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00:01:32.960 herself. In related news, the state of New York is now offering to help vulnerable people kill

00:01:38.360 themselves. And Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are moving back to the United Kingdom, which likely

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00:04:22.060 of Lindsay Clancy is harming her children and threatening to kill herself. We got to check in

00:04:29.120 on the women. Something is not right right now with the women, especially on social media.

00:04:32.900 Before we get to that, though, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are moving back to the United

00:04:39.440 Kingdom. I don't have any champagne to pop. I do have cigars that I could light this morning.

00:04:44.900 This is obviously really great news for America. Congratulations, President Trump.

00:04:49.120 Congratulations, my fellow Americans. We are finally ridding ourselves of the Markles,

00:04:55.340 Mr. and Mrs. Markle, the artist formerly known as Prince Harry, now Mr. Meghan Markle.

00:05:00.940 They left the royal family, what was it, three years ago now, in order to move to America and

00:05:09.500 become TV stars. And now they're moving back to the UK because that's all dried up. I do feel for

00:05:15.920 His Majesty King Charles. I send my condolences. The reason this is a political story, though,

00:05:21.440 is not just that we're finally ridding ourselves of Harry and Meghan. The reason it's a political

00:05:26.240 story is because of the warning that it tells us about how we engage with civic life. Meghan Markle

00:05:32.980 wanted to be a princess. You got Prince Harry here, one of two children of King Charles.

00:05:39.280 She doesn't get to be the queen, but she does get to be a princess. She marries Prince Harry,

00:05:43.340 but then she realizes she doesn't actually want to be a princess. She doesn't know what it really

00:05:48.620 means to be a princess. She was an actress. Crucially, she was an actress. And what she

00:05:53.340 realized was she didn't want to be a princess. She just wanted to play a princess on TV.

00:05:57.920 It's very, very sad. She didn't want to be a real princess. She wanted to be a Disney princess.

00:06:03.300 And so she destroys the royal family. I've long wondered if Meghan Markle is not some kind of

00:06:08.380 CIA op, a biological weapon that developed in Quantico or something in order to destroy the

00:06:15.860 royal family as payback for the War of 1812. I don't know what it is, but she goes there,

00:06:19.900 blows up the royal family and then gets her prince husband who she sought out

00:06:25.140 to quit being a prince because she would rather be a pretend prince princess than a real princess

00:06:31.700 compare her to king charles's sister princess anne princess anne has been a real princess and do you

00:06:38.200 know what being a real princess means it means doing 20 000 royal and official engagements over

00:06:44.780 the course of 56 years. What is an official royal engagement? It's like doing a ribbon cutting at

00:06:51.720 the random new store in the middle of nowhere England. That's what it means to actually be a

00:06:56.860 princess or a prince or a king. What it actually means is to serve. It means to put the good of

00:07:04.860 the people before your own personal good. A lot of girls, when they're little, they say,

00:07:10.300 oh, I want to be a princess someday. Oh, wouldn't it be so great, a guy would say,

00:07:13.080 to be the king of England. It's very difficult, actually, because you don't get to do anything

00:07:17.240 that you want to do. You don't get to pursue your passion. You don't get to do that career

00:07:22.340 that interests you. You don't get to just have a luxurious life. There's some luxury involved,

00:07:28.920 and you get some nice clothes and nice houses, but your whole life is about service to the

00:07:33.480 community, and that's the good version of monarchy. The bad version is tyranny, like

00:07:38.620 dictatorship, autocracy. But the good version is that you're just serving. And Meghan Markle

00:07:43.340 clearly didn't want to do it. She wanted to wear the tiara on television, but she didn't want to

00:07:47.260 actually bear the weight of public service. So they moved to the US, but that dries up. They

00:07:52.300 try to be celebrities in the US and get Netflix shows. Nobody wants to watch that. So now they're

00:07:57.760 going back to the UK and you don't want to attribute cynical motives to them. But right now,

00:08:02.260 the way that they make money is just by selling dirt on the royal family and publishing memoirs

00:08:07.200 and doing interviews with Oprah.

00:08:08.880 So I don't know, the dirt's run out

00:08:10.020 because the royal family finally had enough of them.

00:08:12.220 So now they say, okay, we're going to go back to the UK.

00:08:15.180 That's sad.

00:08:16.020 That's too bad.

00:08:16.680 And it's just a warning for all of us.

00:08:18.720 To me, I've said it for many, many years.

00:08:22.180 Part of the essence of liberalism

00:08:23.800 is wanting the appearance of the thing

00:08:25.380 without the substance of the thing.

00:08:26.680 They want decaf coffee.

00:08:27.740 They want Diet Coke.

00:08:28.500 They want trans women.

00:08:31.580 They want to kind of look like a woman,

00:08:33.440 but not really be a woman.

00:08:35.180 They want modern marriage, where it's marriage, but it's marriage without commitment and without

00:08:40.040 kids and without sacrifice. They want what looks like the good of the thing, but they don't want

00:08:46.640 to actually do the thing, so they're deprived of the good. Don't do that. If you want to be in

00:08:50.260 public service, you have to serve the public. If you want to get married, you have to fully

00:08:55.480 give yourself to your spouse, and you need to be open to the possibility of life. And if you want

00:08:59.340 to, if you want to do it, you got to do it because there's, there are really no half measures. Okay.

00:09:05.460 Very, very sad for King Charles. Very, very good for us. Speaking of disturbed women,

00:09:09.780 in the wake of Lindsay Clancy, another crazy woman is harming her kids and trying to kill

00:09:15.560 herself. There's a really messed up video of this. This woman, we can play at least the first part

00:09:19.960 of the video. She's like half naked, setting her kitchen on fire while filming herself on social

00:09:24.800 media. I mean, this is wearing some kind of weird mask, screeching in a foreign language.

00:09:34.620 Her name, I guess, is Melisa Sanchez.

00:09:40.300 Throwing a mug into the fire.

00:09:44.460 This is in her kitchen. Okay. All right. And I don't even want to watch this part of the video.

00:09:48.340 Cut it off here. There's part of the video where she's pouring hot wax onto, I guess,

00:09:54.340 onto herself, and then she pours it onto her poor kids. So, you know, this is like really,

00:09:57.660 really dark stuff. The way it's being reported is that it's a Florida woman.

00:10:02.320 But then when I first saw the video, I said, is this in Argentina or is this,

00:10:05.820 where is this? She's speaking Spanish. It's all, but she's a Florida woman,

00:10:09.480 which these days I guess actually kind of makes sense. This woman's like posted pictures on her

00:10:12.920 social media account with a giant gun in her mouth. I mean, really sad, scary, messed up stuff.

00:10:19.880 She's a 26-year-old, and she has 60,000 Instagram followers.

00:10:25.620 She's a social media influencer who is obviously nuts.

00:10:30.420 The husband was out of the house here because they're having marital issues.

00:10:32.940 He was staying with his parents.

00:10:34.560 And then while he was out of the house, she was clearly abusing her six- and three-year-old daughter,

00:10:39.220 threatening to kill herself, lighting the house on fire.

00:10:41.380 She had already attempted suicide.

00:10:43.040 Okay, so what do we take away from this?

00:10:44.560 in the wake of all of these women defending Lindsay Clancy, some of them defending Lindsay

00:10:52.640 Clancy on the grounds that she didn't actually kill her children, which is absurd because not

00:10:57.900 even Lindsay Clancy is arguing that. But most of those women who are defending her are defending

00:11:02.560 her because she killed her children. They say, oh, you just don't know what it's like. You don't

00:11:07.100 understand how bad postpartum depression is. She didn't have any help. Meanwhile, her husband was

00:11:11.440 helping her. Her doctors were trying to help her. She was prescribed a ton of psych medication.

00:11:17.520 But a disturbing number of women are defending her. And then you point out, okay, well, half

00:11:21.960 of the women in the United States defend killing their own kids, right? They defend abortion. So

00:11:25.880 this shouldn't be totally surprising. But I think a big part of this is social media, obviously.

00:11:32.980 This lady posted regularly online. She had a lot of Instagram followers. And

00:11:37.640 social media clearly exacerbates this problem. Social media clearly exacerbates most problems

00:11:44.560 in society, but it's a little bit of a chicken and the egg thing because it is women who are

00:11:51.640 a little unhinged who post the most about themselves on social media. That is for sure true.

00:11:57.900 A good rule of thumb, if you're a married woman, you should not be posting selfies and dancing on

00:12:03.020 social media. You should not be doing that. If you're doing that, it's a red flag. I'm not saying

00:12:06.500 it, you're going to like go murder your whole family, but it's a red flag. You should not be

00:12:10.420 doing it. Because you have to ask yourself, what are you doing that for? If you're posting, you

00:12:13.540 know, really nice looking pictures of yourself, selfies on social media, and you're a married

00:12:17.640 woman, who's that for? That's just to attract other men who are not your husband. That's not

00:12:23.640 good. Or it's to make other women envious. That's not good. So it's not, that's a bad sign.

00:12:31.300 Women who are already a little bit unhinged are attracted to social media, but social media

00:12:35.240 obviously compounds the problem because it plays into all of our worst vices. We know this. And

00:12:41.140 because we're mimetic creatures, so this is the insight of Rene Girard that I've mentioned a

00:12:45.120 number of times on the show, the idea that we shape our behaviors and also our desires based

00:12:51.900 on what we observe from other people. You want the Rolex watch not because you know anything

00:12:56.100 about how watches work, but because people you like or admire have the Rolex watch, so you want

00:13:00.340 one too. We, it's not even a bad thing. We just, that's, we look at the behavior of, of how people

00:13:06.240 that we admire act, and then we, we try to imitate that. And we imitate even their desires,

00:13:12.480 which is why it is, it's why the, the private behavior of people is a public problem. This is

00:13:20.060 why when, when the liberals and the libertarians say, what's it any business to you? You know,

00:13:24.000 if someone's doing drugs or doing weird sex stuff or kind of, you know, behaving erratically

00:13:28.380 or saying a bunch of crazy stuff.

00:13:30.260 Why is it your problem?

00:13:31.620 You know, just leave me alone, man.

00:13:32.900 Well, I say it's my problem

00:13:33.600 because I live in society.

00:13:35.160 And there is clearly some mimetic mania

00:13:37.740 that is spreading.

00:13:40.200 You see this in the spread

00:13:41.080 of some of the true crime conspiracy theories

00:13:43.280 that have gone around.

00:13:44.520 People are describing Lindsay Clancy

00:13:46.500 as like Carmelo Anthony for women.

00:13:50.020 It's like Carmelo Casey Anthony.

00:13:51.620 You know, people who are just defending her

00:13:53.020 out of this kind of identity.

00:13:55.600 They know she's guilty,

00:13:56.360 but they just, I don't know,

00:13:57.580 this girl power they identify with her. But that spread is really, really bad. And you're going to

00:14:02.020 see copycats. What I think is most jarring about that video, part of the reason it's going viral

00:14:06.520 right now, is it just feels kind of like a Lindsay Clancy copycat because we're mimetic creatures,

00:14:11.200 which is why it is important for us to behave well, not just for our own souls, but for other

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00:14:27.380 in the Gospels, when Christ talks about tying millstones around the necks of people, it'd be

00:14:31.820 better if a millstone were tied around their neck. That is in response to people scandalizing,

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00:17:37.400 Assisted suicide is now available to terminally ill New Yorkers.

00:17:41.060 so how does this work new yorkers who have less than six months to live

00:17:47.740 can now get doctors to help kill them and there are a lot of people even conservatives who say

00:17:54.020 you know what there's often a lot of pain at the end of life and so you know if if someone who's in

00:18:00.120 a great deal of pain who only has only has six months to live you know shouldn't we just let

00:18:05.060 them shouldn't we help them to kill themselves there are a few problems with this it's very

00:18:09.260 insidious. First of all, you don't know how long someone has to live. You don't know how long

00:18:14.040 someone has to live. This is one of the arguments that pro-abortion people make. They say, a lot of

00:18:20.140 them say women should be able to kill babies whenever they want, but the ones who are a little

00:18:23.280 more sophisticated about it, they say, well, at the very least, babies who have serious defects.

00:18:28.180 You know, things like trisomy 18, where we know the baby is going to die within a day or two after

00:18:33.960 being born, if the baby even survives. You know, just kill the baby in the womb. We just, we know,

00:18:38.900 And there are even fairly conservative people who will go along with that.

00:18:43.660 But it's often not true.

00:18:45.440 In fact, I have a friend who had a baby with trisomy 18.

00:18:48.580 Everyone said, oh, abort the baby.

00:18:50.600 Oh, the baby's going to live for a few hours, maybe a day or two after he's born.

00:18:54.360 Baby's two years old.

00:18:56.600 And then what they will say, if they're being a little more honest,

00:18:59.200 is they'll say, yeah, but his quality of life isn't good enough.

00:19:02.660 You know, the real reason, yeah, sure, I mean, Down syndrome, people can be born.

00:19:05.880 But, you know, they're not as smart as I want them to be.

00:19:08.420 They don't look as good as I want them to look.

00:19:10.960 They don't live up to my standards of what a happy life would be.

00:19:14.540 Meanwhile, people who have Down syndrome are some of the happiest people on earth.

00:19:19.340 And you have an entire political order saying, well, your life is not valuable, actually.

00:19:25.360 We should kill you because I just don't value your life.

00:19:28.460 Well, the same thing goes for elderly people or sick people.

00:19:30.880 You don't know about that six-month diagnosis.

00:19:33.900 I think a lot of us, maybe all of us know someone or have heard of someone who was given a six-month

00:19:39.420 or maybe a year prognosis. 20 years later, they're still alive. And what you're doing is you're

00:19:45.400 preying on their anxieties, their fears, their worries about being a burden to their family,

00:19:49.220 and you're getting them to kill themselves. And you're having doctors violate the Hippocratic

00:19:52.040 Oath. But there's something even further. I googled this story. When I saw this pop up,

00:19:58.160 I googled the story yesterday. I said, assisted suicide, New York. And you know what's so

00:20:02.840 amazing. When you Google that, the first thing that comes up on Google is a message, and it says,

00:20:08.680 help is available. Speak with someone today. 988 Suicide in Crisis Lifeline. The languages are

00:20:16.700 English and Spanish 24-7. Anytime that you're even Googling suicide, help is it. Don't do it.

00:20:26.380 Call this number. We will help you. You can call. You can text. You can chat online. There's an

00:20:32.120 official website. Call. Unless you want to. Hmm. What? This doesn't make a lot of sense,

00:20:39.140 does it? Google is not some right-wing conservative organization. Google's super lit.

00:20:45.060 And yet even Google understands that suicide is bad. It's the sort of thing we tell people

00:20:51.480 not to do. It's the sort of thing we try to prevent as best we can. We'll have people on

00:20:57.780 the line 24-7 in multiple languages. Don't do it. Don't kill yourself, unless you want to.

00:21:04.440 Does that make a lot of sense? Is suicide good or bad? Everybody agreed. I can't even say until

00:21:12.180 five minutes ago. It's like today, even the most liberal people, many of them agree, suicide is

00:21:16.760 really bad. We have to prevent it. We can't allow people to give in to despair because despair is a

00:21:21.020 sin. And you can't lose hope. Where there's life, there's hope. But then you have politicians in

00:21:29.120 New York. Here's what Kathy Hochul said, the governor of New York. She said, our state will

00:21:32.800 always stand firm in safeguarding New Yorkers' freedoms and right to bodily autonomy, which

00:21:39.200 includes the right for the terminally ill to peacefully and comfortably end their lives with

00:21:42.820 dignity and compassion. There is no dignity in suicide. It is the least dignified way to go.

00:21:46.880 It's a grave and horrific sin. It is deeply scandalous. Speaking of scandal, it's deeply

00:21:51.660 scandalous. People who commit suicide are massively increasing the chances that many

00:21:59.560 other people in their family will kill themselves. It is deeply scandalous. For anyone who has

00:22:05.960 anything even resembling a kind of traditional religion, that it is deeply scandalous because

00:22:13.260 you're signaling you don't believe in the religion. Or you're telling your family that

00:22:19.800 you don't mind going to hell. But her statement doesn't even make sense. Our state will always

00:22:24.560 stand firm in safeguarding New Yorkers' freedom and right to bodily autonomy, which includes the

00:22:28.240 right for the terminally ill to kill themselves. Why only the terminally ill? If you stand firm

00:22:33.580 on the supposed freedom and right to bodily autonomy to do whatever you want with your own

00:22:39.980 body. Why would you limit assisted suicide to the terminally ill? First of all, we're all

00:22:45.140 terminally ill. No one here gets that alive. There's a happy ending that's available to you

00:22:49.620 because God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him

00:22:53.660 might not perish but have eternal life. But in this world, no one here, we all have a terminal

00:22:59.020 illness called life. So that doesn't make sense even on the terms of the left, even on the governor

00:23:08.380 of New York's own terms. It doesn't make sense in accord with any other policies, by the way.

00:23:13.980 New York, even liberal New York still has drug laws. If you stand firm on the freedom to perfect

00:23:19.240 bodily autonomy, why do you have laws against drugs? I don't have the right to shoot something

00:23:25.100 into my veins. Why not? I thought I had bodily autonomy. That doesn't affect anybody else.

00:23:30.360 And you say, well, your drug use does affect someone else because you might behave erratically.

00:23:34.460 you might, I don't know, you could interact with people. And so we, okay, well, same thing goes

00:23:39.820 for suicide. Same thing goes with everything because we live in a society. Deeply, deeply

00:23:45.200 scandalous. And they know it's wrong. You know, someone made this point the other day. I forget

00:23:50.060 who it was, so I can't give credit. But someone pointed out, you know, we all try to figure out

00:23:54.740 pro-abortion activism from this really logical, ideological standpoint. And there's a little bit

00:23:59.560 that there. I think a lot of pro-abortion activism, a lot of the women who are most ardently pro-abortion,

00:24:07.580 publicly pro-abortion, I think they're just trying to rationalize to themselves the fact that they

00:24:12.860 killed their kid and they feel guilty about it. I think that's what a lot of it is. And the thing

00:24:16.200 is, we all sin and there actually is forgiveness available and you are redeemable and it is

00:24:23.140 possible, but not if you persist in your error. So it's a double whammy. And I think

00:24:29.300 I think the same thing probably goes here. We know that it's just wrong. You don't have a right

00:24:35.780 to a wrong, first of all, but we just know it's wrong. Everyone knows suicide is horribly wrong.

00:24:42.840 But you know what? We're just going to kind of do it anyway because

00:24:45.760 healthcare is really expensive at the end of life. And, you know, grandma, she's a real hassle

00:24:50.220 to take care of when she gets older. And suffering is tough. And in our modern society,

00:24:55.380 we don't really know how to make sense of suffering. So we're just gonna, and we believe

00:25:00.620 now we've reduced the moral order to just like, whatever you want to do is fine. If it feels good,

00:25:04.580 do it. Nothing really matters, but please recycle. That's what we've reduced it to.

00:25:09.360 So, okay, we're going to let people do it. And we're going to ignore all of the hideous consequences

00:25:17.180 that come of it, making the most vulnerable people, preying on them, making them feel

00:25:21.320 worthless, making them feel like a burden, encouraging them into a grave, grave sin.

00:25:26.760 We're going to do all of that, and we're just not going to think about it too much.

00:25:31.920 So when you try to find information about the story, and you Google it, the new assisted

00:25:35.320 suicide law in New York, Google is going to tell you, don't kill yourself. Unless you want to,

00:25:43.380 and you live in New York. Okay. We turn from the elderly now and the sick to the young and

00:25:48.180 the Vibrant because the Transportation Secretary, Sean Duffy, and his lovely wife, Rachel Campus

00:25:53.700 Duffy of Fox News fame, they have a new reality show. They met on a reality show. They met on the

00:25:59.360 real world from their reality stars. And Sean, from his position as Transportation Secretary,

00:26:04.060 they have a new series called The Great American Road Trip. So taking some of their skills that

00:26:09.760 they've developed for years and bringing that to bear in this public role. So they've gone viral

00:26:15.020 for the first episode. Because Sean and Rachel tell their daughter not to go to Harvard. Just

00:26:22.860 when you think you can't love the Duffies any more than you already do, they tell their kid

00:26:26.080 not to go to Harvard. And my heart rose 10 times the size. We'll get to that in a moment. First,

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00:27:33.140 right now. That is prageru.com slash dailywire. Here is the clip that's gone viral. The

00:27:39.820 cabinet secretary, Sean Duffy, telling his kid not to go to Harvard.

00:27:45.360 If I do get it, I feel like you can't say no.

00:27:48.200 To Harvard?

00:27:48.940 Yeah.

00:27:49.560 Well, me and mom can say no.

00:27:53.420 Catholicism to us is everything. It's the basis of our marriage. It's the basis of our family.

00:27:59.460 So I'm nervous about the idea of Paloma going to Harvard.

00:28:04.920 We spend a lot of time nurturing and providing formation for our kids,

00:28:08.620 giving them an environment where they are steeped in faith and values.

00:28:13.560 And so the idea of dropping her off at a place that would undermine that

00:28:17.940 or try to undo all those things makes me worried.

00:28:20.900 And again, I don't want them to get one viewpoint.

00:28:23.100 I want them to get a lot of different viewpoints.

00:28:24.760 but I don't want them fed only one viewpoint

00:28:27.700 that's contrary to the way my kids were raised.

00:28:30.280 Listen, my problem is we have thought about how we raised you

00:28:34.300 and how hard we've worked to, I think, raise what is a remarkable young girl.

00:28:40.620 If I send you there, I think what happens is they have professionalized

00:28:45.440 figuring out how they can take good young girls like you

00:28:50.060 and, I think, corrupt their minds.

00:28:53.300 This is a brilliant point.

00:28:55.160 So one, I mean, any jabs you can get in at Harvard, awesome, love it, that's great.

00:29:00.400 The Trump administration has taken particular aim at Harvard, and they deserve it.

00:29:04.040 But he makes this very good point.

00:29:05.920 He says, places like Harvard, institutions like Harvard, have professionalized how to take good young girls and corrupt their minds.

00:29:15.080 That is indisputably true.

00:29:17.180 now there are two poles that we have to balance here when conservatives think about this because

00:29:25.040 on the one hand you say yeah why would i send my kids i spent 18 years raising my kid to be a good

00:29:30.240 person and to i'm then going to send them off to one of these institutions that is totally

00:29:36.180 diametrically opposed to all the values that i believe in all of the habits of virtue that i've

00:29:40.660 tried to inculcate and it is going to try to get these kids to hate me and i'm going to pay a

00:29:44.820 quarter million dollars for the privilege. Why would I do that? Probably more than a quarter

00:29:48.000 million dollars, probably $350,000. Why would I do that? That's one side. But then the other

00:29:53.920 poll is these institutions still have power. So if we pull ourselves out of them, then we are just

00:30:00.160 ceding that power to the left. This is what happened at the teaching level in a lot of the

00:30:04.480 schools from the 1960s through the 80s. So that then before that, you could have fairly conservative

00:30:09.620 teachers. You had a lot more religious education, and then a lot of that went away. And now it's

00:30:14.040 this crazy secular lib education that already poisons your kid mind starting in kindergarten.

00:30:18.880 So how do you balance these two things? He's totally right that we need to, at a personal

00:30:25.620 level, be very cautious about this. I'm a product of one of these schools. And

00:30:33.420 for most of my classmates, they went there with whatever their views were, ranging from moderately

00:30:38.820 conservative to extremely communist. For most of my classmates, over the course of four years at a

00:30:46.420 very liberal university, they became more liberal. That's what happens for most of them. And some of

00:30:52.040 them became really radical and it turns people into lesbians and it gets crazy. So that's for

00:30:59.080 most people. But for some people, it makes you much more conservative. I had the reactionary

00:31:04.700 response to going to one of these schools, which is that I became more conservative. I entered as

00:31:09.740 a libertarian. I left somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan, and it made me more religious.

00:31:15.460 I entered as an atheist. I left believing in God, and within a year or so of graduation,

00:31:21.980 I returned to the church. So that can happen. You can have this paradoxical reaction to these

00:31:27.920 schools, which is you see how nuts it all is, and you become more deeply entrenched in the beliefs

00:31:33.880 that you already sort of held.

00:31:35.820 That can happen.

00:31:36.660 So it's a little bit of a prudential question.

00:31:40.440 For some kids,

00:31:41.880 they're going to be able to survive that.

00:31:44.120 Especially for places like Harvard,

00:31:45.560 where it really generates a lot of sharks.

00:31:47.260 If you want to become an investment banker or something,

00:31:49.220 that's probably a good place to go.

00:31:50.720 If they can survive through that, great.

00:31:52.780 Some kids can do it.

00:31:53.560 Some kids, it's not for them.

00:31:55.420 And there are great schools that they should all go to.

00:31:58.220 But we need to balance this.

00:32:00.040 The personal aspect.

00:32:01.140 I don't want my kid to turn into a trans, pygmy, Muslim, lesbian who hates me.

00:32:06.780 You've got the personal aspect and then the political aspect, which is we need to take over Harvard.

00:32:12.320 I want Harvard.

00:32:13.340 I don't want the left to have Harvard.

00:32:14.800 I don't want the left to have Yale.

00:32:16.180 I don't want the left to have New York or California, some of our most important cities.

00:32:20.120 I don't want to just give those away to the left.

00:32:21.800 I don't want to give the left the media.

00:32:23.400 I don't want to give the left any of the big cultural institutions.

00:32:26.800 I don't want to give the left the bureaucracy.

00:32:28.080 I don't want to give any of this.

00:32:28.680 And you're seeing this debate play out right now on the American right. There's a big debate

00:32:33.580 happening on the right over how we proceed. Do we proceed in a way that repeats the same kind of

00:32:41.000 libertarian slash neoconservative slogans of the last 20 plus years where we say,

00:32:48.640 you know, we want you to elect us. We want you to give us power so that we don't wield power.

00:32:52.640 We want you to elect us so we can just get out of these institutions. Politics is downstream

00:32:57.300 of culture. We don't want to wield the government. That would be authoritarian. We don't, no, no,

00:33:01.460 no. We don't want to actually, we don't, you can't legislate morality. No, no, no. We don't

00:33:05.660 want to, uh, uh, uh. We don't want any power. That's a tough pitch in a political campaign.

00:33:11.940 You're saying, give me power because I don't want power. It doesn't work. There's that, there's,

00:33:15.440 there are those people who are arguing that. They're saying, we don't want to stop blaming

00:33:19.900 the government for your problems. That's what the left does. That's what the socialists do.

00:33:23.420 You just need to pull yourself up by your bootstraps, buster.

00:33:26.220 Eat a little bit of ramen and work hard, and then you'll make something of yourself.

00:33:29.780 Well, you know what?

00:33:30.380 Those guys have a point, personally.

00:33:33.160 That is true.

00:33:34.060 I did all that.

00:33:34.720 I did all of that stuff.

00:33:35.920 I ate the ramen.

00:33:37.220 I worked a lot.

00:33:38.940 I didn't whine and blame people for my problems, generally.

00:33:42.240 Yeah, you do need to cultivate those personal habits, and you need to instill them in your kids and in your political community.

00:33:48.640 but that is not an excuse to give up politics. Man is a political creature. We have a self-government

00:33:56.940 for a reason. Our framers of our constitution gave us a self-government for a reason so that

00:34:00.420 we can do stuff, so that we can pass laws, so that we can form behavior because the law is a teacher

00:34:06.600 and the purpose of government is that good should be pursued and evil should be avoided.

00:34:11.380 And part of the purpose of government is having the country flourish and part of having the

00:34:16.600 country flourish is encouraging habits of virtue and discouraging vice. This is why we give tax

00:34:22.860 breaks to people who invest in our communities. We're going to be talking about opportunity zones

00:34:26.360 with the HUD secretary, Scott Turner, momentarily. But this is why we incentivize certain behavior.

00:34:31.640 We give tax breaks for virtuous behavior. If you are educating your kids in certain ways,

00:34:38.100 if you are investing in certain neighborhoods, if you're doing the stuff that we want to reward,

00:34:42.120 we reward it and we punish other behavior like drugs and crime and vices and all that kind of

00:34:48.580 stuff so that's just what politics is and too many for too long we've had the libertarian and

00:34:54.240 neoconservative types who don't really represent the base but they are overrepresented in the

00:34:58.000 pundit and political class they have told us to give up on politics because it's easy and maybe

00:35:02.860 because they have a mistaken ideology but we shouldn't do that there's nothing american about

00:35:05.980 that there's nothing traditional about that there's nothing that really has no place in serious

00:35:10.300 political philosophy. So I guess my response to this clip is, yes, the Duffies are awesome. And

00:35:15.780 I love attacking Harvard all the time. And they're very right. Parents need to be totally aware of

00:35:20.720 this. And at a personal level, you need to make sure a school doesn't get your kid to hate you

00:35:26.900 and undo 18 years of hard work that you've put into them. And at the political level,

00:35:33.000 we need to take back those institutions. Trump has actually shown a fair bit how to do that.

00:35:37.640 you need you need to threaten to defund them you need to put a lot of pressure on them

00:35:41.620 you need we do our taxpayer money goes to harvard we fund a lot of harvard stuff you need to

00:35:47.260 threaten that this is this by the way for those who are saying this is like francisco franco stuff

00:35:52.280 this is you know this is authoritarian or whatever like the modern conservative movement

00:35:56.740 was founded by william f buckley jr with a book called god and man at yale which was about this

00:36:04.920 got a man at Yale, which was subtitled the superstitions of academic freedom,

00:36:08.420 which called for trustees and parents and people with political power to beat Yale into submission

00:36:16.060 and to get the socialists and the atheists fired so that they could have a good education for

00:36:22.560 children. That's what we got to do. Do the personal, do the political. You don't have

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00:37:44.680 Now, I got to get to this breaking news story.

00:37:47.780 CNN ran multiple segments on it last night.

00:37:50.680 Shocking stuff.

00:37:51.900 Pull over if you're driving.

00:37:53.060 The president of the United States has an assistant.

00:37:56.140 first though i did not pick a comment so i told the producers i said okay you pick the favorite

00:38:02.060 comment the best comment yesterday according to them is from professor jacob who says inshallah

00:38:06.020 next time you pick a comment habibi wow unbelievable that's unbelievable the insolence

00:38:12.180 the insubordination is shocking i need i need new assistants i need new assistants but that could be

00:38:21.280 get out of get him out of my ear i need but if i got a new assistant you know what that maybe that

00:38:25.620 would be a national news story. According to CNN, it is. Here is CNN's Erin Burnett.

00:38:32.800 It literally says breaking news, talking about this woman, Natalie Harp, who's just like a nice

00:38:39.880 lady who works for the, she's one of many people who works for the president. She's his assistant,

00:38:44.300 so she assists him a lot of the time. And she's pretty. I guess that's part of the reason that

00:38:50.140 the Democrats are attacking her. She's like a pretty woman in her 30s who assists the president.

00:38:54.460 There is not even a hint of anything improper about their relationship.

00:39:00.500 There is not even a scintilla of an iota of a shadow of a hint that Trump and this assistant are doing anything improper at all.

00:39:12.780 She just works for him.

00:39:14.980 And John Ossoff, this senator from Georgia, insinuate, he wants to make himself the next Obama and he thinks he's running for president.

00:39:22.520 he insinuates the other day calls out this woman and insinuates that she's sleeping with her boss

00:39:28.260 and it was just it was such a nasty despicable thing to do to a random staffer so ugly deeply

00:39:37.620 misogynistic but but it's not just him cnn's running with it here cnn gets the great guest

00:39:43.440 she gets this assistant's brother to come on to talk about her job learned right about his

00:39:51.260 incredible reliance on her at all hours of the day to post social media posts just as one example

00:39:57.780 i think that um

00:40:01.180 trump's best friends are people who are his fan club you know like and so she's his biggest fan

00:40:12.200 and so that's probably why he likes her and and like she's good looking um she's got a good

00:40:19.880 personality like uh i don't know i i want to ask you press i mean she thinks that he saved

00:40:29.100 he thinks that he saved her life so like somebody living with that kind of gratitude

00:40:34.160 that must feel pretty good i want to ask you about something cnn this is cnn breaking news story

00:40:43.740 the the aaron vernett clearly realizes this is not going very well and this is really tawdry

00:40:49.360 and despicable, but her evidence of some improper relationship is she goes, you know, the president

00:40:55.520 has this assistant, and she's with him a lot, and she's posting social media posts for him at all

00:41:01.400 hours of the day and night. Oh, you mean like an assistant? You mean like an assistant? She does

00:41:10.480 her job? I don't, I'm not the president of the United States. I'm a podcaster and cigar salesman.

00:41:17.420 and i have i'm with my assistants a lot and sometimes i have them post to social media

00:41:24.620 at all hours of the day and night is not the story that she's suggesting is somehow nefarious

00:41:32.120 is that the president not a podcaster or a cnn journalist or a cigar salesman the president of

00:41:40.380 the United States has an assistant and she assists him. And then she gets this complete doofus

00:41:47.520 brother on. And this is, I mean, and what I actually, I kind of like the brother because

00:41:50.980 the brother, he doesn't say there's anything wrong about their relationship. He goes, yeah,

00:41:54.700 I mean, I don't know. She thinks he saved her life because of the right to trial legislation.

00:41:57.840 So like she really likes him and he likes having staff members who like him too. So yeah, that's

00:42:06.100 it and she's like nice and good looking. So yeah, isn't that crazy? And so Erin Burnett knows this

00:42:12.780 is going wrong. She then brings on Maggie Haberman, this other journalist, to really

00:42:17.120 plumb the depths of the story that the POTUS has an aide. You note in your new article that

00:42:24.460 Natalie Hart never takes a day off, not even a Sunday, right? She is committed and she is

00:42:29.940 indefatigable. How much does Trump depend on her? Hold on, put a pause, put a pause, hold on.

00:42:34.640 i just we gotta i'm not gonna let that one slide aaron burnett trying to she's got a real serious

00:42:40.680 journalist face on and she goes you know i mean we're getting these reports that uh she works

00:42:45.200 all the time she just works like every day do you know do you know what it is like to work at

00:42:51.560 the white house i've never worked at the white house but i have a lot of friends who currently

00:42:54.440 work at the white house and who have worked at the white house yeah you work all the time it turns

00:42:58.840 that I work all the time in my job. I'm a podcaster and a cigar salesman. You probably

00:43:05.640 work a lot of the time, if not all the time in whatever job you do in whatever. Yeah. But now

00:43:12.440 if you work at the white house for the president himself, you're going to, yes, you work all the

00:43:18.440 time. You know, if she didn't work, if she like took weekends off the story, be like Trump's

00:43:22.440 staff is lazy and they're not doing anything. But the thing I don't want to let go is she's

00:43:26.560 got her serious journalist face on. She goes, I mean, and yeah, and the reports are that this

00:43:30.720 woman is indefatigable, indefatigable. I am Ron Burgundy, indefatigable. The word is indefatigable.

00:43:39.300 Indefatigable. Erin Burnett. These people talk about the appearance of the thing,

00:43:46.020 but not the essence of the thing. These people, they look, they go on their left-wing news

00:43:52.240 channels, which the left-wing news channel, it looks like a news channel, but it's not a news

00:43:55.260 channel. The news that they're reporting is that the president has no system. And then they look

00:43:59.100 like they're very serious people. They're kind of well-groomed. They speak in an articulate way

00:44:04.160 until you realize they don't speak English properly. They don't even,

00:44:09.800 forget about not having a grasp on the facts.

00:44:14.860 Forget about not having a grasp on the meaning of those facts, the significance of those facts.

00:44:19.620 They don't have a grasp on the English language. This woman's job is to talk and she can't talk.

00:44:25.260 indefatigable indefatigable what a strange placement of the syllable i'm sorry keep going

00:44:33.160 all right and it's important to note erin you know in our reporting that story was by sean

00:44:38.060 mccreech my colleague and me jonathan and i have separate reporting uh in regime change just about

00:44:43.400 how trump views her and part of it is you know he will describe to other uh aides that and said this

00:44:49.880 during the interregnum period that you know everyone else will go off and make money she'll

00:44:53.360 never leave, that essentially she is the person who loves him as much as his wife and children.

00:44:58.540 And she serves a specific purpose. In a White House, in a government, there are other channels,

00:45:04.640 official channels of information. You know, she doesn't provide him with his national security

00:45:08.520 briefing, the presidential daily brief. She is not the White House staff secretary, which is

00:45:13.540 supposed to be the last step for paper flow. She's not the press secretary from whom certain media

00:45:18.420 requests are supposed to come. She is a channel by which, as you said, foreign leaders try to

00:45:24.360 reach him if they can't some other way. She has a channel by which he reaches people he sees on

00:45:29.360 television, who he likes what they are saying, or that he will just send out notes to. She is with

00:45:34.740 him so much of the day during those meetings. Okay, so you see what she's revealing here? You

00:45:40.980 see what Maggie Haberman is revealing, the big breaking story? Trump's assistant sometimes makes

00:45:47.080 phone calls for him. And it's not just that. Sometimes people who want to reach Trump call

00:45:54.360 his assistant. You couldn't script that. Oh, yes, we're getting pretty shocking leaks and reports

00:46:03.600 out of the White House that Trump's assistant, sometimes she'll write little notes for him

00:46:07.340 sometimes. Again, I'm not for anyone who has ever had an assistant or a colleague that you

00:46:14.240 were closed. That's what they do. What does Maggie Haberman, what does CNN think an assistant

00:46:23.800 does? If the report were, oh yes, she's at six o'clock in the morning, she's making him eggs

00:46:31.500 Benedict in the cafeteria of the White House. You would say, okay, well, that's a little,

00:46:35.740 an assistant could do that, but that's a little weird. Okay. If they said that she was, I don't

00:46:42.580 know, she was ironing his Brioni suits. That would be like, again, an assistant could do that,

00:46:47.460 but that'd be a little. The accusation is that Trump's assistant is like taking phone calls for

00:46:52.900 him. That's like the main thing an assistant does. Oh my goodness. So anyway, not to belabor the

00:46:58.340 point, my main conclusion is Trump is clearly the greatest president and perhaps the most morally

00:47:07.200 pure president we've ever had. And I'm not saying that to puff up Trump. If I came to that

00:47:13.220 conclusion, I would have to base that conclusion purely on the CNN reporting. Because if the best

00:47:19.080 thing they have is that Trump has a nice assistant who really likes him, who works hard

00:47:26.980 at being an assistant, clearly the guy does no wrong. Right? Crazy. Okay. Before we get to,

00:47:36.220 I'm very excited to get to the HUD Secretary, Scott Turner.

00:47:38.420 Before we go, though, I know I'm running late.

00:47:39.620 I don't care.

00:47:40.200 I do have to get to one other cabinet secretary, Scott Bessent, Treasury Secretary,

00:47:44.940 who absolutely bodied one of the most prominent left-wing economic figures of the last 30, 40 years.

00:47:53.320 I can't even call him an economist.

00:47:54.980 This guy, Robert Reich, he's actually not an economist.

00:47:58.820 But he works on economic policy, and he's a political pundit, and he worked in the Clinton White House.

00:48:02.640 I think he was the Labor Secretary under Clinton.

00:48:04.940 So Robert Reich levies one of these attacks on Scott Besson, some big essay about how Besson

00:48:12.340 is totally wrong about the economy and Trump's destroying the economy and how Robert Reich is

00:48:16.760 great. And so this is kind of a minor attack, but on economic policy. And I just want to read

00:48:23.260 you this masterpiece. Scott Besson writes, once again, the professor has come up short.

00:48:29.200 His latest screed is an impressive display

00:48:31.180 of economic prestidigitation.

00:48:34.000 Prestidigitation.

00:48:34.580 It's like being quick with your fingers,

00:48:35.680 like magic, like a magic trick.

00:48:37.160 Love that, prestidigitation.

00:48:39.440 He concedes that wages are growing faster

00:48:41.280 for low-income workers

00:48:42.220 and then attempts to bury that dispositive fact

00:48:44.680 beneath nearly 2,000 words.

00:48:47.040 Bank of America data show, data show.

00:48:49.940 Scott Besson is rightly using data as a plural noun.

00:48:52.620 People often say data is the data shows.

00:48:55.640 It's actually data.

00:48:56.400 The singular is datum, not to be pedantic.

00:48:58.540 but the pluralist data, I love that he just effortlessly gets that right. Bank of America

00:49:02.200 data show that spending among lower and middle income households has converged toward levels

00:49:06.080 at the top as they lead labor market gains. Professor Reich has a documented history of

00:49:10.060 inventing dialogue when the truth doesn't fit his narrative, a habit that forced him to rewrite his

00:49:14.780 memoir after the media exposed his fabrications. Burger King appears not to be the only one who

00:49:19.400 peddles whoppers. As I do not like punching down, this will be the last response to his

00:49:26.440 four-decade pattern of packaging falsehoods is fact. One thing you need to know is Scott Besson

00:49:30.800 is very, very tall, and Robert Reich is very, very short. He's 4'11", I think. So that final

00:49:36.400 line. So I do not like punching down. And I just forget about even the economic point that they're

00:49:42.560 making here. I love Scott Besson. Can I say, is that not, I don't mean, I don't, I hope that

00:49:49.980 doesn't sound weird i'd love this he's one of my most favorite political types maybe my very

00:49:56.760 favorite political type which is that he's extremely intelligent extremely well educated

00:50:01.920 very competent he's clubbable he's affable and he's a bloodthirsty savage beast this guy these

00:50:08.940 reports coming out of the white house of him just like beating people up in the west wing

00:50:12.660 with a little smile on his face you know just he's like so you could you could take him to the

00:50:17.540 country club you could throw him in the ufc ring i love and he's just absolutely brutal this is a

00:50:22.340 brutal takedown of this left-wing economic figure and so all of that to say i want besant to stay

00:50:27.640 the treasury secretary for the whole term for all of the trump's next like seven terms just

00:50:32.640 permanent treasury secretary he's done a very good job at the actual role but also i want him to write

00:50:37.760 all of the republican speeches he's just he's brutal when he gives his senate testimony and

00:50:42.600 he's just, it's like he takes the Democrat senators and he just starts like chomping at

00:50:47.640 their throats and just like eating their entrails. And he does it in this very affable, gentlemanly

00:50:52.820 way. It's just delightful. Okay. So now, so much, so many cabinet secretaries today. We're very,

00:50:59.140 very excited to be joined by the Housing and Urban Development Secretary, Scott Turner.

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