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 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 Would you just let them out on bail?
00:00:07 The UK would. 0.93
00:00:08 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 And five British men had been arrested.
00:00:22 Well, now it turns out they've been let out on bail.
00:00:24 God, UK, you're doing an amazing job.
00:00:26 You're doing an incredible job over there, UK.
00:00:28 Truly stellar stuff.
00:00:30 Here's the head of counterterrorism.
00:00:32 Announcing that the suspects have been released on bail.
00:00:34 What could go wrong?
00:00:35 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 To be very clear, this does not mean that the investigation is over.
00:00:52 They are subject to stringent conditions on their movement and contact with others.
00:00:57 They absolutely remain under investigation as we explore multiple lines of inquiry.
00:01:04 Oh, well, um, cool.
00:01:07 I mean, that sounds like that'll go well.
00:01:10 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 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 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 It seems to me that the people who are most susceptible to that are people who kind of agree. 0.86
00:01:41 The five men detained on Sunday morning were all British nationals between the ages of 23 and 25. 0.95
00:01:45 Yeah, of course.
00:01:46 Of course. 1.00
00:01:46 Because Britain imported the problem. 1.00
00:01:48 Britain imported the problem and made them all nationals. 1.00
00:01:50 President Trump in the Oval Office yesterday, he's like, yeah, we would not have released them. 1.00
00:01:53 That's ridiculous. 0.55
00:01:55 What's your reaction to that? 0.99
00:01:56 And is this connected to Iran? 0.93
00:01:59 Might be, but I will tell you, I would have said don't let them have bail, cashless bail. 0.97
00:02:07 Is it cashless bail, I guess?
00:02:09 That was one of the problems that we had, which started the whole mess of crime.
00:02:13 And we're ending Cashless Bill.
00:02:16 But over there, I'm surprised that they released them.
00:02:18 I wouldn't have done that.
00:02:19 Look, they've been very good.
00:02:20 They worked with us very closely.
00:02:23 We know everything about them.
00:02:25 We would not have released them.
00:02:28 Okay.
00:02:29 That is right because we're not crazy, but they are crazy over there.
00:02:33 Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, he hinted that, yes, obviously this involves a foreign actor, this particular attempted attack.
00:02:41 Well, let me preface by saying that I have to be careful.
00:02:43 There's some things I cannot say on the air for a lot of different reasons.
00:02:46 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 It's one that clearly involves the hands of a foreign actor.
00:02:57 I won't get into great detail about that yet.
00:02:59 I do want to thank the authorities in the United Kingdom who have been very cooperative, been on top of it.
00:03:04 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 Obviously, we're engaging with them on all of that.
00:03:13 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 And I think it ties us to the reality here. 0.54
00:03:22 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 We're going to always take that very seriously.
00:03:31 There'll be repercussions for that if it ever were to happen or even attempted.
00:03:36 But what happened this weekend could have been and was, I think, a very serious threat.
00:03:41 Just, of course, that's true.
00:03:41 Again.
00:03:44 And the UK is going to continue to try to feed the alligator. 0.91
00:03:46 Ed Miliband, the foreign secretary of the UK, who is just, he's awful. 0.97
00:03:50 He's awful. 0.97
00:03:50 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 Ed Miliband, the UK foreign minister, nothing is ever enough for the free Palestine crowd, it turns out. 0.76
00:04:03 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 Ed Miliband, we would like you to deposcribe Palestine action. 0.82
00:04:21 We'd like you to declare the genocide in Gaza. 0.82
00:04:25 200 meters from the mirror.
00:04:29 There are 200 people being arrested.
00:04:33 Again, no one deserves this more than Ed Miliband.
00:04:35 And there's no end to the demands from the radical left, the sort of Marxist, Islamo fascist combination.
00:04:43 There's no end to it.
00:04:44 There's no end to the demands.
00:04:46 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 And the mainstream left catering to it is just as bad an idea, pretty obviously.
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00:06:04 Well, meanwhile, on the immigration front, there was some controversy that merged with the Trump administration.
00:06:10 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 So, the Daily Wire had reported that ICE was ordered to stop arresting illegal immigrants without criminal records.
00:06:24 Within hours, ICE gave officers the green light to continue nabbing illegal immigrants without criminal convictions or charges.
00:06:30 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 Now, this, of course, is leading Democrats to campaign on the idea that ICE is evil.
00:06:45 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 By the way, when it comes to the actual polling, should immigration be kept at its present level, increased or decreased?
00:06:58 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 So nobody knows exactly what they.
00:07:07 Think, really.
00:07:08 The company's kind of split in long thirds on general levels of immigration.
00:07:12 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 So, AOC, again, in Cornell, and she's probably not campaigning for president.
00:07:22 She's probably campaigning for Senate. 0.81
00:07:23 She wants to take Chuck Schumer's seat, which she probably will receive because New Yorkers are insane. 0.98
00:07:28 Here she was going after ICE.
00:07:31 ICE is an agency that has not even existed for as long as many of us have even been alive.
00:07:38 They are a new agency.
00:07:40 Created in the surveillance state establishment after 9 11.
00:07:46 ICE is Palantir.
00:07:47 ICE is AI.
00:07:49 ICE is facial recognition.
00:07:51 ICE is surveillance.
00:07:53 And ICE is coming after you, regardless of your status.
00:07:59 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 Now, good luck on that.
00:08:10 Again, it's all part of the same general gestalt. 0.97
00:08:12 The West is evil.
00:08:13 The West must open its borders. 1.00
00:08:14 The West must allow everyone in who hates the country.
00:08:16 There's a reason why a Cornell Democrat Socialist of America student body group opened AOC's event.
00:08:24 By chanting, Long live the Student Intifada.
00:08:26 And Intifada, by the way, is a violent revolution.
00:08:29 We here are at the belly of the beast and at the heart of empire.
00:08:32 And here we stand as anti imperialists and believe that nobody is disposable.
00:08:38 We have a responsibility to stand in solidarity with oppressed peoples everywhere.
00:08:43 Student activism is not dead.
00:08:45 Long live student resistance and long live the Student Intifada.
00:08:49 Thank you.
00:08:51 Thank you.
00:08:52 And just for one second, I'd like you guys to repeat after me.
00:08:56 From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
00:09:06 Thank you.
00:09:08 It's all the same thing.
00:09:09 It's all part of the same Omni cause. 0.94
00:09:11 And that cause is despising the West, truly despising the West. 0.54
00:09:16 Unfortunately, that cause has taken over a huge percentage of the Democratic Party at this time.
00:09:24 Even their most moderate people are saying that they basically want to open the borders.
00:09:24 It's amazing.
00:09:28 Here is Iowa Democratic Senate candidate Josh Turek saying we need more immigrants for agriculture and meatpacking.
00:09:35 This is an area that we really need to have a healthy and robust immigration program.
00:09:40 You've got around 41% of the direct care workers that are immigrants.
00:09:45 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 I mean, this is a state that's really, really struggling.
00:10:01 Again, good luck to Democrats.
00:10:02 They are going to embrace open borders.
00:10:03 This is the point that Senator Eric Schmidt of Missouri was making.
00:10:07 He says, you know, whatever you think of Republican governance, one thing we won't do is reopen the borders.
00:10:10 And that is one thing Democrats will certainly pursue.
00:10:13 I don't know what happened to the Democrat Party on this stuff, but it's sick.
00:10:16 And again, it's one of the reasons why I think elections are about choices.
00:10:20 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 It's ridiculous. 0.66
00:10:28 He is right about that.
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