Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson showed up to Columbia University in New York this week amid days of anti-Israel protests, and even as hecklers and protesters jeered him, he lit up the university administration. Good on him for going into the lion's den.
00:00:00.000Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson showed up to Columbia University in New York this week amid days of anti-Israel protests.
00:00:08.760And even as hecklers and protesters jeered him, he lit up the university administration.
00:00:16.560Sadly, Columbia's administrators have chosen to let the threats, the fear and the intimidation of the mob rule to overtake American principles like free speech and the free free exchange of ideas.
00:00:30.000And the free exercise of religion. They have co-opted First Amendment arguments to protect genocide and to elevate the voices of anti-Semitism.
00:00:41.000They have proven themselves to be incapable of achieving their basic responsibility, which is keeping students safe.
00:00:48.000We just can't allow this kind of hatred and anti-Semitism to flourish on our campuses, and it must be stopped in its tracks.
00:00:55.000Those who are perpetrating this violence should be arrested.
00:00:58.000And I'm here today, I'm here today joining my colleagues and calling on President Shafiq to resign if she cannot immediately bring order to this chaos.
00:01:09.000As Speaker of the House, I am committing today that the Congress will not be silent as Jewish students are expected to run for their lives and stay home from their classes hiding in fear.
00:01:22.000In the House of Representatives, we've already acted to address anti-Semitism on campuses.
00:01:28.000We have passed a number of statutes to address this matter, and we call upon the U.S. Senate to act upon our legislation.
00:01:34.000First off, good on Mike Johnson for going into the lion's den.
00:01:39.000Politicians almost never go anywhere these days where they might face pushback.
00:01:45.000And their timidity and cowardice has reached an absurd high in recent years.
00:01:52.000So good on him for addressing a hostile crowd.
00:01:55.000Also, good on him for lighting up the Ivy League administration.
00:01:59.000Whatever you think of the state of Israel and the Gaza war, we can all agree that campus leftists, especially in the elite schools, have poisoned the American mind for two generations now at least.
00:02:12.000And anything that takes them down a peg is great in my book.
00:02:17.000Now, in part, what Speaker Johnson is talking about is about standing up to injustice and racial cruelty, which every decent person supports.
00:02:27.000Also, Mike Johnson is up there because he cares a lot about America's support for Israel.
00:02:38.000But Americans care about other issues, too.
00:02:41.000The border, the economy, parental rights, the list goes on and on.
00:02:45.000It's great to see a Republican fired up and facing down the mob for the first time in decades that I can remember and calling for administrative heads to roll, wielding political power.
00:02:58.000I am as happy as anyone to see trans flag waving Hamas supporting faculty lounge commies get their comeuppance.
00:03:05.000And now what I think we'd all like to see is that same kind of fervor and boldness and perseverance from Republicans on all the other issues that we consider perhaps even more urgent.
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00:05:09.000Speaking of New York, before we move out of New York, you've got Speaker Johnson standing up to the Hamas faculty lounge set over there in West Harlem.
00:05:22.000There was also that bodega where Trump campaigned up by West Harlem.
00:05:26.000That was after his, I think, day two of his trial.
00:05:30.000Well, we're only a handful of days into the trial, and a judge in that trial, Juan Mershon, could send Trump to jail for 30 days.
00:05:41.000Not if he's convicted of what he's being accused of in the trial, but just for violating his gag order while he is defending himself.
00:05:50.000And I don't even know if you're allowed to put a move.
00:05:55.000We have a gag order, which to me is totally unconstitutional.
00:05:59.000I'm not allowed to talk, but people are allowed to talk about me.
00:06:56.000He says, look, I'm not allowed to say anything.
00:06:58.000I'm here to tell you something very important, but I can't say it actually.
00:07:02.000I'm here to tell you that I can't tell you anything because this crooked Democrat judge is not allowing him to speak because the crooked Democrat establishment is prosecuting him because the crooked Democrat establishment knows if it were a fair fight, he would win the presidency.
00:09:34.000Is it because a bunch of sexist men, male judges were were just colluding to defend Weinstein's misogyny?
00:09:43.000No, actually, his conviction was overturned by a panel of appellate judges who were mostly women.
00:09:48.000And they said, quote, we conclude that the trial court erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against persons other than the complainants of the underlying crimes.
00:10:03.000The remedy for these egregious errors is a new trial.
00:10:07.000So they're saying, look, when he was convicted, there was just all this rumor mongering about all these women who weren't really relevant to the case.
00:10:17.260They weren't formally accusing him of any crime.
00:10:19.840No one had really investigated the supposed crimes.
00:10:22.080It was just all to to paint a picture of Harvey Weinstein as a total sex freak, which he obviously was.
00:10:28.240The court majority went on and says, it is an abuse of judicial discretion to permit untested allegations of nothing more than bad behavior that destroys a defendant's character, but sheds no light on their credibility as related to the criminal charges lodged against them.
00:10:44.820Now, Weinstein still has a 16 year prison sentence in L.A. for a separate but similar trial.
00:10:50.700But the overturning of this conviction in New York overturns a 23 year sentence, and it is a kind of a vindication on the criminal front in that.
00:11:02.280And this was a very unpopular opinion at the time, but it was true then and it remains true now.
00:11:07.480The main thing that Harvey Weinstein was convicted of is being disgusting.
00:11:14.960Harvey Weinstein is a very, very disgusting person, both inside and out.
00:11:19.980I sound like Donald Trump here talking about Rosie O'Donnell.
00:11:40.880He is just so physically ugly, and his behavior is so repulsive.
00:11:46.060It's so cartoonishly repulsive that back in the 90s and 2000s, comedy shows would do skits about what a disgusting sexual degenerate predator he was and perhaps still is.
00:11:57.680And that's why they convicted him, because he's not the only one in Hollywood.
00:12:04.880Not every single one, but many people, maybe most people in his position in Hollywood are like that.
00:12:10.540But the ones who are not so physically disgusting are more likely to get away with it.
00:12:19.760With some of the crimes that Harvey Weinstein is accused of, really with most of them, I guess, they took place at places like his hotel room.
00:12:30.200It was actresses and production assistants and all sorts of showbiz people showing up to Harvey Weinstein's hotel room.
00:12:37.880You can be the most naive, straight off the bus from Palookaville, new wannabe Hollywood starlet.
00:12:46.100And you've got to know, if you get invited to Harvey Weinstein's hotel room, you are not there to go over spreadsheets, okay?
00:12:55.980And for some of the crimes that Harvey Weinstein was not only charged with but convicted of, we're talking about supposed sexual assaults that took place multiple times over an extended period of time.
00:13:13.140That's not to excuse his behavior in any way.
00:13:16.100But it's to point out, he wasn't lurking in a back alley in most of these accusations, okay?
00:13:23.740This was the gross casting couch of Hollywood.
00:13:27.560And when the figure who is operating the casting couch is relatively good, is not just so grotesque and horrifying, people can kind of rationalize it to themselves.
00:13:38.660But Harvey Weinstein, it's kind of like the picture of Dorian Gray.
00:13:45.160You know, he's the picture though, meaning he just represents physically the moral degradation and just horror of Hollywood.
00:14:01.180It sounds like I'm being needlessly cruel to this guy, but I'm really just oddly enough kind of defending him.
00:14:09.260The line that the judges say here is so important.
00:14:13.240It is an abuse of judicial discretion to permit untested allegations of nothing more than bad behavior that destroys a defendant's character, but sheds no light on their credibility as related to the criminal charges against them.
00:14:24.240You're not going to find me saying, well, listen, what Harvey Weinstein did technically didn't break the law or technically wasn't proven to have broken the law in XYZ cases.
00:14:34.480I think basically everything this guy did should be illegal.
00:14:37.560I think a serious society would outlaw all of the kinds of exploitation and predations that this guy engaged in.
00:14:45.980At the very least at the local level, maybe at the state level, who knows, maybe at the federal level.
00:14:50.540Okay, so don't, I'm not exactly a live and let live, you know, two consenting adults can do whatever they want kind of guy when it comes to this stuff.
00:14:58.120The man abused his power, he exploited women, he committed obviously evil acts, and he should pay for it.
00:15:04.860But let's not pretend that this is something other than what it is.
00:15:08.740Harvey Weinstein is the scapegoat for decades and decades of moral revulsion in Hollywood.
00:15:17.420And he is the scapegoat in part because he looks the way many people out there act.
00:18:33.440And he told the Daily Wire he feared constitutional challenges if the bill became law, such as an adversarial First Amendment ruling against the state.
00:18:50.260You think, oh, this wording wasn't quite right.
00:18:52.120This leaves you open to legal challenge.
00:18:53.740Okay, well, then bring on the legal challenge or rewrite the law to make it better.
00:18:58.640But instead, you're going to say, no, actually, look, when the framers of our Constitution were drafting the First Amendment, they were doing so to protect psycho sex freaks from peddling transgenderism on five-year-olds.
00:19:30.740I'll incarcerate you if I can, if you try to do that, as would all of the founding fathers and the framers and every wise statesman in the history of our country, even in Tennessee, even in Tennessee.
00:19:43.880I don't even say this to beat up on the Tennessee Republicans.
00:20:16.040I really hope this bill comes up again.
00:20:18.000I really hope that the Republicans, if there's a problem with the wording, then they fix the wording.
00:20:21.900If they think there's a legal challenge, fix the legal language.
00:20:26.220And then find your spines and vote for it.
00:20:28.640If you are not going to wield your power to control the taxpayer-funded public institutions to say, in many of these classrooms, I bet you're not going to find an American flag, by the way, to say, hey, you can't have really extreme, harmful, weirdo, sexual propaganda in the kindergarten classroom.
00:20:48.480If you can't even say that, as a conservative, as a Republican, you are completely useless.
00:20:54.700There is no point for anyone ever to vote for you.
00:20:59.560When the salt loses its savor, the salt is good for nothing and will be trodden underfoot.
00:21:05.940Our chief opponent in politics these days, Joe Biden, is a vegetable, and we are still somehow taking L's.
00:21:13.900We are still somehow losing because Republicans, they love, they love clenching defeat from the jaws of victory.
00:29:45.440You know, when you engage in a vice for long enough and you form enough of a habit, it's really hard to break that habit.
00:29:50.840And so when you lie, one of the real hazards, not only that you're deceiving people, but eventually you're going to start deceiving yourself.
00:30:00.080Any vices you fall into are ultimately going to end up hurting you.
00:30:05.500You know, you go out to the party and you have a couple of drinks and that loosens you up and you have fun.
00:30:12.260Well, if you have too many drinks for too long a period of time, you really can't ever have fun again.
00:30:16.820You're just miserable all the time and you just need to satisfy an appetite, a vice.
00:30:23.800You go out, you know, you pick up a girl at a bar and maybe you find that very fun.
00:30:29.160But then if you do that long enough, you're just going to become like a satyr.
00:30:32.040You know, you're going to become a slave to your passions.
00:30:42.640Now, there's one gaffe that Biden has made recently that Republicans are hitting him on that seems a little different from the others.
00:30:50.640This is Biden, according to Republicans, Biden insinuating that his son, Beau Biden, died as a cop.
00:31:01.280Every time a police officer puts on that shield every morning, their husband or wife, whatever it is, or child, worries about will they get that phone call?
00:31:39.460I think this is a tasteless line of attack, and I think it's going to backfire on Republicans.
00:31:46.080Joe Biden has gotten circumstances of his son's death wrong before, and Republicans have hit him on it then.
00:31:51.580And I just think it's always tasteless, and it's a useless attack because it's not even in the case of when he would start maligning, you know, this man who had struck in a car accident, Biden's wife, many decades ago.
00:32:06.460There, it was very clear there was a political purpose.
00:32:26.320It's the sort of thing I think one really doesn't ever quite get over, and she would tell everybody.
00:32:33.260She'd tell anyone who could listen, and sometimes the story would change, and she just hadn't grieved properly, and it just, it can drive you mad, totally understandably.
00:32:41.400Anyway, I think this is the thing that has happened in Joe Biden's life that makes him most sympathetic.
00:32:50.480We're talking about a guy who's had other family tragedy, other family members died, but this is toward the end of his life.
00:32:55.460One of his two sons, he's got left, and one of them dies, and it just, it actually makes you really feel for the guy.
00:33:02.960And some conservatives want to make fun.
00:33:05.480I don't even think in the clip he was suggesting that Beau Biden was a cop.
00:33:09.040I think he's saying, I got a phone call once under different circumstances.
00:33:12.060He's saying under different circumstances.
00:33:13.300He's saying, my son died too, and I want to talk about it all the time, and I want to tell everyone I can.
00:33:17.320And he could be the shallowest, most corrupt, most glib guy in the world.
00:39:54.500This is Dr. Anne Lesby, head of gender studies at ACL University and best-selling author of Anti-Racist Fetus.
00:40:02.680This weekend, I had the misfortune of watching your interview with former OnlyFans model Nala Ray.
00:40:08.040It is always tragic to me when a woman loses her way and backslides into Christianity after finding liberation and feminine power in sex work.
00:40:15.440While I disagree with Hannah Pearl Davis on nearly everything imaginable, I believe she is correct that former sex workers should not be welcomed by churches or encouraged to change.
00:40:25.540We should be praising these women for breaking barriers and stigmas, not repenting, getting married, and most especially not encouraging impressionable young women not to engage in sex work.
00:40:35.760So my question to you, Michael, is how do you live with yourself knowing that you are encouraging women to throw away their livelihoods and abandon their liberation in favor of submitting themselves to the patriarchal religious oppression of the church?
00:41:16.020So I've been coming up with some policies that we could put forward in the House and Senate to illustrate the difference between a Democrat-run society,
00:41:22.420which acts like it cares about you but actually makes your life worse,
00:41:25.840and a Republican society that has the opportunity now to care about all three things,
00:41:30.000it's family, health, your lifestyle, community.
00:41:34.060And I'm hoping that you can give me your opinion on this policy.
00:41:37.280So I was at a baseball game the other day, and I realized the sound system was so loud that I probably would have gone deaf,
00:41:43.600and everyone in the stadium might have gone deaf if we'd stayed there long enough.
00:41:46.540And that's the case at concerts all across the country now, unless you're going to a classical concert,
00:41:51.520in which case they still have some aesthetic taste.
00:41:54.440What if we had federal legislation to limit decibel sound output so that we could protect people's hearing?
00:42:00.460Because what good is the freedom of speech without the freedom to hear?
00:42:03.500I'm hoping you get your thoughts on this, because I think it's both a matter of safety and a matter of aesthetic taste.
00:42:09.720And I think that's a unique avenue for Republicans to go down right now.
00:42:12.580Probably the area your proposal would fall flat is that it is a federal proposal.
00:42:20.620The principle of subsidiarity would maybe suggest that this legislation should be done at a more local level.
00:42:29.140I'm not sure that the courts would permit a federal regulation of rock concerts.
00:42:35.860But at a local level, I think it's a great idea.
00:42:38.300And there are already in cities rules about this in as much as a venue cannot host music that is so loud that it disturbs the rest of the neighborhood.
00:42:52.660But your proposal goes further, I think.
00:42:55.440And this is what makes it quite interesting.
00:42:57.000You're saying it's not just damaging to the rest of the neighborhood to have these really loud concerts.
00:43:04.280It can be harmful to the people in the room, and there should be some regulation of that.
00:43:09.020And also, music that is just that loud is probably bad music, which is bad for the soul.
00:43:16.180I don't think I'm reading too far into your question.
00:43:18.260And as Plato points out, music goes past the rational faculties, speaks directly to the soul.
00:43:25.800And so, as a matter of, as you would describe, aesthetic taste, but really as a matter of just crafting beautiful places, you're saying we should punish musical performances that are too loud.
00:43:41.540Because that's a good sign that it's bad music.
00:43:44.160And we should strongly encourage them through the law to be more beautiful.
00:43:50.060However, if you try to make that argument in a city council meeting, people are going to look at you like you have three heads, and they'll probably laugh you out of the room.
00:43:58.860But the principle there is a very good one.
00:44:01.660As I observe, it goes back all the way to Plato, at least, and has been re-articulated famously in American recent years by Alan Bloom, the author of Closing of the American Mind.
00:44:11.200And so, I like that idea, but you've got to be very careful about it.
00:44:15.000You want to swing a sledgehammer and have federal legislation to ban the Rolling Stones from America 60 years after they started their career.
00:44:23.240Maybe start a little more locally and speak in a way that's a little more accessible to ordinary people who don't spend their life thinking about political philosophy.
00:44:37.880And maybe you can accomplish the ends that you're looking for, because in principle, it's a good idea.
00:47:12.180Okay, I guess—look, I don't want to besmirch the gymnast girl or whatever, but it's—given Professor Jacob's failure to defend the gymnast, then maybe the questioner has a point.
00:47:25.200And I guess I could investigate this myself by looking up her social media channels, but I'm not going to do that because I've been to confession recently, and I don't need to—I just don't need that.
00:47:35.460I'm a married man and a father of three.
00:47:36.880I don't need to—I don't need to do that.