Abortion is illegal in the state of Arizona, which is great news. The only strange wrinkle in this pro-life ruling is that many Democrats are also thrilled, and many Republicans, including Donald Trump, are not. We'll get into why.
00:02:24.540So anyway, we'll get to that story in a moment.
00:02:25.940First, though, the Democrats are oddly happy about the Arizona Supreme Court ruling that the 160-year-old Arizona law banning abortion can go into effect.
00:02:39.360We turn to one of the top Democrat campaign strategists in the country, David Axelrod, to explain why.
00:02:47.760As a political matter, this could not be more of a disaster for the Republican Party.
00:02:54.620Yesterday, Donald Trump said, well, it's up to the people in the states to decide.
00:02:59.060Well, here you find what happens when you let the states decide.
00:03:02.640In Florida, a six-week ban is in place.
00:03:05.500I guarantee you in both those states, if you put that on the ballot, and they will be on the ballot in the form of initiatives, that a majority of voters in those states do not agree with those policies.
00:03:17.180So I think what this does is it puts a battleground state more in the leaning D column than the leaning R column, because I think there's going to be a massive turnout in November for a constitutional amendment in the state of Arizona,
00:03:34.300because the voters of Arizona now have a demonstration of the fragility of abortion rights in the post-Dobbs era.
00:04:23.800The reason we need to protect innocent life in the womb is because these are the most defenseless among us, and it's wrong to murder babies.
00:04:30.580And not to put too fine a point on it, but if we do not defend the right to life, we cannot plausibly defend any other rights, because the right to life is not just one right among many.
00:04:42.520You have the right to drive a car after the age of 16.
00:05:01.940It's not some kind of consequentialist ends justify the means political expediency argument.
00:05:08.640It's that it's just obviously wrong to murder hundreds of thousands of babies a year.
00:05:12.400It's wrong to murder one baby a year, and so we're going to defend the right to life.
00:05:16.820But that doesn't mean that pro-lifers can ignore the politics of it, because the people who win the elections go make laws, and the people who lose the elections go home.
00:05:28.320The way that this happened in Arizona is really great for the Democrats, because it's not even as though the people of the state of Arizona today went out and voted to ban abortion.
00:05:38.080It's that a law that was on the books 160 years ago has been deemed enforceable again, that that law was deemed unenforceable after the Supreme Court wrongly decided the Roe versus Wade case and invented a constitutional right to an abortion.
00:05:55.800And then the issue went away for 50 years, and now it's back.
00:05:58.040And so the Arizona Supreme Court ruling is absolutely right, and it is a good thing.
00:06:03.980And also, the Republicans need to figure out a way to talk about abortion heading into November that is not going to turn off voters, particularly in the swing states that we have to win, notably Arizona and Michigan and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
00:06:20.700So what does President Trump think about all this?
00:06:22.320President Trump was asked about this while getting off of the Trump Force One, you know, his gigantic airplane.
00:06:29.760This is right after the Arizona Supreme Court ruling.
00:06:33.440President Trump, the most pro-life president of my lifetime, gives this strange answer.
00:06:39.260Mr. President, did Arizona go too far?
00:06:48.440And I'm sure that the governor and everybody else are going to bring it back into reason, and that will be taken care of, I think, very quickly.
00:08:11.420They all had the same line, which is the issue should be returned to the states.
00:08:14.520They all had the same line, which is there should be certain exceptions because babies conceived in one way are apparently not as valuable as babies conceived in another way or whatever, whatever their arguments are.
00:08:23.900And Donald Trump had that same line, and then he actually got it done, and he actually overruled Roe v. Wade.
00:08:29.820So it bothers me when I hear the pro-life criticism of Trump vis-a-vis the other Republican presidents.
00:08:50.640But as a practical political reality, we're not even close to that right now.
00:08:55.800And the best argument that we had and the argument that ultimately swayed the Supreme Court in Dobbs was that this is a state matter, not a federal matter.
00:09:03.820This is a matter for the legislature, not for the judiciary.
00:12:19.580And the really cynical Republican strategists for many years said, hey, we should never get Roe v. Wade overruled.
00:12:24.760Because the moment we do that, we're going to lose all this free work, all this money, all of these campaign volunteers who are motivated by the abortion issue.
00:12:35.780The moment you solve the issue for them, they're going to go away.
00:12:38.720So we've got to keep dangling that carrot out in front of them so they keep running on the treadmill and powering the Republican operation.
00:12:44.060Trump, contrary to that sort of cynicism, actually got it done, which is a great thing.
00:12:49.340He is now at risk of alienating the pro-lifers who are the boots on the ground for a lot of Republican politics.
00:12:56.120So if I were advising him, I'd say, Mr. President, very good strategy, very smart stuff.
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00:14:29.040Speaking of death and Democrats, Mayor Pete, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
00:14:35.120He went on Jen Psaki's show on MSNBC to answer for the skyrocketing crime in Washington, D.C.
00:14:45.980And so many of America's cities have become death traps.
00:15:01.180Because, Mayor Pete says, he's able to walk his dog.
00:15:04.940We need to talk about the reality here.
00:15:06.840And, again, there is a lot of funding and a lot of energy going into telling a different story, especially on ideological news outlets and online.
00:15:16.900But the simple facts and the simple reality are right here staring us in the face, including the fact that I can safely walk my dog to the Capitol today in a way that you couldn't do when we all got here.
00:16:55.700This is a party, and this predates Joe Biden's presidency, a party that is called to release more criminals, to empty out the prisons, to abolish prisons in some cases.
00:17:07.300They've installed district attorneys that don't prosecute the criminals, that will arrest them for committing heinous crimes, and then let them out immediately, and then the criminals go commit more crime.
00:17:19.440This is a very intentional political agenda by the Democrats.
00:17:23.080And it's contrary to the flourishing of a country, and voters know that, because the first thing you need, the first thing that a state has to provide is peace, order, security.
00:17:37.820That is the argument as to why states are good, natural institutions, is that mankind is a social creature, and we need to live in community with one another.
00:17:47.040And in order to do anything at all, to exercise our liberty, to build a business, to have a stable family, to grow and to flourish, in order to do any of that, you need peace and security and stability.
00:17:57.640It's the first thing that the state has to provide, and this government is failing at that.
00:18:25.100We don't want to abolish the prisons and let all the criminals out of jail.
00:18:28.500No, we don't actively install district attorneys all around the country to punish the innocent and to give all sorts of goodies to the guilty.
00:18:38.440And so they can go around and push you in front of the subway tracks.
00:18:59.920Now, speaking of Biden and crime, Joe Biden, according to some leaks, this was leaked after a meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida.
00:19:13.540A journalist asked Biden if he is considering dropping the prosecution into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and Biden says we're considering it.
00:19:24.580This is massive, whether this is a policy that the Biden administration intended to tip its hat to, or whether it's just Biden speaking out of turn, or whether Biden is just totally wrong, as he is on a lot of things.
00:19:42.040Julian Assange has been on the lam for a decade and a half now or something like that for, his defenders would say, for journalism, for publishing leaked material about the American security state and the American system of surveillance.
00:20:00.580Now, Assange's critics would say that he has undermined American national security and we're going to go get him.
00:20:06.920But whether you're favorable toward Assange or unfavorable toward him, both parties previously agreed, get this guy.
00:20:15.640And then, the Democrats started to weaken on it, and the Democrats and the leftists started to say that he did nothing wrong and you got to let him off the hook.
00:20:25.800Then, in recent years, it was the Republicans who said this.
00:20:38.440What changed is that we saw the Democrats wield the security state and the surveillance state on Republicans and specifically on Donald Trump because they tried to prevent him from being elected in the first place.
00:21:55.980Well, it reveals the fact that both parties are now criticizing.
00:21:59.100Namely, our government is not just Democrats and Republicans and elected officials in the Congress and the White House and appointed judges in the Supreme Court.
00:22:09.080Our government is also made up of an entrenched bureaucracy, including the national security state, the surveillance state, the intelligence community.
00:22:19.160And even when both parties are against the surveillance state, the surveillance state still has a ton of power.
00:22:26.880The government is a lot different than we were told with the bill up on Capitol Hill and Schoolhouse Rock.
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00:24:18.300Further complications for Joe Biden and good news for Donald Trump.
00:24:22.200The New York State Director for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s presidential campaign
00:24:27.040is raising a question in the minds of a lot of the political establishment.
00:24:31.700Is RFK seriously running to become the president?
00:24:35.120Or is he merely a stalking horse for Donald Trump?
00:24:37.940The Kennedy voter and the Trump voter, the enemy, our mutual enemy is Biden.
00:24:44.180Since Biden is counting on us with Bobby in the mix, my thought is for the Republicans.
00:24:50.560See, Bobby right now, he's pulling from both sides.
00:24:53.220Right now, he's actually pulling a little bit more from Biden, which explains why the DNC is kind of ganging up on him.
00:24:58.840If the Republicans accepted the fact that New York, Maryland, Illinois, California, New Jersey, Connecticut, most of the Northeast is going to go blue,
00:25:10.640why wouldn't we put our vote to Bobby and at least get rid of Biden and get those 28 electoral votes in New York?
00:25:18.540The card's a little wrong. It says 26 electoral votes.
00:25:22.680Give those 28 electoral votes to Bobby rather than to Biden, thereby reducing Biden's 270.
00:25:31.200If nobody gets to 270, then Congress picks the president.
00:29:33.140With all of this comes everything that you need as a woman to have had put in place to make sure that we were doing better than we were before.
00:29:48.020The Republicans want to bring slavery back because they also don't think babies should be murdered.
00:29:54.860And the Constitution guarantees a right to condoms, which women need to have everything that they need.
00:30:03.140I think that is the argument that Whoopi is making here.
00:30:06.260It's kind of an ironic argument because the best argument, the best legal and historical argument today against abortion in America is the argument against slavery.
00:30:18.980In fact, the really hardcore portion of the pro-life movement calls itself the abolition movement.
00:30:24.800The reason that abortion is wrong is in large part because human beings are proper subjects with rights themselves.
00:30:35.620They're not merely objects for our use.
00:30:39.060This is also an argument against the surrogacy industry.
00:30:41.240You should not be able to buy and sell human beings for your own convenience, and you should not be able to murder innocent human beings for your own convenience.
00:30:51.760Because human beings are not just your property.
00:30:54.480Human beings are not just a commodity to be bought and sold and possessed and discarded of.
00:30:59.300A human being is a proper subject with rights.
00:31:02.620So, Whoopi, obviously a little bit confused on the slavery thing there.
00:31:06.080Then to say that Republicans want to bring slavery back, why is that?
00:31:10.240Well, because they want to go backward.
00:31:18.900But one mark of education and of civility is being able to entertain the ideas held by your opponents.
00:31:30.200And so, I totally understand that you think the things that you're pushing for are good, and the things that we're pushing for are bad.
00:31:36.120But can you not therefore see that in our minds, the things that we're pushing for are good, and the things you're pushing for are bad.
00:31:43.760Like, we think it's good not to murder little babies, and you think it's good to murder little babies, because you've convinced yourselves that it's an essential matter of human rights for women to be able to snuff out the lives of their own children.
00:31:55.560And you've determined this because you have an anthropology and a political ideology that begins from the false premise of hyper-individualism, and because you've come to the erroneous conclusion that being able to sleep around, to be promiscuous, to go work in the city alone, to not have a family, to not have children, and to not feel any responsibility toward anyone else will somehow make you happy.
00:32:22.100But it won't make you happy, but that's what you think, and so I understand how you've come to that conclusion.
00:32:27.000Can you not see how we've come to the conclusion that it's wrong to murder babies?
00:32:30.200It seems to me that's an easier one to understand.
00:32:32.680And then further, to say that there's a right to condoms in the Constitution.
00:32:49.780Our founding fathers didn't think that was in the Constitution.
00:32:52.100Our great statesmen who built up our country for the first 170 years didn't, 180 years.
00:33:00.500Even later, 185 years didn't think it was in the Constitution.
00:33:05.100It's only through two mid to late 20th century Supreme Court decisions, which is Griswold versus Connecticut and Eisenstadt v. Baird, which determined that there's a right to condoms.
00:33:14.300And the first one said there's a right to condoms for married couples in the Constitution, but not for anyone else.
00:33:19.260And then Eisenstadt said, actually, sorry, the invisible ink, we were able to uncover a little bit more of it in the Constitution.
00:33:26.500And it says that there's a right to condoms for unmarried couples, too.
00:34:02.520Okay, it's a sign of desperation from the Democrats, but it's also nothing new.
00:34:07.380Don't forget, this is the campaign line trotted out by the current Democrat president of the United States when he was running for re-election as vice president.
00:34:18.300And he claimed that Mitt Romney wanted to do the same thing Whoopi Goldberg is accusing us of.
00:34:23.540Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing.
00:34:27.580Romney wants to let the, he said in the first hundred days, he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules.
00:34:44.280This was in, I believe, in North Carolina.
00:34:46.180So there were a lot of black people in the audience.
00:34:48.820Mitt Romney's going to put y'all back in chains is what he's going to do.
00:34:52.620Other notable thing about that clip, you know how Joe Biden, because he's senile and obviously has dementia, he doesn't speak right anymore.
00:34:59.460And the Democrats have tried to convince us that he's had a stutter for his whole life.
00:35:04.240He had a childhood stutter, and he's always stuttered his whole life.
00:35:32.700So while I agree with some of these Democrats, like David Axelrod and some of the campaign strategists who say,
00:35:38.240huh, this ruling in Arizona might be a political benefit to Democrats in a crucial swing state.
00:35:43.580Or, huh, the way that the election is being conducted with still widespread use of mail-in ballots and drop boxes, that might help the Democrats.
00:35:55.120They've got some real advantages going into 2024.
00:35:58.320But the fact that they've got to retreat to these kinds of arguments, Republicans want to enslave you again or something, to me, is a sign of weakness.
00:36:08.380Now, speaking of freedom and slavery, really interesting article in the Washington Post.
00:36:14.880I say that very rarely, but it's a fact.
00:36:17.180The article takes on a trend that somehow I've found myself near the center of this debate.
00:36:25.760It's about traditionalism, traditional conservatism, and trad wives, headline, trad wives, stay-at-home girlfriends, and the dream of feminine leisure.
00:36:38.600Sure. We'll get to this in one second.
00:36:40.520First, though, it's been two years of fighting the left with great products from Jeremy's razors, and they are only getting better.
00:37:35.240My interview with Nala Ray, who is one of the top pornography actresses on OnlyFans,
00:37:41.560who has now said that she's had a major conversion and got rid of her OnlyFans and, you know, is living on the straight and narrow or endeavoring to live on the straight and narrow.
00:37:57.880Last I checked it, I had over 6 million views on X, and YouTube has been suppressing the interview, but it's still got many hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube.
00:39:17.400Are the feminists in journalism or this Harvard undergrad who wanted to get herself a, you know, hot, hunk, wealthy guy to take care of her?
00:39:29.960Mostly the Harvard undergrad is right, but the liberal women have a somewhat decent point in raising a red flag here.
00:39:38.660Because it depends on what the meaning of the word ease is.
00:39:43.460The libs, the feminists, they don't want to make their lives easy.
00:39:46.580They make their lives unnecessarily hard and unpleasant.
00:39:51.480When they say, I'm going to put off getting married.
00:40:43.400A woman finding a man that she admires and respects, who she's going to look up to as the head of her household, who is going to have a clearer leadership vision for their marriage, that is, in a way, going to be easier.
00:41:47.060That's not the kind of ease that you want.
00:41:49.460What I think is missing from this discussion is the fact that being a trad wife,
00:41:55.400it doesn't give you a ton of leisure time, okay?
00:41:58.500The trad wives are probably working more than the career women, actually.
00:42:07.040They're happier than the career women.
00:42:08.820They're more fulfilled than the career women.
00:42:10.580They got more going on than the career women who say, no men, no family, no nothing.
00:42:15.600I'm just going to do the sex in the city lifestyle and go work and then go get drinks and then go get brunch and then go back home alone.
00:42:21.540But the trad wives are working all the time because if you're a trad wife, you are, you get married, you keep a home, you manage the home economy, you try to have children.
00:42:34.920Not everyone gets to have children, but chances are pretty good that you'll have a kid and then maybe you're going to keep having kids.
00:42:40.520And if you're going to be really traditional, you're going to be open to life and you're not going to be using contraception really and you're not, you're just going to, you're going to have a big old family.
00:42:48.400Now we don't have really any children in this country.
00:42:50.640That's why we have a dying population.
00:42:52.040But not all that long ago, it was not uncommon at all for people to have four, five, six kids or more.
00:42:57.220Then you'd have the Catholics and the Mormons and they'd have like a thousand kids.
00:43:02.260And if you're a real trad wife, you're doing most of the changing the diapers and looking after the kids and cooking the food and doing the this and doing the that.
00:43:10.860And you're very involved in your community and it's, it's going to take a lot of time.
00:43:38.420It gets to this word in the headline, which is leisure.
00:43:41.580Part of a large object of our education in the olden days was leisure.
00:43:47.080It wasn't that you'd go to get a liberal education so you could get a job.
00:43:50.340So you could learn how to weld or something like that, or to be an engineer or to be a lawyer.
00:43:54.720The reason you would get an education is to cultivate yourself, to immerse yourself in culture, to cultivate hobbies, desires, things that you could do in your leisure time.
00:44:06.840So I like, I like the ease of living in accord with nature.
00:44:10.700I like the ease of men and women being complimentary to one another.
00:44:14.740I like the ease of two people's love being so real that it actually creates another human being.
00:44:20.720I like the ease of building up the strength of the fundamental political unit that naturally builds up the strength of the country, which is the broadest political unit.
00:45:09.480That isn't even really all that natural, okay?
00:45:12.060We are not here to just sit around and veg and amuse ourselves.
00:45:16.440I mentioned the quote from George Bernard Shaw yesterday on the show, but the definition of hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.
00:45:24.960And a man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package indeed.
00:45:27.820And I don't know how many more aphorisms I have to note, but that's the difference.
00:45:31.760Don't sign up for the trad life because you think it's easy.
00:45:35.200Sign up for the trad life because it will fulfill you and give you the ease of living in accord with your nature and fulfilling your purpose.
00:45:43.160Now, speaking of family life, the United Kingdom has a new proposal according to a leak that just came out of the British government.
00:45:52.200They're considering banning smartphones for minors under the age of 16.