On Sunday, Senator Bernie Sanders took to Twitter to deliver one of his usual messages. People go to the doctor because they're sick get a diagnosis from the doctor, but they can't afford the treatment he wrote. How crazy is that, so It's fine snarkily. I go to a fancy store to check out a piece of furniture, and I can't afford it totally crazy. This, of course prom did spasms of apoplexy on the left. How could I dare to compare medical care furniture? Was I equating the two? I suggesting that the necessity of furniture was somehow comperable to the necessity of medical care, of course, not because the be stupid? I was pointing out the medical care is a commodity and that in life we are often aces commodities we cannot afford, but this year cause a ruckus on the left necessities. Like Ben Shapiro for demonstrating the complete soulless of capitalist ideology, tweeted another The idea here seems to be that, unless you declare

okay right rather than a commodity, your soul, that is marked my put it necessity rather than autonomy, creates writes. This is full both morally and practically. Morally, you all right to man, medical care of me, I'm a nice your necessity, I may offer charity my friends and I may choose to band together and find your medical care, but your necessity does not change the basic math medic there is a service and a good provided by a third party, no matter how much, I need bread. I do not have a right to steal your wallet or hold up the local bakery, but to obtain theft may being the least immoral choice under the circumstances that doesn't make it a moral choice or suggest that I have not violated your rights in pursuing my own needs, but the left things that declaring necessities right somehow overcomes the individual rights of others. If you're sick, you know have the right to demand the my wife, who is a doctor care for you. Is there any to this right. Do you have the to demand that the medical system provide life, saving care forever to the tunes of millions of dollars of other people's taxpayer dollars or services. How exactly can they he said, you're right without the government

in care or using compulsion to force individuals to provide it or con getting math sums of wealth to pay for it. The answer nope, don't work that way right derived from individual need? In now, I violate individual autonomy. In response, my sweet, my colleague, New York, magazine Jesse, single real, quote, free, kids are good at some things in terrible at others, and it's silly to view them as ends rather than means. That's not true, free mark, our expressions of individual autonomy and therefore ends to be pursued in and of themselves, now practically declaring meadow call, Carol, Wright doesn't make it actually happen. Just

is Ruth Bader Ginsburg said at one point: she would model new constitutions on the south african constitution, which guarantees quote. Everyone has the right to have access to health care services, including reproductive health care. The state must take reasonable legislative and other measures within its available resources to achieve the progressive realization of each of these rights. That's with the south african constitution says, but the World Health Organization ranks South Africa somewhere near the bottom of the globe in terms of medical care. What happened? Why didn't the right self actualized, because medical care is a commodity and if you treated differently, that's stupid, to make a commodity cheaper and better? You need two things: profit incentive and freedom of labor. The government destroys both of these things in the healthcare industry. It decides medical reimbursement rates for millions of Americans, particularly poor Americans, this in turn created and so for doctors, not to take government sponsored health insurance. It regulates how doctors treat with patients the sort. If training doctors must undergo the sorts of insurance, they must maintain all of convinces fewer Americans to become doctors, undersupply, doctors generally and doctors. Who will

your insurance specifically along the demand, stimulated by government driven health insurance coverage that leads to mass shortages? The result in over to an emergency care costs for distribute among government hospitals and insurance pairs? So what's the solution for poor people well not to clear medical care right, certainly to dismiss reliance on the market as some sort of perverse cruelty markets the solution in medical care, just as they are in virtually every other area. If you treat medical there, a commodity that means temporary shortages and it means people won't get everything we wish they would have, but that's also true, but worse with government sponsored medical care, as the most honest advocates will admit. His government sponsored medical care requires a top down approach that violates individual liberties, generates over demand and cautious supply markets price individual liberties, they reduce demand. You don't demand more of what you have to pay for, and the heightened supply for profit incentive. So back to the furniture. Now, let's say you life, depended on this choice today, you either

obtain an affordable chair or an affordable x ray which you choose to obtain. Well, if you're, not Did you choose the chair? That's because there are lots of types of chairs produced by scores of different companies widely distributed. You could buy a fifteen folding, chair or one thousand dollars antique without the slightest difficulty, by contrast to obtain an egg, you have to work with your insurance company, wait for an appointment and then haggle over price. Why? Because the medical market is way more regulated. Thanks to the wide my perception that healthcare is a right, then the share market does that sound soulless, true soullessness is depriving people of the choices they require because you're, more interested in patting yourself on the back by inventing rights, then by incentivizing the creation of goods and services in health care. We could use a lot let's virtue signalling and a lot less government or we could just Bernie Sanders- is weeks. While we wait in line for a government sponsored surgery dying, presumably it decrepit chair. I've been Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show

Alrighty. So there's a lot to get to today. For some reason there, certain songs playing my my head, like rain, keep falling on my head and are the people you love with love, but we will get to all of that. The media have lost their minds by the way they have completely lost mines. Trump. Their press conference today and basic can give you the short version of what that press conference. Like here's, the short version right there yeah, that's from first to me, he, and then we have actually quick, live shot of CNN headquarters right now, yeah there, there's that so we'll get to all of that in just a second first, we have to thank our sponsor Helix sleep helix. They make fantastic, fantastic, Metrix's self. So, as I said before on the program, I am a very light sleeper, so I require a very comfortable bed and he looks sleep makes that happen for me go on a on their website, which is that helixsleep dot com and you fill

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the allegations were presented in a two page maps that was appended to a report on russian interference in the twenty sixteen election, the alligator came in part from memos compiled by a former british intelligence. Operative who's passed US intelligence officials. Consider credible the FBI investigating the credibility and accuracy of these allegations, which are based primarily on information from russian sources, but has not confirmed many essential details in the memos about Trump. The classified briefings last week were presented by four of the senior most US intelligence, cheese, that B Dni clapper at for calling CIA director Brendan and NSA director MIKE Rogers. So basically they sense these supposedly classified documents to Obama and Trump, including occasions that russian operatives claims have come to my the personal and financial information about front and that's the extent of the story, and so the entire world goes nuts. This is nuts right. I mean Trump is being briefed on the fact that the Russians now have all this dirty info, and maybe this explains why Trump is so warm toward Russia all the time now to skip

order. The story for a second CBS News appears to now be blowing this out of the water. They now say that this never happened according to CBS News now senior US intelligence official, with knowledge of the preparation for the meeting with Trump said that Trump was not briefed on the two page addendum to the dossier and the officials say the summary was included in the material prepared for the briefers, but the briefing or old no documents were handed to Trump. So that means that even the CNN story wasn't true. If the CBS News report is true, but this CNN story breaks and the entire world is lit a flame, the entire world goes on fire it just blows up and then and then the world ends. So it's already blowing up and then the pieces implode themselves, the black hole of news, that's because of Ben's Smith Buzzfeed, so Buzzfeed releases, the actual memos that were supposedly compiled for this for this breed sing for Trump and Obama, and these memos are insane

insane. I mean they say things like Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, was in the Czech Republic meeting in proud with russian agents to get information on Hillary Clinton. They say things like Trump is d in bed with russian business sources and they've paid him. Lots money. It says that has been cultivating trump is an asset for years and of course, the most the most a delegation of the reason, I'm making pp jokes today enough of a man not to make a Goodyear, I'm sorry, I can eat it if you're, if you wanted to, if you wanted pp, jokes you're in luck today, because today is your day, but one of the allegations is and if it's too it's too salacious, not to mention the vacation is that Trump went to Russia and stayed at the Ritz in Moscow and in state, and it's ridiculous stayed in Iraq, Obama Suite no one that he used to stay in with Michelle Obama and then seated, because he hates the Obamas to hire a bunch of russian whores to to come in and

have a golden shower party to pee on the bed in front of him. That's how much he hates the Obamas, and so there's this thing is flying around the web. Golden shower is, is trending and, and Ben Smith releases. This statement trying explain why it is that he even put this thing out, because he himself says in the report. They say that this stuff is unverified. We don't know how to check it. There's no way to check it going to put it out anyway, screw it we're putting it out anyway, by the way it already been run by a bunch of other people, including David Corn, David Corner Mother Jones. He didn't put up the full report. Here's what tweeted about it! This is. He said I accurately characterize the memos. This is important stuff, but not published details. Even Donald Trump deserves journalistic fairness, but not from Buzz so Ben Smith. Right, as you have probably seen this evening, we publish the secret dossier making explosive unverified allegations about Trump and Russia. I want briefly, explain to you how we made the decision to publish it the dossier which can bend

obtained through his characteristically ferocious reporting. It's not ferocious reporting to just released it document so that, as we wrote, Americans can make up their own minds about allegations about the President Elect that have circulate at the highest levels of the US government, so we're just going to release this information, we're not going to provide you any way to verify it, but you do it. You do the verification, like I don't know how I'm supposed to do the verification or yours to do the verification and sort of Buzzfeed's job. It's why all of these other news outlets ripped into Buzzfeed and said what the hell are you doing, but Buzzfeed releases it anyway, this repo that is chock full of total crazy towns. I mean total crazy towns now it's possible that the CNN report is quasi. It's it's somewhat more legitimate than the Buzz feed report. The bug report is just here's a document we obtain food and put it on line and why I can tell you whether it's true or false, also russian horse PETE on Trump right now, is Buzzfeed report Buzz the CNN part, said: okay, we have sources that say the Intel community reported this to Trump. That raises questions about how Sienna New that is the Intel community leaking

I mean this entire campaign has been about leaks. So I guess eventually we're going to arrive at this point where it's leaks about leaks. But that said the there's a there's a market at the american binder it at the Atlantic. He said that the The intelligence community didn't just summarize the dossier. It also includes other information in any case, Buzzfeed is this, and the world goes insane and very quickly. Trump is able to debunk some of this stuff very quickly Trump. It get to Trump's response in just second, so, first before we get to that four Chan, which is sort of the the trolling, then the website for the all of the best rolls around four Chan and it's it's troll central. It's where all the cave, trolls hang out and Chan releases, a statement, basically people from four saying that they have actually created the stuff from whole cloth and they sent it to an anti trump operative. Named Rick Wilson Republican named Rick Wilson

and Wilson gave the Intel community, they trolled the entire intelligence community. There's no evidence that this is true other than a full people on four Chan saying some stuff. There really is no evidence that this is true. Wilson himself denies this He says that all this information has been out since August. That's the same thing that was being reported by CNN, So there's no reason to think that what four Chan said is true. There's also no reason to think that Buzzfeed put out there is true, so we have a bunch of unverified information floating around and people taking sides and then rush. Jumps in so the crumb. Get a response, and the Kremlin Tell CNN quote: the Kremlin has, no compliment and President Elect Donald Trump according to Putin's spokesman, it peskov that the russian term for compromising information intend to be used against someone, and that said, the one does not have come on top information does not reality is complete fiction and then another, and then he also said that we don't even do this red.

They actually said that there is that they actually said that they don't even spy on people than him do compromise. Compromising is something that we do, which is No, that is, I think, the Russians don't gather information on people that be crazy. So now we finally get to the we finally get to the Donald Trump team response and Trump is been- has the ultimate gift, just this massive get by Buzzfeed? Because imagine it just in the CNN report that said that there are reports that he heard about all of this and that the Intellij community was checking and that's all we knew well, then I have some questions to answer. Wouldn't he, but that's not all happened right. Instead, you get this. This Buzzfeed report that very quickly people start going through and debunking. So, for example, Michael Cohen, who is the lawyer for Trump and is mentioned in this in this compilation, suppose it intelligence on Trump he immediately reach out, and he says no I've never been to Prague and then confirm that he's never been to Prague. Usc says that he was actually at. U

the date that he was supposed to been in Prague, CNN comes out is always a different Michael, come on it different. My Coco, not one who worked for Trump to some guy named Michael Kohn. Ok! Well, that's weird. Alright, in the in the Trump team comes out, and they say this is just pure garbage runs previous White House chief of Staff says this is just nonsense. This is made up, so What is the president likes response to the Buzzfeed and CNN reports and will will he talk about them at eleven o'clock today, in his press conference,

I mean the the Buzzfeed memo is total. Complete garbage is what it is, and I'd look into. Buzzfeed themselves said it was garbage the New York Times wouldn't even print the document because it was unverifiable. This is what this is. There's tens of thousands of retired agents all over the world. You've got some agents somewhere. Maybe in the UK that hangs a shingle and says pay me a rate. I'm gonna do opposition research, research, he does a memo or she does a memo. The sinks circulates for months. It's unsubstantiated and voila. It shows up I talked to Michael Cohen, one of the basis of this entire report. Is it a guy named Michael Cohen, who works for the Trump organization went to Prague? and had a meeting with russian agents he never in the prog in his life. I don't know it says about the report. In fact, the coach

of USC baseball in Southern California said wait a second. He wasn't in Proc. You was with me in southern California, with his son. Well, uh guys never been there are. There are parts of southern California Fornia Prog, like all of it, and obviously he's doing that on good sourcing? This the beauty of what Buzzfeed did actually in favor of from rabbi, releasing all this information half, which is it I mean a lot of, which is that for all we know all this garbage, but some It certainly is garbage by do that they allowed Trump the ability to come out and say everything that we've ever heard about. Russia is untrue. There's nothing going on with Russia. All this crap in the media is out to get me because guess what the media to get him here right. They they actually were out to get him. Seth Meyers had on Kellyanne Conway last night and he asked her about the the russian reports and I Kelly. Wise laps around a little bit, that the press report was about them going to the press,

says it. They never briefed him on it at that they appended to pick two pages to the bottom of his intelligence. I believe it said they did brief him on it all. He has said that he is not aware of that. Okay, that can turns me now, I'm concerned in general. I just wanted I understand now. I understand that it's not true what is not true that I'm concerned now that I say I assure you I am I agree now, but not nothing really care if the Russians trying to interfere, whether it affected the outcome of the election on, isn't that something that I sometimes fear that the President Elect has no curiosity as to the amount they try. It is completely false. Norma's curiosity on there every day with him he has a number of different meetings, everyday briefings, and otherwise he

is curious enough to figure out America. He knew America with many other republican right there, Kelly Annelyn Democrats in America, you no one. Does it better? Nobody does it better sixty three days in? Why did it take so long? That's a lot longer than presidents usually take to speak to the press. The President elected very busy forming his government, but every president, whoever puts together government we haven't had they haven't had well, they haven't had to meet with Connie. No, they haven't. Actually I love the Connie. Myers has Ronnies grilling her well. She's actually saying is true. 'cause NBC News came out and said does not attend, attended to the document, and it wasn't mentioned during the oral briefing so she's. Actually telling the truth here and s There's is just refusing to believe her, and this is what's happened in our politics. Is that if there's a bad story about Trump everybody who doesn't like trump immediately leaps to believe it? If there's a good story about Trump everybody who likes Trump immediately leaps to believe it and the truth,

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As such, I mean it's really high quality stuff. Ok, so we're going to say one more thing and then we will have to break her. So trump himself responds and the way that he responds. I is less. He has a clear win here. We say: try has a clear win right. The buzz feed report comes out. It's a bunch of crap and Trump has a very clear win. An the clear clearwin should be him coming out and saying all of this is Craig. Are you guys crazy, like what it what in the world? What in the world in Trump does what from does, which is. He makes some boo boos, and this is going to be one of the more epic episodes of good from bad trump that we've ever done here on the Ben Shapiro Show, it's pretty. It's pretty play the song real fast, which one will begin there. Some certainly epic good here and there some relatively epic bad, so Trump really comes out tweeting about the bug, feed story, and here is what he tweets he's with Russia just said the unverified reports,

before my political opponents is quote a complete and total fabrication. Utter nonsense. All caps, very unfair, exclamation point so tip to the if you are trying to tell people that you do not have associations with Russia in order, you trust them. Nor are you in their pocket. It's probably not a wise move to quote them denying the report, Lots of reasons deny the report. You should know whether the report is true, since you are the subject of the report, quoting the russian intelligence community, that just said that they don't spy on people. That's not your best. Tak but he continues along these lines. Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I have nothing to do with Russia. All caps, no deals, no loans, no nothing which which may or may not be true he's not releasing his tax returns we'll get to in a minute. So we don't really know that. But let's assume it's true for a second and then he Suites in this one is correct. I win an election easily. Well not easily. Uh great movement is verified and Krooked opponents try to belittle our victory with fake news, a sorry state, fair and then finally finishes intelligence agency should never have allowed this fake news to quote unquote leak into the public. I don't know if you

the p pun or if he just doesn't know how scare marks scared work. This is one last shot me. Are we living in Nazi Germany? No President Trump, we are not living in Nazi Germany. President Trump, who is the president of the United States because you are- elected in a presidential election as the president also pickle tactics of the Nazis did not include, making damaging but false information to the press, typical tactics, and at ease included, murdering your political opponents, imprisoning millions of people and then systematically killing them also invading foreign countries for no reason other than you needed some more room for Germans. So no it's not not to Germany and again, there's just some typical trump at we have to break here. And if you want to watch the rest and there's so much more to come, you need to stop by. You need to go to dailywire dot com right now and become a subscriber The visuals on this are amazing: you're, going to you're going to want to see the tape it

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and his he's got his whole family out there and he's got his entire staff out there. It's his first press conference as President Elect of the United States, and he gets to do that saying that Donald Trump loves best. He gets mash people, it's his favorite thing in this particular rendition of Donald Trump as President elect the part of JEB Bush will be played by CNN and the part of Donald, but we played by Donald Trump. So we begin with clip twenty, because this is the one that's making all the news he's angry at CNN for having reported the fact that he would the notion that he was supposedly told about Trump Russia ties by the Intel community and here is Donald Trump Mashing, a CNN reporter named Jim Acosta information that was false and fake and never happened got really to the public as far as Buzzfeed, which is a failing pile of garbage writing it. I think they're going to sell for the consequences they already are as far as CNN, going out of their way to build it up and by the

Ok, we just found out- I was coming down. Michael count, I was being Michael Cone is a very talented lawyer. Is a good learning, my firm who is just? put it that it wasn't this Michael Kohn. They were talking about so all night long, it's Michael Kohn. I said I want to see your passport, he brings his past or to my office? I say: hey wait a minute. He didn't leave the country he wasn't out of the country. They had Michael Cone of the trump organization wasn't prod. It turned out to be a different Michael Kohn. It's a disgrace. What took place it's a disgrace, and I think they ought to apologize to start with Michael Kohn work is since you're attacking us. Can you give us a question? Mister personal life go ahead since you are not you not give you give us a cheater organization. Were talking. Are news organization? Give us a chance to ask a question. Sir QUIET quiet. Mister President Elect go ahead. Question. Can you give us a county roofing us? Can you give us a don't, be rude. Not to give you I'm not.

Give you a you are fake news, so This administration is going to be interesting and that was immediately followed up by bright Bart, Slash Trump Bart Map asking Donald Trump. If you could he's kind of many trump map oil. I mean, I know I know Matt hidden. He immediately comes back with mister Mister President elect them eat this bag of crap. How would you fix it say? Oh, my god, ok, so this is going to be a full scale. Crap show so two things about this one. I think Trump just said. There is true everything that he said. There is true and it's glorious and when Trump hits people this very early on people forget this because I became because I'm very skipped. Little Donald Trump very early on one of the things that I said about Trump. That was good and something that I said continuously throughout the campaign was good about Trump. Is the man knows how to throw a punch? I mean he certainly knows how to throw a punch, and here he comes in both fists, a Waylon, and he just

those directly after CNN and starts punching the living crap out of them now I will make a side point here A lot of people on the right were saying: Jim Acosta. How could Jim Acosta of CNN tried to ask a question when he wasn't called on? How could he do something like that? Now? time to bring back the old shoe. Ah yes, you remember the old shoe. Yes, I know you do. This is the shoe that you put on the other foot. Let's imagine that there were reporter, who called out of Donna two to Barack Obama after Barack Obama ripped there but let's imagine it was a conservative AL it like say I don't know the daily caller and let's say there was a person like saying Neil Munro and he called out a question to bra Obama and Barack Obama shut him down. The entire media declared out of line just terrible. How could he do this? Would you be happy you weren't? Ok, I wasn't either. I thought that Neil Munro had every right to yellow question at Obama. If he didn't want to take it. That was his problem. I don't get cast edit anything wrong here. I don't think he owes Trump an apology and I think that it it's kind of jerky of Trump not to answer

CNN's question just because he didn't like their original story. Even if the original story was false, I think they should ask the question and he should hammer them. That would be the best use here, but that said did viscerally satisfying to watch. Donald Trump plays his amp. Posterior on top of CNN and just crush them with his ass. Yes this highly areas and they absolutely deserve it, and then it continues, and then it continues here is clip. Fourteen from says that it is a disgrace disgraced. This information got out in the first place These meetings, as you know, are confidential classified so I'm not allowed to talk about what went on in a meeting. He had many witnesses in that meeting, many of them with us and I will say again: I think it's a disgrace. Information would be let out so the information. I read the information outside of that meeting. It's all fake news, it's phony stuff, it didn't happen and it was gotten by opponents of ours, as you know,

because you reported it and so did many of the other people. It was a group opponents who got together sick people and they put that crap together. So I will tell you that not within the meeting but outside of the meeting somebody released it, it should never been number one shouldn't have even entered paper, but it should ever been released. But I read what was released and I think it's disgrace. I think it's an absolute disgrace and he is exactly right, so good trump there. He is exactly right, it is a disgrace. This is how he should respond, and this is how he did respond so good for Trump for responding, that way, saying that the release of this report was a disgrace. He does have a problem. That is that if the Intel community is leaking information on him because they don't like him- that's the continuing thing that is not going to stop anytime soon. It's not going to be a situation where the the intelligence community suddenly comes around and loves Trump he's going to be face

in this down his entire administration, which is not good for his ministration whatsoever. Ok, so that's some good trump that some good Trump, then we get to some, not so good trump, because for every good trump there is some bad trump. It was a wild press conference. Folks, I mean it was just whoo crazy, woo put on your clown. Shoes were about to go a jumping on some breaks, so Donald, the Donald Trump is asked about Bladimir Putin. Remember. The stick was because Donald Trump has been so consistently an advocate for the Russians and is Donald Trump talking about Vladimir Putin. If Putin like Donald Trump, I consider that an asset, not a liability 'cause. We a horrible relationship with Russia. Russia can help first fight ISIS, which, by the way, is number one tricky I mean. If you look, this administration created ISIS by leaving at the wrong time avoid was created. Isis was formed if Putin likes Donald Trump guess what folk

that's called an asset, not a liability. Now I don't know, oh that I'm going to get along with Vladimir Putin. I hope I do, but there's a good chance. I won't, and if I do, you honestly believe that Hillary would be tougher on Putin than me. Does any play in this room really believe that give me a break. Ok. So, yes, I think some people believe that you will be soft on on on Putin. And when he says things like it's an asset, not a liability that Putin likes to you sort of have Ask yourself: why would Putin, who is an actual murderous dictator like Donald Trump? Ok, it's not actually an asset. In fact, I think it would more of an asset. If, if put more scared of Donald Trump, give Allie always says that if you have to choose, love or fear, choose fear and because is very often predicated on the notion that you have common interests weed common interests with Russia, so that is that to put in your bad trump category in another bad trump news from this press conference.

This. Actually, I don't know whether put this in bad trump or the trump it's more just bizarre trump trump is ass, specif, only about the allegations that he was peed on by russian prostitutes, which is weird allegation straight from the straight from the memory hole of David Brock- and here is Here- is Donald Trump Resp running to that in possibly the most bizarre way. Any president has ever responded to anything ever in the history of mankind, but I owe tell them. If I'm leaving this country be very careful Bic, as in your hotel rooms and no matter where you go, you gotta probably have cameras, I'm not referring just to Russia, but I would certainly put them in that category and number one. I hope you're going to be good anyway, but in those rooms you have cameras in the strangest places, cameras that are so small with modern technology.

You can't see them and you won't know you better, be careful or you'll be watching yourself or nightly television. I tell this to people all the time I was in Russia years ago with the Miss Universe contest which did very well Moscow, the Moscow area, it's very, very weak and help. I told many people be careful Because you don't want to see yourself in television cameras all over the place and again now. Just Russia all over. Does anyone really believe that story? I'm also very a German filed by the way believe me, Oh my gosh, I I'm pretty sure you've never heard that combination of words in that particular order. Monkeys, typing Shakespeare for a million years could not come up with that. That is spectacular. So first he warned everybody about the pinhole cameras in the Russia

hotel rooms and then he follows head up with the story about the Miss Universe contest that we did very well by the way very well and then he concludes with I'm a germaphobe. So I wouldn't have russian process whose pee on me- wow. Wow. Well, I guess we're in uncharted territory gangs so there's that I've run out of words. There are no more words to describe what you're watching on tape yeah There is. Is there an alternative reality where the Nazis in the japanese one? But it's actually like the real reality, and we just ended up in this one, because the man in the high castle somehow allowed us to act that alternative reality, because what is going on WU, ok! Well, then it gets more serious Anita. It's about what he's actually going with businesses, and this is actually a little bit more serious. So he actually, there are moments of serious policy interspersed with talk of russian PP parties and and talk about budget.

Being a flaming pile of garbage poop. So he He talked a little bit about how he's going to separate from his house going to separate from his businesses and here is what he had to say about it. I've learned a lot about my company and now they realize my company is much bigger, much more power full than they ever thought were in many many countries and a very proud of it. No, it is. It is so wonderful how every time he mentions himself or his company, he feels the need to add this modifier about how big and wonderful they are. It's just it's it's it's like a personality court, it's just it's sort of charming and wonderful. In the same way, it is charming and wonderful that every time my daughter actually goes to the bathroom, 'cause she's being potty trained, she runs out and she started screaming yay You don't have to like talk yourself up anymore. Your president Elect of the United States, for God sake like you, don't have to talk about the size. Your business, but he can go play. Doing is

my two sons who are right here. Don and Eric are going to be running the company. They are going to be running it in a very professional manner, they're not going to discuss it with me again. I don't have to do this they're not going to discuss it with me and with that I'm going to bring up Sherri Dillon and she's going to go. These papers are just some of the many documents that I've signed. Turning over complete and total control to my ok. So what the actual plan is. Apparently it will talk about it a little bit more tomorrow when we have more time and hopefully isn't quite so busy 'cause there's been a crazy newsday. Is his plan. Is that he's going to turn over the companies to Don and Eric and that there not going to be associated with the government in any way, and they won't talk about what's going on with the businesses well still licenses brand inside the United States. Excuse me by case basis, but he won't do it outside the country he said. Did Lee going to sign away all of his interests, but

it's very end of this. He says and then after him and being president I'll go back and look at the business and I'll say if you too bad job you're fired. He actually said that really, like the very end of the press conference, which sort of destroys your entire I'm separating from my company routine right. If I run daily wire- and I say to my deputy managing editor- ok, I'm going on vacation to Hawaii when I come back. If the crappy job you're, fired who's in charge of the company is now deputy managing editor right, I'm still in or the companies, I can still come back and fire people guys. That means you, but in any case Donald Trump basically says that, and then he expects everybody to take that at face value. You not totally come bolt with his solution on any of this. He could have just handed over to some neutral third party busy. Person that everybody trusts to run the thing an. I think everyone been satisfied, but he's not doing that it does raise more conflict of interest questions, but it's good imaged Why he's stacking all these papers right there? I would love to

somebody just run up and start grabbing copies of them, because I wonder if you could actually take them in any case, and that was done. Trump's press conference in which he gave the entire media a golden shower. Meanwhile, in other, in port news, Rex Tillerson is on the hill he's being questioned right now, too, go to the become secretary of state and the senators are questioning him about this, and it's not going for Ex Tillerson, so well. Donald Trump is busy stepping on the media with his with his giant feet, the the when is grilling Rex Tillerson over his russian ties, so Trump is trying to say I'm not in Thrall to Russia. By the way I don't care really weather enthralled Russia, whether they have corrupt material on him. What I do care is his policy and Rex Tillerson made pretty clear, though he's not going to be anti trash in anti russian secretary of State is going to be a pro russian secretary of Marco Rubio is very hawkish on Russia, question and tillerson in front of the

it today and here's how it looked. Is vitamin Putin, the war criminal? I would not use that term. Well, let me describe the situation in Aleppo and perhaps that will help you reach that conclusion. In Aleppo, Mister Putin has directed his military to conduct a devastate, in campaign. He's targeted schools markets, not just assisted the Syrians. In doing it, his military has targeted schools and markets and other civilian infrastructure. It's resulted in the death of thousands of civilians. This is not the first time Mr Putin's involved in campaigns of this kind, and what's publicly in the record about what's happened in Aleppo in the russian military. You are still not prepared, say that Bladimir Putin, his military, have violated the rules of war and have conducted war crimes in Aleppo. Those are very, very serious charges to make, and I

we want to have much more information before reaching the conclusion. I understand there is a body of record in the public domain, I'm sure there's a body of record in the classified domain and I think, in order in order to deal with a serious quest like this shutters and power level is in the public videos in the pictures of the holy inform before advising president. Well, I encourage you there so much of it. There is so much information out there about. What's happened in a lot, leaving the Chechen issue aside, what happened? There is clearly documented as well there's so much information out there. It should- not be hard to say. The Vladimir Putin's military has conduct war crimes in Aleppo, because it is never acceptable. You would agree for military to specifically target civilians, which is what's happened there through the russian military and you know I find it discouraging your inability to site that which I think is global, accepted and good for Senator Rubio. There will see Rubio by the way hasn't said whether have

for Tillerson he may vote for television anyway? Despite these objections- and he continues on this wine and you'll see Tillerson is very very weak when it comes to Russia, which is one of the reasons that Trump selected him mister Tillerson. Do you believe that Vladimir Putin and his cronies are responsible for ordering the murder of countless dissidents, journalists and political opponents. I do not have fishing information to make that claim. Are you aware that people who oppose lie mere Putin wind up dead all over the world poison shot in the back of the head, and you think that was coincidental or do you think that it is quite possible or likely is. I believe that they were part of an effort to murder his political opponents. Well, people who speak up for freedom and regimes that are repressive or are often at threat, and this and these things happen to them in terms of assigning specific responsibilities? I would have to have more information.

As I indicated, I feel it's important that in advising the president, if confirmed, that, I deal with facts that there was sufficient information which means having access to all information and I'm sure, there's a large body of information that I've never seen. That's in the classified realm, I look forward, if confirmed, to become becoming fully info. Formed, but I'm not willing to make conclusions on what his own publicly available or have been publicly. None of this is classified Mister Tillerson. These people are dead political opponents at your car. Your question was people who are directly responsible for that? I'm not disputing these people are dead. Ok well he's sort of disputing who is responsible for it, which was actually Rubio's question again. Is the big unanswered question about Trump and I do have to say so when it comes to all of the political entertainment that surrounds Trump in Russia and Buzz feed and Trump and all this kind of stuff, when you get past all the What you realize is that there are axes to modern politics? There's the pull

the axis and there's the truth, access. Ok, let's say that you have a chart and there's an x app. This on this side of the chart. You have truth on this side of the chart. You have falsehood on this side. On the on the n axis, you have Republican on the S access you have Democrat right now. The x axis has completely disip, All that's left is the Y axis. All that's left is republican or Democrat. Nobody cares about truth anymore. No, one because it doesn't matter what Trump's policy is he's hitting the right deleting the Democrats. That's all that matters and the democratic side. It doesn't matter whether it's true or not. All that matters is whether it's hitting trump. Once you reach that point in politics. There's no way to have a conversation, there's no determine what's true and what's false, what's wrong and what's right because we're not in the realm of true and false and wrong and right anymore, all were in the realm of is rooting interest with just becomes team sport. It just becomes. I root for Trump. I don't vote for Trump I root for Tillerson. I don't root for Tillerson what He was trying to do here is say things that are true and people. You know we'll see whether we vote for Tillerson, but this is a much more important question. Trump's russian policy, then, whether he slay

CNN around every other day, because sometimes you in and says things that are true, and sometimes they say things that are false. Sometimes their facts are true and their implications are false and we can analyze all that, but it should always be done through the prism of What's true and what's false, the reason buzz he deserves to get slapped around today was because they reported something without regard to whether it was true or false. They just put it out there and I'm old enough to remember when Buzzfeed ripped me for doing that back in twenty twelve with hard to. I did with Chuck Hagel with regard to there's a story about Chuck Hagel that I put out that was uh exactly like the Buzzfeed story and Buzzfeed rightfully rip me up. We never should run it, and- and you know we should it was- it was a stupid story, but that's because truth and fiction, Matter but I'm not sure the truth in fiction matter to people anymore, I think it's just become rooting interest in that's the case. That's really ugly. None of this should make people very comfortable. With Rex Tillerson Baba Bob Menendez Tiller Center The center from New Jersey he asked Tillerson if Tillerson

had talked about Russia with Trump in here was Tillerson's answer on that. For all of these answers that you've, given me, does the President elect agree with you. Now the president Elect- and I have not had the opportunity to discuss this specific issue two or the specific area. Well, in your statement on page three, you say in his campaign President Elect. I propose a bold new commitment to advancing american interest in our foreign policy. I hope to explain what this approach means and how it implement that I'll see. If I am confirmed there are states, so I assumed to some degree that you've had some disk mission about what it is that that worldview is going to be in order to understand whether you're willing to execute that, on behalf of the person you're going to work for in abroad, construct and in terms of the prince. Rules that are going to guide that yes, sir, and I would have thought that Russia would be at the very top of that, considering all

the actions that are taken places that did not not have it. That is not occured yet senator, but it's pretty amazing. Ok, So again, I don't think any of this make you feel very comfortable about Trump in Russia, even though need is a flaming bag of crap on this story and even though the media obviously ran bad information and we're excited about that bad information. Ok, meanwhile, I will say this Trump has just the unique ability to just p we all over Barack Obama's goodbye. Reach. The Barack Obama said goodbye last night. Does anyone remember that is everyone remember as far back as Barack Obama saying goodbye last night, so bra, Obama goes out and he does his goodbye speech and his goodbye speech is typical Obama. He just stands out there in the middle of a crowd. He doesn't do his goodbye speech, like Reagan behind a desk, saying goodbye directly to the american people in an inch it's setting explaining what he thinks is gone right. Instead, he goes out there with a big crowd. 'cause he needs the worship choir. Then he goes into his cadence mean up the classic Obama campaign in cadence and it kind of puts on that real thick accent or it starts dropping the trees

and doesn't drop. It he's not dropping the trees right then, when he's very serious he's dropping the trees, but when he he's doing his campaign, am then all those trees they just disappear right into the ether he starts. Dropping him left and right dropping right. So he did that last night in front this giant crowd and he recast reality, as I said before, truth and fiction no longer matter, it's just republican or democrat right versus left, and that me, is the and part of that is because Barack Obama has actively undermined the truth. During his presidency, Barack Obama has spent this entire time building up a a notion that his presidency has just been a wonder bag of joy. It's just been a you, the corn, latent festival of utopianism. It's been just gumdrop skies and rainbow prairies. It's been real, it's been so that sort of Obama did in his farewell address and and he said we all have to come together around a better politics. We need a better politics where we all are respectful to each other and then, of course, she proceeded to disrespect white people because that's his schtick. So here is Barack Obama. My talking about racism.

So if we're going to be serious about race going forward, we need- uphold laws against discrimination in hiring an in housing and in education and in the criminal justice system. That is what our constitution and our highest ideals required. They won't change overnight. Social additives often times, take generations to change for White Americans. That means acknowledging that the uh, slavery and Jim Crow been somewhere banish in the sixties. Minority groups voice discontent listing gauging, in reverse racism or just simple the correctness when they wage peaceful protest, they're, not demanding special treatment, but the equal treatment

that our founders promise. Ok, so then he I mean that is just orwellian nonsense. I mean the fact is that that, of course, everyone acknowledges that racism had an effect. Everyone acknowledges that people are still living under the after effects of historic racism. Everyone acknowledges that there are individual races. Now, that's not the question. The question is: is there an institutional racism that exists and is directed at black people and black people protest things like legitimate police, shootings in Ferguson or legitimate death of a person in custody name very great. When I said I mean good, I don't mean something that we're happy about. I mean not unlawful according to the jury right when that happens when people are acquitted on basis of that and there's a riot and the city, but is down Barack Obama. Is all of that is not made up. All of that has to be taken seriously and white people have to get it. It's white people who don't get it they have to uh Stand that it's their fault, so in Balt because free black police force is responsible for the death of a black and in a majority black city with a majority

black City Council with black mayor and a black da in a black attorney general in a black president, is only because why people don't get it. That's the big problem here, you know when Obama says that kind of stuff, and then he says we need to come together. It makes it kind of tough. It makes it kind of stuff like this, about climate change in Mexico it's tough to come together, and this has been his entire presidency- is this dual track? On the one hand, he says we need to come together for a better policy and then on the other any also agrees with me. You are stupid and you are a problem and SIRI is calling everybody who disagrees with him and the solutions for climate change an idiot to simply deny the problem not only but raise future generations. It betrays the essential spirit, of this country, the essential spirit of innovation and practical problem. Solving that guided our founders. It's that spirit a faith in reason and enter products

the primacy of right over MIKE that allowed us to resist the lure of fascism. Ok, so it connects actual climate denial right that climate change denial with fashion, and if you don't, if you don't believe in the truth of climate change, then your fashion, okay, so here's here's my deal with climate change, the climate. Changing, yes, is the planet. Warming by it's available indicators. Yes, it is, is the correlation with human activity. There is some correlation with human activity. Now do we know the level of correlation with human activity now with any real level of specific exactitude? Do we know what it would take to reverse that? No, we don't, except that the people we're advocating are saying. We basically need to go back to nineteen century living standards. If you want to get rid of the carbon emissions in the air make me on the level of a fascist. Does that make me on the level of a person who won't listen to truth? I don't think so. But Bama does and then he wonders why people are so eager for him to get out.

And don't let the door hit you on the way out, President Obama ok time for things I like and things I hate so things I like: let's do it so, So we, my wife and I finally caught up all the way on man in the high castle and she's watched now all of game of thrones were looking for a new series last night, and and we've been recommended a series by Andrew Klavan. Now, whenever Andrew recommend something there's always a bit of risk involved. His Andrew has some eclectic tastes, so I will say that Andrews taste in thrillers is really first rate his tail in no in other areas me so in any case he he he had. He said because there is a thriller. Writer means terrific, terrific thriller writer, and so he really knows what good thriller writing looks like. I. He had told me that the show Fargo is really good and I've been kind of skeptical 'cause. I, like the movie, love the movie, but I figured ok already saw the movie. Do I need to watch the tv show? We watch the first episode of Fargo last night wow. It is so good. It is so that is so well written

I and it okay, it's it's! It takes a certain joy in playing with peoples expectations about then the niceness of Minnesotans and people who live in the midwest and play in kind of implying that they're stupid but they're really not stupid, they really quite smart underneath, but you know playing with the kind of preoccupation with the who still eats that people in the Midwest are stupid and it's it's really really good. Here's the here's, the preview for season, one of Fargo, I think on fx who won today. If that was Maine, how to kill that man, if you don't stand up to the boss, the wife just going to get washed away, the ok their bill, wife made spaghetti for dinner, seemed shame to barf it up, counting, problem. I heard you don't say I heard drugs. I heard your leg slept with a thirty piece. Take Bob don't spread rumors, not was gambling

I'm glad my husband said I'm going to sing at his funeral nullo, it's a bit strange huh, you, This could be like an organized crime. Think you're made of money. Oh I'm sorry, screening! really frustrating typing. I just got home being passed out. There I mean you can see. The cast is actually huge. Tv is so much better than the movies. Now guys, quick poll, tv or movies. That's you in the room, tv or movies, Is you hurry hurry even hesitating tv is so good now and there's like two good movies that come out every year like two to three good? Is that come out every year and there about- and there are four good SIRI and they all have ten episodes in them. I mean like like Fargo- is it's fantastic- is fantastically written, an there's, no reason to go to the movies anymore, because the only thing you're going to see is Manchester by the sea and you're want to drown yourself. So instead just go watch watch, Fargo or watching

in the high castle or watch game of thrones like seriously Is it a golden era of television? There have been so many good tv shows that have come out in the last five to seven years. It makes your head spin. In between breaking bad and game of thrones and mountain the Castle and Fargo and and black mirror. I think there is a which have recommended on that. What West World has actually like? What's really knows, controversial, yeah the? I think that, there's so much good stuff happening on tv right now and you can see it in the actors. Right. Look at the actors that are on Fargo. I mean these are major motion picture stars right, the Eli Roth. Is there Billy Bob Thornton you just saw Martin Freeman who's in all the Hobbit movies and he's in Sherlock, which another great series, but there's so much good stuff on tv. Now it's really amazing! God. We live in an era of good television because if you just had to watch politics full time well, would be entertaining. It would also be kind of depressing ok time. For

but some things that I hate. So let's, let's face it. Ok, I think I hate Stephen King, so I've ripped on Stephen King before Stephen King is is the premises to the premise to all of his books. The premises to all of his books are all. Interesting there always kind of cool right like the under the dome. The premise is that there is a giant dome and it descends on a city, and you don't know why and it just cuts off the city. The rest of humanity, Ok, this is interesting. Now you've got all sorts of Conf, text families that are separated. What do you do? He does deal with half the ramifications, but he writes. I got one but jillion page book about it, and always is the very end of his books, and this is his go to at the very end of his books. Everything just explode it literally explodes like that. So that's the end of his book to the end of the stand. It's the end of its the end of under the dome. It's the it's. The end of every single one of his books now is just and then everything burned up is

well screw. That man I mean. If I wanted to do the wagnerian ring cycle. I just do the wagnerian wearing cycle, I'd watch everything burn up and then the ring would be back as a lump of gold at the bottom of the Daniel. Like I don't need of the river, I don't need yeah. I don't need nine hours of wagnerian fat people sing me to each other, and that's exactly what Stephen King is become. It's it's nine hundred pages of wagnerian fat people seeing each other and half the fat people are the stupid awful Republicans who are caricatures of what actual Republicans are like they're, all ignoring I guess say the n word all the time and screw then cheat on their wives. It's just so tiresome, and the reason I bring up Stephen king is not just to rip on Stephen King have become tiresome and stupid. Requires an editor who his arm with a chainsaw and not an editor armed with a scalpel mean honestly got all of his books could be one hundred and seventy five pages and when he short seeing things really good. One of the best short stories ever is a Stephen King story called it's called smokers ink and It's really really good. You can check a good horror short story, but

the reason I bring this up is because Stephen King is also a political jackass. I mean just awful, and so you twitter this morning any tweets this out. The current trump allegations may not be true, but seeing him what dose of his own nasty Madison has a certain rough justice. Remember that part a little while ago, like five minutes ago- and I said Truth- has no no truck anymore in politics, and it's just which side you're on this would be it right matter if the allegations are true, but at least he's getting what he deserves at least he's getting what he deserves week, love with each other. This way, folks, you can't have a society that works on these rules. I don't like you, therefore, if I trump up evidence about you totally fine, this is the essence. That's the essence of uh Laura Terrian. Fascism is the idea that, if, if people can trump something up about you and you are on the wrong side of the political aisle that you can therefore target. It's really disgusting! It's really gross okay, other things that I hate. So we could put this in bad trump, but I wanted to I felt like it was. It was such a non sequitur in the middle of Trump's press conference that I wanted to point it out. Trump was talking

about pharmaceutical companies, and this is such it's such a tired, talking point that allow people use it's really not my favorite the trump goes after the big pharma. What they call big pharma. Do we don't have that will save that for tomorrow, so Trump from got it from point after big Pharma will talk about that tomorrow. So he'll be spared. My hatred on that particular clip until tomorrow. Ok time for a little bible talk because it is a Wednesday, so on wednesdays, as I say, the the Jews we the wooden every week, we read a different available, and this each portion of the devil is the end of the book of Genesis. This is the part where Jacob is on his deathbed and he's blessing all of his sons and it's kind of interesting. So here is a Porsche from Genesis, chapter forty nine says Jacob called for his sons and said gather, and I will tell you what will happen to you at the end of days. Other, listen, sons of Jacob, listen to Israel, your father, Ruben you're, my First born my strength. The first of my mind. You should have

superior in rank in superior in power. You have the restlessness of water there, for you shall not have superiority for us ended up on your father's couch. Then you the faint him who ascended up on my bed. Sherman and Lady, Simeon and Levi and Levi are brothers stolen instruments. Are there weapons? Let not? My soul enter their counsel. My honor, you shall not join their assembly for their wrath. They killed a man and with their will, they hamstrung a bowl curse would be their wrath for his mighty. So here is the question: are these blessings? It is supposed to be Jake Blessings like this is final words to his son and it's like if you were dying, he called in your kid. Then you called in Jim Bob and you say: come over here, Jim Bob, Jim Bob. You are such an ass. Let me just tell you, like you, have been just a pain in my ass, my entire life. You will not Stop I mean I've had to bail you out of jail. Your away. My time and money you stink in every possible way, Jim Bob and then I plot not a great blessing right. Not not your favorite blessing. An here

I think, Jacob really treats his sons differently in these blessings like if you look at his blessing for Judah his blessing for you Huda. Is your like a lion and you're going to rule over your brothers and the blessing for Benjamin? Is your like a wolf defending your defending yourself and then and he gets to Ruben it's like you're. My first born you should've been awesome, but you kinda suck huh, so? The question is why why why but if Ruben was really a problem, why wouldn't you give I'm a blessing that would raise him up rather than a a statement about who he is and the because in the real world there is a quest is weather blessings of human beings are actually in. My opinion is whether, if I bless Does that have any impact, I'm not God, so I can't bless you can sort of pray to God to bless you, but that's not quite the same thing. What we can do is we describe to you. What you are we don't it's not our job to raise you beyond what you're capable of blessing you with blessings you can't possibly fulfill. It is forgot to describe to you what you are so that you can limit yourself, so you can become a

better human being. The point that Jacobs making here is now not L, Ruben. I hate you go screw yourself, I'm dying right, that's not the point that he's making the he's making his he's chiding him. It's a duty he's trying he's saying. I know you can do better. I know you and you better right and do better than this, and I'm describing you to yourself because now you know, look I'm clear, I'm dying. I have no reason to lie now. So here's who you are be better than this I'm in you. Do the same. This man, lady, do believe. I do the same thing right here all your problems now going to stack them up before you and you and when they see their brothers brothers breasts blessed it actually sort of a replay of what happens at the beginning of Genesis with Cain and Abel right God Bless is able and he doesn't bless Cain and he says to Kane. He says if you struggle you can overcome right. It could be like where you could do better than this and K responses to kill Abel. There's been all this conflict in these brothers all the way through the book of Genesis,

and finally, at the very end, Jacob says: look you're going to have to live together, but in order for you to live together, you can't be jealous of one another you're going to have to understand if you do, James badly you're going to have to get better. It's on you, it's not on Joseph to make Reuben grade it, not on Benjamin to x. I s, you mean better. It's on simians makes me a better and Rubens, make him better and leave I'd. Make leave I better it's you. Or job to make yourself better and one, You accept that you're capable of that. The reason I'm saying this. You is because you're capable of that, if you weren't capable I wouldn't try to you, you don't try to child for not being able to do something. The child can't do you do the child when the kid doesn't put forth maximum effort to improve them cell. That's the purpose of the blessings at the end of the book of Genesis. So tomorrow we go through 'em or of what Trump had to say about Obamacare and we'll talk about his business separation plans a little bit more plus there's good news breaking fast and furious all through the day I mean it's like constant, yellow stream of news. That's all I can describe it as so we'll get to all of it tomorrow. I'm Ben Shapiro, this is the Ben Shapiro Show,