The Ben Shapiro Show - Biden Says Trump Is A Nazi

00:00:00.000 As the 2024 election gets closer, Joe Biden is becoming more and more desperate.

00:00:04.000 And he should be. 0.94

00:00:05.000 The world is an uglier and uglier place under President Biden.

00:00:08.000 Nearly no one believes that the country is moving in the right direction. 0.79

00:00:12.000 And Joe Biden is clearly an ailing man.

00:00:14.000 He is not with it.

00:00:15.000 Everyone knows it.

00:00:16.000 That apparently includes former President Barack Obama.

00:00:18.000 So according to the Washington Post over the weekend, quote, Former President Barack Obama has raised questions about the structure of President Biden's re-election campaign, discussing the matter directly with Biden and telling the president's aides and allies the campaign needs to be empowered to make decisions without clearing them with the White House, according to three people familiar with the conversations.

00:00:36.000 In other words, Barack Obama is telling Joe Biden to outsource his campaign to people who are not Joe Biden.

00:00:43.000 Now, apparently, Obama grew animated in discussing the election.

00:00:46.000 He recommended David Proof, who's Obama's own 2008 campaign manager, to head up Joe Biden's re-elect effort.

00:00:52.000 Other Democrats are also deeply worried about Biden's re-elect chances.

00:00:55.000 According to the Post, quote, Representative Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, who is running for her state's Open Senate seat, has expressed concern to allies she might not be able to win if Biden is at the top of the ticket, according to people familiar with those conversations.

00:01:07.000 And according to Axios, quote, many high level Democrats think things are not fine.

00:01:10.000 They fear the president's political machine hasn't found the sweet spot between a chill Zen and dangerous complacency and has been way too Zen.

00:01:18.000 Biden's allies are worried that his base won't show up.

00:01:21.000 That includes Jim Clyburn.

00:01:22.000 You remember Jim Clyburn, the congressman from South Carolina whose endorsement of Joe Biden over Bernie Sanders basically turned the primary elections in 2020 toward Joe Biden.

00:01:32.000 Here's Clyburn saying that he's worried that voter turnout is just not going to happen for Joe Biden.

00:01:37.000 How worried are you about black voters showing up for President Biden in November?

00:01:45.000 Well, I'm not worried.

00:01:46.000 I'm very concerned, and I have sat down with President Biden.

00:01:50.000 I don't know.

00:01:51.000 I saw those reports.

00:01:53.000 I've also seen at least one report indicating that I have sat down with President Biden, and I did with him, and I've told him what my concerns are.

00:02:06.000 I have no problem with the Biden administration and what it has done.

00:02:12.000 My problem is that we have not been able to break through that MAGA wall in order to get to people exactly what this president has done.

00:02:25.000 Guys, don't worry.

00:02:26.000 He's not worried.

00:02:27.000 He's just deeply, deeply concerned.

00:02:29.000 And again, he should be deeply, deeply concerned because 2020 was an outlier election in terms of voter turnout.

00:02:34.000 As we discussed last week, the percentage of eligible voters who showed up to vote in 2020 or voted by mail was 67%.

00:02:42.000 That is like six to seven percentage points higher than in most prior elections.

00:02:47.000 So a real statistical outlier.

00:02:49.000 Do you think that Joe Biden is going to get that kind of turnout in 2024?

00:02:52.000 The answer is not based on his performance.

00:02:55.000 So this means that Biden is already turning to his very last messaging refuge.

00:02:59.000 Stop Donald Trump.

00:03:01.000 So last week on Friday, he gave a speech in Valley Forge.

00:03:05.000 That was a weird place to effectively launch your re-election campaign, because when you think of Valley Forge, you're immediately thinking of negativity, right?

00:03:13.000 Valley Forge is not a happy place.

00:03:15.000 You're thinking a nation under attack, trying to live through its darkest moments.

00:03:19.000 Just about in the shadow of defeat.

00:03:21.000 It's not about hope or about change.

00:03:22.000 It's about soldiering through the winter.

00:03:24.000 It's about George Washington and a bunch of starving men at a fort.

00:03:28.000 It's about gangrene and frostbite.

00:03:30.000 Now, when I think about that stuff, I don't think reelect success.

00:03:34.000 If you're the president and you're running based on your record and you're running based on what a high achievement your first administration has been, opening your campaign at Valley Forge is not exactly an inspiring moment.

00:03:46.000 But we'll get to why Joe Biden picked Valley Forge in just one moment.

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00:04:46.000 Puretalk.com Okay, so Joe Biden shows up in Valley Forge to give this speech, and the entire theme of the speech is going to be how he is like George Washington, and it turns out that Donald Trump is like Hitler.

00:05:03.000 This is the entire theme of the speech, and it's going to be the theme of the campaign.

00:05:05.000 So you think that 2020 was a rough campaign?

00:05:08.000 Wait until 2024.

00:05:08.000 We're in it.

00:05:11.000 It has begun.

00:05:11.000 This is the first time, by the way, that Joe Biden has really launched against Trump in the campaign.

00:05:16.000 So he's really been attacking quote-unquote MAGA Republicans in the impression that perhaps somebody who is not Donald Trump is going to win the nomination.

00:05:23.000 I think Biden is already figuring, I have to define my opponent.

00:05:26.000 Trump is likely to be the opponent.

00:05:27.000 So he launched a full-scale frontal assault on Donald Trump, at least best he can.

00:05:33.000 Now, the optics he picks for these speeches are always a little bit strange.

00:05:36.000 So the optics he picked for his last democracy is in danger speech, which was, as I recall, before the 2022 election.

00:05:45.000 That one was in Philadelphia.

00:05:46.000 He was flanked by Marines in the background and a blood red Independence Hall.

00:05:52.000 And that is where he declared that this is a battle for the soul of the nation.

00:05:55.000 Well, this time he decided to do a general patent.

00:05:58.000 He's standing in front of a giant American flag.

00:06:01.000 And again, all of this is just a little much.

00:06:03.000 It's a little much.

00:06:04.000 Not the American flag.

00:06:05.000 The American flag's great.

00:06:06.000 But flanking yourself with the American flag while you declare that the people who you are running against are threats to the actual democracy It's a little bit much.

00:06:16.000 It's a little much.

00:06:16.000 And this entire speech was Biden going full Hitler.

00:06:20.000 It was Biden saying that Donald Trump was a full-scale Nazi and those who would vote for him, presumably, are little brown shirts. 0.60

00:06:27.000 That was the message of the speech.

00:06:29.000 He did not really differentiate between Donald Trump and his followers.

00:06:33.000 He did not really differentiate between Trump's followers and other Republicans.

00:06:37.000 He didn't differentiate between Trump voters who don't like January 6th and Trump voters who do like January 6th.

00:06:41.000 Everybody who would vote for Trump is apparently in that particular camp.

00:06:45.000 And that's a very dangerous play.

00:06:47.000 It's the same sort of play that Hillary Clinton tried in 2016 when she suggested that Donald Trump, again, was the leader of the deplorables.

00:06:54.000 And it turns out that no one voted for Hillary Clinton.

00:06:56.000 People just didn't show up.

00:06:57.000 And so she lost the election.

00:06:59.000 Well, what happens this time when you have an ailing, elderly, fragile old man who has tyrannically used the power of the executive in order to overthrow generations of precedent With regard to what the President can and cannot do, standing up there and declaring that his political enemies are actually enemies of the Republic itself.

00:07:18.000 So again, that's why he's at Valley Forge.

00:07:20.000 He wants the dark.

00:07:21.000 He wants the cold.

00:07:22.000 He wants you to feel that.

00:07:23.000 But he wants you to feel that not about his administration, but about Donald Trump.

00:07:26.000 I think that this is a bank shot.

00:07:28.000 I really do.

00:07:30.000 Bank shots don't tend to work in politics. 0.98

00:07:31.000 For those who are not familiar with the basketball terminology, a bank shot is when you use the backboard in order to make a basket.

00:07:37.000 In other words, it requires a ricochet.

00:07:39.000 Joe Biden attacking Donald Trump as a candidate with reference to January 6th particularly as opposed to what Donald Trump will do as president or what Donald Trump's agenda is as president.

00:07:52.000 It's not gonna play because again, the date on the calendar as of today is January 8th of 2024.

00:07:59.000 We are now three full years removed from January 6th.

00:08:03.000 And in that intervening time, Donald Trump has not been the president of the United States.

00:08:08.000 For all the talk about how horrible January 6th was, and I think January 6th actually was quite horrible.

00:08:12.000 For all the talk about how January 6th was horrible, it did not actually stop the peaceful transition of power in the United States.

00:08:18.000 It did not.

00:08:20.000 Donald Trump left office on inauguration day and Joe Biden became president.

00:08:24.000 And since then, there have been three intervening years.

00:08:28.000 Since then, there have been three intervening years of this man being president.

00:08:31.000 And he doesn't want to talk about any of that, any of it.

00:08:33.000 He just wants to talk about how Donald Trump is a threat to the Republic.

00:08:37.000 And again, this would go over a lot better if this guy himself were not a threat to the Republic, as we'll discuss.

00:08:42.000 So here was Joe Biden launching into his, this really was the launch of his campaign.

00:08:47.000 This is the first piece of his campaign relaunch.

00:08:52.000 Today, we gather in a new year, some 246 years later, Just one day before January 6th.

00:09:02.000 A day forever shared in our memory because it was on that day that we nearly lost America.

00:09:08.000 Lost it all.

00:09:11.000 Okay, no one who has a brain believes this.

00:09:14.000 No one believes that January 6th we nearly lost America.

00:09:17.000 It was a riot that went out of control and then was cleared up within three hours and then the vote was certified by Republicans.

00:09:24.000 And then Joe Biden became president of the United States.

00:09:27.000 Does anyone believe that a bunch of dolts and some people who just didn't know what the hell they were doing walking through the Capitol building was a threat to the very fabric of the most powerful republic in the history of the world? 1.00

00:09:38.000 For all the people who are saying that it was a coup, typically a coup requires you to activate the military and to use that military power in order to take control of the levers of power. 0.63

00:09:47.000 Did any of that happen?

00:09:50.000 In the actual building itself, was the crowd generally armed with weaponry?

00:09:55.000 They found some knives on people, they find like, lots of guns on people, bazookas, rocket launchers, like what?

00:10:01.000 Again, you can point out that January 6th was ugly and terrible and was predicated on a lie, which is that the Vice President of the United States had the power to unilaterally overthrow the certified election results from states.

00:10:12.000 That wasn't true.

00:10:13.000 It's a bad legal theory. 0.99

00:10:14.000 And Donald Trump should never have been pushing that crap. 0.99

00:10:17.000 Is that the same thing as we almost lost it all that day? 0.99

00:10:19.000 But here's the thing.

00:10:21.000 The reason that Biden has to say that is because his implication is that if Donald Trump wins the next election, you will never vote again.

00:10:27.000 Do you think that's true?

00:10:28.000 I don't think that's true.

00:10:30.000 I don't think that's true, that if Donald Trump wins the next election, you will never vote again.

00:10:33.000 I don't think, you know, in fact, I know that's not true.

00:10:37.000 I know for a fact that's not true.

00:10:39.000 That is not a reality. 0.60

00:10:40.000 He has to, the worse his presidency looks, the worse he has to paint Trump as a fascist.

00:10:46.000 So the fact that he's going in January of 2024, like 11 months before the election, The fact that he's already going. 0.99

00:10:52.000 Trump is a Nazi.

00:10:53.000 Where do you even go from there? 1.00

00:10:55.000 How do you build a campaign beyond that?

00:10:57.000 What's worse than Nazi? 0.86

00:10:58.000 Like Trump is going to be full-on Satan? 0.98

00:11:00.000 He can't say that because too many Democrats like Satan.

00:11:02.000 But where is he going to go from there?

00:11:05.000 I don't even understand.

00:11:06.000 He's starting.

00:11:07.000 This is his starting point.

00:11:09.000 And so here he goes.

00:11:10.000 He's continuing.

00:11:12.000 Whether democracy is still America's sacred cause is the most urgent question of our time.

00:11:18.000 That's what the 2024 election is all about.

00:11:22.000 The choice is clear.

00:11:23.000 Donald Trump's campaign is about him, not America, not you.

00:11:29.000 Donald Trump's campaign is obsessed with the past, not the future.

00:11:35.000 He's willing to sacrifice our democracy, put himself in power.

00:11:41.000 Our campaign is different.

00:11:43.000 For me and Kamala, our campaign is about America.

00:11:45.000 It's about you.

00:11:46.000 It's about every age and background that occupy this country.

00:11:52.000 No one believes this.

00:11:54.000 Okay, particularly because the line that he spouts there, which is he says, Donald Trump's campaign is obsessed with the past, not the future.

00:12:01.000 He's literally doing an entire speech about January 6th.

00:12:04.000 The entire speech is about January 6th.

00:12:06.000 Now, again, I may not be amazing with math, but I know how calendars work.

00:12:11.000 And I know that January 6th, 2021 is in the past.

00:12:14.000 And I noticed that you're at Valley Forge and you are citing the past.

00:12:19.000 This is in fact the entire schtick of the campaign.

00:12:22.000 So you being out there saying that Donald Trump is all about the past and we're all about the future is obviously not true.

00:12:27.000 Also when he says things like, our sacred democracy is at risk.

00:12:29.000 Again, I would take that a little more seriously if I didn't believe that you were willing to overthrow pretty much every vestige of democracy in pursuit of political power.

00:12:37.000 You attempted to use the Occupational Safety and Hazard Administration in order to foist vaccines on 80 million people and we had to sue you to stop it.

00:12:47.000 You unilaterally declared that you could get rid of student loan debt after acknowledging you don't have the power to do that.

00:12:52.000 I mean, what power has this person not tried to irrigate to himself via the executive?

00:12:59.000 Does anyone truly believe that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are deep down devoted, quote unquote, public servants?

00:13:04.000 No one believes that.

00:13:05.000 Again, this would go a lot better if Joe Biden were not Joe Biden, but Joe Biden is Joe Biden.

00:13:10.000 Making the claim that Donald Trump is self-centered is truly, I mean, like everyone knows that.

00:13:15.000 But how is that any different from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris?

00:13:19.000 The last time we had a true public servant as a president of the United States, I'm not sure it's happened in my lifetime.

00:13:27.000 We'll get to more from Joe Biden's campaign launch speech and what it means for his campaign and all the rest.

00:13:31.000 Because again, the situation in the United States is very grim right now.

00:13:34.000 Things don't look good.

00:13:35.000 They look like Valley Forge.

00:13:36.000 When you're the president campaigning at Valley Forge, it's not going to look amazing for you.

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00:14:50.000 Okay, so more from Joe Biden's speech on Friday, declaring that he was the man standing in

00:14:56.000 the doorway preventing Donald Trump from destroying democracy.

00:14:59.000 Here we go.

00:15:01.000 For the first time in our history, insurrectionists had come to stop the peaceful transfer of

00:15:07.000 power in America.

00:15:08.000 First time smashing windows, shattering doors, attacking the police.

00:15:13.000 Bye.

00:15:14.000 Again, all of these charges would carry a lot more weight if Kamala Harris, your vice president, had tried to bail rioters out of prison during 2020.

00:15:21.000 She tried to bail them out of jail in 2020.

00:15:24.000 And again, anyone who thinks that the January 6th events were even remotely on par with prior insurrections in the United States, like, say, the Civil War, is out of their mind.

00:15:34.000 That's a crazy talk.

00:15:35.000 Like, no one takes the January 6th talk that seriously other than Democrats.

00:15:40.000 Who's he speaking to?

00:15:42.000 Who are the moderates out there who are like, you know, inflation is up 20%.

00:15:46.000 The Red Sea is being overrun by hoovy pirates. 1.00

00:15:50.000 The president might fall down at any moment.

00:15:52.000 The Secretary of Defense literally got lost over the weekend.

00:15:54.000 We'll talk about that in a little while.

00:15:56.000 But I do remember when January 6th was bad.

00:15:59.000 I understand that Democrats want to make this thing like a national holiday and that every year we're going to commemorate January 6th as though it is representative of the great breach in American society.

00:16:08.000 But it really, really is not.

00:16:09.000 It really is not.

00:16:11.000 I think this math works when Joe Biden is not on the ballot.

00:16:14.000 But when Joe Biden is on the ballot, I think it's kind of a tough sell.

00:16:18.000 Then Joe Biden started talking about how he won the last election, which of course is true.

00:16:23.000 What's weird though, is that when he talked about that, he didn't talk about winning the

00:16:27.000 Electoral College, which is actually how you win elections.

00:16:29.000 That was the entire debate of the January 6th rioters and compatriots. They were talking

00:16:34.000 about the Electoral College and state certifications and all the rest. Instead, he cited the

00:16:38.000 popular vote, which again is a weird thing.

00:16:40.000 That's a weird, we don't decide presidential elections in this country based on the popular

00:16:43.000 vote. A record 81 million people voted for my candidacy and to end his presidency.

00:16:53.000 Trump lost the popular vote by 7 million.

00:16:57.000 Okay, then he suggests that Donald Trump, if he were to lose, or if he were to become president again and had the power, he would invoke the Insurrection Act to go arrest all of his enemies.

00:17:06.000 Now again, that is not... When Donald Trump talked about invoking the Insurrection Act, he was talking about to stop actual honest-to-God riots in the streets in 2020.

00:17:15.000 Or is Joe Biden just like, I guess the idea here is that if Donald Trump becomes president, then Joe Biden will end up in jail because Trump invokes the Insurrection Act to overthrow state governments or something.

00:17:24.000 What is he talking about?

00:17:27.000 With former aides, Trump plans to invoke the Insurrections Act, the Insurrection Act, which will allow him to deploy, which is not allowed to do under any circumstances, allow him to deploy U.S.

00:17:39.000 military forces on the streets of America.

00:17:42.000 He said it. 0.96

00:17:47.000 He calls those who oppose him vermin.

00:17:52.000 He talks about the blood of America as being poisoned, echoing the same exact language used in Nazi Germany. 1.00

00:18:03.000 Okay, so again, Trump is a Nazi. 0.99

00:18:05.000 He's a Nazi now. 1.00

00:18:06.000 Now, most of us look at Trump, and we say, that guy says clownish things on the regular. 1.00

00:18:10.000 He does. 1.00

00:18:10.000 He says very silly things all the time. 1.00

00:18:12.000 In the same speech in which he will talk about poisoning the blood of the country, he will talk about how magnets don't work in water. 0.96

00:18:18.000 That's about how seriously most people take Donald Trump's actual verbiage.

00:18:23.000 But we're supposed to believe that Donald Trump Who is buffoonish when he speaks very often, is somehow the same person who is going to invoke the Insurrection Act and send federal troops into your home to arrest you if you oppose him or something.

00:18:37.000 And he says this, the opponents of the Republic are opponents of democracy, he said, at a rally flanked by a giant backdrop of an American flag as he labeled his political opponents enemies of the Republic.

00:18:50.000 And then, of course, he lumps in all Republicans, right?

00:18:53.000 This is his main shtick.

00:18:54.000 His main shtick is that he is going to lump in pretty much everybody.

00:18:59.000 This is clip eight.

00:19:01.000 It's true.

00:19:02.000 The push and pull of American history is not a fairy tale.

00:19:06.000 Every stride forward in America is met with ferocious backlash many times from those who fear progress and those who exploit that fear for their own personal gain.

00:19:16.000 From those who traffic in lies, Told for power and profit.

00:19:21.000 For those who are driven by grievance and grift, consumed by conspiracy and victimhood.

00:19:28.000 From those who seek to bury history and ban books.

00:19:34.000 And again, all of this is just such projection, right?

00:19:36.000 When he says things like, the people who fear progress, meaning if you don't agree with him, those are people who exploit fear for personal gain.

00:19:44.000 He's literally standing there telling you if you don't vote for him, the Republic is over.

00:19:48.000 He's exploiting fear for personal gain.

00:19:50.000 He says, for those who traffic in lies told for power and profit.

00:19:52.000 He literally lies about the history of the United States, suggesting that because America has terrible racial history, that means that all inequality today is a form of inequity.

00:20:03.000 He says that people who are driven by grievance and grift and consumed by conspiracy and victimhood are on the other side?

00:20:09.000 His entire coalition is a coalition of the supposed victims.

00:20:12.000 For most to seek to bury history and ban books, they're literally pulling down statues.

00:20:17.000 It's truly an amazing thing.

00:20:18.000 This pitch is not going to work.

00:20:20.000 If this is Biden's final pitch, I just don't see how this connects in the same way that it did even, say, in 2022.

00:20:27.000 When Joe Biden was not actually on the ballot, right?

00:20:30.000 They say Trump wasn't on the ballot, but neither was Biden.

00:20:32.000 When Biden is on the ballot, is that what you're thinking about?

00:20:35.000 We'll get to Joe Biden in just one second.

00:20:38.000 His actual look, what's actually happening to him, because part of the problem is the person presenting this message is not a credible person presenting this message.

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00:21:48.000 Okay, so.

00:21:49.000 One of the big problems here for Joe Biden is that if you were a ringing image of small-r republicanism, somebody who believes in democracy, he wouldn't look like a senile, decrepit messenger of a failing administration.

00:22:03.000 But that is what he looks like.

00:22:04.000 So Joe Biden concluded his speech, and one of the big problems they've been having on this campaign and throughout his presidency is that Joe Biden literally does not know where to go when these speeches end.

00:22:11.000 He doesn't know what to do.

00:22:13.000 He doesn't know where to go.

00:22:14.000 He gets easily confused.

00:22:16.000 I'm sorry if this is hurting feelings, but it happens to be the obvious case to anyone who has a functioning prefrontal cortex and retinas.

00:22:23.000 Every time Joe Biden finishes a speech, he starts wandering off into walls.

00:22:27.000 It's bizarre.

00:22:28.000 It's Shane Gillis's line, which is that he turns into a Roomba at the end of speeches.

00:22:31.000 It's totally true.

00:22:31.000 So what they do now, I'm not kidding, Joe Biden She actually sprinted up on stage.

00:22:38.000 She sprints up on stage to go grab him by the hand and lead him off the stage. 0.98

00:22:44.000 So here she was.

00:22:45.000 She sprints. 0.87

00:22:45.000 This thing ends. 0.87

00:22:46.000 She's on stage like a shot. 0.81

00:22:47.000 Here we go.

00:22:50.000 I understand power.

00:22:56.000 And he was trying to make a joke about his wife, but he's senile, so it doesn't come off.

00:23:00.000 He's trying to say that she's the real power.

00:23:01.000 She sprints up on stage. 0.99

00:23:02.000 Everyone's like, why is Jill up there?

00:23:04.000 She was in the crowd one second ago.

00:23:05.000 And here's the reason Jill is up there. 0.97

00:23:08.000 She has to lead him back.

00:23:11.000 He can barely walk.

00:23:13.000 And he's still confused.

00:23:17.000 Like at the very end, he's looking around like, where am I?

00:23:18.000 Where are we going?

00:23:20.000 Will there be oatmeal?

00:23:23.000 It's sad, I'm laughing, but it's sad.

00:23:25.000 It actually is sad that the President of the United States is obviously ailing.

00:23:28.000 He's obviously ailing.

00:23:29.000 And by the way, when we talk about threats to democracy, here's kind of a threat to democracy.

00:23:34.000 What happens when you try to disqualify your political opponent from the ballot?

00:23:39.000 What happens when you stick your DOJ on your political opponent, filing no less than four different cases in various jurisdictions, some state, some federal?

00:23:48.000 What exactly?

00:23:50.000 What amounts to an assault on the Republic?

00:23:54.000 Right now, here's a polling stat for you.

00:23:56.000 Ready?

00:23:59.000 81% of Democrats believe that states should disqualify former President Trump from presidential ballots, according to a new CBS News YouGov poll.

00:24:07.000 81% 4 and 5 Democrats believe that Donald Trump should just be thrown off ballots, thrown off the ballots.

00:24:12.000 He's never been criminally convicted of anything.

00:24:14.000 He's not even being charged with insurrection, by the way.

00:24:17.000 In all the various cases where he's being charged, he is not being charged for insurrection, which would be the thing that would theoretically invoke Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

00:24:25.000 But 81% of Democrats want him summarily kicked off the ballot now.

00:24:29.000 Poll Republicans on whether they think that Joe Biden should be actually barred from the ballot.

00:24:33.000 I guarantee it, 81%.

00:24:34.000 You want to talk about insurrectionist legal theories?

00:24:38.000 So basically, the case against Trump, when it comes to January 6th, is twofold.

00:24:42.000 And you'll hear both cases made by Democrats, and usually they merge them.

00:24:45.000 One is that January 6th was, in fact, the actual insurrection.

00:24:48.000 It was like a full-scale coup attempt by Donald Trump, which is weird, since he was the President of the United States, and has the power of the executive to order around the military, which he didn't actually use.

00:24:58.000 So there's that.

00:24:59.000 But the claim is that he incited an insurrection.

00:25:02.000 So the standard for incitement is much stronger than, you need to go peacefully protest at the Capitol building.

00:25:07.000 That is not incitement of an insurrection.

00:25:09.000 Two, it wasn't an actual insurrection. 1.00

00:25:11.000 It was a bunch of morons who decided they were going to break into the Capitol building while screaming and shouting, one dressed like a weird barbarian wearing buffalo horns. 0.99

00:25:19.000 And then a bunch of people who were just kind of following along because the police officers were standing right there and they're walking between the rope lines. 0.99

00:25:25.000 So again, that's not to minimize the violence done to police officers outside the building.

00:25:28.000 Those people were arrested.

00:25:31.000 But case number one that they make is that Trump was responsible for the events of January 6th.

00:25:35.000 And I've said Trump raised the temperature.

00:25:37.000 That's not the same thing as being responsible for the actual breaking into the Capitol building.

00:25:41.000 Two is the idea that from November 4th to January 6th, Donald Trump put forward a bunch of specious legal theories that were untrue about election fraud, about certification of state election results, about what the vice president could do in the face of all of that.

00:25:56.000 And the idea is that that's insurrection.

00:25:58.000 The specious legal theories put forward into law is an attempt at insurrection.

00:26:04.000 And this is the other case that you'll hear Democrats make.

00:26:06.000 What do you call it when you activate state players in various states to literally remove your political opponent from the ballot without a criminal conviction or investigation of any sort?

00:26:16.000 What exactly would you call that?

00:26:18.000 Because if A is insurrectionist activity, then B clearly qualifies as insurrectionist activity.

00:26:24.000 So which is it?

00:26:25.000 You want to talk about threats to democracy?

00:26:26.000 It seems to me like barring your political opponent, the presumed nominee of the opposing party, from the ballot.

00:26:34.000 That seems a little insurrection-y.

00:26:36.000 That seems a little non-democratic.

00:26:38.000 And yet this is what Democrats keep saying.

00:26:40.000 By the way, when Joe Biden says things like Donald Trump is a threat to the republic and that January 6th was in fact an insurrection, he's agreeing with that legal theory.

00:26:49.000 When he suggests January 6th was an insurrection and that Donald Trump is responsible for January 6th, he's agreeing with the legal theory that says Donald Trump needs to be barred from the ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

00:26:59.000 Well, here is Washington, D.C.' 's Mayor Muriel Bowser, who can't stop crime but certainly wants to stop Trump from being on the ballot, talking about Trump being booted from the ballot.

00:27:06.000 Do you think he should be barred from any ballots given his actions on January 6?

00:27:11.000 Well, I support every state taking very aggressive action to keep him off the ballot.

00:27:18.000 He is undergoing, you know, court action across America.

00:27:25.000 That's amazing stuff.

00:27:26.000 Meanwhile, the Colorado Secretary of State, who's responsible for barring Trump from the ballot, they're pending Supreme Court litigation.

00:27:33.000 She says, I'm not disenfranchising anyone by barring, you know, the leading presidential candidate for the opposing party from the ballot.

00:27:40.000 Do you think that there's a risk here of disenfranchising voters?

00:27:46.000 I think the biggest risk of disenfranchising voters happened on January 6th, when Donald Trump tried to steal the presidency from the American people.

00:27:54.000 Make no mistake, that is exactly what he intended to do.

00:28:00.000 We are a country of laws and of constitutions.

00:28:03.000 There are qualifications for office.

00:28:06.000 So, for example, if a lot of voters wanted to vote for Arnold Schwarzenegger, they wouldn't be able to do so because he is disqualified from running for president under the United States Constitution.

00:28:18.000 But don't worry, she's not disenfranchising anyone, because he's actually disqualified.

00:28:20.000 A little anti-democratic, you might say.

00:28:23.000 Not allowing people to vote for, you know, your political opponent.

00:28:25.000 That's exactly how Trump is responding to all of this.

00:28:27.000 He says, uh, you're calling me a dictator?

00:28:28.000 That's rather insulting, since, you know, I left power. 1.00

00:28:32.000 We gotta beat this guy, this fool. 1.00

00:28:33.000 This fool that's destroying our country. 1.00

00:28:38.000 Donald Trump is a dictator. 1.00

00:28:40.000 Can you imagine? 0.96

00:28:41.000 Donald Trump is a dictator. 0.94

00:28:42.000 I'm a dictator.

00:28:44.000 All I want to do is have a great country.

00:28:46.000 I want to have great.

00:28:47.000 I don't want to be ripped off with trade deals.

00:28:49.000 I don't want these countries just ripping us.

00:28:51.000 And boy, we had it stopped.

00:28:53.000 We did USMCA.

00:28:54.000 We did the greatest trade deals ever.

00:28:56.000 But all I want to do is have a great country.

00:28:59.000 Low taxes.

00:29:00.000 We did the best tax deal ever.

00:29:01.000 Bigger than the Reagan tax deal.

00:29:03.000 You know, we just want to have a great country.

00:29:05.000 He says I'm a dictator.

00:29:06.000 It's so insulting.

00:29:07.000 You know, actually, it's insulting.

00:29:09.000 But he's a threat.

00:29:11.000 You know, he's a threat to the... He doesn't even know what the word means.

00:29:14.000 He's a threat to democracy.

00:29:16.000 Okay.

00:29:18.000 And then he says something that's true. 0.87

00:29:20.000 He says you can also be a threat to democracy by being grossly incompetent.

00:29:25.000 Which is what Joe Biden actually is.

00:29:26.000 Trump is not wrong about this.

00:29:27.000 And here is the problem for Joe Biden.

00:29:29.000 If things are going well, Joe Biden would not have to resort to this sort of attack.

00:29:34.000 But he has to now. 0.97

00:29:36.000 And that's because he is grossly incompetent. 0.54

00:29:39.000 You know, this guy goes around and says I'm a threat to democracy. 0.99

00:29:42.000 No, he's a threat because he's incompetent. 0.78

00:29:44.000 He's a threat to democracy.

00:29:46.000 You know, you can be grossly incompetent and be a threat to democracy because he's got us into wars.

00:29:53.000 We're in wars now.

00:29:54.000 You look at the Middle East.

00:29:56.000 Look at what happened in Ukraine.

00:29:57.000 That would have never happened.

00:29:58.000 These things would have never happened.

00:30:00.000 Inflation would have never happened.

00:30:01.000 The attack on Israel would never happen.

00:30:03.000 The attack on Ukraine would never have. 0.70

00:30:05.000 All these things would never have happened.

00:30:10.000 Yeah, that is going to be Trump's strongest argument.

00:30:12.000 Trump's strongest argument is Joe Biden is a bad president.

00:30:14.000 And Biden's apparent strongest argument is Trump is Hitler.

00:30:18.000 Now, the media are going to try and run this one up the flagpole, like all the way up the flagpole. 0.99

00:30:21.000 So Jonathan Capehart is really doing yeoman's work on behalf of the Biden administration from MSNBC.

00:30:25.000 Yet on Michael Fanone, who is one of the officers who was attacked during January 6th.

00:30:31.000 I mean, the media jumped into action, by the way, on this thing, like super fast.

00:30:34.000 The minute that Biden gave the speech, they immediately went into January 6th mode, which was like crying actual real tears on TV about January 6th, which again, happened three years ago.

00:30:43.000 Here's Jonathan Capehart literally crying on TV about this.

00:30:47.000 Joining me now in studio is Michael Fanone, former D.C.

00:30:50.000 Metropolitan Police Officer, Courage for America Council Member, and author of Hold the Line, The Insurrection, and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul.

00:31:01.000 Officer Fanone, I'm going to try to get through this.

00:31:06.000 Thank you for what you did three years ago today.

00:31:11.000 Please tell me your thoughts on this third anniversary.

00:31:15.000 We are still in the midst of the same fight that began on January 6th, 2021.

00:31:34.000 I think my favorite part about that clip is where Fanon literally has to change his affect.

00:31:38.000 He starts off like, okay, this is gonna be like a normal interview, and then after Jonathan Capehart starts crying, he's like, okay, I also have to get, we're gonna have competitive choking up here, being very, very upset about January 6th.

00:31:48.000 Come, really?

00:31:50.000 Like, really?

00:31:51.000 Like, shedding hot tears about January 6th?

00:31:53.000 In 2024?

00:31:56.000 Truly?

00:31:57.000 Like, of all the things going on on planet Earth, that's the one?

00:32:01.000 Really?

00:32:02.000 Again, what this is going to come down to, if this is a battle between Biden calling Trump Hitler and Trump calling Biden incompetent, I'm sorry, Trump's going to win.

00:32:11.000 He is.

00:32:12.000 Because guess what? 0.99

00:32:13.000 Biden is incompetent and Trump is not Hitler. 0.99

00:32:16.000 You can dislike him. 1.00

00:32:16.000 You can think he's a clown. 1.00

00:32:17.000 You can think he's a fool. 1.00

00:32:18.000 You can dislike his rhetoric. 1.00

00:32:20.000 You can think he's toxic.

00:32:22.000 The number of people who believe, truly believe, that Donald Trump is Hitler, that number is relegated to very, very blue cities.

00:32:28.000 I know I used to live in one, and some people there actually believed that while they were sitting outside in the sunlight in Santa Monica drinking their sparkling wine while Trump was president.

00:32:38.000 It's just, it's an absurd contention.

00:32:41.000 If the battle is between the accurate definition of your opponent, Donald Trump's definition of Joe Biden as incompetent, bad at his job, Borderline senile.

00:32:51.000 And Joe Biden's portrayal of Donald Trump as a full-scale, Hitlerian threat to the republic, like a Nazi.

00:32:59.000 Only one of those is kind of accurate.

00:33:00.000 In just a second, we're going to get to the incompetence of Joe Biden because, again, every week it just seems to get worse.

00:33:05.000 We'll get to that momentarily first.

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00:34:55.000 So how incompetent is this White House?

00:34:57.000 They're losing cabinet officials like my wife loses her cell phone.

00:35:01.000 Like, it's crazy.

00:35:03.000 Both of those things.

00:35:04.000 My wife loses her cell phone like literally all the time, like at least multiple times a day.

00:35:08.000 We've joked before that when it becomes available, we will chip her like a cat so she doesn't lose her cell phone.

00:35:12.000 But Joe Biden needs to be chipped with his administration officials or something because they just go missing for like...

00:35:19.000 Significant periods and no one notices.

00:35:21.000 It's crazy.

00:35:22.000 So you remember when Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg took paternity leave to help his ailing husband who had just given birth for a couple of months and no one noticed.

00:35:32.000 He was just gone for like two months.

00:35:34.000 Everybody's like, well, where's Pete?

00:35:37.000 Well, now this is way worse, by the way.

00:35:39.000 This right here is way, way worse.

00:35:41.000 Apparently, Lloyd Austin, who is the Secretary of Defense.

00:35:43.000 Now, you may notice the United States is currently engaged tangentially But fairly seriously, in two incredibly serious conflicts, the war in Ukraine, where the United States is in fact coordinating with Ukraine, trying to provide military aid and support, and what is going on in the Middle East, where the United States in some cases is directly engaged.

00:36:02.000 We have right now aircraft carriers and battleships in the Middle East, in the Red Sea, in the Mediterranean.

00:36:09.000 We've been shooting down Houthi drones.

00:36:12.000 We have been shooting down Pirate ships, like these little inflatable boats that are being used to attack shipping.

00:36:20.000 Right now, the United States has troops that are in harm's way in Syria, in Iraq, that are being fired upon by Iranian forces.

00:36:28.000 So it makes a bit of a difference where the Defense Secretary is.

00:36:30.000 Like, this stuff is happening in real time.

00:36:32.000 So here is the problem.

00:36:34.000 According to CNN, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks, the Pentagon's number two leader, was among the senior leaders kept in the dark about where the hell Lloyd Austin was.

00:36:43.000 So he checked into the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center following complications from an elective surgery.

00:36:50.000 And then he was just missing!

00:36:52.000 And no one knew.

00:36:54.000 According to Politico, the Pentagon did not tell President Joe Biden and other top officials about Defense Secretary Austin's hospitalization for three full days, according to three U.S.

00:37:03.000 officials.

00:37:03.000 So we're in the middle of all of this conflict all over the world.

00:37:06.000 Really, it's a spicy time in foreign policy.

00:37:09.000 And the Secretary of Defense just goes missing for three days.

00:37:12.000 And Joe Biden does not know.

00:37:15.000 National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and other senior White House aides did not know of Austin's January 1st hospitalization until the DOD sent over word on January 4th.

00:37:25.000 The official said it was highly unlikely Austin had conveyed word to Biden before Jake Sullivan was briefed on it.

00:37:30.000 If Jake didn't know, no way the president knew, said one of them, who would have told him of Austin's condition if not Jake?

00:37:34.000 If someone did tell the president, Jake would have been his first call.

00:37:38.000 Biden held a cordial conversation with Austin on Saturday night, per one of the U.S.

00:37:41.000 officials.

00:37:42.000 The president has complete trust and confidence in Secretary Austin, the official said.

00:37:46.000 But as the news of Austin's situation came as a shock to all White House staff, they were unaware the Pentagon boss was dealing with complications following an elective medical procedure.

00:37:55.000 National security staffers were surprised it took the Pentagon so long to let them know of Austin's status.

00:37:59.000 The Pentagon did not make that information public until Friday evening.

00:38:02.000 They notified Congress about 15 minutes before they released a public statement.

00:38:06.000 Austin said, quote, I could have done a better job ensuring the public was appropriately informed.

00:38:10.000 I commit to doing better.

00:38:11.000 But this is important to say this was my medical procedure.

00:38:13.000 I take full responsibility for my decisions about disclosure.

00:38:17.000 Uh, then you need to resign, probably.

00:38:20.000 Because that's crazy!

00:38:21.000 Apparently he was in the ICU for four days.

00:38:26.000 For four days!

00:38:27.000 On Friday evening, as many people were turning toward their weekend, DOD spokesperson Major General Pat Ryder announced Austin had been hospitalized since January 1st.

00:38:35.000 His deputy, Kathleen Hicks, partially assumed some of his duties during that time.

00:38:39.000 But there's one problem.

00:38:40.000 CNN is now reporting that actually, she had no idea where he was.

00:38:45.000 So from January 1st, which again was a Monday, until Thursday, she did not know where he was.

00:38:51.000 So there was no one at the top of the Pentagon in a time of conflict and war.

00:38:58.000 People are assuming the Secretary of Defense at his desk doing his job.

00:39:00.000 Nope.

00:39:01.000 He's in the ICU.

00:39:02.000 The number two has not been informed he's in the ICU.

00:39:04.000 So she's probably not even receiving the updates he should be receiving.

00:39:08.000 This is crazy.

00:39:10.000 That's totally wild.

00:39:12.000 Why exactly would this happen?

00:39:13.000 Apparently, It was because Austin is supposedly too macho to let anybody know that he went in for an elective procedure and ended up in the ICU.

00:39:21.000 But that's a terrible reason.

00:39:23.000 You still have to let people know when you are missing.

00:39:25.000 Producer Zach, not in today.

00:39:27.000 He told us and then he didn't come in because that's how it works when you're sick.

00:39:31.000 When you go to the ICU for four days and you are the Secretary of Defense, You don't even let your number two know?

00:39:40.000 What in the actual- what the- what?

00:39:43.000 What?

00:39:44.000 That's crazy!

00:39:46.000 I'm sorry, that's totally insane.

00:39:48.000 Apparently, these number two- where was she?

00:39:51.000 She was on vacation in Puerto Rico at the time, and she was not informed of Austin's hospitalization until the afternoon of January 4th.

00:39:59.000 At that point, Hicks began to make contingency plans to return to Washington, D.C.

00:40:02.000 on Friday.

00:40:03.000 But, because Austin was expected to return to his full duties, albeit from the hospital, she decided to stay in Puerto Rico to ensure continuity of communications.

00:40:10.000 There are all these people around the Secretary at all times who manage him and help him on a day-to-day basis.

00:40:14.000 No one even told the White House it had won Pentagon officials?

00:40:17.000 I'm surprised that no one is using the word cover-up yet.

00:40:20.000 I mean, it is obviously a cover-up.

00:40:22.000 Like, what the?

00:40:23.000 Wow.

00:40:25.000 Wow, that's crazy.

00:40:27.000 According to Politico, someone's head has to roll, but it's not gonna be Austin's.

00:40:30.000 I'm sure it'll be some low-level aide who was told, you need to tell my number two, and then the number two never got told, so the low-level aide ends up without a job, because that's the way it usually works in Washington, D.C.

00:40:38.000 The higher up shuttles all the responsibility down to somebody lower down, that person gets fired, and that's the end of the story.

00:40:45.000 The White House and Pentagon insist Austin's job is not in jeopardy, but they're sticking to that line, despite not even knowing what's actually been going on at the Pentagon.

00:40:54.000 The President is not in charge.

00:40:55.000 Boston surgery, medical complications, even his current condition remain unclear.

00:40:59.000 Senior defense department and White House officials still don't even know the details of the procedure.

00:41:03.000 Totally insane, totally, totally crazy.

00:41:08.000 And so, no one's in charge.

00:41:10.000 The president is not in charge, the secretary of defense is not in charge.

00:41:12.000 Number two, at the defense department, they don't even know the secretary of defense

00:41:17.000 is not in charge.

00:41:18.000 So things are going amazing.

00:41:19.000 Meanwhile, over on the border, we now have some new stats.

00:41:23.000 According to data released by the Biden administration, the Department of Homeland Security, they say that 2.3 million migrants have been allowed into the southern border, according to DHS.

00:41:36.000 Now, I don't know if that number is real.

00:41:39.000 That number seems low to me.

00:41:41.000 It does.

00:41:41.000 The reason that seems low to me is because at least 6 million border apprehensions have taken place since Joe Biden took office.

00:41:48.000 To put that by way of perspective, during the entire four years of Donald Trump's administration, there were 1.6 million border apprehensions.

00:41:56.000 By the way, an apprehension does not mean that the person is then turned away and sent back home where they came from.

00:42:01.000 A border apprehension means they pick you up, they take you to a detention facility.

00:42:05.000 If you claim asylum, then they release you into the country within 72 hours of the date to come back for some sort of court date.

00:42:11.000 That's literally what it means.

00:42:12.000 The period of time between when you arrive in the country and are picked up by border patrol and when you're released into the interior of the United States is usually within a week, well, always within a week, and usually within 72 hours.

00:42:23.000 So when they say only 2.3 million people have entered the country, I have serious doubts that that number is accurate.

00:42:28.000 I think that number is way, way higher.

00:42:31.000 That also does not include the estimated 1 million gotaways, people who just went into the country, smuggled drugs into the country, or entered between ports of call and were not picked up by Border Patrol.

00:42:42.000 And, apparently, known gotaways only represent, maybe, I mean, they really don't know, because they don't know how many unknown gotaways.

00:42:48.000 They estimated, the CBP, that it's like 60% of all gotaways are known, which means you're talking about another 800,000 unknown gotaways, theoretically.

00:42:59.000 So you're talking about nearly 2 million people who have gotten into the country as gotaways, and you're talking about, according to DHS, 2.3 million, so that's 4.1 million.

00:43:10.000 That's a lot of people.

00:43:11.000 And by the way, the numbers are way higher than that.

00:43:12.000 There's no way it's only 2.3 million people.

00:43:15.000 A DHS spokeswoman said Saturday the agency continues to report significant numbers of unauthorized migrants, including family.

00:43:22.000 But is that reality?

00:43:25.000 I really, really doubt it.

00:43:27.000 Again, all you have to do is look at the charts.

00:43:29.000 The charts are insane.

00:43:31.000 In December of 2020, which is the last month of Donald Trump, full month of Donald Trump's presidency, you're talking about approximately 80,000, 75,000 border apprehensions.

00:43:43.000 By March of 2021, when everybody now realizes Joe Biden's in office, you're looking at north of 175,000 border apprehensions.

00:43:52.000 Like, more than double.

00:43:54.000 And then in December, this last December, 300,000, apparently.

00:44:00.000 These are insane numbers, obviously.

00:44:03.000 And it's a real border crisis.

00:44:04.000 So, it's not just that it's a crisis at the border, it's that everybody knows it's a crisis at the border.

00:44:08.000 So, according to a brand new CBS News YouGov poll, 45% of Americans say what's happening at the border is a crisis.

00:44:15.000 30% say what's happening at the border is very serious.

00:44:18.000 18% say that it is somewhat serious.

00:44:21.000 So you are now up to, by those numbers, 93% of Americans say that it is at least somewhat serious.

00:44:28.000 75% say a crisis or very serious.

00:44:30.000 By the way, it's a crisis.

00:44:31.000 Only 7% say not much of a problem.

00:44:35.000 Hey, that is an astonishing number.

00:44:39.000 According to that same poll, immigrants in your local area have been 40% increasing, 35% haven't noticed, 25% decreasing.

00:44:48.000 As far as whether people believe that the Biden administration should be tougher, should be easier, or is handling things right, 55%.

00:44:56.000 said should be tougher in September.

00:44:58.000 It is now 63%.

00:45:00.000 Two-thirds of Americans believe that Joe Biden should be tougher on the border.

00:45:03.000 Only 16% say that Joe Biden should be easier.

00:45:06.000 And the 21% who say they're handling things right obviously doesn't understand what the hell's going on at the border.

00:45:10.000 By the way, what's actually going on at the border is two things.

00:45:13.000 One, Donald Trump's remain-in-Mexico policy was ended.

00:45:16.000 So when people come to the border and they claim asylum, by American law, they're now put into the system.

00:45:21.000 He used to be.

00:45:21.000 Donald Trump had negotiated a deal with the Mexicans to keep people who applied for asylum in Mexico awaiting their border hearing.

00:45:28.000 This cut down on illegal immigration by a huge margin because a lot of those people get turned down.

00:45:34.000 And if they're waiting in Mexico, they have no entry to the country.

00:45:37.000 Day one, Joe Biden ended that policy, so instead, people come.

00:45:40.000 They immediately say, I fear for my life in my home country.

00:45:42.000 The United States takes them in, processes them, and releases them into the general interior of the United States.

00:45:47.000 That's all you have to do.

00:45:48.000 Just say, I fear to go back to my home country under America's current asylum rules.

00:45:53.000 Number two, because the United States refuses to detain full families together under the Flores settlement, and because the United States Refuses to remain in Mexico.

00:46:03.000 All you have to do is show up with a kid and basically you're gonna be released into the interior of the United States.

00:46:08.000 Joe Biden ended every policy that would have prevented mass illegal immigration.

00:46:13.000 By the way, the cartels know this.

00:46:15.000 The cartels have been redirecting American resources toward this wave of illegal migrants That's why they're doing it. 0.99

00:46:21.000 And then meanwhile, while the Border Patrol is acting as a busing and ferrying service for illegal immigrants, all of the gotaways that we're talking about, drug smugglers, criminals, those people are just entering between these points and just rushing into the interior of the United States, and Border Patrol isn't there.

00:46:34.000 It's not that we require more Border Patrol agents, it's that the Border Patrol agents we do have are basically acting as DMV agents at this point, and members of the local metropolitan busing authority, as opposed to, you know, actual Border Patrol agents.

00:46:47.000 Here's some images.

00:46:49.000 of a breach in the border wall in Arizona.

00:46:51.000 By the way, the way that you breach the border wall.

00:46:54.000 Is if there are no border patrol agents around, there are no border patrol agents around,

00:46:58.000 you just cut a hole in the wall, which is what they're doing.

00:47:01.000 So here's some video of illegal immigrants streaming through that border wall.

00:47:04.000 This would be on Thursday.

00:47:05.000 You see people just walking right on through.

00:47:07.000 Here we go in the United States.

00:47:09.000 By the way, even if they're caught at this point, Border Patrol then ask them, what are you doing here?

00:47:14.000 And they say, I fear to go home to my country.

00:47:16.000 And then what happens?

00:47:17.000 They're processed and released into the interior of the United States.

00:47:20.000 That's the way that this works.

00:47:23.000 Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, he says, yeah, of course, this is a border crisis.

00:47:28.000 That's why we are trying to focus in on it.

00:47:30.000 So what happens, Mr. Speaker?

00:47:33.000 No money for Ukraine, no money for Israel, no money for Taiwan, and no fix for the border.

00:47:40.000 I mean, how does this get resolved?

00:47:41.000 What are you thinking?

00:47:44.000 Well, we're thinking that the White House has to come to its senses.

00:47:47.000 They're getting pressure from even Democrats.

00:47:50.000 Of course, the mayors of these big sanctuary cities in blue states that are crying out for help.

00:47:54.000 They know that it's not sustainable.

00:47:56.000 They're draining all their resources there. 0.74

00:47:59.000 Amazingly enough, the leader of the sane opposition on this point is John Fetterman.

00:48:01.000 I don't know what happened to John Fetterman, he's turned into Kyrsten Sinema.

00:48:05.000 that they'll listen to the American people and make the necessary changes in policy to get this done.

00:48:09.000 I hope the Senate will take up our legislation, H.R. 2, and do the right thing, the common sense thing, to fix the

00:48:15.000 problem.

00:48:15.000 Amazingly enough, the leader of the sane opposition on this point is John Fetterman.

00:48:22.000 I don't know what happened to John Fetterman. He's turned into Kyrsten Sinema. It's amazing.

00:48:25.000 Here's John Fetterman over the weekend talking about the border crisis.

00:48:30.000 There's a crisis at the border, and I don't know how anybody could pretend that there isn't.

00:48:37.000 Peace.

00:48:38.000 Correct.

00:48:39.000 Everyone knows this.

00:48:40.000 Everyone knows this.

00:48:41.000 But Democrats are so tied into the idea that there must be mass migration, mass illegal migration, that they are refusing border funding if it even means changing the asylum rules.

00:48:50.000 That's what's so crazy. 0.98

00:48:51.000 The single thing that is the biggest magnet driving people north of the border is this idiotic rule that if you claim asylum with no evidence whatsoever that you are being oppressed in your home country, other than your home country just kind of sucks, You are immediately admitted. 0.98

00:49:05.000 So Republicans have been saying, okay, why don't we do a few things? 0.98

00:49:07.000 Why don't we, number one, do remain in Mexico?

00:49:08.000 Number two, if you claim asylum, we have to establish at your initial hearing, before we release you into the United States, that you are likely to prevail in that claim for asylum.

00:49:17.000 You can't just say the magic words, and then abracadabra, all of the doors open.

00:49:22.000 Democrats oppose this.

00:49:23.000 Alejandro Mayorkas, the DHS secretary, he says that they would not even accept more funds if those funds were used for deportation.

00:49:32.000 When you say that Republicans won't accept the extra funding, they have a problem with the funds being used to release and transport illegal immigrants around the country.

00:49:42.000 So Congress is listening right now.

00:49:44.000 Would you accept the extra funding on the condition that the funds could only be used for detention and removal, but not release into the country?

00:49:56.000 Brett, the funds are needed to provide the Department of Homeland Security with more border patrol agents.

00:50:04.000 The funds are needed to provide the Department of Homeland Security with more technology.

00:50:10.000 The funds are needed to provide our department with more detention space.

00:50:14.000 To provide the Department of Justice with more immigration judges.

00:50:21.000 What he wants is more money to broaden the spigot, allowing more illegal immigrants into the country. 1.00

00:50:25.000 Why?

00:50:25.000 Well, because AOC, she says the quiet part out loud.

00:50:28.000 She says there are two ways of shutting down illegal immigration.

00:50:30.000 One is you close the border.

00:50:31.000 The other is you prevent anyone from saying these people aren't illegal.

00:50:35.000 You just say these people are illegal now.

00:50:36.000 You just ended illegal immigration.

00:50:38.000 By this token, by the way, I can end all murder in the United States by legalizing murder.

00:50:43.000 Right?

00:50:43.000 Watch.

00:50:43.000 Abracadabra.

00:50:45.000 Murder is now legal.

00:50:48.000 So I guess that no illegal murder is taking place because all murder is legal.

00:50:51.000 That's basically what AOC is suggesting here just with regard to immigration.

00:50:54.000 Here she goes.

00:50:55.000 From all parts of the political spectrum, one of the biggest issues that we have when it comes to immigration is the fact that we have an undocumented population. 1.00

00:51:04.000 Now you can fix that by trying to build a wall, or you can fix that by trying to document people and create a path to

00:51:11.000 citizenship.

00:51:11.000 And we'll have folks that might say, look at these systems, you know that our shelter system has weight and things like

00:51:23.000 that.

00:51:24.000 But one of the reasons that our public systems experience weight is because people don't have a documented and reliable path to work and sustain themselves, just like all of our ancestors did and our grandparents.

00:51:40.000 Yeah, the difference is that when our great-grandparents came to the United States, there wasn't a giant welfare system that was in place for public support of people who came here without any job prospects whatsoever.

00:51:51.000 Also, because of that, people were forced to assimilate much more quickly.

00:51:54.000 When my great-grandparents came to the United States in the early 20th century, they all spoke Yiddish.

00:51:58.000 None of their kids did.

00:51:59.000 Why?

00:52:00.000 Because the markets did not bear people speaking Yiddish particularly.

00:52:04.000 Learning English was like a major, major aspect of this.

00:52:07.000 It turns out that markets are a great way to make people assimilate to American values, because if you would like to live in a market-based economy, you actually have to cater to the customer.

00:52:16.000 But when you get rid of that entire system, and then you declare there should be open immigration, of course what you end up with is a multi-cultural stew in which nobody actually assimilates. 0.82

00:52:26.000 But she's saying the quiet part out loud, which the Democrats do want an open border.

00:52:29.000 So again, when we're talking about open border, Not a great economy.

00:52:35.000 And say, DEI all over the administration versus Donald Trump is a fascist, which one of those do you think is more damaging politically?

00:52:42.000 So, when it comes to DEI, this administration has declared itself in favor of equity at every step of the American experiment.

00:52:50.000 This administration says that, in fact, equity motivates all of their policy, apparently, including immigration policy, which is why we're just going to open the border wide.

00:52:57.000 Well, I have to say, one of the great exchanges I've seen recently on television happened over the weekend.

00:53:03.000 Raihan Salaam is an author and writes over the Manhattan Institute.

00:53:07.000 He was on with Jonah Goldberg.

00:53:09.000 And on the other side of this debate were a couple of wild lefties, including Kara Swisher. 1.00

00:53:14.000 And they were talking about DEI.

00:53:15.000 And Raihan, who is not a white American, is in fact a minority American.

00:53:20.000 He'd be mumped into the people of color category.

00:53:22.000 He just goes off right here, and it's pretty spectacular.

00:53:26.000 When a person of color fails, all of a sudden it's an indictment of an entire system that the right doesn't like. 0.99

00:53:31.000 This is so ridiculous. 0.98

00:53:32.000 She was a graduate of Exeter and Stanford with a PhD from Harvard. 0.98

00:53:37.000 And do you know why?

00:53:37.000 You have to be so excellent to get where she was.

00:53:38.000 She's a second-generation Haitian-American who came from a family that dominated the concrete industry in Haiti.

00:53:44.000 She was not the wretched of the earth.

00:53:46.000 She was someone who shouldn't be judged on her merits. 1.00

00:53:47.000 Wait, I'm sorry, do black people have to be wretched? 1.00

00:53:51.000 No, absolutely not, but she was selected because she established the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging at Harvard. 0.98

00:53:58.000 She presided over a steep decline in the free speech climate, and she also targeted minority professors who dissented from her perspective.

00:54:07.000 That was a problem.

00:54:08.000 She was a person with ideas, not someone who belonged to a democratic category.

00:54:15.000 He's exactly right about all of that.

00:54:17.000 But again, diversity, equity, inclusion, shtick, that is the Biden shtick.

00:54:21.000 So again, you have lined up on the one side, Donald Trump's a fascist Nazi, or in Joe Biden's words, and on the other side, you have Joe Biden is doing equity, he's doing illegal immigration, and by the way, he's doing complete supply chain failure.

00:54:36.000 So the Houthi attacks on shipping continue across the world.

00:54:41.000 The cost of shipping has markedly increased.

00:54:46.000 There's a chart from Axios, and what it shows is the average shipping container rates for particular routes.

00:54:54.000 And what you see is they have jumped, spiked dramatically toward the end of December.

00:54:58.000 Why?

00:54:59.000 Because that's exactly when you started seeing Houthis attacking shipping in the Red Sea and the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait.

00:55:05.000 In fact, what you see is that the cost of shipping from the Asia-Mediterranean From Asia to the Mediterranean areas jumped wildly from like a little bit over $2,300 a container to $5,100, like doubled.

00:55:21.000 When you look at shipping from Asia to the North American East Coast, right?

00:55:24.000 That's the stuff that we care about.

00:55:25.000 The cost of shipping went from what looks like about $2,300, $2,500 to $3,900.

00:55:29.000 $2,300, $2,500 to $3,900.

00:55:33.000 That is a massive, that's per container.

00:55:36.000 You bear that cost.

00:55:37.000 We all bear that cost.

00:55:38.000 Because Joe Biden is allowing the Houthis to basically gum up the works in the Red Sea and in the Bab-El-Mandeb Strait.

00:55:46.000 Why?

00:55:46.000 Because Democrats keep hoping that, well, you know, if we're sweet and if we're nice, then things aren't going to escalate any further, when it's precisely the opposite tack that actually gets things to calm in the Middle East.

00:55:56.000 When you want to calm things in the Middle East, you know what you do? 1.00

00:55:59.000 You make clear that if you screw with the United States, things go real bad for you.

00:56:03.000 That's the actual way you calm things in the Middle East. 0.98

00:56:06.000 It's why everyone in the Middle East was afraid to start up while Donald Trump was president, because they thought, that guy's nuts. 1.00

00:56:11.000 That guy's crazy. 0.99

00:56:13.000 He might just fire a missile at my house. 1.00

00:56:15.000 I don't know.

00:56:15.000 But with Joe Biden, it's like, I don't know, should we touch the hoovie?

00:56:18.000 Should we not?

00:56:19.000 Maybe we should remove an aircraft carrier from the Mediterranean. 0.95

00:56:21.000 Why do you think this thing is lasting as long as it is?

00:56:23.000 With regard to Hezbollah, Hezbollah just keeps firing anti-tank missiles into Northern Israel.

00:56:26.000 Why do you think they're doing that?

00:56:28.000 If the United States said, listen, one of those missiles goes awry, and it hits an American, and you will not exist tomorrow morning, which is true. 0.99

00:56:33.000 That's actually the reality, by the way.

00:56:35.000 That is what would happen if the United States said that.

00:56:38.000 If the United States said, if you raise your rate of fire above X and you just won't exist tomorrow morning, you know it would stop tomorrow morning.

00:56:45.000 That. 0.97

00:56:46.000 But Joe Biden is too cowardly to do any of this. 0.89

00:56:48.000 So instead, you have Jennifer Granholm, who is out there declaring that, you know, they kind of hope that things are going to calm down. 0.75

00:56:55.000 They're not sure exactly if they're going to calm down.

00:56:57.000 This is Secretary of Energy talking about how, you know, shipping will probably get better, even though Maersk is now saying that they're going to completely avoid the Red Sea, which, of course, creates a supply chain bottleneck.

00:57:08.000 What will it take to actually ensure that ships can go through that area?

00:57:12.000 How complicated?

00:57:12.000 Well, obviously, yeah, there has to be this coalition effort.

00:57:16.000 I know that many commercial ship shippers are really not just they're doing what Maersk has decided to do, which is to circumvent the Red Sea and the Suez Canal.

00:57:28.000 And that may add some price.

00:57:30.000 to energy in terms of how long it takes and how much more fuel it takes to get those shipments around.

00:57:37.000 But this coalition and the active, not just monitoring, but insertion of both sanctions as well as lots of discussions behind the scenes, I think we're going to, hopefully, if it doesn't escalate further, we'll be okay.

00:57:56.000 Hopefully, if it doesn't escalate further, you know whose responsibility it is to make sure it doesn't escalate further?

00:58:00.000 Might be your administration's responsibility.

00:58:02.000 And herein lies the problem.

00:58:03.000 They don't want the responsibility.

00:58:04.000 They just want to yell about Donald Trump.

00:58:06.000 I don't think that that's a great reelect strategy.

00:58:07.000 I just don't.

00:58:08.000 Alrighty guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - January 08, 2024

Biden Says Trump Is A Nazi

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