00:00:00.000Former FBI director James Comey is indicted.
00:00:02.000Democrats continue to celebrate the return of Jimmy Kimmel, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel speaks at the UN General Assembly plus a lot, a lot more.
00:01:15.000Get 40% off new DailyWire Plus annual memberships with code FAL40 at checkout.
00:01:20.000Well, it was a long time incoming, and yesterday afternoon it was announced that a grand jury had indicted a longtime target of President Trump's former FBI director, James Comey.
00:01:29.000Of course, James Comey has been on President Trump's so-called target list for a very long time, going all the way back to when President Trump fired him during his first term.
00:01:37.000He, of course, fired him because James Comey almost certainly bootstrapped into the press the so-called steel dossier.
00:01:44.000He promoted the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.
00:01:47.000He was deeply involved in every aspect of that, up to and including the use of the steel dossier in documents that were presented directly to President Trump, which was then used as an excuse by the media to push the Steele dossier, a compendium of lies about President Trump into public view.
00:02:03.000And there have been open questions about whether James Comey, over the intervening years, where he testified repeatedly in front of Congress, among others, had actually committed perjury.
00:02:12.000Well, yesterday, the indictment came down, according to the New York Times, the indictment filed in Alexandria, Virginia came over the objection of career prosecutors in the Eastern Districts of Virginia who found insufficient evidence to support charges, but were then overruled by Lindsay Halligan, a Trump loyalist handpicked by the president to run the office a few days ago.
00:02:28.000Halligan herself does not have any experience prosecuting criminal cases.
00:03:15.000Let's start with the actual material in the indictment.
00:03:18.000It is a very, very, very short indictment, as in like a page and a half maximum indictment.
00:03:23.000Quote, false statements within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the U.S. government, that is count one.
00:03:29.000On or about September 30th, 2020 in the Eastern District of Virginia, the defendant James B. Comey Jr. did willfully and knowingly make a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement in a matter within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the government of the United States by falsely stating to a U.S. Senator during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that he had not authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports regarding an FBI investigation concerning person one.
00:03:52.000Person one would be the president of the United States.
00:03:55.000That statement was false because as James Comey then and there new, he in fact had authorized person three to serve as an anonymous source in news reports regarding an FBI investigation concerning person one.
00:04:04.000Person three is a person who is working at the FBI.
00:04:08.000Basically, the allegation here is that there was a lower down at the FBI who leaked to the press details involving the investigation into President Trump, and that is now being suggested that that person was authorized by Comey illegally to do that, and that Comey then fibbed about it.
00:04:22.000Or if he had the authority to authorize the leak, he fibbed about it, and that fib is count one, which is the perjury charge.
00:04:29.000Count two is obstruction of a congressional proceeding, saying that on that same date, based on that same testimony, Comey did corruptly endeavor to influence, obstruct, and impede the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry under which an investigation was being had before the Senate Judiciary Committee by making false and misleading statements before that committee.
00:04:46.000That is the entirety of the indictment.
00:05:09.000So we are about to expire on that statute of limitations.
00:05:13.000Andrew McCarthy, who breaks this sort of stuff down for National Review, had predicted that this sort of thing was going to happen.
00:05:19.000And he sort of lays out exactly what the story here is.
00:05:23.000He says on Halloween 2016, about a week before the 2016 election, the left-wing journalist Franklin Fowler published a report in Slate, strongly suggesting that candidate Trump had established a communications back channel with the Kremlin involving servers at Trump Tower in Manhattan and Alpha Bank, one of Russia's largest financial institutions.
00:05:39.000Within hours on the same day, the New York Times published its report investigating Donald Trump, FBI sees no clear link to Russia.
00:05:45.000The Times report related the FBI's conclusion there was nothing to the back channel claim, which, of course, was later confirmed by special counsel John Durham's Russia Gate probe.
00:05:55.000More broadly speaking, according to Andy McCarthy, the Times report also detailed that the Bureau's counterintelligence investigation of Russia's malevolent activities in connection with the 2016 campaign were not linked to Trump or his campaign.
00:06:06.000The consensus conclusion was that Russia was trying to harm the United States by sowing doubt about the integrity of our elections.
00:06:12.000During the first Trump administration, Durham led a Justice Department probe of those leaks to the Times in connection with the October 31st, 2016 story.
00:06:20.000It was investigated as what the FBI referred to as a UPD, an unauthorized public disclosure of classified information.
00:06:26.000Catherine Herid, who is then reporting for Fox News, I believe, has posted the closing memorandum for the probe dated February 25th, 2020.
00:06:34.000There were two major government sources for that story that came out in the New York Times.
00:06:38.000Remember, it was a story that was meant to exonerate Trump of charges pushed by Franklin Fowler that there was a back channel between Trump and Alpha Bank or Russian sources, and that the FBI had no information suggesting that Trump was actually a Russian's cat paw.
00:06:49.000So believe it or not, the league that is the subject of this particular investigation and indictment, that leak was actually a pro-Trump leak.
00:06:56.000It was a leak that helped President Trump because it actually dispelled myths about Trump's involvement with Russia.
00:07:02.000As the report, the Durham report asserts, one of the sources of the leak was James Baker, who at the time of the leak was the FBI's general counsel and a close advisor to Comey.
00:07:10.000Baker explained to investigators he had been under the belief that he was ultimately instructed and authorized to provide information to the Times by FBI director James Comey.
00:07:18.000Baker does not claim that Comey gave him a direct order.
00:07:21.000Rather, he indicated that the FBI chief of staff, James at Rabicke, instructed him to disclose the information to the New York Times, and Baker understood that Rabicki was conveying that instruction and authorization from Comey.
00:07:32.000Beyond that, most of the remaining pertinent information about the investigation was classified.
00:07:38.000Apparently Durham closed the probe with a recommendation of no prosecution of Baker or anyone else for this for this league.
00:07:44.000Number one, the FBI hierarchy actually did have the authority to declassify, so they could leak legally.
00:07:49.000Two, Baker's belief he was acting with authority was reasonable.
00:07:52.000C, it would have been impossible to prove criminal intent because if he thought he was acting with authority and this this was being declassified by the upper levels of the FBI, he didn't commit a crime.
00:08:00.000And D, there was no harm done to national security.
00:08:03.000Well, how does this bring up Comey himself?
00:08:05.000On September 30th, 2020, appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Comey reaffirmed prior testimony from 2017, saying he had never authorized anyone at the FBI to leak information to the press pertaining to the investigations of either possible collusion between Trump and Russia or Hillary Clinton's use of an unauthorized email system.
00:08:24.000So basically, the case here is that he says he did not authorize a lower down at the FBI to leak the information.
00:08:31.000Even if he had authorized that leak, it would not have been illegal.
00:08:33.000So the cover-up here would be criminal, but there would have been no underlying crime, is sort of the issue here.
00:08:38.000All right, coming up more on James Comey, Jimmy Kimmel being celebrated as the great unifier now, mostly by Jimmy Kimmel.
00:08:48.000And of course, Ukraine is just a ton coming up.
00:08:51.000First, when inflation jumps, when you hear the national debt is over $37 trillion, you ever think maybe now it'd be a good time to buy some gold?
00:08:56.000I did, which is why I bought some more gold, actually.
00:08:58.000Whether to protect against the dollar's loss in purchasing Power for peace of mind during global instability, or just for sensible diversification, Birch Gold Group believes every American should own physical gold.
00:09:06.000And so, along with the Daily Wire, Birch Gold created something special this month.
00:09:10.000Through September 30th, if you buy from Birch Gold, you will get a signed copy of my brand new book, Lions and Scavengers.
00:09:15.000Plus, your very own golden Ben Shapiro bookmark.
00:09:19.000We released an extremely limited quantity of the autograph books and bookmarks of text Ben to 989898 and claim your eligibility to start the process.
00:09:26.000Plus, Birch Gold can help you roll an existing IRA or 401k into an IRA in gold.
00:09:30.000You're still eligible for that signed copy of Lions and Scavengers.
00:09:33.000I buy my gold from Birch Gold, as do tens of thousands of other lions.
00:09:36.000Is it finally time for you to do the same?
00:10:00.000Finding that one tool that simplifies everything when starting a business becomes a game changer and a lifesaver for millions of businesses.
00:10:07.000Shopify is the e-commerce platform behind millions of businesses around the world and 10% of all e-commerce in the U.S. We even use it for our own Daily Wire shop to make sure things are running smoothly and efficiently so y'all can get the goods.
00:10:18.000You might be asking, what if I can't design a website?
00:10:20.000Or I'm more people haven't heard of my brand.
00:10:23.000Shopify's got you covered from the start with beautiful, ready-to-go templates that match your brand style and help you find your customers through easy to run email and social media campaigns.
00:10:30.000And if you need a hand with everyday tasks, their AI tools created specifically for commerce can help enhance product images, write descriptions, and more.
00:10:37.000Plus, their award-winning customer support is available 24-7 to share advice if you ever get stuck.
00:10:42.000Turn those dreams into and give them the best shot at success with Shopify.
00:10:46.000Sign up for your one dollar per month trial and start selling today at Shopify.com slash Shapiro.
00:10:51.000Go to Shopify.com slash Shapiro, Shopify.com slash Shapiro.
00:10:56.000Now McCarthy says that an indictment on this would be absurd, which is why Trump's own former nominee to U.S. Attorney for Eastern Dict Eastern District of Virginia declined to bring the case.
00:11:05.000And the president fired him over that.
00:11:09.000So apparently Lindsay Halligan has decided to do the thing that Trump wanted her to do.
00:11:14.000And so what it appears from all sort of the public information is that this isn't a particularly well predicated indictment, that the indictment itself is quite weak, and that it's unlikely to survive in court.
00:11:24.000Now, again, many of the things that Comey has been talked about for possibility of indictment are sort of in moral and ethics, much worse than this.
00:11:33.000But that's not what he's being indicted for.
00:11:36.000So Jim Trusty, former Trump attorney, he says that Comey had a special employee whose sole purpose it was to leak things to the New York Times.
00:11:43.000Do you believe this decision to charge James Comey was reached independently of what the president has so clearly conveyed he wanted to happen here?
00:11:54.000I mean, you do have a grand jury that indicted, they carefully considered the case.
00:11:58.000They actually shaved it down to an area that makes a lot of sense.
00:12:01.000You know, nobody's actually talking about the specifics of his false statement, but this was a director of the FBI who had a special employee designed for one purpose to leak things to the New York Times.
00:12:13.000Now, when he was pressed in Congress on whether or not he had leaked something, he'd authorized the leak of a memo he retained wrongfully at his house.
00:12:22.000He said, No, that's not my recollection.
00:12:24.000They challenged him about McCabe, another guy who had referrals to the inspector general for lying.
00:12:29.000And Comey said, That's not my recollection.
00:12:31.000So, in a weird way, through all this chaos, through all this kind of political interest of what's going on behind closed doors, who knew what?
00:12:38.000At the end of the day, the indictment that's left is actually pretty simple.
00:12:42.000He either lied about leaking to the New York Times in a tantrum because he is getting fired, or he didn't.
00:12:48.000And I don't think it's going to lend itself to the easy dismissals that some of you other folks have been saying they're going to get.
00:12:56.000I mean, it's an open question at this point how strong the indictment is.
00:12:59.000Now, you've got people, again, like the former Trump lawyer Jim Trusty saying it's fairly strong, and people like Annie McCarthy saying it's fairly weak.
00:13:06.000According to the New York Times, Pam Bondi was a little reticent about bringing this case.
00:13:10.000And you'll recall that just last week, President Trump accidentally put out on Truth Social what was pretty clearly an email intended from Pam Bondi saying we need to indict.
00:13:19.000Well, President Trump put out his own response, quote, Justice in America, one of the worst human beings.
00:13:24.000This country has ever been exposed to is James Comey, the former corrupt head of the FBI, today who's indicted by a grand jury on Two felony counts for various illegal and unlawful acts.
00:13:32.000He's been so bad for our country for so long and is now at the beginning of being held responsible for his crimes against our nation, make America great again.
00:13:40.000Now, again, we'll get to the turnabout as fair play point in a moment, and what this means for the justice system and all the rest.
00:13:47.000Pambandi put out a social media post saying no one is above the law.
00:13:50.000FBI director Cash Patel put out a statement saying, quote, everyone, especially those in positions of power will be held to account no matter their purge.
00:13:59.000James Comey then decided to do the thing that no one should ever do when hit with an indictment, which is go directly on camera and talk.
00:15:24.000A ridiculous figure, not only blowing the Hillary Clinton investigation, but blowing the Donald Trump investigation, manipulating the release effectively of the Steel dossier, and then using his perch as the guy who got fired by Donald Trump in order to launch salvos at Donald Trump over and over and over again.
00:15:41.000While walking through the forest and taking selfies of himself or walking on the beach and taking pictures of shells on the beach saying 86 Donald Trump and like he's just a ridiculous person.
00:15:52.000So again, don't mistake my questions about the indictment for a belief that James Comey is somehow deserving of tremendous sympathy.
00:16:00.000I do not think that James Comey is worthy of tremendous sympathy.
00:16:03.000Awful director of the FBI, a joke of a public figure.
00:16:08.000And his like, I'm standing up to authority.
00:16:10.000I it's I am the hero standing in the breach.
00:16:16.000That doesn't speak to whether the criminal indictment that is being brought here is weak or strong.
00:16:20.000And again, we'll see what the underlying evidence looks like.
00:16:22.000On the face of it, typically, if you've got a page and a half indictment, unless it's like closed book, black letter law, easy indictment, kind of unusual.
00:16:30.000The fact that again, the president had to replace the prosecutor who didn't want to prosecute with a prosecutor who would, who then a couple days later brought the prosecution, but has never actually prosecuted a criminal case, doesn't speak to the strength of the indictment itself.
00:16:57.000And again, this is a standalone uh case, John Hyleman.
00:17:01.000Zanny said, uh, never have we had facts, certainly not in our uh uh political lifetime, certainly not since Watergate have we had such an abuse of power uh uh coming uh not only from the White House, but also the Justice Department in a charge.
00:17:20.000And again, let's just sum this up uh the way the New York Times did this morning, Maggie Haberman, Alan Fior, and Jonah Bromwich, um an inexperienced prosecutor loyal to President Trump, in the job for less than a week, filed criminal charges against one of her boss's most reviled opponents.
00:17:41.000She did not only do so at Mr. Trump's direct command, but also against the urging of both her own subordinates and her predecessor, who had just been fired for raising concerns that there was insufficient evidence to indict.
00:18:38.000Donald Trump was maliciously prosecuted repeatedly from the New York State level by Letitia James to the federal level by Jack Smith, repeatedly, over and over on the basis of manipulated charges, stretched charges, charges that were literally read in unique ways for the first time in order to go after him.
00:18:56.000And so should you be surprised that Donald Trump is now doing this to the people he believes targeted him in the first place.
00:19:03.000He had promised this was going to happen, so it's not exactly a shock.
00:19:06.000It is a reality that these methods were used against him.
00:19:09.000Now, the thing about Trump that I think frustrates so many people on the left is that he's not genteel about doing this sort of stuff.
00:19:17.000He would go out there and deny that there was anything political about the prosecutions of President Trump while his own DOJ was going after his chief political opponent, and indeed the person who both preceded him as president and then replaced him as president.
00:19:31.000So, you know, that that is a reality that that Joe Biden fibbed about is that his DOJ was being manipulated to go after Donald Trump.
00:19:39.000And so you'd go out there, no, no, Justice Rosa is just being forced Miller, and of course, we saw the same sort of stuff while Barack Obama was president when Loretta Lynch was on the tarmac meeting with the Clintons and all the rest.
00:19:53.000The idea that there was no manipulation of the justice system as the justice system under Barack Obama launched a completely specious and ridiculous investigation, which was then laundered into public view to try and help Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election cycle.
00:20:06.000So the thing that the press and the Democrats are very upset about is not what Trump is doing.
00:20:11.000They're upset that Trump is doing it to the wrong people and that he's doing it out loud.
00:20:14.000And this, of course, is Trump's habit.
00:20:16.000President Trump is not somebody who hides the ball.
00:20:18.000If he believes that the DOJ is in fact a tool to go after political opponents, he will just use it that way and he will do so out loud.
00:20:26.000Now, do I think that that is significantly worse than what Democrats did?
00:20:31.000I think the fact that he's doing it out loud at least makes the game pretty clear.
00:20:36.000I'm not sure that it is better to do this sort of stuff quietly, to pretend that the DOJ is actually an objective arbiter and enforcer of the law rather than just saying the quiet part out loud, which is what President Trump is doing right here.
00:20:51.000And President Trump, let's be let's be clear.
00:20:52.000President Trump is not hiding the ball here.
00:20:59.000And here in 2021 is James Comey calling for Trump to be thrown in prison.
00:21:04.000Convict him, bar him from future service, have the prosecutors, the local prosecutors in New York pursue him for the fraudster that he was before he ever became president, lock him up for the garden variety frauds he did there, but don't give him that center stage, that dominant role in our national life just down the street where Joe Biden is trying to heal this nation.
00:21:29.000Okay, I mean, he's just he was a ridiculous figure.
00:21:32.000And and President Trump, again, was not hiding the ball.
00:21:34.000Here he was yesterday before the indictment came down.
00:21:37.000I can only say that Comey's a bad person.
00:21:47.000And uh, but I I don't know, I have no idea what's gonna happen.
00:21:51.000Already coming up, Jimmy Kimmel is apparently the great unifier of America, according to you know, Jimmy Kimmel.
00:21:57.000Plus, we get into the latest Ukraine news, the economic news, a lot going on.
00:22:01.000First, what does the future hold for business?
00:22:03.000Ask nine experts, you'll get 10 different answers.
00:22:05.000The market is bullish one day, bearish the next, interest rates climb or plummet, inflation surges or retreats, all depending on who is making the forecast.
00:22:12.000In a world of endless predictions and conflicting signals, wouldn't it be nice if somebody could finally invent that crystal ball?
00:22:16.000Until then, over 43,000 businesses have future-proof themselves with NetSuite by Oracle.
00:22:21.000It's the number one AI cloud ERP that seamlessly integrates accounting, financial management, inventory, and HR into one unified platform.
00:22:28.000This single source of truth delivers The visibility and control needed for rapid decision making, while real-time insights and forecasting transform raw data into actionable intelligence about what lies ahead.
00:22:37.000When you're closing the books in days rather than weeks, you spend less time analyzing the past and more time preparing for the future.
00:22:42.000Whether your company generates millions or hundreds of millions in revenue, NetSuite empowers you to tackle immediate challenges while positioning you to capitalize on your biggest opportunities.
00:22:50.000Download the CFO's guide to AI and machine learning for free at NetSuite.com/slash Shapiro.
00:23:06.000And that's exactly why the incredible story told in Bao Artist at War caught my attention.
00:23:09.000That film opens this weekend, like today, and you can visit Baumovie.com to see the trailers.
00:23:14.000Bao Artist at War tells the remarkable true story of Joseph Bow, a gifted artist and forger who risked his life to save others during the Holocaust.
00:23:21.000There he found not only the strength to survive, but unexpected love with Rebecca.
00:23:24.000It's a gripping story of survival, love, and courage.
00:24:07.000Well, I mean, I think that as always, the question about President Trump, the left always asks the wrong question.
00:24:12.000They look at a body of a of an institution prone in the street, and they see President Trump standing over the body, and there's a knife in the back of the body.
00:24:20.000And they're like, well, Donald Trump killed this institution.
00:24:28.000It was slid in there subtly by Biden and Obama, and Trump came along and he just pointed out that this body's been dead for quite a while, and in fact, the body is cold.
00:24:36.000And I think that is what's happening here.
00:24:42.000Now, I understand mutually assured destruction.
00:24:45.000I understand President Trump's saying, listen, we're going to be openly political about the use of the DOJ if the other side was covertly political about the use of the DOJ.
00:24:52.000And maybe in the future everybody will stop being political about the use of the DOJ.
00:24:56.000However, I don't think that's the argument that's being made.
00:24:58.000It seems to me that the argument that is being made is that it is actually a good, that actually it is a good thing to do this, to use the DOJ as a sort of an enforcement mechanism.
00:25:09.000And again, I don't think that President Trump is unique in this view.
00:25:11.000I think that Barack Obama thought this.
00:25:13.000I think that's why he had Eric Holder playing his wingman going all the way back.
00:25:17.000I think Joe Biden thought this as well.
00:25:19.000But for America, it is not in fact a good thing.
00:25:21.000For America, it is not in fact a very good thing for the DOJ to be widely perceived and indeed used as a political tool.
00:25:29.000And even if the indictment is good, this is my problem that I've seen with, for example, the FCC chair Brendan Carr making public comment on Jimmy Kimmel.
00:25:38.000Jimmy Kimmel should be off the air because he's a terrible host and because people don't watch his show.
00:25:41.000He should not be off the air because of pressure from the FCC.
00:25:44.000If there's an indictment to come of James Comey, it should come based on the analysis of the law, not because President Trump is out there pretty openly pushing for the indictment of James Comey.
00:25:57.000All of this needs to be, if you want to recatalyze the institutions and make them useful, if you actually would like for a for an America in which we don't have this spiral, this ever-escalating spiral of the use of institutions to target political opponents.
00:26:11.000At a certain point, somebody is going to have to restore honor to the institutions.
00:26:15.000That is a thing that's going to happen.
00:26:16.000And not only that, it actually sullies the capacity to get a conviction.
00:26:19.000Let's say that this is a good indictment.
00:26:21.000Let's say the indictment against Comey is stronger than I believe it is based on the available evidence.
00:26:26.000Well, let's say that actually this is a convictable offense.
00:26:29.000You don't think the defense is going to have a very, very strong case for bias in the jury pool?
00:26:35.000You don't think that they're going to have a case when the president of the United States is openly calling for conviction.
00:26:41.000Now, this is a case that I've made with regard to criminal defendants before when Joe Biden was president of the United States.
00:26:46.000I've said this about Derek Chauvin, when Derek Chauvin was convicted.
00:26:50.000It certainly didn't help that the president of the United States and the governor of Minnesota and many others were pretty much openly calling for his conviction.
00:26:56.000Well, when the president of the United States is openly calling for your conviction, it's going to be pretty hard to get a fair trial.
00:27:24.000I like to wait until all the evidence is in to judge the veracity of the evidence and whether, in fact, the person deserves conviction or acquittal.
00:27:33.000But let's say, for the sake of argument, the case against John Bolton is really strong.
00:27:36.000The fact you have the president of the United States out there over and over and over again going after John Bolton is not a good thing.
00:27:42.000And if the shoe were on the other foot, it also would not be a good thing.
00:27:46.000So we can recognize all these things at the same time.
00:27:49.000We can recognize one, that this indictment, I don't know whether it's good or bad at this point, how strong it is, their varying opinions, until I see the underlying evidence or even details of the underlying charges, it is very difficult to tell.
00:28:02.000Two, it is very difficult not to perceive a sort of tit for tat turnabout as fair play aspect of what the DOJ is doing.
00:28:18.000And three, it means that if we're ever going to have a DOJ that we can trust again, at a certain point, we're going to have to have a DOJ that we can trust again.
00:28:24.000And that's going to mean the actual use of the DOJ by the people running the DOJ to enforce the law rather than the political priors of the person who's in office, whether quietly as under Obama and Biden or overtly as under President Trump right now.
00:28:39.000You know, when we talk about the DOJ, we talk about who caused the decline in trust over at the DOJ.
00:28:44.000It is absolutely worthwhile to note when the American decline in trust actually began.
00:28:48.000And so I asked our sponsors at Comet, a new web browser by Perplexity.
00:28:52.000What do polls show about American trust in the DOJ?
00:28:57.000According to Comet, American trust in the DOJ is at a historically low level, with recent polls showing only 39% of Americans view the DOJ favorably, while 46% have an unfavorable opinion as of August 2025.
00:29:09.000The decline began gaining national attention around 2020, and public confidence fell sharply as the nation entered the 2020s, marked by political controversies, high-profile investigations, and shifting partisan views.
00:29:19.000So it actually started to dump while Joe Biden's era was happening.
00:29:25.000The steepest drop in trust began around 2020, and that was largely because of perceived politicization of the DOJ.
00:29:32.000That's because of all of the news that was arising about Trump Russia gate.
00:29:37.000All that stuff you remember came to a head in 2020.
00:29:40.000Earlier declines were gradual throughout the 2010s.
00:29:43.000But again, that controversy over the DOJ, the FBI, Trump Russia gate, that killed it.
00:29:49.000So it had already started to decline even under Barack Obama.
00:29:53.000So at this point, trust is really low.
00:29:56.000But again, attributing that to Donald Trump personally, as opposed to the attempt by the DOJ to target President Trump and his allies, that would be a mistake in the timeline.
00:30:06.000If you want John Bolton convicted of an actual crime, if he committed an actual crime, it's actually not a great idea to go around talking about as president how much you want John Bolton indicted and convicted of an actual crime.
00:30:16.000So we'll see how all this plays out again.
00:30:18.000Mistake none of this for sympathy for James Comey, other than perhaps some aspect of legal understanding that maybe the case is weak.
00:30:29.000But as far as personal sympathy for James Comey, the guys are schmuck.
00:30:35.000James Comey is going to go unindicted for many, many things that he did that probably are not criminally prosecutable, but definitely helped wreck the country.
00:30:43.000And meanwhile, speaking of using law enforcement in positive ways, the president of the United States put out an executive order yesterday designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization.
00:30:53.000Now it's unclear what the authority is or even what this is going to mean in terms of implementation.
00:30:57.000What it probably really means is use of the DOJ to investigate the financial ties and actual bonds between members of Antifa, Antifa groups, according to the White House, because of the aforementioned pattern of political violence designed to suppress lawful political activity and obstruct the rule of law, I hereby designate Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization.
00:31:16.000All relevant executive departments and agencies shall utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations, especially those involving terrorist actions conducted by Antifa or any person claiming to act on behalf of Antifa, or for which Antifa, any person claiming to act on behalf of Antifa provided material support, including necessary investigatory and prosecutorial actions against those who fund such operations.
00:31:43.000It really just means, I assume, redeployment of particular resources to investigate Antifa.
00:31:51.000So Ken Cucinelli, who serves as Trump's deputy secretary of Homeland Security during the first Trump administration, he says there's not really a formal designation in law, but as the executive, he can do that.
00:32:00.000He can direct a skewing of DOJ resources to attack the problem, and that's how I perceive what he's doing.
00:32:04.000I wish we'd done it in 2020, when these people were rather clearly going from city to city.
00:32:36.000If there are foundations providing material support to terrorist groups who are committing shootings, who are committing vandalism, who are out there doing acts of intimidation and violence in violation of law, of course, those funding mechanisms should be investigated.
00:32:50.000It is good that the DOJ is doing this.
00:32:51.000According to the New York Times, a senior DOJ official has instructed more than a half dozen U.S. attorney's offices to draft plans to investigate a group funded by George Soros, the billionaire democratic donor whom President Trump has demanded be thrown in jail.
00:33:03.000The officials' directive, a copy of which was viewed by the New York Times, goes as far as to list possible charges prosecutors could file, ranging from arson to material support of terrorism.
00:33:11.000The memo suggests department leaders are following orders from the president that specific people or groups be subject to criminal investigation, a major break from decades of past practice meant to insulate the DOJ from political interference.
00:33:23.000The step came in an accelerated push by the DOJ against Mr. Trump's perceived enemies in recent days and weeks.
00:33:28.000And again, that is the New York Times' editorial take.
00:33:30.000They stack it right into their news article there.
00:33:33.000The idea being that Trump is targeting political opponents as opposed to, you know, violent groups who are receiving material support from groups like George Soros funded groups.
00:33:44.000Open Society Foundations has been funding groups all around the world who engage in civil and possibly uncivil unrest.
00:33:53.000On Monday, a lawyer in the Office of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch issued that directive to U.S. attorneys in California, New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Detroit, and Maryland.
00:34:02.000And the lawyer, Akach Singh, suggested a wide range of charges for prosecutors to consider against open society foundations, including racketeering arson wire fraud and material support for terrorism.
00:34:13.000Justifying this, he pointed to a report from Capital Research Center, we talked about this earlier this week, which monitors liberal money in politics, and he asked the prosecutors to determine if the allegations were enough to justify opening criminal cases.
00:34:25.000That report states that the group, quote, has poured over $80 million into groups tied to terrorism or extremist violence.
00:34:31.000It's cited as one example, Al Haq, a Palestinian human rights group, quote unquote, critical of Israel, but of course, AHAC has been a front for terrorist activity.
00:34:41.000So this is a good use of law enforcement.
00:34:45.000President Trump himself says listen, we are not going to tolerate the radical left's continued violence, particularly after the shooting at an ICE facility over the course of the last 72 hours.
00:34:58.000It's going to get worse, and ultimately it's going to go back on them.
00:35:00.000I mean, bad things happen when they play these games.
00:35:49.000But he is correct that the radical left has created permission structures for precisely this kind of violence.
00:35:54.000The left, for its part, continues to deny that there is any problem with left-wing violence, which is truly amazing.
00:35:59.000Julia Kayam Over on CNN, she says that as far as this latest ICE facility shooting in Texas, there's no evidence of political alignment, which is not true.
00:36:09.000Someone can perform something that is politically motivated, in this case, unjustifiably, you know, targeting an ICE facility, uh, but not be aligned with the political movement.
00:36:21.000If the White House and and uh JD Vance, they they seem to suggest that there's evidence that he's part of a network of left groups that are promoting violence as compared to uh progressives, right wing uh conservatives, and left wing groups opposing some of ISIS actions.
00:36:40.000And that's the link which we have to be super careful about in a democracy.
00:36:58.000So, again, they're just gonna pretend that that's not really a thing.
00:37:01.000Meanwhile, Chris Murphy, who again, for some reason has pretensions of running for president.
00:37:04.000I I don't understand why he would think that he has the capacity to do this.
00:37:07.000He says that if you call ICE agents Nazis, that's somehow not incitement to violence, which is um it may not be technically legal incitement to violence, it's certainly a permission structure for violence.
00:37:17.000What they are trying to do is exploit um these murders and these shootings in order to silence only um dissent and political opposition on the left.
00:37:27.000Um, criticizing the way that ICE is rounding up people in this country in a deeply inhumane and immoral way is not an incitement to violence.
00:37:36.000Um, there is a moment where you cross the line.
00:37:39.000Um, but what they are trying to do is to destroy the ability for people who oppose their policies to legitimately um engage in political debate.
00:37:48.000And we are not gonna let them do that.
00:37:51.000Um, so yes, you're right that it is not legal incitement.
00:37:55.000Also, why do you keep making excuses for it?
00:37:57.000If it's bad for the country, why do you keep making excuses for it over and over and over again?
00:38:03.000Alrighty, coming up, news on Ukraine, Russia, Pete Hageth calling a big secret meeting.
00:38:08.000And of course, we pay tribute to our friend Vadi Bacum, who passed away yesterday.
00:38:11.000First, thinking about this time of year always reminds me to slow down, especially after a busy summer of work travel, family activities.
00:38:17.000Fall is when, you know, we should all try to intentionally carve out some time for the comforts of home, by a weekends, cozy evenings with loved ones, actually making your home feel like a home again.
00:38:28.000I mean, I l again, I literally traveled bull and branch product.
00:38:30.000All of my travels, I am bringing my bull and branch blanket with me because honestly, hard to sleep otherwise.
00:38:35.000Bull and branch's bed bundles are perfect for creating your own sanctuary of comfort.
00:38:39.000With just a click, you get everything you need for an effortless bedroom upgrade from new sheets and blankets to a complete transformation.
00:38:44.000There's a bundle option for every kind of refresh and every kind of sleeper, whether you like things cool, cozy, or super soft, and every bundle is made from the highest quality, 100% organic cotton in durable, customizable styles.
00:38:54.000Plus, everything comes with a 30-night worry-free guarantee.
00:38:57.000So you can sleep confident you made the right choice for your home and your family.
00:38:59.000Bull and branch makes upgrading your bed easier than ever with curated bundles for a sanctuary of comfort.
00:39:04.000For a limited time, get 20% off bed bundles at Bull and Branch.com/slash Ben.
00:39:08.000That's Bull and Branch, B-O-L-L-A-N-D branch.com slash Ben to save up to 20% exclusions apply.
00:39:13.000Also, facts do not care about your feelings.
00:39:16.000And here's one that should make everyone think twice.
00:39:19.000That well, I mean, that's not the only fact.
00:39:20.000Nearly half of American adults would face financial hardship within six months if they lost their primary income.
00:39:25.000Policy genius makes finding life insurance simple, helping you secure real coverage so your loved ones have the financial safety net they need when it matters most.
00:39:32.000With policy genius, you can find life insurance policy starting at just 276 bucks a year for a million dollars in coverage.
00:39:38.000It's an easy way to protect the people you love and feel really good about your future.
00:39:45.000You need to make sure that your family is taken care of in case God forbid you plot.
00:39:48.000Policy genius can make it happen for you.
00:39:50.000It's the country's leading online insurance marketplace.
00:39:52.000It helps you compare quotes from America's top insurers in just a few clicks to find that lowest price.
00:39:56.000Their team of licensed agents walks you through this the entire process step by step, handling paperwork, advocating for you while clearly laying out your options, coverage amounts, prices, terms, no guesswork, but thousands of five-star reviews on Google and Trustpilot.
00:40:08.000Policy genius has earned customers trust by helping them find the best policy fit for their needs.
00:40:12.000Don't wait for a crisis to realize you're unprotected.
00:40:14.000Head on over to Policy Genius.com slash Shapiro to compare top-rated life insurance policies, get your lowest quote and make a smart move in under 10 minutes.
00:40:24.000Well, meanwhile, Democrats continue to claim that America had a very unifying moment, actually.
00:40:29.000You may think that America is quite polarized right now, that radical left-wing violence is on the uptick.
00:40:34.000And that actually the biggest story of the last three weeks is the murder of Charlie Kirk.
00:40:37.000Well, according to the left not so, the biggest story in America is the unity surrounding the return of Jimmy Kimmel to the airwaves, which I gotta say, the the man, grow yourselves more arms to pat yourselves on the back some more.
00:41:46.000That's the that that's the that's the unifying moment.
00:41:48.000What if there are a unifying moment around not only you condemning political violence, but those permission structures and violence that you guys keep promoting?
00:42:13.000And meanwhile, on the economic front, the possibility of a government shutdown continues to grow.
00:42:20.000Democrats, for some odd reason, think that they ought to shut down the government.
00:42:23.000I do not understand the logic of this.
00:42:25.000Now, listen, I get the fact that government shutdowns typically don't seem to have much impact on midterm elections, but the politics here just don't match up for Democrats.
00:42:32.000Republicans are trying to pass it, what's called a clean CR, a continuing resolution to fund the government for several more months.
00:42:38.000Congressional Democrats are trying to shut down the government for no actual reason.
00:42:45.000Apparently, one of their big things is that they want to restore hundreds of billions of dollars in healthcare spending.
00:42:50.000A lot of that for illegal immigrants, as a condition for continuing to keep the government funded.
00:42:56.000If no bipartisan agreement is reached, according to the Wall Street Journal, the government would shut down 1201 a.m. on Wednesday, October 1st.
00:43:03.000There's a seven-week stopgap spending plan.
00:43:05.000They say that it's the only one on the table.
00:43:07.000It's just a basic continuing resolution.
00:43:22.000If you try to shut down the government, then we'll just fire everybody.
00:43:25.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the White House budget office directed federal agencies to draw up plans to permanently reduce their workforces if there's a government shutdown next week, raising the specter of mass firings on top of the customary furloughs during a lapse in funding.
00:43:37.000The new memo sent by the Office of Management and Budget Director Ross Vod sharply raises the stakes for funding talks and increases the pressure on Senate Democrats.
00:43:45.000Because basically the idea here is if you shut down the government, fine.
00:43:48.000It won't just be a temporary shutdown.
00:43:50.000We'll use that as the leverage to simply fire everybody.
00:43:54.000Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says the OMB plan was an intent at intimidation and questioned whether any firings would hold up in court.
00:44:00.000House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called vote a malignant political hack on X. So this fight is going to continue.
00:44:10.000I do not understand why Democrats think that this is a winning battle for them.
00:44:14.000By the way, there is a tacit admission there from Democrats that these government shutdowns, these kind of temporary government shutdowns, don't actually matter all that much.
00:44:29.000Well, if everybody will come back, then what is your what is the gigantic threat to the American public from a shutdown?
00:44:38.000It's very likely the government will shut down next week.
00:44:40.000Democrats at least want to show faith with their voters that they hate Trump enough that they're willing to shut down the government over it.
00:44:46.000In the end, they'll cave, and we'll go back to status quo ante.
00:44:49.000That is the likely outcome of all of this.
00:44:51.000Meanwhile, very good news for the Trump administration in the form of a revised estimate on Q2 GDP.
00:44:58.000According to Axios, U.S. GDP growth this spring was stronger than previously thought, according to new revisions released on Thursday morning.
00:45:05.000In the April through June quarter, GDP rose at a 3.8% annualized rate, not the 3.3% most recently estimated.
00:45:12.000That's the highest since fall of 2023.
00:45:15.000Even better, that positive revision was not driven by volatile categories like inventories and trade flows.
00:45:20.000So there is an artificial inflation in GDP numbers that tends to occur when you have a dramatic decrease in imports.
00:45:27.000That doesn't appear to be the reason for the revision.
00:45:30.000Instead, it should people keep spending.
00:45:33.000Final sales to private domestic purchasers, which economists view as a good indicator of underlying trend growth in the economy, was revised up a full percentage point to a 2.9% annualized rate in Q2.
00:45:43.000Now, that may be an impetus for the Federal Reserve not to cut rates anymore.
00:45:47.000Because they may say, listen, consumer spending is already really, really, really strong.
00:45:51.000It's not that people don't have access to capital or access to credit.
00:45:55.000They're spending at really high rates.
00:45:58.000And so we may not want to toss more money at the supposed problem.
00:46:02.000Jobless claims also came in at 218,000.
00:46:04.000That is roughly 14,000 than the previous week.
00:46:07.000A continued reversal of the upward surge seen in recent weeks.
00:46:12.000The markets didn't really do much on the basis of this news.
00:46:17.000The market seems to kind of just be holding steady at this point.
00:46:20.000Meanwhile, the Trump administration continues to say that there will no be there will be no real tariff inflation.
00:46:26.000That seems to be the case, by the way.
00:46:27.000It seems as though whether it is weakening consumer spending or basically manufacturers and retail outlets eating the cost of the tariffs.
00:46:36.000So far, there has not been any jump in inflation, whatever the rationale.
00:46:44.000First of all, I think a lot of folks are more concerned about tariffs driving inflation than I am.
00:46:48.000And while I've always allowed that that was a possibility, I have not yet seen evidence that there are uh tariff-driven increases in inflation.
00:46:56.000And given the experience we had in 2018-2019, I think the burden of proof is on the data, and the burden of proof is on is on the folks expecting that rather than assuming that there's going to be these material increases ex ante.
00:47:11.000Again, the big question when it comes to tariffs and the economic impact thereof is one, has conventional economics just been wrong?
00:47:18.000Two, is it possible that the trade imbalances and the skewing of the markets were so great that this sort of hardcore correction is necessary and that there are other countervailing factors that's sort of wiping out the impact of tariffs?
00:47:32.000Three is, you know, maybe it'll hit, maybe it won't hit, we will find out.
00:47:36.000Meanwhile, I will say again, the uncertainty in the markets continues because it's not as though the market is, you know, spiking.
00:47:42.000It's not as though the market is exploding right now under President Trump.
00:47:46.000It's kind of holding steady, steady growth would kind of be the way to look at the Trump administration at this point.
00:47:56.000Again, if you look at the the kind of dip that happened right after Liberation Day and you go from there to here, obviously there's been a significant increase.
00:48:03.000If you go from the president's inauguration to now, it's been a moderate increase at best.
00:48:07.000You're looking at approximately 6100 on the SP 500 when when President Trump was inaugurated.
00:48:18.000But it's not like a gigantic spike that's happened under President Trump, which is what you would expect as we move on from Joe Biden's policies.
00:48:25.000Meanwhile, questions have emerged with regards to the H1B visa changes that President Trump has implemented, a hundred thousand dollar charge for H1B visa applications, which essentially makes a lot of them unaffordable.
00:48:37.000Some jobs are going to shift overseas.
00:48:39.000The White House argues cutting back on H1B visas according to Axios is a way of protecting American jobs.
00:48:45.000The problem, of course, is according to Axios' Neil Irwin, there aren't tons of workers who are sitting around on the sidelines to hire at this point.
00:48:53.000So we're going to find out in short order whether that is true or not.
00:48:57.000Also, there is a waiver provision with regard to the H1B visas that allows the Secretary of Homeland Security to just sort of make willy-nilly exceptions, which is not something I particularly like.
00:49:06.000If you're going to have a rule, apply the rule evenly.
00:49:08.000Don't make exceptions for your friends.
00:49:46.000So we're going to make sure that our farmers are in great shape because we're taking in a lot of money.
00:49:53.000So, you know, again, picking winners and losers is the typical result of tariffs because you have to somehow compensate the people who lose the most, especially if they are a key voting demographic for you.
00:50:07.000Meanwhile, when it comes to Russia-Ukraine, it appears that the United States' strategy has shifted with regard to Russia and Ukraine.
00:50:15.000The president has now issued an enormous amount of public approval for Ukraine to fight back against Russia full scale.
00:50:23.000He said that NATO should simply shoot down Russian aircraft that are flying above NATO areas.
00:50:28.000He posted on Tuesday on Truth Social that Ukraine could, quote, fight and win back all of its territory.
00:50:35.000President Trump said, with time, patience, and the financial support of Europe, and in particular NATO, the original borders from where this war started is very much an option.
00:50:42.000He called Russia a paper tiger in big economic trouble.
00:50:45.000Vladimir Zelensky says that Russian officials should seek to end the war or they should find some bomb shelters.
00:50:54.000Would you tell him to make sure he knows where the nearest bomb shelter is?
00:50:59.000First of all, they have to know where the bomb shelter is up.
00:51:05.000If they will not stop the war, they will need it in any case.
00:51:09.000Okay, so, you know, again, it's about time that our strategy shifted because obviously nothing is changing and Putin does not feel the heat as of yet.
00:51:20.000Meanwhile, there is a mysterious meeting that has been called by Pete Hexat, the Secretary of War.
00:51:25.000He's apparently summoned hundreds of military generals and admirals to Virginia for an urgent meeting next week.
00:51:31.000He has not told anybody what the meeting is about.
00:51:33.000It applies to all senior officers with the rank of brigadier general or above or their Navy equivalent serving in command positions and their enlisted advisors.
00:51:40.000Even people stationed in conflict zones are expected to attend.
00:51:45.000It affects 800 generals and admirals spread across the United States and dozens of other countries and time zones as well.
00:51:52.000So again, totally unclear what this is about.
00:51:56.000It could have something to do with increased Russian aggression.
00:52:00.000Russia has been sending nuclear bombers off the Alaskan coast.
00:52:04.000They have been taking their aircraft and sending them into places ranging from Poland to Denmark.
00:52:09.000So things are getting pretty spicy out there.
00:52:13.000NORAD has been delivering a show of force along America's borders in Alaska, basically saying you cross that line, we'll shoot you down.
00:52:20.000So, and things are pretty tense with the Russians right now.
00:52:23.000And that's because Vladimir Putin is pushing where he feels there is weakness.
00:52:26.000It's time, obviously, for the United States to push back, and that is a thing that's happening.
00:52:30.000That will at some point require Europe to actually stand up at its hind legs and stop being a gigantic continent filled with pansies.
00:52:36.000That would that would actually be a thing that has to happen here.
00:52:39.000That may be a while on coming, by the way.
00:52:41.000Ursula Vanderlein is still out there praising green energy.
00:52:44.000Like, guys, if you say that you want to stop Russia, at a certain point you're gonna have to dump over your dumb ideas about windmills and start realizing that if you wish to be a strong enough economy, generating a strong enough military capacity to defend yourselves against the Russian bear, that you're gonna need to put aside your ridiculous predisposition toward useless forms of energy generation.
00:53:07.000We will have stayed the course with the renewables because as we think it is good for the climate.
00:53:18.000It is cheaper than the fossil fuels for us in Europe because we do not have to import them.
00:53:23.000And it gives us independence and energy security.
00:53:29.000I mean, again, how does Russia expect to defend itself?
00:53:32.000It won't even defend itself economically from its own stupidity.
00:53:35.000Well, folks, in the aftermath of the horrifying assassination of our friend Charlie Kirk, a number of people have been picking up Charlie's microphone going on campus.
00:54:15.000And what are you going to be talking about?
00:54:17.000You know, Ben, what man meant for evil, the Lord is now using for good.
00:54:20.000What's become clear in the last week is that you can kill a man, but you can't kill a movement.
00:54:24.000And all across this country, we're seeing an uprising of the next generation, waking up to the fact with seeds of revival being planted across this country.
00:54:32.000You know, what this assassin, this coward in an attempt to shut our generation up, he actually woke us up.
00:54:38.000And we're going to be traveling to these campuses to speak to young people that are more energized than ever before.
00:54:43.000So I kicked off the tour last night at the University of Arkansas to a sold-out auditorium of over 500 students that packed out to come see us with one week notice.
00:54:51.000We're going to nine other campuses, so 10 campuses total all across this country, because so many young people are eager to get off the sidelines right here right now.
00:54:59.000Because they're waking up to the fact, Ben, that this is no longer bread versus blue.
00:55:13.000So why don't we talk about the kind of stuff that you're going to be talking about on this tour?
00:55:17.000Obviously, I'm sure free speech is going to come up.
00:55:18.000What safety precautions, number one, are you taking?
00:55:20.000And number two, what kind of topics are you tackling?
00:55:23.000You know, two weeks ago, I didn't have to travel with a security detail.
00:55:26.000That's like a brand new concept to me.
00:55:28.000It's kind of a crazy world to live in that, like a college freshman can't walk to classes himself or like go on a campus, the one place you're supposed to have like a free exchange of ideas without like armed men in suits and guns.
00:55:37.000Like that's an insane concept to me, Ben.
00:55:39.000But sadly, that's the reality that we live in Spain 2025 in America.
00:55:43.000I will say that what we're going to be doing is continuing Charlie's legacy of championing civil discourse.
00:55:48.000That's what he lived and died doing, and we want to continue that baton uh on these campuses.
00:55:52.000The one place that you're supposed to have free expression right now is the one place that's being censored.
00:55:57.000And what I want to be really clear is what we're seeing today is the result of higher education and liberal indoctrination starting during the hippies movement in the 60s and 70s, where these activists in teacher's clothing seeped into our education system and starting the indoctrination at higher ed, and then we've gotten all the way down to kindergarten teaching pronouns to our kindergartners.
00:56:15.000So we're going to the root cause of the problem.
00:56:16.000We're going to these college campuses.
00:56:18.000And what I'm trying to be really clear to our generation today is what we're seeing in America today as a result of our generation being raised to believe that politics and faith are taboo topics.
00:56:27.000We were told that we couldn't talk about politics and faith at the dinner table.
00:56:30.000We were told that we couldn't talk about politics and faith out in public.
00:56:33.000Therefore, when our generation gets frustrated about politics and faith, we don't know how to communicate with each other.
00:56:37.000We just know how to scream at each other.
00:56:38.000We know how to assassinate each other.
00:56:39.000We know how to, you know, paint our hair blue, get a nose to ring and a bullhorn and shut down a college campus in protest, but we don't know how to actually sit down at a table and have a free discourse of ideas, Ben.
00:57:23.000I flew private last night because to make it to this tour, I had to leave English class in the afternoon and make it really in a tight turnaround to get to the speech in Arkansas.
00:57:45.000A very nice person offered this flight in Arkansas yesterday to make it to the speech, because I had to fly from being a freshman at Auburn University to make it to my English classes to get my grade and graduate with a diploma fingers crossed, and then make it also to try to championslible discourse on the speeches.
00:58:12.000Body Bachum, who's been a guest on our program before, he was an amazing, amazing person, pastor, theologian, best-selling author.
00:58:20.000He passed away after suffering an emergency medical incident, according to his family, the Christian Post reported yesterday.
00:58:26.000His ministry, founders and ministries, wrote, We are saddened to inform friends.
00:58:30.000Our dear brother Body Bacham Jr. has left the land of the dying and entered the land of the living.
00:58:34.000Earlier today, after suffering an emergency medical incident, he entered into his rest and the immediate presence of his savior, whom he loved, trusted, and served since he was converted as a college student.
00:58:43.000Please pray for Bridget, their children and grandchildren.
00:58:46.000He was born in 1969 in Los Angeles to a single mom, and then he became a very prominent pastor in Houston.
00:58:52.000Then he became Dean of Theology at African Christian University in Lusaka, Zambia, and he was widely respected, particularly among evangelical Christians for preaching on biblical manhood.
00:59:01.000We did an episode with Vadi Bacham just a few years back.
00:59:08.000Apparently, he went he underwent treatment for heart failure back in February of 2021 and survived that.
00:59:14.000But unfortunately, he um he passed away due to this emergency medical incident.
00:59:18.000Just to give you a taste of who Body Vadi Bacham was, here he was from our Sunday special a few years back.
00:59:24.000What's your chief argument to people who are purporting to object to the Bible or object more broadly to the existence of God and his providence in the universe on an intellectual basis?
00:59:36.000Yeah, what I want to do is I want to show them that that's all based on presuppositions, right?
00:59:40.000The last thing that I want to do is get down on their level and say, um, okay, fine, let's just leave that aside.
00:59:49.000No, I want to say to them, all of that is based on presuppositions.
00:59:52.000You're taking leaps of faith back there in order to get here and make that argument.
00:59:57.000Your presuppositions have been tried before, and they've led to catastrophe.
01:00:03.000Mine is based on presuppositions as well, but my presuppositions has led to Western civilization.
01:00:15.000In his final days, he did write a few posts about Charlie Kirk.
01:00:18.000After Charlie was murdered, he wrote, You might kill the messenger, but you can never kill the message.
01:00:23.000And then he said in a sermon, Paul, a servant of God and apostle of Jesus Christ, wrote for the sake of the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness and hope of eternal life.
01:00:33.000In another post, he wrote, May the good Lord accept you both in heaven.
01:00:37.000While sharing a pose of Charlie Kirk asking John MacArthur, who of course was a repeat guest on our show also to share the gospel with his audience.
01:00:44.000It's been a brutal time for Christians in the United States who have lost a number of incredible spokespeople, and obviously our hearts go out to all of them, as well as Body's family, his children, his grandchildren, and all of his congregants.
01:00:58.000Meanwhile, Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu came to the United Nations this morning, and he spoke before the anti-Semitic, most highestly, that is the UN General Assembly.
01:01:07.000Again, it is a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
01:01:11.000It is a place where terrorist leaders are welcomed with open arms.
01:01:14.000It has been so basically since shortly after inception.
01:01:18.000So no surprise when Netanyahu showed up at the UN General Assembly, a bunch of the so-called diplomats walked out because they'll sit there for the interminable ravings of Iranian leaders or terrorist friends.
01:01:31.000But uh when the Prime Minister of Israel shows up, they walk out, of course.
01:01:39.000A mixture of cheers and boosted many of these diplomats stationed themselves in the room just to get up and walk out.
01:01:58.000Apparently, there are reports that some of the junior ministers for other countries were actually given special seating by certain other countries so that they could maximize the look of the number of people walking out.
01:02:08.000That would, of course, not be a gigantic shock.
01:02:10.000And the fact that the UN General Assembly is filled with countries that are trash is not exactly a surprise to anybody who's been watching the UN for a very long time.
01:02:22.000The UN is, again, filled with countries that hate America, hate the West, hate generally civilized countries.
01:02:32.000Netanyahu had a bunch of loudspeakers stationed at the outskirts of the Gaza Strip and around Gaza City, aimed at the citizens of Gaza as well as the hostages who are still being held.
01:02:56.000It's called hostage, it's well worth the read, so he can hear about what Hamas does to the people that it Kidnaps and then stuffs in tunnels for well over a year.
01:03:02.000Again, if Hamas released the hostages and their leadership went into exile, this war would be over literally today.
01:03:08.000So Netanyahu wanted the residents of Gaza to hear his speech, and he wanted hostages over ground to be able to hear his speech, as well as here was Netanyahu speaking to the hostages directly.
01:03:50.000Netanyahu was wearing a QR code on his lapel.
01:03:53.000He does this a lot when he speaks at the UN as he uses visuals.
01:03:56.000Uh that QR code links to information about the Gaza war and precisely what the hostages are going through as well.
01:04:02.000Netanyahu also spoke directly to Hamas and to the people of Gaza, because let's be real about this.
01:04:07.000Every single hostage of which we are aware was held at one point by Gazan, so-called civilians in the Gaza Strip.
01:04:13.000Here's Netanyahu saying, let the hostages go.
01:04:17.000Let the hostage again, I understand that the rest of the world seems to have forgotten about the hostages or doesn't care about the hostages or never cared about the hostages.
01:04:23.000But there are, in fact, people who are being held in terror tunnels today who are alive.
01:05:10.000If you don't, Israel will hunt you down.
01:05:16.000Again, that would be the responsibility of literally any Western leader, whether it be the President of the United States, the President of France, or the Prime Minister of Israel.
01:05:23.000Netanyahu then made the absolutely clear and obvious point, which is that all of the various European nations calling for a Palestinian state wish to set up a terrorist state on Israel's borders.
01:05:33.000Israel will not do that, nor would any nation in its right mind.
01:05:35.000You don't see France setting up a Palestinian state in the 19th arrondissement for a reason, because it would be a terrorist state.
01:05:42.000And you're not going to see Israel do the same thing.
01:05:49.000So here's the uncomfortable truth: The persistent Palestinian rejection of a Jewish state in any boundary is what has driven this conflict for over a century.
01:06:31.000And this is a point that Netanyahu makes is that world leaders who are currently calling for a Palestinian state, they are surrendering to jihadis, which of course is true.
01:06:40.000Every single negotiation between Israel and Hamas, conducted via Qatar or via Egypt or via the United States, has been scotched by European leaders, then handing concessions to Hamas, who then redoubles their efforts to keep hostages and continue the conflict.
01:06:55.000If the reward for October 7th and keeping hostages and hiding behind civilians and firing rockets from hospitals and hiding your headquarters beneath those same hospitals and mosques, if the reward for that is a state, why exactly would they stop?
01:07:10.000Israel will not allow you to shove a terrorist state down our throats.
01:07:15.000We will not commit national suicide because you don't have the guts to face down a hostile media and anti-Semitic mobs demanding Israel's blood.
01:07:27.000And I want you to grasp something else, which is also distorted in the medium.
01:07:34.000I say this not only in my name or the name of my government, but on behalf of all the people of Israel.
01:07:45.000Last year there was a vote in the Knesset, our parliament.
01:07:49.000Whether or not to oppose the imposition of a Palestinian state.
01:07:53.000You want to guess what the results were?
01:07:56.000Out of 120 members of our parliament, 99 voted against, and only nine supported.
01:08:24.000My opposition to a Palestinian state is not simply my policies or my government's policy, it's the policy of the state and people of the state of Israel.
01:08:37.000Well, none of this is likely to change the minds of the people at the UN General Assembly.
01:08:42.000However, it is all worth saying, and obviously the presidents of the United States, Donald Trump has made very clear that he agrees with all of this.
01:08:47.000With that said, the President has also said that he is not going to stand for Netanyahu annexing portions of Judea and Samaria, the entirety of Judea and Samaria, the so-called West Bank.
01:08:56.000There was talk inside Israel that might have been done as a response to European leaders trying to create a Palestinian state, whole cloth with no borders, no territory, and no government and no responsibility for its own citizenry.
01:09:08.000The Prime Minister of Israel is supposed to meet with the President of the United States today.
01:09:13.000Not only that, but the President of the United States apparently has now said that a deal will likely be reached in the near future.
01:09:20.000Obviously, we hope and pray that the president is correct about all of that.
01:09:24.000Alrighty, folks, coming up, we are going to jump into the mailbag.
01:09:27.000Plus, is it possible that a Republican could actually become the next governor of New Jersey?
01:09:31.000Remember, in order to watch, you have to be a member.
01:09:33.000If you're not a member, become member, use code Shapiro.
01:09:35.000Check out for two months free on all annual plans.