On Thursday, President Trump spoke in Poland where he laid forth his plans for NATO s Article 5 common defense. He also stated his support for missile defense in Poland against Russia. This should have been a ringing rebuke to the American media, who have declared Trump a Putin shill for nearly a year. Instead, the media decided to focus on the fact that Trump received warm praise from the Polish people. CNN's actual headline said, "Trump showered in Polish praise, backs NATO's Article 5. It's difficult to recall CNN running a similar headline during President Obama's magical, mystery European tours." The media also went nuts over Trump ripping CNN while overseas. But the real story is that Trump forcefully chided his supposed conspirators in election hacking. That he s talking about setting up a missile defense system to defend against them. And that he took material steps to check their territorial ambitions in Ukraine and Syria. The media ignores all of that because they are more interested in getting President Trump, even over stupid issues. Ben Shapiro breaks it all down and explains why this is a good thing. Plus, a bottle of wine and a glass of Champagne! Ben Shapiro is a regular contributor to the New York Times, The Weekly Standard, and The Huffington Post. He's also a frequent contributor to CNN and the Wall Street Journal. He can be found on social media at . and is a frequent guest on The FiveThirtyEight. and The Daily Wire. He's on the Tonight Show with John Dickerson and The View from New York Magazine. You can catch up with Ben Shapiro on his new podcast, The View From the Ground, wherever he s on the road. The Five Guys and wherever else he goes on a podcast that he s working on a project that he goes to get the most interesting people in the best of what he s drinking wine and eating the most delicious things he likes to talk about wine and other things that s good, and drinking the most of what s good. He s also on the best thing he s eating and drinking it. And he s a lot of wine, too. Thanks for listening to this episode of The Ben Shapiro? Subscribe to his podcast, Ben Shapiro Is That a Good Thing? Subscribe on Apple Podcasts? Subscribe on Podchaser. Subscribe on iTunes and Subscribe on Spare some wine and let me know what you think of Ben Shapiro s drinking it on The Six by Ben Shapiro's podcast?
00:00:00.000On Thursday, President Trump spoke in Poland, where he laid forth his plans for NATO Article 5 common defense.
00:00:05.000He said that the United States, quote, has demonstrated not merely with words, but with actions, that we stand firmly behind Article 5.
00:00:11.000Our defense is not just a commitment of money, it is a commitment of will.
00:00:15.000Trump went on to explain, quote, our own fight for the West does not begin on the battlefield, it begins with our minds, our wills, and our souls.
00:00:21.000He even warned the Russian government directly, quote, we urge Russia to cease its destabilizing activities in Ukraine and elsewhere.
00:00:27.000Trump also stated his support for missile defense in Poland against Russia.
00:00:31.000This should have been a ringing rebuke to the American media, who have declared Trump a Putin shill for nearly a year.
00:00:38.000Instead, the media decided to focus on the fact that Trump received warm praise from the Polish people.
00:00:42.000CNN's actual headline, this is the real headline, quote, Trump showered in Polish praise, backs NATO's Article 5.
00:00:49.000It's difficult to recall CNN running a similar headline during President Obama's magical mystery European tours.
00:00:55.000The media also went nuts over Trump ripping CNN while overseas.
00:00:57.000NBC's Chuck Todd tweeted, quote, A trashing of the American press corps and intel community in Eastern Europe of all places?
00:01:04.000Could Putin have asked for anything more?
00:01:08.000He could have asked for a president who wanted to give him flexibility and withdrew from missile defense in Eastern Europe and handed Syria over to Vladimir Putin.
00:01:15.000He could have asked for that and actually gotten it.
00:01:17.000It's not pleasant that President Trump attacks the media while he's overseas.
00:01:21.000It's unpresidential, but I mean, this is Donald Trump's.
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00:03:16.000President Trump is over in Poland, and he's been speaking over in Poland about missile defense and about Russian aggression and about Article 5.
00:03:24.000So, for months we have heard that President Trump was going to withdraw from NATO.
00:03:27.000Now, some of this was Trump's own fault.
00:03:29.000He kept talking about how NATO was useless and obsolete and how they didn't pay their bills.
00:03:33.000Well, now he finally goes where it is necessary for him to go to talk about NATO, and that is the countries that border the Russia that would like to invade
00:04:21.000And number two, Trump is going to be impeached at any moment.
00:04:23.000These two ideas are related, but the idea is that Hillary didn't actually lose because she could never be beaten by a dunderhead like Trump.
00:04:29.000Therefore, it must have been that Trump was colluding with Russia
00:05:28.000If anything, Russia worked with WikiLeaks to interfere in the election by getting a bunch of emails from the DNC and then weaponizing them for at least during the election cycle, undermining election credibility.
00:05:37.000But there's no evidence of collusion, so Shaliza is wrong.
00:05:40.000But Adam Schiff says, because Trump refuses to acknowledge so-called election hacking, he's giving Putin everything he could possibly want.
00:05:47.000And you heard Chuck Todd say that when Trump attacks the media, this is giving Putin everything that he could possibly want.
00:05:52.000Well, how about when Barack Obama routinely attacked Fox News throughout his entire presidency?
00:05:58.000Was he giving Vladimir Putin everything that he wanted?
00:06:01.000Is it just possible that Trump may have a legit complaint?
00:06:05.000Every time they attack Trump and suggest that he is in collusion with Russia and giving Putin what he wants, all they're doing is undermining their own credibility and lending credence to everything that Trump says about CNN.
00:06:16.000Trump so far has done nothing egregious in Poland.
00:06:18.000In fact, his initial speech, which a lot of people were concerned about, was quite good, right?
00:06:22.000He talked about, we don't have clips of it yet, but he talked about the fact that Western civilization had to unite against the Islamic fascist threat.
00:06:29.000He talked about how Russia was providing a threat to Eastern Europe.
00:06:33.000He paid homage to the heroes of Poland's past, right?
00:06:38.000At the press conference, he ripped on CNN, but at this point, that's rote.
00:06:41.000Okay, if you're pretending that you're really shocked by Trump's behavior, it's not to say Trump's behavior is grand or glorious in attacking American press outlets while he's on the road, but let's be real about this.
00:06:56.000So why don't we focus on the fact that what he's actually there to do, not rip the media, but talk with the Polish, that's actually going quite well.
00:07:02.000But the media can never acknowledge that because, again, point number one is that they think that he didn't actually win the election.
00:07:08.000And point number two is they keep hoping for this kill shot.
00:07:11.000They keep hoping that the time will come when they get this one moment, this one grand moment, where they reveal everything there is to know about Trump, and Trump just collapses.
00:07:25.000MSNBC, last week, there was this spat between Trump, this idiotic spat between Trump and Mika Brzezinski, where he was tweeting out about her bloody facelift and all this stupid nonsense.
00:07:34.000The day after he tweeted that, Morning Joe's ratings went up 70%.
00:07:39.000You think that MSNBC and CNN are not invested in the fight with Trump?
00:07:43.000You wonder why they cover every Trump tweet as though it's the end of the world?
00:07:45.000One, it raises their ratings because Trump is ratings.
00:08:31.000And then meanwhile, on the other side, the Republicans are sitting around going, well, at least we're not Democrats.
00:08:35.000So both sides, who are becoming each other at an incredibly rapid pace, right?
00:08:39.000Obamacare is now being reinshrined by a Republican Senate.
00:08:44.000Donald Trump's White House chief strategist, Steve Bannon, is now talking about raising taxes on the rich.
00:08:48.000So Republicans who are becoming Democrats, and Democrats who are hoping to become Republicans, are both pointing at each other and saying, well at least we're not that guy.
00:08:55.000This is the new politics in the United States.
00:08:57.000You wonder why people who like ideas, you know, I like ideas, why I'm frustrated with the political situation?
00:09:02.000I'm frustrated because neither of these things matters.
00:09:11.000What you're going to do should be your slogan.
00:09:13.000But nobody talks about any of that crap because we are so ensconced in this WWE fight fest where Republicans slap Democrats and Democrats slap Republicans and then they all go out for a beer afterward, right?
00:09:24.000All these media members go out for a beer with each other, okay?
00:09:28.000This idea that people at Fox News don't get along with people on CNN, it may be true for, like, Sean Hannity, who actually is a true believer, but it's not true for the vast majority of people at Fox News.
00:09:46.000It's all a big game, and the only losers are the American people who are sitting here wondering, okay, well, you say you're not a Republican, and you say you're not a Democrat, but how are you different?
00:10:31.000They don't have any other agenda, right?
00:10:32.000Their only agenda is we hate Trump and we hate Republicans.
00:10:35.000And they're making this clearer every day, hoping and praying Republicans destroy themselves, and then they can just point and laugh.
00:10:40.000So, the Democrats continue to push for, for example, a commission on President Trump's fitness.
00:10:47.000You're not going to oust President Trump under the 25th Amendment.
00:10:49.000I know there's this crazy idea floating around there.
00:10:51.000I know Ross Dude had from the New York Times had talked about it, that somebody's going to invoke the 25th Amendment and claim that Trump is incapacitated, he's mentally incapable of being president.
00:11:00.000The Trump who is now the president is exactly the same guy who ran.
00:11:03.000He's exactly the same guy he has been for all 71 years of his life.
00:13:58.000And, listen, I compliment the folks on Capitol Hill who are doing what they're doing, but, you know, we need some action out of Washington to help us compete on a global basis.
00:14:06.000And today, we're not seeing anything out of Washington.
00:14:14.000As chairman of the National Governors Association, I love all of our governors that we have today.
00:14:19.000Okay, so McAuliffe is obviously trying to say that he's the leader, but nobody believes Terry McAuliffe is the leader because Terry McAuliffe doesn't even believe Terry McAuliffe is the leader.
00:14:26.000And Tara McAuliffe is more colorless than a glass of water.
00:14:29.000I mean, the guy is just dull as anything that has ever been put on this earth.
00:14:34.000There are no leaders of the Democratic Party, and so they are basically running back to that slogan, at least we're not Republicans.
00:14:40.000Now, they can do well with that slogan.
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