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Hey welcome this is the bench Shapiro show Happy New Year everyone got a lot coming up for you here today President from hasn't self a Merry Little Christmas I was with Warren says of smoke signals on a presidential run Louie c.k. Getting clobbered by social justice warriors we start with President Trump's new year's message to the American people President from had himself a marital Christmas he spent the Christmas of his life in the White House. By himself. Basically waiting out the government shutdown and tweeting furiously from the Oval Office so he had himself a lot of fun he was there for Christmas he was there for New Years and that led him to send out a bunch of tweets a bunch of videos talking about what he's done so far you know all of that is is fine the president has accomplished a great many things in his 1st couple of years in office remember he's only been in office for a little under 2 years which is incredible since time has now slowed to the point where it has been in actual we're not like dogs every year is like 7 years it's a for President Trump it's sort of like there's trump yours and then there's regular years so in regular years only been like a couple of years of President from Presidency in Trump years it's been at least 200 years of President presidency time has warped completely but President Trump listed his historic accomplishments on New Year's Eve President Trump then tweeted out about all of his accomplishments he said listen everything's been great so far you guys just don't appreciate you don't appreciate it you know you don't know anything it's been great I don't know I didn't get it he tweeted out that everybody should calm down and enjoy the ride he tweeted out in all capital letters this was this is his 1st tweet of the New Year Happy New Year to everyone including the haters and the fake news media $29.00 he will be a fantastic years for those not suffering from trying to range man syndrome so-called down and enjoy the ride all capital letters great things are happening for the country nothing says to me come down enjoy the ride like somebody tweeting at me in all capital letters I know that if I'm in the back of the car and someone in the front of the car says calm down and enjoy the rock. Nothing is going to make me come down enjoy the ride quite like that but there was this feeling of incipient panic that was building up in the last days of 2018 and out is carried forward into 21000 president trumps furious weeks over the break we're not hopeful that way again the president has accomplished a lot of things in his 1st couple of years in office it's not supremely helpful to be leading off his reelection campaign with him kind of hunkered down in the White House just tweeting whatever comes into his mind right now what the White House should be projecting is a feeling of invincibility a feeling of calm a feeling of collected. Collective goal making and shared purpose and instead what we're sort of getting is President Trump feeling isolated and tweeting out a lot of things now a lot of things he's tweeting are true by the way so the president for example was tweeting out a lot about the border remember we're still in the middle of a government shutdown that shutdown was initiated by the Democrats there's been a lot of talk about President Trump initiating the shutdown because he was foolish enough to claim on national television that he wanted to own the shutdown but in reality President Trump did not really initiate the shutdown it was the Democrats who initiated the shutdown in the sense that they could just give him $5000000000.00 for his wall and then be done with it victory they'd be able to go home and sleep at night instead they've decided since NY him that funding so this lead president trying to sweep out a lot about the war while this would be a decent use of Twitter if it were not for all of his other use of Twitter he tweeted out President and Mrs Obama built has a 10 foot wall around their d.c. Mansion and compound I agree totally necessary for their safety and security u.s. Needs the same the same thing slightly larger version Ok well that's fine everybody went nuts how dare President Trump mention they have a wall around their home as though that's a security breach it's not a security breach Ok I've wall around my home most people have some sort of fence around their house especially in California a present from Ben continued the Democrats will probably submit a bill being cute as always which gives everything away but gives nothing to border security namely the wall you see without the border security without the wall there can be no border security the other stuff just is just by comparison is just by comparison a meaningless bells and whistles remember this throughout the ages some things never get better and never change presidents from tweeted you all you have walls and you have wheels it was always that way it will always be that way please explain to the Democrats there can never be a replacement for a good old fashioned wall. 1st of all you can have walls and you can have wheels and you can have fire these are great inventions of the past and President Trump I can't wait to hear his his essay on why the invention of fire was such a useful thing but all of this is not particularly terrible right the president from going after the Democrats on the wall stuff is not particularly terrible it's just that the incessant nature of it is not good politics and this is going to become an issue for president from come 2020 because when it comes to the issues President Trump has been pretty good as I've said many times I did not expect him to govern this conservatively when he was elected in 2016 is govern far more conservatively now I thought he was going to win that set the character flaws that the president has evidence are going to be the chief reason why people are uncomfortable with him it's what's going to hurt him at the polls it's what's going to alienate people come 2020 it's that stuff yes to get under control and it's also where the Democrats are putting all their heavy pressure they're putting all their heavy pressure right now on the character point leading that charge is General Stanley McChrystal He's going to be on our Sunday special this week by the way General McChrystal was on A.B.C.'s This Week over the weekend and he basically slammed President Trump's character here he was talking with the very objective journalist George Stephanopoulos I think it's important for me to work for people who I think or basically honest. Truth as best they know it. Think is a liar I don't think. It's Trump immoral in your view I think if we want to be governed by someone we wouldn't do a business deal with because they're. Their background is so shady if we're willing to do that then that's in conflict with who I think we are so there's McChrystal says with Martha Raddatz on A.B.C.'s this week going after Trump's character Now this is always going to be Achilles heel was going to be the character point it has been for a very long time President Trump has never been a guy of supreme moral fiber shall we say and this was one of his selling points in 2016 was you don't have to worry about me pulling my punches I'm not going to pull my punches I've never pulled my punches I'm not that kind of guy well he didn't post punches against General McChrystal either he then tweeted out in response and this is where again a little bit of where with all from the president would be a lot more useful than what he is doing here because he says something pretty moral here he says General McChrystal got fired. By Obama it was General in quotation marks and scare quotes 1st of all General McChrystal is an actual general who served 34 years in the military under some very trying circumstances and he was fired by Obama because he was very critical of Obama's strategy in Afghanistan he said Obama wasn't being hawkish enough in Afghanistan so it's like he got fired for a bad reason but President from goes off on him he says General McChrystal got buy a ticket by Obama last assignment a total bust for a big dumb mouth Hillary lover which is weird Hillary hasn't had a lover in decades but any case President from tweeting out I have General McChrystal is an actual general obviously not a great a great look for the president of the United States saying that he was fired. Again as I've said before on the show President from love saying that people were fired that bag I don't know where he grew up where dogs were fired I've never seen a dog fired be weird you're doing a terrible job dog you're fired but in any case present from says that General McChrystal is fair look at. Again the point I'm making here is a broader one which is that if President Trump wishes to win re-election is going to have to convince the American people that he is actually fit for the job as a character is not just that he superior to the Democrats but now we've actually seen him in the presidency he said before he was elected he could be Lincolnesque he could be like Washington may not be the way that he's used to working but he could kind of grow into the office and every day he proves on a character level that he's not actually doing that now does that mean does that mean the president from can't win reelection of course not Democrats could win somebody radical they could run somebody crazy the economy could could hit could continue to be good circumstances could continue to benefit President Trump lots of things could happen would be easier for President Trump if he could somehow change his character yes is that going to happen no it's not going to happen and that raises a question for Republicans that question was really raised by Mitt Romney over the weekend so Romney is the new incoming senator from Utah and let's face a fact about Mitt Romney it was Mitt Romney's defeat in 2012 that I think broke the country because Mitt Romney was maybe the most decent guy to run for president of the United States in my lifetime he was as clean as the driven snow in his personal life he was a guy who was moderate in his politics a moderate he had been governor of Massachusetts and won't be loved by a lot of members of the left would given him strangely respect up to the point when he won the Republican nomination they proceeded to destroy him slander him called him a bad human being and then he lost to Barack Obama in Obama's reelect effort in 2012 and that led Republicans to believe Listen if they're going to drag somebody like Mitt Romney through the mud if Romney's good character and 5 bucks worth of bomb a cup of coffee in the 2012 election and why do we need a guy of character in 2016 at all. Let's just have the nastiest guy who can throw the most punches and let's nominate that guy well now Mitt Romney is back and he's criticizing President Trump on a character level and I'll explain why what he's doing here is tactically inept tactically and why you can criticize President Trump's character when President Trump says things that are character free like putting scare quotes around general when dealing with Stanley McChrystal while you can say that when President Trump does stuff that is bad it's bad that's not the same thing as what Mitt Romney did today in the pages of The Washington Post all explain in just one second but 1st I'd like to take a moment to remind you there's a whole other world to this radio show over at Daily Wired dot com ever miss an opportunity to listen to the bench of hero show well you never have to let that happen again head over instead to daily Wired dot com You can listen every past episode if you become a subscriber you get access to the whole show as video to your life is going to be Basti enrich by the ability to see every detail in the show from relevant news clips and photos so this astonishingly handsome face not only do you get my show you'll be able to hear from nowhere the voices like Andrew Klavan about Walsh and awful voices like Michael Mills to the entire daily where team has its finger on the pulse of the conservative movement and they will keep you educated and informed on most newsworthy stories of the day don't wait any longer go to daily Wired dot com become a subscriber for just $99.00 a month or $99.00 a year you'll get all of the sorts of the bench of hero show the Andrew Klavan show that will show and sadly enough the Michael Moore Show as well as daily Wired dot com become a subscriber join thousands of fans and supporting the largest conservative podcast in America 70 percent of our audience under the age of 40 so you are joining a young conservative movement and a movement that is keeping conservatism fresh Go check it out daily Wired dot com Ok So Mitt Romney his 1st day in office what does he decide to do right entire op ed about how unpalatable President Trump is now there are those of us in the commentary community whose job it is to actually comment when the president does good stuff and when the president does bad stuff I've been using the so-called good trump bad from model since 2015 says 20152016 when President Trump was then just candidate Trump but Mitt Romney has been highly critical of Trump throughout he was very critical of. 2016 to give a long speech about how he thought Trump was unfit to be president of the United States and then Trump thought about him for secretary of state had Rex Tillerson instead sort of humiliated him publicly and then Romney ran for Senate in Utah and took President Trump indorsement and now Romney is turning back around I'm from and smacking him directly in the grove as a piece today in The Washington Post titled The president shapes public character of the nation from character falls short Now here's the problem with what Mitt Romney is doing here I may agree with a lot of his points with regard to the president's character but what he is doing is trying essentially to force Republicans trying to force conservatives into now having to choose between conservatism and Trump ism it's a false choice it's a false choice he's trying to force people have to choose between President Trump and conservatism and that may have been more of a choice in 2016 before Trump was president the trip as president now and trying to get a lot of very conservative policies Here's what Mitt Romney writes today but it does beg a particular question which is whether Mitt Romney is going to try to primary president from come 2020 so Romney writes The Trump presidency made a deep dissent in December the departures of defense secretary Jim Matheson White House chief of staff John Kelly the appointment of senior persons of lesser experience the abandonment of allies to fight beside us in the president's thoughtless claim that America has long been a sucker in world affairs all defined his presidency down. It is well known that Donald Trump was not my choice for the Republican presidential nomination after he became the nominee I hope his campaign would refrain from resentment and name calling it not when he won the election I hope he would rise to the occasion as early appointments were encouraging but on balance his conduct over the past 2 years particularly his actions last month is evidence that the president has not risen to the mantel of the office as a pretty strong words that the president hasn't risen to the mantle of the office meaning basically he is still unfit for the presidency he says it's not that all of the president's policies have been misguided his right to align u.s. Corporate taxes with those of global competitors to strip out excessive regulations to crack down on China's unfair trade practices reform criminal justice to appoint conservative judges these are policies mainstream Republicans have promoted for years the policies that appointments are only part of a presidency all continued by explaining more about Mitt Romney's perspective here in just a 2nd of why he's doing it in the pages of The Washington Post coming up newly minted senator Mitt Romney he's joining the Senate now and he opens his tenure but this really nasty op ed about President Trump's character in The Washington Post is he right well kind of but is he wrong or probably yes I'll explain why this is the bench. 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And apparently airport security trays you have to stick your stuff and when going through t.s.a. They carry more germs than a toilet actually they studied everything in airports and they found out everything is covered with germs like the hand rails that you use the trays that you use it's like everything you touch is filthy except the toilets the toilets are actually clean and a part of the airport I'm well there's the hot traveling temp than you've travelled have wear out in the bathroom love and off the toilet. I'm now one of those people that every time I get on a flight I bring Clorox wipes and down every surface that I will touch like. Much to the groaning of whoever's sitting next to me but as Dr Drew told me to do and that the only way to keep yourself germ free in some kind of capacity but now I feel like I need to just wear gloves and a ski mask all the time. Right in an airport or yeah I mean travel in a bubble maybe I don't know we're all gross I mean people just don't wash their hands everything's gross but apparently it's not just germs that they're finding at airports it's the actual viruses like these respiratory viruses that are out in about an airborne in some cases. 7 known to be a. Welcome back is Ben Shapiro show Senator Mitt Romney has just joined the Senate with the endorsement of President Trump his 1st move to dump over President Trump in the pages of The Washington Post So Mitt Romney says so great degree a presidency shapes the public character of the nation a president should unite us and inspire us to follow our better angels a president should demonstrate the essential qualities of honesty and integrity and elevate the national discourse of comedy and mutual respect as a nation we've been blessed with presidents who have called on the greatness of the American spirit with the nation so divided resentful and angry presidential leadership qualities of character is indispensable and it is in this province where the incumbent shortfall has been most glaring that he talks about how in 201684 percent of people in Germany Britain France Canada and Sweden believe the American president would do the right thing in world affairs one year later that number had fallen to 16 percent I don't know why he setting that poll Obama was terrible for foreign affairs and who cares what the Germans have to say about American foreign policy but Romney continues to talk about America abdicated leadership and then he talks about repairing our fiscal foundation basically this piece run this piece reads like Mitt Romney is interested in running for president again in 2020 that's what it reads like he concludes a speech by saying I remain optimistic about our future in an innovation age Americans excel more importantly noble instincts live in the hearts of Americans the people of this great land will issue the politics of anger and fear if there are some into the responsibility by leaders in homes in churches and schools and businesses in government who raise our sights and respect the dignity of every child of God the ideal that is the essence of America 1st of all I don't argue with Romney's general perception of the presidency I don't think that the president really raises the level of the American people as a general rule I think the American people may raise the level of the president but the president is a guy hired to do a particular job if you get your moral guidance from the president of the United States I would suggest that you're looking to the wrong places you get your moral guidance from your teachers from your parents from your family from your pastor from your priest or rabbi that seems to make a lot more sense to me and getting a moral guidance from Barack Obama Donald Trump. George w. Bush or anybody else in what is a public governmental office in any case what Romney is doing here is really counterproductive Now again this coming from someone who's been quite critical of President Trump's character but not in the pages of The Washington Post since President Trump became president and the reason for that is because what Romney's actually doing now is he's setting up the possibility of a primary run against Trump there's been a lot of talk about this from a certain segment of the Republican Party and it's a big mistake the reason that it's a big mistake is because basically what you are now suggesting what the media will suggest is that a primary race between say Mitt Romney and Donald Trump is a race between true decency and conservatism versus the evil evil Trump guy and then when Trump wins the primaries it'll be well look at those deplorable Republicans they voted for from over Mitt Romney look at those terrible terrible Republicans those evil terrible people who voted for the incumbent president when they were given a choice of a more decent kinder gentler alternative when that isn't the actual calculus here because whoever runs against from in a primary is going to have to basically make 3 cases they're going to have to declare that they are a person of better character than Trump which in all possibility will be true probably they'll say that the have said they're better representative of conservatism than Trump in 2020 which probably will not be true in terms of policy and then they'll have to say that dumb they're more likely to win in 2020 than from which is likely to be false and that's going to be the calculus that actual Republican voters do when they look at 2020 they're not just going to say in a vacuum Who would I prefer Mitt Romney or Donald Trump they're going to look and say Mitt Romney wasn't 21 from one in 2016 so I'm more likely to vote for the guy who I think is going to win from there look at Mitt Romney and 2012 Trump and 2020 and say Trump has a record of appointing now probably by that point 100 federal judges from his record of cutting regulations from his record of rebuilding alliances in the Middle East President Trump has a record of criminal justice reform movement of the u.s. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem in the rebuilding of the American military and God willing in. Economy they will look at all those factors and they're going to say I'll pick from over Romney but what Romney will have set up and have done so in the pages of The Washington Post is this false narrative that choosing Trump over Irani or John k. 2nd or somebody else in the Republican Party is just Republicans doubling down on Trump's lack of character which is really not what's going on here. Most people accept it in the military 152016 what was. Most people certainly sense that you know what he is as a human being coming up while the press and Mitt Romney look to set up a narrative that it's either pick trunk or pick conservatism and decency there are some folks are big fans of seem to be pushing almost the same twice one of those people apparently Jerry Falwell Jr in the interview with The Washington Post for fault just 2nd president. Ok a.b.c. 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Welcome back as the bench Bureau shows a jury followed junior as the head of Liberty University great institution I know Reverend Cole Jr and he's a very nice guy but he gave an interview at The Washington Post that I think does a real disservice to a lot of conservatives so as I say going for 2020 the narrative the benefit Republicans as president from Change is character Barring that the narrative that the Republicans are going to want to push as you may not like President Trump's character I may think that he's a bad character myself but is he getting the job done so far the answer is yes and so I'm not going to turn over the government's radical leftists simply to show my disdain for president from character which I have done every day since President Trump basically announced whenever he has done something wrong I don't have to throw the election to Elizabeth wore a comma heris in order to demonstrate that I don't like president trumps tweeting and that is not a necessity of American government that seems like a better argument but unfortunately there are Republicans like Mitt Romney who want to make this next election a choice between President Trump's character and conservatism which is not an actual choice that's not the choice that's happening here and then there are people like Jerry Falwell Jr who sort of want to force the same choice and want to suggest that President Trump is actually a godsend in every possible it's a journey Folger has this long interview in The Washington Post where he talks about how President Trump is just spectacular. And he was asked about whether Christians were supposed to support nice guys he said it's a distortion of the teachings of Jesus to say that what he taught us to do personally to love our neighbors ourselves help the poor and somehow be imputed on nation he's never told Caesar how to run Rome he went out of his way to say that's the earthly kingdom about the heavenly kingdom and I'm here to teach you how to treat others how to help others when it comes to serving your country render under Caesar that which is Caesar's Admiral problem of this basic idea which is that. It's an Augustinian idea this is the City of God city of man distinction and it's not quite as firm as Jerry Falwell Jr is making it right here which is basically that Christians have no say in how the nation is to be governed render unto Caesar what is he means that Christians should have no care about the character of their leaders is a very weird contention and then he talks about how there is literally nothing the president from could do that would endanger his support that's amazing statements and people of principle. Should always say the answer is yes there's always stuff the Trump could do to endanger my support him dangerous my support every day when he picks up when when he when he decides to do something unpalatable. You should feel that way about every politician by the way even politicians that you love politicians they love shouldn't danger your support every time they go out every day because one pretty fundamental element of faith is that you should have faith in God not man to say that nothing president from could ever do would endanger supports an amazing statement from a Christian leader. But this is again reinforcing a narrative that the left wants which is that it's either total fealty to trump or conservatism and decency that's that's a false choice and it's not a real choice and it's not what's really going on right here again I think the Jerry Falwell Jr does a disservice when he does interviews like this and again this is this is the this is the narrative the Democrats are going to try to push in 2020 Now the good news for Republicans is that Democrats are going to have a really tough time pushing this particular narrative in 2020 because they've become so radical themselves so the narrative Democrats wanted 2020 is the reverse narrative of 2000 in 2000 it was 2 years after the Clinton impeachment scandal and the Monica Lewinsky stuff and President Clinton was out of the picture but Al Gore was now running for the White House and George w. Bush was running on the basis of bringing character back to the Oval Office it's the same thing that Jimmy Carter did in 1906 when he ran against Gerald Ford it's time for us to bring character back to the White House that's usually a pretty successful test but in order to make that. Claim they actually have to be some semblance of normal and moral and the problem for Democrats is that there aren't too many candidates in their ranks or anything remotely resembling normal and moral The latest case in point is Elizabeth Warren solace with Warren is because she declared over the weekend that she wants to run for president which is a shock to precisely No one she'd been sending smoke signals from her wig about it for legitimately years at this point so she announced that you'd be running for president and she said she was going to build a grassroots campaign and that she would be wandering the plains in search of of both Buffalo and voters here is Senator Kerry Native American Elizabeth Warren talking about exploring her presidential run in front of a garage before the Boston the assembled Boston media right now Washington works great for the wealthy and the well connected is just not working for anyone else but I am optimistic I believe in what we can do together. I'm going to build a grassroots campaign it's already got people from all across this country who are going to be part of it and together we're going to make change and if people out here see it and want to be part of it I hope they go to Elizabeth Warren dot com and join us because this is how we're going to build the movement I mean she is from and she is inspiring I mean it's like her campaign manager went out there and said Ok we want Hillary's campaign without the name recognition of a charisma Let's do that let's make that happen right there I mean it was so bad her presidential announcement that not only did she have to avoid a question about her d.n.a. And her Native American ancestry which she did she also did she tried to be a cool kid shall show you the cool couldn't thing in a 2nd here was Elizabeth Warren being asked about her native american d.n.a. This is why the Democrats are going to have a little bit of a tough time arguing character against president trying because they can't even get their own party on board with saying it's Ok to be a particular genetic ancestry the reason Elizabeth Warren has to pretend to be Native American is because she doesn't rank high enough on the intersectionality scale for Democrats. To care about her that's what's happening here she's out burning by Bernie Sanders she's out Obama by baby or and she's out she's out intersectionality back on all her so she really has no path here and she's not diverse enough she's not radical enough like Bernie Sanders and she's not charming enough like a door and so she is kind of forced into this weird corner where 2 years ago she was a hot thing and now she's a nothing there's Elizabeth Warren dodging the d.n.a. Question. Were you going to continue we're going to do the murkiness is 3 little question but I'm in this fight because. I understand what's happening to working families I grew up in a paycheck to paycheck family and my big chance was a commuter college that costs 50 dollars a semester I run for office because I'm grateful down to my toes for the opportunities that were given to me and I am determined that we will give those same opportunities not just to some of our kids but to all of our Yeah I'm sure she's going to blow Trump out of the water with that kind of character and charisma I'm sure my favorite part of her campaign is that she opened up by then doing an Alexander Ocasio courthouse style Instagram so we'll call her a o.c. Because that's the thing now right they've got notorious r b g c We've got all of these these initial political leaders but he does these political Instagram's where she cooks like instant hot recipes while taking questions from her mailbag my instant hot recipe would basically be cereal and milk by the way if I were to do an Instagram like this but in any case I love that Elizabeth Warren she's she's basically the Steve Buscemi character from Saturday Night Live How do you do fellow kids she's walking into the Instagram and she is now doing instant hot recipes well in her kitchen while drinking beer out of your member in 26000 Hillary Clinton went to Cedar Rapids and she. Had like a can of some sort of juice function I'm just chilling in Cedar Rapids Well here's here's Elizabeth Warren doing that I'm going to be. Happy. My husband Bruce is no. One here oh yes I'm here for your people to see the. President like you know. He's. Thank you for your pleasure I'm going to be here Drew who should we come Kenny is that right can you point. There's gravest way you know off the top right there. Yeah that's that's going to go to great kids because I know man she's awesome cause she drinks beer he's the bast Wow look at Graham over there taking out her teeth in the swinging on the beer yeah yeah this is going to go great for the Democrats we'll get to more of the Democrats being unable to to play the character card against President Trump and just 2nd part of character is also a feeling of authenticity nothing is less authentic than that video I mean that video is just ersatz garbage it's so it's so fantastic and pretty much every way I haven't seen a candidate get an authentic since Hillary Clinton since the last time we get to all that in just 2nd 1st let's talk about the fact that sometimes you missed parts of the show with the most parts of the show what do you do to get caught up well usually that means nothing but you can go over daily Wired dot com right now and when you go to the only word I can get this show on demand any time you can listen to every past episode if you come a subscriber get access to the whole show as video to your like is that Astley enrich by the ability to see every single detail on the show you can actually see the relevant news clips and photos and my reactions to them not only to get my show you're also able to hear from noteworthy voices like Andrew Klavan about Walsh ordinary voices like Michael moles as well you can ask me questions in my mailbag the entire daily wear team has its finger on the pulse of the conservative movement and they will keep you educated and informed on the most newsworthy stories of the day don't wait any longer head over daily Wired dot com become a subscriber for just 99 a month or 99 bucks a year when you spend 99 bucks a year you also get a leftist yours hot or cold tumbler you know all the episodes of my show the clave in Childwall show well it's a different shows also go check out daily where dot com can have fresh content every single day brought to you piping hot daily Wired dot com become a subscriber for and thousands of fans and supporting the largest conservative podcast in the country so Elizabeth Warren and I have a tough time running against President Trump and meanwhile the Democrats are busy clubbing each other with bricks over the 2020 nomination every Democrat on planet earth wants to run for Governor Jay Inslee of Washington state who Yeah I know he wants to run Eric Swalwell who he wants to run Eric Garcetti horrible horrible mayor. Los Angeles wants to run my name a Democrat and that person probably wants to run for president could top 3 candidates right now on the Democratic side are pretty obviously Joe Biden Bernie Sanders invade Iraq I think that Iraq wins the nomination if I had to predict right now he's going to momentum is the only one of these guys he's charming he's got the press behind him I mentioned before the break that I think that Bay dork is the only candidate who has the possibility of sort of unifying the various parts of the Democratic Party but the problem for the Democrats is that while they are running on character issues against President Trump politics sometimes betrays character and when the Democrats go so radical on politics that they seem wildly out of kilter and off base when they seem like they are not in touch with the American people people take that as a character critique too and so doesn't help them when their top politicians are saying things about climate change like this with Bernie Sanders the socialist loon bag from Vermont he tweeted out the other day we must look a climate change as if it was devastating military attack against the United States and the entire climate we must respond accordingly Well I mean of course Sanders has led us that means that we would surrender if there were a devastating military attack against the and it's against Bernie Sanders estate would be that we should surrender to global warming but in any case this is if the Democratic pitch as President Trump is immoral we have to treat it being hotter outside the same way that we would treat a military attack by nuking the powerplants expression in the sun not sure he's recommending there that's going to be a bit of a hard pitch is not the only one saying this this is the new Democratic pitch their moral case their political moral case is that President Trump is not just a man of little character which again I think is a case that convey the case that they are going to try to make is that President Trump is immoral in his politics. And the way they've been making that case has been really awkward because they've been making the case that he's a moral cause he wants a wall which is patently not immoral in fact it's a good idea to have some sort of border barrier to prevent people from illegally immigrating into the United States and other trying to make the case the president from is almost a Hitlerian character because he doesn't care enough about climate change an issue about which most Americans don't care Jerry Brown our senile governor of California who's been governor since approximately 833 a legitimate lead the he's now 1211 years old it's really amazing So Jerry Brown is doddering around here in my home state and he says that climate change is as devastating as the Nazis to humanity which comes a shock to my people. No not so much like it was it was the how it's been hot outside but it was a lot hotter in certain situations for Jews in the past years Jerry Brown from California making the case that hi Richard is just well you. Know. Point to the fact they took Roosevelt many many years to get America willing to go into World War 2 and fight the Nazis while we have every reason though different but perhaps very much devastating in a similar way and we're going to fight climate change and the president is going to lead on that Ok so it's just like Roosevelt mobilizing America for World War 2 is just like the president mobilizing America to fight global warming if this is the moral case the Democrats are going to make they're going to have tough times here here's the thing in the late ninety's Americans basically came to the conclusion you could divorce character and politics of President Clinton's character and politics were completely separable you can get good policy out of a guy who's a bad person and most Americans basically learned to agree with that because then we got a good character in The President George w. Bush who most Democrats decided was evil on policy so you had a what Democrats decided a bad character with good politics Bill Clinton than a good character or bad politics George w. Bush Well if character and politics are separable then Donald Trump can be a bad character and also be a pretty good president but according to Democrats they have to make the case that he's also a bad character on politics and the south if the most solid case they have is that he is not intersexual enough or that he doesn't pay enough attention to climate change or that he is insufficiently insufficiently kind to illegal immigrants that's going to be a bit of a tough game so coming up 2019 I think is going to be the year of the book school. School social justice warriors people who school for not being well enough it's going to go everybody so much that it may allow President from win the presidency again all explain why is the bench to Russia. 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Sample is not punishment it follows that retention of a sample is not punishment either says Justice Carol Corrigan a pair of cases involving youths from Contra Costa County she said removing their d.n.a. From the database would not advance Prop 40 seven's goals of reducing the prison population and refocusing police say that again reducing that we were treated here well that was the argument I was. That it would not it would have nothing to do with Prop 47 is basically what the high court argued so we were right so can we or can we not keep the d.n.a. We don't care yeah yeah they are allowing you know thank you much overused shocking we can track criminals down people have a tendency towards little behavior even if they were only attempting criminals or alleged criminal fine Yeah Ok I mean I'm fine with that I mean you can have mine you're going to Lauren's it right it's strange in this day and age where people get . Paranoid are annoyed it sounds the word as yet you know everything out there on social media but it's like well I don't know if I want them to have. I mean it's just so insane we come on everybody we find criminals all the time because you post about the crimes you commit I mean that's how silly it is for. A.b.c. . Welcome back his bench Heroes show so it won't scolds are here and all those people out there who say you have to use the proper pronouns and you have to address politics in just the proper way and you have to make sure you check your privilege at the door all those people are making life a livable and they are not bringing it to the rabble comedy as well we now live in an era in which the left insists and this is where the radicalism of the left really comes to the fore in cultural and political terms that we write biology language religion politics arts all these things must be rewritten so that we all stay woke and if you're fused to abide by these new moral structures of this makes you immoral. The latest indicator that the left has gone too far in the Wouk scolding has been Louis c.k. So. Before his downfall was probably my favorite working comedian and that is saying that despite the fact that Louis c.k. Is a wild leftist who hated Sarah Palin is vulgar is vile as a human being he's really really funny because if you ever want to watch a great comedy set go watch Louie c.k. Talk about what it is like to raise children who ask too many questions is really really good his Lucy Kay is a very talented comedian Well if you recall last year Louis c.k. Was out in the middle of the me to scare me to movement for having basically brought back female comediennes to his green room and then having pushed them to watch him perform sexual acts upon himself that this was theirs and he went into self-imposed exile and lost tens of millions of dollars and all of the rest well now he's coming back what the book scolds don't want him to come back they say that he has he has sins he can never return to public life and this is the amazing thing about the new woke scalding s j W's is that there's no such thing as repentance there is no such thing as redemption if you sin against them then you must be cast out into the nether regions for ever almost you are sufficiently wildly off just like Kathy Griffin then that maybe it's come back in any case. Louis c.k. Who is indeed a wild leftist was never supposed to come back but now he is coming back and in a comedy set the other night and in the comedy set he made some jokes now Lucy case brand of comedy has always been transgressive and we were told by the left for years that transgressive comedy was a social good for George Carlin social good Richard Pryor social good blue comedy great but all of these violated barriers violated taboos were good for society because they wakened us to our own excesses and hypocrisy they will lose he comes back he does a couple of jokes and he tells a joke about Auschwitz and he tells a joke about Parklane survivors and then tells a joke about gender fluidity Here's a little bit of his set and the left what not on him because apparently Louis c.k. His brand of humor is no longer acceptable in scold world. For 20 years now I'd rather be you know she was on set. With me because it's now not when I know. That something was explained to me in my fifty's and see people in their twenty's and believe it or Grazie these kids are not so. Easy to just. Use it to track me they're like do they tell you what to call them you should it stress me and they then that. Because the identify my. Gender neutral I know they tend to like in front of Congress these kids. Who. Are young you should be crazy you should be on the yes I do this say I here to tell you that interesting because you went to a high school where kids got shots what does that mean I have to listen to you my god sister you push them back to the way it was you. Ok So everybody is going crazy how dare he make jokes because a comedian that's what he does are the jokes taboo and transgressive Yes that's his whole schtick he's been doing this sort of France Press of comedy its entire career the left has decided he must be scolded out of existence well and then we'll say we have to redefine comedy where Louis c.k. Is no longer funny but you know seriously funny. The real comedy is you're being watched and why you aren't enough of a walk person to make those kind of jokes that's real comedy true comedy is that. If this is the way that the left lost a problem get culture they're going to lose Well we'll be back here tomorrow with all of the latest I'm glad to be with you here in the snow you will get through it together don't worry it will be here every step of the way to join you and guide you and make our journey ever more which is the bench here I'm sure. You talk all the a.t.c. . Cumulus stations. Ok a.b.c. News is Live and Local at 10 o'clock I'm Jeff whittle in Glendale police shot at a man who was running away after trying to rob a woman of her cell phone in a Target parking lot in the Eagle Rock this afternoon the suspect then drove to his family's nearby home where he eventually surrendered peacefully as this Glendale p.d. 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And shutdown correspondent Linda Kenyon reports current House majority leader Kevin McCarthy emerged from the White House meeting to tell reporters we had a long discussion the president asked us to come back on Friday after the leadership races House speaker designate Nancy Pelosi who is expected to take the gavel after leadership elections tomorrow says Democrats already have a plan to reopen the government and she says she's posed this question to President Trump why don't you accept what you have already done to open up government and that enables us to have 30 days to negotiate for border security but the president has called that proposal a nonstarter making it seem more likely that the government shutdown could linger Linda Kenya Washington and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and his chief lieutenants are on the defensive a Sanders mulls a 2nd presidential run amid allegations of sexual Harris' mind against some of the men that worked on his last presidential campaign I certainly apologize to any woman who felt that she was not treated appropriately and of course if I run we will do better on next one and Sanders aides and supporters some of them dubbed the Bernie Bros Talk Radio $790.00 k. 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