The Ben Shapiro Show - BOMBSHELL Report Reveals The Most Shocking Political Scandal In American History

00:00:00.000 So, for years, Donald Trump had suggested that the FBI was out to get him, that they'd colluded with the Clinton campaign, they'd colluded with the Obama administration, that the deep state had basically subverted his presidency.

00:00:10.000 He said that it was the greatest scandal in American history, and it appears he was right. 1.00

00:00:14.000 Special Counsel John Durham had been given the mandate to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.

00:00:22.000 This was the story that generated one million think pieces.

00:00:26.000 It generated a thousand Pulitzers. 0.99

00:00:28.000 It was a story that originated in 2016, and it lasted throughout the Trump presidency.

00:00:32.000 It led to the Mueller investigation.

00:00:34.000 It led to one of the impeachment charges.

00:00:37.000 And now, Special Counsel John Durham, who was given, again, remit by Bill Barr, who's the Attorney General under Donald Trump, to investigate exactly where this investigation came from, considering it came up with pretty much nothing, he now has issued a 300-page report.

00:00:51.000 About where this investigation came from.

00:00:53.000 It is absolutely shocking.

00:00:55.000 It is damning. 0.84

00:00:55.000 It is apparent that everyone in the FBI knew that this investigation was bullcrap right up front. 0.84

00:00:59.000 It was very clear the Clinton administration, the Clinton campaign, was using the FBI to launder into public view and into law enforcement a bunch of bad allegations.

00:01:07.000 It was clear that upper echelons of the Obama administration knew all of this was happening.

00:01:11.000 Essentially, in an attempt to thwart the pending 2016 election,

00:01:16.000 and then the results of the 2016 election, the FBI and its top officials in coordination

00:01:22.000 with members of the Obama administration, and then just sort of internally

00:01:24.000 inside the Trump administration, decided that they were going to leak,

00:01:28.000 issue report after report, initiate investigations that were nonsense,

00:01:33.000 and they were going to do all of this because Trump had to be stopped.

00:01:35.000 He was just that dangerous, and Hillary Clinton was going to lead the way,

00:01:39.000 and her campaign was gonna lead the way.

00:01:40.000 That is the essential result of the John Durham report.

00:01:43.000 It's an insane report.

00:01:45.000 So according to the Washington Post, the report, coming almost four years to the day

00:01:49.000 since Durham's assignment began, will probably be derided by Democrats

00:01:51.000 as the end of a partisan boondoggle.

00:01:53.000 Republicans will have to wrestle with a much-touted investigation that has cost taxpayers more than $6.5 million and didn't send a single person to jail.

00:01:59.000 But here's the reality.

00:02:01.000 People should go to jail over this, because this is nuts. 0.87

00:02:04.000 This is nuts.

00:02:05.000 So we're going to go through a lot of the executive summary of this report.

00:02:07.000 Again, it's 300 pages.

00:02:08.000 We'll go through a few of the other aspects of the report.

00:02:10.000 But what it uncovers is one of the most shocking scandals in American history.

00:02:14.000 To think that the FBI could actually be activated on behalf of one of the campaigns.

00:02:19.000 Well, that campaign was associating with the party in power, with the Obama administration.

00:02:26.000 And that that was going to be used as the predicate for a wide-scale investigation that lasted years on end and cost the American taxpayer tens of millions of dollars, all because people hated Donald Trump and found him threatening and upsetting, is totally insane.

00:02:39.000 You want to talk about the destruction of all of America's fundamental trust in our institutions?

00:02:45.000 2016 is the year it began, and it has not abated ever since.

00:02:48.000 And everybody who even had a shred of trust in our institutions, you look at stories like this and you think, how could you have trust in our institutions after stuff like this?

00:02:56.000 So, the Durham Report begins by asking a few questions.

00:03:00.000 Quote, was there adequate predication for the FBI to open the Crossfire Hurricane investigation

00:03:06.000 from its inception on July 31, 2016 as a full counterintelligence and Foreign Agents Registration

00:03:11.000 Act investigation given the requirements of the AG's guidelines and the FBI policies?

00:03:16.000 So in other words, was there any reason to even open the Crossfire Hurricane investigation?

00:03:19.000 Crossfire Hurricane was the name given to the investigation into Trump-Russia collusion.

00:03:24.000 Durham also asked, was the opening of Crossfire Hurricane as a full investigation on July 31st, 2016 consistent with how the FBI had handled other intelligence it had received prior to July 31st, 2016 concerning attempts by foreign interests to influence the Clinton and other campaigns?

00:03:36.000 In other words, were they specifically going out of their way to target Trump or was it just they were hitting Hillary and they were hitting Trump and they hit everybody?

00:03:43.000 Third question, did the FBI properly consider other highly significant intelligence it received at virtually the same time as that used to predicate Crossfire Hurricane, but was related not to the Trump campaign, but rather to a purported Clinton campaign plan to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services, which might have shed some light on the Russia information the FBI was receiving from third parties.

00:04:04.000 In other words, was the FBI using bad information?

00:04:07.000 And did they know it was bad information when they were using it as the predicate for the Crossfire Hurricane investigation?

00:04:12.000 And did they know that a lot of that information was originating with the Clinton campaign?

00:04:16.000 Was there evidence that the actions of any FBI personnel or third parties relating to Crossfire Hurricane violated any federal criminal statutes?

00:04:23.000 And was there evidence that the actions of the FBI or department personnel in providing false or incomplete information to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court violated any federal criminal statutes?

00:04:32.000 Durham says our findings and conclusions regarding these and related questions are sobering.

00:04:37.000 So here is what they find.

00:04:38.000 They say, as set forth in greater detail, the record in this matter reflects that upon

00:04:42.000 receipt of unevaluated intelligence information from Australia, the FBI swiftly opened the

00:04:46.000 Crossfire Hurricane investigation.

00:04:48.000 In particular, at the direction of Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Deputy Assistant Director

00:04:52.000 for Counterintelligence Peter Strzok opened Crossfire Hurricane immediately.

00:04:55.000 Now you remember both of these people ended up leaving the FBI ignominiously.

00:04:59.000 So, Andrew McCain ended up being thrown out of the FBI because he had leaked information, apparently, to the Wall Street Journal surrounding the Hillary Clinton investigation.

00:05:06.000 So, he was fired.

00:05:07.000 And Peter Strzok, of course, had this love affair.

00:05:09.000 He was a married man.

00:05:10.000 Lisa Page was another married person.

00:05:11.000 They were having an affair with each other and they were texting each other throughout Crossfire Hurricane about how Trump basically had to be stopped.

00:05:17.000 So, these were the people who opened Crossfire Hurricane.

00:05:19.000 Strzok, at a minimum, says John Durham, had pronounced hostile feelings toward Trump.

00:05:23.000 The matter was opened as a full investigation without ever having spoken to the persons who provided the information.

00:05:28.000 Further, the FBI did so without any significant review of its own intelligence databases, collection and examination of any relevant intelligence from other U.S.

00:05:34.000 intelligence agencies, interviews of witnesses essential to understand the raw information it had received, or using any of the standard analytical tools typically employed by the FBI in evaluating raw intelligence.

00:05:44.000 So in other words, they didn't use any of the tools usually used in order to evaluate whether raw intelligence was worthy of opening an investigation or not.

00:05:51.000 They just launched it.

00:05:52.000 In fact, Durham says, had they done any of these things, the FBI would have learned that their own experienced Russia analysts had no information about Trump being involved with Russian leadership officials, nor were others in sensitive positions at the CIA, NSA, and Department of State aware of such evidence concerning the subject.

00:06:06.000 In addition, FBI records prepared by Peter Strzok in February and March 2017 show that at the time of the opening of Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI had no information in its holdings, indicating that at any time during the campaign, anyone in the Trump campaign had been in contact with any Russian intelligence officials.

00:06:22.000 So again, that is according to FBI records prepared by Strzok in February and March 2017, showing that the previous year when they launched the investigation, they had not like some things, not some thin things, nothing, zero things that were credible intelligence, zero.

00:06:36.000 And they opened a full scale investigation into the Trump campaign on the basis of nothing, literally nothing.

00:06:42.000 That's astonishing.

00:06:44.000 Astonishing and frightening.

00:06:45.000 Because again, the FBI is the chief law enforcement agency of the federal government.

00:06:50.000 The investigative law enforcement agency of the federal government.

00:06:53.000 It is absolute madness to suggest that you should be able to open an investigation on this basis.

00:06:58.000 How exactly would that even work?

00:07:00.000 And the answer is, of course, well, if you have agents, and the agents have power, they can do whatever the hell they want.

00:07:06.000 I mean, if you're talking about Watergate, which was the federal government at the behest of Richard Nixon, him issuing agents to go and investigate his political opponents by breaking into the Watergate Hotel, what's worse, that or activating the entire FBI in order to aid your former Secretary of State's campaign in preparation for the 2016 campaign, which it appears is what happened here, is that Barack Obama's FBI, led by James Comey, Under the auspices of people like Peter Strzok, decided to open a full-scale investigation at the behest of the Clinton campaign while she was running for President of the United States.

00:07:39.000 On the basis of no evidence.

00:07:40.000 None.

00:07:42.000 As it turns out, not only on the basis of no evidence, knowing pretty much full well that the Clinton campaign had originated this nonsense in the first place.

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00:08:57.000 Okay, so the Durham report continues.

00:09:00.000 The speed and manner in which the FBI opened and investigated Crossfire Hurricane during the presidential election season based on raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence also reflected a noticeable departure from how it approached prior matters involving possible attempted foreign election interference plans aimed at the Clinton campaign.

00:09:15.000 In the 18 months leading up to the 2016 election, the FBI was required to deal with a number of proposed investigations that had the potential of affecting the election.

00:09:22.000 In each of those instances, the FBI moved with considerable caution.

00:09:26.000 In one such matter, FBI headquarters and department officials required defensive briefings to be provided to Hillary Clinton and other officials or candidates who appeared to be the target of foreign interference.

00:09:35.000 In other words, the FBI found out that somebody was trying to influence the Clinton campaign.

00:09:38.000 Instead of immediately investigating whether Hillary was corrupt and working with those people, they went and they warned Hillary.

00:09:44.000 In another, the FBI elected to end an investigation after one of its long-time and valuable CHSs went beyond what was authorized and made an improper and possibly illegal financial contribution to the Clinton campaign on behalf of a foreign entity, as a precursor to a much larger donation being contemplated.

00:09:57.000 In a third situation, the Clinton Foundation matter, both senior FBI and department officials placed restrictions on how those matters were to be handled, such that essentially no investigative activities occurred for months leading up to the elections.

00:10:08.000 They shut down the investigation into the Clinton Foundation, like period, end of story, because of the election.

00:10:13.000 These examples, says John Durham, are markedly different from the FBI's actions with respect to other highly significant intelligence it received, from a trusted foreign source pointing to a Clinton campaign plan to vilify Trump by tying him to Vladimir Putin, so as to divert attention from her own concerns relating to her use of a private email server.

00:10:29.000 Unlike the FBI's opening of a full investigation of unknown matters of the Trump campaign based on raw, uncorroborated information in this separate matter involving a purported Clinton campaign plan, the FBI never opened any type of inquiry, issued any taskings, employed any analytical personnel, produced any analytical product in connection with the information.

00:10:45.000 So in other words, they were informed that the Clinton camp was putting forward lies about how Donald Trump was tied to Vladimir Putin via a secret server or something.

00:10:55.000 And instead of the FBI investigating the allegation that the Clinton campaign was planting this sort of information, they just didn't open anything.

00:11:02.000 They just let it die.

00:11:04.000 This lack of action was despite the fact that the significance of the Clinton planned intelligence was such as to have prompted the Director of the CIA to brief the President and Vice President Agee, Director of the FBI, and other senior government officials about its content within days of receipt.

00:11:16.000 It was also of enough importance for the CIA to send a formal written referral memorandum to Director Comey and Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division, Peter Strzok, for their consideration and action.

00:11:25.000 The investigative referral provides examples of information the Crossfire Hurricane fusion cell had gleaned to date.

00:11:31.000 So in other words, if it hurt Hillary Clinton, they just didn't investigate it.

00:11:35.000 If it hurt Donald Trump, not only did they investigate it, they launched a full-scale investigation that lasted for years on end and led to the unlawful surveillance of Carter Page, led to the thinly predicated, actually, as it turns out, un-predicated Mueller investigation, Based on nothing, again, I can't stress this enough, nothing here, according to John Durham, nothing.

00:12:00.000 Now, the fact that nobody is going to jail because the standards for criminal conduct required in order to send somebody to jail may not have been met does not alleviate the responsibility of the FBI here, nor does it make anyone feel better about the FBI.

00:12:12.000 I mean, the fact is the FBI and the DOJ would be a lot better off right now if they actually went and prosecuted some of these people.

00:12:18.000 Put some heads on spikes and showed people that they were never gonna let the FBI do this again.

00:12:22.000 As we'll see, the FBI is already saying we fixed the problem.

00:12:23.000 Yeah, I'm sure.

00:12:25.000 I'm sure you fixed the problem.

00:12:27.000 So the Durham report continues.

00:12:28.000 Within days after opening Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI opened full investigations on four members of the Trump campaign team.

00:12:33.000 George Papadopoulos, Carter Page, Paul Manafort, and Michael Flynn.

00:12:37.000 No defensive briefing was ever provided to Trump.

00:12:39.000 So unlike Hillary Clinton, where they were saying, well, if there's foreign influence, let's warn Hillary so she doesn't get caught up in it.

00:12:44.000 They never even informed Donald Trump They didn't inform anyone in the campaign.

00:12:49.000 Instead, the FBI began working on requests for the use of FISA authorities against Page and Papadopoulos.

00:12:54.000 The effort, as related to Papadopoulos, proved unsuccessful.

00:12:57.000 Similarly, the initial effort directed at Page was unsuccessful until the Crossfire Hurricane investigators first obtained what were designated as Company Intelligence Reports generated by Christopher Steele.

00:13:06.000 The Steele reports were first provided to the FBI in early July 2016, but for unexplained reasons only made their way to the Crossfire Hurricane investigators in mid-September. 0.97

00:13:14.000 Those reports were ostensibly assembled based on information provided to Steele and his company by a primary subsource, the FBI eventually determined in December 2016, that that primary subsource was Igor Donchenko, who it turns out was completely full of crap.

00:13:27.000 Our investigation determined, says John Durham, that Crossfire Hurricane investigators did not and could not corroborate any of the substantive allegations contained in the Steele reporting.

00:13:36.000 Nor was Steele able to produce corroboration for any of the reported allegations, even after being offered $1 million or more by the FBI for such corroboration.

00:13:43.000 Danchenko was unable to corroborate any of the substantive allegations in the reports.

00:13:48.000 Instead, he said that the stuff he gave to Christopher Steele was rumor and speculation and the product of casual conversation.

00:13:53.000 Again, didn't stop the FBI from going into full-scale investigative mode on Papadopoulos, on Carter Page, going and getting badly and un-predicated FISA warrants on all of this.

00:14:04.000 Their investigation says Durham resulted in the prosecution and conviction of an FBI OGC attorney for intentionally falsifying a document that was material to the FISA court's consideration of one of the page FISA applications.

00:14:17.000 Hey, there's much more where this came from, and we're going to get into it in just one second.

00:14:20.000 Because again, this is one of the most shocking scandals in the history of American law enforcement.

00:14:24.000 The attempt to overturn one campaign, to destroy a campaign in progress, and then to overturn a presidency based on nothing, nothing, is absolutely astonishing.

00:14:35.000 And the fact that these people now have contracts over at CNN, MSNBC as commentators, it just shows the corrupt media Democrat complex and the fact that that has now infused itself into the deepest bones of our law enforcement agencies.

00:14:49.000 It's scary as all hell.

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00:15:54.000 Okay, so, all of this brings us to the Steele dossier.

00:15:56.000 So according to the Durham Report, in the spring of 2016, Perkins Coie, a US-based international law firm acting as counsel to the Clinton campaign, retained Fusion GPS, a US-based investigative firm, to conduct opposition research on Trump and his associates.

00:16:09.000 In mid-May of 2016, Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS met with Christopher Steele in the UK and subsequently retained Steele and his firm to investigate Trump's ties to Russia.

00:16:17.000 Steele described himself as a former intel official for the British government.

00:16:20.000 Also, he was, at that time, an FBI informant.

00:16:23.000 Beginning in July 2016 and continuing through December 2016, the FBI received a series of reports from Steele and his firm containing derogatory information about Trump concerning the Trump-Russia purported ties.

00:16:34.000 These reports were colloquially referred to as the Steele dossier or Steele reports.

00:16:38.000 As noted, it was not until mid-September that Crossfire Hurricane investigators received several of these Steele reports.

00:16:43.000 Within days of their receipt, the unvetted, unverified Steele reports were used to support probable cause for the FISA application against Carter Page.

00:16:51.000 By the way, at the time, the FBI already knew that the same information Steele had provided to the FBI had also been fed to the media and others in Washington, D.C.

00:16:58.000 So they already knew that Steele was leaking this stuff and also providing it to the FBI.

00:17:04.000 In particular, one allegation contained in an undated Steele report identified as 2016-095 described a well-developed conspiracy of cooperation between Trump, his campaign, and senior Russian officials.

00:17:14.000 This allegation would underpin the four applications targeting Carter Page, and of course, they were nonsense.

00:17:18.000 As noted, the FBI attempted over time to investigate and analyze those Steele reports, but ultimately, they were not able to confirm or corroborate any of the substantive allegations contained.

00:17:29.000 And again, as already noted, Igor Danchenko, who was the lead source for the Steele dossier, admitted that basically he was just making things up.

00:17:38.000 The FBI knew in January 2017 Danchenko had been the subject of an FBI counterintelligence investigation from 2009 to 2011.

00:17:44.000 So they already knew that he was not a reliable source.

00:17:48.000 They used him anyway.

00:17:50.000 Also, Danchenko had a relationship with Charles Dolan, a Virginia-based public relations professional who had previously held multiple positions and roles in the DNC.

00:17:58.000 And basically, at the time that Danchenko was collecting information for Steele, Dolan traveled to Moscow, and so did Danchenko, in connection with a business conference.

00:18:06.000 The business conference was held at the Ritz-Carlton, Moscow.

00:18:08.000 According to the Steele reports, this was allegedly the site of the infamous P-Tape allegation. 0.97

00:18:13.000 The P-Tape, of course, was the ridiculous allegation that Donald Trump paid prostitutes to urinate upon him in a Ritz-Carlton hotel in Moscow. 0.98

00:18:20.000 It was insane. 1.00

00:18:21.000 Ridiculous allegation. 0.70

00:18:22.000 Danchenko would later inform the FBI he learned of the allegations through Ritz-Carlton staff members, but apparently, it was not actually Danchenko who learned of it, it was Dolan!

00:18:31.000 So Dolan, who was a lawyer for the DNC, made up the allegations, or heard a rumor, and then fed it to Danchenko, who then fed it to Christopher Steele, who then fed it to the FBI. 0.96

00:18:39.000 That's where the p-tape garbage came from.

00:18:42.000 The FBI then did not bother to even interview Charles Dolan about any of this. 0.97

00:18:47.000 They didn't even bother to interview him!

00:18:51.000 According to this report from, again, John Durham, all of the allegations were basically made up out of whole cloth by people associated with the Clinton campaign.

00:19:01.000 Pretty much all of them.

00:19:02.000 Based on the review of crossfire, hurricane, and related intelligence activities, Durham concludes in the executive summary, we conclude that the department and the FBI failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law in connection with certain events and activities described in this report.

00:19:15.000 And then they note a few people who had actually done criminal things.

00:19:19.000 But he goes further.

00:19:21.000 Our investigation revealed that senior FBI personnel displayed a serious lack of analytical rigor toward the information they received, especially information received from politically affiliated persons and entities.

00:19:30.000 This information in part triggered and sustained Crossfire Hurricane and contributed to the subsequent need for Special Counsel Mueller's investigation.

00:19:35.000 In particular, there was significant reliance on investigative leads provided or funded directly or indirectly by Trump's political opponents.

00:19:42.000 The department did not adequately examine or question these materials and the motivations of anyone providing them.

00:19:48.000 Even when at about the same time, the director and the FBI and others learned of significant and potentially contrary intelligence.

00:19:56.000 So then they go into recommendations and they suggest, well, you know, there's a few bad apples and all of the rest.

00:20:03.000 Well, no, this went all the way throughout the FBI, obviously, because literally all the people we're talking about are the heads of the FBI.

00:20:11.000 By the way, it's not as though the Clinton administration, it's not as though the Obama administration was unaware of all of this.

00:20:17.000 The Obama administration and the FBI were fully aware of the Clinton campaign plan to plant all this information, and they went ahead with it anyway, which is totally crazy.

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00:21:40.000 Okay, so, all of that's just in the executive summary.

00:21:44.000 But we also know, because again this is a 300 page long report from John Durham, that there are some pretty extraordinary details.

00:21:50.000 So for example, apparently, according to this report, the office considered as part of its investigation the government's handling of intelligence it received during the summer of 2016.

00:22:00.000 That intelligence concerned the purported approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016 of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security services.

00:22:11.000 We refer to that intelligence here and after as the Clinton Plan Intelligence.

00:22:14.000 DNI, Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, declassified the following information about the Clinton Plan Intelligence in September of 2020 and conveyed it to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

00:22:23.000 So here we are talking about Hillary Clinton's plan, which was approved by Hillary Clinton, apparently personally in July of 2016, to make up allegations about Donald Trump and Russia, or at the very least to use rumor as verified fact in order to slander Donald Trump.

00:22:39.000 So here's what they found out.

00:22:41.000 In late July 2016, U.S.

00:22:42.000 intelligence agencies obtained insight into Russian intelligence analysis alleging that Hillary Clinton had approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians hacking of the DNC.

00:22:54.000 The IC does not know the accuracy of this allegation or the extent to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication.

00:23:00.000 According to his handwritten notes, CIA Director Brennan subsequently briefed Barack Obama and other senior national security officials on that intelligence, including the alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016, of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.

00:23:19.000 Okay, so just to understand what this allegation is, basically, We know that the original crossfire hurricane investigation was launched directly around this time.

00:23:31.000 By the way, July 26th, there was a meeting on a tarmac between Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch, the Attorney General, like literally the day after July 26th, which is when the Barack Obama team was informed about Hillary Clinton's plan to basically falsify an allegation about Donald Trump and Russia.

00:23:49.000 I mean, this is insane stuff.

00:23:51.000 So the Obama administration knew full well, again, the crossfire hurricane was legally launched July 31st, 2016.

00:23:57.000 July 31st, 2016.

00:23:58.000 Now you may notice that July 31st, 2016 is five days after, five days after July 26th, 2016.

00:24:01.000 You may have noticed that July 31st, 2016 is five days after, five days after July 26th,

00:24:07.000 2016.

00:24:08.000 And on July 26th, 2016, again, there was approval by Hillary Clinton that day for the proposal

00:24:16.000 Five days later, there's an FBI investigation into Donald Trump and Russian interference.

00:24:21.000 And apparently, again, you know who's briefed on this?

00:24:23.000 Barack Obama.

00:24:24.000 And at this point, did the Obama administration step in and say to the FBI, guys, hey, hold up.

00:24:29.000 We got to abide by the law here.

00:24:30.000 The FBI and DOJ cannot launch investigations into the rival of our former Secretary of State, especially now that we know that she's attempting to get us to launch an investigation into her rival. 0.94

00:24:41.000 Nope.

00:24:42.000 They just went ahead with it.

00:24:43.000 They just went ahead.

00:24:44.000 This is insane.

00:24:47.000 Apparently, according to John Ratcliffe's letter, quote, in late July 2016, U.S. intelligence

00:24:51.000 agencies obtained insight into Russian intelligence analysis, alleging that Hillary had approved

00:24:56.000 that campaign plan.

00:24:58.000 And again, on August 3rd, 2016, within days of receiving the Clinton plan, intelligence

00:25:02.000 director Brennan met with the president, VP and other administration officials, including

00:25:06.000 but not limited to the A.G. and the FBI director.

00:25:09.000 According to Brennan's handwritten notes and his recollections from the meeting, he briefed on relevant intelligence known to date on Russian election interference, including the Clinton Plan Intelligence.

00:25:17.000 Specifically, Director Brennan's declassified handwritten notes reflect that he briefed the meeting's participants regarding the alleged approval by Hillary July 26th of a proposal from one of her campaign advisors to vilify Trump by stirring up a scandal.

00:25:31.000 So, approval July 26th by Hillary.

00:25:33.000 Let's start up a scandal. 0.58

00:25:34.000 July 31st, crossfire hurricane is launched.

00:25:37.000 August 3rd, the Obama administration, including Barack Obama, is personally briefed.

00:25:41.000 And it goes ahead anyway.

00:25:43.000 Does that sound like maybe there was a bit of collusion here?

00:25:46.000 You want to talk about collusion?

00:25:46.000 Collusion between the Hillary Clinton campaign, the leaders of the FBI, and the Obama White House.

00:25:51.000 Is that what that sounds like there?

00:25:52.000 Because that's what it sounds like to me.

00:25:53.000 I mean, that sounds significantly worse.

00:25:57.000 You know, when Richard Nixon launched the Watergate scandal, he didn't use the FBI to go wiretap.

00:26:05.000 He had like a special team that he used to go wiretap.

00:26:09.000 Using the actual law enforcement investigative agency of the United States of America to investigate allegations against a person you hate.

00:26:17.000 Barack Obama hates Donald Trump.

00:26:19.000 A person you hate who is the chief political rival of your former Secretary of State and the banner carrier of your party in the upcoming election is an extraordinary scandal for everyone.

00:26:30.000 For Obama, for Clinton, for the FBI.

00:26:33.000 And it's also one of the reasons why you look around you say, why don't people trust our elections?

00:26:37.000 Why don't people trust our law enforcement agencies?

00:26:39.000 Why is there so much institutional distrust?

00:26:41.000 Because how could you trust this?

00:26:42.000 This is insane!

00:26:43.000 This is totally crazy!

00:26:45.000 According to the Durham report, the office was unable to determine precisely when the FBI first obtained any of the details of the Clinton plan intelligence.

00:26:52.000 It appears, however, this occurred no later than August 22, 2016.

00:26:55.000 Well, hold up.

00:26:56.000 I mean, on August 3rd, we already know that the CIA director was meeting with the president, VP, and FBI director to discuss Russian election interference efforts.

00:27:05.000 And this included the Clinton plan.

00:27:06.000 So it wasn't August 22nd.

00:27:08.000 It was way earlier.

00:27:09.000 It was like August 3rd.

00:27:10.000 And nobody at any point actually stepped in and said, uh, guys, this seems really sketchy.

00:27:17.000 Like, should we be using the FBI to investigate Donald Trump on the basis of nothing?

00:27:21.000 On the basis of nothing?

00:27:23.000 There are other details in the report as well.

00:27:25.000 As Luke Rosiak points out over at the Daily Wire, days after opening a full FBI investigation into the connections between Trump and Russia, the lead FBI investigator, Peter Strzok, again, he's the one who hated, hated Donald Trump, was texting with his lover, Lisa Page, about how much they hated Trump, told a subordinate, he said, quote, there's nothing to this, but we have to run it to the ground.

00:27:46.000 Strzok opened the investigation, skipping the preliminary steps based on nothing but that brief and vague account by an Australian diplomat of a conversation in a London bar And apparently there was nothing to it.

00:27:58.000 And Strzok knew there was nothing to it.

00:28:00.000 I mean, this is wild.

00:28:05.000 The simple fact that everyone... The FBI's assistant legal attache in London told the special counsel British intelligence agencies did not assess the information about the Russians and Trump attributed to Papadopoulos to be particularly valuable.

00:28:16.000 In fact, that assistant legal attache in London, which the acronym is ALAT, Apparently, told the FBI's Inspection Division investigators, the British couldn't even believe that the Papadopoulos bar conversation was all there was.

00:28:31.000 The FBI specialists on Russia had also heard nothing about ties between Trump and Russia.

00:28:35.000 FBI officials in London assumed there was much more evidence because of Strzok's urgency, but it became quickly clear there was not.

00:28:40.000 But still, they said they had to grease the skids because of pressure from top leadership.

00:28:45.000 So leadership was like, we gotta push this thing, man.

00:28:46.000 We gotta push it.

00:28:48.000 Because they had to stop it.

00:28:52.000 Absolute madness.

00:28:53.000 Absolute madness.

00:28:54.000 So basically, the Clinton campaign used the FBI in accordance with the Obama administration in order to go after Donald Trump.

00:29:00.000 And this didn't just last through the campaign.

00:29:02.000 It lasted all the way into Donald Trump's presidency.

00:29:05.000 It led to the Mueller report, which ended up being a big nothing burger filled with nothing burgers.

00:29:10.000 Even Jake... Okay, so the media response... So here's the FBI's response.

00:29:14.000 Wonder why we don't trust the FBI, guys?

00:29:17.000 Here's the reason.

00:29:17.000 I mean, there are systemic problems with the FBI.

00:29:20.000 According, they put out a statement, quote, Oh, well, I mean, problem solved.

00:29:22.000 in 2016 and 2017 that special counsel Durham examined was the reason that current FBI leadership

00:29:27.000 already implemented dozens of corrective actions, which have now been in place for some time.

00:29:31.000 Had those reforms been in place in 2016, the missteps identified in the report could have

00:29:34.000 been prevented.

00:29:36.000 This report reinforces the importance of ensuring the FBI continues to do its work with the

00:29:39.000 rigor, objectivity and professionalism the American people deserve and rightly expect.

00:29:42.000 Oh, well, I mean, problem solved.

00:29:44.000 Problem solved, guys.

00:29:45.000 They fixed it already.

00:29:47.000 Well, isn't that good news?

00:29:48.000 That's amazing.

00:29:49.000 Well, you know, count me a little suspicious because the upper echelon of the FBI at this time was Andy McCabe ended up being fired.

00:29:57.000 Peter Strzok ended up being fired.

00:30:00.000 James Comey ended up being fired.

00:30:02.000 Like the entire leadership class of the FBI was involved in this particular thing because it was so politically sensitive.

00:30:09.000 And we're supposed to believe that it's all been fixed now?

00:30:12.000 These are not missteps.

00:30:13.000 It is not a misstep when you ignore all relevant regulations that are designed to prevent the opening of false investigations in order to go after Donald Trump at the behest of the Clinton campaign.

00:30:23.000 And you knew it was the Clinton campaign.

00:30:25.000 It wasn't even like they were clever about it.

00:30:27.000 They were using Intel, funneled through Fusion GPS to their own lawyers and then funneled to the FBI.

00:30:34.000 And again, there was a report involving the director of the FBI.

00:30:38.000 He was on the line when John Brennan reported that the Clinton campaign plan was to wrap all this up in a ball and present it.

00:30:44.000 And at no point was somebody like, well, you know what?

00:30:46.000 Maybe we should check that out.

00:30:47.000 Maybe we should check out whether this whole thing is like a Clinton plant.

00:30:49.000 Because two phone calls would have found out that it was.

00:30:53.000 All they had to do was like call four people.

00:30:55.000 All they had to do was figure out who had... Was it Igor Danchenko?

00:31:00.000 Was it Christopher Steele?

00:31:00.000 Like, all of this was, like, a couple phone calls away, and they didn't do any of it.

00:31:04.000 Instead, like, gotta dig down, dig down.

00:31:06.000 Fizer-Warren on Carter Page.

00:31:07.000 Fizer-Warren on George Papadopoulos.

00:31:10.000 Go after them all!

00:31:11.000 You know what that says to me?

00:31:13.000 It says to me that this is a weaponized law enforcement mechanism against a particular political candidate.

00:31:19.000 That's what this was.

00:31:21.000 Absolutely astonishing stuff.

00:31:23.000 And the media, of course, some in the media are attempting to downplay it.

00:31:26.000 Jake Tapper, to his credit, he says that this report is devastating to the FBI.

00:31:29.000 Well, I mean, Jake was lied to by people like Peter Schiff for years. 0.91

00:31:33.000 So I'd love to see Jake apply his standards of who gets to come on his show to people like Schiff, like Adam Schiff, the lying, ridiculous congressperson from California. 0.92

00:31:44.000 Here's Jake Tapper last night.

00:31:46.000 Regardless, the report is now here, it has dropped, and it might not have produced everything

00:31:50.000 of what some Republicans hoped for.

00:31:52.000 It is regardless devastating to the FBI, and to a degree it does exonerate Donald Trump.

00:32:00.000 Not to a degree.

00:32:01.000 Like, it exonerates him.

00:32:03.000 I mean, I don't know what there is that doesn't exonerate Donald Trump.

00:32:06.000 Which part is he not exonerated on?

00:32:08.000 That the FBI was not going out?

00:32:10.000 I mean, the FBI was going after him.

00:32:11.000 That the Clinton campaign was not working?

00:32:12.000 They were working with the FBI.

00:32:14.000 That the Obama administration knew about?

00:32:16.000 They did know about it.

00:32:17.000 Which part doesn't exonerate Trump there?

00:32:19.000 It all exonerates Trump.

00:32:20.000 And again, we were lied to for years.

00:32:22.000 For years, we were lied to by people who are associated with the FBI, by Democrats in Congress who knew Adam Schiff was a liar.

00:32:28.000 But I mean, like, here's Adam Schiff in 2017 telling Jake Tapper that the evidence of Russian collusion is damning.

00:32:33.000 They played this string all the way out for years on end in order to smear Trump, in order to hamstring his presidency. 0.94

00:32:42.000 It's disgusting. 0.99

00:32:43.000 I mean, vile and disgusting. 0.88

00:32:45.000 Here's Adam Schiff.

00:32:47.000 The Russians offered help, the campaign accepted help, the Russians gave help, and the president made full use of that help.

00:32:54.000 And that is pretty damning, whether it is proof beyond a reasonable doubt of conspiracy or not. 1.00

00:33:00.000 He's a liar! 1.00

00:33:01.000 He's a liar and he knew he was a liar! 1.00

00:33:02.000 He'd seen all this stuff too! 1.00

00:33:04.000 They were all lying.

00:33:05.000 And by the way, they're still lying.

00:33:07.000 Andrew Weissman was a lawyer under Robert Mueller.

00:33:09.000 He was the chief lawyer working under Robert Mueller in the Mueller report.

00:33:12.000 So here is his reaction to a report showing what amounts to collusion between the Clinton campaign, the Obama administration, and the FBI.

00:33:20.000 Here is his response to that.

00:33:22.000 What was it like to have your probe investigated for four years?

00:33:26.000 So we were very aware, as I'm sure Pete Strzok and people at the Bureau before us were very aware, that there was going to be an investigation of us.

00:33:36.000 And you know what?

00:33:36.000 Our view of that was fine.

00:33:38.000 There is a false equivalency because you have an enormous amount number of cases which were proved where there is you pointed out their convictions where there is a there there Russia interfered in the 2016 election they're continuing to interfere there are people who've gone to jail who are rightly found guilty and what you have with John Durham is like it's a big fat Nothing.

00:34:01.000 And it reminds me of the sort of weaponization hearings that are going on where there also is they're just falling flat on their face because there is no there there.

00:34:11.000 How is it?

00:34:11.000 It's a 300 page report saying the Mueller report was based on nothing, was based on nothing, and that you guys spent tens of millions of dollars going after the president of the United States for no reason other than Hillary Clinton originally initiated this investigation in coordination with the FBI and in coordination with the Obama administration.

00:34:27.000 And it's a nothing burger to you?

00:34:29.000 That's a nothing burger?

00:34:31.000 Of course it is.

00:34:32.000 Because, of course, you're part of the system.

00:34:34.000 You're part of the system.

00:34:36.000 If your takeaway from this is trust the system, the system did its job, I don't know what the hell to tell you.

00:34:40.000 CNN, of course, aside from Tapper, again, credit to Jake for acknowledging what is due there.

00:34:45.000 CNN is like, well, you know, the report doesn't mention the deep state.

00:34:48.000 I mean, so I mean, if it doesn't mention the deep state.

00:34:51.000 I assume that Trump and his allies are going to claim complete exoneration from this report.

00:34:59.000 You know, this report doesn't refer to the deep state necessarily, but that's not going to stop Donald Trump from saying the deep state was out to get him.

00:35:06.000 You know, we've also seen House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan already come out and say he wants John Durham to testify next week.

00:35:13.000 And look, Republicans, especially Jim Jordan, have made a big deal about trying to investigate what they call Oh, it's the Republicans' pounce, according to CNN.

00:35:31.000 And the Republicans are pouncing.

00:35:33.000 That's the big problem here.

00:35:34.000 Not that the government was weaponized on behalf of Hillary Clinton's campaign and against Donald Trump.

00:35:39.000 There was no deep state because it didn't use the words deep state.

00:35:42.000 Slow clap for the geniuses over at CNN.

00:35:44.000 Really genius level stuff.

00:35:45.000 We'll get to Donald Trump's response to all this in just one second.

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00:37:22.000 Okay, meanwhile, so Donald Trump has now responded to the Durham report and in a series of posts on Truth Social, he said, after extensive research, special counsel John Durham concluded the FBI never should have launched the Trump-Russia probe.

00:37:36.000 In other words, the American public was scammed, just as it is being scammed right now by those who don't want to see greatness for America.

00:37:41.000 The Durham Report spells out in great detail how the Democratic hoax that was perpetrated upon me and the American people.

00:37:46.000 This is 2020 presidential election fraud, just like stuffing the ballot boxes, only more so.

00:37:51.000 This totally illegal act had a huge impact on the election.

00:37:53.000 Within honest media, we are looking at the crime of the century.

00:37:57.000 And then he continued to go after other members of the FBI.

00:38:01.000 Treason, all capital letters, triple exclamation point.

00:38:03.000 Congress must do something about this.

00:38:05.000 Must never happen again.

00:38:07.000 Now, you certainly understand his outrage.

00:38:10.000 I don't, by the way, see the necessity of him linking together, quote-unquote, stuffing the ballot boxes.

00:38:13.000 But yes, I mean, if you're talking about rigging an election, one of the ways that you rig an election, an informal way of doing so, is by spilling out into public view a bunch of garbage allegations This really wasn't a 2020 election fraud, it was a 2016 election fraud.

00:38:27.000 It was an attempt to take down Trump in 2016 and that continued all the way throughout his presidency. 0.64

00:38:32.000 It's absolute insanity.

00:38:33.000 So, the question now is what exactly we do about it?

00:38:36.000 The answer, of course, is that we need to elect a Republican president and he needs to fire everyone.

00:38:40.000 He needs to clean out the FBI.

00:38:42.000 And now, if Trump were to be elected president, presumably he would do that.

00:38:46.000 Presumably, if he were elected president, he would do that.

00:38:47.000 The question is, can he get elected president?

00:38:49.000 Again, this always comes down to who holds the levers of power.

00:38:53.000 And once the person who holds the levers of power is there, do they know exactly what to do?

00:38:58.000 Now, it's possible that Trump learned, right?

00:39:00.000 Because he was president.

00:39:01.000 He didn't clean out the FBI while he was there.

00:39:04.000 He had the opportunity to do so.

00:39:05.000 I understand it was very politically difficult for him to do so because he didn't want to look like he was shutting down an investigation into himself that looks inherently corrupt.

00:39:11.000 I agreed with that, actually.

00:39:12.000 Like, on a political level, it would have been very difficult for Donald Trump to fire Robert Mueller in the middle of the investigation once Mueller had been appointed.

00:39:18.000 Got it.

00:39:19.000 Understood.

00:39:20.000 Would Donald Trump now know where the bodies are buried in a second political term?

00:39:24.000 Quite possibly.

00:39:25.000 Sure.

00:39:26.000 The question is, can he get himself elected?

00:39:28.000 And we always come back to this.

00:39:30.000 You only get to effectuate change when it comes to the FBI.

00:39:33.000 It's an unelected branch of the government.

00:39:35.000 I mean, talk about defunding the FBI all you want.

00:39:37.000 The FBI is not going to be fully defunded because you're going to need another organization that does many of the same things that the FBI does.

00:39:43.000 So you're actually going to have to either legislatively cut down on their ability to do their work, which theoretically you could do.

00:39:51.000 But there's no guarantee that they're going to then abide by those laws.

00:39:53.000 The big problem in the Durham Report is that everybody edged around what they already knew were the guidelines.

00:39:57.000 I mean, that's the whole point.

00:39:58.000 The entire Durham Report is a series of, not missteps, but attempts to edge around the law.

00:40:05.000 To file false applications for FISA warrants.

00:40:08.000 To not do the investigations necessary to underpin actionable intelligence.

00:40:13.000 Do they violate the law in a technical way?

00:40:15.000 I mean, theoretically, you could change the law so that it's more easy to prosecute agents who violate these laws and make the penalties stricter.

00:40:22.000 That's something that the legislature could do.

00:40:24.000 And certainly, a Republican House should pursue exactly those sorts of things.

00:40:28.000 But the idea that you're going to just completely defund the FBI, again, somebody is going to have to actually, you know, investigate domestic threats to the homeland.

00:40:34.000 That sort of stuff does exist.

00:40:36.000 The biggest problem right now is how you staff agencies is just as important as what the agencies are tasked with doing.

00:40:43.000 And whoever gets into power is going to need to know how to staff those agencies.

00:40:46.000 And this is why you need somebody who is professional in charge of the auspices of the federal government.

00:40:52.000 But yes, your outrage should be channeled into outrage, not just, by the way, at the Clinton campaign or the Obama administration.

00:40:58.000 Half those people are serving right now inside the Obama administration, part two, the Biden administration.

00:41:04.000 Jake Sullivan is one of the people who is part of the Clinton campaign out there retailing all of these lies about Trump-Russia hoaxes.

00:41:11.000 They're active members right now of the Biden administration who are involved in this.

00:41:15.000 Those people need to be called on the carpet and forced to testify by Congress.

00:41:19.000 They need to explain exactly what their role was in distributing the quote-unquote Clinton plan to the FBI and laundering that into public view.

00:41:28.000 All these are things that we should be pressuring our Republican Congress people to do right now.

00:41:31.000 And Republican Congress people should be on the record pushing for that sort of stuff right now as well.

00:41:36.000 Okay, meanwhile, the media are attempting to spin away from the Durham investigation, and so they have decided that they have a backup plan of something to cover.

00:41:44.000 What exactly are they going to cover?

00:41:46.000 They are going to cover, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, Rudy Giuliani.

00:41:50.000 Now, I have a question.

00:41:50.000 Who cares?

00:41:51.000 I mean, honestly, I could not care less about Rudy Giuliani.

00:41:54.000 He has not been relevant in American politics for some years now.

00:41:58.000 He was last seen being extremely weird in front of the Four Seasons gardening and tool repair shop or something in the middle of election 2020 with hair dye rolling down his forehead.

00:42:10.000 There are very few figures in American public life who have moved from American hero to sort of joke more than Rudy Giuliani did.

00:42:16.000 That guy could have been president in 2008.

00:42:18.000 And of course he's an American hero after 9-11.

00:42:22.000 But it doesn't matter.

00:42:23.000 The media needs something to redirect to.

00:42:24.000 So if you look at the headlines right now, at places like the Washington Post or the New York Times, what you will see is that there is a lot of coverage of this particular story surrounding Rudy Giuliani.

00:42:36.000 There's a woman who used to work for Rudy Giuliani.

00:42:38.000 Her name is Noelle Dunphy.

00:42:40.000 She claims that Giuliani raped and sexually abused her throughout her time working for him, and that he failed to pay her nearly $2 million of promised pay. 0.98

00:42:47.000 She claims that he raped her repeatedly, made her perform sex acts against her will. 0.99

00:42:52.000 It's all very graphic. 0.99

00:42:53.000 It's all very sordid. 0.72

00:42:54.000 It's all very disgusting. 0.97

00:42:55.000 She says he was a regular alcoholic, that he was grooming women and that he was abusing them, that he was making sexual advances toward her. 0.97

00:43:01.000 So I have a question.

00:43:02.000 She was fired in 2021.

00:43:04.000 Apparently, she was originally hired in 2019.

00:43:07.000 She was a graduate of Columbia University, and then she apparently worked at ABC News as an associate producer, and then she worked for Giuliani starting in 2019, worked for him for a couple of years.

00:43:18.000 Okay, so apparently, starting in 2019, he was abusing her from like day one on the job.

00:43:23.000 Now, like, We are still, well, what is the statute of limitations for a rape allegation in the state of New York?

00:43:30.000 Statute of limitations for rape in New York is, I believe, seven years within the alleged violation.

00:43:40.000 That's the criminal statute of limitations in New York City.

00:43:45.000 So, I noticed that 2019 is four years ago.

00:43:49.000 So, if she would like to bring an allegation against Rudy Giuliani, you know what would be a great way to do that would be to, you know, go to prosecutors and have Rudy Giuliani prosecuted.

00:43:57.000 I noticed instead she's suing him for $10 million.

00:43:58.000 And that she worked for him for a couple of years.

00:44:02.000 And that now she's suing him for $10 million.

00:44:04.000 Now, again, maybe all of her allegations are true.

00:44:07.000 Maybe every single one of her allegations are true. 1.00

00:44:09.000 Maybe Rudy Giuliani is a creepy, old, weird dude who sexually assaults and abuses women. 1.00

00:44:15.000 Maybe. 1.00

00:44:15.000 Sure. 1.00

00:44:16.000 Also, you know what would be a great way to adjudicate that?

00:44:19.000 Is by getting an alleged rapist off the street by criminally prosecuting him.

00:44:23.000 And yet it seems as though everybody is now going for the preponderance of the evidence civil case in which they get a large check.

00:44:29.000 The media are focusing on this one specifically because it means they don't have to focus on the complete destruction of the FBI and the Clinton campaign in the Durham report.

00:44:39.000 Instead, focus on the fact that a person who's been irrelevant in American politics for some years now, Rudy Giuliani, allegedly sexually was abusing a younger woman who was working for him for a couple of years and who only saw fit to launch a lawsuit against him a couple of years after leaving his employ.

00:44:56.000 I gotta tell you, don't love this pattern.

00:44:58.000 Don't love this pattern in American law.

00:45:00.000 I like when rapists go to jail.

00:45:01.000 I don't really care whether rapists pay giant monetary settlements and don't go to jail, because it doesn't deter them from the rape, as a typical rule.

00:45:09.000 They need to go to jail.

00:45:09.000 So...

00:45:14.000 Color me slightly skeptical on all of these allegations.

00:45:18.000 Okay, meanwhile, the entire society has decided that it is absolutely imperative to go woke as fast as humanly possible.

00:45:24.000 I don't understand the marketing at many of these major American companies that have decided to alienate as many males from their constituency as possible when their entire constituency and consumer base is male.

00:45:34.000 It makes no sense to me whatsoever. 0.96

00:45:35.000 So the latest idiots to get into this business, apparently this is a slightly old commercial, but I guess people have been doing this for a while and people are noticing now, is Miller Lite. 0.99

00:45:43.000 So we had Bud Light, which decided they were going to blow up their entire brand and destroy their credibility with their entire audience by hiring a dude masquerading as a lady. 1.00

00:45:50.000 Now, Miller Light, a commercial has now re-emerged from Miller Light talking about how they're very angry at themselves.

00:45:57.000 They're very angry because it used to be that they would do commercials featuring beautiful women.

00:46:02.000 In order to entice men to buy beer. 0.98

00:46:03.000 I know, unthinkable.

00:46:05.000 So they've decided that instead, they're no longer going to use beautiful women in their ads.

00:46:09.000 I guess they're going to use somewhat unattractive women in their ads, and they're going to talk about all of their commitments to women. 0.97

00:46:15.000 I have a question.

00:46:16.000 How many women are like regular devotees of Miller Lite? 1.00

00:46:20.000 Are leading the Miller High life here? 0.99

00:46:23.000 Who are the morons in charge of these ad agencies, truthfully? 1.00

00:46:26.000 Like, who are they? 1.00

00:46:28.000 Here's the Miller Lite ad.

00:46:31.000 From Mesopotamia to the Middle Ages to Colonial America, women were the ones doing the brewing. 1.00

00:46:37.000 Centuries later, how did the industry pay homage to the founding mothers of beer?

00:46:41.000 They put us in bikinis. 0.96

00:46:44.000 Wow. 0.99

00:46:45.000 No, how dare... Wow, look at this s***! 0.99

00:46:49.000 Wild! 0.99

00:46:50.000 It's time beer made it up to women. 1.00

00:46:52.000 So today, Miller Lite is on a mission to clean up not just their s***, but the whole beer industry's s***. 0.96

00:46:58.000 Okay, so pause it for a second. 0.93

00:46:59.000 I had a tough time listening to her because there are women in bathing suits in the background. 1.00

00:47:02.000 I noticed.

00:47:04.000 What does she think advertising is? 1.00

00:47:06.000 What do these people think advertising is?

00:47:08.000 I love that they're like, we would never show women in bikinis in our ads. 1.00

00:47:11.000 And then it's just like a wall full of women in bikinis in this ad. 0.99

00:47:14.000 Like, let's not pretend we know what they're doing.

00:47:16.000 And then it's like, we are going to, we're standing up for women by apparently composting.

00:47:21.000 That's really where they're going with this commercial.

00:47:22.000 Get ready. 0.92

00:47:24.000 He's been buying it back so that he can turn it into good s**t for women brewers. 1.00

00:47:27.000 Literally, good s**t. How, you ask? 0.96

00:47:30.000 Ladies, take it away. 1.00

00:47:32.000 That good s**t helps farmers grow quality hops. 0.84

00:47:37.000 Which is then donated to women brewers. 1.00

00:47:39.000 Most farmers are women, did you know? 1.00

00:47:41.000 But there's definitely more s**t out there. 0.99

00:47:43.000 In your attic, in the garage, in your parents' basement. 0.77

00:47:45.000 Send any s**t you got into Miller Lite, and they'll turn that into good s**t too. 0.87

00:47:51.000 Oh, so here's to women, because without us, there would be no beer. 1.00

00:47:59.000 Here's to women, because without us, there would be no beer. 1.00

00:48:01.000 Without men, you will have no customers, my friend.

00:48:04.000 Also, that's not true.

00:48:05.000 I'm just going to point out that if women were not there to produce the beer, men would be there to produce the beer. 0.96

00:48:08.000 And lots of men have produced beer.

00:48:10.000 But again, who's the constituency for this?

00:48:12.000 Who's like, oh, now I feel like buying a Miller Lite.

00:48:15.000 So I can have this woman who is not a bathing suit model lecture me about woke About woke breweries and how we're going to turn like Christie Brinkley photos into compost. 1.00

00:48:27.000 Oh man, it makes me feel like a Miller beer like a Miller Lite. 1.00

00:48:31.000 Who are the idiot to design these ad campaigns? 0.99

00:48:33.000 It's so unbelievably stupid, but I guess this is it's got to be some form of virtue signaling to just like an interior class of people because the people who run the ad agencies obviously are no longer in touch with their consumer base, which is kind of an amazing thing because again. 1.00

00:48:45.000 Literally your entire job is to get in touch with your consumer base. 0.99

00:48:47.000 It's not of course just Miller Lite.

00:48:49.000 It's also Sports Illustrated.

00:48:51.000 So Sports Illustrated, years ago I cancelled.

00:48:53.000 I used to be, like for years and years and years, I was a Sports Illustrated devotee.

00:48:58.000 I think that I got my Sports Illustrated subscription when I was like 13, 14 years old and I had it for probably 20 years.

00:49:02.000 It was like my kind of Saturday afternoon enjoyment was reading the sports articles in Sports Illustrated, obviously.

00:49:10.000 And I'm one of the five people in America who actually called up Sports Illustrated and said, don't send me the swimsuit edition.

00:49:15.000 I would instead prefer to receive like a regular extra magazine.

00:49:19.000 You can do that with Sports Illustrated.

00:49:21.000 But the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition was obviously tailored at dudes, right?

00:49:25.000 I mean, it was obviously beautiful women in body paint. 1.00

00:49:28.000 And it was pretending to be sports, right?

00:49:30.000 That's what it was.

00:49:31.000 I had ideological objections to it because, again, I'm not big into the objectification of women.

00:49:34.000 I'm actually not a huge fan of women in bathing suits pandering for the male gaze. 0.98

00:49:39.000 I'm actually not a huge fan of that because, again, I'm a religious conservative.

00:49:42.000 So, but, with that said, you know what I'm really not in favor of?

00:49:46.000 What I'm really not in favor of is the new woke standard, which is not, women should stop, we should stop objectifying women because women should not make objects of themselves.

00:49:54.000 We shouldn't actually use women as sex objects. 1.00

00:49:57.000 We should treat them as full, indispensable parts of the human race, including all of their magical qualities.

00:50:02.000 Instead, Sports Illustrated has decided that they're going to keep putting people in bathing suits.

00:50:07.000 But the people in bathing suits they'll put are old women and dudes. 1.00

00:50:12.000 Masquerading as women. 1.00

00:50:13.000 So Sports Illustrated, I believe last year, actually put just a gay dude in body paint in Sports Illustrated, which is like, I don't even know who your constituency is. 0.52

00:50:22.000 Where was the hue and cry among the Sports Illustrated audience for just a gay dude in body paint? 0.92

00:50:27.000 But now, this year, they've decided to go further.

00:50:29.000 They have Martha Stewart in the swimsuit edition of Sports Illustrated. 0.79

00:50:32.000 Like, this is a parody of itself.

00:50:33.000 I don't even know what to say about this.

00:50:34.000 First of all, I mean, Why are you?

00:50:38.000 No.

00:50:38.000 Just stop that.

00:50:40.000 No.

00:50:41.000 That's not good, Martha.

00:50:43.000 Just stop.

00:50:44.000 I mean, full credit to Sports Illustrated for putting an ex-felon on their cover, I suppose. 1.00

00:50:49.000 But why?

00:50:51.000 No.

00:50:51.000 And that's the second worst person on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

00:50:57.000 They have four alternative covers.

00:50:59.000 One of the other covers is Kim Petras, who is a boy. 0.99

00:51:02.000 Kim Petras is a transgender male, transgender female, who transitioned and had a bunch of surgeries at the age of 16 and now performs idiotic songs with Sam Smith, who is a sexless amoeba devil. 0.99

00:51:16.000 Apparently. 1.00

00:51:17.000 So, two of their four are an old lady and a dude who cut off his schlong and got a boob job. 0.80

00:51:28.000 Slow clap to Sports Illustrated.

00:51:29.000 And then the other two are of course Megan Fox, a very attractive woman, and Brooke St.

00:51:32.000 Nader, who's like an attractive model.

00:51:35.000 You know, like an actual female. 1.00

00:51:37.000 So, Sports Illustrated, shooting for diversity while pandering to the male sexual gaze.

00:51:42.000 It's like the worst of all possible worlds.

00:51:44.000 All possible moral worlds have been destroyed here.

00:51:47.000 Well done.

00:51:47.000 I feel like you might want to cancel your Sports Illustrated subscription.

00:51:49.000 It's basically been a left-wing, it's been basically the nation with a little bit of

00:51:55.000 sports for years on end.

00:51:56.000 They run like full-scale articles about the evils of global warming in the middle of Sports

00:51:59.000 Illustrated.

00:52:00.000 They've been doing this for years, but it's really, it's time guys.

00:52:02.000 Cancel your subscriptions.

00:52:03.000 Enough is enough.

00:52:04.000 All right, meanwhile, things are going amazing over in Chicago.

00:52:08.000 So the brand new mayor of Chicago has now taken office. 0.88

00:52:12.000 The new mayor is Brandon Johnson, same as the old mayor, except not a small person lesbian. 0.66

00:52:18.000 So Brandon Johnson is actually more radical than Lori Lightfoot, which I did not realize was possible.

00:52:23.000 I truly did not realize was possible.

00:52:25.000 And Brandon Johnson, during his inaugural address, compared, I kid you not, A teenager who was shot for criminal activity, apparently, and a cop who was shot.

00:52:40.000 This is the comparison.

00:52:43.000 You know the tears of Adam Toledo's parents, the tears of Adam Toledo's parents

00:52:51.000 are made of the same sorrow as the parents of officer Preston's parents.

00:53:02.000 Okay, so let me just explain what he's talking about.

00:53:07.000 So if you recall at the time, what happened with Adam Toledo is Adam Toledo is a 13 year old who's on the street because where the hell are his parents?

00:53:13.000 And he had a handgun.

00:53:16.000 And he was running away from the cops.

00:53:18.000 And I remember commenting on the show at the time.

00:53:21.000 He drops the gun right as he turns around to face the cops.

00:53:24.000 And it's not clear he's dropped the gun.

00:53:25.000 He drops the gun and starts to pick up his hands like this.

00:53:28.000 And as he does, he gets shot because it's not clear that he's actually dropped the gun.

00:53:32.000 That apparently is exactly the same as a cop being murdered in cold blood in the city of Chicago.

00:53:38.000 So, good luck to the cops in Chicago, good luck to the city of Chicago.

00:53:42.000 It is fun to watch as America's major cities are cleaned out by the left-wing values of the elites, while people who actually have to live in these cities have their lives made appreciably worse.

00:53:52.000 Meanwhile, college-educated workers, by the way, are running like hell from these cities.

00:53:55.000 I mean, just running like hell.

00:53:58.000 According to a new study from the New York Times, coastal cities are pricing out low-wage workers, but now they're pricing out college graduates as well.

00:54:06.000 So, Metro San Francisco has seen tens of thousands of people leave in the last couple of years.

00:54:11.000 Metro Washington DC has seen tens of thousands of people leave in the last few years.

00:54:15.000 Metro New York has seen hundreds of thousands of people leave in the last few years.

00:54:19.000 None of this is a shock.

00:54:21.000 It makes perfect sense.

00:54:22.000 If you can afford to get out of here, you get out of here.

00:54:24.000 But it is an amazing thing to watch as all these college-educated white people who have voted Democrat for years on end, so they feel good to all their friends, then flee all of these places and go other places.

00:54:32.000 Like, well done.

00:54:37.000 You make the cities unlivable, and then you have the money to leave, but the people who are left behind don't have the money to actually flee those places, and their lives continue to be unlivable.

00:54:44.000 Genius-level stuff over there.

00:54:46.000 Alrighty guys, the rest of the show continues right now.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - May 16, 2023

BOMBSHELL Report Reveals The Most Shocking Political Scandal In American History

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