The Ben Shapiro Show - September 29, 2026


Britain Caught an Iranian-Backed Plot — and Released Them on Bail

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00:00:00.000 So, imagine you opened your entire society to a bunch of people who hate it, and then they naturalized and then tried to do a terrorist attack.
00:00:06.000 Would you just let them out on bail?
00:00:07.000 The UK would. 0.93
00:00:08.000 Yesterday, we talked about this very likely Iranian backed terror attack, attempted terror attack on a Royal Air Force base in the UK. 0.93
00:00:20.000 And five British men had been arrested.
00:00:22.000 Well, now it turns out they've been let out on bail.
00:00:24.000 God, UK, you're doing an amazing job.
00:00:26.000 You're doing an incredible job over there, UK.
00:00:28.000 Truly stellar stuff.
00:00:30.000 Here's the head of counterterrorism.
00:00:32.000 Announcing that the suspects have been released on bail.
00:00:34.000 What could go wrong?
00:00:35.000 I can confirm that following extensive interviews and inquiries, the five men who were arrested are being released on police bail this afternoon.
00:00:47.000 To be very clear, this does not mean that the investigation is over.
00:00:52.000 They are subject to stringent conditions on their movement and contact with others.
00:00:57.000 They absolutely remain under investigation as we explore multiple lines of inquiry.
00:01:04.000 Oh, well, um, cool.
00:01:07.000 I mean, that sounds like that'll go well.
00:01:10.000 According to the counterterrorism police, investigators are still considering all possible angles, including that the incident may be activity committed by proxies or individuals either knowingly or unknowingly working on behalf of a foreign state.
00:01:22.000 Often these threats become visible to us as criminal activity, often at a small scale, and committed by individuals whose primary aim is not terrorism, but quick financial gain.
00:01:30.000 Well, I mean, I don't really care whether you're being paid by the Iranians to bomb a Royal Air Force base or whether you just want to bomb it ideologically. 0.77
00:01:36.000 It seems to me that the people who are most susceptible to that are people who kind of agree. 0.86
00:01:41.000 The five men detained on Sunday morning were all British nationals between the ages of 23 and 25. 0.95
00:01:45.000 Yeah, of course.
00:01:46.000 Of course. 1.00
00:01:46.000 Because Britain imported the problem. 1.00
00:01:48.000 Britain imported the problem and made them all nationals. 1.00
00:01:50.000 President Trump in the Oval Office yesterday, he's like, yeah, we would not have released them. 1.00
00:01:53.000 That's ridiculous. 0.55
00:01:55.000 What's your reaction to that? 0.99
00:01:56.000 And is this connected to Iran? 0.93
00:01:59.000 Might be, but I will tell you, I would have said don't let them have bail, cashless bail. 0.97
00:02:07.000 Is it cashless bail, I guess?
00:02:09.000 That was one of the problems that we had, which started the whole mess of crime.
00:02:13.000 And we're ending Cashless Bill.
00:02:16.000 But over there, I'm surprised that they released them.
00:02:18.000 I wouldn't have done that.
00:02:19.000 Look, they've been very good.
00:02:20.000 They worked with us very closely.
00:02:23.000 We know everything about them.
00:02:25.000 We would not have released them.
00:02:28.000 Okay.
00:02:29.000 That is right because we're not crazy, but they are crazy over there.
00:02:33.000 Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, he hinted that, yes, obviously this involves a foreign actor, this particular attempted attack.
00:02:41.000 Well, let me preface by saying that I have to be careful.
00:02:43.000 There's some things I cannot say on the air for a lot of different reasons.
00:02:46.000 Suffice it to say that what happened, what almost happened, what could have happened in the UK over the weekend is a very serious situation. 0.99
00:02:54.000 It's one that clearly involves the hands of a foreign actor.
00:02:57.000 I won't get into great detail about that yet.
00:02:59.000 I do want to thank the authorities in the United Kingdom who have been very cooperative, been on top of it.
00:03:04.000 I know a lot of people are disturbed by the news that some of these people have been released on bail as it was some of the people who are being investigated.
00:03:11.000 Obviously, we're engaging with them on all of that.
00:03:13.000 But suffice it to say that beyond that, I would argue that they've been very cooperative and very helpful on something that's a very serious incident.
00:03:20.000 And I think it ties us to the reality here. 0.54
00:03:22.000 And that is we are dealing with elements in the world, and in the case of Iran, for example, who have openly threatened to attack American interests globally. 0.63
00:03:30.000 We're going to always take that very seriously.
00:03:31.000 There'll be repercussions for that if it ever were to happen or even attempted.
00:03:36.000 But what happened this weekend could have been and was, I think, a very serious threat.
00:03:41.000 Just, of course, that's true.
00:03:41.000 Again.
00:03:44.000 And the UK is going to continue to try to feed the alligator. 0.91
00:03:46.000 Ed Miliband, the foreign secretary of the UK, who is just, he's awful. 0.97
00:03:50.000 He's awful. 0.97
00:03:50.000 The only time he ever cites his Jewish heritage is when he is standing on behalf of people who have typically supported the mass murder of Jews. 0.97
00:03:57.000 Ed Miliband, the UK foreign minister, nothing is ever enough for the free Palestine crowd, it turns out. 0.76
00:04:03.000 So he went to a pizza express in the UK where he was confronted by the free Palestine crowd, even though he is on their side and is a full scale cuck for their cause. 0.69
00:04:15.000 Ed Miliband, we would like you to deposcribe Palestine action. 0.82
00:04:21.000 We'd like you to declare the genocide in Gaza. 0.82
00:04:25.000 200 meters from the mirror.
00:04:29.000 There are 200 people being arrested.
00:04:33.000 Again, no one deserves this more than Ed Miliband.
00:04:35.000 And there's no end to the demands from the radical left, the sort of Marxist, Islamo fascist combination.
00:04:43.000 There's no end to it.
00:04:44.000 There's no end to the demands.
00:04:46.000 It turns out that, again, importing vast numbers of people to join with the radical Marxist left in a movement to destroy Western civilization, it was a bad idea.
00:04:54.000 And the mainstream left catering to it is just as bad an idea, pretty obviously.
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00:06:04.000 Well, meanwhile, on the immigration front, there was some controversy that merged with the Trump administration.
00:06:10.000 So, the Trump administration is now saying that they will be deporting people who do not have criminal records, not just people who have criminal records.
00:06:17.000 So, the Daily Wire had reported that ICE was ordered to stop arresting illegal immigrants without criminal records.
00:06:24.000 Within hours, ICE gave officers the green light to continue nabbing illegal immigrants without criminal convictions or charges.
00:06:30.000 The Department of Homeland Security said in an ex post on Saturday evening, reports of the ICE guidance were false and that no one was off the table for arrest.
00:06:39.000 Now, this, of course, is leading Democrats to campaign on the idea that ICE is evil.
00:06:45.000 They can never just take the halfway position, but they have to take the position that ICE itself is wrong and terrible and evil and all of the rest.
00:06:51.000 By the way, when it comes to the actual polling, should immigration be kept at its present level, increased or decreased?
00:06:58.000 So today, 29% of people say that it should be decreased, 31% of people say it should be increased, and 35% of people say that it should be kept at the present level.
00:07:06.000 So nobody knows exactly what they.
00:07:07.000 Think, really.
00:07:08.000 The company's kind of split in long thirds on general levels of immigration.
00:07:12.000 I can tell you what people don't like, actually, is the open borders movement that is pressed forward by the left.
00:07:18.000 So, AOC, again, in Cornell, and she's probably not campaigning for president.
00:07:22.000 She's probably campaigning for Senate. 0.81
00:07:23.000 She wants to take Chuck Schumer's seat, which she probably will receive because New Yorkers are insane. 0.98
00:07:28.000 Here she was going after ICE.
00:07:31.000 ICE is an agency that has not even existed for as long as many of us have even been alive.
00:07:38.000 They are a new agency.
00:07:40.000 Created in the surveillance state establishment after 9 11.
00:07:46.000 ICE is Palantir.
00:07:47.000 ICE is AI.
00:07:49.000 ICE is facial recognition.
00:07:51.000 ICE is surveillance.
00:07:53.000 And ICE is coming after you, regardless of your status.
00:07:59.000 You know, again, if the message of the left is ICE is horrible, ICE is evil, not ICE should focus on these people, but not these people, but ICE itself is horrible and evil.
00:08:08.000 Now, good luck on that.
00:08:10.000 Again, it's all part of the same general gestalt. 0.97
00:08:12.000 The West is evil.
00:08:13.000 The West must open its borders. 1.00
00:08:14.000 The West must allow everyone in who hates the country.
00:08:16.000 There's a reason why a Cornell Democrat Socialist of America student body group opened AOC's event.
00:08:24.000 By chanting, Long live the Student Intifada.
00:08:26.000 And Intifada, by the way, is a violent revolution.
00:08:29.000 We here are at the belly of the beast and at the heart of empire.
00:08:32.000 And here we stand as anti imperialists and believe that nobody is disposable.
00:08:38.000 We have a responsibility to stand in solidarity with oppressed peoples everywhere.
00:08:43.000 Student activism is not dead.
00:08:45.000 Long live student resistance and long live the Student Intifada.
00:08:49.000 Thank you.
00:08:51.000 Thank you.
00:08:52.000 And just for one second, I'd like you guys to repeat after me.
00:08:56.000 From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
00:09:06.000 Thank you.
00:09:08.000 It's all the same thing.
00:09:09.000 It's all part of the same Omni cause. 0.94
00:09:11.000 And that cause is despising the West, truly despising the West. 0.54
00:09:16.000 Unfortunately, that cause has taken over a huge percentage of the Democratic Party at this time.
00:09:24.000 Even their most moderate people are saying that they basically want to open the borders.
00:09:24.000 It's amazing.
00:09:28.000 Here is Iowa Democratic Senate candidate Josh Turek saying we need more immigrants for agriculture and meatpacking.
00:09:35.000 This is an area that we really need to have a healthy and robust immigration program.
00:09:40.000 You've got around 41% of the direct care workers that are immigrants.
00:09:45.000 And so I think we also need an easier pathway to earn citizenship so that we can bring in more workers, not only for that industry, but as well for the agriculture industry and the meatpacking plants.
00:09:57.000 I mean, this is a state that's really, really struggling.
00:10:01.000 Again, good luck to Democrats.
00:10:02.000 They are going to embrace open borders.
00:10:03.000 This is the point that Senator Eric Schmidt of Missouri was making.
00:10:07.000 He says, you know, whatever you think of Republican governance, one thing we won't do is reopen the borders.
00:10:10.000 And that is one thing Democrats will certainly pursue.
00:10:13.000 I don't know what happened to the Democrat Party on this stuff, but it's sick.
00:10:16.000 And again, it's one of the reasons why I think elections are about choices.
00:10:20.000 We do not want to go back to a place where we have 15 to 20 million people flooding across our border and Democrat prosecutors letting these folks go. 0.89
00:10:27.000 It's ridiculous. 0.66
00:10:28.000 He is right about that.
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