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Welcome back this is the bench here is a lot coming up for you this hour a little later on in the hour we'll be joined by bestselling authors Molly Hemingway over at the Federalist and Carrie Severino chief counsel and policy director of the just old Crisis Network have a brand new book out about the justice cabinet confirmation and the future of the Supreme Court they will stop by in a little bit plus we are going to get to the controversy over the border Democrats keep claiming there are massive human rights abuses taking place the hands of Border Patrol and then claiming this as an excuse not to fund Border Patrol which makes very little sense at all we'll get to that but we begin at this hour with Joe Biden and his fading fortunes according to the latest polls Joe Biden has been dropping rapidly in those polls the Real Clear Politics average which had Joe Biden up as much as 20 points just a couple of weeks ago well no longer is now up just 10 points in the Real Clear Politics average was at 34 points up as of just a few weeks ago as of as of mid May is up 34 points. Then he was up about 25 points as of mid June now in the real crime Politics poll average and falling is devastatingly bad debate performance has dropped all the way down to an 11 point lead in the Real Clear Politics poll average with Kamel Harris picking up nearly all of that space Elizabeth Warren has also picked up some of that although her rise began in the beginning of June with all of the major nice media coverage she was receiving the latest poll from The Economist and You Gov has Joe Biden up just 4 points over Elizabeth Warren Bernie Sanders getting devastated in that poll all the way down to 9 so it's weird about these polls that they are taking place concurrently and yet they have huge gaps in their results so Joe Biden is either at 30 percent according to a.b.c. News or 23 percent according to The Economist Bernie Sanders is either at 19 percent according to a.b.c. News or 9 percent according to the economists a pretty major difference the only person who seems to be playing it even keel in those particular polls is Hommel Harris at 15 percent in the Economist Paul 13 percent in the a.b.c. News poll according to Quinnipiac It's basically now a dead heat between Joe Biden and come out here is by not just to a $20.00 to $20.00 over Kamel Harris and this is because Joe Biden just isn't radical enough for the base that's all that's happened here he is being successfully torpedoed by people more radical than he and there are those of us who predicted this from day one we said that his best day would be his 1st day and that is exactly what has happened thus far. Joe Biden everything that makes him attractive to the general population in a general election namely he doesn't take completely insane positions on every issue and we all know him and we're used to him that's exactly what is not exciting the base about him so for example Joe Biden says exactly the correct thing when asked over the weekend about decriminalizing border crossing another bunch of Democrats have suggested that it is a wonderful idea of to get rid of illegal immigration charges for people who cross between ports of entry so presumably they'd also be in favor of people flying into the country simply bypassing t.s.a. And jumping the turnstile and I guess that would be a crime any more I don't see any difference between that and for example swimming the Rio Grande you have to explain a lot of Democrats think that's a good idea why well it means that you can't hold people once they cross that border illegally on the separate charge of having crossed the border illegally instead you can detain them for a small period of time to determine whether in fact they are being properly processed for asylum and then you have to release them into the general population as opposed to jailing them for illegal entry Joe Biden is asked about this he says this is a dumb idea guys all you're doing is incentivizing people to cross the border illegally in the most unsafe areas of the border here's Biden being a reasonable human and that's shooting himself directly in the foot people who are running close to him now who are saying decriminalize coming into the country illegally do you believe that you criminalize No I don't know I don't I think people should have to give you a line but if people are coming because they're actually seeking asylum they should have a chance to make their case I would be sure as we did in Brocken I did surging forward to the border to make those concrete decisions and that of course is the proper answer that is the correct answer making it not a crime to cross the border illegally by the way also means that people who cross the border illegally and zones actually gain entry through asylum there's no reason to report them they haven't committed any other sort of crime they have now not committed a crime they didn't commit a crime entering illegally. They weren't captured so that means that everybody who is here illegally with us gets to stay presumably or be given some form of green card or something so Biden is right about that but that's unpopular with Democrats and then there's Joe Biden saying something popular among them among Americans but not among members of the base and that is that you should be able to keep your health insurance down there are other Democrats who flipped and flopped and flipped and flopped and flipped on the issue that is an exact description of Kamel Harris's position on private health insurance. Only said she was for private health insurance then she said she was against it and she said she was for it and she said she was against it in the last debate then she said she was for it that is all within a month Joe Biden however says you should be able to keep your private health insurance which is you know an actual winning position in the general election there he is explaining the other Democrats are too radical on this we're in a situation where if you provide an option for anybody who in fact wants to buy into Medicare for all they can buy in they buy in and they can do it but if they like their employer based insurance which a lot of union broke their neck to get a lot of people like you or they should have to give it up the flip of that is if you don't go my way you have to go there where you have to give up all that and what's going to happen when you have 300000000 people landed on a health care plan I want back to what you're going to do this is a good question but none of the other Democrats are going to answer it because Joe Biden is out of step with his own base this is why Joe Biden is now slamming a o.c. By the way very amusing as he is now in an open war with Nancy Pelosi which my responses so let them fight totally into it I want to see a o.c. And Nancy Pelosi savage each other it's pretty fantastic she tweeted out earlier today about Nancy Pelosi a couple of quotes from Palosi a glass of water could have been a 20 year incumbent the green dream or whatever their public whatever those are quotes from a They're from the speaker having respect for ourselves doesn't mean we lack respect for her it just means we won't let everyday people be dismissed as a o.c. Is every day people. Have read to people so. Joe Biden jumping on the back bandwagon to bashing will see how well this goes over with a primary How do you convince the party that these more advanced ideas of all in on Medicare for all that matter all of them dance I was there on we were in the party well by the way watch that's what this election is about I'm really I'm happy to debate that issue and all those issues with my friends because guess what again look who won the races look who won last time out we had and by the way I think I think of cars as a brilliant bright woman but one of primary in the general election fight who won everything from there except brilliant bright woman at heart stupid she is this she's she's a dummy which is why over the weekend there was an article in which it said that Donald Trump had compared her to Eva Perone you know one of the dictators of Argentina a terrible terrible leader who helped destroy Argentina's economy and also welcome Nazis with open arms so long as they had her Jewish War Lieut. So apparently Trump had compared her to Eva Peron and she immediately started tweeting out Eva Peron. Quotes she she's a brilliant bright though according to Joe Biden but here's the problem for Joe Biden all this stuff that makes him somewhat moderate in this field all the stuff that makes him a plausible alternative to President Trump in a general election in blue collar states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and Michigan all those things also undercut him because he can be attacked on those things in the Democratic primaries and Joe Biden has been taken by surprise by all of this he said for example that he was not prepared for being attacked during the debates which frankly is sort of inexcusable given the fact that he'd been attacked previously by Cory Booker on basically the same material there is Joe Biden explaining why he got sandbagged by Kamel Harris at the debate going to come after the troops going to come out were you prepared for them to come in after hours for perjury would come after me but I wasn't prepared for the person coming at me the way she came out she knew both She knows me I don't know where I but here's the view what I do know and it's a good the bad American people think they know me and they know Me Ok well that is true but this also means that you are open to all sorts of criticism which is why Joe Biden also is on national t.v. Saying listen I know I got a problem here people have attacked my past and he was basically begging people to not attack him saying and threatening them saying all attack their pastor there's only one problem coming here it doesn't have much of a pass when Joe Biden's Nakama here is that he was a narc not the strongest stuff when Erick swallow attack Joe Biden is old. Joe Biden basically started reeling So Joe Biden's record is what makes him an attractive candidate in a general election but it doesn't help him one iota in this primary Here's Joe Biden saying he could roast other Democrats but that would be an ugly thing to do what he really means by this is please don't roast me. Go back and go back 304050 years and take your context and take it completely out of context and I mean you know I I get all this new information about other people's past and what they've done. And you know I'm I'm just not going to go there if we keep doing that that's I mean we should debate what we do from here for example this whole thing about race and bust Well you know I think if you take a look our positions are no different as refined You know Senator Harris yet she sees it as a tool not a most in all circumstances why don't. You look at my record Ok and Joe Biden is right about all of this it doesn't matter doesn't matter because Democrats are interested in knocking over the old guard in favor of the new guard and as we'll see he doesn't have a lot of defenders including from people who should be defending him we'll get to that in just one second 1st are you an adult This means that it's time to get life insurance i know you don't want to sit there thinking about your own impending demise no one wants to think about that stuff and you've been putting off but the good news is that while you were putting it off policy genius was developing a great way for you to get life insurance had over right now the policy genius dot com It's the easy way to shop for life insurance online in just 2 minutes you can compare quotes from top insurers and find your best price once you apply the policy genius team handles all the paperwork and the red tape no sales pressure no hidden fees just financial protection in peace of mind doesn't just make life insurance easy it can also help you find the right home insurance auto insurance disability insurance so if you need life insurance but you just don't want to deal with all of legwork head on over to policy genius dot com It is indeed the easy way to compare all the top insurers and find the best value for you policy genius delegate what you hate especially if you hate getting life insurance it is. An important thing for you to have life insurance you don't want to be buried in Popper's grave or leave her family to go take a hit Go get it taken care of right now over a policy genius dot com That's policy genius dot com Ok So Biden is reeling on the on the one hand he needs to be moderate if you want to win a general on the other hand he can't win a primary being moderate on the one hand his record is what makes him palatable is a candidate when he had a record in 1908 flamed out spectacular way now he has a record that's exactly what gives people the opportunity to crap all over him so now Joe Biden is going to be on apology tour over the weekend he apologized for his remarks on segregationist which is patently insane what he said was inoffensive he didn't say he was pro segregation he didn't say use process he said that there are a lot of mean people he worked with who were segregationist because he's in the Senate that is so wildly unobjectionable it's almost impossible to describe how unobjectionable that is nonetheless here is Joe Biden apologizing because that dude is toast I'm sorry I think he's finished the room a few weeks ago. Somehow give the impression to people that I was praising those men who are successfully opposed time and again. Yes I was. I'm sure it's really the premier misconception we're all going to believe. Because there is apologizing and here's the thing he wouldn't have to apologize all he needs is for the Obama's to defend That's all you know it's the only reason he's running the only reason Joe Biden is on the stage right now and leading in the polls is because of his association with Barack Obama if it weren't for that would have been a long time senator from Delaware feeding into the distance riding the track back and forth aimlessly Simone Sanders was one of his campaign spokespeople she was asked specifically whether Joe Biden has asked Brock Obama to defend him she avoids the question which means the answer is yes and Barack Obama will do it. There have been conversations though with Barack Obama about coming out and at least defending Joe Biden have you thought about that have you asked that word of those conversations stand Ok I'm not going to get into the specifics of what Vice President Biden and President Obama doing to talk about but I'll say that not you know though with what I'm what I'm saying is that we are focused on speaking directly to the American people who want a Vice President Biden is running to be the Democratic nominee and the next president of the United States of America he's not running for President Obama's 3rd term but he mentions his work with President Obama in the Obama Biden White House because it's a very important part of his career so there she is avoiding the question everybody knows that Joe Biden has been asking Obama to come out for everybody knows that he wants Obama to at least come out and say I love Joe Joe's great and they won't do it the Obama's are undercutting him every single day here is Michelle Obama being asked on stage by Gayle King whether she would defend Biden basically and she didn't yours she says Absolutely she says no comment all she has to do to be a human being Forget about politics for a 2nd to be a nice human being let's say that your husband's business partner which is how Biden and Obama pitched this thing they your husband's business partner were being accused of brutal vicious racism and your house. It was one of the most prominent black men in the history of America and in world history wouldn't be who to say yeah I know that's all she has to say that's all Michelle Obama has to say right here instead she just lets Biden twist in the wind one of the nastier things I've seen in modern American politics. Would you like to say. He apologized today. Ok. Let me. Move. By the way is a complete All she has to say is I like Senator Harris I think she's wonderful I know Joe Biden and Joe Biden's wonderful guy that's all she has to say and she won't do it Joe Biden is out there just twisting in the wind twisting in the wind meanwhile. Making a lot of gains in the polls will talk about her candidacy she's now likening herself to Maya Angelou and Rosa Parks on the basis of Presumably nothing will get to that end her ever shifting positions on forced bussing is that. If you were. On the job for just walking down the street. Then you. Give got out the ball with. Your mom after one and. 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So common to hear a senator from California and now the lead competitor to Joe Biden in this 2020 presidential race she's running on a 2 pronged attack campaign number one Joe Biden is a vicious brutal secret writing system if you keep saying I'm not saying Joe Biden's a racist but. He's the only black people that much is basically basically her contention and for all those saying well she keeps saying he's not a racist Well then what is she whining about if he's not a racist and what is she wanting about because it ain't political differences she agrees with him on politics I take this for example here is couple here is being asked whether she is in favor of forced federal bussing she says no she says no so she has the exact same position as Joe Biden that didn't stop her from attacking Joe Biden not a. Thought thing is a. Big. Trend which is a pretty. Decent. So I think being in the. Is. What do you think. The tool is is what you don't mandated which was Joe Biden's exact position but apparently Joe Biden did something deeply wrong so why would he do that according to come on Harris presumably because he was at one point a racist and say that out loud but that's clearly what you mean there she is saying that Biden won't yet even agree that he was wrong to oppose. Busing in the 1970 s. Now she'll have to explain why she wouldn't recommend federally forced busing today but she would have back in the 1970 s. The fact is that on a de facto level the population in America is as segregated today in public schools as it was back in the late 1970 s. Just to simply speaking so she really believes that forced integration is the solution she'll have to explain why she's not for it today there is Kamel Harris though saying that Joe Biden did something wrong that she can't exactly explain Sadly we do not agree I asked him and have yet to hear him agree. Busting a court order to mandate is in most places and in that era in which I was bussed was necessary and he has yet to agree that his position on this which was to work with segregationist and opposed was wrong period it was wrong period but it's not wrong today apparently because she also opposes federally mandated forced busing join explain that the implication of course is that he is racist and she of course is some sort of African American icon I mean really that is what she is saying now what I'm saying she herself spoken event over the weekend in which she like and herself to Rosa Parks and my Angelou. By. Black women has always been fueled and grounded in faith. And in the belief of what is possible we have always built the future that we can see and believe in and fight for and that's why so Joan are spoke It's why they flew It's why Rosa and Claude that it's why my a road it's why Fanny organized it was the only man and was then here as a candidate for president of the and I would say Oh so you're in that line based on your accomplishment in while locking up black people in California based on your accomplished history. Nobody knows what puts Kamel Harrison no one except that she is now pandering for votes that she needs from Joe Biden's base Joe Biden's base is largely black she knows it he knows it that's what she is doing and the media are doing her dirty work for her so Stephanie roll over and Imus n.b.c. . 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Welcome back this is the bench of Heroes show well as we head forward toward 2020 I think a lot of conservatives and Republicans are going to recall what happened with Justice Brett Kavanaugh it was a moment in American history that really stands out when the partisanship of Democrats including Senator Harris was at its full peak when it was obvious to everyone that Democrats were not interested in principles of truth fairness due process as much as they were about partisan politics the more Americans remember what happened with regard to Justice Cavanaugh the more President will be on the off chance have come 2020 the more they forget it the better the chance that Democrats will be running the government in extraordinarily partisan hyper partisan fashion in the near future joining us on the lines discuss for Molly Hemingway of the Federalist and Carrie Severino the chief counsel and policy director of the the Judicial Crisis Network of a brand new book out called Justice on Trial the cabinet confirmation and the future of the Supreme Court the book is released tomorrow and is already soaring up the Amazon bestseller charts Molly and Carrie thanks much for joining us Joe Billy appreciate it. Great to be here with you so Molly why don't we start with you why do you think this book is necessary and we just saw what what happened obviously with Justice Kavanagh last year it's still fresh in everybody's memory what exactly don't we know at this point. You know when we wrote Justice on Trial because this cabinet confirmation as you know was the most important thing to happen to the country last year and we wanted to make sure that the accurate story was Tool Kerry my co-author had clerked for Clarence Thomas and when he went through his ordeal after that was done the vast majority of Americans thought that he had been a case of himself well that his accuser was not credible but after decades of willful misinformation from the media they've sort of rewritten history and so we wanted to get that history down get the facts down we talked to more than $100.00 people including the president and other high level people in the White House several Supreme Court justices dozens of senators and just tons of people who are involved in the process and we wanted to get this inside look you know we saw what we both were involved in the process we thought we knew a lot about what was going on but we were blown away by what we didn't know well Kerry what exactly didn't you know that you discovered well while doing this book because it's pretty obvious to most people what exactly happened in like a partisan smear job by Democrats egged on by members of the media who are trying to generate a crisis What's the piece of information that you've got the you found most stunning. While there are so many stories we tell I think it certainly is it's fun kind of reading the own goal the Democrats had several times where they. Went so far to the left they actually jeopardize their own ability to kind of communicate with the moderate senators and the undecided undecided senators who had a chance but one of my favorite stories are really the stories of courage that we learned courage of the president for standing behind an embattled nominee stories of the courage of people like Ashley Cavanagh who was a pillar of strength for her own family and those. Even as she was going through that of people like Susan Collins who really took the rule of law and the presumption of innocence incredibly seriously and she was one of those people I think where the partisan politics was much more of a turn off and it was encouraging to see those kinds of stories coming out of such a such a mere job of a attack campaign Well Molly one of the things that was obviously true about this particular this particular incident is that a bunch of Democrats are running for president on the back of it a bevy of Democrats who are running for president least phrase that I'm aware of were on this particular committee and doing the questioning what do we know about those candidates and how they acquitted themselves in this particular cabinet hearing. Well what was interesting about those people is that some of them 2 of them at least Harris and great booker came out extremely early to sort of reflectively oppose the nomination Kavanaugh but we had one of the stories I thought was interesting that we get into in this and Justice on Trial is that Camilla Harris made it out she was very good at grabbing the moment almost like she did last week in the in the primary or in the Democratic debate where she made it seem like she had the goods on Judge cabinet he was perjuring himself she in fact had basically completely made up out of whole cloth and we and yet the media kind of help for it in the moment they thought she had done a good job they thought she was she was making her case really well it turned out she had literally nothing and she was just grandstanding and so I think we're seeing a lot of that with these senators who are on this committee who are running for president because Justice on Trial the cabinet confirmation in the future of the Supreme Court that carry one of the questions that obviously arose during the cabinet hearings perhaps the the only big question that arose during the cabinet hearing was whether Christine Blasi forward his key accuser was telling the truth there are a bunch of other allegations that were leveled against Kavanaugh virtually all of them fell apart at the slightest touch obvious that was true of the ridiculous allegations and. By Michael Avenue who may now spend time in prison for separate charges it turns out but when we 1st saw Christine Bleakley for interest testifying she appeared to be somewhat credible how credible should we believe that she actually was in the aftermath of all of your research. I think one of the interesting thing that we've been reporting in just uncovering more of the level of cooperation between Democrats people on the team pushing a while before and I think that was really eye opening we all kind of knew it was happening but it was it was very comforting to get some of those details even down to how the how the hearing was engineered we showed Senator Hirono actually been congratulating Senator Harris behind the scenes saying oh isn't it great to have her wear a blue dress and ask for a coke to kind of to make allusion to the Anita Hill allegation it's a degree just kind of going to happen at the center and we have some other it's a more really interesting information about about Leeland tiger who was one of the portraits friend a lifelong Democrat didn't want cabin on the court but was very concerned especially and the process continued on about the thing that made her think this story simply could not have taken place so Molly the chief factor at the beginning of this actress was it was Dianne Feinstein who tried to proclaim from the very outset that this was sort of forced upon her when it really appeared more that she had held back the letter and then revealed that at the last possible moment how did this process come about the attempt to get justice Cavanaugh just as he was about to be confirmed have the start. Learned a well established process in the Senate that actually arose out of the Clarence Thomas hearings what you do when there you have this type of allegation that's made and Dianne Feinstein completely avoided this well established process held on to this letter for months and instead of taking it through that normal process where you're able to bet the claim that she it's worth remembering she's with Senator Grassley who has a very good reputation for handling whistleblower claims she instead contacts a high profile Democratic attorney and arranges this and then the story sort of slowly drops out and it turned out that that acts fired we learned from our reporting that other senators were not pleased with her avoidance of that process and it made them think that there was political gamesmanship happening as opposed to a legitimate complaint or issue being brought to the committee's attention the book is Justice on Trial the capital confirmation of the future of the Supreme Court Carrie one more question for you Susan Collins obviously was the key vote here and it appeared that there was a lot of drama in the lead up to her vote it seems sort of in retrospect that that drama was built up for no reason because Collins seem to be pretty stout worked in her decision her speech that she gave was obviously quite strong in Kavanagh's defense how much of the controversy was manufactured by the media and was Collins a stalwart from the beginning as she seemed to be. Yes I mean I have to say if I had known at the time that what I know about Susan Collins now and her approach to judges I think I would have been much less concerned I think people were worried because she is the swing vote she is not someone who is. You can always count on. Certain conservative issues so they thought well maybe she would go vote the other way what we learned is in Justice on Trial we show how she treated cabinet confirmation with incredible diligence she put together a whole additional team of lawyers helping her parse his record she really gave him and a more preparation and time and I think any other senator did and having seen that from the beginning and how committed she was to this process and then of course seeing that she's the kind of person the last person you should be bullying and intimidating to try to make a point so I think that was another case where the left really shot itself in the by attempting to move her vote that way she someone where I think it was it was the reasoned approach of having a chance to talk with cabinet and talk to a good. Judicial pro-choice and then as we saw in her famous speech now to the Senate it's the it was the evidence and working through this the standards of proof and the rule of law that really is how she came to her conclusion that was very impressive So Molly moving forward as we see you know future Supreme Court nominations particularly from the right it seems to me that this is going to be the new normal that there will be no point in time or people are appointed simply on the basis of their merit particularly from the right side of the aisle that everything is going to be gotcha moments from here on down where do you see this going. Well that one of the things that we did and in the book is looking at how previous Supreme Court nominations influenced this one this was not something that just happened out of the blue we have seen a ramping efforts to go against conservative nominees over the course of decades and so I think you're right that it's likely that it will continue. However I do think that there is reason to think that this was so egregious that many Americans were awakened to the problems with the activists left not judging nominees on the basis of their credentials or qualifications or judicial philosophy of being willing to try to destroy people's lives we do worry and we talked about this that if this is the last on responded to that it will keep really good nominees from wanting to serve and that's one of the reasons why we wrote Justice on Trial so that Americans will understand that this is something we all need to care about if we want good nominees and good justices on the court Well the book is called Justice on Trial the capital confirmation the future of the Supreme Court Molly Hemingway and Carrie Severino the authors Molly and Carrie thanks so much for joining the show really appreciate it thank you so much Well coming up President from says he will no longer a deal with the British ambassador to the United States the reason pretty amazing We'll get to in just a 2nd 1st if you are worried about the future of health care in the United States if you are worried about the future of the rights impact on the United States well then then you should really be worried about what happens with our drug prices here in the United States president from cannot afford to let foreign governments dictate the prices of American medicine especially heading into 2020 The fact is that that's exactly what Democrats would like to happen they would like to see the health care system become even more unworkable that's what my friends over at Freedom Works are urging conservatives across the country to stand up and urge President Trump to keep fighting for health care freedom you can help them do it by going to stop price controls dot com and signing their petition right now urged President trying to keep America great by rejecting dc's attempts to import socialist price controls President Trump is doing a lot to bring down health care cost saving more money the left is fighting him every step of the way that's leading some people in his administration to get desperate and try to adopt more big government policies to sort of deal with the symptoms rather than dealing with the underlying cause if that happens it could lead to shortages of vital medicines that medical research back decades in foreign governments the power dictate the prices you pay for your medicines all those things not good. Eventually bad for President Trump heading into 2020 I'm asking you right now go to stop the price controls dot com urge President for him to stay strong reject socialist price controls at a stop price controls dot com Please go there sign the petition right now stop the price controls dot com Go check it out right now All right President Trump has lashed out today at Britain's ambassador to the United States he says the United States will no longer deal with him after the publication of constant confidential cables in which the ambassador Sir Kim Derrick disparaged trumps administration as quote clumsy and inept. Criticism was delivered in a pair of midday twists president from tweeted out so just get this straight the British ambassador called the United States government clumsy and inept and President Trump announced on Twitter that he won't deal with the British ambassador . Way to fight back against those charges right there the president tweeted I've been very critical about the way the u.k. And prime minister Theresa May handle what a mess she and her representatives have created I told her how it should be done she decided to go another way I do not know the ambassador but he is not like a well thought of within the United States will no longer deal with him the good news for the wonderful u.k. Is they will soon have a new prime minister and I thoroughly enjoyed magnificent state visit last month it was the queen who I was most impressed with. My goodness the president some tweeting the u.k. Prime minister as well as their ambassador because apparently this guy disparaged from internal cables This is not a way to conduct foreign policy again it's amusing is it a way to conduct foreign policy parabole not you still have to deal with people from. We deal with people from foreign countries you think think we're jerks all the time this is this is silly talk Ok But speaking of particularly silly talk we're going to be getting to in just a 2nd the Democrats talk about border patrol when they're supposedly evils We'll get to that in just one second 1st I need to take a moment to remind you there is a whole other world to this radio show for a daily Wired dot com Never miss an opportunity to listen to the bench appear on show Stop it don't let it happen again we're back from vacation now over to daily Wired dot com and watch all 3 hours of this radio show when you become a subscriber your life will be vastly and rich by the ability to see every detail on the show relevant news clips and photos to this is Thomas only handsome face not only do you get my show you also be able to hear from prominent conservatives like Andrew Klavan am at Walsh living at Michael moles if you would like get or if you'd like to be hit by a car either one has a similar impact entire daily where he has his finger on the pulse of the conservative movement and will keep you educated and informed on the most newsworthy stories of the day don't wait any longer head over to daily Wired dot com become a subscriber for just $99.00 a month or $99.00 a year we should also check out the new daily why are stored Amazon dot com stock up on official daily wear hoodies t. 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Just evidence yet that the most powerful Democrat in America is losing touch with the country Palosi dismissed calls to begin impeachment proceedings against President from claiming that trump self impeach is practically every day whatever that means she downplayed former President Bill Clinton affair with a White House intern as doing a dumb thing as a guy a curious position in the Me 2 era and suggested that Trump himself might have helped the Democrats secure a liberal priorities in a recent immigration bill had he not been so busy in North Korea but the interview really went off the rails when Palosi whipped into freshman Democrats a o c l had Omar Rashid to leave and I own a Presley Democrat of Massachusetts I had a Presley is basically like the what Ringo of the Beatles here just. Everybody knows who the other 3 are and then I out of Presley sat on him Presley's just sort of like walking around in the background Oh yes and she remember the Beatles Yeah I guess she's here to that's where I go recently voted against that immigration bill objecting to billions of dollars in fresh funding for border patrol and as Palosi was devoting time from her congressional recess to badmouthing her colleagues the targets of her wrath were spending much of their time away from Capitol Hill visiting friends border camps and detailing their horrors to the public Palosi was not willing to bad mouth the Border Patrol in the same way as these wonderful geniuses and this of course means that she is not sufficient for the day according to The Huffington Post she had to leave who was one of the aforementioned geniuses on the leading leading edge of the Democratic left wing She says that she has confirmed a story that they were walking around at this Border Patrol facility and women were approaching them and saying that they were told to drink from toilets now it is important to note that the toilets in a lot of these holding cells are connected to water fountains on the backside of the same machine basically But here is Rashid had to leave making a claim that she has yet to provide any evidence for if this is true then shouldn't she be reporting you know the Border Patrol location and the officers in charge I mean it seems to me that human rights violations should end with some sort of. Gradual investigation No I mean what I thought was a number of people 14 up to 14 in one area sleeping on the floor a number of them say maybe. Within 15 days where Congresswoman I am a Presley went up to the water feature you know next to the where the water comes out she turned the knob and there was no water that was coming out and when they literally everything a woman confirmed what the one woman said which is I asked for water and they said Go drink it from the toilet Ok Well again you keep hearing the story over and over repeated over and over and over again Ok so name the officers in charge so we can investigate them also you know be very helpful funding the border facilities in which we are holding people so they can be more humane because they have the money it's a leap was asked this by Martha Raddatz over at a.b.c. News. Raddatz asking him to leave having no answer as to why she won't fund it if they are lacking funds to the secretary he can say throw more money at a broken system and inhumane system 3 agents took me aside away from my colleagues and said more money is not going to fix this that they were not trained to separate children that they don't want to separate 2 year olds away from their mothers that's not what they were trained for that's not what they signed up for in their service to our country they signed up to protect the border not to separate children not to put people in cages they all said this is a broken system Ok why don't you tell me who those people were Alternatively you could actually under these places I love that she says you know they said they weren't trained for this woman maybe the answer would be to change the wall you can do that you know you can change the law to prevent family separations at the border that is the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling of the Florida settlement you could change it on the congressional level oversight hearings perhaps about the specific border patrol agents who are committing these Abu Ghraib like abuses the acting secretary was asked. About allegations that children went hungry at one of these Border Patrol facilities is Kevin McElwain in aspecific about whether kids were going hungry he says we don't have any evidence of this. Time says that we're agencies leadership knew for months that some children had no beds to sleep on no way to clean themselves and sometimes went hungry its own agents had raised the alarm according to the story we have no evidence of anything we have no evidence of children 101st of all police station cells are not a good place for children as I've had those units raised a lot earlier that you would heard about of course we're worried about everyone in the entire chain of command worried about the situation for children that's why we've built soft sided facilities of thousands Fraser's already we're building more they're going to be opening our suite if you don't want these things to be problems one of the things you could do is vote to fund them or alternatively I'm going to have to believe that Democrats are all too often do you funding these facilities specifically so that they have headlines about how these facilities are inhumane and then they can use the inhumane this of those facilities in order to browbeat the Trump administration into releasing illegal immigrants without keeping tabs on them into the interior of the United States this is cynical game playing right here Nancy Pelosi Elise is honest enough to try and pass some sort of bill to provide some of the funding necessary at the border I own a Presley and company apparently are not related to leave in company apparently are not they would prefer to allow people to suffer so they can get their headlines really really Grose Ok We'll be back here tomorrow with all the latest headlines including all of the breaking news in this Jeffrey Epstein arrest case presumably there will be other shoes to drop other celebrity big names to drop in the sex scandal this is the bench Pirro Show. News Trump again weather station Radio 102.9 k. And. F.m. Sharon in Little Rock. Station. That's being charged fight for the question a 1000000 Francis billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein remains in federal custody tonight New York after being charged with sex trafficking dozens of teenage girls at his homes and New York and Palm Beach Florida to count the bombers of the courthouse in Lower Manhattan Monday as Epstein entered a not guilty plea a 2nd hearing was held for Epstein later in the day and the Miami Herald investigative journalist whose reporting helped this case tweeted that 2 of the billionaire's victims were in the courtroom to face him for the 1st time in a decade u.s. Attorney Jeffrey Berman wants the 66 year old held without bail we think is a significant fraud slight risk the defense argued that Epstein already faced these same charges in Florida in 2008 they wanted more time to work on a bail proposal so Epstein this bail hearing was pushed back to July 15th Steve Kasten Baumann federal court in New York Attorney General William Barr says the trumpet ministration won't take action in the days ahead that he believes will allow a question on citizenship to be added to the next year's census in an interview with The Associated Press Bar offered no detail except to say he sees a way to legally require census respondents to say whether or not their citizens the Supreme Court is temporarily blocked adding that question meanwhile the Justice Department has hired a new legal team to handle the president's push to get that question on the census responded just because it was less than a week ago that this fight seemed to be over lawyers from the d.o.j. As federal programs branch told challengers to this question that the census was going to print out the controversial question and then those lawyers told the judge that the disk.