder Americans

01:24:00.440 or something.

01:24:00.960 That was not really the concern.

01:24:02.640 The real concern here

01:24:03.760 was that Russia

01:24:04.920 bought Uranium One

01:24:05.840 because they actually

01:24:06.600 didn't want

01:24:07.200 the American assets.

01:24:08.500 They bought Uranium One

01:24:09.360 because Uranium One

01:24:10.340 had assets in other countries

01:24:11.680 that they could use

01:24:12.520 to make nukes.

01:24:14.900 In 2013,

01:24:16.160 Russia bought

01:24:17.120 the rest of Uranium One

01:24:18.040 with the approval

01:24:18.620 of the Committee

01:24:19.420 on Foreign Investment

01:24:20.220 in the United States

01:24:20.960 as well as the U.S.

01:24:22.160 Nuclear Regulatory Commission

01:24:23.300 and Utah agencies.

01:24:25.180 The CFI-U.S.

01:24:26.420 includes the State Department.

01:24:27.620 Hillary said she had

01:24:28.180 nothing to do

01:24:28.700 with the green lighting.

01:24:29.660 So how much money

01:24:30.220 actually flowed

01:24:31.040 from Uranium One

01:24:32.140 beneficiaries

01:24:32.580 to the Clinton Foundation?

01:24:33.880 Well, if we don't

01:24:34.440 include Giustra,

01:24:35.580 then about $4 million.

01:24:36.840 If you include Giustra,

01:24:37.860 it's $145 million.

01:24:39.120 But this is all

01:24:40.340 a little too simplistic.

01:24:42.280 So in 2015,

01:24:43.300 here's what the New York Times

01:24:44.020 reported.

01:24:45.340 Uranium One acquisition

01:24:46.300 actually began in 2005

01:24:47.860 while Giustra

01:24:49.020 still owned

01:24:50.180 the company.

01:24:51.960 Bill Clinton.

01:24:53.060 Bill Clinton

01:24:53.860 flew with Giustra

01:24:55.200 to Kazakhstan

01:24:56.660 where the two of them

01:24:58.020 dined with the

01:24:58.540 authoritarian president,

01:24:59.940 a guy named

01:25:00.260 Nursultan Nazarbayev.

01:25:02.400 Clinton then handed

01:25:03.360 the Kazakh president

01:25:04.120 a propaganda coup.

01:25:05.060 This is the New York Times,

01:25:05.780 not me.

01:25:06.360 When he expressed support

01:25:07.380 for Mr. Nazarbayev's bid

01:25:08.900 to head an international

01:25:09.760 elections monitoring group

01:25:11.060 undercutting

01:25:11.840 American foreign policy

01:25:12.860 and criticism

01:25:13.620 of Kazakhstan's

01:25:14.440 poor human rights record

01:25:15.360 by, among other people,

01:25:17.200 Hillary Clinton.

01:25:18.660 Within days of the visit,

01:25:20.300 Giustra's fledgling company

01:25:21.500 Eurasia signed

01:25:22.400 a preliminary deal

01:25:23.200 giving its stakes

01:25:23.760 in three uranium mines

01:25:24.800 controlled by Kazatopram,

01:25:26.580 which was the Kazakhstan

01:25:27.320 official energy agency.

01:25:31.180 Eurasia,

01:25:32.000 then in 2007,

01:25:33.020 merged with Uranium One,

01:25:34.240 a South African company

01:25:35.300 with assets in Africa

01:25:36.240 and Australia,

01:25:37.260 in a $3.5 billion

01:25:38.420 transaction.

01:25:39.520 The new company

01:25:40.160 kept the Uranium One name.

01:25:41.760 It was controlled

01:25:42.200 by Eurasia investors

01:25:43.080 including Ian Telfer,

01:25:44.380 who is a Canadian

01:25:44.920 who became chairman.

01:25:46.720 Giustra says

01:25:47.440 at that point

01:25:47.900 he sold his stake.

01:25:49.700 Soon Uranium One

01:25:50.380 began to snap up

01:25:51.100 companies with assets

01:25:51.880 in the United States

01:25:52.680 in April 2007

01:25:53.880 and announced

01:25:54.460 that it was going to

01:25:55.300 purchase a uranium mill

01:25:56.280 in Utah.

01:25:58.560 Hey,

01:25:59.080 the questions about

01:25:59.760 Razatom's control

01:26:00.500 of uranium

01:26:00.860 isn't really about

01:26:01.540 the Russians

01:26:01.860 crafting nukes,

01:26:02.440 as I say.

01:26:03.360 It's about shortages

01:26:04.060 of uranium

01:26:04.780 in the United States

01:26:05.720 and us being dependent

01:26:06.760 on foreign sources

01:26:07.520 for that material

01:26:08.200 and again,

01:26:09.160 about Razatom purchasing

01:26:10.220 nuclear material

01:26:11.240 in Kazakhstan

01:26:11.800 and the Clintons

01:26:12.840 were still involved

01:26:14.000 at this time.

01:26:14.880 They were involved

01:26:15.340 past the sale.

01:26:16.400 This is the point.

01:26:17.720 It didn't end

01:26:18.240 with Giustra selling

01:26:19.140 Razatom,

01:26:20.320 I mean selling

01:26:20.900 Uranium One.

01:26:22.680 The new head,

01:26:23.980 Ian Telfer,

01:26:25.040 he gave between

01:26:25.720 $1.3 million

01:26:26.480 and $5.6 million

01:26:27.580 in contributions

01:26:28.280 to the Clinton Foundation

01:26:29.260 from a constellation

01:26:31.240 of people

01:26:31.840 with ties to

01:26:32.420 Uranium One

01:26:32.960 or Eurasia.

01:26:34.820 Without the assets,

01:26:35.680 the Kazakh mines,

01:26:36.840 the Russians would have

01:26:37.400 had no interest

01:26:38.100 in the deal.

01:26:38.520 Amid the influx

01:26:41.020 of Uranium One

01:26:41.580 connected money,

01:26:42.480 Clinton was invited

01:26:43.040 to speak in Moscow

01:26:43.820 in June 2010,

01:26:45.500 the same month

01:26:45.980 Razatom struck its deal

01:26:46.960 for a majority stake

01:26:47.880 in Uranium One.

01:26:48.620 So the same month

01:26:49.320 that Razatom decided

01:26:50.720 to buy Uranium One,

01:26:52.180 Clinton spent time

01:26:53.840 in Moscow

01:26:54.240 and got $500,000 for it.

01:26:56.560 It's not at all unclear

01:26:57.960 that the Clintons

01:26:58.540 were unrelated to Uranium One.

01:27:00.680 So again,

01:27:01.060 just more evidence

01:27:01.680 that Democrats

01:27:02.140 were perfectly willing

01:27:02.920 to work with the Russians

01:27:03.820 when they saw

01:27:04.880 a way to benefit

01:27:05.960 from it.

01:27:07.100 Pretty amazing.

01:27:07.720 Pretty amazing.

01:27:08.880 Well, meanwhile,

01:27:10.520 the Pope has now spoken out

01:27:11.620 just before Christmas

01:27:12.620 in a way that I think

01:27:13.320 is actually valuable.

01:27:14.580 So Pope Francis

01:27:15.280 gave a homily

01:27:16.980 and he talked

01:27:18.440 about fruitfulness.

01:27:19.780 He commented

01:27:20.600 on how

01:27:21.200 in these days

01:27:22.300 sterility

01:27:23.440 is considered a virtue.

01:27:24.940 He says,

01:27:25.380 back then,

01:27:25.880 sterility was considered

01:27:26.660 a shame

01:27:27.000 when the birth of a child

01:27:27.760 was seen as a grace

01:27:29.060 and a gift from God.

01:27:30.340 He said,

01:27:30.620 in the Bible,

01:27:31.020 there are many sterile women

01:27:31.860 who desire a child.

01:27:33.260 Fruitfulness in the Bible

01:27:34.060 is a blessing.

01:27:34.600 And then he pointed

01:27:36.860 his criticism

01:27:37.440 to countries

01:27:38.060 that have,

01:27:38.640 chosen the path

01:27:39.700 of sterility

01:27:40.320 and suffer from

01:27:41.260 that serious disease

01:27:42.160 that is a demographic winter.

01:27:44.460 They do not have children.

01:27:46.880 He said,

01:27:47.500 the material

01:27:47.880 and spiritual fruitfulness

01:27:49.000 means giving life.

01:27:51.240 He said,

01:27:51.520 a person may choose

01:27:52.260 not to marry

01:27:52.720 like priests

01:27:53.260 and consecrated persons

01:27:54.200 but must live

01:27:55.020 by giving life to others.

01:27:56.500 Woe to us

01:27:57.020 if we are not fruitful

01:27:57.880 with good works.

01:27:59.740 And then the Pope

01:28:00.360 went further.

01:28:00.900 He said that willful

01:28:01.560 infertility

01:28:02.220 is an instrument of Satan.

01:28:03.500 He says,

01:28:03.800 he does not want us

01:28:04.520 to give life

01:28:05.040 be it physical

01:28:05.580 or spiritual

01:28:06.120 to others.

01:28:07.380 He who lives

01:28:07.880 for himself

01:28:08.500 produces selfishness,

01:28:10.440 pride,

01:28:10.960 vanity,

01:28:11.580 greasing the soul

01:28:12.160 without living for others.

01:28:13.340 The devil is the one

01:28:14.060 who grows from

01:28:14.680 the weeds of egoism

01:28:15.800 and stops us

01:28:16.680 from being fruitful.

01:28:18.640 Then he actually

01:28:19.040 pointed an empty cradle.

01:28:20.120 He said,

01:28:20.480 here is an empty cradle.

01:28:21.360 We can look at it.

01:28:22.340 It can be seen

01:28:22.760 as a symbol of hope

01:28:23.380 because the child will come

01:28:24.380 or it can be seen

01:28:25.200 as an object

01:28:25.720 from a museum

01:28:26.320 empty of life.

01:28:27.420 Our heart is like the cradle.

01:28:28.480 Is it empty?

01:28:29.380 Or is it open

01:28:29.940 to continuously receive

01:28:31.040 and give life?

01:28:32.120 Come Lord,

01:28:32.700 fill the cradle,

01:28:33.620 fill my heart,

01:28:34.520 help me to give life

01:28:35.220 to be fruitful.

01:28:36.280 A nice Christmas message

01:28:37.860 from the Pope

01:28:38.500 and something to keep in mind

01:28:39.520 in a society

01:28:41.000 where we value sex

01:28:41.960 and have completely

01:28:42.440 disconnected it

01:28:43.100 from childbearing,

01:28:43.820 child's rearing,

01:28:44.400 and commitment.

01:28:45.940 In a few minutes,

01:28:46.800 this is exactly

01:28:47.260 what I want to talk about

01:28:48.020 because there's this

01:28:49.460 bizarre notion

01:28:50.220 that has sprung up

01:28:51.020 in the wake

01:28:51.440 of the Me Too movement

01:28:54.480 that a sex

01:28:57.160 completely divorced

01:28:58.300 from meaning,

01:28:59.940 that sex

01:29:00.260 completely disconnected

01:29:01.260 from commitment,

01:29:02.700 that somehow

01:29:03.040 this is a net positive,

01:29:04.740 but by the same token,

01:29:05.980 we are going to target men

01:29:08.240 if women feel uncomfortable

01:29:09.620 about those standards.

01:29:11.260 This bizarre,

01:29:12.240 vague standard

01:29:12.720 has been set up

01:29:13.460 and it doesn't work.

01:29:15.740 And I want to talk about that

01:29:16.620 because now

01:29:17.120 there are actual columnists

01:29:18.160 coming out on the left

01:29:19.640 saying that yes

01:29:21.200 doesn't even mean yes.

01:29:22.140 Sometimes yes means no

01:29:23.080 and sometimes no means yes.

01:29:25.300 So what exactly

01:29:26.120 are men and women

01:29:26.840 supposed to do

01:29:27.440 in this society?

01:29:28.740 I'll tell you in just a second.

01:29:30.080 Ben Shapiro in for Glenn Beck.

01:29:49.420 Glenn Beck.

01:29:53.080 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:30:05.000 Nikki Haley just wrecking people

01:30:07.380 over at the UN

01:30:08.000 and it is glorious.

01:30:09.300 Ben Shapiro in for Glenn Beck.

01:30:11.040 She just told the UN,

01:30:12.520 quote,

01:30:12.620 the U.S. will remember this day

01:30:14.020 in which it was singled out

01:30:15.260 for attack in the General Assembly

01:30:16.680 for the very act

01:30:17.820 of exercising our right

01:30:19.060 as a sovereign nation.

01:30:20.380 We'll remember it

01:30:21.020 when so many countries

01:30:21.760 come calling on us

01:30:22.580 as they so often do

01:30:23.640 to pay even more.

01:30:25.880 Nikki Haley doing yeoman's work.

01:30:28.400 The UN,

01:30:29.200 it's always been bizarre to me

01:30:30.620 that people take the UN seriously

01:30:31.840 as a moral institution.

01:30:33.620 Name five moral things

01:30:34.560 the UN has ever done.

01:30:35.940 Five.

01:30:37.140 It's really not that difficult

01:30:38.420 to name five moral things

01:30:40.540 any other institution

01:30:41.580 that's worthwhile

01:30:42.120 have ever done.

01:30:42.960 But you can't really do it

01:30:44.080 with the UN

01:30:44.560 because it turns out

01:30:45.380 when you have a lot of

01:30:46.040 crappy countries

01:30:46.700 voting for crappy resolutions,

01:30:48.820 crappy things happen.

01:30:50.620 In other news,

01:30:51.160 I want to talk a little bit

01:30:52.760 about the progression

01:30:54.380 of the Me Too moment

01:30:55.360 and why exactly

01:30:57.480 confusion seems to be setting in.

01:30:59.040 Because at the beginning

01:30:59.800 it seemed like Me Too

01:31:00.660 was going to be a very,

01:31:01.620 very clear movement, right?

01:31:03.020 A very clear

01:31:03.640 and obvious movement

01:31:04.980 with real repercussions

01:31:06.780 that basically

01:31:07.440 the Me Too moment

01:31:08.220 was going to be

01:31:09.560 about the idea

01:31:10.560 that men were not allowed

01:31:12.600 to sexually abuse women.

01:31:13.840 If you sexually abuse women,

01:31:14.960 you're in trouble.

01:31:15.680 And this makes sense

01:31:16.740 if you have a definition

01:31:17.900 of sexual abuse.

01:31:19.520 If you have a definition

01:31:20.500 of sexual harassment.

01:31:21.680 But very quickly,

01:31:22.980 it seemed like

01:31:23.600 a lot of folks

01:31:24.140 started to conflate

01:31:24.960 sexual abuse

01:31:25.740 and sexual harassment.

01:31:26.600 They started to conflate

01:31:27.220 Harvey Weinstein

01:31:28.060 with some guy

01:31:30.260 saying something

01:31:30.740 looted a bar.

01:31:32.440 They started to say

01:31:32.860 this is all the same thing.

01:31:34.120 Matt Damon,

01:31:34.840 who I'm no fan

01:31:35.500 of Matt Damon,

01:31:36.800 but Matt Damon

01:31:37.800 basically was correct

01:31:38.940 when he said,

01:31:39.720 listen,

01:31:40.140 all this stuff is bad

01:31:41.020 but some bad

01:31:41.540 is worse than other bad.

01:31:42.860 And clearly that is true.

01:31:44.000 But we decided

01:31:44.580 we can't do that.

01:31:45.220 We have to treat

01:31:46.180 all bad as the same.

01:31:48.240 And then,

01:31:49.040 we got down

01:31:49.720 into some really dicey area

01:31:50.860 because it turns out

01:31:51.760 that while the left

01:31:52.940 says that no means no

01:31:54.060 and yes means yes,

01:31:55.700 they're now beginning

01:31:56.680 to realize that

01:31:57.640 even consent

01:31:58.900 is a little bit

01:32:00.220 of a murky concept.

01:32:01.980 Right?

01:32:02.160 When does yes mean yes?

01:32:03.160 When does no mean no?

01:32:04.700 It's not me asking

01:32:05.340 this question.

01:32:05.920 It's now the left

01:32:06.460 asking this question.

01:32:08.200 Over the weekend,

01:32:08.920 a woman named Jessica Bennett,

01:32:09.920 who is the gender editor

01:32:11.340 of the New York Times,

01:32:12.160 that is an actual job.

01:32:13.880 It's a job that

01:32:14.520 presumably someone

01:32:15.700 trained for and pays for.

01:32:17.280 The gender editor

01:32:18.140 of the New York Times.

01:32:19.860 Great.

01:32:20.700 Wrote a piece titled,

01:32:21.720 quote,

01:32:22.080 When saying yes

01:32:22.940 is easier than saying no.

01:32:24.940 So basically,

01:32:25.780 in this piece,

01:32:26.140 she argues that

01:32:26.760 sometimes women say yes

01:32:27.680 because it's too much

01:32:28.740 trouble to say no

01:32:29.400 but they're not really into it.

01:32:31.160 She says,

01:32:31.680 in many cases,

01:32:32.860 women say yes to sex

01:32:33.600 but they actually

01:32:33.980 don't want to sex.

01:32:34.720 She says,

01:32:34.860 sometimes yes means no

01:32:36.140 simply because it is easier

01:32:37.880 to go through with it

01:32:38.800 than explain our way

01:32:39.920 out of the situation.

01:32:41.600 Sometimes no means yes

01:32:42.840 because you actually

01:32:43.800 do want to do it

01:32:44.640 but you know you're not

01:32:45.320 supposed to let,

01:32:46.260 you're not supposed to

01:32:47.160 lest you be labeled a slut.

01:32:49.200 And if you're a man,

01:32:50.520 that no often means

01:32:52.020 just try hard

01:32:52.860 because you know

01:32:53.300 persuasion is part of the game.

01:32:55.680 I think there's actually

01:32:56.620 some truth to what

01:32:57.740 Bennett is saying

01:32:58.540 but the problem is

01:32:59.260 that if you've made

01:32:59.780 your only value consent

01:33:00.900 then you can't start

01:33:02.460 muddying the lines.

01:33:03.580 You can't start

01:33:04.100 taking those lines

01:33:05.040 and playing with them

01:33:06.240 because some guy's

01:33:07.400 going to end up

01:33:07.700 losing his career

01:33:08.420 or going to jail

01:33:09.400 over your muddy

01:33:10.620 definition of consent.

01:33:11.600 Bennett says that

01:33:13.460 consent is actually

01:33:14.180 societally defined

01:33:15.100 quote,

01:33:15.620 our idea of what we want

01:33:16.760 of our own desire

01:33:17.400 is linked to what we think

01:33:18.260 we're supposed to want.

01:33:19.960 But again,

01:33:20.520 the problem here

01:33:20.960 is that this lady's

01:33:21.520 not offering any

01:33:22.160 clear solutions.

01:33:23.220 So let's say it's true

01:33:24.280 that women sometimes

01:33:25.240 say yes but mean no

01:33:26.160 and a man then

01:33:27.760 has sex with a woman

01:33:28.800 who says yes

01:33:29.420 because that's what

01:33:30.160 her face says.

01:33:31.440 She says yes.

01:33:32.980 Like it actually,

01:33:33.540 the word yes

01:33:33.940 comes out of her mouth

01:33:34.580 but she actually means no

01:33:35.460 and then she feels

01:33:36.880 bad about it later.

01:33:37.580 Did the man do

01:33:38.020 something wrong?

01:33:39.460 Are men supposed

01:33:39.920 to be mind readers now?

01:33:40.840 And if a woman says no

01:33:42.100 but then a man seduces her

01:33:43.620 until she says yes,

01:33:44.420 are we supposed to

01:33:45.040 take stock of the

01:33:46.000 original no

01:33:46.520 or of the final yes?

01:33:48.160 Like which one

01:33:48.620 are we supposed

01:33:48.960 like is

01:33:49.960 Baby It's Cold

01:33:51.280 Outside a rapey song?

01:33:52.700 Right?

01:33:53.360 This is one of the

01:33:54.040 things the left has said

01:33:54.660 that Baby It's Cold

01:33:55.340 Outside is a rapey song

01:33:56.300 because the guy is

01:33:56.820 basically trying to

01:33:57.500 convince the woman

01:33:58.020 to stay the night

01:33:58.720 and she's saying

01:33:59.720 that she really feels

01:34:00.860 she's torn.

01:34:01.420 She feels like she

01:34:01.840 has to go

01:34:02.380 but she sort of

01:34:03.140 wants to stay.

01:34:04.420 Is the guy

01:34:05.100 like a rapist

01:34:06.000 or what?

01:34:07.660 Unfortunately,

01:34:08.460 the left offers

01:34:08.920 no guidance

01:34:09.380 on these issues.

01:34:09.960 Neither does a woman

01:34:11.140 named Rebecca Reed.

01:34:12.180 How crazy is this?

01:34:13.460 You ready for crazy?

01:34:14.800 Here's crazy.

01:34:15.640 She wrote

01:34:16.000 in the Metro UK

01:34:17.160 that she once

01:34:18.460 participated in a

01:34:19.480 threesome

01:34:19.960 because she

01:34:20.760 quote

01:34:20.980 didn't want to be rude.

01:34:22.600 Which I gotta say

01:34:23.540 like

01:34:23.980 that's weird.

01:34:26.320 I'm not

01:34:26.860 your sex life

01:34:27.900 is your business

01:34:28.380 but if you're

01:34:29.440 participating in

01:34:30.080 threesomes

01:34:30.400 because you don't

01:34:30.800 want to be rude

01:34:31.360 like

01:34:32.260 I don't think

01:34:33.840 it's rude

01:34:34.200 to say no

01:34:35.060 to that.

01:34:36.640 Like that seems

01:34:37.520 pretty odd

01:34:38.800 like if they

01:34:39.780 invited you

01:34:40.360 to participate

01:34:40.860 in a cannibalistic

01:34:41.640 ritual

01:34:42.060 it would be

01:34:43.280 kind of rude

01:34:43.620 to say no

01:34:44.360 but also

01:34:45.340 kind of gross

01:34:45.860 to say yes.

01:34:48.100 Reed says

01:34:48.480 such experiences

01:34:49.180 aren't uncommon

01:34:49.820 quote

01:34:50.120 there are hundreds

01:34:50.920 of reasons why

01:34:51.700 but they all

01:34:52.320 boil down to the

01:34:52.860 same thing.

01:34:53.240 We're nice girls

01:34:53.820 we've been raised

01:34:54.340 to be nice.

01:34:55.080 Note the

01:34:55.380 definitional change

01:34:56.360 in the term

01:34:56.780 nice girls here.

01:34:57.580 I mean when I was

01:34:58.140 growing up

01:34:58.620 I'm not that old

01:34:59.640 when I was growing up

01:35:00.360 to be a nice girl

01:35:01.460 meant a girl

01:35:02.240 who did not have

01:35:03.140 sex before marriage.

01:35:04.000 A nice girl

01:35:04.480 meant a classy girl

01:35:05.500 and a nice girl

01:35:06.620 meant a girl

01:35:07.080 who was not promiscuous.

01:35:08.080 That was typically

01:35:08.900 how your mother

01:35:09.440 used it.

01:35:10.000 Now nice girl

01:35:10.580 means you have

01:35:11.320 to have a threesome

01:35:11.940 because you don't

01:35:12.380 want to offend

01:35:12.820 somebody at a dinner

01:35:13.500 party.

01:35:14.600 Weird.

01:35:16.060 This woman

01:35:16.620 Rebecca Reed

01:35:17.120 she says

01:35:17.440 sometimes being careful

01:35:19.380 means having sex

01:35:20.100 that you don't want

01:35:20.740 that leaves you

01:35:21.420 feeling dirty

01:35:21.960 and sad

01:35:22.480 and a bit icky.

01:35:23.700 It's not rape

01:35:24.140 it's not abuse

01:35:24.600 but it's not sex either.

01:35:25.660 So what exactly

01:35:26.400 is the problem

01:35:27.000 with doing

01:35:27.980 she says that

01:35:28.800 women are scared

01:35:29.640 into having sex.

01:35:30.780 They feel like

01:35:31.180 if they don't have

01:35:31.620 sex with men

01:35:32.040 that men are going

01:35:32.500 to abuse them.

01:35:33.580 So in the end

01:35:34.220 even a woman

01:35:35.000 feeling emotionally

01:35:35.720 torn about sex

01:35:36.560 is the fault

01:35:37.340 of a man

01:35:37.820 who may or may

01:35:38.480 not be threatening her.

01:35:40.380 There's this

01:35:40.980 crazy story today

01:35:42.200 there's a woman

01:35:43.160 who wrote a

01:35:43.820 short story

01:35:44.940 in the pages

01:35:45.400 of the New Yorker

01:35:46.080 it's a 4,000 word

01:35:46.980 story called

01:35:47.480 Cat Person

01:35:48.040 and it describes

01:35:48.840 a 20 year old

01:35:49.460 woman named Margo

01:35:50.200 who seduces

01:35:51.080 a 34 year old man

01:35:52.160 she sends him

01:35:53.020 all the signals

01:35:53.700 that she wants

01:35:54.160 to have sex with him

01:35:54.880 he brings her

01:35:56.060 back to his place

01:35:57.100 she sends all

01:35:57.900 the signals

01:35:58.440 she says yes

01:35:59.740 but she doesn't

01:36:00.900 really feel good

01:36:01.420 about it

01:36:01.760 and then she never

01:36:02.220 calls him again

01:36:02.820 because it was awkward.

01:36:05.220 And here's what

01:36:06.060 the piece says

01:36:06.920 she knew that

01:36:07.560 her last chance

01:36:08.180 of enjoying this

01:36:08.720 encounter had

01:36:09.220 disappeared

01:36:09.600 but that she would

01:36:10.320 carry through with it

01:36:11.040 until it was over

01:36:11.700 and in the end

01:36:12.700 she refuses to

01:36:13.660 text the guy back

01:36:14.400 he wants some

01:36:14.820 sort of emotional

01:36:15.340 connection

01:36:15.780 she refuses

01:36:16.640 and then he texts

01:36:17.380 that she is a whore

01:36:18.500 and this story

01:36:20.320 has become

01:36:20.720 sort of a

01:36:21.100 women's lib

01:36:21.700 piece for some reason

01:36:22.900 that a woman

01:36:23.840 who is torn over

01:36:24.740 whether to have

01:36:25.220 sex with a guy

01:36:25.800 and then has

01:36:26.520 sex with a guy

01:36:27.100 but gives him

01:36:28.020 no signal

01:36:28.380 that she's not

01:36:28.840 interested in him

01:36:29.480 and then cuts him

01:36:30.300 off completely

01:36:30.800 that he's the

01:36:31.760 villain in this piece

01:36:32.420 because he's

01:36:32.960 threatening her

01:36:33.360 with violence

01:36:33.780 in some way

01:36:34.280 that is not

01:36:34.780 really stated

01:36:35.860 right

01:36:37.620 that woman

01:36:38.180 just received

01:36:38.680 a one

01:36:39.120 million dollar

01:36:40.460 book advance

01:36:41.020 the woman

01:36:42.040 who wrote

01:36:42.280 that piece

01:36:42.580 received a

01:36:43.000 one million dollar

01:36:43.880 book advance

01:36:44.300 because apparently

01:36:44.860 these feelings

01:36:45.360 are so common

01:36:45.940 among women

01:36:46.280 so I have a few

01:36:47.760 questions about this

01:36:48.560 about these feelings

01:36:49.540 among women

01:36:50.320 not that women

01:36:52.520 have these feelings

01:36:53.080 but what societal

01:36:54.260 standard has prevailed

01:36:55.200 that this feeling

01:36:55.960 has become more

01:36:56.580 common

01:36:56.880 right

01:36:58.500 what are men

01:36:59.060 supposed to do

01:36:59.640 in these scenarios

01:37:00.240 now

01:37:00.580 as a society

01:37:02.160 we are beyond

01:37:03.220 suggesting that women

01:37:04.060 are doing anything

01:37:04.760 wrong in consenting

01:37:06.200 to non-marital sex

01:37:07.180 right

01:37:07.860 we've decided that

01:37:08.480 you want to have

01:37:09.000 whatever sex you

01:37:09.540 want to have

01:37:10.000 no problem

01:37:10.540 morally

01:37:10.960 not just

01:37:12.080 governmentally

01:37:12.580 right

01:37:12.700 I'm a libertarian

01:37:13.240 governmentally

01:37:13.780 but morally

01:37:14.240 there's no problem

01:37:14.920 with you having

01:37:15.380 sex with whoever

01:37:15.920 you want to have

01:37:16.380 sex with at any

01:37:17.020 time for any

01:37:17.560 reason

01:37:17.900 anywhere with

01:37:19.100 however many

01:37:19.580 people and or

01:37:20.560 objects

01:37:21.020 and or animals

01:37:22.500 right

01:37:23.060 everyone is free

01:37:23.720 to do what they

01:37:24.020 want but

01:37:24.540 right now we're

01:37:25.600 in the midst

01:37:25.900 of a push to

01:37:26.540 to punish male

01:37:27.500 aggressors

01:37:27.860 so you can't

01:37:28.220 have it both

01:37:28.520 ways

01:37:28.860 right

01:37:30.020 if we water

01:37:30.560 down consent

01:37:31.140 to nothingness

01:37:31.660 if we say

01:37:32.040 that consent

01:37:32.500 sometimes yes

01:37:33.020 means no

01:37:33.360 sometimes no

01:37:33.820 means yes

01:37:34.300 how can you

01:37:35.940 ever expect

01:37:36.580 a sexual

01:37:37.220 encounter

01:37:37.760 a consensual

01:37:38.460 sexual encounter

01:37:39.180 to occur

01:37:39.740 and how can a

01:37:40.500 man ever feel

01:37:40.940 safe he's not

01:37:41.420 going to be

01:37:41.640 prosecuted or

01:37:42.360 his life ruined

01:37:42.920 over an

01:37:43.200 accusation

01:37:43.740 and there's

01:37:45.500 another aspect

01:37:46.060 to this that I

01:37:46.460 think is really

01:37:46.920 the deeper one

01:37:47.760 and it's not

01:37:48.120 really about

01:37:48.500 consent

01:37:48.860 it's about

01:37:49.480 societal

01:37:49.880 expectation

01:37:50.480 so all three

01:37:51.600 of the articles

01:37:52.060 that I just

01:37:52.480 mentioned

01:37:52.780 articulate this

01:37:53.800 complaint that

01:37:54.320 women are

01:37:55.100 having sex

01:37:55.560 because they

01:37:55.860 want to fulfill

01:37:56.500 male expectations

01:37:57.700 that men

01:37:58.280 expect women

01:37:59.500 to have sex

01:37:59.920 with them

01:38:00.160 and so women

01:38:00.540 are doing it

01:38:01.060 either to be

01:38:01.480 nice as in

01:38:02.060 one article

01:38:02.480 or to avoid

01:38:04.080 the awkwardness

01:38:04.940 in another

01:38:05.320 article

01:38:05.720 or because it's

01:38:06.700 just too

01:38:07.240 weird to avoid

01:38:08.780 it in a third

01:38:09.600 article

01:38:09.920 but there's

01:38:11.400 a deeper

01:38:11.740 expectation

01:38:12.280 which is

01:38:12.660 why are

01:38:13.380 women expected

01:38:14.060 to please

01:38:14.620 men sexually

01:38:15.300 without being

01:38:15.980 married to

01:38:16.560 them in

01:38:17.820 these situations

01:38:18.540 right that's

01:38:19.440 the shifted

01:38:19.800 societal standard

01:38:20.580 the shifted

01:38:20.960 societal standard

01:38:21.660 is not really

01:38:22.240 with regard

01:38:22.660 to consent

01:38:23.080 the shifted

01:38:23.740 societal standard

01:38:24.660 is with regard

01:38:25.740 to the

01:38:26.480 expectation

01:38:27.120 that women

01:38:27.920 are supposed

01:38:28.500 to exceed

01:38:29.640 to men's

01:38:30.160 requests

01:38:30.660 prior to

01:38:31.740 commitment

01:38:32.020 being available

01:38:32.560 when you watch

01:38:33.240 TV shows

01:38:33.820 today

01:38:34.080 you know

01:38:35.060 when I was

01:38:35.320 growing up

01:38:35.780 when my

01:38:36.060 parents taught

01:38:36.460 me about

01:38:36.740 sex

01:38:36.920 what they

01:38:37.160 said is

01:38:37.540 when a man

01:38:37.960 and a woman

01:38:38.240 get married

01:38:38.680 and that was

01:38:40.040 the standard

01:38:40.340 I held

01:38:40.780 but my wife

01:38:41.700 and I

01:38:41.840 were virgins

01:38:42.220 until we

01:38:42.640 were married

01:38:42.980 and I think

01:38:43.760 it's made

01:38:44.020 our marriage

01:38:44.440 that much

01:38:45.180 richer

01:38:45.400 because the

01:38:46.320 only people

01:38:46.620 we've ever

01:38:46.960 experienced

01:38:47.460 that intimacy

01:38:47.920 with is

01:38:48.460 each other

01:38:49.240 which is

01:38:49.900 great

01:38:50.140 I've never

01:38:51.320 regretted that

01:38:51.740 for one

01:38:52.480 solitary second

01:38:53.580 really

01:38:53.820 but then

01:38:56.140 we move to

01:38:56.840 you have sex

01:38:57.540 with the person

01:38:57.920 you love

01:38:58.340 right not that

01:38:58.760 you're married

01:38:59.060 to

01:38:59.260 the person

01:38:59.980 that you

01:39:00.180 love

01:39:00.460 and love

01:39:00.880 can be

01:39:01.460 momentary

01:39:02.940 it can be

01:39:03.240 fleeting

01:39:03.500 but as long

01:39:04.080 as you love

01:39:04.400 them it's okay

01:39:04.880 so not in

01:39:05.880 the context of

01:39:06.440 commitment

01:39:06.680 but in the

01:39:07.100 context of love

01:39:07.760 and then it

01:39:08.620 became sex

01:39:09.040 is completely

01:39:09.440 disconnected

01:39:09.860 from love

01:39:10.260 so now you

01:39:10.700 will see

01:39:11.060 the reverse

01:39:12.300 of the way

01:39:12.900 that things

01:39:13.220 used to be

01:39:13.640 right if you

01:39:14.040 watch a movie

01:39:14.480 from the 1940s

01:39:15.420 you'll see a man

01:39:16.100 and a woman

01:39:16.380 want to have

01:39:16.800 sex

01:39:17.080 so the man

01:39:18.400 romances her

01:39:19.040 they fall in

01:39:19.880 love

01:39:20.160 they are committed

01:39:21.200 they get married

01:39:21.720 and then fade

01:39:23.120 to black

01:39:23.540 as they enter

01:39:24.240 the bedroom

01:39:24.620 right that's

01:39:25.160 1940s

01:39:25.940 then it turned

01:39:27.300 into man

01:39:28.580 and woman

01:39:28.920 know each other

01:39:30.100 like each other

01:39:31.140 say they love

01:39:31.780 each other

01:39:32.080 have sex

01:39:32.500 but no marriage

01:39:33.060 then it turned

01:39:34.360 into man

01:39:35.280 and woman

01:39:35.620 decide to go

01:39:36.220 to bed

01:39:36.520 together

01:39:36.920 but they're

01:39:38.300 still awkward

01:39:38.860 about saying

01:39:39.320 I love you

01:39:40.060 right

01:39:40.320 watch any

01:39:41.360 sitcom today

01:39:41.920 and this is

01:39:42.280 an actual

01:39:42.640 plot point

01:39:43.080 this is something

01:39:43.560 that's in

01:39:43.860 virtually every

01:39:44.460 sitcom

01:39:44.760 every cultural

01:39:45.560 totem now

01:39:46.760 is this

01:39:47.560 man and woman

01:39:48.600 hop in the sack

01:39:49.140 together

01:39:49.420 but then it's

01:39:51.100 awkward

01:39:51.480 so it wasn't

01:39:52.180 awkward to get

01:39:52.740 naked with the

01:39:53.300 person and share

01:39:53.880 your most intimate

01:39:54.560 time with the

01:39:55.940 person

01:39:56.200 it's awkward

01:39:57.120 to talk to

01:39:57.640 them afterward

01:39:58.140 so that expectation

01:40:00.360 has now been set

01:40:01.040 that women are

01:40:01.480 expected to have

01:40:02.100 sex

01:40:02.260 they were not

01:40:02.960 expected to have

01:40:03.720 sex without

01:40:04.140 commitment

01:40:04.560 by society

01:40:05.620 or by men

01:40:06.280 men may have

01:40:06.740 had the hope

01:40:07.400 but they certainly

01:40:07.980 did not have

01:40:08.360 the expectation

01:40:08.920 that women were

01:40:09.780 going to have

01:40:10.140 sex with them

01:40:10.600 without any

01:40:11.080 sort of commitment

01:40:11.680 prior to the rise

01:40:12.880 of the third wave

01:40:13.480 feminist movement

01:40:14.160 if you ask a person

01:40:15.860 of traditional

01:40:16.260 moral standards

01:40:16.920 whether the woman

01:40:18.060 should have said

01:40:18.580 no in all of the

01:40:19.340 stories I mentioned

01:40:19.880 before and the answer

01:40:20.580 will be yes

01:40:21.040 but then you're

01:40:21.880 a prude according

01:40:22.420 to feminists

01:40:22.980 you're a prude

01:40:23.900 upholding the

01:40:24.440 patriarchy

01:40:24.980 traditional mores

01:40:26.700 ruled out the

01:40:27.780 male expectation

01:40:28.420 of sex in

01:40:28.900 non-commitment

01:40:29.340 scenarios but

01:40:30.180 the feminist movement

01:40:32.000 said no no no no

01:40:32.860 men are

01:40:34.240 it's okay

01:40:34.620 if men expect

01:40:35.240 sex

01:40:35.640 right that's

01:40:37.480 that's the backhanded

01:40:38.300 thing that they say

01:40:38.880 it's not okay

01:40:39.320 for men to expect

01:40:39.980 it but

01:40:40.260 once you say

01:40:41.240 that women

01:40:41.940 are going to

01:40:42.600 have sex

01:40:42.960 without commitment

01:40:43.540 and that they

01:40:44.280 should because

01:40:44.740 it's enriching

01:40:45.300 men are going

01:40:46.100 to act on that

01:40:46.660 with a certain

01:40:47.020 expectation

01:40:47.500 and women

01:40:47.800 are going to

01:40:48.080 respond to

01:40:48.460 that expectation

01:40:49.120 thanks to our

01:40:51.280 consent only society

01:40:52.280 in which sexual

01:40:53.540 activity has

01:40:53.940 basically become

01:40:54.440 a throwaway

01:40:54.980 no longer

01:40:55.440 anything connected

01:40:56.060 to commitment

01:40:56.520 and any notion

01:40:57.700 of cherishing

01:40:58.180 intimacy

01:40:58.560 is really

01:40:59.640 laughed at

01:41:00.280 as patriarchal

01:41:01.040 and prudish

01:41:01.500 and backwards

01:41:02.000 men have

01:41:02.780 developed an

01:41:03.280 expectation

01:41:03.800 that may be

01:41:04.780 unjust

01:41:05.300 but is

01:41:06.800 certainly

01:41:07.380 explicable

01:41:07.900 and the cost

01:41:09.420 to that system

01:41:10.060 is not born

01:41:10.640 by men

01:41:10.980 the cost

01:41:11.620 to the system

01:41:12.240 is born

01:41:12.680 by women

01:41:13.260 so a system

01:41:14.460 that protected

01:41:15.020 women from

01:41:15.560 the male

01:41:15.880 expectation

01:41:16.380 of sex

01:41:16.800 has been

01:41:17.440 discarded

01:41:17.900 in favor

01:41:18.720 of a system

01:41:19.300 that does

01:41:20.700 not protect

01:41:21.200 women from

01:41:21.660 those predations

01:41:22.280 and then is

01:41:22.880 surprised when

01:41:23.420 women feel

01:41:23.820 bad about it

01:41:24.400 that's why

01:41:25.860 everything seems

01:41:26.580 so messy

01:41:26.980 nowadays

01:41:27.260 because it

01:41:27.680 is messy

01:41:28.160 because we

01:41:28.560 have done

01:41:28.800 away with

01:41:29.460 a certain

01:41:29.800 societal standard

01:41:30.680 that set

01:41:31.300 expectations

01:41:31.900 and replaced

01:41:33.680 it with

01:41:34.300 a certain

01:41:34.620 expectation

01:41:35.160 that has

01:41:35.940 gotten rid

01:41:36.320 of all

01:41:36.560 standards

01:41:36.920 entirely

01:41:37.320 as we

01:41:38.600 continue

01:41:38.900 here on

01:41:39.280 the Glenn Beck

01:41:39.700 program

01:41:40.200 Hollywood may

01:41:41.600 actually be doing

01:41:42.360 something right

01:41:42.940 I just ripped on

01:41:43.460 Hollywood

01:41:43.760 Hollywood may be

01:41:44.960 doing something

01:41:45.460 right

01:41:45.820 shockingly

01:41:46.860 I will tell you

01:41:47.940 about it

01:41:48.300 because it's

01:41:48.600 kind of amazing

01:41:49.180 Ben Shapiro

01:41:50.140 in for Glenn Beck

01:41:50.780 Glenn Beck

01:41:55.160 so beginning

01:42:09.720 in April

01:42:10.480 a movie will

01:42:11.820 be in theaters

01:42:12.380 that I think

01:42:12.920 that conservatives

01:42:13.560 should go see

01:42:14.240 the movie

01:42:14.760 I can't believe

01:42:15.360 it's taken them

01:42:15.960 I mean I can

01:42:16.640 but I can't believe

01:42:17.300 that it's taken them

01:42:18.100 legitimately half a

01:42:19.580 century to come up

01:42:20.240 with this movie

01:42:20.680 the movie is

01:42:21.580 Chappaquiddick

01:42:22.200 and they finally

01:42:23.300 made a movie

01:42:23.700 about Ted Kennedy

01:42:24.460 essentially being

01:42:26.200 guilty of manslaughter

01:42:27.080 for driving a car

01:42:28.360 off a bridge

01:42:28.860 with his girlfriend

01:42:29.360 in the back

01:42:29.780 and then leaving

01:42:30.180 her to die

01:42:30.680 swimming to safety

01:42:31.480 going to sleep

01:42:32.040 for the night

01:42:32.500 and then coming

01:42:33.420 back the next

01:42:33.860 morning and oh

01:42:34.500 look amazing

01:42:35.840 when you leave

01:42:36.280 a woman in the

01:42:36.740 back of your car

01:42:37.580 in the middle

01:42:38.380 of water

01:42:39.220 for an entire

01:42:40.800 night

01:42:41.240 she dies

01:42:42.220 and well done

01:42:44.100 well done Teddy Kennedy

01:42:45.260 but it took them

01:42:45.960 50 years to make

01:42:46.660 this movie

01:42:46.960 and this is the

01:42:47.520 amazing thing

01:42:48.300 about Hollywood

01:42:48.860 right

01:42:49.040 they will make

01:42:49.540 they'll make

01:42:50.600 a movie

01:42:51.260 about

01:42:51.820 seriously

01:42:53.460 they made

01:42:53.940 a movie

01:42:54.360 about

01:42:55.220 the

01:42:55.840 about

01:42:56.260 the

01:42:56.600 ridiculous

01:42:58.100 Scooter Libby

01:42:59.140 Valerie Plame

01:43:00.620 routine

01:43:01.700 which was a big

01:43:02.480 nothing

01:43:02.820 they made

01:43:03.140 an entire movie

01:43:04.720 about that

01:43:05.140 within two years

01:43:05.820 it took them

01:43:06.240 50 years

01:43:06.760 to make a movie

01:43:07.240 about a

01:43:08.240 leading senator

01:43:08.920 in the United

01:43:09.280 States Senate

01:43:09.780 who is probably

01:43:10.360 going to be

01:43:10.880 president

01:43:11.200 leaving a woman

01:43:12.120 to die

01:43:12.400 in the back

01:43:12.640 of his car

01:43:13.020 right

01:43:13.280 it took them

01:43:13.640 50 years

01:43:14.080 to make it

01:43:14.400 but

01:43:14.580 the new

01:43:15.580 trailer

01:43:15.860 is out

01:43:16.200 for Chappaquiddick

01:43:16.820 and it looks

01:43:18.500 as though

01:43:18.980 they are actually

01:43:19.520 going to be

01:43:20.180 accurate about

01:43:21.260 how they portray

01:43:21.740 Kennedy

01:43:22.000 now

01:43:22.240 the media

01:43:22.960 are going

01:43:23.440 to play

01:43:23.900 this as though

01:43:24.420 it's supposedly

01:43:25.120 about Kennedy

01:43:26.580 being the victim

01:43:27.180 right

01:43:27.400 People magazine

01:43:28.100 headlined

01:43:28.620 watch Ted Kennedy's

01:43:29.840 life get derailed

01:43:30.640 an exclusive

01:43:31.280 Chappaquiddick trailer

01:43:32.200 it turns out

01:43:34.080 that he was not

01:43:35.060 the victim

01:43:35.520 in Chappaquiddick

01:43:36.180 the victim

01:43:36.580 in Chappaquiddick

01:43:37.280 was the chick

01:43:38.380 he left for dead

01:43:39.040 in the backseat

01:43:39.560 Mary Jo Kopechny

01:43:40.460 but

01:43:41.780 good news

01:43:42.640 Variety has

01:43:43.280 actually seen

01:43:43.720 the film

01:43:43.980 and reviewed it

01:43:44.740 and here's

01:43:45.480 what they say

01:43:45.900 the film says

01:43:46.900 that what

01:43:47.140 happened to

01:43:47.540 Chappaquiddick

01:43:48.000 was even

01:43:48.580 worse than

01:43:48.960 we think

01:43:49.380 Kopechny's

01:43:50.220 body was

01:43:50.560 found in

01:43:50.880 a position

01:43:51.260 that implied

01:43:51.740 she was

01:43:52.020 struggling

01:43:52.320 to keep

01:43:52.600 her head

01:43:52.840 out of the

01:43:53.120 water

01:43:53.400 and what

01:43:53.880 the film

01:43:54.160 suggests

01:43:54.580 is that

01:43:54.860 once the

01:43:55.260 car turned

01:43:55.620 upside down

01:43:56.020 she didn't

01:43:56.440 die

01:43:56.740 she was

01:43:57.240 alive

01:43:57.580 and then

01:43:57.860 drowned

01:43:58.160 after a

01:43:58.600 period of

01:43:58.940 time

01:43:59.140 as the

01:43:59.400 water

01:43:59.580 seeped

01:43:59.880 in

01:44:00.060 this

01:44:00.460 makes

01:44:00.680 Edward

01:44:00.940 Kennedy's

01:44:01.380 decision

01:44:01.680 not to

01:44:02.080 report

01:44:02.300 the crime

01:44:02.700 a clear-cut

01:44:03.560 act of

01:44:03.940 criminal

01:44:04.180 negligent

01:44:04.680 but in

01:44:05.180 spirit

01:44:05.460 if not

01:44:05.780 legally

01:44:06.040 it renders

01:44:06.480 it

01:44:06.600 something

01:44:06.880 closer

01:44:07.220 to an

01:44:07.480 act

01:44:07.640 of

01:44:07.760 killing

01:44:08.060 Chappaquiddick

01:44:09.000 is a

01:44:09.220 meticulously

01:44:09.740 told

01:44:10.080 chronicle

01:44:10.540 no more

01:44:11.300 and no

01:44:12.000 less

01:44:12.260 and at

01:44:13.460 times

01:44:13.700 there's a

01:44:13.960 slight

01:44:14.160 detachment

01:44:14.520 in watching

01:44:14.940 it

01:44:15.100 because

01:44:15.520 it's

01:44:15.700 too

01:44:15.860 tough

01:44:16.080 and smart

01:44:16.480 to milk

01:44:16.760 the

01:44:16.900 situation

01:44:17.260 by turning

01:44:17.700 Edward

01:44:18.000 Kennedy

01:44:18.300 into a

01:44:18.940 tragic

01:44:19.200 figure

01:44:19.520 in certain

01:44:20.140 ways

01:44:20.360 he may

01:44:20.580 well

01:44:20.800 have

01:44:20.920 been

01:44:21.100 and

01:44:21.420 there

01:44:21.520 are

01:44:21.600 moments

01:44:21.820 when

01:44:21.940 we

01:44:22.040 see

01:44:22.140 the

01:44:22.280 sad

01:44:22.500 grandeur

01:44:22.900 with

01:44:23.040 which

01:44:23.200 this

01:44:23.400 disaster

01:44:23.820 hangs

01:44:24.120 on his

01:44:24.420 stooped

01:44:24.700 shoulders

01:44:25.000 but

01:44:25.500 the movie

01:44:25.780 is

01:44:25.920 fundamentally

01:44:26.320 the

01:44:26.560 portrait

01:44:26.800 of a

01:44:27.120 weasel

01:44:27.480 a man

01:44:28.300 who

01:44:28.420 from the

01:44:28.720 moment

01:44:28.900 the

01:44:29.060 accident

01:44:29.320 happens

01:44:29.700 takes

01:44:30.200 as his

01:44:30.480 premise

01:44:30.700 that he

01:44:30.960 will not

01:44:31.280 suffer

01:44:31.460 the

01:44:31.600 consequences

01:44:32.120 and then

01:44:32.740 does

01:44:33.000 what it

01:44:33.220 takes

01:44:33.400 to twist

01:44:33.740 reality

01:44:34.240 so that

01:44:34.780 it

01:44:34.880 conforms

01:44:35.300 to that

01:44:35.500 scenario

01:44:35.800 if that's

01:44:36.240 what this

01:44:36.440 movie

01:44:36.660 is

01:44:36.960 oh boy

01:44:38.180 oh boy

01:44:39.200 won't that

01:44:39.620 be nice

01:44:40.020 the sad

01:44:41.200 part of

01:44:41.480 course

01:44:41.660 is that

01:44:41.880 it only

01:44:42.140 takes

01:44:42.400 Hollywood

01:44:42.720 50 years

01:44:43.400 to make

01:44:43.700 a movie

01:44:43.980 that tells

01:44:44.340 the truth

01:44:44.680 about

01:44:44.900 something

01:44:45.140 like

01:44:45.340 Chappaquita

01:44:45.720 can you

01:44:45.980 imagine

01:44:46.260 a Republican

01:44:46.840 drove off

01:44:47.800 a bridge

01:44:48.180 with a

01:44:48.480 girl in

01:44:48.840 the back

01:44:49.160 seat

01:44:49.380 left her

01:44:50.140 for dead

01:44:50.520 would it

01:44:51.540 take 5 or

01:44:52.240 10 minutes

01:44:52.620 to Hollywood

01:44:53.120 for Hollywood

01:44:53.540 to greenlight

01:44:54.020 that film

01:44:54.460 and Hollywood

01:44:55.540 is already

01:44:55.880 greenlighting

01:44:56.380 TV series

01:44:57.000 based on

01:44:57.400 Trump

01:44:57.580 he's still

01:44:57.860 in office

01:44:58.240 and nothing

01:44:58.540 terrible

01:44:58.820 has happened

01:44:59.240 yet

01:44:59.480 just shows

01:45:00.740 how Hollywood

01:45:01.180 is disconnected

01:45:01.700 from reality

01:45:02.380 but it

01:45:03.660 is good

01:45:03.960 to see

01:45:04.240 that after

01:45:04.900 50 years

01:45:05.440 or so

01:45:05.720 Hollywood

01:45:06.020 finally

01:45:06.440 deems it

01:45:06.940 safe

01:45:07.240 to talk

01:45:08.340 in serious

01:45:08.960 terms

01:45:09.300 about a guy

01:45:10.200 who left

01:45:10.460 a woman

01:45:10.680 to die

01:45:11.020 even though

01:45:12.460 his name

01:45:12.740 was Kennedy

01:45:13.180 hopefully

01:45:15.340 years

01:45:15.560 we can

01:45:15.820 actually

01:45:16.060 talk about

01:45:16.640 what the

01:45:17.240 Obama

01:45:17.520 administration

01:45:18.040 did in

01:45:18.420 Iran

01:45:18.620 because

01:45:18.900 obviously

01:45:19.320 Hollywood

01:45:19.620 ain't gonna

01:45:19.940 tackle that

01:45:20.400 anytime soon

01:45:21.220 well it's been a pleasure

01:45:22.700 to join you here

01:45:23.300 on the Glenn Beck

01:45:23.740 program

01:45:24.080 it's an honor

01:45:24.800 to fill in for Glenn

01:45:25.600 I'm Ben Shapiro

01:45:26.660 sitting in for Glenn Beck

01:45:27.440 Glenn Beck

The Glenn Beck Program - December 21, 2017

12⧸21⧸17 - Ben Shapiro in for Glenn Beck

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