Sergeant. Bo Bergdoll goes free in breaking news, plus Hillary Clinton basically just gave up the demo add party to Bernie Sanders and will check the mail back, I'm Ben Shapiro- this is the Ben Shapiro- show all so breaking news sergeant Bowe, Bergdahl, the guy who just pled guilty do both desertion and misbehavior before the enemy and could have received life in prison instead goes free. He received zero prison time. I'll, explain just how Just this is plus some comments from the judges that are nearly as outrageous in just a second first, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at birch gold so right now the economy seems to be doing really well. There's a new economic report out today shows unemployment is down to four point. One percent stock market continues to rise, but the question is going to be what happens when the bubble burst, because the bubble inevitably borders every age ten years there's some sort of economic crisis, in the United States, the last one was in two thousand and seven. So it's been just a little while that means that you at least be hedging your bets a little bit, I'm not saying take all your money out of the stock.

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recall, was treated as a hero by the Obama administration was actually a trader or, at the very least, a disorder he deserted. This post. While he was in Afghanistan, his fellow his fellow sold, for some of whom I know, and I met. Some of them have had told me that he was a weirdo before that he wandered off and wandered direct. Into the hands of the Taliban, he says, goes and trying to join the Taliban. Whatever he was trying to do, they ended up basically capturing him and keeping him in captivity for several years. President Obama then traded five Gitmo terrorists favor of Bo Bergdoll. So I wandered off his post. Not only did he do that, we had to send out soul looking for him because it seemed like he might have been captured right now that he deserved it, but they might have been captured and six american soldiers were killed in the process of attempting to attempting to get yeah back plus a military dog as well Prince according to Mark Thompson over at Time magazine in two thousand and fourteen he wrote chances? Are you haven't heard of the six soldiers who died? Hunting for Bergdahl after he went

according to military officials. Now that Bergdahl has been sprung. Soldiers who served or grumbling that he deserted and shouldn't be hailed as a hero, especially given the resulting cost. American lives Bergdahl himself pled guilty to deserve. Miss behavior in the face of the enemy according to politico. Today, the AP, a military- just down the Goldbergs all should serve no prison time, zero, prison time, endangering his comrades by walking off his Afghanistan post. The judge also gave Berg. Now a dishonorable discharge reduces ranked private said he must forfeit pay equal to one thousand dollars per month for ten months or ten thousand dollars fine for getting six american soldiers killed, because you walked off duty really his or she needs to be punishable by tree. It used to be treated like treason, right life in prison or you're, taking in front of a firing squad. You get your fellow soldiers killed because you decide to wander off your post and join the Taliban or at least go and hang out with.

And you don't get any prison time at all that busted down to private and take away some money according to political prosecutors. It starts if punishments because wounds to service members who search for Bergdahl after he disappeared in two thousand and nine. Some of those wounds are really grievous. There's guy in a wheelchair, because Bergdahl Offense sought to counter that happens with testimony operas all suffering during his five years as a captive Taliban allies is traditions to military intelligence and survival instruction and his mental health problems. Bergdahl was twenty three years old when, after five months in Afghanistan, he disappeared from his remote infantry post near the Pakistan. Triggering a massive search operation, and then he showed up in the hands of the Taliban and, of course, in May two thousand and fourteen he was handed over to use special forces in a swap with the Taliban. Here's what's most outrageous about this game, it's most outrageous about this pointed out by John Podhoretz over Commentary magazine. This is just a few days ago. The New York Times reported quote the judge in this case again, Jeffrey Nance said quote: I will consider the president's comments as mitigation when mitigation

Evidence as I arrived in an appropriate sentence, Kay mitigation Evidence- I mean that's insane so, basically what the defense was trying to say is they were trying to say that Trump or was making statements about the case, and they talked about how trump had had made numerous statements during the nomination and in the general election about Bowe, Bergdahl and the accused and pled guilty, and then he held a press conference on October 16th, two thousand and seventeen, and he said I can't comment on Bo Bergdoll because I guess he's doing something today, but there sending up sentencing. So I'm not going to comment on it, but I think people have heard my comments. In the past. The defense immediately filed for dismissal saying that Trump had bias the case beyond measure and therefore they should release Berg The judge said: I'm not gonna release birds all based on that, but I will be taking this into account right. He said that he would take into account as mitigation evidence what Trump had said and it pretty pretty ridiculous is that they they said that essentially he says it and at the end of the

his little ruling. He said I will consider the president's comments as mitigation evidence, as I arrived in appropriate sentence in this case, and while require anyone involved in any way in the exercise exercise of discretion in any post trial aspect of this case to read the statement from the White House Press office at twenty October, two thousand and seventeen before they exercise that discretion unless the defense requests that are not issue that order, because on October 20th there have been some statement from the White House about all of this. It was a statement regard military justice- and it said quote, the president expects all military personnel who are involved in any way in the military justice processed exercise, their independent professional judgment right, and so the judge said he wasn't going to take this into account. But he did take it into account. It looks a lot like the judge basically said: I'm not going to release Bergdahl because Trump did this, but I'll kind of release Bergdahl, because Trump did this. At least that seems to be the implication here. Pretty horrifying stuff Berg downloads will be treated as here by the left. An exact

family Chelsea Manning has been treated as a hero by the left. I anyone who turns against the US military is treat at least by segments, went down to the hole left by by segment of the more extreme left as as somebody who's done something worth celebrating and over a dollar one sure get a large contract from simple company. In order to tell his story well, the people who were shot and wounded or killed, searching for him end up. You know with nothing just just insane discussing stuff, okay. Well, meanwhile, the Democrats are in complete disarray. One thing that is very clear is that Bernie San There's now runs the Democratic Party. Bernie Sanders is the king of the Democratic Party. He lost the battle, but he won the war he lost in two thousand and sixteen, but he won the war. Because now every Democrat goes on bended knee to pay homage to Bernie Sanders. All of his agenda items must be, must be, treated with respect when he talked about Medicare. For all. You have people like Elizabeth Warren and people like Cory. Booker people like Kamala Harris all damaged to Bernie Sanders Priorities

it's amazing how a loon bag old, socialist, she's, never passed. A serious piece of legislation in his life was kicked out of a commune in the 1970s for being too useless for a commune right that guy is now the leader of the Democratic Party it snow, certainly the non trumping, the leader of the the the Republican Party, but it does demonstrate the loss of faith in the parties themselves have led to the takeover of those parties by outside forces. Sanders is an outside force. Trump is an outside force and it's been constraints. Again, when you have parties that have lost their way, we have parties that don't have a reason for existence. They are susceptible to being taken over. It's really obvious now that Folks like Elizabeth Warren are crowning Bernie Sanders King and the only question is what Bernie Sanders going to do with that. So here is Elizabeth. Warren was asked yesterday by Jake, Brown CNN, Weather Bernie was robbed in the sixteen election cycle by Hillary Clinton and the Dnc she. That year they should said last year that he was not rob, but now she switched her tune because of play everyone must now must now been before Bernie.

Test for Tom Perez and either he's going to succeed, by bringing burgers, and Bernie Sanders represented as into this process and they're going to say it's fair, it works. We all believe it or he's going to fail, and I very much hope he succeeds. I hope for Democrats everywhere, I hope for Bernie and for all Bernie supporters. They are going to succeed very quickly. Senator do you agree with the notion that it was rigged? Yes, Okay. So suddenly she had the notion it was rigged funny how that works right five seconds ago, five seconds ago, she she was saying. It wasn't right now she saying it's right: does that sound honest to you or is that sound like playing political games? Does that sound like she knows that, Sanders the power inside the party, this loon battled set to do, except to engineering and socialist from Vermont that guy the guy who who you can find a

warnings of singing this land is your land. This land is my land in his crazy voice. Really it's worth it's worth watching will have to pull out at some point that guy now runs the Democratic Party, so the question becomes, this is Bernie. Sanders is Bernie Sanders going to actually run for president again, two thousand and twenty. I think he would be a fool not to. I think that if you ran in twenty twenty, he win the nomination and he would likely win the presidency truly. I think that is it's a very high possibility. Now. He also has the possibility he could sit outside and just become the patrons of the Democratic Party he could sit outside. He could campaign for all the candidates he could make and come to him that may his best move in certain ways, because then he gets to be the leader of the movement as opposed to the guy who is expected to actually implement amber, is not gonna, be able to implement the damn thing I mean Bernie and have the the power he doesn't have the the the support of the of legislators in order to do all of this. But if you just sit outside and he talks about,

his socialist priorities and Democrats mirror his socialist priorities. He can actually pose more of a threat from the outside. Then he does from the inside, but it is very clear that the Dnc is moving in Bernie's direction. Tom Perez, who took over gnc from Donna Brazil. We talked about Donna Brazil yesterday. The reason all this is coming up is because Donna Brazil has a new book which says Hillary Clinton took over the Democratic Party wholesale in August of twenty fifteen long before she was the nominee now Perez runs the party and he's just trying to keep his head down. Saying we're going to move forward when he means by move forward is follow, burning down the primrose path. Here, ok we're moving forward we're building. You know. I've been asked that question a number of times since I started and uh. My goal is here is the Dnc chair is to make sure that the nominating process in for two thousand and twenty is a process, that's totally fair and transparent for everybody, that's what we're fighting for! That's what we will do and we're going to set the the debate schedule well in advance of when we know who the the candidates, who will be there, we have to make sure that everything is fair and open, and everybody has a fair shake. Okay, so

Obviously he's now paying lip service to Bernie Sanders. Amid all of this one of the points that's worth making or is it really is fascinating? How the twenty sixteen election played in light of the fact that Hillary Clinton was picking up all of Barack Obama's bills at the Dnc one thing, the town Brazil said in that piece is that Barack Obama had run twenty four million dollars in debt. Again, the Dnc and Hillary Clinton came in and backfill that debt well That was one of the reasons why Barack Obama kept saying to Joe Biden. He wasn't going to endorse him, because this was one of the questions during the primaries. What if Barack Obama, had endorsed Joe Biden. Wouldn't bite and then have beaten him putting in the primaries and could really understand why it was that Joe Biden wasn't getting Obama's. Endorsement Obama had talked in warmed terms about about biting. He obviously likes Joe Biden a lot. He felt that Joe Biden was. It was a good support. And yet he was standing aside and letting Hillary Clinton basically take the it is not unheard of for presidents to endorse their presidents, during the primary cycle that is not heard of it all. In fact, it happens. Relatively routinely, Obama didn't

that maybe one of the reasons he didn't do, that is because Hillary Clinton was basically signing the checks for all of his bills. A lot of Obama consultants were still being paid by the Dnc with Hillary cash. Well, all of this was going on, which shows how corrupt Obama is. If that's the case, Joe Biden by the way is probably going to run again in two thousand and twenty, but now Joe Biden could run into the Bernie Sanders. Buzz saw by Dennis making the rounds talking about Trump tweeting and all the rest of this trump. A long tweetstorm today about how The Dnc is corrupt and how should be investigated by the FBI and the Doj I'll talk about that in just a second, but here is Joe Biden desperately trying to cling to relevance. We gotta Adoptes tweeting. We got to stop this now. It is so I've tried to stay out in the Mosh pit for President Obama and I ever is childish pretty amazing and continues to try and maintain his place is a possible twenty twenty front. Twenty frontrunner, I I want to talk in just a SEC

about why it is that this is a problem for the democratic party. Why it's going to continue to be a problem for the Democratic Party plus hillarys corruption, still looms a spectra on the horizon and why neither party will let it go in just a second. I want to talk about Republicans on taxes and a big loophole that they created that's kind of disastrous, but first I want to say thank you to our sponsors. Over at the? U S CCA, so the is concealed Kerry says you should make sure the you have all the resources necessary to protect your family. You think it's just as simple as having a gun in your house and being a The user one intruder shows up, but there's a lot that happens after you pull the trigger the police shop. They ask you questions. If you answer the questions wrong, you could end up in prison. That's why you need to talk with my friends at the USC ca they'll give my listeners they're complete, concealed, carry and family defense Guide, one hundred percent free when you contact them. It's one hundred and sixty four pages of life, saving information you can find anywhere else that free guide helps. You understand confusing gun laws. Possibly own in store gun, particularly if you have small children as I do training for scenarios survive the waters of legal system.

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are now going to be exacerbated. Bernie Sanders is not a unifying figure. Bernie Sanders is a very divisive figure inside the democratic party. The Hillary wings still thinks she got job. Hillary wings still think she should be. President. Hillary is still out there defending herself. The best thing that could happen for the Democratic Party is for Hillary to just disappear. This is why there's a concerted attempt now to do away with all of the Hillary Clinton people Right Tom Perez five minutes ago- just fired the top Dnc fundraiser claiming that, basically, this person was involved in the in the Hillary stuff. They they. They aren't explicitly saying that that seems to be the implication, because slow fundraising has played the party armies, and this is the only capable fundraiser in the party anymore, along with Nancy Pelosi- that's it so. The Democrats are now going to fight an internal battle, continues to cling to her to his relevance, Hillary, her relevance and Bernie Sanders Ascendant, pretty and here's. Hillary Clinton yesterday trying to explain why include with Russia, even though she paid millions of dollars, apparently in order to

the dossier on Donald Trump, that involves getting information directly from russian governmental sources, is there a different course areas, and you know most serious people understand that this was research started by a republican donor during the republican primary and then when Trump got. Nomination for the Republican Party, the people doing it name to my campaign lawyer and said you know, would you like to continue it, and he said yes he's an experienced lawyer. He knows what the law is. He knows what opposition research is, and you know from my perspective, it didn't come out before the election as we all know, and what also didn't come out, which I think is an even bigger problem, as I write in the book is that the american people didn't even know that the FBI was investigating the Trump campaign because of connections

Is Russia starting in the summer of twenty sixteen? So I know that voter you, should've had that information that something that may have influenced some people and it's part of what opens in a campaign where you get information. That May or may not be useful, and you try to make sure anything you put out in the public arena is accurate, and so this thing didn't come out until after the election and it's still being evaluated, but the fact of the FBI investigation into with the Trump campaign and Russia should have come out. Ok, so she says that she's gonna blame it on the, but that's really not the question here. The question is: why was she paying russian sources to obtaining nation on President Trump and she's not able to take this. The fact that she continues to be in the public eye is a disaster for Democrats. It's a disaster. It is great for president from, however, because President Trump,

needs Hillary Clinton to be out there. The reasoning is Hillary Clinton be out. There is so long as Hillary Clinton out there. The specter of Hillary looms large. All the folks who did it, who voted for President Trump, don't have to consider whether they would vote come again, because now it's the same election over and over and over. I can just do this election over and over in their heads. If you voted for Donald Trump, it's not that he do the job. All you have to do is look on the tv screen. There's Hillary Clinton, you breathe a sigh of relief. At least we didn't get her, and this is the way people are Jim President Trump's performance at this point, not by whether he's doing the job, not by whether he's been successful. Now, where he's been successful or how he's been successful, but at least he's not that lady, so her continued presence on the national stage, the the ubiquity of her of her mug on the on the television set, very, very good for for President Trump, and trump jazz up his face when he says stuff like this, so Trump told him. My friend Larry O'Connor over in Washington DC, he told Larry that he's very frustrated. He can't personally Hillary Clinton left is going nuts over this, but it but Trump knows

but when he says that the saddest thing is that, because of president of the United States, I am not supposed to be involved with the Justice Department. I'm not supposed to be involved with the FBI, I'm not supposed to be doing the kind of things that I would love to be doing, and I I'm very frustrated by ok, so a lot Bless, went nuts over this. A lot of people on the left suggested that this is President Trump's, dictatorial, sensibility coming to the fore. He wants to prosecute Hillary Clinton. Let's be very real about this. This is Trump saying he can't do it. This is from saying he can't do it for all of his fulminations on twitter. What Trump is doing here is certainly no worse than what President Obama did repeatedly with the IRS. Where kept saying. That would be great if someone would go after Five. Oh one c threes, these conservative, five one two threes and then administrators of the IRS got the picture and the one I had one after the conservative five one two three is very funny to watch the left, which seriously a Next, to what Trump is saying publicly base really gloss over the IRS scandal and pretend that it never happened. Now. Listen, I don't think that the president should

telling the FBI what to do. It does require a certain level dependency, has power over the FBI because power over his Doj? But we don't want that Doj to simply become an arm of the White House, it was under president job. It's not under President Trump is but even the left should knowledge. Ok, the Doj President Trump is not an arm of the White House. It really has not been Eric. Holder was who described himself as Barack Obama's wing man. If you want to talk about perversion of the Doj uses of the White House. It was a lot worse under Obama than it, was under Trump, and this is coming from someone who's very skeptical, of Trump's perspective on the constitution, full of law. He trump is certainly not use The O'Jays is weapon against political opponents in nearly the way the Democrats use. The Doj is a weapon on behalf of their political allies and that is clearly drew Tucker. Christian Adams, who is over at the Doj during the Obama administration and the Doj Civil Rights Division, was basically throwing out cases against the black Panthers, even as the black Panthers, the new black Panthers were wielding nightsticks outside of voting places,

The Doj under Obama was much more wing of the White House than it is under President Trump. So I don't buy a lot of the kind of left wing outrage, the trumpet I'm sick, the Doj and the F b I on on Hillary Clinton, wanted to do it. He actually has the power to do it, but he is not doing that right now, so on. The left needs to just calm down okay So in a second, I want to talk about the republican tax plan and we we have the mail that today. That's why it's a great time for you subscribe. It is it's right now, like literally right now for nine ninety nine a month, then you can watch to show live and be part of the mail bag. You can have your questions answered today on our show which is awesome. You can also get the Andrew Klavan Show fully live on video you can get. The Michael Knowles show fully live on video and restore is coming. I keep promising it. I've been doing it for two years, but unlike- other politicians, I'm not politicians. That means that this is true. It is coming. We've built out the store. The gear is already getting ready, we've already cleared the gear, so all of that is coming in. You will get discounts. If you remember also, if you get annual subscription. Then you get all of this.

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little bit on people who are in the the upper bracket on and it definitely lowers tax on corporate and corporate taxes. The corporate tax rate reduction from thirty five percent to twenty percent is definitely a massive improvement. Thirty five percent is the highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world, So that would be a big move. However, the Republicans, as always fail to make their they always buy into left wing premises, and then they use those to make that argument. So, in example, today there's a look call in the new in the new republican tax bill, the remember the Republicans on the house. They were in the Senate and run everything right their public in run. The whole shebang they don't have to borrow and with the Democrat and yet now they're, basically preemptively bargaining here is what they did. The new house tax bill doesn't just leave taxes in place, people who earn more than five hundred thousand dollars in couples earning more than one million dollars. It increases taxes by six percent. On each dollar earned from one one million bucks to one point: two million bucks for single people and one point two

Inbox, two hundred to one point, six million bucks for married couples, so in other words it actually raises taxes on people for high income earners that is designed to make up a reduction in the lowest tax brackets, twelve percent and low tax bracket is moving down to twelve percent from something like twenty five percent. As Phil Kerpen is pointed out, this means the effective rate in the bubble is forty six percent So, if I make between one million dollars an one point, six million bucks or between one point two one point: six million bucks I married. That means. Every dollar I earn their. Fifty percent of it will go to the federal government. Almost fifty percent of it will go to the federal government plus. That also means that, because this tax bill basically gets rid of the state tax deduction, meaning that California has ten Penn State income tax and then there's a business tax in the city of LOS Angelus. That means that every dollar between that between one point, two and one point: six million dollars that looks more like sixty percent of my income leaving. My pocket in that in that case, which is an insane amount of money, that's an insane amount of money. That should be frank about this. You know the fact that that's all that

I have to make a lot of money in order to pay the tax. I'm very grateful for the fact that I make a lot of money. It's my money. It is not the government's money, it is not your money. It is my money just as well. Making sixty thousand dollars a year. That was my money the same person. Earning the same way. That means that the money is find the money is not. Yours republicans, fail to understand this basic point and say: engage in class warfare in a stupid way, they're constantly granting the put the point: is this the sort of idiot, idiotic populism that that I keep hearing from people on the right they grant the left point that is fair to tax people at the upper end of the income spectrum, nonsense, none! it's taking a dollar from someone's pocket without an exchange of services is theft. Ok, the exchange of surface is in the constitution. Is roads, bridges, defense right, because you have the equal capacity to use these things, but not for redistributive programs? Not

social security, not for Medicare. Ok, the idea that you get to remove money from my pocket and give me nothing in return just because I'm earning more money than I was five years ago seems to me Morally unprincipled, I give lots of charity. That's good, that's on me! but the government seizing money from people's pockets and they can do it to me. They can do it to you and then that's what they do, and socialistic countries like Denmark, so in has low corporate tax rates by the way, the really high individual tax rates, if they can take sixty percent of my income between one point, two and one point six mill. If I'm lucky enough to make that this year, then they can move that down tax bracket wise until they're making up this deficit because bottom line is both parties want to blow out the debt here's the other. That republicans fail. Republicans should make this argument. Ok, the reality is. The money in my pocket is better for the economy than the money in the pocket of somebody who is who is lower on the income, that, is not a rip on the person who is lowering the income spectrum that person need the money more than I do. I will freely admit that, but in terms of who pays that person to have a job, it is me there are a lot of people who are at my company who are

You know sixty grand a year, seventy five grand a year there a lot of people, this company who are earning at the middle class income in the in the income bracket. If I'm not making as much money by companies and making as much money and it's being redistributed to the people who work for me. Is that supposed to be a benefit of them, because what happens if I just decided to shut it down the case in point of this is that Joe Ricketts, who owns the yields Gothamist or did, and New York EST. He just shut down the company's. Why? Because all the employees decided to unionize a week later, he said screw this, I'm not making enough money shut it down was that good for them was good for the economy or would it have been? better for them not to unionize and instead go in and ask for raise if they thought they deserved it. Well, basically, when the government removes income from my pocket, it's the government unionizing my workers against me right. I mean that's basically what it's doing. It's basically them saying your worker you get more of your profits and therefore we are going to take your money out of your pocket and give it to your workers. It doesn't work that way. Why businesses shut down you increase the rate of taxation,

enough and businesses will shut down again. Is this particular tax increase the biggest deal? Do I think that it's not worth voting for the tax bill over? No, I don't Will I survive a course I'll survive? I'm not complaining about the about the amount of. MAX, is breaking me or anything. I don't think that's really. What I am saying is that Republicans to make honest economic arguments and they failed Mechonis moral arguments. Taxation at route is theft unless you're, giving back products and services in exchange for the taxation and It is also true that people at the upper end Income spectrum are the people who are creating the vast majority of jobs in the country and paying, by the way, nearly all of the net taxes in the country. The top tax bracket paid ninety five percent of all income taxes in the United States NET, meaning they don't get any services back, but people in the lower income brackets. Do Republicans don't make these arguments because they think it's politically unpalatable that people don't understand them. I don't think that's I think people get this. I think everybody works for a rich person right until I was rich. I work for rich people. I still work for people richer than I am ok, that's the way this works here. The fact is that, in

any runs based on the expenditure of capital in pursuit of better jobs and services, better goods and services, and if the people of the uh undergoing punished for doing that you're going to see the jobs market that you're going to do the jobs market go down the reason I hate this is not that again 'cause. I think it's a huge deal. Is when you use democratic arguments. You're never going to win is what the Democrats are going to do. They're going to say: listen, the Republicans are right. Of course, we should tax the people at the upper end more. Why don't we tax them? Ninety percent right? This is the argument that Chang Geiger made when we debate he said well, the economy was better. When we had people at the upper income brackets people making make million dollars, paying ninety percent of their income to the federal government. First of all, important to note virtually everyone avoided taxes right the effective tax. Great for people making more than one million dollars in those years was incredibly low because everybody was just using every loophole available, so that tax rate was never achieved. But beyond that, Democrats can use this argument for anything once you acknowledge that people who earn more should pay

Tax is not as not as an absolute amount, which is fine, but on a percentage basis, once you say that you're, basically acknowledging that you get to rob Peter to pay Paul Eventually Peter get sick of being robbed and he's gonna stop hiring people. So again the GOP needs to get out of this rut with the Can you tell it to nonsensical emir the things the Democrats say about tax policy, okay time for some things I like and then Some things I hate and then we'll get to mail back so things I like this week, I've been doing books about children and books about parenting any to a has a really fun book, a battle hymn of Tiger mother. It made a lot of noise at the time. Amy Chua is a professor at Yale, and her book is basically about raising her children in a sort of traditional chinese way, meaning event oriented that self esteem is not given is earned, and I think that there's a lot to this I mean, if you want to look at areas of the world where children are the best educated areas of the world where children are high achievers there all areas of the world where parents don't shy.

Away from putting pressure on their children to achieve it's a world where they demonstrate high expectations for their children. We in America have this bizarre notion that if we treat our children like Russo, treats a meal that we just let our kids run around free naked on the playground somewhere that they're going to end up being a Nobel Prize winning scientist not the reality. Okay, the push to achieve is something that is that a deeply necessary battle hymn of the Tiger mothers, a really fascinating memoir about her raising her children. How to sort of balance. American tendencies with chinese tendencies issue puts it so check it. Tell him the title of the buy a meet you out, okay! Well, it's time for a couple of things that I hate that I'd wanna spend some real time with MEL back today. So Tucker Carlson, who is eight immensely talented guy, but who has his done this mirroring of the populace deck for all these last several years? He he decided to go off on what he calls the ruling class. Now I am real objections to

This notion that quote unquote, ruling class, who are the ruling class, Mean Tucker Carlson Group that is tony as it gets. I mean Tucker Carlson grew up in the lap of privilege. His mother, I believe, is Margaret also any grab like a multi multi millionaire Tucker Carlson has been earning his entire career. It's not a rip on Tucker, but all of this sort class warfare. You hear this from Laura Ingram to the elites. Ok, when you as much money and you went to the best you went to the best schools as Laura. Did you cook for Justice Thomas sure we can call you in elite. This idea that the ruling class prefers Immigr two Americans. Here's what Tucker Carlson has to say about this now. I think that there is something I said for the idea that there are folks on the left just ideology. Favors, the importation of people who do not buy into american culture over people who actually buy into american culture. But talk is about to say here, smacks to me of of both class war. Right there in a little bit of anti immigrant sentiment. I'll, explain why, in a second wow, this man, even in our country,

he was here because this country's leaders have decided that diversity in and of itself is of greater importance than the well being of this country's people. Literally true Bob was admitted to the US under the so called diversity lottery, something you've likely never even heard of until today in that part of what he said is not so bad, but then he said, she said quote the truth. Is our ruling class prefer immigrants to Americans say that out loud. They don't need to say it out loud watch how they act where they more worried about the so called dreamers here illegally or the sixty thousand american citizens who died of drug Ods last year. It's not even close. Well, that's not really. True. I mean the amount of higher that's been poured on. The opioid epidemic is pretty significant, but the idea that a ruling class, prefers immigrants to Americans. Here's why I say this sort of anti immigrant sentiment. Not all immigrants are the same. I have a big thing here on the and in my general political philosophy, everyone gets treated as an individual. The idea that Americans are better than all immigrants or all immigrants are better than all. Americans is stupid. Just because

were born in the United States, does not mean you're a moral human being it doesn't mean you have higher worth. There are lots of immigrants I prefer to Americans depending on the American, and there are lots of Americans buy things. Ok, that's. Americans were better than some immigrants in their summer, better than lots of Americans to protect and that all immigrants are the same in all. Americans are the same or that you are of higher moral value or worth because you're an American. An attempt to import people who have good moral values is stupidity. Some of the people who are proud american history or immigrant obviously and some of the people who are least proud of our immigrants. Sipad we're not proud of him right. Immigrant Albert Einstein, kind of proud of him immigrant Ok, the fact is: not all immigrants are created the same so when he says you know they prefer. Immigrants to Americans. I prefer people who buy into American ideology, I preferred people who buy into traditional political philosophy of the United States over everyone whether they are immigrants or native born. That's why I've said I've said Florida state again, I would prefer to deport a bunch

Americans, you don't believe in american philosophy rather than illegal immigrants who come here and want to engage in american philosophy, because I care about the philosophy. Ok, I care much more about the philosophy I shouldn't say deliverance, but immigrants themselves where you came is of little matter to me. What you believe is on it total import to me. So I thought should not have been the and in the United States, not because Sipa was an immigrant, but because there was no proof that type of actually. In american ideology when he was allowed into the country. That's why I don't like this particular binary that the Tucker is choosing to to plant it's it's next me of of nativism, rather than that Patrick is I think patriotism is about. Upholding american principles in nativism is about upholding the notion that you're, better you are born in the United States. I don't like that idea at all. Ok other! that I hate April Ryan, ask a question at the White House Press conference the other day that was really want when one of the dumber Quest and she S. Sarah Huckabee Sanders whether Donald Trump believes in slavery. They think slavery is wrong. Then she defended that the other day question

does this administration believe business President believe slavery was wrong and then, before you answer, Mary Frances, Berry, historian, stay and change. Sixty there was a compromise. The compromise was to have sudden states keep slavery, but the confederacy fired on Fort Sumter Sumter that caused the civil war and because of the civil war, what happened with north one? I think it is just Stein an absurd to suggest that anyone inside of this building would support slavery and she's, of course, exactly right, but this is something Democrats have been doing for decades. Joe Biden suggested Mitt Romney in twenty twelve and, of course, there's no evidence to suggest that anyone in the White House supports laboring you know I know I got from again for the one millionth time. This is why I got from your keys everyone who disagrees with you, everyone who, who basically repeats the KEN Burns version of the civil war narrative with Shelby Foote version of the civil war narrative use. That is as an excuse to say that they love slavery. It's

search, okay time for the mail they excel. If you are in our lives with your watching this live, you know you to type in your questions and I'll answer them as they come up. Okay, so David says I'm a fellow California lawyer who just subscribed to the daily wire and have often wondered. Why are so many extremely successful entrepreneurs bill Gates, Oprah, Winfrey, Warren Buffett, George most liberal democrats, thereby supporting a financial system that is antithetical to their success. So I think that some of these people were on the left before they became very wealthy, but I think another thing uh, and that you see this in Hollywood, a lot is a lot of people who get very wealthy then feel the need to sort of make excuses for their wealth. They're, not move it right. They don't go around saying! You know I earned this and I'm proud that I earned this because that shows you know that I've done well and made good decisions in business instead, it turns into how can I buy off the public? How can I make the public think I'm a good guy. I can't make the public think I'm a good guy if they just look at my wealth. He made good decisions. Instead, I'm going to suggest that my wealth is some sort of it's some sort of cruel burden to be borne, and

I'm going to handle off my wealth right here is the fact about Bill Gates or Warren Buffett or George Soros or Oprah Winfrey. All of these people have created many many many many many more jobs in their businesses and they haven't given charity. The bill Gates Foundation has done less for the world than bill gates in his corporate capacity and it's not a rip on the Bill Gates Foundation doing things, but I think there is a guilt that is associated with wealth in in western country, and that is entirely unjust and inappropriate. There are good people who are rich in. There are very bad people who are rich John says with the catalonians voting friend What do you think the outcome will be? You know? I don't know enough about that subject to really comment intelligible. It's time to read up on it and get back to you don. You know I do find it sort of hysterical that need what one thing that I found her hilarious is that the Catalonian are voting for independence, that, for a long time, Catalonia is wanted to be independent from Spain in

and the Israelis endorsed the catalonian independence effort and Spain went nuts and the Israelis basically laughed at him and said guys are the ones who are pressuring us to make concessions to Hamas. So you shut up Kyle, says: hey Ben currently applying for law school next fall working on my personal statement, any advice, Kyle keep politics out of it. You want to get into a good law. School. Do not go political, because the fact is that any excuse that some of these law schools have in law professors have they'd emissions boards have four kind of covering over your palate. They will. They will do that. Jaclyn says dear band. What did your kids dress up for ask for Halloween, so I dressed up for Halloween on the show, because it's sort of fun yeah, but we don't actually celebrate Halloween in the orthodox community, typically because it's sort of considered a pagan holiday, just as in many evangelical community Halloween is a big thing. Growing up and we weren't as orthodox and I used to dress up for Halloween, we have a whole holiday in the jewish community, where kids dress up, it's called Porum an we do that in March, usually it's March or April so will be doing that

last year my kids, I would like to family family costumes, because that's really, So last year I went as the straw man my wife As Dorothy my dad, as the tin man my mom wanted, which are the best, and my two kids went as respectively, Glenda Ann the cowardly lion, so it was quite adorable I have pictures of. It is one of the tragedies. I think of the social media age and the fact there's something garbage people out there is, my kids are just adorable, I mean, as people in this room can attest to be fired. My kids are incredibly cute. My kids, my kids are very like, objectively speaking, there beautiful children, I also happen to be really sweet and I wish I could pictures of them, because we probably double my social media following, but it's no, it's nobody just want my kids look like, and my kids shouldn't be saddled with the burden of having a public figure for dad. So I tried to keep them out of the public eye as much as possible. Now he says Ben. I usually try to ask questions that have either cultural or

political significance, but those never get read during the podcast, so in hopes of getting my question, read live I have to ask boxers or briefs I always hesitate to answer these particular questions, but in all cans in this I go with boxer briefs. I go with boxer briefs from our, our friends over a over at the the company that we endorse self it is they they are terrific by the way. So, if you don't know a company that is just look up on our website at dad says: have you seen Steven Crowder's impersonation of it's pretty good? I'm curious. Can you impersonate Stephen Crowder. I've never actually tried a thought about impersonating Crowder. First, I'd have to put on a t, shirt or take off my shirt entirely. Second, I'd have to really bulk up like just guzzle steroids, and wait powders and all this sort of thing, and then I'd have to dance geekily to bad music? So that would be.

And that would be the way that I would imitate Stephen Crowder. You know, what's it like to head motions, I would imagine but yeah I haven't spent too much time on, not tally, says hey man. What are your thoughts on the draft? You think it is beneficial in countries that have mandatory service would benefit the US if we re and it is it legal, I'm not sure that well will the draft is legal in emergency situations. I am not a huge fan of reinstituting. The draft, that Israel has national service? I think that a lot of the public education, that is, that is done. It like well. It's mandatory that we go to schools. I think we have a failure of schools, not a failure of public service, so the idea that we have to take two years, everybody's life and dedicated to the state. Not a big fan of you. Don't have an emergency situation if you do have urgency situation, I'm in favor of a graph right, it's world war two and you need to call people up. Then you call people up, but the idea that everyone ask to serve the nation in some way is not something I'm huge fan of. I think we just need to do better. Civil education, Eric says: hey Ben I'll, preface this with me being a thief.

Learn more about Judaism: Christianity, as presented by their respective churches, synagogues all atheists to sit and listen. I yeah I mean if you shop is in, and I know we can toss you out, I was gonna say like do you believe in God? If you say no, then we just we hit you with that with the star of David Now, that's not it that's not how it works, so you're welcome to show up at a synagogue, I'd recommend that's actually not best way to learn about church or synagogue is show up at their services, because services can be extremely boring. I would instead recommend that there are some classes. You can take online and then you also don't make everybody awkward when you show up wearing your at your cut off jeans and a in the middle of an orthodox per service, which is makes everyone feel weird. Okay, Brandon says what is my favorite putting cup flavor, so I will acknowledge it's my favorite pudding cup flava is vanilla. I truly enjoy the no, it is delicious. Also when you mix the vanilla and chocolate it is also delicious candy says, is putting kosher It depends on the brand of putting Daniel says. How long do you think

could survive without putting well. You know we haven't tried it. You know I'm not sure how long Bernie could survive without putting I wouldn't want to and a bit Bernie should live long eat. You know it's the same blessing I have for this are, may he meet me live well and and live far far away from me, like that, that's the that's! My basic Bernie Sanders thank, and I hope that he survives many years on putting cops. Okay right. Says. I've recently start listening to podcasts, I'm very impressed. You seem to accomplish a great deal. I was wondering to do so. Much, do you sleep yeah? Actually, I sleep pretty well, I tried to pack in all of my work in specific hours of the day and really focus when I'm working so Twitter. Does not help with this, but it seems to me that most of the time that's lost during the day is lost to being distracted. You you're in the middle of the task, and then you look up and ten minutes have by, and you haven't done. Anything Writing. I'm writing. When I'm reading I'm reading, when I'm on Twitter on Twitter, my Nate says,

watching the new star wars. Trailers in reading some about the new Canon it seems like Disney, is setting up a breakdown of the difference between the light and dark sides of the force that it is all just the force. Do you think this is likely, and do you think this is an intentional step in forwarding a morally relativist agenda I don't think that it's intentional step in forwarding a morally relativist agenda. I just think that if you read star wars, literature there have been hints at this. I also think that, basically, at a certain point, people are bored of the dark side of the force versus the light side of the force and they're trying to come up with something new, an the is that it they've come up with that are new, are maybe the crossover between the light and our side of the force and a pork. Those are those are the two things they have come up with that or no I I I I will say that I am interested in the in the merger of the light that are said to force these. I've always thought that this sort of Zen view of quote unquote. The force was kinda dumb. This idea that this is binary almost gnostic view of the force that you know you fall into the evil side. Portion, is powered by anger and fear, and I really don't like that, because sometimes anger is justified like it seems to me that

Luke has some pretty good excuse to be passed at the end of return of the chat I and then they're like well you're, going to fall to the dark side. If you ever do and mad never get mad. It seems to me there's some times the amount like one way Amber is threatening to take tell your sister, you know that it seems to me like a pretty good time to get mad. When you like laughing is your. Does your friends are getting blown up in space seems like a good time to get past and by the way the one thing I've always found weird about return of the jedi- is that his anger, obviously in stronger right. He literally beats Darth Vader down and then chops off his hand, and then he steps back and he turns off the light. Saber an like he's very lucky. Hours later decides to turn around an be be a nice dad and all, but if Darth Vader decides to get up and kill him, this does not go well for him time can only one Kenobi die before you just end up with like an after life full of gendai who are who are glowing. I can't actually do anything useful. A Jackson says: how do we encourage business

is to take advantage of free markets while also discourage monopolies. Well, I don't you have business is to take advantage of free markets. The only thing you have to do is discourage monopolies and women. Athletes are generally established, as the government is the people working with the government and getting the government to ban competition and prevent competition. So if you If you can get the government out of the business of markets, then monopolies very rarely occur an many times. Monopolies are quite good for the market I mean Microsoft was broken up, had cheaper prices than after it was broken up good for consumers. The way that you maintain a monopoly is by creating a great product that you continually change, see Tyra says what Do you believe? Libertarian solution is better than the conservative one other than drugs. It depends on the drug I've said I think, marijuana is a better solution, libertarian solutions on marriage, I think, are right. I I said that I think the state to get completely out of the business of marriage yeah. I I

and struggling to come up with examples where conservatism is libertarianism radically differ on on matters, economics, usually they're, pretty much on the same page. I I think that libertarian solution with regard to incentives, ation of behavior, is generally better. I don't think the government is good, isn't at incentivizing Behavior Elizabeth says my son who's other is rational and sane has fallen for the flat earth conspiracy and believes that NASA and every other space program is lying and everything is faked. His also shouldn't prevent propensity to want to leave another conspiracy theories. How would you recommend helping him recognize? problem with conspiracy theories in develop stronger, critical thinking skills. Well, I think the first thing that you should do you know. First of all I mean I hesitate to say this on. You know national air, but I will say that if your kid is continuously falling for conspiracy theories, you should probably get your kid to psychologist really because that tends to be a little bit pathological like if you believe in lots of conspiracy theories and people are out to get you and everybody's lying view. There tends to be a certain pathology to that that I don't think it's,

Beyond that, it's just a matter of critical thinking. Then, maybe you should ask him why he believes that people are so capable of putting together these plans. Okay in his own personal experience, are people really good at putting things together? I didn't do that here that they have my general problem of conspiracy theories. It requires thousands of people to be in on it. My conspiracy theories, that involved with one guy, I'm generally ok with right, like the Obama incense using the IRS to go after the conservative sealant five one c threes, makes perfect sense to Obama. Saying things in people taking up on it. That doesn't require a whole hell of a lot, but the idea that George W Bush was behind the nine eleven attacks, for example idiotic right, because you know many people would have to be in on that and keep silent about it, the biggest candle in the history of the world, and this idea that there was some sort of giant conspiracy to cover up Barack Obama's birth certificate. You know many people have to be, not without it leaking a lot of people so I just don't believe that people are that capable and you

Your son, whether he believes people are that capable, because I I don't think that that is it perfectly accurate okay, so we have come to the end of this week's mailbag. I have to say I'm just in some of the live questioners who seem to only be interested in pudding but Apparently you guys are only interested in putting to which I suggest you go out by some putting satisfy your craving and come back with better questions. Next, in the mean time, have a good weekend, will see you on Monday, I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro, and