On Friday, three palestinian terrorists open fire on the holiest site. In Judaism, at the Temple Mount there were shot dead by police, but before murdering who drew's police officers, one of whom has a three week old child, one of the terrorists reported play dead as an emergency medical tried to help him then try to stab the medical floor. He was shot. Naturally, the media is headlines were insanely, vague. Here's, the AP quote two israeli policeman killed in shooting near Jerusalem shrine the BBC, quote: Israelis injured in gun attack near come holy site, AL breaking Three Palestinians killed in shooting in Jerusalem's old city, Getty images, israeli police, killed three Palestinians in Al Aqsa mosque. All of this is keeping with the mainstream media's dedication to imposing moral equivalence where none exists holy right and Israel are routinely under assault not from Jews, but from Palestinians. Palestinians have burned Joseph's tomb at multiple times, they've spent years, destroying archaeological evidence of jewish presence on the Temple Mount itself. Whenever palace means tattoos. The official response from the supposedly peaceful palestinian Authority is to

Funding terrorism then offer a vague statement about stopping islands on all sides. Meanwhile, israeli government has already announced it will maintain current policy on the Temple Mount which favors Muslims to such an extent that Jews are not even allowed to mouth silent prayers on the Temple Mount again. The whole In Judaism, in cities like Bethlehem, the number of Christians has dropped from fifty percent of the population. Twelve percent and terrorism is still a serious threat in two thousand, do palestinian terrorist actually use the church of the nativity as a safe haven, This is demonstrative of the fact that israeli control of holy sites is the only way to preserve their free and open access. Yet the united this continues to rip away jewish history piece by piece claiming that the Temple Mount in the cave of the patriarchs in Hebron are not jewish. Justinian's historical site. Don't expect the truth anytime soon the media are dedicated to perpetuate this conflict see Israel as a colonialist aggressor in historically arab region and committing selves to broadly obliterating Judaism's Millenia long, preexistence, pre existence of Islam. No, it's uh!

well just a cycle of violence, as always, and bench This is the Ben Shapiro Show and great many things get to. We have a very busy show today. So will give you the latest on all of the Trump This stuff, then we're going to be talking with Mark Levin in just about fifteen minutes. He will be stopping by, and that'll be awesome, and then, after that, we're going to the mail, that's a lot to get to the on today's show, but before we get to any of that, I first want to thank you to our sponsors over and skills here. So if you are a professional in the working world. Today, you cannot expect that you are going to just be able to same skill set now and in thirty years and have the same job. That's not how the job market works anymore. Since I left law school, I've had like five or six different jobs. That's fairly typical people move jobs. Now you have to constantly be increasing and expanding, the set of skills that you have and that's where Skillshare comes in it's an online learning community with over fifteen thousand classes in design and business and more everything from

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in the soviet military in a unit that was part of counter intelligence that was never formally trained as a spy. So we just keep learning that more and more people are at this meeting. So originally the meeting never happened, end meeting happened, but it was just with crazy. Lady who wanted to talk about adoption. Then it turned out that the crazy lady who wanted to talk about adoption was billed as the russian government lawyer who's going to information about Hillary Clinton in order to help Russia's pro Trump campaign, and now it turns out there was a second russian there with apparent intelligence ties, so just awesome guys trump administration. If you want us to be on these things, you are going to need to stop omitting details that are not details right, you're going to actually have to come clean about And then we'll all let it go because I've said a million times, there's no evidence. Violation there's no evidence that show active collusion took place even beyond this. I've been saying this for a while, but I'm still confused the Democrats theory of what collusion would constitute. Do they Did the Russians went, Wiki leaks and hacked the Dnc and they were giving hints to trump about what would come? I didn't see that at all during the campaign did you I didn't see any speech

is what Trump is like: there's something unbelievable. It's going to drop tomorrow at ten paper, get ready and then today, Wikileaks drop, something I didn't see any of that, and I didn't even see that the Trump campaign was on top of the content of the wiki leaks like the he pre warn and all of sudden an hour later. They militarized it and they exploited it. What I saw wiki leaks is releasing a lot of stuff, and then people like me were group sourcing. It crowd sourcing it so that we could see exactly was in there. So a lot of this is again. I still don't see what exactly they're saying the strategy was here. That said, Trump is going to have to do a better job of telling the truth on this, and so is Trump Junior. If they want this whole thing. To go away? So yesterday, President Trump is in France and been a week since he's answered any questions from the press and answers. One question from the press on the Trump Junior Russia scandal and in was his rather longish answer, as far as my son is concerned, my son is a wonderful young man. He took

a meeting with a russian lawyer, not a government lawyer but a russian lawyer, it was a short meeting. It was a meeting that one very very quickly. Very fast, two of the people in the room- they- I guess one of the left almost immediately and the other one was not really focused on the meeting. I do think this, I think, from a practical standpoint. Most people would have taken that meeting. It's call opposition research or even research into your opponent, ok, and he continues along these lines. He said you know it's called research I've had many people. I've only been in power for two years. I've had many people call up and say: oh gee, we have information on this factor or this person or frankly, Hillary that's very standard, impolitic politics, isn't the nicest business in the world, but it's very where they have information, and you take the information in the case of dawn. He listened. I guess they Talking about, as I see it, they talked about adoption and some things

He goes on and he says that it's really Obama's fault because attorney General Lynch brought in this Natalia Veselnitskaya Character. This russian lawyer in January. As I said yesterday, I think that's a bunch of crap. I think the idea that that that the Jews, but is some sort of attempt to get the Trump team- is just silly yeah, there's a little bit inherent contradiction. Your yesterday Trump did a white house. No, it was really press conference. We did kind of a White House Press pool on Airforce one yesterday and then we end up revealing some of it and apparently he said to the press pool who may have known about the meeting at some point, but I didn't know they were going to talk about Hillary. Well, that is from what your own people said like two days ago where they said they had no idea that the meeting was happening so again, if the story keeps changing I want to believe the Trump Administration, because I don't actually think anything nefarious happened here can not coming from a place I want to see all of this blow up on Trump, I'm not interested in that. I think it would endanger any sort of republican under that we have left if Trump were to completely fold and collapse.

And this whole thing were to end up being a giant scam, but he's going to have But in this just from any object appointed, he needs to tell the truth and come clean. Crowder show. Yesterday we were agreeing that one of the things you do in this is when there's something that's quasi scandalous. You get out in front of it by explaining it before anyone else has a chance to so Barack Obama. Did this wonderfully in dreams? From my father, all sorts of apple material in there they really could have mixed. In particular. The idea that when he was in college and high school, he did a little blow remember. He said this in his it it'll blow it will drugs one big deal and everybody sort of. Oh. Well, you know what an honest guy opposed to into thousand George W Bush and revealed that he had a d w. Why, when that came out, then that actually ended up hurting his his or do you watch that ended up hurting his his credibility right before the election? It ended up losing the popular vote DWI. So the fact is he I you. You have a chance here, if you're the team, to get out in front

this thing and explain what exactly you are doing. They're not doing that very well. So Meanwhile, you have the people of the administration trying to save the media. You need to pay attention to real issues. Well, it's hard for people, I need to pay attention to real issues. When, again you keep not telling the truth Sebastian Gorka think actually usually does a very good job in the media he's on Jake Tapper and he says: listen I really paying attention to the fact that people are dying in Syria why dying in Syria. That's why it? Why do you do not care about the devastating in the half of course, ideals. Well, we've got life in Russia is killing some of those being life, and we've got life and death issues, and if we can create a cs5 which we did with, Israel with Jordan involved. That's what we have to do: We have to move on, ok, so Gorka I say: let's get back to the issues again, the best way to get back to

issues is to actually bring focus back to the issues as opposed to having all of these silly scandals running around Charles Kraut hammer. This really is Keystone, cops, kind of stuff. Well, I'm not impressed by the story about the lawyer. I think it's It's a red herring, the size of a whale. She, the pawn it doesn't change. The central fact in the scandal to scandal is at the email received intermediary by Donald Trump Junior, said a russian government lawyer problem is wrong: who's, not a little a russian government lawyer. You coming with dirt on Hillary and at the Kremlin was supporting his campaign and that the crown prosecutor, that's a mission or the state prosecutor the had a trove of documents that they would offer that story. I don't think scare legal. I don't think anybody claiming the legal, but it does the one. It does. It would totally undermines a six month story

from the White House, to which I was sympathetic, There wasn't any collusion. This was a bungled, the collusion, okay, when you've lost track him on this crowd. Him has been very skeptical of the Trump Russia stuff for months at this point, and the White House needs to do a better job explaining itself. Now, meanwhile, one of the great ironies in all of this is the Democrats are now super super pissed at Russia. So yesterday Brian Fallon who's, a Hillary spokesperson. He comes out and he does Mitt. Romney was right. We never should have knocked him over the Russia stuff yeah. Well. Thank you. I appreciate it five years, late thanks for all of that, you jerk, but this is what's happened, is that politics has become so gross. Everyone has now switched positions. He got Paul Begala out there as rush Limbaugh is gone, for head out there saying

We blow up Russia that we should bomb Russia over this. We were and are under attack by a hostile foreign power, and they seem to be a betting that hostile foreign power. We should be debating how many sanctions we should place on Russia or whether we should blow up the KGB or Gsu GRU. I mean we should be retaliating massively, because if I were Trump supporter. I would want to tell you message, because it I did it did. It is taking his victory. Okay and- and so now, all the sudden we should blow up Russia right it is. It is so these are the same. People who said was no big deal in twenty twelve and Barack Obama want to offer flexibility the Kremlin. Now he says we have to blow up rush, right, Nancy Pelosi saying Russia has desecrated our democracy, they desecrated, our democracy, gum near dentures on moving around all weird and such in a month. Again, as we celebrate the courage of our founders, Republicans in Congress have become enablers.

Of the Trump Russia assault. Okay, we'll stop right there, okay and then on the right. So now, so now, all of a sudden. The Democrats are really anti Russia and on the right you have people like Tucker Carlson, whose show I enjoy things really talented, guy but Tucker. Yesterday, a couple of nights ago did the debate with MAX boot that I thought was really not intellectually honest in some ways from Tucker. I in which Tucker actually is that Russia is not a top five threat to the United States or her interests. Actually end up defending IRAN. He ended up saying well when's last summer on killed Americans. After nine hundred and eleven MAX boot said well, they killed hundreds of Americans in Iraq war. We have here is Iowa HAWK, whose Yes, I will talk on Twitter. He says Basically we're no longer playing a game with rules were playing calvinball like from Calvin and Hobbes, just shift randomly and suddenly switch size, and it turns out that you hated Russia five minutes ago. But now you love Russia or you love Russia five minutes ago, but now you hated Russia. Now the republican defense to all of this has been the one that I think Richard Grenell pointed out. Richard Grenell is a former I didn't believe

former adviser to the Un Ambassador, and he says, like every outside of Washington DC, doesn't care about this russian stuff. This is, I think, the bottom line defense being used by a lot of trump defenders today, I'm not sure it washes I think I'm the only one that doesn't live in Washington DC here and people don't care about this. There's such a difference between listening an act. I think Donald Trump Junior listened to something that was brought to him. Ok, we can stop it there, because here's, I think the point people on the right one to do this routine, where we say well Look at Trump space he's not being abandoned by his base. He will never be a man in my space. That's why they're called his base 'cause, like thirty percent of the population. That's great! Ok, it's great! That Trump has a base of thirty percent of the population, that's good for me! Publican president, fantastic. Ok, the fact is that when you say that the common man doesn't pay attention, Russia stuff. That's like saying the common person doesn't pay to into the Hillary Clinton email. Stuff Democrats said that for an entire election cycle, and it turns out that two things

it happens, cause you to lose elections. One is you lose your base, but the second is that your base Besides that they're, not that enthused and they're going to stay home. Ok, that's what happened to Hillary in two thousand and sixteen it wasn't that her base didn't exist. It existed. It was larger than Trump's. It was that people decided they didn't care enough about her, that they were going to go out there and fight for her sapping. The energy from your base is April and right now. All of this Energean focus being spent on Russia does sap the base. It would be one thing if Trump were pushing some sort of world shaking Paula and then these people would have something to be enthusiastic about the right. Now, there's no world checking policy, the only thing that seems to jazz up the base in the absence of policies, trump tweeting out stuff about me, make Brzezinski space, which maybe that's the strategy. Maybe the idea is the If Trump tweets things out about people we don't like, then we excited about it, but I'm not sure that's enough to win over the people who voted for Obama twice and then voted for Trump or a lot of people out to vote in twenty eighteen. You have to motivate your voters somehow, and one way to motivate your voters is by saying here's all the things. I've done

either way to motivate your voters is by saying I'm a better person than the people who opposed, when you're, when you're, in a situation, where every Hey is a new scandal and you can't clearly explain. What exactly you're doing it causes problems for you and again something that is not coming from a place of. I think Trump is guilty of anything. I don't think there's any evidence of that, but I'm saying is: come out, explain what your position is and you'll save everybody a lot of grief. I mean I listen. I would prefer to spend the day talking about the stupidity's of Amanda Marcotte, and idiotic feminism, okay, but I can't do that because of all this stuff. Okay, I mean I can but I'll have to spend less time on it than I normally would ok before we go any further before we have an mark Levin in just a second first I want to say thank to our sponsors over the USC ca, so its import that you're able to defend yourself important that you're able to defend your family? But what happens after pull the trigger? Well, that's where the USC ca comes in. Not only do they educate you and train you, and they make sure

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I guess this would been yesterday and- and so now I want to play the the interview as a brand new book out and Mark is just terrific, I'm a huge fan. So here we go. We they are so pleased and honored to welcome to the Ben Shapiro show one of my ideological mentors and a guy who, I think, brought a lot of people in conservative movement well then nationally syndicated talk show host host of Livin TV chairman of the Landmark legal foundation. Of course, author of one thousand including Liberty and Tierney. His new book is, discovering Americanism and the tyranny of progressivism. I have read it. It is like all of his other books, a treatise on conservatism that everybody needs to read. Mark thanks so much for joining the show. Then it's a great and let me just say this- I get no more joy than when I Watch on tv kicking some liberal around I really do enjoy I appreciate it well and what I mean I have to say that I still recommend many of your old black men in black is still the go to book for me to recommend when it comes to judicial

ask him. So I want to talk about your new book because it really does something that I think we need to do. Is conservatives right now, which is re, educate our own, and other people about what our fundamental principles are, because we've gotten so caught up in the partisan bashing, which is fun and necessary, but we've got so caught up in it. As we forget our own central principles. What exactly are we fighting for other than mean tweets about the other side and so in rediscovering Americanism you talk about what the founders would have thought about. Is America and you basically say that they would have thought that the government is, recognisable. Why do you think that I do believe that, and so what I do is I go back to the beginning, the declaration of Independence- and I look at the principles there. I laws of nature when's. The last time we talked about the laws of nature. I was never taught about the laws of nature. I took advanced philosophy and political science and history and all the rest of it get this the core of our founding. So where do these principles and ideas come from in the declaration. The founders didn't invent them. What they did invent, though, is a country

that was based on another, never been done before in America in the world history, and been done since so I started thinking about what I was going to write. I just started writing and I didn't have chapped I wrote the entire book and then I went back in broken into chapters as best I could it's really two forces, and that is this force of the enlightenment, of individualism of freedom of an unalienable rights. What Aristotle talk about these universal law intrudes these eternal truths. Where did the founders get this? what they tell us: Aristotle, Cicero, Lock, Sydney. Whole bunch of others, and so I went back read them before I went back and read them again and I tried to pull in for may shun from them to inform people who are interested in what they found and why is that important? Because when you start to read this material

even though you and I we love our country, you really even love it more because you realize why these ideas are absolutely incredible and they predate this country, they go back thousands and thousands of years an so I felt if more and more people fully understood, what we mean rather than the surface leveling, or I believe in liberty, and I believe what that means, that more and more people can see The word, conversely, there's a dark side in a bleak side. In a miserable side- and that's what we call progressivism, I don't like the word. I wrote a whole book cut Ameritopia condemning the word, but to be historically accurate, that's their nomenclature. So I I talk about progressivism in the progressive era and where does that idea come from and who are their philosophers, and you have to look at people like. So in Hegel and Marx among others, and you realize how completely country that is to our founding principles, and then you look at the so called intellectuals who advanced those principles in

I call this counter revolution to the american Revolution. People Woodrow, Wilson and Croly, and while and Dewey and so forth, and so on, and I, plane who they are explain what their ideas are, and I called- and I called them a lot so people don't think of making this stuff up and they and they attacked the declaration and attack these principles, even the word liberty. The word liberty, folks need to understand. There's some controversy around this word liberty, you- and I we mean you- know the circle of liberty that surround each individual, human being God given Liberty, God given on the eligible rights, I could says in the declaration again: talk about laws of nature and nature's God. What does that mean? Does that mean you have to be religious? No, what it means is, though, that there are things bigger than man, their ideas who's bigger than many eternal universal truths. So if you're bored in Washington, DC or you're born in Paris, France. You know from wrong. You know the golden rule. You know you're not supposed to

well, people are rob people, it's not because there, laws made by man. It's because these are things we know when we reason through them and the that's what the framers believed when they wrote the constitution to. The progressives. However, by name it's, why quote them attack these principles? They attacked the declaration, They say. The declaration was a revolutionary document for a merry period pioneers throwbacks, but today is today, don't worry about all these mystical. Ideas he's eternal truth? We gotta the world as it is today. We have to into it, and rationalize and figure out what the true tsar and create this this society or the experts are, and the professionals are trained, to try and address the problems we have today, which leads us to this massive administrative state. That's not in the constitution that passes for one thousand laws a year. Without our consent they don't care what we think. Out. Then they go on whether we have elections or not in this is

when I try and get across in the book and Also, I interlink the principles because they are which is individualism, freedom, private property rights and constitutional republic. It. You need every one of those elements to be uh a full human being in order. To pursue your your interests and so forth when one is under attack, they're all under attack, and today they're all under attack, Mark one of the things that that is fascinating in your book, and you talk about this with regard to progressive era, the book again is rediscovering Americanism. One of the things that's fascinating is that the progressives when they first came around they're, actually very open about the fact that they were attacking the founding that they thought the declaration of independence was passed. Woodrow Wilson did a whole speech in which he talked about how constitution. The United States need to be put aside and shelved, because it was just bring our ability to get things done today,

That seems to have understood that it is a mistake to attack those terms, and so there are a lot more insidious. You see Barack Obama. I thought his second inaugural address is perfect proof of this. Where he started. Quoting the founders to justify precisely the opposite of what the founders would have launched and that's why. I think it's important to distinguish what they would have wanted, but did the founders language. I mean I love the founders as much as you did. The founders language leave the opening for the left to take. Run with another words, and they say things say things like we hold these truths to be self evident and left as well. It's not self evident to me, but here is a self evident truth evident. Is that poor people can't take care of themselves, so we need a welfare state or It's universal law of nature. There will be poor people. In other words, natural law. I know this is a big kind of abstruse debate between close Straussians in EAST Coast Straussians, but it Is there a? I did leave the doctrine of natural, The founders all believe universally. Did that open the door to the ability of a a progressive twisting of that of that terminology. Well, you know they put in place this constitution, which was the

running manifestation of these principles in the declaration, so they thought they could do. They did the very best they could to put action balances and plays with the recollection of the house. The state legislators legislatures electing the Senate and electoral college process for the President United States judges who would be immune from elections and so forth, and they explain what they did. But to answer that question. There's a letter in the book from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams And these are two old men at this point, and Jefferson is just ruminating about Rome little. Athens and Rome, and he says you know what I'm obviously in or he says you know what John I'm thinking about wrong- and he said- they had Cicero, great man. They had Cado great man, they had brewed great great man. These are men who were small, r, Republicans and who put their lives on the line challenging

we are in the system that was in place in the corruption and so forth, and he said all those men together, able to fashion a government a rip. Licking government. It would have failed and he said in the reason, as I've been thinking about this 'cause, the people lacked virtue. There was nothing that could be done to save that society, If Caesar had been gone and three men ruled and put in place the will form of government. It wouldn't have worked. It was too late. So to answer your question: I don't point to the founders in the language of natural law, as the reason why we are where we are. We are where we are. Excuse me: because of this invidious ideology that has taken place, and they have their lynskey tactics and their marxist tactics and all these other taxes and so forth and so on. But as a people

do we believe in liberty, regardless what the the media say in the demagogues say either we in our hearts and our soul in our minds want to be a free. Or we don't, and I would Do you that about a third of us want to be a three people about one slash three of us. Don't add one third of us: don't give a damn, and so that's about where we are today, I think, which I mean the Good NEWS is that Exactly the breakdown during the American Revolution in the right guys ended up winning the bad news is that we could certainly live with that in mind. Mark I I would be remiss if I didn't ask if you had to give it some advice to President Trump right now on what he could be due to further the cause of it, because you're too talking, I'm not sure the president from thanks a lot about ideas like natural law or constitutionalism, but he still he could be an effective tool for these things if you would do some of the right things. So what do you think you know President Trump ought to do at this point to promulgate sort of values you talk about in rediscovering Americanism, and uh on the same page,

Is there anyone in Congress that can be trusted to four of these values at all, because obviously Mitch, Mcconnell and Paul Ryan are doing a pretty shoddy job of it. Thus far. You know Paul Ryan called me many months ago when he was pushing his nonsense. With this Obama care an I had told his people. I don't want to talk him. Why waste his time so, but he insisted so. I spoke to him first thing he says to me. Is I read all your books and I said, but do you digest them Becaus? Obviously you read all the books to your digestive and I said and why you're wasting your time, calling me and for forty five minutes we had this chat last time. I the problem right now with the administration, is it's under a full bore attack and they're. Trying to dislodge this president, I don't agree.

This present on everything, as you well know, and I backed TED Cruz in the republican primary? There are things I do agree with this president on an including a selection of judges, his attack on the regulatory state and certain other things. But what I cannot accept is the effort by the left continue to try and destroy this republican. The election results, and that's what I see going on with a lot of this russian stuff. The stakes are no mistakes. The left was going to find something and will continue to to look for. Some in order to overturn the selection, the way they attacked the Electoral college, the way they attack all elements of our constitutional system. If I were a can the president, I would say, take a closer look at the judiciary, because forty percent of these judges were appointed by Barack Obama. We have many vacancies

and Schumer is slow, walking them and he slowing him down. I would pull Mitch Mcconnell in my office and I would say, RI damn it get rid of that filibuster or, if that's what we have to do, that's what we have to do we're up against this entrenched radical leftists mob and if they are prepared to burn the place down, I'm not prepared to burn the place. And that the filibuster rule is the filibuster, rule and you're going to have to suspend it. If we're going to get anywhere, I mean the Senate quite frankly, Is this absurd entity? Now, since the seventeenth Amendment, where we have two people elected directly from the people of each state, why do we need to send in a as a side point I start to ramble as a side? my point. I love it when the left says, let's get rid of the electoral college, we don't need any well. Let's get rid of the Senate, I mean the Senate was supposed to represent the state legislature. Why do we, two senators from every state if they don't represent the state legislatures, but I think he should Focus on on that. I also think if they don't drop that Phillip,

after all he's not going to get much done in Mitch, Mcconnell's not going to get much done. You know I've been saying we ought to repeal and replace Mcconnell, because he going to kill the republican majority in that Senate, so there's no easy answer that question as to who we can rely on. I can tell you MIKE Lee is a very earnest and studious constitutional conservative. I think, TED Cruz is the same. I think Rand Paul in most instances I don't always agree with him is similar and there's a handful of others. The problem is the overwhelming majority or not. And the reason is the Republican Party, I think, is largely a progressive party they have never eliminated any department's or any agencies they've ever seriously curbed their power cut their budgets. They don't attack the debt when they're in office. Look at this Obama care debate. This is a perfect example that I would relate to the book- it's not in the book, but we relate to the principles in the book. The entire debate is on the

aggressive field, you know we gotta say medicate well, who's killing Medicaid, they mean to expand conference, repeal Obama care to expand, Medicaid but most of us aren't on Medicaid, that's a welfare program. What about the rest of us and so TED Cruz offers this Incredibly, radical amendment which says: okay, look off your damn Obama care policy, companies, but let them off for whatever they want to. The rest of us- oh, my god, you can't do that. Why? Well it might hurt Frank, Ali and and and and Damian in this one, and that one? No, it's just a complete abandonment of liberty of market capitalism and competition that is created this magnificent society industrial revolution. You know this is the only place where three in the morning, you could walk down Thirty, two, a seven hundred and eleven by darn near anything you want, or at ten

morning going to a grocery store, you've got stuff from all over the country all over the world? Almost everyone can afford it. We live like kings. And queens could never live. Two hundred years ago we can get on a jet and fly from one part of the country to another part really for a fairly inexpensive amount and air conditioned luxury at six hundred miles an hour, forty thousand feet off the ground. And if you want those Serbia peanuts while you're doing it, I mean think about what the principle the founding created right and think about what they're doing to it in the attack it all the time. So I got to tell you then my perspective on this is

Washington is lossed, we vote, we do the very best we can. This is the design they have created, which is a perversion of what the founders intended we've got to convince each other as citizens. The way the columnist did of the of the greatness of this country of the disaster of the other side, and if we can't win minds and arts, then we can't win. The book is rediscovering Americanism in the tyranny of progressivism, another number one New York Times, bestseller from Mark Levin, who is the author of just a bevy of them? this point mark thanks. So much for everything that you do and thanks so much for joining the show. I always appreciate it. It's a great honor! I love when you fill in for us. My audience loves it too, and God bless thanks. So much ok. So there is. There is the great one mark Levin,

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Ok, since it's such a busy day going to go straight to things I like and things I hate at this point. Ok, so time for a thing so this entire week, thanks to Donald Junior, we have been doing movies and books about sons who are disappointed Father's were disappointed in their sons, and today we have a classic of the genre, speaking of course, in Indiana Jones and the last crusade this movie really underrated, because raiders is so good. So, people tend to underestimate how good last Crusaders Temple of doom is an awful film like illegitimately bad film and Kate Capshaw Woo, but but in terms of last crusade, is a truly wonderful film? It's fun! It moves quickly. I know that The daily wire is on Jeremy Boring prefers it to raiders. I don't think that's allowed. I think that you're not allowed to refer to the reason being that the entire predicate for last crusade is presence of Indiana Jones. Before it stands alone as a film, but you have to know who Indiana Jones is in order for it to work because the whole

the Indiana Jones is it matters, and I were discussing earlier. The whole premise of the Indiana Jones is the coolest person on the planet and its father, things that he's a giant loser nerd, that's the entire premise of the film. Really Fun Sean Connery, the search for the Holy GRAIL Ann and I won't give away spoilers like the spelling of particular versions of God's name in any I hear it is Indiana Jones and last last crusade lower the preview, we're about to complete a great quest, the holy GRAIL. Dr Jones arrest

this is on the court. Jones is not enough. Call me that please and in the short of race, there's no silver medal for finishing second, the land of the enemy. I hate these guys. It's it's! It's awesome, Sean Connery! It's it's! It's really really fun. It's also good to do this, because I believe yesterday was Harrison. Ford, 75th birthday it looking pretty good for seventy five Harrison. I mean I hope I look as good as Harrison Ford any point in his life,

I hope I look as good now as Harrison Ford looks at seventy five. So well done. In four a great movie, a lot of fun, I indiana the last crusade and of course it is hilarious that Sean Connery thinks that Indiana Jones, this giant disappointment. Okay, time for some things that I hate. The first thing that I hate today. Is this insane piece by some crazy person in Jody Allard, she's, apparently a feminist blogger? First of all, all bloggers are, I don't mean to generalize they're all crazy, so she actually a piece today called the type I is I'm done pretending. Men are safe, even my son's really The entire thing is about her. Sons are potential rapists. She says I have to they're strong, compassionate the kind of boys Their parents are glad to meet with their daughters, bring them home for dinner, they're good boys. He's good boys are, but they are not safe boys, I'm starting to believe there's. No such thing she is talking about our own children being potential rapists because of rape, culture

I wrote an essay in the Washington Post last year, during the height of the Brock Turner case about my sons and rape culture. I didn't think it would be controversial. When I wrote it. I was sure most parents grappled with raising sons in the midst of rape, culture, well, no Actually, it turns out that the vast majority of us who grow up his boys and households that have their parents were not part of their rape culture. 'cause. We are taught at a very early age that you're not supposed to rape people that rape is a bad thing. I thought this was pretty clear rule of western civilization with the past one thousand years or so 'cause. I didn't think it would be controversial wrote it. The struggle I wrote about was universal. I thought, but I was wrong. My essay. Semi viral in for the first time my son's encounter my words about them on their friends, phones, their teachers, computers and even over her discussed by strangers on a crowded metro bus. Because when you say your sons are potential rapists that might have some bad ramifications there, your kids, you stupid idiot and then she says it was one thing to agree to be written about in relative obscurity and quite another to have my words intrude on their daily lives by the way It's the same lady, who wrote a column about how wonderful sons was apparently suicidal with him like this and she and she says,

One of my sons suicidal so we sat down and watched thirteen reasons. Why are you? The stupidest person on planet earth you ever, thirteen reasons why, like half the show is dedicated to why suicide is a choice, that is driven by outside forces. It's not really in your hands anyways. She says one of my Does it hurt by my words, though, he's never told me, so he doesn't understand why I loved him and his brother together in my essay. He sees himself the good one, the one who sensitive and thoughtful and who listens instead of react. He doesn't understand that even quiet misogyny is misogyny and not all sexes sound like twitter, trolls so. It seems like a nice kid He's calling him sexist in rapist he's let me now, although he won't admit that either and his anger led him to conservative websites in Youtube channels. Ok, if the sun of Jody Allard, is watching this right now. Please write me an email. I would be happy to have you in turn with us here over at the daily wire think that you deserve better than what your mother has provided to you: a label as a potential rapist, I think, you're a rapist. I don't think potential rapist, you seem like a nice person

Your mother, however, seems like she is a Herod and she's it teeter, frequently I've been supporting my son and educating him. Is it my job is his mother to ensure he feels safe emotionally, no matter what violence he spews. Can you give an example of the violence that her son is feeling? Is he coming home going great great great great great? What exactly is he doing? Is he coming home and he I saw a girl on the bus today. You know what rape and pretty sure, that's not what happened, but when you're a crazy person. And this is what happen then. She starts talking about her dating life. Why do feminine We feel the need to talk about their dating life, like anybody cares, so they joined bumble recently after six plus your break from dating I'm not overly interested in dating in the first place, but I'm starved for adult conversation so dating like a necessary evil. Well know there are some of us have friends I mean you could do that is bumble, as I explained to my married friends like feminist tinder, women have to initiate contact with men, so there's no inbox full of Bleep pics every but feminists are not. The men are no different from anywhere else, and I felt I quickly felt deflated

all men are okay. I have a general recommendation if you believe that all men are all women are crazy, that everybody's terrible- maybe it's just you, maybe it's just you. If ever relationship never had is gone bad. Maybe it's not because all the people you know are terrible. Maybe you suck as a human the data on this one, just my sons, what raped unconscious woman behind a dumpster? most of the progressive men I know, but these men share in common? Even my sons is a relentless questioning and disbelief of the female experience. I didn't realize the common female experiences to be raped while unconscious behind a dumpster q females- and I don't know, any of them- have been raped while unconscious behind a dumpster at least. None have told me about it and if they did tell me about that, I would say: can we find the person and hunt them down like that be? My first reaction can tell the police, and if not, is Maybe we can kill this person and get away with it. Like that seems like the best like, is that not feminist enough to actually more that I do not want to prove my pain invite enough evidence to convince anyone that my trauma is merited gay

You accused someone of rape. You might have to provide evidence of actual rape. You shouldn't just be to accuse anyone of any crime totally insane totally. Insane. Um child protective services needs to show up like right now at this lady's door. Thank God. It sounds like her sons old enough. They get to leave home leave now leave now. Okay, I will try to find a way to put you up in your own apartment seriously. Okay, you deserve to get out of there right now: Jody Allard Children, my god, okay, other thing that I hate so Conor Mcgregor is the ' these irish correct is the irish MMA star who is going to fight. Floyd Mayweather Miami by fight, Floyd Mayweather, is get knocked out all likelihood likelihood by Floyd Mayweather, because it's not this morning I mean he's not boxer he's never met fighter. I've been saying for a couple of weeks that I think the best outcome here is the Conor. Mcgregor sticks, like eight rounds and then at the very end, when it's clear he's going to lose, you just does a roundhouse kick and did Mayweather his face,

he's violates all those with the greatest thing in boxing history around has kicked in Floyd Mayweather in any case, apparently who is very angry because Floyd, Mayweather and Conor Mcgregor were like verbally sparring with each which is what people do at these events. That's the whole reason they have these events. They flew in on the same jet, ok folks, it's a show and Conor Mcgregor said this five. Is there an old week, sing it to me. I want you to sing it to me and I want you to dance for me. You see it. You dance dance, only boy shows the Conor of is racist. Can we call it an international incident? I got a and I know that's Connors,

ammo and how he operates and all that, but it just don't feel good to me. I have a hard time listening to it, I'm not even talking about the curse words, just the tone of it and I'm going to say this skip it comes off as racist to me, ok or may come on come on it. Does everything have to be racist or could it just be a couple of buffoons who are yelling at each other? I mean, like really Does everything have to be racist, yeah, you're right? It's it's! It's white, supremacist, Conor Mcgregor, going after Floyd Mayweather in a bit about their going to hold it's kind of a classy job ready for a hundred million dollars like really really again. My recommendation is this: this fight ends with with so they were actually using anime rules in violation of the rules, and I think it would be hilarious if you round House kicks Floyd Mayweather Mayweather, goes down is knocked out and then, as he's unconscious on the floor, the ref picks up his hand, declared the victor, the greatest spectrum boxing history, ok time,

work, some mailbag. So let us do this. Ok, so Jennifer says: hey Ben I'm a big fan of your work I want to get your opinion and insight on the topic of home schooling. Being a stay at home, mom and a teacher children anyway, so who's going to do a lot of Xin. Do, you think, is the best choice when it comes to different schooling options to pick from options such as home school private school in public school? Well, I do not like most public schools. There are some good public schools. I generally prefer private school to homeschool. The only reason being, I think it is important for kids to spend time away from the house. But home schooling is a wonderful option. My sister was home schooled for at least a year. I have friends who have been Elicia. Krauss is a friend of mine. She is a home school kid, a wonderful gal,

so homeschooling seems to work very well and it's a better option. You have to assess this for your own kids. Some kids don't need the interactive time with other kids. If you are going to homeschool. Obviously, you have to take an extra measure to make sure that your kids socialize with other kids, but I don't think the chief purpose of school is socialization and so many people think I think it's education. Casey says I was recently arguing rights. Don't require the labor of others. When someone brought up juries, don't we require the labor of people to be on a jury to fulfill the right to a jury, so yes, the right to a jury is is basically aid in. Lowe's right, it's not a natural right. I don't think that it's like, if you think there are plenty of justice systems that the founders would have embraced. I don't think they see that there is a quote, unquote: Natural God given right to a jury, they believe there's a right to due process of law. In other words, when you have a state that is established for the purpose of protecting rights, there has to be some sort of process of law by which they can convict you. You know the the same question can be asked about court court appointed attorney,

the idea of these kind of writes this is a sort of positive right, the right to have a jury 'cause. You are imposing on others, but as I say, that is only because state is now invading your normal rights, and so we have to protect those rights with some sort of system. So it's the same as a right to somebody else is labor for for welfare or for your poverty or make excuses for decision making. Well, as as conservative millennials grow up and enter parenthood. How can we prepare our children, society teaches kids. They can't pick their nose, but they can pick their gender or punch anyone who disagrees with them. I mean, I think it's pretty juxtaposition. I think teach your kids, how ridiculous? That is. That's a good way to do it, but we have to laugh at this. We have to mock. Because it is insane and we tend on the right this routine. We don't want to offend people, because we have the right to be more polite than our counterparts on the left, and so we don't want to offend. We don't want to be. The jerks but I'm sorry. It is absurd that you're suggesting that people can pick their gender, but they can't pick their nose Vashti, which is at that's a cool name.

I heard that I mean really only time I've seen that is in the book of Esther as a conservative college student or maybe principles by accepting federal loans and government aid. For my college education, I don't think that you're violating your principles and you're going to pay those loans back. I think that the federal government is violating his principle being by offering the lines, I'm not sure that you're violating it by taking loans when you are repairing your loans, meaning that you are doing what you are supposed to do now, if you vote in favor of the loans, that's a different thing. If you vote because of the loans, that's a different thing, but no I mean I took federal loans. It would make me a hypocrite to say that other people can't take federal loans. I think the entire concept of federal loan shouldn't exist, but that's sort of saying, I don't think that I should have to pay eight hundred dollars to the state city that I I don't think the nor to start a business in the state of California should have to pay an eight hundred dollar licensing fee, but I do it. We have to start a business. Ok, well, remove the law that I'll do that and I'll fight to remove the law. I'll fight to remove the federal student Loans GEO says: hey Ben. Do you believe the secret to success and happiness is doing what you love for a living? Thank you

I think that there is a difference between doing what you love for a living and doing what you are capable of doing for a living. So I do think that one of the secret to happiness is doing something that you love, but I think that you should try and define what you love by something you're, good at lying? In other words, if what you love to do for living is play basketball and you're, really bad at basketball. I don't think that's a recipe for happiness. I think that you should be. You should be uh. In order to determine do some thing that you love and are good at you love many things find something love and are good at because then you will be happy if you pick something you love and are bad at. You will be upset because you'll feel the world is screwing, you a searights, dear Ben Wyatt, climate change such a left issue. I've heard you explain, the prime principle, undergirding, less policies, equality of outcome, not equal opportunity. Does this principle under guard the policies the left pursues on climate change and if you how so okay. So the answer is yes it is the remedies for climate change that our problem for the right to their a lot of people on the right be including that there's a guy named?

omarion, I'm forgetting his last name now Merkel. Anyway, is a very good piece about what climate change is. If it exists My own opinion on climate change by the way is that climate change does exist, that global warming is happening. We don't know to what extent it app. But even if we accept the General IPCC, which is flawed, but we accept the general Intergovernmental Panel Commission on climate change, even if we, even if we accept there, estimates that does not mandate that we should all basically shut down our cars and it certainly doesn't mandate a great wealth redistribution. My feeling is the best answer for climate change is the same answer that, even to virtually other all other environmental issues, which is you

where there are emissions that cannot be prevented any other way, but mostly the markets, all this kind of stuff I mean. The fact is that your car has got more efficient. It has got more efficient because a case standards got more efficient because it's cheaper for people to drive more efficient cars and because those cars are better and people are buying tussles right now, because they're cool, so I think the market for this can be used in order to push toward a more environmentally friendly world. I don't think It is the same as for nuclear power. I don't think that you need government regulation left seems to start from the premise that they won't governmental regulation and the reason the way that works Dylan says dear man. What is your stance on people who burn election posters from parties? They disagree with not sure curves in the USA, but here in Northern Ireland, around 12th of July, there bonfires burned with nationalist Party election posters featured prominently on this crap to be burned should be considered a crime. I don't think it should be considered a crime to burn any sort of message. I don't think should be a crime to burn the flag. I think flag burning is evil, but I don't think that it should be a crime to burn it. I think lots of things are evil, but I'm not enough of a governmental,

advocates suggest that we should make everything I don't like illegal Lucas', hello Ben. Is it wrong for private businesses to hide the salaries of other workers in the company? Capitalism involves, very exchanges between employer and employee yeah. I notice how, when try to get a raise. The employer typically asks. What do you think you're worth while you have little to no kind of the average performer season, the company to companies or individuals. Means to mitigate this so that employee can get paid? What they're worth while you decide? What you're worth ran in this is that the market, as soon as it better flow of information. But if there's first of information. You still have the capacity to bargain right. So, yes, would you any better. With your life be easier, if you could determine what the other people in your company are being paid, sure your life will be better and easier, but is not the obligation of the company to give you that information? This is why you should talk to your friend and get a general idea and why people should refuse to sign contracts? That say this: I mean as it work or you can say, listen if there's a confidentiality,

about my pay. I don't want to sign that. I think most companies are probably not thinking that's a huge deal. The fact is that you can get a pretty good metric of what you already paid by just doing a little simple research online, I think is, is a general rule. Ryan says: what would We have to do during the next three issues. To get your vote for him in two thousand and twenty well, you need to actually probably get Alice a cell I for Trump, has always been that I need him to actually promulgate conservative policy, and I need him not to wreck the conservative brand. Those are my two big things. I think that he has done some heavy work in hurting the conservative brand he's pushed judge. Gorsuch was a good policy, but I think that, let's put it this way, it's a shorter putt for him to win my vote in twenty twenty than it was for him to win my vote in twenty. Sixteen the reason being that in twenty sixteen, I still thought that The damn it that a lot of the damage that was done by the Republican Party by him being president would be short. Damage and long term damage he's already there,

right now, it's a lot of the damage is already been done. It's hard in the past right a lot of the things that he's done to the conservative brand of already been done. So now we are work, from reality where the conservative brand is what the conservative brand is. What that means is that we're going to damage things much further or he's going to make things better and that's the question when it comes to twenty twenty? Ok, so we will be back here at next Monday. We have a surprise for you from daily wire. There should be coming on Sunday, so keep an eye out for it. It is going to be full be awesome and ridiculous and crazy, as everyone at the office can attest it an insane thing that we're going to put out on Sunday. I think you will enjoy it so check that out, I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show and