I am in this dark room and a skyscraper. I was looking so forward to meeting you you look like you are out over the new york skyline. I dont see a billboard. That is a lie. This or theres no advertisement for your book behind you right . Right . You right . May be tranquil you know like drag queen style. We will see it. Just in case anyone in the plan has missed, you have just written and published your first book. Dangerous. I have. And others in the table of contents a premuch everyone hates you. So it does feel that way to me. According to the table of contents we were number of people that hate you. I guess you would say that the Progressive Left hates you. The alt right , the media, black lives matter, the list goes on. So you sold a lot of books for someone who is hated by everyone. Who is buying the book . That that is true. It is week four in the New York Times bestseller list. No one else can imagine a publisher turning his dad, can you believe it . Im very happy. I have been very happy with the reaction. I think what happened is people, has a bit of a drama in february or something tumbled out of my mouth a year and and a half ago on one of those long latenight live streams. United like seven hours of interviews a day and occasionally something will come out of your mouth that you dont mean. And i apologize for that. What happened afterwards is why i love america so much. People are so forgiving. And if they believe that you gave us is the account of what went wrong and if they know that by and large wrinkly decent person putting a good decent product, and they really want to hear more from you than i think they are very accommodating and very forgiving. That is not exactly my memory of the way that went down. Yeah. I think people have been great. The media of course and trevor of actual americans are fine. They are lovely and wonderful decent people. They can see through the spin, they can see through the garbage. I think in my point of view that is what happened. What is the book written for . My primary audience is enormously younger than a lot of conservatives. Thats my cspan, excusing my there was a bit of controversy about me speaking at because theyre usually much older evangelical people that really hate the president. And i think perhaps they are just on settled on my style of conservatives. Its much more or very strict about some social things like immigration and islam that they are too terrified to touch. A little bit more, a little bit softer on church or free enterprise. That sort of populous nationalist and the people now associate with me with. I am a child of that. And i am a product of the intellectual land. I do believe in that stuff. Most importantly i believe peoples right to discuss it and defend it. Actually to discuss and defend anything. Show less text 00 04 30 unidentified speaker let me ask you about the victim seems to me and assure to you like the left has been a little crazy with the election of donald trump. How do you explain that . There is an earnestness and i mean look, the left, its pretty funny to watch places like vanity fair right publishing articles say maybe the left has a problem with violence also. What do you mean . You invented it you literally invented it. They are the people that want social change, they are the people i want to tear down institutions and replace them with even they dont know. Of course they are the ones that are going to reach for violence when their arguments fail. Show less text 00 05 18 unidentified speaker but this is a big change. What essentially the difference i think between conservatives and liberals is that conservatives by nature want to preserve things. They want to maintain status quo or at least they would like change that has been properly looked into and researched and thought about. And they want change based on data and evidence. That is in short supply currently because the left believes in and number of myths, the gender pay gap, and dozens of others. Black lives matters is completely operated by the reality of who kills who in america. In all kinds of things like that. And as a journalist in britain coming to america, imagine this is going to be land of the free, i thought perhaps foolishly, that this would be the country could be, do and say anything. And what i discovered is that it is true but only if youre leftwing. If you look in the beginning was the question Sarah Silverman and people at that. And before she contracted feminism she was a really funny feminism. She told jokes about everyone. These days however, she is best known for squaring up on twitter because she hasnt read into something properly. And the result that she is becoming unpopular. And then amy schumer has never been quite funny but she is put in the ka profession magazine. When you put someone on the cover of a magazine, youre not a look at this person, your saint be like this person. Anyone in the country was to be like amy schumer. Particularly not after the car crash of a movie she just did with poor goldie hawn that came out of retirement to be in the abomination. And her special for netflix. It was up against some stiff competition. Let me ask you a question. You talk about conservatives wanted to preserve things. And yet, call yourself a conservative i think. I think that any movement, any movement, whether it is an intellectual movement for social activist movement requires people from all across the spectrum. There is a chapter my book were really the people watching this program coming into this, determined to hate me. By the end of this my pause to say maybe they want after this but conservative accomplish absolutely nothing to win the cultural wars in the last 30 years. They have somehow managed to scramble into office but when they get into office they do nothing with it. They dont achieve anything or accomplish anything. Able talk about republicans or conservatives . What is the distinction here . Im talking about the recycle bin the republican establishment. Even some conservatives at publishers. Im talking about in particular republican politicians. All of the people that hate donald trump. Massively ineffective, useless people that say one thing and do another. In his values have drifted from what ordinary Americans Care about so much that i dont that the Republican Party minus trump can really speak for anyone in america right now except the super rich. The democrats are right about that. And they have done a good job of clinging onto power but they have done a really bad job of making sure that they are a powerful and a presence to be feared in the arenas that actually matter. You know you get the oval office and congress and Senate University lost the battle. Im talking to hollywood, the media, College Campuses. How do you change those things . He do it i am doing. You get attention, start discussions. Nothing in the last 30 years has done as much to raise Public Awareness about the iraqi politics on campus is the uc berkeley. Plenty of people have gone there not been able to speak. Plenty of people got the colleges and had violent protests. But no one is quite been able to generate the, no one is quite been able to show the left what they really are like me. And so this book is about how i got to that stage. Who else is on the chopping block to the Silicon Valley establish republican. Tell us how you got here. How do we get you back . [laughter] im getting married to someone i love very much. Good luck with that i am afraid. Im very disappointed. Let me ask you about you put on a boundless show. With your boas and jewelry and outfits. I guess one question is how do you make sure that people hear what youre saying when they might be too busy marching what youre doing are looking. Have they get past the show and hear the message . If you actually watch rachels which most people dont and you just read the headlines, you listen to journalists and believe what you read on twitter and you have never actually picked up my book and have never come to one of my shows, i can imagine why a lot of people feel the question i will give you an example. I did a show about abortion. I am very prolife. I did a show about abortion and i started it, i was just in a study for handing out posters that were signed and numbered by me like they were kind of precious merchandise. Like madonna was giving out photos. But they were photos of aborted fetuses. It was so shocking people were just like what the what . And then i came out and give a talk that was rooted in studies, data and evidence. While making fun of the hypocrisies of the Progressive Left. If you actually read, if you exit pick up a copy of the book, it is impossible to claim that just because i get peoples attention with showmanship that there is no substance. They want you to believe im a clown and an attention speaker but it is impossible to maintain that if you actually read anything i write will come to one of my shows. Let me ask you because i read your book i love that by the way it was perfect. There are a lot of interesting things as transport let me have you talk about a couple of things he said in the book. One thing he said, never again let the left eye theyre the ones fighting bigotry. They are in fact the greatest defenders. Tell me what you mean by that. What im seeking to do, the reason the left hates me so much is that i am kind of like living disproves of the two central tenets of american progressives. One is Political Correctness. Im smashing that norm and demonstrating that nothing bad happens when you crack a joke that someone says thats racist no, it was really funny and all my friends that it was okay and the main thing that they hate is a sound of laughter. They really hate that. The first thing to go and any authoritarian regime is satire because adult white laughing at them. And the thing that left hates most is the tenor and character of the populist nationalist in America Priscilla started it by being the first person that stood up in the belly of the beast at uc berkeley, uc irvine, uw seattle and just left. What im seeking to do, the reason the left hates me so much is that i am kind of like living disproves of the two central tenets of american progressives. One is Political Correctness. Im smashing that norm and demonstrating that nothing bad happens when you crack a joke that someone says thats racist no, it was really funny and all my friends that it was okay and the main thing that they hate is a sound of laughter. They really hate that. The first thing to go and any authoritarian regime is satire because adult white laughing at them. And the thing that left hates most is the tenor and character of the populist nationalist in America Priscilla started it by being the first person that stood up in the belly of the beast at uc berkeley, uc irvine, uw seattle and just left. I laughter them. They are so evident ludicrous. The social justice worries that believe in conspiracy theories want to break the tradition of gender stereotypes and turn themselves into this hideous warthog in the process and complaint everyone i am laughing at that. Because no one can resist the truth with a good joke but the second part is identity and america has a disease and it is that and i never experience this before i came here before i went to school with, i went to a fairly wealthy school in london and in the south east of england and nonetheless, we had probably a much higher rate of minorities in the school and wealthy schools in america do. So we have a lot of asians by which i mean the indian subcontinent, a lot of blacks and im thinking back in my school days and im thinking yes angela was cool and there are five things i think about angelo before i remember that he was black. But overhear, meet someone in your medley start making assumptions about them based on their skin color. Nbc news calls me a White Nationalist. Knowingly calls me a White Nationalist people have the 10 minute rant in my talks about how i hate the stuff and i, if youre going to have identity politics is what white people do it too but i would rather nobody had it. Because it is poisonous and toxic when you judge people by their skin color, sexuality or their gender. These things are not relevant. To reason debate about politics or about social policy. Its not like you are wise you have no way to talk about this. This is effective journalism academia is not spiraling into hollywood. D. C. Has a cast on the transfers. Jake davidson who plays a trans hooker in the crying game. Anything more famously played another quit acting after those roles because he didnt like the attention. He gave one of the most brilliant portrayals of the challenges in horror of being a transgender person in america. [inaudible question] in the happen this happened before trans was what you aspire to become what your values are, who you are as a human being. If you took Martin Luther king, i have a dream speech and told College Campuses that it was a by trump it was a it is racist. I am going to do that on my next door and say that this is from Jeff Sessions or whoever. What are you doing what is this called . It is called academy. This was designed to introduce me to american College Campuses and america at large for the book has not done that through much wider audience. Well in excess of in the first month i think i made 1. 2 million. That is one of the big problems. Is doing really well. And a big festival of free speech, people on the left hate the most, uc berkeley, for a weeklong celebration, i think it will do good things for the both. But yes, it kicks off my seven month tour. They said south america days australia, days in london, germany, sweden and of course all over the united states. Tendons of florida, tenant california. So this is called troll academy. In my book i make a distinction between trolling and mere cruelty. In my view trolling done correctly . Hyperboles is intended to reveal things. A virtuous troll. I told joes only my fans get peer than everyone else, because everyone in america is so you know they take it at face value. You dont get irony. This is a constant. [laughter] being a european in america. I call myself the most fabulous super villain on the extent known in america picks up on the word fabulous that i might be saying slightly tongueincheek. As if i were actually super villain. Im not going to tag myself is fabulous. Like what is happening . Of you might have a fabulous costume. Most super villains do. While i like my new favorite type that i am wearing for you. Thank you very much give my grownup cspan outfit. But nobody america seems to understand that the most fabulous super villain on the internet might just be a bit tongueincheek. So trolling. That is the reason for this. Americas forgotten how to laugh because everyone is terrified of telling any good jokes. Have you heard a good joke on t. V. Recently . I havent. Look at the john oliver special about alex jones. Right . John oliver is roasting alex jones for 22 and a half minutes. He doesnt lend a single punch. He doesnt give one single good joke. Let me tell you i happen to like him i think he gets things spectacularly wrong but i think he is sincere. I did a big interview with him that went phenomenally well. A series sit down between me and him. I find him fascinating. I tried to ask him serious questions that megyn kelly didnt. And i just found that people like him and me, we are performance artists to a degree. We are, we do not mind being clownish although would not describe us as clowns. For the cspan art is a guess the best analogy would be we do not mind people laughing at us if we are the only people telling the truth in the room. And okay, nobody in the court realizes it but everyone watching trent what the court is the american establishment, they dont get me. American journalists are the dumbest species in the world i have to tell you. I have met practice journalism in five different countries. American journalists are by a margin the dumbest people in the world. These people have iqs of 95 tried to interview those of us with iqs of will i will not brag but they are not capable of understanding things and where they detected they use it as an opportunity to declare racism. It is an easy accusation. For me, trolling is that if you tell the truth and you do it in an entertaining way that you will win way more fans than the media has made enemies for you. And i am proof of that. Donald trump is proof of that. There people that, with the exception of the present time obviously the biggest personality in that ecosystem. But there are lots of us. And they all have in common, there are things even rightleaning publication will brazenly and knowingly lied to the public about. And it is not okay. The reality by the media. Let me ask you something. He said something really interesting in the book about media bias which is always fascinating because well talk about media bias. We visit a lot i need face it since you have come here. You said social media bias is far more dangerous than Mainstream Media bias. What does that mean . Oh my goodness are you kidding . Its not even close the good thing is no one trust journalists anymore. And they are right not to trust them. And nobody did that them, trump did not do it to them, they did it to themselves. They consistently lied about omission, misrepresent things, walltowall coverage of russia when there is no evidence of anything. Then tony coverage of things that americans might actually want to know about. You cannot trust anything going on. And according to polling, they are just tuning out. Look at you now there are women that vote for trump that do not like the guy. And when they are interviewed they say the media went for him so hard i realized something was up. And i just stopped listening to the noise. I watched him and i watched hillary. I decided i did not want hillary. In a just stopped listening to what the press had to say. That is i think what is coming for every journalist everywhere they do not raise their game. If they do not of their professionalism. [inaudible question] that problem is nothing compared to the threat of Silicon Valley and the politics that are even crazier than the politics of Mainstream Media. Mainstream media is like medium left, almost exclusively. And trump is perceived as right wing. Because of the language he is slashing through Political Correctness which i love. But that is