Did Joe Biden do enough to withstand the onslaught from all comers? Also, Kirsten Gillibrand insults her husband on the debate stage in an effort to approve her feminist credentials. That was interesting. And there's a racist tape of Ronald Reagan floating around out there. Finally, I'll respond to a leftist who was upset about my position on the minimum wage.
00:01:58.800A few moments from the debate last night.
00:02:00.100The thing that I think everyone is talking about, the most important moment was Joe Biden apparently giving the audience some kind of secret code.
00:02:06.240I don't know if this was a secret message to the Russians or if he was, these are the coordinates to buried treasure or maybe this was the launch code for a nuclear attack.
00:03:28.100I can't make heads or tails of that, but that's what happened.
00:03:30.760Now, Cory Booker, moving on to some of the other candidates.
00:03:34.760Cory Booker is possibly the biggest phony in the race, which is obviously quite a statement.
00:03:41.460And I'm going to show you what I mean.
00:03:44.080Here is Booker at one point calling for unity.
00:03:48.180And in fact, I know we talked yesterday and I said that when I am in charge of the world, if a political candidate offers an irrelevant anecdote, a trap door will open and they'll be sent into waters and eaten by sharks.
00:04:05.100I would also add in that category people at political debates who call for unity and say, you know, we all just need to stop the fighting and forget about this and get together.
00:04:22.920But here is Cory Booker seeming to struggle with the concept of what a debate is.
00:04:28.800The person is enjoying this debate most right now is Donald Trump, as we pit Democrats against each other while he is working right now to take away America's health care.
00:04:39.020So you see, he's mad at CNN for pitting Democrats against each other, which, again, is it's a Democrat debate.
00:04:46.240What do you think they're going to do?
00:04:47.360That's like a linebacker, you know, being interviewed after the game by a reporter and complaining that he's sick and tired of the NFL pitting football players against each other.
00:04:58.200And Cory Booker well understands that because in the very same debate where he decries Democrats going against each other, he also did this.
00:05:07.360Well, my response is that this is a crisis in our country because we have treated issues of race and poverty,
00:05:14.580mental health and addiction with locking people up and not lifting them up.
00:05:21.180And Mr. Vice President has said that since the 1970s, every major crime bill, every crime bill, major and minor, has had his name on it.
00:05:31.980And so those are your words, not not mine.
00:05:34.160And this is one of those instances where the House was set on fire and you claimed responsibility for those laws.
00:05:42.680And you can't just now come out with a plan to put out that fire.
00:05:46.320We have got to have far more bold action on criminal justice reform.
00:05:52.260We have a system right now that's broken.
00:05:55.120And if you want to compare records, and frankly, I'm shocked that you do, I am happy to do that because all of the problems that he is talking about that he created,
00:06:05.180I actually led the bill that got passed into law that reverses the damage that your bills that you were, frankly, to correct you, Mr. Vice President,
00:06:13.340you were bragging, calling it the Biden crime bill up till 2000.
00:07:49.980And the people who suffered under your reign as prosecutor, you owe them an apology.
00:07:56.220I am maybe in the minority among conservatives in that I think Harris would be a formidable challenge in the general election for Donald Trump.
00:08:04.540But it doesn't matter anyway, because she ain't making it to the general election.
00:08:07.880Democrats simply will not stand for someone who ever had anything to do with enforcing the law.
00:08:13.760They don't want anything to do with that.
00:08:15.360And when I say that, now, it's sort of funny that one of the primary attacks on Kamala Harris among Democrats is that she is guilty of having enforced the law when she was attorney general.
00:08:28.800But I don't mean that as a defense of Kamala Harris, because she was also, and I totally agree with this, she was completely corrupt.
00:08:34.260This is the person, and you're not going to hear a Democrat bring this up in a negative way.
00:08:37.660But this is the same person who, as attorney general, while receiving donations from Planned Parenthood, launched attacks on Planned Parenthood's enemies.
00:08:52.740The Center for Medical Progress, Dave Daleiden, and the people who were exposing corruption in Planned Parenthood, Kamala Harris is the one who spearheaded the campaign to shut them down, to legally persecute them.
00:09:05.480And while doing that, she was not only accepting money from Planned Parenthood, but she had a, while she was spearheading this effort as attorney general, she had a thing on her website calling people to support and donate to Planned Parenthood.
00:09:22.260So she was not even trying to hide the fact that she was operating as a minion of the abortion industry.
00:09:28.920So I don't weep for Kamala Harris at all.
00:09:31.120And then we had this kerfuffle, if I could call it that, between Biden and Gillibrand.
00:09:37.480Now, for context here, Gillibrand is trying to hit Biden for an allegedly sexist op-ed that he wrote 38 years ago, back in 80 or 81, where he opposed a bill that I guess would have given tax breaks to some mothers who send their kids to daycare.
00:09:52.960And this was sexist, Gillibrand says. And here's here's.
00:09:58.580Well, let's go right to Biden's response. Here it is.
00:10:00.840That was a long time ago. And here's what it was about. It would have given people making today $100,000 a year tax break for child care.
00:10:09.800I did not want that. I wanted the child care to go to people making less than $100,000.
00:10:15.240And that's what it was about. As a single father who, in fact, raised three children for five years by myself, I have some idea what it costs.
00:10:24.020In the very beginning, my deceased wife worked, but we had children. My present wife has worked all the way through raising our children.
00:10:30.720I was deeply involved in all these things. I came up with the It's On Us proposal to see to it that women were treated more decently on college campuses.
00:10:38.580You came to Syracuse University with me and said it was wonderful. I'm passionate about the concern, making sure women are treated equally.
00:10:47.040I don't know what's happened except that you're now running for president.
00:10:49.880Okay, so Joe Biden, unlike the first debate, has figured out how to respond to attacks against him forcefully without being seen as getting down in the mud.
00:11:03.520So in other words, he's figured out how to be a front runner, which up until now, I don't think he knew how to do that.
00:11:10.100But now that he's figured that out, I think it's bad news for the other candidates.
00:11:14.540Before we move on, though, and I almost forgot I wanted to. So let's let's actually go back. Let's rewind a little bit.
00:11:23.460So we just saw Biden's response, which was pretty good.
00:11:28.180I want to play some of Gillibrand's original attack on Biden.
00:11:32.660Because there's something she said in there that was, well, it was interesting, I thought. Watch this.
00:11:36.880I think we have to have a broader conversation about whether we value women and whether we want to make sure women have every opportunity in the workplace.
00:11:44.360And I want to address Vice President Biden directly.
00:11:47.660When the Senate was debating middle class affordability for child care, he wrote an op-ed.
00:14:34.860Yeah, I'm going to go be the breadwinner.
00:14:36.800But because of their arrogance, they they cannot admit that there's someone else in the family doing anything.
00:14:44.400So they want to be the primary breadwinner.
00:14:45.900But they also want to still lay claim to being the primary caregiver, even though they're out of the house and somebody else is watching the kids.
00:15:22.700That's the only thing we're learning is that the people who are picking up the slack because there is some slack because you're not superhuman.
00:15:30.240What we're learning is that you have no appreciation for them.
00:15:33.960So I think we need to we don't encourage that in men.
00:15:36.880We don't really encourage men to think or claim that they do everything.
00:18:18.520If we're going to tear down Reagan now, 50 years later over something he said privately.
00:18:25.580And I'm expecting now that the statues are going to come down, that his name is going to come off buildings and off of airports, which some on the left have already been calling for.
00:18:34.820They were they called for it yesterday.
00:18:35.800Immediately is the first thing they thought is, OK, we're taking we're taking out.
00:18:38.780Yes, we can finally we could we can tear down another statue of a white person.
00:19:09.820To what we do when we discover skeletons in the closet of people who died a long time ago.
00:19:16.660You know, you've got a skeleton in the grave because they're dead and turns out that the skeleton has skeletons.
00:19:22.940What do you do when you find out that a skeleton has skeletons?
00:19:27.340I think we need a consistent approach.
00:19:30.600Right now, there is not a consistent approach.
00:19:34.640Well, if there's any consistency to it, it seems to be.
00:19:37.640If we can discover bad things about a white, if the person is white and conservative or someone who's important to conservatives or known, you know, was known as a conservative.
00:19:54.840If they have those two things, then whatever we find about them, we can tear down their legacy and destroy them posthumously and kill them all over again.
00:20:04.280You know, that seems to be the standard.
00:20:06.080But I don't I don't think it's a very fair standard.
00:20:11.620I think we won't need one that doesn't take race into consideration.
00:20:14.780The reason I bring this up, you know, just as one example, a few months ago, we talked about those FBI tapes that were reported by a Martin Luther King Jr. biographer.
00:20:27.700Someone who's a very credible source, not not not some not someone who had a vendetta against Martin Luther King Jr.
00:20:34.040By any stretch is someone, a biographer, someone who really respected the man.
00:20:36.620But he reported on tapes that the FBI has of of Martin Luther King Jr.
00:20:41.540that include many awful things, many things far worse, actually, than what Reagan said, as bad as that was.
00:20:49.960Allegedly, they have a tape, for instance, of Martin Luther King Jr. laughing as he watches a woman get raped.
00:20:56.240And then many and then they have tapes of violence, you know, when he is committing violence against women and saying horrible things about women, which apparently, according to these tapes, allegedly he did all the time.
00:21:06.960OK, we talked about that a few few weeks, a few months ago.
00:21:11.520And what I was told, especially by those on the left, is that, hey, listen, it's not it's not relevant.
00:21:17.540It doesn't he still he still accomplished what he accomplished.
00:21:20.840Why are we digging this up now? This is racist to do this.
00:21:24.300Why are we attacking this this this this great black man?
00:21:29.220OK, well, if that's our standard, if we're saying, hey, let's let's leave the dead alone.
00:21:35.520And if somebody has a legacy for accomplishing great things, that legacy, we shouldn't look to undo or destroy that legacy based on their own personal flaws.
00:21:48.180If that's what we're saying about Martin Luther King Jr., which, by the way, I agree with that.
00:21:54.920That's what I'm saying about Martin Luther King Jr.
00:21:58.900This stuff that we know about him now, allegedly.
00:22:17.500We think that's how we look at Martin Luther King Jr.
00:22:20.500Now, we don't have to tear down his monuments or anything like that because those monuments are there to celebrate what he did and what he did still was great.
00:22:30.320Well, if that's what we're saying about MLK, then I think we have to apply it to Ronald Reagan or any white person from the past.
00:22:40.280Ronald Reagan accomplished great things, not the least of which being winning the Cold War.
00:22:46.960And so that's one of the things we celebrate.
00:22:48.300That is not we can't take that away now that we find out he said horrible things in private.
00:23:21.980Um, anyway, Sam, who wants to make it very clear that I am, by the way, terrible at my job and irrelevant and I am just so bad in so many ways and so stupid.
00:23:32.920And you'll see, he wants to make that very clear.
00:24:44.680Um, now if Sam thinks that I'm the most moral among us, well, that's his affair.
00:24:51.340But if, if, if he's implying that I have made that claim about myself or that I've even implied that I'm this moral, morally upright person, that he's going to have to provide examples of that.
00:25:03.700Because I don't think I've ever claimed to be the most moral or to even be moral at all.
00:25:11.620I don't think I've ever put myself forward as a moral example.
00:25:14.640This is something you find a lot on the left.
00:25:16.200Or if you make a moral claim, if you make a moral argument, they're going to automatically accuse you of being self-righteous and holier than thou.
00:25:23.560No, a self, what, here's what a self-righteous, holier than thou person does.
00:25:27.120A self-righteous, holier than thou person puts themselves forward as the moral example for everyone else to follow.
00:25:35.380I don't think I've ever done that ever in my life.
00:25:40.000Um, now if someone has an example of it, they can provide it.
00:25:42.280But simply making a moral argument doesn't make you self-righteous.