After another disputed police shooting of a black man in Wisconsin, more cities burn. The RNC begins its big rollout tonight, and Joe Biden suggests he might lock down the entire American economy again over COVID. This is the Ben Shapiro Show, where the host, Ben Shapiro, talks about the latest controversial police shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and what we can learn from it. Today's episode features: 1. What happened in the shooting? 2. What should we do about it? 3. How can we move forward? 4. What is our responsibility here? 5. What do we need to do? 6. What are the facts? 7. What does it mean? 8. Who is responsible for this? 9. Is it racially motivated? 10. Is this a bad shooting, or is it racially biased? 11. How do we know what happened? 12. What's our responsibility? 13. Where does it stand? 14. Where do we draw the line? 15. What happens next? 16. What can we do in this situation? 17. What s our role in this case? 18. Is there any accountability? 19. What kind of accountability can we have in this matter? 21. Do we have a responsibility to the public? 22. Does the media have a role to play in this process? Is it fair or not to speak out about this case or not? And so much more? In this episode, we finish the episode with a brief summary of the latest in the latest on this case and our thoughts on the case and a brief recap of what we ve all been learning about this in the past? Listen in on the past and our reaction to the latest from the day and our reactions to this case in this past and the rest of the news from the latest? Do you think we ve got any more information on this story? We ve got it all in this episode? Enjoy! - Ben Shapiro's full post on this and more! - The Root's own report on the shooting in the aftermath of the shooting and the reaction from the video from the scene in the video? - Do you have any thoughts on what happened there and your thoughts on that and what happened in that and your reaction to that? & much more. - Is it better than that? - Is that enough?
00:02:37.000We do not know what happened here, right?
00:02:40.000That would be the responsible play here by the media.
00:02:42.000That would be the responsible play here by your political class.
00:02:45.000Unfortunately, Responsibility matters not on Twitter, and it matters not in American public life anymore.
00:02:51.000Instead, everybody immediately jumps to their pre-existing biases, and that is particularly true on the BLM left, which has decided that this is yet another example of an unarmed black man being shot for no reason at all by the police for racial reasons.
00:03:04.000And our politicians are simply repeating this, and so are our media.
00:03:07.000The headline from CNN today, Wisconsin police shoot black men as children watch from a car, attorney says.
00:03:14.000Okay, so we're now just taking at face value what the attorney says with no additional evidence provided by the cops.
00:03:20.000The cops have not provided an account of what has happened as of yet at this hour.
00:03:24.000According to CNN, two Wisconsin police officers were on leave Monday as state authorities investigate why a black man was shot multiple times in the back as he entered, the driver's side door of an SUV, officials said.
00:03:34.000Among the witnesses to the Sunday evening shooting in Kenosha were the man's three sons, Attorney Ben Crump and the American Civil Liberties Union said the man identified by the Wisconsin governor as Jacob Blake.
00:03:42.000is in serious condition and fighting for his life.
00:03:45.000Crump posted a short video of the shooting, garnering almost 700,000 views, sparking protests that led county officials to institute a curfew until 7 a.m.
00:03:55.000Protesters overnight broke windows and sprayed graffiti at a Kenosha County administrative building and torched vehicles at a nearby auto dealership.
00:04:01.000By the way, the torching of the vehicles at the auto dealership was somewhat ironic, considering that the auto dealership literally had a giant sign out front that said Black Lives Matter.
00:04:09.000Didn't matter, they torched the vehicles anyway.
00:04:21.000And right outside, there's a big sign that says, Black Lives Matter.
00:04:26.000So that's exciting stuff happening over in Wisconsin.
00:04:30.000A fire was started at the county courthouse.
00:04:32.000Officers in tactical gear formed a line to protect a public safety building, according to the local WISN CNN affiliate.
00:04:38.000Kenosha is about 40 minutes south of Milwaukee.
00:04:41.000We also have tape of, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, we have tape of some BLM allies, maybe Antifa members, because the guy's white, who walks up literally to a sheriff's vehicle with a long gun drawn pointing at the sheriff.
00:04:59.000They literally are pointing weapons at a sheriff's vehicle.
00:05:35.000Okay, but we have no evidence that's going to happen here.
00:05:38.000We have no evidence of what exactly happened here.
00:05:41.000And if you are the head of your state's law enforcement body, right, let's say you're the governor of the state, wouldn't you say at this point, you're the head of the executive branch, wouldn't you say at this point, let's wait for the process to work?
00:05:51.000But no, our politicians have decided there's much more hay to be made in suggesting openly that this is a racially driven, bad police shooting.
00:06:21.000DCI, which is the Department of Internal Affairs over there, is continuing to review evidence and determine the facts of this incident and will turn over investigative reports to a prosecutor following a complete and thorough investigation, the statement said.
00:06:32.000Hey, so what did our wonderful members of the political class do here?
00:06:37.000Instead of taking down the temperature, and it does matter if you take down the temperature here, because we have seen situations already, like within the last couple of weeks, in which bad accounts of police shootings went viral and caused actual riots, right?
00:06:48.000The Chicago Loop riots were caused by online rumors that a child had been shot unarmed by a police officer.
00:07:00.000People went rioting in the Chicago Loop.
00:07:02.000By the way, rioting is not justified even if there's a bad shooting.
00:07:05.000We have answers for that in this country.
00:07:07.000That is called the police officer goes to jail.
00:07:09.000That is called the police officer is dragged up on charges, as they should be if you do something wrong.
00:07:14.000The answer to this is never burning crap in the streets, but our political class, at least on the left, have decided it is mostly important that they get their spilkas out on Twitter, that they go out there and they show their narrative Their narrative empathy on Twitter.
00:07:30.000And if you don't jump to a conclusion on Twitter, you're considered bad, right?
00:07:34.000If you wait too long, then you're... If you say, maybe we should wait for the evidence and then I'll say that this fits into a pattern of X, Y, or Z, then you are considered bad and wrong and terrible.
00:07:43.000Our political incentive system rewards people who jump out front and back a narrative before the evidence is in.
00:07:49.000And then what if the evidence doesn't back it?
00:07:52.000We just rewrite the situation, the factual situation, in order to meet the narrative.
00:07:55.000This is what happened with Michael Brown.
00:07:56.000People still list Michael Brown among quote-unquote victims of police shootings despite the fact that the Obama DOJ found that shooting to be justified, despite the fact that local prosecutors twice found that shooting to be justified.
00:08:06.000Michael Brown, in all the lists, is always included in the lists.
00:08:10.000Freddie Gray is always included in the list of wrongful police killings, despite the fact that there was a full investigation into Freddie Gray's death and he was not actually murdered by the police.
00:08:18.000He died because they didn't buckle him into the back of the police van properly, and then he banged his head, unfortunately, on the back of the police van, right?
00:08:30.000Rayshard Brooks is listed among the victims of police violence, even though he tried to tase two separate officers and was firing a taser at an officer when he was shot.
00:08:40.000The individual facts of the circumstances don't matter.
00:08:58.000It's creating excuses for people to burn cities, which is...
00:09:01.000Terrible, and if you're a member of the political class, it is literally your job to prevent this from happening.
00:09:05.000It is the only reason that you are in government, is to prevent people from doing violence to one another and violating each other's rights.
00:09:09.000That is your only reason for being in government.
00:09:12.000And yet your suggestion is that riots are somehow justified because America is a deeply horrible, terrible, very evil place with no evidence yet in this case.
00:09:20.000By the way, we still don't know if Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd.
00:09:25.000First of all, whether he murdered him and the autopsies are conflicting, but we still don't know whether that had anything to do with race.
00:09:29.000There is no evidence it had to do with race rather than just police brutality.
00:09:33.000It doesn't matter, the nerve's already been set.
00:09:35.000And once the narrative is set, it cannot be unset.
00:09:37.000We're gonna get to more of this in just one second.
00:09:38.000First, let's talk about the fact that the 2020 election is about turnout.
00:09:43.000Our opponents have their get-out-the-vote machine.
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00:10:03.000You'll be contacted by email and asked to send a link and message to 10 people you know who care about America.
00:10:08.000Family and neighbors, church and work friends.
00:10:10.000They make sure they sign the pledge and get the information they need to vote in person or by mail.
00:10:15.000The fact is, the turnout in this election is going to matter an awful lot.
00:10:18.000Folks on the left are spending an incredible amount of money to ensure that their turnout is very high in this election.
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00:11:03.000He says, while we do not have all the details yet, what we know for certain is that he is not the first black man or person to have been shot or injured or mercilessly killed at the hands of individuals in law enforcement in our state or our country.
00:11:15.000Do you understand how deeply horrifying that statement is from a politician?
00:11:20.000While we don't know anything about this shooting, we do know that all of these terrible things have happened in the past.
00:11:29.000So, you have a situation where you don't know whether a murder occurred or whether a justified shooting occurred, and you just lump it in with all of the racial murders of the past in the United States.
00:12:43.000If it turns out there was a gun in the car and this guy was reaching for the gun in the car, they'll just say, well, they didn't know there was a gun in the car, so why did they shoot him?
00:12:52.000All of our newfound police experts who have put their lives on the line to protect our communities, 0%.
00:12:56.000It's very exciting stuff to watch our politicians virtue signal at the expense of police officers without any evidence.
00:13:03.000Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who has watched her city burn The same Mayor Lori Lightfoot, by the way, who recently defended a ban on protesters on her block.
00:13:13.000She literally was fine with Chicago's Loop being burned out, but she has allowed the Chicago Police Department to ban protesters being able to demonstrate on the block where she lives.
00:13:22.000She told reporters last Thursday she and her family at times required heightened security because of the threats she receives daily.
00:13:29.000Lightfoot refused to elaborate on the specific threats.
00:13:31.000She receives them daily against herself, her wife, and her home, she says.
00:13:34.000She says, I think residents of this city, understanding the nature of the threats that we are receiving on a daily basis, understand I have a right to make sure that my home is secure.
00:13:49.000We had the same thing with Jenny Durkin, the mayor of Seattle.
00:13:52.000In the middle of Chas Chop and they set up this separate republic in the middle of Seattle where people's businesses were overrun by an actual anti-government, anti-American rebellion?
00:14:01.000And she allowed that to happen for weeks on end?
00:14:04.000She only got pissed when people started marching on her home.
00:14:08.000In Portland, we've seen Mayor Ted Wheeler allow people's businesses, their homes, to be threatened.
00:15:15.000And they won't mention the fact, you know, of the prior criminal record.
00:15:19.000Like, if you're going to take into account only the things that we know, Then perhaps the prior criminal record goes into the officer's thinking.
00:15:26.000They pull up a rap sheet on the guy while they're driving to the place, perhaps.
00:15:28.000I mean, we don't know the answer to any of that.
00:15:36.000Why can't these people say we don't know?
00:15:38.000And the answer is because the narrative matters way more.
00:15:41.000Way more than the actual facts of the case.
00:15:42.000Representative Joe Kennedy, who's running for Senate in Massachusetts, he tweeted out, He literally does not know what happened here, because no one knows what happened here.
00:15:50.000black Americans confront on a daily basis without action and real change.
00:15:54.000Jacob Blake, an entire nation is praying for you.
00:15:56.000He literally does not know what happened here because no one knows what happened here.
00:16:00.000I didn't realize that Joe Kennedy was now God.
00:16:02.000There will be no end to the police brutality and white supremacy black Americans confront on a daily basis.
00:16:26.000Joe Kennedy saying there's no end to police brutality and white supremacy?
00:16:30.000Because there was a Gallup poll that was done two weeks ago that said 81% of black Americans want the same level of policing in their communities or more policing in their communities.
00:17:17.000What if I told you Pure Talk USA uses the exact same network as one of those carriers, same tower, same exact coverage, but literally costs you half?
00:18:22.000According to CBS Local in Denver, Denver City leaders hosted a news conference on Sunday to discuss arrests and destruction from riots on Saturday night.
00:18:30.000A group of about 50 to 75 people rioted outside the Denver Police Department headquarters.
00:18:34.000According to Murphy Robinson, Denver's public safety director, they brought weapons to the table.
00:18:49.000Robinson went on to say the city plans to do everything in its power to stop these violent acts.
00:18:52.000He said, effective immediately, I'm suspending the command PR bond jail inmate cap I put in place due to COVID-19, which basically allowed people to just be released from jail.
00:19:02.000The cap aimed to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the jail.
00:19:06.000Multiple businesses suffered damage, including the Quiznos.
00:19:17.000He says, I want to speak to you as a black man and as a Denver native.
00:19:19.000The narrative that these anarchists are marching for justice for black lives is frankly false.
00:19:22.000The public needs to know you do not represent us.
00:19:24.000Stop using the color of my skin to tear up my city.
00:19:28.000So Denver becomes yet another city overrun by anarchists and rioters and looters declaring themselves in support of Black Lives Matter.
00:19:35.000Also, remember that time that the federal officers were largely removed from Portland and then Portland continued to burn?
00:19:40.000We are now in the 13th straight week of riots in Portland.
00:19:44.000So well done Mayor Ted Wheeler and the Portland Police Department that has been hamstrung by this garbage mayor.
00:19:49.000According to KGW8, protests in Portland have continued for the 13th straight week.
00:19:54.000Since the death of George Floyd, demonstrators have taken to the streets to protest systematic racism, police brutality, and a call to defund Portland Police Department.
00:20:01.000Saturday night, about 250 protesters gathered at Normandale Park in Portland before a direct action march.
00:20:06.000The march calls for the complete abolition of police and prisons, which sounds like a great plan while you're burning the entire city to the ground, you stupid piece of... Journalists on the scene are reporting that Portland police would not let the protesters cross in some areas.
00:20:19.000The police department said in a statement early Sunday morning to prevent anyone from getting hurt due to vehicles because there were four vehicles that refused, that approached officers and refused to move because the officers had set up a line in front of the cars.
00:20:30.000A sergeant deflated two tires on one of the vehicles.
00:20:32.000The other vehicles then complied with orders to leave.
00:20:36.000The Portland Police Department said the incident commander tried to prevent protesters from marching to the Penumbra-Kelly building because it had been the target of rioters on multiple occasions over the past few months.
00:20:44.000Apparently, someone rolled a mock guillotine with a stuffed bear into the street.
00:20:47.000I don't know what Paddington did exactly.
00:20:54.000That bear seems to be taking the brunt of it.
00:20:56.000Paint balloons were hurled at officers.
00:20:57.000Green lasers were pointed at law enforcement to try and blind them.
00:21:00.000And large rocks were thrown at police officers as well.
00:21:03.000So, things are going great over in Portland, as per our usual arrangement.
00:21:07.000Okay, all of which suggest that Americans might want to care what's happening in their major cities, and they might want to care about the deep and disgusting irresponsibility of their major public officials who have declared that the facts do not matter, that the cops are always bad, and that in any disputed circumstances, you can simply assume that it is a reinforcement of the narrative that America is systemically evil and black people are systemically put upon by the system of the United States.
00:21:31.000That is the narrative that is now being drawn.
00:21:33.000And you can see the Democratic politicians caving to this.
00:21:35.000So Kamala Harris, Our wonderful vice presidential candidate in the Democratic Party.
00:21:39.000She was asked over the weekend about the fact that in prior iterations of Kamala Harris, she has called for more policing in high-crime communities because that is, in fact, the only way that you increase both the life expectancy and the benefits of living in the United States for people who want to live in a law-abiding community.
00:21:53.000You make sure that they can actually call on the cops.
00:21:56.000You want to know why high-crime areas are high-crime?
00:21:59.000Because there are not enough police officers.
00:22:00.000They're not because there are too few police.
00:22:03.000Not because you want to get rid of the police.
00:22:06.000So here is Kamala Harris being asked about how she used to claim that we need more police officers in high crime areas.
00:22:12.000And here she is saying, well, you know, I'm going to avoid all that.
00:22:14.000I'm just going to talk about Black Lives Matter and how there's an entrenched status quo.
00:22:27.000Listen, I think that there is no question.
00:22:29.000First of all, when I wrote that book, Black Lives Matter did not exist.
00:22:39.000And I give full credit to the brilliance of that movement in terms of what it has done to advance a conversation that needed to happen a long time ago.
00:22:50.000What Black Lives Matter has done as a movement has been to be a counterforce against a very entrenched status quo around the criminal justice system in America.
00:23:04.000What an unbelievably manipulative hypocrite this person is.
00:23:07.000And my goodness, this is a person who was a prosecutor and she was pro-cop up until the point where it became politically non-beneficial for her to be a prosecutor and pro-cop.
00:23:15.000And then all of a sudden she shifts into, Black Lives Matter is a wonderful counterforce.
00:23:19.000Okay, I understand protesting against police brutality.
00:23:22.000I understand wanting to relieve qualified immunity.
00:23:25.000I've talked about it repeatedly on the show.
00:23:30.000But, if you're going to claim that you no longer need police in high-crime communities because Black Lives Matter is doing a good job, you're gonna pretend that protests and rioters have nothing to do with the Black Lives Matter movements we've been seeing around the country?
00:23:43.000These are growing out of Black Lives Matter protests.
00:23:46.000It's funny how the media used to maintain the stark, separate division between rioters and protesters.
00:23:51.000And then, as soon as the rioters and the protesters started to gain the upper hand, and it became nearly impossible to ignore them, then it became, well, maybe it's justified.
00:24:25.000It's amazing she's being upheld as an example of racial, of some sort of racial spokesperson in the United States, considering how she has used the issue of race in order to either advance or not advance a particular agenda.
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00:25:54.000Okay, so again, Kamala Harris, what an awful hypocrite.
00:25:56.000She spends years as tough prosecutor, cracking down on crime, and then, the minute she becomes a vice presidential candidate, Black Lives Matter is doing incredible work against law enforcement all over the United States.
00:26:05.000Why don't I trust Kamala Harris on even the authenticity of her newfound Racial progressivism?
00:26:13.000Because she's willing to say literally anything.
00:26:17.000Okay, so you remember early on in the primary race, when she labeled Joe Biden a racist, she suggested that Joe Biden was trying to stop little girls like her from attending interracial schools, from attending integrated schools, integrated public schools, right?
00:26:30.000She even sold shirts that said, a little girl like me, right?
00:26:57.000You look at the fact that high crime communities need more cops.
00:27:00.000You look at the fact that people need school choice.
00:27:03.000You look at the fact that we need more fathers in communities.
00:27:07.000You look at the fact that we need to incentivize people to stay in school.
00:27:11.000These are all systemic problems that much more greatly affect black Americans than the prevalence of cops in communities, or by the way, pulling cops from the communities.
00:27:19.000But Kamala Harris is not willing to talk about anything that's not convenient to Kamala Harris.
00:27:22.000So here's Kamala Harris over the weekend being asked specifically about basically implying Joe Biden is a racist.
00:27:28.000I can't believe that people trust our politicians.
00:28:01.000Don't worry, if she tweets about this person who was shot, if she tweets about Jacob Blake, then magically everybody will believe that she's empathetic about these issues.
00:28:09.000But there she is, basically saying, yeah, sure, I call them a racist, but you know what?
00:28:12.000It doesn't matter anymore because I'm trying to get ahead.
00:28:17.000The manipulation of the narrative by members of the media for political gain, by members of our political class for political gain, and then the cities burn.
00:28:23.000There are real life consequences to this stuff.
00:28:25.000There are people who suffer because of this stuff.
00:28:27.000There are people who die because of this stuff.
00:28:31.000I'm not saying people die because of Kamala Harris' commentary.
00:28:34.000I'm saying that people die when you forward the narrative that America is a deeply racist, systemically evil place, and then people riot on that basis.
00:28:43.000I'm saying that these things have consequences because they do.
00:28:47.000We're watching the consequences in the streets every night in major cities around the country.
00:28:53.000And the media just forward these narratives.
00:28:55.000They forward the narratives because the narratives, not only do they believe in them, but they also allow people to restructure American society along the lines that they wish to see.
00:29:06.000How far does some of this racial rhetoric go?
00:29:08.000Well, if you look at our media, our media are even worse than our political class because the media, at least supposedly, have an incentive to tell the truth, but apparently not.
00:29:16.000Remember that time that Jemele Hill, so she's a commentator.
00:29:18.000I will at least acknowledge she's not an objective journalist, right?
00:29:42.000Well, now she writes for The Atlantic, And she tweeted out over the weekend, quote, been reading Isabel Wilkerson's new book, Cast, right?
00:29:48.000This is the hot new book pushed by Oprah Winfrey that suggests that America is basically like the Indian caste system, which is why, of course, Untouchables have been elected to the highest leadership positions in India.
00:30:00.000In the United States, we've had a black president elected overwhelmingly twice.
00:30:03.000But she says, been reading Isabel Wilkerson's new book, Cast, and if you weren't of the opinion that the United States wasn't nearly as bad as Nazi Germany, how wrong you are.
00:30:10.000Can't encourage you enough to read this masterpiece.
00:30:12.000Now, it seems to me that there were some differences between the United States and a Nazi Germany, even during the worst of Jim Crow, such as we didn't murder six million black people in the United States in a systemic genocide.
00:30:25.000That seems like a minor difference that you might want to note there.
00:31:04.000Maybe you just mispronounced her name.
00:31:05.000It's not the easiest name to pronounce.
00:31:07.000But this has become a Democratic talking point.
00:31:09.000It's racist to mispronounce Kamala Harris' name.
00:31:12.000There's literally an article from the AP about this over the weekend.
00:31:16.000When top Republicans, including President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, mispronounce Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris' first name, it's not just disrespectful, it's racist, according to the Democrats.
00:31:29.000Because it's pronounced Kamula, not Kamala.
00:31:32.000I mean, like, come, so that, let's just say, let's point out, okay, here's the news standard from the narrative setters in American politics.
00:31:40.000You don't need evidence when there is an interracial shooting of a white police officer on a black person.
00:31:55.000The media just, it's not a national story because obviously racism doesn't exist.
00:32:00.000How do we know, by the way, that racism only exists on one side according to this narrative?
00:32:03.000about. America is just like Nazi Germany, except if a Democrat gets elected, then it's all wonder and light, as Joe Biden said. How do we know, by the way, that racism only exists on one side, according to this narrative? So over the weekend, there was an NBA player, This guy's name is Montrezl Harrell.
00:32:31.000And in the middle of the game, between the Mavericks and the Clippers, this Montrell Harrell person He called Donchick a bitch-ass white boy.
00:33:50.000But we are now living in a society where we are told that without evidence, racism is the defining factor of American life and that every disparity is attributable to American racism.
00:33:58.000But if a black person says to a white person, bitch ass white boy, it is inherently non-racial.
00:34:04.000Does this sound like a consistent standard to you?
00:34:06.000Does this sound logical to you in any way?
00:34:08.000Or does it sound like a narrative is being drawn and that the narrative doesn't care about the evidence?
00:34:18.000White people are systemically discriminating against black people.
00:34:21.000Black people are incapable of being racist.
00:34:23.000By the way, this is one of the points of the so-called anti-racism contingent is that racism isn't just discrimination.
00:34:28.000Racism is discrimination combined with power.
00:34:31.000And because white people hold the power based on the perverse conspiratorial worldview of the anti-racist, that means that only white people can be racist.
00:34:40.000And you also don't need evidence of racism in order to claim racism.
00:34:45.000The predictable result of this is to divide Americans and to make Americans more polarized.
00:34:49.000The way that normal people should act about this stuff is to look at each other as individuals.
00:34:55.000Look at each other as individuals, look at each individual incident based on its fact pattern, but we just don't do it.
00:35:00.000It's not worthwhile anymore, so we just don't do it.
00:35:02.000Okay, in a second, we're gonna get to the RNC, because this is going to be one of the themes of the RNC, and frankly, it should be one of the themes of the RNC.
00:35:09.000The city's burning seems like a rather major theme that Democrats completely elided for eight long hours of primetime DNC last week.
00:35:15.000We learned that the Black Lives Matter movement is completely wonderful and great, and the protesters are the best of us, as Barack Obama suggested.
00:35:23.000The riots and the looting don't exist, and America's systemically racist, except if Joe Biden gets elected, in which case he brings the light.
00:35:27.000The 80-year-old white man, he brings the light, and everything is all better.
00:35:32.000Even if you're a Black Lives Matter protester, I wonder if you believe the crap that's being fed to you about how Joe Biden, an 80-year-old, an octogenarian white man who used to work with segregationist senators, is going to heal all racial wounds in the country.
00:35:41.000Are you that much of a sucker if you're on the hard left?
00:35:45.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:35:46.000We'll get to the RNC, which begins tonight.
00:35:49.000But first, imagine you're walking through a parking lot and you're with your kids, and as you approach your car, you see somebody closing in and something seems wrong.
00:35:56.000So you calmly move in front of your kids and you turn toward this person.
00:35:59.000And the person starts to move toward their own gun.
00:37:00.000In just one second, we're going to get to the RNC because the RNC begins tonight and you can bet that some of the thematics are going to focus in on the burning of America's major cities.
00:37:09.000But first, if you haven't heard by now, Joe Biden is officially the Democratic Party's presidential nominee for 2020.
00:37:13.000We know because we made our own Matt Walsh suffer through his acceptance speech at the DNC.
00:37:19.000In fact, he is cowering in his own basement right now.
00:37:21.000I believe he's in like fetal position crying.
00:37:24.000However, we were not just torturing Matt for fun.
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00:38:24.000Alrighty, so the RNC tonight, I'm sure is gonna focus in on the riots and the looting.
00:38:34.000And that is not A politically driven decision by itself.
00:38:38.000I mean, the fact is that when you go eight hours of Democratic National Convention time and nobody can condemn Antifa, nobody can condemn the Black Lives Matter looters and rioters, not the protesters, the rioters and the looters, right?
00:38:49.000Some of whom are indeed protesters who morph into rioters and looters when it becomes time.
00:38:54.000They can pretend for a full eight hours of prime time, this stuff doesn't exist.
00:38:58.000And then they can have Kamala Harris go on national television and say that the BLM movement is pushing us toward a better America.
00:39:03.000Does it feel like America is getting better over the past several months?
00:39:07.000If it does, I'm just wondering, what is your evidence of this?
00:39:10.000Like seriously, are race relations better in the country?
00:39:13.000Do you feel like we've moved toward actual solutions?
00:39:15.000Or does it turn out that when Senator Tim Scott, the black Republican from South Carolina, proposes an actual police reform bill and Democrats filibuster the thing to prevent a solution, this is really much more about narrative drawing and pure politics than it is about solving problems?
00:39:29.000So as it turns out, Americans do in fact care about what is happening right now in America's major cities.
00:39:36.000There's a new Gallup poll out and it shows that 59% of Americans say that they are concerned about the levels of violent crime that are happening in America's major cities and the burning of America's major cities.
00:39:47.000That is just slightly lower than the 63% of Americans who say that coronavirus is one of their top priorities.
00:39:58.000And you can bet your bottom dollar that Republicans are going to focus on it at the RNC, which they absolutely should, as Democratic politicians continue to, simply without evidence, suggest that America is an evil, systemically racist caste system.
00:40:10.000According to the Wall Street Journal, there are some signs of life for the Trump campaign.
00:40:14.000Here's a new poll from the Wall Street Journal NBC News.
00:40:17.000The president's share of support, which is at 41%, has not topped 44% this year against Joe Biden.
00:40:23.000He trails the former VP in aggregated polling of most battleground states, although his deficit is smaller than is in national polls.
00:40:29.000But his position may be stronger than head-to-head polling shows.
00:40:32.000At this point in the last election, Trump trails his Democratic opponent by 9 percentage points in journal NBC News polling.
00:40:39.000His public image has actually picked up some shine.
00:40:41.000More voters saw Trump in a negative light than a positive one in the most recent poll by a margin of about 12 percentage points.
00:40:47.000But at this point four years ago, the negative outnumbered the positive by 33 percentage points.
00:40:53.000He apparently has an improved image among white voters.
00:40:56.000He lags behind his 2016 vote share as recorded by exit polls.
00:40:59.000But white voters in the most recent journal, NBC News Survey, were divided almost equally between positive and negative views of the president.
00:41:05.000It's about 20 points higher than he was doing last time around.
00:41:07.000He's holding steady with Hispanics as well.
00:41:10.000Some 31% of Hispanics say they will back the president, which is slightly higher than the 28% who voted for him in 2016.
00:41:18.000Republican intensity is also beginning to build.
00:41:21.000And apparently, up for grabs voters are still leaning Republican, which is good news for him.
00:41:26.000According to that Journal-NBC News survey in July, they looked at voters who haven't ruled out either candidate and are in play.
00:41:32.000Those voters as a group have characteristics that suggest they are open to Trump and his party, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:41:36.000Some 22% have a positive image of Trump.
00:41:39.000Only 11% have a positive image of Joe Biden.
00:41:43.000They prefer a candidate who will confront the Washington establishment, which is one of Trump's key pitches.
00:41:47.000And of course, Trump still leads on the economy and voters dislike both parties.
00:41:51.000So this election is not quite over yet.
00:41:53.000So you can expect that the president is going to focus in on two things.
00:42:02.000And he's going to focus in on the crime issues that have been plaguing America's major cities.
00:42:07.000Apparently, he's going to speak every single night at the RNC.
00:42:11.000Now, I don't know whether that is a particularly good strategy.
00:42:13.000You usually want to build up some sort of drama, but I guess that, look, Trump knows more about reality TV than virtually anybody alive.
00:42:19.000I mean, this is one of the areas where Trump was successful.
00:42:22.000Other areas, he has exaggerated his success.
00:42:24.000The man was a very, very successful reality TV host, so he knows how this stuff works.
00:42:28.000He's probably figuring, listen, not everybody's gonna watch last night.
00:42:31.000We're gonna have different audiences every night, so I'll show up every single night.
00:42:35.000According to Jason Miller, he said, you'll have President Trump speaking at various parts for each of the nights.
00:42:41.000Miller said that the RNC will tell a beautiful story.
00:42:43.000Miller said one of the things you're going to see this week is a complete change in the perception that the media tries to tell about what a Trump supporter looks like or who a Trump supporter is.
00:42:50.000We're going to talk about the American story.
00:42:52.000We're going to see a great uplifting message from the president and from our allies.
00:42:55.000And Chuck, when I tell you some of these stories you hear, there are going to be some breakout stars, some people you would not expect to be supporters of the president.
00:42:59.000It's going to be a very beautiful story.
00:43:01.000So here are some of the people who are going to be appearing.
00:43:04.000So you're going to get Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, who will appear, which is, you know, something that was controversial.
00:43:10.000You're going to get Steve Scalise of Louisiana.
00:43:13.000Matt Gaetz, of course, of Florida, is a big fan of the president, obviously.
00:43:50.000On Tuesday, you're going to see First Lady Melania Trump, Mike Pompeo, Senator Rand Paul will be appearing.
00:43:58.000You will see a group of—Nick Sandman, who's the kid who was targeted in the Covington Catholic scandal.
00:44:04.000And then there are a bunch of names that I really don't know and who I'm sure we will get to see over the course of time.
00:44:10.000I believe that the entire Johnson family, basically, is showing up when he's speaking every night.
00:44:14.000Alice Johnson was one of the lead figures in the criminal justice reform, if I got that name wrong, in the first place.
00:44:20.000So it'll be interesting to see how they program this thing.
00:44:23.000And apparently they're banking on some surprises that will change the narrative a little bit.
00:44:29.000According to Bloomberg, Trump said that he's going to go live as much as humanly possible.
00:44:35.000He's also teasing the promise of at least a few surprises.
00:44:39.000The convention represents one of Trump's last chances to make the case and write the sputtering campaign.
00:44:43.000Look, the bottom line is what he needs to focus in on is the unrest in America's major cities.
00:44:47.000And I'm frankly shocked that he has not done a better job of touting his actual record on COVID.
00:44:52.000So the president has said many stupid things over the course of the past six months on COVID, but the actual record of the administration in getting governors what they want is pretty good.
00:45:00.000If they do not have some time in this primetime convention, just a mashup of all the Democratic governors saying that Trump gave them what they need, that is political malpractice.
00:45:08.000I've been saying it for weeks at this point.
00:45:10.000I'm shocked they have not done it so far.
00:45:13.000All of which led, by the way, The president to make an announcement over the weekend that was highly controversial because it looks like he's politicizing the pursuit of solutions on COVID-19.
00:45:23.000Basically, the day before the convention starts, Trump issued an emergency use authorization for blood plasma.
00:45:38.000I mean, the evidence appears to be yes, although the evidence is still coming in.
00:45:41.000And so there's been a lot of controversy over whether Trump is rushing the emergency use authorization for blood plasma for political reasons.
00:45:48.000Doing it the day before the RNC certainly suggests that, right?
00:45:50.000On a political level, it's just, it seems like manipulative to do that.
00:46:11.000Today I'm pleased to make a truly historic announcement in our battle against the China virus that will save countless lives.
00:46:19.000The FDA has issued an emergency use authorization, and that's such a powerful term, emergency use authorization for a treatment known as convalescent plasma.
00:46:36.000This is a powerful therapy that transfuses very, very strong antibodies from the blood of recovered patients to help treat patients battling a current infection.
00:47:06.000The very idea that you have to go through some sort of FDA approval process in order for there to be emergency convalescent blood plasma authorization seems to me foolish in the extreme.
00:47:17.000But doing this the day before the RNC and then declaring it a breakthrough obviously looks very political.
00:47:22.000It also looks political when the president starts tweeting about how his own administration is blocking him.
00:47:28.000On Saturday, Trump suggested that employees of the FDA were sabotaging his re-election by slowing down coronavirus research.
00:47:33.000He said members of the deep state at the FBI were making it hard for drug companies to quote-unquote get people in order to test the vaccines and the therapeutics, and obviously wanted to delay progress until after the November 3rd election day.
00:47:45.000It seems to me that if you are in the FDA, you probably don't want to slow down the collection of information about vaccines.
00:47:52.000And again, I've seen no evidence of that.
00:47:54.000The president is always saying the quiet part out loud.
00:47:57.000And to suggest that your own administration is blocking you from from pushing forward as hard as you can is silly, especially because it makes it look as though, OK, fine.
00:48:04.000So then take control and take control.
00:48:06.000I mean, seriously, if you believe that, take control.
00:48:09.000The fact is that he doesn't need to do any of this.
00:48:11.000What he needs to do is point out the fact that when the media were focused on ventilators, he got people the ventilators.
00:48:15.000When they were focused on PPE, he got people the PPE.
00:48:17.000Remember how PPE and ventilators were like case number one and 1A in how Trump was doing a bad job?
00:48:22.000And then he got all the ventilators and all the PPE, and then it just disappeared?
00:48:26.000Well, now he's pushed forward with warp speed on the vaccine, and there's good information coming out that these vaccines may be effective by the end of the year, which would be, frankly, miraculous, because usually it takes a decade to develop an effective vaccine on diseases.
00:48:39.000And that'd be pretty, like, I don't understand why he's telling a story about an FDA trying to obscure the process, when he could be telling a story about how he's done a pretty good job of trying to ensure that everybody gets what they need, and he could be telling an even better story about how the Democrats want to shut the entire economy down again.
00:48:53.000I mean, that's the best story here for the Republicans is we've been looking at gradual reopening.
00:48:57.000We've been getting people what they need.
00:48:58.000Republican governors have been ensuring that the nursing homes are protected while also ensuring that people can go out and live their lives and still have death rates that are much lower than blue states like New Jersey and New York and Massachusetts and Connecticut.
00:49:11.000And meanwhile, Joe Biden is openly talking about shutting down the entire American economy again.
00:49:15.000Over the weekend, I mean, how is this not a campaign ad?
00:49:18.000Over the weekend, Joe Biden said that he would shut down the entire American economy again over COVID, which is patently crazy.
00:49:57.000I would shut it down if the scientists say, OK, the scientists are always going to say shut it down, because again, if your job as a scientist is to, quote unquote, prevent the spread and your job as a scientist is not to take into account any countervailing considerations like kids not going to school, like entire economies dying, like the fact that the lockdowns have not been particularly effective in general at doing anything beyond delaying people receiving the virus.
00:50:16.000But they certainly have not actually prevented the virus from spreading in the long term.
00:50:21.000Locking down the entire American economy at a time when there is no uptick in New York, there is no uptick in New Jersey, there is no uptick in Connecticut.
00:50:27.000The only places that are seeing an uptick all over the world are places that have not been hit by the virus yet.
00:50:34.000Why is the president not campaigning on that?
00:50:35.000That's what he should have been saying over the weekend.
00:50:37.000What he should have been saying is, Joe Biden wants to shut it all down.
00:50:44.000And we've already seen it weighing in places like Arizona, Georgia, and Florida, where the media have been telling you that everybody's dying.
00:51:10.000So apparently over the weekend, you remember that Linda Sarsour was picked as a delegate She was picked as a delegate for one of these Muslim caucuses during the day part of the DNC.
00:51:24.000And Linda Sarsour is a virulent anti-Semite, and the Biden campaign came out, and they said, well, you know, we don't agree with Linda Sarsour.
00:51:33.000Over the weekend, top aides to presidential candidate Joe Biden apologized to Arab and Muslim Democrats, according to MiddleEastEye.net, over an attack on Linda Sarsour by the campaign.
00:51:43.000In a private call with dozens of prominent activists on Sunday, Ashley Allison, National Coalition's Director for the Biden campaign, said she was very sorry for the comments a campaign spokesperson made against Sarsour.
00:51:53.000Top foreign policy advisor Tony Blinken also expressed regret over the incident during the virtual meeting.
00:51:58.000Remember that time where they said at the Biden campaign?
00:52:03.000Also, it turns out that at least six of the speakers at the Democratic National Convention are backers of Louis Farrakhan, including Common, Freddie Haynes, Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour, James Clyburn, and Cory Booker.
00:52:17.000All these people said that they would meet with Louis Farrakhan.
00:52:22.000So the Democratic Party continues to be incredibly radical.
00:52:25.000Good news, however, the Democratic Party is also going to fund the Post Office.
00:52:28.000This was their big move over the weekend.
00:52:29.000They passed a bill to not relieve anyone's economic pains, but to give $25 billion to the Post Office to alleviate a non-existent scandal whereby the Post Office is out of money and can't handle mail-in ballots.
00:52:56.000And while we always want to subject every federal dollar to the scrutiny of what we're getting for it, let us remember that it is a service.
00:53:06.000No business that I can think of would ever be saddled with what we've done to the Postal Service, saying that they, in 2006, a bill passed that said that the Postal Service should pay 75 years of its health benefits in 10 years.
00:53:36.000Meanwhile, by the way, AOC was speaking up about the post office, like the Democrats focused in on the most important parts of American public life, namely a service that has been bankrupt for the last 14 years.
00:53:44.000And you can easily send mail through other means, including UPS and FedEx.
00:54:00.000It's where people are getting their tax refunds.
00:54:03.000It is a core service of any civilized society.
00:54:08.000And an attack on our postal service And an attempt to dismantle our postal service out of a selfish desire to sabotage our democracy and maintain a grip on power is an attack on all of us.
00:54:33.000Quote, yesterday in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Jacob Blake was shot seven times in the back as police attempted to restrain him from getting into his car.
00:54:41.000His children watched from inside the car and bystanders watched in disbelief.
00:54:44.000And this morning, the nation wakes up yet again with grief and outrage that yet another black American is a victim of excessive force.
00:54:49.000This calls for an immediate, full, and transparent investigation, and the officers must be held accountable.
00:54:53.000These shots pierce the soul of our nation.
00:54:55.000Joe and I pray for Jacob's recovery and for his children.
00:54:58.000Equal justice has not been real for black Americans and so many others.
00:55:06.000We must fight to honor the ideals laid in the original American promise, which we are yet to attain, that all men and women are created equal, but more importantly, that they must be treated equally.
00:55:14.000Does he have any evidence that we have not heard about, Joe Biden?
00:55:17.000Any evidence at all that we have not heard about at this point?
00:55:22.000He does not know what happened with Jacob Blake, because you don't know what happened with Jacob Blake, because I don't know what happened with Jacob Blake, because no one knows what happened.
00:55:29.000When you say specifically in your statement that there has to be a full, transparent, and immediate investigation, that suggests you don't know what the hell is going on.
00:55:37.000The former vice president of the United States being a racial demagogue on an issue where he does not have evidence.
00:55:42.000But good news, the media are focused in, not on the racial demagoguery and the burning of America's cities.
00:55:47.000They are focused in on really important things, like the White House rose garden renovations.
00:55:52.000So over the weekend, the White House released photos of the renovation of the White House rose garden.
00:55:56.000They restored it to the original sort of Jackie O state of the rose garden.
00:56:04.000Last month, Melania Trump announced that she was taking on the project.
00:56:09.000By adding technical updates, apparently future presidents will be able to use the space to broadcast events and presidential addresses.
00:56:15.000There are serious drainage problems and inaccessibility to disabled people.
00:56:19.000And so they've added some new pastel flowers.
00:56:22.000They have a diamond-like shape of boxwoods added.
00:56:25.000A dozen crabapple trees were removed and will be replanted elsewhere on the grounds.
00:56:28.000Also, a seating area has been removed and will be replaced by a yet-to-be-announced art installation.
00:56:34.000There's a three-foot-wide limestone walking path bordering the central lawn that is supposed to make the garden more accessible for people with disabilities.
00:57:07.000He tweeted out, I still find it unbelievable that the first lady, who has only been a citizen since the middle of GW Bush's second term, had the audacity to wreck the Rose Garden to pull up history dating back a lifetime. These trashy, evil, stupid people need to get out of our house.
00:57:18.000What gall she has. Focusing in on all the important issues like the White House at Rose Garden.
00:57:32.000So, Kellyanne Conway has now quit the Trump White House.
00:57:35.000She's gonna leave by the end of the month.
00:57:37.000Her husband, George, who's been involved in the Lincoln Project, which is a grifter scam on behalf of Democrats.
00:57:43.000I say grifter scam because supposedly it is a conservative anti-Trump opposition, except they're now endorsing people against Susan Collins in Maine.
00:57:51.000And so George Conway's been very anti-Trump for quite a long time.
00:57:54.000There's obviously enormous family problems happening.
00:57:57.000They have a daughter, a 15-year-old daughter who is 15.
00:57:59.000She's trying to emancipate from her parents right now.
00:58:06.000And the social media videos and the left loves them because it is her basically crapping on her mom.
00:58:13.000And they never think, hey wait a second, maybe a 15 year old is not the most reliable source on family relations.
00:58:18.000And maybe also we should be letting 15 year olds have their privacy even if they wish to remove their privacy from themselves, even if they wish to alienate their own privacy.
00:58:26.000So now she wrote on Twitter that apparently daughter Claudia had a deleted video where she accused her parents of physical abuse and asking for emancipation.
00:58:38.000She said that her mom was very physically abusive, very, very verbally abusive.
00:58:41.000She said at one point her mom had been, she said, my mom got me arrested.
00:58:45.000She hasn't provided any evidence of this.
00:58:48.000Anybody who is laughing over it is making a very large scale mistake.
00:58:51.000Family problems are not generally something to laugh at.
00:58:55.000It's one thing if you're talking about adults.
00:58:57.000Once the kids get involved, then it really is not something to laugh at.
00:58:59.000So hopefully the Conway family gets it together, and I'm glad for Kellyanne and for George that they're leaving their sort of public spat to the side and trying to rebuild whatever is left of their family dynamic.
00:59:09.000Alrighty, so we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.
00:59:51.000Hey everybody, it's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.
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