The Ben Shapiro Show - Biden Tries To Pivot | Ep. 1427

00:00:00.000 With his presidency flailing, Joe Biden tries to pivot.

00:00:02.000 But is it too late?

00:00:04.000 Plus, Jeff Zucker was reportedly stooping his top deputy for 25 years and directly helping out Andrew Cuomo.

00:00:10.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:01:35.000 Okay, so, I'm gonna begin today with some new revelations about Jeff Zucker.

00:01:39.000 So, Zucker is out at CNN.

00:01:41.000 And hilariously, the entire CNN host coterie is very upset about this.

00:01:48.000 They say they are shocked.

00:01:49.000 They are stunned.

00:01:49.000 He was such a good, but why is he being ousted?

00:01:51.000 Just because he was having a consensual, loving relationship with his top deputy, Allison Golas.

00:01:57.000 What?

00:01:58.000 Why?

00:01:58.000 Why would this happen?

00:02:00.000 Well, the answer to why this would happen, as it turns out, is because Jeff Zucker has apparently been knocking boots with this lady since the mid-90s and then elevating to every job she ever held afterward.

00:02:09.000 According to Rolling Stone, in relationships, timing is everything.

00:02:13.000 And the timeline on Jeff Zucker and Allison Golis' coupledom is not only off by more than two decades, say sources who have worked with the pair, the CNN power couple also repeatedly lied about their relationship to their corporate bosses.

00:02:24.000 According to CNN President Zucker's February 2nd resignation memo to staff, the romantic relationship, which marks a flagrant violation of corporate policy given that Gallus, the network's top communications executive, was a direct report to Zucker for most of her nine-year tenure there, began sometime in the past two years.

00:02:40.000 Thales said in the same memo, Jeff and I have been close friends and professional partners for over 20 years.

00:02:44.000 Recently, our relationship changed during COVID.

00:02:46.000 I regret we didn't disclose it at the right time.

00:02:48.000 Zucker said the relationship evolved in recent years.

00:02:51.000 Zucker noted in his memo that WarnerMedia's ongoing investigation into Chris Cuomo, who was fired in December for a breach of ethics after it was discovered he'd been advising his brother, former New York Gov, Andrew Cuomo, while the latter faced accusations of sexual harassment, brought the affair to light and prompted his resignation.

00:03:06.000 It seems the probe, which is being overseen by the law firm of Crabath, Swain & Moore, again, one of the most tony law firms in all of America, is unearthing plenty of embarrassing details about the goings-on at CNN.

00:03:15.000 The scope of the investigation has now expanded to include Zucker and Gallus' relationship with Andrew Cuomo, too, according to a Warner Media source.

00:03:23.000 But sources who worked closely with Zucker and Gallus, dating back to their days at the Today Show in the mid-90s, dispute their statements in the memo.

00:03:30.000 In reality, these sources tell Rolling Stone, Zucker became romantically entangled with Gallus back in 1996.

00:03:38.000 25 years ago, when she was trainee in NBC's corporate communications group, and he was the married executive producer of the Today Show.

00:03:45.000 It was the worst-kept secret, but Jeff was seen as untouchable, says one insider, and their statements in the memo are total BS.

00:03:50.000 In fact, the pair have skirted the issue multiple times in the past.

00:03:53.000 At least one investigation into their relationship had been carried out by WarnerMedia well before COVID.

00:03:58.000 But Zucker and Gallus denied the romance over and over again, says a knowledgeable source, nothing changed in the corporate hierarchy's reporting structure.

00:04:04.000 A WarnerMedia spokesperson denied that any such investigation had ever been launched, but acknowledged that both parties had been asked about the nature of their relationship multiple times, including after a New York Post gossip item hinted at a romance when they were spotted arguing at a Hollywood Reporter party in 2017.

00:04:19.000 The pair repeatedly denied any impropriety.

00:04:21.000 A representative for Zucker said, Jeff resigned due to an undisclosed personal relationship.

00:04:26.000 A representative for Gallus did not respond to Rolling Stone's request for comment.

00:04:30.000 Well, here is the backstory.

00:04:33.000 On May 1st, 2020, this is according to Rolling Stone, Jason Killar took the reins as CEO of WarnerMedia and immediately set about overhauling the sprawling entertainment and media conglomerate owned by AT&T.

00:04:43.000 In the process, Zucker, who also served as chairman of WarnerMedia's news and sports division, lost oversight of CNN's finances and human resources, as well as corporate communications, the division run by top executive Gollist.

00:04:54.000 Sources say Killar was aware of rumors that Zucker was in a long-term relationship with Gallus, who is also the network's chief marketing officer, and that Zucker, given just 24 hours' notice of the move, was livid.

00:05:03.000 He's very angry that suddenly his lover is not working for him any longer.

00:05:07.000 His lover is now working for Killar.

00:05:08.000 Killar's sudden restructuring prompted several journalists to begin chasing the story of Zucker and Gallus' unorthodox union.

00:05:14.000 Back in September 2020, this reporter placed calls to WarnerMedia and specifically asked if Killar's decision to move Gollust out from under Zucker was a result of learning about their relationship, which was in violation of the company's code of conduct.

00:05:25.000 At the time, a WarnerMedia spokesperson declined to answer and referred the matter to Gollust herself.

00:05:29.000 Still, a behind-the-scenes executive showdown ensued, and Zucker appeared to have prevailed.

00:05:33.000 After the May 2021 announcement that AT&T would be spinning off WarnerMedia and merging it with Discovery, Killar, reportedly blindsided by the news, began negotiating his own exit.

00:05:42.000 Zucker was rumored to be getting a bigger role in the new entity because he was very close with the Discovery CEO, David Zasloff.

00:05:48.000 Dallas, in turn, was supposed to become the head of CNN, so Zucker was going to fail upward.

00:05:53.000 Killar, who was trying to clean house, was going to be ousted.

00:05:57.000 And Gallist was going to take Zucker's place as the head of CNN. 0.72

00:06:00.000 So corrupt. 0.98

00:06:00.000 So terrible. 0.98

00:06:02.000 But those well-laid plans came crashing down when the investigation into Chris Cuomo began sweeping up embarrassing details concerning Zucker and Gallist, including emails and other evidence that painted an undeniable picture of the duo's romantic relationship.

00:06:14.000 The evidence only surfaced in recent days, say two sources, and Killar basically used this as an excuse to chop off Zucker's head.

00:06:22.000 Facing termination, Zucker resigned and is not poised to receive any severance.

00:06:25.000 Sources say Zaslav was not involved in the decision to cut ties with Zucker.

00:06:29.000 But this isn't the only problem.

00:06:32.000 It turns out that apparently, Katherine Forrest, a former U.S. 0.99

00:06:36.000 district judge who's actually overseeing the legal investigation into all of this, Forrest is apparently investigating not just Chris Cuomo's alleged help in helping his brother Andrew, but also Zucker and Gallus' help.

00:06:48.000 The source says the investigation suggests Zucker and Gallus were advising Andrew Cuomo at the beginning of the COVID pandemic in ways not dissimilar to what led to Chris Cuomo's dismissal.

00:06:59.000 As Andrew sparred on a daily basis with then-President Trump over COVID messaging, the couple provided the governor with talking points on how to respond to the president's criticism of the New York crisis.

00:07:08.000 They booked the governor directly to appear on the network exclusively, which became a ratings boon for CNN, with Chris Cuomo doing the interviewing.

00:07:15.000 Cuomo and Gallus' conduct, too, would appear to mark an ethical breach for executives acting on behalf of an impartial news organization.

00:07:22.000 And again, Rolling Stone says over the past three decades, the Zucker-Gallus relationship was no secret inside the newsrooms of NBC or CNN, Within a year of Zucker and Gallist commencing the affair, according to multiple sources, Gallist leapfrogged from trainee to the role of senior publicist for The Today Show, and Zucker became her boss, a paradigm that continued for years to come with only two brief interruptions.

00:07:42.000 Through a series of promotion, her purview expanded.

00:07:44.000 She added oversight duties for NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, and Weather Channel, as well as NBC Nightly News, Dateline, and Meet the Press.

00:07:51.000 So Zucker was nailing this intern basically and she kept moving upward with him.

00:07:55.000 He just kept elevating her in stature to the point where eventually he was going to move up at Discovery and she was going to end up as the head of CNN.

00:08:03.000 Meanwhile, both of them at CNN were calling up Andrew Cuomo to advise him on how to handle the pandemic and comms with Donald Trump, which makes perfect sense considering that Jeff Zucker knew Cuomo and Gallus had once been a senior comms director for Cuomo.

00:08:18.000 In 2000, Zucker became president of NBC Entertainment and quickly pulled off a series of splashy deals, including signing Donald Trump to host The Apprentice and Joe Rogan to host Fear Factor.

00:08:27.000 Oh, the irony.

00:08:28.000 In 2009, Gallus was named executive VP of corporate communications at NBCUniversal, becoming the chief spokesperson for Zucker.

00:08:34.000 But then in June 2010, Zucker was ousted as Comcast was about to complete its 51% acquisition of NBCUniversal.

00:08:41.000 He was paid $30 million to $40 million to leave.

00:08:45.000 And then five months later, Gallus resigned.

00:08:48.000 And then as Zucker was plotting his media world comeback, both he and Gallus became intertwined with the Cuomo brothers.

00:08:53.000 In 2012, Gallus took a post as comms director for Andrew Cuomo.

00:08:57.000 Not long after Zucker joined CNN, one of his first hires was Chris Cuomo.

00:09:01.000 Very quickly after that, Gallus resigned and joined Zucker at CNN, where she was named senior vice president of communications for CNN worldwide.

00:09:10.000 Unbelievable.

00:09:11.000 Gallist says she now plans to stay with the network, even if any Ascension plans have evaporated.

00:09:16.000 Well, that makes sense.

00:09:16.000 I mean, who's going to hire her?

00:09:18.000 Who's going to look at Alison Gallist as anything but a hire by a guy who was having sex with her, allegedly, for 25 years? 0.96

00:09:26.000 By the way, they were both married for a large portion of this time.

00:09:30.000 So these are just the delightful people who are running the most trusted name in news.

00:09:32.000 And the CNN staffers are angry.

00:09:34.000 But they're not angry at Jeff Zucker or Alison Gallist.

00:09:38.000 They're angry at Chris Cuomo. 0.93

00:09:40.000 Now listen, Chris Cuomo is a douchebag, but Chris Cuomo is not responsible for this.

00:09:44.000 Chris Cuomo is just pointing out what everybody apparently at CNN knew, which is that Zucker and Gallus were doing exactly what Chris Cuomo was doing, except they were also knocking boots at the time. 0.93

00:09:54.000 It's all absurd.

00:09:55.000 It's all absurd. 1.00

00:09:56.000 It's an incestuous little pathetic circle. 0.99

00:09:59.000 It's really, really funny. 0.99

00:10:01.000 Apparently, CNN employees are really, really mad at Cuomo.

00:10:05.000 According to reports from Politico, everyone here is heartbroken and shocked.

00:10:10.000 People are blaming us on Chris.

00:10:12.000 Not a lot of love between CNN and Chris Cuomo.

00:10:14.000 For a while.

00:10:16.000 Well, I mean, listen, I like a lot of what Jake does, but all of these people are the bad guy.

00:10:19.000 I'm not aware that Chris Cuomo is not the bad guy, but Jeff Zucker is the good guy.

00:10:22.000 with terrorists and Chris blew the place up.

00:10:23.000 How do we get past the perception that this is the bad guy winning?

00:10:26.000 Well, I mean, listen, I like a lot of what Jake does, but all of these people are the bad guy.

00:10:31.000 I'm not aware that Chris Cuomo is not the bad guy, but Jeff Zucker is the good guy.

00:10:36.000 He and Allison Gallist were overtly, apparently, advising Andrew Cuomo in the middle of the pandemic while running the most trusted name in news. 0.87

00:10:44.000 I mean, this is a corrupt yick. 1.00

00:10:46.000 Yich. 0.88

00:10:47.000 But this is how it works.

00:10:48.000 The rules didn't apply to these people until it became convenient for the rules to apply to these people.

00:10:52.000 Like, WarnerMedia had to know that these two were lovers for years.

00:10:56.000 I mean, apparently everybody in town knew.

00:10:57.000 Megyn Kelly says everybody in town knew.

00:10:59.000 Like, everybody.

00:11:01.000 And they just kept failing upward.

00:11:02.000 Because let's face it, Jeff Zucker has done nothing successful since he ran the Today Show.

00:11:06.000 He blew up what was the best nightly lineup.

00:11:11.000 I mean really, the best comedy lineup probably in the history of TV.

00:11:14.000 Like this massively successful nightly primetime lineup at NBC.

00:11:18.000 And Jeff Zucker came in and just destroyed it.

00:11:20.000 And then he somehow failed upward into the position at CNN and he was about to fail upward again into a position at Discovery.

00:11:27.000 That's how all this works.

00:11:29.000 So what really happened here is that Killar, it sounds like, took his revenge by initiating this investigation on the basis of Chris Cuomo's lawsuit and then used that as a way of getting Zucker out.

00:11:43.000 Which suggests, once again, the rules only apply when the powerful want them to apply.

00:11:46.000 It's really not that there's a set of rules that Zucker and Gallus violated.

00:11:50.000 They've been violating this set of rules for 25 years.

00:11:52.000 Every HR violation in the world sounds like it happens right here.

00:11:56.000 I mean, she was his direct inferior at a company.

00:11:58.000 That is like a blatant HR violation.

00:12:01.000 And then beyond that, they were coordinating with outside politicians that they were supposed to be covering on an objective news level?

00:12:08.000 It's amazing stuff.

00:12:10.000 But that's how it always works.

00:12:12.000 Always and forever.

00:12:13.000 Mercy for my friends, the law for my enemies.

00:12:17.000 Which is why, by the way, Don Lemon, who is the chief of the Cancel Culture Brigade.

00:12:21.000 I mean, Don Lemon just spends all day long trying to get people cancelled he does not like.

00:12:25.000 Anybody he doesn't like shouldn't be on TV, shouldn't be hell out of platform.

00:12:28.000 Now he's out there defending Whoopi Goldberg.

00:12:30.000 Of course, of course.

00:12:32.000 Lemon says, in this environment, we have to be allies to each other. 1.00

00:12:36.000 Sometimes your allies say stupid things. 1.00

00:12:38.000 Sometimes they say dumb things. 1.00

00:12:39.000 But guess what? 0.95

00:12:39.000 They're your allies. 0.95

00:12:41.000 They're at least on your side.

00:12:42.000 And they're trying to learn.

00:12:43.000 We have to stop trying to cancel people and shouting down our allies.

00:12:46.000 Notice the repeated use here by Don Lemon of the word allies.

00:12:51.000 Right?

00:12:52.000 The consistent attempts to suggest that there is a double standard here.

00:12:56.000 That if they are your friends, then of course, we have to stop trying to cancel people.

00:13:00.000 But, if they're not your friends, then you can destroy them.

00:13:05.000 I love that Lemon says, Name all the ways that Whoopi Goldberg is a massive ally to the Jewish community.

00:13:13.000 She was retweeting anti-Semitic, pro-Palestinian nonsense just a few years ago.

00:13:17.000 I'm not aware that Whoopi Goldberg is an extraordinary exponent Of anti-anti-semitism.

00:13:24.000 Of fighting anti-semitism.

00:13:25.000 But according to Don Lemon, who's an expert on this sort of stuff, Whoopi is an ally to the Jewish community.

00:13:28.000 Yeah, tell me about it, Don.

00:13:29.000 Please, tell me about how much of an ally Whoopi Goldberg is to the Jewish community.

00:13:33.000 The guy wearing the yarmulke.

00:13:34.000 Tell it to me.

00:13:34.000 Right to my face.

00:13:35.000 He said she is.

00:13:36.000 She said something she shouldn't have said.

00:13:38.000 Okay, fine.

00:13:39.000 But don't put her in a corner and marginalize her.

00:13:41.000 Use her to the best of your ability to get the conversation and your points across about what's wrong about that kind of thinking.

00:13:46.000 Because she's not the only one who thinks it.

00:13:48.000 Okay, now, here is my rule.

00:13:50.000 My rule is, Don Lemon is generally correct.

00:13:52.000 We should have conversations with people, and the conversations can...

00:13:56.000 Be enriching and we can all learn from one another.

00:13:59.000 Unless you hold by the cancel culture standard.

00:14:00.000 If you are a member of the mob, you do not get to claim immunity from the mob. 0.84

00:14:04.000 Then the mob should eat you. 0.61

00:14:05.000 You made the rules and you should abide by those rules.

00:14:07.000 You made the bed and now you get to lie in it.

00:14:09.000 Whoopi Goldberg is very fond of getting people cancelled.

00:14:11.000 I'm fine with Whoopi Goldberg getting cancelled.

00:14:13.000 Same thing with Don Lemon.

00:14:14.000 Same thing with Jeff Zucker.

00:14:15.000 Same thing with Allison Gallist. 0.99

00:14:17.000 I mean, Jeff Zucker and Allison Gallist actually violated some basic professional rules.

00:14:20.000 They should be fired no matter what.

00:14:22.000 But when it comes to the generalized attitude of the left toward when the rules apply, they only apply to quote-unquote allies who just demonstrate there are no rules for the left.

00:14:30.000 There is just pure power.

00:14:32.000 Okay, in just one second, we're going to get to Joe Biden, who's desperately attempting to swivel.

00:14:36.000 Finally, he's attempting to pivot.

00:14:38.000 It may be too late.

00:14:39.000 We'll get to that in just one moment. 0.96

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00:15:59.000 Okay, so, meanwhile, Joe Biden is poised to hit the economic skids.

00:16:04.000 Tech stocks took a massive dump yesterday.

00:16:07.000 That is largely thanks to Meta, which is the former Facebook company.

00:16:11.000 Just getting trashed.

00:16:12.000 They lost like 26% on their stock value because they actually had a reduction in the absolute number of users who were using Facebook.

00:16:19.000 Mark Zuckerberg, for his part, blamed TikTok and the rise of TikTok, which again, goes to show you that in the tech world, there really is no such thing as a long lasting monopoly because eventually, Everybody gets overtaken.

00:16:28.000 Eventually, there's always somebody with a better algorithm.

00:16:30.000 And the TikTok algorithm is astonishingly good.

00:16:32.000 The TikTok algorithm, designed by the Chinese, what makes it good is that very often on platforms, you can sort of promote your content into virality.

00:16:40.000 On TikTok, they have an ability to identify potential viral content without the marketing dollars.

00:16:46.000 And so you get a bunch of stuff in your feed that is more viral and it's a very, very sophisticated algorithm.

00:16:52.000 In any case, Facebook took a complete trashing yesterday.

00:16:58.000 They gave a disappointing financial forecast, helping the major indices snap a four-session winning streak, according to the Wall Street Journal.

00:17:03.000 The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 3.7 percent.

00:17:07.000 That was the worst day since September of 2020.

00:17:08.000 The S&P 500 fell 2.4 percent.

00:17:12.000 PayPal and Spotify also took a massive hit.

00:17:15.000 Spotify was down 17 percent.

00:17:18.000 Over recent days, the payments giant lowered its 2022 profit outlook.

00:17:22.000 The streaming company elected not to provide annual guidance.

00:17:24.000 Both companies suffered sharp drops in their stock prices.

00:17:28.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the setbacks reflect the increased scrutiny companies are under as major U.S.

00:17:32.000 stock indices remain near record highs and the Federal Reserve is preparing to raise interest rates for the first time since 2018.

00:17:37.000 So people are shedding their high performing stocks that don't actually have solid profits underlying them.

00:17:43.000 Rising rates tend to reduce the multiples investors are willing to pay for a share of company profits, a trend that stands to mean pain for stocks already trading at lofty valuations.

00:17:51.000 So if there are stocks that are overvalued, they're likely to recede back to the norm.

00:17:55.000 The level of forgiveness has gone down, said Daniel Genter, chief executive and chief investment officer at RNC Genter Capital Management.

00:18:01.000 When boards come to their shareholders to confess their sins, they're just not going to be pardoned with one Hail Mary.

00:18:06.000 The Facebook parent company surprised investors with deeper than expected declines in profit and a downbeat outlook.

00:18:11.000 The company said it expects revenue growth to slow and shared that it lost about 1 million daily users globally.

00:18:17.000 Shares declined 26 percent.

00:18:18.000 That is the worst daily performance since Facebook even opened in 2012.

00:18:23.000 One of the new problems here is that the company's challenges include a new ad privacy policy from Apple that Meta expects to cost more than $10 billion in lost sales for 2022.

00:18:32.000 That requirement that apps ask users whether they want to be tracked limited the ability to gather data used to track digital ads, driving advertisers to change their spending.

00:18:40.000 Meanwhile, by the way, companies like Amazon just made bank on advertising.

00:18:45.000 So Facebook, which again is free because basically they gather data on you and then they use that data to market to advertisers.

00:18:51.000 Apple's new policy was basically designed to cut Facebook off at the knees and it succeeded in that.

00:18:57.000 Meta's $232 billion drop in market value exceeds the record Apple set in September 2020, when the iPhone maker lost about $182 billion in a single day.

00:19:06.000 Now, when we say that they lost this much money, we don't mean that they have like cash and the cash just went away.

00:19:10.000 What we mean is that the stock is trading at a lower value.

00:19:13.000 So when you say that Facebook lost a couple hundred billion dollars, it doesn't mean that Mark Zuckerberg actually had his bank account strained.

00:19:20.000 It just means that his stock is not as marketable.

00:19:23.000 Some strategists said the recent slide in shares of speculative tech companies should serve to remind investors a robust market rally relies on advances by a variety of stocks.

00:19:31.000 They warn they expect more big stock swings ahead of any hint of slowing growth.

00:19:35.000 Jung Yoo Ma, Chief Investment Strategist at BMO Wealth Management said, In other words, you need actual innovation that drives actual goods and services that people wish to consume.

00:19:50.000 Not just goods and services that people engage in for free.

00:19:53.000 There have to be actual profit models.

00:19:56.000 And again, it's not just Facebook.

00:19:57.000 Spotify took a massive hit.

00:19:58.000 PayPal took a massive hit.

00:20:00.000 And we're about to head into a deflationary cycle with the with the Federal Reserve cutting back on its own inflationary policies.

00:20:08.000 So Joe Biden has a world of hurt heading for him, and his own economic policies make that world of hurt worse.

00:20:13.000 So for example, yesterday, Joe Biden signed an executive order boosting construction workers.

00:20:19.000 Federal construction workers now have to be unionized, is the basic idea here.

00:20:23.000 Every federal construction project over $35 million will now require project labor agreements, which means that unions get paid, so the taxpayer gets to foot that bill too.

00:20:32.000 So Joe Biden's economy is likely to slow.

00:20:34.000 It's likely to grind to a bit of a halt here because with the failure of loose money and with the failure of this administration to move on from COVID, they have a real problem on their hands.

00:20:49.000 And that continuation of the COVID panic is tanking the stock market.

00:20:53.000 I mean, it's giving people a very hang dog look about the economy for sure.

00:20:59.000 Meanwhile, by the way, all over the world, people are opening up again.

00:21:02.000 It's only Joe Biden and the Blue States that are refusing to really open up. 0.56

00:21:06.000 The WHO, for its part, the World Health Organization, on Thursday, offered Europe hope of a long period of tranquility, even enduring peace, in the war on coronavirus, with a growing list of nations lifting almost all COVID curbs, according to the Agence France-Presse.

00:21:18.000 WHO Europe Director Hans Kluge spoke of a ceasefire that could bring us enduring peace, with high vaccination rates, the milder Omicron variants, and the end to winter in sight.

00:21:26.000 This context leaves us with the possibility for a long period of tranquility, he said.

00:21:30.000 He said, even with a more virulent variant than Omicron, it's possible to respond to new variants that will inevitably emerge without reinstalling the kinds of disruptive measures we needed before. 0.97

00:21:40.000 So all over the world, people are realizing that this is stupid and that it's time to end it. 0.68

00:21:45.000 The problem for Joe Biden is that he's been stuck in I will end COVID mode, and he's now created an entirely paranoid set of American citizens who believe the minute you take off a mask, you'll be struck by the wrath of God. 0.98

00:21:57.000 That is not a recipe for economic success here.

00:22:01.000 Again, he's got tech stocks that are tumbling.

00:22:03.000 He's got the Fed, which is set to taper and is set to raise its interest rates.

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00:22:10.000 So the Biden pivot has now begun.

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00:23:16.000 Alrighty, so Joe Biden has to pivot.

00:23:18.000 He knows he has to pivot.

00:23:19.000 And so Politico is now reporting that the White House is thinking about pivoting.

00:23:22.000 Quote, the White House is preparing to move on from Omicron.

00:23:26.000 Emboldened by falling case counts, the Biden administration is plotting a new phase of the pandemic response aimed at containing the coronavirus and conditioning Americans to live with it.

00:23:34.000 The preparations are designed to capitalize on a break in the months-long COVID-19 surge, with officials anticipating a spring lull that could boost the nation's mood and lift President Joe Biden's approval ratings at a critical moment for his party.

00:23:45.000 Biden and his top health officials have already begun hinting at an impending new normal and a conscious messaging shift meant to get people comfortable with a scenario where the virus remains widespread, yet at more manageable levels.

00:23:56.000 So here is the problem.

00:23:58.000 The big problem for the White House is that they are not capable of doing this.

00:24:01.000 The reason they're not capable of doing this is because the minute they say you have to live with this, everybody goes, so why have you been doing this the whole time?

00:24:08.000 See, here's the thing.

00:24:09.000 Places like Florida, where I've been living since October of 2020.

00:24:13.000 Places like Florida.

00:24:15.000 I've been living completely normally with this virus since at least March of 2021.

00:24:20.000 So for almost a year, we've been living completely normally.

00:24:22.000 Since the vaccines were tranched out, everybody got vaxxed, wanted to get vaxxed, everybody didn't want to get vaxxed, didn't get vaxxed, and then everybody went back to work.

00:24:28.000 Everybody started going out to parties.

00:24:31.000 Everybody started hanging out with friends.

00:24:33.000 Everybody started going to ballgames.

00:24:35.000 All this was happening for a year.

00:24:37.000 You know why?

00:24:37.000 Because the approach in Florida was always, calculate your risk, and then mitigate your risk as you see fit.

00:24:43.000 And then, when the absolute level of risk goes down, you will live normally.

00:24:46.000 Because that was the approach from the beginning.

00:24:48.000 The approach even in 2020, like the middle of 2020, right after the pandemic ensued, the approach was, let's shield the elderly, but then you get to make decisions about how you wish to live your life. 0.87

00:24:57.000 And a lot of people, like me, We're very cautious.

00:25:00.000 I was cautious up until the vaccines were available.

00:25:02.000 Because I was in touch with my parents.

00:25:04.000 My parents were 64.

00:25:06.000 So that meant that I wanted to be careful.

00:25:07.000 I didn't want to give COVID to them.

00:25:09.000 I didn't want them getting very sick from COVID.

00:25:11.000 Then they got vaxxed.

00:25:12.000 And I got vaxxed.

00:25:13.000 And my wife got vaxxed. 0.93

00:25:14.000 And then we were done.

00:25:16.000 Because at that point, we had mitigated our risk enough to feel safe.

00:25:20.000 This is what happens when you give people freedom.

00:25:21.000 When you give people freedom, they will inevitably move toward exercising that freedom.

00:25:26.000 It's just one of the things about freedom.

00:25:28.000 Once you tell people they can make their own risk assessments, and that they are capable, rational beings, they start to make risk assessments.

00:25:33.000 You may not like how they assess that risk, but once you give people the power to do that, they then get to assess that risk.

00:25:38.000 And you don't do it anymore, so it's not on your head anymore.

00:25:41.000 The problem for Joe Biden is he said, I have to assess the risk for all of you, and my risk assessment rules all of you.

00:25:47.000 And now he's stuck between a rock and a hard place because he played up the risk throughout the pandemic that people would die of every age despite the fact that this thing is wildly age-striated and that if you were a young person, your chances of dying from any form of Delta were about 1,000 times less than if you were an elderly person.

00:26:03.000 He never mentioned that.

00:26:04.000 The public health establishment didn't mention that.

00:26:06.000 And so he boxed himself in.

00:26:07.000 And so even if he should snap his fingers today and say, boom, the risk is gone.

00:26:11.000 How many people do you think are going to take that seriously?

00:26:14.000 I have serious doubts that people in blue states are going to take that seriously.

00:26:17.000 Instead, they're likely to say what is true, which is Joe Biden is only saying that for political purposes.

00:26:22.000 Because he has trained them to be very afraid at all times from COVID.

00:26:26.000 He said, you have to delegate all of your decision-making responsibility.

00:26:30.000 All of your risk assessment will be delegated out to the quote-unquote experts.

00:26:34.000 You're not the expert.

00:26:35.000 You can't decide your own risk.

00:26:36.000 I will decide your risk.

00:26:37.000 Fauci will decide your risk.

00:26:39.000 Zeke Emanuel will decide your risk.

00:26:40.000 And the problem is, the public health establishment is geared toward one thing and one thing only, and that is mitigating any risk.

00:26:47.000 Which is why you have members of the public health establishment simply lying about the risks of this stuff.

00:26:52.000 Because the minute that they actually admit it's over, they go away in your lives.

00:26:56.000 They no longer have any power.

00:26:58.000 Those of us who haven't been listening to Fauci for quite a while here don't care about what Fauci has to say.

00:27:02.000 But those who've been trained that everything Anthony Fauci says is what matters most in life, He can't just say, I, Joe Biden, assess this risk to no longer be a risk.

00:27:11.000 And then you've got Anthony Fauci and Zeke Emanuel saying differently.

00:27:13.000 Who do you think people are going to listen to?

00:27:14.000 I mean, Zeke Emanuel literally went on MSNBC last night and he purveyed misinformation.

00:27:19.000 And the entire left, which accuses Joe Rogan of purveying misinformation on COVID, what he's about to say right here is just not true.

00:27:25.000 Parents have to be more willing.

00:27:27.000 I think they hear some of these rare side effects and I think they're very common.

00:27:32.000 If with the Omicron variant, you know, kids are either going to get the vaccine or they're likely to get a serious condition of Omicron.

00:27:41.000 Having Omicron with the vaccine is almost invariably going to be better and safer for children.

00:27:47.000 I am confused about parents' attitude.

00:27:50.000 Why are you confused about parents' attitude?

00:27:52.000 I don't know any long-term studies on how the vaccine affects children.

00:27:55.000 I know that Omicron is... My kids all had it.

00:27:58.000 They're fine.

00:27:59.000 Also, I know by the data that the natural immunity that arises from actually getting the disease is far more durable than the vaccine immunity.

00:28:09.000 And I know this because Marty McCary at Johns Hopkins University literally tweeted out the stats yesterday.

00:28:13.000 Two years after people are infected, they have better immunity than two years after they were vaccinated or a year after they were vaccinated.

00:28:20.000 So the White House is kind of stuck here.

00:28:21.000 They want to pivot because they know the more that people are worried and paranoid about COVID, the more the economy is going to continue to skid.

00:28:28.000 So according to Politico, the White House is wary of declaring victory too early only to get hit with another catastrophic variant, a half dozen administration officials and others close to the COVID response said.

00:28:37.000 Officials are also anxious that voters will be disappointed by the idea of living with an endemic virus under a president who once pledged to shut it down completely.

00:28:45.000 And they realize it will take vigilance and billions more dollars from Congress to prevent the nation from backsliding into crisis once again.

00:28:51.000 But half of that ain't true, right?

00:28:53.000 This is when your worldview is completely off.

00:28:55.000 You have two choices.

00:28:56.000 One, shift your worldview and announce that you made a mistake.

00:28:59.000 Or two, keep doubling down.

00:29:00.000 And Joe Biden has to keep doubling down because the minute he announces it was a mistake, guess who the hero of this story is?

00:29:05.000 It is no longer Joe Biden.

00:29:07.000 It is no longer Andrew Cuomo.

00:29:08.000 It's the evil, horrible, no good, very bad Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, who took the exact opposite approach.

00:29:13.000 And they can never allow that to happen.

00:29:15.000 I love this.

00:29:16.000 The White House is wary of declaring victory too soon only to get hit with another catastrophic variant.

00:29:19.000 That is a rationale for forever measures.

00:29:23.000 Because guess what?

00:29:24.000 Forever and for all time, there may be a future variant or a future pandemic or a future disease.

00:29:28.000 You don't know what's around the corner.

00:29:30.000 So we're all supposed to live like this forever because something bad could happen tomorrow.

00:29:33.000 Let's just live in our houses forever.

00:29:35.000 Officials are anxious voters will be disappointed by the idea of living with an endemic virus.

00:29:41.000 70% of Americans say they're ready to live with this thing, according to polling from last week.

00:29:45.000 They might be disappointed with Biden for having lied to them, but that's why he shouldn't have lied to them.

00:29:49.000 I'm sorry.

00:29:50.000 If he said, read my lips, I'm shutting down the virus.

00:29:52.000 And then he can't.

00:29:53.000 And he never could. 1.00

00:29:54.000 Number one, people who believed him were idiots to believe him. 1.00

00:29:56.000 And number two, Joe Biden is a liar. 1.00

00:29:59.000 But he can't let go of the lie because then he's proved to be a liar. 0.95

00:30:03.000 We are moving toward a time when COVID doesn't disrupt our daily lives, said one administration official, who requested anonymity to discuss the internal deliberations.

00:30:09.000 But in order to get people to view the pandemic differently, they have to feel differently about the pandemic.

00:30:13.000 And herein lies the problem.

00:30:16.000 Joe Biden and company, they told a group of people that if they get vaxxed 97 times, and wear masks everywhere, and mask their kids everywhere, they are the good ones.

00:30:25.000 But guess who Joe Biden is going to have to tell to relax now?

00:30:28.000 All the people who listened to him.

00:30:29.000 All the people who didn't listen to him, but living normally.

00:30:32.000 For a year.

00:30:33.000 For many people, more than a year.

00:30:35.000 Those people were never listening to Joe Biden.

00:30:37.000 Now he has to go to his most ardent supporters and say, guys, you got to live like the people who didn't do it right.

00:30:43.000 There is little talk so far about disbanding the COVID response team, though some burnt out aides have mused about leaving as soon as the spring.

00:30:49.000 As to what metrics will signal success against the virus, officials say they're still figuring that out and hope they know it when they see it.

00:30:55.000 It's something we need to answer, the senior administration official said.

00:30:57.000 If you talk to six doctors inside and outside the administration, you get six different answers.

00:31:01.000 For now, Biden's COVID team is counting on an expanding supply of vaccine and therapeutic to accelerate the transition to the next pandemic phase, allowing people to safeguard themselves against COVID-19's worst effects before and after an infection.

00:31:13.000 Okay, first of all, most of us have been doing this the whole time.

00:31:17.000 Regulators are expected to authorize the vaccine for children under five in the coming months, a major milestone in building out the country's COVID protections.

00:31:23.000 No, it's not.

00:31:25.000 Sane parents don't — Leanna Wen of CNN yesterday was like, I'm not sure that three-year-olds should be getting the vaccines.

00:31:32.000 Do we have any really good data on that?

00:31:35.000 The administration is stockpiling new treatments like antiviral pills that are shown to significantly cut the risk of severe illness.

00:31:41.000 Well, I mean, yeah, but they shouldn't have to stockpile that.

00:31:43.000 They should just put that on the shelves, like, right now.

00:31:45.000 Like, just have Pfizer produce as much as humanly possible and put it on the shelves.

00:31:48.000 After initial hesitation over the need for ramping up the availability of at-home testing, the administration now views easy access to rapid tests as core to persuading people they can safely live with the virus.

00:31:57.000 Why?

00:31:58.000 Why?

00:31:59.000 You can safely live with the virus without the test.

00:32:01.000 Easily.

00:32:02.000 It is not hard.

00:32:04.000 The White House post-Omicron planning comes even as the U.S.

00:32:07.000 is still grappling with an explosion of cases and deaths, etc., etc.

00:32:10.000 So basically, the administration wants you to change your attitude, but they don't want to change anything they're doing.

00:32:15.000 They don't want to change a single thing they're doing, but they want you to change your attitude.

00:32:19.000 How exactly do they hope that that's going to work?

00:32:22.000 I mean, listen to this.

00:32:23.000 Even as it maps out the next stage, the White House has ruled out making a splashy show or major announcement regarding a hard pivot back to normalcy.

00:32:31.000 There's a fear among aides over repeating last year's July 4th Freedom from the Virus celebration, an event that turned politically disastrous weeks later when the Delta variant fueled a swift resurgence of the pandemic.

00:32:40.000 And though it faces pressure to back off from some of its more notable and onerous public health policies, the administration is also unlikely to drop its indoor masking recommendations, which are seen as among the key tools for preventing new outbreaks.

00:32:51.000 Preventing new outbreaks?

00:32:52.000 But that's not the point!

00:32:54.000 Officials instead describe plans for a more subtle shift over the next several weeks toward touting Biden's achievement in rolling out vaccines and treatments and emphasizing the everyday things people can do again if they're vaccinated.

00:33:03.000 So again, they're just going to keep saying the same exact thing they've been saying the whole time.

00:33:06.000 But the vaccinated are the scared ones.

00:33:08.000 The vaccinated are the ones who aren't going back to work.

00:33:10.000 The vaccinated are the ones who are trying to mask up their own kids. 0.98

00:33:12.000 The vaccinated are the ones who are shutting down schools. 0.99

00:33:16.000 Again, Joe Biden has no systematic ability to say to his own base that he has been wrong and they have been wrong.

00:33:22.000 And that even if they were right at the beginning, they are wrong now.

00:33:24.000 He can't do it.

00:33:25.000 There's no way for him to do it.

00:33:26.000 And so this pivot is going to fail.

00:33:27.000 It just is going to fail.

00:33:29.000 In just a moment.

00:33:31.000 We'll get to something that went right for the Biden administration yesterday, and then quickly started to go kind of sideways, which is weird.

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00:38:22.000 So meanwhile, Joe Biden, he actually did get a good economic report today.

00:38:31.000 So there's a jobs report that came out today.

00:38:32.000 It said payrolls were up by about $467,000, which is a large win for him because the expectations, according to one report, is that we're going to actually lose jobs in January.

00:38:42.000 The White House had been downplaying the jobs report saying it was all about Omicron, which suggests that nothing that's happening right now is about Omicron.

00:38:47.000 It's just about Whether people go back to work.

00:38:51.000 If you stay out of the way, the economy will do fine.

00:38:53.000 It's not about Omicron, it's about what people do with Omicron.

00:38:58.000 All the talk about Omicron being the deciding factor is really not real, which is why Joe Biden should just declare the thing over and be done.

00:39:03.000 And yes, slap it his own face, but he's not going to do that.

00:39:05.000 Meanwhile, there was another piece of good news for Joe Biden yesterday.

00:39:08.000 So Joe Biden yesterday announced the death of an ISIS leader in Syria and said that the guy had blown himself up, unfortunately, along with several children.

00:39:16.000 Here's what he had to say.

00:39:18.000 The United States military forces successfully moved a major terrorist threat to the world, the global leader of ISIS, known as Haji Abdullah. 0.59

00:39:29.000 Our team is still compiling the report, but we do know that as our troops approach to capture the terrorist, in a final act of desperate cowardness, He, with no regard to the lives of his own family or others in the building, he chose to blow himself up, not just to the vest, but to blow up that third floor, rather than face justice for the crimes he has committed.

00:39:52.000 So that is a big win for the United States.

00:39:54.000 Killing ISIS leaders is definitely a good thing. 0.99

00:39:57.000 Now the problem is that pretty quickly there started to be allegations that actually the guy hadn't blown himself up and apparently the U.S. 0.96

00:40:03.000 raid had been carried out in such a way that it ended up basically getting a lot of kids killed.

00:40:09.000 This was the allegation anyway.

00:40:11.000 It was an allegation that was being made by some people on the ground and it actually prompted the Pentagon to admit yesterday that it might review Syrian air raid reports.

00:40:19.000 Because, of course, they had said something similar, you'll recall, about the killing, the supposed killing of members of Al-Qaeda and ISIS in Afghanistan, and it turns out that they actually just knocked out a guy and his family.

00:40:32.000 So, this would not be the first time there'd been a screw-up in terms of whether a bunch of civilians were killed who didn't need to be killed.

00:40:37.000 Not saying that's what happened here.

00:40:38.000 Now the Pentagon's acknowledging they might need to do an actual investigation.

00:40:42.000 There's been no decision to do a review or investigation right now, Nancy.

00:40:47.000 Again, this operation is not even 24 hours old.

00:40:51.000 As the Secretary said, we certainly are willing to take a look to see if there's any possibility that anything that we did might have caused harm to innocent life.

00:41:02.000 But I have no investigation or review to speak to today.

00:41:05.000 Okay, so we are waiting on more information on that.

00:41:07.000 And of course, we'll bring you more information on that.

00:41:08.000 But, win for the United States in killing an ISIS leader.

00:41:12.000 So, that could be a good pivot for the United States.

00:41:14.000 Another good pivot for the Biden administration that would be good for the United States would be to prevent Russia from invading Ukraine.

00:41:20.000 Because if Russia invades Ukraine, presumably China will look on and then invade Taiwan.

00:41:23.000 Now, it is unlikely at this point that Russia is going to invade Ukraine while the world's eyes are focused on China.

00:41:29.000 Beijing doesn't want any attention distracted from the Olympics right now, their propaganda effort over in Beijing.

00:41:34.000 And so what they don't want is for international conflict to break out in the middle of the Olympics.

00:41:39.000 And Putin and Xi Jinping are working very closely together.

00:41:42.000 And so it is unlikely that for the next few weeks, while the Olympics are going on, that there will be an invasion of Ukraine.

00:41:46.000 That's sort of the going conventional wisdom.

00:41:48.000 In any case, yesterday, the United States, however, announced that they thought that Russia was planning to fabricate a pretext to invade Ukraine, which would not be a shock.

00:41:54.000 They tried to do this last time with regard to Crimea.

00:41:59.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Russia is planning to prefabricate a pretext for an invasion of Ukraine by releasing a staged video depicting attacks by Kiev military forces, U.S.

00:42:07.000 officials said Thursday, citing newly declassified intelligence.

00:42:11.000 U.S.

00:42:11.000 officials said they went public with the information to expose Russian tactics in an attempt to avert a conflict inside Ukraine, the latest in a series of similar moves in recent weeks.

00:42:18.000 So basically they're saying, we know what you're doing, so don't do it.

00:42:21.000 The intelligence shows a Russian plan to stage a prefabricated attack by Ukrainian military or intelligence personnel against Russian sovereign territory or against Russian-speaking people to justify an incursion into Ukraine.

00:42:32.000 This is exactly what Hitler did when he invaded Poland. 0.91

00:42:36.000 Basically, the idea is that you fabricate the idea that somebody else is attacking you and then, in quote-unquote response, you attack instead.

00:42:43.000 The plan would include Moscow's use of a propaganda video that would depict graphic scenes, according to administration officials, of a staged false explosion with corpses, actors depicting mourners, and images of destroyed buildings and military equipment.

00:42:54.000 The equipment in the video would be made to look like it is Ukrainian or from nations belonging to NATO, according to the officials.

00:43:00.000 Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said, this is one example that we can talk about today.

00:43:04.000 We've seen this kind of activity by the Russians in the past.

00:43:06.000 We believe it's important when we see it like this, and we can, to call it out.

00:43:10.000 The video, they said, could include depictions of Turkish-made Okay, so this is what the United States said about it.

00:43:20.000 But then, when they were questioned, they couldn't actually provide any evidence of this.

00:43:24.000 So the State Department spokesperson, Ned Price, He's asked by Matt Lee, who's a pretty ballsy AP reporter, where is the information here?

00:43:33.000 Like, you keep saying that this is true, but you're not providing us any of the data that backs it.

00:43:36.000 And the administration just keeps saying over and over, well, I'm telling you.

00:43:40.000 And Matt Lee keeps saying over and over, right, but you telling me things doesn't mean that it's true.

00:43:43.000 We did WMD in Iraq. 0.99

00:43:45.000 I was there for that.

00:43:46.000 Here is the State Department spokesman.

00:43:49.000 What evidence do you have to support the idea that there is some propaganda film in the making?

00:43:56.000 Matt, this is derived from information known to the U.S.

00:43:59.000 Government, intelligence information that we have declassified.

00:44:02.000 I think you know- Okay, well, where is it?

00:44:04.000 Where is this information?

00:44:06.000 It is intelligence information that we have declassified.

00:44:09.000 Well, where is it?

00:44:09.000 Where is the declassified information?

00:44:12.000 And he doesn't have any information on that.

00:44:14.000 So there really is a lot of trust me going on.

00:44:16.000 But listen, when it comes to Ukraine, the proof is going to be in the pudding.

00:44:19.000 If Putin is deterred from invading Ukraine and no serious concessions are made to the Russians, that will be a win for Biden. 0.69

00:44:23.000 So again, this is a critical period for the Biden administration.

00:44:27.000 If they hope to pivot, the pivot has to happen right now.

00:44:29.000 And you can see Biden trying to pivot on a wide variety of topics.

00:44:32.000 Right now, there's major crime in the cities.

00:44:34.000 Major crime in LA.

00:44:35.000 There's an entire piece in Los Angeles Magazine about the spike in violent crime in Los Angeles.

00:44:39.000 Murder rates are up tremendously.

00:44:41.000 The LAPD, meanwhile, is actually considering an end to pretextual stops of motorists and pedestrians, supposedly because everything is racist.

00:44:48.000 This is according to Hot Air.

00:44:49.000 Quote, the LAPD is considering limiting pretextual stops of motorists and pedestrians by officers investigating serious crime, arguing they aren't effective and have undermined public trust in the police, particularly among Black and Latino residents who have been disproportionately targeted in the past.

00:45:04.000 Such stops involve officers citing minor traffic or code violations as a pretext for stopping motorists, bicyclists, or pedestrians who they suspect may be involved in more serious crime.

00:45:13.000 This has been used for decades.

00:45:14.000 by the LAPD, especially in South L.A.

00:45:16.000 and other areas where gun violence is particularly high.

00:45:19.000 So, you're starting to see, again, in L.A., in New York, bad police policy.

00:45:24.000 Even Eric Adams, who just took over in New York, hasn't been able to do all that much about the crime.

00:45:29.000 Because the biggest problem in New York is that Eric Adams has very little power in New York.

00:45:34.000 Eric Adams can appoint the commissioner of the NYPD.

00:45:37.000 That's all he can do.

00:45:39.000 The DA is in an elected position.

00:45:40.000 And the DA basically has decided in New York, all these Soros-funded DAs, all of these Soros-funded DAs have basically decided they will not enforce any criminal law ever again.

00:45:48.000 And so New Yorkers are looking around going, yeah, you're not, you're not helping me.

00:45:53.000 Yesterday, there was video of New Yorkers saying that Joe Biden can't do anything to stem violent crime.

00:45:57.000 Crime is becoming very an issue.

00:45:59.000 I know people won't get on the subway.

00:46:01.000 People rearrange their day around it.

00:46:04.000 Crime is out of control in New York City.

00:46:06.000 When you get too lax, these type of things happen.

00:46:09.000 I think it's a total waste.

00:46:10.000 He's going to do absolutely nothing to help New York City.

00:46:14.000 OK, so Joe Biden has some real problems because of the crime in the city.

00:46:18.000 So yesterday he visited with Eric Adams.

00:46:20.000 And while he was there, he announced that he doesn't support defund the police any longer.

00:46:24.000 The answer is not to abandon our streets.

00:46:26.000 That's not the answer.

00:46:28.000 The answer is to come together.

00:46:30.000 The police and communities building trust and making us all safer.

00:46:34.000 The answer is not to defund the police.

00:46:37.000 It's to give you the tools, the training, the funding to be partners, to be protectors and community needs you and know the community.

00:46:46.000 Okay, so this inarticulate old man babbling, he's trying to pivot. 0.91

00:46:51.000 I think it's unlikely that he is able to pivot, because again, his base will never allow him to pivot.

00:46:55.000 But the fact that he wants to pivot shows that he now knows, the Democrats now know, they are in serious trouble come 2022, come 2024.

00:47:01.000 If they don't pivot, the problem is they may be locked in by their own ideology to a place where they can't pivot.

00:47:06.000 They are now like Ross trying to get that couch up the stairs in the stairwell.

00:47:09.000 Like that pivot ain't happening.

00:47:11.000 The angle of turn is just too great.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - February 04, 2022

Biden Tries To Pivot | Ep. 1427

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