00:00:46.000I almost never get involved in primaries outside of Virginia because I think Maine Democrats should pick their candidates.
00:00:54.000And I don't think nationalists should pick their candidates.
00:00:56.000We're pretty far down on the primary road here.
00:00:58.000Senator, are you still supporting Graham Platner after the sexting scandal that's going on with him?
00:01:04.000And I guess I have a view of redemption.
00:01:06.000And he has unequivocally owned up to it, said that it was wrong, that he learned from it.
00:01:14.000Well, now, in the least surprising story in human history, it turns out that the dude with the Nazi tattoo, who allegedly sexed at a dozen women while married, who was clearly registered on the grooming website Kick, who made online comments about touching himself in porta potties and why it was good when American soldiers got shot.
00:01:37.000It's always the ones you most suspect.
00:01:39.000We'll take a look at the never ending ballot counting in California, and we'll talk about an incredibly disturbing abortion story taking over the internet.
00:01:45.000Plus, I will make a Knicks Spurs game two pick.
00:01:48.000Yes, seriously, that's a thing we're going to do.
00:01:49.000All of that and more today on The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:01:59.000I feel like the first red flag should have been the actual Nazi tattoo.
00:02:05.000Or maybe it should have been those Reddit comments about masturbating in porta potties.
00:02:09.000Or maybe it could have been the registration on kick.
00:02:13.000Or maybe it's the comments about how much you enjoyed a video of an American soldier being shot by the Taliban.
00:02:20.000Or maybe it was the endless wheel of sexting women who are not his.
00:03:07.000According to the New York Times, quote, in extensive conversations over the past two months, three other women who had been romantically involved with Mr. Platner offered a far more complicated assessment.
00:03:47.000Okay, so what is the New York Times actually reporting?
00:03:49.000First of all, you will recall that Graham Plattner said that when he got the Nazi tattoo, he did not know it was a Nazi symbol, which is not credible.
00:03:56.000I'm sorry, when you get a giant Nazi tattoo on your chest and when you have Reddit posts recognizing German helmets, I feel like you knew that it was a Nazi tattoo.
00:04:55.000By the way, the only reason that Democrats were fine with this is because they have never identified a human in the military and they have never identified an actual Trump voter.
00:05:03.000So this is all them looking at Graham Plattner wearing the costume and being like, probably Trump voters will like him because he has the Nazi tattoo.
00:05:12.000By the way, he then defended this again in May 2026, like last month.
00:05:15.000Claiming that it was the other Marines, it was everyone else's fault.
00:05:17.000He has a giant Nazi tattoo on his chest.
00:05:19.000He then ended up covering up in the most bizarre fashion.
00:05:25.000I got a skull and crossbones with a bunch of other Marines in a tattoo parlor in Croatia because skull and crossbones are things that Marines get.
00:05:53.000And we'll also get to his bizarre statements allegedly that he wanted to rape a male home invader, but not in a gay way, in like the most manly straight way.
00:06:02.000You know, like a straight man would rape a man for home invading, for dominance.
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00:07:25.000Well, according to the New York Times, Plattner's insistence he did not know his tattoo is a Nazi symbol until it became a campaign issue last fall was simply not true.
00:07:33.000Lindsay Fifield, who dated Platinum between 2013 and 2015, told the New York Times that he had taught her the word for it years earlier, referring to it as, quote, my Totenkopf, right, which is death said.
00:07:45.000He would joke about it being a Nazi tattoo.
00:07:48.000Ms. Fifield said he told her that he and other members of his unit selected that tattoo because, quote, they were like a death unit, they were killers, and saw a parallel between their unit and the Nazi Schutzstaffel, that's SS.
00:07:58.000They used the skull and crossbones image.
00:08:00.000But don't worry, there are lots of other terrible allegations, lots and lots of other terrible allegations for the Here's Suit Silver Spoon Fake.
00:08:27.000Anyway, according to the New York Times, Ms. Fifefield recalled that Mr. Plattner's displays of weaponry and discussions of violence sometimes left her uneasy.
00:08:34.000She said he kept an AR 15 lying around his apartment on Capitol Hill and would sharpen an axe.
00:08:39.000A relic from his time working on the Appalachian Trail before he enlisted in the Marines while watching TV.
00:08:44.000AR 15s, by the way, are banned in the District of Columbia, and Graham Plattner is a fan of gun control, so there's that.
00:08:50.000Also, I just gotta ask I mean, I'm gonna put it out there.
00:08:53.000Ladies, if you're a man, like the way that he amuses, like you're not living in the backwoods, or you're not actually in Maine at the time, you're in like DC, and the way that you relax in the evening is by watching the news while you sharpen an axe, that is the opening to a horror film that is not a masculine romantic gesture.
00:09:49.000Well, well, well, I have some questions.
00:09:55.000I'm not sure a straight man has ever said in the history of humanity if someone breaks into my house, I'm going to rape him, but not in a gay way.
00:10:10.000Somehow, somehow, someway, Graham Platner is now more gay than James Tellerico.
00:10:18.000I also have to ask, why is it that so many prominent Democrats seem to have these bizarre fantasies?
00:10:25.000And why do they talk to their women about it?
00:10:27.000Do you remember the Barack Obama story in which he literally wrote a letter to his girlfriend at the time talking about how he fantasized about other men?
00:11:52.000The guy who is going to win over all those blue collar Trump voters is the guy who, if you were stuck at a bar with him and you were drinking a beer and he started talking about his fantasies of home invasion, you would immediately, immediately start backing slowly, slowly away.
00:12:59.000And the campaign imagine you're the campaign manager for Graham Plattner, this weirdo, this weirdo socialist kid who was working for Momdani.
00:13:08.000And now you're answering a question about Graham Plattner raping home invaders.
00:13:11.000And they come to you and you're like, can you deny that?
00:13:13.000You're like, well, and you go to Platinum and you're like, can I deny that?
00:13:18.000Now, here's how this would normally go, right?
00:13:20.000This is like the ultimate he said, she said, right?
00:13:22.000Like you got an old girlfriend who's saying that you said you wanted to rape male home invaders.
00:13:27.000And then you have you, and theoretically, you're going to deny that, okay?
00:15:02.000Mr. Plattner, who had overlapping relationships with other women while he and Ms. Fifield dated, also referred to women as hatchet wounds, Ms. Fifield said, a crude term for female anatomy.
00:15:13.000You know, I just have to say, this was not a good dating choice.
00:15:25.000Did they like go to the horrible people factory and just toss a rock?
00:15:29.000And whoever the rock hit, they're like, we will make him the nominee.
00:15:33.000I mean, let's be real about this, by the way.
00:15:35.000There is one thing that Graham Plattner could do to lose Democratic support.
00:15:37.000He could put on a Star of David necklace.
00:15:40.000And if he did that, then they're out immediately.
00:15:43.000At this point, Democratic leadership is desperately trying to get him to like hold an Israeli flag at a parade or something so they can cancel him.
00:15:52.000According to the New York Times, Mr. Plattner could be rough with her, Ms. Fifield said.
00:15:56.000Particularly when they were drinking, leaving her shaken and sometimes afraid.
00:15:59.000In the interviews, Ms. Fifield grappled with how to process her experiences.
00:16:03.000She was quick to note, he never hit me.
00:16:04.000He never punched me, which, by the way, is always the sign of a good relationship.
00:16:08.000The best sign of a good relationship, ladies, is if your first defense of the relationship is, he never punched me in the face.
00:16:18.000By the way, that is not something that has ever entered my wife's thoughts, I think.
00:16:22.000If you ask her about If you asked my wife about our relationship, I'm pretty sure the first thing she said would not be, he never punches me.
00:16:29.000But, according to Fifield, he regularly grabbed her by the shoulders, sometimes hard enough to leave marks, and on one occasion, yanked her out of a cab by her wrist after an argument when she wanted to stay in the car.
00:16:39.000During one argument, she recalled, he twisted her arm behind her back, shoved her into a bedroom, and held the door closed from the other side so she couldn't get out, telling her to remain there until she was calm.
00:16:48.000Eventually, Ms. Fifield said, she fell asleep and left the next morning.
00:17:27.000The others who spoke on condition of anonymity. Said Platner was never physically threatening.
00:17:31.000One, a nurse from Belfast, Maine, who dated him for a couple months after he returned home to Maine, described him as responsible, intelligent, and supportive.
00:17:38.000Another, who dated him in Washington between roughly 2011 and 2013, said she witnessed some potentially problematic behavior, referring to his heavy drinking, but she felt really, really safe with him.
00:17:48.000Well, congrats on only allegedly abusing one of the women who was interviewed.
00:17:54.000I should point out, by the way, that Fifield has an entire thread today talking about how she regrets trusting the New York Times.
00:18:02.000Here's what she said Quote, As they left my home, they asked that I not talk to any other outlets, and I insisted then and repeatedly over the following weeks I would keep my word.
00:18:08.000I would only share this story with them.
00:18:28.000Why are there 11 paragraphs dedicated to detailing my work history?
00:18:32.000More than has been published about Graham's by far.
00:18:34.000Why does it say nobody could corroborate when I offered them sources that could corroborate?
00:18:39.000Where were the screenshots they'd said they would use?
00:18:41.000Or the mention that I'd supported local Democrats and that most of my family and husband are liberal?
00:18:45.000It dawned on me this was really a setup all along.
00:18:48.000The journalist I trusted, who convinced me to share a story I never wanted to tell, methodically delayed and twisted this into a gift to the Platner campaign, violating the trust of his victims, shattering the trust I placed in them with the most vulnerable story of my life.
00:19:01.000Why are Democrats making common cause with radical Islamists at this point?
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00:20:08.000Okay, so what are Democrats doing about all of this?
00:20:14.000And he's talking about how none of it's true.
00:20:16.000I mean, I can't deny about the like wanting to rape the home invaders like that because a man, because you know, yeah, yeah, beard, because beard, yeah.
00:20:25.000But you know, other than that, it's all false.
00:20:27.000Like, I didn't know that a Nazi tattoo was a Nazi tattoo.
00:21:42.000And I think the first question is like, when did this stop?
00:21:45.000If it stopped, if there was stuff that you're not proud of, that you worked out with your wife, you don't want to talk about the details, when did it stop?
00:22:51.000And if people would like to continue to drag things up from that time in my life, I'm sure that we are going to see at some point somebody attempt to do exactly that.
00:23:12.000Well, he also said this is why regular people don't want to get involved.
00:23:15.000It's because of stuff like this that regular people don't want.
00:23:18.000Regular people who were Silver Spoon and then who joined the military and blamed everyone else for joining the military.
00:23:23.000And then people who started an oyster farm to supply their mom's restaurant.
00:23:28.000Why can't a regular guy just start an oyster farm, supply his mom's restaurant, and get a $200,000 loan for his house from his parents, like a regular Silver Spoon guy, and then run for Congress while sexting 87 different women and three elk in the wilds of Maine?
00:23:43.000And why can't a guy who just wants to rape home invaders not run for Congress?
00:23:46.000What are we going to do as a country if men, real men, manly men, can't run for Congress?
00:24:18.000It's been hard on my family, it's been hard for both Amy and I.
00:24:23.000And it's just hard in general to have to go through life having been a private citizen when nobody was paying attention to, to suddenly have the entire world really, really caring or digging through everything that you've ever done.
00:26:07.000I want to thank every survivor that is here today, that is allowing themselves and everyone in this country to be re traumatized over and over because people and people like Dr. Anita Hill, I mean, people like Anita Hill and Dr. Ford have to sit there in front of panels of 11 men.
00:26:26.000Could you imagine if Brett Kavanaugh had to sit in front of a panel of 11 women of color deciding his fate?
00:26:49.000Rokhana is going to rally for Platner today.
00:26:52.000Rokhana is a member of this radical progressive caucus among the Democrats, and he says he believes that Graham Platner has redeemed himself.
00:27:19.000He did it when he was signing up to serve this country in the military.
00:27:24.000And I guess I have a view of redemption.
00:27:26.000And he has unequivocally owned up to it, said that it was wrong, that he learned from it.
00:27:32.000And the question is are we going to believe in redemption and people being flawed and then having a chance to move on?
00:27:41.000So let's just be clear about what the Democratic Party has now become.
00:27:43.000It's a party that greenlights Nazi tattoos.
00:27:46.000It is a party that greenlights actual, honest to God terror support, whether from Abdul El Sayed, the Democrat Senate candidate in Michigan, who may very well become a senator from Michigan.
00:28:42.000Could you characterize for us what you recall him saying?
00:28:45.000Quote He basically, you know, was very critical of America's foreign policy against Muslims in general, especially during the Gulf War.
00:28:50.000Their support for Israel in general, and like their lack of action in Bosnia, basically the entire foreign policy of the United States, he was very critical of.
00:28:58.000Also, Hamawi, when he wasn't testifying for actual convicted terrorists, he volunteered in the 1990s for a medical organization in Bosnia, later revealed by the 9 11 Commission to have ties to Al Qaeda.
00:29:10.000And in 2024, he spent a month volunteering in what he insisted was a completely benign civilian hospital in Gaza with no tunnels underneath it, before Israeli forces subsequently identified that facility as having a tunnel literally connected to Hamas leader.
00:29:55.000The reason is because you find the allies of convenience in order to wreck the civilization you are a part of.
00:30:00.000Well, here is Hamawi going after ICE by suggesting that originally ICE was Islamophobic.
00:30:04.000Now ICE needs to be dismantled because it's against Hispanics or some such.
00:30:10.000Well, ICE was formed as a result of 9 11, and it was formed after that with the Department of Homeland Security.
00:30:19.000And it was made initially targeting Muslims within the Muslim community, and ever since has been targeting black and brown communities throughout America.
00:30:28.000It was done urgently and in a very quick manner without much thought.
00:30:35.000And it's continued to terrorize people until we have the institutions that we see today with mass storm troopers going through our streets.
00:30:46.000It's all the coalition of the dispossessed, the coalition of third worldism, the coalition of people who hate the civilization, which is why Hamawi was on with terrorist supporter Hassan Piker explaining that we need to dismantle the American military and we need to dismantle DHS.
00:31:43.000Now, Dinesh D'Souza did an interview at one point with a guy named Imam Muhammad Tawhidi, who is a Shia Muslim, a third generation Imam of Iraqi descent, who is allegedly a reformed Muslim.
00:31:56.000And he explained in September 2020 that he would only vote for the left.
00:32:03.000When I was an extremist, Islamist, fundamentalist, I would only vote left.
00:32:31.000They'd give their vote to the leftist who wants to run around in pride parades.
00:32:40.000Okay, now, there was some Muslim voting for President Trump in the last election cycle, mainly because.
00:32:46.000The left went so psychotic on LGBTQ divided by sign issues that even Muslims who didn't like Trump's Middle East agenda were like, man, I can't vote for that.
00:32:54.000But the reason that the left is making common cause with radical Muslims is because there is, in fact, a common cause to be made.
00:33:01.000And the reason that radical Muslims are making common cause with the radical left is because there is, in fact, a common cause.
00:33:07.000That is the thing that they are looking for.
00:33:10.000Again, there is a reason why you will get gay rights talk from Abdul El Sayed in Michigan, while at the same time, he will not come out in favor of the killing of Ayatollah Khomeini.
00:33:21.000Who's the leader of a country that literally hangs gay people from cranes?
00:33:26.000There's a fair amount of dissimulation happening, shall we say.
00:33:32.000Mehdi Hassan was appearing with Patrick Bett David and he was talking about this phenomenon.
00:33:40.000Islam in general, obviously, I'm not an Islamic scholar, but Islam as traditionally practiced, like Christianity and Judaism as traditionally practiced, is very hostile to the idea of homosexuality.
00:33:54.000Let me give you some polls because you keep talking about Americans, this and that.
00:33:57.000So in 2017, Pew did a poll of Americans, and they found that Muslim Americans were more likely to say 52%, I think it was, of Muslim Americans said that homosexuality should be accepted in society.
00:34:10.000You know how many white evangelical Protestants said that?
00:35:20.000And the reality is that, again, on a tactical level, voting in favor of Democrats.
00:35:27.000Voting in favor of Democrats, there is a reason for that.
00:35:29.000If you think that Dearborn, Michigan is a moderate place and that is why Dearborn, Michigan is voting in favor of Democrats, that is not why Dearborn, Michigan is voting in favor of Democrats.
00:35:38.000The world is a complicated place and people have lots of different views.
00:35:41.000But when people come down to their core views about whether the West is, in fact, a good place or a bad place, whether the values of the West ought to be upheld or not upheld, the same polls that he is citing, the same poll numbers with regards to, say, British Muslims and their feelings about pro democracy, Same population polled on whether blasphemy against Islam should be prosecuted.
00:36:02.000We'll say blasphemy against Islam should be prosecuted.
00:36:06.000So, again, poll numbers can say a lot of things.
00:36:08.000But bottom line is that when it comes to the Democratic Party, the reason the Democratic Party is making overtures to people with Nazi tattoos and to radical Muslims is because it is a pseudo coalition of the pseudo oppressed.
00:36:20.000That is the thing that is happening right now, politically speaking.
00:36:23.000Well, joining us online to discuss the rise of anti Semitism on the left is Batya Ungersargum.
00:36:28.000She, of course, is the host of Batya on News Nation.
00:36:36.000Titled The Jews and the Left, which I feel like is kind of apt today, unfortunately.
00:36:41.000But yeah, I have to say, the good news for your book is the bad news for the country, which is that the book is incredibly relevant.
00:36:46.000And that is unfortunate because it turns out that most of the left is fine with guys with Nazi tattoos.
00:36:54.000So why don't you talk a little bit about sort of the premise of the left?
00:36:57.000Why has the left turned so hard against Jews?
00:37:00.000Because it's pretty clear that's what's happening right now.
00:37:03.000Yeah, thank you so much for having me, Ben.
00:37:05.000I'm a huge, huge admirer of yours, as you well know.
00:37:08.000I know I feel a little guilty because obviously, like the news cycle, which is so terrible for the nation, is actually pretty good for my book sales.
00:37:15.000But, um, yeah, and it's amazing because not only is the left so comfortable with this guy who has a Nazi tattoo, which he had for 18 years, but the two top Jewish politicians in the country, Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders, are standing by him, right?
00:37:33.000There's the question that I get asked the most when I travel the country.
00:37:35.000I'm sure you get this question all the time, Ben, which is, Why are the Jews Democrats when the left has turned on them and the right really has our back?
00:37:44.000And the second piece of it, of course, is what you just asked me, which is, and why did the left turn on the Jews?
00:37:50.000And I think the reason the left turned on the Jews is the same reason that it turned on Christians, the same reason it turned on Western civilization, and the same reason it turned on America.
00:37:59.000It has bought into this oppressor oppressed binary.
00:38:02.000They threw out the distinction between right versus wrong, which the entire Judeo Christian West is built on, including this great nation, and instead they worship Weakness.
00:38:12.000And anybody they see as having strength or privilege or power is coded as evil.
00:38:18.000And anybody who is coded as oppressed is coded as virtuous and has no moral responsibilities, which is, of course, how they ended up being on Hamas's side after October 7th.
00:38:29.000I think the question of the Jews is a little more complicated, especially because for the first 300 years of American Jewish history, we weren't Democrats, actually.
00:38:40.000We were seen by the founding fathers from actually Americans here from the day we set.
00:38:45.000Foot on American soil in 1654, which is where my book begins, as equals, as partners in the creation of this great nation.
00:38:54.000We were utterly, utterly refused to be treated as an oppressed minority in America throughout our history here.
00:39:02.000And I think that what happened is American Jews lost sight of that early history.
00:39:06.000They started to see themselves as an immigrant community and as an oppressed minority because they found their home politically on the left.
00:39:15.000And as such, they found it almost impossible to understand that the left was.
00:39:21.000And I think that it is such a tragedy that American Jews have misread that history.
00:39:26.000And that's really why I wrote this book, to give it back to our community.
00:39:31.000Now, one of the things that I think is so astonishing is how the entire left has gone along with the smuggling of anti Semitism into the discourse simply by people substituting the term anti Zionism for anti Semitism.
00:39:43.000People just saying Israel when what they actually mean is Jews.
00:39:46.000And obviously, you and I agree that there are many critiques that can be leveled at Israel from right and left.
00:39:51.000There are a lot of things that the Israeli government does.
00:39:53.000That are worthy of critique, just like any other government on planet Earth.
00:39:56.000That is not what we're talking about here.
00:39:58.000What we are talking about when people say anti Zionist, the point that I've made is that people have misdefined Zionism and anti Zionism.
00:40:04.000Zionism used to be the proposition in 1920 that the Jews should have a state, and the state didn't exist yet.
00:40:11.000So now the Jews have had a state for 80 years.
00:40:13.000And so now when you say the Jews should not have a state, that is an active call for the destruction of a currently existing state as opposed to any other state on planet Earth, which would entail the murder of literally millions of Jews.
00:40:24.000And so making the case that modern anti Zionism has no truck with anti Semitism or is completely unrelated.
00:40:30.000Or that when you make the case that Israel controls American foreign policy, what you're not really saying is that Jews control American.
00:40:37.000But you see, it's amazing to watch the media coverage of, for example, Hassan Piker or Graham Plattner from the New York Times, where they will take obviously anti Semitic things that people are doing and saying, and they will just say, well, it's about Israel.
00:40:50.000And how successful do you think that strategy has been?
00:42:13.000But a Jew who says, I don't want 8 million Jews in Israel to give Sharia law a chance because I have a feeling it's not going to go so well for them, no room for them.
00:42:23.000It is so utterly disgusting, and it is such a betrayal of American Jewish history because so many Jews, two thirds of Jews, to this day remain Democrats and very tightly connected to their liberal values.
00:42:40.000One of the things that is astonishing, I said a little bit earlier on the show.
00:42:43.000Basically, the only thing that could stop Graham Platner from being the Democrat nominee, it seems, or from being backed by the Democratic establishment, is if he wore a Magin David the way that you are on your necklace.
00:42:52.000If he wore your necklace, there is no shot whatsoever that he would be the nominee for Maine.
00:42:56.000But if he's got an actual Nazi tattoo, apparently, that is not some sort of bar to office for him, which is an astonishing, astonishing thing.
00:43:03.000And you mentioned this kind of game that's played where they say, well, we revere the Jewish faith, we just hate Israel or think it shouldn't exist.
00:43:11.000That is like saying we revere Catholicism, we just think the Vatican should not exist.
00:43:15.000We revere Islam, we just think that Mecca should be ruled by Christians and the Kaaba should basically be desecrated.
00:43:34.000And so to pretend that that's not a central tenet of Jewish faith, but say you respect Judaism, that's entirely stupid just on its face.
00:43:42.000And obviously, in practical terms, when people say that they think that Israel should not exist, what they mean, and they would never say it about any other state, and this is what necessitates the anti Semitic lies, is that they mean it should be destroyed.
00:43:52.000And that means that a lot of people would die, and a lot of people would live second, they'd live demist status, which is what exactly Jews lived under in the Islamic world for legitimately hundreds of years.
00:44:02.000They would never say it about Japan, they would never say it about France, they would never say it about Saudi Arabia, but they'll say it about Israel.
00:44:06.000And in order to get there, that means they then have to perpetuate extraordinary lies about Israel to show why Israel is somehow an exception to the rule that states that exist should not be destroyed.
00:44:16.000And so that's when they have to start charging Israel with absolute lies, like Israel's a genocidal state, or Israel's an apartheid state, or Israel is some sort of ethnocentric state, as opposed to, say, Japan, which is 97% Japanese.
00:44:28.000Israel is significantly more ethnically diverse and religiously diverse than Japan is, for example.
00:44:33.000You wrap all of that up, and what it amounts to is just an entire smokescreen for what is really going on.
00:44:38.000What's really going on is what you talk about in your book, The Jews and the Left, which is the left has a matrix, and that matrix says that they're an oppressor and they're oppressed, that they're victims and victimizers.
00:44:46.000And if you are successful, you're inherently a victimizer.
00:44:48.000And when you establish that matrix and then apply it to the Middle East, and the only successful state in the Middle East is the tiny Jewish state existing on a resource free piece of land that was largely swamp and desert in 1947, you know, that is that you apply that matrix and suddenly it's pretty clear why exactly all of this comes together.
00:47:14.000Well, on the social liberalism front, the big story that let the internet on fire is the story of one Jesse Ridgeway, who is known online as McJugger Nuggets.
00:48:00.000Again, we here at the Ben Shapiro show are big fans of ultrasounds, specifically because there are a lot of women who don't recognize what it is that is growing inside them because they've been lied to.
00:48:10.000And this is why we team with pro life organizations in order to get ultrasounds for women who are pregnant and thinking about whether to abort or not.
00:48:25.000So you see the ultrasound and all of it.
00:48:28.000Well, on June 3rd, Jesse then posted a detailed statement on X, reposted by his wife, announcing that they had killed the baby in utero, which is what abortion is.
00:48:43.000Here is the tweet This week, my wife and I made the very difficult decision to terminate the pregnancy due to trisomy 21.
00:48:49.000We really appreciate all of the personal stories you guys shared with us, especially the unconditional support we received from fans with no matter what we decided.
00:48:56.000I know some of you may be very disappointed to hear this news.
00:48:59.000This has been extremely traumatic for both of us, especially Ashley.
00:49:50.000It is objectively from a health perspective.
00:49:52.000I just didn't realize how rough it is for the child, let alone the family.
00:49:55.000More often than not, they'll be fully dependent on others for the rest of their life.
00:49:59.000The miscarriage risk is also close to 50%, which made matters worse.
00:50:02.000It may never see the light of day and it puts Ashley further at risk.
00:50:04.000We spoke with doctors, friends, family, and genetic counselors and learned that up to 90% of women terminate their pregnancy after learning the baby has trisomy 21.
00:51:06.000Also, when you make the decision to get pregnant, when you get pregnant, this obviously is part of the calculation.
00:51:14.000Because what is very obvious from this entire story is that from the very beginning, it is acknowledged as a human life.
00:51:20.000The ultrasound was done and they are excited.
00:51:21.000They're not excited because there is no human value here.
00:51:24.000Not only that, What this post demonstrates, the reason the wife is devastated, the reason he is devastated, is because this is not a meaningless cluster of cells.
00:51:46.000Morality is very often incredibly difficult.
00:51:50.000That doesn't mean that life is always wonderful or beautiful or simple.
00:51:55.000It does mean that doing the moral thing is required, whether or not it is difficult.
00:51:59.000And the only person in this scenario who really pays the price is the child.
00:52:05.000Because is the idea that the child was unworthy of life?
00:52:08.000Did the child do something to not earn life?
00:52:11.000Was that child's life not worth living?
00:52:15.000That is the actual presumption that if you have all of these conditions, it's better if the child is never alive than if the child is born.
00:52:23.000I mean, the famous Ronald Reagan phrase is that he's noticed that everybody who's for abortion has already been born.
00:52:31.000What makes it even more immoral, obviously, and kind of absurd, is that the same YouTuber had put out a post earlier this year talking about their dog being diagnosed with stage four kidney disease last year.
00:53:07.000And the care for a sick dog, a dog who will never feel the way a human feels about life, a dog who will never have life experiences that a human will have, that disconnect is about, unfortunately, convenience.
00:53:26.000And again, I'm not going to pretend that convenience is an important factor in life.
00:53:32.000But sacrifice and morality are about sacrifice and morality.
00:53:36.000Every child is, in fact, a blessing, but that doesn't mean all blessings are easy.
00:53:40.000We have this bizarre notion in our society that everything in your life is either all good or all bad, either all easy or all hard, and that hard equals bad and easy equals good.
00:54:09.000Of true serious hardship, sometimes into true serious hardship.
00:54:13.000That's why they are heroes for doing it.
00:54:15.000But being heroic means standing up for morality when the thing is hard.
00:54:21.000And if we have a world full of people who simply dispose of babies for convenience, there is something truly evil happening on a societal level.
00:54:29.000And when he says, you know, anyone who would back us, no matter what decision we make, you cannot make a decision about another person's life and be supported in that decision when it affects that other person's life.
00:54:39.000And the entire premise of this entire story, all of it, soup to nuts, is that this was a child.
00:54:46.000Otherwise, this would have no relevance to anybody.
00:56:23.000Again, this is the reason that we're commenting on it is because it's public.
00:56:27.000They are the ones who made this public in the first place.
00:56:28.000And so it becomes an issue of public controversy.
00:56:30.000There are going to be a lot of people today say, well, it's a private decision.
00:56:33.000It's no longer about what a person's decision is, even though, again, I think that we all have something to say about when somebody does something that is morally wrong, obviously.
00:56:43.000But when it becomes an issue of public controversy, we certainly have something to say about that because it depends on what society's standards are.
00:56:49.000And society's standards should be, obviously, the protection of human life because otherwise people make decisions not based on the interests, the independent interests of a human life with potential.
00:56:59.000They make a decision based on what they believe their lifestyle will be and how their life will be affected by that thing.
00:57:05.000That's why you have moral rules in the first place.
00:57:07.000It's why you have moral standards in the first place.
00:57:10.000Okay, in a brief bit of news, remember John Bolton was being prosecuted for revealing classified information.
00:57:18.000And I said at the time I would wait to see how that case shook out because it's quite possible he did violate the law.
00:57:22.000A lot of people were saying he was being targeted, even though he hadn't violated the law by President Trump.
00:57:26.000I said, listen, you have to wait till the evidence comes out.
00:57:27.000Well, now he has reached a deal with federal prosecutors to plead guilty to unlawfully retaining classified information, according to people familiar with the matter.
00:57:37.000He is set to plead guilty to a single charge.
00:57:39.000And pay a $2.25 million fine, he could face up to five years in prison.
00:57:46.000Again, the whole thing was about him sharing diary like entries about his daily activities in the Trump White House, which is a violation of classified information rules.
00:57:54.000To me, you either should consistently apply these things or not.
00:57:59.000And so if you violated the law, then you should be punished in the same way Hillary Clinton should have been punished, in the same way that Joe Biden should have been punished.
00:59:31.000In one area where ballots that cannot automatically be read by scanners are reviewed by election workers, roughly 25 bins of ballots appeared ready for processing while no employees were seated at nearby desks.
00:59:43.000You can see rows and rows of vacant desks and also giant pallets of ballots that have not yet.
00:59:56.000And so the percentage of total votes expected drops in the middle of the calculation.
01:00:02.000For the Karen Bass, Spencer Pratt, Nithya Brahman mayoral race in Los Angeles on Wednesday, it suggested 63.1% of the votes in with an estimated remaining 290,000 votes.
01:00:14.000And today it says 64.3% of the votes are in with an estimated remaining 311,000 votes.
01:00:20.000There is no reason they have to do it this way.
01:00:22.000It needs to be changed because otherwise, whether or not it is true, people are certainly going to have the perception that there is some funny business going on.
01:00:32.000You want to foreclose the possibility of people having election doubts?
01:00:35.000You can actually just have a good process.
01:00:37.000Here in Florida, Jeb Bush did a great job of regularizing the process.
01:00:41.000We know that night always who won and who lost, which is the way it really should work.
01:00:46.000So I promised you a game to pick for Spurs Knicks at the top of the show because.
01:02:16.000I broke into actual hot sports talk yesterday on the show, and apparently there was some segment of the population that liked that.
01:02:22.000So now we're going to have to do a game two preview.
01:02:25.000So here's my case for why the Spurs are going to win game two and still have the upper hand in the series.
01:02:29.000They played as badly as it is humanly possible to play in game one, and Mitch Johnson made pretty much every bad coaching decision that you can make in game one, and they still barely lost.
01:02:38.000The reason I say this is they shot 11 for 42 from three.
01:02:41.000There's not a team in the NBA that will win a game shooting 11 for 42 from three.
01:02:46.000They were playing Wemby on Carl Anthony Towns out by the three point line.
01:02:49.000They're running ISOs for Wemby at 29 feet out from the basket.
01:02:56.000He took out Dylan Harper, the only guy who was playing well, with four minutes left to go in the game and the game tied.
01:03:00.000So just a series of horrifyingly bad decisions.
01:03:03.000They were allowing somehow the Knicks to really target Champagne with Brunson.
01:03:08.000They were running switches so they would get Champagne on him, and Brunson's eyes were opening up like, Cartoon character viewing a hamburger.
01:03:14.000And so when I look at the Knicks, the Knicks, Brunson in the second half was just dynamite.
01:03:18.000Carl Anthony Towns played the game of his life.
01:03:20.000I've never seen Carl Anthony Towns play a smarter or better game than he played the other night against Wembanyana.
01:03:25.000So when I look at that, I see the Knicks playing like an eight out of 10 game the other night and the Spurs playing about a four out of 10 game.
01:03:31.000And so I feel like course correction will happen.
01:06:23.000Have the Knicks now figured out the Spurs, and now they're just going to run this thing to daylight, and this is a five game series, and it's over?
01:06:28.000Or are the Spurs going to come back with a couple of haymakers?
01:06:31.000And watching game one, it was like, I mean, it was a great game.
01:06:34.000It was a badly played game in some ways, but it was a really good game.
01:06:37.000Fun game to watch because it was these two teams throwing haymakers at each other.
01:06:40.000And the Spurs did not go down quietly.
01:06:42.000I mean, yes, they were up 14, but then they were down eight.
01:06:44.000And when they were down eight, they came all the way back to tie.
01:06:47.000And that's why, again, I was yelling at the TV when Mitch Johnson decided to take out the only player who was playing well for them, Dylan Harper, with four minutes left, who was playing with actual aggression.
01:08:23.000Now that you're giving me this much room, I'm not even going to bet on you whether the Knicks or Spurs are going to win the series.
01:08:29.000Now I'm going to make you bet on a Knicks sweep because this actually puts your money where your mouth is.
01:08:34.000Because if, like, I'm not sure I would put money on the Spurs in a six or seven game series, I would definitely put money that the Spurs are not going to get swept.
01:08:42.000I do not think the Spurs are going to get swept.
01:08:44.000So, how much money do you want to put?
01:08:45.000Brent, you're recognizing that money means a lot less to me than it does to you.
01:08:51.000How much money are you willing to put?
01:09:45.000I'm not sure my wife's going to be happy with the decision I might make.
01:09:49.000At seven o'clock, when we're actually supposed to leave to go to this concert, I'll probably be in the bar in the stadium somewhere, just glued to this TV and definitely not watching a foreign country star, just like I won't be wording for a foreign basketball player.
01:10:04.000Basketball is for Americans and so is country music.
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