00:00:00.000Today on the Matt Walsh Show, President Trump brings his case for the border wall to the American people.
00:00:05.220It's a good case. Democrats have no answer for it.
00:00:09.020We'll talk more about what his case actually is, but also another question.
00:00:13.300Why did he wait until now to make this case?
00:00:17.400Also, Bryan Cranston is in trouble for portraying a quadriplegic in a film,
00:00:21.920because he himself is not quadriplegic, don't you know?
00:00:24.440And finally, why are people these days so selfish, and what can be done to treat that problem?
00:00:29.000We'll talk about all that today on the Matt Walsh Show.
00:00:34.740President Trump made his case yesterday in a primetime address.
00:00:38.920He stuck to the script, read from a prompter, explained why we need a border wall or a barrier, I guess we're calling it a barrier now.
00:00:46.320And he explained why this shutdown is really something that falls at the feet of Democrats,
00:00:51.440who could end it at any time just by agreeing to allocate a little bit of money.
00:00:56.420A little bit of money, comparatively speaking, to protect the border.
00:01:02.080And then we heard from Chuck and Nancy in a Democrat rebuttal.
00:01:05.060Now, you see, the Democrats knew that this was a high-stakes thing, very important, prime time, responding to the president,
00:01:11.880and they needed to put their two best people on the case.
00:01:16.440And so it was Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi who stood before the nation looking a lot like a disgruntled old married couple
00:01:22.920who came to the restaurant for brunch and are very dissatisfied with the service
00:01:26.620and are going to go back to the retirement home and tell all their friends about it,
00:01:30.960and everyone will sort of commiserate with each other and agree that the service at that place has really gone downhill over the last 25 years.
00:01:37.200And in their speech, as far as the actual content of it, they explained how it's not their fault, it's actually Trump's fault, and so on.
00:01:49.100Now, a few points here about all of this.
00:01:53.760Number one, I don't think it moved the needle at all.
00:03:45.800Those are always his best moments, is when he is sticking to it, when he's reading a speech and sticking to a script.
00:03:52.760And when you see things like last night, it makes you think what could have been, maybe what could be, with his presidency.
00:04:01.780If he got off of Twitter and he stopped with the, with the, you know, pep rally stuff where he's going off script and talking about, you know, whatever CNN personality he dislikes.
00:04:14.280Instead, just sticking to what actually matters and making the case.
00:04:22.960Now, he might not be the most gifted teleprompter reader in the world, but, but there have been plenty of other presidents who weren't very gifted in that regard.
00:04:32.720And it is a difficult thing to do, to stand and look at a camera and read from a script.
00:04:38.060It seems easy, but it's actually not that easy.
00:04:43.620Now, I know you could say, well, he doesn't write the speeches.
00:04:47.200So what I'm really saying is my favorite Trump is when he's saying things that aren't his own words.
00:04:53.940And I, in a way I am saying that, but, but of course, no president writes their own speeches, but that's not what this is.
00:05:02.040You know, that's, there's more to it than that.
00:05:04.360Because the point is, yeah, although Trump didn't write that speech, he is still willing to say things in a scripted speech that other Republicans are not willing to say.
00:05:17.580And other Republican presidents would never say and never have said.
00:05:21.260And he did it again, that the entire speech that he gave last night, he didn't write it fine, but that's, it was a good speech.
00:05:28.980And that was a speech that other Republican presidents wouldn't be willing to give.
00:05:33.060And so there's a lot of value in that.
00:05:37.560If we can get Trump doing the things that other presidents, the good things that other presidents wouldn't do.
00:06:56.340It completely dismantles the argument against the wall or the barrier or whatever we're calling it.
00:07:04.620Because as he said, you can't say that there's something in principle immoral about erecting, you know, some sort of barrier to keep people out.
00:07:14.320But when you rely on, on that, on that level of security around your own home, it just doesn't make any sense.
00:07:22.900Or when you say, build bridges, not walls.
00:07:27.120Okay, well, are you building a bridge into your own home?
00:07:29.960No, you build walls around your home and your home itself consists of walls.
00:07:42.660The only thing that Trump didn't do in that speech that I wish he would have done, and I think would have been really effective,
00:07:49.340is if he had spent some time specifically quoting Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Obama, other high-profile Democrats,
00:08:01.340on this issue of the wall and border security, because all of them in the past have come out in favor of some kind of barrier on the southern border.
00:08:13.340They have all said that Hillary Clinton is another one.
00:08:15.760They've all said things in the past about how obviously we need to protect the border.
00:08:20.180And now they've changed their mind because Trump is the one who wants it.
00:08:24.960And he did allude to that, it's a good point, but I think he should have specifically quoted them.
00:08:30.560And if he had quoted Schumer and Pelosi, and then you immediately cut to Schumer and Pelosi standing there,
00:08:35.660about to give their rebuttal, that would have been a very effective moment.
00:08:38.800But even aside from that, it was a good speech.
00:08:42.940What we saw from the Democrat rebuttal is that they have no arguments here.
00:08:51.440They really have, they have nothing to say.
00:09:19.880So, considering Democrats support all of these other really expensive measures, they can't now pretend that, well, you know what, $5 billion, we just don't have it in the budget.
00:09:42.440They obviously don't think walls and security are immoral, because they've supported it in the past on the southern border, and they obviously, in their own lives, rely on it.
00:10:27.880And if you look at the portions of the border where we have a physical barrier right now, you're going to find that there's a lot less illegal crossing, of course, because it's more difficult to do.
00:12:17.220They wait to try and do something until they no longer have the power to do it.
00:12:23.300Have you noticed that Republicans become very forceful, um, very principled, you know, fighters the moment they no longer have the power to actually do all the things they're saying they want to do.
00:12:39.040It troubles me to, that's been the trend with Republicans for decades now, and we're seeing it, um, we're seeing it continue with, with President Trump.
00:12:46.880And you can't tell me, well, you know, he couldn't do it before because, um, because Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan, first of all, okay, so you're telling me what Trump was, was, he couldn't do it because they told him no.
00:12:58.360All right, well, now we've got Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi who are saying no, but he's not listening to them, is he?
00:13:06.640He's saying, he's saying, I don't care what, what you say about it.
00:13:11.700This is important and it needs to be done.
00:13:14.000So he's willing to have that fight with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, but he wasn't willing to have that fight with his people in his own party.
00:13:22.180That's the big question here is, I mean, it's literally, as soon as Democrats took over, that's when Trump says, all right, let's get that wall built.
00:13:31.960It could have easily been done before that.
00:13:35.660I mean, do you really think that, um, that Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell would have let a government shutdown go on for weeks, refusing to, you know, to allocate the funds for a border wall?
00:14:11.140So it's, this is a very difficult fight to win for that reason, because there's not much in it for them to cave.
00:14:20.220But if you want to put this all on establishment Republicans before they wouldn't let the wall get built where there would, there would have been huge incentives for them to give in.
00:14:28.800If Trump had actually had, you know, had that fight and took in that stand, taken that, took him.
00:14:35.380Taken that stand and said, this is going to get done.
00:14:39.060There would have been huge incentives for Republicans to go along with it because their base wants it.
00:14:43.640It's something that they said they, they always wanted.
00:14:46.260Um, you know, they're all part of the same party.
00:14:49.900Now he's dealing with people who he has very little leverage over because they want two completely different things and their bases want two completely different things.
00:15:30.580So they want, they want to pretend they're trying to do something and then have the Democrats prevent it.
00:15:35.820And then they can point fingers at the Democrats and say, oh, we want to do it, but we can't.
00:15:40.700And then they can go into the, you know, and then they can go into the reelection campaign and say, no, reelect us so that we can actually do it this time.
00:15:46.460And then that's just on and on and on.
00:15:49.760It continues like that, but then they never actually have to do the thing.
00:16:22.180The latest famous liberal to be devoured by his own side is Bryan Cranston.
00:16:28.880Bryan Cranston, who is the star of my favorite television show of all time, Breaking Bad.
00:16:36.300And, Corey, reading now from the Daily Wire, it says,
00:16:40.700former Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston is being forced to defend his decision to play a severely disabled man in an upcoming film called The Upside,
00:16:51.980after Social Justice Warriors criticized both Cranston and the studio for not casting a true quadriplegic in the role.
00:17:00.720The BBC reports that Cranston is speaking out, defending not just his business decision to star alongside Kevin Hart and Nicole Kidman in the dramatic comedy premiering this month,
00:17:12.000but also defending his right as an actor to take roles that force him to leave his comfort zone and adopt a new persona.