Glenn and Mark discuss Elizabeth Warren's big win in the Democratic primary debate, Beto Ocasio-Cortez's Spanish-speaking performance, and the latest in the Beto vs. Elizabeth Warren debate. Also, Josh Hammer talks about the latest SCOTUS ruling on abortion and what it could mean for the future of the Supreme Court, Mark Skousen talks about socialism, and Tim Poole talks about Google censorship.
00:05:54.900She said out by the pool, you know, just from guns.
00:05:59.380Okay, well, wait a minute, there's a difference between somebody, some kid getting a hold of a gun that shouldn't, you know, because parents didn't lock it up or whatever, and they're, you know, in the, you know, in the playroom, and there's dad's gun, they pick it up, and they accidentally shoot themselves.
00:06:17.220There's a difference between that and suicide, that and, you know, gang violence.
00:06:30.320I mean, if you, but if that's, if there's 30,000 roughly gun deaths in the United States, if you include everything, and then if seven a day for children would be about 2,500, right, for the day.
00:06:41.360So, like, I think that's, it's not out of the line of what you would think is, is the number.
00:06:47.040Of course, it does matter what you're counting.
00:06:51.280What they're trying, of course, the picture they're trying to paint is seven kids a day get shot as they're just sitting in school in the cafeteria because of school shootings.
00:09:05.880The much more aggressive policies in places like Australia also, lots of serious research done on those that showed that there was no impact whatsoever on homicide rates.
00:09:14.500But, you know, hey, this is a very common left-wing talking point, which is they won't even let us research guns.
00:09:24.340But, A, they're talking about the federal government paying for that research, which, of course, is a big part of it.
00:09:29.820And one of the protections, this goes back years, and Democrats were involved in this at the beginning, was we aren't going to allow money to go and do all sorts of research on gun owners because there's, you know, the concept being that what they're going to do is, A, violate the privacy of gun owners, which, and B, try to overturn this right of theirs that is constitutionally guaranteed.
00:09:54.200So, to get certain restrictions on guns, they said, well, we will promise you that we're not going to make a registry of gun owners and all these things.
00:10:02.060Now, of course, obviously, it's been some time people forget that, so they've completely reversed their position on it.
00:10:07.760But this was not a right-wing position.
00:10:09.800It used to be very American that you don't want the government going in and, you know, making giant lists.
00:10:15.200Yeah, a register is the first way, the first step to gun control and gun banning.
00:10:22.220And Cory Booker called for that last night.
00:11:20.720I think I am because I'm the only one that lives in New Jersey that has, you know, some of the most stringent laws.
00:11:27.000But even in the really nice sections of New Jersey, because, you know, I'm a pretty powerful guy and I'm not going to be living in the slums.
00:11:35.320I'm not going to be living in, you know, places, you know, like Chicago.
00:11:38.520You can live it up or you can live in places where they're shooting people all the time.
00:11:42.420But my town and my state and the town that I was, you know, mayor of is so horrible through and through that even the nice neighborhoods where where a senator can live.
00:11:56.200Uh, it's so bad that I'm hearing gunshots in the middle of the night and seven people were shot in my neighborhood.
00:12:07.040So what I'm really trying to say is, good Lord, help us.
00:12:11.420New Jersey's completely out of control.
00:12:15.200Anyway, that's what he actually was saying.
00:13:26.760I was terrified to take it anywhere because I mistakenly forget it in the back, or go to the gas station that I would go to that's right across the bridge.
00:13:35.040You know, or, like, because, you know, of course, gas is inexpensive in New Jersey in comparison.
00:13:40.100So, you'd cross the bridge a lot of times, and if you forget, and you could legitimately go to prison for multiple years, and it's happened to people.
00:13:51.160I remember distinctively one time I flew out of Newark, New Jersey, and I was taking my gun because I was going out west, and I was going to go do some shooting.
00:14:01.420So, I bring my gun with me, and I remember having, like, an hour-long conversation.
00:14:45.860Unless the gun or the ammunition suddenly became Houdini, and they were also sexually attracted to each other, there was no way they were going to get out and mate on the plane underneath the plane.
00:15:16.700So, my gun was going around a carousel up in Quebec, Canada, and nobody approached it for a while because the entire nation of Canada surrendered to my luggage.
00:15:31.280But Cory Booker, he's afraid for his life.
00:15:34.600So, last night, I think we were very clear.
00:15:38.060Your gun rights are going to be infringed, if not taken away, if these radicals find themselves in office.
00:15:46.580And it was important to notice that all of them talked about an emergency.
00:15:52.640This is why they are not doing anything down on the border, because they need Trump to declare an emergency through executive order and take over the border.
00:16:03.840Once he does that, they are all going to sit in their office and laugh.
00:16:08.800They'll be outraged, but they will laugh because they know when they get into office, it's a national emergency on climate change.
00:16:17.380It is a national emergency on gun laws.
00:28:55.220It's become more of a contact sport, rougher, the rules more elastic, the prize more precious.
00:29:00.980Putin's attempts to manipulate the U.S. government have broadened the playing field and taken the game into new territory, the U.S. political arena.
00:29:10.080And we go on and talk about his goal of destabilizing the West, and these Russian intelligence officers have tools that we could not have imagined 20 years ago, the cyber tools, the digital tools.
00:29:23.960Are we prepared for what we're facing?
00:30:07.280She was former chief of disguise at CIA.
00:30:09.360As she just said, her husband, Tony, was really kind of Q from the James Bond series, the new book written by both of them, The Moscow Rules, worth the read.
00:32:49.700In my opinion, it's a very, very legally straightforward case.
00:32:53.320This was a practice that was on the census that obviously comes out every 10 years for over a century, was my understanding, going back to at least the middle of the 19th century, perhaps even longer than that.
00:33:05.500There was a very, very lengthy history of the federal government asking some questions that are not strictly necessary to purely apportion congressional districts on the census.
00:33:45.500So, the actual narrow legal reason why it's important is actually not super obvious.
00:33:52.400It's actually very important for litigation under Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
00:33:58.040A lot of the cause of action that fall under that particular statutory provision require very accurate data as to the citizens, not just the total person population, but the actual citizens, in order to bring a viable claim for voting disenfranchisement under that particular statutory provision.
00:34:17.000But the broader kind of macro picture here, Glenn, is why it's important, is it's important just for the federal government to have a sense, not just as to the total number of persons, including aliens, but as to citizens.
00:34:32.700I mean, think about the Constitution, Glenn, think about the preamble, think about basic structural principles.
00:34:38.660We, the people, we, the people who form this union, we, the people, you know, in the framers' conception of that are thinking of citizens.
00:34:50.180And it's kind of just, it kind of is a more symbolic ability of the citizenry taking back their country and kind of getting back the entire notion that the citizens created the government, not the other way around.
00:35:05.100And the real reason why the left is going to go ballistic over this is?
00:35:09.760The real reason that the left is going ballistic is that they think it is going to suppress aliens, both legal and illegal aliens, from responding to the census.
00:35:21.460So, they think that it will suppress response in such a way as to, not only might be, from their perspective, xenophobic, but also might actually potentially politically benefit more red states than blue states for purposes of the 2020 census.
00:35:36.920It seems to me pretty unfounded, to be honest with you.
00:35:40.160There are plenty of red states, like our state of Texas, Glenn, that have a large, both legal, yeah, very large legal and illegal alien population.
00:35:50.820It's not just California and New York here.
00:35:58.140So, that was the other kind of big case that came out this morning.
00:36:00.960I haven't had time to do more than a very quick scheme of the opinion, but it looks, you know, this is a traditional 5-4 split.
00:36:07.720It comes out along the lines of you would expect Chief Justice Roberts to write the opinion for the court.
00:36:12.880Justice Kagan filed a dissent for the liberal bloc.
00:36:15.840They're basically saying that this is not a judicial case.
00:36:19.320And this, to me, is very clearly correct.
00:36:23.140Gerrymandering, as a practice, goes back literally to the beginning of the republic.
00:36:27.900The very term gerrymandering refers to Founding Father, Elbridge Gerry.
00:36:32.440And another word, Glenn, for gerrymandering is politics.
00:36:37.860The Constitution clearly grants the state legislature the ability to draw congressional maps.
00:36:44.840So, if you want to change congressional delegation in your state, the way to do that, and the way that you've always had to do that, going back to the beginning of the republic, is to win elections at the ballot box.
00:36:57.920And under the Constitution, under Article III, which is the judiciary, you have to have standing.
00:37:04.520And in order for you to have standing, you have to have a viable, what Article III refers to, as a case or controversy.
00:37:10.000And the Supreme Court, for cases for centuries, the seminal case, the 1992 case called Luhan, the Justice Scalia opinion, if I recall.
00:37:21.920He kind of broke that down and showed exactly what you need for there to be standing.
00:37:25.660There has to be an injury in fact, direct causation, and the court has to be able to redress it in a suitable fashion in accordance with traditional tools of equitable remedies.
00:37:36.980The courts have had going back to English common law.
00:37:39.600And this clearly does not meet that threshold.
00:37:43.900I mean, we're talking here about torts or criminal law or a direct injury.
00:37:48.220But a body of partisan Democrats or Republicans complaining that the other party gerrymandered them out of district is just so far removed from the case or controversy requirement of which the Constitution speaks.
00:38:02.740So this seems to me a very, very clearly correct holding.
00:38:06.080I'm excited to dig a little deeper into your opinion.
00:38:07.880So this is one that I hate agreeing with because I hate gerrymandering.
00:38:14.200And even Justice Thomas comes out and says that in the opinion that—
00:38:33.280And so as a libertarian, I lean towards, yes, more power to the local than the state and the least amount of power going to the federal government.
00:38:45.860It's just that I disagree with gerrymandering.
00:38:48.160And the Republicans are going to celebrate now, but there will come a time when they don't have control of the states, and those things will be gerrymandered back.
00:39:01.960Yeah, no, I think that's—I think that's right, right?
00:39:04.420I mean, the two causes of action that kind of led to this case, though, one was out of North Carolina where it was Democrats complaining, and then one was out of Maryland where I believe it was the Republicans complaining.
00:39:15.420So it's actually both parties who are having their complaints kind of dismissed here by the court.
00:39:23.800I mean, from like a partisan perspective, if we're trying to like put on—you know, we're trying to channel what the Republican National Committee might be thinking, it would be short-sighted to think of this as a victory.
00:39:33.940But from the perspective of someone trying to get the original public meaning of the Constitution right, I think it's a clear victory.
00:39:41.320So, Josh, I'm looking—we're talking to Josh Hammer of Daily Wire.
00:39:45.680I'm looking at this ruling on the census, and it's seemingly incredibly complicated and way above my intellect.
00:39:53.200You could—obviously, when you read this thing in full, it happened breaking here as we're on the air.
00:39:57.420But it does seem that it says it's affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded.
00:40:01.600And we're seeing the—I mean, the breakdown of it, there's several parts.
00:40:06.160I mean, it's, you know, Roberts, the unanimous court on parts one and two, opinion of the court with respect to parts three, four B, and four C, which Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh joined.
00:40:15.680With respect to four A, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Kavanaugh.
00:40:20.140Like, it is, like, all over the board on all different parts, and the summary I'm starting to see here is that they will not allow the census question to be on the 2020 census, though it almost seems like they're going into the motivations as to why it was placed there in the first place.
00:40:41.600I, you know, this is a—I mean, I feel like I'm in the middle of, you know, like—
00:40:47.720A really bad episode of Law & Order in which they really don't explain things well.
00:40:51.700So, Josh, I tell you what, instead of wasting time with conjecture, can we just cut you loose here and then have you read this and come back and tell us what you really think it means?
00:41:02.000Sure, absolutely, guys. Happy to do that.
00:41:03.660All right, so we'll cut you loose now. You go and study that.
00:41:06.360When you're ready, you just call us back, and we'll get into the census.
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00:41:52.260Tim Poole, been a fan of yours for a while.
00:41:54.720Well, you are fair, outspoken, unafraid, and you know what you're talking about more than I think almost anybody else in the media when it comes to what is really happening, when it comes to freedom of speech and censorship at Google and Twitter and Facebook.
00:42:21.960So do you agree that what we're facing now, what's coming out, and most people in the media are ignoring with Project Veritas and everything else, that this is the beginnings of an understanding of an all-encompassing control on everyone's life and mind?
00:42:50.940And I got to say, it's astounding that I was a lifelong liberal and now having conversations about massive, powerful corporations infringing on our lives and our rights with conservatives.
00:43:01.840And, you know, throughout my life, all the liberals who are the ones challenging the corporations, even in the debate last night, bringing up all these corporations, where was the conversation about how Google and Facebook are controlling what we are seeing and hearing?
00:43:14.020It's not coming from the left, and you look at the mainstream press, I ain't using that term, but there's a website called All Sides that tracks the biases of various sites, and they straight up said the Veritas story has been largely ignored by left-wing media.
00:43:58.880I don't want any crazy person silenced.
00:44:02.000This, what's happening, these organizations are not only silencing people by taking them off, but they're also doing, for instance, the Donald and Reddit.
00:44:26.320I think the Donald, I'm sure, you know, your listeners are familiar.
00:44:30.200It's basically the biggest pro-Trump forum.
00:44:32.160And what's particularly worrisome to me about this, they claim that it was taken down because people on the forum were making threats of violence towards police.
00:44:40.440Well, I really doubt conservative Trump supporters are going to threaten police, but maybe, right?
00:44:45.700And what's worrisome is that anyone can make an account, go into any forum, post whatever they want, take a screenshot, and then, you know, wave flags and say, hey, look, ban them.
00:45:08.060So how easy would it be for some activists to go in, make some fake posts, and then flag that to administrators and say, hey, ban them now?
00:45:16.760Well, first of all, unless they have banned, you know, Black Lives Matter and Antifa, they don't have a consistent case at all.
00:46:26.300And he started doing research on Google because he wanted to see if they were swaying elections at all.
00:46:33.920And he found real evidence and said that it is much worse in the 2018 than it was in the 2016.
00:46:43.680And he believes that they can, just through their search engines, by the way they give you answers to your queries and how they stack those things, he says that 80% of undecideds can be swayed.
00:47:03.820And he has evidence that Google is doing it now.
00:47:06.500Well, isn't that the same thing by saying your videos, my videos, Dave Rubin's videos, Ben Shapiro's videos?
00:47:14.880When you go on YouTube and you'll find one of our videos, but then your other videos don't come up in the recommended.
00:47:24.180It's something else, which they say they are doing right now.
00:47:46.220If we then recognize that YouTube is – I believe they're like the largest media distributor on the planet, the second largest search engine.
00:48:01.280But if they're going to take down someone like me or Dave Rubin or Prager University, and they're still going to provide recommendations to left-wing voices and mainstream media voices, well, then I understand, right?
00:48:13.220I don't think that – I have the right to have my content promoted.
00:48:16.160But then you are going to see a massive shift in the perception of Americans and the world because Google is feeding them specific ideology.
00:48:27.500So I heard you speak earlier this week, and you were talking in one of your videos about how you think it might be too late to get out of the beginning of this matrix.
00:48:53.580They look at stories going back to the 70s.
00:48:55.620And they tracked left-wing, identitarian, ideological terminology, right?
00:49:02.040It's kind of jargon, but basically far-left words like intersectionality, white privilege.
00:49:09.120And around the beginning of 2010, there's a hockey stick on all of these graphs, a massive skyrocketing.
00:49:14.440I think this has to do with digital media companies who are not ideologically driven who discovered pissing people off results in shares, which results in money.
00:49:25.920So they end up hiring these activists to push this narrative, this ideology, over and over again.
00:49:30.860And we're at a point now where you look at some of these internal messages like what Veritas leaked, where they refer to PragerU and Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, as Nazis.
00:49:39.460And you can see that these people have really been infected with a dogmatic ideology of some sort.
00:49:47.360So now we're at a point where you have a very large group of people who, I guess you can say, have been indoctrinated through this algorithmic money chasing.
00:49:58.820They're not going to let those views go.
00:50:00.200Their world is built around this idea that's a fake reality.
00:50:07.060Because these companies certainly aren't going to disappear overnight.
00:50:09.040They are hurting now, you know, the BuzzFeeds, the Voxes, etc.
00:50:12.100But now look at what happens with these people are so entrenched in their tribalism that you have Donald Trump come out, what, years ago saying we have a border crisis?
00:50:21.680And it took two years for the media and the Democrats to finally recognize we actually have a border crisis.
00:50:29.940And so because the media was so, you know, look, these media companies are making money off of this ideology, all of them, you know, and it's infecting the bigger, more credible sources now as well.
00:50:39.900Like the New York Times runs a front page story about one guy who watched YouTube videos to push some narrative about the far right.
00:51:26.500And now, because all of these young people have started to pick up this this indoctrination through, you know, the Vox's, the Huffington Post, the BuzzFeeds, they're starting to work at The New York Times.
00:52:36.720We have leaked video of Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, saying he's deeply offended by the election of the 2016 election and that Trump supporters don't share his values.
00:52:52.460Well, look, this censorship that we're seeing, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I got to say it's a damn perfect coincidence that the same day as the Democratic debates, the Donald gets quarantined so you can't find their posts anymore.
00:53:05.140Project Veritas has basically been banned by all of the big providers.
00:53:09.100Even Vimeo now has banned their account.
00:53:19.580I made a video commenting on publicly available information that was reported on by BuzzFeed, by The Guardian, by, you know, just all of these major outlets.
00:53:29.700They said Pinterest, you know, has banned live action, this pro-life group.
00:53:36.200YouTube took my video down without warning, without any chance to fix any problems, saying I was violating the privacy of the people in the story.
00:53:44.740Even though the information was public, was on Twitter, they took my video down.
00:53:57.660But the argument over when a name is newsworthy, fine, we can have that argument.
00:54:04.020I still think Veritas is in the right.
00:54:05.700But for me, we've stepped into an even crazier dystopia where the act of commenting on the information that was already made public is now being banned from the platform.
00:54:14.820To me, that's scary because that means independent people.
00:54:19.120Look, YouTube's the only game in town, right?
00:54:21.140You're not going to get a million views on Vimeo.
00:54:22.860You're not going to get a million views on these other video platforms.
00:54:25.800YouTube has really monopolized the video space.
00:54:28.560And that means if you want to reach people, YouTube's the only game in town.
00:54:38.720We know the censorship has been going on for a long time.
00:54:41.120I think this is partly due to the fact that in reality, conservatives are better at the Internet than liberals are.
00:54:47.720You know, they say the left can't meme.
00:54:49.520So in response to this, we see these people at Twitter, at Facebook, at Google start taking down conservative content to try and rectify that.
00:55:42.600Tim, I know we have a podcast scheduled with you in a few weeks, and I'm really looking forward to being able to have some real time to sit down and talk to you about all of this.
00:57:07.780Now, these are libertarians, conservatives.
00:57:13.700These are the people that are actually looking at the Constitution and trying to rule their life on constitutional things.
00:57:21.500In fact, we do have a Constitution Day with Douglas Ginsburg, the judge.
00:57:31.480He's going to be covering that topic as well as 250 other sessions.
00:57:36.700You know, Glenn, the whole idea of Freedom Fest, which I came up with over a decade ago, was we're losing this war for freedom mainly because we're all going our separate ways.
00:57:50.220And I know you have tried your best to gather people together.
00:57:54.120My idea is that once a year, all the freedom lovers come together in Las Vegas, the entertainment capital of the world, and we come together to network, to socialize, to learn, to celebrate liberty.
00:58:10.280And you've been there before you came in 2015, which is when Donald Trump came, and we had 2,500 people there.
00:58:37.240Well, we have Kevin O'Leary of Shark Tank, and he's going to debate John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods Markets, about the real purpose of business.
00:58:47.400Is it to make money, or is it to have a higher purpose?
00:58:51.940And, of course, John Mackey argues for a higher purpose in business.
00:58:55.280And Kevin O'Leary says, listen, it's all about making money if you want a friend buy a dog.
00:59:11.580We're going to have a debate on, is eating meat ethical and nutritional, is one of our debates with John Mackey, as well as Joel Salatin, who's the libertarian Christian farmer from Virginia.
00:59:27.120We have John Stossel, George Gilder, Rich Lowry from National Review, Alan Dershowitz, and Randy Barnett are going to talk specifically about these recent Supreme Court decisions.
00:59:39.400We have Steve Moore and Herman Cain, who both were going to be nominated to go in the Fed.
00:59:45.620And we're going to ask them what would they have done if they had been nominated and became members of the Fed.
00:59:51.620We have Candace Owens, the fiery black conservative who took on Congress recently.
01:00:03.460And if you want to join us, how do you get tickets?
01:00:07.380So the best thing is to go to FreedomFest.com, and if they register before July 1st, you get $100 off, and it's really going to be a lot of fun.
01:00:17.960I'm really looking forward to having you there again and to meet all of these people who are anxious to change.
01:00:25.380Change, you know, my feeling is if we all gather together once a year, they can't ignore us anymore, right?
01:00:54.980How fast can this thing be dismantled?
01:00:59.080Well, I think the Democratic Party is trying to distinguish themselves some way.
01:01:09.840So the way they're doing it is by going further and further toward the cause of socialism.
01:01:16.240I mean, let's call it what it is, and that's what your topic is going to be at FreedomFest.
01:01:20.920And, you know, I have to deal with this because I teach economics at Chapman University.
01:01:28.700I've also taught at Columbia Business School, and I write on the board.
01:01:33.240I say, okay, let's take this quote that sounds really good, from each according to his ability to each according to his needs.
01:01:41.020And I don't tell them it's from Karl Marx because I don't want to affect their bias.
01:01:46.880And I said, just by a show of hands, how many of you upper-middle-class students at Chapman University, how many of you agree with this?
01:01:54.520And I get about 75% who raise their hand and says, oh, it sounds really good.
01:01:58.020And then I said, put your economics cap on, and what happens to anybody who earns more than the need level, which for them was, believe it or not, $75,000 a year for these students?
01:02:12.460I said, what if you earn more than $75,000?
01:02:15.140Well, it's all taken away, and it's put into this community pot.
01:02:18.860So I said, in essence, what's the marginal tax rate under this plan?
01:02:41.460And obviously the Democrats who are running for office offering free Medicare and free college education and so forth, it all sounds very appealing until you realize it's going to result.
01:02:55.660And extremely high tax rates, which is going to destroy what caused us in the first place to become a prosperous country.