The Ben Shapiro Show - Can NYC Survive The Mamdani Playbook?

00:00:00.000 There was a violent Islamic attack in New York City using two IEDs. 0.93

00:00:03.000 Zorhan Mamdani's immediate response perfectly captures how screwed New York is right now.

00:00:08.000 That's just the tip of the iceberg for Mamdani and the Democratic Party. 0.86

00:00:11.000 Speaking of people who really despise America, Iran also has a new supreme leader who is impotent, like actually medically impotent.

00:00:19.000 You can almost hear those 72 virgins breathing a sigh of relief. 0.97

00:00:22.000 We'll give you everything you need to know from the streets of New York to the younger Khomeini cowering in his bunker, and we'll tell you how all of it affects you.

00:00:29.000 This is the Ben Shapiro show.

00:00:33.000 We keep hearing that Americans should stop focusing so much on the Middle East and focus a lot more on what's going on here at home.

00:00:40.000 I totally 100% agree because it turns out lots of terrorists are here and they have the tacit and not so tacit support of the mayor of New York City and also his wife.

00:00:52.000 So over the weekend, an anti-Islamist protest took place outside Gracie Mansion.

00:00:57.000 It was titled Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City. 0.98

00:01:00.000 It was run by a white supremacist named Jake Lang.

00:01:02.000 About 20 people showed up.

00:01:04.000 That was 20 too many for one 18-year-old man, one Emir Balat, who threw an ignited device toward the protest area.

00:01:11.000 He was shouting at the time, wait, wait, wait for it.

00:01:12.000 You're never going to guess what he was shouting.

00:01:14.000 It's impossible to think.

00:01:16.000 He was shouting, wait.

00:01:18.000 Yes, he shouted, Allahu Akbar.

00:01:20.000 I know it was shocking.

00:01:20.000 I know.

00:01:21.000 Here's the footage.

00:01:27.000 There he comes from behind, throwing an incendiary device and then taking off down the street.

00:01:33.000 Balat then apparently ran toward a second 19-year-old man named Ibrahim Nick.

00:01:38.000 And he grabbed a second device.

00:01:39.000 He lit that and then he started running.

00:01:41.000 Eventually, he dropped it.

00:01:42.000 Both men were arrested.

00:01:44.000 Here is this person trying to light a second IED.

00:01:51.000 What are the cops doing?

00:01:52.000 I love that he's standing there lighting it and they're like, and then finally they chase him down.

00:01:56.000 Well, here's the thing: these were not smoke bombs.

00:01:59.000 According to original reporting, they were smoke bombs.

00:02:01.000 These are not smoke bombs.

00:02:03.000 They were IEDs.

00:02:05.000 According to the New York Post, those IEDs were homemade.

00:02:08.000 They were packed with nuts, bolts, and screws, and also a household concoction nicknamed by international terrorist groups, the mother of Satan.

00:02:17.000 Law enforcement sources told the post the IEDs were so volatile, they wouldn't even have needed a fuse to go off.

00:02:23.000 Well, to no one's surprise, I know no one's surprised.

00:02:25.000 Balat traveled to wait for it, Istanbul, like over in Turkey, for more than three months last year.

00:02:31.000 Nick had traveled to Istanbul in 2024.

00:02:34.000 It turns out there are a lot of people in Turkey who are really, really Islamist.

00:02:37.000 The pair admitted to the cops upon arrest they had watched ISIS videos and were inspired by ISIS.

00:02:42.000 Now, this should be the biggest story in the country.

00:02:45.000 Yet another attempted terror attack by a radical Islamist shouting Allahu Akbar.

00:02:49.000 I say another because in the past 10 years or so, there have been a wide variety of such attacks.

00:02:53.000 The Austin nightclub shooting just last week, where the terrorists wore a sweatshirt reading, property of Allah.

00:02:58.000 The New Orleans terror ramming of January 1st, 2025, killing 14, where the suspect had an ISIS flag in his truck.

00:03:05.000 The New York City truck attack of October 31st, 2017, in which a terrorist ran down eight people.

00:03:09.000 The same cloud mall stabbing in September 2016, in which 10 people were stabbed by a terrorist shouting Allahu Akbar.

00:03:15.000 The Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting of 2016, which was to that point the deadliest mass shooting in American history.

00:03:21.000 I was shouting Allahu Akbar.

00:03:22.000 The University of California Mercedes stabbing of 2015.

00:03:26.000 And of course, this wasn't even the only suspected terror bombing in the West over the weekend.

00:03:30.000 In Norway, the U.S. Embassy was bombed early Sunday morning local time.

00:03:33.000 No one was injured or killed, thank God.

00:03:35.000 And as Iran flails around in its death throes, we can expect more of the same. 1.00

00:03:39.000 So that's not even the biggest story here.

00:03:42.000 The biggest story was the reaction in New York, which was actually the mayor's office released a statement condemning the anti-Islamist protesters.

00:03:52.000 Not a word about the attempted bombers as of last night. 0.77

00:03:56.000 Mayor Zorhan Mamdani's press secretary said, quote, the crusade against Islamification gathering held outside Gracie Mansion today by Jake Lang, a vile white supremacist, was despicable and Islamophobic.

00:04:05.000 Thankfully, the mayor and the first lady are both safe, though the events are a stark reminder of the threats they both face regularly.

00:04:11.000 The mayor put out another statement: Yesterday, white supremacist Jake Lang organized a protest outside Gracie Mansion, rooted in bigotry and racism.

00:04:20.000 Such hate has no place in New York City.

00:04:22.000 It is an affront to our city's values and the unity that defines who we are.

00:04:27.000 What followed was even more disturbing.

00:04:29.000 Violence at a protest is never acceptable.

00:04:31.000 The attempt to use an explosive device and hurt others is not only criminal, it is reprehensible and the antithesis of who we are.

00:04:39.000 Did you notice something in those statements?

00:04:41.000 Jake Lang was condemned in the fullest possible terms.

00:04:44.000 So were the protesters.

00:04:46.000 But you may have noticed that you have no idea from those statements who were the people who were throwing the IED.

00:04:53.000 What did they actually believe?

00:04:55.000 Were they wrong?

00:04:56.000 Not a word of condemnation.

00:04:59.000 Not a single word.

00:05:01.000 In fact, if you read the mayor's statement and you had no context, you would come away thinking that Lang and his group threw the IED, which is disgusting and crazy and vile, because it turns out that if ISIS devotees throw a bomb at the Stop the Islamic Takeover rally, the people who ought to be called out are, you know, the ISIS devotees.

00:05:23.000 They're the ones who threw a bomb.

00:05:25.000 So you have one group that's saying stuff you don't like, and you have another group of people, a couple guys, they're lone wolves associated with ISIS, who literally built IEDs to throw at a crowd.

00:05:35.000 And Zorhan Mamdani's response is, man, that rally was super bad.

00:05:38.000 And the violence that happened afterward, I mean, that was bad.

00:05:41.000 What are you even talking about?

00:05:43.000 Well, I mean, we know what's happening here.

00:05:45.000 This is not a shock.

00:05:46.000 Zorhan Mamdani, the mayor of New York, is a lifelong supporter of terrorists going all the way back to his days as a failed rapper.

00:05:53.000 And as it turns out, so is the first lady of New York.

00:05:55.000 She repeatedly liked social media posts celebrating October 7th as it unfolded.

00:06:00.000 Those likes included an Instagram post from some account called The Slow Factor, which read, quote, As all eyes around the world focus on Palestine, keep in mind that these walls were built to separate along ethnic lines, the very definition of apartheid.

00:06:11.000 This was posted on October 7th while the attacks were taking place, and it was referring to the border wall between Gaza, which had been breached by Hamas.

00:06:19.000 The breach of that wall resulted in the death of 1,200 people.

00:06:22.000 According to the post, which was again liked by the First Lady of New York City, Gazans would only be punished after their murder and rape spree for, quote, wanting freedom from apartheid.

00:06:31.000 Actually, the first lady liked a bevy of materials from the People's Forum, that is a foreign-funded network of nonprofits that do propaganda work essentially for China, Russia, and Iran.

00:06:40.000 She liked one post calling New York Times reporting on the Israeli women by Hamas, quote, a mass hoax.

00:06:47.000 So here was Zor Mamdani's response to the reports that his wife liked a bunch of posts that were sympathetic to terrorists.

00:06:54.000 You know, my wife is the love of my life, and she's also a private person who has held no formal position on my campaign or in my city hall.

00:07:04.000 I, however, was elected to represent all eight and a half million people in the city, and I believe that it's my responsibility because of that role to answer any questions about my thoughts and my policies and my decisions.

00:07:15.000 Okay, I have a question.

00:07:16.000 Why was your statement about ISIS affiliates throwing bombs at a rally?

00:07:22.000 Why didn't your statement mention ISIS, radical Islam, terrorism, or anything else?

00:07:27.000 Are we supposed to believe that the husband of the woman who was kind of sympathetic to October 7th disagrees with any of her sentiments?

00:07:35.000 And if so, precisely why?

00:07:36.000 Folks, you can see the Democratic Party basically destroying itself, following its radicals down the rabbit hole. 0.98

00:07:41.000 You're seeing the Horseshoe Rights do a lot of the same kind of garbage. 1.00

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00:08:23.000 Now, the problem here isn't just a fringe issue.

00:08:25.000 It is now a mainstream issue for the Democratic Party, which has decided that poo-pooing radical Islam is dirigur in order to condemn both America and Israel. 0.61

00:08:33.000 It happens every single time a Democratic figure is asked to say the same thing that Senator John Fetterman will say, that, for example, the world is better without Ayatollah Khomeini in it.

00:08:43.000 Instead, from Democrats who get hemming and hawing about how the Ayatollah was really bad, it's kind of mean, but somehow killing him is significantly worse.

00:08:50.000 None of that is necessary.

00:08:52.000 It's just another instance of ideological capture by a fringe of the Democratic Party base.

00:08:56.000 There's a brand new Manhattan Institute study examining what most Democrats actually think on the issue.

00:09:01.000 So, for example, Democrats were asked whether they believed Israel is a colonial apartheid state that must be dismantled, that Israel, not the Palestinians, bears responsibility for any and all violence that has followed its establishment.

00:09:12.000 That would be the position of Zorhan Mamdani's wife and of Mamdani himself, likely.

00:09:17.000 But that view is only held by 13% of Democrats overall, not 13% of Americans, 13% of Democrats.

00:09:24.000 In fact, more Democrats believe Israel is a legitimate country facing serious security threats and that while its actions are not perfect, it is largely acting in self-defense than believe what Zorhan Mamdani believes.

00:09:35.000 A plurality of Democrats believe Israel has a right to exist, but they don't like how the Israeli government treats Palestinians.

00:09:41.000 Or take immigration.

00:09:42.000 Only 11% of Democrats believe we shouldn't be focused on deporting illegal immigrants at all.

00:09:48.000 Only 23% believe the number of immigrants allowed to enter the United States legally ought to increase.

00:09:54.000 So that's a fringe position.

00:09:55.000 How about transgenderism?

00:09:57.000 46% of Democrats, a plurality, believe that people ought to compete in sports against others who share their gender at birth, meaning like boys should compete against boys and girls should compete against girls.

00:10:08.000 Only 34% of Democrats believe the opposite.

00:10:11.000 Only 21% of Democrats believe that minors ought to be allowed to receive transgender medical interventions.

00:10:18.000 You hear that stat?

00:10:18.000 That's an insane stat.

00:10:20.000 Because if you listen to Democrats, trans kids must be, they must be given medical and only two in 10 Democrats believe that's the case. 0.77

00:10:29.000 64% of Democrats believe the founding of the United States has been mostly a force for good in the world.

00:10:35.000 Only 18% of Democrats believe the criminal justice system is too tough on offenders.

00:10:39.000 55% believe police are essential.

00:10:41.000 So you might notice, even Democrats, most Democrats take largely mainstream normie positions.

00:10:48.000 So what's happening with Democratic politicians?

00:10:51.000 If most Democrats aren't totally nuts, then why are so many major politicians who are Democrats moving in the direction of the crazies?

00:10:58.000 The answer is that beneath the veneer of rational moderation, politicians are sensing something.

00:11:04.000 And it's a real thing, a grievance-based view of the world that can be exploited for votes.

00:11:10.000 The most important statistic from that Manhattan Institute poll concerns conspiratorial thinking.

00:11:15.000 Conspiratorial thinking, as we've talked about a lot on the show, is a hallmark of grievance culture.

00:11:20.000 When you believe the system is screwing you over, you tend to also believe that the system is lying to you about everything.

00:11:27.000 Now, again, there is a difference between conspiracies and conspiracy thinking.

00:11:31.000 Conspiracies actually exist in the real world.

00:11:33.000 There's evidence for these conspiracies.

00:11:35.000 You can uncover that evidence.

00:11:37.000 You can explicate what is happening.

00:11:39.000 Conspiratorial thinking suggests that in the absence of any evidence, there must be some evil cadre of people manipulating the system and lying to you.

00:11:49.000 And this has become incredibly prevalent among Democrats.

00:11:52.000 Fully 46% of Democrats say the assassination attempt against President Trump in July 2024 was orchestrated by his supporters to increase sympathy for him.

00:12:02.000 64% of Democrats believe Vladimir Putin has blackmailed Trump.

00:12:06.000 24% of Democrats aged 18 to 29 say the Holocaust did not happen as historians describe.

00:12:11.000 28% think the moon landing was fake.

00:12:13.000 37% are 9-11 truthers, 38% say October 7th was an inside job.

00:12:19.000 That's young Democrats.

00:12:20.000 52% of all Democrats believe the U.S. has a long history of racism and is still a very racist country today, which is a grievance politics.

00:12:29.000 So why does that matter?

00:12:31.000 Because politicians now fear saying true things for fear of upholding that supposedly conspiratorial system.

00:12:38.000 Conspiratorial thinking is, in its essence, anti-establishment in the fullest sense.

00:12:42.000 If you believe the moon landing wasn't real, you believe that every single person in your life, from your parents to your teachers, to television to books to the government, has been lying to you.

00:12:52.000 If you believe that Vladimir Putin blackmailed Donald Trump, you believe that our system is so moth-eaten with corruption and evil that no one can put it right.

00:13:01.000 The system has to be torn to shreds.

00:13:03.000 When that feeling runs strong in voters, politicians fear to speak the truth.

00:13:07.000 Because if you speak the truth, like for example, the moon landing happened and the Holocaust did happen and Donald Trump was in fact shot in the ear by somebody who is not a fan of Donald Trump.

00:13:17.000 If you say that sort of stuff, it is now perceived as an establishmentarian act.

00:13:21.000 If you say that men are not women as a Democrat, you're saying that the system actually has been telling you the truth your whole life, and that tends to uphold the system.

00:13:29.000 If you say that the border ought to be controlled, you're saying the system deserves to be upheld, and that upholds the system.

00:13:35.000 If you say Israel isn't an apartheid state and that America is right to strike Iran, you're saying that the West is fundamentally better than Iran, and that burnishes the system. 0.80

00:13:44.000 Democratic politicians suspect they will receive no credit for upholding the system, not in today's day and age.

00:13:50.000 Upholding and correcting the systems that make our country great, our constitution, our rights, our meritocratic values, or defending America's history and virtues, all of that is establishmentarian.

00:14:00.000 And upholding the establishment is boring and also at its core, kind of demanding.

00:14:05.000 Because we're conspiratorial thinkers, inherently preach this culture of grievance, which is a culture placing responsibility for failure upon evil systems.

00:14:13.000 Defending America requires telling Americans the hard stuff that most of their choices are in their own hands and they need to take responsibility for their own lives.

00:14:21.000 And that's the thing Democratic politicians will not do.

00:14:25.000 To be fair, more and more Republicans won't do so either.

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00:15:37.000 Sadly, younger Republicans have become similarly prone to conspiratorial thinking.

00:15:41.000 According to Manhattan Institute, 54% of young Republicans, men under 50, believe the Holocaust didn't happen as historians describe.

00:15:49.000 53% of Republicans under 50 believe in 9-11 conspiracy theories.

00:15:52.000 51% believe the moon landing was faked.

00:15:55.000 These people too have bought into a grievance-based distrust of the system.

00:16:00.000 And it's showing in their embrace of psychotic figures and disconnected politics.

00:16:04.000 You want to know why the left and the horseshoe right have been holding hands?

00:16:07.000 The answer is they share at root the same common worldview.

00:16:11.000 The only difference is the people they believe are the victims of the system.

00:16:15.000 The left says that the victims of the system are marginalized groups, blacks, Hispanics, women, LGBTQ plus.

00:16:22.000 And the horseshoe right believes that the marginalized people are white Christian males and they're the victims of the system.

00:16:28.000 Okay, the reality is that there is always a grain of truth to every complaint, that obviously America's history is replete with discrimination against minority groups.

00:16:37.000 And also, it is true that in the past couple of decades, policy has been reversed to discriminate against white Christian males, for example.

00:16:44.000 But instead of trying to horse correct or recognizing that even today, most of your decisions are in your own hands, politicians in the grievance party, which is what we should call them, politicians in the grievance party instead tell you that all of your problems must be laid at the foot of the system and you are not responsible for literally anything in your life.

00:17:03.000 And this is a major problem.

00:17:05.000 The horseshoe right and the left, they believe at root the same basic type of politics.

00:17:11.000 So we should probably stop distinguishing between them and just call them what they are, the grievance party.

00:17:16.000 So how should non-conspiratorial Americans fight all of this?

00:17:19.000 How should we promote things like rationality and meritocracy and American strength?

00:17:23.000 The answer is by winning.

00:17:25.000 The answer is victory and there's no substitute for it.

00:17:29.000 And this is where the war in Iran comes in.

00:17:31.000 So good-hearted liberals seem puzzled that so many Democrats, people who supposedly believe in human rights and stand against theocracy, are against President Trump's intervention.

00:17:39.000 Bill Maher is a good-hearted liberal, and here he was on his show on Friday night, being absolutely puzzled why Democrats are suddenly against overthrowing the Ayatollah.

00:17:48.000 I just want to reiterate what I said in the monologue.

00:17:51.000 I'm cautiously optimistic unless he puts boots on the ground, then he's going to lose me.

00:17:56.000 We'll see for now.

00:17:58.000 I just don't get what liberals don't get about liberation.

00:18:02.000 I see so much happiness.

00:18:03.000 I see it in Venezuela.

00:18:05.000 I see it here in Iran.

00:18:07.000 Could we skip the part where we talk about, oh, they had so many different reasons for going to war, regime change, and we got to get rid of the nukes and they were supporters of terrorism. 0.59

00:18:17.000 It's all of it.

00:18:18.000 How about this?

00:18:19.000 This was a fascist theocracy and nothing in the Middle East was ever going to get better while they were still there f ⁇ ing everything up. 0.99

00:18:29.000 What he said, what he said.

00:18:30.000 And it's not like Democrats in elected office have good answers.

00:18:33.000 So Maher had on Senator Adam Schiff, who, again, it's insane that Adam Schiff is a senator, given the extraordinary lies he told during the first Trump administration about Russia Gate and the fact that he basically set a pup tent up in the CNN offices so he could be on TV every five seconds.

00:18:49.000 In any case, Maher had on Adam Schiff, and he basically shellacked him over this.

00:18:55.000 This statement from the administration.

00:18:56.000 The president had the constitutional authority to direct the use of military force because he could reasonably determine that such use of force was in the national interest.

00:19:05.000 That's too vague for you?

00:19:07.000 Totally vague.

00:19:08.000 Okay, because that's from Obama about Libya.

00:19:11.000 Well, Obama made the argument initially that he could go into Syria without authorization.

00:19:17.000 I and many others pushed back on that argument.

00:19:19.000 Ultimately, he did not go forward with going after Assad, even though Assad was gassing his own people, because he thought he might lose the vote in Congress.

00:19:29.000 But I respect the fact that that was important to him, and the fact that he did not have the support of Congress meant that we weren't going to go forward.

00:19:39.000 Well, you might have noticed that Bill Maher didn't mention Syria there.

00:19:42.000 He mentioned Libya, where Barack Obama was very much involved.

00:19:45.000 So again, Democrats have no principles on these issues.

00:19:48.000 In fact, President Trump is frustrating the living hell out of many members of the Grievance Party by standing up for some basic American principles.

00:19:55.000 America is a force for good in the world. 0.98

00:19:57.000 Radical Islamists are evil. 1.00

00:19:59.000 American allies who demonstrate strength are an asset for us. 0.99

00:20:03.000 Terrorists are bad.

00:20:04.000 Members of the Grievance Party are losing their mind over this.

00:20:07.000 And now they've been relegated to basically rooting for Iran to win. 0.69

00:20:11.000 So members of the Grievance Party, meaning Democrats and members of that horseshoe right, have decided that after paying lip service to the horrors of the mullahs, the true horror is American interventionism and destruction. 0.66

00:20:21.000 America must be undermined.

00:20:23.000 Mehdi Hassan, a man who is essentially a propagandist on behalf of Iran and has been for a very long time, says that the United States military is worse than the Nazis.

00:20:33.000 It's a moral abomination. 1.00

00:20:34.000 Yeah, and yes, it's tactically stupid. 1.00

00:20:36.000 They bombed a submarine and just let the sailors drown to death. 0.99

00:20:40.000 Even the Nazis didn't do that during World War II, apparently.

00:20:43.000 Even the Nazis collected people from the water.

00:20:47.000 I mean, give me a break. 0.99

00:20:50.000 I mean, this moral exemplar, Mehdi Hassan, also spent the weekend questioning just how bad Hamas was on October 7th, to which the White House responded, calling him, quote, a depraved terrorist-sympathizing moron. 0.98

00:21:01.000 Well, points for accuracy. 0.97

00:21:03.000 And of course, horseshoe theory is undefeated.

00:21:05.000 Tucker Carlson sounds pretty much exactly like Mehdi Hassan these days.

00:21:09.000 They hold hands.

00:21:10.000 Maybe they spoon at night. 0.94

00:21:11.000 Here was Tucker Carlson explaining that he hopes that America does not get unconditional surrender from Iran and accuses the United States military of apparently wanting, and President Trump of wanting to actually go into Iran and rape everyone.

00:21:25.000 Okay, this is, remember, this is Tucker Carlson, supposed conservative. 0.98

00:21:31.000 Unconditional surrender means foreign troops get to rape your wife and daughter if they want. 0.99

00:21:35.000 And everyone knows that. 0.99

00:21:37.000 And that has been, if there's one consistent lesson of history, it means unconditional surrender means foreign troops get to rape your wife and daughter. 0.99

00:21:46.000 Everyone can feel that. 0.99

00:21:48.000 That's like the most atavistic instinct there is.

00:21:50.000 And so to avoid that, people will do anything.

00:21:53.000 And so that's why it requires that level of force to get a population subdued to the point of unconditional surrender.

00:22:01.000 And so in this case, of course, we don't have the ground force necessary.

00:22:01.000 That's why.

00:22:06.000 I don't think Americans would voluntarily participate in it.

00:22:09.000 I just don't think we can do that.

00:22:10.000 It would require weapons of mass destruction.

00:22:12.000 It would require presumably nuclear weapons. 0.95

00:22:16.000 So he thinks that when President Trump calls for Iran's unconditional surrender, what he's calling for is the mass rape of Iranian women by American troops. 0.93

00:22:24.000 And also we're going to nuke Iran. 0.98

00:22:26.000 I would ask if Tucker Carlson was dropped on his head as a baby, but we have a long record of him not being like this.

00:22:31.000 So the question now is whether he was dropped on his head as an adult.

00:22:35.000 I highly recommend before anyone uses as much alp as Tucker is using, that they take a look at the outcome of that kind of alp use, because you end up saying this kind of crazy horse.

00:22:45.000 Holy moly, holy moly. 1.00

00:22:48.000 I would call this stupid, but it is so beyond stupid that we lack for verbiage to describe this type of nincompoopery, this type of imbecility. 1.00

00:23:00.000 It's insane, which, by the way, should be the name of Tucker's autobiography at this point, total insanity. 1.00

00:23:07.000 That Mehdi Hassan-Tucker Carlson crossover episode, which I am sure is shortly to drop, will be lit.

00:23:13.000 And then we'll be told by the usual suspects that Tucker is still, don't worry.

00:23:17.000 He's a mainstream part of the conservative movement.

00:23:18.000 Well, he says that Trump wants American soldiers to Iranian women and wants to nuke Iran.

00:23:24.000 Well, the grievance right is very real.

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00:24:55.000 Meanwhile, Steve Bannon, podcast host, confused wearer of multiple shirts simultaneously, and Jeffrey Epstein's PR flak, yes, he was, is also upset about the possibility of American victory.

00:25:08.000 I am not a wild enthusiastic supporter of this war.

00:25:13.000 We are going out of our way at War Room to show you a range of facts and opinions to make sure it's balanced.

00:25:20.000 However, I'm for, if it's a chaotic mess, I just don't care.

00:25:26.000 I don't care about Iran. 0.98

00:25:27.000 I don't care about the Persia. 1.00

00:25:28.000 I just don't.

00:25:29.000 We got enough problems here that we got like yesterday's thing.

00:25:32.000 And to get, I noticed nobody's talking about the 25 million illegal aliens we got in the country.

00:25:39.000 This sack of modeled alcoholism clad in multiple shirts and three pens.

00:25:44.000 My goodness.

00:25:45.000 Well, Tucker and Bannon and the Grievance Party would love nothing better than America losing here because if America loses, they can claim the systems were skewed against them by the Jews or the military industrial complex or the Israelis or whatever.

00:25:57.000 They are always the continuing victims of a nefarious system as they rake in millions and millions of dollars off of their audience who they are informing are the victims.

00:26:07.000 These folks have some administration allies, apparently.

00:26:10.000 A leaked intelligence report printed in the Washington Post over the weekend and springing from the National Intelligence Council, basically Tulsi Gabbard's office, said the United States would, quote, be unlikely to oust the Islamic Republic's entrenched military and clerical establishment.

00:26:22.000 The report completed about a week before the United States and Israel initiated the war on February 28th, outlined succession scenarios stemming from either a narrowly tailored campaign against Iran's leaders or a broader assault against its leadership and government institutions, the people familiar with its findings said.

00:26:37.000 In both cases, the intelligence concluded that Iran's clerical and military establishment would respond to the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khomeini'i by following protocols designed to preserve continuity of power.

00:26:47.000 Well, I mean, first of all, duh.

00:26:48.000 You mean that when you attack a regime, that they are likely to follow protocols to preserve their own power?

00:26:53.000 Woo! 0.99

00:26:54.000 Mind blown.

00:26:56.000 But of course, the real story is not that report because we don't have all the reports.

00:27:00.000 We don't know what all the reports said.

00:27:01.000 We have just that report.

00:27:03.000 The real surprise, of course, is not even the leaking to mainstream media outlets like the Washington Post, seeking to undermine the president.

00:27:10.000 That has been a constant feature, a constant feature of this administration.

00:27:16.000 Isolationists, as part of the administration, seeking to undermine the foreign policy of the administration by leaking to legacy media outlets.

00:27:26.000 And that is a thing that has been happening over and over and over again.

00:27:30.000 But America happens not to be losing.

00:27:32.000 We happen to be winning right now.

00:27:35.000 Over the weekend, the Iranians secretly selected a new leader.

00:27:38.000 Why were they so secret about it?

00:27:39.000 Like they held it for like the whole weekend.

00:27:42.000 Well, they were really, really worried that the minute they said his name out loud, an Israeli F-16 would appear in the skies above them and just kill the guy.

00:27:49.000 Well, it's Iranian Nepo baby Majdaba Khomeini, mostly known for his impotence. 1.00

00:27:49.000 Who is it? 1.00

00:27:54.000 Not like his ideological impotence, his actual impotence, like his penis does not work properly. 0.99

00:27:58.000 According to the New York Post, quote, the son of Iran's slain supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, was reportedly the favorite to succeed his despotic father in power, was treated for impotency so severe he had to be hospitalized numerous times. 0.99

00:28:11.000 Diplomatic leaks show.

00:28:14.000 First of all, I'm not sure how he got hospitalized for impotency.

00:28:17.000 That's that's interesting.

00:28:19.000 Take some might say his missile launchers are misfiring.

00:28:22.000 Failure to launch is occurring repeatedly.

00:28:25.000 Well, apparently, Nepo Baby Mojtaba's big credential is that he is close with the IRGC.

00:28:30.000 The regime, it should be noted, declared hereditary transfer to be un-Islamic back in 1979.

00:28:35.000 But no, biggie, you go with the army you got, and that apparently includes the impotent wounded son of Ali Khomeini-e. 0.90

00:28:41.000 He was already wounded and like the original strike.

00:28:43.000 President Trump has already announced that Khomeini's son is unacceptable as the leader, which should not be a surprise. 0.72

00:28:49.000 In fact, the least surprising thing here will be when Israel kills him, at which point he will be replaced by a cousin or a nephew, and then Israel will likely kill that person as well. 0.72

00:28:57.000 Things are getting discombobulated for the Mullahs.

00:29:00.000 Over the weekend, the Iranian president Mahmoud Hazheshkian actually apologized hilariously to countries Iran is currently bombing, pledging to stop.

00:29:09.000 But he didn't mean it.

00:29:10.000 The Iranian foreign minister actually had to back off of that this weekend.

00:29:14.000 You got to love the picture in the background of Ali Khomeini-e with the black band around it, because, of course, he is now resting in pieces. 0.82

00:29:23.000 Here is the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araki, dancing around the apology, Mr. Foreign Minister.

00:29:30.000 If you're not attacking your neighbors, why did the Iranian president apologize?

00:29:36.000 Well, first of all, apology in our culture is a sign of dignity and strength.

00:29:43.000 Secondly, he apologized from the peoples of the region for the inconveniences they have faced because of this aggression by the United States and retaliation by us.

00:29:54.000 So, as a matter of fact, it is, in fact, the president of the United States who should apologize from the people of the region and Iranian people for the killings and destructions they have done against us. 1.00

00:30:11.000 So, remember, they apologized, and then they went on TV and said, Really, the United States owes us an apology.

00:30:17.000 We are only apologizing for the apology that we never apologized, that we apologized, and also we're bombing a bunch of countries that weren't involved in the war directly in the first place.

00:30:26.000 Awkward.

00:30:28.000 So, how is the war going?

00:30:30.000 Well, swimmingly, I mean, not for the Iranian Navy, which is basically at the bottom of the Strait of Hormuz at this point.

00:30:35.000 As the Secretary of War, Pete Hexov says, this is not a fair fight, and it should not be.

00:30:39.000 Here's the Secretary of War.

00:30:43.000 But we can be clear with the American people that this is not a fair fight, and that's on purpose.

00:30:48.000 Our capabilities are overwhelming compared to what Iran's are. 1.00

00:30:52.000 And frankly, when you combine our Air Force with the Air Force of the Israeli Defense Forces, it's the two most powerful air forces in the world.

00:30:59.000 The ability for us to be up over the top and hunting with more conventional munitions, gravity bombs, 500-pound, 1,000-pound, 2,000-pound bombs on military targets.

00:31:09.000 We haven't even really begun to start that effort of the campaign, which is going to showcase even more how we will execute on those objectives.

00:31:18.000 The United States is destroying, along with our Israeli allies, Iranian facilities, including oil facilities and IRGC and police stations. 0.54

00:31:27.000 Here's some before-after satellite images of damaged Iranian naval and aircraft facilities.

00:31:33.000 Okay, this would be the before.

00:31:34.000 So you can see there is the aircraft facilities.

00:31:38.000 There is the after.

00:31:39.000 You can see that things are not going amazing for the Iranians.

00:31:44.000 We're blowing up all of their vintage airplanes.

00:31:47.000 They have these airplanes left over from 1965, and they're all being blown up on the ground.

00:31:51.000 It's really sad.

00:31:52.000 Meanwhile, the Tehran oil depot was set on fire as well.

00:31:56.000 the images were pretty spectacular.

00:32:17.000 President Trump put up a post on truth saying, quote, we just concluded a very good meeting with the largest U.S. defense manufacturing companies where we discussed production and production schedules.

00:32:25.000 They have agreed to quadruple production of the exquisite class weaponry in that we want to reach as rapidly as possible the highest levels of quantity.

00:32:34.000 Expansion began three months prior to the meeting, and plants and production of many of these weapons are already underway.

00:32:39.000 We have a virtually unlimited supply of medium and upper medium grade munitions, which we are using as an example in Iran and recently used in Venezuela.

00:32:46.000 Regardless, however, we have also increased orders at these levels.

00:32:48.000 The companies represented were the CEOs of BAE Systems, Boeing, Honeywell Aerospace, L3 Harris Missile Solutions, Lockheed Martin, North Rup Grumman, and Raytheon.

00:32:57.000 The meeting concluded with another meeting scheduled in two months.

00:32:59.000 States all over the country are bidding for these new plants.

00:33:02.000 Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Trump.

00:33:05.000 And Iran has been running out of leadership options.

00:33:07.000 The president was aboard Air Force One, and he explained that eventually we'll find somebody who will surrender, or maybe we won't because they'll all be dead.

00:33:16.000 They're being decimated now.

00:33:18.000 You know, at some point, I don't think there'll be anybody left maybe to say we surrender.

00:33:24.000 They're being decimated.

00:33:25.000 And when you look also, all of a sudden they apologize to the Middle Eastern states that they shot at him.

00:33:33.000 I was very surprised to see they did that.

00:33:34.000 But you marked that down as a victory for us and for the Middle Eastern states who are really friends of ours.

00:33:42.000 But I guess they're not going to be shooting at them anymore.

00:33:44.000 They apologize.

00:33:46.000 And we'll see what happens.

00:33:48.000 But that's a big loss.

00:33:50.000 That's a surrender right there.

00:33:51.000 I called it a surrender today.

00:33:53.000 When they apologized and said they're not shooting at them anymore, that's really a surrender to those states and to us.

00:34:02.000 And now they have continued to fire off the occasional missile.

00:34:05.000 They're afraid of firing too many because the minute they fire a missile, then the Americans and the Israelis locate their missile launchers and blow them up. 0.88

00:34:12.000 Iran has some real problems.

00:34:14.000 So, left with virtually nothing over here in the pantry, opponents of the Iran action have now turned to their latest product, the latest panic attack, oil prices.

00:34:24.000 Now, here is the reality: always and forever.

00:34:27.000 When things get spicy in the Middle East, oil prices go up.

00:34:31.000 But the panic has set in.

00:34:32.000 Oh, no, oil prices are up 20% since the beginning of the war.

00:34:35.000 This is going to be just like the 1970s. 1.00

00:34:38.000 That's true if you are a dumb person. 0.99

00:34:39.000 Here is a chart of crude oil prices in the United States from 1950 to 1980. 0.99

00:34:44.000 Behold, take a look at the fact that crude oil prices on this chart were from basically 1950 to 1970 somewhere between $250 and $4.

00:34:55.000 And then 1973, you got the Arab oil embargo, and prices spiked by 300%, not 20%, 300%.

00:35:05.000 They triple.

00:35:07.000 And that oil embargo lasted for five months.

00:35:10.000 And then the prices basically stayed there for the rest of time, forever.

00:35:14.000 Well, here's a thing that's not going to happen.

00:35:17.000 That thing, President Trump happens to be right.

00:35:20.000 Here's the president of the United States on Truth Social.

00:35:22.000 He put up a post.

00:35:24.000 He said short-term oil prices, which will drop rapidly when the destruction of the Iran nuclear threat is over, is a very small price to pay for the USA and world safety and peace. 0.95

00:35:32.000 Only fools would think differently. 0.96

00:35:34.000 President Donald J. Trump. 1.00

00:35:36.000 Correct.

00:35:37.000 He is right.

00:35:38.000 So you ask, why would the prices drop again?

00:35:41.000 Well, because what we're watching here is not a serious reduction in oil supply that is systemic in nature.

00:35:47.000 It is a temporary choke on oil supply in the Strait of Hormuz.

00:35:51.000 And what's happening over there is going to be over one way or another within the next few weeks.

00:35:56.000 But listen, if you're Iran or its fifth columnist allies in the United States, this is basically your only leverage point. 0.99

00:36:02.000 You're getting your ass kicked in the air, in the water, on land. 0.97

00:36:05.000 So now you're going to claim the oil supply will be permanently kinked by the United States' action here. 0.99

00:36:10.000 Iranian general Mosset Rajai is warning that oil will reach $150 a barrel in the next few days.

00:36:15.000 Qatar, which, again, likes to play both sides and is trying to convince the United States to stop, is saying the same thing.

00:36:21.000 They're all hoping that if they put pressure on Trump because of oil prices, that Trump will call off the dogs.

00:36:26.000 That is likely not going to happen.

00:36:27.000 Why not?

00:36:28.000 Well, because the United States has a timeline.

00:36:30.000 That timeline is weeks, not months.

00:36:33.000 And the United States is going to win.

00:36:34.000 And you know what's going to happen when the U.S. wins?

00:36:36.000 The amount of oil coming out of Iran itself and into the world market will skyrocket.

00:36:42.000 See, as of January 2026, before the action, Iran was producing somewhere between 3.2 and 3.3 million barrels of oil per day.

00:36:50.000 Most of it went to China.

00:36:51.000 For the past couple of weeks, it's been 1.2 million barrels of oil per day.

00:36:55.000 If the Iranian economy were integrated into the world economy, the original number would double. 0.98

00:37:00.000 You'd be talking 6 million barrels of oil per day from Iran.

00:37:06.000 And so if Iran were to integrate into the world, if Trump gets what he wants, the amount of oil coming from Iran would be twice as high in the next few years as it has been prior.

00:37:17.000 Or what if, and I don't mean to speculate about future military action here, but I kind of think this is highly likely, President Trump were to go full Venezuela and just take control of Iran's oil supply directly.

00:37:29.000 Behold this island.

00:37:31.000 This island is called Karg Island.

00:37:34.000 It is located some 15 miles off the coast of Iran.

00:37:39.000 This small coral island is responsible for processing 90% of all Iranian oil.

00:37:44.000 See that tiny little island right there?

00:37:45.000 Yep, that cute little thing. 1.00

00:37:47.000 Well, according to CNBC, before 90% of Iran's oil even makes it to the Strait of Hormuz, it passes through a tiny strip of land in the Persian Gulf called Karg Island.

00:37:57.000 PMV oil analyst Thomas Varga told CNBC: quote: If President Trump were to decide to seize this pivotal hub, it would deal a significant blow to the Iranian regime, as it would deprive them of a critical source of revenue.

00:38:08.000 So, if the United States were to seize Karg Island, it would essentially choke off the Iranian economy completely.

00:38:15.000 The United States would then be in control of basically all Iranian oil flow because it's a choke point.

00:38:20.000 Game over.

00:38:21.000 The RAGC could not pay its terrorist friends.

00:38:24.000 It couldn't pay for new ballistic missiles or literally anything else.

00:38:28.000 At that point, it becomes kind of likely that the president of Iran, Mazoud Peshakian, would cut some sort of deal, mainly because he wouldn't have an alternative to a deal.

00:38:36.000 So, what would it take to take over Kharg Island?

00:38:39.000 Maybe a few special operators, maybe a few, a few soldiers.

00:38:45.000 I would assume this is why the administration is not ruling out all boots on the ground, because there might be some sort of special operation here.

00:38:51.000 Here's Pete Hegsteth over the weekend.

00:38:54.000 Will we take it out ourselves?

00:38:55.000 Oh, I would never tell you or anybody else what our options are.

00:38:58.000 See, that's another thing.

00:38:59.000 People keep asking, people ask boots on the ground, no boots on the ground, four weeks, two weeks, six weeks, go in, go in.

00:39:08.000 President Trump knows, I know, you don't tell the enemy, you don't tell the press, you don't tell anybody what your limits would be on an operation.

00:39:18.000 We're willing to go as far as we need to in order to be successful.

00:39:21.000 Do we have any overt or covert forces inside Iran now?

00:39:28.000 I wouldn't tell you that if we did.

00:39:31.000 The only reason I ask is earlier this week, you said no.

00:39:35.000 Is that still the answer?

00:39:36.000 Yeah, that's still the answer, but we reserve the right.

00:39:39.000 We would be completely unwise if we did not reserve the right to take any particular option, whether it included boots on the ground or no boots on the ground. 0.97

00:39:49.000 So, again, Hayseth saying, like, guys, I'm not going to tell you what we're going to, like, you'd be an idiot to tell the press what you're going to do. 0.99

00:39:56.000 Duh. 1.00

00:39:57.000 I mean, like, again, this is stupid. 1.00

00:39:59.000 Of course, he's not going to tell Major Garrett. 0.99

00:40:01.000 Yeah, by the way, here's our specific plan.

00:40:04.000 Here's what we're going to do tomorrow and the day after.

00:40:06.000 I have to say, the impatience that people have for military operations is pretty astonishing, really astonishing these days.

00:40:12.000 We are now on day 10, entering day 11 of conflict.

00:40:17.000 Day 11.

00:40:18.000 It's worth noting here, by the way, that using a limited number of troops to perform a single operation is not boots on the ground in the way that most people think of it.

00:40:24.000 When people think boots on the ground, they think a prolonged operation involving hundreds of thousands of troops for years on end.

00:40:29.000 No one is talking about that.

00:40:31.000 Now, listen, maybe the United States doesn't do this thing on Harg Island.

00:40:34.000 Maybe it does.

00:40:35.000 But could it be on the table?

00:40:36.000 Sure.

00:40:37.000 But here's the bottom line to all of this: the United States is currently winning, and we are winning for a good reason.

00:40:42.000 It turns out that America and our allies are superior to our enemies.

00:40:46.000 This is why I say that victory is the only answer to conspiratorial thinking.

00:40:50.000 We are better than the Mullahs, both morally and also at breaking things. 1.00

00:40:54.000 Not just at breaking things, we're better at breaking things, obviously, but our values are better than theirs as well.

00:41:00.000 This is a point the White House made over the weekend.

00:41:02.000 They laid out the atrocities pursued by the Iranian government since 1979.

00:41:05.000 And it is a very, very long list.

00:41:07.000 This is why when people suggest, you know, what did Iran ever do?

00:41:10.000 I mean, what did they ever not do?

00:41:12.000 1979, 66 Americans held hostage at the embassy.

00:41:16.000 April 1983, 17 Americans killed in Beirut from the car bomb.

00:41:20.000 October 1983, 220 Marines and 21 other service personnel killed in a truck bombing in Beirut.

00:41:25.000 December 1984, two Americans tortured and killed in a plane hijacking.

00:41:30.000 April 1995, an American killed in a car bomb in Gaza.

00:41:33.000 February 1996, three Americans killed in a suicide bus bombing in Jerusalem.

00:41:37.000 March 1996, two Americans killed in Tel Aviv shopping center, suicide bombing.

00:41:41.000 June 1996, 19 U.S. airmen killed in a truck bombing in Saudi Arabia.

00:41:46.000 Again, the list just goes on and on and on and on, because Iran has been an enemy of the United States for literally half a century.

00:41:56.000 Now, President Trump pointed out that Iran is trying to play victim here, but that Iran has been the aggressor state for nearly half a century.

00:42:04.000 Here is President Trump aboard Air Force One. 0.92

00:42:07.000 They are among the most evil people ever on earth. 1.00

00:42:10.000 They cut babies' heads off. 1.00

00:42:12.000 They chop women in half. 0.99

00:42:14.000 What they did, take a look at October 7th.

00:42:16.000 Take a look at what they've done over the last 47 years.

00:42:20.000 So I know nothing about a desalinization plant other than to say if they're complaining about a desalinization plan, we complain about the fact that they shouldn't be chopping babies' heads off, okay?

00:42:34.000 It should be mentioned, by the way, that we are also much, much better than they are at breaking things and much, much more moral than the people that we are targeting in terms of the Iranian regime. 0.77

00:42:44.000 A lot of Trump's critics today are pointing out this tragic incident with an Iranian school at which 160 girls were killed.

00:42:50.000 That is indeed tragic and it's terrible.

00:42:52.000 And it's also called collateral damage in war.

00:42:54.000 It is unclear at this point whether the munitions were American or Iranian.

00:42:58.000 We'll find out.

00:42:58.000 Here is the point.

00:43:00.000 Do you really believe that the Trump administration knew there were girls at a school and they decided to hit it with a tomahawk?

00:43:06.000 Do you really believe that?

00:43:07.000 If you do, you hate not only Trump, but America, truly, because that is a scurrilous lie.

00:43:12.000 Iran, by the way, would.

00:43:13.000 If Iran had the ability to launch a cruise missile at an Israeli school filled with schoolgirls, they absolutely would hit it on purpose. 0.94

00:43:22.000 They do it constantly. 0.86

00:43:25.000 Iranians at this point are punch-drunk. 1.00

00:43:26.000 As President Trump says, Iran is in serious trouble.

00:43:30.000 On Truth Social.

00:43:31.000 He said Iran is no longer the bully of the Middle East.

00:43:33.000 He said, Iran, which is being beat to hell, has apologized and surrendered to its Middle East neighbors and promised it will not shoot at them anymore.

00:43:39.000 This promise was only made because of the relentless U.S. and Israeli attack. 0.93

00:43:42.000 They were looking to take over and rule the Middle East. 0.99

00:43:44.000 And it's the first time Iran has ever lost in thousands of years to surrounding Middle Eastern countries.

00:43:48.000 They've said, thank you, President Trump.

00:43:50.000 I've said, you're welcome.

00:43:51.000 Iran is no longer the bully of the Middle East. 0.89

00:43:52.000 They are instead the loser of the Middle East and will be for many decades until they surrender or, more likely, completely collapse. 0.98

00:43:58.000 Today, Iran will be hit very hard under serious consideration for complete destruction and certain death because of Iran's bad behavior. 1.00

00:44:04.000 Are areas and groups of people that were not considered for targeting up until this moment in time?

00:44:08.000 Thank you for your attention to this matter.

00:44:11.000 Here's the thing: if America wins, the grievance party loses because they can't claim that America was screwed by a coterie of elites.

00:44:18.000 America winning would be great for everyone.

00:44:22.000 It would be great for American security because the chief sponsor of global terrorism would disappear.

00:44:27.000 It would be great for the American economy because the Middle East would bloom into an area of investment and non-conflict.

00:44:32.000 It would be amazing for our geopolitical standing because Iran, of course, is both a client and a sponsor state for Russia and China.

00:44:39.000 Most of all, most of all, American victory would be excellent for American politics because when America wins, Americans are less likely to feel aggrieved and therefore become subject to the grievance party.

00:44:51.000 That's true everywhere.

00:44:53.000 Listen, grievance parties aren't unique to the United States.

00:44:55.000 They've existed throughout the history of politics, like literally since the beginning of time.

00:44:59.000 But in catastrophe, such parties gain power and then they use that power to wreck systems and destroy lives.

00:45:05.000 In fact, it's precisely those who claim they have been aggrieved in politics who are likeliest to centralize power in themselves and then harm the people they don't particularly like.

00:45:14.000 The philosopher Karl Popper, who talked about societal conspiracy theories, he wrote, People who sincerely believe that they know how to make heaven on earth are most likely to adopt the conspiracy theory and to get involved in a counter conspiracy against non-existing conspirators.

00:45:27.000 For the only explanation of their failure to produce their heaven is the evil intention of the devil who has a vested interest in hell.

00:45:35.000 When you look at the political leaders of the Democratic Party these days, who are charter members of the grievance party, or many of the commentators on the right who are rooting against the United States in the war with Iran and are members of the grievance party, remember, the American people are a strong, virile, and durable people.

00:45:51.000 We're a free people.

00:45:53.000 We are people who have the capacity to choose.

00:45:57.000 So don't fall into the trap of these grievance mongers, the grievance mongers who are constantly catering to the far left and far right fringes of the Democrat and Republican parties.

00:46:09.000 Don't fall for it.

00:46:11.000 Don't fall for it.

00:46:12.000 President Trump isn't falling for it.

00:46:14.000 America's victory will be a signal rebuke to the grievance party, to the Democratic Party, and to the horseshoe right that is holding them up and holding hands with them.

00:46:24.000 So I want to tell you about a rally that I am doing at George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate August 6th this year.

00:46:30.000 It's part of a national tour marking the 250th anniversary of the United States.

00:46:34.000 That event is organized by my friends over at Young America's Foundation in partnership with the Daily Wire, and it's going to be the opening program for YAF's 48th annual National Conservative Student Conference, which is going to be awesome.

00:46:45.000 Registration open Monday, March 9th.

00:46:47.000 Go check it out right now.

00:46:48.000 Very cool stuff.

00:46:49.000 All righty, guys, coming up, the show continues for our members.

00:46:52.000 Ayan Hirsi Ali, who knows more about the actual inside of radical Islam than pretty much anybody on earth, because of course she grew up in a radical Muslim country, stops by to explain the real danger to the West. 0.94

00:47:03.000 Remember, in order to watch that interview, you have to be a member.

00:47:06.000 If you're not a member, like make it happen.

00:47:07.000 What are you waiting for?

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00:47:13.000 Click that link in the description and join us.

00:47:15.000 Legal sent this list of everything we're not allowed to do in season two.

00:47:20.000 We're going to do all of it.

00:47:22.000 We've got games, more celebrity guests.

00:47:24.000 And yes, the mailbag is somehow worse.

00:47:27.000 If you thought season one was extra, season two, we're doubling down.

00:47:30.000 We're not supposed to be doing this.

00:47:32.000 Exactly.

00:47:34.000 Been after dark season two, streaming on Daily Wire

The Ben Shapiro Show - March 09, 2026

Can NYC Survive The Mamdani Playbook?

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