The Ben Shapiro Show - Biden’s Car Crash Economy

00:00:00.000 Alrighty, so Joe Biden's numbers continue to look absolutely awful.

00:00:04.000 There's a brand new poll out and it shows that Joe Biden's numbers, again, remain just devastatingly bad.

00:00:11.000 For example, this NBC News poll that just recently came out shows that Republicans have a 21 point advantage on the economy.

00:00:19.000 49% of registered voters picked the GOP, 28% Pick the Democrats.

00:00:24.000 That is the biggest lead Republicans have held on that question since 1991.

00:00:28.000 Since 1991. 0.96

00:00:29.000 Remember, Joe Biden, like a moron, decided that he was going to brand his entire economic program Bidenomics, which gives a shorthand to his Republican opponents, to now hang the economy around his neck. 0.96

00:00:39.000 They're gonna do that anyway, but now he himself has cut ads for them, saying Bidenomics is working over and over, creepily into a microphone. 0.97

00:00:45.000 Bidenomics is working.

00:00:47.000 Like, just juxtapose that footage with all of the inflation stats, juxtapose all of that footage with the stagnating economy, how people feel about the economy, and it's not going to work well for the Democrats.

00:00:58.000 These are really, really bad numbers for Joe Biden.

00:01:01.000 And so if you're wondering why it is that in every major national poll, Donald Trump is running either even to or above Joe Biden, the answer is because Joe Biden is terrible at the president thing.

00:01:11.000 Well, even James Carville, who of course is a Democrat, pollster, analyst, even Carville is like, somebody over there needs to wake the F up because Trump could easily win this election.

00:01:22.000 Let's assume the election was November the 3rd of this year.

00:01:26.000 And they said the candidates are Joe Biden, the Democrat, Donald Trump, the Republican, Joe Manchin and Larry Hogan, no labels, and Cornel West.

00:01:37.000 Trump would be a betting favorite.

00:01:38.000 Yes.

00:01:39.000 If I told you I would give you even money, you would not take that bet.

00:01:43.000 All right? 0.77

00:01:46.000 And so somebody better wake the f*** up. 0.69

00:01:49.000 Carville is not wrong about this.

00:01:50.000 Again, the polls are a little bit disparate.

00:01:53.000 We had the poll from ABC News Washington Post with Trump up 10, and that came out just a couple of days ago.

00:01:58.000 Now there's a new Morning Consult poll that shows Biden up 1, but Biden up 1 means that Biden is winning 43% of the vote.

00:02:04.000 That is a 43-42 race.

00:02:05.000 So the question here is whether there's a ceiling for Trump or whether there's a ceiling for Biden.

00:02:09.000 Who is this election going to be a referendum on?

00:02:12.000 Well, meanwhile, Joe Biden's team is physically attempting, I kid you not, to stop him from tripping.

00:02:17.000 Things are going amazing over at the Biden campaign.

00:02:18.000 tripping on drugs, like actually just physically tripping and falling down.

00:02:22.000 According to Axios, President Biden and his campaign are working on a critical project

00:02:25.000 for his re-election bid.

00:02:26.000 Make sure he doesn't trip.

00:02:31.000 Things are going amazing over at the Biden campaign.

00:02:33.000 I have to say that Donald Trump's description of Joe Biden walking a couple weeks ago in

00:02:37.000 an interview continues to be the single best description of Joe Biden walking.

00:02:41.000 Donald Trump said, he looks like he's walking on toothpicks every time he walks.

00:02:44.000 Looks like he's walking on toothpicks.

00:02:45.000 And that is true.

00:02:47.000 It looks as though he is desperately attempting not to fall over.

00:02:49.000 According to Axios, as voters expressed deep concerns about the 80-year-old president's age and fitness for office, Biden seemed to be taking extra steps to prevent him from stumbling in public.

00:02:58.000 With a physical therapist, Biden has been doing exercises to improve his balance as far back as November 2021.

00:03:02.000 He's been wearing tennis shoes more often to avoid slipping, and using the short stairs on Air Force One, entering the plane on a lower deck than before, because every time he goes up the stairs, he keeps falling up the stairs.

00:03:12.000 Democrats, including some in the administration, are terrified Biden will have a bad fall, with a nightmare scenario of that happening in the weeks before the November 2024 election.

00:03:19.000 You remember, this actually happened to Hillary Clinton when she collapsed into a van just a couple of weeks out from the 2016 election.

00:03:26.000 According to Axios, some senior Democrats privately have been frustrated with Biden's advance team for months, citing the incident with a sandbag where he tripped over a sandbag and fell down, and noting that the president often appears not to know which direction to go after he speaks at a podium.

00:03:39.000 Biden's balance difficulties are likely the result of what his physician has diagnosed as a combination of significant spinal arthritis and a mild post-fracture foot arthritis.

00:03:47.000 He works out many mornings with his physical therapist, and he has to have proprioceptive maintenance maneuvers.

00:03:54.000 So, um, that is interesting.

00:03:56.000 Apparently, the White House spokesperson Andrew Bates told Axios this isn't new.

00:04:00.000 This was disclosed in a 2021 report from the president's doctor, and then again this year.

00:04:05.000 So, Biden's erratic behavior, his inability to actually stick with a train of thought, and the fact that he's literally falling down, all of this undercuts the feeling that this is a durable candidate.

00:04:17.000 There's footage immediately after the story came up.

00:04:20.000 Joe Biden was going up the short stairs.

00:04:21.000 Again, they're not having him take the long, tall stairs like the middle of the plane anymore.

00:04:24.000 They're having him take the short stairs, which makes sense since he usually rides the short bus.

00:04:28.000 In any case, here he was going up the short stairs and nearly tripping.

00:04:32.000 And there he goes.

00:04:40.000 Almost slips, almost falls.

00:04:41.000 Again, I've been saying for months that watching Joe Biden do a press conference or go up a flight of stairs or anything, it feels like watching Nick Wallenda cross a volcano on a tightrope.

00:04:51.000 You just don't know when you're going to be watching history in the making every time he goes down or up a flight of stairs.

00:04:57.000 Now again, he could survive all of that if he were well respected.

00:05:01.000 He could survive all of that if there weren't a broad scale recognition that he's very bad at the president thing.

00:05:06.000 That when it comes to the policy, he's really bad.

00:05:08.000 And also, he's still plagued by serious corruption allegations.

00:05:11.000 And there's more news breaking on those corruption allegations, actually.

00:05:14.000 Like a rather significant piece of news breaking on those corruption allegations.

00:05:17.000 We'll get to that momentarily first.

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00:06:26.000 Oversight Committee in the House, he has now revealed that there was a wire amount from a

00:06:34.000 Chinese figure to Hunter Biden, and it was listing on this wire amount Joe Biden's home address.

00:06:42.000 According to James Comer, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James

00:06:45.000 Comer announced the House Oversight Committee subpoenaed and obtained two bank wires,

00:06:49.000 revealing Hunter Biden received payments originating from Chinese nationals, including

00:06:52.000 Jonathan Lee, in July and August 2019 when Joe Biden was running for president of the United

00:06:57.000 Joe Biden's Wilmington, Delaware, home address is listed as the beneficiary address for both wires.

00:07:03.000 He said, quote, bank records don't lie, but President Joe Biden does.

00:07:05.000 In 2020, Joe Biden told Americans his family never received money from China.

00:07:09.000 We've already proved that to be a lie earlier this year.

00:07:11.000 Now we know two wires originating from Beijing listed Joe Biden's Wilmington home as the beneficiary address when he was running for president of the United States.

00:07:18.000 When Joe Biden was vice president, he spoke on the phone and had coffee with Jonathan Lee in Beijing and later wrote a college letter of recommendation for his children.

00:07:26.000 Joe Biden's abuse of public office for his family's financial gain threatens our national security.

00:07:30.000 What do the Bidens do with this money from Beijing?

00:07:32.000 Americans demand and deserve accountability for President Biden and the First Family's corruption.

00:07:35.000 Okay, so we have now moved the goalposts.

00:07:38.000 Remember, the goalposts were Hunter Biden never did anything.

00:07:40.000 Never took Chinese money, nothing.

00:07:42.000 To, okay, Hunter Biden may have taken Chinese money, but Joe never knew about it.

00:07:46.000 To, well, Joe knew about it, but he was never involved in the business.

00:07:48.000 To, well, Joe was involved in the business, but only tangentially by, you know, joining for like business calls.

00:07:53.000 To, well, Joe knew and he was probably kind of involved in the business and knew that his son was trafficking in his name and helping out his son, but the money never physically entered anything remotely to do with Joe Biden.

00:08:03.000 To, well, yeah, I mean, the wires did have his home address on them, but did Joe Biden personally take that check to the bank?

00:08:10.000 That is where we are now in this particular story.

00:08:12.000 By the way, it is worth noting that at the time that this wire listed Joe Biden's home address, you know who was not actually living at the home at that time?

00:08:21.000 It was Hunter Biden.

00:08:22.000 According to his own memoir, he was living in California at the time.

00:08:25.000 So apparently he was just, I don't know, using the home address of Joe Biden, best case scenario, because it was kind of a stable address for him to send the money.

00:08:35.000 By the way, that would be the same home address where Hunter Biden was sometimes staying and Joe Biden was keeping all of those classified documents.

00:08:42.000 Speaking of which, the Biden classified documents scandal is now apparently increasing.

00:08:47.000 According to the ABC News report, the federal investigation into Joe Biden's handling of classified documents prior to becoming president has now grown into a sprawling examination of Obama-era security protocols and internal White House processes, with investigators so far interviewing scores of witnesses, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

00:09:04.000 Federal prosecutors and FBI agents from Special Counsel Robert Herr's office have been interviewing witnesses for nearly nine months, targeting an expansive constellation of former aides, from high-level advisors to executive assistants and at least one White House attorney.

00:09:15.000 Apparently, as many as 100 witnesses have already been interviewed.

00:09:19.000 Apparently, authorities had apparently uncovered instances of carelessness from Biden's vice presidency.

00:09:24.000 It seems to them that it was more likely a mistake than criminal act that Biden took these documents with him, but they've reached no final determinations and the investigation remains ongoing.

00:09:32.000 Now, all of this would be significantly less suspicious.

00:09:36.000 Were Hunter Biden not receiving wires from foreign sources while Joe Biden had been presiding over the policy and then Joe Biden runs for president, he's keeping these documents in the garage next to his Corvette where Hunter Biden is present.

00:09:48.000 Not only that, by the way, all of this would be a little bit less troubling if it were not for the fact That we now know, for example, that Joe Biden and his friends apparently like hanging out with, like, Iranian sources.

00:10:02.000 There's a fascinating scoop from Semaphore talking about how the senior Iranian foreign ministry actually created an effort to boost Iran in the United States, and they effectively co-opted a bunch of Obama-era officials, including people who ended up in Joe Biden's administration.

00:10:19.000 If you're talking about documents floating around, you're talking about suspicious people hanging around those documents.

00:10:24.000 If you're talking, frankly, about lack of national security awareness or care, Joe Biden is near the top of that list.

00:10:32.000 And all of this is deeply suspicious.

00:10:35.000 Not just Hunter Biden receiving bribery money, which is pretty obviously what was going on here, but the fact that you've got these classified documents that are floating around every which way.

00:10:42.000 You can say it was a mistake that Joe Biden took all that stuff home.

00:10:45.000 All right, but at the very least, I mean, he took those home.

00:10:48.000 He left them in D.C., in his office.

00:10:51.000 He left them in his Wilmington, Delaware, in his garage.

00:10:55.000 And apparently, Iranian officials were swarming the Biden administration and the Obama administration.

00:11:02.000 According to Semaphore, in the spring of 2014, senior Iranian foreign ministry officials initiated a quiet effort to bolster Tehran's image and positions on global security issues, particularly its nuclear program, by building ties with a network of influential overseas academics and researchers.

00:11:15.000 They called it the Iran Experts Initiative.

00:11:17.000 The scope and scale of the IEI project has emerged in a large cache of Iranian government correspondence and emails reported for the first time by Semaphore and Iran International.

00:11:27.000 The officials working under President Hassan Rouhani congratulated themselves on the impact of the initiative.

00:11:31.000 At least three of the people on the foreign ministry list, people who are considered allies of Iran, were or became top aides to Robert Malley, the Biden administration's special envoy on Iran, who was placed on leave this June following the suspension of a security clearance.

00:11:46.000 The documents offer deep and unprecedented new insights into the thinking and inner workings of Iran's foreign ministry at a crucial time in the nuclear diplomacy.

00:11:54.000 The communications reveal the access Rouhani's diplomats have had to Washington and Europe's policy circles, particularly during the final years of the Obama administration, through this network.

00:12:02.000 One of the German academics in the IEI offered to ghostwrite op-eds for officials in Tehran.

00:12:06.000 Others would at times seek advice from the foreign ministry staff about attending conferences and hearings in the United States and Israel.

00:12:13.000 The emails describe the IEI being initiated to follow Rouhani's 2013 election when he was looking to find an accommodation with the West on nuclear issues.

00:12:20.000 And basically they just started planting people around Washington, D.C.

00:12:23.000 and a bunch of those people ended up in the Biden administration, including people surrounding Robert Malley.

00:12:30.000 I mean, this is frightening stuff and demonstrative of just how corrupt the ties are between foreign adversaries like Iran and the Obama administration.

00:12:43.000 I mean, truly astonishing stuff right there.

00:12:48.000 This is why Robert Malley, who was again brought on by Barack Obama and was an Iranian ally apparently, and also was then brought on by Joe Biden to negotiate with Iran and was surrounded by people who had been cultivated directly by Iran, That is frightening stuff, obviously.

00:13:03.000 Okay, in just one second, we'll get to the fact that because Joe Biden is flailing in the polls because his policy is really bad, because he's surrounded by bad people, now he's forced to take extremely radical measures to shore up his sort of core of support.

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00:14:30.000 Okay, so, because Joe Biden is flailing in the polls, because the independents are turning away from him, because, at best, he's running competitive with Donald Trump.

00:14:38.000 Again, that should be, like, every morning bell should be going off for Democrats.

00:14:42.000 Democrats believe that Donald Trump is deeply unpopular.

00:14:45.000 And by the polls, Donald Trump, his popularity ratings, his His popularity, unpopularity ratings remain absolutely bad.

00:14:52.000 I know that there are a lot of people on the right who love him.

00:14:55.000 That does not change the fact that when you look at his approval rating, when you look at Donald Trump's approval rating, what you find is that his approval rating is really, really bad.

00:15:03.000 The latest approval rating is for Donald Trump.

00:15:07.000 Right now, according to FiveThirtyEight, his latest approval rating is 41%, unfavorable 55%.

00:15:14.000 Those are not good numbers.

00:15:16.000 The fact that Joe Biden is running even with him as the incumbent president, that is horrifying news for Joe Biden.

00:15:23.000 Remember, this guy who won 7 million more popular votes than Donald Trump, specifically in reaction to Trump.

00:15:28.000 So what does that mean?

00:15:29.000 It means that Joe Biden has to lock down that core support.

00:15:31.000 How's he going to lock down that core support?

00:15:33.000 Well, apparently it means that he is going to now signal to every union in the United States that if they strike, he's going to stand on their side against their employer in the middle of an inflationary wage price spiral.

00:15:45.000 This is totally crazy.

00:15:46.000 Okay, so the United Auto Workers are currently in the middle of a strike against two of the big three.

00:15:52.000 They're striking still against Ford, but they've decided not to broaden the strike because Ford is making a bunch of concessions.

00:15:56.000 Now, I remind you that the demands that are currently being made by the UAW are totally insane.

00:16:02.000 And what they actually want is crazy.

00:16:03.000 They want a 36% pay increase across a four-year contract.

00:16:07.000 They also would like annual cost of living adjustments, which means an automatic raise, They also want their benefits plans moved from defined payments plans to defined benefits plans.

00:16:23.000 So instead of you getting back sort of what you pay in plus a percentage, they want a defined benefits plan, which is what bankrupted the automakers in the first place.

00:16:31.000 They also want a 32-hour work week, and everything above 32 hours paid is overtime.

00:16:36.000 Which is totally crazy.

00:16:37.000 So these are nuts.

00:16:39.000 They also want the big three to scrap their two-tiered wage structure under that current system.

00:16:42.000 Top-tier workers, according to CBS News, earn an average of $33 an hour.

00:16:46.000 Those hired after 2007 are classified as lower-tier and earn about $17 an hour.

00:16:52.000 The UAW says that they just want to get rid of that so everyone gets paid $33 an hour.

00:16:58.000 So they want the defined pension.

00:17:00.000 They want substantial paid raises.

00:17:02.000 They want more paid time off.

00:17:03.000 And they want a four-day work week.

00:17:07.000 32 hours for 40 hours of pay, which is nuts.

00:17:10.000 They also want a right to strike over plant closings.

00:17:13.000 So, if the plants close because the profitability goes away, they want to be able to strike over that.

00:17:19.000 They also want a working family protection program that pays UAW to do community service work if the company's shut down a facility.

00:17:25.000 So, if they shut down a facility in Detroit, UAW is now going to have to, basically Ford, if they shut down, Stellantis, if they shut down a factory, they're going to have to pay the UAW workers to go to a food kitchen and work.

00:17:36.000 Which makes zero sense at all.

00:17:39.000 They also want to represent workers at their electric vehicle battery factories, which are being built right now in joint ventures between automakers and South Korean battery makers.

00:17:47.000 These are their demands.

00:17:48.000 So this is a list of demands that is totally nuts.

00:17:50.000 Okay, these are nutty demands.

00:17:52.000 It's particularly nutty given the fact that, again, these car makers are about to face the hammer of the Biden administration trying to force through electric vehicle transitions.

00:18:01.000 So the big three are deeply reliant, as I said before, on gas-powered engines.

00:18:06.000 Traditional engines.

00:18:08.000 And Joe Biden, because he is captured by his environmentalist base, believes that he can force down and cram down through government mandates that all of these companies move toward electric vehicle manufacture.

00:18:18.000 The problem is a lot more of that stuff is automated.

00:18:21.000 And so it means the number one profitability for these companies is going to go down because their chief sources of profit are going to go away in terms of the gas powered engines.

00:18:29.000 And number two, A lot of the jobs are going to go away.

00:18:32.000 So at a time when the jobs are threatened, thanks to the Biden administration, and the profitability is threatened thanks to the Biden administration, Joe Biden is siding with the UAW.

00:18:40.000 So yesterday, Joe Biden went to the actual Michigan picket line.

00:18:44.000 He did this because he's afraid that the UAW is not going to get out the vote for him.

00:18:48.000 In 2024.

00:18:48.000 That's really all this comes down to.

00:18:50.000 Sean Fain had already said, we're not going to issue an endorsement of Joe Biden because you either stand with us or you don't stand with us.

00:18:55.000 And so Joe Biden, like a good little lapdog, then went to Michigan and went to the picket lines with Sean Fain, which is crazy.

00:19:01.000 Again, the federal government should not be taking open sides between businesses and unions.

00:19:08.000 It's their job to help facilitate, if anything, You already have the NLRB, which exists, the National Labor Relations Board, an abomination of American government, that exists to help facilitate these things.

00:19:17.000 They're really just a union cutout when Democrats run the place.

00:19:20.000 So actively going and picketing with the UAW, saying, we agree with you on your demands.

00:19:27.000 You want inflation?

00:19:29.000 You want stagnation?

00:19:30.000 This is the way you get inflation and stagnation, is you have these unions that are striking in the middle of an inflationary economy.

00:19:37.000 to get higher wages and higher benefits, driving up prices at a time when, again,

00:19:42.000 people can't even pay the prices they currently have, which is going to lead to less demand,

00:19:46.000 which is going to lead to loss of jobs, which is going to lead to stagnation,

00:19:48.000 and then you're going to get true stagflation.

00:19:51.000 Everybody feels it.

00:19:52.000 And Joe Biden is going here because he knows he needs that union support.

00:19:55.000 That's how desperate Joe Biden is.

00:19:56.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, he walked a Michigan picket line with striking auto workers on Tuesday, offering an unprecedented display of union support.

00:20:02.000 As he and former President Donald Trump prepared for a fight for working class voters, Biden joined members of the UAW union at a GM customer care center, a politically risky step that makes him the first U.S.

00:20:11.000 president to walk a picket line.

00:20:13.000 This is totally nuts.

00:20:15.000 Again, they're calling for a 40% pay raise.

00:20:19.000 These workers are calling for a 40% pay raise.

00:20:23.000 So, we'll get to Joe Biden's activities on the picket line in just one second.

00:20:27.000 Again, Bidenomics is going to sink Joe Biden and his choice here is I'm going to steer directly into it.

00:20:33.000 It's a bold strategy, Cotton.

00:20:35.000 We'll see how it pays off for him.

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00:21:53.000 Okay, so Joe Biden actually was there for all of 12 minutes.

00:21:58.000 That's all it took.

00:21:59.000 Because again, all he really has to do here is just demonstrate that he has full fealty to the unions.

00:22:07.000 In a written statement on Tuesday, Donald Trump responded by blaming workers' problems on the push by Biden and Democrats to promote EVs.

00:22:13.000 He said Crooked Joe should be ashamed to show his face before these hardworking Americans he is stabbing in the back.

00:22:17.000 There's truth to all of that.

00:22:19.000 Trump had announced his Michigan visit first.

00:22:20.000 Biden's team then announced that he was going to go to the picket lines himself to demonstrate again full fealty to bend the knee to Sean Fain.

00:22:29.000 Joe Biden was cheered by the UAW as he arrived, because why wouldn't?

00:22:32.000 I mean, he works for them.

00:22:33.000 He doesn't work for you, the taxpayer.

00:22:34.000 Remember, the most corrupt bargain in American politics is unions electing the very people who then help negotiate rich contracts on their behalf, using the full weight and force of the federal government.

00:22:44.000 It's super corrupt.

00:22:45.000 Here is Joe Biden arriving yesterday in Wayne County, Michigan.

00:22:50.000 I've heard me say it many times.

00:22:54.000 Wall Street didn't build the country.

00:22:56.000 The middle class built the country.

00:22:59.000 You built the middle class.

00:23:02.000 That's a fact.

00:23:03.000 So let's keep going.

00:23:05.000 You deserve what you've earned, and you've earned a hell of a lot more than you're getting paid now.

00:23:11.000 You deserve what you've earned.

00:23:12.000 Okay, well, if they'd earned it, then presumably they would have been able to negotiate this without striking and bringing the President of the United States as the pressure cooker for the big car companies.

00:23:21.000 By the way, here's how this works.

00:23:23.000 You cram down these union contracts, the auto companies go belly up, and then the federal government comes in and bails them out.

00:23:30.000 We've done it twice before in modern American history.

00:23:32.000 It happened in the early 80s, and then it happened again in 2008-2009.

00:23:36.000 So, we've been here before.

00:23:38.000 Cram down a bunch of crappy contracts, bankrupt the auto companies, make them uncompetitive, and then come in and bail them out with taxpayer cash.

00:23:45.000 That is the way all of this works.

00:23:46.000 When Joe Biden, by the way, says that Wall Street didn't build the country, the middle class built the country, what is this? 1.00

00:23:51.000 That's such a stupid line. 1.00

00:23:54.000 Wall Street is not working in opposition to the middle class. 1.00

00:23:56.000 Who do you think invested in the company that hires people?

00:23:59.000 Who do you think These companies are built by investors.

00:24:03.000 They are built by entrepreneurs.

00:24:04.000 And then those companies create a market.

00:24:07.000 And then they have to cater to that market by hiring workers and hiring labor. 0.60

00:24:11.000 The notion that the middle class didn't exist until unions existed in the United States is a lie.

00:24:16.000 The United States is a middle class country by the time of de Tocqueville. 0.96

00:24:19.000 It's ridiculous. 0.85

00:24:21.000 Then Joe Biden says, stick with it. 0.92

00:24:24.000 You deserve the raise.

00:24:25.000 You deserve the significant raise.

00:24:27.000 Stick with it.

00:24:27.000 So you want the strike to continue is what you're saying if you're the president of the United States.

00:24:31.000 He's wearing a UAW hat.

00:24:34.000 It's egregious stuff. 0.90

00:24:36.000 It's really quite disgusting.

00:24:38.000 Putting on the hat of a union in the middle of a negotiation with an employer.

00:24:42.000 These are two supposedly private parties.

00:24:43.000 Remember, the UAW is a private sector union.

00:24:46.000 And Joe Biden is supposed to be representing you, the taxpayer, not the union.

00:24:50.000 I mean, this is wild stuff.

00:24:52.000 There's a reason no president has done this in the past, including Barack Obama, who is totally in hock to the unions.

00:24:57.000 Here is Joe Biden being as radical as radical can be.

00:25:00.000 You guys, UAW, you saved the automobile industry back in 2008 and before.

00:25:07.000 What?

00:25:07.000 Gave up a lot.

00:25:09.000 And the companies were in trouble.

00:25:12.000 But now they're doing incredibly well.

00:25:14.000 And guess what?

00:25:15.000 You should be doing incredibly well, too.

00:25:17.000 It's about time for them to step up for us.

00:25:37.000 Who is us, my friend?

00:25:38.000 Who is us?

00:25:39.000 I mean, first of all, let me point out that the reason that the UAW had to make concessions to the automakers in 2008 is because the automakers were bankrupt.

00:25:46.000 They were literally bankrupt.

00:25:47.000 They're going to be sold on the chopping block.

00:25:49.000 Every UAW contract would have gone to zero.

00:25:51.000 Zero.

00:25:52.000 Because bankruptcy would have voided the contracts.

00:25:55.000 So what they had to do is make concessions to receive $34 billion in federal aid.

00:26:01.000 Again, this is the way that it works.

00:26:02.000 The UAW cuts these really rich contracts with the automakers at the behest of the government.

00:26:06.000 And then the market goes south.

00:26:07.000 The automakers take it on the chin.

00:26:09.000 They're on the verge of bankruptcy.

00:26:10.000 And guess who gets to pay for it?

00:26:11.000 You get to pay for it.

00:26:12.000 That's the way all of this works.

00:26:15.000 Well, it's very awkward because, again, the UAW right now is striking for benefits that no American gets.

00:26:19.000 I mean, a 40% pay raise over four years?

00:26:22.000 40%?

00:26:22.000 A 32-hour workweek?

00:26:26.000 A unicorn?

00:26:27.000 That's what they're currently striking for.

00:26:29.000 And so Corinne Jean-Pierre was asked at the White House, so is he actually in agreement with all these demands?

00:26:33.000 Is that what he wants here?

00:26:34.000 And she's like, well, I'm not going to say.

00:26:36.000 I mean, he's out there on the picket lines with them, but he's not expressing a policy preference.

00:26:40.000 Well, I noticed that when you endorse one side in a negotiation that generally involves endorsing their positions, that's an absurdity.

00:26:49.000 All you had to do was not go to the picket line if you didn't want to express a policy preference.

00:26:52.000 If I go to a picket line where people are literally striking for X, Y, and Z, and I don't express my policy preference, I just put on their hat, and I talk about how wonderful they are, and how they deserve everything they're striking for, well, yeah, I mean, he's endorsing the UAW position, but the problem is, now the White House is stuck between a rock and a hard place.

00:27:08.000 Because as the economy continues to turn south, Guess who's going to get blamed?

00:27:12.000 Joe Biden out there on the picket lines.

00:27:13.000 It's the easiest ad in the world.

00:27:15.000 Your car now costs a bunch more than it would have cost otherwise.

00:27:19.000 You know who's to blame for that?

00:27:20.000 Joe Biden.

00:27:20.000 Joe Biden's to blame for that.

00:27:22.000 Here is Kareem Jean-Pierre trying to somehow get out from this sticky position.

00:27:27.000 It seems like by going to stand with workers at a picket line, the President is literally standing with them in the terms that they're seeking in the contract dispute.

00:27:36.000 But when you're asked about some of the specifics of that, you seem to be saying you guys don't want to get into the specifics of the dispute.

00:27:44.000 Is he not standing with them on the terms with which they're trying to negotiate?

00:27:49.000 I mean, to be very clear, he is standing with them to make sure that they get a fair share.

00:27:53.000 That is what he's standing with them on.

00:27:55.000 He's standing with them, and we've said this, that they get the record profits mean a record contract for UAW.

00:28:05.000 That is why he's going.

00:28:06.000 That is what he's standing for, right?

00:28:08.000 They deserve a fair share of the value that they helped create.

00:28:12.000 That's what the president is saying.

00:28:14.000 But the details, the specifics of what that looks like, what makes both sides happy or anything at the negotiation table, that is for them to decide.

00:28:25.000 Well, then what's he doing there?

00:28:28.000 He has no position on how this negotiation comes out.

00:28:29.000 He's just literally putting on the hat of one of the parties.

00:28:32.000 Imagine that you have a mediator, okay?

00:28:33.000 This happens all the time in contract disputes.

00:28:35.000 There's a mediator.

00:28:36.000 Imagine the mediator comes in, right?

00:28:37.000 It's a dispute between you and me.

00:28:39.000 And the mediator comes in wearing a daily wire hat.

00:28:42.000 Which side do you think he's going to take in that mediation? 0.98

00:28:44.000 This is so ridiculous. 0.99

00:28:45.000 It's ridiculous. 1.00

00:28:46.000 But he's a ridiculous president of the United States. 0.97

00:28:48.000 Meanwhile, the line that is being used here by the Democrats is that Joe Biden is able to do this because he's overseeing a manufacturing renaissance here in the United States. 0.91

00:28:56.000 Debbie Stabenow, senator from Michigan, she's saying that Joe Biden can take sides with the UAW because he's bringing manufacturing jobs back to America.

00:29:03.000 That's one of the big lies that Joe Biden tells.

00:29:06.000 explore in just a second.

00:29:07.000 In fact, the rate at which manufacturing jobs are being created in the United States

00:29:11.000 is precisely the same across administrations.

00:29:13.000 But here is a Debbie Stab in a line.

00:29:16.000 And for the auto workers, what is the significance of the president being there today?

00:29:21.000 Well, Willie, it's always great to be with all of you.

00:29:24.000 Let me just start by saying it is historic that we have the President of the United States that will be joining with the union on the picket line.

00:29:31.000 He's actually been overseeing the largest manufacturing renaissance in our history, for all of us in our lifetimes right now, creating more jobs.

00:29:41.000 We want to make sure they're good-paying jobs.

00:29:43.000 Okay, well, that's a lie.

00:29:44.000 I mean, here, for example, is a chart from the Federal Reserve Bank of St.

00:29:47.000 Louis of manufacturing jobs that have been created over time.

00:29:51.000 What you see is there's a massive decline in manufacturing jobs in the United States during the rate recession from 2008 to 2009.

00:29:55.000 And then it started to slowly climb and has continued to slowly climb all the way until about mid-2020.

00:30:01.000 And then the pandemic hit.

00:30:04.000 And then after the pandemic hit, it dived.

00:30:06.000 And then it kind of increased back to where it was kind of before.

00:30:10.000 So no, it turns out that manufacturing jobs have not been wildly coming back to the United States under either Trump or under Joe Biden.

00:30:16.000 And the reason for that is because of partially union contracts.

00:30:20.000 It turns out it's really expensive to do labor in the United States.

00:30:23.000 So you've had tech upticks, right?

00:30:24.000 People have been creating new technologies, robotics.

00:30:27.000 If it's that expensive to hire the UAW, why not just build the machines that are going to take those workers off the line?

00:30:34.000 In the United States manufacturing sector, productivity has more than doubled since 1980, even as employment has fallen by about one-third.

00:30:40.000 Again, that is because of machines.

00:30:42.000 That is because of new technologies.

00:30:45.000 We're never going to go back to the 1950s with the percentage of people who are in manufacturing.

00:30:49.000 But the notion that Joe Biden can stand with the UAW and make labor in the United States more expensive and simultaneously increase the number of manufacturing jobs, it belies pretty much all data.

00:31:00.000 Meanwhile, Steve Ratner, who was the Obama administration's car czar, actually slammed Joe Biden for doing all of this.

00:31:06.000 He said for him to be going on the picket line is outrageous.

00:31:07.000 He said there's no precedent for it.

00:31:09.000 The tradition of the president is to stay neutral in these things.

00:31:11.000 I get the politics.

00:31:12.000 The progressives all said, we don't want a mediator, we want an advocate.

00:31:15.000 And he bowed to the progressives, now he's going to go out there and put his thumb on the scale and it's wrong.

00:31:19.000 He's in favor of the UAW getting some more benefits, but he said increasingly militant UAW is overplaying its hand with an overly lengthy and overly ambitious list of demands.

00:31:28.000 This is a prolonged strike, which could lead to far more widespread shutdowns of auto facilities, could jeopardize the economic recovery.

00:31:34.000 Our nearly $800 billion auto industry accounts for 3% of economic output, with particular concentration in the Midwest, where states like Michigan are critical to Biden's reelect effort.

00:31:44.000 So again, that's Obama's own Karzai saying this is insane.

00:31:46.000 You can't do this.

00:31:47.000 Meanwhile, where did Joe Biden go?

00:31:49.000 And his coalition, basically right now, is union heads, minorities, college-educated white ladies. 0.99

00:31:55.000 That is the coalition for the Democratic Party.

00:31:58.000 And Joe Biden was trying to bring all that together.

00:31:59.000 He spent 12 minutes on the picket line, according to the Free Beacon, with those autoworkers, and then he headed directly to a fundraiser in California at the home of a billionaire couple that funds the movement to abolish policing.

00:32:10.000 So he stayed there for like 12 minutes, gone, immediately moved over to California to pick up some checks from the rich libs.

00:32:17.000 So, solid stuff there from the President of the United States.

00:32:20.000 By the way, the economy continues to stagnate.

00:32:23.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the amount of cash the U.S.

00:32:26.000 household piled up after the pandemic struck has shrunk.

00:32:29.000 In fact, U.S.

00:32:30.000 household savings exploded after the pandemic because the government was signing people checks for nothing.

00:32:36.000 So the question now is how much cash is left, if any.

00:32:39.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, The easiest way to see what happened to savings in the wake of the pandemic is to look at the personal savings rate.

00:32:46.000 Measuring the share of after-tax income that doesn't get spent, in April 2020 it was 33.8%, compared to 8.8% over the course of 2019.

00:32:50.000 It stayed elevated throughout 2020 and most of 2021.

00:32:51.000 compared to 8.8% over the course of 2019.

00:32:54.000 It stayed elevated throughout 2020 and most of 2021.

00:32:57.000 Last year, it was just 3.5%.

00:32:59.000 This year, it is 4.3%.

00:33:02.000 Again, that is way too low.

00:33:04.000 So, one way that economists have tried to figure out how much excess savings are on those household balance sheets is basically to add up all the after-tax income that didn't get spent since the pandemic hit.

00:33:13.000 One of the more pessimistic takes out there is from the federal researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

00:33:18.000 They calculate that excess savings peaked at about $2.1 trillion in August 2021.

00:33:22.000 By the second quarter of this year, less than $190 billion remain, putting them on pace to be completely depleted in the current quarter.

00:33:29.000 In other words, all those savings that people had saved up We burned through it.

00:33:32.000 It's pretty much gone.

00:33:33.000 And now, the Fed rate hikes are having a significant impact on people's wallets.

00:33:37.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, consumers in the market for loans to buy homes and cars are discovering that because of the Federal Reserve's rate increases, their money gets them a lot less than it would have just a few years ago.

00:33:46.000 Meanwhile, those with credit cards and other loans that carry rates pegged to broader benchmarks are finding they've gotten way, way, way more expensive.

00:33:53.000 Borrowers shopping for mortgages or auto loans are experiencing sticker shock.

00:33:56.000 30-year fixed-rate mortgages are around 7%.

00:33:59.000 That's up from 3% just a couple of years ago.

00:34:01.000 This is why there's stickiness in the real estate market.

00:34:02.000 Nobody can sell in order to buy again because you're not going to sell your house even if you made money on your house because then you have to get into a 7% mortgage.

00:34:09.000 Buying a home or a car right now is completely unaffordable for the typical American household because you're mixing the higher borrowing costs with the high prices, said Mark Zandi, Chief Economist at Moody's Analytics.

00:34:18.000 He estimates the typical American household would need to use 42 weeks of income to buy a new car, up from 33 weeks three years ago.

00:34:25.000 The National Association of Realtors calculates the typical American family cannot afford to buy a median-priced home.

00:34:30.000 And then you wonder why Americans are pessimistic about the economy?

00:34:32.000 This would be the reason.

00:34:34.000 Meanwhile, the Biden administration doing its best to make life even more unlivable is having the FTC sue Amazon.

00:34:40.000 So Amazon, which is the cheapest and easiest way for people to get product in the United States right now, is now being sued by Lena Kahn, who is a wild lefty at the head of the Federal Trade Commission. 0.58

00:34:50.000 She's trying to sue Amazon on the theory that they are effectively a monopoly and using monopoly power to enrich itself.

00:34:56.000 Now, the problem, of course, is that there are two theories of monopoly.

00:34:59.000 One is you own to larger percentage of the market.

00:35:01.000 The second is that it's harming consumers.

00:35:03.000 Name the way in which Amazon is harming consumers.

00:35:06.000 They're bringing you products cheaper and faster than any company on planet Earth right now.

00:35:11.000 The FTC is going after them anyway.

00:35:12.000 Why?

00:35:13.000 Because again, a bunch of political allies of Joe Biden, lefties, they don't like Amazon.

00:35:18.000 It is too big and they want to break it up.

00:35:20.000 That is where the Biden administration is right now.

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00:37:00.000 Well, meanwhile, Joe Biden continues to fail on pretty much every front.

00:37:03.000 It's just not economic.

00:37:04.000 It's also immigration.

00:37:05.000 The mayor of El Paso, Oscar Leaser, he was thanking Alejandro Mayorkas, the Homeland Security Secretary in FEMA, for disaster money.

00:37:13.000 They wouldn't need disaster money for illegal immigration if they weren't opening the borders and allowing, you know, tens of thousands of illegal immigrants to pour into the country every single week.

00:37:22.000 On the federal level, do you feel like the administration has been responsive to the scale of your needs?

00:37:28.000 Well, the city of El Paso couldn't do it on their own.

00:37:31.000 It's an impossibility that we would be able to fund these kinds of millions and millions of dollars.

00:37:35.000 So, we've been very thankful for the Secretary of Mallorca, FEMA, that's actually given us the funding to move forward.

00:37:42.000 But we do understand that funding may end and it would be an impossibility for a city like El Paso to be able to do that and make sure that people are not on the street and we continue to protect the safety of our community and also our visitors.

00:37:56.000 The same El Paso mayor also suggested, by the way, we don't have any more hotels.

00:38:00.000 We've literally run out of hotel space for illegal immigrants. 1.00

00:38:04.000 You mentioned ongoing crisis.

00:38:05.000 You've said the city is at a breaking point right now.

00:38:08.000 I'm interested, how long can you go on like this, particularly as surges continue cyclically?

00:38:16.000 You know, and the team here in El Paso has done an incredible job.

00:38:19.000 The city, the county, we all work together to make sure that we provide a bed and a warm meal for everyone.

00:38:27.000 But we are at a breaking point.

00:38:29.000 We're running out of hotels.

00:38:30.000 We're running out of space.

00:38:32.000 And when I talked to Chief Owens from the Border Patrol, he told us to prepare for about 2,000 crossings a day. 1.00

00:38:38.000 Meanwhile, Chicago alderman Raymond Lopez, he's out there openly saying that Joe Biden needs to get his head out of his ass. 0.99

00:38:45.000 What we see here is the fact that Chicago can't sustain this. 0.99

00:38:49.000 Chicago can't answer this crisis because this is the federal government's failure at the border brought to our backyard.

00:38:57.000 Literally, here in the middle of the city of Chicago, in front of a police district, a scene that's been repeated 22 times over, where we have nearly 1,600 people living in police districts, in the lobbies, in tents, in the parkways.

00:39:09.000 You know, you can't keep asking cities like Chicago, whether they are a sanctuary or not, to come up with the solution for the federal government's failure.

00:39:18.000 Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, all of Congress need to get their heads out of their rear ends and start focusing on what's important.

00:39:25.000 There's a reason that Joe Biden's approval rating on immigration is 20%.

00:39:28.000 20%.

00:39:28.000 And I imagine that those 20% are people who are immediate members of the Biden family because his policy is a disaster area.

00:39:33.000 There's a reason that Joe Biden's approval rating on immigration is 20%.

00:39:38.000 And I imagine that those 20% are people who are immediate members of the Biden family

00:39:42.000 because his policy is a disaster area.

00:39:44.000 Meanwhile, President Trump, again, this is a good issue for him, has been blasting the

00:39:49.000 The Biden administration is giving free cell phones to illegal immigrants crossing the

00:39:52.000 border in the hopes that they will then call back in for their judicial appointments or

00:39:55.000 something.

00:39:56.000 And Trump's like, wait, we won't pay for military members to go visit their families and we

00:40:02.000 won't pay for them to have free cell phones, but we're going to give them to illegal immigrants? 0.99

00:40:05.000 Explain.

00:40:06.000 Puts the illegal aliens above our veterans. 1.00

00:40:10.000 Our veterans live like hell.

00:40:12.000 And you know what you see what's happening.

00:40:14.000 You ever see the illegal aliens? 0.99

00:40:16.000 And one, the weirdest thing, they come in by the tens of thousands, sometimes a day, and they all have cell phones.

00:40:23.000 I'm saying, where did they get the cell phones?

00:40:27.000 Everybody has a cell phone.

00:40:28.000 They're all talking in these beautiful cell phones.

00:40:30.000 And they're expensive ones, too.

00:40:31.000 They're nice ones.

00:40:33.000 Somebody who's into that said, those are good phones.

00:40:35.000 And then I say, who pays their bills?

00:40:38.000 Who's paying the bills, Marjorie? 0.83

00:40:39.000 Do you want to check that?

00:40:40.000 I'll give it to Marjorie.

00:40:41.000 She'll figure that one out fast.

00:40:43.000 No, but you ever notice?

00:40:44.000 They're all coming in with cell phones.

00:40:48.000 Our veterans don't have cell phones, do they?

00:40:51.000 Okay, he is right about that.

00:40:52.000 Again, Biden's immigration policy is terrible.

00:40:55.000 So is his crime policy.

00:40:56.000 And the fact that you have an administration that has basically sicced its Attorney General, its DOJ, on police departments all over the country has predictable effects, including massive crime waves, particularly when it comes to mass shoplifting and looting, that have taken over America's major cities.

00:41:09.000 According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Target is going to close nine stores across four states because of theft and crime.

00:41:15.000 There's a shocker.

00:41:16.000 You mean the Black Lives Matter movement that ended with the police not being involved in any way in American life and basically standing aside as people loot stores? 0.61

00:41:22.000 You mean that damages businesses and then the businesses leave?

00:41:24.000 No!

00:41:25.000 Great shock there.

00:41:26.000 According to the Star Tribune, Target is going to shutter nine stores across four states on October 21st because of theft and threats to safety, the company announced on Tuesday.

00:41:34.000 The latest and loudest example of a retailer exiting urban locations because of crime.

00:41:38.000 Target said it made the difficult decision to close the stores.

00:41:40.000 They include locations in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, Seattle, Portland, and the San Francisco Bay Area after Target determined that the theft preventative measures had proved ineffective.

00:41:50.000 The company said it tried adding more security, including third-party guards and using deterrents like locking up merchandise.

00:41:55.000 But the company also said, quote, We cannot continue operating these stores because theft and organized retail crime are threatening the safety of our team and guests and contributing to unsustainable business performance.

00:42:04.000 We know our stores serve an important role in their communities, but we can only be successful if the working and shopping environment is safe for all.

00:42:11.000 That's insane, by the way.

00:42:13.000 Apparently, Target says that they expected inventory shrink, attributed to theft and organized retail crime, to reduce the company's profitability by $500 million this year.

00:42:25.000 Target stores saw a 120% increase in theft involving violence or threats of violence in the first five months of the year.

00:42:30.000 That is insane.

00:42:31.000 Those numbers are crazy.

00:42:33.000 The National Retail Federation, which represents retailers across the country, reported on Tuesday that the average shrink rate in fiscal year 2022 increased slightly to 1.6%.

00:42:42.000 That brought losses to $112.1 billion to the industry in 2022.

00:42:48.000 More than 45% of retailers had reduced store hours, nearly 30% had altered store selections, and 28% had closed their location because of crime or violence.

00:42:56.000 Okay, that is all because of the Black Lives Matter movement and the aftermath and the Democratic Party's endorsement of lawless policy all across America's major cities. 0.91

00:43:05.000 Then these businesses leave, and then it is the businesses accused of racism because they're leaving predominantly minority areas where the crime rates are highest.

00:43:11.000 That's what's happening.

00:43:13.000 And then, of course, it's capitalism that gets blamed, not the lawlessness that has been promoted by the Democratic Party.

00:43:19.000 Meanwhile, the attacks on President Trump are coming fast and furious.

00:43:22.000 Two forms of attack.

00:43:23.000 There are the legal attacks and there's sort of the publicity attacks. 0.94

00:43:25.000 So the legal attacks, one of the stupidest legal attacks that we've seen is this ridiculous lawsuit by Letitia James, who is the Attorney General in New York, who came into office pledging to get Donald Trump And then filed no criminal charges against Donald Trump because she couldn't find anything. 0.99

00:43:39.000 So instead, she filed a civil lawsuit against the Trump Organization for Fraud, which was absurd. 0.95

00:43:44.000 She was basically alleging that they had inflated their assets and their worth in order to get particular loan deals.

00:43:49.000 The problem is, the loan companies should be the ones suing.

00:43:52.000 Like, why is Letitia James, if the loan company doesn't like the loan that it cut with Trump and they think he was fraudulent about it, they could sue him, but they're not suing him, so instead Letitia James is.

00:44:00.000 Well now, a judge has ruled that Trump committed fraud for years while building the real estate empire that catapulted him to fame and the White House, and he ordered some of the former president's companies removed from his control and dissolved.

00:44:10.000 Judge Arthur Engeron, ruling in a civil lawsuit brought by the New York Attorney General Letitia James, found that Trump and his company deceived banks, insurers, and others by massively overvaluing his assets and exaggerating his net worth on paperwork used in making deals and securing loans.

00:44:22.000 He then ordered that some of Trump's business licenses be rescinded as punishment, making it impossible or difficult for them to do business in New York.

00:44:29.000 This is ridiculous. 0.97

00:44:31.000 Honestly, it's just... it's ridiculous. 0.89

00:44:33.000 Apparently, they allege that Trump, his company, and key executives repeatedly lied about his riches on his annual financial statements, reaping rewards such as favorable loan terms and lower insurance costs.

00:44:43.000 Those tactics crossed the line and violated the law, the judge said, rejecting Trump's contention that a disclaimer on the financial statements absolved him of any wrongdoing.

00:44:53.000 So, here's the problem.

00:44:54.000 I mean, who exactly did he defraud?

00:44:56.000 And if he defrauded the government, shouldn't they be bringing criminal charges, not civil charges, on all of this sort of stuff?

00:45:03.000 Engram found, for example, that Trump consistently overvalued Mar-a-Lago, inflating its value on one financial statement by as much as 2,300%.

00:45:08.000 The judge also rebuked Trump for lying about the size of his Manhattan apartment.

00:45:14.000 This is like, this is super weak tea.

00:45:16.000 Is it gonna have any impact on Trump?

00:45:18.000 Absolutely not.

00:45:18.000 People are just gonna go, oh, so he's just super rich, not super duper duper rich.

00:45:22.000 Meanwhile, the media are agog over the latest tell-all from the Trump administration.

00:45:26.000 Every so often, a member of the Trump administration leaves, gets a sweet gig over at CNN by talking about all the juicy stuff that happened during Trump's presidency.

00:45:34.000 The latest bombshell thrower is Cassidy Hutchinson.

00:45:37.000 Far be it for me to deny Cassidy Hutchinson's truthfulness, but I have some doubts.

00:45:43.000 The reason I have some doubts is because she's made multiple claims over the course of the last year or so that turned out not to be true.

00:45:48.000 So, for example, Greg Price has a good rundown of this on Twitter.

00:45:51.000 Hutchinson testified that Trump assaulted Secret Service agents and lunged for the Wheel of the Beast on January 6th.

00:45:56.000 Remember this one, that he's like, I want to go to the Capitol.

00:45:58.000 Let me go to the Capitol.

00:46:00.000 And then it turns out that everybody in the car was like, no, that didn't happen.

00:46:03.000 And then she also testified that former White House counsel Pat Cipollone personally warned her not to allow Trump to go to the Capitol or quote, we're going to get charged with every crime imaginable.

00:46:12.000 There's only one problem, which is that Cipollone was not at the White House when Hutchinson claimed he was.

00:46:16.000 She testified that she was personally handwritten a note at the direction of Mark Meadows.

00:46:19.000 But it turns out that it was the former Trump White House lawyer, Eric Hirschman, who said that he had written a particular note.

00:46:25.000 Hutchinson testified that the former senior Justice Department official Jeff Clark strategized with Rudy Giuliani and the Trump campaign to object to the election, but those two never met each other.

00:46:33.000 She then continued to work for Trump a full nine weeks after January 6th.

00:46:37.000 In her private text with friends that were reported by the Federalist and Daily Caller at the time, she joked about the riot on January 6th.

00:46:43.000 She said the J6 committee was phony and BS, and begged Trump officials for financial assistance after she was subpoenaed by the committee.

00:46:49.000 Then she didn't receive the financial assistance, and then she turned on Trump and wrote this tell-all.

00:46:53.000 So now she has a new book out, and the media are doing an excellent job selling it for her.

00:46:58.000 It is called Enough.

00:47:00.000 And it has a big photo of her right on the front cover, which is always the sign of a person who wishes to shy away from the limelight.

00:47:08.000 And her claims include the idea that apparently pretty much everybody in her 300-yard vicinity sexually harassed her. 1.00

00:47:15.000 So she claims that Rudy Giuliani did.

00:47:16.000 She claims that Matt Gaetz did.

00:47:19.000 She claims that like a wide bevy of Republican figures sexually harassed her over her time.

00:47:24.000 Um, she also claims that Mark Meadows, the former Trump chief of staff, was guilty about Herman Cain's death.

00:47:31.000 Herman Cain was a former Republican candidate.

00:47:32.000 He died of COVID.

00:47:33.000 He had attended a rally that Trump held, and then he got COVID, maybe from the rally.

00:47:39.000 And she suggests that, again, pretty much everybody was very into her.

00:47:47.000 Rudy Giuliani, as we say, she claims that he literally sexually assaulted her.

00:47:52.000 Quote, his hand slips up under my blazer, then my skirt.

00:47:54.000 I felt his frozen fingertips trail up my thigh.

00:47:56.000 He tilts his chin up.

00:47:57.000 The whites of his eyes look jaundiced.

00:47:58.000 My eyes dart to John Eastman, who flashes a leering grin.

00:48:02.000 So, there's that.

00:48:05.000 She claims that Matt Gaetz made a pass at her during Camp David.

00:48:08.000 He claims that he actually dated her.

00:48:09.000 And then she said, I would never date him and all the rest of this stuff.

00:48:12.000 And she's, she's making the rounds.

00:48:14.000 So she was asked on The View.

00:48:16.000 So why didn't you abandon Trump sooner?

00:48:18.000 And she said, Oh, I was confused.

00:48:19.000 I was going to be, well, I mean, maybe the question is what made you abandon Trump now?

00:48:24.000 And maybe the answer is because one side of the aisle, like people, people who turn on Trump make a lot of money.

00:48:32.000 I tried to write the book with intention to bring the reader into my mindset at the time.

00:48:37.000 Okay.

00:48:37.000 And frankly, it is confusing.

00:48:39.000 And I wasn't deliberate to confuse the reader, but I was in this confused fog of a divided loyalty, but knowing what I wanted, but not feeling empowered to sort of break away from that.

00:48:52.000 Specific to actually moving to Florida with him after.

00:48:54.000 Yeah.

00:48:55.000 And again, in my hindsight now, I realize that this is not normal.

00:48:58.000 I should not have been thinking like this.

00:49:00.000 But I did genuinely put a lot of the blame on myself, on the people that had surrounded the president, because I felt that it was our job to advise him.

00:49:10.000 It was our job to stop him from making bad decisions.

00:49:15.000 Oh, it's also selfless.

00:49:18.000 That's what we're seeing here.

00:49:20.000 And then she choked up, which is what you do in a book tour.

00:49:24.000 Said that she felt that she was killing people, that actually the Trump administration was

00:49:30.000 killing people. In the Herman Cain moment specifically, in summer of 2020,

00:49:36.000 in my mind at the time, I was thinking this was us. We are killing people.

00:49:45.000 I knew we were being irresponsible of how we were handling COVID.

00:49:50.000 But this was somebody that was tangible that we knew and that was at the rally that we knew was a bad idea.

00:49:54.000 So then we flash forward to January 6th.

00:49:58.000 January 6th happened because of the administration, because of the former president, because of Mr. Trump.

00:50:05.000 He is responsible for the person that was killed that day, in my opinion.

00:50:10.000 Okay.

00:50:10.000 And then she stuck around for nine weeks afterward and talked about how January 6th was BS.

00:50:13.000 So, uh, there was that.

00:50:14.000 Meanwhile, Rachel Maddow was giving her the red carpet treatment and, uh, and asked her about all of the, uh, the creepy claims of the sexual harassment in her book.

00:50:22.000 And like, like I say, she makes like a bunch of these sorts of claims.

00:50:26.000 Ms.

00:50:26.000 Hutchinson, one of the claims in your book that received some attention ahead of publication is an allegation you make that Rudy Giuliani effectively groped you at the Trump rally on January 6th.

00:50:39.000 You say that he reached his hand under your blazer and then under your skirt.

00:50:45.000 Mr. Giuliani's spokesperson has called this a disgusting lie against Mayor Giuliani.

00:50:51.000 He gave us that statement again himself tonight.

00:50:53.000 But I was struck by the fact that he was not the only one.

00:50:57.000 Page 52 of the book, you say that John Boehner, of all people, looked down at my cranberry vodka and whispered dark liquor or red wine from now on.

00:51:06.000 Then he tugged on the ends of my hair, saying, and loosed the ponytail.

00:51:11.000 You describe the president, and this is not groping, this is not physical, but you describe him

00:51:16.000 as telling you to add blonde highlights to your hair, which you then went home and did and came back to them.

00:51:21.000 I didn't do that.

00:51:22.000 At the White House the next day, that doesn't happen in normal workplaces,

00:51:24.000 I'm just telling you now, sorry.

00:51:27.000 Yeah, I learn a lot on the outside.

00:51:28.000 Yes, there's a whole world out there when guys get fired for doing stuff like that.

00:51:32.000 Well, you know, there is an entire economy of people who have made a living off of telling

00:51:39.000 these hell holes after serving in the Trump administration, which is, again, is that gonna damage Trump?

00:51:47.000 Not really.

00:51:47.000 It's all baked into the cake, but it is pretty amazing.

00:51:51.000 It is pretty incredible stuff.

00:51:53.000 So there's all that.

00:51:54.000 She also claims that Trump was okay with Mike Pence being hanged, which, again, people have already testified to the idea that Trump basically did nothing in the White House, so she's not really adding anything here, but she claims I hear him say hang repeatedly.

00:52:11.000 Hang! 0.99

00:52:12.000 Hang! 0.99

00:52:13.000 What's that about?

00:52:15.000 Mark hands his phone back to me, the cue for me to return to my desk.

00:52:18.000 Back in my office, my phone notifies me of a Trump tweet.

00:52:22.000 Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our Constitution, giving states a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify.

00:52:33.000 USA demands the truth.

00:52:35.000 Hutchinson continues, I'm struggling to process what's happening as Mark, Pat Cipollone, Pat Philbin and Eric Hirschman stumble back to the office.

00:52:43.000 I overhear their conversation and suddenly everything makes sense.

00:52:46.000 They are calling for the Vice President to be hanged.

00:52:50.000 The president is okay with it. 0.61

00:52:52.000 He doesn't want to do anything.

00:52:53.000 He doesn't think they're doing anything wrong. 0.96

00:52:55.000 He thinks Mike is a traitor. 0.87

00:52:56.000 This is crazy.

00:52:57.000 We need to be doing something more.

00:52:59.000 Again, all of this is crocodile tears a little bit late here from Cassidy Hutchinson.

00:53:04.000 And come on.

00:53:05.000 Okay, time for some quick things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:53:09.000 So things that I like today.

00:53:10.000 So there is a Republican debate tonight.

00:53:12.000 Now Donald Trump is leading the field by leaps and bounds.

00:53:15.000 So, the question is going to be, exactly what is the purpose of this debate?

00:53:18.000 So, the number of candidates on the stage is now down to seven.

00:53:23.000 It obviously should be lower than that.

00:53:24.000 The number of true candidates, even for the number two slot right now, is effectively DeSantis, Haley, Scott, Ramaswamy, Pence, and Christie, right?

00:53:33.000 It's effectively six.

00:53:36.000 Listen, I enjoy Doug Burgum as much as the next political junkie, but why is he taking up time?

00:53:43.000 Nobody really knows.

00:53:47.000 This debate, we'll see what the ratings are like for it.

00:53:50.000 Right now, the polls are showing Trump far and away in the lead in every major state.

00:53:55.000 Nikki Haley has slipped into a second place position in New Hampshire.

00:53:58.000 When it comes to Iowa, DeSantis is far and away in the second position over the rest of the field.

00:54:05.000 No real good polling data coming out from South Carolina as of yet.

00:54:07.000 Trump is ahead there.

00:54:09.000 Nikki Haley is in second there. 0.96

00:54:11.000 But bottom line is, Trump is lapping the field.

00:54:12.000 I mean, he's way the hell ahead.

00:54:13.000 So what does everybody need to do tonight?

00:54:15.000 Well, I mean, the field has to consolidate somehow or this isn't going to be a race.

00:54:18.000 Somebody's got to get knocked out.

00:54:20.000 So you presume that there's going to be a lot of fire.

00:54:22.000 There wasn't any fire trained on DeSantis in the last debate, but I think the other candidates sense blood in the water.

00:54:26.000 They're presumably going to go after DeSantis.

00:54:27.000 DeSantis, meanwhile, is going to need to presumably fend off those attacks and make the case as to why he is going to be the best candidate to beat Joe Biden.

00:54:37.000 And the more that Trump continues to lead in the race, the less these debates seem to matter, to be perfectly frank.

00:54:43.000 With that said, it'll be fascinating to see the internal politics here.

00:54:46.000 Because basically right now, it seems like everybody is sort of running for second and then waiting for Trump to fall down.

00:54:52.000 It seems like a lot of people are waiting for the indictment to come through or for Trump to actually get arrested again.

00:54:56.000 I mean like fully or convicted or whatever it's going to be.

00:54:59.000 And maybe that'll knock him down and then somebody sort of picks up the slack here.

00:55:03.000 So it's fascinating to see the lobster scrum, the crab pot, as everybody tries to pull each other back down into the pot.

00:55:09.000 I would imagine most of the incoming is coming for DeSantis today.

00:55:12.000 We'll see how that goes tonight.

00:55:14.000 Okay, we'll cover it obviously tomorrow.

00:55:16.000 Time for a quick thing that I hate.

00:55:22.000 So, Knott's Berry Farm is a place for children.

00:55:26.000 Whenever people on the LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign left say they're not coming for the kids and to train them in their morality, I wonder why then is this becoming such a common sight? 0.55

00:55:35.000 Why is this sort of stuff happening at places with kids?

00:55:39.000 So here is a bit of an act from Knott's Berry Farm.

00:55:43.000 It's Knott's Scary Farm because we are now about to enter October. 0.94

00:55:47.000 And they had a satanic show involving apparently a Sam Smith knockoff in bondage gear, a male slapping the asses of other men as male and female gyrate around to the background of satanic imagery. 0.96

00:56:01.000 So this is for kids. 0.97

00:56:03.000 Good stuff here from Knott's Berry Farm.

00:56:10.000 So, uh, gyrating, thrusting, pondage gear.

00:56:13.000 Bye.

00:56:16.000 Uh, you've got women who are twerking in bikinis, in satanic gear, as, uh, as water splashes upon them. 1.00

00:56:26.000 Perfectly appropriate for children.

00:56:27.000 So glad that we can create this kind of future for our kids here in the United States.

00:56:32.000 Guys, the rest of the show continues right now.

00:56:33.000 You're not going to want to miss it.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - September 27, 2023

Biden’s Car Crash Economy

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