So much news are so many things to be excited about so many things to be depressed about so here's the deal MIKE Flynn just pled guilty to a charge of lying to the FBI will explain what that means. The Republicans are going to pass a tax cut. Today will explain what that means and Kate Stanley's killer was just let go on charges of murder. He will still go to jail on gun charges will explain what that means, so lots of explaining to plus the mailbag so many things I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro, show some days are like drinking from a fire hose in this. Is that day there are just too many big news stories happening all at once, and I'm sure by the end of the show, another big news story will have broken destroying the rest of the structure of the show, but before we get to any of the Big NEWS in the it is a big news today. First, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over a bridge called. If all this makes you feel just a little unsettled. If all this makes you feel like. Perhaps you want some solidity in your life. You should have

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is particularly wrong with that. He is a transition official. It was already pretty clear, he's going to be part of the administration, there's no real violation of law there. So what's the big deal, the fact, though, that he was allowed to plead on only the charge with regard to The F suggests to me that he is about to flip on the Trump administration and that suspicion has no and confirm the reason. I say that this is pretty clearly a plea deal that minimizes what Flynn did is because there have been reports coming out of the Mueller probe, They were investigating Flynn for having made a deal with the turkish government to kidnap a guy who's. A turkish descent are from the United States and send it back to Turkey, then paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the which government, in other words it looks like there, are more serious charges on the table and in exchange for those charges going away. Flynn took this much lesser charge in order to get this thing over with

according to ABC News, here's what they're saying they're now saying that Flynn had resisted flipping on other members of the administration for months, given his close ties with the Trump administration, but he apparently felt abandoned by the administration recent weeks, thanks to mounting legal debts and plans to sell as hot house to help defray costs according to ABC News. This is one of the big problems. There is a one of the big problems with the weight with special counsel investigations. Everyone is forced to lawyer up. Lawyers are incredibly expensive. If you are just a normal person, you can't afford the lawyer that cost to fight people like Robert Mueller and there's no one there to pick up the cost for MIKE Flynn. So in order to defray those classes, apparently cutting a deal with the with the Mueller investigation. And Ross on ABC News. Special report is reporting. That Flynn has promised quote full cooperation to the Mueller team and is prepared to testify that as a candidate, Donald Trump Quote directed him to make contact with the Russians. Now this

the people unless they're going nuts clearly we're almost there almost there again. This means that MIKE Flynn is going to testify that Donald Trump told him to coordinate campaign activities with the Russians and that's why that's why Hillary Clinton lost the election? That is not clear. By any stretch of the imagination, there is lots of coordination between the Hillary Clinton team, for example, and we know members of the ukrainian government the idea that members of campaigns don't talk to foreign affairs, It is just not true, so it's quite possible the Trump told Flynn. I want you to go talk to Putin talk to me about what their priorities are, what our priorities are finding him, president of the United States, none of that is illegal. None of that is illegal. The only thing that would be illegal is presumably, if there's actually can see an exchange of information that would be designed to subvert the United States election and their actual conspiracy laws, and you have to see if they violate them legally and that that that's a little bit difficult to prove collusion is not a crime in or even a collision occurred. That might be grounds for the political crime of impeachment. To that, with the require impeachment

it's not grounds for any actual crime that has been committed. Collusion is not a crime. There is no statute on collusion, it's a vague term of art, so this does not get all the way toward proving anything about Trump will have to see what Flynn has to say. Now there are two but here one is that Flynn is actually gonna say some stuff is really damaging about. The president in favor of this possibility is the the reality that Miller cut a deal with Flynn and it basically let Flynn almost entirely off the hook for all these other charges. So why would you cut such a deal that was generous to plan because one's about to give you a bunch of good stuff? I think your godfather a friend can schedule is going to get off the hook so long as he testifies against Michael Corleone Que they leave the reason you're going to do. Downgrade charges is because you're trying to get Flint actually give you valuable information. If you don't believe has valuable information. You don't cut a deal with him at all, you just him in jail, so that's cutting in favor of that. There's also the possibility, however, that the special counsel is charging Flynn on the lying to the FBI charge, because what

helping. Is that now he's going to be able to go after other members of the Trump Administration for the same thing, but there will be sort of domino effect. He sort of fishing Then. What he's doing here is going to Flynn on the lines FBI charge, get him to plead out on that and then he's going to go back and talk to some other to talk to the FBI. I think in the administration that includes Think Kushner is talk to the FBI. I think there's several other members of the administration of talk to the FBI. The possibility exists that they will try to have Flynn testify against those people and then try and get those people on charges of lying to the FBI and try and flip. This upward right create a domino effect, and maybe one of those people flips on the president and finally spills means about the president, but that is not the same thing as Flynn himself is directly going to implicate the president in any sort of criminal activity. So it's a little early for all of the speculation that's going on it is not

we're, by any stretch of the imagination, that all of this is that that all of this is it is going to bring down the president of the United States. There is a lot of it and that there's a lot of I I think, on base speculation from both sides. People on the right on this big, nothing right in charge with anything in people and left on they charged him with something were about to get trump. President Pence is coming. I don't know that any of this is, is going to be true, so we just don't know enough. Yet we do know that something more is happening. The investigation than we thought was happening yesterday, right by the way BC is saying that candidate Trump ordered him to make contact with the Russians, that's what ABC is reporting. Reuters is reporting. That Flynn is saying that the transition team ordered him to make contact with the Russians. If it's the transition- team that has nothing to do with the campaign, so it's hard Imagine what the crime would be at that point. The transition team ordering Flint talk with the Russians like who cares unless we're just going to round up a bunch of people unjustly,

and this is something special counsels have done in the past. You recall that it was special counsel, I believe is Patrick Fitzgerald went after Scooter, Libby Scooter Libby was working for president of the United States is an american lawyer from advisor to VP, Dick Cheney and you'll recall that he actually ended up in jail and he was pardoned by President Trump works. His sentence is commuted more specifically by President Bush, because Scooter Libby had apparently, send it to the FBI, but there's no underlying crimes. They got Scooter Libby for fibbing to the FBI but or obstruction of justice, but he not actually done anything wrong there's no underlying crime, nothing criminal had taken place. He hadn't done it. Nobody in the administration had done it. Basically remote Valerie Plame. The situation in that particular case was the Valerie Plame and under it was a covert CIA agent. She was in Washington. She was not really like in the field and there is a leak about her density after Joe Wilson, her husband suggested that the Bush administration Lied about yellow cake from Niger being sold to the iraqi regime and

who actually ended up doing it, I believe is Richard Armitage, and then that was with the president of leaking, it was was not in fact scooter. Libby is right. Armitage. A lady had apparently failed to to the FBI in the process of the investigation and they decided to go after Libby. Instead, Israel, a bunch of nonsense. They went after him just because they felt like going after him and that's why President Bush ended up commuting his sentence really, should pardon him In this particular case it could be something very similar. We just don't know at this point to anybody who's telling you it's all over. We know what the story is. Trump is going down, don't believe them at this point, there's just not enough information on that. Yet for that to be the case, we don't know what my plan is going to tell the the F yeah what he has told the F B. I at this point, so we're going to find out we're going to find out by the way it is worth noting. Also, the White House says they have no comment on this at this point, which is the proper stands in the middle of a legal proceeding. The last thing you want to do is start going out and mouthing off. It makes

had made comments in two thousand and sixteen is going to get played. All over the news today that he did a tenth of what Hillary Clinton had done, he would be in jail today. You know, there's a real possibility that that is That is true by the way that he really did not do much here and that he could end up in jail anyway, just because this is the way the prosecutions got for saying that, because, if I a guy who knows this business. If I did a tenth attentive she did. I would in jail today so crooked Hillary Clinton leave this race now. So I'm not saying it's a political prosecution. I don't know you don't know, nobody knows so, don't buy all the speculation. That's going on today, it's time to hold judgment in advance, and so you actually have more information. Ok, so that is big story number one big story, two is that Kate Steinley's killer was acquitted. Yesterday,

on charges of murder, is the the facts of the case. I I want to give you the entire facts of the case. The you know what the jury may or may not have been doing. So, let's begin with what exactly happened here runs has a very good piece of a red state talking about what exactly happened in this case. Do you recall that, during the campaign, the case and the case came up over in our beautiful young woman who was killed on a San Francisco pier by illegal immigrants, illegal immigrants had a gun that had been stolen from a federal agents car, I guess, and the gun had been fired. The guy admitted to killing the girl. The only question was: did he do it was in an accident or did he do it on purpose or was it criminal negligence? so he was charged with second degree murder. The jury also could have found for involuntary manslaughter. That was on the table as well. It seems to me that second degree, murder was too high a charge. An involuntary manslaughter seems like the the situation. The best fits the evidence. This may be a case to to give the best gloss on the jury. This may be a case where the jury was basically thrown off by the prosecutors. Failing to to press the charges,

properly. That's a possibility here and I'll explain why in just a second, so here is what is undisputed on July first, two thousand and fifteen Kate Stanley was fatally struck in the back. By single bullet issue walked on pier fourteen with her father to view the San Francisco Bay Garcia Zarate was a mexican city illegally in the United States, and he fired the gun that killed Steinley. So, first of all, for political reasons, it doesn't matter whether guy is convicted or not. This guy should not have been in the United States. He had been supported at least six times five times before for seven separate crimes. If a man had been a citizen in California, he probably would have already been in jail for life, because there's three strikes law in the state of California most involves violent crime and drug offenses, but the idea that he would have been out on the street is absurd. He would not have been out on the street if he had been convicted of a bunch of different felony drug says he would be in jail right now. He would not be out if you're a citizen, so he actually had a special privilege of being deported, then re crossing border coming back and then he recall he was picked up on a drug charge by the local authorities. The feds found out about they ask the local authorities to hold him, so they could come

him, and because San Francisco is a sanctuary city, he was then released into the general population as well, or he got ahold of this gun and killed. Kate Steinley now was a murder, or was this an involuntary manslaughter, I think, is an open question. It's pretty clear to me that this was an involuntary manslaughter I'll, explain to you why, in just a second I'll give you all the legal breakdown putting on my lawyer hat, but first I want to thank you for sponsors. Over at the USC Ca. So, according to the Us Department of Justice, over thirty four thousand carjackings happen every single year? Do you know how to protect yourself and your family? Do you know when it's actually legal to draw gun? Well the self defense experts at the USA, CA created a free video series to show you exactly what to do during a deadly carjacking, but only free for a limited time don't be a victim. It's great. If you, information you need go to defend my family, now: dot com for a hundred percent, free, instant access, that's defend my family, now dot com for a hundred percent free, instant access, the training videos show you how to use cover, how to get your target. How to turn the tables? any attacker in under two seconds. You'll need more than basic skills

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is walking around. He finds a gun, he picks it up because Boone he picks it up and then magically gun just goes off. It is clear from the evidence that the bullet hit the cement before it timely. So it wasn't like he picked up the gun aimed it's timely, shot in the back. He picked up the gun he fired at it bounced off the concrete in his case, handling that killed her and the defense was that he basically he's a moron that basically is walking around hook gun. He picks it up. It goes boom in his hand for no reason at all. It's just a pure accident. The bullet bounces skips off the concrete in his Kate Stanley back and she dies. The problem with this particular theory is several fold won the gunman missing for four days from now. Agents car somehow it just winds up in the hands of the illegal immigrant criminal repeat, criminal is magic and it was like a normal person who found it on the boardwalk over at the San Francisco. Here was made. Wasn't you? It was. An illegal immigrant had been deported five times, alright, just magically amazing how that works. He picks it up. They

question him and during the questioning he says that he was trying to fire it at the seals, see that he saw a seal out there or sea lion is trying to fire it at sea lion and then his story changed, and he said that he had fired by accident according to according to San Fran to chronicle defense. Lawyers said the shooting was an accident that happened when Garcia Zarate, but history of drug crimes, but no record of violence found the gun wrapped in a t. Or cloth under his seat on the pier just seconds before it discharge in his hands, because that's what I do when I see like a bundle of cloth. My seat in a public pier I reached down and start investigating. If I'm gonna go or a good came Atkins at the public defenders office said his client had never handled a gun. Yes, I'm sure and was scared by the noise prompting him to fling the weapon into the Bay Ok, so number one if you accidentally fire a gun. So apparently he You scared by the noise. It wasn't, it wasn't a shot, the woman and then thought that he would be convicted of it, and so he threw the evidence away into the bay. Instead, he took the gun and he threw it in there because he was scared by the noise. That's what I do

when my child scares me when my chat makes a really loud noise more by the ocean. I just take my kid in filling in the ocean. Let me just tell you this: is this is something that normal people do on a regular basis, ohmygod a car backfire drive the ocean something that you're scared of the oh, my God, a gun made noise. What is this book will mistake again during the jurors watched video from Garcia Zarate's for our police interrogation, in which he offered varying statements directions on the pier number one. When someone constantly changes their story, that's a pretty good indicator, they're, not telling the truth. At one point he said had aimed at a sea, animal and another point. He said Going to be under a rag that lay on the ground near the waterfront and that it fired when he stepped on it in Dallas It was clear in the video by the way guns, don't fire when you step on them, which is known to everybody, there are people and there was a SIG Sauer, and this is a six hour with a quick trigger because it was basically set up for a federal agent who knows how to use. It only had four pounds trigger pressure. Ok, even if it only has four pounds trigger pressure, you can't step on a gun in it. Fires as a typical rule.

That is it it's extraordinarily rare. It like it is something has to actually push on the trigger to make the gun fire. That's not how guns fire unless the, unless they trade, the the hammer, was ARI cocked or something in Dallas, it was clear in the video that he had not not fully understand what the officers were asking through an officer. Spanish translation. Well, that's sort of his problem. I mean they're speaking spanish, but it's not like they're speaking English and he doesn't understand granny put a surveillance footage taken by the camera position. A quarter mile away show that, just before Garcia Zarate took a seat on the pier a group of six people gathered at the spot in Dallas, it was possible those people had discarded the gun that killed steinle. Yes, I'm sure that's what happened. Six people just gas and decided, instead of throwing the gun in the bay to discard the gun, which is five feet away, it would be better if we need to get rid of this thing will just leave it lying around best idea. I've ever had were not going to take this gun toss it in the back now was going to leave it right here, for some poor unsuspecting illegal immigrants to find and randomly shoot a lady, ok, so and it was not hit directly, but rather the bullet hit the concrete ground ricocheted up to hit her. The gun was six hour.

Install in four days prior that offends also presented evidence that the SIG Sauer has a propensity to accidentally fire so it has a hair trigger in single action mode? Apparently, among well trained users. It has a lengthy history of accidental discharges. Ok, accidental discharges does not mean that you have not acted with criminal negligence. If you pick up a and you point it anywhere near the vicinity of people and your hand- is anywhere near the trigger that does not count as a pure accident. A gun is a dangerous weapon. Everyone knows this. Ok, is why you are taught when you buy a gun when you train with a gun, you are tried. Never point going anywhere: you're, not willing to kill somebody, never point a gun you're not willing to destroy. Never if you're anywhere near the trigger. If you want me to fire it ok, but the idea is that again, this guys had guns and he walks up and he doesn't know what a gun is. It just looks like a fancy, fancy cheese cutter and he picks it and then boom. It goes off in his hand because he never even touched the trigger hey. This is it so they they said. This is the defense presenting a reasonable doubt case. I,

his home was a little bit unfamiliar with the gun. And that's why? Okay? So I think the what happened here, if you're trying make the best case for the jury, is that there is a prosecutor you over each. They push hard for a first murder verdict or a second degree, murder vertex, which, which suggests that you must have intent right that you have to have into a killed, involuntary manslaughter, does not require intent. So the prosecution in this case said that he was playing like game of russian roulette in his head and just shot the lady that's weak what they should have It was involuntary manslaughter. They overcharged, which a lot of prosecutors do they overcharged. What they should have done is charged involuntary manslaughter second degree. Murder in the in California is willful foot, but not a liberal like, for example, you fire a gun into a crowded room. You don't mean to kill. Is it a person, but you know there's a good possibility. Somebody is going to die. Willful bonanza liberty involuntary manslaughter in California. The standard is without malice, without intent to kill with reckless disregard for human life. So the difference between

involuntary manslaughter an excusable accident is participation in either unlawful act, not amounting to a felony that be picking up an illegal gun or a lawful act involving a high degree of risk. Death or great bodily injury that would involve picking up a gun and pointing anywhere in the vicinity of people and, in fact, there's a law firm out here in California that has a defense law firm that has very good rundown on this law and the example. They use of involuntary manslaughter is woman in a fight with her husband, brandishing a gun at her husband. The gun accidentally goes off and kills her husband right. That falls. One hundred voluntary, manslaughter Jeff Sessions has on this. Clearly involuntary manslaughter. The jury could have found that it's possible Yes, I just throw out everything, because the prosecutor didn't do their job However? It is. This is an unjust verdict. The guy should be in prison for a very long time. LISA involuntary manslaughter and beyond that. The reason this is a political issues 'cause this batch it never should have been in the United States in the first place. He should not have been here. Now. President,

company says we need a wall. The reason we need a wall is because it's not enough to just repeatedly deport people. You actually have to have some way of preventing them from re crossing into the country, because you have sanctuary cities, you have places where people can hide. You know I should be making hay while the sun shines out of this, because he is right. This is why trump one it's because issues like the case stylish, as I said last night on Fox NEWS. Just actions is the attorney general issued a statement. The feds may bring charges of their own Jeff sessions said when jurist, choose to return. Criminal aliens to the streets rather turning them over to federal immigration authorities. They put the public safety at risk. San Francisco's decision to protect criminal this led the preventable and heartbreaking death of Kate, the state, the state of California, Actually man who, because Mister Lee's death, would not have been on the streets of San Francisco if the city simply honored and ice detain are the people ultimately convic I'm a felon in possession of a firearm. So again, once you're a felon in possession of a firearm of that firearm, those often you kill somebody, it's pretty hard to see charging in convicting someone of a fellow.

Possession of a firearm without also charging them with and connecting them of involuntary manslaughter in case, like this department, will continue to ensure that all jurisdictions place the safety and security of their communities above the convenience of criminal aliens. There should be blowback on sanctuary cities and you have to do anything with the with the verdict here. If the guy was convicted, there should still be blowback on sanctuary cities. So that's that's worthwhile, noting as well okay. So that is big piece of news at number. Two, a big piece of news number: three: the Mitch Mcconnell, is now saying that the Republicans have the votes in the San for this tax cuts all get the I'll give you the latest on that in just a second first, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at policy genius. So if you don't have life insurance, you certainly should, especially if you have if your loved ones, if you die and they're not taking care of you're gonna beat yourself up or you would if you were dead, but it's not a great idea to not have a life insurance. I have life insurance. It is totally worth while again if you leaving loved ones behind you want to make sure that your insured- it's not everybody, treats this like it's taboo topic to talk about life insurance. I don't think it's tablet. I think it's necessary

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now, as of last night, the Republicans were redrawn the tax bill to reduce the size of the tax cuts, because there was a report yesterday that the deficits were too high, and there are a lot of people today talking about deficits, deficits, all the tax cuts going to create deficits. I am deeply concerned about deficits, but let's be clear about something: it does not create deficit. For me to keep more of my own money, it creates deficits for you to spend money. I did not give you ok if he this is. I hate this logic. That is, mostly used by the left- that, if you, if I'm paying fifty percent taxes and you're taking in a million dollars from Maine right, which is not accurate, let's say- are paying fifty percent tax and you're taking a million dollars for Maine and you were spending two million dollars have a million dollar deficit. Well, if you reduce my taxes by fifty percent, so I'm only paying five hundred thousand then you've increased the deficit by five hundred thousand dollars nonsense. You should spend less, Ok, these are two separate line items in your house. The idea that use sending less money creates a deficit.

You taking less of my money, creates a deficit. That's just foolishness. Ok, it's not matter of you allowing me to keep more of my own money to matter if you're spending too much money with a great driver of the debt in the United States is not in fact tax cuts. It is not wars. The great driver is what constitutes sixty percent of the American Federal Budget, that Social Security Medicare Medicaid welfare programs. That is at least two of the american budget here the idea that it's all these other things- it's just not true, and so I hate these rules. One thing that I would say do the Republicans, listen, I'm I'm really glad they're gonna get these tax cuts. I think that it is worthwhile. I would vote for the tax cuts, even though I'm a deficit hawk, because I want them to cut crap on the other side, the I I've. Never a to this argument that a lot of people on the right make that recover that revenue will go up. If we cut taxes, I don't care whether government run. Who goes up? I don't care, I don't want the government revenue to go up. I want them to have less money. I want the government, not too

and as many of my dollars, this is the sort of downside to the laffer curve. Solofra curve is true, the laffer curve. For those who don't know, I've explained it on the program before art Laffer famously had what he called the laffer curve. Laughing curve basically looks like this. I will draw you the laffer curve. The laffer curve says that if you have a tax rate here on this axis on the Y Axis and here's one hundred and here is zero, and then here you have government revenue, government receipts, government receipts right then, and here again you have zero in here you have a hundred, and what will happen is that, as the tax rate goes up, you'll see the government receipts go up, but there is a bird there is a law of diminishing returns right and so the curve It looks like this right looks like that that out, if you, if you tax as zero, the rear seats will be zero. If you tax at a hundred, the government receipts will be zero. The reason for that is because, if you tax at a hundred No one is going to bother making any money there are going to

there is a. Why would I work for the government? You're, not paying me residents of the laffer curve says with the laughter curve. Also says is that there is a point. Let's say that you are here on the laffer curve. Let's say the tax rate is where this x is that what you would be better off doing to increase government receipt is lower the tax rate. You would actually be better off lowering the tax rate. That would be the idea now, when you lower the tax rate that you would actually end up. Increasing government receipts actually mixed up the axis here. This should be. The government received in this should be taxed right. So that's the so the idea there is that if you want to increase government, sees lower the tax rate of the taxes are too high. I don't care, I don't care people say well, you know this who says the tax rates you have. You are perfect right now. Maybe it would be higher. What? If I don't care about the government receipt? What if I think the government should go down that they spend less money on stupid crap? How about that?

In any case, they leading GOP senators are saying that Republicans redrew the tax bill last night to reduce the size of the tax cuts. John Cornyn said the move came after the Senate parliamentarian ruled against a complex trigger mechanism that have automatically cut back the taxes if they didn't produce economic growth and higher than expected tax revenues but the Republicans are trying to do- is they're trying to cut taxes in a significant way and they would have a trigger in the bill. That said, the government revenues do not increase by a certain amount. Then we will ratchet back down the tax the tax cuts. That seems to me a silly idea again, because I think that the entire the entire the entire t of this particular regulation is silly that we have to have to be deficit neutral in order to pass anything. It's just a recipe to gain the numbers. That's all the Senate. Parliamentarian. Doesn't incentive incentive parliamentarian doesn't know better than you do it? How much revenue the government is going to take in the Senate parliamentarian has would have ruled that Obama CARE was deficit neutral, which clearly is not so,

and I I don't buy any of the stuff, but this is good news for the Trump administration. They do need a big win in terms of policy. The tax cuts are a big win in terms of policy right now, while they're in popular now nobody likes having less money in their pocket and Democrats are busy complaining about how this bad bill very few people are going to consider a bill with the stock market continues to go up and if they get more back in their tax refund, so it's a big win for the Trump administration for certain hey so did before I go any further here. There's there's some other news or talk about the possibility of a government shutdown. The battle between me Camel and Roy Moore, an we gotta get so we're going to go back an hour and a half today on show we're going to do all of those things, but for that you have to subscribe to daily wire. So nine hundred and ninety nine gets you subscription to daily wire. You get my show live you get the Andrew Klavan Show live. You get the Michael most reliably, it's part of the mail back in just a few minutes. You see this. These are my written questions for the mailbag, but you can ask questions live to me now today. If you subscribe right now, so, if you're watching right now on Facebook or Youtube

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This is my new, each and every day to your constituents of the Ben Shapiro Show and daily wire leftist years, hot or cold tumblr, often imitated, never duplicated, so go and check that out or subscribe later to our channel over a you tube, sound cloud. Itunes leave us a review. We always appreciate it again, largest and fastest. Growing concern to park in already so here we and it looks like a government shutdown. It may be in the works, and this is a good government shutdown for President Trump. I said yesterday. I think the president Trump would win on a government shutdown issue with the Democrats, particularly after Steinley. He should be pushing for funding in the in the new government shut down to go she agent. He should basically saying I want funding for the wall in this bill and, if you don't give it to me, then I'm not gonna sign the funding bill, I'm not going to increase the debt ceiling, I'm not gonNA is signed funding and and they'll they shut down the

as you guys are willing to obstruct so that we don't have any sort of physical barriers that prevent people from entering the country, as in this case and the case at Trump, has the upper hand has the bully pulpit he should be willing to use. It he's really got some concessions from Democrats. If he does not, I I will count that as a loss for the administration from says, shut down could be good for him. I, I don't think that's wrong. I don't think that's wrong. I mean I think that everybody in the administration should stop leaking, like my God folks, like just stop it, but Trump is not wrong when he says the government shutdown sometimes benefits the president. That was the logic that is used for Obama when Cruz was involved. In a government shutdown okay, so that's what's going on with the government, shutdown will bring you more on that if it actually materializes. Meanwhile, the battle news over Roy Moore in Alabama, and I just want to in reactionary nature of american politics. So, as I have said to you, I believe that Roy Moore did the things he is alleged have done. I think that, because there's been no anywhere near convincing rebuttal of any of the testimony or evidence put forward by

users. Meanwhile, Hollywood is basically going to ignore a lot of the evils Mention, of course, they are very upset about Roy Moore, because Roy Moore is republican, they're all defending Bill Clinton, and they would again today if they have the choice. As far as I know, Jimmy Kimmel has not commenting on Al Frankin. Maybe he has he has. Then I miss it and I apologize, but I haven't seen that Jimmy Kimmel Diploid a guy down to Roy Moore Roy, my a church in Alabama and and this guy went in to a speech. The Roy Moore was giving it to church and started berating him at the church. In the middle of his speech he was then removed. So this is Kimmel's guy, I I'm not. I can't remember the name of the of this Phillips. I don't watch Jimmy show, but the the yeah. I believe that his name was, Let's see Rich Barbieri, who is better known as Jake Bird. So here is a Pretend Roy Moore Superfan, who is actually an employee of Jimmy Kimmel's, Panther

fifty three thousand and statewide campaign. Why would this is hey come on get out of here. Ok. So the judge is a man's man. You got the stolen That's a man's man like the face of a molester, ok, he's removed, and then Roy Moore, tweets out at Jimmy Kimmel again between tweet fight and Is it is a fight. It only helps raymour. It only helps Jimmy Kimmel and doesn't help anybody who is rational on the subject and trying to figure out exactly how to vote or who's guilty or who is in a sense. So it's we fight goes something like this. We have the two eight. So here are the tweets, so Roy Moore to

reach out. If you want to mark our christian values, come down here to Alabama into Amanda Man, and then Jimmy Kimmel of Course jumps right on this. An Jimmy Kimmel is better at this than Roy Moore, and so he tweets out sounds great. Roy! Let me know when you get some christian values and I'll be there and not unfair. Considering the man's been charged of has been accused of sexual station of underage women and then Roy Moore fires back, and he finally says despite DC and Hollywood bigotry towards others. Jimmy we will have save you a seat on the front pew, okay, so he's just going in for more and then more responds, ok boy, but I'm leaving my daughters at home, PS where that cute little leather vest. So the only people who are benefited by this sort of by this sort of stuff are Jimmy Kimmel, who looks like he has to virtue signal to his audience. And Roy Moore gets look like he's virtue signalling to his audience, because Hollywood is so bad in Hollywood is so terrible and all this nonsense the reality that everybody is already made up their mind on Roy Moore. All of the virtue signaling on the back of this seems

a little bit much, I think there is a complex moral calculus that is happening for people who are in Alabama. It's a very similar moral calculus to the one that was made during the twenty sixteen election. I think some people of good heart are going to come down one side. Some people have good heart going to come down on the side. I think that it is not the right moral decision to vote for Roy Moore in Alabama. The man is incredibly alleged child molester, but on the on the other hand, I I think that to do the can, virtue, signalling the Jimmy Kimmel is doing in that Roy Moore is doing off the back of Hollywood. All this does is exacerbated the the reactionary politics, the the reactionary political moment that were already in Okay, so I want to do some things I like and then some things I hate. So let's do some things I like all right. So the things that I like today, I don't know the street artist there's a street artist who has struck again- and this is pretty spectacular, so Sabo.

Has now unleashed a politically charged installation. Making fun of Al Franken here is what he did so there's this awful. This movie that looks just off of it's coming out. The greatest showman on earth is out. It's called about Pt Barnum, with Hugh Jackman. It basically looks like l g b T rights in nineteen. Oh five, it's like there's a bearded woman. Be yourself that's what the circus is about. No, it is is about is showing people who are perceived to be freaks by the people of the time. I in charge money for that. So no, not really so much. That was about enlightenment in it, and, I guess I'll say my critique of of what I think will be a garbage movie for an actual deconstruction of the culture. But what is aware his his? I don't know they even did this. They apparently a

with the inherently basically repelled up to this billboard and, I think, there's an ally and they took a giant photo of Al Franken from million Sweden photo where he's trying to grope her breasts while she's sleeping and it has it Al Franken popping in from the side of the billboard, to try and grope who is this entire? Did the zg trying to trying to grope this woman from behind just spectacular work by say about I love it? He told us over to daily wear when I heard Franken Rehash Bill Clinton have to get back to work for the american people speech. I knew I had to take a punch, a Groby AL. Why did the left never stepped down always insists when Republicans are caught instant in scanned? they do just that. Hypocrisy is staggering. I hope these latest accusations cause him to step down just spectacular, it's right off the four hundred and five Freeway International Blvd, which is a couple of miles away from the Fox studios, and he said that he was. He made the

rations temporary, because you don't really want to prosecute itself, I it's easily removed, but it's pretty damn funny. That's pretty spectacular stuff, so well done say about a lot. Okay, other things that the other things that I like so president, Trump again, I see that he has the power to the the ability to use troll re for the power of good and he does have the abilities trailer for the power good. This is one of those situations, so as an orthodox Jew, I really like that. The United States is a christian nation because I think the closer that the United States is that christian roots, the closer they are to the biblical roots and the closer they are to the local routes, at least in private values, are the better off the country is in terms of social structure. President Trump was obviously out there signaling the he may be part of his campaign that merry Christmas will come back again now, Now this is a little overblown. Everybody was able to say merry Christmas to each other. It was never illegal, but president of the United States saying it obviously it's time to make a culture statement lot of people and let them and by this, but I don't think that most of the people in the center either care or oppose it. So here is president Trump overtly invoking Jesus

Christmas, which seems to me to make sense, since I don't celebrate Christmas 'cause it's about the Jesus so here is here, is Donald Trump. Finally, in one eighteen. Seventy President Elicia as grant signed, lead. Inflation, making Christmas, a federal holiday and I sort of feel we're doing that again. That's what's happening, From the earliest days of our nation, Americans have known Christmas there's a time for prayer and worship for gratitude. But in goodwill for peace and renewal Malani and I are full of joy at the store of this very blessed season, we're thrilled to think of the people across the nation and all across the continent to spirits are lifted by the miracle of Christmas. For Christians. This is a holy season, the seller, version of the birth of our Lord and

Savior Jesus Christ? I'll be honest with you? I don't think that Trump knows anything, personally, I don't think it's a deeply religious guy he's, never really given the indication that he is. But am I glad that the President of the United States is even paying lip service to the christian nature of the country and the christian nature of the Christmas itself. Yes, I'm very glad that he's doing it so good for President Trump for doing that, he's got a lot of flak for it. I think that flag is stupid, so good for President Trump on that. Ok, things that I hate so, first of all, the first thing that I hate is that I have to make corrections. So I have a couple of corrections this week so number one like an idiot. I suggested that the president, know much about the wind talkers because he doesn't, but then it turned out that I don't know much as when. Talkers either so I have to apologize for getting that wrong. I suggested the now the whole wind talkers. I had decoded german and japanese messages. That, of course, is untrue and have a whole wind talkers instead had they spoke Navajo, and so they were used as as basically message purveyors by the american government. Language is so different from any other language on planet earth? Apparently that japanese thought it was

official. They didn't know how to decode it, and so they could convey messages that way. So that is a correction. I got a lot of emails on that. Thank you forever. By the way, Folks, when you see that I do something wrong on the shadow mean like politically wrong, so never politically wrong, but when I am, but when I'm factually, please let me know, because I'm more than happy to make the correction 'cause, I don't want to give that information. Other information I said, recently, I was a member of the press to party what I meant by. That was not that the conservative Party in Britain supported branches. They didn't David Cameron didn't, but Theresa may was, as I I understand it and correct me. If I'm wrong treatment was not opposed to Brexit, which is one of the reasons why she took the place of David Cameron when David Cameron stepped down. Okay, let's just go directly to the mail that, because that's an I really hate corrections and I had to do- so we're just going to bed now? Okay, so Eric asked Hey Ben, I love your show. I'm a Mormon from a Mormon family strangely if I had to eat Thanksgiving dinner on the porch after arguing extensively about abortion, how can I help my family close and extended consistency of being pro abortion and having a firm faith in God. Thank you. Well, you know. I think that I tend not to make. The argument

about abortion. On the basis of God, I tend to make it on the basis of science, because I think that's more convincing, if you believe in the sink being human life, and I assume that they do. Then you have to ask all the same is that I often ask about abortion. What constitutes human life is human life breathing? because there are plenty of people who are in an iron lung. Can you just unplug? It is human life brain activity, because when you are sleeping when you're in a coma your brain activity is minimal. Is and and when you're a fetus. Then you are developing brain activity, so you are going to come out of that. That will be brain activity. Even if you believe that the the initial cells don't have brain activity, which they don't is is your standard, something else as to what constitutes humanity? Well, you're, going to have to explain why can't kill dolls. The bottom line is that once the once insemination has taken place once the once, the egg has been fertilized once fertilization is taking place, Then you have an incipient human life, even if you don't wish to say that it has the same moral status as a full human being it's

he has enough most as the okay to kill it will, because that is a at the very least, a potential human life, and then there, for you know that that that is not worth killing. I think that it's it's difficult to make cases not in life. Frankly, Gregory says your band, I hear the are even for me. The private businesses should have the right not to still not sir from ever. They please and the free market would discourage the use of this LC discriminate because people don't like racism in such. I agree. This position is still holding the time period directly after the abolition of slavery when there is very little free market provision from discrimination. If yes, does this not prolong segregation, so the answer is that the free markets of the north were significantly better at restricting the discrimination than the very restrick. Markets of the south, Jim Crow laws came in and ensure they. They were specifically designed to prevent free market development of anti discrimination, time saying that everybody is granted. Everybody is great. I'm saying that everybody but does like money if they see money to be made, then they're going to appeal to populations that were otherwise marginalized, so that

I that in every situation there won't be private discrimination? I don't believe that you know in the aftermath of slavery. Of course, there's going to be lots of private discrimination, but the federal government, because of that the federal government wasn't even ones put Anti discrimination law policy in the first place. At that point, so the best you could who is free markets, usually it's the government used the other way. Usually it's the government preventing anti discrimination by actually forcing discrimination genus pretty involved in charity now reach many are surprised to learn my political and conservative views. How can conservatives This can be seen more as a champion for the people. Well number one we have to actually do something that we all we as religious people, find kind of unpalatable and not really nice Maimonides. When he talks about charity, says charity, the highest form of charity is giving anonymously, and but what is the highest one? Giving only job, the second highest form is getting anonymously. I think that is right, because I want to glorify yourself for doing something that you're obligated to do right, give charity religiously. But if conservatives don't make clear to people that are actually doing that, then people don't identify them as charity.

So we're actually going to have to brag on ourselves a little bit we're actually going to have to say that we do give charity. We give lots more charity than people on the left. Do this is a fact. Red states give lots more charity than blue states per capita red Religious people have lost more charity than non religious people. So if you want to talk about how much we care about people, why don't you look to the people who are voluntarily signing checks as opposed to doing it at the point of a gun. Morgans has been in children grow. Do you plan on limiting their use of technology like tablets ipads center? Yes, they already. I mean until she was to my daughter, didn't watch television. My son doesn't watch tv. I let her use of tv pretty sick Secondly, in terms of what she is allowed to watch and I plan on doing the same with computers, I would want her to use computers. Or to gather information, but smart phones ipads. These become distraction tools, as opposed to learning tools, and so I think that I would much rather she read a book and then be caught up in the social media on on the internet. I've like, for example, I would want my daughter. They have a facebook account until she was in her teens.

Yeah. I just don't think children should have that stuff or twitter account. Scott says: what is your stance on net neutrality, given how the internet has become such an important part of how we learn, leaving it reality. I think I'd explain this. A few days ago on the show didn't, I did a whole segment on net neutrality. I thought where I discussed at length of the idea that isps basically net neutrality is. The suggestion was only put into place in the last couple of years of the Obama administration and before that the internet was working. Just fine net neutrality is basically the suggestion that internet service providers have to supply traffic supply all use of traffic, the same price, so Netflix, which eats up enormous amount about what has to be charged the same as some schmo in his basement? Who is just loading up his blue? It is also not a charity, also says that all pages have to be loaded at the same speed. Well, the problem with that, of course, is that it benefits big corporations like Netflix over the little guy. The reality is that if you're taking a huge share of of the band with, then you might be there there

the company's it's eight. You know we'll we'll provide you a faster access, but you have to pay more money. It's not incumbent on internet service providers to be forced to be treated like public utilities. The way to think of it is that internet service providers are like the pipes and the end in the content of the internet is like water, so you can think of in two ways its public utility. Everybody should be able to turn on the tap at the same time to get the water or that the pipe company should be able to charge what they want our charge, the the the water company, what once for the water moving through the pipes? The reason it's not quite like a pipe is because you can have multiple types for their multiple internet service providers. One of the reasons that net neutrality has become such an issue is because of the special deals with low. Local governments by a lot of the internet service providers, so the only providers in their region. If there were open competition, you would actually see competition like for people, for example, who only use email, but don't watch streaming, video right like older people who only want to watch tv but don't actually want to use Netflix or Hulu. They should be able to get the internet cheaper than people who want to be able to get Netflix and Hulu

they are the only one at Netflix and Hulu, and you don't use email right. Just you text messages. You should be able to have these options. There there's nothing wrong with any of this. I did it. This is why when people say it's a corporate giveaways and it to get rid of net neutrality, their major corporations like Google and Netflix, who basically want to prevent smaller companies from being able to take advantage of differential pricing on isps to compete with them, so it depends which corporations you're talking about. Google is a huge corporation. Facebook see huge corporation twitter is a huge corporation. All of them are in favor of net neutrality because they are content providers. All the isps are in favor of getting rid of that bottom line is the internet was fine before anybody started messing with it. Net neutral the the odd passion over net neutrality has always puzzled. Me motion, says hi. Then everyone appreciated when the north korean soldier fled the regime made his escape to freedom.

Typically. What is the difference between that soldier and mexican citizens wanting to escape to a better life in America? Love the show? So I don't do as I've said before. I think people who are trying to escape horrible situations to come to a better life. I don't blame somebody for trying to jump the border. I've said this many I've been very clear about this and pretty consistent on it. If I were living in Mexico, I'd also try to jump the border, because american amazing place if I had no other choice, but that does not mean that the United States has an obligation to take those people in it. Doesn't Dus gets to pick who gets to come into the country and who does not? Use gets to do that, so it's not up to three to say we're going. We must take in everyone from North Korea made a south Korean can say. No we're gonna put that person in in some sort of temporary interment camp until we can figure out where they ought to immigrate to, for example, but the idea that everyone who is fleeing human rights violations has therefore a claim on your country,

it's not true. I also I. I would say that the mexican government is not equivalent to the north korean government anyway, and then that there are lots of problems in Mexico, including drug cartels, but did Mexico's not North Korea. North Korea is a giant prison state. There is no, while keeping Mexicans in. Ok, um Damian, says I was talking about God with my friend. He said, since God is almighty. Why would he test us by giving us free will? And God is almighty, so he knows the future. I would know the results of that free will test. What can I answer? God wants us to earn. God wants us to feel fulfilled, one of the way God loves us, and so he wants us to feel fulfilled. The way that people feel fulfilled is not by being given things, and it's not even if you know somebody's going to do is being given a choice and then acting accordance with that free will free will is what makes life meaningful. So uh I would ask your friend, is how he would define the existence of free will without doctor without a supernatural, if you're a scientific materialist, there is no evidence whatsoever that free will exists.

Have you thought about your new year's resolution yeah. Well. Actually, the truth is that Jews do our new year's resolutions around Russia Shawna during the jewish new year. That's why we do it in natural atonement. I would say the jewish new year is a lot more meaningful than secular new year. We all get drunk and then pretend we're going to lose weight and then don't Tom says last week is a DC movie should have twenty percent added to their critical scores, Marvel Lucia twenty percent taken away. Why do you think the movie should receive a firmer that shouldn't have to stand on their own mediocrity. I'm not saying that runs has has to do But if you want to accurate portrayal of how DC movies are treated, then you should add If, in your own mind, you should add twenty percent of the rotten tomatoes score, because everything they say is thirty for DC movies of fifty and everything they say is in. Coming from Marvel movies, seventy that's all think about it, and the critics are biased in favor of marble and they're biased against DC, but I'm not saying that that the critics have to do that when the pretender over the hell they want. That's, why don't pay attention to the, it's a lot, I look says Heaven. I've heard you say: you're not believe Jesus was the Son of God. My question is: have you Cs is Lucius loses it for one month we can see. This is a question that Jesus was not God and he was a man

man or something worse, giving you don't think Jesus was divine word his words tions wickedly immoral thanks in Aussie, his conservative fan. No, so one of the reasons that Jews reject Jesus is is because we don't believe the authenticity of the gospels, meaning that if we actually believe the office, so it is yes is the CS. Lewis is proof, relies on you, believing the historicity of the gospels that everything the gospel said. We true and therefore either Jesus was crazy or Jesus was evil or she was telling the truth. That's the trilemma. Well, I don't think that that as you like, the jewish perspective and uses it. That's not actually the case read the jewish perspective on cheese. Is that the people who wrote the gospels reading the gospels decades after Jesus death and they geez was actually pretty. Normal or that you try to lead a rebellion against? The Romans is killed for trouble. That's that he was. He was attempting to lead a secular messianic movement, because that's in my secular I mean the jewish messianic movement. The d is the jewish Messiah has no there's no notion of of divinity entering the world through the US missile Times is Michael

most on salary or paid for word. Sadly, Michael Morales is on salary. I have desperately been trying to pay him for word for a couple of years. Now again, one of the great moments of my career will be firing. Michael Mols Jonathan, says Ben What role, if any, should opinion polls play in the decision making process for politicians? Well, they should be used as feedback, but they shouldn't be used as guidance, so what I mean by that is it's good to know what people like and what people don't, because that also allows you to tailor your message on what is good policy, but I don't think that that you should shift your policy preferences based on public opinion. I don't think that it should be like well I'm for tax cuts, but now the publication for tax increases. I don't think that's right, You can either believe that something is going to work or believe that it's not going to work and facts are facts and feelings are feelings. Elena, says: hey Ben. If you had to pick a single moment or period of time that profoundly impacted your life. What would it be?

well. I honestly believe that you know I have been a live very long, only thirty three, so I I believe that there been several you know, kind of key areas of my life. I would say that one of one of those keep areas was when I was growing up. It was a middle school in public school and I was viciously believe there and then I was viciously bill in high school. I think that's a day. It's not a good thing that happened, but it's character building exercise yet to grow thick skin, and you have to learn that the world is not your friend and I'm gonna have to make your own way, and so I think that was a deeply upsetting but but valuable experience to make a higher law schools a great place to learn how to argue and learn how to think- and I think that the last year and a half has been a really tremendous character, building experience and and and has changed my my thought this is really interesting the other day and some of your column criticizing me and talk about a column. I wrote in two thousand and seven about the about dissenters from the Iraq war. There a bunch of Democrats at the time like Dick Durbin, who were talking about how they were glad that America basically losing the war in Iraq, and I said this was traders essentially and in a column I even said we should. We should

find the alien sedition and not the alien sedition acts. The espionage act of nineteen, seventeen hundred Woodrow Wilson, I feel an then Barack Obama became president and you become the descent you realize well you're going to have to have a certain standard. It's easy to be the people in power, it's hard to get people out of power, and then, during this election cycle, question was re going to maintain that standard. Now that you have the possibility of power again- and I think the answer is that, if you're not learning throughout your life in changing how you feel based on new evidence not based on new feelings, are based on new evidence, then you're not doing the right job. I wish I had written a two thousand seven comments. I don't think that's right. I don't think that the the espionage actually river, the fight against people, even people who say, agree just things about war and and no se, things that harm the war effort and, I think, put the troops in in a bad position. Free speech is valuable because you can end up on the wrong side of it. So there's certain areas in America in in life, where I've changed my position, because new evidence has been presented to me that I had not experienced before the Obama administration changed my way of thought. The Bush administration change my way of thought. The Trump administration changes my way of

if you're not changing away thought based on new evidence that you've stopped thinking you become rigid and and and that sort of blocked and again this is what is your favorite star wars film, so clearly empire is the best I mean there is a did that that's the easiest answer ever it is what comes second right, because it there there are. There are a couple of late in the the the hard choice there as to what comes, is actually, in my opinion, between episode, four and Rogue one. I really do like Rogue one well, one is a very good movie when I first watched it. I was really tired and I underestimated how good it was, and I watch it again on a plane actually and it's a very, very good movie, so I would still probably put Rogue one. Third, I probably still go empire star wars, one rogue one return to Jack and we're just discussing before the show? Actually how good is returned to Jack and the problem of the turn of jet? I is that it's actually two movies right. So there's that then, this all the stuff with Luke aboard the death star. Which is some of the best stuff in the STAR Wars Series and then there's all of this stuff with the Ewoks and you're like what

why who, when, where? Why? Who and it doesn't make any sense so the so all the stuff aboard the death star is fantastic. If that had been the entire t of return of the jedi, then return the jedi would be up there. It comes in fourth for me, so those are my top four Brandon says: hey Ben. I have recently been growing interesting, increasingly interested in listening to some classical music. Are there any pieces of work that you would recommend to someone that is just starting out? Well, there are so many pieces that are great for people who are just starting out with classical music. A lot of them are cliched, so you want to actually listen to some stuff that I'd have to know sort of what music you like believe it, or not in sort of pop arena to know what if you would like in classical but you'd have to start anybody would have to start with some box over to Kat and view which is very user friendly. When I was younger, I really like to force action World Symphony, which is really exciting and fun to listen to the dad Mozart's, the

the overture for Don Giovanni and the last in the last number for Don Giovanni number, the last the last aria and found you by your second last are intangible anywhere done. Giovanni's tried to help spoiler alert on that, so that is a that is fantastic, fantastic piece of classical music, a bronze can piano, Concerto is just great and our Grieg Israelis are friendly and recognize. A lot of Greek like Greek, is in the hall of the mountain king. You recognize it if you're old enough from the Ritz crackers commercials that it's the cheese commercials right that that that that that that done, thought that done to tighten and said that's great, so did the music that you always hear the Dada Dada Auto. No, no, no! No! No! That's also great as a lot of very colorful, classical music not busy day Carmen. There's so much great classical music. I start with colorful stuff and then make it work. Make your way towards the harder stuff mistake people make: is they don't know anything? So they say I'll start with Beethoven's first symphony: that's not even the good stuff. Beethoven's best, Beethoven's good stuff starts Beethoven. Three right, the Eroica, Ok Bryce says: hey Ben.

Everything you do I'm a huge supporter of capitalism, but I also don't seem to be very good at it. Fair, I'm still following the three rules, but I'm about to graduate college. It's clear. I have bad skills when it comes to handling my money, you have any advice on how it could be better with money any resources. You could point me toward in the advancement of wealth management skills I mean first of all, I would find an actual wealth manager or somebody who can help you allocate your budget so number one. I think Dave Ramsey does some good work? If you really bad with handling money, you should not have a credit card. You should only have a debit card. You should only be If you take money out of your account that already exists, so all of your costs should be cash in hand, cash out of pocket. That seems to be a very good preventing yourself from running into serious debt, which is where people really get into trouble. Also, when I say is that recognize the stuff that's going to bankrupt you and stuff, that's not going to bankrupt going bankrupt, you go to a movie once a week. It will bankrupt you get an expensive car, so there's sort of these big purchases that spend a lot of money on their worthless, you're, better off living, a a quote. Unquote. Lifestyle by going to a movie once a week, which makes you feel rich and makes you feel involved in the world as opposed to getting a nice

which honestly is separated from like a mediocre car by point, one percent of enjoyment for most people. Some people who really love cars- I guess it's a big deal, but for me it never was like. I had a Mustang. I had a Gt Mustang that I paid like thirty three thousand dollars for when I got out of I was making a lot of money to law firm and I didn't enjoy that guy. That much should be frankly, I mean my wife didn't enjoy it so when we actually replaced it with the Honda pilot, which is a family car, I like to hunt better than I enjoyed my Gt Mustang, especially because you get a car really nice Engin and you really want to speed in it and there's place in California to speed in that car you're going to get. Just immediately plus because you're going to take it every two seconds 'cause, the cops are looking for those cars Kevin says sometime ago. Family friend switch from being an obstetrician working at a hospital to begin obstetrician working for planned parenthood? nor her. He his family were always pro choice, but now he is an active participant in legalized murder in our relationship even continue

think of anything to say they could reach someone whose consciences that seared should I ask him what it would take to get him to quit. I mean, if you're, that close friends with him you might made him. Listen, I'm having real moral qualms about about honestly like having a relationship with somebody who, in my opinion, kills babies for living like I want to have this conversation with you. I want to be friends with you, but I understand if we can't continue that relationship, I totally I totally get that I mean if somebody is committing what you believe to be a moral atrocity on a regular basis, very difficult as talking with friends out this last night, and one of the things that I think is actually bad and wrong is that we in our personal lives will take people who we know are garbage people and will say: oh he's, a nice guy, LISA Nice guy and then he gets wet and then he does some bad things, because we said oh he's, a nice guy, garbage people, people who garbage things, I'm not sure, should be treated with kid gloves. TIM says. Finally, why do ex husbands still have to take care of ex wives in a divorce? I understand the reasoning behind it back before women had rights and were able to work, but today they have rights not even more than they should, and they are more than capable of finding jobs to support themselves that a man. So again, why do we still have

system that favors women now, why would I lose my house that I pay for it and she gets half of my assets on top of it? If I didn't break the marriage agreement, there seems to be a perfectly fair question on the back of feminists. If it seems to me, child support is entirely appropriate but in a in a world in which men and women are equally capable of holding jobs in the world in which women who are single straight out of college, not married, no kids are actually making more than men in most of America's major cities. I think that it may be time to look back at how we arrange these things. There are situations by the way in which women are paying support. And they're paying spousal support. Member, that's rare there. There is a bias in our judicial system against men with regard to parenting, as well as as not as well as marijuana okay. So this brings us to the end of today's program. Just news breaking fast and furious this week, This was a long week will be back here on Monday, and by that point I can only expect aliens will have arrived, given the quick moving news cycle in which we are now taking part, but try not to run things while I'm gone

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