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McCabe And Mrs. Clinton | Ep. 464

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	The deputy FBI director resigns.
	President Trump gives his State of the Union address tonight.
	Oh, happy, happy day.
	And we'll talk about the release of the memo and the Kraken.
	I'm Ben Shapiro.
	This is the Ben Shapiro Show.
	Lots of news to get to today.
	I will also have some thoughts on Black Panther.
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	Or maybe it won't and we'll never find out about it.
	That's possible as well.
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	All right, so we begin today with the firing or ousting of Andrew McCabe.
	So there was a lot of talk over the last year and a half about Andrew McCabe.
	Andrew McCabe was the deputy FBI director.
	He worked under FBI Director James Comey.
	And then for a short period of time, he was the interim FBI director before Christopher Wray was appointed to head that organization.
	Well, yesterday, Andrew McCabe finally stepped down from his position.
	It was unclear—there was a lot of talk about whether he was ousted or whether he stepped down voluntarily, whether he had been basically told that it's going to be your brains, your signature on this piece of paper, or whether he just decided, I've had enough of President Trump making fun of me, and I'm leaving.
	So, here is what I believe it's Guy Benson over at Town Hall writes.
	He says, So, why did that happen?
	Well, there are a few different explanations.
	Andrew McCabe, against whom the president has fulminated in tweets, is no longer occupying his position.
	CNN's Jim Acosta reported the departure was mutual and done on McCabe's terms.
	But a lot of other networks are now confirming that McCabe had been ousted.
	So why did that happen?
	Well, there are a few different explanations.
	First off, McCabe, he's a month and a half away from his announced retirement, and he decided that he had enough accrued time off to leave.
	So, that's possibility number one.
	Possibility number two is that there's an IG report, inspector general report, on the Justice Department's handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe, and that there's a bunch of stuff in there that makes Andrew McCabe look really bad.
	So, there's a Fox producer who tweeted, quote, breaking, McCabe out at FBI.
	Source familiar says that in advance of the IG report, McCabe was told to begin what is referred to as a terminal leave.
	So, basically, there's a bunch of bad news that was going to come out about Andrew McCabe and how corrupt he was until he got out now.
	Now, this is a possibility.
	Remember Andrew McCabe's wife?
	And was running for a state Senate seat in Virginia.
	And the Clinton-connected governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, had a political action committee.
	And that political action committee directed something like $700,000 to McCabe's wife.
	So, that's a pretty good indicator of where McCabe is politically, because it's very rare that you have a political mixed marriage.
	And there was a lot of talk inside the FBI, as well, that McCabe should have stepped aside in the middle of the Hillary email investigation.
	He did not.
	He waited until a full week, only a week, Before this all happened, before the election happened, and then he stepped down.
	And so, there was talk inside the FBI.
	It was in texts that have now been uncovered, in which it was pretty clear that higher-ups at the FBI could not understand why McCabe had not stepped away from the Clinton investigation.
	OK, another possibility is that the FBI Director Christopher Wray has now read the infamous Russia memo compiled by the House Intelligence Committee of Republicans.
	That committee is voting—and they voted yesterday—to release the memo, so it's whether Chris Wray over at the FBI saw something in the House Intelligence memo that said to him that McCabe was guilty of something.
	And so he went to McCabe and said, listen, you need to step down.
	You need to step down.
	So it's possible that there's something about McCabe in there.
	And there are people who have been leaking about what exactly is in this memo.
	President Trump—we'll discuss the memo in just a few minutes here.
	President Trump, it's now on his desk for consideration whether he wants to release this House Intelligence Committee memo that supposedly details all sorts of Intelligence Committee misbehavior and bad behavior.
	And Trump can release that, but a lot of the details have started leaking out.
	Well, according to Guy Benson, elements have started leaking, including that Trump-appointed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein approved an extension of surveillance on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page, who had been suspected of malfeasance vis-a-vis the Russians.
	Now, it is quite possible that Carter Page was being surveilled for good reason.
	The guy was basically running around Russia asking for someone to pay him, allegedly.
	And Page was reportedly under FISA surveillance back in 2014.
	But, it's a possibility that McCabe was involved in the Get Carter Page routine, because Carter Page was a Trump staffer.
	So, we'll have to find out.
	The New York Times is reporting, by the way, that the FBI Director Christopher Wray found something concerning in the IG report, and he was going to move McCabe into another job, which was effectively a demotion.
	Instead, McCabe decided to leave the FBI.
	So, looks like it has nothing to do with the House Intelligence Memo, although we won't know until the House Intelligence Memo has actually been revealed.
	Bottom line is that McCabe, it sounds like, left for a good reason.
	It doesn't sound like this was Trump firing Andrew McCabe.
	Why would he bother firing Andrew McCabe a month before McCabe is going to leave anyway?
	Now, a lot of people on the left saying, oh, this is obstruction of justice.
	Oh, it's a slow-motion Saturday Night Massacre.
	Chris Matthews, y'all, that man's insane.
	He came out, he said, you know what?
	This is like Nixon.
	He leaves, this McCabe guy.
	He was protecting us.
	He's going to stand up to Trump, Russia, collusion, Putin.
	I roll out of bed, come out of the show, come in here and talk about Russia.
	Slow motion, Saturday night masquerade, go!
	I said earlier today that Andrew McCabe should not be replaced with somebody who's just a presidential stooge and who's going to help kill this investigation.
	Because there are already plenty of people around here, quite honestly, who are just doing the bidding of the president over conducting a thorough and fair investigation.
	And unfortunately that's where we are now.
	Congressman, I mean, you're too young to have seen it, but it looks like a slow-motion Saturday Night Massacre.
	One by one, Comey, McCabe, and now Rosenstein in the target zone.
	No, you're right.
	Look, I was born shortly before the President resigned in 1974, and there are a lot of comparisons and parallels to the Nixon years, except at that time you actually had a Congress of a different party that was a kind of check on the President doing a thorough investigation.
	Here, there's a real question whether that's going on.
	OK, so that obviously is not the case.
	The idea that this is a Saturday Night Massacre—Saturday Night Massacre, if you recall back to 1974, is when there was a special counsel investigation into Watergate.
	And Richard Nixon ordered Archibald Cox, who was then the attorney general, to—he ordered—I'm sorry, Archibald Cox was the special prosecutor, and he ordered the attorney general to fire the special prosecutor.
	The attorney general refused.
	And then he fired the attorney general and the special prosecutor by appointing a new attorney general who would fire the special prosecutor.
	That's what the Saturday Night Massacre was.
	McCabe was not fired here, really.
	He was told by the head of the FBI, there's some bad stuff about you, and then he resigned.
	He's keeping his pension.
	He's going to fill out his term.
	No one has been fired here except for James Comey.
	And Comey, of course, goes out and tweets self-righteously.
	What's amazing is that people are treating James Comey as though he's some sort of great halcyon of truth.
	I was open to the idea that James Comey was a truth teller because his reputation was pretty good before the last year and a half.
	But now all James Comey does on Twitter is literally quote himself.
	He literally did this the other day.
	He actually quoted himself and then he wrote this quote and then he said, me.
	He actually attributed it to me.
	James Comey is the most self-serving guy in American politics in a position where he ought not be self-serving.
	President Trump was not wrong to call him a grandstander because it's pretty clear that's what's happening here.
	So Comey, who's now on Twitter, he says, Special Agent Andrew McCabe stood tall over the last eight months when small people were trying to tear down an institution we all depend on.
	He served with distinction for two decades.
	I wish Andy well.
	I also wish continued strength for the rest of the FBI.
	America needs you.
	Now, listen, I think that America does need the FBI.
	But James Comey is largely responsible for tearing down the credibility of the FBI.
	It was James Comey who was responsible for using the FBI as a political tool to protect President Obama and Hillary Clinton.
	Now, is that an excuse for Republicans to be doing what they've been doing about the FBI?
	I'm not sure that it is.
	We're going to have to see the contents of this much-valued House Intelligence memo, and we're going to talk about that in just a second.
	The idea that James Comey has anything to say here, or that the FBI was squeaky clean during the Hillary investigation, or that Andrew McCabe shouldn't have recused himself, or that Comey gets to stand there and talk about honesty in the FBI after legitimately changing the law on the fly in order to exonerate Hillary Clinton and let Loretta Lynch, then the Attorney General of the United States, off the hook?
	All of that is a bunch of nonsense.
	All that's a bunch of nonsense.
	So, before everybody starts going off on the, oh, McCabe was fired, it's the Saturday Night Massacre, no, that's not what's happening at all.
	Let's look at the facts, and then we can analyze.
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	Okay, so, meanwhile, Memo Fight 2018.
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	So, Memo Fight, which sounds just about as boring as it is, is all about this House Intelligence memo.
	So, I looked it up last night.
	Devin Nunes' name is pronounced Nunes.
	It's not pronounced Nunes.
	It's not pronounced Nunes.
	Okay, so, just so that we're clear, Devin Nunes is the head of the House Intelligence Committee.
	And Devin Nunes, who's a Republican representative from California, Put together this House Intelligence Committee memo.
	It's a four-page memo that supposedly lays out all of the malfeasance pursued by the intelligence community in the Trump-Russia collusion case and the Hillary Clinton case.
	So, as you recall, there was a big movement to release the memo.
	So in order to release the memo to the public, they would actually have to vote in the House Intelligence Committee to release it to the public.
	Then the president of the United States has five days to look at it and determine whether or not to release it.
	Whether to release the memo or not.
	Trump is looking at that right now.
	So yesterday, the House Intelligence Committee voted along party lines to release the memo.
	They also did vote to make the Democratic memo, Adam Schiff, Democrat, came out with a second memo that was supposed to debunk the Republican memo.
	And it has to go through a process.
	First, you actually have to vote to release the memo to the rest of the House.
	Then you have to vote to release the memo more broadly.
	They did vote not to release it to the public yesterday, but they voted to release it to the rest of the House so other people can read it.
	They really should vote to release all of this stuff at once, so that we can see as much of it as possible, in the fastest possible way.
	We should also see the underlying materials, as long as those underlying materials don't actually endanger national security.
	Adam Schiff, of course, was very angry that this House Intelligence memo was going to be released to the public.
	And he does have a gift.
	I mean, the man has the ability to look nonpartisan, even when he's saying deeply partisan things.
	Here is Adam Schiff.
	Adam Schiff is a Democrat from California.
	We had votes today to politicize the intelligence process, to prohibit the FBI and the Department of Justice from expressing their concerns to our committee and to the House, and to selectively release to the public only the majority's distorted memo without the full facts.
	A very sad day, I think, in the history of this committee.
	As I said to my committee colleagues during this hearing, sadly, we can fully expect that the President of the United States will not put the national interest over his own personal interest.
	But it is a sad day indeed when that is also true of our own committee.
	So basically, Democrats are making the claim that the FBI is squeaky clean and that any memo that comes out that condemns the FBI is an attack on the FBI.
	Now, I don't know what's in the memo yet.
	You don't know what's in the memo yet.
	No one knows what's in the memo yet.
	I suspect that there is some stuff in there that's pretty damning of the FBI.
	And I also suspect that Republicans are out over their skis on this memo, that they are overplaying the memo, that they are suggesting that the memo is going to be the kill shot that takes down the Mueller investigation.
	If so, I don't know why.
	I think these are two separate issues.
	It is quite possible that the FISA warrants on Carter Page was originally badly gotten, but that there's more to the investigation.
	It's also possible that the FBI was badly compromised in the Hillary Clinton investigation, but was not super compromised in the Trump-Russia collusion investigation.
	And one of the weird oddities about all this is we're talking about the corruption of the FBI on behalf of Hillary Clinton in the last election cycle, but it was the FBI's constant intervention.
	It was James Comey's intervention, then non-intervention, then intervention, then non-intervention that probably tossed the election away from Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump.
	Meanwhile, we didn't hear anything from the FBI for months about the Trump-Russia collusion investigation that was going on.
	So, there's a lot of oddity about all of this.
	Democrats, I think, are posturing, you know, if they suggest that the FBI is completely clean, that the memo is completely made up, and it's all nonsense, and we just want to protect the FBI and national security.
	The Democrats have spent my entire lifetime attacking the FBI and national security, so I find this a little bit convenient politically.
	Nancy Pelosi is doing the same thing.
	She says that she's deeply, deeply angry over the Devin Nunes memo.
	This is a very big honor that the leader gives to the ranking member, that the speaker gives to the chairman, to be deputized, to protect the intelligence.
	The intelligence for forced protection of our troops, for fighting terrorism and the rest of that.
	Chairman Nunes has acted like a stooge with the speakers.
	A stooge?
	A stooge of the White House at the acquiescence or at least or maybe the guidance of the Speaker of the House.
	This is not about one thing or another.
	This is about the integrity and the safety and our national security.
	That's what he says too though.
	They have crossed They have crossed from dangerously and recklessly dealing with intelligence to a cover-up of an investigation that they don't want the American people to see.
	OK, and this is where I say that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats have gone off the rails.
	OK, where's the cover-up?
	There's no cover-up.
	OK, the Mueller investigation is proceeding apace.
	The Nunes memo doesn't have anything to do with the Mueller investigation.
	I think we need to separate out all these strands.
	Right now, it feels like we're just in a chaotic windstorm of scandal and innuendo.
	But when you separate out all the strands, what you find is many things can be true at once.
	As I said last week, it is true that the FBI was compromised, badly compromised in the Hillary investigation.
	It is also true that it's possible that they were compromised at the beginning of the Trump investigation, but not later.
	We don't know yet.
	It's possible the House Intelligence memo is an effort to try and get the Mueller investigation by essentially stepping on the FBI.
	That's possible.
	I don't know.
	I haven't seen the memo.
	What I will say is that I think both sides are deeply overplaying this.
	So, the Democrats are saying the memo—like, when they act this scared, by the way, it makes it look as though the memo actually has something damaging to say.
	When they act as though—what the Democrats really should be saying is, I don't know why everyone's going so crazy about this memo.
	It's a biased political document that obviously is an attempt to overturn the Mueller investigation or to throw mud on the skirt of the Mueller investigation.
	But I don't know why everybody's so hot and bothered about it.
	It should be relatively easy to debunk if you're a Democrat.
	They should be able to just say, this isn't true, this isn't true, this isn't true, or you're drawing the wrong conclusions from a set of facts.
	So the Democrats instead are going crazy.
	Oh, the memo is the worst thing that ever happened.
	The memo is an attempt to obstruct justice.
	Nonsense, nonsense.
	Meanwhile, on the right, you got a bunch of people who are saying the memo is the end of the story.
	The memo is just, this thing is just so important.
	This memo, which was indeed composed by a partisan group in the House Intelligence Committee, that this memo is going to be the be-all, end-all.
	So it's the usual suspects we're seeing.
	So Sean Hannity over on Fox News, he says the Nunes memo is huge.
	It's enormous.
	It's gigantic.
	Talking with Jeanine Pirro.
	Because this is not a game.
	We are talking about people's lives.
	We're talking about potential crimes.
	We're talking about people being charged, going to jail.
	But more importantly, and the scary part of this, and I'll throw this to Sarah for more information, is that We have now weaponized the powerful tools of intelligence.
	FISA is important because that means that's our government spying on citizens.
	And if Hillary's bought and paid for dossier was the foundation to do this, Wow.
	It was a very shoddy foundation.
	To influence a presidential election.
	A duly elected president of the United States voted for by the people of this country.
	Sean, this is bigger than anything anybody can imagine.
	When you say that, this makes Watergate like stealing a Snickers bar from a drugstore.
	Absolutely, and think about this.
	Okay, well, nobody's seen the memo.
	Stop, stop, stop.
	Nobody's seen the memo.
	Okay, no one's seen it.
	It's bigger than Watergate.
	It makes Watergate look like stealing a Snickers bar.
	We don't know what's in the memo yet, so can we all just calm down and wait to see what's in the memo?
	Can we wait to see the underlying documents?
	The DOJ is claiming that Devin Nunes wrote this memo without actually seeing the underlying intelligence.
	Also, I thought that actually, rare point where I'm going to watch this.
	I'm going to give some credit to Slate.
	For all you folks who don't think that I read bipartisan sources, Slate had an article about this.
	They made what I thought was actually a relatively decent point.
	What they said was, the Republicans are fulminating over FISA warrants being issued against Carter Page, suggesting that the FISA courts are so shoddy that they issued a bad warrant against Carter Page in an attempt to get Trump.
	They went right along with the FBI.
	They just rubber-stamped whatever comes in front of them.
	And yet, the same Republicans who are suggesting that the FISA system is so deeply compromised that it was allowed to almost subvert the will of the people in an election, Those same people voted, like two weeks ago, to extend FISA authority under Section 702 for another six years, without amendment.
	The same people who are complaining the FISA process is too deeply compromised to allow the American people to feel safe were for extending FISA's authority.
	That sounds a little bit hypocritical.
	I think it's not a terrible argument.
	Seb Gorka does the same thing on Fox News last night.
	He says the Nunes memo is 100 times bigger.
	I mean, talk about hyperbole.
	Just watch this hyperbole.
	This is crazy hyperbole.
	I don't want to spoil the punchline here.
	Here's Seb Gorka, former Trump administration staffer, suggesting how big the Nunes memo is.
	But now the evidence has been mounting and mounting and mounting, and one smoking gun after another.
	It's incontrovertible at this point.
	It is, but it has to be put in the context of the history of our great nation.
	Remember, why was America created?
	It was created because of the usurpation of power, the capricious usurpation by a leader thousands of miles away.
	That's why America was created.
	It was about tea tax.
	It was about stationing troops on private property without permission.
	This, this is a hundred times bigger.
	This is our government spying on political adversaries.
	This is federal law enforcement officials Okay, it's a hundred times worse than the American Revolution.
	The British literally put British troops in people's private homes, okay?
	You haven't seen the memo yet!
	You haven't seen the memo yet!
	So this is why I think that when Republicans overplay their hand, it makes them look bad.
	When people like me are saying, guys, calm down.
	Why don't we just wait to see?
	Can we just wait and see?
	Then maybe you should wait and see, okay?
	I am fully open to the idea that the FBI acted badly here, the FBI acted in criminal fashion.
	I'm fully open to that idea.
	I'm also open to the idea that Republicans are wildly blowing this out of proportion for political purposes.
	But it seems like nobody from either side is willing to acknowledge the obvious.
	No one knows what's in the memo outside of Congress.
	No one knows what's in the underlying intelligence outside of the DOJ and the FBI.
	So before we all get on our horses and ride to our battlements, perhaps we ought to look at the underlying information.
	OK, in just a second, I'm going to talk about Democrats who continue to push radicalism on a regular basis in Congress.
	It is pretty astonishing.
	It's the one thing that's holding up Republicans, I think, in some of the polls.
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	So, meanwhile, Democrats continue to demonstrate just how radical they are.
	One of the reasons that the House races are still competitive is because despite all of the chaos surrounding the Trump administration, the Democrats still continue to push some of the most radical policies and rhetoric that I've ever seen in modern American history.
	Kirsten Gillibrand, for example, just makes a fool of herself yesterday.
	She's talking on The View.
	I'm still waiting for my invite, guys.
	I was promised that you were going to consider bringing me on The View because this would be a highlight of my life.
	But apparently you'll have Kirsten Gillibrand who will just go on there and lie to you openly, repeatedly.
	She says that chain migration on illegal immigration, chain migration is a racist slur.
	This is the new Democratic talking point that makes literally no sense since chain migration has nothing to do with slavery and was a term that has been used in legal circles for literally decades.
	Here's Kirsten Gillibrand suggesting that when you say chain migration, meaning like I come in, and then my parents come in, and then my cousins come in.
	Like a chain.
	Like a daisy chain.
	Hmm.
	Not like chains of slaves.
	God, you people are so stupid.
	Here she says it's a racial slur.
	Do you agree with Nancy Pelosi when she says he wants to make America white again, and that's what this is about?
	I think a lot of President Trump's rhetoric is racist.
	And let's be very clear.
	When someone uses the phrase change migration, it is intentional in trying to demonize families.
	Literally trying to demonize families and make it a racist slur.
	It is not right.
	And so we have to change the debate.
	These are people.
	These are families.
	And as elected leaders, I mean, the way I look at it, I'm going to fight for your child and these children as much as I'm going to fight for my own.
	And that is our job as elected leaders, to fight for these kids.
	You've got to fight for the kids.
	Don't you understand?
	You've got to fight for the kids.
	Yesterday, the Democrats, including Kirsten Gillibrand, voted down a bill that would have prevented abortion, except in cases where the life of the mother is in danger.
	It would have prevented abortion after 20 weeks.
	20 weeks, OK?
	That's not an extreme position.
	Here's the fact about a 20-week-old baby in the womb.
	That is a full baby.
	There are babies who are now living outside the womb at 20 weeks.
	Outside the womb.
	If you see an ultrasound, we showed an ultrasound last week, I think, of what a 20-week-old baby looks like in the womb.
	It is a fully formed human child.
	There's a reason why, if you look over to Europe, It's so funny, the left is constantly talking about the wonders and glories of Europe.
	Europe is just this tremendous, wonderful, rich place of culture and happiness and open marriages.
	It's just so, they're so progressive over in Europe.
	Why can't we just be progressive like the Europeans?
	Here are the abortion on demand laws in various European countries.
	Greece, illegal past 12 weeks.
	Austria, illegal past 12 weeks.
	Germany, illegal past 12 weeks.
	France, illegal past 12 weeks.
	Italy, illegal past 12 weeks.
	Spain, illegal past 14 weeks.
	South Korea—abortion on demand is illegal totally.
	Ireland—illegal.
	Poland—illegal.
	Sweden—18 weeks.
	Norway—12 weeks.
	Denmark—12 weeks.
	That's thanks to James Hansen, a contributor to The Federalist.
	The idea that Democrats are somehow in the mainstream when they vote down a bill, overwhelmingly, They vote in favor of killing babies after 20 weeks.
	That's an extreme position.
	And then they talk about how they want to protect all children like they're their own children.
	It's just sick.
	Science does not support this.
	Science actively opposes this.
	Or at least the facts would if we had any moral sense whatsoever.
	But they're so extreme that at the same time they're talking about how chain migration is a racist term, and they're talking about how Trump wants to make America white again by admitting 1.8 million illegal immigrants and another 4 million illegal immigrants through chain migration.
	They're saying that they're not extreme over the issue of abortion.
	By the way, the headlines on this have been ridiculous.
	It says Senate votes down Trump proposal to ban abortion after 20 weeks.
	The Senate didn't vote down anything.
	The bill would have passed.
	51 votes.
	It had 51.
	Only two Republicans voted against it.
	A couple of Democrats voted for it.
	The fact is, it would have passed, except the Democrats filibustered it.
	So they actually used their filibuster power to ensure that women can still murder babies at 21 weeks in the womb.
	So very exciting stuff from Democrats.
	That's not their only extremism.
	Nancy Pelosi continues to suggest that tax cuts are a dark cloud.
	This is the language that she used.
	You know, it's funny.
	I remember not so long ago, when there was a—which Republican was it who used the term dark?
	Or said that it was a black period for the United States, and people suggested that that was racist?
	When Nancy Pelosi says the tax cuts are a dark cloud, she says, the tax bill is really the dark cloud that hangs over the Capitol.
	Really?
	You know the tax bill that's been boosting the stock market and causing people to get raises?
	That tax bill?
	The one that you called crumbs that's putting thousands of dollars back in Americans' pockets?
	That tax bill?
	She says, That is untrue.
	That's fundamentally untrue.
	Okay, there's no data to support that.
	The vast majority of American taxpayers will be receiving a tax cut.
	I'm one of the only people in America who won't be receiving a tax cut under this bill because I live in a stupid state called California.
	But she says this is what keeps her up at night, is the tax cuts.
	So they're against tax cuts.
	So here's what we know about the Democrats.
	They're against tax cuts.
	They're against limitations on migration, because that would be racist.
	Any limitations on migration, by the way, would be racist, apparently.
	And they're in favor of people killing babies at 21 weeks.
	But they're not extreme at all.
	They're not extreme at all.
	The people who are really extreme are the Republicans.
	James Clyburn over at the Congressional Black Caucus, he says that right now the America we're living in is like Germany circa 1934.
	By the way, Germany circa 1934, for the historically illiterate, was the year after Hitler took power.
	It was during the Night of the Long Knives when Hitler literally sent his minions out to murder all of his political oppositions and consolidated all power in 1933 under the Enabling Act, which basically made him a dictator.
	And James Clyburn says that's the United States right now.
	Which makes perfect sense, because James Clyburn right after this was stabbed to death by members of the Trump administration.
	Except for not.
	Here's James Clyburn.
	I can only equate one period of time with what we're experiencing now.
	And that was what was going on in Germany around 1934, right after the 1932 elections, when Adolf Hitler was elected chancellor.
	He began to do things to discredit the media, to disrupt the judicial system.
	And if you recall from your studies, they had swastikas hung in churches all over Germany.
	It's just like that, right?
	Because people have Trump flags hung in churches all over the United States, forcibly.
	It's just like 1934 Germany.
	That's how radical the Democrats think the situation is.
	But they're the ones who are actually radical.
	One of the things that's amazing is how the media have covered for Democrats.
	So back in 2005, I mentioned this briefly on the show the other day.
	Back in 2005, there was a photo that was taken of Barack Obama and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus with Louis Farrakhan.
	Louis Farrakhan is an open anti-Semite.
	He is a brutal, vicious, racist anti-Semite.
	He's a piece of garbage, Louis Farrakhan.
	Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, and he was visited—he visited an event hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus.
	He used to hang out with Keith Ellison, the guy who campaigned for DNC chair.
	He was the backer of the Million Man March.
	He openly campaigned against particular opponents of Barack Obama's.
	You know, the fact that Louis Farrakhan was photographed among all these Democrats in 2005 and no one seems to care, it's amazing.
	Imagine if Republicans, House Republicans, had had a meeting in 2005 with David Duke.
	That's the equivalent here.
	The media covered all that up.
	The media covered all that up.
	And then James Clyburn says that this is like 1934 Germany.
	If it's like 1934 Germany, that's only in that the media are willing to overlook certain political proclivities on behalf of a particular political party.
	But otherwise, just insipid.
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	In the lead up to the State of the Union address, the Democrats continue to talk about sexual harassment and sexual abuse and the Me Too moment.
	Now, the reason they keep doing this is because they figure the longer they keep this alive—let's say that in 2018 Democrats take the House.
	Good shot that happens, right?
	Rodney Frelinghuysen, who is a congressman from New Jersey in a real battleground district.
	He's the head of the House Appropriations Committee.
	He said that he's not going to run for re-election.
	The indicators, if he had to make a bet, You'd lay a bet that the Republicans lose the House.
	It might be closer than you think it'll be, but that's not a terrible bet at this point.
	So Democrats are hoping that in 2018, they take over the House and then they initiate a series of investigations and hearings about President Trump's proclivity for sexual abuse and harassment, allegedly.
	That's what they want.
	That's why they're keeping this alive.
	Well, yesterday, Kirsten Gillibrand, who wants to run for president in 2020, and she's really just a weak, terrible version of Hillary Clinton.
	She's not as good politically as Hillary Clinton, which is saying a lot.
	She's a bad liar, which is a much worse liar than Hillary Clinton, which is saying a lot.
	She goes on The View.
	Again, we're playing all these clips from The View.
	Where's my invite, I ask you again.
	Come on!
	Okay, so Joy Behar is asking Gillibrand about why she stood against Al Franken.
	She says, well, we have to put partisanship aside, and we really have to stand up against sexual abuse in all parties.
	And that's when Meghan McCain steps in.
	Now, Meghan McCain, it's really fascinating, because Meghan and I used to be politically at odds.
	I think she used to be a little bit more left-wing, and I probably used to be a little bit more abrasive, believe it or not.
	And now, I will say that Meghan has done a very good job on the view of representing an actual Republican position, which is something the view has been missing for a long time.
	Watch as Meghan McCain, with two simple questions, dismembers Kirsten Gillibrand on screen.
	It's amazing.
	I mean, these are not difficult questions to answer, and they're not difficult questions to ask, but she has two simple questions, and she turns Kirsten Gillibrand—she reduces Kirsten Gillibrand to a pile of rubble with two simple, straightforward questions.
	That is our job.
	Our job is to speak out, to say no to President Trump, to say it's not okay.
	We want accountability.
	We want transparency.
	We want Congress, specifically Republican leaders, to hold the hearings and have that transparency that we don't have today.
	There's some inconvenient truths on both sides.
	Reportedly, Hillary Clinton is under fire for covering up for a top advisor who was accused of sexual harassment back in 2007.
	She docked his pay and made him seek counseling, but allowed him to stay on.
	And women claim his harassment continued.
	You are a longtime supporter of the Clintons and consider her a mentor.
	Do you think her response this weekend was appropriate?
	As you know, I think these things have to be dealt with, whether you're a Democrat, whether you're a Republican.
	You need transparency and accountability, and no one is above criticism.
	But in that case, I don't know all the details.
	Suddenly, she just is reduced to a quivering, massive, I don't know.
	And then Meghan McCain follows up, and she asks her, OK, so you campaigned with the Clintons.
	Do you regret that?
	And Kirsten Gillibrand, again, has no answer, because all of this is partisan pandering.
	It's obvious it's partisan pandering.
	How is Hillary Clinton not being raked over the coals today?
	It's insane.
	Clinton's campaign manager came out and she said, listen, I wanted to get rid of this guy, right?
	I wanted to get rid of this guy inside Hillary Clinton's campaign, who is her faith advisor, Bern Strider, who is alleged to have sexually harassed the help, right?
	And Hillary Clinton's campaign manager in 2008, Patti Solis Doyle, she says that she objected to this guy being on staff, Bern Strider, and Hillary personally overruled her.
	So a young woman made a complaint to our head of operations about sexual harassment against Yes, Jess O'Connell, who is now the CEO of the DNC.
	Uh, against Byrne Strider, who she reported to.
	Uh, the incident was brought to my attention and, um, you know, I did my due diligence.
	I interviewed all the parties involved.
	I looked at the evidence.
	I looked at some emails that he had sent.
	I had looked at other documents, uh, and came to the conclusion that, uh, there was sexual harassment involved, that the young woman was very credible.
	And my recommendation to the senator was to fire her.
	And I was overruled.
	She was directly overruled by Hillary Clinton.
	What about the Me Too moment?
	What about Hillary and the glass ceiling and standing up for women?
	Where are all the women who are talking about this?
	I'm glad this is on CNN.
	I'm not going to pretend that the mainstream media hasn't covered it at all.
	But can you imagine?
	Can you imagine the hubbub if somebody inside, for example, the Ted Cruz campaign, one of the people inside the Cruz campaign, had been accused of sexual harassment and Cruz had just gone, No biggie.
	I'll block the firing.
	All we hear about is men.
	Evil men.
	Scuzzy men.
	Terrible men.
	But when Hillary Clinton does it, it's totally fine.
	Meanwhile, the weak-kneedness of the left on these issues is pretty astonishing.
	So Mark Ruffalo, who is just a political leftist par excellence, he was speaking out on AM to DM, which is I guess BuzzFeed's new show, and he says that You know, all men have to make a safe space in our privilege.
	See, that's the thing.
	When it comes to stopping sexual abuse and sexual harassment, it's really about men making a safe space in our privilege.
	I don't even know what that means, but apparently you won't like Hulk when he's not angry.
	When you're privileged, you have a voice.
	And right now, men are privileged.
	They have a privilege over women, you know?
	It's just the way it is.
	And, um, and so we have to make a space inside of our privilege for, for, for a safe space for women to speak up.
	And I, and I, and I hope, I'm hoping that more and more actors, men, will do it.
	But they are, and there are ones that do.
	It's just, um, It's just we need more.
	What the hell is he talking about?
	Anybody know what he's talking about?
	And the idea that men are privileged over women in American society is absurd, okay?
	It is not true in the United States right now.
	There are many, many laws in place to protect women as well.
	There should be the idea that this is about men providing a safe space for women.
	Guess what?
	This is more about women actually seizing the space for themselves to tell their stories about how they've been sexually abused and harassed.
	And good for them for doing that.
	But what's funny is that Ruffalo won't be criticized for being patriarchal, even though what he's actually saying here is kind of patriarchal.
	He's saying, well, if we just back off, we, the men, we have to allow women to be free.
	OK, women are free.
	It's a free and equal country.
	And women have the ability to speak out.
	And when they do, and they do so in productive ways, we should support them.
	We should also speak out when it turns out that people like Hillary Clinton are stomping on women who are complaining of being harassed.
	OK, so time for some State of the Union talk.
	So tonight, the State of the Union, the stupidest institution in all of American politics.
	So let's be clear about this.
	It says in the Constitution, That the President of the United States, when requested by Congress, shall give them an update on the State of the Union.
	What that originally was was a letter.
	So George Washington used to send a letter to Congress.
	James Madison sent a letter to Congress.
	Thomas Jefferson sent a letter to Congress.
	Abraham Lincoln sent a letter to Congress.
	The idea of the State of the Union as this gigantic Publicized event is actually a relatively modern invention.
	The idea that we need all this pomp and circumstance, we need to treat this as the Oscars of politics, it's all annoying and irritating and stupid.
	And now we're going to get all these celebrities who are going to show up to do a counter State of the Union address.
	They're going to do their own State of the Union address.
	The Democrats, I believe, are providing five counters to the State of the Union.
	There's Joe Kennedy.
	I believe Bernie's doing one.
	I think Maxine Waters is doing one.
	It'll be a cavalcade of stupidity and irresponsibility.
	So that'll be great.
	Also, as I say, a bunch of celebrities are doing their own, so Michael Moore tweeted out that he was going to, that there's going to be all of these people, and this is 16, there are going to be a bunch of celebrities who show up for this event.
	The People's State of the Union, right?
	It's going to be Common, Rufus Wainwright, Mark Ruffalo, Wanda Sykes, Rosie Perez, John Leguizamo, Cynthia Nixon, Kathy Najimy, Lee Daniels and more.
	Because nothing says People's State of the Union like a bunch of multi-multi-millionaires who come out and talk about politics.
	Nothing says State of the Union like a bunch of actors who haven't been relevant in 10 years except for Mark Ruffalo, but they show up and have lots of money and talk about politics.
	I desperately want to hear what Wanda Sykes has to say.
	Kathy Najimy, I mean, I've just been wondering what the star of In Search of Dr. Seuss has to say about politics.
	I just don't know.
	I mean, I'm really turned on by this.
	It'll be fantastic.
	The State of the Union address should not be publicly televised.
	Trump should just write a letter to Congress.
	We can all get on with our lives.
	Instead, we will sit here and suffer through it with you tonight.
	I hate it.
	I think it's stupid.
	And I think Democrats and Republicans who pretend to like the president, it's all pretend and dumb.
	The routine that we have now where we all bring our favorite guests and then we staff them up in the seats, in the rafters, and then we say, oh, look, they're up in the rafters.
	There's poor Jimmy.
	But poor Jimmy's been given a tax cut.
	AND NOW, POR JIMMY IS RICH.
	It's trite.
	It's stupid.
	Yuck.
	The dumbest one that I've seen about this, by the way, is apparently there is some Democratic representative who invited a local state rep to show up.
	And the state rep, apparently, according to Politico, is literally going to sit there.
	I guess it's Paul Ryan's opponent.
	So Paul Ryan's opponent, Democratic opponent in his district, is supposed to show up to the State of the Union address.
	And according to Politico, this guy is literally going to sit there for the entire speech and stare at Paul Ryan.
	Like, this is his plan, is to stare at Paul Ryan.
	That's weird.
	That's weird.
	Also, tonight's going to be really terrible, because all of the pretend unity is going to just completely fall away.
	The Democrats are not going to chair when they say the President of the United States, Donald Trump.
	They're all going to sit.
	There will be stony silence from half the chamber.
	And then, every time Trump does stuff, I would not be surprised if there's some audible boos.
	I wouldn't be surprised if there's a Joe Wilson, you lie moment.
	The whole event is insanely stupid.
	But it is a good time to evaluate whether this has been a great year for conservatives.
	So, as I've said before, I like a lot of what President Trump has done on policy.
	I like the tax cuts.
	I like his Middle East policy.
	I like his regulatory cuts.
	I like a lot of the things—I like his judicial picks.
	Mitch McConnell came out and said this has been the best year for conservatives in the last 30 years that he's been in Washington, D.C.
	2017 was the best year for conservatives.
	In the 30 years that I've been here, the best year on all fronts.
	And a lot of people are shocked because we didn't know what we were getting with Donald Trump.
	He was doing fundraisers for Chuck Schumer three or four years ago.
	But this has turned out to be a very solid, conservative, right-of-center, pro-business administration, and we're seeing the results of it.
	People who are right-of-center I'm very encouraged to see the results of the great work that was accomplished in 2017.
	OK, so, again, there's a problem here.
	OK, so it is true that a lot of the policy is good.
	It is also true that we have yet to see whether this was the best year for conservatives, because you can't tell at the time.
	You can only tell in retrospect.
	If it turns out that Trump's toxicity is actually a problem for the conservative agenda, then all of the victories I talked about and celebrate, all of the things that I like about President Trump, will actually redound against the agenda that I care about.
	Which is why I beg President Trump nearly every day to stop being the character that he is being.
	And there's a story yesterday that President Trump, when Andrew McCabe—when he fired James Comey, that James Comey was given a ride back on the FBI plane to D.C.
	And Trump called up Andrew McCabe, then the deputy FBI chief, and he said, why are you giving Comey a ride back?
	I fired him.
	And then McCabe said, well, I wanted to, because I thought it was the classy thing to do.
	And then Trump said to McCabe, your wife's a loser.
	That kind of stuff is not good for the president to say.
	So when we say that it's been a great year for conservatism, I can say it's been a great year for conservative policy.
	That I can say without any doubt and without any qualms.
	To say it's been a great year for conservatism, though, ignores that conservatism is a little bit more than just the policy.
	It is also the attitude of unifying America around a set of principles.
	And in that way, it has not been a good year for conservatives.
	OK, time for some things I like and some things that I hate, and then we'll deconstruct the culture briefly.
	Things that I like.
	Yesterday, I recommended a book on Bach.
	Today, I'm recommending some music by Bach.
	Of course, if you've never heard Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, you probably have.
	You just don't know.
	They're called the Brandenburg Concertos or Concerti.
	The Brandenburg Concerto No. 1, this is all written about 1621.
	So this is very early music from Bach.
	And the fact that—and it is great.
	I mean, it's Baroque music.
	It's all great to listen to.
	It is great morning music.
	That's the nice thing about Bach.
	Bach, you can listen to at any time of day.
	I think he's the most listenable composer.
	Beethoven, you sort of have to be in the right mood.
	Mozart, you have to be in the right mood.
	Brahms, you certainly have to be in the right mood.
	Bach, you can basically listen to at any time because there's great variety.
	Here's a little bit of Bach's "Brandon Birkinchero No. 1." Okay, so it's glorious so it's glorious music,
	By the way, I got the date completely wrong here.
	It's 1721, not 1621.
	That'd be literally 1621.
	So, as I said before, you know, I talked yesterday about Mozart rediscovering Bach.
	I said it was like a 150-year gap.
	Of course, I screwed up the century.
	It was about a 50-year gap.
	Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.
	All right, so thing that I hate, number one, first of all, Beyonce wore a dress to the Grammys that was supposedly so glorious.
	Everything about Beyonce is just glorious.
	She's just the most important person that has ever been or ever was.
	Before the show, I was playing somebody the SNL skit, The Baygency, which is just the best skit that SNL has ever done by a long shot, in which In which Andrew Garfield plays a guy who says that he does not appreciate every piece of music that Beyonce's ever made, and then an agency literally comes to take him away.
	It's very funny.
	But Beyonce's dress that she wore was apparently inspired by the Black Panthers.
	This would be the second time that she's done something publicly in homage to the Black Panthers.
	The Black Panthers, of course, were a violent terrorist group.
	And when I say a violent terrorist group, I mean they actually killed people.
	So David Horowitz, my former employer over at David Horowitz Freedom Center, He actually used to work with the Black Panthers.
	He was a communist who worked with the Black Panthers.
	And he was working in San Francisco and knew a woman murdered by the Black Panthers.
	Here he is telling the story.
	And in December 1974, Betty disappeared.
	And by the time the police fished her body out of San Francisco Bay, I knew the Panthers had killed her.
	I had been interviewed by the police.
	They explained to me lots of things.
	It's very difficult to dispose of a body unless you have an organization.
	And then it's not so hard.
	You have safe houses and this and that.
	And so when that happened, I was personally Devastating.
	OK, and Horowitz ended up leaving the leftist movement because of the Black Panthers' extremism and terrorism.
	And yet now, Beyoncé pays homage to them and we're supposed to pretend that she's some great racial unifier.
	That, of course, is silly.
	OK, so we'll skip the other thing that I hate, even though it's pretty great.
	And we'll get to a quick deconstructing the culture.
	So one of the movies that has actually been put up for Best Picture is the movie Get Out.
	It is really well made.
	It's very funny.
	It's very clever.
	It's by Jordan Peele, the comedian Jordan Peele.
	Here's a little bit of the preview and then I'll explain what this says about American culture in this movie.
	You got your toothbrush?
	Check.
	Do you have your deodorant?
	Check.
	Do you have your cozy clothes?
	Got that.
	What?
	You didn't know I'm black?
	Should they?
	You might want her, you know.
	Mom and Dad, my black boyfriend will be coming up this weekend.
	I just don't want you to be shocked that he's a black man.
	I ain't never seen you like this before, bro.
	Meetin' families, takin' road trips.
	Don't come back all bougie, man.
	Come back, get your pants up to your stomach.
	So you guys coming up from the city?
	Yeah, we're just heading up for the weekend.
	Can I see your license, please?
	He wasn't driving.
	I didn't ask who was driving.
	I asked to see his ID.
	Call me Dean if you're hungry, my man.
	So, how long has this been going on, this thing?
	We hired Georgina and Walter to help care for my parents.
	When they died, I couldn't bear to let them go.
	So the movie is creepy.
	It's also really funny.
	It's really well made.
	Here is the problem with the movie.
	It is supremely racist.
	The problem with the movie is the entire premise, spoiler alert, the entire premise of the film is that this black guy has a white girlfriend.
	They go up and visit her white family up in some rich liberal area and they're all Obama voters, but All of these black people who are there are either staff or helpers, and they've legitimately been soul-sucked.
	Their life force has basically—their bodies have been taken over by white people, and they've been relegated to a small portion of their own brain.
	The dying white people have now been infused into these black people's bodies, and their life force has been drained from them.
	They've basically been enslaved.
	The entire idea is a Stepford Wives idea.
	So, Stepford Wives is an anti-man film, right?
	The entire film was about how Traditional American culture sucks women dry and turns them into these replicants, these sort of weird android creatures.
	That's the entire premise of Stepford Wives.
	Well, Get Out is the same thing, except with black people.
	The idea being that black people, who associate with white people, are eventually drawn into white lifestyles, and they become stereotypical white people.
	That's the idea, that essentially white people want to enslave black people, and that the way that they enslave black people is by offering them nice houses and sex.
	Right, so Alison Williams, who plays his girlfriend, this loving girlfriend, this hot white chick, right, and they have lots of steamy sex in the film, but what she really wants out of him is to suck him dry of his blackness.
	That's the idea of Get Out.
	And the fact that liberal critics love this is indicative of the fact that they refuse to acknowledge that there is a racist undertone to this.
	There is.
	I'm sorry, there is.
	Now, there are people like Andrew Klobner who disagree.
	He says it was really just making fun of liberal white people.
	It is not making fun of liberal white people.
	The entire point of the film is that even the most liberal white people, even the ones who go out of their way to be tolerant on race, who go out of their way to say that they voted for Obama twice and would have voted a third time—it's a running joke in the movie—even those people are seriously racists who just want to suck black people dry of their culture and history.
	That sort of concept would reverse the races, and everybody would understand the serious problem with the racial politics in this movie.
	Again, doesn't mean it's not well-made.
	It doesn't mean it's an Oscar frontrunner, because the more left you are in the Oscars, the better off.
	That means this and The Shape of Water are probably the two Oscar frontrunners.
	Dunkirk will not win anything because it's not lefty enough.
	But know that going into the movie.
	It's amazing to me that people have been willing to overlook this, so I will say what is the unsayable.
	I'll also let you know if Black Panther is good, by the way.
	The reason I bring that up is because, as I said at the beginning of the show, the critics are just over the moon about Black Panthers.
	Number one, I don't like Marvel movies generally, so I think they're always wrong about Marvel movies.
	But second of all, we'll have to see if the movie's actually good or if it's getting the Wonder Woman effect, where it's not just the Wonder Woman is good, it's the greatest movie that's ever been made.
	It goes something like this.
	Gone with the Wind, and then Wonder Woman's way up here, above Gone with the Wind.
	We'll see if they do the same thing with Black Panther.
	I've got to admit, I was not blown away by the preview.
	I may be the only person in America who was not.
	I think Mathis agrees with me that the trailer is overrated.
	We'll see.
	We'll see.
	But I may be the lone voice who's allowed to say that Black Panther wasn't as good as it is cracked up to be.
	If it is good, by the way, I'll be really happy and I'll be glad to recommend it.
	So, we'll let you know.
	Alrighty, we'll be back here tomorrow with a full recap of the very important, very fascinating State of the Union address.
	We'll be back here tomorrow.
	We'll discuss all of it.
	I'm Ben Shapiro.
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